Grrl Power #77 – She’ll get there eventually
I wanted to have a panel or two showing that maybe 5 or 10 minutes had passed since the last page, but I tried to cram too much in on this one and had to lose them.
So yeah, nearly 20 pages after her first appearance, Heatwave finally opens her mouth (to do something other than stuff it with popcorn. Evidently they must go through boxes of the stuff there), results are mixed. Turns out, the rarity of super powers in this world does mean you don’t always get to be quite as picky when it comes to some of the other desired attributes when recruiting. Heatwave just has a different, some would say slower, method of processing data. Some would just say she’s dumb. But she can follow orders, fly, and her heat rays are formidable. She’s not going to lead her own squad, but she’s still a valuable asset.
Also, if you haven’t stopped by since the last page went up, I’ve posted a voting incentive over at Topwebcomics.com, some of the lines came out a little light but honestly I haven’t done a pencil piece in years. Next one should be better. I’ll try and do at least one a month, I’d love to do one a week, but if I had that sort of time, I’d rather spend it on doing more comics.
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Truth in advertising.
It’s not actually a diet soda, but they can claim it’s 0 calorie cause no one ever gets to swallow any.
Spit Take soda. So bad we bet you can’t drink the whole thing…
I double dog dare Ya!!
Epic win.
Heatwave doesn’t seem to be the brightest crayon in the box. At least she has some kick ass powers.
The way she is holding her tongue in frame #one is priceless. That means she is concentrating on not burning stuff more than she is on other things. :p
this establishes two things 1 where brooke went when we all asked earlier answer to get more popcorn, and 2 shes willing to give daphne a warning before she burns her hair off.
Great power. Can cook food by hand. Literally….
Hey, don’t knock it. Being able to perfectly cook a bag of microwave popcorn is an ART!
And I have to admit, I didn’t think of the lipstick thing. So I have to give her credit for being more observant than I am.
Wasn’t knocking it.
Was wondering if her powers were microwave energy based or does she just shoot beams of heat?
They’re actually both pretty much the same thing. Once you go past red light, everything’s pretty much just heat. The only difference with microwaves is that it tends to go through most stuff.
Microwave doesn’t directly heat things, nor does it fire infrared waves.
It excites water molecules (and only water molecules), which than heat up the rest of the food (through vibration). That’s why fat stuf doesn’t heat up
And why heating bread in the microwave doesn’t work.
Also, microwave radiation tends to dissipate a lot faster than IR does.
According to some, mhm, one might say, failed experiment I personally tried, it does work :-/ Much too good, actually.
That said, AFAIU microwaves are of lower frequency than your ordinary infrared rays. That’s why they penetrate stuff deeper. And yes, they sort of interact with water molecules, making them swing or something, and that movement results in heat being created. AFAIK, only water molecules react to microwaves in such a way. And of course everything that leads electrical current, but maybe for some other reason…
“Heat” actually is a measure of the movement of an object’s molecules. Infra red radiation is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is especially good at transferring energy (and therefore heat) to matter. Electrical currents are different, they involve transfer of electrons, rather than photons.
You’re quite right, saying that movement results in heat being created isn’t correct.
And maybe I should have put more detail into the part about leading electrical current… The electrical part of the electromagnetic waves gets short-circuited(?) when the microwaves hit metal, resulting in some relatively strong currents within the metal. That in turn heats up the metal. Not by making molecules go into resonance with the wave but by “brute force”, so to say. Btw. I just realized that I don’t know why that does not happen with higher frequencies, like light.
From a science tutor (me):
Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a large range of possible frequencies from 300MHz to 300GHz. Many of these frequencies are used for communications, such as with communication satellites, cell phones, Bluetooth, etc.
Some of these frequencies, multiples of about 2.45GHz, correspond very well with the natural vibrational frequency of the oxygen-hydrogen bonds in water, alcohols and some other polar molecules. If the microwave energy meets something that interacts at the frequency, then it is absorbed and used to cause the molecule to vibrate more, which causes the material to heat up.
If the material’s molecules do not vibrate at that frequency, then the microwaves tend to go right through. Pure metals can absorb or reflect the microwave energy no matter what frequency. So the communication frequencies are the ones that do not correspond to the cooking frequencies. If we did use the cooking frequencies then if a cloud went between our ground station and the satellite, then we would lose connection and heat up the cloud.
Microwaves do heat fatty foods, just not as efficiently as ones with nice mobile water molecules to vibrate. They use a frequency at which water molecules resonate (and therefore absorb strongly), but any polar molecule (or bit of a molecule) will absorb some energy as it tries to follow a changing EM field. And of course, a narrow bandwidth isn’t crucial when you’re just trying to transfer energy, so although their peak radiation is tuned to a water band there’s probably a reasonable amount available for any nearby organic transitions.
“Was wondering if her powers were microwave energy based or does she just shoot beams of heat?”
I expect “none of the above”, and she’s a pyrokinetic. It’s not direct heat, because the bag
would burn before the popcorn pops. It’s could be microwaves, but seems unlikely; so “psi-rays” or somesuch thing; pyrokinesis. Mind over heat.
See also: https://wapsisquare.com/comic/thingslikethat/
which is *probably* also pyrokinesis, but it takes the bag out of the equation.
Bud, of couse, has considerably more “oomph” behind her heat powers than one might expect:
she can actually vaporize *ceramic* with her breath:
https://wapsisquare.com/comic/howpeoplegetburned/
When Brian Boitano was in the Alps
Fighting Grizzly Bears..
He used his magical fire breath
And saved the maidens fair
— “What Would Brian Boitano Do”
bah who care about magic fire breath,,, sidney has a way better breath power :)
Yeah, fire breath can only hurt one or two people at a time, Scoville breath wil clear out a whole building and make them unable to see clearly for hours afterward.
field of fire! people field of fire! properly done flame strikes can hit surgicaly at range or toast over 60 degree arc to a chosen distance. syd no control watsoever with her breath strike demonstraiting it.
I personally wouldn’t waste it on nasty microwave popcorn. At least use real, stick to your gut/thighs/butt butter.
If you could controle where and how hot the beams were you might be able to cook popcorn fairly well.
And seeing how much popcorn they eat Heatwave has probably gotten pretty good at cooking popcorn. Now if she can cook a steak perfectly that would be a keeper there.
That cholesterol will stick to your arteries not you fat cells.
Cooking microwave popcorn might have started as an exercise in managing her power, so she would not, well, burn down the entire building, again. After a while, she realized she likes the taste of popcorn and uses this method as a method of concentration (notice the tongue) and because she finds it more fun than walking over to the microwave oven and waiting for two minutes, listening to something else do what she can do herself.
I doubt Heatwave has to worry too much about what she eats.
Her digestive system’s probably closer to a blast furnace or fusion reactor in how it operates.
Microwave popcorn is basically popcorn and oil in a bag. Not much different than what goes into a popcorn popper. The preservatives and “flavorings” are what give it a different taste.
And here I thought she was popping those wrapping bubbles…
A bunch of milatarized superhuman’s who are goofballs kinda scare me even more. Practical jokes that get out of hand could possibly destroy a city block. Think about it.
*ROFL* I fully agree and underwrite(?)/sign(?) that :D
Good thing I don’t have superpowers! The Practical joke implications are staggering! :D
ok,,, i was seriously not expecting heatwave o be on the dumb side,,,but there is this to say about her,,, while she didnt reach the right conclusion she did pôint out some valid things,,so while she may not be the brightess one around,, it would seem her mind work in a different way,, alowing her to notice and pooint things that other poeple might disregard,, or give her an uncanny ability to think outside the box
Then again, Heatwave might not realize just what’s going on. I just looked back through the archives, and the issue where the guys are brought out all lipstickied up, she wasn’t in the room (or at least didn’t appear to be). She does reappear after Maxima arrives at HQ to ream out Harem, but she might not’ve known the why of the reaming out – and as the others were in the room when/as the prank was pulled (or at least Harem reacted in such a way as to indicate she was responsible), they might not’ve clued her in (or at least not yet) as to what really happened.
So all this issue appears to show is that Heatwave is far more observant than other people, even if the conclusion she arrives at is flawed due to a lack of information (as opposed to her seeming to be having a “blonde moment”).
Actually I was totally confused about the last panel:
– Didn’t Heatwave know that Maxima was outside the van when the kissy marks were applied? Ok, maybe she did not.
– Didn’t she know that Harem was in the van when the kissy marks were applied? Ok, maybe she did not.
– Didn’t she know that Harem might easily leave kissy marks all over the place when she gets the opportunity while it seems to be extremely unlikely that Maxima would do anything remotely like that She must know that.
Hmmm. Now, while writing it down, I think I can follow her chain of thought: If she did not know that Harem was there and even knowing that Maxima wouldn’t likely do such a thing, she must assume that either Maxima did it or someone else who isn’t known. That must be disconcerting!
Alas, why do the others react as they do? Are they trying to pull her leg? Then again, that would not fit to Anvils “Be nice”.
I’m still confused.
…girls.
They are astounded that she didn’t notice there was a time when Harem was in the ambulance and Maxima wasn’t, which they knew and the TV crew didn’t. Therefore, she is wondering how Maxima left the kissies without lipstick, and has no idea what has been going on with Harem, Maxima, and the General!
Well that means they don’t realize that Brook was not able to have all the facts… where’s the logic in that?
Have you never heard why women are called the “Opposite Sex?” It’s because whenever you think you’ve figured them out it’s the opposite!
I see. Hm. Now that you say it, this fits personal experiences…
I’m thinking it’s more like she’s naive than dumb. She’s taking what she sees at face value but making some very good observations as the others pointed out. That naivety may make her seem dumb, she may even be slower to think things through but do it very well. I’m a little like that myself, nowhere near as fast on the comeback as many of my friends but a lot more original when I do make a comeback.
Love Heatwave’s face in panel 7. Also took me a sec to see what she was doing in panel 1 before I remembered her hero name.
And poor Harem, I’d feel horrible getting such a chewing out. She did deserve it though. And I’m respecting Arianna a bit more now. Exploiting, yes, but still one of the good people.
Keep up the great work, Dave. Still loving this comic and your art style, worth waiting for every week.
Just curious, though. In the last panel, is the surprise by Anvil and Harem sarcastic (“We ALL know Max’s lips are red”), are they surprised at how slow Brook was on the uptake (“We’ve been talking about this for A-ges”), or are they genuinely surprised at what she observed?
My intent was that they were shocked by how slow she was on the uptake. They all definitely know that Max doesn’t wear makeup, because when she goes on some tear about bullshit societal expectations that women tart themselves up and hang jewelry off their face, etc etc, someone would have said “Then why do you wear “stripper red” lipstick and nail polish?”, Max would explode with “I DON’T! My skin is naturally colored like that! If anything I’d wear makeup to cover up how red my lips are but the shit DOESN’T STICK TO ME!” Rabble rabble etc.
Now, later on, they may realize that since Max isn’t going to keep that to herself, Harem’s prank will be exposed, but that’s something they’ll have to deal with when it happens.
I wonder if she even sweats?
If she does antipersprant wouldn’t stick to her either.
also, dave,, you said you need work more on anvil’s personality,, well so far you have shown she is very sweet girl,,, is also protective and seem to have that big sister instinct,,not sure if its because she was a lonely child,, wich was made worst by her size,, but she does seem to be looking out for other .
she also give out the vibe of life’s wisdom,,,the way she act and her body language,, she look like someone who know the value of restrain and of thinking before acting,, she also seem more accepting of others, not wanting to label poeple or others to label poeple,, like to her super or not you are still a person.
not sure if it was intentional or if i am just seeing thing that are not there,,, but i think she could be the wisewoman around,, the person they gop for advice about life in general, or simply to have a nice girl chat for so far she seem the most down to earth of th lot.
after rereading last panel i wonder,,, is the reaction of both kenya and daphne about the fact that brrok hasnt catched up that it was daphne leaving the marks,,, or because they both didnt know about max’s lips,,,and that they are surprised that the ”bumb”m girl had figured that part out while they hadnt
I was thinking that myself. I was wondering if they were suprised about her not wearing lipstick or how heatwave was that slow on the uptake.
She might be slow, but she gets there eventually. May not necessarily be the same road that most other people take, but that’s OK.
Sorta like when you go abroad and use a taxi :D
Harem and Anvil are spit-take surprised became Heatwave observed something which no one else has thought of. Once the public starts to find out more about the team and Maxima, it’ll finally come out that she doesn’t wear lipstick. That particular bit of information may leave some investigative type person, say a reporter, to about the bank incident. They’ll remember about the prisoner being covered in lipstick. So if Maxima doesn’t wear makeup, how did those llip prints get all over those prisoners? What’s went on in that ambulance?
Further investigation finds the recording device mysterious glitched out after Maxima went inside? What a coincidence. Why were those prisoners taken away by the military? Why not the police and FBI? This bears further investigation? Attention is not something you want focused on your intelligence assets.
Thinking about it… You normally have red lips because the skin isn’t thick on your lips and so the blood “shines through”(?) Now, with Maxima having the golden skin she has, it is far from obvious that she would have naturally red lips. (Unless… her lips would be her weak point?)
Maybe Heatwave is simply wrong.
Dave has said that Maxima’s lips and nails are naturally bright red.
Oh!
Maxima told everyone that 1 of the bank robbers had super powers.
So it makes sense that the militairy part that deals with supervillains (archswat) would handle than
I’m guessing Schoolgirl Haerm is keeping Sydney company. Because I for one would not leave a person with unknown powers alone in my headquarters. Expecialy someone who seems fairly unstable as she appears.
You don’t leave anyone who hasn’t been fully vetted alone in a secure facility. (Much less anyone as unpredictable as Sydney has proven to be.) Superpowers or not. They could be a paraplegic in a wheelchair; you still don’t leave them alone.
That said, I believe it was stated that Sydney was to accompany them to the office, so she’s in the room. Which is generally bad management practice for a dressing-down, but might be called for. (Especially as the issue would get brought up and Sydney needs to be aware of the truth of what happened. If Harem had made a bad comment then, I can see the explosion happening.)
More than likely Co-Ed Harem is in the infirmary. The others might have felt it but That body is the one that took a punch (elbow, whatever) to the nose. That can be very painful and bleed or require setting.
Plus she smashed her face on the cabnet earlier.
Unless of course, whenever she telaports her body resets itself to a optimal state where she is no longer injured. Interesting possibility.
Imagine a water ballon fight. Then imagine it escalating to someone reaching for the fire house. Now replace ‘water balloon’ with ‘super power’. *Hums the song ‘Slaughter Your World’
I didn’t get at the first glance that Heatwave was popping popcorn in the first panel. Maybe if you used a light effect (with a layer set to ‘add’ or similar in your editor), so it’s clear she’s using a power?
Actually, there is an orangey glow around her fingers – and I’m not mistaking it for the branding on the packet, as the logo shown in Panel 7 is a lot lighter than the effect shown in Panel 1.
That’s kinda my point – glow is supposed to be lighter than the stuff it’s on. Hence why a layer effect might work better.
*snort.* That is almost Blond Joke level Obliviousness.
So, Heatwave is a red-head on the outside, but blonde on the inside? :)
Are you referring to the old joke here? “What do you call a blond with a bottle of hair dye? Answer – Artificial Intelligence.”
Hmm, if Harem is on Conan, who will be on Faux news ? erhm … I mean Fox News
Sydney perhaps ?
Could have her start off about superpowers, and the Fox newscasters would be instantly outraged !
Maybe she could follow up with some *beep* language and her views on witches and religion.
… and the fox Newscasters would be even more outraged ! :D
Syd on Faux? DO WANT! DO WANT!
Supposing she would even enter the studio (except to bring it down around her ears). I expect her opinions to differ from theirs by light-years and she has no brakes on her attitude train. A car bomb would be safer. :)
I dunno dude, you ever been in the vicinity when they set off a big car bomb? It’ll literally rock your world, not to mention doing a number on your eardrums… (It’s OK my ears were already ringing from getting hit in the head with a pickup truck. shlabotnik!
Or she could go on BSNBC, I mean MSNBC so Ed Shultz can call her a slut or a nazi if she disagrees with him, (wait, she’s not a cancer survivor so he probably wouldn’t call her a slut,) or go on Maddow and be the most feminine one on stage, (just don’t ask about it on Jeopardy.)
“or go on Maddow and be the most feminine one on stage”
That comment was seriously uncool.
So is Maddow.
There is no level of justification sufficient to insult someone simply because they don’t meet your immature standards of how a woman ought to look or behave.
I don’t insult Rachel Maddow besause she doesn’t fit societies definition of feminine, I insult her because of the stupid things she says. That being said, when I said that between her and Sydney, Sydney would be the more feminine, I was accurate.
Negative. “Feminine” is a subjective term that compares a woman’s appearance and or behavior to how the user thinks women ought to act, typically based off of archaic stereotypes.
As I said, the standards I’m applying are those of western society, not necessarily my own. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Personally I’m not a fan of Fox “News” but I have to make my cast more diverse than them just liking everything I do. I’m not sure who would go on there voluntarily though. Maxima is career military, so she might have some Conservative tendencies in her, but I don’t see her supporting a party that is anti-choice. Her political views are probably more complex that what could be easily categorized by simple party affiliation. In any case, it’s probably more political than I want the comic to get so if I do show them on any TV shows it’ll be talk shows and generally neutral stuff. Though it would be funny to see Maxima on Colbert.
Two points. First, unlike MSDNC, Fox doesn’t support one political party down the line. True, the hosts of the OPION show tend to be conservative, (although not necessarily republican,) but the news plays it much more down the middle. Second, if I’m “anti-choice,” then you’re pro-abortion, or anti-life.
Oops, opinion
Well, I’m certainly pro-abortion-should-be-an-option, especially when it’s necessary to save the life of the mother, it doesn’t mean I’m all for recreational abortions, which I don’t think anyone is, but that’s what “pro-abortion” is intended to sound like.
I was also paraphrasing Maxima’s position on it. You shouldn’t expect a strident feminist or anyone who is particularly pro-women’s rights to be generous with viewpoints that try and legislate against those things. I’m just saying while she’d probably be all for the pro-defense spending stance of the right, she’s also smart enough to recognize that defense spending has also increased under Obama, despite the GoP’s attempts to spin Democrats as being weak on defense. So basically I’m left being unsure of where she’d hang her hat politically.
But like I said, I’m probably not going to get into that in the comic as it’s just too polarizing.
I’m just saying that from what we’ve seen so far, I’m not sure that Maxima, no matter how much she defines herself as a feminist, would support the “right” of a woman to murder her unborn baby to suit her convenience. And like it or not, that is the position of the democrat party and the modern feminist movement.
I think you’ll find very few feminists that are anti-choice actually. (Though I suppose it depends on how loose a definition you have for ‘feminist’) They also don’t characterize abortion as murder since it’s medically inaccurate, it’s just inflammatory language – not that both sides aren’t guilty of it. Max definitely doesn’t support the idea of forcing women to carry a fetus to term if they’re the product of rape and/or incest, or if the pregnancy endangers the life of the woman, or if the fetus is non-viable but hasn’t naturally miscarried. Again – probably not going to touch on it in the comic, mostly because of threads like this. They’re not in any way productive or entertaining.
Wow do you just download you thoughts from Faux News or are you one of the Hate-mongers yourself?? As you are (I assume) a man you will never have to make the choice. Why is it necessary to evolve yourself in someone else s life choices. You don’t care if millions of people die unnecessarily but an abortion of a clump of cells that could one day (if everything goes perfectly) might become a human upsets you. Nice hypocrisy there. Now can we please go back to enjoying a funny web comic before you start dragging out your bible and raging against the sinners. Honestly does every mention of that ridiculous parody of a news show have to start a flamewar? Grow a sense of humor. We come here to laugh not fight. :)
Ok, end this thread guys.
Your wish is my command.
Edited by DaveB: Seriously, thread closed. I don’t have a way to actually lock a thread that I’m aware of but just let this one die please.
ok,, a comment not related to the page,,, dave,, you need to upgrade your cast page,,, not just to inlude the new heroes like heather,,, but to add the memorable apearances,, i mean i am sure everyone will aggree that harem and max have some emmorable ones now,,, and this page does give one for heather even tought its her fiorst talky
I totally do. Maybe I’ll work on that today.
ok,,, check it,, you added quite a few,,, but i think most poeple here would aggree with me that you should add teh always expect ninja part to sidney’s memorable moments,, and personaly i would also add the;is murder still illegal
Yeah, you’re right, I should add Always Expect Ninjas. The “Is murder still illegal” page… eh, that’s one of those ones that is rife with art I don’t like, and generally I’m not a fan of the page overall, but that’s just the artist being overly critical of early work.
Where the hell did Max leave Sidney?
I’m wondering where she left her shirt. It’s she’s giving out an official ass-chewing she should be in uniform. Being out of uniform detracts from the officialness.
Adds to the fan service though.
She took off her jacket.
In order to get into a REALLY good ass chewing, you need to take your jacket off.
You will use a LOT of energy, and it gets REALLY hot.
Plus it adds to the tension and drama if you stop long enough to remove your jacket before tearing them a new one verbally.
the top also gets in the way if you are forced to switch over to wall to wall counceling. or is a regretable grip option in wall to wall mode 2.
However, the performance of wall-to-wall counseling in front of your Commanding Officer is usually contra-indicated. They tend to get stuffy about things like that.
Besides, isn’t wall-to-wall usually done by senior enlisted personnel? Officers tend to have the whole presumption of education and civility thing going on, which is how enlisted personnel can generally get away with being boisterous and less refined.
I imagine that if Maxima’s taking her military responsibilities seriously, unless she started her military career at the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs and served as an officer, she’s taking military correspondence courses like mad to prevent people saying that her rank was awarded for either her powers or the application of her beauty, rather than her actual qualifications.
If Max did wall to wall Harem would be going through the walls.
wall to wall counceling is originaly meaning smoke the person with exercises and relays from wall to wall hence the name, later version or mode 2 switches to the leader physicaly moving the soldier around the room. while you are right mode 2 in front of the general would be bad the original pt version would be mearly evaluated for technique, however if we are nit picking this max as an officer should be delegating the chew out to harems NCO or calmly reading from the paperwork on the issue. as this isn’t the real military and the situation is so unusual we must leave room for creativity in the writer to establish the mechanics of the chain of command or operations.
I’m loving all of Anvil’s *bonk*s on Harem’s head!
So… is Brook didn’t get it was all a prank and thought that Maxima had actually been kissing the guys… why isn’t or wasn’t she jealous? Unless she didn’t even notice that that guy was her boyfriend. (Yes, I know he looked different than normal, but as all the others figured it out and talked about it…)
Well if you look on this page you can see she’s got a concerned look on her face, but Max is super powerful, and the commander, and also angry about something even if Brook can’t figure out what at the moment. Better to leave it for now and confront her later.
Also she may not know Harem was there since she was inside the ambulance and not in view of the camera. Unless someone told her otherwise.
I’m for betting that she’s not as dumb as the remark makes her sound. She may be pulling their chains.
Next page : Brooke starts laughing then suddenly turns to Harem and says “Kiss my man again and I’ll pop YOU!” Followed by a new bag of popcorn exploding.
hahahahhaahaha i sydney has a my little pony ringtone
oh great,, another brook
FLEE!
Ha ha we get it, instead of commenting on the comic your commenting about, you left a comment on the current comic that had a minor joke about a minor character being a little slow on the uptake. Hil-freaking-larious.
Anyone read the discworld stories?. There’s a character called Detritus, he’s a troll, his brain’s nearly pure silicon, and just like a computer it tends to slow down when it gets over heated, after getting locked in what could be described as a giant freezer he discovered that his brain get faster the cold it gets (unfortunately the optimum temperature of operation his brain is also very close to the optimum point of troll death). The same could be said of heatwave, her powers are coursing her brain to “overheat”)
I know that when I’m overheated I have trouble thinking. I also get angry realy easily in high heat so maby she isn’t overheated after all.
Temperature actually does have an affect on brain function. That’s why humans lose so much body heat through their heads- having your brain get too hot causes all sorts of problems with things like coordination, concentration, and (worst of all) the regulatory functions for the rest of your body.
Also why cold air can clear your head. Sweat contains salt which can irritate skin. Sweat in my eyes could lead to justifiable homicide. Fevers above 105 f can kill brain cells and cause brain death.
I had thought about the lipstick thing a while ago but forgot about it until now.
Any way the last few panels are funny.
In the human species we have a spectrum of abilities. Some faster than others, stronger, smarter (many different kinds of smarts), patience etc. But for some it is make fun of others they consider inferior. A bad trait that is ultimately self destructive to the whole. [I wonder did anyone else there notice that little fact at the time? I mean among the group of our supers that is.]
I like the soft drink “Spit Take” followed by—you know. I wonder if Sydney will be getting a physical an test an questions before she becomes part of the group? I would expect so. And that they know about her abilities.
At this point, I’m not sure Sydney knows her abilities.
I think so far they’re just bringing her in for a debrief, and to answer some questions about the tube. Until she actually demonstrates super powers, there’s no defensible reason to do more.
I love the suspicious look on Brook’s face in the last panel. Yup, something’s afoot. I’d call her captain obvious, but I’ve done that sort of thing too many times to mock it.
It says on the character page that Harem is 19. So, how many pictures did she have in her senior yearbook?
At least Maxima doesn’t have to repeat her lecture five times.
If she was smart only one because otherwise all 5 would have to be in school everyday. Boring x5.
but thats how she got honor grad by taking a double maybe little more course load, add being the top sports star and head cheerleader school was probly fun for her.
Yes but she could have done it as 1 persona with 5 bodies. She could switch bodies when tired, read the textbook while taking the test, switch out an injured body, practice with herself etc, etc, etc. The advantages are numerous. And heaven help the guy who cheated on her or talked trash about her. She would always have a good alibi.
If word gets out that she can be at several places at the same time getting an alibi suddenly is much harder.
That’s a nice demo of Brooke’s Power, showing it in a natural way without having to explicitly explain it. Presumably Sydney’ll get the tour and intros from Maxima or Arianna fairly soon after being recruited, if not before, but it shows us, the readers, why this lady’s wearing the choker (a move either considered unnecessary for Kenya since she’s in the prologue, or for which the story just hasn’t given an opening yet).
Wow, I’d say Heatwave is a bit slow, but it would take a few hours before she reacted. The others all caught the joke right off the bat didn’t they? Is she always gonna be so Sean Penn full retard?
I like it that she popped popcorn with her bare hands by the way. Hilarious.
just because it may take Heatwave a bit longer to get the joke or in this case Harem messing with her man, it doesn’t mean she not intelligent (a cray supercomputer will give you an answer faster then a computer with a 286mhz processor, but both will give the same answer you’ll just have to wait a bit longer).
The use of “retard” as an insult isn’t very nice an overly used. That an “crazy” get too much use from amateurs to boot. Not everyone is the same in that capacity. An who knows Heatwave maybe very quick in other areas. We shall see.
Agreed. Retard isn’t a nice word. I was just quoting Robert Downey Junior from Tropic Thunder.
Thing about Brook, though, is that yeah, she seems a little slow because she didn’t get the prank, but that is just in comparison to the other members of the team, who actually knew the prank was going on. In other words, they had a cheat. Everyone else, meaning pretty much anyone who was watching the news, automatically made the easy connection that Maxima was responsible for the kissy marks. How many of these people, the people who didn’t know this was a prank, noticed that Maxima did not wear lipstick, and something was up?
Brook may be slow compared to people who had the answer to the riddle, but compared to people who didn’t even know there was a riddle in the first place, she made a pretty good observation.
The thing I don’t get is that fact that Maxima wasn’t the one to kiss the guy in the first place, it was Harem…..unless I’m really missing something here when I read…..
The point is that since no one outside the ambulance who isn’t part of the team knows that Harem was ever inside the ambulance, most observers will conclude that Maxima did it. That’s why she was so pissed. So the question is, did Brook even realize that Harem had teleported into the ambulance?
I didn’t notice Heatwave popping the popcorn the first time I read through, that’s a neat touch. Great work on the faces in this one!
Just thinking about the clash between “Not wanting to look like goofballs” and recruiting Sydney.
On the other hand, she’ll make the rest of them look normal by comparison…
All in all I would say Sydney is having a VERY intresting day so far.
If nothing else, they can gain support by claiming that they are keeping her from mingling with the general public.
That meme face in the last panel is hilarious lol
There comes a point in a persons life when it is far easier to just fess up and take the punishment to bad it is so hard to do when that time comes.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake an analysis of the obvious.
–Alfred North Whitehead
If Heat Wave can use her mind to speed up molecules and create heat ,does this also mean that she could also use her mind to make otherwise inert matter detonate? Could she match the resonant frequency of a material and force it to lose cohesion, disintegrate? Most importantly of all, will kids try to mock her and imply that she is old by calling her Hot Flash?
You mean like Gambet?
well I actually thought Gambit’s power worked that way until I did a bit of research and discovered it was Kinetic in nature…although now that I think of it, Brooke COULD be generating heat by changing a small portion of the potential energy inherent in any matter into kinetic energy and using THAT to generate heat….
[spock] fascinating [/spock]
So like Cabels gun ?
Spit Take Cola!
It’s the only cola worth not drinking!
Hey, Dave, discovered your comic just this weekend, read thru the whole lot in an evening n laughed a lot. Thanks for the giggles, they made for great ‘flu busters. But wha’ hap’n’? The most recent page (week of 6 Feb) looks like it was drawn by someone else. The face shapes n perspectives are all wanky. Were you horribly rushed for this one? That said, Brook has potential to be a real hoot, n the details w the popcorn n soda can are fun. Keep up the good work.
Well, I was a little rushed on this one but I was actually kind of pleased with some of the faces. I just skimped on the backgrounds a bit, which admittedly I nearly always do so hopefully no one notices. Well, I say pleased… I guess I mean I’m pleased with a few of the faces. I don’t like that no matter how careful I am, the faces change shape from panel to panel, but that’s what the chokers are for, hah hah. I like how Heatwave looks in the last panel, her expression is appropriate and she looks about the right age, which is super hard for me.
Honestly, unless there is something you are specifically highlighting in the background, (like the TV in the breakroom when Sydney was on) keeping the focus and majority of the detail on the characters is the best way to go.
Sure it’s great when we catch little jokes around the edges, but this is about the characters, and that is what we have enjoyed the most so far.
So trace things like the Osprey, or have your building set up in some sort of computer layout program, and spend your quality time making the cast shine as you have so far. As they say in so many writing groups, “It’s all about character.” Even when you are in a visual medium, it still holds true.
And keep being awesome!
I have to say if you want to do a late night talk-show Craig Ferguson is the one that offers the best chance for unpredictable fun. Imagine Sydney and Geoff getting into an argument. :D
Those were my exact thoughts. Conan hasn’t been funny since the short time they did a couple in the year 2000 bits after the year 2000. I consistently laugh out loud at Craig.
Actually, Harem could do all the major shows at the same time, though I think some of them are filmed on the west coast and some on the east.
That could be an interesting stunt. Sort of the ultimate in late night TV crossovers.
However, it is probable that ARC-SWAT would NOT want to advertise the full capabilities of their membership.
The public knowing that Harem can T-Port and/or duplicate herself is one thing. How far she can T-Port and how many duplicates she can make of herself is data that could help an opppnent. Likewise for the others – knowing what Max’s reaction speed is or how much Anvil could bench-press could be useful tactical knowledge for any Bad Guys..
So obvious question: IS there a superhero named “Laser Brain”?
Also I’m going to guess the bonking routine between Anvil and Harem is a common thing.
If there is never look him in the eyes. 8I
….. i have come to a conclusion, we need a Derp moment for all the main/ major reoccurring characters.