Grrl Power #576 – Coed captivity
This is one of those pages that would definitely benefit from being able to flip to the next one right away, cause there’s obviously a bit of a jarring transition here, and who is that blonde? I mean, I think there’s a pretty big tell, but I wrote it, so I’m hardly a neutral observer. I don’t want to just say it outright, in case anyone wants to figure it out for themselves, or likely just read it in the first few comments.
By the way, I think Dabbler’s cleanliness cantrip is really like a 4th a level spell if it can excavate that much gore in one go.
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That’s cheating…
No, it’s not! Dabbler’s shirt clearly promotes Admiral Ackbar’s Select Honey (pot) (trap)…
She’s obviously using the hypnotic boobs on him. In a big way.
If she was not disguised as Hillbilly Female, Cooter would try to murder her right now. Anything she does to survive and get information is thus fair.
If she wasn’t there at all, he wouldn’t try to murder her to death, so she wouldn’t need to be disguised to prevent being murdered to death
This is a very obvious boobies trap. He’ll tell her everything she wants to hear just to remain within it. And later he’ll have a nifty T-Shirt too.
I’ll bet that the door isn’t the only thing that’s hard there…
But I also want to see what her shirt says. That’s going to require a…better angle…from the camera’s point-of-view. I admit to being somewhat near-sighted, so I might need a Cooter’s-eye view…
you can sort of make it out in the panel where she leaps onto him
Is this some sort of trick to get information, cause there are easier, less sue-able ways.
Like pretending to be fellow monster hunters.
Do you really think Cot is gonna complain?
The real problem is that he is gonna be so distracted that he will not be able to focus on anything but(t) what is right in front of him.
How would he sue legally the council could kill him outright
Coot probably remembers the last time someone pretended to be a fellow monster hunter…
It was an example
This is a lot less sueable then Guantanamo Bay. And a lot less morally ambigious too.
Considerng the danger of those Artifacts, I would propably not find mind reading him to be morally ambigious. And I guess they tried mind reading and it failed.
Nah man, this is the first resort. Would YOU want to mind read coot if there was any other option?
not in this situation…
Don’t need to be a mind-reader to know what Cooter has on his mind right now. I’d be thinking the same thing anyway.
yeah, but getting it in fullblown dirty hillbillyvision would be something else!
… screw it, i wanna read cooters mind.
To successfully mind read, there has to be a functional mind. ;)
Internment in Gitmo is not sueable in any sense. Prisoners of war may be held in military prison camps until after the war is over, when they may be returned to their country. Captured terrorists and other unlawful combatants may be held until they are subject to a military tribunal, then they may be executed.
“Prisoners of war may be held in military prison camps until after the war is over” Great, what nation did Congress got through the process of declaring war on? Because last time I checked we haven’t been at war since World War II, so all that war time law you can toss out the window.
“Captured terrorists and other unlawful combatants may be held until they are subject to a military tribunal, then they may be executed.” Also true during a declared war and completely inapplicable currently. They are accused civillian murderers or accessories to murder and outside of war time the military has no right to hold trial. Every last one of them legally should be handed over to the civil justice system.
But, none of that’s convenient or politically expedient, so guess what’s NOT happening?
The War on Terror and the War on Drugs are so named for a reason.
Political sound bites?
Because some people are hankering for a war and aren’t getting it so they’re trying to get their war jollies elsewhere?
Because the ones doing the terror and drugs aren’t officially declared or recognized nations
No, no, I mean because the War on Terror and the War on Drugs (especially the War on Drugs) are not actual wars. It’s just sound bites. Although the war on terror HAS involved some actual wars (or at least troop movements). But the War on Drugs? Totally a political sound bite.
Actually pretty much what Guesticus just said. :)
1.) The US is in a state of “armistice” with North Korea. That war has not ended.
2.) ISIS and similar groups have openly and officially declared war on the US and several other “western” nations for the simple fact that the West does not recognize the “right of Caliphate” ie, the “right” to murder, enslave, etc. anyone and everyone who either fails to worship the Quran the “right” way, or does not worship the completely unwritten verses of Sharia Law as ISIS prescribes. Up to and including sexual slavery.
So Congress doesn’t HAVE to declare war on the nations the yahoos in Guantanamo come from because those yahoos have declared war first.
Correct on both counts
It must first be shown that those “yahoos in Guantanamo” are soliders FROM those areas that have declared war on the US first. Considering at least one or two were US citizens, that’s a huge stretch.
That is why they are being held instead of being executed as soon as they are caught, you know, like what those other scum do to everyone else
They may be US citizens, but you had collaborators and traitors during every previous war or conflict, and again, the West (not just USA) has declared war on those groups rather than particular nations (because no one recognizes them as a nation)
I’m not entirely aware of any Guantanamo prisoners who are (or were) US citizens, but as for proving it, it actually has been shown, since they were captured on the battlefield.
Holding prisoners of war has specific rules that are different than holding prisoners who are US citizens. The one or two times that one or two have been found to have US citizenship at some point, they had already given up their US citizenship when they joined Al Qaeda/etc. If they were still US citizens who had taken up arms against their country and joined an enemy army which was attacking the US, they’d probably have been tried in a US court for treason instead, and would have been executed if found guilty. The fact that they gave up their US citizen before joining an enemy combatant is likely the main reason they were in Guantanamo, rather than a US prison awaiting treason charges and the death penalty. Treason is literally the only crime specifically listed in the Constitution, as well as what is needed to prove a conviction of treason – ie, ‘two witnesses to the Overt Act of levying war against the United States, or in adhering to their enemies, or giving them Aid and Comfort. The soldiers who capture the traitors as they were fighting US forces would be examples of such witnesses.
Always seems kinda ironic that the US Constitution has a specific clause dealing with traitors…
They didnt want the states ever making an exception to excuse treason, I guess? Putting it in the Constitution makes it a lot harder to remove it as a crime, since thatcwould require 2/3rds of the state legislature to agree.
Meant considering what they had done to create the US of A in the first place
Ohh. Well technically most of the colonists didnt actually want to rebel. They just wanted equal representation asother british citizens would get. The tax on the tea was the last straw.
So yes, a little ironic that they put treason punishments and definitions in the constitution but they also put a lot of stuff in that its the duty of the citizenry to rebel if the governnent becomes tyrrannical to its people (ie, the first and second amendments), and also put a lot in place to tie governments hands from becoming tyrrannical (mainly in the bill of rights). Basically that the government has a duty to the people, and as long as they meet that duty, the people should not rebel and become treasonous. But if the govt does not live up to that duty and becomes another King George, then all bets are off.
Totally see what you’re saying though.
Actually, you would be entirely incorrect on the tax on tea, Hancock and Adams (per the Hancock Society, who are the authorities on this subject) were the biggest smuggler in the colonies and his lawyer.
Hancock was not protesting the tea tax, it was a political sound bite. He was protesting the fact that the Crown had cut the price of tea, INCLUDING the tax, by half, thus making it unprofitable to smuggle tea, which was formerly a high profit item.
And yeah, I know, the myth is going to win out over the actual facts every time. So it goes.
Sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory to me to be calling what you said ‘actual facts.’ Especially since what you said can easily be considered a myth as well.
“per the Hancock Society, who are the authorities on this subject”
I tend to not get swayed by mere ‘arguments from authority’ stances unless I know the actual facts on which those authorities are making their opinions. Could you possibly send me some links so I can decide for myself? Thanks in advance.
I know how you love Wikipedia Pander, so here is the relevant item:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act
The purpose was indeed to reduce the tax, but only selectively (for the East India Company) and in part.
I just realized that he is probably referring to the Hamde case. And in that case he did notrelinquish his citizenship and was NOT put in Gitmo because of that.
You don’t have to be a “nation” for Congress to declare war on you (example: The Barbary Pirates), and Congress did declare war via The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). The AUMF is only a page or two, it’s worth a read.
The Constitution doesn’t spell out how Congress needs to declare war, and the AUMF authorizes the President to take the army out for a spin to kill people and/or destroy countries.
This, exactly. The AUMF is functionally equivalent to a declaration of war.
But the Barbary Wars are not the best example, the enemies there were the states of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, and thus technically the Ottoman Empire. Also, Tripoli declared war first.
Interestingly, Sweden was apparently our ally in the first war. Who knew?
Yet it is not a declaration of war.
That is not a minor matter.
It actually is “a minor matter.” If Congress authorizes military force, it is implicitly stating that a state of war exists, regardless of whether the actual word “war” is used in the document. That’s what military force is, by definition. Therefore, as long as Congress agrees that a conflict needs to be fought and passes a resolution to authorize it, they have met their constitutional duty (which, as someone else noted above, is not required to take any particular form). Anything else is just quibbling.
also, technicly, peace was never declared between north korea and the US. they are still at war, just not shooting and/or making threats, unless you count trumps twitter account.
Or the repeated “accidents” and “rogue agents” regularly and repeatedly firing south into an allied nation with us military personnel on station, and north Korea regularly proclaiming that said us personnel’s presence are/ were an attack.
Guantanimo prisoners are not subject to the same laws and rights as American citizens. 1) theyre prisoners of war, captured on the battlefront. 2) theyre not citizens. 3) military law is different than civilian law or international rules of war regarding prisoners
Actually, they are being held on a legal technicality, that they are not on US soil and therefore have no rights as US residents.
And they were being tried at military tribunals, and turned loose, as all the evidence against them was tainted by torture, which is not acceptable before a US military court. Which is why there were only four of those trials before they were stopped.
Which has put the US Presidents in a bit of a bind, as they are now in exactly the position the Kings of Europe used to be in, holding prisoners that can’t be tried, that were inherited from the previous monarch, and that can’t be turned loose because of political opposition.
Is there a reason why EVERYthing these days has to be turned into a political debate? I mean, really, guys? It does get old. Somebody sneezes anymore, someone has to put a political spin on it. I’m sick of it.
I don’t think they were doing a political debate, I think they were debating rules of engagement for this type of encounter. I’ve seen players do similar research during roleplaying night, just to get out of prison when they were caught off guard (but without more proof beyond being in the wrong place)
I think it’s more of a discussion on the Law & how the US government behaves within it…Or outside of it.
Yes. Politics is the system by which the social interactions of our world runs. Therefore politics touches everything, thus everything is grounds for political debate.
I get annoyed when people disagree with me, but I’d far rather see people engaged enough to have an opinion and express it than be apathetic about the things others come to take for granted. You might be wrong, I might be wrong, but we have to argue and express opinions because we live in democracies, and engaging in arguments is both your right and your duty. This stuff is important. It should be a hot button to press.
Its more a discussion on law, not politics. I’m a lawyer …. its something I am going to discuss if a legal question comes up :) Just like a Law and Order episode :). Nothing about political parties or Trump/Hillary/Bernie or controversal social justice issues or anything like that.
Actually police ARE able to lie in order to elicit information from a suspect. Its pretty much a requirement when undercover, for example. Nothing sueable about it. Only thing aperson csn sue for elwould be entrapment, which requires the police to get the suspect to do something they otherwise woukd not have done.
[blockquote]Is this some sort of trick to get information, cause there are easier, less sue-able ways.[/blockquote]
@Titan: What, do you think police are required to tell you the truth when they’re interrogating you? They’re not.
As Pander says, the only thing you can sue for is entrapment, which is “a practice whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offence that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit.” Like when a police officer starts riding your bumper to try to get you to go faster than the speed limit so he has an excuse to pull you over and give you a ticket.
I know they’re not. Point is, Coot could still probably sue for sexual harassment
SUE!!! Are you CRAZY?!?! he’s likely to take the happy memory of that to the GRAVE rather than COMPLAIN about it and risk getting his happy thoughts tarnished by reality…i mean, think about it from HIS point of view, here he is waking up who-knows here in a cell, and a drop-dead gorgeous BABE is WILLINGLY sticking his face between her boobs!! WHO CARES what happens after that!…
HA!, sue… yeah right…
… like that’s gonna happen :)
Umm… I somehow fail to see a redneck suing anyone for that.
I have a feeling that the council will be taking custody and trying Cooter under their laws, once Archon has taken their shot.
Considering the bow “tats” shouldn’t there be a garter “tattoo” on the other leg?
Unfinished sexy tattoos are sign of trashiness that beats out the infamous tramp stamp
No. The bow tats and the line down the back of the legs are supposed to indicate sexy stockings with a seam. It’s typical to only wear a garter on one leg.
I knew it was Dabbler from panel 3. Panel 6 made it more obvious, and I don’t think anyone will miss the tell of her eyes.
i dunno man, not many people look at those too often
Source: Me not noticing that until i looked at the top bar of characters
I looked too, but only to verify since I did notice the dichromatism. No real need to remember details like that about Dabbler, it’s easier to just remember she’s the purple one.
Until panel 6, it was possible we were looking at Decolette instead (as this sort of approach is within the MO of any succubus). But the eyes give the game away.
She has eyes?
Yep! Two big, bouncy glorious orbs, right on the front of her…
Wait. DOES she have eyes?
I could follow your reasoning all the way to panel three, but there you lost me. What’s this panel six you’re talking about?
When she talks about her “sexual essence.” I can’t think of many characters who keep that as their go-to description of their abilities.
My first thought was Harem but Dabbler is there on the scene so that seemed more likely even before she started talking about her sexual essence.
Yeah, was thinking it may have been one of the Harem (or the elusive theorized 6th Daphne)
Looks like Dabbler’s gonna pump him for information.
… and maybe other stuff.
Dabbler takes one for the team, but it’s like drinking store brand cola.
Not sure he has the ‘attributes’ that her other donors had.
For Dabbler, he is probably more like a snack than a full course meal.
More like a dried out, slightly mouldy, peanut butter sandwich. With homemade toe jamb.
i think your going a bit to far… i figure he is the mysterious M&M that turns up when you move the fridge to clean once a year.
Who’s to say his sexual energy’s flavour is at all related to his appearance and attractiveness? He seems like an energetic and vigorous guy so he might be a hearty meal.
He just lived through or healed from a magic mini-nuke. If he’s not a super himself he’s probably got some magic worth feeding on.
hur hur hur
Information for the team, recharge for Dabs, and he’s safely sedated for later. Win win win.
So what’s the real play here with the weird interrogation method? Given the… individuals at their disposal, this seems more than a bit over the top for what they’re after.
She is going to break him out, and he will lead her back to Sciona and company, is the plan I think.
Also, Dabbler’s probably hungry.
Obviously Dabbler’s just having fun. She doesn’t exactly need ‘zone of truth’ to get info from this guy. Next week’s page is going to be Maxima coming into the interrogation room, acting disapproving on so many levels, but secretly enjoying the power trip she gets from scolding Dabbler in their ongoing, very subtle flirtation.
Well if Max is flirting she’s subtle but there’s nothing subtle about Dabbler’s flirting with Max :D
Dabbler is not one for subtlety…She herself has been known to say that she’ll never use her glamour below the level of a ’10.’
“Okay, gang, new bonus for folks backing me on Patreon: a mini-comic where Dabbler and Maxima hook up.”
*kaching*
“Hm. I always wanted a Tesla Roadster.”
*kachingkachingkaching*
“Er, and a private jet.”
*!!!KACHINGKACHINGKACHINGKACHINGKACHING…!!!*
“And a tropical island with a supervillain lair.”
The mini-comic in question: Dabbler flying a heavy-lift helicopter rigged for underslung cargo (like this), Max carrying a net full of assorted debris from the Diner Fight and hooking it up to be taken away.
Author’s comment: Maxima ‘insisted’ I draw this one instead!
I think the plan isn’t question him. But get him to lead them back to where the hideout was.
The one question I have on Dabbler though. Okay one eye is cybernetic. Why didn’t she make it match her natural eye? I was it deliberate on her part so she could stand out more?
I think this demands another Dabbler’s Science Corner.
Perhaps she was born with heterochromatic eyes, and matched it to the one she lost?
I think she was. It is probably supposed to show her mixed heritage, as both a succubus and an alien.
And cyborg. [ Cue Oscar Goldman intro ]
At today’s prices, you’d be lucky to get just the arm for 6 million. (and I always wondered when he lifted something like a car why his still human spine didn’t snap like a twig.)
For the same reason that the Hulk could lift several tons and didn’t sink into the ground.
Wait, the Hulk has tactile telekinesis?
Nah, Physics that prevents Hulk from Smashing just makes Hulk Angry…so Hulk smashes those annoying laws, too.
Boy have you SEEN the size of Hulk’s feet? He got mad weight distribution, yo.
+1
Theres a webcomic called the League of Superredundant Heroes which nakes a joke about that with one of the characters called Bulk. He tries to lift a giant robot and instead sinks into the ground because of physics :)
Makes a joke. Hate typing on my phone. (Its how I pass the time waiting for my name to be called on the docket)
Here. Found the webcomic :)
https://superredundant.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-05-10-Strip-131.jpg
In the TV series, they never mentioned what was in the paperback book series…That his spine & shoulders were also augmented to be able to take such strain.
Yeah, back then, most TV watchers were considered intelligent enough to not need everything watered down and explained in detail
Lucky for Dabbler then that she built her own cybernetics. Of course if she needed some cash she could always sell the patents to some harmless little piece of ubertech. 3D TV for instance, what would Sony pay for that?
She has a cybernetic eye. She popped it out before…
At dinner IIRC… LOL!!!!!
Yes but the question was why does the cybernetic eye not match the real one. But, if they didn’t match when she had 2 real ones, she could have matched it to the real eye she lost, not the real eye she had left.
If she was doing it deliberately to be ‘exotic’, I would expect something more interesting than complete heterochromatia. For example, my Grandmother has central heterochromia such that her left eye is split half blue and half brown on an almost vertical division. (~5 degrees off)
Maybe she bought it and it only came in one color.
No, she wants it to look like that. remember she wrapped her Glamour around the suit of armor so it was more in her line of tastes simply because full plate mail was not her style. Changing and eye color would quite literally be child’s play for her.
There is a story as to WHY she leaves the eye color alone and I’m sure someday it will be explained. My guess it is a tell for her heritage as a space princess.
It could just be to add an “exotic sexy” factor to the glamor that coot wouldn’t consider “monster”.
Or the meta reason of letting us readers know who she is despite her various glamours.
Or perhaps it is like in Sir Terrys Discworld where the one thing no glamour could cover up was the eyes.
Yknow, if someone were reading this comic like they were going on a highway at 60 mph/~100 my, they’d crash so often from all the sudden left turns. I love the comic, but you really need a symbol or something to denotate a new scene, also dabblers right leg still has a form line visible, unless intentional.
“… to denotate a new scene…”
When I first read that line, I thought you’d typed “… to detonate a new scene…”
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Dang, I thought that guy on the right would wear out all of his bowstrings before they finished.
Should see them play Thunderstruck
Makes perfect sense to me. Coot (and Syd) fall asleep and now Coot wakes up in a cell.
Time has passed, location has changed. What’s not to get?
I agree with the Wee Red Bird – It won’t be quite as jarring if you were reading them back-to-back. It’s more jarring because we’ve had several days to forget the last comic.
It’s similar to a jump-cut in TV/Movie, Someone/something moves past the camera and the old scene is replaced by the new one. The camera ducks behind one of the posts holding up the ceiling with Cooter in the frame, covered in Gore. There’s an invisible wipe and the post becomes (Glamoured) Dabbler’s right leg and we see Cooter, all clean, in almost the same place in frame, as if Dabbler’s looking at him through her legs…
That said a visual indicator wouldn’t be missed, something simple like a subtle fade to white in the outgoing panel and fade from white in the incoming panel would cement it in this case. Wouldn’t work for all jumps…
I know it makes sense, and I got it real quick, but some of the plot jumps, a la when Ingsol’s minion broke into ArcSWAT’s HQ, throw just about everyone for a loop because it comes out of left field.
This is a great comic to re-read, and not just take update by update. Come back a re-read this arc in year, it will give you a totally different perspective.
HEY…it has fewer left turns than a NACAR race… and they’re going well over 100 Mph.
That ‘form line’ is a ‘sexy stocking’ tattoo, it goes with the ‘garter clip’ bows to look like she’s wearing stocking when she’s not.
Technically, NASCAR track is only one left turn…
;)
They do have a couple long straights, it’s not a stock-car race that is in a circle (well, a different kind, raced on a mostly dirt circular track)
As a fan of table top, Prestidigitation is one of my personal favorite spells and should really be called preform minor miracle; the wording is precise on what it specifically cannot do:
“It cannot deal damage or affect the concentration of spellcasters. Prestidigitation can create small objects, but they look crude and artificial. The materials created by a prestidigitation spell are extremely fragile, and they cannot be used as tools, weapons, or spell components. Finally, prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond just moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists only 1 hour.”
Those are some nice restrictions….. but that’s it. Now, I play in pathfinder so that means unlimited casting of cantrips like this one; you can clean yourself, your surroundings and others no matter how dirty you get or how much gore there is, and while it can’t make much and it’s all low quality, it can make things, I use it to get all the dry kindling I need to start a nice fire and keep it going because wooden toys that easily break still burn just as well. You can also flavor anything to taste however you want, great way to hide poisons, and the warming and chilling, well it’s probably not enough to on its own overcome environmental factors like being in a blizzard or in a sweltering hot desert, it’s probably enough to make less extreme environments more tolerable, and it also has a nice bit of simple telekinesis built in, limited to just 1lb but, keys are a lot lighter than 1 lb, as are a lot of little things you might want to get at without obviously reaching for them, like scrolls, and Signiant rings. So I have no doubt dabbler could have made coot cleaner than he’s ever been
point here – “Y’all ain’t one of those “Ackbar” types are you?” – T-shirt with a honeypot with admiral Ackbars face on it – well apart from anything else, worm guy was the only one around to hear that conversation. Also, Dabbler clearly has higher standards than that.
Pretty sure when he said ‘Ackbar types’ he meant ‘Muslims’. I doubt he would recognize Admiral Ackbar if our favorite naval officer was wearing a name tag.
Oh he’d RECOGNIZE him alright… As a “Monster that need some exterminating… “, granted, that’s a best case scenario for his mentality, but… he DID recognize him…
I’ll admit it took me far to long to recognize who that was. I was trying to figure out the accent instead.
Hillbilly with a tounge piercing
What got me was her SELECTIVE use of the “pierced tongue”-lisp…
…not all of her “s”-sounds are turned into a “th”-sound.
SO this is Wyrmil playing the dummy for his next escape bid. And the chick is either a shape shifting trick or an induced hallucination to manipulate him.
oh no, hang on, I’m wronggggg. eye colour, damnit.
ya’know, asking a Succubus to come up with a disguise that can’t be easily -ahem- penetrated probably isn’t the best idea.
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Exfoliate (4th level) – Far more encompassing than a mere cleansing cantrip, this spell also provides the benefits of Lesser Restoration, Eagle’s Splendor and Remove Disease. How it manages to provide these benefits while being only 4th level? When you’re a succubus you tend to get into it with some pretty nasty (as in, grody) beings, Wouldn’t you want to feel like you had a 16-hour long scalding hot shower after doing the nasty with the nearest thing to Nurgle?
After all, Sextradimensionally Transmitted Diseases are a thing…
ironically the original Nergal was also a god of war, not just disease, but since you spelled it Nurgle you prolly were referring to the Warhammer/WH40K version :P
I wonder how long Dabbler has been standing there in that position, waiting for Coot to wake up.
And remember that her butt is also facing directly to the one way mirror, with probably Maxima behind it. So I doubt she minded standing there like that.
As it was a spelled sleep, he could probably be woken on cue too, or at a specific time.
So probably less time than we might otherwise think.
Also, people usually become active before they wake. (But not always physically). Could have been watching for signs of wakefulness
…& to avoid fatigue while holding that pose, she need only shift from one hip to the other…
…& sway…
…gently…
…side…
…to side…
…uhhh…
…what was the question…?
Thath a nith ath.
Thanks for the laugh.
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I thought it was one of Harem at first, the blonde with freckles thing threw me off. But yeah, the dimorphism of the eyes spells Dabbler.
Same, my first thought was Vogue (Blondini).
Harem is quite trashy, but i and the butt pose is something she would do, but pressing her boobs into coot? na. That is succubus level of trashiness. Also the blond harem is the CoEd one, I don’t think she has this kind of tattoos.
Blondini is the “farmer’s daughter.” Coed is the one with the silver hair dye, I think.
It was a real long time since any of the roles of the doubles came up last. Also the Who is who being down doesn’t help.
Same for me. Harem was my first thought. Then the last panel made it obvious.
I like the theory that he is actually wyrmil, but probably not.
I think he might be a carrier for Wyrmil. Fake an escape and he appears like an alien chest burster.
Surely someone, after seeing the trail, has examined him enough to check for a passenger.
Your idea sounds right. Cooter manages to top the list of “non-evil people I wouldn’t mind seeing a chest burster from”.
I could see “Cooter exploding in gory ways” become a running gag.
We never did get his first name. It might be ‘Kenny’.
Counter attack anything that shoots at him, with lethal force, by firing a tentacle at it and exploding, regenerating whole afterwards. Could make him useful. Bit to dangerous to use in a public area, but more places clear of civilians.
One of the Harems was my first guess too until I saw the eyes in the last panel… I didn’t remember her having the stocking tats though so I thought maybe… but maybe not… new Character? Then came the realization… nahhh… just a ‘character’!!!
The eyes are a big draw in sexual circumstances. They are as they say, the window to the soul. I knew a girl once who had different colored eyes… one was an ice grey and the other was a mint green. She wasn’t ugly by any stretch, but there were other girls way more attractive. I always found myself admiring her eyes though. I have to wonder… If the eyes are the windows to the soul, does Dabs have any look besides sexually alluring?
Did… did he just grow a ear-beard when she whispered “other things”? It’s not there in the previous shot of the same ear. Huh.
Sometimes things like that aren’t really noticeable until you get really close. Like whispering in the ear.
Also, to draw that, from a distance, you need, a mighty fine, pen.
I’m not really up on all those American accents. I should be reading her as Daffy Duck?
no, simply treat it as her having a (fake) lisp
So yes, Daffy Duck.
Sylvester the Cat
That’th Thylvester the puddy tat :P
Thuffering thuckatash, you’re right.
At least it looks like he’s tied up right now or he would groping Dabbler already. Unless it’s a tight ID-band as used in (some) American hospitals (if the TV-shows show it correctly).
I have worn one of those ID bands once, thier fairly tight. Not sliping them over the wrist, and I have slender hands. Basically need scisors or other cutting implement to get them off.
Which is how they were designed: no patients sneaking off or switching tags
So that is Coot’s dream girl. Fits him. Dabbler was probably not too much surprised when she did her “transform into sexual dream partner” ability on him.
Could this Ability possibly transform her into a male? It didn’t for Sidney. And she insists on being not gay.
Dabbler can project an illusionary glamour which usually hides her lower arms in the process; she does not actually transform, but can appear as someone’s “ideal” partner.
Right. Transform was the wrong word. It is an illusionary transformation, not a real one.
I meant the right thing, just had a dictionary error.
Changing features is a far cry to changing sex. Even if it is a glamour.
The bits you can’t see are still there remember, and the bits you can see might not be real.
Hair disguised as different hair is still there, it just looks different, not so with physical body parts.
Remember also she passed over changing into Peggy’s ideal form…Or did I read that one incorrectly and she passed over Maxima’s way back when she did her ennie meanie mo and glamoured as the green chick for the general?
Its just an educated guess but I am assuming she only turns into women. Succubus, not incubus.
Believe she passed on Maxi for fear of defenestration
I can’t quite place the accent Dabs is trying to use…
That particular accent is called “a lisp” ;)
*Lithp
The unfinished tattoo is a nice touch.
It’s not unfinished: the ribbon and seam on both legs dates back to Dubya Dubya Aye-Aye when there was a silk-shortage, girls drew them on to give the appearance of not being bare-legged, and no-one with any functional brain activity (at any level) wears two garters
I would not think that Dabbler would find doors hard, but where she is sitting, she might find something else hard. Mind you, I think that is part of the point.
I’m pretty sure she’s just acting up the ‘hot blonde bimbo’ routine. You know the kind of girl that could get lost in a corn maze that consisted of three stalks of corn?
I don’t think she needs any sort of magic or succubus talents to seduce this oaf. Just having boobs is magical enough to him.
Yeah, like using a sledgehammer to crack an egg. Waaayyyy overkill.
An appropriate metaphor, as I imagine he tried using a rocket launcher to kill a bug at least once in his life.
About the same as using a Tesla Coil in place of a bug-zapper lamp.
My guess is, it’s close to lunch & she decided to get a snack (of tantric energy) off him while she interrogated him…?
I get giggles from the fact that the most homophobic, xenophobic man alive is falling for the succubus alien cyborg mage.
I’m sure she’s looking forward to the look on his face when she reveals herself to him…
…maybe even teasing him about the “half-human babies” that she’ll have 9 months later…?
…just to see if his brain is all that easily broken.
Not that he probably isnt homophobic (although you have no reasoning for that from the story), but his xenophobia (not sure how much of a phobia it is) is sort of understandable. Monsters killed his entire family. Then other monsters tricked him and caused him to blow up in a gory bloody mess.
Phobias are an irrational fear. Its totally rational to be afraid of literal monsters who killed your family and killed you before you somehow came back to life.
Granted, we haven’t had any clear demonstrations of his being homophobic in the comic yet, do you honestly imagine this raging ball of bigotry standing up for his gay friends to have equal access to marriage licenses?
So far his bigotry is directed at monsters. And monsters killed his family so its understandable. Not saying he might not be a bigot. Probably is since I think he is meant to be written as a stereotype, but he just hasnt actually dusplayed anything unreasonable yet. I just think we are making alot of assumptions based on the redneckedness.
I guess he also maybe has something against ackbar types too, although that sems pretty tame compared to what he could have said.
And it seems, to me, that the ‘ackbar types’ are a particular type that tend to shout it when blowing people or things up
You are making a huge assumption there: how do we know he even has friends!
> Waaayyyy overkill.
Maxim 37: There is no overkill, only ‘Open Fire’ and ‘I need to reload’.
https://schlockmercenary.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries
I prefer my own way of saying it better:
There is no such thing as overkill, because there IS such a thing as underkill.
Heterochromia, nice.
Also those saying it is not Dabbler, look at her picture in the Bar showing the big names for the comic.
I think her name was withheld by the Author, to keep the surprise for as long as possible before the big reveal.
…withheld from the side-bar, I meant to say.
(…sorry…)
Oh yeah I understand, but if you look where Halo, Max, Dab, Anvil, Harem, and Peggy are at. You see that Dabbler has heterochromia.
Looks like the opposite of torture, but still… is that covered by the Geneva convention?
Hell, it’s barely covered at all.
When Dabbler is concerned, she is usually barely covered, if at all.
Hey-ooooooo!
No, No it’s not. It has been a legitimate espionage tool for over 75 years
Honeypots are not covered by the Geneva convention, no :)
If it hasn’t been said yet.. ‘The South is rising again!’
+1
Dabbler must be trying to show the team just how stupid Coot really is, by giving him the worst impression of a dumb blonde I’ve ever seen.
If this is the same glamour that Dabbler used in the conference-room, then this look is from HIS subconscious, & she just provides the ‘canvas’ upon which he ‘paints’ his own picture. However, while the LOOK is all from HIM, what she DOES with the resulting look is all from HER.
Either she’s trying too hard to sound like a nitwit or this is a case of something like Poe’s law.
a) cooter died blasted all over room
b) mystery happened
c) cooter reconstituted in part (most of him is still all over the room )
d)captured
e) cleaned up…
okay now Succubi in part with him… she should be able to tell that he’s now effectively a virgin again…unless well, wormil got inside him somehow… yech…
but he’s remade so a retread virgin or full on physical only virgin?
is that what makes this a really tasty duty for Dabs?
I doubt that Dabbler really cares that much for virgins, what she really needs is an experienced ride who last the distance.
I think not going the distance is not an issue with her partners. if they uh, finish, to quickly she has ways of getting them back into the game that make Viagra look like Pez. Would be my guess.
Wouldn’t be a succubus if she didn’t.
While mildly amusing, I have to wonder why Archon would choose to go this route rather than the one they apparently took with all the detainees they collected at the Battle of the Steak House. I mean, did Dabbler try to seduce all of them to get information out of them? Is this Archon SOP?
This is skirting closely to and flirting heavily with jumping the shark. Except instead of being the episode where Fonzie jumped over the shark it’s the episode where Dabbler jumped on the redneck. Equally vapid, equally pointless.
This is not an Archon mission, Max and Sydney are there as more of a sharing of information and are getting caught up in Twilight Council biz again. Dabbler as a alien is lending her, uh, talents to the council. Though there must have been quite the “Discussion” as to which Succubus went into the cell with Cooter.
I envision a scenario of them fighting not to she which “Has to” go in as so much as which one “Gets to” go in.
Pu*lease. We all should all know by now that once Archon is involved in some operation in any way, they take over. Using either veiled or straight up threats of violence or other repercussions to get their way, and screw any “allies” who might object.
Archon: We asked you to assist us in a reconnaissance mission, and the next thing you know you’ve arrested and interrogated our personnel!
Archon: We invite you to visit a classified location of ours, and the next thing you know you’re interrogating our prisoners!
I understand that Sydney is the main character and is a member of Archon and not the Council, so Archon getting more face time is justifiable. But there should be a way to do this without presenting Archon (or at least Maxima since it’s almost certain that were Maxima not present neither of those events would have occurred) like a bull in a china shop, or a bunch of jack booted thugs:
Followed by the threat of simply spying on the Council to get information they choose not to share. Note the absolute nature of the words “anything” and “absolutely” and the vagueness of the phrase “spills over.” It’s carte blanche to do anything she wants with any justification she can possibly think of.
Flimsy, unsupportable, illegal excuse followed by a statement of arrest, accompanied by laying hands on the person you are intimidating and threatening and arresting. And again, the absolute “insist” instead of framing it as a request and keeping your hands to yourself. To a supposed ally. Who had done nothing at all wrong. Who you had just thanked for saving the lives of two of your personnel.
This is the behavior of every secret police or political police ever, anywhere throughout history.
First off, Kronachrome saved the lives of two of their personnel by putting the lives of everyone in the Universe at risk! Which. She. Freely. Ad. Fucking. Mitted. To!!
Lastly: how are they a ‘secret’ police when they held a press conference explaining who their personnel were and what they were going to be doing? o_O
Their fucking job is to deal with unusual cases of the Supernatural and slash or Super nature. That’s like telling the CHiPs that they can’t investigate a carjacking on the Pacific Highway if it involves a movie ‘star’
Good sentiments bud. Best not to let your (justified) emotions get the better of you though. The spirit of your argument is a powerful moral one,* which I agree with. But where we should not loose the moral high ground, by resorting to profanity. Let that remain Oberon‘s domain.
Besides which Oberon cannot have it both ways. He is selectively ignoring the fact that Archon saved the lives of many of the council’s leaders. And that these missions are all to clean up the Twilight Council’s mess. And that mess is endangering the whole world (in multiple ways now)!
More importantly though he is making assumptions about why Maxima chose to insist. We do not know the terms under which Archon and the Council agree to co-operate. Given that they have not protested, in any way, the most reasonable conclusion is that Maxima is operating within those terms. The Council were not shy about voicing their displeasure on other matters, after all.
Which very likely means the Twilight Council are entitled to resolve any legal matters,( especially those relating to their personnel and bases), that cannot be either settled out of court or broached in a U.S. court, without revealing the existence of the Veil. Both of the actions against Sciona (at the Mars warehouse and the vault) would clearly fall within this category.
Meaning that if Krona failed to cooperate, then the Twilight Courts would have to resolve the matter. Our only example we have seen, of their justice, was execution, by impalement, for threatening to expose the Veil!
I doubt that they will be as weak as US laws when faced with an obvious threat to their existence! It is no wonder that Krona was so keen to accept merely being assessed and retrained!
* Ignoring the separate matter of the laws of the US, if they prove to be inadequate to protect humanity from such a threat. Personally I still agree with this presenting a ‘clear and present danger’, with all that such implies.
Even if we are getting legal opinion to the contrary, we must bear in mind that such is only an opinion, and a one-sided one at that.
However this is something that we have been discussing, in depth, a few pages back. It would bore everyone to tears to get into that more here again. Especially as this would be unlikely to see the inside of a US court, for the reasons given above. So I have no intentions of being drawn into that aspect again here.
I should point out toPander though that I have replied to her most recent points there. With apologies for the delay in replying (due to personal issues).
I responded to your posts as well, although I won’t be able to respond more to them because I’m going back to doing my caseload on Monday and I’ll be pretty sparse in posting again.
Considering how Cooter obviously thinks about supernaturals (And possibly Supers). Who would you have in there. The 6’7 gold skinned lady, The tiny blonde with ADD and the alien toolbox, The 8ft bug-man, The Count Dracula look alike or the living suit of armor?
Maybe he is a furry fan. Send in the bunny lady.
No can do. He has to talk, and I have a feeling Katrina would kick the shit out of him long before that.
Send in Clover…Whatever happens, she won’t care.
A dire honey badger might be better for disemboweling someone, but not necessarily for interrogation.
Nah, all she has to do is sit there, not caring, while filing her claws (with one of those BIG files), may or may not even be bothered to look at him
Give that The Veil is a thing, any Council person/alien/supernatural with any training in interrogation should do the job just fine. Cooter isn’t immune to The Veil, remember?
Dabbler’s Glamour has that extra bit of “oomph” to it though…
;)
Cooter died, and mysteriously came back to life. The way I interpret it is that Dabbler is testing him to see if he still has normal human reactions. (If he didn’t, it could be a giveaway that maybe Wyrmil somehow used Cooter’s DNA to create a human-looking disguise, or something like that.) Getting some tantric energy out of it is just a bonus.
While rereading the comic I wonder if it was accidental or deliberate foreshadowing way back when Sydney was first showing off her comm-orb and the ability to create a holographic duplicate of herself. Maxima initially says ‘teleportation?’ when the copy is created before she realizes it’s a non-corporeal duplicate. Then we see her much more recently actually buy the option that lets her use the orb to teleport to where her virtual copy is.
…& while we’re looking for “tells”, let me ask …
“Cooter”:
— Why would a prisoner (no matter how female) be allowed to keep her jewelry (piercings & earrings)…?
“Dabbler”:
— “vista” sounds like too hi-fah-lootin’ a word for that hick to be using. I’d be wary of somebody (like maybe Wyrmil) trying to PRETEND that he was Cooter…
— …unless you’re already AWARE of Wyrmil – & you’re trying to LULL him into a false notion that his disguise was working, to put him at-ease…
— Unless you’ve checked with Ingsol (or you’ve interacted with Wyrmil before), are you sure that you’re using the RIGHT kind of glamour? A hick’s dream-girl might be trailer-trash, but that might not be a man-worm’s fantasy. This needs to appear as though it caters to Cooter, WITHOUT revealing that it’s NOT drawn from the subconscious.
Yes, I -DO- realize that I’m leaning rather heavily here towards the theory of “Wyrmil wearing Cooter’s body as a meat-disguise”.
ALSO, just to keep all the “tells” together in the same comment-thread…
“Cooter”:
— I know that you’re just a bit distracted, what with the “Hypno-Butt”TM & the “Motor-boating Hypno-Bewbies”TM, but eventually you’ll have to notice that her “s”-sounds are not all getting lisped consistently.
Somebody needs to be checking that theory to see if it holds.
Artifact possession is another possibility.
“Wyrmil wearing Cooter’s body as a meat-disguise”.
As a tip-of-the-hat to the MIB movie, “Wyrmil wearing a Cooter-suit.”
“Vista” seemed to be a bit out of place for a hick to me also. But as a fan of Raising Arizona I realize that sometimes a hick just wants to converse on the divan with the family unit. Cooter isn’t terribly far from Gale and Evelle.
Since I’m like 99% sure Coot just murdered his way out of hell like a redneck Kratos, I feel he’s earned this motorboat.
Good job, Coot.
I… I kinda like that. Make him the evil badass normal of the setting.
I still havent seen him do anything even arguably evil so far. At all.
Same here
Except be bigot and a dick (which I fully admit isn’t much as far as evil goes).
Well he’s a bigot against monsters. And I’ve mentioned that he sort of has a good reason for that.
And he’s not nearly as much of a jerk as most other people I’ve seen in the comic who are bad…. and even not as bad as many I’ve seen who are good :) He’s extremely crude. But then again so is Harem. And Dabbler. And to an extent (at least verbally), Sydney.
I just can’t see him as a villain any more than I can see Sam and Dean from Supernatural as villains. If anything, he’s sort of more similar to Bobby, actually :)
Except Cooter does seem a lot dumber :)
On a different note…
…kudos to the Esteemed Author, for his reference to the classic “Dr.Strangelove”-film!
Make sure you protect “Our Precious Essence”, Cooter!
Panel_4: Either she mounted him side-saddle, or her right knee is drawn as being on the wrong side of Cooter’s belly. I tend to believe the former, which means that she’s got a serious torso-twist happening while she motorboats him. This in turn limits breathing, which will lead to a 50% increase in heaving bosom…
…you can thank me later, Cooter, I know you’re kinda busy just now…
Some people are that flexible, even non-alien succubae like Dabbles
So, is Coot a super? Clearly unaware. But maybe Sciona figured it out and decided to make use of his ability to regenerate.
I doubt he is a natural super if at all. He doesnt have the super physique.
I’d think it more likely that Cooter’s survival is the result of whatever it was that Sciona gave him to drink.
Umm Am I the only one who thinks she looks like harem and not Dabbler?
No, no you are not
Well for one, Dabbler can apparently look like anyone or anything, busty green skinned Orien slave girl to busty blond “super with a battle form” to busty hick chick. Perhaps her illusions do have one limitation, given the repetitive use of one word in the prior sentence… And for another why not draw on sources at hand for her inspiration? It probably makes things easier and also could be seen as a tweak to the nose of the person she is closely impersonating, very much in line with the Dabbler personality we’ve seen so far.
And in an attempt to head off the obvious replies: Yes, I know that Harem is not present to be tweaked. This interrogation is no doubt being recorded.
i doubt Harem would care, i bet the hick chick look is based on her reading the vibes from Cooter, assuming she didn’t just go off of prejudices about redneck preferences
Heh. Dabbler has an unusual interrogation technique.
I see that her commentary role has gotten her used to looking into the 4th wall. Even if it is more likely it is directed towards the interrogation observers monitoring the room.
Look behind Coot, it’s a one-way mirror
Yup, that is indeed a good way of monitoring a room.
I am becoming such a fan of Cooter. No idea why.
Well, i find him hilarious.
Because he took his red shirt off?