Grrl Power #212 – Premature Articulation
Ok, that’s enough chaff villains for now. I just had to get a little of the heroes kicking butt out of my system before they start getting in to more serious fights. I think it’s also fairly evident that Sydney is going to start getting antsy about just turtling up for the duration. Also, clearly this page answers the question as to whether Sydney can use the lighthook while her shield is up. Sydney’s issue isn’t incompatible combinations of her powers, its that she can only use two at a time. Mostly this will become an issue when she’s flying. Normally she’ll have her shield up to deflect the wind, but if she needs to haul something with the lighthook or shoot at something, she either needs to land or drop the shield which could be quite dangerous for her.
Surely “Lee Press on Claws” knew his claws could cut his own skin and he was just trying to intimidate. There’s no way you could have claws like that even if they’re retractable or summoned from the dimension of sharp things and not nick yourself while practicing. (And presumably passing out then too.) Still, telling people you’re tougher than you are is a curious strategy. If they’re not intimidated by it, all you’ve done in assure that they’ll hit you much harder than they would have done in the first place. “Well he said his skin is impenetrable, so instead of hitting him with the tranq dart, let’s start with the .50 cal.” It’s a good way to lose a limb if you ask me. I would instead start a fight by announcing that I’m delicate like the Princess and the Pea, and please don’t hit my face or groin or kidneys. Actually that’s probably just an indication that I wouldn’t be a very good brawler.
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Ever since the fight Naruto vs. reanimated 3rd Raikage you should know:
If you bring “unstopable attack” and “unbreakable defense” into a fight, you will end up hitting yourself. The enemy will just reflect or redirect your attack accordingly.
Or with the words of Tiffany from Exiern: “Kinda Stupid that they carry weapons that can kill them” (https://www.exiern.com/2011/12/15/split/)
Guess it’s for the same reason that Dragons in Dunbeons and Dragons always seem to have dragonslaying weapons in their hoard.
Need to kill a dragon, grab any random weapon out of their treasure pile and odds are it will hurt them…bad.
That’s not a convenient plot device or a lucky coincidence: it’s a feature!
You make all dragon-slaying gear just as SHINY as possible, and the dragon can’t HELP but leave it on top of the pile, rather than melting it down or dropping it in the ocean.
Wrong GM then. A dragon should have a few cursed weapons around. Their magic resistance should prevent the curse from activating :)
That usually ends up happening because the previous owner(s) wasn’t very good with it. That and Dragons are such horders they can’t stand to throw anything out.
Plus, everyone knows that magical artefacts are indestructible, save for the fires of Mount Doom, so you have to keep them somewhere.
But I’d recommend that dragons bury them. It would suck to slay yourself by sitting of a sharp bit of your own hoard.
I seem to recall that dragon fire is bloody fucking hot, But, since in most dragon lore it’s created by magic, it can’t harm magical artefacts(and also why dragons can’t be hurt by dragon flame)
depends. One of the most famous artifacts could only be destroyed by the breath of a Great Wyrm Red dragon that was the consort of their goddess while the artifact has been cloaked in Magical Darkness.
“Kinda Stupid that they carry weapons that can kill them”? By that logic, nobody should carry knives or firearms, or even work with any more or less hazardous substances.
We are talking about magical constructs, carrying around a weapon that actually does bonus damage against them (or, a dragon carrying around a DragonLance, a lance specially created to insta-kill a dragon)
As one of my old GM’s said. “Just because you HAVE a weapon that’s effective against something doesn’t mean you’ll get a chance to USE it.
Reminds me of EMP, where she defeats an invulnerable, unstoppable supervillain by having him hit his own invulnerable suit with his unstoppable fists.
OK, so Sydney can use any pair of orbs together, which means the joined-slots on the tech tree aren’t about allowing dual use. That means they represent either a bonus of some sort, or a combined power of some sort.
I fully expect that some day, eventually, we will be allowed to see the “spoilerific” version of that tech tree. It will probably be a long time coming, but I will stab a bitch if it’s never revealed.
Hear hear! Though every new comic does bring more knowledge for us (and Dabbler, too, of course).
Woot EGS. Was on a road yesterday called Shade Trail and I was like, “AAAH!”
Bleh. I suppose it has retroactively become that reference, yes. When I first started using it, I had mistakenly believed that “shade tail” was the literal meaning of the German word for squirrel (like how the literal meaning of the German word for bat is “flying mouse”). Turned out I was wrong about that. But at least I can say the nickname means *something*.
…which is probably why he chose that name
last year I was traveling through Virginia and I found out there is town that is actually called Farmville.
https://www.farmvilleva.com/
I am surprised that the Zynga version did not get sued by the one in VA ( or N.C.) I suspect that after the ARC introductions earlier in the day that Sydney (aka HALO) will be getting a strongly worded letter from a certain video game company. (Or if Adrianna is smart, a special bonus level where you can play it as her character).
Why? They don’t own the name, if anyone would be in a position to sue, it would be angels and baby Jeebus
Because rural towns always need more money to fix the roads.
Was actually referring to the name ‘HALO’, just couldn’t remember the name of the company, never played it
Hmmm, didn’t think rural towns had roads, thought they only had tracks in the dirt/mud
Sydney’s sense of observation will be one of the best assets of the team in time (aka, after her meds are adjusted… you’ll see… it’ll happen). For now, it still kicks ass.
And it’s just going to get worse for “Lee” when he wakes up in jail and finds his super-villain name printed on the back of his orange jumper…
And to prevent escape, his hands wrapped in iron gloves to prevent him from using his claws
Or his claws shackled to his arms, so if he moves them, he’ll cut himself and faint. Again.
Glove/ chastity-belt combo. He won’t even dare to twitch.
as the RED PANDA Says “NEVER EXPLAIN YOU POWERS TO THE BAD GUY” or in this case good guy.
Don’t forget that Fantastic Flying Fighting Female, The Flying Squirrel ! (quadruple alliteration score!)
This reveal (lighthook through shield) means that, in a fight with powers, Math is utterly screwed against Sydney… that’s kinda weird, but potentially funny.
Of course, in a fight with powers, no one (except maybe Max or Dabbler) will be able to actually beat her, either, as her shield seems to be impervious to all displayed abilities (Max might be strong enough, Dabbler might have magic that would do it). That’s pretty crazy.
Well, that depends on how the fight would start.
If they’d be close tougether, without Sydney already having the Forb in hand, Math might be able to close the distance before she can put up the shield. Than he’d be inside the shield, and only has to protect his nuts.
But yes, Sydney has an extremely powerfull power set thanks to that shield.
It singlehandedly (orbly?) transforms her from a glass cannon into a flying brick
“Singlehandedly” is definitely the right term. It uses a single hand.
Remember, though. She’s quick enough to hit a teleporter demonstrating her power.
I suppose that’s about as likely as Sydney managing to vomit on the boots of someone with superspeed, though.
Oh well. She might score low on bodycount but it is her first day and with almost no training what so ever. It scare me to think what she can do after a year or so… o.o
Tbh most important thing is she DIDN’T touch the PPO, which as maxima pointed out earlier….would probably have ended badly.
Why do you think Anvil calls her “The Big Guns” in the future/present?
OH COME ON!
Call foul on the four eyed, spaze Mary sue! For ruining a potential good fight.
Yeah, but Math kinda opened the door on that one by kill stealing Dabbler’s fight. Turn-about and all that.
He didn’t killsteal, that girl deflected the knife
Yeah, but he was trying.
Come on, this is real life! Or at least, a portrayal thereof. This is teamwork, not kill stealing. Outside of games and Hollywood, people generally don’t get upset when someone else’s actions mean they don’t have to face a potentially deadly situation.
Ok Dabbler doesn’t seem to get that but as pointed out she isn’t very good at teamwork yet. And Math, well maybe he hasn’t ever been in a situation where he’s needed someone else’s help.
Considering the reasons Math joined up and his manner of responding well to Max speaking of the fight like a game I’m thinking he would resent kill-stealing but probably won’t get to upset about it as long as its not a “worthy” opponent.
One dodge/punch into the fight Math would have known he was dealing with a poseur. He sounds perfectly happy to let Halo have such a softball.
Once you call out a headcount competition, then it’s a killsteal
I had this big clunky run on sentence trying, and maybe failing, to say the same thing and you summed it up quickly and elegantly… I admire your commenting prowess.
It’s not teamwork when they nether asked and/or wanted the help to begin with. More like swooping in and stealing which is bad. Both the swooping and stealing.
Only if on a dysfunctional team. On a healthy team it should not be necessary to ask for help. Nor should there be resentment for it being provided. Which is the sensible culture to cultivate for any team. Let alone one where a moment’s hesitation can make the difference between life and death.
The instinct, when seeing a team-mate under attack should be ‘I must help’. Not, ‘would I be causing offence if I interfered in this.. oops my friend is dead’.
You do know Sydney is the main character right?
Only because this is still her Origin Story/Flashback
Doesn’t make her any less of a four eyes, spaze, or Mary Sue.
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These fights had better start getting serious otherwise I’m going to get pissed.
Read Dave’s comments. This is the last smackdown
Umm, go back and read them again: this is just the end of the chaff, the real Smackdown is about to start (and expect at least one of the ARC’s to be put into hospital at the least, or maybe just infirmary for a day or 2, this may even be the last we ever see outside of a memorial service for someone)
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Blech…COMICS…stupid typos and lack of edit.
You also misspelled ‘is’ and ‘business.’ Just trying to help out… :-P
You’re new to the Internet, aren’t you?
Nope. Just trying to help out… ;-)
If I thought you would understand it, I would point out the irony of your question.
Yeah…Math wouldn’t have had any problems with this guy. The fact hat he got blindsided by the Hentacle so easily means his fighting skills are nowhere near as good as Math’s. And Math either would have done the same thing as Sydney and used his own hands as can openers, or demonstrated the one vulnerability of impervious skin. Because it flexes and moves with him, that means it doesn’t fully absorb blunt trauma. His bones may still be able to break and internal organs damaged with a strong enough punch or kick. Same way bullet proof vests will keep you alive, but you may still get broken ribs out of it. Stabbing himself in the neck and fainting was a FAR kinder fate than Math taking him seriously.
More importantly, faster. But I was thinking the same thing. Concussion? Still valid. Choke holds? Valid. Depending how armor-like his skin is vs merely being impenetrable, he might have no defensive advantages over a normal guy vs Math (unless he grabbed another steak knife.) And you gotta expect 100% of his offense revolves around his hands, so he should be relatively easy to defend against.
The more interesting fight would be him vs Achilles. (Well, academically interesting… after one successful claw attempt, it would probably not be too interesting anymore.)
Hmmm. Wonder if his toenails had claws too. Maybe that was his “secret weapon” Get you to concentrate on his hands then kick your guts out…literally.
I wonder if his claws could cut through the Hentacle though.
Seeing as it seems to be made of some kind of solid energy, probably not.
And even if he could, Sydney seems to be able to alter the lenght, she I doubt it’d have any effect to cut through it
Since Sydney has withstood Max at lethal levels, she is likely safe from weak knees here, but a needle goes goes right thru skin that would stop a fist backed by full power and we are talking claw tips here. So it is quite possible that he could have cut thru the shield. Now reaching Sydney might still be a problem. A broken shield could be destroyed, self-repairing, or have a hole for some length of time. We could have anything from the shield being gone to just a harmless penetration of an inch or two to his having to carve out a door to reach Sydney.
Very true. But even if he was able to cut through the shield, he’d be point blank range for the PPO (Yes I’m hip. I read this comic religiously, that should be enough right there.) while doing so. Even with the limit of only using two powers at once, Sydney is going to be a force to reckon with when trained, not to mention when she fills out the skill tree more and finds out what the other two orbs do.
Shield?
We’r talking about the tentacle here.
Her shield can withstand EVERYTHING that we’ve seen thrown at it. There is no way a needle or claw or something can go through it
So can the light-suits in Dune, except they are vulnerable to slow-moving blades
the Light-suits were Kinetic active. Anything traveling above a certain speed was effected.
Those kind of shields are simply kinetic shields. They are designed to stop high kinetic energy impacts.
A sword has a low kinetic energy, and thus bypasses this.
You can also still walk through a kinetic shield that’s designed to only stop high speed impacts
However, bashing your fists on a shield is also low kinetic energy, and Sydney’s shield is still solid for that. (or for walking through it)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1286
So no, this is not the kind of shield that’s vulnerable to low speed impacts like knifes or claws
Yeah, can still remember a good example of this from that terrible animated Conan series: he and this other big strong guy were on some sort of sidequest, they had to get through an unlocked door that not even their combined full strengths couldn’t open (and no, it wasn’t one of those ‘pushing on a pull door’ moment), [spoiler]the door only required a single light push to open
Lee PoN seemed to believe his own boasting. Judging from not expecting to see his own blood. And is part of a big team of supers, so should have had the opportunity to test his assumptions. Certainly he seemed happy to take on Math, and did manage to score coup, by shredding his shirt.
So it is not unreasonable to take his claims at face value. In which case Sydney has just proven that, in a tie breaker, the claws win. As such, Achilles should be very careful, because even he might be vulnerable to the claws. Achilles’s defences being rated higher than Sydney’s means that her shield could be just as easily penetrated by the claws. If Lee’s statements turn out to be factual.
I’m sceptical of Achillies being vulnerable. They described him as shruggin g off forces that would destroy matter on an atomic level. I dubt those claws could bypass that. If they did, that would just really undermine the character of Achillies. Thats pretty much his schickt. He’s not super strong or fast, but nothing can hurt him.
Snicker LPoC is a Hemophobic (fear of blood) bhahahaha. Whimp I was raised by a nurse which is sort of like being raise by a doctor. You get used to dealing with cuts and injuries differently than other folks. When I was about 14 i was cutting with a box knife on a box just messing around making something for my little brother. He pipes up and say bro your bleeding I look and sure enough I’m bleeding. Got it down to the subcutaneous fat layer. This is the bit right before you hit muscle I really should have gotten stitches in it but mom called the doctor after I had self treated and said not to worry about it.
Yup whimp if you are going to fight with sharp pointy objects be ready to be cut doesn’t matter if your skin in impenetrable or not you are going to get cut. Doctors tend to hate the fact that I tend to be really calm about shit like this well sir you have appendicitis my response okay. Doctor was like your rather calm about this yup no need to panic. Ecol i yeah had that put me in the hospital for 3 days everyone else was panicking me nope they will figure it out. Actually worried mom with that one.
I was told decades ago that if you are in a knife fight, EXPECT to get cut.
While I have absolutely zero personal experience with this (Well, as a spectator once. A guy started swinging a knife around at a party a friend and I were at. He and I just looked at each other, put our beers down, and walked to the door and to our car while continuing our conversation. Dude ended up putting it through someone’s palm. We heard the police sirens as we were driving out of the neighborhood.), I’ve heard that the ‘winner’ of a knife fight can expect to be rather cut up as well, and may well bleed out.
I truly hope you two started to get a designated driver from then on.
Why? We were the epitome of teen wasteland. Not only did we casually vacate the vicinity of the knife fight, but we were in no way impaired for driving.
yeah most people that’s trained for them HATE them because there’s about an equal chance for MAD.
I thought it was more like having a really low pain threshold, due to never being cut before. I think that that kind of injury would REALLY hurt, even if I was used to it.
Can’t stand any butt-shicker who laughs at someone elses weakness like you did, bet you have a phobia as well (don’t bullshit, everyone has at least one real phobia)
Potato bugs….Can’t stand them….Get fiscally ill looking at them, and freaked when they are on me.
I used to have acute arachnophobia. To the degree that I would run from a photograph of one. Literally. But I got better. Acclimatised myself by walking through a row of spider cages, at a local store, until I got used to them.
To the extent that I did not mind being next to someone holding a tarantula. Emigrated before I got around to picking one up myself. But do not feel at all uncomfortable at the thought of it. So I am fairly confident that I would be fine handling them now.
Certainly I have no problems with any of the ones I come across day to day. Had quite a big one dangling in front of my monitor, the other day, and did not bat an eyelid. Nor was I concerned about squishing it or getting it out of the house. Whereas I would previously have been freaked out at the prospect of being woken up by it crawling across my face.
This despite the fact that at least one in this region can cause disfigurement, through it’s venom radiating out from the bite. Permanently staining the skin, making it look like vacuous veins.
Spiders freak me out, can’t stand even pictures but don’t go running from them (on some level, the mind knows it’s not ‘real’ but still don’t look looking at them, unless they are cute, and yes, there are some photos of real live spiders looking cute)
Have spiders that live in the window area of our toilet, and as long as they stay in the window area they can stay, it’s when they are found in other places that mum has to come get rid of them (safely if possible, other wise they get a pool of Black Flag to swim in). There had had been one with a body the size of an adults thumb (the part with the nail) in a corner of the kitchen window, but fortunately it was on the outside
So, despite her inexperience and high strung nature, Sydney has:
– Followed the letter and intent of Max’ orders
– Has not tripped up her teammates in stereotypical fashion
– Kept her head (literally) in the face of an ambush
– Not only has taken out two deadly opponents, but has gained major style points in the process.
Challenge Max, Kenya or Math, and you get beat down. Challenge Sydney, and you get beat down + become a late night TV laughing stock.
I am loving this!
We can only hope that the crew’s glasses are also recording, just for such late-night hilarity. Imagine the Daily Show interview with Arianna or Max:
“And here’s where our newest member took out Lee Press on Claws with his own claws. See how sweetly he fainted dead away.” Cue audience laughter, and major humiliation for LPoC, from both the name and the way he left the fight.
The glasses themselves aren’t recording, but the images they are sending back to ARC-Light will be being recorded (for training purposes)
Sydney was standing there watching when Math took down four opponents. She could hardly have missed the whole Nose Boop Of Doom thing, and she saw Anvil defeat another foe during the discussion of not kicking enemies who were already down.
I can see her being proud of having taken two down herself, but I don’t understand her saying “Eat it losers!”
It`s her spaz/geek nature.
It’s the same thing that made her call Lt. Colonel “imma big golden super hero” a Hippie.
It’s pretty easy to be proud, even thrilled, about doing something that wasn’t that difficult and had been done better by those one is bragging to. Of course we usually see it in kids, and by Sydney’s age, one has usually learned there are dangers about bragging about being #1.
It is called hyperfocus, something that people with ADHD (remember the ballroom comment about Sydneys dose of Adderall) tend to do when there are interesting things around.
I can relate to that. Got me in quite alot of trouble at school.
Sure it wasn’t a case of Tourette’s? :P (and no, not making fun of those who have it)
Personally, I think Halo’s takedowns are more impressive, considering she took them both out with their own powers.
I’m not sure you can qualify a double nutshot followed by a right hook and a rabbit punch as “taking him out with his own powers.” It’s kinda the exact opposite of that.
Gold eyes ? Is he a distant relative of Max ?
Max has purple eyes. It’s Jiggawatt who has the gold eyes (according to the cast page, anyway).
Amber/gold eyes are not unknown among non-supers though.
Tastes vary. Enjoy your life elsewhere.
Sydney, use the unknown orbs! See if they have healing powers!
Damn, she can’t hear me…
Sydney’s injury seems to be getting worse?
Yeah. A blow to the face like she took will continue to purple and swell for awhile. When I was a kid, I fell about five feet and landed on my face, almost right where she got punched. Over the course of an hour my face swelled up till I couldn’t see out of my right eye. Stayed that way for several days. I imagine by the time the fight is over she might look the same.
…So how’s it going to go the next time Sydney tries to eat her next nuclear-meal? With all the swelling & inflamation involved, that whole side of her mouth is going to be *more* sensitive than before.
Not a problem, they have a healer nurse back at base
Right, but she is starting to bleed also.
It’s likely with the hit to the face that the inside of her cheek got cut open on her teeth or her gums are bleeding a bit, fairly common with facial injuries. Also facial wounds always bleed a lot due to the better than normal blood supply to the head.
Well got to admit that was a rather short fight with the new ninja guy, but clever to find out his own claws can penetrate his own skin.
Weird that Sydney’s flight orb doesn’t deal with the wind on it’s own – considering how well thought out some of the other orbs are by their mysterious creators! Maybe it has quite a lot of tricks up it’s sleeve to compensate.
Maybe intangibility is an unlockable power later. Or maybe the orb is more than flight, and it deals with movement in general and flight is the lowest level power. Later on she might pick up speed boosts, line of sight teleportation or maybe even portals. I think that’d be an neat way to have the orbs set up. Not just based on a single power, but a concept. Movement, offense, defense, scrying, manipulation. Ad for the last, maybe healing and mental powers? It’s a thought, and we’ll see.
Maybe she can buy that with her next ding.
Well it appears to be a gravity manipulation power rather than flight – you can see when Sydney first uses it she rotates herself but her hair doesn’t move even when she’s upside down. Gravity manipulation always has incredible potential.
Also Sydney’s record is either really impressive or extremely underwhelming depending on how you weight a victory. Her rank and level of training are the lowest, so if you go by that she might come out on top. But her range and strength of powers are one of the highest, so if you go by that she’s performed terribly.
True enough on the weighing on different scales, but if you select the second you have to remember that she was given orders to keep her force field up at all times, and that limited her options. And she was also ordered to be very careful about collateral damage, which pretty much prevents her from using the PPO (I claim to be hip). And the entire group was ordered to try to take the enemy down without casualties if possible. Her hands weren’t exactly tied, but they were at least loosely held.
An awesome upgrade would be the ability to alter gravity on others. Let’s see how badass the brick is while weightless and drifting up or at 10 Gs down.
Just ask Spinny how fun it was when Greta Grabby did both to her (fortunately, she was able to anchor herself to the ground to halt floating away, but then had to contend with excesive gravity on her bewbs, even if she had the proportional strength of a spider that the weight didn’t have as much impact on the rest of her, can’t do much to fight back when you have to literally stop your bewbs from hitting the ground, while you are standing full upright, talk about ‘ouch!’ :P)
Wind? What are you talking about?
I’m pretty sure he is referring to the relative effect of moving fast through an atmosphere. Just like sticking your arm out a car window, it feels like wind.
It is canon that it does, but only at low speeds though.
Sydney wins because she got both of hers without even leaving her bubble
Not to neglect mentioning: Sydney is an untrained civillian, each one of her head-counts counts as 10 of anyone elses :P
Actually prefer the old North American Indian term of “Counting Coup” over “Head Count”
Untrained, yes, but since she’s signed and joined ARC-SWAT, I’m not sure she’s considered a “civilian.”
She’s untrained, still a civilian till she finishes it / graduates out of the lowest level of it (since I doubt they ever stop training)
Yeah… She is “not a civilian” just like a buck private is a “soldier” on his first day of boot camp. She may have a fancy ARC title, but that doesn’t really mean squat on her first day on the job.
On the other hand, were first day boot camp trainees issued weapons, one who got 2 kills in a sudden assault from hostile forces, kept their head about them, and followed all orders well would probably get some kind of medal. Maybe the CIB, I dunno. And Sydney has met all of those criteria, so far. We’ll have to see how she fares now that the “chaff” has been rendered hors de combat and the more challenging remainder has to be dealt with.
Does anyone have a decent count of the starting number and current number of attackers? We know that between Math, Anvil, and Halo 9 of them have been accounted for. I think we can assume that Maxima hasn’t been only a distraction and mobile target, and there are several powered and several non-powered ARC members who we still haven’t seen in action. Unless Dave does a coupe of strips of “Here’s what they have been doing”, which we can assume he won’t since he said he was finished showing the easy fights, we may only learn how the rest of the team accounted for itself via after the fact exposition.
I for one would like to see how Peggy does. It’s got to be difficult to try to follow a “no unnecessary casualties” order when you’re sending 50 caliber rounds downrange. And speaking of downrange, I hope that Harem was able to VORP Peggy to a location about a quarter mile away from the action and with a good view of the parking lot and the roof of the building. A Barrett isn’t really meant to be a close assault weapon. I guess it would take Harem two trips, one for Peggy and one for the Barrett. And that’s if she can even VORP Peggy since the Barrett was said to be at the limit of her teleport carry weight.
Maxima estimated 30. Not counting the first two, my count is 11 down at least half of them KOed. So about a third of the baddies have been hit and only Achilles was thrown out of the restaurant. And Sydney took a punch in the face.
Harem’s teleport capacity varies, but I do not think her power is strong enough to carry adults. She had difficulty with the bartlett as it was. I do not think Peggy can detach enough parts, to get her weight below that of the weapon.
So… who dresses Bruce Lee Press On Claws? Because unless they literally press on (& come off), he’s going to be tearing through anything he tries to put on.
Unless they can retract.
The unused alternative is a sheath that can be extended out around them.
Was going to say “He’s not called ‘Press on Claws’ for nothing”, but then noticed in the closeup that those claws are all his, no fake claws for him (although, he’s probably wishing they were right about 2 minutes ago :P)
Dang! Anvil’s right arm looks like that joke about chronic masturbators (are we going to find out which villain is holding by the waistband of their Jockey’s?)
I think it’s the unknown guy she was choking out when Sydney put down Shadow Boxer. Although he wasn’t trying to rip at her clothes. So probably the one she’s holding is Mook 3, the Blouse Ripper. So, Nose Boop, Guillotine Sleeper, and Ripper; that’s her three.
Yeah, knew it wasn’t Guill (pronounced ‘Gill’)
And the arm doesn’t just look bigger because you can see how muscley it is, it is bigger (goes to show that she can ‘bulk’ up body parts individually (but let’s just hope she doesn’t do that with her legs or she will have trouble walking in a straight line)
It looks bigger than the one in the sleeve… (Its bigger on the inside!)
Invulnerable skin is great… until you need surgery to stop the internal bleeding. Superman had that issue when Doomsday killed him the first time. Kinda makes life saving work impossible if your own (near)invulnerability stops things like IVs, defibrillators, or CPR from working.
Although with Lee he’s kinda lucky cause in a pinch his own claws can be used to operate on him. Although he may have to lose a finger for it.
Yes, Sidney, but those were the two ~best~ beatdowns of the whole fight.
That was actually horribly disappointing.
I am just waiting for Leon to grumble about how fast they are were mopping up the chaff villians and not getting much info along the way. Means more followup work to do.
Who cares? They have just shown they are nothing more than henchpersons/hired-muscle and barely even rate their own name, let alone have an official dossier
I really like Math’s expression in Panel 7. It’s a very kind, fun, friendly expression, and I think it shows that he really likes Sydney. As a friend, of course. >.>
Sydney has just the right nature and attitude to be the whole group’s little sister. Obstreperous, loud, aggravating and generally a pain. But nobody and I mean not even other Arc folk are allowed to be mean to her. Of course the teasing she is gonna get over the next few years is totally fair.
You mean panel 8, but yeah, guessing Harem isn’t the ‘kid sister’ any more (if she ever was, ‘annoying brat who deserves a thorough hiding’ sure but ‘kid sister’ in the same way as Sydney? nah!)
I just thought about this, but what if the mysterious orbs are support orbs? As in they work when someone else holds them with sydney’s approval
I would be upset that this wasn’t the awesome fight I hoped it would be, but I can’t stop giggling.
The giggling effect makes it awesome :D
Heh, had both a “Way to go Sydney!” and a “Aw, poor Syd” moment in the same comic.
A villain that can’t stand the sight of his own blood is pretty pointless.
Some people are just not cut out for their chosen career.
“Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!” White Goodman – Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
“Oh I’m in pain. I think this is what pain feels like.” Captain Hammer – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Captain hammer ended up in THERAPY after that….
Don’t worry Sidney! I probably couldn’t take out anyone.
Well, if I had powers it might be different, but you’re doing great for a newbie!
Tentacle groped for 1d6 damage, roll vs being a pansy!
Two for Halo! As in fastest wins — 2 seconds. The rest of the team are taking longer for each one they bag –except Maxima, but Sydney won’t know that until Leon does the montage recap.
I think this counts as faster
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1276
And depending on when you count the fight as ‘started’, this is also faster
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1271
Since you could argue that Anvil didn’t start fighting until she started with the nose boop
Just because Anvil didn’t fight back until then doesn’t mean the fight didn’t start until then
If you put it that way, then her ‘fight’ with Guill wasn’t a fight (she wasn’t fighting back, just holding him tight until he passed out)
Isn’t it just a show of the good powers argument that Sydney was having with Max before signing?
I see that Randall Munroe of XKCD fame did a TED talk. I hope we will see DaveB strutting his stuff there sometime too.
You know Heatwave could have dealt with Lee Press On Nails and sounded really cool too doing it.
“Wow nice nails!”
“Thanks?”
“But that’s so not your color. (reads HUD) Are those really press on nails or are they part of you?”
“Anchored to my very bones. All natural metal…well mostly.”
“I think you’re a winter so they should be pink…no a bright rose in color.” (Concentrates a few seconds)
“Are you going to try to beat me with your fashion sense?”
“Bless your heart. I’ve already beat you. Look at your nails, not my butt as I fly away.”
“Huh? Whut? Hey!” –sniff– “I smell BBQ.” –looks at nails that are turning bright red…bright rosy red to be exact.– “Ahhhhh, gawds. The pain the pain. Make it stop! Arrrrrrgh!”
— tries sticking his hand into an ice sculpture or better yet an ice user on his team–
Jiggawatt could use same nails as ground point for her lightning attacks. Lee Presson Nails really didn’t think out his super package much.
How else would the other supers and non on Arc Swat take him out humorously?
Sniper doing the COD crotch shot… “He said his skin was invulnerable…wonder if what was inside is too? Ooops. Guess not!” scratches another neutralized target counter into her rifle stock.
Harem doing this
Grrl Power #112 – Hot Beefcake Injection
but taking all his clothes
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/672
Sydney fails at gloating.