Grrl Power #483 – Bloody teamwork
The bloody handprints on the face of the mannekillers was probably a solid clue, but this just confirms it. Pixel recognized the rune on the sword piece, and knows there’s a handful of things you can make using that rune, plus the coloring of the wedge and all that. She was just trying to see if she could get Iza(nagi) to cut himself on it. Which might not have been the most mature thing to do, cause who knows what will happen when the shard gets charged with blood?
Edit: Fixed the wrong handed blood splat, Iza’s tie switching left over right-edness, and colored the inks.
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Are you TRYING to encourage Xuriel???
If Dabbles needs encouragement, then there is something seriously wrong with her! Quick, stand aside, she needs serious one-on-one medical attention!!
One-on-one?
Nope, Dabbles would need a full Emergency Team. Better even the full hospital. Ideally including several supers.
The kind of stabbing Dabbler likes doesn’t include the making of a new entry-wound…
Dabbler doesn’t really mess with blood. She’s always been more interested in… other bodily fluids.
PRECIOUS bodily fluids.
Well, there is that time that happens about once a month for most women that gets a little bloody, but Dabbler probably has a way of dealing with that. And I don’t mean Diva-cup.
Given she is (half?)Succubus, her physiology is likely optimized on all sexual and reproductive fronts. I’m thinking no menstrual period, capable of starting and stopping ovulation at will, etc…
No Menstrual Period? That means she can’t have a baby Dabble running around :(
No the idea the guy above you has is that she can control it so it’ll only be mini dabler if she wants to.
Yup, life drinking was one of my favorite attributes to give to weapons. I wonder if it empowers the golem, a weapon, or a third party?
Don’t let them cut you… Like they did with Kat?
Cat was injected. Slightly different.
It punctured the skin, which would draw blood. I don’t see any real difference given that the shard of the sword was inside the manikin and not a part of the spike or the syringes. Plus “Whatever you do, don’t let them cut you!” is fairly redundant advice to give to people fighting magic manikins which came equipped with grenade launchers, magic spikes, lethal injectors, and sundry other deadliness. “Whatever you do, don’t let them kill you!” would be just as useful advice, given the scenario underway.
It might have been useful advise for Clover
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2335
I’m not sure if this is sarcasm or not. Honey Badger was pierced, and blood was drawn, see the blood on the tips of the syringes in panel 7 for confirmation.
Wikipedia states:
Which is diametrically opposed to allowing yourself to be punctured by poison syringes. To be true to type, Clover should not have exhibited sloth-like characteristics, she should instead have been an active aggressor who could either prevent poisoning via an overwhelming attack, or deflect it via a thick skin.
Letting herself be poisoned before attacking, that’s just not in character with her ur-beast.
Pretty sure Honey Badgers are also just super resistant to poisons. That’s why she stood there taking the poison claw like a champ.
Were dire honey badgers or certain…
Then their wikipedia article needs to be updated. There’s no mention of poison resistance at all. This might be an urban legend because Honey Badger doesn’t give a fuck eats a snake. A snake that probably can’t pierce its thick skin and ferocious defensive abilities in order to make the poison do its work.
Again, allowing yourself to be poisoned seems to be ridiculously stupid. Especially in a world where magic and aliens and superpowers exist. You never know what kind of alien/acid/genetic/mind control/pan-poison is being injected into you. Letting it happen before striking back isn’t a survival technique.
https://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2015/06/16/honey_badger_venom_resistance_biologists_discover_the_secret.html
I assumed the ‘them’ to refer to the pile of shards (once exposed and separated from their walkymachinecorpses), rather than the walkymachinecorpses themselves. I could be wrong
Don’t let the shards cut you, not the mannequins themselves.
Though not letting them hit you at all might be most preferable.
Come on, at the very least you could have touched the “not pointy” part first. Have some common sense mate.
All that aside, jeez that blood effect is kinda creepy.
Yea, why would you touch the sharp bit first? Besides comic law.
Maybe the shard made him.
Who’s them in that last sentence?
Don’t let the shards cut you, or just the bots in general?
probably the shards once separated from the “puppets” thingies
oops, karmaa kat beat me to my reply on this above.
Asking for a friend: Does it count as ninja’d if the ninja came through one hour and sixteen minutes before? I mean, frankly, I could as well say I was sleeping-tortois’d on that one… ;p
oh no, that implies karmakat is a sleepin tortoise. I obviously meant I was. Ima give up now, and get back to work…
am just good
give it up hehe
karma karma karma katmeleonnnnnn…
If she used her right hand ro swipe the blood trail, why is the blood on her left hand in the next panel? I think you oopsed Dave.
nice catch lol
We get it! DaveB has trouble getting the closeup of hands
rightcorrect: every time he draws a closeup of a hand, it’s always wrong, there’s no need to keep pointing that out!! :pDaveB did not get it wrong. She started out on his right side. Between him and the wall. Look at panels 1,2,5,6. After she chopped the stream of blood she walked between Iza and the shard before shouting
DaveB did get it wrong.
Look at the perspective of the hand: Thumb on top with back of hand facing forwards. That formation could only be Pixel’s RIGHT hand, yet the last panel shows the blood stain on her LEFT hand.
If she chopped it with her left hand, that previous panel would have shown her palm.
Confirmed. Zod, Yeroc, and Guesticus are all correct… DaveB did get it wrong.
here, let’s prove your hands are actually on the wrong wrists. hold something in your left hand
if you’re holding it in the hand i told you to, that’s the right hand.
you only have two hands.
therefore, your other hand is the one that’s left.
so, your left hand is your right hand, and the right is the one that’s left.
The answer is plainly: blood magic.
The easiest answer is that Pixel is a lefty, left handed.
Yup, it’s fixed now.
Just want to let you know, the above comment from me was supposed to be a good-natured ribbing
Hadn’t noticed the tie switch, but have noticed that in panels five and six it is looser than in panels one and two
my big question now here.
with enough blood, or even just some, will it turn the walls into a giant golem?
That was my exact thought. Can’t wait to see the wall reach out and slap Iza.
I it does, Maxima will get back just in time to beat the crap out of the meeting chamber. Of course someone could just pull it out of the wall…..
and get buried in rubles again?
she going to hate all kind of cement and blocks at this rate if she keeps coughing her lungs due to them lol
what does the Russian currency have to do with this?
Well,if you’re going to be buried in currency, rubles are the way to go.
Oodles and oodles of rubles.
A google of rubles, if you will.
In a Scrooge McDuck-style ‘currency bin’?
googol, plethora, multitude, mound, preponderance, trove, avalanche,
massive monetary mountain, a current of currency, a flood of wealth…
Your going full Sydney, never go full Sydney… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKG-kbKeIo
“Oh yes, here’s this mysterious piece of unknown magical thingie … Bob, YOU go poke it with your finger, I’ll watch!”
“Mum! Dad! Don’t touch it; it’s evil!”
*twin foomph*
Ah that was a good movie … surprised they haven’t tried to make a remake of that by now.
Considering how Hollywood tends to mangle everything it touches, I’m kinda glad they haven’t.
I saw the original in the theater, incredible.
Personally I’m waiting on Scooby and the rest of the gang to show up… :)
Don’t. jinx. it.
But Jinx carries a bullwhip/taser combo which might be useful right now.
The Spectre: “You’re evil. I’m evil. Superman is evil. Mick Jagger is evil. Harrison Ford is evil…”
Secret: “No! Not Harrison Ford–!”
“Hmm. Shall I touch the (doubtlessly super-sharp) edge of this, or shall I touch the (probably safe as houses) flat face? (Doubtlessly super-sharp) Edge it is!”
There’s a strange noise coming from the basement, go check it out….
Once watched a PC talk another PC into stabbing the altar in a clearly active temple with a sword in my game once. Boy, was the stabber surprised when something bad happened.
The egger-on, not so much.
only desecrating an Altar?…nah, if you really want to see hilarious results, get them to use the “Head of Vecna” properly.
https://www.blindpanic.com/humor/vecna.htm
i have no clue as to why my original link didn’t work…
You want the person who knows how to deal with the suspected bad effect, held back in reserve. It’s really problematic if that person is the first to die when the bad effect happens.
Izas power is probable to summon a trenchcoat
Izanagi’s power is that he has no powers at all. He just rocks that trenchcoat so much that everybody assumes he’s a super. :-)
Or they just fancy 10/11
Or maybe he’s John Freaking Taylor in disguise? No if that were true Dabs would know him and warn everyone while running away.
Now I wish I could remember the name of the RPG where a trench coat was a part of a power. Something about always looking your best, like the ability to wade through sewage and come out the other side spotless, engage in a katana fight like in Kill Bill 2 and not have a drop of blood on you, that sort of thing.
That was a one point perk in GURPS
I had an assassin with that perk. He preferred to wear a black suit, but no matter what it was always slightly wrinkled as if he’d worn it for a full day but still spotless. He was also so perfectly forgettable that even if he got caught on camera the picture or movie would end up suffering some accident that would erase any trace of him…
That would be the Colombo appearance package.
It comes with a minor, one point disadvantage: You must always state “Oh, just one more thing. Why did the [prior overlooked plot point] [impact|effect|affect|involve] the [victim|suspect|homicide|prior plot point] and [be relevant to the case|surprise!|You are fucked|Colombo got you|you wish you’d thought of that]and so [you confess|Colombo lays out even more evidence and you confess|your partner confesses|your wife confesses|a parrot confesses using your voice and it is caught on tape].”
It’s kind of like a make your own adventure book, just with more Colombo!
The world needs more Colombo :(
Ah, yes. It had to be GURPS. The setting I vaguely recall was one of their world settings with a large amount of rules overlaid. As in you couldn’t just show up with your super in what was a medieval swords and sorcery campaign, and you shouldn’t bring your psionicist to a gun fight.
Which spell check wants to make “you shouldn’t bring your percussionist to a gun fight.” I’m not sure which is more appropriate…
Player One “I lay down the mad drum beats!”
Player Two “I synch in with some jazz flute! Also, I cue in the xylophonist hireling.”
Players One and Two “Damn, we are kickin’ it!”
GM “They shoot you dead. Please re-roll.”
When you have a few adjoining parts floating in the air, will they fly at each other in an attempt to reform?
And will a reformed sword start causing them trouble? Get some glass jars from somewhere to be safe.
And that shard is starting to glow from its taste of blood. Might either fuel its reformation or boost the other mannequins power.
Of course Pixelicious knew, why else would she get Highlights to cut him (her?) self?
One more point in the “Hate Pixel” Camps’ book of “Reasons to hate Pixel”
Doctor Jekyll demonstrated why you never volunteer yourself….
I anyone else getting an “Asian David Tennant” vibe from Izanagi? And no it’s not just the coat. I can see it in the who’s who picture as well.
(sigh)
*Is anyone else* not I anyone else..
I see it. But first impressions, I get a much stronger John Constantine vibe
Are you certain that that isn’t a Willoughby Kipling vibe or Ambrose Bierce vibe?
^_^
Columbo Potter.
Yes, can see it now as well, but which version of The Tennant though? There are a few and they all like to wear trenchcoats…
Wearing the trenchcoat is a core tenant of being David Tennant.
“core tenet”
Being bad at english is one of mine.
Yes, but if he contained a core, would that core not be a tenant? o_O
A Tennant tenant?
That’s the one :D
David Tennant has occasionally shown a quirky sense of humor. I wonder if his parents were the same. It would have been interesting if they had named their child ‘Lou’. (And then he had joined the military to become Lieutenant Lou Tennant)
Small factoid:
The woman who played the daughter of the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) in the episode “The Doctor’s Daughter” was, in fact, the daughter of the 4th Doctor, Tom Baker. She later married David Tennant, and gave birth to his daughter.
So the Doctor’s daughter played the Doctor’s daughter in the Doctor’s Daughter, married the Doctor, and then gave birth to the Doctor’s daughter.
Sorry to be pedantic, but Georgia Moffett (who played the “Doctor’s Daughter”) is the daughter of Peter Davison – the Fifth Doctor – and (for extra British Sci-fi bonus points) Sandra Dickinson, who played Trillian in the BBC TV version of the “Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy”.
We seem to have strayed a wee bit off commenting on the usual excellent comic…
Whoops, you’re right. And I knew that, and still got it wrong. I have no idea how I could’ve made THAT mistake.
This is why I fucking HATE time travel.
The “Lieutenant Lou Tennant” joke doesn’t quite work in English, as the military rank is pronounced to sound like “left-tennant”.
Where’d the freaking “f” sound come from?
Just talked with mum, and she believes it’s either regional or air force
And when the English don’t pronounce it like that, it’s just “L’tenant” instead: Still no “Lou”…
I’m getting a “Read Or Die” a la The Paper! a.k.a. Yomiko Readman vibe, but to each his or her own.
Where did Tom go?
Y’know, the blood-refiller guy…
Could he have an endless interaction with one of those shards?
Oh, what if Maxima got nicked by the one that exploded? What would the shard do with her weird blue alien blood?
Technically, Maxi isn’t an alien, but this may be why she’s so late getting back to the party
Would it be able to nick her in the first place?
We know the last explosion from A. bombshell got through her outer defences. So at least it’s possible
The Magic Mega-Boloboomer hurt her, but did it actually damage her? That’s the question
It damaged her clothes, which are also protected by her powers. So it was close at least.
That would probably depend on how much of her powerpool was applied to her armored skin effect. (I don’t know if it’s armor, force field, toughness, or just what, but it’s been a LONG time since I’ve built a Champions character.)
Would it be able to nick her in the first place?
It’s possible for two reasons:
1) If Max dumped all her stats into speed in order to clear the room fast enough, her minimum Defense buff could’ve allowed for some scrapes/cuts. Even with her Defense fully maxed out, we’ve been shown the she can still get a bloody nose with sufficient force. (See: Vehemence)
2) Max has stated that Dabbler has come close to beating her in combat, meaning Dabbler’s magic must have some effect on here, most likely at high levels. That bomb itself was charged with pure magical energy, so at close range it could have done enough to hurt her and maybe lodge the sword shard into her golden skin.
Time will tell when she digs her way out and rejoins the battle.
When Vehemence punched her in the face, she maxed out Flight so she’d hold her ground instead of being thrown back by the punch. If she’d maxed Defense, she’d probably have been fine but would have been sent flying, which wouldn’t have looked nearly as cool and intimidating.
Yeah, imitating Team Rocket is never cool nor intimidating :p
What would happen if a haemophiliac touched one of the sword shards?
Might actually go better in some ways since they are unlikely to just stand there watching it in fascination while it gets sucked out since blood loss is something they must be ready to react to constantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVnmIbzExOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8skzjsaJc8
This one…
That’s an extremely thick sword blade. It’s thicker than his finger! I realize that it might be hard to draw a blade piece of a realistic thickness (which would be 2 to 8 millimeters, depending on which part of the blade this was cut from), but this seems excessive.
It follows anime rules for swords, that being bigger swords look cool on the cover art.
It could have been forged specifically for this task as such it would not need to be a wieldable device. Although with that cross section its almost like a 2 sided cleaver or double bitted axe. With that prisim like crosssection it may not be metal at all, but instead some schist like crystal with natural fracture points.
Perhaps it is a magic slaughtering knife for a fussy butcher.
Alternatively, it could be part of a whip-blade a la Ivy from Soul Calibur. Her weapon was unusually thick in a lot of cases and I would like to think it was so that, when extended into its whip form, each segment would still have enough weight behind it to dig into flesh instead of just grazing.
Ordinary sword blades are thin only because ordinary humans are too weak to wield heavier blades. If that’s not an issue (ie. the intended wielder has superhuman strength) then you actually want the blade to be thick, because that makes the sword much better at cutting through things.
Wrong! Thinness also benefits cutting, because there’s less cross section to force through your target. It’s like the difference between cutting cheese with a knife, and cutting it with a wire cheese-cutter.
Thickness does improve strength dramatically, as well as making it a more dangerous bludgeoning/chopping weapon, but with a sword that thick, you’d have to have monstrous strength to cet anything past the edge into your target, leaving them with wounds only about an inch deep. Which may well be the idea, as it is a blood drinker, and wounding without killing might be the point.
On the plus side, more mass equals more moment of inertia (I think that’s the right term) upon impact, and that suggests a greater likelihood of stunning the creature hit.
So, not only is the wound less likely to be instantly lethal, but they get to stand there going “wobble wobble wobble” while the sword drinks up.
If you are strong enough to lift and swing the damn thing, then you will have the strength needed to cut what you hit
That’s like the moronic claims that the claymore sword did not have a sharp edge :rolleyes:
Wow… Pixel is completely irresponsible. What if the rune was a ruse and it was a shard of a Vorpal blade and Isanagi instantly died? That’s the kind of crap our GM did to us… At least, until we learned.
I bet that’s why Kat is a lycanthrope.
Pixel: Hey, Kat, taste this.
Kat: Eww, tastes like blood.
Pixel: Enjoy your new life. lol
I’m pretty sure you need to be bitten by the werewolf not drink its blood. The drinking of the blood makes to something else not a werewolf.
Not in this universe.
That doesn’t say she ingested it, just that she wasn’t directly attacked/bitten by a were. It might have been some kind of injection instead.
That part was more of a joke. How far would Pixel go for a laugh?
Transfusion, maybe, since it was a blood bank? No?
Anyone notice the cat bell on her collar or the ‘cat whiskers’ markings on Pixel’s face? Tell me that anyone who leans in any way towards catgirl status isn’t going to be at least a litle mischievous and/or playful?
Not suprised she’d get Iza to help her test her theory, which was more fact than theory.
What wouldn’t Pixel do to mess with someone? Giving Kat lycanthropy seems hilarious… Until you realize you’ve changed their whole world. Same with having Isanagi test out the blood drinker. Even if she was 100% sure it was a blood drinking sword (I don’t know what powers she has, but she’d better have some with that kind of surety), risking your partner’s life seems a bit extreme as a prank.
Sure, the shard might have started out as a blood drinker, but now it’s the core of the mannequin. No telling what other enchantments were added to it. That is, assuming Blood Drinker swords can’t automatically be the cores of animated items.
Pixel may be able to deal with magical artifacts, but she does have a key weakness, the laser pointer!
Don’t know what sort of cat’s you have been exposed to, but most cats’ whiskers don’t look like that
Looks kinda like Naruto’s kyuubi marks. Foxes are rather mischievous as well.
kitsune maybe…
Kyuubi are just older, wiser, stronger kitsune.
I don’t think Pixel is nine tailed…yet…
We need a closer look at her tail, right?
Vorpal blades are sometimes exceedingly sharp, and sometimes they are eerily efficient at chopping off heads. I don’t think I’ve heard of one that can kill you from you touching it.
The only thing we can know for certain about Vorpal Blades is that they go snicker-snack and can kill Jabberwocks.
Iza reminds me of a 10th Doctor cosplayer I once met in Ireland.
Yeah, as noted above “The Tennant is strong in this one.”
Sdyney: Sound advice there Pixel!!! (Sees shards trying to reunite) Uh,oh!!!!
The others prevent the shards from uniting.
If Izanagi isn’t a serpent deity, I’m gonna be disappointed. (It’s a Nagi!)
Does Izanagi have lightning powers and a second form?
Pixel gives her detailed instructions on how to disable the Creepy Evil Mannequins in that last panel and Clover answers, “Yeah, I’ve noticed that an uppercut works fine, too. Thanks anyway.”
Meanwhile, Gunnhildr is rushing into the battle with her sword when she catches sight of the stream of blood coming out of Izanagi’s finger. Skidding to a stop, completely forgetting about the Creepy Evil Mannequins, she gazes longingly and hungrily at the flowing blood.
And while distracted, Kronachrome’s reality altering takes effect causing her to yelp, which draws the attention of Manny who lunges at her with his last act…
is the wall gonna form into a storm golem now?
stone not storm my bad
It’s alright. He stormed in, got stoned, and stormed right out again.
In the last panel, is that supposed to be Izanagi’s blood spreading out through the wall, or is the shard glowing or what? It’s just that the redness is in kind of an odd shape for it to be glowing, but that might be explained by the wall itself being rough and uneven, I suppose.
Possibly just glowing
My English grammar is not good enough.
Dave’s phrase:
“…who knows what will happen when the shard gets charged with blood?”
has a meaning of anticipation or wondering?
I mean, is it like:
“who knows what will happen when the shard ends charging…”
or more like:
“who knows what will happen if the shard gets charged…” ?
I mean, is it like “here we go”, or more like “that was close”?
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of stone walls…
Seeing Izanagi standing right in front of the glowing magic sword fragment, which has already tasted his blood, I feel like he should be wearing a red shirt.
That can’t feel good
Why do I have a feeling a lot of Izanagi’s abilities deal with thunder and/or lightning? Or maybe even tectonic powers.
I looked up the name and found Izanagi ‘gave birth’ to various other dieties. “The sun goddess Amaterasu appeared from his left eye, the moon god Tsuki-yomi appeared from his right eye, and Susano-ô came from his nose.”
Oddly (for western cultures) the sun god was female and the moon god was male. Susano-ô, the storm and sea god was also male. The may have been the first incidence of a ‘boy names Sue’.
Susano-o was also a bit of a sore loser (okay, quite the sore loser). Had he not killed a dragon to find the emperor’s sword, he would probably gone done as a more Loki-like figure rather than a hero.
So his power is some kind of self segmentation, surely?
No, his power is to spawn gods all the time. In this comic, if Izanagi is his codename instead of his real name, his power might be to animate objects.
So, he’s responsible for Beast’s castle’s inhabitants? o_O
only the ninja teacups
Love Pixel’s fingernails,so how lax is Maxima on the Archon uniform code???
I think she and Izanagi may fall under the ‘private consultants’ category of the agency’s hierARChy.
The dress code for her group may have a little more leeway. So you can relax about Max, the facts are more lax, she could even carry snacks in her slacks, and assorted mystical knick-knacks to prevent counterattacks. But, we are still in flashbacks, so the facts of their contracts may yet reveal certain drawbacks.
Maxima is ArcSwat. Pixel is ArcLight, and probably is rarely in on the action even this much – instead she either learns where stuff is and passes word so others get sent after it, or gets to figure out what was found.
Bond, Jane Bond…
We’re zany to the max, there’s baloney in our slacks…
You mean that lovely shade of aqua on her nails?
Maxima did once insist that at least one Harem be in uniform when she was on duty.
On the other hand, as Sydney once pointed out, the uniform dress code is a little different at Archon.
As long as Maxima doesn’t conduct uniform inspections…
Sssoooo if Pixel hadn’t cut the thread, the shard would have drained Iza dry? 0_0
I wonder the chances that maxima got taged by hers in the explosion as she was in speed mode and mid switch to defense
Pretty unlikely. But thats explain some of thr slow
Told you it was a sword chunk! Nyah!
Good call.
*wags tail, in a congratulatory manner*
Dang. Pixel works that cute look. Ruthless girl. She has gone up a notch in my respect. She needs a touch of that, in the spook line of work.
You look different Yorp. Working out a lot lately?
So THAT’S where my protein drinks went.
It’s… ::coughs::
Boy, this is uncomfortable to talk about….
::glances up in the sky and admires the moon for a bit, contemplating the composition of a new haiku::
‘Neath the Gibbous Moon
Howling plaintively Skyward
Yorp dons his new hat.
Nice haiku.
The best that [i]I[/i] could ever manage in the dog/haiku line was:
Funny-looking dog
Flies over the Western front _
“Curse you Red Baron!”
Anyone can write
A haiku. Just stop at the
Seventeenth syllab…
I have a pretty large collection of dog (and cat) haiku that I wrote years ago. Like these:
I love my master;
Thus I perfume myself with
This long-rotten mouse.
I lie belly-up
In the sunshine; happier than
You will ever be.
How do I love thee?
The ways are numberless as
My hairs on the rug.
Aww, what a friendly community we have. Not to mention poetic.
*eyes mist up, and hangs hat on rack, wagging tail*
Now you look like old Yorp again. The only explanation to this strange behaviour is that Yorp hulked out for a moment there. I must remember to stop stealing his yorpiesnacks. I don’t want to be enemies with the hulkdog.
Its alright, everything stays under control. No risk of hulking out. Nothing to see here.
I should probably update mine from nibbling that fish biscuit. I have my Jedi avatar on XKCD.
4th panel Iza looks a wee bit cross-eyed
The fourth panel, you say? All I can see of him there is his fingertip.
I would agree with you if you meant the sixth panel, though of course it just looks that way because he’s focused on his finger and the thread of blood coming out of it.
funny enough, I meant the 5th panel. 6th panel seems fine.
Well now we do know exactly what it takes for Pixel to not look bored. Mystical blood sucking bits of broken weaponry.
I read that wrong the first time and thought you got it backward – it was actually weaponry sucking blood.
The problem with touching the (apparently safe) flat side of a shard from an enchanted blood drinking blade is that there ISN’T a safe side to touch.
It isn’t the sharp metal that cuts you, it’s the blood drinking enchantment that cuts you.
Then why has everyone else been fine?
the only other person to actually touch the blade piece is Clover, and she only touched by the TIPS of her CLAWS, NOT by the actual fleshy part of her fingers… whereas Izanagi touched it directly with his fleshy bits… as well as on the pointy end of the thing…
any of the OTHER Golems still have the shard hidden deep with in their structure and are still reforming as we speak… the only one we are not sure of the status of is the one that blew up with Maxima… and how many Moxana Points do you want to bet, that the shard from that one DID get to Max, and she’s just going to try to shrug it off as “oopsie, that was a bit clumsy/slow of me to get nicked by the debris from the explosion… huh, why isn’t this STOPPING bleeding?… as she passes out from blood loss, trying to complete her extraction from the cave-in…
There were 4 to begin with if I recall correctly. There should be only one remaining.
1 Max took one to the tunnel.
+1 Clover caught one shard
+1 This Shard in the wall.
=3
This is Clover’s shard.
There is still the one Sydney has tied up, plus the one Ellie put a few holes into (and face-planted Sydney’s bubble)
‘The Thirsty Cutter’ Shop that specializes in the manufacture and enchantment of these weapons.
It could be useful in butcher shops. Kosher rules say all blood must be drained from an animal before it can be cooked. This could speed up the process. There may be a down side. If the reanimation effect holds true, people would probably not like to see their roast chicken pull itself back together and start roaming around the dining room table.
sure they would, I mean, there’s an entire style of cooking that’s dedicated to making dead fish/seafood move on your plate…
I’m kinda wondering if that guy is enough of an idiot to touch the blade AGAIN … just because of the “Holy *insert swearword here*” factor.
Well… he ain’t wearing a SIGN… so he’s probably OK…
… is it supposed to be glowing like that. cause i dont think it should be glowing like that.
Maybe it will be okay so long as it doesn’t get fed any more blood? Fortunately, it seems remarkably easy to break the flow going into it . . . at least when it’s only from a nicked finger.
Honestly, who touches the obviously sharp edge first?
I have one comment to add on the pacing of the comic once it gets to printed form. The events in the previous and current page do not seem to lead up to each other. It may be just me, but it has the feeling of being told ‘We interrupt this exciting sword fight to bring you news of someone getting a paper cut.”
This just shows that many things are happening at the same time