Grrl Power #108 – The Passion of the PR Lady
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Having Arianna reading youtube comments amused me but in comic form it’s admittedly a little wall-of-texty. At least we know that she really enjoys her work.
I didn’t get a chance to color the vote incentive, I was rushing a bit to get this page done faster cause I spent most of Saturday at Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 release party. And both BL2 and Torchlight 2 come out this week… so… we’ll see what happens there.
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I think I see an artist’s mistake: In panel 5 Syd’s left bang is missing.
I figured its obscured by her ponytail at that angle.
I’d like to give Dave the benefit of that doubt, but I just can’t.
There’s a certain point with the level of detail that I think “no one will notice if I save 3 minutes of work by leaving this off.” I’m never right.
*Pats DaveB on back* It’s okay, I didn’t notice until I read the comments. It still looks good. ^_^
I dont know if we can call this Murphy law’s but with that much fan, you can assume that someone will notice something out of the ordinary, if there is something OOTO
I like how you represented the internet population, even the “your mom”
with how much stuff is in that tiny part of the frame I’d say go with “obscured by pony tail and orb” really how much of the bang would be visible there anyway? I mean we have gold arm, purple hand, glowing orbs, ponytail, her head tilted.
Being a current, in Training member of the Air Force, it is painfully obvious to me when you leave out parts of uniforms.
However, I find Progression of the Comic > Banal attention to details that do not add to the story.
Maybe so, Dave, but it’s become a bit of a fad to scrutinise your comics for such Easter eggs. Just goes to show how much people enjoy reading the comic, too, that they are willing to go through each panel like that :D
That’s true. There are definitely worse problems to have. I need to get my consistency up with that sort of stuff so that when I actually want to sneak in a little easter egg or whatever, people are less likely to think it’s an error.
Orrrr you could update more often so we wouldn’t have all week to. . . Oh forget that, sure I had to reread the page a couple of times to see this mistake but I still did it all on the first day.
Looking forward to next monday. [I promise I’ll read that page 6 times before I start grousing. ;) ]
I’ve had to reread the entire series 5 times to keep from whimpering at the waiting.
*Pats Tera’s head and hands them a Maxima Plushie* There, there. It’ll be alright.
I think a Maxima plushie would have to be made with gold lamé, which wouldn’t make it all that plush. At least not fluffy.
was either that or a body pillow. >_> <_<
Just don’t let her know you have one.
*Hides the receipt for shipping one Plushie to ARCHON*
I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove anything, I WANT MY LAWYER!!
PLEASE!! No Super Wedgie Of Death!!!
I’m sure the youtube comments are packed with references and jokes… most of which are lost on me but… Afro-ronin? I just googled it and there seems to be some kind of game… or is it Mugen? Because I thought of Mugen.
Also, yay Peggy!
No there is an Afro Samurai game. Despite the joke like concept it actually is a challenging game, one of the bosses said to be one of the harder ones to be beat in a hack and slash game.
Reference to the cartoon Afro Samurai.
Realy cool movies. Recomend you watch.
I’ll be soooo heatbroken if maxim turns out to be gay.
But I’ll still like looking at her.
She’s not. Conversely, she doesn’t get along with a lot of guys for a lot of reasons, but she’s straight.
She will try to keep any romantic connections as far away from this bunch as she can, Understandable with this group.
aaawwwwwww there goes my bubble imagining me in a lez orgy with max, peg,sidney,dab,harem ,brook,kenya,,,, and well most girls in the comic so far exept ariana and her assistant
Sweet!, that means my orgy imaginations with the girls is safe, MWAHAHAHA..r at least a minage-toi with her and Dabbler
Do keep in mind that both Arianna and Sydney were thinking “Not a lesbian” when Dabbler came into the room with her lust aura cranked up. Harem was the only woman who seemed sexually interested in Dabbler at that time. I think Harem may be the only bisexual among the ladies; I think Dabbler is omni-sexual, so that does not count. That is close to the proportions of the population.
Harem seems not so much bisexual as trisexual – she’ll ‘tri’ anything once!
Once? hell she might try it again later that night.
Wear one of her bodies out and she’ll just switch to the next.
Or do it with more of her in the mix! Hmm… if 2 Harems have sex together is that masturbation or something else?
That question has been asked so many times in these forums.
The answer is of course yes..
You’ve heard of mutual masturbation? Well if Harem uses her clones she is multiple mutual masturbating with herself. Happy?
At least once, I should say.
Love the last panel and Sandy’s expressions. As for the youtube comments, those kind of chauvinistic remarks occur because when you make someone’s identity less slaient – ie when you make them anonymous – they act more like the groups they’re a part of. And one of the biggest groups is gender, so alotta guys are going to act like douchebags online because that’s how they think guys should act.
Zimbardo’s prison study & the related studies should explain it better for anyone interested.
Not just guys, I suspect, but you are right.’
I worked in the Australian Bureau of Statistics for many years, and a question often fielded is how come surveys and censuses aren’t completely anonymous. The answer being that people are a LOT more careful about answering those things when they also have to put their own names and signatures on as well. With surveys that are “Totally” anonymous, the data is invariably rubbish..
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Seconded.
Thirded :P
Tenthed (I figured I would get that in early)
Ha. I love Maxima’s photo icon!
Second person we’ve seen with it. I wonder if someone snagged it and sent it out for everyone to use.
She was trying to grab Math at the time.
Judging by Max already having all the numbers and images in hers after breaking her old one, I think Leon must have them pre-programmed (unless sim cards store images as well, I never use my phone camera).
I do wonder who gave him the image though without Max slapping them or giving them the Look.
Most use microSD flash cards for things like that, easy to swap and surprisingly tough.
I thought no one noticed, but at 10:48 someone commented on it, STILL,
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The original says “sperate these two” instead of “separate”
Okay, I can’t find a post mentioning this, but whatever that ‘Download attachment’ is supposed to be I can’t seem to find where it’s link is.
I don’t think it’s a real link. It’s supposed to be referring to the picture Max is sending Peggy.
Peggy looks a bit different from her bio pic. It’s a good thing.
Congrats on successfully capturing the childishness of Youtube comment threads. No profanity though. And what’s with the occasional responsible person? Oh. Right. Fiction. :)
Geeze, those two are like the Abbot & Costello of superheroines. :P
Dabbler: SYD-NEEEEYYYYYYY!!!!!
Syd: What did you do this time?!
awww, I searched this on youtube and didn’t find it anywhere XP
Absolutely hilarious strip today. Laughed way too hard.
Gotta love Arianna’s crazy face. Just FYI the abbreviation for Lieutenant Colonel is LCol, not LtCl.
I the Army(US) uses LTC for the abbreviation.
It got the point across, so it did it’s job.
Yeah I think I need to go in and make a few fixes on the page.
Per Wikipedia, the US Army uses LTC. The USAF uses Lt Col, and USMC uses LtCol. “Lt. Col.” is recommended by most style books. “O-5” is the pay grade designation, and also the NATO tag.
Seriously, You need too pick up the pace dave
Just reading the character bios, I know that Peggy Kessler is going to be my favorite character. I mean she is a sniper, and I love character who are snipers (with rare exception, ie when done badly). But based on track record I am sure I will love her.
I know when Girl Genius took off, they hired a colorist (a person who colors (i know there is a ‘u’ someplace)) too help do three a week. I am just asking for two a week.
The Canadian/Australian/British/Non-American spelling is colour. The people in the U.S.A misspell it as color. After their Revolutionary War, some dictionary dude named Webster wanted to make the language they were using in the former colonies to be a distinct version of American English. He modified, or tossed away altogether, some spelling rules in the process. Color is just one of the results.
Yep, that’s American English, as opposed to the French-ruled Norman English that the rest of use.
You see, when the Americans broke away from the British, we took the opportunity to fix some problems with the language — as opposed to the English who just sat around until the French got bored and went home, and then still didn’t purge the remains of their former masters’ orthography.
(Oh, yeah. I went there.)
regardless of any standardizes spelling of words I use this.
Bo (male lover)
Bow (Bow and arrow, Bow wow, and take a bow)
Bough (tree, boat)
I refuse to use “bow” for a boat. It just feels wrong,
What about Bo: the chinesse name for Staff
I used to spell it Bow thanks to it being kind of like a bow and arrow, only just the bow, longer, not strung, but later in life I decided that was silly and just went with Bo, but still say Bo Staff because of the sound.
You’d get a “Stern” warning from sailors about that! :)
be careful, they might beat your “Aft”
Or lower the “Boom” on you.
I think one just might get thrown off the poop deck for that ‘crime’.
Your attempts at word play have resulted in all of you being demoted to the rank of ‘ballast’.
You must all now walk the plank for your word play shenanigans.
*draws sword and pokes at Adamas*
Be right back, we’re having shark soup for supper tonight.
*Dives off plank*
Can you “Keel-Haul” me instead? My back itches.
Wouldn’t do much good there, mate. This is the cleanest keel I’ve ever seen.
Dang! Where can a Worgan get a good back scratch??
I’m sure Eddie Munster has a nice bed of nails you could borrow. HA! That joke was enough to make someone “keel” over with laughter! Eh? Eh? Okay yeah, I probably deserve to be beaten about the head with a brick stick for even one of those crappy jokes.
…You mean that I’m *FINALLY* promoted to “Ballast”!
:D
“Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy! Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy! Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy! Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy!”
…I was *SO* tired of always being the “Anchor”…
:P
Beau: male lover (from the French), unless his name is Bo.
Bō: a type of staff, sometimes used in close-quarters combat (from the Japanese).
What is strange is that I was born American, Raised on American English, and have never been to Europe at all. Yet, I still say British idioms and write words in a British manner. I do not watch the BBC or Doctor Who, so I have no idea where it comes from.
Us Canadians have been a bad influence on you. ;)
Ooooor LtC… I stand corrected.
Based on the last panel of page I now have a mental image of the first panel of the next page: Dabbler is seen lying on the floor, bound head-to-toe in coils & coils of Sydney’s tentacle, and Syd is standing over her – Captain Morgan style – her glasses safely back in her own hand.
And Dabbler asking through the cocoon: “Mind if I use that orb? I have a hot date tonight.”
Love it.
I won’t be able to enjoy Borderlands 2 tonight, as I have work tomorrow morning.
Best to separate them before Sydney decides to use “The Pro”. (See? I’m hip!)
The name of the orb is the “Pew Pew Orb”, thus the hip acronym of the word follows accordingly with the second letter being a “P” and not an “R”. Given that it has taken me this long to post a comment, I am not hip and therefore must refrain from using that expresion. However there is still hope for you Good Sir! By refraining from repeating this error, you will have the chance to regain your hipness. I wish you luck.
If Sydney uses the PewPew Orb on a pro, is she a “Pro-PPO-er”?
Nah she’s still an amateur but a fast learner with some natural skill.
Well stated. Though perhaps if she matched or bested the skill of a pro enough times with enough proficiency and with minimal collateral damage (nosimple task given the power of the orb, hopefully she can gauge it) then she may earn the right to be considered a Proffesional PPO Technitian.
Someone quick get that man a spell-check STAT!
I think Sydney is gonna interrupt said PR event by accident (to escape peggy and dabbler) walk down outside building (fly sorta) and into the camera range and just be in time to hear Arianna scoff at Sydney’s assist of the capture of the Bank Robbers… end result Arianna gets a Pseudopod Kancho live on TV….
So we have 1) Peggy taking Dabbler and or just Sydney to dinner/meal at ARC cafe’ soon–that will end well — NOT! Unless they can spice up her food well enough. 2) Maxima is praying that sydney is out of way of reporters, cause that went so well before… 3) Arianna is too high on her own horse right now- Enter sydney to fix that… as noted above… perfect six more weeks of comics right there.
I am thinking Peggy is going to be leashed with keeping both Sydney and Dabbler away from said press event. one ADHD with magic orbs and a second ADHD with magic powers…neither alone sounds like a great idea at a press event, let alone together. LoL.
An ADHD Alien/Demon Cyborg with Magic powers.
And Syd being so famous for the tounge-flip might really make it look like the robbery was a set-up.
At press conference, Arianna is answering questions.
Arianna: The crazy chick, as you call her, is a civilian, not associated with the Archon project. Her name is Sydney Scoville and she is a local business owner. She, like our agent Maxima, was at the bank by happenstance, when the robbery occurred. After the incident, we interviewed her, and have determined that she was not involved in the planning or execution of the robbery, just in its outcome. Next question? Perhaps about Archon this time.
Withe the next question being:
“Have you determined how Ms. Scoville was capable of gripping a human tongue with enough force to throw the man over her shoulder, and if the robber will be suing Ms. Scoville?
I don’t think Archon would be at liberty to release Sydney’s name to the press. As Sydney was not a criminal and unless she signs a permit otherwise no authority is permitted to release the name of a civilian caught in the cross-fires.
Her name was already revealed during the yikes! live news feed from the bank parking lot. You are correct, though; I could have left off the identifying sentence altogether.
Not a comment on the current stirp (which is great, by the way) but you keep me looking forward to Mondays.
Simple request, keep being awesome.
Thanks, I will attempt to do so.
A funny one with Arianna, laughed at it seeing her do an imitation of a Grade B villain cackling and being in the moment. Hilarious!
She can’t be a grade B villain yet. She hasn’t graduated up to “pointy-collar” level yet. Then, and only then, will she be accepted as a true Grade B Villain.
But didn’t you knew? Arianna is the REAL big bad behind the big bad, and her TRUE FORM does have a high pointed collar? Not to mention the skullcrusher mountain throne — where she’s secretly going to ressurect Hitler (for his painting skills…)
Y’know, I hate to say it, but… it’s beginning to feel to me like we’ve been in this meeting room for a bit too long. Can we move to a lab setting, or something? See more of the complex? It’s been five months, now. I’m just starting to get tired of seeing people standing around in this same room.
DaveB said there would only be a few more scenes in the ballroom. So don’t worry they will be doing seprate interviews on late night talk shows next.
Yeah this scene has definitely gone on longer than I intended. I think it’s been amusing, but still a change of scenery would be nice. I don’t think this is the last time we’ll see it in but I’m ready to move on too.
I want to live in this fantasy world where random internet users are actually fluent in their own native language.
I mean, I do see a couple typos, and one lazy person using ‘b’ instead of ‘be’, but the comments are still mostly clean and all intelligible. You just don’t see that in real life. Not on Youtube, anyway.
Did you read the terms and agreements of your YouTube account? It says you must almost always have good spelling and grammar. YouTube used to let it slide but they are now buckling down and starting to bring down the hammer. :D
Yes, but this is based at least two years ago, when the webcomic started.
I dismissed this as a joke at first, but checked it out after pickle3719’s reply. My hopes were dashed. There’s the usual clause prohibiting spam in the community guidelines, but nothing about spelling and grammar.
Darn, I was hoping there would actually be something.
Didn’t you knew? Any comment that goes thru a spell checker without finding an error causes the ministry for the lowering of intellect, anonymous, and the Usenet Troll Descendants Club(tm) to take action against it in rash competition to outdo each other.
Which is why I do it. Maybe the constant violence in their competition will cause them to go extinct through M.A.D.
nah, the last one standing will just absorb the functions of all the others. kinda like Taco Bell did in the movie “demolition man” with stallone and snipes…
Oooh… fear for your life (or at least for your server). You shouldn’t have publicly revealed the secret internal name and actual mission of Anonymous!
Love the last panel with Dabbler and Sydney, I can definately see Dabbler getting some comeuppance!
love the Dr. Evil there for arianna
I think Sydney and Dabbler are gonna get along just fine. I think there may be some sort of prank war type thing that would go on between Dabbler and Sydney.
Or on whom… and the golden giantess might be a favoured target at this stage!
Nah, pranking is too calculating and unspontaneous i.e. involves a long attention span that they don’t have. I’d go more for spontaneous shenanagins spiralling into generalised mayhem.
As a long time ADD sufferer I can say pranks are VERY interesting and tempting. They engage my interest, imagination, intellect and immaturity. Of course I had 3 years of military school to hone my skills. But pranks can be the source of much evil giggling amusement though they rarely match my fertile imagination.
Morbo feels sorry for these people.
They are forced to use inferior American made tilt-rotor aircraft.
I know the Russian version is better, but this is a US offshoot of the Air Force. so they have to use what is there already.
What do you mean inferior? Testing on tilt rotors started in 1950. The first usable one was tested in the 1970’s but never deployed—XV-17. I haven’t heard of a Russian version.
Morbo would direct you to the horrific safety and working record of American tilt rotor aircraft.
Americans can not into making things. Not without kidnapping Germans or getting migrants to do it for them.
Based on the last panel:
Sydney: Give me back my glasses!
Dabbler: Wow! You really can’t see, can you? Or is that human vision in general?
Sydney: I need them for driving. Give them … [ Reaches out for her glasses ] Blarg! [ Spins around to floor. Not entirely sure how she got here ] Ankle biter! [ Launches herself mouth-first at Dabbler’s ankle ]
Dabbler: [ Easily dodges] Oh, that’s what that means. Does that mean you want to be my child?
I have to admit, I thought that was funnier while I was still half-asleep.
It works well, especially if Dabbler plays the “Misunderstands sayings” card.
Oh geez, where do I begin?
1) Can I get Leon to promote some of my work? I’d like a bigger audience.
2) I love Arianna in panel 5
3) I love the picture Peggy has for Max on her phone.
4) Did someone else have that picture? I got a feeling I’ve seen it before.
5) Holy crap that’s Peggy?! Made some changes, I see…
6) I’m not sure if those YouTube comments are stupid enough. And where’s the spam?
Well you guys know I’m verbose, I had to edit what I originally wrote down to make the text legible at comic size, so while spam would be realistic, I could barely fit what I had.
The picture of Max is the same one Arianna had on her phone. She should probably have a more professional headshot for use by the team, but I guess that’s the only one that’s made it into eveyone’s contact list.
You could have made that one panel a gif and have it cycle through comments as if it were Arianna scrolling through them…. that’s one way to sneak in more comments and easter eggs (like poster names).
For the love all Beer, don’t animate Arianna’s laugh please. It might cause nightmares in small children and the weakminded. :P
Yeah, but animated gifs look ugly, and animated pngs aren’t supported by most browsers.
I’m going to be animating a small portion of my comic in two weeks, so I’m looking into other methods of animating content.
I guess I wasn’t the only one who noticed something different about Peggy. Both in art style and Eye color.
I suppose it is to be expected though; the image we’ve seen of her undoubtedly came from early concept sketches, made a year ago if not longer. The artwork has grown up a lot in that time. Look at the early pictures of Dabbler or Maxima.
I would say from the thinness and use of her glasses Sydney is mildly nearsighted. Dabbler could probably fix it for her with little sweat. (High tech or Magic) Then she could use non-prescription glasses so if someone who knows her sees her doing superhero things without glasses she could deny it.
I don’t know that it will matter much for the story but I was planning on making her a little farsighted so she pushes her glasses up her nose to read.
Slightly farsighted means she doesn’t actually need her glasses in a fight, most likely. (She’s not really suited for close-combat, generally, despite her confusion-fu. And confusion-fu won’t be hampered by her not being able to see detail at that range.) That’s useful, and could come in handy on occasion, especially if most supers are (as implied early on) exceptional physical specimens: A super-villian who’s never worn glasses might over-estimate how much of a problem Sydney would have seeing without them.
Well if she’s near-sighted she only needs them when in school or driving for distance vision. Of course she could have astigmatism which makes reading harder.
I’m extraordinarily nearsighted (legally blind without my glasses), but I still find it easier to read with my glasses off. It’s more comfortable/less stressful, even though I pretty much literally have to stick my nose in the book.
Surprisingly, I have little problem in walking around and even recognising people and objects with my glasses off. The details are lost, certainly (I can’t read anything, and something more than a hundred metres away might be an unrecognisable blur), but as with any lost or diminished sense, other things step up to compensate: in my case, the ability to determine shapes, colours, and motion (the “unrecognisable blur” I would recognise as a person, and might determine who by matching general shape with body language, but I couldn’t determine if s/he might be holding something small like a pen).
The full “Mr. Magoo” stereotype doesn’t actually exist. No one is that blind unless they’re, y’know, blind.
Mr. Magoo was a pretty foul stereotype for nearsightedness.
This has been my experience also. Even contacts distort your vision to some extent. I also prefer to read without visual aids though my Nook makes it easier being lighter than a hardcover and with adjustable fonts.
i predict that we will be seeing a BL2 tie in with the comic grrl power editions{love when comics do that}
but as for BL i cant stand the way it looks sorry it looks far to cartoony for my taste{ and i am person that loves cartoony, but Bl cartony is a where i draw the line}
Dabbler and Sydney, best friends, they seem to compliment each other.
I don’t know if anyone caught it already but the abbreviation for a full bird colonel is “Col” not “LtCl”.
Alternatively, if (as the cast page says) she’s a Lieutenant Colonel, it should be a silver oak leaf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-O5_insignia.svg), not an eagle. But that would mean going through and changing all the artwork…
Has anyone else noticed that we haven’t seen the blue bank pouch since page 36?
The pouch was left back at the bank where it was processed. It was part of the crime scene, after all.
Joel will get a phone call from the police, probably tomorrow (remember the last 3 years have mostly covered the same day), asking him to come to the police station to identify the bag and determine if anything is missing.
Joel: I’ll see if the other owner, Sydney, is available.
Police officer: We would really prefer if you came down sir.
Well, she has been in contact with police officers before, and they LOVE to tell stories about all the weird and crazy crap they have to deal with. I’m pretty sure they know of her.
Rember the comment “Oh, The horror”.
Wait… is Maxima a Full Bird (Colonel) or a Lt. Colonel? She has the full bird insignia, but… on the phone…
Recent promotion and Peggy hasn’t edited the contact info yet?
Well she has a brass bird, not a silver one. (ARCHON Lt. Col = Brass Bird, Col = Silver) I kind of want to keep it a little unique, but I’m starting to think it causes too much confusion to be worth it.
Yeah… all the armed services use the same insignias for Officers, to make it less confusing. I mean, sure, an Air Force/Army/Marines Captain (O-3) and a Navy/Cost Guard Captain (O-6) are different ranks, but you can pretty easily tell who’s in charge of who.
Mind, Given Maxima’s duties and responsibilities, Lt. Col. seems to make more sense… ah well. Super powers kinda buggers the whole thing.
If you do decide to make Maxima a full Colonel, and anyone says “34 is too young to be a Colonel”, you can point out that James Tiberius Kirk was a Captain (equivalent rank, since Star Fleet uses naval ranks) at age 34 also, and he’s no more fictitious than she is.
You could also say Two little words: Battlefield Promotion.
my TLW… Authorial Fiat…
YES! I LOVE WHAT YOU DID WITH PEGGY!
Lots of people have commented they like her updated look. I’m glad that’s the case but I haven’t updated her look as much as the only other picture I have of her is 2 years old (not including the facebook banner)
Doesn’t the existence of a DEMON imply there is a God, and angels, and a devil? That needs to be elaborated. Even if the webcomic and its characters is firmly rooted it cat-ma, dog-ma should be shown to exist (surely at least ONE member of the team thought about it and asked about religion at some point… I for one worship boobs. Instant heaven while you stare…)
No because “demons” AKA supernatural antagonistic forces towards human kind, exist in every culture not just Monotheist ones. It could mean The Norse, Kemetic, Shinto, Hindu, Animist, ect…are correct just as much. Most cultures also don’t have demons come exclusivly from a negative afterlife world, they can also come from their own land such as Japan’s Makai, or even just be on Earth.
The Succubus also isn’t exclusive to christianity, it is just well known as such and scholarly is known as a demofied version of pagan fertility spirits but the prudish church culture in Medieval times.
Demons have been around a long time, and not just coming from Hell. Techaly all you have to do to be considered a demon is come to this world from another dimention.
I know in my stuff I define demon so loosely that you actually get two kinds (those being called demons but arn’t) and those that possess a demonic life aura (which really is more an elements thing and its effect on personality is a lower control over inhibitions and higher levels of aggression). So a ton of things from winged pointy tailed Hell being too basically Elves can in some way be defined as demons.
(got the idea from British history where the Fae folk went from being regarding as semi-divine nature beings too demons, and now today many get labeled as ghosts and spirits)
If you read the real old stories about faries, both light and dark you would consider them demons.
The things they did as a light prank could f$#@! you up bigtime.
I just go with calling them “sociopaths” with zero regard for mortals. The only difference between Seelie and Unseelie being how far they will go and view each other; otherwise not much of a difference.
One other important particular, the Unseelie are usually ugly. But then the fairies or Fey were considered superior to us in every way both good and bad in what they did. But to them we are less than the Unseelie. Very low. What if they are another intelligent species that sprang up on earth but so far their fossils having yet appeared (that we know of) going back at least 300 million years? That the bulk of their number went off world via cross dimensional warping. You don’t want to mess with them. They are worse than death.
They are no more “sociopathic” than we are with ants or mosquitoes. We barely rate on their scale of intelligence.
Well in the folklore it says when a Fae dies it turns to dew or mist, however it comes back to life anywhere from three days too a year later. So even if you managed to kill one you’d have nothing to examine and a limited time before it came back to hunt you down (unless you somehow killed a territorial one like a Nuckelevee or something like Jenny Greenteeth).
I like the Myth-adventure definition of a Demon as a Dimension-traveler. Imps from Imper Deveels from Deva and the humans are Klahds from Klah. :)
,,, And there is some disagreementr as to what the natives of Perv are called,
Depends on who (and how) you ask!
Only by the natives. The rest of the multiverse knows exactly what they are called, and that the term is very well earned.
It is so sad that Robert Asprin died. He was one of the better writers out there. Loved his Phule’s Company series, and Cold Cash War is a classic of science fiction in my opinion.
Agreed, IMO, it is especially sad that Robert Asprin’s legal / financial problems in his last years imposed major limits on his writing.
Aspirin DIED?!… Dang, i didn’t know that… now i’ll never get a new Phules Company… blech…
Oh Dabbler will get into that eventually. :)
Doesn’t the existence of a DEMON imply there is a God, and angels, and a devil?
Why should it? Logically speaking you’d have to prove the existence of each separately.
As a matter of fact, the whole God, Devil, angels & demons story is one that evolved over hundreds of years, and a story that was woven together out of many threads. Proving that one thread has a bases in fact only proves THAT one thread – not any of the others.
Someone needs to have her ringtone swapped… someone tinkerey like Leon or Dabbler could do it and she’d never knew which… LOL
Howabout a “My Little Pony” ringtone?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/268
I kind of suspect that Max would crush THAT phone very quickly.
Considering she’s the team sniper, I hope Peggy doesn’t mistake the “mission” for a hit…
It wasn’t a mistake; she just needed to get away from the craziness of babysitting Dabbler and Sydney.
At least the tranquilizer darts should be non-lethal, but they have lousy range by comparison to her normal armament.
Any chance there’ll ever be a bigger version of that last panel picture? It’s too freakin’ funny XD
I’ve updated the link in the comment below the comic. :)
Hey, speaking of updates, could you throw that ad you made showing Sydney in uniform into your DA account or something? It’s always a real bitch to track it down.
You mean this one? https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/218/4x6w_side1_notext
Wow that art could use an update. Probably should’t have printed 5K of those.
Actually, not this one. I meant the more recent tower ad you did with Sydney standing on the side of a building. I think she was pointing at something too.
Ah yeah, this one: https://www.projectwonderful.com/img/uploads/pics/52122-1336530408.jpg
PLEASE, PLEASE make this into a T-shirt.
The first time I saw it I burst out laughing, and kept having a giggle about it for days afterward.
If not a T-shirt, make it into a four foot long poster. Just about every comic book store out there would put one on thier wall just for the laugh factor.
Hmm, that’s not a bad idea. I need to add this to list of things to make when I miraculously find time.