Grrl Power #1119 – How to survive a 1,770 mile fall
The thing about portal travel over that distance would be the sudden change in the pollen profile. Suddenly discovering hitherto unknown allergies, and not gradually like on a road trip. One breath would be all the pollutants you’re used to, next breath would be a full lungful of exciting new spores and molds. Even if you had really mild seasonal allergies, I think the sudden change would tickle the stoutest sinuses.
I lucked out on the allergy front, personally. I sneeze about six times in the spring, take a loratadine, and I’m pretty much good for the year. My wife on the other hand loves mangos, and you guessed it, is allergic to mangos. Isn’t that always the way? I’m fully indifferent to mangos. I don’t actively seek them out, but if a juice blend has mango in it, I don’t actively avoid it. I guess I’m actually not a fan of just straight up slices of mango. It’s kind of slimy feeling. They’re like… anti-pears. I mean, pears are kind of slimy too, but they’re also gritty. I guess mangos are really anti-apples. Apples being crisp and fibrous, and non-slimy.
Really went off on a tangent there. Anyway, superheroes!
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There is surely an awful lot of wind going through portals that distance apart from each other as the air pressure on either side attempts to equalize itself.
Which is why when harem teleports there’s a loud pop! sound. a portal could have a skin or something that matter can push through but doesn’t allow it to come back through. Think Stargate, nothing but energy waves can come in a out-bound wormhole.
Shouldn’t be. Air pressure isn’t quite the same across the planet, but it doesn’t vary that much – even between the high and low points in the US it’s, what, 12 psi vs 14.7 psi? And IIRC the areas in question are pretty close to one another.
Harem’s pops are something completely different – that’s not air pressure, that’s either a vacuum collapsing (something was, then something wasn’t) or space being made for something appearing.
The effect on the portal traveller is going to depend mostly on how sharp the transition is. A 2psi differential would generate 70 mph winds, moving through that adjustment over say 1 second would probably pop your ears fiercely, but an instant application is enough to cause bodily injury and damage buildings.
Really like the double-bird fadeaway in panel one.
There’s _always_ time for spite! ^_^
*Applauds. Yes indeed!
Thirded, if there was room for a speech or thought bubble it might be saying “Later F*ckers!”
It’s the best panel of this page cause someone would have the guts to throw at least one bird on the way out if they were not scared.
hm profile for Death Tolls shown on the side is the older version… not sure why I took notice
Yeah, Dave used the old tag ‘deathtoll01’, instead of the new one ‘fwtdt01’.
Hopefully when this story is over,we can check on Sydney and the others in Senegal…
Man, she would feel real awkward if this ended with the top of his head stuck or separated.
Varia’s power tends to offerful immunity/protection for the powers of those she Gestalt links to. He’s fine.
A comment about allergies and the 1770 mile fall.
A bit of information from my old anatomy and physiology classes. Allergy is an immune system response. Anaphylaxis is an EXTREME immune system response.
While such as translocation may well result in coming into contact with things dangerous or lethal, the likelihood of coming into contact with an allergen (agent for more general application) to would inversely correspond to the general distribution of the agent.
One only develops an allergy AFTER initial contact and the reaction of the body to it. An allergy is the body going spastic fighting/dealing with an agent it has previously identified and developed antibodies and antigens to. In the case of anaphylaxis add in the body taking EXTREME actions to deal with the agent such that are used at lesser levels to deal with various biological threats (fever, vasodilation, vasoconstriction, …).
Therefore if one has never encountered the allergen in the past, the antigens, antibodies, and other immune responses no response will occur.
Not entirely true. I went through chemo back in 2010, and for the first treatment they had me so doped up with Benadryl that I could barely stay conscious, and a crash cart on hand, because a non-trivial proportion of patients went into anaphylactic shock when the drugs hit their system.
Despite never having encountered them before.
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Belated Happy New Year!
* waves excitedly * Did you fall into a portal and get stuck here in the future?!
YORPIE!!!
You survived 2022!!!
*offers Yorpie treats* we have missed you.
Hey yorpie! *gives yorpie snax*
Happy New Year. No chasing the bunnies, it’s the year of the rabbit.
also, every 10 or so bunnies chased… is a jackelope in disguise. or it is the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
With huge, pointy teeth!
Worse, it may be a wölpertinger…
I hear they can linger.
Speaking of talking cartoon dogs, how is Dogbert these days? Is he still winning arguments by just waving his paw and saying “Bah!”?
Hard telling. It’s been a decade since Scott Adams had anything meaningful or useful to say.
Um, roll call. Varia, Harem, and Jiggawatt were all involved here. Who just said the shoelaces were untied, and when did she arrive ?
That’s Varia, who has suddenly gotten a noticeable tan in the last two minutes. Could be the backlighting from Doormaker’s eyes, but probably just an oops on DaveB’s part .
He also ‘fixed’ Vahriah’s nose back to what it should be
She let go of metal super, so reverted back to herself.
No, go back a few pages, her nose is wrong, even when not touching Osmium-Gal
But wouldn’t the portal close and lop of the top of his head when his eyes went through?
Not if it takes a moment for the energy forming it to disperse once the source is removed. I’m more concerned about where his next portal will take them if passing through doesn’t turn off his Technicolor Dreamvision and they all fall through the sidewalk in Boston as he flails around getting his bearings.
That seems like a legitimate risk. They’re playing with powers they don’t understand hoping they’re less likely to kill them than the opponents in front of them, I guess?
Wow, that was a Sydney level answer to a problem..
Fresh pairs shouldn’t be slimy…
… Pairs of what?
Maybe he meant pears?
there’s always two
a master and an apprentice.
here’s a piece of simple magic, it’s an easy trick, I fear,
for it only takes a letter ‘p’ to make a pear appear.
Yeah, duh finger moved faster than my brain.
Heh heh, no worries, most of us have fun with errors rather than get all nasty (some get nasty, but not many of those here)
Let’s just hope the portal doesn’t disappear exactly when his eyes reach it, but lasts another second or so.
The detail i like most of all here is the former prisoner giving the archvillians the double finger as they escape.
The solution may have gone off on a tangent, but the solution was normal… (Vector puns are fun)
Snagglepuss: Exit. Stage right.
Technically, it was an “Exit. Stage below.”
Get Varia to cosine on that tangent, ok?
The big question is how gravitational potential energy works with teleportation and portals.
Unless you just go “science was wrong, potential energy isn’t real and it actually works in some other way” of course.
The fact you are working with teleportation and portal already is telling you that science was wrong…
I admit the shoe lace untied bit was silly BUT it shows he can go through his own protal, not a bad move BTW but I really REALLY hate Death Toll. Rather see him and his friends get clobbered good and hard.
Technically, he hasn’t gone all the way through… yet
Hmm… I’m skeptical that this will work. I seem to remember an X-Man with this kind of power who tried to be smart and ‘go through his own portal’ by doing this and he cut off his own head.
Guess in this kind of situation you experiment but… I’d be terrified if I was Varia.
She’d have to be ready to stop him from looking up and looking at her because he realized his shoes were, in fact, not untied. Since he is still new at his powers, he might not be mentally fast enough to not just look around.
Yeah, was thinking that as well
Not just that, but what’s stopping him from freaking out seeing the portal appear beneath his feet! Even if they do just ‘bounce’ a few feet along the road in Boston, it’s still gonna look like a very long drop…
Will the portal get smaller as his eyes get closer to it?
It’s interesting!
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Pizza Tower, huh? Sounds delicious!