Grrl Power #468 – Blues closet
Maxima probably didn’t know about Ingsol’s attic or else she would have had Pixel or someone keep Sydney company (i.e. supervise) out there. Still, it’s unlocked and poorly concealed, so one would hope there’s not a Hand of Vecna laying around up there.
The average human amasses quite a bunch of stuff over their lifetime. Some are better about purging themselves down to the essentials, while some are hoarders. I hang on to some key articles from my childhood. I have a folder of terrible drawings from when I was a kid, my 8-bit Nintendo (actually all my consoles), a VHS copy of the original non-special edition Star Wars movies, even though I don’t have a VHS player any more. You know, stuff like that.
A 700 year old vampire would have to be really selective about what mementos to hang on to. I mean, ignoring the occasional involuntary purge, whether it’s fleeing a mob of angry villagers or losing it all in the odd London fire, someone a few centuries old would probably need quite a few storage lockers or maybe just very little attachment to the past, and when was the last time you saw a story about a vampire that wasn’t chocked full of flashbacks? Any vampire would probably have several caches of, well, mostly sentimental crap, but also a few priceless works of art and maybe an Eye of Vecna.
As previously noted, creepy flute player painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski.
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I’m just gonna point out that if you meant “comically deep announcer-ish voice” when you said “vocal fry register,” you got it wrong. Falsetto is high register, yes, but “vocal fry” is what you get when you have bronchitis or laryngitis, when it sounds like your voice is grinding.
Source: Classically-trained operatic baritone.
Your credentials, to speak authoritatively,* are hereby recognised. :-)
* Your deep, yet soft, voice carried the necessary gravitas.
Yeah, when Sydney said “Just say ‘Announcer Voice’!”, was imagining the “Honest Trailer Guy“
OMG, they actually got Deadpool to feature in his own Honest Trailer?
Sydney, you so have to do that!
Just don’t let them bleep you. You are way better at cursing than him.
This isn’t the first time Sydney has gotten heated about someone using a word or term she doesn’t agree with (remember the food fight she started because Les kept saying ‘mouth texture’?)
DaveB is just lucky she can only address the fourth wall and not pass through it :P
Well, she thinks SHE’s writing/telling the story so she CAN pass through HER version of the fourth wall… to whatever audience her future self supposedly has. (diary? memoirs? hired comic book artist/writer? [She contacted another dimension, ours, and now is giving DaveB her story! {FINALLY, we know what one of the two unknown orbs is for!}])
Is there a reason why the Who’s who show Sydney as a cadet, when she was smacked down for calling herself that? Or did she finally figure out “NCO” is?
You mean the Cast page, and yes, Dave already said that the page is in bad need of an actualization. BTW as far as I remember, only Harem (at the lounge) and Dabbler (at the press conference) has been smacked, both times by Anvil. Syd wasn’t smacked just verbally corrected by Anvil (maybe Syd was just out of her reach :) )
She’s the one telling the story so I guess what she says goes? XD (full speed ahead and logic be damned!)
Or maybe its cause she announced it loudly on TV and the softer rebuttal wasn’t heard very well so now she’s ARC’s one and only (space) Cadet first class by way of public opinion?
DaveB thought it was funny. (nah)
DaveB wrote it before he figured out that this rank wasn’t a thing in the one he wanted to emulate for ARC but hasn’t gotten around to changing it/forgot about it. (boring answer)
Now that I think about it, the head on the flute player vaguely resmebles that of Beast (at least in his later, furrier incarnations.
Did nobody else follow Sydney’s gaze up, to the ceiling, and, at first glance, see a small girl looking down from a window?
Not me.
Try the final panel, of the next page. :-P
What could possibly go wrong?
Most likely? Sydney’s exhaustion will catch up with her, and she will curl up and fall asleep.
Falling out of the entrance, and breaking some bones, being one risk, in that scenario. Alternatively, if the door shuts instead, Sydney runs the risk of sleeping a long time, without anyone being able to find her and wake her up.
wow, maxima’s not much of a handler huh
this incompetence should definitely make the supernaturals less tense and more comfortable around supers
Only if it goes wrong. However if Sydney behaves well, then it could be a credit on Maxima’s leadership (or her luck).
“Yeah you let your completely un-vetted subordinate wander off on her own for no reason but it didn’t DIRECTLY lead to all of us getting killed / outted so we’ll just ignore it”
seems plausible
The vetting process is completed before someone is granted access to a secure or secret facility. Sydney has already been granted top-level security clearance, therefore is at liberty to wander around it, as she wishes. Unless the host organisation insists on guests being escorted, at all times, or place restrictions on where visitors may go. Which they have not.
Plus what would there be to condemn, if Sydney behaved well? Or alternatively, if she acts in an exemplary manner, for example saving lives, then folks do tend to be forgiving, even in real life.
“Yes, yes, so she saved a bunch of people. But she did not stand quietly still whilst doing so! Unforgivable!”
What was her vetting process anyway? “Well you’re clearly mentally unstable, unreliable, and not even done with puberty yet, but yeah we’ll totally put you on the pseduo-military police force after a half-assed boot camp”
She should be medicated and given a desk job.
Had Archon followed your advice, Arc-SWAT would not have someone who has immunity to mind-affecting powers, like the aggro aura. The result of which would have been Maxima being killed by Vehemence, Arc-SWAT, as a whole, being publicly defeated by him and the USA being turned into Vehemence’s playground. With him causing daily riots, in the city(s) of his choice, to keep his power level at a peak where he cannot be defeated
Failing to recognise that quirky people can still be effective, despite their unusual behaviour, means that their potential is being lost by society. Forcibly excluding them from the workforce is therefore counterproductive, in the extreme.
Further it severely handicaps society by precluding people with different world-view points and attitudes from having an active role in society. These differing perspectives can find solutions to problems that other, narrow, minds are unable to comprehend. As you demonstrate, given that you failed to appreciate the tactical benefits that Arc-SWAT gained by having Sydney’s mind on the team.
You can tell the difference between modern companies which stifle difference and playfulness, versus those which actively promote it. The latter are world-leading innovators. Whereas the former are noncompetitive losers, with a vanishing market-share.
They can’t be effective outside of poorly-written comics. They belong in an institution where they can be prevented from harming themselves and others.
Also lol @ your last paragraph. Time to grow the fuck up and get a job.
Well, given that the likes of Google, advertising companies and various entertainment industries do go out of their way to hire extroverts and innovators, and create a playful environment for them to work in, your statement has no basis in reality. Whereas mine can be proven.
Nor have you shown any correlation, in society, between people being playful and them posing a threat of injury in the workplace. Nor does society consider ‘being playful’ as requiring institutionalisation.
As such you are rather isolated in your views.
A handful of companies tolerate terrible workers because it’s good for PR? Gee, color me convinced. Really activated my almonds.
They do it because it is good for profits led by innovation. You will note how successful Google is and it is one of the most innovative companies in the world. So your counter is neither well thought-out, nor convincing.
As your comments have been shown to be baseless, and have all been unconstructive, especially for a comedy comic, I see little point in continuing.
Was gonna point out that I recognised Zdzislaw Beksinski’s work… but you kinda ruined it by giving it away in the creator-comment… =(
Heh, Half Elf. I get that reference. Too much D&D.
Waaaiiit a minute… That emblem, on the medallion… *Fetches [Ultima Age of Virtue] book, flips through, looks at crest* Holy-