Grrl Power #1302 – Oh, What A Feeling!
Clearly the floor of that valley/canyon thing is solid stone with a dusting of sand, because if it was 10 foot deep sand, the truck would thud into a dune, maybe flip once, but more likely roll over maybe halfway then settle to a stop. Maybe unless the truck was doing 300 when it rolled, and it wasn’t. It won’t day how fast it was going, because I don’t know how fast it would have to be to flip at least 3 times. Probably a lot faster than anyone but a rally driver would be going over that sort of terrain. So let’s just say the valley is slightly downhill toward Peggy?
Oh, and I admit I messed up the driver yanking on the wheel as the explosion comes through the sunroof (See? Told you it’d be relevant.) and knocks him out the door. If he’s yanking on the top of the wheel, the tires should swerve the car right. Instead I drew the car swerving left (the driver’s left, not our front-on view left). I was going to reverse the arrow, but then if I erased his hand to make it like it was on the bottom of the steering wheel, the “YANK” wouldn’t make sense unless I drew an X-ray shot of the lower part of the steering wheel. So instead I’m just going to say he yanked it hard over so suddenly, that sand actually slammed up on the inside of the… in this case, driver’s side wheel, since the steering setup is reversed in that truck, and that caused the truck to kip-up, or whatever it’s called when vehicles… trip. That could happen, right?
The title of the page is not a reference to dancing on the ceiling, BTW. It is a good song though. Very 80’s.
I know the vote incentive is stale. Things have slowed down but they’re not back to normal and won’t be until we figure out what to do with my mom’s living situation and the house. The current one is, if I do say so, one of the better incentive images I’ve done in a while, so if anything going to go stale, that’s not the worst choice. But I am trying to get back to (nearly) monthly updates. Previously when I was at my folks’ place, I couldn’t work on them because I was situated in the kitchen (they have a marble topped kitchen island the size of a Cadillac,) so that I’d be able to hear if someone needed help with something, but now I’ve moved into my dad’s office and have enough privacy to draw bewbs. I might try something a little different for the next one. I was thinking about a 1-2 panel per page comic that has sexy shenanigans that I would try and put out a little faster than (kind of) monthly, with simpler art than the usual highly rendered vote incentive stuff, along with the occasional splash image that’s better? I don’t know, I might experiment with that.
One of my favorite xenoanthropological series now has an audiobook! Just the first book, but the author is the very definition of indie AFAIK, so other audiobooks will follow only if this one can pay for itself. It’s the Vixen War Bride! My only gripe with it is the narrator read almost every single alien name with a different pronunciation than I did in my head. hes-TAY-en? HES-tee-en, surely? I actually don’t know which character he’s talking about until I consciously “translate” what he said in my head, or he says the name 2 or 3 times in a short span of time. Not to say it’s poorly done, they’re alien names after all, it’s just a little surprising that we only had like a 15% match on alien proper noun pronunciation.
P.S., No politics talk today, please. I’m really depressed and I just can’t deal with it. I thought my lack of faith in humanity stat was maxed, but apparently there’s no actual limit. Seriously, everyone armchair about truck flipping physics or whatever.
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theses guys really can’t drive for shit
assuming the driver was still awake assuming alive. after half the explosion per the image was in the cab next to him. you try driving when that happens
You are assuming he was driving good before the explosion (remember last page? the reason why Farouq fumbled his shot? the fumble that allowed Peggy to make that shot)
Ah, Dave, it’s spelled somersault, not summersault, you know. Unless that’s a pun for the time of year.
Also, Dave, if you’re worried about the vote incentive, remember that you’ve been doing this a LONG time, and you’ve got newer readers, like me, who weren’t there at the beginning, and have never seen some of your older incentives. You could bring back some of the oldies but goodies, and nobody is going to complain.
We all understand that family comes first, so don’t sweat it.
Also…
“It won’t day how fast it was going”.
I’m going to presume you meant to type “I won’t say how fast it was going.” in the blurb.
Hilux go boom?
Bugger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNJd06iyWU
That poor cow (can remember when it first aired… and got quickly removed)
It aired somewhat longer in Australia
Oh what a feeling, Toyota
That tag line will live rent free in my Aussie brain forever
. . . . Still safer than some city roads
What cities would that be, hmm?
Some in Texas I’m sure.
Detroit.
I’ve been there :)
Call doing flips in your general direction… this is why I was against shooting the driver XD
Car… not sure how I typed call lol.
I find a lot of the times I’ve written something taking pains to type it on my cell phone only to hit submit and find out that several words have been changed via that darn autocorrect. Admittedly most of the words have had their spelling corrected which I am not very good at but a lot of times it just changes the words completely. I’ve noticed a lot of times I’ve typed Japanese names went to a website to look up how to spell the name and I’m like three quarters of the way through the paragraph in like all but two typings of the name have changed to something different. Is the same for some of the alien names in American comics like viltrimite
This is the definition of an “Oh shit!” moment for sure.
My only knowledge of car flipping comes from tv, so honestly looks perfectly fine to me!
Straight out of a eighties action flick and I mean that in a good way.
Now Maxima will arrive and catch the car before it hit Peggy.
That was my initial thought, but I’m honestly hoping it doesn’t go down like that. It feels like, if she’s close enough to stop the truck, she was probably close enough to have stopped the kill squad before Mr RPG could set up a shot. And that kinda cheapens the glory that was Peggy’s amazing shot, if it ultimately didn’t actually matter.
That said, it could be a case where Maxima was searching but couldn’t yet see the debris and was too far off to hear the gunfire, but she heard the explosion and cranked up her Speed and Flight to get there just in time to catch the truck. So then it’s a case of “Not only did Peggy take out an entire killsquad with an epic shot under extremely adverse conditions, but the very act was what signaled the cavalry.” And that would be pretty neat.
(My apologies to DaveB if this was actually the plan and I kinda stole his thunder, but historically my guesses in these situations tend to be off – too many moving parts – so I’m guessing I’m wrong here too; otherwise, I wouldn’t post it)
Never underestimate the power of Deus ex Maxima! Peggy could also pull herself under the chopper on top of her to avoid the pickup impact.
Wouldn’t that be “Maxima ex machina”, Maxima appearing from the backgrounds, instead of “Some gods appearing from Maxima”?
Puns often rely more on sounding similar than on being accurately-rendered. Also, “machina” isn’t referring to the background, but to a machine (albeit one that is in the background) – in old plays, when the gods showed up they’d be lowered by a crane to show them descending from the heavens. So in addition to kinda ruining the pun, Maxima ex machina would be just as inaccurate (she doesn’t need a machine to descend from the heavens – although the phrase could work if someone was putting on a play with Maxima portrayed by a mundane actress).
I also think “deus ex Maxima” has been used as a pun earlier in the story (well, later from pinned-under-helicopter Peggy’s perspective, because Flashback) when someone was telling her they needed backup, something like “We could really use some deus ex Maxima here!” But I may be misremembering.
In that case “Deus ex Maxima” would be correct IMO, because Maxima was already there and they wanted her to ascend to God Mode.
Cut to Mr. T watching the action through binoculars from agord distance away saying, “Damn! I pity those fools.”
I have been in a car that flipped 3 times front to end.
These things do happen if you are really unlucky
went to fast and cut a bend, tried to dodge incoming traffic and oversteered.
dipped into the field next to the road and instantly hit a raised sidepath.
Luckily nobody got hurt except my moms car.
Both of the Taliban in the truck would be shredded by such a proximity explosion. Don’t ask me how I know.
I would’ve liked more if the dude with the bazooka would’ve fallen forward inserting the weapon through the window and death trigger the weapon.
That would be a shot I’d remember forever, however when the dust settles I’d remember that I was still stuck in Afghanistan with people who want to give me the sort of welcome that has been dished out for quite a while in country.
she has made an such a fight that is worthy of song. now we just need someone to realize it. too many struggle and die in obscurity, even more struggle and succeed in obscurity. fortunately this is fiction, where few fight many and that is all that matters.
just don’t pick Dancing on the ceiling.
I was never a big fan of Lionel Richie
And a Blackhawk lying on you, because suck loves company.
From what Top Gear has shown me, that Hilux still works.
Yeah, was gonna say something similar if anyone else hadn’t
Before you had Top Gear, you had Crumpy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U3HbI7FCds (just waiting for the dogs)
Given the explosion was exterior to the engine, I’m betting you could drive it out of there.
Agreeing with you. That episode of ‘Top Gear’ is my absolute favorite! ^_^
Just gotta make sure the sparkplugs are still tight, and get the timing belt re-seated, then you’re good to go!
I own/drive a late 90s Hilux, which is what he’s been trying to draw going by some of the comic frames…
The thing’s going to drive fine after it stops flipping.
Hell, I fixed a few oil leaks by just driving mine, so it will probably run better.
It’s a great time to be a salt farmer.
Actually, if you watch some of the crash videos for Waam Bamm Dashcam/Waam Baam Teslacam, it can be pretty easy to get a car or truck to roll, and hitting a rock like that might even do it. Normally it’s a diagonal impact on the headlight area. I’ll see if I can find a short; otherwise I’ll post the whole video and give a time stamp; I know if happened in one of last week’s posts.
Meanwhile, I’m assuming this is where Max comes in.
It’s easy to start a flip in soft ground like that, but sand usually stops the roll pretty quickly.
During my teens/early twenties I was adjacent to a statistically unusual number of roll over accidents. Most of these were at relatively low speeds and the vehicle ended up on its roof. But, I also learned that it doesn’t take much of an incline to keep things rolling. It still amazes me that no one got killed. The lesson was that it doesn’t take much in the way of speed or terrain to flip a vehicle.
Hmm. Not a truck, but still a rather extreme roll from hitting a guard rail. https://youtube.com/shorts/oWKtkEhkPac?si=o36ahXZFk7YJzv1E
I think the one I’m remembering was a few years back, and from the driver’s perspective? Not sure.
She did say the helicopter she was trapped under was on fire when she lost the leg…
that day went from bad to worse to is this a joke!?
While I love the action scene, the Mythbusters break down of this exact thing disproving it as possible makes me sad.
In basque country this figure could be named a full Carrero Blanco…
But the original vehicle was a Dodge 3700 GT.
If an US citizen catch the reference, he’s a big history nerd.
For explanations:
https://en.escuderia.com/dodge-3700gt-carrero-blanco-finalmente-expuesto/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Carrero_Blanco
Don’t comment often but I wanted to say a few things today.
1. Thank you for putting out an excellent comic. I’ve had a lot of fun and you are one of the few web comics I still follow because you make it entertaining.
2. Personally I don’t mind if the physics are kind of wonky. I can enjoy a piece of media without having to break down if every action would work the way it did in the piece.
3. Taking care of the people you love is more important than ever. Do not fret about needing to delay secondary stuff for it.
Be good to each other, everyone! Communities like this are rare and should be treasured. <3
I’ve seen cars flip over cleaner terrain.
>Clearly the floor of that valley/canyon thing is solid stone with a dusting of sand
Most deserts are rocky deserts. Without plant roots the sand tends to blow away. Sandy deserts require either vast space or some sort of microclimate that retains the sand.
Wasn’t there an ’80s Toyota jingle that featured the title of this update? Googled it
Yup. That’s what Dave is referencing.
Old Toyota trucks are REALLY hard to kill.
The “Yank” thing isn’t really needed.
About 99% of comic readers understand the visual language of “boooom”-then-“smash”.
Other artists usually use motion lines to visualize movement, which you kinda did in the last panel with the smoke/dust indicating the car’s tumbling trajectory.
“My faith in my fellow man is absolute, for in the absence of understanding, faith alone sustains.” -me
Definitely can forgive squirrelly physics. Been reading this comic for 12 years and hope to keep reading it for 12 more.
I’m sad that I’m old enough to get the reference in the title.
If only I could still jump. (no legs).
The Toyota got enough air for both of us.
Trust me, Dave, not many are gonna complain about Dazz in that pic. At all. Except maybe to complain why there isn’t more.
In those conditions I have no idea. I did see a video recently where a car went through a red and a truck impacted with the back half. There was enough speed between the two of them the car flipped, and bounced at least twice. There was enough stuff between medians and trees it stopped, but I could see it rolling a couple more times at minimum if it was absolutely clear.
Ok, NOW Max will fly in and stop the rolling, burning truck that’s about to park itself on top of Peggy’s head/upper body? I have to give Peggy kudos from coming back from THAT day of hell. PTSD for sure for that gal…
About the vote incentive… What about cycling them so if you don’t get a fresh one up, it’s still different from one voting period to the next?
Hmph, I’ve seen toyota hi-luxes tumble end over end after being blown up before, and that hardly even looks like one.
xD
SHI-KA-KAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH~!
*Chitty Chitty Bang Bang intensifies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWTQ5y9oziA
because this exists
Coincidentally, Facebook Market in Salt Lake City has a 1990 Hilux for sale. If you have a spare $22k, you can test it yourself! :-D
Explaining the explosives purchase could be interesting
“I wanted to see if I could make a Toyota roll”
The truck will bounce, fly over her, hit the helicopter, free her leg, and keep on rolling.
I think I wrote that idea last week, when discussing her first shot on truck. Thought that had hit driver.
Peggy probably wasn’t in any kind of position to properly appreciate the physics of the truck flipping over. She probably just said it flipped, and it’s Sydney’s mind that’s responsible for all the bad physics as she imagines the story that’s being told to her.
Clearly the driver’s wheel spun things the other way because it’s one-a-them backwards driving euro-cars. This makes complete sense and I will not be interrogating the matter further.
No points, the next page is Max catching it and saving Peggy. Good way to start a friendship.
Wish that truck didn’t have the “do a barrel roll” feature installed.
Given the way things are going lately it’s more like you have to pay a monthly subscription to have that “feature” turned off.
Apparently BMW was floating the idea of having a subscription for heated seats. Then they pulled it “due to customer concerns”. Which means they’re waiting to re-introduce it when there’s less publicity.
Like Doc Hudson says, sometimes you have to turn right to go left…
My sister-in-law died here in Texas in October mostly likely due to the doctors slow-walking her uterus cancer treatment due to Texas’s draconian new laws concerning women’s healthcare as it applies to women’s reproductive organs.
So we’re in a sudden scramble to escape the state as soon as possible. Trump winning the presidential election has just added to the pressure since it gives Texas the green light to go even further.
My daughter, who lives with us, has baby fever. Both she and my wife are scared to death of her trying to have a baby in Texas. Rough deliveries and ovarian/uterus problems run rampant on the wife’s side of the family.
I have health problems and reading comics on the internet is about the maximum speed of me being able to to be of help in anything. So my main area of responsibility is sitting back and worrying while everything goes to hell around me.
Sorry you’re moving out of state. I always thought I might get someone to drive me across town to show up at the game store where you play and watch a session.
Moving out of state is one of the options. A cross country move might not be the best option though. It’s a lot of work.
Perhaps if you are upset about Trump will to Hungarize USA , Hungary is the Trump cultist of EU a change of country could be a good thing …
U.K is outside EU but pretty progressive about society…
Eire or republic of Ireland is in UE abortion is legal ( 12 weeks ) ,
you can apply for Irish citizenship by naturalisation if you have legally lived in Ireland for five years …
citizenship in Irish republic give UE citizenship ..
EU citizens have freedom of movement, and the freedom of settlement and employment across the EU.
EU citizens have the right to vote and run as a candidate in certain (often local) elections in the member state where they live that is not their state of origin, while also voting for EU elections and participating in a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI).
Basically UE citizenship is the equivalent of an UE green card plus rights to vote at certain election if your country of residence is another country of EU.
I just gotta say it. You can not, absolutely can not, detonate an RPG with a bullet, of any caliber. It has been extensively tested ever since John Malkovich did it in the movie RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous).
In Jormungand, instead of shooting the RPG, Jonas shoots the person holding it and just about to pull the trigger… hole in his head makes him slump over and trigger pulls after he is dead now pointing into the vehicle causing it to go boom. :) A bit more practical.
Correction: It was a Javelin in the scene I was thinking of, not an RPG. Still, a more realistic idea.
RPGs have impact fuses though? Granted the energy involved from a bullet might just destroy the entire mechanism but I can imagine a situation where a superhuman shot might just be able to impart enough of a vibration (say in a glancing blow) to trigger it without shredding the whole thing?
The device isn’t armed until a set distance from firing. The bullet won’t cause detonation.
is it a technical if there isn’t a big gun mounted in the bed?