Grrl Power #56 – This all seems less than heroic.
So yeah, lots of questions answered here. It was a set up, only Max didn’t know about it, but she figured it out (I’ll get into how later). Also Arianna, who’s been mentioned briefly before, may not be on Maxima’s Xmas card list, also the team has a black ops division, Dabbler can cast illusions, but only on herself, etc. Lots of comments on this comic questioning why she’d hit someone that hard, or what kind of damage it’d do, now we find out that she knew he could take that and apparently a lot more and wanted to wind up Arianna a bit.
It’s weird that I’ve essentially introduced some secondary characters here, and even put one in the mini comic, only… that’s not what they look like. They’ll get a proper introduction later obviously. No bonus points for guessing what Achilles’s power is.
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Does that means that Maxima deliberately annoyed the press and civilians to sabotage the PR-Stunt or is that her usual behavior?
I would guess her usual behavior. Messing with the PR-stunt is just a bonus.
Those cheeks are looking better :D
Thanks, though as my art is still fairly inconsistent I can’t promise it’ll stick. She is supposed to have a slightly angular face. Not like it’s crystalline or anything, imagine some eastern block female bodyguard with a strong jawline and cheekbones.
hints of an accent in that last panel?
Ah….nice reveal.
So maxima not only knows both bank robbers, but has also figured out it was staged.
Also, when Maxima mentions someone called Brook, I’m guessing that must be Mr. Amorphous’s wife/girlfriend, in which case I’m reminded of the many comments directed at marvel’s Reed Richards from the fans, which I won’t mention here for obvious reasons.
why, it’s not just fans, Larry Niven did it as a followup to his “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”, which I swear would make a good shout out in a super hero comic, if someone was reading a couple’s self help book with that title….
IMO, ‘staging’ a bank robbery as a PR stunt = Unbelievably Bad Idea.
Hmm. Actually, no. Correction. Such a stunt is idiocy several light-years beyond what originally seemed to be going on (ie. two random bozos rtrying to rob a bank without masks, etc.).
All it takes is for an innicent bystander to stress out and have a heart attack; or an unexpected ‘walk-in’ to try and play hero, and presto – Instant PR Nightmare. Plus, probably, enough administrative grief to bury this Arianna person and anyone she is even standing near for a century.
Obviously a lot more still to be revealed, but this Arianna moron ain’t impressing me at all – and we haven’t even met her yet.
Yes.
In fact, the only way to recover from this fiasco is to say it was to flush out a hidden super.
And who knows what Sydney would have done to them,if she got access to here tube.Maybe something invulnerability and flexiblity can’t counter,like teleporting them to the north pole or turning them into guinea pigs.
OK, all the above probably sounds a little more heated than I intended. A little.
Explanation Time: These things are SCARY if you are involved. My sister’s first job was in a bank, and I still vividly recall just how freaked she was (and she is not someone who freaks easily) when said bank was robbed. In her case, she didn’t find out until after the robber had left, but that still shakes a person up a lot.
Based on previous data, Arianna is supposed to be a lawyer. Yet she thinks that saying “April Fool” or “This was just a test” will make a criminal act disappear?
I’ll reserve judgment until we actually meet her but I agree with your first sentiment. She just might turn out to be one of those people who are borderline psychopathic (ie as long as it isn’t illegal and you didn’t get caught it’s ok, and she would have made all the necessary arrangements beforehand to make it legal which might not have involved telling the bank staff).
I think you mean sociopath, they feel the rules don’t apply to them, and nothing matters, or is ‘real’ unless it affects them.
Actually the terms change occasionally. Psychopath and sociopath mean essentially the same thing to my understanding, though I admit my school days are long behind me. One term was in use for a while then the Psychiatric field decided the other term was better. Frankly I can’t figure out why they would bother any more than any other industry would. Why would a Janitor become a Sanitation Engineer? Does it pay more? The silliest thing to me though is Latin names for classifying plants and animals that do not actually describe their classification. Take the Skunk for example, Mephitis mephitis, it literally means “Smelliest of the Smelly!” Skunk says the same thing to me.
Um, Mephistis mephistis DOES describe the Skunk’s classification. (Though it doesn’t mean “smelliest of the smelly” so much as literally “stink stink”, from what I understand. Though I guess in looser translation it works out the same…).
Mephistis is the genus it belongs to, which includes a lot of other things with strong, kinda nasty scent glands (like ferrets, which are infamous for their “musk”). It’s one of the trademarks of the members of the genus, in fact, so the ur-member of mephistis would of course be mephistis. If I’m not mistaken, some anthropologists have classified us as Homo sapiens sapiens, so it’s not like it’s unheard of to be redundant in the scientific name of something.
Also, it’s not called “Latin naming”; it’s “Binomial nomenclature”. Because not all of it is Latin, some of it is Greek, and of course, even more of it is Dog Latin/Dog Greek. /Geek moment over.
To each his or her own I suppose, but personally, I prefer the ones that have funny translations and most especially ACCURATE funny translations. It makes them easier to remember!
actually, ferrets are mustelae putorius furo – can’t for the life of me remember what the furo bit means, but mustelae putorius if I remember right means ‘smelly weasel’. /geek
I’m a bit of a weasel lover…
It really depends on the individual when it comes to reactions to armed robberies. A girl I worked with once had to get some serious help after her experience (the robber got a little too personal). Whereas I barely reacted the 2 times I was robbed although I am kinda closed off.
Well you guys obviously don’t have the whole story yet, but i can give you Arianna’s reasoning if you want. It’ll spoil a bit of dialog coming up so I’ll spoiler it here. It doesn’t mean you’ll agree with her of course. She feels that with Max there, it doesn’t matter if some yahoo with a carry/conceal tries to play hero, she could disable/disarm the guy before he could get his gun out of the holster. Besides, what moron is going to pull a gun if there’s already a cop there? And even if he managed to draw while her back was turned or something, unless he was carrying a minigun, stray gunfire isn’t a safety issue either. In fact with Maxima on the scene, the people in the bank were probably the most safe that they had ever been in their life. Like I said you probably still don’t think it’s a good idea, but Arianna’s primarily interested in generating buzz, and she came up with a plan that got approved by those above her. If nothing else, she is persuasive that way. I hope I can do that facet justice when I write her.
And yeah, someone could have had a heart attack from the stress, but people have heart attacks all the time. Every time you step outside your house there’s a million ways you could die, but at least all the things in your house that can kill you won’t have the chance. If the bank wasn’t robbed, who’s to say that person wouldn’t then walk down to the convenience store on the corner which then gets robbed and they have a heart attack there? Legally that argument wouldn’t hold any weight (although considering how stupid some juries are you never can tell) but imagine her using arguments like that to wear down her boss who initially objected to it.
I wonder what her excuse would have been if Sydney had something done to them,with her mysterious object in the tube,like turning them into tulips or erasing their 2nd highschool year from their memory.
Very true, Dave, people DO have heart attacks “all the time” …
… But, if Arianna’s ‘not-very-legal-at-all’ and ‘completely-lacking-in-disclaimers’ stunt could be attributed to having caused such a thing, then she would be getting nothing but trouble. As I understand it (and I do not claim to be an expert) whatever injury or distress a person might get as a result of a criminal act, said criminal can be held fully liable for.
Then there is the whole litigation thing as well. In the execution of this stunt, at least one person was roughly shoved to the floor. That’s assault, and a possible personal injury suit as well. A person was held hostage (and in fear of her life) – that’s psychological distress, for sure.. The same person had a gun shoved in her face and, for a couple of seconds, had every reason to believe she was dead.
Man, people have won gigantic lawsuits for a heckuva lot less than what happened here.
As you say, we don’t know the full story yet. Wait and see, I guess.
Pushing someone to the floor is actually battery. Assault is the threat of violence, battery is the commission of said violence. Not all jurisdictions make this distinction though (and knowing which crime it is wouldn’t keep Mr. Amorphous out of trouble if she got hurt or decided to sue.)
It’s usually said as “If someone dies as during the commission of a felony, it is considered murder.” So say if News girl in the words of Johnny 5 “Bucked the kicket” even if it was a aneurysm that’s been there for years, rubber-tounge and “Don’t touch my heel!” would at least be tried for murder in the 2nd degree.
Since the team has a black ops division and apparently government connections, I think it’s likely that they’ve also got some easy ways to get charges dropped.
AKA Screw what the law says because I’ve got connections.
Yeah, could be done. Maybe. Assuming all witnesses could be …. “handled”.
The trouble is that old saying: “If two people know something, it is not a secret”. These things rarely stay buried for as long as those involved want. All it takes is a leadership change, or someone to screw up, or have an attack of conscience, or get greedy, or to need a ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ card. Then it gets REALLY messy.
What do you mean dropped. As Maxima says they got a seriously good disguise going. Just walk in on them in the hospital, using the they might be supers argument as why a special government agency is involved, where only a few cops (or even just 1) are guarding them, being disguised as how they really look. Swap places and then when you’ve left use some form of teleport, insubstantiality, etc to escape.
Plausible – as in doable, certainly. But, that still leaves a bunch of people who know all about this stunt. They might all be “on the inside”, so to speak, but there is still a very real likelihood that somebody could spill the beans (by accident or desigmn) sooner rather than later.
Despite all one tends to ascribe to Black Ops, they are not as common, infallible or as all-encompassing as Hollywood would have us think.
For that matter, in a world of supers, all you need is a super with the ability to probe people’s memories, and the motivation to use/misuse whatever they might find. That possibility would have to be a nightmare for espionage types.
Why bother having anyone take their places? Just send in some CIA types to take them into custody and they disappear under the almighty phrase of “National Security”. All you need to pull that off is Maxima’s existing statement that they have powers, heck if the EMTs are doing their jobs they are calling in the Super-powered perps right now as Maxima is talking to them.
I’d like to add that even if they weren’t actually intending to act on said robbery they still did, they made threats of force for the purposes of acquiring items within the bank, which fits as punishable in the following legal statute on robbing banks:
https://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/103/2113
Furthermore, the upper-level officials could also be put behind bars as partaking or planning the stunt.
“(c) Whoever receives, possesses, conceals, stores, barters,
sells, or disposes of, any property or money or other thing of
value which has been taken or stolen from a bank, credit union, or
savings and loan association in violation of subsection (b),
knowing the same to be property which has been stolen shall be
subject to the punishment provided in subsection (b) for the taker.”
Note that mentioned earlier in the document it states merely attempting or masterminding will net you grief with the law.
This aside, even if all other possible charges such as battery / assault were dismissed, all participants could still be nailed for disturbing the peace. Granted specifics vary from state to state, but discharging a gun on public property has to at least warrant that. Much worse, most banks specifically state “no firearms permitted” via signage and other postage, bringing us into the wonderful world of trespassing by technicality.
No since they weren’t actually trying to rob a bank none of that applies. What does apply are assault charges for pointing guns at people (and grabbing and hitting Sydney).
An unexpected walk-in did try and play hero. She may even get a job out of it.
And yeah, pretty stupid for a PR stunt in this litigeous day and age, but people have done stupider things.
Well, crap. I lost my bet.
*Bags up the winnings for those who took the bet*
ROFL I forgot about that. About my TF gun, you think Ted could adjust it to get rid of my diabetes for me if I asked nicely?
Dunno. You’ll have to ask him. And if not, one of the forum bunnies might be able to.
Called it!
Your missing an “A” in the last panel when Maxima says “Brook is lucky girl, isn’t she? Unless shes foreign and not talk pretty.
Maybe “Lucky Girl” is Brocks super hero name
Whoops, fixed.
ok,, a very interesting development,,, and as many have said,, a truly bad idea for a pr stunt,,but on the plus side,,,altough it was not planned,, it did fish out sidney:), altough i dont think anyone else beside max realise she is more then a normal girl so far.specialy when we read her“assailant`s “ comment!
Well that was amusing I wonder where it’ll go from here!
Love the series so far.
BUT, I dont get the need for explaining why Maxima would hit ARMED bank robbers as hard as she did. However the PR stunt is actually a more plausible explanation than something I would have come up with ;)
She knocked him around because he COULD take the hit and to show her displeasure that he would let himself be used in such a stupid stunt.
I think if she could she would’ve slapped him through the wall to “Show her displeasure”.
Agreed. But she wouldn’t do so because it would give too much away.
And I have to side with the “truely stupid thing to do for PR” group. Lex Luthor was arrested for pulling that kind of stunt (it was in the “Man of Steel” relaunch after the first “Crisis” series when the history of the DC universe was rewritten).
Well thaaaaat explains everything. It explains why Maxima stated her credentials. It explains why she didn’t take them down the instant they pulled out the guns. And it even explains why she had toyed with them and let Sydney at them for a little bit. She knew exactly who she was dealing with, and what they were capable of. I feel if she didn’t know them, she would have taken them down more swiftly, as to not risk them having powers she couldn’t handle. She is a professional after all.
It also explains how Sydney got a grip on that guy’s tongue. He was probably gunna just let her stretch it out, have her freak, and then pull it back. But then he had to stop himself, resulting in a tongue that was just long enough to hold on to.
It also confirms what I said last week, that while Maxima did seem to be performing, nobody else knew how to play along, because only those two knew it was being staged.
Though it does raise a new question, what if Max didn’t prepare her speed/strength boost? This staging would have resulted in a murder. I’d like to see Arianna explain that one. Unless of course Max’s base stats imply she could have caught the bullet in her sleep, but that also means she could have dodged Sydney’s fear vomit with ease.
I dunno, The tongue bit could have been chalked up to Cartoon Physics.
Oh, I don’t think Arianna needed to worry that Max wouldn’t have her speed cranked up as long as there were guns and bystanders and plenty of warning that someone might get shot.
Maxima obviously isn’t that good at reading peoples non-verbals, or else she would have been moving the millisecond she saw it dawn on Sydney face what had just happened/could have happened to her.
Dave has said her powers reside in a “Pool” which she can consciously shift from attribute to attribute at need. I theorize (in lack of Word of God) that it takes a modicum of concentration and a moment to actually do this and that’s why she couldn’t avoid the atomic spew. Theoretically she could be defeated if placed in a situation where she is either 1)taken completely unaware or 2) attacked from multiple sides and forms of attack, forcing her to constantly shift abilities and possibly doing so at the wrong moment.
right. I understand that part, and obviously it would take her longer (even if only a moment) the more she tried to shift into one area, but I’m curious as to what her base speed, strength, stamina, etc. are without any adjustment. Are they still super? or does she have to mentally “unlock” the powers to use them?
OOps sorry my response was supposed to be for Stig :P
I haven’t decided quite where her baseline abilities are at. I think by default she keeps herself at around… let’s say Spiderman level abilities with most of her pool in reserve, but now that I think about it that doesn’t entirely make sense. She’d have to be careful not to break people’s hands or rip door off of hinges with that much strength, so she probably keeps her strength just above what you’d expect for a person her size, and has a little extra into her reflexes and armor. I guess she just really flubbed her reaction check when Sydney yacked on her.
Actually, I would expect Maxima keeps her ‘default’ boost set on invulnerability/ armor. Less chance of accidents fatal to bystanders and quite possibly herself – although if she is in Black Ops she also has to worry about being ‘taken out’ by a surprise hostile super working for an enemy group. Armor is just best all around unless she is actively doing something that needs one of her other gifts.
Well there could be a limit of time/exertion that places a hard limit on keeping her “Pool” allocated. It could be like an Isometric exercise, eventually she has to relax the “Muscle” and simply let herself be an extremely attractive athletic woman.
A variable power pool does make a lot of sense when you put it in that context.
There is nothing necessarily inconsistent [in comic physics at least] with Maxima catching the bullet and “catching” Sidney’s used lunch. Maxima knows the bullet is coming and thus can be on full alert as it is shot. She is not on alert when Sidney’s lunch makes its reappearance and so has only “human” speed for a tad too long.
As has been noted, the whole idea is “clever, but not wise”. All sorts of things could have gone wrong in all sorts of ways and the reward for success is trivial. Now we boys might try something so hairbrained, but girls are supposed to have better sense.
So I’m guessing that Arrianna and Maxima work for separate groups right? And Maxima may or may not have flat dicked Arriana’ efforts intentionally?
You gotta love it when two supers get into a dick waving match with one another. LOL!
Arianna is the group’s lawyer, shown in the postcard with Maxima.
Actually, shouldn’t that be “Lawer”? ;)
BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNN! :P
Postcard? What postcard?
here’s a link to the postcard entry: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/234
Oooh, I missed that one. Thank you!
“You gotta love it when two supers get into a dick waving match with one another”
Especially when both of them are female :D
So much space junk is up there that we are coming to a point to where we can’t launch satellites or anything in it. Clean it up or we will be trapped here by our one spendthrift ways.
I like “Lucky Girl” and since Gwen Tennison of “Ben 10” only used it twice then quit, it should be okay.
I’m with Maxima an this. I don’t like publicity stunts, especially ones that involve what looks like a serious crime. Good for her. May she mess up more of Arianna’s whorefests, I mean publicity events.
last coment kinda NSFW
Just wait till Harem and Dabbler are introduced.
I shiver in anticipation. :P
So now that it’s all starting to come clear, just what ARE they gonna do with Sydney? Cause I REALLY wanna see her reveal what her real power is. XD
im looking forward to Joel’s reaction to sydney’s having actually told him when was in the tube.
I know what Achille’s power is! It’s super heeling!
*Launches Orbital Kinetic Anti Bad Pun Strike*
Nah. He’s just a super heel.
*Launches again* The Kinetic Interdiction Strikes will continue until the puns improve!!
ROFLOL, very nice adamas.
so you like the way he’s tendon to the pun situations?
I warned you! *Multiple Kinetic strike* I can do this as long as there’s space junk! MUAAHAHAHAHA!!!
well… what’s obvious here. There’s suspicious things afoot!
Achilles isn’t suspicious, he’s just helping keep the team on their toes.
I think you’re going to get nailed for that…
*Takes notes* What state/country do you reside Eugene?
I’m in New Jersey right now. I’m guessing you’re French though, cause the way you’re shooting Achilles support reminds me of Paris.
Nope Alabama bucko *Obliterates the cast of Jersey Shore* ….oh well secondary target!
for anyone who didn’t get the Paris reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_%28mythology%29
Nah. I just hate bad puns. ;)
*multiple strike!* They just get worse people. :P
Just don’t des-Troy any innocents. :)
…. That one’s good enough to spare your city, puny mortal. ;)
Looking back, wasn’t Mr. Amorphous in the background of page 4?
Apparently this is becoming a meme…
personally, I prefer calling Ariana a “Lawer”
You mean, as in “do your stunts anyway, and by the time it gets to court it’ll be legal”?
I love the way she points at him through the panel border. Great touch!
Agree! Great touch to the comic, pulls all of it together for that page.
postcard link: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/234
sorry, that was intended a reply to Stigmartyr762
Yes, we ARE homo sapiens sapiens. That is the full scientific name for the human species. I learned that in 7th grade biology (called Life Science), back in 1972.
Great start to this comic, waiting to see where it goes.
get moving, and more sydney.
all so my adhd inner ferret is wondering if Maxima is any relation to Clark Savage’s cousin Pat….
Hooray for sexy superhero humor, but youknow Max’s comoent there make me think as hard core of a feminist she is she still wants to be loved and loved well
Being a feminist doesn’t necessarily preclude a relationship with a male, it just has to be on equal footing. Something many humans will not do/are not capable of.
Agreed. and as I can attest from personal experience, not all feminist types are lesbian, and not all lesbians are feminists.
feminist != lesbian
That is pure nonsense of the stinkiest kind. My mother had 5 kids by a man she loved put 3 of those kids through college while working a “man’s” job. She was a feminist. She worked harder than most men I’ve known and whined a whole less. She was the one who fixed things around the house including cars (when I was young) and one of the smartest people I knew. All she wanted was equal treatment and people like you make ignorant statements like that. Shame on you. In her memory I have not attacked you personally as you probably can’t help it. But try to rise above your prejudice it will make you a better person.
I might be missing something but I think you misinterpreted Jakkabbi’s comment. The != is a programming… uh… term? Function? Shows what I know, but in programming, a statement preceded by an exclamation point means “NOT” so you could do “if x != 5 then do this” meaning as long as x doesn’t equal 5 then the function will run.
If so I apologize for my misunderstanding and rant. mea culpa mea culpa
I’ve noticed that this comment section tends to be remarkably civil and tolerant. I wonder if it’s being moderated in some way or if Dave’s fans are just more polite than the rest of the internet.
I’m the only ‘moderator’ of sorts at the moment. I’ve cleaned up an accidental double post here and there and spoilered some stuff here and there but so far no jerks or trolls in the comments. Yet. :P
RAAAAW I IS TROLL! ALL FEAR TROLL!!!
I play WoW and Troll grrlz is hot! :)
Man be blind!
Well I do have a few custom skins (technically against the ELUA) but there is one attractive fem troll face plus their bodies are suitably feminine (T & A). Though the males are kinda ugly but that is understandable in a game with 5 to 1 male to female player ratio.
So far so good, anyhow.
Hoping it will continue to be so, but (IMO) odds are we will get asshats here sooner or later.
*Incoming message from the future*
Nope, we’re still remarkably civilized here. :)
Feminism=anyone Not just Lesbians since a male can be one too. It’s a point of view not some life style. But you have a weird idea as to what Feminism is. Get educated.
The thing is there a so many things we really don’t know are real or not. Even if you think you know it may just be a scam to fool you. The best kept secret is the one out in the open and only a very few “crack pots” believe in them. One surrounded by obvious and not so obvious “secrets” revealed.
To repeat what Dave said above != means not equal (btw Dave it’s what’s known as a relational operator since it’s used in operations that depend on the relation between two quantities/objects.) Therefore Jakkabbi’s comment “feminist != lesbian” should be read as “feminist does not equal lesbian” (in other words he seems to agree with your “Feminism=anyone” assertion.)
This is a better symbol to use to convey that meand. As in “≠” or “not equal to” would have explicated better. If that was the meaning in the first place.
As was stated previously, it is a relational operator used in multiple programming languages, therefore a handy shortcut for those of us familiar with those languages. The only difficulty here was using it in “mixed” comany, (i.e. where not everyone is familiar with computer programming.
oops, you beat me to it, haha
That’s not a standard keyboard character, and most compilers (a compiler turns human readable text into computer readable programs) won’t accept it. Many programmers develop a habit of using the symbols they use when coding as shorthand in everyday text (for instance using an exclamation point for “not”.) I think we’ve demonstrated this can cause confusion when not everyone has experience with programming languages though.
also “≠” is the symbol that would normally be used by someone with some background in mathematics, so depending on how much math the reader knows it might still be confusing (though it’s probably more common than “!=” is.)
I’m used to =/= for does not equal, closest you can get with a cheap $5 keyboard. :P
Would have saved me a rant and a slight increase in my disregard for the hate-mongers.
*scratches head* well it would seem I kinda kicked the perverbal hornets nest with my comment there
To clearify I wasn’t really saying that Max was a lesbian tho I would love to see her and Syd hook up, but what I ment to convey by the statment was that with her tradjic history with being objectifed by men I was surprised to see that comment she made as it stuck me as she was still willing to give the right guy a chance it also really sounded like she was really lonely
With all do respect, this whole liability thing is based on the fact that the information would get out. Too be honest the only people that needed to know about the PR stunt would be the team, Arianna and their immediate superior. Even in the real world things are done that are illegal as all hell and by the lawful government. If anyone actually believes, for example, that the CIA doesn’t run operations inside the United States, I would seriously like to live in your world. The world is screwed up and as far as I can tell this comics world is supposed to have some basis in the real world. I can see an agency try to get good relations with the public actually setting up a stunt like this and telling no one higher up the chain. I know I would. So the whole issue of legality is really a moot point. As for the actual capturing of the ‘robbers’? Think about it, they have people like Max, Dabbler and Anvil. How difficult would it be to ‘arrange’ for the prisoners to escape and disappear without anyone knowing that Supers were involved. From the way things are going I actually think that finding Sydney was just dumb blind chance.
Sorry, one more thing. It seems its obvious that Max didn’t know about the stunt so who is to say that even the rest of the team did. Except for those involved of course.
As I said before, “if two people know something, it isn’t a secret”.
Also consider the long list of stuff that the CIA has most definitely NOT been able to keep secret.
This is mostly what Arianna is banking on, but she has some contingencies in case it does get out.
Fake robbery is only a bad idea as a PR stunt if you afterwards go “btw I faked it for PR”…
I am thinking the mastermind behind it planned for nobody to ever find out. The “robbers” apparently can shape shift and will be escaping from the ambulance and then disappearing.
A person might have a heart attack but the only impact that would have on them is their own conscience.
Also, as far as assault and battery goes, I am not sure what battery is legally, but according to judge mathias (or was it judy? I forgot which one) assault is “any unwanted touch”. So I would imagine battery is when the assault also results in injury (aka, the unwanted touch is a punch instead of a slap or grabbing someone’s hand)
Sure, but some of the biggest ####-ups in the history of covert operations have happened when the people in charge think stuff like “What could possibly go wrong?” and “Nobody will ever know”.
The bay of Pigs comes to mind as a prime example.
Being super stretchy does not help against Syd’s Spicy volcano breath.
Nor did being tough enough to take that hit from Maxima help when Syd unleashed the toxic barf. Nice to know, and I still say the fact Sydney can handle that stuff says she has some kind of enhanced physiology as well, unless its just plain for comedic effect, either way keep it coming Dave. :)
I haven’t posted before, but I really like the comic. One comment, is there any hope for more frequent updates in the future?
Dave has said that if he gets to the point where he’s got a reasonable buffer, then he’ll post an occasional Thursday comic. Other than that we just have to hope that someday the comic will become successful enough that he can quit his day job.
Depends, if you like this level of art, or if you want him to cut it way back.
One of the things I like about webcomics is the way you can jump back in the archives and see how much the artist has improved. Considering that we’re only on comic 56, Dave has shown one of the fastest rates of improvement I’ve seen (keep up the good work Dave, you’re doing great.) In my opinion, it’s better for quality to come first, and let speed come with practice.
Total agreement. Quality first, then work on speed.
By the way, I agree with you.
A more current example of a “black op” gone wrong, that no one was supposed to find out about, is the whole “Fast and Furious” ATF scandal.
are you talking IRL or the movies?
either one is bad, but real is worse.
Slow and steady wins the race. I get such symbols as “¶” from a character mag that I have. Go to “all programs” then to “accessories” then from there to “system tools” and you should find “character maps.” Because I have no idea what was being used before. Equal means “=” either way it is used.
Um… why are Achilles and Mr. Amorphous not in the charicter bios? We don’t even get a star ratings of their power? I understand they are not part of the main focus of this comic, but it seems like unless this is the last time they will show up *ever* (which is unlikely, given they were shown to be willing to do a job for Ariana and with how rare supers are) we should get at least a little info on their capabilities. (The reason i’m trying to limit the bio request to a stat card is so you can appease me and still not have to deal with a concrete background/personality setup yet.)
Well we haven’t even seen their real faces yet. They’ll get a more proper introduction a bit later.
“I’m not Mr. Amorphous. I’m The Thing. You know, like John Carpenter? I was supposed to devour her and mimic her perfectly.”
“Why didn’t you?”
“I have a real problem with spicy food.”
Am I the only one that this particular page of the comic is not loading for?
Hmm, loads for me.
Loads for me too. Trouble at your end.
I still find it funny how excited i got hearing Dabblers name here ages ago. I was hoping it would be the same character from the other comic she was in with the cybernetic dude in a were-world.