Grrl Power #488 – Unusual suspects
With a moral compass like that, Ravven should at least be on the suspect list. It does seem like a lot of work to go through to drum up some business though.
When Ingsol says he knows a dozen individuals, he’s thinking of those who are capable, not necessarily motivated. Blood magic is not so rarefied a skill. Animating golems is a skill unto itself, and using blood magic to do it is not unheard of. Making them smart enough to use a variety of weapons is a related but ultimately separate skill. It’s possible they’re looking for a team or dare I say it, a cabal.
By definition, there’s nothing inherently evil about a cabal. You could have a cabal to secretly teach girls to read in countries where it’s not allowed, but man, it’s tough to use that word without evoking a dark and evil conspiracy.
Geeze it’s been so many pages since Ingsol’s showed up I just realized I totally forgot his accent. I’ll have to rejigger some of his dialog when I get a chance.
Edit: Fixed up some of Max’s dialog.
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I think it would be safe to assume that Ingsol forgot his accent too. I mean he is so very old, he has been living in so many cultures, he must be able to speak so many accents or without one.
Without one is probably the hardest one. After all, “no accent” is just “regional accent for where you are”.
And as I pointed out earlier, he’s an old man. Current day language to him would be the language of “those damn kids are fucking up the language”, but worse.
Technically it’s the cosmopolitan or ‘Mid-Western’ dialect that has “no accent”. The one American news casters are trained to speak with.
Which is only “no accent” if you are a white middle class American. And not even then sometimes.
That is why I am so glad that the BBC dropped its similar long-standing policy (commonly known as ‘BBC English’). As a lover of exotic accents, I enjoy hearing regional broadcasts in local accents. Likewise with appropriate accents for overseas broadcasts. And, of course, not discriminating against either (barring the harder-to-understand varieties, naturally enough), in general newsreader posts.
It also has the useful effect of making the BBC more popular, amongst folks with such accents, rather than resenting the elitist policy, which was the historical norm.
One reason for the ‘BBC English’ was so that people the world over had a greater chance understanding it because the pronounciation was so clear, while it can be nice to hear Geordie, but imagine that being the voice for the VE Day announcements, or the surrender of America to the Free World Alliance
Apparently, a major reason they dropped the BBC English is that during World War 2, the germans were training their spies in that specific accent.
So they switched it to prevent the german spies from infiltrating broadcasts and mimicking legit ones.
I found an article about this on Wikipedia for anyone who wants to read it.
That’s still an accent to people that don’t speak the same way.
For your entertainment and edification, especially since it’s entirely relevant…
https://skippyslist.com/2011/03/08/50-rules-to-follow-if-i-end-up-in-an-urban-fantasy-novel/
Someone needs to send several copies to Sydney, in different formats, to ensure there is a minor chance she will actually read it :D
She’d read it as a how-to….
… Good point …
I think daveB might find number 50 uncomfortable. another reason not to give it to Sidney.
I Don’t know, I think she’s pretty happy with her superhero upgrade and all her new “friends”…
Maxima you can get me dirty anytime and not feel sorry at all…
Ah! did I say that out loud?!?
New year’s update:
Whoever is in charge of setting the world’s universal clock has announced that there will be a leap second added at the end of 2016 to keep the day in sync with atomic clocks. It will occur at UTC midnight, so those of you celebrating in London will need to count down with “5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 0”.
For those of you in the rest of the world, you will need to figure out what to do with your extra second.
Aaaaaand…How much time did you waste to tell us about an extra second?….
;)
When was the last time we had a decent Sydney curse rant?
Too long…
Yeah, “most”! Like Mike the Headless Chicken!
At least one executioner was known to intentionally take multiple chops, with his axe, to make the event more entertaining, for the crowd. Until the invention of the guillotine, quite a few beheadings were prolonged and bloody. Although usually they did actually finish the job off.
Mind you, technically a prisoner should never face more than three attempts, at execution, before being set free, by (European) tradition. Which can trace its roots back to trial by combat, and similar ordeals. The gist of the argument being that if man has tried to execute a convict three times, but failed, then it should be taken as a sign of divine intervention. The modern take being that it is too traumatic. I have no idea if it persists to the present day,* but I do know that there have been a small number of commuted death sentences, historically.
* Double jeopardy would, where applicable, but I understand that in the USA the above principle does not. And no E.U. country is allowed to conduct executions, under the Human Rights Act (and equivalents). So the list of possible jurisdictions, retaining the tradition, is considerably narrowed.
Okay, once again I get proof of how clueless and unobservant I can be. It’s taken me this long to notice that little smear of dust and grime on Ingsol’s shoulder in panel five from where Maxima touched him! Yes, I saw and enjoyed the gag in the little mini-comic below this page, but I never noticed that DaveB had taken the time and trouble to set it up.
Is it just me or does Ravven come across as a Rogue Antivirus.
Is DaveB going to be posting the winged girl in Who’s Who? He hasnt for either of the strips in which she’s featured, with speaking roles.
He still hasn’t gotten Zova from 482 either.
True, but he seems like a background character so far with just one line. This winged person seems like a more important character who has had a back and forth dialog now for two strips, and still hasn’t been in the Who’s Who for some reason.
Happy new year, one and all.
Don’t forget to include the leap second in your count down at local midnight. Either say “one” twice or go on to include zero before saying “Good Riddance 2016, You Sucked” or what ever your local version is.
Maxima is a dirty, dirty girl.
And you like it :P
Is it just me, or are the famous and the infamous dropping like flies these days?
I just heard that on the last day of 2016, William Christopher passed away. If you’re not familiar with the name, he played Father Mulcahy on the TV show MASH and was my second favorite character – beaten only by Radar.
RIP William Christopher
It’s probably just my imagination that we’re losing people at a faster rate than usual and I certainly haven’t bothered to look up any statistics, but the list of notable folk we lost in 2016 is kind of lengthy . . .
After WW-2 we had the baby boom and the huge surge in births. What we see now is the beginning of a demographic change as the people we grew up with get old…
Problem is, the talent of old is being replaced with talentless mould, just look at the modern ‘musicians’
People thought the exact same thing about modern musicians a generation ago. And a generation before that. And before that. And before that.
You seriously comparing Bieber with Bowie? o_O
You do realize there are also good new artists right?
Didn’t say there wasn’t, just the proportion of talentless auto-tuned mold fair outweighs the good, because anyone with a computer can record their crap nowadays
Dang! i recognized 28 off that list right off the top of my head, and would probably recognize a few more if i had any need to actually look them up…
BTW, Dave: Ravven’s “Who’s Who” is still missing from both this page and the previous one. Not sure if you forgot to add it or consciously decided not to.
Gah. I didn’t have the tag set up properly, but it’s there now, for this page and the previous one.
They should’ve done the job a little better! I mean, you chop off most of someones head, what did you do with the body? Or the most-of-a-head?
Stick it on a spike, judging by our one known example of them dealing with those who break Twilight Council rules. I imagine she did a good job of playing dead.
Damnit Maxima, physical contact isn’t necessary anyway… let alone when you’re filthy.
It is when you have palpable sexual tension, in the air. Maxima has difficulty resisting Ingsol’s hypnotic allure. If it were not for Dabbler continually training her, Maxima would have been humping him, in that scene, not just putting a hand on his shoulder!
Which is why it’s Wednesday!