Grrl Power #151 – Cutting an interview short is easy when you can fly
Just a bit of montage here, which I don’t like doing since it doesn’t leave you guys quite as much to chat about. I wrote an introduction for Anvil, but it turned into a whole page of material. I feel bad for cutting it because Anvil hasn’t had enough screen time yet in my estimation, but while it was stuff that helped flesh her out, it’s not like I can’t sprinkle it in later.
That press pit would look a lot more convincing if I had the time to sprinkle in a bunch of press vans all over the lawn there but you know what they say, there’s perfect, and there’s done.
Oh, and after I had finished coloring Max’s hair in panel 2, my wife pointed out to me that keeping your hair in a bun that tight requires about a thousand bobby pins, which would be doubly the case for Max as her hair is a bit slipperier than regular hair, but… oh well, maybe Dabbler gave her a magic scrunchy.
I also had a longer interview for Maxima originally as well, but this is one of the times where I think the rule of funny wouldn’t have worked. Basically some “National Enquirer” type journalist stands up and asks Max what her measurements are, and her response was to ask what his are, which devolves into a “Whip it out, let’s all have a look.” taunting and in one version of the scene she even wades out into the reporters and tears the guy’s pants off, sending him flipping into the air. In my head that’s totally in character for her, but… probably not the sort of thing that you get away with if you’re active duty and in your dress… aubergines (what did we decide was the coolest name for dark purple?) and on camera. Really the whole press conference was a lot more rowdy, but that was before I had thought through the consequences of them being a military organization. I know any of you guys reading who were actually in the military probably think Archon is laughably undisciplined, but believe me some of the stuff that’s getting left on the cutting room floor made them look like a WWE match gone off script.
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Oh man, Harem there at the end….
Agreed, poor Suzy :D
Suzy? Poor Sydney! That’s her A material!
It’s also bad form because Harem KNOWS that the Comm-Ball is classified so Sydney can’t ‘Badger Scare’ anyone not in the loop.
Just noticed Sydney’s expression in the background of that panel.
Did you notice Sydney’s fist Remember how she reacts to that telleportation thingie? The good thing is Harem is out of her reach. X)
Only Punk is out of reach, Military looks to be pretty close (but it wouldn’t do for the new recruit to punch one of the other team in the nose)
At least, not on live camera :P
Besides, she only did that when she first met Harem (unless you believe she punches her every time)
That looks more goth than punk.
hi,
thanks for the new page
Are we still going to see the fire demonstration?
This page is quite confusing, not used to seeing a montage here
Looks to me like the montage was to speed past the rest of the introductions. Perhaps we will get to see Sydney’s in person, but I guess the live fire will come very soon. Whether it is in montage too we will get to see.
The “live fire” demonstration was Maxima flying. Apologies if you know what live fire means, but just in case you don’t: used literally, it means you’re using real ammunition, rather than blanks or just saying “pew pew pew”. In this case, Maxima’s saying “instead of just talking about my powers, I’m just going to show you them for real”.
No, that doesn’t make sense; she wouldn’t need to excuse herself to prepare for it if her leaving was the demonstration itself.
Ofcourse not.
You have a giganticly powerfull super to show off to the world, and you are going to make her hover?
Remember she can fly at mach speeds, blow up mines by stepping on them, and shoot lasers by some undisclosed method.
She’s probably changing into combat gear (here probably being lose clothes)
I can blow up land mines by stepping on them too; it is just that Max can expect not get injured in the process. Not so much with me. Max will need new pants. I will need a new leg.
Everyone can blow up A landmine by stepping on it, but doing it again is going to be tricky
Like the old joke about the difference between a submarine and other ships. Its not that the sub can go under water, any ship can do that, its called sinking. The sub however, can come back up.
And it’s jokes like these that make the term “Military Intelligence” an oxymoron…
Yep! BUT, when “They” get it right, IT IS TERRIFYING TO BEHOLD!
But YOUR pants will be just fine. Right?
I think that even if I merely found out that I had almost trodden on a mine, that my pants would need urgent replacement.
From previous comments the Live fire Maxima speaks of involves a tank. Quite possibly she is going to bring it in flying.
She might or might not change clothes first. Destroying a tank will almost certainly mess her Dress Uniform.
Gonna need a directors cut version one of these days lol
In the second panel, it looks a bit like Maxima’s gone Giant-Man.
That would mean she was stepping on Dabbles and Sydney
It would also mean the building’s only like 3-4 stories tall, to my eye.
No, that is just perspective, she is levitating, but there are no lines showing her moving.
Looks to me like she has just flown up there and come to a stop so that she can step onto the roof. Presumably to complete the preparations and get changed for the demo.
It took me awhile to recognize the General without his unique hairstyle
What about his perpetual noon-shadow?
That’s how I eventually did spot him
He looks smaller with the hat on somehow.
That’s just because he is sitting next to Hiro
Less intimidating. A suit should have the opposite effect damnit
He got Hiro standing at a word. You don’t need to be intimidating: Respect (the two way street) is what’s required of the uniform (In this Civies’ opinion)
The word was ‘it’s now your turn’, I don’t think that counts.
But ofcourse, for the people that know who he is this looks fine. And it is regulation. But I still think he looks more badass without the hat
We are free to speculate on how each introduction went, are we? The comments ought to be interesting. Personally, I’m wondering what it was about Hiro that got Suzy all blushy. I also see that Dabby and Syd haven’t had their turns yet, so that’s something to look forward to.
Mmm, Daphne. Thanks for another new page, DaveB! :D
Not just Suzy, but Pinkey is blushing more ;)
Knowing Hiro, he probably didn’t even need to say anything (not that those two would have heard anything over the pounding of the blood in their ears :D), take note of his 4th power (probably only just discovered ;))
When applying his “sexiness” power, causes any post-puberty, per-menopausal, non-Maxima woman to adjust her cycle so she drops an egg tomorrow, if not sooner. Maybe a particular Sergeant Presley had that power too.
I don’t think it’s a new power they dicovered. Let’s stipulate that Hiro has charisma like the King of rock ‘n roll and that all the girls have been watching his every move. Also remember what’s been said about super endowiness. Why would Pinky and Suzy get smirky blushes when he stood up, hmm?
unfortunately, a properly worn service dress coat covers the torso down to below the hips, so unless Hiro’s going commando and has it strapped to his leg (a la Don Draper), that particular endowment is unlikely to be showing…
Ah, you’re right.
I would guess the main players do get an actual introduction. So Sydney, Dabler, Maxima still has her demonstration (is Achilles going to be the target? Don’t miss this awesome moment DaveB)
Ummm just who is Hiro anyhow? I don’t remember him pointed out directly previously and his name isn’t in the bios. He doesn’t look like Mr.Amorphous, and I was assuming the gals were blushing in response to the sexy side of Mr. Amorphous’ powers. Everyone but Math in this one : https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/672 is unnamed so far as I’ve seen, I assume Hiro is the tall asian looking guy. Also, none of the others have collars, including the guy I’m assuming is Hiro so it would seem likely that Hiro has no active “powers”
Technically Math has no powers, but he’s wearing a collar. It was explained in comments that the collars don’t work with the guys’ ultra-thick necks. Hiro was also mentioned, I think, in comments.
technically, no one can figure out if he’s got powers or if he’s just that damn good. It’s pretty much stated that no normal person has a chance against him, so he might as well have powers.
He’s another super that hasn’t really had a proper introduction within the comic, but he’s a Major, putting him second in command after Max, so he’d be the next one to introduce himself.
Shouldn’t the General have gone first than? Or did you skip him?
The general got skipped from our point of view (and Syd’s, see the bottom of the previous comic: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/989).
He’s the head banana to this bunch of (semi-) trained monkees, but he is not a Super
He is an important person though
Yes, that’s what ‘head banana’ was implying
But Peggy said ‘no’ to the question ‘did we skip the general’
So I asume from that that he still has to go. Probably as closing word, I can’t imagine the guy in charge would just sit there without saying a word
The point of a montage is to imply that a lot of stuff happened. Training of martial artists takes years. But the movie montage of such takes place over a few minutes, at most. There will be vast amounts of things vital to training which never showed in any way. If DaveB has something important that still needs mentioning, perhaps he will feature. But there is no need to name check everybody in a montage. Even the senior ranks.
In fact the less that is put in a montage the better. That way everyone can fill in the blanks in the way they imagine. Likewise for the lack of speech bubbles.
The problem with montages like that is they rarely work that well. They have limits. Here we’ve compressed time too much and it’s become disjointed. We need more tweening to suggest motion. As drawn here everything could literally be happening simultaneously in the same few seconds, easier than in minutes.
I think dabbler could have been the source of the blushing in panel 5. she has already set a precedent for causing that reaction in people.
A handsome man fitting well in a uniform has always gotten the women all blushy. That’s one reason men join the service, any service. And Hiro certainly does qualify.
Is Sydney objecting that Harem gets to scare the journos before her turn? She certainly looks upset about something (wait, did she have her eye on Suzy herself and thinks Harem is hitting on her first?)
Her comball is classifyd though, so she wouldn’t be able to scare them anyway
You believe that is her only way of scareing them? O_o
We are not “hearing” the dialog from the last row of panels.
Panel 6: I am Lt. Cassidy, code-name Anvil. Other than Maxima, I am the strongest person on the team. Yes, I am even stronger than Hiro.
Panel 7: I am Corporal DeShantis, code-name Harem. I am a teleporter. I can go anyplace I can see.
Panel 8:
Harem: Badgers!
News-people: Yah! Oh $#!+! (weakly) Mommy! etc.
Harem: [ from off panel ] Oh, and I have several bodies with which I can teleport.
Harem one-upped Syd…”honey badgers!”
Sydney is a very open person. She probably already thinks of Suzie as a friend. And may did not even have previously noticed the terror Suzie was barely containing when interviewing Sydney. So I think it is a “hey, you are scaring her” type thing.
Or, yea, she had a prank in mind and Dabbler has stolen her thunder :-D
Dabbler isn’t anywhere in this page, do you mean Harem?
Yea, me and names don’t get along. :-(
Ever seen a parent of 3 or more children deal with a frustrating child? The first name they call is often not the one they want to call. Generally the more frustration the more confusion and god help you if you correct them. :)
Not just with frustrated children :P I’m one of four children, and my parents tend to get names wrong even if they just want to call us.
Try being in a family of six, all boys. My Parents would often end up calling everyone’s name but the one they wanted.
Try being a Twin, half the time it was “hey you!”
When I was younger, I thought dating twins would be great. Now that I am older, I am glad I never did. I don’t think my pocket book could withstand dealing with two “High Class” Lady’s.
(AHEM High Maintenance!)
Because the other kind of lady’s that are attracted to me, are psycho! And I have learned to spot them a mile away.
****Mutter****no more lighting my bed o fire for you! You will never find out where I sleep again!!! **Mutter***
That was the standard for us girls too. Though I think that was more of a “why did I give 3 of my four daughters 3 syllable names” sort of issue.
In my family, it was just the opposite with my mom: her way of showing one of us when she was really mad was to use all three (first, middle, and last) names.
I think every parent does it that way
Which makes being a Twin interesting because by the time she’s call both of us by all 3 names, she’s usually calmed down about whatever she’s calling us about! ;)
There must have been ‘something in the water’ where I grew up. In my circle of close friends there were four pairs of twins. Three non-identical and one identical. I just thought that twins were really common. Until I got used to people commenting when they saw the identical ones. Although it did get quite fun saying “actually there are three more pairs of twins in the room”, which often confused the kids when they did not see anyone else looking exactly alike.
Purely down to chance though, given that my hobby was not ‘finding and making friends with twins’. We came together in about as random a way as possible, as we all went to the same kindergarten and remained friends when we went up to junior school. 8 twins out of 30 individuals in total. And this was in the pre-IVF days, so it is not like it was the kindergarten next door to the fertility clinic, which might explain that nowadays.
In my family I’m the only boy with two sisters. My mom would mix my sisters’ names all the time, and I was often one of her brothers.
I have reconsidered. Sydney is probably yelling out “Punch her!” :-D
Who is she shouting that instruction to? Harem or Suzy?
It is difficult to immediately tell what is going on during the montage – kind of has a feel of it all happening at once.
I suggest adding dialog boxes on panels 4 through 7; half sentence introductions with a … cutoff, or even ‘squiggly line’ text would give it a sense of progression instead of just random pictures.
But, then you take away the fun of speculization
Also, the lack of dialogue was the main thing that clued me in that it was, in fact, a montage. Just overlay your standard sappy movie music.
I just noticed Sydney looking rather pissed at Harem stealing the jumpscare
Very nice detail
Just Suzy? Looks to me like Dave is having all of the lady reporters blush when they see him. Gods, I can already see the ‘Men of Arc-Swat’ calendar selling like hotcakes.
Don’t you mean, beefcakes?
I want a Woman-of-Arch callender. Somehow I don’t think Maxima is going to be on it though
Maxima is on the cover in full field uniform as she is pulling a tracked APC out of the mud. Everybody else posed for their pictures, though not without difficulties.
Photographer: Ms. Xuriel, is it?
Dabbler: Just call me Dabbler.
Photographer: Yes, Ms. Dabbler? Would you mind sitting a little more to the side? Yes, like that, but with your legs closer together. Umm, could you put your top back on? [ thought bubble ] If I was straight, this would be impossible.
hahah
You could probably do a calendar with Harem alone, and she’d probably jump at the chance.
Your imaginairy Photographer has the wrong idea of a callender
Arianna wants to be able market it to as wide an audience as possible, so some cheesecake, but no nudity. There is no way to get Maxima to be on the cover if the insides showed skin.
Maxima: So you used that mission image of me on the cover? What did you use for the others? [ Opens the calendar and sees 5 nude Harem’s (see Feb 14 TWC image) and then a nude Dabbler in human illusion. ] What?! [ Somehow the entire production run is moved from the truck to the incinerator over the next 4 seconds. ]
What, did she stop to tie her shoelace?
Not hers, just the photographer’s or whoever showed her the calendar.
Speaking of Pinkey (is she going to be around long enough to have an officially sanctioned name?) but her hair in the last panel looks shorter than when she was blushing (and conversly, Suzy’s looks slightly longer…)
We just gave her an official name. Pinkey
If she is Pinkey (NARF!), who is Brain?
Dabbler! You never know what ADHD geniuses are thinking. In fact, most of the time, they aren’t sure either. Is her motivation “Girls Just Want to Have Fun?” or “Tonight we take over the world!” or somewhere in between?
Dabbler: Sydney, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
Sydney: I think so, but where are we going to get 4 oak doors and 30 feet of greased chain?
Dabbler: No Sydney, Have you ever noticed that cats like to rub themselves against people’s legs?
Sydney: Is that was the tiger is for?
And then Harem says: You both are over thinking it, all we need is “two geese, a roll of duct tape, twenty-three toothpicks and some sodium benzoate.”
Since when did Harem channel MacGyver?
“Cheer!” actually.
Hahaha, That just reminded me of the “Girl Genius” Web comic.
Pinkerella P. Pinkerton?
That’s Pinkamena to you.
Dabbler going Pinkamena…Gods that’s a frightening thought.
Last name: Finger?
Suzy’s hair was behind her shoulder in her first panel; so you can’t be sure how long it was.
Pinky’s hair retracted in fear; it’s her super power.
I have no trouble what-so-ever following the montage. I don’t mean any offense, but I can never understand how people seem to be confused by the simplest of things…The progression is just fine, we know the characters enough to pretty much know how and what they’re saying, and the art itself gives no room for confusion or misinterpretation
With you there. Just little flashes of the interviews so DaveB dosn’t have to be on this scene for the next three months.
Plus we learn Hiro’s undisclosed 4th power ;)
Really that’s a power any guy has when he’s built like an underwear model and wearing a uniform. I’m sure he has a firefighters uniform for casual Fridays.
Hell, really good suits already give the power without having to be build like a supermodel
A finely-tailored suit is for a woman what skimpy lingerie is for a man.
It’s not just gals that like a guy in a suit. ;)
Anyhow, I’m sure there was more than just a smile in that demonstration. It could have been quite a few different things.
It’s not that it’s hard to understand so much as it looks odd. All other panels have plenty of things going on in them or a whole bunch of text, a montage of people…standing and talking ends up looking really weird by contrast.
Well, DaveB is a very accommodating fellow. Various fans have requested that the news conference be speeded up, including suggestions of a montage. And he has obliged. Which I think is nice, to cater for the whole fan base. Rather than just those of us who were vocal in supporting a sedate pace.
Just a tip for montages: Use textboxes! Dialog between onlookers, thoughts of a narrator (which Sydney still technically is, though we don’t see much of it), a brief summary of what’s going on (“Hiro was greatly appreciated, Daphne not so much” type thingy) you can put anything there to give a sense of progression.
Good idea. (Excellent caption!) I figured out it was a montage easily, but must agree with those that say it feels a bit choppy.
The only solution is to caption panel 4 with “Montage theme music starts”.
Excellent ! Now let’s get on “less talking, more smashing” :P
Leaving the bans out is fine, you can say it’s for security reasons or something, but you may want to slip one or two unseated cameras somewhere. This days there is no important announcement without cameras filming it.
What’s more, in 953 you put them on the back, but now they are gone.
There are loads of details that could be put in an areal shot like that, such as lamp posts and other things that we know would be present in such a scene. But DaveB does have a day job and those neither progress the story nor add significantly to the art.
As you say, he has already established that the conference is being filmed. Far more important to showing new stuff than repeating the old. I was going to suggest putting the text bubble over the area that the cameras would be in, but I see that it would compromise the detail of her taking off her ‘magic’ scrunchy. And would not fit for that matter.
You don’t need to feel like I’m complaining. If you read my comment again, I said “you may want”, leaving it open to his decision, and never said how or where.
It doesn’t even need to be done here. Many/most/all cameras may have left after Maxima to prepare for the demonstration, something most channels would consider more interesting than some “soldiers talking”, while the reporters remain there taking notes if something is particularly interesting. In fact, since the demonstration will have “live fire”, the firing range may be considered a dangerous area, and only given access to an authorized/military camera operator providing a live feed to “those bans on the parking lot”, and the camera operators may have gone there to prepare for recording/transmiting that feed.
Having those cameras there may not be important for the story, but makes it more realistic, specially when removing something that was there before, and I’m sure there are other ways around that removal that could be used to explain it.
And again I wrote van with b, two times in a row.
Hey, no vig deal. And the reason we don’t see any news cameras is that they all ran off when they heard the royal baby was born. (So what if it was in a different universe. It’s just THAT big of a story.)
Perhaps you are suffering from an ailment similar to one seen in an old Monty Python episode:
Bounder: So, you’re interested in one of our adventure holidays, are you?
Tourist: Yes I saw your advert in the bolour supplement.
Bounder: The what?
Tourist: The bolour supplement.
Bounder: The colour supplement?
Tourist: Yes I’m sorry I can’t say the letter ‘B’
Bounder: C?
Tourist: Yes that’s right. It’s all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a sboolboy. I was attacked by a bat.
Bounder: A cat?
Tourist: No a bat.
Bounder: Can you say the letter ‘K’?
Tourist: Oh yes, Khaki, kind, kettle, Kipling, kipper, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford.
Bounder: Why don’t you say the letter ‘K’ instead of the letter ‘C’?
Tourist: What you mean…..spell bolour with a K?
Bounder: Yes.
Tourist: Kolour. Oh thank you, I never thought of that. What a silly bunt.
I am really hoping all goes wrong witht he demo and sid instead of max shoots the tank hahahah which she blows up but she also hits the park line of NEW vans behind it hahahhaha o would love that so HARD hahahahha.
We are looking here for a respectable military service, not the wild bunch. We don’t want running in panic when ArcSwat shows up, unless they were already running because of the the threat that Arc is here to stop.
Why would they shoot at a tank when they have the pefect chance to show off Achilles’ powers?
Because tanks go “BOOM” and break up into little bits. It would not be very impressive to shine a light on Achilles, which is the likely visible result of any energy attack on him. Unless it pushed him into the ground. Ok maybe you have a point. :-D
Personally I think two tanks would be better. One for fireworks. The other to drop on Achilles.
Well if it’s a really powerfull energy blast it’s not going to hit JUST Achilles. It’d leave a crater around him.
Maybe put him in a cool pose ontop of a tank and have Maxima shoot that
After the tank, Achilles get’s to demonstrate his Invulnerability by Max shooting him, he gets pushed back a few feet and his clothes get’s singed. Syd takes her shot, He get’s pushed back 30 feet, the entire front of his body is covered in soot, he says “Damn she packs a punch!” And falls on his face.
Nah, Sydney’s PPO is ranked 3/5, Maxima’s is ranked 5/5
ok, but we know Syd’s leaves a trail that looks suspiciously like a meteor plowing into the ground. =P
you can not take the ranking system to heart wiht max she can power up all ablities so sid ppo migth be strong at first glance.
Sorry, the tank’s out. The first rule of comics is that you can only drop something heavy on someone’s head if it has the word ACME written on it.
And ‘ACME’ doesn’t make water tanks for just that reason? O_o
ACME made ONE Water Tower. It’s where the Warner’s live.
On the uniforms issue, similar thing, the girl’s uniforms for Bravura Academy in my own setting have the option between slacks and skirt.
Hel chooses slacks to hide her left leg. Naiki chooses slacks so she can jump however she wants. Most of the other girls wear skirts.
Assuming males don’t get a chance to make a similar choice, that would bring up an interesting sexual discrimination suit if one of them objected….
Hmm, I’ll have to see about adding a Scottish kid to the cast in a future novel
Bottom Left and middle panels, Anvil and Harem are not in dress purples for the conference?
The purple uniform is for high ranks I gues, the black is trainee/side personel, and the green is standard uniform
Dress purples are for formal occasions. We are seeing the officers’ version; the NCO’s will have their own versions. The green, brown and grey is the field uniform, worn for most situations, including meeting the public in general. The flight suit is worn when piloting a flying vehicle, like the Osprey, or if your uniform has not been drawn from stores yet. :)
Ooh, I have spotted a very recent change on the cast page. Pretty sure Maxima did not have nine stars in her power rating and a question mark in the tenth one.
I’m quite sure that’s always been like that
Yeah, Max has always been listed at a 9+ Power rating.
:-( No Easter egg-hunter award for me then.
If you want an undisciplined military super heroes squad you can just look for Strike Witches.
Or Sky Girls, although the unit is quite small (5 tiny girls, for reasons you learn during the series).
NOOOoooo! Anything but THAT! [cringe]
Live Fire Demonstration!
Halo has 3/5 points in her bio for her energy weapon orb. 3/5, and that did a huge amount of damage.
Maxima has 5/5 points in her bio for her energy beams. This better be huge!
That page has been needing work since day one.
It was a REALLY dry summer when that happened. :)
sorry syd could be limited to 2 a day have a multi minute warm up / cool down on the ppo or a limit on only daylight hours. the raw power may not be the only part of the rank.
Maybe you can preserve the cut out material and work it into the eventual print version as a means of enticing readers with new stuffs
All Right … we get to hear from the others in the group.
Well, maybe …
Who needs a News Van these days, you can live stream HD from your Smart Phone with better production quality than the HD cameras and dedicated satellite feed the major networks use to cover Parliament House down hear in OZ. it may not be is good as the cameras they use for the Sport, but it’s only News not like it’s anything important in the eyes of the networks.
Next week Sydney? Dabbler at least given the trend of going down the chain of command.
Convenient timing prediction – Sydney needs a Deus Ex Machina to remove the foot from her mouth and at that point Maxima shows up carrying a tank. In one hand. Airborne.
I actually have a scene that keeps replaying in my head: Three old tanks are lined up for target practice, Dabbler says “ok, here’s how its done” and then she pulls out a gun and shoots at the one in the middle. When the smoke clears we see, from the other side of the tank, a clear view of Syd and Dab through the hole that goes all the way through it. “Your turn.” she says.
Sydney lines up her PPO and shoots. When the smoke clears the center tank is gone – and so is half of each tank on either side of it.
Now Maxima, who shoots a crater the size of all 3 tanks
Byzantium.
Why do we need any name ? When I did AF we had Class A’s, it was only when I did Navy did we call them by color like dress Whites/Blues. Correct me if am wrong as I only did 2 outa 5 services but none of the others call their dress by a color do they. And hey the Navy is the weird one out what with all different ranks from the rest anyways.
In the Army we had the Class A dress greens, and for really fancy events we had the Dress Blues, which date back to the Civil War era. The Blues have the pants about 3 shades lighter than the coat to simulate the effect of wearing the pants without the coat while riding in summertime (as they did in the Indian Wars).
The uniform looks pretty close to Persian indigo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_blue#Persian_indigo ) so you could say Dress Indigos and everyone would know what you are taling about.
Purple used to be a royal color. Why not Dress purples?
Depended on the culture, but to separate it from normal royal colors the deep violets and purples were often Imperial colors such as for the Emperor of Rome or China. China even has it’s own separate color shade called Chinese purple.
@BikerBrew Yeah we did the same depending on the situation we were in. Informally though we might still call them Dress Blues, but that encompasses a lot given different uniforms for different levels of formality and rank. It’s really funny to hear someone from the army talk about Dress Greens if only because until Iraq/Afghanistan it was the major color on all of their uniforms.
Yes, Dress Byzantiums/Byzantines was the funniest.
I hope the live fire demo is Maxima firing on Sydney’s shield, and all the press have sore ears aftwerwards from the sound.
Doubt it, they never tested the shield, so they don’t know if Maxima could break through it. Finding out infront of the world’s ress would be a pritty bad stunt (especially if you were to punch/shoot through the shield and Sydney)
wait…I thought they did exactly that…they told Maxima to stop hitting it before she broke something.
yeah thought so: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/526
and in the page before, you can hear the “boom” from the impact in a completely different part of the building…so she was hitting REALLY hard.
That’s just wacking it a few times, a real test would be in a controled envirioment like a shootingrange, and testing it till you don’t have anything bigger or it breaks
The downside of the ‘testing till it breaks’ part is that anything strong enough to bust Syd’s shield is gonna more than strong enough to kill Sydney.
Unless they can build a kind of super-powered hydraulic ram that could apply pressure until breaking point, but wouldn’t come crashing down at high speed once (or more accurately, IF) the shield finally gives. Although it brings to mind a certain question. If that’s an energy shield, and the field cracks and loses containment, would the compressed energy that comprises the shield expand explosively and cause harm or death to Sydney/those around her? In fact if this is true and the negative effects to Sydney are minimal, could this be used as a concussive area-of-effect attack? Questions abound and answers are few, sure does keep things interesting huh?
You mean like the Armor power in Mass Effect 2 and 3? The Energy Armor breaks and everyone around it gets thrown to the ground…that might work. Or the shield transmits the energy from the attacks it blocks to the PPO?
I’m a little ashamed to say that I’ve never played any of the Mass Effect games, but I’s kinda cool to know I wasn’t the only one with that idea! A shield suddenly becoming hazardous when broken does add an interesting element.
The trouble with testing to destruction is that you might well wreck the orb itself – or crush Sydney with the overpressure wave when the force field collapses. I imagine they’d want to test its capabilities if not its absolute limits. Like in the flash-forward at the start with the rules lawyering: whether it stops laser beams; forms a hazmat-quality seal; stays up if Syd gets distracted (could be a problem!); if it can be enlarged to protect someone else too, that sort of thing. Risking the destruction of a one-of-kind like the orbs just tomsee what it can do seems unwise.
For how safety protocols work in practice think of the things they have to do in Mythbusters. Then super-size it. I imagine that they would put a titanium wall inside of Sydney’s bubble, between her and the side they have Maxima or Heatwave attacking, so that if it does fail she has that protection. Of course there would need to be lots of pre-testing as well, to make sure that the barrier is effective versus the attack, that it is properly braced for a sudden release of energy in the event of a critical failure and so on.
And, beyond just the strength of defence, they will want to find out the range of protection it offers (does it stop radiant energy as well as the kinetic blows from fist?), the nature of it (does it convert the energy, store it, divert it or what?) and, as you say, how adaptable it is (can it be reshaped into a wall or projected at a distance on someone else?)
Yes, but Sydney doesn’t want to become a test-subject/lab-rat
Yep, they would have to get her co-operation and permission. It would fall under hazardous duties which would require volunteering. It does not strike me that Maxima or Faulk would abuse their position and order her to do that if she was opposed to it.
But there is a distinction between being locked up, against her will, in a secret bunker to have tests done on her. Versus finding out the limits of her own powers, so that she will know her capabilities in future combat. We have already seen that she is keen on doing the latter. And now she will have the full R&D resources of Uncle Sam at her disposal to continue that testing.
I’m not sure what would be funnier, Max testing the shield and the frustration on her face upon finding out she can’t break it no matter WHAT she does or high she cranks her power. Or the shield exploding outward and sending Max flying while Sydney says [Urkiel]”Did I do that?”[/Urkiel]
The montage threw me until I read the description. I didn’t realize those panels were supposed to be over a longer period of time, so I read them as happening one right after another: Hiro getting up, reporters blushing at Hiro, Anvil and Harem laughing at the reporters’ reaction, then Harem scaring the reporters while they were distracted by Hiro.
Cutting room floor, huh? I’d love to see the outtakes.
Mr. Handsome, with the power to… … …be… handsome…
IMO there should be more WWE off-scriptness.
DaveB you can always give us extra pages even if it is just reading. Also an extension of the interview too. Like cut footage from a movie. Doesn’t have to look like your usual fully polished work either. Pencil sketches are just fine. Extras for those of us who are interested.
So, will we get to see intros for people who aren’t on the cast page? Like… J. (She has a J on her neckband.) Actually, I don’t remember Hiro either. Maybe it’s time for a cast page expansion.
That must be Jiggawatt. Lots of people want to see more of her.
lot of people out here want to “see more of” daphne and dabs after they got a lot of page time too. LOL.
I’ll probably only do full on flashbacks/origin tales for some of the major characters. The rest will bring stuff up in passing, but we’ll see.
Monthly Vote incentives would be cool.
Hell, I’d even put up $ for a Kickstarter, if it included bonus material pages.
Damn, Hiro’s got swag.
Maxima wouldn’t be able to say that skirts are discriminatory around me. I’m willing to wear one. I always wanted a kilt.
As only a manly man can say.
I saw an awesome kilt in the minnesota vikings colors. Now I don’t watch football, but the purple kilt did look great. I will own that one day, oh yes I will.
I’ve got my Gramps’ old kilt around somewhere. Not a tartan skirt, the real thing: Black Watch tartan, made of leather and wool, weighs about 20 pounds. Dad used to wear it in a pipe band. One day the Drum Major marched the band over an air vent for some cheap thrills à la Marilyn Monroe. Dad’s kilt barely moved.
See, I’ve never cared for following the tartan of the clan I descended from. That was really a later idea that kicked in so I say wear whatever you want when it comes to a kilt. Of course, going commando underneath is really an English invention, not a Scot idea, but I’m a sicko like that, so I will go as a true Scottsman and when my prankster friends tie balloons to the side like Groundskeeper Willie, I’ll just pose proudly.
You know the whole “each clan has its own custom tartan” think was invented by an Englishman, presumably to sell more of the stuff, right? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/englishmen-made-up-clan-tartans-says-documentary.21256942
Trust the English to do crap like that. I would too if I was in that place, because hey, it works. The English, kings of everything, but engineering and food.
Donald, Where’s your trousers?
Which brings up the question of whether No True Scotsman would ever wear a kilt.
=OP
Kilts are Cool! (in the same way that Bow-ties, Fez’s and Cowboy hats are Cool!), I went through a Kilt phase in the early 2000’s, I had some traditional ones a “Tux” kilt, a Denim Kilt and a couple of Workmens kilts (one in leather).
Wisdom of Blackadder III:- “Never mess with a Ginger Psychopath in a Skirt!”
Okay this is the dirty old man in me coming out.
If Maxima is going to participating in a live fire event will she be hit with live ammo, Rifles, RPGs, tank rounds, bombs? Yes?
Okay next question. Given she is a super, is her clothing? (drool)
I can see Suzie talking about that last panel later:
“Seriously, I was just sitting at the press conference, being attentive, totally NOT spaced out thinking about that Hiro guy. Then, all of a sudden. . . “BEWBS IN MAH FACE!!”
“Well, did you get it on camera?”
“Um, no…But I swear I’m telling you the truth. Great Big Goth Bewbs, The Hell Out Of No Where!”
“It’s not that I don’t believe you, I just really would’ve liked to have seen them.”
“. . . . . I hate you.”
Well considering who’s left we’ll all hope they do (from our point of view) or don’t (from the military/ Araianna’s point of view) go out of control about making big entrance style intro. Though that Would be a good side story. Heheh who can do the best razzle-dazzle? On Super Idol You, the viewer, decide!
Heh, finally one of those type of shows I’d actually watch.
“So did you see the idol show last night?
“Yup.”
Really? Who did you vote for, the one-legged girl who does ballet or the guy who sings lines from Shakespeare in the voice of William Shatner?”
“Er. . . the kind of hipsterish one who entered the stage through a hole in the wall made by a burning tank he had just thrown through said wall because ‘doors are too mainstream’ or something.”
” . . . . . .Um, I don’t think we’re talking about the same show.”
“That would be a safe assumption, yes.”