Grrl Power #200 – Something finally happens
I enjoy good small talk. My favorite scene in all of Django was where the guys were all talking about how shoddy their hoods were. It added nothing to the plot but it was amusing and gave dimensionality to otherwise flat characters. Same thing in the movie Amadeus, with the guys in Emperor Joseph’s court bickering about what language the opera should be in. It’s all just flavor text. I say this because I could write a dozen more pages of them sitting around the table and just talking, but I figured a few weeks ago, it would be funny to have my first big fight start right on page 200 so people can say “I like that comic but it took 200 pages for anything to happen.” since superhero comics are measured by the fights. Hence the tongue in cheek title for the page. There’s nothing in those small talk pages that won’t work if saved for later, so that’s how we’ll roll. I would like to do a page I thought of that starts with Harem saying “You know what the only thing that sucks about being a girl is?” and Sydney immediately rebutting “The ONLY thing?” I could do a dozen pages on just that.
I may be breaking some rule by turning one of those “wink wink” jokes intended only for observant readers into “the joke” for a page. (By which I mean Harem’s prophetic soda selections.) Even Peggy seems to be in on it now. Maybe there’s a trope named after that sort of phenomenon, but it’s funny how throwaway gags can become a thing. The prophetic soda happened because I needed something to color in on the can on that first page. It was just a “hee hee” moment for myself, but then it happened again, making it a thing. I guess it’s an official unofficial power of hers now.
Get ready for some action. Buckle your… buckley things. Pilgrim hats I guess. You know with all the buckles we attribute to the pilgrims it makes me think they were into hard S&M. Too bad the whole buckle thing is one of those widely held misconceptions. Still, I prefer my image of the pilgrims greeting the natives in gimp suits.
Here’s a bonus mini comic for you guys to celebrate page #200: (You can click to embiggen)
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Brawl at a steakhouse, that’s a new one on me.
Lets see how long Big, Muscular and stupid lasts. Quick count, including him there are 10 attackers in the final scene. The question is how many are hiding off panel.
My money is on
About 3 seconds before he’s punched through the floor by Maxima
Nope it is gonna be Anvil who pops him.
Look at her face.
Yup, Anvil is going to have first dibs with doofus
Max will let anvil fight him.
The brick will power up anvil so even if he starts stronger, she will humiliate him.
Who wants to see the ladies playing “wishbone” with him?
*raises hand*
I can see the after-action debrief now:
Gen. Faulk: “Why’d you have to punt him into orbit?”
Anvil: “Seriously? Dude mussed my blouse.”
before this is over, we’re gonna get a bond one liner from Maxima
“Well, if it isn’t the shortest lived villain team in history”
I’ll put my money on both of them hitting him at the same time.
My thoughts too… both turning slightly at the same time with a left/right hook, putting the man in orbit :D
I don’t think Maxima will even turn. She will use the ‘over-the-shoulder-not-looking’ punch, send the guy flying straight back, and knock them all over like a ten pins. Sydney will then yell,”Strike!”
HAHAHAHA! She would, too!
I see that, or Sydney geeking out over her first fight, or Sydney forgetting her orb-powers and hiding because he’s BIG and SCARY and suddenly it all feels real, or Sydney beating them both to the punch with the molestorb or something as she takes up the aggression that’s been building up the last few pages over the diet issue.
Really, it’s kind of a dice-roll as to which, depends which train of thought got interrupted by the wall going boom…
I almost expect halo to scream “get the baka an easy hero win root beer soda” or -PR Mistress- aka arianna to comment on harem only drinking some other easy/hero win soda from now on.
The only problem with that is if the soda will make it easy for the heroes to win, or if it will be a win by making all the heroes ‘easy’?
It was have the description “Will save your day from an Evil Thirst.”
I’m thinking this is what the leadership in this new bunch planned for.
Specifically, the dude that is big, tough, ultra-obvious, probably not too smart and most especially EXPENDABLE is sent in first to stir up the small fry and draw the heavy-hitters. The guy seems to have no shortage of confidence, but Max and Anvil don’t seem at all impressed.
as the saying goes when it’s likely to find booby-traps send a boob in first.
I have a suspicion that they may deal with him so quickly that he will be gone BEFORE the next page, and we won’t see him again ’till the medics collect the losers after it is all over.
You forgot the one behind the speech-bubble. Including him thats eleven distinct figures.
Actually, 11 including him. One silhouette is mostly obscured by his speech bubble.
Both I believe.
I prefer to think of it as “failing your wis check”.
rolled a 1 huh?
Well, if we use DC Heros (like the game being run back on page 1), he rolled double 1s on his int check.
I believe this is called a “Main tank Pull” – the rest of the group is waiting til he has all the agro.
He’s gonna need a epic healer to survive long enough to do anything but fail. Most villains aren’t big on support roles.
We don’t know what his powers are yet; he could be Achilies x Anvil. I mean, it’s a lighthearted superhero comic, so he can’t be too much of a threat, but maybe he’s powerful enough to recreate a bowling alley with supers instead of a ball and pins.
Yeah. His teammates are the pins.
Anvil is going to do something very nasty to him.
The look on Maxima’s face says she’s pissed, but by all rights Anvil has priority for the first shot.
I love Maxima’s face.
‘o for fck sake, can’t you wait till I finished my steak?’
Yep villains bust through the wall and she’s just annoyed that Arianna was right.
The ceiling actually…looks like the other villains are all gathered on the roof and let him do a noisy “Bulk Smash!” type entrance through the ceiling.
This villain clearly doesn’t know the proper etiquette in situations like this…you never attack before the main course, it’s considered gauche.
ohh no it’s ok to attack before the main course provided it hasn’t been served yet and you enter by a doorway or minimal sized hole in a side wall, I think the steak wasn’t served yet but he still did a roof entry so have the teams kasumi (or belldandy if eldest tendo is unavailable) educate him on proper etiquette.
Sorry, but there was steak being et two pages ago. This is a serious faux pas.
*gigglefit*
Food-fight? FOOOOOOOOOOD-FIGHT!!
Sidney would do this.
+1
And if the bank fight tells us anything, she’d also be effective with it.
“Prepare for the coming onslaught that is Mr. CrazyPan- OH GOD! My eyes! There is BAKED POTATO in my eyes, AND IT BURNS! AAHHH! Make it stop, MAKE IT STOP!”
oh, my eyes… tearing at the thought of it
no the final question should be how many are (smart enough to be) there just to see how good this “team” is and then high tail it .
Ok so first off, YAY finally super villains! Second, this feels almost like an early 18th birthday present for me (my b-day is this April 1st). And finally, love your picture DR. REVENGE ( FOR PONY!!!!)
ty I like Richard to.
and by the way the orphanage attacked me 1st.
it was self defense.
Are you saying the orphanage attacked you in self-defence? :P
(And yes, I do read LFG…)
only if you count it as premptive
What about that zoo made entirely of baby animals?
That was for a good cause
Yeah, they tasted great.
And they were soo tender.
Barbecue!
Nope sweet and sour
Should’ve been more clear, I suppose…
I wasn’t referring to any sauce, just that there’d -been- a barbecue.
nope I woked them
wok-a wok-a wok-a …….. and now for something actually funny. berserk-er villains in spaaaace. (sydney does a kermit wavy arms back peddle out of frame)
The official reported was quoted as, “…orphanage did initiate the defensive, thus requiring a response. Said response may be loosely determined as “Excessive”; however, witnesses to the event, who were closer than ten miles distant, are still being sought…”
And you know here their families live.
See, I’ve always wondered about that. I mean, sure, it’s a lovely threat…unless you run into somebody who’s going through a divorce. In which case…what, he says, “Cool, I’ll be gone tonight, knock yourself out?”
If the person saying that to you is a member of the Mafia, you had better take it seriously. I know of two ‘mafia’ groups my area. Fortunately they are not bad neighbours, as they just live (or own property) here but work elsewhere. Even so though, I go out of my way not to piss people off. And if anyone did make a threat like that, I would be sure to check their background and connections, rather than dismissing it out of hand.
Not if the divorce is amicable… not all of them are terrible, nasty, hatred-ridden things. Well, ok, they’re all terrible and tend to cause emotional pain, but if you go about it right (as much as you can such a thing) you don’t drive yourselves into hating each other.
Well, that was random, expected I suppose, but random. I thought we’d have a formal ‘mission’ before a real fight, but eh, I suppose there had to be a story reason for them to be here, and it is well overdue for some action.
My biggest concern is that there are all those others in the background, (unless they are cardboard cut-outs to make it look like he has friends :P) That means some degree of planning, and that there was likely a group a supervillians out here already (in the planning phase if not actually known).
…Or this could just be another one of Arianna’s publicity stunts… right?
Concidering that guy is probably only a few seconds away from being pounded into dust, I doubt Arianna set it up.
Also, destroying a steak house isn’t the best publicity when you’re trying to asure the public that they are safe
Seriously though, I find it highly disconcerting that there is this large a group of ‘supervillians’ already out there, considering that supers are still relatively unknown (before today). And doubly disconcerting that they would straight up attack the police/military. Yeah sure, you may have a rogue villain directly attack the administration, but a group like this appears to be is essentially declaring war on the US.
However, I will ignore any weirdness of this comic world for the sake of a good story.
Well it makes a little sense.
Surely they understand that alone, they would not stand a chance. Thus they’d need to band tougether.
And if they don’t solve this new threat, than Archon is just going to pick them off one by one.
So they HAVE to attack directly, if they want to remove the danger.
Also, Maxima’s plan workes flawlessly. Paint a big target on yourself, and boom, suddenly you get to clean up 11 villains in 1 evening
It’s the ability of 11 supers to find each other and all agree to take on ARCHON the very day it’s announced that’s suspicious. They’d have to be organised before hand.
or some ran into each other earlier realized they shared intent found others while setting up and this is just the most impulsive and reckless of the villains gut reacting to max’s call-out as predicted
just becose us readers only find out about this group now dusent mean they were unknown to the powers that be. that already know about supers and were likely monitoring. it could have bean rumens/intelligence about this group that lead to the derision to form arcon
There have been covert wars being fought by supers, at least in part. So there is large-scale fighting, it has just been discreet before now. And the reason why it is coming out in the open is because the numbers of supers are getting to large for cover-ups to work any more.
Plus we know that there has been organised vigilantism prior to this. Achiles and the bendy one are converts from that. So villains would probably have been teaming up as a natural response. And, one must always consider the possibility of conspiracy. There are all sorts of vested interest groups out there who each may have been assembling major groups. Not least of which being foreign powers.
None-the less it looks like several states worth of villains standing outside (if you figure 1-2 supers per major city and that most will not turn to villainy). Although, of course, those estimates are based on the official figures. After today, the statisticians might be making an adjustment to their estimates.
* to = too.
Dunno what your ‘too’ was supposed to replace, but I did note you misspelled ‘Achilles’.
“to large”, should be “too large”. Yea, I always get his name wrong, and the wiggly orange line was there too. But just didn’t get around to correcting it this time. Too impatient to hit the ‘Submit Comment’ button. I think I woke up with an overdose of impatience today.
Oh, for the love of… /facepalms Yeah, I see it now – first paragraph.
If this is in Texas as has been dicussed, you have call it 4 major cities + the same minor.
Then factor in the surrounding states and you have the villain group covered easily
Texas cheats :-P
Ask anybody in the armed forces, the phrase ” If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying” is said for a very good reason.
Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi, El Paso.
That’s 7 Major Cities right there.
Minor you have Denton, Carrolton, Lewisville, Southlake, Grapevine, Midland, Odessa, Amarillo…and that’s all I can name off the top of my head.
2nd Largest Stare with the combo of 2nd largest population (behind Alaska and California respectively) Yeah, we are going to potentially more Supers on both sides of the equation.
Besides to quote the late great Eddie Guerrero: “If you ain’t cheatin, you ain’t trying.”
I think your estimation of human goodness is a touch on the high side, but it all depends really on when superpowers manifest. If they don’t show up until mid-to-late puberty, then I see development of positive characters that just gets reinforced by super powers, or the opposite scenario of a bully suddenly becoming a super-bully (villain). The way I see it without constant cultural imperatives for “supers = good guys” making sure that when you get super powers you use them for “good” most supers would end up as villains.
Now imagine a 14 year old with powers.
RAGING HORMONES + Super Powers = Really bad things.
Now add a few of those up to the amount of a school-full and you know why people in the Markvel universe are freaked.
That’s actually an interesting idea- of how when powers develop would influence how they’re used.
I think, as a rule of thumb, the later the manifestation, the more likely they are to be a full upstanding Super Hero, and the younger, the more likely to be a Villain- with the tipping point being around the 18 to 20 year old mark.
Someone who has powers since birth is almost guaranteed to be a villain, especially if their parents don’t have powers to counter them- how do you convince a child that something is bad, or dangerous, or wrong, when there’s nothing anyone or thing can do to punish them for it? When they can escape any and all repercussions? It’s not a sure thing, of course.
And that is why we have P.S. 238.
It worked for Clark Kent
I think that pre-puberty manifestation would also create more heroes. Catch them before they become cynical. Whilst they still think that the good guys wear white hats and the bad ones are stupid enough to wear the black ones.
On the bright side, you wrote “discreet” instead of “discrete.” That’s a plus. :)
I have major doubts that these newcomers are in any way an “organized” group.
More likely a “Six Degrees Of Separation” kind of thing happened here. A few supervillains who knew each other got together, and each of them knew a couple of others that could be called in.
Heck, for all I know, maybe they all subscribe to the same Bulletin Board, and THAT is how they all got together so quickly.
I expect them to make things interesting for our guys, but no more than that. Arc may still be gelling as a team, but a number of the members are already used to working together – that much has been clearly established. Then, there are the major-level ‘Wild Cards’ like Sydney and Dabbler as well. THAT will be something to watch.
Another thought – this may be when we find out what one or both of Sydney’s two “Mystery Orbs” actually do. Guessing one is related to healing.
Grrl Power #186 – Fingers to maximum steepleage!
Panel 1
You mean this one is that one? I think no, lacks the face lines.
Still, I do see the resemblance. Maybe it’s his brother? :)
I think the big guy might be the dude in the background of the center panel, with the laurel-leaf head. Not actually a laurel leaf, but rather a crappy haircut.
“You got dust on my steak! Maxima SMASH!”
Meanwhile, in the restaurant office: “Hello, State Farm? I have a problem…”
They are SO not getting back their security deposit on the room rental.
The next day:
Insurance Adjuster: Okay, so how did you get this hole in the wall?
Restaurant Manager: Well, that was where this big guy came crashing into the building. That hole over there is where he left when the big black lady and the big golden lady punched him at the same time.
Insurance Adjuster: Right, and you said something about an electrical fire?
Restaurant Manager: That happened with the woman with the white hair shot a lightning bolt at one of the guys who came through the first hole, but he was too fast, and so the lightning hit this electrical outlet, overloading the system.
Insurance Adjuster: The guy was faster than lightning?!
Restaurant Manager: It sure looked like it. Oh and this window needs to be replaced and I guess the area around it rebuilt. This was where the big guy in the Italian suit and the big Asian guy threw the three guys that looked like walking rocks out of the building.
Insurance Adjuster: Is that what you meant when you said you were being invaded by some Things? Restaurant Manager: No, I just did not how to describe the guys who looked like that. [ Points to a couple of clearly non-human police chalk outlines on the floor ]
Insurance Adjuster: [ Examine a wall, that also shows scorch marks ]These look like bullet holes. The police report says that one of the guests was armed. Did she make these?
Restaurant Manager: No, those were made by the police and the attacker with the MAC-10’s. The armed guests were the tall blonde with the glowing tattoos and the short pink-haired lady with lots of regular tattoos. Oh, and there was the vegetarian girl with the glasses and balls spinning around her head. But they did not cause that much damage. I think they pretty much hit what they aimed at. From what I saw, the girl with the balls was putting up the force field to let the staff get out.
Insurance Adjuster: [ Walking into a half burned-out kitchen ] Okay, so what caused the fire in the kitchen? Did the fight spill over into here?
Restaurant Manager: No, that happened when the staff was trying to get away from all the commotion in the dining room and somebody tripped and sent hot oil all over the place.
Insurance Adjuster: Oh, boy. I am just going to love writing this one up.
And they were worried about Maxima trashing the place because they go an order wrong.
Ha.
This, this right here should be a bonus comic.
+1 :)
Sadly Jiggawatt is not at the dinner.
She might of been in the ladies room.
On the farm, they used to have that lame joke about tricking some kid into urinating on the electric fence. I wonder if Jiggawatt has the same issue?
In reverse.
She urinates on kids?
I think the only issue would be the debate over just how many offences she would be charged with. My money would be on three, provided it took place in a rest room. If not, elevate that to five. Those would just be the public prosecutor charges, of course, for criminal charges. Ignoring private prosecutions, and other civil charges, such as violations of health and safety regulations.
Oh, possibly you might have been referring to lightning? Mmm, still a similar number of charges for zapping kids. Less disgusting though. And possibly justified, if they had been irritating.
*giggle fit turns into coughing* They should soooo make a commercial based on that.
so you’re more prepared for mayhem like me. just with arc-swat in place of the normal guy.
So I’m going to asume the very big guy’s powers is that he’s very strong.
Should be a nice fight for Anvil, to show off her kinetic absorbtion powers
Nah, I’m guessing she and Maxima will just pop their fists up into his face (without turning) and send him flying back through the same hole.
Oh my GOD! Is that a beer daiquiri?
It is.
She already had it in front of her when she got lighthooked.
She had it before she got Molestorbed, she had had put it down and resumed eating her brocolli when she got carried away
I think I found Halo´s father! https://imgur.com/gallery/qj3Oe
That was a fun movie.
Strange underwater artifacts…. Shared!
Strange mysterious bangs…. Shared!
Strange enormous glasses…. Shared!
Not so Strange interest in really odd literature…. Seems to be shared!
To conclude, this is a highly legitimate suggestion you are making.
except that Sydney’s father is named Sydney not Milo
Psssht. We have already figured out that Sydney’s mum is Dabbler. Once you can prove that, you can prove anything!
That was in the late teens, early twenties. Too long ago to be her father, but grandfather would work. Then she could be 1/4 Atlantean.
Of course there’s an Atlantis. There is always an Atlantis.
Time to reveal the ‘store someone’s power’ ball Sydney.
If they know of more than two of Halo’s powers then Harem being a double/triple agent will be revealed.
she demoed 3 powers on live TV shield, fly and pro
also the Molestaorb
Nah, only 3 of 7 are “classified.” Lighthook, PPO, fly, and shield orbs are all in the public domain.
Maxima looks like she is about to say ‘hold my beer’
Her look says she is about to hide the bottle somewhere painful.
Gavin Dunne (aka Miracle of Sound) put out a song (“Fire In Your Hole”) which included the line:
“Bottle-rocket up your butt and launch you into the sky…”
Methinks Maxima is going to ignore the ‘rocket’ part…
I think the movement that follows will be very reminiscent of a rocket.
You mean the “launch you into the sky” part? :)
Ah yes, the clasic prelude to redneck beatdowns everywhere.
Or redneck anything, really.
no the main prelude to redneck anything is “git me a beer this is gunna be fun”
No, that’s the last descernable sound heard on a orange Black Box ina vehicle controlled by an american red neck
I like Pegs reaction action at the bottom of the script. Lock and Load….
lock is inserting a mag, she is holding a revolver no mag. load is chamber a round again revolver inserting a round automatically sets it in a chamber position. no peg is cocked (setting the hammer/firing pin) and ready to go. any way where did the revolver come from the holsters are semi auto carriers? yes there is a difference.
Always figured ‘lock’ meant putting the safety on: you don’t want to accidentally fire off a shot while you are loading
This was not expected. But awesome ahaha. Clearly maxima’s Daisy Cutter impression was not over the top enough.
Looks like he soda really contains Super villains
I love the look on Anvil’s face. I don’t think that blouse is going to survive the night.
She got upgraded from Crumb Shelf to Debris Shelf.
With a shelf like that, it’s just wasted space for crumbs only.
Let’s start a pool: How many of these supervillains will Sydney take down?
My guess is that once all the non-combatants are safely within her force dome, she’ll manage to take out about half of them with alternating uses of telepresence and lighthook. The telepresence will allow her to gather intel from all over the battlefield, and since the lighthook is strong enough to toss a car, it should be strong enough to act as a judiciously placed stumbling block to knock any off-balance super onto their keister or into the path of another villain. She could sit there, finish her potato and turn the whole villain group into a slapstick comedy troupe.
Nah. Sydney is far too impulsive to do that. It would be funny though =)
Nah. Sydney’s gonna wrap big and stupid up in Lighthook and start metrenomic man mashing.
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Beat villain 2 with villain 1
I’m in favor
I was picturing more of a Hulk vs Loki deal, but that works too.
That was the best part of the movie.
Puny god
*pained gargling from the ground*
And Loki thinking “What the All-Father just happened? Oh the pain, the pain.”
If you watch the extras (only reason to buy physical copies anymore) the actor had trouble keeping a straight face in that scene. Kinda strange to see Loki bust out in giggles.
They should have kept that in: he got beaten so soundly he went out of his mind
And an immortal god of chaos might well find it funny, despite being on the receiving end.
Aaaand this chain of comments resulted in a few more gigglefits. Somehow methinks I’ll either be lacking a voice or blue from lack of air by the time I get through all the comments…
My own fault, I suppose, for somehow forgetting the update until now.
if you provide merman scales (shed or gifted from a live one only) I could try a breath without air spell that could help the turning blue issue.
Useful as that might be, I don’t know any mermen, unfortunately.
*uses teeth to rip out a clump of fur*
‘ris any good?
My idea is that she displays a new use of her forcefield: She protects herself with a small bubble and then, when a couple of guys surround her, she throws up another larger bubble that traps the villains between it and the first one. And then she starts slowly closing the gap, squeezing the bad guys in the middle.
. . . while making threats about turning them into strawberrry jam.
How come no one else has thought of something I believe her force field (plus maybe with her fly orb) could be used for? Answer: wrecking ball/ weapon / pin ball! :) She could roll or fly around in it and beat up EVERYONE! :D
it was said anvil or max fastball her in shield as it would be more powerful attack
At least, arianna will be able to say to maxima : “see ? Told you that would happen !” :p
anbd Maxima will respond “mission accomplished”
what are the chases that Sydney will ever finish and keep down a meal in this comic?
and what are the odds on Sydney going nuts on whoever knocks over her baked potato (after all she should be prity hungry by now
The chases are paper, steeple, and Chevy.
and Wild Goose!
also high speed
Don’t forget Steeple (How long can we keep this going?)
yur out already been done
low speed
JP Morgan
A thief.
A () Manhattan
a martini ()er
Is OJ still looking for the killer?
Yes he is.
Thats the real reason he went to prison for.
She finished this meal just fine
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/192
But lost it in the bank: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/262
I looked back to see if the big guy or one of the silhouettes was in the #186 page with the super villain reactions, but I can’t find a match. The closest is the first one, saying “challenge accepted” but save for the firm chin and big grin they don’t seem to match.
I like how Anvil and Maxima look more ‘slightly annoyed’ than impressed or even surprised at the big muscle crashing the party.
Always expect hulks.
I’m wondering of Sydny will lock up since this is her first fight.
im putting my money on loses her baked potato and go’s nuts on one villain
i doubt Sydney will be effective though
I’M wondering how many XP Sydney will get out of this encounter. Another quick level-up oppurtunity?
He he. I can imagine her excitement, followed by a rapid…
“Shoot, I still haven’t figured out what the last one did yet!”
LOL, yes! That!
I’m guessing she’s going to get put on damage control, and pout later that she didn’t get to hit any of the bad guys.
Shield for protection of non-combatants and the unarmed.
Lighthook to hold up the roof.
Extra pouty look because she has two hands full and a half-finished baked potato she can’t touch without resorting to eating like a dog.
. . . Are you implying she wouldn’t?
*looks up, from eating a Scooby snack*
Mmmble, munch. I am trying to figure out if that is a compliment or an insult.
comment on technique more than good or bad outright bad with ice-cream or baked potatoes good for soup or apples (and the occasional sin spawn spirit).
“Excuse me a moment. Allow me to take my blouse off before we fight”. Anvil
“Matthias, hold my beer, would ya?” — Achilles
“I knew a t-shirt was a good choice” — Maxima
“KNEW I should have brought the Mateba” — Peggy
She actually brought her Taurus Raging Judge .454. And a FN 5-7 for the soft targets.
The Taurus is a fine piece of Iron, I’m just a sucker for that gun, lol
Not sure where she had it stashed. Not sure I want to know.
in her prosthetic?
Seeing as Peggy probably wants precise, clean shots rather than rapid fire, the choice of the Taurus was a much better choice of the Mateba.
Does this mean Sydney has a larger initiative bonus than a guy busting through the ceiling?
I mean, Peggy managed to get her gun out here but back before lunch she could barely get her hand on the grip before she was backed into the wall by Sydney.
Sydney has dropped her knife and fork and grabbed the force-field and the PPO before the bad guy’s finished talking.
I woudnt be surprised if she already has half a charge on the ppo already.
That could be a nice initiative boost, half charge time on sucessful initiative roll.
tentaorb and shield get my vote
Yea. If the kitchen survives and starts cooking again, she can always order the fish, to replace her cold potato.
It is not like they got plaster in a curry. Then we would get to see what it felt like to touch a super-nova!
“Has minions set up comfy chairs, snack bar and super deluxe portapotties in the lot for us spectators”
“and the forcefield to protect from getting involed”
I fully expect either Anvil or Maxi will respond with a sharp uppercut to this jackass’s chin and fly through that hold in the roof like in a Popeye cartoon.
Ah yes, the predictive soda can. I’d forgotten about that gag. However I will be looking for it in the future.
Chekhov’s soda?
Sydney should just have been grateful that she did not, in panel 1, conclude by saying “Could this get any worse?” She would have totally gotten the blame on that one.
peg actually noticed and was trying to stop the cans opening
I’ve wonder what kind of steak house just gives their patrons a can when they order?
The question I have is what will Sydney do?
She either remembers her rules of engagement:
– grab shield orb and protects civ’s
– use light hook to grab bad guy
Forgets her rules of engagement:
– grabs pop and starts firing away
Runs away in fear
Freezes up and does nothing
But this being Sydney I think she willdol something completely random that we do not even think of
Sydney is really pissed-off from being outed. And has access to weapons of massive devastation. Plus has not yet had a talk on proportionate response…
I feel rather worried for those villains!
Also not her first fight.https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/416
I bet there will be a far lower re-offender rate for anyone brought in by Sydney.
They would have to remain repentant if they swore by Grabthar’s hammer!
*chokes on another gigglefit*
About there being a trope for jokes like the one on the can, I had a quick look and the best I can come up with is it being a mix of foreshadowing and https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
That’s not exactly the same though
Chekhov’s Gag maybe? I don’t think there’s a TV Tropes article for the OddlyAppropriateMerchandise trope.
So…the first thing I’d like to see is if Sydney remembers the conversation she had with Max and pops the force field around Arianna before everything starts.
Oops. Vlad beat me to it.
How much did that explosion charge up Anvil?
I’d guess the big guy is going to try punch her next page, and than she’s going to throw him through 2 other villains
Please take extra note of the `through’.
Indeed
yeah, 3 seconds to owning
Also will the “Noid” aka “Mr You can’t touch me!” show up and will Halo surprise him with the Lighthook in a way that means therapy sessions or an unholy need to watch tentacu-hentai to understand what happened to him?
I note a certain pose from the villain in the middle back there. Arms folded, windswept hair, cloaked in shadow. I have the feeling that one is the leader, and possibly with some history with Maxima to boot.
They are all cloaked in shadows
Hmmm, maybe one of Maxi’s exes?
Well from the curves it looks like a female super-villain.
A mild critisism of your great artwork (I mean it, but the perspective here is weird) good sir: I can not tell if that hole is a hole in the wall or a hole in the ceiling.
As for more important things (wild speculation time!): shall we assume someone (known character or otherwise) is getting temporarily carried away by a flying bad guy so Maxima won’t finish the fight before everyone else has a chance to show off? I also spy one person with what looks like power gauntlets of some type, that should be a fun fight for Math.
Damn, double post: just noticed the second guy on the left looks a lot like the dude in panel 5 on this page: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1189
hole is in the roof
Looks like it was in both the roof and the wall
roof
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1167
No, that busted pipe thing is in the wall, not the ceiling
That just reinforces that he came through the roof/ceiling and the wall (the top part of the wall but still damaged the wall)
If you look at the last panel on the link you will see that the roof is red and the walls are white.
Then looking at the entry panel you will notice that the hole is in the red, justabove the white.
Therefore he came in thru the roof.
Not getting into an arguement, but look again: the wall extends beyond the brown beam, or to put it another way: the ceiling paneling extends down the walls about a metre
Yeah I was a little inconsistent with how I drew the ceiling of that room. I’ll look into fixing that if I can do it without taking much time away from working on upcoming pages.
The only thing you got wrong this page is that you forgot the vertical lines running around the top border of the wall (the bit between the brown beam/border and the ceiling), that and the colour of the wood is darker
I’m wondering if it requires a serious case of ego or a serious case of stupid to be the first guy in when you know there’s a whole super-team in there…?
On the up side he’s probably going to be the first guy out too!
serious case of stupid ego I believe
OMG! There are villains in the Grrl Power world! Man, I thought that it would be hard to top last comic’s reveal, but … wow.
And the bonus mini-comic is simply awesome! A tweaked version would be a total crowd – puller for the advertising banners.
Happy bi-centenary comic!
*sets off awesome fireworks display to celebrate*
“Invites Yorp to the spectators gallery in the parking lot”
We have BLT’s
and a couch for you
With or without a complimentary psychiatrist?
no psychs allowed for health reasons.
theirs not ours
gotta say the “coincidence” was GREAT
and that guy just be COCKY as hell sincerely… NOW LET’S SHOW UP THAT FIGHT PEOPLE hehe
NOW i imagine a double pucnch of maxima and anvil in that guy chin sending him reeling backward hehe
If they BOTH get him, I’m guessing a sub-orbital trajectory is a distinct possibility.
NAH i would LOVE for him to land on some of his teamates hehe
How about THROUGH some of his teammates?
squished as pancakes, or sent flying by him would still crack me up heh e