To be fair, if I were in the doctors position, I’d probably be all, “Neato!” about that discovery too.

Ohhh, subtle. Very subtle. I’m telling you, Moonshadow’s got a psychic blank power. Like Sonar said ‘she’s somehow difficult to pay attention to.’ I don’t know if that’s how her invisibility works, making people forget her so hard they can’t see her, or if it’s a separate power, but it’s there. Perhaps it’s not even under her conscious control, she just put out this constant vibe that makes her forgettable. (Which could potentially make her very resentful!) Sure, she says they checked Moonshadow first, but did anyone remember to actually do it?

Let us see if Alison can remember what she was just talking about!

If popular media has taught me anything, brain tumors give you superpowers.

Crap, I didn’t even think of her freckles in relation to her invulnerability. I guess that answers the muscle mass question from the previous page’s discussion.

Much like poison is a foreign chemical that messes with receptors and proteins in your body, food nutrition is a foreign chemical that messes with receptors and proteins in your body. The point is that a non-selective form of Allison’s anomaly would actively fight the absorption of both nutrients and poisons, or any absorption of material for that matter (carbon, calcium, oxygen) through her cell membranes.

Perhaps her power is invisibility AND imperceptibility? What good is being unseen if you’re trapped in a room with one exit? Reasonably speaking, there’d be NO WAY for Moonshadow to escape past Alison. She’s infinitely (or enough to seem infinitely) stronger than Moonshadow. She shouldn’t be able to budge her if Alison plants herself (since Alison can lift objects that she’s little more than a pinpoint too, meaning she must be able to anchor herself somehow).

I still don’t buy that Moonshadow is anything but optically invisible. They’re forgettable because that’s their personality, and because they’re used to being surrounded by fairly selfish people, and probably not a little because they’re a person of colour in the USA (and am I imagining it or do they use the pronoun ‘they’?). Blending into the background is a coping strategy for plenty of oppressed people.

Beyond that, although admittedly we haven’t learned much about SFP-world metaphysics, my instinct is that such a power (forgettableness that extends beyond the immediate surroundings to any information about you, including for people who haven’t come into contact with you) is way beyond what we’ve seen so far. And wouldn’t the government have figured out how to keep records about Moonshadow by now if that were the case?

It’s kind of a little thing, but I really like how the bottom of her shirt isn’t level in panel one. Little artistic choices like that make my day sometimes. 😀

and in The Secret World, from swallowing bees.

Briefly continuing the comments on government control vs Alison’s
invulnerability, I have never for one moment believed these
therapist-doctors were assigned to all the newly-manifesting and
confused adolescents purely for the biodynamics’ benefit.
In was an ingenious solution in several ways, I have to admit.

(Apologies if this is posting twice. SFP has always eaten my nonreply posts in the past.)

On the other hand anyone is probably less noticeable with Alison around what with the one liner quips, shouting before thinking and tossing robots through hospitals.