Grrl Power #260 – Adding injury to injury
The sound effect “BootToTheHead” is a nonomatopoeia. It’s a sound effect that doesn’t sound like the sound it’s supposed to sound like, and they amuse me. I thought of the word nonomatopoeia as I was writing this, and I was duly pleased with myself, but a quick google reveals that it’s already a word. Damn you millions of people who lived before me! (shakes fist)
Vehemence really needs to turn this fight (beating) around or throw in the towel, although it may be telling that he considers a .50 caliber round to the eye “poking.”
That last panel could really use more shrapnel from the shattered slab of parking lot now that I look at it fresh a week after drawing it, but man, I’ve been pulling a lot of late nights with all the double pages of late, so do me a favor and imagine it with chunks of asphalt spraying out and the whole thing looking about 20% cooler. :)
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This is a real fight and the goal is to incompacitate your oppoent ASAP. Why then did she not simply stomp his junk right into the pavement?
I can answer that, the psychological effect of the near miss is much more debilitating than the actual hit in a case like that, notice his reaction and how it set him up for the next hit? If she had simply stomped his family jewels into the ground the effect would be to bend him over and move him from the combo hit position. While simply stomping the cement keeps him still and actually afraid to move which sets him up for the boom.
No, you’re fantastically wrong, that’s stupid. Do you think it WOULDN’T have had AT LEAST as much of a psychological effect to have had a NOT so near miss as a near miss? It would have been the psychological effect AND an actual tangible one!
But not as stupid as what actually happened in the comic. Seriously, Why not just stomp him in the stomach, your boot on one side, the pavement with the entire planet Earth on the other side, rather than wasting energy breaking the pavement throw him into the air so you could PUNCH him in the stomach from the side without a vice grip supporting him from the opposite direction to maximize the injury? You know, that’s one way to throw a punch that’s completely lethal in real life, if you get someone on the ground and then you punch him in the face while the back of his head is on the ground. Sure, you’ll probably break every bone in your hand, but you’ll also break his skull.
Dust cloud obscured aim until after first large stomp from the sky.
well, since I’ve actually done a lot of fighting when I was younger and actually know what I’m talking about then I’d say your comment needs some work. I know the actual mechanics of fighting because I’ve done it. The threat of stomping a fellow man in the man bits is a lot more effective then actually doing so. that stomp usually makes them go totally still, as in not moving in fear that you just might actually decide to stomp if they move. not to mention that if you do stomp them there they do hunch over ending the fight right then and there. It also keeps you from hitting them accurately in the face as they scrunch up. Like I said before not stomping him set him up for the three mile pile driver through the bridge under construction. If she had stomped him with his abilities, 50/50 chance it would have incapacitated him. But, it would have moved him out of position for that insane smack down punch. Its like stomping a foot so you can bring it into a knee to the head, this is all about the semantics of fighting and I do know fighting unfortunately as far as I’m concerned. I’m good at it, but I really don’t like it.
He just barely managed to dodge it.
Yup, she was aiming for it.
Looks like she was pretty muchexpecting him to scoot away from the potential nutstomp, thus setting himself up perfectly for the gut-punch.
She might have expecting a dodge but as the WoG said she was aiming to inflict maximum pain.
Bet every guy watching cringed when they say where it almost hit.
cringed,clutched themselves,and went to buy Titanium cups.
What? You think even titanium would stand up against Max?
Go for the pure adamantium, baby!
Adamantiun/Vibranium alloy, full coverage codpiece minimum
The trouble with a codpiece is that it can be driven into the crotch full power since nothing is bracing it from moving. Everything south of his spleen ends under the diaphragm.
The only known example of a *successful* alloy of adamantium & vibranium is Capt. America’s shield…And that was an accident that no one has been able to duplicate.
But eddi is right. You’d need more than just a codpiece; it would pretty much need to cover your entire torso. Even then, if the impact is strong enough, just the initial surge of inertia transferred to the “armor” would still pulp you inside of it, in the same manner that hitting ground after a long fall would.
Someone like Maxima, I don’t think Titanium would have been strong enough…
While she Was aiming at it (so says the Word of God), I can confirm from personal experience the terror of a girl trying to smash them. It’s a psychological reaction slash reflex as much as anything.
In my case, she was wearing heels which made it worse. I escaped, the crotch of my pants however did not. To this day, neither of remember exactly why she so desperately wanted to impale me.
The uh-oh comment was probably a combination of “I know she can hit Hard”, “My junk! She tried to smash my junk!” and “This is gonna Hurt.”
As far as I’m concerned, she had TWO opportunities to nail him in the cojones. Instead, she misses and then hits him in the stomach. I would have gone to the crotch-kick, hopefully hard enough so that he would earn the name “Crybaby”!
…. Or, possibly, “Squeaky”.
Shadow Warrior is already using that since his encounter with Sydney’s orbs o’ pain.
Give that man a year’s supply of ice cream
…boot to the head flavour! :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo
Ah yes, first video I thought of too.
“And another for Jenny and the wimp.”
I was thinking of these myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VD4JXUozM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZljpTx_tJ78
this is another good one that came to mine when i saw it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjo_bWOILjY
I like this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvSJwtaqCeY
lol tips hat to everyone here
There’s no doubt about it: The Frantics created a monster…
A monster that boots people in the head.
Rather enjoying this, and enjoying V’s character. Guy wouldn’t be my friend, but I like the character. :D
Also enjoying that Maxima is showing sufficient skill that when Vehemence puts up his arms in an Oh Shit defense, she just changes targets midswing. Might have even been intended/a good fake, given how much she hauled off before the punch.
Wrist is cocked a little much, though…Max, someday you’re going to hit an immovable object, and that wrist is gonna let you know. ^_^
David
Thanks for the link info -an original Gold Digger supporter from the very beginning.
I had stopped my monthly subscription at #100 after having a talk with Fred And Doug Dlin about pacing, narrative, and other issues. So glad to be able to see where it went.
/and congrats on keeping with your efforts too , I look forward to Thrusdays mornings!
Maybe you could suggest to Fred to set them up as a torrent?
So if I’m reading Max’s power set right, catching her in mid blow when her strength & speed is maxed out would be her most vulnerable, right?
2nd most vulnerable. MOST vulnerable would be if she drained her other abilities of even their baseline juice in order to UberMaxout speed, strength or anything but armor. Course at that point she is probably moving near the speed of light and you would have to factor time dilation issues into your attack…. (JK XD like I know how time dilation might screw up super fast punches/attacks in a street fight?!)
Here is an excellent novel on superheroes (The Fall of Doc Future), with one ultra-speedster. She goes to 0.999996c, and her most destructive weapon is… throwing rocks. Kind of XKCD’s Relativistic Baseball :)
People *really* underestimate lightspeed! If normal superspeed is, say, mach 5, and then you put in *a thousand times the power*… you’re really not coming aaaaaanywhere near light ^^
Oh, I’m sure you’re right. I was just going with the funny version cause DaveB left me a little room by saying each notch you move up the super number scale equals much more increase than what you might expect (Expontential? I think he left it vague? Maybe I missed a comment…) and Maxima on overclocked power is up there with or beyond the strongest power possible. When you hear stuff like that its only natural for one’s imagination to go wild!
The power of boot to the the head! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo
Already linked a couple of comments ago.
AH HA! He said 20% cooler! :D This, combined with earlier evidence, is slowly but surely confirming a theory of mine… MUHAHAAHAHA!!! >:)
Dave,
Panel 5 shows all his teeth back again.
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Considering how badly he is getting injured (eye, teeth, etc), V’s attitude is much lighter than expected.
I guess he just loves to take a beating!
Actually it’s hard to see cause of the angle I drew his head and the scale of the comic vs. the original art, but he actually is missing the teeth.
Yeah? Nice riposte but when did he get time to brush the blood away?
All the sonic booms and flying grit blasted it away?
Ahhhh! Very nice!
Thanks for the close-up :D
Well acme concentrate and asphalt co will have a nice order in the morning..
concentrate?
he meant concrete…
…Maybe he referred to its concentrated form?…
Concentrated Acme? o_O
Acme Concentrated Concrete. Tougher than concrete. Even harder than marble.
Wile E. could never afford it.
Concentrated Concrete. Just add water.
By the time, W.E. Coyote went to order some, he had over-extended his credit and wasn’t able to get more stuff until he paid all the overdue bills.
Overpass? This isn’t the overpass your looking for, their wasn’t one here to begin with…. Yet…
I see so many people throwing out The Frantics’ Boot to the Head sketch. Or, more specifically, one of them – there are two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VD4JXUozM
Three, if you count the song.
I’m a little surprised, I thought that was way more obscure, but I guess anything from Doctor Demento (at least that’s where I heard it) has a certain level of mindshare.
Waiting for Maxi to get to use the best punch-line (get it? :D) in that bit. “You missed.”
When I saw the BootToTheHead sound effect, I immediately thought of the Frantics sketch… and being Japanese, I’m not quite up to speed on all the western pop culture references. This is no where near as obscure as most people probably think it is.
I was thinking of THIS one in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5kGUW6M7W0
Dr. D was the first place I heard it.
“Hello there Dementons & Dementites. what time is it?”
It’s ARCWSwat time!
It suddenly sounded to me kinda like he knows Max from the past…
Yeah, this is how their last date went :P
She refused to let him pay the bill, so, like a true Women’s Libber, she beat the crap out of him
Maxima appears to be doing well enough, but where are his injuries? I mean, he even got his teeth back! So I have a little theory, in the beginning of Grrl Power, Sydney is described as one of the “big guns” by Anvil, and Corporal by Maxima. Maybe she earns her title by being the only one able to knock Vehemence out of commission. However, she did say, “let me back up a few months…” so I don’t think this fits in the time frame.
The missing teeth is displayed, unless Dave fixed it after you saw it. It may be a bit hard to see. But on the right side (picturewise) you’ll see a black spot and just barely a small glint of white after that gap. The eye that took a shot is still closed. The blood on his face from the splat I could see needs to be there. But the missing teeth are there … uh, you know what I mean.
Yeah, he did post that after I posted this (you can see the time stamp), and I missed the Dabbler arm slices (or maybe they weren’t there before, I SWEAR I didn’t see them). But I mean, this guy is still truckin’ as far as I can tell.
(I’m assuming he’s still got a reasonable bit of fight because he’s still making some witty remarks, but I’m imagining that his comment, “God DAMNIT lady” is more of a surprised and worrying revelation that she is taking this very seriously and means to win this fight however she can)
I won’t deny he has some fight left in him. The reason I think things are coming to an end is pacing of the story. Not just that but juggling of an enemy usually starts because the only way they CAN win is to do nonstop tag teaming or because one character who is a powerhouse just took the kid gloves off.
Juggling of a good guy is another story of course. But that’s not what’s going on here.
He’s got fight left, but he’s facing Maxima in “non-stop” mode. Having her stomp him for too long would look bad.
He considers that just a “poke in the eye”? If someone poked me in the eye so hard blood squirted out on impact I would expect to loose sight in that eye and that would upset me on some level even if I had accepted that possibility on the way to some hidden goal. And if I thought I had no chance of winning either the fight or some hidden goal then loosing half my sight would definitely upset me too much to keep up the banter. Warrior/Klingon type or no. There is something seriously odd going on with this guy OR he has regen of some type. It would be really funny if he is a transforming super and when he drops this form all damage is healed on reversion. (maybe its some kind of living shell he generates for fighting? Attack on Titan style?)
Anyway, everyone hoping for a simple curb stomping plus arrest of the remains are probably going to be disappointed at the very end. (unless the end game involves lockdown spells and such from the rest of the team – Maxima alone isn’t probably gonna be enough)
Hah, Boot to the Head. Did he get that from the last posts comments? (not mine)
So not much to be said this post. Just continuation of good fun minus a combo from the rest of the team. Carry on with the good works DaveB. :)
Oh, good, now she can beat him with those big clubs she made with his body.
NOW she is fighting dirty. That is good. the threat of fighting someone who opens her combo by crushing your jewels is a bigger deterent for fighting freaks than a sound trashing.
Nah, that’s just more ‘smart fighting’. I doubt anyone would consider hitting vital/weaker points on the body (not pressure points, that’s a whole other set of comic book martial arts) to be ‘dirty fighting’, and that’s just a more well-known one. ^_^
Well dirty and smart are kinda the same thing in this case.
Just that some people expect fights to go by some kind of rules, and thus it’s dirty to them. And lots of people who don’t know how to fight asume the same thing
like that guy dumface on my post above. With his comment its really obvious he has no idea at all what fighting is about, yeah, I totally agree.
You can immobilize someone very easily, by hitting said pressure points. They are just specific points that have important nerves underneath. However there are at least three issues with them. First, you have to be very precise with the hit. Half an inch off, and you missed. Second, amount of force must be carefully controlled. Hit it too hard, and it will just block said nerve, instead of overloading it. Hit it too light, and your opponent will just shrug it off. Third – one can train body to be tolerant to such hits up to the point of being immune to pressure point knockouts, with exception of two points, one that will paralyze breathing and other that will force lower body flinch, possibly leaving opening for next hit, only they are very hard to get to in normal fight. In the comic: taking into account Vehemence’s pain tolerance levels, I say it is safe to say he is completely immune to such techniques, until they are carried by touch-range magic.
And that is why you go for the kidneys and lower costas instead.
No training internal organs (well, exept for your heart i gues), and the lower ribs are easely transformed into staby bits
Squirrel should be in the “Who’s who” box, I believe he’s now officially a recurring character ^_^
Yes, especially since it appears he is a magical flying squirrel.
While I agree in principle DaveB has said the Who’s Who is reserved for characters with dialog, and Squirrel hasn’t had any ines yet. Thought balloons, DaveB?
Yeah. Is “growing teeth super-fast” is a superpower? XD }O{ XE
Hmmm… look up the comedy skit “Tai Kwon Leap / Boot to the Head” by the Frantics. It’s hilarious!
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VD4JXUozM
Admittedly this is pretty awesome in comic in every way…but to me the best thing about it is that every few months I can read it all from start to current and still laugh. I must have re-read this 9 times now and its still all fresh and awesome. Please never stop making this! Thank you! :D
Alright, time for some analyzis.
As someone mentioned, V’s eye have stopped bleeding and he also appears to have all his teeth and Dapplers cuts are gone from his arm. He seem to have the super though + super strong attributes but I think his real strenght come from super-recovery. Basically if you so not kill him outright in one single strike (or keep up a constant barrage of super-powered atacks) he will be right back on his feet in a matter of seconds.
I would classify him as a Hulk type, able to withstand a tremendous ammount of punishment without a upper limit, while retaliating in kind, but the hints David have dropped would suggest there is more to his power.
First his tattoes. I can’t remember where, but they were compared to Dabblers tattoes and basically concluded that glowing tattoes = magic.
Then there is V’s quote when Dappler atacked him, suggesting that V is deeply familiar with magic.
Thirdly, his tattoes started glowing white (going from blue) once he joined the fight. They have been active ever since and they are most likely doing something, I’m just not sure what.
So either:
Theory A: V is fully magic based. He can withstand massive force, heal quickly and break Maximas nose because of magic. That’s all there is to it. This theory doesn’t really sit well with me because it is such a lazy explenation and David have already shown us he likes to add quirks to the supers.
Alternatively is is like Mastermind from X-men and is just doing a puppet show of sort, turning Archon against each other by manipulating their minds.
Theory B: V has natural hulk powers (which is what has been keeping him alive this whole time) as well a s a second magic based power that we have not seen come into play yet (or at least we have not realized it). This could be anything from “recording” the atacks he recives and build up a resistance against them, absorbing nearby energy(like Anvil except he’s like a freaking vacuum cleaner that can do so from range)that is being used or passively draining powers from nearby supers.
I like this theory better is it implies there is a grand scheme behind all this. V have demonstrated he is much smarter then the average villian and I don’t believe he would expose himself like this just for a good brawl.
It could aslo be that he have Dabbler like powers (can shoot fire and ice make illusions etc) and he simply have not seen fit to use those powers yet (would defiently even the playing field somewhat against Maxima).
The missing teeth are still missing. You may have to look a bit closely. There is a black gap on the right side(picture) and just past them are a pair of small white spots, which from the angle could very well be the teeth past the two broken ones we’ve seen.
The explanation for the blood from the eye and the sword cuts missing is relatively simple. He has a limited amount of regeneration. The reason he is going down is because his regeneration just can’t keep up with the heavy damage incoming. It’s like +1 Health, -3 Health, +2 Health , -5 Health, +3 Health, -9 Health. His body just can’t keep up.
I’d say that his powers are magical, the glowing tattoos kind of imply that. However, it doesn’t mean he has anything more than what he’s displayed. Sometimes simple works best.
The tattoos probably Do have a Drawback however, which I expect we won’t see until he’s either being hauled off or there is a surprise twist as this showdown finishes. Or maybe we’ll see him return later with a whole new set of tattoos, which could then make it Very Clear there is a scheme going on. That would be an interesting way to bring him back and show a bigger scheme going on.
Also, trying to mix Grand Scheme up into the situation now may be very awkward. The fight is winding down, and the flow has to return to those first few strips. Since this all takes place a few months before the start of the comic.
That and sometimes, a Duck is just a Duck.
Taking his implied knowledge of magic, and implication that the tattoos are magical one step further, along with his challenge accepted, one could come to a very simple conclusion.
He learned some magic, possibly recently, or possibly some time ago. He found out how to create a power enhancing magical brand. Perhaps there were risks in using it. Maybe he knows about them and thinks he can control them, maybe he doesn’t.
This would fit in to a degree with how Dave likes to play with things. When the fight winds down, perhaps something causes the tattoos to begin to break. Possibly nothing more than the tattoos just couldn’t hold up under all that stress of reinforcing his body. The tattoos begin to fade and what we see …
A high school student, who doesn’t remember anything past applying the tattoos. He’s listed as a missing child as a result. Whether he regrets his actions or not, time would tell. You know, some months down the road, there’s a talk about a breakout at the local prison and we see Vehemence … with a new set of tattoos. “They’re worse than the bullies at high school” was the last words heard as he left the area.
A typical john doe nine to fiver who uses the tattoos to get a rush, but suffers a personality shift when he uses them. He might have anger issues, and the tattoos let him vent that anger in a Fun Manner (well, fun to him).
He could even be a Girl(yes, that’d be twisted) who needs a way to release the stress of her messed up life. First time she used them … well, she lost control. She’s been missing for several years as a result of course.
There are Many ways to have fun with the tattoos without going Grand Scheme.
I apologize for the retcon but I simply forgot the cuts and bleeding eye. I’ve added them back in.
Dave! Dave! You need more editors to catch these things! Any worse and I might think that you’re a computer drawing these pictures! Oh wait, 2010 is gone and Hal 9000 is obsolete. Ok, maybe you’re Hal 9000X, that works!
It happens. But seriously, maybe after you finish the drawing, take an hour breather before you post it (if you have the time). That way you can come back from “drawing mode” and maybe spot the small goofs. If you already do that, you’re only human. If not, its a possible idea. I do that with stories I write. I’ll step back for awhile and return, and fix things I missed the first time.
This is how Maxima gives someone a High Five.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Five_Interchange
That article is out of date, there was a sixth level added in 2008, a bike path that crosses under the US 75 level. I have ridden the bike path and I was just very glad they didn’t decide to pull a Texas “We are bigger in everything” move and decide to put the bike path over the top of the exchange. With the required 16 feet of clearance that would put the bike path about 140 feet above the surrounding area and require mile-long ramps to reach the overpass.There would have been a spectacular view for cyclists at the top of the overpass, perhaps with a small park with benches. Still glad they decided against it.
Yess! You did it again, that haymaker to the gut is with the right (literal and metaphorical) leg forward!
♥♥♥♥♥!
just when I think this fight can’t get any better (or funnier) I look at the next panel and am proven wrong. this whole sequence is hysterical.
And in today’s adventure we have Sydney Scoville playing the part of “Peanut Gallery.” :D
Three Stooges? With one eye shut, Vehemence looks more like Popeye.
V was referring to the .50 cal poke in the eye from Peggy…
It occurs to me that V is still doing his “scouting of the enemy” thing.
Think about it– he (claims to have) sent in the B Team first, while observing them. Then as the action from that engagement is wrapping up, he steps in and singlehandedly escalates the situation. He knows he can take a tremendous amount of damage, not through innate toughness or power-based armor, but because he heals well nigh instantaneously. He even telegraphs his hits, so the fight _goes_on_. Each hit by Maxima or the team has been an escalation of the previous hit.
He is clearly testing the limits of the team and its individual members. He knows he will survive, so he will report back what he has found to someone on his escape, or he plans to use his knowledge firsthand. What sort of price would that report command? Kinda high, I’d wager. What are the odds someone is not zooming in with the Grrlpowerverse version of good old fashioned spy satellites?
It also occurs to me that he’s observing “comic book rules” for the fight. He announces his strikes (as he makes them, but with plenty of time for Max or someone as trained as Math to counter them). He does not seem to be expecting things like the “poke to the eye” or the genital stomp, which one would not see in most comic books. I’m not sure he’s been in any “real life” fights; more like he’s been tested to destruction by whoever trained him, to prove he could carry out whatever purpose his mission is (apparently, to get the team worked up to reveal their true power limits).
I’ll say it again: Antaeus. Vehemence is Antaeus. Takes damage, but heals so fast as to be invulnerable. Automatic reset on contact with the Earth. Indefatigable, not matter how much he exerts himself/gets the crap knocked out of him (as shown by his continual witty banter and critique of Max’s fighting style).
Actually pretty sure that the fight is coming to a close. His teeth are still knocked out, his eye is still shut from the damage. Regeneration, yes, but not so high that he could go toe to toe with heavy hitters.
That and sometimes a Duck is a Duck. Not every screwed up person has a grand scheme or is being used for a grand scheme.
Some are just doing it for the kicks, personal gain, or maybe just getting even for slights or perceived slights. They can also be someone paid to do it by a person who has a grudge against a member of the team (from past encounters) and has the money to get the “muscle” needed.
There’s also the fact that all this is Before the events of the first few pages, which are more laid back. So discussing a grand scheme now would feel like a bit of whiplash when going back to “current day”.
Hmmm…
I take back part of what I said. Dave’s gone back in and added the cuts, and shown that the teeth are not grown back, so, yeah, no instant regeneration on Vehemence’s part.
Perhaps he is just an overgrown, genre savvy brick. He certainly is fighting like he thinks it’s a comic book, and seems genuinely surprised that Max is taking it as a real fight. I still think he’s gathering intelligence on capabilities, for himself or someone else.
He yells and hollers and complains about how much it hurts, but V keeps coming back for more. I think he’s a serious adrenalin and endorphin junkie who is finally getting the jolts he has always wanted. And like any junkie, he may not stop until it kills him.
While that’s a scary possibility, I’d prefer the idea of him coming back again in the future. Too much potential for them to see him with a new set of tattoos (I still think they’re the source of his power) and not realize that they’re facing a completely different breed of Vehemence.
Whoever gave V those tats is still out there. Vehemence Mark 2 might be tougher or come at them with a whole different power set. The clue that V is going to be a fatality is if Max powers up for a plasma blast. If she just beats him like a drum, he’ll heal eventually in prison. And then come back for more, no matter what.
Poor squirrel-cat can’t get a break…
That poor squirrel is the real casualty in this fight. That poor thing was minding its own business, and now its home has been wrecked twice. I want to see it land on someone soon, and get adopted by Sydney, at which point we find out that one of the mystery orbs allows animal communication. :P
One Squirrel Girl per multiverse is enough.
He’s not completely invulnerable, then. Heh. I love the ‘nonomatopoeia’. The phrase, and the word. ^_^
Vehemence is Ed Gruberman?
Another mosque destroyed. Maxima is going to have some ‘splainin’ to do.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE gold diggers. but I can’t find a SINGLE comic shop that has his stuff and I can’t order online right now. ><
Antarctic Press is a small operation. They can’t keep back issues warehoused for long. The collector’s market is the only place to find the old stuff. Although check for the Gold Brick collections. They are smaller format but carry big chunks of Gold Digger oldies.
thanks for the info I will definitely look around.
Dave, I can’t thank you enough for the link to Gold Digger’s archives! I’ve seen bits and pieces online before, but never even close to a sizeable fraction (let alone basically the whole thing) in a legitimate download.
I’ve liked his work for years, but never been able to actually read the story before. Now I’ll get that chance, and I am SO excited!
“DAMN IT, TERRY!”
Here’s a drinking game you can play at home! Watch Batman Beyond, and whenever there’s any collateral damage that’s inflicted on the city as a result of Terry’s actions, take a shot. I swear, this guy causes more collateral than Superman! So much so, that whenever me and a friend watch a superhero show, and any hero causes massive collateral damage, we call out, “Damn it, Terry!”
Don’t get me wrong, watching Maxima beat the hell out of Vehemence is extremely satisfying. Let’s just hope she doesn’t let up: I suspect if she lets up even for a moment, he’ll take advantage of her mercy and hurt someone.
As a bridge inspector, that last hurts to look at.
Ouch! Sorry to hear that, fella. Seriously, Maxima dropped the ball there big time :(
Why? You now get another bridge to inspect
nope… the SAME bridge TWICE!
DaveB: Comics Chameleon has a Kickstarter going to port to Android and one tier is to set up a web comic to appear in both versions. I have $200 in funds I can spare for this… would you be interested?
Carp, left off the URL : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/471135636/comic-chameleon-the-ultimate-webcomics-app-android
I wonder if in another life that squirrel was a cat named Mittens? You know the one that was left the entire vast “Boottothehead”.
Perhaps someone has already mentioned this, and if so I apologize for coming late to the game, but it seems to me that Vehemence is the evil version of The Tick, especially in the original comics. He’s nigh-invulerable but can definitely feel pain and take damage, he’s clearly seriously off his rocker, and he’s definitely a bruiser. He’s EvilTick!
Well he’s definitely smarter than The Tick. Of course that’s not saying much.
In the original comics, Tick’s not as dumb as he is in the cartoon and live-action shows. He’s even slightly cunning at times. He’s just really, really, REALLY insane. Seriously schizophrenic insane. But yes, V does come off as somewhat smarter. He at least THINKS he’s smart anyway.
People who THINK they’re smart often are kidding themselves.
I know I’m smart enough to know there are always other who are smarter and even the smartest of us can be very dumb. I think that put’s me a fair bit ahead of the curve.
Just look at Doctor Shelly Cooper
Roy Rogers (the Golden Oldie Days of TV) said something like what you’re expressing:
“Everybody’s ignorant, just in different subjects.”
Also relevant are a couple of quotes from Socrates (“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”) and Shakespeare (“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”)
There’s another quote I like “A fool marvels at what he knows a wise man marvels at what he knows not.”.
There’s also Nobel-winning author, philosopher, mathematician, historian, and all-around “pretty schmot guy” Bertrand Russell, who said: “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
Did he have a really fancy hat?