Grrl Power #398 – Run till you chum
Poor Sydney. I mean, rich, famous, superhero Sydney, but you know. The first person she saves from a burning building and she’ll be all “Yeah you better be grateful! You have no idea what I’ve been through just you save your ass. Make it count!”
Sandy and actually anyone else not in Arc-SWAT isn’t required to to morning PT, but a lot of them do at least some of it since the rest of the team is up and at it anyway. So long as it doesn’t bother you that pretty much everyone on the team will run you into the ground every day. Arc-LIGHT special agents have a slightly less vigorous morning PT, but some of them do the whole Arc-SWAT routine just to get that bro-nod when they pass each other in the hall. As you can see, Maxima doesn’t enforce a strict dress code here either.
If you were a supervillain, I don’t know if it would be a good time to attack the team when they’re all out in the open like that or literally the worst. I suppose it depends on your powers and that of your henches. There are still people in the HQ building monitoring things, too. (It’s about 200 feet behind where the camera is set up on this page, it’s not the silver one in the background.) It’s not like the place is cleared out. Dabbler doesn’t have to do PT, especially if she’s topped off from the night before. Jogging does nothing for Maxima either, even with the parked jeep option. Really it doesn’t do any good for Anvil, Stalwart, Hiro or Achilles, but most of them go do it anyway just for the camaraderie. There is a “super gym” on the lowest level they use that we’ll see eventually.
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Just wondering can anvil absorb her own boob jiggle kinetic energy?
I cant believe I just asked that.
I can’t believe none of us thought of that sooner!
Oh but we did! Way back in… Oh Id say October 2nd, 2014. And I’m sure it came up sometimes before that.
I must admit, my first thought was of Monica’s highly-engineered-and-welded custom bras in Wapsi Square. My second thought was of how painful it would be for her to run in one of those. My third thought was that Monica runs, and she has to have SOME sort of structural support in her sports bra, given the limitations of most elastic fabrics.
My fourth thought was something about not overthinking and how I should just enjoy the comic.
well she absorbed a shit ton from getting thrown at the ground so she’s prob getting boat loads from her feet hitting the ground while running. wounded why she doesn’t punch herself to charge up faster? can she only hold a charge for so long?
Probably the same reason why you can’t run a generator from an electric motor while running that motor with current from the generator.
There is no net input into the system. She would use up as much energy as she gains. She could try the perpetual Slinky maneuver by going the mall and continuously fall down the escalator to build up energy, but that would probably take a while (and scare the kiddies).
The character she most evokes for me is Marvel’s Sebastian Shaw. One writer had him have a morning routine which included a bunch of mooks beating on him. Which he just stood there and enjoyed like a nice massage, since he also absorbed the kinetic* energy.
* Shaw one-ups Anvil in that he can absorb all kinds of energy, not just kinetic.
This is one of those things that I was a little disappointed with the big fight scene. Why didn’t anyone ever try and prime her up before she tried anything big?
Why give away her actual super power, when you can have bad guys punching her thinking she’s just tough?
It’s not like they were lacking in ways to charge her up https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1271
Wasn’t he the Big Bad Nazi in X-Men: First Class?
Yep, that’s the guy. (He wasn’t a Nazi, they were just convenient to him for a while) Did you notice how he absorbed the grenade, then Havoc’s blast, was absorbing a friggin’ nuclear power plant, and then it took two of the most powerful mutants who ever existed to kill him?
Although I always wondered why Charles didn’t simply say “Stop, Eric, or I’ll release him.” Because that would have been the perfect “Don’t threaten to kill or I’ll let you die” message that he could have possibly have sent. Instead Charles was complicit in the murder because he held the man down while Eric beat him to death, figuratively speaking.
my god that is certinaly a deadpool question if there ever is one
On that same line of thought wouldn’t she be absorbing all the slight unconscious movement she does daily.
At which point, she’d never move.
Hmm, speaking of inappropriate questions about powers…..
If Maxima is mostly indestructable, does that mean she can’t get pregnant?
yes she can get pregnant. as the hymen doesn’t actually need to tear during sex or needed to be torn for pregnancies or sex for that matter. the hymen does not completely block off the vaginal cavity, it is possible for sperm to enter and cause pregnancy even if the hymen is “intact”. some women don’t even have one or it is “broken” long before penetration occurs due to sports or other physical activity. others have a hymen that stretches enough to allow penetration without it breaking. see links for more info on hymens:
https://www.coolnurse.com/hymen.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymen
You just have to ruin everything, don’t you Adam Conover?
I was thinking more of a normal human sperm being able to penetrate her eggs.
Also from the one flashback her powers came in gradually so she may not have been fully indestructible until well into adulthood.
I could watcha gif of Anvil running all day long. Er, because she has an excellent form. I mean she’s well formed, uh… I’ll stop now.
do you mean the fact that her running is an upper-body workout???(like running with 20lb wrist weights)
You know, she has a point about Anvil. She SHOULD be wearing some weights made of white dwarf metal or something.
Didn’t we already have a discussion about trying to keep neutronium stable in Earth’s gravity field? The levels of harmful radiation would be enormous, at least until it explodes!
Dabbler could probably make it work.
Dabbler doesn’t share tech.
You’re failing to take into account the difference between military and ELITE military. The elites are fairly unique due to unusual skill/ talent, and having been in a squad with others with unique abilities would tend to have more tolerance for differences. Also elites are allowed a lot more ‘eccentricities’ than regular military, as long as it doesn’t interfere with military discipline.
The fact that Halo lets her eccentricities interfere with situations can (and has) caused friction with the former military members. But her extreme abilities, her enormous genre knowledge when she focuses, and her comic relief, has earned her a lot of slack
sorry supposed to be a reply to Troy Guffey
Hey! Give Sydney a break!! This is only the third day she has been able to have her balls out on display, and officially her first day as an Archonite
There is her problem: (as any guy knows) you don’t want your balls out on display while you are jogging.
Unfortunately, stuffing them into a tight tube isn’t much better :p
I am now waiting for “Balls out!” to become Halo’s “Flame on!”
Specially if she knows it grinds Maxi’s gears :D
Actually, they’re probably cutting her slack because she’s just about completely green, totally untrained, knows it is a problem, and fully intends to do something about it at the first opportunity. She’s still an FNG to ARC SWAT, but there’s a difference between an FNG who wants to learn, and a moron.
As for the morning PT…most members of ARCHON probably do PT. It’s not necessary for those outside of ARC SWAT, until all of the sudden the bad guys realize that ARCHON is going to be a LOT less dangerous without its support structure, and decide that picking fights with, say, Leon, is probably a better bet than picking a fight with, say, Maxima. If I had to bet, I would guess that Leon is an accomplished martial artist, and rarely misses morning PT. Again, he probably doesn’t really need it, until all of the sudden he really needs it.
I will make a few other guesses while I’m at it, because they seem highly logical. First off, I am guessing that Math’s primary job, when he is not responding to a super-powered crisis, is to oversee hand to hand combat training for ARCHON. Likewise, Peggy also likely serves as at least a part-time instructor for marksmanship (if ARC-SWAT carries guns, they’d better be training up on how to hit what they’re aiming at), and other members handle other aspects of training.
Believe it or not, ARC-LIGHT agents probably have an even more rigorous workout and training schedule than most ARC-SWAT members. This is for one of two reasons, depending on how ARC-LIGHT works (the end result is the same either way, but the method of getting there varies). If ARC-LIGHT’s agents work primarily as undercover informants, a large part of their training will be on their ability to blend in with the people they are infiltrating, and on SERE and combat training, in case they are discovered–in those cases, they will literally be completely unable to get backup in time to save them, and will need all the training they can get if they’re going to stay alive. If this is the case, than ARC-LIGHT operatives are likely going to be very, very careful never to show their faces in public with the rest of ARCHON, lest somebody catch sight of them and prevent them from being used in future operations. The DEA does a lot of this, and their agents are actually extensively trained, and are justifiably famed (and feared) for their ability to escape a busted undercover op, although most law enforcement agencies use this method from time to time. The problem with such a method is that the risk is rather extreme, and it requires an extensive support structure in place before it can be used, which is why groups like the CIA tend to avoid simple undercover operatives in favor of something slightly more elaborate.
The other way ARC-LIGHT could operate is by having a series of individual operatives who are dispatched to a particular area to look into something, and then are left to sort out the details on their own. This is how the CIA, and most other intelligence agencies, operate, and for a very simple reason: it is practically the only way to reliably get intelligence out of potentially hostile territory. If that is the case, than each individual ARC-LIGHT operative would recruit his own support staff, to handle things that the operative could not, which list could range from computer support, battlefield control, fabrication of vehicles, parts, and electronics, stealing cars, repairing things that are broken, speaking in French with a local accent, and so forth and so on. In this scenario, the operatives are extremely well-trained in a variety of combat-related skills, as they are effectively the last resort for their team should things go wrong. If you want an idea of what I mean, watch the movie “Under Siege” (the first one, not the second one), as the bad guy in that movie is a rogue CIA operative, and they portray him and his resources pretty accurately.
As to how ARC-LIGHT actually operates…I would guess that it’s a little bit of both. Most of what they’re going to be engaging are going to be either small, loosely organized, or fairly covert groups of largely criminal supers, in which case undercover operatives, good arrests, good detective work, and other law-enforcement tools are pretty much the only way to get a handle on the problem. On the other hand, when you consider the type of foes that the X-Men (or SHIELD), for example, face on what seems to be a semi-regular basis, ARC-LIGHT will probably need a structure closer to the CIA’s method of doing things–they’re not dealing with a simple criminal cartel, after all, but what is effectively a rogue (if highly covert) nation state, with all the resources that implies.
Me, I suspect that ARC-LIGHT does a little bit of both…either that, or the covert operations teams are part of ARC-DARK. Either way, the operatives would train extensively, and would do so in private as much as possible.
As for a super-villain hitting ARCHON during morning PT…well. First off, the PT area is probably pretty close to the heart of ARCHON’s base. Secondly, ARCHON almost certainly operates in shifts, so there would always be a fully geared and ready to go team from ARC-SWAT on hand to deal with any would-be attackers. And third…military PT happens VERY early in the morning, which means that any decent ambush (or even attack) would have to set up and prepare even earlier. We’re talking five, five thirty in the morning, and the attack would likely be conducted by an organization of supers that are doing something like this for private gain. Again, the presence of attackers who are willing enough, organized enough, have sufficient resources, and are dedicated enough to get up and get rolling that early in the morning implies a very extensive organization, and probably would require something like an army or a nation-state. Most strikes would probably happen a little bit earlier–say, at midnight–because they’d be happening at the end of a long/late day, not at the beginning of one.
Back when they fought under Vehemence’s aura, Harem noted their attempts at beating up on each other were less then impressive, on account of them being a bunch of pasty nerds.
Do you mean ARC-DARK? ARC-LIGHT is purely the intelligence branch of ARCHON.
That being said, as shown during the bank robbery scene, ARCHON has access to other forms of disguise than the typical law enforcement agency. Being able to recognize a person’s face really only helps if they have the same face when you see them.
Ok. So 5 1/2 years into it and we begin day 3 of Sidney’s “career” in Arc-SWAT. Perhaps by 2050 we’ll catch up with page 1. Hehehehehe ;)
ps. Just a commentary, not a complaint.
I like how Sydney’s orbs kinda lean back from being centered around her head as she runs.
Hmm.
Is that girl in the last panel; who said “not on the track” a named person? It doesn’t look like its harem.
It sorta looks like the magic witch girl prior to dressing up.
Which would be amusing to see
Yes it’s Sandy. She is part of PR with Arianna.
yep… i wonder if her phone got dried out yet? or did they just issue her a new one?
They probably just took a phone out of the ‘replacements for Maxima’ pile
I imagine Leon orders spare phones by the truckload – they’re in a dangerous business, and smartphones, for all the improvements they’ve made in the last decade, are fragile beasts. The fight with Vehemence alone probably broke every phone within a 100-yard radius.
Either that, or Arc-Light has whipped up some sort of super-OtterBox to protect their phones. That would be awesome.
Sandy looks so much younger in this than she normally does. Maybe she’s getting more exercise and losing weight? It’s a good look on her. Just because you are over 30, doesn’t mean you should let yourself go.
Well, considering this is ‘Day Three’, it’s more likely due to DaveB getting better as an artist
I prefer to think it’s the exercise. ;-)
But not in just two days: we first met Sandy in the afternoon of Day One
Gwen (the ‘magic girl in-training’) has similar colourer hair as Gothamer, just with different colours
My two favorite Harems are in this one, yay! Blonde harem (Thing #1?) and short purple hair harem… I’ve been there and done that Sydney… try running in formation behind a Katusa on Monday morning… actually, you wanted to be up front… between the smell of Kimche and the soju barfing guys, you definitely didn’t want to be back in the pack…
but up front you get scowled at by the slow CO who never speeds up past an airborne shuffle.
I thought the lady wearing Thing #1 was the red-head.
Don’t forget Gothamer right behind Blondini, or is she not a favourite? ‘Short Purple Hair’ is Bodie (formerly known as Punk Spice :p)
Problem is, Syd’s already been lapped – she’s not really in control of who she stays in front of…
Also, still wondering what Harem’s natural color is…
I’m betting her natural color is blonde. Hair isnt normally pink or purple, and it’s a lot easier to dye hair black than bleach it blonde, and a lot easier to go from blonde to purple or pink than it is to go from black to purple or pink. I once tried it and…. it didnt work out well because my hair is normally black. And to do a GOOD job, you need to first bleach the hair before dying it another ‘odd’ color.
Just remember: Berry has had the least amount of ‘modifications’ made
Maybe so (although I think blondie had less modifications done), but the point still is blonde is a natural color, pink is not. So assuming Harem’s powers don’t include odd hair color like Maxima, most likely her natural hair color is blonde, since that would be the easiest color to dye to other colors.
We are talking about comic hair colour, where all the colours of the rainbow are colours you see on Japanese school girls
DaveB himself stated that Berry has had the least done, hence her original nickname of ‘Strawberry’ or ‘Thing #1’
Lucky Sydney! She’s in that awesome part of training where you start out absolutely terrible at everything and make ridiculously fast gains.
… then she’ll just be terrible at everything!
Damn, caught up already?
sigh…..
Imagine how I feel.
It’ll never catch up to what you have in your head.
I do.
And its making my head ache (granted I do have SOME experience with waiting for others to come to certain points in my stories, but a webcomic is close to the slowest media out there atm, so…yeah ^^).
so are all 5? of harem’s body’s run or just the ones that are needed for new experience/exercise. Also when 1 body sleeps does a part of her brain sleep like dolphins do or do all body’s need to sleep for harem to rest?
Strawberry is still unteleported cause their doc is in high demand and it’s not an emergency. Co-ed is still sleeping.
Which one is actually on duty? Obviously not Abbey or she will be getting a Maxi wake-up call soon :p
And loving how they all have the same outfit, but different coloured tops :D
The sound of the excess caffeine and caramel leaving her system.
So, here’s a thought. What does Maxima think of One Punch Man?
Depends on if he’s trying to One Punch her, or someone else. Anyone who deserves it, she’d probably be fine.
But if he attacks someone who doesn’t deserve it, she’ll have a hard time getting his blood out of her clothes.
She’d probably need to use a lot of (color-safe) Bleach, because the odds of him winning against her are so slim it wouldn’t be believable even in a Fairy Tail. Hell, he’d be lucky to survive the fight with his body all in One Piece.
*triple rimshot*
Does harem get 5 times the workout or would that make her tired 5 times faster?
Each body needs to work out just like it’s… a regular body, cause it basically is.
makes sense. they are essentially duplicatas of the original. dayum… which one is the original anyway? i forgot
Even Daphne has forgotten which one is the original, Berry is the one that is closest to ‘original Daphne’ but that doesn’t mean she is
The only thing they ‘share’ is their mind and memories, and even that requires ‘syncing up’ (don’t believe it is automatic or they wouldn’t be able to function)
They share one mind. Daphne is one entity with 2-10 eyes, 2-10 ears, 2-10 arms, 2-10 legs, 1-5 mouths, etc.
There’s no synching up involved. Does your left arm need to sync up with your right? Only if you’re trying to do something complicated (note that she’s said she can get confused if multiple selves are doing something similar at the same time).
The ‘syncing up’ is concerning their memories and experiences: can you imagine trying to focus if you were seeing up to five ‘scenes’ from different angles at the same time? Or trying to have a conversation on a roof while also dancing in a crowded nightclub below?
Also remember prior to going to the nightclub: one Daphne was with Sydney and had take a moment to ‘sync up’ with one or two others who were getting permission, the one with Sydney didn’t automatically have the answers
Actually, what she said was that she was having a conversation with someone about it and to wait for an answer. Also, when Sydney was flying a Harem around, Harem said she basically had five quantum-locked brains. It means she not only has a physical brain in each body for coordination, she also has a single mind to link them together. And quantum-locking means that if there was any ‘syncing’ that needed to happen, then the syncing is literally instantaneous and constant.
Her mind is basically built for multi-tasking now. She’d probably have more issues trying not to do 5 things at once.
bean meaning to ask the Harem in the cast page pickie, is that an old photo from before their current looks, or is their a secret message there, like only five of Harem work for ARC-SWAT, the others have their own lives (or let Daphne have a life out side of ARC-Swat) or work in some other part of Archon, or are her insurance policy against fatalites in the line of duty.
You mean with the Brunette? It’s possible that that is Bodie (Punk Harem) seeing what it’s like having ‘normal’ hair (normal, as in not pink or purple, not ‘default Daphne’), it’s also possible it was cropped from a bigger group photo (there appears to be at least one extra limb in the shot, can’t make out if it’s an extra muscley arm or a leg), another possibility is that it was simply a real old pre-“Grrl Power” art work (back when Jabbers was going to be on the team and Sydney wasn’t even thought of)
If Harem is in ONE body and exercises, then teleport/splits into 5 again, does the benefits that she got while in one body pass over to the new bodies as well?
Don’t believe so, not the physical benefits anyway: remember, they are not ‘new’ bodies, and when they are ‘not in use’ they are chronotomically stored (ie they exit storage in the same state as they entered)
But wouldnt copying a body that just worked out mean a copy of that NEW body, not of some older body?
She doesn’t make new copies each time, they are all each individual and unique who simply share the ability to link minds (think of it like split personalities who can manifest their own body), Daphne does not absorb the bodies, she ‘stores’ them and re-integrates their essence (for lack of a better idea) but because they share the same mind and base brain functions (remember that Maxi-wedgie perform on Bodie and the domino effect? only one body actually felt the wedgie, the rest just shared the involuntary responses: Bodie had the wedgie, that forced Berry to stub her toe, Gothamer ‘felt’ the stub which caused her to bang her knee against the underside of the table, which caused Abbey to grab her leg causing her to face plant the open cupboard door. same as during the fight: Berry got hit on the same wrist that Bodie got sliced and they all ‘felt’ the break but only Berry’s body got the broken arm as Bodie is the only one who had to be bandaged for the cut)
To make it brief: only the one who did the exercise would see the results, but the other bodies would feel the ‘rush’
About to show my age again…
In the late 70’s / early 80’s, there was a one-off story in X-Men (want to say #141, definitely Claremont/Byrne run, right after Kitty Pride joined the team). There were two, maybe three panels of the Danger Room with various members doing weight training / aerobic exercise / gymnastics. During which Sprite (Ariel / Shadowcat) wonders what the point is. Storm makes the points that (a) many mutants have powers that interact with their bodies, (b) fights require endurance which is based on unpowered physiology and (c) knowing how to fight *without powers* might come in handy some day.
So naturally, that night she gets attacked by a N’Garai demon against which her powers are useless. Total Alien ripoff (and acknowledged as such, including its resolution), but a lot of fun.
Same thing happened in an avengers issue with Tigra watching Captain America working out for hours each day. “My fighting is only as good as my training, and while I’m about as strong as a person can be, I’m still just human.”
I miss stories about the small things in the lives of supers. They just don’t seem to be done as well these days.
Wasn’t that during Christmas? Kitty was at the Mansion alone because she is Jewish and doesn’t celebrate Christmas (thinking it was one of the Annuals, but definitely set at Christmas)
Also, it wasn’t that her powers were useless against the N’Garai, it was that she couldn’t hide, somehow it was about to detect or smell her where-ever she went and was able to bust through any wall and obstacle
I may own that comic!
— Spoiler Alert —
Is this the one where she ends up winning by luring it into the hangar bay and crisping it with the Blackbird engines?
Over the course of the fight Storm’s garden was exposed to the winter elements and died, and there was a lot of general damage to the mansion as Kitty would phase through a wall and the demon, hot on her heel’s, would just shred its way through.
When everyone returns they are fairly impressed that she is still alive in the midst of all the destruction.
Although I’m not sure why she couldn’t just phase and stand there while the demon raved at her. It has to be 15+ years since I read that comic, maybe it could hurt her even while she was phased, and that’s why she did all that running around. Or maybe she can’t breath while phased, that’s been an on-and-off limitation of her powers if I recall correctly.
Yup, that’s the one
Not sure if that was before they decided that her natural resting state is phased, but it’s possible at that time she needed to concentrate to remain phased and having some scary alien critter slicing and dicing her would be one hael of a distraction
Yeah, that’s before they decided she was always phased au naturale. Ahh comics with your consistent changes. And people thought our world had change as the only constant.
That has kinda made me wonder: how does she sleep (or simply rest) and not phase through to the other side of the planet?
She sorta discovered her powers by phasing through her bed and into the floor below while she was asleep.
I’m not sure phasing through the entire Earth would make much sense, though. I mean, if she drops through a bed and into the lower floor of a house we can assume that gravity effects her. So she would stop at the Earth’s core. And then suffocate. Actually she’d probably suffocate on the way there.
Depends on if she actually has to breath while she is phased (but, she is still able to talk, so… magic?) and if the pull to the core will give her enough momentum to shoot out the other side (the really really old Buck Rogers newspaper comic from the 30’s and 40’s kinda explained how that works)
She got clipped by the N’Garai while phasing and took BODY (to use a Champions term). Hence the reason she fled throughout the mansion – and why the mansion got wrecked.
The whole “phasing is her natural state” crap was just horrible writing – and yet another reason I stopped reading mainstream comics. Instead of looking at the existing problems / plots and working somthing out from that, they mess with powers in ways that make NO sense based on the same history. I’m loving grllpower because even when I disagree with Dave’s “powers logic”, they always at least are *very* well thought out and consistent (benefit of having a single writer/plotter/scripter, I suppose). Dave, keep up the good work and you’ll keep having great fans
I always got the “can’t breathe while phasing” as a “can’t breathe while inside a solid object since there’s no oxygen there” thing. That made sense to me.
On a unrelated note, can anyone recall a fight where Colossus didn’t get portrayed as a fifth wheel or a liability of some sort? He “scattered” Proteus the first time they fought him, and he took out (read: killed) the whirlwind clone from the group that killed so many of the Morlocks, but usually he’s used as the “see how bad this villain is?” punching bag.
Sounds like Colossus is a victim of the The Worf Effect.
He didn’t get a lot of respect, that’s for sure. And it transferred right into the movies where his character was nothing more than an really strong extra, if he was present at all.
I own that one too–missed the alien reference, tho… probably because I associated the Brood with Alien, more, and their first encounter with the Brood is my favorite run of the comic.
Brood are actually closer to a really bad movie called …. “The Brood”, from the early 80’s. Marvel, the house of ideas… That other people thought up. :)
On the other hand, doing *anything* original these days is nearly impossible, so as long as the plagiarism is well done, it’s cool.
Hmm-I’ma have to find that one…
Lovely to see Sandy again :D
And we still don’t know much about her, going by her “Who’s Who” entry :(
There are two things that limit Anvil’s power – kinetic threshold and fine control. With no threshold and complete fine control over her kinetic absorption ability there’s no reason she shouldn’t be able to accelerate without losses while running. Impact with the ground could be negated and reapplied as forward acceleration. In fact without those limits I’m pretty sure she could walk on water, or air.
Hm, of course if you have a perfect kinetic absorber running through air they would still need to expend energy to displace the air or it would all just sort of condense and adhere to them in a frozen sheet.
Of course that sort of takes for granted that her action-reaction negation doesn’t only apply to Anvil but also the object she’s in contact with. If you call her kinetic absorption ability a closed system then she’d need to expend more energy walking on air because she would need to accelerate it to create an equal reaction, since ke=1/2mv2.
Super powers are confusing.
Well, not terribly confusing. When you start from the premise “this breaks physics” then trying to make logical sense out of it becomes merely a thought exercise where we all have to agree that there is no wrong answer.
There is always a wrong answer! Eg –
“I hold that given what we can know to be true of Anvil that she could totally punch something so hard it would turn into a pony.”
Ok, fine. There is no wrong answer except one which is deliberately stupid. Or which disagrees with me. :-P
How about: “There are no wrong answers excepting where they are in violation of truths we hold to be inviolable.”
Is it just me, or is anyone else expecting Peggy to get chewed out (again) by Maxi for not teaching Sydney the basics of running?
Peggy is supposed to be her Training Officer, isn’t she? So shouldn’t she be running with Sydney to help her pacing or something? At least so she can yell in her ear every five steps :P
Just because Sydney has to do the run, does not mean the others can’t be doing their normal daily exercise, not sure why so many readers feel the track is only for punishment or members of ArcSWAT: it’s a freaking running track, used also for exercise and general fitness
…do the orbs bounce when she runs or do they try and remain at a constant height?
Do you mean Sydney’s, or everyone elses? ;D
Just be glad she can’t outpace them or she risks getting clobbered when she passes through their orbit :D
Each orb seems to follow a smooth track, and the orbits adjust to her attitude (see panel 4, where she’s bent over, the orbs still orbit above her head, but adjust to clear her shoulders). I doubt they would bounce.
God, I remember so many people threw up during our PT test in basic. Its probably why breakfast wasn’t until after our morning exercises.
Just saw this in another comic and thought of sydney.
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=511
That is a cool webic :)
You have just started? Lot of fun (and sad) times ahead :)
Semi-random thought. With Valentine’s Day being so closely behind us, you have to reflect on a piece of rather poignant irony. Notice how, if holidays used initials, Valentine’s Day just so happens to have VD as it’s?
…..and now you will all think of that on every valentine’s day. You are welcome.
I think their getting to know Sydney, jogging before breakfast, no stinging of the eyes, and the thoughts that someone is releasing a toxic attack on their base of operations….
Yeah, I nearly threw up my first day of basic training, too. It happens.
In panel 1, Mr. Amorphous is cheating again, as he was in
How is he cheating? By extending his legs to give himself longer stride? How do we even know that that is Morph?
And how can you cheat when nothing affects him, he is only running because it’s fun and he likes being part of the team doing team stuff
The background is a blurred version of strip 327, where he was getting yelled at for doing exactly that.
It is? Oh, okay, but still don’t see how it’s cheating for someone like him (exercise does less for him than Maxi and Anvil combined)
Wouldn’t jogging be beneficial to Maxima as long as she focuses on an attribute that doesn’t enhance her speed, stamina, endurance, or strength? Like she could throw it all into energy beams without actually shooting any off, which would make her other attributes less ridiculous, right?
She could do that. Her “relaxed” power levels still put her well into the superhuman range, with the power pool available for her to draw from if she needs it. She can dump power out of her other abilities for an extra boost, but it’s still tough for her to get all the way down to human levels. It’s like, I dunno, exhaling all the air in your lungs, or making a fist while relaxing the rest of your body.
Great minds think alike.
https://willdial.deviantart.com/art/Super-Massive-Surfer-289009754
You mean, that’s not Kenya on her Hawaiian holiday? o_O
If Maxima don’t enforce a strict dress code,then maybe I was right about Archon having a very lax uniform code???
Who, apart from someone with a Sequoia inserted up their butt, would insist on a strict dress code when it came to exercise? o_O
I don’t know if its been mentioned before, but your character Sydney is reminiscent of one of Micheal Whelan’s pieces, Island.
Huh, never seen that before, thought I’m pretty sure I’ve seen his art. I think he used to do D&D covers and stuff.
ok. I said I’d do it, and I did. Since its Sunday I’ll post this again for tomorrow’s update, but for those of you who are paying attention/to test this out to see if it works: https://www.facebook.com/44408827301/photos/a.131452507301.103658.44408827301/10153961741967302/?type=3&theater
Very nice (the ‘jock strap’ is a little small though, unless, like with the females, the ‘male cup’ has different sizes) :D
… I’ve been told all my like that men come in different sizes, so I imagine that’s what is happening. I drew the figure from an underwear model.
How fast could Sydney fly around that track? We know she has great direct line speed at least, but how fast can she turn? And even if she doesn’t feel any G forces, eventually she’d run out of reflexes. At mach 1 you’d circle a regulation track in one and quarter second, at mach 4, you do almost three and half laps per second.
That… may be something Maxi could arranged as part of her “personalized Super training”: start off with basic aerial agility, and then move onto faster and faster speed agility
Copy-Paste Anvil looks weird. it’s like she’s just sliding along on one foot instead of actually running.
She’s not copy-pasted: there are subtle differences (but do agree, if the positions of her limbs had been changed like with Peggy, then there would be less confusion)
No, she was copy-pasted, and then the angle of the limbs slightly altered. Th muscles aren’t flexed differently, the torso and face are almost exactly the same.
Therese also a copy paste Harem but that is less noticeable because the hair and shirt color was changed. Short-cuts show. *shrug*
Did Sydney get some make-up for her cheek?
Of course she did, after she woke up in Cupps
mmh, especially as sidney currently has her menstruations, plus undergoing physical effort (for her) – i’m wondering if she’ll scare everyone by doing a vasovagal episode. (she might even be having the first signs with her stomachache)
That is what the maxi-pad is for.
I am sure it has been mentioned but… ARC is still a military unit.
I was a Chaplain Assistant. 95 percent of my job was office management. I am exaggerating, more like 99.9 percent. Yet I was still required to keep physically in shape.
Imagine one boring day you come under a massive assult from the only nation I can say in a PC way CANADA.
Massive attack, 20 supers followed by 100,000 troops. Every person (except civilians) will be expected to fight. Including office staff.
Honestly, office staff doing PT makes them feel more like a real military force.
I should have asked while this page was current, but here goes: Looking at Peggy, how well is it possible to run with an artificial leg?
There was recently, like within the last decade, a case of a guy with two of the blade legs like Peggy’s sporting on this page being told he wasn’t allowed to compete in the Olypmics against non-disabled athletes because there was no way to tell if his artificial legs gave him an advantage. He was posting some near record breaking times. So basically you can run pretty damn good with the right attachment. Her regular “looks human under a pair of pants” leg is not as well optimized, and she develops a limp the faster she tries to run with it. It’s designed for walking around the grocery store without drawing attention to itself. Come to think of it she probably has an in-between leg for when she’s on duty.
Is it just me, or does it seem Sandy stole Vehemence’s pants out of evidence? Or at least using Vehemence™ brand sweats.
I don’t think that anyone ever thought about Sydney having to be banned from having her atomic breakfast before jogging.
Doing unit PT, when you don’t have to, is also a good way to make yourself look better with the rest of the unit and helps with your general health.
When my old Army Reserve unit was mobilizing, I was being left behind in the States because we were over strength in my MOS job. So they assigned me to “White Cell” to help them mobilize (only 3 months of active duty orders, our job was to do many of the side tasks so that the rest of the unit could spend more time training).
“White Cell” did not report to anyone in the unit that was Mobilizing, so we did not have to participate in morning PT. In fact, the 2 Sargents I reported to did not participate. One day, this was “noticed” by the unit commander who “asked” why I was the only member of “White Cell” in attendance. The First Sargent told him that they did not report to them (by regulation) and as such they did not have to be there. In fact, PFC Gilhelmi did not ‘have’ to be there but was choosing to attend.
Yes, it did help me on my next review. ;) And that is how you brown-nose in an ethical and responsible manner.