Grrl Power #254 – Sydney’s auditing a class at Acme Looniversity
Since the noise Sydney is making is hard to spell, I’ve included an .MP3 of it. The original tongue sound effect was achieved by someone wetting their finger, then popping it out of a bottle, then looping it, so it’s questionable how accurate Sydney’s imitation of it is. Harem has a lot more life experience under her belt than you’d expect for a nineteen year old, but that’s to be expected when you can do two or more things at once from the age of… I don’t recall when I said she first got her powers, I think seven? Anyway, she’s read way more books, had more part time jobs, and definitely watched more TV than almost anyone on the team, (except probably Dabbler or Zeph.) The point being, despite only being nineteen, she knows full well what Sydney is imitating. She just hasn’t quite figured out why. Not that anyone under 20 automatically wouldn’t, but the younger you are, the less chance there is that Lo0ney Tunes was a staple of your childhood. Heck, there are people reading the comic who will be graduating high school this year or next who weren’t even born when Space Jam came out. Yeah, I just made a bunch of people feel old. Myself included.
Anyway, realizing this while I was writing the page, for a split second I considered explaining the joke (for Harem’s benefit), cause as we all know, jokes are funnier when someone explains them to you. Actually, I think some jokes can be funnier when explained, but that’s everything to do with delivery.
You can see a hint of Anvil’s undies on this page, which is intentional but not necessarily intended to be lascivious. It’s more like, there are things that superheroines would have to deal with that superheroes wouldn’t as much (besides being thrown by your hair), for instance, if you’re dragged in to a super throw down when you’re wearing a skirt, there’s a pretty good chance a photo of your panties will wind up online or in a tabloid. Sure, Captain America could get his uniform torn down to just his tighty whities, but it’s much more likely to happen if you’re wearing something flimsy or revealing to begin with. Not that Anvil’s outfit was really revealing at all, but it wasn’t made of kevlar either. I’m setting up for scenes later on where the gals sit around at lunch and commiserate about such things. Of course, drawing Anvil in a battle damaged dress isn’t the worst part of my day or anything, I just don’t want to be too gratuitous about it. :)
Last comic I said that this page was the second half of a double page, which then got rewritten as a double. Here’s the original, which ended with Sydney tricking Vehemence into punching Anvil. It’s not… bad, especially if you imagine it as the second half of the previous page. I like the rebound line, but it sort of felt like it was missing a few panels that explicitly showed Sydney grabbing Anvil and yanking her in front of the punch. The challenge with sequential art is figuring out what you need to show and what you can assume the reader will be able to infer. That’s 101, 102 is concerning yourself with pacing on top of all the 101 stuff. You’d think during action you could cut out more to quicken the pacing, but then OnePunch Man releases an entire chapter that’s just the camera spinning around a character while someone jumps from tree to tree in the background.
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BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh Sydney, you are amazing! That is THE perfect Road Runner taunt!
And Harem! Shame on you! A cultural icon and you don’t know it?!
Read the comments, She knows it, she does not get why Sydney is doing it.
Nice on remembering the battle dammage to Syd this time, and we learn Stalwart’s power set.
Yeah, I realised that after I posted. I’m a bit like Harem, I didn’t catch the connection until reading other comments.
It took me a second as well, then it got much better. Nice one Dave, that one was a sneaker.
A virtual shoe-in for best visual joke?
Hooray for the Sydney Scoville Lighthook Express. That’s gonna leave a lasting impression on V.
I must admit I am surprised at it’s length.
Hurr Hurr
“thats what she said”
or alternatively
“phrasing”
And we already know that it is very flexible.
*groans* That was bad and you should feel bad. =P
Well when they were in the press conference she did write out the name of the comic book store in cursive. So it’s pretty long.
Re the molestorb/lighthook: we now know it passes through the shield, or originates outside the field. I wonder if it is possible she can carry move herself with it. I mean like instead of flying. we also know that it can move really fast. Since it would have to to snag someone out of the air and accelerate them at the ground. I really wonder if it has an infinite length since it appears to not need or have any form of support. If there is no max length, can she hitch a ride on the ISS?
It’s highly improbable that she can use the molestorb tentacle to molest anything out of her range of vision. And even if she could see the sun reflecting off the ISS I doubt that would provide enough detail information for her to molest the station.
someone order an acme anvil
I didn’t realise the actual connection until reading this. It’s even funnier now, thank you!
Same here. I thought Sydney was just taunting Vehemence for pulling a fast one. I hadn’t made the connection yet with dropping anvils.
See, a joke can be funnier if explained. It’s all about the special delivery. :D
Oh I got it right out of the gate, but then I’m old enough to have watched the Wile E. Coyote vs Road Runner cartoons when having a TV in the house was a new thing.
How could we miss such a terrible pun? That’s gonna weigh on my mind all day now.
Let the anvils ring.
I want a chorus of them
*Plays the “Chorus of the Anvils”*
I didn’t hear Verdi until that comment but I do now! :D
Veni, vici, Verdi…
I came, I saw, I played some opera music?
was hoping someone would make the connection =P *pictures a blacksmith with a dozen different anvils and a couple hammers*
Now that would be interesting to see and here
a student of divergent parallel reality twitches at the image of various kenyas holding an array of impact force tools watching a blacksmith on a conductors stand
This comment made me literally groan, then smile, then recall my childhood fondly so… good job. You win a cookie.
i consider my job done :D
May I have a cookie as well?
Ainchya kooky enough?
OOOh i am the veary model of a cartoon indavidual, my animation comical, unusal, and wimsical. i am adept at funny gags comidic theory i have read form stuipd jokes and wicked puns to anvils that drop on your head…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pLuom1N3H0
HOW did I ever miss that episode?!
Don’t forget to pause to see the graffiti :P
With Sydney as the roadrunner life will never be the same for villains. They will feel the despair and frustrations of Wile. E. Coyote until they become too depressed to lead a life a crime.
What it would be like to have only the superpower to make people feel ineffectual?
If I am interpreting your last statement right, closest I can think of with that kind of power is Perona from One Piece.
Except she could also make explosions and illusions of herself. Because reasons.
Well.. so far Vehemence does a good job of selling us the idea about him being able to beat up any of the regular Achon members in a far 1 vs 1 fight.
Though unless he is intentionally holding back or saving some of his powers, then i dont think he would stand much of a chance against Max, especially not with the team’s assistance.
I don’t know. All he could do to Anvil is throw her out of attack range. Stalwart hurt him, twice even though he got punched hard enough to be knocked away, we don’t know if it was a knockout. And Halo has been bugging him most effectively and just did some real damage. V is tough but he is just not that superior to the Arc members who can go hand-to-hand.
….. So far.
I strongly suspect that Vehemence hasn’t played ALL of his cards just yet.
Neither has most of the team. I don’t remember Stalwart mentioning anything about weight changing before now, do you?
If I remember my high school physics, weight is relative to the density of an object and the gravitational pull of the planet.
To the mass, actually, density doesn’t matter.
“which is heavier, a ton of feathers or a ton of lead?” ;)
Depends on about half a dozen things. Like how you define a ton. Or if you are even using the same ‘ton’ for both of them.
Okay, now you’re just being a smartdonkey. ;)
I actually have a t-shirt with a donkey and the caption “I’m a smart one”.
Sure it wasn’t a mule? o_O
Better than being a dumb donkey.
games you should check to see if the character is identified as named jack
Technically, density does matter, but only if the densities are very different or the measurements very precise. For example, a ton of areogel (density of 1 kg/m^3) and a ton of plutonium (19,800 kg/m^3), while having the same mass will cause different gravity effects relative to surface distance. This is because the distance from the center of mass to the surface of the aerogel is far far far far larger than the distance to the center of mass of the plutonium. In other words, the gravity at the surface of the aerogel is far less than the gravity at the surface of the plutonium.
Of course, if you have a 1 ton sphere of plutonium you would have a nuclear explosion, so that is probably a bad example
Loosing a tooth from Stalwart’s punch tells us something about his toughness.
Maybe V is a masochist? It looks like he enjoyed loosing the tooth and getting his foot under a two legged space shuttle…
I don’t think he’s a masochist so much as he is a blood knight. Vehemence looks like the character who likes to fight just for the sake of fighting, and now he’s facing an actual challenge to his skills.
I also suspect that Vehemence and Stalwart could bond over being well-dressed.
You made me smile! Thanks!
Stuff’s so fancy I need a second monocle. Will they shake their little tuche on the catwalk?
lmao :D
Excellent combo from Halo! They really gotta remember that one in the future. I am really wondering what the lighthooks maximum length is.
And Anvil seems to have some lovely undies.
Classic bowling ball special.
I’m guessing the lighthook reaches at least as far as Sydney can see.
I dunno about maximum length but someone better a physics than me should be able to calculate Anvil’s current height based on “10 seconds before I land”. If you assume that 10 seconds is accurate (maybe Anvil’s been thrown up in the air a lot, so she can accurately guess) and that panel 11 is the top of her parabolic arc then someone smarter than me can tell you how high that is.
1,610 ft up.
Right.
If ten seconds is only the return time, ie she is already at the top, then she is at around 1600 feet.
If it is the total time (all way up and down) then the fall time is five seconds (the way down), thus she reached about 400 feet of altitude.
In any other case the final altitude could be anything between those two.
My calculations put her at about 1760 feet up.
That is factoring we fall at a rate of 32 .feet per second per second
That’s about a third of a mile… Much ouchness delivered by falling Anvil. Vehemence is wishing he was a coyote about now, for sure.
the Acceleration due to gravity of the Earth is 9.8 Ms^2 (just over 32 ft per second per second)., in the first second she drop 9.8 meters (32 ft) in two seconds she drops 96.04 meters (10245ft) in three seconds she drop 941.1920 meters (32,768 ft)
Err… you must ADD 9.8 each second, not multiply.
The distance formula due to a constant acceleration is (at2)/2 (and I hope like hell that the html worked or that is just going to be a mess) so using traditional American measurements that would be 32*100/2 or roughly 1600 feet.
That is assuming she did not actually get any vertical velocity from the light-hook. I would think, based on the Whiplash unsound effect, that Anvil is actually thrown down by the light-hook so she will land with a much greater speed than in much less time than just starting a free-fall from rest high in the air. Anvil might actually be slowing down as she hit V if the speed imparted by the light-hook is actually above Anvil’s terminal velocity.
those calculations are assuming of course that she is not still moving UP when she thought that.
Based on her floaty hair and dress, I am assuming that Anvil is currently in free fall, and about to start coming back down. Now, the question that I have, for the math/physics nerds, is how much energy would it take to bring Anvil down from that height in 1/10th the time? I question this as Halo did not get lifted from the ground as she threw Anvil’s greater mass ground-ward. This also shows that the Glow-Worm of Grabbiness has a significant amount of strength with which to grab and throw.
Halo did mention that she once moved a car with the lighthook. So the Lighthook can generate over a ton of force, and the opposite force doesn’t pass on to Halo. Lifting the car didn’t break both of Sydney’s feet.
We CAN assume the force doesn’t pass on to Halo as we saw how she carried 3 people with no visible support; https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1242
And even if that weren’t the case on this page we see Syd’s shield is half in the ground. That could be holding her in place.
If she had been pulled down from 1600 feet in 1 sec she’d be moving at about 1000 mph on impact: We’d have heard a sonic boom as well as the landing “BOOM.” If what we heard was both at the same time we’d know her speed – transonic speed.
Knowing her speed is only half the problem though, we need to know how much Anvil weighs to figure out how much force she hit V with.
However there is something else to consider – air drag. Based on wind resistance, for example, the terminal velocity of a skydiver in a belly-to-earth (i.e., face down) free-fall position is about 195 km/h (122 mph or 54 m/s). Higher speeds can be attained if the skydiver pulls in his or her limbs. In this case, the terminal velocity increases to about 320 km/h (200 mph or 90 m/s), which is almost the terminal velocity of the Peregrine Falcon diving down on its prey. The same terminal velocity is reached for a typical .30-06 bullet dropping downwards—when it is returning to earth having been fired upwards, or dropped from a tower—according to a 1920 U.S. Army Ordnance study.
Competition speed skydivers fly in the head down position and reach even higher speeds. The current world record is 1,357.6 km/h (377.1 m/s; 843.6 mph) (Mach 1.25) by Felix Baumgartner who skydived from 38,969.4 m (127,852 ft) above earth on 14 October 2012. The record was set due to the high altitude where the lesser density of the atmosphere decreased drag.
So, given Anvil’s ‘feet-first’ position, and an initial boost from Sydney, she probably hit V at 200 mph. With her height being 6’7″ and build muscular her weight could be between 250-300 lb.
Anybody willing to run the numbers?
I don’t know enough calculus to figure out what she weighed when she hit Crybaby (yeah, that’s what I’m calling him and I’m sticking with it until he gets rid of that idiotic facepaint!). But it couldn’t have been the weight of a space shuttle (could it?) and that wasn’t enough to stop him before she hit.
May I say that I like Sydney’s help here. She may be stuck in a bubble but she’s proving to be a real asset. Brilliant!
“…we need to know how much Anvil weighs…”
I dunno ’bout you, but I was raised to be polite enough NOT to ask what a woman weighs. Especially in this case, where the woman in question could probably tear me apart with her eyebrows…
The question is this:
What is Anvil’s maximum speed, accounting for uneven aerodynamics of a falling body?
C, assuming unlimited energy to accelerate her. You sound like you are starting to work on a terminal velocity equation – but terminal velocity is only relevant if she’s in equilibrium. If Sydney threw her faster than terminal velocity than she’ll eventually slow down to terminal velocity – but how long it would take and how far she would go in the mean time depend on how hard Sydney threw her in the first place.
It’s quite likely that she was going well in excess of her terminal velocity when she hit the ground, and without knowing how strong the lighthook is, it’s hard to tell what that is. (Especially given her power: She could probably absorb the kinetic energy of the oncoming air, meaning she wouldn’t overheat it.)
6’6″, muscular build I’d say at least 240 (remember Muscle weighs more than fat)
IGiven Anviil’s kinetic absorption, a move like what Sydney just did is just about perfect for her. She arrives on target, doles out a certain amount of discomfort to the enemy AND gets a nice convenient Power-Up all at the same time.
It might even reach Anvil’s limit (Syd PULLED her down [WHIPLASH! anyone?] after all)
Well, really she would have to choose. Either the force goes into hitting Big V or she absorbs it. If she absorbs it there is no more force with which to hit. This is exemplified when Anvil is hit by the first attacking super villain and the impact neither throws her nor hurts the attacker’s hand, it is absorbed by her and so cannot do anything until she releases it.
P.S. I believe that the purple shock-waves upon Anvil’s landing signified her releasing stored up kinetic energy into the impact to up the damage.
I agree with this statement in it’s entirety. I.e. “like” button clicked!
I like the first draft page. It’s always interesting to see a creator’s thought processes in action. Have to say I prefer the strip you went with. Lots more movement and a solid resolution. With Anvil getting even in the harshest way with a little help. Vehemenace may get up but he is not going to get this fight to go his way.
What’s the bet that it already is?
If V has a plan, he better get to it quick. Another distraction like that will spoil his fun
Yay Sydney!
Only concern is that if he really weighed as much as the space shuttle, wouldn’t there be a lot more damage to the parking lot asphalt? I recall that the runways used to ferry the shuttle and all space missions are super reinforced as those things are HEAVY.
Apparently Stalwart can vary his density, thus his weight (yes, physics nerds, I know – mass), so it wasn’t like he was tearing up the parking lot this whole time. As for the weight of the shuttle, it’s empty weight (minus external tank and boosters), from what I could find, is less than half the empty weight of a 747. What really matters here is that this is a steakhouse parking lot, and not a regulation tarmac. Technically, that weight concentrated on to the area of even a large foot like Stalwart’s, should have him leaving holes whenever he takes a step.
Where I live, the ground is made almost entirely of solid rock covered in an inch to a footof dirt. It would totally be plausable for a superheavy man to walk around without punching holes with every step. With that said, it looks like this is all taking place on a plain, and plains tend to have a bunch of soft dirt. The artillery range seemed to have a lot of sand too.
I grew up on the Columbia plateau, my basement was blasted out of solid basalt. Not good terrain for digging ;)
Here! :) Mmm… I am not sure about your phrasing so just in case… Density change does NOT change the weight. But if he were increasing his density without changing his size, he would be in fact creating mass (sending to hell the Conservation Law :) and then yes, changing his weight.
Maybe he can alter the way his mass interacts with the gravity field (sending to hell who knows what :).
He also could be flying downwards, but so far it does not seem that Stalwart can fly.
Duh, I just noticed Stalwart Who’s who has been changed. He indeed can alter his weight and density, although is yet unclear if he is changing his mass or doing it other way.
Maybe he concentrates Higgs particles, the way Havok from X-Factor concentrates cosmic rays?
He could be amplifying his personal gravity.
Would love to see a cross-over appearance with Greta Grabby, with her teaching him a few tricks :D
It’s likely he’s changing his mass. After all, he didn’t shrink, and that’s the other way to change density is volume. Or if he’s really weird, he can alter his interaction with the Higgs field and get more mass that way. That gets way more into particle physics than I got and is new stuff to boot, but that’s one way.
And the rules for conservation of mass are right out the window with Harem’s existence. After all, where does the matter for her other selves come from, and where does it go when she takes one out to increase her carrying capacity?
Remember, the crawler carries (carried) a loaded shuttle plus the big tank and boosters. And a support structure. The shuttle was flown home on the back of a 747.
Yep, yep. The shuttle itself is around 180,000 lbs. dry weight and 747 cargo planes regularly lift with around 980,000 lbs. What is really massy is the fuel. Liquid Oxygen and Hydrogen are decently massy.
The shuttle is an unpowered space plane. It’s primarily aluminum composites with ceramics on there underside for heat deflection. The big rockets are mainly there to help lift its own fuel, which it uses in flight for lift.
Space shuttles land with regular landing gear (regular in the sense that it consists of flip-down wheels and tires), so maybe he’s just talking about the shuttle part without the booster rockets.
At first I just chuckled at the road runner sound. Then it hit me, V got hit with an anvil….
I just woke up. Takes a while for brain to fully engage.
Me too, partner, me too. And I don’t have Harem’s excuse, since I’m old enough to be her dad.
Yup, us oldtimers have a thing or two to teach the young’uns.
So, Vehemence is not that invulnerable. He lost a tooth! Lucky he has so very, very many.
Also Sidney is surprisingly competent at this. And the molestorb is VERY strong and very long ranged. And durable, if the superstrong bad guy didn’t just snap it when it tangled his legs.
Every page we gain more intel. he IS strong, but he doesn’t have the invulnerability part of the move set. this leaves him open to a lot of take-downs
Suspect he is aware of this. I think he has that particular problem covered somehow.
i would personally suggest having Peggy hamstring him with her berret, super or not thats gonna give him greif
If he’s not Super, that hamstringing will kill him (after blowing off his entire leg)
he has demonstrated damage resistance reducing peggy’s threat from lethal to possibly get the effect of a 5.56 on a normal person using her rifle on V.
I’m betting it has to do with his name. He’s probably powered by taking damage.
Well, Albion, I would agree, but only to a limited degree…
…because “invulnerability” is ALWAYS present in any display of strength. Without it, skin tears, muscles rip loose from the bones that they are anchored to, & the bones themselves will shatter. It’s your DEGREE of invulnerability (& what KIND of invulnerability) that defines the upper limit of your strength, beyond which you will suffer damage.
. . . Sydney is a bit too good at throwing people with the tenticle.
Has she been practising on anyone and are any names are crossed out in her List?
Now that you mention it, yeah, she’s got some pretty good aim considering her viewpoint is from the sidelines…
Actually, she was directly beneath Anvil (bet Math would pay a lot to be in that position ;) )
speaking of which… MATH WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!!! 8)
Still recovering from his dance partners knee-jerk reaction (ie, knee to the jerk :P)
Arianna just popped a vein at you calling it the “Molestorb.” She insists the properly trademarked name is “Lighthook” and is looking into a cease and desist order against you. ^_~
*Dances “Ring-around the rosie style”around with Sydney around Arianna:
Ring around Aria
The Molestorb is scary ya!
Ka-BOOM
Ka-BOOM
Anvil comes DOWN!
Maybe it’s Shark Week for Vehemence, and he’ll just drop a new one into place.
Yea, the way he seems to disregard the risk of being injured suggest he’s got a healing factor thing going. That or he’s got a super healer stashed away in his lair.
Very nice. Sydney is learning fast about super-teaming. Anvil is charged up now as well!
Power moves!
Dave, this is the second time you are talking about worrying about pacing. Don’t worry you tell a great story and, yes, I know I am one who likes to joke about it, but I don’t want to see you rush the story. Please, just keep giving us the story the way you see it and we will keep reading it. :-)
Agreed! I also got – and loved – the roadrunner reference.
Don’t feel the need to over-analyse it Dave. We’re invested readers, and we’ve invested wisely. Just tell the story the way that feels right, ‘we’ll let you know if you’ve gone too far – and we’ll keep on reading regardless.
I agree with you, but I think anyone who posts in the comments is probably a hard-core fan of the comic. The casual readers might be more concerned with pacing. I mean, I don’t know that they are; I’m just saying that they’re underrepresented.
Well, some may not. I think if you are invested enough in reading then you will eventually talk about things that may bother you. I read for months without commenting (I found this comic late), but eventually something got to me to write in, (no I don’t remember what). If someone is reading a comic for a while and it changes, then they may leave without ever commenting, but reading for any time you should be quite comfortable in the author’s style.
This is hardly the second time he has mentioned the pacing of the series. Just look through the archives and you will see many such examples. You will also see many of us trying to reassure him that most of us are fine with the pacing he has chosen. I mean, this is still the same day as 250 pages ago. Most of us are still happy about that. Don’t rush the story; tell the story in the way you are with lots of character and plot. Me like. ;)
“Mansion of E” finally completed it’s first day after over 3500 updates (and it is updated 7 days a week)
Well, the “character-establishment” part of any story could take a while & there’s a LOT of characters Dave needs to “establish.” Not only who they are & their relative positions in the storyline, but also he has to show us about super-powered people & what THOSE abilities can do.
So it’s all good. Even though it’s only one day of “comic time” going by in 250 pages, Dave’s revealing a heck of a lot of info about so many different characters…And Sydney’s one helluva character! When Sydney “goes Looney Toons” on someone, it’s literal.
David, I actually only meant two times in a row, but yes he has, and I have talked about it in the comments before. I do like the way he tells this story.
SisterGypsy et al… I agree that pacing has been fine, and the time invested has carried well. But I believe DaveB is talking about pacing as a dramatic storytelling element, which is extremely challenging.
You’d think during action you could cut out more to quicken the pacing
I guess that is the line that got me thinking DaveB is worrying about the comic dragging. Well, my opinion is DaveB tells a great story and it paces really well, so I think he doesn’t need to worry, and am letting him know.
Thanks, I think I’m mostly just worrying out loud. I want to be good at this, and I have a fair amount of time to think about stuff like this. There are plenty of books out there about how to draw a comic, but they’re all about proportions, perspective, expressions, etc, not “How to pace your 50 person battle royale” or even “Should you have a 50 person battle royale.” :)
Hi Dave. Thanks for the answer. I like that you actually read and answer the comments. You are doing a great job on the comic so don’t worry. We will all be here reading day one for the next 50 years. :-P :-) (Told you I would keep joking about that).
Stalwart shows he’s more than just muscle, and some solid teamwork from Sidney! I like!
I dunno. Sitting there and yakking rather than following up on the foot stomp by feeding him a couple more punches is probably not the brightest move.
Could be that he has to take a moment after a density/weight/mass(whatever) shift before he can ‘do something else. i.e. get used to the ‘new setting’. Chatting up the villian at that point can be a good thing, get them to spill some information. V just isn’t into that.
he over played the talking is a free action not realizing it doesn’t hold quit as true for secondary characters
… i don’t think I’ve loved Sydney more than I have after this strip :D
And it’s so easy to tell Anvil’s experience here — goes straight from “Wait, what?” to “ready for impact” in the space of a couple of breaths.
Sydney must have thought and reacted quick to grap Anvil before she was out of reach.
Poor Vehemence, despite his impressive introduction he is not doing all too well, yet.
*Very* quickly. If you look closely at the first panel you can see her moving the Lighthook orb to her hand
She was holding the Lighthook orb in the first panel on the previous page though. I guess she must have let it go in between.
Maybe a “wind-up”?
Hyperactivity gives her an initiative bonus. (she is noted to have very good reflexes)
Just ask Harem.
My sides, ow, ow, ow laughing too hard sooo nicely done!!!
And what she does is not only hilarious, but insanely effective use of anvil…as an anvil.
So nicely done!
Oh yeah, that’s some good molestin’.
THAT, was AWESOME!!!
I laughed ridiculously hard when I first read it.
THEN, when I caught the Anvil link along with the Road Runner taunt, I laughed even harder.
I think I may have hurt something. :-D
Are you telling me there are adults born after Space Jam? I guess this is relevant if a little old. As a side note: I can’t belive that linked comic is over three years old!
Space Jam was shown in 1996. 18 years. They can’t smoke or drink legally most places yet but they can drive, vote and have to sign up for the “just in case” draft. That’s adult enough for me.
I don’t think I’ve seen a Roadrunner cartoon in 18 years…
Believe it or not but they’re still making them.
They can’t smoke or drink legally IN THE STATES. Over here? Go for it.
Conversation with a cute couple (now expecting their first child) over a board game. “blah blah blah Galaxy Quest.”
“Galaxy quest? That was a great old movie.”
“… No. Galaxy Quest isn’t old. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is an old movie.”
“We saw that last night.”
“I don’t understand the world anymore.”
You guys are making me feel really old…I was old enough to comprehend the significance of watching Neil Armstrong on TV, stepping onto the moon *when it happened*
As John Mcclain said “Welcome to the party pal!”.
It just goes to show that a person who actually *gets* to a certain age are just diehards…
Halo really is a huge asset to the team, the versatility of her abilities and her meta-knowledge when it comes to superpowers is bound to make her one of the most valuable team members.
Sooo…
Can Halo stuff that light hook of hers down people’s throats? Because I am starting to see some serious potential applications here.
Well, she did want to call it the “molestorb”….
I was thinking along the lines of a “Mo”-style Stooge nose grab.
“Thank you, been meaning to blow my nose all day!”
“Harem has a lot more life experience under her belt than you’d expect for a nineteen-year-old.”
Phrasing! :D
From what we have read, double entendre intended.
Some one need to tell the whole team not to gloat to the enemy until they’re down…
First Archilies(I’m the best at strategies) Maths(Don’t power up in the middle of a fight) now Stalwart
Seriously, gloat over the unconscious, they are less likely to hit back….
And add me to the list of people who didn’t roadrunner reference at first.. even after reading the first few comments about it…
I recognized the Roadrunner sound from the comic itself but didn’t connect “dropping Anvils on bad guys” and what was happening until someone pointed it out, which made it that much funnier.
Only Sydney gets to gloat in combat.
Not even Sydney gets to gloat, I draw your attention back to Sydney V Math round 2. Lots of gloating shortly followed by lots of swearing.
Also just thought of an awesome combo. Similar to anvil my move but use stalwart. Get him to be ultra light, flick him rapidly then he goes space shuttle. Even if the enemy survives it will take them a week to climb back out the hole that they would have formed.
Sydney was gloating before combat.
Yay, Sidney! Hit him again with Stalwart!
Stalwart and V may need to uncross their eyes before stepping back in the ring.
that was a super awesome team move – I wonder why they don’t spent inordinate amounts of time “pumping up”
Anvil with kinetic energy
Why should they do the work,when usualy the villains do it theirself?
she might not be able to STORE the energy for too long
Especially when you don’t know an attack is coming so soon after a demonstration that used part of uour charge and there being a guy there who could and did drain your kinetic charge.
It’s also been said that when she is pumped up she doe’s a fair Hulk impression. And as she’s already a bit uncomfortable with her body I would imagine she’d feel extra uncomfortable around normals when pumped up.
Height can be a very touchy subject for girls. I know one very tall woman who’s solution was to exaggerate her height by using plateau boots. She towers over just about everyone, easily topping 6′ 9″ in her boots. Add to that her giant hair and nobody can miss seeing her. But something like that is not for everyone.
Maybe she could get together with Sister Olga from “Sister Claire”, she is only 5’2 but can ‘Hulk-out’ to 8’7
What’s up with Halo’s teeth in the second to last panel? Looks like she has weird overbite horse teeth things.
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Also, Stalwart, no taunting the villains! That’s Halo’s job! Or at least keep hitting him while you do it.
Sydney’s smile is given a touch of comic exaggeration for effect. Toon Sydney for an improved Roadrunner impersonation.
Now I’m just imagining later on in the comic Sydney using Anvil or perhaps Achilles as a flail.
Please, she should use the enemies for that.
Ah! A ‘Puny God’ move! Yes that will do nicely…
Awsome as ever.
And your original sketch is golden. Is there any chance you could put up stuff like that more often. I’m a whole expirience, look-behind-the-curtains kind of guy so this WIP steps are always fun to see.
Some of the original sketches might make great vote incentives.
Well, I don’t redraw half the page all that often thankfully, but I’ll be sure to keep discarded stuff and show you guys. I’m sure there will be a place for a lot of it in the book as well.
Sweet. thanks
You once mentioned not wanting to live stream because it would give away plot elements too early.
What about recordings of the creation of a page already posted?
I could do that… unfortunately it can take me 10 hours to pencil a page. Maybe a single panel would make for a more watchable video.
You know, it could just be a single cheesecake pin-up of one of any of the Girls. I really wouldn’t mind. ;-P
Film it and speed it up to 10 to 1 maybe. Seems to work for others. If anyone wants to see it in real-time they can slow it down. Plus no distraction of talking about what you are doing while you’re doing it.
I love it.
And I think the current version is better than the original
Yeah the original lacks impact. (I’ll go stand in the corner now.
Sydney really took that “throw them at the ground” thing Maxima was trying to teach her to heart huh?
Yeah, but it’s too bad for V that he happened to be between Anvil & the ground…
So I read this page just now, then went to make myself lunch.
Standing in the middle of the kitchen, suddenly: “ah, she dropped the ANVIL on him.”
…
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
*the above is exactly what happened, and luckily nobody else was home*
I missed that! Thank you! xD
Three quick thoughts:
1. A whip-crack is created by the tip of a whip moving so fast it breaks the sound barrier, and gravity accelerates objects at about 9mtr ps/ps… so Anvil just hit V extremely hard indeed.
2. Given the considerable strength of Sydney’s shield, I wonder what the breaking strain for the light-hook is – it’s probably as equivalent strength, as I imagine it’s a common power source… does that mean the damn thing’s unbreakable? If so, Syd should just wrap V up in the thing – but of course, where the fun in that? :-)
…and 3: There is no point three – that’s all I got. :D
There’s no “whip-crack.” The sound effect is “whiplash” to demonstrate that Halo just threw Anvil.
I took it to mean that Halo stopped her upward momentum and reversed it instantly, sending her back down with a booster shot to help gravity along. :D
Hence the whiplash rather than a crack (which was provided by Fedorka’s spine on impact)
OMG REAL TEAM WORK WOOHOO
i bet the guy hasn’t been bothereed THAT much by it but still
and the road runner plus acme anvil OMFG PERFECT AND SO HILARIOUS LOVING IT
Zoom in on panel one. Sydney is already grinning as she switches orbs. Other details, V’s shoe is wrecked when Stalwart steps on his foot. And I just noticed the goofy skull hairclip Harem is wearing. Mini googly eyes.
Gothamer actually has three skull-clips: one on either side and one at the back
Eerie Cuties has a character with only one (Layla). Coincidentally it ties her to another character, now in the Vampire Cheerleaders strip, who she gav e the other too, so that’s two strips with only one that could be referenced here.
it’s not a coincident they actually talk about the hairclip being a kind of friendship item to both characters.
Yeah, and it was sad days when possessed Layla abandoned her clip :(
If she hadn’t abandoned it, she might have known about what happened with Stephanie, before her gangbang with mothmen :(
Those last few panels actually made me laugh. Good show, Scoville. Good show.
Sydney splatting him with Anvil was by far more hilarious than it should have been
MVP of the fight: Halo!
I’ll say first fight and she has three KOs of her own (Shadow Boxer, Lee POC and the flaming idiot she hit the planet with) and game-changing assists on both boss-type fights.V better be nice or she’ll taunt him again, harder.
Solid, Sydney. :D Solid.
I don’t think it’ll do as much damage as she expects, though…
I assume Harem never watched cartoons as a youngster. Or a hive of youngsters, anyway.
She is missing the anvil joke, like a bunch of us did.
I think Harem is going to have a delayed reaction to the joke like the rest of us did and laugh out loud.
This is one time that Heatwave would have gotten the joke straight away, poor poor Brooke, may she be resting in peace and comfort :(
It would be so funny if she then started explaining it to Harem. I doubt it would be in Heatwave’s nature. It would still be funny though.
Hopefully Heatwave will get a medicinal-grade laugh out of the debriefing footage.