Never sneak up on a sniper

[apintrix]

The Fullmetal Alchemist manga finished about a year ago now, and I'm sad to see no scans archived here (or maybe I just wasn't able to find them!) Thanks to the original anime, FMA is best known for being an angst-fest, but the manga's also got a lot more humor, classic shonen action, and a fantastic, tightly plotted battle of military conspiracies. Also, a plus for girl comic-geeks: the creator, Hiromu Arakawa, is a woman, and the series features a wide range of awesome female characters, who kick ass in so many different ways. Here is one amusing bit.

An infamous ghostly serial-killer bites off a bit more than he can chew when he chooses the wrong victim: army sniper Lt. Riza Hawkeye.

This is manga, so read right-to-left. 5 pages and a bit below the cut.

Tease:

Barry the Chopper is smitten. Riza calls her superior, Colonel Roy Mustang, for advisement on what to do with her new "pet"...

(I noticed while making this post: any other FMA fans, check out the "missing" poster cameo in the first scan!)



(Source: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) chapter 30)

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

I like FMA a lot, both the manga, the original anime series and the new anime series that's closer to the original manga.

[apintrix]

Oh, me too! I was a huge fan of the angsterrific original series, and then got converted to the manga/Brotherhood... but I still love both. (Just not CoS. That movie should never have happened.)

[q99]

FMA is one of the few examples where I'm really pleased with all versions. I think we're richer for having both the first anime and brotherhood/manga stories, they go in different directions but both directions are good.