Grrl Power #495 – Any stealth employed at this point is just for practice
Pixel is extremely unusual in having disparate power sets. Not necessarily unique, but it’s hard to get scientists who can study her without being read in on the whole lycanthopy thing. Of course there are some who know the whole shebang, but even so it a complicated field even more complicated. There’s so many variables they need extra alphabets to notate them all.
As a recon mission goes, this has long been a disaster, but they’re just doing due diligence as far as Arc-SWAT and The Council are concerned. Standing on the roof opposite your target and lighting yourself up against the horizon, obviously not ideal, but in Sydney’s defense, she only just started actually shouting on this page. Ok, the thing about the hacking of the bladder was kind of loud too. Pixel’s not too worried though. Even if there are husks there, she’s confident she can at least avoid them, and the rest of them will be safe under Sydney’d shield if it comes down to it. Still, Sam Fisher would be disappointed. As would Corvo, Garrett, and “Marked Ninja” who is the main character from “Mark of the Ninja.”
Speaking of which, anyone named Mark should automatically have the middle name “Ofthe” Sure, Mark Ofthe Jones doesn’t sound quite as cool, which is why under my rules, only people with cool last names would be named Mark. Hunter, Drake, King, Magnum, Voldemort, you get the idea.
BTW that stamp on the first panel says “T&A POSE” and has one of four X’s filled in. I know it looks like “tea pose” but that’s just the particular font’s ampersand.
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Maybe Krona could activate the mythical “Pirates of Penzance” stealth mode. You know, the part where they stealthily sing while stalking the major general and the only ones who could not hear them were the people they were stalking? That would be cool.
Now that is creative use of reality alteration.
*wags tail artistically*
(This is the song mentioned by Daedster
With Cat-like Tread
CHORUS – PIRATES and POLICE
PIRATES: With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal;
In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel.
No sound at all! We never speak a word;
A fly’s foot-fall Would be distinctly heard–
POLICE: (softly) Tarantara, tarantara!
PIRATES: So stealthily the pirate creeps,
While all the household soundly sleeps.
Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation; Take another station;
Let’s vary piracee With a little burglaree!
POLICE: (softly) Tarantara, tarantara!
SAMUEL: (distributing implements to various members of the gang)
Here’s your crowbar and your centrebit,
Your life-preserver–you may want to hit!
Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize,
Take your file and your skeletonic keys.
POLICE: Tarantara!
PIRATES: With cat-like tread
POLICE: Tarantara!
PIRATES: in silence dread,
ALL (fortissimo): With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal;
In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel.
No sound at all! We never speak a word;
A fly’s foot-fall Would be distinctly heard!
Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation; Take another station;
Let’s vary piracee With a little burglaree!
With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal,
In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel.
That is my favourite part of the opera. I always thought it was funny that they were being stealthy, shushing each other and tiptoeing, while singing at the top of their lungs.
That and the police singing about how they’re going off to bring justice to the pirates, yes, right now, here we go, really, we’re going now, on our way…
With Kline-like Tread :D
Most of those lyrics should be in ALL CAPS, and some of the CAPS should be BOLD.
It seems odd that Pixel would say “Enough screwing around” in panel #1, even as she starts stripping off her clothes…I would think that’s a good time to start screwing around.
…Or is that just me?…
I think that’s why Dabbler isn’t there…
Aww, pooo, when she jumps off roof her tail just HAPPENS to cover her boobs.. I’m a SAD moo..
Btw, just before she *poofs* and goes invisible, you can see her collar… does it magically *poof* too? :P
No, it super-poweredly poofs. Pixel probably has a limit on how much external mass she can affect.
Although it could have been something associated with her origin story, and thereby infused with the same power that she has. Presumably Archon would have had to be very careful, in modifying it to incorporate their special features, if they did not want to risk loosing its properties.
That in itself might explain Pixel’s field of expertise, in artifacts. If she intensively studied her own, before allowing any modifications, she may have started down the path to becoming an expert in the field.
Keep your eyes on the collar and bell, in the event that we ever get to hear her origin story.
I AM SO UPSET I CANNOT CALL PIXEL “BIG BUFF CHEETAH PUFF”
Sooo…Why can’t you call her that anyway? I don’t think anyone can stop you from calling her that.
;)
Because she doesn’t cheat :P
Invisibility IS cheating.
Not dying is also cheating
While I realize that Pixel taking off her cloths makes using her transformation powers more useful. This just makes me want those pin up nudes of her and her hybrid form even more.
Yes :D
The youre really talented .
Get out your True Sight and learn how it see’s Krona’s activities in more than one of its “modes”. Probably not gonna get a chance to sample something like that everyday.
Powers in different forms? Sir, are you by any chance somehow familiar with one Thomas Warrior?
The Swiss metal musician? Does he put on a leopard skin outfit to sing the blues?
Only a g-string
hmmm… is ba-dum-tshh an appropriate response to a stringed-instrument pun considering it involves drums?
Oh neat, something for me to look up.
I was actually referring to a fictional character who possessed what you might call a standard were-shifting power (beast, human, hybrid) and who gained different powers depending. Beast gave a bunch of psychic abilities, Hybrid was a berserker mode, Human was pretty much just a normal bloke.
So, in panel 7, do you think anyone will spot Pixel?
Oh, and if that is a codename or nickname, I think I can now guess where it came from.
Why? She already has lots of spots. I don’t think she needs anymore.
Did she save her game?
Possibly.
It can be useful for if things go badly, so great idea. But in many games that means dying. With the problem being, if dead, how can she load the saved game?*
But check out who she is looking at, when making her comment about precautions.
* Whilst we could envisage a programmer setting up a bit of code to ‘revert to last saved point, upon death’, currently we have only seen Krona altering the states of specific things, as opposed to being able to code new universal laws.
I think it was page 1 when I said “reraise”.
Good programmers put break points in their software to go back to the last working point of the program, and debug forward…
Which they are unable to do if they die in the meanwhile. Of course, normally, a colleague could take over. Unfortunately Krona is the only member of the faction. There is nobody to replace her, if she dies!
Even they (or a protesting mob) can be sneaky, if they try.
Heh heh, so cool how two of the men looked like they should have worn their brown pants, but the Asian girl seemed to support it :D
So… are we getting a new vote incentive then?
Eventually Jack, but you have to understand, DaveB is a very very busy man, creating a great comic for you to read, full of vibrant colors. DaveB has said that he will update it in the future, for now just be grateful that he is working on the comic. There is another comic that I used to read where the Artist took a 3 year break without telling anyone.
Jack does have a point: we have been waiting for the inked stage of the current invotive for a couple months now
Yeah, I’ll definitely have something new for Feb, and I have the current one flatted, but I’d rather finish it than show the “almost there” version.
Please don’t take that as a critique or a complaint, have been voting every day at least once, was just hoping to have gotten the next stage (like to ‘collect’ all versions of invotives :D) but will wait for the finalized version :D
We have been taking Krona as a ‘magical girl’ who just happens to wear goggles. What if her goggles are like Sydney’s orbs and THEY are the thing that is giving her the abilities we have seen so far?
What if there was a cyclops scientist on the Council and he needed protective eye-wear? Would he wear a ‘goggle’ ?
oops, a monacle
a monacle
Two monocles? Or a pair of glasses with a broken bridge (the bit on the nose that holds them together)?
Seriously, when I read the three panels of Pixel going stealth, I imagined the feral cat Druid stealth sound from world of Warcraft >.< Pixel is a kitty Druid!