Grrl Power #918 – Ghost fight!
I didn’t really have any idea how this fight was going to end when I introduced HenchWench, but a lot of you were like “Hey, wouldn’t it be funny if…” and I agreed. So yeah, I’m super telegraphing the next page, and I apologize in advance if Arianna doesn’t use super proper lawyer speak, but hopefully you guys will be amused anyway.
Concretia never learned to fight. She’s too slow in her stone form for anything but basic ass punching and grappling (depending on the Mohs scale – if she formed a body out of talc or something, she’d be, well, not fast. Like, human speed. But then you could fuck her up with a steel toed boot or a bucket of water. Her concrete form is best described as “lumbering” and anything harder she becomes noticeably slower) And as has been established in the comic, supers are rare enough that they don’t usually grow up in clusters, so she never really needed to learn how to fight. Especially considering that if you smash her golem, she can just form a new one, and regular solid objects can’t affect her concrastral projection. When the evil strip-miners or company-that-wanted-to-shut-down-the-ski-resort or whatever threatened her town, she had no trouble running them out of town.
HenchWench, on the other hand, probably has known other supers for some time. After reading some discussion in the comments, I decided she’s not a contract lawyer, but a paralegal, as they don’t have the same ethical requirements as an actual lawyer. I know it’s weird thinking of lawyers as having ethics, but the point is, you can’t disbar a paralegal for literally being evil.
That weird goosenecked yacht is where the bad guys were keeping Concretia’s body. I hope that’s clear. Apparently that yacht is some crazy concept design, and the gooseneck could lower to the water, and the goose head is actually a detachable speedboat. I was looking for yacht references to draw from, and I saw that and said, “Yeah, that’s definitely the boat these turds would sail around in.”
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Oh F***, they’ve called out the biggest gun they have!
the typical wisdom in this situation is : if you see a lawyer :run. if a lawyer sees you don’t move and hope that it gets board and wanders away.
*looks around for e_voyager*
*cannot see e_voyager*
*stalks off to hunt other prey*
Everyone’s got martial arts now. The culmination of the post-Bruce Lee era.
Law-Fu
Everybody?
Hench wench seem pretty harmless as a ghost…. well at least to the rest of them.
She can still control rocks and therefore attack, while being unassailable herself.
A yacht that’s effectively a Swan. Glamorous and serene on top, ugly and thrashing below the surface.
Perfect simile for those guys.
Hope it get’s built. newatlas.com*forward-slash*marine*forward-slash*avanguardia-mega-yacht-pierpaolo-lazzarini Sorry, no idea how to properly post links.
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Really glad the article had a picture showing the neck articulation and discussing its operation. I would’ve gone crazy trying to make the boat-head deployable in my head without that middle joint or a crane, or sailing the thing in any kind of weather without tucking it down.
Also, really sad they called it ‘Avanguardia’ when ‘Avianguardia’ was right there. It’s a beautiful boat though; given that it will never actually be built, and the tragic end of its current tenancy in-comic, I hereby dub it the Swan Song.
https://www.golfwrx.com/613950/the-incredible-aircraft-carrier-yacht-with-its-own-golf-course/
Want a Yacht with a golf course and aircraft carrier and a complex transformation sequence between all thee modes?
Have more money than most governments?
Then that abomination is just the ticket.
I can’t imagine how a turn-top golf course / landing deck would even work in real life; huge waste of space even if it didn’t have giant technical issues.
Still cheaper than golfing on the moon, though.
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You forgot the semicolons after them. < > < >
I didn’t forget them, I never knew they were required – the interface I tested it on didn’t complain.
The comment parser apparently requires inclusion of the protocol (https://) to either recognize a bare link in the text, or to recognize a non-relative URL within an anchor tag.
The issue wasn’t the link, but escaping the characters to display the code.
It ain’t that hard
Not only are you an asshole, you also don’t understand the what the issue was.
Try this:
‘Avanguardia mega-yacht‘
Which looks like this: Avanguardia mega-yacht
Right click and select “inspect element” on the link above to see how to do it.
Of course Evil corp would own a swan boat
From living near a swan pond, I can confirm that swans are evil, so it fits…
There are some logistical problems with this design. Anytime someone asks “where is so-and-so?” and the reply is “he is in the head” they will have to try to figure out if they mean the one on top, or the toilet.
And just hope that the designer wasn’t really evil, and put the one in the other…
Seems Cora showed some restraint in the rescue. There are survivors and the boat isn’t in tatters after the fact (Just a few minor fires).
It is a pretty boat. maybe Core think she can buy it after the inevitable seizure.
Since she’s supposed to rescue Concretia’s real body, which was inside the boat, measured force is recommended from a pragmatic point of view.
Why are you blaming Cora for the fires when Sydney is the one with the flaming balls…. (Phrasing)
That was my first reaction too… though admittedly, Cora doesn’t seem to be that big on gratuitous property damage. She mostly just makes a mess of her enemies, and there’s a good chance the interior of that yacht needs a good clean.
I personally am very happy with the first panel and it explained at least part of the second panel.
Yeah the top bit turning into a speedboat is not obvious in the one shot.
Go go Arianna!
I think switching the 1st and 2nd panels would’ve made a lot more narrative sense visually, but the word bubbles would’ve been harder to follow…
Here’s a question, if Concretia can control earth/metals, could she control mercury? Or maybe even gallium? They’re both metals (gallium is a solid up to around 86 degrees F. That would allow her to move quite quickly, assuming she trained for it.
It could make her ass punching much more effective. Make her face punching more effective as well. I guess any punching would be more effective now that I think of it….
Gallium melts in your hand and is only a 1.5 on the Mohs scale, you could scratch it with a fingernail. She’d look amazing but it would be useless for fights.
Hardness makes her stiff. But what if she instead went for something tough? Sure, she loses her scratch resistance, but taking something that deforms more easily but much easier to flex might give her the agility she lacks.
Of course, this really hinges on if her geo manipulation powers extends to metals – we know she can affect minerals, and that’s exactly what metals are. But sometimes, in the Grrlpower universe, super powers are arbitrary, and no one knows why.
If she had the bucks, she could go with jade; That’s not so hard, but it’s quite tough. Alternatively there are a lot of suitable engineering ceramics, which I suspect her powers would work on, and several minerals that would fit the bill.
And since she can handle conglomerates, the opportunities to engineer something really hard in a soft/tough matrix, like the rubberized mortar used to stick tile to flexible surfaces, are abundant.
Really, she’s been limiting herself just going with whatever is available in the environment.
Purpose built Carbonium Puppet for general patroling/fights…. Aka Insanely hard but quick as she can possibly be.
why not see if she could animate Oobleck? fluid, but solid when hit, uncrackable and if she has control of it completely, she could shape it any way she liked
She would look great too all green and shiny. Always a plus when you are a superhero.
>Hardness makes her stiff
Happens to the best of us.
She might not be able to keep form as a liquid. After all, no matter how beautiful the ice sculpture may be, when it melts it’s just an undifferentiated bucket of water.
T101? Or the Terminatrix?
Hey, sometimes you’ve just gotta punch a guy in the butt.
ok, so it appears that Hench’s powers are crippled by a phycological hang-up. I’m sure members of the Bar and their support staff will weigh in extensively about how inadequate Hench’s legal education was.
so when she looses her powers will she solidify? or be stuck in spectral form? and will the impalement be healed or not?
also, does she get a separate resisting arrest/not doing as she is told each time the fighting paused a bit? or does it just weigh on the judge for sentencing. can we have a time skip 2 years from now when hench gets sentenced to some impressive amount of prison time?
Separate charges for resisting arrest *always* depend on the judge. But the only time I’ve heard of a judge adding a charge to a court case, it was a charge that the DA had initially filed, but dropped. (I don’t think that crap actually finished resolving yet. It was fallout from a protest of a Nazi rally in Boston in mid to late 2020.)
That said, any DA worth their salt would charge her with one count of resisting arrest for every time she was told she was under arrest and didn’t back down, and see how many stick, rather than trying to figure out how many the judge would condone. DAs usually do not get in trouble for filing too many charges, and when they do, it’s usually with the voters. The voters aren’t going to be upset with the DA throwing the book at HW.
“will she solidify? or be stuck in spectral form? and will the impalement be healed or not?”
Great question. The only way to be sure is to experiment. Is HW feeling lucky?
just so you know. there’s one more bullet in the chamber.
YESSSSS! Super Lawyer to the rescue!
The Sensational She-Hulk’s primary super power back in the day.
How’s her TV series coming along?
I think its still being made. Hopefully its good
It’s slated to start next year, although exact date is yet to be confirmed.
I swear the vote incentive on the left is Billy Ellish if she started lifting seriously
Halo. Shield up.
Preferably around the unconscious and vulnerable super.
Might not be a good idea – the shield might cut the link between concretia ghost form and her body – there’s definitely one, as concretia felt the electric shocks given to her true body.
Halo really seems to have lost any caution or awareness of risk. Given that she was just minutes ago caught held captive, and nearly died. And all by the very super directly behind her. But still no shield during an active super fight.
It seems like Archon is really waisting time training the person with super blasters to shoot guns, and flight to climb, when they instead need to teach her how to actually and actively use her powers and maintain a guard.
And also yes said shield should include the helpless material witness Who is literally fighting for you who is a risk to the group that keeps regularly surprising Archon and is clearly willing to kill supers.
It’s been much discussed in the past, but Sydney’s passage through basic training is far more about discipline, teamwork, and squad comradery than handling firearms. Also, having just a super blaster really limits you to either a terminal response or none at all.
Her shield has a history of interfering with powers.
Since, as far as Halo knows, Concretia is the only thing keeping HW in check right now, this is not a good plan.
She could still actually defend herself after getting nabbed from not doing this exact thing. Given her power can be defeated by a sufficiently tough sack if she doesn’t stop it in time she needs to be actively defending herself if there’s not a reason not to. At least while combat is still ongoing. She’s had both the events on the other planet and now this as prime examples of why a default state of defense is good.
That’s what Cora is for
omg… shit just got real when the evil lawyer overlords get involved … ;)
Might not be a good idea – the shield might cut the link between concretia ghost form and her body – there’s definitely one, as concretia felt the electric shocks given to her true body.
Oups, sorry, replied to wrong person
Oups, Sorry, replied to wrong post
And Ari is the Overlordiest of them all :D
Followed closely by Pander :P
I think that Arianna’s about to become my spirit animal.
Maybe Dave will show more Arianna in the future to pander to you … I’ll see myself out.
no stay. he needs his ego deflated a bit
Puns are my worst enemy I admit.
But I think you meant ‘she needs her ego inflated a bit’ because:
1) I’m not a he (I don’t really telegraph that but still… just mentioning it)
2) What voyager is saying would be good for my ego, not bad, despite being an awful, awful pun worthy of Ro Jaws. What was bad for my ego was when the LLC agreement was making no sense and nothing bad was resulting of it with HW. :)
“Statisfied sounds of Pander marinating in unintended praise and interesting court cases.” intensifies
“Sounds of palmvos and lawyer phobics hiding” intensifies.
“Sounds of me cacling like a maniac” intensifies.
Hey, I didn’t start the fire. I just think fires are fun to watch from a safe distance.
Pander scratching her chin: “Are you sure of that?”
Me gets more pale: “ayy”
Fancy swan yacht is fancy. I hope that it belonged to Mister Chunky Salsa, because he seems the type to demand not only a fancy yacht, but the most ostentatiously fancy one he can get his hands on.
You just want them to be able to seize the ship as collateral (or what shitty lawyer-speak allows them to do that) :P
Criminal forfeiture of assets? The government very commonly seizes the instruments and proceeds of criminal activity. If drug dealing or some other shitty criminal enterprise is how Hoody McHamburger was able to afford the yacht, he should expect to lose the yacht. In some places in the U.S. it’s a significant source of funding for police. Which can easily lead to abuse, but not here since the yacht was used to hold Concretia against her will.
And that’s how ARC-SWAT ended up with a party boat.
Honestly, that’s a pretty likely scenario for what happens with the boat. Archon would have to prove their claim over the local cops picked up trussed perps, but that doesn’t seem hard – Sydney and Cora both have a story and possibly recordings, and the local PD didn’t show until it was all over. Plus Archon already has to get involved in the trial, so why not get some benefit out of it.
Maybe Dabbler can help them retrofit it to actually fly and also be invisible.
It was used for kidnapping to facilitate felony extortion, robbery and terrorism. No doubt the ship is going to be seized.
What did I miss? How did Sydney and Cora retrieve Concretia’s physical body?
Off screen shenanigans.
Which is kind of too bad, personally I’d like to see those two in action more than seeing Arianna dialogue with HW. Maybe we’ll get an after-action report flashback.
This is supposed to be Sydney’s flashback, so we should have seen the rescue more than Maxi’s fight with Henchie
Unless Sydney found that boring in retrospect and decided to recount the cooler story she heard after the fact.
‘she-nanigans’
Well, the comic is called GRRLpower.
bravo.
Maybe we’ll get after action reports :) those would definitely be interesting – given henchwench was employed by the guys on the boat :) (else, she could not have copied concretia’s powers)
Cora and Halo retrieved it during the ‘extended cool fight scene between HW and Maxima’ Apparently it involved explosions but did not involve destroying the yacht, which is also good because that is a very cool looking yacht.
Huh, just realized that finding the boat with Concretia’s help may have helped end this fight much faster. Having a confirmed link between boat and the fight would’ve made it significantly easier to track down the LLC, since finding the boat’s registered (and/or actual) owners would be trivial for Leon. Halo could have even found the LLC paperwork on board, which would give Arianna all the details needed to dismantle it.
Okay, so here’s my take on Henchwench:
Fae.
Super powers can combine oddly with outside forces. We’ve seen Super-Weres, and Maxima’s powers appear to be latent superpowers combined with some alien mojo.
So what we have is some sort of fae binding that got tangled in with Henchy’s powers. They’re VERY strict onnrules, after all. This doesn’t mean that Henchwench IS fae, but there’s some random contract or other that wasn’t worded right (Power of Attorney taken literally?) and now she gets powers.
I like that. People tend to forget that devils aren’t the only supernaturals to engage in full-contact contract negotiations.
Ohhh, I like this! especially the Power of Attorney. Actually probably something more like:
HenchWench (newly hired, on the phone): “But boss, it says here it needs your signature”
Boss (on cell phone from his yacht): “Right, just type my name, then sign it ‘p.p. HenchWench”
HW: “Huh? What does p.p. mean?”
Boss: “per procurationem – basically it means because you work for me, I give you authority to do certain things for me”
HW: “Just because I work for you, I can do what you do?”
Boss: ” What? Yeah, basically. You have my powers, in a sense”
HW: “Muahahahahahahaha!”
It happens IRL. I did lots of stuff that nominally required a license but in reality there was a PhD or an MD signing off on the paperwork. The bigger the beaurocracy the more it happens.
I did 4 years apprenticeship to get my engineering license – all my work during that time was ultimately stamped by someone already licensed who just did a quick review first, if at all. I mean, we had a thorough QA process for cross-checking everyone’s work at least 3 times, but still ultimately covered by the official expert. Just too complex for 1 person to do everything.
I did listen to some lawyers discuss the ethics test being hard on a podcast, because some of the things they think you shouldn’t do because they’re unethical, are actually allowed under US ethics rules.
Sure. I mean, hasn’t ambulance chasing gone from an ethical violation to a business model?
Last I heard, bar associations still considered it an ethical issue, but not enough to shut down the numerous lawyers using it as a business model. Well, unless they added any sort of politically inconvenience to the table, at which point it’s a sufficient excuse, so long as the political inconvenience was not itself something they would prefer to disbar the person for directly.
Admittedly, that “last I heard” was probably like 2006ish.
Why is Concretia’s body lying around on the stone floor as opposed to being tended to by paramedics? She was held in an artificial coma for quite a while.
Or at least on a comfy mattress or something, with a damn blanket!
Or just let her stay on the same gurney she was being kept on anyway.
Real lawyer trumps barracks lawyer every time
Boat on FIRE Boats on fire tend to have a Halon suppression system…. Halon and continued breathing are a no go. Emergency evac with lighthook after Halo got all firebuggy.
And what’s stopping Sydney from using the hentorb to bring the bed Cree was strapped on along for the ride?
Bed would’ve been nice, but the roof is still a step up in that she’s safe. I suspect Cree and her rescuers were most focused on getting back to the fight and shutting it down. They obviously just got there, 2 minutes on a floor won’t hurt her, and once the fight’s over she can just get up and walk down to the EMTs that will be assisting with the cleanup.
Possibility 1, the bed being bolted to the floor so that it doesn’t move around in rough seas. At which point, they can either try to unbolt the bed, cut through the legs to free it (while trying to leave similar-length ends so that it’s still stable), or just undo the fastenings.
Possibility 2, size of doorways and/or corridors between the holding room and the outside world. It’s a good bet that the bed was already in the holding room when Concretia’s body was delivered. It’s also likely that the bed was delivered in parts and assembled in the room. Where the separate parts could go individually, the complete assembly may be too large to fit.
At first I thought it was Brut calling Arianna, which would have had some… interesting implications (had a BIG “oh, shit!” moment), but then I actually looked at the person instead of the speech bubble and the phone and realized my mistake.
He’s not tagged up at the top, though, and I’m bad at remembering characters, so I had to go to the bottom tags where it says “mra01” before I could figure out exactly who he was, lol
oooooh…she’s about to get Lawyered so bad….
Arianna would either REALLY let her hair down when playing DnD and just evil-cackle all the way…or she’s Rules Lawyer so much that the DM would give up.
…
and she’s probably take that as a “technical victory”.
“Technical victory”.
The best kind of victory.
Gooseneck? I think the sort of guy who would build a yacht like that and the sort of guy who would buy a yacht like that would both insist on calling that a “swan’s neck” while pompously correcting you plebians who insist on getting it wrong.
Yeah, having Ari put an end to Henchie was broadcast on all wavelengths (audio and visual) since her first appearance, still feel this is a major letdown slash copout :(
Defeat by rules-lawyerin’ seemed inevitable, but I’m withholding judgement on narrative creativity until I see the implementation play out over the next couple pages.
So Cora and Sidney have been busy
Okay… Arianna out of no where… Why do I have a feeling this is going to be REALLY bad for Henchwench?
Arianna is probably going to inform HW that she now owns “Evil Inc” and the LLC is bankrupt and has disbanded.
And hopefully also make laugh so evil that hardened super villains will be intimidated.
OOO, that means that Ari will be responsible for paying all and every bill associated with the L.L.C., like wages and any outstanding debts, brilliant!
Gotta agree, Concretia has no idea how to fight. You don’t announce you’re going to choke somebody out before you have them in a choke hold. And what the heck is she doing there, she was perfectly positioned to put HW into a full Nelson. Which isn’t technically a choke hold, but is pretty nasty unless you’re doing it on somebody a LOT stronger than you.
I suppose the fact that they’re both ghosts rules up the obvious follow up, tripping HW and planting her face in the pavement, but just the wrestling hold would be enough to force submission, without getting into any of the highly illegal pain inducing moves that are available once you’ve got somebody in a submission hold.
Also don’t put your face in head butt range. If Concretia’d just put her spectral head next to HW’s spectral head, she wouldn’t have risked losing spectral teeth. Similar comment with the gut and elbow strike.
TBF this does not always seem obvious up front, and I imagine Concretia’s habit of fighting with expendable golems may encourage bad habits. Sydney shot her head off and it was merely mildly annoying.
Actually that was Peggy who shot Concretia’s head off in the parking lot battle.
Yes, Peggy shattered Concretia’s head, which for some reason persuaded Concretia to call it a night. But in 898 Sydney decapitated her, which was “Slightly Inconvenient”.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-898-ball-jail/
Either way, Concretia’s fighting style is not very stylish.
It was actually getting claymore’d that convinced Cree to give up the ghost
And we saw how well Cree could fight (or not) when Math beat her with his hands in his pockets!
I’ve seen some lawyers in the news lately that would make believable Hench Wenches, but yeah I can see her as a paralegal. Though, once someone takes her picture and posts it on Social Media, she’ll either find herself unemployed or given a promotion, depending on the Law Firm she is working for.
Concretia would be a good addition to Max’s team, once she has had proper training. I hope they offer her the opportunity.
Thinking, if Hench Wench is a Paralegal, then maybe Concretia is a Geologist or at least has a degree in Geology or has taken classes in Mineralogy. I gather that Concretia is more book smart than street/fight smart.
It would be nice to have more Supers with Science backgrounds, other than just Dabbler.
I agree, it would be cool if she had a science background but even a layperson can gain considerable knowledge of a subject. What a degree gets you is public acknowledgement of your learning.
“has a degree in Geology”
That would be a gneiss thing to have.
If she surrenders, will Archon give her a clean slate?
If she joins Archon but turns to crime, she’ll get a quartz martial.
Concretia would probably have a much better career in construction but then again this is a superhero comic.
Presumably, before she had her body abducted, it is highly likely that Concretia actually WAS working in construction. She’s presumably had her powers for far longer than she’s been in captivity, so it is highly likely that she in fact did have a job in the private sector doing a job like construction.
Having faced the abduction tho, it’s highly likely that in the aftermath especially thanks to Sydney’s influence (and/or possibly still facing legal consequences), that she will indeed join ARCHON as a superhero.
Well, that boat is an immeditate nod to Luigi Colani and his VFW hexaplane design, neat.
That guy did some crazy futuristic streamline designs over the last 60 years.
And for henchwench… “This is the representative lawyer of Arclight, we own you now, all powers are revoked immediately so stand down now, or we will make a display case of your ass. (And it won’t be pretty, legal wise)”
Uh oh. Arianna is about to buy out her entire contract and leave her with… the power of marketing? Not sure how well that works out against Maxima in a fist fight though.
Will Hench Wench change her tune after hearing what Arianna has to say?
Is arianna trying to recruit her with HenchWench assuming she is some super with a power helping her in her field but then she just gets nothing? Before outlawyering her so she cant leave without serious problems?
“I HAVE THE POWER TO CRUSH WORLDS! WHO ARE YOU, PUNY THING?”
“I head the legal team representing–”
“I GIVE UP.”
Real lawyer trumps barracks lawyer every time.
Is that a dig at the author?
Why do I get a feeling that HenchWench is about to have experience the Corporate Lawyer version of a “big fish in a small pond” moment?
I would think the lesson of this fight is pretty obvious.
If the bad guy refuses to surrender once, then stomp on them until they black out, don’t stop for any reason. Hench Wench is just prolonging the fight because she likes fighting and likes having this much power.
And prolonged fights are hard on the infrastructure and harder on the civilians.
This is what? the third or fourth time they’ve tried to get her to just stop and surrender.
picture this: Concretia earthshapes something really tough and hard into a wo-manikin with working joints……..or mebbe hundreds of womanikins of differing materials. Now, she can inhabit any of them for any task and Doritos the bad guys…
It’s the Deevils you have to warch out for.
Ewwww. she slimed me. who ya gonna call?
I’ve been waiting for this call.
A federal judge can suspend an incorporation pending dissolution with a temporary order if the articles of incorporation are being used in furtherance of a criminal enterprise. You see, you can’t legally contract a crime.
The process usually takes months. But if the feds get the right judge and explain the situation, that judge would issue the temporary order and then let things get sorted out in court. That’s three phone calls: the tactical operations center monitoring the fight to the FBI liaison, the liaison to legal, legal to whoever the on-duty judge is in that circuit.
ball joint otakus the world round put in commissions.
Arianna: Henchwench! Your contract has been ruled illegal and is rendered null and void by a U.S. court. Stand down now!
Henchwench: Ahahahaha! My contract was created under the corporate laws of Dickistan. U.S. courts have no jurisdiction! Phbhthbht!
Actually yeah, now that you point that out, HW definitely should have guided them to incorporate someplace outside the US. Anybody with swan-yacht money would have zero issues with that, if indeed they didn’t plan to do so already.
Am I right in thinking that, even within the USA, there are certain jurisdictions which take commercial confidentiality very seriously and host a lot of minimum-scrutiny shell companies as a result? Or was that more to do with tax
evasion‘efficiency’?If an LLC is not registered in that state, much less in the US, then it is not an LLC to begin with. Its nothing.
it’s an LLC.
Good luck trying to get an LLC in non-USA and if you succeed to get this company to be legal after this purpose review in said country.