Grrl Power #912 – Maximum trauma!
Well that seemed to have shut Sydney up.
There were a few comments on the previous page about how that guy’s arm will be useless now. You were correct.
So yeah. I expect some, heh, mixed reactions to today’s comic, from “He deserved that.” to lectures on how fantasy depictions of using horrific ordnance on criminals is probably bad and only just a little bit funny. Well, Sydney’s face there in panel six makes me laugh every time I look at it.
I went back and forth if I wanted to go through with it, but this is what I had planned from the beginning of this sequence. Remember way back in like page 194 where I was like “I don’t know how much gore I’m going to put in the comic” and then much later Sciona bisects Cooter because I thought it’d be funny? Good times. Still, this isn’t exactly new behavior for Cora.
BTW, That’s not a tentacle on Sydney’s shoulder. It’s a vertical selection of rib meat.
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well giblet rounds … also can i question why those rounds have a Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru setting
It might be a programmable time fuze – probably originally intended for airburst.
Also, delay fuze can be used to aid penetration – making sure it doesn’t go off outside of any armor.
Using so the guy you just killed can still respond to your one-liner is probably not the designer-intended use.
Alari detonation rounds with a blood fuse trigger
It might not be the designer’s intended use, but it’s very demoralizing to anybody who thought they were on the target’s side.
Not much more demoralizing than seeing the target julienned like this would be anyway.
As opposed to realising the target’s side is on them, you mean?
Yes,causing everyone’s attention to go onto the conversation between Boss Daddy and Cora for a moment before he became Boss Tartare sort of ended any likelihood of rally afterwards.
Let’s entertain the idea that it *might* be the designer’s intended use.
These Space Cowboys – and for that matter, the IntraGalactic Acquisitioneers – seem to have a flair for the dramatic and work hard to play hard while they’re working. Think of the Dabbler/Cora glee at putting dibs on the loot. Think of the weird impracticality of Space Ninja not having a blaster backup or a flying device like Cora has. There may be thaumatic (magic, psionic, whatever) reasons for this but it seems more like drama – and in a universe which values showmanship, having a moment to deliver a punchline can improve the story dramatically!
This may not makes sense to most humans, but we’re a primitive culture stuck down a gravity well and have no flair at all!
Well that’s therapy!
Did she make him explode? If so, is that an intestine on Sydney’s head?
Yes and yes.
Well, that’s just offal!
HOW DARE YOU STEAL MY PUN!
Sydney beat you both to it. :)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-574-trail-off/
If it’s good enough for Sydney, it’s good enough for us.
I admit, most unabashedly, that I was totally picking up what Sydney was layin’ down.
looks like liver… just saying
That is a vertical slice of his rib cage, and extended into various meat and skin, to be flopped on her head – this was not exactly an explosive round, as much as something that is the ordinance equivalent of a single “pulse” in an industrial-grade food processor (like Elon Musk would probably sell in a promotional stunt), centered inside his shoulder.
I missed the riblets… Good eye!
Monofilament wire unspooling at high speed inside him.
Today on fist of the north sydney
Darn it …. you beat me to it …. =((
But … obligatory YouTube link for context … https://youtu.be/dNQs_Bef_V8
He had a gun in hand and had already attempted to shoot his hostage. Death by cranial perforation or death by salsafication it would still be easy to justify. The only issue would be the time delay. I bet the other goons surrender very quickly. Lets hope that Concretia grabs her remote and explains very quickly. If I were the bad guy I would have some sort of fail safe in case the remote were taken from me.
These guys feel like amateur rich idiots. Hoods, orgy masks, using force and humiliation to control a powerful super, not taking Sydney to a second more secure location and hiding themselves just in case the memory erase wasn’t 100%, then taking her back somewhere. That way even if she were to recover some memory she couldn’t say where she was (so no forensic *with magic* sweep of the area; or identify anyone.
This guy especially clearly had that (has money and used to power and everyone listening to him that the idea of any back talk sets him completely off.) Chances are these idiots were either going to be caught sooner than later or cross paths with someone a lot more dangerous than they are…like maybe abducting and trying to coerce a vampire by mistake getting the hive to come down on them; or a Mafia boss’s henchmen.
basically they have this feel of wannabe illuminati, they are probably all trust fund babies in their day jobs or middle management with a chip on their shoulders.
They probably couldn’t move Sydney, because the orbs have to be moved with her. Unless Concretia can levitate the stuff she is manipulating (her body is a special case), Sydney and the orbs would have to be kept in contact with the substrate, so it would be simpler to deal with her where she was captured. Besides, they are on a very tight schedule; they know that a few tons of Supers could descend on them at any second.
Use q paralysis drug or knock out drug, and then set up this same distance mobility again at site b
Yeah, it would not be too difficult, knowing what the audience knows. However, in essence, the only isolation method they had handy was tons of concrete, and that’s not particularly portable. (They could not know that mittens would have been sufficient.)
The only reason the distance was needed at all was to immobilize Sydney. You could use normal human restraints, as long as the balls themselves were not physically contactable by her.
Tubey being enough to isolate them from her was on national TV. Wouldn’t have been too hard to bring evil Tubey and some restraints.
was it? Halo was not at that bank, Sydney was, and the hijinks were not necessarily on camera.
I’d bet if you checked all that footage, that there is none of tubey in her bank hijinks at all… almost as if something had gone out and erased it off the internet and the TV stations files.
Spoiler alert, Sydney and Halo are the same person, which is publicly known.
But reviewing the archive, Sydney being foiled by Tubey indeed wasn’t on camera. Still in public(and witnesses weren’t sequestered, and no, you can’t really “erase things off the internet”, so likely known, but not necessarily with the certainty they would need to rely on it.
You didn’t spot what Dal implied? Read the last sentence twice more
I did, and I argued against that possibility in the comment you replied to, if only in a bracketed subclause, because it turned out not to matter.
Sydney’s Tubey antics at the restaurant aren’t publicly known, but the ones at the bank explicitly were televised – you can see the reporter and cameraman on the page where Max picks it up, and then she smashes her face into it on the next page (which Arianna comments on back at base).
And while Leon or an orb AI may theoretically have wiped the station’s footage, I doubt they could also find every VCR, DVR, and cell phone copy on the planet. And even if they had, millions of people saw it so what’s the point? Quite the opposite – Leon pulled the entire bank footage himself and published it.
Oops! Was just thinking of what happened in the bank :(
Going again, I was wrong. The camera footage was on Youtube (#57), and in #58 Arianna says the tube was visible on the footage.
He deserved it for making Concretia say “thank you daddy”
Yep. Deserved every nanosecond of the intense pain he felt before death.
The other goons were behind him, a bit late to surrender unless that weapon is remarkably range controlled.
So, what was that, a nanowire detcord combo, that slices and dices, and only then explodes?
Another commenter suggested that they were Alari rounds with a blood-triggered fuse, which I very much like as a theory.
If Dave reads it, I bet he will incorporate/retcon it ;)
My theory: The apparent delay is part of the detonation sequence – validate target, identify safe radius for deployment without affecting other organisms, deploy, slice.
If it had a chance of hurting any other organism, Cora would not have used it with a target less than five feet from Sydney.
Or the word ‘oops’ spoken by Cora was the trigger for an expended round to activate?
Very lethal. Like Cora herself.
She clearly doesn’t care about the lives of people who don’t care about the lives of her friends.
The hell did she shoot him with? Was that a bolter round?
Nah, a bolter would explode. This was some kinda nanowire Cusinart bullet…
“Nanowire Cuisinart bullet” wins.
ewww, and awesome, I love and hate this all at once
Yep, Ive been saying monofilament wire unspooling at high speed, but nanowire cusinart sounds much better.
With 40K the weapon with the closest effect I know is Harlekin’s Kiss.
Harequin’s Kiss, Warp Spider Web Spinner, and there’s a siege version as well but I can’t remember what it’s called off the top of my head.
Uh oh, spaghetti-ohs
I don’t know what kinda ammo she used, but I really hope it has a cool name.
Also, poor Sydney’s gonna have PTSD for months if not longer from this…
Mr. Spiny thread,
perfect for making large amounts of chili for the whole family, of giant anthropomorphic lions.
maybe if she gets just a taste of that second syringe, it might be ok
She only has to forget about an hour or so.
Take in account her weight (or lack there-to) a small dose should be sufficient.
HOWEVER, there was already concerns about drug interactions.
You don’t want to have a ’50 First Dates’ situation.
Ya’ know…Archon is going to insist on debriefing Sydney before she forgets…And they’re going to want every single detail of what she witnessed. Therapy to follow. Heck, even the SCP Foundation insists upon it, but the type of therapy to follow depends mostly on the organization-specific policies & resources available.
Some kind of flesh disintegrator for when you absolutely need to traumatize everyone in the room.
if you really want to traumatize people use a spell or nanite weapon that causes the target’s bones to twist themselves inside out.
-note: NOT inside out coming out the body, no twisting inside out so the marrow is on the outside while still inside the body ripping tendons and muscles as they twist (this is especially horrific when its done to the skull and vertebrae)
And this was how Cora got deported and banned from Earth for 100 years… Yeah, Max is not going to be happy with this mess.
Eh, Max is no pacifist, and Sydney was in immediate danger. And hearing how the guy was treating Concretia is just going to make her more okay with it. The only thing she’ll probably blame Cora for is making it more traumatic than necessary for Sydney. Cora’s got an undefined but extensive arsenal of sci-fi BS on tap – she surely could have found a way to kill that guy that wouldn’t have made him go all Jackson Pollock right in Sydney’s face, if she’d really wanted to.
are you kidding? in a country where ‘i felt threatened’ is a regular LEO’s get-out-of-jail card? no max will probably have the guy’s gun do some sort of misfire in the report to help cover the gore. Sydney is already in therapy this will just add to it. most likely is an argument between the therapist, PR person, Max, HR, and some other group to shall we say.. normalize Sydney’s life for a while. keep her out of the public eye and away from major violence for a time to let the girl heal a bit. (paper work, lots and lots of paperwork.)
The guy’s gun doesn’t need to have done a misfire. He was a clear and present threat to others around him – hell, the case could be made that his continued possession of Concretia’s body gave him continued access to a lethal weapon.
However, Cora’s methods were still questionable as hell.
The problem is Cora is not LEO, she is a civilian and Max pulls her punches, a lot. Also, Cora has already demonstrated she has a lot of non-lethal takedowns. Also it is more useful to have someone you can interrogate afterwards.
Let me put it this way, if you’re FBI and you travel to London (invited and are allowed to keep your service weapons which is unlikely), then go and shoot an armed and dangerous criminal, when you clearly could have tasered them, you might not be prosecuted but you sure as hell are going to be persona-non-grata.
This guy strikes me (struck me?) as someone who would be only slightly, but I would say at the same time pretty firmly, on the opposite side of easily interrogated – like he would talk easily, but there would a lot of extra threats and blather, and I’m not sure I would trust any intel he gave up – basically not really a good time investment -also strikes (struck?) me as a middle management type, so he might know a little more than his friends, but he’s not at the top of anything, so… just basically not worth Cora’s time
> Cora has already demonstrated she has a lot of non-lethal takedowns.
Hasn’t she demonstrated that she *doesn’t* have non-lethal takedowns?
“That was my regular ordinance” and so on? She’s never struck me as someone who even considers fighting like Kira Yamato.
Only png to the public, within ranks, they would be celebrated
Oddly, us soldiers are under stricter fire control than domestic cops. Or are supposed to be. Exceptions exist.
the united states government is Much more concerned with upsetting another government (and its allies) by slaughtering people, than slaughtering it’s Own people after all
Your claim that Max would involve herself in faking evidence means you are completely unfamiliar with her character.
In this situation, no one needs to fake evidence. Before Cora fired, Boss Tartare was actively trying to kill a kidnap victim. Cora’s bullet’s impact distracted the kidnapper and his henchmen for a moment, then when it completed its activation sequence, it rendered him inert and them compliant. No explanation or excuse is necessary.
Also, no one not present is ever going to comment on it. Given the nature of some of the information needed to understand the tactical situation in the first place, and the fact that disclosure would put Sydney in constant danger from further attempts, there will likely be no public disclosure that anything ever happened here.
There will be a debrief, but it will more likely focus on Concretia than any decisions by Cora.
the point that this incident will be classified because of the exposure of Sidney’s weakness is a good one. I did not mean to say that there would be any physical things done. more that if needed the written report might have something like a misfire or some other reaction in it to keep people from getting too curious. whatever we want to call that thing Cora fired, just about every major military organization and several arms manufacturers would happily study whatever that round left behind for as long as permitted.
Who said it left anything behind?
No, a simple “I felt threatened” is not enough…There has to be something tangible to show there actually was a threat with the means to carry out said threat being present.
I believe the incantation is “I feared for my life”. (with some indication that the subjective fear was not objectively irrational.)
Depends on the jurisdiction. In Florida, for example, the family of Treyvon Martin would disagree with you.
They would be very wrong in every jurisdiction. At the time he was shot, Martin had Zimmerman pinned down and had been raining punches into his face and head and slamming his head into the sidewalk for over a minute. Zimmerman had been repeatedly screaming for help, one local resident (and witness) came near and then retreated so as not to risk his own safety rather than trying to interrupt Martin’s continuing assault on Zimmerman. Even a single blow to the head can easily, and in many many tragic cases has, cause death or traumatic injury resulting in lifelong disability. Many examples have been caught on film and can be seen on YouTube — one-punch kills in street fights or brutish assaults. In every jurisdiction in the country and in most around the world, what Martin was doing and continuing to do exceeds the threshold for “a significant threat of serious bodily injury or death”, especially since Zimmerman was unable to disengage or stop the attack by any other means. Watch the trial (it was publicly broadcast) for full details, don’t rely on the various false narratives spread by the ignorant or those with something to gain from twisting what happened.
Actually, CosmicPtatonix is still correct regarding the family of Martin: the precious, innocent, black kid who didn’t do no harm to anyone!
Big powerful government organisations like ARCHON often bend the rules to their own advantage.
Quite, and also to the advantage of the rich and well-connected. Cora may be psychopathic but she has access to a spaceship, other alien weapons and tech, and a knowledge base which adds up to priceless. Before Earth NGOs would drop the hammer on her, she’d have to be well over the line and they’d have to be convinced it’s worth the risk of losing access. That call is going to be made above Max’s paygrade.
Sidney is a federal agent on duty, as is Maxima and the rest of Archon.
The aggressors being killed is not surprising at all, but merely the logical consequence. Even if caught, the death penalty is quite probable.
Try assaulting, kidnapping, drugging and threatening a regular NSA-agent at gun point and expect the SWAT team (or for that matter, judge & Jury) to go easy on you – good luck with that.
now comes the question did numbers 2 and 3 survive or are they in shock after seeing the talky guy go sploosh?
They almost have to be alive, because Cora would not have used that round so close to Sydney if it could take out more than the primary target.
It’s not like that’s Sydney’s first time in a situation like this, although admittedly she didn’t intended to take that blood bath like she did and didn’t get to see the explodey person deal that created it.
I hoped it would be Dabbler who turned up and did something like that – on Fracture station Sydney said Cora was much more violent than Dabbler, and Cora was surprised/amused. This could have been a way to show Dabbler’s violent side.
Since Dabbler is part demon do we really want DaveB to draw a person suffering a “Boiling Blood” spell, or being impaled by shadow spikes come from below, or that messed up vines from inside thing Kurama from YuYuHakusho would do.
Don’t forget “Evan’s spiked tentacles of forced intrusion!”
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0020.html
Nah, she would enter the scene with her shield up, giving a snappy remark about insecure men and what they use to substitute for other inadequacies, then pull out a sword from subspace, split it in two and proceed to slice and dice the bozo. He would be just as dead, and just as bloody, but in a much tidier pile.
My magical girl TTRPG character, Azami, did the “spikes from your shadow” bit sometimes. Good fun.
Sure, why not.
not sure about that, but I think that’s an ear on her leg in panel 8
Yeah, took me a minute to figure out what that was. I thought for a minute that Syndey’s knee (Sydknee?) had been sliced partway away, but…nah. It was all that one projectile’s work for sure, and if neither Concretia nor the other goons got hit, Sydney would definitely be in the clear, too. But now I’m wondering if those are actually intestines or if Cora shot the guy with some kind of tentacle ammunition–it *would* be on-brand…
I wonder what this means for Hench Wench/if it means anything. I don’t know how LLCs work, but it would be kind of funny if some comedic “I had X power, now I don’t” based problem occurred.
Actually, that’s an interesting thought, Natsune….
…Hench Wench has pointed out that her power is to copy the powers of whoever she specifically is working for. So, for maximum effect, every Super on her team would have to be her ‘boss’. She has also specifically stated that her contract works to her advantage more than her employers, as she is under no obligation to surrender if ordered to, & she can only be fired by a two-thirds majority vote by all of her employers.
Presumably all of the Supers that are currently ’employing’ her are subordinates of Hoodface McViscera-Splodeyface. Even though he doesn’t….err, ‘didn’t’ seem to have any powers himself, his termination could have a dramatic effect on Hench Wench’s contract.
For example, if the Field Team’s payment was hingent on his being alive, then would that mean that all of them are currently out of a job? Wouldn’t that automatically nullify HW’s contract? If not, does his death change the balance of that “2/3’rds vote”?
That would depend how it was set up, but I don’t think it would have a noticeable effect. In order to be classed as HW’s employers, the various ‘donors’ would have to be equal at the top of the LLC; if there was another tier formally above that within its structure, then HW’s power would take its reference from that tier and not the intended donors. Whatever organisation ‘Daddy Sauce’ was a part of, it would have to have recruited the LLC as a subcontractor, which would leave the LLC itself intact even when its link to the bigger organisation is gone.
If the supers were in charge of the LLC and HW was hired by them; then lambskin gloves et al hired the LLC. Now that lambskin gloves is fatally occupying a much greater area; the LLC MAY be unemployed, but HW is STILL their employee.
You lot clearly know more about business & contract law than I do.
On another note, I love how imaginative you people get with describing the boss’ death.
‘Daddy Sauce’ – that was good.
‘Fatally occupying a much greater area’….My cheeks hurt.
Seriously doubt that shit stain had any powers of his own, which is why he was trying to get Sydney’s balls for himself (because he clearly had none of his own)
If Sydney injects herself with that syringe,won’t she be in a vegetable state!?!?
Given she doesn’t have normal reactions to drugs (or at least mind-altering ones) she should be afraid it would do the opposite of what’s claimed and burn everything into her memory in a very permanent ‘like it just happened’ recall of it.
Will she or won’t she do it!?
I hope Cora will stop her.
Sydney? I recommend a shower first before you use that. The last thing you want to to have your short and long term memory short-circuited and wake up covered in people bits with no idea how it happened. D:
Hah hah.
Inject – Now to forget… AAAH! What happened!?
Inject – Now to forget… AAAH! What happened!?
Inject – Now to forget… AAAH! What happened!?
Okay, I’ve got to ask. Cora’s freckles… Are they light emitting?
They look like they’re light emitting, but that might just be the medium.
More to the point, it appears ‘Daddy’ won’t be fixing any more ladies. And here I was hoping he’d try that bullshit with Max.
You know, at some point, Cora’s freckles switched from being normal, dark freckles to being light teal. I just… forgot what color they were and didn’t check when I started drawing her again after some intermittent absences from the comic.
Obviously something to do with how her photosynthesis mod works. Maybe a visual readout that a medical technician can use to assess how they’re operating. Teal means she needs a bit more UVA than she’s been getting.
Nah, don’t admit the mistake: Just say she has mood-sensitive freckles! Just an alien form of blushing, really.
now you gotta go back…
If Space Humans are anything like Earth Humans, any technology with useful medical benefits would quickly be adapted for cosmetic applications. We know that Space Humans are able to modify the body’s pigments to produce blue skin and pink hair, so it’s reasonable to posit a mod that makes freckling use a shiny teal pigment.
Let’s not forget Cora is wearing a hardlight morphsuit. She can give herself normal human flesh tones, and she did so when demonstrating to Sydney back in #698. Cora might not even have freckles.
“Today on ‘Cooking with Cora’ we learn how to jullienne a villain-styled, ‘pork rectum’.”
There’s no kill like overkill.
Maxim 37: There is no overkill. There is only ‘open fire’ and ‘reloading’.
There is no such thing as enough dakka.
That’s from a specific book (a la Shlock Mercenary) but i read it as “There is no such thing as overkill, precisely because there IS such a thing as underkill.”
And totally unrelated, “You can never have too much ammo.”
~Johnny Silverhand
Only if you don’t have to bring it back
It’s a reason why many fighter planes would empty their guns before returning to their carrier
While lethal force was unquestionably justified, and the guy was a sick, bigoted, narcissistic jerk who was definitely in a hurry to get himself killed… Cora’s methods make me think of this quote from Terry Pratchet’s “Fifth Elephant.”
“There were a lot of things he could say. “Son of a bitch!” would have been a good one. Or he could say, “Welcome to civilization!” He could have said, “Laugh this one off!” He might have said, “Fetch!” But he didn’t, because if he had said any of those things then he’d have known that what he had just done was murder.”
Very dark moment for one of my favorite characters in that universe. Reminds me of another weighty line of his: “Who watches the watchman? I do.”
I suspected that Cora would use lethal force when it became obvious she would be rescuing Sydney, but holy crap….
….or, to use a common media trope, “Well, that escalated quickly.”
I just hope Sydney keeps her from turning Concretia into rubble, I rather like her….
Pretty sure that was engennered by dave on purpose lol
Some Kipling seems appropriate here.
“The Female of the species”
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
‘Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn’t his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other’s tale—
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man, a bear in most relations—worm and savage otherwise,—
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.
Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
Mirth obscene diverts his anger—Doubt and Pity oft perplex
Him in dealing with an issue—to the scandal of The Sex!
But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;
And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity—must not swerve for fact or jest.
These be purely male diversions—not in these her honour dwells—
She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.
She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
Unprovoked and awful charges—even so the she-bear fights,
Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons—even so the cobra bites,
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
And the victim writhes in anguish—like the Jesuit with the squaw!
So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthrall but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
-Rudyard Kipling
“No Trial for you!” – Cora
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure Kipling’s wrong. She understands just fine. It’s most of the men who don’t get it.
There’s also a pretty significant helping of “most women need a bit more of a push to release their violence than the average man.” A lot of that is socializing. But girls are socialized much more heavily than boys as a general rule.
As a teacher, girl fights are always harder to stop than boy fights. Boys genrly recognize that “authority” is a valid end to the fight and that they have proven their bravery by going ‘unto the breach’. Girls go wild and try to escape “authority’s hand” to get another piece of their enemy. You may not have nearly as many girl fights, but boys are fairly well civilized in this matter.
Yeah, it may take more to push a female into violence, but when they do, they do it so much better (and they usually don’t stop until the threat is neutralized, permanently!)
Cora presents the carnage with style round Trè Picasso Julienne Artstist
anyone else get a “Fist of the North Star, you are already dead” vibe?
I think that strip of meat across her shoulder is a strip of flesh from his chest. You can see a cross section of his ribs.
That reminds me of a story I read from a British tank veteran fighting against the Japanese in WW2. He was a gunner in a Grant tank, an American tank the British used. One of the guns on it was a 37mm AT gun that could fire either solid shot or canister, which was a 37mm shotgun shell (12 gauge for comparison is only 19mm). The tank could elevate this gun to 60 degrees, so it was often used to clear snipers from the tops of trees. He described hitting a Japanese soldier with a solid round “having the effect of shooting a bucket of water with a shotgun”.
I imagine it was similar to what just happened to Masked Goon there.
Dang. Sidney gonna get hepatitis.
I think that Sydney is going to need some time off.
So noone is going to say anything about Cora’s proportions in the first panel? noone? ok.
Cora is a torso with hard light limbs……she has a Naga app for heaven’s sake! Heroic proportions in art are not normal human proportions.
Remember, Cora doesn’t actually have arms or legs. Her hard light projections can be whatever proportion she desires.
It’s been discussed before, with some real-world examples given of extreme real-life human proportions that look to comic book characters. But I think the general consensus was ‘meh, artistic license’ and some hand-waving about supers all having extreme physiology.
But yeah, her torso and arms in panel 1 are pretty much only there to connect the dots from her legs, gun, and chest to her head. Not that I can draw a human form worth beans, but I know a lot of artists will use a model of their (physical or digital 3D) so they can stay consistent.
Was gonna mention how DaveB did a great job of showing the effects of the clear sheeting blocking half of her body, kinda like how it would look if she was stepping through a curtain of water
Ah, I get it. The shoulder shot killed him. Took me ages to work out it wasn’t a second shot.
It was at this time the two henchmen knew they had fucked up.
Bill Cosby on “oops”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfh7KngXcDo
More than anything I’m just a bit disappointed we didn’t even get this guy’s name any real sense of what he wanted.
They can still interrogate the goons. Goon on the left is probably amenable to a little interrogation. Even as dumb as he is/was he probably kept Concretia in the dark as much as possible.
So I’ve been lurking around this comic since the bank scene tongue suplex scene and I’ve never really bothered to go through the trouble of putting in my email and saying hi.
ANYways, I had to say, this is a fantastic display of salsa, and o was not disappointed. Torture McAssholeFace totally deserved the quick and violent instant Kenshirö-ing.
The thing is, what was this guy’s shtick? Are the giblets going to start sucking off the scenery and gooping back together where he was standing? Is he gonna open the elevator door and walk into the room like nothing happened? Infinite possibilities! :D
Nope, he was a mundane, no powers at all, well, no real Capital-P Powers
Don’t care what anyone else, I am laughing so hard, I cannot see… Bravo!
Looks like Cora picked up the Bloody Mess Perk.
This comic actually made me laugh out loud. That probably says bad things about me but meh.
At first Sydney wanted to forget what happened, but before long it grue on her.
It probably shows how demented i am that I found this whole page funny… Gross, but funny. Like watching a scene from Repo
I’m looking forward to Sydney tallying up all the times Cora has saved her bacon in one fashion or another.
And then seeing the tab Cora has that Sydney settles…