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Grrl Power #1291 - Sole searching
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You silly primitives and your lack of advanced space medicine. Just invent advanced space medicine already, geeze! Is it so hard? What are you waiting for?
Blowing off a supervillain's leg when there's a very good chance that it will get caught on a camera phone isn't really much better than blowing off their head, at least from a PR standpoint. Of course, if you blow off a head, there's less chance the supervillain in question will sue you for super-police brutality. Either way, dismembering villains takes the public perception down a specific path - even though Maxima did it in the team's very first public fight. Arianna would prefer to avoid that path, Maxima would also, but understands the value in showing that the kid gloves come off very quickly when dealing with super powered crime.
But Peggy's on the team for a number of reasons. She is a pilot and someone Max trusts as an Lt. Also, Maxima didn't want a situation where Spider-Man is busy keeping a section of bridge from collapsing on some civilian, giving the Green Goblin ample time to fly away on his glider. In Maxima's scenario, Hiro is keeping a bus from tipping over a bridge, the Green Goblin analog is starting to fly away, and suddenly he takes a 7.62 in the ankle and falls screaming off his glider.
Of course the other important factor after you catch the villain is to not stick them in some ridiculous revolving door penal system like Arkham Asylum. I actually don't know what is considered canon in the DC universe in terms of how many times various criminals have been incarcerated either to escape or to be declared reformed only to crime again, but considering Arkham was in stuff as old as the Super Friends cartoon and probably a lot longer before that in the comics, it feels like Joker has been in and out of there like 400 times. Like, so many times that the Joker would have to be well into his 80's if he even spent a few months there each time. You would think that Arkham would probably have been shut down a long time ago. But that's not really how American comics without a single, contiguous storyline work. Every writer that gets his hands on a title can basically just ignore what came before. The Grrl-verse doesn't work like that because I don't have 30 simultaneous books coming out every month!
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eddi_TBH
At least with Lapha, it's just a cultural difference. Space faring cultures apparently fix or regenerate limbs routinely. She doesn't realize Peggy is getting a unique opportunity.
Torabi
Unfortunately, our culture values and rewards psychopathy, to the degree that those without empathy don't even hesitate to express their lack of understanding for Peggy's feelings, or their disagreement with them.
eddi_TBH
"... the Green Goblin analog is starting to fly away, and suddenly he takes a 7.62 in the ankle and falls screaming off his glider. " Peggy would put the round up the glider's tailpipe. And let one of the flyers catch him before he.... oops. That went better in rehearsal.
eddi_TBH
Don't scare him away! I need my weekly Grrls fix.
eddi_TBH
As for Sydney...🤦😤
eddi_TBH
Peggy's guilt is an obvious feeling. Having access to something others cannot ever get that will be a full cure is something any person with empathy would hesitate over.
AlexKorobeiniki
Little wonder she doesn't get it; she's never had a body of her own to begin with, and has been incentivized to have less of an attachment to it than even others of her kind, i'd wager.
Town Crier
You need them distracted during the battle. Anything beyond that is just gravy on top.
Jacob Bissey
I don't know about that tradition since I don't tend to read Marvel, but one of the reasons I don't write spidey comics is because they can never let Peter be happy, whenever anything good happens they just take it away, and I don't like thay
Jacob Bissey
As for the other continuity questions about Arkham, IIRC official canon timeline was 15 years since year zero as of DC Rebirth, but it's been awhile so it may be a few years higher. And while I can't speak to most of the history of the comics, Arkham gets escaped frequently, very rarely does a supervillain get released for supposedly being cured. I believe that was a fairly common thing at some point, but that was at least a couple reboots ago.
Jacob Bissey
That's because several of them were officially mind controlled for the riot and had existing warrants for non violent crimes and thus got a plea deal like Jabberwocky, or got deemed too valuable to let out of their site, like the alien spirit that possessed Sydney here. There is an actual supermax where they basically need to make custom containment protocol for every inmate, we barely see that, but Kevin, who triggered the riot with his aggro magic, was shown be kept high on weed constantly to keep him chill and gets out for a "training exercise" on a remote island to let out his magic aggression periodically, for example.
Person
Yeah... shocking that miss "interchangeable bodies" doesn't get it. NAAT!
Czarzhan
(Note: the stories I'm referring to are all text, and NOT the Omega Girl series available on Amazon)
Czarzhan
When I was contributing a prequel story to a friend's "Omega Girl" universe (on a particular public story archive), I made sure that, even though I was adding a mentor character of similar power (Omega Girl's power level is on par with Superman/Maxima), nothing happened that contradicted existing canon of the original stories. Unlike some of the other authors who contributed, who introduced some pretty radical retcons to some secondary characters.
Stephen Gilberg
Thanks for spelling that out in the postscript, Dave. I was thinking, "Lear...jet?"
Dave Barrack
Yeah, but only distracting for about a week, it seems.
Town Crier
BAH! Just clip an ear. Bigger challenge. Very distracting.
Cat Tillinghast
"Of course, if you blow off a head, there's less chance the supervillain in question will sue you for super-police brutality." They'll have relatives... they always do. -The Old Man
Orlet Soir
That' or she is still holding on to Garamm's shirt from previous comic as the new people walk in and the flame thingy is just a trail from her head turning around to see them
Thisguy
When it comes to incarcerated villains, the Grrrl-verse seems to operate like many Anime where defeat means friendship. We already have a handful of ex-supervillians on the team, essentially doing 'community service'
Just a guy
The tradition of the only writers that respect spiderman and write him right are never the ones actually in charge of spiderman books is still going strong too.
Just a guy
Current continuity, arkham is gone (blown up/gassed, destroyed). There's an 'arkham tower' now, which other than a rocky start involving big pharma and psycho pirate, seems to have turned into an actual, legitimate asylum with actual treatment. Also, I see Lapha is trrying to signel something there in the first panel, with the shirt grab and I 'think' is supposed to be a glowing arrow with her eye fire, but even with patreon's high quality and zooming, I can't tell what, so bravo.
Thomas Dorner
Nicely timed the leg with the end of the paralympics ... ;-)
B. P.
The reason I quit reading Marvel back in the day was that there were just too many Cooks in the kitchen. They'd do a reboot but a while later it'd be business as usual again.
Ronnie Henriksen
See, that's the problem you have Dave. Well we have anyways.. As I at least would love 30 comic books of yours monthly ;)
