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Wittgen posted:The comment section is up.
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Wittgen posted:This thread is up. 
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Aug 30, 2014 17:49
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Flipping through issue one, and I could stand to see some more firefighter shenanigans. They're a chummy lot.  http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-21/
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Warmachine posted:Flipping through issue one, and I could stand to see some more firefighter shenanigans. They're a chummy lot. There was a guest comic about it http://q-u-i-n-n-m.tumblr.com/post/61658355449/i-did-a-guest-comic-for-strong-female-protagonist
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McSpanky posted:And Patrick is both more motivated and far better equipped to investigate it. I'm pretty sure that's what he's been doing during all of those shadowy secret phone conversations.
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Aug 31, 2014 23:39
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Wittgen posted:The comment section is up. "This comic used 2 be P Gud, now it sucks." Copy/paste that about 25 times on every page, and you're good to go, no need for comments at all!
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Sep 1, 2014 05:11
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Time to set another Adblock frame filter for another comments section.
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Tenebrais posted:While Hector's parting line does ring true, it's a bit rich coming from him seeng as she just told him a way he can be better than a superhero and he didn't want to because it wasn't fun enough. This is a really solid observation. Like he's not saying she's wrong--he says "yeah" in response to her idea--he just says he personally doesn't want to do it. I think they were having two similar but diverging conversations here--Alison wants to focus on how best to help people, Hector's focused on personal fulfillment. They are often one and the same, but as Hector's response shows, they aren't always. And while there's nothing wrong with prioritizing self-actualization over altruism, once he does so he's talking about something completely different than what Alison is trying to do. Really, this makes him the opposite number to Feral: the best thing she can figure out to do with her anomaly is both infinitely worse to experience and, in the long run, may be vastly less world-changing than what Hector could potentially accomplish. But she still does it.
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Sep 1, 2014 23:28
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McSpanky posted:Time to set another Adblock frame filter for another comments section. It looks like they have it set up where the comments default as hidden. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Looks like Someone is on to the IVS and has a pragmatic approach to making him/her go away. I'm kinda wondering at what point the this thread will intersect with Allison. Unless the IVS turns out to be Moonshadow, there doesn't seem to be much pulling the two plot threads in this chapter together, aside from maybe a shared theme.
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Sep 2, 2014 12:13
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Slashrat posted:Unless the IVS turns out to be Moonshadow, there doesn't seem to be much pulling the two plot threads in this chapter together, aside from maybe a shared theme. Well that's pretty drat probable at this point.
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Sep 2, 2014 12:31
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I'm guessing the balloons are filled with paint. Hit Moonshadow with one, she's visible. Also, these guys scream "mercenaries" to me, rather than police or military. Guess we'll see how that shakes out.
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Probably military contractors. I assume that dealing with a biodynamic is considered outside the scope of regular police activities unless someone like Badge is around. I doubt they're going to get her, though. We don't get out of the chapter without her confronting Alison in some way.
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Sep 2, 2014 14:11
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She gets a message after these guys get slaughtered.
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You guys are so depressing. Obviously those are Fun contractors, and they're getting ready to kick off the most wicked-amazing water balloon fight in the world for some birthday party.
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The gas mask suggests to me those balloons are filled with something particularly unpleasant.
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It might be some things that, mixed together, produce smoke. That might make her visible too.
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idonotlikepeas posted:It might be some things that, mixed together, produce smoke. That might make her visible too. or just negate the advantage that being invisible gives, if she cant see poo poo.
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I wonder if her invisibility applies just to visible light, but also to infrared (that is, heat), as well.
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She's not probably immune to tear gas, why would you not fill the room with tear gas first then throw water balloons filled with paint or whatever once you see her displace the smoke. So, fill room with gas, throw water balloons at the displaced area, shoot.
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Hollismason posted:She's not probably immune to tear gas, why would you not fill the room with tear gas first then throw water balloons filled with paint or whatever once you see her displace the smoke. Well, she seems to be able to make her gear invisible too, and she's been living the Hall of Justice for the last few years so if she had a gasmask it wouldn't surprise me. Honestly paint doesn't make much sense when you think about it either. If you can make your cloths invisible, why couldn't you make the paint on your cloths invisible too?
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Hollismason posted:So, fill room with gas, throw water balloons at the displaced area, shoot. Why not just fill the room with lethal gas, if you're going to shoot anyway?
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nimby posted:Why not just fill the room with lethal gas, if you're going to shoot anyway? Bullets are more controllable than gas. Unless the combat area is guaranteed airtight and will remain so there's a chance some of your lethal gas can be caught on the wind and end up drifting through the local home for orphans and sick puppies. With bullets there's a chance you'll miss and hit whatever's behind the target, but hopefully the person holding the gun is aware of that and will make sure they take a shot where a miss will do something harmless like hit a wall.
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They're just paintballers that found a cool old barn to run their matches in/around.
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Wyld Karde posted:Bullets are more controllable than gas. Unless the combat area is guaranteed airtight and will remain so there's a chance some of your lethal gas can be caught on the wind and end up drifting through the local home for orphans and sick puppies. With bullets there's a chance you'll miss and hit whatever's behind the target, but hopefully the person holding the gun is aware of that and will make sure they take a shot where a miss will do something harmless like hit a wall. These guys don't look like that type of shooter.
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Sep 5, 2014 07:39
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Looks like we're all wrong. This is just how supers without government support practice.
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Moonshadow may have set this up to murder these guys or get some info out of them - the leader mentions working for Templar.
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thatbastardken posted:Moonshadow may have set this up to murder these guys or get some info out of them - the leader mentions working for Templar. Templar is Patrick's company isn't it?
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Captain Oblivious posted:Templar is Patrick's company isn't it? Patrick's supervillain name, actually, iirc.
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Slashrat posted:Patrick's supervillain name, actually, iirc. No that would be Menace.
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Slashrat posted:Patrick's supervillain name, actually, iirc. Captain Oblivious posted:No that would be Menace. The Templar were his robots. After he quit that, he did something something and now runs Templar the company. I'm not exactly clear how the two connect, since supposedly his old network and him don't keep in touch.
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thatbastardken posted:Moonshadow may have set this up to murder these guys or get some info out of them - the leader mentions working for Templar.
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Warmachine posted:The Templar were his robots. After he quit that, he did something something and now runs Templar the company. I'm not exactly clear how the two connect, since supposedly his old network and him don't keep in touch. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
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thatbastardken posted:Moonshadow may have set this up to murder these guys or get some info out of them - the leader mentions working for Templar. They put a "weak point" balloon on their chest and their guns are equipped with dummy rounds. They're obviously mercenaries and they've apparently been hired to pretend-fight against their client. The guy does mention having worked for Templar before, but always refused jobs involving psychics. "I wouldn't even take those contracts with Templar, let alone this freelance poo poo" -- in other words, he sees working for Templar as better than freelance gigs, but even for Templar he wouldn't do psychic stuff. The "I wouldn't even do x, let alone y" always has y as a worse case of x, because you're rejecting doing y specifically by saying that you wouldn't even do the lesser evil that is x. If Moonshadow wanted info from them, given that they're mercenaries and she hired them, she could have bought the info from them. So either it's indeed just practice, or if she does want to kill them she used the contract as a trap to lure them in. If it was meant to be a trap, it has the drawback of leaving a paper trail.
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Cat Mattress posted:The guy does mention having worked for Templar before, but always refused jobs involving psychics. "I wouldn't even take those contracts with Templar, let alone this freelance poo poo" -- in other words, he sees working for Templar as better than freelance gigs, but even for Templar he wouldn't do psychic stuff. The "I wouldn't even do x, let alone y" always has y as a worse case of x, because you're rejecting doing y specifically by saying that you wouldn't even do the lesser evil that is x. I still doubt they are there for training. Moonshadow doesn't need it. Jackard fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Or they could be shooting paintballs and using balloons full of paint to try and capture an invisible person
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RiotGearEpsilon posted:If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. Hey man, I said supposedly. I do still think Patrick is one of the good guys, though. I mean, unless he's playing a really long game. Like, really long.
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The fact that they call her "the client" instead of "the target" means she's probably the one paying them.Jackard posted:I still doubt they are there for training. Moonshadow doesn't need it. On the contrary, training to replace Alison is one of her defining traits. The first time we saw her, she was working out. As the flashback Sonar narrated indicates, she's become seriously driven to keep improving. At this point professional mercs may be the only non-biodynamics who can offer her any sort of challenge.
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Carrasco posted:The fact that they call her "the client" instead of "the target" means she's probably the one paying them. This is my thinking too. And I think that the weird knife she has that looks ceramic, might be somehow made along the same lines as Cleaver's blades. This is pure speculation, but here's my theory: Cleaver has been shown to be the only one who can hurt Alison Cleaver's in government custody, it seems likely they're studying him the best way they can. Maybe the knife is a prototype based on studying Cleaver. Moonshadow acquired this super sharp magic knife somehow: She probably has government contacts, she hired the mercs, maybe she's got a lot of money, maybe she just stole it I'm thinking it'll be her vs Alison, and the stakes will be super-high because Alison can obviously crush her instantly if she catches her, but Moonshadow would have something that can potentially kill Alison, and invisibility.
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