He’s EXTRA-tough!
on March 21, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: 'Cause When I'm Bad
Location: Professor Doc's lab
Jim Carrington’s deal, back when I was in Junior High — even before I decided that everyone in SEMME had super powers years later — was that he would spin around like the Tasmanian Devil and attack people. I decided to utilize that idea at this precise moment and only at this precise moment.
This will not likely come up in Dumbing of Age.
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And neither will Guns, for that matter.
It’s iconic, but it also seems wildly impractical…??
I guess if the Tasmanian Devil can figure out how to travel by spinning like that, so can Jim?
It’s both offense and defense if you think about it- the spin deflects most attacks while allowing you to hit multiple times really fast all while neither getting dizzy nor tiring…
Headcanon: Dumbing of Age Jim does break-dancing, with emphasis on head-spinning.
+1
… So you’re saying it’s possible.
Be a decent throwaway gag if he ever gets super drunk in DoA! Though I like Reltzik’s break-dancing idea, too.
Drunk breakdancing. Obviously the way to go.
+1000
Is Guns really shooting at Beef while he’s being pinned down by Sal? Seems… not friendly for Sal.
Well, I mean, no one likes Sal.
Except Jason, but I guess he doesn’t count.
Is it possible for a non-Stormtrooper to miss Beef given his size?
The Tasmanian-ex-machina bit can be excused a little– we’ve established that abductees have weird and variable powers, so it’s like in the X-movies when some heretofore unseen mutant suddenly does a thing. What I don’t fully understand is why Jason doesn’t shoot anyway and why Jim doesn’t expect him to. I mean, aside from the fact that almost nothing works out for Jason ever.
(I guess Jim COULD be Tazzing hard enough to deflect a bullet, but that seems like a weird assumption.)
Moving air has been proven to alter the course of a bullet, snipers have to account for it when they shoot.
Yeah, but not by much. A fraction of a degree makes a difference when shooting at hundreds of yards, not so much at three feet.
…oh. For some reason I was really confused when this fight wasn’t in Year Zero. I guess that explains why, huh? I had the ends of the comic mixed up!