Grrl Power #110 – Superheroes are like Vegans…
This page was prompted by the idea that superheroes would probably be very excitable by the fact that they actually had powers. I mean if you could lift a car with your mind or could shoot green lightning from your eyes, it seems like it’s likely you’d find a way to work it into a conversation – assuming you didn’t live in some world where such talk would get you hunted or whatever. Peggy, being a highly skilled human thrust into a group of supers has obviously formed some opinions here.
If you think about it, this actually does happen all the time in super hero comics. How often does Wolverine remind people that he’s got unbreakable bones, or Rogue caution people not to touch her skin? Of course, that’s entirely an editorial decision for the benefit of new readers. I know the very first issue of X-men I ever read, Wolvie was trapsing around thinking to himself “good thing I have unbreakable bones and a healing factor” and I was up to speed. Long time readers are supposed to politely ignore these bits of dialog, but I think it’s funny to imagine that Rogue actually reminds everyone on her team not to touch her skin at least once a week. I’d love to see the issue where Wolverine finally snaps at her. “Bitch I’ve known you for 17 years! Do you think I have a concussion or something!? Stop telling me!” To be fair to Rogue though, every superhero gets concussed about 4 times an issue. They’d all have that boxer palsy by the time issue 60 rolled around.
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I see these two getting along, even though Sydney is being pretty, uh…Well, she’s being Sydney. XD
Aye. Better than teaming Syd up with Dabbler.
yea i vote for a rule that says dabbler and halo are NEVER allowed to be in a room together without supervision last thing we need is those too figuring out how to tandem there powers
that is until X unstoppable force comes along, and that’s the only way to stop it…
The way I see it, if you were to put Sydney & Dabbler alone together in the same room they’d quickly plan the total conquest of the planet! —- unless you were smart enough to leave EVE Online.
Peggy’s missing her fashionable scar in P2. Otherwise very nice.
Do you mean the nose scar in panel 3?
I am choosing to assume that its absence it is a zoom level vs fine detail thing like google maps.
Negative, P3 & P6 are the same distance.
well wolverine does have a concusion and amnesia
Unless they recently reinstated it, Wolverine’s lack of memories was fixed years ago.
yeah he still has all his memories back, and is named James Howlett
Seriously what was wrong with Logan? I mean go back to when Wolverine was first brought into the X-men comics, it was actually a secret/big deal what his real name was and the slow reveal that he was called “logan” and not just “The Wolverine”.
Giving him a punny last name, and such a pointless common place first name…seriously you can call him Jimmy now.
Wolverine can be called “Jimmy” to make it worse Blanka from Street Fighter was already revealed to have the first name Jimmy.
I was thinking about how supers always tell you what their superpowers were.
I’ve always thought that if I had a superpower I’d never tell anyone.
Instead I would use it and then disapear in the caos it caused.
I allways planned to call myself ‘concrete gril’ and then have powers that have nothing to do with concrete, walls, tanking, etc.. just to ,mess with my enemies. :D
However, I’m guessing your powers will have to do something with cooking a mean barbecue or kebab, won’t it? ;-)
LOL
If I had powers I would call my self neko girl or neko women. It would not even matter what powers I had.
I would be Poetic Justice, regardless of what super powers I had… Although I would kinda like the ability to take out an Escalade with one punch (and by extension anything smaller than an Escalade). Or the ability to ride my bicycle at 70 MPH up hills.
*is baffled by the idea of somehow punching out a ladder assault on the walls of a fortified position…*
YES! I’m not the only one who knows what a true Escalade is!! Who the hell thought it’d be a good idea to name a vehicle after a form of Siege assault anyway?
The same ones that pick sexy sounding foreign words and then misspell them so that they end up nonsense or meaning something very different.
*slow-moving semi-rotational black and white shot of a woman in lingerie*
Passion.
*zoom shot of her neck and shoulder*
Romance.
*back shot, because hey, why not*
Sensual.
*panned out shot, peering through hair curtain at camera*
Eau de Fromage.
*Macy’s logo*
Heh, reminds me of something stupid a shoe company did about ten too fifteen years back (been awhile), it was a case that has resulted in most companies at least looking up what a word means now before slapping it onto a product.
Reebok had named a woman’s tennis shoe (Incubus)
https://lubbockonline.com/news/022097/reebok.htm
And of course the Nova. And then they wondered why they wouldn’t sell in Mexico. =D
My husband wouldn’t take his fathers Nova through any left turns.
He and his family (before we married) called it the Chevy NoGo.
urgh – I get so tired of that old urban legend. In actuality, the Chevy Nova sold VERY well in Mexico (and there is STILL a chain of gas stations there named Nova – chew on that irony for a moment). As Snopes pointed out, the linguistics actually matter – just like Americans wouldn’t assume a furniture line named “Notable” doesn’t include tables in their line, Mexicans don’t make similar silly assumptions.
If your enemies have an IQ above 80 they should figure that out in the first few seconds of you going into action.
Reminds me of when Invincible met Spider-Man. “You have spider powers and you named yourself Spider-Man? That’s so obvious! It’d be like me calling myself Super-Man because I have superpowers!”
And then he meets the Avengers and tries to apply Spider-Man’s naming logic to all of them, too, assuming that was the convention in their universe.
Ah yes Marvel Team-up number 14, good issue, and the issue of Invincible which that story takes place during (Invincible #33) also includes him doing the same thing to Batman. I mean he doesn’t say Batman but the Bat is the only superhero who wears gloves like that.
Invincible says “So you wear a Bat-themed costume and you call yourself….” it was just one panel, but you can tell he is going for a similar line to what he said to Spider-Man.
Also Dave, most buildings don’t have a floor numbered 13, thus no number 13 button in the elevators. Most go from 12 to 14, but up in panel 1 you have a button showing 13 visible on the panel, and that just looks weird. Good page though.
I know it’s a convention brought on by superstition A.K.A. human stupidity but I won’t support it! I won’t!
And actually the building I work in has a floor 13. In fact I work on floor 13. I just assume that more modern buildings eschew that stupid convention, just like how they don’t have a trough of justice for testing witches or internal sensors for detecting if someone’s standing in front of a mirror repeating “Redrum” or “Beetlejuice”
Not to mention it’s a building full of superheroes, including one who may or may not be a genuine demon.
Interesting fact, 4 is unlucky in China. So when the build building they skip floors 4, 13(because of our influence), 14, 24, ect.
It is not just *our* superstitions. Its the worlds, hehehe
Yeah, with all the different cultures in the world and the bagage they’ve built up through out history, if we started excluding ALL the “bad numbers” there’s be none left.
Just to add to this, in Western Native cultures of the Americas the number 6 is considered bad luck, even drawing the number and doing it wrong can summon evil spirits.
Ahh. Which explains Sonny Sixkiller — although he wore #6 while with the Washington Huskies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Sixkiller
This also means that finding certain addresses in a Chinatown can get ….. interesting. To put it mildly.
There is the superstition about ‘4’, and also other numbers associated with wealth and prosperity. So, a lot of people have very specific ideas about what number their home / business “should” have, and to heck with whatever numbers their neighbours have,
Right you are.
We have 13th floors in Germany, by the way.
Just not very many. At least not where I live.
See I have never been in a building with a floor numbered 13 in my life, and that includes buildings built less than 10 years ago. But its all good, like I said, still a good page.
Neither have I….Then again, I’ve never been in a building that could be considered to HAVE 13 floors…
Some architects actually have thought up a way around this fear of 13. They use the “13th floor” as a service space. If all you’re looking at is the numbers on the elevator’s panel a tall building doesn’t have a 13th floor but if you’re a member of the maintaince staff it’s there.
In Daves defense, I have never been in a building that skipped the 13th floor. I rarely go into buildings that tall being in the Army, (most Army bases are located away from the big cities). But for over thirty years I have kept an eye out for this “Urban Legend” just to find even one example. Cities checked so far include Austin, Dallas, and Houston in TX; Portland, OR; Seattle WA; Atlanta, GA.
In addition to being highly skilled, Peggy has just shown herself to be very adept at reading people.
That’s her super power :p
It would help you put a .308 round in someones forehead at 1200 yd.
Why is Peggy reaching for her gun in the last pannel?
Well, it’s not very smart to rush in on a armed person who has done time in the sandbox.
Well, Sydney’s suddenly violating Peggy’s personal space, with a manic grin, grabbing something that obviously gives her superpowers, while they’re trapped in an elevator. Peggy is also a trained military gun-nut who works with people that can casually bench press cars. Damn right she should be reaching for that holster.
Also – Peggy mentions Tex-Mex offhand, wonder if she has substantial tolerance for spicy food too.
Tex-Mex isn’t that spicy when you compare it to Tai food. Of course since I live in Texas and eat Tex-Mex all the time my frame of refrence might be a little off from people who usualy eat bland food all the time.
Coincidentally, spiciness (of the variety caused by capsicum, discounting is likely a relatively recent addition to Thai food, considering that peppers are indigenous only to the Americas, especially south America. Just like dragonfruit being popular in china despite being native to south America, hot peppers in Thai food is a result of global trade.
Global trade in spices has been going on for three or four centuries, if not longer.
At what point do you consider a people doing something like eating realy spicy food as being a long time?
Well, Tex-Mex is usually about as non vegan friendly as you can find with their love of lard and cooking everything in chicken stock. There are certainly Hispanic themed restaurants that are vegetarian friendly, but those are usually more properly Mexican food and not Tex-Mex.
Cool mexican food fact: The burrito was invented in Calafornia, and the Chimichanga was invented in Arizona when somebody accidentaly droped a burrito in the deepfrier and shouted a spanish curse word that sounded close to chimichanga.
Since “Burrito” means “Little Burro”, It makes you wonder about the ingredients back when it was first invented…
Ancient chinese saying, “If it has four legs and its not the table then it is food”.
Bast: “You will NOT touch my Children!!”
Cat is supposed to taste awful anyways. Although bear meat is supposed to be very sweet and tasty.
Now try imagining someone trying to raise bears for food purposes.
from what I understand in East Asia cat and dog is viewed as a “redneck food” something you eat because you are starving, kind of like how we think of eating catfish heads and turtle eggs kind of deal.
Everyone has taboos, in America it is very difficult to buy rabbit meat, and pretty much impossible to get ahold of horse meat (even for feeding to large predators thanks to horse loving protestors). Zoos should not be buying beef and pork for their big-cats, horse and deer are much better for them and reflect their native diets much more closely in structure and nutrients.
That’s cause we don’t eat “companion” animals. Diff cultures have diff animals they consider companions. Plus, Col. Potter (MASH) said it best about not eating horses. “They’re beautiful. Look at a cow, they’re ugly! We’re doing them a favour eating them.” That bit cracked me up pretty fierce. Can’t recall where I first heard it, but another line I like is “Evolutionarily speaking, cows have been very successful by being tasty.”
(other posts prompt this. to lazy to make multiple posts)
Always wondered what PETA and crowd think we are supposed to do with all the domesticated animals if we are suddenly not allowed to use them. It’s not like people are going to waste their land and money feeding and taking care of their vet bills for nothing. Pretty much, they all would be killed off to end their being a financial drain. I know I wouldn’t bankrupt myself feeding and caring for animals I’d get no return from.
Well, en mass. Not like I get a return offa feeding birds and that wild cat that hangs out here. Those skunks that steal his food, tho?They can sod off. They ain’t cute newborns anymore and they eat like mad. Not like cows gonna suddenly stop needing to be milked daily to keep their udders from bursting after millennia of adaptation to it. Other kinda similar probs exist for other domesticated animals.
My family raises rabbits to sell and to eat. PETA shows up bitching I have a bow and a quiver of broadheads for ’em. ;)
Rabbits are just cuter rats. Just ask anyone who has has a garden raided by them. Or Australia where they became a plague.
Maybe if your rabbits looked more like this https://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120331042802/wowwiki/images/c/c5/PlumpVirmen.jpg people wouldn’t mind so much. Ran across them in the new Pandarian start zone in WOW. They’re nasty crop raiding sentients that have a belching gas attack.
…& while we’re at it, let’s recall Stallone in his film “Demolition Man”…
…biting into a “RatBurger”…
Chews, finds out he is eating a ratburger, keeps chewing in a thoughtful manner, then nods and has at least one more mouthful, saying “It’s good!”
Love that scene.
“I can honestly say this is the best burger I’ve had in years.” ;)
You mean tex-mex is not a made up place. I have never seen one.
Well if Texas and Mexico joined together they would become Texaco! The star and “T” are already in use by a small oil company.
…& now I’m dating myself by remembering those TV-commercials wherein a male chorus was heard singing:
“You can trust your car,
To the man who wears the Star –
The Big, Bright, Texaco Star!”
This is Sydnet we’re talking about. She can take *anyone* by surprise. In fact, she did it at least three times before already.
I thought it was more like a fending off gesture basically her arm coming up to fend off something unknown but probably not dangerous like an over affectionate person or pet.
Nope, she’s definitly going for her gun.
Just a reflex really, but Sydney has unwittingly trapped her gun arm against her. Math would not approve.
I don’t think Sydney could follow any of math’s advice, or even remember while doing something *INTERESTING*
Sydney has unwittingly trapped that gun arm against Peggy’s body. I wouldn’t put it past her to have at least a hold-out in a easily-accessible hip-pocket-type holster, for just this sort of occasion.
You realise she’s wearing that holster there because pilot?
Unrelatedly, I completely failed to get the last panel. But I’ll readily blame that on me.
I have the same reflex when someone enters my personal space suddenly, I lift my left arm as if it were holding a shield.
I used to joke about it being my “shield” arm. I think reflex wise the idea is putting something between you and the sudden intrusen and having that option to shove them with your whole arm if it comes to that.
She could also be doing weapon retention, people who are used to carrying holstered weapons often get trained in retention techniques so that when people are right up in their face they won’t have their weapon taken away..
lol, that was great. Loved the mocking and the build up, I like to think that we’ve seen enough of Sydney to know what’s in character for her, which I believe that was. I think it would be amusing if we got to see a distaff counterpart to the Arclight organization, in other words we were introduced to a similar organization that had a group of supers with the same powers, but they were all the opposite gender to the main cast, a lot of lamp shading and jokes could come from it.
This organization has it’s share of men. DaveB is just mainly concentrating on the female supers.
One of the many reasons for this is the name of the comic,
Plus, He is a hetrosexual man and enjoys drawing women.
I’m sorry, but what the hell are they talking about in that thing under the comic?
Diatary supplements?
Nutritional supplements for working out. Also irony.
Vegan stuff most likely. I myself am a confirmed omnivore so I don’t have to get proteins, vitamins and sundry minerals out of a bottle or a pill. And I bet my way of getting what I need is tastier than most supplements too.
Actually, Creatine references a protein type supplement that body builders generally use to increase muscle mass. Nothing to do with vegans at all as far as I know.
Well creatine extends endurance when using fast twitch muscles (aka weightlifting) so it contributes to bodybuilding by letting you get a few extra reps in, it doesn’t directly assist with muscle growth.
Ahh, ok. I tend to zone out when my friends who do the body building stuff start talking about their supplements so I guess I got it confused with some other thing they take. LOL
Heay! Grrl Power is #1 on twc right now.
It often is at the beginning of the month. But even at the end of the month, it is usually in the top 5.
Quite, and I think the only reason it does not sit at first all month is that Dave can only create one episode a week right now.
trying to remember when the last time we’ve dropped out of the top ten since he his #1 the first time.
What is that green thing with lines on panel 1 supposed to be? Some sort of security check for certain levels of the building?
Finger print recognition security. This is a high security building, there are probably a lot of stuff like that all over.
I’d hate it if you had to have a retnal scanner at the bathroom door.
The beautiful part of that typo is that now I get to ask if you meant retinal or rectal scanners?
I wrote retnal scanners. A device that reads your retna.
The point was that you’re missing the “i” in “retina.”
Sorry, I don’t have spellcheck.
That is, of course, no excuse. Please report to the nearest soylent green factory “in” chute, citizen.
the Rectal scanners are built into the toilets.
What do you think activates the automatic flush?
In the future it will be impossible to get into a government building (or on a plane) with out being horribly violated.
Fingerprints,
retina,
DNA,
rectal,
urethra,
tongue print,
lip print,
dental scan,
astral pattern,
brain wave pattern,
and of course
esophagus and stomach scan.
and all done by one very large machine that looks like a ball of tentacles.
You forgot Nipple-scans. Otherwise it sounds like someone’s been reading Dabbler’s Karma Sutra.
I’m sure Dabbler would build it for you…
…& also date – er, um, ah, ‘field-test’ it for you…
…maybe even marry it…
…but only if it signs the pre-nup…
:P
:)
You forgot “ear print”, and yes that’s actually in use.
One wonders how casual DNA scanning would deal with people with multiple sets of dna. Those already exist, eg. people with transplanted organs. Or sprinking dust from some busy place into the scanner. Trigger mob stampede protection building lockdown?
Don’t forget the actual Chimeras.
Just a little science to brighten your day! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMQcy5ReQQ&list=UUZYTClx2T1of7BRZ86-8fow&index=5&feature=plcp
I believe your ears change over your lifetime (grow bigger etc.) so that’s not very reliable long term.
Also, a DNA scanner will not deal well with identical twins. Their DNA is the same, but other physiological effects, such as fingerprints, are distinct.
Hey, if it gives me an orgasm, and cleans up the results, it can scan away. Of course, it would probably be more like “ye olde alien probe”. *sigh*
Some people like it that way. *shrug*
This comes to mind :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGnnNj8l7pI
Don’t be so stuck up Peggy. Sid has never had people who would listen to her.
Or at least, potentially approve of what is now openly floating around her.
Yeah, it is nice to be in a place where you don’t have to worry about letting your freak flag fly.
This is Sydney we are talking about. Her freak flag is always flying.
She was just afraid some Goverment agency would swoop in and take her away forever.
And so far they have swooped in and taken her, It’s the forever part that she’s watching for now.
yeah but now the oppertunity has appeared to be paid to “hunt people”.
She’s been holding back for SOoo long. Ever met someone who has a secret they just HAVE to tell someone?
Well, we now know how many floors there are in this building.
Yup plus we now that there are at least 2 sub floors otherwise we would see 3 and 4 at the bottom instead of 1 and 2.
It looked like it had a large underground parking garage.
It is also missing 11 and 12
Those are off-panel to the left. It doesn’t show 3 or 4 either, for example, so I’m guessing there are 4 buttons per row, aside from 1 and 2 which appear to be on their own.
Is “1” the ground floor in the US then? In the UK (and i think much of Europe) the first floor is one level up from ground meaning there’d only be room for one basement button plus “G”.
US standard is 1 or G is the ground floor. numbering can go B G 2 3 4 5 or B 1 2 3 4 5 with the same meanings. B being basement of course.
Get’s even worse when a Lobby is involved. The Lobby isn’t always on the first first/ground floor. And sometimes, there is an Upper LObby as well.
The US does have a habit of fucking up the numbers. Floor numbering is but the least of it.
Yea, America is wierd. But, I am still glad to be part of it.
Although, if I had designed this building there would be a seperate elavater for the undreground base area, where you put in super strong jail cells, your supercomputers, and labs for you resident mad scientist.
THAT’s a thought.
Already been established that Dabbler does at least some of the far-out / freaky gadgeteering stuff, but I wonder what ARC’s equivalent of “Q” branch is like?
Guessing that they wouldn’t only create and/or issue special gear to ARC operatives, but would also examine and evaluate any weird stuff that was brought back to base. Kind of like a mini-Warehouse 13, if one thinks about it.
Providing there aren’t any unlisted floors, but that probably isn’t the case, as you usually only find that in top secret gov’t facilities…
The best place to hide something is in plain sight. And what is more “in-plain-sight” than a big f***ing building?
Under a big f%$#ing building of course.
Actualy, I came up with a great way to hide a secret base. Build it under a gated community. All the workers can live in the houses and wouldn’t have to comute to work.
Seriously, have you seen the security on some of those gated communities? Some of them even have moats surrounding the entire community made out of concrete.
Turns out the construction company read the instructions wrong and filled in the moat with concrete, so now it’s just a sidewalk.
Oh no – that’s not a “glitch”…
…that’s a “feature”!
:P
Dabbler’s lab is best kept underneath *LOTS* of steel-reinforced concrete, to minimize shrapnel-trajectories from any random “mishaps”, you see…
…of course, in *MY* mind, the best “steel reinforcement” for Dabbler’s lab would be from full-sized steel girders, rather than wimpy ol’ “rebar”.
Soem gated communities are corporate communities, where most if not all the housing belongs to employees of the corporation. Its usually in part only though (like a segment of it) and the rest rented out. But those used to be all just supervisors, managers, and key employees of a specific company.
Although I’ve never heard of one where the company its self was on the same grounds. That would be different, but also raise eyebrows possibly.
A gated corporate community that also included the corporate offices/workplace would probably be suspected of being a cult.
It wouldn’t be that hard to do.
Just find a medium sized salt dome, flush it out, put suport structures in place and then build it using modular construction with pre-formed concrete foundations and other building stuff.
Afterwards making sure the area is shored up enough build a gated comunity with acess through the basements of the houses.
There might be some other things you would have to deal with, but it is possible.
I had also thought of using another salt dome for underground parking.
see umbrella corp curtasy of resident evil fame
Exactly the type of hidden corp/base I was thinking about.
If you have the money, and are into some crazy wierd projects that you don’t want shut down by the beauractats, then hide your labs where they won’t think to look.
a massive underground lab nearly the size of a city whose construction couldn’t possible go un-noticed, then again this is a world where an entire city can go zombie and that be covered up. Even worse if you are thinking of the games where several such massive underground labs existed with-in close proximity to each other…and yet even Umbrella forgot it was there (the games are a mess, I don’t know why anyone complains about the movies *except the third one* when the games have so many continuity issues and padding.
(what I do understand is wanting more of the monster designs).
I came to the conclusion that small cities like Raccoon were built by Umbrella after they had constructed their underground base/lab. That way they made sure only a few would know if anyone who moved there after.
Some very nice lampshade hanging. It seems to happen often in stories that some new character will all too gladly tell all about his/her special abilities.
Though you have to look at this from Sydney’s perspective. She has kept this secret for a long time and now she is in a building where not only can she openly talk about it, but she also doesn’t have to fear to get whisked away and strapped to a surgical table.
Is it bad that I can think of so much mundane utility for these?
What are you talking about?
The orbs obviously. I am already wondering if the orb of shield can be used to take off dirt off one’s body, so showers are no longer necessary.
Or if controlling the other orbs while wearing the fly orb can support a small rug to transport extra weight.
Or if the boom ray orb can light cigarettes.
Or if the tentacle orb can open the door for the cat while I’m on another floor (using clarisense orb for precision)
Or if you can use the tentacle orb to touch the shield orb, and make it shield someone distant, while using the clarisense orb for precision if you don’t see directly what you’re doing.
Or (more complex example flood)…
I think the shield appears some distance away so it can trap enough air so the user can keep breathing.
Really? A flying carpet? Actually that could be kind of cool, if a bit cheesy.
Right now trying to light anything,with the PPO is just not precise enough to light a cigarette. Light the cigarette and the entire city block around it. Besides, nobody in the comic has been shown to be a smoker.
Use the tentacle orb when looking through tele-presence, could be a good idea, depending on circumstances.
I always wondered if the tentical orb could completly surround a large object like a 747 and pick it up.
What are the limitations of that orb? It’s potentaly one of the most useful of her orbs.
I wander about its texture, how small it can shrinl temperature to the touch, and if it can be lubricated.
Have we established what the maximum possible diameter of the Shield-Orb can be? I’m not certain.
I have an idea about that but nothing’s been in the comic about it yet.
OK then – something to look forward to.
Or you can cheat at skee-ball.
Sorry, it was just too tempting not to say it.
Would using the orbs to get a snack and drink while watching tv or playing video games be too much?
Use telepresence to get somewhere on time if late?
Tentacle orb to retrieve items in hard to get places?
Fly orb to clean high spots or change light bulbs?
ummmm…… she can’t use more then 2 at a time.
No way to use the Tele orb to watch what the force field and tenticle are doing…
Great, now I have my mind in the gutter again….. has Syd tried that yet? One wonders…
Sydney’s a girl in her 20’s. Of course she’s probably tried that a few hundred times.
Joel: Sydney, great to see you, on time for once.
Tele-presence Sydney: Yeah, I’ll be right back in a couple of minutes. [ Walks through bathroom door while Joel is not looking. Sits down and puts her hands in front of her.
[ Snap to Sydney sitting in her car, starting to drive to work. ]
If only…
…trouble is, I believe that “Tele-Syd” only does exactly what “Real-Syd” is doing, so this “sitting” image will be forced to do all the same movements as the driving original. Joel will see that something’s wrong in short order, even if he doesn’t understand what’s wrong about it. Meanwhile, if she tries too hard to maintain a plausible image, she risks a traffic accident.
That is why I had her go into the washroom. When Joel see her walking to the staff washroom, the original is really walking to her car.
Peggy’s expression range, from BOREDOM at superhero fresh new stuff, worrying if she did a faux pas, nervous explaining, twitchy nervous smile…
…old veteran small smile at knowing she was right all along and it was OK to say it in a bored way, no harm done haha moving along let’s do something not making me nervous plz…
AND THEN SYDNEY CORNERS HER WITH SHEER EXCITABLENESS! WHAMMM!!
I totally LOVE the expression range Peggy has!!!
Peggy can be made uneasy so easily, it’s going to be an occasional running gag like “look it’s another harem reacting to stuff” is! And both have drawing-saving/space-saving potential of great magnitude!!!
Suuuuure saving half a panel or saving drawing most characters and decor a few times isn’t the only thing an artist must live by, but “zoom of Nervous Peggy” is a good way to do it (-;
All hail our master of drawing subtle emotional flow! Of all the other webcomics I read, only Outsider has that kind of quality.
Yeah, his art has realy improved over the last few years.
Facial expression has proven several times to be one of DaveB’s strengths.
Being vegan gives you superpowers, you know. Take Todd Ingram from Scott Pilgrim for one.
I onc read a T-shirt that answers the question of my stance on veganism.
MEAT IS MURDER.
TASTY, TASTY MURDER..
Personally I consider vegan ideas total hogwash. Eating meat is what gave us enough protein to grow large brains, well some of us. The idea that eating meat is in any way sinful or wrong is like equating breathing with murder (you do kill many bacteria). If you chose to be a herbivore fine more meat for me but don’t try to convert me to you wacky cult.
I think most vegetarians/vegans are mostly concerned with how animals are treated in the food industry, which at the best of times can be pretty poor. That or they’re concerned that being a meat eater give them a larger carbon footprint. In those cases they’re essentially voting with their dollars. Nothing wrong with that. I do agree that people who think that meat is somehow nutritionally bad for us omnivores are bonkers though – and some of them do tend to get a bit lecturey about it, which is the impetus for the page.
Some people are merely vegetarians or vegans, but some others..
William Burroughs call ’em senders. People unable to evolve or think ever again, and only interested into overwriting everyone’s mind with their own opinion. The content no longer matters — any good it could do has been done and digested already decades ago, and usually it decays into “my progressively decaying ramblings are better than anything humanity has to offer”.
So some people are just senders … who talk about vegan stuff.
Can’t argue with you about the food industry. Some of the things that happen are ghastly. But their screw-ups are the scariest things. Mad-Cow happened because they fed carcasses to healthy animals. And vegans don’t get excited, remember all the contaminated veggies that killed many people.
The severely misnamed ” Mad Cow Disease” is still out there. It is something new, it isn’t an organism of any kind. It is an otherwise normal brain protein refolded about 5-6 times to be dangerous. Why? Because it has the ability to cause other brain proteins to do the same. Some of it can cause holes in the brain, there is a newer version that still damages you but no telltale holes. Back in the early 2000s Canadian Doctors found that upon further investigation it was found that people who had been labeled as dying from Alzheimer’s were re-diagnosed when a more careful brain autopsy showed prions. Human Spongiform Encephalopathy. With a long incubation period it could all erupt at once turning people into shuddering wrecks.
OMG!! The Prophesied Zombie Plague!!! You have GOT to be kidding….um… right?!
No. It’s a very real disease and the species barrier is especially weak. It was first discovered in the early 1900’s or late 1800’s when a doctor was studying cultures with ritualistic cannibalism. He discovered that is how the disease was spread. In these cultures, when an infected person died, rather than being buried (predominantly Judeo-Christian) or cremated (predominantly Grecko-Roman) they would instead be eaten. The “choice” bits would go to the father, who was responsible for hunting, fighting and defending the tribe from external threats (like that big, hungry lion over the hill) while the wife and children would get the scraps, spine, brain, etc. then a few years later, they’d get sick and the cycle would repeat. The disease at that time was called Cruxfield Yaccob (sp?). In the animal kingdom there are some well known variations, mad cow. sheep scrapie, mouse scrapie, rat scrapie. Since cows and bulls are expensive various scientific studies have been done to try and find a way to make infected animals “safe.” Here’s some of the more interesting results.
1.) Infected tissue (spinal cord, brain which is where the disease concentrates) heated to temperatures hot enough to reduce it to ash remains infectious.
2.) Acid, alcohol, disinfectants and antibiotics have no effect.
3.) Just for fun, a researcher decided to try burying a sample just to see what would happen. The sample, and the ground it was buried in were infectious.
As Oprah said, cows should not be eating parts of other cows.
“Creutzfeldt–Jakob“
Kuru was the canigalism transmitted from of the disease endemic amoung the Fore people from around 1900 and tapering off in the 1960s.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is another prion disease (as are Mad Cow disease, Scrapie, Chronic Wasting Syndrome and a few others.) It is thought to be distinct from Kuru.
Fun fact. Since prions are proteins and not even as complex as viruses they are remarkably hard to destroy. Even an autoclave won’t do it, unless you put the item in question in a chlorine bath while autoclaving it.
Also I am no longer allowed to donate blood in the US due to having spent too much time in the UK and therefore being a risk. *roll eyes vigorously*
SciShow (one of my favs) has this info for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cubu-k7kSvw&feature=g-all-u
Do not panic and put on your tin hat though. The disease, while currently incurable, is exceptionally rare, and the beef, pork, lamb/mutton, etc. industry is quite safe. To date, in civilized countries, the disease only manifests in 1 out of 9 million people. So unless you are a cannibal, frequently partake of animal brains/ spinal cords, or are exceptionally unlucky, you really have nothing to worry about.
Considering how lax the FDA is using such noneffective things as visual inspections, sometimes the stricken animal is still ground up and mixed with millions of pounds of other dubiously inspected meat. Only in its latter stages do you see the crippling effects of the brain damage. It is now illegal to feed cows other cows. But you can feed cows to chickens and pigs—slaughter them then feed them to cows. See how they got around that? Prions aren’t even life forms. They are organic in nature but do not eat, excrete, reproduce in the normal fashion. Imagine three years later and buried infected cows can still get you.
Interesting that the basis for “Zombieland” was a mutant form of prions caused the cannibalism and psychotic murdering. Still a mutant form or rabies would function like a fictional “zombie” plague to do the same thing. They may not eat you but they will bite you. You will lose your mind. Nice isn’t it? They will be alive but they will have a disregard for their personal safety.
You do realize that there’s a number of health related reasons why a person would be vegan, right? And that the “meat gives us essential proteins to grow big brains” was a line about Australiopitheciens from Walking with Beasts that has absolutely no bearing on 21st Century humans since we’ve got access to plenty of protein and the average American eats FAR more animal protein in their diet than is necessary.
There’s nothing wrong with not being a vegan, but patting yourself on the back like it gives you some sort of superiority is just obnoxious.
I find the vegan self back patting to be far more condescending and annoying than anything done by properly omnivorous human beings. I have also never met a happy vegan, or a healthy one, they all look sickly, pale, lacking in muscle tone, and they tend to die suddenly for no discernible reason (Michael Clarke Duncan, RIP), and I used to date a vegan. I still ate steak in front of her though. I also have a medical condition that would make a vegan lifestyle most likely fatal to me, just like it is to the predatory animals some of these nutbars try to turn vegan.
Strange considering some of the most healthy people, including athletes are vegetarian or vegans. Heart attacks tend to go to heavy meat eaters. And what proof do you have that vegetarianism had anything to do with Mr. Clarke-Duncan? Such large men like him are prone to dying from cardiac arrest.
Wasn’t trying to start a fight but I will answer your question. I have read that Mr. Duncan had a serious deficiency of certain protiens and this may have contributed to his death. I will admit this information could be wrong but that is where I am coming from on that subject. Alright? Now then back to more important matters, like what is Sydney going to do if Peggy pulls that gun. :)
A.) I said gave us. Past tense. I was talking about our ancestors.
B.) Patting myself on the back?? I am well aware that I probably eat more meat than absolutely necessary. I also tend to abuse caffeine which is a plant product. I basically don’t care what your beliefs about meat are. Just keep it to yourself. I don’t really see the need to become a herbivore.
It’s not animal PROTEIN that kills you, it’s animal FAT that can be unhealthy. A Vegan diet won’t help you avoid that since an excess of sugar will be converted by your body to fat, and can cause problems with your pancreas too. (diabetes, anyone?)
Vegan diets can also cause all sorts of mineral deficiencies, iron, calcium, magnesium, iodine to name a few. Mineral supplements are also well known to be dangerous, especially “coral” calcium is known to be loaded with lead.
So Vegans patting themselves on the back saying “I’m healthier” are not just obnoxious, they are dangerously wrong.
If you want to be a vegan, fine. But don’t get on a moral high horse, please. You are likely do get dizzy and fall off. Then we’ll have to direct traffic around you to avoid innocent casualties.
Many vegans do ultimately have a much healthier diet than most people, but it’s not because not eating meat is better for you, it’s because they have to pay attention to everything they put in their mouths. It makes them fairly cognizant of their calorie, fat, protein and other nutrient intakes. Most of us will just wolf down a burger with 80 grams of fat and 1250 mg of sodium and not know or care. There are vegetarians like that though too. They’ll eat whatever as long as it’s not meat, which means they’ll have a plate of cheese fries with ranch dressing for lunch. You can always tell with them – they’re overweight and they wear it poorly because they have no muscle tone. They usually have a sallow complexion too because they’re missing out on some needed nutrients.
There are a number of ‘essential nutrients’ that we require, hence, essential, that come only from meat. Just because we, as a whole, eat to much meat, doesn’t mean we aren’t supposed to eat any. We are long since adapted to a hunter gather diet, which gave a meat content in the %10-15 range. The hunt for ever increasing profits from every industry is why we keep getting pushed to produce and eat more. Dun change the fact that without fortified foods and vitamin pills, a vegan diet is long term bad. Only possible now because we do have fortified foods and pills to replace those vitamins and nutrients that are only found in meat. (good chunk of them in the B-complex)
I guess you’ve never heard of marmite?
Meat is not in any way essential. You can get every essential amino acid, and every trace mineral you need, without meat. You just have to eat healthy.
It’s just a choice either way – and who really cares? As long as people aren’t preachy, it doesnt matter.
The truth is we are all under a death sentence so I see no need to deprive myself of some enjoyment on the chance I could delay it slightly longer. Hell I could be hit by a chunk of space junk tomorrow who knows.
This comment reminded me of the TV show Northern Exposure.
One of the main charictors had what you would call a curse. Every man she ever slept with would die in some wierd and horrible fashon.
One of them got hit by a Russian satalite.
But was it worth it? :)
Don’t forget the hit series “Dead like me.” The lead character “dies” when hit by a piece of the Myr space station, specifically the toilet. She then has to assume the role of “grim reaper” while maintaining a “day job.”
Loved that series. To bad it ended in only two seasons.
Marmite, made from yeast extracts? If we assume that a vegan refuses to eat meat or use animal products for moral reasons, would it not be hypocritical to draw an arbitrary line, to say that cows are off-limits but you can kill as many yeast as you want?
Yeast being tiny not-plant life forms doesn’t mean they are suddenly plants. Nor is marmite, (Vegimite here, that my nephew eats shit piles of) NOT a highly processes and FORTIFIED food stuff. Like I kinda mentioned. Nice try tho.
I am willing to accept, for the sake of polite discussion, that many Westerners eat more animal protein (meat, dairy, etc.) than is good for them.
But the notion, that total exclusion of all these things is somehow healthier, is something I perosnally consider silly and, quite possibly, dangerous. We evolved to have at least some animal protein in our regular diet, and it should be noted that most other primates (including all of the large ones) do so as well, even if only in the form of bugs, worms, bird eggs and so forth. My personal observation is that people who follow strict vegetarian diets, without using high-tech supplements, tend to look like famine victims.
Then there are the vegetarian “meats”, which I suspect were created and taste-tested solely by people who had never eaten real meat before, but had maybe read about how it tasted from a book or something.
“If God Didn’t Want Us To Eat Animals, Then Why Did He Make Them Out Of Meat?”
I have had a vegetarian shove a Boca Burger or something similar in my face and say “try it, it really does taste like meat” Of course upon trying it I confidently informed him that he had long since forgotten what meat tastes like. As far as I remember it tasted a bit like an unsweetened oatmeal cookie. It wasn’t bad I suppose, but it didn’t taste even remotely meat like.
Can you imagine being the one omnivore who works at the Boca kitchens, employed for the sole purpose of taste testing their creations? After weeks of hopeless taste testing the guy probably broke down and said “Ooh, that’s it, you’ve got it.” when they shoveled the 500th pile of mulch patty in front of him.
Okay that is a funny picture you just put in my head.
Ugh. I don’t even want to remember what meat tastes like. I find meat imitation products like that to be, erm… in poor taste, for lack of a better phrase. Actually, the reason why I originally started cutting meat from my diet was simply that I had lost my appetite for it.
That is exactly my feelings about alcohol.
This is why you never trust the word of someone who hasn’t eaten meat in 20 years that something tastes “Just like” meat.
I still believe that “PETA” should stand for “People Eating Tasty Animals”
Yikes, Dave, that is a scary idea.
Wonder what level of Hell THAT job would be on?
Yuck, reminds me of when I tried one of those soy hot-dogs. Tasted like a dried out Kidney bean.
Also it is possible to get all our nutrients from none-animal products, just not as easily.
Two big things we get from meat, B-12 and Nicine.
Nicine is a fun-one, with out it, your body starts to come apart and you go insane. Some farming machinery a century or so ago was stripping what little there is of it from vegetation causing an epidemic. At the time they thought it was a disease (wont go into detail on how long and why it took them to figure out it was caused by a lack of Nicine which can be gained by eating a healthy dose of protein rich foods; lets just say the guy who discovered it was a Northern Hebrew and the epidemic was mostly in the south)
*Yeah they ignored him, and thousands died.
Of course eating too much red meat is also bad.
I like to think of it as, think about what a creature like you with out tools or weapons would naturally be able to gather and hunt, and that is your proper diet. Red meat comes mostly from large horned herbivores, thus few and far between, most food you’d eat would be tubers, roots, grains, fish, arthropods, and small animals such as birds, reptiles, and small mammals.
Heh, how to root out the half-vegans (those who just wont eat birds and mammals, they just don’t want to eat anything cute), but that hamster, guina pig, and rabbit are much healthier for you than cow and pigs.
Personally like both. Eat meat, but I grew up eating vegetarian stuff too. It has a high presence in the SDA church. Hardly any veg meat actually tastes like what it claims to be, tho. But I still like it for itself. I just canna stand the extremists who have appointed themselves morally superior cause they decided they don’t want to eat meat anymore so they now have the right to browbeat everyone that does. As if I’ve managed to go this long without hearing from some other whack-a-do about why they think I shouldn’t eat meat, or any other hobby horse their ilk is tilting at.
Just cause you have the right to your opinion and the right to voice it, doesn’t mean you have the right to force it on people at every turn. Also, the right to an opinion dun = the right to said opinion being correct. And finally, Opinions are like assholes. Everyone’s got one.
TTFN o/ :P
Ew. Personally, having not-meat made to “look like” and/or “taste like” meat puts me off.
I don’t mind eating vegetarian really, even regularly like once a week or so, just be honest about it.
In actual facts, meat reduction but not elemination outshines vegans, vegetarians, and the regular joe in health. You do need meat, but people trying to sell a reduction are misunderstood and a few extremists hop in and soon it’s vegetarian VS everyone else and the 3rd option is never talked about.
Yeah moderation in everything. Most people in 1st world countries eat too much period, including too much meat, but the optimal amount is less meat, not no meat.
“Moderation in all things, including moderation”
This is my Motto in Life.
I think it’s from Buddha. I read it as “you have to let loose on occasion”. Most doctors and nutritionists will tell you the same thing. The occasional splurge does no harm and may actually help.
Mike Meyers, in his “Goldmember”-persona:
“…in moderation ev’ryt’ing ish gud…”
Like the Pkunk put it, do a little evil once in a while otherwise the good counter will max out and wrap around to pure evil!
Weren’t the Pkunk a weird bird type alien thing from a video game way back in the day? Like on the 3DO? They had ships that would occasionally die and come back to life during battles.
Yup. Star Control 2, one of the very best video games ever made IMO. I include it on my top 10 of all time. And the best part is, you can play it for free. The free version combines all the voice acting from the 3DO version with fan made music tracks, and is available online as “The Ur-Quan Masters”
I will say it is an old school type game and a player can really screw themselves if they don’t know what they’re doing, so I would actually suggest playing it through using a FAQ or a walkthrough. You might think that would ruin the game but really some of the solutions to situations require that you explore every planet in the game and stuff like that. The fun of the game is building your fleet and fighting enemy ships and meeting all the aliens and unveiling the story. I recommend it. I like to replay it every 5-6 years and I’m probably a little overdue.
our meat diets wouldn’t be so bad if we ate more arthropods, mollusks, fish, birds, and small cute mammals like rodents and rabbits.
…. Which would arguably help solve various pest problems as well.
i am a card carrying member of PETA. i will have you know
People
Eating
Tasty
Animals
My last boss was a raw energy vegetarian. Someone who not only eschewed meat, but also COOKING.
He used to take the piss out of me all the time for my choice of lunch (quarter chook and chips from the red rooster up the road), calling it “dead food”.
Fricking nutter.
Too bad he didn’t get some of that “Fresh” spinach that got so many people sick. Cooking it killed the bug that was in it I believe.
Indeed. My own thinking is that I WANT my food to be dead.
The idea of eating something while it is still wriggling and basically fighting back and/or communicating distress has absolutely no appeal to me.
But Gagh is best when served live! Seriously though HIV was passed from monkeys to humans when someone ate uncooked meat or was careless with the blood during butchering.
Thats not what I heard. From what I understand, someone got a little “adventurous” with a monkey.
A human penis is way too big for any species of monkey. Of all the primates, we are the second largest (after the gorilla), but we have, on average, far and away, the largest penis. Men have large penises because humans have such large and complex brains. What did he say?
1. Humans have larger brains for our body size than any other animal, except some whales and dolphins.
2. The complexity of human brains seems to require the extra real estate inside the skull so that we can dedicate more to higher thinking functions.
3. This complexity, although not the volume, is present in the brain of humans at all ages, including at birth. Some proportions change as time goes on.
4. The human baby has a larger proportion of birth weight in the brain than any other mammal that I know of.
5. This large head of the baby requires a large birth canal, which includes the cervix and vagina.
6. So human women have a vagina larger in diameter than that of other primates, even gorillas. This way it can actually stretch under muscular action to be large enough to let the baby get through.
7. A large diameter hole in the human body is just an invitation for infectious agents (bacteria, fungus, viruses, etc.) to get in the soft, squishy bits of the human body.
8. The vagina is as long as it is to make it difficult for these various infections agents to get to the womb, where the immune system does not do a lot of work, or it might reject the baby for having foreign proteins. Even still, some women get vaginal infections, like thrush, but it generally does not get deeper than that.
9. The environment of the vagina is harsh to bacteria and fungi, but also to sperm, so to have the best chance of insemination, the sperm should bypass as much of the vagina as possible.
10. So a human penis needs to be the width to fill the vagina (prevent sperm going the wrong way) and long enough to deposit the sperm as close as possible to the cervix.
11. Thus humans need large penises because we have large brains.
That has to be the most logical argument about the dimensions I’ve read. I think I’ll save it for future reference.
So in conclusion… It’s not the size of his foot but the size of his head that matters.
That said, the undercooked bush-meat theory seems much more plausible. Actually, perhaps some sloppiness during butchery allowed for blood to blood transfer, which is even more effective at transmitting SIV/HIV.
From what I heard it was a pigmy.
What you heard was a racist rumor with no foundation. Look up what “bush meat” is and that will tell you much. However there was a story written by a reporter with Rolling Stone. He found a correlation between a certain type of Polio vaccine used in Africa and the way it was made from the same kind of monkeys found to be infected, along with chimps of their version of HIV. The CDC managed to have the tissue samples destroyed before anyone independent could see if the virus was in them. That would make a likely choice for cross species infection.
the same theory is detailed in a book called The River by Ed Hooper but it was banned in the states
A “militant carnivore”, heard muttering over his salad:
“THIS isn’t FOOD – this is what food EATS!”
One of my friends from TAFE had a similar stance: “Salad is what food eats.”
I tend to agree, but only because most of the veggies in salad are ones I don’t like :P
That sounds a lot like the “Posleen” a race of intergalactic cannibals who call other races “thresh” which translates to food. Humans are threshkreen or “food that stings” because we basically can kickass on an equal or better basis.
Check out ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ first season episode about the Hyenas. Xander made a comment like that.
I should know this, but…
Panel 2 , “The ????” ?
The List.
Have you forgotten “The List”?
OK, it didn’t appear for some time.
List.
You may have forgotten The List. But rest assured, The List has not forgotten you.
The List never forgets!
THAT DOES IT YOUR ON THE LIST!!!!!!!!!!! now what is your full name and address?
/\ ‘The List’, in reference to resolving what happened to it last comic as they were leaving.
Self control: we know she won’t have it in this situation because of the natures involed but it would make an interesting superpower to project a ‘meh’ aura where and at what strength you wanted it.
A ‘Somebody Else’s Problem’ field as a superpower… Could be really powerful, but you’d have a hard time getting recognition. (A supervillian might fit better…)
This reminds me of a joke we had in the military.
If you go to a party and t fighter pilot is there how will you know?
They will tell you. If your lucky, only once.
This is also true of certain types of macho military individuals who can’t wait to tell you how “Badass” they are. Most military people basically like you and me doing a job and not getting as much respect as they really deserve but even they can’t stand the ones that take it way too seriously.
we can apply this same thing to Marines, Soldiers, and even cops and rangers. Some people do it just to have an excuse to tell macho stories. Those same people if they worked in a warehouse would/do brag up and down about long hours and heavy loads.
Those are the Cops who other Cops can’t stand because how they act lowers the respect that they should be getting.
Of course it’s the ones that don’t run their mouths that you really need to look out for.
I think it’s the ones that do run their mouths all the time then suddenly become withdrawn and mumble about “The Reckoning” that are the ones to worry about.
No, those are the ones that usually end up removed from the gene pool.
Peggy is a cutie pie. :-)
Agreed. But then I’ve always had a soft spot for girls with pink hair. =P
Peggy must be think dear god I’m on an elevator with a mad woman. Also was Sydney referring to here self when saying coming back from vacation and discovering she was pregnant.
She was talking about someone who is always talking about themselves.
Reread it again.
the horror, a female vegan pregant superhuman who just came back from vacation…and she has pictures!
run!!!
In the original opening of “The Incredibles” we are told that it was made illegal for supers to mate. Quite a scary scene.
That was a very disturbing thing to think about when I saw that scene.
I got the feeling a law like that would of been enacted sometime during the fifties or earily sixties when Mcarthyisim was big, and they were on the lookout for anybody to be the next boogieman to scare the public with.
Of course if you look at some of the totaly stupid laws some states are making now, you might think it was enacted recently.
yeah, they cut that because of the Nazi vibe it would have given off.
Imagine if supers appeared in the real world and someone in congress tried to “irradicate the mutative gene” by outlawing those “infected” from having sex or otherwise attempting to produce children.
I’d like to think they’d be chased out of congress.
I’d like to think the real world wouldn’t behave like comic books and go crazy, but I know better, sure it wouldn’t go to the point of giant robots, but there would still be hate groups, religious nuts who think its the devil’s work, ect… But I can’t see the American government being able to pull off a eugenics type move in this day and age.
Ha ha, Peggy is very professional. “Get on with the job and drop the bullshit.” I’d get on with her, but I’d rub her up the wrong way as well, I’d say.
And yay for ADHD Sydney!
That end was unexpected, random, and funny.
Pretty much summs up this whole comic. Don’t you think?
I’m pretty sure most superheroes have ADHD of some sort.
I know 2 right off my head that don’t Superman and Batman. Superman has a (legitimate) God complex and Batman obviously suffers from depression.
From reading, they Both have god complexes.
Well maybe but Supes is a real boy scout and Bats isn’t even nice to his friends.
this may have something to do with playing too many video games, and watching too many movies, and a “possible” understanding of Sydney, but i saw the last frame coming.
also i think you need to have a Canadian super on the team. :P
What? Spinerette doesn’t have enough Canadian Super heroes for you? They had an entire team! (The Werewolf of London, Ontario was probably my favorite.)
Yeah he’s a cool guy. Bit of a horn Dawg though. :P
Sure, but look at this girlfriend; there is a lot of her to go around, what with her being so much taller than him and having 3 heads and all.
That’s why she’s Mine! *MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!* =P
I’m waiting to see Sydney impress Peggy with her spice tolerance at lunch! :)
You mean dinner, sydney already had lunch and it was stated earlier that they were going to dinner
Well, since Sydney “lost her lunch”, she needs a replacement! :)
Totally. Sydney’s wait outside the interview room made her hunger VERY clear.
She is probably one of those skinny people who can eat her weight in food, and an hour later eat some more for a snack.
… And, an hour after THAT, begin wondering about her next meal.
I call those kind of people “lucky”! :)
Provided the food keeps coming.
Otherwise, teethmarks start appearing in furniture, house pets, other people ………
My sister has stashes of candy all over her house for when she needs a fix she’s small but her energy can be measured in gigajoules.
Can’t wait to see that charictor in this comic. Or was it Jiggawatt? I forget.
thats the problem with high energy powers where do you get it from and how do you pay for the source
on where the power comes from, that has been a thorn in the side of comic books sense the generation appeared that just couldn’t suspend their disbelief (and yet this same generation’s anime fans loved DBZ…what ever)
The whole caloric intake bit has been questionable given the energy output, I really didn’t like when Slayers Revolution stated that the reason Lina eats so much is because high energy magic takes up a ton of calories (especially as the actual energy of the spells comes from spirits, Mazoku, and the environment) guess there is some backlash strain and she is physically pretty strong (like Captain America level).
Most things either don’t explain it, or else its interdimensional energy conversion (same deal with breaking the conversation of mass law with shapeshifters and size changers).
OK I get it now, there are 4 columns of floor buttons on the panel, and we can only see the right 2 columns. and as someone already pointed out there are at least 2 basements. There may be more, we just can’t see that far down the panel. Also I love Peggy’s situation about supers. I mean I only died, and somehow that manages to come up in conversation at least once with every person I talk to for a while. Can you imagine how it would feel to have superpowers and be able to talk about them? Or worse, not be able to talk about them except to a certain few people?
You died?
08/31/2001 0119. Some guy took objection to me riding a bicycle on the opposite side of the road, swore at me to get off the road and when I didn’t immediately bunnyhop my bike over an 8″ curb into a muddy field he made a u-turn at the first cut-through and floored it to hit me from behind @roughly 60 MPH, a situation that is 99+% fatal. When witnesses first got to me I had no pulse or respiration for ~2 minutes. It’s all in my blog. Twice, once straight and once as a comedy routine. When the dead guy can tell the jokes about getting killed it’s funny, like the Mexican telling “beaner” jokes.
Ah, ok. First of all, that guy was a real a$$ and I hope he got some jail time for attempted murder.
Second, glad you’re still among the land of the living. :)
Yeah sometimes car drivers do things like that. I’ve been run off the road had things thrown at me been yelled at etc. I did once hit a car (totally my fault) and did $460 in damages (80’s dollars) but altogether bicyclists are at the mercy of road rage drivers.
So are pedestrians.
Yeah we’ve developed into this (car culture) everything is set up for driving, *I tried walking to a place that was only a five minute drive and realized with all the twists and turns took 40 minutes by foot* and the limitations of where you can walk or ride a bike is just dumb (who made the law that bikes arn’t allowed on sidewalks? I mean really they can’t keep up with traffic and are no where near safe.
and on top of all this, the us vs them mentality and indoctrination of cars into our cultural subconcious thanks to movies, cartoons, comics, ect…(we have super-hero robots that turn into vehicles for crying out loud), and those must susceptible to this mind set can end up mean towards those who walk or ride bikes.
this whole situation of the mindset is so bad that we can’t even bring back the electric railways, everyone calls them retro and outdated; not realizing that they were removed by oil companies that bought them out in order to force people to buy cars and cities to buy buses, and that bringing back the electric railcars would save so many of us so much money on gas and cut back emissions.
And it still happens, watch a movie called “Who Killed The Electric Car?” about a earlier attempt to introduce zero emissions cars.
Eesh? You got hit just once and died? I’ve been hit 5 times, and walked away every single time. I was starting to think surviving getting hit by cars was normal. Only once did I have a limp and minor scratches. My bicycle was totaled though… I wonder if I have super powers? Anyone have the phone number of Archon?
Who said I only got hit once? I only died once. I get hit by TX drivers about once a month. TX driver be crazy-stupid. I live in the same town as Dave. I’m sure Dave can vouch for the levels of both crazy and stupid with the drivers here.
What? No super powers? :( You made me sad… And I don’t need someone to vouch for Texas drivers. Born and raised near Houston. That was 5 times in 2 years, in Humble. Twice I was on the fricken sidewalk! Since I moved to Virginia I haven’t been hit once… I think the Texas DOT needs to look into this…
I’m a pretty mellow guy for the most part. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten road rage, so I’m probably not the best guy to ask about a-hole drivers. Though I will say I’ve noticed that if anyone is going to drive like they own the road, it’s people in pick-em-ups, and there’s a lot of them in Texas. But I’ll also amend that to say that’s almost certainly just confirmation bias on my part.
Yep, 9 of the last 10 times I was hit it was a pickup truck, and the guy that killed me. I make jokes about pickup trucks as “penis extensions” but the drivers do tend to act like a penis extension.
I live just north of San Antonio, from Michigan, and all I can say is this. I would love all the Texan drivers to go up to MI for the winter, and whoever lives longer than a week gets 100 dollars per week they live for the entire winter. I’ll tell you this much, my bank account won’t be emptied a dime. I hardly ever leave the house because of my back, and I got hit by a jackass in my own friggen parking spot. Yeah, welcome to Texas, now run the F*** away.
I can alost say the same about people from up there and our summers.
I think Solbert means the pronounced lack of snow and ice in TX that is the norm in MI, especially around the Great Lake, so they have absolutely no experience with it.
There was a proposed snowstorm in Lubbock, TX a few years ago. Half inch to an inch. To me, no big deal. To everyone else? The entire friggen town shut down. And I am not kidding. Big hub city, everything but the hospital and 2 gas stations stayed up. And the funny thing? It didn’t even f***ing snow! And yet there was record high for car crashes and car related fatalities. No snow, no ice, but still hundreds of car wrecks in a single day? Yeah, texans can’t drive for shit.
Bah, these comments need an edit button!
Shut down, not stayed up, sorry.
Yeah I don’t get much snow in Alabama either, but we get the occasional snow/ice storm so we have SOME expierence with it. Just not enough that we carry 50lb bags of rocksalt and tire chains in the trunk.
Have to admit that it all depends on what you are used to. I’ve lived in Maine and Virginia both. Virginians have no clue about snow (at least in the area I lived in) and when they get some that react like it’s a hurricane, stocking up on food, driving too slow, closing everything with maybe 2 inches on the ground.
In Maine they aren’t really used to tropical storm type rain and their roads flood quickly under those conditions which most don’t know how to deal with.
Yeah, the only nice thing about living in a place that doesn’t get a lot of snow and ice, is that the lightest dusting of the stuff and social services all but shut down and schools and businesses close. No one here has experience driving on the stuff so fortunately few try it. Also no one has snow tires or chains or anything like that.
Another problem is most southern states have little equipment or trained personnel to deal with any snow. I remember seeing sparks flying from the plow they were using once (too low).
Dave…be careful…
PETA has been known not to have a sense of humor :p
(they didn’t like me correcting them that not all humans can be vegan…they really didn’t like me explaining that plants have souls and that veganism was murder….they stopped talking to me after that one.)
Oh…and I’m a carnivore ;)
I’m not concerned about them finding their way into our little part of the web. They’re probably too busy thinking up more ways to make everyone hate them even more.
PETA’s ideals are ok. It’s just that they often have people that go way overboard on things. We really need lab rats and the like to continue developing new medications and vaccines although I suppose we could just test on people instead.
I have no problem with vegans or vegetarians so long as they don’t think they are better than me because they don’t eat meat.
PETA’s public ideals are OK, but what they do behind closed doors is ENTIRELY counter that what they preach. They make me sick how cruel they actually are. PETA kills 95% of adoptable pets that come under thier care. They don’t care about animals, they just care about humans not having them. Thus I will never support PETA. https://www.petakillsanimals.com/
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As for vegans, some of them take it too far. I can understand not eating meat because you don’t want animals to die. But vegans don’t stop at thier diets. They extend it to every aspect of thier lives. And sometimes the choices they make actually has the opposite affects of what they intend.
Vegans don’t wear silk because Silk Worm caterpillars have to die. Silk Worms are a completely domesticated species. They have been domesticated for thousands of years. And because of thier short life spans and breeding cycles, they evolve very quickly. They are unable to survive in the wild, having adapted entirely to living with humans. If the silk industry did not exist, they would go extinct.
There are also vegans who insist that thier pet dogs and cats eat a vegan diet too. These animals are true carnivores, thier digestive systems can not handle much vegetable matter. Cats as so adapted to eating meats, that they can’t even taste sugars. Feeding carnivorous pets vegan diets is bad for thier health, and shortens thier life span. Not to mention making them unhappy, as they LOVE the taste of meat.
Those are just 2 example. I actually had 12 examples, but figured a post big enough to be a small book was a bad idea.
I’m not a PETA supporter, either.
Re point 1: Let’s assume that’s true. So, I’m supposed to start supporting an ongoing holocaust because the survival of the species it victimizes has become dependent on its continuation? I don’t agree with that, any more than I’d agree with a claim that Stockholm Syndrome justifies kidnapping.
Re point 2: And that’s why I’m inclined to avoid the issue altogether by not getting a pet.
The silkworm used in the silk industry isn’t a wild species and never was. It’s ancestors were wild sure, but they were and still are are a different species. The domestic silkworm evolved to take advantage of humans. The result is they always have plenty of food, they never freeze, they are never predated upon, and they are never alone. The wild species loose 98% of thier population to predation shortly after they are hatched. The domestic species almost 100% survive until the pupa stage. Only then, while they are unconscious and thier bodies (and brains) are being rebuilt from scratch do most of them die. The survivors then mate, the males quickly dies after that, while the females lay the eggs first then die as well.
The domestic silkworm is also superior to the wild species in some respects. Of human benefit they produce longer stronger silk, up to a mile per cocoon. But to thier own benefit, they have more efficient digestion, are more disease resistant, and physically more durable than the wild species. These are traits humans bred into them. The only negatives they have, is they can’t fly, and they have no fear of predators.So no, it’s not really a holocaust. It’s a species that has evolved to live under human care. And having better survival rates as a result.
Sorry, I can’t stop thinking it, but there’s nothing to be gained by saying it. And, yes, human testing is an option, free of double standards.
Of course human testing is always an option. You just have to decide whether you’d prefer Dr. Moreau or Dr. Mengele.
Human testing is free of double standards only if those advocating it volunteer to be test subjects.
And yet, it’s frequently difficult to tell how serious they’re being. I mean, we are talking about the organization that tried to rebrand fish as ‘sea kittens’.
It’s been proven that plants actually communicate and react to damage.
As for PETA they basically are in it for the money and headlines. Some of the things they have been caught doing boggle the mind.
Such as that video from a couple years back where one of their “Shelters” was tossing animals into the gas chamber almost as fast as they received them?
Or when they got caught dumping bodies of the strays they killed in dumpsters in VA.
They’ve actually threatened a no-kill shelter that actually has a high- like 99%- success rate.
They tried to get me to push some promotion of theirs on my site and I told them no. I have to be careful of my plant matter intake because of my intestinal issues, and I let them know that rather emphatically.
As a Shaman, I know that plants have life force, feeling, So, I find their arguments rather inaccurate.
Yeah some of the protoplasmic bags of pus that call themselves “humans” in PETA think it’s better for an animal to be dead then to be a pet. Can I lock them up in a crate and send them to the Savanna? Let them see Mother’s law up close and personal.
There was a guy in Va that used to hold a fishing tournament right next to PETA (somehow they could afford waterfront property) every year. Funny stuff.
Fanatics never have a sense of humor, at least not about the thing they’re fanatical about.
I think it says something about PETA, that even vegans find them annoying.
It says a great deal about them.
Furthermore, there’s a lot of irony in not having any I’s in “retinal scanner”.
Dang, I was replying to the comment WAY up at the top about “retnal” scanners. =P
Haha I like how you have Peggy going on about her supplements for her work out. Goes to show that everyone has that thing they like to talk about.
Hi, I’m here to complain about the portrayal of vegans. Where do I pick up my badge?
Over there, right next to the… Hot Dog stand, I think?
The line forms over there. Ignore the signs on the wall that say “Incinerator” That’s an, um… typo. :)
And press your head firmly against the air hammer.
Hay guys! I have just been out hunting “Herbivores”.
****Holds up a large side of meat****
Any one got that fire going?
The pit’s just off the parking lot. Don’t want dinner to taste like asphalt.
Campfire, oven, frying pan or BBQ?
Yes to all of the above.
****Starts cutting****
Come grab a chunk, and start cooking.
Bloody rare for me. Just cook it enough to kill the bugs.
*Hands Gamesman a piece still oozing juice into the plate* A man after my own stomach.
“Utensils not needed outside” Grabs meat and tears a hunk out with his teeth chewing with a beautific smile on his face.
*Flame-grills his own piece with the old fingersnap-fireball*
Pyromancy and medium rare steak FTW.
****stare’s at Aussie Bloke****
Are you brooks brother?
Nah, my online persona’s been a pyromancer for years. Sword-and-board pyromancer is my preferred RP character style.
as my mom says that i eat my meat still mooing, gosh i miss her
I’ve known and loved several vegans and vegitarians…but not the soap-box yammering, pulpet pounding kind. Seriously, I don’t care if you’re liberal or conservative, socialist or constitutionalist, Republican or Democrat etc. if you have to get in my face or beat me over the head with your protest sign, then you’ve already lost me. On the other hand, if you’ve gotta point of view and want to sit down over brewskis or whatever your poison is and hash it out, I’m there for you. Especially if you’re buying. Come to think of it, if the firebreather is BUYING I’ll even stick around for a couple of rounds. More than that then I’d probably get pissed off and with the alcohol influencing my behavior….
*get’s in Ga’Tor’s face with a sign saying “Don’t beat me over the head with your sign!”*
Sorry, been fighting that image all week.
Usually, when you use random things to support an argument you naturally use things that have happened before. Maxima has “energy beams” listed as one of her powers on the cast page. I’m thinking of Will Smith in the streampunkish movie ‘Wild Wild West’.
For those of you who haven’t seen the film, Will Smith infiltrated the enemy’s base disguised as a belly dancer wearing a brassiere. During his dance, he discovered that a pair of flamethrowers were hidden in the brassiere. The flames came out when he squeezed.
Harem, Dabbled, and Mathias (especially Mathias) would all approve of the weapon being ARC standard issue.
So long as he did not have to be the one wearing it. As for the ladies, their interest will be based on how much room is left inside the cups so that they can fit in there. If all the space is taken up with a the weapon system, then the ladies won’t have any room for themselves.
Veg*ns have this sort of reputation partly because they’re a minority group. People tend to expect everyone to be a meat-eater, and those of us who aren’t end up having to explain that to new acquaintances on a regular basis. Some can be soapboxy, but to be fair, that goes for nonvegetarians as well. I once met a guy who deduced that I was vegetarian, and promptly launched into a long tirade deriding vegetarianism, and would not fucking shut up about it.
Well you could always get a meat eating friend and trade entrees. Not me though I like my veggies too and deserts, Heck I like food!
Yeah I wrote the comic originally going “hur hur vegans” then after I started drawing it thought “wait, I don’t have anything against vegans, just people who don’t know when to turn off the verbal diarrhea”, so I went back and did some rewriting so it didn’t look like I had a bone to pick. Or… a… sprig of asparagus. You know what I mean.
However I do need to keep in mind that some of my characters might be assholes about some topic or another, and certainly the bad guys might have some unpopular opinions.
I’d love to help you make a really nasty bad guy but it’s your comic and I wouldn’t want to taint the comic with my darkness.
Well one time during a S/F convention I was at a restaurant having a steak, and another con attendee who was a militant Vegan came up to my table and started berating me for eating meat. I told them to go away and leave me to eat in peace. They just got more verbally abusive. I then told them if they did not go away I would have them eating through a straw. The person then grabbed the salt and pepper shakers and emptied them upon my meal. I grabbed their wrist and bent their hand back until they went to their knees. I then asked for the manager to come over and escort the person out before I really hurt them.
I later saw the person at the con, but when they saw me they ran the other direction.
I’ve known one Vegetarian and one Vegan, so my experiences might not be the norm. The Vegetarian was cool about it when I invited him to a BBQ at my place. “Mind if I just have a salad?” I was grilling some corn on the cob and some peaches and had a big salad for everybody anyway so no prob, just popped a couple veggie kabobs on the grill for him too. Couple months later everybody where I worked was having the company Christmas dinner and one of the waitresses brought her B/F. Goddess that guy drove us all NUTS with his bitching about the food. (The fact we were having the dinner at the diner where we worked did NOT help matters any.)
Well to put more perspective on why that person ran I was in costume at the time and I had so many blades on me that I made Kronen from the movie Hellboy look unarmed.
. . . . .Damn, it’s a wonder the guy messed with you in the first place!
He was looking for a negative reaction to justify his idiocy. He later told his vegan friends how a “steroidal” meateater almost killed him over a few words. I guarantee it. These kinds of people have their own versions of reality
At dinner I wasn’t in costume. I find that the police generally have bad reactions to a guy carrying ,
A Sabre, a Kukri, a short hafted battle axe, a main gauche, 2 bowie knives, a large dagger, a longbow with a quiver full of arrows, a short sword who’s scabbard is part of the quiver, and a claymore. So I didn’t arm myself in public.
Pictures please.
https://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/141/b/3/sellsword_by_kaeto1-d3gwm15.jpg
Thank you.
A few more arrows than I’d feel comfortable in the average back quiver. But Nice!
That picture is from when I was just getting started out with costuming.
All those arrows are cedar shafted and half are target points and the other half are broadheads. I only shoot recurve or long bows. With no fancy sights or releases.
I hunt both bow and gun but whatever I shoot I eat. I do not trophy hunt.
If I was slightly wealthy I’d have my own foundry/blacksmith setup and make you some chain mail or at least studded leather. Might take a while though chain mail is a bitch.
I have a chain mail Klingon Honor Sash for a 1/2 Klingon 1/2 Vulcan costume I sometimes wear at cons.
A friend of mine used to make chainmail for fun. He doesn’t anymore because he died.
I once did a Vulcan/Klingon half-breed for star trek rpg. He had found an old file of 20th century earth films and fell in love with the “Three Stogies” and got tossed out of starfleet for making a cream pie photon torpedo (no real damage just lots of whipped cream) and firing it at a bunch of military brass and ambassadors. Yeah I’m weird.
*Looks like Sydney in the last comic* REALLLLY?! I’m liking you more and more! :p
Of course that was a while ago. Nowadays I am either carrying a .38 snub nose revolver or a .455 Webley Revolver.
I’m not usually one to say this, but yeah that was completely justified. I’m just saying I know people who not only would’ve punched the guy in the face but would’ve also kicked wholesale ass for that. That being said I applaud your self restraint and proper handling of that situation. Seriously though, has anyone acting like a raging asshole ever helped their cause? If someone suddenly busted in and started bitching people out for not adopting orphans and started slapping their kids, people would all but say “Fuck the Orphans!”. I wouldn’t be suprized if anyone witnessing this spectacle decided to eat steak for the whole next week just to spite that guy. I like to say “some people are (insert group name) and some people are assholes, you can bet there’s some crossover”, and vegans are no exceptions. Some vegans are nice, while some people are just natural assholes and being vegan just gives them something to be assholes about. Sorry, went on a tangent there. Anyway, Kudos to you good SIr!
I know what you mean. During the 90’s back when the anti-smoking thing was in full swing, I just knew the backlash was about to start up, and if I had the $$$ at the time would of baught cigar company stock at least eight months before the Govenator started lighting up his stogies.
Oh, wow. I may share his views, but I really have to wonder what the hell he was expecting to accomplish with that stunt.
Well see, that’s the thing: You never see heroes worry about a villain or enemy named “Lava Lord’ or the like, it’s pretty straight forward and you don’t have to guess at there powers. But if I was a super and I ran into someone calling himself ” Mr. Waffle”, I’d be HELLA nervous! You don’t know what kinda crazy shit ‘Mr. Waffle’ could bring to the table!
“Gold and crispy, bad guys are hist’ry!”
That’s when you get someone who can summon weather fairies, I hear they have a thing for waffles.
Don’t forget sprites and their love of Pizza!!
Waffo!
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Sprites and Pizza? sorry I don’t know the reference.
Its a Dresden Files reference.
YOU MUST READ THOSE BOOKS!!!
Any one who reads all of the books, and doesn’t like that crazy Chicago Wizard, needs help.
The newest one just came out last week.
Yeah, for a sprite to form an army and help fight one of the QUEENS of the Fae in return for a large pizza a week…yeah that’s love of Pizza.
I thought that was just mutated turtles who have managed to somehow complete ninja training in time to still be in their teens.
Demons too… think about it, when have you ever felt down in the dumps, or doubtful, or panicky when eating Pizza!
I thought it was demons that loved pizza?
EVERYBODY loves pizza.
depends on if its meat pizza or if they militant veg / hindu to the point of calling cheese/milk cruelty and heresy or other belief / condition that would cause issue (lactose intolerant)
I just burst out laughing when I reached panel 5!
You really, really, REALLY need to put for sale a few pocket-size notebooks with “THE LIST” written on ’em. It would sell. Even to a few people who don’t get the reference and just want to make a list of things…
(scribble scribble, adding to my list of things I think are missing from this comic: ability to buy a THE LIST notebook)
…… Or maybe some kind of slipover notebook cover. That would work.
Hehe, maybe even a ‘THE LIST’ clipboard. I could just imagine Sydney wandering around in an especially trying situation with one of those.
That would be a good one to have if you manage any number of people. Picture a boss walking around with that clipboard in his hand. He could be doing a crossword but everyone would assume the worst.
or a bus driver with a bus load of kids
Ah, The List obviously sidney has been taking lessons from the Groundhog on Animaniacs. except his list is of people to Ignore when he gets famous. (he did get famous if I remember but blew it)
I do like the extra bit that shows Peggy is just as verbose as the supers and vegans she was criticising. It’s a nice touch.
Why does she not just put those things back into the tube and go get lunch? (Gasmask optional.)
one, free food! Two. It’s not inconcieveable that the guards are ordered to (Respectfully) not let Syd leave without an escort.
They give her superpowers. ;)
I wonder how she’d handle people like Jade Sinclair from Whateley Academy who make a big deal about their powers because they’re spouting blatant lies and actually have a completely different set of powers than what they claim to have and are just very good at faking the official power set.
It might not be that hard to figure out — Jade’s power is easily disguisable both because of the nature of the power and because no one has ever heard of anything like it. Most supers with obfuscation as a goal would be better off just changing a few details (like Ayla, who managed to get “dark chocolate administered orally” to the official list of her weaknesses.)
Also, Jade only makes a big deal of her powers when she’s actually using them. Her outfit and reputation do the rest.
Makes me think of two characters from the Manga (Needless), *the anime screws up the second guy with a plot twist unique to the anime…which makes the two episodes they spent explaining his power utterly pointless* (ending rant about anime writers tacking on endings to on-going Manga)
Anywho
the first guy claimed to have Reality warping powers, making spike floors appear, spike balls, creating barriors, ect… in reality he had projected invisibility and set up traps and walls ahead of time selecting what to make visible or invisible to give the impression he was manifesting things.
the second guy had what the Manga called “The fourth wave” and spent forever explaining it. Put simply, he could absorb energy and project it. He did it with such control though that he gave the impression he had multiple powers. By absorbing energy and releasing it just right he could cause an area to freeze up and create gusts of wind *creating high and low pressure zones by absorbing and releasing energy quickly*, naturally also could create fire with released energy.
(the anime screwed up his character by making him a power copier like the main character and villain. Which made the long explination of how he was faking having multiple powers pointless as he could in the anime actually have multiple powers. In the Manga there was no such twist not sure why the anime felt the need to do this (maybe they thought it was the twist coming up because the creator of the Manga drew this character to look so simular to the main character…but nope, I think he just drew several large muscular men about the same way).
Power copying? It’s for tacky villains (and their minions) in DnD games and in comics within a comic now, unless the artist explicitely wants to point out how overused and tacky it usually is.
(how does a supervillain get several minions with power copying powers too? Do they use their power copying ability to get the power copying ability they don’t have before they copy it??)
Besides one has to wonder how it can copy ‘the power’ and nothing else. What if it’s ‘just training from hell and talent’ like Matt? How does the copying magic or machine figure out what to copy or not?
One would wonder what a power copy crown would get out of Achilles, the invulnerability is not that useful without the taunting… or knowing what you stole…
well there are several types of power copiers.
In Needless he had to see a super-power, and even then he ended up not just copying the power but the actual technique *special move* as well. Didn’t show any signs of making his own techniques from the power. But had to have his forehead gem actually touch a person for higher class powers *like he couldn’t copy Psychokinesis or Energy absorption by looking at it*
the laziest is the by sight or just being around “Mimmics”,
there is the Genetic Mimmic, which can be the vampiric, touch, genetic material (blood drinking, skin contact, or require some form of genetic material), the darkest of this class being the Power Cannabalism characters (those who have to eat the flesh of a super to gain their powers, like the younger Togoru from Yu Yu Hakusho, Majin Buu from DBZ, or Kirby)
there is also the chi-eater and aura sight immitation technique guys *usually temporary but allow copy of chi moves and magic powers*.
there are more subtle versions that arn’t outright power copiers like Aura Adjustment (those who can change their elemental alignment and power type to match that of their opponent, but don’t have the same moves “power stunts/experience”. Although you see the inverted version more often (those whose aura adjust to the opposite element of their opponent, which can be good or bad depending on the situation).