Grrl Power #210 – Dental-Trauma-Fu -OR- Technically it’s non-lethal
So right away I should apologize as I’m sure many of you reflexively made a face or covered your mouth with your hand when you got to the bottom row of panels. I actually had meant to warn everyone in the comment on the last page that this one shows the worst possible injury. I mean, everyone can see a movie or game where someone gets their skin ripped off by a demon or gets chopped completely in half by a sword and not flinch sympathetically since that sensation is so completely out of our realm of experience, but we’ve all accidentally banged a fork against our tooth or stabbed ourselves in the gums with a dorito.
I had intended this to be another double page, but the previous double page took more work than I had anticipated so I had to break it up. I suppose it’s conceivable I could do two double pages in a week, but if I could manage that consistently I might as well update Monday through Thursday. That’s not likely though since I like each page to be more of a complete thought, and the double pages are really just single pages with bigger panels. This one works okay by itself but it’s low on content compared to most pages. I prefer putting enough on each page that there’s lots to talk about, but this one without the second half is really just continuing to establish that in a fight, the best fighter will probably do alright. It does beg the question that after Math clobbered a big brick (almost literally) why do these guys think they’re going to do much better? Ego certainly has a lot to do with that and why a lot of these guys are attacking the team in the first place, so figure it’s mostly that. Actually ego/pride and alcohol are the primary drivers of poor decision making in my opinion. And jealousy I suppose, but that really just boils back down to ego.
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am I the only one who wants to see Creta come back and Halo have to rescue Math?
I would love it if Halo did have to. I doubt he would need literally rescuing from Concretia though. Super strength counts for nothing if you cannot lay hands on your opponent. At best I might see them getting into a stalemate. Where it turns out that he is not damaging her, even though he is knocking her around. Besides which, it would make Sydney insufferably smug. But it would be cool.
But never fear. I am sure Halo will have to do some rescuing, before the fight is out. One way or another.
I doubt Sydney can ever feel smug versus Math, after seeing this. Atleast not until she completed training and somehow manages to beat him directly
depends on how strong you are; people at the upper end deal with fast people all the time- its just a question of using area of effect type attacks, such as hulk slamming his hands together, jugegrnaut’s foot stomps, or Apollo flying up then coming back down very very very fast (instant meteor impact, just add aftershocks)
at some point, no matter how much magic chi they use, the merely human becomes road paste- hence the classic time Gail Simone had Cheetah curb stomp Bane with one hand-
https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/6/68345/2766612-ss3p17.jpg
but also because if the bad guys all fall down too easy, there is no threat or drama – there is a classic law of comics that the villain should be either stronger or smarter than the hero- and so far these have all been underpowered idiots.
:D
Umm, is Cheetah wearing pantless chaps? Or are the spots also on the crotch-area of her leggings? o_O
Oh, and without the distinctive ‘tears’, that is a she-leopard, and not a cheetah (no matter what she calls herself)
well for 90% of her modern history, she went around nude, so…
(here is the original)
https://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zf0yde&s=5#.U2UPmNJOWcw
the art on her fur varies from artist to artist; she’s the avatar of the African god of hunting, has taken down superman, and is a cannibal so she could call herself ‘penguin girl’ and I wouldn’t argue :)
Okay, that image shows a cheetah
It’s interesting (to me at least) that when you get a female were-creature, they only have one set of breasts when the creature they have half-become has 2 to 4 sets
It’s to make them look good. Multiple sets of breasts is classed as a fetish (as in; an unusual attraction).
She is wearing pants that have the same pattern as her fur on the surface between her legs. Only her abdomen and above her shirt is showing.
That knife in the teeth must hurt like hell. So, the next scene we see Math yank it from his mouth and knock him out I bet.
Which is worse to see or realize? Having a knife stuck in their mouth/teeth/gums or having a knife go through someone head?
don’t say that. i took out a wisdom tooth and that hurt like the dickens when the drugs wore off. eyebeam guy in all sorts of pain right now (shudders)
Nah, he’ll probably faint from the pain soon. That knife is going to stay there until the fight ends
And here we get the “Oh, the humanity!”.
Next scene: Max comes in and asks Syd: “What the heck did you do to him!?”
Don’t fret about not doing double pages. If you get in two, quality single pages a week then that’s a double page! Right?
And if you focus on Single pages then maybe, just maybe, you update three times a week? That might be neat.
and -THAT- is why you wear a face covering helmet
But one without a visor? It’d have to be, since he shoots laser beams out of his eyes.
He could just have eye holes in it, but honestly… just because you have super powers don’t assume you are unstoppable. All these Bad guy’s need to play some MMO’s or other games and learn about Glass Cannons. A Cup could have helped shadow-puncher-guy and just a hockey mask would have saved this idiot. These are -really- dumb villains … but I am looking forward to the explanation on how they all met up and found out about each other.
Supers in armour seems logical yet would highlight the fact they are easy targets.
The armour less approach makes them seem stronger as a group yet they don’t act tactfully.
hmm… in hockey, the goalie is dressed in armor from head to toe, except for a 1.5″ space between the chin and collarbone. So what’s the strategy in hockey? Shoot the puck high and hit the goalie in the throat.
point being, if he’d been wearing some kind of armor, Math wouldn’t have shot the knife into the armor – instead he would’ve shot it somewhere else that was unprotected and equally humiliating (crotch? knee? eyeball? Maybe into the hand, at which point the bad guy would look at his hand and burn it away because Rule of Funny)
+1
Even in soccer, where players aren’t armored, guys tend to protect a certain extremely vulnerable area of their anatomy during a free kick just in case the kicker should aim the ball there if they don’t.
“Supers in armour seems logical yet would highlight the fact they are easy targets.”Personally, if commanding a super-team, of any sort, I would equip them all with armour. Assuming a combat role, rather than a covert operation, naturally.
This would mean that the opponents would have greater difficulty in determining which of my team were bricks and which glass cannons. Thus would actually help the bricks and tanks just as much as the squishies. If someone with, say, Anvil’s capabilities chooses to oppose a blaster, rather than a brick, because of the ruse, then my team would have the advantage. My team’s bricks would be saved from being taken out by her. And the blaster (assuming a non-kinetic attacker) would have the capability of beating her instead.
Of course, I would try to source armour that was a bit more effective than Star Wars imperial troopers use. Something that might actually provide some protection versus opponents tougher than Ewoks.
This conversation seems to be overlooking that while armor might add protection (and even then it might be totally useless or at least not useful enough to make a difference in outcome against some attacks), it reduces the user’s mobility.
Plus, people this overconfident tend not to think in terms of defense in the first place.
They have access to the Internet and there are several popular anti-social networking sites.
FIEND-ster .com (not as popular as it used to be)
my-CLASSMATES-will-pay-for-ridiculing-me .com
TUMBLER. com (for trading tips on safe-cracking)
deviant-ACT .com (you don’t want to see they pictures they post there)
INSTA-GRAM-of-plutonium .com (delivery service for nuclear weaponry)
LINKED-INto-a-worldwide-conspiracy .com
MY-SPACE-based-weapon .com
FACE-BOOK-of-the-dead . com (for those into the mystic arts)
SNAP-neck .com (short messages about executions)
SKY(PE)-net .com (free calls for computers trying to enslave humanity. Started by Mark Zucker-Borg)
GEO-CITIES-I-will-destroy .com
O god.
O god, the puns. They hurt
I’m thankful I wasn’t drinking or eating when I saw the first couple “websites” on that list. Bad boy! Bad! Bad! You made with the punny!
…And then there’s Monster.com, acting as an employment exchange for the super-villainous.
O.B. Juan wins. The Schwartz is strong with this one.
I think by now it’s established that this is a supervillain-LFR.
You don’t ever expect smarts or tacts in an LFR.
He just the London Look, the hard way.
Don’t forget to votefolks. We did well to keep the comic at 2nd place, in the Top Web Comics list. Right up to the end of the month. But we are now only sitting in 5th position.
+1
Usually “A Forever Quest” and “Beast Legion” (and “Too Much Information” perhaps) have an early very short burst that I think is “artificial”.
But we need to keep voting since there are a few (*) that grow steadily and are very hard to chase, if we let them to have a head start.
(*) “Two Kinds”, “Not A Villian”, “By the Book”, “Too Much Information”
I always vote every day, whether I’m at home or at work. so I’m glad when we get high rank, and sad when we get low rank. of course the lowest I’ve seen this comic is #6.
It would help if I found time to actually work on the incentive pic. :/
Step it up people we still haven’t hit the top 10 yet
We are now at 5th place within spitting of 2nd
I was too busy laughing to flinch.
You know I think we might be all reading eye-beamy guy wrong. Maybe he isn’t screaming because of the terrible pain of having a steak knife wedge itself between his teeth and lacerated his gums and probably upper palate. Maybe he’s just a germaphobe and realizing it that this probably dirty steak knife that was lying on the floor of a restaurant (and speaking as a career chef, even when vacuumed are not really clean), and then having it KICKED into his mouth by Math’s shitkicker boots caused him to have a panic attack.
Totally possible…really.
Personally, I’d be screaming because that knife just NARROWLY missed wedging in the back of my spine and possibly making me a paraplegic (or corpse) (or nicking my carotid artery) (or worse…).
Or something worse… o.k., I give up. What would be worse?
Deflecting upward to go thru the sinus cavity and giving him an impromptu lobotomy. Leaving him a breathing tuber. But not one suitable for stewing.
Speak for yourself.
Being in that state means a longer shelf life.
The guy with the black hair and red streak uses his eyes to shoot and the guy with black hair and the yellow streak who got shot in the face uses his finger tips. They wear similar clothing. Brothers? Are there more of them. Ears, nose, mouth, other organs?
And Math is now leading with 4, with Maxima only second with 3. Take that, puny supers.
Let us hope that Snow Writer is not present. Then we really would see Sydney blushing!
Someone who reads hentai about tentacles? I’d be surprised.
O.O Math is MEAN in a real fight!
As far as I’ve seen, Math fights to humiliate his opponents. His skirmish with Anvil being a perfect example. More of a challenge.
One should also consider that fights are literally mean. Ironically, it appears that Math is playing rather than fighting.
I’d recommend checking out some Muay Thai tournaments, WKC, and UFC for some brutal highlights.
If i didn’t know bette Math belongs to the Anything Goes style of fighting.
I bet he can easily kill his opponents with a bit of chalk / chalk-board sponge.
Don’t you mean a chalkboard eraser? Is it too much to ask that people to speak correct English?
Warning: Failure to realize that the above comment was not meant to be taken seriously may lead to overreaction to it.
Some places actually use a sponge, can remember using a wet sponge a few times, usually just before end of term/year
Wet sponge to get the chalk off, then something like a window-wiper to clear away most of the water on the board for better drying.
Nope, just a wet sponge, not a sopping wet sponge, just enough to basically ‘wash’ the blackboard (which, in a lot of cases, is actually green)
Did the speed lines just split a plate in half?
Any other time I’d say of course not. But with the way Math is tearing up the place, you could be right.
“I hope being a villain comes with good dental”
C’mon, don’t you know? Villains get the BEST health insurance.
This comic from Super Stupor explains it pretty well:
https://www.superstupor.com/sust04222008.shtml
Super-villains on the other hand never seem to treat their henchmen very well.
– open vats of chemicals with no safety railings that workers regularly fall into.
– the only replacement dentures they offer are stainless steel. Sure they’re durable and you can bite through steel cable, but a big hassle when trying to get through the metal detector at the airport.
– And mainly no vision correction plan. Intruders can slip on a lab coat and walk casually through the whole secret lair without detection. And lastly, when an intruder is surrounded by a ring of henchmen with machine guns and they all open fire, not one of them actually manage to hit the guy. Just imagine how many world conquest plans they could save just by providing their workers with glasses.
Henchmen get it as good as any other intern.
Minions don’t really get that well-covered. They need to be group leaders or above to get anything more than basic treatment. Especially if they’re caught by the authorities, minions are usually left to rot in jail unless they have some intrinsic value to the Master Plan du jour.
Worse, they quite often get the “you have failed me” death at the hands of their leader for failing to capture/kill the heroes.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouHaveFailedMe
The downside to this is that no matter how good it is to have dental, to have not needed it in the first place (especially when it’s necessitated by injuries incurred on the job) is even better.
I could swear I saw the scene in the Adams Family movie, Do the Mamushka with high kicking dancing and knife throwing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CCNyHprEZK8
Can imagine what must have been going through the choreographer’s mind, when he/she found out that the dance would follow that build up? Especially on realising that the principles are actors and not professional dancers! A dance that must be more exiting than Cossack dancing, more memorable than antiquity and more savage than Jack the Ripper. No pressure.
You look at Fester’s knife catch three or four times you see the trick. Christopher Lloyd holds the knife in his teeth and it get yanked out. Reverse film and insanity reigns as they dance Mamushka!
Wrong movie.
Wait, what is General Faulke doing in that movie! o_O
Heh, you are dead right! How did I miss it, the first time?
But, thanks to re-watching, I got to spot this YouTube recommendation, which also had me laughing.
*Cringes*
Badass Normal For The Win!
Has he moved from that spot yet? Because he’s done all his kicking with his right leg.
I don’t know if you’ll ever read this message DaveB, but I strongly suspect justin.tv has huge chat lag, and disappearing comments.
or maybe not. it seemed to improve after a while
His lazers just went limp.
How many will choose to join the stronger team after it is over?
I am trying to guess the new recruits from this fight.
I doubt Max would accept anytthing from anyone in this villain team, other than surrender
Yep. Just about everyone on the other side is going to end up with quite a long rap sheet from this incident alone. You really do not want to have police officers who’s resume begins:
Conspiracy to commit an act of terror
Aiding and abetting attempted homicide
Resisting arrest
I don’t know… There is no way to prevent this bunch from using their powers. The only options are dead, scared so bad they never want to try again or hiring them. Maybe a new Archon division; ARC-Rehab.
You are right that society needs to find better alternatives to traditional prison. Which is true, even without superpowers. One of the Scandinavian countries has a very reform oriented criminal justice system. That does not focus on the ‘lock them up and throw away the key’ principle. And, as such, has a remarkably low re-offence rate.
Given how much it costs to imprison someone, per annum, it even makes economic sense to devote extra resources to rehabilitation. Society becomes a safer place if it is successful. And you get the long-term benefit of someone who is contributing to society, rather than being a burden to it.
Put super-powers in the mix and the arguments are magnified, as with many of the super issues we discuss. If you have to custom-build a super prison cell, tailored to an individual’s set of super powers. Plus have to provide extra defences to take into account likely attempts by allies to free him. Then you can end up with an astronomical prison bill.
Of course, too much emphasis on rehab, and too little on deterrent and punishment, can be counter-productive. But, most countries emphasise the latter too heavily and miss the benefits of the former, as a result. In this case, some of the perpetrators might be first-time offenders. Even so, their actions are too serious not to have some form of custodial sentence. Unless they can show mitigating circumstances in individual cases (say families being held hostage, to coerce them).
Any that pose a lesser threat could even be put in low-security prisons, in a plea-bargain. Giving reduced prison time (and less harsh conditions), balanced by community service and cooperation with a rehabilitation program, on being released.
Even a high-security prison, built for normals, would likely be easy for super-humans to escape from. So, offering more lenient conditions, is both a measure to ease them into rehabilitation and to gain their co-operation, in being incarcerated. Leaving the option of super-security prisons for those who abuse the trust.
I approve of giving second chances. I am not mug enough to offer a third chance.
“And jealousy I suppose, but that really just boils back down to ego.”
Actually, it boils back down to keeping your property in your possession rather than letting someone else take it. We may have abolished owning people legally and redefined marriage and relationships accordingly, but you can’t abolish it from human nature.
The way I see it, if Ego is blue and Greed is yellow, then Jealousy is green. Not… in the green eyed monster way, I mean, 1 part greed and 1 part ego makes 2 servings of jealousy.
green with envy?
I like your analogy, but I’d say it’s less like painting and more like with the light spectrum and your eyes. Pure green is good in this case, but a mixture of yellow light and blue light looks the same, while not being so good.
If someone tries to take your laptop, neither envy nor greed come into it, and yet you would resist the attempt. How much more so should you resist when you feel the same kind of attempt towards someone who you intend on making, or have made, a family with? No blue, no yellow, and yet the result is still green. A good green, I’d say.
This really isn’t the place for this kind of discussion, but I’ll chip in a little…
Please don’t take this as an attack or judgmentalism.
In my opinion, jealousy is more about insecurity and lack of trust. If some d-bag is hitting on my SO, do I have the self-confidence and trust that my partner will turn that person down? If either of those factors is lacking, then jealousy arises.
This is very different from the question of somebody that won’t take no for an answer, as that’s more about protective instinct.
I really just want to say I $%*^ing love this comic.
I know everyone already commented on the knife to the face, but what I flinching more over is the villain who just got friendly fired in the manhood
Actually, I think it was lower gut, not manhood. A bit hard to tell, but I think it was a low gut shot, not a soprano inducing shot.
That makes me cringe! having something leaking out from your intestine is a horribly slow painful, and nearly impossible to counteract way to die. Taking out the family jewels is nicer in some respects.
I would say the “oof” reaction would more likely indicate a blow to someplace other than the groin.
I agree. Looks more like the effects of a punch to the stomach.
I first read the subheader as “come with denial”…funny in a whole different way. I was instantly reminded of the Knights Of The Dinner Table where one of the characters gets his arm cut off by a trap…”DISBELIEVE, DISBELIEVE!”
I’m guessing there was some spice on that lol
*wince* Talk about putting salt on the wounds. So you think that might have been Sydney’s knife? Will the paramedics have time to save him?
I don’t think Sydney ordered anything spicy this time. She was being asked why she just order a baked potato
If it was Achilles’ knife then maybe Evil-Cyclops is, for all the blood and pain, actually screaming because the flavor just caused him to achieve nirvana.
We’ll never know.
Isn’t that title you gave him a bit redundant? I wouldn’t call anyone who cheats on their significant other good
I dunno. Seems to me that, of all the really messed-up things of the Marvel Universe. Cyclops’s personal life is top of the list. I mean, you think Peter Parker has problems? They’re nothing in comparison.
Everytime the poor schlub has a shot at being happy, something weird happens to his current SO – death, goes darkside, becomes his dead ex, often all of the above. Keep thinking they should just put the poor b#####d out of his misery, it’d be a kindness..
You would think that fighting one man as a team would yield better results. After all there is a reason the numbers game wins 9 times out of ten. There is only so much math can do.
Also call bullshit on that maneuver with the knife. No way you can actually do that.
Rule of Cool: If it would be cool and there is a fight going on, it happens.
You are forgetting a few rules for superhero comics
1) The heroes always win.
2) The heroes do cool stuff to show off.
3) When confronted by insurmountable odds, see rule one.
“After all, million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
Sounds to me like you’ve been to Callahan’s Place.
I prefer to go to Lady Sally’s house.
(sigh)
Me too. I might not spend much time in the main foyer though.
Ahh yes my timing would be an hour or 2 in the parlor followed by an exam by Dr. Kate
Heroes don’t always win though.
There’s a cardinal rule in the superhero genre (and other genres)
One Ninja is an unstoppable killing force. When you have more than three, they couldn’t storm the Bastille even if it was only defended by five year olds.
So, for all intents and purposes here, Math is a Single Ninja. Ergo, “What? Fifteen to One? Shall I tie one arm behind my back? Nah, I’d still win.”
That’s called the inverse ninja law. The strength of ninjas is inversely proportional to how many there are. Hence the uselessness of ninjas in “The Tick.”
There’s a fanfic which explains this: the army of ninjas are just a bunch of high scool kids given enough training not to hurt themselves with their weapons. The single ninja is an actual, trained warrior.
It seems that, dispite thier superior numbers, they’ve just been out-Mathed.
I see what you did there ≖_≖
Booooo!
Fighting as a team, they might be a challenge. Just bunching up around Math is just making his job easier.
Well, given that two of the three need to get into hand to hand range to use their own attacks, they really did not have much choice other than to bunch up.* And the third, the only one who could do, kept his distance, sensibly. He just did not realise that it was not enough.
In fact they were using sound tactics, in as much as they attacked him simultaneously. Rather unsportingly avoiding the cliché of gallantly attacking him one at a time. Which is something that really gets on my wick in bad martial arts movies.
* Ignoring the obvious alternative of switching to using a gun. Of course, we do not know that they are unarmed. We can see however, that they have acquired a lifetime’s arrogance in the power of their own super abilities.
Offcourse, they WOULD have attacked all at the same time, if Math had given them a chance to attack.
And I doubt discout Cyclops has any reason to use a gun. His eyes basicly are guns (I’ll asume they are just as effective, and the knucle guy just has protection)
I know it may be unintentional on your part Dave, but looks like the knife tip lodged right in the back of the mouth between the upper and lower jaw under the TMJ. I can’t see how it avoided the major nerve bundle there. If you’ve ever been to the dentist for molar work and had Novocain injected in that area that’s what the dentist is knocking out. The villain here wouldn’t have noticed the front tooth as the knife intersecting that nerve cluster would feel like 120 volts applied to that area.
Hence why he has to take a look first to actually notice it?
I’ve been to a dentist that injected the anesthesia gradually, just a little push on the needle & a small squirt, then wait a bit & then a little more needle – repeat. Still, when he hit that major nerve bundle at the base of the mandible hinge joint, it felt like sticking my tongue on a 9K Volt battery…
If you look at the speed lines, the knife is spiralling. It didn’t hit point first, it spun upwards into his teeth, hitting the lower edge of the tooth first.
My first thought on seeing the red-streak guy was that Michael Aranda wasn’t being portrayed very fairly.
…I think I watch too much of the youtubes.
“It does beg the question that after Math clobbered a big brick (almost literally) why do these guys think they’re going to do much better?”
These guys staged their attack after the press conference, and after having seen Maxima’s demonstration of power. She threw a tank 50 yards, hit it with an explosion that would level a mini-mall, and stood in the blast wave ignoring the firestorm. Anyone who showed up for this fight would need to be able to survive being hit that hard, and believe they could do enough damage to hurt her, or they are just a Darwin Award waiting to happen.
From the showing thus far, these guys are too stupid to live. I’m sure ganging up on Math seemed like a super good idea to them.
What begs the question to me is why these guys thought they would be able to survive attacking a group that included Maxima.
My money is on somebody more frightening than Max politely asking them to.
The Lex Luthor way probably.
“Do as I say or I unmake you, your choice.”
Also, I think we`ve established by now, seeing that Shining above is referring to it, that this is a supervillain-LFR; `nuff said.
what the everliving holyfuck. my mouth hurts lots now thankyou
It just occurred to me, why Math is grinning all the time during this fight. Imagine yourself as a martial artist who has trained hard his entire life in order to become good enough to keep up with supers, then waiting day after day for a good fight that will require you to go all-out… well, today’s the day, and he’s thinking: “TOTALLY. WORTH. IT.”
Hell, that’s what I’d be thinking.
1) So people can fight others of the same gender in this universe. After Anvil, Maxima, and Halo vs. guys and Math vs. Concretia, I was beginning to wonder.
2) I wonder if and when Dabbler is going to be up.
3) RE: “I can’t believe I challenged him to a fight”. His amateur dentistry demonstration must have ratcheted up the petrification factor for her.
Hey, Math is a professional. As a member of a government-sponsored elite paramilitary team, you can bet you’re sweet bippy that he draws a paycheck *with* benefits, including medical & dental. He’s just not licensed to *practice* dentistry though…
huh. well, Sydney had incidents with both Daphne & Xuriel, and Max had a one-shot against Daphne, but other than that, you’re right. I really hadn’t noticed before.
Good eye.
Actually, Maxi had a 4-in-1-shot with Daphne :P (only Blondini was ‘spared’)
Panel 2: Damn…Just…Damn. Math even looks so nonchalant (crossing his arms like that) that I can almost hear his thoughts…I hear the phrase “All too easy” in Darth Vader’s voice, just after he dropped Luke into the Carbonite Freezing Chamber.
As for the bottom row of panels, I think ‘ol Fire-Eyes there is having worse dental problems that the Ringer wound up getting when the Beetle forced him to fight Spider-Man…
Sometimes I’m just pure evil I guess, I’m just laughing my rump off at those bottom panels, he stops to take a deep breath and continues the yell, I mean that’s just hilarious to some portion of my mind in a way beyond anything I can explain. Now other than that, you have one intense and extreme injury there, yeah I’ll agree with that, its pretty dang serious in this setup. I love what you did with it and how you put it together.
Do you read Empowered? Adam Warren covers some similar ground in his superhero comedy, like dental benefits for henchmen after being beaten up by a non-powered but very kick-assy ninja chick. Not to mention superdoctors and übernurses, alien organ transplants, etc.
Hey Dave, I’m loving each strip more than the last, but some of your motion lines are obscuring the action. Could you make them semi-transparent, like Sydney’s bangs?
[“I hope being a super villain comes with dental.”]
Oh, I assure you it does. Check it out.
^_^
Forgot to mention: loving the look of W.Cykes eyes
New name for him: ParaCyke (Parasitic Cyclopes)
Ah, memories of that totally gratuitous scene in “Halloween II” (the good o–well, the LESS BAD one).
That’s a pretty nasty injury, but not the worst; I guarantee you any cuts between the fingers–especially between the thumb and forefinger–will make your guts turn into a whirling dervish. Also, there’s an old, old Bob the Angry Flower in which Bob is foolishly trying to perform the William Tell stunt with a sai and clocks the guy in the mouth–missing the teeth, the pike goes through the guy’s mouth and sticks out of the neck. I don’t even want to imagine what the recovery phase is like…
Yup, I’m havin’ nightmares tonight.
Picked up the comic yesterday. Now, here I am…. on the latest page.
Because of the above fact, I am supremely upset.
For the time being, I will twiddle my thumbs and wait patiently for the new page.
Love your work, BTW. ust in case I didn’t make that clear enough.
Welcome, now you can go back and read the comments :D
You got here just in time for the good stuff.
Welcome to the community. The best place to ease the frustrations of waiting. And, potentially, entertaining in it’s own right.
Welcome.
There is indeed nothing worse than reaching the end of the updates.
But now you have something to look out for again!
Hah, thanks for the welcome. It IS a good spot to come in on, I s’pose. Asses getting kicked is what maks super heroes awesome!
The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!
He seems to have a preference for head kicking though.
The loud gong sound that results indicates the fight is over before Math has to listen to their trite monologues.
So I’m dieing to know (well not really dieing), which distillery is the bad guys sponsor?
Some fruit juice place sponsoring ARC?