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Grrl Power #1283 - Feintception
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The true measure of a martial artist is how quickly you adapt to getting kicked in the face because your opponent has bendy bones.
No doubt Math has blocked hundreds of swings at his face, and is very secure in knowing the only way he's going to get hit when he does is if someone shatters their own bones to right-angle their shin at him. That said, he has definitely sparred with everyone on the team, including Mr. Amorphous, and he did scan that tablet with a bunch of pertinent anatomy information on it about his alien opponents, so he probably knew this was a possibility. It's still got to be at least a little surprising when it happens though.
Seriously, being able to plan ahead while getting whaled on is a skill that's probably fairly unpleasant to train. And yes, I looked it up, it's "whaled" not "wailed." "Wailed" means to cry, and "wale" means to mark with welts, so "Waling" on someone would probably make sense, but apparently "whale" mean to hit repeatedly. Maybe you could say "he waled on him with a belt" and that would be grammatically correct, but I'm sure it would confuse editors and most readers wouldn't notice or care.
Comments
JasonAW3
Verbally dyslexic?
akrasia
To be fair, since Math is not a biological super, the other way to hit him in the face is to shatter Math's arm bones which are only normal human strength.
Todd Ellner
See, all of this is why I find most anime tedious and overblown, and not in an amusing way.
Todd Ellner
Sydney, unless you're ready to put down the orbs and get in the fight pipe down and go back to your seat
eddi_TBH
Sydney is properly staying off the mat or Math could toss her into the pileup.
eddi_TBH
The ridges on corduroy pants are also called wales.
eddi_TBH
Frix would die of embarrassment if he saw that.
eddi_TBH
As was Math in that last move.
eddi_TBH
I get a feeling that like most brick types his actual offensive skills are pretty basic. He just has to hit someone once and the fight is over. Meanwhile everyone who attacks him is just bruising their knuckles. So he can wait it out.
eddi_TBH
Or at least completely outwits them.
eddi_TBH
So are the others.Just not quite as much fun.
eddi_TBH
Check out the second panel. Math is setting up Sylv by leaving his face open.
G2 Shane
Maybe Math is slightly dyslexic?
Mathew Aaberg
Definitely something I want to have.
Fogel
Definitely something Syndey will want to have
Person
Teeth marks on the forearm in the last panel are going the wrong way. We should only be able to see the top row, and at 90 degrees to what's shown. OTOH what's there is immediately recognized as bite marks. Just the top row might not be. Hmm. I suppose it's fine I'd it's deliberate. EDIT: that IS just the top row, at the right angle. So was I wrong in the first place, or was it Frixed In Post.
Michael Obert
It is a real problem. I love my anime, but, my attention span is not so short I need a ten minute recap in a thirty minute episode from the previous episode. Sigh.
Dave Barrack
Hah hah... whoops. I mean, it's a nickname?
Dave Barrack
They took real hits, they were just playing up how much it hurt.
Anton Schleef
So long as it doesn't go all One Piece, and take 30 episodes to do a single fight, with a solid third of each ep being a re-hash of the previous ep and every 7 or 8 eps being a recap ep. Hell, I don't think the fight against Kaido at the end of the Land of Wano arc was even that short.
Torabi
So it's officially "Sylv" now? Because back when he was first introduced on #702, and when Cora said his name again on #762, it was "Slyv".
Ampws
Math was just waiting for them to reveal their true potential before revealing his own. A classic case of he who moves first ends up coming last.
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
Nice sound effect in p4 :P
JasonAW3
Ok, I should rephrase... I haven't HAD to use that move in over 30 years. I still practice it, just slower to keep the muscle memory intact...
BJ
Math is certainly having fun.
Stephen Gilberg
Thanks for the spelling lesson, Dave. I'd seen the term in writing only once, and it was in a source that, while professional, didn't have the best editors, so they put it as "wailed."
Todd Ellner
Yeah, nobody who knew anything would line up and go after him one at a time like the bad guys in a kung fu movie. And the fact that Math stands there in the middle and waits for them all to attack at once means he believes he completely outclasses them
Fogel
How do you know, if you haven't tried it in 30 year?
JasonAW3
Oh lord! That last move that Math uses on Sylv? I haven't used that in over 30 years! Surprisingly enough, I'm still limber enough to pull it off even now...
Tie Toter
Great update! The Twinkle in Math's eye is priceless...
Stefan Schmiedl
and don't forget to pull a Naruto and add a bunch of recaps taking up 75% of the panels.
Town Crier
Seriously, Red? A Flying Big Elbow? Professional Wrestling moves? Stop watching our fun, crap TV and enjoy a nature documentary once in a while. Wouldja?
Michael Obert
Damn right!
Andrew
And call out moves first, right? None of this surprise sneak attack nonsense.
Andrew Denton
For some reason, the last one puts me in mind of a bunch of Picts, mourning.
Michael Obert
Watch an anime, Sydney. This one fight will go on for at least 10 more episodes, each episode someone revealing some new power or ability that was unknown beforehand
Aclys
To be fair, all the martial artists start off by sandbagging their opponent Because they know they will be sandbagging them too... Whomever shows their full hand first is at a disadvantage because knowing (how to beat the other guy) is half the battle. The other half is applying that knowledge.
Mathew Aaberg
Honestly as long as it makes the right sounds. Wale Whale or wayl most people wont notice. Though the last one feels off.
3of4
So Mini Frix Plushie When?
Fogel
So the others were just pretending to be out until they got the signal? Good tactics
