A jungle firefight rendered in hazy greens and yellows: a woman with wild dark hair, cigarette clenched between her teeth, fires a heavy automatic weapon alongside a bare-chested male companion wielding a similarly oversized gun, muzzle flashes lighting up the scene as an armored soldier and a masked enemy combatant scramble in the smoky background. The composition is dense and horizontal, more war-movie still than fantasy illustration, palm trees and distant explosions setting the scene as a jungle conflict rather than the medieval or gothic settings that dominate much of the rest of this gallery. The woman's cool, unbothered expression, cigarette still lit mid-firefight, gives the piece its title and its attitude, treating the chaos around her as barely worth reacting to. This kind of grounded, pulp-action war imagery is a less common register for Bisley within this collection but fits comfortably alongside his broader body of horror and adult-oriented illustration work, particularly the material he's produced since 1994 for Glenn Danzig's Verotik line, titles like Verotika and Satanika that blend horror, action and adult content in ways mainstream superhero publishers wouldn't touch. The dense, overlapping figure composition, multiple combatants crammed into a single frame with weapons and muzzle flashes overlapping, also echoes the busy, maximalist battle pages found throughout his Lobo and Sláine work, even transplanted here into a modern jungle-warfare setting rather than a fantasy battlefield.
She smokes as she fires
