Grrl Power #861 – Exemplarum showus offus
Sydney almost made a joke there about knowing where she could find a spare foot. But she didn’t.
Making Sydney watch Seneca run the course is a little like getting Math to teach her martial arts. But sometimes seeing what’s possible can help people break out of old habits. Also watching Sydney plod through the course a few times was making Seneca super antsy
Seneca is actually the record holder for this course. Sean, the ex-SEAL who wears the blue cap and who I haven’t drawn in about 400 pages is second fastest, (he was on the climbing wall a few pages ago, but that was from behind) followed by Goose, the Duke Nukem looking guy. Hiro is next fastest, followed by Ren, then Peggy, who unsurprisingly has far and away the best aim/grouping. But the fake leg does slow her down a bit.
Yes, obviously Maxima is the actual fastest, but she has super speed and that doesn’t count. She can detail strip her gun while one of the targets is popping up, and fire her break action Tyrannosaur .577 pistol faster than Seneca can pull the trigger on her glock.
For those of you wondering, Seneca claims to have “Reverse Diabetes” where she’s certain she’ll lose a foot if she doesn’t ingest at least 3,500 calories of refined sugar a day. She obviously doesn’t have that because it’s not a thing. She just exercises a lot.
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So, that’s how it’s done.
12 shots and a knifing. Yep.
Still better than Brock Samson who only uses a knife at his fist when running such courses
Sorry, but you said that wrong. It’s Brock F$%king Samson.
I am not part of the villain League so I do not need to utilize the middle explanative
Swedish Murder Machine.
Did they actually not show her how to do it before hand? I feel like showing her first would have been beneficial to the boot camp speed run they are putting her through.
I think the thing they’re suffering from is a situation where even the freshest newbies they’ve had are still trained soldiers or atleast people who are already familiar with all this.
They need to adjust a bit to consider her absolute newbie civilian status.
I would be telling Peggy to go Screw herself at this point. She’s pushing too hard and all it’s going to do is make Syd sloppy.
I agree. They are still not showing what she is supposed to be doing exactly, unless there were actual classes she took that we didn’t see, but even then, she was gone for 2 months and has only been with them for about a total of a month maybe? She does not know how to properly clear the course, and Seneca is only showing off and not showing proper procedure.
I hope Sydney does not get yelled at by the end of this for not knowing how to properly clear it, because it just be annoying at this point. She was a civilian only a couple months ago, thrown into multiple missions (who probably should not have been there in the first place sense she is so new), and is expected to preform like any of the other experienced soldiers?
+1
+2
Ditto,
powers do not equal experience; her missions were either because she got stuck in the situation thanks to being educated on things like the Twilight Council and “stuff happened”; or the club with multi-arm McGee devil hunter. But other times when she was called into the field were severely jumping the gun and done only because she has powers…which she also has little training with thanks to being afraid of being caught using them before joining Archon.
they have been jumping the gun so to speak on her training and field usage.
I wonder how much of this rush is making up for lost months when compared to the other recruits of her class. As the highest-profile super, people will be judging and politicking ARCHON’s training based on Sydney.
There is a plot line that might be interesting.
Cereally? Sydney is higher profile than Ms Golden Goddess Herself? :thinking:
Do agree about idiots judging ARCHON based on how Sydney performs (they are already doing that in the comments), which is probably why they are pushing Sydney so hard. Do you not remember how Sydney was when she was first recruited?
well Sdy is far more public then max is its kind of hard not to
All Sydney needs do is shove her balls in a bag, and most people wouldn’t even know who she was (as long as she also kept her mouth shout, either preventing toxic waste going in or coming out :P )
Maxi can’t hide her skin if she tried
Nonsense Guesticus…
Maxima definitely hide her skin if she tried. She can use a hologuise or masquerage.
Maybe a falscade.
Or a camobscure.
Anonyflage.
She’s had both a bar-all-clava and a blurrkas recommended in the past. Perhaps she could try a byejab or a denyqāb.
Really though, even with powers not many people can see through disguises.
i didn’t mean Syd could hide if she wanted i mean Sydney still has a public day job while Max hides in the base and never really interact with the world.
Syd is just more in the public eye because she wants to be in away
Second! Been first now second…now to time thirds.. .
And yes I have been planning this. Efficirnxy is also in the timing. Learn the proper timing and you can shave seconds off a task.
Darnit won’t let me edit…I was third cause long post…
Preparation is also key to efficiency. ;)
Time to channel your inner Jerry Miculek!
Second! Been first now third…now to time seconds.. .
And yes I have been planning this. Eficiency is also in the timing. Learn the proper timing and you can shave seconds off a task.
How can I delete this? The post editing is acting wierd on my phone…
There is no editing that I’m aware of – unless/until that changes (or anywhere between ~5 billion years and the heat death of the universe) you will be forever immortalized as yet another member of the Bad Timing and Rather Overinflated Sense of the Importance of Order of Submission of Comments on a Web Comic (BTROSIOSCWC or sometimes OOS – Order Over Substance). I’m not sure where they meet, but I think it’s every Sunday night
Anyone here a member already?
It was Thursdays where I’m at, but I cancelled my OOS membership years ago – always a big rush to be the one to start the weekly meeting, but then no one had any respect for the agenda or anything else to say. Most members just interrupted the chairperson and then wandered back out.
Tyrannosaur .577? She should move up to the .666 Pastor Blaster.
Rossi Firearms made a 12-gauge pistol, which I’m surprised Max hasn’t upgraded to, simply because of the versatility available in shotgun shells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQR21EcH8Rs
Single barrel? Bah, made for pussies!
Here’s your double barrel shotgun-pistol. Black powder, but Maxima can probably still load that faster than Seneca can fire her Glock. And if not, you can make a cartridge for a black powder firearm which speeds the loading process significantly.
Max can probably fab the cartridge from base elements, create the gun power & shot, load the cartridge, and fire it faster than Seneca can shoot.
But why bother? She can also just -throw- the shot at above the speed of sound AND run along side the shot, carefully touching individual pellets to customize the pattern…
Ha, now I’m imagining Max leaving shot patterns in the shape of her logo.
I dunno, dude in that video took a full 5 minutes to load both barrels. Admittedly he was new to the gun, and was talking us through it, but it still wasn’t what you’d call a FAST process.
Black powder can detonate sitting on you gun bench, no human interaction required…. Loading it at super speed guaranteed powder burned eyebrows…. There is a reason black powder is kept in small containers.
If you’re fast enough, igniting the powder as you load just means that you don’t need to bother with a primer.
In terms of ridiculous firearms, I’ve always been a fan of this one. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-deHXZJZUFNI/UocAIjDidqI/AAAAAAAAg5I/s-ieqsvY2T8/s640/tumblr_mvgjud8qIQ1rrmtkro1_1280.jpg
That’s a Garand that takes 458 Winchester Magnum.
If it took more than one shot, you weren’t using a Jakobs! That’s a damn Jakobs.
A friend’s dad was a gunsmith – he built a custom mini-revolver about 3″ long that fired .22LR, just for kicks. Turned out to be annoying to shoot, really had to clamp down with the 1-2 fingers you could get on the handle to keep it from jumping over your shoulder. But really fun for the novelty factor.
Since she is going for the fear effect with her choice in sidearm she should really choose shotgun shells. When you hear the loud boom of a shotgun you know you are in trouble.
Close to that is the Liberator four-barrel breech-loaded shotgun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQK9JNsrq_8
Great channel, that.
9th! (I’m never gonna get first, so i’ll celebrate this milestone) [where can I get rootbeer barrels?]
A store near me sells them in whatever quantity you need.
https://www.simon.com/mall/firewheel-town-center/stores/candy-world
Pretty sure you’re 10^{th}.
I’m sure that these guys can hook you up… they apparently don’t have a website… but here’s a Google Maps link:
Chugs Root Beer and More
I thought crona had the best time, but then i remembered she is not with archon.
“Lifehacks timer to count slower/rewind timer)
Though were is Harem on the list? Or is she only allowed to use oone self during the exercise?
No
CAPESPowers!!!Which is why four of the top six are non-supers
Them Max would not be able to field strip her gun while the targets pop up. Max would have to run it without boosting any stats. I would think that would make her at least a little bit slower because she’s out of practice running things as normal. Otherwise she would have to give herself a handicap handicap time to make it fair.
Max definitely strikes me as a super who would have trouble NOT using her powers. She can’t even use weights to handicap herself – Max could probably have a rail car strapped to each arm and STILL finish the course faster than Peggy could reload.
Basically the way for Max to get a ‘legit’ time that’s fair for record comparison she just puts all her points into Defense for the duration of the run
required secondary powers https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/main/requiredsecondarypowers
even if max is 100% spec’d for defense, she’d still have higher than natural str and agi just to be able to still move. they’d be embarrassingly low for her, but probably well in excess of baseline human
You’re right, Maxima has “base values” for strength, armor, speed, and presumably her energy blast, all of which are higher than human normal. And then she has a power pool that she can allocate as she likes between all of those abilities as well. But I think I recall the author saying that Maxima can “sell back” her base power levels in order to add even more to some other ability or possibly abilities.
If this is the case, then Maxima could potentially reduce her super speed to zero and then run the course. You’d have to take her at her word, and it would still depend on her being able to both know and judge that her super speed was entirely suppressed by that “sell back” mechanism.
Higher than baseline human, yes, just not record-setting in a group that includes many other higher-than-baseline-human individuals.
She still has to wait for the firing action of the gun, travel time of the bullet, travel time of the pop ups, think time to use her reflexes, and is probably somewhat slowed by a desire to avoid damaging the course, her weapon, clothes, or the people around her.
Her clothing and things she carries are protected by both a “zero range” force field and the bullshit hand waving of subconscious telekinetics which magically strengthens things she lifts so that they don’t just snap in half if they aren’t made to be lifted (planes, ships, cars not lifted by the frame, etc.) and also magically knows that she wants to lift a car by the bumper and not rip the bumper off of the car.
Of course, this magical mind reading telekinetics isn’t shown as a power on her cast page, nor has it ever been shown in any of the timer her variable power selector has been shown, but hey, what do you expect, logic and consistency?
Which is why Maxi is not on the damn score board
Also other than Max and Ren I don’t think any of the powers at Archon increase speed.
I definitely got confused by the presentation here and had to read this page a few times…
From the previous page, we’re in the middle of Sydney doing the course and getting yelled at to speed up. Then we start this page in the middle of seeing the course being run very fast… So I thought this was Sydney suddenly blazing through the course (maybe activating some other feature of her glasses? or a bit of timeskip forward a few hours after Sydney has run the course a lot) and that Seneca’s expression was shock/surprise as a glowing bullet casing flew past her that she wasn’t expecting. Then Sydney is looking smug and saying she could go even faster if she put in some effort…
Last we have Peggy calmly nitpicking Sydney on how she could have shaved a few more seconds off the time by not holstering her weapon at the end.
Very much the same :(
Not that the page needs to be changed, just me need to pay attention to the whole page, not just panels two and eight
If it’s any consolation, I didn’t even think it was anyone other than Sydney until I read Dave’s commentary, and was therefore initially very confused about the knife statement.
I thought the same too, until I read DaveB’s comments.
Good to know I’m in intelligent company, and not an idiot. The panel sequence makes sense both ways.
You forget, you are now in the company of me, a recognized idiot
The problem wasn’t that she holstered at the end; Seneca just did that. One of her problems (she had several) was she was engaging the safety and holsterig between EVERY target.
I shared this initial reaction/interpretation, and kept that assumption until I read DaveB’s notes. At first I thought DaveB was saying that Sydney watched Seneca do it and that inspired her to do this badass run. It wasn’t until I got to the part about Seneca being the record-holder that it clicked for me.
The way it reads, that could be (handwaved as) deliberate, and DaveB wouldn’t be the first author/director to mislead their audience with such a trick. Granted, the way it’s usually used ends with the apparent protagonist injured/killed, rather than having them set a course record, but half the point of this comic is to play with conventional tropes.
Damn it! Now I want some root beer barrels.
Also, don’t be a jackass about it
Okay, that was when thought it was Sydney slashing the course record (still kinda applies, going by Sydney’s expression in the last panel)
I think it is high time to update the cast page.
Got the money to pay DaveB to spend the extra time on it when he’s not earning a living at his dayjob?
The cast page is a part of the author’s day job. Have you noticed how it only has people on it who are in the comic? Did you think that the comic itself was the entire extent of the “dayjob” you’re referencing?
No, his day job is the one that actually pays his living costs, which is the reason the cast page hasn’t been updated in ten years, or why fans had to create the wiki page
I was pretty confused, I thought Sydney was knifing everything for some reason. Only after the comments did I realize who was actually doing it
“Reverse diabetes” would be “low blood sugar”, “hypo” rather than “hyper” glycemia. It’s not nearly as common as diabetes, but it is a real thing. And it can kill; While most of the body can adapt to running of fats, (Ketosis), the brain runs off sugar, period.
And, yes, you treat attacks by eating sugary treats. People suffering from it carry around emergency candies.
That’s a thing cyclists and other endurance athletes have to be aware of and stock what are sometimes called energy gels that are mostly cornsyrup with a little flavoring and some salt because electrolytes get depleted with blood sugar. There is also a training technique that requires depleting carbohydrate stores called Bonk Training. I tried it about a decade ago, and when you train without carbs, then carb load the night before and take in lots of sugars during the event it makes you feel like Superman.
But most people don’t do Bonk Training for long rides, usually no more than 10 to 15 miles because going longer than that can cause serious trouble. Long rides get some carb supplements to prevent the hypoglycemic episodes mentioned. Seriously the main reason why we do Bonk Training is to unlock the ability to use body fat as fuel for prolonged exertion like a Century ride (100 miles) or double or triple Metric Centuries which are 200 to 300 km (hence the double and triple) or 124 to 186 miles.
I knew a girl with type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes. She carried sugar pills, and told all her friends to give her one if she passed out.
“But what,” we asked, “if it’s a diabetic coma rather than insulin shock?”
“Doesn’t matter,” she replied. “It’ll still bring me round for long enough to take some insulin.”
Yep, glucose tabs are indeed a thing and every diabetic should talk with their doctor to see if they ought to keep some (or an alternative) on hand. And if so, make sure their friends are aware of the symptoms and the bottle’s location.
Morning prestart. Every morning.
“Who is diabetic?”
“Who has soft drinks? Lollies?”
Confirmed! That type of diabetes does exist. I think it’s Type 1, but I always get confused. Anyway, my aunt had it. Hers was so bad that if she didn’t have a cookie every day at exactly the same time, she’d go into a coma and die. Which is… sadly, how she died. Rest in peace, Auntie.
Type 1 diabetes is you do not produce insulin period. That’s the one you need to take regular shots of insulin to live.
Type 2 diabetes is you do not produce enough insulin, but can manage it with diet and other methods.
I worked with a guy who was prone to this. He kept a bottle of soda handy, because if he ran out of sugar, he’d get dizzy, then pass out. I wasn’t sure if he was just BS-ing so he didn’t get called out for having food around the computers, but he actually did faint while we were working on something and I had to catch him (IT geeks tend to get into what they’re working on and forget to take breaks — more dangerous in his case than normal).
“Reverse Diabetes” could also be considered having a high metabolism like myself.
I’m considered a snacker by my friends because I carry around a little bag of snacks as I’m always feeling hungry, and a friend (nutritionist) figures I eat about 3000-3500 calories a day and I do not put on weight. On the rare occasion that I’ve skipped a meal, I feel like absolute smeg/drek for hours afterwards.
“Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…”
My Mom has trouble tolerating sugar. Her body does not store it. Whatever her body does not immediately need gets dumped and it makes her sick. Which means that when she DOES need sugar, she needs it NOW! This used to give her a lot of trouble at church dinners, because she was the Pastor’s Wife and felt a certain social obligation to at least try a little of the deserts that got served. (“But it doesn’t have any sugar! Just marshmallows!!”)
Actually, Sydney was doing well with her ‘trigger discipline’: she kept her finger away from the trigger when she wasn’t firing
I think it’s just a reminder, given that Sydney is now supposed to relax her range discipline. When the gun was in the holster, Sydney didn’t have to worry about trigger discipline while moving. If she now has to keep it in hand, she has to keep her finger off the trigger while moving, which is something her range-focused gun training presumably hasn’t been emphasizing, so it makes sense to bring it to her attention. Not because she has been doing anything wrong before, but because there’s a new “challenge” now.
Would it be adequate trigger-discipline if she wrapped her trigger-finger around the OUTSIDE of the trigger-guard? Granted, it might not be helpful for speed-shooting, but would it be considered safe?
What you’re meant to do is just keep your finger straight alongside the trigger guard and then curl your finger to pull the trigger when you are prepared to fire. Which I think would work out faster than curling your finger around the guard and then uncurling and recurling around the trigger.
Which is what Sydney was shown to be doing on the last page, if you look close at the panels where she is safety-ing the weapon you can see her index finger straight along the other side of the guard
I’m not sure if Sydney can do that, because she has very small hands (although I wouldn’t actually know, because I have no hands-on gun experience.)
However, if she can, I think it would be trigger discipline in the way not owning a gun is gun safety – it works, but kinda defeats the point.
Also what LexofGotham said.
Ummm. I get this is a comic. But what the hell is Syddles supposed to be achieving here? Please say it’s a supply run through hostile territory to bring back more cupcakes. Or fried onions.
I have been labouring under the delusion this was a careful site reccy to gather information. It seems I was wrong.
Nope, simple assault run, as described in the previous pages
It’s a move-and-fire assault course at the target range. The bad guys and the civilians, such as the blonde hostage in panel 4, are all cardboard pop-up targets. Youi go through the course as fast as you can, using cover appropriatly, shooting all the bad guys and no civilians.
Thank you for describing it better
High-intensity target discrimination. Thank you.
Is it just me or does the “citizen” cutout look like a… ummm… inflatable “companion”?
Seriously, whats with every bad guy being… well… a guy and every good one a girl? Forget looking for armed assailants, just look for breasts or no breasts.
The one to shoot ought to be the little girl with the heavy books.
As to the title, after a bit of playing around I came up with “exemplum gloriosissimi”. Anyone with actual latin acumen want to check?
Ēgregiissimus.
I thought so also. She is missing the open mouth, but otherwise it’s fairly spot on.
Shoot that and you’ll have Lars after you!
Why do idiots keep uploading clips with volume down to 10%?
They all need to be strapped to a chair with headphones on and the volume cranked to 11 and have the 1812 Overture (complete with real artillery) played for five hours straight (or until they stop twitching, which ever comes last)
I tried to enjoy “The Goon Show” in my extreme youth. Problem was the voices were at 10% and the incidental music splashes were at 90%… And many many TV shows keep repeating this crime.
Sometimes, yes, in this case, it’s the uploaders intentionally dropping the volume
That’s one of the reasons I all but stopped watching broadcast television. Shenanigans like that are especially cruel to people with nerve deafness. “Huh, the voices sound really low, lemme turn it up a bi..” *LOUD THEME MUSIC THEN LOUDER COMMERCIALS* “… Oooooorrr maybe not.”
Well, if the “Don’t shoot” target is a thin layer of plastic surrounding slightly pressurized air, then an accidental hit on it will become pretty apparent awfully quickly.
I have seen one course where you were usually given 10 rounds for 9 valid targets and 5 invalid targets, such as male or female hostage situation, a kid running across the course after a ball (all on one wheeled cut-out, pulled by a string), a fellow police officer in uniform holding his pistol in high-safety, and a vandal (not valid for lethal force).
These days there is also a simulator where the scenario is projected around you and you are using a laser pistol when you shoot the bad guys. The examiner also looks at how well you followed proper procedure as well as how well you hit your targets. They even run scenarios where lethal force is never a valid response. That should weed out the trigger-happy Tackleberry types.
I was going to make another *painfully obvious* observation about all the “bad guys”, but I don’t want to start an argument in the comments section. I suspect DaveB did it for similar reasons.
And the ones with “gender-free” clothing? You know, it’s loose enough to hide a wombat securely?
I’m also one of the ones that thought Sydney suddly stopped screwing around (like, Peggy told her this was a speed run) and Seneca was so shocked at Sydney’s under-a-minute-and-a-half time her jaw dropped and her gum fell out of her mouth.
Oh, in case no one has mentioned it, reverse diabetes is hypoglycemia, no foot loss, just coma and death.
Except for the fact that I went “Hey! That’s a root beer barrel!” that was my impression until the very last panel.
The issues are these: Sydney and Peggy are dressed almost identically (I think only the neckbands differ), because of course BDUs. And only rear shots of the person running the course. In the prior page there were several shots of Sydney from the side and front, identifying her completely to the readers.
I agree. Also, there is the fact that Seneca appears to have a wall behind her in that last panel, thus reinforcing the feeling she was just watching.
A way to circumvent this would have be for this same last panel of Seneca’s to show her completely, standing at the edge of the course. This way, we would have been fooled for the main part of the comics (which was certainly intended, and I like that in retrospect), but not confused at the end.
My thought too.
Ive always had this idea for root beer barrel candies.
Make them like poprocks, trap little bubbles of CO2 or such inside so as you suck on them they fizz and sizzle as if its carbonated root beer.
My experience thereof has a scratched tongue.
It’s safe to assume that Seneca was called to demonstrate what Peggy wanted Sydney to do!?
It is safe to say that Sydney wouldn’t understand without a demonstration.
Im genuinely surprised that Hiro is so far down the order list? I know Maxima has super duper speed when she wants to, but considering Hiro can apparently break the sound barrier (gravity assist or not) that would at least imply that he can propel his body pretty fast. I would have thought he could come 2nd to Maxima literally without touching the ground?
it might imply his perception isn’t level with his speed. He can move fast, but perhaps his ability to process and react at those speeds isn’t as good.
Also, his speed may be entirely in flight, and on foot on the ground he is not as fast
Also also possible about the perception thing (which means hopefully he has a decently higher-than-normal durability for the times he missed a turn and smacked a wall with his face)
Chances are low anyone will see this reply at this point, but yea he might not be as fast on foot, but that’s why I said “Literally without touching the ground”. Unless, and this goes hand in hand with both of your comments about his speed of perception, he keeps flying into the barriers.
In which case, I agree with Guesticus about his higher than average durability because whoaboy that could have some less than ideal results.
“HIRO? WHY DOES MAIN STREET LOOK LIKE A HERD OF BULLS RAN THROUGH IT?”
“I…I’m…not as good at precision flight as I thought I was?”
Which honestly just reminds me of the first episode of The Boys. Where a speedster….
has an accident lets say. And I hope that never happens to Hiro.
I’m not sure Peggy’s leg would slow her down. Running records for amputees with good prosthetics are comparable to human legs, and they fair well in long and high jump as well.
https://opedge.com/Articles/ViewArticle/2003-12_11
I would imagine it would be the difference between straight line speed and maneuverability. From what I’ve seen the prosthetic limbs fair well at straight line speed but not so much at stop and pivot. That said most of the courses I have seen are more about quick target acquisition with little more than a short sprint between stations. Of course there are those competitions that require you to carry a 50lb dumbbell from station to station. You know, just to make it interesting.
Note that that’s with prostheses specialised for running/jumping, not the mostly-anatomical designs for everyday use. Peggy’s leg is probably a few levels up from standard civilian-grade, but it’ll still be a general-purpose type designed to be relatively unobtrusive when in uniform. Now if she could persuade Cora to let her use the latest <a title="'Universe Dutch'. If it's not 'proper' Dutch, blame it on different linguistic shift on- and off-planet. I have no idea whether DaveB already has a name for the semi-official Human diaspora.”>heelalmensheid prosthetic technology, things could be very different…
Yeah, all that was cool an’ all, but whatever!
Root beer barrels?! Those things rock!!!
All those space weirdos will forget about our porn once they try two or three of those things. Better start buying stock, and investing in THAT market instead.
-Meoi Lass
OK, but first we should make very sure that their alien metabolism(s) won’t regard any of the ingredients in the root-beer-barrels as toxic — just-in-case.
Whatif, root beer is to aliens as grakz is to Syddles?
Agreed, if they don’t go for the maple syrup then root beer barrels are our next-best hope.
Aaaand Peggy’s tattoos decided to come back from wherever they went. I think there was a DC comics villain who was a man with living tattoos.
(A quick lookup shows DC named him ‘Tattooed Man’. About this time Marvel named Groot’s home world ‘Planet X’. I suppose we can blame this on the 60’s and 70’s having WAY too much drugs.)
I still like the difference in styles of doing a Hogan’s Alley from the Dirty Harry movie Magnum Force. The first guy does it all tactical, going from cover to cover like you’re supposed to. Harry just walks straight down the center of the alley shooting the targets and get a faster time.
i always hated senses like that as any half decant supervisor would disqualify Harry’s run in a heart beat because he wasn’t following the rules of the course. its literally the same as walking around the obstacle of an obstacle course to get the best time, sure its faster but you’ve missed the whole point. Harry wasn’t being intelligent and gaming the system the writer was being an ass and just making everyone else act stupid to make him look good.
We already saw that Harry didn’t give a shit about seeking cover when bad guys were actively shooting at him, why would he suddenly change during a yearly training course with no one shooting back?
because its the rules of the exercise and you don’t get to pick and choice what rules you get to follow and win?
but since the Dirty Harry movie are basically just wank material for narcissistic sociopaths he’s made into a Marry sue/god among men. so instead of being written up, failing the test and maybe being put on desk duty. he gets the “isn’t he so cool” moment for doing something so mind numbingly stupid that no one would ever let it slide.
its just all around bad writing form start to finish.
The big problem with these movies is we’re not allowed to see Bambi on steroids.
And what numb-butts fail to notice about the Dirty Harry movies (because they are so busy screaming out all the things that are wrong), is that Harry does follow the rules, he does uphold the law, he just goes that little bit extra to stop the bastards who either manage to evade sentencing because of some bullshit technicality or go straight back to doing what they were doing when they get out of prison
People claim he is a misogynist because of how he reacted when forced by the mayor’s office to have a female partner: he had no problems with Cagney (or was it Lacey? could never remember which was which) being female, his problem was that she was being promoted to detective without ever being so much as a beat-cop (or even a ‘meter-maid’), and he would have had the same reaction if it was male
Anyone else think this course is a little biased?
I mean, obviously the goal is for the shooter to recognize the guys holding the guns as the “bad guys”, and take them out. Problem is, this is a superhero comic. That sweet-looking blonde in the pink dress could put a laser through your skull by pointing her finger at you. You can’t know!
You have a point actually.
“I’m just a poor widdle helpless girl surrounded by all these bad people!!!” *Secretly having the ability to gravity crush and hurl objects up to the size of an Alaskan land-train with a glance or a thought or a demon in human form or insert your own idea here*
I have two thoughts. The shooting range is prejudiced.
– Why is the blond girl innocent? In Android Blues comic, the sweet girl with the baby voice is the vicious android serial killer.
– Those guys with the guns are fully justified in holding them, in swelf-defence. The person they are facing is shooting first, asking questions afterwards.
yeah these kinds of courses are very old fashioned.
to be fair, they really should look like enemy combatants in full gear with unarmed civilians in postures indicating non-threat/being held hostage.
Umm, when was the last time ‘enemy combatants’ actually had recognizable gear to identify them as enemy combatants? The 1950’s?
The Iraqi army in both Desert Storm (1991) and the Iraq War (2003) come to mind.
@Deanatay:
I wondered about that…
…then I thought that maybe these cardboard-figures were “noob-level images”, & that as Sydney “levelled-up” in skill, she’d be presented with targeting-images that could be perceived as “more subtle” / “less obvious”.
Panel 3 looks like a fat Steven Seagal.
Or Travolta from that Scientology movie that was mentioned last page
So, you mean like Stephen Seagal?
True. Though he does spell his name with a V and not a PH.
the boot helps, but honestly, it looks more like the barrel is popping OUT of her mouth, in surprise, and I thought Sydney just demolished the course somehow until the last panel.
Thought that as well, specially with her going cross-eyed :D
Darn you, Dave! Now I want Root Beer Barrels! Yum!
Seneca is going to need a spot on the cast page pretty soon. It would be interesting to know if she is a super with a less dramatic ability set or is she a super effective but normal person like Peggy or Math.
Read her Who’s Who entry
They call her a normal, but her power is to be able to snack on candy all day long and never gain weight or get a cavity.
So will we be treated to Sydney teleporting and making a new course record?
So far we have seen the light bee targeting drone fly at around walking speed and can’t pass through walls. If Sydney ever needed to go in unseen through a second story window it could be a good option. Otherwise it might be just as effective for her to walk or run to her next location*.
*(assuming she is not going from one source of cover to another while under enemy fire)
I wonder is Jim’s Apple farm is Seneca’s Graceland. It is billed as MN largest candy store. I live close by and lets say if you have diabetes this is not the place for you. Sugar rush just walking through the door, candy from many many countries. Fresh apple pies made onsite, more types of root beer then you could shake a stick at. Actually now that I think about Sydney might geek out a little there also, lot of full sized superhero statues, not to mention the different super hot sauces section.
reading the bottom page comment thing … oh that’s senica doing the course, given the last page and senica’s face I thought Sydney had snapped and went fullon cod/halo/battlefeild/counterstrike commando after hearing about the four minute time limit and how she will have to repeated the course over and over until she’s under that time limit, cause senica looks like shes spitting out a candy and that made the last pannel confusing.
any way to show or tell that its senica giving the example earlier?
The camera angles for most of the page are deliberately ambiguous as regards identity. Consider Panel 7, in which the gun is holstered; Seneca’s skin tone is a shade or two darker than Sydney’s.
to be honest I don’t know if Sydney can do that roll without touching the obstacle with the fly ball. so I was certain that it was someone else.
Sydny, can control the balls, and change their path.
…is she eating a cryptobiote?
“Reverse diabetes” is a thing…It’s called “Hypoglycemia,” a condition where blood sugar levels are too low & most frequent symptom is causing a person to pass out. There are some people who have both hypoglycemia AND diabetes but there are also cases of hypoglycemia without diabetes.
Isn’t it “Shawn?” From the dinner?
Isn’t Shawn a sheep? :thinking:
So my guess is, she’s going to manage (after hours of trying) to get it down to 3:59.5, getting in just under the wire, and mainly because she trips and “accidentally” shoots the last baddie when she hits the floor.
Come on, Sydney, I know you’ve worked to hit a speed run challenge time on video games before, the only difference is that this will require actual physical runni-…
…. oh. I see.
There is actually a real disability where you have to eat a high carbohydrate and often sweets filled diet in order to get through the day (Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis). That said, they typically are at risk for Diabetes because their heavy sweet based diet.