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.
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Hope he doesn’t blink as they fall
I guess the portal was persistant to not cut the top of their heads off as they fell through it.
It’s a valid concern, seeing how the portal is projected from his eyes, but we’ll see how it turns out for them next page.
As for the V-masked guy, I first thought he had some high level super strength, but the purple aura around his hand makes me now think it is rather some telekinetic or magnetic force that let him push the bars away like that.
We’ve seen him against our master of mistical arts and X. He is the one who kidnaped the doppleganger by “accident”.
You sure?
And no purple glow on the other guy’s hand when using his power.
I’m Guesticules on this one.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1075-respect-my-personal-space/
The mask is different and the muttonchops are missing.
While that’s not necessarily conclusive in a real-world situation, it does make it very unlikely within the medium of a comic.
Not to mention: different chin
The only thing that would concern me is whatever the implants/kink bombs in the prisoners are rigged to. If they have ‘fail deadly’ sensors that set them off if they LEAVE the Ascenders base… well…
Fortunately, it looks like Dave has chosen NOT to have a repeat of the Unwinder Round Incident.
bear in mind that rich people did not get rich by buying the most sophisticated systems. the easiest way to do the booby trap is with a boundary. it would be tragic if they are using the same system that Walmart uses… and the Boston crew finds out when they go to get something quick for the prisoners.
I don’t know. Back in the 70’s, when I was seriously considering becoming a super villain, (Fortunately I made some friend in college, and changed career goals.) my sinus implant blackmail bombs were certainly going to have watchdog timers, and go off if out of contact with me for too long, among other triggering events.
I love the fact that one of the prisoners takes the time to flip the double bird to Team Asshole on their way out.
Isn’t that Mr Metric?
If you asked my wife, she’d say you’re eating over-ripe mangoes. She’s from the Philippines, and prefers them a bit sour and crisp, with salt.
Bet the strong silent type with the skull-cuffs soon will get his hands full of Maxima… wonder if he has anything else up those sleeves than strength?
Hopefully, when Maxi is finished with him, he won’t even have arms up his sleeves :P
Just now noticed the cuffs, wonder if that’s a company theme given PBS’s mask, or just a generic “I’m dark and evil” vibe. Or perhaps a remnant of his pimply goth phase in high school.
Guess the strong silent type with the skul-cuffs soon will have his hands full of Maxima… hope he has other skills than strength up those sleeves XD
Teleporting so that you are still on the surface, but 90 degrees around the globe from where you were, means that your bodily orientation would be 90 degrees to the perpendicular. Unless there is a magic in teleportation that keeps your same orientation relative to the center of the Earth?
If teleportation only moved you just as you are, then ‘porting even a few hundred miles should throw you off balance, at least.
That’s like saying that when you get off the plane in Australia, you will be upside down.
I mean, come on… teleportation and portals is basically magic, in a comic-strip context. OF COURSE you come out right-side-up and static relative to local velocities.
If that bothers you, read Larry Niven’s “Jumpshift” stories where the problem is treated more fully.
Teleportation your orientation upon arrival is easy. Harem does it all the time and has shown the “neat trick” way back. Portals though gravity doesn’t hit you the second you enter it. This guy is gonna road rash himself a bit.
Daphne has had plenty of practice though
You are correct about the road rash thing, or at least ‘fall’ horizontally until they hit something
The character “Nightcrawler” in Marvel comics always arrived with the same orientation and speed he had leaving. One time he had to port around in a thunderstorm until he found a serious updraft to cut his velocity, to avoid killing himself when he ported back to the ground, after a blind teleport left him too high above the ground.
But, yeah, already established that here when Harem stepped through without falling on her face.
Refrigerator logic. you would need a high end EF3 Tornado worth of updraft to reduce a terminal velocity fall. Better would be to just TP back to your starting position immediately and pick a better target.
As I recall, his starting position was a substantial distance underground in a cell in Doom’s castle. Nightcrawler did a blind jump upwards as high as he could in order to escape.
He was being kept in a featureless cube cell/death trap, teleported two miles straight up, then frantically hopped around a couple seconds until his fall slowed from the updraft, then teleported a last time about twenty feet above a lake. I don’t think he hit terminal velocity at any point.
Same issue had Angel catch a falling Storm and made a special issue of how he had to match and then gradually slow her downward velocity, lest either of them be seriously hurt.
They have established that Harem has to worry about moment and orientation when she teleports and I think this guy is about to fall on his back from eye-level after he falls feet first through his portal. But I don’t think that orientation relative to global position has factored in yet. Harem can’t teleport far enough for it to be an issue and the portal clearly has an established orientation, presumably it is based on one of Varia’s memories.
Actually, Harem might be able to teleport far enough that moment and orientation are relevant. We know from this https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-dabblers-science-corner-2/ that she can teleport “hundreds of miles” and there’s no reason to think she couldn’t teleport to her childhood home from farther than that.
It’s actually a very interesting question. Since velocity, acceleration, and momentum are all relative concepts; when teleporting you need to keep those relative to some kind of reference point. If that reference point is your point of origin (conservation of energy and all that), then you would go splat, if you teleported any long distance in any direction. If you teleport up, the air would be rotating at a different speed than your starting point making you go splat in a very loud way from hitting all that moving air. Likewise if you teleport down because movement is relative. And if you teleport far enough in any of the other directions, since we live in a thin layer on a sphere which is rotating, i.e. moving in a different direction on different sides, you’d still go splat, your blood and intestine spray would just curve more gracefully.
So, the lack of randomly exploding humans means teleporting is not using the departure point as frame of reference, which means some object at the destination point is the frame of reference. If it is a physical object that already introduces a limitation: You can’t teleport into vacuum. Alternatively, you’re creating a portal that you then come out of, but this would leave portal residues, which we haven’t found. So we can tentatively conclude that teleporters must have an existing physical object to teleport to.
Let’s imagine you’re at home and you’re teleporting into an airplane. The plane is your point of reference so you don’t go splat. but where does the energy difference between you at home and you in a plane come from? Do you leave behind a deeply frozen or ignited home? (Which depends on whether the plane is flying with or against the movement of the solar system through space). Or do you have some other places you can use as an energy source/sink. If you can only have a source or a sink but not both, that would mean you can only teleport in certain directions.
As I said, fascination subject matter, no?
There was a episode pf Stargate-SG1 where Carter to escape the bad guys of the week drops into a Stargate rotated through 90 degrees to escape & effectively tumbles out the other side due to the momentum of falling, rather than normal walking/running into the wormhole.
More than one episode like that (like the second episode with the Aschen), and not only with Carter :). I think the whole reprientation thing has happened with Teal’c too. :)
Plus the rogue NID group under Maybourne did it too when escaping from SG-1 and SGC’s strike group.
*reorientation
Stupid phone.
Isaac Asimov’s short story, “The Billiard Ball,” plays with the differing speeds of differing frames of reference. It is much easier to stick with ‘magic’ does the details right.
One of Spider Robinson’s stories does similar with time travel: someone uses a time travel device to jump back in time — and arrives in empty space because Earth at that *time* had not yet arrived at the *spatial* location that the time-jumper was in. She (the jumper) didn’t know that the maker of the device had a way to account for that….
You have a point about mangos. I mean, I like them quite a bit, but they are so much bloody hassle and mess to prep. And as far as pears go, you might be the first person other than myself to mention their gritty texture, which is something I absolutely cannot stand. Gimme a nice, crisp Granny Smith apple.
Cut next to the seed, removing rouglhly half the flesh, skin on.
Slice the flesh with parallel cuts in two directions, still on the skin.
Push on the outside of the skin and it will invert.
Cut the dice-size cubes of mango off the skin.
Enjoy.
… Have never met another person who liked to eat Granny’s raw, most claim they are cooking apples
Been eating Granny’s since childhood, and the only thing left is the stalk and the flower-bit (yes, even eat the seeds, but it’s only the Granny seeds, all other apples retain their seeds)
I prefer what many people call cooking apples. Golden Delicious apples just aren’t. I never minded the texture of pears but I grew up eating them as soon as I could pull them off the tree.
Wait, Golden Delicious are supposed to be cooking apples as well?
Seriously believe people confuzzle Granny Smith with Crab-apples
Yeah, have always liked pears (except avocados), even the Nachi (spelling?) and managed to get one to grow from seed (not sure if regular or brown yet, stuck the core from both in soil and one has started growing :) )
Have found them to be juicy and gritty, but never slimy
Delicious that is, Golden Delicious apples don’t strike me as being nearly as tasty as other varieties and they often aren’t as crisp.
Golden are bland and soft more often than not, especially in the store, but just about any variety straight off the tree is better than anything store-bought. A good Envy is fantastic, that or a Pink Lady are my favorites.
“ Have never met another person who liked to eat Granny’s raw”
This is a uncomfortable line if you dont have context. :)
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i love the dude in the first panel just flipping of the villains xD
He doesnt even has shoelaces on his shoes…
this shows that, we, men, dont really pay attention to shoes….
Means you don’t give prisoners shoes with shoelaces.
Also, Mr Purple Mask & Skull Cufflinks is the same telekinetic who attacked the Arclight HQ.
Didn’t he have mutton chops? Don’t see them here. Where as I see them here (well, if linky thingy works):
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1074-open-door-policy/
Can’t really tell, but think about it, can’t a guy suddenly see how lame they are and shave?
No, chops (or any facial hair that long) are an investment and you can’t just start over willy-nilly. Plus ever member of the Ascenders we’ve seen so far is a massive narcissist, so if anyone doesn’t like them that person is just wrong and unworthy of his consideration.
Before I became a fireman I wore a full beard, it’s a amazing how fast you can change your “style” once your face is on fire! Flashed right up my face shield, got yelled at for throwing my helmet off too! Went through the mullet, chops and gotee phase over the years, as you get older the “look” doesn’t matter as much…
Someone who spent that long grooming those ‘chops isn’t going to suddenly go “You know what? These are stupid, and I should get rid of them!”
I could grow a set of chops in a couple of weeks myself but since my beard is fully grey now so it’d look silly. The whole “mid-life crisis” thing would get started by everyone that knows me.
Chin and mask are different as well
I don’t think so,that guy didn’t have any purple glow around his hands while using his power – also the skin colors look different. (Aside from his beard, mask, cowl, which he could have changed I guess.
Looks like they’re leaving Jigawatt behind
The day is still young, but yeah, as supers you clear out the civilians first. We have seen that PB can bind Jiggawatt if he can intercept her energy but it remains to be seen if he ( or other of the bad guys) can hold her if she isn’t engaging in an attack. She may be unconscious at the moment but what’s to keep her from slipping out through the wiring once there isn’t a reason to hang around,
plus too… surprise has been lost. this means, someone’s at the door, and she is not happy. (fortunately she does not share Panders love of puns.)
Harem and Jiggs are both highly mobile. The odds of anybody preventing them from getting away hover right betweeen ‘zero’ and ‘plot device.’ If there was anybody here I’d worry about leaving behind it would be Varia, and she’s surviving a 1770-mile fall at the moment.
Seriously, how do you leave Jiggawatt behind? If she’s not unconscious or stuck with Stupid-Name-Death-Tolls, she’s anywhere in the world in ten minutes or so. She arcs to one of the building’s metal frame members, circumvents ground fault isolation in any room with a power outlet, pops out at a power substation ten miles away, uses an abandoned transcontinental-telegraph line from the 1930s to cross the puddle, and shows up in Boston in time for roll call.
Yeah, but Jiggawatt is publicly known for her powers and has displayed them to For Whom the Death Tolls.
The bad guys knowing all this are left with several options:
1. If she cannot be contained, we kill her
2. Keep her unconscious until we can figure out a sure way to contain her (Concretia was in a permanent coma)
3. Place her in an existing secure cell with a Faraday cage and rubber lined besser brick (unknown if this would work but possible and they have a faraday cage for the data at least)
4. Administer power suppressing drugs they might have developed (speculative)
Personally, I would have encouraged Harem to keep a self there, just to keep them pinned and under observation. Harem should be easily able to escape if necessary but if she can stay there she could badger, distract and possibly even find ways to attack, teleporting around to avoid retaliation. As long as she doesn’t send one of those attacks against For Whom the Death Tolls the risk should be minimal.
I can’t see them catching Jiggs (if she actually was left behind, which seems unlikely), unless she’s woozy from the hit, or the telekinetic is the rock to her scissors. She is literally fast as lightning, just a couple hops back the way she came and up the metal conduit to the surface. Or straight out through the nearest power lines, as she no longer cares about subtlety or trashing their infrastructure.
They kill her, and all gloves are off and they become a stain on the ground when caught
Yeah difficult to say if they care about Archon taking the gloves off or not. When Sydney’s interrogator thought to kill her the lesser cowls were certainly concerned about the backlash. However their flamethrower didn’t hesitate to try and kill Arianna in the raid. Some Goon Squad members shot to kill while others demanded surrender. I discount the sleepy gas and tasers because they were more likely attempts to take down supers who could ignore bullets or before they could fight.
Considering they’re perfectly willing to kidnap, conduct medical experiments on humans and all the messed up stuff around Concretia, I’m sure they have zero ethical problems around killing but if they’re sure she won’t be a threat or is adequately neutralized, there’s a chance they’d simply see no benefit in an outright kill, even with no other options available, and take the additional option of leaving her to avoid perceived reprisal.
She will have to be left until the scene is secure and she can be transported safely to medical treatment. Oh, look. Here comes Max and Hiro, so the scene is about to be secure.
Max: You are under arrest for assault on a law-enforcement officer. I still think your handle is stupid. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do say, may be recorded and used as evidence in court against you. …
Hiro: You are under arrest under Section 1382 of Title 18 for trespassing on a military base for the commission of criminal acts. Other charges will be pending. You have the right to remain silent …
Krona: Gotta love deputations. I know I rendered you unconscious to keep you from running away, but I got to get some practice in. You are under arrest for involvement in a criminal organization, conspiracy to commit forcible confinement, and other stuff we will figure out later. You are already pretty quiet, so I guess I can skip the first part. For some reason, you get to talk with a lawyer when you wake up. …
Actually… none of these three were involved in the attack on ArchonHQ, and the only way to determine if they have the Real Ted is by killing him (even sticking a knife into his kneecap from the wrong side isn’t enough to tell)
Max is talking to Periwinkle Butt Sniffer. Hiro is talking to the telekinetic, who is probably the same guy that invaded the base and Krona is talking to the lady, who is probably a portal maker. None are assuming Ted/Goon Squad is here.
So the eyes pass through the portal and start projecting on the new ground under him and goes somewhere else, or back through the same portal exit and keeps falling faster until he changes where he looks and hits hard.
After the eyes pass through and the projector is gone will the top of his head get through before the portal collapses?
I fully get his concerns about going through his own portal.
For all we know his portal will shut down as soon as he passes through it. His power is a complete question mark.
We can hope, because so far this comic has been PG or PG-13 at worst, that the portal is at least somewhat sticky or laggy and will persist even once his eyes are on the other side, for at least one or two seconds… otherwise the top half of his head likely won’t make it through
Did you missed the unwinder round incident?
Or the offal Cooter incident in the vault? Definitely some gruesome events, but they don’t happen on-screen and we haven’t seen much detail of the carnage, so it’s still PG-13.
Fair. Mind you, I’m still wondering how bodies, electronics, body armor etc wandering through the projection aren’t messing with it.
It seems to be an unwritten rule that powers come with quite a bit of built-in protection from (self)harm. Would be a pretty grimdark (and sparsely populated) universe, if most powers frazzled themselves or others on day 1 of their origin story.
This universe definitely includes protection from your own powers, but falling through a series of aligned portals at high speed was my first thought as well. Fall damage is separate from collapsing portals.
Would teleporting be substantially different from stepping off an airplane? There’s no gradual acclimation in that scenario either, just a sudden mouthful of nature after hours of recycled, neutral air.
Agreed.
*Add ‘Mouthful of Nature’ to list of potential band names*
Also, reminds me of this line from an old movie.
Didn’t Larry Niven deal with the physics of teleportation in some of his short stories or novels? E.g., you keep your kinetic energy and if you teleport 90° around the Earth at the equator you’ll either being going up or down at approximately 1,000 mph.
Also the game Portal. As GLaDoS put it when dumbing it down for Chell:
“Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.”
I would assume it depends on the orientation of the portal itself, so if the portal must be in the same orientation, then there are possible velocity/ acceleration issues, but if you can place the portal relative to the ground, then you should exit relative to the PORTAL, not relative to where you left from?
since we can see the orientation of the exit portal is fairly close to the orientation of the extrance portal, there will likely be some disorientation, but the different velocities should be tolerable and merely disorienting – not fatal or even particularly dangerous to most folks
Stephen Baxter also dealt with this in his Xeelee sequence.
And, historically, E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith dealt with it way back in the first book of his Lensman series.
Ah, the Lensmen!
That guy was WAY ahead of his time. Rereading that series is always a joy because I always find some new thing I missed the first few times. So many cool things about that series have aged remarkably well.
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The thing I always worry about teleporting and portals (even just opening them in this case) is altitude sickness. I mean, you’re supposed to have a day of rest for every 600m travelled vertically – it really puts a damper on teleporting from, say, the Netherlands to Italy. We know they’re already 40m down, I just hope that the relative locational height differences aren’t too severe.
It only really matters over 8k feet / 3k meters elevation. They suggest 300 m per day is a good rate, with an extra day of rest for every 1k meters.
Netherlands to Italy shouldn’t be much of a problem. Most of the big cities are coastal (Rome is the same altitude as Netherlands). Even Asiago is only at 1k meters.
It sort of does though. While the elevation measured from sea level might be the same from, you are ~20 km closer to the center of the Earth in Oslo than you are in Egypt, so while you’ve got this vast global gravitational isocline at the surface (where there’s no local “downhill” that can reduce your potential energy), you’re subject to noticeably more gravity and noticeably less centripetal force the further you get from the Equator.
And this matters for purposes of Air pressure.
This always sort of freaks me out because these ‘balancing’ forces are operating in the same direction – reducing your reliance on the mechanical support of the earth – rather than in opposed directions the way ‘balancing’ forces are supposed to. If you follow the isocline all the way to where mechanical support of the Earth (and the air pressure supported thereby, natch) is zero, you find geosynchronous orbit.
That really would have put a damper on my last trip to Utah; I went from a few hundred feet in SC to 10K there. I think I wouldn’t have had enough time to go hiking the Cedar Breaks if I’d followed that rule.
Didn’t notice any problems, except when I tried running up those stairs, and ran out of steam halfway up the first flight… I think maybe it depends on how much exercise you’ve been getting before hand?
I live on the edge of the Rockies and routinely make trips with 4-5K feet (1-1.5 KM) of elevation change in about 30 minutes of driving, with hours spent there before dropping back down. Never felt a thing, it’s only 2-3 psi difference and over a long time frame. Pressure when diving is a much bigger deal, I’ve never even heard of needing a rest between elevation changes in atmosphere.
Seems like altitude sickness is more due to the decreased oxygen and dehydration, not the air pressure.
For reference, diving in water generally only necessitates safety stops (of ~5 minutes) on the way up if you go below 1 atmosphere (~15psi) which is about 10 meters or 33 ft, and it’s a good idea to not fly for 12-24 hours after. So changing by 1/5 atm isn’t going to do much unless it’s a very steep gradient between sides of the portal, and even if it’s near-instant it would probably just pop your ears.
Mostly, it’s a your mileage may vary type thing. 2-3 psi can also trigger flare ups in certain health conditions, and a few of those conditions are often undiagnosed until a really bad flare up. Migraines, and Adrenal fatigue are the usual suspects rather than altitude sickness directly though.
I live by the coast, above or below sea level depends on the tides, rain and our crummy drainage system, once flew out to Denver Colorado (aka the Mile High City) for a weekend. I was easily winded and had the worst nosebleed of my life the first night. Next day I was pretty much good to go. I’d take it over being a lab rat in an evil organization’s basement any day.
Living in Texas, going to Colorado Springs was pretty easy but driving up Pikes Peak, that last thousand feet in elevation hit me pretty hard. I don’t smoke and lead a reasonably active lifestyle but as soon as I got out of the car, I was gasping.
As a teen, I went to Philmont, a high-adventure Boy Scout camp. We spent several MONTHS, training with long distance hikes. The first day we could get winded walking up a flight of stairs. The next day we were ready to climb mountains.
Next panel – the portal guy looks up as he falls down. The portal moves, cutting him and Varia in half
Cool fact about mangoes, they are a cousin to Poison Ivy, which is why they are a more common allergy!
Don’t tell the writers of Batman.
*That* explains a lot. Allergic to poison ivy, mango makes my tongue numb, and I can’t have a quarter-cup of cashews as a snack because they make my arms itch–because they’re related to poison ivy. I wonder–are cantaloups in the same family (they also make my tongue numb, but didn’t until after the mango incident)… At least I can still eat cashew chicken; not enough cashews to cause a reaction (yet…).
They are not related below the taxonomic Class Rosids. As are the rest of the true melons, cantaloupes are Order Cucurbitales and poison ivy and its cousins are Order Sapindales. Mangos, on the other hand, have the same lineage until they split at the Genus.
Panel 9: the world is upside down.
Can’t harem just teleport the prisoner compliance devices off the people? I remember her being able to teleport people’s clothes off them.
Most likely, unless the bomb idea someone had was the real thing, which I doubt it’s not a for-sure kill. more like a 15-30 second delay and then an auto-injector kicks in with blow fish poison or something along those lines.
If it was things like bomb collars, she could risk herself to do it, yes.
But it’s implanted, inside the arm.
Now you’re thinking with Portals!
I think I see an urgent request for jump boots in the next panel.
Long Fall Boots.
https://youtu.be/wX9Sc88qreg
Really? All the grief about puns, and you’re the one who had to say it?!
..to be fair, it had to be said.
This goes a long way to proving my theory, She is just Jealous.
We know what evil lurks in her heart.
That wasn’t a pun!
*pat pat* Of course it wasn’t a play on words
Its the catchphrase and meme for the game Portal! :)
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thinking-with-portals
and the companion cube is not sentient, and is not talking to you. if it was it would tell you its ok, you did what you had to do.
We know, it’s okay, truly, let’s just have a walk with these nice people in their crisp white coats, they have a jacket in your size they want you try on
I fear it is too late, a hit squad has been dispached. We sent the contract over to Zeke’s Zombies as their business is lurching along, at best. You can expect them to arrive sometime in mid March.
I demand to speak to customer service!
Fair, but be warned, it’s dead over there and they will only be encouraged if you give them a piece of your mind.
And don’t bother calling, their help line will leave you in the lurch.
You receive far too much glee from this sort of thing! :)
I’m actually a bit irked that my own puns are able to pass without comment. Me being me, I suppose they were stealth puns?
Pander is probably ignoring the conflict of interest – can’t hire you to target yourselves.
Sure she can, after all, I am my own worst enemy.
You have a curious take on lucking out with allergies. I don’t have any allergy issues that I’m aware of and only know about local pollens, etc. when I hear other people complaining about them. After that, I sometimes wonder about the weird dust coating my car. I have no issues with breathing from one city to another. Also, I don’t like mangoes. I agree that they’re weirdly slimy, but I just don’t like the taste.
Tree jizz! Gets all over EVERYTHING!!!
As someone who actually has allergies… No. It’s not an instant first breath thing. Now if you’re portaling into like… a swamp it might become a problem but not the first breath. Probably more along the end of the first hour.
Looks like they’re all in Boston…! I wonder how long they’ll stay there?!?
Hopefully for a while so Varia can show them around. I kinda want to meet her family.
Oooohh, we could get more details for the betting pool on her ancestry!
Also, hope they stay there until fall and cross it off their lists of things they don’t do.
They are about to discover how the portal affects mementum, or more precisely how it does not. Whether momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In Laymen’s Terms: Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.
I’m more worried about the fact that they’re falling into the portal from rest, and they’re coming out of the portal with gravity pointing back towards the portal, so as they fall through, the increasingly Bostonian portion of their bodyweight will pull them back “down” into the portal, and they’ll linear-pendulum back and forth, until they eventually come to rest floating with their centres of mass wobbling around the portal horizon.
Unless someone in Boston grabs them by the ankles and pulls them the rest of the way through.
No, it looks like the portal at the other end maintained its orientation, and is still oriented horizontally. They’ll fall through this one and slide out of the other.
…and right into oncoming traffic, in front of a truck full of souffle and kittens. Although actually it looks to me like the other end of the portal is now laying on the ground in Boston, and they’ll pop out upside down. If momentum is conserved, they should only go just past the other end and end up doing a momentary headstand just after the portal closes. Or fall from just a few inches, uncomfortable but hardly serious.
Luckily, they have Xochitl with them at their destination….to translate the local idiom.
Maybe it’s just that my road trips often consist of epic 10 hour drives but the impact on my allergies might as well be instantaneous. For me, my allergies are almost always better on the road and come back when I get home.
Well, now we know that V Mask’s name is Richard!
thanks Dead Troll!
Next panel we get to see his headless corpse in Boston because the portal will close when his eyes pass through it (and he’s looking down so that’s his entire head above them.)
pretty sure portal won’t close instantly, and since he’s falling down he will likely slip into it before it closes
Now that I think of it, they won’t pass all the way through the portal anyway. Gravity is still the right way on the other side of the portal so once half of their weight is though, and laying on the Boston-ground, they’ll just stop “falling” though the portal. Plus if he looks away from his feet before somebody on the other side drags them though they’ll get sliced in half. https://i.imgur.com/wV4kHNM.png
there still gonna be inertia sufficient to move the body for the majority of it. Judging by the smug look of Varia, she certainly expects destination’s ground to be an obstacle, so I expect her to “help” to the rest of it
I dunno, it’s only a fall of a few feet and Varia is in the same boat as him.
Heheheh, apples vs mangoes. I have six acres of Gala apples. Apple cider, apple WINE is a real thing, just picking a Gala off the tree, washing it off and going all crunch time. After harvest is over we always have tons left on the trees for neighbors, gleaners and the church.
You’re lucky, fresh apples (and juice / cider) directly from an orchard is a glorious thing.
The downside to this experiment being worked on by bad guys is…
We’re not going to get exposition that explains how it worked this week.
It’s going to remain a plot point that we’re just going to have to deal with not knowing how it worked.
Specially the interaction with Varia, was that planned?
We’re not going to know for MONTHS, maybe a year.
I’m no meteorologist, but I guess the pressure difference between two far away places in a portal would create a strong wind coming in or out of it. The allergies could start the moment it’s open, even before going throught it.
Wait, Portal Guy keeps making the portal even when Varia’s not touching him? Or is Varia in two places at once here…? Or holding on to two people at a time? I am very confused.
Yes. The portal remains even after Varia stopped touching him.
A friend of my physician is highly allergic to shellfish, but is mad about lobster.
So every year, on his birthday, he loads himself up with anti-histamine, takes his epi-pen with him, and goes to enjoy the heck out of a big lobster meal.
He usually coasts through without much inconvenience because of the preemptive anti-histamine and the epi shot, but has the ambulance on speed-dial, just in case.
That dude has brass balls, I am impressed.
This reminds me of the Sumo wrestler who died by going from restaurant to restaurant and eating puffer fish. The meal has a trace amount of poison which is just enough to make your lips tingle. He had eight plates.
Everyone’s ears just popped painfully as they descend about a 500 feet in one step.
Ok who is the Sydney clone in second panel and why is she important to story?????
She’s the one that gave Varia metal powers. She’s in Panel 1 too. And a couple of panels on the previous page.
I have to give props to the guy who, while running out, flips the bad guys the double bird.
Well done sir.
always fill out the comment card. 0 out of 10 would not stay again. make you voice heard.
Serious tormentees always leave a review on Yelp.
Yeah, fresh mangoes just don’t work as well as dried mangoes, mango juice, or mango flavorings. I’m not entirely sure why.