If he's getting a knockout or kill on every blow, it's not really much of a style that you can hide forms within forms. In fact, it's less of a style, and more of a case for investigation into steroid use. The media will have a field day.

Liu Feng coulda also been a smartass and was just smugly exaggerating :p

I kinda took that line as "I have never hit a person with the same technique twice." In that way, at least to me, it shows hiding forms and is slightly more believable than opening the console and entering God Mode.

I think you guys are forgetting that he is a martial artist fighting other martial artists, not just some dude goin' around cold clocking other dudes or something.

Hiding forms within forms and never hitting someone twice fit perfectly in this scenario. A pair of skilled and experienced martial artists pairing off will, if they know the other person's style, attempt to read that person's stance and form so that they can better judge what attacks and defenses to expect. If a form is hidden within another form, that means they're expecting one thing, and act accordingly, while what they get is something entirely different that they weren't prepared for at all. This makes it easier to avoid their attacks AND easier to attack them.

Further, if his fighting style was particularly brutal, he may have used this 'they don't know what the fuck I'm doin' to deal say, a crushing blow to the side of someone's knee as his first strike, or to deal a powerful blow to the solar plexus, which would leave all but the toughest fighters down for a few minutes at least, or perhaps to hit the point of the jaw at the correct angle to induce unconsciousness, or maybe catch their extended arm and deal a palm thrust to the back of the elbow shattering that...

Human anatomy being what it is, it doesn't take steroids to knock someone out or completely disable them with a single blow.

Personally when they mentioned that I imagined him using something resembling a mix between Krav Maga and pure 'fuck you' that just left everyone around him with shattered bones within seconds of the battle starting.

Just because a style has powerful attacks doesn't exclude the style having forms. Or having forms that look quite plain to the observer, but are very dynamic internally.

Have a look see at Adam Hsu performing Baji:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OqWUFOtIHc

I know from my study that when he is issuing power in a strike, a LOT of things are happening internally...

That's what goes down w/ me after I eat really spicy food :)

Will we have an update tomorrow or is that covered by the week off bit?

Yeah there'll be a Friday update, and then probably not one for awhile after that, I'm not sure how long though. I don't have a script past page 36 so until Brian gets some time to write one, and me the time to draw it, HIKYM might be on a bit of a hiatus.

Yeah, this move has seriously screwed me. No 8-bit for probably two weeks minimum. No time to write a Warbot script. No time to write ahead on HIKYM or Robo. UGH.

Can't wait to be done with this move so I can get back to work.

Latest comic was awesome. Finally, we have not only the promise of future combat, but a plot! A grand quest to learn each of the five styles, then combine them to create the ultimate style and face the final boss in the field of battle!

Or something along those lines.