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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#1: Jul 20th 2016 at 4:49:43 AM

It's take us this long to create a thread topic? Sidekick Girl is a fairly long-running webcomic that follows Val Upton, the titular sidekick. Val wanted to be a hero. She gave up scholarships for mechanical engineering to attend school to become a superhero. However, she has two big problems, or rather inadequately great assets. Namely, her only superpower is largely being unable to die (but not able to heal much faster than a normal human being) and obsessive physical training, and she lacks that heroic build. Adding on to her problems, she's currently assigned to Mack, aka Illumina, a woman with the right pedigree and the right build, but fairly wimpy powers and a general lack of common sense. The strip is a combination of funny bits where Val points out the stranger bits of the universe she lives in and kvetches with her fellow sidekicks, and the consequences of living in a universe where superheroes are strictly controlled by unions and operate like a corporation with rules about image and procedure.

One of the more recent strips finally has a reasonable authority figure. It almost makes me suspicious how reasonable he's being, especially given how often we've seen politics override the public good in this universe.

FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#3: Jan 5th 2017 at 7:32:35 AM

Bit of a wall of text, but Dion and Val both have good points. And, small touch that it is, I like that the closeup of Dion shows his eyes rolling up into his head a bit. A lot of blind people have that quirk.

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