Heroin Power Activate! (…hey wait a minute…)
I’ll admit, it’s a lame cop-out to give Karen ‘spur-of-the-moment super strength’. I suppose you could say that the other people were too consumed by surprise and fear to free themselves from Q-Matic, but even then it’s a bit of a stretch for her to be able to free herself from that bind. But I felt that the drama called for it, and when drama calls…it usually wins on my drawing table.
This scene gets continued next week!
She’s the heroin (at least of the moment), so of course it isn’t impossible.
Heroin Power Activate! (…hey wait a minute…)

I’ll admit, it’s a lame cop-out to give Karen ‘spur-of-the-moment super strength’. I suppose you could say that the other people were too consumed by surprise and fear to free themselves from Q-Matic, but even then it’s a bit of a stretch for her to be able to free herself from that bind. But I felt that the drama called for it, and when drama calls…it usually wins on my drawing table.
This scene gets continued next week!
You could always explain it as a combination of adrenaline, and all the previous victims struggles loosening the screws.
Good thinking! Never really considered that