Grrl Power

[Avilan the Grey]

"Dun Dun DUNNNN".

I did NOT see that one.

[Dragonus45]

You have to love someone who actually says that out loud. I'm totally stealing it for a character in Necessary Evil.

[Avilan the Grey]

That punch gotta hurt.
He's all out of ribs now, I think...

[Hiro Protagonest]

"Why did your car explode?"

"I... might've had some grenades in the trunk..."

[Avilan the Grey]

So, is this guy a Joker or a Moriarty?

[Hiro Protagonest]

I don't get any Joker from him.

Also, I had no idea what Sydney meant by "inverse ninja" either. I was like "is he a backwards ninja?". If she had said Inverse Ninja Law, then I would've understood it. I call it the Conservation of Ninjutsu.

[Metahuman1]

Ninja: You don't see them but you look for him.

This guy: Over looked him cause he just stood there out in the open in plain sight till now.

Inverse Ninja.

[BannedInSchool]

Obviously someone just playing the bad guy because he knows about the interplanetary threat that Earth needs to be toughed up to get ready for. He's Ozymandius.

[Calemyr]

I am looking forward to seeing what Vehemence's deal is. He had that odd talk with Sydney (complete with the closing thought "good kid. hope she doesn't die tonight"), enough power to shrug off a Cadillac filled with "grenades" and punch through Vektor's telekinetic shield, and enough genre savvy to point out that Death Toll was the only one actually wearing a cape (and that the Inverse Ninja Law applies to the situation). He then suggested he was the orchestrator of this evening's entertainment and gracefully shrugged it off when nobody bought it.

Plus he has a fedora. I do admire anyone who can pull off a fedora.

[Lamech]

So is this guys power only super strength/toughness? Because I don't think that will be enough to win this, and I'm not sure why he plausibly would have thought it was a good idea.

[Calemyr]

So is this guys power only super strength/toughness? Because I don't think that will be enough to win this, and I'm not sure why he plausibly would have thought it was a good idea.

Well, he did chastise Anvil for making her advantages too obvious. Super strength/toughness are pretty obvious abilities for a super (most characters have some level of both), so there's no reason to hide them. Far better to capitalize on them, accentuate them, so that enemy never considers what else you might be hiding.

[BannedInSchool]

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Just dropped an anvil on him.

[Metahuman1]

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Just dropped an anvil on him.

The author is officially made of Win.

[The Mormegil]

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Just dropped an anvil on him.

I didn't get it, and it is a good joke. Thank you.

[BannedInSchool]

And for people who really don't get it, Sydney is doing a Road Runner, nemesis of Wile E. Coyote, impression there in the last two panels.

[Avilan the Grey]

Two things: This page had me officially LOL, IRL.

And my admiration to the artist for making Anvil look very feminine and yet extremely muscular. His art has REALLY improved.

[BannedInSchool]

And my admiration to the artist for making Anvil look very feminine and yet extremely muscular. His art has REALLY improved.

It's the lacy panties, isn't it?

[Calemyr]

It's-a me! MarioAnvil!

[Avilan the Grey]

It's the lacy panties, isn't it?

That's just very very good taste. I was talking about the hips and thighs. :)

[Coidzor]

I think the more I read this, the more I like the other characters and hope something horrible happens to little miss tries too hard to pander, badly, to the audience.

[Metahuman1]

I think the more I read this, the more I like the other characters and hope something horrible happens to little miss tries too hard to pander, badly, to the audience.

Um, would you clarify? Cause, depending on definition of Pander here, I can think of a couple of different people it might apply too.

[Coidzor]

Um, would you clarify? Cause, depending on definition of Pander here, I can think of a couple of different people it might apply too.

I really have to specify the main POV character who is also the (blatantly) designated character for the audience to sympathize with directly and the one most commonly addressing the audience?

Syndey or Halo or whatever you want to call her, then.

[Metahuman1]

I really have to specify the main POV character who is also the (blatantly) designated character for the audience to sympathize with directly and the one most commonly addressing the audience?

Syndey or Halo or whatever you want to call her, then.

You could just as easily have been referring to Dabbler, who has so far been shown to be the 2nd best at everything, and thus beats everyone even when there the actual best at something. And as an added kicker is a succubus and goes in hard for the cheese cake type material.

[Coidzor]

You could just as easily have been referring to Dabbler, who has so far been shown to be the 2nd best at everything, and thus beats everyone even when there the actual best at something. And as an added kicker is a succubus and goes in hard for the cheese cake type material.

Hasn't really been trying to talk to the audience nearly as much to my recollection. Now, talking to Halo out of frame when Halo is acting as the Audience's designated "stand-in," instead of addressing us? Yeah, Dabbler's done that a few times.

While her design and conception could have the accusation of pandering leveled at them, her actual use in the story so far hasn't really struck me that way, and what has seemed off has just been eclipsed entirely by Halo.

[The Mormegil]

Hasn't really been trying to talk to the audience nearly as much to my recollection. Now, talking to Halo out of frame when Halo is acting as the Audience's designated "stand-in," instead of addressing us? Yeah, Dabbler's done that a few times.

While her design and conception could have the accusation of pandering leveled at them, her actual use in the story so far hasn't really struck me that way, and what has seemed off has just been eclipsed entirely by Halo.

I like Sydney. I love her humor and her antics are the #1 reason I'm reading this comic. The roadrunner imitation is gold. I would like to see her grow in the following chapters, but that's basically a given, he set it up from day one. I don't actually know what "pandering" means in this context though, and google translate isn't helping. Someone please?

[Avilan the Grey]

I like Sydney, and Dabbler, but on the other hand having non-protagoinists as your favorite character is not anything new.

Seriously, how many people prefer Luke over Han? Or Ted over Barney? Personally I also prefer (though he is in no way boring) Marion over Indy. Etc.
In this comic my favorite characters, in order, are Max, Anvil, Dabbler, Harem, Sydney, Rest-of-the-girls, the PR woman (whatshername), the General... And then somewhere way over there are all the male cast members...

[BannedInSchool]

I don't know that it's necessary to invent some nefarious motivation for Sydney's existence beyond the author finding her a fun character whom he likes who's also useful for introducing the audience to the team as she herself is introduced to them.

[Nettlekid]

Can I point out something that's bugged me about this page? Here, Sydney's remarking on how her shield is protecting her from the light beams, because presumably it filters out harmful intensities or something. In the very first (and second) page of the entire webcomic, Sidney's character makes a big deal about transparent force fields not mitigating light-based attacks. I know it's a minor point, but it's a little irksome when it comes to the writer's consistency and how he's thinking about superpowers.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Can I point out something that's bugged me about this page? Here, Sydney's remarking on how her shield is protecting her from the light beams, because presumably it filters out harmful intensities or something. In the very first (and second) page of the entire webcomic, Sidney's character makes a big deal about transparent force fields not mitigating light-based attacks. I know it's a minor point, but it's a little irksome when it comes to the writer's consistency and how he's thinking about superpowers.

Here's an idea: Sydney was wrong.

In the comments section of that first or second comic, someone points out that the forcefield could still make the laser as harmless as sunlight on earth, and the author then makes a comment acknowledging that (he may not have thought of that).

[Metahuman1]

Here's an idea: Sydney was wrong.

In the comments section of that first or second comic, someone points out that the forcefield could still make the laser as harmless as sunlight on earth, and the author then makes a comment acknowledging that (he may not have thought of that).

Which only furthers suggesting that she's not a Mary Sue after all.