Grrl Power #103 – I think Dabbler’s about to detect the People’s Elbow
A few people predicted something like this would happen, I’m sure there will be plenty of predictions as to what comes next, though at this point given what we know about the players involved, there are a diminishing set of possibilities. Hopefully I’ll have a few surprises for you though. The weakness of the once a week format. I was hoping this page would take a little less time to draw since there’s fewer panels but the larger I draw the more time I spend on it generally.
So now that Dabbler’s met Sydney for real (or is about to), I’ll point out that you can see more of her in the webcomic Wereworld (NSFW). I’ve mentioned it before in the comments but most people probably haven’t seen the link yet. It’s drawn by Rann, another old Fred Perry Fan Club alumni. (The FPFC is a defunct IRC chat room that a few dozen fans used to frequent over a decade ago). Wereworld is sort of on hiatus at the moment, and even when it’s not it updates slower than mine, but it’s been running since 2002 so its got a decent sized archive. Bookmark it for a lazy Saturday morning. Dabbler appears in it simply because Rann liked her design and asked to borrow her, and I was all for it.
BTW given some of the discussions about breast… buoyancy, I considered drawing Dabbler’s second set of arms doing a cup and lift action, but I thought that might distract from the main point of the page.
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What I want to know is who is the guy in the mask?
Yeah, the robot behind the committee is more surprising than unmasked Dabbler. Nice misdirection, though.
The masked dude is certainly out of place, and we haven’t exactly seen him before (unless we have and I just don’t recognize him). But he’s sort of shifty, just like Dabbler is, so I’m thinking the clarisense orb is letting her see through Dabbler’s illusion as well as Mr. Mask, but was that always a function of the orb, or is it the result of Dabbler trying to scan it? After all, we didn’t see him when she used it the first time, though he could have come in since then, I suppose.
Yea, the robot caught me too. I saw Dabbler first, but I absorb information. Steel-face doesn’t escape my notice all that easily.
My question when I noticed him was: “Why is that masked guy dressed like Carmen Sandiego?”
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Carmen_Sandiego.jpg
Except in blue, of course.
That’s her cousin, Joesph Sanfrancisco.
That would be a cool name for a character here. Make it so!.. or not.
Also begs the question… are the other ‘table members’ aware that someone was ‘cloaked’ with illusion and peeping in on their meeting? While ‘de-illusioning’ Dabbler, our little whackjob…. er, Sydney, has revealed an intruder! Or another player we’ve yet to meet (or see in the cast database).
Well, I suppose it could be Maxima. But I’m thinking it’s a secret observer – the question then is whether or not the general knows about him,/her/it. Syd’s reaction is going to be fun though!
i think they don’t know about him yet, but when syd picks up dabbler and throws her into that guy, we’ll find out more about him
By the looks of things, the general has already noticed him. If you look, he’s glancing sideways, the sort of ‘what’s behind me’ look.
I’m expecting he’s another super, by the looks of the markings on his face.
I think the general is still looking at Max.
You know, that was my first reaction to that panel as well. (Stupid magic training, always looking for the misdirection. I swear, sometimes I have to REMIND myself to watch the proper hand. Studying magic ruins so many performances.)
I am wandering if Q there is half phased into the wall or if that is part of the invisibility being peeled away like with Dabbler’s glamor.
I too wander if the General knew he was there (like secret security that showed up because things were getting heated between Dabbler and Maxima or some kind of spy…or random peeping tom witha thing for the mystery faceless man look.
Dabbler is taller than I expected.
That’s just Sydney being short.
Yeah, just looked at the cast page again.
Sydneys 5′ 0 and Dabblers 5′ 10.
And I do love her so much.
I wonder how she will react to being exposed. Or is it just Sydney’s perception.
However, one thing I wonder about, was creepy guy in the background NOT in the room when she used that orb the first time? Otherwise, why did she not see him then, or is this a reaction to Dabbler’s spell?
So many questions!!!!!
He probably followed in behind Dabbler when she walked in to the room.
Masked Spy Guy may follow Dabbler around in as a handler. Make sure she behaves or try to prevent situations from getting out of control if Dabbler’s “cover” is compromised.
We don’t really have a measure if the world at large knows about aliens or not. I know, I know. Dabbler may not really be an alien, but think of what Jane Q. Public would react if they saw her. A golden skin, purple haired Colonel is one thing, But a demonic looking, four-armed, furry, long eared “alien” is quite another.
I don’t know, in a world that knows about supers, is Collossus that much worse off than Nightcrawler? Seeing what someone looks like and knowing their backstory isn’t the same thing.
then again I’d imagine in the Street Fighter universe if they found out Darkstalkers exist it would be a major thing and make some doubt some of the Martial Artists as being human.
Whoo, strange dude standing in back of room! O.o And poor Sydney, here’s hoping she doesn’t use the one that goes “boom” after a scare like that.
If I was her I’d use the psudopod orb to grab him, and then ask them if he worked there.
My bet is she grabs Dabbler with the psuedopod orb and throws her in spastic panic, directly away from herself.
…Which is conveniently exactly where Mr. Mask is.
makes me wonder if the Pseudopod orb can “branch” forming many tentacles from the main one and grab them both at the same time. Everyone realizes she can see Dabbler’s true form when she has the extra pair of arms wrapped up.
From the look of it the orb creates a negating effect for illiusions.
More likely it allows Sydney to see through illusions. Or the others would be much more surprised to se Dabblers disguise disappear.
Wrong orb?
Isn’t that the telepresence one?
Maby, she wanted to use a orb that she knew worked.
It has something to do with illusions, so it might have the effect of making it so she can see through illusions as well.
Yes thats the orb that lets her make an ilusion so it might also be able to let he see through them too and as for the guy in the mask my money is on that he was/is invisable and is there because the genral dosnt fully trust Dabbaler what we are seeing is what Sidnie sees from the point of view of Max and the others Dabbler is still a 10 and the guy is stil invisable
Sydney just discovered another super power.. Well another aspect of her powers.
not only that she might not even realise it yet and she might launch an attack on the guy behind the genral thinking hes a threat. I have to admit as an autition the abilty to preceave and remove a potenta; threat will make quite an impression.
Exactly – this is why it’s not enough to know WHAT you can do…
…you should also know HOW it’s accomplished!
This Orb’s METHOD of providing “Clarisense” enables it to also show Sydney the truth behind someone else’s illusions. Part of her surprise is that this is her first chance to actually test it on an illusion.
Has ARCHON just gotten infiltrated by a hostile? Or is that one of their people? I wouldn’t be surprised if they had extra security in the form of cloakers/stealthers (he’s blurring into the right side of the panel, besides being unseen throughout the meeting). Then again, that’s exactly the kind of ability a non-friendly trying to get in or do a surprise attack would have.
Crap- if it IS some sort of attack, that infiltrator has two prime targets (their overall CO and their intel head) right in front of him, seated, unaware and vulnerable.
Looks more like either a recon or invisable security in case something gets out of hand.
I vote for supervillian henchman recon myself.
Interesting that it’s her telepresence orb that can negate illusions. I imagine she will freak out over Dabbler, complete with her unique brand of swearing, but not in the ‘Holy £!#% demon, panic!” sense. Once she recovers from that she might notice Mr. mystery mask in the back, but currently Dabbler is blocking her view of him I think and also definitely has her attention.
Interestingly, the general and the doctor don’t seem to be reacting to purple Dabbler. Obviously they’ve seen her in her real form before, but you’d think they’d be making note of the change. Maxima did mention that the room is lower security, which is presumably why Dabbler went with the blonde illusion in the first place. I wonder if this is a Syndey-only view change.
I think only Sydney can see her real form. They don’t look suprised enough that her illousion spell was broken, so they probably just see Sydney freaking out.
Given you can still see the boots from the disguise, I think that’s right – Dabblers disguise is still there, just that Syd can see through it
By the light of the orb! Literally: Dabbler’s illusion seems to be only broken within a sphere centered around Syd’s orb. Or maybe it’s a beam, the masked guy is outside of any anti-illusion sphere that wouldn’t show Dabbler’s feet.
I think it would be kinda funny if Sydney was actually freaking out over the masked man, not Dabbler:
Dabbler: Oops, sorry, did I scare you?
Sydney: No, not you! There’s some dude in a mask over there!
…Which would beg the question, why the hell is Sydney NOT freaking out over Dabbler?
From the blocking, she can’t see the guy in the mask because Dabblers blocking her view.
Maybe because Syd despite her craziness does have a sense of priorities. This is weird but hell she’s made friends with a golden statue. And this person is in position of the examiner, so illusion powers.
“The Light of Truth?”
“See the Unseen?”
Oh… The first full view of Dabbler. I wasn’t sure if in addition to four hands she had four……
But no, just the two.
DaveB decided that four would make her look fat or something, so he went with two.
*Looks at Wereworld-Dabbler, looks at G-power-Dabbler* Yeah, the 4 breasts would be interesting but wouldn’t fit the style. That and would make her kinda…lumpy.
She has 4 in the Wereworld comic though. I guess that was her initial design.
Or maybe she just found it annoying to find shirts that fit correctly after she got to Earth.
She may not have four breasts, but apparently she has two navels. Interesting…
I think the second ‘belly button’ is just the fold of the muscles of her abdomen.
This bears close physical examination! *Puts on a lab coat* Fortunately I am supremely qualified for such a detailed task. ;)
My quirky sense of humor wants Dabbler to be wearing some kind of badger-related shirt in order for the BADGER! joke to reach the rule-of-three pinnacle…
So, orbs can have secondary powers…
Hmmm, given that Sydney used the telepresence orb before, the hidden guy is likely to have come in after that.
Aughh I can already smell NEXT week’s cliffhanger coming.
Actually, I think that the illusion negation has a limited range, and she can see him now because she’s standing closer to the table than before.
I think DaveB had us foreshadow this moment. Consider:
In the previous page, Panel#2 includes the sound-effect “flop” of the curtain. I respectfully submit to you that this was our Mysterious Snoop, who was pushed back against the curtains (& thus disturbed them) by the same shock-wave that cracked the glass. Perhaps it was HIS weight that cracked it – this would explain why only one pane was damaged.
As for this page’s big reveal, DaveB has managed to do as expected…
…in a totally unexpected way!
By having the “Clarisense”-Orb act as both “illusion-maker” & “expose-other-illusions”, he’s kept the remaining 2 Orbs’ powers unknown still longer. Therefore, I hereby formally accuse the Esteemed Author (with tongue firmly in-cheek) of deliberately keeping these 2 Orbs unknown for a
Truly-Devious-&-Evil-Reason:
– So that he can listen-in as we speculate on their possible abilities, then
– “harvest” notes on which powers are the “coolest”, & then
– spring them on us if-&-when he ever gets himself “painted into a corner”, & needs some way to rescue a character from dying.
(…just kidding – really!)
In the Real World, I feel certain that you’d never pull a “Deus Ex Machina” on us. We’ll just wait-&-see…
(“…so, whattdaya think Heatwave is gonna do when she finally meets the girl who’s been messing with her man’s tongue?!?”)
…& speculate…
(“…so that [SAILOR], huh – I bet Sydney hasn’t embarrassed him for the last time yet…”)
…a LOT.
:P
(“…so I’m thinkin’, see, how those [NUNJAS] might randomly encounter Sydney every once in a while, as a running gag, see…”)
;)
:)
Hmm… Odd, that IS the telepresence orb. I figured it would be one of the unknowns that would allow seeing through illusions.
Well DaveB did call it a clairsense power.
I’m not sure if I spelled it right, and I never realy did understand what the term ment…
It just means she can sense things using the orb that others can’t. The best way I can think to explain is :
Clairvoyance (french, Clear vision. Basicly seeing what others can’t)+Clairaudience (Clear hearing)= Clairsense. ;)
Thanks.
You’re most welcome.
It would be interesting if it also gave her Clairgustance and Clairalience as well. That way Sydney could really experience her spicy meals. :P
Clari-me-gusta?
That would involve her “holo”-duplicate to be able to interact with the environment on a physical level.
For those who didn’t want to do the search, Clairgustance and Clairalience are the “Taste” and “Smell” equivalents of Clairvoyance.
Well technically, so do clarvoyance and clairaudience. That is, if she’s seeing photons, those photons are being removed from the remote location SOMEhow, etc. I suppose *eating* remotely is several orders of magnitude more intrusive to the environment, but still. Still, it’d be interesting if, like Gil the Arm, she can have remote touch (ie, possibly she can put her hand through things as with Arianna… it still wonders me if she can *feel* the inside of her head as her hand passes thorugh. Ew, ik. Being able to do so wouldn’t require much more interaction than sight or sound, since there’s not much… hrm… feedback to the touched-thing.
ANYhoo… now I speculate to myself about the other 9 or 10 (depending on how you count) senses being done remotely… gyroception, proprioception, kinesthesia, etc, etc.
Using one of the five orbs with (mostly) known powers is logical. And she already said it is the coolest one.
I’m thinking the orb shows Sydney everything within X distance of the telepresence ball. Since the ball is still in the orb, she’s sensing everything in the room, including Mr. Mask.
Also, I think Mr. Mask came in after the window was broken. After all, only that one curtain came loose after the window cracked – maybe it was him coming in. (I haven’t finished going through the comments, so my apologies if someone already thought of this.)
The Clairsense Orb might cause a misalignment of the illusions since her copy is non-interactive, and as the illusions don’t place an effect on the copy.
I imagine the next page will be very entertaining! :) And the stealth guy in the back was a big surprise (makes sense though since Sydney is an unknown).
Guy with the steel mask looks familiar but I can’t place where I would have seen him in comic… either that or his design is similar to a character I have seen elsewhere.
He’s giving me a vibe of
Q from SFIII
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Grs_rQtvL7E/S9rPQHBeaSI/AAAAAAAABz8/Gr_8Lyt5G5k/s1600/Q+Street+Fighter+3.jpg
It’s Cobra Commander!!
Sydney’s reaction (what we can see of it) is awesome.
Mysterious masked man is mysterious.
Dabbler: “Why are you looking at me like that?”
Sydney: “Why are you a purple skinned demon thing?”
Everyone else: O_o
follwed by:
Sydney: “And who’s the masked freak standing behind the table?”
Max,Dab,Zeph: .oO(*REENK!”)
That would work. If she tried it the other way around she’d only alert the masked guy his cover is blown while Max and the others still have no reason to believe Syd is seeing the unseen.
THAT’S SO THEM! that’s absolutely an accurate reaction from both Sydney and the rest of the characters.
Although i wonder if Sydney is not going to go:
“You’re SO cute!”
Glomp Dabbler.
hahaha I love YOU dave shit this is what i thoght would happen use and orb see dabbler and then also see a bad guy that was hiding in the room perfect heheh
Saaaaaaay…. is stealth!guy’s face-mask markings where Illusion!Dabbler’s similar markings come from? If he really digs that kind of thing, and he was inside the room when Dabbler used the look-like-common-denominator-dream-girl spell…
I first assumed the man in the mask was just some sort of covert security for the non-powered important people.
But why didn’t she see him the first time she used the clairsense orb? He must have came in with Harem or Dabbler.
I think the illusion negation has a limited range, and earlier he was out of the range.
If you notice, Syd looks like she’s standing closer to the table than earlier(thanks to the fight between Dabbler and Max)
Perhaps his job is protecting people around Dabbler.
His position for protecting someone is only good if he does it with short range force fields. Or he thinks that being behind the general is the safest place in the room.
What if Sid activates her pew pew, aims for Dabbler but she evades it and the masked guy gets fried!?
Knowing what we know of Sydney that’s a likely possibility. The question is, what would the result be? Would she blow a hole through the mystery guy, or would she just blast him out of the building (assuming he’s invulnerable/got some form of force field/protection)?
Given the size and width of the crater caused by her testing of the pew pew, I think using it would kill the general and zeph.
Crater? I thought she just burnt a chunk of forest, not carved a crater…
It looked like the blast carved a channel in the dirt as well.
the masked guy looks like Rorshach from Watchmen crossed with an android
I thought he lookes like Cobra Commander myself.
I was think the bad guy form teen titan myself
You mean Slade? The one-eyed guy is Slade Wilson. (“Hi, Mr. Wilson!”)
Who had absolutely no influence on the character or design of Wade “Deadpool” Wilson.
Not one bit.
I’m pretty sure Deadpool was dreated around thirty years ago, maby more.
IIRC his the first issue of his own comic was in the mid-90’s
Here we are, from Wikipedia:
“Created by artist Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza, Deadpool made his first appearance in the pages of New Mutants #98 published in February 1991. Rob Liefeld, a fan of the Teen Titans comics, showed his new character to then writer Fabian Nicieza. Upon seeing the costume and noting his characteristics (killer with super agility), Nicieza contacted Liefeld, saying “this is Deathstroke from Teen Titans.” Nicieza gave Deadpool the real name of “Wade Wilson” as an in-joke to being “related” to “Slade Wilson”,
Hey anyone notice the last page where the window is broken is where that guy is i think what was dave saying someone is bakc there. Because if it was the force of the impant by max on dabblers shiled all of them to be cracked not just one section so me think he fell back hard and hit it any one else.
Wrong window, the broken one is behind Arianna and not behind Zeph. Also, strike a line of weakness in glass and it shatters, whereas it could stay intact if you strike it elsewhere with identical force.
Interesting thought though.
Interesting thought. It might explain that sash falling when the window cracked which never did make observable sense.
I think either he’s a baddie, or more likely he’s the guy who casts illusions for black-ops and since this was a rush job he’s been having to actively maintain it.
Actually I think he got thrown against the curtains last page. Not the window. Had an actual object hit window there’d have been a secondary sound, series of huh’s? , looks over shoulder and more alertness.
Dude has some stealth… Sydney notices him and thinks NINJA, always expect ninjas! Which leads us to think- somewhat convoluted like that she’s probably seen and dealt with them before. If so we get more back story on orbs soon.
But again, I think he was behind arianna before and concussive wave made him grab for wall and grab curtains and loose them before… look at the shape of the cordon/wrap for curtains…bit odd. Yes?
DaveB is more clever than he lets on. No errors in the last page? That’s because he was planting a McGuffin in plain site. I almost asked last week who got thrown to the wall by the concussion and fell behind the panel? Squirrel! But I got distracted for some, BEER! Reason.
So maybe some more enterprising types should scan back for things like footprints in carpet, an extra shadow or blurred background/windowpane where there wasn’t one before in other panels.
I’m thinking that he came in following Max and Sydney after being alerted by the News Cast of the robbery being thwarted. And someone new on the scene.
Probably has orders to try to recruit her if she’s worthy for the “Other” organization. One not as strict about what supers do on their time off…likely work for another govt sector– one that might have “borrowed” and copied some of Dabbler’s tech when she first appeared. Or other alien tech (or has a genius to invent crap they can actually make and use- control him via well endowed temptress type female– who may later actually begin to care for the geek. *(Say it with pride!)
That or he’s just a sneaky bastard of a bad guy… Hence his NINJA appelation to come and his beatdown. Sydney can do subtle too. Once she grok’s Dabbler (this is a low security area, due to it having access for VIP’s and it being a ballroom for parties. Neh? They might think they are secure, but security cams don’t seem to see through illusion magical or technical… worse critter might be a bit of both too- techno-magic Ninja!
Though you’d think if he/she were organic. Dabbler’s entrance and illusion push would have caused at least some heavy breathing behind the men/arianna initially if he was there before. If he followed her up the low sec stairs/elevator and to the ballroom- then he may have had time to “deal” with confining uniform, distension, and heavy breathing/drool.
My 25 cents…
What if the person behind the mask and invisibility was thinking “Not a lesbian. Not a lesbian…”? Hard to tell from this angle.
Go two pages back, the panel where Dabbler is teasing Max about no longer being the biggest girl in the room, take a look at the wood panelling of the room between them. Rather distorted-looking enough for you? :3
i want to say he’s black op’s maybe? the building is pretty secure and if he has something like acoustic sensitive sensors in that big robotic head/ helmet he could have broken that glass…. It made for a good prelude to this event.
That’s what I was thinking as well. Black ops made those illusions for the other folks and I figured his costume looks black opsy. He could have been in the room all along or come in when harem or dabbler entered the room.
Blackops being present makes perfect sense.
Even with Maxima there we are talking about three normals interviewing an unknown super with unknown abilities and unknown agendas, background, or personality. As far as they know she could snap and try to flee, attack them, turn out to be more powerful than maxima and have been messing with them the whole time.
So in the event she turned out to be hostile, likely she would focus her attention of Maxima (the only other super visible in the room) *before Harem and Dabbler showed up* or go straight for the top brass/normals for hostages.
So an invisible blackops would be the best chance to get her completly off guard and take her down quickly with minimal collateral damage.
The orb definitely has a limited range, look at Dabbler’s legs, you can see the remnants of her cloak and leggings, which fade out just like mask guy.I’m thinking the “illusion breaker” works more like a flashlight beam, somewhat unidirectional, and the only reason mask guy is visible is he’s in line of sight with the orb’s range.
I’m doubtful about the range limitation of the true sight ability of the orb. It may be just Dave’s artistic license of Dabbler’s illusion fading away as Sydney touches/activates the orb.
I am thinking this has less to do with range, than with the process. As Sydney’s vision is in the process of revealing what is under the illusions, we see some of the old appearance, including Dabbler’s boots and the masked man’s hat in front of the curtain.
I agree with the others, we are likely looking at a freeze frame of motion. Like pausing during the animation where they show that an illusion is being stripped away. So this big scene, past the dialogue if this were animated we’d be seeing the half a second of time right there in the big panel.
I’m sorry, but my snap ADD-esque reaction would be to grab the PPO and blast if that suddenly appeared in arm’s reach of me.
Personally I would try to make the force field orb my automatic response.
Starting to blast around with something of the PPO’s force and range might be unwise.
This is Sydney we are talking about. You or I might be calm and rational about things like this… but not Sydney.
Sydney’s reflex, as noted when Harem teleported next to her, is to attack. The question is whether her reflex right now means physical attack or super attack.
Even if I was in “Attack”-mode, my reflex would be to go for the Pseudopod, not the PPO. She’s already shown restraint by not demonstrating the PPO’s power in this room, & she might want to capture, rather than shoot, someone who is seen by everyone else in the room as an ally. Besides, consider the plotting-possibilities:
– Sydney screams, grabs the Orb, & a Pseudopod lashes-out at a confused-&-frightened Dabbler like a vicious cobra! (Great “Cliffhanger” potential here!) Before even Maxima can react, it’s already past Dabbler & capturing Mr.Mystery Snooper, wrapping around limbs that are (to everyone else in the room) still invisible. What follows can go in several directions:
A – He’s in the same “BLOPS”-group that provided the 2 “bank robbers” with their disguises, & he was just in the room as extra backup, in case things “went south”. After all, they don’t know Sydney like we do, & good security can’t assume that she’s OK, just because she looks OK.
B – He’s a “baddie”, & interrogation will reveal the Evil Organization that will play the role of “KAOS-vs-CONTROL” in many of ARCSWAT’s future battles.
C – He’s a robot, broadcasting this meeting back to his evil controllers, & he’ll self-destruct rather than reveal anything, now that he’s been found out.
D – He’s a she…
E – Etc-etc-etc-etc…
(…whew…)
I’ll shuttup now, sorry.
From the look of the orbs above Sydney’s head, she is still holding on to the Shielding one.
I think what we’re looking at here is what happens when the shielding and Illusion/clarisense orb are used in conjunction.
So, “shielded” against illusions I would assume.
From the reactions of the people at the desk, I’m not sure whether everyone else has seen it fade. I’m guessing its just Sydney, since I would expect they might look a bit more shocked.
The shield one is the light purple one floating above her. We can’t see the mystery green orb, I’m guessing it’s just off-panel.
Sydney’s already reacting to Dabbler, from the shock-jaggies off her shoulders. If we could see more of her face it would be showing her surprise at the change. As for “masked man,” I come down on the bad guy side since this would let us get into action sooner. But that’s up to Dave…
please tenticle orb. its the only one i can see being used as a bat or hammer. or a tenticle.
I love how general Faulk is still scowling in Max’s direction, guess she really ticked him off by now. And real-Dabbler made me laugh, she looks a bit cross-eyed. Her hands are huge, too, must be good for grabbing popcorn :P
Heh, I do draw hands too big. Dabbler is supposed to have slightly thicker/longer fingers than a human since she only has 3/hand. She could definitely palm Sydney’s head like a basketball though in this pic.
Which arm was supposed to be robotic again?
If its robotic, shouldn’t Sydney can see through illousions, shouldn’t we see a robotic arm as well, or is it covered in psudoflesh?
Maybe it’s covered in actual flesh.
If one of her arms is covered in flesh over mechanics she is also a cyborg too. We have many cyborgs walking around.
Although the word “cyborg” comes from “Cybernetic Organism”, popular usage is that any manufactured item that aids the body’s functioning qualifies that person to get the “cyborg”-label, whether it’s electronic or not. If we use the term THAT loosely, then eyeglasses or a cane or a crutch might qualify, but a pacemaker or an artificial hip would DEFINITELY be allowed. At that level of inclusiveness, even a pirate’s peg-leg would be allowable, although an eye-patch would not, since it merely covers a wound, instead of helping the eye to see.
No, it only goes to those with implanted mechanical and other artificial things. Glasses and canes aren’t implanted. But there are many out there, especially since the long wars, that have artificial parts some of them in the most recent Olympics.
the arm with the gold band on it is the one that I think is cybernetic. think about it what better way to disguise an attatchment point than to make it look like jewelery.
If I remember correctly, I think it was stated somewhere to be the lower left. I had thought it was on the cast page here, but evidently not. Maybe it was on the Wereworld side – I’m fairly sure the inbuilt teleporter was used there on at least one occasion.
Yep, in Wereworld it was the Lower Left arm.
You could say that when Dabbler utilizes her powers they occasionally make her hands bigger, or something… Or it could just be Sydney freaking out so the hands look bigger momentarily. The ones on Dabblers hips look normal-sized, so yeah, I’ll go with Sydney’s perception is a little skewed…
I think we can take it as wrote that Sydney’s perceptions are a little skewed.
The real question is…why did Sydney pick an orb she knew, she didn’t know what it did? :p
They were testing so see of they showed up on Dabblers scanners so she grabbed one that wasn’t considered dangerous.
She did know – it’s the orb that makes a copy of her she can see from. But she didn’t know it saw through illusions because she’d never seen an illusion before.
Ooh, 4 arms? Didn’t see that comin’.
I’m reminded of a thing where some girl wants them to use some multi-arm spell on someone else since those extra arms would be connected to extra pectorals…
I suspect that Dabbler’s phrase “Sure, light it up” will prove to be famous last words in more ways than one.
*Holds a stick of dynamite and a zippo* I have no idea what you’re talking about.
“Hand me a match, willyah? I’m tryin’ ta see if my gas-tank’s empty…”
:P
:)
Mind telling us who is the Metal-mask behind the desk? He has not appeared in the comic once before if I’m correct, so care to enlighten us?
I imagine it will come up in the next few pages.
It would be funny if the guy in the mask was actually Leon.
Huh, is this dispelling the illusion or just letting Sydney see through it? I can’t really read the General and Zephan’s expressions… if the former, they don’t look especially bothered by the security breach, but I got the impression the cloaking was mainly a formality anyway.
Ah ha! That orb can not only create illusions but it can remove them too. Well now this is a bit of a surprise, although my question is who the hell is that guy with the mask standing over there? An observer for some secret society? Or something else?
Wait what if one of the orbs that dosen’t do anything SUMMONED that guy behind them? You know what if that isn’t a guy but some summoned spirit that will help Syd out if things go bad?
Huh. What’s upi with the table? The bottom bows out, apparently into the floor since the top line is straight. Optical effect of the orb overwriting Sydneys perceptions wit the truth?
Tablecloth.
Yeah it’s a tablecloth. The flag should follow the contour of it but my art program doesn’t let me do a mesh deform or liquefy. :P
what art program do you use for all this wonderful stuff?
Paint Tool SAI. It’s hands down the best drawing program out there, in terms of translating the stylus to the screen. It also has great coloring tools. Unfortunately that’s all it does, but I use it because it does it so well. I use Illustrator for the panels and lettering, and I just bought OpenCanvas 5.5 because the art tools are pretty good to be honest, but mostly because it has a good implementation of perspective rulers. My plan is to start doing some of my interiors and backgrounds in OC, then probably drop that into SAI for coloring.
At keast Dabbler has some idea to look out for ‘tongue jitsu’. Knowing Sidney sh is going to react just out of startlement. The one I would expect is a quick wrap with the psuedopod followed by picking Dabbler up and banging her on the floor while shouting ‘Bad Demon! No souls for you!’
I don’t think Sydney will resort to violence this time in regards to Dabbler.
The ninja on the other hand is in for a can of whop ass to be laid on him.
She has a “thing” about ninjas.
ALWAYS EXPECT NINJAS!!!
O GOD ITS COBRA COMMANDER!!! RUN SYDNEY!!!!
Note that Dave hasn’t said anything in the comments here like he usually does. He wants us to wait to see what the masked guy is up to.
I think he’s at work or going to work right now. His comments usualy don’t start untill after 9AM.
See. 9AM on the dot.
You is good.