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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#251: Jun 16th 2015 at 5:47:07 AM

Mastery of timing dramatic irony is a superpower.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#252: Jun 17th 2015 at 8:32:34 PM

So she's expanding beyond rapists, now? And beyond anyone who has actually done anything yet? This is a slippery slope.

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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#253: Jun 18th 2015 at 4:47:32 AM

The distortion effect around him in the last panel... last time that happened, he super-novaed a building.

edited 18th Jun '15 4:48:21 AM by FuzzyBoots

PapercutChainsaw Since: Jul, 2010
#254: Jun 18th 2015 at 7:28:49 AM

But Moonshadow also has a distortion effect when she moves around. It's pretty ambiguous as to what's actually happening- they both have as much chance of destroying each other...

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#255: Jun 18th 2015 at 8:33:44 AM

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.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#256: Jun 18th 2015 at 2:13:39 PM

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.

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#257: Jun 19th 2015 at 6:29:08 PM

But then you get to dartception, where people are getting darted for trying to shoot people with darts while driving.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#258: Jun 19th 2015 at 7:49:08 PM

Dartmaggedon. I leave it to you to imagine what that looks like.

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mistressdizzy Since: May, 2015
#259: Jun 24th 2015 at 2:53:53 PM

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.

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#260: Jun 26th 2015 at 5:03:06 AM

So very rude.

Oh, and this is confirmed.

edited 26th Jun '15 5:08:04 AM by TotemicHero

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#261: Jun 26th 2015 at 6:15:29 AM

That is rude. And good call.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#262: Jun 30th 2015 at 11:16:30 AM

Secret lair, coming up!

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#263: Jun 30th 2015 at 11:17:24 AM

Little good from this will come. -_-

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#264: Jul 3rd 2015 at 8:04:27 AM

Link

So Mary is deliberately allowing Allison to find her? She cant be that dumb can she?

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#265: Jul 3rd 2015 at 8:26:15 AM

More like arrogant, as in not expecting any of her old super buddies (who know exactly what her powers are) to come looking for her.

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ashnazg Since: Dec, 2009
#267: Jul 14th 2015 at 8:19:56 AM

Uh oh.

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.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#268: Jul 14th 2015 at 9:04:46 AM

They had to find someway to prevent Allison from just kicking her ass.

Wait, she's going to blow the dam? How is that remotely in character? I thought she only killed people she thinks deserves it?

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Matues Since: Sep, 2011
#269: Jul 14th 2015 at 10:43:22 AM

Crash landings can make quite the noise.

Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#270: Jul 14th 2015 at 6:51:51 PM

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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

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#271: Jul 14th 2015 at 7:04:01 PM

It looks like she rigged the explosives to go if he gets too angry. I'm not clear how she expects to survive.

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#272: Jul 15th 2015 at 4:07:41 AM

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. -_-

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#273: Jul 15th 2015 at 7:04:35 PM

So it was "Dont use your flame or the dam goes boom?" But she's still placing innocents at considerable risk, which seems inconsistent with her supposed motivation.

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Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#274: Jul 16th 2015 at 4:29:47 PM

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.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#275: Jul 16th 2015 at 8:03:30 PM

Good points. I guess I was thrown off by how big a step she's suddenly taking.

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