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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The phrase “Nobody could have survived THAT!” always, ALWAYS leads into a dramatic smoke dissolve where the “exploded” character defiantly stands unscathed, ready to kick ass even HARDER than before!!!
Hell that’s been hard and solid fact ever since WW1 after soldiers commented on artillery barrage never seen before(but a lot more of the same in the next 4 years), suprisingly them and to their opposition later, and every time there after, they were still there. well usually at least enough to drive the attack back.
It’s like in the telenovelas (Spanish language soap operas) when the villain exclaims “No puede ser, No puede ser.” (“It can’t be” x2) even though the fact that it is is staring them right in the face.
That line is so classic, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a caption in the hieroglyphics when the arisen Osiris confronts the evil Set preparing to do justice all over his carcass.
I’ve noticed there are about 5-10 or so standard lines that are found in just about every telenovela I’ve seen (my wife watches them constantly) including “Reaciona! Reaciona!” (“Wake up!”, said to heighten the tension when someone’s just been rescued) and “Sueltame” (“Let go of me!”, when said by a good lady: to show how evil the bad person is to grab her against her will; when said by the evil lady: to show how unrealistic she is to believe that the good person would let her go after catching her doing something she shouldn’t have been).
Sydney, raw recruits do not normally get to give orders to lieutenants, like Anvil. Usually it is the other way around, or more often, the lieutenant gives an order to the sergeant who gives the order to the recruit. Besides, you are right there; Lighthook her!
Max already told Anvil to deal with A Bomb. Sydney is mocking AB and she is not gonna steal Anvil’s kill.
Mummify her with the lighthook until Anvil can get there.
Really unnecessary. A Bomb looks to be stunned for a couple phases anyway. Self-induced mind boggle.
Maybe this sort of thing is relevant to the promotion from the start.
Ah Sidney, Combat Commentator.
Maxima is doing a no-sell for psychological demoralization. Burn through some of your constitution to make it look like you are less injured, or even not at all, than you really are to make your opponent think that you are so much better than they are. When the threat is over, you tend to just totally collapse because of the injuries and need quick treatment.
well now we know how Halo Got her Field Promotion, that being said. “Come on stupid, Anyone with Half a brain, and only half Their mind, and ten times the spazz of Halo, Dabbler, and Harem Combined (or uncombined in harems case) could tell you that wouldn’t work. Maxima Nuked a damn Tank into a puddle of Silicone, and Silicone Crystalloids and proceeded to Nuke the Area in what happened to be the most impressive unimpressive gleeful abundance show of Power. Did you really think two Party Sparklers could out burn a bonfire?”- Priestess of Gilgamesh <- her super power is her undoing really<-)
Role Play of My own anti Hero's aside, Damn this page was beautiful.
https://imgur.com/gallery/BfzE98x/new
Perfect.
Because you can’t rules-lawyer* life.
* or whatever the correct verb for doing this is.
Shaped charge? Doesn’t look like it from either the weapon or the explosion.
Shear attempt in using an explosive either side is more accurate.
like using Det-cord to cut a tree down?
More like using cannon fuse in this case, but close enough.
Well, it is a charge, and it’s shaped like a Bolo. Does that count?
It is a pair of shaped charges connected by a glowy cord
10 bucks says anvil knocks AB into a car, hulk style :D
These days the kids are flash stepping behind you the second things blow up but I’m not complaining.
Into the ground or into Sydney’s shield. The good guy want to minimize property damage.
Into / towards Max for a double hit.
This wont happen but Anvil to Max, off Halo’s Shield, back to Anvil (ala Globetrotters) until it stops being funny, then Max spikes.
If anvil uses Achilles to smack AB up to maxima (Homerun style) I die a happy man.
I love the look on her face, priceless. your ability to draw expressions is great and always gets me to laugh.
Huh I was actually genuinely surprised the attack was effective at all, well at least it serves t show that while Maxima is OP she isn’t Allstar superman or something.
Actually it wouldn’t be an unreasonable assumption to think you could damage Maxima with that. She wasn’t standing very close to the explosion she caused. Even if it was more impressive, the inverse square law applies.
That said, what Shellah used wasn’t a shaped charge in the traditional sense so much as it was “an explodey thing I shaped like a bola”.
It’s “Bola” by the way, not “Bolo” –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolas
What happens when Halo uses both hands on one ball again? I forget if that’s been tried.
Anyway, nice comic good art.
( Not fond of people’s mouths forgetting they have jaws attached but I recognize that as your stylistic choice rather than an art error. )
To be fair, Urban Dictionary has a number of definitions of BOLO.
#5 lists it as a corded throwing weapon.
From her use of the phrase ‘Eat Explodey Bolo’ let’s hope she was not referring to definition #8.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BOLO
I prefer this version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank)
Some of these Bolos can survive nuclear strikes. Gotta love that Duralloy(tm).
Mk.33 Vs Maxima…. GO!
A MK-XXXIII BOLO would likely kill Maxima without significant effort. 15 megatons per second of main battery firepower from the 3x 200cm hellbores, plus shielding and armor to stand up to same. Plus the heavy missile battery and the artillery, and the infinite repeaters that are really smaller hellbores. A MK33 is a planetary siege unit – a heavy Bolo.
Maxima’s powerful, but she’s not that powerful.
Yeah I thought about that after I posted. I figured she could avoid the main battery, but the 20cm secondaries under AI control would certainly fry her. Not that she would be able to scratch the thing anyway considering the power of its battle-screens.
Revised battle to be less of a instapwn! Maxima vs. Mk. XX bolo!
I see we’re going to have to revise the “What it does to a tank” benchmark already.
( I love you nerds. )
Destroyed her jacket? Or improved it? :)
It is cloting damage that reveals she has her gun with her. The one only she herself can use due to the recoil kicking as hard as anvil…
Well, we kind of saw it way back on page 204.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1280
It depends on your point of view.
You know how long it takes to break in a decent leather jacket? Months really. Judging by the sleeves Max was just getting it comfortably flexible. Now she needs to start over with a new one.
ggggg,, gggaaa,,mouth,, watering,,,ggggaaaa,,so hot,, maxima image in panel 9..
make me glad i am into woman,,, even tough i am one :),, i would love to see math’S reaction if he wasnt out :)
I think he knows better than to hit on the boss. She can assign some very interesting duties, even to a civilian.
Gotta be someone idiot/brave/hero enough to be filming this at least on a phone. He’ll see it later.
I think we can all agree that he’ll get a copy of the video-stream from Leon later…
…so that he can “study” it properly…
…in detail…
…in his bunk…
(…I’m a bad, bad, BA-A-A-AD boy…)
Are we not doing “phrasing” anymore? ;-)
Right?
Well “standing in her own fallout” makes it sound like she crapped herself.
Not to forget that “fallout” makes it sound Nuclear, and Nuclear explosions have radiation, and radiation is the keyword to cause public panic.
You can just barely see part of Atomic Bombshell’s sports bra in panel 1. It’s a rather minor and fairly unimportant detail overall but it is good attention to detail, likely not one I would have thought to put in, so nice touch Dave.
Yes, noticed that as well, it has appeared on prior pages as well
Humm perhaps we see some of Anvils “Classified” power here? Perhaps shes an energy absorber like captain atom or something. If Max just needed someone sturdy she could have just told Sid to grab her with the light hook and pound her into the parking lot a few times
haha now that would have been some thing to see XD
*Sidney grabs Anvil by the ankels with the lighthook and starts to repetedly smack Anvil in the ground, then sick her on (insert random unfortunet enemy here)*
(Insert link to film clip of Hulk-on-Loki during The Avengers movie)
Some mention Hulk slamming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhbWIFDqQfk&feature=youtu.be&t=3m48s
As Peter tried to reply a couple posts down, Anvil absorbs Kinetic Energy and uses it to augment her own strength, as she showed at the start of the fight where Blue-Mullet kept punching her and only the first had ANY effect. (And that was to dimple her cheek where his fist was pressed to her face.)
HMM-m-m…
…just how extensive is Anvil’s ability to absorb kinetic energy?
– Can she shrug-off a collision with a meteor?
– Can she effectively ignore the impacts of high-energy sub-atomic fragments?
(As I understand it, the only real difference between these 2 situations would be the size, or magnitude, of the energy involved.)
Bear in mind, now, that the latter scenario would mean that she’s more than just radiation-proof – in fact, standing in front of a naked bar of Plutonium would merely offer her a “power-up”, from absorbing all those micro-impacts!
Don’t think Dave has mentioned an upper limit yet, but he has mentioned she gains a very small amount just from her foot impacting the ground while she walks so it’s theoretically possible that with enough impacts she could out match an Overclocked Maxima
Agreed, but I suspect the key difference might be that Max’s power is inherent, while Anvil’s power is stored, & therefore very likely to drain faster. She might be able to over-match Max for one punch, but (strategically) it would take too long for Anvil to recharge, & odds are that one punch won’t be enough.
Now I’m wondering whether Anvil’s energy-storing power is inherent
(& therefore constant, like our ability to pull Oxygen from the air with our lungs),
or is this something that she can only do deliberately?
Storing footstep-energy indicates impressive sensitivity, but is there any known lower-limit, below which the micro-impacts are ignored as energy that’s not stored?
No system is 100% efficient, but where do we draw the line, in this case?
True, but as we discussed many months ago, There seems to be very few ways to effectively fight Anvil, even using a Nerve Strike would increase her strength, especially since from when it showed her getting punched at the start of this fight, she can ignore most impacts.
Well at least Atomic bombshell did do some damage to that gold plated superwoman. That’s got to be worth something.
It is worth being taken seriously.
Wich will result in a serious beating.
So yay, AB…?
Except that everyone on the villain team will think that it didn’t, because Maxima has a really good pokerface.
So where this would have been a good mesure of Maxima’s protection powers (this being near her limit, so that overnuke would probably take her out), with a bit of luck they’ll overestimate her even more now
But, remember, not even Maxi’s MegaGoBoom damaged her uniform, Lil’ Boomers “Explodey Bolo” did
From what its been described she has power like Strong Guy from X-Factor.
Result of damn timeout
I am begging someone, anyone to please shut that motormouth pinhead Halo up! Her rants have gone from mildly amusing to nails on a chalkboard annoying. Seriously, somebody force choke that bitch!
Blame Maxima. She did tell Syd she could be smug with the bad guys.
You are reading the wrong comic if you don’t like Sydney.
She kind of is the main draw.
PS Not that the others aren’t hilarious.
More like drawback. Outside of her playing with balls dependent superpowers she’d likley be one freakout away from the padded room she belongs in!
Just because she’s a hyper-active geek? Please. I’ve seen far worse at the local gaming shop.
Sydney is the main character. If you don’t like her, you are REALLY in the wrong place. It would be like regularly watching Castle and complaining about the titular character.
Or are you just one of those people that is only ‘happy’ when you are complaining about something, so you seek out things on the internet to rage against?
Like I mentioned earlier, she was cute at first but now is now her annoyances are out weighing it. Maine character or not, she is getting way too uppity and annoying for her own good. And for this comics as well.
On a different note, a “perfect Sydney” would ultimately be a boring character, with no room to “evolve/mature”. If we never see any flaws in her, we’ll never see any storied transition into a better person. Part of my interest is to discover what the Author thinks will be an entertaining story-arc to induce a change in her behavior – for better *OR* for worse.
Pre-flashback show us a calmer Sydney.
During this flashback Zephan Zoeng suggested her “ADHD”-meds might be adjusted.
What remains to be seen is whether they –were– adjusted, or maybe it was enough to spend time interacting with a team of supers, to get “the worst” of her hyperactivity out of her system…?
Considering it’s the same day in story and the only doctor she saw since then used healing powers on chemical burns to the cornea. I doubt it. She certainly didn’t have time (it can take weeks) for her levels to adjust.
“Hyperactive Sydney” is several months in the past, compared to “Calm Sydney”.
(I refer you to the bottom-right corner of Pg.4)
I take this to mean that there’s a minimum of 3 months involved, & less than 12.
That should allow enough time for either treatment-method to show results, I think.
She’s already a bit calmer than when she started this “flashback”-day, & no doubt interacting with Max (a respected authority-figure) may be the cause here, but you’re right in that any long-term change will take much more than one day, either way…
…which is why I’ll be patiently waiting to see how the rest of this flashback plays out. – – – – – :)
Personally, I hope to see Syd benefit from a non-chemical treatment method.
My only reason for this is that I believe it’ll give the Author a more fertile variety of story-telling opportunities.
P.S.:
Am I wrong to think that chemical treatment-methods get faster (but not always better) results than non-chemical behavior training…?
Combination is best. A person can rarely learn effective coping skills when chemically unstable but even when chemically stabilized the have to have learned effective coping skill or be taught them.
Once skills have been learned it’s easier to maintain some degree of stability but some meds may still be necessary.
Good to know – thanks for the prompt reply!
Even with chemicals if there is not a strong interest and clear procedure/objectives it may even be the same as without. Like in high school I was prescribed a chemical. I never took it consistently took it because I forgot, but I found ways to apply what I was supposed to learn and that actually allowed me to focus. Teachers would comment on the improvement and I would think “ha I haven’t taken that stuff in weeks.” Our society has a bad habit of trying to normalize everbody whereas if you let people be different they find something they are good at or enjoy and do it to the best of their ability, often better than “normal” people.
I can’t argue that. There are those who need help to function effectively but many are inclined to forget that doesn’t necessarily mean like everyone else. Sometimes different just works better. Sometimes it’s a crap sandwich with a side of pain and misery. Sometimes it’s just different, no better no worse. You just have to deal with each situation as approprate
+10
Love Sydney, but have to be Agrecian with Iron Rogue: her Annoyance Factor (or “AF”) is starting to outweigh her Adorkablity Quotant (or “AQ”)
so then her Pulling Aggro (PA) factor is higher than your Annoyance Avoidance (AA) stat… and like it or not Sydney IS the main character, and the way that Dave portrays her will undoubtedly remain the same for quite some time in-comic as well as IRL, at least until Zeph can get her dosage increased… so you’ll have to live with it, or find another comic to view, sorry… either way, the way you stated you frustrations was just rude, and uncalled for, please refrain from such outbursts in the future…
sorry Guesticus, my reply was directed at Iron Rogue, not you… i hit “reply” in the wrong post… oops, sorry.
I honestly don’t think she’s that overboard yet. It’s a little questionable for her to tell officers what to do and to draw enemy attention to another teammate (even if they are a bulletproof) but she’s untrained and following orders (draw enemy attention to yourself and protect vulnerable teammates) and advice (including it’s fine to be smug to enemies) for the most part and keeping on a relatively even keel despite it being a chaotic situation and likely being due for another dose of stimulants.
If Max was more ‘girly’ she could have said something like ‘Bitch! You ruined my jacket!’ And then stomped Atomic Boobs into the pavement.
Halo should be using Lighthook to smack Atomic Boobs into the pavement until Anvil gets there to take her out.
“You ruined my new jacket! Kill him a lot!”
Or Sydney could use her lighthook to smack Anvil into the pavement.
“Eat explodey bolo” is now officially the best war cry EVER.
Am i the only one waiting for Halo to use the light hook in a Hulk moment? (Avengers when he slams Loki)
She did a few comics back.
OK feel stupid now. i missed it.
Why isn’t Halo kicking gratuitous amounts of ass? With her shield and flying, she could just body-slam people into submission.
control Sid has not used her powers for much combat. Right now the rules are non lethal. Who said she going to find the right speeds not to kill them on impact. Why max put her on meatsheild duty.
Because she is not experienced enough to do it without accidentally killing someone in the process.
When I think about it, it must be a real pita to be a superhero police. You never know what kind of force you can extort against your foes, their physics tell you nothing, and in case of force-field users it is nearly impossible to break said force-field without killing whoever is behind it. There are no “standard moves” that can be reliably applied for every encounter, and you would basically have to profile every super-criminal over a several encounters and have special training for each particular foe.
I’m surprised that Maxima is able to be caught just floating around like that. Strategically, I would think that you’d see her darting from one spot to another instead of just hanging in the air like that.
True, she’s invulnerable….AS FAR AS SHE KNOWS! But why tempt fate?
She did dodge the throw of the Explody Bolo. It only caught her because the guy with the green spiky hair grabbed it telekinetically and threw it around her waist.
That would be Chia-Pet
She may well be tempting fate to draw out the overconfident ones who wish to tempt their fate. Its cocky on her end to do but a sound tactic in this situation.
Something to keep in mind from what I am seeing this group unlike ones from DC/Marvel clone universes have blank spots in their rosters. But I suspect the first team to get combat capable intel gathers will have some decisive advantages.
Also, standing in one spot makes her a target to draw fire away from potentially more vulnerable teammates.
I think I missed something, so Maxima also has a defense aura? With the got through her outer field and actually damaged her clothing.
Had it for a while, keeps her clothes intact as she does super stuff (e.g. supersonic speeds are hell on wardrobes). It also keeps her from ripping the sides off of ambulances when picking them up to get to annoying beanpoles.
Her powers can extent to things she’s touching. It’s how she lifted the ambulance (she just made it fly, rather than lifting it), and it’s how her clothes survived the supernova https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1123
To be fair this was a brain fart on my part that she had a defense aura; however I will also point out that a defense aura and zero range telekinesis aren’t the same thing…or function even remotely the same way, unless she has a telekinetic disruption field for a defense.
Why did they not begin the fight with this?
Testosterone
They tried to but they couldn’t hit her, and at the beginning of the fight they weren’t working together at all.
Especially the first couple meatheads.
Is anyone else kind of wishing Achilles had just run up to Atomic Bombshell and activated her explody bomb power at attack with a high five just before she threw her powered attack?
That would have been awesome yes
Or jumped and got it around his neck :)
… Or swallowed it.
The high-five that is needed is Maxima on Anvil, at full power.
What it does to a tank is nothing new. Even before you used a tank before demonstration purposes the armed forces had plenty of tank killers.
Atomic Bombshell’s bola is roughly 2.4 on the Tankworth scale, though if unconcerned with collateral damage she can ramp it up to nearly 8 Tanksevers.
Please let Sydney’s face be healed by on of the mysteriorbs.
Sadly, DaveB’s admitted that’s just an art slip-up.
How come green hair hasn’t been named yet? He took out a turn coat, and helped with that epic boomerang explosion. Plus he also seems to be one of the few there with a game plane. He defiantly deserves to be known.
Also I’m hoping he can force coke Sidney out. or at least knock her out by slamming her in her own force field. Girl needs to go down some pegs.
He has, his name is “Chia-Pet”
Sidney can’t smash againts her shield ever…
1) Some of us like Sydney just the way she is.
2) If you want to complain, you might find you’re more likely to get positive responses from constructive criticism than whinges such as these.
If it got through her outer shield it should have knocked off, cracked, or destroyed her glasses.
It only made it through the small part of the shield right where it exploded. Explosive blast get weaker the further they travel and that little loss of power was enough that it didn’t affect the rest of her shield at all.
I’m just curious if her personal shield was at full strength or if she was lax in its strength since she was under estimating the strength of the villains here.
whatever little bit of destructive blast force that actually could have affected the glasses that far away from the epicenter, (ie. her waist) would have been deflected away from her face by Maxima’s “vast tracts of land” between the blast and her face…
Hey author dude, why didn’t you make that two pages?
You could have left the readers hanging in some suspense after the explosion. For a day or two at least. At least some of us would have saw through it but not all.
He’s not that mean, yet :P
What happened to the triangle tessellation things on Sydney’s Force field?
It only appears when its blocking something or the shield is forming or disappearing.
I have a feeling that Arianna will be using a closeup of that detonation footage in a commercial for her new exercise video she talked Col. Leander into doing: ‘ Abs of Adamantium”
this is a good comment/idea
If you just want to block out vehicles/buildings/locations I’d learn sketchup.
For basic fast polygon prototyping work it is better than blender – I don’t think you’re looking to texture and render here, right?
Re: RSS. It never broke here, until this latest one where the image won’t load. I use NewsBlur.
OK, I know that blithely assuming that everything is going to work out in their favor is a common criminal trait, but just what did Atomic Bombshell imagine that killing a government-employed superhero in front of dozens of witnesses and cameras would do to her own life expectancy? Take the cop-killer syndrome and then apply it to superheroes. Unless she is Class III invulnerable, she would have to stay away from public places for the rest of her life.
Cape killers have major respect in the super villain side of the tracks. Who wouldn’t want to be known as the guy or girl that killed a high powered hero like Max? The infamy would be epic!
Yeah … except the superheroes would stop trying to take her alive, and simply proceed to take her ‘dead or alive’, and will settle for ‘killed resisting capture’, with a loose definition of ‘resisting’.
Think back to the early days of the FBI, for example think about what happened to Bonnie and Clyde – pulled over in response to a stopped car, and promptly filled with bullets.
Sure infamy’s nice … but staying alive is better.
Oh yeah, better tell the guys: “Hey fellas, better stop being bad people or they might get angry with us!”
Usually real superheros take them in alive even if they killed one of there own. A sort of “were better than that,” sort of thing.
But if they did decide to do that, the bad press and “Hero brutality,” would be off the charts. You think cops get it bad with all the calls of police brutality. Try super powered cops.
There is a limit to supers in the goverment side. Kill them all and you wipe off 90% of your problems.
Maxima Hellsing. Panel 8
Great page. Also, Girl Abs! Ever since I read Spinnerette I’ve had a greater appreciation for girl Abs.
Especially since she has to hide them (as well as the extra arms) so much.
Okay, so Sydney just announced her presence as the next best target to AB who has a comm port next to her whispering her tidbits. Wanna bet Opal says “slip a bomb thru the hole right behind your hand and the brat will get a surprise…”
At which point we find Sydney alerted to danger slaps the bomblet away while flickering the shield down and up again. Green Hair will TK it back again to keep the threat up but Opal will have opened a portal inside in the path of the orbs —“stealing” one or more –into an unknown and distant location.
“We got the moenyshot!” and the remaining villains scatter to the winds as the real reason for the attack becomes clearly a ruse to capture/steal/study one of the Orbs.
It be a marvel if that worked but everything is going against it. Not only is the plan overly elaborate. So far the only teleport to get through her shield was Shadow Boxer and then not really. He was mid port in a shadow behind her when she raised the shield. Harem couldn’t even teleport in to saver after it was up. Secondly her control over the orb is not absolute. It works within a tether which the orbs themselves maintain. They will not leave her, she can not leave them, they will stop themselves or her to prevent either scenario and I’m pretty damn sure the safety would kick in at the edge of the event horizon.
If Harem can’t teleport through Sydney’s shield, what makes you think Opal can?
The shield has already proven to be teleport proof. I really doubt that a portal would work any better.
Yeah, the shield stops ‘porters from getting in, but what about getting out?
Oh, right, Opal Nera (lovely drink, use it for sore throats and ear and tooth aches) was going to put the pockal beside Syd while the shield was up
There’s simply no foolproof strategy that justifies having Opal open any mini-portals near Sydney.
If Syd figures-out the usage of Opal’s mini-portals, she could counter by shoving a “lighthook” thru it, to either:
1)__Battle them directly, or
2)__shove their bomb back thru it, then block any further tries of theirs to return it, until it goes boom.
…All-in-all, these villains probably see any possible portal-based attacks on Syd as being too high-risk to be worthwhile.
Unpredictable spaz is unpredictable
I’m with Sydney on this. Haven’t these villains ever sen any superhero or anime stuff, or seen the news on Archon? Oh villains, you so stupid! :P
When I have talked with real cops about real criminals, one of the generally consistent factors of the criminals is a lack of forethought and/or wisdom.
Never use ‘criminal’ and ‘genius’ in the same sentence. Unless doing oxymorons.
Wait, so you saying that Lex Luthor is not a ‘genius’? Or are you saying he is not a ‘criminal’?
I am saying he is not real.
This reminds me a project specifications in many businesses: You get to pick two of these and no more than two: fast, correct, inexpensive. If the project will be fast and correct, then it will be expensive. If the project is fast and inexpensive, don’t expect it to work that well. If the project is inexpensive but correct, then do not expect a fast delivery.
Your list is similar: criminal, genius and real. Pick two and no more than two. Even smart criminals screw up.
The fact he keeps obsessing over Superman instead of getting on with being filthy rich means he’s not as smart as he thinks he is.
He might be smart but boy does he have ISSUES!
Does that include being on Supe’s lovers list?