Grrl Power #341 – Absentoeism
If there isn’t a comic about Evil Dead called the Necronomicomic, there should be. It’s a horribly missed opportunity otherwise. There should also be a convention for the Necronomicomic, called, of course, the Necronomicomicon.
Peggy usually has a sense of humor about her leg, cause the alternative is to be bummed out about it all the time. Her personal favorite is making a joke that would have been inappropriate coming out of someone else’s mouth, just to get that moment of tense silence while everyone figures out if it’s ok to laugh. There are limits though. Her reaction to Heatwave might have been a little cold – she might have been more sympathetic if Heatwave could no longer drive stick.
I designed all of Peggy’s tattoos myself (there’s not much to them really, mostly lots of stars, stripes and eagles) but her back tattoo is pretty ok, if still a work in progress. If you want a better look at it, check it out on the DA page.
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i love how peggy is like im not taking this shit
Bonding? You can KEEP it! ;)
I can understand Peggy’s lack of sympathy, especially considering the huge difference between losing a toe against losing a leg…
…Buuuuuut…
As for me, I think I would’ve liked to see two naked Grrls hugging in the shower.
So would Peggy, if one of them wasn’t already in a relationship, with a guy (actually, don’t believe the gender would have been a problem, just the ‘prior and current relationship with someone else’, Peggy doesn’t steal someone else’ girls)
Or boys
might have just found a new thumbnail xD
Although mine is hard to beat. hmm
Which one? So many good ones on this page :D
Necrotic? That quickly? Or was it cooked by the lightning hit?
Lightning is pritty nasty
“a form of cell injury that results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis.[1] Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma that result in the unregulated digestion of cell components”
I guess cooking with lightning counts?
Yeah, Lightning hurts. Screwed me up for a day or 2 when I got hit. Least I got to meet Daniel the Human because of it…
I would say ‘mostly severed and then charcoaled from the lightning strike’ which is not saying much since it looks like only the tip had to be amputated.
Also? Kanji translation for Panel #2?
It’s not a kanji but hiragana, the Japanese phonetic alphabet.
And its an “a”
So probably translates to “AAAH!” or something >.<
I ran it through Google Translate (the drawing function) and it comes back as “Ah!”
Wow. I read/watch too much manga/anime. I hadn’t even noticed I’d read that until you pointed out it wasn’t English.
Electrical burns can be very bad. Deep ‘char’ burns, beyond ‘third degree’. So probably it was cooked, with guaranteed necrosis in time.
I count five toes though, including the bandaged one.
Does she mean ‘can’t save’ or has she got some kind of mechanised laser toe installed?
…
I want a mechanised laser toe. No one would ever suspect it.
PEW
“Where the hell did that come from? And why is there suddenly a hole in your shoe?”
the bandaged one is shorter looks like it was amputated at the first joint
just like peggy lost her leg but tecnicly she still has more of the leg than she lost
She should still be able to wear most sandals then, right?
She can WEAR sandals, it’s just that you would be able to see the damaged toe. So SHE can’t wear sandals (psychological/ emotional NOT physical).
I’m wondering why they don’t have Dabbler build a cybernetic replacement. I can get that they don’t trust her, but this line of work is dangerous and this page proves they don’t have regenerative healing, at least not full limbs. There could be a healer capable of limb regrowth, but it somewhere else in the world. Or maybe Dabbler is “working” on it and doesn’t know enough of human biology.
It’s not that they don’t trust her, it’s that she doesn’t trust humans with any of her tech. The neural interface between the machine and the meat could be perverted into horrendous stuff and she feels humans are capable of being far too horrible to each other. She doesn’t want to potentially contribute to that.
She could still come up with an artificial toe that is not cybernetic, can’t she? For poor Brooke’s fashion (and balance apparently) sense, please say that Dabbles can fix her toe!
Anything she could make that’s not cybernetic we could make too (unless you meant organic replacement but she hasn’t shown any tech like that yet).
What I see is that it’s Brooke’s third toe that’s amputated…That toe in particular has very little/nothing to do with balance. The big toe (& to some lesser extent, the second toe), in configuration with the width of the foot is what contributes to balance.
I can still see why Brooke fell over though, because the wound is still pretty fresh & walking/standing will be painful for a while, causing a reflexive action that would affect balance. Once the toe-stump heals though, she won’t have any balance problems.
Yeah, but what about her fashion? Won’t someone please think of the fashion!!
There’s still plenty of room for fashion that doesn’t include strap-ons.
…Wait! Did that come out wrong?…
(Maybe, maybe not)
… I don’t know about Dabbler, but I wouldn’t stand for not going all out on a replacement toe.
And then people get upset because someone has a tricked out indestructible toe. It’s always the same.
You don’t need a neural interface between the knee and the leg, all the leg needs is to read the signals sent to the knee by the brain and respond accordingly.Yes it’s hard to do it with our tech, but that really mostly power supply at this point, no one wants to lug around several battery packs in order to half ass walk. Of course there’s also the issue of the body rejecting the implant, but Steve had that issue too.
Just a heads-up, Dave, in case nobody has caught it yet: You’re missing the bandage and bag on Heatwave’s foot in the previous page.
I have the bag but I did forget the bandage. :/
Yeah, was posting from memory, sorry.
Dabbler could easily replace the toe, but that would require turning over advance technology to humans that she doesn’t feel we’re ready for. If she could make it, but insure a scientist wouldn’t study it to reverse engineer other cybernetic limbs/ super weapons she probably would.
Technically, it’s four and a bit toes (the tip of her middle toe has gone)
“I want a mechanised laser toe.”
You’d also have to have a specially-designed shoe to wear over it that wouldn’t be damaged by, or interfere with the laser function. Admittedly, Archon has someone who could do that…with a bit of help from the Fashion Ninjas.
What about a basic Missile-toe…? ;)
CYBAH-TOE!
to be fair girls can get a little upset at not being able to were strappy shoes anymore i had my big tonailes removed and the doctor was saying there was an option were they would grow back but thew problem would probably happen again. i asked why would anyone choose that and he told me most girls/women go for that option
Yeah, I’m a guy, but still I think I’d freak out a bit if I lost even just a part of my body permanently. And for girls it’s probably harder because of all the expectations and beauty standards.
I’m old so I’ve had things happen that left scars and what-not. My index fingers are slightly different lengths because of a dog-fight between two german shepherds I broke up. The finger that got bit looked like a muppet head and when I went to the Emergency Room they cleaned it out with scotch-bright. The dog had bitten clean through the bone so when it healed it was a little shorter because the very end of the bone was gone. I hardly even notice.
Glew, I’ve only had 9-and-a-half toes for about 10 years now. I had to have the first joint of the big toe on my right foot amputated due to cancer. It wasn’t a big deal. With a prescription for hydrocodone, there wasn’t even any pain.
Before anyone asks: It was an in situ squamous cell carcinoma growing directly on the nail bed. I had an option between spending $10,000 on radiation therapy that was not guaranteed to kill the tumor, $15,000 on some painful medical procedure where they scrape off one layer of cells at a time and observe it under a microscope until they finally get a slice with no cancer cells, or $1,000 for partial amputation. Obviously, I took option #3, because it was affordable and guaranteed to get rid of the tumor.
Of course, now you get to say that you had TOE CANCER. That’s kinda funny.
What I don’t understand is why it didn’t grow back. (incoming explanation)
Thing is, Human Beings do have a little bit of regeneration going for us- notably, the tips of our fingers and toes are capable of regenerating completely from the knuckle to the tip (if the knuckle’s gone, no-go). The reason it’s not more commonly known is that doctors would always stitch up or otherwise ‘fix’ the injury, which closes it and prevents the regeneration from kicking in- so instead of a nice new finger/toetip, you get a scar. It’s faster and stronger with children (of course), but works on young adults as well- my sister lost the tip of her finger in a mandoline accident, and it grew right back because they didn’t do anything to the wound.
lost the first centimeter of my left index finger when i was two. still has a nail, it just sort forms a half-sphere.
how’d i lose it? sharp-to-frame wooden door and Sibling rivalry between my older siblings.
Technically, it was SKIN cancer that just happened to be on my toe, but yeah. :)
And the reason they didn’t simply remove the tumor is because the skin of the nail bed is very very thin… there’s not a lot of “padding” protecting the bone. To remove the tumor would leave the bone exposed and infection would probably set in, and the first joint would have to be amputated anyway.
I feel Peggy’s destain.
That would be a “bad touch”, especially in the area of the stain. It would be better to feel her disdain. Less legal ramifications.
There could also be a convention called NecroComiCon
Read his comments. It’s in there.
Also “NecroComiCon” has a different sound and meaning than “Necronomicomicon”.
Necro- means dead, dying, having to do with death or, in some cases, with the undead.
-nomi- means something like “everything to do with”.
-icon means book.
-comicon means a convention having to do with graphic novels or comics about-.
So the Necronomicon is the book about everything to do with the dead, dying or decaying, unless it’s found in a fantasy setting, in which case it has a lot more to do with the undead and the creation thereof. A NecroComicon would then be a convention related to comics about dead people or a book about dead comics or a convention for dead comics or maybe even a comic about dead books. By contrast, a Necronomicomicon would be a convention for comics dealing with dead people or undead people, a convention for fans of the Necronomicon (or it’s comic-styled variant), a book about comics that are all about death or possibly a comic about books that are all about death.
Lastly, there’s the pronunciation to think of and the way the word sounds. NecroComiCon just sounds like a dead con. In the case of Necronomicomicon, the addition of the -nomi- component, which sounds like the -comi- component adds a sense of alliteration or repetition to the word that is appealing for the same reason that toddlers are often tempted to add a few extra -na-‘s when saying the word “bananas”: it feels interesting to have the same or similar syllables rolling off the tongue in quick succession. Yet the word, “Necronomicomicon”, is still far easier to say than tongue twisters with similar repetitive elements (she sell sea shells by the sea shore). It is, therefore, much more pleasing to the mouth and ear than NecroComiCon.
There is a Necrocomicon
https://www.facebook.com/WickedNecrocomiccon
Oooh. Fights have consequences here.
Next time, take out the speedster yourself, Maxima.
Too be fair, it was more glowbugs sneak attack than mach the knife that caused this. And considering there were over a dozen bad guys fighting over a dozen good guys at the time, max has to trust her team doesnt need to be told to remain aware. A flier should make that a double priority, because they stand out more.
Unless Mach the Knife wanted to be able to take down supers with only a knife: So he coated it in flesh eating bacteria or brown-recluse venom.
How about next time, everyone sits out a huge rumble and cheer on Maxi as she deals with it all on her own, that’s teamwork isn’t it?
That would be Manga/Anime style. The two leaders fighting, everyone else stands around commenting the scenery.
Not talking about Maxi taking on just The Leader, but the entire gang, that’s what a lot of people were saying even during the Carpark Catastrophe
No, I was only talking about the speedster Maxima spotted and gave him such a high priority that he had to be fought immediately. The speedster that already hurt a team member.
I did not say she should have dealt with all of them. I mean, she was busy correcting Dabbler’s English.
Maxi was busy directing traffic though, she knew her team could handle it, and the loss of a toenail (and the joint attached to the nail) could be considered a minor (no offense to Brook) casualty when they could have lost actual people, either team members or non-com observers (ie the staff of the ex-restaurant and the camera crew tailing Sydney)
Heatwave WAS that teammember.
Maybe she can buy some “Lee Press-on Toes”. Or have strappy shoes made with an extra fake toe?
Lee Press on shoes/toes – where have I heard that before? And why does it seem like a popular thing? Feels like one of those Prius jokes where everyone knows what they’re laughing about, but I just somehow can’t find the answer to it…
Lee Press-On Nails. Which look hilarious scattering across a gym floor after a young lady attempts to spike a volleyball.
So that’s what it was! And I suppose Lee is a brand?
Of fake fingernails, yep. I don’t know if they still sell them or not.
Wasn’t that the ARC nickname of one of the super-villains Sydney took out at the restaurant?
yes, Lee-press-on-claws, whom Halo then back-lighthooked his own claws into his own neck after realizing his failure of logic.
The Necronomicomic. Art and story by Abdul Al Hazred, the mad Arab. Or as he prefers Abdul the “You’d be a bit twitchy too if you had to meet deadlines set by elder god editors”.
You know, now someone is going to make the Necronomicomic. You _know it’s going to happen. :)
The problem with the Necronomicomic is that the human leather pages have trouble running through the press, and the blood ink keeps gumming it up.
Blood CAN be treated to prevent coagulation, ya’ know…
Also you don’t need to use whole blood but just some of the critical components. The filtered plasma as the liquid base and emulsifier. The hemoglobin would make a fine colorant. The plasma is cheap and the hemoglobin could be bought from a certain “artificial” blood manufacturer. They use the alpha fold exclusively so the beta and any broken bits are available for the cost of recovery and packaging IIRC.
Mind you you would need to get the material certified before selling it commercially.
You sound like you’ve done this type of thing before….
Well, it’s common knowledge that, when you donate blood to be used for transfusions, they include anti-coagulants (along with refrigeration) to help keep it fresher for longer.
But as far as it would go for N008rPOOF’s suggestions, it’s quite a bit more difficult to separate individual components from blood…It takes a lab & some skill, compared to the blood-takers just squeezing some goop into a bloodbag.
;)
Yes, it’s funny that those who say the most inappropriate jokes about disabilities are those with disabilities themselves. One of my favourite comedian, Adam Hills, has made a career of it.
Comic wise, love Sydney’s looks in this comic, particular 1 & 5. Also Peggy’s looks in the last three panels, and her hair, it looks good.
There is the classic routine based on British manners with Dudley Moore as a one legged man applying to be cast as Tarzan in a movie. The casting director was trying to be polite when turning him down by complimenting his other leg. “I have nothing against your right leg. Unfortunately, neither have you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnkY1tBvMU
It is completely unsurprising to me. People with disabilities are the only ones allowed to make jokes about said disability without someone getting pissed.
I ascribe to the “Either everyone can say it or no one can say it.” school of thought on those sort of things.
Is that the Japanese charecter for a/ah In Sydney’s speech bubble in panel 2? That’s adorable.
People should try to be forgiving. Or maybe “patient” is a better term. Disfiguring wounds can be tough on the ego, and that’s understandable. But Brook’s a grown woman and a soldier too. She’ll be fine. She doesn’t need to be robbed of her initial feelings of self pity. They’re a natural step after suffering a permanent wound.
I just dislike seeing sympathy immediately abandoned in favor of the “get over it” approach. Folks often do “get over it” in due course, without humble pie being shoved in their faces. Granted, that’s okay if the person moping has been doing it for a while, but this is a pretty fresh little trauma right here. I’m sure Brook will cope, let’s not expect her to suck it up right off the bat. Give the woman a day or two to mourn her toe. Even super humans are only human.
But then, they know her better than I do. Everyone’s different, and I guess some folks might respond better to abrasiveness. Soldiers play rough, maybe this is what she needs. But if it was me, I’d be generous enough to give her a shoulder to cry on.
Or at least to lean on. She’s probably going to be wobbly for a while.
She’d probably get sympathy from most people, but trying to liken the tip of a toe to Peggy’s amputation like that.. well I’m with Peggy on that one.
Exactly, peggy would have sympathized just fine had peggy not tried to act like the tip of one toe was similar to your lower leg. Its like claiming losing 5 bucks on lotto tickets is equal to losing your house at a casino.
W-e-l-l, it has been very clear for a while that Brook isn’t exactly the sharpest knife in the armoury.
Knife? Too soooon.
The turn of phrase you are looking for is as follows;
As swift as a snail, as keen as a hammer and as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
I have no problem giving her sympathy for her missing piece of toe, It’s a permanent loss, and just walking will feel funky for a while. I have NO sympathy over her inability to wear sandals without people seeing the scar (either get over them seeing it, or stop wearing them. Either way it’s NOT the end of the world).
Haven’t you ever felt self-conscious about yourself before?
It’s a fairly common and relatable problem to have.
No, not really, not even after having half a toe amputated. Different people would have different reactions, of course.
Yes, I’m very self-conscious.I used to love to run around topless in good weather, then I got fat, hairy, with stretch marks. Now I never go out without a sleeved shirt and long pants.
While I don’t equate this with loosing a toe, the solution to both is the same. If you cover it up so people don’t see it all the time you’ll get over the problem faster. Just look at Peggy, she doesn’t run around in shorts, and she’s about as well adjusted as an amputee can be.
I’m not being mean, I just don’t have any patience for people who consider the loss of fashion options as bad as the loss of body parts.
So mean!
Keep in mind that Peggy is militarish. It’s an entirely different culture, and “Get Over It” is pretty much the standard militarish response. “Pain is just Weakness Leaving the Body” as they say. In the military there is absolutely no tolerance for self-pity.
She’s not a soldier. Not in any real sense. Nor are many of the other members of the team soldiers. There are a few soldiers on the team, such as Maxima and Peggy. The rest hardly qualify as even a reservist, with a “one week a month, two weeks a year” kind of service in peacetime. (I’m not putting down reservists, plenty have served long hauls in the Middle East wars.)
Despite the military classification of ARC, and the command structure, it is very much “comic book military,” where jokes are tossed in the middle of combat and Maxima decides to bloody her team rather than bringing the most force to bear in the shortest amount of time, which is how you win with the fewest casualties in combat. These are not soldiers, and don’t expect them to ever act like soldiers other than as a very thin veneer over the typical comic book team activities.
Maxi didn’t decide to ‘bloody’ her team, she underestimated the level of the vilians, specially considering right up until that moment the official thoughts were that the number of villains would be less than a handful in the entire country!
I think he means ‘bloody’, as in to get experience in blood combat. If she ended the fight too quickly the rest wouldn’t learn what it is to be in a REAL fight, she also isn’t allowed to use excessive force except when warranted. So she played nice, let her team take some lumps, and didn’t kill/ maim the bad guys, which let it get out of hand.
You are correct, sir.
Necronomicomic seems to have stopped updating in 2013
Hah! I didn’t know that was a thing. I made it up on the spot when I was writing Brook’s dialog. Makes sense that someone else came up with and employed it.
… is their any chance we can get a full spread out on Peggy’s ink?
I think an earlier comic had a link to it. Probably the first shower comic.
Check his DA page, there’s a SFW and a NSFW version.
Pretty sweet tats if you ask me
I like Peggy, but I’m not a big fan of tattoos. The fewer the better!
Wow, I am getting really sick of guys saying this every time there’s artwork online of an attractive woman with tats.
Sorry to have made you sick. I was just sharing an opinion.
I certainly do not argue that she’s an attractive woman or that everyone has the right to have as many tattoos as they like wherever they like, just that I’m not a fan of them.
At the risk of annoying you or anyone else even more, I don’t enjoy body art in general – piercings and so forth.
Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks. I don’t plan to get any body art myself (I’m not afraid of needles, but they’re not my best friends either), but I don’t have a problem with tasteful and artistically done tattoos. I do not enjoy tattoos that are deliberately meant to offend and/or are poorly done. (Though to be fair, a “poorly done” tattoo is the result of choosing the wrong artist, and not really the customer’s fault.) On the bright side, tattoos can usually be covered up, though some tattoos are a lot harder to cover up than others.
As for other types of body art, I will admit that there are some forms of body art that just bug me, especially the kind that will make it hard to get a job (unless your job is body art, or unless you plan to join a freak show). Go search for images of Joel Miggler for an example… he’s got flesh tunnels in his cheeks. (I definitely don’t think it’s cool; I think it’s f’ing stupid. Especially if he changes his mind later, because the only way to fix that is surgery.)
And I’m really sick of the PC shit which expects that everyone have the same tastes or they are somehow bad people.
I like a bit of makeup on a woman, but if it goes to far for my tastes it becomes a turn off.
I don’t mind a few tattoos on a woman, but if it goes too far for my tastes it becomes a turn off.
I don’t hold women up to the rail thin model look, but if their weight goes too far for my tastes it becomes a turn off.
I am not intimidated by strong, muscular women, but if it goes too far for my tastes it becomes a turn off.
You don’t get to decide what I like in a woman, and to assume that you can even criticize my tastes or those of anyone else when they are expressed without offering insult (and really “I’m not a big fan of tattoos. The fewer the better!” is a very mild expression of preferences…) makes you just as much of a bigot as you are trying to paint people who haves tastes with which you disagree.
Niauropska‘s point was that you don’t need to tell everyone that you are disgusted by it
I certainly didn’t mean to start an argument here, but considering how many posts I’ve read from people talking about how sexy they think all the tattoos are, I thought it would be okay to share my opinion too.
Besides, I never said I was disgusted by anything.
Given that you horribly mischaracterized Ignoble’s statement, as “disgust” is a huge leap from what he actually said, you might want to let Niauropska speak for herself also instead of presuming to tell us all what she really meant.
I approve of the modesty mummy. That’s awesome.
Much much better than a Modest Mouse (their music is the crap!!)
I wonder what sort of powers a Modesty Mummy would have?
Isn’t it obvious? The ability to wrap people showing too much skin in head-to-toe bandages, and pull up the pants of the idiots who are wearing them around their knees
Attenborough/
Behold, the Modest Mummy. (“Shame! Shame!)
Here we can see an incredibly rare example of specialization in symbiotic relationships. Born of an accidental encounter of an american tourist of the republican subspecies with a greater Mummy. This is the only known example of its kind ever to be filmed. (“Shame! Shame!”) Instead of dying from stage 4 mummy rot as is the normal case for its victims the american tourist managed managed the unique feat of metabolizing the disease and become a symbiotic host to the new mummy. Even more startling is the apparent vestigial traces of the hosts former self in its behavior.The Modest Mummy was so accustomed to its preferred victims even it’s species primary means of driving others away from its territory; the well known Aura of Fear, is in point of fact specialized to be an Aura of Shame. A remarkable successful adaptation. As instead of driving away potential food and/or offspring with a great dread it instills a stupifying need to be still long enough for the host to infect its victim. Which in this case, appears to be young human male presenting a local mating display.
(“Shame! Shame!)
/end Attenborough
Well… there’s a comic called Neonomicon by Avatar Press and Alan Moore, but I don’t recommend it.
I adore how Peggy is all, “Nope”.
As a disabled vet. of whom is oft at the VA hospital for appointments, paperwork, or simply because of boredom, I earned many a friend of whom has to live with one or more amputations. I generally need to have a cane with me just in case my knees decide to mutiny, thus get many awkward conversations, or subversive pity glances. There’s also the whole nerve damage to spontanious agony ratio where I’ll have tears falling down my face that both I and those I am speaking to try to pretend don’t exist most times when it happens. However, there are always exceptions to that rule. (I’m fairly young for needing a stick, hence why the awkward with that.)
Thus I learned to take those small things in stride, my L.O.L (lack of limb) compatriots taught me how. They’re the experts in such social things. They also taught me the best NSFW jokes, and betimes enjoy making other people quite uncomfortable. For example, I have a mate that loves to play the “pull my finger..” gag with his prosthetic. He did it to me and all I could say to him was, “Yep, I knew it. You’re my kind of asshole. You should meet my Mom with that joke.” Best friends ever since. I think every one should take at least a day to just sit down and talk to the peoples at the VA and other similar places. Those people are amazing, and often inspirational.
I very much appreciate your take on a subject that most people either get up in arms about, or simply ignore. To see an artist, story teller, and such, convey such things in their work in a way that not only could be seen IRL, but without ‘trying too’ hard to be respectful is refreshing. It was a great joy to see Sydney’s paper bag, under the desk, freak out as well, since that too is something that happens. (I’ve had my share of slip ups that made me want to hide too. )It can be hard for both sides, the disabled and the not so disabled, to tip toe around heavy subjects and not trip on their own feet to fall face first into the awkward.
Thanks for that. <3
May I say, “Thank you for your service.”
But that seems like not enough considering the sacrifice you made in service to your nation. Still, I wish to express this sentiment in some way.
“It can be hard for both sides, the disabled and the not so disabled, to tip toe around heavy subjects and not trip on their own feet to fall face first into the awkward.”
I see what you did there. Poignant & Punny. +best
Still, im’ma keep an eye on you. You seem like one of those that come at a thing sideways…
Sometimes it’s better to come at a thing sideways…Facing it head-on could give you a cracked cranium.
… or a stump :/
*Salute*
Thanks and you’re welcome! I write Peggy as Peggy, and oh yeah she’s also lost a limb and that’s part of who she is and it’s something she has to deal with, not as “this character has lost a limb as a defining quality” I guess that’s how I write everyone. The things that make them extraordinary, whether it’s their skill with a rifle, a missing limb or a super power, those things inform them, they don’t define them.
And that’s why I consider this to be one of the best comics I’ve ever read. Your characters feel like people, not just a handful of traits thrown together.
RD, sounds like you very fortunate in having some amazing friends.
Respect.
Well, I got a pretty bad break in my left leg in June last year and I was disabled for a while. In a wheel chair for a couple of months, used a walker for a couple months, and a cane for a few more. I’m still walking with a limp, but it will probably go away eventually.
Don’t fool yourself…I broke my knee a few years ago, originating from stress fractured I developed in boot camp. Back then, I was still young & vigorous enough to heal it & finish my term of service with no problem. But getting older, the fractures re-developed (with a lot of walking) & resulted in an actual break…And I will always have a limp with the increased possibility of a NEW break in the same knee. It will only get worse as you get older.
limps never do entirely go away. my brother literally tripped on about a half-inch curb once. permanent limp from a rolled ankle. it’s not noticeable if you’re not LOOKING for it though,
That’s when you get a new knee. They have those, nowadays.
Yeah but the wait times are long enough that the body has learned to compensate, in a bad way, and after the replacement things can get weird or bad no matter what.
My mum, the bionic grandma, had both knees replaced, the left one twice. Look up secondary knee replacement and you will understand why the radiologists freak out when she goes in for her annual checkup and oil change. =P
Modesty Mummy! ROFLMAO
Meanwhile, is the pink dye washing out of Peggy’s hair? The cast page says it was originally light brown and in panels 4 and 6 it seems a bit multi-colored.
Might be Syd’s balls making Peggy’s hair color look odd.
Good eye. Definitely that.
Phrasing!
Is it? I’ve gotten used to seeing the Sydney’s ORBS ;-) color her, but I didn’t even think about them doing the same to someone else.
I’m starting to think the orbs are getting overstimulated in the shower… If you look at #339, panel 3, they’re coloring the blond Harem’s hair at the range of a couple of feet (indoors, in a well-lit room). They certainly weren’t that bright outdoors in the semi-dark parking lot last night.
May have something to do with the moisture in the air (and their hair)
compassion attempt…DENIED miserably
heatwave use pity me attack on peggy!
It wasnt very efective!
I’d go so far as to say she managed a critical fumble on that particular die roll.
Wonder if she made her tumble check after the failed grapple check?
Evidently not.
Perhaps the missing toe is still applying a negative DEX modifier?
Man the bad guys must feel impotent after all this. V’ through everyone he could rally at the off duty ARC’s, and the most serious injury they managed was an amputated toe.
that’s got to be a morale blow for antagonists.
A blow for some, perhaps. For others I am thinking its something else. A big ass super fight went down and in spite of the destruction of the immediate area, no supers really got hurt. An interesting and public proof of concept for the capabilities of “super-soldiers” More importantly they have “gone public” so the need to hide a group of them for the sake of surprise is reduced.
What would concern me, is the following:
In a (fictional) world where UberMensch were an actual thing that existed during the entire history (at least) of Germany’s 2nd and 3rd Reich, and given the latter’s facination with Eugenics; what the hell would Mengele and company have been doing for all that time?
Not making Hitler clones, that’s for sure.
You have uncovered V’s true plan. His goal was to retrieve a sample of Brooke’s DNA and use it to clone an army of her. Not to take over the world. But instead, to put one of her in the concession stand of all US movie theaters and have her make popcorn. This would cut down the operations costs of the theaters and increase their profit margin. All part of the nefarious plans of the Cinematic Industrial Complex.
What? You don’t think they are evil? These are the same people who are charging 12 bucks just to see a movie.
Just so you know, O.B., the theatre’s biggest profit comes from the snack stand, not from the box office.
During the first week of any movie, as much as 90% of the ticket sales go to the movie studio, not to the theatre. That’s why the snacks are so overpriced. A good example is Star Wars: Episode I. Our theatre charges $8.95 per adult. Do you know how much money they made from tickets? NONE! That’s right… LucasFilm took ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the ticket sales for the first week.
In the second week, it usually drops to 50-60%, in the third week it drops to around 25-30%, and if the movie is still there after four weeks, it’s around 10%, but after four weeks I doubt the theatre sells more than a dozen tickets per showing.
There’s probably ways for the studio to prevent this, but if I owned a theater and had to give 100% of the ticket price to the studio my ticket prices would be drastically reduced for the first few weeks. That would bring in more customers to buy my concessions, so more money for me.
You can do that if it’s an independently-owned theater, but not if it’s part of a chain where prices are set by corporate HQ. (Ours is part of the Cinemark chain.)
In any case, your hypothetical situation is overlooking some of the other factors. You’re going to have to overstaff to handle the extra customers, and then you’re going to have to deal with the extra trash (which means overstaffing the cleaning crew, or making them work overtime), etc., and that is going to eat into those extra profits.
There’s a very good blog about the economics of the theater here: https://themovieblog.com/2007/economics-of-the-movie-theater-where-the-money-goes-and-why-it-costs-us-so-much/
The short version of the blog is that in order to change the industry, the theater owners’ associations are going to have to stand up to Hollywood and say “NO, we are NOT giving you 80% of our opening-week box office money” to force Hollywood to re-evaluate their own economics and financial responsibility.
If there really were UberMensch throughout history, there wouldn’t have been a need for a 3rd Reich (possibly not even a 2nd depending on when they first appeared)
The ubiquity of supers may or may not have had an impact on the tangled web of mutual defense treaties and the plain rampant stupidity, greed and abuses by the monied classes at the time. Sad thing is that history looks to be repeating itself again and again, only the scale has changed.
It all would depend on how many of those were around. How they would have been treated by society in ages past. How some of the more vicious and bloodthirsty episodes would have gone down due to their presence.
It makes for an interesting thought experiment based on their presence and just how many there were. You have to remember that the cities of ages past barely qualify as towns today. Heck, my old high school had a bigger population that some of the Greek city states.
Eugenics was popular everywhere until people found out about the atrocities being committed during the holocaust. Until then very few people were anti-eugenics
Eugenics has been around since before the advent of Agriculture among humans. Hybriding with plants, & so forth…
You see a better example with how wolves were domesticated & bred to give us the modern day dogs as pets…And this was happening even before agriculture was developed.
Yeah, and it’s only now that people are making a fuss about ‘Genetic Engineering’ or ‘Genetically Modifications’, ignoring the fact the reason we now have orange carrots instead of the more traditional purple is because of the Dutch Royal Family
the issue with GM foods isn’t actually inherent in the technology- it’s two-fold: 1. if you buy GM Herbicide-resistant wheat from, say, Monsato (I’m using Monsato because they’re the most well-known) then you’ll find it’s only resistant to Monsato’s herbicides.
That, and people simply want proof that the new varieties are actually safe- which is required for ALL new varieties.
Well, there’s a difference between traditional genetic engineering and Monsanto-style gene splicing. It’s not remotely crazy to be leery of the latter and biased against it.
People did not directly apply the lessons of animal husbandry to humans. On any particular large scale until darwin’s theories gained acceptance. and even then most experimentation of that nature was done to quick growing animals like dogs and cats (so that results could be quickly tabulated.
Only after a century of this were attempts begin to be made with populations of spare humans tha would not be missed.
And there is a sad bit of history that is swept under the rug by the victors. The states had a more widespread eugenics program though it was limited to forcible sterilization and incarceration, as far as the records I have read show. The reasoning was to prevent the crazy ones from breeding. The real sad thing was that it was easy to get anyone committed and have the deed done based on race or creed or lack of formal education.
pretty sure Vecter’s still in the ER.
Don’t forget Vehemence’s aggro aura made people want to fight, not to kill (There was still always that chance of course. Vekter smashed Jabberwokky between two slabs of asphalt, she happened to be tough enough at the time to take it) Of course Arc-PR isn’t going to advertise that, it’s better for the bad guys to think Arc-SWAT is just that good.
i doubt the public sees chaotic all out fights between friends and foes alike as ‘good’. Clearly Arc-SWAT had no control over that situation at all, the public likes control and yet doesn’t want to be controlled……the public are morons.
They had plenty of control. The only casualties were the building and parking lot. Noone died, aside from some minor hearing loss and a single joint on one toe, permanent damage was nonexistent. Considering this was a super powered gang war, thats incredibly impressive. Of course some wont be happy with that, but even had maxima instantly shut down the entire group and vehemence then magically repaired the smashed ceiling in under a minute they still would have found something to gripe about.
So wait, if V’s aura made people not want to kill, just fight… What exactly was the shadow nega-knuckles guy aiming to do to Sydney? His first strike would have taken her arm off if not for the pipboy being tough, and without the power-orb deflecting his knuckleduster.. well one does imagine Sydney would have had far more than a bruise. And then he went in to finish her off while she was “helpless”. I guess maybe the aura made people want to fight, but did not enhance their urge to kill. But if you already want to kill… Well, Sydney gave that guy what he deserved I figure.
Well, some of them were genuinely bad people. Also, who knows, maybe he was aiming for her hand.
I took it less as a “no killing” aura and just a “lets fight” aura. Its a bit of a nuance, but these guys were all fighting pretty much all out. I mean, when V activated his super agro aura, stalwart was dropping a space shuttle on hiros ribs, while hiro was punting stalwarts sack hard enough to LAUNCH a space shuttle. Had either of them been fighting a nonbrick, that nonbrick would have died horribly.
So everyone was fighting as hard as they could, its just good luck (or good planning on the part of arcswat) that the bad guys tended to not be fighting people they COULD kill. There were several close calls after all. Heavenly Sword was about to gut dabbler before achilles swooped in with an eye stab, breakpoint was about to kill jiggawatt with those parking lot bumper things, which first jiggawatt blocked then when she was helpless halo stopped. So yeah, they werent in some murder hobo blood frenzy, but they were fighting as hard as they could, and in the words of ivan drago, “If he dies, he dies”
Jiggawatt has hearing loss. I’m not sure what to call the “worst” casualty.
I’m sympathizing very heavily for Heatwave here. Poor girl lost an entire toe!! Q_Q
Yes, it can always be worse, and I’m sure she is thankful it wasn’t, but you can’t measure suffering like that. Poor girl lost a part of herself that she’ll never get back D’:
I’m wondering though – did she really lose a toe? I thought she was just joking because the bandage is still there around it. *puzzled*
If you look closely the bandaged toe is shorter. She lost HALF a toe.
Ah thanks – didn’t notice until you said. :)
I feel bad for Heatwave, a litte bit anyway.. Her brain is slower than some. So this (ermahgerd no more strappy shoes) has been bouncing around in her skull this whole day, im sure. And for some body conscious folks That would be the definition of very rough times.
At the same time I fall firmly into the Go Peggy! camp.
Loss of a middle toe does not make you an amputee.
Hell it doesnt even qualify as a disability. (wrong toe) A disfigurement? Sure.
And the fact that of ALL the things that could have been a “bond of sisterhood” between those two (like i dunno serving in a combat unit together?) she picked this topic. and did it this way.
Yeah nope. Just a lot of Nope.
And props to DaveB for managing to cover a lot of view points in this ‘body image’ story arc.
I’d be pretty devastated if I lost part of my toe, too. Poor Brooke! Come here Brooke, hug time! When I was 8 I got a little scar on my arm because my brother was swinging a plastic but really sharp ninja sword without paying attention and even though you can barely see it today, I know your pain! If it was something permanent I’d be a wreck about it
I KNOW YOUR PAIN, BROOKE!
The poor thing is still in shock. She’s literally having an emotional breakdown, naked, in the shower. She really needs some time off.
Hey. It’s good enough for a purple heart. She’s legitimately wounded in combat.
True that
She can still walk without a need for a fake toe, her feet will fit better in her shoes, no one is ever going to notice her toe is missing unless they’re sucking on her toes, she’ll never be treated as someone to be pitied or treated as less that human. She kin fuck off.
On that note, judging by her idiocy here, I’m thinking she got her powers because someone wished she would go die in a fire………and she managed to fuck that up too.
You are so overcompensating for your toe-sucking fetish by taking it out on poor Brooke.
Give Chaos a break here…Just a little bit. After all, to a toe-sucking fetishist, there’s that disappointment of not having ALL of the toes left to suck on…
That is true.
Also, I believe there was a comic crossover: Army of Darkness Vs. Re-Animator.
Ash is committed to Arkham Asylum, and his doctor is none other than Dr. Herbert West. Hijinks ensue.
reading the last few pages = total boner.
reading the word ‘necrotic’ = boner is gone
thank you for that.
That was neither funny nor sexy. I don’t mind bringing it in to show that bad stuff can happen too but why the hell bring it up in the fricking shower scene?
its dark humour and only just slightly based on how its presented it was presenting a hard subject reasonably well the shower scene is most likely ending so its reasonable to put it here to go back to more normal levels of the comic to move on the scene i don’t think the comic is designed to make your “boner” happy
Life isn’t all sunshine and sparkles buddy. Better get used to it. And even if you could walk around in the ladies shower Real people aren’t all super hot porn star/models. Go to a nude beach sometime. Yes there will be some attractive women but most humans have flaws that stick out. Besides this is part of the comic busting tropes.
“…most humans have flaws that stick out.”
…Especially for those guys who are still new to the “nude scene” & haven’t quite gotten the hang of it yet…
…All puns intended…
Even so, there are a lot of websites that are more strictly devoted to “giving someone a boner” than Grrl Power here…There’s so much more being offered here & that’s what keeps people coming back. Drakeye is right; there’s a lot more to life than just “procreation consideration.”
No one wants to hear about your boner, son.
…Unless there’s pictures!
…Viewing is limited to a very select (& small) audience…
Heh, you think your boner is sad now? I’ve seen first hand a toe that’s gone necrotic. It goes really dark with ugly blacks and blues, the skin was burst open like one of those deep fried ripper dogs. And when removed it, the area resembled deep dish pizza, but in a very bad way.
Not my foot, but that foot had gotten flattened by a tombstone. She was lucky to have just lost the single toe.
Heay. i tropped a chair in my toe which I was trying to but it on the table. Didn’t losse my toe but shaddered the bone completely. Hurt like a bitch, for month.
Also thanks for descriping the scene so vivicly, I almost managed to loose my dinner.
Somehow I get the impression that you more meant *lose* your lunch, rather than *lose* your dinner (so, who let my dinner loose so that it could get away?); check the posted time for your comment…
That time is server time, not posters local time (it is currently 7:25 a.m. Tuesday August the 8th poster local time)
Technically, it’s impossible to skip breakfast. The first thing you eat during the day is breaking your fast, even if it’s at 11pm.
Sorry you had to go through that. My worst so far has been a disease that almost went necrotic and I would have lost my foot mid-shin if it got any worse. But I’m not here to compare and one-up people. Shattering your entire toe is not a good time.
But if it makes you feel better, I had to look at it and it’s burned in my memories. I also remember the smell, which I left out for a reason.
Fortunately, this wasn’t my arm, but here’s a link to an X-Ray pic of an arm that got caught in a meat grinder…
https://i.imgur.com/2ZzDRF8.jpg
Needless to say, NSFW & NFTS (Not For The Squeamish). Click the link at your own risk of sympathetic pain.
You’ve been warned, so if you regret seeing it, don’t come crying to me.
Oh my.
Nice (?) of them that they found some of the chunks….
If it’s necrosis you’re looking for, take a gander at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrosis#/media/File:Tissue_necrosis_following_bite_from_Bothrops_asper_PLoS_Medicine.jpg
Be warned: it’s absolutely, POSITIVELY, Not For The Squeamish… this is what happened to an 11-year-old boy who was bitten by a snake (a pit viper, aka fer-de-lance), and the bite was treated only with antibiotics. (It is routine to treat snake bites with both antibiotics and antivenom.)
The picture also provides a perfect example of why you treat necrosis as soon as possible… with amputation if necessary… because the enzymes and the other substances produced during the process of necrosis can kill other healthy cells, and the body’s immune response (which involves the automatic breaking down and recycling of cellular material) is not triggered by necrotic cell death, because the cells didn’t die of natural apoptosis.
In other words, the body cannot eliminate necrotic tissue on its own, so the necrosis can potentially continue to spread unless it is treated.
last few pages = no boner
on necrotic = insta-boner and the urge to mount a tank.
Peggy doesn’t seem like the type of girl to wear strappy shoes to begin with. :p Also looks like the very tip, and I’m a bit surprised there isn’t a meta on staff with the best healing abilities around to regrow it.
At some point though, she may decide she can wear strappy shoes again.
They have the meta healer, but a combination of the sheer number of injuries, and the level of damage done to her toe, its just too much to fix. Also im sure they can design some sort of toe tip or something for her to wear strappy shoes again. Maybe talk to the costume designer. he might take designing footwear for someone with 9 and 1/2 toes as an interesting challenge.
I don’t like to wear strappy shoes either – they make my toes hurt and the skin gets rubbed off. Also, running in them would just lead to accidents.
Does it say “Necroconomicom” at the bottom of the page? It’s kind of small so I’m not sure…
typo- it’s supposed to be an ‘n’.
Oh, I just got it! It’s not “PNOT”, it’s “PIVOT”. Hah.
Yeah, when I forget lettering or sound effects in Illustrator I tend to try and draw them by hand. My handwriting is generally pretty neat but my kerning isn’t all that.
That took me a little while to figure out too. PNOT? What the hell? I was trying to read it backwards too. TONP?
They did miss an opportunity by naming the Evil Dead comic Evil Dead ;)
I like Peggy’s shower hair.
Also, it’s like her expression in Panel 5 is like “You’re going to boob squash me?! Halp!”
Can we talk about Peggys’ sick tattoos? I mean, I think I’m falling for a gay, cartoon girl with one leg…. and I’m not upset about it.
If you haven’t fallen for Peggy, what are you doing with your life?
Also, good news: she’s not gay, she’s pan!
She’s not Pan. Dabbler’s the one with the hooves.
No smiley, cause it’s deadpan
Good intentions, not so good result.
It was pretty clever. Still, I think the delivery could have been better. A “badum-tiss” would have been appreciated
NO, Peggy’s not gay, she’s bi.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/696
Shes bi. Sometimes she just gets a-beggin for a preggin, as she puts it
Ah, thank you very much for the clarification! Now if only they could make a machine that puts me into the comic I could have a chance with her! haha
That excuse me panel, wow, peggy has a far cuter face in that one than usual. Also, I love harem agreeing that no strappy shoes is a terrible fate, one worse than death.
Believe Blondini was being snarky, not supportive
It’s funny, I’m not normally much for this sort of SKULLS N GUNS N BANNERS N WINGS N SHIT tattoo, it always seems kinda… I dunno, self-aggrandizing or something. But in Peggy’s case, it’s basically just a really straightforward description of who she is, so I’m totally down with it.
I’m pretty sure that’s fairly easily ‘fixed’, especially considering what they have access to.
You mean, what Dabbles has access to, one problem with that: Dabbles doesn’t trust humans (and quite rightly so)
Hold on…Dabblers for a whole Robo arm and eye… cant she make Heatwave a robo-toe? (the bad pun’ness of that makes me happy) And for that matter who no Robo-leg for Peggy? I’m sure she’s fine without it but it would be handy… give it a knee laser or something……. also what kind of built in power would a robo-toe have?
dab’s wont shear tech
*share
Eh, tech is already on the horizon for cloning internal organs to use for transplants instead of waiting for people to no longer need theirs. Pretty sure there’ll be Someone in this super powered world who’ll hit on the idea to use this for regrowing functional limbs.
My guess why Dabbler doesn’t do this for Peggy here and now is probably because if she did it for one person, she’d have less of an excuse for not doing it for every person who asks. Then again I doubt you could bully Dabbler with that kind of reasoning, so maybe it’s more a case of “Peggy seems comfortable and satisfied with the legs she has, she doesn’t need me to spacemagic things for her”?
Dabbler doesn’t trust humanity with such tech. It wouldn’t be a stretch for people to use that tech and start torturing people for fun because they can just get those organs back. People are bastards.
“We can rebuild it. We have the technology….” ;)
The Evil Dead comic did do a short 4 issue run that did involve a comic version of the necronomicon, and did in fact call it the necronomicomic. It ended with President Obama burning it. I have the actual issues somewhere…
i wonder if peggy even owned “strappy shoes” before she lost her leg.
if she did i dout she wore them often or at all and they were probably a gift from her mum or her sister. sparking an argument about how her mum whants her to be more “girly” so she can have grandkids
I choose to believe that Peggy can be a badass sniper and girly if she wants to. But I doubt she wants to.
I know Brook’s brain power is at Naruto level, but she still totally deserved that faceplant.
True. She could have used her flying ability to save herself. What is she, stupid?
8-)
That’s not quite fair. Naruto acts like a moron due to being ostracized most of his life. He actually shows high average to high intelligence fairly regularly when it counts. Then again, I don’t know Heatwave’s backstory.
At the very least she at least isn’t Goku’s level of brain “power”
Brook isn’t stupid, she just process information in a different order than others, and right now, she has been focusing on the fact she lost part of her body, wouldn’t at all surprise me if Sydney is the first person to have talked to her today apart from the Doc and possibly Maxi, and certainly probably the first to ask her about the injury
When he needs to, Naruto has the brainpower to control several dozen to several hundred shadow clone bodies all at the same time and coordinate their actions in high speed hand to hand combat. (He has the extra chakra reserves to do that by borrowing 9 tailed fox energy)
P.S. It is canon in the show that the memories of a clone are passed back to the summoner when the clone is dispelled. He can theoretically read and absorb an entire library’s worth of information at once, if you could get him to sit still long enough to read something.
Double P.S.
For a person whose job requires the ability to sneak around and not be seen, a bright orange jump suit may not be the best choice of outfit. Do you think Ashley has the time to schedule him for a fitting?
To be fair, Sakura wasn’t honestly all that much better in picking her ninja clothing- she wore a red dress IIRC- not to mention I don’t think she ever even thought of concealing her bright pink hair. That can’t have helped her stealth abilities either.
the “ninja” of Naruto aren’t ninja in the classical sense….they’re more like super-powered mercenaries.
‘Ninja in the classical sense’ is entirely Hollywood, if you are referring to the black pyjama’s and disappearing in a puff of smoke
I’m referring to spies. I tend to consider the closest thing to a real ninja in modern times are spooks a la the CIA and KGB.
Very true, that’s what they originally were, and just like modern spies, some were trained for assassination but most were just trained to acquire information and keep tabs on people
the one ninja I played in Legend of Five Rings had been part of an arranged marriage to the Unicorn clan and was primarily a diplomat….the first time she did anything in the way of infiltration and investigation, the GM sprang Rank 5 Kolat assassins on me and she died…
Of course, they let her talk first…
and because so much of her build was diplomat…they believed her when she said that the Scorpion knew all about their “little” operation…
so after killing her, they went on a purge of their own forces looking for the traitors they were sure existed…burned down some of their best safe houses…sent agents to the Shosuro castle to steal her records (and get caught on the way out thus letting the Scorpion know what they were interested in…and various other things.
So yeah, I failed in infiltration and survival….but I got head of the class in spreading mis-information.
Yup, that’s the other part of being a spy: spreading false information and mistrust amongst allies (not necessarily enemy allies only :P)
not entirely true RE: Naruto. He was Dead Last not due to being stupid, but because IIRC, the teachers would use any opportunity they could get to sent him out of the classroom- and even when he WAS in the classroom, they never bothered to actually correct him when he did make a mistake. You would struggle at an exam if you were functionally taking it without having been taught the material. I very much doubt it is a co-incidence that after the training trip with Jiraya- who presumably taught him more than just Jutsu- Naruto acted FAR less stupid.
So, is Sydney going to give Brooke the nickname Frodo just to see if she gets the reference?
Oh, c’mon. Just because a few hobbits start running around all footloose…
Am I the only one empathetically cringing at the sight of heatwave falling onto a hard tile floor? I gotta’ admit, my butt clenched a little bit at the though of how much that probably hurt.
I can understand why Peggy didn’t want to appear to acknowledge their injuries as equivalent, but I wouldn’t have been able to let her fall down like that.
It was more the fact that Brooke was naked, and about to land on Peggy, that had Peggy *pivot* out of the way
Try falling butt-first onto a hardwood floor. That was fun. NOT! (My office chair betrayed me, and the apartment that I was living in at the time had hardwood floors throughout. My tailbone hurt for about a month.) At least falling face-first with arms already outstretched, Brooke has a chance of at least slowing her fall. Assuming she still has enough of her wits about her to realize that she’s falling, that is.
Also depends on if she opened her eyes after lunging for a near-naked Peggy
This reminds me of people who talk about having gotten a migraine “once” and describing a simple headache.
Gads, I’m glad I left those behind in Texas.
Is that what it takes to get rid of them?! I live in Texas and seem to get them once every few months.
Yup, it’s totally from living in Texas :P
Texas is one of, if not the worst place to live if you have allergies. Just warm enough all year that the cold never kills anything and humid enough that molds and fungi love it there.
Not all of Texas is that way. Try telling the people who live in El Paso that it’s humid. The reply will be something along the lines of “Moisture? Where? (They get about 9 or 10 inches of rain per year, while east Texas gets about 30 to 35 inches of rain per year.)
But yes, most of east Texas is hot and humid.
Yeah, had a ‘severe neurological migraine’ (official doctors’ diagnosis) back in 1990, and, unless you lose feeling in one side of your body, vision in one eye, and the ability to speak coherently (depending on having the ability in the first place) then do. NOT!! talk to me about a simple headache!!!
Suck down some Panadol (or ‘medicine’ of your choice) and shut up
My first migraine was in high school and the doctor said it was either allergies or this other thing which is terminal.
I have woken up unable to lift my head a couple of inches off the pillow without screaming pain all the way down by body.
Turned out that the ‘SNM’ was actually the first of 8 strokes over a 16 year period (didn’t find out until late nineties watching some PSA’s about what to look for regarding strokes, one of them was Don Rickles, if you see him, call a doctor :P), still never been properly diagnosed though, when they symptoms start just tend to shut down the computer and go to bed until it’s all over (either the stroke will have killed me, or it goes away, no point in sitting around moaning about it)
Um, you could take aspirin prophylactically? You really should do more than, “wait it out,” for brain infarctions.
Yeah, they gave me one of those when they admitted me
Found a doctor who at least wanted to listen to me, he gave me special headache tablets (no, that was not a euphemism, just can’t be bothered getting up and getting the old box) but that didn’t seem to do much better than simply sleeping it off
My problem with most migraine meds was that it would slightly improve current conditions, but make the migraine return even worse a few days later. Thanks, but no thanks.
Yeah, that’s kinda why won’t take them unless absolutely necessary: the more you take them, the more often you will have to take them because your body is no longer able to deal with it itself (one reason why tend to ‘sleep it off’: body will have an easier time if most of the non-vital functions are ‘off-line’, it’s like trying to do a virus scan on your computer while still playing games or browsing NSFW sites)
Actually, “neurological migraine” is a redundancy since migraines are classified as neurological disorders. As someone who suffers from them, I just thought I’d point that out.
That’s what the idiot doctor said: “Severe Neurological Migraine”, and that was his official diagnosis after his only examination of me consisted of asking about being allergic to tomatoes (don’t believe allergic to anything, except drinking water)