I’ve had this scene in my head for a long time, but it was only recently that I thought of Sydney throwing him by his tongue. Normally she wouldn’t be strong enough to one arm a 190 pound guy over her hip like that but he was mid-double over and half blind. Also when someone starts yanking on your tongue like that, you kind of have to follow where it’s taking you.
Edit: I’ve fixed her hand so there’s no more mid-air grip reversal. Now to color the next page!
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Love it. But ….. oh,man …. the GRIP strength needed to flip a guy by his tongue.
Whatever else might happen, that robber should eternally thank the Ghods Abive that Sydney didn’t opt for a squirrel grip.
I hope that tube stays closed through the entire scene. Sydney is a hero; she don’t need no stinking powers to overcome a couple of bank robbers.
Plus, you know, the most powerful super on Earth is in the bank, as well.
Good thing she didn’t bite his arm or something – that dentition of hers in the last panel is kinda scary….
Unless the justice league is thrown into our reality sometime tonight this is gonna be the single most awesome thing I see all day.
well about you own comment on your strip,, about how she would not normaly be strong enough to one hand hip throw a 190 pound guy like that,, from experience,, judo can cam easely d o that,, specialy when you have a lower center of gravity then your oponnt and the oponent is distracted,, beside with a possible adrenalyn rush,, you would be surprised at what someone can do!,, and dont mind that reverse grip,,,its an amazing panel,,, and its a comic,, so who is to say she didnt reverse it somehow between grabing the tongue and pulling it :)
Sure you can accomplish a lot with just a little martial arts training. I took an Aikido class once and we learned a wrist lock that let this little chick that I could have one arm benched put me on the ground. Sydney’s not a martial arts expert, though I’d guess she took a self defense class once, but probably never finished it because when the instructor said “When you do this throw, make sure you hold on to their arm so that they spin all the way and land on their back. If they land on their side, their shoulder could be dislocated” Sydney rubbed her hands together and said “Reeeeeeeally.”
Or she could’ve been like me, when injured I go into a berserker-like state, it is apparently almost impossible to train someone like that.
DAMN!
She’s got really good grip to hold onto a slippery tongue. :D
Well maybe the guy’s got a tongue ring. Let’s hope not, because… ow. And ew. Or maybe he was already, understandably, off balance.
hmm. Heres a thought.
Regardless of if sydney uses her powers or not at the bank, all maxima needs to do to find out is pick up the tube and walk away with it for sydney to be dragged to a nearby quiet location for quizzing.
Wha-haaa…! O.O
That’s gotta hurt.
*giggles* the hot peppers have wings~
And stingers!
That’s one hell of a throw – and I adore her expression in the last panel – but seriously, eww. She’s going to need something to wipe her hand on now.
She’s not really thinking right now. She is at condition orange or red… “the actions of a tiger” in full undivided attack. Get in her way at the risk of your life. Since she isn’t trained she might strike out at anyone that crosses her until she drops down to at least condition yellow.
(The scale goes: white, yellow, orange, red, and black. Only a very few warriors can operate effectively while in the black.)
I love the look on Maxima’s face. :)
Um.. Dave…
I think you should check the angle the guy’s foot is at again
Btw I agree with Amy, I love that “oh s***” look on Maxima’s face
( can we swear here?)
The foot looks fine.
Don’t people normally have four knees after being thrown down by their tongue?
Seriously though, that’s his right leg, which is moving in a different direction from his left leg.
But isn’t it wearing a left shoe?
Not sure if you’re going to play this out like I think, but I have a feeling this is Sydney’s outing and Maxima is going to be mostly watching from here on. Syd’s almost pure emotion anyway, and a living dynamo to boot. She seems to have one speed, fast forward, and one mode, make it up as you go. That said she’s obviously smart and apparently there are 2 rules for dealing with her. Number one don’t make her mad, number two never forget number one.
I really think the canister’s about to come open and Maxima will stand back to see what she can do. Maxima will only step in if needed but she’s a strategist. She’s going to be evaluating Syd’s potential. This is how Syd gets outed and gets onto the team IMO.
They will probably give her some combat training, but I hope not. Her style is effective and funny as h—! Tongue Judo, Tongue Fu, PMS (Purely Madcap Syd), or whatever you want to call it works.
Fantastic sequence! I love the final panel.
Yes, I think the foot is not right, but I hadn’t even realised, ’cause the scene is so good and Maxima’s face is so good, too xD
I’m not sure what’s wrong with the foot. Other than I hate drawing feet. Not the way Rob Liefeld hates them granted. Maybe if you drew the rest of his leg it’d make his thigh look a little long.
the foot is drawn correctly for what is shown, but the angle at which it is coming in from off panel is wrong, you should just rotate what you have shown of the foot/leg clockwise about 90 degrees and it will be more correct. as it is, his knee is somewhere directly above Max’s head (off panel) even though his ass is still directly above Sydney’s head (and still in panel, as she’s bent over) so unless his thigh is about 7 feet long and/or he has extra knee joints…
At first, I thought the lower leg was disconnected, and intended to show the degree of motion he went through to get to the ground face down.
Then I thought the back of his jeans was Sidney’s backpack.
Now I see, mostly, what you seem to be conveying, but it does look like he’d need an extra three foot long leg section there to connect between where the knee appears to belong above his hip pockets and where the knee has to belong above his ankle.
Still, NOT worth fixing.
I remember a Wizard magazine pointing out Magneto’s 12-pack on the cover of an X-Men back in the 90’s. I also remember a documentary showing that the statues of the greek gods were anything but anatomically correct. That they’d actually achieved anatomical correctness, then abandoned it in favor of more “appealing” proportions and anatomical details.
However, if you DO see fit to fix it. Would you mind taking the shoe off, dropping it beside his head, and leaving just a stocking foot?
I just like the idea of the throw knocking him out of one or both of his laced boots.
But I’d much rather see more story than fixing of nitpicking things like a head that faces the wrong way, a leg that has too many joints, or a door that swings different directions in adjacent frames.
Yeah the leg is a little off, but all I really would need to do is either change the angle of his shin, or the roundness of the cuff on his jean to show that his leg went off to the side a bit.
Not really worth fixing but I’ll try and be more careful about stuff coming in from off panel.
ok i see how that works then… but that looks like a left foot not a right.
If this were a situation where you had time to really get feedback before publishing, or at least worth your time to make such alterations, what might look really cool on this page is if the last panel had no borders and was actually drawn to fill the whole page, and all the panels before it were just superimposed above it. That would 1) look awesome 2) draw focus to the action 3) subtly show the angles of his legs so people don’t get confused.
I think the “Box” is already open. Where else would small, winged, TALKING Chili`s come from?
Unless of course Sidney had them in her mouth all the time since elaving the restaurant….
also: First post of a long time lurker. I like the comic a lot so far ….except for the really mismatched relation of very very slow pacing of the story with the “one update per week” schedule.
Well, the flying Chili’s aren’t… literal. And I know the update frequency sucks. Hopefully after A-kon I’ll be able to get more than 1 per week done, maybe as many as 1.3 per week. Stupid mortgage and needing to have a job.
Aww man, now with all the people that will be staring at her can can definitely never see her transform into Halo!
I wouldn’t say that. After all their’s still one more robber left.
BTW I also love the look on Maxima’s face.
I’ve just tried and that must be an amazing combo of tongue length and grip ability to pull that off. Looking forward to future updates.
Did you try having a near lethal dose of capsaicin in the air before attempting it? probably dried out the tongue enough to grab it..
A 7-10 split, aerosol capsaicin from one who warps the scoville scale and a… tongue assisted body-slam!?
i can understand the first two but the last one got me, she’s too small to be able to body slam someone that size.
about the same, he would have already been hunched from the 7-10 and the coughing from the pepper breath…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ELoHgc8HUM&NR=1
Most “hand-to-hand”-type martial arts actually FAVOR the smaller fighter over the larger, because they can more easily get under their opponent’s center of gravity & unbalance them. From there, gravity does most of the work for you, while you just help it along. The most devastating weapon for inflicting “blunt force trauma” is not your fist or your foot…
…it’s Mistress Gravity & Madame Inertia…
…with the help of Mr.Wall & Mr.Floor.
haha i want that pepper breath as my super power!!!
I know a great place that would help with that. Their spicy meals make you want to scream there so hot, and damn is it good.
Wow 100 posts all based on Curry breath and grabbing a robber by the tongue. Good job man.
And it’s only Tuesday! Preposterous situations seem to be popular. More are coming. :)
I know of a Japanese Aikido expert named Yoshi who once threw around 3 men. he weighed about 180 or so and 2 of them topped 350 including me at 370 or so (then). In all of that he never broke a sweat or used more pressure than it would take to pick up Syd’s tube. The key is to direct the momentum that already exists. Syd, without whatever is in the tube anyway, couldn’t throw that man. With his body already moving forward from the pain and the cough a slight tug is all she needed to toss him.
Spiking him like a football is another matter entirely Without that tongue hold he would have pulled back and softened the impact by pure instinct. Sheer pain from that works in her favor though, and he actually went with the pull to avoid the pain. It’s quirky, preposterous and absurd, but workable where any other way it wouldn’t be.
” It’s quirky, preposterous and absurd, but workable …”
I think you just summed up the writing goal for any superhero comic. :)
My goal with the comic is to present a slightly more realistic take on superheroes. It won’t be some dire novelization about how everyone who hangs out with Atomic Beam Man gets diagnosed with lymphoma because he gives off more radiation that a cell phone tower, but it will try and take some real world elements in to account. But that being said, comedy will probably trump all. It’ll (hopefully) be a little like Red Dwarf in that regard, where they take interesting Sci-Fi ideas and use them to resolve any situation comically, like traveling back in time and accidentally screwing up the assassination of JFK, resulting in dire causal circumstances, so in order to resolve it, they travel forward, grab the still alive JFK and convince him to go back with them and be the shooter on the grassy knoll. BTW if you haven’t seen Red Dwarf, and you like you some low budget Sci-Fi britcom, check it out, it’s one of the best things that’s ever been aired.
Absolutely!
I totally agree…it’s got some pretty funny smeg, utterly ridiculous but at the same time charming in it’s semi-low-budget-seeming way d:
The only real question is how did Sidney reverse her grip from panel 5 to panel 6.
I’m not sure how you think which side or angle of the foot is a need to know. Looks to be the side of a boot. Short of it flying off we can’t tell from just a shoe. Especially since it a drawing! If it was really necessary for Dave to indicate which foot that really was. he would have had it flying off, hitting the Goon in the head to add on to the already escalating damage to his ego. After all, Syd Here has just slammed a man to the ground. If it wasn’t A comic of EXTRAORDINARY EXAGGERATION,which is really Fricken Sweet by the way. You could argue that the possibility of his jaw slamming shut Separating him from ever being able to talk normally would be an issue. Its probably going to be really swollen after this, plus As far as we can tell from the progression of this comic. Sydney’s hands could possibly be harboring the intensity of what she had for lunch. She may not have stopped to wash her hands in the restroom, before leaving King of Siam’s establishment.
First, Excellent comic. Love the style and flavor. Just one minor detail. in the last two frames, the first has Sydney’s thumb to his face and the second frame the thumb is away. Don’t throw anything at me as I love the comic and the final panel would look….different if drawn consistent with the first. Excellent work, please keep it up.
Thanks,
Brett
Ok enough people have commented on the reversal of the grip that I think I’ll try and fix it. Shouldn’t take too long, I just won’t get any Terraria time in tonight.
By the way, if you’re drawing a webcomic that takes up all your free time, don’t play Terraria. If you’re not, I highly recommend it!
Somehow I’m expecting Maxima to just hand Sydney the tube, and stand back, letting her know it’s her show.
(It’s actually a good superhero tryout situation: Maxima could probably stop all the remaining crooks in an eyeblink at this point. While the crooks have guns, they are in a situation where they’d rather not use them, and there are no superpowered opponents. A small police squad could handle the situation if needed. So there is low to no risk, and if Sydney messes up Maxima can fix things.)
WHAHHH AHAHAHAH HHHHHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LOLOLOL
Simply love this whole page.
There must be something wrong with my observational skills, because I never noticed any of the things people are mentioning when I read this comic. Well at least that shows I’m in no danger of turning into someone like Brad from page #12.
Nah, Brad was convinced he was right because he let his desires dictate his worldview. His observational skills missed the fact that an article isn’t a listing.
This would be more akin to all of us whining and telling DaveB that he’d “promised” to do 1.3 comics a week, every week he didn’t manage to do two. Just because we all want it to be, doesn’t make it true.
Assonance accidental.
Well, I’ve promised to post and extra comic whenever my buffer gets over 4, but since I’m also trying to squeak out a submission in time for the Gold Digger annual. I want to have it ready next week in time for Akon, so at the moment my buffer is sitting at 1. Well, 1.8 maybe. I’ve got the second one drawn and inked and shaded, but none of the highlights or the tricky stuff like Maxima’s skin done. After Akon, I obviously hope to rebuild the buffer and then I’ll try and get out that extra comic every once in a while.
Well, I’ve fixed the position of the hand in the last panel, so there’s nothing to notice now.
I absolutely love the look on Sydney’s face when the robber hits the floor! Is it possible she has inherited a genetic factor that, aside from allowing her to “warp the scoville scale” as MadMann said, also gives her exaggerated adrenaline production? That would be a fairly easy explanation of the situation, if one was so inclined to want to explain an incredibly funny scene. Looking forward to the next one.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned..
No….hell hath no wrath like a woman pissed!!
It is friday, no update today, that makes me sad. I have to go to work in 15 minutes. I am sadder. I get paid today, so happier. It’s going to be high 80’s and muggy and buggy, and I’m a seasonal gardener, so roughly 8 straight hours outside. I wish I had an update to cheer me up and keep me going through the day… Ah well, love it so far, just promise you won’t go the route of (WARNING, MATURE ADULT CONTENT, will detail at end) and I’ll be happy. They had a good thing going, good art, good story, just starting, but life got in the way, after that not sure what happened, haven’t seen an update in more then 6 months. Still check in every now and then, but nothing happening. For those interested, it was about the college adventures of teenage supervillains, but like I said, very much adult only, not safe for work. If anyone is interested I can try to find a link to what little is left, but basically, your doing a great job, and keep up the good work. I may complain every now and then, but I’ll keep coming back.
Well I have to day I’m curious about that comic, as I’m generally a fan of adult content, hur hur. It is always disappointing when a comic you like fades away like that. There was one I read called Hellbound that was just about the funniest thing on the net as far as I was concerned, and now not even the archive is up any more.
Actually the archive was re-posted with permission here
https://loneverse.com/hellbound/hellbound.php
Oh excellent, I’ll have to re-read it.
Umm… that “equalizer kick” wouldn’t work… at all. Sorry, I find the whole “foot to the groin” trope pretty tired. The honest truth is that it’s insanely hard to kick a guy there. We are hardwired to prevent it, and there’s no way you could get the kind of speed and force to have a real impact.
Plus, she’s a lot shorter than that guy. I don’t think she’d even be able to reach. Go ahead. Stand up. Do that kick. Now imagine yourself being held from behind. You couldn’t connect with someone your own height. not to mention taller. To do that, she’d need to lean forward and lift her knee.
Not happening.
I know that this is a partly humor comic, but yeah… wouldn’t work. It’s silly.
Well, it is mostly a humor comic, so that trumps all other considerations, but I think it’s defensible. He was choking her, lifting her off the ground, and she had been kicking away from him, she caught him in the backswing, adding force to the kick. It was just bad luck for him that she caught him just so – but you’re right, we are hard wired to defend against that. Even if it was a near miss, he’d likely jerk away from her, dropping her and it was the pepper cough that really caught him off guard.
I have no idea why.. but every time I look at this last panel.. I hear Austin Powers shouting “Judo CHOP!”.. Hope it’s nothing serious :(
heh, Sydney’s breath, worse than pepper spray, or even tear gas
seriously the tounge flip is one of the best things ever. I’ve read this page over seven times and I keep coming back for the $#!+s and giggles of the whole thing.
How come I suspect that Nothing Maxima was going to do would of been half as Painful or as Nasty As the Unconventional Geek Judo?
This comic needs to update more. I’m getting tired of re reading the same comic waiting for the next page, no matter how awesome it is so far.
excellent work good sir! I was waiting for her to reveal that super power! the 7-10 split I mean…
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Heh, I just noticed…
A short while back the comic title is “But kicking in 5…”
This page would be the zero of that countdown. Nice timing!
Planning ahead is a good thing!