Grrl Power #1067 – Heatsink form is too effective
Aluminum Varia randomly out-shiny-ing Maxima. I think it’s cause I sampled colors from a photo of a jagged block of aluminum, so she has a bit more contrast than what I usually apply to Max’s skin.
No, Varia doesn’t have a nigh-skintight forcefield like Max. At least not with this gestalt. Usually she does, like when she gets fire powers from Arianna.
People have asked why the fire extinguishers haven’t gone off yet, and the real answer is because I didn’t think about it until I was drawing the page with Arianna standing in the burning doorway and by that time it was too late to add them in. But the real real answer is that with people like Heatwave flying around the building and who knows what else going on inside, it was decided that the fire suppression system reaction time needed to be tweaked so it didn’t go off 8 times a day.
Yes, that soldier is a terrible shot. I’ve never fired a Kriss Vector, but apparently they have this downward sliding… slidey thing that reportedly helps quite a bit with recoil. Plus the thing is suppressed, and yet he managed a four foot spread from 15 feet away. So yeah, maybe the red team here isn’t staffed by ex-Mossad or anything.
The July Vote Incentive is up! This is an unusual incentive because it started life as a panel from the comic. A few people thought it was a good pose to turn into a nude version, and I agreed. It was originally intended to be a stopgap pinup while I finished the one I’d started on for this month, but I got caught up in shiny skin and various bits of anatomy and alternate outfits so I’ll just leave this one as the July incentive. The advantage being that I have a head start on next month’s so… maybe it won’t be late?
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I don’t think he shot all that badly, actually. two of his shots would probably have nailed Krona in the head and upper body if that wasn’t bulletproof glass, and he walked the burst right over Varia’s head and should have drilled her right through the face.
Of course, shooting his ally twice was pretty dumb, gotta admit, but it was right in the vest and he’s obviously unhurt, so he knew he could take it? Although I’m pretty sure nine-shot bursts are deserving of a Gibbs-slap upside the head…
Is “crevassy” a Bostonian epithet? I’m from ̶G̶e̶o̶r̶g̶i̶a New Zealand, and I don’t speak the language very well.
Crevasse-y, because of the lines in his skin
It’s an adjectivized form of the word “crevasse”, meaning “an open crack, such as in an iceberg”.
She’s trying to drop him dumbass!
Put some damn pants on young lady!
I’m guessing you’re talking about Krona, who is: 1) currently better covered than Varia, 2) might be able to change her clothes faster than even Max, and 3) might very well be able to make it so that nobody remembers she wasn’t wearing them.
How ever she does it, she still needs to do something to reduce distractionings
Leon noticed the internet was down in a far more distracting situation. Varia is busy glowing and far more distracting. I like the ‘natural’ scenery. Krona needs to concentrate on hacking. are you rooting for crevassey and his team?
Not being afflicted with an Y chromosome I can only speak from hearsay, not experience.
That said I would expect that biology ensures that survival trumps the three B’s (*). After all we have not been a clothes wearing species all that long in the timeline of our existence, and in fact there are no few cultures today that routinely wear about as much on a day to day basis as Varia is currently. That strongly points that the distractioning is more of an in story joke than an in practice reality.
Of course jokes are funny, and good to have in general, so there is no reason to get too serious and investigational about this particular trope.
(* Boobs, Beer and Buns)
booooooooobs
go back and look at what Leon and Krona were up to. the clothing was a technicality. being afflicted by a Y chromosome. (can I add that to my list of disabilities?) having an attractive person signal willingness, intent, and getting very close to the physical manifestation of our ego is really distracting!
Also a Y carrier, and I doubt that even during the rabid throes of puberty hormones would it have been possible to be so horny that I could ignore being shot at in a burning building. Leon is also on the clock, presumably in charge of coordinating comms during the response to an active incursion.
Even the world’s horniest mysoginist always waited until the shooting stopped.
Why do people do that? Post clips with the sound turned off?
Well, there’s no survival advantage to getting eaten by a predator while having sex. So it stands to reason that the instinct to keep having sex would not take priority over the fight or flight instinct.
It’s the geek chromosome that prioritizes monitoring internet status regardless of other distractions…
A strong urge indeed.
“Not being afflicted with an Y chromosome”if, you haave4 not had a chromal test, you should be saying that. Cismen, can have two x’s and a ciswoman, can have an X and a Y. Many have. Google sex chromosomes.
cis·gen·der
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adjective
adjective: cisgender; adjective: cis-gender; adjective: cisgendered; adjective: cis-gendered
denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.
“this newfound attention to the plight of black trans folks by primarily cisgender allies is timely and necessary”
(Is cisgender a medical term?
While some commentators believe that the term cisgender is political correctness, medical academics use the term and have recognized its importance in transgender studies since the 1990s.
You talk about genetics and then quote something like Wiktionary on gender… why? Gender and sex are two different things and both have only tenuous links with genetics, like you probably tried to point out.
Roughly put, gender is in your head, sex is between your legs, and nobody knows your genes unless you’ve been tested.
If you count animal skins used to cover up parts of the body, clothing predates homosapiens. Even homo neanderthalensis had clothes. Cromags had clothes. It was a necessary part of survival of the last glacial period of the current ice age (an ice age being defined as a period when you can find a place on the Earth that ice never goes away in that location, glacial period being when most of the land mass is covered by glaciers, so Antarctica’s ice means we’re currently in an interglacial period of an ice age).
Anyway, point is, clothing was invented over 114,000-125,000 years ago, and our species, homo sapiens sapiens, aka modern humans have only existed for around 65,000 to 80,000 years, though “anatomically modern humans” arose 130,000 years ago, those were not HSS but rather cromags who were anatomically identical to us except shorter and they had much smaller, and much less efficient brains.
Brain efficiency is a huge part of what it means to be human. There’s a gene that lets us use a much smaller amount of energy than any other species would need to process the same information. It means we can be smarter without our brains cooking from waste heat. Cromags didn’t have that mutation.
Anyway, point is clothing predates our species and has been around for the entire length of our species’ existence.
That said, artificial fire is another thing not invented by humans. The earliest evidence for artificial, controlled fire dates back to around 1.7 million years ago. Hominids back then were barely able to walk upright.
hush; i am enjoying the distractioning.
Krona currently has her face only a couple of inches away from a now, fully naked Vaira butt that is firmly pressed against the see-through wall… Might be a bit distracting
If Krona is (straight) no sexual distraction. :)
Didn’t say it had to be sexual distraction. I’m straight, but I know if some dude unexpectedly had their naked butt inched from my face, I’d instinctively cringe and turn away, hoping said image didn’t become a permanent memory.
Everyone remembers the scene on the Death Star (where the Troopers had orders to not kill the rebels) but no one remembers the Jawa Crawler scene where Old Ben tells Luke that only Troopers are so precise in their shooting
Sure, they were shooting at the 2-ft tall Jawas, and “precisely” shot the $h!t outta the 30-ft tall crawler!
My favorite interpretation of that statement is that Ben is trolling Luke, knowing that the payoff will happen years later and most likely not in his presence.
Yes, and they shot all of the Jawas
They were pretending (badly) to be Tusken Raiders, that’s why they ‘precisely’ shot up the crawler
honestly looks like stormtrooper aiming here even managed to hit his own teammate. between the frame with after the shots and before you can see marks on volcano man’s armor. sure Varia has the same dent in her hand, but volcano man has two dents. he got shot more
@DaveB No clue if you’re going to see this, but I thought you might like to know your standard http:// link is down. The secure side is still working, obviously, but without the ‘S’ I’m getting a 404 redirect.
It was probably DNS.
Even the link from Top Comics wouldn’t work
I think it’s only Edge users having the issue. Hopefully the servers somewhere will figure out to forward http requests to https.
Nope, happening on Chrome too. The `www` subdomain is redirected on http but just the root domain isn’t.
Haven’t switched to Edge yet, thought it was because hadn’t
Anyone else think Varia looks really Max-y in the bottom row?
I’ve been thinking about the fire suppression system.
In theory, if your willing to take more collateral damage, AND if the building was reinforced in it’s design from the ground up, you could get away with a late fire system. Assuming that the system itself was massive overkill. If it requires higher then standard temprature to fire, or regular fire tempratures for a longer period of time, then the responce has to be massive overkill that’s prepared to take it out.
In short, I’m expecting the sprinklers to be rather insane levels of overkill.
To be fair to the soldier, some of the wider shots might be richochets off of Varia’s bulletproof hide.
Your fire suppression system images are inaccurate, and there is actually a good real-life reason why they might only be activating just now, when she is on fire directly under one:
1. The little vertical red plastic piece you drew is supposed to melt at a specific temperature and that allows the water to come out. It is still there, so the sprinkler should not be spraying. A delayed reaction with intermittent heat can be typical, maybe it didn’t quite get hot enough to melt the first few times.
2. The sprinkler water should spray down only until it hits that little metal star thing below the red plastic which redirects a lot of it out sideways; spreading it over a wider area.
3. The sprinkler water in these things is always super duper gross, it has been stagnant for like years and is brown, full of rust and debris.
These systems work locally, without any power, and usually are fed by a water tank on the roof so they work by gravity even if water mains are out. The “activated by melty plastic” works to ensure that water only goes where there is actually fire/heat, to avoid wasting it on areas that are fine.
It depends on the municipality, there are parts of the country where water tanks are pretty rare, it depends on how reliable local water supply is, vs. the size of the building. In most major cities down here in texas at least, it’s more common to just use municipal water, possibly with a firepump if the volume of water availible is fine, but the pressure needs a boost which is usually the case, unless the site is HUGE, or extremely high risk and is expected to pop a bunch of heads all at once. Also, the bulbs are more akin to class, though they aren’t glass, they are called Quartzoid bulbs, or under certain circumstances, they will use fusable links, a pair of metal tabs soldered together with solder that melts at a specific tempurature, releasing the water. Given the sheer amount of delicate and/or damagable substances, information, technology, etc, it’s probably either a Pre-action system, which keeps the lines charged with Air, and don’t release the water unless they are triggered by a drop in air pressure as well as an electronic fire alarm, either a smoke or a heat detector (which would definitely delay release) to allow time to stop false alarms, or a clean-agent extinguishign system, like Halon, Novec or FM-200 that use refrigerent gasses that inhibit combustion rather than dumping water. Downside to that option, a single ‘bottle’ that would cover like ONE floor of ARC’s building would run like… 20K$, and need regular rather expensive maintinence. BUT, they could outfit the entire system like it’s a giant data center, it’d be REALLY effective, if stupid expensive.
Sure, there are other types of fire suppression systems, and it isn’t unreasonable for the building to have those too.
But the little metal fixture as drawn in this page has ~none of that sophistication and should be drawn accurately :)
(Though, if I was engineering a building as a stronghold in a place where there are humans that can literally turn into electricity and/or produce EMPs, I would make sure to have passive fire protection everywhere that does not rely on computer control systems, because those might well get fried immediately)