Grrl Power #269 – Made you flinch
When Maxima says Vehemence is beyond conventional attack, the asterisk is “with the equipment we can bring to bear against him right now.” Obviously they haven’t tried a bunker buster against him or even an 80mm tank cannon, but then they didn’t have the foresight to bring either of those with them to dinner. Besides, when the best you can say after shooting someone in the eye with a .50 is “Made you flinch” conventional tactics pretty much go out the window.
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A) For someone that lives off violence V as proven, beyond tactics, remarkably polite and considerate (and for you naysayers, try to imagine a dumb hooligan version of V)
B) He is a natural user of Vehemic energy, that could be in the way a Physics Ph.D. or an engineer might be a natural with math…but neither are mathematicians …
C) He seems to be in it for the fun.
D) He definitely is an oblique thinker
So with the above, does anyone remember to ask him to stop?
…or… looking at the face Anvil made previously, my other solution might not be that farfetched…
I don’t think anyone is denying he’s polite, periodically.
He even acknowledges good hits, and good jumps of random knowledge such as Sydney’s comment about Apple.
I really like the guy. He’s obviously in it for the challange, showboating around and hamming it up like a pro. I hope he’s not just a one shot wonder because I think he has the chops for a reaccuring character.
Seconded. Seriously hope this guy enters their rogue gallery. If Batman can get Bane, Teen Titans get Cinder head [sp?], and other Supes get their own living tanks / strong men. Than a super hero team, with a Paragon Level BA, a Succubi, and several OPhotties. Then this guy is right up their alley for a villain to keep them from truly being OP as well as fits in as the perfect villain for them [every now and then].
1 – I miss giant robots ;) We have girls, we have Sydney (lol), we have enemies and all, but I miss… Giant robots! XD
2 – Best strategy against Vehemence? Hire someone with telepatic powers and discover the dark secret: Vehemence is a browny! (My Little poney fan).
3 – Best Strategy B: Feed him with too much violence: Stream the audio of a DotA or LoL game… And watch the verbal explosion.
4 – Best Strategy C: Maxima explosion restricted inside the Sydney’s forcefield.
Regarding 3: Don’t forget the youtube comments
4 – and see Sydney get vaporized
I wonder if number 4 counts as a partial sign or trophy.
I’d say it counts as a full sign and full trophy…It involves making Sydney vulnerable to Vehemence while he’s inside her shield. Be it from suffocation or any other reason to trap him inside of her shield, Sydney’s also vulnerable to that AND to Vehemence.
True. You want maple syrup with your pancakes?
I’d prefer an omelet. I’ve started warming up a skillet already because, earlier in the battle, Sydney already cracked Shadow Boxer’s eggs…
Fried douche testicles? Jersey Shore Oysters?
We’ll start with ‘scrambled’. ;p
Of course…I’d never eat those kind of eggs in any form *except* scrambled. I won’t even consider them served “over easy.”
Regarding 2: Brony not browny. Browny just seems like a misspelling of brownie. Though him secretly being a baked good would be a surprise.
Presumably, brownie would refer to the fairies, not the food.
In EQ1, you make chocolate from brownie body parts
In my friendcircle a browny is a black person being a retard/idiot, or downy…
Vitor,
Very well, here is your robot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OjuJos3AHs
For point 2, I was thinking moore among the lines as have them distract him or outright look for possible unresolved issues that might cause him to be acting out (who knows maybe he just lost a family member)
Or maybe even creating a prison for him within his own mind.
I wonder about some sort of “drunken master” defense where you don’t actually attack, but your opponent does himself in by wearing himself out. Hmmm. Is there an ARCSWAT member who could take any attack and not have to hit back?
Fedorka is fueled by violence, not fighting
Achilles can take anything, but as Guesticus pointed out, it probably wouldn’t help much.
I guess having Math fight him could work.
The guy could (theoretically) dodge him around nigh-indefinitely, while Big V runs out of juice.
Problem is V isn’t stupid. After the first few swings he’d just ignore Math, and it’s not like Math could do anything about it. At the moment the difference in strength, toughness and possibly speed is just to much. No matter how good a martial artist Math is there’s no way he can hurt Vehemence right now.
Math is rather aggravating, so there’s that.
And the idea is not to hurt him, that would just charge him up, but rarther duck, dodge and throw him around aikido-style.
Loving how the flattened bullet bounces off of his chin in panel 6 :D
Sometimes it’s the little things. I didn’t notice that lol
Yeah, it’s those little details Dave puts in that add a lot to the comic.
I don’t think it’s a good idea in general, but now might be a good time to get him stoned. Or on NO (laughing gas).
I think that halo needs to put her shield on him and wait till he passes out because he has run out of oxygen
Another trophy & sign forthcoming…
Sydney has to be inside her shield…She’d be vulnerable to suffocation AND to Vehemence.
So, when can we expect Atlantis to rise? :p
With the dimensional offset it is under the trophies wont be enough to bring it back sorry people
You underestimate the numbers of peole who don’t read the comments :P
Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side…of Apathy.
Or trolling.
Trolls only have whatever power you *give* them. That’s why you should never feed the trolls.
Send him to the mooooooooooooooon! (seriously, if he can’t generate sufficient force to jump off the moon to earth problem solved)
Though the point about sending him to space has been mentioned before, I admit I hadn’t thought about the possibility of re-entry. If he doesn’t die during the trip from vacuum, freezing temps, etc., then I think the problem will compound itself even further… the violence of passing through Earth’s atmosphere might be enough to charge him up to his next color-jump.
Actually, he is more likely to burn than freeze in deep space (there is nothing shielding him from the direct rays of the sun afterall)
Huh. I looked it up, and – apparently – why choose one or the other when you can have both? (Plus the bends.)
Space either slowly freezes you, or rapidly roasts you, but always boils you, due to the lack of atmosphere and a pressure that’s practically zero. Funnily enough, you’ll survive longer if you don’t hold your breath. Lung bursting is such a horrible way to go.
However, I’m not sure how they’d send Vehemence into space. He might be pretty hard to lift. Max could perhaps hold him, but he could always punch her again. Anvil could grab him, but he could probably escape, or just throw her away like last time.
As I said somewhere way back among the comments, I think it would be possible for Max to grab and hold him if she could get a shot at him straight from the back and got his feet off the ground. With her tactile TK, she could hold him up, and he’s too muscle bound to reach her back there, but she would have to maintain that position the entire time until they could get him contained. That’s not accounting for any additional, unshown powers or magic he might have at his disposal..
I feel a bit sorry for Peggy, honestly. Headshots are not easy in real life, and she needs to get some recognition for putting a round in his EYE. I don’t know if we’ve been given any measurements on how far she’s shooting, but doing that from further than a few meters is impressive.
Apparently she’s not that far away. Dave commented that the spotter scope Harem is using to help Peggy out is probably way more powerful than necessary, and I think there was one page (Panel 4 in the one where V gets measured for the first eye patch) that made it look like she wasn’t more than a block or two away.
Oh snap! That’s an anti-material round? DO THOSE EXIST??
Either way, that’s one hell of a shot! Damn! Too bad she didn’t get to his other eye sooner.
Anti-material isn’t the same that antimater. Just saying…
If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter if it’s matter or antimatter…
Anti-materiEl. With an “e.” Materiel is military equipment. An anti-materiel rifle is a rifle designed to destroy military equipment. Specifically for destroying vehicles, although they do see other uses. Originally they were “anti-tank rifles,” but modern tank armor has evolved to the level that such weapons can’t penetrate it any more. They are specifically NOT designed for shooting people, if for no other reason than that it’s ludicrously inefficient: a waste of expensive ammunition to perform extreme overkill on a target that could be killed with something cheaper and more portable.
I feel informed. Thank you.
If there were antiMATTER it’d be enough to blow up the entire city
Max should have taken a leaf from Peggy’s book and, instead of just punching V, used a couple of fingers to gouge out his other eye. It could be too late, but I like to think that its never too late for eye gouging.
Does Maxima’s plan involve running around Vehemence so fast that a cyclone forms and picks Vehemence up and flings him away? Or something to that degree. I’m not dry creative right now.
Maxima’s Strategy: She’s going to tank the mob.
Honestly, she’ll put everything she has into Defense. This guy absorbs vehemic energy? He’s a capacitor – he uses up the energy when he attacks. So, she will take one on the chin for the team.
Secondarily “Dabbler, get BEHIND Sydney’s shield”, is not the same as get INSIDE Sydney’s sheild. So, Dabbler takes cover and does something that Veh can’t see, due to Sydney being in the way – Dabbler summons the rail gun, and uses it to boost Veh into orbit.
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! I don’t know if this nets you a trophy or not, but has anyone determined if Sydney can SHAPE her sheilding? She could make an hourglass shape, Veh in one bulb, her in the other – and then perform any one of the dozens of maneuvers already described – Veh could be in a very small bulb with little air, and the hole that connects the two bulbs not big enough for adequate air passage – he would pass out long before Sydney was in trouble.
Currently there has been no indication that she can shape the shield in any advanced way. She can change the size and it can become a bit streamlined when she’s flying. There is also the curious case of the shield forming with a flat bottom when she brings it up while standing on the ground. I don’t remember anything more advanced though.
This does no meant that it can’t be done, just that it hasn’t been shown that she can do it. It’s also possible that is an ability that can be unlocked by spending a skill point. What she really needs is a manual for those things…
That’s a major problem which seems to be a common trope among super powers gained via magical and/or technological artifacts/devices…They never pack the User Manuals with the d*mn things during shipping. I conjecture that, somewhere in the super-genre multiverse, there exists a “Cosmic IKEA” store…
Unless the Manual is one of the unknown orbs and its just taking Sydney a while to “open” and or mentally “navigate” some of the orbs properly due to being a barely evolved minkie?
By the Scriptures in the Word of Dave, the functions of those two orbs are already determined. If one of them happens to be some form of “online help” function, there may not be anyone available who knows how to read it. It would take at the very least, an expert philologist, xenocryptologist, or maybe a psychocryptologist (good luck *finding* such specialists) to figure out how to translate it for Sydney. Maybe even involve Sydney being *taught* a whole new language.
Either/Or, we’ll have to wait for Dave’s “reveal” to find out…Don’t hold your breath…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JCehDOy54
That is weird. At first I thought it just went through the ground and allowed the ground to pass through like some shields allow air. But now much later with it being air tight and the scene where her shield grabs a chunk of sand and holds it at the bottom while Sydney was flying… Whatever its doing those orbs must have some advanced and very specialized AI’s. o.0′
Yes, there is a lot of safeties built into these things, and it’s not easy to figure out the criteria they use. Like the shield being airtight. Is that considered “safe” as in safe against all gases, or didn’t the inventors species need to breathe?
The Hentorb seems to be extremely happy to work with Sydney, making the Hentacle extremely versatile. How can it understand her so well? The control system almost has to have a psionic component that’s probing her mind and acts on her intent. But with all that’s going on under her bonnet that can’t be an easy task. I could understand if controlling the Hentacle took a lot of training, focused concentration on the task and a serenity of mind that the Dalai Lama could only dream of. But instead Sydney wields it like an extension of her weirdness, casually picking up people, even groups and carrying them around seemingly without even thinking about it.
Serious AI at play I’d say…
There’s also the fact that of all of the orbs, the Hentorb is the easiest one to train with when alone in an apartment. Practicing without being seen requires either going waaaaay out of the way to be alone in the wilderness, which requires time off and an excuse (hard to get when you’re part owner of a store), or staying home and indoors. Under those conditions:
+ The shield will work okay, but really, it just sits there… not much for the short-of-attention-span.
+ The com-ball gives her lots of perception powers she didn’t even know about, because there were no illusions in her apartment.
+ Can’t get much flying experience indoors, as walls impede your progress (ceilings too).
+ The Pew Pew Orb (I’m so not hip) is one of those “do not use this indoors” type things. Nobody wants to do what Max did when she discovered her own energy blasts. (Darn, can’t remember which page…)
+ The two unknown orbs – considering what the Pew Pew Orb does, would you want to test these inside your home?
+ The Hentorb – useful way of getting the remote when you’re too lazy to get out of your comfy chair. Good for scratching that spot between your shoulder blades that’s hard to reach. Unclog drains! Do line-drawings in the air! Constant entertainment == Practice every minute of every day when you’re alone.
It’s no wonder she’s so good at using that thing.
On the PPO there is also a quick panel of Sydney just missing burning down a forest. Hold on a tick… Max’s First Blast Sydney’s First Blast
Aaaand the squirrel was there when Sydney was testing the PPO. There is something funny going on around here.
There’s always a lot of intelligence behind powers. It only seems weird when you think about it.
And Syd has even shown how easy it is for her to control the Henticle (Hey, we’re all outside-observers to the Grrl-verse here & don’t have to restrict ourselves to being PC about what we call it) with an impromptu “neon” advertisement for her comic shop.
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The shield does not grab a chunk of sand during the press demo. She activated it while getting sandblasted by the PPO explosion, and it CAUGHT a bunch of sand.
If maxima put everything into defense then she would be knocked backwards from the hit and her body would rag doll because it isn’t strong enough to stay in shape.
Everything into defense would make her body very rigid if I understood what Dave said about it right.
Plus, Max also has to put some power into her Flight to prevent knockback.
When she faced V’s first punch (literally), it was explained that Max had most of her power in Armor, with some fractions in Strength & Flight to stand her ground (with only a single step back).
So yeah, she does have to make a judgement call on how much she’s “pooling” into her powers for just about any practical use.
Unless it’s another level. Where the energy triggers the change which bulks him up and increases his power. The power itself may not stick around in his body
Word of Dave stated two things: the shield forms with Sydney at its center, and it automatically adjusts its size to account for any objects or the like to prevent from cutting said object in two. What that says to me is that, at least at this moment, it is purely defensive, and that she has very limited control in its size. In other words, I can’t see her change its shape even to a square, let alone a double bubble.
So it constantly reshapes itself so as not to cut the ground in two, Sydney’s walking on the shield then even if she made it while already in contact with the ground, but doesn’t reshape itself for living beings, energy blasts or attacking objects even if they seemed immobile and unliving at first?
One of those unknown orbs HAS to be the advanced AI that makes all this on the fly crap possible. Just has to. Eventually Sydney learns to speak with it and ends up with a “talking weapon”.
The ground seems to be the one exception if she were to walk on it, but everything else is very much implied; she can’t use it to even intentionally cut someone’s hair, so in a small space the shield will either expand just before it envelops foreign object, or if too close it expands around foreign object. It explains the wall during Sydney’s shield test, or shadow man with cracked nuts.
This is something that’s been bugging me for a while. How did Peggy get that scar on her face? Because they look a little too precise in both placement, shape, and straightness to have gotten them through an accident.
Well, it looks like peggy had the scar befor this picture,
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/989, while she was in the USAF – she did not have all her tatoos back then – and i would guess the helicopter accident that cost peggy her leg hapenned after this picture – as she would have been discharged from the USAF after suffering such kind of wound.
(Not counting the length of reeducation she had to follow to adapt herself to her new prosthetic leg)
So in the end, her missing leg and her scar would have occured in separate occasions.
Sgt. Flyer is a true detective ^_^
The cast page says Peggy and Maxima met in the incident that cost Peggy her leg. So this picture should have been after that. Remember too that they are and were all active military, so in this universe apparently losing a leg doesn’t disqualify someone from serving.
Of course in our universe there was a British Group Captain lost both legs and still flew in WWII.
So we have no idea how she got that facial scar? Cuz there are a very small number of situations that I can think of that would result in that specific configuration and straightness. Most of them involve old fashioned swords dueling.
Peggy’s skills as a sniper and Maxima’s request to have her as part of her backup team are probably why she was still in the Air Force. From what happened to Concretia (claymore = Concretia no more) Peggy is quite skilled at feathering her sniper’s nests comfortably.
I’m wondering the same thing. It looks very deliberate – those scars are too straight and at the wrong angle to be from an accident. I’m guessing that somebody did that to her with a knife or a sword as a punishment or a warning or something. Whoever did that would either be dead, or highly plot-relevant at a later point.
Just my WMG.
If those were deliberate, I’ve got a feeling the perpetrator got shuffled off this mortal coil rather soon after that attack. Max and Peggy make a bad combo to have mad at you.
So we see one of the downsides of the military mindset, the belief that it’s always better to be on the offensive which isn’t true. While Vehemence can attack them he’s not likely to acquire as much energy from his own violence as he will from the violence of others so her active violence is going to feed him much better than working a holding action to develop a better plan while he does all the violence (for which if nothing else if you go long enough just defending not giving him the challenge he wants he may just quit since he’s in it for the thrill and opportunity to test himself).
I wonder if Dabbler offering him a chance to be dimensionally teleported to a nice demon-dimension to fight would work? Probably not, since he likely doesn’t want to be in endless combat and wouldn’t like being cut-off from Earth (and not like he could trust her to bring him back when he was tired of it or wanted a break).
Actually, I’m pretty sure Max’s plan is a holding action, along the lines of “I’m going to keep him occupied until someone else comes up with something better, since I know that I can stand toe-to-toe with him”. V is already so powerful that letting him fight whomever he wants would just be stupid and dangerous. Give Max a little credit, she’s been doing this for a while.
When Max says “I have a plan or two of my own”, I want you to think of Blackadder. Then I won’t be alone in my madness.
A plan so cunning it involves two turnips and a ferret
WHAT?! Bugger it, you defeated my plan to use two Ferrets and a Rutabaga
I suppose that makes my idea useless also, so I can throw away my plastic wrap & rubber bands.
Don’t toss it just yet. I got limbs to wrap.
My chopsticks & incense holder may still be useful for my next plan, so I’ll hang onto those for now.
Just throw Baldrick son of Baldrick the Dung Carrier at him. The smell should do the job. Or he can offer V a cunning plan.
Just for that reference, and all you guys that understood it:
You’re my heroes today!
Really!
Frankly I’m surprised no ones tried to take Peggy out yet. I mean you know there is a sniper you take them out first.
You also have to know where they are, and seriously doubt Peggy sticks around after taking a shot
Concrecia tried that. She ran into a claymore…
I think with Arclight, it’s hard to pick a target before one of them knocks you out.
Okay, I’ve held on for a while, and tried not to spoiler, but…, why doesn’t Sydney just bubble him until he passes out from lack of oxygen?
because she can’t “bubble” HIM without HER being inside it as well.
You should read the comments more thoroughly. This idea has been brought up nearly once per comic for a while now. In some cases (like this strip in particular) it has been brought up several times.
Correction: it has been brought up at least once per page per comic
Atleast 5 per page rather
I see Atlantis. :-)
It’s just a matter of time now. Either Atlantis rises again from the murky depths, or the tectonic plate is destabilized by the weight causing massive earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions that spews out immense amounts of ash into the upper atmosphere, blocking out the sun and causing decades if not centuries of volcanic winter all over the world signaling the end of the age of humanity. Might end up causing a new ice age…
Kind of makes it more exiting don’t you think?
Yes, we must accomplish this. :-> The world will be destroyed through internet comments. :-> Muah hahahaha!
but we can’t fall into the mindset of the average internet troll whole doing this…They use insults & deprecation to give them the *illusion* of power, never really knowing that it’s only a delusion. Trolls don’t possess any power than what other people feed them.
Our power is based on the apathy of others to not read the comments fully, so the power can be endless if we just stand by & let the trophies pile up…The average troll actively *seeks* the delusion of power, all we have to do is passively stand by & collect it. I nominate Vehemence as the President of the NEW Internet Trolling Society, as it is by HIS example of gaining power merely by being present, we empower ourselves.
Oh, I agree no trolling. But I don’t know that V would do well collecting on apathy. :-)
Fly him into orbit. He seems to be limited to mostly physical powers so he probably couldn’t hurt anything there and he wouldn’t have a good way of getting back down.
Unless he can fly
He can always fall…
It really doesn’t matter at this point whether V can fly or just fall. Either way, he’s probably capable of walking away from whichever kind of landing he makes.
…end of fight, turns out this was all a CG publicity stunt orchestrated by Arianna made possible by blackmailing Leon with nude photos of Maxima (not that he actually had them, but by threatening to tell her he did) which she could easily acquire by showing with them and using a tiny camera.
…that was meant to be ‘showering’ not “showing” -.-,
well healing doesn’t seem to be in his bag of trick. if he gets injured bad enough he might lose the ability to effectively use his power.
If Vehemence actually cast some kind of magic spell to replace his pants, I also think he might have a healing spell of some kind in his capability too. Apparently, he’ll have to have at least a certain amount of power still stored up to cast it but right *now* doesn’t seem to be a tactically feasible time to deplete his power.
I didn’t say he couldn’t I only observed that he hasn’t
This is going to come across as a stupid question: but have we seen lips on Peggy like in panel 2? or like in panels 4 & 7?
I suspect it’s just how w she’s holding her mouth. She’s pursing her lips while aiming in 2, and gone a bit slack in 4 and grimacing in 7.
Peggy strikes me as a tomboy kinda girl, who sees no need for the frippery of makeup.
Odds are its an artistic device to show a lack of lipstick / lip coloring. roll back a page. Sid doesn’t have them either.
Course, it could be A Team Lipless solidarity.
Should’a aimed at his crown jewels. That would be more painful AND embarrassing.
Nope. Then it wouldn’t be a PG rated comic, for at least the panel or two that shows the shot.
Would’ve been most effective, though. But it would prolly gave made him more powerful at the point in time where the “Oh myyyy” happened.
I dunno about the PG comment. Maxima already made a power play onto V’s danger zone in episode 260 (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1519). If it weren’t for gratuitous amounts of crotch shots, America’s Funniest Home Videos wouldn’t be able to use 25% of their footage. That show is totes G-rated.
It wouldn’t have to be graphic. Just make it clear where the bullets heading, then cut to his face. Classic.
Okay, the bullet hole may be indecent later.
Actually, the inset image of the shield orb in Sydney ‘s hand on page 170 in the last panel “Which one of these things was the embiggener” shows several shapes that may all be possible configurations. One or two look like they would have potential here.
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I suspect some of the switches are inactive and others are coded in a unique fashion that made sense to the maker but not necessarily anyone else. See computer code for many horrifying uncommented examples.
Wait, so you’ll Curse Cut Short the word “bitch” but not “shit”?
Okie-dookie!
Vehemence has better language manners than Peggy. And that is funny.
V certainly has better language manners than Sydney, who has displayed (by Math’s assessment) a 7th Dan Black Belt in the Cursing Arts.
Max can grab him, fly him up to low earth orbit and give him a good push to break out of the gravity well. Sure he might be powerful – but we haven’t seen him fly – let him be some other planet/galaxy’s problem
We haven’t seen Vehemence fly, yet. We also didn’t see him conjure up pants until he needed to. That does not bode well for casually remarking he cannot do something.
It would make logical sense that V would have learned a healing spell or two during his research…After all, his power relies on violence & healing at least his own injuries would fit right in with that.
Max needs to take this elsewhere if she’s really going to open up with the firepower necessary to take him down now.
Of course, the best way to beat a Hulk-esque? Don’t let him apply his strength. Remember, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Conversely, you need to brace yourself against something to apply force in the other direction. Nobody really thinks about this because just standing provides all the brace you typically need to apply as much force as any human can, but this is a major issue in micro-gravity.
To apply this, you’re going to need to find a way to keep him from bracing against anything, which might get a bit difficult to do, but theoretically possible. If nothing else, you can do something like grab his ankle and dangle him in the air, that ought to stall him. Again with my previous idea to have Max grab him by the ankle and head up into Low Earth Orbit and let him asphyxiate until he passes out. That ought to bring him down a peg. If not? Well, help him achieve escape velocity and toss him into a decaying solar orbit. Problem solved.
A powerful enough telepath might also get him, but you’d need a pretty powerful telepath at this point. If Dabbler’s sleep spell is bouncing, that probably means he has some sort of mental shield that grows with his power output, or at least is able to apply his power to defend himself against non-physical attacks.
Honestly? You need to call in Greta Gravity. Let him hover in true zero-gee until he winds down. Too bad you aren’t going to be able to pry her away from the Doc any time soon.
And even then you gotta pry her out of the Spinnyverse. ;p
Your first sentence contains an interesting tactic. Just have Max invite him to that test range so they can both really cut loose. If V just wants a fight, he might take her up on it. Then place your bets on whether they’ll be done by Christmas. That’s only 8 strips. 7 probably because Christmas is on Thursday. (not a complaint about the length. Just a bit of a joke, I hope.)
Sooo, Nobody has asked the question what does he want.
It’s simple really. The guy wants a sparing partner who can push his limits. He might have a future as the teams cqc coach.
The shield does not grab a chunk of sand during the press demo. She activated it while getting sandblasted by the PPO explosion, and it CAUGHT a bunch of sand.
Oops, reply fail. This belonged as an answer to another comment.
Every time I see Peggy there, I can’t but help think of Zarya from Overwatch.
I wonder if Zarya was designed after Peggy?…. hmmm… suspicious.
Overwatch was released May 24th, 2016. Whereas this page was published on November 24th, 2014. Not to mention the far earlier appearance when she was initially introduced (and has been in the cast list since the outset). The latter pushing her publication date back to August 23rd, 2010.
Possibly one of the Overwatch creators is a Grrl Power fan. Or it may just be a coincidence. Those happen a lot.
You are not the first to notice the similarity though.
If I had my pick of who to bring in to fight this guy, I would want Hector Goffe or some other barrier warrior. He probably wouldn’t get a charge from attacking something that only exists to be attacked, so just put shields in the way of every punch he throws or anything else he tries to do.
As Abridged!Kirito once said, “The power of love is b***s***! The power of swords and violence, that’s where the money’s at!”
Actually it could be like steroid usage, makes things proportionally smaller down there……..