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. :)
Here’s something you guys will hopefully enjoy (and hopefully not abuse). Fred Perry, who does Gold Digger, both of which I’ve mentioned several times before as Gold Digger is my all time favorite comic, has put the first 199 issues of the comic online for free. I believe the thinking behind this is it’s difficult to see issue 225 of something on the shelf in the comic store and think you’ll jump right in. Obviously there’s a lot of history there, and unlike a comic from Marvel or DC that reboots every 12 months, Gold Digger is one contiguous story. By offering 20 years of backstory for free, I think Fred is hoping to pick up some new readers to the current storylines.
I’ve been vacillating as to whether or not I should link this archive from the comic, my concern is that a sudden influx of traffic and the subsequent downloading of 199 PDFs times 10,000 will cause Fred either some bandwidth or expense issues with his server. So I’m putting the link up with the hopes that you guys won’t go in there and just leech the whole library all at once. I’d suggest reading the first few issues, see if you like it, and if you do, have at it, just remember this is the last 20 years of Fred’s professional life on offer for free, so please make use of the donate link, (edit: to be clear, the donate link on the Gold Digger page, not my donate link) if for no other reason than to cover any surprise bandwidth costs. Also there are links to subscribe to the latest issues there on the side if it turns out you do like it. I think if you enjoy Grrl Power there’s a fair chance you will.
Here’s the link, please enjoy Fred’s quality responsibly. :)
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Given the beating he is taking and still coming back relatively unharmed I think another thinking tilt is in order.
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I hardly think missing a couple teeth, being short an eye, and having a cocky statement interrupted with a barely dodged ball stomp to result only in “uh-oh” followed by trying to block a punch that redirects faster than you can reblock is anything but “unharmed”.
If he doesn’t throw in the towel, I guarantee he’s going to end up as greasy spot on the pavement.
Yep I was right! This fight is traveling!
If maxima keeps this up then Archon is going to be sued to bankruptcy before next week
Lawsuits don’t work that way. Whether Archon is bankrupted by lawyers will depend not on what happens but on how the law is interpreted with respect to superhuman activities.
From another perspective, though, who’d dare to take their cash, or, if they had no cash, dare to refuse services? Money isn’t relevant to Archon in any real way.
So, you’re basically saying that Archon will be able to do whatever they like because no one could stop them?
Yeah, that sounds about right
Why would they?
This is all because of super villain attacks. Sue them
Less potential money, the goverment have deep pokets, while some of the villans may be broke
Actually, the US federal government is, for the most part, protected from monetary damages via lawsuit by, guess what, federal law. That’s why the US Army Corps of Engineers escaped paying damages to the citizens of New Orleans following hurricane Katrina. All they had to do was rebuild the crap levies, that they built the first time, that gave way and destroyed the city. But “Oh! It’s the federal government, you know. Too bad, so sad, better luck next time.”
To my knowledge, people sue government agencies all the time. I don’t know what exactly the process may or may not be like in this fictional universe, but AFAIK it’s usually due to a failure of their prescribed duties or abuse of power as opposed to collateral damage. I don’t think they can be sued for actions taken in the pursuit of carrying out their lawfully assigned duties, provided they do it in a way that doesn’t otherwise break the law.
Since you brought it up, I recall at least one instance where the army corps of engineers actually dynamited levies in one spot to relieve pressure elsewhere. The resulting flood destroyed private property, obviously, but they weren’t sued- the government however may choose to provide other forms of compensation as it deems appropriate, such as for any disaster relief.
Since this whole organization has a long (if clandestine) history, I wouldn’t be surprised if there where a whole list of regulations and backup plans in place to deal with an occurrence like this- so long as no one is injured, then it would probably be relatively easy for the government to have some sort of funding set up to cover incidental property damage.
People can sue the federal government basically only when the federal government says they can. Collateral damage is almost always ruled out as an allowable basis for lawsuits, for obvious reasons, but there are any number of other things you are not allowed to file suit for.
Additionally, due to how any national government works, it is almost impossible to drive one of the agencies into bankruptcy (although it can be done), and when it IS done, this generally has very little effect on the operation of most government agencies.
That said? My guess is that if Max unloads with her full strength on somebody, she’s going to cause insurance rates to rise all over the country.
I can sue you for making the sky green.
Doesn’t mean the sky is green.
Doesn’t mean that you made it green, or have any responsibility for its color.
It also doesn’t mean that I’ll win the lawsuit, but I can sue you for making the sky green.
And there is that pesky little law that requires the loser of such a lawsuit to recompense all legal fees & court costs incurred by the winner of the suit. That law is purposed to deter “nuisance lawsuits” from getting too expense to defend against; people were getting pretty “lawsuit happy” a few decades ago & this law was a response to that. If you don’t think you can win the case, it’s better not to even indict in the first place.
It’s instances like that for limiting government action to do as little as possible. Specific Clauses of limitations are peppered all through the US Constitution, but the really big “catch-all” limiter is the 10th Amendment; that one was meant to deter those officials who could figure a way around some of the *specific* limiters.
I imagine they could just end up declaring imminent domain to get any valid suits regarding collateral damage dismissed.
However, in this case, it happens to be an overpass. Overpasses are owned by the government. The most they’d have to pay for, if anything at all, is the damaged construction equipment, which belongs to whatever contractor bid the lowest for the job.
They can’t. Condemning property–or swiping it under eminent domain–requires a fairly strict process, and must be proven to be “in the public interest”. This means that punching somebody through a wall doesn’t qualify.
As to the overpass…yes, the government would probably have to compensate the owners of any equipment lost. Sadly, however, this equipment was likely not owned by the lowest bidder (which I was quite outraged to learn), but by whichever company had the best reputation for honesty in its contracts (apparently some companies used to use sub-standard materials in road and bridge-building, in an effort to save money). Add to this the fact that that crane probably cost $750,000 at a minimum (construction equipment that size is EXPENSIVE), and Maxima probably did a fair amount of damage to whichever company is building the overpass. Thanks to supreme dickishness on the part of the companies that make that heavy equipment, it could easily be six months to a year before that company recovers, because some manufacturers (such as Caterpillar) will not allow any heavy equipment purchased in a sales area to leave that sales area for at least 500 hours of use.
Wait, you mean that someone has to buy something 500 hours before they need it? o_O
no, he’s saying that the company that bought it has to USE it in the sales area for 500 hrs, before they can move it out of that area… i think it’s so that a company doesn’t buy it in a relatively cheap area, and a day after it gets delivered, move it to an area where that same gear is mondo expensive and use it there… thus the sales rep in the new area gets screwed out of a commission on the more expensive gear and the company as a whole loses some income overall, because when that company tries to buy spare parts, etc. they are going to be charged at the lower price for the original sales area since the mfgr. doesn’t know that they moved it… but after 500 hours of use (about 12.5 weeks/ 3 months-ish) they figure it’s OK, because the job it was originally bought for is probably finished using it at that point, and it wouldn’t make sense to force them to keep it in the area anymore.
Not totally true. When they snagged the land where they built DIA here in Colorado they first took the land by decreeing that the land was condemned and forcing the land owners to sell it to them at one tenth the actual value. They then sold it back and forth between the city of Denver and a private contractor owned by a certain prior Governor by the name of Romer to jack up the price after removing the status of condemned from the land. Oh but it gets better, currently the land that DIA is sitting on is rented to the city of Denver by a firm which is owned by a chain of other businesses down a line to a business with three partners. Webb, Romer, and Pena, two former mayors of Denver and the then governor of the state of Colorado. I know this to be fact and it took me seven months to track it all down. Most likely its all highly illegal but for some reason none of them were ever arrested or put into prison for any of it.
PoLIEticians often have too much clout toe easily be held accountable.
Providing that info with documentation to the FBI could potentially be a start…
If this turns into a Family Guy ‘chicken fight’ then the whole city could be in ruins.
Well, this is the disadvantage of durability without flight, or some other way to stop yourself from being treated as an indestructible bouncy ball.
So, if they can knock him down, why not knock him up… into SPACE! The oxygen deprivation should at least knock him out, although maybe it wouldn’t be a good idea to basically create an indestructible meteorite.
I think you’re overestimating Maxima’s strength level. I don’t think even maxima could throw Vehemence hard enough to overcome gravity and air resistance to launch him 125 miles vertically.
Given that these top end supers seem to be in the 100s of KJ per hit range (though it’s pretty inconsistent and arguments could be made for anywhere from 10s of KJ to 1000s of KJ) and Max would need ~6000000KJ (and an arm speed of several dozen times the speed of sound) to get him into orbit even without air resistance…
She has as much of a change of doing so as you have of throwing the spaceshuttle.
You’re both forgetting that Maxima doesn’t have to do it in one punch. She can fly, so as long as she can hit him upwards at all (which seems to be the case), she can hit him upwards, fly after him, hit him upwards again, and so on, until he’s high enough. Of course, this assumes that she can deal with the oxydep etc. herself – though she doesn’t need to be quite as high as him, it’d probably be close enough to not matter much for this purpose.
On the other hand, she would still need to expend the same amount of energy (actually, quite a bit more) in total, and it doesn’t really seem worth the effort and risk…
Or she could, I dont know, just keep pounding him until he stops breathing?
That does seem like a far more energy-efficient approach, yes. Probably safer for everyone, too. And certainly easier. Just because knocking him into space is possible (given enough time and effort), doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea, especially compared to the other options.
Ironically enough that reminds me of a series of comics, which Spiderman was involved in. Acts of Vengeance I believe the arc was called. Spiderman literally had cosmic powers. He punched the Hulk into orbit. Needless to say, that kind of scared him, having that much power. Of course after that power left him, he had a number of Very Pissed Off villains to deal with, and had to rely on old-fashioned spiderman maneuvers.
So, just another day in the life of the arachnid kid?
Practical people like you take the fun out of everything. Still, you stop people like me destroying the world, just because of how awesome it would be to do so. So thankyou for your sensible advice.
Then again, she could just get him high enough, punch him until he’s over the ocean (or somewhere desolate) and just let him fall.
Throwing him vertically wouldn’t get him into orbit. He’d just fall back down. Gravity doesn’t magically stop working just because you’re 125 miles up. It just ends up being slightly reduced. Orbit is caused by moving around the Earth at the same rate that gravity would be pulling you, resulting in a perpetual freefall. If you were in the International Space Station and it were to suddenly stop and just hover in a geosynchronous manner, above whatever part of the Earth it was over at the time, you’d fall and be able to walk around with about 90-95% Earth gravity.
“Orbit is caused by moving around the Earth at the same rate that gravity would be pulling you, resulting in a perpetual freefall.”
Yeah, the basic effect is like Earth orbit around the sun…We’re *always* in freefall towards it, but we just keep missing the target.
This is in response to the image in the patreon thingy on the right side of the page:
Dave, is that fighting force of extraordinary magnitude forging their spirits in the traditions of their ancestors.
Darn it why did that get posted as a reply?
“…from being treated as an indestructible bouncy ball.”
Heh! That reminds me of how much fun I had with Super Ball (TM) when I was a kid…V is the modern day Super Ball (TM) here.
:D
Most fun I had with one involved a bare room with a hard floor and one or more cats. They would chase that thing literally up a wall or jump backwards in a flip to get it. Hours of fun long before laser pointers.
“Fred Perry, who does Gold Digger, both of which I’ve mentioned several times before as Gold Digger is my all time favorite comic, has put the first 199 issues of the comic online for free.”
yay…now I can reread the old comics legally! I had all of them in print once…as well as “Ninja High School” and “Stellar Losers”( …a comic I have never been able to even find again…) but they were at my brother’s house and a crackhead broke in and pulled all of the comics out of their sleeves and boxes and urinated on them… … …
Whoa! Thanks a ton for the link! I’m another big GD fan, but I’ve also had a real tight belt the last several years (doing better recently though). This’ll let me get caught up and maybe fund Fred’s next Gold Brick!
you’ll have to wait just a bit… he just got done with a Kickstarter for the newest one back in May:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1915262526/fred-perrys-gold-digger-color-gold-brick-two
I love this comic! ;) I am laughing so hard right now. I bet he’s not QUITE finished. He’s gonna get a few words in at least.
New use for Sydney’s Flight/Shield combo: Damage-Prevention Villain Backstop!
Even better! She has Shield up, they throw enemy at her with her aimed a bit toward the ground (or further upwards). Do the right angle and force and they have themselves a nice bank shot.
Is there a ZIP or something somewhere of all those Gold Digger comics? I want to download them all for reading on my tablet, and I’m not going to down 199 files individually.
Firefox + DownThemAll!
Boot to the head! Na na!
Villains that sneak attack,
Villains that make you see red,
Villains that won’t give up,
Give them a boot to the head.
Boot to the Head! Yah, yah…
Boot to the Head! Yah, yah…
Boot to the Head! Yah, yah…
Boot to the Head! Yah yah yah.. yah. yah yah yah…
Snot On My Keyboard award to Deof!
Bravo sir. Bravo.
+1 +1 +n
Good to know I wasn’t the only one with that song in my head. Safe to say that Maxima is a student of Tae Kwon Leap?
does that mean Vehemence’s name is Ed Gruberman?
If he’s got any kind of “secret” to his ID, that might well could be…
Maybe he IS the “original” Ed Gruberman who found a way to get supered up. In the Tai Kwan Leap skit, he DID express a desire to just learn how to “kick some butt,” and that’s how V is acting right now!
And one for Jenny and the wimp!
No Tasmanian devils?
They are so mean they are reserved for the worst scum of the earth, lawyers. And they must be rabid when inserted into underpants.
Serindipitous Squirrel, 1st level summoning spell. Dabbler is competing with Sydney, I’ll bet.
We interrupt this webcomic to bring you an episode of Dragonball Z!
Nonsense. There were no where near the required 30 comics explaining the previous 30 comics to provide 30 seconds of new action before the final 30 seconds of show that previews the next show which will of course be recapped in the opening 95% of the next show.
I’ve often wondered exactly how much real show was in DBZ, Naruto, etc. if the BS opener was deleted.
They did it, Dragonball Z fit within 3h 55m of action, including ALL of the dialogs.
Friend of mine, did the same for several other series. Strip out the transformation sequences, stock footage, recaps, et all, and has managed to cut a number of series to half their length.
I honestly Liked the original Dragon Ball. But Dragon Ball Z quickly became the literally “who has the bigger ki blast?”
It was an arms race that was neither deadly serious nor extremely comical.
It was just “I’m more awesome! No I am! Here, See?! ” ::shakes head:: “give me two minutes to train and i’ll be ten times more awesome!”
Etc, etc, etc.
Got boring fast.
What about when they destroyed the planet of the Namecs, not to mention how they ported with CELL to the planet where Goku trained after the original attack by his brother and trained with a certain master. The same place that CELL blew up before porting back to Earth where he finally died…
As the Epic Rap Battles once put it, One Punch, and over Nine Thousand Screams.
I much prefer Team Four Star’s DBZ Abridged
https://teamfourstar.com/
Nononono! It’s “JUST One punch, And OVER NINE THOUSAND SCREEAAMMSS!!”
A similar process is used to stretch out a ~10 hour telenovela to several months.
Did the squirrel really need to lose his home in panel 1
Maybe it’s the same one that “attacked” Hex earlier?
That was because he got knocked out of that tree too.
his reaction in panel 5 is hilarious.
Synonyviolence: A word or phrase describing the sound of a violent action, in the place of the sound effect of the action itself.
This comic is getting better and better! And is this squirrel going to be like the squirrel from “Ice Age”? Allways showing up when you least expect it! And I dont think V is quite finished yet, I expect him to deliver a few more blows to Max… “Well that was fun, now lets get serious” style… ;-)
Squirrel just might be the master-mind shape-shifter.
I do believe that’s two-lane for flinching.
He may have tried to sluff off the .50 cal to the eye as a “poke”. But notice what he tried to protect when Max went to punch him again.
On top of that, he hasn’t opened that eye again. If Peggy can line up a shot on the other eye they can probably get him to surrender just fine.
Not the faces honored Jedi! xD
Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast…That one blue-skinned bartender. Heh!
“Not the Face! Not the Face! Don’t hit the Face!”
Yeah.
well at least it was a construction site so they’re already started for rebuilding
Truly a low-blow Maxi
Squirell – Skiterry little rodent who has no formal training and thinks he is the unofficial mascot of ArcSwat. Has the uncanny ability of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Every hero team needs a mascot to be rescued when the writers run out of ideas.
“Help, my squirrel is trapped in that tree!”
“Archon Rescue Squad! ROLL OUT!”
Sydney, “Wait, its a trap!”
V, “At last! They have fallen for my cunning paln!”
et cliche cetera.
Even better. The squirrel ends up as a morality pet for Hexx.
“Why do you keep following me? I hate squirrels.”
If you want to spare melting someone’s servers down, use the Coral distributed caching service. Just add “.nyud.net” onto the domain name, like this:
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https://antarcticpresslibrary.com.nyud.net/gdbw/gdbw02.pdf
https://antarcticpresslibrary.com.nyud.net/gdbw/gdbw03.pdf
https://antarcticpresslibrary.com.nyud.net/gdbw/gdbw04.pdf
https://antarcticpresslibrary.com.nyud.net/gdbw/gdbw05.pdf
The cache network retrieves one copy from his site, and the various caches get copies from each other to serve requests in their area.
“Boot to the Head” is a song by the Frantics.
“I’ve seen enough fights at overpasses to know where this is going.”
Bum fights?
That… was interesting o_O
while it LOOKS really cool and all, one thing that has always bothered me about drawings like panel six… HOW does the ground PIVOT like that? i mean the amount of force needed to punch their foot THROUGH the asphalt in JUST their “footprint” is a heck of a lot LESS than the amount of force needed to break a huge roughly circular area of it, and the underlying dirt as well, free from the rest of the dirt/pavement and rotate it. as well as the whole equal and opposite reaction thing… she stomps on the ground… OK, and the chunk of pavement he happens to be lying on is thrust upward… less believable, but… OK… BUT what is the fulcrum?, what is capable of withstanding the HUGE amount of force in both the downward AND upward directions to let it ROTATE AROUND IT? the center of the teeter-totter if you will… NOTHING!, it’s the same bloody chunk of parking lot as the rest of the chunk that’s getting stomped on!… so HOW can it be acting as the fulcrum?!? she should have just stomped on the ground and sank her foot into the ground a few inches/feet, not tilted a chunk up like a teeter-totter… ARGH!… i know it’s cartoon physics and i can gleefully disbelieve reality when it comes to flying and transforming into lightning, etc, but still… this weirds me out, i don’t really know WHY though… no biggie i just had to mention it, move along, nothing to see here, these are NOT the droids you’re looking for..
You forget Maxi’s Zero Touch TK?
I know diddly about physics – but it LOOKS like her initial stomp broke through the pavement and then she SHOVED the scoop of “stuff” up and out of the hole. Yeah, I know that doesn’t really work either – but it works slightly better than the fulcrumless stomp-tilt.
Yep. Not so much a pivot as a slide. The initial impact fractured and loosened the ground and material in a larger area than just where the foot landed, then the push causes a big chunk to loosen and slide upwards, like how certain mountains are formed.
See it’s not even Vehemence she’s fighting now. One bad experience with those bobbling clowns’ rebound can really ingrain a KILL reflex into a person.
Go for the nose, see if he beeps.
…or maybe he boops.
Then we can call him, Bettie?
No, I think that first brick-type that Anvil dealt with would already have that nickname.
A finger poke in the other eye would be great right about now.
Then a “Wet Willy” in the ear for maximum insult.
Or perhaps an atomic wedgie?
/all 5 Harem shudder at the memory, even the one who was in stasis at the time
The real people at fault for Katrina wasn’t the Federal Government they gave the state Government of Louisiana money to redo the levees far before Katrina happened but the state Government said screw that and misused the funds they’d been given specifically for levy repair to repair the French Quarter of Louisiana.
I’m almost surprised V managed to even complement Maxima on the curbstomping (till the near fatal shot to the nuts anyways), let alone survive two pages of this ‘fight’ thus far. I mean, he did lose an eye…
Max didn’t kick V in the crotch, yet. She just stomped down too close to the boys to make that block of pavement tilt up. And I’m sure the proximity was deliberate.
By ‘near fatal’, I meant ‘near miss’. My bad.
According to the WoG she was aiming for the boys.
I seriously believe the prospect of a nutshot can dramatically speed up the reaction time of every male in the vicinity.
Maybe you should consider looking up the actual facts behind incidents before jumping on the blame Bush for Katrina bandwagon which was a pack of vicious lies made up so you’d falsely hate on him for an incident that actually wasn’t his fault his administration was the one which gave the money to redo the levees to the state of Louisiana which clearly decided clearing the poor and riff raff out of their state with the next hurricane to happen was more important than upgrading their levees .
Was pretty sure the original recommendation came through from the Army Corps of Engineers in Clinton’s time. I think the process of granting the money was started with Clinton, finished with Bush and then it got to New Orleans which did with the money what New Orleans always seems to do with money…fritter it away to corrupt businesses.
The slow response afterwards was primarily due to the fact that none of the pre-existing FEMA plans had ever considered anything even near the magnitude of an entire flooded city. They were pretty much at a loss for where to begin.
Japan had a similar issue with the 2011 Earthquake/Tsunami…all their precautions had been built to contain and deal with previously recorded wave swells and earthquakes…the sheer magnitude of the earthquake that struck was well beyond anything they imagined. So the country floundered while it tried to come up with a response.
Given the fact that the nuclear plant was over 30 years old, it’s a miracle that we didn’t have something like Chernobyl added on top of all that. Unfortunately, the reaction around the world hasn’t been “OMG! We need to upgrade to modern designs whose safeguards would never allow this to happen!” but instead has been “OMG! We must stop thinking about nuclear power despite the fact that it is the most efficient and actually safest power production tech we have at present.”
Sorry, got off on a rant, I live in Fukushima, so it grates on me (fortunately wasn’t here until the year after the Earthquake)
Hah! Was just telling mum the other day about the Fukushima plant (and Chernobyl) and how everyone over reacted out of perceived fear (rather than real fear)
The levies were maintained just fine. Independent investigations have proven that. The problem was that they were built to substandard specs to begin with, and no amount of maintenance will fix that. Add to that the fact that as more and more wetlands south of the city are lost to erosion there is nothing left to soften the impact of a major storm surge before it gets to the already inadequate levies and you have a tailor made situation for disaster. And it’s already been proven that the levies were rebuilt with substandard/inadequate materials by, you guessed it, our wonderful Federal government in the form of, once again, the US Army Corps of Engineers. If you can’t get it right the first time, try, try again. And they still can’t be sued…
How about giving them the good gear for building instead of the substandard materials? Their forced to work with what is purchased and brought to the site to begin with so what you get you have to blame on the purchasers of the equipment instead of the builders themselves.
Okay, Maxima has a white bra.
If you’re talking about that flash of white in panel 5, that’s the bottom of her holster showing.
Yeah, Maxi ain’t wearing a bra
Not the holster but the barrel of the gun itself but otherwise you are right.
I forgot A-Bomb blew the tip off the holster. And ruined Max’s jacket.
It was all for a good cause… That midriff… Yum!
I like sharing that link too ^^ Gold Digger is awesome!
Aside from the beginning, 51 also makes a good jumping on point. Heck, so does 201…
“Scoot scoot” “Stomp” and “Tilt” are unnecessary; it is clear from the art alone what is going on. I’d say “boottothehead” is surplus too, but it’s funny.
Of course it’s unnecessary. They’re not, however, there for explanation. They’re there for the lolz. After all, what sound does ‘scoot-scoot’ even make, let alone ‘Boottothehead’?
Uh oh. Being a smart-ass to your boss, when she has made a mistake, is not necessarily the smartest thing to do on your first day in the job. Fortunately Maxima does not strike me as the vindictive sort. And it does go to show that Sydney is remembering the lessons.
Of course, someday when Halo has a trainee of her own, she can retell this incident, with glee, as an example of what not to do. And, needless to say, it will provide plenty of banter ammo for everyone on the team, the next time they get to chill out and kick back.
Mind you, Maxima seems to have the kicking part down pat already.
I agree with you about Nuclear reactors being safe and efficient technology the radiation where you live is already gone only fearmongers don’t know radiation doesn’t last that long look at Tokyo,Japan we hit with one of the Atom bombs in the war pretty sure the radiation levels are normal.
Tokyo wasn’t hit with a bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, but yes, both are populated now.
Chernobyl is still a no-go place, but that’s because the Chernobyl accident was horrifically bad and a result of terrible, terrible awful designs. (The Fukushima plant was actually in place before Chernobyl was)
Not just bad design. Bad management to.
The fatal test was done by the inexperienced night crew, after maintainence crews had adviced against it
The fatal test being the one where they turned off the cooling systems and asked ‘what could possibly go wrong?’
Oh that’s right.
Te bit where they turned the cooling system back on, and cold water hit superheated materials and converted to plasma… Which once it cooled sufficiently, ‘exploded’ further as the hydrogen and oxygen recombined, ripping the reactor innards to bits.
Tokyo wasn’t DIRECTLY hit with an a-bomb. However, the radiation from the other attacks woke up a big lizard that then proceeded to stomp on Tokyo a few times. So there was an indirect effect.
Oh, come-on. What did they expect, building their capital city right on the giant monster migration route?!
Dave, could I ask for a reverse Hulk Loki ragdoll moment?
For Maxima would be good, but even for the team that would be important, to learn not to underestimate opponents regardless of their combined might…
…although I sincerely don’t know how to play that out well in a comic format…
You mean Maxi in the place of Loki? Yes please!!!!
That would be worth it just for the look on her face. Though methinks she’d not allow it, seeing as she can fly, and all.
Just because she can fly, doesn’t mean she can’t be caught unawares
he said reverse, as in max using v as the ragdoll. the bodily proportions are reversed between who is getting hurt compared to the scene where hulk uses loki as a ragdoll.
I apologize for the perceived ambiguity in my comment eldestdawn, I did meant Maxima in the place of Loki.
Do wonder how much of those hits are actually registering with Vehemence. Yes he has lose a few teeth, but as I suspected that shot to the eye didn’t do as much damage as Max probably hoped.
But yeah, Vehemence needs to turn this around soon. Fortunately no place better to get his hands on some useful damage dealing weapons than a construction site.
nonomatopoeia, nice one. Very Fred Perry of you.
It seems that in the patron link, Sydney is making a reference to the “A Fistfull of Yen” sketch on Kentucky Fried Movie… talk about obscure… I love that movie and especially that sketch, I reference it at least 3 times a week, to be honest.
I wonder if there’s going to be some kind of Big Jim Slade reference pop up in the comic…
Big Jim Slade, former tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, is outfitted with various whips, chains, and a sexual appetite that will knock your socks off! Big Jim has satisfied women throughout the world, and the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!
Preeeeeeeety sure he should’ve been just a little more pissed about losing an eye.
Long time listener, first time caller.
Panel 6 is the first real fear V has shown in this comic (even panel 5 is more instinct/startle than anything else, I’d say). As of panel 4, he’s still bantering and still playing “honorably”. He could be existentially screwed, but if he is, he hasn’t realized it yet.
His nonchalance about losing an eye could mean he’s a regenerator, or it could just mean he’s currently high on endorphins. His intellect doesn’t strike me as being particularly especial in either direction (though he’s at least witty), but if it is, that doesn’t necessarily mean that this is a trick; intellect doesn’t govern what you do, it governs how well you do it. He wants to fight someone who can actually fight back; even if he’s a supergenius, his motivations here needn’t be any more complicated than that.
Though now that I think about it, he did assemble that supervillain team on short notice. Even if he kept their names in his little black book just in case something like this happened, he had to have gathered and assembled them in pretty short order. And if he’s here for a real fight, that means For Whom the Death Tolls wasn’t one (and come on, you know he’d have challenged him to a fight), which means he must have figured out his weakness pretty quickly. So we’ve got planning, savvy, charisma, and analysis among V’s unseen skills. So yeah.
He hasn’t necessarily lost the eye, it may have received similar damage that human eyes have sustained and recovered from.
If I may make a comment about how to fund ARCHON well enough that they can (almost) afford to cover collateral damages so far seen out of not quite petty cash?
How much does it cost to get a fully loaded space shuttle up to orbit using rockets?
How much does the same orbital lift cost when using Maxima and/or Dabbler?
If you charged half of what a normal shuttle boost cost and then split the fee with NASA, you still would have several times the amount of money needed to repair the damages caused thus far. Anyone who wanted to put a satellite in orbit (or even something on the moon!) would be lining up outside your door.
I have made similar arguments for years… I even was working on a Champions character who was a lousy combatant, but if you needed to get to space…
Or… merchandising (Ariana’s specialty).
However, why would they need to make ARCHON self-funding any more than they would the police or military?
Combination of budget cuts and protection of the F35…