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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Seeing Harem on the toilet brings up a veritable cascade of questions — actual serious and non-pervy questions.
1) Most women I know prefer to wait to get home to use the bathroom rather than go in a public restroom, so why doesn’t Harem just teleport home to go and then teleport back.
2) If 1 of 5 active Harems had to go, but then they recombined down to 1 Harem, would she have to go?
3) And what about other biological questions? Hunger? A cold? Wounds?
4) How far away is home for Harem? Does she live on-base or off-base? And what about the rest of the team?
5) Are any of the team on-duty at the moment, or are they just hanging around work for the fun of it?
6) If any of them are on-duty, then why aren’t they in uniform? Why would Harem be the only one that has to be in uniform? Was Maxima just being pissy? (Which brings us full-circle.)
On the biological ones, I cite the case of The Hulk vs reality, and pretty much every werewolf movie where the werewolf is bigger than the person and eats all sorts of crazy things. For the Hulk it was eating like whole hogs and drinking whole kegs and then turning back.
The answer is (we’re breaking conservation of mass anyway, so….there you go)
on the wounds, reminds me of Ben Ten *and why after introducing “Echo Echo” you never saw “Ditto” ever again. The whole shared wounds thing kind of defeats the purpose of having doubles, even if you can all feel the same sensation the actual damage should be reserved for the unit being hit. But upon remerging. I don’t know, I’d think if teleporting involved demolecuralizing*sp* and reforming, then I’d assume a point memory for what is being re-assembled thus it could also work like an auto-heal. But that can be broken in stories making them seem immortal so isn’t used all that often anymore.
I too was wandering if some or most of them might live in that building, like super-apartments close to work. I mean we see a fridge, a couch, all watching tv together. Keep them close together so they are all on standby. Or just some do and others have apartments near by. The flashback at the start isn’t clear if Sydney still lives where ever she currently lives or with them.
“I’d think if teleporting involved demolecuralizing*sp* and reforming, then I’d assume a point memory for what is being re-assembled thus it could also work like an auto-heal.”
Nice, just like in Card’s The Lost Gate!
What I want to know is, why isn’t on the main bio with the rest of the team? Is that one reserved for the grrls only?
1) Her home is further away than she can TP to, at least her parents home is. She actually probably has an apartment withing TP range of the base actually, and she was raised on a farm so she’s not all bashful about body stuff.
2) She doesn’t really recombine, when she un-teleports, the body goes into kind of a state of non-existence and the energy used to make it is distributed among the remaining ones, making them stronger, slightly more hardy, etc. They don’t continue to live/age/heal/etc when they’re in that state, but return as they left, which is why she can dye the hair of one of them and it stays that way when it comes back.
3) See #2
4) See #1, the area above the theater outside Leon’s office is little apartments, more like a study + bedroom area, some of the supers live on base, some commute in. Since there’s so few of them, they’re on call pretty much 24/7. Max lives up there most of the time but she also has a loft within a minute of sub-but-nearly-supersonic flight.
5) Technically they’re not “on duty” as their existence as an organization hasn’t been broadly announced. Max primed the announcement at the bank, but the ones that aren’t lounging are preparing for the press conference, mostly preening and working out and stuff. There’s support staff, like Arianna’s people that are going crazy trying to get things ready but the Supers aren’t up yet.
6) Maxima doesn’t need a lot of excuse to be pissy, but like I said, ArcSWAT isn’t on duty quite yet. I don’t know what Marines were doing right before they announced the existence of the Marines… I suspect they hadn’t already picked the people who were going to be in the Marines before the announcement. I imagine they legislated it, budgeted it, announced it, then starting recruiting, so things are happening a little out of order here.
Does that mean that she has some 8 or 9 year old bodies store in this “voidspace”? What I mean is, she had to discover her 5 body limit by creating more than 5 bodies at some point in her youth and you mentioned she acquired her powers really early in life. Could she say…. un-teleport a 19 year old body and re-summon an 8 year old one? The mind boggles. She really could be immortal, if that’s the case. Also great for child disguises. And if I were her, I’d un-teleport one body right now, semi-permanently. Then re-summon at age 30 or so and dismiss all bodies but the 19 y.o. one. Finally creating 4 more 19 y.o. bodies… IF that’s the way her power works.
Just a thought. ;)
That’s actually probably possible, but she’s too much of an experience junkie to let any large amount of time pass without “also learning how to scuba dive/bake croissants/deliver a calf” that day.
Hmm.
And my idea for supercharging Anvil?
Two words: Atmospheric Reentry. lol
No need to drop Anvil from orbit, just have Max fly her up a couple of hundred metres and drop her from there.
Ah, but think of how much more power she would get if Maxima took her into orbit and flung her down into the atmosphere. Starting with the air hitting her on her way into it. I’m not sure how the aerodynamics would work once she remove the kinetic energy of the air hitting her, but I don’t think there would be any air friction. The initial kinetic energy of air hitting the body would create it and since that energy is being absorbed, she wouldn’t just stop at terminal velocity, she’d keep accelerating… Until she hit the ground like a frickin nuke without the explosion. No crater, tho. More energy to absorb with the impact. Now she has enough to level a city.
But I really know nothing about physics, so….
And the obvious answer to that is the one used in many comics when you have an absorbing villain… Overcharge-> POP!
Mpw, silly me didn’t read up on exactly how anvils powers work, but assuming there’d be no friction is silly. But might be she could absorb the heat of it.
actualy her landing impact would force her to use energy to reinforce herself while letting the impact shockwave do its damage to her opponent just like halo will suggest at some point (combo power stunt)
taking her up to orbit could be pointless, there is a max speed a human body can reach going through the atmosphere, and taking her past the height she would reach termenal velocity at would simply waste time. Now i say “could” because i cant remember if you can reach termanal velocity by falling from inside earth’s orbit.
ok, i went back and re-read the comment, dont know how i missed the part about Terminal velocity (and got the spelling) , so now i kinda feel like an ass. But it still wouldnt work because terminal velocity is not effected by your energy, its just that eventually air particles cant out of your way fast enough. throwing her at the moon might work though
Imagine a fifteen year-old clone of Harem out there and she forgets that this version seems underage, so she gets thrown out of R-rated movies, trying to buy beer…
and then she shows her ARChon ID.
Just some info…
What “Marines” were doing before there were Marines? They were drinking heavily.
The Marine Corps started in a tavern, their first recruiting station.
That explains Grandpa. Whenever he went out for a drink, it was “to celebrate the illustrious birth of the Corps.”
And now you know.
The Marines have existed since the U.S. Navy (the only “standing military” authorized by the U.S. Constitution) was formed. There weren’t all that many press conferences in those days, since the news could take quite a while to get from the Capital (whether NYC, Philadelphia or eventually Washington City) to the rest of the country with data transmission speeds limited to that of horseback travel.
The only arm of the U.S. military formed since the advent of high speed communication was the USAF when it was separated from the Army in 1947.
By the way, the stated mission of Archon is in violation of the Posse Commitatus Act. Thought you might like to know. Not that the present (or several recent) regimes in Washington pay it any attention anyway.
Before reading your comment about harem I made a similar theory where she splits her molecules or existence. Because of her powers shes naturally tough. And when divided into 5 each is about the same as an average human. One possible side effect of this that when all 5 come together she gets super strength and weighs 5 times a normal human. Which is useful because she could teleport above a Gillian and body slam them.
I found a way around the problem IE6 is having with the page, while its loading hit the red X “stop” button (stops the page from loading any further). Keeps it from going to the error screen.
and by timing and seeing what was loading I have identified what is knocking me off
something called “collectiveofheroes.popup”. What ever that is my browser hates it and tries to white screen me with the error message (page could not load) when it comes up.
I’ll let the guy who programmed it know… unfortunately, I think when google announced that they weren’t supporting IE6 anymore a few years ago, web developers everywhere all collectively sighed in relief and stopped caring about supporting that dinosaur. I wonder if I make it not display at all if it sees an IE6 browser would help. I suspect not but it’s worth a try.
It might not just be that, looking at the bottom screen bar it could be a few things. I know IE6 and Facebook (even its links) don’t get along very well. the stop loading seems to be working. Especially as all I am really doing is preventing some links from opening or the computer switching to the error white screen. It really is weird that it thinks there is a problem but I am still seeing all the pertinent parts of, and using the functions of the site.
As a web developer, I know that getting a site to work in any version of internet explore prior to 8 (9 for preference) take an enormous amount of extra work.
Kogan (online retailer) recently started added a surcharge to any purchase made with IE7, due to the extra time it take to develop pages for it.
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I’m falling for Anvil hard with those expressions she’s making in the bottom panels…
I really like the pacing and angles for the action sequence, but I’m surprised you didn’t make Anvil a little more Cheesed off in the third to last panel.
she’s still proccessing the throw/landing
Based on the angle, she is standing up for the ‘photo op’. I’m guessing she hasn’t yet gone from surprised to angry at that point. Given that the fight seems to be in fairly good humour, she might not get angry at him doing that, but simply annoyed that he was able to.
see the hair still coming down, as for escape it would be easy enough to twist out of her grip into a leg sweep.
I’m guessing that Math also does some hand-to-hand training with the team members and part of that training is getting the trainees to control their emotions while in stressful situations, hence the inappropriate comments might not be just a personality quirk.
I thought those awesome chokers were a fashion statement but I just realized EVERY single super in the team has one.
Does that mean our cute little Habanero is going to get one too?
Oh yeah.
Did Halo have one on that tall banner ad that you had up a while ago? The one where she standing perpendicular to the wall of that building?
She didn’t but only cause you couldn’t see her neck from that angle.
Actually, if you zoom in to the point it pixelates and look close enough, you can juuuust see Halo’s choker in the TWC banner ad – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PW_banner-Horiz_468x60.jpg
Nice catch
So she want’s to be an X-Man now?
If you look at the picture on the voting incentive, she has a gold H on her choker.
So, based on the patterns of the Chokers, does that mean Sydney/Halo’s will be an H with the 7 Orbs connected by a line? Or even not connected at all?
Not even going to try to guess the color for her choker. THough if she’s allowed to pick herself I bet it will be wacky.
hmm what would Sydney pick for a color? macaroni and cheese is a crayola color that i have never been able to get over the weird name of. some sort of tie-dye perhaps? flesh tone so as to make the symbols look like a tattoo? (that periodically moves). what are some other ideas?
Well, i’d go for 7 circles representing the orbs in an H shape – though I think a big asterisk to denote her swearing would be more appropriate! Possible the yellow colour from her shirt. Or royal purple perhaps.
Red like hotsauce?
S for scoville?
Perhaps an asterisk…
(for the swearing)
…with 7 branches on it?
(for the orbs)
Kinda new here but I also just noticed their collar thingies, and thought to point out that Halo has one in the incentive pic (for those who don’t bother to look it’s white with a gold H ‘n stuff)
I’m guessing the chokers are multi-purpose. Identification, tracking location and vital signs (the neck is a good location for such), and communications, especially sub-vocal. When do we meet their version of Q, or has that happened already?
Pretty logical.
If they were not I bet they are gonna be now :P (assuming the author sees your post)
Yeah, they’re actually throat mics. I don’t like the look of chokers on dudes but at least that way I can justify it.
thats how the lawyer sold it to max too so max would agree to wear it
i love this webcomic
This is quite a number of supers* we’ve all got under Archon’s umbrella. Counting them until this update:
1. Max
2. Sydney
3. Harem
4. Anvil
5. Dabbler
6. Peggy
7. Achilles
8. Mr. Amorphous
9. Heatwave
10. Zephan Zoeng
11. Gwen
12. Math
13. Goth Harem’s lunch buddy from #72
14. Big Guy in a suit with Schoolgirl Harem from #72 (assuming he’s a super given his size, but since he’s not wearing a military uniform and is casually walking around a base for supers, it’s a safe bet)
* Based on Max’s definition from #84 (“people with powers, exceptional abilities, or unusual items”) who are valuable enough to become part of Archon.
Peggy’s not a super. She flies aircraft and is a great sniper.
that falls under “exceptional abilities”
What aqua said. That’s her silhouette in #72 between generic super dude’s and Zephan Zoeng’s.
My bad. Silhouette from #84.
If there is one thing Manga has taught me, it’s that uncanny martial arts masters are always vulnerable to bewbs. It’s like their kryptonite.
And I want the contract to supply Archon with Popcorn. I’ll make a killing!
Apparently not since her boobs are hanging over his shoulders.
And he was easily captured right after.
Math isn’t on the cast page, why not…
Basicly DaveB hasn’t had the time to fix it up yet.
Cause I left for vacation the moment I finished drawing this page. :P
Have a great vacation with your new wife. Is this a bit of a late honeymoon?
Just something to do with the kid while he’s on summer break. We’d like to go to England for a honeymoon but financially that’s a ways off.
Given the habit of people to donate for anything, putting up an extra vote incentive for a trip to england would probably not be far fetched. Possibly all the members in a beach scene.
As someone with more than one or two hours under the belt as a martial artist, I can say that Anvil may think she has Maths but ….
Without much thought there are eight (that if know of) techniques that Maths can make from that position.
Results from which range from breaking Anvil’s finger to dislocating her shoulder and popping her elbow out of joint.
Most of which in less than three movements.
So long story short, Maths can either take a beating or dish one out. His choice at this point.
You’ve learned techniques to use when you’re being held off the ground, one handed, by your head?
Can’t imagine that comes up often.
I hope Math’s powers include some body fortification, because hanging a weight of 70 or 80 kilos from your neck can’t be healthy.
Neck Bridge, enough said.
uh, yep.
It’s all about leverage and angles and the way your body works or doesn’t.
It don’t matter how strong you are – your elbow only bends one way.
Your shoulder only goes so far before it pops out of the joint.
Your thumb will only move so far before it rips right off.
Need I continue?
And who said she had lifted him off the ground? The way I see it’s drawn – Anvils just managed to slap her hand down on his head. Lifting him up would be drawn differently. That’s just my take tho.
The ‘lifting off ground’ seems to be based on a comparison of their relative head levels in panels 8 and 10. In panel 8, the top of Mathias’s head is about level with Anvil’s collarbone, whereas in panel 10, it’s about level with her eyes, which would imply that his feet are about 6 to 8 inches off the ground in panel 10. Of course, this assumes that [i] both are at normal standing height in panel 8 (probable, since Anvil is 6’7″ and Mathias seems well on the short side of 6 foot), and [ii] the ‘camera’ in panel 10 is aimed horizontally (foreshortening only affects the extent of lift: even taking the chin as a reference, he’d still be 2-4″ from the ground).
The name, Anvil, suggests a great deal of invulnerability. So while Math can have a great time using her movement to throw her around, when she just wants to stay in one place [and hold Math in it], he is trying to move a stone statue and even a finger twist is likely beyond him.
due to her kinetic absorbtion ability, except for throwing her around math can’t realy hurt her
That assumes your opponent’s physiological strengths are within the range of an ordinary human. Anvil isn’t an ordinary human.
actualy there is at least2 technics i see for wich superstrenght dont mean squat.
because even superstrenght need to be aplied and to be aplied it need the skeleton,tendon and articualtions, thats why some technics and holds can bu iused on oponents who are far stronger with no problem as it disable theyr ability to use said strenght.
for instance, put a finger on the articualtion of your tumbs and use you other tumbs to try and force it up,, you’ll see how easy that is.
Sorry but you are mistaken, on a very strong human yes, on someone who could toss a dumptruck no,
those tendons and bones and joints, have to be super-reinforced just so their own super-strength doesn’t rip their body apart (would suck to throw a punch and your elbow rips out). Basically try to put a grizzly bear in a lock and you’ll see what I mean, now imagine a person whose physical structure can rival the hydaulics of a back-hoe and your best holds can be bested, so long of course as the super has no qualms about breaking your arms (or outright ripping them from their sockets).
I had this discussion a couple of years ago with my Champions 1st Ed. group, and we determined that super-strong people have super-strong skeleton to go along with the super-strong muscles, and that using leverage manuevers might not be as effective as a martial artist might think. As this group contained a physics doctorate and several martial arts fanatics (don’t worry, most of us are still hard-core nerds) we figured that somebody that could lift a car, without breaking a sweat, wouldn’t have much to worry about if your average person tried to break a pinkie. The greater the strength, the less effective such a manuever would be. Now if the martial artist has advanced strength and above-average skill…
Can’t wait for Sydney to introduce Math to “Tongue Fu!”
Or Super-Tai Dragon Breath.
Or maybe “Super Secret Technique Kancho of Death!”
Or even- “Tentacular De-Pantsu!” – which would leave the girls pointing and laughing.
Or if really annoyed – distract him w/telepresence and then Tentacu-Invasion!/Attack from Back!– shocking if she could push power through tentacle if she held it-
One thing that surprised me, by omission, given the potty humor panel and the look of shock on the lady in the other stall. No cartoon POOOT! between laughs or off to one side and low angle placed there.
Laughing on the toilet causes Pooting while pooping, everyone knows that… don’t they?
DaveB would that panel be funnier if a Poot cloud was drawn in under Harem > POOOT! < off to one side or a subtle one in middle of her laughing? "Bwahhahah- POOT!– hahahaha!"
Dunno, if yer gonna show potty scene it deserves full treatment and the look of shock on the women in the stall to harem's stage right really deserves a secondary surprise to react to too.
So, he thinks Matthias sounds too biblical but his necklace as crosses on it. Weird guy, that.
They aren’t crosses; they are plus signs.
Hm… the way they are stylized it could be both, although pluses are more likely. Just seems odd to me that he wants to called Math instead of Matthias but vague pluses are cool with him.
Anyway, thats just details.
In the comic they are arrows pointing towards the M.
I’m sorry, I was wrong. It sort of looked that way on the page where Heatwave blows up the soda can.
True; that choker thing does look like that collar thingie the
pedoCatholic preists like to wearWay to close a tag, me.
…
Classy.
Yep, Math really needs to upgrade his hardware & software…Especially if waiting for lag time is gonna get him nailed.
But, sometimes…Just occasionally…It might be worth it.
I got another idea for the next scene, though it’s not as funny as the last one I came up with.
In response to Harem’s question, about Max wanting to do something about the fight, Max pinches the bridge of her nose and sighs ‘I suppose I’ve got no choice. Sydney? Can you give me a minute?’ To which Syd says ‘Maybe I can give you more than a minute’ as she grabs the telepresence orb. Then, while holding it out to Max, Syd says ‘I’ve been wanting to test something out.’ and we see a big grin spread over Max’s face as she catches on to Syd’s meaning. In the next panel *Max* pops into the lunchroom with the loudest shout, and most menacing stance she can manage, “BEHAVE YOURSELVES!” (or something like that)
That would take all of 3 panels and we could get back to the interview without waiting another week.
Or. . . Dave could dress it up by having head shots of all the Harems (who saw the whole thing from multiple points of view) going “oh wow/f__k/I’m screwed/etc.” and Max saying, while returning the orb to Syd, “That was fun.”
Okay so i have a few questions regarding Anvil:
How much percent is the absorbtion? Or is it not directly tested?
Can she turn it off or is it always on?
On which level does the kinetic absorbtion exist? If it is in her skin atoms or molecules why doesn’t she leave a trace of cold air behind her? Because you know not moving particles have the funny temperature of 0°K or -273°C or what ever the nullpoint in F is. But this would give her immunity to radiation or every other nanoparticle. Maybe even laser because we all know that light is ALSO a particle. Yay for quantum physic!
Or is it like a forcefield filter where the smallest particle may pass and only bigger amounts of molecules dont go through and get their kinetic energy removed?
https://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2011-09-30
It’s always on but there’s a threshold you have to pass before she starts absorbing energy. She won’t absorb energy from air molecules or if you throw popcorn at her, but she gets a little from her own footfalls, and anything stronger.
if she gathers even a trickle of power from her own footsteps, then her power’s upper threshold must be astronomically high, just think how many steps you take just going to the grocery store.
thanks for clearing that up
the minimum of required energy is a nice idea which isnt that much from the photoeffect.
I would give everything to have this ability just for my forehead because the people here keep building their doors so small :D
I have a Harem question. Can she teleport another human? Because I can see fights with ultimate bad guys ending rather quickly if she can. Grab Bad Guy, teleport to somewhere in cislunar space then wait for re-entry after she teleports back to a breathable atmosphere.
already stated by dave harem can’t take another person with her at this time but may still develop that at a later date dependant on the course of the comic
Harem’s teleportation is also limited in range, with an exception if she already has an iteration in the target area. So unless she keeps one iteration permanently in space to act as an anchor, she’d be limited to a kilometre or two of altitude: high enough to do respectable damage from impact, but not to get the vacuum damage, re-entry heating, and breathing space for the ground team that a forcible de-orbiting would give.
altitude would, if she could carry someone, be easy by leapfroging herself each body near range limit up from the previous. then the carrier body jumps up above them and lets go, with one body safe on the ground the whole time deform airial bodys before they drop and hurt themselves, she avoids getting hurt. simple plan but would need some assisted practice (someone to catch a body safely if she fails to).
While teleportation could be used to stop a fight, Harem-style, I don’t think the writer would want to get into her stealing clothing to take the fight out of someone. Teleport in and grab a bit of clothing or weapon, then teleport out with it. Or even part of it. Shotgun with a hand sized hole in the middle is pretty worthless.
like shadowcat taking the bolt out of rifles?
slightly different since we’ve seen Shadowcat phase the entire X-team into a launchpad to avoid incineration from a rocket’s exhaust (although that pretty much wiped her out, although that could’ve been Oxygen deprivation) as well as fry computers by walking through them. At that point grabbing something and phasing it past another object isn’t that difficult.
No need for Harem to do that: Max can fly!
counters to head/hair grabs from the rear, green belt moves.
yeah, but how many of them require leverage to cause the opponent’s grip to slip off? if Anvil can lift say, a bus due to her super-strength… that means the strength of the muscles/ bones/ tendons in her hands is capable of withstanding that amount of force (at the minimum, probably even more)… does Math have the ability to exert MORE THAN that amount of force using these leverage techniques?… i don’t think so… unless he can lift a bus too, then his muscles are weaker than that, and while leverage will indeed multiply what force he CAN exert, it will still not overcome the force that Anvil can exert in keeping her hand where it is… and i think that any amount of punching/kicking type of moves will be rendered absolutely null, because she’ll just absorb the impact energy, thus there isn’t any effect on her at all… bad news indeed for a martial artist who relies on physical impact to take his opponents down. he MIGHT get out of it if he used some sort of pressure point/Vulcan nerve pinch type of stuff since that doesn’t relay on impact, but on the nervous system of the victim to cause pain, or a reflex action that lets him get out of it, however, in this instance i don’t think it will work, because of the angles that he’d have to try and contort himself into in order to get a good hit/ grip on one of those spots… and all she’d have to do would be to just “shake” him around a bit… but still, i think he’s goin’ down… in a most humorous way, too!
yea, was thinking similar since im guessing her kinetic absorption would be a bigger issue than her strength, exploiting a nerve point would likely be the logical way to go.
Of course that may be an issue in the kinetic energy involved with actually striking a nerve point.
Wait a sec….a blonde male Martial Artist who’s kind of a big jerk and erm…very interested in women….did you by any chance read Aiki? ^^
That is hilarious if its true. I kinda liked Aiki’s character, even if the manga stopped interesting me.
Yeah, I really like Isutoshi’s art and characters. I’ve had the idea for Math for some time but when I was putting some finishing touches on him I admit there have been some influences. I’m purposely trying not to copy anything outright, but don’t be surprised if you see Math crib a move or two. Purely homage though. :)
Nah, not meant as a “You copwied that!!” I know myself how annoying it is to be accused of plagiarism, because someone found something in x-thousand years of human literature that resembles your plot/character/etc.
It just struck me after the 3rd or 4th time that Math reminded me of something and got curious if that was a coincidence.
“Background characters and those who don’t have lines don’t get listed in the cast page.”
Really? That’s a shame. Even if they are background characters they are rather interesting. And I’d love to know power levels to get an idea how they’d fare in a fight.
They’re regular characters in the comic in this case, but the Who’s Who is really there to bring new readers up to speed so they can understand what’s going on in the page quickly, or remind a reader who hasn’t seen a character in 6 months. It’s not intended as a replacement for the cast page.
…I like the little sidebar Who’s Who. <3 It doesn't take the place of the cast page, and doesn't have to. With the comic updated once a week, it does exactly what it needs to do, to help keep the interest and pacing up.
is thier going to be a shapeshifter? i always like them. id keep changing my looks just to mess with people XD. pluse you would haf to wear clothes you could make them XD. be a guy one minit and turn to a chick just to mess with them XD its be best power ever and has ALOT of uses. :3
I think that role would be filled by “Mr.Amorphous”, wouldn’t it?
Dabbler might have a minor shapeshifting ability or spell considering her…interesting background. Amorphous I think is more the Master of Disguise of the bunch.
From what was said before I think Mr. Amorphous is a Stretcher (AKA Rubber Man).
Don’t you mean Plastic Man?
And P-M could probably do disguises as well if they didn’t paint him as such a dunce.
It isn’t that Plastic Man is a dunce, it’s just that what gave him his powers literally gave him a permanent LSD trip. Not my words, those are the words of the creator and numerous writers who came after him. And the funny thing about Plastic Man is that he were to ever “come down” and realize his true potential, said by Mr. Red Undies himself, Superman, that he would the most powerful of them all. Which could be said for Sydney herself. If she ever truly put her mind towards her powers you’d probably see a few more bars added to her power ranking.
I didn’t mean anyone specifically, I was thinking of the power type.
Mr. Fantastic, Plastic Man, Rubberband Man, Monkey D. Luffy, ect… (to show some range in the ability)
Noting that each of Harem’s bodies can react to stuff happening to another of her bodies elsewhere.
As we see here and during the famed “congo line of doom”, this can be rather off-putting to people who are nearby when she suddenly “reacts” to something they don’t have a clue about. Just sayin’.
Since they share a mind, feeling something is funny but not wanting to show it in one area could lead to unusual situations.
Good example.
It said in her Bio that her powers cause awkward social situations. This just happens to be one of them.
Yeah like flying through the air to land in a heap or water cooler, and then repete.
mental image of Math trying something on Sydney, and her response of wrapping a tentacle around one of his ankles, picking him up, an overhead slam into the ground on her left, followed by an overhead slam into the ground on the right, lather, rinse, repeat until he see stars, then being the nerd that she is tell “Your Kung-Fu is not strong!”
damn typo demon’s tell him “Your Kung-Fu is not strong!”
or she could smack him in the face with a force field
“picking him up, an overhead slam into the ground on her left, followed by an overhead slam into the ground on the right, lather, rinse, repeat until he see stars, then being the nerd that she is tell “Your Kung-Fu is not strong!””
. . .or she could use a twist on the Hulk’s line from the Avengers movie – “Puny god’s gift to women.”
lol
The appearance of that in the recent Marvel-Avengers movie had me laughing loudest in the theater.
well If her Obs are Ioun stones then 2 of then should/could be Psioinc power stones, or store 3 spells each. Well if they are then lookout.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, since the comments proliferate faster than I can keep up with, but I just noticed that the girl in the stall next to Harem in Panel 3 definitely is not there for the designated purpose of that facility, as her britches appear to be fully UP. (Red color high up the leg) Makes me wonder WHAT is she doing on that Smartphone that she has to hide in the ladies room to do it!
Good catch. She could be the spy the Powers That Be put in place to keep an eye on the new quasi milatary/police force that only answes to the Joint Chiefs.
you right i didn’t see that, there are a few things it could be, if she is wearing stockings then you wouldn’t need to pull them down but since they seem to go up to the bottom of her jacket it seems unlikely. unless since it looks like she’s wearing something red under her jacket maybe she’s wearing a red crotchless body-stocking, may be not. Since DaveB does draw these strips larger then shrink them down it may of looked fine full size, but lost some in the reducing. Or as pickle3719 says she might be a spy, not necessary for the powers that be maybe another country or some as-of-yet unknown super villain.
Wow I must really be slow lately. Also just noticed that 4 out of 5 Harems are in this comic, including TWO watching the fun between Math and Anvil. But why so spread out, having two iterations doing the same activity?
Presumably so she doesn’t miss any details . Having two bodies watching the action from the SAME place is basically just repetition.
One to report at a cool angle and the other to hang out with her friends and point and giggle.
Yeah, the one was downstairs the whole time watching the big screen, and Goth was upstairs playing pool, she’s just waiting for the sparring to be over to resume the game, no point in starting some other activity, so might as well watch.
With people as strong as Anvil fighting with someone like Mathis there’s bound to be a big building shaking crash. It would mess up the game.
Sidney reminds me of a grown up version of my neice. I feel so afraid now
Practically all ADHD cases moderate with maturity. I’m sure your niece will be OK.
What should scare you is the though of what Sydney was like at your niece’s age!
something along the lines of Haruhi Suzumiya
I’m not to worried, I was as bad at my neices age with my ADHD. We need to work on her communication skills a bit, But she is a very bright if shy little (gobble gobble turky) Girl. And yes, as we can tell this unkle is all sorts of an awsome rolemodel
Btw…I think what makes this scene -work- for me is the Harem in the bathroom panel. A) verrrry tastefully drawn. B) very true to life, since with 5 separate bodies, they’ll all have to go to the bathroom at regular intervals depending on what each one ate, C) it really shows the bizarreness that is Harem’s life (one on the couch eating popcorn, one up on the railing reporting in/one in the meeting hall reporting in, one in the bathroom…laughing her butt off in the one “safe” place to do so, and D) it shows how Harem’s bizarre life affects others, that poor lady in the next stall over… Oh, and E) the touchpad phone was just about perfect.
…I’m not gonna ask how you knew exactly what to draw in a lady’s bathroom stall, however.
I assume women’s bathrooms are basically the same as mens, only with an extra stall for where there’d be 2 urinals.
More or less, some nicer ones have a few extras in them such as vanity mirrors (magnifying mirrors), a biohazard bag in the stall (for tampos and pads so these blood covered things don’t end up in the regular trash *blood has to be treated as a biohazard* or flushed down the toilet potentially clogging it).
that second is more common than the first.
However in some places there is this sort of snub, where the women’s room has an air freshener, but the men’s room doesn’t…hate that steriotype, being manly means putting up with gross stuff.
what happened to Sydneys glasses?
quick question….how does Sydney know Math and Anvil’s genders? she clearly refers to Anvil as female, and Math as male.
That’s a good point. Shoot, I thought I had that covered somewhere but I guess I didn’t . I need to fix that when get a chance to go in and do some corrections.
HA, just realized a stealth pun, popcorn is a “super food”
any time i see panel eight i say to my self AAWWWW YEAHHH
Holy cow, just realised two harems are watching the fight (pink hair and purple), sometimes it’s hard not to see her as different people.
Where are Sydney’s glasses?
Is it bad that i somehow ship Anvil and Math?
His name’s Math because he knows the precise equation for kicking you ass. Heyo!
just realized sydney is shown to have boy shorts clear back in comic three, was that planned?
Yup!
I adore the level of comedy potential inherent in Harem’s abilities. You make excellent use of it!