Grrl Power #505 – Team sweep
So this page took a bit longer than usual to draw as you might guess. In fact it’s the reason I wasn’t able to get a piece finished for the Valentine’s Day Sex Drive thing – the yearly nudie pinup I do. Don’t worry I’ll still try and get that done at some point this year before the next one rolls around. You guys aren’t going to get shorted.
I thought this would be a record breaking Who’s Who, but it’s mostly Harem talking in the later panels. By the usual rules, only speaking parts get tagged to keep it from blowing up. Now, if this is your first visit to Grrl Power, you’re probably left wondering who a lot of these people are. Actually even if you’re a regular reader there might be one or two appearances you might not recall but that’s only because they weren’t heavily featured. Actually second to last panel has the Epimeliad from a mini comic under a regular page, and the witch just had part of her head poking over the bottom of a panel in one of the Council chamber scenes.
The bottom panel shows Iza busting out the moves he never got a chance to deploy during the Council Chamber fight. In case you can’t tell since they’re a little small, (twice as big over at Patreon :) he’s a card mage. I don’t know if there’s a proper name for that, but basically, you know, Magic the Gathering meets Yu-Gi-Oh! meets Card Captor Sakura, etc, etc. Right now he’s summoned a baby aquatic Purple Worm modified with a Gnomish rider (that gives it a bonus against mechanical enemies, duh) plus bonus acid damage on bite attacks and some other stuff.
I find it amusing that Dabble has struggled in combat the few times we’ve seen it, but the first off screen action she gets, she cleans up like an OCD maid. We will eventually get to see her do well on camera, that’s not going to be a running gag.
That third to last panel with Chorius and Kat, I think I probably should have drawn them in their Veiled appearance, and put their real forms in the bubbles, but the thought of drawing Chorius in the tophat distracted me. Normally it would be easy enough for Kat to just switch back to her human form, except she’s been a were for like 3 weeks and it’s difficult for her to rapidly pop back and forth.
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How does Pixel know Sciona’s name?
Good point. Bit of a continuity error there.
Which we can put down to Krona doing a quick summary of her log, in between pages. Likewise Sydney could have blurted out an update, then realised she should be telling Maxima, on this page.
Whilst the natural flow would not normally indicate that, Krona did talk a lot even after Maxima called in, so it is not unreasonable that a bit more happened after that. As it is not something that we would need to know (as it just repeats what we have already seen) skipping showing that part of the exchange would be sensible.
It’s entirely possible that Sciona did the “Egotistical Villain” thing and bragged her identity before Pixel passed out from whatever Sciona did to knock her out.
Pixel should not remember that though, due to the reset. So far her reactions have been entirely consistent with having no recollection of the pre-recall events.
Whilst Krona clearly did not loop time universally, there was something analogous, on a local scale, and both Krona herself and Pixel were affected by it. Aside from dialogue confirming it, Pixel has been restored to consciousness, good health and a fully clothed state.
As such any knowledge (such as Sciona’s name) would need to have been obtained after the reset.
Of course there is the possibility that Harem’s deja vu was not due to her distributed consciousness but was simply an indicator of an even wider discrepancy between what Krona thought she had done and the actual events. It may turn out that Pixel is gradually remembering things. Perhaps indicating that Harem just recovered from a ‘fogged’ memory quicker.
Assuming that no dialogue occurred in between comic pages (or frames of one) and any of those present pick up on the point, it should help Krona try and diagnose where she has gone wrong, and what might actually be happening.
Actually, I doubt it is a continuity error. I don’t think Sciona introduced herself, so that doesn’t even matter. It is likely that everyone was briefed on who they are looking for before being sent out to all these potentially dangerous locations where she could be found. I mean, what else would the mission briefing be? “Hey, we need you to go investigate this abandoned factory, but we are not going to tell you who or what you are looking for even though there could be manekillers and other dangerous things there.”
Safe assumption is everyone sent out was briefed with the bare minimum about Sciona; her name, a basic summary of her abilities, and possibly a bit of her backstory.
Logically argued. And yes, Ingsol had picked her out as being a prime suspect. Just a ‘mostly decapitated’ one. Clearly he would know her name.
It still leaves the fact that Pixel did not know Sciona had been found. Only that something bad (associated with an orange drink) had happened to herself. Possibly she figured out the inference that she had been drained of blood. Which would point to either vampires or Sciona being the culprit. And they were almost certainly here looking for her, following whatever lead may have suggested this location.
Plus Pixel might be arrogant enough about her abilities that she would figure only the arch-villain herself could have taken her out.
So it is still guesswork, but you are right to say that Pixel could reasonably have figured it out.
You can assume they were briefed on the target before starting this mission. After all, Ingsol knew/suspected she was the target.
Ooh double page glory!
He he. Mr Fluffy, doing his Sherlock Holmes thing, in panel 5 made me laugh, in addition to the team names gag.
Plus wondering about the various unidentifieds. Green girl with wand and old lady with staff in Panel 7 and worm rider in panel 8. I am assuming the legs, being eaten by the worm, are those of a manikiller.
According to the Author text, that worm rider is just a summon.
Third paragraph: “Right now he’s summoned a baby aquatic Purple Worm modified with a Gnomish rider (that gives it a bonus against mechanical enemies, duh) plus bonus acid damage on bite attacks and some other stuff.”
Yea, and mentions the others too. I should have read the blog first. I was just a bit too keen.
*wags tail excitedly*
Sooo much stuff going on in this spread! Even the backgrounds are intriguing. I wonder how spread out they all are?
By the laws of storytelling: To spread out to help Sydney and Co, who is about to be attacked.
Probably very true!
*nods*
We do know that Sciona does have ‘wards’ and is otherwise alert enough to have detected their earlier intrusions. Even if she did get reset, Scionia and minions (including a powerful vampire) could well be on to their presence, on the roof top, by other means. Look outs could have spotted them, if nothing else.
They were not exactly a model of stealth, after all.
If I were a new reader doing an archive binge, I’d only read the pages. Author comments and reader comments would get ignored. I thought that worm rider was a character till I read the author notes.
Likewise. Mind you the author’s blog (and his and others comments here) are for those who want to find out more than what is just in the main comic. Whether he is a minor character, in a different team, who we never see again, or a summoned being, would make little difference to the ongoing story experience.
Unless, of course, he does feature again, for either reason. But Dave would probably handle it in a way that is friendly to those who are not up to speed with the blog. Even if he does not though folks will probably be able to join the dots.
And, if they find themselves failing, well they can always ask the question. Then lo, we have another member of the community. Hopefully one who will enjoy the comments enough to stick around!
You weren’t the only one to wonder who the gnome was
His name is most assuredly NOT “Mr. Fluffy”. It’s Barkly.
I wonder if how many times Iza has to mulligan….
Question:Did Harem “vorp” over to New York City following the attack on the Twilight Council chambers?
The reason I ask is that she didn’t accompany Maxi,Sydney and the others in the bubble journey…
It was explained when she showed up on the roof top with the rest of Goof Troop
Dave confirmed that Harem is familiar enough with key locations on both the East coast and West coast that she can pull off the trick. The weird states in the middle would be an issue for her though. Not surprising mind, I could not even name half of them. Let alone visualise a given spot in any of them.
This, this, or this might help.
(In ascending order of difficulty. Although the main difference in difficulty in the first two is that the second requires spelling.)
Shame, I was hoping one of those might lead to a cure for my condition. Sadly unless I gain the ability to actually correctly associate names with what they are meant to represent then I will still pretty much end up with random results.
Not that I am incapable mind. It is just takes a heck of a lot of effort, even to get people I deal with on a day-to=day basis right. Well a reasonable proportion of the time. With uncomfortably long delays in a given conversation, whilst I do so. It simply is not worth going to the same trouble for U.S. states.
Thanks for the effort though. It was kind of you to try to help.
I think the “medieval Playboy Bunny” line would have worked better if Katrina was wearing Dabbler’s glamorized version of the armor guy. :P
Better, yes, but her Veil illusion does have ‘metal’ bunny ears, as part of the ‘costume’. So it still plays well enough to both ring true and be funny.
Yeah, a bit lost here on protocol. They spotted a priority target they can’t handle that may or maynot have spotted them *unsure of how Krona’s spell worked*, add Harem can in fact have relayed this information without over talking the other teams and started to bring in heavier hitters and prisoner recovery (there were others being drained), so lives on the line and a priority target who might be aware of being found.
The biggest problem is that all the teams have Harem on comms. So there’s no risk of talking over each other either way.
Pixel does not know that in advance though. And, as she says, they are in a stable situation. Whereas one of the other teams might need urgent assistance.
Had the situation been as we saw previously, with Pixel strung up and Sydney about to be stabbed then they would indeed need to push to the top of the queue.
On that note, in the previous situation, she probably should have sent a general alert on the comms the moment she found Pixel.
As folks pointed out, when I said just that, at the time, they had Harem with the team. Who could directly update key personnel, or make the call if nobody was around.
As Max is flying solo, clearly Harem was not with her. So perhaps she reported in to the nearest Archon team (or their New York base)? If either is close enough to where the checkpoint was set, then potentially they were caught up in the time reset too. Which would explain why Maxima might not be aware of the situation.
Alternatively Maxima did get the message, but is proceeding with the scheduled call in, before deciding what to prioritise. Which would make sense.
If that is the case, then Maxi is in for a severe reprimand: she was informed that one of her people had been captured and was being tortured (just because Pixeldoofus was apparently unconscious at the time doesn’t stop it from being torture, unless being drained of body fluids is a kink of hers), but she is calmly going through call-in order before doing anything?
Not necessarily. A rescue team could already be on its way, if the latter scenario I proposed is the case. But at the check in time, Maxima needs still to be updated on what is happening to all the teams. And would need to wait until they had all checked in, rather than going off half-cocked.
If one of them indicates they have found a cluster of nuclear weapons being launched, towards major US cities, then she has a higher priority.
Whilst that example is for dramatic effect, the teams are dealing with things that could destabilise the entire world, in a number of different ways. So something of comparable importance, of a supernatural nature, could have been discovered.
They are playing for big stakes, so need to be sure they have a full picture before deploying further assets, beyond the first-response team.
Yeah, nah, that… doesn’t gel: if Maxi knew enough that a rescue team was needed and sent straight away, then she should have been all over it like Icon on Kat, and had the Harem collate the various intel
True. But who is to say she is not? What she is not doing is showing signs of panic or rush, in front of multiple teams, each with their own ongoing missions.
Of course if Maxima is not aware of the situation, then we need to look elsewhere for the problem. Perhaps Harem’s deja vu is not indicative of her being in full possession of all the memories, and maybe her other bodies were not ‘in the loop’ (in a manner of speaking) when the earlier events were taking place.
For instance this would be exactly the result if the ‘checkpoint’ just provided an insight into the future, to the individual who would be in danger first. If the process takes a while, that would explain the time-lapse.
With Harem’s distributed consciousness letting her (for arguments sake) pick up stuff like ‘I am safe and looking for Sydney’ along with suitable visuals. In other words providing just enough activity to prevent the rest of her distributed consciousness from realising that something odd was happening, and potentially interfering with the process.
Should neither of the above possibilities prove be the case, then it is Harem we should be looking at, and asking “Why did you not inform Maxima?”
Harem is the next most senior Archon member, on this team, so would be in command if Pixel is indisposed. And waiting for a scheduled check in would not be the best practice, once they realised that Pixel was in the hands of the enemy!
Well, Harem is not on Maxi’s team…
But, am willing to wait and see what DaveB has planned
Don’t forget to change the information on the Telepresence and Truesight orb to Telepresence, Truesight, and Teleportation. I mean we do now know that the new power blip she added to it gave her that ability after all so that does need to be changed, and means she has yet another power she can use.
True. Mind you the cast list has always had the teleportation icon for Halo. So that at least does not need changing.
Truesight
Telepresence
Teleportation
next to unveil its ultimate power
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Or television…
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weirdly her “telepresence” would more accurately be called tele-vision as she is projecting an image of her self rather than being actually present over distance. Although just seeing something from a distance despite obstacles could also be called tele-vision. Although I suppose to differentiate from the invention of the same name this specific no sound version could also be called Tele-voyour or Televoyance
although her power is also incorporating tele-phonics, the ability to send sound and/or hear things from far away.
Sydney did daydream on the televoyeur potential, for the guys’ locker room.
Yeah, Pixel has a point. Even if they may have found the big bad, if they talk out of turn, they might talk over someone else who might be in a bad situation themselves.
Sciona doesn’t know you’re coming? Are you sure? Sydney and Harem both established that the checkpoint that does not work as intended does not blank everyone’s memory for a variety of reasons.
Pixel does not know for sure. But Pixel has used the power before, and it did work well enough that she was totally fooled into thinking she was controlling time. Which if others around her could remember the events she reset would have been fairly clear.
So the odds are that the reset does actually work, just in a limited area, by whatever means it does that.
Plus even if Sciona does remember the events, she was not privy to where their checkpoint was. So whilst she would be aware that the team are in the area, Pixel is right in saying that she does not know their present location.
To the best of her knowledge, based on the information she has.
Finally Pixel is saying it authoritatively in order to keep Sydney from going off the rails again.
You mean Krona, not Pixel there.
The second one there, yea. Thanks for picking up on that.
Mind you I have corrected myself, before hitting the ‘submit post’ button about six times already, over the last week. One was bound to slip through sooner or later. Clearly my brain has pigeonholed the pair of them in the same category.
As you might expect for a were-pink panther and a ‘schoolgirl goddess’.
*sigh*
The point I meant was Sciona might have done something that altered how her mind works like how Skynet has to have some sort of quantum computation going on to keep track of all the time travel. And if she knows that she has been discovered… she may get away and set the self destruct or whatever destroying evidence.
Good points.
Ha! Love the evil dead cabin!
Thanks for the reminder. I couldn’t place it from memory.
https://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Evil-Dead-Cabin.jpg
Is the last panel a play on two of the the scenes from Hellboy combining when he fights one monster in the subway and then is (temporarily) eaten by another monster?
https://bradscribe.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/hellboy-ogdru-jahad.png
Last panel I googled “abandoned buildings” or something, and I found an unused subway tunnel in New York. I thought it looked cool.
Was it the [City Hall]-station, or the [18th St.]-station, or the [2nd Av.] abandoned line?
When your city’s subway infrastructure started out as 3 independent companies before consolidating, you wind-up with a *LOT* of deep unused holes under your feet.
Wait, are there 26 teams in total, or did they just pick call-signs at random? o_O
I hope they assigned Insol to the second site of the ‘V’ team. I want to hear him report in using the call sign ‘Wictor Wictor 2’.
Military protocol is to not assign call-signs in a predictable pattern. If the enemy can count how many teams you have operating on a particular mission, just by overhearing one call-sign then you are giving away tactical information needlessly.
In other words, yes, ideally they should be picked at random. Although in practice they probably just choose whichever ones they fancy. As the characters clearly did in this instance, from the dialogue.
No, they just picked non-sequential team names for reasons that… uh… Basically I just wanted it that way so I could do the Xray/Jaguar/Juliette gag. Plus I wanted Sydney to report last cause otherwise there’d be almost no need for this whole page, and I wanted to show what everyone else was up to.
That’s cool :D
Don’t mind when things don’t make sense to me, as long as they are intentional by the author and that they at least know what is going on (mostly :P) :D
Hottest renderings of Max and Dabs yet… Max tends to play down just how attractive she is by acting butch… but it doesn’t take away from how attractive she is in her softer, more introspective moments like when she was sippin’ whisky and chatting with Deus about the half of the Geode that mutated her. Soft Max is hot Max.
Dabs on the other hand is always hot, but I think this is one of the best renderings of her in her natural form.
Hare Apparent indeed…
Maxima is probably still being helped by Dabbler’s slutty makeover spell.
Correct – I still imagine it being ‘booby-trapped’ by Dabbler to get progressively sluttier as the night goes on…
What? Dave SAID he needed art for the Valentine’s Day Sex Drive. I’m just giving him easy ideas…
Maxima wearing Icon in a Dabbler-esque modified Valentine style…
As much as I hate to admit it, but I have to side with Spaz girl. They alredy found the big bad who is more than capable of taking out there big bad were jaguar, but also the super Mary sue. This is a good example of military protocol getting in the way. As for the argument that they may be speaking over people that really need help. Look at all the other teams. There all just peachy! Some are really bored, but the ones that did find enemy are handling them just fine.
On another note. Is that Constantine looking guy in the last pannel using YU-Gi-Oh! cards for magic?! Guy gets my pick of the week.
Re the last, yes, as per Dave’s blog comments, above.
“As for the argument that they may be speaking over people that really need help. Look at all the other teams. There all just peachy! Some are really bored, but the ones that did find enemy are handling them just fine.”
Which they could not know, until they had called in.
There is no Mary Sue. By definition (such as there is) it has to include a character who always gets their own way. Whereas the only one you might be talking about clearly just cocked up big time. So it is a useless term applied even more badly than it is usually used.
And no, I am not going to argue the merits of the term. It has none. It is only useful to trolls, and I have no desire to feed the shit back.
And, more impotently, a ‘Mary Sue’ is typically an author self-inserted uber version of themselves
As for speaking over each other, all Sydney had to say was: “We found the Blood Mage!” and everyone else who knew what the mission objective was would shut the hael up
well to speed such things up while not having to worry about tipping off the enemy we use pro-words to replace most likely phrases like that. so instead of “we found the blood mage” sydney would say something like “manocracy” and everyone would know they had found the target.
(no i don’t have a ‘make maxima say…’ card yet.)
“In fact it’s the reason I wasn’t able to get a piece finished for the Valentine’s Day Sex Drive thing – the yearly nudie pinup I do. Don’t worry I’ll still try and get that done at some point this year before the next one rolls around. You guys aren’t going to get shorted.”
Sydney, please? :D
*stamps paw print of approval*
Mind you we are very unlikely to see such, as that is not something that Sydney would take part in. But we can always hope!
Sydney will eventually be mixed into the rotation but we have nothing to suggest that “eventually” is any time soon.
Heck I’d be happy with a little cheesecake sans nudity at this point.
Panel 3 of this page, with minimal work, and i’d be one happy geek. for all the near-nudity so far, this is the image that’s gotten me stoked the most.
Panel 1 works. I would be happy waking up to that sight, every morning.
OK. Here is what your ordered: a little non-nude cheesecake.
https://www.ghirardelli.com/media/recipe/recipes/white_chocolate_cheesecake.jpg
Warning, this one is completely nude.
https://www.drodd.com/images13/cheesecake-recipe8.jpg
*covers eyes with paws*
Gasp!
*licks cheesecake off lips*
What surprises me is that there is 0 fan art of a more mature nature of Sydney, or even the rest of the cast as far as I can tell. Granted, I come for the story, and enjoy all of the lore, but at the same time. ;)
I mean, there’s r34 of the Switch controller and not Sydney?!
Come on, internet!
You might want to try googling ‘nude Harem’. It could take a while to filter out the results mind. But I will keep researching, until I can confirm it one way or another.
Deckomancy
Cartomancy is the traditional term, as mentioned by various folks on the first page of comments. Although I am not up on Magic the Gathering terms, if that is the spin you were going for.
from my under standing Cartomancy is just fortune telling using cards, same as Taromancy.
using enchanted cards as magic weapons is a lot more modern and looks to be based on a Shikigami in the form of cards rather than paper dolls, beads, talismans, and such. A spirit in each card or a type of card inscribed with a means to channel said spiritual force.
there is also the spell in a card thing, which is so unique to fantasy not sure there even is a term for it specifically other than “spell card user”.
Yeah, the “-mancy” suffix has seen so much misuse that people forget it only means “divination”.
and thus the cause for my long discussions I have had with people “correcting” me when I use Necrokinesis and Necropathy instead of Necromancy.
Fair point. However what you are describing as ‘misuse’ is better described as ‘use’. I.e. the language is evolving, due to there being a void in the dictionary, in how to describe (in this case) a card using spell caster. Or (far more popularly) the use of ‘Necromancer’ as a being someone who can raise the undead.
Whilst Rhuen is using perfectly legitimate constructs in ‘Necrokinesis’ and ‘Necropathy’ the very fact that people do not accept it as being valid speaks volumes as to the popularity of the ‘-mancy’ usage in a non-divination context.
At the end of the day dictionaries are written based on popular usage, rather than the demands of traditionalists. So Rhuen will need to work hard in order to popularise those alternatives
In the meanwhile I will stick with using ‘necromancer’, for being a summoner and/or controller of the dead. And likewise for ‘cartomancer’, for the use of cards either as a diviner or in the manner we see above.
Is that guy in the last panel using literal Magic cards? xD
Yes. He summoned the gnome riding the worm. As per the author’s blog above.
There’s a simple reason Dabbler is always losing. Since Dabble is “Second best at everything”…she’s a good Worfer. Plus, her personalitty means she’s prone to bite off more then she can chew. She’s also very preparation based, so she’s often got trouble when someone has a ‘snag’. And, as she points out, she often has to worry about other things.
But, when she’s off-screen, she’s dealing with Scrrubs, generally. So…she can unleash the Dragon Slave.
You want her to scrub a slave… off-screen?
Actually, it would be closer to being solo she doesn’t have to worry about allies getting in the way, it’s typically why a small force can do a lot more damage than a full army
And then there’s ‘inverse ninja’…
Yeah I got this vibe back when she complained about it being harder for her to go “non-lethal” have more than a few characters like that myself where their biggest limitation on the battle field is not wanting to kill their allies with the extra energy or accidentally, or having to take the enemy alive.
see also Tenchi Muyo’s Ryoko being limited in her fight with Kagato because she was afraid of killing her ally/friend/rival Ayeka with the excess energy she would need to kill him.
Ah, story progression. I like this.
A small suggestion: Harem in the final panel should say, “…Second Amendment Rights…”
Isn’t it a singular Amendment though? “The right to bear arms”?
No, it’s two rights. Keep and bear are not quite the same.
“the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Keep implies in storage, bear implies carrying around.
bear also implies specific types of Were… :)
Where each arm transforms into a scaled-down bear?
That really does beg the question, where those bears shit? Presumably into your bloodstream?
in the woods no doubt.
I believe one of the Council security bylaws is the right to arm bears.
Yeah it should. I’ll add it to the fix list.
Can we get a purchasable print of the Max flying panel? I find it really awesome with the lit up city below.
It’s free on comment page 1.
Was Wondering who was keeping Marcus employed after all the vault hunters cleared out.
At least We’ll Hope those are from him.
Head for the next world over if those bookzookas are from one Mr. Torque.
Hobbs End. Is that the one with the undead little people?
“A serial killer with unusual psychic gifts visits an isolated young widow.”/a>
Okay I know I’m weird but does anyone else picture Chorius tap-dancing with his top hat?
Mmm, sounds fun, don’t forget the ‘tails’ and cane :D
Great. Now I can’t get that scene from Spaceballs out of my head.
“Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal…”
Yeah, as thinking of that as well :D
Sometimes, you have to “say what you see!”/a>
Try to keep a straight face when you watch this
There is no ‘overkill’, only ‘out of ammo’ and ‘time to reload’.
Conversely though, sometimes you might conclude “I need a bigger gun!”
if the damage you do is covered by a manufacturers warranty, you didn’t do enough damage.
For Dave’s consideration, a friend of mine informed me “gyp” is a often-overlooked slur against the Romani.
Noted in an earlier comment.
Only by the ill-informed, the slur is ‘gyppo’
The word is infrequently used, so the dictionary definitions are either lacking, sparse or contradictory. For instance some saying that the source is unknown, whilst others support the slur (for one usage), but only say ‘probably’. However their source does not inspire me with confidence.
But the one which gave that much is Wiktionary/a>..
I guess the guy talking in panel 5 doesn’t get a name. Maybe he’s talking about not being in the Who’s Who.
Don’t believe he’s been formally introduced and named
Correct. We have seen him, in the background, in the Council chamber before. Plus can surmise that he is an Odysian, from his appearance. But he has not had the necessary introduction required to earn his place in the Who’s Who.
Any chance of getting a close-up view of Icon’s Hareldry? :D
Icon is representing Katrina’s coat-of-arms as a carrot.
Yeah, saw it after zooming in
We should see it in the next comic. They are off to location Juliet Two where they will meet an informant who tells Katrina of the plot against the council. I managed to sneak a copy of a panel from the next page.
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What’s that device Dabbler has against her leg, a plasma gun? A shame she’s so stingy with her stuff, give Harem a few plasma guns and she’d be damn near untouchable.
I’m guessing it’s at least in part because of Council policy. What, exactly, would they do if they found out some unfortunate human had come into possession of a beyond state-of-the-art cybernetic limb?
I think your logic follows well. If Sydney did get her hands on a plasma gun, she would indeed require a cybernetic limb before too much longer. Lacking the safety features of the PPO I can well see her shooting herself by accident.
Just have to say, that has to be one of the best drawings of Max (imo) in panel 3, that I recall seeing of her. Good job!
well at least they can say team x-ray has had contact with primary target.
They did indeed find the hidden problem. Dangerous though the technique may be. Such should only be used by well-trained and equipped specialist personnel.
I justed looked at the double sized version of the comic. The “icon” that Icon generated for Kat is a carrot. Her “arms” would be “Argent, a carrot per bend proper, a bordure or”
This amuses me.
Heh, didn’t think to zoom in, thank you :D
I bet they will use all those sword fragments to make a super magic sword that will be too heavy for Halo to swing.
Which may be part of a cunning plan. Given that the sword fragments are from a blood-drinking sword. Reforging it, and restoring it too its former capabilities may not end well! Let us hope that Sydney does not decide to wield it with her tentacle!
Not related, but I was just looking at the cast page, and I read the bit about how Heatwave’s body mysteriously becomes “taller, stronger and fuller when she manifests her powers.” Do you know why that is? Because she’s getting HOTTER! HAHA! HAHAHA HAHA HA I think Sydney’s ADHD sense of humor is rubbing off on me HA
The more I see of Izanagi, the more I’m reminded of Persona 4. The card based spells might not resemble them, but Tarot cards play a big role in Persona.
I’m also jealous that I never thought of such a cool description for how my Card Mage character in Mutants and Masterminds (3rd ed) casts her spells.
Is Ellie pulling a rocket launcher out of her book? If so, the diameter is about half of what it should be. These things are thicker than this.
SMAW actually and yes it would fit in the book,part of why a bunch of the old timers consider it a poor replacement for the ‘goose gun’.
I imagine Dabbler’s “struggle” is a mix of desire to not let her deus-ex-machina entire scenes and the fact the last few times have been group fights which Dabbler probably feels more restricted in. Going solo is naturally when she really gets to flex her many talents.
there is also the idea that unlike video games, powerful spells with wide damage radiuses, energy saturation, and area affects tend to maim and kill your allies.
she brought this up during the brawl that most of her weapons and spells are designed to be lethal (accustomed to fighting strong durable opponents with the intent to kill them).
See “Captain Armageddon” makes a poor superhero for example.
-I shall apprehend those bank robbers! (Dragon Slave!)….*levels entire city*
I covered that with the “group fights which Dabbler probably feels more restricted in” part. The Vehemence brawl is also partly explained by her being affected by the violence-aura that discouraged killing blows.
Though, I am now compelled to wonder why she’s lacking in stun-weapons when she’s been working with ArcSWAT (or whatever Maxima’s faction is called) long enough to have memorized protocol and be an esteemed part of the group.
Simply because her previous career required more deadly options, one assumes. Not that I have read her previous appearance, in Wereworld. Likewise although they have done sparring, she is working for a military unit. Who’s default training is aimed at killing the enemy. As a gendarmarie they will also have had instruction in restraining techniques.
All of which Dabbler doubtless excelled at. However regular police equipment and tactics were clearly inadequate versus a large team of super enemies. Hence her desire to upgrade her non-lethal options.
Mind you Dabbler did have one she failed to deploy in the Battle at the Steak House Car Park™. Namely ‘sticky air’ (or ‘invisible web’), the spell which she used to beat Math, in their bout(s).
Winning that fight, and drawing with Maxima, would certainly have helped to establish her reputation. However they could have been using ‘simulated lethal’ rules. Ie Maxima may have pointed her finger and said ‘POW’ to indicate she would use her energy attack. Presumably Dabbler would have countered this with actually raising her shield, thus preventing herself from ‘dying’ in the exercise.
Awww Chorius is creepily adorable in his top hat. He looks so happy too!
Hey guys, I was checking my Kickstarters today, and noticed a little something that slipped in as we passed the 500 page mark.
Wearing the Cape: The Archon Files (A WtC:RPG Grrl Power Sourcebook)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2141951291/wearing-the-cape-the-role-playing-game/posts/1803682
Don’t know why DaveB didn’t mention this, but we got 4 days left to pledge the game and get a copy!
Awesome. Thanks for the heads up.
*crawls into a corner to have a sniffle over lack of foldies*
So, Max’s shirt confuses me. I enjoy the style of the open/strap sleeve, but how dose the right side stay up when there are no sleeve/straps.
Also I seriously hope to see the return of Max’s jacket that was altered by Bombshell.
There may be a shoulder strap, hidden by Max’s raised arm.
In fact you can just make out the edges of a couple of attachment points, at the top of it, if you look by her wrist.
Knuts! Gonna have to find the time to go back several dozen pages to the end of the “Brawl in the Hall” to see just how damaged her top ended up
Guesticus
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1443
Thank you, but not that one, that’s the “Restaurant Rumble”, was thinking of this scene, and it looks like DaveB forgot the arm straps (it was the two shoulder straps that were damaged)
Hmmm, Dabbles “Ms Clean” repaired the rips in the shirt but not the straps? o_O
Dabbler’s illusion would fill in the gaps as she visualised them. As Dabbler would be used to using double-sided sticky tape (or the super tech equivalent) to hold things in place, she either did not consider the straps or made a conscious decision that things would look better without them.
Maxima may have subsequently requested the illusion be fixed, once she realised that she was looking more gravity-defying than usual. Especially if she tried to adjust the strap, for comfort, and could not see it!
Doubt Maxi would accept an illusionary top, way too easy for Dabbles to prank her, so possibly an artistic error (like how forgot the two side straps that were still intact but remembered the broken shoulder straps)
Well we did see Dabbler cast something on Maxima, to ‘tart her up’. But I was forgetting that Dabbler is not particularly good at illusions (other than her racial one for her personal image). Unless making a damaged garment appear ‘as good as new’ is weak enough for Dabbler to cast, then you are probably right.
Although I did not see Maxima carrying a suitcase around with her, and it does (other than the points previously made) match Maxima’s current outfits.
In which case maybe she has a change of clothes in the New York Archon base? Or she chose her mission based on its proximity to 24 hour clothes shops? Or maybe Dabbler is better at repairing spells and ‘fixed’ the top (her way)? Or maybe Maxima got Harem to do a clothes run, from the main HQ, before the teams were dispatched?
*returns to reading self-help book (Over-analysing and how to quit)*
Ooh, an appendix on how to correct any mistakes in the book…
oh, “Fail, start again at chapter one. “
Ah, thank you.
Maybe. It doesn’t really look like that to me, also, her right collar doesn’t connect like the left. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not at all complaining. It just made me chuckle a little.
It is a wonderful picture of Max.
Yeah, there were four straps on both sides, the explodey killbot broke the shoulder straps but left the arm straps intact
I kinda have an issue with this thing… again?
I mean, this is ostensibly Council operation, not ARCHON one, and moreover it’s not a dedicated strike-team, but somehow they now act as a single military unit? I kinda don’t see that happening, not realistically.
Either that implies that Council and ARCHON have been working together regularly for some time now (including military excercises and etc)…which is weird, given recent start of ARCHON, or that somehow they have similar operational protocols and compatible equipment, and zero arguments over who is in charge, which is unrealistic. Doubly so if it actually is a random bunch of sorcerers/werebunnies, not a dedicated unit of the council – and why would they actually put a werebunny on a military unit?
Finally, there has been at least some acknowledgement that Archon needs some jurisdiction to act on American soil, against what ostensibly could be American citizens. They’re a government organization, not a bunch of vigilantes, which is a huge plot point. So how come they get to act alongside and with a bunch what is essenially domestic terrorists and illegal immigrants and pretend they don’t exist?
This all is really horribly confusing and wrong, and I hope it gets sorted later.
It’s a single opp. Someone has to be in charge. It would either be Maxima, or whoever is the boss of the VI. I guess they settled on Maxima. We don’t know if they had arguments. We just didn’t see any. But we also didn’t see them plan the opp.
Also, I doubt this is the first time the Government has worked with the council. Maybe not ARCHON specifically, but some other organization.
As for the terrorists: What makes you say that? They are a secret organization, sure. But the government knows they exist, and works with them. That’s why ARCHON was there in the first place, after all.
Immigrants sure, but ‘illegal’? Where do you get that? Most of them possibly came over with John Smith or even Chris Columbo, or even earlier (we are talking about entities like vampires, ‘mythical’ creatures from the font of civilisation and sentient suits of armour!!)
I would assume that aliens did not go through US Customs on arrival, and demons and succubi probably do not have a valid work permit.
“They are a secret organization, sure. But the government knows they exist, and works with them. ”
They do not exist de-jure, I assume, therefore they are a bunch of civilians in possession of heavy weapons, using them without any official sanction or authorization. What else can they be?
They have. You may recall that we have been told a couple of times (once by Arianna, at the press conference, and later by Ingsol, in the Council meeting) that there was an official government organisation which preceded Archon.
We even had the visual of a very dapper werewolf, clearly from the Elliot Ness era, showing that Ti agents were working with government supers, from that organisation, at least as far back as the 1920s. And the press briefing indicated that informal links went back much further than that.
Which will hopefully set your indignation at rest. The government (in its various incarnations and administrations over the centuries) has been aware of the parallel government of the Twilight Council. Protocols have been established over this time as to how jurisdiction is handled, how agents are to decide who is in charge, in joint operations, and all the usual niceties required of co-operating organisations.
I feel that including a ‘FBI werewolf’ from the 1920s was not accidental. Either consciously or subconsously Dave realised that that was the time when the FBI were founded. In the Grrl Power era they were not just dealing with Al Copone and the like. They also had to figure out formal protocols for how to deal with a vampire or werewolf crime scene.
If you go through the archives, and even present day highly classified operations manuals, you will find procedures laid out stipulating that anything fitting certain paranormal parameters be passed over to a dedicated unit, under strict secrecy and with an absolute ban on any media briefing. The X-files were probably written by somebody who actually had working knowledge of this practice.
Still feeling indignant and that ‘tt feels wrong’? Well governments do do stuff like that. There are plenty of classified activities, that they get up to, which are deemed not to be in the public interest to reveal
Finally we cannot just blame the government. We (the general public) do become aware of such activities, from time to time, and we allow it to be perpetuated. So we are just as much to blame for such covert activity. It makes us feel safer that our security services have the leeway to do what is necessary to protect us. So we look the other way, if any laws or principles are being violated.
mmm… no, not really.
Y’see, if there would be a way of secretly and legally (or at least marginally legally) to maintain the hit-squad of supernatural heavy-hitters that are not accountable to anyone, there is little reason for the existence of Archon, unless they’re just a PR patsy, since obviously a secret uncaccountable military unit is not only easier to use without bothering with silly things like warrants and permits, it’s also much easier to abuse.
But I don’t believe it is possible to make extragovernmental military body that is not in any way accountable or even known to elected officials, without breaking every law in the book. If they elected to do so, in the manner of CIA black-ops operations anyways, it would make no sense to publicly associate Archon with them, since the very purpose of Archon is to make superheroes a public and accountable govenment agency.
The reason is that supers are becoming too common for the policy of secrecy to work any more. At the start of the comic we saw Sydney and Joel talking about supers, as a real-life reality, albeit one that was probably viewed with some scepticism, by broad segments of society.
Clearly the government has decided (via Archon) that it is unwise to lay too much on the public, all in one go. Either it would be considered to be too preposterous, to be believed, or it could cause massive disruption, such as widespread vigilante attacks on supernaturals (or suspected ones, as may be the case). With the potential for huge losses on the human side, as the supernaturals are hugely powerful and capable of defending themselves in many ways.
However we do have broad hints that the long-term policy is to bring even the supernaturals out into the public gaze, but just in a controlled fashion, designed to minimise the above issues. Clearly getting the public used to supers, is an important step. And Arianna indicated that super hero sightings may be responsible for various legendary creatures.
Which probably is true, given that the Veil protects the actual supernatural beings from observation.
However this is laying the ground-work, in getting the public to realise that ‘legendary creatures’ were not just myth, there are real things behind them. Once society has adjusted to the presence of supers, then such foundations can be used to ease the next reveal, about all the ‘monsters’ and aliens.
Which, again, we had Ingsol mention that talks were underway, which could end up doing just that.
I never said there was such a thing. The previous organisation was clearly a secret agency (the name of which Arianna revealed, but I cannot recall). However the protocols they worked out, and the inter-organisational co-operation and exercises will have meant there are human agents, supers and supernatural Ti’s who all had the kinds of experience you were saying, quite correctly, that would be necessary in order to conduct joint operations, such as we see here.
Archon will simply have built upon those. As you imply, in your posts, the kinds of exercises military units need are more extensive than secret service agencies would typically conduct. However black opps have long used military and para-military units, where such are needed. Which for some of the supernatural threats would likely have been required.
So much of the framework was already in place, and Archon will have just been expanding upon that. As we can see from the headquarters building already being bult, manned, and conducting operations, preparations have been underway from well before the public announcement.
This will have included handing over the reins from the previous organisation, and transferring over key personnel, along with the contacts, protocols and whatnot necessary for liaising with the Twilight Council. Which probably would have included joint-training exercises.
Doubtless the press conference was originally planned to fall after the powers-that-be decided the behind-the-scenes preparations were sufficiently advanced to deal with the likely crises that would follow the public announcement. However Sydney’s presence at the bank accelerated the process somewhat.
Which would help to explain why some of the things they are doing are a bit ad-hoc. In an emergency you have to use whatever resources are available. Even including rookies, if you have a way to utilise their extraordinary capabilities, whilst lessening the risk to themselves and others.
For Halo that involved putting her under Pixel’s wing… err.. claws. Whilst Katrina has been teamed up with Icon. Who is the leader of a significant faction, and will be entirely capable of handling such a role.
Moreover, there is one thing as “there exist legacy procedures for cooperation”. IRL organizing some sort of DHS and FBI (for instance) is a merry hell of overlapping jurisdictions and dick-measuring contest between various agents and bosses, and here you have a semi-professional half-regulated collection of highly private individuals whose self-regulation is on the level of cat-herding, instantly forming what appears to be rather effective and well-communicating team with another agency, that was formed almost literally yesterday.
That is…not impossible, but I kinda expected a bit more grit and prosaicism from this comic.
All fair points. Hopefully my lines of argument, in my previous over-length post will have covered this. Apologies all, I should have split that into two separate ones. It would have been simple to do so, had I realised how long the post was.
I get the impression that the previous organisation has been wound-up and incorporated into Archon, as I laid out above. However such is based on reading implications (including from various comments made by the author) rather than anything I can think of in canon.
If they are still in existence, then I expect there will be the kind of problems that you indicate.
What I essentially mean, is we get all that set-up where it is established how procedure and legalese and training is important, and then we get a bunch of random guys who are never established to care about any of this, and no one has any problems with it.
I think that’s my biggest gripe here.
Either legal procedure, correct authorization and military-stile training and operations are important, or they are not, but you can’t have it both ways.
They are not a collection of random individuals. Archon is a military organisation and the Ti’s have been in existence for millennia, refining and practicing their organisation, logistics, strategies etc. Very importantly it does include individuals who have been around for much of that time!
You are right that merging the two structures, into one effective force, is a non-trivial thing. But you are over-stating the problems and ignoring the massive advantages they have in their favour. One example of which, on the heroes side, is that Harem is on most of the teams above.
I fully concede however that having rare powers (along with the foibles of the various heroes and supernaturals) does make them far more individualistic than traditional military units. However that is a very fair interpretation of how things would pan out for a unit of super-beings. People who can melt tanks, with a wave of their hand, or alter time itself, can get away with eccentric behaviours that lesser mortals cannot!
Dave has laid out the world in as realistic a way as he can, given the various constraints inherent in the setting. The USA simply does not have enough supers to cover the various organisations that they would want to give super assistance to.
As tank warfare has shown us, splitting up powerful assets, into small units will result in loosing any big engagements against enemies who concentrate their forces. In order to do the latter you need to have them organised in a cohesive military unit.
However Archon is competing with the private sector. Who can offer far more attractive jobs, at a higher wage, and with little or no risk of death.
Marvel has shown what happens if you try to force supers to serve. Archon is taking a different route. The members are treated like Hollywood A-listers. Even to the cinema boot camp training. Although they get a lot closer to real world boot camp (full length training, rather than just a week or two, for example) at the end of the day they still have it a lot easier than normal people do in the military.
For the simple reason that if (for example) they did not allow Sydney to work at her shop, or play D&D or behave in her wacky fashion, then they simply would not have even been able to recruit her in the first place! Likewise if they go too hard on her now, and alienate her for whatever reason. She can simply choose to leave the army, at the first legal opportunity.
And if they choose to keep her, beyond the limit of her contract (by the means that the military can legitimately do) whilst she is alienated, then they run the risk of her going rogue!
Given that Halo is likely to become more powerful than Maxima (currently the most powerful super human on the planet) that is a very, very, dumb thing to do.
Yes, they are very individualistic. Far more so than normal military units. But there are very good reasons for that. One point being that Dave does not have a military background, so can only approximate the experience in any event.
However the most important is this is a comedy super hero comic, and the comedy takes precedence.
Having a fairly realistic base setting, which periodically breaks down into farce is a long-established comedic technique. See many of the classics for examples. I dream of Jeannie, Fawlty Towers and Soap to represent some from business settings. Or M*A*S*H*, Sgt Bilko and Some Mothers do have ’em from the military side.
Of those only M*A*S*H* and Fawlty Towers have hardcore realistic settings. The others just paint the broad brushstrokes, and let the viewers fill in the blanks. However it is the abrupt change from ‘serious’ to ‘farcical’ which helps to give the laughs. As Dave gives us a lot of laughs, that happens frequently.
So, sadly, the thing that you are unhappy with is actually inherently necessary to the formula. Rules are necessary, but so is breaking them, when it is funny.
I have no problem with ARCHON being paramilitary organisation. It was a decent premise, and well-executed prior to this ark, much in the vein of Wearing The Cape, which I also greatly enjoy.
What I do mind, is then transferring this same mindset to the Council of various other supernaturals without reasonable pre-establishment of how they operate, and in fact contradictory to how they were described prior.
Council seems to be a private organisation, that is run on a basis of a voluntary alliance of several fractions, most of which have no hard downward hierarchy, and, to put it bluntly, no way to make or induce any of their members do anything they don’t like.
Moreover within said organisation and between said fractions there is quite a lot of infighting, but now it all seems entirely moot and everyone is not only happy to work together – there is no intraorganizational friction whatsoever. One also assumes that for each individual within the fraction there are multiple reasons to cover their own abilities and disinform others of them – either as a bluff, or an obfuscation of one’s power to present a lesser threat, or just not bothering to do so, since this is a highly political and infight-y organisation with ample (one assumes) backstabbing and dirty dealings. At least that was the implication of the previous scenes for me.
Either those people – and I use the term loosely – have in fact a much greater level of mutual trust, communication and cooperation that is implied by their structure and shown previously, or what we’re seeing now is essentially a bunch of people – who were never actually said, and I think explicitly said not to be – dedicated Council strike teem – acting with excellent communication and in the style of military operation, whereas they have been shown not to posses neither organization, nor mindset, nor necessity for it.
I also either missed or did not find your argument regarding Council status:
Council is a secret organisation, ostensibly. Which means that rotating public officials – e.g. Congress is unaware of it’s existence. It’s either it’s a private organisation or deep black ops secret one. In the first case they are de-jure terrorists and vigilantes, and Archon has no business working with them, and in fact should be working to stop them, since it has been very explicitly and clearly established that proper jurisdiction is important and superheroes who want to met out vigilante justice will not be tolerated.
Alternatively Council is integrated (even if only on paper) into government structure, just sort of off the books and in high level of secrecy, making Council personnel government agents or subcontractors(?) who have a license to use heavy weaponry (and superpowers/magic) on US Soil against what could very well be US citizens. That still would mean every reason to keep Archon (a highly public accountable unit) away from them, since any glimpse of them together already raises more questions than anyone would be able to answer, but it also is rather contrary to depiction of council as at least marginally independent organization wich is not organised anything like you would expect from a governmental body – they don’t seem to have undergone the same training that Sydney is very insistently has been told is necessary, and though the same licensing and examination processes.
In short – we have one ark establishing that Sydney does not get to carry a gun until she signs up with government, passes her marksmanship training and gets to fill ten thousand forms in triplicate, and then the very next arc a random chick pulls out a bazooka and starts blasting, and nobody cares. I find that inconsistent.
“Council seems to be a private organisation, that is run on a basis of a voluntary alliance of several fractions…”
To me it is very clearly a parallel to the United Nations. Which hopefully clarfies how they can still co-operate, for the big things, despite periodic warring between factions. Because that is how the U.N. works too.
“… most of which have no hard downward hierarchy, and, to put it bluntly, no way to make or induce any of their members do anything they don’t like.”
Where U.N. countries cannot come to an agreement, on how to handle a situation (take Syria as a current example) then exactly the same happens with the Twilight Council as with the U.N. No action can be taken and problems occur. If the problems get so serious that everybody is at risk, then necessity forces them to take action.
Our U.N. example for that can be the ozone layer. For the T.C. we can see the panel in which a gorgon army has impaled a bunch of rebel supernaturals (who, it is implied were risking breaching the Veil). This gives them comparable (if not vastly superior) firepower to any U.N. military coalition.
The rules of engagement require that member states (/factions) obey the resolutions (/edicts) agreed, and that those guilty of infringements can be punished in the manners prescribed for such infractions. Be that being invaded by armies of humans or having supernatural armies poking stakes up their bottoms.
The Twilight Council have 3000 years of experience at these kinds of politics and military actions. Compared to the U.N. which has been around for less than a century. Its predecesors were notable in failing to stop two previous world wars.
The T.C. are good enough that either they have prevented such supernatural world wars, or they were able to cover it up.
This might explain the dark ages mind.
Not if the USA have been working with them from Washington onwards. This has been established for how they secretly dealt with super heroes, as per the press conference. The same appears to apply to the supernaturals too.
And congress are likely to be in on it too, I would guess. A small, but representative, committe will be sworn to secrecy and, along with the incoming president, briefed on the true state of affairs. They will have the opportunity to ratify the existing arrangements or overturn them.
Very clear predictions will be made available as to the death toll involved in the latter option. Which would explain why such an option has not been invoked before.
Agreeing to carry on the secret would require that any dissenting members, who are predicted (with the aid of super powers, magic etc) to fail to keep the secret will have their memories altered. See Dabbler’s hammer spell for one example of how this could be done.
I stress this is only my speculation. However if every law, from the first draft of the Constitution onwards, has had a parallel secret caveat (where necessary), handling this entire process, then it is all fully legal and above board.
So what I am describing is one way where the situation we see could well have come about.
But, putting my speculation to one side, Guantanamo Bay is a current day example that governments will do whatever they damned well please, and get away with it. Morals are one thing, what those we elect do is another. Laws notwithstanding.
I agree with your comments about separation of conflict of interest. Sadly we come back to the point of their being too few supers to go around. They only have enough for the one super organisation. Simultaneously there is a vital need to co-operate with the Ti’s to keep the country safe.
Arianna is going to be kept very busy, if or when this all goes public.
At least this comic tries to follow some set of real-world ethics. In other superhero comics like Spider-man, Spidey is acting totally on his own as a vigilante. Jameson is right to complain about his actions, was well as the threat to bystanders caused by his battles over densely populated areas.
As for Batman, his tactics in bringing bad guys to ‘justice’ would never hold up in a court of law.
Bailiff: Hear ye, the case of Gotham vs Oswald Cobblepot is now in session.
Lawyer: Your honor, my client is in this courtroom only due to the actions of a mentally unstable masked individual. This individual illegally wiretapped his phone and broke into his home, taking personal files without a search warrant. He then returned at a later date and kidnapped my client from his place of business. He then, and without informing Mr. Cobblepot of his Miranda rights, forced him to confess to a list of supposed crimes under duress while being suspended over a rooftop ledge while in fear of his life. And now, even after a subpoena to this individual, Mr. Cobblepot is being denied the right to confront his accuser in a court of law. I ask for a motion to dismiss this trial.
Judge: I agree with your arguments, and I am appalled that in condoning the actions of this vigilante, the police department has shown such a shocking disregard of the laws they are sworn to uphold. Case dismissed.
+1 for each and every paragraph.
Inter-agency rivalry is largely Hollyweird make-shit-uppery
But that would mean that documentaries, such as NCIS and the X-files, would have been influenced by Hollywood propaganda, rather than using proper investigative techniques?
*gives Guesticus a puzzled look*
Did say largely, of course there will be some jumped up little knot who doesn’t want to share the glory (but will share the blame), or simply has a beef with either the other agency in general (they turned them down for a transfer) or a particular member specifically
Guessing you never saw “MiB”: all aliens have to check in to the special Terran Customs, or they will be tracked down and deported via nearest
rocketweather balloon or Solar PortalHey, uh, this isn’t particularly connected to the comic above…But, uh, I’d just like to know the specific update times for Grrl Power so I’m not just like “Gottacheckgottacheckgottacheckgottacheck” every single day.
Tuesdays and Thursdays. The time depends on your time-zone, of course. If you live in the middle of America you can just go by the time-stamp on the first posts of each comic page (bearing in mind that each has several pages of comments). To me it appears as 5:00 am (once adjusting for typing time etc). I assume that is consistent for everyone.
This time of year that gives us an update time of 11 am GMT (God’s Marvelous Time), for various European countries or 1:00 PM for those few of us in Bulgaria.
Ausies have to stand on their heads to read those times. I think the hobbits use a sundial, or maybe a magic wand, for the human inhabitants of their continent? Oh, unless it is dark there, when it comes out! OMG, maybe they have to stay up all night! I hope they share the wands round or send out pony riders, shouting out “the update is coming, the update is coming!”
Mondays and Thursdays (or Tuesdays and Fridays for those of us living in the future)
Doh!
*hangs head in shame*
Actually, we use Giant Eagle riders, specifically, Haast’s Eagles (what? you thought they used CGI in the
movieshistorical recreations? nah, those are real birdies)Thanks!
Sorry Guesticus was right, rather than me.
*starts laying out Seppuku equipment*
No need for that, you were close enough, and it’s not like you said Sunday and Wednesday