Grrl Power #807 – Accidental Frankensteiner
Yeah, the ‘ol crotch to the face gag. I’m personally surprised it took 800 pages to get to it honestly.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather take a lady’s crotch to the face than one of those chunky boot heels.
So, yeah. Trying to blind the person with independently targeting phantom eye thingies wasn’t the best strategy, but it’s not like Aranea had a lot of time to devise a strategy here, or even assess what the floaty things are above Specs’s head. They actually kind of look like how they draw spirits in manga, like little curly cloud tadpole thingies, so really, if you didn’t see her looking at stuff with them, you could be forgiven for thinking they’re something else. Plus, it’d be fair to guess that she uses them like lenses or screens, and has to use her eyes to see through them.
That’s obviously not the case though. She can position them anywhere around her head, independent of each other. Specs also has some other skills, but I don’t think this fight will last long enough for her to show them off.
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“Palatable” or “palpable”? Though both might work in this situation, come to think of it…
Or just papable, as in smear….
If she WERE wearing a skirt THEN it would be palatable… the other girl could taste it.
C’mon Elspeth, get it together! This is a combat situation & you gotta start getting your licks in!
Elsbeth. Elspeth is from Magic the Gathering
I think the real question here is ….
Who will get to mark off “quim” on their Maxima Bingo card?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-218-battle-break-or-the-most-dick-way-to-block-something/
Nobody, because it is not Maxima saying it.
Also nobody, because nobod has said it. It only counts if maxima actually says it.
I assume this would come up from when they report the events of this night. That’s when you could use this situation to get her to say it.
Waitaminute . . . Specs gets thrown into Elsbeth’s face crotch-first hard enough to be effectively cheek-to-cheek; Is it . . .
Deep Quimpact?
I believe it is palpable, as in “so intense as to seem almost tangible”.
Oh, that Math is missing this!
Also, notice that it’s the second time Pixel got owned? You’d think being a giant cat chick would get you more respect…
It’s the Worf Effect. In her un-transformed state she wouldn’t have the same weakness to narrativium.
Yeah, they always chew up the muscle bag first, just to establish they’re tough. Then old four eyes here breaks her face and kneecaps her, which then raises real questions about how strong Pix really is. Having muscle is a real disability.
The muscle bag is also often the most obviously dangerous opponent. If you’re fighting the cinematic version of the Avengers, for instance, you’d be tempted to try to take out Thor or the Hulk first, because either one of them looms large (no fat Thor joke intended) as a threat. You’d actually be smarter to take out Captain America first, since his strategic coordination makes all of the others more effective, or Scarlet Witch, since her powers are a huge wild card thrown into the mix.
When your opponent is fast enough to line up her punch so that your claw swipe drives the inside of your forearm down into her fist, muscle really is a liability. The Unfriendly Neighborhood Spider-Person punched Pixel in the least-protected part of her forearm from an angle that added the strength of Pixel’s claw swipe to the impact. UNSP might not have been strong enough to break Pixel’s radius or ulna, but it looks like Pixel is.
Also, a wide overhand claw-swipe isn’t exactly an efficient move, but it seemed like Pixel reacted on instinct. She also might not be used to fighting opponents fast enough to counter her that easily.
UNSP is fighting smart. After countering Pixel, she disengages and tries to neutralize the unknown quantities — she has no idea what Specs or Elsbeth can do, and if she’s smart, no desire to find out the hard way.
That’s why said last page that Pixelicious has too long relied on her large size and strength to intimidate and make short work of her opponents (and got waffle-stomped over it)
Then again, Tamatha, Decollette and Dabbler might be sitting off to the side eating popcorn with ‘passive tantric energy collection’ grins on their faces.
Tamatha and Decollette should be nearby and hearing this… they joining the fray soon?
Last seen, Tammy was still tied up
Shouldn’t she like being tied up?
Last seen, Tammy was fine despite being tied up. Remember, it was she who threw Aranea through a wall. I’m also wondering when she will get back into the fight.
Hopefully… never: she’s fourteen years old!!
So? Would you like to know how many fights I was in before I was 14? When you are attacked, age is no excuse not to bring your A game to the table.
Yeah? And how many fights did you get into with trained mercenaries?
In a world of Supers, untrained fourteen year old entering a fight results in injuries and fatalities
Well Sydney without her orbs is about equal to a 14 yr old in strength and training yet took down a mugger. And Tamatha is a magic using demon. Plus she wouldn’t be alone Pixel should be getting back into the frey soon. And Specs and Elsbeth aren’t down for good either. Get her where Sydney can see her and keep her busy and Sydney can mummy her with the lighthook.
Tammy is literally 14 years old, she barely understands how her powers work
You are aware, that what we saw was simply Maxi’s imagination, right? o_O
STOP TRYING TO DELIBERATELY PUT A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD INTO HARMS WAY!!!!
The best thing would be to get her as far away as possible, not bring her closer!!!!!
+1
And don’t forget that Syd brings an extra 6 – 9 years of experience to the battle-ground.
When someone attacks you, you don’t get the option of choosing to fight or not. That they are, or are not trained mercenaries is immaterial.
Granted, I’d RATHER, considering her lack of fight training, that she leave, but that isn’t always possible, no matter what age you are.
So, when attacked, fight like hell, no matter what.
Currently, Tammy is not in the fight, and you would rather have her, instead of taking the opportunity to Get The Fuck Out of Dodge, deliberately enter the fight? The same fight veteran combat specialists are getting there arses handed to them? o_O
No not Max’s imagination. An actual police report. They arrested Sydney for assualting the mugger. Later they learned he tried to mug her. Read the comic. She did imagine what the cop said.
What we saw was Maxi’s imagination (including the early 19th century Irish cop)
The actual details wasn’t mentioned (and they didn’t arrest Sydney, you can’t arrest a victim)
Two points “Guesticus”:
1. Yes, you are correct in that Tammy should remain as far removed from the conflict as possible. Good on you for being reasonable and responsible toward a child’s safety. Thumbs up!
2. Actually, the victim [i]can[/i] be arrested. Its called a mistake. Cops make them ‘sometimes’. And they said they cleared here after the matter.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-79-a-history-of-violence/
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Zephan: It looks like she spent a night in jail… she was charged with aggravated assault…
Max: Again, unsurprised.
Zephan: It was dismissed as self-defense. Apparently… Good Lord, someone tried to mug her? Talk about unprofessional. The police report says only “Oh the humanity!”
-end scene-
I’d think that was pretty clear cut that the police aren’t very capable in the Grrl Power verse.
Either way, you’re 1-1 for this post.
No tantric energy here. This is all vehemic energy. Good thing Kevin isn’t here.
Third time. Jumped by Sciona off-screen, trashed by the megahusk, and now this.
Wow. Is that a cameltoe?
No, it’s a seam. Most jeans have a seam right down the center.
if you go back a few pages, it is indeed camel toe… tight leather pants do this. Especially once stretched out and softened a bit.
She’s not the only one this was visible upon either. Arianna also showed toe when she was doing her spinning avoidance of the hentai-light whip.
Arianna isn’t here. I think you mean Aranea.
The seam is in the middle of the toe, note the puffy on either side, that is the actual toe
Just need to get Maxima to say it.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-218-battle-break-or-the-most-dick-way-to-block-something/
If you mean panel seven, yes, yes it is
In panel 7 where the blood shown in panel’s 4 and 5 disappears? Yes. Apparently cameltoe takes precedence over continuity.
Its the ol’ scissor slam
Hehe the ol’ cat-slam-doe.
or is it the clam slam doe?
Aranea has an unorthodox-yet-effective fighting style. Specs is getting licked!
Yeah, she is!
Yeah, she is!
I disagree, Specs is performing admirably.
Remember Aracnea went ready to fight demons, magic whatever was thrown at her.
Specs went for R&R and enjoy a night out.
Overall, Specs is badass!!!
sorry for the typo Aranea*
not that kind of licked… the fun kind.
Well, you know what they say about the second date? [Hint – “U-haul.”]
Did I get here in time to make a “Spec OPs” joke?
As for the throw, this always happens when you split your forces. (Rimshot) Serious note, when will Sydney use the other balls to grab her own head to shift her view. They are strong enough flyers on their own to attack Math with, so getting one on each side of her head, one in each underarm and maybe one under the chest… Can she “fly” them while also “holding” them?! An undiscovered punching power waiting in the wings!
You can’t ‘grab’ with something hard and round like orbs, whatever you’re picking up will twist or slide out. She could LIFT with them if she got 3 under something (1 or 2 would be unstable, things can fall off )
This suggests a uniform upgrade for Sydney: Several upside down pockets on her uniform, connected to load bearing straps, so that she can fly by mental control of a couple of the orbs in them, while still having two hands free for the shield and whichever.
I like it, clever way to bypass the 2-orb limit. My concern would be what happens if she needs to swap out which orbs she’s using – at the very least, a couple seconds of instability and a delayed response to whatever is prompting the swap.
Worth training with this technique for general purposes, but probably not something to ever use in combat.
Make them elastic netting instead of regular fabrics, so that she can push her fingers through in an emergency.
Or just design them so that they pick her up but she can just hold onto them whenever she wants while they’re still in the pockets in order to activate them.
Put all of them on her upper torso (flight orb could go in the back) and she should be able to reach any combination of 2 of them at any time.
Now that I think about it again you’d want the PPO to be able to free itself easily since it needs to be aimed.
I would try it first before committing to this design. Chances are, the orbs only fly relative to Sydney’s position, as if they were her limbs (except there’s no force feedback from them); using them to lift herself off the ground would be as successful as her trying to lift herself by her own hair.
That’s sadly probable.
Ah, the ol’ clam-slam.
Win.
I’d say it was like going out for Taco Tuesday, but it’s only Monday…
You know, Elsbeth usually has her nose in a book. She prefers dresses to pants but is not averse to taking a closer look at a comfortable pair of jeans.
You can’t just king crimson people and expect it to work every time
I’d try to use the lightbee to look around to aim the lighthook, but having the shield up seems more important ATM, but maybe she will be able to switch out while she’s distracted by these two.
Where did all that blood even come from?
Also where did it all disappear to in panel 7?
the magic aura of the impact or of the impact on a magic aura doesn’t look like blood
It looks like very dark blood to me, and lips/mouth are tender flesh that bleeds easily. It’s almost the same color as the lips, and black lipstick doesn’t splash like that.
In which case, the bruise is missing in panel 7, unless Aranea regenerates just that fast.
Yeah she’s got a split lip at least, although the splash looks a little overdone to me. The accompanying bruising from the impact wouldn’t show immediately, but the blood did disappear between 5 and 7.
Unless you are anaemic, bruises take time to form
And DaveB has been known to forget minor art details if the image is too small (cue the “author is a terrible hack and shouldn’t stop” tic-attack)
Maybe she’s just James Bond and every time she goes off screen all the blood disappears and she’s back to neatly groomed.
I was about to say Specs’ magic eyes were wrong way around but if each
did a 210º about the head eventually left would be left and right would be right.
Was that a magical flashbang?
The flash seems to have occurred just before panel 1.
It seems to be a flash-bang-eeee and the Flash seems to have happened between pages.
Or, if one assumes they can’t “cross over” each other, after doing a 180, being energy, they simply reshape which side the “eyelash” is on. Being virtual, they can swap left/right binocular assignment as well. Maybe reassigning which side or the binoculars each one is automatically reshapes the eye form?
I think I may have repeated myself here; the page didn’t update, and led me to believe my post didn’t “go”
Motion arrows don’t support anything more than 180. The virtual eyes, as part of the shift, would also need to swap roles as to which one if the left half and which is the right half of the “binoculars”. The “eyelashes”, aside from being aesthetic, also signify which role each “eye” is fulfilling.
“The flash seems to have occurred just before panel 1.”
Blame your browser for not showing it. Newer browsers no longer support Flash.
Never get into a serious fight while drunk. Well, unless you are Rock Lee. But I am also surprised it took 800 pages for a good old comic gag face plant,
Is it just me or does that Bring a whole new meaning to “Muff Diving”?
In Soviet Russia, Muff Dives You.
Probably better than getting a male crotch to the head too.
For both sides of the impact. Balls striking a face at high velocity could take him out of the fight for a while.
So what is Sidney doing right this second? So nice of them all to take turns.
She can’t see. She can’t just wildly flail around, or else she’ll hit her own teammates.
Since Sydney doesn’t know whats going on she (probably) isn’t likely to drop her shields. If she doesn’t drop her shields that means her hentacle can’t ‘reach’ her to flip her over, so shes probably just laying there looking at a wall still.
Also, it is still fun to call it that hentacle. Why oh why was that not made the name of it.
technically it probably can. we’ve seen it extend out of the shield before.
so extending out means it can go back in
Established during the big fight: Light hook can only be created outside the force shield. To use it close to her body she has to drop the shield.
It can’t pass the shield. Has it been established that it can’t just be created inside it?
Yes.
No. All that’s been established is that at the time of the restaurant battle, she didn’t know how to manifest it inside the shield. She has upgraded several times since, and may just need to try again or get more training time in with it. So while it’s possible, and even probable, that the lighthook can’t manifest inside, it’s not yet proven that it can’t. [/ pedantry]
And as pointed out in another comment, she may already be able to manifest it first and then pop the shield around it, but it would require dropping the shield for a moment.
When did she upgrade either Mr Buble or the Molestorb? o_O
A comic, of necessity, must switch back and forth between actions taking place simultaneously. Sydney is still dealing with Pixel landing on top of her. Even with the shield, it will take Sydney and Pixel a moment to untangle.
Never.
And they have some outside nodes that could have cool stuff.
But Sydney is still in basic training and hates grinding anyway so there haven’t been points to spend on that stuff.
Zack Tilly
Maybe in the future she might be able to manifest the MolestOrb inside Mr Buble, butt for now, she can’t
Hasn’t upgraded those 2 specifically, but she did upgrade the center node. For all we know, that’s the master slot-level unlock and she can now perform tier 3 actions, such as using the lighthook inside the bubble.
Mind you I’m not arguing that is the case, but the option (and all others not specifically eliminated by past statements or events) are on the table until Word of Dave states otherwise.
For all we know, she is now immortal and can outfly a supernova through a Black Hole, twice, while inhaling a gallon of Gratz through her nose
Personally, hate going into the Speculative Brown-Zone and only what we see on the page
May come up with hairbrained stupid ideas, butt they are (generally) based on what we have seen for certain, not pulling shit out of her backteeth and then going “Butt it could happen!”
Sydney’s impression is that upgrading the center wedges increases her understanding of the orbs — she knows things about the display the flight orb creates, and knows she didn’t intuit it, but that the information was just “there.” That’s not a 100% certainty, but it’s a strong suggestion that the center wedges indicate her degree of connection/integration with the orbs.
I’d agree that if the issue with using the lighthook inside the shield is exactly as she describes it: “I don’t know how to make it appear inside the shield,” then upgrading her understanding of how the orbs work would solve that problem. Add enough center wedges, and she might well ‘receive’ the information when she needed it.
If Max knows about that function of the center wedges (i.e. if Sydney included her hypothesis about them in her debriefing), then she really ought to have Sydney fill all of those in first. RTFM should definitely be part of training. If The Greatest American Hero was a show in the Grrl-verse, and if Max has seen it, then she will understand.
She doesn’t understand the flight orb’s display. She has no idea what she did to get where she did, all she did was use the orbs, stumble across some display that showed some planets, and then didn’t go to the one where it was fizzly and broken because that’s a terrible idea.
“All that’s been established is that at the time of the restaurant battle, [Sydney] didn’t know how to manifest [the Lighthook] inside the shield.” – Brichins
Not even that much. All that’s been established for sure is that she claimed that ignorance, in circumstances where there was a tactical advantage in having her opponent paying unsuspicious attention to what was happening outside the Shield. If she’d ‘deliberately’ manifested the Lighthook outside, it would have been obvious that the subsequent actions were part of a plan and he’d have been on his guard rather than curious. The line about being unable to manifest the Lighthook inside the Shield – whether true or not – led Vehemence into thinking that Plan A was to do so, and that subsequent events outside the Shield were simply entertaining improvisation without coherent plan. Right up to the point where Dabbler’s visual hypnotism had him hooked.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-68-i-guess-her-other-power-is-harassment/
We had the crotch to the face trope when Maxima picked up the ambulance.
Fair enough, but just adding two words makes DaveB’s statement fully valid again:
“I’m personally surprised it took [nearly] 800 pages to get [back] to it honestly.”
Yes, but that was an intentional crotch to the face. The comic trope is an accidental crotch to the face.
Accidentally incurred, and then deliberately run with. Trope stands, assuming it’s valid in the first place for what looks like a near miss (pun accidental) rather than a direct hit.
Yeah, the ‘ol crotch to the face gag. I’m personally surprised it took 800 pages to get to it honestly
No matter how much Math prayed and wished for….
and he still missed out…
It’s happened once before.
Here’s hoping she wore clean undies… PHEW!
Even if she did she’s been dancing at the club all night, they won’t be too clean still.
Some people prefer them to be not-so-fresh, just hope it’s only sweat
In order to be tight enough to show camel toe (and NOT panty lines), she has to be commando. However, pleather, latex, lycra, or vinyl (which is what those pants would almost have to be to have enough stretch to be THAT tight) are also not very permeable to moisture, so nothing tasteable is getting through. Now, if you were licking her ankles, where all the sweat has been eventually dropping to, you might get something.
The way it’s drawn, with them holding their ears, it seems more like a sound (deafening) bomb than a light/flash (blindness) bomb. I guess it’s designed to do both.
Ellie needs to learn that, when an object seems to be getting larger, it means it’s getting closer, which means get your head down fast.
Of course, that would ruin the joke.
They are called flashbangs for a reason…
Didn’t you already make a “crotch in face” joke, back in 67/68, when the Ambulance with the boys and one Harem was lifted to get to Sidney?
I’m impressed she can hip toss anyone, especially someone taller than her who’s resisting it, with only one functional leg. Specs McGahee’d her. That’s at least a torn LCL, and probably damage to her kneecap and cruciate ligaments as well.
Spider strength, y’know?
Also, 6 arms means a hell of a lot more leverage compared to Regulars.
Well, Araena is superhumanly strong, as she proved by knocking Pixel around like a ragdoll. It probably wouldn’t take anywhere near as much force for her to throw a normal human being (at least in terms of weight). If she’s as strong as I think, she could’ve probably tossed her like that with one arm, one leg, & without any sort of leverage at all.
Oh wait…I think she actually did do that. :P
I doubt very much Specs was actually resisting the throw. FWIW, the only defense against most throws is total capitulation: just go limp. Any resistance which is NOT pulling out actually helps the thrower. But pulling out only delays the inevitable, the thrower simply changes the attack to take advantage of the new dynamic.
The knee cap is certainly something Aranea will regret later, but the adrenaline rush is helping her get rid of an obstacle right now.
And Aranea did not need superhuman strength to throw Pixel out of the ring. Pixel was not in any postion to use violence after having her wrist broken, that looked very much like a Colles fracture to me. So all Aranea needed was to pull Pixel in on her good arm, twist under, lift/heave, and let go. The heavier they are, the harder they fall!
And, er, you can’t throw if you don’t have leverage. Try it at a dojo, and have your assailant collapse as soon as you take the arm to make the throw. This is a constant challenge when very nervous people come in to learn self-defense.
I agree that you can’t throw a decent weight without leverage….humans are heavy & flaily. There’s a reason why moving a dead body is so much harder than moving an equal amount of weight in rigid materials. I don’t know if I can explain it, but basically when I tried to pick my brother up when he just went limp, it was picking up all of his weight, & then picking it up again while still holding onto him.
But you’re forgetting that Araena seems to have super-strength. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that she’s got the same level of strength as Spider-Man (since she seems ot have been based on him to some minor degree), even at the start of his career, we’re talking being able to press 10-tons. 20’000 lbs.
Throwing a human being a dozen feet away through the air with that level of strength, with as much force as she seemed to indicate, would be roughly equivalent (from a physical exertion level, & in my own opinion) to you hurling a racquetball. Leverage would not really be much of a factor.
Again, all of my assumptions are based on Araena having the kind of strength that equates her to Spider-Man.
On further caffeination, it looks as though Aranea may well have escaped with her ligaments intact.
OTOH, if Specs got her foot just so, then Aranea’s kneecap could well be fractured if not actually split in two from the sharp edge of a really hard leather heel. This is reeelly reeelly reeelly painful and wiil make walking hell.
Running will be an exercise in applied masochism.
One may hope that Specs was able to work up some momentum with her heel, which is not as easy as it sounds when you’re in the middle of a tornado.
I can attest to Aranea being able to still function on an injured knee.
In high school, I got my knee bent sideways by a car (not fun) in a hit-and-run. Dumb teenage me didn’t get medical help, or the license plate for that matter, and proceed to sprint the last two plus blocks to school (this included the stairs inside as my first class was on the second floor). It just felt a bit sore until after my first period class (about an hour later) when I tried to stand up, THEN it felt like it was half cut off and didn’t want to bend. Had to walk up and down stairs sideways for a month after that.
She’s probably favoring it in the throw more out of conscious awareness of the damage, rather than pain or it actually hindering her just yet. Once she stops moving for a bit and her adrenaline crashes, THEN she will feel it.
well they are really getting their asses kicked in a spectacular kind of way.
Okay so a question arose in my head.
Are supers only “perfect” visually, or are they “perfect” to the other senses as well, such as smell and taste?
all depends on your flavour of superhero (I’d guess Superman might be a wee bit vanilla for some, whereas Shazam may just be a little cheesey)
I don’t recall seeing any supers with glasses yet. I could be wrong.
Or they could be wearing contacts.
Did anybody else notice that Spec’s jacket is open in every panel of this page *EXCEPT* for the one where she elbows Aranea?
I’d read that as inertia and/or air resistance, rather than actually closing the jacket. Specs throws her body to her left to put some weight behind her elbow-drive, the flap of her jacket doesn’t move as quickly due to inertia and/or air resistance, so the jacket looks as though she’s closed it.
Elsbeth has Spec’s butt in her face…! :D :D
Elsbeth: Thanks Specs, I’ll never be able to look at barbecue beef the same way again!
*eyes panel ten* I can think of far worse ways of being assaulted.
Okay, why is Elsbeth “blinded” by this?
Is she doing the “blind person navigatin by sound” trick?
She climbed onto the building just as the flash bomb was thrown
She was at ground zero for the flash bang grenade, she’s lucky she still has a face to catch a crotch with.
Here we see Aranea getting some comeuppance for her actions. Hopefully Sydney can figure out a way to grab her now that she’s standing still.
Or Krona will arrive and will do something.
Who else hasn’t showed up?
Obviously Olivia never saw past the veil and never knew anything was going on, leaving Scarlett, Varia, Harem, and Krona. We know Krona is close by. The other three could have already gone home (certainly Olivia likely has) and we don’t know if Varia found anyone while dancing to give her a movement power to get there anyway. So Krona is coming and Scarlett, Harem, or Decolette might come. Varia or Tamatha would be possible but long shots. I’m thinking Krona first throws out heals of some sort and the girls who are already there take Aranea out.
Krona then makes Aranea have to pee really bad, because she’s Krona.
Also, Olive is a ‘normal’ hyu-mon, and a civilian on top of that
That’s why I said “obviously” about Olivia going home already. But I was listing the ‘Girl’s Night Out’ group so I put her in. And included Decolette and Tamatha, although the Patron from Patreon who wrote up Tamatha said her energy constructs are inefficient and tiring so Tamatha may have worn herself out and fallen unconscious by this point.
No, she wouldn’t be included even if staid, because, she’s a normal hyu-mon with no training at all (at least, none that has been mentioned)
Tammy wouldn’t be involved (even if she managed to get herself free) because she is a only fourteen years old
Theoretically she could get involved if Varia turns into Storm when touching her or something.
To sort-of-quote Math, “There’s no such thing as just a Human”. Even if Olivia doesn’t have the raw capabilities of the Supers, just being an extra pair of eyes/hands in the right place at the right time can be a useful contribution – untying Tamatha while the combat crew carry on the fight, for instance.
We-e-e-ellllllllllll, she’s getting something for her actions :P Wait for Thursday to see if it’s comeuppance. So far, being the only one who had backup plans ready in addition to a perfectly delicious brand of
savageryself-sufficiency, she’s doing remakably well.But where is she “standing still”?
After getting that elbow and kicked in the knee she was hopping in place in obvious pain.
She’s at least less mobile now.
For some reason, I am wondering if this is when we find out what the final orb does. Probably not, but was thinking it might be cool that she decides “Screw it, I can’t do anything else. Let’s test this orb to see what it does” and gets healed.
I really can’t think what else it could be when you have propulsion (fight orb), shields, comms, lazers (pew-pew orb), life support and tracker beam (lighthook).
IMHO healing is part of life support – she will get it with upgrade of it.
Only if she spends power ups on those nodes.
The green orb might also provide water and food.
I was going to sit out the comments until Thursday, but I can’t pass this up. It will turn out that the seventh orb is the “Ship’s Services” orb. That includes things like barber shop/beauty parlor, vending machines (snacks), Uniform accessories, cobbler shop/shoe repair, and maybe the hobby shops.
Oh man, a gift shop would allow the Halo action figures to stock their own miniature toys – the recursive marketing possibilities would send Arianna into a coma.
So what happens if Sydney teleports with the lighthook out?
Unknown, but I’d kind of expect it to stay where it was. At least by default, there may be some advanced settings or it might just do whichever she wills at the moment.
Personally think we’re long overdue for an orb experimentation montage that answers some of these questions, though I imagine DaveB’s saving the important details for reveals within the storyline or he’d have just posted a user manual by now.
I don’t think it’s been shown on-page, but I would expect the Lightbee’s Holo-Halo to include an image of the Lighthook if it’s in use (based on the fact that the image included the Shield, when it was used at the Restaurant Rumble). In that case, when Sydney takes the place of her image, the Lighthook would swap as well. What happens if the image of the Lighthook intersects with an object at the destination, I don’t know – although I expect the same rules apply to the Lighthook as to any other part of Sydney’s body or equipment in that scenario.
Does this confirm specs having super strength? Spider Wick seemed to be very superhumanly strong and durable prior
Also, this is what happened when you have a mind-controlling shadow conspiracy that makes normal people think they are going crazy, eventually some well-meaning Vigilante is gonna want to put a stop to that.
This is the first time Aranea was actually hit anywhere it would show
I agree that was an inevitable result of the Veil setup. I’m not going to defend all of Aranea’s decisions, but people are being quick to judge her as a “bigot”, “zealot” etc when she’s been denied answers she deserves and when her situation is very likely to breed paranoia.
Welcome to the “civilised” world of taught ingnorance.
In the line under the comic, I think you meant palpable not palatable.
Umm, no, it means that Beth isn’t tasting what she’s sniffing
Pretty sure she had her face slammed by the energy anvil
No, that was her foot, and then pushed from behind by an energy-wave
Specs handled herself admirably, up until she got tossed anyway
Just please, don’t have Kronachrome ‘Mary Sue’ the fight to a quick end
In case people were wondering, this is a ‘Frankensteiner’ :D
Whose hair is that in the upper left corner of the last panel? It looks the wrong color.
The purple in the upper left corner of the last panel is the inside of Spec’s jacket, having been flipped up by the wind when she was thrown.
Bored now. Is it Thursday yet?
I wonder if Specs has any kids. If so, I pity them, because they’ll never be able to get away with any shenanigans…Everybody knows that a mother has eyes in the back of her head.
What happened to Elspeth reminds me a lot of an old joke. “I wondered why that baseball seemed to be getting larger, then it hit me.” In this case though, if she had been saying it instead of thinking it, the most obvious reply would be “You sure said a mouthful.”
“mother has eyes in the back of her head”…groan…
(Points for being the only one to thinkl of that.)
Funny that you should mention that. I got hit in the head with a softball while riding my bicycle past the baseball field when there was a game going on. While I have to give credit to the batter for making a home run, I now believe that the “softball” is misnamed. There was nothing soft about it.
Areana wins at horseshoes. She’s got a ringer!