Grrl Power #1070 – 8-ball in the zygomatic
That guy she put the beat down on will probably still claim he got to second base with her.
“Well, then she took off her bra…”
“Yeah?”
“And then her bra… uh, touched my face…”
“That’s not really second base.”
“It still counts!”
Harem’s combat comms might lack a certain level of professionalism and/or urgency, but as far as anyone knows, she is an unbreakable relay. If one of her of off base, there’s no way to shut down Archon coms. Well, short of blacking out a whole city. Even if you knock out the power for a dozen blocks, she’s a teleporter, so she can pop down the street in like 12 seconds and find a working cell tower, so you’d have to take down hundreds of square miles to really slow her down.
And if you’re planning on knocking out the off-base Harem, then she instantly knows she’s been attacked. I almost wrote “the rest of her knows she’s been attacked,” but that reinforces the idea that she’s multiple people. There’s one of her, but it’s confusing because she can do 5 things at once, seemingly totally independently. At least until things (AKA stimulus) get too intense.
So seriously, of all the people at Arc-SWAT, the one I’d least want to fight is Harem. I mean if I was a Spider-Man level villain. Sure, it’d suck to get crushed by someone like Math, but at least you’d be like “That guy is an amazing fighter and I don’t feel bad getting beaten by him.” But against Harem, she can teleport, so it’d be like fighting Nightcrawler, but there’s 5 of her, so it’d be like fighting 5 Nightcrawlers, who are all perfectly coordinated. Wiff a punch through some empty space she used to occupy and suddenly you’re getting kicked in the back of the head and the knees and as you’re spinning one of her TP’s above you for a double foot stomp on your hips and it’s not like she can’t go and grab some pepper spray or brass knuckles while three of her kick the shit out of you.
The only disadvantage she has in a fight is that if you do manage to connect, then there’s a decent chance that all of her will go reeling, but there’s really nothing preventing her from TPing 20 feet away while she recovers to prevent you from capitalizing on any possible advantage. Even worse, if you manage to knock one of her out by rattling the brains in one of her skulls… she’s still conscious, so she can de-teleport that body and you can’t use it as a hostage.
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That smile in panel 3 says “I am going to have SO. MUCH. FUN. with this”
Yeah, I figured out what she was up to on the second panel: Bra + pool table = weapon.
Interesting that Harem thinks that these are the same guys. After all, Cora did PUREE the guy in charge of that group.
We all knew the one that Cora turned into lasagna could not be all of them. Henchmen are like cockroaches sometimes.
They probably wanted revenge and instead got… this…
Whoever the evil mastermind behind lasagna man and his idiot goons was, they might want to rethink some stuff.
FAST!
Sydney and Cora also went to the docks and took out a bunch of mooks, no doubt the entire team reviewed the after-action and police reports from that encounter off screen. It’s one of only a couple organizations/individuals Archon knows is targeting them, so I’d be disappointed if Harem didn’t recognize the outfits.
You, a lot of comics skip over after action reports and debriefings because they are really not fun or funny in most cases. I have been in couple that were, but they were the noted exceptions.
The stripper who got shot by the tactical team when she popped out of the cake was one for the record books. It was an exercise, and the one organizing it went WAY beyond the extra mile. No live rounds, just blanks, but still… You could see the looks on their faces even through their balaclavas after she popped out of that thing with a dildo in her hand and ‘everyone’ blasted her except me because I had my hands full of medical gear. I don’t know HOW much Fred paid her for that gig, but whatever she got wasn’t enough. She was cool about it, saying ‘I got what I deserved surprising you guys’, but she was shaken up by it. Who wouldn’t be? That was 2000 and the LAST time that team had ‘undisclosed expenditures’ in training.
Hilarious in hindsight, but it could have gone SO wrong. The comments in debriefing stick to me to this day.
The two not in swat gear are wearing the same type of outfits as the hooded guys.
I figure Lasagna Boy was just a low level officer/manager in the evil org chart. Ambitious enough to volunteer to lead a mission but no one is going to miss him when he gets pureed.
Now that Archon’s forces are divided and occupied, I’m wondering if there is a third prong to this attack.
The clever thing about that bra bolo trick is that if the guy fails his saving throw, he just stands there while you wind up to hit him with it.
But, speaking of communications, why exactly wasn’t one of the Harems on the trip with them? You’ve got this unblockable, unhackable com channel, and she’s got to call Max on the cell phone?
Yeah, I would think Harem would automatically be included on just about any and every mission, both for that reason, and because her ability to be in multiple places at once means there’s little opportunity cost for her to go, versus staying or doing something else.
There is the fact that Archon knows that she’s playing at being a double agent. With Deux. Trusting a super to be your super secure comms channel involves well, actually trusting the super. Likely one of several reasons why she’s a part of Arc-Swat instead of Arc-Light.
Or at least that she’s “dating” him. I’m not sure that they’ve caught her giving him info. But that she’s fraternizing with their vendor’s a sufficient reason to not trust her for the mission.
Isn’t she actually a triple agent? I vaguely remember something like that.
Archon knows she’s giving info to Deus, Deus and Vale suspect she’s a triple agent for Archon, but Archon don’t know if she’s actually a quadruple agent for Deus.
Basically, after several iterations neither side can really trust her because they don’t know where it bottoms out.
Deus suspects her for being a triple agent, we dont really fucking know she could be one or she could be working for someone else, she could be a cuadruple or a quintuple agent or something like that we dont really know
I think she’s a quintuple agent by definition. :D
Hard to shut down a double+ agent though, the info they can provide is super valuable so it’s often worth the risk and effort of mitigating what internal data you expose them too and what false flags you plant. While knowing the other side may be doing the exact same thing. o_0
Because you only need the absence of signal. Archon should already be tied into the NRO satellite monitoring network. So once the ping is down (by all connections) to the base , every commander in Archon’s chain of command should be getting a notification. And the converse is that you would be traveling with a portable groundstation to relay all their personal comm devices into the secure Archon network. It’s not like you want a super being tracked by a local cell tower when they check in.
Honestly she should have been. I didn’t think about it when I started the Galytn arc.
I figured she’d been deliberately excluded because Max found her hanging out with Deus while wearing a T-shirt that suggested she was very open to an intimate relationship with him. It’s not quite the same as if Max had caught her giving Deus Archon intel or having an intimate relationship with him, but that combined with the attitude Harem expressed at the time seemed like sufficient grounds to not include her on missions to Galytn.
Nah… Max knows about the relationship already.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-603-schtooping-with-the-frenemy/
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-837-wheel-of-girlfriend/
Plus Harem is apparently a triple agent and Max knows that too.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-604-rooftop-relationship-roundup/
Oh and Deus figured that out already as well.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-130-singularly-skilled-double-agent-quint/
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-131-queue-maniacal-laughter-and-lightning/
Retroactive reasoning suggestion: Harem, being a teleported that has an easier time going places she’s been before, was a larger security risk for policy makers due to a harder time auditing whether she’s entered a foreign country as a member of the military who treaties regarding Supers apply to.
Harem can (and did) wind up her strike out of sight of the future unconcsious target and teleport next to him at the last fraction of a second. While another her keeps him occupied and distracted.
Hard to defend against that if you do not have superspeed reflexes like Maxima has.
The Harem variant of Rincewind’s “half a brick in a sock”.
Thiugh in fairness, Rincewind only used that when his usual running away would doom all of existence, while Harem seems like she will use this every chance she gets.
With great knockers comes great power.
Hiro is shirtless again. The comfort of status quo is restored. Everything will be fine now.
It’s not the status quo. He is also pantsless as well!
Even a conservative can embrace some change.
Technically, he’s not
Um… he most certainly is pantsless. Both technically and literally.
He’s wearing underwear and nothing else. No pants. No shirt.
He is shirtless and he is pantsless.
It’s a well known scientific fact that the boobs on supers are not affected by gravity.
The most common superpower of super women
It’s not clear to me why she even wears a bra, then…
Several Reasons:
– Fashion
– She has a bola handy
– D. can take it off
– […]
Because of the heat-thermometers (indicating a different kind of ‘heat’), plus, friction isn’t always pleasant in the right place(s) at the wrong time
There’s a reason even flat-chested long-distance runners have been known to use tape in strategic positions on their chests, and that reason is chafing.
To use as a improvised weapon obviously.
I married a large-breasted woman while nice to watch a bra-less woman is still subjected to jiggle and flop when moving and walking etc and it does tend to hurt after while… Yes she’s complained often about it ;)
The greatest achievement of the Architects of the Superion.
Interesting choice of weapon, when she can teleport and presumably grab a better weapon in less time than it took to remove her bra.
Also very interesting that she can teleport her own unconscious bodies. I guess she’d kind of have to be able to do so, because her de-teleported bodies are in some kind of stasis, and presumably not conscious… But it’s still interesting that she can de-teleport a body she can’t actually control the motor functions of, or is no longer aware of the location it inhabits.
She was doing other things while taking off her bra. Being Harem means being in multiple places at the same time.
Harem is still 19-21 years old and known to be immature.
Getting another weapon is logical, but less fun
I think it’s more the joke that there she is furiously fighting a guy while calmly taking off her bra in a bored manner
3 of her was in panel 3 and 4 it looks like a 4th was on the town so her 5th was either sleeping or heading to the armory. She really is very dangerous in a fight if you think about it. Even a fresh bar of soap in a sock can knock someone out if done right! Besides swinging her arm while bra-less would be a huge distraction LOL.
Anyone else reading the description and being really glad that is what happened in the second to last panel? My first impression seeing the guy on hands and knees was of her attacking the other end with that wind up.. *crosses legs in phantom pained sympathy*
She already did that with the ‘Taint Punt’ in the panel before that
Harem looks a little different.
She’s had the time and money to have a little cosmetic work done to all the bodies she has work done to. As I recall she keeps one body “stock” without work so she can remember which one was her original body.
IIRC Dave saying that she can’t honestly remember which is the “Original” anymore. And it doesn’t really matter in the long run anyway.
I had thought the blonde was the original, but DaveB mentioned a while ago that Strawberry is the original in the comic via a chart describing Harem’s power.
Dave’s mentioned she modifies her look on occasion.
Artistic-drift
The three we good a good look at is Blondini (the one with the 8-ball bolo), Bodie (the one talking to Hiro) and Berry (the one sending the message to Maxi)
Sydney once called out Dabbler about that and Dabs replied “if you could change your look anytime you wanted wouldn’t you?” Besides I for one wouldn’t mind at all I once dated twins which was a huge mistake… they do talk to each other ya know? LOL
Really interesting both that comments show up in the RSS feed before they render on the page… and also that comments can disappear between page refreshes. I saw one comment, I posted a comment of my own, I saw a bunch of other comments, responded to one, and now only see a single comment again. I don’t think she can take take much more of this, captain!
When that guy wakes, he’ll be glad that her momentum isn’t increased by her porting horizontally.
Though we know from an earlier comic that she can port herself upside down to bleed off or increase vertical kinetic energy.
I think you mean diagonally. Like in Jumper, one of them increased his speed by going diagonally 6 or 7 times like right before he hit the floor he poofed.
That would be vertically. Up and down. Not side to side, nor back in time.
Harem was talking to Sidney about the fact she could land a powerful drop-kick by teleporting up high, gain momentum, then ‘porting back to her target vertically to use that momentum to land that kick. Same thing she’s doing in panel 4.
Does harem’s power increase by one person’s worth of mass every few years?
Back when they were investigating Sciona’s chocolate factory, Harem mentioned she was cumulatively around 50 years old. The bars for for her dupes showed that they came quicker over time, so Harem #6 should take less time to develop than #5 did. Presumably because the more bodies Harem has, the faster she can spawn the next one.
Unless there is some hard limit to how many Harems are running around.
Actually, by that graph, Harem #6 is overdue. I figured it was probably out already, but she’d opted to not tell Archon about it for improved ability to multi-agent. I mean, if Archon knows where all 5 of Harem is at a particular moment, she could still be multi-agenting them if she has more of her than they know about.
And now I’m thinking that the Original Daphne is bedridden and 500 lb or something and living vicariously through Harems 2-6, who are the ones that we’ve seen.
We haven’t had a ‘tragic’ backstory character yet, right?
She’s deteleported at least 2 copies at a time without the remaining copies changing appearance, so she seems to gain strength but not mass. Although I guess the original could be paralyzed, does seem like she’d have had some dramatic accident by now given her 50+ years and chaotic lifestyle.
We kinda did, when her teenage self ‘logged out’ of ‘VR’ at a party, and her friends went mad trying to ‘log out’ as well.
Or she keeps one in reserve to make herself 18% stronger.
If I were her I’d have one copy living a totally inconspicuous, untraceable life off somewhere safe. As insurance. And nobody but nobody would know about that copy, except me.
I’m sure it was mentioned that one not out doesn’t age. I’d keep the original (presumably the one that gets copied) in storage to extend my life. Hopefully copy’s that dies of old age can be replaced.
I think the bars for Harem’s dupes show that they come slower over time, not quicker. Or at least, they did once her powers kicked in at age 8. Here’s how I read the bars:
Harem #1: At birth
Harem #2: About age 8
Harem #3: About age 9 (one year later)
Harem #4: About age 11 (two years later)
Harem #5: About age 14 (three years later)
If the pattern continues, we’d expect Harem #6 around age 18, and Harem #7 around age 23. So you might be right about her having a hidden dupe.
OTOH, the graph doesn’t have very good granularity, so these numbers might be a bit off. And it’s also possible that she only produced dupes while her body was physically growing to adulthood, in which case she’ll never get a Harem #6.
Could also be a modified fibonacci sequence;
(1), 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, …
Would mean that while she never stops developing, she doesn’t become some sort of infinite hive army for a *very* long time.
Its proportional to her power so as she at 5 people worth of power it will take her six years to get 6 people worth of power.
5 on 1. Ouch.
Technically, it’s only 4 on 1
Point.
Still…
How is ‘The People’s Elbow’ on someone who is NOT a professional wrestler not an ‘ouch’?
It’s an actual attack that was adopted by pro wrestlers and made to look more dramatic by jumping in the air it’s a variation of the arm bar where instead of pinning your opponent you’re cracking them across the face while jumping at them not over them.
Having received such things in a full contact training ring, I can totally attest to ‘ouch’ when I get slammed across the face, helmet or no.
Pools balls in a sock are scary. In a bra? Well, the weapon won’t as last as long as a sock would, being flimsier in most cases, but still; THAT is gonna leave a mark.
And you can see from the looks on several of her face, she is REALLY enjoying herself. Her victim? Not so much.
I experienced it during my martial art training my sensi was trying to teach me how to avoid that attack… yeah big ouch! He never pulled his punches during training once he knew you could take it. He wasn’t a very tall man but wow… he could he take a 6 foot plus guy and knock him around like a punch dummy!
Actually, I’m confused. When did these guys almost get Sydney?
The Alien Tourists in Manhatan episodes.
Back during the alien tourism thing when they were trying to kidnap maxima. Sydney was getting some piece of tech off of street level and concrete nearly will concrete to capture Sydney and nearly turned her over to them but Sydney out of being trapped like that
During the alien tourist invasion, Sydney went to hide some alien tech and got ambushed.
I was wondering the same thing, I don’t recall these guys in the many + years I’ve been reading the comic.
It’s been speculated in the comments, and now confirmed on page (maybe?) that these people work with the same people introduced here on page #904.
grrl-power-912-maximum-trauma
The mincemeat page.
During the alien tourists visiting New York arc (December 2020 and January 2021) Sydney was briefly kidnapped. She was rescued by Cora and an unwinder round (and maximum trauma)
They had her stuck to a chair, Concretia was being forced to work for them, Cora turned the guy about to kill Sidney into abstract wall art with an unwinder shell.
And this is a reason bad guy organizations should not wear the same uniforms from previous encounters. Easier to identify :)
Also I would think some guys might pay good money for what Harem is doing.
Well, it depends where she hit him. And I am takling a about a severe concussion with subsequent brain damage, not the other thing.
No question about where…One ball is black and the other blue.
*nod* It was a nice touch, that.
Knock knock joke as well.
Define ‘bad guy’
Do you know how much equipment costs? And you expect them to change their uniform every time?
Go the extra mile and put your minions in active opticam wear, it’s a stylistic statement unique every time.
“Define ‘bad guy’”
Opposite of good guy. :)
“Do you know how much equipment costs?”
Less than a swan-shaped yacht. :)
“And you expect them to change their uniform every time?”
Yes. Or just not wear the same colored cowls each time they’re fighting the same opposition.
Is that why every official military since the 70’s has worn the same uniform except for a tiny flag on the shoulder?
Probably because armies have standardized uniforms, and the current style that most major armies use is very efficient?
Although if you look at the uniform from Vatican City, it’s quite different than, say, a Russian or American uniform. :)
It’s a moot point though. This isnt an army. It’s a private organization. IF they all looked like he foot soldiers, Harem would not have known they are the same people who attacked Sydney. It’s only because a couple of them are wearing red hoods that she was able to figure that out.
Umms, isn’t the Vatican City uniform ceremonial based on a really old Swiss uniform?
American uniform, Russian uniform, all made in China.
My point being, in an army, you WANT all the soldiers to be identifiable as soldiers from a particularside.
Not so with a supervillain organization, especially if you want to sow confusion in the opposition.
Isn’t infamy is the main point of being a supervillain? If you want actual power, you run a bank or some other business.
That’s work for mere villains.
that’s too realistic. they need to develop voice controlled robots using vacuum tubes that can run for 3 or 4 days on a power cell that weights slightly more than 5 standard whoppers from burger king. (never realizing that with this kind of tech you can OWN china.)
In the commentary, you just answered a question that sprang to mind: does a Harem body need to be conscious by itself to teleport? Answer: no, as long as Harem herself is conscious (i.e. any body) she can teleport an unconscious body.
Man, she’d have SO many science corners!
Yeah, fighting teleporters is really f**king annoying… and combined with Harem’s multiple bodies, even more so.
Not the tag team most guys dream of when they’re confronted by Harem. Nice improvised weapon use though – billiard balls to the skull hurt like hell but the only time I ever saw it done used a sock.
Course if she’s pitted against a human tank and/or close-combat expert. she may have to rethink her death-by-1000-blows technique. Math or Hiro would not be easy fights for her.
Maybe, but they still have to be able to hit or hold her (that dude from the Wolverine: Origins got Sabertoothed because his moves were too predictable, specially by someone who wanted him dead)
You’re forgetting Math’s weakness. I’m sure even with the additional training regimen Max assigned to him, Harem could still find a way to exploit that.
Hiro, Stalwart, or Achilles would all be pretty rough fights for Harem, however. And then there’s Anvil. I’m not sure what Harem could even do versus Anvil.
Bra-ve of Harem to use usch a ball-sy strategy.
I had to go to Patreon to be able to make out what was getting dropped in the bra, but after careful examination it’s the 2 and 8 balls from the pool table.
On the occasions when pool balls happen to stop rolling where you can’t see their numbers from your position, each one has a unique solid or stripe color. The two-ball is always blue, the black one is always the 8-ball. This may save you a trip to Patreon?
Let’s face it. Not the first time Harem has has some balls in her bra….
I guess that answers the question from #68:
Harem doesn’t always match her Panties with her hair!
“The People’s Elbow”!
Classic.
I call foul! Her undies arent maching her hair! (just kidding ofc).
Let’s hope Max checks her voice mail and try to make sense of Harem’s message…!
One of the best powers I’ve ever seen is from the Evil Genius books. The character Norma is average at everything. Average cook, average marksman, average sniper, average brain surgeon, average starfighter pilot, average warp drive engineer (some of those options she hasn’t explored yet). One of the subplots is the MC trying to get her to see herself as better than average (in the hope that her self-view determines her level of competency). I’m not caught up on the series currently but it’d be interesting to see her exceed expectations as “Normal” Norma.
Five Nightcrawlers who can decide to be one Nightcrawler with super strength if the situation really warrants it. Which, yeah, worse.
This does bring up an interesting point, is a bra a double barreled sling?
(deep chuckle)Let me show you its features!
According to Elly Mae Clampett it is ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoYrsDfgeqc
I see your slingshot and raise you a Titzling
https://youtu.be/xqxWhBZXF8Q
What happens if a speedster with a sword gets the drop on Harem and decapitates one of her bodies?
Unclear since such a thing has never happened, but presumably she’d despawn the mortally wounded body within a few seconds, before hypoxic brain damage had a chance to properly get started, and not bring it back until she’d secured access to medical tech that could confidently fix the problem. Dabbler might be able to come up with something, or Sydney could take her to a hospital on Fracture Station, or one of those artifacts in Deus’s collection could do the trick – and she’s got the option of either making a deal with him or just waltzing in and stealing it.
To quote Harem herself on the matter, “I’d only know that if [it had happened] and I don’t plan on finding out for a long time!”
Going to drop this here because it looks like no one else has brought this up yet: using the term Eskimo Brothers/Sisters(/Siblings?) is generally considered as a bit insulting by Inuit peoples. First, the name Eskimo roughly translates as “Rotten Blubber Eater”, which is rather uncharitable. Second, while some Inuit communities/societies were more chill about extramarital sex, the concept of it being ritualized and standardized was an invention of very flawed early anthropology studies. Having a term for quantifying your personal six degrees of boning Kevin Bacon is extremely useful, but we might need to come up with a different word for it.
You come with an alternative, and we will start using it (maybe)
In Polyam circles the term is: Metamour – The partner of my partner (who isn’t my partner).
There – now you have the term and you can (maybe) start using it.
Thank you
The friends of the Metamors’ are Metsamors.
Yeah, that mook is starting to question his life choices :P
Hee!
So…..She’s like multiple Nightcrawlers with the strength of a seasoned fighter and move set of a professional wrestler and street fighter, but with the drawback of being like the Crimson Guard Twins, Tomax and Xamot. You hit one…they ALL go reeling.
I like it….story-wise, that is.
Wait, does this mean Daphne is hitting on Maxi?
And her eyes, is that how they look when she’s actively quantum-ing with herselves?
If you look closerer (no, not at Blondini’s panties) you can tell that they started their attack on Harem before Heatwave blew up the doors
Wait, Harem is working for Deus on the sly as a spy and she HASN’T been to his HQ in Africa yet and so she has to use a phone to inform Max instead of in person??
According to Dave’s post above, apparently. It seems more reasonable to me that Max told her to not come along since Harem’s apparently dating Deus and that’s a conflict of interest she didn’t want on their trip.
At the very beginning of the comic, we say Harem call him “Mr D” while briefing him on Halo’s interview with the team, and he asked her to just call him Deus. Later we saw a flashback of Harem’s copies struggling to stay unnoticed during sexy times with him, although it’s not clear if that happened prior to the start of the comic or shortly after.
But either way, it seems like a pretty recent relationship (Archon is only a few months old anyhow) so it makes sense that she wouldn’t have been out of the country with him yet regardless of his trust / fondness for her.
Dave mentioned above in the replies that he actually just totally forgot about her being present as a form of instant communications.
Also, Harem’s max range is only a hundred miles or so to a place she is intimately familiar with (like, the farm she grew up on). She can’t cross an ocean or the country instantly, although potentially she could blip across it in stages if she knows the places in between.
Seriously, there was a whole comic on her powers. You might need to re-read it.
If one of her got de-capped, as long as she deblipped it first, at least she’d get the strength buff on all her selves out of it.
She could jump up to high altitude and repeatedly jump in the direction she wants until she gets close enough to her destination. It might take a couple of hours to get to Africa that way, though
Quite possibly. It has been mentioned that she teleports most easily to places that she has been before. By that guideline at least one of her bodies would need to have traveled to Africa previously. Maybe she just hasn’t had the time.
Additionally , many large organizations have a call list for when the stuff hits the fan.
“Well let’s just say she hit me violently in the face with the contents of her bra repeatedly. Talk about sending mixed messages.”
Of course, what would make Harem an even worse enemy to fight is that once she deteleports one of her, the rest become even stronger…
It’d be like fighting a video game final boss, every time you reach a battle milestone they evolve to a stronger form.
Here is a random question and I can’t remember if this was addressed anywhere else… Other than “despawning”, can Harem teleport OUT of her clothes? Like. How much of a conscious ability is it? She can’t teleport other people (I think?), but since she does takes her clothes/gear with her, then she’s able to take some foreign matter with her at least. Can she choose not to?
Follow up question, if this is the case, could she choose to Teleport out of restraints, like non-consensual handcuffs and rope?
Her limit is weight-based so yeah tieing her up is a waste of time but for someone who doesn’t know that yeah… I believe she could teleport out of her clothes but what’s the point? It’s more fun to strip if you’re about to have some fun! (“Hunny I’m home!” VOORP “Hey hansom…” you hear her clothes fall to the floor in the kitchen…) might be fun at first but think about it, her name is Harem…. got Viagra?
She told the QM she was taking off her boots instead of just leaving them, in the middle of helping outfit the team for an active battle, so it seems like she probably has to undress manually.
She may only have the option for all or nothing and besides she did tell Sidney and Max she rode elevators for the sake of the mundane anyway. After all the time I spent waiting on my wife to finish trying on clothes at the store I WISH there was a faster way LOL.
True, it could be all or nothing. I’d really, really hope she wasn’t screwing around during the restaurant battle while her teammates were being shot at, but she’s doing that now so my hopes aren’t all that high.
Your popup for Who’s Who for Harem / Daphine has an error in it. “Can Teleport without destroying the original making up to 5 copies.” That says that 1 original and 5 copies = 6 total bodies but in the Cast description you say “Up to 5 total bodies”. I think your Cast page and Who’s Who need a full scale examination and update. I will happily skip 4 or 5 updates for that to happen, or say 10 updates with extended delays between releases. The Who’s Who and Cast are as much part of the story as what is happening right now. But as always, your comic, your choice.
Given the graph shown of Harem’s capability to have multiple bodies, I’d guess that the Who’s Who is more up to date than the Cast description, and the divide between the two is deliberate ambiguity to not spill the beans more openly until Dave can make it into a plot point.
up to 5 copies includes the original as a copy, although it’s a technical inclusion.
when you make copies of a form in a photocopier, the original is called ‘the original copy’ to denote that it has been copied.
Unfortunately I subscribe to real English and not personal interpretations. As such copy does NOT include an original in a count in any definition by a reputable source that I am aware of. Feel free to quote a source I am unaware of that specifically states and original is counted as a copy when counting copies. Such as defined by a dictionary that is not subject to slang or lazy English or god forbid a pathetic mess of letters that someone is supposed to guess in the form of an acronym. https://www.merriam-webster.com/ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/ https://www.britannica.com/dictionary
Real English? I hate to break it to you, but there is no global authority on English, and you subscribe to a personal interpretation.
I suggest you ponder the phrase “hard copy”, look at definition 4 on Merriam-Webster, the various noun definitions on Cambridge, and definitions 2 and 3 on Britannica.
We could get all pedantic about “copies” vs “duplicates” vs “instances”, but practically speaking it depends on context. Walk into a print shop with a paper document and ask for 5 copies, and they’ll make 5 new ones for a total of 6. Hand them a flash drive instead with identical verbiage, and they’ll only print 5 total instances of the file.
Given that Dave’s been pretty consistent about depicting 5 total bodies, shows 5 bars on the Harem timeline, etc, I think it’s pretty obvious he means a total of 5.