Any questions or arguments should be directed to Laura, as she is the scientist responsible for the physics of superpowers. Now, if you want to discuss the effects of mechanical rules arbitration on the pseudo-medieval society of a typical D&D world, I’ll be right here. Hint: a wizard probably did it. (Hazel would totally get that joke.)
“Whu…what?” LOL He’ll probably never figure it out.
And Holy Cow Wall’o'text!
Would you believe me if I said that understood all that without looking it up? XD
My point being, don’t underestimate a speedster, and I’m glad to see this comic get it right! Major kudos from a physics amateur!
That made sense to me the first time I read it as well. For Mr. “Brick Shithouse” there, I suppose the concussion he probably got from that hit made things a bit difficult to sink in.
And…how does that explain how she ran in a straight line through him damaging only his bricks?
What says she did?
oh thats easy Sword fight rules it only looks like that cause your eyes are to slow that she banked around him at the last second wich also cause him to get hit with her shock wave on top of what ever hit she did (likely a kab because if it was anything harder his head would be missing)
So, did she have to learn the physics first before devising such a move or could she just do it due to her powers and the physics are just trivia for her?
There’s a wonderful physics book out there by James Kakalios called The Physics of Superheroes and it’s a must-read if you’re into comics. When I saw this comic I immediately thought of that book.
For the cheaper, the TV tropes page on Required Secondary powers also is an interesting read, though ‘ware links. The rabbit hole goes really, really to the power of really far down.
If her feet hit the ground with relativistic velocity, why is the city still there?
Just because she is moving a relativistic speeds forwards doesn’t necessarily mean that her feet are moving at that speed downwards when they hit the ground. When running at normal speeds your feet come to a complete stop for a fraction of a second when they hit the ground. That’s why running is a high impact exercise.
It might be possible to do as you say, but it needs an awful lot of coordination.
She still needed to push herself of the ground forwards and upwards to accelerate to this velocity within one or two steps because friction allows us to walk around. And she had to decelerate within two steps. Her momentum had to go somewhere.