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yeah i imagine the government is pretty keen on ensuring allison has strong emotional bonds with squishy mortals actually why isn't that a common theme in stories featuring absurdly powerful characters? you'd think you could mine some interesting material out of semi-artificial relationships pushed by outside agencies to keep potentially walking disasters grounded
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Tenebrais posted:I would hazard a guess that it only works because hair is dead matter. The same technique might maker her skin a bit red. Pretty sure it's this. Human hair is much more easily damageable than skin so Allison's hair is equally, relatively, vulnerable. Tollymain posted:actually why isn't that a common theme in stories featuring absurdly powerful characters? you'd think you could mine some interesting material out of semi-artificial relationships pushed by outside agencies to keep potentially walking disasters grounded You should check out Ellis's Supergod, it's about governments using superpowered beings instead of nukes in an arms race and the American one is handled along these lines. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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Feb 11, 2015 23:33
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Tollymain posted:yeah i imagine the government is pretty keen on ensuring allison has strong emotional bonds with squishy mortals Thanks for the idea!
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Feb 11, 2015 23:48
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McSpanky posted:Pretty sure it's this. Human hair is much more easily damageable than skin so Allison's hair is equally, relatively, vulnerable. Alternately, it's because her hair is conceptually further from her personhood. Someone with no hair is just a bald person. Someone with no skin is a shrieking horror of meat and bone. In other words: narrative convenience. Don't worry about it.
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Feb 11, 2015 23:51
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Male Man posted:shrieking horror of meat and bone
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Feb 11, 2015 23:56
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Tollymain posted:actually why isn't that a common theme in stories featuring absurdly powerful characters? you'd think you could mine some interesting material out of semi-artificial relationships pushed by outside agencies to keep potentially walking disasters grounded This also happens in J. Michael Straczynski's version of Squadron Supreme (Supreme Power), Millar's execrable version of the Hulk in the Ultimate universe, and of course Watchmen. You're right, though, it doesn't come up as often as it probably should.
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Tollymain posted:yeah i imagine the government is pretty keen on ensuring allison has strong emotional bonds with squishy mortals It's not anything sinister, it's a little more extreme than most therapeutic relationships but it's the same basic idea--you need this kind of rapport for therapy to work at all. Rosenblum is also the scientist investigating her anomaly (which is unrealistic but probably a nod to comic book science) so it makes sense to gather the sample in a way that furthers their relationship rather than something dehumanizing. Just because it's the government doesn't mean it's a conspiracy, you know?
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Feb 12, 2015 00:32
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oh i don't think it's particularly sinister in this case. just not at all accidental either 
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Feb 12, 2015 01:25
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I'd be interested in a series about a barber that deals with super powered clientele. I can't imagine that there is much demand in Allison's universe for barbershops to stock liquid nitrogen and circular saws.
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Feb 12, 2015 02:18
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Have we ever seen Allison walking around with bare legs? Because she always seems to be either wearing pants or leggings under a skirt. EDIT: Book 1 has her wearing shorts, so I suppose this is more of a "just don't think about it" issue. Fair enough, I suppose. Too close to creepy town. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 10:57
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Perhaps in this universe Gillette has a line of his and her angle grinders?
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Feb 12, 2015 11:32
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I wonder how she gets her nails done.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Have we ever seen Allison walking around with bare legs? Because she always seems to be either wearing pants or leggings under a skirt. Only in summer, because then the sun is closer and it's easier for NASA to launch her into it. (She gets back by swimming through outer space.)
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Atmus posted:I wonder how she gets her nails done. Nail biter. Gorilla Salad posted:Have we ever seen Allison walking around with bare legs? Because she always seems to be either wearing pants or leggings under a skirt.  That isn't dirt, girl has straight up hobbit feet. 7c Nickel fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 19:10
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So they...incinerate it? Must be worried about someone trying to clone her.
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You can't clone someone from hair unless you pull it out by the roots. Incinerating it is what normally happens to short hair clippings, I think.
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thespaceinvader posted:You can't clone someone from hair unless you pull it out by the roots. Burned hair loving stinks, I'd imagine 'normal' hair clippings are just thrown away.
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thespaceinvader posted:You can't clone someone from hair unless you pull it out by the roots. You have to justify military spending somehow to hide black-ops. "Yes we needed that furnace to burn Mega-Girl's hair trimmings, yes." :covers up plans for f35: :f35 plans burst into flames:
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I want to see Allison go talk to Cleaver and convince him to leave his life of crime to become her hairdresser.
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nimby posted:I want to see Allison go talk to Cleaver and convince him to leave his life of crime to become her hairdresser. I was thinking that maybe you could take some of his tumors and line scissors with them, but even then would a normal human have the strength to cut the hair of MEGAGIRL???
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I'm really hoping Allison is playing dumb to get information and not actually this loving stupid to not think that Moonshadow is not the killer. I'm hoping.
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Hollismason posted:I'm really hoping Allison is playing dumb to get information and not actually this loving stupid to not think that Moonshadow is not the killer. I'm hoping. So far it looks like she is playing dumb. She's set up and pushed the Moonshadow idea twice and gotten odd responses from the Doctor each time. If they are setting this up as the Doctor having a relative or a friend who is a rape victim and thus sympathetic to Moonshadow's cause then you've got the later's government support right there. It wouldn't even have to be a big secret government cabal. And it also saves the writer from having to create and build up another character.
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Hollismason posted:I'm really hoping Allison is playing dumb to get information and not actually this loving stupid to not think that Moonshadow is not the killer. I'm hoping. If she was playing dumb, saying "it looked like I saw Moonshadow" would pretty well defeat the purpose. From our point of view, it's clear that it was Moonshadow--we've seen her do it, and no alternate possibilities have been presented. But from Allison's point of view, she only saw a very small part of the killer's face, for a split second, she knows of more than one biodynamic who could have committed these murders, and most importantly, she wants to give her friend (or at least longtime colleague) the benefit of the doubt. Otherkinsey Scale fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Is it just me or was there no alt text for today's comic? Also, the doctor's right. It's amazing it didn't happen sooner.
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Feb 20, 2015 09:45
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The alt text often comes a fair bit after the comic itself updates. I'm not sure why. I've even seen the alt text change from one thing to another.
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Feb 20, 2015 10:16
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Some people take longer to come up with a good zinger.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Also, the doctor's right. It's amazing it didn't happen sooner. Well I imagine that's what a lot of the "supervillains' were.
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I was thinking along those lines the other day. For a normal person, you have one bad day and you move on. If you have superpowers, your one bad day could very easily do a lot of damage. Or maybe someone has screwed you over and you just want what's yours. If you have powers and they don't and things get heated, well that's going to make it a "thing". Then, suddenly, the media gets involved. Words like "evil" and "supervillain" get thrown around because they're ratings gold. The military is called in and, if you're really unlucky, costumed psychopaths turn up wanting to hurt you until you break.
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The Doc's perspective on the matter is cold, brutal, pragmatic, and uncomfortably frank. It makes the issue of the morality of violence against sexual predators seem short-sighted compared to the macro issue of the entire world potentially being very violently upended by people and demographics traditionally without power now having a surplus of it. The Moonshadow case is just a single, gruesome example of this phenomenon. It was a nice touch, I thought, hammering home the horrifying scope of real-world statistics of domestic violence fatalities and how little attention people give them compared to how discussion practically exploded around this arc's high-profile murders (and one assault, by Allison). Honestly, it makes those pages and pages of lovely arguments feel like a serious case of missing the forest for the trees.
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So will future generations of Biodynamic individuals also be randomly distributed, or will the normal form of gene inheritance take over now that the first generation has been "seeded".
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I'm really curious now about what happened in the more oppressive countries in the world as biodynamics broke out.
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Feb 20, 2015 17:09
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Well...holy poo poo. This comic continues to be the best loving thing.
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The next page will just be the Doctor handing her a copy of The Fountainhead and saying " Be our John Galt , Allison"
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Hollismason posted:The next page will just be the Doctor handing her a copy of The Fountainhead and saying " Be our John Galt , Allison" Keep proving your title right, dude
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That doctor's got some good philosophizing going on, but vigilante killings are still A Bad Thing*, and Bad Things should be stopped. A societal shift in power is interesting, but yo, killing's bad and it's worth trying to put out that specific fire if you have an idea of who did it, even as you try to take a step back and try to find a more elegant, global and societal solution to many of the Bad Things happening out there. *One of many bad things, including rape, sexual assault and misogyny in the law, which should also be stopped!
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Ofaloaf posted:That doctor's got some good philosophizing going on, but vigilante killings are still A Bad Thing*, and Bad Things should be stopped. A societal shift in power is interesting, but yo, killing's bad and it's worth trying to put out that specific fire if you have an idea of who did it, even as you try to take a step back and try to find a more elegant, global and societal solution to many of the Bad Things happening out there. This is my take on it as well.
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Ofaloaf posted:That doctor's got some good philosophizing going on, but vigilante killings are still A Bad Thing*, and Bad Things should be stopped. A societal shift in power is interesting, but yo, killing's bad and it's worth trying to put out that specific fire if you have an idea of who did it, even as you try to take a step back and try to find a more elegant, global and societal solution to many of the Bad Things happening out there.
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Poison Mushroom posted:Maybe she's secretly Dr. Horrible (pun intended) and thinks it'd just be treating a symptom? The fish rots from the head, as they say. So maybe her thinking is that they should cut off the head. In some ways it seems like her opinion is just a twin to "let's ignore Islamic terrorism, which doesn't actually kill that many people, and focus on stopping car accidents, which kill lots of people. Making terrorism a front-page issue while people getting killed in car accidents all the time is business as usual is a sign that somebody has an agenda."
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Rand Brittain posted:In some ways it seems like her opinion is just a twin to "let's ignore Islamic terrorism, which doesn't actually kill that many people, and focus on stopping car accidents, which kill lots of people. Making terrorism a front-page issue while people getting killed in car accidents all the time is business as usual is a sign that somebody has an agenda." Look, just like car accidents are an unavoidable part of having modern transportation, women getting murdered by their partners is just part of how things are. What do you mean I'm normalizing violence against women?
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Anders Breivik is an atheist, watch out for atheist terrorism!!! Timothy McVeigh considered himself christian, as do all those folks who threaten to attack abortion clinics...lots of christian terrorism there. Many references to 'islamic' terrorism are mostly dogwhistle. Crazy people gonna do crazy things regardless of what they use to justify it. Moonshadow is both a biodynamic and a murderer/terrorist. The only thing connecting the two is her methods.
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