Grrl Power #1291 - Sole searching

Thank you for the support! You guys are awesome!

You silly primitives and your lack of advanced space medicine. Just invent advanced space medicine already, geeze! Is it so hard? What are you waiting for?

Blowing off a supervillain's leg when there's a very good chance that it will get caught on a camera phone isn't really much better than blowing off their head, at least from a PR standpoint. Of course, if you blow off a head, there's less chance the supervillain in question will sue you for super-police brutality. Either way, dismembering villains takes the public perception down a specific path - even though Maxima did it in the team's very first public fight. Arianna would prefer to avoid that path, Maxima would also, but understands the value in showing that the kid gloves come off very quickly when dealing with super powered crime. 

But Peggy's on the team for a number of reasons. She is a pilot and someone Max trusts as an Lt. Also, Maxima didn't want a situation where Spider-Man is busy keeping a section of bridge from collapsing on some civilian, giving the Green Goblin ample time to fly away on his glider. In Maxima's scenario, Hiro is keeping a bus from tipping over a bridge, the Green Goblin analog is starting to fly away, and suddenly he takes a 7.62 in the ankle and falls screaming off his glider. 

Of course the other important factor after you catch the villain is to not stick them in some ridiculous revolving door penal system like Arkham Asylum. I actually don't know what is considered canon in the DC universe in terms of how many times various criminals have been incarcerated either to escape or to be declared reformed only to crime again, but considering Arkham was in stuff as old as the Super Friends cartoon and probably a lot longer before that in the comics, it feels like Joker has been in and out of there like 400 times. Like, so many times that the Joker would have to be well into his 80's if he even spent a few months there each time. You would think that Arkham would probably have been shut down a long time ago. But that's not really how American comics without a single, contiguous storyline work. Every writer that gets his hands on a title can basically just ignore what came before. The Grrl-verse doesn't work like that because I don't have 30 simultaneous books coming out every month!