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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Loving Sydney’s expression in panel three in finding out that Peggy was still there: “AHHH! You are still here?” specially when she thinks about what just happened with the shampoo bottle :D
You can tell what her expression is while she’s a towel ninja . . . er, modesty mummy? All we can see are her eyes.
Yes, and we can see her eye constrict into a single point while looking back over her shoulder at Peggy, even when confronted by Brook’s pupil-less eyes in panel two she still has her full eyes
Ha! Heatwave is living up to her full name: “Brook Falls”. ^_^
I have a friend name Ty with a prosthetic leg, and he’s the same way, but one day we we’re playing FFXIV with Jon the local card shop owner . Ty, myself, and another friend were on a VOIP program, and Jon asked everyone in guild chat. “How’s life”, Ty having a dry sense of humor that day, responds “Life took my leg”, we in VOIP started cracking up because we knew Jon could take it. Jon responds “But life also gave you good friends, and a good sense of humor, and……” We could tell he was just picking at things to make Ty feel better. At other friend’s egging, Ty just goes “I’d rather have my leg”. We lost it. We saw him at the shop that night, Jon said “I seriously thought I had made Ty feel horrible, I was at a lost for words, I almost logged off and just sat in contemplation of being a horrible person”…Jon’s been trying to cut off Ty’s character’s leg in D&D ever since.
I once have a friend that’s a DM with a similar fixation. In his case he ended up going to Afghanistan and came back a quadriplegic. He was pretty cool with it, but he became very destructive to his players in campaigns. I think it was his way of dealing with it.
“Jon’s been trying to cut off Ty’s character’s leg in D&D ever since.”
Maybe try looking up some old RPG supplemental books, to see if there are any available to buy after all this time. Grimtooth’s Traps book-series features a LOT of leg-breakers & foot-crunchers among their pages…
I could swear I remember there were variant rules for loss of limbs at one point, stat wise anyway, but it’s been so long I can’t remember.
Ridiculously late reply, but the Grimtooth’s Traps books are available from Flying Buffalo, DriveThruRPG and now on Kindle also.
There’s a youtube video called “No legs, no arms, no worries” by an australian motivational speaker.
In one part of it, he goes down a slide into the water. When he’s back on land, he looks down then up again and says “Wha’ Happened”
She needs a hug, dammit! If no one’s gonna be a friend to her then I will
Take her over to the guy’s shower and she’ll get all the hugs she can handle.
Careful! Mr. Amorphous might be the jealous type.
But when HE hugs her, there’s no room for anyone else to give her a hug…
Yeah, he can hug her like Dabbles’ webbing ‘hugged’ that speed-jerk :)
Brooke could honestly nickname her boyfriend “The Force.”
“He surrounds me, he penetrates me, he binds my galaxy together.”
LOL
+1
Shame. If only Halo had two mysterious orbs with unknown abilities left…
Do you suppose one of them has the power to regrow toes?
I thought almost all women came with two mysterious orbs with unknown abilities?
Those orbs have long been understood, concerning their physical properties…It’s just that the psychological properties they invoke are still under debate.
They also don’t have the ability to orbit. The hypnotizing effects are second to none though.
Gravity and a bit o’ angular velocity can make ’em do that.
They’re recreational, they’re functional, they can also be used as flotation devices in case of a water landing!
“…used as flotation devices in case of a water landing!”
Not very well…They’re slippery when wet.
He didn’t say other people could use them as flotation devices, but one who is intimately attached to said hypothetical flotation devices wouldn’t have a problem with them being slippery. And I doubt there are many out there that could support the weight of more than one person anyway.
Not even H- or J-cups (and yes, those do exist outside of hentai)
In the most macabre event of a bad crash on the ocean I suppose you could build a raft out of…whatever floatation devices were available…at least until the sharks showed up. You’d need at least four or five people to make even a small raft though.
Yeah, her reaction is valid. Aside from the big toe, toes are useless to most humans today (most, as there are some people that are very dextrous with their toes, but they are the vast minority).
I myself have a dead toe. It was broken three times in as many months and even the nerves in it are dead. However, I now only ever notice it’s even there only when I hurt my foot, strangely enough. And that’s just because it’s a strange area of ‘no pain’ in the foot due to the dead nerves.
You can even get along without the big one. An old friend had his get necrotic from a fall. They removed it on a Monday and he was back at work on that Thursday (admittedly with very restricted standing and walking, still, even 3 weeks later). Plus he has to wear a special shoe to compensate for the loss of a balancing member.
The fact he has to have a special shoe to compensate kinda implies that he can’t get along with out his big toe
They ARE sorta vital to maintaining balance while walking… I understand you can eventually learn to compensate some, but you’re never going to be agile again without help. And, since he goes out and beats on people with nerd-swords a couple of times a month for fun, he kinda needs that agility for the woods battles.
On the other hand, he’s 62, and kinda too busy for the level of physical therapy needed for that. Us older folks tend to be slower to re-learn how to walk for some reason (too many years from learning it the first time?).
We compare what we’re being taught to what we already know, and since it’s not the same, we reject what we’re being taught as being false.
There’s a difference between being “useless” and being “redundant”.
Just loving everything about this page. Congrats on it all Dave.
Also, is it wrong for me to think Sydney is channelling ‘Osaka’ in panel2 with her Azumanga “AH!”?
Lastly – never been to a Necronomiccomicon, but in the 90’s used to attend NecrocomiCon gaming con here in Oz
LMAO! The look on Peggy’s face. She’s like “What the hell are you-NOPE!”
“Oh HELL, nope!”
The necronomicomic is the necronomicon for people who want to summon the army of darkness but can’t pronounce old summarian spells and as such always cause a problem for them selves later on. It’s the necronomicon for the good ash, who is really bad ash.
Good, Bad, what matters is who has the gun.
and then there’s the cookbook for evil cat people from Japan: the Nekonomnomnomicon!
And then there’s the Anarchist’s Cookbook for when you feel like saying “Fuck it ALL.”
Anarchist drive thru: may i have your disorder?
Only if you let me brainwash you into developing some type of psychosis.
In the words of a meme: Mind = Blown
LOL
And lets not forget the NecronomicomicConcomic which is a comic about the convention about the conic about the necronomicon
Or the Necronomicone, which can be worn as a silly hat.
Come one peoples! We have slipped back to FOURTH place!!!!
Two-kinds has almost 12,000 votes in 2 1/2 days… There’s something odd going on there as that’s more votes than are normal for a whole month.
But, yes, we’re 300+ votes out of second place.
That’s Markiplier’s brother, he plugs him now and again in his videos, so ‘bam’ 8 million people wanting to support Mark and his family so they head over and take a look.
That’s about what it used to be, it was nice when other webics had a chance
Not going to knock a guy for helping his brother, it was the other way around initially, when Mark just started out and Two-Kinds was big. And to be fair, this web comic is rather new compared to Two-Kinds.
Of course not, just when they have double the votes as the one in second, it can get a little unfair :(
Remember when Dave started the top 2 spots pretty much alternated between Twokinds and Goblins.
Yup
I believe they posted a new incentive.
Really? *disappears and reappears* Interesting.
I had a notebook I called the “Nukeronomicon” when I was in the US Navy. It is mostly filled with character designs for Champions 2ed.
It had a fancy drawing on the cover with a pentagram surrounded by the Six Factor Formula with stuff, but it’s all faded out now and you can barely see it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_factor_formula
If you leave that notebook on a barstool somewhere I bet Fox News would be reporting within a day that the US Government was actually working on creating superheroes.
You mean they haven’t already?
last few pages = no boner
on necrotic = insta-boner and the urge to mount a tank.
Eckkk failed reply, please nuke.
I laughed. (I’m reading comments in order.)
Sooo…What ever happened to Dr. Revenge & his Orbital Bombardment Satellite when he’s needed?
So you’re saying you had a boner malfunction. A reference to nothing, but glad to see it just plain failed you. Dabbler would be displeased.
Having performance issues? =OP
Heatwave only understands about a tenth, if that much, of what peg went through, after all she only lost a toe, not an entire leg. But I think she is really only trying to get sympathy about the toe since she lost it and feels like she isn’t the perfect figure she was beforehand.
on the other hand looking at the picture the toe looks like its there, but all wrapped up. So is she really missing the toe or is she trying to pull a fast one, or joking around? I don’t really know Heatwave well enough to tell one way or the other…
She’s missing half a toe. As far as I can tell, it was amputated at the first joint.
In one of the earlier comics, they discuss how Sydney suddenly got her powers, where “naturals” gain them slowly.
The specific example it uses is Harem; one day there was just one of her, the next, two.
So, does that mean there could be more Harem’s in future?
Now that is a good question. Theoretically their could be more if she gains better control. However being that her mind is split, and controlling five bodies at the moment and she seems to become less mentally stable at this point when she creates more than the five she can at the moment then most likely no. I know its a flimsy answer, however if you go back and reread all the things about Harem’s Powers then it is most likely she can’t handle splitting her concentration further than to the point of five bodies. This could change, or it could be her limit, she may even have tried splitting it further, which it sounds like she might have, and it could be that she loses her intelligence if she goes beyond the five body limit.
Have never heard, or read, talk about Daphne losing intelligence points from splitting off, just strength
Yes, it was discussed that she got a new body every few years, the last one was not that long ago, so there is still potential (if she survives long enough) that there could be another showing up like the Terminators in a ball of lightning
There is also theories that there is already a sixth Daphne, possibly the ‘original’, hidden somewhere safe for ’emergencies’
I almost lost my left little finger once becaust of a infektion. Still i have almost no strenght left in that finger.
loosing a toe can be just as traumatic as loosing a leg depending on personality.
Heatwave is a sweet girl, but… umm… she needs to wait a little longer to consider her words. ^^;
Was re-reading the page and suddenly wondered if Peggy trims, waxes, or… dyes.
If she doesn’t trim or wax, then she’s the type that likes the drapes match the carpet.
Talking about Peggy’s tattoos, what is that shape covering part of her rainbowed right arm? Specially the green part, initially thought it may have been a map of Texas, but Texas isn’t shaped like that, then was thinking maybe a bull (like the cRock has on his shoulder) but that doesn’t work out either
That additional shape looks like a dolphin in a dunce cap to me.
Im not saying this to be mean, but I think peggy’s body needs a little work. She looks male with a straight view of her chest like in the “excuse me” panel and the last one. From the side view there is evidence of a female curve or two, but from the front, she just looks kinda masculine. Her face is fine, its her torso.
Umm, no, her torso is fine thankyounotsoverymuch!! It does not look ‘masculine’, it looks ‘muscular’, she just happens to have A-cups rather than the typical C’s and D’s the rest of the Arc-Grrls have, that’s why she can go around holding the towel around her shoulders instead of having to wrap up like Blondini
To my knowledge it’s a design ‘feature’ of the comic. The ‘Standard’ for female and male attractiveness is exhibited by natural supers, while non-natural supers, those who have high skill/tech/magic items, will run the gamut of body types.
I disagree. Peggy has a perfectly respectable bust in this shots. Anyway, many, many women have small breasts and hips, even if they aren’t really muscular and lean.
You are not saying it to be mean. But …
>>>your being. mean.<<<
What your saying is being loosely translated into
You dont find her attractive. Almost attractive. but not quite.
At this point you could have have just kept your mouth shut and let this person be their self. You may have been appreciated for your honesty, at least. If not for the actual opinion itself.
But nope your gonna tell them any way that with "just a little bit of work" you will find her to be attractive.
Which will get taken to also include (depending on the day she is having)
So would she please be so kind as to hit a gym/eat a sandwich and get some fuckin curves/trim that pudge already so You can go back to a world where all the people You look at are sufficiantly appealing to You in some way ….
You next response will be something along the line of "why you so mad bro? I was trying to be nice and polite.And at the same time offer up some good advice. That totally putting words in my mouth! why you gotta jump down my throat like that? Way to over escalate things you Asshole!" Cause your mad that im attacking you for no reason.
and ill respond with…
Just because you were saying something with nice polite words and a positive tone and affirming posture and any other body cues to denote that you are doing them a favor to impart this point of view of yours "for their own good" Does not make you a "Nice Person"
You said they were not good enough for you.
And that is fine.
You insisted on sharing this opinion with the rest of us.
When none of us asked for it. (like i need a critic to tell me what to think about some art)
Its subtle shit like what you just said that really feeds into peoples (especially female) body issue problems …
Though now that i got that shit of my chest I realize that Peggy's response to "I think your body needs a little work" is to agree with you.
100%
She will go to the gym right now
and use you for her own personal speed bag.
Peggy executes “Drama Queen Avoidance Move Delta Tango 9”
Just as well she didn’t go with Number 10, since that involves a stiff-finger jab to the windpipe.
wrong thats hell greeting 3, DT 10 is ducking forward and standing back up with a leg in your arms lifted as high over your head as the persons flexibility and body weight allow.
Dabbler couldn’t do anything either? make it regrow or such? luckily it is ‘just’ a toe, and one in the middle, so it can’t be that bad, other then I suppose for Heatwaves fashion sense, course maybe the fall slaps some sense into her, instead of comparing a toe to a leg…
She wasn’t actually comparing the size of the amputation, but the fact they both are, technically, amputees
Maybe she might get better sympathy from Dabbles, seeing how she’s not getting it from the viewers
I suppose that’s true, but even so, losing a toe is at least in my book nowhere near the same as a leg, though yeah Dabbler might be the more appropriate one to compare and seek sympathy from.
How about comparing the trauma rather than the size
Peggy’s REALLY good on that leg. Doing a swivel like that is tricky enough on a pair of flesh-and-blood legs, without a “toe” designed almost entirely for grip.
Very impressive!
Thought of that as well, but then thought that it was her left leg that was composite (technically, she has two toes on her right foot)
Nope, her right is the one she lost. It’s most visible 4 comics ago:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1799
Oh no! You lost half a toe! The makes you practically a cripple!
Okay, howabout you get a dagger lodged in your toe bone, and then get struck by lightning and let’s see how you react!!!
Yeah! Poor Brook! Not everyone is able to handle stuff like that happening to them. Brook wasnt intitially military after all. I think that she was with Achilles and Amorphous who went from vigilanteism through a series of wacky events to become part of Arc-Swat.
Seriously… okay so she’s not like Peggy. But cmon. She lost half of a toe. She’s allowed to be horribly depressed about it. She’s just not that bright to compare it to Peggy. But if you lost half a toe I’d be surprised if you took it nonchalantly. Yeesh. Have some sympathy for the hottie naked redhead. I don’t think anyone else even asked her about it except maybe Mr Amorphous, assuming she even told him yet.
Yeah, it wasn’t just that she lost part of her toe, but the trauma around the event that lead to the loss
This is possibly the first time Brook has been out of the infirmary, she probably hasn’t had time to talk to Morph yet (he probably would have bundled her up in a Morph-ball and let her sob it out)
Pssh, Heatwave, you have a better wound for telling stories. Show off that foot!
Hey, it’ll mess with the way she walks for weeks! Probably. Poor Brook.
Probably not, actually. I had to have half of a big toe surgically amputated, and the only thing that affected the way I walked was the bandage (and the special sandal I had to wear for the first week). And that was a big toe, which is rather important for balance.
(I also use my toes to pick stuff up off the floor, but it’s a little clumsy trying to pick up small stuff like pens and pencils now.)
Dibs. Im getting the back tattoo. Gonna replace the Rifle with a sword though….
You might also consider that the “targeting scope eye” might not fit well with a sword. Maybe depict a small point of light, similar to a star, instead.
I thought ARC had a ‘doctor with healing powers’ — or implied after Sydney was treated for having ‘sun surface hot sauce’ get into her eye. Couldn’t she induce a lizard like regrowth of the toe over time?
Or is having Heatwave mind blown that she can’t wear strappy shoes due to esthetics the main jab here?
page 120 https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/709
sydney: i think she has healing powers.
maxima: “WE KNOW SHE HAS HEALING POWERS!
here is confirmation that there is such a person, but we don’t know how good exactly are her powers.
“healing powers” are capable of increasing the natural regeneration.
she can close wounds, but i don’t think she is quite capable of regrowing entire body parts, no matter how small they are. first, she would have to be capable of restoring the bone somehow, but if the WHOLE of it is gone, “accelerated regeneration” simply wont do.
On the other hand if she actually can do that (work in a different way than i expected) then that would make brok seem rather dumb for not asking for it. in fact, it would make everyone in the who ARC seem rather stupid, and that is a little bit too much to be believable. And obviously, we cannot accuse DaveB of being dumb. he is just going to say “she can’t actually do that” and the topic ends here.
I haven’t fully defined the Doc’s healing powers, but at the moment I’m leaning heavily toward “basically whatever modern medical science can do, only slightly better and much faster.” She can reattach a limb, assuming the limb is still alive. Her powers would minimize the scar and probably reconnect the nerves better, but only marginally. Her powers work far better on trauma than they do on disease and have virtually no effect on psychological issues, unless the reason you can’t remember your childhood is there’s a nail in your temple.
I got a question. Would the Doctor’s powers work on Dabbler? I mean — non-human physiology could be a major problem if her powers are too specialized. For that matter, if the squirrel had gotten seriously injured could she have done anything for that?
Made a stew?
well, as i already said, if it was possible to save hare “middle foot finger” (don’t know if there is a word for that in English) someone would have suggested that by now, so either she eventually get better or doc can’t do it…
nvm, she already said her that “…doc couldn’t save” her toe (that’s a word)
if her toes gone why is it bandaged up? plus toe removal usually requires a cast or special shoe to protect the area and you wouldn’t be up and walking the day after
https://myhealth.alberta.ca/health/aftercareinformation/pages/conditions.aspx?hwid=ug3848
Got to remember their Doctor has special healing powers…may not have been able to save an already dead toe, but could no doubt speed up the recovery process after the partial? amputation
unless that is some really heavy and tight bandaging, the length of her toe appears to be normal, unless that toe was longer than the others
It looks slightly shorter and there probably is a pile of padding so it might be lost back to past the nail or so. I doubt she lost it all the way to the joint.
It’s definitely shorter than the fourth toe, and that’s including the bandaging, most toes have at least two bones so she probably lost the first bone that has the nail
Well, Brooke does have to shower & clean up occasionally. Not a good place to be wearing a cast or special shoe. She might have something like that to put on after she’s showered & dried off though.
umm… considering that Peggy lost her right leg, that pivot should be impossible to do, since it would require her to pivot while also moving her right foot, which she can’t since she don’t have a right foot.
Actually she could pivot on her right leg to achieve that move.
For someone with 2 legs that would involve twisting her right ankle but it could be done if she pushes off with her left foot and uses her fake leg as a pivot point.
Yep. A lot of military-style maneuvers for “turning your facing” involve using one foot to push, the other to pivot.
On a slippery wet shower floor she managed to do a pivot turn on a nerve dead limb and maintain more balance and grace than anyone outside a dance hall or marching field. (Hell Sydny cant even get dressed in the morning without falling over)
I am impressed because that is hard to do.
Brooke may have managed to not face plant, or give herself a concussion. (Boob Plant for sure though. Ouch) from taking a single freakin step. In that same wet shower floor.
I am also impressed because that level of klutz is also hard to do.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I am thinking this would be a good time for Sydney to activate one of her orbs she does not know, which will be a regen orb…. or a time reversal. (This would also take some power/stamina out of Sydney and/or the area around her so the orb isn’t too over powered, as well as a time limit on the regen and/or the power takes more outta her the longer back it is.)
Also the possibility of a booster so she can make other peoples power work at a higher level is my other possible choice
Considering how klutzy Sydney is (and her fear of paper cuts) you don’t think she hasn’t already tried that?
in her initial interview, she said she hasn’t tried it on any kind of injury & her reaction to a papercut idea tells us she would have tried if it occured. For that matter, the orb might already have been active – we haven’t seen her with a cut, just bruising or strain injury, not direct damage like a cut or break
I know its a small thing, but how about throwing in the rank of the person next to there name when there in that days page on the right hand side? At least after its been shown to us your loyal masses. I keep forgetting things like Brooke’s rank and where she ranks next to Peggy. As someone who has perhaps crossed the lines of inter personal relationships with rank brackets (i.e. NCO, Staff NCO, Officer) when they probably shouldn’t have, its just something that struck me as how someone dating another rank might work when there technically in the same unit.
If Sydney leveled up just from playing around out on the missile range (or wherever that was), shouldn’t she level up again after a major battle?
At the artillery range she used the PPO more than she ever had before, during the big fight she mostly used the shield and light-hook which she had used before a lot more.
Nope. For all we know the experimenting she’d done previously could easily have been enough to get her close to a level up. Just because most RPGs grant either insignificant or no XP for actions outside of combat is no reason to assume it works the same here. In real life time spent practising can do much to level up a skill as actually using it.
What a minute? If they had to amputate Heatwaves toe then why do I still count five little piggy’s?
They removed the first joint, the one that normally holds the nail
So basically she does still have a toe.
Suck it up red!
She has half of a toe (or two thirds), plus the fact she had a fracking dagger lodged in her bone and then electrocuted through the dagger directly into her bone, how about you just suck down a litre of methane and then spit on a flame?
Still not good enough for her to try and get into the disabled parking list. Or Peggy’s little purple heart club.
If Frank Burns can get a Purple Heart for being shot in the arse by his girlfriend, then Brook can get one for losing a body part while in combat
Ex girlfriend, and he didn’t get to keep it if I remember right.
No, Frank didn’t get to keep it and no, he didn’t get shot in the ass. I think Sam from Cheers got shot in the butt in one episode by his girlfriend’s understandably annoyed husband.
Frank put in for the Purple Heart claiming he had a shell fragment in his eye. It turned out to be a bit of eggshell that got there when he panicked during an attack. Hawkeye and BJ finally swiped the medal to give to a Korean woman and her baby who were wounded by a sniper.
As for Superspaz’s look, I’d call it a improvised Ayaba
I absolutely love Peggy’s response here. It’s TOTALLY the way a soldier would respond to that, right down to the “serves her right” look as Brook goes splat. There is absolutely no tolerance in military culture for self-pity.
That said, I don’t understand how Peggy could possibly have not been forced to take a physical disability discharge when she lost her leg. Probably along with a medal for exceptional bravery since she was pulling people out of a burning helicopter when it happened, and possibly even a pre-discharge promotion while still in the hospital to make sure she gets the best possible retirement package. But still – one way or another, a discharge.
Maybe she’s just that good as a sniper that she was considered too valuable to be discharged if she didn’t want to be. Plus someone who Maxima was good at working with – and given there arent a bunch of Maximas out there…
Like in those Starship Trooper movies. Lost your hand? Meh… it’s a flesh wound. Lost your leg? Lucky thing you use your hands to fire a gun, right soldier?
Plus she might be officially discharged. And then recruited into this unit. I don’t see them just scooping up just any badass normals. They have to have a source of power like Sydney, who without her orbs is ordinary human, or simply that good much like Peggy and Math. Math was never in the military, but if he’s the standard of what they’re looking for, they would certainly make an exception for Peggy.
In real life there are lots of people deployed with amputations even in combat zones let alone as a trainer.
Who says she wasn’t discharged from the Army after Iraq, she is also best buds with Maxi and Maxi personally recruited her into Archon
Technically you don’t need a leg to be a sniper.
Tactially you do have to have legs to be a sniper. Snipers have got to get into position, and that involves demands on running, crawling, and agility beyond what regular troops face.
There are lots of deployed personnel with amputations, even in combat zones – but as snipers? I’ve never heard of any.
That’s what their spotter is for :P
Look up Master Chief Boatswains Mate Carl Brashear. He defines Badass in my book.
First African American to become a US Navy Master Diver. He lost his left leg after an accident during a dive, and two years later was back to work diving.
The movie “Men of Honor” is his story.
Some one get Brooke a burger or 3, she is too skinny.
What the Fronk are you talking about? Because se has abs and ribs, you calling her ‘too skinny’? And if you couldn’t see her ribs you would be calling her ‘too fat’
Making some assumptions there chief.
She always struck me as the tall and lanky sort that just cannot put weight on. While this applies to a friend, he was/is such a twig he almost couldn’t make and maintain the weight requiment for the Marines. Including all the tricks for muscle building short of totally wreaking his body on steroid overdose. There are people out there in the world with bodies and metabolisms like that. Just as l’m the total inverse and could be described in such a manner that befits a short barrel (even when I was in shape). We could have cosplayed as Legolas and Gimli.
So don’t assume Heatwave is “too skinny” in what reads like “she is unhealthy thin”. We’ve already seen her munching on self-heated popcorn (likely super buttery), and soda (although she didn’t actually drink that one as she kind of exploded it in anger). Even asking if “honey is a fruit” ( https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1247 ). Which should (though character) describe her eating habits fairly succinctly.
If ya want to make quips about fictional characters and body shape, at least first look to see if the author has actually given a decent pass at REASONS for the shape it’s in, woman or man. “Super body (and super powers)” + rigorous military exercise + junk food + apparently natural lankyness = the body you see… falling flat on her face.
@people reading along, let this be a reminder point that CHARACTER carries through all aspects of a character. If you’ve done a good job establishing a character and not a caricature, then “how they are (at base)” + “what they do” should very easily and naturally be reflected in how they appear. Make characters, not caricatures.
I would say get her a burger or three because she may enjoy it. As you said Dorje Sylas, her eating habits seem to suggest that.
I think super powered people tend to have bodies like this because their powers consume a lot of fat. Just like a jock tends to eat a lot of food, usually high protein because their exercise routines consume a ton of energy and fat since fat is the body’s energy repository. Super powers reasonably would do the same and thus, eating a lot of junk food like Brook does makes sense.
Besides, Brook looks very very fine. She is not too skinny, and this is coming from a man that likes BBWs.
You might say that it was a toe-tal disaster.
*Wham*
*Leans on the punhammer*
Are you hinting that I need to TOE the line? :D
Aussie means that if you keep being so punny, he’s going TOE to TOE with you.
Might practice some toe-fu on him?
if this keeps up there will probably be a PUN-itive counterstrike from somewhere
…launched by the PUN-ited Nations?
At this point in time I would ask that you cease and desist in furthering this uncalled for punishment.
heres a question. with everything dabbler has been shown to know why doesn’t she make peggy a cybernetic leg? even if she is an incredibly skilled sniper a prostetic leg would seriously hamber her in combat at some point(like falling off in CQC or ranges that make a sniper impractical) and dabblers arm is water proof
It has already been stated many many times (including on this page of the comments): Dabbles. doesn’t. trust. humans. And even if she did trust Peggy, there is Harem playing double agent (because she can and she’s bored and wants to pull something over the Archon idiots), how long do you believe it will be before Mr D gets his hands on Peggy’s leg?