Sydney’s obviously spent some time testing out the orbs, but as we see on this page, that sometimes proved hard to do without drawing attention to herself. She knows their basic functions but still has a lot to learn.
Speaking of learning, you guys get to suffer along with me while I try my hand at different angles. That low shot of Max isn’t terrible but it could be better. I think I spent about an hour on the pencils for just that panel and her mouth still looks a little weird. Oh well, learn by doing.
This week’s superhero fix to tide you over till next Monday is the League of Super Redundant Heroes. Basically, there’s heroes, then there’s sidekicks, then there’s the guys that didn’t quite make sidekick, and then there’s these guys.
On the thought of using two orbs at once – Do you suppose zappy beams (forcefields, flight/tk effect, etc) could be made to come out of the end of the tentacle thingy? I could see some interesting tactical uses for this if it worked. Especially if Sydney can learn to shift her POV to the tentacle tip.
I was thinking along those lines myself.
Imagine her being able to shoot around corners.
I was thinking more something like, say, a hostage situation.
Maxima is otherwise unavailable or there are just too many bad guys even for her level of superspeed to get past, so Sydney extends a super long tentacle in through a vent or something to where it can touch a hostage. Hostage or super-important object is then surrounded with a forcefield and the SWAT gets the nod to go in guns blazing. Alternately the forcefield could be placed around the bomb the evil mastermind linked to a deadman switch. Possibilities are endless if it can be done.
But yeah, shooting from an unexpected spot when there is clearly nobody there has lots of uses too.
You damn well know her strategies aren’t that straight forward. In a hostage situation, Sydney would use the tentacles for mass wedgies on the terrorists.
. IF she is feeling merciful.
What Sydney might do otherwise doesn’t really bear thinking about. Remember that police report about the attempted mugging? 0_o
I would be curious how well the two powers, one per a hand, would work together. Would they sort of mesh together like you suggest, could they be combined (i.e. what if the “pew pew” was combined with shields to make a you-no-touchy shield), or would they remain separate (protecting peeps with the shield while laying down suppressive fire with the “pew pew”). If she used tentacle and flying she could pretend to be spiderman, that would be priceless. [:3
are the mini comics that happen like on the bottem cannon? i would like for this one to be real, but haveing a way to blow off jokes that ant part of the story is good.
I think most of the ones I’ve done could be, there’s no reason this one couldn’t happen but I think I’ve done some 4th wall stuff in them so you’ll have to use your judgement.
I suspect in a darkened place the orbs would glow. An when they are powering up they glow more brightly.
Unrelated to today’s comic, I thought of how to do “The Amazing Rescue Guy” show. The program name is “Search and Rescue.” The first superhero is a magician who uses a crystal ball (or something containing an image) to visually search an area. He/She can see and hear, but not do anything else. Because the image of where he/she is looking is watchable by others, the “search” can be filmed. After the person is found, then the rescue guy goes out. The magician switches between watching the rescue guy and and person to be rescued. Drama comes from whether they will find the person in time and then whether they can rescue the person quickly enough. As soon as they start looking, a countdown clock starts running. “Given … the victim only has … hours before they die/have to pay the ransom/need medication/etc.” Once the victim is found, the clock could be updated.
Is ANY kind of superhero even needed for that job? If All you want to do is film “The Amazing Rescue Guy” then just have a swarm of mini camera drones follow him around. Something like this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jtguSF0n4 could do the job easy.
I saw a 4-rotor chopper in a hobby shop. You control it with your smart phone over Wi-Fi, and see the view from its HD video camera on the phone’s screen. 4 microprocessors: the central one runs Linux and there’s one for each rotor. The processors handle the control details; you control the chopper by tipping and rocking your phone. Retail: $300
It’s fun living on the foothills of the Singularity!
Just wondering: What happens to Sydney if somebody else grabs an orb from around her head and tries to use it? Can anyone else even touch them?
Watch and see. Just be patient.
I Started reading this last week and a comment about a earlier trouble with the tube, you could just have the orbs re-size themselves when they get into the poster tube, they are magic items, they do that.
Like it, love it, can’t put it down
To the writer LIKE A BAUS!!! more meme references plz But in all seriousness I am very Into this comic and it’s Laugh a minute pace.
<< Is only just now noticing that all the girls on the team where a color of some sort
*head desk*
Collar, not color, *head desk again*
An early Maxima – Ariana conflict. Apparently Ariana wanted colorful costumes, and Maxima wanted sensible uniforms. Max won, mostly; the collars based on super names and some other kind of badges for the guys are what ARCSWAT supers wear instead of tights. (WOG from earlier comments).
Max winning an argument seems to be a given :P
1. I still am now conbinced my joke is correct and Bowie really is the soyrce of the orbs, especcially if the powers of spiders from mars show up…
I thought Sydneys diffrent faces fell with in facial expression. If it was not your intention, it still worked for me. BTW You got ADHD right imho
“I think I know those guys”
Best line ever! :D
I saw that firefly reference.
Harem = Jayne Cobb? Could work. Caught it on my second read through, practicaly every other pages is a side splitter.
I’ll be on Holodeck four.
I imagine that squirrel yelling ‘My acorns!’ in the same manner as the cabbage man from Avatar.
Arianna does not seem amused that Sydney does not consider her to be hip… or maybe it’s just the “bup bup bup”.
Pseudo-tentacle thing? And hentai? I certainly hope that Sydney didn’t watch or get that from Urotsukidoji because I can’t picture someone with her personality watching something like that without getting crazy! That would be truly frightening!