Grrl Power #1211 – The opposite of “Wallet-sized I.D.”
To be clear, summoning her wasn’t the misunderstanding, Parfait getting her stink all over Sydney was the misunderstanding.
This cohort of demons (who might actually receive names in the comic at some point) definitely did not do their homework here. They probably only know that Parfait is not near her current master because of some tracking spell, and probably didn’t know about Thothogoth getting banned from America. (Well, banned in the absence of legitimate travel documents and possibly a diplomatic invitation – he’s just not allowed to pop over unannounced.) Tom definitely wouldn’t advertise that he got his butt kicked by some gold plated bint one sixth his age. Parfait on the other hand… well, she might not be as mindful of not blabbing things that could damage her master’s reputation. I mean it’d be pretty good water cooler gossip.
Demons generally know about some Earth countries because they have a long history of coming here (and other pre-galactic-community worlds) and fucking around with the locals. It helps to know that you want to go to Assyria and not to, as the demonic travel agent is pushing for, Norway. (Presumably the travel agent is getting kickbacks from Baba Yaga, Mata Yaga and Tito Yaga – you know, the Yagas – to send some hunky demons up north for some ice cold witch sex. Yeah, the Yagas are using demonic travel agencies as dating services in this scenario.)
I wrote the bit about the Quarterback sneak, then decided to look up what a QB Sneak actually was because I know dick about sports. If I had to guess, I would have said it was that move they do when the QB pretends to hand off the ball to some guy running past him, but instead he keeps the ball and goes in the other direction. Actually, the most prominent example I can think of using the phrase “Quarterback Sneak” is from when Ace Ventura tried to un-kidnap Dan Marino. That’s how much I know about sports.
Turns out the QB Sneak is very misleadingly named. It’s when the QB gets the ball then just goes ham straight at the defensive line? I guess? Apparently it’s used when the offensive team just needs a few yards to get a TD or do something with downs? The only way I can fathom it being called a Sneak is if all the play names in American FB are intentionally misleading to throw off the other team on the off chance of confusing professional career football players? Like when they kick the ball the play is called the “We’re definitely not kicking the ball” play or when they going to pass the ball it’s called the “Let’s walk slowly backwards then get tackled” play. Which honestly is how about a quarter of pass attempts seem to go from the 3-4 hours total of all football I’ve ever watched. Given that footballers are about as likely to wind up with concussions as boxers, maybe misleading play names might actually work on them. Of course, I’m basing this entire theory on the one single football play that I’ve actually looked up, so I’m definitely talking out of my ass here.
The Vixen War Bride book 6 is out, and it’s a good’un. It’s also the final installment of the series, which is unfortunate because I really enjoyed them. It’s probably tied with Upon a Savage Shore (NSFW Literoptica link) for my favorite xenoanthropology book, by which I mean the POV changes to the alien’s perspective quite a bit and they’re all “Humans are weird… but also I have to eventually admit kind of sexy.” Honestly, I could read a book that was strictly from the alien’s POV. There’s probably plenty like that, written closer to the dawn of sci-fi novels and the aliens in them are properly alien like asexually reproducing ambulatory celery, not like Star Trek aliens, which are just humans with some sociological quirk and some prosthetic stuff on their forehead. Anyway, the series is great, buy it.
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The September vote incentive is up! Let’s call it the November vote incentive and just say I’ve still got two I.O.U’s, eh?
Well, Dabbler is doing her Dabbler things, and the Patreon version has a nude variant and a comic that… I don’t know, expounds on the goings on of the initial picture?
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“This cohort of demons (who might actually receive names in the comic at some point)”
In the meantime, even though his weapon has too short of a pole to be a halberd, I propose “the Hellberdier” as a fan name for the big axe-wielder.
How about “glaive” instead?
clearly it is a glaive-guisarme(glaive)
I believe the word we’re looking for is “bardiche”
Certainly what I would call it, though bardiche axe might be better.
We’re all out of ’em at the moment.
I’d call it a poleaxe.
If I wasn’t trying to make a pun, that is.
A bardiche more accurately
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Bardiche.jpg/800px-Bardiche.jpg
due to the the size of the blade ..
For a poleaxe I’ll use the french terminology the taillant -axe blade – is too big
The gros bout or head is vestigal it will not be effective against mail
The Mail – hammer -is ineffective due to the the crescent of the axe protusion.
In panel 1 of the last page, the hammer and spike look much more reasonable. In any case, having both disqualifies it from being a bardiche, which isn’t just about having a big blade. The axeblade is bigger than a real poleaxe’s would be, but the term has a wider and more generic use than “bardiche”.
Obviously it’s not a perfect match to any human weapon, which is natural since it’s not intended to be used by or against humans, but it seems like a natural variation of a poleaxe.
https://images-ng.pixai.art/images/orig/b0d966f8-1a9d-439f-84a6-680502789a07
there you go, a Bard with a bardiche, grinding
Most apt actual play call here could’ve been an end run, where the ball carrier, rather than barreling straight into the defensive linemen (Tom’s army), attempts to run left or right past the linemen at the end of the formation (known as tight ends for offense and defensive ends for defense) before turning upfield towards the objective.
I was going to suggest the same thing–more like an end-run, (also called an end-around).
I was thinking a naked reverse, which, given a succubus is involved, seems appropriate (it’s where the ballcarrier, the line, and various blockers all go left (or right), but then hand the ball off to another back who goes right (or left), with the intention that the defense have left that side of the field undefended).
I concur. They are trying to go around/avoid Tom and get to the goal, that’s an end run.
A quarterback sneak is where this groups walks up to Tom’s palace while Parfait is there, and the twerp in charge tries to run past all the guards, who would not expect such a suicidal move, to get to Parfait.
I’m usually not one to criticise art, but is the pink haired demoness pushing her chest out on purpose? Because that curve in her back does not look comfortable, like not quite as bad but approaching Rob Liefeld levels of awkward posture.
She looks like a succubus, so it might well be on purpose.
it may also be an (un?)fortunate feature of her non-succubus parent’s genotype; her spine literally just bends that way.
Her posture looks more regular in panel 1 of last page though.
she’s walking in that one vs standing in this one
people unconsciously lean forwards when walking(we basically fall forwards and catch ourselves to walk)
It still shows this is not just her natural spine curvature. Contrast the walking stance of the Hellberdier.
Max isn’t there. Sydney has fallen “victim” to Dabbler’s hypnoboobs before. Pinky might not be on Dabbbler’s level though.
She seems to be wearing a collar, so, propably.
A bendy back is handy when aiming the hypnoboobs.
She is a demon. I think it is a mistake to assume human physique.
Yeah, she’s totally doing the “LOOK AT THEM!”
Irony that she is using hypnoboob on the one target that it doesn’t work on.
Olivia’s back seems to have the same curve in Panel 6 so it seems to be the style.
That doesn’t bother me as much as Olivia’s neck in the same panel, sure her hair would hide some of it but she looks like an ostrich neck
Probably from years of posture training at the finishing school.
It looks like some sort of grand gesturing pose to me. She is flourishing towards the stain glass window and Sydney.
Vixen War Bride is a DARN good series. Anyone who serves with honor or knows anyone who has will get a kick out of that series. It handles miscommunication, PTSD and life in a general when dealing with military matters fairly well in most cases.
It starts out as a close parallel to historical messes from Vietnam or Afghanistan and then goes totally off the rails. But then, it remains relatable in a lot of ways. Anyone who knows a veteran will understand much of what happens in the book and there are so many things that most civilians just won’t get right off the bat. That is one of the really good points here though, the author makes things that civilians have no clue about much more relatable. I grew up in a military family and anytime I started talking about acronyms, I lost about half my listeners. The author here is much, MUCH better than I am.
Back to the comic? These demons better be VERY careful or this is gonna hurt a lot. This is going to be like juggling live hand grenades that the demons think are water balloons.
These guys are either really dumb or…no they’re just really dumb. What was the plan here? They saw Parfait was alone on demon social media and decided they’re just gonna grab her or something? Even if Parfait wasn’t now associated even loosely with a member of Archon, no way that actually works out for them.
The way it works out for them is by convincing Parfait to ditch Tom – catching her away from Tom as a group is her best chance to do that.
It’s not that far-fetched – even Dabbler offered some doubts about Tom being the right master for her and advised her to consider switching in https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1202-the-one-that-got-away/.
So far the tone of this seems rather aggressive if this is an attempt at persuasion. Admittedly, mostly coming off big axe demon’s energy of barging in, demanding to see Parfait, and claiming Tom isn’t her master. Like I just don’t get the plan. If they’re sincere then speaking with Parfait shouldn’t require subterfuge like this since the master/slave contract doesn’t seem binding in their culture. So what are they actually doing here?
They are there avoiding Big Tom (and his even bigger ‘thumb’)
And ran into Sydney instead.
Um… oops?
well, her thumb is smaller. though she does have the ability to eject troublemakers thoroughly.
Lots of *humans* are overly aggressive toward people they believe to be “less”, such as assistants and store clerks. I assume demons would be the same or worse. We can also assume that they would have taken a different tact had Parfait actually been present.
“So far the tone of this seems rather aggressive if this is an attempt at persuasion.”
They’re not talking to the one they want to persuade, persuasion comes after they find Parfait. Currently they’re talking to Sydney, who has basically responded with threats to them asking for Parfait.
Yes, they use a somewhat aggressive tone, but they’re pissed off at what happens. Also, they’re demons, there’s a bit of cultural friction here, what sounds aggressive to us and Sydney is not necessarily intended as such. The Hellberdier especially seems like he doesn’t have an indoor voice.
“If they’re sincere then speaking with Parfait shouldn’t require subterfuge like this since the master/slave contract doesn’t seem binding in their culture.”
Only if they can contact her. If she lives with Tom, they might have to go through him or one of his subordinates, and what do they do if they just get told “she doesn’t want to see you”?
That doesn’t mean they aren’t still wrongheaded (about their chances of convincing Parfait) but this being a misunderstanding between Sydney and some demons would be par for the course for Grrl Power.
> They’re not talking to the one they want to persuade, persuasion comes after they find Parfait. Currently they’re talking to Sydney, who has basically responded with threats to them asking for Parfait.
What are you talking about? Sydney has been very polite to them. She hasn’t even said “you’re in my personal space, step back.” The only remotely hostile thing she has said is a reminder that Tom is a dangerous guy to mess with, which is not a threat.
It wasn’t meant as a threat by Sydney, but “the guy you’re messing with has a huge demon army” can easily be taken as a threat.
She merely pointed out that they’re probably pulling something sneaky because they *don’t* want to deal with Tom & his army.
Not a threat, but a put-down.
You and I know that. The demons can easily take it as a subtle reminder they’re crossing someone powerful.
And in any case, a putdown is still something that is likely to provoke a similar response, so my point that their tone isn’t proof of them coming for a fight stands.
Oh boy. Hot pepper tongue job with Anal orb probing on aisle 3 coming up.
Couldn’t think of an original name? Or laying the groundwork to spread bullshit and claim it’s me dumping it?
Way to assume you’re the only guy on Earth to think of variations of ‘Guest’ for your handle, pal.
Pull back on the confrontation there, you’re almost as bad as the axe wielding demon in the comic.
Actually, was the first to add ‘icus’, and had been using it for over ten (fifteen?) years before adding ‘le’
Oh no, someone has a similar name to you! It must be a conspiracy! Oh you poor soul. The person wasn’t even commenting initially on anything you said and you jump in and start ranting about how they are “laying the groundwork for bullshit”? Dude you sound a tad unhinged.
High-five on that awesome name, man!
Runes are great, right?
Hell yeah! I play a Rune Knight in 5e
yes, they are. I have had some variation of different spellings of it over the years. Typically settle on this one as this old spelling isn’t or wasn’t all that common.
There has been at least one person in the comments who has attempted to impersonate other users to make them look bad, or just to mock them. It doesn’t happen frequently, and Guesticules hasn’t been the only one targeted, but it has happened to him, so I don’t think his reaction is entirely unwarranted.
I also don’t think I’ve seen any similar names anywhere else before, other than in the comments of some other webcomics, which I assume are actually the same Guesticules, who used to go by Guesticus until someone suggested Guesticules, which he thought was even better.
I think their paranoia pills are wearing off.
And there we have it…
Was beginning to wonder where you had been hiding the last couple months
Do the pair of Guesticus and Guesticules form a pair of Guesticles? When this pair of Guesticles hang out, down below the comic, does one hang lower?
I still think your name would’ve been awesome for the Xena/Hercules series for any guest star they wanted to bring in, like, it’s always the same character, but always a different guest star playing them
That would be a very D&D thing to do. I’d have loved it.
d&d idea, you gain a puzzle through your looting, one piece at a time, each piece is a living mini mimic, and when you finally get it all together, it activates the full swarm of them
Hmm. Sounds good to me.
That was kinda where the name originated from, or at least, one of the Greco-Roman shows :)
Does anyone else notice that in panel 5 the overlap kinda makes it look like the big demon has gained cleavage?
I cannot believe that Syd pulled the “Do you know who you’re dealing with?” gambit out.
Purple-hair may be a were-wolf.
Pointy ears?
What about the horns?
Wanting to fit in? – Very decent.
Were-Hellhound?
Frenemy? Rival? Going incognito in modest attire and sunglasses? Familiar with Parfait’s scent and calling it a “stink”?
Based on the attractiveness, the horns, and the posture, I’m guessing that’s a succubus.
Parfait and Xuriel’s mom, I would bet.
You let one demon and all of a sudden they’re all over the place. Applying for welfare, overloading the school and healthcare systems. “They took our jerbs!”
“we’re going to build a wall and make the Demons pay for it!!!”
Demon- “Yeah, well good luck with that….”
You know? I BET whoever they picked to build it would do a better job. Can’t do much worse. I mean, even GOVERNORS did a better job with just containers and barbed wire!
Some people think it was odd that most of the money just disappeared, but hey, that is what you get when THE most corrupt man in the country hires THE most corrupt contractor in the country to do a federal job with federal funding.
I mean, really? Did ANYONE who had a clue about such things expect competence? I know I didn’t, but then again, I have worked construction so I would not touch anything EITHER of those two had a hand in with a ten MILE ling pole. Some of the stories I have heard… No. Not on a public forum.
It looks like they left the organ (or at least the pipes) in place when the church was refurbed into a comics shop.
And isn’t that the oddest sentence anyone is likely to write today?
I wonder if it’s still playable.
I was just noticing it and thinking that someone should be playing dramatic music on it right now. Sydney would be so into that.
Most likely it’s just the pipes. Having worked in a few deconsecrated buildings, the pipes are pretty much part of the wall in order to hold that much weigh upright. It would be a major expense to remove and repair the wall. Cheapest to just leave them.
Plus they look really cool even as a piece of art. I have seen several converted churches to houses that have left the organs and pipes in and they are great.
DaveB: The point is – yes, the main floor of the comic shop is where the church services used to be held after they cleared out the pews, so there is a raised pulpit and a humongous pipe organ against the back wall. Presumably the store hires an organist on some days to come in and knock out some Iron Butterfly or Hall of the Mountain King and other songs that sound cool on an organ.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1203-nethertemp/
The interesting thing is if the church is less then 20 years old or the organ was refurbished in the last 20 years it is possible that they don’t need an organist all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcLnaiZxSyQ
You can record once and replay endlessly or create impossible songs. Just be careful with the second one impossible songs can damage the instrument.
Panel six just cries out for some random person to hit a Ta-Da chord on the organ just then.
I’m thinking they’re show pipes. Lots of pipe organs have some decorative, fake, pipes to look at, and the real ones are behind a screen, out of sight. The fact that there are so many, of roughly the same type and size, would further suggest that.
Now, there may well be an actual pipe organ, but that’s not guaranteed. If they had one, that was real, it likely found a new home after the church left the building. Possibly in pieces, but still. Apparently, lots of church organs are made up of ranks of pipes from older organs.
As much as I would like for it to be a genuine pipe organ (and therefore it is) you are probably correct. Real pipe organs take up a fair amount of space and require some expertise to keep running. For your average suburban church it is just easier to cover a wall in gold anodized aluminum tubing and then feed a synthesizer through the sound system.
What is the opposite of ‘wallet-sized?’ Drop the -et.
why not wall~it sized?
why not wall~it sized?
Told ya Pinkie didn’t have golden skin :P
They are still not getting it, time to pull out the Clue-By-Ten and smack them all in the head until they finally ‘get it’
DaveB has ‘studied’ enough busty females wearing tank tops to include the bra strap in panel six :)
Umm, what? Quarterback sneak is a reasonable and sensible nomenclature and I’m quite confused how even someone who hates sports is unaware of this. In any normal play from under center, there is a retreat with the ball, whether to pass, transfer to a runner or do a quarterback run, does that make sense? In a quarterback sneak, they “sneak” forward immediately rather than retreating. What is confusing?
Came here to say this. It’s a ‘sneak’ because normally the quarterback throws the ball, not put himself in danger of injury by running it in a few yards.
It’s like if a general were to lead the charge instead of fielding orders from the back line in a military conflict. Rarely done, and almost always disastrous.
You’re assume everyone even knows what a quarterback is.
Isn’t that what you get when you buy something for seventy-five cents and pay with a dollar bill?
Sounds reasonable! So what does that make a quarterback sneak? Is that where the price is a dollar, and they still give you a quarter back?
“Umm, what? Quarterback sneak is a reasonable and sensible nomenclature and I’m quite confused how even someone who hates sports is unaware of this. ”
It’s confusing because there’s nothing sneaky about it.
There generally is. The quarterback usually fakes handing off the ball, then goes for it while everyone is focused on the guy they think has it. That’s the idea and source of the name, anyway.
Exactly!
Quarterback sneak involves a fake out, either a fake hand off or a fake like he’s going to pass.
No it doesn’t. A quarterback sneak sees the QB IMMEDIATELY move forward with no faking.
The team on offense knows the count, so they have the advantage in a quick push, as the defense can only react to the ball being snapped lest they get an Offsides penalty for moving too soon. This is why the quarterback sneak is extremely reliable at getting at least one yard.
A fake handoff is a completely different play.
Hmm. I don’t /HATE/ sports, but I’m not a big fan of football. I don’t veg out in front of the TV 4 or so days a week to root on one side or the other. It’s just never been my “thing”. I’m aware of the play, but I’ve never associated the play with the name that’s been given here.
I appreciate Olivia doing her best Vanna White.
I think Sydney might have put it in her job description…
Errr… “Well I don’t anything about what country you’re from”… Missed a word between “don’t” and “anything”?
I should propably mention that Baba Yaga is not from Northern Europe, but Eastern. So not Norway, but maybe Russia or Hungary.
Guessing you know that Russia has a border with Norway, and that her house likes to walk around
Technically, yes, but very little of it. Finland is the one having considerable border with Russia.
Baba Yaga, “Old Grandmother of the Land” (Baba is literally the arabic-alphabet version of “G’ma”), is completely and totally from Russian mythology before Christianism (Orthodoxy in the particular case) then Tzarism and later Communism came on the scene.
She’s the old crone that will always answer truthfully ONE question, in exchange for a bone from the asker, and plots the future of the motherland from her hut moving around on three chicken legs.
DO NOT EVER CROSS HER, OR TRY TO ABUSE HER ANSWER, OR EVEN *THINK* ABOUT GIVING HER SOMEONE ELSE BONE.
Her wrath is not pretty, and extends down generations to the end of your bloodline.
While extremely horrible in both appearance, demeanour and character, she’s also the most trusted of advisors and mythical figures of old Russian folklore, and the one that saved the motherland several times either through advice, manipulating events and/or people, or direct action.
Direct inspiration of the “Respect your elders *wooden spoon smack* !” trope too, since she’s very fond of brewing awful-smelling but actually quite good borsch in her cauldron, and is older than the earth itself according to the folklore.
If Baba Yaga is the most trusted one I don’t want to meet the others. Who would that be, Koshchei the Immortal?
I think Puten may have had Koshchei as his chief advisor for the last decade or so…
Then there’s Barbie Yaga and her Dream Hut
The quarterback sneak: named by one of the few US Americans to really, really understand what irony is.
A quaterback is sized as a rugby prop ?
I’m not from US.
Quarterback is the main offensive ball handler in American gridiron football. He is the most likely to throw a forward pass. His position on the field is behind the line of scrimmage, in front of the Halfback who is deeper backfield from running play schemes but not as deep as the Fullback. Halfback/Fullback schemes are less common now as the forward pass is the dominant play but you often see them in blocking schemes for run plays to open a hole for the running back, who is the one who is generally handed the ball.
(who might actually receive names in the comic at some point)
Ha! The planet my tall tale started on didn’t have a name until chapter twelve or so (everyone just assumed it was Earth – until we got to Earth and it wasn’t the end of the trip. ;-) )
If you want a really good book written from an alien PoV (with one human character who is shown as incomprehensibly weird), try C.J. Cherryh’s The Pride of Chanur. (It’s a great title: The Pride of Chanur is a starship, but its crew belong to a leonid species that has pridelike social arrangements, but also it’s about the captain’s pride in the emotional/ethical sense.) If you like it, there are four sequels. It’s one of my favorite SF novels.
DAVE! I believe you might like Between Worlds novels by J.L. Williams. Earth was conquered and occupied by purple space orcs (the cover girl in first book). A man challenges one of the alien marines to a bar fight and beats her. Next morning he is told to either enlist to aliens’ military or go to prison. I’m on the third book and I’ve been enjoying the ride. Take “mature content” warning seriously.
Yes, Sexy Space Babes is awesome, and you can read it for free on r/HFY or Royal Road.
“Unless you’re going to buy something, GET OUT!”
They’re talking awfully reckless for people with 0 leverage.
Ever read ‘I Want to See The Manager’ reddit stories? Sadly more common than it should be. Though I suspect ‘demons’ like that get Karma much more quickly than humans.
Theyre talking a lot of smack for Demons in Crusade range…….
Baba Yaga just means Hag Yaga or Crone Yaga idk those Yagas you speak off
Baba is russian for “grandma” too.
I like the replacement rose window. Have we seen it before?
Did you forget the page where she first came back to her new comic shop?
“Do you know who I am”
and variations of, could do a whole rant on the way this is used, but I think we can all agree when a character does this it falls under either “unearned” or “earned” the former including characters who think they should be famous or need to be taken down a peg *greedy kings, local heroes abusing their position, narcassistic celebrities, etc…*, and the later superheroes who do a good job, celebrities bemused by it more than offended, and of course the reputation is well earned powerhouse characters.
which to be fair that last example can be annoying if a character does it too often, or get too big in their own head. and so many between.
Person 1: Such impertinence, do you know who I am 1?
Person 2: No, do you know who I am?
Person 1: What? Of course not, who cares who you are. I am King Lydonis ruler of this land, with a gesture I can have you taken away and executed.
Person 2: Cool, I’m the Fairy Queen of Barlash *snaps fingers*
(turns king and his guards into frogs), and now you are king of the pond.
The bit about the QB sneak was pretty funny to read. I used to watch a lot of football. It’s now been well over a decade since I followed the sport so I’m out of touch with the modern players and coaches but still have a lot of general knowledge of the game.
It’s called a QB sneak because it is fairly rare to run a play that is designed for the QB to run the ball alone. Most of the time he is handing off the ball or throwing, so it can catch a defense off guard. It’s mostly used for short yardage because most QBs aren’t very good at running so they probably won’t get very far. But the yards that you do get come pretty quickly since the ball doesn’t have to change hands and you probably won’t lose yards.
A QB draw is similar but a little more “tricky” in that the QB first drops back as if to throw, and when the defense tries to defend the pass, he then starts running up the field.
Often it isn’t even used in a sneaky manner. The other team may know that a QB sneak is coming, but that doesn’t mean they can actually stop it from moving forward. Since the offense knows the count but the defense doesn’t, the defense can only react lest they get an Offsides penalty, which is very often enough of an advantage to allow the QB to move past the line of scrimmage.
And, of course, they can’t just throw everyone on the line, or the QB could just call a Play Action and get an easy short pass to an undefended outside man.
See, this just convinces my non-sports-fan self that football players take too many hits to the head. The proper term should be “Quarterback Surprise”–‘sneaking’ implies that the other party is, to one extent or another, unaware of what is actually going on. /pedant
Yeah misleading title and names are a deep tradition in america. As well as ‘making’ our own names. Sometimes they do eventually become a real name. You know why tanks are named tanks? Because they we deceptivly listed as water tanks in offical inventory systems when they were first deployed to confuse spies. And the name just stuck when people described them.
It’s called the QB sneak because it used to be pretty rare for the QB to run with the ball. They didn’t train for it and coaches were hesitant to put their QB in harms way during a game. This made it kind of a surprise move (mostly in terms of blatant audacity)
In more recent years however, it’s been much more common for a QB to intentionally train for running the ball by sprinting and learning to break tackles etc in practice. Firstly because it is a useful tool in a number of situations (e.g. if the quarterback is looking for a pass and no one is open, he could get a few yards if he has the skills to get past the first linebacker).
Secondly because nowadays coaches can talk to the team captain (QB on offense) through headsets in their helmets. This makes it much easier for them to strategize in between plays, meaning if your star QB takes a bad hit and you have to put in the backup QB, it doesn’t cripple your team strategy as much as it used to.
“dude, my face is on the door!”
Olivia’s waistline in panel 6 – did she have all of her bones removed or something?
I was about to comment that she possesses the unique physiognomy indicative of Super Powers in a female human.
Standard part of the interview process at Event Horizon Comics. It’s a throwback to the horrors of the movie.
So I presume the comic store and property is well insured for Super Brawls, right?
Probably not, but Sydney can likely cover it.
well, go look at the last time vehemence ‘fought’ Sydney. he did lay a hand on her at the start….
I’m genuinely confused – and eager for clarification on successive pages. Are they there to try to kidnap Parfait through Sydney? Or are they there because Sydney messed up by summoning Parfait without permission from her master? What IS their motivation, aside from showing up and trying to intimidate the Mighty Halo?
All they know, is someone summoned Parf, and her last known location was the comic shop
Loudmouth Garlic-eater just has no tact (and no teeth soon) when it comes to asking for directions
My knowledge of the term is the same as Halo’s here. I just know it from a song lyric about someone who doesn’t want to get dragged out to play sports:
First down, go long, quarterback sneak
Try to wriggle out of it they’ll knock you into next week
Man on first, man on third
Nerd in the middle with the knees like a bird…
Regarding the female demon/succubus; “What has it gots in its pocketses?”
The teeth of the last person to ask :P
Hands, technically. It seems that the point of the hands being in pocketses in her case is that it helps her making that “boobs out” posture.
Now I’m wondering if Sydney has a ‘no shirt – no service’ rule in her shop……
Smash cut to the big Demon wearing a MLP Pinky Pie T-Shirt….”Now, will you tell us where she is?”
I doubt Sydney would institute a “no shirt, no shoes, no service” rule. That would foreclose on the potential for future eye-candy ogling opportunities. While it might ALSO foreclose on future need for eye and brain bleach probably wouldn’t dissuade her.
Not that every panel needs to be a multi-power melee, or gravity bombs in a sub-basement, but it does feel like a lot of things not happening.
Free gift horse webcomic, yadda yadda.
The comic is intended to be about all the stuff in between those heroic battles.
Quarterback Sneak sounds eerily similar to what one might call a Barbarian’s attempt at sneaking.
omg, just imagine a BardBarian!