Grrl Power #1194 – Assembly of shame
That awkward morning after. Except it’s not the morning after, it’s like, 30 minutes after. And everyone you work with is there, and they’ve all got sex hair and there’s more than one person with their shirt on inside out. At least no one is giving a presentation in their underwear.
Yes, I know there were already a few comments with the Hulk reference on the page with Math and Jabber getting down, but like, I’m not going to use it too? Yeah, you called it. Some people are asexual, some people are Math. And apparently Jabberwokky. Maybe to a lesser extent. Like all things, it’s a spectrum. If the average person’s sex drive is a 5, Jabber is an 8, Math is around 9.5. Succubi can’t really be measured on the human scale. It’s different for them. It’s obviously super high, but it’s also like hunger. They need to eat, and it affects not just their number, but the spectrum itself, and it if gets bad enough, it starts affecting the numbers of people around them. But that brings us back around to discussions of free will.
I know some people are finding this storyline a little squicky, which really wasn’t the intent. What Parfait did wasn’t malicious or even intentional – which doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences, but I certainly can’t guarantee this will all play out to everyone’s satisfaction. I mean, obviously nothing that starts of with a lust aura incident could possibly have a satisfactory conclusion for everyone. It’s just too serious of a topic for some people, for any number of reasons.
The whole comic is supposed to be that slice of life, lighter side of being a superhero. Obviously sometimes there have to be villains who do pretty terrible things, but I try not to dwell on that stuff. I just need enough to show “this person is bad and here’s a reason we have to stop them.” The comic isn’t and will never be “The Boys.” I watched a season of that and, honestly I found it to dark to be enjoyable. It certainly had its moments, but I had that uneasy feeling that, yeah, this is unfortunately what it would probably be like if Supers were real. There’d be this honeymoon period (assuming we didn’t instantly go the X-Men/hunt them all down route) but before long it’d be like how it seems every few weeks now some once beloved actor gets exposed as a pedo or domestic abuser or QANON conspiracy moron. I mean, it’s bad enough when someone is just a rich asshole, my utter lack of faith in humanity tells me that if there were people out there who “saved a thousand lives today” then some of them would absolutely be able to justify doing literally anything they wanted. Like what does it matter if my basement is waist deep in murdered cheerleaders? I kept a cruise ship from sinking and saved 5,000 people. Worse still, there would absolutely be people who would defend their favorite superhero’s predilection for cheerleader disposal because of “how much good they do.”
So, yeah. That’s not this comic.
The August vote incentive is up! Yeah I know it’s late, so hopefully I’ll manage to get some bonus (read: overdue) incentives up as I attempt to catch up.
Oh no! Sydney’s been injured! A Wampa may or may not have been involved, I’ll leave the exact nature of the incident up to you. It’s not relevant to the picture. And before you’re like “Dave, Bandaged Rei is one thing, but floating unconscious in a bacta tank is probably an even narrower fetish.” just check the picture out.
The Patreon version has nudes and variants, and a comic that reveals something interesting about the orbs.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
There’s going to be a catfight between Heatwave and Jiggawatt over Mr. Amorphous isn’t there?
Depends. We’ve seen that Brooke isn’t into open relationships under normal circumstances ( https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-91-firecat-v-multicat/ ), but there might be mutual understanding here depending on what she got up to during the Aura incident. Speaking of, where is she?
Just realized Sydney got beat up by something, and is testing out alternate bodies while she heals in the monthly pic. (I’m not on Patreon). Funny how she went with something succubi-esque… or maybe not so unusual.
Mr. Amorphous’ girlfriend is nooot gonna be happy. Heatwave and Mr A are dating, right? You’d think he’d try harder to separate from the frizzy haired girl clinging to him, maybe go sit across the room or something?
Other readers are identifying frizzy-hair as Jiggawatt. I think that in her present mental state she is not about to let go of Amorphous’ arm unless he uses enough force to hurt her. Mr. A. would never do that. It looks to me like he doesn’t know what to do yet!
He’s a shapeshifter, if he wants to get his arm free he can.
I speculate that he has already tried to wiggle free a few times to avoid the PDA, only to have Jiggy’s grip tighten every time. Besides, it is a pleasent sensation. Re: her facial expression, DaveB’s artwork is self-explanatory. Nice work.
By mental state, you mean satisfaction with Mr. A, since the aura has been shut down for a bit. Correct? https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-56-and-that-would-explain-why/
I see this taking one of two directions.
Heatwave goes to war over his boyfriend or they easely convince her otherwise.
Dave, I absolutely love every single page you did for this ark. Please continue giving exactly same (or less) amount of fucks to the triggered negative comments under previous pages. Those are too serious and misplaced, and what you’re doing here is great. Thank you!
(also, can they do it every thursday?)
I too , would not ask Dave to change his writing style but I wouldn’t ask the commenters to give up expressing their opinions. Those are their feelings and are as much a slice of life as the comic. It is probably accurate to say that people who are triggered by events in the storyline are more likely to comment and to express those feelings more strongly than the average reader. The discussions are both interesting and enlightening but they may not always reflect the “fucks given” by the average reader.
Just because in your opinion the storyline is fine doesn’t mean that everybody else has to agree with you, or that it is.
A lot of people keep reading the Anita Blake books despite the massive change they went through that includes uncontrolled magic forcing people into sex with the main character, that doesn’t mean the people who find that distasteful are wrong…
That is one satisfied looking goblin
Girl bagged herself a human. Quite a achivement for a gobbo.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she were (in her own way) as horny as math is.
I don’t think Prinprin has ever been subtle about her libido. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-949-hob-nobbin-goblin/
There are plenty of humans who would be quite happy to be bagged by a goblin. I’m not *suggesting* you do an internet search on “goblin porn” but…
Point taken. I will assume there are goblins doing things to humans somewhere on the internet without googling about it.
Or “Alfie”
Porn with a plot worth sticking around for.
Site?
buttsmithy.com
Well…it’s not “proper” porn, but I feel compelled to mention the existence of United Sex Workers 666.
It _does_ have naught goblins. X’D
Agreed.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she were (normally) roughly² as … horny as Math*.
But definitely ²NOT *more* so
The degree to which sheʾs less so would, of course, be variable.
It’s probably just the art style changing over time but whenever there is a page with a big cast of reoccurring characters like this I can’t tell who several of them are.
Like I’m 60% sure that the lady in panel 3 is Jiggawatt, but is that Achilles or Amorphous that she’s with? And I have no idea who the redhead next to Hiro is.
Any ETA on when your art might reach it’s final form so people who already struggle with facial recognition can try to remember who’s who without losing it all again when they get a new coat of gloss?
It could be fixed with a simple update of the Cast page. Something 90% of artists never do for some reason.
or, you know, you could click on the names under the page that are listed at “Characters” and check other pages with those characters to remember who they are
The problem is that the character list only tells you that they’re on the page, not which person they are. And they look so different from page to page that it’s a guessing game. And people frequently guess incorrectly.
That might work if more than four names were there. I’m already sure the people I can’t identify are not Hiro, Dabbler, Math, or Max.
first, i didn’t say “listed at tags” that’s basically the people listed in the “who’s who?” i said the people listed at “characters” aka :
Characters: crimson, dabbler, detla, hiro, jabberwokky, jiggawatt, math, mr. amorphous, omar, parfait, peggy, prinrin, ren, seneca, sydney
also, the tags mention jabberwokky not dabbler
The redhead next to Hiro is Crimson, one of the vampires from the council. Guess her latest debriefing got a bit more literal.
can we say she was fully debriefed? or did she debrief Hiro?
Huh, she certainly looks rosy. Like maybe she has some extra blood in her system…
Hm, how difficult would it actually be to puncture Hiro’s skin with vampire teeth? Isn’t he bulletproof?
I could imagine they’re magically sharp, though. Hm. Vampire teeth arrowheads might have been a thing when things were less civilized.
Vampire-tooth arrowheads might still be a thing if they can punch holes in people who shrug off tank rounds, airstrikes and kiloton explosions. Might be worth setting up a dungeon just to grind “Body parts that can pierce the unpierceable hide.”
exepted Achilles in this case, there is no such thing as “bulletproof”, only bullet resistant, even Sidney’s shield has a limit
but i doubt a regular vampire can pierce Hiro’s skin regardless
That’s Jiggawatt and Mr. Amorphous, and the redhead is Crimson. There’s a list of the characters under the comic’s title.
Dave is just bad at face consistency, it’s not really an art style thing. And ironically considering your comment, he has alluded that he, too, struggles with facial recognition.
At this point, you might just have to file that under “quirks of this particular comic”
Achilles is blond and has consistently been blond. During the bank heist while under glamor he had dirty blond hair, but apart from that I think it’s even been consistently the same color blond. Mr. Amorphous has been a brunette in every appearance I can recall.
Having said that, I absolutely have times where I can’t tell who is who.
Though it’s probably worth considering, if this is Mr. Amorphous here, he probably wants to look as little like his normal appearance as possible, given the woman hanging on him here not being his usual choice. Given his power set, that could actually explain him not really looking that much like himself.
Achilles has Jack Burton hair
I’m worried because this comic is doing two things that happen before I get frustrated and give up reading. First being broaching subject matter I have absolutely zero interest in reading about. Second being sidelining the main storyline for ‘slice of life’ bits that while I’m sure are intended to be worldbuilding, end up having the same effect as filler episodes, causing me to lose track of what the hell is going on. Like, something about batteries dying? Or some corpo benevolently taking over country? I stopped reading LICD because of the first and LFG because of the second – literally couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on anymore. I desperately don’t want that to happen here, because I like this comic, an order of magnitude more than I did either of the above.
I know, I know, its free and if I don’t like it I can leave/It’s DaveB’s comic and he can do it how he wants and I have no right to blah blah blah. Just venting my frustrations so please don’t @me especially with knee-jerk defensive rage.
Pretty sure the main storyline here is slice of life
I can understand potential subject matter not interesting you that’s fair. I will say from the beginning this comic has always focused primarily on super hero slice of life shenanigans with a comedic tone. This is to the point that I can’t tell you if there even is an major over arching plot. The only one I can think of is the Deus is building a technologically advanced super nation/ slowly taking over the world which has always been a development that slowly simmered in the background. Other than that the comic has always had a more villain of the day approach between longer comedy and world building sections. At least that’s my read of it.
That is to say trying to get invested in a main storyline might be working against the nature of the comic.
Great… another one that doesn’t know what filler means.
Umm… You have the entire comic backwards, and it’s baffling that it’s taken this long for it to bother you. The whole point of the comic is slice of life. The “plot” is just there to provide context. It says that not only on the about page up at the top, but in the author blurb for this very page!
What even is the over-arching story/plot thread? Is there a main villain? Sciona? The weird cult guys that enslaved Concretia? Both of them have been taken out pretty much. I honestly could not tell you what the stakes are anymore or where this comic is going. I’m just along for the ride!
I mostly just keep expecting the next big enemy to be the Galactic Peace Counsel or some such interplanetary body to show up and demand Halo’s orbs.
A story can have multiple plot threads and arcs.
Sciona has recently been seen infiltrating some political body, so she’s up to things, with an arms of body-jacking wraiths behind her.
You know who also didn’t like it when comics do slice of life plots?
Pol Pot.
Isn’t that the one what called Kettle Black?
If you don’t want people to come at you, don’t vent in public.
A forum is akin to a public square, and you cannot avoid responsibility for choosing to voice out your opinion by giving a disclaimer at the end. Especially one that starts with “I know, I know”
You want to vent without anyone answering back? Vent to your pillow. Otherwise, accept it is open to challenge, that the most natural thing is for it to become a conversation, and learn to effin take it, especially when you already know exactly what you are getting into with your comment.
Everyone wants to say their piece, but few want to listen to anybody else say theirs.
Oh boy, are you in for some serious disappointment.
This whole comic is SoL. The things you’re identifying as “the plot,” are there for context & the occasional bit of superhero fun & games.
I have actually dropped LFG for same reason. And I’m sure that Dave wouldn’t ever fall into this, because Dave has a very high standard for how much joy an average page or sequence of pages should be giving to readers. So I’m not concerned about anything. Being happy feels really good, 100% recommended!
This is a comic about expressions, and I don’t see much regret…
I’m betting Achilles didn’t even notice anything. He’s as invincible psychologically as physically.
Achilles: [ Enters lecture hall/briefing room ] Yawn! [ Finds an empty seat and sits down. ] What was with all the noise?
I love everyone’s expressions on this page.
Nice pairings too, though yeah I also thought Amorphous and heatwavw were a couple which could explain why he looks so awkward about Jiggawatt clinging to him. Hopefully his relationship isnok, same for her friendship with Brooke/Heatwave.
I’m surprised that Hiro’s dorm door wasn’t bulldozed down by a mob of horny women.
Perhaps his friends the fashion ninjas hid him? I mean I assume they are friends because they get to reshirt him all the time. This time however they might have deshirted him for a change.
Dunno… Some might have been tempted to, but I don’t think any Lust Aura could coerce people *that* far..
Even ignoring the Max-Hiro “maybe-might-be”, Max has a Definite Opinion about conjugal activities and the chain of command. Very definite.
I sincerely doubt any level of Horny, induced or not, could tempt anyone in the building to risk the inevitable Wrath of Max that way.
Hiro may have been on the mind of some ladies under the influence of the Aura, but it’s been clearly shown to make people Horny, not Stupid.
They’d be much more likely to reach for a Buzzy Friend, or deflected things in another way.
Maybe Hiro’s door is well-barricaded but still bypassable to a vampire’s mist form.
Uh oh. Isn’t Mr. Amorphous dating Heatwave? If I remember correctly she once melted a soda can just cause she found out Harem kissed him as a prank. If he slept with Jiggz this could start drama.
Yeah please don’t take inspiration from the Boys. And belive me, the comic is even worse.
Yes it’s an unusual feature the live action series are a way more subtle than the comic material.
Dark for the boys ,true but not darker than Watchmen – superior in writing and about the same issue – after all Homelander is a spoiled super brat and in Watchmen The Comedian is an evil twin of captain america.
The Boys is the epitome of superhero comics taking the wrong lesson (superhero comics should be dark and brutal) from Watchmen, rather than what Alan Moore was trying to do (superhero comics don’t have to be straightjacketed by convention).
Don’t get me started on people who idolize Rorschach
straitjacketed, for your future reference. Those things they tie true loonies up with in mental asylums are straitjackets.
Something I’d like to point out in regards to Rorschach, especially for those who do in fact idolize him. Remember that scene at the start, where he walks into a bar full of “thieves and whores,” and starts breaking a man’s fingers while asking questions?
Remember how we have NO EVIDENCE OF THEIR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, aside from Rorschach’s claims?
All we know about them is that they begged for him to show mercy to a man who they didn’t even know, aside from him being a victim of Rorschach’s attentions. And when Rorschach leaves, we see them in the window rushing to give assistance to his victim.
Much like how, right before the big “genetically engineered CHILD made to look like an alien squid and sent off as a suicide bomber” thing, we see all the ordinary people in New York rushing to help the lesbian couple. One of the major themes in Watchmen is how both Rorschach, Ozymandius, AND a lot of the others (like the Comedian, or Captain Metropolis) all have unrealistically low opinions of the very same people they claim to be serving and protecting.
I understand that Alan Moore utterly despaired about the number of people who consider Rorschach a great hero.
The Boys success (hitting 72 issues, completing the story they were telling, having a TV series adaption – renewed for a 4th season) suggests that there’s a place for dark and brutal superpowered stories
There’s also a place for other approaches.
The Boys takes all the wrong lessons because it’s supposed to. Folks seem to forget that Ennis absolutely hates the very concept of the superhero genre and everything about it with the passion of a thousand boning succubae.
The Boys is literally his method of taking a giant dump on the genre. Anyone trying to ascribe some lofty ideology behind the crafting of it is just ignoring the simple truth that Ennis just hates superheroes to a biblical degree.
If you want a better comic about the grim reality of a world filled with supers, check out Adam Warren’s Empowered
I’ll also drop a recommendation for Worm. Which runs the whole multi dimensional spectrum.
In that we have everything from the absolute crazies, to paragons, everything in between, and everything offset too. Like the heroes who just want power, and villains who are just trying to do the right thing.
I can’t remember if Dave has ever mentioned reading Worm or not. While it’s darker than The Boys, it’s also not so completely cynical…
Worm is one of the absolute best “if supers were real” stories I’ve ever read.
Because the supers are just people, and it’s not scared of completely changing the world because of powers.
Disagree.
He hates the Eternal Childhood of the genre.
To quote:
“I find most superhero stories completely meaningless. Which is not to say I don’t think there’s potential for the genre – Alan Moore and Warren Ellis have both done interesting work with the notion of what it might be like to be and think beyond human, see Miracleman, Watchmen and Supergod. But so long as the industry is geared towards fulfilling audience demand – ie, for the same brightly coloured characters doing the same thing forever – you’re never going to see any real growth. The stories can’t end, so they’ll never mean anything.”
And let’s be extremely specific for a second, and talk about The Superhero. Superman.
Ennis likes Superman. He appreciates the character to a degree that few people do. You now how I know?
Superman showed up in Hitman, back in the day.
Have a look at Garth Ennis’s take on Superman.
https://www.cbr.com/hitman-superman-all-great-about-america-melting-pot/
And there’s more. I could go on.
But I hope I don’t have to. That you get the idea.
Interesting. Everyone appears well satisfied and happy. Like no one was interrupted mid-stream?
No awkwardness and certainly no shame but a little impatience: a “Let’s get this meeting over with so we ca go back to what we were doing” vibe.
I’d say there’s definitely awkwardness between Amorphous and Jiggawatt, and if you check the eyes in the second panel they’re definitely having a Mexican Stare-Off
Well, I wasn’t clutching my pearls, but I also can’t say I’m exactly sorry it’s over.
Story wise I see trouble in Jiggawat’s future. Heatwave has seemed pretty jealous in at least one instance.
I’ve really been enjoying this comic, this arc included. And besides, if we keep drawing lines in the sand over content that might upset someone, there won’t be anywhere left for anyone to stand.
ROTFLMAO, math m’boy you two never cease to surprise.
Seems like most (nearly all) seem more amused by what happened than angry at least, though the full effect of the aura might not have faded off yet.
It’s interesting to note which way the eyes are going in the Seneca, Ren, Peggy group, a hint of preference perhaps?
Hmmm. I may have asked before but do not remember if I was answered:
Is there a login somewhere or are all comments moderated and delayed.?
delayed. not moderated. server is a bit slow. we need to feed the hamster that runs it.
Extremely slow. At least 30 min.
There were zero posts up when I made mine.
Yep, right after the new page goes up the server is always overloaded and the first comment take a while to show up.
But it DOESNT start with a “lust aura incident”, does it? It STARTS with Sydney doing something highly dangerous and stupid; which Gwen should have stopped, or referred to Max, but didn’t… ending in Sydney driving a bus through a gap in the building security…. because Max, who is supposed to be the CO, didn’t have protocols in place to prevent it.
This can’t end well for anyone
It seems like no one knew Succubi, especially a young one, could just nuke an area like this.
Except Dabbler.
In Dabbler’s case, this an unknown-known.
Information she had that she wasn’t actively conscious of, in this case because I don’t suspect she ever anticipated this scenario.
There will be some additional protocols created, and more than likely Dabbler, Zephan, and Gwen with be tasked with creating some new wards that deal with this. Typically, fiction tends to run towards the idea that magic can’t protect you from being dumb, and so wards tends to be useless when someone on the inside deliberately calls something through them. Kind of like when Mr. Hackerman calls in to work to get the night watchmen to read him the number off of something.
Anyway, there’s a much more important question to be answered.
Where or the orbs?
Who’s the goblin? Nitrine from Flaky Pastry?
Prinrin. She’s a cameo of someone’s character, probably a Patreon supporter.
I wonder how much they had to pay for that kind of service…
I’m all for Dave making a little extra money from this comic.
Not the kind od ‘service’ I meant.
Last I checked (years ago) it was $50/mo tier on patreon, but also no guarantee when your character might appear as it depends on the type of character. The superhero brawl scene was chock full of ’em.
*sneezes*
It was on the $50/mo tier back when I paid a few years back.
You also get absolutely no say in how the character is represented, which can, uh, backfire.
There’s a reason that the only appearance in this comic that I’ve been totally satisfied with was her third page.
She’s a sona and I’m ace so… Y’know. Could have gone better.
Roll Call! -obligatory RHPS ref
No CO has the right to decide who someone associates with after hours, besides of course security and espionage reasons. Yes, in hindsight, Parfait is a silly and inexperienced demon who can cause havoc without intending to, but she is also both the relative of another long time and important team member, Dabbler, and is genuinely friendly and without malice. As someone who has lived the barracks life, the ‘punishment’ for this incident should at most be an update to the rules, some light punishments for those who were actually supposed to be working, and a very stern warning to keep your clothes on when actually on duty(looking at you front desk employees).
They do, however, have the right to decide who is allowed on base, and what protocols are to be followed for visitors checking in. I daresay those protocols weren’t followed. Of course, if Sydney had gone off-base to summon Parfait, there could have been a very different and possibly catastrophic situation. A lust aura downtown in the middle of the day?
uh no
it’s Rocky Horror Picture Show meme of audience participation after a night of sexual hijinks
Where are Sydney’s orbs?
In her lap. Where are yours?
Is it just me or did someone’s orbs go for a nap?
I find the who’s who section lacking in this one.
The Who’s Who is generally just for characters who speak, not every character depicted on the page. The “characters” section under the page is presumably supposed to list all recurring characters that appear on the page.
Question: What would you do if you found out you were a Super? Like a whole bunch of strange things that add up to being a Super all your life, but because you don’t live in a comic book you thought of other explanations.
Hide in isolation for the rest of my life to protect my family.
Super speed: Bicycle courier, out-pacing motorcycles.
Heat-proof: Cook or foundry worker, depending on interest in each skill and level of heat resistance.
If you want to help preserve order, join the police. If you are powerful enough, you will get assign to a tactical unit. If you are really, you will be a tactical unit.
> If you want to help preserve order, join the police.
Or go punisher on dirty cops.
Not that there should be many cops left after someone with actual superpowers does that.
Certainly none who brandish a Punisher emblem.
I’m always amused at how bad the right-wing is at media literacy.
The right wing by nature is going to have an uncomfortable relationship with any kind of literacy. Knowledge can supplement power, but too much thinking tends to undermine it.
Not according to the creator of the most popular version, anyway. ^_^
It would depend on the superpower, really.
Teleportation? Use it daily and integrate it to my life, but try to not attract attention to myself.
Fire manipulation? Great for my hobbies! Also try to keep it in the down low.
Telepathy/Magic empathy/ other emotional or intellectual sharing? Bug out of society as far as I can.
Super Intelligence…? Have mental breakdowns regarding the morality and risk of using it for the greater good vs leaving well enough alone. And I have no clue which one I would pick.
…
Mass body manipulation? Subtly and slowly increase the average breast cup size and penis girth. For humanity.
Depends on the abilities. VERY MUCH DEPENDS. If, for example, I’m invincible, even like Achilles – I’ll try to keep it as quiet as possible.
Super-intelligence? I won’t TRY, I WILL keep it as quiet as possible.
Tank-like armor and energy blasts? I think I’ll join the military.
So, very dependent on the specific abilities that I get.
Really depends on what the super powers were
Telepathy (possibly pro-poker playing, maybe journalism investigating corruption) would be very different from super strength and invulnerability (some sort of emergency response team)
Mind control move as far away from anybody as possible would be the least drastic approach
If I’m being serious…
I probably spend a good year soul-searching and talking to various scholars of ethical philosophy.
Because the thing is, my first instinct is interventionism. My philosophy tends to materialism, my politics are structural, my ideology Modernist, albeit with an awareness of the need for Postmodern self-critique & evaluation.
And I am generally very quick to dismiss appeals to tradition, or special pleading on the grounds of religion, or assertions of moral idealism.
Or really, any sort of idealism.
And I realize that that is a blind spot, because I understand that often times, people are more attached to familiar harm than they are drawn to unfamiliar good.
…but the honest answer is, I begin The Revolution. I tear down the established capitalist order, the system of neoimperialism, and I defang the institutions intended to enforce it all. I drag the ruling class out into the street to face justice at the hands of their victims, and I follow it up by eliminating anyone who tries to usurp The Revolution to entrench themselves as new masters. I protect and support those who build up a new organization of consensus-based democracy, and flatten every attempt to erect new hierarchies.
And I almost certainly make mistakes. How could I not?
But above all, I follow the example of Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt. I ‘get action,’ and do _something_ to try making the world a better place, while I am able.
So.
You’re saying the lust aura storyline might not have a ‘happy ending?’
I’ll see myself out.
no, stay. we need more, because supposedly the more jokes get told the more likely we are to stumble into something really funny. and puns are funny! Pander hasn’t been nominated for Speaker , yet. (that joke is going to age well…)
I for one appreciate bad jokes as well so please keep them coming.
Really?
You’re just gonna waste that one?
I will let you have this one. I can afford to be generous.
Too late now.
That joke’s postmature.
as someone who can be also considered postmature.. be nice! barring unfortunate political violence *checks Bharda’s file* which is an elevated risk in your case, you will become postmature too.
Oh, don’t worry.
I don’t plan to survive my mother’s funeral. A bottle of whiskey follow by a shot of lead.
Is Sydney in trouble? She wasn’t the one causing the aura and she was a victim too and basically sexually assaulted.
She did bring a visitor on base without checking her in through security. She also opened a magical portal into the base, which seems like a huge security risk.
It is “Very likely” she is.
While she herself was assaulted, SHE was the one who summoned the succubi-in-training into the base and was unaware she had to explain to Parfait “No, no sexxins! I wanted a normal sleepover! Keep calm and play Truth or Dare!” She did not ask Gwen or call Dabs to find out if there were any special notes on summonings (And Gwen is ALSO at fault for not asking “You do know all about the special considerations with summoning an infernal being, right?”
Yeah I think Gwen bears the majority of responsibility here, as the authority figure involved who should have been counted on to know better.
That Sydney actually went to an authority figure and subject matter expert at all is better than par for her, honestly.
But it wasn’t to get permission, it was only to figure out how to do the summoning not to get permission
Sydney is absolutely responsible for causing the aura.
She’s in the situation of being the china shop employee who opened the door and waved in the nearest bull. She isn’t the one who actually broke stuff/incapacitated the entire team/made Heatwave angry – but it’s sure as heck she who’s responsible.
Of course Gwen doesn’t get off scottfree either. In the china shop analogy, she’s the one who Syd went to and said ‘hey would it be okay to get a bull in here?” and said, “Yeah that should be no trouble at all. Here let me help you with the lock.”
For artistic reasons I am sure its the team members only here.
But I would expect more of the day to day staff also in this meeting.. possibly
While some stuff is need to know, the HR team starting up an orgy in the middle of the office would warrent being part of this. Same for the cooks and cleaners and the receptionish who is now in a poly with the UPS guy and the take out delivery girl.
A wider review of the thing will likely happen anyway, but its a bit hard to keep things top secret in this situation.
I imagine they have their own meeting with their own bosses, these seem to mostly be people who answer directly to Max in some capacity, except Prinrin and Omar, I’m pretty sure Max isn’t directly over ARCspark. Maybe Prinrin’s creator just paid for another cameo and this was how DaveB could work her in? I don’t think Crimson is part of the chain of command either, because she doesn’t work here at all, maybe she just *chose* to tag along, or maybe she was “invited” because she was directly involved in the incident with someone who *does* answer to Max and thus the new rules might be relevant to her if she’s gonna be continuing that in the future? But the rest of them seem to be directly in Max’s chain of command, so they get a briefing with her instead of whomever is above the desk security people.
You forgot Sydney’s orbs? And I have had no problem with the way this is going. One of the hazards of being a super hero is dealing with every possible thing. Sydney could have used her orbs against her friend, but instead she was trying to talk to Parfait first.
Frankly, she probably should have used her orbs to bubble her friend, but the idea that anyone else, on the other side of those opaque walls, was getting a full blast of her aura probably never even crossed her mind.
Where’s Arianna or will she burst in at the last second?!?
Isn’t Delta a “servant” of Achilles or something…?
Arianna would probably want to figure out how to package the Lust Aura for the Swinger market
And this is how Parfait made her first billion.
Delta initially opted to become his servant temporarily as a cultural thing – he defeated her in combat, and so she wishes to learn from him to make herself a better warrior. Since then, she has discovered that he doesn’t really have anything to teach her – he beat her because he literally cannot be harmed, not because of any great skill she might learn (he did offer to teach her the grappling move he used, however). I think she’s decided instead to stick with Archon, as it has quite a good number of highly-skilled combatants who she can learn from (Math is probably the best one for her to learn from, but many of the others have some tricks to – plus she can practice fighting against supers), but I suspect she’s opted out of being Achilles’ servant – it was only supposed to last until she had surpassed his skill, meaning it realistically ended before it ever started.
Hey friend, please please don’t let negative comments get to you. You’re a great writer and comic artist! Sex and consent is obviously a hard topic for some, but I am fully on board with your situation as written, because absolutely no one was forced to have sex with anyone in this scenario. Halo/Sydney was literally underneath the Lust warhead Parfait and besides some overeager kisses, didn’t give in to those feelings. Comedy is subjective and personally, I think you put forwards a fun and funny slice of super-life situation. Keep up the great work!
Dave please keep on with this arc till its natural conclusion and don’t let the triggered negativity keep you from exploring similar stories in the future. You have been doing great. Having said that, let see what we can tell about the aftermath of the event. As others have remarked, I do not much see much regret going around, and this should help defang all the “rape!” moral panic we got from certain corners.
Hiro and Crimson: we got a very satisfied vampiress and a somewhat puzzled (?) but not unhappy Hiro. Perhaps he is embarassed by having been caught red-handed by Max?
Ren, Peggy, and Seneca: facial expressions and body language tell us about a rather happy and satisfied budding throuple. They are probably looking forward to next time.
Mr.Amorphous and Jiggwatt: she is quite happy and apparently besotted, he is all but surely rather worried about how to justify the event with Heatwave. Retribution from jealous gf on cheater bf, super catfight between rivals (fire vs electricity, yay), or -gasp- potential for sharing?
Omar and Prinrin: happy new couple or FWB, depending on circumstances.
Harem and Detla: Harem is just being harem, Detla is hard to tell as usual, but she does not seem unhappy or regretful.
Math and Jabberwokky: in all evidence, the Hulk quote fits both of them. Truly, a match made in a dojo if they also align about libido levels besides everything else. I just wonder if this event gave them the final push to become a couple (as it was apparently implied by their dialogue in the other page) or they were already together.
Detla seems to be blushing IMO, I mean, just look at that glow!
Crimson looks more contemplative and slightly regretful than happy to me. That upturned corner of her mouth – like Hiro’s – suggests she’s not sure how she feels about what happened.
Peggy and Seneca, yes, but Ren – bit more of a thousand-yard stare. Maybe he’s content? Maybe not.
Maybe Ren is along the lines of “Just how much more complicated did my life get?”
Very.
Yup, to me, Ren is like “Welp. I have caught the tiger by the tail. What do I do with it?!”
About the boys the live action series ,the problem is not the dark humor but the outré graphical gore. On one side, there are those who think it is too obvious, shocking and looking ridiculous or Grand-Guignol, on the other side they are satire lovers who like caricatures.
The serial is enjoyable but the original comic is rubbish.
That’s a combination of Ennis always going out of his way to make things so over-the-top that it passes the point being made by miles (remember that this is the guy who created Crossed), and the fact that The Boys specifically is the expression of Enniss’ absolute total hatred of the super genre in general.
You’ve missed the forest for the trees.
Was Achilles affected by the aura? Or, if he happened to be off base, could he be affected by the aura? His power set sort of seems like it should be weak to mental / emotional attacks, but then anything that has a physical component he maybe gets to shrug off?
I figure it’s got to have a mental component, because he’s literally been buried under megatons of rock for hours, and wasn’t freaked out in the least. And even if you knew you weren’t going to be physically injured by something like that, you’d tend to panic over the possibility of just never being found until millennia later when the rock finally eroded away.
Based on various events, I’m not sure he can even be annoyed.
Yeah, he’s pretty easy-going.
Is that really Jiggawatt? If so, then she looks Dramatically different. Like not “updated art style” different but like “this characters appearance has been retconned” different.
Jiggawatt normally has yellow eyebrows and lipstick, and her hair in cornrows. Here her hair has escaped the confines of the cornrows (presumably due to some vigorous exercise with Mr. Amorphous) and her lips and eyebrows are a more muted color, closer to her normal skin tone than the normal yellow. Considering her hair also appears to have gone from the same shade of yellow as her eyebrows and lips normally are to the same shade of brown her eyebrows and lips currently are… my guess would be a coloring error, honestly. Or maybe only part of her hair is colored (and what’s currently visible is what was left its natural color) and she’s no longer wearing makeup on her eyebrows and lips.
She just hasn’t worked on her hair since she last “charged” it. Well, at least we know that Mr. Amorphous is non-conductive. She would probably electrify the area when Jigawatt climaxes.
It really is. We saw this look during the girls party time and also I think when she was coming back from a family event
Poor Parfait, you can just see how absolutely crushed she is.
Meanwhile, Sydney is so mad her orbs have left this layer of reality.
The layout of where everyone is on this page is really confusing.
It seems quite coherent for most of the panels, then suddenly panel 6 contradicts basically everything I thought I’d figured out.
Jabber and Math kind of made sense that it might eventually happen. I’m honestly surprised it hadn’t already given Jabber’s fiery personality. Would have though Math would have been the more dominant one in that mix but hey, I can see it as well.
Interestingly enough, I think this will spark a discussion about counter measure for surprise mental attack since they got caught, literally, with their pants down.
Kind like how they had that debrief after the fight in the restaurant toward the beginning of the comic about what went well and what didn’t.
Also probably a speech about proper demon containment when you summon one in the office
I’m totally sorry. I just keep imagining both Jabberwokky and Math shouting out ‘Doggy Style’ at the exact same time during their session, and it ending in constant giggling on both their parts.
You should be ashamed of yourself. X’D
Tis funny but now I want to know how that would be exemplified in a martial arts technique.