Grrl Power #96 – Lecherous Martial Artist v. Glamazon
The most interesting part of doing the comic is being on the other side of that knowledge barrier, if that makes any sense. You know, you’re watching whatever show or reading a comic thinking “I wonder who that is” or “What’s being set up here?” Being the one who knows for a change is odd, especially when I see people speculating on stuff in the comments, like with Math’s name and abilities. Part of me wants to stick my hand up and go “Ooh ooh, I know!” If you frequent the comments you know that I’ll talk a lot about non-spoilery stuff, but I’m always having to weigh whether a piece of information is better to tell now or to show later. When I used the “ZIP” sound effect on Math’s first appearance, it didn’t occur to me that people would speculate that he’s a speedster. Technically he is, his reflexes are inhuman, he can catch arrows and dodge bullets – managing to grab him is quite a feat, but he can’t outrun a car on the freeway.
I’m not pleased with the action on this page. I don’t think it’s really possible to do decent looking action when you’re cramming it in with… 10 panels? 14? I think when I get to doing proper action I’ll have to do Monday+Thursday posts of pages with no more than 5 or 6 panels on them.
Four different Harems on the same page! It’s a record! Also a PITA to color. I need to do more panels with her standing next to herself for the cast randomizer in the header, but there are few situations where she benefits from doubling up like that. There are definitely situations where other people would benefit from it though, carrying both ends of a stretcher or… you know, whoever shes dating clearly would benefit from it. If you know what I mean.
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Superspeed and a martial artists? Damm…
Claymore mines should be able to take him out.
Is Super-speed actually one of his abilities or was that just a joke zip.
After all in a none-super beings comic a guy hears about two girls cat fighting and suddenly zips off and appears where they are would just be a sign that he is THAT dedicated to his perversions and not actual super-human speed.
I am calling Red Herring on what made us think he was a speedster, the zip joke and looking somewhat like Quicksilver (that slicked back white hair look and thin build just wants to scream Speedster).
I wrote this comment before I had read what DaveB had to say under his comic.
No worries. Who the heck reads that? ( ;) Just kidding, Dave)
Mathis. Any relation to Johny?
I guess not.
So when one of the Harems goes to the bathroom, is she doing so for all the others? Or must each one handle her own physical needs? Including food, drink, an annoying itch, etc…?
Anvil is looking nice today.
In the long run up at the start of the strip, we were led to believe she had
“body image issues”.
Oops…. Didn’t mean this to be a reply.
Well, THIS, but not the one about Anvil.
She does look nice.
Agree. She has a very pretty face in the bottom-left panel.
(Overlapping action strip makes it hard to count panels)
She does, but she’s not paralyzed by them. Around other supers who at least have some sense of being physically outstanding, she’s fine wearing a babydoll belly shirt, but she grew up with some measure of teasing about her size.
So she will be scared of Sydney due to Sydney not being physically outstanding? yeah Syd is going to have everyone here scared of her real fast.
with the original and 5 copies PMT must be a bitch
PMT? PMS I know (at least from the outside), but PMT, not so much.
PMT = Premenstrual tension AKA PMS (sometimes called a convenient excuse women use)
Yeah well, men don’t even use an excuse. They can be royal bastids any time.
And here I thought PMS stood for Putting up with Men’s S…
well you know what they say about men “their like public toilets either engaged or full of sh*t
Although all copies of Harem share a mind, I expect each body has it own physical needs (oxygen, water, food, waste removal, etc.) to deal with. They/She just has distributed management.
Given that DaveB has established that each “copy” of Harem first manifests naked and needs separate clothing put on, it would be reasonable to assume that anything not part of her body must be attended to separately as well. Food, water and, er, waste, would therefore be separate for each duplicate. Lots of logistics, sorting out feelings of hunger or a full bladder between 5 different copies…
But! If each duplicate is essentially the same person’s molecules being co-located as per quantum physics weirdness (one particle in multiple places at once. Yes, this kind of thing has been confirmed as happening), then it could be argued that as long as one of her eats, and one of her uses the facilities, then the calories are duplicated along with the rest of her. Essentially, she would duplicate anything that she ate across all of her copies, and then un-duplicate bodily waste so that only one of her needed to use the bathroom. Quite a time saver if only one of her needs to eat/drink/excrete at any given time, but so far DaveB has not said either way. It could go either way, though I think that the 2nd case seems a bit stronger, insofar as how her teleportation is supposed to work.
Physically, each body is an individual, so the food/clothing/makeup/toilet paper bill when she was growing up was enormous, mentally, it’s just the one mind, but confusing things is her ability to do 5 disparate things simultaneously.
Sounds like a typical girls mind to me. Thinking five diffrent things at once.
Just a note – women living together tend over time to . I expect Harem would experience the same thing…
Trying again, bad HTML-Fu…
Women living together tend to synchronize their menstrual cycles, possibly due to pheromonal scent cues, and I expect Harem bodies would likely do the same.
And, as someone who has five sisters, that can be an issue for anyone in the neighborhood…
That’s actually not true. Women’s cycles aren’t exactly the same length from month to month sometimes they’re a bit late or a bit early. What happens is they drift in and out of sync, but thanks to confirmation bias, people only remember the “hits” and discount 3 months later when one woman’s period is ending right as another’s begins.
Either way, as my personal experience shows, living in a house with 4 women has it’s down sides, especially if you’re the only male!
Negative memories have a stronger impact on our perceptions than usually neutral or positive ones do.
You need to do an updated cast page with all the other male ‘supers’
I know. I’m on vacation this week so once I’m back in the house maybe I’ll see if I can get that done. After I draw the next comic and try and do some bonus art. :P
Good luck managing your time.
Rember Priar Planning Prevents Piss Poor Preformance.
Also Make Time For Fuck Ups.
So… it’s off to the Priory, then?
Looks like the girls are enjoying the show.
DaveB, since you have Dabbler and Heatwave in the background eating popcorn with Sporty Harem, shouldn’t they be on the Who’s Who page as well.
In general you need to get dialogue before you rate an apperance on the cast page, or that’s been the rule so far.
Also Harem is apparently able to channel a response from input from one body to another one, that’s handy. It’d make it much easier to keep a straight face sometimes. Man she has a useful powerset. What I wouldn’t give to be able to work, study, read a book, play a game and sit on the beach all at the same time. The teleportation is just gravy.
Due, I’d use it to work two jobs, study two degrees and play games all day.
Dude*
Curse you, typo demon! *Punts*
Yeah, I hate it when your finished writing your comment, then post it only to spot a typo just as your finger pushes the submit comment button.
Like I just did here.” You’ve ” instead of your.
me i would work one job,,, but be more then 1 employee,,like have a small business but not needing employess because i can be all of them,,, and also have one spend all its time in school/studying, and one for entertainment/relaxation
Well, yeah, but then you’d be paying yourself. I’d rather have my copies work for other people and get rich off them.
Once the two of me had gotten their degrees, move to three jobs and two full-time gamers. :D
Social life? What social life?
I’d probably use it to go all Ocean’s Eleven on Vegas (you can’t tell me they don’t deserve it).
Maybe even on a legal variant.
Or maybe be my own sports team (Volleyball for instance).
There’s lots of stuff you can do if you’ve got the additional (wo-)manpower and time.
Don’t go to Vegas. They are trying very, very hard to catch and identify anybody who even looks like they are trying to game the system, and when they do find them they have this big sandbox to hide the bodies in.
Primm then. I could just hop the Ste line to Cali from there.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas… unless somebody digs you up.
Wonder if the brunett was texting or playing Angry Birds?
Well, with the artist being a gamehead, she was probably playing Angry Birds.
Let’s see him do the math on that headlock, since Anvil’s hands are literally the size of his head.
Then again, I wouldn’t be surprised if he still manages to get out of it. Still, people like that need to be taken down a peg or two.
Um… Sydney’s glasses, panel 2?
Crap. She’s uh, cleaning them. I actually forgot the orbs on this comic and had to go back in and add them before the comic posted. :P
ok,,,,, how in hell is he still alive with such an attitude and max around,,,, well thing for sure i cant wait for him and sidney to meet :)
I’d guess he’s (usually) entertaining enough to get away with it. though that photo-op may be the last straw.
My guess is that he is also a fairly quick healer. Not Wolver-god level (then again, who is?), but good enough.
Its probably standing orders from a certain golden skinned colonel. Given that most of the team is probably more civilian than military, so they tolerate a certain about of horseplay so long as it doesn’t result in anyone missing duty.
He may also be smart enough (just barely) to reign in his tongue around Max.
Panel 2 is not a mistake, Syndey’s just cleaning her glasses with the bottom of her shirt…
Glasses get surprisingly dirty. I don’t know where all that crap comes from.
The real puzzling thing for me is how crap gets on the inside of the lenses. The stuff there always looks like my eyes spit little drops at them.
The surface of your eyeball needs to be kept wet so your body produces a constant flow of fluid across them. This causes the humidity to be higher in the space between your face and your glasses. This water vapour attracts dust particles in the air and when it condenses on your lenses the dust gets deposited there as well. The water can be re-evaporated off the glass but the dust will remain.
It’s even worse if (like me) you’re prone to dandruff problems.
Actually I knew all that but it still looks like eye spit to me. Another fun fact tiny mites live in your eyelashes but they are actually beneficial.
Beneficial? Beneficial?? Spiny monsters are lurking in my follicles and the man says they’re beneficial?!?
Trust me, you don’t want to know what else exactly is living in / on you.
A human body is practically its own ecosystem.
You might want to forget the fact that there are more Bacteria living in/on your body than you have cells in your body. BTW the dust in your home is largely skin cells and dust mites that eat them.
argh do you know how difficult it is to forget these uncomfortable facts?
And if the dust mites didn’t eat your dead skin, you would drown in a hill of your own flesh.
A far more uncomfortable fact: if you pee while in a river in South American a small spiny fish will swim up your urethra and lodge itself there.
I call bogus! See the Straight Dope article or the Wikipedia entry. Another urban legend bites the dust (one can hope).
Always had somr doubts about that one.
FYI check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeBqbBy2Lo&feature=relmfu
I heard a bit of trivia the other day: Apparently the microorganisms on/in your body have a sum mass of 3lb.
Dave is not Stan Lee, he does not hand out “no-prizes” to people who can explain way his mistakes.
One of the situations where Harem could be seen all together would be her practicing martial arts against Mathis.
Since he’s super quick and a great martial artist, he could instruct her in ways in wich she could defeat powerful opponents. Plus she is able to put up with his smarmyness.
Occurs to me that, since Harem is one mind with four bodies, she is one person who could give Math a real run for his money in a stand-up fight.
Think about it. Harem’s “teamwork” would be just about perfect – she could set up two or three of herselves as decoys and STILL have bodies left over to clean his clock.
Also noting that overconfidence seems to be an major trait of Math’s anyhow.
He’d probably be lech enough to hit on all five of them at once… and succeed.
Imagine the bedroom scenes.
expecialy when harem starts getting “creative” with him. a letch will limit out before an experience junkie. math never flirted with harem one on one ever again using the third as a safety net against daphne.
Wait a minute. Is he really super fast or just comically, lecherously fast?
Very, very quick. Say, twice to three times faster than a normal human. A lot of that probably comes from training his body to be able to move that fast.
If you train yourself, and make no unnesasary movements you can do a lot with your body that is just amazing.
When it comes to ground speed, he’s comically lecherously fast, when it comes to punching someone in the face super fast, he’s legitimately super fast.
but justy not flash fast,, basicly he has super short distance speed,,or simpler explanation,, he has super speed for quick/short movement ,, but while he would probably be faster then any sprinter,, he wouldnt be faster then a car for instance,, probably in the likes of 50 to 60 km/h( knowing fastest man(100m sprint champ) clock at about 37km/h)but the thing would be he probably doesnt have the stamina to keep such a speed for long.
I read some where that a 100m sprinter can out distance a sports-car over the first 10-20m
An Olympic level sprinter doesn’t have nearly the mass of a sports car, so it takes a lot less energy to accelerate.
The same idea is behind the old “I-can-out-run-a-race-horse” bar bet.
Racehorses only beat skilled human runners at medium distances. If it’s a marathon, a human who can actually run them can easily defeat just about any animal.
Uh, out pace most animals, in a race (out run is not the same as out paceing, if it ovetakes your then you didn’t “out run” it.
But I know what you mean. But canines will outpace humans. Canines are built for stamina, a pack of wolves can keep on much faster animals for many miles if they have to. If you have built up human runner and an equally set wolf, and just had them do a job pace the wolf would be able to keep going long after the human crapped his pants and passed out.
*Only known exception being Dean Karnasez, because “pace” is equated based on distance run by average speed before the subject was forced to slow down from muscle fatique which this guy is pretty much immune to, so he’d screw the calculations up.
actually, from memory there’s some evidence that this is variable. in higher temperature environments, the human wins and endurance race. we’re pretty much (when fit and healthy) the land creature with the most efficient cooling system. strip our tech and humans fill the same slot as wolves, ecology wise. endurance hunters. though i believe wolves are a bit faster and tend to bite at what they’re chasing to bleed it out and slow it down, while humans Just Keep Going until the prey dies of heat exhaustion from running flat out to try to get away. add in something simple like a spear (or better, javelin) and humans become kind of insane as predators. though we’re still pretty squishy if something decides to hunt Us.
healthy adult human male who has spent pretty much his whole life hunting for his food using muscle powered methods (rather than guns and such) on foot, carrying bottled water to start with (cooling goes through that pretty quickly) and wearing good, well designed shoes? some creatures may be faster, but Nothing land-bound can keep going longer. (assuming we’re talking about someone who’s genetics predispose them to long legs etc…)
*thinks* well, I’m not sure about Kangaroos, given that whole ‘it takes more energy to Stop than keep going’ thing they’ve got going on once they get bouncing, and as noted in lower temperature environments the cooling system starts working against the human a bit rather than helping so much, but meh *shrugs*
Those factors can change somewhat with racial makeup. Eskimos actually deal with the cold far better and Tibetans deal with low pressure air far better. Polar bears are the largest land predators yet Eskimos hunted them with fairly primitive weapons. One of their sayings was “Food is sleep”. They also hunted whales in seal skin kayaks. Humans are basically the apex predator wherever they live with or without modern tech.
I’d expect that once Sydney’s officially part of the team, she’ll get a full ‘official’ introduction to all its members; the Powers that Be would probably want all of Harem’s bodies together in the same place for that, so that the new girl knows which faces are the same person.
As for the panel count versus action, I think it works quite well with the multiple smaller panels: it gives a better impression of the speed at which the fight is progressing. The overlaid close-ups in panels 5 and 6 are particularly good for this, as having them cut in suggests the speed at which Math can place these precision leverage points. For a ‘normal’ fight scene with dialogue build-up, I’d maybe question the page balance between the slow-moving panels 1, 2, and 3 and the fast-paced fight in the lower two rows, but I think it works here since they’re essentially running in parallel and the fight is essentially backdrop to the exposition in the header-bars. (If you want a panel-based criticism, perhaps we don’t need half a row for Harem’s other-body freaky-laughter panel: it seems a bit gratuitous and/or as though it’s been zoomed out to fill an awkward space.)
Hmm, so Math claims to be the 999th in his line, huh? Even assuming a mere 15 years between generation, that line would go back roughly 15.000 years, to before agriculture was widely recognized as a cool idea.
Of course, training martial arts IS a good idea when you wrestle with saber-toothed tigers on a regular basis…
By the way, are the male superpowered cast members going to show on the cast page eventually?
Martial artists don’t count the line from father to son (nor the more reasonable mother to daughter) but from master to student. And you ‘can’ get pretty darn good in five years of full-time dedicated study of martial arts. Still brings it to early history (eufrat, tigris and thoose places) instead of prehistoric time.
Some families start their children studing martial arts when they are five or six years old.
Not the big showy moves, but the basic foundation of their particular martial arts style.
If you have a kid learn a dozen or so moves, then have them practice those moves daily for four to six years before they move on to more advanced tecniques.
Why would you want to train under the guy who studied martial arts for 5 years… when the guy who trained HIM is presumably still around, and has only gotten better since?
My guess is that the first 900 martial artists were aliens, time-travelers and/or ancient Atlanteans.
Availability. Usualy a martial artist will look for a area where there are few if any other dojos in the area, and if there were another dojo it would be for a totaly diffrent type of martial art( Karate & Judo for example).
Or liked to exaggerate in order to make their stuff sound even more impressive.
10 years brings you to around 8,000 BC, which is nicely just around the time agriculture becomes widespread. Figure it the line started a bit earlier, and the training period lengthened over time, and this actually becomes plausible: You’ve got an early warrior, about the time humanity started settling down into villages, who goes around teaching people how to fight. His best student does the same after a few years, etc. By the time actual cities and civilizations are forming, the line’s gone ‘underground’, but is well-established.
Yeah it’s a ridiculous claim on the face of it, but that’s only if you count back along a single branch of a family tree, if multiple families of martial artists come together, suddenly that tree gets a lot squatter.
Ah, OK, that makes more sense.
claiming to be the 999th and proving it are 2 different things
Given how he’s handling Anvil, I wouldn’t question it. At least not if I had at least power equal to Max’s or Syd’s level.
Given how he’s handling Anvil, I wouldn’t question it for practical purposes. At least not if I had at least power equal to Max’s or Syd’s level.
Cheers for the boob-pic.
So, he’s like a younger generic lecherous martial arts master, figures.
That would also explain his perv-speed, with zipping into the kitchen and all.
Shame we didn’t get to have that hilarius idea from last week.
I will be suprised if Math does not get called Happosai at some point by Sydney. Lecherous speedy Martial Artist? Yeah, all he n eeds is to be stealing undergarments and throwing fireworks as a distraction and we have a shriveled perv from Ranma 1/2.
As for the speed he has being short distance, think the hand-to-hand fights in the first Matrix Movie. Those had some ridiculus speed, until Neo turned into Goku in the sequel.
there was no sequel it does not exist. I refuse to believe such an abomination could happen.
Sydney might call him Roshi instead
may go miroku or toadsage just to be more obscure
Hulk Vs. Loki incoming unless someone stops em now.
That’s She-Hulk VS. Loki.
I wonder if Marvel ever did a comic with She-Hulk Vs. Loki ?
She-Hulk’s a thinker, she could realy put the hurt to Loki in the way that realy counts. His pride in his being smarter than the others around him.
Last I heard She-Hulk’s a Lawyer…Holy Cojones! Arianne is She-Hulk is disguise!
*Runs away yelling “BwoopBwoopBwoop!”*
(I think I have as much fun reading the comments here as the comic.)
Since last week? Probably more.
DaveB, nobody goes through something like cops go through donuts. That’s a perfected art….
Okay, maybe Homer Simpson.
I take it from the way Math is commenting about Anvils speed, that he isthe resident hand to hand instructer.
I see Math teasing Syd while practicing, only to suddenly find himself in the TKTD (Telekinetic tentacle of DOOM!!) and flipped a few times.
Or if Sydney’s realy mad toung foo him to the mat.
Or seeing Syd and wanting her to teach him the Tounge Throw. :P
Sydney might catch him off guard because she just reacts no telegraphing. And amateurs can be more dangerous them pros. They don’t know how to pull they’re punches and they are unpredictable.
Who says she has no training? Her dad might be a Seal drill instructor for all we know.
Her reactions at the bank say she has no training. Panicked flailing, no target prioritization… as Max pointed out, she made a whole bunch of mistakes no trained fighter would have.
yeah i can see him teach her only to fall to some unconventonal kung-fu, aka sidney-fu.
specialy if he does a perv act on her.
With every one els in the building I doubt he’s going to letch on poor flat sydney.
he may try thinking she would be less dangerous or more receptive to the acts than most the supers he deals with daphne and dabbler being open to the experiences.
He might comment on her lack of “assets”. Quickest way to piss off a small less endowed female.
and now I am picturing Syndey using the PPO while yelling out “Dragon Slave!”
I see her saying the whole dang invocation, in Japanese not the dubbed version. And probably with the hand gestures.
Kamehameha, with the move, would fit.
that move was created by a lecher not used against them. now that i think about it was there any girls who used that attack?
Pan used the kamehameha a few times. the couple female villains they’ve had over the years have occasionally had an energy attack as well.
Heh, powerful females in DBZverse, so few and far between.
I swear that series is so full of testosterone that the DVD case grew a d**k.
I don’t count GT (as its none canon to the manga, so alt-verse to DB and DBZ). Not sure if we saw Pan use any powers at the end of DBZ, have to check on that. Android 18 would be the most powerful female and she pales to how strong the main guys got. and man Chi Chi got left behind in the dust big time.
Not to start anything but may I ask why?
Personally I think the voice actress did a great job in English, and i liked Lina’s english voice (and most the cast) better in English than Japanese.
Now I know some older anime had terrible dubs (some still do) mostly thanks to localization teams that just didn’t care (nearly impossible to watch old OZamu Tezuka stuff dubbed thanks to this)
But Slayers (with a few translation errors aside like Mazoku/monsters confussing people did a really good job.
Now I know some like the original Japanese for the whole “purest” reason, which I hope you don’t because I think its nice to be able to hear and understand and not have to read a screen.
Now the other reason which I can kind of understand is (because it sounds better), but this is because you arn’t native too or fully understand the language. Basically you can listen to the phonetics with out your brain forcing imagery and disseting the words, Japanese is a language that some Japanese vocal coaches will say is only really pronounced correctly when it is sung. *as odd as that sounds, its a very song rythme and beat language*
English can also sound beautiful with many highs and lows mixed together ina way few languages do, but as a native English speaker you may miss the beauty in the sound of “Celler Door” simply because you instantly know the meaning and have a mental picture from the words themselves.
Whats sad is that not only do I know exactly what phone he is talking about, but that it has had it’s chip replaced with a dual core.
Well, this is a teck savy comic.
The artist has a teck job that lets him be up on all the latest gadgets.
Archon:Popcorn::Cops:Donuts.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I saw that panel.
…whoever shes dating clearly would benefit from it. If you know what I mean.
You mean she could get him a beer and fluff the recliner pillows at the same time? Unpossible! #justjokingsexism
Popcorn is healthier than doughnuts because it is whole grain corn. You have to do a lot of exercise to justify the calories, though.
So, When does Math pop the joke with the sexual punchline, “You do the Math.”?
ADD you and me
SUBTRACT your clothes
DIVIED your legs
and MULTIPLY
Sydney: *Grabs the PPO* “How about I divide you by zero instead?”
At which point Math drops a natural log in his pants.
Harem would make a fantastic scout/observer, being able to observe a situation from several vantage points. The sensory data to her brain(s) would be incredible. She has probably been banned from every magic show in Vegas.
Banned from magic shows? Why would she? She can watch people do by illusion what she does for real. She can just teleport to and from the cabinet that the assistant stepped into; who cares about a false back? The assistant disappears from one side of the stage and reappears on the other side, 20 m away. Could it be twins (clones/copies) or did she teleport again? When something appears in the magicians hands, or disappears, would her first thought be teleportation or fast fingers?
We often read our abilities and conditions in the behaviour of others as a first explanation. If someone is behaving oddly, my first thought is that behaviour on the autism spectrum, because I have Aspberger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning autism. Sometimes I am correct, but often it is something else entirely.
stage magic relies a lot on misdirection and line of sight (and obstructing the same) and the method for any given trick being secret.
she can get multiple angles at the Same Time, which substantially reduces all of those as effective things. add in the extra processing power she Has to have just to run those bodies simultaneously, (five brain’s worth of non-dedicated-function processing power is substantial in and of itself.) …
basically unless she’s a magician herself, or otherwise sworn to secrecy, the magic tricks are pretty much doomed.
I can see Harem winning at Blackjack a lot. All of her at the same table would clearly enable her to count cards. Just about any game in Vegas would crack under her, and any magic show, sice she’d really play jokes on all the supposed magicians. I’d like to see Gwen go into one of those shows and up those fakes.
The meaning of Mathias is “gift of God” so I suppose he was given that codename because he thinks he’s “god’s gift to women?”
thats his real name,, his code name is math
I read a comic strip years ago, there was a barmaid who was commenting that there’s only one thing worse then a man who thinks he’s god’s gift to women and that’s a man who damn sure of it.
Try working in a small restaurant, let’s say Cape Cod, and be female.
There won’t be minutes between getting hit on, groped, oggled and stuff.
Friend of mine did that for a semester after getting out of school.
Let’s just say the hospital-staff there had to pull extra-hours.
You would think that Mathias would be more worried about the hand belonging to someone physically strong enough to pop his head with east as opposed to his camera’s tech problems…
Oh wait, who am I kidding… Sane thinking and acting are the complete opposite of the norm in this world :P
well; considering his speed and martial artist training,, he has not much to fear from such a grip,,, hell i may be only streetfighter level martial artist but even i could get out of such a hold in a sec,,, even if the person doing it has super strength
Right. If he’s as good as his billing he should know which nerve clusters to hit to made Anvil lose her grip on him.
Pinkie.
Bend or break that and they will have no intrest in grabbing anything.
Does he need leverage for that? Because she could just pick him up by the head and let him dangle.
Dude… You really need to update your Cast page. :/
You’ve recently added all these interesting background characters. However we know next to nothing about them. At least a brief mention on the Cast page would give us a relative “Power Level” so we can gauge how a character more or less stacks up against the rest.
Background characters and those who don’t have lines don’t get listed in the cast page.
Well Math may have just been born with faster than normal neurons. That we have a speed threshold but if Math has say three times normal he could easily out move anyone else. (Jedi speed.) Plus martial arts training to hone his speed to the utmost, and a high degree of perception also figures into it. And he has a naturally quick mathematical mind too. I bet he was one of those child prodigies solving hard problems in his mind faster than someone on a calculator or even some of the faster computers. I wonder how he uses that in his daily life and fighting?
Unfortunately he has bested so many so easily he has an ego problem. I wonder how often he lost any fights? Ever? One day his is going to walk into someone who will best him on his terms or therir terms and it is going to devastate Mathias on that day——-if he lives to learn from it.
Jedi speed? That’s entirely different ability. The main reason Jedis can deflect or dodge lasers (which, logically, moves at speed of light) is precognition. Jedi’s reactive time is negative because they react before the thing they react to happen.
Oh hey, funny to see a character with the same name as me (despite the different spelling). My friend wishes my name was spelled the same, though, just so he can make “Math” jokes (since I also really like the subject). As for the Biblical nature of the name, my parents actually chose it as a shortened form of “Mattathias”, unaware of its relation to the Christian Bible until rather recently. …This year, in fact. (On a side note, I don’t usually go by “Matt” unless I’m hit with a seven-character limit.)
I might say I wish I was Math for the skills he has, but certainly not by the last panel for the situation he ends up in…
Also, does the third-to-last panel prove that not every instance of Harem always overlaps with every other, seeing as the Harem on the top floor is relaying the match while the one on the bottom is just spectating?
It was redundant in that case. I had planned on Goth Harem watching from the balcony, then as I was finishing up the page I thought the peanut gallery was a funny addition.
peanut gallery Brook is magicly all clean now?
If she was then I wouldn’t have an excuse for the 5 page shower scene I’m planning.
I’m kidding. Maybe.
Vote-Incentive!!
Forget vote insentive. Have them pay a dollar to veiw that.
Just make the art extra realistic.
Do I need to post the picture again?
Yes.
https://i.imgur.com/PpM2i.jpg
I’m going to be the weird guy here and mention that when a lady wearing a skirt, uses the facility’s she does not normally drop the skirt to the floor. This is not information from observation, but from hearing about it from an older woman to a younger girl after they had just come back from the bathroom.. Its amazing what you can hear while siting at a Dairy Queen table, eating a waffle bowl.
Yeah I was wondering about that cause I forgot to draw it in there at first. I didn’t know if she’d just edge it down a few inches or take it off and hang it on a hook.
Actually, I don’t know about most other women, but speaking as one who has had to use a lot of outhouses and other places (I used to do a lot of camping) I tend to bunch it around my waist and hold onto it while going, so the floor doesn’t get it dirty. Also good for when the door lock is broken, so you can have something besides your hands to cover up with.
You don’t remove the skirt or lower it. You hike it up so it doesn’t touch anything in the restroom. This is also how people in dresses use the restroom.
After taking the photo with his head between Anvil’s breasts, he quickly uploaded it to the site to be his avatar.
Oh classic Math~
Thats what you will see when he gives you a call.
It will be his new Facebook avatar, or the cover picture for his profile.
I hope she flings him like a lawn dart…..
Ooh Ooh Ooh! So he is basically Longshot from the x-men :D or Domino. or the taskmaster. Doesn’t have a superpower but is just so good at what he does that he can take on a superpowered person no problem. Now roll escape artist Math!
Domino was a mutant, sorry to say. Longshot has the same abilities as Domino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_%28comics%29
Longshot was on the Xmen so presumably he was a mutant. He had super luck powers, though since he grew up in a dimension of spineless TV producers, his luck obviously didn’t kick in for a while.
This dimention has it’s own spineless TV producers, so what’s the diffrence?
That comic book is probably where they came up with all those crappy reality TV ideas in the first place.
Eyup he was a mutant. His super luck was purely random though. He would get lucky when he didn’t need too or get very lucky when he needed it. At first he had very little if any control over it, like Domino or even Black Cat via Spiderman, but as time progressed and he worked on it he could influence it. In the time of training it though, he trained the rest of his body to be the very best it could be and thus was why i was using him in my example. Relying on luck, even if it is super luck, isn’t always the best plan. Sometimes you gotta make your own luck happen by training.
yes they were mutants but they did not rely on their powers. being super lucky helped them a lot but it did not define their combat skills. so yes they got classified as mutants. but no they don’t really have any super powers that would boost said skills. in fact for a while their own powers would work against them. they would get super lucky at random moments. later on though, after very intense training they could guide it to where it would do them the most good. However, guiding it on one aspect kinda took it away from other aspects. for example, they could focus on being untouchable but there was no way they could hit every single shot or do a kill shot every time. That they compensated for by becoming good enough to do that on their own. so yes i knew they were technically super powered. (growing up with dad working in a comic book store does that to you -_-; ) however i was more talking about their actual physical skills when denied their powers. should have clarified on that i dropped the ball on that one.
Taskmaster has a super power too. He’s essentially a walking youtube. He can copy exactly anything he sees. If he watches a master play the piano for a few minutes he can do the exact same thing. He just can’t improvise or play a different song on the same level of skill. Just give him a TV and that’s training for him.
ehhhh taskmaster has a photoreflexes. its like a photographic memory so not necessarily a superpower. obviously he can’t copy like laserbeams or anything like that. it has to be possible at least in terms of body movements. he can push his body to extremes this way giving him the semblence of a power but it doesn’t mean he has one. in one comic explaining his powers, note this is a very old comic with his first appearance, it shows him using daredevil’s moves, captain america’s shield throwing, and hawkeyes arrow skills. super human yes. super power no.
Basicly he could read the pattern of your movement and both copy your style of combat and predict what you were going to do next.
I read something a bit like that in a book once. The man in it was autistic and as a hobby fenced. He could read your patterns and then beat you. The book is called Speed of Dark by Elisabeth Moon.
I highly reckomend you reading it. It’s in my top ten lists of books, and I’ve read thousands of books.
So without seeing Anvil, or hearing about Anvil in relation to a gendered pronoun, Sydney automatically assumes that Anvil is a female?
There are more female super’s around then men, so chances are Syd made that connection. Or Anvil has been in the news before.
Given her and Joel’s conversations in the early strips, supers are known of, but not particularly known well, outside of a few random sightings and “Flying Rescue Guy”. And ArcSWAT in particular seems to have been tightly under wraps until the bank stunt (which was an hour ago at most).
It’s true that all of the ArcSupers that Syd has met to this point (both of them) have been female, but that’s not nearly enough data points to build a conclusion on, especially when a guy (Math) is added to the equation. Plus we ourselves have only been shown 8 ArcSupers, 3 male and 5 female. Again the sample size is too small for us to assume that there is a pervasive gender disbalance.
as a guy i automatically assume people are male if i haven’t received any information to judge their gender with. Sydney could be doing the same in reverse. or she can be taking a guess 50/50 odds
Two of the male supers she met are not known to her as supers, They were posing as bank robbers, in disguise.Pardon the pun, but there was no slip of the tongue during Syd’s altercation at the bank.
nope no slip of the tongue at all. it was very well handled. . .
LMAO!!! I love potty humor.
If I am dating Daphne (Harem), I would only be able to work with one body at a time. Mind you, if she gets sore or tired, switching to another body will give the first one a change to rest and recover.
And now you’ve got me wondering what Super abacus powers would actually be! It’ll be interesting when Syd and Math finally do meet – can he match her mouth, or her tastebuds?
By the way Dave – something I meant to ask ages ago, did Syd actually pay the shop takings into the bank after all, and if not, where are they, since she hasn’t got them with her now?
I’m not sure what would have happened in that case, I’m sure the bank would be closed so she’s probably still got them under the front seat in her car or something.
If Sydney reclaimed the money bag from the floor and put it back in her car, it would have had to have been between #46 and #47, as she is never shown with it again.
They would have locked the bank doors and done an immediate inventory including the bag dropped on the floor during the scuffle. A deposit slip in the bag will give all the information needed such as where it goes, who it belongs to and how much change they need. Banks are VERY particular about proper documentation of all transactions.
I like your answer, but I’m not sure there would have been any bank personnel in the bank to stop Sydney from reclaiming the bag, if she remembered to grab it. Considering the adrenaline crash that hit her though, it is also possible that the bag was the last thing on her mind.
So it’s either safe in Sydney’s car or safe in the bank, and we can put it happily out of mind.
After the whole bank robbery, the police would take control of the situation. All possible physical evidence, including anything people are not carrying with them, like art tubes, would be collected and then in a few hours if it was determined that it was not important to the case, released to the owners, if identifiable. Joel probably got a call at the comic shop telling him that the bag and contents were available for pick-up at the local police station. So where the HELL is Sydney?
Most deposit bags have large bank logos on them and some have locks. So my guess is they left the bag with the bank.
I have seen some of the crime sceen evidence documentation the FBI does, in some cases they literaly inventory individual bank notes by serial number, Every peice of paper and trash in waste baskets, and desk drawer contents.
How can you not love that ‘cracking up on the toilet’ panel?
A comic called “Hero Sandwich”
Heavyset man sitting on a toilet grunting and obviously straining
Plastique opens the stall door shouting “Give me all your clothes now!”
There’s a line of “plop plop plop plop plop” at the bottom of the scene.
Brilliant martial artist though he be, in the long run Math is doomed against Anvil, because throwing, hitting of kicking her adds to her strength. For instance, at the moment she’s got a six foot drop times her bodyweight to add to an already formidable grip. Which is how she’s holding him in the air at arm’s length by the top of his skull in the last panel. (She’s considerably taller than him, but their eyes ate level, so even without seeing his feet, we know they’re off the ground).
He’s not trying to hurt her, just avoid her untill she stops trying to hurt him.
At this point she could squeeze his head like a lemon or shake him to death like a terrier killing a rat, but she won’t. No one is making a serious effort to injure anyone here, They’re on the same side, after all. Anvil is just registering a protest at Math’s lack of manners.
Geez. Harem makes the Corsican Brothers seem normal. :-P
Anvil is VERY beautiful in this page…. It’s a good side of her to see more of, and I think I just may be smitten~
Math will have a very big problem getting out of that palming his head. he can’t use the pinky trick mentioned because he would need to us leverage, which would add a small about to anvils strength. The nerve cluster attach would also add to anvils strength the same way. The only way to get out would be to make her let go by making your head spin out of her hands. Of course this is assuming that anvil can absorb all physical attacks involving physical contact of one form or another to cause damage.
Math is acting like he’s quite aware he’s lost, and he’s also pretty sure Anvil isn’t really going to do him serious harm.
To them, this ain’t fighting, they be flirting! (And I am calling it now there is something between ’em.)