Grrl Power #441 – The wolfening
The impervious forcefield doesn’t hurt with the subdued fear response. Neither does standing 10 feet from the most powerful superhero in the world. Depending on what lore you prefer, werewolves are potentially quite tough, and vampires can be anything from “before Willow learned how to use magic, she could kill them” up to extremely powerful, especially if they’re old or high up on the generation tree. Generally speaking though, most of them would have little chance against Superman, at least in a stand up fight. Superman vs Alucard from Hellsing might be a little closer I guess. Yes Superman has a specific vulnerability to magic, but Maxima doesn’t. Basically Sydney doesn’t feel like she has anything in particular to be afraid of, even if these two were obviously not already non-aggressive.
I’m not a fan of lazy wolfman makeup. You know, not a wolf face, just fake teeth, the slightly built up nose with the dark tip and scowl wrinkles, bushier eyebrows and the wreath of… well, it’s usually not even fur is it, it’s basically just an Amish beard. In fact it’s one of my bigger fantasy pet peeves. I understand doing a full wolf face is impractical for, say, early seasons of Buffy, but at least they did a full body costume – even if the faces were dumb looking. Penny Dreadful certainly has the budget for it, and I suppose they couldn’t be blamed for going for the Lon Chaney look with their Wolfman, but still, so many shows take the easy route. Just about the only thing I can think of off the top of my head that went whole hog was the original Wolfen movie. Not an easy thing to do in an entirely pre-CG era. Well, it would be tough to do in a post CG era too, at least convincingly. Pixar I would trust to do good looking fur, but not some studio making the latest CW “young underwear models milling about in front of a camera” production. Anyway, my lycanthrope hybrids are full on animal face since it doesn’t affect my budget either way. This makes a potential crossover with Fred Perry’s Gold Digger universe slightly more challenging since the were-whatevers there basically have human faces. Of course the explanation is easy enough, just that lycans can halt the transformation at different stages. Well, cross that bridge when I get to it.
I have a bad habit of filling the background with empty frames, then when it comes time to color it, I’m scrambling to fill them with something. I think it worked out okay this time, the paintings in the background are by an artist named by Zdzislaw Beksinski. Well the first one in the hall is a Geiger, but you can’t see it on this page. I found Beksinski’s art by googling “macabre painting” or something. He’s got quite a collection. Check them out if you enjoy macabre stuff.
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Just noting, I don’t know if anyone else has said anything about it, but if you swap the I and G in Ingsol’s name, it spells Losing backwards. Just saying.
It’s a bit more involved than that; just say it’s an anagram, and you’ll be good.
INGSOL -> GNISOL -> LOSING
You only need to swap the “i” and the “g”, and reverse the words, as Wraith noted.
Reclev maragan.
So, what kind of Pokemon can you expect to find in a minefield?
Ones that have the move Self-Destruct?
So Voltorb?
Quaputzi.
pretty sure it’s the sheer potency of Sydney’s Nerd Level, and not her force field, that makes her impervious to old school monster appearances :D
I’m not saying you are wrong but the fact she does have said force field at her disposal probably doesn’t hurt matters.
Nerds, especaily autistic nerds, we will stare man-eating monsters in the face and run up to hug them. Running for our lives is near the bottom of the list. After such things as proclaming “I was right all along they do exist”, and a list of hundreds of questions to ask. We will run at the giant scaled dragon, the powerfull manwolf, or any other thing, and death will not have entered our mind. Even if we die we die happy knowing that we got to live out a fantasy even for just a moment.
With luck it may be a nerd dragon, keen to play a game of Dungeons & Humans™.
mmm, you mean Houses and Humans …. look up steel dragon on youtube…..
No Gregor, Ingsol only wishes he had planned it.
Ingsol’s whispering to Maxima, combined with our knowledge of how he failed his intimidation attempt, did seem, to me, to be an intentional provocation. Designed to goad Gregor into falling into the same trap.
Clearly these two have history, given Ingsol knew exactly what buttons to push. And Gregor knows he has been played, for the same reason.
Still not a plan, but I will grant he did take advantage of an opportunity that presented itself.
Fairly put.
Cthulhu could show up and she’d probably just ask Max to take a picture of the two of them. (And then probably scrub with bleach afterwards but still.)
Zephan suspects that they already have an all-too-close relationship!
A solid mental ground may technically be a good counter to Cthulhu’s effect on the mind. It’s harder to break what is already broken.
I mean a lack of solid mental ground.
Looks very suspiciously, at Peter Sadlon. You kind of look like you have lost a lot of SAN rolls there buddy?
Here, why don’t you slip into this nice outfit, I think it will suit you. Look it even has a nice shiny hat, that will protect you from mind control!
*holds out a stylish stright-jacket and dashing tin-foil hat*
Sorry, Cthulhu will not be there.
He is at another card game with me and some friends.
Oh and he is losing his “shirt” at the moment.
And it’s hard to get shirts in his size.
I know that problem well. Proper fitting shoes are a pain to find as well.
I have. Speaking from experience, even the world is too terrify & insane to view with true clarity without taking a hit to the damn psyche, The Slumbering One infinitely more so.
Even Cthulhu thinks so.
Every time he wakes up and looks at the state of the world, he rolls over and pulls the covers over his head.
Vampire? Check
Werewolf? Check
Now, we need a frankstein, a mummy, a zombie and of course, the most important thing… a kind and naive D&D GM.
Just to say “this is not ravenloft, Sydney!” to her…
I think you have it backwards.
I suspect that Thursday is usually game night, vampires vs. werewolves, and Gregor kicks off the evening by kicking over a vampire and yelling “This. Is. Ravenloft!”
I like the idea of immortals being gigantic nerds who spend a lot of time roleplaying.
When 900 years old you are, bored as much, you will be.
In one GURPs campaign I designed, I had a complex multi-verse. In one part was a dystopian far-future setting. Loosely speaking a cyberpunk type society. Where a group of cyber-augmented mafiosi lieutenants were dissatisfied with their existence. They were high up enough to be able to spend much of their time as they chose. But none-the-less inescapably bound to their family.
Even should they choose to try and escape their lifestyle, there was nowhere else to go. The entire world suffered from the same woes as they faced in their day-to-day lives. At least, at their rank, they could find escape in virtual-reality gaming. And, unlike the games of lesser mortals, they had access to an uncannily immersive game.
One where they could live in a ‘golden age’, before the world went to Hell. And could choose to live mundane lives, without any real pressure, or daily murdering, drug dealing or the other horrors of their normal existence.
From the players points of view, they got to start by roleplaying these archaic characters. Who looked suspiciously like themselves. Gradually unlocking hidden powers (of totally unrestricted nature – one wanted to be a samurai, another Neo from the Matrix, another a spiritual medium). It was only at the end of their first adventure, that they ‘woke up’, to find that their existence was a game, and their players were powerful future mafia!
Incidentally, although we never got to the cyber-warfare aspects, should they enter cyberspace, in the future, the powered-up game characters represented the idealised versions of themselves. Which the neural systems would draw upon to create their avatars, in any virtual reality setting. Be it a wild west environment protecting a bank’s financial data, or a sword and sorcery setting guarding the justice computer network.
But, as the cyber mafia were really powerful, in that setting, their contemporary avatars were much stronger. Their needs were far greater than the trivial challenges of surviving in the peaceful golden age. So, whilst the original powered up characters were 100 point characters (the Neo player had a very toned down version of him, initially), their net-running avatars were actually boosted to 1,000 points. Making each of them very powerful super-heroes!
Plus, as a final twist, the players would have eventually found out that the system their mafia characters used to play the game on was no ordinary virtual reality set-up. They had actually pilfered a secret government project, which they had not learnt the full details of. It was not a virtual reality. They were actually possessing past-life ancestors, and were actually thereby time-travellers. Their weak 100 point characters, could actually make changes, that could alter the dystopian future!
Fluffy werewolves are now headcanine.
Booom BOOOOM!
Hate to say it, but the response from Sydney was pretty predictable. :)
As to the expression on the werewolfs muzzle, priceless! :D
Only because we know Sydney.
Happen to look up in the night sky(RL), a werewolf reveal during a full moon? A curious happenstance.
You should just do empty frames in the background more often. If I had to name my biggest complaint about this comic’s art, it’s that every panel is way too busy. It’s distracting, makes it hard to visually read, and is honestly quite ugly and gaudy much of the time.
You don’t need to give every single panel these complex, shaded, textured backgrounds full of lots of objects. As long as there are one or two establishing shots, you can just do a solid color background or something simple like that. This is basically a solved problem in comics, but you seem to be ignoring the solution. It’s particularly confusing because you did it right very early in the comic’s life, but at some point you stopped.
He stopped because he got much enthusiastic praise for his backgrounds, when he started experimenting with detailing them richly. This is not intended as a put down mind. We all have different tastes, so what appeals to some will not go down well with others.
For instance one commentator said this is their all-time favourite page. And I have noted that tends to happen when Dave has done other high-impact gloriously detailed pages. Whilst other do, to be fair, pick pages which would be more to your stated preferences.
Thank goodness! The bulk of modern entertainment tries to appeal to folks with the attention span of a mayfly. Which requires moving swiftly to some action, and aiming to be all tied up in some neat conclusion, at the end of the episode.
Whereas Grrl Power takes a much more leisurely approach. Meandering through day-to-day life with Sydney. And stopping to sniff the roses, rather than fast-forwarding to the next fight. Which allows us to appreciate every page, and in fact every panel, as a work of art, in its own right.
Rather than pressing the artist to change his style, to suit your desires, how about taking the time to savour it as presented? I genuinely find that the more you look at it, the more it has to offer. Something that plain comics have a lot harder time achieving.
Fairly sure (but could be wrong) that LockeZ was being sarcastic and taking a shot at other webic artists
No, I was not.
I know you’re only referring to the backgrounds, but IMO the art has improved markedly from the beginning. And since the backgrounds are a part of that change, they have contributed to that improvement. Plus, we usually get some cool Easter eggs as a bonus.
Thinking about it, earlier on this week I recommended the comic to a couple of artists. Ones who I knew would have no interest in reading a comic. My advice was purely based on the fact that I felt they would enjoy the art. Plus they would be blown away by how fast Dave can create each page (or double page, in this case).
Oh good, now the government is not only hiding the existence of aliens, but vampires and werewolfs and all sorts of magic creatures? Hell, if magic exists, why aren’t they hiring experts and training people in its use in the thousands? If the Army is creating a Cyber branch, they should certainly create a Magic branch. And even aside from the threat to National Security, think of the practical applications. Larger crops grown a faster rate, longer lasting preservatives, teleportation of goods, faster travel, the possibilities are quite endless. Magic should be the newest popular college degree, like petroluem engineering was a few years ago. Even if people with magical ability are super rare, there should be an international race to find those individuals with untapped magical potential, and pay them top dollar to work for them.
Actually Arianna specifically mentioned vampires, in the press conference. Indicating that they, and other creatures of legend, may have been stories inspired by historical supers.
Spring too much on the public, in one go, and you will create confusion, panic and a loss of faith in their preexisting belief structures. So Archon have prepared the ground, by that statement. Let the public get used to the fact that supers are real first. And allow them the time for it to sink in that vampires were not just legends, and to find ways to accommodate that in their world-view. Before burdening them with just how many frightening things are actually real!
No offense, but if spokesperson actually said the words “We were worried that we would burden you with how frightening things actually are,” they’d be eviscerated. I mean, don’t patronize us, ARCHON. There are much scarier monsters in this world than vampires and werewolves. We’ve fought wars and died to stop worse monsters. I understand they’ve got a lot on their plate right now, but that’s not really an excuse for a governmentally funded and controlled peace-keeping organization. It also sets a bad precedent. “Oh, the public isn’t ready yet, lets wait a few years.” Suddenly two decades have passed and the information gets leaked anyways. We can’t cower under our beds, so scared of how people MIGHT react that we never act.
When you cover up werewolves, the terrorists win.
See, these are the kind of analogies I love about webcomics.
Agreed. If you have an unethical or bureaucratic organisation withholding the information, that invariably happens. Given that super powers are becoming more prevalent though, the powers that be will be able to anticipate that such secrets will come out. Now the incompetent governments around the world will hope to avoid the issue as long as possible. Much muttering of “don’t rock the boat”.
However, in America, they have clearly given Archon responsibility over such matters. Plus they are clearly in contact with the President, and other world-leaders, as seen in the conference that Sydney walked in on, in order to co-ordinate the strategy. And we have hints, like the one I linked, that Archon have a preplanned road-map for how and when to release the information.
When that is done, the sensible thing to do is also to provide the documentation, which was drawn up, to govern the process. This will allow the public to see that reasonable and responsible precautions were taken, to ensure both their own safety and that of the supers with frightening-seeming powers.
A few examples of things which must be done, in advance of public release:
• Identify and locate as many of the supers, who are the source of legends or rumours, as possible.
• Undertake a risk analysis, of the legendary ‘monsters’. Any who are both friendly and safe must have this done, in order to reassure the public, and avoid lynch-mobs forming. Dangerous ones need to be dealt with discreetly and promptly.
• Identify those who might be at risk from the general public, and put in a plan for how to keep them safe, taking into account any unique needs they may have.
• Ensure that contingency plans and resources are available, to deal with any who become aggressive, once their secret becomes public knowledge.
• Use information analysts (eg Lucas) to make informed estimates of what the likely numbers are, for the above, and other key metrics. And allocate targets which will show that sufficient precautions have been completed, for each critical area. Governed by strict time-limits, in order to minimise the risk of premature exposure.
• Undertake police and other forces training, in how to behave with frightening supers (and other related issues).
All of this final example can be done openly, thanks to supers being known to be real. The trainers can even say “OK we don’t know what scary powers we might come up against, so let us just pick some things from the movies, just so we have something to practice with, for now”.
Whilst knowing full well that the ones being chosen are actually what the training is for! Press coverage of such will, when the final announcements are made, make people realise “oh, cool, all the cops have already been trained for this, we saw all that happening”.
• Have a structure in place, with what resources have already been put in place, to respond immediately, (with a continuously updated and ready-to use, play-book) in the event that there is an uncontrolled release.
I assume that you are referring to real-world developments, for the former? Given that in-comic Leon is the only individual who would fit the bill of being a cyber warfare expert. Dabbler does have cybernetics, but that is a different meaning of the word. Other than being able to look up Wikipedia, with her implants, we have had no indication that she is interested in primitive human computer technology.
Regarding the latter though, Archon does have a few magic using individuals. Dabbler being the most powerful. But also including various members of Arc-Light. Namely Zephan Zoeng (an artefact user, of apparently magical nature, seeing as he was contributing to a magic-seeming defence) and Gwen (who is only a beginner, with very rudimentary knowledge of spells, and little power).
Plus an unspecified member, who was capable of providing Mr Amorphous and Achilles with their altered appearances as bank robbers. Possibly that was Gwen, but her illusions seemed to be weaker than that. Finally (of the ones we have met) there is Pixel, who we know to be an artefact expert. However we do not yet know whether she covers magical or technological versions.
What we do know is that Archon has drawn in all the extraordinary individuals they could find, from every branch of the military and the public sector in general. And, because the numbers still fell short, even recruiting civilian consultants, such as Dabbler and Math, and former vigilantes, namely Heatwave, Achilles and Mr Amorphous.
Ending up with a fair number of supers. But painfully few magic-using individuals. Possibly Arc-Light and Arc-Dark are actually full of magic-users, who we simply have not met yet. If that is the case though, one would expect Maxima to have consulted the most capable ones available, when trying to examine Sydney’s orbs.
As such, I suspect that we have seen the key players already. Meaning that magic is way under-represented in Archon (and presumably society in general), in comparison to supers. And supers are rare to start with!
Finally Peggy told us that super powers are not at all well understood. If there are significantly less magic-users than supers, then it is likely that is an even more poorly developed field of knowledge. So I doubt that a magic-specific branch is likely any time soon.
I obviously can’s speak for Dave, but if you’re a fan of one Bob Howard, employee of Capital Laundry Services, then there’s one obvious answer: it is BLOODY dangerous.
Well, yes, but so are missiles. Doesn’t stop us from researching something.
I get that this is a murky field, but it also seems like something that would be made A Priority. As in, “unmurk this field right now, soldier!” When a new theater of war opens up, the US has to adapt in order to at least defend from the threat it poses. RL US Army recently created a Cyber Warfare branch in order to counter the threat that such a route poses to national security. This seems like something that would be in a similar vein.
Very good points. Such would be necessary. Provided the resources are available to do that. If they are lacking, as seems likely, then it would be a priority to try and obtain them, or at a minimum, learn as much as is possible.
Perhaps the “Defence Against the Dark Arts” program will be mostly muggles, armed only with theoretical knowledge? Being only advised by the three or four real magic users that are known. Dabbler may not be available for such, if she applies her no-sharing-technology rule to magic too.
A cyber branch, of the army, can be created by just allocating the funds to buy equipment and hire or train personnel (along with all the usual gubbins, like organising it all). The same cannot be done to create a magic branch. They may have to make do with a twig.
The above is from the Grrl Power page over on TV Tropes. It seems reasonable enough, I suppose.
My impression is that people with real magical powers are, as you said, super rare, just as people with super powers are in DaveB’s world. It maybe that Archon and other groups are actively searching for people with such abilities and we just haven’t seen the recruitment drive yet. I wonder how they would identify people with such talents anyway except by stumbling onto them as they did with Sydney or by them coming in to ask for a job.
Sorry! This was supposed to be a reply to Rainwall’s comment”> above.
DANIEL THE HUMAN HAS HIS PC BACK!! I MIGHT BE ONLINE MORE OFTEN AGAIN!!! WHOOOO!!!
Also, about the comic, I can see his sister reacting like that… :p
Woo hoo! Welcome back.
*fluffs up fur, and strikes an expectant pose*
After quickly scanning four pages of comments, no one has mentioned my thought yet.
The reason that there are so many werewolves with humanoid faces is so they can speak. A wolf mouth is not configured for shaping human words. Many stories have werewolves transform back to human to speak and they use telepathy (with other pack members) when in wolf form.
Personally, I like the full wolf transformation and totally agree with all the arguments about why it is better. However, there is a downside which I’m sure will be erased with future explanation. Or you can tell me why I’m wrong.
Somebody did recently (but maybe not regarding this comic page) link to the Freefall comic,
where one of the heroes, a Bowman’s wolf (an artificially modified bipedal humanoid wolf species, with human intelligence, and full wolf head), is explaining why she needed to have a ventriloquist, as her voice coach.
“If you have no lips, it is hard to say ‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers’.”
I too have never been keen on furry-face werewolves Personally though I am a fan of werewolves having three forms. Human, wolf and bipedal humanoid wolf. The latter having a proper wolf’s head. The lycanthrope then just needs to be adept at choosing the right form, for the right job.
Want to skulk around someone’s back yard, at night? Wolf. Need to run as fast as the wind? Wolf. Fancy talking to your bookie? Human. Trying to find the right smile, to convince a bureaucrat to cooperate? Wolfman. Have a craving to chase the dog-catcher, out of the neighbourhood, forever? Frigging huge wolfman!
Daniel here. Yes, my PC is back…
I like the 3-forms idea too, human-hybrid-animal (not just Were-WOLVES…), only with the option of practicing hard enough to allow varying levels of hybridization. Need to blend in? Human. Need specialist abilities, or blend other ways? Animal. Need to maximize combat ability? Hybrid, with animal face the default. Also need to give them 1 last warning/say other things? Practice either ventriloquism or leaving your face human enough for speech, most likely going full animal when the fight starts…
I’ve also been thinking about the “nightmare movie Werewolf” Vs “Protector Werewolf” angle I’ve recently learned about, I’m thinking the “Movie Werewolf” is a “feral” Werewolf, out of control to varying degrees, killing people, animals, etc, inspiring movies. The “Irish Protector Werewolves” on the other hand are “tamed”, fulling in control of their minds like old man Gregor above, protecting what they deem important, rescuing people, with only the Irish acknowledging this side of them…
Dave, if you get the chance (and haven’t yet done so), check out the movie, “Dog Soldiers”. Hands down, my favorite depiction of werewolves. No CGI was used, either, which makes it a double win, in my opinion.
You know, I’m probably not Supposed to find Gregor adorable, but I totally do. Also: enfuzzen may well be my new favorite word.
Well I guess you could say he is a big dog in a way and that makes him kinda cute.
It’s just the horrible spelling and grammar that leaves me disliking it. If it is “eMbiggen” (for which there is a prior precedent), then it should be “eMfuzzen” and “eMwolven” (not wolfen). Consistency!
And I’m only kinda kidding…
Those are phonetic sound effects. How they scan is therefore more important than their etymology. One of them sounds OK either way. The other two though sound off if you alter them.
“The Howling’ got me is the base line. Also “Dog Soldiers” is rather good. I just think the idea of one main one is killed they all die or are “cured” is a cop out story wise. Don’t recall that in the lore. The real lore not Kurt Siodmak’s version.
Siodmak’s greatest creation during this period was The Wolf Man , a movie that exhibits a purity and economy of structure and a unity of action, time, and place similar to Greek tragedy. The script abounds with subtle nuances: Larry Talbot comes on like a wolf to Gwenn Conliff, then becomes an actual wolf, attacking her at the picture’s end; Larry’s brother, John, has died in a hunting accident—perhaps at the hands of their father, Sir John, who favored John and whose wrongheaded, strained attempts to get close to his second son ultimately lead to wolf man Larry’s death in another “hunting accident” at the hands of Sir John. Most of what is today considered standard werewolf lore actually originated with Siodmak in this picture and its two sequels. He invented the famous four-line verse (“Even a man who is pure in heart”) and the business about silver bullets and full moons, and provided Lon Chaney, Jr., with his second-best (after Lennie) and most enduring film role.
Read more: https://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Sh-Sy/Siodmak-Curt.html#ixzz4Eyt0NMio
That is actually borrowed from vampire lore. But there have often been crossovers between those two species, in storytelling.
Only by lazy writers
You are right. Where applying it to borrowing lore from one, to use in the other. I was intending to apply it more broadly than that, but did not express myself well. Historically werewolves and vampires are strongly associated with each other. Having roots in the same regions (*peers through window, to the surrounding countryside*).
As such there is a rich source of inspiration for writers to make associations between the two. Some of which can be cleverly done. Others less so, as you say. Folks have already mentioned vampires using werewolves as daytime bodyguards.
I felt that the Underworld series of films handled this particularly well. Especially the division which happened between them, due to the harsh subjection of the werewolves, and the war that resulted. And, cleverly, they created a shared origin story for both species.
Vampires turning into wolves is an example of one of the borrowings which has actually become a staple, in some mainstream versions of the vampire. This is especially appropriate in settings which do not have werewolves, as it helps to explain the associations between the two, despite there only being the one. And would also explain why there were legends of werewolves, if ‘humans’ were observed turning into wolves (without finding out that they were actually vampires).
Heh, his face in the second-to-last panel reminds me of— well, it’s a r34 pic of Sniper Wolf and Snake, and Snake’s gettin’ it on….. with one of her wolfdogs, who has an expression nearly exactly that.
If you really want to see: in Paheal, it’s entry 7557.
Umm, what is ‘Paheal’? o_O
Googling the term it is clearly a rule 34 website. Even having a section named for that. And, more worryingly, a “My Little Pony” one too.
We must not let Sydney find out about this. She may appreciate henai, but it could ruin her innocent enjoyment of MLP!
Sydney: I’ll hug you and squeeze you and name you George!!!
No no, you must not do that! First off, Sydney is mine!
*hugs her and squeezes her, too*
Secondly she wants to call her firstborn “Sydney Scoville the third”. “George Scoville junior”, just will not do!
I’ve always wanted to grab and hug a fuzzy, and friendly, werewolf. :D
I think there’s a typo…? Gregor says “Ingosl,” but I’m pretty sure the vampire’s name was “Ingsol.” Unless it’s the other way around.
Looks like it’s been fixed.
Yup. Dave must be back from his vacation. Welcome back Dave, I hope you enjoyed yourself.
Mine updated automatically, for whatever reason. But if anybody is still seeing “Ingosl”, just update your memory cache. On Chrome, as an example, you do that by using CTRL-F5.
If we find out that one of those 2 orbs we don’t know what is actually forces the world around her to go along with her stupidity, I won’t be surprised.
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffhahahaha! XD
Oh my god Sydney, priceless as always.
At least she didn’t throw her hands in the air and yell “DOGGY!” like Helix from “Freefall”…
I love that though!
Especially given that it was all robots, reacting that way. So it tickled me that they deciding walking into a shop, which may have robots carrying high explosives, in their hands, would be a bad idea!
if she has an “impervious force-field,” couldn’t she have used collisions from spawning them to lift the girders where her lighthook wasn’t able to? referring to a previous page
No. We have had several examples of the shield conforming to fit into a confined space. For example indoors it is always a lot smaller than outdoors. Unless Halo finds a glyph, on the Forb, which she has not demonstrated before, I think the shield would only expand up until it hit the girder, then stop.
Plus, unlike Achilles, who is utterly invulnerable, the shield probably has an upper limit. The more force it resists, the more pronounced the markings appear on it. Which seems likely to be a visual warning, for the user, so they can judge how close the shield may be to collapse.
Note that this is consistent with their star ratings. Achilles is six star defence, whereas Sydney’s shield is only five star. Also bearing in mind that the star system factors in general utility too. And the shield has lots of useful effects, such as allowing light, sound and radio waves to pass, yet blocking harmful levels of them, whilst also stopping teleportation through it, blocking intangible things like Vehemence’s aggro aura, and having the ability to protect allies and innocent bystanders alike. So its raw defence capability may be less than we might otherwise assume, using that rating system.
Given that, standing underneath girders, weighing many tons, may not be the safest practice. Even if it turns out that Halo can support that weight, it would put her at severe risk, if a foe chose to attack her, from above, at that time. The combined force could cause the shield to collapse, and the girder would instantly squish Sydney!
Clever idea though. :-)
Eh I’d probably do the same thing except replace the werewolf being an old man to a cute well endowed girl with a humanish face
I’d say the loom and leer worked, it would on me, hunky werewolf hunk takes off his shirt, and the muscles under fur!! ^\\\^
Gregor is now winning at “the most hot man in this comic so far” list… and the fact that he is a werewolf just distance the second place… Halo reactions represent me, and I love that.
Given a blue fuzzball many many comics from now.. She’s got a type. :)
Nice Agnes line with the werewolf!
OMFG! Barkly! Fluffy Barkly! Just when I thought it was impossible to love Sydney even more!
I’m rereading this again and this line just amuses me no end
And your comment made me take another look at it. Not sure how I missed the “effects” in panel 9, but bwa ha ha ha ha ha!! Embiggen has been around forever, and I’m guilty of having used it often in the past. But enfuzzen and enwolfen? I’m friggin dying here! Lord knows I needed this laugh today!
I guess there was some Frix Shadowing here?
Doggy!