Spinnerette

Sheila used Headbutt! Critical Hit!

(Mecha Maid is strong against Normal-Types, but weak against Glass-types)

edited 16th Nov '15 7:28:37 AM by wanderlustwarrior

Glass is just a different form of sand, which would fall under Ground type. Resistant to normal, weak to ground. Mecha Maid is a Steel type confirmed.

Why are we worried about were-quokkas when we got a fucking savage over here?

But she's already mecha....

I appreciate that at least they're acknowledging how weird this whole damn arc is.

And there's more weirdness to be had.

Huh. Gravity Greta actually looks thinner in this picture.

You mean "Greta Gravity". Some superheroes and supervillains can be quite touchy about saying their codename wrong.

Looks like it's time for more lethal force. Then again, they did rip open the very thing that's keeping her alive.

Dear Christ the dialogue is Dark/Bronze Age levels of cheese.

Again, most of the comics I currently read don't do this unless they're actively taking the piss. Even the examples that do arguably approach this territory don't dive in this deep.

I mean, if this was a Whedonesque meta-snark-fest I'd buy this a bit more...

The new one for the day.

What is going on.

It's pretty straightforward. Spinny fed Bruce chocolate which killed him and now the Sheilas no longer have their bizarrely O.P. quokka powers^{WATCH OUT} Are they, like, the Australian Squirrel Girl or something? Why did Spinny and Mecha Maid have so much trouble with these two? due to No Ontological Inertia.

Incidentally, What Measure Is a Non-Human? is clearly in full effect here.

edited 7th Dec '15 10:09:30 AM by TobiasDrake

I'm more wondering about what is being set up and why the drama/comedy approach hasn't been settled yet.

Methinks this chapter is really going to be about Mecha Maid dealing with her issues after the Colonel Glass thing instead of being about magic Australians.

I thought that too but then the magic Australians came back.

edited 7th Dec '15 10:42:21 AM by TobiasDrake

So Spinnerette just killed an animal.

In fairness, I suspect that the process for dangerous invasive species is not to ship them back because that costs money.

But, uh, still.

What Measure Is a Non-Human? is in full effect.

• Using violence against the Sheilas trying to murder them: Bad.
• Poisoning Bruce to death: Acceptable.

Well he's apparently a literal demon or something, not an innocent animal. Hell just you wait, it'll turn out he was puppeteering the Sheilas.

edited 7th Dec '15 1:10:54 PM by Adannor

The choice to kill him in order to avoid causing harm to their direct assailants is still going to be What Measure Is a Non-Human? no matter what he's revealed to be.

EDIT: Also, I love the goofball faces on the Sheilas when they lose their transformation. It always bugs me when the transition from animal to human is shown as clean and pretty. Animals contort themselves into positions that look just plain weird on people.

edited 7th Dec '15 1:26:57 PM by TobiasDrake

Those faces actually have me concerned. I know the blueish glow on their skin is supposed to be from the transformation, but it almost looks like they're asphyxiating.

Shipping him back would double the hazard as he might have caught something.

Maybe they're feeling painful feedback from the quokka. Speaking of which, are we sure that it's actually dead, rather than just in great pain and could die? It's not instant poison, you know.

It's a quasi-Silver Age comic. Poisons are always instant.

No, it's been clearly a Modern Age comic since the beginning.

This arc is running on leftover silveragery from the crossover craze.

edited 8th Dec '15 3:06:00 AM by Adannor