Grrl Power #235 – The rad muncher!
Yes, Dabbler has a plush toy that eats radiation and even makes cute “nyom” noises while it’s doing so because why wouldn’t she? I made some assumptions about the nature of energy/dark energy annihilation (that’s a good word isn’t it? Annihilation.) and assumed it wouldn’t cause a massive explosion, since the particles are much more loosely packed in a lightning bolt, there’d be like 1/1,000,000th the chance for a chain reaction to occur. Apparently even in dense matter like Uranium 235, only about 1% of the matter actually chain reacts. Dabbler just had to react to the not inconsiderable amount (I assume) of gamma radiation the lightning/darkning reaction was generating. Oh, and here’s what made me pick on Garnier.
I found a new webcomic to read, you’ve probably seen it as they’ve had a banner up here on and off for a little while. It’s called 3 Minute Max. It’s pretty good so far. Less humor and more violence than Grrl Power, but it’s… technically in the superhero genre. Maybe very near future sci-fi action. I’m not sure, I just started reading it, but it has a pretty good premise. I suggest reading it at least until you understand why it’s called 3 Minute Max (about halfway through the second book.)
Armando Valenzuela who does Atomic Laundromat dropped some random Sydney fan art on me. She’s super adorkable! I can only imagine under that skirt she’s wearing opaque leggings or heck, just some sweatpants. I’m not sure she even owns any skirts to be honest. Well, no, I bet she has some from a cosplay outfit somewhere in her apartment.
Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots fame will be stopping by Zeus Comics in Dallas this Saturday, which is my regular comic shop BTW. From the looks of it on her website, it’ll be from 4-8pm, and Randy Milholland from Something*Positive will be there as well since he’s a Dallasite and they’re buds and all that. I will definitely stop by and hang out for a bit since I need to pick up my comics anyway.
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weird alien pokemon? only dabbler
Well at least it’s not a “pony”.
A certain warlock would like to talk to you in a dark alley way and his name is Richard
Actually he’s there on behalf of a guy called Cthulu……
You might not want to go….
If that thing didn’t have the pointed ears, I would’ve taken it to be Scooter…Son of Richard.
No thanks Richard can be a real “Dick” at times.
Sometimes, all of his Fwooshing just burns me up…
Dabbler’s feeding it to help level it up faster. I wonder when it’s due for that?…
It’s a pokemon Jim, but not as we know it
Looks like an Omonite with elf ears.
….Dabbler, could you have used that sleep spell any time?
Looks like she needed a quiet second or two to focus.
alien so its Spock ears
and not at any time only when it was funny
Don’t see how that is funny, just convenient (and not in a contrieved way)
someone needs to go watch “who framed roger rabbit”
(WARNING) Do not watch while high the first time! I had to turn it off half-way through when a couple of buddies begged me through tears and guffaws. They were very high at the time and I chose the movie exactly for that effect. It was hilarious.
She conked out Glowbug so she could go over and yell at Jiggawatt safely. Dabbler is not entirely happy with her. That walk in panel 7 speaks volumes.
Still don’t see how that is funny
Between Dabbler treating JW like an errant little sister and Zebra Guy standing politely by, it makes me chuckle. GB was just a loose end that needed a nap.
And Dabs hooves going “clop, clop” instead of the standard “stomp. stomp” a huffy walk like that makes for sound effects, finishes the job.
The whole page is the funnies, just don’t see how putting Glowb to rest with that “Save a Lover(ly) Cutie” nighty-night spell is particularly funny in itself
Oh. You’ll have to ask lowten. I don’t think KOing GB was Law Of Funny material. Just another display of Dabs versatility. And a quick end to a crazy dangerous situation.
It looks like she used DrowHypnAll.
Ba dum pum.
Other than it is yet another example of A) Dabbler is better at being colossal bag of tricks & solutions than a member of ArcSWAT’s tactical strike force, and B) her Rick Sanchez skills make her worth the trouble anyway, especially since she is neither drunk all the time nor insane.
Unless you’re referring to something I never heard of before, I think you mean “ammonite“, not “Omonite”.
Ah, I see you meant “Omanyte“, the Pokémon, not “Omonite”.
Om-nom = noisy eating. Omnimite = noisy eater.
“Omanyte” is a pokemon from the original Red and Blue pokemon games. That was the reference.
…is that a plushy Cthulu?
Looks more like some Pokemon critter.
cthulu has the body of a dragon type thing with long narrow wings
how many san points did that cost you?
he’s down to 1.
I don’t reallly care what it is, all I know is that I want it.
Yeah, when can we expect SquidleySpock plushies in the store?
It’s an Omnomite!
Are you sure you don’t mean an “ammonite“?
Om-Nom- Ite
Jared: “All praise the Helix!”
https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/this-is-probably-the-fastest-ive-cranked-out-this-many-panels
so that’s what it evolves into
Now this is more like how Dabbler should be acting. And we have the only smart guy villain present. In fact smarter than Hex. He’s had enough and he really didn’t want what he got in the first place. If he did his own hair, I think he may have failed in two life style selections.
Who has the worst haircut in town?
The best hairdresser. Because he cannot do his own haircut as he con do other people’s.
I’ll buy that. Maybe I was a little to hard on him.
Anybody have an extra “o” I could borrow?
Sure. Could I have an “a” in exchange?
:)
I thought vowels were $250 per type of vowel.
Little “o”? I only give away the “Big O” aka “le Petit Mort”… ;)
“le Petit Mort”? “the Short Dead Guy”? Don’t you mean “la Petite Mort” (“the Little Death”)?
I thought it was “la Petite Morte”
No, “la Petite Morte” would be “the Short Dead Girl”, “the Dead Little Woman” or something like that. Death is “la mort”.
La petit morte (the little death) is French slang for an orgasm.
I know “la petite mort” (the little death) is a French slang for an orgasm. But “le petit mort” (the short dead man), “la petite morte” (the short dead woman) and “la petit morte” (does not mean anything, is just a grammatical error) are still misspellings if you are going for this idiom. It is “la petite mort”, period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort
I’m sorry, DaveB, you write a great webcomic and I love it, but on this specific comment, you were wrong… I was not even trying to be pedantic, at first. My first comment was tongue in cheek, because Opus’ mistake took me by surprise. The idea that a teeny tiny dead dwarf could have anything to do with a metaphor for an orgasm was just hilarious to me. So thanks to Opus the Poet for getting a laugh out of me, if involuntarily, and sorry to anyone I corrected if I sounded haughty.
Oh. I don’t know enough about french to realize he had typed it wrong.
Well, I had an unfair advantage there.
Gotta figure there would be at least one person on the villain team with basic common sense.
Not actually listed in the job qualifications. Especially for the “mook” level types. He’s just smart enough to know when to quit. Not smart enough to know when not to start.
A hairdresser with super strength.
I’ll post the rest of my comment once i get off the floor and re-stich my sides.
He’ll comb those tangles out, or else.
Super Strength, Hairdressing, Starwars Fanboi…. I’ll be with you in a moment, my brain has oozed out of my head and landed on the floor with the idea of that combo…..
I’ll bet he is in charge of the Brazilian Wax station.
Le Ouch!
Ow, good lord.
(Except he doesn’t even need the wax….)
X_X
He could “Wash that man right out of your hair”!
Specially after Maxi punched him at full strength
Guts and bone splinters isn’t that an episode of “Bones”?
Maybe Archon could offer him a job. It looks like they could use the assistance, seeing as how none of the male team members have any body hair at all. He will need a name. I suggest the obvious ‘Moe Hawke’.
At least he may get to pick a name since he’s still conscious enough for someone to ask.
I think “Zebra Hawk” is better… animal theme is at least tangentially relates to super strength… but now I think I’d prefer “The BarbERian”
Since barbarian and Barber are both from the latin word for “hair” it’s still etymologically correct (and I’m never sure if I’m spelling the word for bug catcher or the word for word study correctly with this spell checker)…
man… I hate to do this because I feel like you might be agreeing with me (if I’m not then we should blame text for it’s lack of inflection), but… “Barbarian” comes from Greek… Barbarian just meant anyone who didn’t speak greek because foreign languages all sounded like “bar bar bar bar” to them…
Bar, bar, bar barbarian, barbarian, please take my land…. name that tune, ‘cos I forgot who sang it.
Barbara Anne by the beach boys.
Thanks.
Barbra Ann-ann-ann, please take my han-an-and,
Rock’in and a-roll’in, rock’in and a-reel’in
Barbra Ann-ann-ann’
Ba-ba-bra Ann!
The Beach Boys!!
:D :D :D
That’s the most I remember of the song right now tho!
That’s okay, since IIRC, that’s about 90% of the song right there.
Additionally, barber originates with the Latin word for “beard”
Fairly sure a bug catcher would be ‘entymology’ (or at least, start with ‘ent’)
Close, it’s actually entomology.
Little radmuncher looks like he’s having the time of his life in the last panel.
Total “This is awesome” face.
I bet he hasn’t fed that well in a long time. Bad JW. No dessert for you.
Well it has to be said, so here goes. Praise Helix!
PRAISE HELIX!
PRAISE HELIX!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4vOoyyMI4s
PRAISE HELIX!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NM-qzo1v1w
Ooops! I should have read the comments down a bit further before I posted my earlier comment:
Jared: “All praise Helix!”
https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/this-is-probably-the-fastest-ive-cranked-out-this-many-panels
Well Jared comes from Kanto, so I guess he knows what he’s on about
This? This is just so much coolness!
That squeaky toy? (/cue Viv from “The Young Ones!”) Brilliant!
YAY – finally a goon who realizes they’ve all made a terrible decision! Was wondering when one of them was going to wake up to reality.
Well Hex seems to have done so. But she’s lurking on the fringes of the fight instead of splitting the scene or surrendering. She still might go for a cheap shot, but I really doubt it.
Hairdresser: See that guy in red over there? Yeah, he said we were going to crash a party. I didn’t think it would be quite so literal.
I can see him saying to the security guards when they show up: “Wait, this isn’t Comic Con?”
That’s gonna fly about as well as Boilerplate did.
He flew pretty well thanks to Max.
Well, yeah…Anybody can fly well. It’s just that most people have trouble with *landing.*
Talk to jet pilots. Those things are basically rocks with wings and engines.
I must say I’ve heard a lot crazy my days including all kinds of impossible species.
On the list are several kinds of elfs, elfish species, hybrids of sorts and what-not – safely stowed away in the world of fiction.
A squib-snail-elf pretty much is the new height of weird, easily making the top of the list. And for it to be “nyom”bing away gamma radiation, squint-eyed in delight, weirds me the hell out.
And SHE is a PET ? Probably glows in the dark I am sure.
DaveB, you just redefined the word “alien”. Congrats ! *shudder*
Nah, more like ‘googly-eyed’, you know, those stick-on eye things where the black bit moves when you shake it?
Deely-Boppers! Or at least that’s what I called them.
And I’m of mixed feelings of Jigs being right with the darkening. But it does let Dabbler shine amusingly.
Nahh, deely-boppers were those hairband thingys with sparkly antenna sticking up out of them (technically the antenna were the “deely-boppers”)
Yeah, like the eyes of Cookkie Monster.
I halfway remember an old scifi pulp book about a space turtle that ate radiation through gills that extended from its armpits. It was by somebody?
Yup, it was by somebody. I just have no idea who.
to me, that sounds either like a Gamera reference, or possibly a race/species from the “Sector General” series from James White. after looking it up, the only reference i can find to a Hard-Rad eating race is the Telfi (VTXM):
the problem is that they are a small beetle-like creature with a group mind. They feed on radiation and live in the hospital’s main reactor, not a seashell hermit crab looking thing… oh well… maybe it’s a non-sentient pet or something like that, so the books never detailed its classification?!
Elvish shellfish?
When are we going to see Elvis Shellfish?
Nah, it’s a Nautilus from Vulcan.
Still waiting to see what oozy puddle Blowb left Morph in (or will it be a fried melted-plastic puddle?)
https://imgflip.com/i/anulc
in a lightning/darkning fight.
SCNR
Hah hah.
One does if one is a quasi-magically uh, um, er, whatever that thing is.
The stupid, stupid things a guy will do because his buddies said it would be “awesome!”
At least he’s alive to feel stupid about it.
Far better to live to regret something than to die without knowing that you should have regretted.
Peer pressure is a VERY powerfull thing
Some call it ‘peer pressure’, most (those who actually have buddies) call it “having their idiot buddies’ back, no matter what!”
It’s alot more than just your friends
There have been some fun studies about this (I participated in one of them)
Put 1 person and 2 undercover researchers (pretending to be participants) in a room, and show them some shapes. Ask which shape is the biggest (one of them is clearly the biggest, but not to obvious).
The researchers awnser first, and both give the same (wrong) awnser.
Most of the time, the test subject will follow the group and give the (clearly) wrong awnser.
Without the researchers awnsering first, test subjects would almost always give the correct awnser.
That’s how powerfull peer pressure is. People are group animals. People will almost always follow the group
Very good candidate for probation and/or Archon Reserves IMO. I reserve my opinion on being a ArcSWAT regular.
Possibly after this he may reconsider any job that calls for risking life and limb. Hairdressing pays OK and nobody is trying to make steak tartare out of you.
That sounds more like a fear of being different, because to most people ‘being different’ means ridicule (or worse)
that’s assuming that that was his motivation. Alternatively we have some people going with a psychic influence theory but I’d like to think Super Hairdresser is here because he’s thinking “wow my buddies are going to go fight the military, I better go or they’re probably gonna get hurt especially since the gold woman can make an explosion that looks like a dying star”
At least give him credit for not being a complete idiot. Two-thirds of one for agreeing, maybe, but a third non-idiot for knowing when he’s in way over his head.
In panel 7 you can see Dabbler’s little pommel binky is on the dark sword. The magic half of the pair.
The dark half is the tech sword. The light half is made from pure magik.
Yup, teach me not to try memory when the archive is right there.
Sooo.
What made you deceide on an Omanyte/elf hybrid with some pink stuf under it for the radiation toy?
Because it’s cute? And possibly someone Dabbles actually met in person (or someone/thing of that species)
Probably an alien squeak toy she picked up somewhere and modified. Weirder toys are available online.
You got that right:
https://www.nsfwallet.com/
Now, if you’re looking for really stupid stuff, there’s also https://theworstthingsforsale.com/
The Manga Guide To Linear Algebra could be useful
https://theworstthingsforsale.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/manga-guide-to-linear-algebra.jpg
I have other books in the series: Then Manga Guide to Calculus and The Manga Guide to Statistics. Both are pretty good reads to get a high-school level understanding of each subject.
Ah, finally, someone who spelled “Omanyte” right so now I know it’s a Pokémon reference, not a misspelled version of “ammonite”.
I always feel a little old when people don’t know the original pokemon :P
Could be worse. I don’t know the original Pokemon because I was around thirty at the time my lady’s daughter was into it. That was the end of last century.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m 42. :-P
Pokemon? What is this Pokemon thing you speak of? =OP
I just started drawing and that’s how it came out. Seemed sufficiently alien.
This answer is why I think you are great Dave. Your fans come up with insane wild theories and ascribe intent to every niggling detail and you say something like that or “I read it on wikipedia and it seemes like something she would say”
Like Peggy. Calmly taking the piss out of people.
+100
“Any expression of creativity is indistinguishable alien-ness.”
…Or, something like that…
Probably a really good recommendation for undoing seriously hard cases of puberty motivated rastafari.
I didn’t laught all that much about him having super-strength though, but more about his “uncle teddy bear” appearance / character.
What is he doing mangling with the villains ? Ghost lost on the way home ?
A “fellow” villain witnessing this kind of surrender would die of shame.
Most of them are probably here for the same reason.
Atleast some of them are going to be smart enough to realize that they really shouldn’t be here
…. If only in hindsight.
The guys invited him out for some fun. Playing hassle the newbies. Bet that’s happened before, under the radar. This time they messed with a team of pros instead of another powered gang. They are getting majorly messed over and seriously hurt.
Well if he is any good at his dayjob, maybe he could serve his time as community service giving the ARC teams fabulous new hairdo’s. :P
He might even be super enough to style Achilles’ invulnerable hairstyle
Don’t you let him touch that magnificent mullet!
Nice work on expositioning how probably most of the villains came here
In way over their head, only here because of peer pressure and manipulation from the Big Bad
Just as well Dabbles summoned her rad muncher and not her rug muncher o_O
Talk about getting an earfull from Maxi when she found out :P
If Max ever suspects Dabs has a toy like that in her arsenal, words will be exchanged. Very loud and creative words.
Or, maybe along the lines of either: “Told you to keep Mr Wriggly somewhere safe!” or “Can you get me one of those?” depending on if he (or she) is news to Maxi or not
Actually Jiggy needs one of those, if she’s ever going to use that effect again. Also, it seems not everything Dabbler teleports in, automatically teleports out when it leaves her hand.
It’s not ‘as soon as it leaves her hand’, they just have a remote porter that she can activate at any time
Oh, and wasn’t talking about the rad muncher :P
From what I remember her ‘weapons’ teleport back to her lab when she lets go. The sword doesn’t as she summoned it from a mystic hole in the fabric of space and she can grab it again as needed.
Dabbler probably has things that are of a clean up tech, like the gama eating squib, that stay until whatever they were cleaning up is gone. Then it possibly teleports back to the lab on it’s own. In-case someone picks it up hoping to keep it.
oh god, now i seen it all.
a hair dresser “vilain” that is just here for his buddy and prefers to surrender right away.
if it would all go that easy hehe. but well when she asked for a “time out” he agreed so that smelled like that guy was different lol.
You get right down to it, I have never seen a “bad” guy act like that in decades of comic reading. I think Dave hit a unique vein right here and may be due some extra credit for creating a new villain trope “the guys asked me to help, but I don’t think I want to get beat up”.
no jokes there
like the miss scared as hell for a squirrel, the one fainting for his own blood, the nose boop… and so on.
all SO MANY REASONS WHY I LOVE THIS COMIC hehe
makes me want to keep on writting even more hehe
There’s some serious humor in 3 Minute Max. And ghosts! And artist & writer comments! And their Max is indeed a very unique super hero.
Dabblers missing a arm in panel six.
It’s hard to spot and I could be wrong but her left arms are parallel to each other. You can see a sliver of the lower arm in front of the upper one and the fingers of the lower hand just below the grip on the sword.
You are right. Sorry, my bad for not looking close enough.
‘sokay, I had to zoom the picture until it pixelized a bit to be sure.
Did the hairpresser just say that “the Imperator” could shoot purple lightning ?
Is this a star-wars reference or the name of one of his buddies ?
Because if so, “purple lightning” does not fit all to well to his super-alias. Ruling ones mind, commanding the masses, would.
Did we just learn the name for the one responsible collecting this rag-tag team of wannabe villains ?
Star Wars reference, I’m pretty sure.
No, it’s totally a “Star Wars” reference, and it’s The Emperor not ‘the Imperator’ (no idea what that other one is)
Specifically, it was a reference to Star Wars when the emperor used purple-colored his Force Lightning power on Luke…Until Darth Vader stepped in…
And this makes me want a piece of fan art with Dabbler meeting Lusca.
When Lusca seals people in her prison shard, the physical gate that reminds behind is usually a plush toy octopus.
Did you know matter-antimatter annihilation is a natural process high in Earth atmosphere? They produce what is know as terrestrial gamma ray bursts. Very short lived events on the 20MeV level, but much much more powerfull then the little zaps Jiggawatt and Glowbug are producing, so I doubt the gamma radiation is going to be of Hulk-spawning severity. (Still, better to feed it to a critter then to expose the local civvies and supers to it.)
Surrendered befor doing any serious harm. Assault, maybe assault with intent. The coming-along-quietly may buy him a suspended sentence. Otherwise, he might not fair so well in prison. In a regular prison, he’d be okay, but with other supers, not so much.
He still has super-strength (and super hair-dressing skills), considering the rest of the supers he would be locked up with probably are at the same fight, doubt he would have any problems (you were referring to the fact he is a male hair dresser, were you not?)
They will probably just recruit him.
Seems very plausible to me.
Could be that ARC gets a couple extra inductees out of this – the ones that don’t have a prior record, did minimal harm/damage and have the brains to come along quietly when asked. Makes sense to put folks like that to work in community service under strict supervision, rather than just locking them up with the hard-core supervillains.
They can always find a use for a brick.
Cheetah Girl?
I think it would hilarious for Matthias and her to have a rivalry that ultimately ends up with….yeah…. I’ll be in my bunk…
Math and Jabbers got shipped the second she slipped into the room.
yep, that ship is already in the middle of the Pacific.
Plus, it’s always a good idea to surrender if someone on the other side might inadvertently kill you as an unintended side effect.
Sooo… Jiggawatt has a power she can NEVER USE AGAIN. That’s kind of unusual.
Ooo I’m sure she’ll get to use it
Just not in an area filled with civies and friendlies
If she can create a positron bolt she can probably stop one from another source. Just put it under “extreme emergency only” use.
Or Dabbler needs to make her a NyomNyomovore of her own.
Was just reminded of something saw on the news: anyone else hear about the lightning strike on a beach in California?
Yeah. Venice Beach. news report here, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/28/man-dies-after-lightning-strikes-13-people-in-venice-beach/
All 3 of you in one place?? The sheer weight of your combined geek cred will cause permanent dents in the floorboards and sidewalks! Awesome!!
They would still have to qualify for a spot in Sydney’s “The List” book, in the upside-down position…They’d probably have to be at least as geeky as Leroy.
Well … the english word “imperator” apparently does not mean quite the same thing as “emperor” for the aspect of “unwanted ruling based on suppression, cruelty and fear” is missing.
Today apparently is not my day finding or tiping the right words. I wrote “heard ” but meant “had”, said “Ghost” instead of “Got”, tried to respond to a comment but started a new one instead.
Whatever demon has it with me today: Sorry about that ! ;-)
And yes, I know I messed up again.
Only this time I know why:
Some script kiddy implemented a new comment function, and it apparently does not work on new tabs.
;)
Where does imperator come from? That’s nowhere in the comic
The hair-bench-presser guy gives up on account of having to face two super-chicks, one of which he says “shoots purple lightning like the emperor”.
“Emperor” translates to german “Imperator”, a term also known in english but holds a different meaning there, hence the mixed-up word-mess.
Possibly a translation thing. I’ve seen Imperator on Russian sites (Translated of course).
Imperator (the actual word not why it came up) is from Latin. And is the origin word for emperor. It means ‘ One who (gives) commands’.
KNOWLEDGE you probably didn’t need or want.
No worries :)
Well, only 1% in a regular reactor, but then there are different types. Hell, you’d get more use out of uranium from a molten salt reactor.
Lord Helix has rescued us from the folly of our ways. All hail his spiralness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYj-ZklkpwM
Local equivalent of a fluffy bunny, I’m sure. FSVO “local”, anyway.
Bit of a pity that you can’t just have something suck up gamma radiation like a moisture absorber would water. It’d have to, well, bend x-rays, and presumably it’d also bend visible light while at it. Otherwise neat idea, and fits reasonably well with those “dark rays” or whatever in the sense that physics doesn’t work that way either. The “dark” looks like “black light”, ie mostly UV (and so extra high energy photons) without the rest. Black body radiation doesn’t let you do that.
Uh, Dave, did you tinker with the comment system lately? That’s the second time I *think* I’m replying but I’m getting a separate comment instead. (And possibly the third.)
Yeah, when he changed host his tech-guru did a bit of tech-fu, the reply is supposed to be where you are areplying, not movng to the bottom of the page anymore (unless you are starting a new comment of course)
I like it this way better, but it fails a little when you’re replying to a long comments thread cause the text box pops up but does so below the screen, so it looks broken unless you know to scroll down.
Just need to start typing and my window snaps to the open box, so it works well for me; I like not having the box at the end, when I am replying, I can distinguish new posts and replies, which is great. So, I think it works well, good job!
I had the same problem. Just don’t comment using a new tab / window, and you are in the green ( as long as your browser’s JS can keep up that is ).
Ok can I say I absolutely love Dabbler right now. *besides other reasons* But I love *whether on purpose or not* I think you are on point with her being an ADHD character. (I have ADHD as well) Allow me to explain.
I love how you capture her touch of scatterbrained ness in fighting but also in moments like this you show how potent she can be when the situation demands focus. From my personal experience that is pretty much on point for ADHD. Our thoughts are spread out until a situation arises where we have to focus one direction, then stuff gets handled, and handled well. Our problem however is forcing ourselves to that point, lol. Anyway that’s my piece and I’m sure someone could have said it better.
Yea, it’s funny how often people get ADHD/ADD wrong. DaveB is getting it down pritty good
Part of the problem is how much stuff gets misdiagnosed as ADD/ADHD for expediency’s sake and once a diagnosis like that is attached it’s damn near impossible to get fixed or removed. Sometimes hyperactive is hyperactive and badly behaved is badly behaved. Sometimes it is a side effect of a larger issue like ADD, ADHD, or something else. Then the media gets a hold of that and twists it into whatever they can use.
Aha, super hairdresser guy, who’s primary power is to be able to instantly change somebody’s hairstyle at a distance. That does go to explain Jiggawatt’s makeover. Which very much suits her. I wonder what Maxima would look like with blue hair? The right shade might go nicely with her gold skin.
Sydney might request a rainbow effect.
Except super hairdresser guy is holding up a large chunk of pavement, so he’s got super strength, and probably nothing to do with uber hairdressing.
Actually, can remember during one of the try-outs for the Legion of Super-Heroes, one of the applicants only power was to change the pattern on people (one of the Legionaires ended up plaid, or something, not just their clothes, but their entire body as well)
His bio is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Kid. He had his moment of glory when he saved the day by changing the color of some Kryptonite. It states that he can also project beams of ‘dark’ and blind his opponents.
Yet another example of “Useless” powers that are actually kinda dangerous/powerful with a little creativity. Even without going into how he changes colors, with enough control he could effectively have full visual illusion capabilities. Even without that control, he can easily blind people (change the lense of the eye from clear to black) , has active camo, do things like change uniforms to look like friends or foe…
And of course, he’d be essentially God to the Lantern Corps.
Looks like an Ammonite to me.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonoidea
It’s an Omanyte with elf ears and some pink thing under it
On a snail they call it foot. Seriously.
AARGH! Bad timing…
I have to be in Dallas on FRIDAY, but it has to be way in my rearview mirror by Saturday. Ugh. I’ve met D. Corsetto before, and don’t read S*P, but I’ve yet to meet DaveB, and it just reminds me how I’ve missed the last couple Webcomics Rampages for work.
FYI, radiation/explosion issues with the particle/antiparticle collisions are purely a matter of mass and time. The amount of energy released as random heat, radiation, and light is equal to the amount of anti-particles released x2, measured in mass (E=MC^2). As to whether it counts as an explosion is purely about how much is being released at any given moment. Thankfully, electrons & positrons are very very light.
however, I’m not so sure that the positrons would have traveled very far as they’d have been attracted to the electrons in the molecules of air around her too. But it’s superpowers.. so you have to ignore real world physics at some point :)
Helloooo, comic book physics. ;)
and also d20 rules where speech is a free action and initiative order trumps causality.
They would not have been attracted to the electrons. Positrons are only rarely attracted to attached electrons–they will almost always be attracted to free electrons, like metal or lightning, first. However, that said, my plunge into wikipedia has revealed something else that is very interesting–namely, just how much power Jiggs apparently has available to her. Positrons, you see, are generally the end product of either radioactive decay, or of a photon hitting something solid hard enough to shatter. Either one steps beyond the realm of absolute control of magnetism and electricity, and well into the control of the four basic forces that make up the universe. Also regardless, Dabbler is fully justified in punching Jiggs for doing this. Assuming, of course, that Jiggs actually used anti-matter to stop the lightning bolt, and didn’t just toss a stream of raw protons out there.
Basically, what would happen if a stream of positrons impacted a lightning bolt would be an almighty pulse of gamma radiation, which would probably instantly kill everybody in the vicinity. Because of this, I’m going to go with the theory that Jiggs actually used a proton stream, and that the gamma radiation is actually coming from somewhere else. Where else? I don’t know. Dave might. But it didn’t come from Jiggs. Dabbler is beating Jiggs without provocation (although neither of them know that).
Interestingly, the current theory in quantum mechanics holds that a positron is simply an electron that is traveling backwards through time, so, as far as Dabbler knows, Jiggs might really be able to summon anti-matter at will. Jiggs, however, is unlikely to know how to do that without an advanced physics degree, and a LOT of practice, as temporal manipulation is currently beyond Earth’s technology, theory, or ability.
1. Dabbler = awesome.
2. Really? Did you buddies actually use the words ‘take on the military’ ?
Doubt it
It’s probably a combination of peer pressure and manipulation by a Big Bad
I’d love to know what your reaction was when you found out the actual extent of it. “Okay, when I said peer pressure and manipulation, I didn’t mean the *magic* kind…”