Grrl Power #1131 – A hairy situation
Yes, SuperMassive calls his gravity balls “G-Spots,” because he’s just that rad.
You know I’ve never thought about what Maxima’s hair might taste like until I drew this page. Of course, her hair isn’t hair, it’s like some sort of metallic silk. By itself, it probably doesn’t taste like anything, as it is hyper-nonreactive, so it’s mostly going to taste and smell like whatever shampoo she uses. She’s stated in the past that her skin is a fair bit more slippery than human skin, and the same applies to her hair, so her use of shampoo is more about scent than cleanliness. She could stand in front of a firehose if she wanted and it’d be pretty effective in terms of cleanliness. Might even count as a gentle massage if she dropped her armor way down. If she actually gets anything tenacious stuck to her, she can jump in a vat of something that would turn a mid-level thug living in Gotham into an A-List Supervillain.
The January Vote Incentive is still up! Time for the quarterly fashion show that Anvil puts Maxima through. Can you detect the theme?
The new one is coming I promise. I’m back down in Houston helping out my folks and the setup makes it a little difficult to find time to work on pics of topless ladies. I will endeavor to decrease the time between these as I know I’m on the verge of stretching the definition of ‘monthly.’
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This just highlights what I said before. Anyone with flight powers basically has antigravity powers.
And their flight would just counter any gravity power.
Not necessarily. Heatwave and other heat heroes fly by raising their temperature and that of the air surrounding them to the point of floating, for instance (really always wondered if that human torch nonsense would work in practice though). Telekinesis powers aren’t negating or cancelling gravity, but are instead introducing an opposing force to push against gravity and create lift. Someone with telekinesis that tried to pull against Super Massive’s powers would probably just get turned into paste or break something before they could react… There’s magic, which could work by negating gravity, I guess, but magic’s kinda magic because it usually lacks an explanation. Flight powers come in a variety of forms, but I think those are the big ones, besides good old aerodynamic lift and propulsion methods anyway.
I always just consider any superhero/supervillain to be a Reality Bender as per SCP Foundation, who simply flies or shoots beams or is invincible or superfast or whatever else because that’s the limits of their belief about themselves.
Like, look at The Flash. You can’t move that fast, period. Then look at oxygen/atmospheric friction and stuff, so even slower. Plus even if something was that fast, it would rip itself to nothing due to friction again. So no, they’ll all just reality benders.
Flash’s super speed and air friction has been addressed more than once, the suit he wears is made to reduce that effect. When the first attempt to make a TV series about him was done, that was addressed during his “outing” to a friend, she walked in on him eating an entire box of cereal in a huge salad bowl super fast, she tried to place her hand on his shoulder to “give motherly advice” about his eating habits and using his power senselessly and jerked her hand back because his skin was HOT. That’s when they developed his suit.
It’s also why Quicksilver wears goggles, you can burn your eyes. Ask any chef. When I worked as a hot mold press operator I found that out the hard way, doesn’t feel good either, trust me, my corneas are thicker now than normal, gives off a false glaucoma result. (Yes, yes, I took off my safety goggles)
At the speeds those guys travel, air is a solid.
the Flash, and most, if not all of the DC (comics, not the multiple live action fuck ups written entirely by people who’ve never read a Flash comic) universe speedsters are powered by the “speed force” which creates a “force aura” when they move at super speed that protects them in the same way a starship’s deflector does, so that near light-speed collision with a speck of space dust doesn’t consume the entire ship in a big k’boom. it allows them to NOT set the air on fire with their speed, and their increased eating and friction heat aren’t anywhere close their speed *should* result in with simple physics. It’s also why they don’t turn their hand into a wet, bloody sack full bone powder when they punch someone, or constantly make unintentional sonic booms, or create civilization-ending craters with each superspeed step.
To be fair, with the Flash, the Speed Force alters a lot of basics of physics, so a lot of standard rules for physics simply do not apply to users of the Speed Force – which is a good thing, since they are not invulnerable like Kryptonians are – the only other super group who can move ALMOST as fast as most speedsters (but not all). And then there are people like Reverse Flash who use something called the Negative Speed Force… which is something I never understood at all because it makes absolutely no sense, like many things in Flash canon.
I thought Speed Force was for Jedi with low stamina and small Schwartz…
“I feel great a disturbance of the Schwartz. It’s as if a hundred million voices rose up to point and laugh, but were suddenly shushed.”
I know you’re trying to make a pun here, since you are an evil pun-making miscreant that wants to enrage me like the rest of the pun-making hordes….
But actually Jedi did apparently have the ability to move at superspeed (in The Phantom Menace, which was NEVER EVER USED AGAIN AFTER THAT DESPITE BEING INCREDIBLY USEFUL). And also, there are force-sensitive plants that are narcotics in the expanded universe. :) And Mel Brooks used the word Schwartz in place of Force as satire. So I can’t say anything against Mel Brooks. :)
You win this round this time, Random Guy. This time!!!!!
SW is full of plot-shattering things that are shown once with no foreshadowing, then ignored. It’s maddening, and gets worse and worse as the later movies try to invent new plot hooks.
Human torch was using his fire to act as a rocket thrust, and I’ve noticed that Heatwave pretty much does the same thing although she also used the heat effect as you describe. She HAS to have a sort of shield like Max does though, otherwise she’d be dressed in a fireproof outfit all the time or be naked anytime a surprise battle started. I’m sure most wouldn’t mind, but I think Heatwave, Max, the media, and Arianna would!
I think something like this was addressed in Gen 13 by Roxy (Freefall).
Wow deeply disturbing and unpleasant.
My wife used to wear her hair super long and it’s pretty thin, I used to wake up after cuddling with her til I fell asleep, not only would it get in my mouth it also got in my eyes, very gross… You haven’t lived with a gal until you pull a foot long strand out of the corner of your eye LOL!
I got myself a long haired wife and also many daughters and dogs. Now there is no escape from it.
… and food, don’t forget finding hair in soup, stew, custard and mashed potato :-D
That’s some top tier bullshit here, Stalwart: if you increase your mass you will be extra affected by his power, if you reduce your mass to the point you are not affected (which won’t happen anyway, since he can deflect light) than a sneeze would blow you away. You are useful only as a distraction…
He is implying that he can do more than just increase or decrease his mass. He can control other unspecified properties, or with greater granularity. He may be able to alter how his mass interacts with others individually, such as controlling the force of gravity between him and different objects.
If he lightens his mass but keeps his strength, then a sneeze would only blow him away if he isn’t holding on to SM, but he is.
As long as he has leverage and a firm grip, he’s not going to blow away or be useless. Just like astronauts can work on the ISS despite being weightless, Stalwart just needs something to push/pull against and then he can apply his full strength. And even if he did get “blown” away, he could just normalize his mass for an instant to get pulled back to the ground and charge directly back into the fight.
> And even if he did get “blown” away, he could just normalize his mass for an instant to get pulled back to the ground and charge directly back into the fight.
That wouldn’t work: At normal mass, he’d be affected normally by SM and keep flying away. Gravity doesn’t pull him down because it’s overriden by SM to point somewhere else.
We simply don’t know the details of how is control works. He can control some aspects of his mass, independently. He can increase his mass, or his weight, independently. He can, if he’s been practicing flight, use mass/gravity in a direction other than straight down. As such, he can effectively ignore any portion of gravity on himself.
The discussion is getting hung up on the words and the presumptive physics, when they should be working backwards from the demonstrated abilities to work out the meaning of the words.
Exactly! So often people comment that there’s no evidence to support a particular theory, when that theory is being used to explain what is being shown on the page! If there are conflicts between what is stated and what is shown, we should assume that what is shown is correct, and statements, whether by the author or the characters, are either incorrect or simply being misinterpreted.
We create words and equations and laws in an attempt to understand and describe the universe, but it’s not bound by our understanding of it.
Usually, the inconsistencies are by commentators who have made up in their own minds explanations for how the powers work (or what the powers even are) with nothing to back it up, and then get shitty when the official explanation doesn’t match
And as someone pointed: sometimes the character-given explanations may be intentionally false to mislead opponents (like Maxi being vulnerable to lightning) or they themselves don’t fully understand how they work, just that they do
Like trying to explain exactly and accurately how one walks without becoming a doctor (and then having to ‘dumb’ the explanation down for those who are not doctors), or someone who can consistently hit a bullseye explain why they can do it and not their twin brother
Had a dream using Wart’s powers to fly: not only is it very awkward, it is extremely tiring, woke up more tired than before going to sleep and had a headache
Have had plenty of dreams with me flying (various different forms), but this was the first time doing it that way (no wonder he doesn’t like doing it!!)
It has to do with the distinction between gravitational mass and inertial mass, I’m betting. That’s some great jargon that solves a lot of similar problems, in my experience!
That bizarre separation between two things that are synonymous isn’t required.
All that he needs to be able to fly is the ability to arbitrarily make one part of his body heavy and another part light, thereby changing his center of mass.
That… is not how center of mass works. That is, yes it would shift around, but no it wouldn’t suddenly fling him through the air.
*smiles in multi-channel audio*
…tHiS iS nOt goInG tO gO tHe WaY yOu ThInK, mAsShOlEo…
Heh… Yeah I bet he thought he’s just pin them all down and get away, not happening suck hole! Know your enemy BEFORE you pick a fight with them! I think the only thing that’s supermassive about him is the distance between the inside of his skull and his actual brain! LOLOL! (Offers an air pump to keep the pressure up in there)
If her hair is that slippery as well, then it wouldn’t smell like anything since any shamparticles would just slide off.
Not shamparticles, shampoops.
I find I must agree with the linguistic merits of your proposed term, no matter how much I dislike it.
Since gravity drops off at a square of the distance (my old physics nudging my brain and it may be in accurate) the thing in Stalwart’s mouth would pull his mouth shut long before it grabbed Maxima’s hair. I mean it’s funny in a slapstick kind of way, ish, but Suck Hole’s powers have become so silly I’m expecting a “you rascally rabbit” any panel now.
Square of the distance from what? I assure you that if I am four feet off the ground the local gravitational field is not a quarter of what it is when I am two feet off the ground.
You may be two or four feet from that little bit of ground, but you’re quite a bit further from most of the planet (which has a radius of about 6371 km if that planet happens to be Earth (I don’t like to assume)).
The center of mass of the attracting object. In a planet’s case, that would be roughly the center of the core.
Although it’s possible that the G-Spots work differently.
> Square of the distance from what? I assure you that if I am four feet off the ground the local gravitational field is not a quarter of what it is when I am two feet off the ground.
Distance between the COMs (centers of mass) of the two objects being discussed.
Newton’s law of gravitation is: Fg = GMm r^2
Fg = force of gravity on you in newtons
G = Gravitational constant = 6.673 × 10^−11 m^3 kg^-1 s^-2
M = mass of one object in kg
m = mass of the other object in kg
r = distance in meters between the COMs of the two objects
If we’re talking about the force of gravity exerted on you by “the ground”, meaning the planet Earth, then the distance from the surface of the Earth to its COM is ~6,378,000 meters, so you being an extra couple of feet (~0.6 meters) from the surface is not going to change the value of r in any appreciable way and is therefore not going to change the force of gravity exerted on your.
That’s exactly true. However, where is the heavy dude’s apparent center of mass. Not where he is, to be dragging people away from him.
The relevant gravity source is the purple ball, which is currently in Stalwart’s mouth.
Someone standing on the summit of Everest is less than a pound lighter than at sea level, so there is a difference, but there’s no place on Earth where it’s significant difference.
Stalwart under the comic looks so sad. He was not prepared for that level of pathetic.
I wonder if “Suck Hole” can survive a fall from orbit?
He could slow himself using his powers, or at least until he ran out of air and passed out. I hear re-entry isn’t so bad once the nerve endings are burnt away….
When your skin burns away, that’s when you discover that all the internal stuff has nerve endings, too, they just don’t normally get used much, so they’re extra sensitive.
I’m waiting for the ‘reveal’ that Super Masshole is a 16 yr old boy who gained quasi-Shazam powers. It would explain his infatuation with Max, and thinking that his pecs and powers would impress her.
Or 18, a teen generally doesn’t figure the basics until they get into their late 20’s, besides if he’s 18, Max and Stalwart won’t feel quite so bad if they have to take him out. So would Arianna, “He’s just a kid” will be the Social Justice league’s cry either way.
“Social Justice,” has nothing to say about an 18 year old who actively, knowingly, willfully, and with malice of forethought participates in kidnapping, torture, and nonconsenting experimentation.
We might have some things to say about the capitalist nature of this operation, which treats human beings as literal commodities to be traded, and the dehumanization & exploitation of a minority demographic (supers), but as far Super Masshole himself goes…yeah, no, if he’s an adult, he can face adult consequences.
And if he’s _not_ an adult, then he can look forward to being sentenced to kindARCgarten: I’m picturing a military school scenario under Max’s direct supervision. In fact, I can’t help thinking that this might be a good opportunity for some more collaboration between her & Deus.
Who wants to see the (not yet verified) Super Intelligence design a Military School for Super Delinquents, to be operated by ARCHON? I’d bet dollars to donuts that are some supers out there who, while not willing to join the field team, would be happy to whip some superbrats into line?
You could show Suck Hole intentionally placing one of his Grav-Roses inside the mouth of someone without powers and have their head cave in, and they would still try and defend them
Stalwart would also need propulsion to be able to properly fly. Just going mass-neutral without propulsion would mean he would float around like a balloon.
It seems likely that he’s using an offshoot of his powers. As demonstrated, he has independent control of mass, weight, and inertia. So he’s learning how to control his inertia in more subtle/complex real-time ways. He probably would have no trouble at all mastering the Hulk-jump… but that leaves you in a ballistic trajectory.
Reminds me of Lashings in the Stormlight universe.
likely he’s doing something like rotational or planetary movement inertial control, where he’s playing off against the movement speed of the planet turning or moving through space. It no doubt looks really awkward because he’s basically got to really finely control how much faster he’s moving, or how much slower he’s moving, relative to the norm. It would look totally janky, yeah.
it’s looking more like maxima need’s to bow out of the fight with gravity goomba. and let stalwart deal with him she can deal with some other problems
I know it probably existed before, but whenever I see the “Ka-” prefix used for an action or sound effect, I think of The Wotch (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheWotch), which kind of popularized it in webcomics.
Yeah, that was mentioned during the Restaurant Rumble when Big Kev *Ka-Pants’d* to cover Bigger Kev (or maybe earlier when Dabbles did something)
This part is very nice. Wish to see much more like this.