Grrl Power #404 – Weight restrictions
Sydney, don’t be bummed cause you’re not the best at everything. That’s like a rich person complaining cause the yacht daddy got them didn’t have the swimming pool on the third deck.
Those concrete bridge beams seem to weigh between 20 and 60 (English) tons depending on their overall size, at least according to some googling I did. Seems about right. I always knew Sydney would fail to lift six of them, but I didn’t realize she wouldn’t be able to lift one. So after doing some research while writing this page I totally changed the outcome… and what happens on the page after actually, but I’m flexible like that. Speaking of research, the engineering of the overpass pieces may not be quite accurate. I didn’t research that part. I just assume there’s lots of concrete and rebar involved.
By the way in the second to last panel there, Max is flying down to counter Sydney’s attempt to lift.
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I was wondering about the limits of the lighthook. At least, the level 1 limit….
Depending what branch of the lighthook the lifting weight is on, it could be already on level 3. This means the lifting force increases by about 5 – 5.3 tons per point, which I find somewhat appealing for no readily explainable reason (apart from pure speculation).
The points could be logarithmic. Instead of 5-10-15, it could be 1-4-16 or something more extreme like .15-1.5-15
Or they could be incremental like 10 – 12.5 – 15. That doesn’t sound as cool as some of the other comments but that’s still a 5000lb increase each time. I guess it will depend on how much time Dave spent testing for balance.
It would be kind of funny to see whatever force powers Sydney’s orbs send out a patch with patch notes.
* Version 1.2 Patch Notes *
– In an effort to maintain game balance, the lift weight of light hook has been reduced from 15 tons to 5 tons.
Could be logarithmic, base 7 (number of balls). Absolutely nothing is know about the creator of them, after all.
We don’t know that either. Are the increases aritmetrical, geometrical or some other kind?
We also learn something else that could be important.
If the Lighthook (and, by possible extension, the other Orb powers) are loaded beyond a certain capacity, they do not blow up or disappear or stop working for a length of time. They simply won’t work beyond that capacity, that’s it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92arUrGVt6k
Aww….you beat me to it. grats
Heh heh, no worries, refreshed the page just on Midnight (5am for the page) and as soon as read the last panel went looking for Mr Ford :D
That’s ok..,
Just connect a few words from the song in my comment if you can…
you’ll get what I mean when you see it.
Funny, I didn’t feel you refreshing the page on me…
:P
Was very gentle :P
And you did that “just on Midnight.” You never even mentioned anybody else.
And so gentle too…That was so sweet.
https://youtu.be/Joo90ZWrUkU?t=23
better version, quickie.
Achem
You load 16 tons, and what do you get, Sydney?
…instant fame and a huge paycheck, as it turns out.
I also thought of Harry Chapin’s musical homage to Mr.Ford:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeZJ6WSVVAk]
Heh! At least Sydney isn’t likely to go deeper in debt for the sake of only 16 tons. She may not actually be “wealthy” just yet, but thanks to Mr. Shrapnel, she’ll get there in a short length of time.
;)
the first Thing [From Fantastic 4] could lift about 5 tons. Current about 15. So… that meens that Sid is potentially stronger than the Thing.
Hmm. In Marvel RPG terms, he could lift 75. At least in the first few editions of the game. No idea what it is now, but that’s the edition I use for a ballpark estimate of all Marvel characters. I suppose the Marvel Encyclopedia would be more accurate, but my most recent edition is at least 20 years out of date.
On that note, Sydney should know lifting 16 tons isn’t quite Amazing, which would be around 50 tons. She’s still only at Incredible, plus a bit.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens then when she reaches Ultimate level. But at least she’s already passed Uncanny.
I’m looking forward to Final Form Sydney. Will she look like a blonde Anvil?
Wow, they messed up with that game. Shouldn’t Incredible (Hulk) be more impressive than Amazing (Spider-Man)?
Really, just the words tell the story: Amazing literally is something that amazes you, equivalent to Stunning. Incredible is literally not credible, i.e. it defies belief, it is Unbelievable.
The original Marvel Super Heroes game, in the 80’s, measured the stats (Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance, Reason, Intuition, Psyche) and power levels with names as well as points. They ran Feeble, Poor, Typical, Good, Excellent (upper limit for regular humans for the most part), Remarkable, Incredible, Amazing, Monstrous, Unearthly, with a few extras at the high end for edge cases, up to Class 1000 originally. Spider-Man had Incredible strength, Hulk usually started around Monstrous or Unearthly (depending on which Hulk) as a base and went up the angrier he got. It actually worked pretty well as a system and was a lot of fun to play.
Marvel Superhero RPG listed Ben Grimm’s strength as Monstrous…That’s a base 75 tons, but could push it up to maybe 100 tons (Unearthly) if he was feeling lucky. That was in the 1st Edition rules & also the Advanced rules.
Hulk was listed as *starting* at Monstrous & went up from there, depending on how mad he got…As you mentioned. But there has been no one yet to be able to test Hulk to see if there ever was an upper limit he could get. Even in one of the rare collaborations with DC comics, not even the Silver Age Superman ( ! ) was willing to find out how much stronger Hulk could get.
Marvel used to have an in-house guide with information about heroes and villains so that writers would be able to consistently write their characters and preserve continuity. This got published and updated at least once as The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe (or OHOTMU for short). Great idea that was very well researched in its first incarnation – the second edition / update showed that writers had already begun ignoring it (but continuity was pretty good for a couple of years there).
The marvel rpg incorporated a lot of the OHOTMU elements and information; i *really* liked that. The revised version of the game had a random power generation chart that was REALLY random. The plethora of marvel characters whose powers were a messy hodgepodge of unrelated abilities followed shortly after this was published; I always wondered if the writers/artists began using the tables to make new characters (“so you’re a shapeshifting muskrat with hyperintellect and a utility belt filled with alien tech and magic talismans? Riiiiight…”).
This did however lead to characters whose power-sets were nonsensical that got later explained by secondary and tertiary writers who took the hodgepodge and made it make sense in fits of inspired (and sometimes tortured) writing. HATED Liefield’s Cable, kind of liked the takes later writers took on him to explain him and found him an acceptable character in the end (although i still find his origin as the future son of Scott summers and jean grey traveling back in time to be very derivative of Rachel Summers’ origin).
“Marvel used to have an in-house guide with information about heroes and villains so that writers would be able to consistently write their characters and preserve continuity.”
Yeah, they do that for every comic title. They call it “The Bible.” I’d even bet DaveB‘s already got his own “bible” written up for Grrl Power too, maybe even before he started scripting it.
Actually, according to the Marvel RPG rankings, 16 tons is just a bit over half of Remarkable…
;)
Yup, thing is about 75, same as colossus; hulk and thor go higher around 100+
deadpool is around 2, that I recall, and spider-man 10+
Doc Octopus would be the best comparison on many ways. The most obvious is both use mind control pseudopod lifting devices. Now it’s true his top strength (when anchored by a single tentacle to maintain his balabce) is higher at 20 tons but each tentacle is rated at 8 tons. This gives Sydney’s lighthook twice the lift strength of one of Doc Oc’s tentacles
If Sydney wrapped the lighthook around the beams, could Maxima lift it and thus the beams? (Might have to lift Sydney too?)
Or, could the Flyball be used to negate the weight via localised gravity?
You mean, to allow Maxi to move more than one beam at a time? Like tying a strong chain around a few logs and lifting them with a crane?
If her lighthook can only lift 16 tons, it might just rip at 180
More likely, the Lighthook would “unravel” & just simply drop the load.
Maxima would need to hold both ends of the Lighthook and Sydney would likely need to use the Flight orb too. The Lighthook isn’t can’t hold onto something that’s past its weight limit, just like it can’t lift it. Maybe Sydney could tie a knot into the Lighthook to negate that aspect though…?
404 Found! Also, I just read the last page and then this one posted! yay! 2fer. Almost makes up for the fact that I couldn’t sleep from stress at having someone steal from my bank account. Also, Sidney is a goof.
Mmmm, crunchy hard data.
Well, that’s why they refer to it as “number crunching,” perhaps?
;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
Some people say a man is made outta mud.
A poor man’s made outta muscle and blood.
Muscle and blood and skin and bones…
But is still mostly a no-longer potable water bag.
Ugly bags of mostly water?
RUSTY bags of mostly water. FTFY :)
Really anemic people might have less rust…
I don’t think we have any sentient salt crystals in the house
What about shades of the colour blur?
or blue even >_<
Technically, that’s a hyper-intelligent shade of blue, not necessarily sentient.
But you have to be capable of pan-dimensional travel to visit them.
Wonder how many other versions will end up getting posted :D
Probably sixteen tons worth of them. This one’s the best though, so the others are thoroughly inconsequential.
A little history with your music. T.E. Ford did not write the music or lyrics just did an updated version. The real story is much like many stories of protest songs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
So Sidney does get exhausting feedback from lighthook. Not only does it not work, but she feels it.
Meaning that if her training pays off and she gets physically stronger, the lighthook might get stronger as well!
we don’t knowthat.
if you remember, in and earlier fight, she used the tentacle to block a flying metal beam. it might not have been as big, but it had speed, and i don’t think she felt anything of it.
Syd’s the sort who would try to add their own infinitesimal strength to the strength of the Lighthook when trying to lift over their weight class. It wouldn’t make any noticeable difference in how much she could lift, but she would probably exhaust herself trying anyway.
Hmm, as she trains with using the Lighthook in combat situations, she works with whip handling techniques. Cue Raiders of the Lost Ark theme.
Can we get a pin up (live sized if possible >_>) of panel one?
So much this. To reiterate; Rawr.
I was gonna say that Maxima was one wardrobe malfunction away from a Playboy shot there. Too bad her forcefield thing won’t normally let her have wardrobe malfunctions . . .
I’m not sure about it being ‘sexy’, but it definitely has presence- I love the foreshortening and the use of shadow to accentuate the power and weight of moving that beam. Cut her and the beam out from the background, put in a pastel starburst, and you have yourself a new Rosie the Riveter poster.
“ARCHON- Helping America, Here at Home”
I say, Hear! Hear!
And Dave even accounted for the proportional perspective change of her hips in accordance with the angle of view too!
Highest resolution, I say! Highest resolution is the only acceptable means I’ll accept on this!
jesus she can completely squish a person with that tendril.
also she should tottally pick up the minigun from before with the tendril or like 10 of them :D
i don’t think there is more than 1 of either.
“…completely squish a person…”
As easily as popping a zit…
O.o
Did Harem get a shot of panel 1 (especially from that angle)? The guys would owe her one photo for that (and the doc would spend days fixing her injuries, but probably worth it)!
I doubt she’d risk trying to take smexy pictures of Maxima.
could she not perhaps make some kind of pulley system and use the tendril to lift items weighing to much.
i recall a rp game i had where one of my character had basically a green laternish power and was able to make a pulley system to completly subdue someone that normally wouldent be by say a hand grabbing them.
barring of course the tendril hasent got friction isues against it self.
she could wrap it around something make the pulley holds and them snap it around a object and lift it . then how ever far she can make it she can lift something very heavy pretty high
That would depend on how strong the fulcrum was, but yes, that does sound like an idea Sydney could use in future
Depends on the tensile strength of the tentril
I also have the feeling that all her orb powers are more Holistic than Atomistic (I learned a new word!)- for instance, the Shield “Stops things”- it doesn’t have a ‘limit’ or ‘loopholes’ or anything like that. it’s the Immovable Object. Similarly, I’d bet that the Pew Pew Orb can probably cutsplode its way through anything (barring Achilles)- it’s the Unstoppable Force. The Flyball makes Sydney Fly. The Lighthook, then, is a manipulator- it ‘manipulates’ things. This, I think, means that you cannot use any specific configuration or outside mechanism to add to or subtract from its ability to manipulate objects- it can exert the force it exerts, over all its length, and no more or less than that. (Alternatively, it could be limited by Mass instead of Force- though then it probably wouldn’t work with Max here as it does) It could, of course, be used to input that force into another system, such as a pulley, but then it’s the pulley system (outside the Lighthook- no using the energy tentacle as a rope) that’s doing the Work on the Load, as opposed to the Hook. Heck, it might even be a Work limitation.
The way a windless pulley system works is the weight is divided by the different sections of rope.So So a five line pulley (2 pulleys @ top, 2 @ bottom + 1 connecting back to the top) divides the weight, and required pull strength by 5. Her Lighthook isn’t physical and has no set length, so most likely the entirety is created out of her will, which means the TOTAL lift weight is 16 tons, not the limit of any section. In the 5 line example 1/5 of her will is in each line section giving them 1/5 the lift.
So she could lift Monty Python’s 16-ton weight. :)
During the last part of their intro-theme song, I sort of wonder how much that big foot weighs when it crashes down?…
16 tons? Well at least she can set up the weight to defend herself from someone armed with a banana. :)
I figured Max was increasing her density (armoring up) or simply pulling down to measure how much force it was.
Same here, would make more sense than flying down (Maxi looks like she is already on he ground)
Umm, if she just pulled down without increasing her density (can she increase her density?) then she would just lift her own feet off the ground, like a pull-up/chin-up bar, assuming she doesn’t normally weigh more than 16 tons, because physics.
That’s why she has to “fly down” even if she is standing on the ground, to counteract the pull.
Oh, okay, so she’s not “flying down from a height” but more “exerting down-ward force”? That makes a little more sense
Her forcefield the makes thing not break when she lifts them at a weak spot, can also lock her to the ground, so she can lift without worrying about center of gravity.
Newton’s Third Law of Motion (Forces): For every applied force, there is an reaction force that is equal in magnitude but opposite in direction. (Not directly applicable, it really would be about what happens to Sydney when she is applying so much force to Immovable Object Max.)
For Max not to move, all forces applied to her must cancel out. Gravity is countered by the ground pushing up (or she would sink in the ground). The Lighthook force applied up must countered by an equal but opposite force pushing down; in this case, flight down.
Use helmets you amateurs! Sorry. I can’t blame Halo for feeling a bit inferior with all these handsome, pretty and powerfull everywhere she goes.
Sydney really should be wearing a helmet yes.
Although, in real talk: They are lifting 30 ton beams, not 1 kg hammers. If someone drops a beam, a helmet won’t do much
So the point of wearing a helmet is to look pretty (or “official”, perhaps) if it’s in a situation where the helmet doesn’t actually make a difference?
Heh, workman (workperson?) fashion. Who would have thought?
Their efforts will disturb smaller debris, which a helmet can protect against.
Just because Hiro and Max are bullet proof and dropping a pneumatic riveter on the head of either won’t do much, doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t abide by the state and national safety regulations.
No hard hats, but I wonder if they have steel-toed shoes. I expect those are required as well. If the home improvement store I work at demands them, surely a construction site would.
Yes, plenty of small debris to trip on. You don’t want to smash your toes on a mostly hidden piece of concrete or rebar. That HURTS, and could result in disfiguring or even permanent injury.
Usually true – I’ve been on one job site that didn’t require them, but it was single floor with a 10′ roof in place and all external construction was completed (needed to core a floor slab since the breaks came up low). I always wore them just because, so I never really ever had an issue.
Steel toe boots wre standard issue with their uniform, at least according to Max when Heatwave asked about it.
Steel toe shoes are standard issue for military uniforms. Indeed, if Brooke had been wearing her standard (fatigue-style) uniform at the restaurant, that knife wouldn’t have gotten embedded in her foot.
And as a bonus most women look good in boots.
Really? When did this happen?
So we can’t point and laugh at the recruits cutting the grass with a swingblade (or mower) and clunking around in the strap on steel box toes. Bummer…
Mine aren’t.
Also what is up with Halo’s bizarre profile pic at the top of the page? A preview of upcoming art or something i missed?
The profile pics rotate every time you refresh the page (and not everyone sees the same image as you), not sure which image you are referring to so can’t help (what one person considers ‘bizarre’ another may think as ‘normal’) and the likelihood of that image showing up for me soon is fairly low (considering the number of images in the rotation)
She had a stretched out neck, pale face with dark lines and looked like tentacles near her face
Ah, that’s probably Zephan’s mental image of what was in Sydney’s tube before the big reveal.
All the way back when they were interviewing her in the ballroom.
P.s. found the link:
Grrl Power #85 – Wild imaginings. Hopefully
That’s the one!
I like the second option on that page, for what was in the tube.
Sydney? No griping!! 16 tons by yourself is still something to be proud of (although, it may be best to stick with 15, that way you have a little in reserve if needed)
Wonder why Syd didn’t attempt to combine her tentacles with something else.
I was sure the gang here would have referenced the campfire song.
Hmmmm… I wonder why 16 tons is a trope?
(two different songs, Monty Python, cartoons (?))
What campfire song? o_O
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts
Oops, Google, Wiki and YouTube say it’s “Great Green Gobs” not “16 Tons”.
Yet more evidence that time agents are altering the past.
Fact core also provides evidence of Time Agents altering the past: “In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning.”
History records this event differently.
Oh yes, do remember that song just from the title :D
‘sixteen’ rolls off the tongue nicely, the ‘x’ is crisp and clear at the end of the first syllable, making it sound clearer when sung. Some claim the original lyric was ‘nine-and-ten (19) tons’, but ‘sixteen’ probably sounded better, and sold better.
The song was written in the ’50s, but refers back to an old practice in American coal mines, where the mining companies would only pay their workers in company store credit. It was a form of debt slavery.
That wasn’t just in coal mines. During the first Industrial Revolution (before the advent of OSHA & the Labor Board), it was common in most industries to pay wages with Company Scrip. It was good nowhere else except in company stores & the overall prices were set so that people would go into debt to the company just by purchasing goods necessary for basic survival.
Yeah, but the thing is, in those days, most of those ‘Companies’ cared about their workers and pretty much everything was provided for them: the ‘debt’ was so their workers couldn’t just move on to some other ‘Company’ or town
Most slave owners cared for their slaves, they only killed one now and then to keep the rest in line. The chains were just so they wouldn’t run away…
You do realise slavery never ended, don’t you, just now it’s called ‘minimum wage’ and the chains are ‘taxes’ (or is it the other way around? o_O)
A singer claimed he wrote the original and it was “load 9 OR 10 tons”. Which was a common amount, hand shoveling 16 tons in a work shift is near record-breaking amount 19 tons would be done once at most.
Was it ‘or’? I’d read ‘and’, but ‘or’ does make more sense…
Then again, the songwriter may have been exaggerating for effect, as in, “I loaded more than you could imagine, and still not nothing fer it.”
I’m not sure if I’m happy or sad to see some definite limitations to Sydney’s powers. :)
Something interesting worth noting in this scene is that while Syd does seem to exhaust herself trying to lift those things, the lighthook doesn’t cause any other kind of feedback. No ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’ there, since she isn’t getting pushed down into the ground like a Halo-pancake by 15 tons of force while trying to push upwards with 15 tons of force. Not odd by the standards of the comic as a whole, but might be worth remembering for the future.
I would have thought some other form of feedback for exceeding parameters.
Pain in the fingers, something like an aircraft’s stick shaker stall warning,
a 404 error (!)….
I’m thinking there is some kind of force amplification going on here. Sydney’s (being generous here) 50lbs of lift on the orb, turns into 15tons of lift at the other end of the lighthook.
And there is some kind of feedback as well. Vehemence was dragging Sydney by the lighthook back at the steakhouse.
I’m thinking it’s simply a matter of will, Sydney is one of those that thinks physically struggling amplifies will.
Now to figure out how much effort it would be to rip the lighthook apart…
I’m sure Max can test that the same way
As it is composed of energy, damaging it would be something like
tripping a circuit breaker, causing it to simply disappear.
Also, does the reactionless pull mean that she can lift herself up with a lighthook?
It’s not reactionless. She’s physically pulling up on the orb, and it’s pushing her back down
Well if it were to push her down at the force of 16 tonnes, she’d be a splatter on the road side.
So it obviously does not.
It clearly amplifies her input somehow
It depends on which end of the rope is contracted when she ‘reels it in’. If it always comes out of the far end, then the object she grabbed onto will just be un-grabbed. If she can take if off of her end, then she can use it like a batman style grappling hook. (which I would be surprised if she had not tried yet)
If the rope has to stay the same length, then she could lift herself by sending up a loose spiral then coiling it up into a tight spring. The reverse might be tried by sending a tight coil under an object and ‘sproing’ it up into the air. She already knows the basic tricks of roadrunner cartoon physics.
Sydney is squishable. She can’t keep her force field up all the time. She should be wearing a hardhat and other proper gear for such a dangerous work site. LOTS of bright orange, due to her ADHD and tendency to be where she should not. This is definitely a locale wherein she should have a minder to keep her focused and out of danger.
Should the same reasoning apply to active battle scenarios? The reason this site is in its current state is the restaurant battle.
In an active battle there is a much higher chance of objects being actively directed at her, rather than one of the current two (that we’ve seen so far) team mates accidentally dropping something on her.
A suit of bright orange armour complete with helmet, and a minder (one the Harems, perhaps, who should also be similarly attired)?
True. Health and safety would go wild at camouflage instead of hi-vis on a worksite.
No, it should not. It already has been pointed out that Sydney will have a minder for future battles. Plus, during battles, she is more alert and tends to keep her force field up most of the time. The problem with a work site, as opposed to a battle, is that one can become too relaxed, or distracted, because one is not in immediate danger, nobody is actively seeking to harm you, and thus a small 5 lb. block of rubble, or a good-sized tool, can become a serious danger by simply falling off a high location, and gaining sufficient velocity as to cause serious injury, or death, upon impact.
As far as combat goes, Halo should keep a low profile, as she is a newb to her powers, forgetful, easily distracted, and highly squishable without her force field. Once she becomes more experienced, and more focused on the battle field, then she can be trusted to more actively partake in such.
Good points to consider. Thanks!
Dat first panel, tho. Rawr.
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter, don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store…
She sure as heck ain’t in debt to the comic shop no more!!!
And the company store that the song references actually happened.
It was a form of debt-slavery. Check the link I made above for more info.
The town I grew up in was home to the New River Coal Company. Their scrip had a backwards z cut into it. The biggest denomination that I know of was the $1 coin (which I have one). However, also in my home town lived Ms. Clayburne, who had her own little 5&Dime store that sold some of the same goods as the Company store, for at a lower price. She would accept payment in scrip, then take the scrip to the Company Store and use it to RESTOCK her store.
She had non-miner customers, so she was still making a small profit, and where she got part of her stock was one of those secrets everyone knew and no one did anything about. :)
Sixteen tons in one day? O_O
With a shovel.
I’ve seen file footage.They stood on a platform beside a train covered in coal and spend ~15 minutes furiously throwing 20lb shovelfuls into the train car then wait a few minutes while they moved the train.
Oh… and I’d heard 16 tons was a record, 9 or 10 is a more common amount. It’s just even when you set a record you’re deeper in debt.
So uh… I’m a bit confused about this page. Did she lift one? None? Six?
She tried to lift 6, but they each weigh 30 tons and she can lift 16.
So in the end, none
Oh. I didn’t realize that Maxima was trying to tell her how much she can lift. Was confuse. >_<
Yeah, there was that big, fat “NOPE” included…
:)
Looks like she knocked her glasses clean off in the last two panels when she slipped.
For some mysterious and inexplicable reason, seeing Sydney take a fall here reminds me of the time that Maxima took a fall. :)
I’d forgotten about that, so happy to re-read it. Thank you.
So glad you referenced that. Now the question is if Maxima can move 30+ tons and Sydney’s light hook is limited to 16, what stopped Maxima? Is there some power or combination of powers that Sydney has not tapped yet?
The orbs are very fond of Sydney and just that determined not to leave her side, I guess.
When Maxi attempted to move Mr Tubey, he (and Sydney’s balls inside him) were basically anchored to the planet
The specific wording you used there is…disturbing.
Her (Syndey’s) balls inside of him (Mr. Tubey)…
Where’s my Brain Bleach™ ?
That particular set of wording was deliberate :P
That first panel makes me feel like a fleshy tub of lard. Maxima is good for making the average person feel inadequate.
Speaking as a complete amateur, I’ve watched them assemble overpasses. I’m not sure about the connectors for the crossbeams but it looks close enough for comic purposes.
In the middle of this Maxima gets a nasty text message from Arianna reminding her that Sydney needs to attend that media prep course.
Maxima:Sydney we need to get to your apartment,get your meds and rush you back to base!
Sydney:(smacking forehead with palm of right hand)Oh,that’s right! I forgot all about that!!!
Let’s get my meds and hurry back before that shyster blows a cog!
Maxima:(trying to contain laughter)Don’t let Arianna hear you call her a shyster to her face,lord knows a
number of times I wanted to call her that!!
Except that she’s already been to her apartment to collect her meds. Remember panel one of the last page?
Meanwhile, do people still say shyster? I haven’t heard that in ages!
Maybe this might help???
https://www.google.com/search?q=shyster&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Do you know any other slang terms to describe lawyers?
I do know what it means, thanks. Just making the point that I hadn’t heard it used in a long while.
Ambulance-chaser comes to mind
In the Michigan Gun Owners group we have a member who is a lawyer and his screen name is Shyster.
She is pulling it against her physical self, surely there would be an opposite reaction of driving herself in to the ground like a nail.
Length of the lighthook might be a factor too. Consider how long you can hold a telephone directory (if you are old enough to remember them) at arms length compared to hugging it.
The portable heavy lift cranes can lift large loads near their center of gravity or light ones further out. But not both as they could topple.
You must be from a big city. A seven year old could hold at least 3 or 4 telephone directories from my home town at arms length.
For a second there, I thought you were saying that you lived in a place where 7-year olds had superstrength.
Another (quite good) version of the relevant song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnERje97jw
There’s the kind I was looking for! All the others, the guys are way too happy to be singing it.
I like Maxima’s hips in the first panel because they’re not size -4.
Finally an indication that Sydney’s orbs aren’t more powerful than everybody.
Does this mean that full-power Max COULD punch though Sydney’s shield?
Even if she couldn’t the collateral damage from the sound pressure (alone) of the punch would be enormous!
Heck, they tried that at a firing range, and Max tore through reinforced titanium trying to break Syd’s shield.
You shovel 16 tons of number nine coal, and the strawboss says well bless my soul.
16 tons, and what do ya get. Another day older and deeper in debt, saint peter don’t you call me because I cannot go… I owe my soul to the company store.
Ah, I see — I thought in the second-to-last panel Maxima was lifting the end of the lighthook with on beam under it (sharing the load, basically.) Pulling down on it makes more sense. :-)
It took an RP character of my own to realize, just how heavy some things are. Like Spidey being in the 10ton range and a train car weighs like 40 tons!
So when Superman moves the Earth he totally surpasses the 100ton range. :p Though when they say he’s in that range, that would mean things like stopping a 747 or an out of control train are just going to be difficult to do!
100tons? That’s a small hill at best… or one Atlas. <.<
Dem cheekbones…
… could probably cut tempered steel.
Still, they’re damn sexy.