Grrl Power

New strip. I think that someone more or less predicted this, for which, kudos.

The general picture? Sure, that was predicted. But, not the mini-Ariana on display.

Joel provides fanservice

I could see this backfiring on Sydney. She's now a government employee and there are very strict rules about using your government position to receive gifts or to benefit any other business you're associated with. That said, that probably ought to have kicked in when she advertised the comic shop at the press conference.

Bear in mind that Ariana would be the first line of enforcement of such rules - and she doubtless thinks it's great having Sydney on the team while running the shop, because it helps make supers look like normal (if, okay it's Sydney, slightly wacked-out) people.

So I suspect that the rule will be somewhat lightly enforced, at least until it causes trouble, and even then Ariana is likely to administer a formal tap on the wrist and then look for a workaround.

Nothing much to say. Sydney is going to be spending fewer hours at the shop, and we're starting to see examples of where the media might use her hot and cold running mouth against her. I forsee early training emphasizing the need to not speak impulsively...

Early training, middle training, late training, every coffee break when Arianna is on site...

New comic where we establish that no women in this universe carries a purse and everyone turns off their cell phones routinely so that they can be surprised at the news everyone else knows. Oh, and traditional news media are dead.

I'm looking forward to this getting back to superheroes...

It's funny, it's rare for me to ever have my phone off, even when I don't have it on me. Mainly because I need it as my alarm clock. Helps that the battery doesn't suck.

And nothing much happens although this might, in the future, involve setting up character development. Oh, and a Wild Harem appears!

Today's update. A small nudge for the "off-duty" plot strands.

{nods} And the commentary at the bottom is right, that the likely next step of hiring Olivia probably would not be a well-grounded business decision. Although, cute girl in a comicbook shop might increase business... *shrug* I can't help but feel that Sydney probably has a standard flowchart that she's required to consult whenever she decides to make a business decision to help stem her ADHD tendencies.

Um... "Will I get strangled? Yes/No" doesn't seem to work for most of her charts. Even the scuba one.

And hired. And we establish that Harem doesn't know what will happen if one of her dies, which makes sense. She knows she experiences the pain and sensations of the other hers and she doesn't strike me as the self-sacrificing sort.

Joel, Joel: you should know by now...

I have heard tales of such car-leavings, usually as a result of the car being new to the person, not the other form of transportation. You know, this also raises the interesting question as to whether Sydney's bubble does anything to Harem's connection with her other selves... we know that the shield stopped Vehemence's rage aura. Does it disrupt Harem sharing her duplicates experiences? If she tries to teleport, might she wind up with one version of herself split from the rest?

The force bubble stops teleportation, but not the quantum entanglement. Also, Harem is perfectly aware that she could get up to a lot more trouble than she does, but chooses not to.

Harem has the Change Orientation feat on her teleport, but not Change Momentum.

Of course, the bigger problem, usually, when dealing with teleporters and momentum, is how they deal with changing the momentum they're carrying from the Earth rotating, revolving, and generally moving in the universe.

That and boring trivia like conservation of energy. Which, I think Halo would say, Harem is treating like a roofie'd prom date.

This is Harem: tricking Physics and pranking it is in character.

edited 13th Apr '15 7:25:18 AM by Euodiachloris

This may just be my basic level of physics talking, but would planetary stuff like that really matter? I mean, compared to the momentum of being pulled by Earth's gravity in freefall any planetary momentum should be completely miniscule, right?

edited 13th Apr '15 8:48:15 AM by Watchtower

I dunno. I think a lot of it would depend on how reliable her movement is for long distances. One would imagine that, the further she travels, the more those small effects would add up. At the equator, the Earth is travelling at about a 1000 miles per hour rotating, 67,000 miles per hour in revolving, and 490,000 miles per hour as part of the galaxy's spin. On top of that, everything is moving at an approximate speed of 1,000 kilometers per second toward the Great Attractor, but that seems like a fairly linear movement, so I think that would hold constant at both origin and destination.

Of course, all we need is some sort of handwaved "teleport intertia" where the transportation takes less than instant time and the Earth still holds some connection to her frame of reference as she travels.

Poor Albert. About a hundred years down, and people still think in terms of privileged frames of reference.

And apparently Succubi have additional muscles down there.

Sid will not let go of being cheated from having hammerspace.

For everybody's sanity, I hope that that's what one of the unknowns does. Or, it's hiding somewhere on her skill tree.

And a bit of explanation of why succubi are non-rapey, at least in Dabbler's opinion.

And I love the HIM cameo in that last panel...