Falling 2016-11-15

[AmriloJim]

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/falling/

[Armorlord]

Well, I guess that answers concerns about the Library withstanding it. Looks like self-repair won't be needed yet.
Will this mean she still has to "find her own way out"?

[jeffepp]

This is the reason for the special room. The holograms could have been done anywhere. What she's doing now, not so much.

[lake_wrangler]

You know, I had always heard it was a bad idea to put a weapon in the hands of someone who is emotionally unstable...

But what happens is the weapon itself, is the emotionally unstable one, at the time?

What are those stages of grief, again? She looks like she's burning through them at a rapid pace... She looks simply devastated, in the last panel.

[DilyV]

OMG teh feels...

[Atomic]

You know, I had always heard it was a bad idea to put a weapon in the hands of someone who is emotionally unstable...

But what happens is the weapon itself, is the emotionally unstable one, at the time?

Get thee to a video source and watch Dark Star. One of John Carpenter's cult films....

[Dave]

OMG teh feels...

Wow.

You don't see anguish like that every day... thank goodness.

I think Pickle now understands a lot she didn't... including how Londo Mollari felt when he learned an uncomfortable truth about the past.

[Opus the Poet]

This is heartbreaking.

[AnotherFairportfan]

You know, I had always heard it was a bad idea to put a weapon in the hands of someone who is emotionally unstable...

But what happens is the weapon itself, is the emotionally unstable one, at the time?

Get thee to a video source and watch Dark Star. One of John Carpenter's cult films....

Also "The Iron Giant". And if you can watch it and not get misty at "Suupermannn...", well...

[AnotherFairportfan]

OMG teh feels...

Wow.

You don't see anguish like that every day... thank goodness.

I think Pickle now understands a lot she didn't... including how Londo Mollari felt when he learned an uncomfortable truth about the past.

Suddenly becoming an adult at age twelve or so is guaranteed to break something, no matter how well you manage to dissemble.

How are Dallyn, Timothy and Scarlett going to react? Even if she manages to hide it from the adults, they'll know.

[Sgt. Howard]

Bottom line... she will need industrial strength hugs as soon as she is safe to approach.

[oldmanmickey]

Dont believe she will be able to hide anything from Tata Phix.

[Sgt. Howard]

...will we get another 'rabid kale' demonstration?

[AnotherFairportfan]

Wowie.

Look at her feet, first panel.

On Stone.

Rocket=style reaction from the plasma blast - and note that she also apparently put out some sort of extra anchor roots.

Okay?

Now check Bud's feet.

On desert hardpan, true, but stone - especially βιβλιοθήκη stone - is a lot tougher than hardpan.

Bud is at least as angry as Castela.

Which one is putting out more sheer power?

[TazManiac]

Also "The Iron Giant". And if you can watch it and not get misty at "Suupermannn...", well...

I was looking for another film in the discount bin at my local Walmart just this last week and came across many copies of 'Iron Giant'.

Well recommended, I even talked strangers into buying a copy right then and there...

append: Yeah, I saw those anchors as well, good example remembering the Golem discharging the pent up energy following that blast...

PS- Castela not only must deal with the anguish of Atsali's parents dieing suddenly and violently,
but also that they Died,

For Her...

[AnotherFairportfan]

Also "The Iron Giant". And if you can watch it and not get misty at "Suupermannn...", well...

I was looking for another film in the discount bin at my local Walmart just this last week and came across many copies of 'Iron Giant'.

Well recommended, I even talked strangers into buying a copy right then and there...

It got a semi-fancy re-release, including a brief theatrical run, recently.

[GlytchMeister]

Bud's feet are bigger. Less PSI. And Newton's-3rd-Law Reactionary Force doesn't really apply to her, as she has thrown the entire Calendar Machine (which was about the size of a large tractor engine and probably way more dense BEFORE it was compacted into a pebble) to about hypersonic speeds, instantaneously.

At the top of that speed estimate range was 1/3c, but I think somebody said Paul said Bud's estimate on when the Calendar Pebble would arrive at the sun was an arbitrary "pulled outta the ass" number. Even at merely supersonic speeds, the recoil of that action would have been enough to force Bud's feet several inches, possibly feet, straight into the ground. That was not depicted, but attention was not drawn to her feet, so I'm assuming that didn't happen.

So... Recoil might have been severely dampened by Bud in the pic you linked to. Might not. I'm just supplying grains of salt, here.

[TazManiac]

Now check Bud's feet.

Nek'id Bud is Nek'id...

[AnotherFairportfan]

Bud's feet are bigger. Less PSI. And Newton's-3rd-Law Reactionary Force doesn't really apply to her, as she has thrown the entire Calendar Machine (which was about the size of a large tractor engine and probably way more dense BEFORE it was compacted into a pebble) to about hypersonic speeds, instantaneously.

At the top of that speed estimate range was 1/3c, but I think somebody said Paul said Bud's estimate on when the Calendar Pebble would arrive at the sun was an arbitrary "pulled outta the ass" number. Even at merely supersonic speeds, the recoil of that action would have been enough to force Bud's feet several inches, possibly feet, straight into the ground. That was not depicted, but attention was not drawn to her feet, so I'm assuming that didn't happen.

So... Recoil might have been severely dampened by Bud in the pic you linked to. Might not. I'm just supplying grains of salt, here.

If she's sinking in at all, i doubt she's damping reaction. Why should she? And if she did, why only partially?

Or maybe she doesn't have the new Grayson-design inertial compensator yet?

[sheik]

Wowie.

Look at her feet, first panel.

On Stone.

Rocket=style reaction from the plasma blast - and note that she also apparently put out some sort of extra anchor roots.

Okay?

Now check Bud's feet.

On desert hardpan, true, but stone - especially βιβλιοθήκη stone - is a lot tougher than hardpan.

Bud is at least as angry as Castela.

Which one is putting out more sheer power?

I don't know, but it looks like somewhere in the megatons/second range.