And here’s the last guest comic for the week – this seems like something that could happen. It’s by Bryan Hoben who doesn’t have a webcomic at the moment but is rocking the DeviantArt page.
I also received some fanart and I wasn’t sure when to post it, so I decided to stick it on the DeviantArt page.
Here’s Halo by Holly.S
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You could always use the fan art as vote incentives … especially if they are as good as the 1st one.
This is 100% canon! :D
Ayup, I could see this happening.
That halo pic looks like she’s about 10 years older than she is in the current comic – More mature physically (but apparently not mentally from the quote at the bottom)
I was thinking that Halo would be mid twenties, and the fan art of her looks like a more sophisticated rendering, more art, less comic (neither better nor worse, just different) To me, at least, the fan art looks like a more true to life image of what I think Halo really would look like, and Dave’s art of her is the comic style rendering of the same. Considering her language and eating habits, I would LOVE to meet a woman like her. Too bad I’d be far too old for her.
well according to the character card, she’s 21…the fanpic looks more like late 20s, around 27 or so…
I wonder if Dave remembers he has a forum with the Fan Art thread pinned. heh
Well, I tried to register but I get this message when I tried to re-validate:
“Thank you Aleric. Your registration has been successful. The administrator wishes to preview all new registered accounts before posting permissions are granted. The administrator has been notified of your registration.”
I registered last Monday…. I guess you have to have a facebook account or something. And since I can’t post on the forum, I thought I’d post my speculations on powers here.
I think Harem’s power is the most interesting to speculate about. By the way Dave describes it on the cast page, it doesn’t sound like teleportation at all. More like creating a new body at a different location. I’ve always thought of teleporting as some form of spacial manipulation. Opening a gateway or moving your body from one point in space to another. I don’t think you could leave a body behind that way. It’s just another form of movement. But Harem can leave bodies behind…. Can she leave anything else behind? Say, her cell phone for instance. But since she creates new clothes wherever she moves to, would this mean she can create a new cell phone as well, leaving the old behind? Or does the body left behind when she made the extra four bodies lack clothing? Meaning she actually moves objects, but creates bodies. And if she does create new bodies every time she teleports, that would open up a whole new world of possibilities with her power. She could effectively be a shapeshifter if she could gain conscious control of that aspect of her power. Also, no wounds other than instantly fatal ones would effect her. No aging either. Awesome.
Well, when Harem first makes a new copy (she was a normal child till about 8) it appears naked, but anything she does to that copy is persistant, hair styling, clothes, etc. She doesn’t make a new phone, she has to give that copy a phone. It does make laundy day a hassle at her house cause she has 5 sets of clothing to wash. She can un-teleport any of the copies, and they sort of… hang out in limbo or something, but the energy used to manifest that version is distributed among the remaining ones, so the fewer of her she has ‘out’ at any given time, the stronger she is.
Harem had powers when she was 8? 11 years ago? This brings up something I’ve been wondering about for a while now.
On one of your earliest pages (which, because of the compressed timeline of this comic, is still the same day as your last) depicted a conversation Syd had with Joel: She said superhero comics hadn’t changed much concidering there actually are superheroes *now.* This suggests supers are a recent/new thing in a world that didn’t have them before. But you keep hinting at long histories.
It’s one thing to say someone like Harem or Anvil had powers from an early age (you could argue they kept a low profile a some small town somewhere), it’s quite another to say Max had powers for any extended length of time. Joining the Air Force is not low profile, word is going to get out about a gold-skinned Amazon real quick.
That will all be explained in an upcoming storyline… yes, shocker, there will be a plot eventually, hah hah, but a partial explanation is that one, they’re very rare, and two, there hasn’t been much in the way of superheroes. On the page you reference, or the one after, they mention that people with powers get sucked up by the private sector, after all, why get shot at for free when you can smelt aluminum for $2M a month? On top of that, while some people are in a rush to believe everything that’s put in front of them, most people are generally a bit more skeptical, it’s taken a while for the existence to filter through the general populace. As for Maxima, she grew up on Air Force bases (she’s a military brat) and joined the Air Force as soon as she could. She hasn’t always been gold, either. Once she joined, the military decided to make her a secret, admittedly a poorly kept one, but she was overseas for a lot of time up until recently so tales of the golden glamazon are mostly hearsay.
Ah, nice. It was the phrase “she doesn’t have to ‘destroy’ the original in order to reappear at another location, effectively creating duplicates” that made me think that if she chose to, Harem could leave a trail of inert bodies in her wake. And each time she did so, she was inhabiting a brand new body (no scars, etc.).
And yes, my GM gets annoyed with me sometimes, too.
That’s what I thought also. About her remaking herself a brand new body every time she telaports.
I’m a little bit disapointed that she keeps any injuries when she telaports. It would be a great advantage in battle. Get hurt, telaport to a new position and your injuries are automaticly healed. It would also extend your lifespan by a few decades or longer, because ageing is caused by cellular decay.
Current research on aging indicates that cellular decay, or cells getting cluttered with waste products, is only one part of a very complicated process, and probably not a major part of human aging.
Poor old Heatwave. Still, when she apologises, you know it’s genuine. After all, she ddin’t *mean* it!
i wonder if david is using the downtime to actually write a story.
What?
Those that can, do. Those that can’t, kibitz.
Love Sydney just nom’ing on the bag.
You know what my favorite part is? The little “H” going ‘SPROING” when Sydney explodifies. I love the little details. But it’s all made of win.
:D ~kerin
Preeeeeety lame. All momentum lost. Looked like it was going to be a good web comic too……
you know the worst, i can totally see it happen in the main comic
Anvil or Heatwave taking the spiced food of sidney and being knock-down by the level of spice used
begs the question was that EAT (echer art tool) power sphere blast or heatwave meltdown from spice supercharge, and if the second will the team make her carry some tobasco for future emergencys?
I don’t know about that but Syd’s high tolerance for capsaicin would make her a tactical asset. Just bomb an enemy held area with pepper spray and then send her in for mop-up before the cloud settles.
Or. . . send her in as a negotiator, seemingly unarmed, and when they try to pat her down – bang! tear gas all over the place. Who would figure that happening if she’s not carrying a gas mask?
Lots of ways to use something like that.
Not sure I can agree with that…
…only because there’s a HUGE difference between taking an ounce of undiluted Tabasco in the mouth, versus in the face. No amount of “cast-iron gullet” will train your eyes to be “fire-proof”.
Just a suggestion, but possibly Harem’s collar insignia could be changed from a single ‘H’ to multiple H’s overlapped, to represent her multiple bodies.
The problem of mis-identification of Harem and Heatwave could be ameliorated thereby.
Actually, Harem’s collar does have multiple ‘H’s on it, just not overlapped.
Heatwave and Maxima might be the only people who could handle Sydney’s lunch. Max is pretty much invulnerable, so a 1 million Scoville unit lunch should be covered. Heatwave can handle lots of heat as seen when she blasted boiling cola all over herself. Mind you, while capsicum and temperature damage trigger the same mechanism in the nerves (a pore opens when heated and leaks potassium ions, but capsicum triggers it chemically), being heat-proof, Brooke may not actually be able to handle Sydney’s lunch because she is not used to those nerve pores opening.
Heat from “spicey” food isn’t real heat though, it just gives the illusion of heat. As such, I don’t see why heatwave would be immune.
One of these days, Sydney’s going to have to go back to work at the comic book store.
Joel (her partner in the comic book store): Where have you been? It feels like you have been away for years!?
Sydney: It was only a few hours. The cops and superheroes wanted to ask me a whole bunch of questions.
Joel: Well, did you get the receipts deposited?
Sydney: Nah, the bank robbery interrupted that. I’ll have to do it tomorrow once the bank reopens. Here is the deposit bag back.
Joel: What the?! Oh, man, Sydney! What is this? Did you puke on this thing? [Pause] No, my eyes aren’t watering. Some one else must have done this.
Joel opens the deposit bag, takes out the money, and hands it to Sydney.
Joel: Here, go wash this.
I just had a bilingual humor moment, because washing money literally translated to German has the meaning of money laundering.
Well, yea, part of my brain is not quite awake yet.
I’ve been patiently waiting for our dear little potty-mouthed ADHD-pixie (Sydney) to suddenly panic:
“$#!+!!!?! I forgot about my store’s bank-deposit!!! Where’s the cash-bag I was supposed to deposit!!!?!”
…followed by a 20-minute rant that literally turns the surrounding air BLUE with profanity – & teaches even the crustiest, hardened tough-guys within ear-shot some new vocabulary.
Thanks for the positive reception and thanks to David for giving me the chance to do this for him.
And the positive reception keeps on … positing… err positively recepticalling… mmm… ahah, it still keeps getting laughs! Very cleverly done.
Was this drawn before or after the actual introduction of Trent the tentacle hivemind?