Grrl Power #193 – Won’t somebody think of the (exploding) children
The guy Sydney is shooting though in panel 4 is called “Nyah Nyah Can’t Hit Me Man.” It briefly said that on his chest but I thought the target symbol was better and it was too busy to include both. He can phase, teleport, can throw his image a dozen feet in any direction, and has danger sense and the agility of Apollo. He doesn’t actually commit any crimes though, he just shows up during battles and annoys everyone. And I’m this (–] [–) close to making him canon.
Panel 6 was inspired by some Fantastic Four comic I saw 15 years ago where exactly what I drew was happening. The Human Touch dogfighting some guy over New York and it occurred to me that the death toll would be in the thousands. According to the 1st edition Marvel RPG, his fire beams do WAY more damage than a tank round.
I generally don’t pat myself on the back in the comic comment here, but I giggle at “Scraps of Hope” every time.
Alternative Target names:
D’Awww!: Petting Zoo and Kitten Kennel
A Delicate Future: Endangered Eagle Breeding Program
Museum of Angry Gods Sealed Away in Brittle China
Make a Wish Hospice <- Oh god why would I even think of something like this?
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Museum of Angry Gods Sealed Away in Brittle China-That one killed me :D
for some twisted reason I like the make a wish foundation one, it reminded me of the little kid a few months ago who got to be Batman for a day…
Excellent! We climb four places in 48 hs :) from 9th to 5th.
But now we fell down to sixth again :( New page and new vote incentive in the other comic today.
Would we be able to beat that just out of good will? :)
I bet yes. And you? ;) * Vote *
I think I just saw a way for Sydney to survive her basic combat training:
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/05/tech/innovation/mma-armor-lorica/index.html
Of course, if you wanted to get her interested, you would have to make some changes to suit her comics and videogames background. My suggestion would be to add a panel to the chest plate so that when you heard the referee say ‘Finish Him!’ you could reach in and rip out a rubber heart.
Interesting armour. My first thought on seeing that is it would be even better if they could incorporate feedback which simulated crippling injuries if a real blow would have had such a result without the armour.
Injecting a local muscle relaxant would do it, but clearly would be impractical. Both on ethical grounds and due to the likelihood of the mechanism becoming damaged. But having a locking mechanism which would freeze up the joints, or prevent them moving beyond a certain arc would be a close approximation.
And, of course, there is always the ever-popular electric shock to simulate the pain, and to provide fair warning that the limb has been incapacitated.
actually they have stuff like that on Vrealities.com I think, or at least they used to have it, don’t know if they still do…
Once again, we are living in the age of science fiction…I am reminded of Ender’s Game.
That target guy sure can pull off a bowler
That’s one of the upsides of shows like Invasion America (1998) or Sym-Bionic Titan (2010). (Both of which, annoyingly, a. only ran one season and b. were never released for home video.) IA wasn’t afraid to show the blood and bodies, and SBT wasn’t afraid to show the collateral damage.
Not sure if it’s been pointed out yet, but does the human torch in the last panel have no flame aura if his power is on, or is he just a walking burn victim because his power only partially protect him from his own flames?
to counter the last two panels, i’d like to add an alternative assumption that all ranged attacks have a finite distance. you know, power dissipation and all that jazz, so the effective range is an exponential function of the power put into the attack.
It’s TARGET MAN! You know where HE does his shopping? At Costco! See, he’s got one of those ironic superhero names. Or ostensibly supervillain since she’s shooting him. Which means it’s probably good that he’s target man, he can go around stealing people’s credit cards and selling them on the black market, bua ha ha. Actually, considering his ridiculous blue fedora with a red ribbon, he probably shops at Kmart. If he shopped at Costco, he’d probably buy a 10-pack of ridiculous red ribboned blue fedoras, all shrinkwrapped in a stack.
I would love it if you made Nyah Nyah Ca’n’t Hit Me Man canon!
Whereas most people who meet him probably wish he was shot out of one.
I just noticed the burning orphans and bunnies flying out of building. :)
I’m sure that orphanage/bunny rehab center was just a front for drug dealers.
Refrigerator Logic…how one sorts out the leftovers.
Its a trope name. Basically comes from the thing you realize made no sense, was a gaping plot hole or inconsistency, or really should have been addressed after you finish watching the moving and are going to the fridge for a snack.
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I like how Max says “never ever do this, but if you have to do it like this” one of the tropes I hate are trainers who say “don’t ever do this” then when the situation inevitably comes up that they have to do that they don’t know how to minimize the risk involved (or hesitate way too long because they don’t know the what risk they are weighing against).
I’m a history geek. I just realized that the newspaper framed in panel 1 is the New York Times from the assassination of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand and his wife from 1914. Designer has a interesting sense of décor.
I would strongly counsel in favor of adding Nya Nya Can’t Hit Me Man. Also, the line about the museum of sealed evil in a can had me laughing so hard I could barely breathe.
Agreed on Scraps of Hope, I’m on my second read-through and I’m still giggling, “Bunny rehab” especially gets me. Dig the comic.
Y’know… I’m still contemplating the idea of doing a webcomic about a guy whose job is to clean up after careless superheroes.
they have a comic like that (marvel does anyway) its called Damage Control. they do great work.
just to placate some johnny storm fans out there. back in the day johnny used beams- now adays he uses little fire balls that kinda dissapate a little after he fires them.
Injustice by DC inverted this when it came to Superman recruiting yellow lanterns, which brought a global conflict when the green lanterns arrived. Huge and blatent collateral damage.
It’s bad that my first thought was to aim at his bullseye belt because it was worth more points
Just so happens that Wayne industries has superhero insurance…And the TV show (comedy-natch) begins soon – Powerless ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5083928/ )
I think Target Baiter Man might be a better name for Nyah Nyah Can’t Hit Me Man.
I wonder what running the current AI upscaling software on the wall newspaper gives.
I find it quite funny that the bunnies need rehab for something