Grrl Power #1041 - Shortstop (Patreon)

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Smash cut to action!

I guess all cuts are smash cuts really. Well, unless it's a dissolve or a star wipe, or one of those PowerPoint "a bunch of tiles flip over" transitions. It's a good rule of thumb that if PowerPoint can do it, don't put it in your movie. Although weirdly, Star Wars (Ep IV) got away with a ton of non-traditional transitions. Clock wipes, swipe wipes, bookend wipes, diagonal wipes, French door wipes, iris wipes, argyle wipes. It should look like a movie that was produced by someone sitting down at an editing suite for the first time, but it all totally works.

If you can't tell, I'm not sure what else to add about this page. The only particularly notable thing is Anvil using her kinetic absorption to cancel her inertia. KE=1/2 m•v^2. (Yeah, I'm attempting to do something involving math and super powers, so buckle up.) If she gets knocked back, then absorbs all the kinetic energy when she hits the ground, well, she can't absorb mass, so really, she's just absorbing velocity.

It's actually a little more complicated than that, though. She couldn't just stop herself dead in the middle of a freefall. She could only absorb the energy when she hits the ground. It's the moment when the velocity violently changes. I guess what she's really absorbing Velocity Delta. "∆v" if you will. Hence, the name "∆nvil"

(Actually I just made that up as I was writing this post, but it'd be cool if I'd planned that from the beginning. Don't tell anyone.)