Grrl Power #241 – Appellation incarceration
Lost power at the house so I had to go to extreme measures to get this comic posted. By which I mean leaving the house with the laptop.
Really the takeaway from this page is that Anvil was a good choice to deal with Atomic Bombshell since her bombs are pure kinetic force for the first fraction of a second before they ignite the air and do all the cool looking fire stuff. That’s the technical term for roiling clouds of flame. Cool looking fire stuff. Since they’re just energy bombs, there’s no shrapnel to hit Anvil either. She can suck most of the kinetic energy out bullets and shrapnel and the like, but they move fast enough that her power can’t totally sap them, so she’s not totally immune to that stuff. She has minimal resistance to energy attacks like fire and whatnot. If Bombshell had thrown her bomb into the ground right in front of Anvil, then she would have been in trouble, but Maxima noticed she went for center mass every time. Obviously Bombshell never played much Quake.
I was planning on drawing Anvil’s clothes ripped up much more, down to boots, bra and a pair of bike shorts that she had the foresight to wear under her skirt, but I didn’t want to get too gratuitous. Well, I wouldn’t mind drawing that, especially when it makes sense. After all, she’s melee only (thrown objects nonwithstanding) and it’s not like she was wearing a kevlar shirt. Jokes about the size of her chest aside, it is realistic to consider that she might be wearing a “combat bra.” Something that’s going to have a better chance to survive some super powered melee and preserve her modesty – or at least the safety of those of you who read this comic at work. I wonder how tough you could make a bra and it still be comfortable. I assume kevlar is scratchier than cotton or silk. I guess something with multiple layers would be in order.
I’ve been wanting to draw more stuff happening in the backgrounds so that I could resolve several fights at once, but I don’t think comics work too well that way. The extra dialog playing out in the last few panels of this page I find to be rather distracting, so I suppose it really only works well with a long shot and multiple action scenes playing out, not multiple conversations.
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(sees Arianna and possibly most of the male members stare off into space drooling slightly). Is it possible to remove some of my accidental/incomplete posts? I kept accidentally clicking post while trying to reselect the post box…
Unfortunately there are no editing functions active in the comments section. May be now that the site has settled into a new home, that could be changed. Or not. I just got the “too many requests” error again. Any editing activity might squeeze resources even more. A basic Delete Comment might help a bit though.
don’t forget to keep voting for comic
Is it just me or are the speed lines in panel five going the wrong way?
The vanishing point for the lines is just under Anvil’s shoulder. They look wrong because they should partly block A Bomb’s face and more of her lower arm. Executive decision by DaveB not to do that I assume.
Didn’t you hear her? She doesn’t fall well. Don’t make fun of the disabled
She’s fallen down & can’t get up…Because Harem drugged her to sleep.
Was that a True Lies homage, when Atomic Bombshell was taken down? In the movie, when Helen Tasker is trained in the neck she says, “That hurt you buhhhhh..” and passes out.
Yeah, actually it was. :)
no no it defanitly looks like A bomb is flying towards us or rather up and at us
You noticed that too? Yeah, in panel 5, it looks like she’s flying towards Anvil rather than away.
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Another auto-update failure?
It’s weird ’cause EGS, my other Thursday webcomic, didn’t update either.
EGS has updated
It seems like they’re only happening for the Thursday updates.
… maybe WordPress can’t get the hang of Thursdays?
I’ve been hitting refresh and nada here either.
hmm site has us posting an hour earlier than it is Eastern Time. Me thinks that DaveB didn’t set the website’s time to East Coast or EDT, but one over (psst it’s 4 hours from GMT not 3) and daylight saving time not included. :P
I see the times in Central Daylight Time (what Texas is using right now) but I do not recall a setting where I could set a cookie to adjust my timezone. Maybe the page release scheduling software is still set on PDT or something.
Nope, not PDT. Hawaiian time?
Actually PDT is 2 hours behind CDT so it still could be.
Ah, yes. I forgot about Mountain Time. Time to refresh and see what happens.
Maybe Alaska time. :-)
Equally likely wordpress’ scheduled post feature has fouled up again like Dave said it did the other week. Not that we’re obsessed or anything…
Ah needs mah fix. These storms here are killing me and before I take the migraine meds I wanted to catch up on this comic. –sigh– (dwarf looks at bed and black out curtains…)
Issues with Thursdays’ issue?
I actually liked Death Toll’s supervillain name. It’s a little corny, but also a fun bit of wordplay. ^^
NOOOOO!
Comic broken again!
Can’t face a day of listening to people complain about their $11,000 problem not being fixed for $1,500 in under three hours, without happy, funny, pages.
8(
Heh, is this what Halo knocks back to celebrate victories? https://www.masterofmalt.com/vodka/the-hot-enough-vodka-co/250000-scovilles-naga-chilli-vodka/
He should have named himself “Death Knell”.
He really should have called himself “Death Knell”.
Mortal Kombat!
She doesn’t want to be Elfstar anymore… she wants to be Debbie….