Grrl Power #278 – Alarmingly Disorderly Harnessing of Doom
Merry Xmas to those of you who get up to that sort of thing. My present to you is a regularly scheduled comic. :) This was supposed to be an easy bottle episode type page but there’s actually at least a whole page worth of new art on it. :/
Given the limitations of the media, this is my attempt to visualize ADHD, or at least the ADD part. Just a bum rush of stuff going on with the occasional tangent taking you off to parts unknown unless you’re really trying to focus. Sydney seems to have found a way to leverage it with her medication waning just the right amount, even if Batman keeps trying to horn in. Speaking of Batman, this is the song stuck in her head now if you’re not familiar with it is this, obviously with “Batman” in place of “Scatman.”
When I originally envisioned this page, it almost completely laid out Sydney’s plan, obfuscated only by the fact that she was considering several different options, indicated by several running sets of arrows like a football play, but as I started building the page, I realized that would basically just spoil the next few pages. In a comic book, I think that would be ok since people probably wouldn’t spend up to 4 days flipping back through the book and recalling each scene with a checkmark on it, but everyone reading along now potentially has that luxury. I didn’t want to spoil the fun, so I omitted most of the checkmarks and threw in a lot of red herrings, which I think is fine cause it’s still in line with the ADD fueled blur of images. Not everything she dredges up will be useful after all, hence the red X’s everywhere.
Sebastian Shaw, for those of you who don’t know, is the character Keven Bacon played in X-Men: First Class. (The bad guy) His power was to absorb, store and release damage, so hitting him does nothing but make it so he can hit you back just as hard. Some of the ways the X-men ever beat Shaw are applicable to Vehemence, which is why Sydney’s drafting from that well. The reason he looks like colonial Wolverine on this page is that’s how he looks in the comic. Obviously for the movie they didn’t dress Bacon up like that, probably because someone was worried audiences would think he was Wolverine’s aristocratic brother or something. Mutton chops, owl hair, the lot. He dresses like 1800’s British upper class because that’s how everyone in the Hellfire club dresses. (It’s a group he belongs to) Well, I say everyone. The men dress like that. The women in the group dress like hookers with capes, because comics.
Here’s the link to the new comments highlighter for chrome which I can’t live without anymore, and the GitHub link which you can use to install on FireFox via Greasemonkey.
what’s with the random 747-800 test aircraft? There has got to be a funny story as to why that got added.
she was looking out the window when she first got to arcon and there was a hole on one of them. through that hole she looked at things and made stories out of it.
About beating an enemy with love, so it seemed kind of relevant to a situation where someone feeds on violence.
Sydney’s brain is apparently a quantum computer – it evaluates all possibilities simultaneously.
This is why as an ADD person, I’m always struggling to make a decision.
And life expects me to choose a career….
Funny that’s the closest visual representation I have ever seen of what goes on in my head.
I love how Sydney seems to be looking through the 4th wall, when she is talking about saving that memory for later.
OH MY GODS! its so OBVIOUS in hindsight!
The hyperactivity part is what I take the most advantage of. I find that if I have a focus I can bounce between up to five different tasks. This is the first visual representation I have looked at and thought ‘the author must have ADHD, this is (almost) exactly what my brain acts like without meds.’
Sydney is a character with real ADHD, shown by manic energy bouncing everywhere. DaveB, you have my respecMerry Christmas!!!!!!!
You know, I actually find this page to be a good visual representation of how it feels when my pseudo-ADHD flares up and I can’t focus on anything for more than a few seconds.
So, however belated, thanks for the representation since I’m too bad at articulating to effectively convey what I want to say to people. I’m just like “you know what, just read this page of my favorite comic. It’s pretty accurate about how it feels when I can’t focus.”
A clever use of a resource.
I hope we get to bring the comic to the attention of a lot more folks with ADHD. In fact the more people without it, who read it, the better society will be. There are many people with either ADD or ADHD, after all. It will be a rare school, or workplace, that does not have someone with one or the other there.
Lol, as odd as this may sound, I’ve shown it to some of my managers at work. It’s helpful because I have some awesome managers who actually want to understand their employees. I think it’s an extra good resource because it’s also humorous, so I don’t feel like I’m trying to come off as snobbish like all “well, here. Read this. *stuck up voice*”.
Ok, that is legitimate what is going on in my head 24/7. Brings a new meaning to headache.
Super ADHD powers activate!
Super ADHD brain activate!
I just typed that to make this page easier to find in Google Search. This is the third time I’ve wanted to link to this page but hadn’t saved it. I had to type “Grrl Power Vehemence fight” and then go through a bunch of pages to find it.
Welp, there went the 3 min until cavalry arrives. I wonder if Nora had ever had to deal with any alien with ADHD and no mouth filter.