Grrl Power #766 – Bullet dump
After I drew this page I realized I probably should have put it before the previous one, showing that Arc-SWAT has a way of interfering with the Fel shields. Jiggawatt’s attack only sets up small groups for ballistic attack, but it helps, and takes some of the pressure off of the bricks like Stalwart, Anvil, Hiro and Mr. Amorphous. And Achilles. He’s not really capable of hurting these things, but he’s great for drawing fire.
I spent way too long trying to make a “loose afro” brush for Jiggawatt’s hair on this page, so you guys get smoke for most of the background panels. I’m not 100% pleased with it, partially because it doesn’t really match the style of the rest of the page, but there’s perfect and then there’s done. Sometimes you have to say “good enough” and move on.
Yes, Goose is using the minigun with six bayonets strapped to it. (I guess someone chromed the barrels in the last two months. Oops.) Unfortunately this fight will be over quickly enough that he won’t get a chance to core out a bad guy with it. But it’s going to happen eventually. I mean, how can it not?
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“you guys get smoke for most of the background panels. I’m not 100% pleased with it, partially because it doesn’t really match the style of the rest of the page, but there’s perfect and then there’s done.”
As an artist and an avid graphic book reader, I have to say that those panels actually work better for focus and storytelling than high detail backgrounds. The smokey look adds mystery and builds tension. If you had not made the above quote I’ve have been giving you kudo’s for doing an amazing job of both tension and mystery building and on pulling focus onto Jiggawatt’s terrific face and expression. Man, give yourself a back slap on that one. Those panels jump out and grab you better than all the tentacled, menacing aliens in the background would have.
I really like the art on this comic. Keeps me coming back.
Sometimes the fog of war is figurative and sometimes it is literal.
Agreed. Plus putting time into Jiggs’ new ‘do helps develop her character, while something tells me we shouldn’t get too attached to the Fel or the area they’re standing in.
Agreed. Smoke instead of massed alien background bodies might have made the last page clearer. No matter, move on and tell the story, please.
(Thanks in advance for making the fight quick!)
Agreed. I particularly like the way Jiggawatt’s lightning illuminates her face.
someone call Sydney ang have her CC/tank the civilians
Aww, I am sure they will cooperate with verbal commands, rather than having to batter them with the tentacle! Let alone having Sydney taunt them. That is cruel and inhumane treatment!
I dunno. I kinda want the scene to cut to the roof, with Peggy frowning at the Barrett and then starting to call targets for Sydney.
Given that Sydney is largely untrained, her role in this battle would best be defending a fixed area with her shield. Most likely the press corps, but also possibly the field commanders.
Since the officers are largely invulnerable (Maxima and Hiro are the only officers I’ve seen so far), she’s probably bubbling up the civilians.
Maybe they’ve taught her how to target her artillery by this point, but I kind of doubt it.
I’m going to assume she’s already doing that.
Dave, the time you spent on *Jiggles Watt’s* new-do was worth it.
And now you have a new brush for it! Need a tool, make a tool, and eventually, you won’t need new tools very much at all.
All minions are faceless once you blast their faces off.
Law of the McGuffins says that you introduce a gun on the shelf in a description, it has to be used (or later discovered to have been) in the story… that’s for any cool mcguffin. OLd painless with six bayonets? Yeah, that’ll get used or at least shown dripping gore from same later…
Specifically, that’s referred to as Chekhov’s Gun.
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.”
I’m pretty sure its the mathematician in me that immediately wants to create a play where a loaded gun sits in the middle of the stage for the entire play. Never touched, but driving the plot nonetheless.
I had a friend who did that.
He literally had five different dramatic things that the same loaded pistol did in a screenplay, other than be shot someone, never actually going off.
One of them was the butt — of a loaded gun — being used to crack nuts.
Easy enough to do. Just make a handful of the characters gunphobes (by which I mean people who are irrationally afraid that a gun is going to go off on its own or otherwise cause mayhem just by existing) and the another handful the type of gun nuts who refuse to acknowledge that guns are dangerous on their own or over-the-top gun nuts who wouldn’t actually be welcome in any gun club in existence due to their cavalier attitude (in other words, Hollywood gun nuts). In other words, multiple people sitting at opposite extreme ends of the “views on guns” spectrum. Either comedy or depressing drama could ensue. (For comedy, throw in a reveal at the end that it was a prop gun all along).
If taken literally, it results in grotesquely sparse and minimalist set design. You can’t include anything just for atmosphere or tone, or to tell the audience about the world, or about the characters who live or work in the place being shown. You can’t put furniture in a room unless the characters are going to sit in the chairs, use the table, etc.
Hemingway mocked the concept.
I’m not much of a Hemmingway fan (I think he is at his best when film producers have competent script writers fix his stories) but he was right on that one.
Also known as Chekhov’s Gun. That description predates McGuffins by quite a bit.
An old theater expression is “if there are swords hung over the mantelpiece in act 1 then there will be a sword fight in act 2.”
Chekhov’s Gun refers to background items. You assume Joe is wearing pants, so the author doesn’t have to mention them. When he does, there is a question of why. When we are talking about a weapon with 6 bayonets, the answer can easily be scenery, and we don’t need to see it in action. Of course, that doesn’t stop it from being used, but a fear the audience might be squeamish might.
The guy with the minigun looks like duke nukem :)
My first thought too, although last time we saw Goose at the parking lot battle he didn’t trigger that association for me at all.
I didn’t recognize Seneca at all though, had to look at the cast sidebar to see if she’d been on-screen before.
Who better to fight off an alien invasion?
only if he rips off their heads and shits down their throats :p
Yeahhhh Babyyy!!!
Yea my thought here was she somehow used the electricity to summon Duke Nukem.
Correction to panel 9, it’s BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!
I don’t see a Warthog in that panel. Where is the Warthog?
Probably just scrambled and in route, or waiting to get someone to paint a target for them so they don’t accidentally generate friendly fire.
Oh wait, you weren’t talking about the A-10, you were talking about the *other* warthog… sheesh kids these days…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nbY_aP-alkw
Found a warthog.
This might be the sound…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TL_FQiORDU
No no, this is a Warthog, and it has a totally different soundtrack.
That’s clearly a Puma.
It’s not a puma! (said with an Austrian accent like Swartzenegger)
+3 double meme award and pun
If you hear the call of the almighty BRRRRRRRT! The lord has chosen you to spread the good word to your fellow sinners, that He will come to judge you; his wrath will come from the heavens in the form of 30mm m879 HEDP at a rate of no less than 3900 Rounds Per Minute; and the purging of your sins will be sounded to the sounding of the Doom Fart! BRRRRRT!
I just noticed that like this Goose bears a striking resemblance to Duke Nukem.
That likeness has been remarked on from his second appearance onwards (the first one being as an unnamed background character way back near the beginning of the comic).
LightNing not Lighting DaveB
Goose Nukem. I wholeheartedly approve.
While I do love the development of plot, world, and character the comic has gone through…nostalgia for its earlier absurdity. Dearly do I love the expression on Syndey’s face in middle panels (3-6) from comic 329.
I guess what I’m saying is…there’s just so much, so very much, to love about this comic.
Quick question? Why is Jiggawatt so different than she has been in previous panels? Where’s the badass white hair?
It got changed Midway through the restaurant fight because she looked too much like an x-men’s Storm rip off. It is yelloyish orange now
Get used to Jiggawatt’s hair changing on a regular basis. It is part of her character that she does so regularly. The only reason it remained as constant as it did was because a lot of the comic was set within the first day or two of Sydney joining up. Whilst Sydney was away in space Jiggawatt’s hair may well have changed a couple of times.
However, as TempoDiValse says, the first change was because she seemed too similar to Storm, which was not Dave’s intention. He felt her powers were distinctly different. Unfortunately the most striking elements did give enough of a similarity that it was constantly being commented on and distracting from her unique aspects.
The early white hair is on a list of retroactive corrections (along with Maxima’s and others ranks) that will theoretically be made someday. Although I think that would take a millionaire patreon to allow Dave to hire a flunky to work through that list. The comic absorbs far too much of his time to make inroads into that list.
“… white hair is on a list of retroactive corrections …
that will theoretically be made someday. Although I think that would take a millionaire patreon to allow Dave to hire a flunky to work through that list. The comic absorbs far too much of his time to make inroads into that list.”
Yyyyup!!
Not related to today’s comic, but…
Remember Sydney declaring ‘Golden Age Rules’?
I just spotted the Golden Age version of the Osprey…
https://youtu.be/8qlh_a307DY?t=517
Dang, that’s one of the earliest V/STOL craft I’ve ever come across, very cool! Those giant undermount propellers look scary to work around though, it’s like flying a hover-lawnmower. I’m guessing pilot/crew safety is at least one of the reasons the fixed-rotor approach was replaced with tilt rotors and/or internal ducted propulsion.
It’s also a horribly inefficient design. You’re adding on more propellers than you need, and putting them in a spot where they don’t get the best airflow.
Rule of Cool > Making Sense
Which was not known at the time, as they were still exploring the physics. The reason why the rulebook today says it is inefficient is because of these early innovators giving us the critical data of what was working and what was not. And thereby allowing subsequent generations to refine our knowledge.
I remember that early flyers were called daisy-cutters. This plane makes them into headcutters… Damn, Hollywood would jump on the opportunity for gruesome deaths during fight scenes around those planes!
Jiggawatt’s hair looks awesome. How much you want for that brush?
i like how goose looks like duke nukem lol
Question. Is Goose a total and utter geek like his hero, Duke Nukem?
If I understand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_heating correctly, every piece of metal near her should be boiling already, even if there’s only half of a loop. Including the metal of the straps near her shoulder…
Not in a world where super powers produce a desired result without undesirable side effects which the mere laws of phyziks might demand. For instance humans cannot normally generate enough electricity to create lightning, nor can they teleport. Well other than by random quantum effects anyhow.
Another example would be that Anvil violates the ‘equal and opposite reaction’ demanded by the laws of scienze. She should get flung back and/or take just as much damage as the guy she ‘nose booped’. But her power bypasses any inconvenient mere universal lawz.
Psst don’t tell Panda about those law violations!
*peers at Yorpie*
and Cyclops’ head would shoot off like a rocket from his neck with as powerful as his blasts are on a human body.
I rather like the Marvel comics solution, which other series have borrowed over the years, of the defensive dimensional feedback. Basically they are immune to their own power and its side effects due to an extra dimensional distortion caused when using them that acts as the source for the energy as well as where the feedback and excessive energy goes instead of hitting them or the immediate area around them.
Chclops has some secondary mutant powers as well, most importantly being an immunity to the energy of his optic blasts, which is also why Havok and him are immune to each others powers.
*Cyclops.
Sorry, phone posts are a pain
all mutants are immune to their own powers and those of their close family like siblings with only a few exceptions, and physical abilities like claws and punching.
My point still stands that it’s a secondary power to be immune to your own power. :)
Did Jiggawatt change her hair?
Yes. She does so regularly (every few weeks comic time).
…and we’re all out of gum!
Goose Nukem :3 Mind you, at least in the third one, many of Duke’s weapons were even more absurd than a minigun with a sextuplet of bayonets, like, oh a shrink ray, after which you could step on ’em for a nice and crunchy splorch sound and leave green tracks behind you.
For those saying Goose looks like Duke Nukem I strongly disagree. The glasses are a TOTALLY different color.
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Stupid restrictions on graphics links. You would think I was trying to hijack their web content or something.
https://media.alienwarearena.com/media/16ed8dd9a0a698c7d5cde3e692af31fc.jpg
Found this comic yesterday. Now I’m caught up. I expect 766 more comics by tomorrow so I can continue binging, mkay? Thanks in advance!
:)
Alternatively you could go back and look for all the layers of the comic you missed. A page might contain half a dozen subtle elements, like in jokes, clues to future events or power reveals and more.
For instance the year the comic is set in appears on only one page. An alien makes an appearance in a crowd scene long before their official reveal. And there is a strong hint that one other (specific) person may be able to also use Halo’s orbs!
Can’t happen.
We all want DaveB to learn to draw faster of course.
But if he does half of his time will need to go to drawing Semper Vigilantis.
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Comparing them, that looks like it’s a completely different minigun with bayonets…
well, you know how it goes… once you get ONE person a fancy new toy, you gotta get enough to let EVERYBODY have one for themselves…
The coolest thing about bayonets is that they started out as literal „gunblade“: There are some historical „gun swords“ but they were rare. „Gun knives“ saw a bit wider use as a self-defense weapon. But the turning point was when someone figured out that for all intents and purposes sticking a knife to a rifle made a good makeshift spear without compromising the handling of the weapon or adding extensive weight to be carried in the field.
Take that, Squall!
Yup. Although there was an intermediate stage where the knife was inserted into the barrel of the gun, rather than being attached on the outside of it.
You may be able to figure out the tactical flaw in that early development. ;-)
yeah, but when that weapon took a few minutes to RELOAD, the enemy could charge and close to melee range before you finished… then you’d be screwed… so it was pretty much a last-ditch effort to NOT get killed… if you WON the battle, then you could take the time to pry out the blade from your gun barrel, and if you LOST, well, ’nuff said…
Bah Sharpe’s rifles could get off three shots per minute!
And I saw a new episode last night!
*wags tail at three beats per second*
Over the hills and far away…isn’t that where Peggy and Sydney went?
but the Sharps Rifle was a CARTRIDGE loaded weapon made in 1881… the bayonet practice of shoving a knife blade into the barrel of your gun was WELL out of practice by then, as it was typically used back in the “blunderbus” days of old-style MUZZLE loading weapons.
Heh, as What If They… twigged, I was referring to the TV series “Sharpe’s Rifles” starring Sean Bean (based on novels). The hero is called Sharpe, not his weapon. And they did use powder, muzzle loaded, weapons, rather than cartridges. Hence their point of pride at being able to fire at such a remarkable rate.
I can’t recall if they ever used bayonets in any of the episodes, so cannot say what type they may have had, if any. As sharpshooters they may well not have had any. It was set in the Napoleonic era though, so they were well beyond the days of plug bayonets.
TRANSMISSION ACQUIRED
Tactical projections are updating, deathmaster.
… Local unit scan is complete.
… Defense force strength is a local maximum…
… This is literally the worst place on this continent for a “quick kill and grab”…
… updating …
… additional defensive units detected …
… a global maximum, deathmaster …
… the worst place on the planet…
… updating …
… and the star system …
… updating …
… recalculation impossible: this is not a maximum, it is a singularity …
… units are still incoming …
… deathmaster, this is the worst point location for an attacker in the known universe …
… recalculating …
… where did THAT come fr …
TRANSMISSION LOST
LOL!
Nice. :D
Heh.
There is something (loosely) similar in the Captain Marvel film. Which I will not detail to avoid spoilers. But it really tickled me, as it was one of the best moments in the movie. That and it appeared like a member of my household!
BWHAHAHAH! Awesome Dal, thank you. :)
What is up with Dabbler’s artificial eye in panel 1? is she scanning their shield? is that how she knows what will break it?…
“What is up with Dabbler’s artificial eye in panel 1?”
It looks the same as normal to me, when taking into account Dabbler being surprised. I cannot make out any ‘scanning special effects’.
“is she scanning their shield? is that how she knows what will break it?…”
Probably. Although she may just be remembering enough facts she knows about them from previous intel gained (before she came to Earth) that she can mentally calculate what is needed.
Achilles…shields… Of course it has not been explored, but if he is able to link up with the shields of Cora’s ship, the danger of the ship taking damage may be seriously reduced. And superheros do have a tendency to expand their powers.
Interesting point. It seems unlikely in Achilles’s case though. Because a big part of his origin is that he is unchanging. He has not aged, for example. His extreme (absolute) resistance to change may well be his super power (period).
Although he could seriously improve his capabilities by simply learning new skills. Martial arts in particular. If he trained up to black belt standards (in several different ones*) he would be far more effective in combat.
Likewise with man-portable heavy weapons. His tanking role would jump up dramatically if he posed a significant danger and the enemy needed to prioritise taking him (or his weapon) out of action. Given that he has 1.5 times normal human strength (due to not having to fear over-exerting himself) he may be able to handle some of the two man weapons effectively.
OK many super (or supernatural) targets will not be affected by mere Earth technology military weapons. But even Vehemence (one of the most powerful supers on Earth) was inconvenienced by losing his eye to Peggy’s sniper shot.
* Easy enough for an immortal.
this brings up how resistant to change he is. Clearly he can change neurologically; otherwise he wouldn’t be able to develop new memories and be stuck in an eternal loop or constant amnesia. But how well does this translate to muscle memory?
On that same note, can he improve reflexes, can he even change his muscular strength? Bone density? Would training and exercise even do anything for him?
‘Muscle memory’ is just a sporting term, it is actually controlled by the brain. Whilst it is a different area to the book-learning one, there is a part which is taught to respond instinctively to a given situation, without the conscious part of the brain having to micro manage what to do. So this area handles things like walking, riding a bike and blocking a punch (once they have been initially practiced enough).
As for the latter, I suspect not. But as he is a super and gets peak physical performance as part of that package (or was in such a state when he became super, as the case may be) that does not hugely impact him.
OK he could not specialise (such as either optimising his muscles for sprinting or weight lifting), but as a SWAT team member, the more generalised fitness of a top stunt man would be more than adequate. He should be able to develop a lot of useful skills to capitalize on that.
Indeed. Exercise is literally self-harm being repeatedly re-healed. It might not work the same for him. Furthermore, without any real concept of fear, or pain, how does he partially develop? Its hard to learn even the basics of combat when rules of self-defense simply do not apply to you.
Yup. But there again he does not actually need to exercise, as he is in peak condition anyhow. So he can pig out and be a couch potato, yet be ready for instant action, at a top level, at any time.
His development would certainly be hindered by the points you make. But it just means he needs to practice or be taught using other motivations. If he is taunted or mocked every time he fails to dodge a blow he would learn to dodge, just to avoid that embarrassment. Although a better instructor will be able to find a preferable motivation, or just go with a slow and steady improvement, without alienating his student.
Depending on his character, we may find he will seek to improve if wanting to win the approval of women (or even just teammates in general, if they are improving and he is lagging far behind). Plus, if he turns out to be empathetic enough, seeing teammates in pain or otherwise suffering, because he was not good enough to protect them, may get him to seriously up his game.
* He may be impervious to pain, but if he is knocked off a building his combat role is at an end, until he climbs back up to the top again.
**or gets buried… AGAIN… as it’s implied by Peggy’s comment when Sciona’s base blew up. so he doesn’t really seem to be an effective COMBAT asset, but is better in a role like Sydney was using him for… trap detection and “disarming”
well i have sat on this for a long time. kept my mouth shut so’s i wouldn’t sound like some sort of jackass.
but if you want to do hair and make faces like you have been working on really hard. you might think on that skulls are all different and it affects how hair drapes underneath the fuzz. you arent doing fine art but it still very much makes a difference in look when you take that into account. i taught art basics for a fine art school for a little while and it was one of the things that was hardest to get folks to understand. if it isnt considered then the hair just looks like a wig. to do frizzy afro looking hair is even harder in some ways because it has density in places that your eye can register but cant discern. ok thats about all the comment i wanted to make about that struggle. hope it helps and keep up the good work and story.
Interesting, and very polite call-out. Dave’s always improving, so I’m sure he will be glad for receiving the concept.
Hee, cheering Xuriel in the background is cute.
And here I thought Arc SWAT had hired Duke Nukem specifically for killing alien bastards.
Yea she is adorable.
“And here I thought Arc SWAT had hired Duke Nukem specifically for killing alien bastards.”
Who is to say that Goose did not inspire Id when they made the Duke Nukem game? :)
That would make Goose old as balls. He’d be hovering around fifty, assuming he was inspirational in his mid-twenties.
Maybe he takes after his father, Goose Sr.
So one of two things is going to happen. 1) The curb stomp will continue, culminating with Max and/or Sydney blowing up their ship. 2) The shields on Cora’s ships are going to fail and the curb stomp will reverse, leaving only Achilles, Sydney, and maybe Max (she’s tough, but not as tough as Achilles or Sydney’s shield) standing.
3) The Boss will appear to momentarily reverse the curb stomp and heighten the tension and interfere with the team freeing the Interdictor.
it occors to me there is an option #3 they send out there elites and they start counterstomping till maxima and the other heavy hitters get involved
4) Halo arrives and liquisifies the enemy ship.
Mmm, I guess that is a part of 1)
Do we know how large Halo’s shield can go yet?
Which should happen sooner than later, because as a two a week comic too much time is given for the readers to start to feel sorry for the aliens in a one sided fight. While a cartoon, full ten pages+ comic book, or movie gives a short amount of time on the spot so you don’t care and think, HELL YEAH TAKE EM OUT, this set up gives enough time that you start to feel kinda bad for them…kinda…results may vary.
Goose is using **A** minigun with six bayonets strapped to it. This one is chromed. (Never assume there’s only one!)
I really, REALLY would like to have been a fly on the wall during the conversation that led ARC-SWAT to decide they needed more than one multi-bayonet minigun
With how much each member is paid, I would think they would be able to afford whatever they really want. Because, in Nukem fashion, why reload when you can afford to replace at will.
I was thinking the Masterson Assault Cannon from Bureau 13. In this world, Bureau 13 might be a real thing.
that, and Maxima’s is the size of one meant for a Phalanx CIWS. Goose’s is likely an M134.
I think this falls under the “If you can lift a car, your fist probably hits harder than the car would.” rule; With her powers the Phalanx system would just get in the way, even though she could carry it.
The only reason she carries a gun at all is because most people won’t be aware they should be terrified if she points a finger at them.
Note that the perspective on the page where Ol’ Painless first appears was intentionally forced in order to highlight it catching Sydney’s attention, although the similarity in tone between the table and the floor made the technique less than obvious. The next page gives a clearer scale.
In the first panel, does Dabbler mean to say lighting, or was it supposed to be lightning?
Let’s give the artist a break and just chalk it up to “Dabbler’s bad at English sometimes.”
yeah, at least this time the weapons aren’t Mammary Trapped…
And when the Fel finally start shooting non combattants, structures, and anything that could be used for cover leaving buildings with huge holes all the way through them Max will move from coordinating to having an active hand in dealing with the threat. Though this page and last page are taking place within seconds of each other or simultaneously as well as the next several pages possibly, to Max with her super speed it is like taking a half minute break to observe and calculate her response. That response likely to be controlled but extremely violent.
P.S. Why do I get the impression that Cora’s antimatter mass drivers will not see use with this particular encounter and she will develop a terrible case of respect for the ARC forces both super powered and skilled normals when everything is finished.
*nods*
We already saw an indication of the latter, on the previous page.
Clearly Cora has not been clued up that the most powerful of the supernaturals on Earth (which includes numerous extraterrestrial species) are only on a par with lower ranked supers.
I found myself suddenly wondering: just how far away is Vehemence from this? Alien invasion plus super-hero counter-attack would be a LOT of vehemic energy one would think, maybe enough to reach him and cause him to power up enough to shrug off the constant drugging he undergoes and escape prison (for which I wonder how that managed to get through the courts since among other things it would prevent him from being able to work with his lawyer to mount a proper defense).
Halo’s True Sight revealed the size of his power effect. Which was about that of the car park. Plus logic tells us that if Vehemence could draw power from events many miles away (they are bound to have a super prison well away from a city, at the very least), then he would have been powered up every time a hurricane or tornado hit any part of the US.
Dave did once mention that Vehemence could probably charge himself up by standing in such an extreme weather event. But it would not appeal to him (probably just a boring flavour).
Or bad mouth feel.
*Lighthook Whump*
Say texture, damn it.
+1
Even since I have found out that it is a food-industry technical term, it has still irritated me every time I have heard it. What twat originally decided that ‘texture’ was not a good enough word?
Wellll, it ^does^ distinguish it from ^other^kinds^ of texture. (◕_◕)
He’s really really far.
Archon is well aware of what powers him up and acted accordingly.
In addition, he would die from explosive decompression the moment he breached his cell.
“Explosive Decompression”, is a Myth!
His cell was never indicated to be pressurized. Opal’s was because she is a long range teleporter, that way if she tried to portal far away she’d receive a nasty case of lethal bends.
Finally, Senece has needed more screen time for a while now. A sweet addict would be the perfect counterpoint to Sydney an the two should have some senes together.
She is sweet.
And is clearly a super, otherwise she would have piled the pounds on!
As super powers go, that one would be nice. Not quite up there with flying, teleporting or shapechanging. But compared to nothing, yea, even the default super power package is good.
Although she may well have some trivial super power (there are people with such in this setting, even if none we know of got into Arc-SWAT). Maybe the ability to change the colour of undies?
She could have seriously embarrassed Vehemence.
Read a book once where supers started showing up, and there was a power law to it: Most of the supers got lame powers you might not even notice, like the ability to arrive exactly on time as the subway door opened. Though always hitting green traffic lights would be a cool power to have if you were a taxi driver.
Was the book PS238? Because they have a school there for superhumans, and classes even for superhumans who have powers that are not remotely useful for superheroics, but could still be profitable for jobs. Like one person who can make rain happen, and another person who can make rocks into edible, albeit bland, food.
Making rain is a full-blown super power, if it is strong enough. Monsoon floods have clear combat capability. As do forms of precipitation which can obscure visibility. Even if unable to control winds or temperature, like a true weather controller, if those variables are favourable then a rain maker could also create obscuring snow or a full blown blizzard or thunderstorm.
Then there are the fine tuned variants, such as making it rain on just one opponent (or several targeted individuals). Giving them slippery footing, obscured vision, drag from rain-soaked clothing and all whilst only minimally affecting allies engaging them.
Rain, or its lack, has turned many a battle throughout history. Even the biggest invasion ever could have gone the other way if heavy rain had hit D-Day across the whole front! The allies were relying on air support and paratroopers. Plus most of the ‘amphibious’ tanks used then were fabric flotation devices, which could easily have been swamped with monsoon rains. Even fire support would have been badly hindered by heavy rain.
Presumably someone who can make it rain can also (perhaps requiring training or power stunt development) also stop it raining. In which case they can help in disaster hit areas, to reduce or prevent flooding. And they would be immensely popular at festivals, major public events (corrinations, inaugurations, etc) and sporting events.
Plus, as such an academy would doubtless teach (even if they dropped the ball on the combat capabilities, due to the large quantity of more powerful supers), being able to prevent famine, by regulating whole countries’ weather, would have vast humanitarian and commercial use. Likewise revenues for providing services to the above events plus ski and beach resorts.
Even individual cities would likely pay well to have rain fall at convenient times. A nice street cleaning and garden watering rain at 3am each day, but otherwise nice and dry, would tempt more than one administration. Especially if the rain maker could undercut the prices that full strength weather controllers might charge for their more comprehensive services.
Yeah but in PS238, Rainmaker can just make normal rain. No monsoons. No huge storms. Just regular rain.
There was a book by Douglas Adams also, called Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, where there was a guy who was unknowingly a rain god, but he couldnt actually CONTROL the rain…. it just rained wherever he was. When he finally found out, he could make money by either being in certain places that were having droughts, or staying away from other places that needed to be good weather :).
I thought that character was in one of his(Adams) “Hitch-hiker’s Guide …” books.
She might be like Peggy and be so badass Max included her anyway but as it’s fun to guess what her powers are I’m going with burst super speed, she can’t go long distances but for 2 to 3 seconds she’s really fast before needing about 10 seconds to recharge explaining why we haven’t seen her use it.
Jiggawatt – a few comments. It’s not just the hair that changed. The face has changed too. And for the better. The face of the character page is generic female with a little darker shade of flesh. This face is a real character. Dramatic changes in hair color (black to white, white to golden brown,etc) require chemical treatments to hair which damages it.
Just ask any real bearded Santa.
Keep up the good work. I enjoy grrlpower.
+1
Yea, fist Santa had a green beard. Then he landed that Coke contract and went with red. But that did not audience test well, so his damaged bleached beard turned out well in the end!
why would you out the poor man like that? The Supernatural protection and relocation program did such a good job helping him change his public image along with his appearance and name changes.
http://epika.org/epika/slavic/lesovik/lesovik.jpg
https://365psd.com/images/istock/previews/8815/88158985-leprechaun-with-red-beard-portrait.jpg
Goose is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and he’s all out of bubblegum.
I love that Goose bears a strong resemblance to an old school shoot ’em up hero. x3 And who cares about backgrounds when we get to see Jigg’s new look, and more Goose and Senece blating bad guys with extreme prejudice? xD
*Seneca, I typed faster than my brain for that one. >.<
Did you just reference Fallout New Vegas? Or were those electrical specifications accidental?