The Naked and the Dead

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The Naked and the Dead
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Comic Strip Info
Released: January 10th, 2017
Number of pages: 274
Artist: makani
Writer: Jay Pinkerton & Erik Wolpaw
Colorist: Maren Marmulla

The Naked and the Dead (also known as Team Fortress Comics #6) is a comic released on January 10th, 2017. It is the penultimate issue of a seven-part comic series, picking up where Old Wounds left off.

Synopsis

The comic begins with Miss Pauling's hallucination while she is bleeding out and unconscious after the attack of the Leech Robots. She wakes up in a desert with a disembodied door before her, which she enters. Behind this door is the Administrator's control room. Miss Pauling admits her failure to the administrator and questions her about the Australium's true purpose, however never receives an answer as Medic revives her by placing her blood back in her body from the robots, and then proceeds to revive Soldier in a similar manner. While Miss Pauling questions Medic on how he managed it, Demoman fights and destroys the rest of the robots, who the Medic presumes have been poisoned by his high alcohol-content blood. In Demoman's own hallucination, his liver is revealed to be functional again, while the rest of the body tries to distill its own alcohol.

Meanwhile, the Classic Mercenaries confront TFC Heavy about how they will recieve their payment after he killed Gray Mann, but TFC Heavy tries to persuade them the immortality device is worth going without pay. The TFC Engineer is reluctant to agree however. TFC heavy commands the TFC Engineer to program the rest of Gray's robots to kill the current mercenaries, and he complies.

The comic cuts back to the original group, and Scout and Heavy parachute down to them. As Scout hugs Pauling, Medic reveals that she should no longer be hugged as the action squeezes some of the replaced blood out. Heavy greets his sister Zhanna, but is annoyed at the realisation she has married Soldier, and they plan to have children. Scout reveals to Pauling that the discovery the Australium had been stolen and that Saxton Hale and his Mags are on the island as well, but are attacked by the Robot Army.

The comic cuts to Saxton Hale and Mags in Hale's plane, who drop Mann Co. ammunition and weapon crates to the mercenaries below, before jumping from the plane with the pilot to aid them in fighting the robots. Unfortunately, TFC Sniper is watching the battle and preparing to shoot Heavy, before a knock at the door from Spy disguised as TFC Engineer distracts him, in an attempt to bait him into being attacked by Sniper. His disguise fails to trick TFC Sniper, who shoots him in the leg. Sniper runs to another room, breaks the window and tries to climb round the building to surprise TFC Sniper. The Spy distracts TFC Sniper by asking him for a cigarette before he is shot, and Sniper takes TFC Sniper's rifle and shoots him with it.

Back at the battleground, Demoman takes cover while Medic heals a wound on his leg. It is revealed that Demoman has a cursed eye socket which any replacement eye the Medic gives to a demon at Halloween, and that to prevent Demoman questioning him he has removed some of his brain. Demoman walks away, giving TFC heavy an oppurtunity to threaten Medic into placing the immortality device into him. Medic instead attacks him with his Ubersaw, but fails to kill him. Heavy attempts to save Medic, but TFC Heavy shoots and kills him before he can. Heavy attacks him.

The comic moves to TFC Soldier and TFC Scout, who are presumably killed by Pyro.

Transcript

Due to the length of this comic, a transcript is necessary. The transcript has been sectioned into smaller story events for convenience.

Pages

Trivia

  • Parts of several classes' names are mentioned for the first time.
    • The Spy calls the Scout "Jeremy" while he is disguised as Tom Jones.
    • The "Devil" addresses the Medic as Mr. Ludwig, a common German name.
  • Despite the TFC Sniper claiming that his eyes can see through everything (even his own eyelids), he was unable to see the Sniper hiding outside the room, and did not notice him running away and attempting to find another way into his room after the Spy's ambush failed.
  • On Page 80, the Sniper is seen picking up his default Sniper Rifle from where the TFC Sniper was previously sitting, despite the TFC Sniper using a different Sniper Rifle (a jet-black one with a blue lens).
  • The Demoman is seen drinking from a bottle of hydrogen peroxide on Page 88. However, hydrogen peroxide is only safe to consume if highly diluted with water (3% per bottle) and in small amounts, as it can induce vomiting and foaming in the stomach.
  • On Page 155, the Spy mentions that his jacket is made by a brand named Louis Crabbemarché. Loosely translated, "Crabbemarché" is French for "crab walking", a homage to the Spycrab fad, while "Louis" is a reference to the designer brand Louis Vuitton.
  • There are several heavy hints that support the running gag and theory of the Spy being the Scout's biological father.
    • The Spy performs a genuine act of kindness by disguising as Tom Jones (the Scout's idol of sorts) and allowing the Scout to "pass on peacefully". He even mentions the Scout's real name for the first time, and calls him "son" before Scout loses consciousness.
    • When the Scout jokingly mentions that his father is Tom Jones, his personification of "God" interrupts his own sentence before unconvincingly correcting himself, hiding the true identity of the Scout's father.
  • The scene in which Saxton Hale jumps out of his plane with Jerry clinging onto Maggie and screaming on the way down is similar to Page 7 of Ring of Fired.
  • On Page 256, the Medic is seen cradling a bandana-wearing baby baboon in the background, seemingly hinting at the success of his "Baboon Pregnancy Inducer" and the TFC Heavy's fate.

Cover page

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