Grrl Power #89 – Badgers. Apparently terrifying.
Those of you in the anti-Arianna camp will probably enjoy this page as Sydney is picking on her a bit for no real reason. Unfortunately only got to address one of the orbs on this page and didn’t really touch much on the rules an limitations of the telepresence orb (or comm-ball as Sydney calls it.) It will be addressed more thoroughly in following pages though. In case it’s not clear, the comm-ball has to send out the smaller, inner orb, and the holo-Sydney projects from that point, so it’s a little like Rimmer from Red Drawf once they introduced the “light bee.”
The orbs are a little like any rule or power system introduced in a comic. You get the rules laid out pretty plainly up front, and then specific situations cause the main character to come up with very interesting use cases within those constraints. Death Note is a great example of this, although they kept introducing new rules througout the series, they explored a bunch of clever twists and exploits with each new rule.
The next page should wrap up what all the orbs can do though so it still averages out to more than one/page.
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HA! HA! HA! BADGERS!!!
Well it wasn’t telaportation, but it’s still a really cool power.
No, it wasn’t teleportation. It’ way more powerful.
I mean, if the situation’s hostile, she could just send in one of those “clones”, and since she can see through it and speak through it, it stands to reason that hearing should be viable – probably not scent or taste though, as those senses actually require you to be able to interact with physical objects.
On top of that, her copy can’t really sustain damage. Dunno if there’s a limit on distance, though. She’s really turning into a one person army.
Oh and the little angel above Arianna’s head? Brilliant! (panel 7)
and the angel is a mini Arianna if you check out the hair doo.. hah sydney has way way to much fun.. but hah still perfect
It’s supposed to be Arianna’s soul leaving her body cause she just died of fright. That Sydney is casually fantasizing about TERROR MURDERING someone she just met may be cause for some concern.
I’m not religious but wouldn’t her soul be less an angel more a demon? She’s not exactly Mother Theresa. lol
always love it when i guess right, and true to the other comment, i’d suspect horns holding up the halo lol
On that note, its a good thing the good guys found her first.
Syd totally would have gone rogue and robbed a bank eventually, or maybe steal a batman #1 or something, given what we’ve seen thus far. Or, I mean, assuming there is a super villain team, they would’ve taken her into their evil clutches and turn her into a villain.
The sad part though? I can’t say the evil guys would corrupt her – pretty sure she’d teach them a few things.
I’m thinking if Syd joined the bad guys she pull so many pranks on them they’d go straight just to get away from her.
Telepresence more powerful than Teleportation? Not by my reckoning.
Great for intel gathering, of course, since attacking the ‘hologram’ is pointless (unless the mini-orb is vulnerable somehow).
But the image can’t DO anything, except distractions. Syd will, of course, be awesome at distractions: “BADGER!”
You can get intel by porting as well: port in with a video camera running, get the intel, and port out. The video camera is in case you catch a glimpse, instant replay without the risk of going in again. And intel gathering is not a porters best use, just a bonus…
I doubt Syd will be able to use other powers through the image, but since she can move the image it already simulates flight.
Though if the image flies while she is not holding the blue orb, it would be a obvious giveaway that it is just an image.
That is, once reports of how her powers work reach the media. Hmmm…
Well, if the mini orb will show an exact copy, then if Syd is using two orbs, then the hologram should be able to use both orbs. In this way, if she uses the hologram and the force field orb(not sure if she has but have heard on the comments page of previous comics…darn spoilers), then the bad guy might not realize that it is a hologram, but the shield is blocking all the damage, when in fact, the damage is going straight through her.
you know in all likely hood it would only create an image of the effect, and not the actual effect. So just as holo-sydney can’t touch anything, the holo-shield wouldn’t block anything. You’d just have a hologram image of Sydney with a Hologram image of a shield.
Badgers are some scare **** :p
scary*
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You’ve got to take more time to proof read your own work.
And trust the spell checker less. :)
Cause I can’t find a good plugin for WordPress that allows you to do that which isn’t also a massive suite of comment admin tools that I don’t need.
and you enjoy seeing our f#*% ups. :D
Last panel should not one of the sydneys be holding the orb?
It’s missing in the last two with Syndey in them. O.o
in panel 10 and 12 the orb is missing.
Dave must have copy and pasted Sydney for the last panel to at least keep her the same but i guess he will fix the missing orb
I don’t think it’s supposed to show the orb in the telapresence copy.
That would be my take as well.
Who says its only one copy .. perhaps like a photocopier someone left on 500 copies it keeps replicating syndeys until someone pulls the plug
Yeah, sorry. It didn’t get this page finished until 3 am last night. Getting all those orbs laid in and doing the glow on her hair and everything makes these latest pages take a lot of time, and there’s that many more places to miss. I’ll get it fixed tonight.
I think it’s cool that the copy doesn’t hold the orb, Dave. Kind of like saying that the copy is made from the orb and therefore cannot show the original orb.
Also, having the copy holding the orb is kind of a giveaway – if you see her holding it, there’s a 50% chance she’s the illusion. It might be better if the copy appeared to have all seven orbs in their resting orbit.
Then what if the real Syd is using two orbs? It would be a dead give-away when one of the Sydneys had a blue psuedopod tentacle thingy and the other didn’t. I’m thinking a 50% chance of hitting Sydney is better than a 100% chance of hitting Sydney.
Well one of the orbs is supposed to be clarisense. She could holo-orb into a building while holding the clarisense orb and know every thing she needs to know about the situation, and then give tactical instructions to the rest of her team that would bring about a safe and effective win.
The holo-orb is the clarisense orb. I should probably updated it to say telepresence or something.
Damm, there go’s that idea.
XD I’m laughing so hard at Sydney right now!
“BADGERS!” XD
Ditto:) If I had that orb the first thing I’d do is go scare my wife. Then I would need the flying one to get away…..
The “Coolest” orb would be the one lets is best for jokes.
Uhhhhhhhhhh… Arianna is getting pranked and that is getting Max to like Sydney more and more… though how can an image irradiate?
I wonder what Arianna is going to do in retaliation.
She may not be into all the things the others are, but she’s a goverment buracrat. They pull $#@% that will make your hair fall out from you pulling it in fustrated rage.
Not like Arianna’s in any position to complain. She was openly patting herself on the back for how her ‘publicity stunt’ successfully found a previously unknown super.
Besides, I think that Max is well’n’truly on Sydney’s side by now. That should count for a lot if Arianna wants to get narky..
Oh yeah, look how Arianna is holding her hairpin, like she’s ready to stab someone.
And that’s where the force-field orb comes in.
Creating an image that talks an moves takes energy an Arianna has know idea what kind of energy it is made of an what it could do to someone outside of the sphere’s protection. She has every reason to be bothered. I mean she wears a Bluetoogh head set an she could be getting some form of energy from it right into her skull and mouth.
“Arianna has no idea…”
An image is radiation. Images are caused by electromagnetic radiation – light – striking the retinas. Electromagnetic radiation also includes gamma radiation, X-rays, microwaves, and other potentially harmful forms of radiation, which differ from the visible light that we see by only in wavelength – that is, color. Now, since Sydney herself is (presumably) not emitting EM radiation in harmful wavelengths or intensities, I don’t see any particular reason to believe that an illusory image of her would be… but it’s not entirely outside the realm of possibility.
Also, Sydney’s wrong. The orb isn’t creating an illusion of only her. It’s also creating an illusion of the orbs and her clothing and other worn gear.
Which leads me to wonder… if Sydney, or a piece of her gear, were emitting harmful electromagnetic radiation, would the illusory copy also do so? In other words, could illusory Sydney actually shoot things with an illusory copy of a laser cannon carried by the real Sydney? Or, on a less exploiteriffic scale, if real Sydney were carrying a flashlight, could illusory Sydney use the illusory flashlight to actually illuminate things?
you know this is the kind of analysis that sydney would do.
one can argue that the orb generate light and sound so it could be possible for sydney to telepresence a laser or a sonic weapon.
Hmm, the room is illuminated too well for me to be sure the orb images do glow (their does appear to be color on her hair, but that is more likely just a copy of their effect on Sydney, than that the copies are actually glowing; or possibly the images are glowing – since they are bonded to Syd they could be possibly be considered part of her for such purposes. Though then other effects of orbs, such as a blast from a PPO might be also be considered copiable…
First test, have an image of sydney in a dark room. Do the orbs truly glow? If so, can she make them brighter if she wants?
Heck, does she glow? As the copy she is basically an image, like a TV in a dark room, it would make little sense for her to not be visible…
Next, a copy in the same dark room with a flashlight. Does it illuminate?
If yes, then same test with a laser pointer.
If yes, start doing some tests with laser weapons….
And, of course, might as well test out the copy PPO regardless while Syd visits the testing grounds, can’t hurt to know for sure…
Other interesting tests: Shine a laser pointer on Sydney. Does a red dot show up on her copy?
If yes, put her in a shiny vest, that relects the laser pointer dot. Does a copy of the dot flash around the dark room?
If so, even if she cannot copy her own attacks, she might use copied reflections of other attacks, if they are light-based.
Next, put Sydney in a dark room. No light reflects from her. She makes a copy. Is it invisible? No.
I can figure that one myself, since I noticed my false premise:
Original Sydney in a dark room with the orbs is not in a dark room, because the orbs glow.
However, if there is an orb that makes her undetectable, it might work with this one…
Ooh, I have so many questions. Time to whisk Syd away!
Don’t worry miss, this next test won’t hurt a bit…
I like the way you think. While you’re at it, try to see if the image radiates in any other frequencies (Does it show up in Infra red?) and is there is any delay between the original and the copy?
Probably the ‘safest’ (most nerfed/ least exploitable) way to explain the image is a vitual atom quatumly entangled with each of Sydneys atoms.
If the vitual atom only interacts with incident photons, then the image of sydney would apear lit as appropriate to the image location, would not glow in a dark room, and would not be able to shine a flashlight/laser-pointer/laser-gun, or copy such a reflection off the original.
The image would also block light from traveling through it as it seems to be doing in the above comic,(Corollary: it would cast a shadow. Neat.), though a sufficiently bright hologram would drown out most backround light too. (but not cast a shadow, duh.)
I am seriously liking Syd’s powers. She’s a superheroic Swiss Army Knife. With the some training and creativity, she can do a ton of stuff with all those. And considering she’s already a roleplayer…
Depends, just she just play them or does she run them? and has she written any? If she’s ran or written any then she might find some “interesting” uses for them. (insert evil sounding laugh)
Either will do. Experienced roleplayers do their best to exploit the system. Experienced gamemasters do their best to prevent their players from doing that. Either will give her the skills (or skillz?) needed to combo and max out her powers.
That said, we do know she’s a player from #1 to #3.
Put Sydney and MacGuyver together and you’ve got an unstoppable army.
Sydney can annoy people anywhere she wants at no risk to herself. Does anyone else think this is the absolute worst power Sydney could possibly be given?
Truly, my brain does hurt now with the imaginings.
Bet with self that Max’s next question (or at least somewhere on the next page) is if Sydney can make zappy beams come out of the projection.
Or the tentacle thing…that would let her manipulate objects wherever her projection is.
Badgers…Truly horrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BUHf3tY9JI
Aaarg! BADGERS IN MY BRAIN!!!
Okay, I just knew someone was going to post THAT link.
I’m surprised it took so long.
No, I’d say if she could project her smell after eating the spicy food she likes, that would be the worst.
Imagine using the Hola-orb and the psudopod one to give her the illusion of her realy being there.
I used hola-orb instead of telapresence because telapresence just takes too dammed long to type.
Plus it sounds cooler.
Why not call it the ‘Badgers’ orb? ;)
not the mushroom orb? :P
I’m calling it the “Ape” orb.
You should be able to figure out why.
Goddammit, now I have the chorus of Ape Call stuck in my head.
I prefer the Kinks I’m an ape man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEep67akIn4
I presume the orb replicates whatever Syd is wearing at that time – so could be very useful in negotiating in hostage situations, where you could send Syd dressed as anything you want in to talk to the criminals without them realising that they can’t hurt her in any way – Should make her a really good scout. Poor Arianna, she seems to be calling to Syd’s prankster side!
Depends on the range – is the mini-ball also subject to the however-many-feet-from-Sydney limitation? If so, that’s at least a 15 pt disadvantage.
Watching Arianna get hers these last few strips, I’m so happy.
Yea, Sydney obviously has “Sense Most Uptight Person” power as well. First she honed in on Maxima, and was irritating the heck out of her. Now she’s zeroed in on Arianna and is going to make HER crazy.
As I said before, I’m soooo happy!
Seconded.
“BADGERS!” Holy damn, I can barely function now because I’m laughing so much! I’m going to use that phrase from now on!
Kind of funny: the orb makes a copy of the other orbs, but not of itself. It’s immune to its own power. Nice touch there, Dave.
Also, can the illusion function semi-independently? Or did Sydney herself go “BADGERS!” in panel 5 as well to get the illusion like that?
Didn’t realise until after the previous comment that the orb within the comm-ball is released when its power is activated. Also a very nice touch, Dave.
Sydney went Badgers as well. It copies what Sydney does.
I wonder if she can controle its orientation. So she can look at herself, instead of having to look at her back when she’s staring at herself.
Another thing to consider …
What happens in multiple input situations – seeing + hearing one lot of things personally, and seeing + hearing totally different stuff via the orb? Can imagine that this could get more than a little confusing.
Unlike Harem, this orb doesn’t allow Sydney to multitask to the same degree. She can sort of focus back and forth between herself and the illusion, like looking at a bug on a window, or focusing on the tree outside.
Does that mean that if she were to focus on her copy’s actions she could make it move while she does not?
I’m thinking she can control her image’s orientation, if panel 12 is any indication.
My guess is that it is like the Decoy in Mass Effect 3. It turns when she turns as far as she turns. Except, unlike the Decoy, it will move when she moves. But, it will always be facing the same way that Sydney is.
Or face the same way in relationship to Syd when she first projected it.
NOW the speech bubble has multiple descenders.
Was there the sound of two people speaking?
I’m thinking shes speaking in hydrophonic sound.
… through water?
In stereo where available.
Did not notice that at first, It’s Sydney in stereo.
Dude, I am going to be giggling about this all freakin’ week.
Well done!
What does the shocker look like?
One extended middle finger, perhaps?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_%28hand_gesture%29
“… no, it just makes an illusion of me, and only me…”
is that “me” as in Sydney or “me” as in the person holding it?, If Harem got hold it and then teleported would the illusion teleport as well or just fade away?
probably sydney, since as far as we know only sydney can use the orbs.
Hmm, let’s see. Harem grabs the comm-ball and teleports away, only to get pulled out 8 feet later as the ball refuses to leave proximity of Sydney. Hilarity ensues all round.
I would say that no one else can use the spheres. Grabbing them might be next to impossible. Or they have a protective measure should someone who isn’t Sydney tries an succeeds in grabbing one. Now that would be a shocker!
If the real Sydney were holding a flashlight, and the Holo Sydney was in a dark room, would the holo flashlight work?
That’s… an interesting question. I don’t know yet.
…By which you mean ‘whatever will be funnier when it comes up’. ;)
Well I’d say yes; we see things thanks to light bouncing off of solid particles and back into our eyes, if there is room between the particles for photons to fit through we end up seeing things as “clear” yet still detect the surface. As the (holo-sydney) is not solid; my guess would be it is projected via an internal source of light (the mini-orb) that can trap the degree in an electro-magnetic matrix to form a (holo-shell) giving the apperance of a solid object; being able to see and hear through it means it has a complex electromagnetic radiation matrix system allowing for quantum entanglement with the source. So I’d say given the internal source and all that, if the original is holding a flashlight; and this just being light then the copy should also be able to project the light. Although that does add to what are the limitations of how much light it can project before it interferes with the stability of the holo-shell.
I’d also say yes, and I don’t see why not… Sydney’s clothes are already copied ;)
…
But there might be a twist: What if the real Sydney holds someone’s hand – would the orb copy the other person, too? Thinking about it, again why not.
Another great scene idea: Syd holds Max’s hand to test that idea. After Max whispers in Syd’s ear copy-Max is seen popping in behind Harem where she yells “BADGERS!” In the next panel we hear 5 harems yelling “ARRRRG!” loud enough to be heard in the meeting room.
:D))))
Must be done later because no Harem is in the room and (even assuming that the “projection tentacle” can go through walls, which I doubt) neither Max nor Syd know exactly where one of Harem’s bodies is right now.
Seconded! Preferably with Harem’s pain-chain reaction, unless Dave considers that a funny-once joke.
There will definitely be many Harem chain reactions, but I’ll vary them up each time.
But the light might end where the holo-sphere ends. So you would basically have a sphere of Sydney and whatever background ambient light is around her and a short beam of light that ends at the spheres circumference. Also weirdly funny.
Here’s another idea: Sydney holds a closed box, and the holographic box passes through someone’s head. Would s/he be able to see its contents? Could be useful for bomb squads. I could go further and ask what they see if Sydney’s holo-*body* passes through, as suggested by the last panel, but I think that gets too yucky.
I just realized that in the bomb squad scenario, the *real* Sydney would have to handle a potential bomb. Probably not a good idea. :)
That’s an interesting one :) But I’d say no, because unless the real Sydney opens the box, the illusion-box might be solid because only its outside can observed.
But it’s still a great thing for examining the inside of a bomb because the illusion-Sydney could stick her head through the bomb’s hull and see its inside… provided that she can bring some light with her. For that, the real Sydney had to wear an LED head-light. Why not?
“can observed” -> “can be observed”
Yeah, shortly after I posted that, I realized that that would be the way to do it. However, I think the fact that Sydney actually can see through the eyes of her projection shows that there’s more to it than just a projection of her outside.
Hm. Right. Then again… There would be no light inside the closed box, even if its inside was copied, too.
And/Or would the person whose head was inside the holo-box be able to see out?
Another interesting question is why Sydney says “illusion”. She’s geek enough to know what a hologram is and what an illusion is and what the differences are. Is she saying that she is projecting a mental image of herself? And if so, could she be photographed or seen by any non-self-aware machine?
If she knows what a hologram is, then she knows that what the orb projects isn’t a hologram: it’s a 3-dimensional object, not a 2-dimensional surface displaying an apparent 3-D image…
Actually both of those can be called Holograms, the 3-D projection is the “Holy Grail” that hologram engineers are working towards.
(the Holodeck is still a long ways off)
an illussion refers to any trick of the eye and/or mind. Usually though “geeks” reserve the term ilussion to refer to projections of the mind, tricks on the mind, or magical projections; while Hologram is more used as a 3-dimensional or apparent 3-dimensional image created by technology.
(although I have been seeing a cross-over in terminology lately).
One thing for sure, the energy used to make those projections, if that is what they are, can phase through more “solid” materials and retain coherence.
“The Shocker”? Google … Right, I’m out of date never heard of those. Still at least she didn’t ask for the show stopper.
Sydney can’t teleport, but maybe the orb can.
Right hand in panel 1,2 and 3. Left hand in panel 6. Right hand in panels 7,8 and 9. No orb after that.
Of course it is an illusion orb. Maybe it like to screw with people too. :D
And Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!
Not too many people know this, but the turtle is nature’s suction cup!
I like the way Max is beginning to understand how to handle Sydney. “Stay on Target!”
Handy skill for leading her in the field.
ADHA, you think of fifty things in ten seconds.
Sorry, ADHD
I was thinking more ADHLAS: Attention Deficit HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL!
you mean Badger, not Squirrel ;)
Ooooooh! Shiny!
don’t lie you meant attention deficit hyperactive annoyance
Ahh yes, but where does that line come from?
hint, it’s from Star Wars.
“Gold Leader” says it twice before getting shot down while attacking the Deathstar.
“Gold” “Leader” BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Which is an even better indication the Max is a good leader, considering who her audience is for that particular instruction.
That’s not a hint, that’s outright telling me the answer. :)
But I already knew that. Further proof of Max’s former nerdiness.
Once a nerd always a nerd you just use a better disguise.
I can see ways in which this orb could be exploited to good effect.
For starters, if Dabbler were to put an illusion spell on the original Sydney, I bet the illusion would change accordingly.
I wonder whether Sydney can use it to operate short-range powers via proxy – for example, centering the pseudopod on the copy.
Maxima said Dabbler could only transform herself.
Right… But someone else could change the appearance of another one. It might work :)
I don’t hate Arianna. But she reacts so well to Sydney’s blitz using the tele-presence orb. LMFAO!!!! XD
I can just see villains attacking the holo-Sydney (as she taunts them) and getting very frustrated! :D
Or better yet, distracting and amuseing the bad guys with her award winning swearing rants.
I’ve only heard of greek fishwives and arabs being able to swear with that kind of creativly.
Maby when she was a kid she lived in one of those areas. If her family was milatary it’s a definite possibility.
Or perhaps her neighbor is from the Middle East and she picked up the habit from them?
Or maybe she was self-taught
Graphics-wise, the ball in the middle of the orb looks a bit off – like it’s ON the orb, not IN it – or like the orb has a Death Star thing going on.
It’s mostly that there’s an actual black outline, I think. Putting some partially transparent orb filling on top would help, too.
Otherwise, looking good!
It looks like it is inside to me
lol Rimmer, Man this comic is awesome! Also cannot wait for the new season of Red Dwarf!
Also noting, yet another (arguably) geekish quote from Max – “Stay On Target”.
Maybe we should start listing all of Max’s geekish lines so far – “Bored now” from Buffy, “Grabthar’s Hammer” from Galaxy Quest ….
Imagine the possibilities that orb has for Halloween!
Friend of mine once dressed as devil and rode in an elevator the entire night.
“Going down?”
HA HA HA! This friend of yours sounds funny as all unholy Hell! Something you might want to tell him or even try yourself, stand in the back of an elevator and wait for six or seven people to get on and say “So, I imagine you are all wondering why I have brought you here…” I wish I could lay claim to this joke, but I think I saw it in a demotivational thing. I wish I could do the joke myself, but I can’t keep a straight face to save my life!
I’m currently writing on a fanfic to GrrlPower.
Starts with “BUY COMICS!!!” and my main char goes in and buys 4 of everything.
one for each lamination, swapping, backup and of course reading.
He’s also got a couple of hot sauces with him.
Source of Universal Pain and Devil May Cry with 15 mil Scoville. Capsaicin With Taste. 15.5 mil Scoville. Even a bit much for Sydney (dumps her head in a bucket of water).
In the bank, he’s going totally ape, as those two sods trigger the auto-safety and close all entrances.
“There’s one thing you never put in a trap, if you’re smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.”
Outside he bullshits Max, since he’s kinda Chaotic Good. You and what army? VTOL lands. “Sorry, my bad. Air Force.”
Yep, he’s a Slider… more technically a formerly ascended, magical Time-Lord Slider named Jack O’Neill.
He’s got (Time-Lord) pockets and a hammer-space. Yes, he’s going to empty them at his interview.
Just 1 question: For what needs a slider-time-lord Capsaicin-with-taste? Unless… he knew beforehand that Sydney likes that stuff. But how could he? (Well, that’s strictly 2 questions, but they are very related :D)
By that time he’d already been through a couple of realities.
Besides, as being at least part Time-Lord he had the problem of being able to see all the possibloe multiverses.
And finally: why not?
Has to have a couple of uses.
Like melting armor…
Howling with laughter… Badgers… bastard… I am actually crying with laughter.
…and now wait till next week sweet torture where the hell are you going with all this?!
LOVE IT
HA HA HA! This friend of yours sounds funny as all unholy Hell! Something you might want to tell him or even try yourself, stand in the back of an elevator and wait for six or seven people to get on and say “So, I imagine you are all wondering why I have brought you here…” I wish I could lay claim to this joke, but I think I saw it in a demotivational thing. I wish I could do the joke myself, but I can’t keep a straight face to save my life!
Aw what the crap?! Sorry, that was supposed to posted under the comment above this one. Yeah, my bad. I’m a tad bit careless like that.
Legend has it that someone pulled that at a local SF convention to the extent of getting a fog machine and changing the elevator light bulbs to all red. Results were entertaining.
The heck? It posted to the wrong area. I thought I clicked on the one about the devil in the elevator prank.
It was. Sort of.
HA! Yes I’m not the only one! Thank you Good Sir, you just made my day.
So, it´s settled, then.
I oficially have to like Max now.
Damn.
So, in panel 10, Sydney has her eyes shut. Is that in enthusiasm, or is she actually closing her eyes and still seeing through her projection?
Enthusiasm, totally.
and according to the spoiler this is one of the last two ‘known’, only one left is the force field.
I’ll say one thing for Sydney, she has balls.
*headdesk*
*howls with laughter*
*Punhammers*
In fact, she seems to have more balls than any of them!
*Activates Orbital Relativistic Anti-Bad Pun Satellite System* Buh-Bye!
that and she seems to have lost her marbles years ago…. I’m sorry, so sorry.
https://verydemotivational.memebase.com/2010/02/09/demotivational-posters-triple-face-palm/?from=recMap1
Quick question, since the orbs are missing in some panels, does her illusion also hold an orb, or are her hands free? That is, does the comm-orb make an illusion of itself?
I finished the comic very late so I forgot some of them. I’ll try and fix that tonight.
I was kinda hoping you could use it as a handwave so you didn’t have to do that. You know, the comm-ball can’t make a copy of itself, or something.
Wasn’t trying to nitpick, particularly since you already posted about it in the blog entry. :X
No that’s cool. I’m sure some people skip the comic comment and just dive into the reader comments and it’s important to establish certain rules about how the orbs work early on.
Now can she use multiple orbs at once or just one at a time?
She also said ‘illusions’, plural. Can she actually make more than one illusion of her?
She can use two at once, one per hand.
Are badgers terrifying? Yes, and I can prove it; – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGPvoNBGiy0
And just because I’m evil I’m going to dare you to watch it until the end!
Badgers are small an mean an are directly related to wolverines an minks an weasels part of the mustela group of musk producing mammals. On “Fringe” we found out that on that alternate world badgers had been domesticated as pets. (Reminds me of those Russians who for 50 years have been breeding foxes to become pets.)
I’m feeling sorry for Arianna today. She needs a break. Be nice an be well.
The foxes are actually turning out quite cuddly and dog-like in behaviour. It doesn’t take that long to create a domestic canine when you know what you are doing: breed the most friendly with the most friendly and watch what happens.
The part that gets me is that they also selectively bred, not only for the most friendly, but also for the most aggressive. I’m not sure what that group was supposed to prove.
that human beings are fundamentally psychotic?
Your only just now thinking this? Thats the reason we have laws, customs, and act polite to each other. So the ravaging monster inside each of us dosn’t destroy every thing.
I know some people say they want anarchy, but I for one prefer working plumbing.
Well, I believe humans can be a great people.
It kind of shows in our everyday life. Sure, bad stuff is entertaining, but just because we’re kinda used to the good stuff.
And we’ve got all the hero-movies, comics, cartoons and whatnot because they remind us of what we want to be, because we think that’s good.
If only more adults remembered to keep to the ideas of comics from their youth.
“The mask doesn’t make you a worthwhile being. It’s the person under it.”
Personally, I try to keep to three or four main tenments from popular culture.
“If you don’t follow the rules you’re trash. But if you know what the right thing to do is and you dnN’t do it, you’re worse than trash.”
“I know it’s the right thing to get what we want; but is it the right thing to do?”
“You only live once. Live the life, and die by the road of life you want. But whatever the path you choose, don’t ever forget to protect your precious persons in your life.“
And of course the Unspoken Rule.
I didn’t mean to say that people can be good and nice to each other just because thats the way they are.
I was just stateing that inside each of us, when things don’t go well or someone is agravating us, a little part of us want’s to strike out.
Civilization in it’s many forms stops us from doing this. And I am very glad it does.
And then there’s things like nukes and bullets for 17 Cents apiece.
Yay for the U.S. (flood of sarcasm).
The US didn’t invent bullets (it is pretty clear they existed prior to this country)
and while the US did invent the Atomic bomb first they weren’t the only ones researching it, just the first across the finish line, Russia and China were close behind; So chances are had America not done it first, Russia; or rather the Soviot Union would have made the atomic bomb first.
Actually, if they hadn’t have lost the war when they did, Germany would probably have had a completed bomb before anyone.
I had edited Germany out of my post before posting because I didn’t want to stir up the bag of beans that had it not been for their insane ideologies at the time they wouldn’t have forced one of the most brilliant scientists to flee their country and come to America who was part of the Manhattan Project (he didn’t know what he was working on, but people today tend to give him most of the credit because he is well known and was instrumental in the project).
Tell me, where can I get a seventeen cent working nuke?
Well there is this little place on the boarder between Iraq and Iran (you just said working nuke, not World power grade megatons explosive nuke right?) LoL.
Obviously not nukes for 17cents.
But the U.S. invented the Davy Crockett, similar to that cool thing in FO-3 anf Fo-NV.
Also, I don’t think there’s any other country where you get a rifle for free for opening a bank account.
And the questionaire you have to sign asks if you’re criminally whacked.
So, if you’re non-criminally whacked, you can still get a gun…
Did you know that there are some chemical explosives out there that can rival a small nucular explosion? True, look it up.
Badgers? WE DON’T NEED YOUR STINKIN’ BADGERS!!!!
Are you teaching poodles how to fly?
Just came across your comic Saturday and read through your whole archive. I really enjoyed the whole thing, but the most recent quarter of them had me laughing out loud (literally) and having trouble reading at some points due to tears of laughter. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks! I’m improving as I go.
Badgers are dog-sized balls of claws, teeth, and rabid fury, so I don’t blame anyone for being terrified of them. On that note…
BA-HAHAHAHAHAAAAA…. that was priceless XD.
Do you check the facebook fan page for this? I left a message on there.
Any way good update.
Yeah, not as often as I refresh this page though. I can post a larger version of the panel in question but I don’t really have time to edit them. Tonight I have to correct all the mistakes on this page. :P
No worries I know what it is like to have little time on your hands. I do not have much either.