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

[salinea]

Poor taste? Me? Nevah! :D (I love Hughes, I really do)

[crinos]

I read the manga for a while, one of my favorite parts was that when someone died in the volume, they'd show at the end a little stick figure of them in heaven (or in the case of Shou Tucker, him burning in hell while his daughter and her dog were in heaven.) And one of my favorite parts was after Maes died, the stick figure was of him and Ed and Al's mom showing each other their kids baby pictures.

[apintrix]

Yeah, those bits are great! And her 4-komas at the back are really funny, too. I love the ongoing jokes about Al hiding stray cats in his armor. ...or Pinako doing her hair with natto!

<3 Arakawa and her sense of humor.

[jelly_ace]

And one of my favorite parts was after Maes died, the stick figure was of him and Ed and Al's mom showing each other their kids baby pictures.

That's so Awwwwww and *Sob* at the same time! Any link?

[crinos]

Sadly no, not since the Manga creators began to crack down on scanlation sites.

But it might be something someone could post here.