Grrl Power

Gradually stabbed... now, there's a concept. >_<

Sydney quotes the relevant geek source in-comic.

Which, just in case people don't get it (which wouldn't be a huge surprise), is Dune.

Right, because "peanut-butter-like gel packs" scream "mix with lasers to create nuclear fission"?

You mean you didn't know that peanut butter is fissionable?

New strip. More using training sequences to set up introductions. Plus, someone has to keep Sydney away from guns.

And, bulk carbs.

PS: Still don't know what the rainbow means. Also, skipped a strip: you may want to flip back.

edited 28th May '15 3:12:37 PM by Euodiachloris

Coming from eastern Massachusetts predisposes me to hate the hell out of that accent.

edited 30th May '15 6:52:38 AM by tricksterson

Well, that's OP... depending, of course, on whether she retains the mimicked powers. And apparently pretty-boy turns into metal?

No, you're missing the point. She doesn't mimic powers, she has one power which mutates into others depending on stimulus (stimulus being "touches someone with powers"). The fact that she got teleportation from touching Harem is just coincidence.

For example, she gets electricity powers from touching Ren, despite the fact that his power is Bullet Time.

Further explanation.

Indeed, only when she's touching someone, not necessarily the same power, and it works with normal people too. Oh, and Sydney and Maxima are the only two people she doesn't get anything from. Dun dun dun!

Well... there is the fact that Sydney's orbs are orbiting them both when they touch, as opposed to just Sydney when they aren't. That's probably relevant.

Either Maxima just walked in, or touching Sydney actually does give Varia a power: the power to communicate with people remotely.

Yup: she didn't try touching one of them with her free hand while touching Sid. There could be a way to use three or four at once, here...

edited 4th Jun '15 1:05:26 PM by Euodiachloris

New strip. As usual, Sydney gets points for trying.

And we learn that magic healing has its limits and poor Gigawatt may never regain full hearing again.

Still a better and quicker outcome than usual, though. :/

Yeah. There was a Fringe episode where someone "temporarily" deafened themselves to defeat an opponent with a hypnotic voice and it made me cringe.

"A few more like that Harem and you'll be auditing first grade again."

Welp, there goes my water. Shit.

And don't worry, Sydney! There's nothing wrong with still being on the A-Team!

edited 8th Jun '15 6:14:46 AM by Watchtower

This strip looks like it was rather hastily thrown together, with two different typos (in panel six it's "make due" when it should be "make do", and "hooray" in the last panel is misspelled).

For the former mistake, "make due" is an extremely common misspelling - I've seen it plenty of time on trope pages here (I'll admit to being slack and not always remembering to correct it, either). For the latter, I thought that the joke was that Harem was deliberately saying it wrong because she's less than excited with her orders.

Indeed, an odd way to lead into pistol training although rational where Sydney is concerned. And I could readily see some photographers deciding that they're protected by Maxima's need to not cause a scene.

Hmmm. Is Max about to break something, do you think?

Maybe it is odd, but I appreciate that they want someone to know just what it is they're taking into their hands when they pick up a gun.

That said, being as I never have, I'm genuinely curious - is being able to field strip and reassemble it in 30 seconds absurdly fast? I don't know just how many moving parts go into a gun.

For the final panel... anyone else reminded of Funky Flashman?

Guns are very complex things. Even pistols.◊

I don't know enough about gun training to know how valid it is, but disassembling and reassembling a gun are definitely needed skills for proper maintenance. 30 seconds might be a bit fast, but it probably helps that they're superhuman. At the very least, it sounds like the kind of thing my uncle would make me do before trusting me on my own with one (for context, my uncle is former SWAT).

And dammit, could someone get Stan Lee back? He ran away from home again.

edited 11th Jun '15 6:34:45 AM by Watchtower