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Grrl Power #1279 - Punchy McPunchface
🕑 Added 2024-07-29 10:00:16 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Math is one of those guys who punches iron bowl full of hot gravel every morning. The skin on his knuckles and the back of his fingers is like the sole of an elephant's foot. He also does a bunch of other crazy Shaolin monk training, like sitting at a table without using a chair, just by flexing his foot just right, or climbing a rope using just one hand, or whatever. You've all seen Kung Fu theater on Sunday afternoons, haven't you? This assumes you grew up in a world where there were maybe 7 TV channels. One of your local stations that didn't get a license for whatever seasonal sports game and wasn't PBS would either be running syndicated sitcoms or some Kung Fu movie.
I mention that because Math is used to hitting things like Altus. It still hurt a little, but at least he didn't blow out his wrist or dislocate a finger.
Comments
Ian Brown
I just recently started playing Parappa again and my sheer glee at seeing someone else reference Master Onion was intoxicating! So many times I've chanted that flow while doing some meaningless task and just got blank stares from others around me, while trying to explain some obscure PS1 rhythm game from the 90's earned me so many tragic pity points I never wanted. "It's like Paper Mario and Patapon had a baby with Guitar Hero and then Xeroxed it through a shitty toner cartridge and had a 4-year old color it with the crappiest snot-soaked crayons from the bottom of the coffee tin."
Otoger
in panel 4 i feel the round speedlines are missing a direction, all others i can see some hints or points which show the direction but the round part of panel 4
Torabi
Hasn't even touched Sylv yet!
eddi_TBH
Now I'm picturing Bugs Bunny verses The Crusher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6h4SuMWliQ
eddi_TBH
Who thought being drunk off your ass could be incorporated into a martial arts style? See also Ranma 1/2 for creative martial arts. The School Of Indiscriminate Grappling.
eddi_TBH
Remember the prisoner Kirk kneecapped in movie? "Not every species keeps it's reproductive organs in the same place."
eddi_TBH
Reminds me of the Op Art movement when I was a teen.
eddi_TBH
Well, he hit them all first. With varying degrees of success. Now the fight begins.
JasonAW3
Huh... Who would ever thought a dance from the 1920's could be usefully incorporated into a martial arts style?
Dave Barrack
Math's secret is that he's not fighting, he's dancing the Charleston. https://youtu.be/90TzDXjWTdo?si=zvKSZAAp_2c_XQqm
Dave Barrack
Thanks! That one took a while to figure out how to do.
JasonAW3
In frame two... Knees don't typically flex or bend that way... Of course loosened ligaments COULD account for that... And as for bone breakage someone probably reinforced his bones with carbon nanotubes, kind of like steel rebar in concrete columns...
Todd Ellner
And he has massive traumatic arthritis, bone fragments that move around, places they can't pin or plate, hands that he can't fully open or close, and spends weeks out of every year in a walking cast.
Brett Peirce
Gotta find his weak point. Usually related to reproduction... HOPEFULLY it's not below the belt in his particular variety of... demon?
Richard Bennett
Oh, the text below rather than the comic itself. "Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!" is one of Master Onion's training phrases. I had forgotten I even knew about it till I read it here.
Zerith
... meaning that was a held back punch, and someone just earned the title of punching bag... ^_^;
Stephen Gilberg
Which part?
Person
Nahh, Math smashed Concrete Lady. Cinderblocks are no problem.
Greg Morrow
Oh, I love the circle speed lines in panel 4! What a nice touch!
Zerith
... Math is a high level martial artist, he has likely, in effect shattered every bone in his hands and feet. His limbs are also likely heavy broken up to and a little past his elbows and knees. Fun fact! Everywhere you brake your bones, the fused area is made stronger, but the net effect is weakening the bone as it focuses the stresses the bone suffers, unless there are soo many fusion sights that the spider webbed net work of bone fusion sights makes a matrix, then and hence fourth, the every time the bone breaks and heals it simply becomes stronger. Also, the less you use a bone the more it decays... I think math hits things enough that hitting Rocky McRock in the face amounts to unexpected training. Also, abusing your skin can toughen it. So, yeah, in my book, math is more pounderus than hurt by that full force punch.
strfan
I really thought Matt was in for broken fingers or a broken wrist. Hitting a wall with his one’s hands is never a good idea…
Richard Bennett
Parappa the Rapper reference! I claim my bonus point :)
Matthew Thompson
Impact no good captain! Switching to grapple!
Michael Obert
Time for a change of formula. . .
