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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Okay did anyone else get the Deadpool2 tea bag scene pop into there head at the last panel? I heard when a woman does it, its called a taco touchdown.
I’ve always been partial to “clam slam” myself.
“Clam slam” rolls better off the tongue.
Indeed.
Indubitably.
I thought Harem kind of did that to one of the guys in an ambulance?
I wonder how long it will be until someone picks the final panel as a gravatar.
Don’t tempt me
Not too long.
Well, I may be a crotchety old man, but not that crotchety.
I wouldn’t mind being *that* crotchety.
I am more surprised it didn’t happen to Math, to be honest
What? Get a boot-heel to the kneecap? o_O
I doubt that anybody can hip-throw Math, so he will never be the clam in the shell… DO you think he would throw a fight for that?
Yes, yes he would
So, has there been any discussion about why Math, with his Super Physique and general bad-assery, is such a rabid horndog? The first panel of every Math scene should involve him pulling out and making a “Duty Calls” quip. What would amuse me most is that’s it’s a “sexual energy will poison your chi and make you useless” kinda deal. Tantric Kryptonite.
At the 2018 Olympic games, 110,000 condoms were distributed, or 38 per athlete. Granted that many of them were probably not used, but even if only 1/10 of them were used, that’s 7.6 sexual encounters per person in a two-week period, which much of the time being taken up by media events, practices, competition, etc.
I admit I hadn’t heard of this aspect of the Games before, but most of the articles seem pretty click-baity and bury a line way at the bottom mentioning that it’s not just for the athletes. One example: “Members of the media and spectators need not feel left out. The contraceptives will be made available to them as well.”
Heh, feel the same way about those ‘news’-headlines
From what I have heard, it is mainly the athletes, after training so hard, they kind of go crazy with the stress relief after their events are finished.
Hundreds of young people in peak physical condition (Read, good looking) in close quarters, who now have no specific plans because the event they trained their whole lives for is over and now its time to party and/or commiserate might hook up?
Noooooo, that’s so unlikely!
And not just after their event. I read a couple articles that covered The Great Condom Famine™ of some year I don’t recall. Possibly 2016. What was mentioned was not only were condoms in very short supply, with athletes hunting around for them (what, a box of condoms would put your bags over the weight limit?) and such, but also that the athletes who stood very little chance of getting any medal at all were basically there to fuck. There were some stories about the impact on the more serious athletes, who in one case which I recall had to deal with her room mate bringing sometimes multiple partners into their room per night (one at a time, sure hope she showered in between…) for sex while she was trying to get some sleep since she actually stood a chance at a medal.
People who are in top shape and in their late teens to mid forties can have more than seven sexual encounters per day.
But IS Math a super? It was noted somewhere that he is just of ultra-trained human ability….
They know he is not a super, but they can’t tell if he is a something metaphysical or just a better-than-world-class human.
That would make Dabbler the local equivalent of Ultraman.
She consumes tantric energy, Matt weakens if it gets involved.
my theory is unusually high levels of testosterone; it would account for his speed, reflexes and strength being high end without actually being super human, and his time spent training and his somewhat homely features would explain why he has not developed the social skills to get laid (also any human compares poorly in the company of supers)
Yeah I’m guessing that that thing from before with the mini Banshee bomb. Do I don’t know why it will affect Vision if it’s mostly just sound
It was your standard nonmagic flashback grenade. The Screeeee sound effect is their ears ringing.
Flashback grenade? Made by the same company that makes the exposition grenade and the training montage grenade.
Flashbang grenade, not flashback grenade.
Flashback grenades are made by the same company that makes fanservice bullets and F-bombs
Get the right frequency and volume. Sound can disorient or even disable people, mess with vision, make them extremely nauseous or physically ill, or just knock em out cold. US Military has sound-based weapons though they were not used a whole lot. They also experimented with sound or rather vibrations being used as a weapon against enemy vehicles. Like cracking the hull of a ship or a submarine open using underwater vibration.
Not to forget… the Brown Note
The Mythbusters, proved that is a myth!
Yeah, it was a joke
Maybe the mystery orb is a repair orb.
It would fit in all our knowledge.
Repair systems are needed for any self respecting space ship.
The mystery orb has as central image some kind of cracks, which would be a way of showing of what it does.
If only the Paper Cut Test had actually been executed.
I don’t recall Sydney ever grabbing the Last Mystery Orb during one of her various trips to the infirmary, or while she’s been bruised all to hell. Be pretty wicked if it’s an Orb of Regen. One day, she’s going to get an upgrade that lets her shapeshift, and the first thing she’ll do is grow 5 more arms and break the world.
But if the shapeshift is an “Illusion” or “Hard Light” she still won’t be able to use more than two orbs at once no matter how many hands she grows. If it’s one of those two, she won’t be physically handling the orbs. But if it’s neither and a legit, physical shapeshift… yeah…
like one of the droids that rolls out, unfolds, and starts shooting from within it’s force shield bubble. Except it can fly, use a molest-orb to grab and throw stuff, multiple pew pew orb options (heh, Multi-pewpew Orb-tions XD), Telepresence, Teleportation, generate her own atmosphere, see through any illusions… Holy Crap… Sydney could totally cosplay General Grievous!
Considering what the orbs are meant for it would be really weird if adding additional artificial limbs that could grab the orbs wouldn’t let you use more of them.
Perhaps the original maker had 7 hands.
I suspect that the original makers were the Qossuth.
To all we know, those cracks on the mystery orb could mean Exterminatus or Planet Cracker at this moment. Though with a safety system to stop you from doing that to the planet you’re presently living on.
what cracks?
It’s the mystery orb. Its sole purpose is to spawn a new unknown orb when all the orbs’ purposes are known to the user. Hence why it looks like a fracture. It fractures in an orbish-crystal mitosis
The unknown orb shatters reality and allows Sydney to talk through the fourth wall.
My theory is that Earth is where the Nth went to do some extended role playing games, with everybody who’s not a super an NPC. Which explains why it’s the only planet with supers, and why they’re all good looking.
They just forget it’s a game while they’re playing.
Well, one of the Nth.
Remember, Nth isn’t a specific race.
Nth is a stage of development like iron age or atomic age or FTL.
Ah, that explains the Voynich Manuscript then.
Advanced VM has a better system for combat.
I wonder how tamatha will react when she sees her “elite” rescue team getting wrecked by an opponent she managed to relocalize while restricted.
Well, skirt or not: if it hits you THAT hard in the face, you’ll break your nose.
unless your nose is perfectly aligned with the incoming vagoo and goes inside…
This is actually one of Kekko Kamen’s basic maneuvers, the “Muffication Assault” If I recall the name correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioVuY2gz4DA
Never heard of, nor seen that, before, butt, her ‘disguise’ makes perfect sense (more so than a simple ‘Lone Ranger’ mask), no one will even be paying attention to her face :P
Her tag line is “Everyone knows my body, but nobody knows my face!”
Yes, Go Nagai stuff is weird.
Was that Crack the sound of the elbow to the mouth or the sound of a jaw breaking?
I don’t think a hit like that would break her jaw. Not enough mass and not enough strength to do that much damage. So most likely just the elbow hitting the mouth (pretty common sound effect).
That said, a hit like that would hurt like hell. And we do see blood, so Aranea probably cut her lip/cheek on her own teeth, is gonna have a helluva nasty bruise for a while, and may even be missing a couple teeth on the bottom there.
Superpowers not withstanding, a solid elbow to the side of the jaw is devastating. Keep in mind that the jawbone is mounted on a fairly flimsy hinge: it’s designed for chewing/biting, not resisting strikes. While that hit won’t necessarily break a bone, the jawbone will likely dislocate and leave all of the joint tissue with lots of trauma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUfUr8X-d_k (start around second 61)
Good on Specs for throwing some nasty hits Aranea’s way.
I’m waiting for Sydney to take out this lady while still immobilized, just so they can see how trule effective she is. It annoys me that some of her greatest successes went unseen by anyone. If her groupie gets to see it so much the better.
… reading this set off my tinnitus.
Some people pay good money for that kind of action!
Usually, double.
Tpyo in the text at the bottom?
Palatable or palpable?
Palpable should not be confused with palpate.
The only confusion is from those who don’t understand that ‘palatable’ does not only refer to food or drink
Maybe you should look up what ‘palpable’ means and why some readers believe that that is what DaveB meant (which he didn’t)
I’m just saying, the normal turn of phrase is:
‘…sense of relief was palpable.’
If the target was a pun, I did not perceive it as such, but rather as a mis-typed phrase. I’d expect errors to be easy, given the similarity in the two words.
It’s a pun because of the position Elsbeth is in.
The joke being that she would be able to taste those jeans, which is at least a better fate than being kicked in the mouth.
Again, second meaning of ‘palatable’: •(of an action or proposal) acceptable or satisfactory.
Specs must have something other than normal bifocal vision, because bifocal would be totally confused by two working, independently roaming eyes. But then when she needs depth perception she can presumably switch to bifocal at will.
Read her Who’s Who (and go back to when she was first introduced and read what Maxi said)
The eyes have it, as they say.
Yes yes ripoff spinneret slayer edition is bad ass in martial arts, can someone PLEASE tell me when this overzealous idiot gets put down?
Every fucking time!
Two pages of fight: “When’s it going to end? This has gone on long enough!!”
Two pages of not-fighting: “When is the next fight going to happen? This is boring!!”
Actually I don’t really argue when there isn’t any fighting, I find it amusing how they interact with one another. So I dunno what you are talking about.
Not you specifically, just that every time there is fighting, someone complains that it is going on too long, and when there isn’t any fighting, someone else complains
It’s not annoying me enough to want to complain, but I will say that the tolerance for the length of a fight scene varies between characters.
Examples 1 & 2: Sciona, who was built up as a certified bad-ass (survived decapitation, blood mage, boss level fight) and Vehemence, foreshadowed as the man with a plan, standing aside and watching the chaos he orchestrated. A fight scene ought to last multiple pages, it’s expected, they’re established as meriting that.
Example 2: Not-Spinnerette (not intending disrespect, I honestly can’t remember the character’s name), who is, if I’m not mistaken, a Patreon OC-insert. Not established with foreshadowing, certified able to sneak up on an untrained, distracted teenager. Suddenly able to dodge an Nth-tech tentacle, out-speed a werejaguar, out-fight Specs (that’s a wash — no sense of how tough Specs is supposed to be in a fight), and pull whatever she needs out of wherever in that costume she’s supposed to be storing gear.
Not meaning to rip on the new character, and I’m sure I’ll warm to her over time, but I can see someone going “how is she doing that, and where was she keeping that, and why is someone that ill-informed also that crazy-prepared?”
I have to agree, for a character coming out of nowhere, this character is performing too well. It doesn’t feel earned; it feels like they *need* to be a threat narratively, in spite of four powerful supers being present, so their luck/skill is being artificially inflated through the roof to keep them from being immediately KO’d.
Point is, it’s only been a few pages (three or four), it’s too early to start complaining
The only thing she is ill-informed about, is about demons and how far they have infiltrated Hugh Mannity, so why wouldn’t she do a Blat-man and prepare for anything
Anything “can” happen. It’s not impossible that she just happened to bring exactly the right equipment and lucked into making all the right moves. But it feels forced when that happens. Particularly since it’s implied this character isn’t evil, just misinformed/misunderstood. Which means the likelihood is high that they will do a heel-face turn and have to have their power level tuned down to avoid being story-breaking.
You mean, like every member of Arc-SWAT? o_O
Well, you have to admit that Archon and Semper Vigilantis teamed up to make Aranea look good by coming at her only one at a time….Hollywood style.
And she has gear for capturing a demon: anesthetic, bindings, and flashbangs to get away. Likely she has smoke and/or tear gas grenades too.
I’m going (I think) with Guesticus in this: we don’t like Aranea because she kidnapped Tamatha and proceeded to interrogate her under duress. (I’m nuancing here…)
We’re all astonished that the bad guy can simply pop up and do such bad stuff to so many people, most of whom should actually be able to disable and arrest her.
BU-U-U-UT… Where have we seen this before? Can we even count the number of times a terrorist attack has happened “out of nowhere”? And yes I am including gun-crimes on or at educational institutes and in town squares. After the events, it seems that IF the {insert authority here} had listened, then something could have been done.
{Anything “can” happen. It’s not impossible that she just happened to bring exactly the right equipment and lucked into making all the right moves.}
Why cannot Aranea have been fully prepared for her “mission”? Does “ill-informed” proscribe preparedness? Or must bad guys be always unprepared? Aranea has been doing this for some considerable time, maybe years, and appears to be very good at her self-imposed task.
As opposed to our heroes. Okay, “police” are “never off duty”. Except, of course, when they are. Unprepared at a night-club party, weaponless, inebriated, battle-fatigued and working under the belief that they can solve this minor problem by themselves.
{But it feels forced when that happens.} Not for me. Bad guys do pop up out of nowhere, and they do cause damage disproportionate to their perceived competence.
Aranea will, of course, be stopped. But can ARCHON “turn” her? That is the question.
Real question is: will Aranea want to be turned
If every ‘bad guy’ can be turned so easily, all we will be left with, is SmugD, and no one (other than a certain MIA lawyer :P ) wants that!
Vehemence is fairly turn-proof, since violence and anger are the fuel source for his powers. Although, as Cyttorak said to Collosus when Collosus was trying to back out of being the new Juggernaut: “Your recent backsliding aside, you are my favorite avatar in thousands of years. Creatures like Cain [Marko, the first modern Juggernaut] spent most of their lives slinking, hiding from people like you. His offerings were like tiny bursts of light in a long night. But you heroes? In your constant battles, you destroy daily. Your offerings are an eternal banquet.”
That applies more to Marvel’s version of superheroes than to the Grrl-verse, but he might have potential in ARC-Swat. The whole trying to murder Maxima for being a potential threat would be awkward during the job interview, though.
Sciona is definitively not reformable. She’s the good guy in her own story, which involves securing her people’s ‘rightful’ place at the top of the hierarchy/food-chain wherever they end up (currently Earth).
A decent chunk of Sciona’s crew were OK with casual murder (her vampire ally was willing to sire new vampires purely to hand over to Sciona to bleed dry, for instance), and a chunk of Max’s crew was just fine with him assassinating a foreign head of government. Not especially redeemable.
Many of the bad guys in the Vehemence parking lot battle weren’t actually bad guys. Jabberwocky, Opal, and Vekter seemed to be unusual in that they had previous criminal records. It kind of skews the sample when most of the folks we’ve seen fighting Archon were doing it because Vehemence’s aura made it seem like “it would be rude not to fight.”
We do not even have any information of any sort to hint as to whether she is working alone or for some agency.
Actually, our knowledge of the super and supernatural world is fairly limited. And geographically when on earth we have mostly seen the Dallas area, New York City, a palace and an industrial compound in a small African country, and a piece of desert out in west Texas. Oh, and a barrio someplace in the Spanish speaking countries.
We don’t know if there are strongholds for different supernatural factions or what the situation for emergent supers might be outside of North America. For all we know there are places where priests and witchdoctors hunt some of the supernaturals and the Twilight Council forbids travel there lest the veil be damaged.
DaveB has left a lot of things ambiguous, which gives him freedom to decide lots of things later without continuity conflicts. And its a good thing. If the story line is flagging with something which grew tedious he can sidestep it and if he has a fun idea then he can write it into his world as if it were always there.
Hopefully Ellie’s neck is strong enough to not snap when being struck in the face with that much mass.
As long as she ‘goes with the flow’, which she seems to be doing (her body, including her neck, appear to be remaining in a line while orientating to the horizontal, rather than her head ‘snapping back’ {hope that makes sense})
She’ll probably take more damage from her head hitting the roof (that much mass will definitely push her right over).
Yeah, that’s what was thinking, was going to add something about ‘how close is she to the parapet wall?’, butt hate writing too much (makes me look a right idiot when type too much, or at all, so prefer to keep it as brief as poss)
So now Elsbeth can tell what Aranea had for dinner last night…
Specs, not Aranea, butt a smart person like you knew that (you never make mistakes, right?)
Because Elspbeth got hit in the face by Specs?
I know who should show up to rescue everyone.
Spiders-man.
You mean, Vance?
“That had to hurt!”
— Unreal Tournament taunt
Elspeth: Is that one blotch getting larger?
No, but that one crotch is getting closer.