Grrl Power #848 – AgentConFest
Lorlara is 100% channeling Drax there in panel 2. I actually can’t read that word bubble without hearing it in Dave Bautista’s voice.
“Primitive fire stick” is such a douchey “my world has higher tech than your world” thing to say. Okay, maybe they’ve been using vape pens for 700 years, or they have some kind of “caseless” cigarette that chemically burns itself down without any actual fire or even heat, but it’d be a bit like driving Luke’s landspeeder up to an internal combustion car and saying “Your primitive beast-of-burdenless carriage is quaint!” Dude. Your shit hovers 18″ off the ground, which is cool, but both vehicles get you where you want to go.
Max is enjoying a little me time while all the other agencies bumble all over each other. I guess Archon wasn’t the only one watching TV earlier tonight.
I kind of agree with Max. The cloaks might kind of work for field uniforms, especially if they add a practical layer of protection. Yeah, they could hamper dexterity in certain situations, but they’d also allow people to ready a gun or click on their radio without being observed doing it. And since they’re a heavier material than a flappy cape, they’d have less chance of getting hung up on pokey out bits or whipped over their faces or anything like that. Plus, they’d be designed to break away with a pop of a button or two. Hmm.
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Cloaks could become drones to document the action, for insurance, lawsuits, etc.
In the words of Edna Mode….
No capes!
:)
Fortunately, Cloaks are NOT capes.
A cape is lighter and waves in the wind. It is only on the back generally.
A Cloak wraps fully around the shoulders and is heavier. It is more like a jacket that can be taken off much quicker.
TLDR; A Magnificent Cloak is far superior to a flimsy cape.
Both are dangerous for flying though.
Only if you are squishy
My biggest regret from six years in the Marine Corps is not getting to wear the boatcloak with the dress blues.
If I ever make it to Staff, it’s the first thing I’m buying.
They are close to a thousand dollars and have to be special ordered last I heard.
Worth. Every. Last. Penny.
Marine’s might have peanuts for brains, but their dress uniforms are the absolute BEST.
(ps: I am allowed to mock the Marine lack of brains because I joined the Army. Aka, the best branch of the services.)
You’re right about that: every other branch’s dress look like civilian formal with extra pieces. Marines’ still look like uniforms.
Worst was the ASU, I ended up looking like mall security.
If you plan to drop a grand on a cloak, you better not marry a stripper. Dependopotamus sucks up ALL your money. Sharp threads are for single guys.
If anything, Maxima’s looks more like the Royal Navy cloak (the one with the lions holding the chain)
Man, we can talk all day about how marines are crayon-eating jarheads, but goddamn you guys got the classiest uniforms out of all the branches. Even this squid’s officers and chiefs pale in comparison to a marine in dress blues. My cracker-jack wearing ass isn’t even in the same county, let alone the same arena/weight class. XD
NO CAPES
Cloaks aren’t capes. OK, they’re a LITTLE like capes, but definitely not capes.
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*Nods along to Edna’s wisdom*
But what if they have quick-snap connections? All of those issues could have been prevented by having capes that are EASY to remove.
Like Batgirl’s cape in the Mike Maihack comic? :)
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Capes are fine if they detach with a certain amount of effort. like if it is grabbed and pulled it would not be able to withstand the force of pulling the person wearing it.
This is Max we’re talking about; there’s not a cape or cloak in existence that could hinder Max in doing anything.
True. But for someone like, say, Heatwave? Or Pixie? Rather more inconvenient.
If they were made heat and bullet resistant they would be fantastic for civilian rescue situations. Lots of situations where having the ability to protect a civvie with something other than your body from incoming projectiles would be handy. And pulling cute kids out of burning buildings…
You going to tell Maxi, or the Soup-kitchen Brigade, that they can’t wear capes? Or are you going to keep your stupid hole closed?
Ok, so, two questions.
Question the first: Does the CDC actually have “agents”? I was under the impression that the title of anyone working there outside of a bureaucratic role would have the title “Doctor”.
Question the second: Capes? Dude, have you not seen The Incredibles?
CDC agents might also have a title of Doctor but that is an educational title rather then their job title. As a federal agency, Agent is the proper form of address in this situation.
As for the cloaks I assume the subconscious desire to drape fabric from your shoulders is somehow related to having super powers.
Hah! Max is thinking how good she looks in an article of clothing, indicating a sense of, and desire for, fashion. Proof that she really is a woman. (Don’t shoot! It’s a joke! I’m sure Deus thinks more about clothes than she does.)
Superpowers nothing! I think that EVERYONE has a desire to drape fabric from their shoulders! That’s probably how clothes started in the first place!
We have some canon indicating that supers do indeed feel a need to dress up in tight body suits and capes. And make bad jokes.
Good recall!
I think they would still use the Doctor title if they have it, given that it is a civilian (read: non-military) institution. Mil side, rank trumps all other titles.
Agent is decidedly not a military rank. It is not any sort of rank, it does not even have to be their specific job title. It is an identification that they are acting as an authorized representative of the organization. Most agencies are civilian with the exception of a few like the NSA which are technically military, whose agents will also have a separate military rank but commonly be referred to as Agent in this sort of situation.
But in this specific case think X-Files and the FBI it was Agent Sculley not Doctor.
Dude! Have you not seen a DC movie? Two words: Batman, Superman
Cloaks can be useful in battle if done right. problem is to use them right is not as intuitive as it would seem. and if your not using them right they can be a hindrance. so it’s a matter then of how much effort do they want to put out to get everyone trained in their proper use. (especially Sidney)
https://www.cdc.gov/eis/what-eis-officers-do/index.html
Despite having a similar appearance to humans and apparently similar enough biology to eat Earth food and derive nutrients from it, the Alari are extraterrestrial and many of the mechanisms of their biology will likely be quite different from the life on Earth. This would be an extreme case of convergent evolution. Just because their bodies have to do similar things to humans, their form is similar to humans.
It is extremely unlikely that an infectious agent from an Alari will even be able to do any damage in a human body before its aggressive mammalian immune system determines that whatever that it is really does not belong here, and wipes it out. A virus that has evolved to infect a fish will usually not find an effective target site in a mammal; hence we can sometimes eat raw tuna. This should be an even more the case with viruses that evolved in a completely different environment.
An alien equivalent of a bacteria or protozoa might have an easier time of it in a human body, (and inoculations are less effective with those) as they would be able to find the food and other resources they want, but the immune system should have an easier time finding weird protein structures, so the invaders will not get as far in us as pathogens that have evolved with us to get by our defences.
For the most part,alien invaders of the single-cellular type will not be much of a threat.
Agent Swallows: Ma’am, the CDC requires that you come with me for testing to make sure you are not carrying any harmful diseases.
Deus: [ To Lorlara ] Do you still have that pack of papers the doctor gave you before we came here?
Lorlara: Hunn? Oh, you mean this? [ Pulls a booklet about the size of a passport but 5 times as thick out of her purse. When she opens the cover, a number of letter size pages fold out from the book. She hands it to Agent Swallows. ]
Deus: As you can see, she went through a battery of tests before being allowed into the country, and she was clean for all of them. Anything she does have can not infect any life on Earth.
The Alari only have whatever biological agents they arrived with, which will be extremely limited in scale, and are therefore unlikely to have anything jump to humans. Any that might, will already be circulating in Galatyn. On the other hand, they are likely to be subject to attack by a wide variety of microbes and fungi that are completely innocuous to humans.
They are as likely to be wiped out by [tobacco] mosaic virus or [rose] rust or [mushroom] Verticillium spot or [seal] canine distemper virus as they would be by small pox or spotted fever.
If humans are anything to go by: Don’t lick her skin and don’t eat her poop.
“Well, there goes my weekend!”
@ David Nuttall
Im kinda thinking about the whole biology thing myself. Did anyone think to ask Lorlara if her race can process Alcohol and Tobacco? Because I have this scene in my head of her pulling a Zim and being all “Of course i can process this Human delicacy!” and then suddenly having a funny bad reaction.
Given how humans have been in the stars for a good deal of time now, it’s a fair bet to say that the galaxy is at least aware of alcohol, or other similar intoxicating beverages.
I’m reminded of an SF novel in which the real problem wasn’t cross-infection, it was anaphylactic shock. The aliens were, structurally, sort of human, but so different biochemically that aliens caused humans life threatening allergic reactions.
Alcohol shouldn’t be a problem, though; Being a relatively simple organic compound, probably almost all lifeforms have evolved to deal with it to some degree. It’s the complicated stuff like amino acids that your biology doesn’t use, (That’s where mycotoxins kill people!) that really gives you trouble.
Exactly. And the anaphylactic bit isn’t restricted to pollens & etc. It can be caused by all sorts of microbes that we are so accustomed to we don’t even notice them. Very few of these microbes will have any bio-chemical signatures the Alari — or any other ET alien — can pick up on, so their immune systems (while not actually compromised) have nothing to work with.
This doesn’t mean the ET aliens will “get” a disease. The attack will be chemical, as in “anaphylactic” shock.
Of course, these advanced ET races will obviously have nasal or tracheal filters in addition to a daily skin-care rub-on.
No, absolutely not. Aliens in the Grrlverse are almost exclusively “humans with rubber forehead masks.” The Alari can clearly eat human food, breath the same atmosphere, operate in the same gravity, get buzzed on whiskey, love bacon, enjoy a cigar, etc. They are very obviously humans. Just with wings and dark skin and from another planet. Cosmetic differences only. And don’t expect any details on how their wings manage to support their weight, which is clearly normal human weight and not fragile, hollow bone, bird type weight. Nope, that’s a big hand wave just waiting to happen, if it is even covered at all.
We have canon details, not that we asked for them, that almost all known aliens (in the 90%+ range) have the same genitals which are completely compatible with both each other and with humans despite any amount of fur or head shape differences that might exist. Cora’s crew proves this out. As does Deus’ encyclopedia of sexual conquests.
The aliens that have been coming to Earth are mostly humanoid because a humanoid would be able to disguise themselves as a local quite easily. The Squidwards that Sydney toasted on the Alari homeworld were certainly not “humans in rubber masks” creatures.
Vogons. Not squidwards. Vogons.
Nope. The Veil would allow even non-humanoid aliens to be under disguise on Earth. I’m not going to say that kaiju would be covered, but it would be a very poor Veil that failed just because there was some kind of arachnid alien around, eh?
The kaiju Sydney destroyed are a part of the exceptions that I allowed for in my post when I used phrases such as “almost exclusively.” Bringing them up proves nothing and changes nothing, so I have to wonder why you brought them up at all? You should feel ashamed for trying to shoehorn in some kind of surprise failing on my part…
Holy non-existent Jesus, does a person actually have to allow for every single possible exception in order for their thesis to be accepted on its general merits? What the fuck? Fuck.
No, and the NSA and DARPA don’t have Special Agents, either. They are not law enforcement agencies and in the United States the title of Special Agent is reserved for non-uniformed law enforcement employees that are authorized to carry firearms and make arrests. Which is also the reason that CIA employees do not have “Agent” in front of their names. There are law enforcement Special Agents in the respective Inspector General offices, but those are for internal investigations into such things as Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.
Bring on the Turkey Inspectors. (an actually important job, justifiably armed.)
Bah, that was intended as a reply to siskulous post above.
Lorlara is flying in an awfully compromising position.
Her wings don’t appear to be supporting her weight.
It looks like levitation with the wings supplying orientation and propulsion.
They fly like zeppilins.
You say “compromising position” as if it’s a bad thing…
Is Lorlara going to be the verb, or the object?
When you mentioned capes, all I could think of was Edna from The Incredibles saying “Nnnnoooo capes!!!” LOL!
Is that Agent Big Johnson or Agent Little Johnson?
Cloaks are definitely nice when you just have to do a lot of running and ducking and shooting (see the American Civil War uniform cloaks), but for supers who engage in a lot of hand-to-hand leaping, spinning, and jumping around- those things realistically would have a mind of their own, tangling around you, your gear, and whatnot. See the outtakes from Thor 2 for what happens when you wear a heavy cape/cloak and then try to do acrobatic stuff in it. The number of times Hemsworth gets a face full of cape is hilarious.
Agent Rock Johnson.
This rises the questions which agencies would want to interview him. I would say that at least:
-The sixteenth airforce(for being close with Alari),
-INSCOM(for being close to Maxima)
-CIA
-DIA
-OICI
-DHS(for talking to all these agencies)
-INR
-TFI(Alari’s relation to Sconia)
-FBI
-NRO(Alari space tech)
-CSS
-IRS(how do I handle this new tech?)
-Every university
-The police
-DHHS
-OHRP and
-Arch Light.
Seems like the man can get a busy day.
The DEA, because they’ll want to figure what earth substances act as hard drugs to the Alari, and which Alari substances can get earthlings high.
Two Words: Diplomatic Immunity
I’m guessing he has taken this simple precaution after he took over Galytn.
Also, he is behind the fence well inside private property. His own private property. They better have warrants.
If nothing of this applies, I can’t wait to see what other precautions he has ready.
Diplomatic immunity protects him from them pressing charges and arresting him, not from them hearing him out.
While all of these are dangerous organizations with conflicting agendas, you have overlooked the most insidious force of all…. the local Fire Marshal. We have to work with them all over the country, and they absolutely will not stop.
Unless, of course, the fix is in. A little vigorish goes a long way.
Plus, as someone else mentioned, Diplomatic Immunity. Taking a page from Victor Von Doom is seldom a wrong move for a super… whatever Deus is.
Your fire Marshall might be the only one non-migration and defense related agent who could get enough edge over Deus to force him to get interviewed.
Machina industries probably has some buildings through the USA and thus he has the power to interview their CEO over the safety of his buildings.
Where were you when I was coming up with my list of agencies.
Though I am super proud of The Board Tea Appeals.
Board of Tea Tasters. — Yes, that one was real, though it was abolished during iirc the Nixon administration. Yes, have been around much longer than that.
The Board Tea Appeals does appeal, good job!
Seriously, guy, you need some help with legal, military, or physics problems/questions, I’m your guy and you have my email, right? Everyone in the county calls me for help with spelling, Zooming, or Swartzchild radius calculations anyway.
And since he is (most likely) a citizen of Galytn and enjoys diplomatic status not to mention immunity, they can all stand in line at the embassy and ask for their interviews there. Which he can then agree to or not, with zero consequences to him no matter which way he decides.
This bullshit is like seeing a Chinese diplomat swarmed by personnel from various US agencies, and it would never happen.
If that’s the case the agencies who’ve their say over migration and homeland security have the power to interview and (possibly) arrest him.
And had they wished would have presumably had the opportunity to do so when he arrived in the country via his private jet.
In fact, there’s no way possible he would have been allowed to make it through border security without a whole bunch of these desk jockeys having extracted their pound of flesh.
The question about knowledge of superpowers seems asinine given he’s been cleared for dealing with ARC+ as well as the NSA being a signals intelligence agency with no remit whatsoever to ask anyone what they know about anything.
That is correct except for one thing. Whatever Deus was before he essentially took over Galytn, and no matter how long ago he did so, you can bet most of the government databases on him are out of date. Takes a lot of work to make those old IBM 360s spin the tapes and update the Cobol files, and they have to pray to the Lords of Cobol before the updates take effect. Government has some seriously old, seriously slow tech. I’m certain that Archon has all new stuff, but they are unique.
Lol, Spitzer Swallows.
Yes, I am 12.
He’s probably familiar with FBI Agent Johnson.
Agents Johnson and Johnson
Fortunately Agents Johnson and Johnson are all talcum, no action.
No relation.
Mike Myers wants his joke back :-P
Dang dude – you started this thing when you were 2?!??!?!?
I’m sure that supertailor Whatshisname and Dabbler could make a magical cape that somehow never got in the way and more importantly always make the hero look more imposing, powerful and sexy.
Maxima even mentioned Ashley in the last panel. That’s the supertailor.
How long until Max realizes that she’s going to need to step in and “rescue” him just because of the potential trouble it could cause if he gets constantly harassed by every government agency at the same time given the number of unknowns involving the Alari and the fact that Archon is going to likely have to clean up the mess one way or another.
A further benefit to bulletproof cloaks – protection for civilians in need of rescue. It’s like a fire/radiation/bullet-resistant blanket for all occasions!
BulletRESISTANT, but other than that it would be an awesome idea.
Also, if it was part of the regular uniform, all of the Non-Super support staff (ie. admin, HR, finance, supply, etc) would gain additional protection.
(I have always been opposed to using civilians, in IRL, to do this work because they did not sign up for the additional risk. If I am killed going to the mess hall by a random shooter, I accept this because I wear the uniform. But civilians should not be kept near targets, ie. soldiers/sailors/airmen.)
Cloak — as seen regularly on SuperGirl, saving things and her from damage.
Where is the ATF? Where are the Trekkies, And The Star wars Munchkins?
Cloaks and capes are like rifles and poleaxes, to be honest – they’re often cumbersome, you have to learn how to carry and move with them, but they are SO damned useful when you need them, assuming you’ve trained with them a bit.
Here’s some examples of capes that were useful, if not invaluable:
Spawn – his cape is demonic nanotech, or something. Changes into whatever he needs it to be. (Not saying more because I was never a huge fan of this guy)
Storm – her cape is meant to catch the wind and make it easier for her to fly. It’s not just a cool accessory, it augments her powers – this is why so many versions of her costume have the cape attached in multiple points, to make it more like a parachute.
Magneto – pretty sure there’s some metal in there, in addition to the metal elsewhere on the costume. Again, it helps him to fly (plus he always has something he can turn into a magic bullet, if need be)
Doctor Strange – his cape is MAGICAL and lets him fly. I believe the same thing applies to Dr Fate’s cape.
Moon Knight – his cape becomes a built-in glider, which is pretty damned useful in itself.
Batgirl – because she’s physically lighter than Batman, her cape helps in aerial manuevers despite being relatively “normal.”
Lemillion – from My Hero Academy, he demonstrates his cape’s utility in his epic confrontation with Overhaul, to protect a little girl.
Batman – THE example. His cape just keeps getting newer and cooler features added to it. It lets him glide (though Moon Knight did it first), it’s bullet proof and fire proof (meaning it’s useful protection), it can be used to provide cover to a civilian Batman is rescuing… and to top it off, it’s an integral part of his fighting style. He keeps the cape shrouded over him to obscure his movements – you never know what’s going to be coming at you, a punch or a batarang or a grappling gun or something else entirely.
Agents Spitzer and Swallows … watt? XD
I just wanted to note your CIA agent is a great character design. It would be great if you worked her into the main arcs.
Other than that, no comments that haven’t been made already in appropriate detail including the feasibility of capes, when is “agent” the correct title, diplomatic immunity, etc..
You’ve had your shots? For things we don’t even know exist? Yeah… about that…
There’s this little thing going on right now in the real world, it’s not a big deal, so you may not have heard about it, something to do with a virus leaping from a bat to a human…
And before someone says that alien pathogens wouldn’t affect humans, we don’t actually know that. Life is annoyingly adaptable, viruses especially so. It may not be able to co-opt our cells to act as virus factories (but then again, they might) but they might find the human body to be the perfect home to just sit and breed (that is more bacteria than virus) and that the nutrients in the human body are very yummy. Or any of a number of other things that could still kill a human dead as disco without us being able to do a damned thing about it.
Especially as it was revealed that humans have been mixed into the galactic gene pool for some time – even if only in small quantities – it means extra-terrestrial bugs could have adapted to humans but the reverse won’t be true on Earth. Plus, what is harmless to the Alari could be the Black Death on Steroids to us.
So in actual fact, both Sydney and everyone else to have contact with extra-terrestrial life likely would have been quarantined and their blood analyzed under an electron microscope to make sure they didn’t pick up any uninvited guests
Of course, with aliens secretly visiting Earth for some time, it is probable that an unidentified pathogen would have ravaged the population long before now. Assuming proper measures weren’t undertaken, and considering that Cora just plopped her shop down and walked out, I’m betting they weren’t.
I’ve a few nitpicks and an two actual points.
the first nitpick: viruses can’t replicate without the help of other species, so they aren’t considered life by the biological definition.
The second nitpick: blood under an electron microscope won’t help, because it’s still not enough to figure out what kind of virus you’re dealing with.
The first point: the only thing we saw when Cora landed was what happened on the closed press conference, the possible viruses were pretty well contained by than, so it can be that after that everybody who was there spend a month without contact with the outside and the CDC has shown to be already on the case to check whether Galytin has taken proper measures, so it seems they already checked a few people.
The second point: Cora landed at her own private initiative, while other aliens were restricted to work through agencies, which could’ve taken proper measures, especially since nobody wants to fight the galagtic Un.
That is Björk’s last name
Ermm… No, it’s her patronymic. Iceland doesn’t have family names, only personal and patro- or matro-nymics.
pedanticmic?
I’m guessing the DARPA guy actually from Sigma Force, but of we’ll never know for sure.
But why would the NSA care about Deus’ knowledge of superpowers? Shouldn’t they be busy collecting Gatylan signals intelligence?
Also the guy from Homeland is being a bit vague. Homeland Security is a big department. Is he Secret Service? Coast Guard? ATF? O.W.C.A.?
“Homeland” is only slightly more useful than “I come from the Executive Branch.”
I guess they’re having two soup courses with their meal.
So are we going to ask if an Ash Lord is a “what” or a “who”?
[Kosh Voice] Yes… [/Kosh Voice]
oh, capes are interesting… but usually not very practical for high speed combat
spits and swallows, read their agency as COC at first because of the font.
Is there a civilian version of Boat Cloaks? That stuff looks awesome.
EDIT Cause the idea came up after last post: Also Query, it quite clear that Alari don’t fly via their wings via ‘flapping’ them as if they were akin to bird or fae styled wings. With her floating on her back like that. So does this mean they are more like hover devices with some sort of energy or gravity repulsors to give the ability to do so.
Also second Query, does Max’s flight require her to fly superman like? Or can she do M. Bison standing levitation at high speeds. We know Sydney could due to bubbleshield and the like but what about other flight supers. Is the superman method a requirement. Is their flight ability requiring drag and lift mitigation for it to work properly.
Supes was always drawn with one arm out “front” for dramatic effect, except when he wasn’t actually “in transit”.
In this page we see Maxi in a vertical takeoff with arms folded. With no other information, I’m assuming she kept that configuration in her transonic and supersonic flight back to Archon HQ.
please mention snag proof too
Spitzer and Swallows.
well played
Cloaks are amazing and work well for both genders.
I have seen old photos of people wearing them, they always looked professional yet comfortable. I would definitely sign up for ARC if it was part of their uniform.
Deus is DEFINITELY getting the bureaucratic treatment right now.
Yes, YES, YES! Throw the ALPHABET at him!
Does anybody else see Josh Gad in the Agent Bellamy character?
If I were Mr. X, I’d start my reply with, “To all the duly sworn law enforcement officers with arrest authority in THIS jurisdiction, I am clearly not doing anything illegal, so unless you have a proper arrest warrant, please see my lawyer over there (your damn right I travel with one of my lawyers at all times) to arrange an appointment. I’ll be available next Tuesday, the fourth of Never. To all you other Federal employees, unless you’re the director of your respective agency (obviously your not or you would have led with that) please either fuck off now or leave your business card with my secretary – the floating lady with the wings – so that I can have my people contact the congress critter with oversight of you agency to demand you be fired. Thank you.”
* you’re damn right
FTFY
For such a smart fellow, I’m a little surprised that Deus apparently DIDN’T anticipate being Ground-Zero for an all-out turfwar between pretty much all branches of the US government bureaucracy.
Then again, he IS an Evil-ish Overlord, kind of, and getting tripped up on minor details is one thing they all have in common.
Hardly a “minor detail”. Think for a moment: who knew Mr. Deus would be at Carême this night?
I can understand one or more of the affabet agencies may have had a full-time tail on him — but then wouldn’t you expect everyone to be waiting in a discreet street-gang some respectful distance from the door? And surely Mr. Deus’ own security would have tipped him off?
It is, however, possible that Spitz may have been entertaining Swallows and happened to notice Mr. Deus with Maxi and Lorlara, then one of them decided to make a couple of quick phone-calls… But there’s no reason he or Maxi could anticipate a (mostly) Federal Affabet Assault Gang.
Noting also that a common theme amongst branches of ANY bureaucracy is a great reluctance to share. “Joint” operations are usually done under duress, basically. In this case, these guys all possibly hoped to steal a match on their ‘colleagues’ or, at the very least, establish their own areas of interest. .
Who says he didn’t anticipate it? Getting as many agencies as possible in one place, squabbling over who has precedence, sounds like just the sort of thing to amuse the man with the lightning switch. Just because he can.
I’ll say it again, Lorlara is the gift that keeps on giving!
No capes! Don’t make me sic Edna on your ass.
I have a “modern hi-tech” plasticy breathable heavy-duty rain-set left over from my job in days past. I totally understand Maxi “I fucking love this boatcloak…” When you’re enveloped in something that keeps the outside OUT, there’s
novery few better feelings.