Grrl Power #455 – Pre-position
Now we’re starting to get to some of that plot stuff I keep hearing about. Really the explanation Ingsol is about to drop should be fairly self evident, given what all you guys know about the things Sydney has seen, like at the club (and even some of the things she’s missed, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself.
It’s weird in a lot of shows I’ve seen that the supernatural elements get by on nothing more than simply not getting caught. A lot things can mess with their victims’ memories, but that would be an increasingly unreliable method of escaping detection in an age of camera proliferation, be they cell phones, traffic or dash cams. Yes, sometimes creatures futz with electronics too, causing brown outs or having mini EMP auras or whatever, but an agency motivated to catch such creatures could pretty easily track those sorts of disruptions. In other words, their primary means of escaping detection would actually become a liability when facing a properly equipped foe.
The Veil is a more comprehensive solution, but it’s hardly something some Clurichaun hiding in your cellar or a Leshi hiding in the woods could ever enact, (yeah, I can google obscure mythological creatures) much less the Bunnicula in your pen.
I’ve updated the vote incentive with some art I was practicing with. I’ve tried several methods to color the comic. The basic one is just pick colors from the palette and color away. Effective but not super efficient. Lately I’ve been putting in flat colors, then doing a multiply layer for shadows and an add layer for highlights. Slightly more efficient but the colors tend to look a little samey since everything is tinted similarly. I’ve gotten around that by going back in and adjusting the hues of the multiply later in certain areas, especially skin tones, but that doesn’t help with the efficiency. This latest version involves painting in all the tone values in black and white, then slopping some color overtop of it, mostly in a soft light layer. This is my first attempt with the technique and I think it came out ok, I’ll have to do a few more tries with it to see if it’s a practical choice for the comic, but if for no other reason, I like it because it’s really easy to do stuff like add a little red to noses and blush on cheeks without losing the tonal values. Granted the eyeshadow on Harem (that’s supposed to be punk Harem with a different haircut – I followed my reference picture a little too closely) makes it look like she’s been rubbing her eyes or something, but like I said it’s literally my first attempt with the technique. More to come hopefully.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon as soon as I get up. $1 and up, but feel free to contribute as much as you like :)
Here’s the link to the new comments highlighter for chrome, and the GitHub link which you can use to install on FireFox via Greasemonkey.
So we have a mystical mantel keeping all sorts of supernaturals (and aliens) from being noticed, and at the same time superheroes are in the public eye.
Uh… Either the cloth is torn, will tear, or… they’re been preparing for it coming down with an early release of less alarming information to ease public awareness into the rest.
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That’s easy for you to say (now if it were only just as easy for me to understand…).
What’s with the weirdness all over Yorp’s post? I thought it was my screen for a second, but it’s not.
It’s a ‘Zalgo’ meme thing. It uses mutilation of superscript and subscript, as well as some other stuff.
Best not to think on it too long.
If you do…
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I have no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe you should consult your local ophthalmologist.
A ‘don’t notice me’ field can have its disadvantages. Suppose you are a were-weasel going to your job as a corporate lawyer. You step into a crosswalk and a bus comes down the street, The bus driver thinks ‘nothing there’ and proceeds to run you over. It had better be something like a ‘I am here, but only have one head and definitely no tentacles’ field.
I vote he gets given the former version. Save the premium one for the pro-bono lawyers.
Just so long as they are in favour of juicy bones being distributed, rather than being locked away in underground vaults!
This is why the communist unspeakable hell beasts should get the best version of the field – sure, they want to suck your soul out through your ears, sure, but they’re in favour of distributing juicy bones from those with the greatest means to those with the greatest need.
Personally am pro having Bono locked away in several underground vaults! :P
It’s probably less of an invisibility thing more like a wide range illusion making people see them as human or something else normal
The veil is held by a mystical man inside a magical hat. And guarded by a mysterious rabbit that pops out. Once in a year, or in a mystical convergence of people around machines that dispense money if you are lucky, these creatures gather to pierce the veil with swords.
It’s not the man & the hat you should worry about…”Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” should be of more concern.
;)
*drags over a complete ‘percy jackson verse’ book collection.*
Ignorance is bliss for mere mortals. They get worked up enough about superpowers so I don’t want to know how they’d react about this.
The Veil the interface between our world and a wider world we cannot see. Most of us anyway. They are there, they are solid and they don’t live here. They have the capacity to move between them. Some feed on us, our blood, our emotions…things we can’t guess. Supposedly there is a mountain in Massachusetts where every 20 years you can have access to some diminutive beings who like to party near the summit. However if you stay there too long you will vanish with them for another 20 years. I believe the next point is 2022 our time. But I cannot recall which mountain it is.
ian it is.
That is what happens when you eat faerie food. If you are lucky.
Or go to dragoncon. At least there if you stay too long, you eventually get home lol
As i slowly reckovering from eating to much at the food market that are in town this week (kangroo burger, germen bratvurst, and weird polish food dam good but weird)
I rememberd i forgot too say i love the new art it look more alive and fresh.
remember boys and girls dont eat too mutch.
Words from the Wise: Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
;)
Unless you can either chop it up into smaller pieces, or are a were-snake.
Tomorow i wish i was a wearsnake cause im going back to the food market to eat like a wear-pig again.
Recent pages have shown us that both faeries and anthropomorphic animals exist in this universe. Does that mean that both the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny are real? Santa is very old and only makes his rounds at night, so if he is real he might also be a vampire.
They are all real, we do not need a comic to prove that.
:-P
*updates letter to Santa, to include “Plushy Halo”*
Actually, he’s a member of the Unseelie Court. Just ask Harry Dresden. -_^
Hey, it doesn’t look like anyone else has noticed that the flag with the arrows on it actually has the Konami code on it. Neat little easter egg.
only one or three people on every page of comments for every comic page it exists.
A side effect of the veil is it makes comments on the Konami code disappear until you have made one yourself
Bleed from the Veil, I betcha. You don’t notice it until there’s a page on the comments section that hasn’t yet actually mentioned that particular flag. :D
But just think how many people have commented on that relatively obscure feature. And how many are new names. Plus the fact that the vast majority of readers will be silent observers. Then throw in how Dave can crash comic websites, just by recommending them (and bear in mind he usually gives them advance warning, so they can upgrade their capacity).
This comic is getting a really big audience!
*looks around nervously*
I hope that does not include any dog-catchers?
*exits, stage left*
I’m only silent when I’m letting the archive build up. I keep waiting for the huge amount of testing that is sure to happen but it just keeps getting put off. I love elaborate powers testing…. (of the sort Diane Castle writes)
Careful, Mr. Ingsol (or is it Lord Ingsol? No offense intended, I assure you)–TVTropes will ruin your UNlife too! ^___^
Beware the hell that is TVTropes. It is a pointless time-sink, which, unlike Wiki trawling, does not even teach you anything new and interesting.
Plus it can ruin all your entertainment. Your enjoyment of the story will be spoilt by placing every aspect into one trope or another, and thereby failing to get any enjoyment from it, beyond inane critique.
Motion seconded and carried. This resolution is now binding as a matter of record. Henceforth TVTropes shall be considered moot.
Oooo. Sidney missed a good one… by grabbing the ‘BLUE pill’ – too bad blue is flight and not yellow. ;p
When he says “the Weil,” does he mean the Sidney Weil?