Grrl Power #1042 – A pelvic victory
As I was drawing this page, it occurred to me it’s really weird that they didn’t introduce themselves before the fight. Anytime supers are going to have an exhibition match, there would definitely have to be a discussion about power levels and everyone’s ability to take a hit. Anvil can stop a runaway dumptruck no problem, but she couldn’t catch a dumptruck thrown off a building, well, at least until she’d stopped a few runaway dumptrucks first. She doesn’t handle blades or energy attacks very well either. That sort of stuff definitely needs to be hammered out before supers throw down.
Anyway, it seems reasonable that you’d probably shake hands and say hi at some point in that discussion. But then maybe blue and black hair there was like “You’re both strong and don’t have to worry about blunt force trauma. Have at it!”
The Huricanrana. It’s basically a Frankensteiner where your opponent cooperates by using you as nunchucks before you throw them. Some of the less obviously carefully choreographed moves in the Frankensteiner video look pretty cool, especially the ones where the thrower comes in at an angle and tosses the person sideways, but anyone attempting that shit in a street fight would definitely die. I’ve always thought professional wrestling was incredibly childish (except when I was a child, I suppose) especially all the scripted drama and macho boasting, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some cool looking moves, however impractical. Almost everything they do involves the opponent cooperating, meaning very little would translate into actual fighting prowess. Unless… one or more parties had moderate super strength and/or agility. Then a whole new world of possibilities opens up.
I think it would be cool to see a really well considered super fight. The action in Marvel movies is pretty good, but there are still things like Strong Guy 1 stepping on Strong Guy 2, trying to crush him into the ground, and that makes no sense. Sure, maybe they both weigh a bit more than the average human, but if we’ve seen SG2 throw a bus, how is the weight of SG1 even affecting him? Just because he’s strong, it doesn’t mean he can push down harder. The Hulk can push down exactly as much as he weighs, and no more. Okay, he can stomp down and add some velocity to it, but it’s going to make him jump into the air. I just think it’d be cool to see a fight were all that stuff is taken into account. Any maybe cap it off with some sort of atomic Huricanrana.
April Vote Incentive is up! Looks like someone had better make sure their life insurance includes acts of Snu Snu.
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Her shirt, since no one has figured out the kanji yet, says “I ahegao you. (As long as you ahegao me.)”
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She’s right. You bet to win. :p
And flirt like you mean it.
Wait, isn’t the Frankensteiner a modified Huricanrana?
Good to see the Steiner franchise making a return with the next generation in the form of Bron Breaker
A very simplified one maybe it’s all just showy a normal untrained person would at lease suffer a fractured neck if not dead if it was real. It takes both wrestlers working together to successfully pull off either move. If someone was to try that in my youth they might knock me down but I’m keeping one of those legs as a playtoy LOL
Yeah, of course it’s not real (accidents still happen), it has always been choreographed, like boxing
They are sports entertainers, emphasis on ‘entertainer’
pnl 2 Both have very valid points.
Hi first time commenting in a LONG time, but any chance we will see the “demon” and “lizard man” bounty hunters returning???
Another question is when will we see the return of the pair that observed the destruction of the Fel force that attacked Archon HQ? You know that didn’t just get tossed in the round file.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-769-incoming-eventually/
Hopefully soon, then we could see how their relationship changed after the tail.
Dave’s just building up to it a lot of the galactic forces has seen too many of Sydney’s and the rest of the supers exploits to not make a point to meet with them on it some time soon.
Anyone else thought panel seven was mines being set off from their impacts?
Whelp.
Looks like Kenya may have finally found herself someone she can comfortably Little Spoon with.
The other girls are going to give her so much shit. It’ll be adorable.
Definitely going to be a great deal of fun to watch them do romance. I hope Kito turns out to be a good guy and they live happily ever after.
I am fairly certain after going outside and testing it, that I can stomp on the ground, a lean forward and use leg muscles to press down, using the other leg to help and balance; than it takes for me to jump.
so while their strength to body mass is grossly uneven, to the point yes they really should be sending themselves flying with the tinies bit of effort (see Tenchi muyo GXP for best example of this being brought up, and needing training to control it); it is still possible to stomp down on someone.
it may even depend on the ground behind them the other foot is pressing against for how much it can take in the opposite reaction, focusing the force downwards at an angle, so kind of like leaping up, except in a sense leaping down towards the ground and target without ever leaving the ground.
Love with your heart. Bet with your head.
“One more such victory and I am undone.”
I skimmed the comments and did not see anyone make this joke. Rather surprising, considering this crowd.