Grrl Power #201 – Prerequisite monologue
You can’t expect me to jump straight to 100% speed lines and explosions. You know villains and their monologing, which is fine as it gives me time to get one more thing in order before it all goes to hell. The exchange between Max and Arianna would play better animated, but hopefully it makes sense.
Anvil makes a guest appearance in another superhero comic called Heroes of CRASH. The comic is quite entertaining but I suspect the art style might not do it for everyone. Still, in my opinion, I think if you have a story to tell, it’s better to go ahead and tell it than just sit on it and wait for all the stars to align. Before I give the link let me set up the page a little, Heroes of CRASH has a superheroine named Titanium Maiden who is also a muscular redhead, hence the obvious potential for an Anvil cameo. Maybe one day myself or some other artist should wrangle up all the muscular red heads and draw them all in one picture. I already have two pictures of Anvil and Xane (draw by Fred Perry). In fact you can see them both if you search “xane gold digger” which I caution is mildly NSFW since it’s pictures of a muscular black woman with red hair mostly in bikinis. I should post both of those to the DeviantArt page come to think of it.
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First legitimate fight ever in the comic… It’s been nearly 4 years… And we’re STILL on the FIRST day… *twiddles thumbs* This fight will probably last longer than a fight on DBZ…
Worse, we’re in a flashback from the first day to a previous day, and still in the first day of the flashback *evil grin*
At least it’s nighttime now, so we can assume that the first day is almost over.
But consider this: The flashback was introduced with the phrase: “Let me back up a few months.” Let us assume 60 days, probably the minimum that could be called “a few months.” Let us also assume that it takes four years to cover each day. At that rate, it’ll take Dave 240 years to get back to the present. :)
But Dave is updating at two comics per week now. That would make it a mere 120 years.
Oh, that is an exaggeration, surely will be plenty days way less busy, and you can do a lot of shortcuts.
I truly think it will take no more than 150 years.
*updates diary*
Well let’s just say that there is an upcoming time skip……that takes longer than the time skipped.
CONGRATULATIONS DAVEB!!
Comic Mix Tournament Round 5 (named “Elite-8″) is up and Grrl Power is in it! Great job folks!
If we can make it to the end it will be a great advertising for the comic, more readers, more support, more money… and maybe more pages per week :)
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Now we are against Dick Ruby. They have bought votes each round (and a HUGE amount last time) surely they are going to do it again now.
Hard as it looks it is not impossible. We were able to reach 1.500 votes a day in Top Web Comics, why not here? But should be voting EVERYONE.
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Grrlpowercomic is sitting around 24%
Doing well so far.
As far as we can tell. Paid votes aren’t added in until the end, and the one we’re up against has been consistently winning via enormous numbers of paid votes. We’ll have to work hard to make up for that.
You are right. We are 309 vs 74 far now but last round the other comic was also far behind at live meters and ended winning anyway cause paid votes.
We will need each possible vote.
This round ends this midnight (Wednesday) and a lot of readers do not come between updates. Please remind all who you can.
Purchasing some votes could certainly help. Just 25 cents each one. Use the “Donate” buttom below the voting list.
ok, not sure if it was my vote that did this, but Grrl Power just moved up to 26% XD yay! But on a sad note, due to ID theft, my payment info on Patreon became invalid. :( sorry about that. should be fixed now, although I don’t know if they’ll take the payment until next month. really sucky that people have to steal other people’s money, instead of earning their own.
That sucks. I hope you managed to sort out everything, without loosing too much, other than the time.
Mind you, anybody stealing my identity would not gain anything, other than confusion.
well, I got it settled, but still seven more days to get back the $102 they got away with.
One thing I’m looking forward to seeing, Achilles’ invulnerability should make him the hardest substance in existance. Even though his strength is on a human scale, he could stop hydraulic presses by standing in the middle of them. He would be the most epic club (literally unbreakable), and as a thrown projectile, he would be rediculously armor-piercing as he wouldn’t flatten upon impact. Achilles may not be super strong, but no force in the universe could defend against Maxima equipped with Achilles.
Given that he isn’t super strong but still moves like a normal person, he’d be pressed down to whatever point might cause him pain. So he’d probably have to take a knee and be all bent over like The Thinker before the press was stopped.
No pain but as him taking the rail gun slug on the artillery range shows he is still bound by other effects of energy transfer, it just can’t damage him. This would also mean that any compression of Achilles stops once it breaks that threshold.
That just means that every collision by Achilles is fully elastic: There is no deformation on his part; just by whatever is hitting him. Some energy/momentum could be used to move his limbs or cause his fat (not that he has that much of it) to giggle, but overall, any energy sent at him is reflected or transmitted through him, unlike Anvil, who may be performing an absorbtive collision (mostly), where the energy of the collision is absorbed, but not used to cause plastic deformations nor breakages. Image a piso-electric crystal. When it is squeezed the correct way, it uses the energy to generate electricity. Anvil is using it to generate payback.
I like the new glow appearing on characters near the orbs. At first I thought peggy had spontaneously redyed hair, then it dawned on me
Heh, you are the second person to pick up on that this issue. But pick a random page, anywhere since the orbs were revealed. You will find that every object or person that ever gets near them picks up a glow.
My personal favourite is when Sydney is under the desk ‘huffing’ afer her foot in mouth incident.
So, like, I have a question. If the Halo can tell the two mystery orbs are working because they glow when she holds them, why do they all glow when she doesn’t hold them?
It is a matter of degree. Like the difference between ‘standby’ lights and ‘full beam’.
Actually, I don’t recall “glowing” being mentioned as why Sydney could tell they were working. She had them in hand & stated that she could tell that they were working.
It is one line in panel 3 of Issue #90. But you can see the mystery orbs in close-up there too, and they have an inner-glow, plus the sigils floating in the air above them.
Then in Issue #102, Dabbler refers to them as being ‘sparkly’ but indistinct. So the fact that the glow is subtle enough that people do not notice it often, is very apt.
As an aside, Dabbler’s comment about the lack of “runes, writing, inlay, etching, orbitals or anything” does somewhat contradict the sigils we see in close up, in the former comic.
It does strike me as possible that Dabbler could not see them. Perhaps the fact that she has a cybernetic eye meant that she could not pick them up. In which case it would be some kind of magical or psionic effect influencing things, because her organic eye should have been able to see them. But, I guess, it could be a trick of the eye, due to her brain having difficulty resolving the contradictory information from the two eyes.
Or, we can take it that she was referring to the lack of physical things, rather than the indistinct glowing patterns. Although we do now know that Sydney can push them, like buttons.
I’m really hoping that the villains will actually be a threat and not just cannon fodder to make the heroes look more powerful. Great comic so far.
I have enough confidence in Dave’s writing that the villains will behave and perform rationally, according to whatever motivation has put them here. Whilst they may well be serious contenders, it is also possible that they have either been sent to probe the heroes’ capabilities or to fail.
The latter being likely, for example, if it is Dues behind this. If the public are scared by a massive super-villain attack, they are less likely to protest the formation of a super police force. Which means that his company, Machina Industries, will be able to continue supplying Archon with their high-tech toys.
Either way, I do not think it likely that the guys in sight have the motivation to ‘make the heroes look good’, which is, granted, the typical purpose of villains in many poorly-written stories. Frustratingly so. But if they are all as dumb as Mr Ugly here, they have been set up, and will get their asses whupped.
Or they might be a serious force, in which case, there could be trouble ahead. Not least for Maxima, when she gets called up in front of the Senate Oversight Committee. If she promptly takes a dozen super villains off the street, as a result of her taunting, Max will breeze through it. If one civilian employee, or member of her team dies, she may suffer a rebuke or harsher sanctions.
*ding ding*
Seconds out. No kicking, biting or striking below the waste line, unless your name is Sydney.
Let battle commence!
I can’t tell if her expression actually changed, but maxima seems a lot more pissed off in the 6th panel than in the 4th.
It’s not just you. Her frown gets deeper between those shots, which in turn darkens her eyes. Basically, she’s quite intentional about looking more pissed off, and DaveB did a good job of showing it.
I’m not sure what’s more intimidating – when Max glowers, or when she smiles.
halo serious with the list out FTW
Just realized we’ve only debated conventional tactics for Sidney. As in put up forcefield to protect.
What if she starts using the molestorb/lighthook to physically attack Kenya/Anvil. Getting the amount of kinetic energy that is implied in being able to toss a car around would be a nice start for that boost in strength she’ll probably need.
Grrl Power sitcom:
Maxima: * slaps Anvil *
Anvil: WTF?!
Maxim: Powering you up… * SLAP *
Anvil: Ok, that’s enough!
Maxima: … * SLAP *
Anvil: Hey!
Maxima: Sorry, sorry! I let myself go.
* recorded laughs “
Thing is Dave has said she gets a (“very”) small boost just from her feet hitting the ground when she walks, so even if the charge equals the bleed off, she’s got a not-unimpressive lvl of strength to start with.
also if you look at the april incentive as true then she’s pretty strong to start with
not sure if this has been mentioned- just a few things i want to bring up:
1. Sydney is really impressionable.
2. Max just got through the whole minimum casualty speech.
3. there is a fully equipped kitchen
4. Sydney is really annoyed at EVERYONE for all the anti vegi stick she has just been getting.
way i see it – she goes to the kitchen, has a quick bite, comes backs burps
Next scene is a small mushroom cloud.
next scene everyone heroes and villains are out cold and Sydney is looking smug :P
Except Peggy, because she brought a gas mask. Normal (military) people need stuff like that when attending a gathering of heroes.
Trust Sydney to go off on a Comic/Cartoon/Anime tangent at the first improper use of Nerd Terminology.
oh, I forgot about manga. boy do I feel a bit sheepish.
I think must be readers willing to vote but not aware because read nothing but the comic. Perhaps a note above the comic could be helpful.
Maybe it could suggest to visit the site on friday when news about the semifinalist would be up, just in case the comic made it, cause if so votation will end before the next update.
Your just following rule number one of villains – Villains gotta monologue, Must pontificate, and make total absolute fools of themselves telling all their deep, dark plans right before the heroes stomp them into oblivion. Looks like to me you at least partially covered that, your good to go!
As I read this, and since this comic seems to want to put some sort of realistic spin on superheroes, I have to wonder…which hero dies here tonight to give the others a sense that they may not always win.
Probably either the Uncle Ben or Gwen Stacy type.
And they (hopefully) WILL STAY dead.
Let me give you a clue about which ones did not die.
Maybe not. Could be clones.
literally just caught up now and wow is that meat head stupid i hope he has some other unknown powers to help him out or its just gonna be sad
Well, he does have a team behind him. So, although, his stated plan to intimidate a team of quasi-military trained supers (and Sydney) may have various other flaws (like assuming they don’t have personnel or powers they’ve not revealed on public television for one), he may just be their “dumb brick” sent in to aggravate and soak damage while setting things up for the rest. I believe the term is: “Tank pull”.
We’ll see how well that works against Anvil. I believe the term is: “Batter up!”
I hate to break his bubble, but:
1) outnumbering them doesn’t count for much if they can outstrategize and/or out-power him and his teammates;
2) they’re equipped with their superpowers;
3) even with a few drinks in them, they shoud still be able to outthink him (not that should be all that difficult anyway); and,
4) he’s assuming that he’s seen the entire ARCSwat team. One of the biggest blunders anyone can make on a mission is believing he or she has complete intelligence covering every aspect of it. And even if he is correct, see #1 above.
I wonder if one of those villains is Spice Girl… (Can turn any bland meal into a sensory delight, or use pepperspray to subdue others) and she ends up fighting Halo…
Are two of her team-mates “Baby Spice” and “Old Spice”?
Their superpower: they can make you tell them what you want, what you really, really want.
*headdesk*
I sure hope that guy’s mother has pictures of him smiling, because he’s about to lose some teeth.
Good call :-D
Looked at the vote desktop. I think the scaling is a bit off on the weights – the inside relief looks deeper than the outside thickness.
Otherwise – cool.
Please, please, please let Anvil’s move be a gut shot that doubles him over. I’m so in the mood to see that. :-D
What is Arianna shaking her head at? I have not idea what that’s supposed to be about. Was Maxima trying to get permission for something or say that she was right?
Don’t fall for him feigning ignorance, Math clearly IS Vegeta, all he did was bleach his hair.
That or he decided to stay in SSJ1 mode indefinitely.
That Big Bang part had me snickering far too long for its actual fun potential.
Which is nowhere near its destructive….ah forget it. ^^
So, looking at the names of the characters up top on this page, I noticed Jiggawatt.
And, for some reason, the J and the I joined together, and my mind added another i in trying to make sense of it, to underneath her portrait are the words “Nigga, what?!’.
Which I feel, as it happens, is a rather appropriate response to what happened on this page XD.
I can’t believe this fight started 4 years ago I knew I’ve been reading this comic for a while but I didn’t realize it had been that long
You know what would have been clever? If Max and the gang just airlifted themselves out of the city too fast for the villains to make any threats re. hostages. Time it right, and act cocky enough, and they’d have no choice but to follow behind and then you’ve removed their entire initiative and their safety buffer of nearby civilians, cherry picked your battlefield and probably divided and irritated the hell out of their forces plus made everyone with human stamina winded, all before even engaging them. Would have been worth a shot at least.
And it only took four years to think of that.
for some reason, I liked that guy’s hair… I think it’s interesting.