Grrl Power #561 – Harangarang
As soon as the door opened, everyone standing beside Sydney and Ingsol should have been all “Ew, what happened?” but you know how comic time and dialog work. Spider-man can belt out a few paragraphs mid-punch. I guess that’s another of Sydney’s official unofficial abilities.
Maxima cut Sydney off when she launched in to her “exposition rampage” when Crimson showed up at the base, so she’s getting a few sideline conversations in where she can now.
Ingsol shouldn’t be upset that Sydney seems to be picking on him. Well, he’s a nigh ancient vampire and has pretty thick skin, but more than that, Sydney just likes haranguing her friends. So it’s sort of a compliment when Sydney gives you the business. It should be said that she’s not nearly as good as being on the receiving end of a razzing. It’s a bit of an insecurity based character flaw. Something that may not be helped by hanging out with all the beautiful people at the base, despite quickly becoming a powerful and indispensable member of the team.
Fun fact, Krona’s last name is Murgatroyd. Ingsol isn’t referencing her here, or calling for her. It’s just expression he likes.
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If we had an actual ‘room smeared with gore” I would imagine them seeing his departing ghost saying “please recycle my remains so that my death will be carbon neutral!”
Booooooo!
Indeed.
It will be an awkward moment when someone realizes that all organic molecules bind with carbon atoms & everything that lives (that humanity has encountered so far) are carbon-based on the molecular level. There’s no such thing as body disposal in a “carbon-neutral” way.
Quite true.
And the two most eco friendly ways are the sapling fertilizer bag, and having your corpse frozen in liquid nitrogen. The latter involves being shattered and having the bits of mercury removed via magnet.
Actually, “carbon neutral” means that you don’t put any more carbon into the atmosphere than your body removed from it over the course of your lifetime. Burial works nicely for this, as long as it’s done the old fashioned way by people wielding shovels.
Terrible Al Gore puns are Terrible.
Or perhap, being a nigh ancient vampire, someone used to watch Snagglepuss on Saturday Morning cartoons back in the 60s. Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Heavens to Moor Gate Royde? The ‘district leading to the moors,’ a fairly common name in aristocracy following the 1300s.
i see i’m not the only one that googled today.
Odd how personalised google results can differ. My top one was “Latest News, Videos & Guest Interviews from the Today Show on NBC”.
mine was how to summon an elder god …….. for three items then old boomerang video channel posts for two pages followed by facebook accounts……? what does that say about my search habits?
Probably not human, as two thirds would normally be porn.
We can’t all be Canines. They have 90% porn search rates
How do know so much about the habits of… Nevermind.
A room smearted with human blood and gore, half rooten ones, will look the same as a room smearted with pig blood and gore: disgusting.
So… you mean like random objects wrapped in bacon?
Well, when cannibals were interviewed & they were asked what human meat tastes like, they said it was much like pork. Indeed, a nickname for human meat is “long pork,” but not to be confused with getting “pulled pork” that you might find in grocery stores…
“long pig”, not pork. otherwise yes, that is the term.
And that damn name is still being used, in public
I thought cannibals found that human clowns tasted funny, and evangelicals make the best devil’s food cake.
Aaand now would be the time for someone to suggest a NSFW google image search for Dolcett.
WOW! I thought I would be the only one who knew about Dolcett and his favorite way of taking care of ladies.
Texture of human flesh is more like turky than pork thouh
Don’t you mean the ‘mouthfeel’?
as long as it isnt lady gaga again…
rooms dirty therefor no over kill.
if every surface in the room was polished to a high sheen then we have indications of over kill. . simple metric but effective. . localized or wandering damage matrices tend to be messy only Midwestern house wives practice over kill. and they aren’t often to be found outside the preferred habitat.
as for the immortal thing; the single biggest problem would be word choice and meaning.. language changes a great deal over time; words that ment one thing a hundred years ago no longer mean the same.
an entity several thousand years old would find it difficult to parse a modern conversation because meaning drift is so far advanced.
this would also play out in ingersol’s diction he would be extremely careful to use statements very precisely to obscure or clarify his message. immortal or not; invulnerable or not, some things still hurt i would assume a truly invulnerable and immortal being to have some rather large vulnerabilities elsewhere.
The question of overkill vs proper amount of kill comes down to two questions:
1. Do you have enough ammo, energy, mana, draka, etc to deal with the next thing that needs to be made no more?
2. Are all of the things that you need for your mission (compatriots, priceless relics, planet, etc) still functional?
If the answer to either or both questions is no, it was overkill. If the answer to both questions is yes, it was the proper amount of kill.
NEVAH ENUFF DAKA!
I don’t think that’s entirely correct.
No to 1) could nean you didn’t bring enough in the first place
and no to 2) could mean you’ve failed.
Is that a crime scene or a bufet?
Is Ingsol’s last name Snagglepuss? Sweet murgatroyd? Exit… stage left even!
“Exit, vomiting all the way, stage left.”
God Sydney!Could you stop being such a smug little **** for a moment and stop picking fights with pretty much everyone just cause you have a shield normally associated with star ships which protects you from consequences!?!?Erg…If I had to work with her in Archon Ive cracked within a month and would be practicing my sniper training so I could have the sheer joy of blowing her brains out when she least expects it.
Paintballs filled with a topical sedative, or my favorite, giant hogweed juice.
Actually….If Archon allowed that as part of Sydneys training that could be a great non illegal form of stress relief for everyone else XD.
Sydney would also learn to expect more than just ninjas as she becomes increasingly paranoid…
But not the Spanish Inquisition…
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!
*Everyone* expected the Spanish Inquisition. They gave people 30 days notice so they could prepare their defense.
Sort of loses the tone when you put it like that
* My doctor advises me that cooler climes are less likely to lead to torture, the urge to falsely confess or combustion.
So now the lawyer expects the Spanish Inquisition, so he leaves the continent also, and leaves a note with the intern to give to the Inquisitor.
So now the intern expects….
PS. Yorp, you might want to avoid Salem, Massachusetts. Nice climate, if you stay away from the bonfires.
Hey, immortality ain’t a crime! Under present-day law.
They didn’t burn witches at Salem, they were hung. (With the exception of the one who was pressed to death with stones.)
They got one of my ancestors that way…. they’re not getting me.
Well I have a witch friend who reminds me that witchcraft remained a criminal offense in the UK up until 1951.
Now it is only illegal to be a fraudulent medium (which was the act which replaced the witchcraft one). So, ironically, being able to show that you can genuinely cast spells is now the defense, as opposed to the way that you would be proven guilty!
Actually, that’s usually the tone that it had in the Monty Python sketches where that came from. The Spanish Inquisition would burst into the room, attempt to shout their catchphrase, screw up the catchphrase several times, then step outside so they could burst in again, rendering the, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!” line moot because everyone expected them now.
And now that I’ve killed the joke, I’ll just exit stage left… :-P
Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam.
What? On the internet everybody should expect the Spammish Repetition…
Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam, Vegan Spam.
For Sydney. I looked but could not find any “Spam made from non-cute looking things’, so this was the best that was available.
Yorp, spam is made from pigs, right? Spam made from a warthog would be spam made from a non-cute looking thing.
I could not find any furry-piggy spam for sale.
The baby ones are very cute by the way. Adults, of either flavour, usually look at their best as rashers of bacon.
Settle down, Cosby!
A good defence against her quips is ignorance–feigned or true (as seen here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2607). What you suggest could only fuel her ego, and serve to antagonise others.
Unfortunately, she will retain that cockiness until something happens. Her shield is her go-to plan, but she needs to have contingencies prepared. To paraphrase Mike Tyson, everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth…or nose, if you ask Maxima.
For Maxima, getting hit in the nose was her plan…
Oi! Read the author’s comments for context.
Panel 2: Green orb to the rescue!
ro jaws:
Maxima: “So it’s going to be one of those days again. Fine.
Apropos of nothing, I feel that Maxima says this a lot.
Well it’s Maximas job to handle a bunch of weirdoes, pervs and trolls. At least it’s not boring.
So she’s a forum admin? jk
She’s as much as admitted to having been DM a few times.
Didn’t she simply say she was a former nerd (or geek), and Sydney told her to say it with pride
Unless you mean a different type of ‘DM’…
Would a vampire’s nose be able to tell which species this gore was from?
Given his age, how familiar would this vampire be with the practice of divination-via-entrails?
Either:
– Haruspicy (entrails of animals)
– Anthropomancy (entrails of human children, virgins)
– Splanchomancy (entrails of dead men)
Don’t forget:
Autosplatomancy – divination based on the bug guts on the car’s windshield.
better than Sphinctomancy.
dont ask.
Likewise copromancy.
Both seem perfectly sensible ways of finding out information.
I’m not going to disagree, but you must admit that it’s much more likely that either of those last 2 would only be used by a species that has a canine-level of olfactory sensitivity.
The latter has been a part of Chinese culture for centuries. Film buffs may recall it being practiced in “The Last Emperor”.
Hmm, it occurs me (as it often does in these set ups). If in this world they are real, and have a secret society; then why is it that their fatal weaknesses are common knowledge?
back in the day the vamps where more open. only as humans got more advanced and organised they gone into hiding and manipulated the evidence of there existence to myth to be forgotten eventually but literature got in the way.
Well, as you probably know, Sydney has vulnerabilities too. Some are more public than others.
Humans are just really good at murder. If there’s something they don’t know how to kill, they invent entire branches of science to killing it. Somehow, I doubt vampires would be excluded.
As an aside, the council should have some human scientists take a crack at destroying those weapons in the vault…
Im not “really” good at murder. I am just passably good at it. For example, I talk about being a murderer on a webcomic forum. Thats not really good.
She looked so normal. None of us every would have thought that of her! She pretty much kept to herself. Although we did see her down the local comic shop a lot.
Murder is the act; everything before and after is your prize. Don’t talk about the prize! Some people might get jealous.
Lord Evil. Offering only impeccable advice.
Ah, but are those known weaknesses actual weaknesses? Remember during the council meeting, Syndey got a brief “false myths of werewolves 101” lecture. I’m sure there are plenty of false myths of vampires too.
Just depends which ones are false. By Ingsol’s reaction, garlic may be a false myth.
Gotta have that disinformation campaign!
Just like ‘carrots give you good eyesight/nightvision’. Disinformation can help win wars.
Tell that to the orange nightfighter pilots of WWII.Massive amounts of beta carotine, and excellent night vision for their missions. they looked kinda funny during the day with the welding goggles and the bright orange skin. It was a high price to pay for only a little improvement in night vision, but it helped win the war over Britain.
That was actually the misinformation I was referring to. Totally made up. Britain had to conceal the advances they had made in radar, as their interception rates were too good to be explained by the conventional detection technology of the day. Hence making a big public relations campaign about feeding pilots carrots to improve their night vision.
It also had the good side effect of encouraging the public (and kids in particular) to grow and eat carrots. Which, given WWII rationing, was very useful in its own right. It made carrots much more popular with kids, at a time when that was important.
Half-truths are more popular than either fact or fiction. The truthiness sells the veracity, the falsehood sells the intrigue. It’s like a tiny little bestselling fiction novel!
And here I thought it was the beta trials for the Donald Trump Genome Project. It seems the engineers still have some bugs to work out…
That depends on exactly what part of blood vampires in your universe derive their nourishment from, and how good natural selection for ageless creatures is at picking out things that they may or may not want to avoid.
That is to say, it would either look like someone smeared the walls with a three course meal, or a rotting garbage dump, take your pick.
Most folks seem to forget that Ingsol is amongst those vampires who abstain from human blood.
Well, apart from any self-refilling volunteer supers, of course.
What exactly is “nigh ancient” supposed to mean? “Nigh” means near, and “ancient” just means “very old”; it’s not like there’s a cutoff point that Ingsol could be approaching.
Its like with material goods,
there are different amounts of years associated with (antique) vs (artifact).
Zack Tilly: Maxi was saying that Ingie was “nearly very old”
Or maybe, there is…
I linked that very appropriately. ‘Ancient’ has a very distinct meaning in vampire circles. So whilst Ingsol is ancient by human standards he does not fall into the category of ‘ancient vampire’ by his own society’s.
‘Nigh ancient’ is a good way of summing this up without any spoilers. At the moment we have the assumption, from that link, and others, that Ingsol is very old, and near the top tier (albeit that there may be a big variance in the truly ancient vampires ages and powers). However Dave is avoiding spoilers that might occur by precisely defining his relative power.
We can tell that it is significantly below Maxima’s, from his recent revaluations. However we do not know how that relates to the eldest vampires. Those kicking around from the time of Christ, or earlier.
Ingsol is roughly 700 years old. Scarlet and Crimson were talking to Sydney about this here https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2231 .
In most literature, vampires start being counted as demigods around the 1000 year mark, so I’m betting Ingsol might be powerful for his age, but is still in the vampire lightweight division, as far as strength.
I’m personally guessing that the rumors of a 1k+ vampire in Europe, with the vampires getting more powerful with age motif, was an off-side allusion to Alucard.
Vlad Tepes or that twit from the anime (or whatever)?
Probably like looking into a trash can. Or, seeing a VERY fine wine spille dall over the carpet. He’s not gonna lick it up now that it’s all over the FLOOR!
A cafeteria after a food fight.
Why does unglammoured Dabbler have a blue face, blue arms, and most importantly blue boobs but when one looks at her legs, the hooves and ankles are blue as well but the rest of her Legs has normal Skintone.
Tights!
Skin coloured tights with a white blouse and blue skin.
That is #QuestionableFashionSense
READ THE FUCKING COMMENTS!!!! It has been explained every fucking page since this part started!!!
Language!
jk
I never Read any comment Pages.
They are full of stupid questions that could ne avoided by paying attention and of foul language.
Ooo I know!
Red Happened!
https://bloodismine.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/
In panels 3 and 6 Sydney’s mouth looks… just weird. And not in a good way, more like a “child’s porcelain doll come to life” creepy way.
Also, the use of ‘nigh’ before ‘ancient vampire’ is awkward. I mean, the Tick is nigh invulnerable, because it’s reasonable to say that he is “really close to being invulnerable, but still has some weaknesses.” But that’s not an adjective you use with age. Gracefully. I mean, “almost really, really old, but maybe not quite” just doesn’t come across well.
Sydney is supposed to look creepy in those pages, it helps when mocking a nigh ancient vampire
“almost really, really old, but maybe not quite” is exactly what “nigh ancient” means, it’s Maxi’s subtle dig of her own
The “nigh ancient” dig relates to Maxima previously telling Sydney “stop haranguing the ancient vampire”, only to have Ingsol respond “I don’t know about ancient” to Maxima.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2245
This was a few pages after a discussion about how a vampire gets more powerful with age, and how Ingsol is about 700 years old but older vampires exist.
Like said: Maxi’s subtle dig of her own
Gracefully.
Her face in those panels reminds me of the cheshire cat, and I labeled it Sydney’s snarky face. Maybe smug snarky face. Don’t worry Ingsol, I think she likes you. Only people she likes get smug snark.
Then I looked up the word snark. Turns out that a snark is a creature from the same works that gave us the cheshire cat. Coincidence I guess.
Possibly two different snarks.
Snark or snarky, coming from a meaning for snort, predates Lewis Carroll’s version, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, and confirmed by the OED.
Yes, two different snarks, but same spelling. I just thought it was funny that I thought cheshire cat face, and then looked up the word to make sure I was using it right (I do that sometimes), and find out that it’s a noun from the same book….. end run on.
Fair enough, I can relate to that. Three cheers for serendipity, and may none of our Snarks be Boojums.
Keep getting “Hunting of the Snark” and the “Cutty Sark” mixed up :(
not any more so than a room full of eviscerated cows looks appetizing to someone who likes a good steak. Presentation is important. Also the absence of bile, fecal matter and other gross fluids and gibbets.
*drooling*
Giblets are fine, they are the source of gravy after all. The magical liquid which makes all unappetizing foods appetizing again, and appetizing foods delicious! All that other stuff you mentioned is disgusting.
Also, I like my food not rotten and splattered all over the place
Norwegian Ballistic Gastronomist?
No the Norweigans just eat lye treated dry fish. It’s the Icelanders who eat rotten fish, aka hakarl.
I love the trivia of history. Back in the days when the Venetian merchants were trying to open up new trade routes, one ship tried to discover new markets and maybe open a sea route around Norway and Russia. Unsurprisingly they got stuck when winter came and had to spend six months in a small fishing village.
One that ‘stunk to high heaven’ due to all the icky fish drying on racks. However with nothing else to eat for six months, the crew gradually acquired a taste for it. So they loaded up their entire hold with it, and aimed to sell the horrid stuff ‘as a delicacy’.
As I understand it the technique of eating it requires stopping breathing, to avoid smelling it before eating!
The quirk I love though is that because it is so unappetising (without going through the pain barrier to acquire the taste), most of the rest of the world has no interest in it whatsoever. Barring in Italy, where the marketing ploys worked, and it has remained a popular treat to this day!
Because it forms such a significant part of their sales, the village (where the Venetian merchant ship was stranded) has noticeable cultural links with Italy. So many of the locals speak Italian, and it is most evident in the streets, as many of the roads have Italian names!
Looks to me like a 50 gee impact inside of that chamber. It would have happened so fast, that the people it happened to never would have felt it. (That much blood and gore ain’t coming from only one person! Unless that person is REALLY, REALLY BIG! Then all bets are off!)
Turning off the magical pressure dampers, for a moment, would do the trick. Although I do agree it seems likely to be more than one individual involved.
Alas, it is the remains of the vault guardian Herbert, the worlds largest pygmy shrew.
50 G is survivable with possibly a few broken bones. People have survived a recorded 120 G impact when the impact is spread over a large enough surface area, and then there are people like me… I broke the last 3 trucks that hit me. Bent frame, and 2 crushed roofs.
G-force impact is very different to pressure differentials. The latter will affect organs that are shielded from the former by bones, for example. Here is a link to a fatal underwater incident where the differential was only 9 atmospheres:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident
OK it was in the opposite direction (decompression rather than compression), but I bet that the reverse effect is pretty dangerous too, even at the same pressure difference. But if you increase it by an order of magnitude I am certain it would be instantly fatal. And very messily so, just as with the above scene.
Although I imagine more claws, fangs and magic was involved here.
Look at Ingsol’s expression in panel 7. He;s almost SMILING. I do believe Syd’s rubbing off on him…like a brillo pad on bare skin. Still, I think he does like her. In a platonic amused sort of sense. Kinda hard NOT to like Sydney, really. >.>!
We have seen that Ingsol and Mr Fluffy enjoy hazing one another. Their main irritation is probably that a young whipersnapper of a human might presume to do the same.
However they are now getting to see that the apex superheroines are very much their peers, if not superiors, so such matters would be of less significance than at first. ‘Respect thy elders’ would still remain but, as diplomats, they are probably in tune enough with modern attitudes not to let that qualm show too much.
Ingsol internal monologue:
“Witty banter with someone who has a shield that can endure things that would splatter me, who is currently excited to be on a mission protecting me, who is learning intel that could be used to help identify threats against me from said banter, and who is currently making fresh air so I don’t have to deal with stench, and obviously approves of someone that can take part in said banter? Sounds like a plan.”
does this mean someone detected the giant metal vault that would be visible to pretty much any geo-magnetic survey, or ocean mapping sonar in the last 30 years?
Magic shields it from traditional electronic detection most likely just like cameras have issues too
It certainly does. This is a supernatural vault, so the Veil will do its work here as much as with a werewolf den or a vampire crypt. Every survey of the area will show a nondescript rock face, with no more metal than would be typical within a continental shelf.
Regarding the
… I actually assumed that others don’t see anything while Sydney and Ingsol are talking because they must wait for the air to clear out.
Methinks the nigh ancient vampire is as amused at Sydney’s antics as Maxima. And why not?! She’s positively adorable in panel 6! And the fourth wall fracturing in panel 9 is awesome! Although I know it’s not in the scope of this strip, I occasionally expect a moment like in the Carol Burnett show where Tim Conway makes everyone crack up and break character! Guess I’m showing my age!
It is new on me, and I can remember a time before TV. But I can see that many of the laughs come from the cast trying to maintain their composure.
As we’ve seen before, Sydney likes to pretend she’s breaking the fourth wall, but it’s actually in-character still.
Yup. I is wise.
I would expect no less of my alter ego.
A room covered in gore, would at best be like coming across a room covered in spaghetti, at worst, Rotten Spaghetti, with is the more likely case.
OMG! What happened to Joe the Caretaker here? Someone is certainly Sloppy at eating Joe.
Well, this comic certainly took a turn towards the more visceral…
Introducing the new Prago Spaghetti Sauce, now made with lots of rotten meatballs & the entrails of roadkill. “It’s in there!”
Good point, rotten meat gives off a pukeworthy smell and whatever happened may have occurred some time ago. Giving the gore time to go off. Looking at the smoke something (meaty?) is still smoldering at least. It is stinky enough for Sidney to go for the fresh air orb (life support orb).
So why does Ingsol not react to the smell? Wouldn’t a vampire be sensitive to the smell of blood and maybe meat? Fresh or otherwise?
This looks like a good place to drop this article.
I get to do this everytime someone uses a homonym wrong and this particular set of homonyms is one of the most abused. In this case the word is “cue” as in prepare for performance. “Queue” is get it in line, and the one that really chaps my leathers is “que” which looks like it belongs but is really the Spanish word for “what” and is pronounced “Kay”.
I’m a wordsmith and it pains me to see words abused like this.
Not at all, “queue up” is quite correct, Sydney is using it in the sense of “line up”, referring to a timeline of action or story segments, from a movie-nerd or comic-nerd viewpoint.
It’s a little fourth-wall-ish, but we’ve seen several instances of Sydney looking at life from this perspective (just recently, expecting a sunset fast-forward). In this case, place a flashback (possibly explaining the gore, or at least explaining the presence of the person/s it formerly represented) next in the sequence, occupying the viewers’ attention so Sydney can vomit off-camera.
Mind you, she could have also correctly referred to “cue the flashback” as a live performance, but “queue up the flashback” is acceptable from a storyboarding or video editing perspective, or sequential comic storytelling.
Another meaning for the word “cue” is that long, thin, tapered stick used when playing a game on a pool table…
Likewise (and appropriately archaic when dealing with an ancient vampire) “Humour; temper of mind”. I think he may have lost his, at this sight.
I don’t think the Council allows pool tables in their recreation areas. There is too great a chance for someone to get accidentally impaled. (or maybe not accidental)
My response would likely be:
Exit… stage left, stage right… stage COACH even…
Exit with a multi-stage rocket!
And do not allow any time wastage by applying postage.
Sydney are you sure you want to see the flashback of what happened here?
Even imagining it may push that vomit button.
So is there even a slight chance that it’s not Cooter Jones splattered all over the inside of the vault? It makes me sad to see a character introduced solely to die soon after as Cooter obviously was. If it was not, there will be many hat tips to our beloved author.
I love how she grabbed the air orb (trying to get some “fresh” air lol)
I just noticed, Syd grabbed the air ball in the second panel and was able to stop holding her nose. Nice orb management, shorty!
Although unfortunately it does not appear to do the same trick for the stomach, as for the nose.
Between the blood on the walls and the scorch marks, it’s pretty clear what happened here: an abattoir caught fire.
I didn’t read the rest of the posts so what I’m posting now is purely in relation to what the author and artist has posted as the sort of comic title question thing
Short answer to his question? No, I don’t think a room covered in gore looks appetizing to a vampire.
This is based on a simple logic path, does a room with pizza smeared all over the walls appear appetizing to most people? Not really. Imagine a room after the results of a massive food fight, a cafeteria, with food smeared all over floors, ceiling and walls. Is that appetizing?
*tongue lollops out, drooling*
Everything is appetizing with squabies.
Random thought: Sydney found the orbs where they were and acquired them because they needed a sentient to orbit. The previous user was one of the dolphins that previously escaped Earth.
“So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
Seems plausible. She would probably have wanted to visit her family, when she grew old.
*gets hankie out*
And maybe they were not there to be found, what with plummeting dolphin numbers, world-wide?
*sniffles*
Poor star-faring dolphin dying all alone!
You know that nigh just means nearly, right? What does “nearly ancient” even mean? Ancient doesn’t have any connotation where that makes any sense here. The literal definition of ancient amounts to “so old it has stopped existing, or at least the culture it’s from has stopped existing”. Is Ingsol nearing nonexistence in any sense, or are his cultural roots about to die out? The dude is literally immortal.
In this case the ‘nigh’ is simply to allow that Ingsol is probably not amongst the very oldest of vampires. Which, if so, is highly significant as we know that vampires, in this setting, become more powerful as they age.
To say ‘ancient’ but without any qualifier would give a misleading impression, as it could be taken as an absolute (if making comparisons to other vampires). I.e. someone would be bound to take it as meaning ‘the most ancient’ or ‘amongst the most ancient’. So this turn of phrase is wise, given our readership.
As for the definitions of ‘ancient’ they vary from dictionary to dictionary, and I do not think that google’s default choice is well defined. Mirriam-Webster does a far better job, in this instance:
1 :having had an existence of many years ancient customs
2 :of or relating to a remote period, to a time early in history, or to those living in such a period or time ancient Egyptians; especially :of or relating to the historical period beginning with the earliest known civilizations and extending to the fall of the western Roman Empire in a.d. 476 studied both ancient and modern history
3 :having the qualities of age or long existence…
In a way, you’re right about Ingsol…Being Undead, he’s also “nigh dead (nearly dead),” which would be the end of his existence. By saying that Ingsol is “night ancient (nearly ancient),” the context would be that he’s old but not quite that old.
As for emphasizing the difference between “dead” & “nigh dead,” I leave you this as an example…
I was certain you were linking to this scene.
What happened? Someone decided that they wanted to set up a Viscera Cleanup Detail LARP.
Sign me up!
*gets knife, fork, bucket and sponge ready*
Please note, the Slosh-o-Matic was the one used in the cleanup of Mr. Kringle’s little… episode.
Perhaps I simply missed it but… has no one commented on the face hidden in the gore at the top left corner of panel 8?
Eww.. ewwww… EEEEWWW!
Seconded…:P
Looks like that guy from “Slipknot”
Pareidolia.
t looks like the Veil is struggling to cope, with concealing the aftermath of this incident!
I love you for the Murgatroyd mention! That just made my day!
I really like the idea that Ingsol secretly like Sydney, because she treats him like a person, as opposed to the ancient master vampire that he is. It’s probably something he hasn’t experienced in a long time.
Yea, it can be lonely at the top. And we can guess he has been at the top for a long time.
Claims of immortality always come with a stack of arrogantly disregarded caveats. Vampires should be especially sensitive to the principle that “If it bleeds, you can kill it”.