Grrl Power #489 – Two liter minimum
Hey, I think they’re up to something. Oh, and in panel 3 the bats don’t literally say “Form of a Vampire.” I just thought it was funny. But if you do want to imagine it, obviously they’d do it in a chorus of high pitched squeaky voices.
So yeah, there’s probably an interesting story behind Sciona’s current situation. Yup. And obviously she’s a pretty tough cookie in the first place, cause most people don’t just walk off a boo-boo like that.
Zova’s name is Zvonamir, but Gunnhildr calls him Zova because it’s easier for her to say. That Z to V transition trips her up, even though listening to this Old Norse, she probably wouldn’t really have an issue with it. But really, how often does she get to speak it these days?
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So just to be clear… she survived having the top half of her head chopped in half along the plane of her upper jaw, and having that top half of her head surgically transplanted onto some kind of orc thing? Is that what I’m looking at?
Whoops, that should be “top half of her head chopped off along the plane…”
Yup. This would appear to be the bit, of the suspect, that did not fall into the category of “mostly” which Ingsol was referring to.
Just a fleshwound.
‘Tis a scratch
I’ve ‘ad worse.
What do you think you’re gonna do, bleed on me?
That’s not something you want to say to a xenomorph (you know, those space critters with acid blood)
Eh. Through baking soda at them.
The Council hunts its own. Which means they really should understand the principle of “burn it to ash and scatter the ashes”. Otherwise you get this.
“… by dropping each component particle into varied types of hostile stellar objects”. For when you really mean it, but lack an atomic disintegrator.
Superman’s preferred method of permanent destruction.
You can never be too sure when it comes to supervillains. Those tenacious bastards always come back.
Same as those smelly ‘Heroes’ :P
Except for Uncle Ben.
and Rice-a-Roni.
There was that “Gwen Stacey Moment” too…
You must have missed the whole “Spider-Gwen” thing
And in Spider-Gwen’s world, Peter Parker’s neck snapped… Equivalent Exchange.
Not quite; Gwen’s way more interesting than Pete. Equivalent would be if Gwen living meant Felicia Hardy died.
As it is, we made a sizable profit.
Tsuki_Ouji: You say that now, when Spider-Gwen is new and fresh, with little to weigh it down, other than a similar backstory to Spider-Man. Peter, on the other hand, has had his stories told and re-told for about half a century by now. Give it time.
Bound in chains forged from the heart of a dwarf star and dropped over the event horizon of a black hole?
Trapped her inside a mirror. Every mirror. If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you, just for a second, that’s her. That’s always her.
Trap her in a single mirror, shatter the mirror, load the shards in to three separate rockets launched in opposite directions of space.
Sure, they’ll land EVENTUALLY, but it would take somebody (possibly at least one immortal) with enough funding to already own the world to track them all down and reassemble the mirror. Unless extra-terrestrials get in on the game; that’d lower the expenses both material and ephemeral, I’m sure.
Make sure you don’t get a splinter in your eye
That’s why I prefer disposing of one’s enemies by using a metafictional bomb. It’s especially effective when combined with the effects of an existential gun.
The De-mat gun. Very effective but requires the Great Key of Rassilon to be able to function and there then is a question of scale. Why remove one when you could remove all?
Perhaps they did destroy the body, but underestimated the rest of the head
i’m thinking this one. nobody expects the top 70% of a head to do much of anything. hell, there isn’t even a tongue attached at that point to slither along with, any mobility would be from nose wiggles…
i think i’ve given myself nightmares now…
A thermite funeral pyre at a minimum with an “honor guard” to watch it to completion…
I like to imagine Sciona can disconnect from a body and float about like a Hantu Penanggal using blood magic. It’d probably be quite the scene watching her tear off someone’s head and then slither into it like a cheap meat suit.
Hey, thanks.
I didn’t need to sleep tonight anyway.
Hey at least she would smell like pickles.
You like pickles right?
You made me have to look up that they self marinate in vinegar to keep their organs fresh in order to get that reference. No fair making me learn stuff when I am reading a comic.
I have to say it, hopefully before anyone else, and please keep in mind that I’m only joking so what ever you do, don’t take me seriously at lest in this case:
Free O.J.? As in straight from Mr. Simpson?
Actually, that was mentioned early on in the first page
Depends. Do the cartons fit?
Only if you don’t try and fit one inside another
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I haven’t seen anyone comment on how Zvonamir doesn’t have a who’s who on the current page or this one. Isn’t the rule “speaking part with name?” (Called Zova in link)
I have, so has someone else yesterday.
Missed that small comment on the first page, and is yours through the link? I searched for you in both pages of comments and this came up as your only post.
…
Okay, also searched through the comments of my link, and didn’t (ctrl-f) find your name on any of them, Was it an alternate personality, another tragic disappearing comment, or a different comic page (or am I being overly analytical on your response)?
Looking back at the comments for that page, and the source of this one, tag-zova01 exists in the “pinups” line for the who’s who on both pages, but doesn’t actually appear on page.
Damn it class. Who mixed the elven skull and the orcs bodies! Now our class project golem look like crap!
Professor Frankenstein will surely give us all a F now.
That reminds me of our Mammalian Anatomy course at college: We learnt the parts of the skull using a set of dogs’ skulls as examples, but when the exam came around what do you suppose they gave us to work on?
Bottle-nosed Dolphins !
(And you could hardly get a more different mammalian skull than that…)
Everybody thought that the Piltdown Man was a hoax. Nope, just one of Scionia’s classmates.
Is she responsible for the platypus as well?
Naa, that was her professor, Darwin. His ethical lectures made her eyes droop.
“If we are going to use blood magic, to combine species, we must at least comply with the veneer of my evolutionary theory. Otherwise they will never buy it!”
Hhahahah she makes me think of Dio from JJBA (what with that muscle muscle body) , though at least he had a matching body. Ha! Another vamp on whom decapitation didn’t exactly work.
Where does everyone get the idea Sci-fright is a vamp? o_O
THIS, thank you! Nowhere I’ve seen anything to indicate that she’s a vampire other than the fact her
accomplicelackey is a vampire. She could be any number of things in this universe.In fact, the way she bosses Zova around makes me believe she is more powerful than a vampire, although that extra power could also come from her makeshift body.
I’m having difficulty picturing her voice. It’s got to be deep and manly right? Her lungs and larynx didn’t get transplanted.
And very slurred, considering the upper and lower jaws don’t align (or open).
so… Sylvester Stallone?
Obviously, Sciona’s situation is very different than his, but suddenly I am reminded of the John Saxon’s character Sador from the movie Battle Beyond The Stars.
The leader of the flicks bad guys, he wanted to live forever and so was apparently in the habit of replacing his body parts as they wore out with body parts forcibly taken from other people – including folk from other species, making himself into a sort of Frankenstein’s monster.
How this would have made him live “forever” though is another question . . .
Reminds me of Alpha from the MIB cartoon show.
Was also almost his demise after he added the arm from the group mind race.
Have you read Larry Corriea’s Monster Hunter series?
I’m afraid I haven’t.
so, proposed new rule for the council. decapitation executions are to have a follow up cut that goes across the brainpan. any objections?
Couldn’t we just get some pet brain eating zombies? Waste not want not.
No need for the shufflers with a tendency to leak and fall apart all over the place.
Lets see, we have lots of options.
Illithids, The Worm that Walks, Intellect Devourer, Brain Moles, Cerebral Parasites, Medusa + rock tumbler, Black Pudding, Gelatinous Cube is always good with cleanup and won’t eat the container like the black pudding would.
Mmm, Black Pudding is sure tasty (but you forgot White Pudding)
Are you seeing a potential crossover with Grrl Power & Zombie Roomie?
He’d probably draw a salary.
We are not going to be sued for zombie outbreak again. I prefer tried and tested old methods like crocodile pits. Can’t beat the classics.
So…is it Sciona from the fangs up? Or from the fangs down?
From the upper lip upwards.
She’s the brains. Sciona Con Carne.
But which one is the Pinky? NARF!
Zova
As white as her skin is, I think it’s more “a la mode.”
She eats on the toilet? o_O
You’re thinking of “a la commode.” Eating something “a la mode” is dropping a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top…Like Apple Pie a la Mode.
But if you have a severe case of rupophobia & keep everything clean & sanitized, I suppose you could have it your way too…
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvmfmZqd9I
What are people making a fuss about? What difference does it make what shape the bowl is made in? As long as it hasn’t actually been used as a urinal, how much worse it than to eat out of a skull-shaped bowl? o_O
And if you have too much to drink you don’t even have to excuse yourself!
“a la mode” is french for “[just] the way [our chef designed]” AKA “the Chef’s recipe”. Or something along those lines.
Which is to mean that it isn’t in any way related to vanilla or ice cream. Here in my country it’s usual for pizzerias to have an “a la mode” recipe which is different everywhere but in my experience NEVER includes ice cream.
Only when she feels like going out on the town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvmfmZqd9I
You’d think so, but with supernatural monsters do the normal rules of biology count? I mean, I am having some trouble thinking of a situation where she lost her original body but not the top of her head. Was it a battlefield and someone sneaked off with the demi-head? One thinks people would have taken note of that when they were disposing of the bodies…
(Now you’ve made me want to see a Grrl Power and Grimm Adventures crossover. :) )
“He said he just wanted it to make a commemorative ashtray… HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW!”
I wonder if the fact that we are being “told” this part of the story by Sydney means that all this is gonna be public knowledge some day?
Cause if not, Arianna has lost what I feel would be a very marketable design for a Pez dispenser.
No, personally believe the stuff we see with out Sydney is stuff she doesn’t know
Yep, seen by Sydney as it happens…
She acquires past sight at some point?
Maybe that’s what the two unknown orbs do.
Farsight.
Pastsight
Sweet for a cop.
Good luck at getting a court to accept precognition and/or post-cognition as allowable testimony. At the very least, there would have to be other corroborating evidence sufficient to back up the testimony of those Powers as factual.
At least Robocop had legitimate recording devices installed, so his testimony is admissible as tangible evidence.
Doesn’t have to be admissible to help with the investigation.(better than cop intuition even) Keep you from barking up the wrong tree for one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAvaIRt6kuk
I bet she talks with a lisp… and a deep orc voice.
but of course! She’s an Igorina!
-stiches
-body part that doesn’t very well match
-very good at engineering animated bodies
except usually Igors (and Igorinas) are more in a servant role, this one certainly had enough of the “Yeff Mafter!” trope, and started her own evil scheme
zvonamir must have had a reason but now is a henchman, and probably soon to be betrayed so scionia can take the power/strength of a ancient vampire
That looks like an Orc with the face of a Forsaken …
But forsaken are just animated dead with a so-so level of completeness and were mostly human to begin with.
At least it’s not a face on a foreskin (built in neck sweater)
You do realize that women have a foreskin too…What else would be appropriate to call the skin on someone’s forehead?
;)
I’m surprised that her name is Sciona. After seeing her current situation I would have thought her name would be Abby something.
Use to read that webic, until it stopped being updated about a year ago :(
yeah… Abbie Normal…
I choose to believe that the orc portion is the original, and she survived by keeping her mind stored in a heavily armored compartment in her torso. She got an elf top-head because elves tend to have better hearing and eyesight than orcs.
I only just now found this & it’s already way too late to link it back to when it was relevant to the comic, but I think Sydney should have been able to show this to Harem when warning her about her cell phone way back here.
Ooops. Sorry. That was Heatwave, not Harem.
Alien chest-busters hatch from Nokia phones? NOOOOO!
So that’s why Nokia isn’t as popular as they were.
So I wonder if Scionia has an eye on a replacement body? Would she go for aesthetics? Or would increasing the power of her body, be a greater priority, now that she has gotten used to the extra physical capabilities, that an orc/construct body grants her?
Not so sure she would look as good with four legs and fur-coat
If she transplants just the brain then Maxima would be a sweet host with tons of useful connections. Definitely cut down on the number of times you get mostly beheaded.
Problem with that, is opening up Maxi
Catch her with none of her pool allocated to defense.
I wonder if her powers stay set where she left them last when she is asleep/unconscious.
She can pick the best parts from different bodies just like in Young Frankenstein. Just don’t use anything from Abby Normal.
Unfortunately, Hans Delbrook sort of fell out of viable qualifications when he was initially snatched up for the position…
“All we need is everything from your upper jaw line down.”
“But, but I’m still using all of those parts of me. I’m still alive!”
“hmmm… doesn’t say anything about that in your organ donation papers.”
So, when Sciona leaves the comfort and safety of her lair, presumably she falls under the protection of the Veil and just looks like one of us mortals. Wouldn’t it be interesting if her disguise form was someone we had already met?
I say this is who Arianna really is!
*Evil, not to mention insane cackling*
“identifying scars: Like you wouldn’t beleve”
Well… I had a character in a table RPG that had scars so deep and so foul that they apeared on near peoples bodies.
Okay, all that’s left of the original Sciona is apparently the top two thirds or so of her head and yet she still lives. The body she’s currently using once belonged to someone else, but she or her allies evidently knocked them off to attach her head to it. This merging was successfully accomplished somehow and she is apparently now able to function just as well as she ever did, though the result is rather gruesome looking.
It seems to me that if she and her friends could do all of that, couldn’t they have gone a different route? In my mind, I’m picturing her allies kidnapping a member of whatever fantasy race Sciona is going to turn out to be, popping open this person’s head, inserting Sciona’s brain, and then closing up the head again. Skillful work could probably have hidden the scars so that her new body looked perfectly normal and she would have been able to move around unrecognized by the people who tried to kill her.
So why didn’t something like this happen!
Was such a procedure too complicated after all? Could they do it, but not without alerting their enemies on the Council? Was it done this way only because they were in a huge rush to keep Sciona from actually dying? Does this body somehow give her skills or powers that she would otherwise be lacking? Does she choose to live like this because it gives her such a fearsome and unforgettable appearance in a sort of psychological warfare ploy?
Inquiring minds want to know!!
Meanwhile, where did they get this new body for her? It could have just been some monster they snatched and murdered, but my guess is that it used to belong to one of her henchmen whom they decided they could do without.
She may be slowly regenerating, so every once in a while they need a new body that is slightly MORE decapitated, as she’s grown. If so, then shelling her down to brain size would forfeit their progress towards her having her own body again.
“where did they get this new body for her?”
Hey Grogg, you are needed in the main office. The Boss says you are about to get a-head in this organization.
A recently released guidebook to the new Star Wars movie describes some items not seen in the movie. Here is one for something that Sciona could have really used. Too bad Amazon doesn’t make deliveries from galaxies far far way. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cz_6jaLVQAAmfPc.jpg
And lest you think this is getting a little too creepy for the fan base, remember this was done AFTER Disney bought the franchise.
I wonder if there’s an OJ Simpson joke in there somewhere…because you know, vampires…
I really don’t understand this “blood from a vampire” thing.
In most cases, they say vampires need blood cause they don’t make their own. Therefore, the blood in their body comes from the humans etc around them.
If you were to sample the blood from the vampire’s body… it would be as old as it was inside the human they took it from?
I’ll go back to sucking the lemon-life out of these aid boxes.
Vampires have blood in them, or they would be brittle corpses, that broke when they moved. So when they drain someone they are adding their victims blood to their own.
Look at it under a microscope and you will likely see little blood cells, with fangs and bat wings, biting the incoming blood cells and elevating them to undead blood cells. With all the ancient powers that flow from that.
That kind of makes me think of an action movie.
“Red blood cells abducted from their homes en masse, and enslaved to the Vamp Cells of Suckveineia.
One Red Cell stands alone against this army, to exact revenge, and reclaim the home it once lost!”
*pan into red cell holding tiny wooden splinters stabbing every vampire cell that floats by it*
Drama! Action! Adventure! Internal Organs! It has it all!
Coming to a vessel near you.
Any wessel near me that gets infected with wampirism needs to watch out. I have been informed that this willage specialised in wampire hunting!
I checked and I cannot find Zova’s first appearance… Link
Maybe not his first appearance, but an early one. Down at the bottom. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2270
*Link?