A small bit of process in the new Lightfoot Pulse comic

[IdiotSavant]

Lightfoot still lurks around here right? Wasn't sure If I should just hotlink the image itself

http://pulse.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=131

[Lightfoot]

I'm here sometimes. I don't think you'd be able to hotlink the image (I have no control over it). From past experience, you'd probably just get a broken image.

What's happening is that Pulse and Bolt are fighting a shape-shifter. Previously she had always taken the form of Bolt, and had managed to activate a higher form of their suits. Pulse exploited a weakness in her being Bolt, and she decided to try to become Pulse.

This is really kind of my method of defeat for her. She has a bad reaction to trying to be Pulse (that I'll try to explain on the upcoming pages), and collapses. So what's happening here is her changing from Bolt to Pulse. Then she wigs out in the last panel (continuing on into the next page, although probably more of a her becoming a mixture of herself, Bolt, and Pulse), she's actually more busty there than Annie at the end as she starts to spin out of control (and her arm is kind of distorted, but maybe not enough to be obvious).

When she became Bolt earlier it was more instant, but I thought I'd do something more interesting. I considered more of a boob to boob transition, but I worried it would be harder to tell what's going on, and the height difference complicated it.

[vincent_richter]

I just loved the reaction of "is it supposed to do that," though.
Gave me a good chuckle.

[NimrodClover]

Still not exactly clear on what weakness or duplicate nature was exploited in the recent strips but this is by far the best action scene that Lightfoot has worked into the comic.

For comparison look at the fight between the robot twins a few years back or better yet the confrontation with the giant spider robots from the very first run of the comic (when it was still black & white).

I agree, the arm thing was not odd enough to really catch the first time - a bit more distortion would have captured the idea of a violent internal reaction and possibly some breast asymmetry. Just a suggestion.

[Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by NimrodClover

Still not exactly clear on what weakness or duplicate nature was exploited in the recent strips

When she hit her with the metal pole. The weakness was that Tabitha's suit had been altered to prevent the shields from activating against Annie (probably to allow them to easily heal each other by touch).