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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And what did we learn today, people?
We learned that Gamma radiation is one of the most polite of the hard radiations, as it is willing to wait for a general warning, a specific warning, and even allowing time for a hard-radiation plushie to be summoned in time to take the gamma radiation to the afternoon tea party.
YAY! SCIENCE!
Also the photons that is Gamma Radiation are polite enough to turn around and head for the plushy.
Gamma Rays are nice
Note that it landed directly under the intersection of the bolts? It probably also has a mini-enchantment or radiation shield on it that forces all the gamma radiation to redirect to it.
And to Town Crier, all those things took about three seconds, and the amount of radiation produced in that time wouldn’t have been enough to do any lasting harm to anyone. Also, the plushie was being summoned from the beginning of this page, and probably took about a second. And it began eating the radiation from the moment it appeared. It might also put up radiation shields around all living bodies in its vicinity until it has absorbed all the radiation threatening them.
*sigh* Considering the backlash about the electron/positron annihilation he got from the last page this is probably the most tactful way he could have brushed it under the rug. Let’s not have a repeat of all the science nay-saying. I’m ashamed to have participated in that before and I’d like to not have to see it all happen again.
But science speculation is fun
Well, the plushie is made of Omnomium, which everyone in most civilized alien dimensions knows attracts bad particles/waves/thingies.
Like we keep a box of baking soda in the fridge to absorb bad odors, they keep a box of it in their reactors to absorb bad radiation.
Exactly.
For example I spray white powder outside my house to keep the polar bears away.
Haven’t seen a bear yet, so it’s working perfectly
To test your empirical study, now you have to perform a control. Do not put down the powder and see if the polar bears show up. If not, then there is likely another cause as to why you are not being visited by polar bears, like too warm a climate (that is being a big problem for polar bears all over the place, even in their historical range). If the polar bears do show up, then your powder was likely keeping them away. Also, if the polar bears do show up, can I get your comic collection since your mostly eaten corpse will no longer need it? Make sure that you repeat each phase of the experiment many times to eliminate other variables.
Lucky they come in a handy (dimensional) pocket size these days. the old King Kirby gamma suckers took up half a room.
Omnomnium is another good word. :)
seemed to me like it was eating the radiation the same way I would eat a dish of spaghetti, that thing should be dabblers pet or something, considering all the whacky science she does it would probably be her pet of choice after all :P
It probably is
Remember that when she teleports things in, she beams them in from her spaceship/lab.
So it is probably the guarddog watching over the dangerous experiments
As opposed to Ohmnomnomnium, which is a fibrous metal designed to devour anything that impacts it at relatively high speeds. Used in body armors and hull plating. And it’s great for restocking materials used in replicating technologies. >.>
And the “nyom” sound effect would be an omnomatopoeia ….
Maybe the plushie eats all the (bad gamma) radiation in the area- including that which has already been absorbed by critters.
can you get (good gamma) radiation?
Ahem. Dabbs appears to be missing the left lower arm in the seventh frame.
It’s hidden behind the upper arm. You can barely see it.
For the record: I’ve had a PET scan. PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography. They infuse your blood with a radioactive isotope which somehow emits positrons. The positrons hit electrons, resulting in a localized matter/antimatter annihilation. The burst of radiation from that is easy to pinpoint, giving them a high resolution image of my insides.
Two takeaways from this:
First, I have literally had radioactive blood. I have had antimatter in my brain. (I have also, at other times, been bombarded with radiation, injected with radioactive glucose, been subjected to high intensity magnetic fields, etc.) I have yet to develop any additional super powers. This pisses me off.
Second, more relevant to the discussion here: Yes, electron/positron annihilations produce a burst of radiation, not an explosion.
Sounds like your doctor gave you a glowing review.
As someone who orders PET scans for my patients on a semi-regular basis I approve of this pun and fully intend to steal it. Thank you.
You very welcome.
There is more radiation in the air at any time than you got exposed to during that PET scan probably :P
Another fun fact about scans: MRI is actually called NMRI, or Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The nuclear doesn’t have anything to do with radiation though (it’s about the nucleus, core of atoms), but plenty of stupid people think it does and they had to take it out of the name to stop those stupid people from being scared of it
Don’t you mean “Nukuler”?
wtf is nukuler?
The stereotypically insulting idea of atomic nuclei from an ignorant person.
Wasn’t Pavel Chekov looking for nukular wessels, in start trek IV?
Sounds more like something Elmer Fudd is huntin
Is that the stuff that makes your gentital area nice and warm? Almost like you just wet yourself (but mostly just warm not wet)?
“Additional” super powers? Care to fill us in on the ones you currently have?
Since all that radiation has yet to produce superpowers, obviously he’s immune to radiation.
Personally, I’ve discovered that I have a form of selective telekinesis. I have the ability to open doors with just the power of my mind. But for some unknown reason it only seems to work at supermarkets and large department stores.
Oh, yes. Well, see, the reason I’ve been having all these scans in the first place is that I’ve got a crazy immune system. On the one hand, I get sick (colds, flu, etc) about half as long as you ordinary mortals, and when I do I only feel about half the severity and I get rid of it in about half the time. On the other hand, my immune system is so kickass that it gets really bored and goes looking for target practice, resulting in a baffling array of disorders.
Among those disorders is fibromyalgia, which amounts to hypersensitive nerves. Which is a little like DareDevil’s super power, in that I’m way more than humanly sensitive to just about everything. Except that I don’t get the radar sense. I just get the part where everything that should be mildly annoying is actually actively painful and my brain gets easily worn out and overwhelmed by it all. Still, I can tell if you put on so much as a dab of perfume within the last 12 hours, am able to hear sounds outside the range of people half my age, have fairly sharp night vision, etc.
So, for a time you had a positronic brain?
Help your self to a couple, https://instantrimshot.com
Maybe that’s why he’s the Hatman?
Indeed. During the ~12 hour period when I had positrons in my brain, I in no way injured a human, I followed orders even when they hurt (such as allowing people to stab me with needles), but otherwise tried to look out for my own well being.
The trick is to start with combining already weird genetic bases near corporately owned energy facilities and indian reservations.
In any reasonable universe, that experience would have given you superpowers.
PRAISE HELIX!
I believe the count for Dabs is now at 3
Actually, fairly sure they will have to share credit (and he seemed more feared of the purple lightning)
Dabs suggesyed surrender and he accepted.
Point to Dabs.
So, if someone suggests to Boilerplate to surrender, and he does, do they get credit for his defeat? Or does Maxi get the credit for seperating his arm from his shoulder and sending him into low orbit?
Hmm well that guy was smart to surrender, indeed smart of him.
Another comic update and the Villain Tally continues in V1.6!
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! Community suggestions in replies to these villain tally posts will be considered for future iterations of the list!
Changelog for V1.6:
+ Active/Defeated status and “last seen” page # updated for Glowbug and the mohawk guy that I deperately want to be called “The Barberian”
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&headband and teal jeans [1st appearance: #202]
——I want to name her “The Blond Bombshell” because of that headband logo
——Last seen “denied” by Halo in #232 (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 missed by lightning (and having terrible fashion sense) in #234
7) “Jabberwokky” [1st appearance: #213]
——Last seen fighting Math in #220
8) Caucasian Male in bluejeans and black shirt [1st appearance: #229]
——Last seen dodging Jiggawatt’s lightning in #229
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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” [1st 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 [1st appearance: #212]
——Only torso with a light blue shirt, and belt in Anvil’s grip shown
——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) Partial shirtless torso and arm wearing black pants [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 Male in red pants, yellow shirt, with hat [1st appearance: #226]
——Beaten by Mr. Amorphous in #226
21) Laser-burnt male in 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 Male in overalls with 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
31) “Glowbug” [1st appearance: #219]
——Defeated by Dabbler in #235
32) Hairdresser with Zebra Mohawk [1st appearance: #229]
——Suggested names: “Zebra Hawk”, ”Moe Hawk” and my new favorite “The Barberian”
——Agreed to Dabbler’s suggestion of surrender in #235
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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
So… Even though someone said “Dr. Voodoom” for red cape the other day I didn’t include the name suggestion in this update because DaveB referred to him as “red cape” at least once. Anytime DaveB uses a name to refer to someone either in the comic, commentary or who’s who I immediately consider it canon for simplicity’s sake.
Name suggestions I would like some feedback on to maybe include in the next villain update:
Defeated #7: “Gymnastica” “Red Ribbon” ??
Defeated #5 and 10: since they are wearing similar clothes, have similar appearances and the same hairstyle in different colors I think they should be “Laser Twins/Brothers” or “neodymium(Amber)” and “Chromium(Ruby)” since those are the ions used to make those color lasers. The Amber and Ruby would work better if they were female (because words feel like they have gender even though they are just words)
Defeated #9: He feels like a minion but his fire knuckles gave me the idea of “Knuckle Combuster” like knuckle duster only more contrived.
Defeated #23: “Cumulus” or “nimbus” since his legs are clouds… his pony tail isn’t inherently ethnic but it could be a chinese buddhist monk hairstyle so that opens up options for naming in other languages… Also “Smoke Signal” or “Smoke Point” might work
Defeated #24: I’m coming up blank on this guys… overalls and orange stripes… nothing rhymes with Orange though…
Defeated #26: This is clearly a human torch tribute so… something with “Flare” or “Fahrenheit” I’m feeling like a fire reference would be apropos
In my opinion the following are CLEARLY faceless generic minions and don’t deserve names: Active #8 and Defeated #’s 4, 8, 12-15, 20, 21, and 25
*(?)*
Finally: Defeated #18 and 19 may be duplicates and I’d like someone to help me confirm or deny this
*(?)*
I christen him “Red Death” after the Poe story. The mostly red costume and skull mask fit the role. He better live up to his attitude though. Or he’ll be “Red Dork”.
Dr Voodoom was me, mostly jokingly because of the red Dr. Doom cape and the voodoo looking skull mask.
That is one of the best anti-climatic fight ends I ever read. *golf clap*
And now ARC SWAT has their own hairdresser as a bonus.
Hi, the RSS feed is broken since the migration. I don’t know if you have to do something in feedburner to update it or something.
Shoot. I’ll look into getting it fixed. I do most of my own comic reading via RSS as well.
That’s like the 3rd villain that questions why he is here or something.
Can’t wait to meet mr. mindcontrol — no one but a telepath could succeed in locating so many potential villains!
I have a feeling its more mafia than mind control. Blue fedora guy was foreshadowed here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1189 and he looks more like the organized crime type.
My current guess is that they were either promised a huge payout for their services and are reevaluating whether it is worth the effort, or they were coerced into this with threats to themselves or their family.
Can’t he be both?
Just because he’s making them offers they can’t refuse, doesn’t mean they actually know it happened.
excellent point, reference and pseudo-pun. Your wording has swayed me to adopt your point of view.
Guyyyyyyyyyyyyyys… you said we were going to a GOOD resteraunt. Guyyyyyyyys, this is a crappy steak joint an- wait, what are you – oh crap.
I don’t think it’s outright mind control or extortion. More like subliminal manipulation where the idea is made to sound better than it really is. All it would really take is a really good salesman and/or a little empathic push.
Agreed. This last panel has me thinking “power of suggestion.” In fact, it looks like they may have been left suggestible.
Or Zebra the Hairdresser just doesn’t like having swords swung at him. But really, who likes having swords swung at them?
Okay, HS probably does, and Achilles demonstrably does, and…
…This may not have been the best venue for this rhetorical question.
*Ahem* The Barberian
Zebra The Barberian
Or ‘Zeb’ for short (there was a character in “The Almighty Johnsons”, a tv show about norse Gods being ‘reborn’ in modern day Auckland, called ‘Zeb’)
…But that’s what speaking in terms of “politically correct” is all about. Subtle manipulation on how people think about using the language to communicate.
I’m beginning to get the sense that a great many of the supers here aren’t actually malcontents.
I’m beginning to think we have one or more gangs of powered troublemakers and petty criminals who were under the impression Arc was just another bunch like them. So they set out to chase them off their turf. And landed in a major battle zone facing the toughest cats on the planet. They are so uncoordinated at this point, only a few minutes into the fight, the survivors have no clue they are getting their heads handed to them. They came for a brawl and got a serious army treating them like real super villains. Lucky Max wants prisoners.
I think a lot of it was a “No way she’s for real! Let’s go put a little smack down on those uppity do-gooders nobody is gonna tell ME what I can’t do!” kinda thing. They got powers that made them feel (as the saying goes) too big for there britches.
I’m sure there are plenty malcontents but honestly most are the “I’m gonna do what it takes to survive, even if I get in trouble” type rather than the “I’m gonna do what I want just because I can” type.
I hope this guy becomes a semi-recurring character. Just accidentally stumbles into superhero battles, and people assume he’s participating when it transpires that he’s super-strong or whatever. “Aah! Don’t kill me! I’m a hairdresser! Just getting groceries!”
My cabbages!
This place is worse than Omashu!
+2 2 U
+1 for everybody who understood that reference ( such as Pendrake )
And for everyone else:
…and I really hope I did this right…
Came through loud and clear. And funny. Thanks.
This lead to a great cosplay idea at Comic Con.
https://i.imgur.com/5eK3VM8.jpg
that is a pretty fantastic costume
So in the future he’s gonna start a company and create devices specifically to defeat Supers?
Yey! Handwaves! I wasn’t trying to be mean, I’m sorry, Science is different in different universes!
Especially when the characters involved can also do magic
Hey! Our comic has the patent on trained battlefield beauticians! That will be one gratuitous reference to Angels & Aliens or I’ll sic the Thom Cat on ya.
;)
The Spartans were doing that looong before your comic did…Just before the battle against the Persian army (aka: Last Stand of the 300), the Spartans prepared to deal death by getting their hair fixed up.
There would definitely NOT be an explosion, HOWEVER there should have been a small burst of blue light when the particles destroyed each other. Just fyi, no biggie, seems like something that could be edited later.
And the award for smartest villain in 5 his fight goes to? Survey says….skunk top!!!
Grrr…”This fight”, not his fight.
See now that guy has a future… and by that I mean one -not- involving many bars, small locked rooms, power-dampening collars, chains, outfits that match with a few hundred other guy’s or cigarette currency.
Don’t think he have to worry about dropping the soap though. Especially went the dent in the wall the last guy left is still there.
Is it me or does that plushie look like a brain damaged omanite?
With elf ears
It’s actually the alt-evolution: Omnomanite. With those ears I’m betting it’s Fairy type.
Generation 7 or something
Evolves when traded while holding Plutonium
Is that his evil villain name? “The Hairdresser!!”
*ahem* The Barberian
You, sir or madam, have won in internet.
Jiggawatt needs a refresher course on what to do to neutralize another electricity user. Mainly get hit by them and redirect to ground out the discharge. Doing a bit if ham acting and pretending that your getting electrocuted while just grounding out that attack would also help.
Also another +1 for the intelligently slow super (can’t even use villain at this point). It’s like getting dragged along to a protest that turns out to be a full on assault on a police station. You didn’t expect your “friends” would demand that you actually use that RPG you carry around with you. You also didn’t expect the police to roll out main battle tanks WITH GAMMA RAY LASER TURRETS as the response force. Surrender is a fair option.
Also, if I were in that fight and I heard “massive amounts of gamma ray,” said at that volume, with that urgency, from one member of the other side to another, punctuated by the word “idiot,” I’d call it day and seek immediately Super Magical Medical treatment. Gamma rays and idiots shouldn’t mix, and when they do you don’t want to be anywhere near, or far, preferably over the horizon.
Or just punch their daylights out.
THE HAIRDRESSER looks like that needy puppy you wanna take home, possible ally?
*ahem* The Barberian
Him and Dabbler dating.
I hope we get to see this hairdresser guy again, preferably as a hairdresser. Maybe just a little comic, like Dabbler’s Science Corner, with him doing their hair and talking with Sydney or whoever about stuff. I dunno, maybe Barberian, that’s a great name :D, can be doing his best to salvage someone’s hair after it gets damaged in a fight or something.
Jiggawatt’s new look really doesn’t work for me. If you’re gonna keep the gold hair, PLEASE change her lipstick colour, because that looks ridiculous.
What would you recommend? Blueish white lipstick maybe?
I have to admit I’m not a fan of it either. I didn’t even really notice that her lips were gold until you changed her hair color. Like I dig matching lipstick and hair color in anime (or anime-ish) characters but for some reason the double gold is… I dunno, too bold I guess? It just sticks out a lot and I don’t really care for it. The blueish-white could work, or maybe just a more natural lipstick color. It’s hard to say without seeing what they look like.
At the end of the day, if you like her looking that way, by all means keep it. It doesn’t really break the character, but if you think it could improve too, it couldn’t hurt to try another color.
Would you mind settling once and for all whether she uses hair dye or if it’s part of her power set? Because her bio says her hair is brown and that it’s usually dyed, but then I find it strange that she dyes her eyebrows too which not a lot of people do.
As for lipstick color that would depend on how long she keeps this color. bluish-white worked better with the white hair, not very much goes with gold other than black or red in my opinion…
Maybe have her be a Janet Van Dyne type, always changing up her looks and wardrobe. That way you can only be sued for a vague similarity to some other super-heroine on alternate Tuesdays.
For the record I never had any issue with the white hair, and her power set is far enough away from Storm’s that I didn’t see any need for it to be changed in the first place.
A really pale, almost white, blue colour could work. A deep red could also work. It’s the easiest to tell when it’s actually on a page, but those two are suggestions I can make just from visualizing.
Frankly, I really liked the white hair/gold lipstick (and I didn’t see Storm at all, not even after people started saying it).
agreed.
It’s like this. I hit “reply” and I end up at the bottom, like before. But the result *is not* a reply. So, while that worked properly before, this is new feature doesn’t actually work as advertised for me and in fact the result is broken. That tech-guru guy clearly doesn’t care about people without the latest and greatest nightly browser and doesn’t mind breaking things for those suckers, eh? Grr.
The guy helping me with my page just flipped a switch in the code, he wasn’t cackling and rubbing his hands together or anything. What browser are you using out of curiosity?
Maybe he didn’t do it because he has had trouble with the remote falling asleep.
Hey, it’s my chance to meet three creators at once! And all for the price of going downtown, woohoo!
I really need to read your comic. Unfortunately my “need to read” list has only gotten longer since I started doing 2 comics a week.
why does she have a radiation absorbing pokemon plushy. am I the only one who thinks this is odd.
Yes, it is odd. Also it’s Dabbler. Odd is her favorite flavor.
What does odd taste like?
Purple.
And Stars Billions and Billions of Stars!
“My God, it’s full of stars.”
Kinda like weird, but tangier.
When dealing with anything high energy or outer-space it’s a handy thing to have in case of “oops”.
Hail Helix
I’ve looked at it and read comments… and I’m still not sure if he’s actually surrendering or being sarcastic. I feel like he is, but that seems too easy. I want him to actually just be surrendering, because that makes it funnier to me.
He’s really quitting. He was very much on the defensive trying to fight Dabbler. Two on one is just too much for him.
I owe DaveB an apology…
…looking at the last panel, I was nonplussed to see that this hyper-muscled, hairdressing mohawk-er had a thick, saurian-type tail of bright cyan, apparently longer than his legs…
…then, after “WTF”-ing myself via inner monologue for several minutes, my brain got tired of messing with me & said:
“That not a tail, Dude – it’s Dabbler’s EARS! I mean, REALLY!”
“Dude – why would you even GO there???!?”
“…Geez… …can ya’ at least TRY to make yerself a little less lame, please?”
No harm done. Dabbler’s ears are at just the right angles to do that. I think they are in a WTF position as Barberian asks politely if he has to keep fighting.
not in wtf position. one of her ears is always bent. it happens to dogs who are injured where one ear that used to be perky flops. she’s probably got one droopy ear from a battle scar
I believe that among bunnies this is called a “half-lop”…?
:)
Also, you’re reminding me of a bit from early in Larry Niven’s novel, “Ringworld”, in which he says that any mammal larger than a squirrel will enjoy getting a gentle scratch behind the ears…
…& now I’m hoping we someday get to see Dabbler getting “ear-scritches”!
:) – :) – :) – :) – :)
Also, his line:
“…shoots purple lightning like the Emperor!”
…is this merely a “Star Wars”-reference, or did we just get yet another clue to the I.D. of the “man behind the curtain” who set-up this attack?
Probably just a star wars reference
Maybe it’s just me, but I always thought Palpatine’s lightning was more blue-ish than purple…
…oh, well…
Was anyone else reminded of the Barlitz School of Aviation and Air Conditioner Repair by this page?
Assuming a mass of 9.10938291e-31 per electron and positron, and assuming 6.241e18 particles per bolt per second, plugging into E=mc2, we get a gamma ray of 102Kev per collision. Not a healthy place to be, considering that’s 6.241e18 gamma rays and 102Kev each. Good work Dabbler.
Between Zebra Mohawk saying he’s just here because some of his friends were and Hex asking herself why she even ever show’d up we’ve got an intriguing picture of how this whole thing came about. I agree with the posters positing a some sort of mind or emotion control being at work here.
Plush takes the form of Lord Helix!
A radiation eating C’thulu squeaky toy. That’s new.
I love Dabbler clopping over to Jiggawatt and punching her in the arm while yelling “no!”
Stop trying to kill everyone with radiation!
Radiation isn’t immediately fatal (unless the amount is huge) it depends upon the rads absorbed in a short period. Without knowing how many rads were being spewed out, its hard to say how much danger they were in before the squeaky toy got in place. If its borderline low, only Glowbug and Jiggawatt would need to worry about even low end radiation poisoning. If it was LOTS, well then everyone that wasn’t invulnerable can look forward to being sick for a few weeks (I’m assuming it wasn’t fatal quantities).
The numbers I crunched to make my post came out to the equivalent of a 455Rad/sec field at 25 feet. Definately NOT healthy.
It certainly fits Dab’s style. She’s just unorthodox with some different than generally acceptable boundary ideas.
If I were to guess the most likely charge Dabbler would’ve seen if she hadn’t become a hero: Date Rape.
She’s part succubus, good luck getting anyone to testify against her. Or to even have a trial that lasts 10 minutes.
Not arguing that point. Just saying if she were charged with anything it’d have been that. I’d also doubt there’d be many charges as most men would willing get with a “hot chick” beholder trick or not and many wouldn’t want to admit being raped at all, especially by a woman, even a super.
There is a saying that “You can’t rape the willing”.But I doubt most men could “handle” a succubus even a half-breed like her. Probably why she’s hanging with the supers.
What means this “sava lava culi” (or is it savalavaculi?)?
Google sava lava cuti. Click first listing.
Ha. I clicked the second listing.
O.k., it didn’t explain the reference so I went back and clicked the first one.
the great and might spiral god hath arisen! hail pusedo-omanyte!!!
BTW, if the hair dresser in the last panel is telling the truth, then that supports the theory that the group is nothing more than a bunch of disorganized rabble. No conspiracy or illusions necessary.
I dunno…
(…from the final lecture preceding the attack on Arc-Swat):
“…OK, now, is everybody clear on what we’ll be saying in the event that we lose, or do we need to rehearse it again?”
Hence the added phrase “if the hair dresser in the last panel is telling the truth….” If that happened, then obviously the hair dresser in the last panel is not telling the truth.
I imagine Max trying trying to keep a straight face when they get to this in the debriefing.
Also NEVER LET SYDNEY SEE THAT THING!
Dabbler should give her one. Knowing Sydney sooner or later she’ll need it.
Not safe! Not safe! Won’t able to breathe from all the laughter.
Sydney (at the Nuclear power plant) ” Umm… What do all the red lights and buzzers mean?”
She’s not that bad honest.
I can’t believe I typed that with a straight face.
I should really have said she’s not that bad… she much much worse.
Not saying she would do it herself but things happen around her.
Cute! This looks like Dabbler’s version of the Winslow.
Except The Winslow would just block all the positron annihilation :D
All hail.
On chain reaction: There is aproximately zero chance of a chain reaction occurring in this situation. Chain reactions in nuclear reactions occur because the reaction creates particles that cause other nucli to react (usually neutrons, that are absorbed by the nucli and destabalize them). Electron-positron annilihation would be total annilihation and wouldn’t produce extra positrons, or anything likely to cause nearby atoms to create positrions. So the reaction – no matter how big – would run until it was out of fuel and then stop. No chain reaction runaway.