Dark Science #142 - Battle Face
Xiaoling's fighting style, Baguazhang (Eight Trigram Palm), is a Chinese martial art founded in the late 19th century that utilizes unique spiraling mechanics to thread attacking and defending into one continuous flow. The “Eight Trigrams” refers to the Yi Ching, a prominent Daoist text on divination and philosophy. The style uses Daoist terminology to organize a training method that can synthesize the techniques of many other styles, and in fact was originally developed with this in mind. Bagua is similar to Taiji in its subtle approach to fighting, but differs in that Bagua favors constant dynamic movement over Taiji’s receptive stillness. If Taiji is like flowing water, Bagua’s more like a tornado.
Not sure what “Diablo” training is, though…
Dark Science #142 - Battle Face - Dresden Codak (Dresden Codak)
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Love love love all these characters. Hope your hand is still on the mend! I know webcomic artists often give themselves just enough time to heal to overextend through the next page.
I just adore how expressive everyone’s become.
Rejected candidates for battle face: ^_^;;;;; edit: apparently a lot of the prerequisite characters do not render in the Patreon comments section, but I promise this was funny
Try using < for < and > for >
Melchior continues to be my favorite DC character!
The most complicated way of asking your crush to dance with you that has ever been devised :)
LISTEN, she is a master strategist okay