Grrl Power #228 – 1.56×10^20 electrons walk into a bar…
How do you keep Jiggawatt from shooting lightning? Take away her credit cards. Wait, that’s not right.
When Thor gets an STD, he gets the thunder-clap.
An atom walks into a bar an asks the bartender “Have you seen an electron? I left it in here last night.” The bartender says, “Are you sure?” The atom says, “I’m positive.”
A neutron walks into a bar and says, “How much for a beer?” The bartender says, “For you? No charge.”
Ok enough of that. Jiggawatt can do just about anything involving lightning, including obviously turning into it. Not necessarily a unique power for a lightning wielder, but usually when you see it the have to travel through telephone wires or something. I’m not sure if Jiggawatt can do that actually. I always envisioned her arcing through the air, and she can move a considerable distance before she has to bounce off something like a cloud or just connect with the ground again. I guess I need to add teleporting to her badge on the cast page, even though it’s not quite teleporting. It’s more like really fast super jumping that can also be used as an attack. Like it combines super jump with Bison’s Psycho Crusher. (Or Vega’s, if you’re reading this in Japan.) She can’t go through most things like walls (unless she’s just tying to blow a hole in it) unless they’re moderately conductive like a squishy person.
All these one hit scrubs that keep getting knocked down were supposed to be in the parking lot shot, but I ran out of time to draw them all, plus I hadn’t quite designed everyone yet. The plan was always to add these guys into that shot, and bump Maxima’s estimate from 30 to 40. I don’t want anyone thinking more villains are showing up in the meantime. A lot of the minion scrubs are just that, and may not ever show up in the comic again, unless I show them incarcerated or if there’s a prison break or whatever, but a few of them will be seen again. In fact some of them had larger roles they were supposed to play in this fight, but their parts got cut because I don’t want the battle to be 100 pages long. Gauntlette, the gal with the purple fist on this page was one of those. She would have been labeled as Tenti-Gal by Leon, since she can wrap her energy thing around her so it looks like a big tentacle. You can actually see her on the parking lot page, though she’s mostly obscured by Hex’s lasers there. She would have fared much better against Jiggawatt’s attack if she was still wrapped up all snugly in her tentacle, but there’s always next time.
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I was just wondering what it was sticking out of the mountain in the background.
Then I realised it was the piles of rubble.
Maybe it is just me but I thought there would be more smoke after a big bang like that.
Fine with me. Smoke is way easier to draw than rubble. :)
That is an ex-restaurant. And now we can’t see Achilles’s shoes.
She’s just another flash in the pan.
pun intended for Gamesman one comment down. (^%$@@%$**)
Has anyone been attacked by a “Sweet Orange attack? Second time my Norton has blocked it.
Norton is crap. It finds viruses where there are none, blocks hackers that don’t exist… Basically it’s the computer protection equivalent of Don Quixote. Personally, I don’t use any firewalls or AV, but I also never get hacked or have viruses. I’m just too damned careful to get them. But then I have been using computers since the 80s, and I have kept up on all the tricks that malicious software can use to get onto your system. Of course, keeping away from porn sites and not clicking everything that tells me to click it helps a lot with the no viruses thing.
If you’re running Windows, you should be running a firewall. The amount of time it takes for a newly installed copy of Windows 7 with the firewall off (which it was by default in the first release) is something like 15 minutes. Older and now unsupported versions without a default firewall are going to fall much faster.
Windows 7 SP 1 has the firewall on by default.
The major problem with not running a firewall is that “being careful” isn’t anywhere nearly enough, and hasn’t been for a very long time. Staying away from porn sites and not opening email attachments might give you some peace of mind, but it’s a false sense of security. If any site you go to has been compromised, something no amount of “being careful” on your part has anything to do with, you will get infected unless you are protected. And not all viruses are just out to harm you. Plenty of them just like to use your computer as an attack vector against others, and if they don’t use a lot of system resources (such as ping flooding some other site in order to DDOS it) you may never even notice this activity. Or just lay low and see if they can learn your bank account username/password. Or whatever. None of it is good news and it’s all fairly preventable by good freeware products.
As NPH would say: Suit up!
I just had a thought, maybe bringing Jiggawatt in is “LightStorm”.
*giggles!* Not phone lines. Those’d fry with the electric current generated. But power lines are a definite yes. And since most would be on the ground, sparking, well, there’s the exit point as well. Course, if there was a puddle, Jiga might be hurtin’ after an appearance…but I like her. >.> She’s got a cute personality goin’.
+1
The tricky part about using power lines for rapid travel is that electricity travels very nearly as fast as light. In a novel I once read, a wizard transformed himself into electricity to get across town and literally bounced back and forth a dozen times before he finally managed to jump out of the power grid.
the fun part is what happened to Monica Rambeu once.. grounding.
she lost about half her body mass do to an accident with the ocean ;)
Actually, electrons travel very slowly through electric lines. Only electric current travels at near-lightspeed.
So, Jiggawatt is better off bouncing from cloud to cloud just for the speed reasons alone, not to mention the risk to be scattered across the entire wire, if she has some ways to travel at Fermi speed inside of it.
Wow, ‘very slowly’ seems to be an under statement. Assuming that I am looking up the right things (no guarantees), it looks like those speeds are so slow they are measured in millimetres per second. In other words, the useful measurement, is how many hours, or even days, it would take to go a mile!
The problem being all the other electrons, already sitting in the wire, blocking her path. So if Jiggawatt actually transformed into electrons, and tried going down wires, she better not be planning a long trip! Of course, it depends on how she manifests herself. If she travels as the current, rather than the electrons, then (for our purposes), her trip would be near instantaneous.
Which is usually how it’s handled…if you turn into electricity, you move as the current moves, not as the electrons do.
Thank you for keeping us current on that information.
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Oh I can tell I’m going to like her! Question: From the last two frames, can we deduce she’s going to be the newest mascot for Rice Krispies?
Oh so far I do not like Jiggawatt at all, her powers are cool but her not so much.
I get the feeling Halo is going to love her if only for her “backup is here” joke.
Oh, that is a shame. Peggy came across a bit… deadpan/cool, to start with. So it took a while for me to warm to her. And Dabbler took most of the comic, since her introduction, to make me a fan. But Jiggawatt has won me over on her first (non-cameo) page. Even Sydney did not manage that!*
* It took two pages. Her possible use of the ‘royal we’ had me reserving judgement, until I had flipped overleaf, to get the context. If she habitually used the first person plural, that would have made her a bit odd, for a first impression.
We don’t find that odd at all.
Well, we make exceptions for royalty, bureaucrats and… um… Lego Vikings? Do you have to jump onto the keys to press them? Or can you just step?
Lego? Thought he was a South Parkian
Nope, definitely Lego. I thought I was being Reasonably Clever when I made it, but he either changed the program-thingie used to create the miniatures or I remembered the name of the site incorrectly.
Heh. That was fun. You will never guess what I tried with it!
Can you give us slow people a hint or two?
=OP
Puppy is now an owl? o_O
I’m guessing that’s a blond someone-who-is-not-(unless-he-has-proper-copyright-permission) Wolverine.
Whoo?
He’s on first, what’s on second, and I don’t know is on third.
Unless you’re talking about the Dr.
Neither. However, you wouldn’t believe the number of Legos that went into my creation.
Wait, you are made from Lego? Not one of those mini-fig things?
If I were a mini-fig I would have to answer “yes” to one or both of the following:
At least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Interesting… you can’t spoiler a blockquote.
Awesome :-D
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ride-the-lightning_freakazoid2_6862.png
So that’s what Midnight Star was singing about back in the day… or are you just trying to c’mon and wind me up?
Not a bad entrance. I give her… a 2.1.
*badum tsh*
Dammit, 1.21. Ruined my own joke.
shocking
The build-up had me tingling, in anticipation. But fuse the fact that I did not really get it, with the un-editable, static, error, and it just discharged my excitement.
I’d charge you with assault with a battery, but those puns just gave me negative vibes.
Are you positive about that?
:P
:)
Me, I’m more neutral…
…but since I’ve learned to conduct myself better, I consider myself a better-grounded individual.
Sounds like we have live-wire here, sparking up things again. Perhaps we have unearthed a source of perpetual energy?
It looks like we’ll have to keep an ion him.
Uh oh, I think I hear an orbital ion cannon charging up.
Does lightning thunder, if there is no-one to hear it?
Does a bear, after doing what it proverbially does in the woods, and wiping it’s bum with a rabbit, get a static shock?
I volt for seeing more of Jiggawatt.
If you generate enough enthusiasm, the results could be illuminating. And might receive thunderous approval.
I’m shocked at you both!
I suppose that next you’ll be asking her if she’s “AC” or “DC”…?!!!?!
Now, if you boys can’t conduct yourselves as gentlemen,
then you’ll be grounded…
…by HER!
I have the perfect song prepared for such an occasion.
BTW. that was “seeing more of” as in “making additional appearances” rather than “with less clothes on”.
Nothing like messing up your own joke because of too much flux in your capacitor…
Please don’t make her weakness “water”. Make it clever, like metal filings or something.
nah, rubber and other electrical insulating materials will be her weakness.
metal filings? HA! that would just mean that she has access to material that she can spot weld something to the floor with: heat it up enough to melt, then just add more and more until they form a nice molten puddle of metal… or, charge them up enough so that they repel each other from their respective electromagnetic charges and she has an improvised shotgun blast. and depending on the physics of how she does her powers, and her ability to generate the power levels involved, she may actually be able to stop bullets in their tracks! like Neo… take a look at this video and extrapolate it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGytW_C6hR8 jump to 5:55 for the part i’m talking about.
Nice inference on the last part. But it would only work for bullets which were composed of ferrous materials. So lead slugs would not be affected, as they are non-ferrous. Handy for certain rounds though, so a merit-worthy suggestion. If she can find a way to implement it.
She’s demonstrated command of enough juice to vaporize them mid-flight. It’s not stopping them in their tracks, but it could be useful.
So, then she has a cloud of superheated lead particles moving towards her at supersonic speed… doesn’t seem like much of an improvement.
Actually you’d get an effect called blooming, if the bullet was vaporized, where the hot gas slows quickly due to greater air pressure that a denser bullet wouldn’t have to deal with.
Magnetic filings could get in the way, so to speak. They interfere with EM broadcasts and redirect electrical discharge. So she might have a hard time riding the lightning through them without getting dispersed or shooting through them accurately.
and if she doesn’t have precision control of her power a whirlwind of metallic shards could prove as unfortunate for her as her surroundings.
Weakness? what weakness?
Oh, perhaps the need to recharge after a while.
Jiggawatt vs. Electro: win, lose, or draw?
Yes. Or possibly rain will stop play.
noooo
Opposite charges attract. They start dating.
Normally I’m not someone who’d watch lesbians.
But they would bring new meaning to the term ‘joy buzzer’.
Coupla more really bad bar jokes:
A guy walks into a bar… and gets a nasty bruise on his forehead (he should have been watching where he was going),
An old, worn-out piece of string goes into a bar and the bartender says, “I’m sorry, but we don’t serve pieces of string here”. So he walks out and decides he’s going to tie himself and try again. The bartender, though, isn’t quite sure he recognizes him and so he asks, “Hey, aren’t you that piece of string I just told I couldn’t serve?” “No”, lies the piece of string, “I’m a frayed know”.
You mean “No..I’m a frayed knot”. haha
Ok, who rearranged my keyboard?
Boris Badenov was known for theft and scrambling of letters. But he’s been retired for years.
I like her
The credit card joke made me laugh out loud.
Hmm three down in one hit, she is good.
Jiggawatt, the ARCarc.
Yeah, ARC Swat is definitely the place for her…She swatted those villains pretty good with her arc.
If she runs distractions for darkark, or electric sabotage, does that make her the dark arcARC dark chick with a nice pair of… arcs? Who are surely dark?
(dogs start barking in the distance thinking that was addresses to them…)
P.S.: “it was a dark stormy night” themed puns, anyone?
Her nickname is “Rice Krispy Girl”. Snap, crackle, pop.
Shocking scientific results just in.
You might just have unraveled what we were wondering about for quite some time: Why attack a super team without any chance of winning ?
They were simply bored out of their skull and did choose pain to compensate. :-/
So far i kinda dislike her, she is playing around on a battlefield even worse than Dabbled did, at least she were just toying a little with an opponent by chosing a less than optimal way of dealing with her.
She has was on the battlefield for less than a second, before she took out three villains. Enough, that she is now near the top of the leader-board, for villains taken down, close by Math. Then just choosing a stylish way to report in to her commanding officer. Not exactly military protocol, but very funny.
Obviously your opinions are your own and if someone rubs you up the wrong way, there is little that can be done about that. But, is it possible, you are setting your standards rather high here?
I hear you. Stopping to strut and dance mid-fight is just annoyingly stupid, even more so than Dabbler’s monologue / general mucking about earlier.
Guess this is gonna be a “love her or hate her” situation.
Me, I’m picking out wedding rings :)
With the reaction time of lightning, I can deal with a little strut while she looks for orders.
Yea. It is interesting how tastes go. I am all for variety of taste, it is essential. In life, and for the survival of the species.
Mmm, interesting how thought pathways can go. I started out by thinking on the various aspects of Jiggawatt and her entrance which might polarize opinion. Because she made a great first impression, with me, it was hard to see how it could be taken otherwise. But I can see some cues, which might have done it.
But that got me to thinking that, even so, there is not a huge amount to the above scene. In terms of number of different elements. The details of which are not relevant, as I would not want to try and push people in a direction they are not comfortable with. If they do not like her, then so be it.
What it did do though, is think of what may (or may not)* be a new idea. I know we have at least a couple of readers who have scientific expertise in this area, so please jump in to point out any flaws. Or say if it is actually old news. Hopefully it is actually something new though. I would love it if somebody actually set up trials to test this. And possibly even narrowed it down to specific genes.
From what I just said, you may be able to gather that it struck me that such tastes may not just be a conscious or intellectual thing. Well, clearly not, but let us assume that there is actually a strong underlying genetic component to ‘tastes’.
First off, to say what I mean by a taste. This could be the obvious, namely food stuffs or potential mates. Or other more esoteric things, like music or encountering a new way of performing a task (such as hunting) or solving a problem.
It could be that on coming across something new, at the stage where the subconscious mind has finished it’s search of our memories, and come up blank, but before it even passes that information on to our concious minds, another process is put into place. Namely deciding whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Now that might sound like something that is the conscious mind’s job. But higher brain functions are actually a relatively new thing. So the wiring will go from the older mechanisms, to the newer ones. In other words, the more primitive instinctive responses get first bite at this task (in this hypothesis).
Which is vital. If this new thing is similar to something dangerous, you may need to kick in your fight or flight responses immediately. Conscious decisions are great things, but they take time to formulate. Sometimes survival requires an immediate response.
So any message to the higher brain that ‘this is new’ needs to have an accompanying message which also says ‘but it looks dangerous’ (or not). This is a complicated function, but profoundly important. So probably has multiple genes associated with it. Each handling their own specific aspect to the process.
Strength of feeling. Persistence of feeling. Degree of aversion to acceptance (or open-mindedness versus being resistant to new concepts). Each person being at a different point along the scale of each of these three components. One person might love new tastes, sensations or concepts, whereas another dislikes them.
Another might change their tastes often. Whereas someone else might stick with a preference for life. And we all know folks who are close minded and others who embrace new things enthusiastically.
Not that each of these aspects might all apply to all categories of tastes. Otherwise somebody who likes variety in food will also like variety in music. Although it would be interesting to have some comparative studies done, to a variety of things, to see if that assumption is actually valid, in itself.
The strength of the feeling is probably has some degree influenced by the strength of the input. In food it might be something with a strong smell, or flavour. The above comic shows an ideal example of being introduced to a strong personality. So coming across an extrovert might heighten the response from the ‘strength of feeling’ gene.
This is evolutionarily important. If something comes across strongly it can either be very good or very bad. If we all responded equally to a new input, then we would all share the same rewards (which is not a problem) or suffer the same consequences (which could be catastrophic). Genes which encourage homogeneous response to such will have been wiped out from the gene-pool a long time ago.
The first time that a tribe comes across a yummy new food, everyone loves it, they all eat it (because they have that dangerous gene) and, when it turns out that it is deadly, the whole tribe dies. The odd lucky survivors probably also going on to die, because there are now too few members to cope with hostile creatures, rival tribes or simple survival through winter or the like. The bad gene dies out.
Likewise strong personalities can be good or bad. And that is so much more complicated an issue, that it is probably just as well that there is some gene rolling a dice. ‘Do I like this person, or not?’ If everybody likes them, and they influence the whole tribe to a course of action, then, again, it can lead to disaster.
So the stronger the input the more important it is for a (to all intents and purposes) random process to give a powerful aversion for some individuals. Whereas it is also necessary for some to have a strong attraction result, instead, so that the benefits of a positive taste can be reaped, if there is no danger.
The persistence gene is there to deal with short term and long term dangers. Fruit tends to be either safe or deadly. If your friends eat it, and live, you can later change your mind, safely and eat it too. So there is advantage to being averse to new tastes, but for that aversion not to last. Let your food-tasters do their job, and you will be willing to change your tastes.
Advertisers take advantage of this, by saying ‘your friends like this, so you should too’. It also shows up in peer pressure. So that side of things I know not to be something new. But with the gene lurking in the background, there is the survival aspect to be considered for persistence of taste. Despite conscious attempts to change it.
Let us say that the fruit has a slow acting poison. Something that gradually accumulates in the body. Eat it for years and you will suffer impotence or death. Something that genes do not like.
So variety in tastes is a good thing. And a good part of it may be genetic. So it would be pointless arguing the case. If folks have a strong ‘persistence’ gene, they will never change their minds. If they have a weak version, then they will come around of their own accord. But in their own time. For now, the ‘like/dislike’ dice roll has been made by the genes, and we each have our own result.
* Genuinely new ideas are very rare, and mostly only apply to new fields of thinking, which have not already been picked over. The best I can say is that I have not come across this before. And, not having had any higher education which covered this, it is more than likely simply ignorance. This is not a new field, after all.
Just to clarify something. Clearly this process only kicks in if this is something new. And it will not be purely randomised, as it will be influenced by association with other, familiar, things. So if it has similarity to something you already like or dislike, we know that has a strong influence on tastes.
I have a sweet tooth, for instance. Other folks do not. So if I come across a new taste, but a strong part of it is that it is sweet, I am more likely to decide I like it. So think of it as a weighted dice roll. If you have positive, or negative, association with the new taste, the result will be biassed one way or the other.
Conversely, if you have no pre-existing experience then the random effect would become more apparent. Except for those folks who have the gene which gives them a strong aversion to new things. The very newness of this is what weighs the dice against them liking it.
It’s a dice roll plus relevant modifies.
So, DaveB, as a method of figuring out the EXACT span of Jiggawatt’s powers, I have a few questions (obviously, if they’re spoilers, don’t answer them):
1. Is she LITERALLY living lightning (meaning: like a Logia fruit in One Piece), or is she just able to TURN INTO lightning?
2. If she’s wounded, and then turns into lightning (be it all of her, or just the part that’s wounded, if she’s able to do that), does the wound heal?
3. Is the act of producing/turning into electricity a ‘free action’ equivalent from D&D, or would it be something else?
I can answer #1 on DaveB’s behalf:
DaveB has not seen One Piece.
Regardless of whether he’s seen it or not, the question stands the same — I just used it as an example.
“Beep! Beep! Beep! Backup is here!”
Best. Entrance. Ever.
Personally, I think Vyvyan did the best entrance ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVOxa9I2Obs
Does she take her clothes with her? can she take friends? guns? batteries? Would the batteries be charged up after?
Clearly the clothes must be a yes. My guesses for the others will be no. To try and keep her power themed on electricity, I should not think her carrying capacity will be much, if anything, above her clothes and Arc collar.
For most intents and purposes, it is probably safe to assume that her capacity is sufficient to allow modesty in every day circumstances. Rather than being intended to give her a host of extra powers to exploit.
Jiggawatt’s teleportation rating is two stars, so is weaker than Harem’s three. Harem cannot carry a person, despite that being her core power. So I very much doubt that Jiggawatt would be able to either.
The battery question is an interesting one, but rather a moot point, given that (assuming it was of the re-chargeable flavour) she could just top it up to full herself. She clearly has far greater storage capacity than anything she might be able to carry. At our technology level anyhow. Dabbler’s kit might be a different matter, but that is not being shared.
Jiggawatt might have aura-limited transformation ability. This would mean that when she travels by “riding the lightning”, she can transform only her body and small items within her aura (a field surrounding her body at 1-2 inch distance). Large items might be left behind, and loose clothing outside her aura might be ripped.
I would like to see “Dabbler’s science corner” about Jiggawatt’s powers
Sounds good to me.
I don’t remember the exact load capacity, but I suspect that if Harem condensed to one body her payload would be up to a large child/small adult (<125#)
One moust remember Harem’s Teleport is what also creates her other bodies.
True. But that power has it’s own rating, regardless of it’s source. DaveB has calculated the strength of each on it’s own merits. He has, wisely, realised that a strong teleport power, capable of carrying others, can ruin a great many otherwise suspenseful or interesting plots.
Provided you can get in touch with your teleporter, they can bring in all the help that is needed to solve any problem. Or evacuate those in danger, if it is insoluble. He has set Harem’s (and thereby the weaker version of Jiggawatt’s) power at an interesting level. Where they can get instantly from point to point, but without being able to apply that to bringing others along.
So it allows them to deploy their own unique skills, in such circumstance, but not those of others. Unless cunning. Essentially Harem primarily (and Jiggawatt to a lesser degree, having the lower flexibility in her mobility) is the teams mobile reserve. She (/they) can back up any member, who gets in trouble, anywhere.
Needless to say, the fact that Jiggawatt is a powerful blaster making her that much more valuable in the role. If she can reach the location. But, of course, the fact that Harem can help a dispersed team all suffering problems is profoundly useful too. And she can bring all her bodies to bear on one particular trouble spot.
In that case though Harem’s weakness is that if the problem is something a small team of normal people cannot handle, with appropriate equipment, she will have problems too. Although I can see her optional super-strength helping out, in a few instances, where normal mortals would be stumped.
Teleporting blasters are powerful, as they can avoid a number of dangers, that a glass cannon would fall too. But, caught unawares, they are just as likely to go down as their more limited counterparts.
Also, I love the art, concept and the wispy clouds.
The bit I liked was how the clouds seem to light up, from within. Very much carrying the impression of lightning passing through them.
I’m imagining the sound of Jiggawatt playing a kazoo in panel 3.
I know you had to cut stuff for length but I feel like this fight scene would have been a lot better with less villains that individually did more. Scenes of our heroes one hit KO-ing people are only entertaining so long.
Now, I’m not saying everyone needs a whole comic, that probably would take too long, but say two or three panels before being taken down would be great. Just reduce the number of scenes of mooks being effortlessly defeated and you could manage it with at least most of the villains.
One to three hit take downs are much more common in real fights than long drawn out affairs. For a real fight to last longer than 10 seconds the opponents much be very evenly matched. Re imagine this without the super powers, a team of combat veterans vs a pick up group of civilians: How long would the fights last?
Did you entirely miss the part where I said “three panels instead of several guys in one panel”? That is one to three hits.
Beautifully done with the clouds! I love the idea that she can use them as part of her chain of lightning jumps. As far as calling it a teleport, what you’ve got there is ‘rapid blinking’. Basically a short range teleport that requires her to hit something after a certain length before jumping again. I.e. she blinks ten feet and at the speed of thought basically spams that. XD
As far as Maxima in the back… did she just throw a punch so hard she hit the air and -that- hit the enemy?
My reading is that it is just a powerful back-hand slap, on a previously flying opponent. Perhaps the guy, on our left, here. The one wearing blue pants, black top and boots, plus a helmet. He was not demonstrating a ranged attack capability, so may have needed to close to attack Maxima.
Or Maxima is flying around picking them off. Either way, the zip lines look identical to those used for Jiggawatt, where she is doing her backwards bunny hops. Which would support my contention that they are indicating that Maxima’s foe has been knocked down and back. Hard.
Requesting panel 5 for wallpaper/banner. A shocking entrance for the goons, I wonder what the family affair was?
If she can do anything with lightning, I wonder about another trope. Frankenstein, it’s aliiiiveeeeee
I don’t know about full-on resurrection, but I bet she’s a hell of a walking defibrillator!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightningCanDoAnything
It can’t make someone fall in love with you!
Or… can it?
Humn … Good question.
What if:
1. It would burn away all reason ?
2. It would wipe away all memory of previous love affairs ?
3. It could rewire the brain to new preference in love ?
4. It did make you glow like a god long enough to impress “the girls”.
5. It could make you attractive to other people like metal would become magnetic to other metal ?
6. It might short out your brain, making you believe someone did fall in love with you – that, and giant green marshmallows having a party on the moon. ;-)
What? You mean this invitation isn’t real? :(
https://preview.images.memegenerator.net/Instance/Preview?imageID=4796874&generatorTypeID=&panels=&text0=What%20if%20i%20told%20you&text1=lightning%20can%20make%20you%20fall%20in%20love&text2=&text3=
I am an incurable romantic. I am obliged to believe that.
TOMBSTONE: “He believed he could find true love”
I would say you would have to prove it to me!Wait a second! Are you trying to get me to volunteer to be a guinea pig?
Thank you for raising your hand
Must be a mutant Guinea Pig-Viking to have hands to raise
Long as it’s not a pirate guinea pig
https://tinyurl.com/m96x5zm
I, uh, had to go the bathroom.
And after that, somewhere far, far away.
Lightning might not, but electricity can.
Because the body is operated with electrical discharges (which trigger other discharges, and activate hormone productions. And those hormones can trigger other hormones, or other discharges, ect ect)
Bad person! You sucked me into at least ten pages of that. TV Tropes is almost as bad a time-sink as the dreaded box itself!*
* For youngsters out there, check out a museum sometime. TVs used to have physical depth to them, rather than being flat. The less ergonomic ones actually being box-shaped.
What a bout the realy big wood cabinet ones that took up half the room?
With a new-fangled stereophonic record player on top of the set.
Gee-willickers those were nice!
I really loved the real hi-tech ones that had an 8-track tape player inem.
Jeez! How did I manage to miss “Zap, Crackle, Pop” in the bottom panels all this time?
Something Puppy said on the first page had me thinking:
Maxi: “Hmmm, that doesn’t look good. Harem? Check Az-Tat, STAT!”
Harem: /*vorps* in and places a monitor on his wrist, checks it a few times, changes the monitor, checks it again… “Umm, not good, he’s dead Maxim!”
Jiggs: “What? NO! I dialed it back as far as I could, it was just supposed to stun them!”
Maxi: “Harem, can you make it look like he is still alive, at least until we can get him back to Archon? We can’t let the press know about this! Jiggs, it might be best if don’t go near anyone else for awhile!”
The point being: the difference between DDCD (Deliberate Death, Callous Dance) and ADUD (Accidental Death, Unknowing Dance)
Star Trekkin’
Across the Universe….
I get the impression that the pip-boy and/or collars can transmit visual information too? Or would that only go via the goggles? Either way, even if they do not, any individual who might need support, should carry some means of sending a live feed back to base.
That way, if they need back-up or re-supply, Harem will be able to use that feed, plus the contextualising map co-ordinates or other means of association she needs, to teleport to their location.
Whereas Jiggawatt might need blueprints of conductive materials pathways, which could provide a route for her to follow, to a particular destination (assuming one that was not open to the sky). The latter would not present a problem, other than normal navigation.
Though I presume her travel time, to reach a distant location, would be significantly longer than Harem’s. Well, when compared to instantaneous, anyhow. Lightning quick is not to be sniffed at!
Now I’m wondering if she’s gonna have a hard time with the bad guy in red and black last page who absorbed Hex’s lasers. (Unless he’s the one who just got pounded by Max in the last panel).
I’d be VERY surprised, given the buildup he’s gotten as a Major Player, if he got one-shotted at all. I place that guy getting KO’d offscreen beyond the pale.
There are three, undefeated, but potentially major characters, who have had a significant build up. One of whom may be a red-herring. Or more than one. Or possibly none.
And never forget the ninjas!
You mean the one standing behind you? He likes to be called ‘Fred’ and eats chilli pizza
I heard he wants everyone to refer to him by the name “Betty“.
Ninja do tend to look alike, but no, that is not ‘Fred’ (today is ‘Fred’s day off)
People might doubt invisible companions, but some of them can be photographed!
They seem to be proliferating, even playing chess and ordering food in drive-through windows.
What I find most interesting is the discrepancy in viewer figures. The car one being an order of magnitude larger than the chess one.
Despite them both being in the same ball-park in terms of being quality pranks. Plus bearing in mind that Just For Laughs has millions of subscribers to give each of it’s clips a head start. It does show the power of a viral video.
Do you think she could charge a mobile phone
On what grounds? Clearly not wire-tapping. Resisting arrest maybe?
That one actually took me a moment, giving the pun an additional edge providing a nice baud rate. :-)
You say that like it’s a baud thing.
*groan*
https://tinyurl.com/nshqvsp
Joke
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Deof Movestofca’s head
(yes, I recognize it from “Futurama”, but that doesn’t help much.
Wasn’t exactely a joke, more a ‘visual aid to a gag’
is her name Jiggawatt, or Jigglebutt? :)
love the entrance. classic.
You can try calling her Jiggabutt. I’ll just observe the results from…way……over………here.
Hey, at least it’s not “Jigglypuff”
I can’t wait for the electrical jokes to end. I know from experience (my ex-brother in law still calls me Power Pete years after an incident involving 20 seconds of American grade 240V on a 30A) they won’t but hope springs eternal that they will. I’m sure Jiggy would probably agree.
Yowch! I can see how a hit like that could leave you positively negative about electric-gal jokes.
Doesn’t make the occasional one any less funny but they do get old faster than normal.
It’s quite shocking how far people take these puns
I blame my survival on what what I’d jokingly call winning vending machine durability powers in the super power lottery. Sydney could use me as the epitome of bad powers. I am accident prone as hell and strong EM fields & I don’t get along but no matter what I keep going. Getting thrown from a moving Chevy Dualie, falling down flights of stairs, an electrocution, getting hit by a car, being bit by a brown recluse, breaking a foot, breaking an ankle, infection after infection after infection, a torn rotator cuff, and an ingrown toenail that the Doctor was shocked I was walking on. All of that and I barely slow down. It all hurts like hell but I’m reacting with “Ouch. That doesn’t feel right; better get it checked out. Got any Ibuprofen or Alleve?”
I also apparently also won low level electromagnetic abilities (awareness of fields, static and galvanic fields from hell, etc) as well. I almost never need a compass, could point out most cell/radio/radar sites blindfolded, and then there is the caller id trick. I dread humidity below 80% because I end up zapping everything in a couple inches of me (though I dread humidity above 70% cause it feels icky). Also capacitive touch screens present Sydney level challenges at any humidity and within a couple inches of any part of my skin save a couple fingertips on my right hand (electrical burn scars). Usually they’re all more trouble than their worth.
I don’t suppose either of your parents worked in a marine genetics research laboratory, around abouts the time you were born?
No but Grandpa lived the longest of any coworker at an iron mine which was closed due to pollution before environmental regulation, despite having silicosis, diabetes, alcoholism, and having later worked as a diesel mechanic and teamster. Hell they had a hell of a time keeping him in nursing homes, seriously they kick him out of several because he’s sneak out with female residents to get drunk and lucky.
It took a hospital to take the old guy out. Not even unfiltered Lucky Strikes would do it. He didn’t die until they tried and failed to find some cancer to explain his regular bouts with pneumonia.
I was born 5 miles from a reactor and a little north of what Marvel considers the nexus of all realities though.
Aha, there you have it. You probably can fly as well! Err, but if testing it, start from the ground and try to go up. If that does not work, the standing on your roof and jumping off attempt usually just ends in broken legs. Or worse.
alright here is something I can actually help you with a little as I have later plans for an electrical type hero and I’ve been doing a little bit of research, always handy. First, is she negatively or positively charged with energy? This might be an interesting variable for several reasons but the first is travel. Her power to travel works on the level of negative and positive particles. If she is negatively charged then she travels through positive points of ionic discharge where if she is positively charged she would travel inversely toward negatively charged points of contact instead. These points can be in the air or the ground which would be in keeping with your thoughts on her being able to travel through the air. You could however have her changing back and forth between a positive charge and a negative charge. If this is the case she could theoretically be able to split between a purely positive charged being and a negative charged being, a potential of becoming her own nemesis if you go with this option, in which the team could end up facing at a later date one of her two persona. In either case the charge type she has could play a major role down the line, just something to think about. If you want some other question answered later on in the topic of electric heroes drop me a line.
Okay. I don’t know if anyone has suggested this for a name for Halo’s spheres… but here goes: Orbitals. Getting both the “orb” aspect and the fact they orbit her.
It’s a most enjoyable comic, btw. I must admit I enjoyed it a lot :)
Welcome to the community. There have been the odd one or two suggestions. Mostly on the page where the ArcSWAT members were coming up with their own.
JIGGAWATT OF BORG: Resistance is a measure of the degree to which conductor opposes an electric current through it.
If we do not know how anti-matter affects gravity, could it generate anti-gravity? Does an anti-matter battery, provide anti-electricity. Are anti-matter people in favour of antidisestablishmentarianism?
Actually mixing antimatter into a world of matter could cause rather large explosions as the two mix…… World ending explosions to be precise. As a rule of thumb it’s thought that when matter and antimatter occupy the same place you’d end up with an earth shattering kaboom. That’s because of the adverse effects of the two types of matter. Not only that but their exact opposites so the effects of them canceling themselves out is what would cause the massive explosion created by them coming into contact. At least that’s the theory at any rate.
It’s not theory
If matter and antimatter come into contact with eachother, they will annahilate each other, which will turn them into pure energy.
A gram of matter annahilating (so half a gram of matter and half a gram of antimatter) would release rhoughly the amount of energy that was released when the Hiroshima bomb exploded.
Humanity can already make tiny amounts of antimatter (as in, several anti protones at a time) in the Large Hadron Collider. These can be trapped in a vaccum, held in place by electromagnetic fields and studdied for awhile (though they will eventually come into contact with the walls of the vaccum chamber, and be annahilated. Because it’s only a few particles, this doesn’t release enough energy to actually damage anything, but we can detect and study it)
It has been established and proved that antimatter is affected by (and produces) the same gravity as the equivalent normal matter.
This is because, although the electron / proton charges are reversed, they still have the same (positive) mass.
Negative mass has been thorised about, but never proven. The nature of matter with negative mass would be interesting;
Normal matter attracts itself, it would also attract negative matter.
Negative mass matter also (should) attract itself, but repels normal matter.
It has been theorised that if you could connect a block of normal matter and a block of negative matter somehow (thoretical massless pole or something) that if you were then to give it some accelleration, it would continue to move with a constant accelleration, which would make an interesting space-ship drive.
Negative mass matter, unlike antimatter wouldn’t annahilate on contact with normal matter, though it may interact oddly. (I am not well enough versed in this to say what would actually happen, but gravity is known as a weak force for a reason, on the atomic level, chemical reactions are performed with far stronger forces, so normal chemistry could probably happen).
Antimatter and negative mass matter will still be formed of atoms, and molecules, just as normal matter is. For each normal molecule, there is an anti/negative counterpart*, which in the absense of normal matter, should act no differently from it’s normal counterpart (chemically).
This was all thorised many decades ago.
*may not actually exist, but could. e.g. We seem to be missing a LOT of the antimatter that should exist in the universe. Also, no-one has ever found any negative mass matter.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for that.
So now that Jiggawatt is in the fight is Glowbug from page 219 coming back to fight for a similarly powered battle. (Dave has said she’s coming back for more.)
So what happens if Jiggawatt accidentally tries arcing through someone who absorbs electricity? Jiggadeath?
My Marvel RPG character, who’s a light manipulator who absorbs light energy to fuel her powers, was once attacked by the Living Laser.
I, uh, accidentally ate him.
Why do I see Max holding the absorber by the ankles shaking him and shouting, “spit her out, spit her out!”
He he he. That had me laughing out loud.
Just as well you spit, don’t believe anyone (least of all Jiggs) would want her coming out the other end