All That’s Missing is Rambo
Okay…airsoft. Whoo boy. Airsoft.
Okay, so imagine a person who really likes paintball. I mean, really likes it. Now imagine that person making friends with a gun nut. Maybe they’re walking down the street, admiring their respective weapons of fun/cowardice, and they bump into one another. They immediately brandish their guns, both blaming the other for the faux pas. “You ruined my real gun!” The gun nut would say. “You ruined my fake gun!” replies the paintball nut. Then, as if a light switch just turned on in their brains, they both get a fantastic idea. Why not mix all the fun of paintball with all the lethality of shooting a person with bullets?
And thus, airsoft was born. It’s literally a way for people to hunt the most dangerous game of all (man) without all the danger. Okay, maybe some of the danger, but not all.
By the way, don’t let the “air” in airsoft fool you. Some of these guns are powered by air, sure, but others are powered by springs, electricity, and even gas. Seriously, gas? That’s like having a powerwheels that’s fueled by antimatter. Here’s the thing, airsoft: when your guns function like real guns you have, in essence, created real guns. Guns that kids use to shoot their friends. These things fire at somewhere around 300-500 feet per second. I don’t understand all the crazy math involved, but I’m pretty sure that if I got shot by anything moving at 500 feet a second I would stop playing and found a religion that forbids using that thing. That is, after I finished crying.
Anyways, the best thing about this strip is that it actually happened to Kevin pretty much exactly as it’s portrayed. Considering the way he described it (forest fire and all), the ordeal makes me think that I either need to hang out with Kevin way more or much, much less.
- Chris
April 21st, 2009 at 8:25 am
My cousin had an electric spring-powered automatic that was so tiny it could’ve been a holdout- He had shredded his window shades with it while testing it out. And apparently, they make airsoft sniper rifles! That just honestly sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:15 am
This was by far my favorite comic and post.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:26 am
Which one is the “super” in the first three panels?
April 21st, 2009 at 11:20 am
I’m going to guess ‘guy with knife’ or ‘guy with eye-patch’ and hope for ‘guy with eye-patch’
April 21st, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I remember seeing a double barreled shotgun airsoft gun…. The only real difference between it and a real shotgun was velocity. I can imagine it would be an awesome thing to have in close combat.
April 21st, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Check out shorty’s airsoft online. This place is right where I live, and when you walk in it looks like a place the punisher would shop at if he really liked plastic pellets.
There is a replica of the Mad Max shotgun, but for airsoft! They have airsoft grenade launchers! They have an airsoft version of the Space Marine pulse rifle from the Aliens movie!
It’s definitely a strange experience.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:15 pm
airsoft is for the weak. a true bad@ss plays with live rounds
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 am
You zany Americans and your guns. Here in Canada we have more important things to worry about, like igloo maintenance, igloo repair and historical igloo preservation.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
You could’ve linked to ‘The Most Dangerous Game’. But you didn’t.
And, lol at dolphin’s dad shirt, tell Mikey and Nelson.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Also, lol at becci.