Grrl Power #421 – Let’s get physical
The doc is a bit of an anti-Maxima when it comes to tolerating quirky supers. In her career she’s met more than her share.
In a week that doesn’t involve a super battle royale, she’s only at the base once a week, since her powers put her in such high demand. She works in trauma wards around the city, but after the fight she was needed to get the team back to ship shape. (As well help with some of the more significant injuries to the red team.) Archon has priority on her time, but Max would probably defer it if a school bus flipped over or something. There’s also a small staff of non-powered doctors who fill in at Arc-SWAT the rest of the time, but Doc Chevy prefers to do the initial physical herself when the rare opportunity presents itself.
“Uie Maa,” I’m told from some Google searches and twitter Q&A means something like “Dear mother.” I wanted her to say something along the lines of “Good lord that was loud.” but make it sound like someone who also spoke Hindi might say. In case that doesn’t read right to someone who actually is bilingual, if you have a more organic suggestion I may change it.
Sydney’s reaction to Harem’s arrival seems to be a conditioned response at this point. The exploding cuff merely startled her.
On a completely unrelated note, Overwatch is really good. It’s basically Team Fortress 3, minus the hat economy, and the character designs are bonkers good. I mention it cause I may do some fan art since one of the characters in the game looks rather a lot like one of mine. Coincidentally I’m sure. I’d be surprised if anyone at Blizzard even knew of my little comic here, but I thought it’d be cool to draw them together.
In the meantime, here’s a (vote incentive) painting I did of Max in that new style I’m experimenting with, being skeptical/displeased with something it seems. I have mixed feelings about it. It’s alternately pretty good and a little wonky. I’d like it more if it took less time to draw, but I was playing with brushes at the same time and learning as I went so hopefully the next one will look better and take less time.
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Hey Dave, in the hypothetical scenario where your series was animated, who would you imagine voicing which character?
For example, I myself keep imagining either Harem or Heatwave sounding like Judy Greer. (quick reference: Cheryl from Archer)
I could also imagine someone like Travis Willingham for Deus. (Mustang in the FMA dub)
Sidney, Maxima, Dabbler and Vehemence seem like the hard ones to pin down suitable voices for.
Sidney-Kristen Schaal
Maxima-Colleen Clinkenbeard
Dabbler-Cree Summer
Vehemence-Clancy Brown or Dwayne Johnson
This is just my opinion.
No no no, Vehemence HAS to be Takahata101.
Hell, just use the TFS cast, and you’re golden.
I dunno Taka has a gloriously smooth voice(particularly his perfect cell and Alucard) but do you think his absurd smugness inherent to both voices may not be a better match for Deus? Just saying Deus strikes me as having a voice like having your ears flossed with silk and we know how highly he thinks of himself
Agree. Taka as Deus, Cancy Brown as Vehemence.
Sydney – Tara Strong (Raven of Teen Titans, Twilight Sparkle of MLP, Harley, Lollipop Chainsaw, etc etc…she’s really the only one who can do the energy, aside from maybe Jennifer Calvello who did Excel in Excel Saga)
Harem – Lauren Tom (Jynx of Teen Titans)
Max – Mary McGlynn (Motoko from Ghost in the Shell)
Anvil – Allison Keith (Misato of Evangelion)
Dabbler – Colleen Clinkenbeard (Ritsuko of Evangelion)
That’s a few of my pics.
I say Christine Marie Cabanos (Mako in KLK’s english dub) for Sydney she even looked kinda like her!
Tara Strong as Sydney would sound awesome :)
I think that Stana Katic would be a good voice for Maxima though (she voiced Lois Lane in Superman Unbound, and was Kate Beckett on Castle.
I thank you for providing references to all the voices I know all the characters and none of them by their names.
That’s why I did that. Most people don’t know the VAs behind the characters unless they are uber-famous and in multiple high-profile roles (like Tara Strong).
Even I have to look up VAs all the time whenever I hear them to figure out who they are.
My favorite one to hear randomly in something is Eric Stuart, because no matter what I hear him in, I immediately go to two of his most famous roles as Brock from Pokemon and Gourry Gabriev from Slayers, and at that point every time he speaks all I can hear is “Hi, I’m Brock. Look to me whenever you need an explanation of what is going on.” and “LIGHT COME FORTH!!!” regardless of what he is actually saying.
Patrick Warburton has to be in there somewhere. Probably Deus.
Maxima – I can’t think of a perfect match, but Jennifer Hale might not be bad. She played Fem Shepard. (Also Sam on Totally Spies and a million other things).
Sydney – Olushola suggested Kristen Schaal for Sydney. She has the right energy but she’s much more shrill than I’d like. I’m not sure who would really fit her. In my head she’s a 22 year old female Ace Ventura.
Harem – Hmm, I don’t know. Maybe someone like Rainbow Dash (Ashleigh Ball) for Harem. That… raspy isn’t the right word, but she has a slight grit and a crack to her voice, though I hear Harem with a bit of a southwestern accent as she grew up on a farm.
Anvil – I’m tempted to say Gina Torres, but only cause she kind of looks like Anvil.
Dabbler – I’d probably want someone with an accent, someone already fluent in French, Spanish and Russian so that it creates an exotic undertone, and also for when she’s casting a spell or speaking in an alien language she could make it sound convincing. She’d have to be able to go nearly as high energy as Sydney but most of the time keep it sultry.
Deus – It’d have to be a confident, powerful orator, and also someone who can make you shit yourself when he says “I – AM – THE DRAGON!”
May I suggest morena baccarin for Dabbler?
Tara Platt would be amazing for Sydney – easily transitions from serious/pondering to childlike/silly
Lorelei King would make a good Dabbler – Very adept at the subtle intonations that make accents believable; also has a voice like 30 yr old scotch – smooth and sultry
Powerful orator who can make you shit yourself on command? Kiefer Sutherland. Watch Phone Booth some time. I don’t think Sutherland is actually on screen at any time in that movie but he still manages to have a powerful presence as the disembodied voice of the main villain. It was enough to re-launch his career and land him Jack Bower in 24.
Hmm, but how good is he at smooth-smug?
Also, I’d vote for Shohreh Aghdashloo for Dabbler. She’s amazing as Chrisjen Avasarala in The Expanse and she’s slated for some sort of huge but mysterious role in the upcoming Star Trek movie.
She’s multilingual (not french though I don’t think) and has one of those rich, smokey voices that can be both menacing and sultry at the drop of a hate. And her Iranian accent would give you the sense of the exotic that you seek.
Sounds like Dabbler should have a Portuguese accent, then. Here’s Ritagamer. You be the judge…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BDBCWgiyYM
I’ve pictured Dabby speaking with a thin French/Eastern European hybrid accent for awhile.
Deus: A younger Christopher Lee? Or (If he was still alive) Richard Burton? (Listen to Jeff Wayne’s version of War of the Worlds, The way Burton says “They were doomed” sends shivers down your back no matter how many times you hear it. )
Unfortunately, both are no longer around
So is my choice for Dabbler – Eartha Kitt. Since she is no longer available, Grey DeLisle seems a good fit. Or Ellen McLaain- aka Glados. An odd choice, I know, but I think she’d have a lot of fun with it.
And Jennifer Hale for Maxima.
Not sure about Eartha Kitt, she has more of a ‘cat’ voice to me (mostly because of her role as “Catwoman”)
Most of the names suggested me nothing to me (either haven’t heard of them before, or can’t recall what they sound like)
If you want Harem to have a slight southern accent, well, you’re in luck, since Ashleigh Ball also voices Applejack.
Heh.
I’m never very good at matching up potential VAs to characters- personally I think that if you’re going to have a character, you find someone who can change their voice to fit the character, rather than someone who’s natural voice matches. In that instance, it’s the Voice Director that’s important- and of course, there’s no-one in the industry better than Andrea Romano.
I think Benedict Cumberbatch would be great for Deus. Perhaps Vin Diesel as the voice of Vehemence? Vin is actually not a bad actor, he just found it easier and more lucrative to do hard-core “stupid” action.
a) I agree with Cumberbatch as Deus. Although I can “hear” Michael Clark Duncan as Deus, as well.
b) Vin Diesel is kind of awesome in animated form. Iron Giant. Seriously. IMBd it. Tripped me out.
Hmm, MCD, to me, has too deep of a voice
Iron Giant (and Groot) aren’t really very good examples for Vin’s VA range: if you didn’t know he was both you wouldn’t know it as he has far too few lines
I think Tara Strong might be a good choice for Heatwave.
Peggy, I think of Jennifer Aniston
Dabbler, the voice I think of [as unconventional as it may be] is Hilary Farr from HGTV’s Love It or List It
Honestly for Deus, i’d have to say Jeremy Irons… We know he can do the smooth talking, and I still can’t get over his over the top performance in Dungeons and Dragons. Plus, you combine his Simon Gruber and Scar personas, with a bit of his character from Eragon and you have the perfect “Holy shit is this guy evil or what” sound to his voice.
I would suggest Shinohara Tomoe if this were the Japanese cast.
I would want an unknown for Sydney, truth be told.
Yup
For Leon or the General, I’d suggest Mark Hamil (AKA Luke Skywalker, and The Joker on the animated Batman series)
Those are only Mark Hamill’s two most famous roles. He could probably do literally every male character in any show, and do them well. His IMDB list is gargantuan, and most of it is voice-acting, sometimes multiple characters in the same series. Also, think about the difference between his voice as Luke and The Joker. If I had to pick a role, I’d want to maximize his use, and it seems like Math has the most lines–and funny ones, too. On the subject of Mark Hamill, though…
I think James Earl Jones would make an amazing Vehemence.
I’m not much of an MLP fan, but I have to agree that Ashleigh Ball would be a good Harem and Tara Strong would be a good Sydney–though the main reason I agree Tara Strong could do a good Sydney is that she was Harley Quinn (not the original, but cast in the role several times; more convergence on Mark Hamill). She also has an even longer filmography list than Mark Hamill, and a lot of it is video games, indicating an adaptable voice.
I think the hardest to name but easiest to find would be Dabbler. That exotic, sultry voice isn’t usually sought after, but it’s easy to find. The first example of this that comes to mind is the many hookers on House. I hear her having that smoky Eastern European accent.
I think Max is the hardest to pin, because she’s as pivotal to the series as Sydney, but her personality is much more complex than most of the other characters. I’d go with someone with a lot of versatility, like Mark Hamill or Tara Strong. She has to be able to be terrifyingly angry, realistically nerdy without being geeky, nurturing and somewhat motherly, commanding, disciplined, and more, often showing more than one of these traits at the same time.
Actually, I think Marina Sirtis (Demona of Gargoyles and Dianna Troy of Star Trek: TNG) has shown that range between those two roles, which brings to mind another perfect match:
Jonathan Frakes (Xanatos and Riker of the same shows) would make a good Deus.
I kinda hear Vin Diesel for Vehemence – must be typecasting in my head.
That IS inconsiderate – you’d think she’d have a grip on that by now.
Especially since porting in near Sydney often causes pain. This time, not from her.
She didn’t know Sydney was there.
Probably not, but I’m wondering whether her “blind in one eye” was a dig at Sydney’s recent noodle
Incident… um, mishap or just a coincidence. Or maybe Dave just has a thing about eye injuries.The point is, she didn’t bother to check, Doc Pravat could have been giving The General a prostate exam
I’ll bet that she knew EXACTLY where Sydney was, and as part of her role as a Double Agent she’s trying to get the drop on any info she can about Sydney’s exam that she can pass on to Deus (and any “Others” as TRIPLE agent) all by claiming the “Oopsy, i didn’t know you were in here” card…
I’m sure that during the interview Sydney had waay back when… and Harem vorp’ed in was ALSO part of the whole Double Agent thing too, though I’m sure she was surprised to find Sydney, and that she only expected Max, the General, and Stephan to be in there talking about “stuff” above her pay-grade for her to “accidentally hear” before they all shut up when someone knocks at the door before allowing them in…
Ooooh, nice look for the doctor. And a good zoom in on the eye. And the vote picture of max. Great art all around!
So it looks like the doctor is the straight woman among all the zany shenanigans. I vote the next incentive is her looking skyward, wondering “why me, oh Lord?”
Trying to figure out what Maxi’s look is: contempt? boredom? sleepiness? gas?
I am thinking that is her look when she getting a little frustrated with Sydney’s latest ADHD antics.
I vote that the next vote incentive is the D&D shop in full colour.
Is it bad that I read that as: She’s getting a little frustrated with Sydney’s latest AD&D antics.
Just wondering as I’m sure Sydney is perfect at playing kender, or possibly a halfling thief, driving the other players insane…
I get that look often from females, even 6 month old babies, when my antics go off the deep end and they are not sure what they are seeing, but it can’t be sane, and it is obviously very silly.
My reaction to it was an urge to tickle her or a finger to the ribs to break the too serious look. I’d have to have invulnerability though because the secondary reaction (after the quick giggle) would be rage. That would be my character in a nutshell. A trickster (no not the Joker though he might be amused) who twits the powerful and aids the weak. Chaotic Good was always my alignment.
Do you ever do game or art twitch streams?
I do stream art very rarely at https://picarto.tv/DaveB I don’t do it a lot because I’m a slow artist and watching me draw is probably tedious, but also when I’m working on stuff other than the comic, it’s usually later in the day and my wife is home so I need to pay some attention to her. I’ll stream the Zayra/Peggy piece if I remember to though.
I haven’t ever streamed games just cause… I don’t know, there’s a million people who do that stuff already and with my ADD I don’t think I would do good commentary. Trying to play a game and talk at the same time would involve a lot of uh’s and um’s and even sentences that just trail off.
Instead of streaming maybe just record it and speed it up to show your work and add commentary. Not sure how YouTube rules cover drawing so you might have to blur a spot or two. If you do it consistently it could provide more income and bring in a wider audience.
Uh, you can draw/paint just about anything except nudity or whatever else violates youtube terms. I don’t draw nipples on people then draw clothes over them so I could post the whole process.
I didn’t know what your process was. Sometimes you need to incorporate underlying structures into the clothing or at least the location of them.
Yeah, but you don’t need to draw the nipples, if you have to have the shape for the clothing, just a ‘bump’ on the lump of the breast would work
Really liking the Doc, hope we see more of her :D
Remember your hippopotamus oath!
Hippo-potty-moose (or is it a mouse? o_O)
I will do no harm, before it’s time.
“It’s unethical to harm a patient. However, I can inflict as much pain as I like.” ~ Dr Phlox, Star Trek: Enterprise
There is an extra ‘to’ in panel eight
I wonder why Sydney is at the doctor’s office…? Is it for a physical???
Yeah, probably a general check-up
If Harem ever vorps in on the General’s checkup she would be in for more than a stern warning.
“It was optimistic to think we could fit your physical in mid-day. We’ll have to reschedule.” – Doc, panel 8.
Yeah, I think it might be a routine at-enlistment physical.
What would happen if the doc summed up Sydney’s psychical by writing the following with a synical smile….
4F!!!!
Anyone who served in the military might know what that means!!!
Never been in the military, but I saw that on Captain America’s signup sheet.
So I assume that means, “Not fit for duty”.
Old classification system from WW2, yes? Used to know what the coding meant, but that was over 30 years ago. 4F was “not fit for duty due to physical impairment”.
I sense a wikipedia article in my near future….
It is still used actually… I got a damn 4F back in ’05 when I tried to enlist in the Navy, but because I had to use an inhaler to control my asthma as a kid, I was marked medically unfit, permanently. Only reason i know that 4F is still used is because I tried to join the guard a couple years back, and they pulled up my file, and it said 4F- and some other numbers after it
Panel. 3 threw me for a minute.
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Dang lack of editing!
You mean the two Dr Pravat’s?
Yes…
Had there been space some sort of transition border should have been included to indicate that a second or so had elapsed.
Or make one of her a little less ‘solid’
Before anyone asks, Harem is saying hippocrates(father of medicine), not hypocrites(A person who lies about what they are doing).
Doctors, of course, take the hypocritic oath.
No, that’s lawyers.
{ A picture of the “Why not both?” girl}
No to be confused with hippo crates, which is what zoos use to transport some of their animals.
HeeHee!
Consider this pun liked!
Anyone else seeing Harem giving herself a prostate exam in the last panel??
That’s not where you find the prostate (not between your shoulder blades anyway)
Look at her right arm, looks like it’s shoved under her spanks.
That would be difficult, seeing as how she doesn’t have a prostate
And yet her right arm still looks like it’s shoved in there doing a self exam
Actually, she does: Skene’s gland, also known as the paraurethral gland, found in females, is homologous to the prostate gland in males. However, anatomically, the uterus is in the same position as the prostate gland. In 2002, Skene’s gland was officially renamed to female prostate by the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology.
I’d pay money to see her give herselves a breast exam! 3:)
Well, they kinda did that in the playboy shoot
Aaaand that’s available at DeviantArt….
Aaaand it’s NSFW….
Harem Playboy Shoot Topless
I imagine Sydney’s pulse is more like a buzz right now.
“I made coffee using Red Bull instead of water. Now my heartbeat feels like Dubstep.”
“I made my coffee with Red Bull instead of water, now I can see noise”
“I made my coffee with Red Bull instead of water this morning. I got halfway to work before I realized I’d forgotten my car.”
Good to see someone else has issue with Harem’s teleporting antics.
Fairly sure everyone does
Difference is that doc chevy will make you her little bitch for doing it. >:D
You forget about the Maxima-wedge
Forget why did the cuff explode, real question has to be how did it explode?
Blood pressure too high. She probably pumped it up without looking at the gauge.
Who did she think she might have broken it on? Don’t remember the name.
Varia, but Dr Pravat is possibly one of the few who can pronounce her name correctly
If she can do that then i want to see her try pronounceing Mr. Mxyzptlk.
You just want to trick her into returning to her home dimension
Mix-YIZ-pt-lk.
(That’s my preferred pronunciation. DC’s official version is MIX-yiz-pittle-ick, but I call Death of the Author.)
I’ve always for some reason pronounced it as Mix-IL-Pickt for some reason, or Mixy-Pickt even.
Sounds like you were exposed to Super Friends in the 1970s. They simplified it down to Mixelplick.
According to DCUO, it is “Mix-her-spittle-ICK!”
Was Mik-zel-plik when I was a kid. The backwards was Klip-le-zkim
Super Friends pronunciation.
They call her Doc Chevy around the base.
Yeah, and bet they chase her a lot :P
Tend to assign personal nicknames, makes it easier for me to remember (and… have a problem with ‘official’ names sometimes :()
But again, was asking how, not why
Yeah the hose-cuff connector should have popped off first…
Like she said. It’s probably broken
If you pump up a cuff that high, I guarantee that Sydney would have been yelling, due to the pain.
The implication there was that when Xochitl (Varia) touches the doc, she actually generates a “trauma” field, or rather, a decay field that slowly damages everything around her.
Oh great! She touches the doctor and she automatically casts Cause Light Wounds.
She does it as a spell-like ability with a range of Touch
Minor wound, level zero, 1 hit point damage – enough to off an apprentice wizard but just annoy most house pets. Meta Feat – continuous.
Cause Light Wounds, Mass
“when Xochitl (Varia) touches the doc, she actually generates a “trauma” field, or rather, a decay field that slowly damages everything around her.”
That would be the only way it could happen. Not only are those things *tough*, but the pressure would pop the bulb or the gauge off the tube well before the pressure got high enough to burst the bladder. And no doctor would get it that high anyway, since you would peg the gauge long before that – going any higher would be pointless.
In fact, I don’t recall ever seeing one break in the 20 years I’ve been doing EMS. The gauges will stop working, but not the bladder.
(Also, where’s the gauge? :) )
I work at a nursing college. We recently got a grant that let us replace some of the really, really OLD stuff. Including some blood pressure cuffs that had failed in exactly that way. (All other parts of the cuff had been replaced at least once – and possibly more then once.)
Speaking of old – the school still had GLASS equipment on the back shelves! Not just glass thermometers, but glass syringes, suction tubes and glass bottles of wound packing strips. Anyone wanna guess how old some of that stuff was?
Turn of the century more than likely though I know of one glass master that makes the occasional replica.
I recall seeing glass medical supplies (syringe tubes and medical sample containers) in the early seventies, but it was *damned* rare.
Definitely antiques by this point – encourage the hospital to sell them as antiques and the can probably recover a good chuck of that grant. :D
Just as well the Doc can heal then, except she can’t ‘heal’ inanimate objects
So, does this ‘trauma field’ also damage her clothing?
I know she and Doc Chevy are immune, but is their clothing?
Generally, those things have a safety to not allow the pressure to rise too high so as to cause damage to the patient or equipment. Mind you, with people like Hiro, Anvil and Max, you may need to disable that safety just to get the pressure to overcome their muscles and armour class. Also, the doctors generally watch the gauge while listening to the pulse under the cuff. This way, the doctor can also act as a safety and stop when they can tell that your blood pressure indicates that you should be in the midst of a heart attack already.
Sydney’s pulse/pressure was so great, it redlined the gauge. The pressure against the needle after it hit the upper wall backed up into the cuff, which exploded, causing soundwaves to travel through Sydney’s arm and into the stethoscope, thus amplifying what was a mere startling moment to our heroine into a deafening noise, which blew the stethoscope out of Dr. Chevy’s ears.
Rule of funny/Cartoon tech…
Hrm, the doodle at the bottom, seems to indicate there exists mints strong enough to beat Sydney’s fire breath?
Or so the doctor hopes.
There are mints strong enough to CAUSE fire breath. One brand name: Altoids.
I eat those things like candy. Barely notice them any more.
I used to do that, until I realized that the aspartame in them was giving me migraines. :(
Pretty sure Altoids aren’t nearly as strong as they used to be when they first came out.
Someone gave me a cinna-mint (cinnamon and peppermint) a few months back and it was actually painful. Regrettably, I did not get the name of the mint.
Used to be cinnamon candy called… Fire-Bombs? I think? Anyway, it was in fact the bomb for getting alcohol and other recreational drugs off one’s breath. Not even sure if it’s still available or if it’s still seriously strong.
I’m sure Harem would have been hoping to teleport into a prostrate examination
I’m also sure she is used to being bent over a bench/seat/bead by people soon after teleporting into rooms people might be naked in.
I freak out by the sound of a balloon popping. I don’t dare think about how I’d react to an exploding cuff. I’d probably never dare to have my blood pressure taken ever again.
Is it still day 3? I thought with the quick scene shifts in the previous pages (cue South Park/Team America “Montage” song) that we might finally have moved a bit forward. I wonder if Joel is missing her at the shop. Sydney seems to have forgotten that she had arranged to be able to share time between Archon and her comic shop, though clearly she still needs to work out the details with Maxima.
And I really like the portrait of Max, but are we not going to get the full colour version of the medieval shop with the centaur shopkeep?
I’m working on that. It’s about half colored right now. It’ll go up on DA when it’s finished.
As long as the dock don’t have her fingers crossed during the prostate…
That reminds me of an old Benny Hill gag: A patient (Benny) is bent-over, facing the wall, during a prostate exam when the doc puts a hand on each of Benny’s shoulders.
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In one of our Champions games there were maybe two or three people that had resurrection capabilities in the world, so when the alien invasion came and managed to push through the various system defenses by sheer weight of numbers (Earth tech was better, they reached Earth with about 20% to 30% of their original fleet) and managed to kill a lot of the more powerful supers on Earth. Then in order to bait the rest of us they gathered the corpses at Madison Square Garden. So, since they could detect super-powered beings, the powers that be sent our group in (all of us had ways to conceal our powered signature) to show up in the bowels of the stadium and draw attention while a plethora of non-powered elite people in stealth gear snuck in and tagged the bodies with some teleport beacons and rigged the stadium to blow. We ALMOST lost that fight because of the large number of power suppressing enemies and just large numbers coming and coming…but we managed to hold out long enough for the job to get done and got evacuated.
I recently had a pic done of the event:
https://fav.me/d9dyoiy
this thought was provoked by the presence of the super-powered doctor.
*Drools at the stealth gear*
Wait, you are Sydney without the balls? o_O
No, just an odd way I link up thoughts. It feels perfectly normally until people look at me strange. My mother does the same thing. One psychologist said I have a spiral framework of thought. Instead of linking concepts together linearly, they curve around link to what’s ahead, what’s behind and to whatever else is tangentially in reach supposedly.
Meant your character (and it was supposed to have been a compliment)
Oh, sorry, I get literal minded occasionally. And not really, Greyskin had phasing powers due to being able to moderate which dimension she was in at any given time. She simulated superstrength by partially slipping the mass of things she interacted with to other dimensions. She had some tough skin, but most of her defenses were based on the fact that she was constantly filtering different parts of herself in and out of various dimensions. So mind control was less effective against her because her mind wasn’t completely present, bullets and other attacks mostly passed through her because her body wasn’t entirely lined up with the prime dimension, and power draining attacks likewise. This is also how she acquired longevity, basically filtering her body through which ever dimensions had the most favorable time-dilation. There literally wasn’t anything in the world that she couldn’t walk through and she was the toughest character in the party.
What’s really funny is she was taught some dimensional theory by a member of an immortal extradimensional race called the Eternals who were essentially the Greek gods and started toying around with other entities because they’d hit a dead end in evolution (basically they improved to a point where they couldn’t improve anymore) and liked to see the directions other beings would take. Her tutor (Styx) hadn’t bothered to tell her that certain things were impossible…when next Styx saw her, she was jigsawed across multiple dimensions and walking around as if it was no big thing and wondered why Styx was having a heart attack.
Though she WAS Sydney-esque in that she was a super fan-girl….had knowledge supers and knowledge super-history. And it came up fairly often.
GM: *mentions several names in a briefing*
Me: Can I roll to see if Megumi (Greyskin) knows anything about these people?
GM: Sure, go ahead,
Me: Umm, passed by 5, passed by 7 and that’s a 3 so critical success.
GM: ….
Of course, she did try to ask for a villain’s autograph in the middle of a fight once. And one of the first things a big-name prior gen hero got told when the NPCs saw her was “She’s going to come over here and ask for an autograph now.”
That is one beautiful picture. Was this something *you* did or *had done* by someone else? (guessing the latter based on context of the post, but I wanted to be sure).
Also, Hero System!
Had done as it notes in the description under the pic. I pay for art, otherwise my self-publishing and RPG stuff would be a lot cheaper.
Yep, Zarya from OW is based on Tamara Bakhlycheva, a blizz employee https://i.imgur.com/7RGwv6v.png
makes it that much easier to co-play when the character is based on you
Dr. Chevy’s disposition is like if Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi had a little sister.
Also, I would love if the Nathan’s Hot Dog competitors had to have their blood pressure taken before and after the July 4th event. That would be fascinating.
I’d have to say the eye scar and pink hair on the Overwatch character is, at least, an interesting coincidence vis-a-vis Peggy.
The physique and powerset (gain power from people (trying to) damage you) is closer to Anvil though.
Something that occurred to me: Is Dr. Chevy one of the ones privy to Dabblers true nature? I would think the group physician would be on the list of need-to-know for that matter.
if for no other reason than so she doesn’t get freaked out when an invisible hand grabs her tush while taking her blood pressure
What other doctors know about aliens? They have to get severe injuries occasionally. I doubt a disguise could hold up to major surgery.
Maybe there are alien paramedics that get to them first using medical monitors.
there is Probably a support structure in place to keep that from happening… a “men in black” kind of deal, except they litterally deal with tourism instead of …. okay, so it’s Exactly like “men in black” >_>
I like the Eyeball chart in the background normal, x-ray and heat vision!
I dearly love Doc already. :D
To be fair, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some doctors who would do a whole lot worse for something like that (assuming they were acquainted with super powers).
Calling Harem an “inconsiderate child” coupled with bending her over like that,making me think Doc is about to spank her!
YES PLEASE!!!!! Specially wearing those toight spandex pants!!!!
Punish me, doctor! Make me regret everything!
So, since you mentioned other organic ways to say “good lord that was lord”, i just wanted to mention that the way you have it actually works….because apparently (using my google-fu skills) lord in hindi, translated to english, would be “bhagavaan” with “good lord” being the even longer “achchhe bhagavaan”.
Are there different deities in her pantheon to invoke depending on the nature of the problem or emergency?
I enlarged the picture and decided the doc’s expletive appeared to be “Lide maa”, which Google Translate recognized as Danish meaning “must suffer”. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem like a plausible expletive for the case (although perhaps for Harem’s arrival…).
Google couldn’t meaningfully translate “Liie maa” (Hawaiian: liie Holmes) or “Uie maa” (Japanese: Houyet Well – Houyet is a town in Belgium).
Fairly sure it is ‘Uie Maa’, roughly translates into “Me (my) Mother”
just as “I” know that it’s NOT “Uwe’bol: who’s touch turns all to poo”
Not according to Google Translate (and DaveB actually said it was spelt ‘Uie Maa’ in his comment section)
Is Doc’s first name Cherry? (please tell me someone gets this)
cherry chevy? I’m sorry i dont get it D:
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, writer/director,whatever for Family Guy. Real hot little Asian girl. Check the dvd of Family Guy Empire Strikes Back, she plays Star Wars trivial pursuit with some of the guys.
No, but I once heard that someone took her to the levy, but the levy was dry.
Them good ol’ boys were drinking whiskey and rye
additionally i also found another website from googling “what are ways to say good lord in hindi”
and came across “arey kya” which apparently can mean “what the hell!?” (it seems that the indian language use kya in the same way as the japanese do)
Um, “Ui-Maa” just sounds like the word “mother” in hebrew. אמא.
which is, to be fair, a real exclamation someone around here shouts when surprised or scared. So you nailed it there. But hindu? Dunno. Anyway, I can help with hebrew if that was your intention.
he was, in fact looking for hindi. I have helped in some above posts i made.
Yup, in Hindi it’s roughly “My Mother”
Hey, Dave, you should put a word balloon in that Max incentive pic with the words: “Impress me with your silence.”
+1
jesus i just now noticed those flames look like one used in the anime (or on the cover of the dvd?) Gurren Lagann. Nice anime nod there Dave.
So A thought occurred to me, that has nothing to do with the actual comic. I would love to see one of the team done with VR paintbrush they have out atm.
At least she didn’t pull an Ed, Edd, and Eddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l7iHsPmG1I
By the way, Sydney’s eyes seem to be gold in color which is a possible color in real life but extremely rare. It’s basically a rare variation of brown eyes.
Well, brown but they highlight yellowish.
Isn’t that Amber? o_O
Dang, Doc is strong. Even if all of Harem’s bodies are out she stronger than most normal humans making that on handed hammerlock all the more impressive.
She has surprise, leverage and possibly anti-healing on her side.
And intimate knowledge of where it *really* hurts!
True but that only does so much and the way she grabbed her is pretty bad leverage wise and getting harem from the position she was to the position she is makes her have worse positions leverage-wise. She’d have to spin her backwards of how you’d normally spin a person facing you into a hammerlock Also, if the person is strong enough compared to you and has decent enough reflexes, you need more than just leverage.I’m far from super strong but have managed to block surprise hammerlock cause I was stronger and/or recognized the moves being used on me.
… she’s a doctor, everyone knows even Normal doctors have super strength, just ask dr McNinja :P
We don’t actually know the steps between panel nine and panel ten (panel ten could be simply after Doc Pravat has wrestled Blondini to the table and she is holding her with one arm as she reaches for her strap {or other instrument of punishment})
It’s still a bad leverage position to hold someone with significant strength which we know harem has in spades.
Maybe, if Daphne knows how to wrestle and break that hold, as it is, it won’t take much pressure from Doc Pravat to break the arm, or at the least make it painful
Still easier done with your arm in line with hammerlocked individual’s spine than sticking out perpendicular with it..
Better yet if you really want to drive pain and the possibility of injury home with little effort pinky-locks are humiliating as well. pinch a folded between your thumb and forefinger. It turn your opponent’s strength painfully against them.
But did Sydney at least get a lollipop at the end of her visit to the doctor?
I like this doctor.
Regarding the vote incentive, only one thought came to mind:
Maxima playing poker.
Stir-rip Poker ;)
Seconded!
One with the guys and then one with the ladies
Never ever fail to exploit a market unless it’s just to expensive or too illegal.
(as a side note, that sounds a bit like a Law of Acquisition…)
Actually, I can see her giving the same look to the suggestion she join in on that kind of game, too.
Color her unimpressed (pun intended)