Grrl Power #242 – Well that sucked
Well that’s concerning.
Anvil doesn’t run on the kinetic energy she absorbs, but she’s never had anyone just yank it all out of her at once like that. The shock was like a sudden drop in blood pressure which is why she passed out. She had a lot of it power saved up at this point in the fight too. Seems like a waste but you know, battles are chaotic that way.
I know it’s come up before, but superhero battles in real life would likely be super deadly. A regular human punching another has a minute chance of killing them. A trained boxer or martial artist or powerlifter or whatever has a better chance, but only marginally (unless you’re intentionally targeting the throat or something.) It’s still meat and bone connecting with more meat and bone, but with super powers, there is such a potential gulf between the damage that can be dealt and what can be absorbed. If Gigaton Punch sees an unknown villain battling police, and all the cops’ bullets are bouncing off the guy, he might think he’s pretty safe using his low level Kiloton Punch to start off with, but then the guy explodes like he was crushed in between two colliding cement trucks. Turns out the bullets weren’t bouncing off him because he was super armored, but because he had a super accurate pinpoint forcefield generator that was perfect for bullets but nothing else. When the scale goes from 1 to 1 million, misjudging someone’s defensive ability by 10% could be catastrophic. Luckily this isn’t that sort of comic, but that’s still why Anvil decided to start in with a grapple instead of, as she said, risking punching his head off.
If you are in a mood for a significantly more violent Superhero webcomic, check out Vanguard. It’s not to say Grrl Power won’t ever have some good ‘ol proper violence in it, just that it won’t be a feature. I could totally see Dabbler bisecting zombies or something, but guts are a pain to draw, even though personally I do enjoy reading ultra violent comics like Ricky-Oh/Fist of the Northstar and good macabre stuff. That link (which is now fixed) goes to a manga about creepy spirals. I know “woooooooooo, scary.” No seriously, it’s creepy. Uzumaki is da man. (Whoops, Uzumaki is the name of the book. Junji Ito is the man.) It’s also $20 for 650 pages hardback… well shoot, I’m going to buy that for myself. It’s uh, comic research for when I have to draw creepy stuff in Grrl Power.
Here’s an art tip. When you see a hand in the comic that’s as well drawn as the one in panel 4, there’s a good chance at some point I was gnarling my hand up in front of my webcam for reference. Seriously my webcam folder is like 25 pictures of my hands and a few shoes.
Reader Outrider created a 3D animation of Sydney’s Orbs’ skilltree. It just spins around it a few times while it rotates but it looks all professional. :)
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This looks like a job for Dabbler!
Nah, I’d like to see the star of this comic trying this one.
It makes sense for Sydney to take this one if you think about it. From what I can gather from Death Tolls, I think that he can temporarily absorb and use any superpowers used on him. Kind of like Rogue from X-Men. If that’s true, than he absorbed Anvil’s ability to absorb kinetic energy. Which means that only a handful of people can fight him right now. Sydney, Maxima, Dabbler, and Jiggawatt would be ideal right now because they all have ranged powers that are heat-based and not kinetic-based. Dabbler could probably do it in a less possibly lethal manner, but she’d risk getting her powers absorbed from her if Death Toll’s powers work on magic as well. But Sydney’s powers are derived from her orbs, which can’t even be detected through advanced magic (as confirmed by Dabbler). So if I were them, I’d have Sydney be on point to tire out Death Tolls until he loses his temporary ability to absorb kinetic energy, and then send in Math for the death blow since Math has no powers to absorb.
The problem with Jiggawatt fighting him is that he’s already shown he’s copied her power (panel 4), so if he’s copying powers, he’s copying them at range.
Actually, if he is the mastermind behind all this and his power allows him to absorb the power of other supers then its a high possibility that he copied the powers off all of his “teammates” and can use all of their powers. Probably limited to one at a time or something so he doesn’t become to over powered.
I would have to vote for Sydney as the best option since it seems to be impossible for anyone to even detect her power or hoe her powers even work. SO in theory it should be impossible for him to even absorb her powers.
But what if the lightning was just an effect to show him absorbing Anvil’s power? I’m working off of the principle that he needs physical contact for the absorbtion to work. Working off of this theory, let’s assume that as part of his absorbtion abilities, energy-based attacks are useless against him, which would contradict my earlier statement I know, but would make it so that only Sydney could reasonably fight him. The rest, duch as just being bored when Anvil put him in a chokehold, can just be attriubuted to him having a solid build. And if you think about it, this could be why he’s stayed out of the battle so far. At the end of the battle, when everyone’s tired and he’s still fresh, he can duplicate the strongest abilities that he’s seen exhibited and wipe out Archon plus the gang he arrived with, which would destroy any of his future possible competition.
To me, it seems far more likely that he has control of energy, since he’s used electric and kinetic so far, as well as wearing mage-ish robes. In his comment the author says that Anvil “never had anyone just yank [all her stored kinetic energy] out of her at once like that.” which implies that he didn’t copy her power, because that would have just absorbed the energy she put into the punch, rather than all of it. In addition, if he absorbs all the powers just by looking and can hold all of them, as he would need to in order to use Jig’s power, he would have Maxima’s power along with everyone else’s, meaning A) he could wipe out the battlefield in instants, and B) he would be massively overpowered, both for this comic and for someone named For Whom the Death Tolls. Doubt it’d be one of the powers Dave chooses for the first fight.
Oh, and in the case of him watching to gain powers but not wanting to fight, he could just as easily watch through a telescope or something, that’s the kind of refrigerator logic the author seems to love.
let me guess, his mundane name is Sylar? he only does the FWTDT because he thinks he needs to keep up with the comics industry.
Death Toll’s ability appears to be power mimicry. Every tactic he has used so far was used previously in the fight. He’s been passively observing the battle so far.
In fact, many of the abilities he’s demonstrating (even hand-swatting Concretia) were one-shot take-downs used earlier in the battle (Max’s initial swatting of the muscular goon).
Death Toll is probably the leader of this attack. The point of the melee was for him to develop his repertoire of attacks. On his own, he’d be handled trivially without first “charging up”.
Maybe, but Anvil had all of her stored up kinetic energy drained not just from the punch. So I’m more inclined to believe that he is an energy manipulator. Able to absorb, alter, and redirect it within say a foot of himself.
Another option is gear. Perhaps his cloak does electricity and his right glove kinetic energy absorption. I’m also considering that might be Deus in disguise, as if he does use gear then he could tailor his loadout specifically for the supers being that he knows all of their powers.
I was going to suggest that Death Toll isn’t the leader, and the guy in the suit chatting with Sidney was, but now that I’m looking at him, Death Toll does look suspiciously like Deus. His mask is in the perfect position to hide his easily-identifiable scar and his face and chin are the proper shape. Death Toll also clearly has a flair for the dramatic indicated by his dumb name (seriously, there are better names INSIDE his own name. “Death Toll” is way better than “For Whom the Death Tolls.”) and the fact that he’s taking part in the fight at all. A smart leader would have stayed out of the fight, an attention-hogging leader would wait until all of his guys were beaten up and then one-shot his enemies.
The only problem with it is that it begs the question of who the guy in the suit is. If he’s not the boss, then he’s clearly smarter than his boss. I would’ve normally guessed he’s the second-in-command and the real leader isn’t at the fight at all. If Death Toll is Deus though, that theory doesn’t make any sense. Who is he, and why is he hanging back?
The guy in the suit strikes me as a third-party, more specifically a crime boss’s number two.
If DT is Deus, he may have orchestrated this little shindig without being the leader proper with a subtle nudge and information leakage.
While DT and Deus both share a flair for the dramatic I’d like to think that someone with as much supervillain potential as Deus would think to throw on a prosthetic chin at least. And it doesn’t seem like he would be silly enough to show up to the first battle royale, so while I know I just made the suggestion I think it’s unlikely that DT and Deus are one and the same.
So what if Deus is TWO guys? (A play on Dos) And it is _both_ of them. One who sees the effect and the other that can reproduce it.
That’s another theory in and of itself that can boil down to a single question. Does Harem have any brothers? It’s never really explained in this universe so far, but in X-Men, at least what I’ve read of it so far, siblings can have similar powers, or the powers can be passed down the family line. For example, Scott and Alex Summers both had mid-to-long energy based attacks, and Magneto and Polaris both use magnetism. This and Harem’s initial decision to work with Deus in the first place raises the possibility that they’re family, with Deus having a similar cloning/teleportation ability to Harem’s. Yes I realize that this is completely different from one of my earlier theories, but I think that this one could work as well and let’s face it, we won’t know until Dave decides we’re good and ready to know so I’m just spilling out whatever theories I think are plausible.
Green Hair Guy was giving orders a moment ago, and even has a com network set up. He’s at least the tactical leader.
I had a character in a “fighting game” style RPG once who had no “moves” of his own, but had a wicked high defense and the ability to replicate (for a short time) any attack that successfully struck him. This meant that if you just attacked with basic martial arts you could wear him down over time, but trying to hit him with your “super mega death blow” usually resulted in you getting your ass handed back to you with your own attack. He was an fun character, especially since he didn’t try to get into fights, but thought backing out of a fight made him a sissy. :P
Very interesting, Death Toll so far has been using other peoples powers by observing, but we’ve yet to see anything particularly flashy from him either, I think his powers go beyond mere mimicry though, unless anvil can hoover stored power out of someone rather than simply absorbing the hit like we’ve seen so far. though in reply to the above post, I do have a M&M 2nd ed character named Kopy Kat along the same lines, had the mimic power limited to powers only but also had replication powers for “copies” of herself. stat wise was pretty average bar the duplicates but it all began to add up when they all started to mimic powers.
Okay Death Toll seems like a much catchier and kind of awesome name for this guy. Nice one, Maxima!
I agree- a superhero/villain needs a name that’s easy to say quickly.
DaveB, even though your link to Uzumaki doesn’t work, I shall now have to break your kneecaps for having reminded me that it existed. Mere descriptions of its content border on being the stuff of nightmares, and I really did not need someone bringing it back to mind!
Sweet God! If this guy starts using Uzumaki-type stuff in this story, oh boy. Ohhhhh boy, it would go very dark, very fast.
I’ve read some of Junji Ito’s work, and Uzumaki is right up there.
If Dave wanted to pull a real mind-screw on us, he could have a certain teen-aged looking Japanese girl with a beauty mark under her left eye show up in the background from time to time!
Whoops, fixed the link.
Since we had a ‘Schlock’ link last comic, here is another that seems to fit in well with our current situation:
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-07-22
Just a hunch but this guy reminds me of that looney CEO or whatever he was from earlier with the dramatic thunder button
Deus, and based on the build, chin and overall hamminess it’s far from out of the question but not a certainty.
Ok… reading Uzumaki… yes… creepy… stuff of nightmares… … I’m trying really hard not to say… *twisted*…
Anywho…
heavy hitter up to bat with Death Toll… the theories surrounding him are quite interesting.
Looking forward to seeing how it really goes!
Keep up the great work Dave.
Yeah Confessions of a D list supervillian is the bomb, you do know it’s part of a trilogy of which I’m waiting for the third installment, the second book is about how he became a supervillian in the first place and takes place before the first book, and goes to the point that confessions starts with the bug invasion. The entire story of books one and two are really excellent and I can’t wait for book three of the series.
The more i see of Death Toll the more convinced i become that he is actualy colour blind.
I mean, he is rather serious and has shown to not be a poser. There is no way a high caliber threat like that would go for yellow and blue. So i´m thinking colour blind or actual blind… remember Daredevils first outfit? https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/that-guy/daredevil_zps44da4378.png Heeewww!
There are people who are not color blind who are almost completely unable to tell when certain colors don’t go together. Like me, for example. I can see colors fine, but I have never been able to tell when my clothes clash. I also don’t see anything wrong with Death Toll’s outfit.
spent to much time with mages and other dimentional beings that have nonearthstandard color matching standards, dolt toll doesn’t look wierd colored to me.
Not sure if you are being ironic, but you do know that Matt is completely blind, don’t you? You should be lucky he remembers to even put anything on at all
Nah. If he didn’t wear anything, he’d get cold.
There are people who are not color blind who are almost completely unable to tell when certain colors don’t go together. Like me, for example. I can see colors fine, but I have never been able to tell when my clothes clash. I also don’t see anything wrong with Death Toll’s outfit.
Really, DaveB, are you sure this comment system is a good thing? I haven’t once been able to reply to someone else’s post without accidentally posting a new reply at the bottom first.
Maybe it’s just you and your browser
If the comment-box ends up at the bottom of the page (figuring there are other posts after the one you are attempting to reply to) then you are not actually replying
Same if it doesn’t say “Click here to cancel reply.” under “Comment”
Anvil! What does the scouter say about his power level?
Anvil: “Blrrr, ugh-brble mrrrrr.” DX
oh no… his power…. its…..
Its….. cheese.
I could do with a hand here, Gromit!
1006.
Well, technically he never did attack anyone. He just stood there, doing nothing. Anvil challenged him, and threatened to arrest him based on his name. Has he broken any laws? Knocking Anvil down seemed to be more like self-defense.
Please tell me if I’m wrong. I legitimately want to know.
No, I agree with you that he only acted in self-defense… but there is a problem. Since Anvil is technically a member of a military/police force, he kind of “resisted arrest”. He could probably win in court, but he was acting suspiciously enough and “collaborating” with known criminals at a crime scene. So… yeah, grey area.
His invitation to Anvil to join him in combat after she called on him to surrender implies that a threat to resist arrest. A self-defense defense wouldn’t hold up.
Resisting arrest… resisting arrest… what was he under arrest for? Having a dumb name? Yeah, I don’t think he’s actually broken any real laws.
Illegal assembly.
An assembly of one?
If you heard him directing traffic, then he can be nailed for conspiracy to commit a felony.
As someone mentioned earlier (either in today’s comment section or one previous), they could take him in as a person of interest. While “resisting arrest” might not be technically accurate in such a case (since it’s not technically an arrest), he still would have to comply with an order to surrender.
Of course you’re not wrong. Were talking about a super strength hero putting him in a choke hold that can be used lethally very easily given her strength level. He didn’t even resist. And then she tries to punch his head off just because of a little static discharge. Death Tool was well within his rights when facing such super police brutality!
At the very least he is likely am accesory to a crime. And was asked to come along peacefully. To which he said no. So he is adding resisting arrest to his list of potential charges.
He appeared as part of a group of people that unprovoked attacked military personel.
He was asked to identify himself as non-threat.
Anvil was not even required to ask him that, considering he had not run away or assited them (the actions of any non-threath).
He made it abundanlty clear that he is a treath to the team and civilians in the area.
If you make yourself a threat to people, you have to expect them removing that threath one way or the other.
If you have a gun at the ready, expect people shooting you first.
But he didn’t have a gun. He didn’t attack anyone. He just stood there. He didn’t do anything to anyone. He only acted in self-defense.
except when he told A-Bomb Babe to attack… right there that’s conspiracy to commit a felony, then there’s resisting arrest when told to come quietly.
yes he didn’t INITIATE anything, but when in this type of situation if a cop tells you to surrender it’s usually to reduce the variables on the battlefield that they need to worry about, meaning if they left him up and running about he could change his mind and attack somebody from behind, but if he’s in a “penalty box” like the one guy that surrendered, (and the others that are out cold) he’ll be handcuffed and put under supervision, then the rest of the team can relax a bit (relatively speaking of, course) and continue the fight and not have to worry about that individual anymore. i know that when i was in the military, for some of our anti-terrorist training we were told that if we ever got kidnapped, when the seals/etc would come to rescue us we were to drop to the floor and remain still /do whatever they told us to do, and that we would almost assuredly be hand cuffed and secured from moving about. once the team had secured the complete area properly, THEN they would attempt to sort out friend from foe in a controlled fashion, it’s to prevent them from gunning YOU down by accident because you decided to “help” by doing something they hadn’t planned on and getting in the way, and they think you are the enemy…
In that case, Sydney could be considered one fo the bad guys because she had a chat with Fedorka, and even acted on what he said
I don’t like it, but I kinda agree. He wasn’t “directing traffic” or collaborating with any of the other villains. He hasn’t done anything.
Anvil told him to surrender, and he said no. But she never told him what she was arresting him for…
I can actually see this happening in real life. I’m a racial minority. If I’m downtown, and there’s a shooting, and I’m in the middle and duck, but I’m not involved, does that give the cops the right to arrest me? Clearly I was there, and I’m about the same color as the other perpetrators. So the cops can arrest me, right?
I’ve actually asked myself this question quite a few times before this comic. A friend of mine was walking down the street, literally minding his own business, when a cop pulled up and shot him. No, this isn’t hyperbole, a cop pulled up and shot him. Thankfully it was with a tazer, and thankfully one of the prongs missed. After that he gets yelled at to surrender, and that he’s under arrest.
Turns out he matched the description of a robber: a guy in a black hoodie. (Yes, if you’re wondering, Portland police have since been put under investigation for being brutal and trigger happy.)
If it had been me, I would have told that cop to go fuck himself, since I hadn’t done anything wrong and he shot at me rather ineffectively. Seriously, at that point I’d be wondering if he was some thug posing as a cop.
I later found out five more cops showed up with guns drawn. So yeah, that would have been enough motivation to drop my slushie and surrender. I once heard of a cop in Portland who shot a guy for stabbing himself with a two-inch blade o_o.
So, yeah, ironically I’m on Death Toll’s side on this.
It’s ironic, really. I criticized Maxima for her fear-mongering at the press conference, but supported her when she knocked down Hex. These were both seemingly against public opinion. Now I’m supporting Death Toll, which also seems to be the unpopular opinion…
Yes they have the right to arrest you. They don’t have anything to charge you with, but for a short period if you are a person of interest (which can be a witness) in an investigation they can arrest and hold you for a short period. (Depends on the state, I believe how long.)
It’s a right the cops abuse, but it’s also a necessary right. In a chaotic situation they need to be able to collect everyone first and sort things out later, and this comic definitely qualifies. Your example of being in the middle of a shootout does to: They need to get your statement, and holding you would technically be an arrest.
Now if they charge you just because you were there, that’s a definite problem. But hold you for a couple of hours to get a statement is within needed powers.
The two aren’t even remotely analogous. Now, if you were seen arriving at the same time as the people suspected in the shooting, seen talking to them and/or appeared to be directing them just before, and dressed in a similar manner, then I would say, yes, the police do have the authority to hold you for questioning even if there’s nothing that directly links you to involvement in the shooting itself.
DT was not seen arriving with the others (technically, none of them were seen arriving at all), for all we know, he likes to dress up and that is his favourite restaurant, he arrived just before the Goon Squad and was still reading the notice saying it was closed for a private function when they crashed the party
He also is clearly not dressed like anyone else, and unless Archon have someone with enhanced hearing, they can not prove he did anything with Lil Boomer except tell her to go away, the fact she asked him to help and hid behind him means nothing!!
A bad guy uses someone as a shield, does that make the shield an accomplice?
+1
He was seen conversing with one of the assailants, and heard to suggest targets to her. That’s aiding and abetting, or arguably conspiracy to commit. That’s collaborating with the other villains.
You can arrest the get-away driver. The “self defense” by toll is called resisting arrest, although yes if he were not a part of the assault group it would be self-defense, but he is not a bystander in this.
As for the regular humans and martial artists and unlikely to cause serious damage or marginally more likely comment in the blog post. Really depends on what’s happening. a punch or a kick sure, yanking someone and bodily slamming them head first into the wall? Even untrained that can be deadly. So intent matters a lot, I don’t think more normal human fights have the intent of killing, but the intent of punishing, causing pain, winning, not going to jail etc.
As for martial artists. Have you even *seen* anything UFC or boxing. They are purposefully disallowed from causing grievous injury, imagine if they were not so disallowed? A solid strike to the solar plexus actually compresses the heart and can cause arrhythmia (i.e. stop your heart). a solid strike to the throat collapses the trachea and causes suffocation. It’s really easy to snap a neck or break a back or choke someone (actually that’s the textbook choke anvil demonstrates i.e. ‘rear naked choke’ ). In the right places the human body is very fragile and killing someone on the first blow / attack would not be an uncommon scenario for martial artist vs sufficiently unskilled opponent.
While it is true that supers are working with a much larger and more powerful tool box, I’m not sure you can generalize to how much more or less deadly it would make combat. Remember that most supers are effectively untrained combatants due to the immense variety of powers and the resulting asymmetry in capabilities, they don’t actually *know* what will be good targets on the opponent, nor what attacks will and won’t be deadly. Martial artists by comparison have one set of powers to become accustomed to, the normal limitations of human body mechanics. While it does up the ante I’m not sure that it it says anything about how much more of less deadly supers combat would be (in a one on one situation). For mass fights, clearly it’s more deadly as one super might be able to take out 5 others.
I like the way you’re thinking, but let’s just make sure we see both sides of it.
Let’s take someone who is superhumanly strong. For instance, Spider-Man.
His superhuman physiology not only makes him incredibly strong (stronger than even he realizes most of the time), but also durable. If a normal person punched him, and he didn’t dodge or outright roll with it, the contact would likely shatter most bones in their hand, if not their arm. Heroes who boast super strength as a power are also the ones who have to have a great deal of physical control. Colossus has stated that even a gentle movement in his metal form can crush bones. Superman treats the entire world as though it’s made out of paper. That being said, it’s been long established that characters like this go in to a fight **HOLDING BACK**. They don’t know how much punishment their opponent can take, and until something gives during the fight, they don’t go all out to start… a good example of that is (oddly) the sparring match between Captain America and Batman during the infamous Amalgam crossover. They tested each other, never fully committing to any one attack, to know what they were up against. Batman conceded that Cap had sufficient strength, speed and skill to possibly best him in hand- to- hand combat. Heroes hold back.
So, a bank robber carjacks a passing driver and orders them to drive, that makes them a ‘get-away driver’ and just as guilty and can be jailed? o_O
Jailed for a significant amount of time? No. Detained/dragged in for a statement? Absolutely.
If someone’s trying to control a dangerous situation, and I say I’m not involved, I have one huge advantage over him. I know I’m telling the truth. I don’t know about you, but they don’t teach telepathy round these parts.
a hijacked passing driver would have to be stopped by something so the criminal could get in such as having a weapon pointed at them a viewable event and research into the drivers/ criminals past will show a lack of history between them, a get away driver proper will have a history with the criminal to help plan and will either be waiting or pull up and stop without outside direction to allow entry to the vehicle.
Achilles has been out of this fight for a while yet I think this is his opponent.
He might need light hooked back into the fight a few times.
Nah, this is Stalwart’s time to stand up and show how a real man not only fights but also dresses.
I’m pretty sure he’s in the melee somewhere. Speedy gone sleepy cut the back of his suit a while ago after all. I think everybody else on the cast page has been front and center for at least one panel after all.
Oh shit. Now I’m actually a tiny bit worried about that guy.
I really like him. He hasn’t actually done anything wrong, and he’s only acted in self-defense. I hope he becomes a reoccurring character.
Ooh! Maybe he can be Grrlppwer’s Protoman! He can show up from time to time, be all mysterious and stuff, and have extremely ambiguous alliances to keep the audience guessing!
oh god please don’t make uzumaki references in grrl power
junji ito is freaking horrifying :(
…And hilarious, but mostly horrifying.
hrmmmm
On the issue of FWTDT resisting arrest, then have Anvil actually done anything to prove she were a legal authorithy? she has not showed any badge or simular, should he surrender to her just because a random person tells him to do so?
The had a press conference saying “we are federal agents”.
That is the damn reason those guy appeared in the first place.
He knew it. He cannot claim not to have known it.
He was part of a group that attacked them, so she was in her right to do whatever it takes to eliminate the danger for herself and her team. And when asking for surrender she gave him the opportunity to say “I am not your enemy”.
Yeah, and they still have to flash their badges or declare they have the authority when they go to arrest someone
They don’t have to flash badges, but on the other side, he wasn’t necessarily with the group that attacked the restaurant. He has a good defense in that he’s acting in self-defense.
No he doesn’t. He was seen conversing with other assailants and suggesting targets. That’s either aiding and abetting or conspiracy to commit, which provides ample grounds for arrest, which in turn justifies the ‘resisting arrest’ charge that his counters are constituent to.
Finally! A one shot for a hero! Liking this Death tole guy.
Even if his name needs work.
loving that skill tree!!!!
Thank you! I had fun making it! (I am Outrider. I had to change my alias to get a gravatar. Outrider was already taken.)
I’m not sure why I’d never before clicked on the Grrl Power ads I’ve seen around the webcomic sphere, but I finally did and read from start to here – took me several hours and I’ll be super tired at work tomorrow, but it’ll definitely be worth it!
One Of US!! One Of US!!! One Of US!!!…. Yeah for archive binges!…
Welcome to the club.
Not necessarily, he was almost hit on page 1415, so he could have been hit off-panel. Given that he’s happy about being primary target, I think he does absorb energy, but probably also sucks it out of people.
I wonder if Power Nullification is one of the unknown orbs’ abilities.
Seems like immobilization against this guy would be a good strategy. Instead of hitting/zapping him, bend a steel bar around him, or wrap him in a carpet….depending on his strength level, of course.
hmmm, gotta wonder.
He’s been standing still most of the time, maybe his abilities require something related to that?
I am actually thinking the battle in the RPG she was playing may be a bit of foreshadowing.
I just read all of Uzumaki in one sitting thanks to that comment, and… yeeeeeesh! I mean, it’s good. But I really did not need some of those images in my brain :p If I were to describe it I would say it’s… an unholy mixture of Lovecraft and japanese horror. Note: this is a good thing. It’s f*****d up on a lot of levels, but good.
I’m not sure I like what that opinion says about the state of my mind. :p
just means your mind is like everyone else heres quoth alice “you’re quite mad I fear, but I’ll tell you a secret, all the best people are”
I like that in the final panel you can see the screen mesh in the eyeholes of Death Toll’s mask. :3
I wonder if his power is to just counter any attack directed towards him, in which case it would be best to have an as little confrontational arrest as possible, and just put handcuffs or whatever on him if possible.
Here’s a theory: He has the universal power of having any power he can imagine. Really friggan op, but if limited enough it could be possible.
Death toll didn’t one-shot Anvil, he clearly dropped Anvil.
Her defeat deserves a looney tunes reference.
Prepare for a chorus of anvil jokes.
I can here the Looney Tunes theme now!
Like the hole Shao Khan like he gave at the end.
Go ahead Max, send all you’re heroes, hit him all you want. All you’ll be doing is giving him more power to use ageist you. You’re Doomed! LOL!
Learn to spell. Some mistypes are expected, but that was ridiculous.
Dave, ignore ,most requests. This is your world, and most of us would be disappointed if you changed things to suit some random troll.
Death Toll has a plan. He wants the players to engage him. Why? I don’t know. I can bet people like Dabbler and Halo are not in his agenda.
I agree it’s time to see Stalwart shine, story wise. In that vein, I expect him to be a distraction, I amsorry to say.
Junji Ito is the man! His stuff is hilarious! And when he took his style and made a slice of life cat diary? Itou Junji No Neko Nikki: Yon and Mu? Hilarious.
Good points about ‘real life’ super combat. Though as long as your mentioning violent super hero worlds, people should Google “Windbow’s Worm”. It’s not a comic, but a really good story in a fairly violent world as society is breaking down because of parahumans (supers/capes).
The Queen of Escalation keeps meeting the challenges a slowly collaseing world puts in front of her; school bullies, evil mastermind trying to take over the city, corrupt heroes, walking natural disasters, an entire group of super-powered murder hobos, the source of parahuman power itself and it’s doomsday plan.
Oh yeah, also I bet DT has some sort of running dossier on the heroes and their weaknesses as well.
Ugh. Energy manipulators such as Death Tard here are always a pain in Super Battles. But it’s nothing an unexpected .50 to the back of the head doesn’t cure. If they don’t see it coming, and have no passive defense…can you tell I’ve done this before? >.>
So, you have killed people in real life? Really hoping you are psychopathetic killer
You do realise you described Anvil in your 2nd sentence, don’t you?
DaveB, have you ever read Miracleman?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvelman
I was reminded of it when you started talking about how lethal inter-super fights could get. Specifically you had me thinking about how comic book supers, villain or otherwise, tend to tiptoe around the obvious lethal applications of their powers when used directly on the physiology of someone else.
It’s interesting to think about how terrifying some of them could be if they were true, soulless monsters. Jiggawatt’s positron annihilation power especially would be supremely lethal if used on a living thing. (Assuming that’s what that power actually is.)
Miracleman is the scariest deconstruction of the super hero ever.
and this is exactly what i was worried about… now they have to be REALLY picky about who to send… or one guy could get them all without even breaking a sweat or barely moving.
My bet is he is durable and strong on top of being a power siphon/thief. Or at the very least he has a stash of people he takes powers from regularly to keep himself strong.
Alternate title for this page (It Tolls for Thee!)
you know what would make anvil near invincible? being hit with a full payload of 12 tungsten rods launched from project thor. each one carries the kinectic force of a 500 megaton warhead. 500 x 12 = 6000 megatons of kinectic force. thats enought to take out norad.
I’m pretty sure Anvil has limits on how much she can absorb and how quickly.
Just like Colonel Glasshole