Comic Book Review: The Chill story by Jason Starr, art by Mick Bertilorenzi
It’s 2009 in New York City and a series of bizarre ritual killings has hit the city. The obvious suspect is a woman named Ariana who’s been seen with more than one of the victims, but no one can agree on a description of her beyond that she’s extremely attractive. Police Detective Pavano is approached by an Irish cop…
The Battle of Cantigas de Santa María this depiction is from 1280 describing the battle between Nasrid Emirate of Granada and the Kingdom of Castile-Leon.
Saber and Jarid (17th Century CE Ottoman Empire) (Met Museum)
These little javelins were used for war, hunting and sport.
IMO hunting, sport and one-on-one combat seem more likely than all-out war, as being an easier environments in which to recover the weapons.
I’ve got no proof for that, except their elaborate, costly decoration - silver, gold, enamel, embossing - is unlike a simple war javelin which, apart from the reusable Roman pilum and a couple of other examples, was literally a weapon for throwing away.
These dainty things look like something their owner would want back - I certainly would - and they’re also an interesting weapon for a fantasy world, something of a departure from the usual “broadsword and battleaxe” arsenal.
Sometimes they were carried in multiples:
…and sometimes the multiples had a sword alongside them like the OP image.
Encyclopedic polearm typology from Gary Gygax’s “Appendix T: The Nomenclature of Polearms” in Unearthed Arcana, TSR, 1985 – ten years after hisStrategic Reviewarticle, 7 years after listing all these names in the Players Handbook without explaining what he meant. Still no picture of the Bohemian earspoon, but his text describes it as a variant partisan.
Because polearms are so woefully underrated in the tabletop world.
My finale illustrations for the @dames-zine! ⚔I hope you will like them as much as I enjoyed being part of this project I’m proud of these and I hope I can make more insect ladies in the future! Can’t wait to have the book in my hands! **
okay new social experiment reblog and put in the tags what kind of weapon you were convinced you were meant to wield when you were younger and what it changed to later. for me it was a bow and arrow to metal gauntlets
