Grrl Power #524 – Importinent questions
Sydney, don’t forget that Super women are like 8-12 inches taller than you on average. Of course, she’s not entirely sure how professional porn starlets… you know, work with the equipment they do. Accommodation wise. It’s the same way you get to Broadway, Sydney. Practice.
I’m not really sure how it works for vampires that can turn into a fleet of bats. (Technically a Colony or a Camp of bats. I like Fleet. I’d also accept a Coven of Bats.) I joke here that they all argue and have seemingly independent minds, but that would suck for the vampire. Getting them to form back up would be like wrangling flying cats. Really they’re probably all guided by a hive mind or just a single consciousness. But it’s funnier to imagine them arguing as they flap around.
But here’s a serious question, do the bats have the same immunities as vampires? I mean, they probably would burst into flame if they got caught in daylight, so I guess they’d be resistant to conventional damage as well. That’d be pretty confusing for an owl that got a hold of one. Or what if a farmer blasted one with a shotgun? Unless the heart was decimated or the bat was decapitated (both actually pretty likely in that scenario) it’d just flop around on the ground while it healed.
Also, what would happen if like 10% of the bats were killed? Would the vampire form back up without an arm, or would little scattered chunks be missing from him all over? If the bats represent discreet parts of the vampire, is one bat the heart? Do all the other bats die of that bat dies? If 10% the bats were killed with silver or fire, would the vampire be able to regenerate the missing bits? If Sydney ever finds out that some vampires can do this, she will have questions.
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I dont understand the last panel .. :(
She’s demonstrating with her hands the size of Hiro’s… heroic-ness, while rubbing it in that Dabbler didn’t get to see it.
Which is silly. If Dabbler doesn’t have a See Through Clothes spell she just ain’t living the life of a lech.
And you can bet she didn’t spend years trying to turn that ability off, either. Though at least Tedd did prove that he was dirty minded in other ways when he explained about that.
Well, either “I swear, THIS BIG!” or “Seriously, he lifted CONCRETE with it!”
“At one point he was literally penetrating concrete with it.”
So we need a picture of “Hiro of the Beach”. There he is, on a beach, wearing only a Speedo, doing a hero pose. And he’s got Sydney, Peggy, Pixel, and Krona sitting on his shoulders and hanging off his arms.
I’d buy that.
For a dollar? o_O
Heck, with the entire A-team there, so would I.
I would have to offer a Yorpie Snax™ though. I haz no dollars, Hobbit ones or otherwise.
I just can’t see Mr. T agreeing to that.
Dwight Shultz and Dirk Benedict, yeah, they’re silly enough.
George Peppard was up for ANYTHING (He loves it when ANY plan comes together.).
Bigger chest = stronger super?
Given the potential range of abilitys, stronger isn’t a great word choice.
I actually saw a comic once with a female super who could absorb energy in various forms and then dish it back out again as super strength or energy blasts. Relevant point is that the more energy she had stored up, the bigger her chest got. I don’t remember the name of the comic or where I saw it though.
Pulse?
pulse.webcomic.ws
You’re thinking of Buxom Gal, from Supermegatopia.
Gods, I love that comic. Whatever happened to it?
It died tho you can find artwork by the creator at https://www.deviantart.com/notifications/#view=deviations%3A659495
Not without a login, I can’t. Still, it’s nice to hear The Brothers Grinn are still drawing.
I think you linked the wrong page.
My mistake try https://drakefenwick.deviantart.com/ and accounts are free
Yea, and even without one you can still see art. You will just get any mature content blocked, until you have set up an adult account.
I have an extreme antipathy against setting up accounts, even free ones. But have had no regrets in doing so on Deviant Art. It is the world’s biggest online art community, and is a huge source of
porninspiring art.Seriously actually, there is an awesome range of great content in there. Even better a huge amount of it is provided for free download. Which, given my financial situation (and morals prohibiting copying stuff illegally), is very important.
Wouldn’t that be antiPAWthy, Yorp?
*gives pettins*
*leans into the pettins, waggins tail*
You don’t need an account to view the ‘mature’ content: just enter a date that makes you ‘adult’ age
No one mentioned how happy they were to see Kronachrome safe and sound? :(
We knew she was safe. Just hurt her arm.
Before everything went boom, we did. Since then … there has been too much sausage to get a clear picture. Kinda like the proverbial elephant in the room.
That was before the Anvil dropped
I am pleased Krona escaped both big gooda booms! And that both Harem and Pixel were not captured, given that they were in the enemy base! Plus nice to hear that Pixel has made such a full recovery that she was fit to carry on scouting!
Pixelicious couldn’t pin down the location of the bats? Was it because of the echoes? >_>
most likely she herd them as she was getting to the people, and they were all underground so the bats flutter and squeak would have echoed round a bit as they were on the way out.
Was actually making a joke about bats and their echo-location trick :P
Was it because of the echoes?
Was it because of the echoes?
… echoes … echoes … echoes …
… trick … trick … trick …
Here, just hold this up, next time.
*presents a jester’s stick*
… stick … stick … stick …
It. Akes sense that you had to repeat a joke about echoes.
* it makes
Definitely need a hi-rez full-size poster of panel two, without the words, for reasons >_>
heh heh *thumbs up* vagoo. glad that word is making the rounds.
Hey! Keep your thumbs out of her vagoo, unless you get permission first!!
It reminds me of this Fate/stay night meme
That, is a seriously bad edit job
Ooh, that sounds interesting. Heck of a lot of effort to go to for just one wish mind! You really need three to correct your initial cock-up and then get your ‘happily-ever-after’ from the last one.
I would never be able to spend mine. I would spend months and years, with a gag tied over my mouth to avoid accidentally invoking the one-shot wish. And I would become a nervous wreak, from writing out the wording (without the key “w” word), looking for flaws and then re-writing it again!
*gets out the popcorn and settles in for a marathon watching session*
Personally not entirely sure how I feel about something that came from the (admittedly fictional) mind of Rayne Summers having entered the general vernacular :p
Heh, it’s like spreading verbal herpies.
You can’t fault his reasoning though: Rayne states that the word vagina is “cold, sterile and doesn’t do the female anatomy any justice. Other synonyms don’t do any better either. Just not good descriptions of something warm and inviting.”
And ‘goo’ is? o_O
I use it. It’s a very friendly word.
Somebody is lacking in the Who’s Who.
Yup, DaveB forgot Harem.
“Bet she’s got a big ol grin”
And a limp. Don’t forget that.
See my earlier post (in a reply on the previous page of comments) about “Sara’s Little Purple Book” from the Whateley Academy series, specifically the part about the sort of enhancement many male Exemplar’s get.
Whoof, that’s gonna leave a painful bruise in a place where you really, really don’t want a bruise. Not all ‘improvements’ are for the better.
Consider also the conversation from Cheech and Chong’s version of The Corsican Brothers, in which Lucien (Tommy Chong) is talking about his sword, but the lady-in-waiting he’s seducing thinks he means, uh, his sword.
“I need to get into the castle, that’s where they have the best ones.”
“Francois has a nice one!”
“I need one that is strong, and big.”
“Oh, like Pierre! But his was too big…”
“They can never be too big. Not if you know what to do with it. If it is big enough, all you have to do is show it, and people will run away.”
“Oh, that’s what I did.”
Hmmm Was that subtle smirking on Krona’s part or is she Hiro’s GF? I mean she manipulates probability and encounters w/Hiro straight out of Manga Shonen could be set up til he starts dating her.
Her comments are made smugly too. Smugly enough one would catch the hint that Hiro is dating her.
As for size? her power/magic? and magic inherent in the bio-package women have means she’s small but very capable of taking something big in.
My vote is KRONA is dating Hiro… or at least is bang buddies with him.
… No. She’s just picturing it, as Sydney is and told her to do. “Can you imagine it?” style.
Toooo knowing. Hiro’s been on her date card… I’m shipping that and when Halo finds out… Betting most of the “A” team has dated Hiro… and they will urge her to join the club. / Nods sagely into his Dwarven Whiskey
Unless one of your fetishes is of the human fleshlight and slash or belly-deformation, Hiro wouldn’t go for the tiny ladies
Daniel here. I have an Original Character (OC) who was dating an OC of the girl I was dating at the time (the OCs were actually first to start :P, long story). My OC has many “faces” but 2 main forms, 1 being a 9 foot tall super soldier genetically enhanced since puberty ( a Space Marine for those who know), with everything proportioned as expected of someone basically doped up on extra testosterone while pubescent – we worked out length was within human range but thickness…
My then-girlfrind’s OC was around the low to mid 5 foot range in height…
We worked out those 2 OCs trying to breed would be like “trying to shove a salami through a keyhole” was the exact wording. My OD’s fingers were bigger than some guy’s tackle…
Krona is smaller than her OC, while Hiro appears “longer” than mine. While Hiro may have provided these ladies with…”stimulation assistance”, neither of them would be able to physically handle Hiro without physical damage, could even be potentially fatal…
Wasn’t saying it wouldn’t be possible, or that it was wrong (have seen enough hentai and porn-parodies), was just explaining how it would be with the “A-Team” (they are also small in stature, not just cup-size)
Technically, Krona has the whole reality hacking thing… She might be able to give herself a “vagoo of holding”. Or shrink him. Or maybe differentiate that part of her body from the rest with a subdimensional alteration of some kind… Wow I put way too much thought into that in just a few seconds.
Do you want to risk the possible side-effects of having your body-parts changed like that? o_O
I don’t know if Maxima could troll Dabbler with this. I got the impression that catty and agressive Max is one of Dab’s favorite crushes. Especialy if she tells a story about something sexy like this.
Hmm, now I don’t want silver bullets but silver shot – shotgun shells.
Silver bullets are far too tricky to make effective, in any event. You are fare better off with the shotgun variety, as you say.
Good against zombies, werewolves, vampires and door-to-door salesmen.
How about a holy water pistol then?
That probably depends on whether they are evil or not. Ingsol and Mr Fluffy seem quite nice. Whilst Clover would not give a s**t, about getting wet!
Then there is dat cute widdle bunny wabbit. I doubt that she is evil. Unless she is damned to Hell, for eating carrots!
ask anna from buffy and she is first in line but I think thats a personality quirk on her part
Bad case of monkey face in panel 5.
No, GREAT case of monkey face in panel 5. :D
Yea I liked the funny effect. Although I must admit I considered it to be ‘nice but weird’. Glad Guile managed to identify what was causing the latter feeling.
Krona knows.
So do I.
When you understand the machine-code of the universe, you know everything!
Imagining Hiro’s bedroom
Plushy sexy pink panther on bed pillows.
above a reality bending mobile sculpture.
On wall poster of a Combat Osprey w/ArcSwat markings
Other reference toys… mainly Anime style models of female supers and villainess.
New box with model on desk being constructed… box on side on desk with marble like balls scattered about…one on floor… front of box Shows a Big H with a circle around it… an incomplete object…
Hiro is a secret Otaku and he keeps a trophy of sort for memories of conquests…
So you recon Hiro is two-timing Pixel?
+1
Faces are continuing to look weird for any facial expression that goes beyond merely opening their mouth to talk. Oh well. I’m sure the art will eventually grow out of its awkward adolescent phase.
Yeah, that’s what happens when you take a still-photo when people are talking, or laughing, or being anything more than a hollyweird meat-puppet
Most of the expressions have been created for comic effect and are perfectly drawn, both in their own right, and for the intention. Some of Maxima’s open-mouthed expressions are a bit off though, but Dave has mentioned, in the past, that he is working to improve those. So that aspect is indeed maturing.
Perhaps you can link us to some of your art? Presumably it must be phenomenally good, if this is adolescent by comparison.
Inquiring minds want to know! Sydney asks the hard questions as Hiro ducks out of the discussion.
Film at 11.
Hiro refuses to answer questions? What a dick.
I hope Sydney does not keep up the penetrating questions, now that Maxima has erected a good point against that.
At some point they’re going to “remember” to ask Harem to go fetch some pants for Hiro.
Probably.
They can’t: all Harem’s are on assignment, if Bodie leaves, she can’t get back again without assistance (in which case, just get them to do the run in the first place), and if one of the others does the run, they will be leaving their team a member-down (and just because they encountered Sci-fright here doesn’t mean they won’t run in to other trouble elsewhere, like maybe scoping out one of her bolt-holes just as she shows up)
At some point they use krona’s Reality warping powers and just give him some speedos.
Actually meant Pixel. krona on the mind. Actually, Pixel could probably enlarge Maxima’s Jacket.
No, you had it right the first time: Kronachrome is the one with the reality-bending powers
I always had a theory on the “one vampire turning into a swarm of bats” thing, I figure it’s an illusion, a divirsionary tactic, the vamp actually turns into just one lil bat and surrounds itself with the illusion of others. If you think about it, how much energy would it take to separate into hundreds of bats with the same consciousness versus just one, surrounded by fakes? It would be easier to flee unnoticed, since you could hold the illusion till you get far enough away or till you hide in a small hole then poof! Fake bats scatter in all directions, confusing your enemy. I’ve held common bats that got stuck in my grandma’s house before and they are seriously tiny, its very easy to lose sight of them in the dark.
So. . .yup that’s my theory. Anybody else think the same?
How did Terry Pratchett describe it? Something like: “And don’t get me started about bats! There’s always one or two that fly the wrong way. And I have to get them to carry my clothes with them! And the reconstitution: imagine the biggest sneeze you’ve ever had – backwards!”
Sounds like a workable solution.
Energy arguments never convince me on their own mind, when dealing with magic or super-powers. So many of the things have a huge disconnection with our normal models that it is pointless even trying. Maxima could not create nuke-like explosions just from burning calories from her food, for example.
Personally I have no problems with envisaging a distributed consciousness, for that matter, so I have always envisaged the bats and rats as being actual animals. Especially as it tickles me to imagine them picking up keys and otherwise doing interesting things, in those forms, rather than just using it as a means of escape.
Given their immortality vampires probably live in old buildings, which will be riddled with routes that rats use. Suddenly the advantage of a rat swarm, compared to transforming into a wolf, becomes clear. One vampire could monitor every room in a house, or castle, if capable of spreading the swarm out, to scout.
In general, exceptionally long guys end up with a significant amount of their penis still outside the vagina. And most big guys are noted for thinking that their size is all that matters, so they end up simply hammering the hell out of the woman’s cervix (which I understand is not at all comfortable) and are frequently kinda shitty lovers.
But there are definitely size queens that want big dicks. Although I’ve been told that a thicker penis is preferable to a long one, although again there can be a point where getting it in can be less than pleasant. In that case, definitely experience would be of benefit.
A taller and broader woman would probably have a deeper vagina, just as a taller and broader guy would probably have a longer penis (but not necessarily in both cases), but one shouldn’t bet on exceeding the human female average of 7″ by a lot.
There have apparently been women who had their cervix surgically opened so that a particularly long penis can end up going deeper, but I imagine that can have all sorts of unpleasant consequences, and likely mess with child gestation/ birth as well.
And… vagoo? Seriously? What is Sydney, five? And how is ‘vagoo’ better than ‘vagina’, or simply ‘vaj’?
The reason thicker is generally better is that there is only about 4 inches of sexually sensitive material in a vagina thus a thicker penis puts more pressure on them. Length helps since it prolongs each thrust but if your not thick enough to rub well against those sections its like fitting too small a bolt a to a nut.Or for a more disgusting image….image your kung-fu grip couldn’t be adjusted down much and all the pleasure centers were in your palm….
We can add one more power to Pixel’s repertoire. Animal senses. Hearing bats flying overhead is pretty impressive!
Even if the bats are chatterboxes.
Well the common idea I find in stories from the 1800s was that the Vampire fleets were magical dark sorcery, fueled by x amount of years drinking blood/killing people. Older vampires also could assume the form of ravens or wolf packs.
They mentally disperse into multiple lesser bodies but share collective will splitting the vampires soul, or whatever does the driving for an undead blood drinking super Lich. In bat form the vampire is nearly unharmable. Each vampire bat is ‘supercharged’ by the dark powers spread out amongst them. Sunlight or running water destroys the dark magic.
Night time, pure night time, is described as the mantle. Dark magic wise the Vamp should technically be invulnerable in bat form at night. If u cant shoot a vampire because of its inhuman speed how can you shoot it as a horde of flying rodents???
So if they split his soul, each bat is a teeny little horcrux.
The group of them would be a whole fleet of…
Damn. Now I have to go look up the plural of horcrux.
I’ve read the word Horcruxes alot by credible authors so maybe thats what you’re looking for? Feels wrong though…meh
And yeah thats basicly it. Youd have to kill all the bats to reduce the soul to one entity. Harming the bats wouldnt so much hurt the Vamp itself as it would diminish its reach and power? There’s plenty of grey area, DaveB can probably make the damage manifest physically if he preffered.
With a Vampires heal factor I’d think a flamethrower would be the only reasonable way to achieve injury to the Bat cloud. Probably a good idea to bless the steel and the fuel tank just to be sure. :)
Ah, English plurals of exotic words …
Both “cruces” and “cruxes” serve as the plural of “crux”. Potterheads may correct me, but I believe “horcrux” is derived from “crux”, in which case “horcruxes” and/or “horcruces” would make sense. A Google search finds both, so I’d suggest checking if Rowling spoke of Voldemort’s “horcruces” or “horcruxes” – or perhaps both? :)
+1
Also, boss Avatar Name. Another +1
You will find that most of those stories from the 1800’s? Fake, at the best they would have been written later and set in the 1800’s: Stoker’s “Dracula” was written in the 1890’s, and before him about the only story about Elizabeth Bathory, anything else would have been ‘folk legends’
Yeah but remember Stoker didnt invent Vampires, he consolidated pre-existing ideas and fears from wives tales and myth in regards to The Tepes family. There are records of stories that include blood sucking undead in chinese arabian and even african mythology.
The very first ‘official’ vampire story I’ve read was of a young woman named Carmilla that was lesbian, sucked blood and could turn into a demon cat. As you say the original story of Carmilla may have been written up to coin in on the sensational situation around Elizabeth Bathory from the 1500s who had a pretty bloodthirsty background.
Yeah, Stoker didn’t invent them, but his was one of the first to make them ‘popular’
Again, most of those mythology stories are just that: myths and legends
What about Varney the Vampire? Can’t be forgetting him, he was popular. He counted.
Well Myths and legends are still a popular form of fiction even if its ancient fiction, I hear what you’re saying though.
Its a modern story, vamp history becomes irrelevant after a certain point while turning back the clock. Good to keep that in mind next time i think on this.
But, they wouldn’t have been widespread in the 1800’s, and certainly not written down, for a start, most of the teaming masses still had trouble reading, at least until the latter part
The point of contention was “stories from the 1800’s”, with the claim that most of those would have been written after “Bram Stoker’s: Dracula”, possibly even “Nosferatu”, thus, the stories claiming to be from the 1800’s could actually have been influenced by stories written later
Oh, I figured out what Halo’s last two spheres were for on the way home from work.
(Makes fishhook shape with finger in corner of mouth) Oh, Do tell!
Is it hitting things?
The green GPS orb?
The brown in-Halomobile stereo orb?
It took me a minute to understand panel 5 :-\
Okay, so who is Hiro dating?
Other than the two he brought back to base from the nightclub? Who knows, possibly no steady girlfriend, or one who doesn’t mind him picking up ‘strays’
Now this gets me thinking. What happens when you have a “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” situation… but in reverse? I mean Hiro and Max can NEVER have a relationship unless she can tone her powers down enough that she is down to his strength, right? Otherwise he’s going to literally break himself in her out of sheer effort.
Poor boy…
Eh, she can dial her strength down so she won’t be that much stronger. She might have to be careful with the kegels, but someone with super strength and invulnerability seems a likely candidate to be her partner.
She has the ability to shift portions of her power into various other abilities. And that’s without factoring in his own super-human durability
Hiro would be perfectly fine
Aren’t they supposed to be hunting down that frankensteined Blood Mage?
They are, did you not read anything? Bodie even said that Sci-fright bugged out and that Pixelicious is administering first-aid to the capri-boxes that were strung up with her
To be fair, I have to admit that I didn’t really read much after I got to the second panel…
Okay so big dumb robot good and destroyed, but the villain escaped. This change in the story is most interesting and well… my brain has fallen into the gutter. No washing will ever make it clean but its not towards max though, its ACTUALLY towards were Pixel of all things. o.o
Sohmer (Of LICD) has got to be delighted that the new, friendlier word he invented for vaginas really IS coming into common usage! LOL
And no one is going to associate with Mr Magoo? o_O
How the heck does ‘vagina’, which is a medical description, even need a ‘friendlier’ word? O_o
Medical descriptions aren’t always considered safe by the public… For no apparent reason.
It’s called camera trickery, and dealing with a lot of pain in the industry, Dave. >.>! Let’s just say i know a few. And have had many conversations.
Birthday song for Dave,
”Happy birthday, oh happy birthday.
Death, destruction, deep despair,
People dying everywhere.
But it’s your birthday.
So happy birthday.”
We wish you a happy birthday
the happiest of all
we’re sorry we din’t get you nil
but our checks are kinda small
So we hijacked this ol’ song and dance
to sing to you in the mall
and wish to you a happy birthday
as you puke in the bathroom stall
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in you wake
Happy Birthday! Oh, Happy Birthday!
Santa Clause can’t drive his sled.
His eight reindeer all dropped dead.
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Easter Bunny broke his legs.
Blood all over all the eggs.
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.
Orphans dying every day
This is all we have to say.
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.
As you draw that birthday breath
One year closer to your DEATH!
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.
*cries*
Happy birthday Dave!
Those songs are good & all, but I still prefer Weird Al’s version.
We can actually use the traditional song. It has been ruled, in court, that the copyright claim on it was invalid. So all we need is someone with a suitable pair of lungs, to sing it. Albeit belatedly now.
What’s up with the turned up m-rating?
Maxima went from “Keep it professional goddamn it” to “Hurhur”.
What is going on here? Feels like someone else is writing the script.
Blame Sydney, she is getting Maxi to crack that shiny golden exterior (either that, or there was something else in that explosion)
or…
This isn’t ‘their’ maxima.
The timewarp savepoint spell/program doesn’t really timetravel.
It just moves you to an alternative timeline that runs a bit later then their current one.
Tiny discrepancy being a minor sideeffect (or a requirement for the slack in the events).
Alternatively Maxima is very human, underneath her golden skin. She has passions and a sense of humour. As both a hardcore feminist and a career officer though Maxima just works hard to maintain a professional attitude about such matters.
Do note her telling Sydney off, just prior to that. However Hiro’s response, indicating that he was OK with it, allowed Maxima to relax.* Psychologically this is very important, because if you go from being wound up** to being relaxed that can result of a bunch of endorphins being dumped into your body, to counter the adrenaline and any anger.
On a sudden endorphin high, Maxima would find any amusing thought to be particularly funny, and would have difficulty maintaining her normal reserve. It is perfectly normal to respond in such a way.
Interestingly, it is not just humans. We can see the same thing happen when great apes calm down after a tense social incident. Humans are not the only animals to laugh. It is one of nature’s tricks to avoid social conflict.
* That is a very important legal and ethical point for whether sexual harassment is occurring. As their boss, Maxima is obliged to assume that such conversation would make Hiro uncomfortable, unless she receives some indication that he is not bothered.
Take, for example, Hiro’s reaction to Anvil pushing them together. Clearly he was enjoying himself, so she did not need to be concerned, in this regard.
** As we know Maxima to often be about sexual matters, and could clearly see on her face here.
+1
I’d say that the vampire in principle turns to one bat. But to reduce mass that one bat is mirrored to multiple smaller ones.
The bats arguing therefore is them expressing conflicting thoughts.
A scene like this, for Dabbler…
Ever walked past a French bakery in the early morning?
Yeah, something like that.
By the lore? No the bats they shape shift into are immune to their normal weaknesses, all except entering a building un-invited, but they also lose all their resistances too which means shoot the bat with buckshot and you got a temporarily dead vampire you can walk up and stake in the heart to leave for the day’s cruel rays.
Folklore or movie lore? I am assuming the latter as I cannot recall any source with detail on that.
There are a host of legends about bats and properties associated with them and bits of them mind. Not just in Europe mind, but in Africa, China and the Americas. The latter being the most interesting as such was quite widespread and, in particular, the Mayans had a god who was part bat.
So whilst it is hard to pin down when bats were first associated with vampires, the fact that it became prevalent after the Americas were discovered, is quite telling. Maybe in the Grrlverse vampirism originated in the Americas, and perhaps was even of divine origin?
Actually, let me modify that. Vampires themselves long predated that. However Dave has indicated that in the Grrlverse there are many different types of vampires (presumably having clans with associated traits). So my proposal would be that the type we see above, which has the bat-transformation properties, may have had the origins I suggested.
Some thoughts:
Vampire swarms: I have only one body, and I have been known to talk to myself before, so I can see the bats squabbling. I would think that it is a change of ‘form’ and not of ‘kind’, so each bat would have the same weaknesses and basic powers as the full vamp. Losing bats would result in a complete, but weaker/damaged vamp. In whole, I got to figure that turning into 50kg or so of bats makes more sense than turning into one tiny bat.
Elephant in a purse of holding: Up to 13 or so pounds of human can fit through the average “purse”, although it isn’t comfortable. Let’s just say that for a multitude of reasons, Hiro is likely to attract more women than can easily …accommodate him. Although I suppose Krona could use a slider to alter proportions if there was a need. Or to pull a prank.
Also, I now wonder of all of Harems various gazes got distracted in panel two.
It’s like the chain reaction after the ambulance scene. The 4 other copies of her momentarily paused whatever they were doing and just stood there for a moment with a glazed look in their eye.
FYI: under the category of pranks not to pull on Harem.
If one of them is disarming a bomb somewhere, do not zap another copy with Dabblers tickle gun.
That seems very likely. If so, then Krona’s own looks reflect very well on both her taste and resistance to social pressure.
Dave, the saying is that it it takes practice to get to Carnegie Hall, not Broadway…
Yeah, Broadway is full of people who never practiced a day in their lives. All the terrible, terrible acting.
Not as many as infest HolyWeird, and that goes triple for the non-acting side (googolplex for the ones ‘in control’, talentless bunch of wankers, screwing up what would otherwise have been great movies)
I didn’t say that Broadway actors don’t practice. I said that the saying is about Carnegie Hall. You need to learn to read.
Well, it’s not so much a saying as it is a joke…
“Do you know how to get to Carnegie Hall?”
“Practice, practice, practice”
Here’s an old clip from the original Muppet’s Show from the 70s and 80s where a couple members of Doctor Teeth’s band do the joke, and then mention it as being an old joke even back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189Zm69kt10
Here’s a scene from Inglorious Basterds that ends with the joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_2MPJZeASE
A MET Orchestra Musicians video which references the joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP5XkdhfoSI
I could keep listing examples, they’re a mile long. I’m surprised there’s anyone here who apparently haven’t heard it before. It’s so old and so ubiquitous that “getting to Carnegie Hall” is pretty much universal slang for “practice.” I don’t think even “I’m not from America” is an excuse considering it’s the world’s most famous concert hall. In fact…
A British woman asks a random person in New York how to get to Carnegie Hall and as if expecting to be told “practice” and she giggles when she’s told “practice”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHjG–1CVA
Carnegie Hall is famous. The joke fairly so. I recalled it when you referenced it, but it did not spring to mind. Mind you I have only been to theatre a couple of times, in my life, so I am not exactly core audience on that. So your Muppet and film references are far more likely to be how I came across it myself. Also explaining why it did not feature so much in my thought processes.
Needless to say you are perfectly right to point out the more famous association. However Dave’s does still work, as is, even if he may have been aiming for the one you cited. Simply because if you are not that good you end up ‘off Broadway’. So it would take practice to make it.
Personally if I may have made the same analogy, as Broadway is more famous in itself than Carnegie Hall. After all,Broadway is a world wonder!
In regards to the serious question: Bat swarm does not have individual minds. An attacking owl would contend with the entire swarm and be eaten easily in retaliation. A shotgun blast is ineffective at actually damaging bats except at close range and they dodge easily. They will not have a conversation but anyone unfamiliar with the situation could picture it that way and I assume Halo is familiar enough so this would be Hiro’s random mental image we’re seeing. It also explains exactly why when he ripped off a random object that “looks important” from the target he had no consideration of what might happen in doing so.
There is also no guarantee the object is dead. There is at least one piece of it that was flung away by Halo and should it absorb qualities from targets it gained regeneration as well. IF it actually managed to scratch Maxima’s skin and that really is the source of all her power then her blood would be meaningless. At most we have seen a broken nose before and that doesn’t mean what we saw was blood. It could have been super snot… Plus 250 might have been nothing more than a shadow which I’m still not entirely sure is enough to stop laser snakt. Can’t even deny that it just touching the surface would make it able to become able to absorb that ability.
Lots of unknown and occult in this baby. Good work.
… what? sorry i didnt get past the second panel.
*Insert “its a trap” meme here*
Crosseyed Bodie with that lip thing is cute :D
I do have a weakness for freckles. Any time we are close up enough, for them to stand out, she jumps from ‘meh’ to ‘whoa’!
No one yet commented on that one bat talking about a cookie and orange juice? Those are usually your ‘reward’ for donating blood, and last we saw of that Elder Vamp, Sci-fright was about to volunteer his blood for the NotBot :P
Heh, yea, I had made the blood donor connection, but had not followed it back to his last appearance, and his involuntary donation to Sciona. Good deductions.
Huh, cool, thanks for the heads up on that one. It seemed like a weird combination to a mind like mine with no knowledge of american customs. From a purely practical standpoint, I’d expect dark chocolate and ginger beer.