Grrl Power #915 – Queue the lengthy exit interview scene
The extended fight scene that took place while Brüt made his calls did involve some attempts at tickling. Is Henchwench super crazy ticklish? I’d like to think so.
This fight has been going on for a while. Brüt didn’t fare well against the Mestu Shoryu [Interrupted] because even though Max didn’t finish it, he still flew like thirty stories straight up. Given his general resistance to kinetic attacks, that wouldn’t normally be a problem for him, but he didn’t land well. Maybe Mr. Amorphous slapped his feet out from under him just as he was coming down?
I’ve mentioned it before, but Maxima doesn’t generally like gender specific slurs. Well, slurs that are gender specific to women. That said, sometimes you just have to call a bitch a bitch. Someone who bites your ear during a fight? Yeah, I’m looking at you, Tyson. I’m not saying I wouldn’t resort to some bitch-ass tactics if Evander Holyfield was systematically converting my skull into pudding, but that’s one of only many, many reasons my day job doesn’t involve getting punched in the head. If you’re a supervillain or superhero, being punched in the head is kind of an unspoken job requirement.
Henchwench’s power explicitly only work with Supervillains. If they worked with superheroes, she’d probably be called Sidekick Wench. I can’t help but wonder, though, what would happen if she could copy Varia’s powers, then touched her? Probably either nothing… or EVERYTHING.
Oh, and Evil, Inc. is a long-running, self described superhero romantic comedy. I probably should add it to the webcomic widget list, come to think of it.
The vote incentive is updated. If you’ll allow me a human moment, I kind of… eh, freaked out is a little too strong, but I had some… indecision when starting to work on the incentive/pinup for this month. You know, because the Patreon support has more than doubled, which I hugely appreciate, BTW. So I figured this one had better be really good, cause, you know, retention and all. So now I have three aborted attempts to draw Sydney, Pixel and Krona (yes, hard pandering, guilty) either longing in bed together or trying on clothes, but none of it really worked because I reeeealy wanted to turn those pinups into sequential comic scenes, and I don’t have the bandwidth to do multi-character multi-panel pinup quality. I will revisit the idea, don’t worry. Then I started another one with Harem making out with herself in the shower. I like Harem showering a lot, what can I say? Or maybe just sexy women being wet. Probably that one, as now looking back I see that the majority of the sexy pinups involve wet superheroines.
Anyway. Instead I decided to draw the majority of the Semper Vigilantis. In the shower – but it’s a beach shower, so it’s different see? Unfortunately I ran out of room/time to add Scarlett, and also didn’t plan well to include Izanagi (apparently the only male S.V.) walking in on the scene. So you guys get a bonus reverse angle comic to go with the pinups.
For those that don’t recall, the other guy in the pinup comic is Thomas Hodson-Cottingham, a Patreon cameo, whose power is to refill liquids. He’s become sort of an unofficial, honorary Semper Vigilantis, since he hangs out with Crimson and Scarlett all the time. Beyond cartoony asides, I won’t be doing any nude pinups of Patreon cameos – Well, if it’s a character of theirs AND they give me permission, then maybe. But not the cameos where they’re “themselves as a super.” Because that would be creepy. (Especially if I could really nail the likenesses, which, I think we can all admit is not my strong suit.) I do like to think that Hex, Breakpoint, Glowbug and Henchwench all hang out at the same supervillain bar though, so they probably know each other.
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So I have never posted before but you only works on villans got me thinking, A lot of people see govermant as evil and nefarious could the goverment be shady enough to hire her and get her the ARC sweet of powers?
the general rule of these discussions and how she had to have them form an LLC implies she only gets the powers of those directly her boss. So she had to have them form an equal legal rights group and then hire her to get all their powers. She wouldn’t gain the powers of fellow employees of the same group, like if she was hired by Archon she wouldn’t gain any of Arc Swat’s powers only those she answers to.
To quote DaveB in his author’s comments, “Henchwench’s power explicitly only work with Supervillains.”
I doubt she’d be useful for Archon for that reason. She’s also of little use because she’s just plain nuts.
Governments can be Supervillian’s to.
Dr. Doom runs Latveria with an Iron Fist (literally). If Henchwentch had a contract with Latveria, she could use all of Dr. Doom’s powers (and any other minor supper that Dr. Doom chooses depending on how the contract is set up)………… Though this is a bad example because Dr. D would never allow enough “shared authority” for her to gain powers from anyone other than him.
If she was a private in Arc, under a special contract…….. Then, in theory, she might get all the powers of everyone above the rank of Lieutenant. Officers are in a special group of their own.
Only works with supervillains. Heroe’s can unwittingly work for villains it doesn’t make them villains themselves. She would have to prove them evil and the heroes would have to willingly stay which they likely wouldn’t. Considering that the private sector is competing with the government on prices they could likely do extra jobs and keep their jobs as an independent superhero group. That’s only to mention that the government wouldn’t be so keen to lose the strongest meta on their planet. Not to mention the jill of all trades of a alien succubus that would also ditch when things got dumb.there are to many negatives for turning evil just to accentuate one power crazy nutcase. I on the other could see deus picking her up.
Nah, SmugD’s ego would never allow himself to hire someone who is more anything than himself, including batshit crazy (he is already shit crazy, batshit is another level he aspires to)
Henchwench can’t work for Deus because her powers only work when she’s employed by a villain. To the people in his country Deus is a hero.
To the people of the Middle East, Maxi is a villain of the lowest order
“SmugD’s ego would never allow himself to hire someone who is more anything than himself,”
Close but no. Reality would never allow him to hire someone superior than himself. Because such a person does not exist.
As for crazier than him, yes, Deus sometimes allows the odd crackpot to work for him, if they can show themselves worthy of such servitude, such as his Alari assistant. An easy task to be crazier than Deus though, as he is sane and of amazing focus, strategic flair, intelligence and guile.
All praise Deus. Amen. Come to our side, it’s nicer here, G. We have nachos with really good salsa.
Erm, Pander… You didn’t get that salsa from Cora’s Deli, did you?
Not to be all petty, but to be all petty, Doom rules with a titanium alloy reinforced with vibranium fist.
(Add obligatory Iron Fist joke here)
Iron Fist is one of the good guys
Iron Fist is one of the good guys
+Dr. Doom runs Latveria with an Iron Fist
= Dr. Doom is one of the good guys!!!
He’s just … misunderstood by Reed Richards.
Honestly, he’s probably saved the world more times than Richards has… both because he’s so protective of what’s his, and because he’ll take any opportunity to show Reed up.
And conversely, Reed Richards has probably imperiled the world more times than anyone (or at least, more than anyone not named Stark or Pym).
Agreed!
I seem to remember a Marvel story where Doom succeeded in taking over the World and ran it really really well. Getting rid of poverty etc etc. But Reed still deposed him because “Freedom!”
Dang you Reed Richards!
It was called “Emperor Doom”, and it was Wonder man, not Reed Richards, who deposed him.
He also is viewed as a liberator in Latveria as he had deposed a violent dictator who left the country in poverty.
Of course a big rule of being a successful dictator isn’t to forcefully take away freedoms but make the people believe they didn’t want them in the first place.
“He also is viewed as a liberator in [his country] as he had deposed a violent dictator who left the country in poverty.”
Latveria, Galytn, any others queueing up to join the Axis of Beneficial Regime Change?
Running things well is really, really hard. Enough so that you might get a little murdery to pass the time. A few thousand here, a few million there, eventually you decide there’s a 100 million population surplus. Murder peasants because they didn’t smelt enough steel, murder peasants because they DID kill enough sparrows, murder babies because that apparently solves some problem… Even though it creates a whole lot more. *shrug*
Basically, you become China. Yeah – that actually happened. So much for technocracy.
Freedom makes people responsible for their own failures. The flipside is that free nations must enforce justice very rigorously, which isn’t as necessary when you “are the law.”
Can’t argue with that logic.
‘Anyone who WANTS the job of president of the the USA should be immediately disqualified from doing it because of incurable insanity’ — Paraphrased from Dwight D Eisenhower circa 1951.
Ruling the WORLD is just one more level of nuts to add to that. Admittedly, an exponentially higher level, but still… Nuts.
How about someone who doesn’t really want the job, but is sufficiently persuaded that the job needs them? A variant on the ‘lesser of however many evils’ scenario, if you will.
DC’s Legion of superheroes back in the 70s had an amusing take on the problem.
In a storyline, one of the legionnaires was trying to avoid capture By the police
From his home planet, and when he was finally caught it turned out his ‘crime’ was attempting
To avoid the draft for the office of planetary president.
they did Tests for the most intelligent, stable, and Ethical members of the population,
and then required the top 1% to Stand for political office.
Apparently being a superhero got Him into the running for the top job.
Victor Van Doom, however, has no superpowers. He’s basically Iron Man Plus Magic spell ability…with an even bigger ego.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQaAirK4yHs
Doom is something of a mad-scientist in his own right. Not on a par with Reed Richards, but he has developed significant technology, both for his personal use and less spectacular things to energize the economy of Latveria.
Also, fwiw, the ‘marvel cinematic universe’ canon gives Doom self-healing capabilities. Not spectacular ones on a par with Wolverine etc, but sufficient to completely recover in a few weeks from anything that doesn’t kill him outright, including major organ damage and IIRC losing an arm.
And according to some the MCU may have also implied but not affirmed that he is Older Than He Looks.
i wouldn’t put the early 2000s Fantastic Four or Fant4stic into the MCU at all, since that is specifically the movies created by Marvel Studios, and the FF haven’t been introduced yet since disney just got the rights back.
Which Cinematic Universe though? The two original movies? Or that fuckshit Alternates movie that reduced Doom to some basement-dwelling hacker?
Yeah, what Corned Beef said
In the comics Doom has done enough Time Travelling shenanigans that he is potentially his own future/past ancestor (Rama-Tut).
I am going to disagree with Bear though, Doom is the “mad-scientist” equal to Reed. In my head-canon Doom only uses science against science heroes and magic against magic heroes. Which means he always hobbles himself when fighting the FF.
I have never seen that stated anywhere but thats how the comics mostly play out ;)
> Dr. Doom runs Latveria with an Iron Fist (literally).
Oh, come on, Gilhelmi! Stop with the damn propaganda, okay? Doom does *not* rule with an iron fist.
It’s a titanium alloy. :>
You also know who else is nuts? SYDNEY!!!!
Yes, but she’s the fun kind of crazy…
For now…
They let Sidney in and she has to be medicated!
I hope the Judge and Prosecutor takes into consideration that they fired Hench Wrench in order to deescalate the fight.
It might even get them probation after 10 years. (instead of life without parole)
I mean,
Assault and Battery on multiple Federal agents
Conspiracy to kidnap a Federal Agent
Attempted kidnapping of a Federal Agent
Kidnapping a Federal Agent (I assume the idiots who caught Sydney are part of the same group since Hench Wrench had Concreita’s powers)
Destruction of Federal property (Max’s clothing)
Numerous other counts of destruction of property
Public endangerment
Heck, I am sure we could go on about the number of crimes this organization committed. Ten years then parole would be a sweetheart deal.
Also attempted murder for Hench Wench on two counts (Heatwave and Amorphous)
You would have to prove that she did not believe they would survive. Heatwave, this would be easier since she is only slightly tougher than a standard human.
But with Mr. Amorphous, the defense would argue that it was not attempted murder because she ‘knew’ that he was dang near indestructible. I mean, it is like trying to murder God (in spirt form). Is it even possible? (probably, but by no means we currently know about.)
Also, he was trying to deescalate before that happened (admittedly under testicular duress), so a jury might have a hard time believing that. It could go either way. A good prosecutor would probably stick to the easier charges that would carry the same penalties (like kidnaping).
“You would have to prove that she did not believe they would survive.”
True, you’d have to show both mens rea and actus reus. The actus reus is obvious. The mens rea to me seems to be pretty obvious too, but it’s probably the only route that a defense attorney would have, like claiming she knew it would not actually kill him, or maybe an insanity defense.
My problem with this defense is that she has superhuman strength and tried to punch one person in the back of the head hard enough to go THROUGH his head. She obviously wasn’t expecting the stretchiness, or at least not to the level that he has it, based on her horror at what actually happened, so it’s unlikely that she knew he would survive it. Someone being incredibly hard to kill does not mean that an attempt on their life is not attempted murder, although AGAIN… I agree that claiming a lack of mens rea is a possible route for a defense attorney to use.
If I shot at someone with a high powered rifle who had kevlar on, but I thought that maybe my firearm would get through the kevlar. Even though the guy might not be in danger, and even if I knew he had kevlar, it doesnt automatically mean I know I can’t actually kill him. :)
(PS – according to Nietzche, man did kill God) :)
And with Heatwave, she was trying to slam her head into the pavement – that’s definitely an attempt to murder. Heatwave has not shown any ability to have superhuman durability to anything except for fire and heat in general, rather than to physical trauma. In fact, in the televised super fight, it was shown in how she did have her foot injured from an ordinary knife wound.
“Also, he was trying to deescalate before that happened (admittedly under testicular duress), so a jury might have a hard time believing that.”
I’m mainly talking about Heatwave trying to murder, not Brut. Brut is more likely to have defenses against a murder charge, although definitely not the other charges you mentioned (I should mention, good post you made btw). He specifically even stated aloud that his intent was to take her alive, not dead, for a bounty, so I definitely agree with you if you were meaning Brut instead of HenchWench. Plus yes, Brut also would have some mitigating factors with HW’s attempts on the Amorphous’s life in the event of a conspiracy to commit murder charge, since he did try to stop her before it happened by trying to fire her (thus getting rid of her powers if he had been successful).
“A good prosecutor would probably stick to the easier charges that would carry the same penalties (like kidnaping).”
True that prosecutors usually will base most of their strategy on the easier charges for a conviction later on, but usually prosecutors will go for as many charges as possible though in the beginning (depends on their knowledge of the defense attorney sometimes). Throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the defense, as it were. At least that’s how it worked when I was working in the ADA’s office. They’d start big, throwing a bunch of huge charges at them to make it more intimidating to the defense, then remove the more difficult charges that would be harder to pin on the defendant in a plea bargain.
Thank you, I loved your post.
I almost feel bad for the lawyers that would have to sort through mess.
can’t we get a conspiracy count or two? jaywalking? theft? improper use of government property?
I’ll wager that a sufficient investigation would turn up Tax Evasion.
I would be shocked if there was any person or organization that was completely innocent of that. LOL
That is one of the easiest crimes to commit. Heck, I might be breaking the law by crossing the State boarder to by groceries and not declaring the taxes to my State (because they don’t have sales tax on food and my State does).
I really like your posts. :) Tax evasion is pretty easy to accidentally commit. There’s like a 70,000+ pages on the federal tax code alone, not including the tax codes for your state (and, in some cases, your municipality). Pretty sure politicians do that on purpose to keep the tax industry busy instead of just doing a flat tax or fair tax. :)
But don’t worry about your example. The only time sales tax really is involved in your tax returns is when you’re trying to get a sales tax deduction on your tax return (I think there’s a cap of $10,000 for the deduction cap for sales tax, property tax, and local income tax deductions).
In most states, it’s usually easier to just take the standardized state income tax deduction (unless you live in a state with no state income tax like Texas, in which case it could help you get a bigger tax deduction on your return).
There’s no way, though, that you can get penalized for buying your groceries in another state that has no sales tax on food, so no worry about that. Although there ARE so many laws in general on the books that everyone has committed at least some sort of crime, misconduct, or infraction. :)
Most of the stuff HW did would hit Brut as conspiracy charges, yes. Except possibly the attempted murder of Heatwave and Amorphous, since at that point he did try to end the conspiracy by surrendering to Maxima.
Hahaha I love that Heatwave helped him lift his arm so he could fire Henchwench
Okay I can’t hold it in any longer. Heatwave is a literal super-hot airhead. Is this an intentional joke?
Yes
Again, she is not dumb, she just process things differently
Indeed.
She was the first (only?) one to clue in on Harem snogging Mr. A & Achilles in the ecnalumba.
Close, ecnalubma :D
It took me 10 minutes to realize what ecnalubma meant. :)
More like the last one to figure it out. Everyone else on the team thought it was super obvious.
Does heatwave’s skin gets darker with more power she uses? She looks almost like anvil here.
Fairly sure it’s just the (lack of) lighting
The last time we saw her, also in this fight, her skin was a bit shaded, but in this page her entire skin hue is different.
It’s clearly blue and black.
There, my good deed for the day :p
I thought it was just me! I was wondering what was up with her normally pale skin!
It is stated early on that one of the characters’ appearance changed when she uses her powers, I am pretty sure it is Heatwave. Normally she is just a standard, albeit very attractive, woman. When her powers kick in her appearance literally becomes more heroic.
We know she gets taller and gains mass, not to mention toughness & strength…it’s not stretch to think she might also shift in color.
She’s still pink, heavily sun-burnt pink, not heavy sun-tan brown
If Henchwench’s powers worked on heroes, she’d be Sidechick.
Going to guess that this fight ended either before the one with Sydney or that the Super Jerk did not have any superpowers beyond being a superjerk, as Hench Wench did not seem to lose anything up to this point.
Is Heatwave… Darker today? Did she get a tan since the last time we saw her or is it just the lighting?
probably the lightning. It is night.
So is it instantaneous depowerment with Hench Wench? Or does she have a ‘backup LLC’ with the same powerset?
oh, so they worked for evil inc, too bad that comic went hard downhill some years ago
‘Downhill’ in what way?
Now seems to be mostly a marketing site for a for-pay pornographic comic featuring the same characters.
In combinations that, judging by the banner ads anyway, make absolutely no sense based on the characters and associations as established earlier in the Evil.Inc comic.
You mean, like how Cap and Matchstick Girl barely know each other? Even though they use to be married with child(ren)?
Couple years back when most of the focus was on the regular storyline rather than the porn,
the writer did a reboot/Retcon when the mad scientist with the fly Head Pulled a Thanos
and tried to use the local equivalent of the infinity gems to reboot all reality with himself as God.
he was partially successful in that he managed to Erase the last 10 years of the timeline so that
Cap and Miss match were never married and their kids never or at least haven’t yet existed.
… oh wow. i just Realized. HenchWrench is practically a non-super now-she just effectively DESTROYED her powerset!
after this she’ll be all but unemployable- blacklisted xD
she -really- didn’t think this one through!
You don’t really understand evil, do you (not a question, statement)
+8
6+5a/ henchman/minion who refuses to follow orders is a liability, not an asset-
she’ll have difficulty finding a conventional boss after this, and when word gets out, good luck forming another power-sharing LLC when she’s got a reputation for fucking over her coworkers/superiors-if she pulled something like this with Deus, she’d be very likely risking taking a dirtnap shortly afterwards
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she’s a henchman/minion who refuses to follow orders is a liability, not an asset-the traditional response for employers in her line of work is an execution, or fate-worse than death >.<
she'll have difficulty finding a conventional boss after this, and when word gets out, good luck forming another power-sharing LLC when she's got a reputation for fucking over her coworkers/superiors-if she pulled something like this with Deus, she'd be very likely risking taking a dirtnap shortly afterwards
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she might be letting the powers get to her head a bit.
she did seem a bit out of control.
Eh, for certain jobs she’ll still be useful – like “go over there and wreak as much havoc as you can to distract our enemies”.
Or put the right clauses in her contract to leash her. Her powerset can still be extremely potent, so while her volatility is an issue, there might still be some interest.
I hope HenchWench has another business setup, to at least have access to escape powers in cases like this :)
Hope, besides having another company setup for an escape plan, she was smart enough to put in her contract, that such a firing couldn’t be made official until the next business day, for cases like this. :)
Anyone else hoping this is a learning experience for Sydney and once she stops throwing up the Skill Tree might appear?
Seems like having to deal with a dangerous situation without your powers is worth an XP point :)
how would she be able to handle it?
something on the skill tree imply being able to use powers without touching the balls ?
Problem is: how does she know which one is the one to activate and is it something she can already activate (no prerequirements)? There is no guidebook and no recognizable “help”-function.
I will just repeat my complaint that HW is EVEN more dumb with this new revelation.
She is exceptionally immersion breaking. And i cant wait for her to vanish so we can forget all about her.
Dito.
A wild Sock Puppet appears!
How is she immersion breaking?
Her power set, regarded as a power set, is crazy – even crazier than Varia’s, which is already pretty crazy. She is apparently made of something that can produce ANY super-power effect. Except she can’t produce them unless she’s hired by someone who can also produce them. Which makes no sense.
Her powers require information to work that is not available in unambiguous form from any in-canon source.
For example, the concept of “hired by.” There’s nothing there that could be precisely defined or unambiguously measured. Simply *BELIEVING* that she’d been hired by someone, from her POV, ought to be the same as being hired by them.
Then it gets even more egregious with her powers working with supervillains only. At what point along the line of shades of gray does someone go from being a flawed character to a tragic figure to a supervillain? How do her powers know? What if she gets hired by some heroic guy who has amazing powers, but then at some point, a continent away, completely outside of her knowledge, he does a heel-face turn? She suddenly gets empowered? With no idea why? With no knowledge of what happened?
‘Supervillain’ is a category that makes sense *ONLY* in the context of talking about a story. Her power elevates it to an *OBJECTIVE FACT,* not commentary, about something that is supposed to be “reality”, not a story, at least in the context of the story.
Basically, it strays over the line from ‘interesting’ to ‘silly.’
Even Webster’s doesn’t define supervillain, at least not directly.
It does, however, define Diabolical, and within that definition it notes that supervillains are practically contractually obliged (my own words here) to have incompetent minions
i like that heatwave is helping him lift his arm to point at her.
Wait, there are still people who actually memorize phone numbers?
Yes. Some of us “oldies” are still trying to forget old phone numbers we used to have that are no longer even valid, so we can make room for stuff thats actually useful :(
Old number plates too :(
So she has Concretias powers because Concretia signed the LLC charter while being
a prisoner to this other group of guys? They used the LLC as a distraction to try to get
to Sydney?
It is also possible these robed guys aren’t even known by the other members of the LLC or directly part of their group. That they have forced Concretia to work for them under threat means they control HER, but may be seen as a separate group that she is “part of” by other super villains so the LLC may involve members of different groups working together. Remember the LLC was formed ONLY because of Henchwench so she’d get some shared powers, it wasn’t a pre-existing entity. So we could have some mafia working with mercenaries working with a cult like group for a shared goal. A sort of Legion of Doom scenario where normally unrelated groups and villains team up because the hero group is recognized as too strong for them to handle on their own.
a changing world brings changing tactics. As Lex Luthor would say, they can’t afford to operate independently anymore. *considering Arch-Swat was stated to have already taken down a few gangs and mafia types and targeting others it makes sense some would start to band together as a sort of criminal alliance*
RIP everyone that would love to hear that phone call.
“yeah my spleen is dripping can you just put Tim on the phone?”
I think it needs to be said sidekick wench would sound much better as sidekick chick
Why not just “Side-Chick”? ;)
I would note the unfortunate implications of that term regarding her love life…but she’s evidently fine with being called “wench”, so maybe she wouldn’t mind.
It’s like a reverse RoboCop.
Don’t think about kissing?
With Heatwaves pose in that last frame and thoughts sure aren’t going to gin rummy.
Speaking of that pose, something about the nose/eyebrow area looks off to me. Sorry I can’t make any useful suggestions, on a good day my drawings of a dog might be mistaken for drawings of an ashtray.
Don’t ask what my drawings of ashtrays look like unless you still have some sanity points left to spare, and aren’t afraid of higher dimensional math. You don’t have to know how to solve them, just avoid the slashy bits, pointy bits, radiative bits, and the bits that tend to break Euclidian type thingies…
@Dave Barrack – Side to the story, but for the last month my antivirus has been getting a security warning whenever I open the comments. Not sure if you are aware, so letting you know. Here are the details;
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Here is your problem, “chrome.exe “.
For about the last month, have been having problems due to the ads, might be connected?
That comicchameleon site is doing something wrong with ‘their’ https certificate. It seems to me that they are trying to use the cloudfront cert for their site. Every browser with decent security has to reject that attempt.
I get warnings because not all of the site is behind SSL. There are lots of image references that are specifically http:// and chrome and other browsers will complain about that.
Som eof it is stuff in the css, some of it is other site images like topwebcomics
So has anyone ever talked about how Maxima’s beam appeared to use an N’th sphere way back when? Her power allocation makes me wonder if that is either an alternative form of the sphere powers, a more advanced and intuitive form of interface, or if the meteor-geode that gave her the powers she has which Mister Ominous X-faced business man now possesses had at one point possibly contained said hypothetical N’th sphere?
when?
Are you talking about fighting the Fel ship? that looked like a particle concentration lens, you see that with a lot of beams that either focus on a single point to build up power or focus through like its the window or pump between the power source and the physical world. Death Star, some DBZ moves, some versions of Godzilla have done it.
But yeah, there is a theory the symbiote on/in/merged with Maxima may fall into the ancient artifact of destruction category. Some weapon, techno-organic soldier, left over from an outpost on Earth from some unknown ancient and very advanced civilization.
Heatwave, you okay standing like that to just lift an arm?
Okay, apologies if somebody else has already questioned this but…
Max is using Concretia’s physical shell as a cudgel in the final panel? Has this battle run so long between panels that Sydney, Cora and Concretia all were able to rejoin the main group? It looked like Concretia was being swayed by Sydney somewhat to the good guys side, if ARC is able to assist with securing her actual body, but here she is being used and abused by Max…
No, that is Henchies headless shell (she lost the head in the first panel)
I know it’s been established that Henchwench (and Concretia) can animate her golem without touching it . . . but she can also animate her meat body without being inside it?
That was discussed literally on the previous page. By the characters. In the comic.
Actually, what they discussed on the previous page was animating the *golem* without touching it. The explanation for this was concrete-telekinesis (Sydney: “But you can animate concrete without touching it.”) But this page shows the “spirit”/”self” *in the golem* and the *meat body* being animated remotely. Hence the question.
She is inside it.
We assume.
there are two kinds of Astral Projections…for lack of a more accurate all encompassing term that I am aware of.
1: Wandering Spirit
2: Astral Projection.
you may be assuming the first is the case, when it seems like its the second (especially with the pain feed back from the body for Concretia).
the first is like the movie Ghost Dad or Soul Taker. The actual soul is out of the body while the body is still alive. Now normally this also means they can’t feel their body, and in fact if not for medical intervention their body would die without their soul in it. Concretia’s life support isn’t because of this, but more likely she is sedated and being fed and kept hydrated. Concretia normally wouldn’t be at risk of death for projecting which implies version 2.
2: Projection: what we are seeing is not her soul or spirit, but rather a projection of her will. In other words you are seeing the flash light’s light on the wall, not the battery. So turn off the projection and she’s fine because it was a projection, like a hologram with special features created by the mind.
Number 2 works better for being a super power because its a power and not a displacement between life and death.
-note: there are some stories that kind of blend it a little where the projection ends up draining from the mind and body too much and if they don’t stop they could die…but the projection also tends to end when that happens as well rather than be a wandering ghost like in type 1.
Speaking of the comic links.
DaveB, don’t know if anyone has mentioned this before but a few of the links are dead links. Some even look like someone took the domain name to sell stuff and even the archives are just gone.
Sounds like you’ve got malware on your system that’s hijacking links. The archives work fine for me.
Not the archive of THIS comic, the archives of the comics in the side bar. the if you like this comic you may enjoy these others. Although double checking it looks like one of the comics that had that problem has already been removed from the side bar.
Hmm, loosing that power while out of body. Will just kill her, snap her back into her body, or leave her a ghost form?
If its a projection then the projection is just cut off, so stopped and nothing more.
If its a wandering spirit scenario that is more dangerous. However as she can move her physical body and the phantom form at the same time its most likely a projection, may cause some headache to be suddenly shut down.
That idle pose Henchwench’s golem is in in the last panel would have been funnier if it were a T-pose, all I’m sayin’…
So, last comic explained how hench wench is anle to control the concrete body while not inhabiting it… But how is she able to control her real body while inhabiting the concrete one? If I were Concretia, THAT’S the part that would have me screaming “FOUL!”
I do believe that conversation was covering that too.
That the golem body is just concrete or stone, controlling it is no different than the geokinesis she did to grab Sydney’s orbs, just a little more intricate due to the detail work in the golem body.
That’s not quite what’s being discussed. A close look at Panel One of this page shows that Henchie’s spirit form is inhabiting the rock body (she’s not controlling the rock body remotely), but her flesh body is also still active. So either she can have two ‘souls’ at once, or she’s remotely controlling her flesh body.
Same question kinda goes for the final panel. Her real body is active, but there’s her astral form visible outside it. To be fair, Concretia never did say she can’t control her real body while astrally projecting, but it’s heavily implied. She doesn’t say exactly how her real body was captured, but my assumption is while projecting and unaware of what was going on with her meat form.
I mean, really. Read the center panel on the previous page. It is literally Concretia complaining about Henchwench being able to control both bodies at the same time, and suggesting she must have some other power that allows her to do so.
I’m kind of beginning to wonder if all this time within the ‘real life’ of the comic is actually just a really well-played out RP game, and that’s why the entire thing started with a gaming session.
Like a game of Mutants and Masterminds?If so Id say Maxima is a DM controlled character(way overlevelled) and Halos being played by the DMs girlfriend lol.
question: how does everyone’s favorite were-badger have tattoos? wouldn’t the super healing of were-critters eject the foreign material from the wound pretty much instantly?
this was about the vote incentive, just for clarity
Probably depends on how the healing works, and/or what pigments the tattooist used.
If the tattoos are made using pigments naturally found in the body, then the immune system won’t necessarily recognise them as a foreign object needing containment or expulsion. The end effect would be similar to sunbathing with a stencil taped over herself, so that the skin only produced extra pigment in the desired area.
Alternatively, a healing power which runs too quickly might seal the surface of a wound while there’s still a foreign object inside it – and then have difficulty removing the object, as it’s on the wrong side of a tough and self-repairing hide. If you have that sort of power, the good news is that tattoos are easy to come by. The bad news, on the other hand…
it seems to me that a lot of the pictures in this comic have slightly cross-eyed girls in them.
Not even a pink slip? Ouch.