Grrl Power # 1120 – Superheroine on cinderblock
Usually when displaying your captured superheroines, you’re supposed to have them face-out. Maybe a plaque of some sort. And depending on the kind of comic it is, their spandex outfit will be placed on a mannequin next to the display, and the superheroine will be instead clad in a maid outfit or possibly lingerie… at most. Hey, I don’t make the rules.
This assumes the superheroine in question isn’t being forced to run on a big hamster wheel that powers a thing that keeps the drain open on the big acrylic aquarium next to her which is constantly filling with water, in which one of her teammates is chained to the floor of the aquarium by her ankles, and she’s forced to hold two live wires out of the water, and if the circuit is completed then the timer on the bomb strapped to teammate 3’s chest counts down, but teammate two has heavy iron manacles on her wrists, and her arms are about to give out, because teammate 3 is chained to an exercise bike, and if she stops pedaling, the auto-whip starts up on the hamster wheel, but while she’s pedaling, it powers a powerful magnet on the bottom of the aquarium, making the iron manacles far heavier, and they can all see each other and have been told how their efforts are saving their teammates, but not how it also makes it harder for the others, and of course they’re all gagged.
Then there’s the kind that involves lots of rope, overstuffed mouth gags, and foot tickling.
I suspect Purple Visor won’t be given a chance to implement his preferred version before things go sideways. Also this comic is unfortunately not any of those other kinds of comics, darn it.
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Nah, Sydney’s not here to make that happen.
That’s why it worked… this time :P
Yep, I imagine Varia’s particular power would be exceptionally valuable for super human research. I honestly struggle to think of a super we know with a power that could add more value… Except for Deus if his suggestion of having super human intelligence is true.
Still, I have to wonder if these guys are really surprised that the small group releasing their prisoners isn’t part of a larger attack force thats about to kick their keister. Maybe they simply hadn’t expected Maxima back so soon.
Except… she can get powers from non-supers, and usually only affects her, really not sure how that will help the Fucked Nut Squad… oh right, they don’t know what her power really is
Except they just watched her power in action, and definitely heard Jiggs’s question about “why didn’t she get powers from him”. They may have even seen and heard the prisoner testing before revealing their presence. They definitely know how it works, and the Chekov’s gun of her power’s research potential has finally been fired.
I also just noticed that many of the prisoners didn’t seem to have the full super human body package of looking like a super model.
Could just bee that some of them are actually under 18 or greater variations to the 6 foot tall beef cake or DD cup + standard we see among most supers. Might also mean that some have been experimentally granted powers which would make Varia’s power exceptional for determining the likely powers someone gets.
They might also start to be capable of tracking some of the genetic variations that determine certain power sets or areas by putting her in contact with many super and non-supers they’ve sampled.
Or: the prisoners weren’t supers.
Which is reinforced when they ask why portal-eyes got powers instead of Varia. Implying he didn’t have powers before.
Yep, experimentally granted powers or possibly subjects that they are trying to grant powers and Varia giving the portal eye guy a power just gave them a datapoint for possibly granting powers… If thats the case then Varia would be even more important because it would mean they can used the same method they did on one of their own and then that person simply needs to touch Varia to activate their own power.
He was able to maintain the portal for a while despite loosing contact with her, but its uncertain if the ability has cut out now or if he could create other portals at his whim. Also unclear if he has control considering the portal went to a location likely picked subconsciously by Varia.
If the prisoners are only just gaining powers they may not have undergone any bodily changes. We know Max was a beanpole skinny teenager when the geode water spilled on her and she gained her powers. It hasn’t been established how long it takes for the super physique to develop. Presumably it doesn’t happen overnight and it may not be as dramatic if the change happens in the person’s 20 or later.
Like said: they don’t know what her power really is, all they saw was Portal Boy opening up a portal to Boston after she grabbed his hand, and we know that that is not how her powah normally works (she gets the powah, not them), and they were kinda distracted bating up Jiggs when she re-touched Osmium Girl
They saw her touching at least one prisoner and heard a very clear question about the expected effect, then saw her let go of The Portaler and grab Osmium Girl, whereupon her appearance changed dramatically and she became strong enough to tear out the bars like tinfoil. Then when she let go and switched back to Portaler, her appearance and strength reverted and she no longer has strength to shrug off the gravity. If they can’t figure out her power from all those data points, let alone footage of the team’s fights in public or observing her at the extensive outdoor training areas at Archon HQ, they are far too dumb to be running experiments.
We readers are operating with a great deal more information about her power than that, and yet many commenters remain quite confused about it.
How much strength do you need to shrug off gravity? And how much gravity is being used? Even Hulk can be grounded if the gravity is turned up high enough
You are doubting the level of their dumbitude? They picked a fight while Maxi was still on the planet!!
“Maybe they simply hadn’t expected Maxima back so soon.”
Most likely. She was on the other side of the planet not too much earlier, and they probably did not advertise that she zoomed back at mach super-high-number. :)
Man, it’s a shame you weren’t feeding the script writers suggestions way back when the Batman TV series was a thing. That sounds much better than the cliche conveyor belt feeding the hero into a rip saw.
no respect for the classics.
If Rube Goldberg had been a supervillain…
I’m upvoting you meta-vitually.
Max, Jiggawatt, and Varia vs two unknowns and a really annoying known. This could be interesting and drawn out, or very short and messy depending on Max’s mood and the boss-looking guy’s powers. I’m really glad Dave’s sworn off power dampers, because this is exactly the kind of situation where those start coming out in comics
im pretty sure this is going to involve most of the team – well save for the crew stuck over at the mediterranean sea of course
but everyone else on active duty is almost guaranteed to be there
hm maybe some of Harem could also potentially appear
Vhat about the veakness aura?
That one was not as effective due to outright blocking it (Halo), resistance to it (Dabbler) or when it did work properly, it was not strong enough (Maxima was still able to get that golem thing down)
Power dampeners can be done well, but then you should have dampeners specific to the superpower. The thing that disables nanobot powers shouldn’t disable magic blessings, the thing that disables magic blessings shouldn’t disable psychic powers, and so on.
Then you get situations where you disable the hero’s main power, and it makes them realize their secondary required powers work on an entirely different principle.
Or – this is fun – it turns out the dampener for Mad Science also works on Succubus powers, and everybody goes nuts trying to figure out if the powersets are the same somehow…
Which is what DaveB said: he didn’t say there weren’t any power dampeners, he said there weren’t any universal power dampeners
Pretty sure that ‘no power dampeners’ would include the idea of no UNIVERSAL power dampeners.
Except, there are power dampeners, some of them are just unconventional (remember Kev?) and usually have to be tailored specific for that power (and Opal?)
Weed smoke is not a ‘power dampener.’
Also, the scientific principles used to keep Opal from making a portal is not a power dampener either.
That’s like saying that bars that are stronger than a person’s ability to bend them are power dampeners. :)
Or keeping someone in an induced coma is not a power dampener. :)
Deathtoll, portal girl are both mostly known. The other guy seems to have gravity based TK.
I can’t wait to find out what happens when Varia touches Deathtoll. It may give her “the perfect attack against the target”.
It’s not an attack in itself, so Deathtoll (officially, “Purple Butt Sniffer”) won’t be able to counter it.
“Periwinkle Butt Sniffer,” “Peri” for short.
I’m also interested in Varia vs Peri. Because we’ve seen him & his abilities before, my bet is on something related but boring. Like power nullification, hopefully as an area effect. We can watch ARCHON fight using training, not special abilities.
no, he’d need a fedora for that.
Speaking of which, where’s Perry?
I don’t know.
All I can see is this secret agent platypus.
“Autograph”/Purple visor better watch himself. If she touches him, she could squish him or his compadres to gravy before she gets the hang of gravity powers…
Unless she gains toothpaste-dispenser powers
She might not GET gravity powers from him, though
The person that Varia is touching is immune to her powers.
But not his buddies (or Peri)
More than likely, Varia will get a complementary power, like anti-gravity or electromagnetic powers, except that is Jiggawatt’s shtick. Weak Force powers would just adjust levels of radioactivity. White Hole generation?
JUST adjust levels of radioactivity? Making all carbon, or oxygen, atoms in his body unstable isotopes would be VERY messy!
Considering that Jiggawatt can also generate positrons, I wonder if her powers aren’t more of a general electroweak thing. Ripping existing electrons off of matter doesn’t require the weak force, but conjuring arbitrary amounts of positrons (and no accompanying electrons I assume; presumably there’s neutrinos, or the Superion field can just break gauge symmetry) normally would.
It’d be world-breaking to get the sort of strong force-related powers that would let you conjure unbound quarks. I, and I’m pretty sure any particle physicist, can’t confidently predict what the hell would happen. I guess you might end up making a large amount of strange matter? Assuming the strange matter hypothesis is right, that /would/ be the lowest energy state for a big blob of quarks.
That distant boom you heard, dear readers, was the sound of a human-sized projectile known as Maxima Superiors impacting with a stone wall at mach 6, quickly followed by the near-instant incapacitation of every mook in the near vicinity thanks to Maximas enhanced speed and durability.
A truly fascinating thing to behold, but far too violent for young readers.
Peh, kids theses days.
Logically, she searches the facility at super speed, the sonic boom she leaves behind incapacitating most people, and when she reaches this room she very carefully does NOT attack the Periwinkle Buttsniffer, just cages him with the bars to deal with at her leisure.
Comic logic says that she throws a punch at him instead, without thinking.
Metalogic says she throws an attack knowing he will automatically counter it, and then uses the counter for something else.
But then, Max isn’t a particularly meta metahuman.
Can we get a crowdfounding attempt to commision a (or more) picture of the Scene DaveD described here?
Varia has purple gravity boi right where she needs him to be…touching distance.
ARC needs some more wins, villians should be activating their escape plans when ARC shows.
Gravity / telekine powers are actually a great foil for Varia, not many ways to manage her without making physical contact.
I think that For Whom The Death Tolls is going to find out how predictive his name is.
He’s hardly a threat. If you know what his power is, he can be defeated just by being ignored.
What I meant was that I’m pretty sure Max is going to find a creative way to kill him.
Meh, I’m fairly certain Nemesis isn’t going to counter a high calibre round to the centre of mass
I’m fairly certain that if it didn’t, Peggy or Goose would have handled him by themselves back at the parking lot brawl. I don’t think it just counters superpowers. It is any single power he needs at the moment, though it is not entirely clear how automatic it is, or how much control he has over it. So far it appears to be purely reactive, that he needs to be responding to something, but it may not even need to be an attack.
I’m reminded of the debates around Vehemence’s power over what qualifies as “violence”. I suspect this nemesis power is equally… hand-wavy and subjective.
Yeah, but how do you counter after a limb has been removed? Or a vital organ
Regeneration? Regardless, their information on him at the parking lot brawl lists him as having Strength and Armor rated 4-5 (out of what, who knows, but given that it’s in red, I’m inclined to guess it’s closer to the top end of the scale than the bottom), and the notes on him say “Warning Extreme resistance to physical and/or kinetic damage. Direct attack not recommended.” So they’ve tried just hitting him. And something that countered super-strength, but somehow didn’t counter indirect physical assault… would be really convoluted. Like, how does that work? Why would it matter whether you hit someone with a car by driving it into them, versus picking it up and whacking them with it? How do you counter a projectile thrown by a super, but not a bullet fired from a gun?
Death Tolls’ file is the obsolete one again :(
You forgot the clear latex vacuum box suits to arrange and display said hetoine nubile bits attached to a 6 axis robot srm for remote control optimum display.
It helps with the the tentscle teaser bioform fron trents dimension to have full surround sensory access for playtime.
I really want to know what happens when she touches FWTDT
The reverse polarities cancel out and they both have no power? Or the superion phase angles align and they get all possible powers at once, resulting in a massive explosion and/or implosion.
Gravity guy is stupid to be using his powers for evil when he could get paid tens of billions by any space programme. He could be world-famous and filthy rich and loved by all because he’s making space easier and preventing of pollutant emissions from spacecraft launches. Our own planet and space have gotta be the two things people like the most.
But nooo, Gravier (short for Gravity Xavier) had something much more clever in mind: disappear a mile underground to wear a mask and work for someone else, torturing people and stuff, with uncertain probability of actually getting anywhere.
*reads the commentary* so conservatively what percentage of evil villains get over half of their stuff from bondage shops? 30, 35? If that comic were behind an age verification wall or something, would Dabbler have already recognised a villain from bumping into them at her favourite corner store?
What’s with that trope anyway, why are villains using BDSM tools that much? Is it because it’s easy from the tools themselves to give this vibe? Or is it just a remnant from the “queercode your villains” era? Queers and kink used to be (and arguably still are) considered one big family. I think part of it is because about 90% of authors just get horny. Which is fine, but many tend to not admit it. Then you get things like the end of Millennium 3 “the girl in the spider’s web” where Fede Álvarez then says “it’s about being rebirthed, reborn, that’s why she’s naked in there” my brother in Christ people aren’t born with latex sleepsacks, vacuum pumps, and low-temperature wax candles, those are used for very specific purposes. I guess there are some unwritten rules, like the villain must be a monster but not a Monster™ and putting sexual undertones without actually doing sexual assault is a way of making them evil, but not “capital E Evil” – audiences won’t find that redeemable ever and your villainous antagonist needs to still have some moral value. Still when you break into very specific fetishes the “it’s a metaphor” angle wears incredibly thin. Admitting that there is an appeal may let situations develop in more interesting ways for the characters too, because you better believe the first villain to capture and tie up Dabbler is going to be surprised at the reaction.
all things made for any purpose explicit or implied can be used for other purposes, limited only by the imagination of the user
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”, but you can’t convince everyone of it.
Or the space program just canceled his launch contract, due to recent Alien Technology upgrade exchange for a Fel Ship.
Spider-man:”Rewriting human genetics on the fly? With something like that you could cure cancer!”
Sauron: “But I don’t want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!!!”
Sauron has a point. Turning people into dinosaurs is cool.
This is admittedly true.
It could be that Gravity Boy is range limited so no space launces for him. Or limited to a specific mass range, or some other thing that keeps him from being more than a lower mid tier super. He looks kind of young. Maybe he got into villainy as a kid and can’t get a good super job because of his record.
I was going to write something like this. Well put.
There was a Superman comic book where Superman caught this guy who invented a jet pack…. in his garage…. and used it to rob banks. When he caught the guy, he asked, “You built a JET PACK… in your garage. And the first thing you thought to do with it was rob banks with it?” And Superman looked SO disappointed with the guy that the guy didn’t realize he could have just sold it and made millions – a lot more than he was getting trying to rob banks… less risk and no illegality. Superman was ESPECIALLY disappointed because the guy had an absolutely CLEAN RECORD before this. Plus the guy never even had THOUGHT that patenting it and selling it was an option because he lives in a world where there are all sorts of supervillains and superheroes doing weird crap like this in defiance of the ‘Cut Lex Luthor a Check’ trope logic.
Superman made a deal with the guy. He told him that he was going to take the guy to the police. He was going to stand trial, by HIS CHOICE. Then he was going to take the jet pack from the man, hide it, and when told the man that when he got out of jail, he was going to give the jet pack BACK TO THE MAN, and told him to PATENT IT and make some REAL money.
Superman was really nice about it too and the guy was really grateful (he gave Superman a hug and everything), and Superman said “You made a bad decision today but you’re clearly a genius, and this technology could help people. We all make mistakes.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/superman/comments/uzn3ow/superman_being_stern_but_fair_from_dc_holiday/
Yups, one mistake doesn’t have to be the end, if giving a second chance
Problem is, convicted criminals usually don’t get a second chance, The System won’t let them, certainly not General Public (there was an episode of CSI:Original where a guy had been placed on the Sexual Predator List {or whatever it’s called}, and all he did was take a leak outside just before a bus of school-kids went past, he had attempted to rebuild his life but one of the CSI’s was determined to prove that he was the suspect they were looking for {he wasn’t} but her digging destroyed his new life: lost his job and his girlfriend told him to fuck off and told all the neighbours he was on the list)
That’s because there are just so many people on the planet, and we’re overwhelmed trying to sort through all the information we have to process to function. We want to just categorize everything, put it in a box, and not have to think about it. It’s so much easier if we can just mentally mark someone as an inherently good or bad person, and not think about their circumstances, about why they do what they do, about whether their behavior can be corrected. So much easier to throw them in the trash, and just deal with people who have yet to make any mistakes. Even though we all make mistakes, and we certainly hope not to end up in the trash ourselves when we inevitably do.
On the other end, we have plenty of people who, when informed that they’ve made a mistake, just double down and insist that they have the right to be that way, and that everyone else should change instead. And they might even be right! But being right doesn’t change how people are going to respond.
That’s evolution as a moral philosophy. It’s kind of funny, we still have people who don’t understand or accept evolution in all the contexts that it’s correct, but unconsciously adhere to it in the place where it is wrong.
Love this premise, there’s a fun book series (How to Succeed in Evil) where a consultant to villains runs a business trying to convince clients to use common sense, and ends up taking over some of their operations rather than argue.
They’re expecting PBS to be a ringer re: Max, which is actually very reasonable, all things being equal.
However, all other things are never equal, and part of Max’s strategy is “clear path of entry for the rest of my forces.”
Depending on how much force she’s actually brought along, This could be either very quick & easy, or just protracted enough to allow certain key figures to escape & advance a larger plot down the line.
We still have no idea where Sciona is, let us remember.
Nor the disposition of the stasis gun from the Times Square brawl.
I feel _fairly_ confident assuming this will be a win for Team Good Guy, generally, but after the great New York Human-shaped-and-sized Bag Lasagna episode, I fully expect at least one genuinely traumatic double reversal here for a minimum of one member of the team. My money is Achilles v. PBS.
I am going to predict that this is definitely not the end of the Ascenders.
Scipina is somewhere in Mexico, trying to resurrect her species (by any means required)
likely out of the information loop, since Deus is already taking care of that!
I find it funny the refugees arrived there LITERALLY as Scipina was leaving.
The Ascenders having the statis gun (and possibly a power source?) and invading Archon to trigger a frontal assault to ambush her with it in their own lair… that’s actually a pretty solid approach. If (and only if) they also have counters for the rest of the known strike them. They know Halo, Anvil, and Dabbler are still out of range, so that simplifies it a little, but still a pretty bold move.
They’re also going to need a way to keep it powered indefinitely, and mobile, as even that only slowed her down.
A lot, granted, but but they’re going to need more than just that.
To stase her, they need to tag her, and she has superspeed. Lapha snuck up on her from behind, but this time Maxima is ready for combat, and they don’t know where exactly she’ll come through the wall so can’t ambush her either.
Everyone else leaving makes me wonder what powers Varia might get when touching skull mask guy.
I was kind of wondering what the interaction would be between her gestalt powers and his ‘protect me’ power. Because her gestalt power wouldn’t have an effect on him directly, I don’t think his defensive power would kick in to prevent it.
The most appropriate gestalt power I came up with is “the best attack for any chosen target”. Since it’s not an attack by itself, it won’t be countered or canceled by his power.
“The ability to generate paradoxes… well, I can’t see how this won’t be useful.”
Pure speculation here. While part of it is clearly fan service (the skin tight latex suits, the femma fatale just so happens to be restrained in a sexy position) I believe there are also many practical reasons.
First of, you need a reason for the villian to capture the heroine instead of just killing them (which would be the sensible choice) that doesn’t break the audiance’s suspension of disbelief. The easiest way to do this is to tie the villians motivation to their personality trait (which also serves as a bonus to allow you to flesh out the villan and show the audiance just how Evil he is). The villians will be made out to be arrogant, sadistac and domineering.
The thing to zero in on here is the domineering part. The villain enjoys being in a position of power, and lord that power over others.
Now, realisticly said villians would probably be a lot crueler than how they’re generally depicted, employing actual torture methods the likes of which you would see in irl prisoner camps, however, most story tellers try to keep their work PG 13 since generally people don’t actually want to see that sort of brutality in the stories they read.
Which is where the kink toys comes in. It’s serious enough to convey a sense of danger, adding this sort of edge to the whole situation, without ever actually posing any real danger to the person subjected to them, much like kink play.
God dammit, this was supposed to be a reply to Lysbeth.
You… wouldn’t happen to be talking about a certain SmugDictator, would you? o_O
He really just wants to keep them amusingly preoccupied while his guys are off doing something they’d get in the way of, without picking up a murder rap.
“since generally people don’t actually want to see that sort of brutality in the stories they read.”
Kick Ass actually was a popular superhero movie, though, and the villain burned one of the main characters alive just for motivation. But, yeah, that probably did limit the audience at least somewhat.
Two things from this page:
Portal Patsy is (possibly) from Boston (or genuinely doesn’t know what is wrong with Boston)
The more we are shown of Corporate Ad-Visor (CAV for short) makes me think he is a teenager trying to act tough, just look at his facials on this page (kinda like that smug Superman proxy from The Boys)
Or maybe because Varia is from Boston, the portal went to Boston.
Either that, or he has an affinity for tea and molasses. But this is the most logical option I’ve seen so far.
Re-read panel five again: it wasn’t about why it went to Boston
It’s not the panel that was a problem. Your post was a bit ambiguous since I had no idea who ‘Portal Patsy’ was, since I thought you were referring to the prisoner that made the portal to Boston.
Personally don’t know too many males with the name of ‘Patsy’…
And again, which character wondered what is wrong with Boston?
I dont know many men or women named patsy. But its short for both Patricia AND Patrick.
It also means “a person who was easily taken advantage of” which would fit with a kidnapped prisoner’s predicament.
I believe he opens portals based on who touches him, a “going home” choice. He may in time have better control, but for now it’s still a handy power. Would be interesting if Dabbler was to touch him….
Or Cora…
If he can generate portals with interstellar reach, his power rivals Halo’s causeway and would garner intergalactic attention. Having someone from the target location is a mild hiccup, but far from insurmountable.
Not necessarily, his might not be as detectable as Sydney’s causeways. Her causeways use a great deal of energy and are easily picked up on any energy detector, his are very localized and use far less power than a causeway and don’t light up the night sky when he opens one.
He isn’t Portal Patsy, the female is
You are meaning the female Ascender. Most people didnt realize that, including me. We thought you were referring to the prisoner.
Wait, you thought ‘Patsy’ as in, another name for ‘The Fall Guy’?
Was originally going to go with ‘Patty’, but liked ‘Patsy’ betterer
And which character on this page asked what was wrong with Boston?
And now Varia and Anvil have both established the ‘why they shouldn’t have long hair’ doctrine, but somehow it’s unlikely to change.
“Purple Visor” DEFINITELY sounds like a character from THAT sort of comic…
“this comic is unfortunately not any of those other kinds of comics” HORSE PUCKEY!
You would draw that scene in a second if you had the page-count for it, if only as someone’s (Math/Dabbler/Sydney(because of the tropes)/etc) daydream.
He already has in a daydream/thought bubble scenario with Distress Damsel. By either Ashley or Sydney.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-319-armored-with-advice/
Or as a vote incentive!
I could see it as a vote incentive, maybe after we’ve done all the existing characters at least once.
I am curios to see Maxima vs the Periwinkle Buttsniffer.
Didn’t Sidney had a theory that his power could be overloaded? I think we are going to see that tested.
It isnt a theory – it already has been shown… but its not based on level of power used against him. Its based on variety of powers used against him at the same time.
Her theory was proven, however he never stood up to Max alone. Would be interesting on how he would fight against an almost endless amount of power. The guy’s too cocky for his own good. And we can’t rule out a Sydney intervention as well!
here’s the question- is Butt Sniffers power sentient? like Bink from Xanth? if not than the answer is simple. don’t use powers against him. shoot him with a gun (or multiple), drop heavy objects on him, Dabbler’s tech, hand grenades are a messy option, and yes googly eyes, because laughter is not a superpower.
If it isn’t sentient then he also has the power to detect what power he’s fighting. I doubt he’s that smart, there are ways to use his power without taunting someone to attack him. I’m thinking a dumb-jock troupe type, bullying people to start a fight with him and letting his power do the work. And within that troupe, there’s always someone smarter or faster that can beat him. If he’s caught again, the “calming” room is a good place for him!
I’m guessing panel six should be corrected to “have a much bigger problem” (rather than “have much a bigger problem”).
it should, I just didn’t want to be the first to say it.
Varia has been hanging around both Dabbler AND Sydney too much it sounds XD
How did he remove the cage she bent around him AND get to her AND grab her hair in the time it takes for her to partially fall through the portal? Does TK guy have superspeed too maybe? Possibly?
We saw him remove it last page (when we found out his name is ‘Richard’) before she used the “Your shoelaces are united” trick
His name might not be Richard.
Death Toll might have just been literally calling him ‘Dick’ as an insult since he threw the cage at him haphazardly.
Yes, that is the joke
I don’t think it’s TK guy, he could of grabbed everyone and yanked them back through without touching them. If his power is gravity-based, he could of used it to move the bars, lowered it on himself so he could move faster, and pin Varia to the wall while TK guy could of just held her mid-air. I also believe the wrist bands employ a sleepy time mix otherwise he would of said something like “Oh well they won’t last long” a delay for Arc-swat for recovery I’m sure, but not fatal. Plus TK guy lost a finger, this guy has all of them. Look at panel 3, same hand.
Yeah. After I wrote that I realized it was more likely gravity manipulation.
But I wasnt saying that this guy was the same guy as muttonchop TK guy. We just have seen more than one TK person so far. Vekter does TK as well.
Or maybe he is a gravitokinetic and can manipulate speed or spacetime that way?
You know, that scenario might be great as a monthly vote incentive…
If Gravity Guy is smart (In my head Cannon, “Gravity Guy” is his super name) he will get Portal Girl to immediately open a portal to their double secret hidden base in Antarctica, and they will immediately flee through it, taking Varia with them.
I’m betting that Gravity Guy is not, in fact, smart.
Typical dumb-genius, they are so sure and cocky about their abilities they think they can get away with anything, with a little planning and a lot of super-powers. That’s why they want to “farm” the population of supers, everyone they turn makes them stronger, but not smarter.
Plus they are trying to learn about how supers are created, but they don’t have the smarts to actually do it, so it’s a hit and miss operation. Think “master race” from Hitler’s time. “Inject him with a blood same from subject XXX I want to see what happens” “But the blood types don’t match!” “Do it! Or you’ll be next!” (insert screams and the sound of a body bursting into flames) “Ok, that didn’t work, bring in another subject… and clean that up!”
Easy way for Varia to get out (with help): Harem already was there, so she can reteleport in. Varia can teleport with harem. So, Dapne in, quickly touch Varia, both out.
While Max provides diversion.
Assuming Comic version has the same team member locaters/comms as the team in the Wearing the cape novels Max is likely well aware Jiggy and H are gone but Var’s is not and is ready to go full mama bear..
Jiggs is currently unconscious on the floor…
Today’s author comment sounds like a great description of a future vote incentive picture…
Boston has a Toronto Dominion bank? Okay, I guess I don’t get to ol’ Beantown much. Or at all.
TD America is an investment service company that apparently needs some tax deductions for advertising.
It’s a Canadian bank brand that spends most of its advertising slots talking about investing. The industry and high finance hotspots in the US have a higher branch proliferation than large portions of Canada to be honest.
I don’t think that is the telekinetic guy, in panel 3 he has all his fingers while tk guy had one cut off during his attack on Archon, plus in panels 7, 8, 10 his face is clearly shown no chops, and he’s not as big as TK guy. The furry cloak just makes him look bigger. Even if he could regenerate limbs, or know someone that could do it for him, I doubt it would be done that fast, it’s been less than a day since the attack, more like a few hours.
Ten boyfriends? Well, that at least shows she’s American… Anything to use as a unit of measurement to avoid using Metric… :P
Time travel goals:
1) Win a major lottery and exploit the stock market with the funds (purely to facilitate noble goals)
2) Get the US to follow through on officially adopting metric in 1878
3) Kill Hitler (obligatory)
4) Correct the sign convention for electrons
5) Fix the value of “pi”. It should have been defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the *radius*, not the *diameter*. That initial screwup is why there are a bazillian mathematical formulas with 2’s or 4’s in them that wouldn’t have been necessary if pi was relative to the radius.
Do a search for “pi is wrong” for more info.
I and many others have been pretty happy with τ (tau), which = 2π (two * pi). Doing almost everything in radians instead of degrees is definitely in the top 10 though.
Re: holding live wires while standing in a barrel of water…
Need to be sure you have the right type of water. Pure water, aka distilled water, doesn’t conduct electricity. The molecular bonds in H2O are too strong to provide any free ions to pass the electrical current. You need salt water or water with a high concentration of minerals to get the free ions.
I saw a safety demonstration at a place of work years ago. As we worked on various electrical equipment powered by everything from 5VDC up to 480VAC he went over things we should know about which materials were conductive and which were good insulators. He filled a plastic tub with tap water in the break room, plugged in a hand-held hair dryer, turned it on and dropped it in the tub. No sparks, no tripped circuit breakers, the hair dryer continued to run submerged in that tub of tap water. Next he hooked up a light bulb circuit with part of the circuit via two probes in the tub of water. The light didn’t even glow until the probes were brought very close together in the water. As mentioned, this was just plain tap water; not that I’d want to take a pair of live wires into the bathtub with to test it out, of course.
High power electrical equipment in industrial environments will often use water cooling throughout the electrical cabinets. I’ve seen situations where tubing ruptured and water sprayed all over the power components. Again, no huge electrical explosions, just a dripping mess to clean up and dry out. The water used in those pipes was kept very pure and free of anything that could provide free ions.
Well, someone standing in the water will provide SOME free ions. Not much, depending on the pool size, but still.
Bath salts.
Why is there a Toronto Dominion bank in Boston?
That is definitely the TD logo.
That puzzled me too. I know it as a large *Canadian* bank.
So I google a bit, and according to Wikipedia TD has branches in the US.
TD bought out a regional New England bank called Bank North in the early 2000s
But in Boston, it probably means something Totally Different.
TD … all over in Massachusetts.
So He Who Is Legally Banned From Naming Stuff and (I’m calling her) Cyclopia sold down their intellect points to buy the powers they wanted.
I REALLY want to see Death Toll get bashed into oblivion, bash him smash him wreck him till there is nothing left of him!
Frankly, just “forget” to stop debris from falling on him. His power is to counter other superpowers, and F=MA isn’t a superpower – it’s the law.
He’s too much fun to obliterate. He would make a great running gag. He never quite gets killed but he never learns his lesson. He could be this universe’s version of Wiley Coyote.
Imagining ways to destroy him is pretty fun too.
I wonder if these villains are still operating under the delusion that they still have the protection of the US civilian legal system in any meaningful way.
When did they ever have that protection?
They have attacked federal agents on at least two occasions
I’m pretty sure Max is going to be incapacitated just like Varia.
That’s what I’m expecting. These guys have to know that attacking ArcSwat will inevitably bring Max, especially since FWTDT is involved (since he has already tangled with them). I’m guessing they wouldn’t do this without having a solid plan in place for dealing with Max, or perhaps luring her in is the real goal of their EvilPlot(tm) in the first place, for capture or neutralization or somesuch.
Their ‘plan’ for dealing with Maxi, was to wait for her to leave the country
They all are under-estimating her abilities, if she puts on her mask she can travel half the planet in the upper atmosphere in a short time. Here’s she’s minutes away and she can blast/dig a lot faster than they thought possible. Archon and Max have down-played the true power levels of their members just for that reason.
Besides, Max’s strength levels are off the charts, I have little doubt she could walk on Jupiter’s surface if she wanted. Grav guy doesn’t know that and would be in shock if he hit her full blast and all she did was slow down. I’m sure one of her photon blasts would still reach him too, even if she has to arch it like a garden hose.
Max really, really shouldn’t be walking her shots in civilian areas.
I think there’s a typo in the sixth panel. Varia says “…much a bigger problem.” Shouldn’t that be “…a much bigger problem.”?