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Well, the senior guy who was most likely to play obstinate annoying jerk wasn’t able to vote, on the procedural basis of being puree, which may have made it easier.
I still think that Arianna should have depowered Hench Wench with an injunction, though.
And one has to ask how Hench Wench got her powers. Bitten by a radioactive employment contract? Logically, she can only be explained as a cosmically powerful being — potentially beyond Max level — with a weird mental block. And just wait until Vehemence hires her...
Edited by Spindriver on Feb 1st 2021 at 10:54:18 AM
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I think I mentioned before, but I suspect that her power is that she is tapping into a small aspect of contract magic. Jabberwocky proved that some supers can have powers related to magic (it's why the lust spell went wonky), so Hench Wench has a super specific type of magic that can only be used in exactly one way, but is still really powerful if used correctly.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Not very PR friendly...
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
There's the point where not ending it is less PR friendly.
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Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Hi
I'd wondered where exactly Max skewered her leg...must've gone right between the bones. *wincing just typing that*
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I grinned at the "Ribbed for her agony!" line, though.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Hopefully that puts an end to things. I'm growing a bit tired of Hench Wench.
Yeah. As a one-off she was fun, and as a major villain she could be interesting, but since she's never going to be a major villain she's just a one-off taking up too much screentime.
Honestly, given Arianna's usual machinations, I could see it as a situation in which Archon bought out her contract, which is a hell of a win-win.
Win for Archon: They get a very powerful/useful superpowered being on their side.
Win for HW: She gets a massive suite of new powers to go along with her job.
As for how they'd keep her in line - a termination clause that explicitly states that, were she to violate any of the prior clauses within the contract, she is immediately fired, and thereby loses all of her new powers.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
HW's power, per twitter and rant, only works on *supervillains*
On the flip side, subcontract her to Vehemence and drop them both into North Korea and watch the fire works?
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Holy hell I just realized a detail we missed with this strip
, where Sydney's talking to someone who isn't there while being held captive by Concretia & Co.
Unless the dialogue got added in, Sydney's guess in panel 6 is an "anthropomorphization of the Orb A.I. assistant" - presumably meaning she was talking to a Clippy-like helper for her orbs! It probably got triggered due to the prolonged state of being too far away from her and/or trapped.
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That's a rather classified way of screwing around with them, though.
Edited by ironballs16 on Feb 11th 2021 at 2:56:40 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Or she's just fucking with them.
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Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Henchwench looks adorable in the second to last panel.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
I half expect her to end up as Arianna's legal Minion.
"Look her contract work is extraordinary and as a bonus it annoys Maxima"
Edited by 3of4 on Feb 15th 2021 at 3:37:06 PM
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Honestly, I'm impressed she's that lucid with a piece of rebar through the back of her leg after her superpowers have been removed. I guess she has some baseline powers?
Edited by FuzzyBoots on Feb 15th 2021 at 9:45:00 AM
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Her ghost-form moved away from the rebar, and she resolidified from that. As she also seems to have her teeth back, it appears that she’s effectively improvised regeneration out of the bundle of borrowed powers.
Also, called this fight ending.
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Wow, I was so focused on the dialogue on this page that I completely overlooked the fact that Sydney and Cora managed to retrieve Concretia's body offscreen, despite being the very first panel.
And can I get a link or two to the stuff regarding HW's power-set only working with villains as opposed to Supers in general? Given her personality, she may have just been operating on For the Evulz when organizing things.
Oop, managed to find it here: Henchwench’s power explicitly only work with Supervillains. If they worked with superheroes, she’d probably be called Sidekick Wench. I can’t help but wonder, though, what would happen if she could copy Varia’s powers, then touched her? Probably either nothing… or EVERYTHING.
Edited by ironballs16 on Feb 17th 2021 at 1:47:38 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Exit stage left pursued by DENIED
HW was the gift that kept on giving, even if it made for a little Arc Fatigue. I do hope she comes back at some point!
Also, love how she's intimidating Vehemence of all Supers. (He's been Out of Focus since his capture, so I forgot)
Edited by ironballs16 on Feb 18th 2021 at 1:56:43 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
:) You mean Vehemence?
Exit interview.
Apparently the fight isn't going well for the rest of the LLC either, if he was able to convince them to fire their biggest hitter.