Sarah Bartlett AKA Dynamode. That was considered and not just by me. The problem being that we’d have to account for a shapechange from teen girl with dark hair to an adult woman with paler skin and red hair when she’s supposed to be missing her powers. The hair does match how Sarah described her previous form. However, we also have to account for where and when exactly Cecil saw her before.
There’s also Paula Grissom AKA Skybolt, but there’s a definite difference in hair style and color, and skin color.
If that Ray is being used on his home planet full of FISS and they will all get a random alternative power set rather than being powerless as the beam intends…
Not likely. Ron’s new powers come from his mother’s side, and she’s 100% Terran human, though a carrier of the X-gene. The Argosians culled all non-FISS talents from their gene pool.
He’s powerful but not infinitely powerful, no surprise something that can apparently rip apart space-time if containment fails worries him like everyone else.
Forgot to say: Disconcerting the Flea is a significant accomplishment. Multiple seriously-trying-to-hurt-you supervillains have failed to bother Flea, but Ron’s new powers can.
Yes, I belive he is a meta-human with the ability to sense powers. And not just if people have them, he’s been able to guess what type of power in the past before too.
If the theory that the glove prize is the end effector of the filtered away chaos effects leaving him with order aligned powers is right then between him using his powers producing the chaos power and the glove using it there must be a temporary means of storing it.
Guess what this weird O.O.P.S is…
And because of Vodon’s shenanigan’s with the security system no one will think twice about Moon Knight and Tyler occupying the same space… clever author, clever.
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but what’s with the dialogue in the last panel? What’s the significance of a uniform vs. a costume?* And why doesn’t Cecil get that Moonshadow is asking him if the mysterious metahuman woman sets of his meta-detection ability?
* – That’s actually something I notice from DC comics. Why do so many of their characters- such as Batman, Robin/Nightwing, etc.- call their costumes “uniforms”? A uniform- “one form”- is clothing of the same style and appearance that several different people where to identify them as belonging to the same group or organization, like a school or a military unit. But remember that the clothing that most superheroes wear are unique and specific to them, the exception being for supers who are part of a group. You can say that Fantastic Four members wear a uniform but Batman and Robin do not. It’s a weird use of the term, if you ask me.
Given the multiple people who have worn the Batman outfit and also the number of Robins that have sidekicked that does seem to apply as a uniform.
Then consider the whole Batman organisation…
I’m not sure its so much bias against supers as making a distinction because he sees everything R and Tyler does through the spy filter instead of the superhero filter.
Lots of superheroes call their costumes “uniforms” they really don’t mean it in the strictest definition of the word. Rather that in our society uniform bears this idea of a job and duty in a way that costume doesn’t. For example, a Disney parks employee might call their outfit a uniform because of the job and responsibility that it represents.
Here I think that Cecil was trying to draw a distinction between themselves and supers. In this series all supers tend to wear costumes, regardless of how much crime they face, Cecil and Tyler’s outfits are specifically designed for what Cecil thinks of as spy work. In short, Cecil sees more value in the work that he and Tyler do, so in his mind that earns them and their clothes a special, more official designation.
I think the difference between a costume and a uniform is that you don’t need a costume, you do need a uniform. For example, There’s nothing Superman can do that couldn’t be done equally easily by Clark Kent. He doesn’t need the costume for his powers. Batman, however does need his costume for his powers. Yeah, Bruce Wayne can kick ass convincingly, but Batman can take that to a new level. He needs the uniform to power up.
A costume implies pretending to be something you are not, or a seperation from your normal identity.
A uniform implies on some level being on the job or being a part of a bigger team.
Supers near the beginning felt the need to hide there identity lest what happened to number 1 happen to them and were most likely doing it mostly alone and not for money thus costume and it most likely stuck from there.
You know, I think it’s time for me to start re-reading PS-238. I LOVE this comic (collected them before I couldn’t anymore, the start of Project Rainmaker). And the new pages are still awesome.
I am not sure if QP is afraid of the device or reacting to someone appearing out of nowhere or appearing after seeing the melding of two different locations.
Hm. Another question. I probably missed it, because I didn’t comb through carefully, but I went back several comics and couldn’t find the Flea saying “That’s one,” or “One thing” or any other indication of counting that would tie in to “That’s two” in this comic. Could somebody help me find what he’s counting the second instance of, please?
It’s about a meta discovering how to activate their powers. Stage 1 is activation by stress or emotion. Stage 2 is when they’ve figured how to activate it.
Wow, Cecil’s having trouble remembering her? That’s impressive.
Maybe that’s part of her powerset?
To be fair, NONE of us have figured her out as well, where she’s appeared before in the comic, who she is, or even clues towards that.
Unless she’s the girl from Ron’s support group who sort of has her hairstyle.
Sarah Bartlett AKA Dynamode. That was considered and not just by me. The problem being that we’d have to account for a shapechange from teen girl with dark hair to an adult woman with paler skin and red hair when she’s supposed to be missing her powers. The hair does match how Sarah described her previous form. However, we also have to account for where and when exactly Cecil saw her before.
There’s also Paula Grissom AKA Skybolt, but there’s a definite difference in hair style and color, and skin color.
Totally agree w/ the sarah theory. She totally ran off with no explanation a few pages ago.
Quantum Powers is afraid of the whatever-it-is. Interesting.
Yeah. Don’t know if that’s more worrying than Ron being able to throw Flea for a loop, but it’s up there.
And a lovely plot recap in the last two panels. Elan must be so proud.
Ron’s new powerset managed to surprise Q.P. … He really has traded up since losing the Argosian powers! 😀
I wonder though, what his dad will make of them.
All in all, Atlas is a good guy who wants his son to be happy. If Ron’s powers help with that, I think he’ll be fine with them.
If that Ray is being used on his home planet full of FISS and they will all get a random alternative power set rather than being powerless as the beam intends…
Not likely. Ron’s new powers come from his mother’s side, and she’s 100% Terran human, though a carrier of the X-gene. The Argosians culled all non-FISS talents from their gene pool.
He’s powerful but not infinitely powerful, no surprise something that can apparently rip apart space-time if containment fails worries him like everyone else.
Forgot to say: Disconcerting the Flea is a significant accomplishment. Multiple seriously-trying-to-hurt-you supervillains have failed to bother Flea, but Ron’s new powers can.
I have a theory the whatever-it-is is part of whatever is ‘fixing’ Toby’s power.
Maybe Toby wanted to use that thing to give Tyler powers.
Do you think that Cecil’s ability to tell whether somebody has super-powers would register AS a super-power to somebody else with the same ability?
It might, but it seems to be a very rare ability so far.
Yes, I belive he is a meta-human with the ability to sense powers. And not just if people have them, he’s been able to guess what type of power in the past before too.
If the theory that the glove prize is the end effector of the filtered away chaos effects leaving him with order aligned powers is right then between him using his powers producing the chaos power and the glove using it there must be a temporary means of storing it.
Guess what this weird O.O.P.S is…
Ok, so it can send him back where he came from? He definitely does not want to go there.
And because of Vodon’s shenanigan’s with the security system no one will think twice about Moon Knight and Tyler occupying the same space… clever author, clever.
Why do you mis-spell “Zodon” differently each time?
I have no idea what you mean? I spell Modon’s name the same way every time.
Sooner or later you’ll run out of letters to misspell his name with^^
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but what’s with the dialogue in the last panel? What’s the significance of a uniform vs. a costume?* And why doesn’t Cecil get that Moonshadow is asking him if the mysterious metahuman woman sets of his meta-detection ability?
* – That’s actually something I notice from DC comics. Why do so many of their characters- such as Batman, Robin/Nightwing, etc.- call their costumes “uniforms”? A uniform- “one form”- is clothing of the same style and appearance that several different people where to identify them as belonging to the same group or organization, like a school or a military unit. But remember that the clothing that most superheroes wear are unique and specific to them, the exception being for supers who are part of a group. You can say that Fantastic Four members wear a uniform but Batman and Robin do not. It’s a weird use of the term, if you ask me.
Cecil understands the Tyler is asking about his meta-human senses, mentioning the costume is just Cecil’s way of saying “aw… Duh.”
Okay, yeah. Rereading it, it does seem like he’s being sarcastic.
Given the multiple people who have worn the Batman outfit and also the number of Robins that have sidekicked that does seem to apply as a uniform.
Then consider the whole Batman organisation…
“Costume” means metahuman.
“Uniform” means normal human.
Cecil is using the language in a way that reflects his bias against supers.
I’m not sure its so much bias against supers as making a distinction because he sees everything R and Tyler does through the spy filter instead of the superhero filter.
Lots of superheroes call their costumes “uniforms” they really don’t mean it in the strictest definition of the word. Rather that in our society uniform bears this idea of a job and duty in a way that costume doesn’t. For example, a Disney parks employee might call their outfit a uniform because of the job and responsibility that it represents.
Here I think that Cecil was trying to draw a distinction between themselves and supers. In this series all supers tend to wear costumes, regardless of how much crime they face, Cecil and Tyler’s outfits are specifically designed for what Cecil thinks of as spy work. In short, Cecil sees more value in the work that he and Tyler do, so in his mind that earns them and their clothes a special, more official designation.
I think the difference between a costume and a uniform is that you don’t need a costume, you do need a uniform. For example, There’s nothing Superman can do that couldn’t be done equally easily by Clark Kent. He doesn’t need the costume for his powers. Batman, however does need his costume for his powers. Yeah, Bruce Wayne can kick ass convincingly, but Batman can take that to a new level. He needs the uniform to power up.
A costume implies pretending to be something you are not, or a seperation from your normal identity.
A uniform implies on some level being on the job or being a part of a bigger team.
Supers near the beginning felt the need to hide there identity lest what happened to number 1 happen to them and were most likely doing it mostly alone and not for money thus costume and it most likely stuck from there.
You know, I think it’s time for me to start re-reading PS-238. I LOVE this comic (collected them before I couldn’t anymore, the start of Project Rainmaker). And the new pages are still awesome.
I am not sure if QP is afraid of the device or reacting to someone appearing out of nowhere or appearing after seeing the melding of two different locations.
Hm. Another question. I probably missed it, because I didn’t comb through carefully, but I went back several comics and couldn’t find the Flea saying “That’s one,” or “One thing” or any other indication of counting that would tie in to “That’s two” in this comic. Could somebody help me find what he’s counting the second instance of, please?
Sorry, “stage two.” I can’t find “stage one” anywhere.
2018-01-03
It’s about a meta discovering how to activate their powers. Stage 1 is activation by stress or emotion. Stage 2 is when they’ve figured how to activate it.
Check the last panel on the January 3rd (yeah my birthday!) posting, it has Flea detailing stage one and when you’re getting into stage two.
Ah! That’s what I was looking for. Thanks!
How did the Nightshadow gear get shrunk to exactly the right size?