Grrl Power #486 – Post-denouement loiter
I went into this page thinking one big panel would take slightly less time to draw seeing as the holidays are coming up and it would be great to get a little ahead (or less behind) so I don’t have to spend most of Xmas day drawing. It, in fact took slightly less time. Slightly. :/ Still, I normally totally over do the panel count, so mixing it up a little every now and then can’t hurt anything. Actually, laying out all the dialog so that it flowed sensibly was a challenge. Let me know if anyone has trouble following it, but it all reads across then down. Gunnhildr’s underwear comment is an orphan bit of dialog so it doesn’t matter when it gets read.
I don’t think the fact that humans don’t naturally have blue, green, purple or pink hair is any excuse not to have words to describe someone with that hair color. Also, I am vociferously for the brown and black hair having separate words. Chestnut curls and black Wonder Woman hair are not the same thing. It’s understandable if someone has some dark ass dark brown hair, but there’s a whole range between that and blonde.
I feel like I should point out that usually after combat, Arc-SWAT doesn’t usually start milling about and hobnobbing, they’re supposed to immediately snap into processing mode, but the Council’s people are examining what’s left of the mannekillers (you’re supposed to be helping Ellie!) so there are a few moments to spare to complain about having mud in places mud is never supposed to get.
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Over so soon?
No clue then who sent them, where they came from or how they found that meeting hall and got inside?
I guess clean up and convo take priority.
The investigators are investigating, so it’s hurry up and wait. Besides, Max needs a good steam cleaning….
Scarlett is examining bits and bobs and there’s other off panel detecting going on. :)
You never know with Manny the Manequin. That might not even been his final form!
A pile of scrap?
“The job’s not finished until the paperwork is done.”
Max must be distracted to ask Dabbler for any spell that removes something.
Also, any bets on what the other twenty golem are up To? Stealing or getting ready for a group explosion are by bets.
My immediate, similar reaction when reading that final speech bubble of Dabbler’s.
Also immediately thought it was an awfully tame response from Dabbler. Would have expected it to go more like: “I happen to have four idle hands, at the moment, and no waiting. How about I portal us into a warm shower ..?”
Dabbler knows better than to provoke an already irritated Maxima.
She does? Since when?
She knows when to tease Maxi, she also knows, as Classic Steve said, when not to push things… well, not too far, hopefully
I’m surprised Dabbler doesn’t already have a spell that can clean Maxima. With as much experience as she has, surely by now Dabbler has been surprised mid-recharging, in a rather messy state, and needed to be presentable in a hurry. Or is some of this grit nearly cooked-on?
In D&D, a 1st-level Prestdoogi – prestgagi – Presto spell would take care of that mess nicely.
Of course, knowing Dabbler, her version of the spell would probably remove shredded or damaged clothing, by default. That Dabbler, always about good, clean fun.
Actually, Prestidigitation is a cantrip in those systems. Unless they changed that for 4e/5e?
The Prestidigitation spell was a Wu-Jen spell from the Oriental Adventures supplements in 1st / 2nd ed. It allowed the caster to move small objects to anywhere on his or her person, either from the wu-jen’s inventory or as a picket pockets roll against a target (oddly, the Spell Compendium write-up doesn’t have an effective range of this ability – I’d assume it’s the same range as an actual Pick Pockets check, meaning arm’s reach).
in 3.0 / 3.5, Prestidigitation is a 0-Level spell and functions more or less as the 2nd Edition Cantrip spell. “Prestidigitations are minor tricks that novice spellcasters use for practice. Once cast, a prestidigitation spell enables you to perform simple magical effects for 1 hour. The effects are minor and have severe limitations. A prestidigitation can slowly lift 1 pound of material. It can color, clean, or soil items in a 1-foot cube each round. It can chill, warm, or flavor 1 pound of nonliving material. It cannot deal damage or affect the concentration of spellcasters. Prestidigitation can create small objects, but they look crude and artificial. The materials created by a prestidigitation spell are extremely fragile, and they cannot be used as tools, weapons, or spell components. Finally, a prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond just moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists only 1 hour.”
Pedantry, as you like it!
In 4E there’s a Fastidiousness ritual that lasts all day and means that no dirt sticks to the person or their clothing, and hair stays combed.
Yeah, that’s called “taking a bath” :P
Or they’re on standby because their handler can’t mass-produce them and doesn’t want to risk them all at once…
“Team 1 was somewhat effective, countermeasures did their jobs, however looks like we need to modify the poison to counter magic based antidotes. Plus these pesky Supers are going to take more work to deal with, especially their leader, Maxima. She’s obviously too powerful for direct combat solutions, however she was slowed down, possibly injured & kept away from the battle by Unit 4’s detonation. That new one, Sydney I think it was, was able to keep Unit 1 from penetrating her shield & restrained it easily, however she seems to be a regular human most of the time. Also, we never got to test the combined form in actual combat, as Maxima melted the head & rendered the combined unit useless…”
“Very well, make the modifications needed, & see if you can make it harder to locate & remove the sword shards. It seems they have learned that secret too. Let’s not let this be a COMPLETE Failure now…”
“Y-y-y-yes sir…”
So, Krona is the long-skirt sort, huh? Neato. Also, does her one visible foot look like a hoof, or is that just me? And Gunnhildr’s reaction to the surreptitious panty-hacking is snickerlicious.
Just a poor angle on her boot, also they look like a set of uggies, they don’t have too much form to them…
Still, Long brown skirt, ugg boots, not exactly high fashion…..
Green Hair, plus really bad fake tan on the three short ones…. any one else hungry for chocolate?
I was actually envisioning jeans or cargo pants for Krona; the skirt is a nice cliche breaker.
In some way skirts are less confining than pants and more comfortable or did your think kilts were just for show?
I think that deciding in favor of comfort or show would depend upon how high the bottom hemline is…
…And yes, that even applies to kilts.
I think the same might be true for both kinds of hakama.
(But then ~ I have not worn either kind of hakama, nor a kilt, so I can’t really make the comparison myself.)
I had to try a pair of Ugg Boots to figure out why people would want to wear them, and I figured it out: It feels like putting your foot in a sheep. (*rimshot*)
Is that an “ewe” pun?
I’m surprised about the long skirt as well. I had her pegged as wearing wide pants (think cargo pants). Maybe because so far the other short tomboys in this comic are wearing pants and don’t look to be the skirt kind of girls.
My thought was that the three of them standing together were pushing dangerously close to Power Puff Girl-dom. And I’m waiting for someone in the cast to make the obvious reference. Not that the three would take it as a insult.
And I suppose a good suspect for who could be behind this would be Him.
Oh No! Not Him!
The only thing worse would be THEM!
Yea, that was my thought as well.
I, for one, like her look and fashion sense.
Same here
No Maxima! She’ll just summon a water based tentacle monster or modify a wet t-shirt spell. And probably help “fix” you outfit.
I think Maxima must subconsciously WANT Dabbler to drag her into these situations. She has to see it coming on some level…
It is kinda weird how all the squishies are just standing around the remains of constructs that have already proven to be full of surprises, booby traps, and the ability to get up after being put down. Grab some air, if you really need it (shouldn’t but meh), and shield up while breaking out the log range sensors Sydney!
Not to mention we clearly haven’t had a good scout around to look for more.
I mean, Sydney’s untrained but the rest are being a bit careless.
They’ve determined that the “get up and go again” bit is due to the sword chips, but, yes they should be more cautious about the rest.
Right, my point being the person who sent them thinks in stages and back-ups so next they find out there is a secondary powersource based on a sword that absorbs pure sexy from the local environment. (at which point they are doomed)
We don’t know how much time has passed from Max’s melt the skull moment to now. Might have been long enough to see if the next round of the fight is about to start or not. This is the time frame that in games, I call “not in initiative order, but still tactical”
Didn’t seem like its been super long from Dave’s description and they still seem to be doing their first examinations of the debris.
A lot of what they were packing was varied with the idea of dealing with a wide assortment of enemies so any last gasp traps could be aimed at a particular type of creature to trigger it or maybe just something simple like lacing their outer casings with a rare substance.
I’d just get the weakest of the squishies out of ground zero for the first few passes. At the very least Sydney who isn’t trained and doesn’t appear to be helping with any of her abilities at the moment. I’ll just assume they have sent some tough agents out to scout the local area for threats after these just waltzed right in here… (must be some dead guards somewhere)
See, those are R&D, CSI and Overly Curious Nerd squishies. They’d probably be more excited than afraid if something else did happen.
I would watch the hell out of show called “R&D, CSI and Overly Curious Nerd squishies”
OCNS, now on Fox
“Overly Curious Nerd” (Syndrome? Disorder?)
Just what Sydney needs. Another mind affecting issue.
Dabbler casts “Soapland”
You just know Dabbler has to have something for when she makes a mess
I dont think even Dabbler has this much of a death wish
A highly targeted teleportation spell: shifts target sophont 2 feet to the left, but leaves dirt (and clothes) behind.
Useful as a combined escape/distraction combo in combat!
She’s got a dry cleaning spell but it has…
side effects…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2OraCGc5qI
If you want to talk about side effects, this is worse (or better, depending on your own preferences)..
That depends on personal preferences. (and how you feel about wedgies)
“On the other hand, without clothes, there’d be no place to conceal a weapon.
Well, there is one place, but it could be painful.”
Best line in the movie.
Elaborate hairdo?
Grammar issue- “assuming those wedges came from was a typical longsword” – Remove the word “was” or add the word “what”* between “assuming” and “those”.
*or any other phrases that refers to the source, like “the weapon”, “the blade” etc.
Grammar knob? Be gone!!!
Personally didn’t find anything particularly wrong with that sentence
Between “from” and “was” is also a totally valid placement for the “what”.
just removing the ‘was’ would fix it
While I agree with your analysis, you try fighting murderous commend and keeping the Queen’s English pristine.
Commend = golems.
I see nothing wrong, but then again I speak Texan, which only sounds like english….
But only if you speak it very quickly, (which no Texan ever does.)
I speak Texan too, at least a few dialects. But as a second language. We have no kings here or ever so Formal standard English though it never makes the grade for general colloquial English speakers who seem to want to keep cutting it down to the barely understood. Take the word “attitude” used to mean how one comports oneself. Then it was limited to a bad attitude then just “tude” to represent it. Imagine in 25 years what it will be like? Oh, I was born and raised in Texas, the one who still thinks its a nation more than a state. Even from the CSA it always thinks of it self as independent. A small minority still wants it to be an independent nation—-maybe one day they will get their wish.
So Britain had their ‘Brexit’ and y’all are hankerin’ for a ‘Texit’?
What recall, Texas never formally joined the US
We joined by treaty…..
Yeah, but there is a reason why your flag flies higher than the Stars & Bars
with the stars on the US flag being up top, it makes sense for Texas’ flag to be flown above. they’re not a meteorite.
It might parse better as…
“The bad news is that, assuming those wedges came from a typical longsword, there could be twenty more of those things out there.”
I got the intent of the sentence – and given Max just had a tunnel dropped on her, a bit of dysfunctional grammar is not unreasonable.
But it was Pixelicious who said it, not Maxi, Maxi is still trying to get dirt out of places that shouldn’t ever have dirt in
Color me embarrassed. :D
so a possible 5 more 4 puppet strike squads doing other things
Maxima might better call this in to HQ and fast. Suddenly, I am reminded of the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln! For anyone who doesn’t know, Lincoln wasn’t the only one who was supposed to be murdered that night. The assassins were actually plotting to knock off all the important politicians in the North’s government!
The rest of the no-gooders could be in storage somewhere and waiting for the right time to strike, or they could be slaughtering big wigs even now!
The councils existence is classified. Besides you don’t call in air strikes until you have a target. There is a lot of firepower in that room, so I don’t expect another attack there. I do expect another sigil to go down since they are apparently pushing against the council, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the team there now isn’t the lead force….
I was not suggesting the launching of any strikes air or otherwise, nor was I suggesting the spilling of any beans. I just wanted Maxima or someone to quickly call this in to HQ so that security could be tightened. Even if there are no more bad guys coming to the Monster UN tonight, that does not mean they aren’t going after some other friendly types.
They could be upgrading the next batch of Mannekillers, now batch-01 has gone through a actual combat test…
Preping their defenses WOULD be a good idea…
The upper floor of Archon would be considered a military base, and have defenses at the ready. Vehemence would of been a warning to always be on guard. Attacking Archon would be attacking a strong point. Besides their interest is in the council….
If grammar nazis aren’t discouraged, I’d like to point out that “would of” should be either “would have” or “would’ve.”
I graduated decades ago and decided grammar Nazi’s have no real effect on my normal life on my life outside of limited circumstances that affect my paycheck…….
It is important to realize that not all of our commentators are native speakers of English. Some of those that are native speakers are also very busy people.
And in this day and age of spell-check deciding spellings for us, it could have started out correct and finished badly. :D
Since the 1860’s? Sorcery!
What is wrong with ‘Raven’ for black hair? Brunette has always meant ‘brown-hair’ for me (it comes from ‘bruin’ for bear, doesn’t it?)
Other way around, ‘bruin’ from ‘brown’, I think…
Knew they were connected some how
‘Bruin’ is actually the Dutch word for ‘brown’.
Fun Fact: The original name for the animal we know as “bear” has been forever lost to history. With the exception of a few languages such as the Russian version meaning “honey-eater”, most languages’ names for the beast are some reference to the color brown.
This is because early man so feared the animal that it was believed even speaking its real name aloud would draw its attention, so the vast majority of the time, euphemisms and other words were used instead so it could be talked about without fear of summoning the creature.
Fun Fact: The name of the hero Beowulf, which means ‘Wolf of Bees’, is another of those euphemisms.
Someone is a brunette if they have brown hair but that doesn’t make them a raven if they have black. The words cannot be used as equivalents. I do find the modern term “blunette” quite funny though.
Then what would you call someone with black hair? And you can’t make up some crap name that doesn’t mean anything
brunette is actually a french word ;)
And in french “brun” mean brown.
Hmmm. It’s been established that Maxima doesn’t wear make-up because it won’t stay on her golden skin and just smears. I wouldn’t have thought a little dirt and mud would have a better chance of adhering to her.
Meanwhile, did it take this long for Krona’s reality hacking to take effect on Gunnhildr’s undies, I wonder, or did she only just now find time to do that?
Yeah, was wondering about that, was about to ask if she finally got around to give Gunnie the wedgie or is Gunnie finally noticing the slow creep and Kronachrome is about to mess with someone’s hair colour (and size?)
Considering the speed with which she defused the grenade, I’m gonna assume Krona is only just finding time for her prank now.
Pretty sure Gunny’s just now noticing that something is off; everything (including the bonus text at the bottom of that page) implies that Krona hot-swapped her skivvies as she was thinking it.
I don’t think she’s “just now” noticing that something is “off.” Chances are she felt something change in real time, but was occupied and put it off the radar as “wardrobe adjustment required once the danger is clear.” What she’s just now getting to is that adjustment … and discovering that a slight shift in position & tension isn’t accounting for last known physical parameters. Meaning, there isn’t enough fabric to redistribute to expected pre-battle configuration.
Quite the restraint on Krona’s part. Given the confusion of this battle, she didn’t have to replace her panties with anything … she might have gotten away with an assumption that they just plain snapped and fell off and somehow got destroyed by fire or something.
You just gotta’ love the mousy-looking girls with understated colors and long dresses. They easily can fool you into the impression that such thoughts would never enter their minds and they slip past all suspicion. For example, Dabbler might have been assigned blame (and, possibly, still could be) no matter any protestations.
Which could be a really fun follow-up to today’s installment … Dabbler vigorously denying any involvement, yet demanding to observe all the evidence. A thorough, close inspection and all-hands-on examination even.
But wedgies are far more uncomfortable than no-panties..
Krona wanted to annoy Gunnhildr, not get up-skirt footage
Well, by “Just now,” I mostly mean “Ok, fight’s over, now what is up (oh, wow do I mean UP, yikes) with my unmentionables?”
Nicely phrased.
I think the operative words are “going on” as in not a sudden thing but an ongoing issue. Wedgies usually don’t happen all at once. Normal ones anyway. And Krona seems like the type to use slow-acting curses. They will steadily get further and further wedged up there until removed. Beware the wrath of a girl who feels overlooked.
Daniel here. As someone who’s been in a few fights, I’m pretty sure Gunn’s wedgie situation was a “fight mannekillers now, REGISTER wedgie later unless it forces your attention” kinda deal. It wasn’t that long ago Krona switched Gunn’s undies to “thong in wedgie mode”, my guess would be she hasn’t had the chance to realize she has a mega-wedgie because it obviously wasn’t bad enough to cause problems as she fought. When you’re in a fight, unless you’re someone like Deadpool or some other comedic character, you don’t stop to pull your undies out your ass unless it’s directly hindering your ability to fight…
Besides, a wedgie is sort of a “stealth” problem. It creeps up behind and wipes you out.
And in the morning a dazed Gunnhildr is crashing on Archon’s couch.
Can a succubi feed on a vampire? And for that matter can a vampire feed on a succubi?
“Succubi” is plural. The singular is “succubus”. And the male form is “incubus” / “incubi”.
For reasons, my spell check failed on succubus but not succubi. This has been corrected. I live by the little red line.
Personally took both to be the plural (succubi and vampire), as in, the general group rather than individuals
“Undead underwear and its effects” sounds like a great college sociology paper…
Yeah, but I imagine getting a suitable sample size could be fraught with problems.
well, as far as this and the previous page show, the mud seems to behave rather similar to the grease paint example. in which case she could probably wipe it off but it would likely roduce a big mess in the process.
It wasn’t that the grease paint didn’t stick, she just couldn’t control where it went, or where it would stay
Why wouldn’t it? Make up is designed for an oily porous (is that the right word?) skin, but Maxima’s skin is closer to glass or metal or something. Dirt has no problem leaving stains on glass and metal, it might come off easier but till she has time to find a shower or something it is there to stay.
It must be carbon deposits and that seems to adhere to her metallic golden skin.
Think of the way dirt and mud sticks to your car’s outer surface.
And now I’m picturing someone walking up to Max in the shower holding out a scrub-sponge and a jar of Turtle Wax.
And now I’m picturing a set of four Maximas (or would that be ‘Maximi’?), fighting crime with differing types of ‘martial arts’ weaponry…
What exactly is Ellie and Sydney talking about? A full set of what? Ponies? Or Trolls? Please let it be Trolls (still have one of the original Christmas Trolls, the one with green hair and red boots, gave away the red-hair with green boots)
Full set of anime hair colours.
Thank you, but how is Sydney’s hair ‘anime colour’? o_O
I think they were thinking of a “Halo” for each orb with hair the orb’s color.
I wonder if the “guy with purple hair” was a reference to Tedd of El Goonish Shive. Who is a short guy (at least some of the time) with purple hair.
As I recall, Dan Shive uses the term “Jelly-haired” in-universe to describe Tedd. In his setting, Purple is a normal hair color that people can have, genetically.
Well Tedd’s hair is natural and when most people think jelly they think grape jelly which most of us would probably describe as purple.
I’ve noticed that from time to time Sydney’s hair is more yellow than the sandy blonde it started as. (“Now, what color is her hair?” “Yellow.” “No, you have to be more specific! Now repeat after me…”).
Regardless, yellow / blonde is, in an odd way, an anime hair color – mostly because naturally blonde folks are sort of a rarity in the isles (Ainu are the only natural blondes in the chain and hail from Hokkaido prefecture and the Kuril Islands near Russia.). The American (as opposed to the Japanese born in America) is nearly always blonde, for some reason, or African-American.
In the various Macross series, blues and greens and purples (and in Macross 7, pinks) are pretty much always associated with characters with Zentradi blood (or occasionally dye jobs – I’m looking at you Sheryl). So I can sort of see any extreme hair color that is, unnaturally and especially a given color would be anime-referenced.
Side note: took a class in college with a young lady whose hair was canary yellow and naturally curly. She was extremely pretty, 6’5″ tall, and built like a young Lynda Carter. I was always suspicious of her hair color but a classmate who was very close to her assured me that all of her hair was that color and similarly curly. Apparently she had good reason to know.
So they knew the curtains matched the carpet? Fair enough. I think i saw that kinda “proof” being used in an Anime once, Fruit Basket or something like that. It was something from Daniel the Human’s Sister’s collection.
A black-&-white haired guy was getting harassed by some student with authority about dyeing his hair, so black-&-white-hair dragged him into a toilet, silence for a few seconds, then when it opened again authority guy was dumbfounded (yay, big word for me :) ). A girl asked how he proved that was his natural hair, black-&-white-hair “made a move on her” (eh?) & 2 others clonked him…
Thought the Ainu had natural red hair, not blonde
red’s actually a corruption of blonde, so it comes to the same thing.
Since bloody when? Red, if anything, is a corruption of brown
From what little research I’ve done, both red and blond are genetic variants in response to lower levels of light in northern climes – blond seems to arise more often in the eastern half of Europe and Asia, while red hair seems to have arisen more in the western half of Europe. So, it seems likely that both blond and red-haired folks come from either black or brown haired folks.
Ainu actually have both red-haired and blond-haired individuals, as well as many shades of brown and raven-haired as well. Most native Japanese tend to dark brown or black, but lighter colors including darker shades that would qualify are red are not unheard of. Perhaps I should have said that only amongst the Ainu do naturally blond Japanese occur. :D
What features do they all have: all different colours of hair, but they are all short and A cups ;p
Get Peggy in there and it’s the A brigade!
My bad: It’s the A Team!
But is Pixel a redhead or a pinkette? Caus i think I’m missing red in the line up.
Compared to Scarlette, blatantly pink. Both take the same spot in the rainbow, though, so it doesn’t really matter.
Shouldn’t that be rosette not pinkette?
Four people is a fire team, at best. Maybe an under strength squad. “The A Squad” sound silly and there is a pop culture thing about “The A Team”
From the late 60’s / early 70’s? Mh sister had one of those and it had.. an .. uhm.. accident.
Maybe I shouldn’t have been playing so close to the fire with it. That doesn’t really explain the second one, though.
Apparently, Trolls were frightening to me as a child.
Is that a new character picking over the debris?
Nah, its that vampiress spawn I think.
That’s Scarlet, methinks. One of the junior vampires who was with Ingsol.
Oh right, almost forgot about her :(
‘Viol’ is also a root word for rape in french. I only know this because Pokémon is overly sensitive and won’t let you name pokémon ‘Violet’ or ‘Viola’… despite the latter being one of the gym leaders in the France-inspired region.
Also I can’t be the only one who instantly decided to ship Pixel and Krona for no rational reason, right?
Also a musical instrument of the Renaissance (a forerunner of the viola and the violin).
Nope, the SS Pixna sails at noon today.
Or 9am apparently.
After the hints of a Pixel/Ellie ship earlier? Or are we going to have a Pixel/Ellie/Krona OT3 here? ;)
I support this.
It took me a little thinking to remember who that kneeling girl was with the red and orange hair, I do not deny. It’s Scarlet, of course. And standing behind her?
Ingsol: “Is it over? Is it safe to come back yet?”
I think Ingsol just has a more hands off approach to his subordinates growth/training. And his position and culture is different than Maxima’s so its probably mostly up to him whether to wait to the last possible second to dive in and save the day. (plus he’s old enough he may not be as hot for action as Maxima still is just underneath her law and order sheepskin)
Ingesol has been busy herding a bureaucratic committee, which is like herding cats….
Only with out the cute factor that cats and kittens bring to any event.
No, but it’s understandable. Everyone will want a chance to catch their breath and reassure themselves that they and their friends were not hurt, much less killed. If I had been there, I would surely have joined in . . . right after I dashed off to change my britches. ☺
well technically it’s not their fight, so it’s not their paper work….
But they were involved, so here comes the fun…
ax will write an after action-contact report. I’d love to see her get Sydney to write, stream of consciousness wouldn’t even begin to cover it…..
After action reports are always fun to write when sleep deprived, and in my case, some what less than full gruntled about why I had to write the AAR
As a 2nd lieutenant I was company morale and VD officer, both were exciting jobs with ‘interesting’ paperwork. I really wonder at what Max’s reports look like….
Well tsk…Max
Why do we need a whole set of words to refer to people specifically by differentiating them by their hair colour? Of all characteristics of possible interest, the hair colour is of such a small interest that I am surprised we actually have words like “blonde” or “brunette” — although notice that they’re actually borrowed French. Many other languages don’t have their own specific words for it except for French loans or words of “-haired/headed [one]” scheme.
* of “<colour>-haired/headed [one]” scheme.
What people typically have covering their head is usually one of the first things one spots from a distance (other than size and body-type)
Notice that a large number of English words in general are ‘borrowed’ French (and German and Italian and Spanish and any other language not fast enough or clever enough to escape)
As someone with poor 3D vision, size isn’t something I notice until up close, making hair colour even more prominent.
I kind of lust after red heads, so I tend to notice hair color….
I don’t in general but I did once have a thing for one ginger girl and the colour has caught my attention ever since, despite my wishes otherwise.
Yeah, as I mentioned to Dave on the whole “Broette”-issue, language doesn’t work that way. It’s not a decision by committee and linguistic developments don’t really give a crap about some arbitrary desire for “equality”.
Pretty much the reason why current trend-words die off so easily: You’d have to convince a vast majority of the (in this case) English-speaking population to learn and correctly use some unnecessary vocabulary that someone just thought up for an absolute non-reason.
It’s impractical and offers little to no payoff for the necessary effort to establish a new term.
And you’re right of course, not many languages even have their own words (if any at all) even just for the most common natural hair-colours. German has “Blondine” specifically for blonde-haired women and “Brünette”, more than likely another loan word from French and also just for women. Everything else is just “[colour]-haarig”. And why wouldn’t it?
Which is part of the reason why PETA’s effort to get people to change the name of “fish” to “sea kittens” failed miserably. Yes, they actually wanted people to call fish “sea kittens” on the grounds that if it SOUNDS cute, they’ll stop eating them. Obviously, they failed.
I believe english needs a non-plural first-person personal pronoun.
We had a second-person singular personal pronoun. It was thou (Look at the KJV Bible and Shakespeare and other writings of the time for examples). The use of thou was replaced with using the plural pronoun (you) in place of the distinctively singular.
Oops, you said first-person. We have those already.The singular, first-person personal pronoun is I in the subjective and me in the objective.
Oops!
Forgot to make sure it was clear that I was talking about a gender neutral personal pronoun
*Arrrgh!!* ˋ︿ˊ
Also forgot that I meant to say THIRD-person personal pronoun.
(*bleep*ing lack of “edit” function ˋ︿ˊ )
Because we need some way to differentiate which man or woman at the bar you’re going to hit on and while eyes are available, they’re sort of hard to see the color in subdued light.
Commenting on noses or ears or mouths tends to be taken the wrong way, and commenting on other significant body parts get you slapped if you say it too loud. :D
As for myself, great hair is a huge turn-on, regardless of color, but I do admit that auburn and copper do cause my head to turn sharply (platinum-blonde or white-blonde are also nice, as is a light brown.. okay, I like pretty hair, regardless of color).
Try adjectives, they’re helpful for that.
How about hair like this?
https://orig10.deviantart.net/b3cc/f/2011/173/0/9/flying_by_kaeto1-d3josvz.jpg
Heee… I so want to redirect that thought bubble to Mr. Vamps. :D
colours… their hair, and then colours she mention, do match the orbs…
except they are missing red, unless you count the vampire kneeling by the remnants of the death puppets.
And its definitely not powerrangers, since i dont know of any that has orange or purple…
so who if its the orbs, then who is the red one?
also, noir is an actual word apparently… was thinking its a reference (would be a bit out of place if it was) but google says it doesn’t have to be.
Hmmm…
Sydney, Pixel and Krona should form a team of their own called the …
…
…
…
ARC-ANGELS!!!
:D
But who would their ‘Charlie’ be?
Math… ;)
He would be more like Bosley. Charlie would be General Faulk.
Voted for truth.
No, Arianna has that reserved for the airborne medical team.
Sydney’s hair already reflects the multiple colors of her orbs, which makes her a rainbow.
She comes in colors ev’rywhere;
She combs her hair
She’s like a rainbow
I’ve said this before a dozen or two comics back, but I just can’t force myself to read cantrip. My mind keeps editing it into catnip. Evidently, it’s an incurable condition.
So, you can trip over the word? >_>
Yes, but I can’t rip it. ☺
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Cats like catnip as well. Sure, they like following the wavy-hand bit of the cantrip, but I think they prefer catnip.
I definitely need more comics with Krona and Elsbeth in it :) (or their own separate comic, just saying *cough*)
Like I said yesterday, the group getting ready to assault the boss thing would be a good team for a comic. Some of them would be a surprise to most people. Tall blond Nordic looking woman with a sword. Not what you think of for a vampire, for example. Short girl with goggles? Gadget personae, not mage. Magic user type with floating artifact? Not the gadget carrier of the bunch. And Sydney, of course, doesn’t look like a flying brick with a massive energy attack, who can see magic.
Pixel is standing funny. I’d have figured she would be examining the remains for more clues instead of looking like she’s expecting another attack any minute.
She examines clues others find
And it’s as well that someone is still standing on alert
I’d be on guard if twenty more of the things that just attacked them could be running around. Especially if I was as vulnerable to attack as Pixel probably is.
I dunno how on-guard she can be considered when her back is to the door.
I wonder… does her protecto field more actuely work on her pants than her upper clothing?
Like.. something to do with her innerpsychology?
cause they look near untouched by the boom. even acounting for the idea she might be carrying it princess style..
Or, it’s simply her pants were made out of more durable material than her top
She buys pants at the same place as the Hulk.
Well you can assume that Max grabbed the mannibomb by the upper torso, which brought into contact with the jacket, and the jacket lost….
I hate to be a Grammar Nazi, but shouldn’t that be “The hells going on” or “The hell is going on?”
Given that “someone” has been messing around with her undies, I guess we can forgive Gunnhildr for misspeaking . . . er, misthinking.
There is more than one hell, thus ‘hells’ plural
so “the hells are going on” then
What is going on
What the (insert expletive of choice) is going on
The expletive does not change the the singularity/ plurality of the the subject, therefore “is” would still be correct, despite using a plural expletive.
I think you mean “The hell’s going on…” That apostrophe is important.
Compulsive Grammarian, you ain’t no Nazi unless you like torture and murder and want to exterminate certain subgroups of the human race. A blatant misuse and downgrading a still dangerous thing, Nazis are poison and calling you one isn’t proper nor correct. Now when you start acting like a Nazi, then I will believe you.
It’s a very common phrase, of course, but I’m sorry if I’ve offended.
What the hells ARE going on? :D
In this case, she’s probably using “Hells” as a collective noun, thus making a singular declension of the verb permissible.
“The party fled the castle and is now drowning their sorrows at the inn.”
Alternatively, one can argue that the sentence is abbreviated and should read, “What IN the Hells is going on with my underwear?”, making “the hells” the object of a preposition and thus a clause within the sentence, “What is going on?”
“The party fled the castle and are now drowning their sorrows at the inn.” or “The party fled the castle and is now drowning its sorrows at the inn.”
The party is a singular entity but it is infact the group comprising it, not the entity itself, to which they refers, making the singular “is” incompatible.
Also true. :D
The example is taken from an instructor who was pointing out all the possible ways that English grammar collapses in on itself due to our tendency to switch back and forth between a noun being both singular or plural in context.
Your examples are excellent examples of parallel sentence structure, which is useful when meaning may be unclear.
Geez, Dabbler, just use Prestidigitation. If you can’t cast that, then you’re not a real wizard.
She’s not a real mage, just a Dabbler.
She doesn’t just use magic, she is magic, of course that means her point of view looks a bit different…
So much for the council meeting,now Sydney will never learn about her orbs?!?
She needs to ask Krona what she can see. I think the goggles and the orbs are related…..
Maxima: “And for your own sake, I hope you’re not thinking about your tongue”.
Dabbler: “Spoilsport”.
Dabbler: “No problem, I can use something else to rub away all that dirt.”
Have you ever seen the film ‘Cool Hand Luke’? I’m now thinking about the car-washing scene from that…
I don’t think I have but I’ve seen that scene repeated, parodied, homaged, and duplicated in almost every comedy ever.
I just realized that poor old Icon has had to get off of Dabbler and now is nowhere to be seen. Probably off having a nice cold shower . . .
“Urm, if anyone needs me, I’ll be in my armour-cabinet…”
This has become a sort of holiday tradition, so here we go again.
Twas the night before Christmas and in all people’s houses
husbands were shopping online for their spouses.
An unemployed Dave B. all sad and forlorn
sat at his PC surfing for….. stuff.
When up in the sky he saw neither bird nor a plane
But a sleigh pulled by supers, coming fast as a train!
It was steered by a young girl who might seem to be meek
But who flailed about wildly and cursed a blue streak.
Whoa Goldy, whoa Pornstar, whoa Groupies, whoa Hotstuff
Whoa Brickhouse, whoa Ninja, whoa Stretchy, whoa Mullet.
Slow down this instant or we’ll crash right through the roof!
Just like at that poor mosque, back in Duluth.
You know I hate riding this bumpy old sleigh.
I lost my lunch over Pittsburgh, I hope they’re OK.
They set down the sleigh and they did it quite nimbly
and the girl with her sack climbed right down the chimbly.
Dave saw her head circled with four lights plus three
that looked like the ornaments he’d hung from his tree.
Dave thought “She’s a super? They’re supposed to be grand.
They have lots of muscles, and huge…tracks of land.”
She put her hand to her throat and pressed the side of her collar
and spoke to the air, trying hard not to holler.
“Hey Leon, you’ve got the list and you’ve checked it twice.
So what’s the deal with this guy, is he naughty or nice?“
But then with a start she noticed Dave in the hall
and lifted her hand, into which flew a ball.
“My cover’s been blown! There may be some trouble!”‘
Then around her formed a glow in the shape of a bubble.
With a blue orb in her hand up the chimney she rose.
And on the way up she stubbed one of her toes.
And he heard her exclaim as she rode out of sight
“Son of a bagel baking dolphin blowhole molesting,
smurf asphyxiating garlic sniffing armpit stained,
blue cheese munching Klingon raping steaming pile
of badger sphincter f**king monkey poking…”
*Rising to give a standing ovation*
Well done indeed!
And to add to the parody fun here’s a Bob Rivers classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O467K_2S54Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIO4ZhJ-PJ0
After all I’ve seen and read online I didn’t think there was anything left that could damage the shards of my tattered childhood. You proved me wrong.
Oh I can do better than that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9URPvejWHk
Ha! Dare not to throw down the gauntlet against me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcjG1iusl-Q
Oh it’s on now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XU6zrGyUUo
If you’re tired of it being Bob Rivers, then here’s a different artist. Oh, it’s beginning to look a lot like fishmen… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI
Or maybe some space Christmas songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZt6eU5REN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUTmqQqrzEM
Well, if everyone else is gonna contribute some Christmas tunes, I might as well offer up some
tired old rubbishwell known classics!Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer
and
Christmas at Ground Zero
I think XKCD is getting into this contest. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/reindeer_2x.png
Daniel the Human & I say Merry Merry MERRY Freaking Christmas to you all!! :P
Nice! Of course there are skilled poets on this forum.
Bravo!
Daniel the Human & I both agree, bloody well done!!
Green hair: Jadetress
Blue hair: Azuretop
Purple hair: Plumlock
Pink hair: Rosecrown
Orange hair: Foxplume
Personally, I prefer “bluebelle” for blue hair. For guys you can call them “bluebeaus” or maybe just “bluebaes”.
Stealing the others though.
Those sound like either Pokemon or color-themed wizarding houses.
I do not see the infinite blood guy anywhere,maybe the attack was a distraction to kidnap him as powersource for the remaining twenty puppets.
The villains obviously intend to put him inside their T Rex manequin.
Worst case scenario: Deus kidnapped Tom to force him to supply infinite refills on HIS half of Max’s geode so he can create his own army of super soldiers.
Doesn’t quite seem to be Deus’s style, and he probably wouldn’t have showed off that he had the geode if he was going to do that, but that would still be an absolutely brilliant twist.
Other than the kidnap part he might, he’d bribe the guy instead.
Not gonna lie, the whole upper half of this page went over my head.
It did take a little effort to figure out who was saying what, I agree.
Well balloon positioning aside, I don’t even know what any of that is about. One moment we’re busting baddies and now suddenly we’re talking about hair. What?
Elsbeth has noticed that Sydney, Krona and Pixel have formed a little group and that they have 3 parts of a rainbow between them (assuming pink = red).
“little” group. Heh
Shorty Rainbow Squad Assemble!
Aww, no pics of Dabbler losing the armor?
Nooooo! Shower time Maxie…shower. And…is that a smudge I see on Dabbler’s backside?
Yes there has been some time since we had some shower fanservice in this comic.
Maybe one of the council members is a water elemental and we can get him/her to create a personal rain cloud over Maxima.
Or a short pegasus that can jump up and down on a cloud. Of course that needs to be out side.
Unfortunately it looks like that’s a reflection of the table on her shiny pants. Max hasn’t grabbed her ass yet.
All Sydney needs to do is find four more girls of similar size with hair that matches the color of her orbs and she would have a complete set.
Isn’t it time for you to flee in panic?
Ive already retreated into my bunker. Ill get you next time you GI JOES!
Oh look, isn’t that the Konami code on that banner?
(runs for cover)
On other forums I keep a list for punsters. Here I thinks it going to be for konami code people.
Glare
A list for those who deserve PUNishment?
/me gets out that list. Makes a notation. Plus an underline and a notation of “old joke”
One of the (many) things I have learned in X years of webcomic reading.
– If an artist thinks doing something in a particular way, will make it quicker to draw, it will inevitably take longer.
Request: Adjust description for Gunnhildr to: Vampire with a sword, and a wedgie.
In the meantime though, props to DaveB! A few people were left out of the Who’s Who in the last couple of comics, but it looks like he got them all this time.
We’re still waiting on the spanking update for Pixel… :)
With an added Sydney bonus. Still think Syd should smack her but in the shower. Just to help Dave get more votes of course. ;b
For proper pron a riding crop is required…..
Some series give vampires telepathy. I wonder if the male is sweat dropping at hearing her thought about underwear
Bigby’s Drooling Tongue, Evocation, Level 5. Creates a Large tongue of shimmering force that moves at your command, mimicking the movements of your own tongue. Once per turn, as a bonus action, you may command the tongue to perform one of the following actions:
(Leaving those up to your – er, I mean, Dabbler’s – imagination…)
Or Bigby’s Groping Hand with shower gel to get all those tight spots.
For one of the AD&D campaigns that I ran, I decided to make the Bigby’s Hand spells a complete set at one spell per level: First Level was ‘Bigby’s Gesticulating Hand’, which was immaterial, and then ‘Bigby’s Useful Hand’ — which could lift & move stuff of up to [approximately] the caster’s own mass, if I remember correctly, as well as touch people/stuff although without enough force to cause direct damage — was the Second Level development.
Ugh that reminds me of a “Joke” campaign I was in once. A god of Insanity “Blessed” a man with constant visions of another plane’s form of childrens’ entertainment. My character was grabbed by a Bigby’s hand, repeatedly dunked into a washtub the size of a small harbor and repeatedly rubbed against a washboard for 20 TURNS. Over 3 HOURS of in-game time being treated like a soiled washrag.
At least you weren’t a soiled loincloth!
That was the fighter that worshiped the “Lawgiver”. Obviously the Nemesis of the one that caused this whole mess.