Grrl Power #584 – Escape bear
I realize just as I’m posting this page that the crack on the one way mirror looks like Dabbler and all four of her arms are cracked into it, but when I drew it, I was thinking of Dabbler in her two armed form, plus an impression of the tentacle arm that smacked her into it.
I suppose it works either way, but it raises some questions about how succubi glamours work. Remember, they’re nearly uncrackable. Changing someone’s skin color, hiding some stripes, that’s Illusion 101. Making someone hear soft footfalls instead of your hooves clicking on the fancy marble, that’s Phantasm 101.
Making someone think they’re stroking a cheek when they’re actually running their hand over a horn, that’s… actually I’m not sure. Phantasm 201? Making your hoof prints look like footprints ten hours after you walked in some dirt and you’re 40 miles away, well I don’t know what that is. That’s probably best accomplished with telekinetic prosthetic feet. That might also be a good solution for clicky hooves as well actually.
There’s a lot of other things you’d have to cover for if actual forensic sorcerers were trying to clear the new dancing girl and make sure she wasn’t a sexual assassin or something. I’ll actually go into some succubus history in the next story arc I imagine, so this will come up in more detail then.
Oh and by the way, there’s obviously no cell service down in the vault. Ingsol is calling Maxima on a cell phone that can use its wi-fi antenna as a sort of short range walky talky to another similarly equipped phone. That’s a thing, right? Well it is with their phones.
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Wait a second… did she get hit so hard that her boobs flow back and made an imprint on the glass too? or was the impact just that great in that spot?
If the glass-impact was from being flung BACKWARDS, then the crack-impression is more likely from her bones in the shoulder-blade region of her skeleton…
…but then, why only her LOWER shoulder-blades, & not also her UPPER shoulder-blades?
Or more likely she was face planted into the window and the boob imprint was in full force, rather than having her back slammed into it.
Could be she was thrown backwards mostly head first and that impact is mostly from the upper back/shoulder blades.
It kind of reminds me of the City Hunter/Angel Heart Manga panel where Shan-in (her name in manga) was dealing with a client. Ryo got distracted by a woman walking by. Kaori’s spirit took over for a couple of seconds. Next panel Ryo was outlined on bulletproof glass with his favorite body part piercing it.
Not the first time it happened, either: remember that early City Hunter story (I think it was the first apparition of Saeko, or at least one of the firsts) with the microfilm hidden in a crown in a case made of super bulletproof glass? At the end of the story, Ryô fell from an helicopter and landed on a veranda made of the same glass, piercing it with his mokkori :P
I find it amusing that her breasts are firm enough to crack bullet-proof glass in the first place.
The Artist got caught up in drawing the Dabbler smash and yep he is a mountain man kind of guy ;) He had his storyline but got caught up in the moment and drew her smash pattern with 4 arms and boobs as if she was smashed face first even though she was facing Cooter/Wyrmill… Great work though!!
[Taxil] As much as I want to believe that, I see 3 problems:
1)__If she plants face-first into the wall, then slides down the wall, we’d be seeing the back of her head, but…
2)__If she face-plants, then rolls away from the impact-site before (or after) sliding-down, then why is she still centered upon the impact-point?
3)__Regarding the “Patreon”-plug to the right, do we REALLY want to encourage “DaveB” to continue licking doorknobs…?
…I mean…
…THINK about it…
…do we REALLY want to consider where (& with WHOM) that doorknob has BEEN???!?
(…I’mJustSayin’ButHeyWhatDoIKnowNoneOfMyBusinessAnywayMovingRightAlong…)
(…gasp…)
(…OhGeeLookAShinyDistractionWhileITurn&RunTheOtherWayOKSeeyaByeBye…)
Drat — as soon as I posted, this changed to a different version:
“…a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude…”
…& now it’s:
“…comics & video games…”
Hmmm…
Is he prepping for the release of that new Spielberg-film, “Ready Player One”…?
It looks like the pattern made in the glass pretty-much matches what I’d expect from Dabbler’s true form smacking into the one-way mirror with considerable force. Head, shoulders (upper and lower) and all four arms made quite the impression.
Why are you guys argueing over an artist rendition of a cracked window that may or may not be real, but still serves to prove that it was a hard hit on Dabbler? (pun intended)
Because the Dabbler-shaped impression in the bullet-proof glass includes her breasts, not just muscular parts, causing people to wonder just how strong a succubus’s body is relatively speaking.
Ahem… the glass impact pattern is from Dabbler’s 4 arms, the blond is a disguise
They are actually talking about the extra round-shapes in the middle of the impact zone
I would have guessed that was Dabblers lower shoulders making an impression.
You do remember that she has 4 arms, so two set of shoulders, and a completely alien physiology?
Can remember when Dabbles had four bewbs
If you notice, there is a gap between the torso impact and the lower ‘arms’ but not the upper arms
One part Resident Evil, one part villain we should see in Wolf Cop… hey, this would make for a great cross over!
Anyone reminded of the anime, Parasyte the Maxim? Vyrmil is like Migi! The right arm that is basically a deadly assassin capable of independent thought and reshaping the body of the host. Not sure if someone’s already mentioned it.
Since they’ve been merged I wonder if this will result in Cooter getting an intelligence upgrade as things progress.
Doubt it. If he does, he’ll keep arguing with it.
Intelligence….. The self programming of the mind for reason, deduction, self reflection, a life time of work and thought….. Yea nope Middle aged self defined gullible redneck who believes but does not think. Cooter is either going to join the Team and replace Dabbler as Maxima number one irritant; or become a running (literally) gag fighting both sides….
Cooter walks out of the portal and into his truck. Wyrmil in tow drives too a gas station loads the tank of gas when hes spotted by a fellow hic. The hicks talk as wyrmil sleeps, coot talks about monsters. Wyrmil wakes up and asks to where do we go from here. Coot pauses making up his mind and says… Japan.Glasses instantly appear on his face while that one song from csi Miami sounds.
Then enter parasyte maxim title screen.
WiFi chat is a thing but the phones are bloody expensive, bloody as in limbs sacrificed for the cause. I know they exist but I can’t give specific models because I don’t even look at phones that expensive.
why? there are loads of free voice over IP apps. I recon there are some that don’t require a server to be there and one smartphone can be the access point. Also we talk military budget here, so price is not the point.
Not only military BUDGET. The phone is likely something special loaded with military upgrades and not something you can buy in normal shop.
Oh and by the way, there’s obviously no cell service down in the vault. Ingsol is calling Maxima on a cell phone that can use its wi-fi antenna as a sort of short range walky talky to another similarly equipped phone. That’s a thing, right? Well it is with their phones.
I actually had a cellphone that could do that. Could work as a walky-talky too if no Wi-Fi. It was company issued for work. I think it was a Motorola.
Later we’ll discover that they have a hero named Wi-Fi
Yeah, that is a thing… It’s a free bit of band that’s used for everything from remote control signals to data transfer, so the downside with that kind of tech is that it’s under a lot of unintentional jamming from other stuff using similar frequencies.
That’s why you should be really careful flying RC quads anywhere near appartment buildings, they are like giant jamming transmitters with a free radio shadow thrown in for fun.
I already lost one drone just flying 50 meters above and to the left of one, found it pancaked into a sand pit after =p
I’m pretty sure that their stuff has been “modified” to use magical frequencies, but still localized because the vault probably blocks that stuff out too.
I think that there might be an app which can use the wifi built into modern smartphones to create a sort of mesh voice network.
Here is an example:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.remaller.android.wifitalkie_lite&hl=en
Odd question, the regenerator in the older comic when Deus talked about it, looked like a half shattered blade of rock… What’s Coot got in his hands?
I’m guessing it… Regenerated? =p
That’s the thing from the pedestal that Sciona broke.
Well there is a plus side for Cooter. He may not be the sharpest tool in the tool-box, but at least he can act as a tool box now and has a sharp tool to put in himself.
Just be sure not to put it in pointy end first…
… glad you’re back, Yorp!…
Whew! I did my best to make up for your absence. Go check my comments in the episodes you missed and bring it up here?
Hey, Yorpie’s back :)
Thanks y’all. Still on my travels though, with limited access to the net. But will be back to my usual haunt in a couple of weeks. Well assuming that there are no problems anyhow.
“I say, I say, that boy’s about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice.”
I’m quoting…?
Yes, yes you are.
So now he basically has half the powerset of Dr. Jackal as well? Does anyone think he’s enough of a responsible adult to be able to handle that kind of power? =p
Wyrmil’s an idiot. I mean, I know he’s sharing meat space with coot, but there was basically every reason for him to remain in hiding until they got him surface side.
Kinda true, but also Wyrmil is thinking with a villain’s mindset. He probably thought that no matter what they said, Coot was never going to make it out of that cell.
This might even be the case; I would hesitate to call the council “good guys”.
Why?
The council uses Force Major to keep all the super naturals of one kind or another in line and in the shadows. Weather they like it or not. Dictatorship of survival…. High risk persons of whatever stripe are….. dealt with in a permanent fashion.
One point worth noting though is that the Council has representatives of all the races, and other factions present on Earth, who collectively decide upon their laws. As such this is like the United Nations. Which, yes, does have the power to use force majeure. If the U.N. issues a mandate, its member nations are allowed to invade a country.
Countries which invade other countries without such a mandate are considered rogue nations and operating outside of international law. Hence why the U.S. goes to lengths to obtain broad international support, before conducting such operations.
We know of two laws that the Council enforces. One being that the secrecy of the Veil must be preserved. The other we can deduce from the Semper Vigilantes working to protect humans from monster attacks. Likewise from the vampires using ethical food sources, such as volunteers.
Thus indicating that the Council likely has laws protecting humans, which, in that regard, does make them good guys.
As for protecting the secret, so far we have only seen them punishing monsters who attempted to breach the Veil. We know that Dabber (and thereby likely others) has access to memory altering magics, so there are alternatives available for humans who find out too much. Supernaturals though are aware of the laws about this, and the penalties. So if they choose to break the law they are doing so of their own volition.
Which makes them the bad guys, not the Council. Good guys would operate within the law, to change the rules, rather than ignore the political consensus reached between the factions.
Because vampires and werewolves are not typically the good guys? Because they have a history of treating normal humans as a food source? I’m talking old school here, BS. (Before Sparkle)
Fairies and aliens are also the bad guys in the vast majority of literature. Stealing children, enchanting [princesses, coveting our women and our oceans, that sort of generally antisocial thing.
Humans too have a history of atrocities committed against other humans. However we know the present-day vampires use ethical food sources, such as volunteers.
Importantly though you are right to indicate that there are true monsters amongst those who abide by the laws. Ingsol specifically warned Halo about that. However that is why the SVs and Archon are co-operating, in order to counter the villains.
Lawful Evil. Worst of the worst- not due to severity, but difficulty of purging.
By the standards that eating things nature requires you to eat makes you evil, humans are more evil than most monsters — both in quality (captive breeding versus free range) and quantity (there sure are a lot of humans running around eating food).
Vampires and the like only look evil to us humans because we’re their prey. We look pretty damn evil to the cows and sheep and pigs we enslave, murder and devour too, I’d imagine.
Not only that, have actually eaten some species to extinction
While Wyrmil seems to lend this flawed-‘DBZ-fusion-dance’-result some degree of super-strength (judging from the messed-up steel door in the background of panel 2, there), I’m also going to bet that he watched Max’s news debut there and knows better than to try and tango with her in an extended fight… That said, I *also* note that Max is, currently, in the room with all the jacks holding up the ceiling. I have a sneaking suspicion that Wrymil’s gonna knock one or two of those down and try to tie her up under 500 tons of rock… Even for Max that much might be a bit of a headache to deal with. :P
We’re missing something here still folks.
Sciona betrayed everyone.
One went with Deus hired for duration to help fill shopping list.
Someone (gunhilda) was in the library shopping,
Wyrmil got gacked and left for dead…though he’s notoriously hard to kill.
Sciona self teleported out.
That leaves Gunhilda all alone in vault …
Did she scab pool dive and portal out that way?
Or is she still inside somewhere hidden by powerful glamours from a borrowed book or item?
What would truesight show Sydney… why didn’t she use that to see the unseen (Sword of omens … she sooo has to use that quote sometime…)
SO where is GUNS???
Gunnie probably left with Deus, Sci-fright didn’t just bring three with her (Gunnie, Lazer-face and Wyrmil) and we don’t know how far her little *TWINKLE* sent her
is the HOT COLD LASER missing too?
The turret defences were destroyed when Coot exploded all over them
The one that they Sciona’s team used to cut through the regenerating metal of the vaults.
cootrmil is attempting to make a break for the portal and he’s armed but are they smart enough to surrender? after all max has a heads up cootrmil is out and about and im sure she had/has sydney secure the portal (shield + flight and just have sydney act like a cork on the portal) the only surprise cootrmil has is that he’s armed and the other is dependant upon how bendy cootrmil actually is.
No, not how bendy he is, but just how stretchy: Maxi grabs one-half, Crim grabs the other, and they see if they can Armstrong him :D
Depending on how, ahem, attached Wyrmil is to his limbs, he might just detach them and run away.
I think he meant the laser that Sci-fright and Co. used to open the actual artifact room.
We didn’t see it in the antechamber, so maybe Deus decided “hey, that looks neat” and took it with him?
Oh right, the laser powered by blood, had (almost) forgotten about that, that’s not something Sci-fright would leave behind
That last panel. Does he actually think his knife is going to affect Maxima?
You sure it won’t? You willing to bet Maxi’s shiny-heiny that it won’t? o_O
to be fair… we don’t know what kinda magic might be on that thing, it very well might be able to harm maxima by doing something insane like rapidly ageing the material near the blade to dust
Or revert gold back to lead, or simply squishy flesh
“Oh and by the way, there’s obviously no cell service down in the vault. Ingsol is calling Maxima on a cell phone that can use its wi-fi antenna as a sort of short range walky talky to another similarly equipped phone. That’s a thing, right? Well it is with their phones.”
It was, several years ago anyway, motorola made a line of rugged GSM phones which doubled as walkie-talkies. Don’t know if anyone else has made them or if motorola still makes them. Used them in work, they were handy when doing outside cable runs.
Oh god, coot is now half a tentacle monster. Nothing good can come of this.
Poor, poor Wyrmil… fused to an idiot.
Who was it who believed what Sci-fright said, and trusted her, and ended up face-planted into a death-field and then used as a blood-glove?
All these racist comments are really starting to fuck me off!
So fuck off and be done with it already.
Why? Unlike certain ‘people’, don’t have a problem with the actual comic, and don’t spend pages trashing it
I don’t understand what’s happening here. Are you considering an insult against Coot to be an attack upon your person?
Not personally, no, just don’t see why the racist attacks on Coot
The only possible logical thread here goes like this:
Guesticus is rather stupid, and knows it.
Coot is rather stupid, and all the readers know it.
When Coot is insulted for being stupid, Guesticus takes it personally since they share the flaw.
Only a complete lackwit would call that insult racism.
Which is why Guesticus is calling it racism.
You believe that was the only time there have been negative, and racist, comments towards Coot?
Fairly much every comment page for a page where Coot appears has had several racist and derogatory comments aimed at him, and while calling him an idiot here wasn’t racist, it was just one comment too many
And here you go again with personal attacks
Guesticus, Hillbillies aren’t a race. they’re barely an ethnicity.
and the fact he’s getting bashed in the first place is because he’s everything you’re accusing US of being, so i believe i speak for everyone here when i say “shut the fuck up, you’re only digging yourself a deeper hole.”
This wouldn’t be the first webcomic comment section you’ve been banned from.
Have only been banned from one comment section, and that was after condemning the calls for a character to be killed, so technically you would be correct, but not for the reasons you think
Coot has only made one remotely racist comment (asking if Laser-face was ‘one of them Ackbar-types’)
Butt if going to get banned for standing up and objecting to racist and derogatory comments, then so be it
Negative, sure. The character is, and quite obviously to anyone who isn’t an idiot, not intended to be a shining example of humanity. He is deliberately written to be a repulsive character, and yet somehow that fact has escaped your razor wit.
Racist, no. But please feel free to point them out in case I have missed them.
This is typical of your particular brand of idiocy. On the one hand you work yourself into a froth over things that didn’t happen. And by that I mean racism by readers directed towards the fictional character Coot. And then on the other hand you decide to defend that same character for making a, well not strictly racist comment but certainly a prejudiced comment. You can’t even manage consistency in your idiocy, which is just one of the things that makes you an idiot.
WHO’S FUCKING DEFENDING HIM????
come on guesticus you’ve been on the internet. you should know that people don’t do nearly enough fact checking as they should. so while he has brilliantly explained his reasoning he stupidly directed at a person that had nothing to do what he thought was going on. i mean reading the text above would have displayed this fact but again it’s the internet and this person didn’t read or understand your context. so you should just ignore him.- i know it’s late but this was on my tab for like 2 weeks.
So here’s a question: What is that last panel all about. I’m trying to remember what the pretenses Coot was brought into that happy bunch were because that comment, “So you guys were never monster hunters were you?” kinda caught my eye. Because that sounds like, despite Coot being a grade-A jackass, he might have been lured in under noble intentions.
There might be more to him than just “lady toppling doughnut” and it makes me curious about his backstory.
He became a monster hunter after monsters killed his family, he was brought in to be the sacrificial redneck by Doctor Chuckles (who may or may not have gotten his doctorate from a box of Cherrios), he may have also been chosen because he was a successful monster hunter and killed a few of Sci-frights colleagues, so a bit of a double-pick: payback for killing other monsters, and gets to clear the traps, survival not required
I doubt if he was a SUCCESSFUL monster-hunter.
Being a successful hunter doesn’t usually include standing in a room full of your supposed prey, without being able to identify ANY of them.
Nor does it include the sort of bad gun practice Cooter showed (jacking an unspent cartridge onto the floor for the sake of effect)
I also seem to remember that there was some sort of dialogue about Sciona’s team being willing to “off themselves when their mission (to kill monsters) was complete” which doesn’t quite fit with any of this
There is this thing called “The Veil”
That dialogue was aimed at Laser-face because The Veil couldn’t hide her very well, believe it was Chuckles who said she wanted to off herself when they were finished
“I doubt if he was a SUCCESSFUL monster-hunter.”
I doubt that the unsuccessful monster-hunters are actually good enough to be on anyone’s radar as a monster hunter, especially the radar of actual monsters. So yeah, I think Coot is probably a sufficiently successful monster hunter (despite being none-too-bright).
Not to mention that while I do think Coot is dumber than a bag of rocks, and he’s proven that multiple times now from a deductive standpoint at least, that he’s also a SYMPATHETIC hunter, given the reasons for why he became a monster hunter is that his family was murdered by monsters. As for why that wasn’t masked by ‘The Veil’ there are multiple possible reasons:
1) The Veil has been failing for a while now, and it failed to cover up the monsters that killed Cooter’s family.
2) Cooter is somehow at least a little special or has some sort of special destiny that puts him in a loophole on the whole ‘veil’ thing (think Supernatural Winchester brothers sort of stuff).
3) The Veil is very useful and powerful (and would have to be to be useful worldwide), but if monsters are going to blatantly kill a person’s entire family and he sees it happen, maybe it’s not powerful enough to just make him gloss over something like that. There have probably been more than a few incidents of normal humans being able to retain memories of monsters from seeing firsthand gruesome aftermaths of monster crimes happening, which would probably amount to a lot of the more modern myths – Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Jersey Devil, Chupacabras, etc. It’s just no one else is going to believe them generally. Because of the Veil.
…what about the part where he couldn’t possibly have used the regenerator?
Both because he didn’t have it at all, but also because it hadn’t been refilled at all either.
How about, get the name right, and the fact the artefact he wanted and the one Sci-fright wanted were not the same artefacts (Sci-fright and Laser-face both wanted the same one, and Sci-fright gave it to her after she was finished with it)
Are you okay? You seem angry today.
It is quite impressive how he managed to get it though. Either he must have taken it out of its death field (and thereby suffered the loss of whatever body part which did that) or he must have figured out some way to replicate the knocking it out with a plant technique
The latter being particularly hard, given his drastically damaged state, the presence of a room full of (potentially hostile) observers, the steadily expanding death fields (from Sciona’s and Deus’s actions) and the lack of plants, or the like, except in the hands of other looters).
The former solution would explain why there was too little for Wyrmil to rebuild himself. The latter I guess he could have pulled off by snagging a pot plant, from the rack, when the others had their attention elsewhere.
Highly resourceful though, either way.
We don’t know how much time there was between Maxi and Co arrived, turned off the Death Field, and them finally opening the door, he could have had enough time to figure out what happened, snatch the Icky-Sickle, slough off most of his remains, and into a piece of Coot large enough and reform the old coot before they even finished defeating the Gate Keeper
I won’t fret about the details, as it could have gone down a number of different ways. But the closer you look, the greater the challenges Wyrmil would have faced. The artefact was actually lodged in the rubble of the pedestal that Sciona chopped down, making it harder to get at than one still on top. Plus its field was already expanding and gradually seeping out into the rest of the room.
Meaning that the longer the delay until Deus’s team finished the greater the volume of death field it would have created. Solved by waiting until that is turned off, as you say, however (if that is the route that it played out) it does mean that Wyrmil must have survived for an extended period without some important parts, like a head.
Maybe not so important for a worm, but we do have Wyrmil indicating that there was not enough of his body left to survive on its own, so that is not a trivial feat…. um… tail.
Likewise the longer the delay the more impressive the resuscitation feat in rebuilding Coot bits. Especially given the need to peel him off the walls with a sponge and just being a normal human.
Artefacts can do that mind. One way or another though this was a major survival feat. On a par with Sciona surviving being mostly decapitated.
You bring up a good question. Didn’y Deus bring the dead plants back with him? Would give away his technique if he didn’t.
I assume that Wyrmil went Terminator on his own remains, then did the same to Coot and merged. Otherwise he’d probably have a lot of missing components in erratic places, so by being more of an arm (and part of a head, who knows what else) he got some motor control.
I dunno if this was pointed out yet, but did anyone else notice Coot’s hair has regained a blonde color instead of being super grey like it was when he was introduced? I wonder if the regenator restored some youth to him along with bringing him back to life?
May just be the lighting
Or perhaps it’s part of being merged with Wyrmil.
“Maybe he was born with it, maybe it’s a Succubus cleaning spell.” (from bottom of comic)
My Yorpie Snax are on the latter.
Pretty sure that was only referring to the eye makeup at the time.
instantly reminded of parasyte the maxim
What makes Wyrmil think he’s actually going to land a hit?
I imagine the fact that he does not know what he is up against. So far he has only seen his fellow ‘prisoner’/interrogator, plus in the final panel looks to be edging up to the corner, to either have a peek round or jump around.
Mind you, even when he does get a look at Maxima it may not mean anything to him. If he has never looked at a map he may equally not be interested in following the news. If Maxima has not featured on sports coverage she may just appear to be a golden ‘monster’.
And there I see you specified Wyrmil. Mind you he probably can survive anything Maxima can dish out, so there is no harm in trying. Plus the artefact he is using may not require ‘landing a hit’ to use. So far the only property we know of is defensive/curative in nature, so hitting is not required.
Artefacts often have more than one power, although they may be related to others. Perhaps it can perform some of the following?
* Accelerate the metabolic process in its wielder (giving him super-speed/reflexes)
* Decrease the metabolic process in others (here reducing Maxima’s super-speed/reflexes)
* Suspend metabolic processes in others (putting Maxima into suspended animation)
* End metabolic processes in others (killing Maxima)
I would say Max could probably atomize them easily.
But that would be out-of-character morally and including her usual attitude towards property damage.
MAYBE if she knew how much of a threat that artifact was…
Now that she has been alerted, probably. But it does require Maxima to spot them before
Wyrmil/CooterCoomilmmm Wyrter spots her. Barring having good hearing, from her pointy ears, Maxima has no super-senses, so has no guarantee of that.However if there is only the one route to her current location then she should be able to spot him, as he rounds the corner, and her heightened reflexes will give her the edge (unless, of course, the artefact is countering that).
Don’t forget though that its properties are still unknown. If Wyrter can sense metabolic processes, he would be aware of Maxima’s presence, without even rounding the corner. Worst case he could snuff out her life right now.
Although there are even worser cases, such as turning her into an undead monstrosity or puppet under his control. Long odds at the bookies though.
One thing we do know: no matter what happens to Maxi, she survives reasonably intact, because we have seen… The Future!
Yes, at some point the good guys may have gotten their hands on the Regenator.
We don’t know what the Regenator does though, remember, that is not the artefact Sci-fright used
Panel 2 above “… I used the Regenator to survive, and it wound up fusing us into a single being”.
So, combined with its name, we can tell that the Regenator is, at the least, capable of restoring otherwise dead individuals (I am willing to certify Coot as having been medically dead, being splattered over the walls) to life. Albeit with limits requiring that not too much of the body having been disintegrated (as opposed to merely being liquefied).
any change to soon get character page back on? its been empty for months now … like who is wyrmil even?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2525
… i question your dedication to this comic if you cant keep the key players in mind.
You… do realise the only ones who were on the character page were Archonites (plus Joel), side characters, like pretty much every one else, never made it to the Cast Page
DaveB is hoping to get the time to fix the cast page:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2685#comment-597954
As Guesticus says though only the core cast and a select few others were on it. This is the kind of thing that we, as the readers, can help with though by updating the GrrlPower wiki. If anyone can find the time to do that.
I’m on permanent disability. Want me to do it?
if you got the time and self discipline to handle it i say give it a go. be sure to shoot DaveB an email asking him to redirect his cast page to the wiki until he gets time to recreate it otherwise its only really going to benefit those who read this post or google “grrlpower “.
it cut off my quote cause of some formating,
“grrlpower cast/whoswho/etc”
Got an offline saved copy of the old Who’s Who? Because if you do I’ll use those avatars as the cast avatar for each character.
Otherwise I’ll just come up with something else.
Sadly I never had the foresight to make a copy, fortunately some insightful sole (apologies for me not remembering names) had the nouce to put the core cast list details into the wiki already:
https://grrl-power.wikia.com/wiki/Cast
Likewise they, or other reader(s) have updated some details for a number of cast members, looking like up to and including the introduction of the Council members. Albeit quite sketchy and not including a number of the more recently introduced characters.
Once I return from my travels, my priorities will be trying to avoid freezing to death, doing my bit to bring us a few steps closer to world peace, and getting ready to return to the UK, post-Brexit. *shudder*
So chewing the fat here is about the only extra thing I will be cramming into my schedule. But to offer some back-seat driver observations, I can point out some areas that could be expanded.
Links:
* First appearance (no problems at taking best guess, the wiki is a collaborative effort and if someone knows of an earlier one they can always correct it).
* Notable appearances (wherever the individuals powers or origins are explained, or if they do anything really cool)
* Most recent appearance (for anyone who is not a regular, or who we have not seen for yonks)
Image:
The Who’s Who entry is useful in its own right, and has been copied in for a number of characters already. But a well-chosen cropped image, from the comic itself would help people trying to find someone visually, rather than by name. This can happen on any page where only a few of the characters have speaking parts (and will thereby be in the Who’s Who, for that page, and a reader is wondering who one of the others are.
Possibly you might be inspired to do other things instead, which is fine. Certainly I would not expect anyone to do all the stuff I suggested above, either, as it would all take a lot of time. But any contribution to the Wiki would help to enrich our community, so would be much appreciated!
DaveB does read the comments, so I am sure he is aware of the Wiki, and may be inclined to link it, when he does his update. If it gets notably expanded though that is certainly worthwhile pointing out to him in email, to bring it to his attention.
I like Decollette’s little smile in the first panel. :-)
Because she enjoys seeing her rival get slammed, and not in a ‘fun’ way :P
She does have a lovely face, in all of her appearances in the booth.
I just figured she was hit hard enough to temporarily break her concentration on part of the glamour disguising her appearance, before she hit the glass. Disrupting the touch aspects of the glamor, but not the visual. Instinct had her put everything back in place by the time we see her.
The glamour is a racial power, so I doubt it would require concentration. Especially as Succubi will have far more interesting things that they will want to concentrate on instead. Not to mention the fundamentally important aspect that the tactile part of the illusion must remain sound even at … ahem… climactic moments.
That said we know that Dabbler can change the illusion, by concentrating on it, as we have seen her groping Maxima’s butt with her ‘invisible’ hands. Something which Maxima could not have sensed if Dabbler had the illusion set to ‘impenetrable’.
But, something which could lend credence to your line of thought, despite my above, is the fact that Dabbler is not adept with her racial illusions, and has been teased for being uneducated in that regard. So it is entirely plausible that hers might be disrupted in the way you describe.
Although we should bear in mind the author’s comments, in his blog, that he intended that to represent just her two visible arms and Wyrmcoot’s tentacle.
Too lazy to read every comment back, so forgive me if I sound like a parrot.
But I haven’t given the imprint a second thought until you mentioned it.
I just accepted it as four arms, since Dabbler also invisi-groped Maxima’s buttocks when first introduced to Sydney.
Somehow that memory has stuck with many people.
*gestures to couch, gets out note book and pen*
Please make yourself comfortable. Now tell me more about how you felt when that happened.
Almost up to the next page update and we have yet to have anyone comment on Dabbler now no longer being the only dichromatic cast member!
Coot is gonna be able to expand his bar tricks from just being able to light his own farts!
this is the page, though: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/607
So is this:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1929
Note: normal human not noticing that he is being groped by extra hands. OK, I will grant that he may have other things distracting him. Personally though I am happy that Dabbler chose to deliberately override her racial illusion’s normal function in the scene you link, whilst letting it work uninhibited in the second.
This is entirely consistent with Dabbler’s personality, for the former (it was a fun way to wind Maxima up) whilst respecting the vital need to maintain secrecy from the general public for the one I linked.
The clincher for me though is that it is a Succubus racial illusion, which absolutely has to be able to conceal tactile contact (and secondary clues emanating from that). Otherwise it would be useless for maintaining an illusion whist engaged in sexual activity. Which would otherwise render it ineffective for its primary purpose.
Plus the author does indicate his intent in his blog above.
Man charged with reckless endangerment:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42195050
Despite having the good intentions of forging a sword, he ended up burning down a number of buildings (for which he faced the additional charge of arson).
*gives significant looks towards Krona and Pander*
Don’t worry Pixel, you can join my artificially-induced-amnesia support group, even if Pander does not care about your loss! I am sure that you, like me, would rather endure physical torture, rather than be subjected to that again!
*winks at Pander*
I’m sure there’s a redneck repairs reference/joke in there, though Wyrmil might lack the context to make it…