Such imagery with the chicken bones.
A rapier would probably snap rather than shatter.
If he can't beat him when he's using a dagger, how does he think he'll do better if he uses an oversized chunk of sharpened metal?
Attacking a blind spot isn't cowardly. It's poor swordsmanship to show such a blind spot.
Can't tell if the left one on page 18 is a ref or not...
Lunch, or carrying some idiot. Well, that's not really a choice.