Grrl Power #803 – Juggerbangs
Okay, a few things that need to be discussed:
1) Yes, Sydney is a dummy for not immediately putting up her shield. We do know that she’s probably had a painkiller and a chocolate cake shot. At least. There’s not a ton of alcohol between the two of those, but knowing the group she came with, someone bought a bunch of shots for the table. Pixel in her tiny human form almost can’t get drunk before her stomach fills up unless she chugs something extra high octane like Hapsburg Gold Label Premium Reserve Absinthe, Bruichladdich X4 Quadrupled Whiskey, or The Deep King’s Reserve Dwarven Whiskey.
That last one isn’t real. Well, in the Grrl-verse it probably is.
My point is, Sydney doesn’t have crazy lycanthrope metabolism, and she weighs like 102 lbs. Well, after the grakz incident, she’s down to about 97. So she might be a little buzzed.
And you know what they say. Don’t mix alcohol and vigilante stop juice.
2) Oh no! Sydney is paralyzed and helpless except obviously she’s not because she can control the obs with her mind so I wonder what happens on the next page.
3) Now I’m sad because I was kind of getting used to Sydney with the pink twintails and sawtooth bangs. It’s certainly easier to draw than her usual floppy rabbit ear bangs that I’m positive can’t exist in 3D space. Like, if I, or more likely, someone else, tried to model her in 3D, it would be challenging if not actually impossible. It would have to move around like Lion-O’s hair hook.
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So is that some sort of auto-injector, or is it a hand held taser? The “Fsss” sound effect makes me think injector.
Sidney, hit by taser, would involve a lot more screaming and swearing.
Although with her tiny body mass I’d have serious concerns about what kind of dose she just got. Someone going vigilante after werewolves and demons is likely to keep a really high dose dialed in to that thing. Not to mention it’s going to be black market homebrew sedative cut with God knows what. And do you want to bet that’s a clean needle on the auroinjector?
Also anything that works that fast from an injection to the shin would kill pretty quickly. Well, anything that exists in the real world, if it’s magic or something then it could work like that.
I was gonna say, even the best tranqs in the real world take several minutes to take effect. Something of that potency would likely kill a real person, especially on someone with Syd’s size and metabolism. Clearly this is some kind of superheroverse, fast-acting, no kill tranq. XD
Nonsense, everyone knows about the quick-acting toxin from the skin of the Amazonian lizard “los lagartos de la muerte”. Especially if you give them a little something extra.
True, but tell that to any movie or TV show where someone gets dosed… With about a 99%+ confidence level they are going down in mere seconds, if not simply immediately. It’s the rule of “fast or the audience will get bored,” I guess. Saves that ~15 seconds of delay as the drugs take effect.
But some injections can be pretty damn fast acting. When I had my wisdom teeth removed I was on some nitrous oxide for a couple minutes, followed by an injection. The dentist then said “I’m going to count down from 10 and when I hit 0 you should be asleep.” That that was the last thing I remember hearing, I didn’t even hear (or at least didn’t remember) him say “Ten, …”
That’s because it messes with long term memory formation: You heard him counting some of the numbers, but couldn’t store the memory.
And that generally involves injecting straight into an IV port.
Thought it would have been the short term mem… what were we talking about? Memphis? That the one in the desert or the Land of Grace? o_O
The best tranqs in the real world don’t apply here. We have not only confirmed magic but actual alien tech sitting on the planet.
^ this. Even if Aranea is un-ironically hunting demons in spite of being a non-standard humanoid herself, we don’t have any background on her that would preclude alien tech or magic serum.
“..I was on some nitrous oxide for a couple minutes..”
Your anecdote kind of supports my comment. XD
Funny, nitrous has never put me out – made ma hallucinate once as a kid, but still didn’t totally knock me out. Granted, I was about as lucid as a bowling ball in the London fog, but still conscious.
It was the injection that put me out immediately. The nitrous was not even close to the level of taking a whippet hit. It was effecting me, but would never have put me under.
I really dunno what the nitrous was supposed to be doing. I was 18 and didn’t need any kind of anesthetic to get a shot, not that doctors had ever worried much about that anyway. The only times I’ve gotten a local before a shot was at the dentist for a root canal. And given how rapidly the effects of nitrous leave the system, and that fact that they would have had to remove the mask in order to get at my wisdom teeth, the nitrous wasn’t being administered throughout.
Nitrous isn’t supposed to put you under, butt a genius like you knew that
Yes, you king of the “Me, too!” post, and you knew that a genius like me knew that because I said exactly that in the post that you felt compelled to reply to with yet another inane and worthless remark.
It’s like … it’s like you read something, and then immediately consciously forget what you’ve justread. But you still retain a vague sense of the meaning. And then that vague feeling compels you to hit the reply button and basically repeat whatever was just said. Adding nothing new, contributing nothing, bringing nothing of value to the table.
Or in some cases you just issue forth some of your own unique keyboard vomit.
You really are the least valuable person I have ever had the misfortune to interact with.
calf isn’t much better, but it might be to her calf muscle, not the shin (?)
I’m not certain it’s actually possible for something injected in a random spot on the shin – this assailant CLEARLY did not have time to find an artery – to work that quickly period. For the drug to take effect it has to get to the brain. That takes time. It would take at least 10s of seconds for a drug inject basically into muscle tissue to make its way to the brain.
Then again, I don’t exactly expect realism from my superhero comics, so, you know.=
Probably the same one Harem was using on the ‘bad guys’ during the Bar Brawl lead-up to Vehemence.
I think the first one was here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-224-mach-a-bye-baby/
Air injection doesn’t use needles
Nurse! Hypospray! Stat!
What are we giving the patient, Doctor?
What patient? These drugs are for me.
Transdermal injection. Its a real thing. They are usual fired by compressed nitrogen or CO² (my keybord doesn’t have sub scripts). The gas pushes a plunger that pushes the drugs through the skin ast slightly sub hyper sonic speeds.
And, unless they’ve gotten better since my time wearing the mouldy pickle outfit, they hurt like blazes. Much moreso than a simple needle. Fuck up and flinch and you’ve got a nice lil scar. (- Been a minute since I’ve been active duty. Does the Army still use them? )
Yeah.
Decades ago when I was in the military I was at a medical facility on the west coast getting immunizations for a tour in the Pacific and in Asia.
There was a full waiting room full of Marines and a line of fifteen or so shirtless troops standing along the bulkhead of one of the passageway with two corpsman at the end giving each guy a shot in the nearest shoulder. As I got almost up to the corpsmen they swapped the pneumatic syringes out and the next guy got a shot of one of the vaccines which went all the way through and squirted out the back of his shoulder. The Squid adjusted the pressure and my shot went fine.
As I headed back to pick up my blouse there were three great big men on the floor who had passed out when the shot went through the guys arm.
And I thought the anthrax shot was painful, that must have hurt like hell! Thankfully Marines are a little tougher than your average (non G.I.) Joe.
move grrl power to 1’st ,VOTE
It’ll never beat Delve, that has nudes as the vote incentive.
GrrlpPower regularly takes #1 – it has a slight tendency to lag in the first couple of days of the month when other pages update their nudes, though
so you’re saying that Maxima should have done those boudoir shots after all? joke aside it shows the quality of grrl power that they beat the others who must motivate votes with nudes just to get first place for a couple days
We all know that Dabbler would gladly do the boudoir shots. Fully in-character also. <- Captain Obvious material…
At least it’s now beating “Two Kinds” :P
Hey, you finally specified what exactly it is that we’re voting for Halo about!
I TOLD her to put up the shield?
Hasn’t she learned that by now?
Sydney, I am disapoint.
To be fair, she was keeping an eye on the perp’s hands. She’s just still not used to people having more than two.
Or, after spending time with Dabbles, more than four
To be even more fair, this perp would make a far more effective Halo than Halo. One hand per orb and one free hand to pull stuff out of her utility belt, open a door, hail a cab (ok, bad example with a flight orb, but whatever), or scratch an itch. Sydney has got to be all kinds of jealous about now. Or will be when she gets around to thinking about it.
Except that the orbs chose Halo for some reason, and that reason was probably that something about her specifically lets her activate them.
Six hands in which the orbs do not work is not as good as two hands in which the orbs do work.
My best educated guess is that it has something to do with Sydney’s thought patterns.
Except that the obs didn’t choose Sydney for some reason. She found them by pure happenstance whilst scuba diving. So that reason wasn’t that something about her specifically lets her activate them.
Think about this logically: Sydney can use the orbs. But someone obviously used them before her. There are “aetherian causeway” trip logs, after all, and prior level-ups have been applied. So what exactly makes Sydney in any way special as far as using what is essentially a high tech set of socket wrenches is concerned? Nothing is what.
And we have some hint dropping that Varia can possibly also use the orbs if she is in contact with Sydney, so even more dilution of any sort of “Sydney is special, Sydney was chosen! theories…
Now, Sydney does seem to have activated the orbs “Current owner/operator is this gal” protocol. Which is why Maxima can’t move the orbs in tubey away from Sydney. But they really haven’t done any experimentation with transferring the orbs to a different person. And I can see why Sydney wouldn’t want to cooperate with that kind of experimentation, but I can also see why a government agency might want an existing super to have the orbs instead of a 20s-ish ‘kid’ who runs a failing comic book shop. Or even just some soldier.
Umm, Vahriah can only possibly, maybe, use Sydney’s balls if she remains in contact with Sydney which, again, kinda implies that Sydney is still an important part of the equation
They may not have chosen Sydney specifically, butt they did accept her or they would have remained dormant (doubt Sydney was the first one to have come across them, wherever the actually were when she ‘found’ them)
And part of Pedantic Dragon‘s ‘for some reason’ covers ‘in the right place at the right time’ or ‘luck’ rather than a deliberate ‘future Galaxy-saving moment’ choice on the behalf of the orbs
Can you explain to me exactly which parts of “hints dropped” and “in contact with Sydney” were so opaque to your tiny little mind that you felt the overwhelming urge to essentially just rephrase exactly what I said in the post you replied to?
Do you really still wonder why I’m always calling you an idiot, or have you actually managed to figure it out but have decided that being stupid is better than being silent?
Somebody in Archon should be preparing a defense against neglecting Syd’s debrief and post-trauma care.
I have already mentioned the similarity of battle-fatigue and concussion: both allow one to fall readily into “Capable Mode”, where the mind believes it can handle complex situations without assistance. And, natch, a person sprawled on the floor is harmless by definition.
Basically, Syd should not have been tasked for this rescue, and should never have been left alone to wander without supervision. I would not want to be in Corporal Pixel’s shoes right now.
Yeah, no kidding. Send a boot recruit out alone on a recon mission? Heads would roll in the real military.
Yeah, and how many boot recruits have what Sydney has? The swearing capability of a fifty-year marine drill sergeant! :P
Fifty? That’s rookie numbers. Sydney has full ability to make sailors blush as bystanders. Not even targeted strike and that happened. She has two to four career veterans worth of swear words holstered in that mouth ready to be fired off at the slightest provocation.
That’s kinda what meant by ‘fifty-year’, not the age butt the duration of service (and was judging by this friendly chap)
Crap, knew had forgotten how to do the ‘a href’ tag :(
Here is the intended tag-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NP8y63Ms4o
Well, no spider eyes look. Poor Sydney. Her indomitableness has been domintabled, proving you shouldn’t hero while buzzed. At least we did get ab answer in how her wig was being held on!
Dang it, Sydney started monologuing.
It’s bad enough when villains monologuing until the hero takes them down, but why would any hero think that monologuing in front of a villain would have different results?
Think? Monologuing happens when you DON’T think. Also, I think it’s contagious.
that’d be a fun superpower, don’t you think? in trouble? trapped? your attacker must now monologue until you slip free
CORRECTION – No spider eyes on the VISABLE side of her face……….
The other side could have many many eyes…..which just makes it worse!
Or eyes in the back of her head.. SHUDDER
Well….This counterdicts my HoloClone theory for the previous page.
See # 89.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-89-badgers-apparently-terrifying/
3rd attempt.
Kinda off topic, anyone else look at that page and realize how much better Dave’s art is these days?
Well, thankfully Aranea seems to have gone with neurotoxic rather than cytotoxic venom, or Sydney would be hopping around while her lower leg dissolves rather than lying on the ground paralyzed.
Also not a hemotoxin. But those are more a snake thing than a spider…
Good thing Spinny didn’t try that on Clover.
Well, she did report before getting knocked down. So people will know something’s up if she doesn’t respond to follow up questions.
Also I wonder if she can actually USE the orbs, simply by pressing them against her hand (through telepathic control) and just willing the activity. Or if it requires specific muscle control to actually hold them.
Sydney has already shown that she can direct the flight of the balls mentally in order to beat up an opponent.
and then, assuming mere contact is sufficient for using the tele/sight orb, she can see where to land the blows using that one, while actually hitting with one or more of the others
I think RobK was wondering if she can do more than that. Like, if she telekinetically moves the Shield Orb to her hand and presses it against her palm, could she activate the shield even though she can’t move her fingers?
Perhaps the “Unknown” has antidote capabilities?
Someone actually has rendered those bangs.
Quistis Trepe from Final Fantasy 8
Hooray for flight orb and lighthook. And hopefully a heated glare for the interruption.
What?
Not wibbely wobbley?
Certainly not timey-wimey
no
because then you would have to deal with timie wimey… so unless time travel turns out to be the final orbs power, (unlikely) in which case she will have to deal with a crap tun of different doctors.
Assume she carn’t use the orb powers without being able to grip.
So if she used say, four of the orbs to push against the ground she could get off the floor, then have two paired in front, two behind. Push off the two rear orbs, flop/pivot forwards using the front two orbs, then whip two more orbs down in front to catch herself. Assuming the orbs have at least some friction against the ground she should be able to “walk” herself without either flying or or using her body.
That would be way better than just grabbing the fly orb.
Also, good time to test If green orb is the medkit.
Green is the oxygen generator. Brown (powers as yet unknown) could be medkit/antitoxin/etc.
Except that Sydney has stated that she specifically tried various things to see if one of the orbs had healing ability and got not a damned anything. So while it’s still possible one of the orbs heals the experience point hasn’t been earned and put in the right slot yet.
Needs to find big stuff and earn upgrades.
Actually she didn’t say she tried for healing, Maxima suggested it might be a healing orb and asked if she could heal a papercut at witch point Sydney did a preemptive mental dodge roll.
Seemed more like a memory-shudder, and someone who shudders at the mere mention of a papercut would most certainly have tried her unknown balls to see if they could fix the boo-boo (that’s why he always hung out with Yogi: poor bear was neutered :( )
“Oxygen Generator” Is a pretty shitty use for an entire Orb when one of the others is a complete astro-cartography and FTL travel suite. The so-called “Oxygen Generator” is very likely a full life-support and medical suite.
Well, life support, anyway. Reminds me of some of those Star Trek fanfics that explained the lack of bathrooms as an application of transporter technology; Would she even notice that as long as she was using the air orb she didn’t need to piss or take a dump, or get hungry?
Well, she hasn’t bought any extra nodes.
Ya wanna find new powers? Grind for experience.
Hate Grinding? No new powers for you.
Green can “create” matter. I wouldn’t be surprised it’s a STTNG Replicator in function. As far as the Brown orb goes… my bet is it has something to do with MAGIC.
Well, she can control the orbs with her mind unless they check your blood alcohol… Hey, can the mystery orb sober you up? That would be amusing.
At least she alerted the rest of them before giving the bad guy a hostage.
Or perhaps it’s the other way around, the mystery orb get you drunk. Alien drugs. That could also be amusing.
Yup, arachno-girls reprieve will be shortlived.
If it can sober her up it should also be able to neutralize the toxin which paralyzed her.
The description says “Oh no she’s paralyzed, but oh wait she can still control the orbs, so lets see whats on the next page.” But Sydney has likened using the orbs to the same process as using her limbs. Which I assume means the orbs are tapped into her central nervous system. If she’s paralyzed, I figure it’s entirely possible that could potentially numb her orb connection as well. So I am geniunly interested to see if that is indeed the case on the next page. Though I still assume not, because as far as “space magic” goes, those things have been stated to essentially be epic / legendary / mythic level items. So they probably won’t care about such things as physiology lol.
Umm, no, just because she is paralysed, the connections are still there, they are just currently taken a well-deserved rest
She can put the Keys in the Ignition but she can’t twist it ?
Muscle relaxants, (Which I’d assume this is, because she’s still conscious.) block muscle activation at the neuromuscular interface; The nerves are fine, they just can’t talk to the muscles.
Mind, given how quickly and completely this paralyzed her, I’d be concerned about her breathing, because that’s suppressed, too, by these drugs. A non-fatal dose shouldn’t have kicked in nearly that fast, she would have spent some time just getting sluggish.
She’s likely going to need mouth to mouth for a while, unless one of the orbs does counteract this.
there has already been speculation that the last unknown orb is a healing one. In both his chat set and the comic line with halo on the roof pool.
I think her line was “remind me to try it next time I have a cold” then someone suggests giving her a paper cut. to test it, and she freaks out.
I still feel like it makes more sense for the life-support orb to have medical built in… given how very closely related those two are.
agreed…
Hmmmm … I wonder if the life-support orb can keep her alive without breathing … it would only require replacing carbon dioxide with oxygen directly in her lungs. Or directly in her BLOOD.
I wouldn’t be concerned about the “I can’t move” part interfering with her ability to use the orbs, but I would worry about the “I feel all wibbly” part. That is, if her mental state is fuzzy enough, it might interfere with the orbs’ connection to her in such a way that they don’t ‘get’ what she needs/wants them to do.
For instance, when she was clear-headed and aware she’d had her scuba gear knocked loose underwater, the life support orb leapt into her hand and arranged itself in such a way as to cause her to activate the atmosphere generation effect, even though she had no conscious awareness it could do that. Conversely, when she was fuzzy-headed from CO2 build-up inside her shield, and distracted by analyzing what was going on in the fight with Vehemence, it did not. She was arguably in greater danger from the carbon dioxide intoxication than from being caught underwater for the second or so it would take Maxima to reach her and break her loose, but much less aware of the danger.
So my hypothesis would be that the orbs have a subconscious/empathic connection (perhaps becoming deeper and more complex/sensitive with each wedge she puts into the central section of the skill tree, as shown when she had a greater sense of how the fly ball worked after adding a second slice to said pie). If she thinks she’s in danger, they react accordingly, and conversely if she doesn’t, they don’t.
Can anyone clue me in to the identity of that pink (peach?) thing connecting her head to her wig in the last panel?
It’s probably the wig’s base mesh. The head-shaped material that the hair is attached to.
It’s a motion line of the wig ‘plop’-ing off Sydney’s head.
ti’s a comic action line… Dave is using lines to show movement, instead of silhouette shapes, that one stands out from her natural hair and is the same color as the wig, it just shows that the wig fell off.
Number 2 immediately came to mind. I cant wait to see her try to use the orbs while paralyzed, or whatever.
My first thought as well, along with “Oh no, somebody should help [Syd], it looks like she’s almost totally paralyzed and lying face down on the stone floor which probably hurts.”
Should be interesting seeing how our heroine escapes from this – tune in next time!
What will Pixel say when she learns of this and maybe cuss her out?
And Sydney got herself Hypo-sprayed.
Dangit girl, that usually only happens to villains on Star Trek!
Jet injectors have existed for some time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector
You know who else has a hair hook? Ariel.
If you mean Ill’haress Ariel Val’Sarghress, she doesn’t have just hair hook, she has complete shapeshifting. Hair is just easiest for her to shift.
Thank you, was wondering which Ariel they were referring to (been reading that webic for a number of years now, started with the ‘future’ SpaceTales, butt switched to the main series around… chapter three? whenever it was they added the Prologue chapter)
Anyone willing to bet Aranea attempts to grab the orbs next page and learns how bad an idea that is, possibly involving a free flight lesson?
What orbs? None of them are visible, and she would have no reason to grab the bag
No one else can use the orbs by default, BUT as Maxima learned, they are impossible to move outside of a certain range of Sydney. If she doesn’t (or can’t) move, the orbs won’t budge.
I predict Aranea will grab at leadt one orb, hold it low in her 3rd pair of hands, attempt to flee…only to get a solid gut-punch.
Also Sydney can’t move that distance away from the orbs in https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-27-the-calorie-denial-force-field/ and https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-31-urge-to-kill-rising/ and when Maxima also found out after Syndey had dropped the tube, ran off to take a call, and Maxima pinned the tube to the floor with her foot https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-48-the-my-little-pony-ringtone-escape-gambit/
So even if she hadn’t grabbed the bag, the bag would have followed her anyway.
If the orbs had any say in the matter, they would probably notice Aranea’s six hands and say “The chosen one has arrived! Finally we have found someone capable of utilizing our true potential!”
Again, there are none of Sydney’s balls on display, so unless Aranea knows who Sydney is, she would have no reason to look inside her bag to look for her balls
Instead, she would probably take that opportunity, while Sydney is down (and announced, kinda, that was a LEO) to relocate to Dodge just so she can get the fuck out of Dodge
Re: Sydney’s balls being displayed, and checking her bag to determine where her balls are: (doing Sterling Archer impression) “Are we still doing ‘phrasing’?”
Always :D
Okay, Sydney may have let the others know what is ‘up’, butt… did she let them know where she is? Hopefully someone put a GPS tracker on her
She’s right above them on the next highest roof level, see the last page.
They have parabolic hearing.
Also, they can track her com, which is active and, even if it fell off, within inches of her.
… and Pixel probably heard her go THUMP
And now we discover that the last mystery orb is indeed medbay abilities and flushes her system of all debilitating chemicals (if she wants to)
The Deep Kings Reserve Dwarven Whiskey isn’t real?
Sure, crush the hope you spawned with one line with the next.
It’s actually just a rebranding of Glendalough Mountai Strength Poitín (120 proof) (;
It’s actualy just a rebranding of Glendalough Mountain Strength Poitín (120 proof).
I’m surprised Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster was not mentioned.
just a regular drink; The Assassin. Everclear and Gatorade. pretty much akin to an I.V. of alcohol
Ah, and I was thinking Sydney would go in the building to find Tamatha.
Sydney: Hey, Tammy! You in here?
Tamatha: Yeah, I’m tied up over here.
Sydney: Oh, I see ya. What are you doing hanging around in a place like this?
Tamatha: Ha, ha. Well, it wasn’t exactly my choice. I’ve tried cutting my way out of here, but this webbing is too tough. You got anything in your bag of tricks to cut me down?
Sydney: Hmm, Let’s see. Light-hook? Too blunt. PPO? Too explody.
Tamatha: Yeah, no explody!
Sydney: Light-bee? No help. Flight? Also no help. Shield? Not seeing it. Greenie? No real chance of running out of air here, so nope!
Tamatha: Will you quit talking to yourself and get me down?!
Sydney: Well, you just hang tight and I will go get some people who can help.
Tamatha: Very funny. You are hilarious. Get me out of here!
Sydney: [ On Radio, leaving building ] Hey, laser-claws. Could you come to my position to cut Tammy free from some spider webs?
Pixel: [ On Radio ] Are you having a problem with a few spider webs? Man, they readlly have to toughen you up.
Sydney: It was a really big spider, with the strands being inches wide and feet long, not inches long and micrometres wide.
Pixel: [ On Radio ] Are you having a problem with a few spider webs? Man, they readlly have to toughen you up.
Sydney: It was a really big spider, with the strands being inches wide and feet long, not inches long and micrometres wide.
Pixel: Oh, Australian size! (Bad auzzie acent) No problem cobber! I’ll be right up once I finish this game of Knifey-Spoonie!
I love how you comment on the comic as if you’re another fan, reading it along with us.
How many windows are going to be broken my a Mach 4+ Max when Pixel or Specs calls in for evac for a downed Syn..
“Now I’m sad because I was kind of getting used to Sydney with the pink twintails and sawtooth bangs. It’s certainly easier to draw than her usual floppy rabbit ear bangs that I’m positive can’t exist in 3D space.”
You know, superheroes /are/ allowed to change hairstyles… nothing keeping you from giving her a new look. Worst case, you have to go back and update issues 3 and 4.
Also, wow. Your style has really evolved since you started series!
When was the last time they changed the look of The Simpsons? That’s right, never
Don’t you know? Cartoon (and comic) characters are never allowed to change their physical appearance, it’s, like, The Law or some shit (because most readers would get confused if a character so much as changed the colour of their shorts)
Don’t have a cow, man!
cartoons yes,
comics no, that was a bad example.
Especially for any characters introduced during the Gold, Silver, and Bronze ages of comics. On one hand its an art style thing, a lot of characters introduced then had a body type that required when out of costume the comic to put name tags on who was who due to looking so much alike. But some builds, muscles, head shapes, hair styles, a lot of this changes depending on author, the costume is usually our way of telling who is who…unless its a green alien or something with distinct markings; but even then they mix up the costumes, subtlety and drastically.
That said female characters are subject to the most dramatic changes depending on the era and artists. Scarlet Witch has gone from a realistic body type to a Jessica Rabbit back to various degrees, although her hair is the most shifted of most characters in comics from straight to wavy to curly to shades of brown or red.
Some like Squirrel Girl and Wonder Woman have had massive body type shifts to reflect the era, Wonder Woman has had thin, athletic to muscle builder builds; more recent art I’ve seen has made her stockier in some comics; Squirrel Girl has gone from typical thin build to a heavier “fluffy” build in her own series. And so forth.
Granted if your characters don’t wear costumes probably best not to make major design changes out of the blue, subtle art changes over time sure, heck remember the comments and confusion when Jiggawot suddenly had canary blond hair instead of platinum blond?
I’m sorry, never? http://nonstop80s.blogspot.com/2011/08/debut-of-simpsons-1987.html
The Simpsons looked a little different when they first appeared on the Tracy Ullman Show. But we’re talking comics, not cartoons. Let’s talk Superman. Even ignoring Red and Blue, even his hairstyle has gone through changes, including a mullet. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1620/8083/products/8d4147772cd8fc478a6599726142d069522036c7_1024x1024.jpg?v=1525814804
Wonder Woman’s hair has been short and long. It’s been straight, wavy, and super curly.
Storm has had long flowing hair, she’s also cut it short, and it’s even been styled as a mohawk.
Dazzler has had short hair, medium length, and even waist length hair
Shadowcat has had curly hair, and straight hair in a ponytail.
Bishop, Invisible Woman, Scarlet Witch, Jean Grey, Angel, Iceman, etc. All of them have sported different looks over the years.
Wolverine and Xavier have probably been the only constants.
And from the time of his creation until sometime in the nineties Luke Cage was Jim Kelly. Now he’s some generic looking guy.
Come to think of it, Black Lightning was Jim Kelly too.
Man, he comes right out of a comic book.
And he lived a life worthy of the honor.
Wolverine would likely “heal” from any change and Charles Xavier is quite limited regarding hairstyle :-)
So you never saw the first two seasons of The Simpsons? The ones on the Tracey Ullman show? Big art shift since then.
speaking of, he hasn’t done the Simpsons, (yet), there is a youtube series called “Evolution of” who does the art style and character design evolutions of cartoon series. He did only Disney originally but has moved onto various looney tunes, Tom & Jerry, Popeye, and others. It is fascinating to see just how much various cartoon have changed over the years.
Yes, use to watch “The Tracey Ullman Show”, even before ‘The Simpsons’, and was referring to their clothes, not the art style. Show me a dozen artists who haven’t improved over the duration of their work (for those who have lasted a decade or longer, even “The Order of the Stick” has evolved and improved visually)
It was also clearly sarchasm
Was happy to discover that term already exists on urban dictionary, hadn’t run into it before but it’s perfect.
Read about it a couple years ago (or maybe earlier), can’t remember where (or when) exactly, butt it wasn’t on Urban Dicktionary
Sydney needs to ask Daphne where she got those hair pins: they have lasted longer than anything she has ever tried in the past :P
They have the requisite sense of dramatic timing even!
Although I am reminded, why hasn’t she ever used the magic headband that Decollette gave her? Dabbs pronounced it “probably ok”…
Because she has the attention span of a lemure drinking coffee.
She did use the headband, for awhile, maybe she simply didn’t like how it feels
Hair-Color Defender Tyrian?
At the very least, I’m picturing Sydney’s Orbs forming a very small 7-sided ring, with “Spider-Ninja’s” neck in the center. It won’t be small-enough to strangle, but it’s definitely too small for her to wriggle free. Then just a small lift, & our “perp” is suspended mere inches above the floor, where she’ll be found by Syd’s friends…
…who’ll then have some…
…”opinions”…
…concerning how she’s treated their dear friend, Halo.
“Bobby pins, eject!” Not exactly “Avengers Assemble!”, but it will have to do. Arachne probably used a nerve toxin to paralyze Syd. Problem there is a strong enough dose would paralyze your heart and lungs and it’s goodbye Syd. Orbs to the rescue!
Gas injectors are commonly used to counter nerve gas attacks, anaphylactic shock, snake and insect venom and heart attacks. They’re more reliable than spring loaded ones.
The right muscle relaxant only paralyzes voluntary muscles, and leaves the heart pretty much alone. That still leaves you unable to breath under your own power if given enough of a dose to totally paralyze you, though.
I should note that her mouth is almost certainly not the only leaking orifice in this scenario… She’s going to be seriously pissed when she recovers.
She is moving her eyes, her breathing is fine
Yeah, about the only circumstance under which you can move your eyes, but are otherwise paralyzed, is a high spinal block or injury. And we don’t know her breathing is fine, the scene doesn’t last long enough to establish that.
But, of course, my statement was based on real world drugs, not comic book drugs.
I would submit that three long island teas will produce that effect although speech was also functional) in someone who never drank before.
And that the MP’s who stopped the troops carrying m him back to the barracks quite amusing.
Forseeing, either Aranea spots the bag, thinks the orbs are magic items anyone can use who picks them up…gets tossed around for the trouble.
or Sydney summons them forth like a little swarm of Thor’s hammers to pummel Aranea.
While gas injectors are certainly a thing, does nobody else see the needle on the bottom of that injector right there on panel 3? Also, having taken the same pavement hit to the face that Sydney just did (effin’ “ouch” indeed…) I imagine she’ll end up with a bruise to equal the one she got from Nega-knuckles.
Not immediately in this lo-res non-Patreon view. But following your lead with a zoom-in, yes.
I’m glad Aranea missed Syd’s shinbone ‘cos that would still be ouching next year, especially if the needle breaks in the bone… But this leaves an intramuscular shot which arguably won’t take full effect for at least 40 minutes, maybe 2 hours. And Aranea would be copping the full blast of Syd’s potty-mouth :)
I can confirm that; Took a throwing knife in the shin bone once, (Ah, college days!) and while the skin healed over in a couple of days, the bone ached for months.
Actually, I never thought about how lucky I was that thing hit bone, it probably would have gone to the hilt otherwise. Gerber makes some SHARP combat knives!
Blatant sexism, good job Sydney, you’re a credit to the force.
I can’t drive fifty five.
Trying to figure out where the sexism is…
Right after the five-ism, but before the sevenism?
:D
Actually, figured out they were referring to panel two just after posting (and the post wasn’t showing up so couldn’t add this corrective post to it)
Will Sydney be paralyzed for the rest of her life or will she recover!?
I think we can safely assume she’s going to recover with a minimum of side effects, in as much as she’s the main character of the comic. It would be kind of dark and unexpected if the comic was suddenly revolving around Krona because Sydney was in a vegetative coma.
Which realistically would be a plausible outcome of anything I can think of that would take you down that fast from a random injection site.
plus, this is all STILL a flash back.
Easy to forget but so far this has been a “flash back comic” where the first few book end the rest of it. Still a debate if the whole comic will stay that way and be an official “flash back comic” or eventually catch up with “and here we are now”.
Her normal bangs kinda reminds me of aeriths bangs from ff7
Gonna throw in my guess here. Aranea (I hope I got that right) will recognize Sydney now that the hair is coming out to play; go nuts that she just attacked and downed a super; and then fawn all about how she’s a super-fan of The Mighty Halo. This will give the rest of the team time to show up and ask Sydney if she has made a new friend or if they need to take her out.
Good thing she reported her find though I don’t recall her actually telling them where her location was.
Pointed that out as well, and was promptly shot down
you know i betcha that either the orb that alters chemicals (makes water into air atm) will heal sydney of the blood infection, or we will get so see the final orb as a re-generator / cleaner
Either we’re about to see some Orb-Fu again, or perhaps Sydney doesn’t actually need to use her fingers to control the orbs? As long as she can maintain palm-contact? I just want to see Sydney puppeteering her own flaccid body like something out of a goddam Asian horror film.
Speaking of Orb-Fu, she seriously needs o get together with Math and develop an actual combat style out of that. The potential of having telekinetic “fists” is already a ridiculously OP power in it’s own right, ignoring her entire suite of other powers.
Orb-Fu? Check out panel #1: Either DaveB forgot to include Sydney’s Orbs circling around her head or Sydney put them away before approaching a total unknown under suspicious circumstances.
She never took them out after placing them in there before entering the club
I think if she can move them into contact with her hand, that should be enough to activate them even if she can’t grip them. She could use orb-fu to bop Aranea and drive her away for some brief safety and activate her shield, or just start with the lighthook and capture her. Once her immediate safety is covered, she could try to the airb for medical help, or the lightbee to bring the rest of the squad over.
About the only thing she shouldn’t do right now is use the PPO, but she has enough options to cover her immediate priorities – personal safety, get the squad to her location, then see if she can heal herself. The others can handle Aranea and finding Tamatha from that point, and Syd (recovered or not) can chip in after any immediate treatment has taken place.
Okay, it’s been at least ten posts. *Ahem* Gosh, will Sydney now discover that the mystery orb is a fully functional sickbay? (Ignore the fact that post-grakz nothing appeared or said “Please state the nature of the medical emergency.”)
Sorry. It was my turn to post the redundant post over again redundantly.
Now tell us either that DaveB’s art is so much better than it used to be or that it sucks all the way to the uncanny valley and insist that Spider Carmen San Diego is one of the race that made the orbs because she has so many hands.
Yes, the art has much improved. I like that DaveB can get the “comicy” look while rendering such good body topography.
Importantly, his joints don’t look like a rubber hose bent at an angle.
Sorry, I’m not on the improved/disimproved art rotation. Someone else will have to comment on that – or we’ll count your posts.
No, I need to wait a bit then take up the “should have had her shields up” chorus, even though I’m part of the “she’s too freakin’ drunk to Army” choir. Chrona could have edited her contentahol – maybe she’s too drunk, too. Let’s blame Pixel.
Yeah we took you off the art commentary, but I think you’re up next on the “this is all a flashback” roster. Or was it “Sciona isn’t that” duty?
sadly though every time the Game of Thrones, Attack on Titan, we can’t enjoy something unless anyone can die at any moment dark edgelord crowd shows up someone has to remind them that either this is a super hero story, and despite what some comic books would have you believe is supposed to be a power fantasy escapism and the attempts by comics to subvert has made too many an “oh look at me I’m so dark and serious” joke of themselves; or subdue and crush their angst desire with the “this is all a flash back” no one we saw in the opening is going to die any time soon.
Which means… anyone who isn’t Olivia, Sydney, Maxi, Anvil, Wart or that other guy in the background could die at any moment? o_O
Going to miss Pixelicious (she already came close twice, in one encounter) :(