“My Ring-Fu is the best.”
In the comics, everyone has either super powers OR martial arts. Is there any comic book character that has both? Imagine if Superman were a skilled boxer. Or Spider-Man knew Muay Thai. Or if The Flash knew Greco-Roman wrestling… actually that last one is probably a bad example.
I am still in Rosarito, Mexico for another week. Then I have a one-week gap before starting a new sit in Oak Park, near Thousand Oaks. I’ve been having plenty of time here to relax. There’s even a gym and some hot tubs right off the beach. Really, I couldn’t have scored a better dog sit. The next one will be three dogs and a cat, which is more like a real job I guess.
Here is my doggie ward, Rio:
And this weeks time lapse video:
There doesn’t seem to be a comic.
I see your blog, and I see the time lapse, but no actual page.
Got it. Fixed now. I’ve been having some issues with WordPress lately.
Sorry to say, not fixed.
Oh boy, is Grayhawk getting unhinged just like Deadpool? Talking as if he were in a comic book is not a good sign.
Deadpool? Unhinged??
Now why do you say that? It’s Ryan Reynolds who’s unhinged, as any ending credits will show……
(Idk about Marvel, but!) It depends on how much the writer cares. (the general idea) In DC spacestuff is that most bipeds developed the same combat styles (with exceptions for the really big ones and the ones with natural weapons (although thinking it over, I’m like 30% the wasp lantern mentioned some kind of martial training at one point ). It’s a cool way to let the warrior cultures stand out a bit. (Although afaik, nothing’s been done in that sphere for like twenty years)
And echoing the panel thing! They knew about the narrator earlier and could use text boxes- is more going on here?
The Narrator earlier was some super Kickman hired, so this made in-universe sense.
Are we sure he was a super?
Okay, re-read Enemy Lines
– Kickman calls the narrator Wordman
– There’s a narrator union (with rules that mention an audience, but that could be the Mole Men)
– #9 mentions an Artist (which could be a wall break or a Thinkwell-type character)
– [Bonk] is one of the greatest moments in webcomics
– The narrator reads minds\thought bubbles
– “Firing” the narrator removes all text boxes
And that’s the condensed info (but it’s a great chapter) So it could be either way (imo the union’s a point against him being an actual narrator cause there’s a lot of in-comic bureaucracy)
I reread that part now and on page 3 of Enemy Lines both Kickman and Grayhawk talk about their comic strip in the context of teh narrator. Not sure what to make of it.d
Matt is difficult to predict!
Not to pick nits, but the green energy is transparent, right? In the last panel, we can see thru the green cannonball to the edge of the building below, but our super-heroine-villain disappears, with just her upper torso and lower legs sticking out around the edges.
It’s semi-transparent with some glow and the outline of the rest of Sparta’s body is still more-or-less visible.
Regarding characters with superpowers AND martial arts, it may be uncommon for western superheroes to have both but there’s lots of examples in anime and even in western comics there are characters who get their superpowers through the practice martial arts (like Iron Fist). There’s also the trope of the kung fu wizard https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KungFuWizard which includes Doctor Strange.
I don’t know about Marvel, but most of DC’s Earth heroes are trained off Wildcat’s style. (This may have been retconned depending on how bad the batwank has gotten)
To add to the topic of superpowers and martial training, there actually was a story where Superman got trained in boxing. By Muhammad Ali; who else? There was a huge fight set up by aliens and Superman’s powers were suppressed or commonplace, or a bit of both. There was this page where Muhammad Ali demonstrated his technique while comparing it to rhetorics. Great moment.
Also, Grayhawk with the ring is frightening. I don’t know if all shall love him, but they sure shall despair.