Grrl Power #753 – A civilized abeyance
Welcome to what’s informally known as the Archon Professional Ladies League. Informally, because no one calls it that. And definitely no one calls it “Lunch with my bitches.” But sometimes Max likes to sit down with educated professional ladies and eat a watercress sandwich. They talk about being at the tops of their respective fields and the pressures and challenges they face. Sometimes they talk about boys, too.
The existence of the APLL was kinda sorta hinted at way back on this page. Also I thought I’d link that page because that wiener joke makes me laugh every time.
If anyone is wondering, Peggy assigned Sydney a FN Five-seveN as her sidearm. It uses a relatively small 5.7×28mm cartridge and the standard magazine holds 20 rounds. Yes, hitting a target 11 out of 20 times is not too impressive, especially if you look at the piece of paper Sydney is holding when she busts into the room. She hit the paper 11 out of 20 times, but Peggy thought Sydney could do with the distraction today and told her that it counted. Not exactly up to the standards of a super elite military team, but considering Sydney’s abilities, it’s not like they’d kick her off the team if she could only hit 1 out of 20 shots. As long as she can hit what she’s aiming at with the PPO. Anyway, Syndey seems to be over her nightmare at the moment. Let’s see how long her caffeine and ‘shooting guns at things’ high can sustain her.
Yes, Sydney still squeaks every time she fires a gun.
For some reason I decided to have Sydney holding the sheet backwards. It’s an actual target with the silhouette bust on it, not just some blank butcher paper or something.
You know, on the one hand, it’s a little odd that Sydney is excited about cutting a car in half, considering the powers she has. She already sliced up a tank, but… she didn’t do it with a machine gun, so I guess she’s just excited about doing some Mythbusters level shit.
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Sydney and sustained fire, belt fed, automatic weapons….
What could be scarier?
Ok, Sydney and the pew pew orb..
Wait’ll she fires 50 cal. I have, and there’s nothing like it.
How far you betting on Sydney being shot backwards due to the recoil? Or do you think they will strap her down to the floor first?
Fly Orb and lighthook… FTW
What is she going to use to fire the gun? Her tongue? o_O
Fly Orb and a .50cal as propulsion.
It’s an LMG, those things are surprisingly light on recoil thanks to the relatively small caliber and heavy weight of the gun, so I doubt she’s really gonna go anywhere.
The M249 LMG fires the same round as the M4/M-16A2 and can even use the same magazines. Basically it’s an overpowered .22 (.223/5.56). She won’t be doing any Schwarzenegger one handed poses with it, but cutting a car up will be easy for her
She will put a lot of holes in the car, but she won’t be cutting it up. Now, I got to fire 2000 rounds from a Vulcan Cannon at an expired semi and cattle-car. THAT cut the semi and car in half. There is something ridiculously satisfying about wielding such destructive power.
Dude, I am so envois of you right now, and I got to blow things up
Ive never held a gun, but I can imagine it might be like the difference between using a silver bullet vs riding a sybian. Satisfying :D
Depends on where you hold the gun ;)
Wouldn’t that depend on how close together the holes are? Remember olde tyme postage stamps? The kind that came on sheet and had to rip them (carefully) out?
Was referring to the .50cal mentioned, not the pop-gun
Firing a Ma Duece is awesome! Loud, but awesome!
I had a guy tell me if I got the opportunity to spend the weekend in bed with a girl or go shoot 50 cal, go shoot 50 cal.
I said your nuts but he was right.
You’re
“Your nuts!” would make a good exclamation, though. “Shooting a .50 cal is better than spending the weekend in bed with a girl.” “Your nuts it is!”
Since “My ass it is” is kind of a short way of saying “I’d bet my ass it isn’t,” “Your nuts it is” would be like saying “I’d bet your nuts it isn’t.” To be used when you’re not as sure the other person is wrong, so it’d be safer to wager their testicles than to wager your posterior.
Let’s make it a thing.
Can’t remember the name…it was a nice .50 Cal bolt action single shot hunting rifle used for silhouette and big…very big…game hunting. It didnt have the shear menace of a Barret, but neither did it have the massive recoil when properly braced and padded…lots of padding please. Got to fire 10 rounds at a local range…and it was GLORIOUS. Alas I didnt have the 5k to buy nor the real purpose for it. Had to stick with just the paperwork for my personal. But damn if i didnt want to have a ittla respondsible fun while I was there…
MK-19 is da bomb.
Sorry Ma Deuce.
I carried an M60 during the ’90 to ’91 war, but the fields of fire were so long that nearly all our encounters were resolved with air support and artillery before we got within range. A couple of our TOW vehicles did blow a couple Iraqi trucks carrying mortars and RPGs, but mostly we used GPS with AN/GVS 5 laser range finding thermal binoculars as our weapon of choice.
A-10’s are my bestest friends.
Heh, I married a pig driver…and SHE likes my cooking. Ma is nice, baseball tosser is cool, the 203? Meh. Me? Oh, I just LOVE that fresh smell you get in the fall, when you open a virgin canister of power for your M110A2. Because nothing says “I don’t like you”. Not even 500lbs guided. Nope, but a batterys worth of 207# projo’s with a mix of PD and Delay? It’s hard to get the point across better. :)
If you want to make your point colorful, willie pete in all the flavors.
81’s are big enough, but 105s are the shit.
You know whats Better Keith, firing canister, DF… 155mm shotgun… never had the chance to pull the lanyard, but got to watch.. and Dayum…..
I have fired both the M60 and the M2HB. The M60 was nice, accurate and worked well. And I was a fairly good shot with it. But the M2HB was hands down more awesome. Never fired a Mk 19. When I was in the Corp it was still being tested and made even slightly reliable. It’s official adoption was after my time.
Nothing like the recoil either. Hopefully the .50 cal is thoroughly secured to the ground so that most of the recoil goes into the ground and not her shoulder. Maybe half-loads for the .50 cal, except that might be enough to cycle the action.
The M-82 and M-107 .50 cal sniper rifles have a double recoil system that eats up a ton of the recoil but it still has a pretty beastly kick. There are bolt action versions with no recoil spring but from what we’ve seen the Pegster use so far, Archon uses recoil based .50 cal systems. @Doc Phogg: 81’s are light, responsive and versatile… When I was an 11 Charlie Mortar Platoon Sergeant/Section Sergeant I once plotted a fire mission that hung a seven round pyramid of illum with HE busting underneath it. Given that the hang time of an 81mm illum round is only one minute, you can see how difficult that was. I hung a six round Christian cross once too… Both times I got my ass chewed for wasting ammunition and both times I told the evaluators that if they gave me a fixed amount of ammunition I was going to fire it (any ammunition you turn in at the end of training gets subtracted from the amount you get next time) and I was going to used it for training to build the confidence of my crews.
I don’t believe that anyone was ever chewed out for expending ammo during my first enlistment (as a 2884 alternatingly with the S2 or with Comm) when I was with 3/4.
I never got to fire mortars, just hump their godawful base plates.
I did shoot all kinds of crap as a 2171 during my third enlistment.
Contrary to popular fiction, a .50 does not have that much recoil. An M82 kicks roughly as hard as a 12 Gauge 3″ magnum. It might knock someone of her stature back, but at 30 pounds or so it’s not something she would use standing. Prone, she’d be fine if she didn’t get her hair stuck in the mechanism. (Long Story)
I do have to admit that I don’t have the experience with other .50 sniper rifles so the comparison might be unfair. The recoil mechanism may be fairly unique.
As for an M2, it probably weighs more than her. She would not be firing it unmounted, ala the Rock in GI Joe.
Wait, when did Doc Chevy pick up her cup of piping hot beverage? o_O
She didn’t.. it’s Dr Frost’s
Panel Progression equals time progression in this one gals and guys. Even if it’s just a few seconds. It’s Chevy who spilled her cup, not Dr Frost.
In panel 3 Chevy is holding her sandwich.
In 4 she she put down the sandwich and picked up her cup between panels. You can tell it’s Chevy because she is the one sitting between Max and the Frost, and that is a right hand holding the cup. If it were Frost’s cup, it would either be on the far right side of the panel or being held by a left hand.
That’s what is happening when Sydney makes her usual entrance and you can see the vocalization (and accompanying sound affect) of Chevy being startled and spilling her cup on herself.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure how to end this page when I started writing it, and I kind of shoehorned the tea spill in at the end. I could have planned it better, but Dark Kuno is right.
Didn’t see the cup in panel 4, kinda easy to miss until pointed out.. Plus the way the cup is held, makes it look like it’s Dr Frost’s again, it’s only when I look then think about the facing of people etc that it I can see it to be Chevy’s…
Plus Panel 1 and panel 3’s view of the table makes it look like there is no cup infront of Chevy..
Finally, in the final panel, both arms are below the cup, where as her right should be above the cup as it has holding the cup.
Instead the hand that held the cup, somehow dropped it, moved down her chest between her body and the cup, before the cup could move and then her other hand caught the cup, trapping her right arm against her chest..
Her pose is that of someone that had something thrown unexpectedly at her and both arm have re-flexed up to try and catch it..
This last point is what made me think it’s wasn’t Chevy’s drink…
Easiest solution would be to have Chevy not let go of her cup at all, still holding it by the handle.
Hope I don’t sound too critical..
Unless… in her startled state, she tossed the cup up, and then fumbled for it with both hands, with the right hand missing it and the left catching the (now empty) cup and trapping her right arm
I’m guessing during the 2nd panel with Max in it. Maybe sandwich in 1 hand, drink in the other, both flying as Sydney comes in. However a sandwich is a lot less likely to scold you, so the drink gets the attention here…
Apparently she picked it up at a very inopportune time, seeing that her Sydney Startle Reflex dumped it down the front of her blouse.
I know it’s Dr. Chevy’s hand in the fourth panel, but it really looks as if Max had forgotten to coat her hands in gold paint that morning.
Oh, that’s when she picked it up (hope she didn’t wear her fancy bra today)
The way she is holding her arms in panel seven, did she forget to put any bra on this morning? o_O
Nightmare nightmare nightmare OhMyGodI’mShootingMyPistolAndIHitTheTarget11Times…
Yeah, that sounds like Sydney…
Ok, let’s be fair here. She’s under proper supervision and who wouldn’t want to give that a go?
I’m up pretty early… but I’d be jumping out of bed for cutting a car in half with an LMG.
Maxi is the one drinking the rata-gino juice, right?
NERD!!!
For some reason I figured Arianna would be drinking Kanar.
Is that a brand of root beer? Or prune juice? o_O
Cardassian liquor.
Everyone knows is the beat up the car portions in between the actual fights that are the real draw to the street fighter mini game
A Honda is my favourite character.
You mean E. Honda.
No, he means he likes the actual car that you smash in the minigame. ;-)
and i heard they’re re-doing Knight Rider using a Smart Car
*giggles maniacally*
Seriously they’re going to one up Kitt who was probably the original smart car?
You mean the 1978 Cylon car?
They already re-made K.I.T.T., it was a telemovie, possibly pilot for a new series with about five different vehicles: someone tried to drown Michael in K.I.T.T., unfortunately for K.I.T.T., the passenger compartment was able to be sealed, but he was stored outside of it :(
Close. Knight Rider 2000 I think ended up being a failed Pilot. Team Knight Rider was syndicated and set like 20 years after that (One of the Drivers was supposedly Michael Knight’s illegitimate Daughter)
And then you had the 2008-2009 Ford-promotional series, with Michael’s son
Thank you, knew there was something where the old Trans Am was destroyed and K.I.T.T. was transferred in an old 50’s or 60’s style car (the only thing could find even close was when he was given a bath in acid)
Well, as long as she doesnt get the 57 with the AP Ammunition, all should be well.
IF she gets that, better not have anyone behind the wall she is aiming at, or the alarm will go off (who can spot the reference?^^).
Why would AP ammo be a problem in a pistol when they let her fire LMGs?
i think Arkh meant AP for the LMG
Nope, I was referring to an often noob killing “feature” from a certain game. Sadly noone caught it., ah well…
ohhh whoops i’m not that familiar with gun names, i didn’t pick up that you meant the handgun that Peggy issued, since Dave called it the Five-seveN; what game was that?
Oh, Payday 2? I hear that gun in that game has a bit too much armor penetration capability compared to the real deal. IRL it’s only good against stuff that can stop things like .45ACP, .40S&W and 9mm parabellum.
Exactly.
Since most builds hat eit as secodnary weapon, one must be careful not to take it for silent builds, as it can happen that you shoot a guard, it goes through their ehad, the wall behind, and the window behind the wall.
Of course, in non stealth situations, that is a good thing. But when stealthing? Yeah….^^
Oh well, she’s a better shot than me…
Way back in history, I tried to shoot with a Walther P-38, and nope, at 30 meters, I did NOT manage to hit the full-figure target even close to half the time.
(No idea if it was a WWII version, or a later edition.)
Now, hand me an AG-3, and I’ll make mincemeat of the target even at 300meters.
(As long as it hasn’t been worn out completely, of course)
I made expert with the M16, at human sized targets, 70+ hits at 200-400 yds.
With how many rounds fired?
The open sights or scope?
(I only ever used the iron sights on the AG-3. That’s a Norwegian version of the H&K G-3 btw. Longer stock, winter adaptated, ‘stealth’ mod.)
Ok, now that is weird. I have been re-reading from the beginning for the last few days. I was having trouble sleeping tonight, and by coincidence caught up about a minute after today’s page was posted. For a moment I thought the comments were broken because there were not any posted yet.
Sorry to be a sour pus Sydney, but an lmg aint gonna cut a car in half..;.. nor will a MMG or HMG (5.56, 7.65. 12.7 mm respectively (.223 .303 .5 for those using inferior measuring systems))
chew the car up in tiny piece, eventually, yes and very yes respectively
Peggy: Ok, you said you wanted to cut a car in half. Here are your tools for doing that.
Sydney: What is this? Man, it’s heavy!
Peggy: That is a hydraulically powered spreading rescue tool, also known as the Jaws of Life. For cutting the car in half, you will be using these, the hydraulically powered shearing rescue tool, sometimes called the Jaws of Death.
Peggy: Notice that we have put some passengers in the car, represented by these inflated dolls. During this exercise, the civilians have to remain intact and inflated. During a real rescue, you would be allowed to use your orbs, but check with me first before you bring any into play. Lighthook: Could be good, PPO: Bad.
Sydney: Ah, I thought we are going to use the machine gun to cut the car in half.
Peggy: Okay, but can you cut the car in half with that and leave the passengers intact?
I mean, realistically, it’s not like it’s much less awesome to cut a car in half with the Jaws of Life.
I would not be greatly surprised if, were Peggy asked that last question, she would accept the challenge. And proceed to demonstrate how.
About Sydney being excited about firing a machine gun. Whatever else they are, they’re FUN. Ripping off a 100 round belt out of a SAW or M60 will leave a ridiculous grin on your face. And a .50 caliber M2 is a whole other thing. I’m also thinking of the Crisis on Two Earth’s animated movie where Wonder Woman ends up calling dibs on Owlman’s invisible jet and Flash asks her why she needs a jet when she can fly and her response is something like, “for the same reason you own a sports car.”
Wasn’t Flash’s reason for owning a sports car “to pick up girls”?
It was. Oh snap…
And?
This girl would totally go on an invisible plane ride with Wonder Woman.
Wait, that was confirmation that Wondies liked to fly around picking up girls?
There would be MANY cold, lonely nights on Themyscira if one did not enjoy the company of the fairer sex.
Yes, most readers know that, butt DC has had a long standing tradition of “Don’t Ask, Deny Until You Are Blue In The Balls” about stuff like that
One thing is for certain, the quadruple espresso with extra caramel has kicked in.
I shoulda realized that ARCHON’s on-staff doctor is a military doctor, complete with rank and other details.
Out of curiosity,
serious question for those in the know here
(because I know there are actual US military personnel here who are fans and who post in the comments):
How does a person become a military doctor? I mean, are they already full-fledged doctors to begin with and they join the military? Are they enlisted men and women who apply for some sort of program, such as funding for college/grad/med school and they agree to serve in the military in return?
And what about medical specialists like Doctor Frost who, in particular, is a psychiatrist? I note that here she is NOT wearing a uniform. Are there medical personnel (and other non-medical specialists) who work for the military not necessarily as a member of the armed forces but as consultants? Or are they classified as some sort of government employee? (Or possibly as a consultant for the government but not military personnel?)
Thanks in advance.
https://study.com/articles/Become_a_Military_Doctor_Step-by-Step_Career_Guide.html
Simplest explanation.
Also, I’m not American, I’m French by birth
When I was in the service, a lot of our Doctor’s used the ROTC program to pay for their education. Once they graduated they were obligated to the service for a certain number of years. If you remember the movie and television show M.A.S.H., this was how many of the Doctors in the 4077 got roped into the Korean War.
If I recall the television show from my youth, Doctors Pierce and Honeycutt were drafted. So they had their practices already in Crab Apple Cove, Maine and San Francisco, California prior to joining the war effort. During the last episode of the show, it was revealed that both doctors were going back to their separate home towns to resume their medical careers.
I thought they were in the reserves and were activated because of the war.
Typically, a fully qualified medical doctor first, with experience in hospitals and private clinics, then rather than opening your own private practice, you sign up with the military. In some cases, the M.D. already has a practice, then sells it off, or leaves it to his/her partners to run, or just shuts it down, and signs up for military service. My grandfather just shut down his practice for 5 years or so to serve as a doctor (Major) in the Canadian Army during World War 2 (landed on Juno in the afternoon of D-Day).
The doctor gets a special abbreviated basic training and officer’s training, as they will not generally be in the combat chain of command and expected to be part of combat operations, but just in the medical facilities. Some countries will pay for your university education; in return, you are a reservist during your education and then you sign up for an extended service stint when you graduate.
Doctor Frost is a civilian contractor with a really high security clearance. She is not signed up for military service but gets called in to deal with things on a case-by-case basis. Nice to see her doing house calls, rather than saying “Sure, I can fit her in. Send her over to my clinic this morning at 9 AM, before my scheduled patients.”
Other civilian contractors have also shown up in the comic already, such as Dabbler and Math. They bring special skills or training that are not generally available from normal (or even specialized) military training. Most of the academics on Star Gate SG1 (Dr. Jackson, Dr. Lee, etc.) were civilian specialists, but often received extra combat training when it was expected that those personnel may encounter hostile forces.
Some civilian contractors will drop in as needed, like Dr. Frost here, and other will have longer term relationships, like Dabbler and Math, who would be paid on a regular basis for their on-duty time.
We have no idea if Doc Frost is or is not military
Please to be noting that Maxi isn’t wearing a uniform
That’s a fair point.
I dunno… Something feels “not military” about her, while Doc Chevy being in uniform just fits her.
Eh, maybe it’s just me. Anyone else feel that Doc Frost isn’t military?
(Also, based on her figure, I’m sure she’s a super.)
I’m not sure if I’d call what Daniel Jackson got “combat training”. More like “Managed to survive combat enough times to get somewhat decent at it.” And Lee….Didn’t Lee usually just hide behind something when guns started firing?
I dunno, Jackson had more than a few moments of asskicking.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HPe2gODipI
Daniel Jackson’s situation feels a lot like Sydney Scoville Jr.’s. They both have access to a resource that the government organization they work for has a strong need to keep accessible.
In Daniel’s case, he’s one of basically two people on Earth who had the knowledge, background, and mindset necessary to comprehend what the Stargate was, decipher its pseudo-(or proto-?) Egyptian symbols, and actually get it working. The other one being a quite elderly woman in failing health. And then, on Abydos, his linguistic skills were indispensable. S.G.C., simply put, needed him too much to consider his lack of military status or training as a roadblock for even a second.
In Sydney’s case, her sole access to the abilities the orbs convey (even if you allow for Varia’s possible orb-sharing, Sydney’s still a required part of the equation) and the fact that she essentially has the components of a god-tier starship following her around like glowy, friendly puppies, means she’s incredibly valuable. And gets more valuable as her connection to the orbs and access to their abilities levels up. Her similarly god-tier ADHD is something, given that level of utility, Archon is going to bend over backwards to try to deal with.
It’s not purely utilitarian, of course. Maxima genuinely likes Sydney (and has a -5 on Will saves vs. puppy dog eyes) and Sydney’s generally good, heroic, loyal and (when her foot’s not wedged in her mouth) likeable. Similarly, Daniel’s kind-hearted, loyal, and generally brilliant.
To be fair, “Hide behind something when the shooting starts” is the all-important Step 1 of effective combat training.
Max is looking a little more Asian/Elven than usual this morning.
Considering that we’ve seen what Syd can do with what she (and Varia) alone can command, putting her behind an LMG is a considerable downtier.
Somewhere in the vastness of space, the survivors of a shattered alien armada tell of a lone pilot, flying a transparent ship, that lay waste to their armies, striking down even their most powerful soldiers with but a single blow, leaving nothing but death, destruction and wreckage in her wake.
Ruthless, relentless, utterly merciless, she is Sydney, the DeathWalker, the Doom Bringer, the Devastator……
’tis all about the handfeel
Not sure if an LMG would be enough to cut a car in half. Better with something little along these lines https://youtu.be/LvHMbN_epe4?t=52
NRA recommended target is an 8 1/2″ X 11″ sheet of blank paper.
Or an 8.5″ X 11″ piece of paper with the American Bill of Rights on it. Shoot every line except the Second Amendment.
+2
If you actually knew anything about the NRA or its members you’d understand just how moronic your statement was.
Short answer: Because the purpose of Amendment Two is to protect the other 9.
That’s an idiotic statement. Your bias is showing. Maybe if you understood that the 2nd amendment is REQUIRED to protect every OTHER amendment right, then you’d understand how silly your statement is. Come on, man. Keep that crap to Facebook and out of our awesome comic comments section.
Yeah let’s all just lob flamewar bombs and try to hijack comic discussion into political bullshit every day.
So ARCHON can afford sawing cars apart with guns for fun and training? I know the military can often be rather generous with tax money but this seems like a bit of a excess. Then again it may be worth it just to let Halo live out her destructive fantasies in a controlled environment.
Plenty of stuff to frag in the junkyard, plus these are supers, you have to give them some leeway
I was thinking more about the ammo cost. Got to take a lot to destroy the sturdier parts of a chassis. Then again these are supers so they may have super bullets.
Depends on the car, most Japanese models are pretty light in terms of materials, they take the whole “crumple zone” thing a little too seriously…..
The whole Sharess damned CAR is a “crumple zone”!
That is better than the passengers being considered part of the crumple zone. That would lead to way more injuries.
The car Sydney is going to get to shoot at is going to be some junker that Archon got from the scrap yard for $10. They aren’t putting brand new $50,000 cars out there to be shot at.
And they didn’t have to pay for delivery, because somebody went over and carried it back. Heck, they could even have Sydney do that, it’s well within her weight capacity.
When I was in the Army and stationed in Germany the post PDO yard was always full of crap cars. The soldiers would buy cheap cars that would last the year or two of their deployment, then abandon them when they rotated back to the states. The cars weren’t worth the cost of shipping them home. So if the tank guys ever needed some junk cars to mash into the dirt for training purposes, they’d just haul a few out of the PDO.
You military guys always have some fun story about military life to share. That is something I envy you.
i love how everyone holding a teacup has their pinky out
One must maintain one’s sense of decorum during morning tea my dear.
Just because a lady can bust heads, (rip them clean off in Maxima’s case, and that’s only if she likes you), “influence” public opinion (Arianna), probe the depths of the psyche (Frost) or drag you back from death’s doorstep (Chevy) ,doesn’t mean she can’t be “classy”
Have you seen a real teacup? There literally isn’t anywhere else to put your pinkie unless you want to burn it on the cup itself
You put your ring finger through the handle and make a fist.
I have a nice set of china and a separate tea service.
Japanese teacups, don’t have handles.
Bah! One keeps one’s pinky out, these days, in order to keep it clean, so that one can use it to swipe a Kindle/Nook/smart phone/tablet/etc…
I like to bring my Kindle or Nook with me when I go out to eat solo. Pinkies out, always.
You can swipe your eReader with your nose.
My beard tends to gather foodstuff, so I am reduced to pinkies only.
Standard magazine for a P-90 is 50 rounds. Peggy would probably have loaded it with fewer for practice, though.
Pretty sure Sydney has a 5-7 for practice shooting.
John C, note that the only thing the FN P90 have with the FN five-Seven is the calibre.
The five-Seven is a typical semi-auto pistol with a 20 round magazine,
and the P90 is a bullpup configuration spray’pray gun.
Here’s when Peggy gave her the gun.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-326-all-assembly-required/
Calibre and manufacturer :)
(yeah, obvious, but still…)
Not to mention the radically different mag design. The 50 rounders are shaped in such a way that the gun has to be designed around them much more than the normally near coaxial ammunition storage of traditional banana/straight magazines.
There is the AR-57, the bastard love child of a night of furious passion between an AR-15 and a P-90 though, if you didn’t like the P-90 ergonomics compared to the AR-15s.
If you get the chance to fire a fully-automatic weapon, you take it. It’s just about the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
I agree, I’ve only ever fired a Sten in full auto but it was a hoot. I suspect for Sydney, as it was for me, it is the novelty of the thing. Routine can dull the thrill though. Driving a twenty ton four wheel drive tractor was fun for the first hour. After that it was just another big heavy tool.
And if you can, do it at dusk with tracers. Back when I still lived in the country, I’d occasionally burn through a 100rnd magazine of Hornady Vector with my Calico and Hellfire trigger. Closest you can come to having a ray gun, watching that glowing line out to the target. Great for learning to shoot without using the sights, too.
I’ve still got a couple boxes laying around, but can’t use it in my suburban backyard.
Back in the dark ages, I used used to ‘mix’ .50″ for the AA guys in the RNoAF. (back when they had NIKE rocket batteries, L70 40mm and quad .50″ radar controlled guns)
The theory was that the threat of NIKEs would force an enemy plane to try flying ‘below radar’, an area which is mostly mountain here and where the cheaper weaponry could reach them…
The quads were loaded with 20%( 1 in ever 5 round was a tracer or MP. The rest was AP)
I think the idea was that the ‘wall of fire’ produced would cause the pilot to wet himself and hurry back home to get new underwear…
2 or 3 radar-controlled quad batteries firing at once tends to light up the sky.
“Great for learning to shoot without using the sights, too.”
That’s the only way I know how to shoot. I’m from northern NH A gun state. Gun violence is almost non-existent here.
I got to fire my -16 on full auto for one magazine at the range, then during night fire I got 3 magazines that I let off in 3 round bursts, then near the end of Basic I was the last one on the -60 with 4 full cans that HAD to be burned up before we could leave the range. Even with earplugs my ears rang like I just left a rock concert for the rest of the day.
I would qualify that by saying it needs to be something that’s meant to be full auto. I’ve got a friend who once modified a .22 to be full auto. Yes, he was an idiot. And also the damn thing consistently jammed after 3 shots. The experience was somewhat less impressive than I imagine a proper full auto would be.
I sense Dr.Chevy and Dr.Frost have differences of opinions of Sydney Scoville…!
Sydney:(to Dr.Chevy) Oh hello Dr.Ford Taurus!!
Now here’s a couple of outfits for Dr.Chevy,which one would look the best on her…
This one:
https://www.yojoe.com/images/resize/w/MAX/cardback/84/images/doc32front.jpg
Or this one?
https://www.yojoe.com/images/resize/w/MAX/action/86/86card/lifeline.jpg
Wait, you want Chevy to be a cross-dresser? o_O
I’m thinking more of the head gear and green lens glasses..!
to be fair Dr Cheva has had to deal with Sydney more often and in a more direct/hands-on manner.
Plus Frost is a psych for a group of military backed supers. She probably views Sydney a far easier to deal with given Sydney’s literally normal civilian background.
That said, give her sosme time, I’m ssure Sydney will find a way to freak her out like she did with everyone else on the team ;)
Who’s hand is that in panel 4? It looks like it should be Maxima’s, but it’s normal skin colour.
Doc Chevy, just have to look at body positions: Maxi is sitting opposite Doc Frost, which leaves Doc Chevy opposite Ari
You can keep your Ma Deuce and your AR/M 16 platform. There is nothing more exciting than firing a 106 recoiless rifle.
Meh.
Self propelled 155 comes to mind.
16″ naval guns. Unfortunately no chance to fire those again since the USS Missouri got put back into mothballs after Gulf War 1.
I don’t know about that.
AA-12. For when you need to absolutely shred something at short-medium range.
Those didn’t exist, 40 years ago.
Just as well this comic is set only eight years ago
And now I’m reminded of my first time on a firing range.
25 yard range, firing .22s. We had 5 rounds each. At the end of my detail, my target had 4 holes scattered on it, while my neighbour’s had 6 in a tight grouping.
For some context, I’m left-handed, left-eyed, wear glasses to correct severe myopia, and a .22 is a manual breach loading rifle which is designed to be used right-handed and right-eyed, as the spent cartridges eject past the user’s right ear (or into the face of someone holding it left-handed!).
My first time on the range, and I also fired .22 but we used AG-3(Norwegian verson of H&K G-3) with a barrel inlay, modified magazines and a lightweight bolt.
We could in theory have fired them full auto.
(The iron sights when turned to the 200meter setting will also be correct for 30meters)
I’m lefthanded, too, and nearsighted, but never even considered shooting links.
One reason was that we would sometimes wear gas masks when shootng, and it had the filter on the lefthand side. The sergeant offered me a special mask with the filter placed differently(it’s for people who needs glasses, so there were loops to tie in a set semi-permanently inside).
I declined because I CAN see a full-figure at 300 meters(may not be able to hit it until it’s inside of 200 if I’m not wearing glasses) and there was no guarrantee that one of those masks would be available later.
Well done with the little sandwiches. I recognized them instantly from a home economics class I had to take in high school. The ones with egg salad and minced olives were actually pretty good.
Thanks! I have a “cake” texture airbrush that worked really well on those. Almost too well, they almost look out of place with the rest of the art.
Yeah, totally thought they were egg-salad sammiches (not sure about the green layer), back when still ate sammiches use to enjoy egg-salad ones
Is this the same day? Did Sydney find some serious wakey-wakey pills?
Spending the afternoon throwing hot lead downrange is an excellent easy to wake up.
Her ‘special order’ from Cuups kicked in around lunchtime (further reinforcing her real fear is running)
… I totally read it like this was how it was displayed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17weg7weEkQ
There’s an Asian soup that smells/tastes like eating chicken soup at the firing range on a busy day. Love it!
well i dont have stories about the exotic hardware the army and marines get to use. vulcan auto cannons and such; I shot the bow .50 from time to time and it was kinda thrilling. however its hard to beat shooting the largest guns in the entire military; and that i did every day. sorry boys but the mark 5 beats you all for everything my ammo is air craft that chop cars in half and blow up entire cities. just saying when you shoot the absolute biggest gun dinking around with auto pop guns just isnt all that cool any more.
:) and yes for those of you who are wondering i am picking on the other military folks the MK 5 catapult is basically a steam powered shotgun that shoots aircraft. it is in fact the largest gun in the military and its kinda cheating. i am not kidding about shooting it however; its what i did in the military.
Yeah, but that whole “see the world” thing isn’t as enjoyable for the folks who do it “from five miles off shore”.
I wasn’t gonna give up meeting people and seeing the sites of foreign lands just to get a bigger gun.
dunno Doc i met lots of folks in my time, most of whom didnt try and kill me. got to help do some stuff on shore with the marines in the first gulf and most everyone i met ws trying to kill me. got a bullet hole to prove it. i think i will take a friendly port over a war zone anyday.
I will admit that even the supposed friendlies weren’t terribly friendly at that one.
Even in Kuwait.
And the whole endless twilight in a field of burning oil wells for months was pretty sucky.
Still rather be on the ground in war then on the Dubuque at sea in a typhoon between the Philippines and Okinawa for what that’s worth
see i loved that spent most my life at sea and i like the weather. way better than a sand storm and to me the wind and waves are fun even in my little boat. i dont do cars or trucks and try not to do submarines but a surface ship is a fine ride in any weather. sides i like going to sleep in a rocking cradle i sleep like a paranoid baby. ;)
Gotta be honest. Having a bunch of women sitting around being critical of you wouldn’t be the greatest experience ever. Sydney is smart enough to see the connection between those 4 women, and figure out that they’ve been discussing her.
Given that Syd was sent into a death-zone, with little to no real training, after essentially being conscripted by a the U.S. government, who showed a strong interest in separating her from the Orbs (even though nobody know how or why they are attached to her… which would give her every reason to fear them), if I were in her shoes, I’d be giving serious consideration to quitting and/or taking other offers if given the slightest chance (pay disputes + not really “officially” contracted with armed forces unless you finish basic training).
She could probably get paid more by private organizations in or outside the U.S…. and might even be able to get job offers off-planet, given that Cora and her crew know what her Orbs are capable of.
… maybe it is time for folks to be a bit more appreciative of Sydney, and less critical of her harmless, and rather good-matured, idiosyncrasies.
I would like to see Sydney stand up for herself a bit. She must be capable of it, if she was able to start a business and deal with irrational comic fanboys on a regular basis.
I’ll add that what the Psychologist/Doctor/Lawyer are doing, talking with Sydney’s boss and each other, about her private business, over TEA, in a not-private setting, will do nothing to reassure Sydney regarding her privacy.
(And, for the record. I am an attorney, former USAF commander. My wife is a medical professional. What they’re doing is a HARD no-no… you never even reveal the name of a patient/client, much less discuss conditions, prognosis, issues, etc. A commander like Max shouldn’t be asking about a soldier under her command, without it being a formal request, noted in records, that Sydney was/could be made aware of.)
For reference…
Entry-Level Separation
After you arrive at boot camp, your fate still isn’t sealed. Even though you’re now on active duty, Army command can let you go without penalty during your first 180 days of service. The official term for this is entry-level separation. Boot camp is the best time because the Army has just started training you. After training, you’re a more valuable asset.
Common reasons to ask for separation include you think enlisting was a mistake, you’re unwilling or unable to complete your training, you can’t adapt to military life or you’re suffering emotional distress. The regulations covering separation are broadly written – an “inability to adapt” covers a lot of ground.
The catch? You can’t officially ask for a separation. The best way to go about it is to document proof that you’re not good Army material – poor test scores, emotional stress, negative evaluations – and present them to the command. You can work through your chaplain, the base counseling center or a military psychiatrist. If one of them recommends separation, that will go a long way with the higher-ups.
When did that happen? I must have missed it. Maxima seemed to take pains to reassure Sydney that she was not going to be whisked away to some government lab, and that people having superpowers were not considered criminals just because of that fact. They would be considered vigilantes if they decided to go all Batman on criminals, but other than that they were not a criminal class just by the fact that they could level a city or whatever their powers allowed them to do.
I was going to ask the same thing, but I see you beat me to it. Sometimes when I read the comment section I have to wonder what web comic the person is taking about. And Sydney wasn’t conscripted, she was enticed. Big difference.
Syd first articulated her fear in #54 “The Terror of Science”; shortly after the government staged an attack on a bank, which I must note was a crime, assaulting citizens to establish good P.R. (Maxima was not pleased); so lack of trust from the get-go was warranted
#73 – The General orders Colonel Maxima to “retrieve that girl”… not “ask if she would be interested in…”; we never see Maxima be polite about Sydney’s relocation or inform her of her right to legal counsel, but do see Syd screaming and waving her arms as Maxima flies her through the air.
#75 – Indicates that Sydney was told by Maxima that she wasn’t free to leave until she showed Maxima what was in the tube. (Which constitutes imprisonment without cause, in case you need an attorney to explain it to you.) Sydney indicates that she didn’t want to be there, and clarifies with Maxima that she is not free to leave.
#79-80 – Indicate that she, and her private possessions were “scanned”, while she was in custody, without her consent or knowledge.
#84 – Orders her to open her tube. The government’s attorney present threatens her with legal action, if she does not comply. (Again, I’ll note that she had done nothing wrong, and the government had already conducted an investigation into her criminal record, financial statements, etc., without a warrant, which is a crime, since she’d broken no law, and found that there was no indication that she was a criminal or potential criminal.)
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At which point, she gives up. She indicates, again, her fears that they will whisk her away to a lab. Which, I’ll add, the attorney present reinforced by saying that if she has anything “whisk worthy”, they would do even if it resulted in a forced incarceration. Sydney then strongly reassures them that her orbs are “whisk worthy”.
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#88 – The general exclaims “Mother of God”… which, in light of the fact that she’d been relocated without her consent, was not Marandized or represented by legal counsel, and was in a government building pretty much indicated Sydney that she had a 1-way ticket to a laboratory if she didn’t play her cards right.
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At that point, her “consent” was pretty much immaterial, because “consent” when faced with the alternative of unjust incarceration, possibly death, isn’t really consent.
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You can argue that it wasn’t Maxima/General/Arc___’s intention, but intentions are a poor substitute for actions.
Again, back to my original point.
If Sydney no longer wants to be a “soldier” or employee of Arc___… a decent attorney could get her out of that commitment. NO PROBLEM!
Given the power Sydney holds in her orbs, if she wanted to leave they’d have a hard time stopping her.
What keeps Sydney around, even when she has to do things she hates, is she loves being THE MIGHTY HALO and getting to hang out with Max and all the other supers of ArcSwat. That plus the big fat paychecks
These are all good points that I maybe should have put a bit more thought into, but in reality, in a post 9/11, post Patriot Act America, my impression of America is that any individual’s rights vanish the instant the government says so. Warrantless wiretaps, people held indefinitely in GitMo without even being charged (granted most of them are non-US citizens, but I think there was one American held there after being classified as an enemy combatant – I could be wrong about that though) No Miranda Rights, no expectation of privacy, etc.
Basically, as far as I’m aware, the constitution doesn’t count for anything any more if the government considers you a threat, and no one can do anything about it. So writing from that assumption, when Maxima realized there was something in Sydney’s poster tube that was stronger than she was, her reaction was, “You’re amusing, so I’m going to be nice about this, but you’re going to show me what’s in there, sorry not sorry.”
Maybe what she did was objectionable, but not illegal in the world the Grrl-verse. She has that authority. And honestly, I think even without any laws being amended to existing ones to account for super powers, I think our existing government could totally do all that stuff. Someone might object to it after the fact, but I’m about positive they could do it and get away with it.
Wow, you have read quite a novel ‘between the lines’ of those three words…
Yeah, Sydney was strong-armed into revealing the orbs. Showing them to a room full of people. And maybe that was an illegal search, and maybe it wasn’t. What it wasn’t, however, was any kind of an attempt to confiscate them from her, which is what you claimed when you said:
You’ve still failed to point to anything in canon that even hinted that this could happen.
The reality shifter girl whose name I forget was treated far, far more harshly, being abducted without any recourse or legal representation for what amounted to thought crimes (i.e. “She might be a threat,” which bloody well applies to Maxima herself and almost every member of the Archon team) and held for what seemed to be at least a day if not several days, and Maxima straight up told her that Maxima had that authority and that she had zero options in the matter. And exactly how was this completely invented threat revealed? Oh, she had just saved Sydney’s life in a joint operation to which Archon had fucking invited her to participate.
This is analogous to the FBI and local police working together in a sting operation, after which the FBI abducts one of the local cops, who had used his issue firearm to save the life of one of the FBI members, for possession of a firearm, because “He might be a threat. Guns can kill people and are dangerous. I mean, he could just go around shooting people if he wanted to!” Utter bullshit, a complete thought crime, and the worst writing this series has seen to date, but there it is in the canon.
Kronachrome wasn’t ‘forcibly abducted’ because of ‘thought crimes’, she was requested (admittedly not subtly) to have her powers looked over because she admitted to not knowing what the frack she was doing, and she put several lives at risk (have you forgotten that Harem isn’t just one person, and that one of her was caught up in that… whatever the fuck happened?)
Maxi does have the authority because that’s what Archon was created to fucking do!!!!
There was no “request” involved. It was an arrest. Maxima laid hands on Krona, which is assault, and she was told not to even think about using her powers. She wasn’t cuffed, which is why you might be confused, although confusion appears to be your normal state of mind regardless.
Again, for the fucked in the head Fairies, Kronachrome put several lives at risk and had no idea what she did
Archon was created to deal with people who can change reality on a whim
Maxi was polite, butt firm, she was not aggressive at all
“Guns can kill people and are dangerous”
False dichotomy, people kill people. The gun is only the tool used.
So the tool had no part in it?
I’d have to disagree with the supposition that Sydney is with Archon against her will. Her sole major concern before signing the Archon employment contract was that they would agree to give her New Comics Day off, barring an emergency, weighed against “I get to be a superhero.” And she didn’t even realize until some time later that she was actually going to get paid for it. Plainly put, she jumped at the chance to be a superhero 24/6 (no NCD) without, as far she knew, any offer of compensation.
Given that, it seems like seeking out a more lucrative private sector job would be out of character.
There’s also the factor that (as illustrated on this this page), she really puts a lot of stock in Maxima’s approval. Her running to show Max her improved target shooting reminded me of a kid running to show Mom or Dad a good grade on a paper or a drawing that’s she’s hoping will get stuck up on the refrigerator.
I tend to agree with Dr. Frost, in that it feels like Sydney would be made very happy by the idea that Maxima is concerned about Sydney and wants to help her feel better. Her reaction to having Arianna in on the conversation might be a bit more neutral, and knowing Dr. Chevapravatdumrong called her a “flighty menace” would probably make her go into a sadness/embarrassment funk. So Sydney’s reaction to the Ladies Who Lunch making her the topic of discussion might go any number of ways (possibly, Sydney being Sydney, all of the ways in quick succession).
I think you nailed her likely reaction to her appearance, and the fact that the Doctor and Psychologist immediately say something along the lines of, “… not a Menace…” (How would one expect her to react if you/someone walked in on your/their Doctor, Psychologist, Lawyer, and Boss drinking tea, debating whether or not you are a “Menace”; while you’re doing your best to become a “good soldier”, even when not naturally predisposed to such things.)
I didn’t say that she IS here against her will. We don’t have access to her internal thoughts in the early frames. I will say that she likely wouldn’t have volunteered to work for them had she not already been detained and “outed” against her will. We do know that she is smart enough to do threat analysis and make difficult decisions, regarding things she’d rather not do, on the fly. (Like assaulting giant aliens, on a moments notice, to optimize the odds that she won’t be stranded on a strange planet.)
That said, the job comes with perks; knowing that she can’t put the genie back in the bottle, she agreed to certain provisions in her employment contract.
However, should she reconsider her future employment in the armed forces, she has ample justification to get out of the contract. Even wanting Maxima’s approval… if she feels like she doesn’t want to continue facing the risk (or simply can’t handle 6 AM P.T.), she has grounds to get out of the contract.
I’d also point out – just as a neutral observer – that if Dave had played it exactly the way you’d laid it out, with the Archon team playing entirely by the book and Sydney telling them to piss off when they demanded to know what was in the tube?
Well. The comic would’ve ended years ago.
Some amount of fast-and-loose was required to get the story going, and frankly Dave also has a strong point – in a world where someone can be born with the ability to vaporize cities yet no more self-control or restraint than the average salaryman, some level of pre-legal threat assessment would be required. People like to make a big deal of the X-Men registration storylines, but frankly Dave’s world is FANTASTICALLY tolerant of supers minding their own business. I would absolutely expect there to be laws enacted in a world where supers exist allowing specifically empowered government branches (such as, say…Archon) to investigate without a warrant where they have cause to believe Something Hinky’s Going On, because it’s their job to keep cities un-vaporized.
Let the totally-not-a-lawyer comic book author have some leeway to write an interesting story and remember that Grrlverse legal code would not be 100% conformative to IRL legal code. The legal arguments are very interesting and I’m always willing to read them, but yeah. Heh, sometimes stuff needs to happen for the sake of the story even if Real Life says no.
Scoville doesn’t see any of the discussion–she just bursts in.
As for the rest, pretty much all of it, I have two words: national security.
A single super, even what they were calling “scrubs” can slice through the real-world defensive rings around the President as if they don’t exist. As indicated, there is a decent chance that the mere knowledge of Halo’s powers can start a large interstellar war.
If you are in charge of defending against “extraordinary threats”, you are likely to fail utterly in your mission if you preen your moral superiority by dotting the I’s in the constitution–which, by the way, DOES permit the suspension of certain rights directly.
In the Federalist Papers, it is argued that the act of forming a civilization involves giving up some rights in order to protect others that are more valuable.
I consider the oath I took to our Constitution to be a permanent blood oath. I also understand that your rights are almost completely terminated upon your death. Therefore, when facing an existential threat to the populace, I’m going to do whatever I can to secure the threat first.
“I consider the oath I took to our Constitution to be a permanent blood oath. ”
As do I of mine, even after 40 years.
“My oath of enlistment. “”I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed … Unless same orders contradict moral and lawful duty!””
Actually if Sydney was half way thinking during her whole interview, when she finally brought out the orbs if all she had done is let them hover around her and show she can consciously move them. Showing that they can not be forcibly taken away. What would they have done if Sydney simply said that’s all they do, just float there. With no laws broken, and no exhibited powers they would have sent her on her way without a second glance aside from entering her and the orbs into there database as a curious oddity… Until she flew by and blew up a water tower or something….
They also knew that the orbs blocked scrying attempts, and that they could resist Maxima moving them someplace they didn’t want to go. The “they just like to be near me and don’t do anything” boat had pretty much sailed by that point. They might have believed that Sydney believed that was all the orbs did, but that might have made them more, rather than less, concerned with Sydney just waltzing about with her little, glowing pack of friendly space puppies (which is how I tend to see their behavior).
OK when I did my first up (the one I can admit exists but still can’t discuss) it was the transition between the M79, and that thing that hangs under the M16 and I got the 79-A3 that used the flip up pinhole rear sight and a flip up front sight similar to the see-through front sight on the LAW but with different calibrations for the different ballistics. There was “discussion” as to mounting the weapon under the arm for less recoil transfer but less range and accuracy or mounting it against the shoulder and risking breaking or dislocating said shoulder. I put it up against my shoulder for the better accuracy and while I was never injured like that it still would leave deep bruises behind.
Maxima: “I’d like you to keep a regular session with her, at least throughout the remainder if her training.”
So, Max wouldn’t be any part of suggesting what treatment schedule the doctor provides to Sydney. No more than Sydney’s commanding officer would be involved in how a doctor treats a physical injury. Once turned over to the medics, the troop is in their hands as far as their treatment goes.
Imagine if you will some random lt. colonel ordering a doctor about on how many sutures to use for a laceration, or demanding that an injury be treated in some specific way as opposed to some other specific way. “I’d like you to apply the MadeUpVersionA method of treatment instead of the MadeUpVersionB method of treatment, doctor.” Seem far fetched? Yes. Now apply that to psychiatric treatment, something that doesn’t even offer our hypothetical officer the excuse of being able to see the injury in order to guide them in ordering doctors around in the application of their trade.
I don’t think “regular session” are specific way to treat her. She’s not talking about HOW should Dr. Frost treat her, just how long should she be doing it. I still believe she has no authority to order it, but just suggesting it sounds good.
A ‘regular session’ simply means just that: a regularly scheduled meeting, maybe once a week, to ensure Sydney is coping well, what happens in those meetings is entirely up to the doctor and the patient
Actually, as Sydney’s Commanding Officer, she does have the authority to order it: again, order the meetings, not what happens in the meetings
No, you are as usual just dead wrong. Maxima could order Sydney to see a psychiatrist, but that would be once. If the psychiatrist decided that no further visits were necessary then Maxima can go pound sand regarless of her feelings or orders. Ordering Sydney to see the psychiatrist on any kind of schedule is also ordering the psychiatrist to see Sydney on that schedule, and that is well outside of Maxima’s level of authority.
To make it analogous to a physical injury, Maxima could order Sydney to go see a doctor about an injury. But she could not order Sydney to undergo 12 weeks of physical therapy. If the doctors prescribe 12 weeks of physical therapy, then Maxima could order Sydney to follow her prescribed treatment. But she can’t task the doctors with providing a treatment that they have not prescribed, it just isn’t something within her power to do regardless of her rank.
You really are a flap-muppet, aren’t you?
Obviously the meetings would end as soon as Doc Frost deemed Sydney to be fine, butt we all know that will take more than one session
Again, never said anything about what happened in the meetings, which you just agreed with me about
Except that boat has launched and gone for a world cruise long ago.
Back when Penicillin was first introduced a certain General ordered the use of the still scarce drug to treat STDs and get randy GIs back into action instead of saving the lives of the gravely wounded.
The military brass is just as dysfunctional as civilian executives when it comes to life and death decisions for other people, just that the balance is either combat capability or profits respectfully.
Seems everyone has forgotten one more traumatic event or dismissed it during Halo’s trip abroad.
The mugging in the alleyway…right?
I must apologize. Didn’t check the WW sidepanel or the cast tags on the bottom. Almost didn’t recognize her as the doctor from when Sydney was suffering from Seadog Occular Impairment Syndrome courtesy of a rogue spicy noodle.
She looks a lot different to me as well. I had to check for the bindi and look at the who’s who before I was certain. Dunno if this is simply art transformation or just the natural consequence of a side character who hasn’t been drawn for months/years getting some more spotlight time.
Sydney Scoville Jr. So scary, yet so friggin’ adorable!