Grrl Power #404 – Weight restrictions
Sydney, don’t be bummed cause you’re not the best at everything. That’s like a rich person complaining cause the yacht daddy got them didn’t have the swimming pool on the third deck.
Those concrete bridge beams seem to weigh between 20 and 60 (English) tons depending on their overall size, at least according to some googling I did. Seems about right. I always knew Sydney would fail to lift six of them, but I didn’t realize she wouldn’t be able to lift one. So after doing some research while writing this page I totally changed the outcome… and what happens on the page after actually, but I’m flexible like that. Speaking of research, the engineering of the overpass pieces may not be quite accurate. I didn’t research that part. I just assume there’s lots of concrete and rebar involved.
By the way in the second to last panel there, Max is flying down to counter Sydney’s attempt to lift.
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I just looked at the date when the first day of the comic started, 2010. We are at what, day 3 and that’s taken 6 years. I estimate it will be 60 years before we finally get to the end of the 30 days this is suppose to cover. OK, there was a big fight, but does that mean there will never be a big fight again?
Are we looking at another “Lovecraft if Missing”?
Where did 30 days come from? And who cares? It’s a daily webcomic; are you looking forward to it ending anytime in particular? It might be day 3 but the comic divides pretty nicely into smaller story arcs than that that all make perfect sense on their own, and it’s probably pretty safe to assume the comic is going to keep doing that indefinitely. The passage of time is not an important measure of story progress.
I think he means the narration box on this page which says “Let me back up a few months”.
Wow, has that art ever improved! (not as much as Schlock Mercenary, though…)
Howard’s art has improved more because it had a much poorer starting point.
They’re both awesome.
Dear god I haven’t even noticed!
The change was so gradual, it just flowed from page to page.
Howard Tayler’s art started at a MUCH lower quality. Standards for web art quality were much lower back in the ’90s – the days when Order Of The Stick, Dinosaur Comic, and XKCD started. When DaveB started Grrl Power, everyone pretty much expects comic book quality art from their webcomics. Kids these days, so spoiled…
I’m just going to start reading it monthly
DaveB has said things will be going faster after he has established some of the basics
If you have a problem with the pace of this, better not read “Mansion of E”, that took over 1300 pages to get through just one day
Twilight Trust has been 1 week with flash forwards and backs and Started in October 2013. Matt Knab is presently taking a few months to bring his first day up to the current state of the art by redoing the pages.
is that the one where there was a whole nother world under the guy’s house?
Yup, and the guy (and his family) were some sort of legend (or Bogey man slash fairy tale) to the residents living down there (or was it just ‘humans’ that were legendary, like Sasquatch and the Easter Bunny is to ‘humans’?)
Could be taken care of with a time skip or two. I assume things will go by quickly once Sydney gets the hang of her army training.
So 16 tons is good as far as lateral strength goes, but we really need to know tensile strength for something as rope-shaped as the Lighthook in order to assess how useful it is. Sydney could very likely come up with alternatives to just deadlifting those beams.
Hey Sydney, we see that the rope can be strung out pretty far. With a little basic research in an engineering handbook you can come up with a winch and pulley system to let you lift a multiple of the 16 tons for each pulley added. Provided, of course, on the tensile strength of the light-hook, and that you have an attachment point at the top that will hold the final weight.
I feel like it probably won’t break, but it’ll just stop transferring force to the objects it’s touching once you reach the limit.
She shouldn’t be too disappointed. She just needs to unlock several motes of Strength on her advancement chart for that orb :D
Sydney needs a lesson in simple physics because she seems to be accustomed to the Hulk lifting things magically. There’s so many aspects to the light hook. Is it stretchy? How does it react when part of it rests on the floor instead of just using the ball?
What if Sydney makes a sling and then pulls the sling sideways? Will that multiply the force as it would with a rope? She might basically build a pulley system like that. What’s the bending force of the light hook? Can she use it as a lever? Lots of applications to discover, I guess. That simple knowledge might make the difference between life and death.
Bit like a Devil Fruit, really.
Are you suggesting her full name is Scoville D. Sydney? :D
I wouldn’t be surprised. In that universe, names to run away from really fast are the middle initial D. Currently watching Law and Doflamingo’s Backstory Arc. They explain how people get that middle initial, and what affect it has on their life. Lucky being one thing.
And just a quick explanation on my Devil Fruit comparison, it’s that there are no weak abilities, there are only weak users, as in, they are limited by their imagination or creativity with the ability.
The action/reaction rule of newton’s laws can’t be completely in effect here, or she’d be dealing with compound fractures in both legs. This is what my RPG group call comedy physics. Can’t really work that way, but it made us laugh, so we’ll ignore it.
I reger to the face-plant in panel 6 – should have made that clear
I assumed that was just Sydney being.. well, Sydney.
When Maxima walks off,should Sydney start singing “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford?
See I thought she was going to start doing this and I was disappointed she didn’t. :(
Don’t worry, that song was posted at least twice on the first page
“You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store”
Mr. Tom T. Hall, everybody!
i approve of this message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvrs2baGtl0
Mr Tennessee Ernie Ford was posted twice on the first page
Some people say a man is made outta mud
A Halo´s made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and flyin’ stones
A mind like a forum and a tongue that´s strong
You lift sixteen tons, what do you get?
You realize you can’t lift a passenger jet
Action Comics don´t you call me ´cause I can´t go
I owe my soul to the pink stone’s glow
That’s like a rich person complaining cause the yacht daddy got them didn’t have the swimming pool on the third deck.
Actually, there are rich people who do/have done that.
Sure there are, but that’s the point–everyone around them thinks they’ve completely lost perspective, because they have.
That is a *spectacular* shot of Maxima.
Specular as well!
Yeah, I noticed that you didn’t leave out her specularity factor.
;)
Also, thanks!
You should see it in 2X size!
16 tons is pretty good. According to Marvel Strength Scale it puts Halo above Spider-Woman, Beast and Green Goblin. So, Stand Tall and Be Proud, Halo!
According to the author commentary, it is 16 “English” tons which is another way to say metric tons. Most civilians in the US use imperial tons which are 2000 pounds each, metric tons are 2204.62 pounds each, so the lighthook can lift 35,274 pounds as compared to 32,000.
So Archon uses the Metric system then?
Well, ARC-SWAT is a branch of the military, after all. The U.S. military has used the Metric system for quite a long time now (where do you think “klicks” came from? It’s slang for “kilometers”), to help them work in conjunction with NATO forces on joint operations.
Can confirm. All the firing tables for rifles, small arms, mortars and artillery are in metric. And mils, which is *sorta* milliradians.
Except the Ma Deuce, that heavy beautiful bitch is still in yards…
Working in any kinda technical field stateside is hard. You have to know two to four different measuring scales and be able to convert between them at will.
Actually, no. The U.S. mostly uses the old English short ton (2000 lbs.), The British used to use the slightly newer long ton (2240 lbs.) The metric ton (megagram) is a different animal entitely.
The difference comes from the ton being 20 hundredweight, but the British decided a hundredweight should be 112 lbs instead of 100, whole Americans decided that was stupid.
In any case the word ton almost always means short ton in the U.S., and the word English is occasionally used to refer to the U.S. variant, while imperial nearly always indicated British usage.
And that was more information than anyone required Hope I didn’t put anybody to sleep.
So, between 17-18 short tons. That’s still a lot.
Incidentally, the reason for a hundredweight being 112 lb is because it makes a quarter two stones (a stone being 14 pounds, and a quarter being [obviously] one quarter of a hundredweight). For all of that to work in the US system (if we had stones) a stone would be twelve and a half pounds.
Yeah, I actually did know that. But stones were never used in the U.S., so out of context it just looks like a strange British thing.
Nah, Spiderman’s strength is Incredible (40 tons), Beast is remarkable (30 tons). I’m not sure of Spider Woman & Green Goblin right at the top of my head, but I think they match Beast.
Which puts Halo at a bit more than half of Remarkable – ie: Still in the Excellent range (20)
A little surprised that Sydney’s Powers haven’t been fully tested and measured. If I ran ArcSWAT, I’d put all new recruits through a series of basic abilities tests to create a baseline for what they can do.
Then periodically check that to see if there is any increase in ability. Sydney and Max should already know how much the Lighthook can lift.
Max did test Sydney’s flight speed, and her Shield Strength, but that was about it.
They probably take this stuff easy because having peoplew in lab coats test your limits is one step away from building an efective holding cell for you. And it’s hardly unlikely that a super would be a bit paranoid joining military. Upset super could cause a fair bit of property dammage, better give them a few days to ease them into the whole thing.
Just remember, this is only Sydney’s second day officially being a member of Archon (and Maxi knows Sydney’s fear of being vivisectioned)
What makes you think Max isn’t doing just that right now ?
True, she seems to have just worked out Sydney’s Lighthook lifting ability…
Exactly: This is second day and Max was already measuring Sydney’s shield and flying speed … the best way to measure the abilities is in a way which Sydney barely notices.
When this comic is shown outside the US does an alternate page show up reading “maybe 14.5 metric tons”? :)
No, it is already in metric according to Dave. It is 35,274 pounds.
Wrong it’s in English (UK) tons
US ton 2000 lbs
UK ton ~2240
metric ton ~2204
So in the US it’s 240 pounds per ton heavier or almost 18 tons.
Europe & most of the rest of the world it’s just 36 lbs per ton more or 16 1/4 tons.
Well, I googled english ton and it gave me the metric measurement.
I googled it too, the only difference is the last 2 digits are swapped. You probably just misread it.
And this is why the mars lander crashed. (missed? dangit, now I gotta google)
Oh, it didn’t miss. It lithobraked, because NASA and the lander were in metric, and some fool at JPL was calculating in U.S. Customary, and didn’t convert.
It didn’t just lithobrake, it lithobroke.
I don’t think the difference between the various definitions of “ton” matters in this context.
Max didn’t measure Sydney’s limit as “exactly 16.000 tons”. She just gave a ballpark figure of “around 15, maybe 16 tons”. You can’t calculate Sydney’s upper limit down to five decimal places based on a rough estimate like that.
There’s only about a 10% difference between the various definitions of ton. That difference only matters if your measurement is accurate to at least two decimal places. Otherwise, you can treat them as basically the same thing, just like you can consider yards & meters (or quarts & liters) to be the same thing when all you have is a rough ballpark figure.
Once you go into multiples higher then 10, that 10% margin starts adding up. At 15, that 10% would be 1.5, a non-negligible difference.
Once you go into multiples higher then 10, that 10% margin starts adding up. At 15, that 10% would be 1.5, a non-negligible difference.
It seems like given how long the lighthook can get, rigging up a block and tackle system to increase its lifting power in situations like this would be pretty easy. She could lift one of those beams yet.
That sounds good in theory but in practice an industrial crane block and tackle would weigh hundreds of pounds and still require a secure lift point capable of holding the full weight of the load. So basically, Sydney would still need a crane in order to lift anything heavier than her capacity.
…But if it was in the right spot, she’d be able to speed up the attaching part of the effort (just wrap it up & send Lighthook through the rig), probably help stabilize it as it’s being moved better than crews on the ground (especially if she flies up above it for a better & safer angle) maybe even to the point of letting them go faster, if so then even loading it into position can be done more precisely too (she does have direct control over the “cable”)…
The biggest question about all this tho is is Lighthook STRONG enough to support that much weight, or will it snap/slip off/dissipate due to excess stress…
As someone who works around bridge construction for a living i’d say your assumptions about bridges are reasonably accurate. The only real flaw i can see is that the bridge beams are probably too close together, they should be closer to about 8 foot on center. Of course, i understand that scaling can be a bit of an issue in a comic when trying to show a complete scene in a limited space.
Highway overpass supports use a pad or roller arrangement; the beams (which may be as far apart as 8′ on center depending on conditions) are set on top of the pad, allowing the bridge deck to shrink or expand with temperature.
Hey, Sydney is improving! She fell down and she didn’t even say BLARG! or start swearing.
How is this an improvement? I can only speak for myself, but I find the swearing highly entertaining.
Same here
And she’s even on a construction site AND among military personnel. That’s pretty much an automatic license to swear!
Only if they are sailors :p
Have you heard an Army Drill Sergeant?
I don’t know about Air force, but I wouldn’t think their language is much (if any) gentler.
I have it on good authority (from a former enlisted Marine), that the Marines tend to drop the F-bomb like a common punctuation mark.
Most of the time, Marines are under Navy organizational structure. But they can easily be temporarily attached to other units & Branches at need. One of their purposes is to be mobile & highly flexible.
Next question: does applying force to the lighthook orb actually produce a force on the lighthook? If so, dual-wielding it with the fly ball should considerably increase the overall lifting force, since that thing can push Sydney around pretty damn hard.
(Unless the difference between the fly ball’s up force and the weight’s down force on the lighthook would actually be exerted as tension on Sydney’s body in between, in which case this is a bad plan.)
Wow. That’s a horrifyingly gruesome image that has just entered my mind. I will now proceed to scrub my brain with bleach wire.
If you think Brain Bleach™ is too much, I also offer a line of Inter-Cranial Sandpaper™…
Even if she can’t lift a full beam by herself, she could probably help another strong-but-not-that-strong super. Half a beam is nothing to sneeze at. Alternatively, she could help guide the beam for those who can lift it, but under enough strain that levering it into place is difficult (Maxima won’t need it, but there are a couple other flying bricks on the team iirc). Plus there are other pieces of heavy equipment that might need to be moved and the shield could make things a lot safer for normals underneath the bridge.
I don’t know if her energy blast can weld, but it is probably unwise to try (which probably won’t stop Sydney from wanting to give it a try).
Looks like Sydney/Halo’s character page marks her tentacle at 3 dots (at least I assume the T block symbol refers to this ability) Anvil and Mr. Amorphous have 3 dots strength stat, so they might have similar strength and since Sydney can carry half a beam, they are probably similar in strength. Neither can fly, however, but Mr. Amorphous could probably stretch the distance.
Also, I found that there is only one other flying brick besides Maxima on the team (at least as far as the character page is concerned) which is Hiro. SInce he doesn’t have Maxima’s ability to extend structural integrity to whatever he’s lifting, he might benefit from Halo’s assistance.
And Stalwart is strong enough to lift those. But, again, guidanse hook is nice, after all.
She could assist also by lifting less haevier things like tool crates. She’s a humaned crane.
Looking at her skill tree it looks like she’s got a total of 6 points out of a possible 21 points (excluding inter orb nodes) invested in the Hentorb. If the sub skill with three points is the raw strength then she’s still got room for substantial improvement, and if the graphics is anything to go by then that sixth and last point in it will unlock something really extra. No idea just what that might be, or what the markings indicate.
On the other hand, if strength is one of the sub skills with a single point in them then it’s strength might eventually rival what Maxima is capable of.
The tentacle is both fast and nimble as Sydney has been shown to have very good control over it, so what putting points in the extra skills available would unlock is an interesting question. I’m thinking it might be things like maximum length, the ability to create more than one tentacle but only controlling on at a time, controlling several tentacles concurrently, changing the shape of the tentacle a bit like Green Lantern, or just change the color of the tentacle.
Looking at the shield it’s only got points in a single sub skill. The four points spent seems to suggest that they are pumped into shield strength, and there’s only one more level of strength before it is maxed out. The two unused sub skills are interesting. My guess is that one of them unlocks “environmental controls”, possibly to the degree that it is able to sustain a breathable atmosphere and a comfortable temperature indefinitely. The last skill is a mystery, and could be almost anything from damage regeneration to opacity and color control, perhaps even making the shield and anything inside invisible.
I hope we get to learn more about these in future comics, but at the same time I don’t want to see a detailed user (read: players) guide to it. Some general hints that keeps everyone guessing at what each point actually means would be fine.
You know what all this speculation means? Other than the fact I learnt a fancy word :P?
Quick, someone invoke a Level-Up in Sydney, maybe then we’ll see the skill tree again…
Daniel here. Just looking at the skill tree again, I noticed each orb has a single lone upgrade point location anti-clockwise to it not connected by a single string like the others, but with a string got out to it, around it without touching then back to the orb. EACH orb has the EXACT SAME setup for this point location. None of the orbs really share any other point setup other than multiple points on a single string. The green unknown orb is the only 1 with this point filled.
Perhaps when all 7 of these shared points are filled, there’ll be a further upgrade in how the orbs interact. Perhaps if another has this orb lit the 2 orbs will be able to share some abilities, activating them remotely? I’m thinking if the shield & flight orbs fill these, maybe the shield could activate during flight without using the shield orb at all, allowing for other orbs to be used at the same time. If so, I’d imagine it would only be the basic use of the remotely activated orb (only basic 1 person shield – no expanding, only telepresence/truesight – not the other…), but never the less, it would greatly upgrade her abilities…
…Might even help work out what the green mystery orb does. Load the next point in the shared upgrade point slot of a commonly used orb, then see if anything extra happens/appears in the orb…
My theory on those double upgrade points is that they allow the orb to be active without being held. This would make them extremely powerful upgrades, if anyone knew to select them…
It would also mean that the unknown green orb is supplying Sydney with some unknown ability, that she hasn’t discovered yet… or perhaps, simply takes for granted…
My guess is that it’s what keeps the orbs tethered to her, since that’s in effect even when the orbs were ‘asleep’ in the tube.
Daniel again. I wouldn’t say they keep them tethered to her, since only the green has it’s 1 filled & they have no idea what the green 1 does. Unless each 1 filled strengthens their connection to her somehow. Guess unless our esteemed artist Mr DaveB decides to tell us, we’re just gonna have to wait & see…
It’s funny that I can completely believe in flying, golden women but my suspension of disbelief ends at construction unions allowing them to assist at a site :P
I love this comic.
I imagine the conversation was something along the lines of
Union Head: So, for publicity, you want me to okay your ArcWhatever team, untrained, to do work on a public road?
Ariaana: Well, well also make a donation to the CWA/IBEW/AFL-ICO Ball, of course.
UH:… Sounds good.
Though I hope they have an actual crew standing by to supervise/guide the construction efforts.
If Archon is putting together highway overpasses using anything like IKEA instructions WE. ARE. DOOMED.
It seems more that they are cleaning up the mess they helped make, plus putting the construction back to where it was before Maxi broke one of the pillar supports with Kevin’s face (maybe one to four weeks ahead of schedule)
One to four weeks ahead of schedule? Either they are using really crappy materials or they should ban anyone named Kevin from approaching that overpass. And why would these Kevins (or is that only the Kevin that Max used?) go around breaking these pillar supports with their faces?
Kevin is Vehemence’ real name
Still thinks that designing an overpass for a service life of four weeks seems kind of crappy…
Umm, no
They’re federal. They can probably exert whatever authority the Army Corps of Engineers can exert.
Sydney shooting to high for the first time out. Start simple; A Double/double Bailey (or Triple/triple, well because Sydney) first, then working your way up to the heavier stuff.
This comics springs to mind 3 questions
1) will her power upgrade as she levels up?
2) is her max weight relative to her strength? For instange ratio 500:1 and did she never realise it cause she only carried light stuff. So with her training will it increase?
3) can she increase the strength for instance by using something like a pulley??
(1) Based on author comments earlier , I’m assuming yes.
(2) If the light hook is just a nifty effect for TK, I’d assume no relationship in terms of lift for the light hook and her personal strength (greater endurance might lead to her being able to use it for longer periods of time. If it’s a “real material”, the that might be possible.
(3) Again assuming TK, the lift limit is probably relatively absolute – but she might be able to use force multipliers (pulley, block and tackle, fulcrum) in combination with rope/cable/lever and pull the cable rather than the actual object, resulting in effectively greater force.
i would be interested to see if she could use it to make simple rope mechanisms with.
like a pulley system.
Hah! Best page yet.
Panel 4 is the greatest panel ever.
What about panel one? o_O
How does Max pick up 35 tons (tonnes since we are metric?) without
1) her boots being completely destroyed by a weight of 17.5 tons on each foot crushing the sole and tread? We are talking on the order of 1,000 PSI depending on her boot size, 2000 PSI or more if she walks around with it.
2) being driven straight into the ground? Whatever surface she is standing on cannot withstand 2000 PSI, unless she’s standing on a thick slab of concrete.
She is a short range telekinetic. Meaning it weighs nothing when she holds it. Other people could explain this better
It doesn’t weigh less, but it is saturated with her field which makes it structurally more sound. She can also fly as she lifts, which spares her boot budget and… floor budget, I guess.
TK nearly always violates Newton’s laws. She’s probably extra strong on a purely physical basis, but she’s most likely moving nearly all of the mass with TK, not strength. That allows her to violate physics and look GOOD doing it.
As a side note, 2K psi is doable on well compressed loess; fat clays can get up to 4K psi. Assuming it’s a usual sites where the 12-18″ of topsoils is cleared, it’s not completely beyond the pale, but let’s assume the TK is doing most of the work
She can FLY, the weight isn’t pushing on the ground. It’s pushing against her flight ability.
Oh, Come On Now!!! When will Max get her shirt caught on some rebar and … RIP!
Um … has it happened YET???
Yeah, just before the camera operator had a camera-in-mouth incident
Her TK “Strength field” extends to her cloths, making them as hard to hurt as her skin.
Not quite as hard to hurt as her skin. They’re a bit less durable than her skin.
Ha Amazing… 16 tons is amazing in marvels rpg incredible 10 tons… so greater than that is 50(amazing) well done sir! well done
No, Marvel’s RPG ranks Amazing (41 – 50), Incredible at (31 – 40). Sydney’s Lighthook strength works into just over half of Excellent range (11 – 20)
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is perhaps one of the unknown orbs going to give her super strength?
grab orb, nothing happens.
use orb, and then lift something…
just a theory…
Ooo… bet on brown? Green feels more life based to me.
Worth a test. Then use it & Lighthook & see if it helps even more…
Concrete beams? Those look more like steel beams. I have never seen concrete beams with bolt holes in them.
I have, but it’s rare for concrete-to-concrete connections. More often concrete parts fit into notches in other concrete parts, not unlike log cabins. However, for concrete to something else you can see bolting.
i hear they order structural materials to have fire-resistant coatings put on them to protect them against fire…
…obviously… :p
As a civil engineer with a small amount of experience with highway construction, I can assure folks that 16 tonnes is pretty casual for overpass components and such . When you get into major hydraulic jacking gear even 100 tonnes is small potatoes.
nitpicky, but Sydney has no shadow.
Maybe she is under cover in shadow, or maybe Sydney simply has no soul
No, she’s confirmed to not be a ginger.
Yeah, I saw that right before I posted it, but it was super late. :/
Ok, so anything which weighs more than 16 tons might not be possible for the orbs to have an effect on…
This leads me to wonder if she runs into anything heavier that she might bounce… shield be needing testing as well.
Shield has been tested vs energy.
Debris might be trickier, as Sidney’d need to be under something very strongly supported as protection in case the shield failed.
We already have the conditions to test it in the current comic. Sydney floats up into the air and activates the shield. Then Max picks up one of the beams and takes a swing at her. The rest of the crew on the ground then collect on their side bets to see if whether we have a broken bat or a line drive.
Ok, first thing, for the Hentacle to get under each of those beams means that it is lifting them all. So BS on not being able to simply move them “more up” after already moving them all up already.
So it is now canon that the Hentacle can lift 175 tons.
Second thing:
WTF? I mean, thanks for the exposition explanation, but it doesn’t seem to match the panel at all. It looks as though Maxima is standing on the ground, not “flying down,” and is pitting her strength against the Hentacle in order to judge its strength.
And third, what is the glowing hand/tit thing going on in the third from last panel? I mean, sure, Maxima is shiny, but not often is it shown with a lens flare/bokeh like that, so it seems out of place unless it is meant to be showing something, which if it is is not clear at all, to me at least.
First thing, The beams are sitting on uneven ground, so there are gaps underneath of sections for the tentacle to get underneath. Or maybe it dug out some dirt from underneath.
Second thing, we don’t see her feet, maybe she is flying an inch off the ground. Or maybe she is using her flying ability to fly into the ground, so it looks like she is standing there.
Third from last panel looks like a combination of sun glinting off her golden skin, and her dusting her hands off.
I do find it a little implausible that she has her flying force is so well calibrated that she can tell how hard something is pushing on her.
Yeah, you can see the dust and that golden streak is, obviously, portraying that her hands were in motion
I usually forget about the shiny stuff on Max, cause I’ve only done it previously when she’s in direct sunlight, which doesn’t happen on every page.
Has she tried lifting with the Flight Orb alongside the Lighthook?
So, she totally could have lifted that rail gun back at the firing range, if she’d thought to use her orb!
Yep…Sydney already knew (at least up to the point when she was being interviewed for joining the team) that she could lift & throw a car. That’s a good 2-3 tons, depending how much aluminum & tinfoil (compared to the actual steel parts) it’s made out of.
;)
I’m not absolutely positive but I think you might have meant hauling parts cross-country for NASA. It says humping parts cross-country for NASA.
Either would have worked, but the military often uses humping when talking about carrying supplies like ammo.
…Just like when Max asked Harem if she could hump Peggy’s Barret .50-Cal rifle, back at the restaurant that got trashed.
oh never mind then I’ll be in my corner
You haul thing in a truck, you hump things on your back. One refers to simply pulling/ towing/ moving something either yourself or with a machine. The other refers to manually lifting and carrying it.
Not relevant to the current page, but I was just thinking.
Death Toll joining ArcSWAT seems like a no-brainer. The nature of his power means he could be celebrated as a defender without being feared as a destroyer, which is good PR. The pay’s good, and being on the biggest super team around makes it way less likely he’ll get ganged up on.
The name kind of translates well into a call sign too. Drop the “Death” and you get Toll, as in “You must pay the Toll to pass” as in give him the means to defeat you.
And it would be entertaining to watch Sydney tease, harass, and trash talk him. Remember that he was seen as being a bit pretentious because of the stupid name and the fact that he was the only one there on either side in a cape.
We must remember her 7th dan swearing levels though. Nemesis would give him… and equal and slightly greater counter to it. Do you really want to see that happen?
wouldn’t that give him a way to stop her from swearing?
I don’t think we need worry about his powers doing anything to keep her from insulting him. They certainly didn’t help him with that during the restaurant fight, after all.
Maxima is the shiniest object in the known universe. Other objects are measured in centi-max’ or milli-max’.
“She loads 16 tones, and what does she get? Another day older and still not a Vet.
St. Peter don’t call her ’cause she can’t go! She owes her soul to the comic stoooore!”
(Young folks not getting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfp2O9ADwGk )
Actually, that was the second post on the first page (would have been first, but took me time to load YouTube and find the Go-Go version :()
Sorry. I DID look to see if anyone had though of that connection before, but missed your post completely.
Though to be fair, I was scanning for keywords and lyrics, not URLs with no context to suggest why I should click them.
Tried listening to that version the other day, and there is just something ‘off’ with the piano (or is a guitar?), he may have the voice for it, but the instruments ruin it (POO)
ever tried to write down in detail a single days events? i suppose you could be a cubical dweller with no life but most folks interact with the world far more than our pitiful conscious memories can easily recall. if you live a halfway active life then the number of interactions with the environment is exponentially greater and if you live an intensely active and dangerous life moments can take days to tell about.
Very true, specially when being introduced to a new phase in your life: these past three days have been huge for Sydney
Yep. That there’s hot all right.
if someone fired a laser at Max would there be a risk of ricochet?
Hex did fire what appeared to be lasers at Max during the restaurant fight. They did no damage to her, but didn’t ricochet, either.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1383
Was going to say that none of the Hex-lasers actually hit Maxi’s skin, but one or two hit her face as she turned to glare death at Hex
Hex? I think you meant ‘Budget Halo’.
Po-Tay-To, Po-Tah-To.
Gina Carano looks kinda like Max, or vice versa. Very nice.
Okay, people keep mentioning her (both here and on the DCUO boards), but not sure f anyone hs actually posted an image of her
Here you go.
Maybe they are the other-dimension versions of each other?
In Grrl Power Dimension, she’s Maxima, in the other she’s Gina Carano?