Grrl Power #400 – Holy blasphemy Batman!
Batman is a powerful motivator, but like any aphorism or drug, the subject will develop a tolerance for it. Without the extra motivation though, I’m not sure Sydney could actually climb that rope, even doing the foot thing. It’s hard to say as I’ve never been a skinny but unfit 22 year old nerd girl before.
Someone has plenty to talk about at Nerd Confession. Now say 20 Hail Wonder Womans and 10 Our All-Fathers. Or should that be 20 Hail Jordans. Cause… Green Lantern is Hal… Jordan? >cough<
Hmm. Nerd Confessions. I’ve never seen Battlestar Galactica. At least not the new series. I saw the old one when it was in syndication, so when I saw the pilot for the new series, I was put off by the infiltrator cylons. A sci-fi trope that I think is played out. I mean, I get it. Aliens (or cyborgs or whatever) that look human to infiltrate us is pretty easy on the effects budget. I’ve also only seen bits and pieces of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I’m familiar with most of the characters and I’ve seen a few episodes here and there, but I’ve never sat down and binged it. I’m probably short on a few critical novels as well, like… well, lots of them actually, but stuff like Hyperion by Dan Simmons and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson spring to mind.
What are the alarming gaps in your nerd vitae literacy? We’ve all got them. Stuff you know you should read/watch but have never gotten around to? Confess and be absolved! No self-flagellation necessary, unless you’re into that. I’m not here to judge.
Holy crap, I’ve drawn 400 of these things! Yes, I know it’s still day 3. I would promise the days will get shorter, page wise, as we get more of the early setup out of the way, but… clearly I’m a bad judge of these things. It’s my intent to eventually get to slightly more traditional story arcs where several days or even weeks can pass between them, but there’s still too much good stuff to mine from Sydney going through basic. I may decide to start saving some of that stuff up for flashbacks though. And before you point out that the whole comic is a flashback, I would suggest that maybe the first few pages were a flash-forward.
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Should Sydney be more like…..Beetle Bailey???
I call dibs on Miss Buxley!
Sorry Sarge gets you.
But…but…General Halftrack would have dibs, because she’s HIS secretary.
I’m old enough to remember when the General thought that, too. Once upon a time, he used to sexually harass her, but as the times changed and attitudes evolved, the strip stopped using those kind of jokes and sent Halftrack off for some Sensitivity Training. Besides, he’s a married man who surely wouldn’t want to cheat on his beloved battleaxe . . . er, his beloved wife, I mean.
Not me. Whenever Sarge comes over to chew me out over my latest stupid mistake, I’ll apologize and then quickly add that Beetle was supposed to be helping me. The mistake wouldn’t have happened if he’d been there, but I haven’t seen him all day! He’ll rush off to pound Bailey into mulch and be in a much better mood for it, so I won’t have to deal with the wrath of Snorkle.
I’ve clearly watched that movie Police Academy far too often.
Last page, Sydney trying to do push ups reminded me of the scene where the bad guys put some stinky, dirty sweat socks under Steve Guttenberg to encourage him to do a few more push ups. This page now reminds me of theobstacle course scene.
I wonder if the next page will remind me of the podium scene . . .
It’s probably been said already…probably multiple times…but Sydney’s eyes in that last panel are so adorable.
I likes Bang.
She has the violence.
Lots and lots of violence.
A lot of people who like Batman like him because he is expressly not Superman.
Batman is theoretically achievable and something to aspire to, where Superman is something more to admire from afar; you can’t train yourself to withstand nukes, regardless of what Krillin would have you believe. Also, Superman is incredibly noble and not corrupted by his vast power, whereas some folks identify more with Batman’s undiminished but channeled rage.
Myself, I’m more of a Spider-Man type; human levels of Responsibility of Power, the desire to atone for human failings, and a tendency to crack wise at misfortune. Not to mention I generally prefer the Marvel scale of super-poweredness.
Of course, I have my days when I feel more like Tetsuo from Akira or the Hulk: smash everything annoying!
But not Deadpool? Didn’t he and Spidy have a “Wisecrack-off” at some point?
Isn’t Deadpool cancer-crazy and homicidal? And didn’t Spiderman win the wisecrack-off and 4th-wall brawl?
no one can beat deadpool in a wisecrack-off, spidy was simply a coward and ran away from the glory of deadpool, but yes, he is also a homicidal manic who cares for nothing more then boobs
And chimichangas.
And his daughter.
Please, Deadpool isn’t half the wiseass Spidey is. For one thing, he doesn’t think fast enough. For another, he’s never been written by Jim Butcher.
Nerd confession: The only iteration of Batman I ever liked was the Batman: The Animated Series. I’ve never liked Superman, in any of his reboots, remakes, remixes or whatever.
Superman isn’t uncorruptable. He flattens half the city in a fight just to save the chick he’s boning. That’s selfish. All of his conflicts are reactionary: he doesn’t instigate anything. This isn’t because he’s noble, but because he’s lazy and lacks ambition. What’s he doing most of the time when it’s time to bring out Superman? Usually, it’s sitting somewhere with his feet kicked up. He chose journalist as his profession, and he skates by with the bare minimum. He’s been fired a number of times in the comics, usually for publishing something without fact-checking, which is again a sign of laziness. In an alternate world, Superman had ambition, and took over the world, acting as its sovereign dictator … what’s to say the main universe Superman wouldn’t do the same if he got a wild hair up his ass and decided to do something on his own rather than waiting for trouble to come to him?
Actually, it has nothing to do with being lazy. Put yourself in his boots for a moment: He hears every cry for help, in the entire world, all the time. But he can’t be everywhere at the same time. He has to prioritize who he saves (which is more important? Stopping the madman trying to destroy the world, or helping a little old lady get her purse back from a mugger?). If he tried to save everybody, it’d likely drive him insane. It was hard on him to realize that he can’t save everybody.
In short, he’s not lazy; he’s an overachiever who WANTS to save everybody, but knows that he can’t. He has to force himself to not respond. Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to do nothing. (Real world example, especially for type A personalities: How often have you been on vacation and had to force yourself NOT to finish “that one project”?)
As for him getting fired… that hasn’t happened nearly as often as you think. Only twice that I know of, but I admit there could be more. In one continuity, Lex Luthor owned the Daily Planet… of course he’s going to fire Superman (actually, IIRC, he fired almost everybody). In another continuity, although Perry White still owned the Daily Planet, Clark Kent got fired… but again, it was Lex Luthor deliberately trying to discredit him. Both times he got re-hired (in the first case, after Lois convinced Lex to sell the Daily Planet back to Perry White for the sum of $1).
Having said that, I’ve never been a big fan of Superman either. If I had to pick a super hero, I’m more of a Spider-Man or Deadpool type of guy. I haven’t collected comics in around 15 years. When I started having to pay over $3 for a 24-page comic with 8 pages of advertisements, I decided it was time to quit. (Current average cover price is $3.75)
So what you’re saying is that he puts *effort* into being lazy!
Uncanny X-Men #269 was the last comic I ever bought. When Rogue went through the Siege Perilous and Carol Danvers killed her … I put the comic down and said, “Well, I’m done.” I never bought another one. Years later, I met Chris Claremont at a ComiCon and I shook his hand and thanked him for saving me a lot of money. The number of serials quadrupled that year, and cover prices went up from $1 to $1.25 an issue. Getting me out of comic collecting while it was still cheap and many of the stories were still good was a good thing, I think.
What he’s saying ios that you are putting a lot of effort into trying to justify your dislike of Big Blue.
You don’t have to. You don’t like the character, we get it and it really is okay. ;)
^ Exactly this.
I actually rather dislike the argument that a superhero is selfish for not saving more people than they already are. Superheroes are not obligated to help anyone. Claiming that any hero who fails to save someone because they were busy with something else at the time or, god forbid, taking a break is basically like accusing a volunteer of being selfish for only volunteering 10 hours a week to a cause when there are a whole 96 hours a week they aren’t at work or asleep.
As long as someone is doing good, they are good. It does not matter if they are doing the most efficient good, or if they could be doing more good. The truly selfish people are the ones who look at someone who is already doing more than everyone around them and thinks “If only that person did even more…”
I freely admit my favorite heroes are the shadow(radio), batman( both 60s live action and the 90s cartoon) and shining knight(golden age) though that last one I freely admit was brought about because of the justice league cartoon because when he took on that general who turned himself into a monster to destroy meta humans and he just would not give up no matter how many times he got beat down and having no powers.
Never really cared for marvel though as a kid or an adult other than the 80s GI Joe comics which had perhaps the scariest and most dangerous Cobra Commander.
Part of why people like Batman over sups is that anyone of us here could be put in the same room as a member of Batman’s rogue gallery and we would have a prayer in hell of doing something to influence the outcome. You might not have great odds hell it would be fairly crappy odds but if you had a gun in hand you would have a chance.
Now superman’s rogue gallery on the other hand, You would not even have a prayer in hell with most of them.
Part of the reason Batman has the fandom he does is because people can see themselves doing what bats does.
I like Golden Age pre-Robin Batman. Then I like ’80s Dark Knight Detective Batman.
Between the two he just gets ridiculous, despite the awesomeness of Bill Finger’s props. A Batman that wanders around in the daylight and a Bruce Wayne who looks enough like Clark Kent to fool Lois? Hmph. I will also admit to enjoying the TV series when younger.
The Dark ‘n’ Gritty Batman, though, basically went off the edge–there’s now too much back story and motivation and grimness –He went all the way from caricature through sympathetic to seriously obsessed and disturbed and then careened off the insanity wall along with his rogues. He has enormous wealth, prowess and power, but he’s unwilling to do anything to disturb the status quo if it means he can go on punishing Gotham for allowing his parents to die, and his fans won’t allow him to be rebooted enough to be believable anymore.
Superman is more my speed. Batman is overhyped and honestly kind of garbage. The only reason he’s not behind bars as a supervillain is because he just chooses to take out his personal issues on the guys who are doing wrong. Literally nothing else about him is heroic. The man is literally and canonically insane. After Under the Red Hood I just couldn’t respect him anymore, not once I realized that the only reason hundreds of people die in Gotham each time Joker escapes is because Batman’s mental and emotional issues won’t allow him to deal with things appropriately. An inescapable prison, or just plain out killing the clown. If he’s THAT unstable he shouldn’t be a superhero, that not having his villainous rival would drive him even further into insanity.
“I couldn’t avenge you because that’d be too easy and I’d be crazypants!” Good thing to tell what’s basically your back-from-the-dead son who just wanted your approval and something to show that you ever cared about him. If that’s all that separates him from any other loony in Arkham, then put him in Arkham. Place is a revolving door, he’d be back out in two weeks anyway. Works that way for Joker and the others, after all. And each time, plenty of people die because Batman’s psyche is too weak.
Superman’s problem is the opposite. He’s too strong, and at the same time also not strong enough. That’s honestly kind of a fresh approach to character flaws and weaknesses. Better than the Batman-trend every hero started copying where it’s got to be dark and edgy.
Batman sort of garbage and insane? Did they put miller mccrazy pants in charge of his comics again because that is not the batman I grew up with.
The last panel made me laugh my arse and feel so sad for poor Sydney, Don’t worry Syd, Batman will forgive you…. Alfred might not.
Where Peggy says “Come on Sydney”,she should really say, “Come on gold brick!”
What the Hael is a ‘gold brick’ when it’s not in some secret underground madman’s vault? o_O
A goldbrick is a slang term for someone who shirks their responsibilities or tries to avoid work.
Google “Private Snafu” and “Goldbrick”
Don’t forget Beetle Bailey-THE biggest goldbrick of all!!!
It is WAAAAAAAAY too early for Sydney to be doing a confidence course. They aren’t scheduled until after recruits achieve a certain level of fitness, so they won’t totally suck at it. It is supposed to build their confidence after all. Once a baseline is set, the course is to be revisited approximately 4-6 weeks later, so as to allow the recruits to see how far they have advanced, and thus, again boost their confidence. In this case, Sydney has every right and reason to be frustrated and angry. She is being asked to perform significantly above her ability level, whilst others are simply coasting through the course. This is both humiliating and de-moralizing. NOT what such a course was designed to inspire.
Yeah i do think that is a really valuable point.
To start with physical fitness is just about the least valuable attribute you can train her in, so pushing her though it is only slightly less productive than making Max do it.
Besides that i cant really see any physical gain for pushing her like that. Im not a training expert, but would think going slower, first allowing her to slowly build stamina would be a lot more gainful.
And as a side point i do kinda agree on that powered members of Archon should be kept away from that course, because they cant help but make anyone else feel bad in comparison.
Plus, Peggy is using the WWBD (What Would Batman Do) motivator. It is kind of a cheap way to motivate someone and I am pretty sure Sydney has said that using someone’s heroes as an excuse to get them to do something is lazy. Also Sydney is still new so anyone from Archon doing that course would be faster and better than Sydney and would discourage her. She is still trying to get used to the team.
Every other superhero type is way above average, so I’m not really surprised this is part of their planned initial training. But now, yeah, they need to take a step back. At this point she needs a very complete medical exam, like an Astronaut applicant or a head of state gets, and then a very focused personal trainer.
I remember being put through one my first day of basic training. Most of my platoon (including me) failed half the obstacles. 5 weeks later we went back and, not only succeeded, but felt it was too easy. I think it was much more of a confidence booster than holding off until you can already pass.
I agree that having Sydney do it around normals and, especially, supers that can breeze through it is not healthy, though. Having an example that they are incapable of achieving will usually convince a person to just give up.
Yeah, the obstacle course isn’t part of the training, it’s the test to see what level you are at and how much the DI’s have to work with
I have engaged in all forms of nerdery, geekery and dorkery, I have mastered none..
puny avatar.
Snow Crash – just read the first few chapters which are fantastic on their own. The book gets really self-involved afterwards. Though it was influential for the time and for that reason gets major props, the ideas now are pretty blase and the book has aged poorly as a result. So only read the rest if you want to appreciate the history.
https://www.cartridgecomic.com/comic/post-halloween-filler/
nuff said.
My nerd confession: I’ve never watched any Battlestar Galactica. It never interested me as a kid. I’ve also seen only maybe three Doctor Who episodes.
Though to redeem myself, I had the Dune coloring book. Talk about inapropriate for kids, hey kids! What weapon is used to try and kill Lord Harkonnen! Finish this puzzle and find out! I’m not kidding, that is one of the puzzles.
Wasn’t it a poisoned needle in the thigh of the little boy he was buggering?
Yeah not for kids.
Eh… Aside from DCAU stuff (which never gets old) I’m kind of fed up with Batman. I don’t dislike him to the extent I dislike Tony Stark, yet, but still…
I’m pretty sure The Flash will always be my favourite DC hero. Just as decent, upbeat and colourful as Superman but way less overpowered.
I’ve found Stark to be a sympathetic character ever since the Chessmen/Obediah Stane run back in the 80s, though the films and Civil War have pretty much destroyed that sympathy.
Actually, Civil War pretty much destroyed any sympathy I had for anyone involved…
like he fact the promo has cap being the f the rules and any authority but my desires tony stark character while tony outright says if we can’t fallow the rules we’re no better than the criminals captain america style
How come no one has mention The Phantom? That guys been around the longest even than Batsie, and still in continuous publication
“The Ghost who walks, The man who cannot die”. As an Aussie I’ve been a fan of the phantom since I was a little lad (as was my father who introduced me to it). Though let’s be honest, some (ok, a lot) of the stories haven’t aged well. The implicit racism played for laughs and the overreaching sense of “The white man’s burden” do jar the modern mind quite a bit. But like batman, he’s an achievable goal. He’s not supernatural, just very very fit and well trained. Unfortunately, like superman he does tend to be a bit overtly noble and pure , but still a great character. Oh, and for the record; there was NEVER a phantom movie. No matter what IMDB says. :-)
Agree with you about the didn’thappen-movie :p
But what about the cartoon series? “Phantom 2040”
Well, there you go. I was unaware of the existence of Phantom 2040 until you mentioned it. I shall now go peruse an episode or seven and be wiser for it :-)
Sidney doesn’t even realize she actually succeeded at jump starting the training montage. Of course the montage is for the audience’s benefit, not the benefit of the character, as such the character the montage is of doesn’t really notice it.
That wasn’t a swearing. That was a wish.
That was my first thought as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55zpDpTbAiw
As for the confidence/obstacle course…it could be a baseline run, so Sydney has an idea of where she really is and what she needs to achieve. Unless I missed it, it’s never been confirmed Archon training follows Army or Marine Corps training methods or schedules. Heck, they could make Sydney run it twice a day, every day…
Geek/nerd gap admissions? I’ve never been interested in Dr Who. Tried way back when but the effects were way too cheesy even for me, and I never got the allure. I can respect anyone who loves the show, but it’s not for me.
I loved the original Battlestar Galactica but the reboot, however finely done, basically raped my childhood. Don’t argue, you know it’s true. Imagine Transformers changing from cars into Sports Illustrated models and trying to say it was a re-imagining. Yeah, half the geek/nerd population would expire from collective brain aneurysms.
As for heroes, nobody has mentioned the three greatest heroes ever conceived. 1) Doc Savage. He’s inspired every non-powered hero since he first saw print. 2) Badger…from First Comics in the 80s. Not sure of the later continuations by Dark Horse, etc…but the original run? Silly, surreal, campy, and immensely heartbreaking. 3) Grimjack (also from First); what I consider John Ostrander’s finest work and yes, that’s the origin of my sig. If you haven’t read him, I feel sorry for you and hope you correct the lack.
As for The Phantom…I preferred the novels to the comics. Published by Avon Publications in the 70s, and pretty hard to find.
“1) Doc Savage. He’s inspired every non-powered hero since he first saw print.”
Except that Doc was created to jump onto the Shadow bandwagon, and I’d argue that the Batman is based on The Shadow as modified by Doc Savage, rather than the other way ’round.
I’ll be superamalgamated if I don’t much prefer Doc and his boys, though.
That’s the best illustration ever of why the Battlestar Galactica reboot is a big middle finger to those of us who were around for the original. I might have been able to like it if they hadn’t pretended it was part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise.
I too never got the allure of Dr Who and yet I’ve always liked the memes about Dr Who, since before anyone was using the word meme.
Doc Savage is a product of a time when there those who believed that it was literally possible to train to superhuman levels of ability. He exemplifies this principle, and was explicitly described as superhumanly strong (he was known to be able to lift the back of a 1930’s era car high enough to clear the wheels and thus prevent it from driving away) so you don’t give him enough credit – he inspired all or most non-powered AND powered heroes!
DaveB, you’re really missing out with Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ignore that crapshoot they called a movie. The series is actually thoughtful, funny, and full of the feels. I highly recommend it.
I was introduced to it in Ba Sing Se (friend watching episodes, I joined her, and said “this is awesome, I need to watch more when I get home”).
Had I started at the beginning, I’d likely not have continued. It started too rough for my tastes and didn’t acquire it’s “sing” until later. Relatively soon, but still took a bit. Had my exposure been the hype, followed by the first ep…well, yeah.
Well next time you should use Aquaman. He’s use to taking his lumps and getting back up.
Plus he has a Rousing Song of Heroism:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yE8C1WWixgc
To paraphrase comedian Jeff Dunham, “Aquaman can breath under water and talk to the fish? Wow, he’s got all the same powers as Spongebob Squarepants.” This rousing song doesn’t make him any more impressive either. :)
Aquaman’s power set is pretty subtle and *really* hard to write effectively. To be able to survive in the *ridiculous* depths he’s been shown to survive in, he pretty much *has* to have:
Super Strength, Immunity/Resistance to Extreme High Pressure, Immunity/Resistance to Temperature Extremes, Enhanced Durability, Enhanced Reflexes
Aquaman is essentially a Brick in the middle part of the spectrum, with a few occasionally useful power stunts (Bricks With Tricks as we all them in my group). I have always wished they had focused on his melee abilities in hand-to-hand combat more (Martial Bricks with Tricks!).
Am I misremembering, or didn’t the Rankin-Bass cartoon series also give him the ability to manipulate water telekinetically in the form of water-ball projectiles?
Adding the Atlantean Sorcery element made him (and his subjects) more interesting but always felt a little forced to me.
Had a lot of fun with an Aquaman-clone in a Champions game by adding the ability to manipulate water and control the temperature of said manipulated water (“The World will be saved.. by STEAM!” “Buddy, cool off, okay?”).
Spongebob Squarepants can not go to the surface without some plot-relevant magic. In the movie, he and his friends were summoned by a magic book that can freaking change reality by what someone writes in it.
Aquaman comes to the surface from the bottom of the ocean, and can do so without having to decompress and he never gets the bends. In addition to Weatherheight’s points, this means Aquaman has an impressive cardio-pulmonary system that can immediately filter all the compressed nitrogen in his blood and release it to the atmosphere without allowing it to “bubble” in his capillaries.
In addition, unlike most amphibious animals, Aquaman has never been shown to suffer extreme dehydration trauma if he strays too far from a large body of water. He gets enough water simply drinking the same amount of fluids as normal humans, under normal human conditions.
Again, without freaking MAGIC, Spongebob literally shrivels like paper if he’s out of the water for a matter of minutes, seconds under extreme activity. So Jeff Dunham clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Well, he does make a living from playing with dolls . . .
Still makes for a boring superhero. Hey look, I can dive without imploding and surface without getting the bends, plus I can breath water and have built-in sonar. Let’s use that to stop these bank robbers!
Blue Griffin FTW!
That hurt me when you had said that, Sydney. I don’t think I can recover from that.
I have a new Swear Phrase…
“Oh my God Fuck Batman!”
Blasphemy, Profanity, AND Batman for the win…
No, seriously, fuck Batman. He’s the literal worst.
BAAAAH GAUH HAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHHH oh my gosh those eyes at the end… XD and poor Peggy, especially with Sydney genuinely looking traumatized XD
I’m surprised someone didn’t say that batman woukd have a gadget for that
FWIW, I held off on the new BSG for the same reason, until just last summer. It was quite good! I did have to adjust to the modernized Cylons, but it was worth it. There were a lot of clever homages, even into the later seasons when I was no longer expecting them. And, for all the crap I gave them about the gender-bending, of all the characters Starbuck was by far the most faithful to the original.
Just my two cents! I will always love the original BSG, but this one really grew on me. As for my nerd confessions, now that I’ve finally watched BSG and the XMen movies… Probably the XFiles? Never seen an XFiles. And no real interest in changing that.
X-Files is a little rough in a post Fringe era. If you don’t have the nostalgia on your side you could become cynical about how often Fox utters the phrase “Come on Scully, think about it…” and then launches into a pseudo science spiel about the cryptozoology monster of the week.
The BSG reboot might’ve had a chance to grow on me too if it wasn’t for the constant nausea-cam sequences. I can’t even try to watch the reboot without literally needing to vomit.
Bruce Wayne also trained hard. All of the time. Not just his body, but his mind. Sydney—not so much.
She looks good, but that is just because she has no extra fat on her.
So panel 13 shows Sydney’s sexual aspirations.
I admit…I still like The Question best. The first one, Vic Sage, not the crazy new murder-y one. The serious comic one is nice…The animated JLU version is hilarious. Conspiracy Theorist FTW. XD
I have always loved the “Chain of Homage” linking the Watchmen to the Justice League via the Charleton Action Heroes.
I find this hilarious because my freshman year of college I took a leadership course and we had to go on a ropes course. I am TERRIFIED of heights. I had no idea how I was going to get up there (we had to climb up a rope net to the top- nothing to keep you from falling- and you were above the treetops) the entire way a girl behind me kept saying BE BATMAN! You can do it! What would BATMAN DO? I literally chanted I’m Batman the entire way up. I’ve actually almost kinda wiped most of the event from my mind since I was so scared. but I totally know how Sydney feels right here. XD
Never touched Dark Tower, for one…
The first thing I thought of when I saw Sydney’s
“puppy-dog eyes” in the last panel was actually “Katherine Gilchrist (Wapsi Square)” – not “puppy-dog”.
Awww, Sydney’s eyes at the end there…
Also, panel 10 finally at least showed that it’s *possible* for Sydney to not be able to grab the orb quick enough. Question is could such a thing happen at a great enough height for her to seriously hurt herself?
Her Wane in vain was mainly due to pain?
Stamped: approved
This is actually one of my favorite pages in the entire run of the comic (thus far). I love the tall panels in the first row giving the sense of how high the rope is; I love the fury in Syd’s eyes (which are all you can see of her face) in the 4th panel; I love the comic rhythm of “Fuck Batman!”/gasp-thunk/doe eyes; I love Peggy immediately recognizing that Syd wouldn’t say something like that unless she was (as she says later) at a hard limit; I love Math in the background of panel 12 effortlessly going over the wall Jackie-Chan-style with his hands behind his back. The flow of the page is just fantastic; @DaveB really knocks it out of the park in the composition department sometimes, and this is one of those times.
:D
Sydney looks like eating a handful of mudd. :D
I honestly don’t tend to keep up on most classically “geeky” fiction. I’m mostly a gamer in my capacity as a geek, and I’ve only ever played a handful of the classic games. It’s only in the last year that I’ve played D&D or Dark Souls, though for D&D I have the excuse that I just couldn’t find a group and took that long to think of starting my own with my and my brother’s friends.
As a side note, I wouldn’t recommend Snow Crash. It has some amusing speculation about a post-collapse America where businesses formally have sovereignty and can do whatever they want, but the actual plot is infuriating to anyone with even the slightest understanding of computer programming or human psychology. Or epidemiology, or bioengineering, or history, or sociology, or any of a dozen other fields, or even just basic critical thinking skills.
I would feel…. I would feel….
Just.
Like.
That.
;_;
I can understand they want Sydney to be fit but bootcamp hardly matches her power set. With flight and shields it is unlikely she would even need to run or climb.
Ha. Sidney is Titans Nightwing
(I should stop rereading every few months )
My nerd confession – I was a relative latecomer to the Internet and computers in general. I didn’t obtain an email address until 1994 and first started navigating the world wide web in 1998. I didn’t own my own computer until around 1992, a “laptop” hand-me-down from my dad. It had Windows 3.1 and some single-digit version of Word. That laptop was heavier than most desktops these days, and had nearly .001% of the memory of the average nowadays…
That wasn’t nice Peggy.
Very not nice.