Grrl Power #479 – The Junior Supernatural Detective Squad leaps into action
Well normally comics posted on major holidays have a slow start, but you guys seem to like Clover. She’ll be in a few more pages during this arc, but since I have that disease where I can’t help but introduce characters like a crazy person (can you spot the two new ones on this page?) it dilutes the amount of screen time tertiary characters get.
Speaking of new characters, I won’t go into a lot of detail about them yet. I’ll let you speculate for now. I’ll just say that the gal attached to the book – I got the idea for her when I mis-read the introduction of another character (actually from Wearing the Cape book 5: Ronin Games) So, that ADHD thing when you’re trying to read and your eyes are darting around on the page is good for something I guess.
Be sure to check out Wearing the Cape: Team-Ups & Crossovers. Sydney’s first Crossover! I’ve made a dedicated blog post for the book, please comment there. If you got it already, there’s an updated Kindle version that fixes some weird text formatting stuff in Sydney’s chapter that was showing up on some readers, plus a minor edit for clarification. Also, the paperback is available now as well, at the same link as above.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. $1 and up, but feel free to contribute as much as you like :)
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I feel like we need to have an intervention to address Dave’s problem of adding more and more characters.
Indeed.
Unless they turn out to be patreon cameos, in which case we should applaud them.
No, no intervetion, just clone David so he can write several spin-offs at the same time!
No, cloning DaveB would only make things worse, because the clones would also start introducing new characters.
What we need to do is get a complete brain map, and then pull those parts responsible for the motor skills, but not the story line, and inlay them onto an android simulacrum. Then the original DaveB can script the story, and hand out art work assignments to the bots. This is also expandable, so every 3-4 months we can spin up a new bot to handle the new story line created by all the characters he’s added that quarter.
And Clover just found the “chip” we can use to power this set of cyber-Daves!
Huzzah!
Upgrade! Upgrade!
Dave.exe has stopped working
Aw hell, they’ve Unionized.
*pulls up the diagnostics* Nope. That’s not it. What idjit loaded the cyber-Dave with VISTA?!
GOD DAMMIT! They downloaded Norton anit-virus software as well. We have clean out the whole system now.
Best to leave it running, Anybody can get nits, and you really do not want to incorporate them into the cloning and mental repurposing procedure. We would not want clone Daves behaving like a nit!
https://xkcd.com/528/
Who upgraded David to windows ten?
QUICK! Restore it to the previous version before it’s too late!!
Yeah, lets just use the magic “chip” originally designed for Murderquins. Should end well.
https://youtu.be/ARJ8cAGm6JE?t=59
I suppose there’s no need to put him through that sort of HAL.
Nope. I like having lots of characters. Makes if feel more like a real world, where you know there a 7.4 Billion people.
Is this book dragging her around?
The book is clearly sentient and had a good roll on its “find familiar” spell. The chain is just because the grimoire tends to concentrate on higher planes, most of the time, so would drift off, without the tether.
Agreed, wouldn’t want it floating around, looking for trouble…
Higher planes? I hope air traffic control has been notified.
No need. Chained. And air traffic control does not need to be notified of ground-based plane spotting. Let alone the underground variety.
Yup, she is on rollers.
I think the debate will be rather short. As the onomatopoeia accompanies seeing the thingy rather than getting it, and there is a small reflection-flare thing in the same frame, it should be “gleam”.
Well the debate has already had ten participants (not including yourself) and has spilled over into the second comments page. So is not that short.
This might be a good opportunity to find out if one of the unknown balls can heal others.
The problem that it has to occur to somebody first, and things are moving pretty fast in comic time…..
should be Junior Supernatural Detective Force for bonus confusion with Japan’s military.
DaveB, please get a grip on your impulse to introduce new characters. I’ve seen this before. If you leave it unchecked it will destroy any semblence of a coherent narrative. Try to think of whether you really need cool new characters for the story you’re trying to tell, or if you’re putting them in because “hey, that’s a cool idea for a character, let me put them in here somewhere.”
As someone who enjoys your comic, I’m just trying to get this in as an early warning. I’ve seen other comics and other sorts of stories get wrecked by this before, and end up abandoned incomplete, or tangling into unintelligible nonesense. I don’t want that to happen here, so I’m spreading the warning. Hopefully you already know what you’re doing and this isn’t necessary. but I had to say it just to be sure.
I agree. More characters will hurt the story and we still need to introduce the villains of the stories. More characters means more problems.
If this gets out of hand the end result of this trend could be a cataclysmic catastrophe similar to what happened in other mainstream comics where almost everyone in the universe is wiped out and the character pool drops down to the core set of fan-favorite individuals.
Of course in those other publications it took DECADES for the population growth to get out of hand.
Grrl Power is not that far off its first decade.
Actually, the timeline of the story so far only covers a couple of weeks (not counted the beginning pages, which establishes the current arc as a flashback). Even though DaveB has defined the comic as “real world, plus super powers,” he’s still early enough that the “super powers narrative” still needs to be established.
Just in this Council Chamber alone, DaveB has established how vampirism works (& how it differs from “commonly-known lore”), how lineage for weres gets passed down & how it can also be transfused into normal people, how magic manifests when used, etc. That’s a lot of background & historical material that DaveB is just hitting the major points & moving onto another point…In the span a few pages.
The biggest problem I see here is the pacing on the update schedule; it’s not like we’re picking up a book & reading it from front to back…No, we’re stuck with a whole whopping two pages per week. Reading through the archives (which skips those days of delay), the pacing of the actual story line & action sequences is petty good.
I will still be presenting a virtual birthday cake, on the comic’s tenth birthday, on the 23rd August 2020.
[engage French accent]
I blow a raspberry, in your general direction.
I assure you that Clover’s mom was NOT a Hamster, and I’m ALMOST certain that Gregor doesn’t smell like elderberries… though, there is the stereotypical implication that being a Russian might mean that he has a tendency to heavy drinking… ya’ knooowww… and Wine IS an alcoholic beverage… :D
“there is the stereotypical implication that being a Russian”
You are saying it was a threesome? Neat.
Woopsie!! i forgot that it was “I’m-Not-A-Russian!” Ingsol and not Gregor… Sorry for the confusion… darnn… now it doesn’t make sense any more.. bleh… ofw…
*Stuffs scantronb into a 55 gallon drum and seals the lid.* Don’t worry you will get fed through the bung.
that’s illegal… i’m OVER 18… you can’t do that to me anymore!!
“Actually, the timeline of the story so far only covers a couple of weeks “
More like three days.
Yeah, most people forget about how the pacing really is if you read the archive (or in the much anticipated physical book)
Most of the characters are situational, so I don’t expect to see most of them outside the council meeting….
Yea, barring the Vi’s, such as Clover. So there is no harm in introducing a fun new character concept, if they then become a background character, after that. Mind you Dave does have a need for a Vi team. Clover is one, and others may be drawn from delegates we have met.
Or they may all be career diplomats, in which case the rest of the Vi’s may not have been participating in the meeting, but would have been summoned to carry out the investigation which the Council has ordered. Or (more likely) to report in on what they have uncovered so far.
That aside, there is a benefit to having a cast which is too large for the readership to track properly. It gives enough potential suspects, that Dave can conceal the murderer, in plain sight, without us necessarily being able to put all the clues together before the protagonist makes her reveal.
In case you are wondering why that example, it is a technique which Agatha Christie used. Scientific analysis has shown that an average reader can keep track of a (surprisingly consistent) maximum number of characters, before starting to have difficulty keeping track of them all. Agatha Christie’s novels invariably have more than this number. But not hugely more.
So it her technique is subtly clever. Make sure that most readers will loose track of the killer,* but do not overdo it to the point that they are aware of it and become frustrated. Give them the illusion that they know all the key elements, whilst blurring their memory of the real killer.
* Because she introduces them early, and does not refer to them overly much later, so they are amongst the ones which are forgotten about, as new characters are met.
Career bureaucrats. Who else would have an argument in the middle of battle to decide what they should do?
Most ‘modern’ murder shows blatantly lie about who the killer is and deliberately give false leads
OR, rely on the audience NOT being given the “One Vital Clue” ON Camera, and only the protagonist see’s it, or more than likely, they derive it from OTHER stuff that WE have no clue about either… and it just gets put out as a fait accompli and we’re left hanging in the wind as to HOW he figured it out.
i don’t really mind the false leads/red herrings unless it gets excessive, if they are done well, then cool, it was a plot twist i wasn’t expecting. but more often in today’s entertainment media, it happens over and over again, explicitly for the sake of making the show/series last longer… bleh…
Yeah, that was the other problem
Personally don’t feel it’s done to make the show last longer, but more the producers attempting to ‘outsmart’ the viewers, when what they really need do is get better writers
DaveB, please add as many new characters as you see fit.
Yeah, it’s kind of fun, actually.
It does seem like dear David realy likes doing it. A good enough reason for me.
+1
And I love new character concepts. So all is good, as far as I am concerned.
Concretia may have gone back to her day job, as a kindergarten teacher, and we may never see her again. But she was an interesting character, in her one night as a ‘villain’. The story has been enhanced, as a result, but with no more long-term complexity than may be desired.
Yup, it’s always preferable (POO) to having one-off characters (who may become popular enough to bring back later, cip Harley Quinn or even Cree in Yorp‘s example) then to re-use the same character(s) over and over simply because the writer can’t come up with an interesting one-off character (you see it in TV all the time with dream sequences: instead of hiring some for one episode, they re-use the same cast)
He added a werebunny, so… I think the web comic leveled up. Maybe fifty times?
Haha, shit, I didn’t realize that the golem stabbed her, last page, until I looked at her shirt this page and wondered where all the ketchup had come from. That’s some next-level no sell.
Yea, a bunch of us missed that. If you re-read the previous page, knowing that, it makes a lot more sense.
And a few of us attempted to correct that over sight, but some people never bother to read
Words are hard, okay!?
But communication is even harder without them…
;)
*Waves semaphore flags to signal “TRY THIS SOMETIME”*
I think you can find that here
Who is that beauty with the silver hair with the HUGE book?
Quarto. Her smaller sister is Octavo.
Their names are music to my ears.
Thank you Yorp! That had me literally* roaring with laughter**
*yes, properly literal meaning of literally, not figurative
** yes, I like books, but I prefer book production
I’m having LaTeX header flashbacks here.
i dunno’… the size of that book… i think her last name might be Gigas, first name Codex…
Lovin’ the were-badger.
Welcome to the club :)
Were-DIRE-Badger. She IS her father’s daughter
Were-dire-HONEY Badger.
GIANT dire were honey badger.
Giant dire were honey badger vampire. She has been hanging out with Ingsol.
I guess we can now fill in the ‘fog of war’ picture of what was behind door number two.
What, where is the goat? Did Gwen win the car?
It’s been a lot harder to sort out this kind of thing since Bob Barker retired.
:-/
Wrong game show. Door #2 and a possible Goat is ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ with Monty Hall. It was brought back with Wane Brady as the host but they got rid of the Monty Hall Paradox choice.
Anyone see how wide Pixel’s eyes are when she saw that..thing?
Not much different to how she looked in panel everyothertimeshehasappeared
Yes she does have anime eyes, but I do think that they are slightly larger, in the final panel, when compared to the sixth panel. Accountable for by her eyebrows being raised, when seeing the ‘chip/glyph’ being embedded into the stone wall, in front of her. This, in turn, slightly raises her eyelids, making the eyes that bit bigger.
Importantly it is conveying her surprise. At what, and to what degree, is open for speculation. But I certainly would be surprised by the ‘chip in the stone’,* so, personally, I would not try to read anything more into her expression until we see her reaction once she has recovered from being startled like this.
* If Pixel can draw it from the stone, she may be destined to be the next president of the Twilight Bank!
Could just be an illusion because she is looking down it’s showing more of the whites of her eyes (DON’T SHOOT! SHE’S ON OUR SIDE!!)
She is in fact a were-tarsius
Could explain why she doesn’t like wearing shoes
And likes to hang around in trees creepily staring at people. It has totaly happened in the comic. I am totaly trustworthy.
I think that is a piece of the Veil. The symbol looks like a glottal stop.
So, destroy the manikins and you destroy the Veil? Cunning.
• Save the Twilight Council, from surprise attack. “Yay, well done!”
• Destroy the Veil. “Ahh, sorry about this. That crime carries a mandatory death sentence. Fetch the impaling spikes!”
I was thinking more along the lines of borrowed magic. The more you fight the puppets the weaker the veil gets.
Oh I agreed with the implications of that, and well thought through it was too. I was just going three steps ahead..
The pennant in panel 6 is new. I am trying to decipher which group it refers to.
The side image may be a portal.
https://www.desktopimages.org/preview/get_photo/490059/1280/1024
Hmm… from her panting, it sounds like Sydney has once again forgotten that her shield blocks off her fresh air supply.
No, she’s just hyperventilating because she’s so excited.
Or both, could be both
Dave has now confirmed that it is just hyperventilating from her nerdgasm. We can now all breathe easy.
Unless she goes plaid… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVqygvinzw
Ludicrous breathing, NOW!
But she can’t
Somebody speculumed about seeing a flying chip last panel, well spotted that person
Speculumed? You know what a speculum is for, don’t you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum_(medical)
Which…um, orfice…is getting speculumed there?
O.o
Or did you mean “speculated?”
;-)
Knowing Guesticus, simply making a funny ;)
Yes
Yay!
[Kosh] … YES… [/Kosh]
It’s good to keep a speculumed mind about such things.
But plugs have their uses too.
You have to be able to recharge your toys somehow.
An also it being the core:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2335/comment-page-1#comment-483932
Pixel finally took that toothpick out of her mouth
Looks like Sydney’s bubble doesn’t go through walls as well as floors (was wondering what that ‘extra curved line’ was in the last panel)
Not necessarily. If it is laying flat against the floor and wall, as I speculate, then it would look just the same.
There are two curves against the wall though, the tall one is obviously the top, but the only explanation (other than artistic error) for the lower curve (just behind her shoulder) is that it, like the base, doesn’t go through the stones of the wall
That’s a feature, not a bug. We wouldn’t want to accidentally tear out any structural members…
“Pant Pant Pant”
Sidney, remember… Your shield is air-tight.
I can’t help but think that a lot of Sydney’s spazzing out at everything could have been avoided for the most part if they sat her down and briefed her about what she was going to be involved in, instead of just dragging her into it the way they did.
True. By the time they arrived, the Twilight Council would have lost most of the more interesting members to the surprise attack, and there would be far less for her to be over-excited about.
The meeting’s start time would be determined by the Twilight Council, not Archon. Sydney was too exhausted for any briefing to be productive prior to them setting out. And once they were flying, with Halo carrying the passengers, it would not be a good time for her to loose concentration!
Besides which Sydney has already been told ‘werewolves are real, as are other types of lycanthropes’ and has seen them. yet still has been surprised by this particular one. Had she been briefed, they could not have provided her with more information than she has already had. So I do not think it would have made much difference.
Sydney is not a good abstract (/book) learner. The team will be aware of this, by now (for example Sydney’s comment that “at least this manual has pictures”). So they know she will learn things a lot quicker by seeing them, first hand, than being told about them.
In essence Ingsol (and the others Sydney met) were assigned to do her briefing, on the supernatural. Which they did pretty comprehensively.
I still think Sidney is being portrayed as having less maturity than an 8 year old.
Not really, she just has an ADHD induced short attention span combined with a very active imagination….
That is a valid point. Whilst she is not asphyxiating yet (as confirmed by Dave, on the previous page of comments), the fight may still carry on for some time. So she should conserve her air, rather than give in to her emotions, like that.
Hopefully Katrina’s comment will snap her focus back to dealing with ‘the big one’ and rendering what assistance she can to Katrina. If nothing else Halo can position herself between it and Katrina, so that anybody with medial skill can provide first aid. If Kat shows any symptoms that indicate her life may be in danger, and the first aider cannot help, then there is no harm in trying the mystery orbs.
If Kat is going to die anyhow, the unknown orbs are unlikely to make things worse.
Unless one animates corpses into evil lich lords and the other opens a gate to the underworld, allowing the denizens of Hell to escape. Or other such trivial possibilities.
WEEELLLL… um, ya’ know… there WAS “A Mighty Burning” ALREADY… it COULD have been the one that wazzizname told Dabbler about before he finally got fed up and went to the urologist… so i doubt that one of Halo’s unknown orbs would open THAT gate…
I’m actually trying to decide whether she’s running out of air or just hyperventilating in excitement over the were-dire-honeybadger
The latter. Canonically.
Ahh just saw your other comment. I thought that might be it as she hadn’t been in the shield for very long…i think from the time the grenade burst through the door to now has been less than a minute, maybe two minutes max?
Reminds me of D&D type RPG’s, we’ll be having this epic battle that takes an hour and then the GM reminds us that it’s only been about 30 seconds in game time
three words, PARKING LOT BATTLE
Four words.
8 minutes, 4 people.
That means she has, at least, 24 person minutes of air in the bubble. It’s been less than a minute real time that she has been in this bubble.
Also DFW to the Grand Canyon, even at Mach 4 takes a non trivial amount of time.
Lots of words: now she has like an eighth of the air volume than then.
That was eight minutes until it ‘got a bit whiffy’. I suspect that their air-monitoring alarm was set to give VERY generous warnings. That volume of air should keep four humans and a demon going for a LOT longer than that!
Brought that up to point out “Comic” timescale vs “RL” Timescale. I think like…30 minutes IB took the better part of a year in pages. ;)
Do not fart while riding in the bubble!
Eeew! True, but… stinky!
The floating chained book actually made me think of Warhammer (RIP WAR :()
i make of it probably something you probably don’t want embedded into anything… like lets say a stone wall
Agreed.
Perhaps now that it is there the wall will birth a stone mannequin?
Traditionally known as a caryatid column.
You know the reason those guardians are so hard on the adventurers, right? The first thing anyone in the group says upon seeing the entrance is, ”Whoa, wouldja check out those DOORKNOCKERS?!”
Am I the only one (other than sydney) who dislikes Pixel at first sight?
I don’t know whats causing it, i mean shes had like a grand total of 4 lines.
I generally dislike the ‘cute anime’ look. Sydney being one of very few exceptions. If you are the same as me, in that regard, then that can account for it, on its own.
If it is not that, you could examine your opinions on key aspects about her, to see if any trigger a response. Things that stand out: Bright hair, young age (for such a responsible role), does not like Sydney (unsurprisingly), um… biker jacket?
If not, then perhaps your final comment give the answer. You have some disquiet about her, until you have learnt more. This could be a subconscious empathy with Sydney. After all Sydney had a long-term fear of being ‘whisked away’ to a laboratory to be examined, along with her orbs. And Pixel’s job is to do precisely that.
Dave does give us foreshadowing of things, and you may have picked up on something ominous, about that, instinctively.
I think its the Sydney empathy. I don’t like Pixel because Sydney does not like Pixel.
Wait, where does Sydney not like Pixelicious? o_O
Check here.
Oh right, guess must have been blocking that memory, it’s good that some people are still liking Sydney then
Yeah, that’s probably it.
I hate to be a spoilsport, and am very much flattered, going by the axiom ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’. But I did receive Dave’s permission to use his art, for my avatar, and created this distinctive version, so that it would uniquely identify my avatar/gravatar. Both in this forum and elsewhere in the internet.
As such, I would very much appreciate if you could avoid using it yourself, as it can easily create confusion. Especially given that I do occasionally post under a different name, confident that readers will figure out that it is just me making a joke (rather than a new commentator) as they will recognise me by the unique image.
Not to mention the fact that I have real problems with names, so very often identify comentators by their pictures. And likewise pick out my own comments, the same way. So several times now I have gone “when did I say that, I don’t remember typing that comment”. If it is confusing me, then it is likely to confuse other people too.
So my avatar name and image, be it separately or in conjunction, with each other, are an integral part of my online identity.
I would hope that this does no make you feel bad, or put you off commentating. Interesting comments are always welcome. Finally, on the plus side, I can be very controversial, at times. You will probably find that you would not want to be confused with me, on such occassions!
The gang is all here in the room and Sydney has the chief bad guy all trussed up. Is this the part where she pulls the mask off his head and we find out who he is?
Yoink!
Ingsol: “It’s old man Wilkins, the janitor for the council hall. Why did you do it?”
Wilkins: “Have you any idea what it is like to clean the bathrooms in this place after you creatures are done with them? And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for this middling level super-hero kid.”
How did you glean that he wanted his bathrooms to gleam, because they were so clean, and that was what made him so mean?
If and only if you don’t include Max as part of “the gang”. She’s still digging out of the tunnel. And probably making that poor raccoon have more issues.
“old man Wilkins, the janitor”, mmm, that rings a bell…
Middling? She’s an apex herione in training, I’ll have you know, Mr. Wilkins!
A restorative golem core / reconstructive central processor, been awhile since I seen one of those. Not sure I’ve ever seen a hybrid version before. Usually its either *we must destroy the glowing core inside its body or else it will continue to constitute a new body, or…the exact same thing with high tech machines. Never seen a magical golem built around a high tech core *that I know of off the top of my head*.
Especially a high tech core that is made from a magic sword (see various threads below).
And during the fight, the rest of the council have all been sitting there/making themselves scarce? I guess they have a solid appreciation of their value to supernatural society and the tragic loss if they were killed. :)
that or they’re just wusses.
I’ll take door #2 there.
Or they just rolled very low for initiative…
They talking about forming a committee to decide whether to form a committee to decide on whether or not to do something….
and the committee will ratify said Plan, at the NEXT Counsel Meeting. for said action plan to take effect after said ratification (by a Quorum of constituent members, of course)… and Sydney wonders WHY it’s taken 90+ YEARS to get Supers added to the Sigils??
When might we learn about Sydney’s other 2 unknown magic balls?
At the exact moment it becomes plot-critical.
Maybe now, if Kat is to be saved. Assuming the paralytic poison starts to affect her heart and lungs, and no other healers are present. Saving a life is a suitably dramatic plot moment. Even more so as it is the life of someone who is a member of a key allied organisation. And at a time when they were not pleased with members of Archon having been given the right to be here.
Alternatively, if Kat is only being inconvenienced, by not being able to move, then it is likely to be geared as a major part of another story arc. I doubt it will be uncovered by mundane testing, as that would be rather an anti-climax.
The second mystery orb is unlikely to be figured out for quite a long time. Maybe not until after we find out why Sydney was being so suspiciously evasive when telling her origin story.
Book Girl and Westley Crusher?
“Shut up, Wesley!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afhMMcAHlKw
Loved the way the bleeping went.
And that is the way to deal with the troublesome man-child!
*wags tail with great satisfaction*
Aaaannnnnd, there’s also this example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAwVWLgbUcg
Mmm, their style of beeping misses the mark quite a bit. The traditional beep, for the longer words works fine. But the short ones, in musical tones, loose the impression of censorship and it just becomes an odd part of the music.
Clover needs na arc later. … or her own spin-off comic.
*an
You are not alone in that suggestion. I suspect it would be popular. If we can work the kinks out of the Dave cloning programme.
The NSA is demanding we program an appropriate backdoor into the operating system.
Guys, guys… look at that ‘chip’. That isn’t a ‘golem core’ or whatever.
That is a fragment of a sword.
Beveled edges, sharp enough to stick in stone. Rune on it, ‘blood grooves’. That’s a sword chunk, that is.
And that’s why they have a stab mark on the forehead?
So, somebody able to search for objects psionically*, needs to look for a matching hilt. Because whoever has that is probably the puppeteer and evil mastermind!
* Mages could use crystal balls or divination spells, but only at risk of another mana-vortex and explosion.
So it is thaumaturgy?
ESPurgy.
To me at leat that looks like a glyph etched in some form of metal, say most likely Silver, titanium, or something of that type. Etching a glyph into metal sometimes takes things like acid to etch the character into the metal and different glyphs have different meaning/effects depending on what your goal is for the glyph to do. Um, I only know this because I write a few things dealing with magic of that sort and well, when you write things you should actually have some knowledge dealing with your content.
It’s not a chip. It’s a fragment of a sword.
A chip of a sword?
Clearly it is a +3 Swordfish, +6 Vs Chips.
I suspect that this is from the weapon used to damage the Sigil!
This represents one time when fish-n-chips don’t go well together…
Finally someone mentions it!
I went back to check when the dire wolf thing was mentioned.
I didn’t realize we had been with the Twilight Council since July.
We have been with the Twilight Council, in one incarnation or another, for three thousand years!
Well good, They noticed it too.
That chip is barely visible in the last panel of the previous page. I have no idea if that was there the whole time, or Dave added that in to fit with this page. Either way, well done, Dave, for a tiny continuity artwork detail. Have a cookie.
No, it was always there on the last page, but difficult to see (although someone did spot it but few others did even when pointed out)
Look closely. That’s not a ‘chip’, that’s a sword fragment.
Are you sure it is not a small moon fragment?
can someone explain to me how use tags to link, I tried to contribute to a previous page, but it didn’t work.
It shows you below the comment box, but it’s [a href=”urlhere”]title[/a] (replace the square brackets with the lesser and greater signs)
like this?
Exactly like that :D
By Jove, I think he’s got it!
Guessing by Kat’s comment, that she is not on the A-Team like Sydney (always figured Sydney was bigger than an A, at least compared to Kat a couple pages back, when a lot of readers still thought she was a he)
A few. Most of those, who made their ‘identify gender’ roll, will not have felt the need to join in that thread.
Actually, wasn’t the gender confusion about Clover, rather than Kat? I am assuming our shared name-swapping syndrome is at play here.
Can anyone make out what is on the back of Clover’s jacket?
It isn’t something along the lines of “If you can read this, you are way to close!”, is it?
It do looks like something, a hint of a banner across the top, maybe a logo at the centar, and kinda some Japanase style characters at the bottom, but there was nothing there last page o_O
So, you think that the poison is actually making her (and her jacket) transform? Maybe into a manga centaur?
Hmmm…that’s not any rune or glyph that I recognize on that chip.
Iwonder…
If it’s “who wrote the book of love”, then we wonder the same thing. =OP
Contra
Fullers.
They have nothing to do with blood. At all. They save weight and prevent flexing. Think of a pipe or I-beam for a similar structure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_(weapon)
Guys guys guys guys guys guys
thats a section from a SWORD!
which means its made from an enchanted sword, which means something bad and probably an evil wizard and a brave knight trapped in a sword which gives them sentience and if the manikens get defeated the sword reforms and vorps away or something.
Swords are more known for poking, rather than fleeing.
Am I the only one who sees a section of a sword like. <==[=]=)}~•
That’s how it looks to me too… so, is it an evil magical sword occupying multiple bodies?
*points up at his comments*
So, do you think Pixel will be able to draw the sword from the stone?
Or is she artistically challenged?
Halo, drop your damn bubble. Breathe -_-
Dave has confirmed (on page 1 of the comments) that she is just geeking out, over Clover, at the moment.
Which is a relief, as the fight has barely started, so she should not be otherwise having any breathing difficulty, due to stale air, for ages yet.
I always thought that the air in there would last for so long that it would only be an issue in events like huge drawn out battles, if she really started exercising in there for some odd reason, or if she got stuck in something like a huge rock slide and had to keep the shield up until someone discovered her and dug her out.
For an airtight shield it has weird default behaviors. Like right now it seems to have lost more height than it gained in width meaning either her air has been suddenly compressed or it has been expelled to maintain the old pressure. So either she’s in danger of pressure related problems the next time she stands up, she just lost significant air supply, or both…
Or we just go with what these guys say and only have to worry about this contrived “weakness” when she is on long flights, in space, or trapped.
https://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-long-could-you-survive-coffin-if-you-were-buried-alive
Her shield usually starts out bigger than a coffin. Sometimes a lot bigger.
Though I admit I was kind of looking forward to how Sydney and her teams tech guys get around some of these issues. I thought a “weakness” like that would help get her superiors thinking towards OKing the development of some sort of armored suit to shore up the “weakness” in the shield and also allow her to consider dropping it during some fights to use another orb for fancy tactics. If it worked out that she could keep the shield up at all times (and just had panic attacks and nerdgasmic hyperventilation those other times it seemed she was low on oxygen) then the money pinchers would just insist she do that and count on her team for the rest instead of spending tons on a fancy suit.
So I’m kind of divided. Running out of air in what seems waay too short a time seems silly BUT cool power armor… (tough call)