Spinnerette

@Bocaj: Well, to be fair, such social issues are very plausible prime sources of Freudian Excuse-type villains, especially the Then Let Me Be Evil sorts.

Edited by MarqFJA on Sep 26th 2018 at 4:36:25 PM

New page.

... Am I the only one who thinks this is a very flimsy handwave?

Eh, I've heard worse comic logic. It IS pretty flimsy though.

I hope this story actually finishes though. I've had my fill of cliffhangers.

Seriously, you cannot reconstruct a chemical compound from whatever traces remain in your bloodstream, even if you've spent years regularly consuming the substance. Whatever you may find in your blood will be the leftovers of the original compound's metabolization by the body, i.e. the byproducts of the actual chemical reactions that took place within the cells. It's like saying that you can reconstruct the chemical composition of an apple just by studying the fecal matter that you excrete after digesting said apple. The only way you could achieve such a thing is if you have the superpower of Psychometry.

Oooh, I forgot how her powers work. I thought that she used whatever was in her blood to mind control people. I forgot that she had to take it out and actually feed people the stuff.

That makes much less sense.

That's some real comic book pseudo science right there, doctor

Yeah, I mean, LEGO Genetics, while unrealistic in how it's usually depicted in superhero comics, turned out to be not completely groundless; epigenetic alterations to one's genome can be inherited by your offspring, it's not guaranteed and there's sort of a limit to what such modifications can do. Comicbookland just bends the scientific principles to create a reasonable handwave for the sake of storytelling, not flagrantly break the laws of (bio)chemistry and/or physics like this Spinnerette issue is doing.

... Not to mention that at no point are we given any explanation as to how she managed to get her hands on the scientific equipment required for drawing her own blood, analyzing it for the (non-existent) fragments of the drug, and use those to reproduce the drug. Or how she managed to deliver it to the prison staff. Or why there are no automated security systems that can detect a prisoner roaming outside their designated cell without permission, and respond to this situation by immediately locking down the entire facility (and with no chance for a manual override) and sending a general alert to the local authorities and superheroes to deal with the compromised prison.

Really, couldn't the writer have just come up with a Greater-Scope Villain who could plausibly have reverse-engineered the mind-control drug using either stolen samples of her cookies, and then smuggled it to her in the prison?

Edited by MarqFJA on Oct 1st 2018 at 5:08:17 PM

Maybe she seduced the doctor and now the doctor is just covering her ass

... Or maybe the doctor is lying (which is contingent on the two superheroines' being sufficiently ignorant about how biochemistry works), and is actually a fanatical follower of the Hostess' twisted ideology.

Comics be like that sometimes

New page. A bit of drama as Mecha Maid makes it clear that she's not over being Brainwashed and Crazy by their current target... and Dr. U tries to cash in on the favor that Spinny owes him. What are the odds that it will turn out to be directly related to the Hostess being on the loose?

New page.

She needs some unstable molecules

So wait, how did she find the time to get her usual dress treated with whateverstretchystuff but only now starts to consider whether it fits her new shtick?

Her face in the last panel makes me think of that girl from Bleach, the one with the orange scarf and whose mouth looked like a slanted zero when she spoke.

This costume clearly already is treated with miracle molecules. However much it stretches and shreds, it's guaranteed to continue covering the nipples and pudenda.

But anyway... (a) If this shop actually serves the real superhero market (as opposed to being a fancy dress place), one would think that the staff would politely inquire about the nature of a customer's talents before suggesting a costume, to avoid such embarrassments as this. (b) For someone who's hung up on conventional politeness and respectability, the Hostess is apparently very cool with flashing an awful lot of flesh (Zettai Ryouiki included) and buttock curve.

I think it's just a normal dress shop, not speciality superhero shop and I'd guess the few on display are cosplays of some big popular heroes.

"Normal" dress shops in your part of the world may sell stripperific leotards...

(I'll guess that it's probably a fancy dress shop, on consideration.)

Edited by Spindriver on Oct 8th 2018 at 4:22:14 PM

Every clothing place sells leotards, how stripperiffic they are is up to your size selection.

Something definitely feels off here. Her behavior with the construction workers was in line with her old brainwashed views. The new outfit seems to be a ... significant departure, to say the least, and her reaction to the comment at the end also seems different. Did her drugs finally wear off, or somehow invert?

Weird that her previous dress enlarged with her but this one doesn't. Presumably there's something behind that, not sure what.

The new part addresses that question.

I would love it if randomly getting alien technology is how she really escaped the asylum or jail or wherever. It’d be such a stupid contrived comic thing that a growth watch just happened to land near her.

Edited by Bocaj on Oct 10th 2018 at 10:53:48 AM

Hey, they didn't pay for those!

People dressed up as superheroes have become thieves themselves.

Dr. U is still arguing with Spinny over the so-far unstated favor he wants to ask from her.

Wild guess: He wants the size-changing alien thingy intact.