Grrl Power #539 – And the winner of the cannonball contest is…
Woo, double sized page, and… well honestly not a whole lot happens on it, but if it had been a regular size page the art would have been tiny.
Maxima may be the only Lieutenant Colonel to allow her recruits to cannonball her. In the jumping in the pool and making a big splash sense, not shooting her with an actual cannonball, though she probably wouldn’t get too upset with that either. You’d probably wind up doing extra laps or get extra standing guard in the rain duty or whatever, but you’d definitely get in a lot more trouble if you shot nearly any other Lieutenant Colonel with a cannonball.
You think Max actually treads water, or would she just fly in place about shoulder deep? She probably switches back and forth. For that matter I bet she wouldn’t bother swimming underwater. I mean you could chose between all that flailing about or just propel yourself, how long would it take for you to give up on swimming? People can swim kind of gracefully like a dolphin, especially if they have flippers on, but without flippers, most people kind of look like they’re trying to climb a rope horizontally, or push bushes out of the way.
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Chick porn – it’s a thing.
And it’s not just pictures of guys doing the household chores
To be fair that would be pretty dirty…
It actually exists, it’s a book called “porn for women.” Google it.
When googling it, it has at least 4 related books.
Damn. Is that just all SFW pictures of guys doing chorses? If so, I may have to buy that as a gift for my girlfriend.
This seems relevant:
https://xkcd.com/714/
There’s nearly always a relevant xkcd.
It’s getting just as reliable as Rule 34.
I’m not yet at the stage in my relationship that I would give my girlfriend actual porn.
One of them is a book of postcards. I bought all of them cheap before my local Borders went out of business.
Apparently the book she was shown reading 2 pages ago, realy does exist:
https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Bodice-Ripper-Willa-Edwards-ebook/dp/B00HVPKASO
Not sure about the backpage shown back then.
30 pages… so it’s a quickie?
I Googled “Jack the Bodice Ripper book reviews” and got mostly nothing. I found a ?publisher? which sells e-reader versions of the author’s ‘books’ for a few dollars, and the reviews on that site seem to be submitted either by individuals or by some very specific romance or BDSM groups or organizations.
I didn’t see any reviews by anything that could be called a mainstream book reviewer, probably for the very good reason that if they were to review such a book it would either need to be a completely harsh review (I’m going to go just a tiny bit out on a limb here and assume that the quality of the writing takes a large back seat to the sex and BDSM elements) of they would be mocked by their peers for even bothering to review such a piece of trash.
In light of the floating force field, the laws of comedy demand that Halo stand and start running as fast as she can. For science!
Ultimate hamster wheel of DOOM!!!!
Sydney’s face in panel 9 is just adorable!
Sydney is the best at adorable faces! She’s done so many it’s like that’s her natural power.
Of course, this is when you realize that Sydney, with one single action, just got all the gals wet…
I’d think Yorp might be a bit jealous that Sydney has that effect on other girls, before getting with him…
;)
It is nothing less than I would expect of Sydney.
*wags tail proudly*
with confirmation that syd’s shield can carry water, we at least know she can put out forest fires
Let’s see. She can carry about 16 tonnes, so 16 cubic metres of water in the water bomber role. How effective would that be. Hmm, (Yahoo! search for water bombers capacity), the Bombardier 415 can load 6140 kg of water. A Mars flying boat in water bomber configuration can load 27300 (rounded) kg of water. So she would be between the most popular and the largest water bombers in service today. Now all she has to do is find a lake and avoid including all the fish.
The lighthook could carry sixteen tons, it’s almost certain her shield is capable of supporting vastly more force before it buckles. The only thing we know that’s made it react after all was Thor hitting t with Mjolner, but it could easily support hundreds of tons most likely given what we know of the powers of various people. Throwing around hundreds of tons is still below Maxima level after all.
We don’t yet have real data on how much she can carry flying, but even going with 8 metric tons (a little over half the lighthook’s capacity), that’s still a goodly amount. Additionally, unlike firefighting aircraft, which rushes upon the fire and basically tosses the water at it, Sydney has the ability to precision-drop the water exactly where it’s needed, and the density of the spray would be extremely high, so it’d be much more effective, even while using less water (and thus, reduced geologic impact). win/win!!
[T]he density of the spray would be extremely high, so it’d be much more effective […]
I disagree (or misunderstand your phrasing). When fighting fire, the extinguishing effect mostly comes from the cooling effect, which comes from the evaporation of the water (cf. sweating). But water evaporates best when its surface area is large, so you want your water to be in as many little droplets as possible.
I also doubt her accuracy would be that much higher, but I do not know much about either Sydney or firefighting aircrafts.
A foaming agent is often used when water bombing. This makes the water disperse and cover a larger area and increases the surface area and cooling effect.
Not saying that being able to drop a concentrated load of water would be useless, but it’s not for taking out a big raging forest fire.
If you can produce a fine enough water mist it can even be used to put out gasoline and oil fires. Something you should NEVER attempt to do with a fire hose.
Firefighters sometimes use an interesting combination when attacking forest fires. They have a large atomizer that produces huge volumes of an extremely fine mist. This is then blown using a high powered fan towards the fire. Usually blowing on a fire is a big no-no if you are trying to put it out, but add the water mist and it suddenly becomes an effective way to suppress even a blazing forest fire. It also makes more efficient use of water than just hosing the area down which is important when there’s no fire hydrants for miles.
The lighthook could carry sixteen tons, it’s almost certain her shield is capable of supporting vastly more force before it buckles. The only thing we know that’s made it react after all was Thor hitting t with Mjolner, but it could easily support hundreds of tons most likely given what we know of the powers of various people. Throwing around hundreds of tons is still below Maxima level after all.
The question is, is there a limit to how much water she could carry while flying? Her shield can get say, 10m across based off the scene with the power demonstration. You could easily be carrying more than a hundred tons of water in a sphere of that size, without even needing to get her feet wet if she’s floating in the middle.
When did Thor hit Sydney’s shield!?
I’m wondering this too. Was it in that collab Dave did?
add in that Syd’s flying speed at full load is probably better than a lot of aircraft and as she doesn’t t have to worry about stalling and can hover she could be a lot more accurate.
Daniel here. This sounds pretty accurate to me, she can throw on her scuba gear, load up, speed over to the target, hover precisely where needed & drop her shield, drenching the area with a potentially sizable hit. Scuba gear should stop smoke inhalation as it’s a self-contained air supply, plus it means she can fully submerge & go deep enough to get a decent amount of water without fear of drowning. Maybe upgrade her goggles to include GPS, if she’s completely surrounded by water…
She’d need a full-face mask, not the usual mask+regulator, so that she could communicate via voice. Not a problem, just specialized equipment.
Yah I was thinking the same thing a simple scuba set up doesn’t plug your nose and is only a bitten mouth piece for the air tanks. I would make it a helmet set up that attaches to the wet-suit with the air tank attaching at the back and a HUD overlay on the face-plate set up like FPS video games. Mini map in one corner, general status in another, outlined or highlighted objects in your view. That kind of thing.
As was said, the lighthook can carry 16 tons. We can be relatively certain the flight orb is weaker then the Lighthook. If nothing else, it just failed to overcome the bouyancy of a shield sized airbubble relative to water.
Basically the shield is just a transparent Diving Bell, minus the weight (to counter bouyancy)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell
Did it actually fail to overcome the buoyancy of the airbubble? When she pops up in panel 7, she’s not holding anything in her right hand (you can see black between index and thumb). She’s still holding the shield orb, obviously. And for certain, in panel 9, you can see six orbs above her head.
I think it’s more likely that she flew down until she was completely submerged, then released the flight orb, and let buoyancy expel her. This also explains why there’s a lull in the surface action for panels 5 and 6. Personally, I think if she had kept pushing with the flight orb, but it just wasn’t up to the task, then she never would have submerged all the way. We wouldn’t have seen the pool surface in anything approaching quiescence.
the problem wasn’t that the flight orb wasn’t able to overcome the buoyancy, it’s that the shield itself is buoyant so she needs to use both the flight orb and the shield orb in order to be shielded underwater. after all, she did say “i can’t maintain my shield, fly downward against the buoyancy *and* use a *third* orb at the same time”. so it’s not that she can’t fight against the buoyancy, but that she can’t use any other orb while doing so, vastly limiting her effectiveness while underwater.
that just takes us back to Screwball and TxDave’s comment about needing the right gear.
Not quite.
Assuming the shield forms a sphere, and has a diameter of 5 foot 10 inches, a quick calculation shows she’ll need an extra mass of 114.6 us tons just to counteract the buoyancy of the shield sphere in water. That’s a really big weight belt. :-)
Me, I find it interesting that the flight orb + shield can overcome this resistance at all. It suggests that if you made a strong enough carry frame, the shield + flight orbs could not only easily carry a M1 Abrams tank, it could probably carry multiple M1 Abrams tanks!
This may be beyond even Maxima’s capability, and leaves the lighthook for dead.
We are forgetting the inverse situation. If a boat sank and needed to be recovered Sydney could just fly a decent sized bubble down to the sunken ship and quickly swap the flight and hentai orbs. If she can lasso the boat quick enough before she floats away she may have enough lift to bring it to the surface.
Hmm, it turns out that the Bombardier CL-415 is now the Viking CL-415. Bombardier sold the certificate a few years ago.
Sixteen tons, and what do you get….
…Another day older and deeper in debt…
honestly, in the area I’m from in Australia, she’d probably get better results fighting fires with the PPO.
You don’t fight fires with fire trucks down here, you use bulldozers and then use the fire trucks there to stop it escaping.
I believe there’s a maxim to the effect of “Any sufficiently large gun can be used as a entrenching tool”
“You don’t fight fires with fire trucks down here, you use bulldozers”
Remind me never to call the Aussie fire department if my house is on fire.
Bushfires, house fires are dealt in the normal/booring way
Maxim 44. If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool.
Maxima is Shantae after years of training… and a lot of shampoo power ups^^
I’m having a hard time picturing Max belly-dancing.
Remember, Shantae only does that when she is doing nothing for awhile…. we never get to see Maxima doing nothing, so for all we know, that could be her inner nerd time (since she doesn’t show that to often to others >.> )
Which means she only does it when bored (which is still possible for her) and most likely in the confines of her quarters where NO ONE (especially Dabbler) can see.
X might see though.
Max turning into an elephant would be a power-down.
Unless it’s an amplifier (Max’s power level being M-size x Geode Water, and Elephant being L-size x Geode Water).
Wanna bet Max wanted her to engage the shield half filled with water, and she planned to push down from above? Sydney should also test her new PPO setting to see if the shield opens _only_ for the PPO or if it allows water _in_ –a very important distinction.
fair point if the PPO opening lets water in it could seriously limit her underwater effectiveness
And under lethal gas/outter space effectiveness.
Althow she can still cannon ball herself with the flyorb and shield. Literally.
I can’t recall if DaveB gave a conclusive comment on this when the page was uploaded (and I don’t feel like checking) but there was lot of debate if her new rapid fire mode opened a hole in her shield, or if it was a circle projected on top of the shield through which the fireballs came. Personally I feel the later makes more sense with what we’ve seen so far and it would not put her at risk when using the combination in dangerous areas (submerged in liquid or surrounded by gas for instance).
syd literally calls it an aperture function
Which refers to the ability to control the diameter that the fireballs come out of, not necessarily if there is a hole in the barrier.
The lighthook doesn’t create a hole either and is projected outside the radius of the barrier, why would the PPO (a much more dangerous ability) not function the same?
Before this spins out of control any further I went back and found DaveB’s answer to this:
“It’s not a hole in the shield, it’s a uh, particle portal.”
which is basically the same thing since pthe main definition of a “portal” is an empty space surrounded by a frame of some kind
The main difference being that in fantasy and science fiction settings a portal has a lot more likelihood to being 1 direction only, and going through the portal doesn’t necessarily lead to what is behind the portal.
That’s because the main real-world use of ‘portal’ is a door. The main comic/fantasy/fiction/sci-fi use of portal is spatial collapse between at least two points. Or, depending the kind of powers involved, literally just a “this portal is here, that portal is there, stuff goes in one and comes out the other” which violates the ‘shortened space’ clause of theoretical portal/translocation physics.
Air is pretty buoyant. While I have no doubt Max could keep a completely dry shield bubble underwater, it does open up the possibility of serious risks. Example, if the PPO porthole is bidirectional, Syd’s going to be taking a pretty good gush of water through it when she tries that.
It is not that air is buoyant; the real factor is that water is very dense. Archimedes’ principle states that an object’s buoyancy is determined by the weight of the medium that is displaced. Hmm, Sydney sure did displace a lot of water, but that was due to momentum, not buoyancy.
there is no “PPO porthole” the PPO creates a portal *outside* the shield that fires fireballs and/or laser-beam at the target/s.
Sydney already showed us what happens, remember the Lighthook against Vehemnace? Cannot be inside the orb, but it appears out of it, as if Sydney had it in her hand, just literally 6 inches outside the Shield. So the PPO should be firable just outside the orb – although i will grant, aiming might be an issue, particularly if the Shield gets larger before using it.
You know what… I’m just waiting on Sydney’s super bangs to make an appearance. Kind of like the legs of a Kraken springing forth after anything in front of her face. :P
I’m thinking her bangs being obedient when wet is a reference to Sedusa.
This seems like a good way to test the weight limit on the florb.
Quick estimate of about 15 tons displacement from the shield.
That’s the weight limit of her hentorb.
Though I guess the shield can change size and displace more.
This could be a great time to discober that the Unknoun orbs can change the specifics of the others. Like making the shield half a sphere or open or not airthit. … I spelled that wrong, didn`t I?
airtight
and try an addon called Grammarly
We know the Shield Orb has modifiable shape parameters, anywhere from the conformal lozenge shape for high speed flight (also used at the end of the Vehemence fight) to the 25 meter diameter sphere used at the press conference. I don’t think there was a lit node between the Shield orb and Greenie or Red on the skilltree, so one of those being a “modifier orb” seems unlikely.
*discover *unknown *airtight
But I forgive you because of your good taste in comics!
Thanx. Im also from Spain and English is my third language.
Where did the guys go? Or did they get washed away completely?
(I can see Math using the wave as an excuse to faceplate into Varia…)
dab’s is not there either……
I’m guessing Max saw the ‘Cake exchange & broke it up between comic strips. But we still got ladies here so I’m good…
…And Daniel the Human just rolled his eyes at me. Apparently those are “Going to be the strongest muscles I’ve (Daniel the Human) got soon at this rate”. Anyone know what that means?
I’m guessing Dabbler is still playing great purple shark around the bottom of the pool. Sooner or later, Max will hear the music…
I’d be more inclined to believe Dabbler playing the Coppertone dog…
Wetsuit, dang it, or I’d completely agree with you. Could also be a reason why Max won’t “rock a bikini” around the subordinates, again?
well that or the fact she is light reflective.
Back at the bank robbery only her head and face got some sun and blinded the people around her. So her entire body would be like a light beacon from some anime shining a beam out into space and flashing the entire continent with light!
Ok so I’m over dramatizing it but you get my point. Besides she is self conscious about her body to begin with. (Via the photo shoot conversations)
Repeating my earlier question, What were the guesses for the powers of the last two orbs?
i hope one is just a users settings control
set how long till they power down from no use
set how fast the orbs fly
set how close they passively orbit
basically a bunch of mundane stuff
I’m hoping one of them is like a keyboard macro orb. Would be really handy to be able to set things off on a timer or something, so that she can sort of use more than two orbs.
The characters in the comic think one may be a regulator for the others and one is the power source.
however the regulator idea was shot when she hit her first level up. The speculation is done in the boardroom during her interview to join up, just before the press con. and well after “If I show you there’s going to be so much whisking, you’ll think its the cooking network!”
I’ve had a bunch of ideas, like:
– Class Wheel (Being infected with vampirism would let her use vampire abilities, or learning magic would unlock mage skills, but since no special classes are unlocked, it isn’t able to be activated. Once it is, she could say, learn magic, level up and become a vampire, and originate a new vampire strain. Probably also a level-up ability for cybernetic compatibility.)
– Requip (Gives her the highly desired Hammerspace, as part of the orb’s function. New equipment could be added to the orb at will from that point on, and she can grab the orb and it auto-equips previously stored armor once she stores some. Also insta-equips weapons or gadgets. To unlock, she’d need to hold in her hand the requip orb and a magical item in the opposite hand, but she didn’t do that yet so it isn’t unlocked. Possibly a level-up ability that lets her craft or fuse stuff.)
– Blue Magic (Final Fantasy / Breath of Fire ability. Becomes an absorbative portal kinda like The Master of Games’ necklace in Teen Titans, that lets you absorb someone and their tech, and shapeshift/power combine as desired from your stockpile of prisoners.)
– Copy (Like Blue Magic or Varia’s ability, but really it’s just Rogue. Level-up ability lets you keep the powers copied as functions you could use later, but they have to be gained, trained, and mastered first.)
I love panel 8 where you can see Max’s eyes in the water with ‘god dammit’ look to them.
Now that you mention that. Every time I can think of it taking hits, it’s been attached to the ground. We’ve seen Sydney getting pushed while she’s just floating with the fly orb though. So maybe if she got Max-Falcon-Punched in the air she really would just zoom off.
Meant to reply to the comment below this one… Derp
caught that too its funny how every time Sydney does something near her she ends up with that look.
Now if Sydney’s shield can take tons of concussive force. And not move her an iota. Why would there be a chance Max could push it under water? But then again how can it be immovable to outside force yet have buoyancy?
maybe it floats because Sydney thinks it should?
because the shield contains air it’s basically a giant beach ball, since it’s round it gains even better buoyancy, the sheer amount of force created by air pressing something up tends to be quite surprising even more so when it’s something the size of that shield it’s the same buoyancy rule that giant several thousand tonne ships work out from, from sheer weight alone those things should be at the bottom of the ocean, but due to their shape they stay afloat, same principle.
there is also the fact that the air causing said lift is the air INSIDE the shield which the shield might not be able to compensate for
Buoyancy is caused by the fluid being displaced. It pushes on the object that’s displacing it.
Now that you mention that. Every time I can think of it taking hits, it’s been attached to the ground. We’ve seen Sydney getting pushed while she’s just floating with the fly orb though. So maybe if she got Max-Falcon-Punched in the air she really would just zoom off.
would most likely work like a giant marble
Actually, I am flashing back to Maxima checking the Shields ability to take a hit. Sydney’s Shield was so strong that Maxima could whale on it, and even blast it, and it still never moved. Depending on if it was an effect of Density, Dissipation, or Distribution or force could have some interesting side effects while they learn how water can affect those orbs.
For that matter, all of those might be options on the orb skill tree.
(of course, it could just be some kinda Orb magic, completely beyond the laws of physics as we know it, and this is a moot point)
Max couldn’t move the shield previously because it was a full circular Shield and was filled with several tons of Earth and a large iron block. It was also in an exactly shield sized hole. Max’s hits on the upper edge would not have been sufficient to pop her out. I do wonder what happens to services that she statically cuts through when she activates her orb on the ground that would make her considerably more destructive to underground stuff every time she uses her Shield like water mains and electrical and tens of other stuff or if the shield is simply one molecule thick and it’s a molecular knife except for the fact that the stuff in the way won’t move, so it continues working.
When she activates her shield while standing on a surface the bottom flattens out underneath her feet. There is no ‘cutting through’ when activating the orb.
Check back to the Vehemence fight, she was getting dragged via the lighthook, while the shield was activated, without it tearing out a chunk of the asphalt behind her.
same with walls i noticed. Im thinking any stationary inanimate object of sufficient size simply folds the shield flat like the ground. however that is my theory. there is a huge conversation regarding her shield during the fight you mentioned. and several thoughts on how it works.
another says that the shield only goes to that point and stops so something can tunnel under it and pop up. another says that it is not a full solid but still a sphere below ground and becomes solid on contact with air. I wish i could remember the page there were some brilliant ideas.
Tunneling underneath, or at least coming up from underneath, is a no go I think. If there was an ‘easy’ way in like that it wouldn’t be able to block out teleporters either.
and that is pretty much how that theory went in the conversation there to. hahahaha
“Maxima could whale on it” She hit Sydney’s shield with a whale? I must have missed that page.
When the Council heard of this, their alien faction sent a request to have a probe visit Earth to look into this act of cetacean abuse and speak to the native whale population for any evidence of this crime.
Unfortunately, they forgot about the light speed lag and this will have the probe arrive sometime in the late 23rd century. I hope they remembered to request that the probe turn off its gravity drive when in orbit. Those can really mess up the weather systems of M class planets.
not sure if what you are saying is because of sarcasm, an age gap, or translation issue but when some people in america say “whale on it” they mean to continually hit an object/person with as much force as they are capable of producing.
Eldestdawn: See my reply to Sel, below. In America, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct spelling is wale on it.
I am familiar with the phrase. I was trying (and obviously failing) to use similar sounding words in a facetious way. I guess by failing to hit your funny bone I was not being humerus.
I got it
+1 for sarcasm and
+ 4 for the movie reference no one but me appears to have gotten.
Needs more nuclear wessels.
I don’t think the pool is big enough.
Just fyi, Sel, the etymology and proper spelling is “wale on it.”
Apparently the derivation has to do with the ridges on the skin left after a beating. I’ve put the relevant definitions in italics:
wale 1 (weɪl)
1. the raised mark left on the skin after the stroke of a rod or whip
2.a. the weave or texture of a fabric, such as the ribs in corduroy
b. Compare course a vertical row of stitches in knitting
3. nautical
a. a ridge of planking along the rail of a ship
b. See gunwale
— vb
4. to raise a wale or wales on by striking
5. to weave with a wale
Actually, either is correct, MSpears. “Whale” is the British/Canadian/etc equivalent to “Wale”, much as “Colour” is to “Color”.
Admittedly there are difficulties of form, chronology, and meaning. In this context, “whale” is considered an alternate spelling of “wale”.
Thankfully he didn’t use “wail” which is absolutely incorrect. If he had said that someone wailed on it, I’d say something to the effect of “What? Where’s the great bleedin’ banshee that thought screaming at Halo’s shield would do anything?” xD
Banshee, of the X-Men did.
Siryn helped but it didn’t work to well…
missed opportunity to say Siryn helped but it didn’t work two wails.
also, it’s pretty obvious sound travels through the shield, so sonar-based attacks might just be effective!
I will grant i meant to use Wale, not Whale… but still could be applicable given Maxima’s strength (although not her morality unless it was an evil whale)
I also read enough that wail wouldn’t have even been in consideration, unless i was sure that would succeed in pun form for the lamentation of the women. (although saying this way practically guarantees someone will get it easily)
How will Sydney attempt to pull off using three orbs at once???
maybe Max noticed that the orbs orbited both her and varia when varia touched her and is planning on using that
She’s probably just going to push Sydney-in-Shield under water, like you’d do with a beach ball.
Daniel the Human seems to think Max will get Sydney to fly in her bubble till she’s submerged, then get her to to let go of the Fly Orb while Max basically sits on top, preventing it from rising. I just wanna know more about the ladies & that book…
She’s probably got weights to weigh Sydney and the shield down, maybe have it partially filled with water to assist.
By teaming up with Varia. Long foreshadowing. :)
More likely she will use 2 orbs by activating shield UNDERWATER, if the sheild is full of water its not boyant, ergo 2 orbs.
no…just no…the purpose of using the shield underwater is to give her an oxygen supply so they can comprehensively test the unknown orbs. filling the shield with water while not wearing any kind of breathing apparatus kinda defeats the purpose of using the shield while underwater for an air supply.
not if only part of it is filled just to her hips that still leaves plenty of air and kills a lot of the buoyancy issue. plus she could use the hentai orb to make a tube leading to the surface and around her bubble at the bottom like a straw in a drink. Pop the bubble get new air lift some of the “straw” and redo the bubble half full again. new air and next test set.
She has an air tank. we know this because weve seen her use it. also the test is to see if the orb being underwater does anything.
No can do, I think. She can’t actually change the function of the molestorb, only its active shape. Sword, tumbleweed, neon sign advertisement, lasso. But it’s still a solid cylindrical tube. Plus, it doesn’t touch or go through the e-shield.
The best Sydney could do with the tentacle would be to have Max drop a big iron block with a tether loop into the pool, and then grab onto it and pull her bubble underwater. She would hang upward from the anchor like one of those mines in old submarine movies. This still leaves her with both hands occupied.
The way to free up a hand would either be for Max to actively push down to keep the bubble under, or invite Stalwart for a ride and have him slowly increase his mass until they reach negative buoyancy. (Then Sydney could start with the submarine comments “Ahooooga! Dive! Dive!”)
Prompting going down comments from xurial
Interesting – that’s a big splash, considering her shield is basically just a big air-filled balloon at the point she dives in… lots of surface area but no real weight, so she should have just bounced without much splash. So I’m guessing that wasn’t just a regular cannonball into the water – it was an orb-assisted power-dive for maximum impact?
She didn’t drop. She flew down into the water full speed.
At full speed she likely would have gone through the bottom of the pool and into the building below…
I think they mean full acceleration. it takes time to get to max speed even with her orbs because of physics.
anyone else notice that the panel with the water raining on max’s head is level with the patreon ad where Sydney starts by saying “make it rain y’all”. well played Dave, well played.
i think that only happens if you have an adblocker active, as i have two long ad banners pushing the “make it rain y’all” ad down to almost below the comic itself.
Guess she will park Stalwart next to sydney and break the foundations of the swimpool that way ;-) or more gentle: fill it with water while using that oxygen device sydney got previously.
I failed to speak Boston here. What is a ‘Drah’?
draws slang term for underwear
Drawers are an archaic term for underwear.
Don’t feel bad, it was “dahty” that threw me for a loop for a while. I kept wanting to see it as “nahty” and it just wasn’t making sense at first. My bad.
Reminds me of a scene from “Gettysburg” where Colonel Chamberlain’s younger brother is questioning a Southern soldier about why he was fighting. He replied that he didn’t care one way or another about “darkies” but was fighting for his rats. Brother: “Your what?” Soldier “My rahts, my rights!”
@panel2&3: Sydney does have the nicest body out of all of them.
It’s the most real.
I hope to see Max’s face in panel 8 in circulation for the portraits in the header.
I wonder if part of Maxima actually enjoys getting aggravated by something non-sexual for a change. Before Sydney I imagine it was mainly Dabbler who got on her nerves.
Btw: This page needs a checkbox that says “Email me when new comments are added to my comment”. I tried using the currently-existing checkbox, but everytime I do it all I get is literally hundreds of “there has been a new comment” Emails.
Agreed on both counts. Makes the notifications practically useless for current pages.
When the PPO was fired at the tank, it originated outside the shield, so it won’t open a hole.
shields wasn’t on when she fired on the tank it was ppo and forb and then quickly switching ppo for the shield orb
Sydney didn’t put her shield up until after the tank exploded. Firing https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1082
and shield filled with dirt from the explosion https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1088
while what I0wten and Opus said is true, Dave did confirm that the PPO “portal” is generated outside the shield, rather than creating a hole in the shield.
Watch Maxima whip, whip whip, hear her “Nay, nay nay!”
No. Just… no.
As a Bostonian, there is a phrase that many of us (especially those with that thick of an accent) use regularly. “It’s wicked (pronounced wick • id) good, kid.” Dave would have gotten extra points for adding that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiWg7L0NJYU
Weird thought/question popped in my head: How does Max cut her hair? Does she employ a method similar to Superman’s (heat vision using mirror)?
I think if her aura projects around things she’s holding, then scissors would be able to do it with only minor damage.
Ever tried to use scissors on your own hair?
Don’t. It doesn’t end well…
The barber dabbler “enjoyed” has specially designed clippers and has offered to cut her hair
Maybe the same way Alison does in Strong Female Protagonist?
For some reason the post reminded me of an old Simpsons..
“Sir, we’ve been hit by an officer!”
“Very well, we shall respond in kind!”
“Not ME, a torpedo!”
On the good news front it looks like Jiggawatt’s hearing is better. Unless Varia is yelling those comments, which seems odd to do.
Hate to tell you, but the Boston accent needs work. I found this difficult to read, and I live in Boston. :-)
Did I miss something? Why does Jiggawatt have yellow hair here?
She has had yellow hair ever since halfway through the restaurant brawl.
Having dark skin, white hair, and lightning powers made her look too much like Storm from the X-men (either to DaveB himself or to others, I can’t remember). It hasn’t been changed in older pages (yet).
Yes Max, Sydney “COULD have just said” but what fun would that have been?
Hi, is the cast page not working? Or is there a trick required to making it load properly?
yeah, the cast page seems to be broken.
My kind of book
I love the pool shot, with the ripples and everything.
I think it is time for Max to play pool with the Sydney bubble.
“Goof ball in the corner pocket.” Bam!
Sorry, Max, but you have to sink your subordinates before tyou sink the goofball.
And no screwballs. Dabbler would get more ideas.
Varia really needs more close-ups, specially with that mischievous smirk she has there.
Max really looks like an elf in Panel 1, and this is the second time in this scene that I’ve had that impression. It’s some combination of the outdoor lighting and her facial expressions, and it seems kind of out of character for the hard-nosed military commander she otherwise is.
Yeah, but she’s also a nerd-girl at heart. :)
The fact that that shield has anything resembling bouyancy is more related to Sydney’s idea of how it works, rather than how it actually works. The whole thing about it is that it resists kinetic energy, or anytime a big bad punched it, it would have just flown away with Sydney in the middle of it.
I’m thinking that it floats in water strictly because Sydney believes it does.
Nope. It floats in water because it’s full of air.
To further elaborate: She could’ve avoided at least some of the buoyancy problem by activating the shield before completely leaving the water, so that it would be at least half full of water. Instead, she flew out of the water and then activated it, so it was full of air.
Thought about that, but is she dived under water in a shield bubble even half full of water then, that’s the point? In order for the bubble to have enough water in it to stay below the water level of the pool, Sydney would still have to hold her breath as she normally would when swimming under water.
That shield is supposed to protect her from environmental hazards, but it appears that it doesn’t work so well under water.
Which makes me think that, Sydney found the Orbs under water. Maybe they were left there by someone or something because water is their weakness? That they have limited effectiveness under water?
Or maybe it was just chance. Has she tested the other orbs out under water?
I think Radium_Coyote meant that if it can resist getting pushed around by the force of Max’s explosion it should resist the force of buoyancy too.
If I remember correctly, the only times it resisted Max’s explosions is when the shield was grounded. If Sydney had been floating in the air with the bubble shield around her, the explosion might have sent her flying like a feather in a wind storm.
Dome shield and bubble shield might have different properties. Dome shield might be more rigid and stable, like the Earth. Bubble shield is more flexible and is more akin to the effects of Air. It might be possible that there are two other shield settings, one that works best under water and one that works best in extreme temperatures, like fire.
Or space.
This is technically Maxima’s fault for not explaining the whole plan before Sydney did that. She should have known that Sydney would think about the issue of trying to keep a big ball full of air underwater.
Eh if she explained it all up front Syd’s ADD would have kicked in and caused other problems.
Nearly? Did Major Burns bet a promotion?
GET!!!!!!
Yup, and then a discharge. Apparently he went nuts and was dismissed under Section 8.
Let’s be honest – Sydney chose to demonstrate the issue that way.
“Do you mean to tell me you could have explained that completely differently?”
“No, only if the explanation was funny.. Cannonball!”