Grrl Power #206 – The Velma reversal
Yes he was indeed trapped in there with her and not the other way around as most people predicted. Hopefully even if it was predictable the execution was amusing/cringe inducing. There were several ways Sydney could have dealt with him but this is the most straightforward. Really anyone getting within 3-4 meters of her is risking a similar fate, but of course, some supervillains might not be as dramatically affected by the orb blitz for various reasons. Originally I drew a 7-10 split instead of the Homerun marquee, complete with pins and one of the orbs in place of the bowling ball, but then I realized I’d used the 7-10 split gag already.
Streaming! I will attempt to do this today. Assuming you want to watch me ink and also want to see the page I’m working on spoiled. It’s not an earth shattering plot development just some fighting. I’ll post the link here when I figure out what the best service is for it. I had it all figured out before my hard drive crashed several months ago and now I don’t remember if I’ve got myself set up again. I’ll shoot for 12-1 pm CST but I may start earlier while I’m getting stuff sorted out. Stream’s done. I’ll see if there’s a better way to do it in the future.
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Heh, pulling a Velma, I did not see that one coming.
Is that guy’s head under Anvil’s Rack? It looks really odd seeing it posed that way.
More a combination armbar/sleeper hold, which is why he’s passing out at the end.
It’s an underhook armbar – actually pretty easy to escape (just twist in the opposite direction of the barred arm), but doing so makes you lose your line of attack for nearly a full second–during most of which, you actually have your back turned to them, allowing your opponent to take an unguarded knockout shot to the temple, break several ribs, or sweep your ankles out from under you. Best move is to disengage, gain distance as quickly as possible, then re-engage from a better position.
This guy, though, hasn’t gotten that he’s not strong enough to take her down, and keeps trying.
In some ways it must be a little frustrating for Anvil – almost like having to fight a kid.
She also has him in an, as far as I can figure out from some light googling, a guillotine choke. I’m sure there are ways out of it, but bapping the choker in the cheek is not one of them.
BAP is quickly becoming one of my favourite onomatopoeic sound effects.
Actually, if she wants to break his neck (which is possible in that hold), she’d need both her hands on his cheeck.
It’s a fairly simple manouver.
Press his cheeck against your side (about where he is now), put both hands on the other side of his face to keep it in place, and jump.
He’ll either have to jump with you, or break his neck.
Actually because Anvil is so tall, simply standing up straight might even be enough.
The way her hands are currently, she can’t actually do that much damage
You wouldn’t think she’d do much damage with a nose boop either. Given how the guy’s just been punching away for a while, she’s probably still got a pretty big release in her without moving.
Sure, she could crush his wrist just like that.
But it’s not the hold DaveB tried to get across.
It’s impossible to break a neck the way her hands are, because for that to happen the head has to move relative to the rest of the body (and that’s the entire point of that hold)
to be fair he must have some enhanced durability to be that strong to begin with else he would be braking himself every time he punched something. so he can probability take a few hits
in fact that probably why anvil is using a sleeper hold as bricks tend to pass out a lot easier from lack of air than a blow to the head
as for the the nose bap that you need to rember was a cartilage not bone so even on a resilient supper that is likely to be a soft spot
DaveB, if your intent is a guillotine choke, then her left hand should be under his head, not on the back of the neck (my apologies if I’m just seeing it wrong) – it would actually be a relatively simple fix; just remove the skin showing from under her breasts (it might be open shirt, but it looked like the heel of her hand to me), and move the folds of cloth at her left elbow so they show less “bend”
My impression is that there are 2 different skins in view here.
The tiny bit of skin which is beneath the curve of her blouse
(so small that I’m not even sure if it’s her skin-tone or his)
seems too far away from her left fingers, so it reads to me as the back of HIS neck.
The corresponding place on her arm would be covered by her sleeve.
In turn, this would mean that Anvil’s left arm is passing under his head & around his neck before reaching up to grasp her right elbow. This traps his head between her left wrist below & her breasts above.
All-in-all, just perfect for a choker-hold.
I’m back, after reading the link to the (modified) choke-hold she’s using, & I think my previous reasoning must now be seen as incorrect. Both glimpses of skin must be Anvil’s, & his head must be trapped between her ribs & her left arm. It seems her hands must be larger than I’d first surmised, or else the grappling has pushed back her sleeve.
Much as I love straining blouse buttons, you’d think after the first two big guys got effortlessly taken out, they’d leave the hero tanks to the guys with indirect power sets.
Testosterone-fuelled tactics can make people into complete no-brainers.
Especially since most supervillain tank-types are known for their incredibly high IQs to begin with.
That term you used, “no-brainer”, I do not think it means what you think it means.
I know, that’s why I used it ;-)
I see they are brainless and it was a no-brainer taking them down. Nicely said.
“Worst case of Testosterone poisoning I’ve ever seen.” Lt. Ivanova on Babylon 5.
Not that much different to the new “Lost in Space” movie, when it was pointed out “If you two boys are done hosing down the deck with testostorone…”
Yeah, except when the guys saw her effortlessly defeat the huge mucular guy they all thought
“If i defeat her now, I’m gonna look so awesome on TV”.
Frankly, very few of the attackers were in any position to actually watch Anvil give the first idiot the nose-boop of doom. Only the people around the hole in the roof could have seen it, I presume, given that there wasn’t indication of a shattering window when the idiot went flying.
Even if he flew trough the window, they wouldn’t know who punched him.
I wonder if Maxima punched her before the fight, would it power her up?
Yes, but comic book superheros aren’t allowed to powergame like that. It says so in the contract.
Except Sidney. We talked about her doing something like poking Anvil with the molestorb/lighthook.
Meh, only for those stupid enough to sign that contract. Sebastian Shaw’s daily routine included punching a wall for an hour or so to build up his energy. He also had his mooks beat on him for the same effect.
Sebastian Shaw signed the Rich Maniuliptive Villain contract. You only occasionally have to pick up the villain ball and almost always due to your personality flaws. Hero contract did not apply.
Strangely enough, we never got to actually read the contract. then again, Sydney didn’t read much of it either, before she demanded “Pen me.”
Edit to prior post: While there were a couple large windows in the wall behind the initial idiot, he had is back to them while he was beating (ineffectively) on Anvil, in the panel where he’s shown flying out of the building, there wasn’t any broken glass, so I thought he might have been sent through another, solid, wall.
However, even with the windows behind him, he was still in a position where his own body would block view of what Anvil did to send him flying.
I propose calling the people who pound on Anvil ‘hammers’, since they seem to affect her about as much as a typical hammer affects a real anvil (essentially not at all).
…and they show about as much intelligence as such as well (ref: “bag of…”
I prefer Foghorn Leghorn’s pithy phrase…
“Cute kid. ‘Bout as sharp as a bowlin’ ball.”
Seriously, though. He was posing in the classic ‘asshole a-frame’ stance. He was just begging for a shot to the family jewels.
Ah yes…the Physics of Bewbs. Arguably the most fun & enjoyable of the scientific disciplines.
The guy’s neck in under Anvil’s left armpit, in a hold called a front face-lock. This is combined with a standing reverse chicken-wing. Usually you would use your left arm to control the opponent’s free hand, but that is not a big deal this time.
I sure hope they have a large enough holding complex.
This is a HUGE point. Being as they didn’t realize there were even this many supers in the country when they did their press release, I’ll be shocked if they’ve got a facility already set up to detain this many people with powers.
I could see some sort of special rule where it’s a regular facility, and if you use super powers to escape you’re giving up your “human” status – killing you to stop your threat moves up the list from “last resort” to “do it if possible.”
But crafting that legislation and getting it into place would probably take as long as setting up a super-holding facility.
Maybe Dabbler has a Phantom Zone Detention device she can use on downed foes?
They could probably have Sidney keep them imprisoned in her shield orb thing, but that’d only last while she was holding it.
Nice!
Luring him in then beating him with the orbs.
And we now also know that Halo’s shield can stop teleporters. This may come in handy in the future.
It may depend. I know of 2 ways someone ‘could teleport’.
1. breakdown thier atoms and send them to the new location. (very general wording)
2. bend space and bring the 2 points together and just ‘step’ across. (again generalizing)
Oh, wait, make that 3….. step into another demesion that lays along our world, run to the new corosponding spot and step back into our demision. Then it just looks like teleportation. Read it in a book somewhere.
The third is how Nightcrawler’s teleporting works. He travels near instantaneously through a ‘hell’ decisions.
The same goes for 40k. Got to love a setting where flying multi-kilometer long warships through hell is standard operating procedure. There’s even a gun that shoots goblins through hell, with predictable results.
Specifically, they reappear, screaming, insane an wanting naught but death inside the enemy armour, on their heads, in their faces and sometimes inside their bodies.
Oh, so it’s like in Minecraft?
And Halo’s pitching in this exciting game.
Panel 5: The count is now 2 balls, 1 strike.
Panel 7: Strike 2…
Panel 8: …and strike 3! Shadow Boxer is out!
Math is going to be so proud of her.
One of the best pages yet. Can’t decide if I like Syd’s evil smirk best, ore her smug glasses-resettling or Anvil’s total *meh* attitude on getting punched by another brick while scolding Scoville.
Gotta love these babes.
Reminds me so much of Calvin. I really wish Bill W had not stopped doing that strip.
@DaveB: Were you channeling ‘Evil Calvin’ consciously?
What kind of an idiot takes to villainy without wearing an athletic cup? Seems like it’d be standard equipment.
Well, when your colleagues can punch through engine blocks, I imagine 6mm of hard plastic covering your family jewels isn’t going to help much. Frankly, I’m surprised Tony Stark has lasted this long without explosive-reactive armour.
Guys mostly follow the code of ‘don’t kick another guy in the nuts,’ partly because we all share the same weakness, and partly because we know if effing hurts, Because of this, guys will generally forget about that weak point. Girls however, do not follow this code at all, and will generally use any tactic to gain the upper hand(which is not entirely unjustified). So basically, if you are a guy and have to fight girls on a regular basis, wear a cup, or a box, or some protection for that area.
If someone kicks me in the crotch, then that person will get hit right back in the same spot.
… now if I was a supervillian, I would fully expect superheros to target that area. I would have some sort of protection so I could fake being hurt. Then I would wait and hit them when they are really vulnerable.
You forgot a part of that statement
… after I recovered. So tomorow
Depends on adrenaline. One of the things I was taught as part of basic self-defense strategy is to NEVER count on that being a disabling move; if they’re angry and pumped up enough, the extra pain just makes them madder. They’ll really feel it later, but that’s not much help to you.
Also, It makes them VERY, VERY MAD!!!
If you do go hitting in that area expect them to take off the kid gloves and go for the really dirty moves, like kicking your knee out of place, or eye gouges.
Look closer.. she didn’t just ‘kick’ him in the nuts.. she went for the nutcracker with TWO orbs…
Using the PPO and the GUNK, she utterly destroyed his JUNK. :P
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn’t see the second orb coming in from behind.
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Now please excuss me while I crawl back into bed and whimper until the imagery fades.
Yeah, forget the “Homerun” analogy: this guy got turned into an iconic desk toy.
You know the one. *klack*klack*klack*klack*
Oh great, I have one of those. Thank. You. So. Much.
His nuts got crushed. There isn’t a single man who would get up directly after that.
Atleast noone that isn’t invincible, or imune to pain somehow
Enough rage and adrenaline can effectively make you temporarily immune to pain. That’s how soldiers and warriors through the ages keep fighting with mortal wounds or limbs hacked off.
He’s a rogue, not a barbarian, and as the panel clearly illustrated he did not get properly pumped before starting this fight to power through the nutcracker on pure adrenaline. Go Syd!
Note to supervillany: alone with Halo in her shield is alone with six of Halo’s orbs to pummel you..
You are correct.
Sudden extreme pain and shock can do funny things so the more pain you pour on all at once the more you have a chance for one of those oddball animal responses. My dad once got knocked out by a sudden downward movement of his factory machines lever thumping him on the top of his head. He remembered nothing after that of course but his co-worker across the way swore he hit the machine with the tool in his hand three times HARD as he fell to the floor already unconscious! Or the story of the WWII soldier leaning against a tree and saying something to another soldier as he walked up. The other soldier said something vague and sat on the other side of the tree. Later the first soldier gets up and sees a lot of the back of the second soldiers head is just gone and must have been the whole time.
Got a lot of deer hunters in my area and they have seen amazing feats. Granted we aren’t as all around tough as a large prey animal but we have our moments.
People like to jump up and defend their favorite comics logic but I thought someone should acknowledge that what you said was definitely a possible grisly outcome for our heroine.
There is a true story of a man picking up his severed head and running with it for 10 to 15 yards.
There were many eyewitnesses to this account.
Except that one is obviously untrue. All the control work for doing such a think happens in the brain, which in your story was disconnected from the body, so even if the brain was up to it (which I understand to be actually possible – after separating the head from the body, the brain may be able to go on for a few seconds), there’s nothing left to get the body to do a grab for the head.
Now, if you leave out the grabbing part, and just have the guy continge running he was already doing before losing his head, that might be barely possible – I’m willing to believe that much of running is controlled from the backbone and even more local reflexes. That would then be the story of Klaus Störtebeker (German Wikipedia points out that he was most likely not an actual historical figure, but a conglomerate of several ones, only some of which shared even the approximate family name).
As a former Marine I can tell you that kicking somebody in the balls is part of the training. And while they are recovering you finish them. There is no such thing as a fair fight, only one you either won or lost. Kudos to Sydney.
Martial artist here, and yes, half the defensive and offensive moves i know take into account crushing a man nuts to put him in a position to finish the fight.
Same with USArmy Spec. Ops. When you are fighting for your life, which Sydney is doing, anything is fair.
It is strange that only men are considered to be affected by a kick there. Seeing the amount of sensitive lady bits between women legs, no woman wants to be hit there either. Oh and that excludes the very real possibility of tearing.
For women it’s a sensitive area with a lot of nerve endings, and hitting it is more painful than most other places you can hit a woman, but women sensibly keep their organs that don’t respond well to crushing inside. A bruised vulva isn’t a lot of fun, but it’s nowhere near as incapacitating as a ruptured testicle.
Try tearing the boundary between the cervix and the urethra.
Happens all the time during childbirth.
Can’t see why a 6 inch sphere moving at centimeters per hour could do that, but a semi sharp object with a 2 inch point moving at roughly 30 mph can’t.
Depends. Getting hit in the wrong part of the chest is exceedingly painful too. Just harder to get the angle right.
Heh. Actually, that was part of the unarmed training as well. It went under the heading, “Women: They can kill your ass dead, too.”
Actually, he might’ve been, given that that is the only strike with a ‘clank’ noise. I’m guessing a metal one, that is now permanently deformed, meaning he gets no relief when he wakes.
I think it is more related with the anvil-hammer effect of the two orbes.
He might be wearing a metal cup. The thing you have to remember is Sydney’s orb’s are effectively either immovable objects or unstoppable at her will or vicinity.
Means it put a big dent in the cup and that really has to hurt.
You know, male villains could stop this from happening again if they were willing to lose their manly bits permanently. I doubt a cup would stop anvil or maxima
Of course, if they do that, Anvil could probably just dislocate both his shoulders or something equally debilitating.
Awww. Comon anvil. It’s just a little kick in the ribs. It’s not even wafer thin.
And don’t worry about no loots. It’s probably just vendor trash. Lint and dust bunnies.
Yeah, Sydney’ll have to level up a few times before she starts getting decent item drops.
He was probably a white. Just 1 step above a grey.
probably, but you still need to check – you never know when the gray will drop Windforce…
I’m pretty sure that should be “Bad guys aren’t pinatas” and not “Bad guys aren’t made of pinatas” in the ministrip though.
works either way.
Actually, the thing Blizzard never tells you: These things don’t “drop.” You have to pull them off the body yourself.
Those are epic Pants of Shadow Powers.
Go for it Sydney! Don’t let Harem ninja the loot roll!
Of course, I forgot that while Sydney is untrained as a supercop, the badguys aren’t trained as supercops either, and Sydney is still a scapper who WILL beat up muggers.
And she’s a comic nerd with a lot of knowledge about power stunts and unconventional tactics, to boot.
She’s like Deadpool – crazy + adorkable.
With 4-wall tactics to boot.
Definitely. Sydney is not only familiar with “breaking the 4th wall” style of tactics in her RPG games, but she also just demonstrated the “breaking the 2 balls” tactic in real life (as real as a superhero comic goes, anyway) as well.
Those orbs are a serious terror from a combat standpoint, to any enemy within range who isn’t super-tough. It’s like being attacked by a swarm of flying brass knuckles.
ANGRY flying brass knuckles.
ORBatil control established.
Retreating to Fortress of Aloneness for security reasons.
LOL (till chokes) I hit the 7-10 split link, just to laugh at it again. Forgot it was o same page as the sting your eyes pepper bees. Laughed till I choked. That one always gets me every time I resee it.
I personally love the later head=chewing.
those 3 particular comics are some of the funniest on the whole site, and there’s lot of comedy gold in here.
And the never ending string of swears and insults she lays on him.
Even as funny as the concept might be, I still winch from the mere image of Sydney’s eye getting slapped with that noodle…
And now I may just have to demand a blind super. Because I’m wondering if the normal policies for enlisting in the military apply for supers and all. I had wondered this in the first place with Sydney’s ADHD. Normally any kind of neurological condition like that would prevent you from serving your country. (Or at least it did when I was 18 and I looked into it.) So would a super with some kind of physical or neurological disability be able to serve in the super military, should their powers allow them to perform normal duties?
I get the feeling that the conditions for supers would be flexible at least. As stated in earlier comics, supers are a valuable resource, which I am sure would still be consider valuable even if they are legally blind (or even colour-blind, so long as they avoid the situation when they have to distinguish between a red and green target). Particularly if they have sensory abilities like Toph from Avatar or Kaname Tōsen from Bleach.
A question I have always wondered regarding conditions for employment would be about all those super powered teens out there. Would Archon say “no, come back when you’re 18” or take the opportunity the enlist them in a military academy in order to both keep an eye on them and teach them discipline? Since I cannot see them ever taking an under 18 on as an active member, as awesome as it would be.
I understand people with colorblindness HAVE served in the military.
A cousin of my dad’s did shore patrol during WWII. I understand the reason he was shore patrol when he volunteered, rather than beach assault, was he’d already lost a good chunk of his foot to an accident, (barrel fell on it from elevation.)
I’ve read that the military found that a team of people, including at least one with colorblindness, was better able to pick camouflaged vehicles out off aerial photos than a similar team without that disability.
So, no, I don’t think colorblindness would be a bar to superheroing.
Now, a guy who was confined to a wheelchair, I’d have trouble with. No matter how well he could get into your head…
All I know is that you can’t join the police in Victoria Australia if you are colour blind.
Back than everything was black and white anyway, they hadn’t invented color yet
I really liked the Calvin & Hobbes comic on that topic https://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.blogspot.com/2011/11/calvin-asks-dad-about-old-black-and.html
Color blind folk are annoying to military folk in camo (BDU green does not match up with plant green to most color blind vision), hence the need for using local natural elements when camoflauging.
Modern camo is spectrally matched, though more for defeating multispectral imaging than colorblind people.
Thanks, Anthony, for pointing out how old and out of touch I am. Heh.
I’m a retired Army Sergeant and I’m colorblind as heck. You’re not barred from serving, but only certain MOS (Military Occupational Specialty = Your job) are open. For instance I couldn’t enlist as an infantryman, but I was able to enlist as a medic and be assigned to an infantry unit. Sometimes the rules make sense, sometimes they don’t.
As my dad (former Army CIC back during the Korean War) often said, ‘there are three ways to do anything: the right way, the wrong way and the Army way.”
There may actually be a “right way” in that statement, but you’re never given *time* to do anything the “right way”…but there’s always time to do it all over again.
Don’t forget that quite a few people end up in a wheelchair because they served in the military. But, that aside, if the best drone pilot in the world turns out to be wheelchair bound, it would be a bad decision not to make use of his services just because of prejudice. Likewise, any sensible military in the world would go out of their way to recruit Professor X, if he was on the market. He can win a war on his own!
“What? We were fighting a war yesterday? That’s ridiculous. Let’s go melt down these guns into, like plowshares or something. No I don’t know what a plowshare is, it just seems like the right thing to do. Let’s look it up on Wikipedia.”
I’m not exactly active on the comments here (sometimes I read them, like today…), but I’m colorblind, and was previously enlisted in the USMC infantry. Surprisingly, infantry was one of the few fields open to me (due to color blindness (or, I think they called something along the lines of ‘lack of normal color perception’ (I can’t remember specifics, it was quite a while ago…))). Most color blindness manifests as an individual having trouble distinguising twixt two different colors (red/green is the most common/cited one, but also green/brown and blue/purple, and probably others…).
I was fine for regular infantry, but not for, say, recon or some other fields (EOD, some airfield stuff, I can’t remember specifics, but most of them…) I think this is because a lot of signalling is done with red/green lights/glowsticks, but I’m not certain.
As to exceptions, if the individual is valuable enough (which would be pretty much anyone in this scenario), they would probably be able to get hired/attached as a ‘civilian contractor’ or some such… which typically grants a lot of military priveleges, and generally pays better to boot. :)
It’s not quite so discriminatory as that – they’ll only deny you entry if you have conditions that prevent you from getting the job done. I just rolled over 22 years in the armed services, and have been diagnosed with ADD since I was a child. I know a military doctor who is has pretty obvious Asperger’s Syndrome.
The key is adapting to the condition and finding a way to turn it to an advantage, which Sydney does in spades
ADHD would make it hard for you to do anything that demands concentration. You would want the opposite to do the concentration on paper work etc.
Spoken like someone who has never had the benefit of having ADD or ADHD
Sydney (panel 4): “Keikaku doori”
LOL Sydney looked so much like the Grinch in the before the shot shot!
“And his balls grew 10 times that day… “
Well some bruising anyway. At least Sydney put him out of his misery fast.
She used an Orb on both sides of his junk simultaneously. If those things hit hard enough for Math to even fake being knocked down without great shame I think the shadow orbs might be in VERY bad shape…
*cringes* I did not notice that the first time I read it…
*crosses his legs and tries to think of less painful things*
Moral of the story: don’t gloat over your prone victim how you’re going to become famous from all the ultraviolence that’s about to start.
Because you might.
Enjoy your fame as “The guy who ballsed it up”, “The nutcracker” and “The homerunner/splitter”.
Also I love how his hair leaves a trail even as he faceplants.
I can’t see why there would be a camera but then the way that guy kept talking maybe team villain was actually dumb enough to set some up? LOL Be a shame to loose this gem for Youtube…
Yep, Shadow Boxer’s intro to popular fame certainly got bolloxed…
Gives new meaning to a Newton’s Cradle now doesn’t it?
BHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, that made my day even better!
Holy crap I didn’t notice the green one behind him.
DAMN, that’s not just a kick in the balls. That’s literally crushing them
I feel sorry for him now
Know what you mean. Hitting him with one I can understand, but two? That’s just cruel.
Just after the staged bank robbery, Sydney demonstrated that the orbs are linked to her, not her being linked to the orbs. In other words, when Sydney takes mental control of how the orbs move, not even Maxima could move them…So it would make sense that Sydney could hit Shadow Boxer pretty hard, all 4 times.
“And his balls grew 10 times that day… “
well, it must be pointed out that the kind of feelings that Grinch experienced to makes his heart grow are completely different to what Shadow Boxer feels due to the effects of swelling & inflamation…
Gotta love Sydney’s trickery and deception. Sure Loki would approve.
“You tricked me! I’m so proud of you brother.”
Well I now know that Sydney has better eyesight then me, sure I could see the villian well enough to hit him with the balls but theres no way I could find my glasses on the floor afterwards without patting the ground for them
Loosing my glasses blinds me so bad I tend towards a slightly panicky mindset if I have any actual need to DO anything soon so I would probably mentally call the PPO and start blasting the world clean!
I am severely nearsighted (need a -10 lens on both eyes) but I could still function well enough to handle a close quarters fight. I did try to convince a girl once that I couldn’t tell if she was topless (she complained the top was uncomfortable and loose) in a pool but her wet-blanket BF nixed it.
Mines only -7 but I have a friend who I cannot tell if she is wearing a skin coloured bra or topless from more than 2metres away, which she found amusing when we discovered that
It wasn’t skin colored and I was only half lying I can make out shapes and colors so it still would have ben “interesting”. :)
Until I had LASIC, I had a -11.5 with a 3.5 Astigmatism. I placed fifth in my division in the Traditional Karate League (Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma) one year, without aid of glasses. No, I couldn’t see anything more than a blur. I simply no longer needed to. Blurs were enough to distinguish threat to produce response. Don’t ask me how, I couldn’t explain it in words.
How? Ninja Magic. That’s how.
I have only a slight astigmatism so things aren’t as blurred. I can see the eye chart on the wall but can’t read it however I could hit it with a thrown object. Put a sword or club in my hand and I’m just as deadly as the next fellow. And if the rifle scope can be focused I can use it. I can use binoculars just like everyone else. The biggest problem I have is glasses are clumsy and distort and limit your vision. I much prefer contacts and as soon as I can I will get the surgery.
2 separate thoughts
I had 5.75 diopters correction before I had Lasik. I agree that at melee ranges a lot could be done. I did a little Wrestling and Karate, I’m no expert by any means. I suspect being up against a fencer would be a lot tougher, due to smaller movements being effective.
I am another who didn’t notice the second orb doing the “Doc Smith overkill attack.” Now I am having sympathy pains.
Kidding? Yes. Yes she was. :)
Jesus christ, If i’m reading that right, she didn’t just hit in the junk with an orb, she crushed his junk between two orbs. Sydney, you nasty.
Energy beam and Green unknown playing Meet Me In The Middle. That’ll make your knees lock together thinking about it.
Balls nasty! (Both with, and TO)
Beautiful. Though I strongly believe that result was more ‘NO BALL’ than ‘Home Run’.
Didn’t the bad guy see her performance at the bank? Being trapped in a close-quarters environment with an angry Sydney is always a bad idea, and that’s without her orbs.
Sydney’s berserker moves at the bank were not recorded or the tape hasn’t been released yet. All the public has seen is her actions at the demo and her post-bank job interview.
The bank heist was placed on Youtube by Leon, with almost 6 million views in 3 hours. I’d say they know some stuff about Sydney but most are too dumb to realise she really IS that good.
Sydney’s actions were posted on youtube and such. There was even some comments like is it fake or not and how Amphorus tongue seems like extended.
Forgot about that. Lower the Mighty Boxer’s INT stat another level. Boxer the Mighty, in his tighty whiteies… Saturday cartoon series anyone?
“And this is why INT is not a dump stat, son. Your line ends here.”
Bravo !
ya know, with all these nut shots, Syd should team up with Harry Dresden sometime :D
Karrin Murphy would endorse this girl, just for how badass she is. But with Molly, I think Harry has his hands full, at least until the newer books.
Syd and Molly? TOGETHER?!?!! *Grabs Mister and Runs away!!!!*
Oh my Never-Never Rulers!!! I am going to hide behind mouse!
On a side note, I am going to hitch-hike to Dragon Con dressed as Harry! Splatter con t-shirt, duster, cool staff, hat, and a name badge that reads….
..-…..-……..HELLO MY NAME IS
….-…..-……Innocent bystander
*Watches Toot-Toot and the ZZa-Lord guards retreat*
Reminds me of a Sci-Fi con that I went to with a friend. When getting our name badges, the guy issuing them let me choose badge #666 & wrote my name as “The Beast.” My friend chose badge #668 & was named, “The Neighbor of the Beast.”
Glad she is shown being taught to be a proper ‘good-guy’. But one thing I wonder. What happens if just one of harem is under the shield? She is effectively five simultaneous teleports. Would it kill the one under the shield? Sever her from the group mind?
I don’t think so. All five forms are stable individuals. If they were blocked from teleporting, they just couldn’t rejoin the original.
She’s not five simultanious teleports, she’s teleporting without moving the original.
Except she modified the clones overtime. When she dispells them they enter a type of quantum stasis, but her strenght is spread between them, so less bodies that she has, the stronger she is.
For those of you doing the calculations for the upcoming fight (Harem, the Clone Wars):
Dave’s rules are:
5 at 1x strength
4 at 2x strength
3 at 4x strength
2 at 8x strength
1 at 16x strength (which Dave describes as almost as strong as Anvil, before any power-ups)
After the Anvil Deadlift that will need to be reviewed.
In short 16x a normal is like 2.000 lbs while Anvil is lifting 16.000 lbs
that would depend on if her strength grows at a Linear or Geometric rate.
Uh?
“1 at 16x strength (which Dave describes as almost as strong as Anvil, before any power-ups)”
Hero system, or otherwise. +5 str = 2x mass liftable. So if Harem was 30 str in one body, then she would lift 1600 kg. only about 13 more strength to lift 16 k or so.
Roughly the same in D&D3.5
In comparing different grades of super-strength, I consider lifting 1 ton to be “almost” lifting 8 tons.
A completely non-scientific calculation based on a fit person raising their own weight over their head and dead lifting twice that comes up with:
If a moderately fit Daphne can raise 125 and lift 250, then Daphne prime can raise 2000 or lift 4000.
If Kenya is seen lifting 16,000 lb, then we can work backwards to get her weight.
Dividing by the 16x boost we get 1000. Power lifters can do 3x body weight. That puts her weight at 333 lb. Either she has a dense molecular structure, or she was putting some extra stored energy into that lift.
(did I mention this was non-scientific?)
Oops, left out a line.
She is stronger by weight than Harem. If she has 20x standard strength we get 16,0000 / 20 / 3 = 267 lb.
For Harem’s age and weight that numbers are way more than “moderate”.
Anyway Anvil’s weight is a good point, it opens a workaround.
According with the statistical average height-weight for USA females a, say, “not skinny” woman 6 feet 7 in. could weigh around 260lbs.
Assuming Harem is a novice weightlifter and Anvil is an elite one, the relationship could be slightly forced to 5 to 1. So if Harem will train as much as Anvil, she would be like 60% as strong.
He was talking about the psycic link between the five bodies.
If the minds arn’t in contact what will happen to the body under the shield?
As far as I can tell, the shield would only block the one inside from teleporting/despawning, it wouldn’t affect the group-mind.
actually we’re not sure it would stop a “Despawn” or outbound teleport, just that Harem can’t teleport IN.
Bad guys aren’t made of pinatas. They seem to be slightly more delicate than that. That’s four direct attacks, counting the one Anvil is holding up. And four bad guys flattened. Of course they were all solo glory hogs. Let’s see if the rest can get their heads in the game.
Welcome to the world of the glass cannon.
Ridiculously powerful hits, but as fragile as a three year old.
Yeah, but two of those guys were bricks. And the one Anvil is taking down here claims to punch out engine blocks. Shadow Boxer might be a glass cannon type, but I suspect he has dodge and parry skills to balance his attacks. At least until his goolies get flattened.
He’s not a glass canon, he’s simply a rogue
Yea. A glass cannon is a powerful attacker who relies on taking out his foes at range, or before they can return fire, having no other defence, except ducking. Whereas Shadow Boxer can hide in the ground, so can strike, with surprise, from a concealed position and retreat to it if in danger. Although he lacks armour or toughness, he is not defenceless. When not rolling on the floor in agony, or falling unconscious, anyhow.
Yay! It updated during my cool down at the health club! I figured I would have to wait until lunch before I could see the new page.
Is it just me, or did anyone else get a feeling that Sydney’s kick was on the soft, joking side?
On a different note, Dave, when will you be doing your first dead tree version of Grrl Power? I have a spot reserved on my web comic shelf, right between Girl Genius and Order of the Stick!
Not that I’m impatient or anything… ;p
After this fight, which will wrap the day. I’ll try to keep it from going on too long but I’m not sure how many pages it will total.
Damn, we’re actually going to see the end of the day?
To quote the great Dr Doofenshmirtz: It feels like this summer has been going on forever
hehe I KNEW IT she had trapped him to get her revenge hehe
nice, even if unconventional, “triple combo” there sydney.
and oh my god “the pinata” comment LOVING IT hehe. plus the fact that anvil is just “chatting” not even caring about the bad guy in her “death grab” hehe
Kind of refreshing to have a hero that fights dirty.
Maybe that guy will show up again some time later for round two.
His voice is going to sound alot higher if he does
And I don’t think he’ll want to come close to Sydney
That is a myth. Once the testosterone increases the larynx size and thus lowers the voice, it does not shrink back to its old size when the testosterone goes away. So you keep the lower voice, even after testicular damage or when a female athlete stops abusing anabolic steroids (her voice stays lower for the rest of her life).
However, that doesn’t mean that a c-above-high-c graphic with the next nutshot wouldn’t be funny…
That is just an immediate reaction to the sudden pain.
I think Shadow Boxer wouldn’t want to miss round 2, for revenge purposes…He’s already missing his own two round ones.
Applause from the peanut gallery.
I suspect that, whatever else happens, he will be very specifically avoiding certain activities for quite a while – such as dancing, trailbike or horseback riding, etc..
… Or jogging. He certainly won’t be doing THAT for a while, either.
pogo-ing, jump roping…walking..taking a shower..or pretty much anything except laying in bed with an icepack.
I am intrigued to see if Sydney’s force field could be used as an effective prison. If Harem cannot teleport in, logic says that she would not be able to teleport out either. The force field seems like it would hold just about anyone but Sydney.
It’s noted the force field centers on Sydney. until she finds the power up that lets her cast the field beyond her, that’s a good way to protect others only.
unless some like max is also in there with them or the bad guy cant fly and has no ranged attacks as halo could make a large sheald and fly out of reach
Almost like some tricky author like person has set up his heroine to stop a certain double agent…
Shh!
Put insightful stuff like that in spoiler brackets. But, heh, yea, that does seem plausible. Although it may be co-incidental, as force fields are either teleport permeable or not. It could have just been a, figurative, coin toss, rather than foreshadowing.
LOL.
I’m assuming ju arr havings za vun wid me?
Spoilers from the unwritten future and pigs in space indeed! Pishaw! I think everything I say is insightful. Once people saw the kind of silly theories I generally have, still thinking they’re insightful myself, they will no longer highlight to read thus rendering me a sad mute wasting minutes to even hours a week theorizing silently… TT
Gotta love Anvil’s coolness.
Scolding Sydney while holding some brick in a sure-fire lock like that…
Simply awesome babe.
i know right,,,i am so xrushing on her right now,, even tough she doesnt play for my team :)
but hey i beleive that over 90% of women are at least partialy into women,, most just dont aknowledge it because of peer ,social and culturl pressure and taboo.
Following the same logic means you would be somewhat into men also. She might be open to threesomes.
This is the sort of logic men use…
anon is obviously NOT a man but I am. What is your point?
Wasn’t going for anything deeper than just pointing out that this is the sort of logic men are often said to have. Like when they think lesbians are looking for a threesome or that any woman who isn’t into them is probably a lesbian. Admittedly I was thinking of negative connotations but eh *shrugs* it could be seen as a sort of half positive from a certain point of view. Bringing us all closer together as fellow human beings kind of thing.
Despite her pentaplicity, I’m glad to see Harem concerned for Halo. She might be obsessed with new experiences, but to see someone killed doesn’t seem to be one of them.
I think with the line of work and ability to expereince things at 5 times faster Harem already had her share of someone being killed next to her.
On an unrelated note I wonder what would happened if the orbs were bound to Harem. Could she use all of them at same time? Whixh body would orbs float over or would them split between five?
And would the orbs be able to teleport with her in the first place?
Harem is a real conundrum for super power theorists, it seems.
I’m not sure I understand why that would be a question. If she can teleport a Barrett, the orbs are a trivial size and mass in comparison.
Yes, but would she have to be holding/carrying them for them to *vorp* with her, or would they *zip* along to her new location?
Exactly. The orbs are tethered to Sydney, and they are resistant to magic and Max’s ultra-hyper-super strength. Would they obey the mechanics of Harem’s teleporting if they were tethered to her?
Look at bright side Sydney you probably used balls out of their planned duty and got experience for it so new ding is soon. (And I would expect him to drop at least a purple enhancement or I/O set recipe :P)
nice to see another CoH player,, i was so sad they choose to cancel it
*Sigh* That game so good… it’s a shame
I keep hoping that the fiendish Korean company will change their mind about blocking buyers, and let somebody re-start it. It sucks that there were two buyers making enquiries, before the game ended, and they were rebuffed.
*sigh*
There was a kickstarter a while back for “City of Titians”.
Is supposed to be a “remake” of CoH.
Do not know any more than that sorry.
There are, or were, three parallel projects looking to become a spiritual successor. I have had a look around one of them, but it was just a very early prototype, so withheld any judgement. I keep in touch with my friends list and periodically get updates when something significant happens. Most seem to be making do with Champions, or some generic MMOLGs, such as LOTRO. I do not know of any who would not sign up to a real contender, in a heartbeat.
Anyone who liked the easy playing style and community would, I think. And I have yet to hear of one that has anywhere near the flexibility of character design that CoH provided. The few, that a friend of mine shows me, as being the best of what he has found, still fall well short. It was a way, with limited artistic skills, for me to be really visually creative. Some of my characters were real works of art. Especially when you have to adapt, re-colour and improvise, if a particular costume piece is not available to meet your vision.
I think the one I was most proud of was an Aztec/Inca warrior. He was award winning (in the usual CoH Atlas Park way), because he looked like he could have stepped out of the jungle. Complete with golden jewellery and feathered clothing. But no costume pieces made, at that time, were intended for such a look. The system was flexible enough though that you could do such improvisation and adaptation.
Have you tried DCUO? Can get quite creative with some of the looks (considering how many Iron Men, and Hulks and Batmen there are)
A few folks have recommended it to me. But given that the aim of the program was to re-create company-specific heroes, rather than to make a tool to give players unlimited creativity, the results were predictable. Had I loads of money (to, amongst other things, upgrade my system so it could handle it), I would have probably signed up. But, checking out the personal and professional reviews I was getting, it confirmed my early suspicions that it would feel too restrictive compared to CoH.
Plus, oddly enough, it was nice that copyright/trademark law required CoH to ask players to re-design characters if the distinctive likeness or name was in infringement. Obviously that was inconvenient for anyone who wanted to copy their own favourite hero. But it did mean that every character you saw on the streets was unique. You did not ever see three Batmans… err… Batmens… umm… Batclones standing next to each other at the train station.
Contrast that with one other game that I played a lot (albeit not trying to compete on this front), namely D&DO. Where you would often pass someone who looked absolutely identical to your character. Way to burst the bubble and loose suspension of disbelief.
Whereas, in CoH, if you were waiting on somebody to get to a mission, or return from being afk, it was always good fun to check out the character origin story (which many, if not all, players chose to fill in) and see how well it matched the look and/or powers chosen. It would be rare, even on a random pick-up team, not to have at least one character with an interesting enough concept to provide entertainment during the delay. And a few would be inspiring enough to encourage role-playing with them.
Sydney: *check’s the guy’s pockets* It’s not stealing if he tried to kill me right!
Dabbler: Shure, that’s how I do it.
Sydney: Oooh, five bucks!
Maxima: Sydney put that back!
Sydney: Awww.
+1
*an hour later*
Dabbler: Her Sydney! *Hands Sydney a hundred dollar bill*
Halo: ???
Dabbler: you know that 5? Welllll… I invested it.
Awesome page. The first attack would probably put most guys out of commission already, but the pummeling afterwards makes sure he won’t be getting up till everything is over.
After taking out two powerhouses easily the other bricks will hopefully learn to not attack Anvil. Now I’m waiting for the next big guy to go for the scrawny blond hero and find out why said blond non-super is in the team ;)
How are they going to restrain him when it comes actually detaining him? I mean he can phase through floors I don’t see jails stopping him.
Pretty sure Dabbler can whip up some sort of containment for him, if nobody else can.
Either keep him in the shield, maybe they have an anti-teleporter fueld or something.
Or just stick a shock collar with a GPS on him.
Nope, DaveB stated somewhere near the beginning that there are no powerdampers in this universe. So nothing to stop Harem from teleporting for example, and presumably nothing to stop the shadow boxer from phasing away.
However, Maxima has made it pritty clear that, if they can’t lock up the villain, she’ll find some other way to make sure he can’t hurt anyone anymore
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/558
He uses shadows or Negapower which could be blockable or negated? (or would that be posited?)
if he uses shadows, stick him in a cube with 6 glowing walls, no shadows, no power.
or better yet no light at all.
0 light = 0 shadows
Since there are light sources in the universe, any darkness is a shadow.
True darkness is an absence of light.
Shadow is a lesser darkness caused by light being blocked.
Sydney’s shield proves that it’s possible to block teleportation. I read the “no power-dampeners” rule as “no single ability that blocks all powers at once”. Custom-designed cages that exploit individual weaknesses are still possible.
Anvil? Immobilize her so she can’t throw herself at the walls and charge up. Sydney? Mittens. Mister walks-through-walls here? Prison cell suspended in a vat of acid. Or lava. Or live electrical wire. Or empty air. Anything that he can’t effectively phase through.
Heh… Anvil’s secret weakness: Styrofoam
Drop her in a huge box of Styrofoam peanuts. Apply just enough pressure to hold her still.
Bubblewrap all around! It would be difficult for any guards to resist popping the bubbles though, which would eventually lead to Anvil’s escape.
Pretty sure he won’t be going anywhere for a long time. Staying in a nice, safe, hospital bed, with a protective cage keeping the bedding away from what remains of his dangly bits.
This world allows magic so I’m thinking his very being and or will shall be bound to a spot or device thus circumventing mucking with his actual powers.
For Halo that was evil, sadistic, amusing, and well thought out. Who needs powers when attack you got bits and fight dirty (AKA effectively).
This page is funny on to many levels.
Ahh, Sydney, the inventor of orbital-justsu
Yeah, totally agree on that, actually something I hadn’t really considered, wonder how big a degree of control she has on the orbs, they could be a quite strong physical offense, and defense on their own?
The only concern I’d have is, how fragile are the orbs? Can they put up with that sort of rough treatment on a regular basis?
DaveB:”…Considering she had them for all this time they must be preatty much invincible…”
Or somerhing along those lines, I might be paraphrasing.
Don’t forget where the orbs were found. They were found in a crater somewhere under the ocean, at scuba depths. They can take quite a bit of pressure, and pounding.
Scuba divers don’t go that deep actually.
Also she was in a coral reef, which is very shallow
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/554
There are also heavy suspicions that the entire “found them in a coral reef” story is fabricated.
No, I don’t buy that
She had already resigned herself to telling them, no reason to go back to that.
And she was afraid of the goverment wanting to take them away for study. Now that it’s clear that won’t happen, she has no reason to lie about the rest
There were subtle tells that she was concealing something. What precisely it is hard to say. But she appeared to be coy about telling all. At the stage of explaining the orbs’ origin she had not decided to sign up yet. Her fears had been eased, but not totally erased. That could not happen at the drop of a hat. And it takes time to build trust.
Maxima appeared to picked up on it, but, wisely, chose not to press her, at that time. I think she intends to win Sydney’s confidence and see if she will volunteer the omitted or ‘fudged’ information.
In the meanwhile X and Arc Dark will doubtless be doing background checking on her. Just as assigning a handler for Dabbler was sensible, anything less would be foolhardy on their part.
Look closely in the previous page:
She uses the PPO to block most of the hit.
Pretty sure that a full on attack from that knuckle would’ve decapitated her(remember, she doesn’t have any physical enhancements. without the orbs, she’s 90 lbs of pale geek).
Also, not only did she use the orbs offensively in a very well practiced manner, but defensively too.
It took her a split second to put the orb in the way of that massive punch.
Those orbs were probably abused to hell.
no loot? dang!!!
Sidney: “Hey look, he’s got bubblegum in his pocket!
Maxima: “Put that back! No looting mid-battle!”
Sydney: “Don’t worry, I’ll save some for you!”
*pops one in her mouth*
“Oh cool, bacon flavored bubblegum.”
This is, by far, my favourite page in the comic so far. For many reasons, but mostly the mini-comic at the bottom.
I’m not sure being trapped by Anvil’s breasts is exactly punishment. ;)
Kung_fu motorboat!
Ahahahahaha
*dies*
The “choke hold” or whatever Anvil is doing to that guy doesn’t work.
Her right arm has his arm pinned up behind his back. Ok.
Her other arm is doing …. what? If her left arm is under his throat, then there’s nothing to choke him – you need something squeezing from both sides to choke someone.
Maybe if his head were off on the side where her upper arm/armpit would provide the “other side” to her forearm choking his throat it might work. As it is, the only “other side” is Anvil’s breasts, and as impressive as they are, I don’t see them being super rock hard/immovable enough to provide a good support for the choke.
She’s breaking his arm, with her knee as the pivot point
Or that’s how I read it
it’s not a choke – it’s an underhook armbar – he could get out of it if he focused on doing so instead of continuing trying to hit her
Are you sure you didn’t mean to say “underwire armbar”? :-D
What about her abs and sternum?
The way I see it, his head is folded over with his chin touching his chest while Anvil tries to pull his shoulders THROUGH her own ribcage.
…if Anvil ever turns dark, these people are going to start losing limbs. Imagine if she decided to apply all the kinetic energy he’s already applied to her, directly and circumferentially, to his wrist.
…or his neck, which it looks like she has wrapped in her elbow.
It’s a modified Guillotine choke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine_choke
There are a few flaws in your modification that make it not work.
The way her arm is holding his arm prevents her from doing much damage to it, because his back is blocking any movement.
And with her hand ontop of his head instead of below it, she can’t really hurt his neck the way it’s supposed to work.
So that probably explained why it took me awhile to recognize :P
And here I was, convinced that we were actually seeing more of Anvil’s fearsome martial arts repertoire: the Hair Ruffle, as promised in https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1271 .
Her left arm is across the back of his head (under her “assets”, so no freebie for him) – you can see the fingers sticking out on her right side.
So yes, as Dave said (oddly enough, he might know, ha ha), it’s a choke hold of some kind.
But her fingers indicate her hand is ontop of his head.
With the Guillotine chode, they should be below the head, to force the head to rotate relative to the body
It’s. A. MODIFIED chokehold!!
Yes, and as a black belt, I can recognize that it doesn’t work
But what is she doing with her knee?
Huh huh.
A great page showing just how evil, smart, and evil Sydney. Oh, and +1 for the George Washington Carver note!
Actually I do not get it.
PS: If it were George James Carver maybe ;)
George James Carver would have been fun as well. :-)
But not as geeky and not quite worth a +1
What Tesla was to electricity George W Carver was to botany.
The argument can be made that he “single handily” save the South-Eastern part of the United States from major economic collapse due to a Boll Weevil infestation that decimated the cotton industry and other crops. He did it by extensive study of Peanuts, and other small nuts, to find new uses for them, their oils, etc. Some consider him to be the “Grandfather of Peanut Butter”, and while he didn’t really invent the stuff, his research and promotion of growing Peanuts did lead to it becoming a common household product here in the US even to this day.
Hence the cracking small nuts joke worked well. :-)
“Peanut Butter” (auch) makes sense :) Thank you.
The sad part is, every villain has been extremely pathetic so far. :/ Is this just another media bit by Arianna?
I understand the idea of a superhero comic is good guys win, but then I was under the impression that this was also realistic, so that means, bad things happen to heroes.
“In chess, the pawns go first.”
First, would Arianna have an event she was attending attacked? I think her concern for her own skin would make that less than likely.
Crediting Arianna with basic good sense with regard to image, there’s no way in hell that she would have employed this group of clowns for a second staged attack. They led off with massive property damage and reckless endangerment of restaurant staff, the ones out in the parking lot seemed to just blaze away at near random when Maxima flew out of the hole (possibly endangering aircraft), and there’s somebody pitching car-stoppers around, and those WILL fall to earth somewhere, and through sheer mass could easily cripple or kill somebody at the point of impact.
I don’t think it’s a media bit by Arianna. I think it’s a media bit by Deus. We know that Machina Industries works with Archon, presumably on anti-super equipment. Between Maxima’s stunt at the press conference and this little ambush that indicates “the estimated number of combat capable supers is way off,” I suspect there will be a lot more groups interested in buying what Machina is selling.
The smart ones are watching and learning. Don’t worry, the threat level will escalate.
the SMART ones aren’t even there. They mustered the 30 or so goofs and sent them on the attack mission, and are now watching the tactics and results from afar.
Seriously though, these people show up out of the clear blue at this restaurant? How did they know where to go? Don’t everyone stare at Harem all at once….
No not all of them. They would have to have at least one or two of their smarter ones involved. Not just watching.
One thing: learn who the author is, and don’t get smart when he posts tidbits about his story
If he says something, it is either true and you should just accept it, or he is trolling the idiots and you should stop typing
An organisation like Archon does not just spring up overnight. Nor do you get legislation through to create a new arm of the military on the quiet. Whilst they might have been coy publicly talking about why it was needed (as in avoiding mentioning the word super), the fact that it was being set up could not have been a secret.
And more than one person knew that the key personnel were supers. That alone means it is no longer a secret. It just had not officially been made public knowledge. So lots of individuals and organisations, that were either astute, had access to an intelligence network or simply being in the loop, would have been able to anticipate the details of the press conference and prepare their response.
Sydney: “Take that TV tropes! “
Since nobody has yet posted the link, here it is complete with Velma:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlindWithoutEm
This just in… The above TV Tropes page has just added TODAY’S page to the ‘Web Comics’ tab as an example of a subverted trope. So Sydney is referencing the tropes site who is now referencing Sydney referencing the tropes site.
My God…It’s full of stars!
Tropeception (MIND BLOWN)
May have already been said, But Sydney looks even cuter than normal in that third to last panel. Also, just outright love this page!
If she can master using the orbs or already has in this fashion, I can see her doing the Dr. Octopus. Specifically, she has a seat with a nice cup of tea watches while her orbs do all the work.