The distortion effect around him in the last panel... last time that happened, he super-novaed a building
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edited 18th Jun '15 4:48:21 AM by FuzzyBoots
This is a guy who threatened to firebomb any rape victim who spoke up. Yes this is a slippery slope, but you can understand how Moonshadow would assume he's probably a rapist himself (instead of just an entitled douchebag).
It's actually an excellent example of why the courts are needed. Vigilantes don't care about actual guilt and evidence, which results in them going after people who are just dicks. Giant dicks, true, but still. You can't arrest someone just for being a dick.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Reminds me of a George Carlin joke where whenever someone does something reckless on the road like cutting you off, you shoot a dart into the side of their car. When you get three darts, a cop pulls them over and gives them a ticket for being an idiot.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.But then you get to dartception, where people are getting darted for trying to shoot people with darts while driving.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I'm a fan of the comic. Just because it has some of the most realistic character writing I've ever seen, especially in a comic about superheroes. Half the time, superhero comics kinda reduce their characters into 'they can do no wrong' flatness. This comic is different, as Alison is clearly wrong sometimes, and the antagonists, from Patrick, to Moonshadow, to Furnace/Chris. They are neither all wrong or all right, they are imperfect, and it's awesome.
edited 26th Jun '15 5:08:04 AM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)So Mary is deliberately allowing Allison to find her? She cant be that dumb can she?
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Based on the fact that she's actually tearing up in that one panel, it seems that her invulnerability fades when she flies? The other possibility is that she was going so damn fast that she dislocated her shoulder in spite of her invulnerability, but given the level of durability she's displayed in the past, she'd probably have to go fast enough to turn into a flaming meteor before that could happen.
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Others have suggested Moonshadow's just using the explosives and the dam as a way to keep Furnace restrained: if he uses his flame powers, the explosive attached to him will explode, thus both killing him and destroying the dam. Since Furnace regards himself as a superhero, he won't use his powers and she'll have the chance to interrogate (and possibly kill) him.
edited 14th Jul '15 6:52:00 PM by Galadriel
Worse, she rigged this thinking she could rely on his bloated ego to prevent disaster. She doesn't know that he's actually got very real control issues beyond the simple Hair-Trigger Temper + Misogyny she assumes he has.
There are just so many ways she's slipped, here. -_-
She's a serial killer and she's devolving.
In the first of her attacks that we see, she kills the four rapists quickly, cleanly, and without being seen. In the second one, with the military contractors, she drags things out, tortures one of them, and is taking unnecessary risks and deliberately enjoying the kill. In her third one, she takes more risks - doing it in a crowded building (a university dorm) - and injures an innocent bystander to escape. Now she's endangering multiple innocents and going after someone who, as far as we know, is not a rapist, but who has threatened to kill rape victims.
She's getting increasingly violent, less discriminate in her targets, and less cautious about harm to either herself or to third parties. Which, at least according to Criminal Minds (which I recognize is not an accurate source), is par for the course for a serial killer, though Moonshadow is devolving extremely quickly.

Mastery of timing dramatic irony is a superpower.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)