Grrl Power #263 – Don’t do it you fool!
The number of people who can call Maxima babe is extremely short. I think it’s literally just Anvil and Peggy, and obviously just in a “buddies throwing slang” sort of way when no one else can hear. Baby is right out.
Seeing someone slam into the ground after getting clobbered looks cool, but I figure as long as Maxima is conscious and can stop herself in time, she’s not going to give the bad guy the satisfaction. Also I guess there’s issues of property damage to consider, even if that whole parking lot is going to have to be torn up and repaved at this point.
This page is obviously mostly just transition. I would have liked to fit more on it as I too am getting anxious for this fight to wrap up, but it didn’t break down that way. I toiled with what Vehemence says in the last bubble, and I wanted to be more leading, but we’re so close and I didn’t want to tip my hand yet. The next page is a double though, I’m excited, I think you guys will like it.
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Power up the orbital later.. Take him out while he is making a speech.
Nah, that trope has been done way too often. And besides, it’s so much simpler to listen to a dastardly plot instead of detaining him and trying to force it out of him.
Is his evil plan that he was secretly courting Max for her affections all this time? That’d be hilarious!
If he pulls a guitar from hammer space and starts serenading Maxima I’ll laugh, curse and clobber someones innocent comment in misdirected frustration….
Unless Maxima pulls out a monster guitar and bashes him in the head with it FLCL style which doesn’t damage the evilly glowing guitar but does create an invisible flesh portal for cool crap to spill from his head!
And then Sydney explodes into a horrible Eldridge abomination and devours the world, then tog shoggothh comes and eats every planet in the solar system and Leon gets a girlfriend. Nah lets stop being crazy
So Leon becomes one of the harem of Sara Waite of Whateley Academy?
Looks more to be “getall o you suckers to super charge my powers”. His markings have changed color.
He’s the mean mean green machine. Slightly green machine.
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Aaaand the moments gone.
Killed the moment dude
Does anyone else see Avacyn’s symbol all over that guys body?
What’re you talking about? Vehemence is just a dude. I don’t see any markings on his skin at all.
Yes I do. But his aditude reminds me more of Griselbrand.
What if Sydney activates her shield in such a way that part of Vehemence is inside (e.g. an arm or lower leg), and the rest of him is outside the bubble?
Since nothing can move in or out through the shield wall, my guess is that either:
a) V finds himself seriously stuck or
b) He suffers an instant amputation
So, does it grip or does it snip? Enquiring minds want to know
Either way sounds useful. (B) seems more realistic to me (as these things go, but (A) probably fits easier into the story since there’s less danger to her team-mates and innocent bystanders if her aim’s a bit off.
It’s quite possible that it will not form if part of it would be inside a solid object — or that it will shape itself around solid objects.
But, yes. Portal cutting for the win.
Hmmm….. When she was testing it with Max before the press conference, it looked like it was penetrating the ground around her. Wouldn’t be much good if it didn’t shield against something coming up through the ground.
That leaves the possibility that it forms around solid objects as you suggest, but that would still be interesting; instead of cutting off a fist or foot, it wold form around it like a skin-tight, rock-hard glove – almost impossible to pull out of.
Yeah, it is a sphere, protecting underground as well, but it doesn’t slash a furrow through the earth. I think if she formed it at the right time it’d form around a person. Though it might just clip them to whichever side they are majority on. Hard to say.
You forgot a critical one- Slip. It might form and automatically resize itself to be either entirely around or away from living beings. How does it know what a living being is? It’s an unknowable object of massive power. That’s about it.
How about having Halo get kidnapped by terrorists they get Lima syndrome and she gets Stockholm syndrome.
Ransom of Redchief there.
If puny .50 cal gunpowder rifle shot damaged his eye, why don’t try Dabbler’s railgun? Shoot him in the knee for starters if you want it non-lethal way.
A knee shot can be pretty fatal, it’s where the femoral arteries branch into the popliteal arteries…hit too high and you got a good chance to dump a lot of blood real quick. Better to aim for the lower leg or foot.
V is immune to “arrow to the knee” type shots — we all know those only hit low level mooks like guards. They’ve even been so used to taking these they can spot a healing talent by looking at them.
if I were Halo, id use this moment to drop shield dash under Vehemence, raise shield to maximum while he is carried on top and fire Pew Pew straight up to the atmosphere, while using comlink to ensure no planes or other potential collateral damages are present, maybe couple the aiming of the Pew Pew with a nutshot,
I call it the cock rocket catastrophe works m=best on invulnerable or super heavy uncastrated male enemies
and even if you don’t use this on vehemence, please of please use it on a future villain
If I were Halo (a 90 pounds when soaking wet twig of a human being in the middle of a fight between people who can bench press semis) I would keep my impenetrable shield up pretty much forever.
She can’t, as she needs to breathe (unless she’s somehow gained the ability to form a partial shield.
I think his stripes are basically a big convenient health bar :P it’s starts of white, goes green, yellow, red and off.
I would have said power bar.
I cannot help but think that all those power lines come from V’s ass. Is being an ass the source of his powers??
Embiggener. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1112
One of the 13 visible control adjustments on the Force field Orb alone.
Anytime I see the statement about the FF always being centered on her, the air refresh issue, or even the newly added ‘penetrates or forms around exterior’ –just refer to 1112 and the unknown 12 items which even “oh look a squirrel” Sydney will get back to . (Okay so maybe Leon will point it out to her again when he finally gets to review the demonstration footage from her wrist device –he you thought it was just the glasses? Nope half the fun is watching Sydney’s reaction to the action so the camera cannot be on her face)
one problem that will probably nix that idea of Leon helping out with the controls… if the embiggener control is just like the skill tree… and it IS most likely the same, as they are from the same source technology… it won’t BE visible to the camera… so he won’t be able to review it since the camera never recorded it in the first place…
True, though Dabbler said that she memorized it and could duplicate it when they got back to base, so even without the electronic copy, Leon and others I’m sure will spend some time pouring over it.
So, I think I have a semi-solid guesswork on his powers.
Evidence A: his tattoos have been white in Every page except for https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1487
where he gets hit by a car And (the important part) engulfed in a fiery explosion. My bet is that blue = protection from fire/heat.
Evidence B: in all other scenes his tattoos are white, he demonstrates superhuman durability and strength, along with an apparently pretty potent resistance to magical enchantments. This is probably the default mode his markings operate in 90% of the time.
Evidence C: His response to the attempted sleep spell by Dabbler in https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1504 involves the words Thaumion Excitation. This sure sounds like a technical term for me. And when you Know what technical terms mean it is because you have studied the field. And if you study the field of magic that Usually means you are a mage, wizard or whatever term is used in the setting.
Evidence the D (for dick move): When V punches Max in the face again on a page so recent I am not going to link to it, and the current page, We clearly see his markings have gone Green. The effects seem to include him operating at full steam again as if his injuries, superficial and none, did not matter one wit. We can also see that he does not appear overly worried that his eye is gone permanently or that his other eye might get shot while he takes the time to monologue. This suggests that the green means he is getting healed or at least having the pain blocked.
Theory X: He’s a wizard. His powers probably involve being a very powerful wizard to the point that he can enchant such powerful self-protecting and enhancing wards as to keep up with the likes of Maxima and everyone else. His muscles? Probably a mix of further enhancements and simply working out. Being a mage doesn’t mean he has to also be stereotypically frail, doubly so since the author is making it clear he loves making use of a trope with a twist.
The only issue with this one is how/why Dabbler has not recognized him as using magic if that is indeed what he is using and pointed this out or tried to exploit it with some kind of anti-magic tool or trick. Its possible she simply does not know his kind of magic, she could not figure out Sydney’s orbs after all so she does Not know everything about a given field, meaning this is a possibility still.
Theory Y: He seems to have considerable experience being in the power-people business, seeing as he knew a lot of villains he could round up in a jiffy for this shindig. His knowledge of magical terms could come from hanging out with mages or studying magic so he can know how to deal with or defend against it. The nature of his powers might not be magical, but their effects are the same: The markings provide him with structural reinforcement and can change colour to enhance aspects thereof, white for a general blanket “catch all” mode, blue for negating heat, green for negating/recovering from intense pain and/or injuries. And I’m guessing other modes besides, probably a red one for intense cold if anyone tries that.
Either way, his powers are similair to Maxima’s in the sense that he can fine tune or modify aspects of it to work on certain effects when they are needed. Unlike Maxima I dont think he can “nerf” one aspect to super-stat a single one, instead he just has an overall high rating on physical armor, strength and speed, with a second half that can be slotted into certain modes when he wants/needs them but without notably affecting his baseline. In short, he can never be as strong, fast, durable or good in any one aspect as maxima can, but he also cant be caught out with any aspect turned so low he becomes as vulnerable as a normal person to a surprise attack.
them’s my thoughts anyhow, thoughts?
Big V doesn’t seem to be able to fly; Max ought to just punt him into a stable orbit and he’s in the penalty box until someone decides to let him out. XD
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I’m not the only one who’s been leaving a tab with this comic open all day and just hitting refresh every now and then in hopes of finding out the next awesome thing to happen as soon as possible…. right?
Your not the only one Gus
No, no you are not.
I just have realized that Vehemence has 7 round marks and that Sydney has 7 orbs.
So if he collects all 7 orbs and places them on his tattoos he can make a wish?
Chances are he has more round marks under his pants. Of course he may already have orbs in those…