Grrl Power #498 – Hangin’ with my hybrid
Obviously trying to attract the attention of your teammate might also attract the attention of anything else that can hear, but as Holo-Halo, Sydney is… well, I would say especially brash, but that’s a minor distinction in her case. Less risk averse I guess.
The funny thing is, projected Sydney can’t touch anything, but Sydney still can. Actual Sydney took her medkit out of the utility pouch and set it on the ground, so the projected one did as well, since as far as she knows all the projection can do is mirror her exactly. I guess the projection can make little child projections like the medkit. That’s probably pretty limited though, otherwise it’d be hugely exploitable. I mean from a writing standpoint, not as a design feature of the orbs.
It’s also fair to say Pixel doesn’t skip squat day. I’m not so great at drawing butts – not that I have anything against them. I mean, a nice ass is a nice ass, but easily 95% of the stuff I draw in the comic is from the front, and usually above the waist. Obviously I could pull the camera out a bit and have people standing in circles so there’s always the one person closest to the camera presenting posterior like a baboon… you’ve all seen manga like that don’t even lie. But you know when you come across an artists gallery on your site of choice and you can instantly tell “yeah, this guy is super into butts.” If I’m into anything, it’s lady abs, and if I wasn’t trying to tell a story and develop characters here, I imagine Dabbler and Max and Anvil and everyone besides Sydney would be standing around in sports bras and leaning slightly back all the time.
I finally updated the vote incentive! Thank you guys for your patience, I know the old one was a bit stale at this point. Speaking of which, the pencils are posted at DeviantArt, and it will be colored at some point. I already have it flatted, I just need to find the time to do a shading pass, but before that happens, I’d like to try to get some nudie stuff done for a mid-month Valentine’s Day piece.
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Limits to HoloHalo….
So, DaveB, care to explain why Pixel’s not facing us?
Why are we being denied delicious were jaguar boob!?
Well, at least to me it’d seem a bit Hostel-ish and I don’t think DaveB has any plans to go quite in that direction.
Don’t care; want boobs.
Cuz getting Tail is a good alternative when trying to keep it mostly sfw.
Because that fine jaguar booty is more than enough.
The plural is “boobi”.
One boob.
Two boobi.
A flotilla of boobi is more than three.
For those illiterates out there, boobies are blue-footed sea-birds.
You have been edumacated.
On the first panel, why are they collecting from the guy’s junk?
I think it’s just a urine catheter while they collect his blood. They don’t care about THAT fluid.
If it is a Urine catheter, wouldn’t it be better if the hose was pointing down instead of up and doesn’t look like an oxygen mask for your crotch?
Yeah, was just going to ask: why is there an oxygen mask on the guys junk? o_O
Some sort of vacuumed seal?
“No! It’s not my bag, baby”
Looks like an unpleasant way to have your package unpacked…
Did you really miss the opportunity to say “package package”?
That’s a very good point.
Sydney’s hologram would be a REALLY good distraction, combining he high “decibel levels “with vision obscuring flailing projection that cannot be interacted with
Indeed, hopefully Sydney thinks of it in time.
Hmm… what would happen if real Sydney had a really bright flashlight, would holo-Sydney be able to create a blinding beam of light?
Holo-PPO!
You see the Wave-Motion Gun fire at you, but you hear something else explode a few hundred metres away. Talk about a tsunami of emotion and panic.
The problem with Sydney’s plan to yell a lot means that Holo-Halo’s voice is going to be drowned out by the real Halo’s voice being closer to the rest of the group…
Sydney won’t be going anywhere, Harem and Harem will
Oh wow, if there is no cap on the decibel level the orb is able to transmit, Sydney could simply fire a handgun point blank next to someones head, would make for one hell of a distraction.
She could fire off a flashbang too but she’d have to juggle it quick with the shield orb.
I just realised sydney could pull off the “nyeh nyeh can’t hit me guy” manuever. She has n illusory autonomous clone at’s intangible and she an shield the real one at the same time
Damn son, squat game strong lol. But for real, is it just me or does the girl hanging next to Pixel not remind you of Queen Tyr’ahnee, if it turns out to be her then 10/10 addition.
I thought she looked familiar.
More like a mage, than a familiar. Familiars tend to be pussy cats, whereas mages tend to be human and demi-human. Perhaps she cast ‘summon familiar’ and that is what encouraged Pixel to go in, at that moment?
Super powerful villain: “ha ha! You’re powerless to stop me now and you know it, Halo!”
Halo: “You’re right, but I can still annoy the hell out of you.”
Super powerful villain: “……..fuck”
Ilusionary hands in your eyes!
OhGOD, the annoying power of “holo”-Sydney, going:
“I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You!
I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You!
I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You!
I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You! – I’m Not Touching You!…”
…speaking strictly for myself, if *I* was a super-villain, I’d surrender *SO!* – *VERY!* – *FAST!*
(…”The. Horror. … The. Horror.”…)
I firmly believe that Sydney could quickly drive even Dr. Doom himself into an apoplectic fit of frenzy.
…Within 10 seconds upon first encounter…
“How is it possible that you are more irritating than the squirrel woman?!”
THAT would be an awesome team-up. Halo and Squirrel Girl. I can easily imagine it. (However, i’m unable to imagine them getting any actual super-heroing done, what with Sydney needing to brush all the squirrels’ fur)
Continuously stepping in and out of someone might be creepy and unnerving to the enemy too. Instinct woul screw with you to avoid hits and other issues
Also hitting the wrong buttons because – too many fingers
For the vote incentive, I think Sydney is missing the most essential item, which is one of those cat hair / lint roller wand things. I imagine pink hair on gray sheets sticks out like a sore thumb.
I’m just glad he didn’t have her with one of those pacifier tongue cat scratcher things
Vote incentive idea: pixel playing with a ball of light, or Dabbler patin’ Pixel tummy. Speaking of pixel, should’nt her boobs sag a little because of gravity/being upsidedown ?
Yarn, ball of yarn dammit
The Most Common Superpower works in all directions
Oh shit, son, a genuine cliffhanger! This better not end in catastrophe…. #savePixel
Cat-ass-trophy?
Why, whatever could you mean? I would never (always) leave a pun like that out where others might find it….
At least not while she’s catatonic…
You deserve the Internets. All of them.
Well-played pun, Cesret. Well played.
Oh, hey. Another Xanth reader. Awesome.
Xanth is in the houuuuuse
But could you imagine Dr.House in Xanth?
I’d rather not.
Actually, Xanth needs a bit more bitter. Piers Anthony’s grandkids have made him soft. :D
At least we’re getting some Catharsis.
We leave Sydney caterwauling in the catacombs while she attempts to catalyze the rescue of her catnapped catamount and hopefully the catsuited and catheterized persons hung up like cataleptic cattle.
Oh dear. You are doing it again, aren’t you?
Maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWddZlEXzs
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
When punslingers start shooting off at the mouth, there’s no such thing as overkill, because there IS such a thing as underkill.
And yet, no catamite.
Behold the power of.. The Cat-o-Might! (This joke stolen from Two Lumps).
I catta read this any longer.
A “genuine cliffhanger,” you say? How do you know that the guy’s name is Cliff?
;)
they know because they’re Wunderbar.
https://www.clifbar.co.uk/assets/uploads/builders_2014-wrappers_choc.png
He He “end”.
So are they draining their blood into blood packets? Also for how long have the rest been hanging there?
And this seriously doesnt seem like the fastest way of draining someone’s blood
You never seen one of those anti-meat propaganda videos? Where the pre-processed meat is hung up and it’s throat slit?
But from the looks of it, the bucket is feeding into the Dangling Trio
Into? Looks like gravity feed since the buckets are below their heads that hold the IV bags.
Please pry your peepers from Pixel Panther’s pert posterior, and you will see that the tubes going into the unwilling donors, are attached to the bottom (hey! pry those peepers back down!!) of the bucket, and the contents of the bucket looks like kibble rather than blood (and even if it was blood, they would not be in an open-to-contamination bucket)
Doesn’t matter – hydrostatics (specifically siphons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon) means the two “containers” would try to have the same level.
Well sydneys imaginatory flashback woud disagree, you can clearly see vats of blood
There is a big difference between ‘imaginary’ and ‘reality’
The author confirmed that the imagery was purely Sydney’s imagination.
I imagine Pixel was involved, but the vats of blood were purely artistic inventions by Sydney.
Why send Harem? This is a job for the shield, fly and lighthook orbs. Better yet, call Maxima, there are other people in danger.
Well, Harem can do an insta-evac once she’s down there, and Krona can call for backup. And possibly hack up some quick cheat codes….
Harem can’t insta evac anyone but herself. It’s been well established multiple times that she has a weight limit and can’t teleport living things.
She can send another of her bodies for backup though.
Forgot about the no other people restriction, but weight can be gotten around by temporarily reducing her “Harem size,” as she’s done that before.
She had to de-teleport all but one of her just to teleport the big rifle. So she could evac a baby or a cat or something but not an adult.
Which brings us back to the whole “can not *VORP* another living object unless they are the daughter of an Aztec God and comes from Boston”
Well, obviously because she can get in and out instantly. Hopefully she’ll get one of the other “hers” to warn the rest.
Be… cause Harem can get down there faster than Sydney can, and probably has completed basic field first aid
Harem was the one doing triage, first aid & application of those “knockout cuffs” on the captives at the steakhouse fight, remember? Yeah, I think it’s safe to say that she has some medical training,
:)
However, without at least the military’s level of a license to practice, she’s limited in what she can do.
However, if Harem is qualified to at least Paramedic level AND teleports in with med equipment and a direct radio link to a doctor, she can at least follow the doctor’s instructions & not be held legally accountable for a goofup.
And, due to the Americans lust for litigations, that’s why so many people who could be saved, are left to die or, worse, end up a paralyzed drooling mess, even fully qualified doctors are not allowed to help unless they get written permission (in triplicate), witnessed and signed by someone with the proper credentials to verify the witnesses’ identification
… many states now have “Good Samaritan ” laws .”Oh, they broke your leg saving you from dying in a fire-case dismissed “…
What? There are some judges who aren’t arse-hats? Sounds like an Urban Legend to me
As a branch of the military (which Archon is), weren’t you aware that miltitary doctors are immune to malpractice litigation when they treat other military personnel?
I’m aware of it, because I was in the military…
Was just saying, where ordinary civilians (or even military) could have been saved by a passing qualified and certified doctor, now have to be left to suffer
It is even worse in India. Fortunately not so in many sensible parts of the world. In fact, this month saw a guy jailed for failing to render assistance to a woman who was drowning.
He had actually been on a date with her. When she ended up in the sea, by the harbour, he just watched her. Whilst many people would have tried to help her out directly, there is an element of risk, so that provides mitigation on that aspect alone. However there would have been no risk in throwing out one of the life belts prominently displayed in such areas.
Likewise he failed to even shout out for assistance, or call the emergency services. What did he do? Watch until she was dead. Then go down the pub. Eventually he phoned the police, saying ‘I watched someone drown’.
He got a considerable jail term. Most deservedly.
Right, the best thing to do is call for back-up. Not only are there about half a dozen supernaturals tied up down there but they are being tapped for their blood. Blood was used to fuel those 4 killer manikins they fought earlier. If the bad guys are collecting that much blood there’s going to be a lot more of a threat waiting than that.
Another thought: With all those supernatural beings having been captured, including one we know went in invisible, the bad guys must have some kind of security system in place that targets them.
Not a good idea attracting something powerful enough to do that to Pixel. Especially not when you are unable to do much to protect her, other than wave your hand through its head. Or maybe poke it in the eye with your Lightbee.
First priority is to call this in. Backup is in order. Or, at a minimum, letting the rest of the team know that if no word is received for another ten minutes, they will need to send in another rescue squad for these four.
Mmm, tricky problem. The hologram will not have a GPS on it. Maybe they could grab one of the more lightweight versions * that Harem has. Or she could get one of her alts to bring the smallest GPS device from Archon HQ.
Attach that to the Lightbee, send it back to Pixel, and they have an immediate fix. Be that by Sydney reading the display, or maybe it having a remote tracking device the others can use.
Then make their way down fast but quietly.
* Sydney’s pip boy looks too heavy for the lightbee to carry, assuming its strength is reduced proportionately, when compared to the other, larger, orbs. Bearing in mind that , when it is in the truesight orb, it is, what, 1/8th the size?
You forget that what 1 Harem experiences is automatically shared by all the other Harems, so it’s a safe bet that she’ll notify Max at once.
That counts as calling it in. But good point, none-the-less.
Does the lightbee always have to be the same size? A 1/4 inch tall image would see just as well, but be really hard to spot.
Not right now. It appears to be a light-bee-or-holo-me toggle, with no in between settings unlocked (or identified) so far. But who knows what the future holds.
> Not a good idea attracting something powerful enough to do that to Pixel.
Indeed – whoever could capture Pixel silently and hang her up must be rather strong, maybe stronger than all Harems together. Not a good idea to send anyone of this team in. They should call Max or Dabbler or both!
Pixel is still wearing her collar. If that is her Archon issued collar, then it should already have a GPS in it that they could track. (This depends on whether it can be remotely activated if turned off)
There is also whatever “in case anything happens” Krona set up earlier.
Possibly that applied to everyone on the team. Although I got the impression that she was looking at the newbie, when she said that. In which case Halo would be backed up, but not necessarily Pixel. Although as they have worked together (as teams, if not individually) then Krona might have an older back-up of Pixel. She might loose a few weeks memories, but that is preferable to being dead.
It doesn’t need to be a child projection, the medikit can just be a part of the main projection that has a transparent bit in it. You know. Alpha masks and all that.
lol, i reminded A Very Potter musical – fan musical – watch it!, where ron is yelling on Hermione – How you were caught, you were invisible!
Oh, and bring lots of bottled sunlight. Err or whatever anti-vampire stuff they have in the armoury. Or portable UV devices. As Archon has been aware of vampires, for a long time, hopefully they have the necessary tools.
Nah — get Pixel and the others out fast and then, well, take off and PPO the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure….
And if the Sigil is in there somewhere, that would likely destroy it. Remember, the Sigil is why they’re there in the first place.
At least Sydney was right to ask “when does radio silence become knocked unconscious?”
I always wondered if a UV flashlight would be a vampire deathray.
I came to the conclusion…no.
Because it’s the magical properties of sunlight not it’s wavelengths
that the vampires are allergic to.
It’s not as if a crucifix is radioactive, but to vampires it is.
crucifix: based on (Christian) belief
sunlight: based on combination of UV light, belief, and supposed connection to aforementioned belief system
garlic: grown in sunlight, and helps blood run faster, which could conceivably speed up a vampire’s absorption of that blood, causing them to burn up too much ‘fuel’ too quickly
so, possibly if your UV flashlight were in the shape of a crucifix…
Actually, garlic is just vampires don’t like the smell… so people would hang up strings of garlic in their home, or eat lots of it… Ever smelled the breath of someone who’s been eating a bunch of raw garlic? Hell, if you eat a whole bulb of raw garlic, you’re going to be sweating garlic smell for days…
Needless to say it’s not just vampires that it drives away, but what’s worse, driving away everyone who isn’t a garlic lover, or not driving away vampires?
I don’t want to hang around people who don’t like garlic anyway…
In Italy there was a public ordinance banning the use of public transport within two hours of having consumed garlic!
That’s why I’ve never been to Italy.
:)
And yet the vampire masqued balls there are to die for!
No thanks. That seems like a strange place to wear a mask…For the guys at least, an elephant mask might be comfortable enough.
As for sunlight, I don’t know if it has anything to do with Christianity or not, but traditionally, vampires are only weakened by sunlight, they don’t actually combust or anything. Read Brahm Stoker’s Dracula some time. Dracula walks around in broad daylight all the time, he just doesn’t like to because it makes it so he can’t use his powers. It wasn’t until the 20th century that the literal weakness to sunlight became death in sunlight.
I always thought it was that Dracula could travel anywhere in his hometown that the shadow of his castle fell upon
If you have a copy of the movie version, which gives the impression of being pretty faithful to the book, you will see Dracula wandering around in London, finely dressed as a gentleman. In daylight.
Wearing tinted (sun)glasses
In at least 1 mainstream vampire story, it was not the crucifix per se, but rather any “Symbol Of Redemption”, such as (but not limited to):
– the Egyptian Ankh
– the Jewish Star of David
– the Sun itself (consider how many different cultures have been Sun-worshippers)
…furthermore, (depending upon the story-teller) some vampires might be affected by only some of these icons.
(if you’ve never heard about the Shintoist faith, would you recognize their symbols as redemptive?)
It’s been stated that they’re vulnerable to fire, so it would still make sense that this thing would hurt like crazy.
Say, if holo-halo had that, would it work?
In the books of Dennis McKiernan, the Foul Folk (most of the Evil Humanoids™) are destroyed by sunlight because of The Ban, placed by Adon to punish those who sided with Gyphon, the god of Evil.
Very derivative in the early novels, but he’s done well in more recent years in creating a compelling universe.
The Ban
Dammit…
Looks like there are other Vampires – who may or may not be there by their own choice – so a sunshine bomb may not be good for relations if they become collateral damage.
Also we do not know if the Bloodsmith is a Vampire at all – she could be a Zombie/Ghoul – or some kind of fairy, with these Ears.
Still the PPO should be a safe bet for cutting up some mystery meat bloodsmith – and that Swordgolem, too – without too much beam scattering.
Vampires or supers in general? Or any unusual being? Pixel is not a vampire.
Ok, not sure why that went to the wrong placement.
Just seal the place off and garlic gas them.
This turned dark quickly. Lets hope the Deus ex Hax of Krona was something more than just “lower Sidneys dB around the base of operation” after all.
So one guy gets a crotch-hose, and the other two… Um. Wouldn’t that contaminate the blood-bucket? >_<
Maybe he wore that when he was caught – you never know what kind of partys these vampires attend to.
If I was there this is what me reaction would be: “must resist butt touching… must resist butt touching… must resist butt touching… must resist butt touching… must resist butt touching… musDAMMIT! …..wait I’m still a hologram I can’t touch the butt….. that is possibly worse… “
So, in that seemingly short amount of time, some villain has:
A) Found an invisible were-jaguar-super
B) Incapatacitated her, seemingly with minimal fuss, as the only injuries aside from the blood collection is her hands, which may be Pixel’s blood, or the villain’s.
C) Strung up a HEAVY body, shanked it properly for blood collection…Though that placement seems less blood, more cerebro-spinal fluid
And Halo thinks YELLING is a good idea? Generally this strikes me as a more forceful situation. Minimum three people as strong as Pixel, since she was taken out so easily. And a fourth to try and escape with Pixel for medical assistance and possibly needed info if she wakes up. Come on, Sydney, you’ve played RPGs, you know how this goes. No yelling in the bad guy’s house, he notices and murders you. Every time.
Am I the only one who suspects this isn’t Half-Head’s doing? I’m thinking this is Underling work. If I was half a head, I’d not waste my time collecting blood, I’d make someone else do it. And probably be evil about it too, be all “Get me enough blood…Or I’m taking yours. Mwahahaha”
Actually, it also occurs to me that Magic was probably involved. Magical wards would detect Pixel, presumably, as her Jaguar form is inherently magical. But that does seem to indicate that Halo’s tele-orb isn’t magical. It could simply indicate that the wards are shoddy, but given what we’ve seen happen to Pixel, it seems unlikely.
Has DaveB accidentally confirmed that Halo’s Orbs are not magical? Now we only have to debate between FutureTech or SpaceTech! Huzzah!
I think they might be space magitek.
Regardless of whether the orbs are magical, it has been established that magic cannot detect the orbs themselves.
Whether magic can detect things produced by the orbs, like the Lightbee or Lighthook has not been answered.
I would say that until proven otherwise, we must assume that being unable to be detected by magic is a property of the orbs, and the things the orbs make inherit that property. It would seem silly otherwise.
I assumed it was established that the magic available to Archon couldn’t detect the Orbs….If they are magical in origin, presumably SOMETHING has to have powerful enough magic to detect them. After all, if they’re magical artifacts, something had to make them, and if you make something, you can break it. So at the very least, if they are magic, whoever made them should be able to detect them. If the makers can detect them presumably anyone else with the right know-how or enough power pumped into the spells should also be able to detect them.
Of course, if they are science, then it’s entirely possible that even the makers can’t really mess with them. AIs and semi-sentiences could easily be past their control for any number of reasons, and it would offer an explanation of sorts for things like ‘How are level-ups determined?’ ‘How did Sydney find the orbs but nobody else?’ ‘Why do the orbs only work for Sydney?’ All of that could simply be because the sentience or semi sentience of these science-d up orbs said so, basically.
Of course, I could be entirely wrong, and they could in fact be a construct or constructs, and thus purposefully occluding themselves from magic. That would be explicable presuming they/it are more powerful than the other magic users encountered thus far. That might also explain the two mystery orbs, one for a brain, one for a heart.
And of course, we’re all summing DaveB actually has decided what the orbs are. He might’ve just gone and made the orbs, and made the story, and figured he’d sort out what the orbs’ origin is at some later date.
[Nssheepster], re_”Has DaveB accidentally confirmed that Halo’s Orbs are not magical?”:
Perhaps he’s invoking [Clarke’s 3rd Law] – [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws]
…if not, then perhaps he’s going to demonstrate the reverse:
“Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!”
Depending on the enemy’s capabilities he might have had a trap laid out for her – maybe she was at exact that pillar – trying to get down these other vampires when she was hit from behind and then just strung up with the others. Not sure if the Vampires in the Grrlverse can die when they have no blood left, but it seems likely that she might have tried to get them down anyways.
At some point Pixel shifted back to humanoid form so it’s possible that’s when she was detected.
Absolute first order of business for both the others is calling it in. Not optional.
Well Harem is among them, and even if they are not calling it in themselves, which I certainly would say is a must regardless, then the other hers would be aware and getting backup.
One could hope, but Harem has a very healthy ego. She might not be asking for help until one of her bodies drop off the grid…
She may have an ego, but she’s not stupid, certainly regards to herself: she has just as much of a fear of dying as anyone else, maybe moreso seeing how she can die five times
I will be honest, when Syd said “dramatic gasp” especially taking the moment to say “dramatic” was not expecting this genuinely horrified gasp worthy scene.
But really, Holy crap! And it is only been roughly 10 minutes, right? What the hell could have found her and strung her up like that in that short of a time? And yeah probably that something is still around.
Would say one of them should call for backup, but considering Harem, one of her is probably gonna be all over that and then some.
I saw that coming. :(
No, no you didn’t
Will they get there in time??
I am sure she is in no immediate danger of dying any time soon. These look like a bunch that are set up to be “donors” for the long term.
Using blood from supers and weres as a potential food source seems risky. The result to the user could turn out either really good, or really bad.
Pretty certain that blood from different extra-humans probably has more applications for this blood magic user than just simply food.
…Such as the blood from a were can be used to convert normal people into weres, perhaps…
Yeah, due to factors both magical and biological, the blood (& other fluids & body parts) from supers & supernaturals have a very wide range of uses.
They’re not being used as a food source… That’s where the blood magic lady hangs out, remember? The blood’s being collected to make super powerful blood spells.
We still don’t know if this is Sci-frights’ base (or one of them), or her vamp-lackeys’ lair, or even the site of one of the Sigils and the other strung-geese are the (former) Guardians
Wrong. Sydney mentions that they are “checking out some dead chick’s old haunt” So it almost certainly belongs to the lady who had most of her head chopped off. Whether it is currently being operated by her, or by her minions, is still unknown, however
It is worth noting that she does hang out with an elder vampire. Who she did take blood from, and it seems like a regular occurrence. He has to replace that from somewhere.
O.B. Juan comments about the risks from consuming super-blood are well-founded. Mind you, it could well be intended directly for use in blood magic. Perhaps super blood is similarly potent to elder vampire blood, for such purposes? Not to mention the were-blood thrown into the mix.
Or, alternatively, it may turn out that the same risks, which apply for consuming super-blood, also apply for using it as a component in magic. Who knows what weird side effects might occur? And, being super, I doubt they would be on the trivial side!
I am guessing if hypothetically if pixel had been left there she would have eventually fitted with her own latex suit and other “equipment”. Rather wondering who these other “donors” are and how long they have been here, and what condition they are in. Really hoping we have a chance to find out… as soon as they deal with whoever or whatever did this to Pixel.
PS: Not gonna lie, this kinda tickles my kinks a bit. <_<
Those others? They aren’t wearing a latex suit, or much of anything else
Huh, yeah you seem to be correct looking closer to the grey fellow at the right, but would have at least thought so with the lady to the left.
Not is if she is a dark elf [drow] – their natural pigmentation is blackest black skin with stark white hair.
They grey fellow has a blindfold and gag on though for some reason. That might just be his original equipment considering the colour match (pixel’s choker was left on afterall).
PS: Not gonna lie, this kinda tickles my kinks a bit. <_< well Sunstone already made an appearance in the comicbook store.
This is all kinds of bad.
Not only was Pixel KO’d, that means that whoever KO’d her has probably been looking for our heroes since then. (Time to put your force field up, Sydney, like NOW!) Also note that Pixel doesn’t have a catheter or a mask and gag, they probably *just* stepped away to get those things.
I am also noting that we are not seeing a light trail leading to the Holo-Halo image, so at least the attackers can’t track that back to Mighty Halo directly.
I suppose using the LikeButtaBeam to remove the roof is currently off the table? I suppose so, might be innocents up there.
Mighty Halo yelling could also be an awesome distraction and information gathering tool. If the bad guys confront the hologram, she can describe them to her fellows and interrogate them for their purposes. Maybe she can get them monologuing?
So we know the assailants can notice and defeat lycanthropes without killing them (even scarier in a way than simply having access to silver) too fast for them to use a collar mic, that they can detect an invisible *panther* (cats can be pretty quiet, last I checked), and they farm blood. I would be thinking “grumpy vampire dude from the Council is behind this”.
Regardless, time to call in Maxima’s squad. And find out what Krona’s ‘bip’ was.
DaveB, your butt game is on point, I would not worry about it. However, feel free to research and improve, I give you full permission to show us more naked girl butts in the future for the purpose of art. In fact, you may want to visit a few strip clubs as research.
No, it’s not grumpy bald vampire dude, it’s that other grumpy vampire dude, the one last seen about to donate (completely un-willingly) to the Golem Life-blood Fund
They did it *quietly* and *quickly* too to a really big super were-jaguar with laser claws and cloaking ability.
On the butts angle, this long dead Italian guy did a lot of really good anatomical sketches.
He was from some small village. I think it was Vinci.
I thought he lived in the NYC sewers with his 3 brothers and a giant rat.
For one thing, Holo-Halo doesn’t need the shield at all. Her projected image is perfectly safe. Although, if whoever confronts her finds out that there’s a “Lightbee” holo-projector there, they may try to do something to that.
For another thing, using the PPO anywhere on or in that building might destroy the very same Sigil that they came here to check on & protect. ONe of the techniques that comic book writers use is to set up situations where certain obvious use of some powers would either be pointless or even detrimental in that situation; it’s those challenges in a hero’s creativity that contributes greatly to a story.
Yes, HoloHalo could still be usefull for info gathering, but if anyone there notices that she seems to be talking to someone (like over an active radio link, even though it’s the real Sydney taling to those outside the building) then they’re likely to prepare for more vistors (if they haven’t done so already).
Yes, there’s also Krona’s “hack” that she set up just before Pixel went inside. But from this side of the 4th wall, exactly what that hack is supposed to do is still nothing but conjecture.
Also gotta note that Pixel’s claws are bloody. Guessing whatever put her in this state did not come out unscathed. But still was in good enough condition to KO her and put her up there. So yeah really does not bode well no matter how ya slice it.
Especially when you consider that she has lightsaber claws in that form, and whomever it was should have been well sliced.
The obvious option is to simply lead them, only Sydney’s hologram is down there after all. So far it isn’t established that Sydney would no longer be able to move normally or completely lose her normal senses.
But I suppose that plan would be too mundane… And I suppose they should report back first, that they have found something at this location.
As far as “reporting back” goes, Harem should already be all over that…x4.
Further note: KO’d lycanthropes do not revert to human form. Or they revert from other forms to “Crinos” form.
Is her upright form the one with laser claws? Should that preclude her getting her paws bloody while using them?
Yes, her hybrid form has the light-sabre claws
Why does the Drow (or maybe it is Queen Tyr’ahnee) have her hands secured to her sides, while Pixel Panther and Hose-Crotch Guy have theirs secured behind them?
Bondage enthusiast that likes to mix things up? >_>
Restrictions on what gestures she can make while doing magic?
Regarding the cure invotive: is Sydney wearing a hair-stylized cat ear? Or is she sporting a pair of pony-tails with a braided tail at the back?
Also, you missed the perfect opportunity to have Sydney wearing a cat-gin :}
Sydney’s wearing a normal ponytail in the back. Her physics-defying bangs are being held by a headband given to Sydney back in the Council Chamber, as a gift.
She’s not wearing the headband in the invotive, the one where she is brushing Pixel Panther’s tail
Having some Mad Max flashbacks. Surely a “hitch up my bloodbag” moment is coming.
The woman hanging next to Pixel bears a strong likeness to the Marvel character Black Cat.
No, no she doesn’t, Ms Hardy is a white woman, if you had said “Storm”, then you may have been close
Maybe I missed the finer details due to the coloration. I thought it was a latex suit. As you suggest, it might well be her birthday suit.
Does Syndey know The Song That Gets on Everybody’s Nerves?
You mean this one?
Probably more like this one.
Oh yes, that one, had it going for over 10 hours once, after a couple hours, she starts singing in tongues (and the guy starts to swear)
I could only survive it long enough to copy the url to clipboard (so I could paste it here) before I closed the window-tab as frikkin’ fast as possible !!
After a couple hours (was forced to close it after 4 hours due to having to get some sleep :(), it gets really weird!
Is that like The Song That Never Ends? That one got on our teacher’s nerves pretty quick.
song mix: the song that never ends mashed with levan polka, as well as ‘i am the very model of a modern major general’ played on loop with kazoos
No worries. Krona will hack reality so Pixel is freed. Problem solved.
IMO that butt is over the top: unnatural to the point of grotesque. Other than that I had two different reactions to this comic:
1) Oh no, poor Pixel! Rescue them!
2) Oh good, fight scene coming up (possibly).
And quibble: Pixel is in the who’s who even though she doesn’t have speaking lines.
what? That booty says it all!
There’s also the fact that she’s hanging upside down…You know, effects of gravity & what-not. That’s bound to pull it a bit out of shape, especially considering that, while unconscious, it’s going to act a bit more flabby than firm.
There hasn’t been a “nightmare fuel” comic in Grrl Power before. This is grade freaking A nightmare fuel.
Or Kink-Bait depending on the reader.
The difference here between kinky that I like and nightmare fuel is the blood drains. Handing upside down in bondage? Kinky and I approve. Draining the blood from the people in bondage? Nightmare fuel and I DO NOT WANT.
Sort of like the difference between “kinky” and “perverted.” It may be considered kinky if you use a feather…but it’s perverted if you use the whole chicken, live.
Nitpick time: A mammalian tail (for those of us with them) exits the body at the top of the buttocks, not the middle. It is an extension of the spine after all, it just does not have a huge nerve bundle in it.
Nitpick time (2): With nothing supporting her arms in that position, her arms try to fall down and out, because gravity are pulling them. Tying her wrists together with chain will limit how far they fall, but her elbows will be at a more severe angle and her wrists will be further down, at least until the chain is digging into her flesh and jamming the arms from moving any further. The arms should also pull away from her body to the limits of her shoulder flexibility.
Nitpick time (3): Pixel’s tail in the voting incentive. Sure, you can bend a cat’s tail that much, assuming there is a joint in the vertebral column at that point, but if that point was not already a site of injury, it would be now, at least Pixel would be in pain if her tail is bend around Sydney’s arm like that. Those joints just don’t bent that much. Think about your back instead of your elbow. A healthy cat’s tail bends in a smooth arc, not a sharp bend.
The vestigial tail retained by humans is the coccyx bone. Assuming that shifting doesn’t reconfigure the hips in weird and unlikely ways Pixels tail is pretty much spot on.
Yes the tails are usually draw as you describe in art, but it makes 0 sense from a skeletal structure perspective, unless these is no internal vertebrae and it’s really just a back-tentacle. Face it, the hominid form isn’t suited to a tail, which is probably why we don’t have them.
Er… that thing seems to be going strait to the heart. Front and Back. Pulling it out is probably a bad idea.
Am I the only one disturbed that Pixel’s tail seems to be coming out of her butt instead of being attached to the base of her spine like when it was first shown?
I believe you may be right, if the edge of the tail (not the tail end, the other end) were starting closer to Pixel’s knuckles, it might seem a little more correct, but on the whole i’d say the artwork was just so well done I’d missed that possibility until it was mentioned
On a lighter note, seeing Pixel were-booty here and the vote incentive reminds me that it was mentioned the she likes to be spanked.
And yeah would really LOVE for us to see a full pinup of Pixel sometime.
Also of note, her were form has much more booty area to spank.
Interesting that she didn’t revert to human pixel. Of course there are several possibilities.
1) Grrlverse Weres don’t revert while asleep/unconscious. Which would be awkward for many plot devices common to the genre.
2) Pixel isn’t unconscious per se, but paralyzed or otherwise incapacitated by drugs or powers.
3) There is a means to prevent reversion by powers or exposure to garlic/wolfsbane/silver/furrbys etc.
That’s what I forgot to mention in my nitpicks. I figure her transformation requires a conscious decision. While unconscious, she will not transform. Hmm, after Pixel is rescued and they are getting ready to leave the old chocolate warehouse, Sydney could hand Pixel her clothing and tell her it is time to “Transform and Roll Out!” A Gibbs-slap from a 4’10” Pixel may ensue. Of course, that phrase is more familiar when spoken in bass instead of alto.
Sydney could try a more bass-like voice, but we’ve already seen how that turned out