Foolish.
on February 18, 2018 at 12:01 amaw man, now they gotta fly home with cardboard taped over the windshield
This is basically the Superman/Batman matchup. Two supernaturally-determined people, one’s trained well at fighting while the other’s not really, and one’s a normal human being while the other’s got friggin’ superpowers. Unfortunately for Rumy, Superman’s probably gonna win unless she starts using her wits. Quick, before you get thrown through a third window.
I’m really glad that David went the extra mile on this installment, because the original draft, assuming as it did normal-sized IW strips all the way through, would have been wildly inferior. I mean, just look at this, it’s beautiful.
Even had the ol’ webcomics pacing issue allowed for a longer battle, there’s only so long Rumy would last. As the caption voice-over implies she realizes, she simply cannot beat Joyce in a fair fight. Only by swallowing her pride and accepting this can she hope to achieve anything here.Joyce isn’t even implied to be quite as strong as Walky or Tony and she’s certainly no better trained, but she lacks a weakness that Rumy could exploit in those other two, one that goes beyond strength or skill. Her centeredness gives her focus. What she did to Sal was no fluke. Rumy may use her own term for such inner poise, but she knows how to recognize it and not to underestimate it.Of course, that doesn’t mean Joyce gets to play on easy mode for the rest of the series. Events will conspire to destabilize her hard-won balance (one of them happened just six installments ago). But right now, she’s at or near peak effectiveness.
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They’re gonna run out of windows =p
Eh, they can always just install Linux.
oh THAT kind of windows won’t go away, it’s like Windows Syphillis
So if Joyce had a theme song, this would be it.
When I was taking my first time thru I had no idea who the Fans were, and this battle didn’t strike me as hero v. villain normal stuff. Anyone else?
Is there a reason the SEMME doesn’t train it’s people — a sensible reason? Having duper-powers doesn’t seem like a reason. You might get away with it, when you’re playing against the J.V., but training on top of powers might be useful when you run into opponents who are as powerful as you are.
Simple: SEMME isn’t all it seems and a well-trained fighting force is actually the furthest thing from the plans of the real power behind the organisation.
Batman usually has a plan or four to take down everyone he meets. Rumy is just trying to punch her way through based on her determination and her belief in her cause. Unfortunately, she’s fighting someone who is just as determined and possessed with an even stronger sense of self-belief.
“Pathetic flatscan. Did you really expect this to end any other way? Did you actually think that your ‘righteous determination’ or your arrogant belief that you are one of the ‘good guys’ would trump genetic optimisation for combat and years of training and actual combat experience? I don’t know whether to laugh at you or pity you.” — How Anti-Joyce would likely put it.
its so crazy this webcomic started with Joyce just being boy crazy with Danny