Grrl Power #484 – Queue miniboss fight music
That thing may have its second wind, but it’s pretty outnumbered at this point, even if most of the gallery has cleared out. But maybe it has some more tricks up its tattered sleeves now that its powered up.
I think I may have commented on this before, but oh well, if I have it’s been years. Speaking of no one liking fire, I remember seeing in a Champions RPG book once a sample Dracula character, and being a point based system, arch villains would get a bonus pool of points to work with, but also usually buy some additional weaknesses to boost their total even more. Stuff like Overconfidence or Megalomania, and physical weaknesses too, “Powers Don’t Work on the Color Green” or “Dies when Staked Through Heart.” When I initially read that, I didn’t think much of it. Of course Drac “Dies when Staked Through Heart,” he’s a vampire. It wasn’t until I had a refrigerator logic moment later than I realized that my character had that weakness too, (in fact, nearly every superhero and villain and civilian has it) and I asked the GM if I could get the same 60 extra points to spend that Drac got because of my own terrible weakness to stakes. Wisely he said no, but this page made me think about that.
Yeah, no one likes being attacked with fire. Of course, having a vulnerability to fire is different than dying outright from major organ trauma, but just because vampires take 50% extra damage from fire (they can buy it down with blood powers as they get older, but not below 25%… if you’re the type that needs hard numbers) it doesn’t mean regular folk like being hit in the face with a torch or a molotov.
In Dabbler’s defense, she is a demon, and they actually have a noticeable resistance to fire, so Gunnhildr’s vulnerability to it is especially pronounced from her point of view.
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Well, she’s smarter than ME, I have no idea whats the answer…
Spiderquin!
They form Voltron, of course
Or maybe Kali-tron
BASK IN THE GLORY OF THE V-07-TR-0N!!!
Dammit this was supposed to go in the same comment stupid enter key dind’t make a new line but posted it *grumbles https://youtu.be/HKyIIQfMpU8?t=22s
Or maybe even… The Unstoppable Exodia!
that version of the dub is an abomination! seriously, what was so bad with the old dubbed version?
Been so long since seen any of those shows, not even sure which version we got down here, simply looked for it on UBoob (actually took me a while to remember which of the Ancient Egyptian Gods was summoned from five separate cards, and then find a decent clip)
At least it wasn’t as bad as this!!!
in the good version of the dub he says “Hell Fires rage, Exollo flame!” the last part is shouted pretty loudly, the sound quality of that clip is just better overall, even more so since yugi’s voice changes completely during this clip in the bad version it’s like 2 different people are talking, which is probably the case.
here is a pretty bad clip and it just sounds better even with this low quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxw-f9ywORc
Transforms and merge to form Devastator! (or Bruticus or Menasor or Abominus, etc.)
It’s only Abominus if it’s got teeth on its kneecaps.
Monster erector set…
(Beavis and Butthead: heh heh, you said erect, heh heh)
My guess is that since they are literally fragments of a sword, it will reasembleall the parts into a powered up sentinent sword, Riven style.
Even with all four parts, it’s not nearly enough for a sword, but a dagger, maybe….
This is probably the first page in the whole comic that had me confused about what it happening. Panels 1,2,3 are clear. Next is 4 – manequin defeated by Dabbler looses it’s shard. Next one is below – immobilized crusaderquin starts to glow. Now jump to the right, it glows more. Jump back to the left, it’s head ejects. And the page ends with the bottom middle panel and confused Sydney (and confused reader).
OR… it is standard left-to-right top-down. Rest of the shards fly towards the crusader, making him stronger(TM) megazord-style from all the spare parts lying about (not sure why he’d have to eject head though – migrate to new body to get him out of Sydney’s lighthook? Pretty futile, she could bind the new body just as easily).
The second scenario is more likely (and confirmed in blog below it), but without the blog I had to read the page several times to notice all the little details that point to it.
In panel 6, you can see those flying shards entering the helmet off the big guy. So they are combining their shard powers.
Presumably the helmet’d head than picks the most intact torso to reform into the end boss around.
EDIT: Remember that the Crusader’s torso has been penetrated by Dabbler’s big pointy stick
That sounds like a potential bingo word for when she is giving her after action report. Its totally not fair her ability to feign language ignorance intermittently.
‘Penetrated’ is in fact a ‘Make Maxima Say’ Bingo word, and neither Dabbler or Halo have it crossed off yet.
YES!
Let’s do this!
Seemed like it flowed naturally to me and that was before reading the blog.
I assume the head was going for a combination of best weapons and least damage with best capabilities outranking damage considerations unless completely useless. (I’m assuming the head is either the best head or the only one designed/programmed to receive the chips or that the chips are programmed to go to)
This page definitely would have benefited from being two pages really. I think the confusing thing is the one with the great helm escapes the lighthook by ejecting its limbs, then its limbs, as well as limbs from the other mannequins gather up and form Voltronnequin. It would have been helpful to have a panel or two extra to show explicitly that was what was happening.
It made perfect sense to me – granted, I had to slow down a bit since this is a very busy page.
It happens in comics sometimes.
Looks like a ‘Doc Ock’ golem….
I wonder if it would have worked better with the whole bottom half being a single big panel- just use that last angle, and a bunch of swoosh lines of appropriate colors, to show things going on- leave one or two arms doing the ‘final assembly’ bit to show how it’s being constructed.
Or maybe just little arrows leading the way (that seems to be the common solution)
“With circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back”….
You forgot Gunnie and Dabbles for the Who’s Who listing
I did, they’re added now.
Is Kat attempting to tickle Cloverfield to get her to put her down?
Did that once (when being carried away to prison, the girl didn’t like, attacked and ended up in prison instead, eventually did manage to apologize, but took a very very long time)
Mind elaborating on that story? I’m very confused and quite intrigued.
Had a dream about being carried away between two guards and reaching up with a foot and, well, groping a female guard along the way (she was wearing a skintight uniform… ) and for some reason she was punished either as well as, or instead of, me
Had another dream where she was being relentlessly chased, for ages dismissed them as just being dreams, until met someone online who told me about her nightmare of being chased which matched up with the one mentioned above but from different perspectives: for me it was alternating from being the chaser and chased but for her it was only being chased
Further chats revealed she also had the initial dream, but again, from her perspective
Had another friend who was helping me with control within dreams (or ‘lucid dreaming’) as was very powerful but keep forgetting everything when dreaming (so basically having to re-learn how to do things like fly and punch holes through walls each time) so next time had the chase dream, helped her to get away, and she told me the nightmares stopped after that
Very easy to dismiss this as a stranger ‘playing along’, except there were some details never mentioned to her that she revealed to me, namely, her hair colour
Long story short: turns out that this really had happened to us, but in a past lifetime (well, the prison scene was a shared experience, the chase was something she experienced several times in subsequent lives), and it took until now (well, nearly twenty years ago now) and the help of the burgeoning internet to finally bring us together again and for me to help put an end to her nightmares
Also turns out, what could possibly be referred to as a ‘soul’ decides to take a vacation from back in the early 80’s, always wondered where it went but it seems it went to find her as she described a form watching over her from the shadows, and the form she described matched the same image had of the missing ‘soul’. After finding the ‘soul’ again, left it watching over her and severed the connection so the evil that was hunting her couldn’t use it to either find her again, or use it to trace back to me
Yeah, understand how mental that must all seem
I’ll have what you’re having. :D
Meh. I for one believe in some of the more minor psychic things.
For example, my family has a history of Ancestral Memories- my aunt can remember her mother (my grandmother) taking her driver’s license test, and I myself remember watching a production of The Phantom of the Opera in Toronto that my parents went to before I was born- like, their exact seats, the pyrotechnics and laser lights (this was the 80s) and everything.
Having shared dreams based on a prior life isn’t that odd.
just hope they’re dreams you know, being stuck in someone else’s nightmares SUCKS!!!
But, sometimes, you can actually help them defeat the nightmare and allow them to escape
Still sucks though, almost as bad as being in someone else’s wet-dream!
The statement in the 1st panel is untrue, Pyromaniacs likes fire.
Not attached to a sword that’s nearly stuffed in their own body
Yeah, but the one talkin’ is not the one being impaled but the one close to the secondary damage of flames.
I kind of wish we hadn’t introduced quite so many characters this round just cause I would have liked to here some more of Dabbler and the living suit chatting some more. I can’t remember his name off the bat since he doesn’t seem to get credit on the side when she’s wearing him? Or does he have to talk for that? ‘Cept Dabbler’s talking and she didn’t get a credit… Gunn hasn’t gotten a Who’s Who on this or the last scene she spoke even though she was named in that one? (maybe for the first time.)
The rules for Who’s Who seem to keep changing.
Dabbles is wearing Icon (or is Icon wearing Dabbles? o_O), and it’s more that DaveB is so busy doing all this glorious work solo that sometimes he forgets to actually tag the speakers (or something)
Icon hasn’t actually said anything since equipping himself on Dabbler. If he had I’d put his little faceplate by the word bubble to make it clear.
Maybe he’s afraid of what she’s say to anything he says.
i think if icon said anything right now, it’s sound a lot like motorboating :}
Fire on a sword is still fire…
and you just described a Lightsaber, which makes it even better.
Maybe a masochistic pyromaniac with a sword fixation, then?
Gunnhildr: No one likes fire!
Dabbler: Well, there is this woman called Brooke that I know that does not seem to mind it. Mind you, fire and high heat are kind of her thing.
Well, there’s also Richard…He’s got this thing about Fwooshing. He’s even blown up a moon with his Fwooshing.
HEY Now!… it ATTACKED HIM… Just like that Orphanage did….
It’s a shame though, his ‘Fwoosh’ is now a ‘Bloosh’.
I like ‘Fwoosh’ better, because it’s
Mysterious…
Consuming…
Intimidating…
Powerful!!!
Actually, I think Heatwave would more tolerate fire than like it. Even being immune to the heat it’s sooty and dirty and smelly and it makes it hard to see…
Look out! Here comes the Spiderquin!
Sooo…
Maxima must really be buried there…
She could probably get clear very easy, but that’d involve drilling an explosive hole through up, which would do even more damage to everything. And the last message from Sydney ensured her that everything was under control, so better to take the safe route
Looked like nothing was above her but she probably has no way to know that. (well, except the Secret Agent)
And the problem is, determining which way is up, and not left
Probably the bulk of the weight is coming from that side but failing that she’d only have to make a bit of space in front of her face to see which way the little bits of rubble fall.
Maxi can see in the dark now? o_O
Probably won’t be that dark after she emits a baby blast of that energy of hers. (that’s how she clears a small space in front of her face)
It’s a surprisingly difficult thing to guess. There are plenty of examples of people buried in avalanches that dug down instead off up.
If you can clear enough space that nothing is pressing directly on you, it should be pretty easy to tell which way is up – but clearing that space could be problematic.
The only reliable trick is to drop something, or just spit and see which way it falls. But it’s dark, so even that might be tricky
Spitting isn’t that great, if you are on your back!
Now that I think about it some more. When she switched to armor and some of that telekinetic flight for stability she is probably still in the exact same position and orientation she braced for impact in so she knows which way is up.
Amazing how simple that problem was when I stopped over thinking it and just went with how extremely powerful Maxima is.
(enter the platypus)
That was no explosion it was a boomtube and Maxima is busy conquering Apokalyse
and now i suddenly have a mental image of Maxima vaporizing a bunch of Parademons. thanks for that.
And Darseid is just watching and grinning at her, making plans to make her his bride.
The vampire weakness of being staked through the heart was indeed mentioned before, I think back when Sydney was first displaying her orbs and they asked her about weaknesses.
About the page. Will that clawed fist just remain afloat now, wait till the upper arm comes zooming in, or will it just drop out of the air once assembly is done and the upper arm was found damaged beyond use? It has been shown already the limbs work without being attached, but if they can also fly around on their own they become a bit more dangerous.
Probably one of the arms is missing a fully functional hand. Seems to prefer joints connected. Maybe it helps it make the most efficient use of the energy available. Doing the telekinetic storm bit would perhaps drain it all in one flashy attack?
As explained in GURPS, it’s not that the vampire is particularly more vulnerable to a stake in the heart than any living human would be. It’s that a wooden stake impaling anywhere else would effectively not cripple the vampire, whereas it very well could cripple a living human. No, what that specific “vulnerability” specifies is that a stake in the vampire’s heart cancels his usual vampiric invulnerability to normal weapons.
It’s a similar concept with the use of fire against a vampire (or pretty much all corporeal undead, for that matter); You might use acid to “burn” a vampire, but he can either shrug it off or quickly heal it (depending on the author, or the game system)…But using fire cancels the undead invulnerability to other types of attacks. GURPS reasons that it’s like this because undead exist because of something went wrong with funerary rites or procedures–That one of the main reasons why the dead come back is because they feel slighted of proper respect. According to actual folklore (not Hollywood versions, okay?), if someone duplicates proper funerary procedures on an undead, then they will go down and stay down…Many types of undead will otherwise shrug off other types of damage & just keep getting back up again. Since both burial and/or cremation are almost universal across the globe as “proper burial rites,” this is why most corporeal undead are especially susceptible to fire.
That’s probably why DaveB‘s GM (rightfully) denied those points for his character.
;)
one of the main reasons why the dead come back is because they feel slighted of proper respect.
I like that. In my headcanon, that is now why Reg Shoe (of Discworld fame) became a zombie. Yes, the l-space wiki says the reason was “revolutionary zeal”, but what I got from Night Watch was that although a revolutionary, more than anything he craved respect.
In my RPGs, each type of intelligent undead is created as a result of overindulgence in (and thus over-attachment to) one of the seven deadly sins AND failure to be properly laid to rest / properly shriven (relieved of their burden of guilt regarding the same).
Why are vampires sexy? Guess in which of the Seven Deadly sins they overindulged? :D
Gluttony? o_O
Nah, it’s sloth. Being better looking means that they have to do less, less glamor to prevent victims from running away, attracting victims for less hunting. Get attractive enough and they don’t have to actually do anything for feeding.
They are sexier lately. Don’t always have to be.
So what if, in life, they were a fan of all seven?
The problem there is that they are taking ‘dies if staked’ as a Disadvantage, when it should be a Limitation on whichever regenerative powers are in play.
And yeah, I had a Brick who had half his DR bought with ‘not against fire’. Makes it much cheaper, gives him a solid weakness, and no messing about with extra damage dice (and knockback from same) from a Vulnerability.
That’s how I used to handle it back when I played & GMed Champions, too.
An interesting idea- and perhaps one that suggests a reason why Clerics can ‘turn’ them- Clerics are the ones capable and knowledgeable in the rites to put the dead to rest. “Turning” would then just be them performing those procedures.
Also, it means that dismemberment and scattering would also work- due to that being a Sky Burial.
So it’s using three out of four maniquins.
Heh – if the drone that Max blew up with ALSO had a segment, it’s only operating at 3/4 power. If the chunks were going to reform a blade, the maker should hope that the missing chunk wasn’t a required piece.
Don’t know if it got any blood before blowing up so it might not have had any power to give anyway.
Don’t believe they all need to be blooded, just that one needs to be to activate the Kali-tron mode
Very much – the one that the MIGHTY Halo held didn’t get a chance to hurt anyone.
Sure but they were talking about loss of power due to not having access to that one and if it hasn’t “fed” then it probably doesn’t have much power to add to the process baring whatever it was originally charged with to operate the lesser mannequin.
All of this still assuming it didn’t simply blow up beyond the point of being a threat anymore.
Probably so, but never discount ….
SYNERGY!
Fun thing abut magic is you get to ignore conventional physics and logic! Huzzah!
Magic doesn’t HAVE to have rules but it usually does of late now that folks realized it makes it more fun to read/play.
Course I also like it when the author leaves intact the idea that with ENOUGH juice magic can do pretty much anything at all which isn’t logical but is also fun. (I’m talkin’ deity level here so V better have been just about to ascend to another plane when he pulls a “Ka-Pants”! X-P [aaand I don’t think he was which is why that felt like bullshit to me personally])
Deity-level to create pants? Seamstresses want a word with you.
Creating pants is pretty much THE mundane thing you’d want to be able to do with magic, since the creation of basic energies and materials is a property of many spells both in-universe and in other media. Mage Bread ftw.
Rearranging the atoms and what not around you into first the types of molecules you need, bonding them into strands, weaving them into just such a pattern when you quite possibly not only don’t know exactly what some of that material is, couldn’t even weave if you had a loom or sew if you had the cloth and tools but are not even a magic user (in the traditional spell casting sense) with any training in how to create such a complex spell.
No I’m not a hundred percent sure how magic works here so I could be totally wrong and its just “make a wish” and then push a ton of raw juice into that wish but that’s not what I’ve been hearing described thus far.
Pushing stuff around, screwing with basic energies, maaaybe blocking them sound like my idea of a “simple” spell here. Perhaps for an slightly farther along student finding things with certain energy signatures.
Waving a hand and making a decent chunk of matter in a complex pattern sounds waay harder to me than just adding energy to something till it starts on fire, becomes luminous, falls over, attracts certain forces or whatever.
Making stuff appear (which may just be summoning even if you don’t know WHERE its being summoned from) is “basic” in media now? (I haven’t seen it as basic in this universe yet. Only summoning/teleport seems common magic here so far) Perhaps you range in different places than I.
Unless your mage bread comment means you are including games like WoW. Even there that could be summoning but I don’t really want to count games like that which do a ton of things just to make the mechanics of play work. (or the way they think they work)
Anime magic based on games maybe?
I remember this one book, their magic specifically created things for them to use (always black in color but otherwise just about any inanimate item) terribly convenient and over used. Turns out that every time they made something it was using a soul from the well of souls so everybody born after a certain point was a soulless monster of a humanoid basically. I bet human souls make some comfy underwear. If you don’t mind it in black.
Well it it’s missing a piece, he’s gonna get the short end of the sword
Immediately thought of this and felt like a huge dork.
https://youtu.be/tZZv5Z2Iz_s
Realized we’re all geeks, dorks, and nerds of various stripes here. Enjoy!
Yups, thought of that above (2 minutes before you, but you provided the actual clip so you win this round :D)
Voltron, huh. Is it odd that my imagination instead went to Captain Planet?
Remember the line, “By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!” In my head, I was hearing the Mini-Boss there saying, “By your shards combined . . .”
I’m a leg!!!
That reminds me of ‘Gofotron’, from the ‘Punyverse’ storyline quite early in ‘Sluggy Freelance’.
Nope, not odd, just didn’t occur to me as there wasn’t anything tangible being combined with him (enjoyed the cartoon, and even got the limited run comics)
Shame it ended when it did, was still waiting for Wheeler and the Ruski to stop pretending and to start making out :P
My translation matrix has deciphered the glyph seen on the piece of the sword embedded into the wall. It means “and I’ll form the head!”
I dunno. Every time I see Voltron, I’m reminded instead of the parody re-dub of the live-action version, where instead of “Go Voltron force!” they replaced the dialogue with “More Senseless Violence!” ;)
Wait, there was a live-action version of Voltron? o_O
Not sure it was Voltron. It was definitely one of the (many!) Super Sentai series in the tokusatsu genre, though.
Just making sure you guys all know that Voltron:Legendary Defender on Netflix is amazing- done by most of the guys who worked on Legend of Korra.
Check it out. It’s fantastic.
There was another animated version of Voltron on TV on a few years ago. They lampshaded the painfully long assembly time of the original. The writers brought in an enemy that did not politely wait for the required 38 seconds or so for the full sequence and just attacked them about half way through each attempt. They had no defense and kept getting their mechanical butt handed to them. (which with Voltron may be an actual control chair position) They wound up having to upgrade the whole internal avionics system to do the process in under 10 seconds.
Yeah Nickolodeon’s series. Even gave it different abilities depending on which Lion was the Torso. I liked it. Too bad it only lasted a season. The new one on Netflix is good too. I like Pidge in it.
A weakness of “dies when staked through the heart” makes sense if they otherwise have a vampire healing factor. Although 60 points seems like a bit much for it.
Actually in some vampire legends the staking is just to get the vampire to hold still long enough for you to actually kill it. To actually kill a vampire after staking you have to fill its mouth with holy wafers, cut it’s head off, burn the head and body separately, then bury the different sets of ashes at separate areas of a crossroads.
And that’s only European vampires. Wanna see PCs drop a brick, throw some of the more exotic flavors at them instead.
“What do you mean ‘We need a coconut pearl!’? Where are we gonna get one of those?!”
I’ve heard the stake, and holy wafers thing before, but then they cut the head off and turned it over so it stared backwards and buried the lot of it at a crossroad. The idea being that nothing they did could really kill he vamp, but having it’s head backwards and being at a cross road it would just stumble around when eventually the stake rotted or someone thought it would be a good idea to remove that stake.
This is a bit like the Chinese vampires. They are blind, jump forward with their feet together. I also remember there being something about them only being able to turn in 90 degree angels, and that was supposedly why Chinese gardens often had paths that zig zaged using 45 degee angels, preventing the vampires from passing. Note that these Chinese vampires were very well and would never dream of
steppingjumping off the path…The legend I read is as long as the Vampire remains unburned he can regain his unlife if the stake is removed. The burying at a crossroads is just extra insurance.
At least they don’t seem to have the really disgusting type of vampire in this strip. The kind that the head separates from the body and flies around seeking dinner with the internal organs dangling below the head.
That’d be the Penanggalan, the Malaysian version. Lots of stories as to its origin…
1. The Penanggalan used black magic to give herself eternal beauty;
2. A powerful curse;
3. The Penanggalan made a deal with the devil to gain supernatural powers, then broke a stipulation in the pact to not eat meat for 40 days; or
4. Simply a priestess who was taking a ritual bath in a tub full of vinegar. While bathing herself and in a state of concentration or meditation, a man entered the room without warning and startled her. The woman was so shocked that she jerked her head up to look, moving so quickly as to sever her head from her body, her organs and entrails pulling out of the neck opening.
Allegedly, it prefers the blood of pregnant women or newborn infants. Those whose blood the Penanggalan feeds upon contract a wasting disease that is almost inescapably fatal. Even if the penanggalan is not successful in her attempt to feed, anyone who is brushed by the dripping entrails will suffer painful open sores that won’t heal without a bomoh’s help.
Some common powers ascribed to them are intangibility, the ability to ooze through the cracks between the floorboards, and the ability to control their intestines like tentacles. Closely related to the manananggal, who sprouts bat-like wings and the upper part of their body (not just their organs) flies into the night in search of its victims. (With one difference: The penanggalan is always female.)
They have (or had) one of those Penanggalan’s in “YAFGC”, not sure what happened to her after the Black Mountain blew up
Also anther one in “Banzai Girl” (shame it hasn’t updated in months :()
I wonder what the answer is that Sydney knows….?!
It looks like Horshack knows too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cDAqrywsHE
I gotta say; because of the font you choose for your comic titles, I spent a couple of seconds wondering what “miniboss TIGHT music” is.
This perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwr-7nkTuX4
Heh heh,loved how ‘Little’ John didn’t even look when helping to correct the blind guy’s moves :D
Here’s someone who would wish for the ability to reassemble themselves so easily:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwkuQfTmdM
No, no! Fire is good! It cooks our food and keeps us warm and toasty!”
“Fire bad!”
Hush, Frankenstein. What do you know?
“Know bigger and stronger than you with longer reach…”
Fair point. Fire Bad!
Yay! Kat seems to be feeling better! I’m lovin’ the little powder puff tail sticking out of her pants, too . . .
I too like fire, but for entirely selfish reasons.
now why the evil mastermind behind this plot didn’t raid a blood bank first, we will never know…
They upped security after the werebunny incident
It may be that the blood supercharge doesn’t last long, or has a strong enogh magical signature that their defenses would have picked up on it.
Pretty sure they did it as they did because the blood of whoever is in the Council area would have magical or enhanced blood of some kind, and Voltronnequin would be able to copy them. A bloodbank would just be normal human, therefore, unpowered blood- plus that could be what the handprints are made of.
Anybody know who that is talking to Gunnhildr in the mini-comic?
She is talking to the coach of the Council Quidditch team, Brute Rock-Knee.
*Hits O.B. Juan with a full size cod for that pun.*
https://www.brightoncharterfishing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Winter-Cod-2.jpg
And that’s not even its final form!
There we go. I was waiting for someone to say it.
Shouldn’t the title be “Cue miniboss fight music”?
I double-checked, and yes it should.
A queue (noun) is a line waiting for something. To queue (verb) is to get in line, or to put something at the end of a line.
A cue (noun) is a signal or prompt for an actor to come on stage, or for some other event to happen. To cue (verb) is to give that signal or prompt.
And a Q (proper noun) is a mad scientist who works for a secret British intelligence agency.
Or an annoying omnipotent being, with a glass jaw.
and quite easily beaten about the head and shoulders with yet another Cue… the POOL Cue…
Except he’s actually a godlike alien pretending to be a mad scientist to pass the time between teasing various Starfleet captains.
And don’t forget kyu, which is Japanese for nine.
It half works? This fight could last for several minutes which would need a couple of songs, especially if there is some other song on now (which there could be, in her head at least). Cue is the better word, and the normal one.
This could also be a hint at there being more mini-bosses and full bosses in the near future, if its the word he meant.
And a queue can also be a hairstyle popular in ancient China, consisting of a long, braided topknot.
And Kew works for ARCSparq making gadgets.
Batman once said that all he needs to defeat Martian Manhunter is a box of matches. I wonder how much extra point this kind of vulnerability gets.
Batman also has kryptonite…
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Batman guzzles warm guano every morning
…this blade segment combining sequence reminds me of a DBZ movie – the one that ends with Vegita and Piiccolo sitting on a ice floe trying to outgrump each other…
Are they attacking the mannequin already secured by Sydney?
At the start of the page, yes.
It looks like it’s escaped by the end of it though by breaking up into it’s component pieces and flying off to join the bits and pieces from the other Creepy Evil Mannequins.
I love Sydney as much as the next person, but I have to say that I’m not really a fan of what she’s doing in that last panel. I understand that she’s a little wound up after all of the violence and carnage she’s had to witness, but she just looks ridiculous.
Increasingly during the run of the comic it seems like Sidney is losing intelligence. It now seems she is a low grade moron instead of someone with ADD.
She’s fighting sleep, and is off her meds, and is experiencing massive sensory overload. She’s lucky to be doing this well.
Also, she’s not really run into anything that’s made this “Serious” to her. I mean, yeah, it’s real to her, and it’s not been all roses and buffets, but nobody she knows has yet to be seriously injured, she’s got an impenetrable shield, magic is real… This is all just a lark. It’s not the life-or-death struggle that everyone else is treating it as, to her.
No that’s not it. Like when she dove at the Dr. that action was not one someone with ADD would do, but that of an idiot. Then later when she meets a little person she has to be forcibly stopped from saying something stupid. Then when she finds the magic item storeroom her first inclination is to play with everything to see if it might kill her. And of course there is her reactions on her first meeting with Gregor the werewolf. Those are the actions I would expect out of a 3 year old, not an adult.
If I ever met a real-life werewolf, I’d jump on him and call him Mister Woofles. You tellin’ me you wouldn’t?
No I wouldn’t. If I met him like Sidney did I’d try to make friends with him in a calm fashion. Eventually I might ask him to turn me in order to get rid of my health problems, but if he refused I’d accept that and still be his friend.
Or someone with impulse control problems (such as ADD) who doesn’t immediately recognize a bindi for what it is.
Like someone with impulse control problems (such as ADD) who tends to say whatever’s on her mind.
Like someone with impulse control problems (such as ADD) who is fangirling over the discovery that werewolves are real.
… okay. I got nothing. That was kind of stupid.
I’ve seen adults with ADD and they have a TON more self control than Sidney. If her ADD is as bad as it’s portrayed she should be institutionalized. I certainly wouldn’t trust her behind the wheel of a car as she’d be too likely to go ‘Ooh Shiny! and wreck the car and anyone around her.
That’s because (as many sufferers of ADD on this very forum) will confirm, you learn more self-control as you grow older; some of them to the point that they don’t even need the drugs anymore.
Yep, I’ve got a nephew that is really ADHD and he was destructive as hell for a long time. He’s in his late 20’s now and with a lot of work he’s pretty functional, at least if he has something to do. Boredom is still dangerous for him though…..
And yet she has gotten to at least 18 and from all appearances Sidney has learned absolutely zero self control. I’ve seen people who were involuntarily committed to a mental institution who were more functional than Sidney.
Yeah, that’s not exclusive to those with ADD or impulse control. Others who you might think are perfectly well adjusted adults can do really, really stupid stuff when behind the wheel of a car.
Like the mother of a high school friend who screamed, jerked the wheel hard over without looking, and crossed 3 lanes of high speed traffic to come to a skidding stop along the shoulder. Why would someone do that, you might reasonably ask? There was a very small spider that decided that moment was the right one to dangle itself down on its web to the left side of her face. And by very small I mean it was maybe the size of a pencil eraser, and one that had seen some prior use. But this otherwise rational and intelligent woman was immediately gripped by her fear of spiders, lost all perspective about where she was and what she was doing, and could have gotten herself killed. Not to mention the passengers of the car, and the drivers and passengers of any others cars unfortunate enough to get involved in a high speed car accident with her.
Her son stood outside the drivers side window and yelled at her for about 20 minutes…
You seem to believe what she does is because of the ADD, as though that is all she is, her having ADD is simply one part of her, it’s actually people like you that give people with AD(H)D a bad name
Damn. The puppets just pulled a Super Android 13 move:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH3X2U9t2P0
I wonder if anyone will get punched in the dick?
Well, there are only what, two maybe three males left in the Chamber of Delights?
Ante up the chips and All In.
At least when Max gets back Sydney can honestly say it’s not her fault…….
After the last panel we can hear Izanagi muttering ” ‘Touch the shard’ she said. ‘Just Touch it.’ Gee, what could possibly go wrong?”.
I was just wondering about that myself.
Was this something that was going to happen anyway? Or was it a booby trap that was only set off because Pixel got Izanagi to donate that last bit of blood it needed?
How much should we blame Pixel here?
With Pixel, curiosity overcame common sense, as in “I wonder what happens if I push the red Button”…
trainer halo’s light hook used constrict on helmeted mannequin head.
Can’t Halo re-restrain the mega mannequin as per the previous helmet head?
As soon as her initiative rolls around I’m sure she will do so.
She can try, but I don’t expect it to work again just because it worked before. DaveB has to ratchet up the situation here after all now that the bad guy is in what is presumably it’s final form ☺. Maybe it’s just got too many arms and legs flailing about now for the lighthook to restrain?
Or it could always separate and reform like it did here.
I remember that we said the Contra flag was for Krona (because haxxor cheater), but did we ever figure out whether there was some martial artist seat on the twilight council or if Kaio-sama would just hang out there some times whenever he got bored?
I think this counts as
100 vader’s = joke
1 vader = Nightmare
theres only one enemy in the room now now he is the vader….in theory.
I thought it was ‘100 stormtroopers = joke, 1 vader = nightmare’.
Law of Inverse Ninja / Jedi
The more Ninja or Jedi there are, the less effective any individual Ninja or Jedi is.
See Conservation of Ninjitsu in TV Tropes…
Dr. McNinja also pointed out that trope.
That’s also why I work alone…
so did Sydney in the Vehemence fight.
As no one else said about the frame where mannequin slips the bonds:
OPEN GET!
Just so long as it doesn’t go “Face Open!”
If I remember GURPS correctly that “Dies when Staked Through Heart” would be a limitation on the undying advantage.
Of course mere mortals can claim that limitation too, but since they do not have the said advantage it does not give or cost them anything in dis/advantage or points.
You may defeat the little Mannys but not Supermanny! And this is not even his final form.
Even though Mayan warriors were tough to beat, even tougher was the Super-Mayan.
I’m sure someone has mentioned it before, but in Hebrew ‘El’ means god, and so a name like Xuriel essentially means Xuri of God.
Of course in whatever Xuriel’s native language it is, it could mean “Eater of Pizza” or “Shagger of Everything” (or perhaps the shorter “Try Sexual”).
It can also mean one whose power is derived from God, as in the names of the Archangels
Micha-el, Gabri-el, Rapha-el, Uri-el, Selaphi-el, Jegudi-el, Barachi-el.
(also Ari-el, Azra-el, Chamu-el, Hani-el, Jeremi-el, Jophi-el, Ragu-el, Razi-el, Zadki-el but not Metatron and Sandalphon [who were apparently mortal men who became Archangels – which is interesting in itself]).
Also interesting (at least to me), the only Archangels mentioned in canonical Scripture are Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael – the rest of the named Archangels come from various apocryphal books (which I didn’t know until today – thanks Eric!) and Cabala sources.
Heh. Google-translated Xuriel – comes out to mean something like “White of God” or “White Angel”. Cool.
We only need one el. Kal-El.
Well, there was one archangel that wasn’t specifically named in scripture, but later came to be known by a number of different names: Satan, Lucifer, etc.
What? Even though he had fallen from Grace, he’s still one of God’s angels, ya’ know…
O.o
Ba-el? I know there are a bunch of other named demons around…
Ba’al actually is a honorific that means “Lord” and was used as a title for the Christian God early on. It was later that it became a “Demonic” name.
dammit, Pixel! now there’s a Super Mannikiller (Murderquin? Harlequin? [name-of-voodoo-stabby-puppet-thingy]?)
Spidermanny, Spidermanny,
Does whatever a Manny can
Drain a mage, any size,
Catches magic just like flies
Look Out!
Here comes the Spidermanny.
Is he strong?
Listen bud,
He’s got super magic blood.
Can he sneak on us all
Take a look in the hall
Hey, there
There goes the Spidermanny.
Drinking all your blood
At the scene of a club
Like a man of wood
He makes you his grub.
Spidermanny, Spidermanny
Evil golem Spidermanny
Wealth and fame
He’s ignored
Murder is his reward.
To him, life is a great big kill
Wherever there’s blood to spill
You’ll find the Spidermanny.
Excelsior!
spiders produce milk.
…
Did we even mention how he eats his food?
Here’s a hint: It happens outside his mouth.
He drinks blood magicaly. That’s how he upgraded from Manny the Manequin to the multi armed Spidermanny.
Give that man a No-Prize!
But… but… I like fire too…
*Tosses Evilbob dA into a blast furnace. Watches as he goes poof in the intense flames. *
Sydney may have let the mini-boss slip through her grasp (literally), but she can partially make up for it by grabbing him again and re-staging the iconic Hulk vs. Loki scene. It will keep trying to reform each time she breaks it apart, but she can keep repeating it as needed long enough for either Max to show up, or someone else to think of a more permanent solution.
If she has learned the required dexterity with her lighthook she could try grabbing the Wolverine arm and using it as a can opener to pry open the helmet and dig out the hidden toy surprise. We know she wants to play with it. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/135
She’s gone full fan-girl which kills any initiative bonus, but then again she may do something super cool that gives her an upgrade point….