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2020-07-28, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Sure, but that's in the real world where corruption is both possible and prevalent. This is the flawless and morally righteous Millennium Federation we're talking about where the people in power are always the good guys who always do the right thing. Why would they ever need to worry about federal abuse of power?
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2020-07-28, 05:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Brightman and Chief were worried about the evil government in issue 1, which means that, at least until 30 years earlier, bad things did happen.
We also have only seen 2 chiefs, and 1 out of two is corrupt. With remote access, a delinquent like Abraxi can check files from other Chiefs desks, for example to sniff for informers.
The thing is, we really don't know much about the Federation. I remember maybe Tom complimenting it. But outside Sanctuary Six, things may be nasty (or simply not as good). We have seen GD doing its job, and it was very good for the civilians involved, like with the Supernova Dragon Lords, but operational effectiveness doesn't mean that there aren't some ugly or criminal practices that need constant watch. We have seen GD people involved in human trafficking. We have seen something as screwed up as the evil den of Mr Hymn, who had received a permit from the authorities to be off the grid to do "his thing".Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-07-29, 12:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
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So the moral of the story is: If you have a problem with crime, and you think the law is not fast enough, just take a gun and spray your problems away.
Don't forget to wear a mask and have some secret identity! Maybe a shirt with a skull on it?
Seriously, Danica was not "dragged into the shadow", she WAS the shadow.
Just because her power is light themed doesn't make it automatically light and just.
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2020-07-29, 01:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
. . . Does Danica not realize that the only reason the crime families were "disappointing" is because she's basically an unstoppable juggernaut with ridiculous power that she stumbled into by dumb luck?
They'd all have died uselessly if she didn't have the Star Power. She's hardly in a position to brag. At least not that specific type of bragging.Last edited by Shogo; 2020-07-29 at 01:10 AM.
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2020-07-29, 04:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Yeah, the girl that basically is a warship in human form calling normal gangsters "not that scary" is silly at best.
Kinda makes me wish she'd meet a actual challenge."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2020-07-29, 06:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Danica sounds a bit like a psychopath/Goku. "I had such high hopes for punching these criminals!"
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-07-29, 06:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-30, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
In "The Boys", do you know the scenes when someone talks to Homelander, but this person is aware of the real Homelander that is behind all the PR?
This is what this and many similar scenes along the way remind me of.
Smith just realized he is in front of a person who has superpowers, doesn't always listen to orders, has zero accountability, not afraid to dangle people out the window, and openly admitted to being disappointed after not enjoying enough violence.
(I can't wait for this to be over so I can finish my extended review)
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2020-08-03, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
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So in the news summary, the order is reversed as if no one cares that getting the evidence came only AFTER the "arrests".
I'd say it's an in-universe cover up, but I doubt it.
Unless the chief says so specifically in the next update, everything else in the comic points to Danica being right and just all along.
So I'm left with two options:
Either Mookie is completely oblivious to the moral problems coming from the reverse order of events, or he IS aware of it, and decided to "fox news" the event to make the readers ignore what happened to avoid handling his own decisions in comic.
Not sure which option is worse.
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2020-08-03, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-03, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
All I have to say is: daaaaaaaaaamn, this could have been the beginning of a few really good volumes. It still wasn't going to happen, but think about it: we could have finally seen how the Federation works, and we could have seen rivalry between different services, and even new services being born, and all the side characters interacting...
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-08-03, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-03, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-03, 02:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Last edited by Celestia; 2020-08-03 at 02:46 PM.
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2020-08-03, 10:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
The problem is that Mookie is saying all the right words, but shows zero understanding on anything beyond the obvious.
He related the events to his story, but doesn't understand that Danica's actions are exactly what the protest was against.
He SAYS the galactic defense needs reform, but everything inside the story is leading to the "just a few bad apples" without anything beyond a casual mention of a systematic problem.
He uses the phrase "defund GD", but in-story there wasn't even an option to any action that isn't somehow police related. No mention in the story itself for the brainwash the people in the cities suffered from, and no suggestion to use any other method than force to "free them".
I have never been really angry at Mookie's moral implications except this issue here (maybe with one old sexy exception), and his understanding that it is connected to real events only makes it worse.
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2020-08-04, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Here is my general outlook on this. It was known they had evidence that proved all the crime families were guilty of all of the crimes ever. The detective also had evidence that confirmed galactic defense was on the take but there were problems with sending it off world. When danica lost her temper and went on a one woman crusade, she took out the crime family's ability to react to the evidence being sent, and allowed for a sting operation on the galactic defense chiefs records. The fact the entire justice system was basically implicated here meant they couldnt follow the standard steps so space station chief took a risk, chose to believe the evidence was there and authorized a raid for it, knowing that extenuating circumstances would make it acceptable so long as proof was found. Had the proof NOT been there, he likely would have gotten his own jail cell. This also supposes that criminal justice laws are based on americas legal system. For all we know none of this was considered shady according to the federations legal system.
Another factor to take into account is doing this the "rational" way would have involved danica physically transporting the records to the station then 6 months to 6 years later we hear a news report about a full raid on the planet collecting all the dirty cops and criminals there with nothing to do with danica at all. That would be boring. So instead we got this. Heck, it might even have been CHANGED to this due to the need to wrap up the comic all of a sudden. But with mookie im not giving the benefit of the doubt on that."Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-08-04, 11:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Update
I'm somewhere between shocked and lazy, so I'll just quote what Celestia wrote about a previous update.
Fits better than whatever I can think of.
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2020-08-05, 04:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Given that Burke's boss and half his crew had been human trafficking a few years prior, and that Chief is aware of that, how could Chief only now realise that GD needs more supervision?
Also, http://www.joshuawright.net/slack-wyrm-647.htmlOriginally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-08-05, 05:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Is the Chief kneeling before
ZodDanica?
That's a bit much, isn't it?
Arresting a bunch of space-mafia Don's and their head lackey isn't that big.
Doubly so compared to her other adventures*.
I mean unless they're declaring her God-Empress of the Federation and all of Space and supreme leader of Galactic Defense or something like that.
Which honestly wouldn't surprise me, considering Danica is always right and can do no wrong.
*Seriously, looking at the opponents the comic is kinda backwards. Which the danger level actually sinking from arc to arc.
And isn't that impressive in itself?
Considering there wasn't any real danger to begin with?"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2020-08-05, 06:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
It might be an holdover from Return of the King.
After all, this is the final issue, the one where the hero must get recognition, because it's necessary for the whole series to make sense (it's a superhero story, after all). So you get the sudden uptick in light symbolism and people telling Danica she's right and great and awesome. This is the same reason why the Detective didn't just have to deal with not being able to control her, but actually crawled before her.
The thing is, Danica has done much more than this. As a peace enforcer on foreign planets, which I guess could also be seen through a colonialist lens (or through a "what did the Romans do for us?" lens).
But it's fun to try to think of Chief's reasons, if he were acting as a realistic character. Why would he kneel? Maybe it's because he sees that Danica is now completely off the handle: she's acting of her own volition against the laws and against advice and she didn't even contact Brightman in this. So she has become very dangerous. But this is also an opportunity, since her extralegal activities mean that she can be conditioned into acting against the law. And so he his pampering her to get her to do what he wants, later on, or at least to make sure she doesn't start to see him as an enemy, given that they live in the same station and GD has come under public scrutiny.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-08-05, 07:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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As soon as I read that page I knew what the comment section would be here. lol This is ludicrously stupid and yes, I do kind of expect that danica gets a job as universal fix it gal whose job is to hunt for problems and solve them with punching. Everything from criminal gangs, to invading armies, to dirty politicians, she will punch them all with total legal immunity to fix everything! ALL HAIL DANICA!
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-08-05, 07:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2020-08-05, 08:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-05, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
So, why wasn't it done before by internal affairs, psi-cops or any other division?
It's not like it was a great secret, heck, there is a reference DEFINING the planet as the planet of crime and mobsters.
Their methods of brainwash against the GD were also no secret, and the crime families seem to be well known.
We can easily make up answers for that, but the point is that non of the answers we can give were supplied as part of this story or as a part of the world building in general.
So this is where we are folks, do you know that one of the most common criticisms against a a story is "show, don't tell"?
The expectations we have from Star Power are so low that our reaction to this is "for goodness sake, even just tell us without showing".
We are begging for world building table scraps, and not even getting this.
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2020-08-05, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-09, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
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Is that the LBGTQ support Mookie promised way back?
Hurray for not completely screwing that up I guess?
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2020-08-10, 05:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
Wait...so that wasn't just cross dressing for the sake of going undercover? Smith is legitimately gender fluid? And we're only first learning about it now at the very end of the story? I mean, at least it's actually in the canon text, so Mookie is still better than a certain author, but not by much.
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2020-08-10, 05:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
It was first indicated here: https://starpowercomic.com/comic/wor...ther/?nav=next "What are we calling you this week? Her? Him? Something in between?"
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-08-10, 06:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-08-10, 07:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Star Power 7: Bad Luck for the Starstruck!
We didn't know that Smith would dress like a woman when the line appeared. (I'm also not even sure that that's crossdressing, in tumblrspeak.)
Honestly, I think Mookie handled it better than many others. He put it down in a way that made you side with the genderqueer (because objectively Gavin was a jerk), and he also integrated it into the plot (with the prostitute disguise). Plus, he somehow managed to do this with doing a twist on the hard-boiled detective, a stock character which often both exhibits toxic masculinity and consciously suffers through its deleterious effects.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955