Brought To You By posted:

I would guess that radiation would still work on her given that all we know about her anomaly is that it makes her body more durable. A nuke might be a bit excessive though even for Alison. Despite all her strength and defense she's just one person.

Gas based attacks should still work against her. Maybe not stuff that works on skin or eye contact depending on how that would interact with her body; but there are a number of aerosol-based tranquilizers and hallucinogens that interact with the lungs and could render her unconscious or incapacitated long enough for law enforcement to properly restrain her. That's assuming a non-lethal approach to stopping Alison.

Opposing Farce posted:

Alison lifted the dude by his shirt collar, which ranks pretty low on the scale of 'violent acts' in the first place (especially when you take superpowers out of the equation).

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As much of a cop-out as it sounds like, I as a writer try and avoid persuasion or “intending” the reader to come to a given conclusion... Writing loses all credibility and meaningfulness when it becomes propaganda, EVEN propaganda for a good cause or a point of view I hold deeply.

Hollismason posted:

It would have been better if the judge had just let the boys go because of a mistake or technicality like the evidence had been tampered with or destroyed accidently. It would have at least made it some sort of argument, but right now she's murdered rapist, a wife beating judge, and apparently war criminals.

Slashrat posted:

Okay, since you asked the question, kindly elaborate on why you think revenge-killing is justified in the cases where due process reaches the conclusion that the suspect should not be punished. Be sure to include whether or not this argument means that due process can be throw away entirely, and the first response to any crime should be to kill the suspect.

Tar_Squid posted:

And to chime in, because this is a good discussion, also include why we've decided to upgrade the punishment for rape to murder. And also since the victims appear to be giving permission for Moonshadow's rampages, would it also therefore be justified for the friends and family of the men being killed by Moonshadow to also seek vigilante revenge on the original victims, since after all they had a family member slain and the victims are just as connected to the murder as the judge was in that rape trial.

Brought To You By posted:

They were acquitted. What we don't know is why.

Fried Chicken posted:

You know, the US tried doing it that way for a while. We'd wave off the evidentiary requirements for bringing charges and going to trial, because sex crimes were deemed uniquely difficult to prosecute. And when the accused wasn't convicted, or was deemed insufficiently punished, or the justice system was taking too long (or if, like the judge, you were involved in the system not delivering the outcome people had already ordained was to happen) then private action was acceptable. Had to stop the accused before they escalated their activities.

Wonder why we stopped? Wonder what the problem with your idea is even if we ignore why we stopped?

Poison Mushroom posted:

Or to put it another way, she's asking Alison why this one particular event of violence is getting so much more press than the ones we let slide every day.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Wasn't it Sarah Palin who started charging women for their own rape kits?

Leper Residue posted:

I wasn't completely agreeing with everyone at first, but it's been almost 14 pages since she's arrived at the office, and nothing of consequence is happening, and I don't see anything happening except maybe they stop being friends, and we're probably going to get another two pages of this.

This thing needs a "Gets out of the office" email notification sign up.

reignonyourparade posted:

90% sure they can still pump deadly gas into her room as she sleeps!

Edit: Not anything TOXIC since that would probably be prevented from harming her, just anything that isn't oxygen so she can't breathe.

rotinaj posted:

This is dumb.

This is really dumb. She's flying so fast, she randomly dislocates her shoulder? Come the gently caress on. This smacks of the author realizing how powerful he's made Allison in just the past few months, and wanting to show "No you guys seriously Allison isn't so overpowered that there are no threats", and wanting the fight with Moonshadow to not just be instantly over.

Maybe if it had been hinted so far that flying took more of a strain, or it used up more of her power field at one time, or something? Anything?

Rand Brittain posted:

I feel like people are really overselling the dip in quality this comic is experiencing just because it gave us one long, slow, talky, disjointed chapter.

Radiochromatic posted:

Or, if it's an illusion, why Furnace would be fooled into thinking Mary's actually there, when he already knows that Allison was tanking the electricity literally less than a minute ago

Atmus posted:

I THINK she left when Miles got murdered, but at this point I don't even feel like going back and checking.

Flesh Forge posted:

Of course I get this, but the delivery comes across as so "me me me" it's just wretched. Would have been nicer if she'd said something more like, "... and I couldn't do anything about any of it! a bloo boo boo."

SlothfulCobra posted:

I feel like this isn't a very well-thought out idea. How exactly would a team of super-powered people be more effective at dealing with domestic violence than the police? The main problem with dealing with domestic abuse isn't the lack of firepower.

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It's not like only women are victims though, so it's not like Pintsize wouldn't have a place he could help in this even if you take it as a given that a victim of domestic abuse would rather have someone of the same gender around for support.

SFP commentator posted:

What tweaks me is that he is saying, in front of a friend of Al's that he is staking a claim on her romantically (hence his pushing the romantic and date language when Al is clearly avoiding it) and staking a claim on her body (hence his pretty clear implication that he intends to be making out with her this evening.) This is a pretty public statement, and one that she hasn't cleared.

Other SFP commentator posted:

You know the worst part? The most gut-wrenching part?
Klevin did everything right. He did everything way too right.

He was considerate, thoughtful, his intentions clear and honest, and extremely mindful of Alison's boundaries. He was so perfect, I'm suspecting he's the kind of guy who used to be a bitter, depressed Nice Guy until some event or person shook him up to straighten his act and become the paramount of excellent behavior of courtship. He's the kind of guy to have had his heart shattered by the girl he felt entitled to, realized he was an rear end in a top hat and spent months on the likes of Dr. Nerdlove's blog to come out a better man.
But a loser just as well.

And he "lost" Alison's affection to someone half of us are willing to consider has a tad too dominant behavior, certainly a questionable one. The blow is even more piercing considering the person judging is very specifically Alison.
What do you think he'll learn from that experience? That in the end, being a decent person doesn't matter. That it's all about assertiveness, charisma and competition. That it's unfair, and why bother being good in a world which doesn't reward you for being good?

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Wow, the comments are especially terrible today. So many men mansplaining what a body is and having no clue of what support groups are actually like. This is saddening.

Galvanik posted:

I really hope this comic stays with Allison talking with the ladies about their lives.

Her and Max are not an interesting couple.

Zerilan posted:

Right, to an extent, what Allison wants is part of what Brad's group seems to be wanting to avoid: having biomorphic individuals to only be seen for what their abilities can do to help regular people.

Flesh Forge posted:

e: I think Brad's "solution" was disappointing and it's unfortunate that the character is not allowed to say "Hey Teresa, what you're saying is exactly the same as the hard right republican confederate flag waver types say about the quote unquote bathroom law that was so embarrassingly lovely for the entire country, maybe you need to get the gently caress out of here and go rethink your attitude on someone who is literally transgendered and how they fit into your safe space concept"

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Boxman posted:

It's a better online handle than I've ever had.

Flesh Forge posted:

I'm hoping he's one of those uber powerful supers that the government tracked down and murdered, except they missed him somehow.

idonotlikepeas posted:

I don't know what you guys are talking about with the comments on the comic, either; there's definitely a vast majority saying it's wrong.

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Wrist Watch posted:

Okay I read a bit further from that page and uh...

This is the comic people were saying used to be better? Why is anyone surprised she forced a dude to do poo poo against his will? In the pages after that link she purposely puts doubts in her friend's head after she was more or less at peace with effectively getting tortured forever, yells at her friend's friend when he tells her to gently caress off, threatens to kill the friend's friend for calling her out, kills a dude for hurting her apparently immortal friend, then threatens to kill a group of peaceful protesters before having to get talked out of it by her half dead friend with third degree burns over her entire body.

It would have been weirder if she didn't force that other dude to do whatever she wanted. She's a loving psychopath.

Wrist Watch posted:

Dang, you got me. I'm a moron for including a character killing someone in the midst of listing a bunch of irrational things they did in the span of like, ten minutes.

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Stopping a terrorist is good, so there's nothing wrong with throwing a dude the length of a football field through a hospital into a crowd of protestors, making it clear that none of them have the power to stop you, and throwing a truck around like a child because they're not listening to you because you just killed a man while screaming that you could kill all of them if you felt like it. This is extremely cool, and good. You are a normal, well adjusted person.

Wrist Watch posted:

Stop being reasonable, I want to keep being mad about webcomics

But yeah, psychopathic was an exaggeration. It's definitely stressed out and fed up to be sure but at the same time...there's definitely something off about a person unable to control themselves like that.

Falstaff posted:

From a storytelling perspective, this whole "Supergirl's settling for ME!" nerd wish fulfillment is more offensive than anything Alison did to flamethrower dude.

Wrist Watch posted:

If I haven't explained what I mean by this point I give up because I don't know how else to say this.

ManlyGrunting posted:

Does the dialogue for the professor seem kind of off to anyone? I've lived most of my life around humanities academics and they don't tend to talk like this, even around students. Maybe English isn't his first language but I don't remember them hinting at this before.

Just, I don't know, something about the way he talks seems off, like he's purely a product of philosophy without any real intuition toward the situation or Alison's personhood, if that makes any sense.

Trast posted:

I mean it's not totally unreasonable. The Beastie Boys have been around since 1980 and got some pretty big pop acclaim. It's not unreasonable someone who's around young people for years would hear of them even if they aren't into them.

Joe Slowboat posted:

...also, is anyone else annoyed by the use of real-world ethnic conflict or its implication to comfort an obnoxious super-powered white college student about her choices?
She could be off saving people from ethnic cleansing and instead she's being comforted by a survivor of same. What grand perspective!

Flesh Forge posted:

"It’s been nearly a year since the original black and white stone scene went online, so here it is if you need refreshing!" ahahaha

KaosMachina posted:

http://comicsalliance.com/strong-female-protagonist-reading-guide/

And ComicsAlliance picks possibly the absolute worst time to go "Hey, people should go check out this comic!"