Grrl Power #661 – Melochondria
Yes, in case you were going to ask, somehow, Sydney managed to get her phone out of her pocket one handed and find a recording app without realizing she hadn’t been stabbed. Even subconsciously she commits to her bits.
I think “Supervillainique” would be successful as a fashion trend just because women could put on a mask instead of futzing with eyeliner in the mornings. The rest of the standard supervillain costumery might not be adopted so easily. The prevalence of underboob/boob keyhole, plunging decolletage, and stuff held in place by tape and otherwise held together by the Comic Code… well, that might be okay for clubbing, but probably not so much in corporate settings.
Well, if you were a lady CEO and just decided “You know what, fuck it, I’m going to dress the part.” and go to work the next day dressed head to toe in black leather, flanked by trained dobermans or tigers or something.
If you don’t recall Ashley, he’s the team’s super powered couturier, one of the Patreon driven cameos. I have a fair backlog of cameos to get to. This current alien planet apocalypse storyline hasn’t given me a lot of places to stick cameos, but the next storyline should have a bunch.
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Thought that might happen. She’s still a bit wack, thought.
Definitely time to get some of her meds from her utility belt. If she remembers her belt. If she remembers she put meds in it. If she realizes she needs it. If….
Eh….. maybe not. A lot of this could be explained by a mix of “normal-for-Sydney” and “holy crap I’m screwed” and “holy crap I almost just died”.
I am glad she didn´t got hurt even if she thought she would be dead.
Poor guy (i also can´t remember his name) he saves her and now she “wants” to kill him with disguised atomic peppers…
His name is in the “Who’s What”, and she’s simply giving him something that she would enjoy (she will probably ask someone back at Archon what he would like though… wouldn’t she? o_O )
Ashley, aka Iron Cloth.
I suppose this is a typical case of slightly misguided “treat others as you would want to be treated”. And she would LOVE to get a gift basket full of chocolate-covered super atomic peppers.
Yep, Sydney’s not exactly having the best time right now. She’s probably a bit giddy from shock and others have suggested that she may well be overdue on her medication, too. It’s hardly surprising that her theory of mind isn’t there right now.
What is surprising, though, is the change in chilli. I find it interesting that her ultimate (borderline sexual) decadence of chocolate-stuffed ghost peppers has shifted to become chocolate-coated peppers of a far less specific variety.
Oh and kudos to Dave for hitting on something so tasty. Deseeded ghosts, candied and dipped in dark chocolate are absolutely phenomenal if nibbled slowly.
She’s contemplating a gift for Ashley here. Maybe she thinks he would prefer something a little less extreme? Though she’s probably still a million or two Scoville too extreme for his tatstes…
As a fashion designer nothing would be more appreciated that several bolts of cloth… from an Alien planet.
Less specific variety? Now I’m imagining ARC-SWAT playing Russian roulette with a large box of “assorted” chocolate covered peppers. (Sydney is off to the side, munching on some Carolina Reapers.)
Reapers didn’t exist until 2013 and the story’s still stuck somewhere in 2011.
The big name supers of the time would be the Dorset Naga, the Bhut Jolokia/Ghost Pepper, the Trinidad Scorpion, the 7-Pot Infinity, the Naga Viper and the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T Strain, in that order. Of which the Dorset Naga and 7-Pot Infinity are fairly UK specific but the Naga Viper, despite being bred in the UK, was used pureed as a wing challenge sauce in the states.
For the later three quarters of the year, the record was firmly with the Butch T but, if it’s march or february in-comic time, it’s anyone’s guess which of those has it. The title changed hands incredibly rapidly.
Maybe this will give her an idea for how to defeat the alien, fly into melee before firing PPO
Maybe this will give her an idea for how to defeat the alien, feed it some chocolate-covered ghost peppers. However that will not be a combat move unless its nerves are chemically similar to that of mammals.
Also, she’d need to find ghost peppers.
…. on a dead alien world to which ghost peppers are almost certainly not native.
…..
…. she’s got some in her utility belt, doesn’t she?
Well the ghosts were there, now she just has to find something akin to peppers lol!
It is usually a good idea to carry a snack on these away missions.
I suspect ghost (and other) peppers are banned from her utility belt, in case she has to perform shuttle duties for people on the team with a normal sense of taste/smell.
Even if you’re right, she’s probably got pepper-spray as part of the kit, and she can always just take a hit like with an inhaler. Won’t feed her, sure, but it’ll satisfy the craving.
What? You never heard of cosplay?
Villain: “I need you to make me this outfit”
Tailor: “Hmm, this is an unusual design…”
Villian: “Uhm, yeah… it’s a new cosplay character…”
Ok, that’s weird. I hit reply on the comment below, but it posted here instead.
Everyone knows you kill giant aliens from the inside… burning a tunnel through them from top to bottom… much like a chocolate covered ghost pepper. (“Next time, Sydney will play the part of a force-shield coated, teleporting, PPO shooting ghost pepper; killing the alien not-so-gently from the inside.”)
Say, where do supervillains get their costumes anyway?
I mean they look way too well made for a homemade art project, unless they got one tailor made with bank robbery money?
it involves tailors and either extreme bribes or brainwashing
It usually involves Tailors who have received copious amounts of bribes or are brainwashed to the point where they don’t even know they have done it themselves
He costumes Villians for free, but it’s really a conspiracy by Arc Dark and he simply convinces them to don impractical costumes like those displayed. Little to no protection, restrictive of movement, flashy to draw attention and prevent covert work and liable to get you arrested by the fashion police if no one else
I like this.
I think he also has a similar arrangement with the police where he has undercover agents convincing potential criminals that the best outfit to run from police is baggy pants with no belts and shoes without laces.
Sounds more like an Arc-Light move. My current speculation is that Arc-Dark does coverups and especially Twilight-Council-slash-Veil stuff.
I wasn’t entirely certain myself but my understanding is that Arc-Light is more the investigative branch while Arc-Dark is more likely to be involved in a covert conspiracy to undermine villains in advance.
Granted though, this is a seemingly silly level to go to but considering he provided the heroes (Arc-Swat) with incredibly practical outfits and is showcasing highly impractical gear for their opposition, I personally like the idea. In reality it’s probably just a legitimate fashion line he’s showcasing in the wake of “super’s” existence being revealed.
I remember an old Spider-Man comic where this one Jewish tailor was the focus, and he made a living making costumes for both heroes and villains. Even helping newbies with their image and names.
There was also an arc in DC’s Flash where he found the tailor for his Rogue’s Gallery. https://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Gambi_(New_Earth)
I remember a similar one.
Showed up in Spiderman:The Other, a mostly ignored plotline intended to power up Spiderman so he could survive Civil War as a fugitive. Ended up being mostly ignored by other authors.
Anyway.
Heroes Mon/Wed/Fri, villains Tues/Thurs/Sat.
Cat-Tales has Kittelmeier, a similar “Old guy tailor” who does almost all the costume and gadgetry work for both the capes and rogues- to the extent that when he gets injured, the two sides sorta-kinda team up to take down the person who injured him.
Yeah, nobody messes with the either.
link was eaten
https://www.atomiclaundromat.com/
They can ‘treat’ you super-tights with itching powder …
There was a lady like that in Gwen Poole too.
Some of them are most likely sourced through Ashley, no doubt, but they aren’t quite as well-protective as the AFD’s, though they are quite a bit more sturdy due to Ashley being Ashley and also not really caring all that much who his clients are when it comes to costumes and fashion.
After all, someone needs to make Deus’s suits.
Someone like… the local undertaker? o_O
I mean, I suppose that is always a possibility, but I’d imagine that Deus prefers to have his suits hand tailored to fit him perfectly and provide -just- the right amount of intimidation and class.
Ashley being private sector is willing to sell to all who can afford him. The passive bonuses are extra after all.
Well, I’ve finally remembered who also has Sydney’s bangs!
But will she recover Decolette’s magic hair-band?
Is this comic still going on? I haven`t read it in years lol!
Is Ironcloth’s nemesis the Emperor?
A villain that has the power to make people think they (and him) are dressed when they aren’t?
It might make a great practical joke to do that to a politician as he is getting prepared to go live on a televised news conference.
Clever of Sydney to use Mr Buble’s ball as a light, butt, is she still holding it in panel seven or transfer it to her right hand in panel 6.5?
Don’t feel it needs to be explained in comic (not everything has to be spelt out), just curious
She’s still holding it. Only needs a finger to pull back the jacket, but it blocks view of the orb behind the jacket.
Sydney not everyone wants death through spicy hot Oblivion like you do.
Well I like the descriptive eufemism in panel 4, that one goes into the ‘combat quips’ class.
Hmm, do the villains know that Ashley works for Archon? Does Archon know Ashley designs clothes for villains? o_O
The fashion line is “Supervillainique”. The supermodels are not necessarily supervillians, they just need to play the part on the cat walk.
Agreed. Especially when reading Dave’s blog.
Which one does DaveB use as a blog? Am I missing something? links?
The blog is the stuff he writes below the comic page.
Now that Sydney has her own little debris fort, I wonder if she should just stay under the cover it provides. Squidward seems to be just randomly blasting right now, so maybe he needs visual contact in order to actually aim at her. He doesn’t necessarily have the same scanning ability that the first squidbilly they came across had.
C’mon Sydney!
His name is right over there in the “Who’s who” box. You can’t miss it!
I assume “What’s okay boss” was meant to be either “Everything okay boss” or “What’s wrong boss”
or its supposed to be a joke that since she is a villan, instead of worring about whats wrong, she worries about what is okay.
She is not a villain. She is one of his fashion ninjas. I guess you thought villain because you weren’t expecting ninjas.
Always expect ninjas…
Always expect ninjas.
Always.
Particularly dedicated villains swap their phrasing. Instead of sweet dreams, it’s “evil dreams.” Goodbye becomes “badbye.”
Salvatore made use of this feature in his Drizzt novels.
[Soranic]:
I always thought that the opposite of “Goodbye” would be “Bad-sell” … ?
No, the opposite of goodbye would be hello.
You say “Yes”, I say “No”.
You say “Stop” and I say “Go, go, go”.
Oh no.
You say “Goodbye” and I say “Hello, hello, hello”.
I don’t know why you say “Goodbye”, I say “Hello, hello, hello”.
+1
I read it as either an error, or an indication that international Fashion Ninjas don’t speak English as their first language.
It’s been changed, so looks like it was an error.
Hearing that just the clothing line is called “Supervillainique” just makes me think of the webcomic Supervillainous: https://supervillainous.spiderforest.com/
If anyone’s interested, give it a shot. It’s a really fun series.
This page looks way better in x2 resolution.
“I think “Supervillainique” would be successful as a fashion trend just because women could put on a mask instead of futzing with eyeliner in the mornings. The rest of the standard supervillain costumery might not be adopted so easily.”
Oh I would beg to differ. Let’s just look at most supervillainess dress codes half the time… most of those could be marketed as… let’s just call them fetish lines shall we?… not to mention that from the club scene we already know that super groupies/fangirls are already starting to emerge around the social scene. The “I’m a bad bad girl” version of that would of course the the supervillainess dress set. I can only imagine that Ashley’s particular fashion lines would be rather pricey and would likely be in the hands of someone able to match paychecks with the members of Archswat as well.
Teah, and he probably uses his powers to make them easier to put on and keep on.
Is it just me, or does the model in panel 9 and 10 look not too happy about her dress? Or maybe she’s just mad she tore it right before the show?
Watch any runway show. None of the women look like they are having a good time. It’s probably a matter of being very hungry combined with wearing ridiculous outfits which often have a difficult time remaining on or failing to not be see through.
Or desperately trying not to laugh hysterically with some of the silly designs.
Or not be murdered by them in the particularly badly designed category.
“Well, if you were a lady CEO and just decided “You know what, fuck it, I’m going to dress the part.” and go to work the next day dressed head to toe in black leather, flanked by trained dobermans or tigers or something.”
https://hallofquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/66f684e5201014c1bf6698be290c1da8–cat-women-faculty-meetings.jpg
“What’s okay”? Not “you okay” or “What’s wrong”?
On a different subject: I know that Supers are physically more and more perfectly endowed than mundanes, but if you’re going to wear that, you’d better have absolutely no distinguishing marks. I dated “mirror” twins in high school. Five years later, when one of them unexpectedly walked thru my field of vision in a bikini, I could still correctly identify who it was even though I could only see her from clavicle to mid-thigh. Admittedly, this was helped in large part because the girls would frequently switch dates in mid-evening (I got practice at telling which identically-sounding girl was which by looking at the freckle pattern).
I noticed she pulled the shrapnel out without thinking.That’s another reason tot hank Ashely and Anvil – if she HAD been wounded, she’d be bleeding out now.
She did that while distracting herself, so that she wouldn’t be thinking about it
Butt yeah, like said last page: she should not have pulled it out without making sure she had medical assistance (of some kind) on hand first
I was hoping that someone on Earth would get a telepathic
“I’m not dead” message and relay it to Maxima.
Has it been an hour? Maybe four hours since the portal closed?
Not yet to the ‘boxing up her belongings and cleaning her room’ stage.
Or recommending a medal for Sydney Scofeld for sacrificing herself covering the escape of the team.
See, that’s another reason to lay low for a bit. If she comes back now, she’s a hero. If she comes back in a month, she’s a hero AND she has the first Arc-SWAT medal named after her.
The Halo Award of Determination and Perseverance. Or maybe The Halo Award of Creativity and Enginuity? The Halo Spaz Award?
“The Spaz Pin” is how it is unofficially and oddly-respectfully known.
Holy shit Ashely has a super hero name? That is the best thing ever.
No, going by how DaveB has listed Halo/Sydney that means his real name is actually: Iron Cloth… and his super hero name is: Ashley…
I’d forgotten about Halo’s Archon uniform! So glad to have been wrong about now testing her last unidentified Orb for healing powers.
I really hope Sydney remembers somehow to give Iron Cloth a gift basket.
I can’t imagine that green and white outfit being very popular since there seems to be no way to wear anything under it. Then again, I’ve never rally understood fashion, so what do I know….
True dat. Dabbler sure as heck wouldn’t wear something like that. It is practically a nun’s habit to her. Too binding, not revealing enough, it doesn’t breath, etc…
“What’s okay?” Is English not her first language?
I’m guessing Dave started with “What’s up?”, and then “You okay?” came in his head and we ended up with a mix.
It’s also possible that it’s an intentional mix-up on Dave’s part. It does happen sometimes when people react quickly to something, mixing two phrases into one. It can get awkward sometimes…
My all time favorite is when a friend of mine said “That’s the icing on the last straw!”
It could have been a Freudian Slip, where you say one thing and mean your mother.
Okay,has Sydney,somehow,reached out to Iron Cloth!?
Since he uses his powers to enhance the cloth, he is quantumly entangled with the items he creates. Whenever they take damage, he fells a disturbance as if millions of threads suddenly cried out in tension, and were suddenly silenced.
Oh, that’s good.
I’ve been subconsciously waiting for O.B. to make a name-themed joke, glad to finally have that shoe drop (and well-executed).
It’s probably a happy time for fashion designers on any world where supers exist. Where else could anyone actually wear haute couture out in public on an everyday basis?
1) Yes, Sydney, good job on planning to get him a present.
2) NO. No atomic superpeppers. Do some quiet inquiring to find out what he likes, rather than giving him what you like. (Also, to find out his name.)
3) If he does like atomic superpeppers, that does not mean you’re allowed to marry him.
4) Also, good job keeping a grip on the shield orb even after taking that hit.
5) Maaaaybe you should lie low for a while for some more planning. Squidward was already firing blind, and now you’ve got excellent cover and camo. Perhaps 30 minutes or so to give Squiddy time to move on or decide your dead and to let the ship stand down from Alert Status 1.
6) There is NO WAY that Ashley resorted to tape.
Re 3): They could get married if he’s okay with it – and if he’s not married or in a relationship already of course. So far the only one we know who might be able to match her ability to eat ultra hot food is Achilles, and he’s given no indication that he likes unusually spicy food. Maybe the ‘mouthfeel’ doesn’t agree with him?
Achilles might be unable to taste the spiciness at all. It isn’t really a flavor, it’s the chemical capsaicin making heat-sensing nerve endings fire incorrectly, so he might be immune.
Or it might be the only way he feels heat, or even pain as the injury is illusionary.
“They could get married if he’s okay with it – and if he’s not married or in a relationship already of course.”
Yes, that’s exactly what would allow her to marry him.
Him liking atomic peppers is NOT what would allow her to marry him.
A gift card to SR Harris would be nice.
He might like a gift card for Fabricland (a Canadian sewing/knitting supply chain) as well.
It’s called “butt glue.” Google it if you don’t believe me.
Oh, I believe you and I know that stuff exists. (Though I didn’t know what it was called and was hesitant to google “butt glue” because, well, internet.) I just don’t believe that Ashley would be resorting to it. That cloth will be semi-sentient and know exactly where to cling, stiffen, relax, and drape to perfectly mold itself to your form WITHOUT adhesives, thankyouverymuch.
This guy gets it.
And here I was waiting for her to realize her last orb is a healing orb.
Uh… hasn’t the purpose of the Unknown orb been revealed yet? I think it was teleporting Sydney to wherever her telepresence self is at the moment?
No, that was an upgrade on the Lightbee (she noticed a previously greyed-out icon was no longer greyed-out after her previous upgrade)
this damn comic is so good… I may have to re-re-re-re-re-read it….. I’m not sure if that’s the right number of re’s.
There are never enough ‘re’s’ :D
As a dude with the name Ashley, it’s always nice to see another male character with the same name.
Too often growing up I had other kids say rubbish like “wait, isn’t that a girls name?”
Which was weird, because over the years I’ve met maybe four girls and at least seven guys with the name, though usually it’s spelled differently. (ashleigh, ashlee, things like that.)
It´s not a girl´s name. It´s a one-handed demon-fighter could-have-been-king-if-wanted-to´s name.
Yeah, Ashley originally was a boys’ name, just like pink use to be for boys and powder blue was for girls (why do you think it’s called powder blue?)
So, looking at your full name, does that make you Peter Parker’s cousin?
*breathes sigh of relief*
[thinks: glad I managed to think of a genderless relative term]
[worryingly hot-looking guy mind]
[Ashley Parker], Re_”…wait, isn’t that a girls name?”:
You might point-out that different cultures have different answers to that.
For instance, I’m told that in Ireland, “Florence” is a name given to both boys & girls.
Ashley Wilkes was the character dumped by Scarlett O’Hara after she meets Rhett Butler in Gone with the WInd. As a coincidence for this thread topic, in the movie he was played by Leslie Howard.
Nonsense – VYVYAN is a girl’s name…
Vyvyan: And that’s a complete bastard I know called Rick.
Rick: [laughing] He’s just joshing, Mrs. Vyvyan, we’re actually terrific friends.
Vyvyan’s Mum: Ooh-er. He is a bastard, isn’t he?
Rick: Tell me, Mrs Vyvyan, why did you give him a girl’s name?
Well, at least we can confirm the last orb isn’t a heal orb.
Actually we cannot. As the unknown orb hasn’t done anything that can be perceived with human senses, it still can be anything. It might be a heal orb, and it didn’t activate because Sydney isn’t hurt.
Technically she is: her face is cut and she probably has a nice bruise developing on her abdomen. She got hit pretty hard in the beginning of the Parking Lot Brawl though and that didn’t heal immediately.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1286
She could have had a broken jaw from if the PPO hadn’t deflected his punch a bit. Still left a nasty bruise though. It was still there when she got up the next day,
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1635
but by the time she got to work it was gone.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1654
Maybe one of the orbs has a continual low level healing effect going on? Has she ever tried holding the mystery orb when she was hurt?
You didn’t look at the next page following Sydney’s morning ablutions. After she finished abluting she covered the bruise with makeup. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1640
In that last one she put on makeup before going to work, covering up the bruise. It was back again the next morning after the club night.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1991
You’re both right of course. I didn’t notice that. Well, I guess six days is enough for a bruise to heal at her age. Too bad, no continuous healing for Sydney, and the Mystery Orb remains as mysterious as ever.
She hasn’t tried putting it in her hand and activating it since she’s been injured (at least not on screen). And she hasn’t been injured enough that she might subconsciously call for it while scrambling for a first aid kit like she did with the air orb.
I think that subconsciously call is the only way Syd will find out what it is. She won’t want it to be a first aid orb because she’ll suffer the Wolverine affect.
It repels tigers.
It’a been working all this time even without holding it.
If it does repel tigers then it’s clearly too specific to affect other big cats. Pixel can attest to that.
Colour mix-up: In panel 9, the white strap on her chest crosses over the green strap. In panel 10, they have switched so now the green strap crosses over the white strap. Also, unless your supermodels are also super, she is very well endowed with the most common superpower for someone in that industry. (Warning: TvTropes link!)
Only a small proportion of models are skinny flat twigs
Or Ashley’s fabricmancer powers enable him to create “Schrödinger’s Couture”, where the overlap is simultaneously white on top and green on top.
I think I did some things like that in a topology class in university a few years (okay, decades) ago. Either that or my quantum physics class.
So… why was Thursdays comic number 660, and today’s comic also 660?
Typo by DaveB probably.
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Yay, Sydney is alive and melodramatic!
*tail wagging at full speed*
And do I sympathize with her about remembering names. I found “Iron Cloth” to be so much easier, than an actual name. Reconstructing a name from component parts is easy enough, but pronouns just come up blank (or randomized) for me, more often than not.
Definitely. Names are abstract with nothing linking them to the person.
Nicknames tend to be based on the person, either something they are (physically or otherwise) or something they have done.
That link makes the have much easier to remember.
I’m terrible with names, but good with nicknames.
Unless it is someone named Nick. Then you might be bad with the name Nick, and Nick’s name may need a nickname.
What if someone nicks his name though?
Would you have to distinguish them by ‘New Nick, the name nicker’ versus ‘Old Nick’?
I’m sure you’d have a devil of a time figuring that out.
Ashley I think you need to be more concerned about finding a way to avoid eating a forthcoming gift basket, otherwise you might find people literally walking on your grave!
It would be way funnier to see him passed out on the floor.or head plunged into a nearby bucket with a half eaten chocolate pepper close by.
Of course it might also give him some ideas for some fire resistant clothing or hankey that reduces the heat affect of spice.
Okay, that’s my xkcd physicist talking but what is the delay between panels 8 and 9?
Is there a light-speed delay?
If there is no delay, we might be able to figure some neat faster than light communication method. Does it work if one walk over an actual grave? We could use Morse code.
If there is a delay, then it shouldn’t be that far away and they could recover Sydney using “standard” interstellar travel technology.
It all depends how gracefully Ashley ages. The final two panels might be ten or twenty years later.
I think graves might be a red herring. The evidence would point more towards intense emotions, such as only experienced at a profound life-moment, or perhaps the history-changing event itself, having occurred.
Either of which would be a bit harder to replicate than taking a walk through a graveyard.
Huh, he has the power to sense people unknowingly talking smack about him as well! That’s incredibly specific and incredibly useless! Also it would have been funny if the Impact Inserts we’re actually filled with ketchup since Sydney was holding the thing in before pulling it out although it doesn’t appear to have pierced anything so there wouldn’t be any point.
Hope she keeps it, a momento of why wearing armor is good and her first trip to an alien planet as the alien to the planet.
Did you just steal MetaChthonia’s icon image? Or are you MetaChthonia responding to yourself and forgot to turn off or change the icon image?
Name is interchangeable, I use both Liverepus and MetaChthonia. Although I really should remember to be more consistent with which name I use…
Play with the minds of your enemies. Put thin packs of blue dye on the outside of the Oobtek packs.
Has it occurred to anyone that she will have to sleep eventually?
Yes. I think we’ve all had that thought.
She takes the roll of duct tape from her belt and tapes both the blue and green orbs to her palms then settles down for a snooze.
That probably would not work. We know that the orbs go into a dormant state when Sydney is asleep, and also when stored in a cardboard poster tube for a long enough time even when she is awake.
except that in the one scene where she fell asleep after the first day, the orbs deactivated and fell to the bed. Taping them to her hands won’t let them stay active.
On a side note: The blue orb? Doesn’t that control flight? If it DID work while she was dreaming, she might wake up in the morning, stuck up a tree like Dumbo. That’s the BEST case scenario. Never go to sleep while operating a vehicle.
Do we know that?
She hasn’t taped one to her hand and gone to sleep.
The air orb should be taped to the other hand if she’s going to sleep
inside the airtight forcefield.
It’s like the mouse on your computer. The PC can’t go dormant if you move it.
Her orbs shouldn’t go dormant while she’s touching them.
But….
Maybe she shouldn’t take a nap under a few hundred pounds of concrete
that’s being supported by the forcefield.
There may be a worse issue. Ok, the forcefield is air tight and pressure tight. Assuming that she tapes it to her hand, sticks it in her bra, whatever, and keeps the air orb active, it will build up pressure at an unknown rate. Given her level of physical exertion, even if the last orb turns out to be a healing orb, she is likely going to pass out for a LONG time. She may actually suffer from HPNS and then blow herself up on releasing the forcefield. Even more, it is likely that before she wakes up she may die of CO2 poisoning, which we know from a previous strip is very possible.
I just reread that… Basically nothing ends well if she falls asleep… Unless that thing is not trying to kill her.
hmm last orb’s ability revealed to be healing? I don’t think she got through that as unscathed as she thinks
She’s still bleeding at her cheek so if the last orb heals it hasn’t been activated yet.
Agreed. Plus I think Sydney will probably have a bruise covering half of her midriff. The armor will have dissipated some of the energy, but the part that is causing her pain is what got through. Albeit spread out, rather than remaining concentrated in a point that could kill her.
They said that they were going to test it next time she was injured but she’s had large bruises for a week and still no testing. It really bugs me.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/515
Or we could just take it that they did exactly what the scene implied, but it was a boring null result, with nothing else interesting enough to justify depicting the testing.