Grrl Power #764 – They probably realize this means war
Yes, Cora’s idea of gearing up for the big fight is proper battle armor. Granted, it’s mostly force fields full of <strike>food coloring</strike> holograms, but her for-serious battle getup has extra projectors and she also teleports in extra hard points that are held in place by the force fields, so that she can rotate out weaponry as needed. Remember she uses the same teleporter system that Dabbler does.
Dabbler’s battle gear is… yeah, a corset. In her defense, it’s some sort of battle corset. Definitely enchanted. +2 lift at least. Dabbler’s not so much into the separate. +1 cleavage. Also some serious projectile defense. Probably some elemental resistances. Honestly I changed her outfit because I didn’t like that green keyhole shirt I drew her in.
My original idea for the Fel was a little too close to chaos marines. Basically futuristic military dudes plus like, evil clerics and general corruption, but when it came to draw them I realized my initial idea could probably use a little development. So, now they’re more like… I dunno. The Flood meets Guyver? Kinda. They’re one of those characters (collectively) that will probably evolve a bit the more pages they appear on.
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Something drastic…
Some-thing drastic…
Something draaasssstic?
Looks around for something drastic… anything drastic.
Nope, sorry, I have noooo idea what Dave means by that. Yup, it’s a complete mystery.
Am I rhe only one that thinks this would be a perfect job for Vehemence? With a few safety precautions of course.
“Hey Kevin! We gotta job for you! Wanna fight an unstoppable alien horde?”
Exactly what I was thinking :)
And how do you stop Kev when it’s over? Ask politely? o_O
Yeah it’s sort of like putting out a house on fire by blowing up the house so there’s no longer a house to be on fire.
Despite all his build up, he got taken out by a puddle. I’m sure this wouldn’t be a difficult thing to replicate if he decided to get out of hand.
It was pretty difficult to do the first time even. And took over a year RL. Now he’d be prepared.
No, he was taken out because Maxi threatened to vaporise his head, the puddle was taking too long and was proving to be not as effective as they thought, he wasn’t sure if he could regenerate his entire head like he did his eye, teeth and arm (and Maxi still has flashbacks to what could have been: blowing someone’s head off on live TV)
Get Creative…
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dS2tPnur41o/maxresdefault.jpg
So, basically, what you are saying, is Big Kev has absolutely zero reasons to help these arseholes? o_O
Actually, he has only one reason to help them. His current life is really fucking boring.
Right. Because Suicide Squad always works out so well for the city….
Well…
All things Considered…
The City’s probably a writeoff…
Convergent evolution apparently, the Fel look fairly reminiscent of Ben 10 baddies.
Max puts in an emergency call to the prison: “Release… THE KEVIN.”
It would be utterly moronic to use Vehemence in this fight. He’s proven himself to be someone who will not be controllable, will kill people who might be capable of stopping him, basically has mind control powers, causes chaos, and has no loyalty. He is not the type of person who can be easily ‘redeemable’ unlike Jabberwocky. Also he probably would NOT fight the Fel anyway. The Fel cause violence. That makes him stronger. No point in killing the Fel if they’re going to make him stronger while not dead.
And lets say, for the moment, that Vehemence does not act like he’s acted the last time he was free. And lets say he … I don’t know… actually kills all the Fel despite how dead people can not empower him. Then look at the public relations problem.
“Yeah, Archon wasn’t able to handle this, so we let a psychopathic supervillain handle it for us. Oh he’s right now causing chaos throughout the country as well now that the Fel are all dead. Trillions of dollars in damages because Archon couldn’t handle what we were created to do. Protect against extraordinary dangers.”
He has also proven himself to be at his core a fairly decent person. He talked about causing huge amounts of chaos, and then basically said “But I’m not gonna do any of that stuff. I might take in a football match though.”
He could have continued his rampage and even killed Maxima, all he needed to do was kill or even just knock our Sydney. And he didn’t. He was going to kill Maxima because she had blown off his arm and he figured it was either him or her, and who can blame someone for picking to other person to die in that kind of calculus?
But then he got taken out by a puddle, and then surrendered. So yeah, he’s a pretty safe bet for calling in if Archon ever needs a hand, but he’s a lousy character concept who should be allowed to fade away instead of getting any more spotlight.
No… he’s proven himself to be a rather psychotic person who wants to create violence for violence’s sake, and to kill anyone who might be an actual threat to him, like Maxima. He didn’t kill or knock out Sydney because he did not consider her a threat to him.
Think of Vehemence sort of like the Borg in that respect. They do not kill as the first option, especially if they do not see you as a threat. But the Borg are definitely NOT people you want to side with. Voyager proved that, if nothing else in that entire show.
Vehemence is sort of the same in his mentality. He doesnt kill someone who isn’t able to kill him, because if they attack him, it just makes him stronger. But if someone IS able to kill him, he kills them first. Now that he knows Sydney is a threat, he’d kill her right away if at all possible.
Specially seeing how it was Sydney’s idea to drown him (along with the overall strategy of stopping him, butt the drowning will be a biggie)
Yep. I just can’t see how letting Vehemence fight aliens, when the whole point of his incarceration is to have him completely avoid the prospect of violence, is even remotely a good idea.
Yeah, you really have that just all the way wrong. Sydney was the only threat to him, as she had turned off his aggro field. That was the way he was going to be able pick up the violence energy he needed in order to kill Maxima, who he feared enough due to her blowing his arm off to put her on the short list of people he needed to kill in order that he not be killed by first.
And all he needed to do was deliver an unconsciousness rendering slap, or to simply kill, Sydney, and all his plans would have come to fruition. And yet he didn’t. Because at his core he isn’t a murderous villain. Maxima even allows that the reasons that there was just some bloody noses in the fighting after his aggro field was turned on was because he specifically tuned it to “cause harm, don’t kill.”
You don’t have any of the canon to support your position. Not one single shred of it.
Something drastic you say? Oh Sydneeeeeeeeeeeeey!
Yeah, I’m 100% sure that the Something Drastic will be a Sydneyclism. It will be good therapy. From the description, the Fel aren’t quite as nasty as Captain Kaiju and the Worldstompers.
Actually, looking at the grunts there…
they ARE the Kaiju.
yeah they look close enough, but going by Dabbler’s comments before.
Either the Kaiju are something NEW or something REALLY OLD.
So either new Fel super weapons or an ancient race just awoken once again whose magic and tech created the Fel. Ya’know, some hapless fool like an archaeologist happens upon some ancient relic, takes it back home, it corrupts them…their world, drives them mad, they go into space and spread the carnage and madness.
But someone had to have made that artifact in the first place.
If the Fel were the same blokes as the Kaiju, Dabbler would have recognized them back on this page:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-641-well-thats-probably-not-good/
Hmmm. Kaiju were actually able to get a reading off two of the balls… of some sort. And a really sexy scan of Sydney.
something I just noticed that I didn’t before with that page; likely because I am using a higher res screen now…
While her orbs are all blacked out save the one being used…look inside her head, you see ghostly versions of the orbs inside her; like the real ones are in her/part of her energy/spiritually and what we see orbiting her are just projections for her benefit and ease of interface.
Don’t see ghostly versions of her balls in her head at all
Round fuzzy different colored circles in a ring in the top part of her head, seem to be shadowed to the above darked out circles, and the red lines connect to something else dead center of her chest whose lines are jagged so not veins or nerves. The green energy/nerve lines block them out mostly but there are discolorations of different colors in circles inside her head
you might need to get on a cellphone and zoom in, but there is a purple one in the frontal lobe, on her left side next to it we see yellow and a lighter violet to her right side and more that might be further back in her head or smaller, and they are the only things it looks connected by red jagged lines to the much larger and clear bundle of red lines in the center of her chest; which is both too high and too center to be a heart; in fact it would be right where the bronchial tubes separate into the lungs;
So, which of her balls is located up her nose? o_O
The red beams don’t ‘connect to’ anything, they are just red scanning beams (note how there is one hitting her groinal area)
WRONG red lines.
Look at the red jagged lines INSIDE her, as in that red bundle in her chest it has little red vein like jagged lines going up inside her neck and connecting to the ghostly multicolored circles inside her head.
I am questioning the clarity of your monitor as this isn’t hard to see on my and sticks out among all the green inside her.
Actually questioning your monitor where you are seeing something no one else is reporting to seeing
Other people are seeing the obvious red ball in the chest and red lines from it to color smudges in head, as such is commented on in that page and the post right below this one.
I am not sure if the vaguely coloured blobs that might be present in the scan of her head are ghostly images of the orbs.
What is interesting though is that the green orb is apparently active, despite Sydney not holding it in her hand.
they stand out to be due to being spherical and possibly aligned like a cone in her head relative to the orbiting orbs, and the little red jagged lines inside her that at first could be mistaken for veins except there aren’t enough and they seem to only connect to those colored circles and one large bundle of one high up in her chest. Not a normal anatomical feature.
Sydney *does* still have a promotion to earn sometime soon… and neither taking down Kevin nor surviving in deep space (and coming back even more powerful) were impressive enough to do that…
Promotions are actually automatic and based on time served, at least for the first two. All you have to do is not be a fuckup.
It’s not like a video game where you get higher ranks just by killing more enemies.
Or, it’s like old school “Pool of Darkness” (and other D&D games of that era) where they had to return to their trainer to actually ‘level up’, and if they had earnt enough for two (or more) levels? Tough, they lost everything over just below the next level (one level at a time, up hill, both ways, naked, through a blizzard, and we loved it! :P )
Sydney “Drastic” Scoville, Jr. is ON THE CASE!
And cue the very next scene is Sydney blasting the ship to pieces and making a pithy comment about if they remember her.
I don’t think the Kaiju from the screwship were the Fel.
All the better. Sydney asks if they remember her, and then someone points out it’s a completely different group, so no they don’t.
Teach them a lesson they won’t remember.
I tend to assume that Maxima can manage ‘fast’ and ‘drastic’ in the same action, as a rule.
Fel will probably be lucky if their Dreadnaught doesn’t get ‘Captain Marvel’d’ in the next panel.
They may not realize it yet, but this is a job for …..Sydney Scoville !
Unlike what most suggest, I’d say Halo would be better put to use reinforcing the shields while everyone else goes for some exercise – drastic exercise of course.
I really wouldn’t want anyone to blow up that ship without Sydney providing additional cover for the building, refugees and press.
This. Someone mentioned last comic–the energy source for that thing has a good chance of being the greatest threat. Randomly carving chunks out of it this close to everything is HIGHLY discouraged.
That said, Sydney on shields while Max shows what her antimatter grenade can REALLY do is probably the best opener. The rest of the team can deal with the grays for now.
Oh, and assuming that the Fel have some way to track the artifact, Harem (one of her) might be able to play keepaway.
She can carry about 50 pounds (23 kilos) of non-living payload. The object looks to be about the size of an SUV. Pretty sure it is more than her allowed carry-on baggage. (And it doesn’t fit in the overhead compartment)
What about if they antigrav or hoverboard it? A levitating tray might count as being within her limit.
I did not see the artifact. If you are correct as to size, then, yeah. No go.
And, Soranic, mass and weight are very different things…
Sydney has two hands! She can do both!
Halo, must be inside the Force Shield, she would be inside with them.
Too bad Varia didn’t realize that the orbs accepted her as her gestalt power. If she did, the orbs seem to have just enough visible space on them when being held that one more person can hold it at the same time. I wonder what that would have done.
what makes you think the orbs did any such thing?
The “Wearing The Cape” crossover.
You’ve evidently missed the novelized material.
In comic?
When they touched, the orbs moved to circle Varia AND Sydney. People speculated it meant that Varia could assist in using 2 more orbs. Maybe air and shield, leaving Sydney the flying and PPO orbs.
You mean, how they moved to include Maxi Sydney clung to her legs upside down? o_O
not quite the same. in Varia’s case, they expanded orbits to circle both Varia’s and Halo’s heads despite no change in obstacles. When Syd was clinging tenaciously to Max’s buttocks, they expanded orbit to avoid colliding with Max.
Seems pretty likely that the Varia’s gestalt power with Sydney is to be able to use the orbs as well. Which actually means Sydney would be able to fly and fire AND have the force field up at the same time, provided Varia holds the shield orb, while touching Sydney’s shoulder or something, with Sydney using the forb and the PPO.
Why does this seem like a que HALO moment to me?
Oh, well, I guess Fel meant demonic after all. Yaaaay!
“Demonic” doesn’t seem to have the same connotations in this comic. After all, Dabbler is technically a demon.
Time for Battlestar Sydney!
I think you meant Battlestar Scovillica
Why is everyone suggesting SYDNEY will blow up the ship when Maxima is standing right there? Granted they both could probably manage it, but at this point in the comic Sydney’s pure destructive power isn’t yet on the same level as Max’s. Versatility, sure. Defense, probably even better. Offensive power? Much lower.
Max has more pure umph, true, but just having the biggest gun isn’t always the best approach. I’ve no doubt that Max could drop the Fel ship with one blast, but I’m not sure that Archon HQ and Cora’s ship would survive it. Plus unlike Max Sydney can teleport past their shields before she shoots, thereby making FAR better use of her considerable-in-its-own-right firepower. And, let’s face it, Sydney’s the star of the comic.
The Fel ship also has shields, and Max’s plasma beam ray might not be able to breach the shield. It can’t breach Sydney’s.
Sydney’s PPO also can’t always breach shields (as it wasn’t able to with the squidwards)…. but she also has other methods of getting past shields that Maxima does not have.
This isn’t quite canon. We really do not know if Maxima’s top output blast is more portent than Halo’s. The only hint of this we have is Maxima showing 5 stars in ‘burst’ on her Cast page, and Halo only showing 3. But Halo has the ability to improve, while Maxima most probably does not. Halo has already improved her burst and a few other abilities since the Cast page was made, and yet the Cast page has not changed at all, which makes it suspect as an accurate measure of current power levels.
I also want to comment on the battle corset thing: Totally justified.
Think about it for a second. Dabbler’s a succubus who draws her power from sexual energy. By wearing a sexy getup into battle she could potentially create excess energy from horny guys gawking at her that she could draw from, which could in turn be used to provide extra protection, not to mention giving her extra firepower also. Here we have a rare of example of a character who conceivably could become easier to injure if she put on any sort of real armor than she is if she’s fighting in a bikini.
Also, if I remember correctly, Dabbler’s the only one on the team other than Max who can consistently best Math. Which, given the fight with Jabberwocky, makes sense. He’s such a horn dog that sparing with him must be like an all-you-can-eat buffet for her.
Also also, don’t forget when she was wearing Icon, and glamoured herself to look like she was in a battle-bikini. This might be transparent full-plate.
The term “full plate” reminded me of shardplate from the Stormlight series. Now I want a Grrlverse / Sanderson crossover – any Sanderson world, come to think of it.
The main character from “The Azure Bonds” wore a chainmail vest with an open cleavage (the opening was protected by +5 magic protection)
Yes, I recall. And when one of her more modest sisters had to pretend to be her she almost died of embarrassment when Dragonbait told her not to worry about the differences in their skintone because the guards would be too busy looking at her flesh to notice her skin.
He said all that, through smell? o_O
Cora has evidently been playing Mass Effect. Nice armor lights.
Once again we have an evil horde with the standard spikes, scars and tentacles so the heroes won’t have to feel guilty about putting them down. If an alien commander really wanted to take maximum advantage against a human army he would have his horde take on the appear of a bunch of pink fluffy bunnies. The troops would be too conflicted to hurt them.
I’ve seen video games like that.
The oldest one I can remember was called Raze’s Hell. His race was nearly wiped out by cute creatures who kill all ‘ugly’ races in the universe they find.
The aliens would have to spend a lot of time studying us to get that. Mostly they would see people running from giant scary scaly things, interrupted by dolls with kitchen knives, if you watched broadcast TV. If we got lucky they might watch Rick and Morty and take it as a biography. I’m guessing none of that would prep them for M1 tanks.
Umm, they have been studying us, intimately, for decades, Sex Tourism ring any nipple-bells?
Ok, good point.
That applies for ‘Aliens’ and ‘studying’ in general, but [i] it’s not enough to prove whether it applies for this specific faction and [ii] it’s not enough to prove whether what is known is useful in an invasion scenario. A traveler, whether for conventional or sexual tourism, isn’t generally in a position to make useful military reconnaissance, especially if that isn’t a deliberate objective of their trip. And anything that person A sees/knows is not necessarily known by person B.
Take tourism between Earth societies as a parallel. You might see some military hardware, particularly if you go to an airshow or similar, but that doesn’t tell you much about the tactics they’ll use or the characteristics of their weapons. (Historical displays add another dimension of unknowns.) And anything usable you learn from someone being culpably indiscreet is only known to me if you tell me about it – when you don’t know I have the question, I don’t know you have the answer, and the odds are strongly against us meeting in the first place.
Wonder how much damage Sydney’s full strength PPO beam can do against a star ship…
Vehemence, I choose you.
Council, no more veil, and get berserk.
Also, sorry Sydney, but therapy is over for today. You’re busy following orders of killing everyone.
There isn’t time to get him back.
He represents such a threat that he is sequestered off planet.
Not sure if coincidence or if there is meant to be a connection.
But while we the comment section have been mentioning these Fel are not the same guys who attacked Alar, and this does feel different;
the eyes, armor type, general appearance all look very similar to that of the giant mecha-kaiju.
But given Dabbler’s comments then and clearly being familiar with the Fel, I would hazard a guess that the “Fel Artifact” which also given this Ravagers meets Thanos’ worshipers, evil space cultists fanatics corrupted by evil energies type origin, that the artifact didn’t originate from them but was worshipped by them or else a source of “Stygian energies”
and that the folks who attacked Alar are one of those just awoken ancient races whose tech was found by and corrupted the first Fel while the original owners were in hibernation.
Time will tell, but it doesn’t sound wrong.
This Fel Collective sounds a ton like the Burning Legion From Warcraft.
and Ravagers from Firefly,
Lost Army from Disgaea 5,
and tons of others.
In the real world this was/is a common trait of expanding powers to attack villages and towns and conscript every able bodied person to their ranks under penalty of death (of them and their families) if they said no.
I was corrected on this btw, because I made the same mistake. Reavers, not Ravagers :).
I saw, no edit function though.
It is absolutely vital that Syd should deploy Mister Bubble.
By using the shield, Syd frees Cora to maneuver (potentially useful in several ways, including drawing the fight away from the innocent bystanders), frees Cora to shoot (always useful), and protects the buildings and bystanders (and with Cora’s shield failing, nobody else can).
Syd can deploy her own Big Boom at the same time. Which is bound to be good. But if she does that without deploying the shield this battle goes pear-shaped, fast, and a lot of people die.
So yes they need to be shot. Therefore Syd should call on Mister Bubble.
To be honest, I would not mind if Sydney largely sits this one out.
We already did a ‘Halo saves the day’ extended sequence on the Alari homeworld.
I am much more interested in seeing the rest of the team work to counter this.
Besides, the psychiatrist that Sydney was seeing just this morning was concerned about her mental state after prolongued extreme stress that she recommended Maxima to cut down a little on the training. Throwing her straight into another life or dead situation is not going to do wonders for her growing PTSD…
1. She hasn’t had stress long enough for it to be ingrained as PTSD.
2. Sitting one out would be worse for Sydney if people she could have saved die. She would wake up hearing them scream and seeing their faces.
Or, ya know, not wake up…
Just saying…
If she were at the press conference, sure that would mandate her involvement. Though I still think that it would be better for Sydney’s mental health (as well as for the fact that she is, in fact, a recruit with not even two full days of training under her belt. No officer would be so callous as throwing somebody that green into the midst of /this/)
She should (and I hope would) be used for tactical oversight (she has shown a considerable talent for that) as well as search and rescue of civilians caught up in the fighting (she has shown a unique skillset, if not quite mindset, for that role as well)
Of course she is not at the press conference but at a shooting range with Peggy. That shooting range is probably somewhere in the cellars (I am inclined to say dungeons ;)) of the Archon building but realistically it should not be inside any building or city limit(!) at all. I do not think it is even legal for a shooting range to allow miniguns to be fired at all, but no sane county is going to allow such weapons to be fired within miles of any habitation. (you also need a bit more than a 25m shooting range unless you want to bring down the building. More like a 25 mile armoured mobile artillery range. Well, probably not quite that much but you don’t want anything behind the target for a mile that you do not mind if it accidentally gets hit.
Though, as I said, realism is not really my reason for wanting Sydney to sit it out.
We already have seen, extensively, what she is capable of. I would dearly like to see the rest of Archon to, as Dabbler calls it, take the gloves of.
We got to see them in action in the parking lot battle but that really was more of a ‘hi, my name is … and I can do this …’ introduction of them. I like to see them in effective team actions.
And to be perfectly honest, I would not mind to see a little more of the male members of the team. Or a lot more.
Well, except for Math, letches like him are annoying and annoyingly shallow.
An underground shooting range is fine for pistols, but all you can do with long arms is the very basics of aiming in at what is essentially point blank range.
Peggy had Sydney carrying ammo cans of ammunition, so the likelihood is that they are at a proper outdoor range with targets at appropriate distance for the weapon or weapons upon which Sydney is training.
An outdoor range, that just happened to conveniently have a high-def monitor mounted on a wall? o_O
Nah, they never got that far
Like her mother and father, not to forget Joel.
Tactically having Sydney fire on the ship from the shooting range could draw the ship to move that way once it realizes it is a sitting duck where it is from long ranged shots. But also having it move over there would give Maxima and Sydney the chance to unload on it without fear of damaging he main building and civilians should they crash the ship into the ground; also good idea to draw the fighting away from civilians and non-combat personnel.
of course a quick cut-away with Maxima having gone full Captain Marvel on the ship smashing through it and blowing it up from the inside would be awesome too.
As these are definite S-class threats, the trainees should stay out of it as much as possible (including Sydney save long range draw their attention shots); unlike the super brawl these are not un-trained randomly collected super civilians; but a band of space psycho terrorist fanatics with high tier weapons and defenses.
Since we’ve already been told (A) the ship is nearly impervious to projectiles, and (B) the target is the Fel artifact, it’s unlikely that it can be drawn off by a minigun…
…unless a speedster can carry the artifact off.
So, MAX at full speed and sufficient strength, with someone else providing protection, could do so… interesting tactic.
Ah, yes, the classic speedster play.
Enemy is after the Anti-Life formula, weather control device, doomsday poodle statue, so hand it the speedster, they run away, drawing the enemy and their army into an ambush.
My thought would be: Halo puts up a shield around the Enemy ship, and slowly shrinks it down. Then Maxima takes care of any ground troops with the rest. The enemy is almost incapacitated in a minute.
Go back and look at all the times Sydney has used the shield.
To change the size she has to turn it off, adjust the size, then turn it back on.
Case in point:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-644-this-is-how-my-culture-says-hello/
Not to mention Sydney has to be INSIDE the shield, which means Time’s plan would result in her splattered on the hull plating.
Sydney shields Archon HQ, this lets Cora’s ship pull in its shield, extending it’s life. Maxima goes after the Fel ship, while the others go after the grunts.
Sydney can snipe the grunts from the roof, or rain fire on the ship. Probably the latter, she’s no marksman. It might be best to start with her firing on the ship, while Maxima assists in taking down the grunts, this minimizes the chance of a friendly fire accident.
Alternative: Sydney takes off with the artifact at Mach 16, headed towards some place where a nuke scale “boom” won’t cause casualties. The Fel ship follows.
Dabbler sure got to the right hand side of that scene pretty fast considering she’d just been shoved off the left side.
Sydney could easily down that ship, but there’s the whole “people” thing that might stop her from doing it. She doesn’t like the idea of killing anyone, even the irredeemable evil ones.
Drastic you say? Krona’s still in the building right?
Several people have suggested a shielded Sydney fly into the ship at Mach speed. We still haven’t determined if the inertial dampers will absorb that much stress or if we will have Pâté of Sydney.
However, if she were to fly carrying something like a big rock with the skyhook (aerial lighthhook) and drop it at Mach speed into the ship that might be feasible.
1) She would need really good aim for a trick she has never tried before
2) I don’t know if she can survive flight at high speed without the shield
3) The baddies may put up AAA when they see her coming
Borg-Tyranids, clearly.
Thanks for the mention, man! Love the comic!
Lots of talk about how the team could and should respond, but remember Archon is a military organization with many military members in leadership. They have protocols, and we’ve already seen Max direct an unprecedented fight effectively.
I’d expect them to get the civilians to safety while sending Max, Sydney, and anyone else who is air-capable up to start returning fire from above the ship. Not only is that the ‘high ground’, it means they can fire at will (mostly, we don’t know how populated the area is) and use the ground for a backdrop (as Max discussed during Sydney’s onboarding talks).
Max could ‘nuke’ it into orbit.
Her explosive attacks aren’t directional though – anything with enough force to do that would destroy a lot of stuff around the site, probably including the hardened Archon building and the underground parking lot full of civilian press members.
She has used energy bombs twice, but her flash back to almost vaporizing her brother suggest she has a beam too.
well look who’s joined the party. Time to murder some alien gribblies.
Just give halo five minutes and her pew pew orb.
Sir, you forgot Maxima’s choker. Took me a sec as to why her neck looked a bit odd.
Max arrived without it, on the previous page. When we last saw her, Max was off-duty, at the Archon Professional Ladies League, sans choker.
Max probably has it on her person. If it is small enough to stick in a pocket I can’t see Max leaving home without it, even when off duty. Panel 1 might be Max putting her hair into a ponytail for combat, or she could be moving her hair aside in order to slap on the choker.
Guess it’s time to get some xp for the PPorb. Pretty sure it can take out this ship if it can take out what ws it, 3? of those huge ass things on whatever planet that was
Tried posting this at 5 am, but I still can’t post from my iPad:
Max: Ok, that sounds like a good st—-”
Sydney zooms into view, attacking the invaders: “Fuckerrrrrrrs!”
Max: (facepalm)
Dabbler: Or that.”
That word would not come out of Sydney’s mouth… at least not without twelve or more arbitrary animals and adverbs attached.
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Everyone’s expecting Sydney when Maxima is already on the scene.
Remember People, Sydney may have a versatile set of powerful abilities, but Maxima’s got her beat when it comes to raw firepower.
Also, we haven’t seen Maxi do anything cool since she accidentally blew up that bridge.
Sydney’s had her moment in the spotlight for now, it’s time for the Local Superwoman to strut her stuff and show why she’s in charge.
Huh. Page 709 wasn’t just a random gag.
Correct… that was the second drop of the word “Fel”. The first was on page 674.
Wonder what those space cops are up to at the moment? Earth’s technically off-limits tot hem, but with the Fel attacking it, the ‘Prime Directive’ or whatever they call it is broken anyway.
I just hope this isn’t going to be a walkover for Archon. Especially if it’s Halo doing the walking over. Same for Maxima: one-sided battles are seriously boring. Still, the Vehemence fight was incredible; I would love to see something like that. (And I would seriously LOVE seeing Vehemence fighting on the side of the good guys, he is such a great character.)
Earth probably is not off limits to the enforcers of the policy, but the ship that was chasing the Fel was a patrol craft too weak to handle the Fel by itself.
I doubt the Xenoarchy’s version of the prime directive is relevant once the genitals are unveiled.
considering their version of a Prime Directive allows for a tourism board to have a member on a local secret society council, something tells me their limitation is strictly trade of tech/uplifting related and nothing else.
I think the first question we should answer is how freely can everyone pass through that shield?
Why did Maxima ask for the thirty second version?
Be… cause they have les than a minute to come up with a plan? First step is “Know thy enemy!”
Oh, good, they’re irredeemable monsters. Makes burning the shit out of them and killing thousands of them earlier less morally dubious.
We don’t know that Cora killed that many. Her encounter with the Fel wasn’t shown.
The Fel are NOT the Alari Prime destroyers. Cora said her trip to Alari Prime was delayed due to their “encounter with the Fel”, and when they got there and saw the screw ship, all she said was “deep our distance … I’m getting concerning energy readings”. NOT “What the hell are the Fel doing here???”
And, had the Squidwards been a branch of the Fel they would have detected the Artifact of Unspeakable Cuddles immediately. No attack immediately as the entered the system rules out the Fel entirely.
Not really. Sydney’s orbs may be a higher priority target, and they were concentrating on her anyway. At this point we don’t know how the Fel got word… probably by listening in on the refugees’ attempts to find their families.
Which does, in fact, give us another point of contact between the Kaiju and the Fel.