Grrl Power #92 – That’s ok Heatwave, you can try again later
Aaaand back to 12 panels. Geeze. Anyway poor Harem, she’s never going to get something to drink. Fortunately for her, Heatwave can generate an extremely localized increase in temperature. It’s how she makes haser beams.
I know Heatwave switches hands with the soda can. That’s on purpose. Ok it’s not I just wanted to call it out before anyone else did. And of course, what would a team of superheroines be without the lecherous guy? I didn’t manage to work his name onto this page so I won’t introduce him with the Who’s Who. We’ll meet him properly soon enough, but this page is obviously a lead in back to the ballroom.
If you hadn’t checked in since last Monday there’s a new bonus art/vote incentive thingy. Just a quick doodle, but topical.
And finally, does anyone want to do a guest comic? The weekend of June 1st is A-kon, which I’m not exhibiting at, but I’ve attended like the last… I don’t know, 15? It’ll be a busy weekend and I want to make sure I’ve got something to post for Monday, June 4th. I’ll try and have my own page done but just to make sure I’ve got my bases covered, I’m putting the call out. The comics can’t be wider than 643 pixels, but can be any height, so make sure it’s legible at that size. Contact me via twitter or facebook and I’ll tell you where to send them. They’ll be due by June 3rd at the very latest. If I get my page done, I’ll still post the guest comic(s) during that week, and if I get flooded with them… I’ll figure something out.
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Anvil, when dealing with a speedster, grab first then speak. Unless the only point is intimidation.
With her power, she wouldn´t strike a temmate.
I think killing one of your own gets you a DD or at least an HD (wait, is this America or Canada?)
I’m neither American nor Canadian. So, what do those acronyms stand for?
A DD is a Dishonorable Discharge, at least in the US, which is usually followed by prison time. I’m guessing that the HD is something different in Canada than it is here, where it would be an Honorable Discharge.
Thanks. That’s at least half of my questions answered.
Well, my “Knowledge” is just TV based, since i´m German, and if our soldiers kill anyone they aren´t supposed to, they go to Jail for a VERY long time.
Just like anyone else.
So there is no Dishonorable Discharge, or even a Honorable (aahhh) one.
You´re either a Soldier, or a Criminal.
Ok, yes, if you turn out to be the latter, you are dismissed from the Service, but that has nothing to do with honor.
USA: regardless of service, non-coms get discharged ( honorably, good conduct, standard, bad conduct, dishonorable) and officers get to retire, relinquish their commission or get dismissed (if they’ve been bad). Bad conduct discharge, dishonorable discharge and dismissal usually mean you loose some civil rights, like not being allowed in any state service or get a gun. Also, bad conduct discharge normally comes with a smaller offense and dishonorable discharge with a really serious offense. With both, you’re pratcically a criminal outisde of the service.
Yeah, so I watched a lot of JAG and the rest mainly comes from Wikipedia.
Bad Conduct get’s you kicked out. Dishonorable usually gets you kicked out and imprisoned.
Anvil doesn’t need superspeed – she has the uncanny ability to be RIGHT THERE when you say The Wrong Thing.
Also known as “The Gibbs Effect.”
Followed immediately by the Gibbs Smack.
With Anvil, that could be lethal…
Actually she’s already done it, and as we can see in panel 7; https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/413 Anvil has enough control that she can do it without hurting anyone.
That’s the “Wood head” knock This is the Gibbs smack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqMUuOPsa0o
I know. My reply was to ChattaStarhawk who said “With Anvil, that could be lethal…” Well of course it **could…** I just wanted to point out Anvil has enough control that she can do it without hurting anyone.
But only to the back of the head. If it was to the front, it would be embarrassing. This way they actually learn something.
OH poor Sydney her shield just went down, i am guessing that was the boom, boom, BOOM crack unless of course that crack was anvil’s knuckles then we have soon to be speedster unless he can hear her swing in the wind then he can avoid it,
I was figuring his name might be ‘Mach’ like the speed categories.
Better name for speed powers “CELERITY”
Bamf, getting all latin roots up in here. REPRESENT!
Some say Mercury, but Mach is a good guess as well.
If it is his nickname for that would be Maching Bird.
I was in a DC Heroes game once, had a speedster named Cinnabar, after the red ore of mercury sulfide.
You play vampire games by Whitewolf, don’t you?
– Haser ….okay, artistic license ad all that but heat is Infra red and those are lust plain olde lasers .. Bell Labs – first one used the ruby rod, worked in infrared … so Heat Amplification Through Stimulated Emission “seems logical” it is either a simple typo or STTNG masticated science/engineering terminology. I will go with they typo.
As for speedy – if Dave had not said “M” was a he I could have guessed a female of less inflated proportions.
Now on to the incentive doodle/sketch – Leon playing a D3 Monk? I’m not 100% since I have not tried out all the classes yet. I wonder what Sydney’s choice would be? Demon-hunter is not the same as D2’s Amazon …. useful attacks are to noisy and too squishy otherwise. Trying Monk now – totally counter to my style of play – seems fun but I have not figured out an easy, not-painful way to switch targets quickly ..
Laaaasst point – I promise – Another multi-panel page the works as a series of 3 panel strips. Come on Dave – just do it – 4 days of mini-strips with day 5 giving everyone the full page.
Well it’s all radiation. Microwave, gamma rays, purple. It’s all the same until you try and find paint in that color.
This is true. I suppose, if one was trying to be generic, or produced a general-purpose beam shooting device (or powered individual) , you would have a RASER – Radiation Amplification through/by (I’ve heard it both ways. No, you haven’t!) Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Then people could confuse your RASER powers with hair removal products and popular phones from last decade!
No, heat is the energy tied up in the molecular vibrations of a substance. It just happens to be the case that a lot of the transitions between states correspond in energy to the IR range, so [i] it’s fairly easy to pump up the vibrations of many things using IR and [ii] energy emitted as it drops between states is mainly in the IR.
Daphne sure drinks some interesting brands of cola.
This has happened entirely by accident, literally as I was drawing the name of the soda on the can, but now it’s a thing. A thing with so many possibilities.
Reminds me of Yue from Negima! …
QuickSilver! oh no wait…
With an abundance of Super’s in the building, what are the odds of a Superhero Daycare? The Idea of possibly an entire area devoted to keeping an eye on several Super Munchkins seems plausible.
Interesting point.
Also, all the supers we’ve seen or heard of so far are full adults. But, given the variety of supers around, there are probably “young’uns” to be found as well.
Could be Max’s final revenge on Harem – assign her to Daycare Duty:
“NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Not just one harem either, all five! Every last one changing a diaper.
Including the kid that farts tear gas. No wait, that’s SYDNEY!
I don’t think having Harem spend the day with kids would be a mentally healthy experience for the kids.
Possibly depends on whose kids they are.
I’m considered mental unstable, yet I’m still trusted around children.
No mention of [Significant Pause] ‘The Incident’?
(‘Cheers’ Reference)
Have you ever thought you’re mentally unstable BECAUSE you’re around children?
To be honest the children i speak of, are my own cousins. I Have been entrusted to teach the ways of our namesake Until I have offspring of my own. Though the practice of our ways are fading, teaching them of our mystical past is key to their development.
Massive emotional trauma is much like chicken pox, I find. Good to get it out of the way in childhood.
If your good, it will continue on to adulthood.
Yup. You know you’ve done right when you can walk into any post office in the country, point at a picture of the guy posted on the wall with the other mugshots, and say, “I knew him before he was infamous!”
I actualy did walk into a post office once and see someone I had grew up with on the wall.
The thing is I wasn’t realy that suprised to see him up there. I hadn’t seen him in fifteen years and if I don’t see him for fifteen more I’ll be happy.
The realy strange thing is I keep seeing people I know on the missing persons wall at Walmart from when I used to work in a conveince store.
The beginnings of a crime thriller in which you learn your alter ego has been abducting them and tying them up in your attic for gruesome tea parties!
A case of the Jack-Jack Attacks?
Ok I just looked that up on youtube, funny. Thanks.
It realy explained those paniced calls.
If you follow the story-line that starts here:
[https://www.evil-comic.com/archive/20060821.html]
…you’ll see how Brad Guigar handles the “Daycare for Kids of Supers”-topic in his web-comic, “Evil Inc.”
DOES NOONE SEE ANVIL GETTING READY TO LAY DOWN THE HURT!!!!
That is the most scary thing yet, me thinks.
Harem 1 and Heatwave do. They’re looking at her.
… AND (referring the last two panels) they’ve both backed away from lechy–speedster-dude.
Odds are this is their usual reaction to him anyhow but, in this case, probably also to avoid any splatter that Anvil might cause.
Just go’s to show you don’t go making jokes about people who are self consous about their bodies. You might not survive the backlash in one peice.
DaveB definitively gets a gold star for using his readers’ ideas. That should be a general given, at least since the ME:3 debacle.
Maybe he could put up a weekly poll as to what ould happen in the comic; at least in terms of comical scenes.
Another gold star for the shower-idea.
Plus one for the sugar-coated melons.
(If DaveB keeps this up, he’ll have himself a galaxy shortly…)
I’ve considered some poll driven content. I’ll need to figure out how to work that into the pages though. A lot of what I write happens as I’m sitting down to draw the page, at least the gags.
Best way to do it, probably.
Maybe save polling for extra-special cases when you are well’n’truly stuck or can see things going any of several different directions.
Even then, lay odds that the “popular” choice will not necessarily be the one you like best.
Maybe the blonde guys ~M~ Stands for Monk. The idea of a lecherous Monk seems Funny to me, that or I’ve watched too much Dragon Ball episodes…Nah!
If you want to see a lecherous monk look to Moroku in “Inuyasha.” He likes grabbing women’s butts and proposing to beautiful villagers to “bear his children.” For that means that the curse given to him by the half demon Naraku to his father 50 years would go to his first born son.
Oh I’m very much aware of that series, but it’s not one of my favorites. kind of got boring after awhile. Now Master Roshi the turtle hermit was whom I spoke of. Wasn’t referred to as a monk, but he lived like one.
“Inuyasha.” like that show . Moroku got a kick out of him.
That may be what the ~M~ stands for.
Well, traditionally (barring stuff like radioactive spiderbites, and industrial accidents/magic/etc…), superpowers in comics tend to become prevalent during teenage years. Usually explaining it away by using puberty as a trigger. This explanation has been used in manga/anime as well. An example of this explanation appears in the Bandai series Tiger & Bunny. Though also in that same series they did have ONE exception to the general puberty rule (superpowered telekinetic baby). How Dave will explain power manifestation in the comic remains to be seen, but sky’s the limit. His comic, so he’ll explain it anyway he wants and it will probably be awesome.
Dave- weren’t you a member of the regular chatters group on irc’s fpfc chatroom?
Yup sure was. That was… quite a while ago.
The story is that superpowers are secret/considered a myth, which suggests Something has happened to spark all these powers. Presumably there has always been a number of rare cases, but now there is a major jump in the number. The “explanation” could be most anything. A thousand years ago, the gods signed a cease-fire, which is now ending. The Earth is entering the beam of a black hole. The human population reached some critical mass… Whatever this unltimate trigger, it set off several forces one way or another. Ancient meaningless magic becomes potent as does the ravings of the mad scientist…
However, people flying around is rather hard to ignore and for people to be skeptical that such superpowers exist, cases must be pretty rare until recently.
the biggest three I’ve used
Aurora Event: A strange Aurora has appeared over the entire Earth (like the Earth is passing through a weird nebula that was invisible to detection), whose energies have granted humans super-powers, and enhanced the powers of those who already had them. (A world in which super-powers did exist, but were so few and far between that no one wanted to be found out of fear of the government or witch hunts or something). But now they are far more common, and even now have S-class super-powers in some cases.
The Dimension Mist: Used this as a small scale (hits one area), or one world where a sheet of it ran from pole to pole and moved across the Earth. This stuff tends to create monstrous mutations.
The Mystic Field: people tapping into the mystic field set off some odd mutations, some super-powers, some bestial chimeric *like cat-girls and such*, however in one case one human world tried to tap into this space between dimensions (its self a kind of buffer dimensions that keeps the dimensions seperate yet together) as a source of ever lasting energy. They accidently connected two worm holes on either side of the Earth and would have caused the world to be destroyed if not for a Trans-dimensional uber being noticing what was happening and transplanting this world (removed the crust and laid it out flat in a special containment rim (and under side of course) in another universe *one filled with air and flat worlds* where its mutated population has lived for 2 million years evolving into various species.
Magnetic Pole Flip: Causes DNA/RNA changes (genetic strands have a huge amount of ‘junk’ code, what if that code isn’t junk after all but actually the meta/X gene). {All of human history has been under one magnetic orientation… we don’t know what will happen when the poles do flip, and the Earth is due for it.}
All Heatwave has to do to get the aluminium off her hands is to heat it up again over something that would catch the molten metal.
So not a big problem.
I do belive that although Heatwave may not be very bright, she gets her point across very well.
What I want to know is how she melted the aluminum instead of burning it?
The melting point of aluminum is 660.4° C (1,221° F) — which is why we have that little factoid at the bottom of the lower left hand panel.
To burn the aluminum would take a much higher temperature, but I think Heatwave just wanted to make her point.
I’m guessing Anvil was standing in the background to watch, and make sure nothing got too out of hand when the speeder zipped into the room, not looking around before saying something that was likely to get himself hurt in some very intresting and painful ways.
Speedsters, sometimes their mouths move faster than their feet.
I’m thinking that Anvil was already in the lunch room for a snack (that much muscle needs lots of protein), and the whole aluminum can explosion thing happened faster than she could react, so she was still there, in time for Mr. M to say things he shouldn’t have.
A speedster’s mouth moves faster than his feet, which explains how his foot got in his mouth so quickly.
All of those super people, except for Sydney, need lots of food to keep their bodies powered up. Not just the big muscular ones.
Ok, I’m gonna be at A-kon as well. You gonna have a table or just gonna be freeroaming the Con?
I read eariler that he is going to be free roaming.
No table since I have nothing to sell yet, but I’ll be at Fred Perry’s panel and as many of the webcomic ones as I can make it too. Maybe the iron artist ones as well.
Maybe you could sit with other artists and let us know it is you. I wish I could go but unless it is a Con in Houston I have no means to go. Teleportation would come in handy then.
If need be Heatwave could vaporize the aluminum but not inside with other people.
or just keep melting it until it falls off. liquid metal is still liquid.
speedy could be motiv or mobilic or any modification of move/ment alterative is mobious for infinite of choosen atribute speed energy healing ludeness but unlike max no half way or mixed stats boosting and always on for one stat
ADHD much?
I worry about Heatwave… with how poorly she thinks her attacks though, she could be a danger to both herself and her allies on a battlefield. Yes, she is emotional right now, which may hamper thought, but a battlefield is likely to be stressful and emotional as well.
She’s usualy around Achelies and Mr. Amorphous. They don’t get hurt easily, and can direct where she aims her powers.
The’ve been together a few years so know how to work together.
Actually I think the blonde guy is probably going to have the codename of somewhere along the lines of Mercury. But that’s just me.
Just wanted to say that I love this comic. I stumbled onto it a couple days ago and read the entire thing. Pretty much everything Sydney does makes me smile(i rarely ever laugh, except for evil laughter).
Thanks! Welcome to the club.
Shouldn’t that response be more like “Welcome to the asylum”, Dave?? >grins madly<
The song ” Their Comming To Take Me Away” just poped in my mind when I saw that post.
My friend has the (vinyl) 45-LP of that song!
:P
The “B”-side was the same song, but played BACKWARDS!
(…More than a little bit creepy…)
Heh, grab some steel, melt it down, instant brass knucks… :D
Brass knuckles are usually made of, well, brass. Grad a stainless steel rod, heat it up so that it flows around your fingers and voila, instant steel knuckles. Of course getting them off will involve more 2000+C temperatures to get the steel to melt off her hand.
Don’t know if this was mentioned yet, but last page, the can of soda was yellow with a red “burst” on it. This page the colors are reversed. Maybe it’s one of those temperature-sensing cans? ;D
Good eye. He probably just rembered that it was yellow and red, but forgot wich order.
When your in a hurry you sometimes miss the little things.
You’d think I’d be better about referencing my own comic. Yeah let’s go with heat sensing for now.
Heat sensing? What about the paint dyes denaturing and changing colour as they start to burn before the aluminum starts to melt?
I really like Harem’s expression in the 8th panel, Even though the dimbulb has only hurt herself so far, she’s displaying so much power that it’s seriously intimidating.
She didn’t hurt herself. It looks like she is immune to heat.
The only thing she did was melt the can to her hand, and all she has to do to get it off is melt it some more untill it all comes off.
heatwave is definitely my favorite character. btw the sexiness feels a bit forced here at least on harem’s part ( the earlier diatribe on tentacle anime was hilarious). You generally have entertaining writing, and I know some of the characters are meant to be a bit flanderized (a la the speedster here, more bugs bunny than actual smirking lecher, or sidney who falls out of her setting from time to time), but some of the stuff that is wholesale imported seems a bit, off. For all the cliche, you have interesting characters and it just feels weird when stuff pops up as blatant attempts at fanservice (using the japanese system of 3 sizes instead of american inseams and the way comic book team ups is mentioned [named power “combos” seem an odd idea to anyone not immersed in the traditional comic culture, one would gravitate towards coordinated maneuvers taking advantage of specific abilities and perhaps someone like sidney with an odd penchant for naming things]). Honestly, as the comic goes on the jarring stuff is diminishing (and if I remember the cast page was one of the first things you did). I’ve seen you genuinely striving for and achieving continually better results on both the writing and art front and I genuinely enjoy this comic, it’s always pleasant when I see this one pop up on inkoutbreak again with a new page, so take this as you will.
Thanks! I appreciate any constructive criticism. All I can really defend myself with is that I’m a product of all the media that I’ve consumed, comics, movies, video games, manga, etc, so elements of all that are going to show up in the comic. The Japanese seem a little obsessed with the 3-size thing, and I’ve read a lot of manga, and watched my share of anime. I’ll probably get rid of that when I do a big update to the cast page. Just let the art speak to their dimensions. I also assume that if there really were supers in the world, an agency formed around them would use some of the pop-culture trappings, like talking about combos, teams ups, power stunts, things like that. In DC they call them “meta-humans” which doesn’t make sense since their flagship meta-human isn’t even human. Just call them supers.
As far as characters filling cliche rolls, that’s probably true to some degree. I mean, I’m not writing a drama here, and the cast is large and the pages are already cramped, so each character, especially the more tertiary ones make appearances to fill needed rolls on a page so that I can economize space by not having to do any set up. On the other hand, “+M+” has only had one page so far, so saying he’s a cliche archetype may be a bit premature.
He totally is a letch though.
I wonder how he and Maxima inter-react.
They are probably best friends.
No one (should) take talk like that seriously.
He has some wisdom, to avoid pissing off the boss.
Yes, Colonel, Ma’am. I will keep my mouth shut around superior officers, Ma’am. I will not take quick detours through the ladies’ change room, Ma’am. I will not “pants” Dabbler again (but really, she wanted me too).
No, really sir! She asked what ‘Pantsing” was!
Forgot this line: “I didn’t think she’d NOT be wearing underwear, Ma’am!”
Ah, but he was hoping she wasn’t. Wasn’t he? He had to know if he’d ask she as likely as much show him… pull out the stretchy shorts and help him have a real looksie…
So, there are three Anvil songs on Rockband. Not really into Heavy Metal, but wevhtaer Dave. Sometimes, there’a reason why they are still in Quebec.
How about they call him Hermes but as a long running gag get the name wrong when he starts annoying them?
If this has already been said, I’d be willing to bet anything that Maxima is testing out Sydney’s shield capabilities…or the base is soon to be attacked. Just tossing out thoughts. *thought:\Ugh gotta work tomor-* Whoops, didn’t mean to toss that one.
the sound’s definitely maxima trying to bash through sydney’s force field :D
Indeed, the sound should bring us back to Sydney & Maxima. Now that people point it out, it’s obvious. However, before that I thought it was Anvil stomping up to them. (Don’t blame me, she’s called Anvil, I thought she’d have considerable mass.)
Panel 2 is the greatest thing ever; best expression I’ve ever seen on a goth girl!
so the speedster has an “M” on his collar. I am going with “Mercury” the roman name for Hermes. (plus a potential homage to Quicksilver)
Aproros of nothing, I just thought of a great double team Anvil-Halo power stunt. 1. Anvil jumps off a small building, charging up her kinetic energy reserve. 3. Anvil picks up Halo and throws her at the opposing force. 3. Halo activates her force field in flight.
Result: A 7 foot wide impenetrable wrecking ball smashes the enemy front line, dropping an armed and empowered ARCSWAT agent bhind them at the same time. ( Even if Sidney isn’t carrying a gun in her holster, she still counts as armed!)
Especially if Sydney’s had her usual meal of atomic-heat Thai/Chinese food and drops a fart bomb on them, or she drives her opponents quite mad with her ADD-ness!
Otherwise, it’s a great variation of the Colossus/Wolverine “Fastball Special”
Had thought of the similar “Hammer Throw” where Max (Or Anvil) swings a Shielded Syd by the TK Tentacle and lets fly. Or like a Ball and chain where they just use the same configuration as a blunt object.
Three BOOM‘s of increasing amplitude: Does this mean Max is gently hitting the force field (Heavyweight boxer force circa 4000 N), then with car-crash force (25000 N) then anti-tank mine detonation force (100 000++ N)? What happens to Halo in this? Ringing in her ears, but the force field unmoved? Force field appears unaffected in shape and position, but Syd is looking scared that the next punch might just rupture the force field? My earlier predictions of bouncing around the conference room or smashing through the wall and flying (ok, falling) outside, all seem less likely, what with the 3 BOOM’s.
just a passing thought, i’ve noticed you’ve added the horny male character, the black character, hell, even the alien character, but i was wondering, could you possibly add a gay character? not the obvious kind of gay, but the hanging out with girls, would occasionally hit on guys for comedic effect kind of gay.
That would be a good comedic weapon that not a lot of webcomics use and would help make it stand out(in my opinion).
Well Harem appears to have some bisexual leanings, as does Dabbler. As for a male gay, well, we have primarily been meeting the ladies. Guess it would not be Mr. Amorphous.
Puts me in mind of one of the better lines from ‘Friends’:
Chandler (male charcter) muses out loud: “You know, sometimes I wish I was a lesbian …” (Pause. Looks around at the other people present) “Err, did I say that out loud?”.
I think Peggy might be gay. She has all the little butch girl signs that indicate her being gay.
That’ll happen eventually. I haven’t figured out who though. I have a complicated web of eventual love interests. Well it’s not really that complicated.
I don’t think he should add a gay character just to fill your quota. If his story calls for it, then we get one.
Until then, you can pretend any male character we’ve met is gay:
Achilles – the old homeric tales usually mention a strong relationship with his shield-man, so it would even fit his code-name. Thus, kind of obvious, but why be subtle? Would make the most sense if he chose his own moniker, or be a non-issue if some-one else did.
Amorphous – yeah, he’s ‘dating’ Heatwave, but that could just be a cover. (Heck, until relatively recently, gay men would often end up married to women, simply because not doing so would expose them as different and make them pariahs. Strongly christian gays still do sometimes marry women, as they are trying to deny their sinful “gay” nature.) Or he could be Bi (amorphous sexually), or perhaps trans, sort-of. Depends on how much he can mold his body; can he make it female? Cross-dressing would then be taken to a different level…
General Faulk – Don’t ask, Don’t tell. If married, he could be one of the covert gays I referenced above…
Joel – Most likely to be gay. He’s a normal everyday guy.
Leon – Most likely to be hetero – a gay simply has no reason to be shy around or intimidated by women.
+M+ – His lech could be a cover, it is so over the top. But unlikely – “don’t ask, don’t tell” was just repealed, so he doesn’t need a cover, and he’s fast enough not to worry about retaliation from gay-bashers.
Zephan – No hint at his orientation so far, so it could be anything.
But I don’t think any of them should be gay because we want a homosexual character; homosexual characters should be gay because the character is homosexual. Unless the author is convinced by the character, the character will not be convincing.
My opinion, for what it’s worth…
Heck, given the hate some wackos are preaching, it’s a wonder any gays feel safe to come out at all. And, of course, for some, it isn’t. :(
Hey, there, calm down, I was just saying he COULD. Furthermore, as to the question of his subtlety about it, would it not be funny if say, they were in a bar setting (doing recon, I don’t know) and some woman comes to hit on him, then boyfriend, spouse, etc. comes over hugs/kisses him and then shows the woman’s shocked face. That is what I like to see in a humor comic like this one.
Also, maybe his power could be…. Classic lazer eyes? Maybe…. Insta-heal-medic-guy-thingy?
Just a suggestion.
… this is really late but your missing an A in the third panel, it should read, ” I just narrowly avoided a sticky cleavage situation.” the missing A is between avoided and sticky.
When your in a panic situation, you don’t worry about little things like that.
Your foucs is on getting the information across in a timely manner.
Indeed, one of her bodies is panicking. That makes it difficult to think clearly. So little things like articles can fall by the wayside.
Son of a!
Fixed.
I knew something had changed when I read that panel just there.
And did you intend Heatwave to say “caramelized” in panel 9, too?
Yes probably. One more thing to fix.
So, has anybody spared a thought for the poor janitor that probably has to clean this mess up?
[sigh] “Well, at least it’s only soda and aluminum this time…” [pulls out hammer and chisel]
According to Heatwave’s profile, she’s supposed to get a little taller and fuller when she manifests her powers, but I can’t tell if that’s happening in these panels. Maybe it only happens when she activates her flame aura?
Flame on Red… Flame on.
I love Math so much. I could read a whole comic just centered around him and his exploits. It’d be like watching Johnny Bravo, but with more kung-fu scenes.