Grrl Power #331 – My god, it’s full of… spiders?
Thought I’d do something a little different with Vance’s introduction. At this point in the story it doesn’t really matter what his powers are, so instead Sydney gets to experience the full … well, it’s not hazing, just a little messing with the rook. As Sydney joined the team roughly 24 hours ago, she is indeed the junior most member.
There were several moments while writing and drawing this page that I actually considered making Vance’s powers actually be that he’s a colony of collectively sentient spiders inside some bizarre human suit instead of it be that he’s really just messing with her… though I suppose up until the point I actually put him using his powers into the comic I suppose I could change my mind, so… maybe he isn’t messing with her? Of course, he’d need some other power too. Being a colony of Borg spiders is pretty impressive on its own, but that’s not going to get him a spot in Arc-SWAT. He’d need to be able to hold his own in a fight against other supers.
Some random superhero novel pimpage for you, two new books in two of my favorite series are out, neither of which I’ve had a chance to read yet unfortunately. I really need to finish The Dark Lord’s Handbook: Conquest and get in to my growing queue. Anyway, the new books are Revelation: A Kid Sensation Novel (Kid Sensation #4) and The Betrayal of Renegade X (Renegade X, Book 3) both series I highly recommend.
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The second illustration is correct, if you intent to immediately use your firearm. If you are just carrying it, yeah, that is so wrong.
Right, it’s called trigger affirming, and you only do it right before you pull the trigger… one way or another.
Which fits right into my ethos of ‘do not raise a weapon’s danger profile until it is expected to be used’.
Third illustration is the perfect firing position–if you want to jam the slider of your pistol with the spent cartridge that is ejecting up (and dropping back down into your ejector mechanism) instead of out and away.
Not that I know much about firearms personally, other than what I’ve picked up from people who actually know how to use one.
Although I often find myself leaving my finger outside the trigger guard of my Nerf blasters whenever I carry them around, just for safety sake. I’d say it’s just common sense to carry a firearm, even a toy one, that way, but since when is common sense all that common any more?
Hey, you never know if you might bump into someone and both drop your blasters. If they turn out to have been carrying a real one, your habitual safety precautions, when picking them up, could avoid a nasty interstellar incident! Not to mention reducing the risk of blasting your own foot off.
Maybe the same might apply to bumping into someone carrying a firearm. Not so likely to cause a problem though. They would look quite different, after all.
The only time firing with the gun sideways is acceptable is if it’s wrong-handed for you, which in most cases means you’re a lefty, and this is mostly a matter of not putting the ejected brass across your field of view.
Interesting.
When I learnt judo, I was forced to fight both left and right handed, to give me the best competitive advantage. And it worked well.
I wonder how well that translates to shooting? Would the accuracy loss, from not using your primary hand, be overcome by training? Or would the best it allowed be that you could swap hands if one was injured? Or if circumstances made swapping hands favourable. Such as firing around a corner, where you would be less exposed, thus making your worsened accuracy less of an issue.
First, BLACKOUT is wrong, there is ever a real purpose or reason to hold a gun as you see in image 3. The idea that a flying piece of brass would obstruct your point of view is laughable. You can see this for yourself, in your room focus on a object on the otherside, and then wave your hand infront of your eyes as fast as you can. You might be aware of the movement, now imagine that your hand is smaller (much smaller!) and traveling much faster, and you’ll understand why its not an issue. ANY instructor that is certified will correct your shooting posture such that if you do do image 3 back to image 1 and ask you why you were doing that, as holding a gun that way is awkward, and on top of that your accuracy will go down.
As for learning to fire off-hand (single hand) its a valuable skill and most shooters find their accuracy to be about the same regardless of which hand their using for single handed firing. Usually a little lower, but some find that firing off-hand actually increases their accuracy. You see the training of sighting your target translates well to off-hand shooting as you need the same sight picture regardless of which hand, after that its all in the trigger pull, which could take a little practice, but even first time you’ll find you’re pretty accurate if you’re pretty accurate on-hand or dual-handed. And yes training/practice can/will make anything easier, muscle memory is very important, and that takes practice.
As a woman, whos had to deal with threats on her life, I take training very seriously and train with other women, we practice things like firing one handed, and that includes off-hand. Imagine this senerio if you will, you’ve got a child and their is an attacker coming, odds are you’ll grab your child with your dominate hand, and pull them behind you. At that point you’ve only got your other hand. Or you’ve been attacked or injured and your dominate hand can’t hold the gun, or you can’t raise your arm up to your shoulder. In a real fight for my life I’d only transfer my firearm to my off-hand if I had to (IE injury) or if I needed my dominate hand for something else (calling for help, getting a child behind me) and I had time to do so, because swapping hands takes time, just seconds but those seconds could be the difference between life and death, and if I’ve got my gun out and I’m using it (and I’m not practicing with it) that means I’m in a situtuation were my life is in danger. and seconds matter.
As for ‘firing around a corner’ accuracy still matters, if you can’t see what you’re shooting at and what’s behind it you should never pull the trigger. In the real world, we’re responsiable for every round we fire whether or not it goes where we intended. In that senerio image how you’d feel if you fired not caring about your accuracy and ended up hurting or killing someone that wasn’t attacking you, and then someone was hurt/killed but your careless firing, such as a child (under 10 years old) or someone tending their garden, or cooking dinner. Odds are good you’d face at the very least man-slaughter charges if not murder, in addition to charges like unlawful discharge of a firearm, assualt with a deadly weapon, and anything else they can think of. Now swapping hands if you fell and injured your arm, I could see a tactical advantage to swapping hands.
Also image 1 is off, the finger should be higher up along the barrel, not over the trigger and the trigger guard, as from a distance its hard to determine whether or not your finger is really off the trigger or not. However that is not a major issue, more off a thing that comes up at the range where the RSO (Range Safety Officer) can see at a glance that no one has a finger on the trigger, but its a good habit to be in. In Sydney’s case out in the field, it’d make it easier for others to say whether or not her finger was on the trigger, in an after action report/debrief. And since most of my RSOs/instructors have been former military of some kind (Marines/Rangers/Air Force/etc) and they have drilled that into me, I see no reason Lt. Kessler shouldn’t/won’t do the same to Sydney and the rest of the recruits.
Fascinating stuff, thank you.
As regards the leaning around the corner to fire issue, it was not my intent to suggest ‘blind firing’. I totally agree that is a stupid thing to do. Fair enough to use suppressing fire in a war zone (as opposed to in a policing role), if you can be sure that there are no allies in that direction. However if you have not looked, to confirm that, then you are risking ‘friendly fire’, by making an unconfirmed assumption, so I would still agree with you.
What I was trying to convey is if you have, say, a right handed person taking cover behind a building and using it for cover. When she is is on the right side of the building, she can lean around the corner to both target her enemies and fire. But only needing to expose her right arm and face. So pretty good cover.
However if she were on the left side of the building, and wished to fire with her right hand, then she would have to step almost completely into view, in order that her right hand would not be blocked by the building itself. Her entire torso would thereby be exposed to return fire.
My bringing in ‘thus making your worsened accuracy less of an issue’ was working on the assumption that firing with her off-hand would be less accurate. For which your reply has been illuminating. My statement was ambiguous though, so I see why you took it to imply ‘blind firing’.
However if she had trained to fire left handed, and could do that around the left side of the building, then she would be able to keep herself mostly concealed, just as with when firing right handed around the right side of the building.
Thus, even if she is one of the folks who is not as good with her left hand, as her right, then she could still target the enemy, by leaning round and looking before/whilst firing, as opposed to the ‘firing blindly round a corner’.
Given that you confirm this would (at worst) only give her a marginal loss of accuracy (if properly trained), then there is only a slightly elevated risk. to others, posed from a potential miss. Which is more than offset by significantly reducing her own risk of being hit, by ensuring that most of her body is safely behind the building.
Obviously this assumes that she is checking to minimise the possibility of friendly fire, such as with civilians beyond the target, but Maxima already covered that talk with Sydney.
You’re welcome, Yorp.
I should have known you meant firing around a corner the way you clarified as, given your usual attention to details. I feel I should clarfy that my expereince is all at short self-defense ranges (10 yards or less) with the exception of using a benchrest to engage an 8 inch (20.320 cm) steel plate at 100-110 yards (90-100 meters). So yes training should make make up the difference or at least you teach at what ranges you can successfully engage at.
However, looking at Sydney’s gun, its not really designed to befired left handed, I say this becuase it has only one ambidextrious control and that is the manual safety, discounting the trigger of course! Handguns designed and marketed for self-defense typically have all ambi-controls (usually that means the safety/decocker and the slide release, though on some that includes the magazine release, and if the mag release is not ambi its usually reversable). Sydney using her sidearm left-handed would have likely have issues working the slide release and the magazine release. The slide release can require a bit of pressure/strength to release the slide (so it slides foward closing the chamber) but doable without changing your grip. But it took longer for me to do. Releasing the magazine is more complicated, I had to change my grip to push the button, and then lost more time readjusting my grip back to a firing grip, 3-5 seconds total where with my right hand I don’t have to change my grip at all and the magazine falls free in like 1 second… However, its unlikely, Sydney would really need to use her sidearm given her suite of powers.
But the talk about what’s behind them reminds me the US military uses FMJs (Full Metal Jacket) a non-expanding projectile, which means these rounds often (if not nearly every time) go THROUGH the target and hit whats behind them. Since ARC is part of the US military they’d likely have the same restriction. Its a Hague convention from the 1890s (but I could be wrong and it was in the 1880s), the US is not a signatory but is to later conventions which expand that one so, ARC using anything but FMJs like Hollow Points used by most hunters, civilian law enforcement, and people with CCW (Concealed Carry Weapon Permits)/home defense firearms, could be seen as a breach of international agreements, but Hollow Points usually Jacketed (JHPs) do more damage to the person hit but usually don’t have the energy to leave the target and hit something or someone behind them. I’d be curious to know if ARC is going to follow the Hague Conventions on Ammo.
I knew that certain types of rifles and automatic weapons were hand-specific, some of which could be adapted to the alternate configuration, with minimal work. Whilst others were problematic. It had not struck me that handguns would have common ambidextrous models.
As regards Archon’s ammo I am sure they will have multiple different types. As we saw with the specialist loads the manikins used, in their grenade, various opponents need different ammunition types to those deployed against humans.
Likewise if on overseas deployment, they would need to comply with the legislation of any friendly countries they were operating in. Most countries consider the use of hollow-point ammunition to be abhorrent, so it would be very poor policy (read ‘illegal’) to use such, at those times.
Whilst if in the U.K. it is unlikely they would be permitted to use firearms at all, even if assisting in a joint operation. Only specialist firearms units are allowed such, and most police do not carry guns. Which would include foreign police, regardless of their status in their own country.
Although a specific arrangement might be made, if there was a compelling need (i.e. if it was necessary to use special ammo against a villain or group that local law enforcement or supers were unable to defeat).
As you say though, if in a warzone they will use the ammo type that the other military branches do (when fighting humans anyhow).
Most of the time however they will be in a policing role. So would probably follow policing practices in their choice of ammo, for domestic use. I note that certain states have laws preventing cops from using hollow point ammunition, although most do not.
As such our best indicator is what ammo types the various federal agencies use, given that they have to operate across all states. The FBI do use hollow point ammunition, for at least one type of firearm. Likewise I note that Homeland Security also use that caliber of ammo but indicate it as being ‘124 grain’. You would know better than me whether that would be a solid or hollow point round.
Most guns are designed for right-handed people, since right-handed people are the majority. Mine is Ambi, its not the one I want, but it has the same grip profile, and anything I buy for it WILL work with the one I want, so I guess I’ll have a back up gun or a gun to loan out at the range if I ever take someone with me in the future. Though I have been told I should get a gun with a decocker for self-defense. A decocker automaticlly drops the hammer on the firing pin, and the first trigger pull is often 2x the regular pull, so a 4lb pull becomes an 8lb pull. There is also no safety to engage the extra trigger pull is supposed to be that.
The Hague convention only bans expanding ammo, which usually means hollow points. There are other types of expanding ammo, usually a variation on the hollow point though… unless we get into exotic or prototype rounds. Rounds that would be OK besides FMJs, are less lethal rounds like bean bag rounds and rubber bullets. The idea behind banning expanding ammo/hollow points is to prevent the rounds from causing a lot of trama to person hit, making medical care easier, the down side is it takes more rounds to kill someone, and whatever’s behind them is likely to get hit as well.
The FBI uses hollow points (likely Jacketed ones for ease of feeding in a semi-automatic), because their internal rules call for a max wound depth of 12 inches, the ammo that passes a ballistic gel test gets approved and those that don’t are rejected for use with the FBI, at least for hanguns not sure on their rules for rifle ammo. The DHS link actually doesn’t say what the shape of the projectiles they use are. The grain is the weight of the projectile 124 grain is a pretty common for 9mm luger/parabellum/9×19/9mm NATO rounds. I’ll break down that ammo description. First there is the 9mm, that means the case holds a 9mm projectile and is 19mm long. The +P means its an increased pressure load, as the rounds when fired develops more pressure and by extention more force on the projectile pushing it out faster. 124 grains means the round weighs 124/7000 pounds (there is another grain that is something like 6985 grain to the pound but for firearms its always the 7000grain/pound one) or roughly .017714268 pounds, or roughly 2/7 of an ounce, in metric that would be just over 8 grams (8,03525142561 if you want to get very specific =P ), since 1gram = 15.432 grains.
So what I see from the DHS site it could be either but I think its likely JHP. See the weight is just 1 factor in many that determine how deep a round will go, others include, the powder charge that fires it, how much? what kind? (different powders burn at different rates and tempatures) which cartiage? (9mm, 45ACP, etc which will determine just how much powder you could in theory pack into the case) which fire arm, as the lenght of the barrel is a factor (the longer the barrel the more spin/stabilzation you get, but every inch subtracts from the speed of the bullet (friction). Also a factor is what is the number of lands and grooves? (the rifling of the barrel common in every gun but shotguns, pistols typically have 4 or 6 depending on the manufactor. 6 results in better accuracy) What is the rate of twist of the rifling? Tighter twist helps with accuracy with a short barrel. Wow, a lot of factors there and some also effect accuracy, and the user is the biggest problem with that one!
As for the ARC team going into a state, well state laws on what the police can carry don’t effect federal agents, and its usually accepted as something the state can’t do anything about. Sorry for the info dump! but I hope it helps put some of the termonology into perspective.
No problems with ‘info dumps’. The information is interesting, so the quantity is fine.
Even when I was just trying to find out what type of ammo the police use, I came across articles disputing that. Including ones on clearly pro-gun websites, that were simply discussing the most effective ammo to use. Even those (advocating against them) that considered them comparable, simply advocated using a more appropriate type of solid round, for the role, such as going for a higher caliber.
Obviously if it were correct that it consistently took many more rounds to kill an opponent, with solid than hollow point, then there would be a reasonable moral basis for the case. However if the difference is merely marginal, then the point you made about the trauma injuries carries the greater weight.
Gun shot wound survivors have their chances of making a recovery reduced if hollow point ammo was used. Likewise they are more likely to suffer permanent loss of quality of life, from crippling injuries.
Given that people are more likely to be harmed with their own gun than anybody else’s, this should not just be viewed as ‘good, I want my enemies to suffer’, as it could be the gun owner who suffers. Or their children. Accidental injuries are not aimed with intent so are more likely to otherwise be survivable, further enhancing the point.
The fact that the majority of nations in the world are unconvinced by evidence presented in favour of hollow point ammunition should also carry some weight.
Very much a benefit in a warzone. Plus they are more likely to penetrate body armour and helmets. Hence why armies tend to go for the solid rounds, despite any arguable benefits from the hollow ones.
When considering a civilian environment though, police and responsible civilians do get training in checking who might be at risk beyond the target. Using hollow point ammunition does not stop this need though, as missing the target will endanger them just as much. So if there are innocent people in the line of fire, no shots should be fired, hollow point or otherwise.
I think this might be it, we’re hitting max thread depth. But after I finished up my crunchtime and am able to reply I figured I’d do that.
I think this might be it, we’re hitting max thread depth. But after I finished up my crunch-time and am able to reply I figured I’d do that.
You’re right, in a war zone in the short term wounding an enemy is better for you. As a marine I used to know said, ‘It takes one person to remove a body, it takes 2 or more to remove an injured, and often time critical. By wounding you tie up more enemy personnel with the injured, leaving fewer to fight you.’ Having said, I doubt Sydney will be deployed to a warzone given their branch’s mandate. But the Coast Guard is often deployed to conflicts, why? Because they have the legal authority to board ships at sea and conduct health and safety inspections as well look for contraband. The Navy is not. So maybe but unlikely, Sydney being deployed to such a zone.
I hate to scare you but some states don’t have a practical, nor knowledge of the legalities of carrying (at least for open carry, which means your gun is clearly visible and not hidden or obstructed by clothing, or in your purse). In many states open carry is allowed with no permitting. As for concealed carry a few states have permit-less concealed carry, in others you have to attend a basic class that lasts 8 hours and that’s it (have to pass a state mandated test), others its 8 hours (with test) + a practical exercise (where a score of at least 50% hit rate at each of 3 distances, typically 3, 5, and 7 yards, the really scary thing is that’s better then most cops shoot! Lack of range time to practice for a lot of them is my theory.) But you’re right most of us (responsible gun owners), stress the checking down range and seeing what you’re going to hit if you miss, in fact, we aim for a backstop or ‘berm’ at outdoor ranges, because, ,we’re legally responsible for every round we fire and bullets can potentially travel miles and hit someone you can’t see! That is a very SOBERING thought! Oh, most permit processes require you to submit to fingerprinting, and some only do it if there is a question as to you being who you said you are. Oh, and a few states if you’re seeing a therapist for any reason can be grounds for denial (some for a period such as 5 years others it a life ban) so if you see a therapist for say an eating disorder they can deny your request to carry concealed, even though an eating disorder in no way effects your competence.
As for the rounds: Ball verse Hollow Point, that is true there is that argument, but jumping up a caliber can make things harder, increased recoil, fewer rounds available (significantly fewer depending on the 2 calibers being looked at), increase in ammo cost, so less practice with the carry weapon. Going up in bullet weight (same caliber) would likely increase the length of the bullet (projectile) but, I’m not sure if that extra surface area would affect the kinetic transfer at all. Federal produces a line of polymer bullets called Guard Dog, that expands but less then a hollow point, AND is designed not to go through walls (or at least make it less likely), and its a lighter bullet, at 105 gr versus the usual 115 (so not much but that means less recoil!) While still keeping the energy of the bullet on par with heaver loads (looking at 115 here). I like the idea but haven’t looked at the FBI testing of the rounds to see what their penetration depth is.
The logic I’ve heard against hollow points, at least for England/UK, is that it causes more damage and are actually illegal to own or transport, UNLESS you’re a hunter and going from the store to your house, or from your house to go hunting (and back). The reason for that is, the hope for a quicker kill, and to prevent the animal (usually a deer) from disappearing and suffering longer until it bleeds out and dies. Any responsible hunter will endeavour to prevent unnecessary suffering.
As for the more rounds argument, you’re right again, it depends on the shooter. Take your average dinner plate of 8″ diameter, that is the size of the zone we’re aiming for in the chest, but the center 4″ diameter circle (head/chest) is the zone that will more consistently kill with 1 or 2 shots (looking at .45ACP and 9mm parabellum) and the ability to do that, depends on distance, movement, and skill level of the shooter. Generally speaking smaller (bullet diameter) rounds require more rounds or hitting something extremely vital, such as the head or heart. An example of this is the Israeli Army, they’re using suppressed .22lr (22 Long Rifle) rifles, the rounds typically weighing in at 40 grains, not much but even that can kill, from a distance if you hit the head. Sadly, for non-police, shooting someone and not killing them can end with YOU in jail, for assault with a deadly weapon. The rational being that since your attacker was stopped and lived, you didn’t need to use lethal force. Also, showing or drawing your weapon, can end with you getting a ‘banishing’ charge and/or run a foul of laws against displaying your sidearm in ‘an intimidating fashion’ if you pull it/show it and your potential attacker sees it and changes their mind (IE goes and looks for easier prey).
But back to the team, I see them using their sidearms as a deterrent vs actually firing them (in the field that is, unless their like Concreta and bullets are just mostly annoying). Plus, I just wonder how long it’ll take Sydney to memorize all the parts, what they do, and then the detail strip and field strip in the times the LT mandated before she gets any ammo.
All good stuff. And you surprised me with the information about the UK using it for deer hunting, given that I know that it is illegal to possess or transport hollow point ammunition in the UK, without the written permission of the Home Secretary. But the exception to that was made, for the reasons you cited.
As regards Archon, and Arc-SWAT, they are actually likely to see military action overseas. If you check out Arianna’s press briefing, their mandate was specific in (paraphrasing) including threats both foreign and domestic. If an enemy force includes supers then it is Archon’s job to oppose them.
You will recall that Maxima served in two wars already, and against super opponents. So clearly the need will still be there.
Essentially all supers that were serving in other branches of the armed forces were consolidated under the one banner. Maxima being the most prominent. But Hiro was in the army. Plus one of the ‘space marines’ is described as a Duke Nukem type character. So probably having some kind of military background (and given their colourful handle, being a marine or former marine seems to fit the bill).
A few of the others may or may not have been in the military, but their backgrounds are not specific enough to say, so we will have to wait to find out for them. Harem being a fun one, in that she might have served in the Army, the Marines, the Navy and the Air Force – at the same time. Plus the French Foreign Legion, if she felt like it!
Presumably Sydney’s fellow recruits were recruited directly into Archon. But it may have been a requirement that even transferred personnel needed to retake basic, to cover the super-specific aspects of Archon’s training.
Finally any number of spooks, from various military intelligence agencies, might be in either Arc Dark or Arc Light. Although the former is more likely with their presumed skill sets. Whereas a super MP or NCIS special agent could have ended up in Arc Light.
Whilst Arianna mentioned that preliminary negotiations had been started, with other governments, to get an international treaty banning the use of supers in warfare, that is still a long way off. So there is plenty of time for Sydney to find herself deployed to Korea, or wherever an incident or war kicks off.
Dave would not need to parallel real world events, as the very presence of supers would make Grrl Power world politics play out differently. If a Cuban super attempted to free all the Guantanamo bay prisoners, for instance, then the team would be deployed to deal with that.
Hopefully in a special-forces anti-terrorism role. However it could alternatively be spearheading a full-blown invasion! Although that would not really seem like Obama’s style.
If you’ve read even the first arc of Worm, you know why I flinched when the idea of Spiders Man needing MORE came up. Not that I expect rotting people’s balls off to come up in this comic
Were they hobo spiders or brown recluse? Both can cause localized tissue necrosis.
probably both, she threw everything in arms reach at the dragon man
I was just reading the 7th arc where she made a bug costume and it made me think of this comic.
If it was true you’d have named him Georg (google Spiders Georg).
Is that… a can of Cuke?
Indeed. :)
Also, is he a guitarist? That pinky spread away… is a typical guitarist desease.
thats what it says on the can, but who says the original contents are still whats inside? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diOhwvRYlsU
Hey, it’s what all the cool spiders drink!
I can conclude he’s not actually spiders, or else he’s a major rule breaker.
He’s drinking coke. Or Cuke, rather. We can make a safe assumption the red bottle and label make it a take off of coke, and the coloring would be the classic and caffeinated version.
Spiders react to caffeine the way humans react to alcohol. So if they knew he was a bunch of spiders, i don’t think he’d be allowed to “drink on the job”.
its full of mealworms he buys online, disguises it with packaging from human food so as to not freak people out
They’re already super-spiders. No reason they don’t have crazy poison immunity and stuff.
I just assumed it was cucumber-flavored soda.
even being just made of bugs it’d be a little like having a regenerator/bullet sponge on the team since its kinda hard to kill a big cloud of bugs with the same tools you’d use against the meat he disguises himself as. also spider surveillance. depending on how many spiders he needs to keep his gestalt iq at usable levels he can leave the skin behind to be sneaky and work his way through tiny holes(like in the mummy where sand pours through the keyhole but spiders)
There already is a Spiders-man
This comic brought to you by Coca Cola.
Coca Cola. The official software of hive minds of hundred of spiders. Coke is it! :)
Cuke, actually. :)
Is it cucumber flavored?
Vance is an awesome name (Half-Life 2 fan over here), but so far this guy doesn’t strike me as awesome enough to deserve it.
Vance freaked out Sydney. Someone who has already shown the courage to stand trapped inside her forcefield with the most dangerous known super villain on the planet. When he was on a killing rampage.
Without Vance using a single power.
Ehhh, you have a point, but I still don’t find that impressive enough to merit such a cool name.
What about his super-spider scout, sitting on your shoulder, having tracked you down over the world-wide-web? Cool enough tracking skills? Or does he have to demonstrate his super-poison too?
Wow my brain was working very strangely last year. I didn’t get at least two pretty obvious jokes, and now this. On this re-read, I had precisely zero thoughts about him not being cool enough for the name Vance. In fact, I thought he was totally awesome for how he messed with Sydney. I think I must have been going through a cynical phase last year.
Also nice paranoia fuel there. ;)
Thanks. I thought it in keeping with the page.
Mind you it is only ‘paranoia’ if it is not true.
Why is this comic so goooood!?!? Seriously, pretty much every page makes me burst out laughing. =D
I’m an arachnaphobic, but I really want to know if Vance is really full of spiders. If he is… then I’ll start freaking out.
Don’t worry, at night, they hang up the Vance suit, when they go to bed. Not necessarily their own.
Just something for you to think about, as you are trying to get to sleep tonight…
So, have you reached a conclusion on Vance yet? I’m still voting for the Spiders version, myself.
Dave may not have, but I am with Sydney, in assuming he is a spider-colony, until he has been cut open!
Then we will see them all scurrying out and eeeeeeEEEEEEEKKKKKK!
Spiders Man? Come on! These are clearly Man Spiders.
Maybe he can shoot webs from any pore on his skin-suit. Or has a poisonous bite. Or he can talk to spiders.
Maybe his superpower is just the ability to come up with a creepy story and have people believe him, like that guy in the bacon costume who claimed to know Kevin Bacon.
But just coming up with creepy stories would not justify him becoming a member of Arc-SWAT…
… unless he could turn fiction into fact!
What if his power is to convince people of even the most outrageous things.
Not powerful enough?
It works through recordings, or through television, or even though the fourth wall.
Considering Spiders Man is now an official Spider man varient, this comic rules.
What if someday Sydney starts beating him like pinata, trying to let the spiders out. He’ll regret his flippant attitude then, by Gum!
I dont know.
Can you imagine him in the huge battle that just happened and he was one of the ones cut by the speedster? All the spiders coming out on the field?
…..