Grrl Power

If they were rational, even by supervillain standards, they wouldn't be here in the first place.

And apparently this guy's new "supervillain name" is Bitchslapped.

Cameo for one of the Patreon donors and we're assured that the fights won't all be this easy. They're just working their way through the more obnoxious cannon fodder.

Battle scene. Maxima is stretching her legs a bit. And Harem is asked to hump the Barrett...

Interesting for them to note that their number estimations appear to be completely off. But then, even when we were first hearing the numbers, they mentioned that they were more educated guesses than anything, so I guess it's not surprising.

And Sydney takes a punch to the face and blocks out attempts to help. As per the comments on the strip, this could end badly for her. We know that she survives given we have a news report from the future, but that's pretty much all we know.

I think it's good for her character growth to face difficulty. I'm actually kind of hoping that someone else in the team winds up saving her.

Not that much difficulty, as it turns out.

It's beginning to seem like Sydney gets more use out of the orbs that way than she does for their actual powers. And Anvil needs to meet somebody with powers other than "punching stuff".

edited 17th Apr '14 4:34:16 AM by Spindriver

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The links in my post and the one before it both work fine for me.

Next stray thought; the first male fighter to get a testicle tuck and/or a solid steel box is going to cut a bloody swathe through the female casts of countless Webcomics.

Now it's working. I think it may have been a problem with the site.

edited 18th Apr '14 5:21:32 AM by tricksterson

Sight of the Archon armoury and its staff, it being the sort of place that employs an ex-SEAL as the quartermaster's assistant. Also one new team member with an uninformative codename and a taste for military hardware. Also notes on Archon restaurant selection methods — "It's all shadowy at that level."

Mr. Achilles is aggravatingly invincible and amusingly airborne.

Nice to see the organization actively gathering and collating data on potential opponents. Intelligence so often gets passed over when it comes to superheroes.

Math schools Concretia and we see a potential big-bad. Seriously, the guy in red is probably bad news if he's able to casually backhand Concretia away while staring at Maxima. Took me a bit of parsing to realize that red-caped guy wasn't throwing handfuls of shuriken at awkwardly flopping lady in the background (the lines don't seem to match up with that). And, surprisingly enough, Sydney is obeying orders and staying under her force field.

As a few people pointed out in the comments, throwing Achilles seems to run into the same problems as throwing a car, but there are also some arguments to be made for Achilles having a narrower point of impact (top of his head) and a lack of crumple zones. Not to mention, no insurance claims to worry about.

Today's strip is up. I must says that I find Math more fun when he's using timing, agility, and insane precision than when he's punching solid concrete supervillains through walls. Whatever the doubletalk abot chi or whatever, the latter makes him another brick, just with a skinnier build, while the former brings out that he's got skills and training out the proverbial, which really entitle him sneer at clumsy jerks with powers.

Oh, and Halo needs to get her stuff together and start using her big useful power. She's rightly keeping her forcefield up, but Max said that some of the opposition might be illusions, and she's got that clairvoyant true sight ability, with built-in distract-the-enemy side effects.

edited 1st May '14 4:28:46 AM by Spindriver

Agreed on Math. I would have been much more impressed with his fight with Concretia if he'd targeted weak points, maybe with a series of blows that have no seeming effect and then, when she gloats, the concrete starts flaking away. Or, for that matter, him just continuously sweeping her legs as he deals with other threats, leaving her to lever her overly dense body up each time.

Non-lethal but mentally scaring.

It would fit with what we've seen of his personality, both a tendency to constantly quip during fights and the resulting spurring of his opponents into making mistakes.

Math vs. Ennui; the battle continues.

Oh look, it's Wolvertooth!

...only slightly worse.

Canny move on Sydney's part, although I could see a high chance of it backfiring on her in terms of securing the first fatality of the fight. If those finger blades had hit an inch or two over...

Let's face it, she wasn't looking at scoring more than a nick there, if that. In fact, she didn't; the claws didn't penetrate far enough to be life-threatening. It's not her fault that the shock of actually being wounded caused the guy to faint.

What if she'd guessed wrong and the skin part was right/ Maybe she figured if the skin was impenetrable the claws would be blunted?

I think she was just experimenting and being a smartass over the guy being illogical. And like with any good experiment, the point was to discover the answer.

That battle, round 3. I'm not sure why the new character dresses quite like that, but this is Grrl Power... Okay, I've just answered my own question. I'm sure that having a floppy fringe over one eye can't be terribly good in a fight, though.

Also, is "Let's see how you fare against ..." something only ever said in superhero comics? "Let's see how you do" is normal English, but "fare"?

Sydney... stop being Genre Savvy, you'll annoy the supervillains.