Grrl Power #67 – Jedi yoink
Whew, just barely finished this one in time. Darned Skyrim.
So the first thing a lot of people will think is “if she tried to lift the ambulance by it’s side like that, she’s just rip of the chunk she grabbed on to” It shall be explained! Otherwise, not too much to comment on this page. We see that Sydney has some control over the (contents of the) tube, obviously that control doesn’t allow her to extend the range they will allow her to stray.
Is it just me or does Maxima’s shirt seem to keep getting tighter? I need to scale back on that a bit. It looks painted on in this page.
Oh and I forgot to mention, the Washington Post online is doing a “best webcomics thing” I’d appreciate a write in, but obviously these best of lists are really just “who’s got the most traffic” lists. Lemme guess, people like Hark a Vagrant, Penny Arcade, PvP, Oatmeal and Olgaf? I’m shocked! Well not that shocked. Still, I think it’s important that people nominate their favorites (not just mine) so people outside of the usual webcomics circles start to get a feel for what a huge community it is.
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I’m sorry, but the more people discuss how Maxima lifts the ambulance, the more I think about the closing verse to the theme song of the greatest TV show ever made:
“If you’re wondering how he eats and breathes
and other science facts (la-la-la),
Just repeat to yourself, ‘It’s just a show’,
I should really just relax”
for Mystery Science Theater 3000!”
Just my brain doing free association.
Yeah yeah, sure, but a) it’s fun, and b) the whole comic started with a physics lawyerin’ of whosisface and the copycap. So there’s a perfectly cromulent precedent.
that last panel is priceless
I’m beginning to suspect the Sydney is really Bugs Bunny in disguise.
Naaa, Sydney isn’t as much of a stinker as Bugs is.
Bugs Bunny is a dominant character, taking few of the pratfalls. Sidney is thus more of a Daffy Duck, who takes quite a few.
Well bugs bunny is a furry and I would love to see some furries in this comic but I think she is more of a Daffy duck.
Seems it is agreed then. She’s Daffy. A female Daffy. A Daff-ette if you will.
Putting up a list, and yes, you are on it. ;)
See What you started DaveB. NOW everyone is doing a ‘List’
Now I need to get me a list started! :P
You don’t have a List? YOU’RE ON THE LIST!!
*Writes in a notebook while humming “Sink the Bismarck”*
IF you make a T-shirt or poster of the last panel, I think that this would be a proper text overlay:
“Safe Landings are just a matter of perspective.”
And one wonders since he’s Mr Amorph, if he’s let his face “Cushion” the cushions on his face, if so when she does get up or ports out to regain her composure…Mr Amorph is gonna have a negative impression left on his face…
Either a detailed anatomical impression or an impression made by her fist or mega-slap.
And you know, since Sydney is a comic geek, she’s also likely very much into Anime and so her “Power Stunts” and tactics are going to revolve (*or devolve, again it’s a matter of perspective. Receiving or delivering such that is. :P ) around what she knows best.
This leaves me in a mixed state of anticipation– Will Sydney use or teach someone the “Super-Kancho!” ?
Also with all the military and fed hard asses around the group, you know Sydney is going to try to gain acceptance and or rebel in the most low down gutter level base way her humor is capable of pulling off and pissing off the powers/controllers (I wonder who gets the wonderful duty of being her chaperone and personal PR tutor…how many will she go through before they catch on that she is doing them anguish and mental damage on purpose?).
I see Harem and Dabbler being her BFF’s in the group right off the bat! Especially if they go along with her pranks just to see what happens if nothing else. Also have that feeling that Anvil will get a “Charge” (or is that a power up ?) from conversion of Sydney’s spaz attacks when she’s held back from attacking the enemies.
And why do I see Sydney helpfully “nudging” Anvil off a roof or in front of a large heavy moving object when she says it’s going to take too long to get her power up to do anything in that scene?
Thus it will be revealed later that Sydney is very limber and can handle being literally tied up into knots…
DaveB – I think your muse is that clever and sneaky too. Kinda like mine- what I have to edit out of my stories and novels at times makes my editor giggle, but cross her eyes in consternation too.
BTW if you ever make another fem-villain, why not one called the “Muse,” but who is a harsh taskmistress as well (excuse to draw her in S&M Dom gear and give her a whip.)
Her powers based off pheromones, telepathy (love/low level??), inspiration, daydreaming, stubborness and a touch of ADD (Ohh Look a shiny! (we all know how easily our muses can be distracted. Neh? (Mine demands chocolate and animal protein regularly to stay happy and keep me productive.) Make this muse hate PR people because they are always changing and putting words into other people’s mouths…
Sorry for such a long initial post, but the convo’s and giggles of yet another great page finally got my muse thinking and imagining situations w/o any link to any plots. (How many super villain plots will be spoiled by Sydney, because she’s seen or read all of them already? (thus the need for Muse (freelances herself and powers) to inspire and let the real bad guys get new ideas and plans that lil Halo/Sydney can’t ruin because she’s “seen and read it all,” already.
trying to understand the whole not wanting to remember the jedi comment. hmmmm
oh never mind i get it. lol slow on the uptake some time
And we now have confirmation that one of maxima’s powers is confering unnatural tensile strength to things she touches. Otherwise the truck would tear apart.
I do have one issue, they will be jostled despite being strapped in, every object not structurally part of the ambulance has had its kinetic moment shifted. every liquid is sloshing in its container. that includes the wet meat sacks strapped on to gurneys. The suspension normally would dampen the shocks from the road, but not so much from corners and Maxima isnt lifting by the suspension.connected part In a way I think it would have been funnier if Maxima lifted the ambulance more like tipping up a rock, it would have killed about 50 percent of the comments and would have implied that she could lift all of it without her having to do so. It would have been rougher on the contents of the ambulance though. I’m not sure how much harder it would be to draw.
“…killed about 50 percent of the comments…” is a very good reason for doing it wrong. A strip needs readership and writing in to point out errors gets the reader involved with the strip.
If you check out the typical chess set displayed in a store, it will be set up wrong, deliberately. Anyone who wants to point this out needs to go into the store and may end up buying something.
“You’ve spelt “Special” with an ho”
A chocolate covered treat for anyone who gets that reference.
I thought the phrase was ” Jedi’s in the house say Heeea!! “
I was just rereading and in #63 it was another of harems bodies that telaported into the ambulance.or that’s the way it looked to me.
Now, will Harem or the guy on the gurney say anything about what happened, or keep quiet? :D
the military still has it’s quirks on it’s sexual harassment stance. in this case, i’m sure the guy will probably keep his mouth shut… those little-itty-bitty words “sexual harassment” are career killers to a males military career if ever uttered by a female, even if false!… sure he may not get slammed by the JAG, but he won’t be advancing in pay-grade anytime soon. i know. I’ve seen it happen when i was in the navy.
i’ll bet that Max will get an earful as soon as she gets back to where Harem can get to yell at her though.
I’m curious as to what the Harem on the couch, and the mil-spec, purple-haired one, and Goth versions are looking like right now though. do they have the same Pissed Off But Surprised look on their faces as Vogue Harem does right now, or does she have very good separation of emotions between copy’s going on, so only Vogue is actually Showing the look, and the others are still looking like they “should” be looking in their own local environments?
The separation of emotion question will he touched on in a few pages. :)
Lemme guess. One Harem with her/their lover while another is playing poker with Syd and Anvil, the third is doing a Kata ad the final two are discussing the reports of FTL neutrinos. B)
While Harem has shown full awareness of what her copies are doing and feeling, there has not been any tendency for emotions to blend. For this purposes she acts like several friends. If she is currently watching herself on camera, she is more likely to be embarrassed about the others laughing than angry about the colonel tossing her around. While we have not yet seen any drastic cases, our assumption [which may be about to be changed or corrected] should be that she can be making hot love in one room, in a screaming argument in another, and calmly making a report in a third.
Well, I’ll just say this about her, her behavior is almost intentionally confusing – not that I’m trying to write it confusingly, just that it’s part of her personality. She acts like 5 independent people some of the time, and other times, like on the page that introduced her, she’ll say things like “I’m watching it now” meaning another one of her is doing something concurrently – of course in that case she was on the phone so the person on the other end didn’t know there was that divide going on. Also, we’ve barely seen her doing much of anything so far. I can’t wait to have her and Sydney interacting directly.
So… she can get into a catfight with herself? Multiple herselves?
Not really – all 5 of her bodies share a single consciousness – but I could easily imagine her faking a catfight for one reason or another.
Okay I can’t be the ONLY one to have thought of this.. or maybe I am who knows.. but anyways.. so like if Harem’s copies fooled around with each other would it be considered an orgy or just simply masturbating? These are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools. ;p
Well … if one of her copies pleasured herself, I guess that would be masturbation with an sudience, but if one of the copies touched one of the others, it would be a masturbational “orgy” with an audience.
Considering a seven-year-old can get charged with sexual harassment for kicking a bully — who is in the process of strangling him — in the nuggs (the principal called it “improper touching”), I think sitting on a man’s face in a miniskirt while the man is strapped to a gurney might count as…
um…can Harem come over? I feel an urge to strap myself to a gurney…
Max;s shirt getign tighter ? hm to answer that question my good friend dave i’ll ask you a question do you think we mind that her shirt is getting tighter in fact i think im more in love with Max ever time i see her
The shirt is a little odd, but more in the case of why someone with Maxima’s views would be wearing a deliberately sexy skintight shirt and suchlike rather than a more regular (and likely comfortable) uniform.
My guess would be that either she is under orders from Arianna, who thinks it will improve the team’s profile, or that she lost a bet.
As to her actual physique, I’m guessing that comes under “standard female superhero: cheesecake > realism”. :-)
Yoink; Whap; Snap; Swipe. Hehe loving the physical humour.
Dave B. I’ve got to tell you about a great idea for a power I’ve been thinking of for a wile now. You know how vampires are said to be able to move realy fast? And also how they can stand totaly still for long periods of time? Well what if they were storing time? Think about the movie Big Fish where the main charictor see”s this girl and time seems to stop for him and he moves through the croud like they are standing still and then it then speeds way up for him and next thing he knows about an hour has gone by. Well what if you or someone else created a character like that? Pretty cool ideaa for a power . Also it would explain a lot about the vampire thing. That’s all I wanted to say about that for now,and happy thanksgiving by the way.
Harem A to Harem B I hope she wore a thong in private of course.
Yeah, Max’s shirt looks spraypainted on. If you blurred the lines defining her girl-abs and tits, maybe reduced the bloom on her tits too, it’d look a lot looser and more shirt-like.
I wonder if Sydney is going to ask Maxima if that is ‘touch TK’ being used on the ambulance while Maxima is still holding it up in the air. I can almost see Sydney stopping to give pointers on how to make it look more natural even (or perhaps especially) with the camera live.
I love the half smile at from Maxima when Sydney takes her hat and walks away.
Having played several superhero game systems my best guess is that Maxima is using her power of flight on the ambulance so it only looks like she is lifting it much the same way a certain Metropolis based alien dose by extending his flight field around what ever he holds.
One last comment on Sydney her hero name is Halo makes me wounder if there may not be something under that scrunchy in her hair? Maybe a ring of some kind and the tube has others that may fit as brackets ,she is constantly referring to “they” which imply’s there are more than one, and its the fact she is wearing one that binds her to the others. Just a few thoughts let me know what you others think.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you are right about that. The ‘scrunchy’ itself might even be an artifact, and Sydney’s casual swiping of the hat is both a distraction and a cover up. Have we gotten a really good look at the base of Sydney’s ponytail yet?
Interesting…
I thought I would answer my own question and went back through the archives looking specifically for the base of the ponytail and any sudden changes there. There are only two times that anything unusual shows up – #3/#4 the color changes but could easily be Sydney changing the scrunchy in her hair before going to meet the other supers.
But in #31/#32/ and especially #33 the color of the supposed scrunchy does indeed change. Even more interesting is that the band turns red or pink when Sydney is focused on her anger at the contents of the bag. She reaches into the car (yellow), starts swearing directly at the contents (red), gets knocked backwards and sets off the car alarm (yellow), repeatedly slams the tube into the pavement while cursing (red), throws the tube and it stops/falls (red but hard to see), then notices the sailor and the nuns (yellow).
Very interesting indeed…
Mood scrunchy? ;)
you could be on to something,,, otherwise how is it her ponytail can act like a cat’s tail,,,, like we see on square 8 here,,and often when she is surprised or angry it stand like a cat’s tail,,, or get scruffed,,,
hate to break your bubble, but odds are that neat little theory isn’t true :/ as with the “vampire-Sydney” from her FIRST little episode in the sun (sorry, too lazy to go look at it and include the link ^^; sorry…) it’s probably more a comic comic detail, like in animes where people freak out….and their hair spikes out like they were electrocuted, but then is back to normal once they calmed down XD ^^; y-e-a-h….
Just had an idea… Dave, if Max’s hair is metallic-shiny, it needs more white in the shiny parts. not only flares. Perhaps you can try to tune up the highlighting white by some amount on an existing page and see for yourself…
He’s been under there for nearly a week now, that man has one hell of a pair of lungs or can breathe through his feet.
you know,,,, technicly with his morphing power he could breath from place we normal humans cant,, well not normaly anyway,,, for instance he could be breathing trough his ears,, as they are conected to the nasal cavity via a small channel,,,,, main reason we cant is because it is noprmaly full of wax and stuff as it serve as a mean to equalise pressure in the ears and as a valve to lessen the chance of overpressure or underpressure causing damage to the sensible ear parts like the drum and inner ear
Ya know, anyone whos read superman doesn’t really need an explanation for the lifting of the ambulance thing.
Well… It could be the same sort of “power”.
Basically, that same field which gives superman his invulnerability and ability to go from terminal velocity to 0 in a second can be extended by touch(probably subconcious control he’s not aware of. maybe latent telekinetic?). anyways, it does have it’s limits(superman returns. he stops the jet, but the nose cone still crumples a bit, though super doesn’t go through the thing like a bullet, which what should’ve happened).
Am I right when I think it’s something like that?
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First time poster, love the comic. <3
Got to say, does any one else find it funny how the camera man is totally chill in panel eight?
Always keep filming! The stalwart cameraman’s motto.
Don’t notice me I’m filming…
Well having an energy field around Maxima does explain how she can pick up that ambulance without tearing a chunk out of it. The field extends to whatever she is holding. Makes sense. But what kind of power can yank the tube out of her hands and directly back to Sydney? What indeed?
Wonderful faces DaveB especially for Sydney.
As with all of Maxima’s powers, it’s variable. If she feels she’s in a safe environment she’ll normalize her powers, a good amount of armor, and a little extra speed, but otherwise basically regular human levels so she doesn’t break things like doorknobs or people’s hands.
….but what about annoying public peoples, and Arianna? XD I can easily imagine a special “grip” for her, like in publicity public appearances…looks perfectly normal, but Arianna has to try not to wince or something, and Max looks like she’s grimacing or about to rip the lawyer’s head off….lol
The whole part of PR is to run interference and “massage” the truth into a more useable state. Various levels of White and maybe Gray propaganda. But depending on her training an skill sets she might just be able to pull off Black propaganda when necessary. If things become too hairy and too black bag. (Depending on what the ARC Force does—their Mission Statement.)
It takes quiet a lot of training for Maxima to become Minima in normal situations. Otherwise she’d be pulling off door nobs and doors! No doubt she’s been at it awhile or she would never have made colonel. So I’d think that it would be near impossible for even the frenetic antics of our delightful Sydney to get her hot under the collar. Or can she?
I wonder that if Maxima was using her powers at maximum, would we see some kind of energy aura? Or would it stay in the invisible range to our eyes?
Hah hah Minima, I’ll have to use that.
I think I would be more scared of MINima than Maxima….would be like watching Spock have an emotional breakdown….it just would NOT be RIGHT at ALL lol
Glad I could bring a smile.
hey, when did harem get back ? wasnt she brushing herself against paul a second ago ?
Oh my…and a very fine day HE seems to be having.
I’m looking forward to the answer about Maxima’s strength/object handling.
The two thoughts that came to mind were:
A) Using the “Aberrant” game system explanation that super-strength is as much an indirect manipulation of quantum fields as it is actual physical force (it was a lengthy explanation, I won’t recap the whole thing here, but in a psuedo-science RPG way, it made sense).
B) Something more along the lines of the Superboy clone and his “tactile telekinesis” which had the appearance of superhuman strength.
I just noticed a better Jedi trick, proper grammatical use of the three theres.
I’m sorry, but Harem in that last panel looks like she was drawn by Liefeld… Her legs are massive and ridiculously muscular, whereas her waist and upper body are really small.
jedi in hiszzouse say whaaaaat
“Sit on my faaaace and tell me that you looove meeee~ I’ll sit on your face and tell you I love you toooooo~!”