Grrl Power #1069 – They just replaced that window
I realize I’m doubling down on the “Digit is a maniac” joke here. I think the next time we see her it should be in the field, but given her general lack concern about “those wiggly things with the faces” that keep getting transected by her inventions, there would need to be some guidelines about what doodads she’d be allowed to take out with her.
To be fair to Digit, when she was out vigilante-ing, she generally favored more… uh, cartoony gadgets, like bolo launchers and glue goo guns and caltrops – though her idea of caltrops were little pointy drones that actively chased down people and stabbed their feet. She also had the impact resistant inflatable jumpsuit, good against punches and unplanned base jumps. Then there were the sproingy boots. Not great for jumping so much as they were for running a bit faster. She really only got into the “things that launch deadly barbed things” recently, and her boss has been trying to steer her away from that category and into something less dangerous, like unlicensed nuclear particle accelerators. Actually, they can probably get licences for that kind of stuff there.
Prinrin is a cameo character from Patreon, but even though this is her second appearance, she hasn’t really had a moment yet. It’ll come. As Spider-Man once said, “Everybody gets one.” Well, at least one. Once someone shows up in the comic they tend to appear as I need them. Hmm, I should revisit some of the cameos that made it into the early battle at the restaurant.
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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Digit, never change. Also I forgot that Prinprin was a thing, ALL HAIL THE GOBBO ENGINEER!!!
Driving a chain through a guy’s skull? No problem. Two people giving eachother pleasure? Physically? Oh no, call the cops. Morals are weird.
Okay, so first, no one has okayed the former, but those guys are invaders, and upstairs are shooting real bullets at random people, including unpowered ones. That would be no-billed anywhere on Earth except maybe New York City, and they’d make sure before they filed any charges that you were a Republican.
Second, what are you talking about with the latter? Have you READ this comic?
Wow, the hoops you had to jump through to find a way to be the victim here in a comment that obviously had nothing to do with you.
How do you know Dal (Dai? can’t tell on this screen) has shot anyone, DiamondMX? Much less in New York City, much less in recent history. Have you been doing research? The comment that started all this was Black Pete pointing out that horrible sorts of death are more socially acceptable than the biological procedures that randomly may generate offspring among groups with XX and XY chromosomes (but won’t (probably) generate them among XX and XX or XY and XY groups, but share several mechanical similarities including the need to expose certain body parts.)
in short, the incredible inconsistency of public morals, and your interlocutor was simply making a comment about how those morals do not apply to groups that happen to be in power among media, local, county, state, or national politics whereas they do when applied to other, equally arbitrary groups, using a known example.
IOW it would be just as political if he said ‘Black’ instead of ‘Republican’. Because depending on your locality, you could swap party affiliation, or race, or gender, and the comment is just as valid.
The Rules are NOT applied as equally as we would like to think they are. Welcome to humanity.
Welp, killing people in the US these days (even with harpoons [or dogs, or whatever]) IS perfectly acceptable to SOME politicians and former politicians as long as THEY get all the press.
*Shrug*
No biggie.
And um, she DID obey their order, by the way.
no splatter the harpoons stopped at the window just looked like they nailed the people.
No they nailed people. The goon on the right is stapled to the wall and his hands are loose at his sides. These Mooks might be the first actual fatalities shown in this event. The earlier shooting at Hiro was a taser. That’s why the lines are kind of squirrely and stick into the wood as opposed to going through the door.
There’s no indication of blood from either of the two to clearly indicate they’re dead. And the guy on the right might have just dropped his arms to his side in shock at *almost* getting his head ventilated *on accident*.
Unless these guys are robots, a harpoon through the head is pretty much guaranteed to be lethal.
Well, unless you are certain politicians. Then it would just bounce off because of how ‘special’ you are. Laws of physics do not apply any more than local, state and federal laws, right?
That one fire guy did try to barbecue Arianna six pages ago. So they’re not all using non-lethal stuff.
Don’t believe any of them are using non-lethal stuff
Unless you include Flashbang instead of a frag grenade, but that might be an attempt to avoid damaging hardware that may be a planned objective.
The one that got hit by Heatwave’s fireblast gave a Wilhelm scream (a literal one even ;)) That’s an indication of a fatality. I mean that is what the original scream was for and it has been used as such in every movie where they managed to snuck one in. (Which is now a point of pride for sound fx departments to use at least one Wilhelm scream in any action movie, an in-joke that the arm chair critics apparently have not caught up on).
The last time something that Didgit made like that punched through the very same glass and a can of soda that her supervisor was taking a drink from so yea they are very dead. You don’t see any blood yet because the spikes and their suits are containing it for that moment, sudden punctures don’t explode with blood until you pull it out. I know because I had a job as a glass cutting at a window factory and a 44 x 38 inch sheet of glass shattered and a foot long shard dagger into my calf… me like an idiot pulled it out I had to wrap my belt around the hole I bled like crazy then! I had a 2 foot puddle by time EMS showed up.
“no splatter the harpoons stopped at the window just looked like they nailed the people.” I really like that interpretation. Sooooo hopeful ( :
How about: The harpoons are just scratching their noses and they hold still because it feels so relaxing?
It’s funny how everyone is able to cast themselves as a persecuted majority. There’s always the feeling that everyone else gets away with things your own group can’t. People generalize from a few events, or even a single one, and derive universal rules, ignoring all the times those rules don’t hold. Both sides of a conflict can have equally valid (or invalid, as the case may be) feelings of persecution. In reality, a lot of unjust things happen to people at random, in addition to whatever actual bias or persecution may be occurring. But our response should always be to reduce harm, not seek to ensure that other people are harmed more than ourselves.
Yep, I know. Only the ‘right kind of people’ are allowed to act that way. No one else!
Whichever flavor of the week, month, year, whatever of ‘special’ people decide they are not beholden to rules, they are the ONLY ones allowed to break the rules and everyone ELSE must adhere to the rules COMPLETELY or be persecuted.
Myself? I really don’t care which political party/religion/other divisive topic someone belongs to as long as they LEAVE MY FAMILY ALONE! You want to yell, scream and carry on like a toddler denied his/her toy? Go for it. You try to hurt a member of my family and I will kill you or die trying. (And no, I won’t use a gun even though I AM American)
Most people struggle with the concept of the rule of law, that right and wrong depend on the action, rather than the actor or the target. For most people, the rules exist as a tool to get what they want, as a sword when they want to attack, and a shield when they’re under attack. They’re cards in a game, to be played for personal advantage, not principles to live by.
I think most people just want to be left alone… but they act out because they, like you, seem to feel threatened by everyone else. Most people would defend their family with lethal force. That you also would isn’t particularly interesting or useful information. So why do you feel the need to get worked up about it and insert it into unrelated conversations?
What are you talking about?
We should offer up some thoughts and prayers!
The author has featured both and with the same level of detail. Sydney’s Frisk adventure also featured a before and after image and not a description of the process.
Movie? My first thought was you got it from that one episode of Stargate SG-1.
The movie is Hellraiser, a rather old horror movie from 1987 but a rather good one in my opinion. It spawned a whole series of movies (some much better than others), and it had some of the most unique monsters.
Hellraiser
Actually, I was thinking Star Wars The Force Awakens when BB-8 is rolling and bouncing around chaotically in the Falcon before firing off several tether lines so it was suspended mid air.
I think that the episode you are thinking of is S2 E7, “Message in a Bottle,” where an Orb from P5C-353 impaled O’Neill in the left shoulder, pinning him to the gate room wall. The organisms from the orb consequently infected him and began eating him, his clothes and the base itself.
I was thinking she is working on applications of Infernal Spike/chain launcher derived gear that was somehow brought in by Arc Light somehow long before https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1015-shock-and-brimstone/ the time of Mozambique boarder issues demolished their tank forces and military morale.
Maybe something off camera dropped and later recovered from Thothogoth’s… reunion with Dabbler, or Maxima’s slam.
That was before https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-948-the-non-analog-insurance-hazard/
…I am now reminded of my Champions PC, a blonde and busty genius gadgeteer who also did weird things with technology to people. (She built an orbital mind control satellite! It orbited someone’s head.)
Ah, Digit. A character based on a cartoon mouse in “Rescue Rangers”, although compared to Digit, Gadget is a model of staid, conservative, SAFE engineering.
Naa safe engineering is a bit boring LOL I agree her thing about gas powered barbed spikes on chains are a bit much makes me feel sorry for any guy that tried to get serious with her and she tried to “spice up” their fun times!
I like Prinrin she’s cute and smart I’d love to work with her ;) no not like that! … well mostly not… LMBO
Now if she can make that thing spin after anchoring she can kill bridges like in Wolfenstein
Real question though. How does Digit have any hair? Is that technically her super power? To be immune to her own mad science?
Tripods only work if the surface isn’t moving. If the area is moving, then your base requires to be anchored in some way.
How are none of Digit’s limbs prosthetic? One of the chains just barely missed her own elbow. *I’ve* got more lab injuries than her, and I haven’t even made a single power tool.
I think she thought ahead so that it won’t shoot directly at anyone, but harpoons tend to go through walls and windows.
“Aww, maaan, I broke the window again…. Good time to test-“
*smashes though wall* WINDOWBOT ACTIVATED!
*carefully repairs window* WINDOWBOT JOB COMPLETE, RETURNING TO STATION
*smashes through another wall*
“Yesss! That worked perfectly!”
The wallbot smashes through the window TWICE repairing the walls.
This is deliberate on their part. They’re ensuring job security.
One of my university room mates was an Engineering-Physics major. I played D&D with him and a number of other E-P majors and I can confirm that the ditz is real. The girls were usual a bit more grounded but there was a definite tendency to reinvent the wheel with 47 optional features.
Well dang, this comment got disconnected from which ever thread relating to Digit’s ditzyness I was commenting on.
heh, I used to run an unlicensed nuclear accelerator. I was once watching Darkwing Duck, and the ‘bad guy’ broke the 4th wall and asked if anyone had one. I was working on it at the time and shouted “YES!!” Sorry for the OT, lots of memories triggered by one comic.
David Hahn the “Radioactive Boy Scout” aka “Jimmy Neutron” made one in Commerce Township, Michigan in 1995.
That was a reactor. (sort of)
there was that other guy, arrogant as he could be. allergic to citrus, made some good guesses in high school. and ended up a long way away. Not as long as the math prodigy did, but can’t have everything.
Dave might be interested about this comic. Do you know about it by now?
https://rippaverse.com/
I think it’s actually a series of comics in its own universe, like Marvel or DC or wildstorm or Basement or Splatto or IDW or Grrlpowerverse, etc. Isom is just the first character being presented for that comic universe, like superman for DC or Sydney for grrlpower. :)
Although it has made an insane amount of money very quickly.
You got that right, and I have placed an order. Hopefully it won’t get lost along the way like one recent order from Amazon over month ago (I’ll give it bit more time before contacting the seller)
It does look pretty good. :)
The Cast page needs an update for characters like Digit (and cameos like Prinrin). Unless there is an updated Cast listing hiding on Patreon that I missed.
Is Prinrin working on that suit of armor or fellatiating the guy in it? With Prinrin, could be either one.
No David Hahn jokes about unlicensed nuclear reactors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
I’m gettibg old.
More recent analogue would be Taylor Wilson, who built a version of Farnsworth’s fusor.
…and now I have the urge to rewatch an adorkable show that used his name for their communicator.
Nothing like a little Didgit to put everyone in jeopardy LOL Prinrin I’m sure is almost as bad but not to Didgit’s degree the term “in her own little world” just doesn’t cover it! LOL
Anyone notice that the background of Digit’s panels is M5, Jaime’s workshop frm Mythbusters?
Oh it absolutely is. Shame it’s out of focus though. For scenes from mythvusters where the boxes would be in frame they would often relable one or two with something silly or nonsequiter like have “gloves, hand” next to “gloves, other” or have “uranium, depleted” next to “uniforms”. It seems like the sort of background gag Dave would enjoy and it would be so easy to slip in. Oh well, maybe next time.
No jokes about David Hahn and unlicensed nuclear reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
I’m getting old
As an extremely ditzy engineer lady (I tend to self-describe as a chaos goblin), this page makes me feel seen. :)
Only one other comment questioning what Prinrin was doing with that robot (Armored suit? Alien cyborg?)?
I truly thought that panel #1 would get legs in this group.
Digit, sure knows how raise hell.
Plot twist: she just comes from a long line of whalers a couple generations back
Didn’t she just impale both her wrists?
> though her idea of caltrops were little pointy drones that actively chased down people and stabbed their feet.
Somebody made a little gadget that recognizes and targets feet then fires lego bricks to slide under them.
Prototype kaiju deterrent.
The mooks are so ineffectual that there doesn’t seem to be a point to them… Blue Team is doing more damage to their own base than they are… Like seriously, who trained these guys? Did they think supers were a joke? Did they just get off the time machine from a time period from before supers became a thing? They’re so ineffective it’d be more effective to just not have them.
Us mooks are but a distraction.
Illusions, mind-controlled, convinced to martyr ourselves by propoganda. . . we exist only to raise the body count.
I’m guessing Digit’s kill count is higher then anyone is willing to admit. Or that she can bother remembering.
I think Dave meant Bola launchers in the blurb under the page, not Bolo launchers. I mean, Digit is good, but even I don’t think she can make a portable Bolo launcher, unless she super-miniaturized them, and they probably cost a few hundred million each… at least! Lots of steel on them super-tanks…
Or maybe she’s collaborating with Harem on a shirt removal and replacement device, which uses bolo ammunition.
That… is so totally appropriate it demands a bow of approval. Well tied, sir!
While you’re probably right that he meant bola instead of bolo, there are a lot more common meanings to the word bolo than some fictional variety of tank — such as machete knives.
I think those guys are now very stable… annnnd dead.
Which is known to be a very stable condition…
Damn. Digit needs her own OSHA hazard signage after this.
I’m sure those mooks are lamenting the configuration of Digit’s device.
Theory!
So Digit’s got the “Standard Superhero Shape” going on (She’s an Exemplar, or she’s got the Most Common Superpower, or whatever. Take your pick). Hence, she has superpowers.
So my theory is that Digit is actually NOT SMART. She is exactly as dumb as she acts. The thing is, she has a superintelligence/gadgeteering superpower that lets her ‘smart’ a LOT more but only in very specific ways.
So she’s not actually a maniac, she just legitimately doesn’t realize that her stuff is dangerous, thinks that everyone’s overreacting, isn’t considering, well, anything long-term. And possibly even considers herself to be traditionally intelligent due to the supertinkering, which means that she might think that if SHE thinks something is okay and someone else doesn’t, that she shouldn’t listen to them because she’s CLEARLY smarter than they are.
It does seem like she’s managed to fit more chain in a very small box than is normally feasible. So you think it works because WAAAAAGH?
Never underestimate the power of WAAAAAAGH!!!!
and yes, Red Wunz do go Fastah.
An’ purple iz, uh, wuzzaword… Stealfy. Yeah, thazzit. Y’know how’s I know that? Ain’t cuz I’m a brainboy, nah. I’m just some git. Answer’s simple. Nobody’s ever seen a purple ork.
” Nobody’s ever seen a purple ork.” That, is not proof, that they do not exist.
Ya jus’ ain’t finkin’ orky enuff, ya grot!
;)
An’ Blue iz lucky!!
An’ Purple iz bof Blue an Red… so does dat mean purple orks are so fast and lucky, you just dun notice dem?
I keep feeling these particular bits of chat are referencing something, but don’t know what it is
Warhammer 4k
NOT Warcraft
I’m not 100% sure on the movie, but the background in panels four and five is M5 Industries’ Wall of Supplies. Guess Archon hired the Mythbusters to help set up their lab.
Which actually makes a great deal of sense.
Did that just… skewer those guys? Wow… Digit sounds like the Sparks in Girl Genius… very intelligent but lacking in common sense and reasoning ability.
Yeah, she straight-up removed those two from the census. Lefty would’ve had enough time to grab the chain and realize what happened before losing circulatory system pressure and consciousness, but Righty…? Righty would’ve had enough time to register the ballistic glass breaking, and not much else.
I kinda feel bad for Lefty. Like, a smidge. Probably didn’t expect a Bad End like that one clocking in at the goon factory. But I’m not broken up about it. They were storming a superhero base with the goal of deleting people, so…
“Lefty would’ve had enough time to grab the chain and realize” From what perspective?
His. The position of his elbows suggest he dropped his weapon and grabbed the chain on reflex, enough time hasn’t passed for his grip muscles to relax, and even with the catastrophic blood loss associated with egregious cardiac trauma there would still be enough oxygen left in his brain for him to realize “I should’ve called in sick today.”
Nah, looks like they are in the same stance as they were before impalement, maybe straightened up (for the first and last time in their life), Freezer is the one who dropped their weapon
I’m gonna guess Hellraiser. Also, I would usually gripe about how several hundred feet of chains are stuffed into a lightweight box the size of a brick, but I’m sure there’s some kind of spacial-folding-pocket-dimension-mass-displacement-doohickymabob involved.
several ways:
pocket dimension or sometimes called hammerspace (like cartoon character pulling giant hammer out of nowhere)
instant transmutation meaning device takes nearby molecules like air and converts them to chains and harpoons
portal or wormhole meaning chain and harpoons exist somewhere else and are summoned thru device
another option, tho doubt it in this case, is psychic or energy manifestations (like green lantern in dc comics)
could be they were shrunk (like atom from dc or antman from marvel) then enlarged when needed
i am sure there are other options but can’t think of any right now
i can see that device being useful to stabilize a building or such by first responders, or to keep vehicle teeterin on edge from tipping over while passengers being rescued, or keeping trees or light poles from falling, like after hurricane or storms.
i am curious how so much chain fits inside that small device. it must rely on some sort of hammerspace
Scorpion(a) wins: FATALITY
That was totally accidently on purpose, you can tell from the pixels. I should know.
I’m a forklift operator.
Pixel isn’t even on this page, she’s somewhere else, probably dreaming of a giant ball of yarn :P
Did… did she just kill those guys? With chain-harpoons? It seriously looks like one just went through one goon’s head!
Nah theyre just sleeping. Its ok. The harpoons were tippee with unisom.
Jup, just Luke Escornia and Sconia werd killed on screen
Even scaled down nothing messes with the big-O. I don’t want to think about the damage a small scale final stage cannon could do.