Grrl Power #240 – Shock and Aw come on!
Sydney’s genre savvy may work against her one day, but not right now. It was a lot for Atomic Bombshell to hope for anyway, but at least it looks like the bad guys are starting to use some teamwork. It may be too little too late, but they could always turn it around.
Maxima does seem to be operating on a whole other tier, but she does have her limits. Bombshell could definitely hurt her if she caught her flat footed, but right now she’s just hovering up there with her power pool pumped into armor, making her about as tough as Supermanonium.
I’m doing enough double pages lately it really makes me feel like I could almost put out 3 pages a week, but then I go and have bad art day or it takes me a few hours to warm up and I wind up redrawing a bunch of panels and it feels like I can barely get two regular pages out. But overall it seems I’m speeding up little by little. Well, at least while the backgrounds aren’t changing all that much. As soon as we get past this parking lot and I have to start doing a bunch of new interiors. :P Actually what I really need to do is stick to the two pages a week and any extra time I have left over use that to learn Blender or UE4 or something when that comes out so I can make 3D sets and cars and guns all the other stuff I don’t like drawing.
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That’s priceless I’m not sure if I’m laughing more at “Little party-popper” or “Get her! She’s Daring!”
I was giggling by the last fram but the little quip at the bottom really got me going.
okay so telekinetic uh… that sure explain stuff
and well i just love how maxima look down at her waist ‘this actually stinged” a little
i thought that the first attack he did on the crazy “animal missy” didn’t look like stone but metallic marbel. now taht confirms my suspicion for sure.
With that level of damage, I bet the overnuke would be a serious threat to Maxima. Interesting.
from what little-miss boom-boom said an overnuke would kill pretty much everyone in the area
And judging from the power’s name, I’m not surprised. It could probably kill an entire Japan city too, if you get where I’m pointing. And apparently even if Maxima is a super-duper super, she is not indestructible. So a nuclear explosion would probably kill her, I guess.
It is actually cool to figure out that the big, strong hero(ine) has weaknesses too. The fact that she is “fragile” to at least some degree makes the character more heroic. After all there IS something at stake, she IS taking a risk.
Agrecian: makes her more ‘likable’ that she has some real tangible weaknesses
like has been said, she’s VERY powerful, and can be up to Superman lvl, she just can’t be at Supes’ level at EVERYTHING at the SAME time. (if she channeled everything into defense instead of using some flight, she might not have been hurt, if she “Overclocked” (draining everything else to average human or even less,and putting it into one ability, which Dave has said she can do) she might not have even noticed it.
… Depending on just what ability she overclocked into, of course.
And Maxima’s short jacket goes to a full belly jacket. ;)
And Sydney, you are standing right there. . .
Hovering, actually… and with her shield raised, too. Y’know, it could be interesting to see if Atomic Bombshell does try to take down Halo…
I can just see it – AB going all-out, and Halo just floating there sassing the bejeebers out of AB causing her blood pressure to go right up… :)
Lil’ Boomer did that much damage while Maxi’s shield was up, just think what would have happened if it wasn’t, or even not at the level it was
That was just Maxima’s default shield.She can (and undoubtedly has) reinforced it before the smoke even cleared.
Actually Dave has indicated that she’s got her power pull dumped in armor. If she was on default, I don’t think she would be out, but she’d be seeing the medic afterwords.
If that was on full armour… let’s just say she was damn lucky it only got through her outer field and she still had the inner to protect her
My thinking was that Maxima would get slammed to the ground and be a little slow getting up. Mind you, the parking lot would take most of the impact damage. Nice to see her still floating there.
Yep I thought sting and knock down but not otherwise injure her. I saw greenie’s manipulation coming too That was funnier while it did sting, she had to rope a dope a little, and had a minor but tasteful wardrobe malfunction.
I was predicting a 3-way team-up:
– “AB” flings a missile
– “GreenHair” uses telekinesis to steer it thru an “Opal” mini-portal
– “Opal” opens a mini-portal that delivers it to Max’s face, or else the back of her head.
Eh, 2/3rds correct is pretty good, over all…
…hmm, drop that down to 1/2, because I didn’t foresee the “bola”-technique, but still…
If she is flying she wasn’t using all her power on defense.
This is unknown. It’s been said that she’s got default strength and toughness in the superhuman range without allocating any “points” from her “pool”. It’s possible that just hovering doesn’t require any extra power.
She did however try to dodge the attack, and that could hav required a slight readjustment.
In the end I guess it comes down to a question of how quickly she’s able to re-prioritize, and if she took AB’s attack seriously enough that she cared to make the effort.
If only it was aimed higher or lower.
Max would backhand you if she heard that :P
Yep, but in the meantime, GIRL ABS YOUHOU! And not just anyone, Maxima’s!
Now what gets me is imagining the look on Maths face once he wakes up and learn that he missed this wardrobe malfunction…
I really do respect Max for more than her looks and power but damn she’s got those in spades as well.
Oh, yeah.
It’s fine where it is. That’s still the sexiest Maxima pic, maybe ever. Certainly since the bank incident.
Don’t care… this is a better look for her. =3
Everybody hates you for saying what we’re all thinking.
Including Maxima. She knows she’s a hottie. She just concentrates so hard on the pervs that she doesn’t hear the ones that like her strong as she is as well. It makes the sight of her more precious and comforting. This all strikes me as being something she just hears too much for her liking. I wonder how she reacts to a polite compliment about her muscles….
(Internal DAYUM for those hips.)
She hit Max with the wrong ordinance. She should have use THIS weapon – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081249/
Heh! I saw that movie when it appeared on TV.
I’d agree with you if it didn’t mean getting Maxslapped into the next century.
Nah. Not selective enough. If you want to know what I mean by that you just have to go to a family rated nudist beach. Plenty of skin, and yet you soon will realize that most of us isn’t very appealing in the buff, and a few hours later you even stop ogling the good looking ones.
A bomb like that would totally kill the thrill of nudity, and I for one want to retain some of my dirty fantasies.
That tenth panel means the blast was definitely intended to kill. It’s time to pull off the gloves and smoke these bastards. Also, what’s with the floating head in panel seven? Who’s that?
Leon the team computer guy communicating via radio.
The head is Leon – he’s using the radio to talk, and the alternative would be a split panel showing wherever he is…
Excuse me. I meant SIXTH panel when I stated killing.
that’s Leon talking to Syd over the radio.
Not just an attempt to kill, but an absolutely remorseless and callous one.
I’m liking Maxima’s look of surprise as she looks at the damage. Very fitting for when someone actually manages to even damage her clothes, much less actually hurt her.
Was wondering what was showing onher side, but then realised it would be her gun
That doesn’t look like a part of Max’s gun to me, rather a part of a communication device. Something that contains batteries or such.
Er…
So if her com is gone – did Sydney hear her commanding Anvil via the air after that BOOM went off ??!?
Probably that’s the holster and a couple of bullets or something on the side of the holster. You can still see the comm on her neck in panels 2 and 4, and the way her head is turned in panel 9 would make it hard to see it.
Sydney’s shield dampens out dangerous noises. That is why everybody could hear Maxima as she stood in her fireball while inside Syndey’s shield out at the bomb range. Ah, bomb range -> Mythbusters -> ? Have we ever discussed what Mythbusters in the Archon universe would be like? I could just see Achilles last job was as a stunt double for Buster.
Oh and think of the complaints they’d get!
“That’s just so unrealistic. You can’t be serious calling that a bust just because the measured G-forces weren’t deadly. There’s no way a normal human strapped to the rocket sled would have smashed through that ice block. They’d be a thin layer of pink paste by now!”
well, i think that they could get away with less tinkering in order to get that “perfect” test for whatever stuff that currently they have to jury-rig from hell in order to get Buster to do what they want WHEN they want it… with Achilles, they could just tell him we want you to jump off this helo feet first and land on the parking lot below and the G-meters will tell us the impact, cool?, then we’ll do it again head first… no cables and timers or quick-release mechanisms to jam, etc…
No more driving the JATO car by radio!
In a superhero universe, the Mythbusters would all have certainly acquired superpowers by now, considering all the weird effects and so forth they have subjected themselves to.
Recall in another forum that someone speculated that their nemesis would have to be Buster, who somehow becomes self-aware and sets out to liberate (and unite) all mannequins, crash test dummies and simulaids. Under his absolute rule, of course.
I suggest Eyrie Productions “Undocumented Features”. The 25th century version of the Mythbusters includes a trained Jedi (Jamie Hyneman), a Kryptonian (Adam Savage), Buster as a droid (quote: “Human/cyborg relations is for those chrome creampuffs Cybergalactica stamps out.”) and Kari is from Bgztl (does the Shadowcat ‘walk through walls’ trick).
I especially recommend any time Mythbusters show up in the “CSI: New Avalon” stories and “Last Transport” (Supergirl/Kara leaves Krypton and arrives in human space).
So,,, DB,,,You want to make games? That’s a career move.
Still it’s nice to see max can be surprised.
Am I wrong or did one of the extra shells on that gun go by by?
Possibly, or at least the compartment it goes into, depends on if it was occupied or not at the time (personally feel it would have done a bit more damage if it had been occupied)
Not sure about that. Max’s armour might have been penetrated by the blast, but I’d say it could stop the bullet no problem. Unless penetration by one entity means the shield is compromised against other incoming threats at the same time, of course.
Not to Maxi, but to the holster
Good point.
Somehow, don’t believe Chia-pets’ role in this has been noticed, lucky for him, not so lucky for Lil’ Boomer
Chia-pet. Snicker. I endorse this name.
As do I
while Max may not know WHO guided it, she definitely knows that it WAS, in fact guided to her AFTER she dodged it the first time… panels two and four…
Which in turn leads me to wonder – when Max realized that this bola was guided…
1)__did she have time enough to boost her armor-stats (minus minimal hovering), or
2)__did she have armor-stats maxed-out already, or
3)__did we just see the result of no more than her “default-level” of shielding?
Default for her is nearly maxed out shielding but I could see her shifting her normal pooling excess to shield that fast but she can overclock (dump her other super stats into any given power) but I doubt she had the time or option hanging in the air like that.
Dave, if you manage to pump out three pages in a week, why not use that third page to fill a buffer?
crap, edit button!!!
If you continue that for a month or two, you can start drawing a few months in advance and you won’t have to worry so much on missing schedules :)
There is that, but I also want to get to the end of this fight as well. I suppose I’ll keep doing double pages where I can, at least through the end of the fight. After that my spare time will be spent putting the book together for a while.
Agrecian: you should stick to just 2 pages a week, even when you become quick enough to make a 3rd, save the extra as an emergancy buffer
Agreed. Much as I love this comic and waiting for new pages hurts my Grrlpower-addicted mind, don’t overly stress yourself, Dave.
Plus, an extra page means less time to comment on the current page :D
VERY good point! :D
Dave sez: I wind up redrawing a bunch of panels and it feels like I can barely get two regular pages out.”
I have heard that the first (answer, attempt, etc.) is always your best.
Go with. I can stand three strips a week if you can.
Luckily it was not her favourite jacket. The shirt though …
Awww, and Dave just got through adding the new Twilight Sparkle start logo to the shirt.
(see example at https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1257)
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I got 3 more virus hits when I accessed the site this morning. I think you need to go through and clean stuff up again.
Sometimes, a third-party ad that is served from an external server might be compromised. To be a usable report, please provide the details your anti-virus software gave you. That way DaveB or his webmaster/host can track down what is happening.
HAHAHA! A recruit ordering a first lieutenant around! Oh Sydney, Sydney, you REALLY don’t know how to military, do you?
Also, hate to be nit-picky (well, not really, I do it out of love), but Sydney’s face has healed again.
And we might have one more candidate who can fight Max to a standstill. Potentially. Maybe. Possibly. How many more “maybe” synonyms do I need before people can tell that I barely believe myself?
Nah.
Atomic Bombshell seems to be the very definition of a glass cannon. I doubt she has any kind of protection or speed.
Maxima could easely take her out before she could get a second chance, and without the telekinetic guidance, also dodge
I believe she has been cycling through her orbs. Maybe one of them healed her?
Sydney think that healing is a bad power because you get lot more be beaten up to show that you can heal.(and/or get sloppy because you can heal it)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/748
Strange…
…in all the years I’ve read about Wolverine, I’ve always thought that he was NOT talking about being “the best” at FIGHTING…
…but rather, being “the best” at KILLING.
Always thought it was him being “the best” at being a Canadian, meh, learn something new every day
“I’m the best there is at what I do – but what I do is not very nice.” That’s how I remember the original line.
Exactly – his use of indirection is why I thought he was talking about KILLING, rather than FIGHTING.
While many heroes have had enemies die by their own weapons, or by their double-crossing evil allies, or by some other trope that allows the hero to keep their hands clean, Wolverine has –personally– amassed a body count of dead enemies that few (if any) heroes have ever even approached. There are quite a few –villains– whose hands are “cleaner”!
Not sure where it was ever claimed Wolvie was a ‘hero’, not even he views himself as a ‘hero’ (also, not as a ‘villain’ either)
He’s just a guy who, mostly, wants to be left alone and is capable, and willing, to do what it takes for that to happen. He is also someone with his own Code of Honour, and one major part of that involves helping friends, allies and those who need help, even if that help requires the services of a chain of funeral houses
He’s the epitome of an anti-hero. He may prefer not to kill but he has no compunctions against killing if necessary. He supports the heroes but he will cross lines no actual heroes will cross to do so.
Whoops, yeah got to fix that.
I have to say, from what I have seen: Don’t go to three pages. I love the hell out of this comic, and the art is well done and well polished. Stick to your current schedule. If you have time, double pages are awesome, but once you go three pages, there starts to be a silly expectation for such. People get silly over said silly expectations, both for viewers and for creators. And then, in the end, Goblins. Just… Goblins.
If you are happy with your work load, stick with what you are doing. As you speed up, either continue to polish, or better yet, take some of the spare time and take a well earned rest, or allow more time for revision, or hey, look, we gave you a bonus page, be happy internets.
But, internets is never happys
Seconded. Better 2 pages a week and a growing buffer than switching to 3 pages and then back to 2 pages after some time.
(A bigger buffer may have its disadvantage: Taking info from comments into account when doing the next page would not be possible or at least double work, but still.)
He can still take the time to make changes
*nod*
Full agreement. Much as I would like to have MORE, I think it is much better to work up a buffer.
I agree, no point in overworking yourself, if you manage a third page in a given time great, but my humble suggestion would be to save it for a buffer. You never know when you might need it.
Or build up a buffer so he can take a week off now and then.
I heartily endorse this event or product.
** Atomic Bombshell’s head turns to fine red mist**
** Peggy works the bolt on her Barrett**
Max: “Ah, nevermind, belay that last order, Anvil.”
Maxi wants her stopped/contained, not murdered
People keep making this mistake – “murder” is something entirely different than ‘killed during combat’. Shooting the gleeful-atom-bomb-tossing villian seems like a perfectly reasonable option to guarantee that she’s taken out faster than she can make another bomb to toss at civvies.
ARCON are police not an army.
A cop killing a suspect is very different from a soldier killing an enemy combatant.
Yeah, just look what is happening right now: riots because a cop shot a huge kid in his copcar who was trying to grab the cops gun, all because the kid was arrested for jaywalking
Well, that’s the officer’s story at least. None of the witnesses seem to agree with it.
Given that my original comment was tongue-in-cheek, and I don’t really want to see traumatic head destruction in the comic – I would say that ARC-SWAT are not operating like a military or a police unit; by insisting on taking the bads in alive they are using softer gloves than either. (Not a criticism – the superhero genre traditionally works like this.) Consider if ARC-SWAT were cops: Large number of heavily armed perps attack group of off-duty cops, endangering civilians on-site; cops demand surrender of perps and return fire; AB does not surrender and uses lethal force. Would any police force on the planet not return lethal force at this point?
off the top of my head the English to name one and I’m sure others as well BTY all these countries have gun laws and a much lower case of over all violence let alone gun violence.
the idea that lethal force is ever okay have lese to reality of the situation and more to do with the cops by extension the countries over all feelings towards their fellow citizens. if you see “criminals” as less then human then it because easy to write off killing those people with out thinking about the… icky ramifications. after all Killing a person is the easy way out sure but it never solves the problem in the end.
And the British have problems right now with drunk bar patrons going on rampages attacking anything and anyone in their field of vision (with near deadly force) and self-proclaimed muslims doing the same, only drunk on ideology, not alcohol.
The only effective gun control is taking law-abiding gun owners to a range and teaching them how to control their guns. Taking their guns away, or putting them in “gun free zones” just makes them targets!
Sorry dex, but you’re living in the past. Approximately ten percent of British police in various police forces are armed and these are organised into rapid response vehicles. They have serious firepower as well – Heckler & Koch submachineguns and battle rifles and Winchester shotguns, among other hardware. As for your argument that “lethal force is (n)ever okay”, well… I’ll withhold comment. Nobody likes a flame war.
I’m not looking for a flame war, but I’m still willing to comment. The police exist for a reason.
They can’t do their job of preserving the rule of law and maintaining public order if they are unarmed and the bad guys are armed. And while almost all of their apprehension of armed criminals is done after the fact (i.e. after the armed criminal has threatened or harmed the victims of the crime) there are cases where an armed officer, either on duty or off, has prevented harm to civilians simply by being armed and on the scene.
That said, shooting an unarmed young man and claiming “He’s reaching for my gun!” has lost a lot of credibility.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/police-dash-cam-video-exonerates-nj-man-implicates-cops-article-1.1701763
The video makes no mention of exactly what charges were filed against this man, but it does use the plural term. And the victim stated that “The first plea [offer] was 5 years.”
Or each other.
However, just because a cop killing someone may have been wrong in that instance doesn’t mean it’s wrong in every instance.
Murder happens to people not committing violence.
Murdered/killed/splattered over the carpark, the point is, Maxi doesn’t want her dead
Then don’t use the word “murdered” if all you mean is “dead”. There’s a very large difference, and this would not be murder. Not even for the police.
correct, this would be “suicide by cop”… or in more PC terms, justifiable self-defense. the officers were attacked by individuals with intent-to-kill, and all lesser levels of force proved inadequate, thus lethal force was deemed appropriate to subdue the individual in question. and I’m bloody dang well positive that the news crews across the street will be filming this for posterity, if not live-broadcasting it right now!
Max is choosing not to want her dead YET. If Atomic Bombshell starts tossing her nukes at softer targets, that could change very quickly – and rightly so.
Following that logic, Max is being extraordinarily stupid.
If you assume that she was just going to let the explode-bola miss her and land wherever to do collateral damage, and THEN wait until AB tossed another one at a softer target (probably killing them) before acting … in other words ignoring one of the biggest threats on the battlefield until after AB has done significant damage and/or killed someone … she has NO business wearing her rank or being the one directing the fight.
Maybe, maybe not.
How much has Atomic Bombshell actually DONE so far in this little fracas?
She could have ended the whole deal (or most of it) before it actually started, just by tossing one of her OverNukes into the restaurant. And she was there – refer https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1271 But she didn’t.
That did hurt? Huh. I thought that Max had only one shield, or rather, that her power can make her outer “surfaces” including clothes and whatever she touches impenetrable/immovable, even if it was something soft & fluffy – but if that was true, an attack should either not hurt her at all or, well, :(
Well it would make sense for her powers to be stronger the closer to her body
I think she has A kind of touch based telekinesis that acts like you said, but even without it she’s still got superhuman toughness like Hiro. I think it came up when sydney punched her in the face after the bank robbery.
Ah. Good. That makes sense.
*phew*
Like Superman.
Or when have you the last seen him get his clothes ripped as Supes?
When it does, it’s usually by big-ass baddies like Darkseid.
Her cells have little forcefields that when in series is really where she gets her strength and armor from, but that shield extends to just outside of her body too, mostly to keep the comic PG-13. :)
Also known as “modesty armor.”
I hate modesty armor.
Don’t we all? Or at least, those who are immature adults :P
I’m a mature adult and I don’t like modesty armor :p
In that case, you won’t mind seeing a “wardrobe malfunction” happen to a 9-ft-tall Dr.Bruce Banner, or to his TV-counterpart, Lou Ferrigno:
[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002073]
Tommy the Telekinetic sure is grinning ear to ear there. Wonder what his reaction face is to this.
Back to default frown. If that was their best shot, It is definitely time to make tracks for the nearest Vatican embassy. “Sanctuary, sanctuary!”
What exactly does she mean with ‘pop my back’?
Put it out of alignment, popped a joint in her back
it ‘popped’ a joint in her back, kind of like cracking a knuckle, though harder to do on a back without the right positioning.
Sorta like this moment here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK9oPk8bsvk]
…it’s [00:01:17]-long, but the moment I’m talking about is at [00:00:32] or so.
While calling Anvil to take out A bombshell seems more intimidating (as she’s not even fazed enough to do it herself), it would probably be a bigger ego dent if she’d just burst out of the explody cloud to vaporize A bombshell herself
Not sure if Maxi is in a position to do anything more than float there, what with her back being popped and all
I meant popped her back like when you stretch and your back pops, like your knuckles, not like Max has a herniated disk now. Her reaction would be a bit more obvious if she was that injured.
Max is actually hurting a bit or maybe a lot. Back injuries, even minor ones can mess you up. Floating like that takes some pressure off but once she lands it will hurt.
Good thing she can stay floating like this until the time comes for treatment
Doctor: Okay, your back is stiff, but not injured to the point of surgery. Good thing too, as I have no idea how cut your skin. Let’s see if Anvil can give you a deep-tissue massage; that ought to help. Lt. Cassidy, make sure you use full pressure when you are rubbing out her muscles.
Oh, and don’t mind the 3D HD cameras, they are *cough* for research purposes, oh, and there is an industrial sized bottle of scented oil over there, only if you feel the need of course, excuse me, there is an emergancy… somewhere else
Annnnd that is one of the reason to have the sturdiest person be a field commander. Even if they’re not the Best tactician they They’re less likely to be taken out and add to the fog of battle. Mind you Max seems like a good commander and the whole flying vantage point thing would help a lot.
*Drools at perfect waistline*
‘Ahem’
Man Sydney is the kind of person you want on your team, if not for her l33t skills, then for her witty commentary. I loved that she pointed out the whole maxima standing in the explosion from the press conference as that was exactly what i was thinking last chapter.
Arrg, why did have to find this when it was starting and not when there was a tonne for me to read >_<
MWAH! HA HA HAH!!! that’s Dave’s EVIL Plan!!! on the other hand, once you finish your archive binge in a day or two, you’ll be caught up with the rest of us that HAVE been reading it from the beginning, and have slowly gone bonkers over wanting the weekly wait for the next strip to be over….
Now you’re ONE OF US!!
Say thanks because now is 2 pages release each week instead of only 1 xD
ONE OF US!!
ONE OF US!!
ONE OF US!!
A tank is a bad unit of measurement. It can refer to anything from a M2 to an Abrams.
Or even Septic :P
Get thee to a punnery!
Well that last shot did stink.
*Columbus, Ohio disappears in a rainbow-colored mushroom cloud*
Wait, I thought Spinnerette took care of that bomb.
G-man there triggered by Bad Pun Satellite Cannon’s overload-blast.
If he’s gone I’ll just say “Tanks for the memories!”.
*Gamesman’s city disappears*
*Magically replaced by a HUGE smoking magma-lake*
:P
:)
I was thinking “Tanks for the Mammaries”
(…chirping crickets…)
:P
(…”DMC_Run” beats a hasty retreat, hoping that “Adamas” will allow him time enough to escape the blast-radius of “Greg’s” immanent smoking crater…)
:)
(…No joke – I’m really-&-truly listening to crickets chirp as I type this!)
alas, that one was kinda cool. so no volcano appearing in his front yard…this time.
Or how about the Mark IV, the Ogre-esque supertank from the Paranoia adventure “Me and my Shadow?”
Remember…if it’s not an Ogre…it’s not a TANK!
https://www.warehouse23.com/products/ogre-blueprint-poster
Or a BOLO…
https://i.imgur.com/8NhMvUr.png
I love the Bolo tanks.
I’ll leave this here.
https://archive.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1390/10/1390107021104.jpg
Is there a Superheo Costco of Tanks that you can just buy them in Bulk?
Supervillain #2… Ohhhh look Supervillain #1… There’s an ad for 50% off when you buy 10 tanks or more!
Supervillain #1… You have at least 300 in the training field we’re not getting anymore…
Supervillain #2 be right back…
And it’s apparently a standard tank, too! Not, like here, where there are about 70 very different models in production… Or maybe they’re using the T-38 as a standard, god knows there are still LOTS of those and they’re pretty useless by modern standards.
The Pentagon keeps telling the Congress we don’t need any more tanks but they’re still paying G.E. to make them. Gotta be stacking them somewhere.
they’re basically shrinkwrapped in what amounts to a tank ‘”graveyard” in the Mojave
maybe their plannng an invasion and their stocking up
or target practice for the next weapon design
iirc they are remanufacturing existing tanks, not making new ones.
Abrams is a great tank, but there are things we could do a lot better. The Glacis plate is tough. but it really depends on its extreme slope to resist/deflect attacks from the frontal arc. Attacks from above would have an easier time penetrating it, and iirc there is a fuel tank under it. This helps protect the crew from penetrations, but fuel burns, and without it the tank doesn’t go anywhere.
Hmmm…Have you tried looking up Evil, Inc.? I don’t know if they sell tanks in bulk (well, you can’t find anything BUT bulk when it comes to tanks), but there might be some other useful items.
So here’s a question:
Maxima has a 5 star rating in defence.
Sydney has a 5 star rating in shield.
So how would Sydney fare against little miss Bombshell?
Also how would Achilles stand against the overnuke? We know he can shrug off damage on atomic level, so presumably no explosion could ever be big enough to hurt him, but this would be a good way to test that
I see an exploding-man-type move.
Syd using her hent-orb to grab AB, fly her up and at the last moment use her shield.
I’d like to see if she can top Max in this, and/or how far she would be hurled.
Max: “You’re calling from WHERE!? How the heck did you get to Hawaii!?”
What is the time the page get online?? is it normal/always the same time or different it?
Always on the same time, but something glitched today I believe
Do you mean Supermanium?
Something is wonky with WP today. I lost an entire post except the tags when I hit publish early this AM. Hours of work gone in an instant.
If you mean that ‘timed out’ rubbish, happened to me twice yesterday (had a good rant about the local council, but couldn’t remember what had said so couldn’t be bothered re-typing it) and again today, but fortunately this time it kept the post and was able to post again
Glad to see, I wasn’t the only one. Collaboration reduces the “am I going crazy?”
Corroboration
I’m glad you cleared up that slip of the tongue (keyboard?). Craziness by collaboration results in Arkham Asylum…
Too many requests? I only made one!
I find that usually going back to the page (I know there’s a technical term for this that I’ll remember 10 seconds after I post this, but it’s ctrl+right arrow for Firefox) usually brings the post back.
Yeah that’s good but the problem I mostly have then is it doesn’t always remember it’s a reply when it happens.
You could also use the extra time to build up a nice big backlog so that you can have personal flexibility without effecting the schedual.
Or just enjoy your free time rather than worrying about us.
Either way, this is my favorite comic on my weekly webcomic schedual :)
Never thought it would happen, but Syd is starting to annoy me :(
She’s still on aggro duty. So mission accomplished.
She’s definitely being nerd-uppity. I feel like I’m back at the gaming table as KopyKraut: “God, whatever, just roll already!”
Or in this case, “Sydney, could you just let Kenya take her turn?”
Yep, that was predictable indeed. “strong enough to cut a tank in half?” I wish I could see Mr. Teek’s reaction.
Also, you don’t get to call bullshit on what the enemy or is capable of in combat. They’re not required to be fair.
Again I bring up the final panel of this comic:
https://www.goblinscomic.org/03162010/
and the follow-up on its next page.
Good stuff.
Who needs to rhyme on purpose anyway?
If only I had a dime
for every time
someone said it was a crime
that they couldn’t purposely rhyme.
1. You just used that as an excuse to tear up some of Maxima’s clothes (not that we’re complaining lol)
2. Atomic’s reactions? Priceless.
I bet it’s pretty hard for Max to find someone who can crack her back for her…probably feels pretty good after a while.
Hiro and Stalwart have strenght 4 stars
Maxima’s base power is 3, and she can boost it to 5. So those 2 are probably strong enough to snap it back when they get home
Becouse Dave doesn’t have any web comic recommendations today, I tell you one of the best ever:
Girl Genius
https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
+infinity+1
How good is Girl Genius? Good enough that they backed out of the Hugo awards this year just to give someone else a chance.
The only required items to read that comic are vacation days and a bed-pan. Besides that, DIVE DIVE DIVE
I’ve been a long-time reader of their comic and I just started listening to their audio book version. It’s a little weird to hear a slightly different perspective on the same story.
Girl Genius is the Gold Standard by which all other web comics are judged.
Don’t get me wrong, its awesome but I like Grrl Power & EGS more.
Greenhair obviously doesn’t consider Sydney a threat, or he’d be TK’ing her orbs all over the shop (or trying to, anyway!).
As with RPGs, “just standing there” is a great way of keeping your threat generation low. She’s done a bit of interference, but she hasn’t been body-slamming people with her lighthook.
Actually He ordered someone to distract her before, in part because she is smacking people to the ground and blocking shots.
also the shield might block his telekinysis like how harem could not teleport in
This part of the fight must have been pretty impressive for the reporters covering it from across the street. I think I know the film clip that will be leading off the evening news.
Dave: Is ARC allowing the media to broadcast this as a live feed, or are they blocking it for security reasons?
As for A.B., attempting to kill a police/military officer and then verbally stating into numerous security cameras that you are trying to kill said person makes it a little hard for her to plead to a lesser charge when this gets to trial.
How on earth would you try AB? She has Mind Bullets.
A few of these guys might be deemed too dangerous to have in open court. In that case, they can set up a two-way video feed from the courtroom to whichever prison can actually hold her so she can participate in her own defence.
I agree that AB has just set herself up for a very long prison term, if she survives long enough to get to trial. In real life, those who attempt to kill police, especially those who brag about it do not receive as much consideration when being arrested. The police imo JUSTIFIABLY consider them lethal threats, and use lethal force. Sometimes they surrender, sometimes they survive their injuries.
Then comes the problem of trying and incarcerating them.
She probably won’t be killed. Dave already stated that he’s doesn’t plan on killing of characters very often, if at all, because he wants to keep the mood of the story light. While there is action, it’s more comedy and slice of life.
The more live captures Arc SWAT gets in this brawl, the tougher they are going to look. When Boilerplate went screaming (literally?) into the next county from one backhand swing, a life of crime suddenly looked less appealing to anyone with half a brain. Casually smacking around a bunch that seem to be the toughest thugs around should scare more low level supers back to their old jobs. Like: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1183
Besides you know how much harder it is to capture someone than to kill them. Anyone that can take a dangerous treat alive can more than easily remove it. Someone with that level of skill is a far bigger obstacle.
Might I suggest maybe not Blender? I use it for fun, it’s great, but it does not follow anyone else’s rules. As an example: to select something you right click it. It’s really fast once you get used to it (and was designed around production workflows) but has a steep learning curve. If you just want simple background type stuff I think sketchup or another tool may be better.
On the other hand, if you have a couple of weeks to get used to blender, David Revoy has a good “digital paint over 3D model” tutorial focussing on blender here