Kitsune .44 page 4

Notes

1. "Thank you so much for saving is, stranger." What?

2. Frame of reference again: Scott has just shown up in feudal Japan and shot someone. Scott is a white male with a handgun - neither of which these people have ever seen before. Japan, as a culture, was at the time notoriously xenophobic. After blowing someone's chest out their back, Scott yelled menacingly at the crowd of onlookers. Considering all these factors, it makes perfect sense that some girl would run up and hug him.

3. On the one hand, it can be said that Gonterman's fondness for the Japanese countermands the charges of racism that have been leveled against him in the past. On the other hand, he draws Japanese people as white people who sometimes have dark hair (much like they are shown in anime, which may be his sole exposure to the Japanese), so who knows.

4. Final two panels of the page: I thought she was blowing him too. Keep reading though.