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Because somebody asked for it... NEW COMIC!!!Welp, I guess Moonshadow really does know how to pick her targets. Her track record remains a flawless 4/4 of taking out unrepentant creeps Looks like Allison is doing the sensible thing and consulting with the authorities before acting on her discovery.
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Some pretty good alt text though.
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Slashrat posted:Welp, I guess Moonshadow really does know how to pick her targets. Her track record remains a flawless 4/4 of taking out unrepentant creeps Maybe one of his other victims approached Moonshadow after they saw the clip of him being strangled for trying to rape someone else on youtube?
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Jan 23, 2015 15:57
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Or the guy got on her radar after the video, and she did her own research. Despite her vigilantism, she was a legit crime fighter for several years.
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Jan 23, 2015 16:12
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Or she killed him after seeing the YouTube video, and his past just coincidentally fits.
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Jan 23, 2015 21:34
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A "series of emails left open on his computer". I'm guessing Moonshadow opened them up.
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Jan 23, 2015 22:04
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Huh. Is she covering for Moonshadow to try to investigate on her own, or is she not totally sure it was her? Covering seems to make more sense, but if that was the case she probably wouldn't have suggested "it's gotta be a high tier invisible".
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Jan 27, 2015 09:52
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Carrasco posted:Huh. Is she covering for Moonshadow to try to investigate on her own, or is she not totally sure it was her? Covering seems to make more sense, but if that was the case she probably wouldn't have suggested "it's gotta be a high tier invisible". vv: 
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Jan 27, 2015 09:55
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In the previous page, she was looking at old pictures of Moonshadow. To me, that suggests she knows that it's Moonshadow but she doesn't want to believe it.
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Jan 27, 2015 09:57
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I wonder why they're MRIing her?
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MikeJF posted:I wonder why they're MRIing her? Probably a regularly scheduled checkup/therapy session. And she definitely knows it's Mary, but doesn't want to believe it. I wonder if the same is true for the government, after all Moonshadow is kind of a government-trained assassin gone rogue, and that would be one hell of a PR hit.
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Jan 27, 2015 13:27
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Maybe moonshadow is in charge of the investigation for the IS and is supporting theories that deflect suspicions from her power set.
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Jan 27, 2015 15:00
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I'm pretty sure she's doing this for Hector. This stupid, stupid thing she's doing.
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She also may not want to tell people things that may get them inviso-slashed as witnesses until she's ready to tell the world.
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Jan 27, 2015 15:17
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She may have decided to deal with this herself, too. Superhero-away!
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Jan 27, 2015 15:34
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My assumption is that the government knows exactly who did it, and doesn't want Megagirl to get involved. If she and the country argued about what to do with a murderer, the country would lose.
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Is her other super power being the dumbest person on earth? Seriously ? She can't make that leap of logic there? Guess I'll let these people take as much technical information and biological information on me as humanly possible , no way they'd figure out some way past my abilities.
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Jan 28, 2015 02:36
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Not sure what her angle is, playing dumb to her handler like this. But it's not like Allison's known for making good decisions so hey. If this is all a leadup to Allison getting the feds out of the way so she can have a one-on-one chat with Moonshadow then this situation is probably going to end badly for her.Hollismason posted:Guess I'll let these people take as much technical information and biological information on me as humanly possible , no way they'd figure out some way past my abilities. It's either play ball with the feds and get reg'd up or go rogue like the supervillains. Did you think the government was going to fork over all of that sweet funding to a teenage superhero team with no strings attached? But yes having the limits of her powers constantly studied and tested is absolutely going to gently caress her over later.
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Hollismason posted:Is her other super power being the dumbest person on earth? Seriously ? She can't make that leap of logic there? She grew up being invincible. She's never had to make good decisions, so there's that.
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Well, on the other hand, she gets a possible warning if her powers ever go Cleaver on her.
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She knows full well Moonshadow is behind this. It's possible she thinks the government knows it too and is trying to suss out why they're letting Moonshadow do her thing. That's my gut instinct anyway. This whole TK theory is hard to imagine being earnestly held.
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Note that she's poking holes in the tk theory. On the other hand, she isn't poking the biggest hole she could (without naming anyone): that she saw a silhouette with her crushed plaster trick, and body-blocked an invisible person. Clevin is witness to both these things.
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Jan 28, 2015 10:43
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I think Alison suspects Moonshadow (her mental list of 'invisibles I know' is probably quite short) but she's not ready to point fingers yet. She's poking holes in the TK theory because the holes are large and obvious and need to be pointed out.
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Given that anything Allison says on the matter is news, it would be irresponsible to finger anybody unless she's absolutely sure, so I'm not surprised she's not doing that.
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Clevin didn't see inside the room, so all he knows is that she blew powder in and then was knocked down by something. She could theoretically have been pushed over by a TK, and that TK could then have cut Clevin, although I don't know why that would be considered the more likely theory. Also, how about we take a look at the relevant page here? She saw Moonshadow's eyes and called her name. She's got to be pretty sure it was her. Obviously it's not a 100% ID, but there's got to be more to her not suggesting Mary as the culprit than just uncertainty. It's possible that she doesn't want ordinary people getting hurt in the inevitable super-fight, but keep in mind there are other superheroes around who probably do work for the government and would be happy to help beat down a serial killer if necessary. I think she's not telling them because this is really the final death of the Guardians, and she already feels guilty enough about what she did to them. If it comes out that Moonshadow was invisibly killing people, what's it going to do to all three of the remaining team members? Alison might be willing to take the hit to her own reputation, but what about Hector and Brad? Hector is still living off of the merchandising and Brad is going to be using his reputation to help other biodynamic people with deformities. It's going to cause them serious problems when this comes out. It's still dumb, though. Alison is operating under the assumption that she can deal with Moonshadow herself if necessary, because she ALWAYS operates under that assumption. She's never really had to rely on people in her life; her instinctive reaction is to assume that she herself is capable of dealing with any problem that comes up, because usually that is true. This is one of the central features of the comic, and the thing that underlies her entire quest to Fix The Entire World. So she's taking a terrible risk by letting a serial killer run around loose because she's pretty sure she can stop her, but how bad is it going to be if she turns out to be wrong, or if there are more victims first?
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Jan 28, 2015 15:49
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it wouldnt be that bad, because shes killing awful people
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Jan 28, 2015 15:51
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What kind and name is "Clevin" anyways.
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Jan 28, 2015 16:16
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SlothfulCobra posted:What kind and name is "Clevin" anyways. It's a variation of "Cleavon" which is a slightly less rare English name.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:It's a variation of "Cleavon" which is a slightly less rare English name. Oh poo poo, Clevin and Cleavor are the same person. Just give it some thought. 
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Jan 28, 2015 16:32
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Clevin Van Houten. Millhouse's lamer older brother.
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Comedy Option: Mega-Girl admitted she likes doing violence, has now caved to that gut instinct and secretly agrees with Moonshadow on how to fix things.
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nimby posted:Comedy Option: Mega-Girl admitted she likes doing violence, has now caved to that gut instinct and secretly agrees with Moonshadow on how to fix things.
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Mars4523 posted:Although the entire point of the comic is that Alison comes to the realization that you can't solve all the world's problems by punching things really hard. Just punch even harder!
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Superstring posted:Just punch even harder! Yeah when people say you can't solve problems with violence they clearly don't know how to use violence to effectively solve problems.
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VanSandman posted:Yeah when people say you can't solve problems with violence they clearly don't know how to use violence to effectively solve problems. Punch the Sun, baby!
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jsoh posted:it wouldnt be that bad, because shes killing awful people She'd probably get a pretty high approval rate, but as was already pointed out, this is exactly what every other biodynamic on the planet does not need, even if Menace was lying about the assassinations.
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Well, there are two things: 1) Alison clearly doesn't think it's okay, so she'd feel really lovely about letting more people get murdered. 2) As has been shown by even the arguments in this thread, a substantial number of people favor stuff short of the death penalty for rapists. And that's setting aside the large contingent of people who believe that due process is really important (for straight white men). Being a serial killer is just generally a bad PR move.
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Carrasco posted:Huh. Is she covering for Moonshadow to try to investigate on her own, or is she not totally sure it was her? Covering seems to make more sense, but if that was the case she probably wouldn't have suggested "it's gotta be a high tier invisible". She might not just be naming names because thus far "I'm Mega-Girl and I don't like you" has often ended with society reflexively shunning whatever she doesn't like. She suspects Mary, but that's basically a conviction in certain people's eyes. If Mary's actually innocent, naming her would ruin whatever she had going on.
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Glazius posted:She suspects Mary, but that's basically a conviction in certain people's eyes. If Mary's actually innocent, naming her would ruin whatever she had going on. This. I think she's being pretty logical and level headed thus far, it's that her world is loving nuts. If voicing a concern is enough to get a professor fired, she's right to say nothing until she knows more, one way or another.
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New comic. I think the idea she doesn't want to believe it's Moonshadow is the right one here, she seems relieved in that last panel. Of course, it's not hard to make an alibi when you can slip in and out of a public place without anyone seeing you go.
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