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)
<– I’ll just leave this here, you know, in case you’re curious.
SuperheroThey're super, thanks for asking!
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SeriouslySeriously you guys. If you like Grrl Power the check these out.
"Mature"Mature subject matter and occasionally something explicit but usually safe. Can't guarantee the ads are safe though.
Dongs Ahoy!Full frontal and backal. Lots of skin, sex on some or all pages, explicit or otherwise.
This steakhouse is gonna suffer way more than the one 3/4ths onf SG-1 once had a brawl in.
I wonder if this brawl will be covered by their insurance plan.
Read the insurance talk on page 1 of the comments.
Great stuff. DaveB. you have got to draw this scene.
Maby as a bonus comic on the vote incintive page.
*** URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT ***
Voting has re-opened in the competition. Please vote now, even if you have voted before:
https://www.comicmix.com/mix-march-madness-webcomics-tournament/2014/03/27/mix-march-madness-2014-webcomics-tournament-sweet-16-vote-now/
We only have until midnight, and the last vote ended neck and neck. The last vote was tipped by extra paid voting for Order of the Stick, but even so, the organisers got the total wrong. They are getting another chance. But only a very slim voting window. So please vote again!
Voting has been extended to midnight on Sunday.
I cannot see anything giving us feedback about how the voting is going though. so we could be falling behind here. It even looks like you can vote multiple times, which I have queried but gotten no reply. So please keep voting, as it is safer to assume everything is in order. Doing well in this competition is known to bring in a lot of new readers. The more readers, the more potential patrons, and the better the chances that DaveB will be able to carry on working on the comic full time, and not have to go back to a day job.
Please re-cast your vote.
Truly glad to see this in more ways that one.
Yay! Finally got to participate in the voting. I could never find the silly link. anyways, just votes, Grrl Power is just barely ahead by 10%.
They’ll become a major tourist site actually, think about it, the site of a major super battle for the fate of the country at this spot, then again they might be able to build a massive basement when the fight is done….. how big will this hole be by the way?
Lingonberry? So you’re telling the Villians are sponsored by ikea?
…this surprises you?
I knew from the moment I first bumped my knee on the corner of a coffee table that them and the furniture they make are pure evil. Still trying to find a connection to them and legos, companies that cause such great leg pain must be in league.
Yes…anyone who makes Swedish Meatballs and Mac & Cheese so tasty could not be so evil.
But what do they make those meatballs out of?https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/25/horsemeat-scandal/1933037/
What I found most interesting about that scandal was what it revealed about the complexities of genetic testing. You would think that now testing is (relatively) cheap and fast, as a truckload of beef arrived, they could grab a couple of samples at random and run a DNA test to see if it matches the labelling. Trouble is it will. Because all the DNA test can confirm is that the mincemeat does contain cow. The fact that 90% of it is not cow isn’t picked up by a “is this cow?” test.
So, if Hollywood is to be believed, you can stick your sample in your DNA tester, and have the computer list the types of meat in it. Mmm, nope. Not with the technology that was available at the time of that scandal anyhow. You have to run a separate test for every thing you suspect it might be… horse, sheep, chicken, rat, human, Barbary ape, giant panda and so on. And each of those takes time and money. So it is not surprising that fraud can sneak things into the food chain undetected.
Come on scientists, hurry up and invent the tricorder will you?
Wasn’t that more a case of the public not being told it was horsemeat, rather than it being horsemeat?
Yes, mostly it was a case of fraudulent mis-labelling. But there was also a public-health element too.
Horses can have various medicines administered to them, which would render them unsuitable to enter the food chain. If they meat is presented as being from a horse, then these can be tested for, and any that is unsuitable can be disposed of. But that did not happen, in this instance, because of the fraud.
ominous voice ” Round one … FIGHT!! “
Alternate scenario:
ominous voice: Rou… <crack, thud, whump>
voice sounding almost exactly the same, except more exasperated than ominous: Oh, forget it. Flawless victory, Maxima and Anvil.
I predict this is about to become Anvil’s turn in the spotlight.
Anvil: “Max… with the debris and all, this blouse is pretty much ruined now, would you agree?”
Maxima: “Concrete stains, small tears from jagged bits of wood… yeah, I’d say it’s the Good Will bin for that one.”
Anvil: “So in other words, it’s no great loss if I cover it in bloodstains, is it?”
Maxima: “Just try and keep the mess from splattering over our plates, if you can. Hygiene aside, moron goes straight to my hips!”
I missed this comment before, Until last week I did not often read the comments.
This was a great one, even if a little long for a soliloquy in combat…
Ok, Round 4 (called Sweet 16) of the Comic Mix Tournament is up and there is something realy weird going on.
I was monitoring previous round until it was closed (March 26 midnigth) and it ended GrrlPower winning with 182 votes vs Order of the Stick 148, .
Now the grid shows Order of the Stick winning with 210 (more). That could be because paying votes are added at the end of the votation, though I think paying votes are showed separately as a sum (two numbers added) and none of them has it.
But anyway it also shows GrrlPower with 177 (less).
Plus, if you check, that numbers (210 and 177) are the votes that they had in the previous round (Round 2). The exact amount each.
How could all that be possible?
Could you please make a comment about this on the voting page? If certain amount of interest is showed maybe they will review it.
It is not only GrrlPower, in the Morales division 6 comics out of 8 ended with exact votes that in the previous round:
Widdershins
Skin Deep
Order of the Stick
Grrl Power
Dick Ruby
FreeFall
Only the last pair (Girl Genius vs Stant Still, Stand Silent) has different votes.
It seems pretty unlikely to me.
Plus in the others divisions there are four comics more in the same situation:
Cucumber Quest
Earthsong
Awkward Zombie
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Is it weird or what?
Yup, weird. But I have been having a poor track record of reporting/querying on that, so shall just sit back and await the stewards’ enquiry.
Fair enough. Maybe you could join in to just ask them to do that enquiry. Please?
http://www.comicmix.com/mix-march-madness-webcomics-tournament/2014/03/27/mix-march-madness-2014-webcomics-tournament-sweet-16-vote-now/
Results in. I posted the announcement at the top of this page, in the hope that people would spot it as soon as they log on, if they are checking in. You were right to say there was a mistake, and we do get to re-cast our votes. But only up until midnight.
Thanks Gunsolo for pointing that out, in your post below.
:)
What happened I think is that you can buy votes. That sounds really underhanded of ComicMix, but apparently the money goes to some charity, so I guess it’s cool. It looks like someone threw 10 or 20 bucks at OotS which don’t get tallied until after each round closes.
They messed up their count and have reset the vote, it closes this sunday at midnight!
Btw. shouldn’t Sidney’s orbs be visible in panel 1?
It looks like she just put them back in the tube (she has it in her hands in front of her). Poor timing.
Oh dear, it looks like, in their rush to re-open the voting for the four comics affected, they have made another mistake. To quote from the email I just sent to them:
“It looks like the voting is allowing multiple votes from a single voter. The total count does not go up every time, so it could be a false impression. But it certainly allowed me to go through the process each time, rather than sending me to the results screen, as with previous voting.
And re-testing showed that the vote was going up periodically (although that may have been due to other people voting at the same time).”
Although I could have just sat there and carried on clicking until midnight, to ensure we got through, I felt it more honest to report the bug. Given that we are supporters of a super hero comic. One that actively champions the ethical side of things, at that.
Well, still no reply to my warning about that problem. It looks like it is going to be a vote as many times as you want to click type arrangement. I waited until my internet connection was less laggy than earlier, and tried again. Each click makes the votes total go up. So it certainly looks like it is still set up that way, despite my pointing it out to them.
Order of the stick probably has an advantage here. Last time I looked (months ago admittedly) they had no fixed update schedule. So people probably log in at random. Or maybe only on quiet comic update days. For me that is Sundays, and I get the impression that is fairly common. Whereas most Grrl Power readers are not going to check in until Monday, when it is too late. :-(
OOtS forum website has also been down for a week (updates), causing fewer people to be going to the site anyway.
Actually no cause as I said I saw you with MORE votes during the live voting that they give you in the final grid, and I was not the only one: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1247#comment-62271
There was obviously a problem going on.
Sadly I did not realize that the meters of Round 3 were still on line as I now see “Sage” commented, that was a better evidence than just my word.
DaveB – trying not to nitpick, but where does Peggy store the .454? As shown for the last year or so, her shoulder rigs appear to carry matched black semi-autos with staggered stacks (like the FN?), while the Taurus (as pictured) is a silver revolver with wood grips.
At a secret compartment in her prosthesis? Maybe the Archon’s Q Branch made it for her :)
Maybe Dabbler installed a Hammerspace device in her prosthesis?
Someplace Harem would be amazed at and Math wanting to check out?
I was thinking one of her shoulder holsters was the 5-7 and the other was the judge, but I drew the judge silver when it was out. Maybe she has a small of the back holster for it?
It could be a great scene Peggy Neo-like pulling out a gun after another from holsters placed everywhere over her :)
If you can somehow make Status Quola cans, I will buy them.
So has nobody scanned the Status Quola QR code? You can click to embiggen. Sadly, I lack scanning ability, so have to wait in the hope that someone tries it and links the result, if any.
Actually is not a QR code (two dimensional) but a Barcode (one dimensional). Sadly it is too small to the online codescans that I know, even in the bigger vesion.
Anyway I think it is just what the subcode translation say, a basic barcode example.
The barcode just encodes the numbers at the bottom of the code, so that’s a barcode 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
it is not even a real barcode.
they have 12 digets not 10
Our barcodes have 13 (except for V energy drink, which only has 8)
Well, Dave kept me guessing, anyhow :-D
Mhh, I think there is every chance that this will go exceedingly well for them. Also, isn’t the Chibi Peggy below the comic (the one holding the gone) supposed to have scars on her face, too? She certainly looks cute with or without them, but just wondering~
Um… not to complain, but Grand Master Level Swearing needs to be one of Halo’s unofficial powers. ;)
Sydney’s already displayed the ability to make nuns angry & sailors blush (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/197 & the page immediately following), but can she make a bloodthirsty pirate captain shuffle his feet like a little schoolboy? If she can do that, then I’d call it an Skill Ability.
I want to float a theory that fits (I think) all the evidence so far presented in-comic.
First: Where did all these Villains come from?
Answer: Some or all are mercenaries, and have been making a reasonably lucrative amount of money selling their talents to the highest bidder. While there are almost certainly people in the group who work directly (currently or in the past) for whoever is paying the bill, most likely nobody that can be easily link back to the patron in the shadows is in the group. The Patron had inside info ARC was going public and had lots of time to gather them quietly.
Second: Why such a public attack when the entire ARC team is assembled?
Answer: The Patron *wants* a big public fight for reasons of their own. The goon squad is (in this theory) in it for the money and the bragging rights of either taking down ARCSwat or fighting them and then getting away clean. The Patron is in it for either money or politics, which are about the only things that get people to fork over this much cash.
Third: Who is this mystery Patron and how did they know the entire team would be in this place at this time?
Answer: Mr ‘Bring the Lightning’ Machina of Machina industries. He knew they would be there because, at the very least, Harem told him.
Four: Why (if he is the Patron) does Maqhina want a big messy public fight?
Answer: Assuming he is human, he wants to scare the holy bejeezus out of the public so that anti-supers armaments (which he supplies) have sales go through the roof as a simple answer. So long as nobody can trace this back to him he just sits back and rakes in the dough and political influence.
Note: Machina makes it *look* like the country that held a certain mosque Maxima blew up is behind this.
I have doubts Machina is human though – He knows about succubus glamour and it’s potency. If he is not human the why of this becomes more complicated, and makes an excellent start for a meta-plot.
Sound thinking. You may be right.
Max’s next line should be (in a calm tone) ” you got debris in my beer.”
You got beer on my debris!
dude, you could market that drink, pretty sure nothing like that is out, its too simple fore marketers to have thought of it
In college back in the 80’s. you could get generic ‘white label’ soda and beer that said little more than the example above (BEER 12 fl. oz., DIET COLA 12 fl. oz. etc) MAYBE including the bottling company name (often, suprisingly, well-known brands, using up production overruns).
….Why, exactly, don’t they do that anymore? The closest thing I’ve seen are the so-called ‘off-brands’ that are really just slightly cheaper brands….
Two reasons really.
1) People like brand names even if it’s just a store brand. It helps identify the product.
2) Low profit margin. When companies buy shelf space in your store the generic gets push out in favor of cash right now.
Down here, there are plans on removing all branding of tobacco products (which means, what’s to stop them from just passing one product off as many different brands?), once that happens, they would be free to do the same for sugar-based products (because that’s the next product/ingredient in the cross-hairs: scientists have determined sugar to be more addictive, and unhealthy, than cocaine)
That’s some of the biggest bullcrap I’ve heard this weekend.
It’s addictive and bad for you sure, but only when you eat to much of it.
And ‘to much of it’ is ALWAYS bad for you
Including too much water *grin*
Generic sweets, fine. But generic chocolate! No, we should do the American thing and bear arms against our governments if that happens! Give me chocolate or give me death!
Shining … they’re not wearing Uniforms. That’s one plus for whoever sent them (assuming its a mastermind who isn’t present).
Also as I stated above, they could just be “Hired Muscle.” In short, expendable.
You left out freelance who just want to see if they can take big bad golden broad down aka Maxima. There are always those ready to take on the big gun to win. Maxima put down the gauntlet and the first taker has picked it up.
I think that guy’s muscles, and hair style ,are his uniform.
Whoa. The first actual fight in the comic and it looks like it’s going to be a battle royale against 11 supervillains!
I would find it hilarious if that brute’s superpower is telekinesis or something like that, and he just happens to be a crazy bodybuilder as well. :)
Possible “easter egg”: Aren’t Sidney’s orbs missing in panel one? They were orbiting her on the last page.
Objects that react to mental commands (which Halo’s orbs obviously do) tend to also react to emotional states. Thus, the orbs might very well be “slumping” or “slouching” along with Sydney.
Good point If they’re hovering at belt-level we wouldn’t know.
Certainly plausible. To support that we do know that they take naps. And they have been busy today. Perhaps they just wanted to curl up in Tubey?
Or, perhaps, their egg sense was tingling and they decided to get out of sight, so that the flying debris would not smash them?
Can they smashed? Has it ever been established how durable they are? Sydney seems perfectly fine with the idea of hitting people/things with them…
Eggs are fine hitting things. If you do it the right way. Do it the wrong way and SPLAT!
But, yea, they do seem to be pretty durable.
Of course there are vulnerability to consider. They might normally be nigh-on indestructible, except to some energy or substance that is Orb kryptonite. And there look to be a dozen or so likely sources of different super attacks coming this way. They may be activating emergency protocol “Scaredy-cat runaway”.
Now this brings an interesting point to mind. Why the hell did the entrepreneur agree to allow the team in to their restaurant? If that was me, I’d say “Hell no, get away from my business, in fact don’t even come here off duty. Stay away.” Because if there’s some “supervillian” or whatever with something to prove against our brave hero and decides to begin by jumping through my roof? There goes my livelihood, all of it. Nevermind the crazy repair costs, my public reputation just got shot down by “McSteakhouse is a place where customers become casualties.”
And think about this in terms of your average superhero comic. The heroes are at press events, parades, any sort of public event. And then Brainiac attacks, consistently! Does Metropolis not see the pattern? A mile around superman is a 24 hour instant death radius! He’d be chased out of town! Hated by the masses! I wouldn’t be surprised if the United Nations would request him to move his Fortress of Solitude to Mars! The far side would be preferable. From what I can see, an off duty superhero would be treated with fear and hatred, not because of what they are, but because of the destruction that is always targeted on them.
Damned Devart won’t let me post… but about Peggy’s tattoos…. no “Do Not Cut Above Line” tattoo by her amputation, it’s a fairly common one among amputee servicemembers https://imgace.com/pic/tag/amputee-tattoo-says-do-not-cut-above-line/
Can you Captain Obvious the reason for that to me? I’m running on two hours of sleep and it’s not making sense….
I think the joke is, pretend that that tattoo was there all along. So someone followed the instructions, and cut just below the line.
Some may so it as a joke, but there could be serious intent too. Depends on the individual and their circumstances. Some people tattoo “do not resuscitate” on their chest. That is not a joke, that is a clear and unarguable instruction to medical staff. Personally I seriously considered “Allergic to penicillin” but decided that they may well have already administered it by the time they found a tattoo. As opposed to a chest “DNR” which would be spotted when attempting resuscitation.
I have also seen a “Do not cut this one” on a fellow patient’s arm. They were in the situation that blood poisoning from a hand wound was spreading up the arm and endangering their life. Trouble is the basic wound was very small, on the hand. And they had bandages for injuries on both hands, at that. So it would be very easy for a surgeon to lop off the wrong arm. They only used permanent ink to write it, but the principle was the same.
“If you are reading this you are looking at the wrong bloody arm. Leave it alone, I only have the one good one left!”
With me it would be ‘NO ANTIBIOTICS UNTIL YOU’VE CHECKED MY RECORD’. I think I’m up to eight or so confirmed allergic (or other really bad reactions, like heart palpitations) and just one ‘safe to take’, atm. That’s a bit too many to really fit on a medical alert necklace….
That’s quite besides being immune to benadryl and novacaine, and allergic to allerclear. I have rather inconvenient allergies.
There are bound to be complications when adapting Saturnian biochemistries to a Terran environment. Sure you can peel open brick walls like they were tissue paper. But beware the common cold! That is how we took out the Martian war machines.
Peel open brick walls? I wish. Falling down flights of stairs with nary a bruise on the other hand…
Or water. It was pretty effective against oh-so-convenient naked aliens.
Because of past mistakes some hospitals now use markers to indicate where to cut AND where not to cut as a precaution. Of course they use special markers designed just for this. Imagine the surgery goes perfect but the patient dies from the ink in a marker or the debris from the felt tip.
Here is my theory.
That guy isn’t a bad guy at all, the “shortest lived team ever” line is just a passing reference to the relative newness of the team, said simply to increase the impressiveness of his entrance. Then, using a shrinking super power, he leaps into Harem’s mouth and follows through with her soft drink’s threat.
I think that that unknown sphere will receive the name Nutcracker. If you catch my drift. I mean who just ruins a food day for a Vegan?
Sydney isn’t a vegan, she’s a fishie-scarfing vegetarian
Remember kids up is the direction you send the idiot in because he just volunteered to be a human flight test subject. Honestly bad guys that ambush in that manner should always be put into orbit as quickly as possible.
So… I think Maxima is going to rail that guy in the face with the back of her fist, sending him flying into the goons, while everyone else gets to go out and “play.” The the boss will arrive and Sydney will do something totally unexpected to take them out, stunning the rest of the team.
Love the shadow role-reversal in your avatar icon.
*whistling the tune to the Can Can*
*inserts paws and ears in front of light source, wiggling them to project moving shadows on to the wall, giving the impression of folie bergere girls dancing*
> Muscle guy and his entire team sneak up to basically next to the team unnoticed. Muscle guy dynamically leaps through the wall… then stops to announce his intent to attack
Looks like someone clearly wasn’t recruited for his brains (or really the whole lot of someones out there if they just let him run a perfectly good sneak attack like that).
I would have been perfectly happy if this comic had NEVER had a super-battle on screen. It is the slice of life stuff I like. But I’m sure this will be good too…
Something I wanted to mention: The discussion about the language of opera might seem like small talk, but it was actually a hot topic back then. Non-mainland europeans might not notice, since it’s a wierder bit of culture and not really important in the grander scope of things. But basically, for stage productions, opera was in Italian, and represented the refined society. Plays in the national language were base things, only fit for the common people.
So an opera not using Italian was like, well imagine a Shakespeare adaptation by a theatre close to you, which is very faithful in costume, scenery and actor choice (all white and possibly even all male). Really old-timey and conservative. And then imagine the actors speak in the thickest, most offensive suburbang slang you can think of. The outcry that would cause might come close to the reaction of people hearing that someone wants to have opera not in Italian.
That silhouette on the left side of now absent ceiling… Is that Swastika-hand Man?
Speaking of carnivorous-reactions to a leaf-licker, just found this last night
What do you think his conversation with that huge-ass group of villains went like?
“Okay, I’ll go! Unless you want to stop me?”
“No dude, you got this.”
I think that it went like this:
Mastermind: “Where is that new guy?”
Minion: “Went off to buy some chicken at the shop across the street.”
Mastermind: “Dammit, I should have left the nerd playing World of Warcraft.”
Minion: “We did need a muscle guy for your plan boss.”
Mastermind: “Yea, ok, so you all know your parts? We are facing the world’s most powerful super here. Plus a crack team of highly-trained super SWAT police. We must all strike simultaneously with total surprise. We need to buff up everybody with our most powerful defences first. Then use paralysing shouts…”
Leeroy Jenkins (leaping towards the roof of the steakhouse): “LEEROY JENKINS!”
Minion: “Oh my God, did he just go in?”
Mastermind: …
And they though Sydney had impulse control issues.
*gigglefit*
Deserving of a +1
WOW actually has an achievement with that name. lol
People actually want to be identified as a douchemuzzle? o_O
Oh right, WoWsers; question, meet answer
Strictly speaking, the achievement is for actually pulling off what they were TRYING to do in the setup , rather than Jenkins’ sledgehammer to the knee.
Took me a couple of seconds to connect the WoW line and the chicken line, but I did get it before I reached the end :P
I hoped somebody would pick up on that detail, inspired by the end of the video clip.
Here, join me eating a special, chicken themed, Scooby Snack!
*Offers a Scooby Snack that smells even nicer than Kentucky Fried Chicken*
So, there are 11 villans. And 11 heros… (Max, Halo, Dabbler, Anvil, Harem, Heatwave, Math, Achilies, Amorphus, Hiro and Stalwart.) … not counting Peggy. Or Seal Clubber Guy, or Gwen or Jiggawatz (who seems to be elsewhere) or the other minor characerss that we dont know have powers or not.
Really, it’s the villans who are outnumbered.
Harem counts as 5, so that makes it 11 V to 15 H
Harem counts as perhaps 1/5, or even zero. Damage to one of her is damage to each of her, making all of her easy to remove. Now she has some pretty good defenses, such as ultra-fast teleportation [probably able to move her to safely any time she sees a bullet fired at her], but as Max demonstrated, she is not safe from a surprise attack, and in the chaos this could rapidly become, there can be lots of attacks she doesn’t see coming.
What Harem is useful at is a communication system. Right now there should be alerts at 5? emergency sites. The “cops” should already be on their way [most likely just to clean up the mess, but our attackers should be facing a time limit before they will be overwhelmed if they do not flee]. Harem also serves other support roles that will make her useful [emergency 1st aid, keeping others alert to dangers/opportunities…], but she is fragile and close to personal combat useless. So she rates as pretty ignorable in this fight.
A scout who can teleport, grab weapons/defenses, and return is still extremely useful. Also? Checking outside to make sure there aren’t any backup-plans to drop a super-bomb on the whole complex.
Harem’s physical strength is proportionate to how many “bodies” she has out. If she reforms to 1 body she’s slightly weaker than Anvil. Plus she’s creating a fighting style that takes advantage of her Teleport/cloning abilities. (Possible example: Nightcrawler’s teleport-strikes x5)
Now true, the attackers are behaving like idiots, but we have to remember, effective tactics really interferes with the dramatic speeches. So Big Ugly has to stop and give his speech instead of clobbering somebody.
Same thing applies to the attack in general, which looks to be pointless [and may qualify for the Western death certificate report: “Committed suicide. At range of 200 yards, opened fire with a pistol at a man armed with a rifle.”.] The plot needs some violence about now, and so there is violence no matter how unwise such violence might be.
But the odds are this will not be an easy fight. In face, if we follow normal convention, the heroes will win by fluke. [They will do better in future fights, but this is soon met by the villains getting a power up to keep the drama. [We expect the heroes to win, but this can not be too certain.] If these thugs are to be re-used, they need to at least challenge the party, and the harder the challenge, the better. Now a one-sided slaughter is not impossible, but this fight is more likely to be tough, and may last the rest of the year.
… Or maybe the fight will be extremely short – if Sydney figures out what those last two Orbs do,
No, I don’t really think so. But I DO expect that at least one and possibly both of her mystery orbs will be “outed” during or as a consequence of this fight.
Noting too – we already know for sure that Sydney, Max and Anvil all survive this fight, and that they all seem very much OK some months later. Suggesting in itself that there was probably not a wholesale slaughter of their teammates.
Unless this fight is the reson for them going rogue
Huh?
The rest of the team gets killed, the surviving trio split from ARCHON and form their own group
Stalwart has to survive also he is in the picture in episode #4.
So. 10 character villain-types, make an entrance the night of press release. Either they spontaneously formed a crowd today or they had a full team that was pushed into having a confrontation today… and ARC wasn’t tracking them? Dude’s talking like he doesn’t know Max, and that leaves me facepalming.
Well if a brawl starts, they probably don’t want to nuke their base day one, so I expect a lot of villain-tripping with a tentacle…
Scene 2, the Deadly Ooze coats and hardens over Halo’s orbs so we can stop the tactics and get back to explosion-based butt-kicking action.
Scene 3: Halo begins to inflict blunt force trauma with Deadly Ooze-covered orbs.
Flashmob!
And the mastermind villain behind this villainous gathering? Facebook!
You know, I’ve been really enjoying the character-based approach to this comic… but I am really pumped for this fight.
As has been said the comic is trying to stay in the race at the Comic Mix Tournament after a wrong elimination that cost us voting time.
WE HAVE ONLY UNTIL SUNDAY (TODAY) MIDNIGHT
Also we are against a comic that has had paid votes. That makes it harder and impredictable. It seems we are now ahead but we could be defeated for a last minute paid incoming.
To make it more even maybe someone with some type of e-pay (USA credit card or the like) could be so kind to buy some votes at a so special situation :)
It is just ONE dollar for FIVE votes and it could do the difference.
Just go to:
https://www.comicmix.com/mix-march-madness-webcomics-tournament/2014/03/27/mix-march-madness-2014-webcomics-tournament-sweet-16-vote-now/
and click the “Donate” button at the end of the page (before the comments).
Also it is given to charity.
Everybody else please VOTE
Thanks a lot.
“Status Quola”…my favorite drink name ever. XD
Somebody please make fun of this guy’s lame haircut. PLEASE!
I’m noticing Peggy’s scars have a tendency to wander about her face a wee bit.
I feel that it is one of the things that it is best to turn a blind-eye to. Trying to precisely align such things would take up too much of DaveB‘s time, when there are other things he can be doing instead.
Besides which scars are organic and move as the muscles and face move. So they literally would be in different places, depending on what expressions she was pulling. Within certain constraints – such as the point where it crosses the nose should always be the same.
suprevillain blitzkreig? …… so this is a Neo Nazi drink? XD
For anyone experienced with air matresses flip off his cap and he’ll deflate.
I want soda that can predict the future!
*paws over a can of “YourThirstWillBeQuenched”*
It’s…The Steroid Kappa!
how did you do that with the link!?!???
let’s see…
nothing…
okay…
still nothing…
let’s try…