Grrl Power #268 – Vehemence revealed
You can see why I wanted this page and the previous one to be double. There were… a number of comments on the last page about how V has magic pants or whatever. You can see that is clearly not the case. Even though most comics don’t have that comics code authority seal on them anymore, certain items of clothing are still for the most part curiously immune to battle damage. If that was the case in this comic, I might be tempted to have Sydney suggest making a suit of panties for use as armor. All that being said, Wolverine does tend to get all his clothes blown off at least once every dozen issues or so. I guess the writers like to remind us how hairy he is every so often.
Male nudity is almost always played for comedy cause guys are gross or just funny looking without clothes, and even when it’s a sexy guy who gets caught with his pants down in front of a woman, her reaction is usually comedic. Women are so sexualized in media that it’s more challenging to play female nudity for comedy, but I’m sure I’ll find a way at some point.
Those of you who recognize the “KA-Sound Effect” gag know it from The Wotch, which is one of the webcomics that made me think I should do my own. It has some pretty rough art in the beginning but good expressions, characters, humor and writing. It’s a curious comic, filled with stuff that I, being a well traveled denizen of the internet, associate with a lot of impossible sexual fetishes, like magical gender swapping, petrification, people being transformed into monsters and other stuff, but the comic itself never gets into anything sexual at all. If I had to describe it in one sentence, I’d say it’s like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets El Goonish Shive. EGS by the way is the comic that inspired the Who’s Who widget on my own comic. Characters in EGS tend to change gender and hairstyles, sometimes even species at the drop of a hat and while it’s one of my favorite comics, I will admit to being kind of lost as to who was who more than a few times while reading it.
Drawing Bulk Vehemence is proving to be a bit of a challenge, and he looks a little weird in a few of these shots. I will attribute that to his size being a little uneven while growing and endeavor to sort it out quickly in upcoming pages.
Vehemence isn’t still growing by the way, this is just the last thing that happened right as he stopped. Also, his power set isn’t Vehemic absorption… and making pants, but he said it already, he has a lot of power to burn at this point.
Edit: Whoops, I forgot V’s battle damage like a boss. Fixed now.
Here’s the link to the new comments highlighter for chrome which I can’t live without anymore, and the GitHub link which you can use to install on FireFox via Greasemonkey.
okay, now I’m totally hearing V with a prissy British accent…
As in an Oxfordian “Would you care for a spot of tea?” type?
So yes.
Yup. Just missing the tophat and monocle
Hmmm…Top hat, monocle…Maybe if he adds a black bowtie, he could fit in well at Chippendale’s.
. . . Do I want to know why you seem familiar with a well known bunch of male strippers?
It’s not like they don’t advertise, ya’ know…You don’t have to walk into one to find out what they do there.
Heh, I was expecting to see this entry already on the Tv Tropes page but it wasn’t. By the time I logged in to edit the page it was.
Well great, now I have to check it.
If I get lost in there, I’m blaming you!
Well, if you go into the woods & don’t follow the “map” you were given (going to Grrl Power entries ONLY) then get lost, you’ve only yourself to blame.
;)
I ended up reading the evil overlord list and basicly all related subjects…
That was probably the better idea of the 2 choices. At least the Evil Overlord list *has* an end to it that doesn’t require a high-powered telescope to see.
AND ALL RELATED SUBJECTS
https://www.worldconquer.org/evil_overlord.html
oh no why now i gots to go! I’M TOTALLY BLAMING YOU!!!
That’s the last we will see of those two until the Monday comic.
True, it seems to follow the same rules as the library of the unseen university
It’s my theory that every branch of magic has some utility spells that are only tangentially related to the field. Tantric magic can probably summon food or accelerate growth (due to associations with fertility). Vehemic Magic can probably summon armor and weapons, and summoning pants is just a slightly modified ‘Summon Armor’ spell.
so would summoning a violent video game be inside the summon list? And would anyone argue that following that logic, the squishy squid snail thing that dabbler summoned is sexually related?
everything is sexually related when it comes to dabbler
True, but I was meaning in a broader not-dabbler sense
Dabbler isn’t *limited* to using Tantric energy, it’s just what she’s most *skilled* in using.j Vehemence seems to be strictly *limited* to using Vehemic energy. either type of energy can be used as a “power source” for pretty much any kind of spell (like V using V-energy to create pants instead of fueling spells that cause more violence), but if the kind of spell actually matches the type of energy then it works out a whole lot easier.
Well, that little…thing…whatever it was…DOES have it’s own tentacles…Kinda, sorta…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1420
It’s probably her version of a fleshlight.
It is somewhat odd that she could summon a radiation absorbing vulcan-omanyte thing with tantric magic, but it probably wasn’t a tantric spell per se. More likely it was a device that she had in extradimensional storage that she simply teleported into the battlefield using her cybernetic arm. Alternatively, it could be a more conceptual link to tantric magic.
The device ‘takes radiation into itself’. Admittedly kind of a stretch, but it’s only my secondary theory. It’s less likely to have a magical heritage in my opinion. Remember, Dabbler is more then just a sorceress.
It’s a plush toy that soaks up radiation like a sponge. It was in her lab and she teleported it in with her arm. Read the text under the comic, DaveB tends to explain things that are unclear.
Dabbler does not use JUST tantric based magic.
Boring fact check: Dabbler didn’t use her magic to summon the rad muncher thingy. She used the teleporter built into her artificial arm to grab it from her lab/armory/ship(I don’t think it’s been mentioned if hse’s got a ship, but given her alien heritage it’s not impossible).
and Dappler just got a power boost
+10 at least. But she can only spend it on Seduction/Persuasion rolls.
what happened to max’s bloody nose? i assume that it’s still broken and not likely to stop bleeding any time soon…
She wiped the blood off screen?
Actually adrenaline can stop bleeding and I think she just relocated her nose off screen :P
Straightening a broken nose hurts like hell. I’ve only had to do it once, and then I waited until I got home and in front of a mirror. It hurt a lot more to do that than it did having it broken in the first place.
Certainly still looks broken to me. Only the blood is missing, but she could have wiped that off. (Though even then some slight traces might remain.)
I just had a Takei moment.
Exactly what I wanted to write! :D
“Oh my!”
Shawn beat you to it :P
given the extra Y in that last Oh Myy I think he may of as well
I haven’t really been reading the comments, but has anyone yet suggested that Sydney use her forefield on V? It’s already been shown to handle even Max-level attacks, it does nothing agressive, and if it’s airtight then all they have to do is wait until he passes out from lack of oxygen. With his powerlevels and how big he’s become, and how much blood that heart is going to be pumping to all that muscle, it shouldn’t take long, right? It wouldn’t even have to be with the intent of doing him harm. Just to contain.
I had that same thought, and then I remembered, doesn’t the shield only form around her? so she’d be in there with him.
Yes, that has been suggested. No, it probably won’t work. The closest she might be able to do is trap just his head in the shield, and then fly around in circles, dragging him along, until he passes out from blood rush. That might be amusing to watch, though.
No, it resizes around living things. That’s why that guy got trapped in there with her.
Orrr…it cuts off his head like mentioned as a possibility before. Gruesome, possibly.
*Maxima throws Halo*
“Use your shield now!”
“Whee!”
V: “Oh sh…” *shink* *squishing sound* *plop from head hitting ground*
Halo *multiple cusswords while stuck in rubble*
Halo: *multiple cuss words while stuck with the decapitated and bloody head of Vehemence* Fixed it
Why use a shield that may fail. (we
Don’t know it’s Strength) throw Archilies me invulnerable himself
Nope. Word of god: “Her shield does form centered on her, large enough to encompass her, but will adjust itself up or down a bit not to slice off anything near her, which is why Shadow Boxer there didn’t get a haircut when her shield went up.”
My question remains though as I’m not sure if it’s been answered… Can she make nesting-dolls with her shield?(As in generate more than one…? I mean Even with the limitation of any forcfield having to be centered on herself when she makes it, if she can put more than one shield around herself she might still be able to make a go of “Contain him until he uses up all his magic power” or at the very least be very helpful in minimizing collateral damage…
Probably not. That will likely be a future level-up, but I wouldn’t assume she has any power stunts we don’t already know about, given she has a level-up system to unlock them.
See comic 205 and its description. Word of Dave.
Here’s your sign.
And another trophy for Cpt . Obvious .
Speaking of battle damage.. did he lose the eye, or didnt he? and can he grow it back or not?
last row of comic before pants, he still has left eyelid firmly closed. Which kinda implies bye-bye-eye
But then he has the Pants Attack… and then next frame he has his left eye back??
What, does it have a symbiotic relationship with his pants????
Very odd..
That isn’t his eye, it’s his eyelid, which is white-green from his stripey markings.o
Saving panel 3 for… scientific reasons… very scientific reasons.
Sooo….he can burn Vehemic energy to fuel magic?
I assume he knows about Magic since his little comment to Dabbler, also knowing she’s a succubus in the first place…it’s not far to think he may be either a demon or a human who took a trip down there.
(Now boarding the ferry for the tour of hell! Free random demonic power at the end!
*Warning* Powers come with various side effects.)
…and Dabbler just got a bit of a boost. Doubtless a little lust flew around there.
I would love to think his eyes is just swollen, and not lost forever…but then we might be talking about near Achilles invulnerability there…and that was before the power up.
Nope. Not free. Everybody knows it takes two gold dinar to pay the ferry master.
Only if you want a return ticket
Say that to Orpheus
Said the power was free, never said the ride was! XD
I figure that V could cast some kind of heal/regenerate spell with his current level of power-up, but it would probably be expensive & deplete him. Being on the front line of battle is probably not a good idea to pay that energy cost for the spell right now.
However, to create a new set of pants is probably pretty cheap by comparison & he doesn’t want to distract the ladies from actual battle…”Feed me, Seymour!”
A lack of healing magic may go with the use of power gained only from violence. It makes a good concept at least. The pants may be a specific variant of the standard summon object. With a little extra spent to put them in place automatically.
B probably has more than enough juice to do healing magic, but would violence-based energy be suitable and does he have sufficient skill?
My thought is that there is probably a big BIG differance between manifesting a pair of pants (which he may have done before) and repairing one’s own eyeball (which he may not have had to do before). In a hurry and on the battlefield, no less.
I can see various ways in which hurried first-time amateur field-repair of one’s own eyeball, whilst at an unfamiliar size and facing a bunch of foes, could go very nastily wrong.
Introducing the best sound effect in the history of ever:
“Ka-pants!”
I hate to have my mind go straight to the gutter and turn this into a porn comic, but could sexual interaction relieve him of a good portion of the violent energy he absorbed?
Sexuality isn’t really violent, but it’s not unviolent either. Not counting BDSM offcourse.
On the other hand, sex would power up Dabbler (as she said, had the fight been an orgy, she’d be just as powerfull as Vehemence right now)
Actually the violent portions of BDSM are quite the minority. It is much more about control, the giving up of and acceptance of same. After that it’s mostly role play. And if someone does happen to be really into pain (painslut), massive amounts can be generated without much violence at all.
Peggy just had a shot at a dangling target of opportunity that jut might have been sensitive enough to feel a .50 BMG round at this point
Penis isn’t the sensitive target there.
If you want to hurt someone, go for the balls (it actually hurts just typing this)
Who said the Doc was talking about the sausage?
“go for the balls (it actually hurts just typing this)”
If you’re using your balls to type that, you’re doing it wrong!
…And probably also why it hurts…
Mind you, to be able to type even a small comment with just your sack is pretty impressive. What’s the secret? :P
Years of training
Don’t bother deleting your browser history…I don’t even want to know where you browse to get your incentive to type like that.
Strangely enough, the scrotum actually has one of the highest pain-tolerances of any male bodypart. It’s not so much pain getting hit in the jewels, as a combination of incredibly annoying sensations and a mind-crushing existential emotional pain for future unborn generations.
Considering that you’ve got literally trillions of examples of the next possible generation swimming around there…Well, It makes me think of something quoted from Obi Wan Kenobi:
“It’s like I heard the voices of billions crying out in terror & were suddenly silenced.”
That’s what happens when you masturbate.
Well, we’re not really referring to the “voices” of metachlorians here, are we? Jedi don’t seem to notice *these* voices, in particular.
O.o
Can I refer back to the comment I made on November 18, 2014 at 10:34 am (page 2 of issue #267)?
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Must be a prob with windows cause my tablet pulls it up, but not my pc.
V can conjure up a pair of spandex pants, complete with leg stripe? That’s not really what I was expecting, as far as powers go. I begin to think V is basically a wizard — he draws on violence to fuel him, but can do pretty much whatever he likes with that energy once it is absorbed. He’s currently in god-mode, if that’s the case. He could do pretty much anything.
The last panel has me suspicious. I’m pretty sure that Sydney really is looking for an orb that will help her unsee, but I expect her to find that one of her do-nothing orbs actually does something after all. It was suggested on a prior page that one might absorb Vehemic energy also. It was also suggested that one might be a power-siphon, returning V to his normal state. I think she will discover something much less perfect, but still useful. Maybe one will be an anti-magic orb, so that V can’t actually use any of his power while anywhere near Sydney. It’s about the only way I see this ending in a draw.
TJ I do believe Halo conjured the pants up with one of her orbs… she is holding one wishing it could make her unsee him in Full Monty so it would make sense.
She is holding her Bubble-Ball
I’m curious… do the carpets match the drapes?
Then it’s be a Hardwood floor.
Yes, I went THERE.
+1 for the pun
-100 for poor taste
;)
You tasted his floor? o_O
As a common saying among guys is circulated, “if you can get past the smell, you’ve got it licked.” Since there would have been sweat involved by now, I’d have to say I wouldn’t be able to get past the smell.
What if it comes to you?
Then that means I have to get off the set of a bukkake film.
Considering we didn’t see any pubes from the burst zipper, I’d say yes.
Well at least V didn’t have a hard on going when those pants ripped… just saying since that would have really had Dabbler notice more I’d think.
The more I read this, the more I get the feeling that Vehemence isn’t really that bad of a guy. Just like Dabbler is just naturally inclined to sexuality and imposes that on everyone around her, V does the same with violence. But he really isn’t that malicious, considering these little moments of politeness and how he’s taken a liking to Sydney.
I’ve actually been suspecting for awhile that one way or another he’ll be working with the team someday. I mean he’s definitely going in a cell after this, but I can see them springing him out later as an ace-in-the-hole.
Yeah, he seems surprisingly easygoing for a villain. And he hasn’t really hit anyone who couldn’t take it (except TK guy and even then asked them to make sure he was okay)…
He sure is an interesting character.
I doubt he’s going to a cell though. This powerset seems like the PERFECT chance for a persistent villain that keeps bothering the team, I doubt DaveB is going to just let him get locked up. Also, not counting any unknown powers we haven’t seen yet, there is no way they could beat him.
On the flip side, I also doubt he’s actually here to hurt anyone. Sure he’ll break some noses, maybe a few other bones, but I doubt he’ll go further then that. So far he’s only really attacked the people who he knows (or thinks) can take it. He’s not here to kill anyone, he’s here for a good fight
Even if Dave does get him locked up some how, I don’t think it’ll be long before her gets back out. Dave has specifically said that there’s no such thing as “universal power negators” in the Grrl world. Sure, someone may come up with a way to make a *specific* V-Energy damper, but can they actually make it & install it to his cell before he breaks out? Figure the odds…
Maybe not the first time…
put his cell in one of those Hardcore Buddhist monastery that strain their water to keep from killing a bug?
That is the Jains, a Hindu sect. About half of them are full time nudists.
If he does get locked up by the looks of it he’ll get plenty of congical visits.
Well that certainly was a George Takai “Ohhh Myyyyy!!!!” moment that certainly impressed more then a few members of the team. It certainly seems more and more to me that V is using the situation as a laboratory for testing the limits of his abilities. Also you can only really shine if your up against real competition and considering no one had heard of him prior the reveal of Arc Swat was a dream come true for him.
His head is so tiny.
Why WOULDN’T his head grow in proportion to the rest of his muscle/skeletal structure?
JollyJack Hulking Syndrome?
I was going to say, even if your torso, limbs and the rest of you starts to grow (notice that his torso and arms are indeed slightly disproporitonate to the rest of him. (First time growth spurt)
Head growing is a tricky thing when dealing with size-magic/science.
The short version is this. If you are magically creating more mass-> that means there’s more brain. More muscle is an ease logic train, more bone the same way, more blood vessels, bigger heart (more hearts) all work out.
But brain mass is trickier. Now it’s Possible that a brain could stay the same size and the rest of hte head grow and thicken around it (making the skull much more armored) But then you have the problem of having more nerves more muscles and more body to control with the same amount of neurons.
Now THAT can easily be solved by the spinal column boosting and all of the ‘somatic’ nerves in your back doubling to cover the new muscle mass (probably a reason why most controlled hulking starts with the torso. (beside boosting the heart and spine to handle the upcoming weight boost)
TL;DR: Bigger brain would lead to all kinds of mind fudgery, possiblity of mental trauma as parts of the self are gained and lost in the process.
Gotta love a bad guy that feeds on violence, but still is very proper around the ladies, even the ones he’s trying to beat to a pulp.
H-uh, and now she’s randomly trying her two unknown orbs… Wonder if it turns out one of them is energy canceller/drain. Saaaaad vehemence if so.
I love how he’s sorry about the pants “I’m going to pound you into a pulp but I’m sorry I scarred you for life first”
as the saying goes
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I wanted to make sure I read through all the comments before posting that myself. thanks for saving me the effort.
:)
I pictured Shawn sounding like George Takei.
I think that was intended.
Dave did say, earlier in the comment threads, that it was his intention.
To quote DBZA, “Clothes Beam! That is easily my most fabulous superpower.”
Nice page, I like the various reactions. And good job with the Wotch reference. That was one of the first webcomics I discovered, and I miss it.
Is it just me, or is it just Maxi who is disgusted by a naked Fedorka?
I”m sure Arianna isn’t too pleased. Violence on the news is perfectly marketable.
But flagrant nudity? NOOOOO the RATINGS!!!
Arianna: Welp, we can’t sell THAT footage to the News broadcasts unless we edit it first…Nor can we sell it to any website that doesn’t carry a NSFW flag either. All that lost revenue…Wahhhhh!
Edit it first, and then have it “leeked” to a few porn sites.
“leeked?” Did you just say “leeked?”
Then you deserve this: https://leekspin.com/
The news crews across the street have been broadcasting most of this live. I think it might be time for a producer manning the tape delay button to hit the ‘we interrupt for station identification’ switch.
Even live broadcasts have about a 5 second delay between reception & broadcasting. They have to give *some* reaction time to their on-the-spot censors…
well, the OTHER demonic energy user got powered up, LOL
Deus Ex. . .
What’s the Latin for “exploding pants”?
Closest I could get is:Deus damnat ab inguine virus
English translation: God explodes from groin
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=translation+english+to+latin&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=nts
In layman’s terms “Holy F***!”
That was probably Dabbler’s first thought too…
I got: Deus, qui rejiciuntur, caligas
it means: God from leggings that explode.
Also: Quod a Deo praemium caligas
God from the leggings that explode.
Then “exploding” didn’t have a direct translation as the Present Tense for the action of explode.
I also presumed that larei wanted to keep “deus” in the phrase, so that’s still in there.
“pants” didn’t have any direct result, so I went with the “closest thing” to pants…
Explosivus = The direct translation for exploding as an adjective.
Bracae = Direct translation of the noun pants.
Strangely enough, when I used the words “pants” & “(specifically) “exploding,” the translator gave me *nothing* but a blank space.
Yea… they did seem to just grow with him last time. But the fact that he can create new ones is very worrying – if he can do green lantern style force constructs…
Should have put on some purple pants that morning. Everyone knows purple is more durable.
Notice how often Banner wasn’t wearing purple pants before Hulking out?
See, the purple pants are his underwear.
Now, it’s an entirely different question why Bruce Banner wears purple underwear.
How about he manages to squeeze such BIG underwear into his pants.
The whole spectrum is covered in this response, from wanna rape to go away.
So he makes pants from Vehemic energy. Isn’t that going to have some unusual side effects?
Well they are going to be very violent pants
Looks like five out of six heroes agree. Vehemence is packing allot more than just hulk like strength, and they like what they see.
I mean Harem’s eyes are pooping out of her head, Dabbler is licking her chops(Obviously.), Anvil has “DAME!” written all over her face, Wonder spaz is playing the virgin role, and even a ex navy seal is in on it too(Though being from the navy everyone knows the rumor there so maybe it’s not to be unexpected. At least I’m pretty shore seals are a branch of the navy. Don’t quote me.). As for Max she seems to be looking rather jealous. Maybe she now knows that Vehemence’s is bigger than hers.
He better not get too cocky or she might decide to cut him down to size.
And yes, the seals are part of the navy. Thank you very much for the image of V having homosexual sex with the animal Seals are named after.
The shirt that Shawn was shown wearing before (I dare you to club this SEAL) could carry a whole new level of meaning after this comic page…
Wouldn’t that be bestiality instead of homosexual?
Depending on exact circumstances, I suppose it is possible to have both at once.
If you “club” it hard enough, you can include necrophillia. Let’s keep cubs out of this, OK?
Hrm. I have to wonder if Anvil’s ‘speculative look’ isn’t based less on his “size” and more on his Size. It’s been said that she tends to have issues with her self-image and femininity due to usually towering and out-muscling men (I kinda want to call this Zona syndrome…)- It might be that she’s just enjoying being able to look at a guy who’s taller and all-around larger than she is.
doesn’t Sydney have adhd,and dabbler is like a sugared up kid?
So V’s eye is still missing. I think he can be killed with violence, it just has to be quick and thorough enough. Maxima’s mistake was trying to make him suffer. What they ought to do, if they want to kill him, is rope-a-dope him until he spends all his vehemic energy, then turn him into paste in a single, swift move.
Yea, but to late now though.
In the future though, the way to defeat him would probably to pile on him with all the most powerfull attacks before he has a chance to absorb enough energy
Something that’s been bugging me… So supers are basically prime physical specimens… Maxima, Anvil, Heatwave, Achiles, etc… Sydney is an exception because her powers are external to herself, i.e. they come from a prop, or in her case from multiple props…
so…
What about Harem? Her power is not from any props she uses, it’s innate to her, and she’s not a prime physical specimen any more than Sydney is. Before anyone says that her lack of size and muscles is because she’s not super strong or a melee type super, neither is Heatwave…
If you ever had 5 bisexual and attractive female bodies on you at once, I could consider that a sexy woman.
Most guys are willing to settle for twins, but she can do a pentuplite act!
And had she not grown several bodies she’s be huge. as it stands supposedly her combining bodies at the very least has affects on her remaining bodies’ height & strength as well as increasing her power limits.
Yeah, her size, strength-level & teleport capacity varies according to how many bodies she has actively manifested. More details are in: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/376, Dabbler’s Science Corner #1.