Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 03, 2022

That’s one way to show him that your balls are bigger than his. Though like all such displays, it’s not terribly productive.

He only gets one “bullet”.

I think they borrowed the cactus from PRICKLY CITY.

This is the 3rd day in a row that we’re getting reruns from 2018. I guess Wiley’s probably on a well deserved summer vacation.

Hope he didn’t find it next to a squashed coyote.

This is what you get for having movie studio backlots too close together.

Rock, Paper, Pistol?

Waiting for the cactus to give the signal by lowering its arm.

This is from 2018; I think Wiley’s on holidays.

Toward the end of its run, “Extreme Elimination Challenge” really sort of lived up to its name with cr-ppy segments like Feta Cheese Ball vs. Salt Water Pistols at The Spanakopita Corral. The production crew and writers did, however, enjoy a final catered lunch of feta and red pepper bodacious frittatas. (I yust write ‘em, I don’ ‘splain ‘em …)

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. (I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.) It is surprising how often I get to use this.

Did he get it from ACME?

Gotta love the classics.

Did Wiley get this backward? “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia

Okay. I gotta admit. I want to see this play out.

I’m betting both of them miss.

Careful, it’s made by Road Runner Mfg.

At least there aren’t any cows or wooden rabbits.

This is so much fun. Love the drawing and the joke works very well. Wiley is one of my top favorites!

Tod Cutler: “Let me rock your world.”

Everyone knows not to bring a knife to a gun fight, but don’t bring a gun to a knife fight either. Don’t try to draw your gun if your foe can stab you with a knife first.

I always liked Mark Twains ideas for dueling. “Gatling guns at fifteen paces would be a likely way to get a verdict on the field of honour.”

From the The Recent Great French Duel.

In one challenge, a 5’4" office guy challenged a 6’8" construction worker to a duel. The cw chose 25lb sledge hammers in 8’ of water. The office guy withdrew for some reason.

You know what would be even more entertaining? Flaming catapults

Catapults really aren’t that effective against a target that can move.

Really funny today! (I think that device is a ballista.)

Arms race will escalate to a 6 shot catapult before you know it.

Kids these days are so impatient. Back in the old days, we waited at the top of the canyon with our boulder.

I think the point of it went right over his head.

Sheesh Wiley ! A cowboy using a word like “idiomatic” !

Trebuchet vs. catapult:

https://www.dictionary.com/e/trebuchet-vs-catapult/

Is that one of Dill’s ancestors?

I still prefer rapiers. First blood is good enough.

Is this one of those new mash ups? Blazing Pythons?

Anybody ever see Sterling Hayden in TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN?

Now THAT was a gunfight!!

I’d like to stick around and see what happens but I’ve got other comics to read.

Kind of the reverse of A Connecticut Yankee

A whole new meaning for getting stoned!

Catapultsmoke!!

That is called a “catapult” not a "trebuchet, @stevesilver48.

USE THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.

Don’t bring a gun to a catapult fight.

Don’t bring a catapult to a grenade fight.

Don’t bring a grenade to nuclear warfare.

There was 40 ft between them when they stopped to make their play …

A one shooter against 2 six shooters makes accuracy very important, maybe more than speed.

Considering that most “Gunfighters” of that period could not Aim for beans, the guy with the Rock stands a pretty decent chance.

Did you ever watch Braveheart? When his friend, when he was much older and much bigger, challenged him by betting that he could hit Wallace with a heavy stone? He missed and Wallace hit his friend in the head with a little stone and he hit his friend in the head? Like the line his friend said, after he got hit, “I forgot about the little ones.”

As stated by several others, trebuchets are a type of catapult. There are four (some will argue five) basic types of catapults: trebuchets, ballistas, onagers and mangonels. Bearing in mind that Chinese siege artillery designs are susbstantially different from medieval European artillery designs, Wiley’s cartoon depicts a torsion mangonel that is missing a few important pieces.