Grrl Power #980 – Destination beatdown
Sydney probably could have just hunkered down in her shield and let Kevin just blast away at it, then maybe juggle him around with the lighthook, but she felt this would be a whole lot more demoralizing.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
I really need to finish the book so I can close the tab I’ve had open for three weeks on google results for “sintered.” (Spoilers? Not really, no.)
So Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was on sale and I’ve never played one of those so I decided to check it out. It’s… fine? The hide, stab, climb a thing loop is okay I guess. It’s basically the same game as Far Cry, but you hide, shoot and climb a thing in those. That basically describes all of Ubisoft’s catalog I think. The world is huge and there’s a lot of nothing. Like I remember Skyrim, you couldn’t walk for 90 seconds in any direction before finding a carin stone or dungeon entrance or a giant herding sheep or something. AC:V has you running for 5 minutes from place to place to a pre-marked treasure which is usually an ingot for upgrading your weapons marginally, or a “mystery” which is usually just some minor scripted side quest that gets you some XP. There are also towns you can raid, because you’re a viking, but instead of calling in your homies, I can usually take down an entire town by myself because I’m playing on normal difficulty.
Like I said, it’s fine.
All this is to say, I haven’t made any progress on T:E2 since Monday because I haven’t played any video games in quite a while and thought it would be fun to hit some digital Saxons with an axe. I do hope to make some more progress by the next update though. I’ve played a lot of video games and the gameplay loops tend to wear out their welcome with me fairly quickly. I actually can’t think of the last game I actually beat. Playing Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, I maxed out Enchanting and Stealth, then enchanted a full set of glass armor with stealth buffs, then crouch stealthed all the way through an Oblivion portal and stole the gem thing and I was basically invisible even in bright light, and after I did that I kind of figured I had basically won the game in all but time expended, so I stopped playing there. I tend to either do stuff like that, or just play long enough to get about half the upgrades then exhaust the gameplay loop and lose interest.
September’s vote incentive is up! It’s been over a year since Max was featured in one of these, so I figured it was time to revisit.
If you just popped by to see it right when it went up, you might have missed the update. Her nipples were a touch high in the first version, and if you poke through the comments there, you can see the reference I used, only that model’s boobs were about 3 cup sizes smaller. Anyway, I flew her nipples south for the winter and updated the relevant pics.
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Has anyone yet asked about the amount of cosmic radiation that Vehemence is absorbing very rapidly? Forget breathing! This guy’s going to die if he isn’t dead already. They are nearby a station wrapped around a star. That very star is pumping out far, far more radiation then our sun does on average. While Vehemence is a super I have serious doubts (unless it was mentioned in his bio) that it includes defenses against such strong bombardments of radiation. This guy should be dead now.
Seems likely that if people are walking around on the surface, there’s more than just a force field holding air in – they’re also being protected from such radiation. I would think whatever substance or machinery is absorbing/transforming the energy from the fracture would be PART of that protection. Now, he’s floating above the surface, so maybe he’s not offered the full protection that people on the surface are, but… I would think he has some protection (?)
Even ignoring the Dyson sphere enclosing the neutron star, he can regenerate and his power tank to do so with is quite full. He’ll be fine.
Additionally, since he claims ‘when i regenerate I get stronger’ it may be safe to assume whatever cellular damage he may or may not be taking would only serve to increase his RAD Resistence. Short of one-shotting him, he is mostly unkillable.
Lol.
Cosmic violence…
I like the idea that the stars are “violent” when irradiating him, so he gets vehemence energy when he gets too close.
Throw him into a sun and he’ll power up and throw the sun back at you.
But if that were the case, just walking around in the sun would power him up too, as would regular air (collisions from molecules) and radio-waves.
So I’m guessing natural forces isn’t considered violence for power-up
They’re perpetual nuclear explosions millions of times larger than our entire planet. Of course they’re violent. It’s just a distant violence.
Not an issue, unless you are in one of the (exhaust?) jets. The station is absorbing the stars output, so there’s very little if any radiation there. Remember the populace wandering around there, as well as Sydney not using her forcefield when she was there? (Also that super hot food she ate…)
Sydney took so much time to come back from the portal last time — time to find out if the delay is caused by her own means of transportation…
last time she also had to fly down to the Fracture station, go to a food stall, order some food, pay for it (somehow), and then fly back into space and then open her portal back to Earth to her comic shop.
Payment would have been an issue, but I think she shocked the cook so much he forgot to charge her.
Or a bystander or two who were so amazed at her eating that stuff paid for it just to see her eat it.
But then again, maybe the station was running a tab for her, and wouldn’t let her leave until it was paid, which happened after her lift showed up ;)
I’m just making wild guesses, but I could totally see one or more of the shocked observers paying just to see that spectacle.
No see the time dissonance was caused by the fact they went through an incompletely portal ritual, meaning they went to a weird version of their destination, in that case the future. The team went back through the portal to the normal time on the other side, leaving sydney stuck in the future. Her etherium causeway has nothing to do with it.
Given Sydney’s limited to only two orb-operations at once, how’s she going to get V back home? She can’t give up her shield. She has to use the navigation orb to open her personal worm hole. What’ll she use to haul V back with her? His initial momentum, acquired when he was chasing her? Maybe. She’ll have to open the worm hole in front of him so he drifts into it. She (seemingly) can’t use the Light Bee, since she’s got to hold the worm hole open, AND keep her shield up. Maybe the worm hole stays open for a set amount of time after she opens it? So she could first open it, then grab V with the Light Bee and get him moving in the right direction, then move herself through the hole, with him following her?
the portal may come with some suction function if she opens it up right behind him, enough for a free floating body to be pulled in.
It’s also been pointed out that she could just shove him with the shield.
By your logic, she couldn’t have opened the wormhole to start with; shield + flight + wormhole.
Flight and the causeway are both from the same orb.
Left hand: shield ball
Right hand: flyball, Open the portal, switch to lighthook to throw him through, then flyball again to fly through herself. Given that it took at least several seconds for the portal to close behind her when Cora was tracking her down, she should be able to juggle that quickly enough to get him through.
shield and flight. Just ram him into the portal.
One huge problem; a round surface like the shield is *very* difficult to aim accurately without a great deal of practice. (This is why billiards / pool is a game of genuine skill.) Easiest way is to lighthook grab him, throw him back the way they came, and (since there’s nothing to stop his momentum in space over such a short distance), fly in close parallel (beside, ahead, behind) and activate the causeway so that they both go through.
She can throw him with molestorb then fly ahead and open the portal. He was charging with some speed initially anyway so I doubt that’s necessary.
They only look stationary at the moment but that’s only relative to each other.
Left hand – shield orb.
Right hand – lighthook, push him a little. Newton’s first law of motion – sometimes referred to as the law of inertia. An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Doesn’t have to be a big push even.
Then switch from lighthook orb to fly orb, make the aetherium causeway in front of him as he goes forward, and then fly in afterwards.
Or like others have said, she could just nudge him with her shield itself.
Use the lighthook to pull him over so he can hug the shield. Then fly through the portal again. His arms are long enough to wrap a good distance around her shield, so he should be able to get an adequate enough grip to hold on while she portals again
What’s going on in the lower right quadrant of the first pane? There’s a five-sided section of space that’s a different color than the surrounding area. Why is that blue, while the other area next to it is white? Why are there such clean lines bordering it?
dang I didnt notice that before
You mean the top row, right-most panel? That’s just shading for smoke/dust cloud getting thicker and generating its own shadow. The “shape” is roughly “smoke billow/cloud bumps piled together” in shape.
Nope. Bottom left-most panel, lower right quadrant of the panel. Ideas?
DaveB already answered this in another comment, but compare with page #676
Good one. Sharp memories & eyes in this crowd. Thanks!
I cropped the first 3 frames, and without context, it almost feels like Sydney is the villain. She’s just that smug.
She has always been that smug, second only to his Smugness Himself (may He wallow in His own bile, Amen)
So we know Kevin can use his power to make clothing which suggests he has some sort of matter\energy, conversion, materialization capability. We don’t know the complexity of the things he can create but he should at least be able to wrap himself in a “pressure suit”. Plus, if he can create matter, could he not create oxygen? He’s tough though not invulnerable, as proven by the hits he’s taken from Max. Actually a small expenditure of power to toughen up his skin acting as it’s own pressure suit would solve his main problem leaving the matter of oxygen. Can he make it?
We already know that he can spend power instead of breathing since that’s how they beat him the first time. But without a huge battle around him feeding him power, Sydney can just wait for him to run out. As for explosive decompression, even regular human skin will hold together pretty well (you’ll get some soft tissue damage, but you’ll probably die of suffocation before that kills you), so Kevin’s super-toughness and regeneration ought to have no trouble.
(Also, I don’t think he can propel himself in a vacuum – in the first fight he anchored himself to the ground rather than let Max throw him around. So he’ll have some trouble getting into punching range of anyone.
Having been on flight status I had to undergo “Physiological Training” which we were put into a pressure chamber and brought up to different altitudes with oxygen masks and then had to remove them and perform simple tasks. Eventually performing those tasks got increasingly difficult and silly. In the final test were exposed to explosive decompression at the equivalent of 30,000 feet or greater (I misremember) in which we were to mask and go on oxygen. Only one guy in my group failed to mask, passed out and we had to mask him. Explosive decompression was interesting as there was a loud bang/pop and the moisture in the air turned to vapor basically fogging up the interior of the chamber which was a bit disorienting.
Again people don’t actually explode in space, that is the realm of bad sci-fi. No the pass out from asphyxiation, then decompress no they don’t explode the skin is strong then that. The swell up from the decompress, this is what happens to fish and deep sea creatures like the blob fish. Then they freeze slowly and get cooked by the radiation.
He looks like he’s holding his breath in the last panel. Good thing he’s a lot tougher than a normal human, or that would give him a LOT of internal damage.
Yeah. The proper way to deal with being in a vacuum is to breathe out, so the air in your lungs doesn’t pop them/you like a balloon.
Hooooooooooooo!!!
That is fighting diiiiirtyyyyy.
LOVE IT!!!
It’s so much more powerful to tell the villian, “you never dreamed that you had so little of a chance, did you?”
“I’m not here to _fight_ you. I’m here to _defeat_ you.”
Colonel Jack O’Neil:
“This…” *holds up Jaffa staff weapon* “… is a weapon of terror. It is made to intimidate the enemy.”
“THIS…” *holds up a P-90* “… is a weapon of war. It is made to KILL the enemy.”
One of the best moments in SG 1
There are so many
Jack O’Neill: “In the middle of my BACKSWING?!”
Jack O’Neill: “…. Magnets.”
Jack O’Neill: “In the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now?”
Jack O’Neill: “Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.”
Jack O’Neill: “I just woke up, haven’t had coffee— let alone a pee in seven days—and I find out you stole my ass and made a… Mini-Me. Carter, I should be irked currently, yes?”
Jack O’Neill: “So explain this to me one more time. You honestly believe that from the moment you broke us out of that prison on Chulak you’ve been serving Apophis? Because I gotta tell ya, as your best friend—at least in this whole wide world—that makes absolutely no sense at all. I mean that would make you the most ineffective double agent in the history of double agenting.”
O’Neill: “Ah, but… birds of a feather.”
Shamda: “I’m unfamiliar with that story. What lesson does it teach?”
O’Neill: “It has to do flocking and… togetherness.”
But yes, that was one of the best moments. Definitely.
OH actually the only quotes I’ve made have been from O’Neill. Teal’c deserves one as well though.
*50th time that the airman has started a time loop by hitting Teal’c in the face with a door accidentally*
Airman: “I’m sorry, Sir. I didn’t realize you were there.”
Teal’c: “You have said that on many occasions. Perhaps next time I will be not so forgiving!”
*51st time*
https://youtu.be/1U1jSGib-NA?t=110
Of course, P-90 does NOT actually come with enough ammunition to do that.
the first clue should have been that he’s been dealing with ever escalating threats so far. and Sydney came AFTER Maxima.
Brains over brawn… Winner
Girl needs to bookmark some places closer to home. I head Jupiter is nice this time of year! Easier to draw as well.
Cora did give her a few choice new stellar locations actually to add into the system. Since Altus (Cora’s navigator) understood the interface.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-715-wormhole-101/
Needs to bookmark some point in deep interstellar space where there’s nothing but nothing within a lightyear, so she’s got someplace to dump foes who could actually fly to a nearby planet. “I realize you don’t need to breath, and can fly, but I’m going to die of old age before you reach anything larger than a rock.”
Nah, someone galivanting around with an infinite improbability drive will pick him up (entirely by accident) a few seconds before he would have expired. You know the way the universe works.
He dun goofed.
Wait, did Sydney already have that sign made up?
That means this was planned, they intended for Kev to want to continue the fight!
THIS IS ENTRAPMENT!!!! Not to mention attempted murder!
Where’s that hack lawyer when you really need one?
Should people not have the slightest contingencies if it turned out the probably single biggest threat to civil society on the planet was acting in bad faith? Like two pages of notebook would not exactly have been a great loss if he wanted to play by the rules like he said he would.
Sydney being Sydney could have had that sign in her book made up years ago for all we know, something to show off to an opponent to do the I don’t need to monologue smug victory.
also as Amelie W said, this was not entrapment, this was a contingency plan, just in case Kevin opted to not follow his agreement to stop he would be put in a situation where he could only burn off energy and not gain any at all. Hence spacing him.
That’s *the book*.
You really think, with what that book’s about, she’s not gonna have that page pre-written?
Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the middle page of the book for easy access.
Does Kev have two left arms now? Is that a new power?
I think it is just there to show how he flails with his arms helplessly. Notice that one arm is semi-transparent.
It could also represent him depowering. He gets bigger when he powers up and returns to his normal size when he uses up to much of his power (like using his power to survive in space)
Oddly I was wondering when Sydney would realise that gating people like this is an instant I win button.Admittedly gating someone into space in most cases would be outright murder but theres loads of fun locations she could bookmark to take the fight out of anyone.
Of course now its been shown she now has to permanantly forget to do this to make all future fights last more than like 1 second.Though even without any more level ups i can think of 100 ways she could beat a villain in less than three seconds so im officially giving up how absurdly overpowered her tech based “powerset” is though will occassionally think the work mary sue very loudly XD.
In the US Police can use leathal force in self defence or defence of others.
I’m curious… Is there any country in which it is illegal to use lethal force in self-defense? Where you’re expected to just give up and die, if no non-lethal defense proves effective?
In the US -anyone- can use lethal force in self defense or defense of others. Not just police. It’s an affirmative defense against a charge of murder.
That being said I think Sydney already realized that this wouldnt kill Vehemence (at least not immediately), so the intent can arguably be absent against a charge of murder anyway.
Also what Sydney did would probably not be sslf defense since she wasnt in danger in the first place. Lethal force cant be used in self defense if she isnt in danger in the first place
There’s been a bit of back-and-forth on the heat issue, so I thought I would chime in.
There are three different ways to transfer heat – conduction, convection, and radiation. Conduction is the transfer of heat through direct contact between two (or more) materials. Hold an ice cube in your hand and you’ll experience notable conduction. Convection is the transfer of heat through the use of a fluid medium, like air or water. Sit next to a coil heater and you’ll feel the heat from the heater because it is warming up the air next to you. Radiation is heat transfer through emitted radiation (both ionizing and non-ionizing). You experience radiation when you step outside into direct sunlight.
Heat transfer also depends on the difference in temperature*; it’s not just hot transfers to cold, but the greater the temperature difference, the more heat energy is transferred from the hot object to the cold object.
* The difference in temperature is a crude and inaccurate way to put it, but this explanation is technical enough already.
Neither conduction nor convection matter in a vacuum, which is why the only transfer of heat is radiation. V is currently experiencing the same kind of heat transfer that Earth experiences from the Sun, but to a much smaller degree.
To understand the difference, we assume that V is about 37 degrees Celsius, or 310 Kelvin. Outer space is close to absolute zero, 2.7 Kelvin (this is due to background radiation; also, space having a temperature is technical incorrect, but it’ll do). Now we know that V is probably not currently 310 Kelvin because he’s been expending energy, and due to where Sydney and V currently are, it’s probably a little higher than 2.7 Kelvin, but let’s be generous (and make the math easy) and assume the difference in temperature is a flat 300 Kelvin.
The equation for heat transfer for radiation is Q/t = (sigma)(e)(A)(Temp1^4 – Temp2^4). If we play with the numbers, we get a lost of heat of 485 Watts per meter squared of exposed skin. If we assume the average person is 1.5 meters of exposed skin, we get 725.5 Watts. V is a big guy, so let’s up that to 800 Watts.
A human at rest generates anywhere from 100 – 120 Watts of energy. Again, V is a big guy, so let’s up that to 150 Watts of energy. This means that just be being in space, V is transferring 650 Watts of energy.
Obviously, V can burn energy to keep himself warm, but he will be burning off energy. Since it takes 1 Watt is expending 1 Joule per second, and it takes about 10 Joules to lift 1 kilogram of mass 1 meter on Earth, we can estimate how much energy V has to burn by looking at some of his feats of strength. He’s lifted columns of rock that are easily 5,000 kg to a center-of-mass of 6 meters above its resting point, so let’s say 30,000 Joules. I don’t know how many time he could do that without depleting his energy source, so let’s give him 100 reps. This means V would have stored up 3,000,000 Joules, and he’s going to lose them, 650 Joules per second. That comes to 4,615 seconds, or 1 hour, 16 minutes, 55 seconds.
So why is overheating a concern for places like International Space Station and not for V? Because the ISS is extremely well insulated – and V is not. Also, the ISS travels for part of its time in direct sunlight and part of its time in Earth’s shadow, so sometimes it is heat and sometimes it is cooled. From the looks of things, V is far from direct sunlight, so it’s all going to be cooling for him.
I thing you dropped a g, as in mgh. The column is also heavier than that. For 3MJ, he could also have eaten a really large chocolate bar, say part of a pound.
Oh lordy, don’t hold your breath! Never hold your breath! If it was anyone but a super, their lungs would have ruptured. Vacuum on the body distends the belly and draws the lungs down if there’s air trapped in the lungs. They’d pop like a balloon.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. One of my favorite moments in Titan AE is near the beginning when the windshield of their shuttle is cracking and Korso tells Cale to exhale before kicking it out and using a fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster.
Looks to me like he’s not just flailing randomly.
He’s tapping out.
Btw, I rather liked AC: Valhalla, but only from a gameplay perspective. The storyline itself was a blah for a couple reasons that really threw me out of the immersion in the game.
First was that it was clearly made to have the main character be a woman as canon from how the dialog read, despite the advertising leaning much more heavily to the canon character being a male. It really threw me off because I felt like I would have enjoyed it more if I had known in advance, so I could have picked the female character. I’m assuming they went with the male or female idea because they thought male gamers won’t play if it’s only a female, despite how FemShep in Mass Effect was easily the more popular Shepherd to play (despite male Shepherd being canon for the series), and Tomb Raider was one of the best selling action adventure games in the genre.
I think it would have probably been fine to just have it be a female protagonist. Or if they desperately wanted a male protagonist, they could have gone the Syndicate route and had a brother and sister, although that would probably have messed with the whole adopted sibling relationship with Sigurd.
It was clearly MEANT to have the main character as a woman, because of the NAME OF THE MAIN CHARACTER.
The main character’s name is Eivor. Okay, could be male or female, right? Eivor’s the Viking equivalent of a modern day ‘Sam’ or ‘Ashley’ – arguably gender neutral, even if it tends to lean in one way or another.
Nope. Because Eivor’s last name is Varinsdottir. Literally means ‘Daughter of Varin.’ If they wanted it to be ‘equal’ for a male or female character, they would have needed to change the last name if you play as a guy to Varinsson. That’s how viking names just happen to work – they were descriptive rather than general identifiers, and you could have a son and daughter of Varin, and they’d be Varinsdottir and Varinsson. It’s not like Ubisoft doesnt know a lot about the historic stuff. Historical knowledge is usually a key part of the AC games.
The second problem with the game was the end. It just… stops. It doesnt even stop where you’d think it would end. I won’t give spoilers but there’s a point where it’s in the real world where it SHOULD end, but then you go back into the Animus, not just to keep playing more, but because there’s a second and third ending AFTER that. Which doesnt actually ‘end’ either. It just stops, unlike pretty much every AC game before it where there was somewhere you could point to that separates the ‘story end’ from the New Game+ portion.
It’s definitely better than Origins or Rogue (Rogue is easily the worst from a story perspective), a better storyline overall than Liberation, but not QUITE as good as Odyssey. And definitely not as good as AC1, the Ezio trilogy, Black Flag, Unity, or Syndicate. And even AC3 is a little better than Valhalla, mainly because of the massive twist in AC3.
Good points to the game? I like the new Animus user. She seems to have an interesting backstory, and they don’t try to do the Desmond thing (Desmond was always annoying to play) of making her do actions in the real world. They use her for doing puzzles in the Animus in order to unlock more of the story. Much better use of a character who can’t actually fight like a really trained Assassin.
So… not the worst AC game, but definitely not the best, especially from a story standpoint. It was excellent gameplay though, definitely one of the better AC games if you just want to hack and slash stuff, plus the river raids were pretty cool too.
This has been ‘Pander’s Game Reviews.’ Good night everybody.
thats one way to win, non-violently. the choke him out strat v2
Vehemence has just shown himself to be a very high risk asset. While it likely wouldn’t make for fun reading, the most realistic response to his situation would probably be to gate him somewhere far away in the distant vacuum of space and let him perish on camera. Max mentioning he’s on strike two now probably merits mention. It sounds – it is – brutal, but the stakes are enormous for ARC, and Vehemence doesn’t appear to understand his constraints very well.
While Vehemence (and the readers) are curious if he could Kars or Doomsday his way into fighting “teleprotted to deep space,” I doubt that’s something he would want to experiment with haphazardly.
I also think that maxima wouldn’t want to experiment with that haphazardly, given possible escape risks.
Instant defeat. Well THAT has to feel demoralizing.
But…
VERY good tactics!
Just imagine if Sydney had fumbled and let go of the wrong orb here. The End.
It’s occurred to me… Sydney is holding open a book with the words ‘Give Up’ written in it.
I know of only one book that Sydney carries around with her… could this be some insight into the purpose of her list?
My thoughts exactly.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-980-destination-beatdown/comment-page-4/#comment-909125
I don’t know if this is the brightest idea.
Vehemence can pull powers out of his ass. He grew lightning crystals and created pants out of nothing. He could possibly cause himself to fly.
They had agreed not to use fancy powers, like auras or force waves. Teleportation is a pretty fancy one.
It’s also worth wondering if being in space would make him stronger, due to his special regeneration.
The interesting thing is that even if he could still beat her here, he’s probably not going to want to do that. Breaking the shield means sydney is exposed to space, and I don’t think he’s interested in killing her (even if she is cheating).
The kind of damage one takes from being in space is, arguably, “Anti-violence.”
While there’s a chance he can make some kind of pressure suit with his ramped-up powers, he has every reason to tap out here. It’s obvious Sydney has absolutely EVERY advantage in a fight out here. His normal advantages over her involve use of his weight, and while he still has his full mass he doesn’t have any of his weight. Her lighthook can redirect him wherever she wants.
There’s a bit of dirty pool, at least from Kevin’s perspective. From the “No flying!” line he clearly thought Max’s line about “Then you fight…HER” was an agreement to go another round under the same rules, rather than a “We aren’t playing anymore.” But as others have noted, he kind of should have expected Sydney to use funky powers. Her blunt force options – at least those we’ve seen her use – aren’t really on his scale.
I do wonder whether she could have smushed him between shield and ground, like that scene in Scrapped Princess. I feel like we’ve had confirmation that trying to ram people while shielded just kind of bounces her around in her shield (though I don’t recall where I’ve seen it), but we also know people can’t shove HER out of the way when she’s shielded. So getting above and pressing down should put enemies in a tight spot. Not necessarily lethal, but they weren’t going for lethal. It’s basically the “let the dwarf sit on ’em” strategy.
Technically, all rules were off once he refused to stop. As to evolving powers, his body may adapt to damage but it’s shown no sign of being able to give him any mobility-relayed powers that might be useful in space. He’s pretty well stuck until someone moves him or his power runs out.
He has to be powered up far enough to just will powers into existence. They stopped before that level I think.
I feel like a lot of you are forgetting that V is several thousand times more durable than a baseline human at this point.
A lot of the hazards of space just aren’t relevant beyond no oxygen.
I like to think he’s actually flailing from the sheer surprise, and he’s about to go all fangirl at the space station.
Then, when Sydney takes him on a tour of it he’s like a little boy at the amusement park…
Until he reaches The Fracture’s cafe that serves Grakz… then he’ll surrender yet again…
You know, looking back at the Fracture in #676, I notice that there’s no traffic at all this time. The place used to be so busy! (Imagines V and Halo landing on the Fracture in the middle of a war – maybe the world wreckers who tracked Sydney, and now these two unlikely allies have to save the day… Nah.)
Garsh!
I hope she doesn’t accidentally kill him.
It was Maxima’s plan but that sort of thing would still look bad on her record.
… I just realized that Sydney is a god damned shipgirl…
Sydney had that same realization, oh, about 438 pages ago.
At the very least she hasn’t turned into a cat or a tree yet.
Odd thought: can we assume the ball that provides oxygen is also recycling CO2? One can die from excess CO2 in the breathing air.
This page made me laugh out loud.
I feel like it’s not a good idea to give such a powerful supervillain the knowledge that Sydney can independently travel to space.