Grrl Power #136 – List near miss
The List started out as a throwaway joke, but the more times it comes out, the more I think about what’s in it and what it takes to actually get in it. (Besides anything that falls under the rule of funny really.)
Of course, understanding “3 moves ahead” and employing it in a fight are two entirely different things. Just cause Sydney’s now familiar with the idea doesn’t actually make her some sort of indomitable fighter, though it probably doesn’t make her any less dangerous either. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it’s something you hear a lot in relation to anything that involves strategy. Chess, boardgames, RTSs. Basically it just means thinking ahead of your opponent’s reactions to your actions and always working to outmaneuver them. Deploying it in a fast moving fight is yet another skillset entirely, and it’s a fair bet that Math is thinking quite a bit further ahead than just 3 moves. In fact as soon as someone takes a swing at him he probably knows how he’s getting home after the fight and what he’s having for dinner.
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I love how max keeps trying to understand sydney.
A good leader will try to understand her troops strengths, weaknesses, and quirks. If one understands what makes them tick and how they react to what and when, it can make planning strategy and tactics that much easier. Of course, some may be harder than others. =P
Of course Sydney is pretty much her wild card as of this point. She has the powers, but not the proper techniques to use them. That combined with her…. “unique” personality, could turn a bad situation into a winning chance, or a normal situation into a DISASTER. Which is probably what Max is so worried about in the long run. So from there it falls to whether or not they can temper, or at least predict and understand Halo’s temperament.
This is also demonstrated in the anime Fairy Tail when Natsu is captured by the mechanical dragon that absorbs his powers. I forget what episode though…lol.
Huh, I haven’t read up to that one yet. Come to think of it, I stopped reading for some unknown reason. Man I realy need to pick that one back up again!
Of course a good leader will capitalize on their troops strengths. In the case of Sydney, I have a feeling the smartest tactic may often be “Anvil, chuck Sydney into the fray.”
ANVIL: “Are you sure that’s wise?”
MAXIMA: “She just had spicy food about an hour ago.”
ANVIL: “Oh, biological warfare, gotcha.”
Sorry, couldn’t resist the funny there.
More chemical warfare, =P but yes, funny.
More like
ANVIL: is that a good Idea?
MAXIMA: She’s got take-out from Fusion in her pack.
ANVIL: I just know we’re gonna get arrested for this.
I doubt theyr’d be any kind of container strong enough to hold the stuf she eats without melting
Not neccessarily, tungsten has a pretty high atomic number as well as melting point, and there’s a few that are even better. There’s no gaurantee it would hold up, but with the price of adamantium and vibranium these days there’s not many other options.
Normal containers can hold it, just after she digests it it undergoes a strange chemical process that renders the gaseous by-product inhospitible to normal substances (including most humans, including Supers)
So in it’s raw form, some containers can hold it, but once metabolized into it’s gaseous state by Sydney’s naturaly superhuman stomach, it then becomes an unstoppable chemical solvent/irritant (save for Sydney and I believe Max and Achilles as well). An interesting concept to be sure. Perhaps she should have just vomited at Math instead of trying to fight him head on.
Now I just imagined a mix of Sydney and Hannibal from the A-Team when that 3 moved ahead thing came up. Now that would be a potent mixture.
I love it when a plan come together! And you thought the A-Team caused collateral damage. Just wait until Sydney grabs the PPO.
But then what would happen is she actually fought against the A Team? How bad would the collateral damage be then?
Absolutely nothing. As I remember it, the A Team could wildly fire machine guns continuously for about five minutes and never accidentally kill some innocent bystander.
yep, one of the founding designers of the Killmachine special machine gun with magic bullets that only either hit the ground, cars, and the occasional badguys, and never run out of of bullet or be broken by the muzzle overheating.
They never even hit a bad guy
They could hit target if Sydney was firing and using her anti-illusion skills, but who’s going to trust HER with a machinegun??
*ohhhh shiny! Massively destructive powers!!*
She already has the PPO, so I if anything it’d be a downgrade
i can sure imagine why max is more “ambivalent” about that
if those two trouble makers start really getting along a bit… too far then she will have trouble BUT if you add dabbler and harem
then i think you get close to THE END OF EVERYTHING AS WE KNOW IT lol
On the other side, if Sydney would be on odds with the other pranksters, the result would be just as bad for the people in the crossfire
So far, Harem and Sidney are hitting it off rather poorly – pun intended. Dabbler and now Math seem to be acting more like caring, responsible adults toward her.
Having a kid to look out for just might bring out a better side in some of the team’s bad members.
not sure i agree on the part of “taking care of her as kid to take care of” part lol
more like “part of the wild childs” hehe
at least to my point of view hehe
This is also why Jamie and Adam have a prank moratorium at M5 Industries, home of Mythbusters. They figure that things could grow out of hand very quickly.
My wife and I also realize that, no matter how small we started, we’d end up recreating Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
“It was just a small bomb.”
To hear Adam tell it, it all started with a bottle of water on a long drive. That coming up makes me question how electrifying the Egyptian thing in the office happened, and made it onto the Mission Impossible show
Because the producer of that episode pushed for it. I noted that the versions which show the full story on YouTube tend to get taken down nowadays. I suspect that more than one person wishes it had never happened. For team harmony, if nothing else. I do not think that producer works for them now.
If Sydney ever DID want to prank someone she has a perfect alibi generator in the telepresence orb. After said hijinks are accomplished all she has to say is “It couldn’t have been me. I was sitting quietly on couch watching TV at the time. (As far as you can tell)”
Which bring up a few questions for the next Dabbler’s science corner. Does her projection cast a shadow? Can she ‘sit’ on something or would her image just fall though it? Since the copy has no mass, could she just mentally control it to walk up a wall?
At the moment, her projection mirrors what she’s doing, so she could sit on something only if she had a chair of the same height to sit on in her primary location. Of course if she was using it while driving (not advised) and there wasn’t a chair where the projection was, it would look like she was sitting in the air and hovering.
That would be a pritty epic practical joke though. Provided ofcourse she can select that she sees what her real self (in the car) sees, instead of what the mirror her sees
Sure she could use it while driving. The CARPOOL LANE!
Brilliant.
Please, she does not need more ideas on how to cheat the system!
I think that it is such a good suggestion that it should have been made in spoiler grey. I cannot take it out of my mind! Even if DaveB does not use that sometime, I shall assume that she does.
Actually, on second thoughts, she might not need to. I do not know how car pool lanes work, in detail, but if cops are allowed to use them on official business she would not have to, now that she has (or will get at least) a badge.
I leave aside the issue that if they are not allowed to, and she, as a high-profile cop gets caught cheating the system, it would be a PR disaster, and would endanger her career. That all goes down to how effective Maxima is at drilling some discipline into her. But for the mind’s eye, as in the comic, the rule of funny overrides common sense.
Considering how many people get Mannie Quinn to ride shotgun, don’t see why using the T-Orb should be any different
It is not the method, but the person doing it who is relevant in this case. A U.K. M.P. (member of parliament) has just been given prison sentence for getting his wife to take the penalty points (from a traffic speed camera) on her licence, rather than his. A particularly long one.
For two reasons. One being that, because it is so hard to catch someone doing this, those who are caught have to be punished more severely as a deterrent to others. And the other being that a person in his position should not be attempting to pervert the course of justice. Rather, he should be setting an example to others. And the trial received much media attention, so was going to influence public opinion about the practice. As such, his sentence had to be severe. The same principle applies to cops.
He may turn to novel writing now, with his notoriety, but his political career has a gloomy outlook.
Meh, if he was in the US, he would be in the running for Governor at least
If it is a ‘mirror’ image then she could reenact the 2 invisible bike accident cat photo.
that would be a good practical joke to play with a merry go round no danger involved while she could hover around the conference room, the only question is is there one in range. (or a for an extreme version a centrifuge, and i can totally see archon having one in the building)
In an earlier strip when Syd was getting interviewed and demonstrating her powers, she did one thing while your double did something else, so could she not make her double sit and watch anime while the original is running around causing havoc?
The duplicate is just a mirror image of her, and she has to focus on herself or the image to determine which one she’s seeing through. It’s not like Harem where she could read with one and engage in conversation with the other.
I thought the original question was can we have real Syd do havoc while copy Syd watches t.v., real Syd does not need to pay attention to fake, she just needs to make it sit there and look like it is watching t.v. while she is off elsewhere. Is this possible to do, since we have seen that she can make copy do one thing while real does something else. I think that it is possible from what we have seen in interview with higher ups, thou she might not be able to pull it off for very long, before copy starts acting like real again before going back to mirror mode. Or am I rate out to lunch.
I remembered it the way you did Vlad, but when I actually went back to have a look at that scene, I found that DaveB has been totally consistent with what he is saying. So we now know that, when the holographic image in panel 5 is pulling the face, it is only doing so because Sydney is also doing so “off screen”. Not because she gave it an order to do that.
I note that in panel 5 only the projection is saying “Badgers”. However, I assume that is simply to avoid too many speech balloons with second tails going off screen. In each of the panels where both Sydney and her projection are visible, the speech is clearly coming from both simultaneously.
And, there is a certain real-world consistency with this. If we see a dummy, on some guy’s knee speaking, our brains automatically associate the voice with it’s moving lips. Even though we know it is made of wood and cannot be speaking. If we in the real world (or some future villain) can only see one person speaking, then it is likely (albeit not certain) that there would only be the association with the visible one. Even if there are two actually in earshot, speaking simultaneously.
One point worth noting though is that the relative position of the image can clearly change (presumably following the location of the inner orb) because it is behind her in panel 6, but by her side in the last panel.
It was also my assumption that its orientation likewise does not have to match hers. That is, to rephrase, it need not face the same compass bearing as Sydney is. Unless, as everyone turns to watch the inner orb going behind them, Sydney (off screen) spins around to face the opposite direction, before having the image appear. However, that might actually be what happened, given that in panel 6 she is facing the other way.
Regardless of which, it means Halo will have to be very careful if she wants to have the projection move about. If she has a clear area around her real body, she can walk without fear of bumping into other stuff that she is not paying attention to in her actual location.
But, if in an area with obstructions, she has to learn how to mime a walk, without actually moving. Similar in concept to Moonwalking, but with a different technique. Which may be very tricky to pull off convincingly. Otherwise, her image will look like it is sliding from location to location without actually moving its legs!
Unless the creator(s) of the orb were/are sophisticated enough that the projection automatically compensates for such activities. Just because we have poor technology does not mean we should assume that their technomagic is likewise lacking in control. The sign of truly advanced technology is that it actually does what you want it to, without you having to micro-manage every step. Which would also be a sign of competent magic, without demonic or fickle faerie influence.
One other question springs to mind. Can she see and hear from the location of the inner orb, when she chooses to, or does that option only become available when the projection appears? Likewise the voice. Could she use the orb as a messenger, going to an ally and speaking to her? Without having to worry about somebody spotting the image appearing.
as far as we can tell the Telepresense orb’s image simply copies whatever she’s doing at the moment..
At the next ARC karaoke night I see Sydney doing an awesome rendition of Billy Idol’s ‘Dancing With Myself’.
on a side note me and my character being martial artist we would love to get into a sparring with math hehe
That was… actually nice of both of them. Surprising and nice.
So… The List is some sort of “Grudge Against / Good Person In My (Note)Book” thing?
The List is where Sydney writes down the things shes gonna beat the living daylights out of ( at some point anyway). The List is a VERY bad place to be.
It is bad for what ever is listed at the front.
The good list is in the back.
and upside down
Good being debatable.
Regarding being ahead of your opponents: It helps when you do something that makes them very predictable. In chess, threatening a piece so that he or she responds with a specific move that works to your favor. In Math’s case, he deliberately went with a poke to distract Sydney so he could move her leg without her noticing.
Hmm… Ari seems much more of a PR-maniac now. Ob/Gyn?… Really dangerous. Really.
I doubt that was actually in any sort of plan
I think Anvil was joking there, judging by Max’s reaction in panel 3.
I think the laughter was from two women who both hate Ob/Gyn visits imagining Sydney (post revelation of superpowers) being forced to endure such.
Truly the mind does boggle.
Hmm, is a blood test part of the visit to a gynecologist? If so, Max might have a problem, or truly fear what the doctor has to do to get blood from her. I guess they could wait until her “time of the month”.
There are all kinds of medical procedures, many of them life saving, that would require breaking the skin at least a little bit. I do not doubt that Maxima has experimented with *suppressing* her invulnerability under orders from the medical staff.
Medicine and superpowers are a really weird mix depending on how realistic the physics of the universe. I recall an episode from ages back where Power Girl very much needed surgery for something – the doctors ended up having to use Superman’s highest strength heat vision to break the skin (and were very grateful to find her insides were not invulnerable).
While they’ve had to use a kryptonite laser to cut Superman’s skin enough to remove a Kryptonite bullet in Justice League: Doom
As far as we know Max has no special weaknesses though, so under every day situations, she probably wouldn’t need a doctor.
Also we found out that Arc’s doctor has healing powers (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/709), so she can probably get around the skin problem if needed
There was a Marvel comic where Luke Cage was hospitalized and for things like ivs they needed to run all these tubes into his mouth. Thats why supers don’t get seriously injured
I’d be more worried FOR the gynacologist. One thing avoided at all costs in comics has been the genitals of altered form characters. Like Mr. Fantastic, the Thing, Collossus, the Hulk, and the female ones of course, She-Hulk, Red She-Hulk (why don’t we have a better name yet), I think the only one addressed was X-23 being a perpetual virgin, and only thanks to a really bad period of writing for the character.
Okay, her skin is ultra powerful, and muscles, so what does this make of her internal parts? we assume she has a golden labia and vagina with ultra strong constricting muscles. Fear for the man who has to stick any part of himself anywhere near a region that can clinch and convulse automatically. Just relax, its not cold….OH DEAR GOD IT RIPPED OFF MY HAND!
…. And thank you s-o-o-o much for that set of mental images.
Also the reverse is a problem ref: Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex.
I already mentioned the Hulk’s massive green dong, what more do you want?
well i am with max on that one,,,having experienced both,,, i dread a press conference more the ob/gyn,,, and i HATE ob/gyn with a passion that rival a thousand sun
Bhahahaha! Anvil has a wicked sense of humour, and I like her more and more.
And Sydney cannot write Math’s name on the list, there’s a first. Nice one, Dave.
I gues Sydney already made 2 great friends.
Dabler and Math. I wonder how she’ll be with Harem once they get over the reflex ‘punch to the face’
Sydney and Punk-rock Daphne seemed to get on alright. Then again, Punk-rock Daphne has yet to pop in right under Sydney’s nose.
For Sydney there might be a punk rock version, but from Harem’s perspective, there is only 1 Harem. And she got smashed in the face
yeah,,,i am liking kenya more and more as she is finaly unveiled,,,, and i think that she and sidney are gonna be great friends
Could it possibly be that I see Sydney (at some future point in time) actually putting Math in her book AFTER flipping it over?
I’m not too surprised. Sydney’s a terrible liar. Even to herself.
Good to see Sydney didn’t start a rivalry with Math.
On a side note, I think you left off the h of Maxima’s *ugh* in panel two.
Does Ug/ugh have an official spelling? It’s hard to tell with grunts and other noises.
I guess its just that ug is mainly used for cavemen. I can’t see maxima doing a caveman impression XD
It’s all in the inflection and emphasis. “Ugh” is more drawn out, and “Ug” is basically a grunt.
Just wondering if Ob/Gyn is what I think it is.
gynecologist. were you right?
Strictly speaking “obstetrician/gynecologist”, but close enough.
And it’s typically spelt out as “Oh Bee Gee Why En” rather than said as “Ob-Gin”
hasn’t prevented star wars fans making lots of jokes about Mr. Kenobi though…
That’s because half probably don’t know what an OB/GYN is (or does), the rest just like making fun of him :D
When I saw panel 1, I wondered what Sydney was doing, then I realized she was checking just how much taller Anvil is than her.
For the Canadians in the audience, in regards to Anvil: Look up, way up!
For everybody else, check out Wikipedia and TvTropes.
Liking how Anvil tilts her head slightly to help Sydney pat her on the head :D
Three moves ahead, and one giant leap backward!
Gynecologist joke feels tacked on. THE WACKY TOPICS THESE WOMEN TALK ABOUT, AMIRITE?
Or that they are just great friends. Wasn’t it said that they have known each other the longest? Or was that Maxi and Peggy?
Yea Max and Peggi knew each other from back in the hospital during the air force
maxi and peggi,,, but i think kenya was the second one,,,
don’t get too comfortable there Math. Syd did NOT hold the “list” book upside down when she wrote his name in like she did when she added leon to it. so Math is clearly not quite on the good side of the Sydney just yet.
Actually, I think she started to write “Math” onto The List and then decided against it and gave him grudging respect.
My take as well.
And mine.
The beginnings of a less spaz-like and more emotionally stable Sydney.
Aaaaww :(
Actually, that’s a pretty scary thought
just got away being put on THE LIST
Yeah, but he wasn’t added into the back like Joel
Somewhere I think ‘not on the list’ is still better than ‘the upside down list’
Either Math has done a slight-of-hand with ‘The List’ or there is a small continuity error. Sydney is putting a brown book not a blue book in her pocket.
Allow me to congradulate you on finding Dave’s first mistake in recent history, he got a lot more careful when people started Easter egg hunting and there hasn’t been any for a few strips, he’ll fix it now as he always does… admittedly I though it was her wallet
And the pen.
The List has powers of it’s own.
It’s actually not brown, it’s “see through” I forgot to color it in. :P
You missed a spot. ;)
The book in her back pocket in panel 7 is still brown.
I think I read it somewhere that Batman (in the comics) thinks of seven different strategies in every situation and then another seven for each of those.
in chess, 3 moves ahead would be playing at a very low level of competence. Then again, you have slightly more time to think in chess (except in speed-chess). Actually, that’s a pretty good comparison with martial arts too, because the people who tend to be great at that kind of chess usually have standard moves and reactions depending on how the other player moves. Those strategies have been drilled into them so much that they have become nearly automatic
But for someone like Sydney, 3 is a good starting/focus point (it also might be the limit how far ahead she can think/stay focused)
Yeah, I’d agree with that. After all, Math DID say that mastering the “3 moves ahead” rule is when Sydney would be STARTING to learn.
Since this comic takes place in a world where the presence of ‘supers’ are an established fact, I got to thinking about their participation in the rest of society. Would advertisers go after them to pitch a specific product like a sports drink or athletic shoes? Are they banned from playing in professional sports, or in the Olympics? Do they have ‘a league of their own’?
For those who turn toward the dark side and are caught, how do you keep someone like a teleporter locked in a jail cell?
That’s some very good questions.
DaveB already said that there were no power supressors in his universe, so anyone with a power would have an unfair advantage in sports. And at the same time no power is the same, so you can’t really put supers in a match tougether.
And ofcourse the bad guys, but I think we’ll get to see some bad guys eventually, and with it an awnser
Well, there goes my idea of staging a ‘Super’ bowl.
There aren’t enough supers to try and market to, it’s almost literally one in a million. Each sport has its own rules but generally yes, they’re banned if their power would give them and advantage. If you’re fireproof, and only fireproof, you’re welcome to play basketball. I’ll get into incarceration of supers later.
I kinda meant using supers as spokespersons for a product.
Although, if they ever wanted to produce ARC action figures with built in recorded character sayings, the Sydney figurine would have to come with a ‘not suitable for children’ warning.
Especially if Sydney’s “Halo figure” comes with scaled replicas of her spheres…”Contains small, easily swallowed parts.”
1 in a million,
I am bad at math, so I think what 6000 known supers? Marvel I think has 5000+ characters, but not all of them superpowered. it did claim a mutant population of 65 million once (before M-day) not sure now though post Phoenix event.
This Earth’s human population just passed over 7 billion, so if it’s the same for their Earth that’s around 7,000 supers. Assuming an even distribution among the world’s population, that’s around 316 supers in the United States.
and only 22 in australia
And 36 in Canada. I wonder what the standard deviation of the distribution is like. Is 36 enough people to start Department H?
with 5 thousand people providing oversight like the Pentagon maybe =P
But, of those, how many actually have useful abilities? The story has already demonstrated that some of them are rather specialised. Some superhumans who may be considered crime-fighting deficient:
Sudso Has the power to instantly clean a pile of dirty dishes.
Spotifier Can make coloured spots appear on any wall. *
Break Man Can make any TV or radio channel immediately go to a commercial break.
* Credit to Piers Anthony for this concept, as an example on the same subject.
Exposition Man: Almost all of his dialog gives background information on the situation at hand, even if he had no other reason to know it. It is a psyonic ability.
Actually, depending on how much control he had over it, that could be an incredibly useful power. Or lead to a very short life expectancy, if he inadvertently reveals dangerous people’s secrets in their earshot.
The Buffy Musical episode springs to mind as an example.
Or Urinator who can change the color of his stream. Also Piers Anthony.
A man goes to his doctor after noticing changes with his vision. The doctor says I have good news and bad news. The good news is you have just developed x-ray vision. The bad news is that the one substance it can not see through is….air.
Heh. Rather a major limitation! But still leaving open niche work for that superhero. Weirdly enough I actually designed a character who had that exact limitation (and more), just this week! I got distracted by all the talk of character naming and got out my old GURPs supers book and did a bit of creating myself.
That particular character could take on multiple forms (and, reminiscent of Harem, create extra bodies). Amongst the various things she could shape-change into were four themed on the elements (a gnome, a djinni, a sylph and a mermaid). All of whom needed to have heavily restricted powers, because of having many forms.
One of the big problems with operating underwater is restricted sight. So I gave her x-ray vision, but restricted to vegetation and silt/sand only. This still turned out to be just a wee bit too costly for her restricted points (she wanted to operate at depth and other relatively expensive abilities too), so also tweaked it by making it only work underwater. Similar to your limitation.
Bang went the options of seeing villains in bushes or through a sandstorm (like the mermaid in Splash she has legs on land). But still very useful in her normal operating environment. Seaweed and silt being regular problems.
and, um, hey, what limitation…as long as there’s a cloud in the sky, the person is technically under water…if that’s too much of a stretch, what about rain?
It is too much of a stretch. One goes by the spirit of such limitations, or else games rules books would have to be bigger than the table they sit on. Just to qualify all the definitions for rules lawyers.
Although amusing as a play on words (which is the spirit that I take your comment in), some players do attempt to twist the intent of such things. Which is self-defeating as they are obviously no longer in touch with the character they are attempting to roleplay.
In the case of a mermaid, quite clearly the intent is that they only have their aquatic powers in the ocean or a large body of water. Lakes and swimming pools are ok. Bathtubs are borderline. Puddles are out. And holding a bottle of Perrier over her head and saying “ooh I can see through tree trunks now” is taking the abuse to its ridiculous extreme!
Mind you, rain did make a big difference to the mermaid in Splash. If her legs got wet they turned into her fish tail! So actually quite a disadvantage on land.
If rules lawyers try to justify O.B. Juan‘s version working in the rain. Well it can. You can use your x-ray vision to see into a raindrop. Mind you, you can already do that, with regular vision. And you do not need to have super reflexes and co-ordination in order to be able to place your eye flush with the raindrop, as it is falling, to do so. Because, failing to do that means the air between you and it is blocking your x-ray vision.
As if every raindrop were encased in lead (if using normal x-ray machines as an analogy).
They don’t have to be known. And ofcourse they are everywhere on the world, not just in the US, like some comics or movies pretending there is the US and ‘some other place we sometimes visit’
Believe you meant to say “…some other place we plan to invade/destroy/exploit/etc”
The number that will be cited later on will be something like 5-8,000, but they’re extrapolating. Only about 3K are known, but they’re assuming there are some out there a villa in Brazil that no one knows about, and they’re assuming there are quite a few people that have powers they don’t know about. If you think about it, how would you learn you had waterbreathing unless you were in a position to potentially drown a lot? Learning you were fireproof would probably be easier as people have chances to burn themselves on stoves and things a lot more. I could have regeneration, but I’ve never lost a hand to Nazi alligators.
Some powers do come with an intrinsic instruction manual though, so some people know they have powers as soon as they get them. At the moment there’s no law about registration, so there are also people who are a super strong but don’t tell anyone because they make a nice living as a bank manager.
BTW, this is all stuff I was going to put in the press conference, but I’m really considering cutting it down to the absolute essentials so I can move on with the story. What I wrote above could easily be a whole page of the comic and I don’t want to spend 20 weeks on it, even if some of it is worldbuilding.
Anything you do not want to spend time on in dialogue, but that you still want to mention and make canon you could by the expedient of having some kind of display in the background with summarised bullet points. Maybe not the most exiting of ways to cover it, but it cuts down on pages of talking.
Plus is realistic being pretty standard in presentations, and your scene can just imply that all that has been spoken about during the conference. “And in conclusion…
It’s a major reason no longer go swimming and don’t like boats (going to Venice and Amsterdam were not as fun as they should have been :(), have too many dreams of being able to breath underwater (still have the smell: clean and wet, totally not like normal sleeping area) and not willing to risk it and find out it doesn’t work in this body
You reminded me of a list I did once of superpowers you could have and never know it, some because to learn you had it on your own would require pre-existing knowledge from relatives or be in a situation where you potentiall die.
such as water breathing, cloud walking, radiation absorption, relative injury regeneration (small injuries normal speed, lethal almost instant), able to survive without oxygen but requires other gases, ect..
there are also others you’d never know with out specific circumstances, like the Copra Bomb character where it required drying and then igniting his feces, or someone able to digest any material but has no intention or desire to eat such things, especially if you add that with then vomits up explosive balls or something. Those weird combo action powers it just seems odd anyone would figure it out without something really weird happening or having a tracker tell them what their powers are or something.
For all I know I might have all of the following:
The ability to detect magic, psionics and superpowers over a vast area and in precise detail.
Total immunity to magic, psionics and superpowers.
Actually, I know at least one of those is not true. But shall leave that dangling to tease your curiosity.
I think the best is “Power Cannabalism” the power to gain the superpowers of another by eating their flesh…how can you discover you have this power unless you are already a dangerous psychopath to begin with and happen to eat a superpowered guy at some point.
The worst one was a power in the Wildcard novels. Some guy could eat a person’s brains and gain their knowledge. Obviously my first question upon that reveal would have been, “How did you discover you had this power?”
I always just assumed that abilities like that come with an associated craving. Like if you’re deficient in certain vitamins, you start craving foods you never liked, or may even have never even eaten before, supposedly due to racial memory. It’s an easy way to justify craving brains or whatever, that actually mirrors real life.
As for the extra details in the press conference, I think you ought to just remember that as long as you make it fun to read, pacing really doesn’t matter that much. As far as your audience is concerned, there are no particular events we’re impatiently waiting to get to (even if you are, personally). The best parts of this comic have always been the parts where you’ve slowed things down for the sake of the funny.
Yeah, I’m going to have to write well ahead of where I am, then do a lot of editing to condense it down to the essentials, but keep some funny in it. Well. Not that far ahead now.
I have a character like that, named Tendril *I think* havn’t used him in years, pretty sure the short story also got him killed by a man named Genocide.
well “Tendril” could gain the knowledge of others by eating their brains, he also was a horrible ugly looking creature whose name comes from the fact his arms and legs are actually tentacles that are entwined to mimic human shape. He was an abortion, ultrasound made it look like a dead fetus that wasn’t coming out. Once removed the fetus mutant fled down a drain and was eating rats, gaining the knowledge of each creature he consumed as he grew, other animals, dogs, and eventually hobos. His last version was smart enough to be a villain used as an underworld informant by an unscrupulas group of supers called M-Group.
He was killed by Genocide (a super with the power to target any cell signature and kill all of them, from all of a specific cell in a body, to a person and all their family relations within a few hundred miles). *on the plus side that guy could target all of a bacteria infecting the body…or wipe out an entire mob family including innocent civilians related as second and third cousins…that guy had to be put on a leash.
-coincidently I named this character and gave him a lower version of a weapon I created for an alien race used to eliminate all of a specific species on a planet (The Genocide weapon).
Started to read a comic about that guy, thought he was a total nob-head
must be someone else’s character with the same name, I never published the short story.
got a link to what you are talking about, I did publish character pages years ago but never shared the story online. I’d like to see if its plagarism or coincidence.
No, it’s either no longer in the browser hstory or simply can’t find it (found it through either ProjectWonderful or InkOutbreak or one of the other similar comic-sharing thingies)
Maybe he tried something like monkey brains or a similar cultural dish…
*Covers RoboMonkey‘s ears.* Don’t listen to the scary talk!
in that case we are screwed population of china: 1.35 billion so thats 1350 supers? close to the same for india Iceland gets a 1/3rd of one, could prove to be strange should any of these countries lose control of supers or if those supers decide they dont like the local government and decide to band together and do something about it. speaking of which should that happen would united states respond by sending its supers to help?
So Iceland’s 1 super-powered individual grows up in a politically ambitious household with a physically abusive father. When his powers manifest in his teens, his father gets a taste of his own medicine, but the super-strength slap across the face shatters the man’s jaw and whips his head around so fast as to break his neck. He now takes what he sees as his father role and make slaves of his mother and siblings; nobody can stop him. He is definitely the epitome of the phrase “Heaven does not want me but Hell is afraid I will take over.”
When his high school calls to find out why he has not shown up for school, he tells them to get lost (in extremely violent and vulgar fashion). Things escalate until the police eventually manage to contain him. While still a 15-year-old, he is tried as an adult for several violent crimes, including multiple counts assault causing severe bodily harm, resisting arrest, manslaughter, murder in the second degree, damaging public property, contempt of court, etc. He is heavily restrained during his trial. He is convicted and sentenced to multiple decades of confinement in maximum security.
He powers continue to develop as he gets older. Little by little, he overcomes his restraints and finds more people he can bully into doing things for him. By 20, he has learned all he can from the experienced bad guys in the prison (those that survived), and has become the big boss of all the prisoners. All the gangs, groups and affiliations in the prison answer to him; if you don’t like it, you really can’t do anything about it, except die. The guards leave him alone because even 10 on 1, they are no match for this powerhouse.
The day after his 21st birthday, he decides to leave the prison. At this point, there is nothing anybody can do to stop him. After going through the destroyed gates of the prison, and dispite the efforts of the police and military, he goes to the Althing and declares himself Warlord and King of Iceland and that everybody must do as he says. Things may go downhill from there.
Remind me to never let you read my kids a bedtime story.
Yup. Mind you, not quite as scary as Rhuen. Of course, kids would love that sort of stuff. If you think not, have a look at some fairy tales. Bedtime stories told to generations of kids. But (ignoring ones that Disney has cutefied) most are actually pretty grim and often include murder or worse.
One of the many reasons I lothe Disney, did you know Walt was a fan of the Nazis?
I think you got that backwards. Hitler was a fan of Disney.
Also look up (greatest Disney deaths). Disney cutifies the endings of the protagonists, the antagonists still get gruesome deaths, granted mostly off screen for the bloodier ones.
This is what I was talking about. https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt-disney-a-fascist
It’s called knowing your audience. When I go over to my brother’s place, I have often read stories to my nieces. My embellishments were always about what was in the stories and the pictures (It turns out that T-Rex may have been purple, but they had a lot more feathers when they were this size. Do you think monkeys really wear red boots like that?), not freaking out my brother’s little girls. I reserve the nightmare fuel for my sister-in-law (You know I could teach her calculus before she is out of grade 2). :P
Noting too that one has to consider the distribution of supers. They may or may not be evenly distributed throughout the world population. but favour specific groups or locales or whatever.
Consider the Marvel Universe, where almost everything super-related seems to happen in or very close to New York. Spontaneously develop superpowers? New York. Aliens or extra-dimensional beings arrive where? New York. Commit crimes where? New York. Make your big announcement to the world? New York. Set up an HQ? New York.
One has to wonder.
commit a crime in new york? really? not anymore nowdays those imbeciles look for gun free zones for helpless victims. crime in new york ain’t all that bad not like say 30 years ago.
hell new york ain’t even on the top 100 most dangerous places to live in the states anymore.
You do realize that I was referring to the Marvel Universe’s NYC.
With all the Powered in MNYC (and surrounding areas), makes you wonder how stupid the criminals must be if they are still commiting crimes there
Well, the Marvel writers are generally in New York, so it is the area they know the best. If they were to have an alien invasion occur in, say, Winnipeg, Manitoba, then most of them would be guessing as to what to place where, or just cover the highlights of the tourism brochure. There is a lot more to Winnipeg than just the provincial capital.
Re: O.B. Juan “For those who turn toward the dark side and are caught, how do you keep someone like a teleporter locked in a jail cell?”
You study that individuals power and find if there is a way to negate it. As an example: A thief who can teleport himself (and clothes for comic modesty sake) but not any other items. He teleported into a shop to disable the alarm from inside. When spotted exiting through a window, he just teleported away. But was caught because his fingerprints were on the goods he had to abandon.
If he tried to evade justice, they could use a tranquillizer gun on him (or a regular one, depending on how bloodthirsty the locals are). In his case, it is a first time offence, so he does not see the point on living on the run for the rest of his life, and co-operates. In a deal, to reduce the sentence, he gives information on his power. Revealing it to be limited to 50 yards (he is lying, it is a mile).
The court has no way to verify that claim though, so in specify that the prison must be an isolated one. The re-commissioned Alcatraz does not have the capacity yet for anything other than dangerous super-criminals, so he is just sent to a normal facility in a desert area. But more than enough to discourage thought of escape.
To ensure that he cannot bypass mundane security arrangements though, he is fitted with a standard issue tagging device on his ankle to monitor his location at all times. If he leaves the permitted areas (his cell at night, for instance), an alarm sounds and the computer can display his current position (and history of movements, for that matter).
Teleporter effectively imprisoned. At minimal extra cost to the taxpayer.
Xref: Steven Gould’s “Reflex”, a novel which involves many insidious ways of imprisoning a teleport, and/or coercing a teleport to do do things they’d rather not.
By the way, “Impulse” has been out for a while, about Dave and Millie’s daughter, Cent.
Jumper was the first in the series, for those who want to start at the beginning – I highly recommend it. :)
I don’t know why Maxima would be ambivalent about that. If Sydney can master “three moves ahead,” then she is thinking strategically, planning ahead, and coordinating her attacks, instead of blindly reacting. In fact, this thinking ahead is shown in the gaming (at the start of the series) and the hints in the character description where she can figure out how to use other team member’s abilities very effectively. Any disciplined thinking/reacting on Sydney’s part should be encouraged as it makes her less dangerous to her teammates and more dangerous to their opponents.
Look at who is training Sydney this way, and what his relation with Maxima is like.
In martial arts training, Math is the teacher, but (at least in my mind) when it comes to training someone not to be a sexist objectifier of women, Sydney wins every time. At the very least, eventually, he will not behave that way while Sydney is around.
O yes he will. Or did you forget about https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/709 ?
Yes, but that was their first meeting. What happens after their 200th meeting? At their first meeting Sydney did not approve of his behavior. I don’t think that’s likely to change. Math attitude meet Sydney behavior modification. The regular drip of water wears away the stone.
The only thing saving the world is that Sydney can’t think long term :P
I think she’s ambivalent about the “YESSSSSSSSS!”
A competent Sydney would be to their advantage, just as you say, but she sounds like she has evil in mind, thus the ambivalence.
That kind of assumes that Sydney’s goals and the goals of her teammates match. I think Maxima isn’t so sure about that. ;-)
She’s ambivalent because while she obviously needs Sydney to become a competent fighter, there is an equal amount of restraint and overall responsibility that needs to be trained in to her at the same time if not before she starts down the path of ultimate warrior.
He will always be the bestest “rastler”/comicbook character to me (still have a poster of him on the wall and an official ‘letterman’ jacket with him on the back)
Just finished watching a rerun of “Deadliest Warrior.” Let’s see, replace Joan D’Arc with Sydney, and William the Conqueror with who? Max? Deus? Last Son of Kry, uh, element 36? Thor?
Last week I asked you guys for a little help with coming up with a hero name and I have come up with what I think is a winner, “The Resonant” so thanks to all who helped out with suggestions.
I did much the same thing, and decided upon Stheno, thanks going to yorp for his idea, and I really thought about Hapalochlaena but that kept me going back to the original design for her. The original design was a young girl who had what essentially looked like a jellyfish on her head with two large tentacles with electrical powers sprouting from it, although her current design does resemble an octopus (sort of anyway) I was thinking of using the idea of her having some form of octopus DNA in her system, and decided her name before she was abandoned by her parents would be Chaena as a nod to the DNA. (The main reason I’m not going with Chaelna is because I’m trying to avoid an animal theme for the group she is in, I might do one later though)
yeah Yorp mentioned resonance in his post on my thread and it snowballed from there. Hey Yorp, I think we’ve your hidden talent.
stupid lack of an edit function it’s supposed to be ” I think we’ve found your hidden talent”. Remember kids! Insomnia and technology don’t mix.
I have enough dyslexia that I read it how you meant it anyway
The many years of practice, as a lifelong gamer have helped to hone the skill.
A few City of Heroes character names I came up with, amongst many others:
Along came B (Friends with “Along came A” and “Along came C”. A cute little bumble bee, who could, transform into a bumblebee wearing boxing gloves and shorts. Guess her unoriginal catchphrase.)
Gene Splicer (Mad scientist, part plant and part animal (in various mixtures and ever changing).
Sir Merlin (a wizard, of some repute, who decided to take up chivalry in the age of heroes).
Sucubes (A lesbian demon. Who practised naturism, most of the time, but never caused offence thanks to super group colours allowing her to give the illusion of being decent. Like painted clothes.)
Zintrine (an amalgam of “Zintiel” and “Nitrine” in homage to Flaky Pastry. Responsible for my web-comic addiction.)
‘z (A PVP character. The tiniest size possible, physically and by name, to avoid drawing attention).
My pleasure :)
While we’re on the subject of being helpful, I have a favor to ask. Sorry to go off-topic, but it’s about the orbs. Whenever I have a question about the orbs, I go back to the Super Powered Happy Fun Balls (SPHFB) page to check Dave’s illustrations and your notes. I’d like to see them condensed into a single post on that page, where it’s easy to find. I’d do it myself, but I don’t want to seem too thievish. Would you be willing to do that, or let me do it? It’d make a great reference. :D
My latest musings are on the molestorb. Can it deftly pick pockets? Can it hold an edge for cutting or a point for piercing? Can it fling a car off a child like a panicked mother? Should I be going back to the SPHFB page for questions on this subject? What’s the community opinion on that sort of thing?
Happy to do what I can, which is to put the 3 posts adjacent to one another. Sadly, as it has multiple links, the website prevents those all being submitted in one comment. An anti-spam feature, I guess. But, at least having them next to each other will make for easier reading, provided no one posts a reply to either of the first two anyhow.
I will also include a link to the starting one, so that it can be copied into a bookmark, for easier future reference.
I can post it before DaveB puts up the next issue. I seem to recall that there were a couple of points which could do with tightening up, or re-phrasing, and that will give me the chance to check over what they were.
As regards the other points, folks usually just post them on the most recent page, as they think of them. Which is probably not a bad idea, as anyone who has not commented on a particular page will not receive a notification if there is a new post. In my example, I was a silent reader for a long time, so I will not be aware of any new posts going up on most of the early pages. With a couple of exceptions.
I should’ve known there were posting limits that forced you to break it up. Seems obvious, now that you point it out. Thanks for taking the time, though. It’s very helpful. :)
So, if I wanted to retro-post, the only way anyone would pay attention to it would be if I were to leave a comment on the most recent page, is that right? If so, that’s fine. Good to know, if it ever comes up. Aside from your list of orb lore, I can’t think of anything else to semi-archive.
Getting back to the orbs, I’m looking forward to experiments on the Sydney/orb unit. No telling what kind of laughs Dave can wring out of the process. Plus, I’m dying to know what all she can do with those things. Any thoughts on the physical properties of the molestorb?
I would guess that it cannot pass through the force field, whilst it is up. And that it is probably strong enough to lift a person’s weight. Simply cause it would be funny to dangle a villain upside down, by holding his foot.
We know that it can form simple shapes too (a pointing hand), so that has some potential in its own right. For instance hiding on a stake-out and failing to mime a message to a colleague in sight (and being too close to baddies to talk), she could spell out a message with it.
Using sign language? Or simply form entire words, sorta like using a glow-stick/sparkler to ‘write’ in the air?
Like a neon sign. The word(s) she chose would have to be formed from a single wriggly line, which limits the words. As an example gents would be problematic. But could be overcome with a convoluted loop to make the “t” transition to the “s”.
Oooh! Does the team all know sign language? That would be cool. The prestidigitorb could certainly make all those Infantry and cop hand gestures you see in the movies. I’m sure Sydney is familiar with those.
Plus, ‘m sure she could come up with some new ones, most would need to be censored though :D
There will be a delay on putting up Halo’s list I am afraid. I forgot that the master list is on my laptop, which is currently under repair and I am too lazy to re-do the links individually. Much easier to copy and paste from that when I get the laptop back. Hopefully sometime next week.
EVIL yesss?
YEESSSSSSSSS!!!
By the way sidney at the OB/GYN would be hilarious and ridiculous
sine i found out what is OB/GYN maybe not so much…
Reminds me of a classic stereotype: the easygoing giant vs. the overaggressive runt. The big guy can afford to be laid back because his physical presence makes its own statement; the runt has to go full-tilt, no holds barred, &/or downright mean to get any respect (or even avoid being overlooked).
My dad saw one of those while a student in Vancouver, BC: A big placid Irish Wolfhound was tied to a post waiting while his owner was inside. A woman came along with her chihuahua, which started yapping at the 5-foot-tall dog. The woman let her little mouthy guy keep harassing and barking at the big dog until the wolfhound just reached down with its mouth, grabbed the front half of the chihuahua in its mouth, sat back up, shook its head and dropped the little guy from the height of about four-and-a-half feet. It shut up after that. The woman was then upset that this giant monster had mauled her little innocent poochy.
Totally knew Sydney would respect Math for his move and not hold a grudge or add him to The List (admittedly, was thinking at first that she simply had run out of room and was looking for an ‘out’ for why she didn’t add him :P)
The Scene: Math steps approaches the shower wearing nothing but a towel.
He enters the shower stall; view is from outside looking at the curtain with his towel hanging from a hook behind it. All is peaceful.
Next panel has a scream issuing from the stall with obvious disruption of the surface of the hanging curtain, towel sent flying.
Panel 4 shows a single orb floating merrily out of the shower stall.
Panel 5 shows the orb travelling through hallways, perhaps past grinning or curious looking on lookers.
Final Panel shows the orb landing gently in the palm of a wickedly grinning Halo. Word bubble states “FOUR steps ahead grasshopper… not three… FOUR.”
Just have to figure out if it was the GrabOrb or the PeekABooOrb
Probably the Violator
Just what he deserves, the lecherous perv (and before anyone jumps on me about that, just remember their first meeting, just before she clocked him with the orb)
I’m getting the impression that Math is thinking of Sydney as an unofficial student as of at least three pages ago.
or at least since she “clogged him” by surprise hehe
I still want a notebook with ‘The List” on it.
zazzle or cafepress comes to mind hehe
I’m surprised Max didn’t yell at him not to encourage her. Can we expect to see her randomly ambush him from now on?
“Not now Kato!”
I don’t know how behind I am at this, but I just glanced at the character bar at the top of the page and…. What the hell’s Jiggawatt?
She still hasn’t been officially introduced, but she has been seen a few times
OMG, Sydney is growing!
Oh God. Sydney at a deep blue level of chess strategy In Combat.
A scenario came to mind — somewhere/somehow, Sydney drops ‘The List’ during a battle and a bad guy picks it up thinking, perhaps, it is a diary or special ledger that might have the secrets of the ARC. Instead it is a mishmash of ‘people I’d like to Orb’ and doodles of odd stuff. So, thinking it is some kind of code, the bad guys come up with a ‘world conquering’ strategy based on what they ‘decipher’ from The List.
Then again… Max (or more probably, one of the Harems) might just want to peek and see what Sydney has written about her…
I can only imagine the chaos that will happen cause of this.
Math has a black belt in fist-bumping. Bros have been known to weep when witnessing his technique.
DaveB, I just want to tell you how much I enjoyed this page and the one where Math nudges Sydney’s leg. That leg nudge was the *perfect* resolution to that match… and today we see that Sydney doesn’t disagree with me. I loved how she tagged him once unaware, but there was no way she was going to touch him in a straight-up fight, and you portrayed this perfectly.
By the way, the Robert Downey Jr. version of Sherlock Holmes fights a bunch of steps ahead. I thought I was going to hate the “Sherlock Holmes as action hero” idea, but I actually liked how they handled it. You see a slow-motion with Holmes’ voiceover, thinking how the fight is going to go, and then you see the actual fight at full speed.
The comparison with Sherlock Holmes, as played by Robert Downey Jnr is a good one.
However, speaking as a long-time reader of the Great Detective’s stories, I point out he always was an action hero. True, in the original stories, Sherlock always set special emphasis on the mental aspects of detective work. However, he was also an acknowledged expert in bare-knuckle boxing, wrestling and stick-fighting; a master of disguise; and often put himself at personal risk when needed.
However, speaking as a long-time reader of the Great Detective’s stories, I point out he always was an action hero.
Sure. As you noted, Sherlock Holmes was depicted as strong and willing to fight. Even the part where he went downtown and competed in boxing ring fights was actually mentioned at least once in the original stories.
But for me the main appeal of the Sherlock Holmes character is detecting and deduction; I really hated, for example, the Young Sherlock Holmes movie because it was so weak on actual detective stuff (and larded up with stupid action sequences).
Thanks! I really started second guessing myself when the page prior went up and all the comments were speculating on the outcome of the fight, but I thought it was best to stick with my original idea. It helped that I had already drawn the page as well.
Oh wow…I JUST realized that all the members with chokers have the first initial of their name on them
I noticed something interesting about the list book. Halo seems to have two separate ways of putting people onto the list, meaning their are actually two different lists. In one list she opens it from the front and just writes them into it, however as seen when she was talking with the team nerd she flipped the book upside down and wrote his name into it from the back of the book which signifies a secondary list that’s entirely different. My question is what do these two different lists signify? One is obviously an enemy list of some sort, however the other isn’t necessarily a bad list to be on, this of course could be wrong as I really have no idea what it even means when your put on the list and if it’s really bad or not. It would be interesting if we actually knew what these two lists really mean or if their just the same list with the same meaning.
The comments section on the page where she flips the book to put Leon’s name in has a lot of speculation on that. Probably a good place to check. But, in brief, normal way round it is a list of things which have irritated Sydney and may need payback at a later date. Given that some of the things are not actually sentient, that can be a bit of an abstraction though.
The upside down list, at the back, however seems to be for things that she likes.
There could also be general notes and doodles in the middle.
Somewhere (presumably back or middle) are the details her wedding plans with Wolverine.
I have a hero I created a while back. He’s what is known as a mage smith with a pair of bespelled guns. The bullets can’t kill, but depending on which type of ammo is being used they do different things. Anything from temporarily freezing the person to knocking them out or removing spells. His name is Gun Ward. Being a magician he can cast spells and has the ability of levitation (himself and others) along with a wide use of magical warding spells with different uses, most of which he can cast into bullets for his guns. Keep in mind these bullets don’t kill because they are not your typical idea of what bullets are or do. They are in fact depositories for the spells he casts which shatter like bubbles breaking when they deliver their spells. Any spell he knows he can then cast into a bullet.
Cool concept :)
is this weapon a fancy none-lethal version of a “Caster”
or is it more a channel for this spells, like a medium using spell-shots.
Caster from Outlaw Star
https://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3yi8VND41r5uzd4o1_400.jpg
this gun fires special bullets that are spells in cases. Different bullets have different spell effects, from more commong “fireball” types too very rare higher end spells. Very rare weapon in the series as its expensive and only needed when fighting Tao Masters (magic users) as other cheaper weapons work on normal people, aliens, and cyborgs, and androids.
the channeled spell shot thing is harder to come across as an anime, tends to be more an RPG videogame excuse for not paying attention to things like “ammo”.
More of the secondary guess there, their more like spell shots, their are some lethal rounds he uses, Expulsion rounds to send demons back to hell and werewolf killer rounds, but only if it’s deemed to be a situation with no other way around it.
oh and yes being a big fan of that series I’m very familiar with the caster gun, however I came up with this hero long before I first saw the series Outlaw Star.
don’t worry not accusing you of taking the idea from them. Its hard to have an original idea.
I came up with ages ago the idea that my series would have three uber goddesses at the very top of the divine pantheon (not really meant to be direct characters in the stories), I even had mental images of what they’d look like. After watching Tenchi Muyo, while none of them looked like Washu, Rokonaka had a passing resemblance to Tokimi (in the silhoute would be simular but with a different shape to the hair and clothes, but those claws and face were scary simular) and Maekonaka might as well have been a blond version of Tsunami. *the third by the way is Chaykonaka, and aside from red hair looks nothing like Washu.
but heck more down to Earth I saw a comic book a few years back with a huntress on the cover who looked scary close to one of my sorceresses. Clothes, build, and hairstyle at any rate. with so many tropes out there its hard to be 100% original anyway and still be something you or the audience can relate to. Heck, like this comic here, embrace the cliche, take another angle at it, and make it your own.
or Rachel morgan’s splat gun that uses jelly like paintballs to deliver spells — author kim harrison
Similar to this concept however I’ve never read that series, if you could list a few of the books I might be interested in taking a look. In this case though the “bullets” are very solid when their being loaded and seem to feel like some sort of metal. the action of firing the bullet changes load into a different substance, releasing the spell from it’s confinement and firing or shooting it toward it’s target. The bullet casing is in actuality a holding cell for the spell which releases as it is fired. As this happens the hard substance of the casing dematerializes using it’s energy to fuel the spell being released. The harnessed energy from this release increases the spell power.
quick question unelated to this page , who is jiga watt? , her pic showes up at the top of the page sometimes but unlike the rest she has no bio , is this a future team member?
check the last few pages or so since entering the building. She’s a background character.
DaveB is gradually showing us his world in a realistic manner, viewed from Sydney’s perspective. There are other heroes around, even if she may only mostly interact with her core team members. That way we are not surprised if she (or even some other hero without a cameo) turns up. By now we know that Arc has more around that she has not had anything to do with. But who are aware of her (certainly after the press-conference).
“In fact as soon as someone takes a swing at him he probably knows how he’s getting home after the fight and what he’s having for dinner.”
Can you deliberately invoke that to get him to make up his mind?
“So, Math, what are you thinking for dinner tonight?”
“I dunno, what do you feel like-”
*throw punch at his face*
*Math blocks* “Olive Garden, we can take your car, I’ll have the hot pasta special and extra garlic bread, and we can pack up some of those breadsticks to take back home.”
LOL!
“Then we put “Ghost” in the DVR and make out on the couch.”
And in a single page you make me like Math
Good Job
Guess someone had to take a hit for the team and like him :D
Kelen is probably three moves ahead.