Grrl Power #159 – Safety is job one. Well, maybe two or three
I guess that eyepatch has one of those snap off straps like every necklace in every movie ever. Just once I’d like to see someone yank off a necklace in a movie and just to have someone point out that they just broke the clasp.
I didn’t get a chance to update the vote incentive this week due to some social obligations, but in it’s place there actually will be a comic up on Thursday. It’s not really a full comic, it’s just an extension of this page. Originally the last panel of this page looked the same only with a big explosion behind Sydney (and the last few text bubbles were slightly different) but I’ve been reading Onepunch Man (google it) and I’ve decided in preparation for upcoming action scenes, I need to start practicing that sort of thing. (Speed lines, perspective, sense of motion, etc) Instead of compressing the action to the point that I’m basically not showing it, I broke it off it to it’s own page. I may have the inks on Anvil done by then too.
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Looks like Maxima is going to blow some sh!t up.
Don’t let Sydney hear you calling her that!!
okay… wait…what?!?!? Suurviiive?
sam rockwell tone of voice just popped into my head. From galaxy quest
I can’t imagine that Maxima really will let Sydney’s survival depend on a power she hasn’t tested properly yet. Especially considering Sydney’s usual attention span. I think she’s just saying it to keep her on her toes. Max may trust her own ability to react fast enough to prevent any problems, like at the bank. Though at the bank, she *was* caught off guard by Sydney’s projectile vomit.
She is not relying on it. That is why there is a whacking great steel block between the force field and Sydney. I agree with O.B. Juan‘s assessment that the block is inside the shield, rather than the other way around.
You can bet that Maxima will know exactly how much of her own fire-power that block can sustain and she will not exceed that level herself. As she says, this is just a rough and ready quick test. The armour is just to protect from fragmentation and/or splattered molten steel or even radiated heat, which might be blast-furnace level. And only in the event that Sydney gets distracted by a butterfly or the force field fails for some other reason. The techs can handle quantifiable testing with a controlled experiment later.
alternatively, max is aiming at the bit of shield above the block. That way she can scale up to breaking point with only worrying about the large empty space past the block.
survival is not an option :)
Why would you NOT have a block of steel? I keep mine in the den
Very sensible. Helps to avoid the wolves biting your leg off.
I can confirm that due to the presence of a Large Block Of Steel, I have yet to have my leg bitten off by wolves
I prefere my white powder. Keeps away the wolves AND polarbears
Yes, but what about diabetic jackass penguins? How well does it protect you from Them!!
Penguins live on ice. The block of steel is only of use when situated where the predators live, like in their den. If you tried avoiding predators using that technique on ice you will develop a version of Luposlipaphobia. The “fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor”.
And I thought I had heard it all with Anatidaephobia (the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.)
Not all penguins live on ice: Jackass Penguins live in South America, and Yellow-eye Penguins live outside Dunedin (because not even a penguin would want to live in Dunedin >.>)
True. But my gag required that the situation be on a slippery surface. And ice is good enough for the majority of species (albeit during egg hatching season only, given that they otherwise spend most of their waking hours at sea, hunting).
The only other slippery surface commonly associated with penquins is from oil spills. And that invokes instincts of “aww poor cute and cuddwly pengwin” rather than “run away the buggers are trying to peck me to death!”
Oh, okay, that makes better sense
I keep mine in the garage. Handy when building car frames from raw tubing. And if Sydney is standing up straight behind that block we are talking about 10 tons of solid steel between her and Max. Give or take a ton or two.
Nah, she’s squatting
Some nice references in panel 5 :)
Superpower testing commences.
Hilarity ensues.
Reminds me of 1:05 and onward of this movie. :-)
(Sorry, forgot link to clip of movie.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXkI_AGXIZE
That was awesome
And “budget stay-puft astartes armor” hilarious. :-) I’d say this is one of the funniest updates of this webcomic… but then, I *know* next week’s going to be even funnier. :-D
Another +1 for “Stay Puft Astartes armor. Too damned funny.
The Codex Astartes makes no reference to this “Stay-Puft Astartes Armour.” However, upon examination, it looks like an early prototype, made out of primitive Carapace Armour.
What?
Just tap it Maxia.
Then double the force. Ask Sydney if she is ok. Repeat.
At about the 10th doubling she’ll be at full power AND
we’ll have that “Irresistable Force/Immovable Object”
nonsensence thing settled once and for all.
(Sydney moves, but is unharmed.)
That’s not an immovable object, but rather an invincible object
No, you have the wrong. It is an eenveencible object.
I humbly accept defeat
Don’t give up so fast, because he still has it wrong. It’s eenWeencible
I stand (actually I am sitting right now) corrected.
or I am Invincible!
okaaaay… I’m just going to wait waaaay over there, in some other place, somewhere i hope to be safe from whatever doom you have just called down upon yourself. buh-bye.
Would it be safe to say “Soon I Will Be Invincible” instead?
https://www.amazon.com/Soon-Invincible-Vintage-Austin-Grossman/dp/0307279863
I’ve read that. anywho. yeah should be safe enough…so long as you dont say that after you are though
Fun fact: immovable object and irresistable force are the same. A Object which acceleration can’t be changed. So by definition they would pass right through each other.
or destroy everything in a large radius via release of extreme amounts of Kinetic energy.
I dont know if anone sees this because I answer a little bit late but:
An object which acceleration can’t be changed would need infinitve energy therefore they can’t exist. Now if they xan exist and hit each other they can’t slow down. Why? Then they wouldn’t be immovable or instoppable. So either we have just destroyed the universe or they move right through each other.
this is relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKc5kgPVrA
Nice argument. It will be spotted by several of us, for sure. Namely anyone who clicks on the “Email me when new comments are added to the thread”, when they post a comment. Likewise for those of us who subscribe to the RSS feed for each page of comments.
Watching the video through, it strikes me that the presenter completely missed one possibility. The formulae that he was using were, of necessity, based on the known universal laws of our corner of the multiverse. So to say that either an irresistible force or an immovable object is impossible is erroneous. Other universes operate according to their own laws, which need not have any relation to ours. Therefore such phenomenons may well be possible or even probable, given the infinite options that are available.
Further, the latest development in cosmology is that another universe is in the process of intruding on our universe. Ie the big bang which created our universe is not the source of everything, there was either another big bang or some other act of universe creation. Proven by the signs of it interacting with our universe in a predictable and subsequently observed fashion. So, in due course, we will get to find out if the “universal” laws we are used to are multi-universal or just the local conditions we find ourselves under.
So the question still remains as to what happens if an irresistible object hits an unmovable force?
Personally I think you get a big bang.
I am remembering a line in All-Star Superman (comics and animated movie based on them) when he is challenged by the Ultra-Sphinx. I am going from memory, so it might not be an exact quote.
Ultra-Sphinx: What happens when an immovable object is met by an irresistible force?
Superman: They surrender.
I think I saw something like in a Marvel comic too. Juggernaut (Irresistible force) ran at the Blob (Immovable object). An ally of Juggernaut distracted the Blob and he lost his immovable status when he got distracted, thus got pushed aside.
Can kind of remember that, or another occasion, just before Age of Apocalypse: between Jugs and Guido (the big guy from X-Factor, the one who can absorb kinetic force), he survived the impact, but absorbed so much energy his heart gave out
Yeah because Guido absorbs Kinetic Energy and trangelates it into Physical strength and increased muscle mass. BUT his HEART doesn’t grow along with the rest of him. so he has a normal heart trying to handle the stress of working in a body that can be the size of a Semi.
*Translated i mean
lets assume she does what you suggest. One the 8th doubling the forcefield fails. Syndy is instantly killed.
Unless of course there is a huge steel block to absorb the blow instead of her.
Wait, isn’t it a bit early to take off the eye patch? It was less than a day ago she had it put on…
Wait, ignore me. “She’ll be ok in a hour or so”. Didn’t go back to read the comic where she got it first. Doc has healing powers. I’m an idiot.
…
The eyepatch would probably just pull off as easily as break away; if she pulls to the side instead of up, it’s not really hooked on anything.
While a clasp (or the rings that the clasp attaches to or with) would be what breaks on a chain necklace, on a pearl or beaded necklace, it’d be the strand itself, since the strand isn’t usually chain. Hollywood generally takes full comedic and dramatic advantage of that…
Except, she’s wearing some sort of head covering, was thinking maybe just flipping it up without removing it completely (that way, when the camera’s return, she can put it back down without having to explain where it went to, or properly explaining why she was wearing it in the first place)
Except that IRL, in pearl necklaces (and some beaded necklaces) the string is knotted between the pearls precisely to prevent the pearls everywhere effect if the string breaks. Also, a really thin necklace chain isn’t going to hold up nearly as well as Beadalon wire.
Wait, how exactly is that armor supposed to help in anyway if Max is really going to go all out?
She might aswel be wearing a bikini and have the same level of protection
The armor is for the shrapnel. Presumably from the block of steel. The block of steel is to protect her from the attack. The force field is to protect the steel. And, presumably, Maxima will gradually work up, as she did with the punches & flying.
Of course, that does no good if she works up to 88% power and suddenly the force field gives, and she obliterates Sydney, block and all, but also presumably, she wouldn’t shoot her with anything that would completely take down the block o’ steel in the first place, otherwise, what’s the point? (With more time, she could get a block o’ titanium or something for more involved tests, this is just a quick experiment for the cameras.)
The best part will be when Sydney says “Well, are you gonna do it, or what?” then Maxima has her look around the block and see a huge crater, and then she stress vomits in the Hurt Locker suit.
Actually, a block of steel would work better than titanium, for a number of reasons. Steel is heavier (and therefore more resistant to just getting knocked on its side), it is less brittle, and, honestly, good steel alloys are just flat-out stronger than titanium (https://www.differencebetween.net/object/difference-between-steel-and-titanium/). Plus, I don’t know about you, but if it were me, I’d want to make extra sure that having Max really knock the piss out of something wasn’t going to break the budget. Steel blocks that size are expensive enough–I don’t even want to think about what a titanium block would cost.
Titanium is actually a fairly common element in the environment. It is just very expensive due to the difficulty in producing its metallic form. Titanium’s melting point is about 3000 degrees but it will ignite at about 2000 degrees (F). It can only be smelted in an oxygen-free atmosphere or it will basically turn to ash. This always bothered me about the villain Titanium Man. 1) Titanium is only about as strong as mild steel (but about half the weight) and 2) is also flammable. In any of their numerous battles, Stark should have been able to either peal the weaker suit open like an orange, or focus one of his energy weapons on a single spot for about 10 seconds and the whole thing would go up like a magnesium flare.
I know that happened once. Titanium Man grabbed him from behind and lifted him off the ground, I guess he was trying to crush him or something. Iron Man took off with Titanium Man still holding him and eventually his boot jets caught Titanium Man’s boots on fire. I don’t recall what happened next, I think he had to rip the boots off but then he couldn’t fly and Iron Man had to save him. I’m pretty sure I’d have let him fall to his death. I would be a terrible hero.
Likewise. Although I think you would be a survivable hero, rather than one who relied on Deus ex machina to save him. Personally if somebody is trying their best to kill me, the sooner they shuffle off the mortal coil the better. And so much the better if it happens under circumstances where I can clearly claim ‘self defence’. Or even the lesser known ‘rescuing somebody who is attempting to kill me negates my legal obligation to render assistance to somebody in distress’.
I won’t kill you. But I don’t have to save you either
That was Superman, right? I know it’s gotta be either him or Bats.
Batman begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJCxgt7Qb6k
When bad guys, and gals, put themselves in danger the hero doesn’t have to save them. Just look at Batman and Space Ghost (the original) in both cases some may have died. Like Cat Woman and Brak.
The whole overdone Batman / Joker thing is the best example, IMO. Just how many times is Joker going to escape and kill a bunch of people before Batman (or someone else) decides, “#### this. Kill this psycho before he kills anyone else.” But this never happens.
Well, it does happen exactly once – in ‘Kingdom Come’. After the Joker killed everyone in the Daily Planet. Even then, Supes immediately arrested the guy who did it. C’mon, REALLY?
You know in a world where life after death and resurrection are confirmed facts, killing people is a piss-poor way to solve problems. The Punisher DID kill his equivalent of the Joker. But you know what? He’s still there. The Punisher is just lucky that Jigsaw didn’t come back as a super-powered ghost.
The third option to this argument that never gets mentioned: Why doesn’t the government kill him? They put him in prison/Arkham, and are able to hold him for various lengths of time. They could sentence him to death and execute him. I’m pretty sure it’d be justified.
And it wouldn’t require a vigilante to commit murder. It would be operating within the law.
Engage cynic mode
Because infamously popular inanimate dead villains do not sell comics.
Disable cynic mode
In Under the Red Hood, Hood basicly asked that of him.
You mean excellent hero.
Those villains kill thousands of muggles between each one of their vacations in the villain prison.
Steel “burns” at ca 1100 C.
Do they make bomb suits in size “extra small?” Mind you, the only versions I have seen are being worn by people about six feet tall, like Jamie and Adam and my local bomb squad guys.
several years back we had to special order shrapsuits in extra small to accomodate a troop that literally needed size waivers to enter military service (4’11”, and under 95 lbs). For some reason, she ended up in EOD, which I initially thought was ludicrous. She turned out to be one of their best technicians. She had tiny hands and could manipulate electronics like nobody’s business; and because she was so physically small, she could also navigate to places we couldn’t even get the robots into.
Oh! I really hope that’s true. I want to use that example as a counter argument against people who argue women shouldn’t be in the military because they can’t do some things the men can.
This is actually quite ironic: the military likes big beefy guys for infantry specialties, but they’re restricted from many other specialties because of space restrictions! TV mostly ignores it, unless the episode needs it.
Yep. I knew he wanted to be in Tanks, but at 6’8″ and close to 300lb of muscle and bone….
With those stats, maybe he is better off BEING a tank.
I AM HEAVY WEAPONS GUY. CHARGE ME!
Well they DID give him the M-60 (This was before they started calling it the SAW.)
The M60 was not renamed, it was mostly replaced as the Squad-Level General Purpose Machine Gun by the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, the US adaptation of the Belgian FN Herstal Minimi. The M60 fires the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (.308 Caliber), while the SAW fires the same 5.56x45mm NATO (.223 Remington Caliber) round that the M16 and M4 use, and can in fact use their 30-round STANAG magazines.
And yet still not as deadly as the M25.
Not fair. The M25 is deadlier because you aim it at someone (instead of somewhere) before you pull the trigger.
Don’t know much about guns (the only guns they let us actually fire during Air Training Corps were old 303’s, even though we paraded with SLR’s {yeah, not sure what their proper name was}) but, don’t you aim them all at someone before you pull the trigger? If you want to kill someone that is?
Suppressive fire is directed at an area to keep heads down and restrict movement.
Well mostly on the M25 people are not trying to restrict movement so much as to keep moving themselves. Despite that it has been recorded as having 4 deaths per kilometer per annum.
I dread to think how high it would get if road rage ramped up to 100% and everyone started actually aiming at each other!
Oh! That M25. Ahem. My bad.
During WWII, the army ran low on weapons. To train some of the new recruits they took them to the woods, gave them all sticks, and told them to point them at the apposing team members and yell, “Bangity Bang Bang!” The troops thought it foolish, but after a while started to get into. One soldier had racked up quit a few kills when he saw another running through the woods holding two sticks vertically. He pointed his stick and yelled, “Bangity Bang Bang!” The other soldier brought his arms in close, pushed the one on the opposite side out, turned to face the first, then thrust both arms forward. He then charged the first soldier who kept his stick pointed at the second and repeatedly yelled, “Bangity Bang Bang!” Just as the second soldier ran into the first, the first heard the second muttering under his breath, “tankity tank tank.”
I’m all for women in the military. I think they should also be allowed to serve at the front IF they weigh at least 150 lbs.
The real issue is all the weight an infantryman (infantryperson?) typically has to carry. Body armour, weapons, ammo, rations, medkit, specialty items, etc., etc., etc. comes to a heckuva lot of weight. Figuring out how to make specific items lighter, AND find the best ways for grunts to carry all that gear without injuring themselves, has become a major thing for the military in recent years.
… Which includes, so I understand, a slightly different harness system for female soldiers. There are differances in musculature and bodily proportions between the genders, and some adjustments to basic ergonomics is essential in this case.
I’ve seen videos on youtube of experiments with exoskeletons. One of the things they’re hoping to accomplish is to help military personnel to carry equipment.
All the more reason to start developing better battlesuits: they haven’t improved the uniforms worn in the 2nd World War, just added more crap to it (totally miss the old uniforms: you could tell who you were fighting just by looking at the colour of their over-coat and/or helmets)
So she was a “Tunnel Rat” huh?
Are their last names “Hyneman” and “Savage”, respectively?
Yup. Also known as Walrus Man and the Savage.
Mmm, that type of link does not seem to like being clicked on, even though it works when I cut and paste it:
http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/868/comment-page-2#comment-36451
I like the way Sydney is too short for that “Astartes armor”
And, although we all know what`s gonna be next, it`d still be awesome to see Max repaying Sydney for the humiliation ^^
Here come the gold beams!
FIRE IN THE HOLE, Sydney!
This is gonna be good.
I thinks trouble is going to happen.
Getting Maxima’s punch ready while reading Onepunch Man?
My god, it´s going to be hardcore :)
Gotta love them drama clasps!
One punch man was a manga I didn’t like at first, but it’s seriously grown on me, those action sequences are just the new textbook, I’ve seen folks who’ve been able to completely animate fight scenes just by old school flick booking it, it’s damn amazing.
If this inspires you some, I’d say that every bit if development is worth it =D
Well, at least safety’s on the list.
Uh…. Isn’t the blue orb the Shield orb and the purple orb the flight orb?
Well, according to the handy, dandy chart ^ up there in the Who’s Who section, then No.
No, it is the other way round.
In that case, the error would be that she manages to fly without using the fly-orb.
Should be an easy colour switch for panel 7.
Mmm, good point. Although it is panel 9, by my reckoning. And it would cause continuity problems with 11 and the final panel. But nothing serious, as they could have been swapped out between panels.
Mind you, we could equally assume that it was purple to right hand and blue to left, out of shot, in panel 9. And that would save DaveB the hastle of having to change anything. Given that he is going to be busy on work days, sorting out the extra comic for this Thursday.
It doesn’t make any sense for her to put on the shield as she’s flying to the block though
Not to put it on, agreed. But remember that Halo is ADSL, and knows she can get distracted. Putting the Forb in hand is like tying a knot in a piece of string. She really wants to remind herself to put that shield up as soon as she lands. Quite a wise precaution given that it could make the difference between life and death if Maxima turns out to be too gung-ho.
Ooh, tying together two threads here: Purple orb and the Hulk’s purple pants. Perhaps purple is the universal colour of indestructibility?
I think we’re on to something here
The “stay puft… armour” comment and images started me laughing, and it kept going til the final panel. Then I really got going :-D
And here Max casts Dragon Slave. =P
whit she didnt call
max flat chested. on the other hand given sids temper and ppo im shere i would not make fun of her hight or bust size.
+1 for “astartes armor”.
That bit I didn’t get :-( Although I knew the ‘stay puft’ reference via Ghost Busters.
Adeptus Astartes is the proper name for the Space Marine corps in the Warhammer 40K universe. Their armor looks similar to the Space Marine armor from Starcraft. (Just big, oversized armor) Actually Blizzard ripped off so much stuff from the Warhammer universe I’m surprised they didn’t get sued.
https://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Marines
And those were ripped from either Battle Tech or more likely Votoms, which were ripped from some illustrations used for various pulp SciFi covers and illustrations by the artist I can not remember the name of at the moment.
pretty much everything sci-fi can be traced back to pulp books…that stuff was great.
And man…I loved VOTOMS…good old hard sci-fi giant robot anime.
Interestingly enough, blizzard had a reason for ripping games workshop (40k owners) off. Namely Starcraft was going to be a 40k game, but games workshop backed off for some reason.
They also had the rights to Warhammer, but stuffed around too long (or messed around with it too much) that they ended up losing the rights, but seeing how they had put all that time and effort (when they weren’t screwing around) they just changed names and released it as WoW (WAR, imo, is vastly superior)
Interesting. Especially given the recent legal action over the term “Space Marine”
Games Workshop seems to have a real genius for ‘business decisions’ that also tick off its client base.
There was an old “making of” Warcraft 1 video where they talked about how they had brought their game to Games Workshop, and GW turned down adding their IP to it because it looked like it would flop but let them continue with another name. If that is true…it would explain why they never tried to sue Blizzard (legally can’t if you had prior knowledge and refused to act in one way or another)…and that would make it the best flub GW has ever made.
Actually starcraft was supposed to be a 40k game. However another company was making one as well and ended up winning the rights. Blizzard had to alter what they were doing to release starcraft. Brood war was originally a sequel (so i’ve heard) but they ran into problems in doing that so did it as an expansion instead.
Given her build, I’d lean more toward terminator armor, but too many people would probably get the reference wrong.
She’ll Be Back. ;)
(Sorry)
Exactly! When most people hear ‘terminator’ they think robot skeleton. Y’know, like the necrons…
Oh my god, SKYNET CONTROLS THE NECRONS!
My god…..
Wait i mean… By the Emperor’s will we will destroy these soulless machines or die trying!
Nice demonstration of Maxima’s personality. Wanting a second go at smashing that shield before she allows Sydney to test her PPO beams.
…Is this the point where Sydney learns that force-fields don’t repel light based damage unless they’re opaque?
I doubt Max is going to be firing lasers, and the light aspect of her beams is probably a by-product.
They are energy beams though. Perfect check to see if the force field just blocks most forms of matter, or if it blocks energy as well.
Did I miss something?
When did Max say what she was going to be hitting the shield with?
For all I know, she intends to lob tanks at the block of steel, or just punch holes through it directly.
The glowing fingertip in the next to last panel indicates an energy blast of some sort.
Probably using her “Gold Beams”
Well we had that discussion a while back and and in under an hour came up with half a dozen ways how a clear (for visible light) forcefield can handle energy beams in that area of the spectrum.
One Punch Man is hilarious! I’ve been reading that myself.
want more like this
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/450
ty for what you have done
Heh. That’s one of my all-time favorites.
Only seeing the tippy-tops of the glasses in a few panels, is giving me Princess P-cups vibes from the ‘Stay Puft’ Sydney, specially the last panel :D
Who is “Princess P-cups”?
Princess Peonie from Exiern
Can totally see Maxi facepalming (and restraining herself to talk calmly) in panel 6 (that’s the middle panel, where she reminds Sydney that she can fly)
Wait, Sydney can only fly right? What if she wants to fly left? o_O
Yes, you are correct. It should be “You know you can fly, right?”
Guys. Girls. We are all missing the most important part of this page.
Mittens are not her kryptonite!
MITTENS ARE NOT HER KRYPTONITE!
I can’t remember whether or not this was suggested in the comments, or was mentioned by Sidney in the actual comic. But Max is a sly one, wrapping her up in all that cloth/armor and then suggesting Sid use an orb before she went on the offensive. Now we know that Sid doesn’t need skin-contact to the orbs to make them work.
And knowing is half the battle.
Mittens are her kryptonite. She still touches the orbs with her hands, it just popped in through the sleeve opening.
*checks panel 11*
Hmm. Well played, clerks.
Foomph.
ALRIGHT – EXPLOSIONS!!!
DUCK!!! Run for your life! (See … that duck right over there.)
Now we get to see more of what Maxima can do. Sock it to her Max!
Hey, is that a demonic duck of some sorts?
if you were in ’70s thailand, it may not have been your life you feared ducks for.
Oh that article is so much better than the BBC’s version. I was splitting myself laughing, finding out that ‘penises being eaten by ducks’ were so common in Thailand that there was even an idiom using it.
CAUSE EXPLOSIONS ARE FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!
this is gonna be good. Im curious to learn how much that shield can take. and ofcourse to see the hilarious reactions :3 I only wish this strip would update more frequently ^^ the waiting between pages kills man. it kills. >w>
Is it just me but I am envisioning an outcome equivalent to hitting a superball with a sledgehammer.
Hit it just right and you have to dodge the hammer else it is pew ……. rocket ball. ^_^
What? You never hit a superball with a hammer to see what would happen when you were a kid?
It’s SCIENCE …. okay, kinematics to be more precise but “SCIENCE”.
*Movie lightning strikes Adamas*
HEY!!! Watch it with the SCIENCE *Lightning strikes again* OUCH SONUVACRAP!!!!
*grabs a few DubDubSees and uses one as a lightning rod before tossing a few to Adamas*
DubDubSees: never leave home without one
And Maxima discovers one of the unknowns causes teleportation…
Or reflects attacks. If so, let us hope that Maxima does not consider her defence to be a dump stat for this exercise.
Hmm, energy reflector. I see a panel where Max is standing where she was but with smoke rising from her and much of her surroundings, her charred uniform draping in tatters across her body (still covering the “private” bits).
Okay I know it will never happen but for once I want the comic hero/heroine to not have strategically placed shreds of clothing survive. I always thought that was ridiculous cheat especially when seems to be physically impossible (gravity, no support, material wouldn’t survive, etc, etc, etc). I mean I like fan-service but give us credit for some logic. You want to show some skin beaches, showers, romantic moments are just a few reasons out of many. Personally I want a pair of Hulk pants, they are ALL indestructable.
I actually won a no-prize from Marvel for theorizing that gamma radiation made whatever pants Bruce Banner was wearing turn purple when he changed into the Hulk.
Heh, cool concept.
Purple sweatpants. The most invincible object in the Marvel universe
I read somewhere that Stan Lee once said that he came up with a pseudo-scientific explanation for everything that he created at Marvel, except for the Hulk’s pants.
I agree. Although I do find that film scenes, where there is a strategically placed object, which gets moved, but only in the process of something else blocking the naughty bits to be hilarious. The longer such a gag continues, the funnier it gets. But unless doing a joke of some sort, I too would prefer a realistic look if such were to happen. Otherwise it is just the modern equivalent of Victorians placing fig leaves on anything they considered indecent.
Like that scene with Austin Powers? (can’t find it atm)
I’m more inclined to the scene in The Simpson where Bart is streaking on his skateboard.
https://youtu.be/YbeMhuROtnk
Seems like it is totally OK for movies to have gore, dismemberments, horrible death of various flavours, zombification and even (Gasp!) harsh language – all without classifiers, critics and viewers even blinking. But the exact same crowd apparently loses their minds at the possibility of seeing reasonably attractive people without clothes.
… And I also recall part of a James P Hogan novel (from his pre-crazy period) where the hero muses on how, in TV commercials, people will talk about their embarassing problems (incontinence, body odour, overweight, halitosis, regularity of bowels, etc., etc., etc.), but one will never see pretty girls taking their clothes off.
Oh, it’s happened. Don’t get your hopes up, though…it was Fred Dukes, a.k.a. the Blob. He got in the way of one of Pyro’s blasts while wearing a costume that wasn’t made of unstable molecules. The event showed up as a flashback Gambit used to keep Emma Frost and Rachel Summers from reading his mind and was–fortunately–presented in a side view. It was pretty clear, though, that Fred didn’t have a stitch left. (I got a little OCD and looked up the comic–it was in Gambit, Vol. 4, Issue 10–“X, Lies, and Videotape”.)
I still like She-Hulk’s explanation for clothing survival:
“This Clothing Approved By The Comics Code Authority.”
One more reason why I’m glad the CCA is gone.
HA… it just changed it’s name, now it’s probably the FCC, or even better the MPAA or the RIAA…people that have to control every aspect of something like comic book nudity are not just going to “go away”… they’ll just change tactics and the names they operate under….
Dave will now screw with all of you, and we will find out that Syd is TS.
It took me a second to realize that the block was inside the forcefield and is acting as a buffer in case of shield failure. Now, if they really wanted to give her protection that would be utterly indestructible, they should have her sit in the fridge used by Harrison Ford in the last ‘Raiders’ movie. (OK, getting a little snarky there).
My vote for the next Sydney pop culture reference will be:
After the first few blasts she will say over the comm in her best Scottish accent “Aye Cap’n the shields canna take much more of this!”
I havn’t seen the movie yet. But have heard all about the A-Bomb proof fridge. Always in extremely heavy tones of contempt.
Pretty much busted on Mythbusters when they were testing if a refrigerator is bullet-proof (nope).
they also tested to see if it could contain a hand grenade.
It did fine until the grenade exploded, then, not so much. Busted!
yeah, pretty much the “jump the shark” part of the franchise…
I’m sure Sydney wouldn’t mind using Achilles as shield.
Provided it’d blow his clothes off ofcourse
Clever suggestion. Given that he is rated as being totally invulnerable. Nothing else on Earth would protect her as well as him, barring something with similar super powers itself.
First Panel concerning the eye patch.
Sydney says “Aw” in response. I honestly was expecting “Argh!” or “Aye Capt’n”
Think 10 yr old and you might understand.
She was disapointed, not in agreement
Second-to-last panel, for, the, WIN.
Onepunch Man of course started off as a webcomic by One before the insanely skilled Murata asked if he could redraw it as a serialised manga.
Ooh, just read your comment
Heh, missing a “/” does make things go a bit weird.
I have gotten thinking about Sydney’s “weigh-in”.
Doctor: Stand here. Let’s see. 5 foot even. Step on the scale please. 98 pounds.
Sydney: Soaking wet.
Doctor: Unless you are wearing highly absorbent clothing, you won’t gain much weight.
Sydney: Can I keep the eye patch?
Doctor: Might as well. I can’t give that one to another patient.
Now she thinks back to the antics around other weigh-ins. Yeah, I realize, a flash-back within a flash-back.
Doctor: Stand here, Miss Cassidy. Umm. [ Drags her chair over and stands on it ] 6 foot, 7. Step on the scale. Right, 365 pounds. Thank you.
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Doctor: Stand here, Miss DeShantis. 5 foot, 8. Step on the scale please. 150 *Vorrp* umm, 300 *Vorrp* 450 … Will you cut that out?! *Vorrp* *Vorrp* 152 pounds. Thank you.
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Doctor: Stand here, Major. 6 foot, 1 inch. Please step on the scale. 230, umm, 260, 175, 218. What are you doing?!
Max: Sorry. I was distracted.
Doctor: Just relax and let me get your accurate weight.
At the time of this weigh-in, Max was still Major Leander. She was thinking about flying at the time, so she was lifting off a little bit. I have no idea how dense she is supposed to be, so I am not sure just how heavy she would be when she relaxes as is not flying a little bit.
Wasn’t Sydney’s weight listed as 130 at one time in the bio section? I seem to recall that but with all the brain damage I’ve taken over the years I’m not sure any more.
Yeah I went through and did one editing pass on the bios a while ago, removing the weights, since I really had no idea what weights were appropriate for their heights and densities. Sydney was originally supposed to be a little overweight, but I had a ton of difficulty drawing that so I just made her a weed instead.
She is pretty scrawny to be 130 lbs at 5’0″. According the a BMI table I just referenced, 130 lbs at 5’0″ would be overweight to above average muscle mass. Sydney does not appear to either.
Anvil on the other hand at 6’7″ and 365 is morbidly obese to exceptionally athletic; I think the second is more applicable. Apparently the ideal weight for someone her height is about 200 lbs, but she is carrying a some extra muscle.
‘Some’ extra muscle? Have you seen the current incentive? She is nothing but ‘extra muscle’ (and what a butt it is /drool)
Could also be a side-effect of Anvil’s powers. She is very strong and muscly – and her actual weight, for reasons unclear, is actually higher than it should be for her size / volume. Like Max has all those powers, and is Gold-coloured besides.
In at least one of his incarnations, Superman had a similar thing. His molecular density was much higher than the human norm. Supposedly, he hid this when necessary by using his Flight ability at a very low level.
Yeah, I’m “morbidly obese” in my avatar picture, when I’m really just big-boned (no, really, I got hit by a truck doing 60 MPH and totaled the truck. I wasn’t in very good shape but the truck was scrapped). I have a bone density somewhere between “reinforced concrete” and “solid granite”. But I still wear a helmet when I ride my bike because my brain is made from the same jello as everyone else’s.
I should also mention that was the second truck to be totaled out after hitting me, the first one had a bent frame after running into me in a crosswalk when I was 16. I was 42 when I totaled the second truck.
You really should stop doing that, dude. Quit while you’re ahead.
Or quit before you are just a head *hides behind a DubDubSee in case the OABPC is opperational in this world*
I’m 6’6″. As a high school freshman I was 200lbs. I was a beanpole – by the time I graduated I was closer to 300. (And a starter on the basketball team.)
BMI charts are insane, and don’t work at anything other than ‘average’ height. And I’m not even sure then.
Hey, DaveB, I know who we can get to play Anvil on the TV show! Maybe. ;)
That was ~16 years ago. To play Anvil I’d need to get back in shape, loose about 250lbs (I still don’t look much fatter than average, but that’s ‘average’, not ‘in shape’), work on muscle definition, change skin color, etc.
Oh, and grow breasts. Since I’m a guy. ;)
Gina Torres has a nice face for the part, but you’d have to do her body digitally I think.
Would have gone the other way, but that’s just me (and mean)
Yeah the BMI, if used appropriately might be a good thing, but how it is ACTUALLY used makes it even more useless than a screen door on a space shuttle. Making no allowances for differences between. various racial groups, or even variations for things like Bone or Muscular Density.
Body-Mass Index just compares mass and the cube of height to come up with a pretty much linear scale. Given only height and mass, you can only come up with generalities. For more accurate analysis, you need more information.
For example, I am 6’0″ tall, and just under 300 lbs. My BMI says that I am morbidly obese to exceptionally athletic. I am neither. I have more muscle mass than the BMI considers; I have to just to be able to move my mass around with any effectiveness. Using the triglyceride levels in my blood or fat conductivity tests, I read as overweight, not obese. I still should lose some fat, but if I went down to 170 pounds (what the BMI chart says I should be), I would need to shed somewhere around 50 lbs of muscle along with my fat. I figure I would be healthier at about 220 – 250 lbs.
I suspect that this problem with the BMI graph is much more widespread than people realize.
We tend to average out things like pulse/respiration rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood composition and so forth to the extent that anything outside the “normal” range is, well, NOT normal. Whereas, people with these conditions may be quite healthy otherwise (not always, granted). For example, my wife has unusually low blood pressure, has had it all her life, and whenever she has a check-up with a new doctor, they express surprise that she is walking around.
A simplistic comparison could be made with IQ. Used to be that this was an arbitrary numerical value on a strictly linear progression. But. as understanding has improved, it has become very clear that the matter is much more complex than ‘Low IQ = Stupid’ and ‘High IQ = Smart’.