Grrl Power #201 – Prerequisite monologue
You can’t expect me to jump straight to 100% speed lines and explosions. You know villains and their monologing, which is fine as it gives me time to get one more thing in order before it all goes to hell. The exchange between Max and Arianna would play better animated, but hopefully it makes sense.
Anvil makes a guest appearance in another superhero comic called Heroes of CRASH. The comic is quite entertaining but I suspect the art style might not do it for everyone. Still, in my opinion, I think if you have a story to tell, it’s better to go ahead and tell it than just sit on it and wait for all the stars to align. Before I give the link let me set up the page a little, Heroes of CRASH has a superheroine named Titanium Maiden who is also a muscular redhead, hence the obvious potential for an Anvil cameo. Maybe one day myself or some other artist should wrangle up all the muscular red heads and draw them all in one picture. I already have two pictures of Anvil and Xane (draw by Fred Perry). In fact you can see them both if you search “xane gold digger” which I caution is mildly NSFW since it’s pictures of a muscular black woman with red hair mostly in bikinis. I should post both of those to the DeviantArt page come to think of it.
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Is Arianna signaling Max to let the others deal with it?
Seriously, how does Harem successfully do the double agent thing? Sometimes it seems like she doesn’t have a filter.
I interpret it as
Max: “Is this another publicity stunt, like the bank?”
Ari: “I am not responsible for this.”
I saw this more as something closer to this:
Ariana: This isn’t good…
Maxima: *Glare* Can I punch them now?
Ariana: Oh… NO you may not.
That said, yours makes a little more sense.
Dave, might I suggest a single thought bubble with something along the lines of *Is she behind this Glare* to prevent people from getting the wrong idea.
She wants to cower under a table but doesn’t want to be seen doing it. She never expected to be near action and is lost regarding what to do.
Arianna has no say on who and when Max gets to punch. She just has to spin it when it does go down.
but she can advise max to hold herself in reserve when max glares the question at her, while arianna panicked thinks max is blaming this on her and denies it. what a pity looks are so hard to communicate with.
Ah, that makes a fair amount of sense.
I thought it was Arianna assuming that Maxima and Super Meathead had history between them based on their banter (e.g., Maxima caught him sometime while holding the upper hand) and she’s asking Maxima if he’s really this stupid.
Ohhhhh. Yeah, I think you’re right. Thanks!
She probably purposely says seemingly unfiltered things so people don’t suspect her.
If she’s like me, she has a filter, you just get the filtered comments while what she holds back can turn your hair white. If people think you’re the fool, you play the fool to humor them.
Love the subtlety of Max’s amused expression in the last panel. She knows that Anvil’s powers, and everyone else’s in ARCSWAT, are SO much more than what was shown at the news event that this guy doesn’t even stand a chance. Max doesn’t even have to lift a finger here, just let her people at ’em.
Well she doesn’t actually know what powers the bad guys have.
So she’ll still have to do stuf
Hrm, true. But I expect her to step in only when the others need her to, so that the non-military field personnel can get as much practical experience out of these party crashers as possible.
Goddamnit, I did NOT intend that awful pun >.<
Occasional puns are a goodness XD
I think “god-awful” may be a bit of an exaggeration…
Besides, I thought it was nice of him to drop in for a visit
I like how the big guy looks so nonplussed when Sydney interupts his big speach.
I like now everyone looks at her like, “Sydney we are TRYING to have a superhero comic here could you stop talking over the show!”
Yea, but still … love the way Sydney TOTALLY threw off the great monologue of this guy.
Yeah, I expect she’ll Spiderman the hell out of some villains with her interruptions and nonsequiturs.
Can always count on Sydney to interupt a monologue with a randome, completely unrelated, and nonsensical comment.
It was completely related: Anvil’s ambulatory punching bag mentioned ‘Big Bang Attack’, of course a geek (and proud of it) would correct that mistake
so ADHD as an actual combat tool? will she be schooling Achilles on taunts?
Maxima doing her grumpy cat imitation, countdown. 5… 4… 3…
more galick gun less big bang attack i say
Nah, I’d be leaning more toward a Spirit Bomb, but doesn’t that have a 5 minute charging cycle?
It doesn’t have a specific time to charge up, it varies on how much “life” there is around you to collect energy from and how powerful you want to make it. Besides if it was timed it would be measured in DBZ-time so five minutes can be anything from five actual minutes to five whole episodes.
Maxima: “Anvil, be a dear and take care of my light work. I still haven’t finished dessert.”
oh the pictures of anvil and xane…*_* DAMN!!! thank you fred perry
heh :p i think Anvil is the right choice against this kind of opponent :) (as it seems he’s a basic brawler) – given anvil’s power :p the more he hit her, the more she’ll hit back :)
Also, APB (Ambulatory Punching Bag) messed up her shirt (and hair), so it’s only right that Anvil deals with him
I really can’t take that guy seriously with that hair.
Por fin vamos a ver a Anvil en acción!
Yup! Everyone will get a few shots in before it’s all over.
Well I hate to say I told you so when I said that Max’s little stunt would come back to bite her…… But I’d be lying! TOLD YOU SO!
Now we have a villain targeting them in civilian populated zone. And by the looks of the shadowy figures behind him he’s not alone.
Uhu
And how do you think this is going to end?
With atleast half of those villains locked up or dead. It might cost a few civilian lives, but a few civilian lives is a worthy sacrifice, compared to the many more that would die if they let these guys run free for much longer.
So in the end, this is going exactly as Maxima planned.
Besides, there are only a few civilians here. That’d be pritty easy to protect if you can project a big, impenitrable forcefield
Even a few lost civilians would be enough to send the media into a frenzy over there horrible ineptness especially after all they did trying to build up that image.
Besides you’d be a fool if you think this is going to be that easy, or be the last of it. Max just opened up the flood gates to a world of hurt. As a great man one said, “Bring on the bad guys!”
So, you are suggesting they do nothing, because some civilians might get hurt (or worse)?
Regular police already have to stop chasing speeding car thieves in residential areas (down here at least) because the idiot speedsters might crash and/or injure a ‘civilian’
You do know the difference between a ‘civilian’ and a ‘citizen’, don’t you?
There’s an easy solution to that, it’s Sidney containing the battle within her forcefield.
I’m not so shore Sydney would want to be locked in a confined space with a big ripped psycho like this guy. Take more than some crazy fu to take this guy down.
Right, because militairy operations never result in any civilian casualties.
No it won’t be the last we see of this group, but they are sure to capture/kill atleast a few of these guys. And every single one they take out can’t go back and do more crime. And you can bet your ass that someone who bursts in on a team of supers like that, won’t think twice (or even once) about smashing a weak normal if it gets in his way (or somewhere near his way).
So a couple of civilian casualties is still better than NOT trying to capture a few of them.
Yes, but ARCHON is not acting as a military organization, but as a police organization. For all that they’re created under DoD, they still have to respect the rights of American citizens in America, and one of those is the right to life. When the military accidentally kills civilians, it is a case of misapplication of force, and an issue that needs to be corrected, lest it have significant battlefield consequences in the future. When the police kill civilians…that’s a real problem, and deservedly gets treated as such.
Plus, remember, ARCHON is trying to appear as relatively harmless to innocents, and is trying to build Supers up to be a fairly beneficial to mankind as a whole and America in particular (lest some nut decide to start getting creative with sniper rifles and booby traps).
Both of these mean that civilians are NOT expendable. ARCHON will have to take steps to minimize collateral damage, and to keep civilians alive and safe, even at the cost of letting some supervillians go free. You can’t get up on national TV and say, “yeah, I waxed a coupla hostages to get this guy, and we think I saved a couple of dozen lives doing it.”
In the end, any strategic calculus that casually assumes that one life is less important than twenty lives is just as deeply flawed as a calculus that assumes that blindly assumes that the life of one important individual is worth twenty lives to save. Ultimately both approaches ignore the very real cost of such sacrifices, and will inevitably lead to eventual defeat, as nobody has any real reason to fight to support a system that makes either assumption. In the end, I support America and America’s military because I believe that they’ll move hell and earth to save my butt, should I get caught in things beyond my control…and that means that, should the situation require it, I’m willing to move hell and earth in return. Max, as well as the others trained by the US military, would be trained to react with this in mind–hence the speech she gave Sydney about considering the surroundings and possible casualties and destruction.
This is part, I should add, of what makes this comic great: the writer/artist has incorporated a level of detail into the comic’s planning that simply do not exist for many other comics. Superman, for all his popularity, has never stopped to consider questions considering collateral damage and the relative importance of planning in advance on how to end a fight quickly and safely. I really can’t imagine the Justice League, or the Avengers, undergoing intensive training to make sure that all members know how to best support each other, and what the limitations of each member of the team might be. There is no sense of the intensive planning that likely goes into ARCHON’s missions.
This is why Sydney, right now, comes across as a bit of a dork (an adorable dork, but still a dork). She isn’t used to her powers, she hasn’t had a chance to learn how best to control and use them, and right now, she is not much of an asset to ARCHON. But…even just a few months down the road, that’s going to change, because she’s going to have a good idea of the basics behind how ARCHON operates. Give it time, and I can see her flair for imaginative tactics making her an officer in ARCHON in no time flat…and, perhaps, someday even leading her own team.
This is very much a webcomic that shows its work, and does so in a way that does not seem oppressive or preachy, for which I have to congratulate DaveB. It is a webcomic for intelligent people, and that simple fact puts it at a whole different level from the vast majority of webcomics out there. The great art and fun subject matter just amplifies what is already a powerful draw.
+1 yes, Sydney is adorable!
Oh, and the other stuff was well-said too.
You seem to be missing the point here. This is not the only guy here. And what he said “Outnumbered, unequipped, in a place full of civilians, with a few drinks in all of em, and no backup.” These guys did there homework before coming here. And we have no idea who the other guys backing this mook up can do. This is not going to be anywhere near as easy as they you may think it is going to be.
No, this guy is an idiot.
Unless they are all Maxima level supers, Maxima can easely take out multiple of them. Also none of them are ‘unequiped’
She isn’t Ironman, useles without his suit. She is superman, who’s just as invincible in pijamas as in combat gear.
Same for all Archon supers. They are fully equiped. The only ones who ARE unequiped, are the spacemarines. And that’s only a small portion of the group.
They are impulsive, and stupid. They should have waited for everyone to go home, and than gang up on each individual member, one at a time.
and hear it from the villain guild how weak and cowardly the behaved. no glory even possible that way, this way if they live and do real evil before being put in a cell bragging rights possible.
that’s eenweencible.
Also I agree with Sydney’s comment. Vageta’s big bang attack is way better than Max’s. If he were among the villains there he’d make all of them his bitches!
Maxima didn’t spend 20 episodes to charge it though
Spirit bomb is 20 episodes. Vageta did the big bang agents cell way faster.
Like Max said. That wasn’t full power.
Can Max equal the Big Bang attack?
Doubt it, Vageta’s big bang is easy able to blow up the planet. Max doesn’t have the stones to go that fare.
Just because she ‘doesn’t have the stones to go that far(e)’ does not mean that she can’t
I was wondering about Sydney/ Halo’s balls of Doom, if Dippy the bad guy had started it off after just the wise crack, she wouldn’t have time to get them out. But by monologuing she had time enough to get them out, pick her first combo, pick a couple one liners to go with them, and finish her supper!
They were already out.
Besides, she could pull them out before Harem finished saying the word ‘vegitarian’ https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1242
It’s not like she has to do a summoning ritual to wake them up
If they were out, where were they last page when she was grumpily eating her poh-tay-toe?
She had them orbiting her ankles in a figure 8, just for the heck of it?
Had missed the comments about how DaveB forgot to add them last page and retro-added them (haven’t gone back to that page yet, and really should start reading the first page of comments)
DaveB has added them on the previous page now. Just hit CTRL+F5 to make them appear.
I would use a team of Anvil, Harem, and Math to take care of the peanut gallery here. Being mainly melee based powers or tactics they can put these jokers away with less threat to the civvies or property. Which while not Ari’s intent, would also bring more positive press. I would also use Sydney here to get the civvies out of the way. If she creates a force field she can corral the non-combatants out of the way so they don’t need protection.
Plus by using these tactics, you keep the bad guys here guessing even when they saw the press conference. Then again, I would also have Anvil use Achilles as a living and fighting baseball bat. Always sandbag, always confuse.
Hum…
Thinking that the order to Halo to play Defence will be delayed as long as possible, so that combatants and non combatants are clear to halo before she isolates people with a shield.
Before which time Halo would probably be using true sight to do quick recon on the peeps outside and preparing an attack…
True, his was a bit more on the level of planetary destruction.
Now for some comment speculation: one move win from whom and how?
(Not Maxima as that exchange may have been ‘Should I get involved? ‘No’)
My bet: ‘Sticky air’ to all from Dabbler, especially around the mouth.
With everybody wondering how this “Dirty dozen” got together and to the restaurant everybody is forgetting one likely prospect. Deus.
Somebody did suggest him. And I agree he is a likely candidate. Amongst many, given that Maxima taunted every master-mind, super-villain and/or crackpot dictator on the planet. But he did have prior knowledge of Archon, so is a prime candidate given the time factor involved. And his company does produce gear for Archon. So could well have sent these guys in knowing they will fail, just to ensure that the public are frightened enough about the presence of super-villains to not protest at the formation of Archon. Although they may not be too keen at public restaurants becoming battlegrounds.
A similar tactic to Arianna’s bank stunt, but pulled by someone with less well-intentioned motives, and the willingness to endanger the lives of police officers and innocent civilians. Not to mention setting up a bunch of super-thugs to take a fall. However it turns out, Machina Industries is likely to make more sales to Archon, and thereby generate more profit for Deus. Even if he is not behind it, he will be clicking the button for his thunder and lightning generator, doing his ‘milking a giant cow’ mime and laughing all the way to the bank.
Actually, I think the best move would be to have Halo trap The Shadowy Characters to hold them in place so folks can deal with them later, at leisure, while everyone else dog-piles The Teal-Haired Twit. Of course, there may be one or two who can get past Halo’s shield (e.g., teleportation), but it’s always good tactics to split your enemy’s forces, especially if you can pin some of them in place.
Or just, you know, crush them inside the force field.
The only problem is has she unlocked the skill to be able to project the forcefield away from herself yet? Because if she hasn’t then all she would do is lock herself inside an impenetrable bubble with them. And that would be bad.
see watchmen quote only with more zany horror for “inmates”
Welp, Captain Rape Face gon’ die.
Aheh. I wonder what would happen if I sent a fake Carrot Top manneguin head to Anvil’s apartment…>:D
It would end up compacted into a very small sphere which might be inserted into a place the sun does not see often.
Oohhhh. Now I get what’s going on with the Max/Arianna looks.
Maxima has to be sure if she can go full out or not. I’m sure she’d like to give muscle bound head an upper cut out of the same hole he just made.
Yeah, once your super strength is to her level you’ve got to ramp up your hits slowly as you assess the enemy endurance, or you get blood everywhere. Give a human-knockout tap, then a tough-guy poke, then an armored-tank swat, and if they still seem unharmed you can start swinging…
But even then you have to be careful about shockwaves, as we saw in the ballroom.
…Just realized Sydney’s amaze-balls were first revealed in the ballroom. Quite certain that one wasn’t intentional, but still. Heh.
And here I was kinda looking forward to a PPO blast right back out the hole-in-the-wall. :(
Oddly, I kinda feel bad for the guy. He has no idea what is about to happen to him and is most likely cannon fodder for whoever those people in the shadows were. They probably expect him to die. Its one of those cases where you see someone and think Darwin Award, or like watching a brain damaged puppy play with electric cord. FYI love Arianna in panel 2, just screams you have got to be kidding me.
He is probably the guy they really don’t mind loosin.
Probably the bully of the group, who always has the biggest mouth.
Or he could be simi-indistructab, and a love tap from someone like Anvil or Maxima would not really hurt him.
I know there is something in the comments already about Peggy and having a gun on the table, so while we are on problems in that frame, here eyes are not tracking at all.
One is giving Halo a confused look, the other is glaring at the enemy.
If this is intentional because of the glass eye theory feel free to ignore, but I even then the face’s expression still seems like it is divided by two emotions.
Drawing eyes so that they seem to be looking at the same thing is trickier than it looks, especially if only part of one of them is visible, as in that panel (her nose is covering juuuust a little bit of one eye, making it just tricky enough to annoy the blazes out of DaveB, I’m sure).
Drawing people would be a lot easier if we were all cyclopses. Cyclopsi?
Cyclopes, according to the merriam-Webster online dictionary.
The plural of Cyclops is “X-Men.”
so Douches?
It’s been years since the special wedding issue, and I STILL wish Scott had changed his name to Scott Grey.
“We wanted the same last name, and ‘Jean Grey’ is pretty much her superhero name. Changing her name wasn’t really an option.”
With all the reboot, it’s still an option. Someday…
Cyclopes is correct. Like the fabled Arimaspi? They were human in every way but one. Had an eye in the middle of their forehead. And they fought a perpetual war against the Gryphons.
Peggy pulled her gun out when APB crashed the party
Both eyes are glaring at APB
Another possible action is Sydney using the lighthook to pull all the civilians within range closer so that she can focus a shield inside the restaurant without having it be too big. A quick tap on the embiggener so that it fits within the restaurant once she pulls civilians into range and it will take more than Captain Erase his face to deal with it.
And I think that’s what Anvil is about to do. Erase his face with a punch. And a peeved punch at that since he got mortar and dust all over her coming through the wall.
None of you are thinking big enough.
Sydny should shield the OUTSIDE of the building, keeping the other 10 ominus shadows out while the heros keep the one villian inside from hurting the civilians inside. While this is happening, the civilians can be safely gathered for more tactical protection.
One down, ten to go, and no more element of suprise.
A very sensible, non-erratic tactic. High probability of successful implementation, but without being flashy.
*flips open note book and consults Sydney profile*
Mmm, does not seem likely.
We can make this plan work! We just need more comical flailing.
At a later time, Sydney shows Max what Dragonball Z actually is (Max being somewhat nerd-culture friendly). Watching a few fight episodes Max’s commentary goes like:
“I’ve seen that done before.”
“Math can do that, and that, and that.”
“Hiro and Anvil can do that.”
“I can do that, and that.”
“Ooh, I never thought of trying that. Heheheheee.”
And eventually it reaches the point where she goes, “Well that’s just ridiculous.”
What in the DBZ series happend to make her think they crossed a line into silly levels, in a fictitious superhero world?
Probably blowing up the Moon.
I HOPE blowing up the Moon.
I’ve just barely tried out the first season, but I’d say the weird depiction of the afterlife. This guy seems a bit like Nappa to me, though. Send the big, angry and stupid guy full of “Mwa, ha, ha no one can stop me” in first. The real threat comes later.
the 3 episodes of posing,straining and yelling like they have a terminal case of constipation?
CONGRATULATIONS DAVEB!!
Comic Mix Tournament Round 5 (named “Elite-8”) is up and Grrl Power is in it! Great job folks!
If we can make it to the end it will be a great advertising for the comic, more readers, more support, more money… and maybe more pages per week :)
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Now we are against Dick Ruby. They have bought votes each round (and a HUGE amount last time) surely they are going to do it again now.
Hard as it looks it is not impossible. We were able to reach 1.500 votes a day in Top Web Comics, why not here? But should be voting EVERYONE.
Tell your friends, ALL of them, it is just a couple clicks :)
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I have no idea what “grids” are. There were clickable links for all the comics right above the comments (and below what I thought of as the “vertical list”), but it just took me to the prior, and closed, vote page.
If you can it would be great to buy some votes, 20 cents a vote that will be donated to charity and is tax deductible.$0.25 per vote. As Dave discovered when he posted something about lightning and magnetism, you will get far more replies when people are rushing to point out that you’re wrong than at any other time. :)
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They change the price, it was 20 cents until Round 3 (I just checked), now it is 25, you are right.
You know, I find it ironic that Dabbler can’t pull out the rail gun and start blowing away the other people on the roof because she has to worry about accidentally knocking sattelites out of orbit. That is, after all, one of her cited reasons for having it.
Also, it vaguely disturbs me that he’s seen these people, including the two he jumped between, toss around a tank and isn’t overly concerned about punches to the kisser. Perhaps he’s got an ability not unlike Anvil and is going to get powered up by getting BIFF’d and POW’d? Anyways, he seems to think he can take a hit better than a tank can. Which either indicates Wolverine-level regeneration factor (and with THAT hair, it’s possible), Achilles ability to soak up damage with a sponge (in which case it is time for Dabbler to take over), or some other form of damage absorption/mitigation/redirection.
Basically, he’s begging to take one on the chin. From someone who can put their fist through the armor of one of the single most heavily armored land vehicles ever created by mankind. Why? I’m not buying overconfidence, and villains aren’t particularly noted for being all that willing to ‘take one for the team’. As pointed out before, it is doubtful that this is an already established team. It takes time to develop that level of trust and coordination.
I’ll be honest, I still want to see Sydney go ‘Puny God’ on something with her Ten… ahem I mean her Lighthook. As in leaving a face imprint on the floor repeatedly. Either that or use Forcefield + Flight to go Bowling For Bozos. I could also see an eventual ‘Cannonball Special’ with Sidney + Lighthook tossing Achilles, although probably not this fight scene.
So, what happens next? Tune in next time!
If it turns out we have an energy absorber, I would recommend some non-impact related forms of control.
1) If they have a tranq dart handy, try shooting him with one.
2) If they had any cold-based attacks, that would actually sap energy from him.
3) A CO2 extinguisher blast to the face may not hurt him, but it would slow him down enough to get the civilians out of the room.
4) A pepper spray blast to the face could seriously impair his vision (At which point Sydney says “Can I borrow that later? My potato was pretty bland.”)
5) If you can keep his head under water he will eventually run out of air.
Or have Syd pick him up with molestaorb, andhave him hang out for the fight.
I really like how Halo’s spheres are casting light onto Peggy. That’s a great detail that I would easily forget if I were to have drawn something like this.
Is it just me, or does APB look kinda cute when he is not trying to look intimidating?
This guy needs to learn to count again.
In https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1204 i counted 15 confirmed supers (includes the 5 harems).
His side has 11.
Plus i am betting X is there to.
Then there is Peggy and the 3 “space marines” . And i am beting they have atleast 1 wepon each.
Then with Zeph there he may have an emrgency artifact with him (or 4).
Leaving only Leon, Gwen, and the staff as non-combatants to be protected.
Leon probably has a couple of drones covering the area. I know I would if I had access to Government Tech and bad guys like this on my mind. A couple of Hellfire missiles in the right place could ruin a super villain’s day.
Chaingun. 37mm rotary chain gun. It solves all problems. Including the problem of having excess drones and not enough civilian casualties. Becuase, you know for a fact that there’s no way a drone’s going to control a 37mm cannon.
Hellfire got 5 mile range,chaingun loses.
Is that because of operational experience with lag from using in drones half-way round the world? If so, surely there would not be a problem, assuming that Leon controlled it directly, given there would be no appreciable delay. Or is there something more fundamental about drones that make it hard to control a direct-fire weapon like that?
My curiosity stems from the fact that the A10 Thunderbolt makes good use of a 30mm rotary cannon. To quote Wikipedia
Not that I am suggesting that any aerial deployed weapon would be wise, in the current situation. Just running with the line of reasoning, if it were to be used.
Coming in years late again, but I would bet it’s because of recoil and mass. An A10 Thunderbolt is a lot bigger and heavier than a tiny little unmanned drone, so the recoil from firing its chaingun has minimal effect on its attitude, while mounting a 37mm cannon on a drone and firing it would probably massively disrupt its ability to even stay aloft.
For comparison, imagine the scene in Terminator 2 when Arnie opens fire on all the police with the minigun, he barely moves at all. Now imagine if a 3 year old was holding it and pulled the trigger. :)
The accuracy of the weapon is only part of the equation, the other part of it is how steady it can be held.
There could be more bad guys not in our field of vision too, you know.
Hmm, my prediction of a tough fight is looking rather dubious, but talk before a fight is often overconfident.
Still, the heroes here still have serious disadvantages to worry about. At this point Big Ugly is the only one who has done an obvious crime, and attacking the others could have major legal and image drawbacks. And, as Arianna will likely soon scream, they must not draw blood in front of the cameras. Dead bodies, even when justified, make for very bad publicity. So the team has to play pattycake for the first few rounds of fighting until they know who can take it.
The trick is to separate the wrongdoer from the others. an embiggened shield over the whole resteraunt (with meathead inside) should do it- Any attempt to break the shield could be construed as “aiding and abetting”, and once meathead is dealt with, Halo can swithed to a more focused “civilian protection” shield while the heros go to town.
I’m pritty sure Maxima does not give a single crap about publicity.
And I’m even sureer that she would not risk anyones life by giving those villains the chance to attack first
Maxima personally probably doesn’t worry about publicity, but her superiors do, and she accepts the common soldier theory that the purpose of the high command is to make it harder for lower ranks to carry out their duties. So she will have to restrain any bloodthirsty ideas.
And she has already taken the role of cop here, by informing the overconfident fellow he is under arrest and thereby saying she is not going to try to kill him first. Of course she is expecting the evening to become “interesting” shortly, but she is following the book. No shooting first without a lot of bothersome warnings, etc.
so i know its not really important but i can’t help but notice peggys gun out and ready, and im curious as to what gun it is? i see a revolver. but the line is off to be a regular wheel gun so maybe a… auto revolver? maybe?
Looks like it’s either a dart weapon or a low cal weapon. I’m guessing the “specialised ammo” route since it is very much custom. With a false slide and seeming fused hammer at the back. As well as the spinner being very far back in it. The chambers are very very small but long. As if it will fire needles rather than any bullets.
It’s a Taurus Raging Bull, loaded with .454 Casull rounds. The .454 round was originally developed to facilitate hunting rhinos with handguns (actually, not quite true, but it does have that much stopping power), so as you can imagine, it packs quite a punch.
There is one thing that for some reason has been annoying me in the comments.
The assumption that Mr. Bad Haircut will lose immediately. Seeing the level of power that Maxima displayed expect him to be tough enough to at worst be chucked out of the hole he came in through then storm right back in. At least until, as some people have suggested, the amount of force used against him finally reaches the level of “You know what I’m going to take a nap here, right now” when it connects.
Completely understand. We have absolutely no idea of what his powers might be or what the powers of any of the people waiting in the wings might be.
Be really funny if he was just a big illusion or green lantern like solid light projection.
At the beginning, is Max looking angrily at Arianna because she thinks this might be a setup like the bank was? And Arianna is signaling back “No! This one isn’t me!”?
Or maybe I’m misinterpreting that whole back and forth.
Yes it is. Please read the comments above.
It has been discussed many times before.
Who the hell doesn’t know Dragon Ball Z? It’s one of the most popular franchises in the world next to One Piece, Bleach, and Sailor Moon. Hell, they even made a live action movie out of it. They had Gohan go to school, get bullied, realize he’s a Sayin-jin, and kick the bullies to the curb before going to face the big bad, all in the trailer!
Well … Me for one. But that might be a generational thing (I’m in my 50’s). I also never really got the whole Pokemon thing. I was far more into the older stuff.
Likewise.
Whenever I’ve glimpsed Dragon Ball Z, it has always seemed to be when one character or another is screaming, grimacing, posturing and generally carrying on like they are struggling with a FEROCIOUS bout of constipation.
Give me a Wave Motion Cannon or BusterBeam and i am happy.
Ditto, I am afraid. In fact, the only one I do recognise from the list is “Sailor Moon”, and that is only due to it being referenced by people or comics into cos-play.
I figure anyone, over a certain age, doing a search for it, would be flagged by the NSA &/or GCHQ as “dirty old man”, given that the outfits seem to be schoolgirl’s.
That would be me. To be clear, I do know a little about BDZ, but it is a very little. Mostly from seeing bits and pieces of the show, some from friends who are fans and have told me about it. I’ve never watched a complete episode, and I certainly don’t know enough to ‘get’ references to the characters and their powers. If the forums hadn’t basically explained Veggia’s big bang attack to me, I’d have had to Google it.
One Piece and Bleach I know nothing about, except that I have at least heard of Bleach.
Sailor Moon I’m reasonably familiar with. I even have some DVDs but it isn’t a whole season/series/whatever they call it.
I’m not (or at least I don’t consider myself to be) completely clueless about anime. I own the complete Speed Racer works, Akira, the Ghost in the Shell set, the complete set of Bubblegum Crisis (not the 2040 series), and a few odds and sods here and there.
The italics tag just isn’t kind to me today… That was meant to be an italic ‘”very” little’, with the rest of the post in plain text.
Oh, and like Dr. Revenge, I enjoyed watching Star Blazers as a kid. I always got a laugh about how the wave motion gun action scene showed the control extending and changing and finally ending up as a pistol grip. :)
I also wondered why, if the folks on Iskandar could send the plans for a FTL drive, why they couldn’t also have sent the plans for the radiation cleaning machine… That would have saved a long trip and a lot of fighting, while Earth ticked down the the extinction of humanity. But I guess that’s just fridge logic (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic)
Gonna try the hypertext again, wish me luck…
Aaand, no love at all. As expected.
No April fools thing this year? Or did I miss it?
Summer Glau made a post on her Facebook page, claiming to be a Martian. That got a bit embarrassing though, when her parents turned up in a Martian tripod war-machine and said to her “We told you not to check your privacy settings before posting messages!”
Google this year had a few new ones. They are offering a new find function on their Google maps for locating Pokemon, Google translate now handles Emoji and Google Glass in now available in Google Monocle for the Hipster crowd.
https://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/
Think Geek is now claiming to take orders for flux capacitors that plug into your cigarette lighter and they are selling Rosetta Stone language software to teach Klingon. They even have Michael Dorn from TNG doing the sales video. They also have the Mr Beard machine to apply the facial hair of your choice, brought to you by the makers of Mr Fusion.
*gigglefit* Yep, we geeks have taken over, clearly.
I want to know what Peggy is doing with her other hand. She already has a weapon out, is she getting another one?
Have a look at the mini-comic underneath the previous issue*. Compare it to the weapon shown above, and then note which hand each weapon is in.
* Mini-comics are not necessarily cannon. But, equally, they could be true. Roll your dice and find out!
Sydney, I hope that you are using your truesight orb at the moment, and have the Forb in your other hand.
Oh man, if this guy is an illusion and one of the folks outside has a blast attack they used to blow in the ceiling…