Grrl Power #1030 – Wing Woman and the Forklift
It’s not show clearly on this page, but that guy is carrying a palette with a big water tank on it. Or maybe it’s fry oil for the mess. Doesn’t matter, it’s like a 300 gallon tank and if it’s close to full then it probably weighs about a ton. There’s a better shot of it on the next page.
The problem with having moderate super strength is that your job would quickly become “forklift.” I guess there are worse things though, especially if you got paid at least as much as a forklift operator, plus some portion of the forklift maintenance budget. Presumably if you can lift as much as a forklift, you’re probably more maneuverable even if you’re not quite as fast on a straightaway, so that’s another selling point.
The thing is though, you start feeling underappreciated as the strong guy in your unit, then the boss hires a bunch of nine foot tall demons whose primary function in an assault is to toss a 20 ton steel pylon 500 yards to smash enemy armor, and you’re like, well, what the shit? I guess I’ll just carry moderately heavy stuff. Nothing like being the bantamweight strong guy.
To anyone worried about it, I don’t think the back of knees are anyone’s fetish. To be clear, literally anything is someone’s fetish, but the incident rate of kneebackphillia has got to be lower than statistical error noise.
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This page is just XD Also, nice to see a male Alari who seems… less crazy than the the major females we’ve seen. I like his goatee and his ability to calmly give decent advice.
Alari and human, lol.
Clearly he has joined House Deus. The wooing of women is a strength of that noble House.
I’m more of a shoulder blade kinda guy.
Dimples of Venus, just saying..
had no idea that was a thing, new kink acquired!
As far as that guy not being as fast on the straightaway. A quick google search says a forklift speed is about 18 mph. The average Olympic runner is estimated to run at about 23 mph. It would be crazy to think a person with even moderate super strength would be able to match if not exceed that as long as they have decent human cardiovascular endurance.
Was going to say much the same, without the research, LOL. Once saw Reggie Bush clocked at 22 mph on a sideline breakaway. But in somebody’s case while he might keep up on the straights, the momentum shift in corners ould be a killer.
Forklifts have to deal with inertia when cornering as well – maybe even more so, depending on whether the strong super is of the plain-strength or tactile-telekinesis variety. Their centre of gravity may be lower, as they only need to lift the pallet enough to get it off the ground, but that’s potentially a lot of mass and it’s well outside the wheelbase
Well, remember, most super strength is accompanied by point zero telekinesis. It would alter the momentum shift.
Yeah? And how much weight are they carrying?
forklifts usually have a large cast iron part on them somewhere to provide counterbalance. this is why when you get full powered combat telekinesis in Control those forklifts tend to flatten everything they hit. Except spikes. spikes you run from, always.
The mass-balance is in proportion to the rated load, usually in the 2000Kg area for standard forklifts. It is almost always a cast iron mass surrounding the radiator, placing the load directly onto the steering wheels.
And no, if the load mass is not centered inside the 1 meter mark on the forks, you need to check the load chart to see if you can legally (and legitimately) attempt the lift. If you have extended-length forks, you go to the load-chart FIRST. Trying it out to see which of the {load|steering-wheels} lifts first is considered terminal stupidity (“You are so stupid we are terminating you.”)
Despite the load balance mass, fast turns are a complete no-no due to the centrifugal force generated. (Before you make a fuss, yes we DO know about Centripetal and Centrifugal.) This centrifugal force can tip a properly placed pallet on its side before you get past “OH… …” The whole art of forklift usage is “Slowly slowly gets the cabbage.”
The little forklift toys are even more deadly. They have absolutely zero in the way of “forgiveness trinkets”, with the possible exception of their not very exciting brakes. Whether they are “walk-behind pull-alongs” or “stand-on tricycles with opposite steer”, they will kill you at the slightest provocation.
Was referring to the runners…
Forklifts are never used at their max speed. That would be dangerous and you’d have HR jumping. In Aus for safety in warehouses, counterbalance forklifts usually run at less than 10kph (avg 6-8kph), outdoors they can go up to 15kph. Reach forklifts are inherently more unstable (due to high centre of gravity) and are usually around 5-7kph. Cornering at speed is highly frowned upon, even if you’re not carrying a load. Too much risk of tipping over or spinning out on the polished concrete floors.
Unless of course, the driver of said forklift is busy making sure he/she is not being bothered while they smoke their joint or text on their phone.
30 years ago, I got knocked on my butt by a guy on a forklift who was high as a kite. I know because he still had his joint in his mouth when he was pulled off it. I am waiting to see such at my current employer because it IS coming. With the way the world is right now, sooner rather than later. And as soon as I see it, I am going to jail for murder.
I am sure than any modern forklift driver caught doing such anywhere BUT in an Amazon warehouse will be fired and maybe arrested. I am ALSO sure than if anyone in said warehouse DARES to ask them to stop smoking their weed, they will cry and get people in lots of trouble. So, I won’t even ask. I will just be ready to kill the fool for trying to kill me. After all, lives matter far less than feelings these days.
Took a second to realise the backs of her knees weren’t at his eye level.
Most other things aren’t at the levels of eyes, that’s how they tend to get caught (they tend to forget to keep their head straight when looking down)
Would it be better if he was short enough that he had no option but to look there?
It looks like that soldier got himself up to his knees in trouble.
Correction: he got himself up to her knees in trouble :)
Oh the things I’d do to that ass.
Damn it, Dave. You need an art discord like Fred Perry. Seriously.
Muscle butt fan specific, or butt fan generalist?
I am, indeed, an ass man. And Anvil is magnificent in her muscular beauty.
Honestly thought she was wearing a camo-cap at first
The placement of her feet in relation to the rest of her (and the palette) in the last panel seems… off to me
Her feet is placing her on his right, which should put her under the palette… unless he also has a similar Zero-range Telekinesis thing that Maxi has (which would still look weird with her on his right slapping him on the left… )
I mean, there are people who find ARMPITS sexy. It wouldn’t surprise me if there are people who are into the backs of the knee.
This isnt applicable to me, BUT….
I have heard that the back of the knee is an erogenous zone for some women because it’s an area where the nerves are more densely packed and concentrated, so it can sometimes be more sensitive, and therefore more responsive to the touch.
Again, not talking about myself!
It’s been ages but didn’t Lucy Liu’s character in Ally McBeal like to have someone blow on the back of her knees?
Edit: A quick Google search says “Yes she did.”
That’s a plot point in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Yes, it was Roxy’s weak point.
https://youtu.be/J0P8BPaPiE0?t=140
Armpits are sexy because they’re early signs of puberty (well, developing scents and armpit hair). Dead serious.
People are weird, and strange, but some perversions are actually sensible.
Yes, thank you! I like stories that show what’s going on with the low to mid-level superpowered folks as well as the high-level ones. That is a woefully underexplored subject to me.
I’m fairly sure Maxima could figure out how to use a lower-level super to help people and kick bad guy ass.
Low-level can be effective at the right task. I read a story once of a woman who had low-level telekinetic skills. She could move a glass of water or an apple, or pinch a hose shut, within a range of forty to fifty feet. She was an assassin. Blood vessels are just little hoses, right?
One of the big things is that people discount the possibilities of equipment for low-level super-physicality. Super-strength, even just the ‘strong as 10 men’ type, means you can wear the equivalent protection of an APC while retaining near-full personal mobility. You could manage heavy crewed machine guns, or small cannon as man-portable weapons. Big hammers or swords, of course, would allow you to hit outside your weight class just like they do for normal people (seriously, why did Superman never invest in an indestructible axe or something for fighting bigger foes?).
In the book series ‘wearing that cape’ by Marion G Harmon, people can under stress sometimes manifest all sorts of various superpowers rated D through A, D being captain America and A being low level superman.
The military aggressively recruits even D’s because they can put them in essentially unpowered war machine armor
And still have them bounding across the battlefield like they’re wearing regular clothing.
The main character ‘Astra’ is a super girl type ‘flying brick’ who can lift tons but is still a five foot nothing girl who’s going to get carded until she’s 50, so she Carries of 100 pound titanium war hammer she inherited from another hero.
The power sets in this universe drives biologist and physicists to drink because breakthroughs get abilities that work the way they think they should and might completely contradict how somebody else’s powers work.
One young lady is absolutely convinced she is Ozma of OZ … And she can prove it.
a mad scientist who can make almost anything out of ‘unstable molecules’ that only he can create,
Or A girl who can summon cute multicolored dragons from a TV show she watched obsessively as a child.
And now I have something else to add to my wish list. Thank you for the new title. :)
Thinking, someone with low-level healing powers. They couldn’t return someone to full health, but they could seal a lacerated artery or crumble a blood clot where it was blocking a vessel in the brain. Or detect where the doctors should operate without expensive scans.
Ah… Wearing the Cape. GREAT series.
My favorite character? Artemis. Gotta love a badass vampire (Currently daywalking) who might make Batman think twice about his life choices or at the very least duck for cover when she goes for her pistols. Galatea Shelly comes a close second.
Read! The! Books!
The nerves in the spinal column are even more fragile.
Kind of a weird coincidence because I don’t know how locally specific this is, but my mum told me how the backs of the knees used to be seen as something that only your husband should see (I guess where conservative attitudes towards legs used to mean no short skirts or trousers it makes sense that something like the back of your knees would gain an”intimate” importance).
This was in Malawi about 50 years ago, but yeah, bare breasts were more acceptable than bare legs. I know it’s a coincidence here but it would work that similar social quirks could be seen in a neighbouring country.
Back the knees are not my thing, I like Spines.
I guess I can see where it come from though, not really any different from Spines.
No weirder than commenting on a well-turned ankle.
Until it turns the wrong way!
Did that woman’s hair coloring invert momentarily between panel’s 2 & 4?
& also, you don’t know attraction until you appreciate the webbing between the gaps between a woman’s toes…..
Aaaaahhh, the Shape of Water…
It did. Looks like between 2 & 3 to me.
I was presuming it was animated and moving, like Syney’s orbs.
Rule 34 (I think) – “If it exists, there is porn for it.” Just sayin’.
yep. even for forklifts. elevating porn to new levels. (don’t google at work)
When they probably return home,Sydney notices that her folks left and Hiro gives her a message to contact them as soon as possible…..!
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Well, she did leave while they were visiting
Back of the knees? Yeah, they are an erogenous zone, after all. Very sensitive to light pressure from the fingertips. Especially if the person it’s being done to hasn’t had it before. Wouldn’t surprise me if someone did actually stare at them.
“I couldn’t help noticing your…..
(A) Huge muscles
(B) Magnificent breasts
(C) Beautiful eyes.
“…..huge eyes.”
((Dammit!!))
Long time reader, first time commenter, but I just had to congratulate your art on those leg muscles.
At the risk of giving away too much about myself, I can assure you that the popliteal fossa (the back of the knee) is at least one person’s fetish.
Human is worse than forklift. hand are smaller and cargo can break from itself weight. Superman cant lift ship from one point and dont make that ship into Titanic cosplayer.
Actually, Sups can, and has, done just that on numerous occasions
Superman has Shown the ability to pick up things that should come apart in his hands from literally the very first issue.
the writers ignored it for decades until the 90s and John Byrne talked DC into letting him reboot the title.
he then supplied a series of Detailed sci-fi explanations as to how his powers worked.
invulnerability was primarily a force field extending Throughout his body that he could expand subconsciously to anything he was touching so he could lift a 200 ton ship out of The Water through a combination of the field and an antigravity ability and not punch a hole through it as well as carry Lois Lane at hundreds of miles an hour without ripping her to shreds, it was Also why his costume was indestructible.
super senses? all psychic abilities,so he could hear faster than the speed of sound, see through walls without actually emitting x-rays, heat vision? Pyro-kinesis, freeze breath cryo- kinesis, superspeed? tapping the flash’s speed force and so on.
I wonder if this guys super-strength works similar to how it is in the tabletop game “Aberrant”, where he’s actually manipulating quantum fields (subconciously) versus having muscle tissue able to exert enough force.
I mention this because he’s picking up a heavy tank on a wooden pallet. Anyplace he would have tried to grab that with his hands to lift from the ground should have cracked/snapped from uneven force distribution. I know “it’s just a comic”, but stuff like this always pops into my head ever since I read/played Aberrant, and they talk about how super-powered people can lift disproportionately weighed/balanced things, without the heavier thing making them fall over and without the heavier thing breaking apart.
It’s how Maxi was able to lift the ecnalubmA via the bumper without ripping the bumper off
So that effect was specifically called out? I don’t recall the page you’re referring to. I don’t know if this is something that Dave has cited as canon or not. BTW, I grinned at your Ambulance easter egg with the rearview-correction-concept and all.
It’s canon, Max’s zero-range telekenesis is the subject of the first Dabbler’s Science Corner (right after the event in question).
!!! Holy crap now if Anvil doesn’t talk to this guy I’m going to be Massively upset because I want Anvil to be happy.
Maybe she shouldn’t confine her prospects to basketball players.
Its been explained that Anvil has a specific need. She is done with guys shorter then her. She is looking for a nice guy, her height or higher, and muscled and hot.
Which is more then understandable.
She just wants to be the little spoon for once. I mean, its a good fetish and just wanting to be held and loved? Good on her. She just hasn’t been very lucky in finding it…
She’s had a rough time of it very few +/- 7′ tall guys are “in the market” and the single ones are usually for a good reason I suspect she may follow Sydney’s tastes in non-human relationships in the future.
On the back of the knee thing… Next time you get frisky try kissing and blowing on the back of the knee… Just saying..
Been there, done that… Depends on her as much as anything: pre-marriage dating I’d say 1 in 5 while my wife’s giggle maker was the nape of the neck or back of the ear.. ‘nough said…
A large plastic liquid container in a cage is called a IBC (Intermediate Bulk Container) but is commonly called a ‘tote’. In case you wanted another term for it, other than “big water container.” The totes I’ve seen have built in foundations for forklift tines, but I have no idea what African ones look like. Just FYI.
is that guy an Alari civil war soldier
See…it wasn’t? BUT YOU JUST GOT PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION TO IT! AND NOW PEOPLE CAN SEE WHY!
If the tank is full of water, just the liquid inside would weigh 2400 pounds. So yeah over 1 ton
Who’s who: Only Anvil
No one with a speaking role need apply.
Anvil’s contribution to this comic: An ass shot. And also a shot of the back of her knees, I guess.
Looks a lot more like a roll of chicken wire. And that impression is reinforced by the shadowing.
So, in the Army the big guy ‘gets’ to carry the M60. At 6’0″ and 180lbs (then, time is the enemy) I was big enough to be able to handle my gear pretty easily, I always felt a little sorry for the little guys who had to carry the same amount of crap on a much smaller frame. But there was always a beefier guy than me who was picked to lug the M60, and I was happy about that. The SAW is only a tiny bit better.
Unrelated, but Story 3 has Sydney’s name on it.
https://youtu.be/PhkecSb9feo
Tip for forklift boy: Compliments are often more appreciated (and less creepy) the less specific and narrowly focused they are. Passive voice is better than first person too.
“Your eyes are beautiful!” tends to be better received than “I can’t stop staring at your left sclera!”
Or more on-point:
“You have amazing legs!” Will be more likely to be appreciated than “I’m compelled to stare endlessly at the backs of your knees…”