Grrl Power #824 – Fist of the Sigma Octantis
Okay, a domino mask could protect someone’s identity, but not that centimeter wide “strip of tape” style. I see comics with characters wearing stuff like that, and I think it’s almost as bad as Superman’s disguise.
It can’t be any surprise to Sydney that she’s the featherest-weight puncher on the team.
I’m not sure how the same machine could register Sydney’s love tap but also not vaporize when Maxima punched it. I’m sure there are machines that can register incredible impacts, like stuff used for measuring car crashes, but Maxima can far exceed even that. Maybe a machine that measured impacts by volume of liquid displacement, but it’d have to be a lot more liquid than that little machine in the corner of the gym could have in it.
BTW I know Mantis Shrimps are known for their crazy punching, but they’re like six inches long, so that’s why they register down at the bottom. Maybe I should have used “Puppy” instead.
Instead of animals, my original chart listed sports like Karate, Boxer, but also had specific people on it like “Drago” and “Vegeta” and it seemed like a weird mix. An all fictional character one would have been amusing, but I wasn’t sure what to put down on the lower tiers. There aren’t a lot of characters famous for being weak punchers, though maybe “Aunt May” could have worked, but then who? Pillowhands McGee, who I just made up? I’m not sure if Kenshiro would slot in above a DBZ character or below. In terms of actual joules or footpounds, I guess he’s come in a lot lower than them, but arguably his punches are a jillion times more deadly.
God, if I was a woman named Jillian, my friends would be SO SICK of hearing me say “I’m a Jillian times (adverb/adjective)-er than you.”
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Me thinks the buildings structural engineer must either be a very zen kind of fellow or is either very stressed. The wall behind the machine is going to be kept an eye on. Lets hope it’s not loadbearing.
To be fair, the good officer might also be discombobulated from taking a ℍ
“H” is supposed to be : BOOT TO THE HEAD!
Let’s try again with a different text enhancer:
(and one for Jenny ¤ and the wimp ¤)
I miss the Dr. Demento show so bad. I used to have a cassette tape with that particular skit on it (along with other good ones) but the gods alone know where it is now.
Mantis shrimp punch like bullets. They need to be above at least mustang, possibly higher then tiger, because they literally light fires at the bottom of the ocean with their punches. Can tigers do that? Nope. Give the shrimp it’s proper place.
I was going to say. I just learned about them a little while ago, and they are damned terrifying, despite their size (or does that make it worse?)
They’d make popular aquarium pets if not for the fact that they tend to Falcon Punch their way out of them.
And the only damage their little pistol-punch does to a hyu-mon… is leave a tiny bruise, so no, they stay where they are
Arn’t they called “Thumb Splitters” by aquarium people?
I think read that Warren Fahy’s book ‘Fragment’ – which is goddam [EXPLETIVE REMOVED]!!!
I do know they punch their way out of quite thick glass tanks ALL THE TIME.
yea pound for pound mantis shrimp would beat tigers in raw punching power. Sure they are tiny hence the most they can do is split your skin or fracture a finger bone. But think about that for a second, a tiger scaled down that small would be that things food. A mantis shrimp the size of a tiger could likely put a hole in tank armor
You know, it’s possible that the scale doesn’t actually go that high, and Maxima has to be tested using a defferent scale.
-thinks-
So you’re saying that Maxima scale goes up to eleven?
Over 9000!
[Counts boxes on the image] Nicely played, DaveB.
*principles
to be fair to Sidney she did perform a take down early on by tossing a dude over hr shoulder ….by his tongue. XD (nobody suspects the ancient and deadly Tongue-Toss-fu!)
Wolf above mantis shrimp? Dubious.