Grrl Power #948 – The non-analog insurance hazard
Yes, Digit was heavily inspired by Gadget. Okay, actually, there’s this poster… I mentioned this in a comment on the previous page, but here it is with a little more info.
Whoever this lady is, combine her and Gadget and you get Digit. Then just her minus the torch but still with the heat powers and you get Heatwave. Weird the things that influence you when you’re an adolescent.
Okay, not that weird. She has nice boobs. (You can click on it for a slightly larger version.)
So anyway, Digit is one of those fairly typical scatterbrained inventors. Her original incarnation was an in-the-streets gadgeteer superhero, but I decided since I already have a lot of other fieldable heroes, she’d be more useful in the basement. Also, less immediate danger to the public. She’s also one of those women (who probably only exist in fiction) who has no understanding that she’s sexy. And not in the glasses and ponytail way where she wants boys to notice her but she can’t figure out how, but in a wearing skintight overalls because she doesn’t want them to snag on things and unbuttoning her shirt because all the welding is making her sweaty and can’t figure out why guys keep tripping over things and staring at that little rivulet of sweat slowly traversing her sternum. I guess she’s the closest to being asexual as anyone on the team, in that the hormones normally responsible for arousal instead light up her brain when she thinks about spot welds and torque ratios.
On an tangential note, Gadget was voiced by Tress MacNeille, who has also voiced… let me see… oh. Everyone. Every female character in every cartoon. Okay, not literally EVERY female cartoon character, but look at that link and scroll down. And keep scrolling, and keep scrolling. Those are the just the voices she’s done for Disney. She’s also worked on nearly every episode of the Simpsons and Futurama. Her IMDB page is pushing 400 credits, many of them for series, and many of them for multiple voices per show. It may not be an exaggeration to say that she has voiced THE MAJORITY of female cartoon characters.
I don’t have a point here, I just think her career as a voice actress is pretty fucking impressive. Well done, Tress!
The new vote incentive is up! Some of you got sort of invested in Lapha and Garamm, so here she is testing out her new duds. I don’t know if or when they’ll show up in the comic again, (probably more a question of ‘when’) but we’ll have to see if she got any other options besides the tail. Personally I’d go for retractable, venomous fangs, but presumably if you get those, you also have to get a special upgraded pancreas or liver or something, in case you accidentally bite the inside of your own cheek with your fang.
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Dammit, that launcher seems familiar to me.
I’m pretty sure it’s in a movie… but I am 100% certain I’ve seen it somewhere before.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
His P-40 Warhawk has a similar device he uses to save Penny from being stomped by a giant robot.
er, Polly*
I have seen something like this device in other media, usually as some kind of zipline, shoots hook back, another forward and the device carries the person between the two points…pretty sure saw it in a video game also but off the top of my head can’t place it.
It obviously involves interaction with some supernatural creature, as everyone who has built or used one cannot remember why. A clear indication of the Veil at work!
Ah, yes. The famous “Spathi defense.”
Best summarized as follows:
Batman uses one in the Arkham Asylum and Arkham City video games, could that be the one you’re thinking of?
Digit reminds me of McKenna’s character from the female Ghost Busters in mentality.
I don’t think McKenna could construct a ham sandwich, let alone any sort of mechanical gadgetry.
The acronym isn’t clicking for me. What is IFF?
Identification Friend or Foe
Yup. In other words a way for devices (normally weapons) to be able to automatically recognise friendly targets, and thereby work out that others are hostile. Be that through visual markings or an electronic response to a querying signal.
Although it has always struck me that the side with the superior electronic warfare capability could hijack their enemy’s IFF system and use it to home in on their targets!
IFF systems tend to work as a response to query process – basically a Marco-Polo sort of thing. Only the call and response are encrypted, so it could be Rutabaga — Gouda instead. If you didn’t have the call word, the IFF wouldn’t respond, so there would be no signal to target.
I wasn’t an inventor but as an asexy teenager with natural good looks I can attest that we do in fact exist and we do not have any interest in you. Keep you everything to yourself.
I think being asexual might be a requirement for that sort of person, we can’t tell we are “sexy” because what does “sexy” even mean? … still haven’t figured it out beyond vague perimeters.
And yes, I did eventually find out that others considered me attractive. I was shocked and suspicious when I was one of two nominated for homecoming queen. Didn’t win and I’m ok with that.
Hey, at least they didn’t dump a bucket of pigs blood on you…
No matter your confusion, they genuinely found you attractive. And probably personable as well, since popularity is often a prerequisite for being considered for things like homecoming king/queen.
Hmm she reminds me of Gadget from Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers actually, a large human version of Gadget anyway. I like her quite a bit. (^_^)
That’s… the idea :D
Some times it pays to read the Author-blurb :P
Why else do (mad) inventors build stuff? They had an idea, and had to make it just to see if they could, and, typically, once built, they ignore it and move on to the next hairy-brained idea (sometimes, they even store it safely before ignoring it… sometimes :P )
Imagine the mating rituals of mad scientist/inventors. They show each other their gadgets and debate the pros and cons of variable speed three phase motors vs high torque stepper motors in robotic applications…..
Then the inevitable robot battle.
My gosh, Kaylee went & joined ARC. Must be Mal shouted one too many times.
Okay digit is officially my new favorite character (other than the permanent sydney at #1 top slot :P)