Grrl Power #233 – What a (Insert Electricity Pun Here)
Whoa, Glowbug just took out two Arcs in as many pages. Someone ought to do something about that.
When bad guys go down, it doesn’t really matter where they fall, but when good guys go down, you have to ensure they don’t become hostage bait, especially someone like Heatwave who isn’t armored in any way without her heat corona.
I think characters like Mr. Amorphous get created because in every artists career, usually sort of early on, they get really frustrated with trying to get proportions right, so they make up a character who can stretch or change the size of his body parts independently. Then if they draw their arms too long, they can just say, “Yeah, he’s stretchy, that’s on purpose.” Then you eventually get better at proportions right and that character gets retired. And then you start experimenting with foreshortening and he’s back in the lineup! Ok probably one artist in ten goes down that road but that was my experience.
Superhero novel update, I just finished Please Don’t Tell My Parent’s I’m a Supervillain, which I enjoyed, and now I’m on to a prequel to one of my favorite super novels, Confessions of a D-List Supervillain, appropriately enough titled Origins of a D-List Supervillain. I enjoyed Confessions so much I went straight out and bought another novel by the author, Jim Bernheimer. Yes it’s about 13 year old girls training to become unicorn knights and yes I assume the target audience is 13 year old girls. Actually I think I bought my kindle so I could read it without anyone seeing me reading a novel with a unicorn on the cover but it was really good. Good world building, good character arcs, so even though it’s not a superhero novel I recommend it as well. There’s two in the series now, Rider: Spirals of Destiny: Book 1 and Sorceress- Spirals of Destiny Book 2.
I’ve had to upgrade my hosting plan; a combination of the comic’s traffic and a (probably intentionally) overbooked server prompted the move, only I haven’t made the move yet. At some point this week I’ll need to switch the grrlpowercomic.com domain from the old hosting to the new. I’ll try to minimize the pain, but expect part of an evening this week (probably Wednesday or over the weekend if I can swing it) where the page will be hard to get to just depending on where you live and how quickly the DNS servers update. It’s sort of a good news bad news thing. Sure the new hosting costs more, but once it’s switched over the site should be (had better be) hella fast.
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or a quick and effective cure for depression. (Yes they still use electroconvulsive shock therapy in acutely psychotic patients, especially for suicidally depressed people.)
And it only causes memory loss and brain damage once in a while, and we still have absolutely no idea why it works…so no problems whatsoever, really! And hey, let’s give it to schizophrenics too, on the basis that “nobody is ever schizophrenic AND has epilepsy…so if we induce an epileptic fit, it’ll ‘chase the schizophrenia out’, right?”
Seriously, though, that’s the only rationale that anybody’s been able to come up with for “deliver electric shocks to patient’s brain” as a medical treatment.
(Feel free to disregard all the above as outdated if some new research has come up since I did A-Level Psychology that offers an actual explanation. Or if I’ve remembered it completely wrong.)
Well in fact there have been some new results, not so much in the psychology field rather in the neurology field. Of course, we’re not speaking about the big electroshock anymore, rather some very targeted and weak current. There was an article on Ars Technica recently, though I’m not convinced this trend will prove long lived.
Electrotherapy has been proven to work.
We may not yet understand HOW exactly it works, but it greatly helps patients.
It’s amazing how little people know about certain therapys, yet still yell about it really loud.
Shocks are administered while the patient is sedated, and patients do not remember the shocks after the therapy. There is no pain, or anything, they just wake up and feel better
Ever actually witnessed a treatment? Or are you just taking the word of “professionals”?
I have witnessed such, and it goes nothing like you described. Think the scene from “Face Off” only grittier.
You are not getting confused with the electric chair, are you?
No, thankfully I have never had cause to witness one of those, and my State retired “Old Sparky” some year ago in favor of lethal injection. Although with the problems lately with that, there has been some talk about bringing it back.
Or, as that anti-deathsentence judge said: bring back firing squads
Carrie Fisher uses it to (successfully) help treat her…bipolar disorder I think? Definitely something that causes depression, I think that’s it. She’s talked about it in her memoirs. (Which I do still need to read, hence why I can’t quite recall if it’s BPD or regular depression — that said, that revelation was part of what made the book famous, and part of what has me wanting to read it in the first place)
Of course, BECAUSE repeated use can cause memory issues, it’s still a last resort. It’s pretty much these days ONLY used to treat certain depressive disorders…as a last resort. As in, medications aren’t enough. Unfortunately it’s not a one-shot fix, it fixes the symptoms for a certain period of time and then the person needs it done again — hence why the side effects of repeated use are of concern, and, again, why it’s VERY rarely used and only as a last resort.
IIRC the voltage used is quite low, though it does cause physical convulsions that LOOK scary, which is probably why people such as yourself are so ready to freak out and reject it. However, apparently it (in MODERN incarnations) isn’t painful and causes an ENORMOUS improvement in depressive symptoms. Carrie Fisher pretty much swears by it, and will probably swear AT you if you try to tell her she shouldn’t be having it done.
To the best of my knowledge however it is NOT still used for schizophrenia here in 2016, because schizophrenia has completely different neurological causes. IIRC it’s only, absolutely only, still used for depressive disorders, and only severe ones at that. Your average “I feel sad because of some crap that happened in my life” bout of depression that almost everybody goes through at some point? Isn’t in that category, nor is anything in this case that responds well and consistently to medication or talk therapy or pretty much anything other than ECT. But when it does respond to ECT, the difference is dramatic — like, talking “normal life” instead of “suicidal”.
tldr Neurology is weird and sometimes scary-looking or scary-sounding treatments are life-savers. Please do research with actual medical sources before flipping out over them.
not any more…
So because it looks scary on the outside, you think that disproves any of what RobK said?
This like reading a demented Pokemon battle only better. :D
YES!!!! DAVE! Give me a DENIED ATTACK!!!
Isn’t that what Halo has been doing?
Halo uses PPO. It is super effective.
Concretia faints.
Halo used Lighthook grapple. It does no damage.
Concretia is moved to the arresting line.
“Hex, I call you!”
Hex joins the battle.
Hex tries to run away.
Halo uses Lighthook entangle. It does no damage.
Hex is blocked. She can not escape.
Hex uses Buster Buddy laser. It is moderately effective. (It penetrates Halo’s shield.)
Halo uses Beeeep!
Hex is staggered. She is unable to attack.
Halo uses opaque shield.
Hex uses Buster Buddy laser. It does no damage.
Halo uses Lighthook fetch. She grabs a Buster Buddy.
Hex uses swear! (Rank amateur). It is not effective.
Halo uses Lighthook entangle. It does no damage.
Hex is unable to attack. She is moved to the arresting line.
Harem uses narco-bracelet. It is super effective.
Hex faints.
Except Halo’s shields have already proved effective in blocking Hex’s lasers. It temporarily traced a line on the surface.
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That’s because of two things:
1) Halo’s shield isn’t transparent. Even in that pic, you can see a grid of energy lines. It’s probably detecting excessive incoming light levels, and changing itself in that area to compensate.
and more importantly:
2) Hex’s “lasers” are not lasers. Check out Page 225 where she’s using them in “beam” mode to hold herself up in panels 1 and 2. Any laser with enough physical force (yes, light has force, just not much per watt) to hold her off the ground would be ionizing the air around itself to the point that the whole parking lot would be full of lightning. Those are particle beams.
She is not using the Bustier Buddies(tm) to hold herself up
Ionizing the air would be the least of the issues from a set of lasers holding someone in the air:
Assuming a mass of 50kg, we have a force of ~500N. A photon rocket has a power output of 30MW/N, for 500N that means 15GW: The thermal bloom would be like having three tonnes of TNT exploding… every second.
Oh man, I forgot how much fun these debates can be; sadly, I have nothing to contribute to the blaze, so I’m just going to observe as this turns into a Fan Wank
Another comic update and the Villain Tally continues in V1.3!
Reminders:
+ My original post of this list and its subsequent commentary can be found HERE
+ Things that I specifically want verified will be marked with this symbol: *(?)*
+ This list is still a work in progress, please feel free to make corrections to where I am missing info.
+ I am not trying to make a villain bios and powers wiki, but I do want suggestions on NAMES! Names written in the comic pages, sidebar who’s who, and Author commentary are automatically accepted, but community suggestions in replies to these villain tally posts will also be considered!
Changelog for V1.3:
+ Active/Defeated status and “last seen” page # updated as usual
+ Included links to page references
+ Removed some redundancies
+ Included name suggestions for Villains-as-yet-unnamed in canon
+ Added a “Foreshadowed” and “honorable mentions” lists!
+ Formatting edits! New structure with active villains listed first and in order of appearance!
+ Formatting edits! Compressed to make less “scroll intensive”!
+ Formatting edits! Villains with names are now in bold!
And now the tally…
Active (In rough order of 1st appearance)
1) Male in blue suit and fedora with white eye makeup/tattoos [1st appearance: #186]
——Last seen standing under the tree in #231
2) “Hex” [1st appearance: #202]
——Last seen escaping through the bushes in #229
3) Blond Female in orange top, teal jeans, and orange/black headband [1st appearance: #202]
——I want to name her “The Blond Bombshell” because of that headband logo
——Last seen “denied” by Halo in #232 (Author has acknowledged the hair color mistake)
4) Green haired male [1st appearance: #204]
——Last seen Giving orders to the villains in #230
5) Blond female with gray visor and blue eye makeup/tattoos [1st appearance: #204]
——Last seen in #230
6) “Red Cape” [1st appearance: #209]
——Last seen ignoring friendly hex fire in #227 (Author has acknowledged the change of pants)
7) “Jabberwokky” [1st appearance: #213]
——Last seen fighting Math in #220
8) Shirtless Caucasian Male with zebra mohawk [1st appearance: #229]
——Last seen blocking Dabbler’s sword with a piece of pavement in #229
9) Caucasian Male in bluejeans and black shirt [1st appearance: #229]
——Last seen dodging Jiggawatt’s lightning in #229
10) “Glowbug” [1st appearance: #219]
——Last seen shooting down Heatwave in #233
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Defeated (In rough order of presumed defeat)
1) Blue-haired Meat-head [1st appearance: #200]
——Beaten by Anvil in #202
2) Crystal-handed (Apparently naked) Meat-head [1st appearance: #202]
——Backhanded by Maxima in #203
3) “Shadow Boxer” [st appearance: #205]
——Beaten by Halo in #206
4) Caucasian male wearing black shirt [1st appearance: #206]
——Choked out by Anvil in #206
——may be Defeated Villain 19 below pictured face down in #224 *(?)*
5) Spiky hair with yellow tuft Male [1st appearance: #207]
——Bean-bagged in the face by Shawn in #207
6) “Concretia” [1st appearance: #204]
——Beaten by Math in #209
——Headshot by Peggy in #216
7) Female in red costume with gymnastics ribbon [1st appearance: #204]
——Beaten by Achilles (launched by Maxima) in #209
8) Caucasian Male in white tank top [1st appearance: #210]
——Beaten by Math in #210
9) Black Male with fire knuckles [1st appearance: #210]
——Beaten by Math induced friendly fire in #210
10) Laser beam eyes [1st appearance: #204]
——Ameteur dentistry by Math in #211
11) “Lee Press-on Claws” [1st appearance: #204]
——Beaten by Halo in #212
12) Anvil’s 3rd bad guy (torso with a light blue shirt, held by the belt) [1st appearance: #212]
——Beaten by Anvil sometime between #206 and #212
13) Male in navy blue shirt with Mohawk [1st appearance: #214]
——Pictured defeated on the restaurant floor in #214
14) Shirtless sweaty Black Male with braided hair [1st appearance: #219]
——Beaten by Heatwave in #219
15) Male in Blue vest [1st appearance: #219]
——Head-gripped by stalwart in #219
16) “Heavenly Sword” [1st appearance: #203]
——Defeated by Dabbler in #223
17) “Silent Shadow/Mach the Knife” [1st appearance: #219]
——Incapacitated by Dabbler in #220
——Defeated by Harem in #224
18) Caucasian arm and partial torso wearing black pants with no shirt [1st appearance: #224] *(?)*
——Pictured defeated face down in the grass in the very bottom corner of #224
19) Caucasian Male wearing black shirt and camo pants[1st appearance: #224] *(?)*
——Pictured defeated face down in the grass in #224
——May be Defeated Villain 4 listed above *(?)*
20) Blond Caucasian Male in red pants, yellow shirt, and an odd hat [1st appearance: #226]
——Beaten by Mr. Amorphous in #226
21) Caucasian male with torn sleeves and green Camo skinny jeans [1st appearance: #227]
——Hit by Friendly fire from Hex in #227
22) “Gauntlette” [1st appearance: #204]
——Beaten by Jiggawatt in #228
23) Caucasian Male with dark pony tail and green cloud legs [1st appearance: #228]
——Beaten by Jiggawatt in #228
24) Blond Caucasian Male with blue pants and orange energy lines [1st appearance: #228]
——Beaten by Jiggawatt in #228
25) Pair of legs wearing red pants with black greeves [1st appearance: #228]
——Thrown into the asphalt by Maxima in #228
26) Caucasian male with yellow shirt, green pants and fire hair [1st appearance: #204]
——Beaten by Halo in #229
27) “Boilerplate” [1st appearance: #226]
——Beaten by Maxima in #230
28) “Breakpoint” [1st appearance: #204]
——Beaten by Hiro in #231
29) Giant wearing Orange shorts and glasses [1st appearance: #204]
——I would like to suggest the name “Budget Hulk”
——Beaten by Hiro in #231
30) Blue crystal swordsman [1st appearance: #231]
——Awesome name suggestion of ”Blue Ice” drawn from O.B. Juan’s comment
——Beaten by Hiro in #231
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Foreshadowed(In rough order of 1st appearance)
1) Deus [1st appearance: #130]
2) Vale [1st appearance: #130]
3) Demon Lord (“Screwball”) [1st appearance: #176]
4) Panel 2 [1st appearance: #186]
5) Panel 4 [1st appearance: #186]
6) Panel 5 Foreground [1st appearance: #186]
7) Panel 5 Background [1st appearance: #186]
8) Panel 6 [1st appearance: #186]
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Honorable Mentions(In rough order of 1st appearance)
1) That Flying rescue guy! [1st appearance: #7]
——Not a villain, but not on the team either
2) ”The Filmer” [1st appearance: #8]
——Technically a figment of Halo’s imagination, but I desperately want him to be real!
3) Lightning fist bar fight guy [1st appearance: #185]
——Decided not to hit that guy
4) Black construction worker [1st appearance: #185]
——Gave up his life of crime
5) “Nyah Nyah Can’t Hit Me Man.” [1st appearance: #193]
——”He doesn’t actually commit any crimes though, he just shows up during battles and annoys everyone. And I’m this (–] [–) close to making him canon.” –DaveB
Personally I think Hex should on a list of her own for those who realize their chances are slim to nill and are running away/playing dead and look for a chance to escape.
Also as a warning to anyone trying to use the links in his post some of them do not work, I didn’t go through all of them so I don’t know if none of them work but some don’t so this is fair warning.
DaveB said that the guy who got burnt by Heatwave alongside Glowb was not defeated and that he was going to make another appearance (whether that will still happen after the complaints about the fight ‘taking too long’ and becoming ‘boring’, we will just have to wait and see)
when did he say this? can you give me a page reference? (though it’s highly unlikely you’re checking previous comic’s commentaries
One problem: all of your links have an ” at the end
This is what Maxima meant when she yelled at Math to find someone who can counter Jabberwokky. Glowbug has lighting generation. People who should absolutely not engage glowbug.
Peggy
Math
Anvil
Heatwave
Approach with caution. May or may not be able to dodge lightning. Or resist if hit.
Stalwart
Mr. A
Super Hiro
Harem
Could engage but poorly.
Achilles
Obvious counters.
Halo (shield)
Dabbler (Lighting materia…..possibly Knights of the Round materia somewhere)
Jiggawatt (Ah Doy)
Maxima (Because….Maxima)
Always use rock when they use scissors.
call me crazy but I don’t think Mr. A is out of the fight… I think this for 2 reasons:
1) Maxima said “Got her!” but did not say “Amorphous, do not engage!” or something along those lines. Given her order bandying thus-far, I feel this means she has some confidence in Mr. A’s ability to take Amperage and Voltage.
2) In his power stat-block on the cast page it shows Mr. A has 4 pips on his shield stat. This is the same amount as Stalwart and MORE than Hiro… And those gentlemen can purportedly take quite a beating.
That said I actually think Mr. A SHOULD be taken out of the fight by this. The losses on ARCswat’s side have been minimal and Achilles, Heatwave and Mr. A are the closest to a “team within a team” we’ve seen, so for all of them to be out first makes the most sense.
The big issue is what kind of stuff can he absorb. His profile says kinetic damage and piercing attacks. Electricity is none of those. That’s why I put Stalwart, Hiro and Mr. A on my approach with caution list. Jiggs has no dots at all in shield yet should be totally immune to Glowbug.
Yeah, but he’s ‘rubbery’ ;p … Lord knows if that extends to his electrical resistance though. I doubt’s he’s as ridiculously immune to as say Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece though.
He may be ‘rubbery’ (or just stretchy, it hasn’t been explained how he Morphs), but does that extend to his ear canals?
The first Death Star was heavily protected, except for that exhaust port thing, and Glowb just fired a proton torpedo(es) straight down it
Do I need to explain “;p” to you. ;p
Not really (unless you want to), you just happened to be the one being replied to
I’ve been electrocuted a number of times and one thing I noticed is that my muscles tend to tense up. Now if we look at his neck in the last panel when the “killing blow” is being administered we can see his muscles are not contracting and can be assumed to not be conducting the electricity. And I know she is targeting his head but once inside the body it should affect everything despite his natural resistance. So my vote is that he has a naturally high resistance to the electricity due to whatever “rubbery” tendencies he possesses.
However, his hair is visibly affected… maybe his rubberiness is giving his neck high resistance, so keeping the current purely between Glowbug’s hands rather than going to ground. Nice for protecting his heart, but I’d be concerned about his brain.
True, his hair standing on end does support the idea of being electrocuted. But, that could also be because of the ambient electrical field in the air. After all static makes your hair stand on end without being damaging to the body. Also to reiterate my previous theory with the muscles we would at least see his facial muscles and jaw clenching since those muscles are in teh path of the electrical current.
But as always we’ll have to wait and see what Dave does.
This is not a wholly true list.
Heatwave absolutely can fight Glowbug. She already did, and was subduing her until the whole “knife in toe” thing happened.
Heatwave was applying her patented “Yeah, but it’s a dry heat” attack. Glowbug and the guy with her would have passed out in a few more seconds.
Amorphous might be stunned, but don’t count him out of the fight.
Why not? Peggy will be engaging with a Barrett at a range of several hundred yards (if she is smart). Depending on Glowbug’s defensive abilities, if any, it could easily be a one shot kill for Peggy. Now, assume Glowbug lives. If she wants to retaliate she has to figure out where Peggy is, get to her, and then attack her. Which would provide the ARC team a decent amount of time in which to attack her some more. Heck, Peggy could probably get off one or more shots just by herself.
Maxima prefaced the fight by saying “Keep it non lethal if you can.” Glowbug has nothing that Peggy can shoot at other than herself. Her rifle is using a fairly large caliber round. Peggy could flat out execute a third of people we have seen so far by shooting them in the head or heart. If Glowbug or anyone else become a serious threat to by-standers or is about to kill off a member of Arc Swat I’m sure Peggy would step in. Until then, Peggy can’t engage anyone she has to target directly with her weapon unless she has high probability she is unlikely to kill them.
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The books are free online but you can buy Kindle copies of the finished books. Personally I like it because of its focus on a sort of superhero racism between the groups with useful controllable powers and the mocked and demonized people with either useless or uncontrollable powers.
Since so many others have mentioned superhero literature:
Aaron Williams at http://www.nodwick.com has a great comic called PS238; it’s about a school for “metaprodigy” kids (and one poor kid with no powers whatsoever).
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Me personally, I wouldn’t throw someone who has a knife in their boot.
Well, he can’t fly, and he may not be able to stretch that far carrying her, depends on how exactely he ‘tossed’ her and how gently Maxi can catch her (considering her speed, probably very gently)
It’s the necessity of rescuing someone from a dangerous situation. After they are in a safer place first aid is started. Heatwave is concious and oriented. Her only injury is a foot wound. Glowbug may have done her an unpleasant favor by cauterizing the wound.
Or… he could have set her down, and either Maxima or Halo or Harem or Dabbler or Anvil could provide cover.
This would be a good time to demonstrate the Harpell method for fighting illthids (Siege of Darkness, The Legend of Drizzt, book 9) and he’s the perfect one to try it.
If being stabbed in the toe does that to her, Heatwave may need to find a new line of work.
Stabbed in the toe, and electrocuted, not every Super can withstand either let alone both
But you may be correct: all cops should rethink protecting the community because they might get shot or stabbed with a pointy object or get a paper cut writing out a speeding ticket
shes not like that from the foot stabbing – she’s like that from being blasted with electricity…
She’s still cracking jokes, a bad one but still Heatwave is hanging in there.
Well she can fly, so the toe is less important than it would otherwise be
And lighting is rather easy to survive. Even more so in her case, because she was not in contact with the ground
We humans can survive a lot of stuff with medical attention.
Not many of those we will be able to walk away from on our own feet to get the medical attention. Or able to fight in a superhuman battle for that matter.
…man, Glowbug is really into this. I think we can cross her off the potential-recruit-in-lieu-of-jail-time list, she’s WAY too happy to be hurting people.
I’ve read a lot of superhero fiction lately, love Origins and Confession of a D-List Supervillain, I recently picked up Action Figures 1 & 2 (Teenage superheroes) pretty interesting and fun. I’ve also enjoyed Wearing A Cape, Villains, Inc, and Young Sentinels. It posits a very “Paper, Scissors, Rock” kind of super team building–because each power set has its own weaknesses and strengths.
I recommend The Fall of Doc Future too.
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A great superpower book I can recommend is “Soon I Will Be Invincible” by Austin Grossman ( also, fun website design.) Lots of intelligent humor. “He’s not evil… he has a disease, ‘Malign Hypercognition Syndrome’.”
Ya think ‘Superhero’ Porn is a thing in this world? because that’s where one would presume Mr Amorphous might have a side job… >_>
Glowbug is one tough girl.
If it was me who had those horrific burns all over my body I would have abandoned the fight and rushed myself to the ER for some medical treatment
It looks a lot worse here, when she is glowing. All she has is a bad sunburn. The dark parts are darkly tanned in her normal skin colors. The rest is a day-at-the-beach red.
First of all I love this comic. Dave you mix reason and fantasy in a wonderful way. If there will ever be a movie based on Grrl Power I will take my family for it, even though I hate cinemas.
Second: hello everyone.
Third: I dont buy it. Even considering what Dave wrote about Glowbug taking out two of Arc team members (and he is probably the only person who knows whats going to happen)I am not convinced: Mr A.was not shown going down, we do not have enough data as to say what his reaction to electricity will be, or even if there wil be any(after all he is not an ordinary human, he might collapse, do a spasm – which may casue him to lash out with “rubbery flailing arms of doom” AoE or it may not even tickle him.). Also that first line in Daves comment seems a bit suspicious to me (no offence meant). Thats why I say again, there is not enough data on the subject to reliably say what will happen, its a nice cliffhanger though, good job Dave :)
My thoughts after reading theArcmages comment:
Why Maxima is staying back and not grind on the front line? Well she is the leader so its obvious to me shes leading. I think that without her commands this fight would quickly turn into a super bar fight and by this point there would be at least two or three more incatacitated/dead Arc members. And its not like shi didnt lift a fist, just look at her dislocating arm attack, it allowed Hiro to save a team member and disable two or three enemies. Such tactical thinking is just what could be reasonably expected from a soldier with combat experience against supers.
I think GB just jumped up a few places on Maximas “to pacify” list, either she will delegate someone to deal with her, or someone will volunteer for the job.
Why do the villian blitz even happened? Good question but Im sure Dave has good answer, in ordinary comic I would expect a telepathic suggestion, or maybe a tryout for “Team Evil”, best fighters get membership with “get out of jail card” and other goodies? But here, it can be anything but certainly not stupid or boring.
Does anyone agrees/disagrees with any of above?
PS Please forgive me for any gramatical/ stylistic errors in my comment as this is not my first language and I dont feel fluent in it yet.
My wild guess is the reason for this apparently pointless fight is a mystery that will become a central feature in the Daverse ©Yorp ®DaveB.
As to Glowbug, she has the attention of the mighty (Maxima). Not good. Just ask Hex.
best idea for why so many supers showed up to fight a super police unit I came up with is someone publicized try-outs (show your stuff and if good enough maybe get a job) to join arc, but not someone involved with arc in reality mixed with idiots who heard max’s “challenge” and decided to get her first.
We didn’t see Heatwave get taken out until the page after she got zapped, so saying that we haven’t seen Morph fall when he also got hit in the final(ish considering Brook got hit 3 or 4 panels before the last one) panel is being optimistic
BTW, where is Achilles in all this? I lost track. In the rubble? Being tossed about as a projectile, being used as a club, or in general, being an annoying twit as usual? >.> I’d still buy ‘im a drink or two. Or three.
In his tent?
+1
He is under the restaurant. Or rather the pile of bricks that used to be a restaurant. Heavenly Sword dropped most of a wall on him. Then Hex’s panic fire leveled the rest.
Here’s a question, do you think Achilles can get intoxicated?
That’s an interesting question. My theory is that he can’t. Intoxication is a reaction to some kind of chemical imbalance, usually caused by ingesting or breathing some kind of poisonous substance. But it can also be caused by some things we usually don’t class as poisonous. One example of this is oxygen.
Achilles is said to be more than just tough, more on the scale of invulnerable to a degree that Supes would envy. In fact no one has so far been able to dream up a way to even cut a strand of his hair. I seem to remember something about him being able to work in contaminated areas cleaning up after chemical disasters which should mean that he’s not affected by inhaled substances. It’s a good guess that the same is true for ingested substances, and injections isn’t even on the table.
This could end up being rather frustrating. I can see him going through a bad time and end up envying the way other people can drug themselves to oblivion while he can’t. He couldn’t even commit suicide, and from what we know it doesn’t seem he is aging either, so he can’t even look forward to death by old age.
Let’s hope Archon has some good psychiatrists.
Intoxication is the symptoms of being mildly poisoned, as is the hangover. Achilles is immune to poison. He cannot even enjoy the burn of a jalapeno.
Well glow bug is looking psychotic. As for super hero novels definitively recommend worm if you have not already read it. Extremely good.
Glowbug! Quick, dive back into the water! Go for the “distraction factor.” It has to work, why else would female battle gear always be designed like that?
Since I didn’t see it mentioned further up in the comments, Jim Bernheimer also goes by Jbern over on Fanfiction.net. It’s been a year or so since he’s put anything new out on the fanfic front, but if you enjoy his writing style you’ll likely enjoy reading a story or two of his over there.
I thought he only hinted that Glowbug wasnt gone… I don’t remember him saying anything about the other guy… can you provide me a page # for reference?
yeah I see that now… I’ll try to fix the broken links next time by removing the quotation marks from [a href=”…”] so now it will just read [a href=…]. I’m not sure why it works with the quotation marks on some of the links but not on the others.
Hopefully this won’t break them further. Even if it does, since there’s no edit feature on these comments It will have to wait till next update to get fixed. I don’t want to spam the comments with the list. If the links are broken this time I will ask an admin to delete the post.
as a test here’s a test:
1) Male in blue suit and fedora with white eye makeup/tattoos [1st appearance: #186]
——Last seen standing under the tree in #231
I thought he only hinted that Glowbug wasnt gone… I don’t remember him saying anything about the other guy… can you provide me a page # for reference?
hmmm the reply function is broken after the move
Geeze I hope not. Testing testing.
Hmm. Investigating the lack of nesting.
Testing some more.
Nice that we don’t end up at the bottom of the page when replying :)
Hmm odd, and damn, I am a terrible lurker for this comic but I love it though.
Welcome out of the shadows :D
Reminds me of my Ex. Even the glasses and that demented glazed stare as she THOUGHT she had the better of me…
Noo!! The shadows have cookies! Come back!!
Glowbug has been using her lightning powers through her hands. Peggy is already established as a good enough shot to target something that small and moving (e.g. Heavenly sword). I think Dave does not want to show someone’s hand being blown apart by a .50 Browning FMJ slug, though. Shock would likely take Glowbug out of the skirmish, but it would take her reconstructive surgery and years of physical therapy to get partial use of her hand back.
Peggy could also shoot her through a lung and leave her with a sucking chest wound, which is less likely to kill her in this venue (I’m sure paramedics are already on the way), than a battlefield. It would take Glowbug out, but would be quite a gamble.
Also, gross to draw.
A supersonic bullet whizzing right by her may “convince” Glowbug to disengage.
I think these are all only options if GB becomes more of a danger to the team.
That cannon (canon? can never remember which is the correct spelling for ‘a rilly big gun’) Pegs is using can not be used safely in a non-lethal fashion against a relatively normal human (and in this case, Glowb counts, as in she has shown no hint of any form of invulnerability)
A ‘warning shot across her bows’ would be stupid: in the time it took for the slug to get to her she could have moved sufficiently for it to go through her head, or far enough away for it to not even register, not to mention, where is the bullet going to end up?
Ummm, there’s a good question……WHY isn’t Brook and everyone else armored? I can understand Max not being armored, and maybe Hiro’s got the full flying brick package, Achilles is Achilles, but everyone else is a tad bit vulnerable to being shot. Even Halo’s +100 Shield of complete stoppage won’t help her if she’s not got it activated yet. Yes, you can say that they’re not wearing armor because they weren’t in an engagement yet but that’s a rather poor excuse when the team is military backed. Only putting your armor on after you’ve been shot is as dumb as the people in movies that take their vests off after they get shot. Everyone expected this to raise alarms but no one thought “Hey I think our assets need better support”, and Max at the least should have told them to wear armor under thier civies.
Testing threaded comments some more…
Normally they’d venture out geared up but they’re obviously caught a bit flat footed here. Harem brought armor to the people most immediately in need of it, but armor wouldn’t help against being hit like lightning like that.
kevlar wouldn’t be great for much other than bullets, but there’s Dabbler, who could whip up some nano weave with an attached capacitor to absorb the shot, bonus points if she rigs it to use the collected energy.
Except, Dabbles doesn’t want any of her tech gear getting into the hands of humans
I have a feeling a lesson has been learned here. Gear of some sort will be kept handier after this.
Oh yeah sure, have them wear body armour 24/7, even when they are having a meal or a day at the beach, that won’t get old after just one day
being in a hospital or coffin would be more annoying.
Tell me that again after you got sand trapped inside your Kevlar speedo’s
Ya my Mother underwent Electroshock Therapy, They told her you won’t feel a thing, you won’t remember a thing about it either. They were wrong on both, and yet right at the same time, She Felt Everything, and She remembered everything. Her Mind turned it into a Clockwork Orange Derailment. A. She can not drink Chai Tea, She fills with dread looking at it, smells like farm Fresh air, B, Certain Classical Accompaniments make her feel sick in her stomach, C, There is people she used to be great friends with, that she has no idea who they are. and D She obtained a near complete psychological personality switch out. She now suffers from (possible) Dementia and Sociopathic Behavior.
Of all the things that can be quite joyous to be jolted to high heavens (pun intended) The Brain is in NO WAY a good place to be initiating electrical currents.
(Sources will need checking for) Note that Recent Neurology Research has shown a simple bump on the skull enough times for a sustained amount of time has caused cancer flowers to grow in the brain of people.
Noting that the brain is a Very Fragile tissue made up of Nerve clusters (Not Muscle as was thought before) anything that intrudes upon the sacred braincage of protection, will have a damaging result.
(one reason the brain surgery is a field unto it’s own self.) So ya Electroshock Therapy is considered a redundant medical practice.
and Now onto something Completely Different.
Did you Know that Girls that like boys that like Girls who are Boys, who like Boys who are girls? Everyone needs somebody to hold onto.
Um… Rubber is an insulator of electricity, so he shouldn’t be shocked.
He’s stretchy but he’s not rubber.
Dude please I’ve seen the horse edition of the wife javelin competition
When ponies throw their significant others, it defeats the boss.
Wow, I can’t believe I never commented on this. Glowbug is quite scary and impressive here!