Grrl Power #1251 – Æth on æth
Not really sure what all to say about this page. Tenri goes to demon college and hangs out with demons and other exotic beings, but this is really the first time she’s been tangled up in intrigue of this scale. Normally her biggest worries are passing tests, who’s dating who, and the mandatory armed combat class every Thursday.
Come to think of it, infernal days of the week would probably be stuff like Blüdday… actually, why go by days of the week when you can go by night of the week? So, Blüdnÿt, Agonÿt, Screamnÿt, Fÿrnÿt, Irönnÿt, Nÿt öf Hörns (but everyone calls it Hörnÿt), and Püppynÿt. I mean, they’re demons, not monsters. Gotta have one day a week set aside for puppies and flower gardens and spending quality time with the fam.
So then, Armed Combat 101 takes place every Irönnÿt at the MürderDeathKill Arena, sponsored by Cömcast.
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Every so often I get the urge to try and draw Maxima all properly shiny, and this… isn’t my favorite attempt if I’m honest. I’ve been sitting on this for a little while doing little tweaks, and decided to finally publish it cause I’m already behind on these. The next one will (almost definitely) resume the trend of including a little mini comic to extend the scene a bit.
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Holy crapspackle on a cracker im first?!?!?!?
Call it a tie?
I believe the order in which the comments on display are shown makes it clear. Sorry bruh, there can be only one.
If I recall from The Highlander, according to the rules of “there can be only one”, someone can now cut your head off and take your place.
You can TRY. I fight dirty tho. Also, the phrase refers to the fact only one immortal can claim the Source power. Doesn’t mean there can’t be more immortals around. Shows you what happens during centuries of Immortal Telephone….
Actually this has been proven false if someone claims the prize and a immortal is still on earth, but is buried under ground and locked in coffin that’s under water as from Highlander 3 movie the person that claimed prize is REVERTED back to there former self after winning, once the immortal is rescued from the underwater death prison..
Don’t be silly, there was only one movie.
There can only be one.
Yah no, that story was OVER after the first movie. There was really no place to go with it. In fact I think the author deserves an actual prize for writing the most sequel-proof possible story.
It made money so somebody felt like they had to try a sequel anyway, but there were zero unresolved anything, so they were forced to make something that had nothing to do with it.
Sponsored by comcast made me fall off my chair….
No it’s Cœmcast
Cumcast? Or is that Succubae-related (by marriage :P )?
Comcast does a lot of hiring at Demon College.
Somehow, that’s completely unsurprising.
I’m sure that’s where they got the idea to charge $26/month for channels you can get via an antenna for free. Not any more from me! That’s why I dumped their greedy asses.
“I mean, they’re demons, not monsters. Gotta have one day a week set aside for puppies”
I’d be worried that Püppynÿt is about eating and torturing puppies.
Well…
Demons colleges have to have standards and then they will need ways to set said standards. I think it has been fairly well proven than demons in this universe are not pure evil, chaotic or otherwise. So… Puppies would be a good way to find out if any have allergies or phobias in dealing with small, furred things. That is actually far more common than anyone would think, even in humans.
And as for puppies getting eaten? Personally, I would not bet on demons doing that. It would be far more likely to happen with more than a few US politicians, because while evil is fun according to people like MTG, MOST people realize pure evil for its own sake is not sustainable in the long term. Then again, many people don’t care about killing pregnant mothers, so why would they care about puppies?
At least the succubi are honest about their needs and I don’t see Dabbler or even Tom making laws to screw people over just for the hell of it. (Pun totally intended :P )
No real non-western-cultural reasons not to eat dogs, and puppies would be like veal. Puppy shoulder sauteed in a human-breast-milk sauce, garnished with roasted locusts.
if we are going to go western the goat boiled in its mothers milk will be a delicacy.
This is still college, so the puppies are either classmates, or people from town. The question is: Are they volunteers, or involunteers?
Nah, the puppies in question are 3-headed hell-hounds.
And the 3-headed hell-hounds are all Cerbie from GoofyGods comics
And here I thought it was a night of creating cursed dolls (‘Püppi’ = German babyword for ‘Puppe’ = doll).
Demon college does sound like they would be into animal crush videos.
“Normally her biggest worries are passing tests, who’s dating who, and the mandatory armed combat class every Thursday.”
So…no different to normal human school on Earth, then.
You could make a case that dodgeball, baseball, and even soccer are forms of armed combat training, so yes. Not to mention the sports that might be mandatory at some schools but never any I’ve heard of, like lacrosse and hockey.
My high school had a short floor-hockey unit. Like a week.
Nah. Apparently demons don’t have to worry about school shootings.
They said Earth, not the US.
Of course not, the faculty and student body are all packing. Sorta like Hogwarts.
Dabbler is doing a low-key Villain Grin.
I am both greatly interested by this, and deeply worried.
*shares popcorn*
Also, I really want to know what Gellen is going to procure as “decent earth food.”
I assume he’s just going to ask Sydney her favourite.
“He chose…poorly.”
I suspect they do not ever allow Sydney to choose the restaurant, cook for them, or let her pick the dish. something medical I believe.
That would be sanity.
A professional succubus need to be able to play the scary domme role well.
Pizza. Pizza is the best decent earth food that Earth has to offer. Even bad pizza is okay by overall universal food standards. Good pizza, on the other hand, is the best.
Oh, my sweet summer child…
I have worked in a pizzeria. “Bad pizza” is a real thing, and it can hurt you. Right in the soul.
Counterpoint: “good” is an essential quality of pizza. If it’s not good, it’s not pizza, no matter how similar it may be in other respects.
so we need to rename it The No True Pizza Fallacy. as in No true Pizza will have coconut shavings on it.
This needs to be a thing.
Quickly! TO THE INTERNET!
Precisely!
Postcisely!
And before anyone says anything (I know Bharda won’t because I’m pretty sure that Bharda is of the same mind as me on this immutable fact), if you put pineapple on pizza, it’s no longer pizza. And thus no longer able to be considered good food.
there’s already fruit on it, why not add more?
HERESY DETECTED
If you put pineapple on pizza , in one neighboring country of mine, it’s a warcrime punishable by death by an angry mob.
“Solo uno coglione americano può mettere l’ananas sulla pizza”
Never do this in Italy … NEVER if you cannot swim with concrete fins…
so the idea that Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada makes sense. the fact that these two countries were on opposite sides of WW2 does not seem an accident.
We don’t make hawaïan Pizza and we had won against Italy in WW2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_France
And yes we produce pineapple in french Guyana, Martinique,Guadeloupe, Réunion and Mayote – 29 032 metric tons in 2022 -.
But we cut and break spaghetti…
And in WWI Italy and Japan where on the same side as Canada even if in WWI Canada was a British dominion.
Once upon a time, Young Me was VERY high. Inspired by Mikey of TMNT, I grabbed a frozen pepperoni pizza, sliced some banana onto it, and slipped it into the oven. My memory of it: AMAZING. Would I try it today: PROBABLY NOT.
SWEDISH HERESY DETECTED
“BORK BORK *BARF*”
I was not high but that make me think that awesome noodle soup I had after white water rafting. I’m sure it was just a vat of store bought stuff but after a level 5 day on the river few things have ever tasted quite as good.
I prefer mine with pineapple, anchovies, green bell pepper, and no cheese.
EXTERMINATUS. THE EMPEROR PROTECTS.
I’m going to guess there’s some application of Dabbler’s succubus powers that will allow her to erase Halo’s memories from her, but this requires her to be occupying a body at the time for… reasons.
Or maybe more boringly Dabbler’s just going to pound on her with the ol’ amnesia mallet until she’s blanked out the past week.
I know the umlauts are supposed to look hardcore, but I can’t help but pronounce them internally like the Swedish Chef.
As öne döes. Bork.
Even worse here, I read them like a Saxonian in my head. Blüd and Hörns is sächsisch, without doubt.
Yes, Cömcast is a-cumin in, lewdly sing cucuu!
Chaucer goes corporate.
FUCKING COMCAST!
*angry San Diegan noises*
It was, is, and always will be Jack Murphy Stadium, and I _WILL_ die on this ridiculously tiny, tiny little hill.
that’s the Pitcher’s mound *giggles*
I support you in this because its Comcast.
tenri Isn’t listed on the who’s who? This is a grave injustice that outweighs all other considerations people might have at this time.
Gellen (Gelan?) isn’t listed either
That tail; You know, at least for Earthly creatures with tails, the tail naturally lies flat between the legs, and if you set a dog, say, down on it’s rear end, that’s where it ends up: Between the legs. Because it’s an extension of the spine, and can only bend so sharply, and it’s default position is parallel to and between the legs. So, sitting on your tail would actually be the way to go, it would fit neatly between your butt cheeks.
Though you might have a little trouble with seats that had that molded in hump between the cheeks, or with bicycle seats. But bicycle seats are kind of problematic for normal humans, anyway. Horrible design, most of them.
Well, maybe space tails have ball and socket joints at their bases, like a shoulder, or are boneless butt tentacles. If you’re adding a tail to an engineered body, that would probably make sense, why not make it harder to accidentally dislocate your tail? Tail dislocation is *painful*!
OK, technically humans DO have tails. They’re very short and rigid, and under the skin, but they’re there.
Humans are occasionally born with vestigal tails which are normally removed soon after birth.
Did a lot of strip searches over the years and I did see a guy with a six inch tail…he could move it and flatly refused to answer any questions about it.
Dog’s usually don’t sit on their tails. I can’t remember ever seeing a dog do so, and looking through a lot of pictures of sitting dogs, not a single one of them was doing so. (all had their tail pointing backwards or to the side never between the legs)
It is the same with cats.
I have seen cats and dogs intentionally move their tail between their legs (while semi-standing), and its usually not a good sign for the animal in question, as they in the process of being very sad and submissive. The I am in trouble and know it pose. Or the, im sorry please do not hurt me pose.
I saw my parents’ whippet sit on its tail just the other day, although it’s not a regular thing I don’t think.
The terriers they had before never did though.
Just my observation, which tends to line up with your research.
“So then, Armed Combat 101 takes place every Irönnÿt at the MürderDeathKill Arena, sponsored by Cömcast.”
So it’s the one thing in the universe that isn’t sponsored by raid shadow interruptions?
Give’em another week. I’m sure every entertainment company on Terra is already i negotiations with SpaceTube.
Or sponsored by the scam-of-the-month: cryptocurrency, NFTs, AI, DJT Media, …
Please don’t self-emmolate. That’s not cool, man.
Wow is it “Dabbler does something creepy and borderline villainous and none of the good-guys say anything” O’Clock already?
Hey, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere. X’D
Besides, there’s obviously been _some_ time passing, so she, Max, Gwen, and Zephan have probably cooked up something & gotten it past muster with Faulk.
How is being intimidating borderline villainous? Max is intimidating all the time
Scarecrow’s talking about what Dabbler’s about to do, not what she’s doing.
And being overly cynical about it – we’ve no idea what DaveB has planned.
“We had to put you back in your body so we’d have something to lock up.”
They already had her locked up.
She was doing a lava lamp impression on one of Dabbler’s shelves, remember?
But sorely lacking in things to do TO her, punishment-wise. Now that she has a physical body… we will see what the great and mighty Dabs has in mind. >:)
Yeeeeah….preeeeetty sure that’s not going anywhere.
I could be wrong, of course but I’ll bet a paycheck I’m not.
More like “we had to put you back into your body, because extraditing someone without one to the proper alien authorities may be considered impolite.”
I am sure there is a high tech space adventurer way to extradite people without physical bodies, but I am ALSO sure Archon has something fairly nasty in mind for the being who tried to steal Sydney and now knows about the spheres maybe being Nth tech.
The “I am in Danger” meme is currently scrolling across her brain, the way Dabbler is looking at her.
Turns out, succubus always like her race….as they don’t get tired.
And it’s hard to find one that would willingly submit to CUMunity service, over jail time.
I’m now confused. I thought Lapha was the one doing the body-napping, not Tenri.
Tenri is the one who just got carried out right now. Lapha is back in her proper body, the one with the bandaged tail. Tenri had to use Lapha’s body to get to Earth, and she wasn’t used to it.
And yeah, Tenri’s got every right to be royally pissed.
It would be like if you got your car stolen, the thief used your car to comit a bunch of crimes, and you then had to use the thief’s cigar-stained, trash-filled, burned out old beater to go to the impound to pick it up after you managed to square away that YOU were not the criminal.
Yes, Lapha does the body-napping. Tenri was still back in the “Evil Base” when Cora and Team showed up. With Laphas body. Tenri borrowed that to get back to earth.
That ‘Evil Base’ was Tenri’s dorm room
Oh. Apparently I did not pay attention to the environment in that strip.
In many cases, a college dorm room can be an evil base.
It’s frequently the First Evil Base.
Why demons are Norse themed …
Curse tablet or tabella defixionis, are thin sheets of lead with the text scratched on in tiny letters, and they are in latin…
Ferum dies on Idus Martias for your Irönnÿt… don’t be Gaius Julius Caesar , for him the 15th of march 44 BC was a literal ironday.
Hehe, ya know, for someone who didn’t want a tail initially she sure has grown attached to it. XD
Literally :P
These demons are supposed to be technologically advanced. Their internet would be much faster and more reliable than Comcast.
Are you sure Comcast is not a company run as a pre-FTL-world branch office by demons and deveels in disguise?
I’m sure their hypernet and hypercast service are just as diabolically bad out there as their internet and cable/satellite service is here.
You categorically mythtaken.
Dave has asserted that “other dimensions” aren’t really a thing in the grrlverse, and so deveels – and the Great Market of Deva – can’t be a thing.
And if they were, I’m not 100% percent sure they’d get into TelComms. deveels love to haggle, dicker, wheel, deal, jive, and connive too much to get out of the brick & mortar mercantilism phase.
I stand Mythtorically corrected and PWNED! ;3
Wasn’t Sydney involved in crossovers which did have her in alternate realities?
The crossover I know of had Astra from ‘Wearing The Cape’ visiting Sydney’s reality.
I don’t think Syd has been in any alternate realities except the ones in her own head.
I remember reading somewhere that that crossover is actually canon in both series. I wonder if we’re ever going to see it in the comic. Sydney is now the correct rank (private) so it would have to be before she ever gets promoted.
If we do? I HAVE to see Maxima’s reaction to the pony.
I MUST SEE IT!
She will either think it is cute or have a massive tantrum. Bets?
Whether Sydney went to an alternate reality or someone from an alternate reality came to Sydney’s reality, if that crossover was canon (which I believe it was) then alternate realities are canon in the Grrlpower universe. :)
Hmmm, I thought those head appendages were horns, however as the panels progress they appear to be motile. Are they more like fleshy things as with the Twi’leks ‘lekku’ from Star Wars? It seems so especially in the last panel.
No, that’s just DaveB‘s art, and the angles (perspective is not easy to get right)
I was wondering the same thing. In panels 3, 6 and 8 the horns appear to be mounted on her forehead and curve towards the rear of her head. In panels 5 and 7 the horns appear to be mounted at the rear of here head, covered by her brushed-back hair, and curve towards the front of her head.
I was wondering the same thing actually.
I was not sure if it was intentional or a problem with the artwork, but DaveB is a really good artist so I was assuming intentional.
There’s no telling how demons are going to group their days, but it’s almost certainly not going to be in seven-day weeks. Seven day weeks seem to have originated with the Babylonians or Sumerians, with Judaism getting it from them or developing it independently, and it all spread from there. Ancient China had fourteen day solar terms, and the shortest period in the Mayan calendar was thirteen days.
And that is from the fact that it’s roughly 28 days between successive full moons and each quarter is about 7 days long.
Now I just imagine Demon College having these little red machines that issue warnings for not giving in to demonic desires at a regular intervals. “Zivik spawn of hell you have not cursed anyone for 12 hours, two demerits.”
I’m enjoying the emotional expressiveness of Lapha and Tenri’s drones. I wonder if expressive features are an option or part of the base model.
Panel 8: This is, IMHO, one of the hottest looks I’ve seen on Dabbler’s face in a *very* long time.
Well done. :D
Ooooh, pentagram cleavage. Nice.
I’m bit confused. Isn’t the one complaining complaining about not being used having a tail the same “race” of alien as the other one? Why won’t she not know how handle tail? Unless not originally used to that body?
Teh bodies they have are basically custom models. The student only has a basic model. Lapha elected to have a tail put on her body after the reptile-guy persuaded her and her old body was eaten by an alien plant-guy.
So, no, Tenri was no better at using a tail suddenly than you would be if you suddenly sprouted one.
Who, besides Tenri, is speaking in panel 7? No mention is made in the Who’s Who.
Gellen.
Angy college student go Ree!
And justifiably so, given the circumstances.
Those are the most advanced-looking bandages I’ve ever seen! I bet they even have bluetooth.
Points to Tenri for dredging up “rue the day” from her database of English idioms.
Maybe there is something to the effect in her language, and that is what the universal translator put in there.
Now, demon society may not have bereavement, but it DEFINITELY has lawyers.
I liked Dabbler’s top.
Hmm, now I’m wondering whatever happened to Concretia. Maybe because of my headcanon that she left with Cora and her crew because her power would be super useful for various reasons, and there would be plenty of security for her real body.
Yusss! Demons have a night of very week devoted to Irony! TGII!!
I wonder if this is going to be a Jabberwocky situation, and she’ll be forced to join Archon due to the knowledge she got from Sidney making her too much of a liability anywhere else?
Enforcement would be a problem given how easily she could do a runner.
I think Jabberwocky joined Archon voluntarily. Attacking them was due to Vehemence’s influence, so she wasn’t in any trouble for that. But Jabberwocky had demonstrably useful abilities and a high level of skill (she managed to KO Math – granted, he was distracted by her unintentional oppai-jutsu, but even before that she was giving him a good fight), was drawn to Dabbler as a side effect of the temporary mind-whammy the latter put on her, and genuinely enjoyed sparring with Math, so it makes sense Archon would offer her a job and she would accept.
Tenri is probably looking more at a Vehemence situation of indefinite incarceration but potentially with some benefits if she can help them in some manner (Vehemence gets his daily dose of Vitamin V through combat training of Archon agents). Unless Archon opted to defer to the judgement of the Space community – I suspect the punishment for an Aetholith hijacking someone’s body is pretty severe.
More importantly, she had an existing criminal record of doing supercrimes.
So, it was join up or go to prison, and a prison for the super-powered would likely be VERY uncomfortable. Saved a lot of time and money all around.
I don’t get where the (American?) association of Umlauts with “hardcore” or demon stuff comes from. Also, in the languages that use Umlauts (e.g. German, Swedish, Hungarian), Umlauts have a different sound than the vowels they are based on, so reading stuff like “Motörhead” or “Hörn” sounds really strange and doesn’t make any sense
Swedish death metal.
I think it started with Mӧtley Crüe and got traction as the “heavy metal umlaut” mostly from people making fun of them.
Good-natured fun to be sure, but even their fans thought the use of umlauts there was at least a little silly.
Those day names like Püppynÿt sound like something Swedish Chef would say and now i imagine him as a Home Economics teacher in a demon school.
bork! bork! bork!
Well that was where Microsoft and Apple spawned.
If these space bandages are so advanced why do they have to be tied off at the ends? Self-adhesive bandages are 20th century technology!
please adjust your sarcasm detector.
All really advanced space bandages come with a cute little bow knot to elicit sympathy to assist in the healing process.
Omg Dabblers straps making a star is awesome.
Their hair is drawn a bit “funny” – both from front and from behind looks like it has it’s “roots” (sorry, not sure about the right english term) is on the other side of their horns.
… A succubus is a “demon”, but Dabbler right now looks more like a “devil” to me.
Why doesn’t she just jump Dabbler right then and there, remember a teleport spell and escape with an arguably equally powerful member?
Pretty sure Dabbler has protections in place to prevent that, and Lapha knows about those protections from a previous comic.
She’s wearing something which either prevents that or would do something bad to Lapha if she tried, from what I remember when she gave formerly-possessed Sydney her lunch.