Grrl Power #973 – Ulna you di-in’t
Yeah, he just got punched through a cliff two pages ago, but I think this would hurt more. He’s used to getting punched and slamming into things. This is almost certainly a new pain for him, if not an entirely novel experience for a human being in general. Well, in all of the history of humanity, someone has definitely had their radius and ulna wedged apart in a… I’m going to say fencing accident? Not fencing with swords. I’m imagining someone installing a fence and some other guy fell off a roof and got a fence slat wedged into his forearm. That or some peasant has gotten a gladius or a bastard sword slammed through their forearm and then the sword got twisted and then the edges stuck into the bone and the knight is trying to yank it out and the peasant is thinking “This land dispute between noble houses has really gotten out of hand, which is a slightly ironic way to put it because part of my arm and hand just flew off oh god the pain.”
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That first panel shows MATH with a bruise on his cheek. I can bullshit.
Not sure if it’s a bruise or just angled shading.
Also, does Kevin’s face in panel 2 remind anyone else of Carnage Kabuto from One Punch Man? The freaky bug guy “boss monster”?
I mean, Vehemence is very fast once he powers up – that’s hard to deal with even for a martial artist.
I don’t think canning bullshit is a great idea, unless you want botulism.
Well, how else are you supposed to keep your bullshit fresh?
Run it through a gamma irradiation facility. Kills all the bacteria.
/joke
only if you want green shit.
/joke
Just drink a bottle of fierce grape gatorade if you want that. Two of them if you want it to blue the toilet.
I’ve really only seen it in bricks before.
The coloring in blue raspberry candy will do that as well.
Yeah, normally they sell it in bags. Wonder if cans would preserve the freshness?
I mean, it’s probably just a waste of metal unless they can be recycled really well.
You can’t really trust a guy when he says that he’s got this shit in the bag. I’ve really only seen it it bricks before.
Maybe they has a colostomy, and are forced to shit in a bag (for some reason, the smell is much worse than even normal diarrhoea, must be something normally found in the bowels that removes the worst of the smell)
I declare your bullshit call illegal. Very obviously he got caught peeking. This resulted in less booby style and more fist to face style. The other people are obviously the ones who broke up the violence off the field.
Math and Jabber were tag-teaming Kevin, and Math was momentarily distracted when she displayed Mammal Style.
It’s a bruise. He gets hit, he just rarely loses. I keep forgetting to draw the many scars on him.
So….does Dabbler make a joke about Maxima finally doing a finger-bang, just not the way she thought?
‘twould be a missed opportunity if she did not.
Also, it was clearly a finger-CHUNK
It’s like that thing where you put a pencil between your fingers and squeeze, but turned up to 11.
Ah willies indeed, right down to my tailbone. Bet that made Math take notice, I mean give Dave credit, that’s a technique no one has seen before and only a ‘super’ could do. Well, maybe a Shaolin monk, they do crazy stuff, certainly penetrating into the arm between the bones. Math? Maybe against another super without invulnerability or super strength. But not against someone like Keven.
It helped that Kevin was powering a punch at her. Against Math, that move wouldn’t have worked…. mostly just against bruisers.
Perhaps it was Math who taught Maxima that move.
This. That was literally the first thing I thought. “Maxima just made a Math Move.”
And that makes sense because most martial arts are about winning fights with the minimum force/violence needed, and Math knows all of them back to front. If Maxima asked for ideas about defeating Vehemence with the least possible violence, Math would sure as hell raise his hand and offer to teach her a move or two.
I like your thinking here. Maxima is way too level headed to let her ego get in the way. She knows she needs a better way and is willing to turn to experts who simply know better than her. It wouldn’t surprise me if she went straight to Math and asked him directly for some tips. Okay, yeah, Maxima beat Math in a straight fight. But that was because Maxima was able to simply overpower him with her abilities. But when faced with another fighter with similar abilities, Maxima was beaten down and nearly killed. It makes sense that she’d turn to the guy with no powers who has the skills to go to to toe with superpowered fighters and ask him to start training her in techniques to avoid a repeat.
This is exactly the reason so many super-strong characters are boring fighters.
Superman’s fighting style is to have no style; he relies on being stronger, more durable, and usually faster. If he ever practiced enough humility to go – in disguise – to a boxing school or MMA or judo or almost anything really – he’d be a more interesting character.
They do claim that Supes know some kind of kryptonian martial art in the comics, but honestly, whom could he conceivably train it with? Mind training only goes soo far, and othervice only Billy is anywhere close to being capable of full power sparing with him as far as i know…
so no mather what the comics say, i wouldn’t rank him anywhere close to an expert in it
Wonderwoman, at least according to relatively recent canon, is supposed to be nearly as strong and tough and able to make up the difference via her martial training. Supes is stronger than her, and bats is a better fighter than her, but (supposedly) she can beat supes because she’s a better fighter and bats because she’s stronger. I doubt they’ll ever test that, and if they do either fight will almost certainly not go her way simply because supes and bats are both significantly more popular than her and in hero vs hero fights the winner is almost always the hero that sells more comics, irrespective of who would logically win based on what we know about their skills and abilities.
Wonder Woman has beaten Superman only twice, actually, as far as I know
Once was the fight where Superman was being controlled by Max Lord. And it wasnt exactly a hand-to-hand fight since Diana was also using a bunch of magic weapons in order to just stay alive most of the time. She had to use her sword, tiara to slice his throat, and then broke Max Lord’s neck on live TV in order to break the mental control he had on her because she knew that if the fight went on too long, he was going to kill her. The other time was in Injustice, the power levels are a little wonky. For example, Wonder Woman is literally bulletproof in Injustice instead of needing to use her bracelets (most likely because the people who wrote it never bothered to read a Wonder Woman comic, like ever, or just glossed over a lot of it, because I’m pretty sure she did not take the super pill in the Injustice series). Wonder Woman also mentioned in her internal monlogue that she blacks out a couple of times during the fight for a few seconds from how hard he was hitting her.
Batman’s said to Superman that while he has boxes with a contingency plan for every member of the league based on their weaknesses, he does not have one for Wonder Woman, because she has no specific weakness – she doesnt have a ‘kryptonite’ like the other league members have. If Wonder Woman ever went out of control, Superman is the failsafe to stop her – which is why Batman was concerned when Superman was in a relationship with Wonder Woman.
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Wonder Woman HAS beaten Power Girl decisively though, mainly because, according to her internal monologue, ‘she’s stronger, but she is not an Amazon and does not fight like an Amazon.’ Again though, PG mainly gives up because Wonder Woman is able to get PG to ‘snap out of the mind control’ she was under after getting her in a hold that PG could not break out of (similar hold to the one that Supergirl used on PG in the Supergirl comics – which makes sense since Diana taught Kara a lot about fighting during New Earth DC).
She also beat Supergirl once, in New 52 (not New Earth), mainly because in that one Supergirl never was trained on Themiscyra by Artemis and Diana. Supergirl gave up after breaking free from the Lasso of Truth with a solar burst (a power she doesnt have in New Earth), after which Supergirl was too exhausted to continue (the solar burst takes a lot out of her for a few seconds, but even gods can’t break free of the lasso). Supergirl even commented in the internal dialog that if she was thinking straight, she would have flown upwards into space while Diana was tackling her (Wonder Woman needs to breathe air, Supergirl does not), but she was just too exhausted by that point.
Oh Wonder Woman also beat Batman once in pure fighting ability in the Hiketeia, not using any powers, and made him yield, although Batman’s also beaten her in hand-to-hand in the past as well (he usually cheats though, but to be fair she has powers and he doesnt). Black Canary also once beat her in hand-to-hand, but Wonder Woman is generally seen as the best hand-to-hand fighter in the DC Universe because of the combination of strength AND skill. When people say stuff like Richard Dragon is the best DC universe fighter, it’s usually because they’re counting people who either don’t have powers or have ‘street level’ powers (ie, Richard Dragon, Karate Kid, Connor Hawke, Batman, Vic Sage, Cassandra Cain, Lady Shiva, Bronze Dragon, etc). I think the only person on the list of ‘top ten fighters in DC’ who has a metagene at all is Dinah Shore (Black Canary) mainly because her power is usually considered more of a street level power despite being pretty formidable even to high tier heroes/villains, and she tends to use it mainly as a last resort.
Bronze Tiger btw, not Bronze Dragon, sorry. I was still thinking about Richard Dragon.
Now that’s an unfortunate name, bet Richard sticks to his full name to avoid the sniggers :P
i like that rule. seems like an interesting way to win a fight. “well, this superman fellow seems fishy. what if he’s actually evil? better start saving some cats.”
also technically that rule holds up for hero vs villian fights too.
It seems to me that the *text* of the comics say that Supes has martial style points, but what do we *see*?
Unless things have changed since I was a kid (admittedly a long time ago) Superman punches, does the silly double-fist punch for emphasis, and protects his brain by absorbing damage with his chin.
That may be a Kryptonian martial art style but maybe it’s just Earthly graphic art styles.
In contrast, Math’s fights are interesting because they require such redonkously technical skill. Max’s fights are interesting because her 6th super power is her brain (*technically not a superpower except that she’s super committed to getting better at the smartness factor in fighting*)
dodge attacks, catching him and setting him down gently with an ergonomic pillow and Yanni playing on headphones you’ve carefully slipped over his ears. The antithesis of violence.
though some people might get violent if you choose Yanni… hmmmm…
Given the arm tension and the more relaxed movement… I’m pretty confident she just demonstrated Tai Chi. Possibly brush knee in fact. I mean look at the hand just before the strike, there’s no tension there and it’s all about the rotation with the wrist rotating outward, absolute minimum required energy. Of course “flashing the arm” is another alternative interpretation but I don’t think it works so well.
People often forget that Tai Chi is a martial art and get very deadly very quickly. Thankfully most people just do it for the health benefit or because it looks so slow have no idea about the applications and don’t bother to learn. Digging into the muscles of your opponent and using technique over strength is exactly what Tai Chi is about. Tai Chi *loves* exploiting physics to impart tremendous force rather than delivering tremendous force directly.
I think this is the core of Max’s strategy here – maximum pain with minimum violence. She’s a nerd at heart too, and has doubtlessly been gaming this out. Hitting him harder just makes him stronger, so instead you have to sap his will to fight while providing as little vitamin V as possible.
Tai Chi is definitely one of those arts “Practice one thousand times slow, execute one time fast” arts. Granted, that quote was from a Kenpo Karate instructor, but we were also taught to rip off all useful stuff from other arts
How much did it hurt? Lookit the toes. THAT’s how much it hurt. You can always tell by how much the toes are spread and curled.
Good catch
This applies to pleasure as well as pain. Just ask Dabbler. If she ever admits that you “curled her hooves”, you just made the wall of fame.
Funny that nobody (me included) have oof feeling about being punched few hundred meters away into a wall what will transform normal People into meatbag with broken bones or wet stain. If that force dont relocate his bones that two Finger death trust of pain also should not.
I get that logic but i dont buy it.
What you’re missing is that she put enough force behind that to drive her fingers through tungsten carbide, AND it looks like she dislocated a finger doing it.
it’s a different kind of force. a lot of energy is lost when you send someone flying, what maxima did was separate and bend vehemences bones with a wedge motion, which doesn’t really let any energy go to waste. something has to break, and even just maxima’s skin is stronger than steel (probably) so I’m betting her fingers win against a guy who generally WANTS people to hurt him
Right now i cant get rid of the vision where Maxima caught V’s ear in mommy style and V Goes ow ow ow
Force is measured in pounds per square inch, meaning the smaller the surface area the greater the force, it’s why blades cut in the first place. So she used that basic principle of physics to puncture his flesh and get her fingers into position. Then, separating the bones is a matter of leverage, not necessarily pure strength. Joints have a lot of give to them, by necessity, and so by pushing the bones apart she’s pulling at least one of them out of the socket. She’s also probably scraping the bones at least a little and that hurts like all hell, as does the dislocation, so she’s basically ensured that even if he forces the bones back into position his hand will still be in extreme pain while he uses it.
From a purely physics stand point, all the punches don’t do that to him because that’s just not what they are optimized to do, a punch is far more likely to break a bone than dislocate it.
Pressure and stress are measured in pounds per square inch – or pascals, if you are doing physics and want to be taken seriously. Force is just pounds (pounds-force to be specific) or poundals – or, again, newtons.
Newtons, actually. Or just pounds.
Jesus Christ, that looked painful.
Docs going to have a busy afternoon
Here we see the difference between violence and pain. Inflicting violence on Kevin merely feeds him; inflicting pain appears to stop him.
Max is showing that she’s more than just a set of superpowers. That seems to be a theme of this comic: superpowers are cool but it’s the rest of the person that makes it interesting.
Reminds me of Xena’s pressure point maneuvers
And here’s me thinking I had it bad with a shattered ankle and separated shoulder. Sweet Jeebus, that made me wince! X-p
Also, DaveB, can’t wait for TE2. Keep at it. You’re awesome, and I still volunteer as tribute. ^_^
Sounds like we’ve been through similar injuries.
I didn’t find breaking both bones and having my foot flopping around loose all that painful, strangely enough.
Having the doc grab my leg where it was shattered so he could reduce the dislocated ankle, though? That was pretty intense. The last thing you want to hear from your ER doc is, “Here, bite on this. Feel free to scream, the room is soundproofed.”
Yeah, the body is strange like that. Having been shot in the leg, flesh wound thankfully, I can truly say that I had to look before I even knew I was hit. Between the numbing effect of the impact, the adrenaline rush from knowing you’re injured (adrenaline reduces pain as part of the “fight or flight” response) and the brains instinctive response of “nope, not acknowledging that right now, it can be several minutes to an hour before full feeling returns. Just in time for the doc to poke it and ask “How does that feel?” Let’s just say my response was not appropriate for public reading. The liquid Demerol, AFTER he was done treating me, was quite welcome. Let me add that the nurse who cleaned up the dried blood and did the actual bandaging had the gentlest touch I’ve ever experienced, and was a guy. He was a godsend.
I hope Robert Kubica doesn’t read this strip– He might actually be one of the few people who knows how much that hurt. In a rally accident, he had a chunk of guardrail go through the car, and through his arm.
When I saw the smile on Max’s face in panel 3, I knew something was about to – AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
It’s not as novel as you think Dave. It’s not the exact same thing, but Ryu Tai Mai has a technique that levers the ulna and radius against each other at one point to force them apart further down the arm. Do it hard enough and it breaks both the bones and destroys the tendons attached to them. Sensai said the recovery time if you did that to someone was about 6 months and they’d probably never get full use of their arm back, though since I’ve never had to use the technique outside of practice (and hope I never do) I’ve never seen it done that hard.
And yes, it hurts like hell even if you only do it a little bit. I’ve seen college linebackers go to the mat crying from it. We won’t talk about what happened the first time I was someone’s practice dummy for it.
I’ve seen at least one application doing similar in Tai Chi. I suspect it’s one of those techniques that has been noted and exploited. Pretty dirty but effective with (usually) non serious repercussions (why do I have so much trouble spelling that word…) if they concede.
Don’t even need martial arts for it..
Make the mistake of trying to catch yourself after tripping face-first and not flexing your arms in time, or enough..
Ulna and radius get the full blow, bend out, and transfer all the energy to the elbow, which sorta explodes on you.
Elbow was back in shape in about 6 weeks-ish. The longitudinal microfractures in my poor bones took 6 long, looong months to heal up enough to even think of starting to do anything with that arm again.
Was my primary sword-arm as well… :(
And yes.. the pain is on a level with a good kick in the nadgers, same reflex and noise as well.
Can confirm. It REALLY takes the fight out of someone.
Back in my bouncer days I’d use to use a similar move, but with my thumb.
Didn’t matter how big or drunk they were. Took the fight right out of them.
Actually worked better on the bodybuilder types. since they didn’t have a layer of protective fat.
Did anyone else notice he still called her a lady?
V is a CLASSY brawler.
There is also a rather large nerve there that will hurt all the way up to your shoulders an down to your toes
Demonstrated well by the toe-spread wigglies in the last panel, I’d say.
Not a doctor but I’m pretty sure there’s multiple tendons in the way. IE she just crippled him.
He regrew an ENTIRE ARM onve. He’ll be fine.
He even regrew his pants! Ka-pants.
Maybe, but that merely reduces her actions to torturing prisoners. Not exactly a step up.
He regenerated said arm when he had buttloads of energy.
That move is a disabling Kung-fu move notice the hand the fingers are all twisted up too my sensi showed me how to do it. By doing it to me yes it’s very painful and it can take hours before the pain leaves much less the damage to the joints and tendons. Obviously Max could do it better than any master I’m surprised she didn’t have her fingers go through the wrist lol!
Had pretty much the exact same thing happen when I slid into base at a ‘fun’ ball game and caught my wrist between my leg and the baseman’s.
Popped the ulna out of place for a moment, along with a few of the ones in my wrist, then spent the next ten years undergoing every test known to man and a few I think they made up on the spot, all ‘inconclusive, no visible damage’. (in other words, it happened on duty but we’re not paying for it)
That was over forty years ago…it still ‘clicks’ when I bend my wrist ninety degrees and rotate it…and every so often it hurts like a MF until I do, like cracking a knuckle but worse, much worse.
I can imagine the next bit of conversation.
“I thought you said you weren’t going to use Tai Chi.”
“Oh, that was just the opener.”
“Fuck this. I surrender.’
That is one of about a hundred moves that people in shitkicker bars refer to as “fighting dirty.”
And, for reference, those are people who think kicking someone in the crotch. or stomping their hand, or using a two-foot length of heavy chain as a blunt weapon, or banging their head into a doorjam, is just part of a regular scrap.
Swear to god shitkicker bars are probably what Tyler Durden cut his teeth on (probably literally). Some guys go to bars to get drunk, but some guys go to bars just to take out their aggression on somebody else who’s there for the same psychologically fucked-up reason. And always, always they know which bar. There’s gonna be one shitkicker bar, maybe two, in a whole town. And for everybody who’s not psychologically fucked-up that way it’s a great place to stay the hell away from.
Don’t worry, I’m feeling much better now. I have a few impressive scars, a bunch of pins in my hand, and nowhere near as many teeth as I had, but I’m not doing that no more.
Embrace the pain V. Use this as a learning experience. You should hope that Max keeps this up, because this will help refine your fighting style, since you seem to be using the brute force method. That’s fine when you have overwhelming strength against your opponent, but against tactical fighters of similar strength? Yeah, this was inevitable. Tighten up those punches, use your feet! Eye of the tiger.
I’m curious. Did she actually poke a hole in the skin or did she literally stretch the meat enough to have her fingers bump out on the outside of his wrist? He should be leaking.
That’s why he is clasping he wrist: to keep the red stuff on the inside until he can divert enough energy to heal himself (once he stops writhing in pain… )
The finesse of a rapier vs. the power of a broadsword.
Stretching those ligaments. Shrff. Also “bastard sword”s don’t exist. The term is rarely used for any sword pre-20th century and when it is the classification is between “short” and “long”. Even then it only became a thing in the 19th century due to misunderstanding that “bastard sword” meant a sword that was weirdly lengthened or designed. The actual long swords are what it generally refers to in modern media while mislabeling the broad/arming sword as the long sword. In other words “bastard sword” was a descriptor not a classification for weirdly shaped swords that normally fell into the “long sword” classification. Although this doesn’t matter since I am pretty sure the peasant would still call both the sword and its wielder one after that.
I always thought Long swords were two handed, Short swords were one handed and Bastard Swords were one and a half. With great swords having even more hilt room.
I’m not a sword nerd.
bastard swords are the ones where nobody knows who the father is
It was called a ‘bastard sword’, because it was a bastard of a sword to wield effectively, and only a bastard of a swordsman would wield it
And don’t start on the bullmonkey about how the Claymore didn’t have an edge to it!
Yes, yes THAT really hurts, talk about making every pain receptor in the arm fire off at once.
Sorry, not sorry… I found this… Humerus.
Bone-jour, I see I have a kindred soul here. Perhaps Kevin should change his name to Napoleon because he got his bone-a-part.
I’m waiting for Pander’s wrath tibia-nnounced any moment, no doubt she has a bone to pick about the punning spreading to a larger radius.
My funny bone enjoyed this.
I dunno, arm getting tired of the puns now
some of them are just too disjointed
Damn you… just… just… DANGIT! Whyyyyyyyyyy. :)
*ninja hit squad now on speed dial*
Are you really calling in The Foot simply to rebutt someone who came to a battle of wits unarmed?
Yes. I’m petty and vindictive when it comes to unrestrained bad puns. :)
Although more like the League of Assassins or the Court of Owls instead of the Foot. The Foot Clan are a bunch of scrubs except for Shredder. :)
no need to get all out of joint over a good pun chain
Yeah this chain is certainly not disjointed.
honestly, I just said it the way I did to encourage a larger arm-ament of puns
The Hand perhaps? If they got enough spine to stay connected to your crusade against punsters.
Well, I just assumed they were the Foot. They’ve yet to succeed.
This is an owl goal, you should know by now that complaining about puns will only lead people to sinew their efforts, enjoying a bone-ding opportunity in being oppressed.
Yes but being able to torture me makes them happy. :)
Also, you’re now on the list with a big star next to your name.
A star-tling development.
Okay now you’re just trying too hard, dear.
No such thing with puns.
if that was an insult directed towards myself, I’m sorry, you’ll have to be a little more direct next time.
I had to grudgingly accept the pun because it was original when you did it.
But now it’s spread. And worse, it’s spreading the same pun so the originality is lost.
Ninja hit squad has been called.
That wasn’t part of the phalan,ges got out of hand. A sternum rebuke is indeed in order for all the ribbing.
… And of all the punsters, brichins, who I once considered a dear friend, was given the largest bounty on his head for his unspeakable transgressions.
They might be more effective if you stopped paying them with beer, in advance.
Yeah that will get un-beer-able in the long run.
Skull! *raises glass*
I shall prepare for a frontal assault, I just need to hold them off temporaly.
Also, this made my day. Worth it, but I still hope to be forgiven someday. :D
Impressive! I elbow down to your mastery of puns.
Brichins jaw dropping skulls in punning are unmatched.
Aww, thanks! Both of you (and the rest of the thread participants) are doing a very co-mandible job as well.
I’m going to now run away and live in a cave like a hermit until this thread is over.
Make sure your cave is hermitically sealed against the pundemic.
Your escave attempts are fugitile. Stand and face your impunding doom.
In addition to levering the bones apart, didn’t she tear through the radial artery and most of his tendons? He should be fountaining blood right now.
As someone with severe carpal tunnel, the idea of her jamming her hand through the muscles, nerves, and veins there gave me more willies than the bone breaking.
I don’t think Maxima is really into fighting. Her “I’ve been thinking of ways to fight someone like you” clearly should have been “thinking of ways to disable”.
Military special forces aren’t usually too interested in long fights, or fair ones. Remember that’s Max’s background, rather than ‘martial artist’.
Military doctrine is to make every effort to engage only when the odds have been stacked heavily in your favor. A fair fight means something has gone very wrong.
I think Max likes sparring in generally, especially with someone who can hit in her weight class, she just wanted to make a point. A dirty, painful point.
Anyone want to take a Stab at naming that finisher? If an official one doesn’t exist or course. ‘Hellpoke’ seems accurate.
One-Armed Crucifixion?
there’s no cross, the term crucifixion quite literally means affixed to a cross.
Another good spot is the space between the clavicle and shoulder, if she managed to pop that out she’d disable his entire arm.
Also, hitting the spot she hit with enough force to separate those bones would absolutely tear the muscles and ligaments in his forearm, his hand should be limp and useless at this point.
That was my first thought as well, without regen this would trash his wrist permanently. The hand does indeed look useless right now though, so I’m waiting to see how things progress.
manubrium, push in then down… I’ll wait
Martial artists with enough skill can and will grab you by the skeleton, through the intervening tissues, if you give them reason to.
I suggest not giving them reason to do so.
This is an actual injury, called a Distal Radial Ulna Joint Injury
https://www.orthobullets.com/trauma/1028/distal-radial-ulnar-joint-druj-injuries
Basically, such a move would detach the ulna from the wrist and cause a LOT of pain and movement loss
Does anyone else kinda wish we’d seen Sydney have a go a Vehemence too?
Max may be brutal, but Sydney is creative.
I feel like Vehemence doesn’t get a go at Sydney or Dabbler until he’s in “Gets to use weird powers” territory, just because there’s a shortage of interesting interactions. If Sydneys’ got shields he would have to be up at Worldbreaker strength to hurt her (Mr Bubble has taken planetary-barrage levels of firepower), but if she doesn’t have shields she’s paste.
Imagine if she used that finger-sword strike to hit the solar plexus/xiphoid process area. If she can dig those fingers that deep into the forearm area, then she should be able to take him down to nearly killing him with that type of strike
Am I the only person who thinks that the ‘x-ray’ ought to have Max’s arm whited-out? Because x-rays don’t penetrate her skin?
No?
Just me?
well, alright.
One of those cases where previously established continuity takes a back seat to storytelling clarity. If it’s ‘X-rays. canonically applied’ in the first place, as opposed to ‘artistic cutaway vision’
I suspect (and hope) that Kevin will get in a few good shots of his own, before this is done. And that the fight will end as a polite draw. And that Kevin and Max (and hopefully all the rest) will follow up with a formal and respectful bow to each other, the sort of thing that leaves everyone smiling as they walk away.
Because the Squidward folks got a good scan of Sydney’s orbs before she escaped, and they are probably on their way. And because (at the very least) the Fel know where their ship was going before it got destroyed, so they are probably gathering a much stronger force, and are on their way. And who knows what else might be out there (including whatever Dabbler is hiding from), and who else might be on their way.
Remember that Kevin is potentially one of the two most powerful defenders of planet Earth. He seems like the type that would fight on the side of the good guys, particularly if the stakes were the survival and freedom of his home world. The best way for Max and the rest to prepare for such a prospect is to establish a respectful working relationship, and to give everyone on the team a chance to get to know each other, and to develop a feel for each other’s powers and how they might work together. I think Max is enough of a professional to be thinking in these sorts of terms, and not to be too concerned about settling old scores, or deciding who is the baddest brawler in town.
Sydney warped to Fracture Station, so unless they tracked Sciona’s magic-based portal as well they have no clue to her origin.
But yeah, Team Earth needs to be preparing for a lot more galactic attention, and Kevin would be a fantastic resource if he can be trusted.
“Remember that Kevin is potentially one of the two most powerful defenders of planet Earth. He seems like the type that would fight on the side of the good guys, particularly if the stakes were the survival and freedom of his home world.”
I don’t know. I think Kevin might WANT an eternal war of humans trying to fight off an alien invasion – he wouldnt want it to ever end. He might even sabotage human plans if they look like they have a chance of stopping it once and for all.
He’s outright said he doesn’t care for war before – it’s “too unruly”. Page 274.
Even if he likes the actual fighting, a war is more complex than the scraps he enjoys and I think he’s smart enough to figure that he would not be able to maintain enough control over it to keep it going perpetually even if he wanted to.
I don’t think he’s ever had the occasion to actually siphon the Vitamin V from a worldwide war though. Might not be that unruly for his power levels after there was that much violence going on EVERYWHERE. The amount of power he could gain from that, he could probably keep everyone fighting across the world, without either side ever winning, in perpetuity.
War isn’t constant fighting (quite the opposite), and you assume that he can draw power from violence across the entire planet (when it seems that he mostly draws power from actions he’s personally involved in – he draws some from other violence, but I expect it’s much like how a succubus gets a lot more from being involved than being a voyeur. Even after taking in the violence of the parking lot brawl, he wasn’t charged up all that much above his baseline (going by the “tattoos” – they were shining, but still blue, which seems to be his “default” going by how they were while he was marinating in marijuana smoke in his cell) until he actually started fighting personally.)
Besides, if he wanted to try using a global conflict as a power source, why hasn’t he done so already? He certainly possess the power to do so if he wishes. Even assuming he’s limited to the aggro aura and can’t influence actions in a more complicated manner, he could easily provoke major international incidents that will likely lead to major wars. He even “joked” about doing so in his “that’s what a guy like me is supposed to say when he has a hero pinned” bit.
“Besides, if he wanted to try using a global conflict as a power source, why hasn’t he done so already?”
Probably because he hasn’t had much control over getting giant superpowerful aliens, capable of destroying an entire planet in a few days, to attack the planet.
You generalized it to “global conflict”. Why should it being aliens matter?
Because of the sheer scope, immediacy, and universality of how the Squidwards did it compared to human wars.
Kevin doesn’t seem the type for all that formality.
A good scrap should endear him more than enough.
I imagine Maxima & the whole team of Arc-Dark has spent a LOT of time thinking & researching about how Maxima could fight someone with a similar power set. Using moves that are minimally violent but have the maximum pain effect does make sense, in a attrition style fight – get them the enemy to give up by both not doing enough physical damage for Vehmenance to power up with, but maximizing pain he is feeling
Max: We can fight some more, if you want? *grins*
V: Ow no no no no ow no!
VEHEMENCE DEFEATED
FLAWLESS VICTORY.