Spinnerette

For an elementary school project, I'd actually named something the same, for the same reasons, despite never having seen a Terminator movie or heard of that company. Stuff happens.

One could also note that Skynet is already at the heart of British and NATO military communications. However, the first Skynet satellite was launched in 1969, so that one is on the film makers.

Some names are just obvious.

edited 12th Oct '15 9:02:05 AM by Spindriver

New one for the day.

Why do I feel that MM should be (re)paralyzed and the kangaroo should be Gwen Stacy'd?

Damn, this plotline is full on silver age dumb.

Y'know, I somehow doubt that Kangaroos pay attention to what side of the black thing the big metal things travel on anyway.

Besides, the sixth Terminator film clearly establishes that, having given up on winning the direct war, Skynet's final set of time travelers was sent to enact a more subversive plan, gradually convincing humanity to surrender the world peacefully through lethargy and overreliance on machines, while also releasing records of their historical battles through time via Hollywood to ensure that anyone who learns the truth will just be accused of being a silly movie nut.

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What? We haven't made that one yet?

Pay me no mind, then.

edited 13th Oct '15 7:25:06 AM by TobiasDrake

I was about to note the distinct lack of boomerangs. And the one in the first panel has "Karma" etched into it. Heh, kinda cute/clever.

Did... did Mecha-Maid just shoot someone?

Rubber bullets?

Most likely. What I want to know is why she said "Get away!"

Hey, can't blame Mecha Maid for reacting violently. She'd just been attacked with a combat didgeridoo. That's off the acceptable scale (at the bottom end).

But yeah, the art suggests concussive splats, not bullet blood spatters. I'd guess rubber bullets.

She said "Get away!" because she was in agonizing pain and reacting purely on instinct. She wanted them away.

The combat didgeridoo. Just one step down from the combat vuvuzela.

Sheila and Sheila....dammit, please don't do the Dee Dee thing. Because that means there's going to be a freaking army of them just hiding in the back.

I friggin loved Dee Dee. I liked that the Jokerz had personality, especially Ghoul and Woof, but those two were the most fun.

Oh, I like Dee Dee too. I'm talking more about JLU, where they had replication powers in addition to their usual shenanigans.

.....Which, granted, I also liked. I wasn't really being serious, though I could imagine a Sheila army would be a pain in the ass to deal with. So many boomerangs.

edited 15th Oct '15 1:04:55 PM by Watchtower

Hold on, infinite Harley Quinn knock off? Where do I sign up for that gang?

Damn that thing that prevents the author from updating Spinnerette on Fridays too. I want to see what happens next.

I think Mecha Maid is lashing out in response to having the shards of glass fall in front of her.

This is the first time (we see) she's been back in action since the Colonel Glass arc but I think she's still carrying some baggage.

Normally, I'd say that you were looking a bit too deep into it, but then I saw her eyes. She's staring right at the glass shards, and looks utterly horrified, in a way that looks more than just her reacting to the sound.

You might be onto something here.

edited 20th Oct '15 7:27:45 AM by Watchtower

Good catch, Bocaj. On review, you're right, this is definitely about the glass.

It also puts a darker light into the response itself, because it's an act of panic, not of self-defense. And this could very well be the focus of this issue, which would explain why we're jumping right in the middle.

And I welcome it if this is the direction we're going in. After the past few essentially-joke issues I could use something a little less light.

And it means there is actually a possibility that she just employed live ammunition against Sheila, instead of a less-lethal option.

Except that there's no blood from where the ammo hit the girl. The live ammo is probably either not even loaded, or it's on an electronic lockdown that has to be disengaged through more than just a quick verbal "Fire missiles!" command, like loudly uttering a password or somesuch.

You're all right. They were non-lethal. I like the last panel the best. XD