Grrl Power #1135 – Dropping bosses like a boss
Sort of an anticlimactic end to this fight, admittedly. There is part of me that wants to do a OPM style rubble bonanza speed line fest, but this whole sequence feels like it’s getting a little long in the tooth anyway. I’ll save up for the next time I do a big beat down.
If you don’t quite understand what’s going on here, it’ll be spelled out on the next page. But I feel like it’s fairly obvious if you’ve been paying attention.
SuperMassive could have kept the drugs from getting around his system by using a sort of gravitational tourniquette, basically by keeping his blood from flowing away from a limb via G-force pooling, but of course that would only work if someone injected him in an extremity, and it would work for a very limited time. Well, I guess he could cut himself and have all the affected blood shoot out of him like an anime character seeing boobs for the first time. That obviously risks him blacking out from blood loss, but the range on the spray would be incredible, unless the extra gravities were just boringly pulling straight down. Still the forensic blood splatter analysts would be fairly flummoxed in either case.
I’m not entirely sure why I had Hiro say “bog roll” instead of “toilet paper.” He’s not British. To really minimize confusion, I should have just had him say “calendar,” but the idea of higher learning via butt napkins is funny to me, even though I don’t think I’d really trust anything printed on novelty bowel towels not to leave my sweet hams streaked with newsprint.
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I want to reiterate for the record that of all the Patreon characters, Chimyriad is my absolute favorite and the one I hope is a regular in Grrlpower. Awesome character.
Agreed, some of the others have been fun but Chimmy clicks better for some reason.
Although I thought Deus was your self-insert character. Or was it Mrs Scoville the IP attorney?
Deus and Sydney’s mom aren’t Patreon characters. :) Although I obviously love them as characters as well.
And while I am flattered at the comparison, I would never presume to be self-inserted as Deus. I understand the lesson of Icarus and would never deign to fly too close to the sun, lest the wax holding my wings together melt as I try to emulate such perfection.
“Self-inserted as Deus” is suspiciously good wordplay for someone who claims to hate puns so much. <_<
I know they're both 'native' characters, but still I choose to believe that Dave wrote Mrs Scoville as an homage to your presence. It's fairly obvious, not many office law business legal ladies around here.
Dealing with you people when you get all pun-obsessed does feel a lot like Mrs Scoville cat-wrangling her husband and Sydney to behave. :) A likewise futile effort.
In our defense, we do occasionally paws in our efforts to infurryate you.
Probably because they mesh into the team without being a borrowed visitor, a side character, or a villain of the week. They have been meshed in such a way that they make sense to be there and to have not been seen before. That is the thing with guest characters, it’s a lot like fanfic except you are trying to put someone else’s character into your world. It is easier to say, I will put my OC into another series like Marvel, DC, Predator, or mesh properties you don’t own together like Predator vs Jason. But it has to be harder to take not a famous character like what if Supergirl fell into my world, but someone’s character that doesn’t have that long history and exposure, or common knowledge traits. Granted my closest experience to this was back when I did commissions and someone would describe a character but only basic information and a scenario and I’d write a story around it, it was erotica, like a person would describe a Glamazon or an androgynous harpy and ask for a kind of situation for me to write around them. That said I do wander how many of these Patreon characters are a quick description vs someone’s OC they write about or have a comic or something elsewhere. Actually is there a rule about that in the Patreon guidelines for a guest character?
For everyone commenting on the Delightful Expression.
Recall what I said in days past, about the power of the subconscious.
“17.3% too large, and force the viewer’s subconscious try to deal with it.”
It’s just like Mouth of Sauron, in the third Peter Jackson film.
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The slightly too large and misaligned teeth AND mouth angles are also carrying a lot, here. Basically, your brains are trying – desperately – to make it all fit inside the dimensions of that skull, while also trying to keep it all in the box labeled “human.”
And it just won’t. Go. In.
That’s all bad enough, but just to put a cherry on this Nope Sundae, at the same time that your brain meats are burning themselves out looking for symmetry – blessed, comprehensible symmetry – that singular, cyclopean eyeball is giving it exactly the most wrong kind of symmetry. Kind of like when you take a bite out of a chocolate chip cookie, only to discover that it’s oatmeal raisin except the raisins are actually kind of acrid and crunchy and oh god don’t think about that nononono…
This is another example of what Warhol meant, when he said that the Artists job is bypassing the conscious, rational mind in order to elicit a pure, raw, emotional roaches.
They’re roaches.
And that’s a really great way to beat an opponent nonlethally. You don’t have to overpower them. Just convince them reality has gone on Holiday, and they will almost always crumble.
Like the the cookie. The horrible, horrible cookie.
Aaaaand… The day was saved through asspulling and handwaving.
Not that it could have gone any other way, after we saw him bend Maxima energy beam…
That’s a very insightful take, Bergeron.
How did you do it in your comic?
…oh…you don’t have one?
Huh, weird. I would have thought, what with your comment, that you did.
I’m just saying that Dave wrote himself into a corner when he showed that energy beam bending the way it did. Chimyriad attempt should have been deflected, at best, her arm reduced to pulp by the tidal forces at worst. Considering the extent and control of Supermassive’s powers needed to pull off all the things he did during the fight, there are very few things that could affect him: blackmail, mind-altering magic or a gas-based attack, but the last one only if he is not aware of it. What we saw today was instead a lazy attempt at moving the plot forward in the direction he had planned, without giving proper consideration to what he had already shown. And he already used this same “solution” at least two other time to “solve” the same problem, hence my grievance with it.
About your snarky comment, you don’t need to be a director to be a film critic, and you don’t need to be a chef to determine whether what you just ate tasted good or not. And what Dave served today tasted of stale cardboard.
Or you’ve misinterpreted the information presented, and the theory you’ve concocted results in inconsistencies because it’s incorrect.
It is entirely possible; however, since I have a Ph.D. in physics while Dave have an honorary degree in visual arts, I think the most likely explanation is that he wanted to draw a cool looking villain (which he did quite successfully) without properly considering all the ramifications. My major gripe is that it has already happened multiple times and he keep using the SAME plot device (drug injector to the neck from an unsuspected source) to force the story forward in the planned direction…
Chimriad was already in the base and established to be moving about to secure the site before the team arrived, they are also Arc Dark which means more covert spy methods. The knock out drug method was already established years ago to be Archon’s go to preferred method. Heck their not using it during the New York fight caused comments in the comments section here asking why not. They do want to take some people alive for questioning after all.
I mean, it was at least partly because we didn’t want to accidentally explode an off-world tourist. 0_0’
I mean…Glivvens and hot dogs, man. Y’ know?
Sure, there’s a risk to using it on aliens due to unknown biology. But a very reasonable use case for Henchwench, Brut, and whatever other humans I’ve forgotten were there.
see it’s not an ass pull in the slightest though. anticlimactic? perhaps,but not an ass pull.
1.Chimyriad was already established to be on the base and actively securing personel
2. The use of the knockout formula has been stated to be the teams go to.
3. Supermassive has no reason to suspect an attack like this because no one outside of archon knows Chimyriad is on site
4. Supermassive doesn’t have his guard up cause he thinks he is talking to an ally.
which all neatly adds up to supermassive getting taken done by suprise sedatives
Very interesting, Thanks for posting like this.