Grrl Power #577 – The other side of the one-way glass
Max probably could have forbidden Dabbler from being part of this questionable interrogation, but I guess she’s playing nice with either The Council or some sort of succubus etiquette. Like, when there’s some distasteful sexual task and there’s more than one succubus vying for the job, because let’s face it, “distasteful” is an entirely subjective value. Anyway, succubi have a number of methods for sorting out disagreements like that. Most of them are “distasteful.” The succubi version of Rock, Paper, Scissors (Lizard, Spock) is not played with just the hands. If you get my meaning.
Succubi Eeny Meeny Miny Moe would get you arrested in most places outside of Amsterdam or Mos Eisley, and Duck Duck Goose, well, that’s about like you might imagine. But in this case, Max put her foot down on that at least and insisted on a coin toss.
(Of course the real reason Dabbler’s doing it is because Decolette doesn’t have the dichromatic tell, which I wanted to include on the previous page. Everything else is me just trying to rationalize that decision within the canon.)
BTW, they are still in the vault. The peculiarity of having an interrogation style room in there will be addressed.
Edit: Added Decolette’s glasses and a missing earring.
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Sooner or later the Col. will have to admit being a Golden Goddess is one of her superpowers.
And she’ll have to use it one day.
Her ‘special’ power is… The Golden Shower (gold not included)
Gross, also, if Maxima’s blood is a different color, I wonder if her …waste chemistry, is different? I am sure if she peed acid and crapped explosives we would know about it, but I could totally see it being different in some subtle ways, like color or smell.
Smells like peppermint, but looks like pea-soup (colour and thickness)
you have just ruined a fetish for about 20% of the internet. if the quantity of sites are anything to go by.
And likely made a new one for some people.
Rule 34 is eternal.
LOL!
However, for every rule there is at least one exception. Here’s an exception to Rule #34.
Ok, what did I do wrong on that link?
Oh well, I guess I’ll have to do this the easy way:
https://www.evilmilk.com/galleries/Overflow-217/overflow-19.jpg
Oh… concerning rule 34… I haven’t found an application for tic-tac-toe yet.
I guess I’ll have to wait for a while…. or create it.
What’s wrong with peppermint? o_O
…
What’s the difference between ‘roast beef’ and ‘pea soup’?
Legitimate question? o_O
In the movie, The Exorcist, the possessed girl Raven ain’t power-puking beef all over everybody…
This thread can go nowhere good, people.
its definitely headed down the toilet.
I see what you just did there. Bad palmvos. BAAAAD.
Waste products are transferred into power dump. (Yep I went there)
Normally, she has Strength+, Armor+, Speed+, etc. But the + comes from waste products buffering the gold nanytes.
I’m now reminded of how all the supers in The Boys had blue poop because of the serum that gave them their powers.
Interesting… But could they scry with it?
No, but they could use it to look like Smurfs :P
Her piss might be sold as GoldenPower energy drink.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where did Deco’s glasses go? :(
Speaking of… was it ever explained why she has a rainbow choker? o_O
Unless I missed it being said in the comment section somewhere, no.
My headcanon is that she is subtly trying to hint that she wants to be part of Archon.
And I can think of quite a number of reasons why that would be and most of them are male. Too bad she doesn’t know about the nookie ban on Dabbler though.
same place her horns went? Or maybe Dabbler’s loaned her a hammerspace of her own? Dabbler probably would have less problems sharing tech with someone from her own planet.
Her horns didn’t go anywhere, they are there in all the panels she is
She probably just put the glasses down somewhere, just felt she looks better with them
Decolette isn’t an alien, she’s a demon. gotta remember Dabbler’s not a full succubus. she’s also part doppleganger and alien.
The choker? Author appeal, probably.
I… forgot them. Whoops.
Nah, she just took them while making the popcorn, and then forgot to put them back on :D
If they are just fashion ones she might have taken them off to see through the observation window better (I know light differences through glass mess with mine).
if you are short sighted by about less them -2 dioptrien you can put them down indoors and forget about it.
DaveB has yet to learn the ancient and respectable skill of taking his writing and drawing errors and turning them into story points. It’s the ‘I meant to do that’ of fiction.
I STILL don’t think that what he meant by “one of those Ackbar guys”…
He meant “allahu akbar” implying terrorist.
maybe he’s into THAT kind of traps?
Winnie the Pooh understands all about getting trapped head-first in honey pots…
She simply ‘heard’ “Akbar types” in his mind, and went with what she knew
Either that or it was totally a co-inky-dinky :P
I like her shirt. Its a trap… A hunney trap.
…Over her boobies, which makes it a Booby Trap of course.
Mammary trapped. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1358
Zoidberg: “I’ll take eight!”
Looking forward to seeing other rooms in the vault.
Are there 80 year old magazines in the lounge?
(If there are any Amazing Stories Sydney may be interested.)
Any ciggerette machines?
I wouldn’t touch the snack vending machine. Would be a little past its sell by date. And probably full of non-human foodstuffs.
That’s the thing with snack vending ‘food’: they were specially made to not have a ‘sell by date’, they are designed to last in those machines for decades until they get sold (or looted)
Conspiracy theory sez that twinkies’ eternal “freshness” are either an example of alien technology that escaped area 51 or provisions supplied by the cockroach cabal to feed the horde after the nuclear apocalypse.
Or both.
Slightly off topic, but you reminded me of this.
https://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-294
I gotta get me one of those.
Or Human foodstuffs.
…Made with real Human.
God how I love SCP
Me too, the Tickle Monster, Abel, Swiss Army Banana, Dr. Bright, the Dragon Bookends, A Hero is Born, and the Never Ending Pizza Box are my favorite SCPs!
I’m partial to SCP-682 and SCP-826. Especially the experimentation logs for both of those SCPs.
If you don’t like reading, There’s someone reading it to you & a in-game demonstration.
Yes, there IS a game known as Containment Breach, based on the premise that you (the player) are one of the D-Class personnel, trying to escape the facility during a containment breach scenario as SCP-682 breaks out!
You would find things like: Pillsbury Dead Boy snacks, Ghostess Pinkies, and SPAM!
Also speaking of ‘disappearing’ things, Mith Lithp 2011 has lost her hoop in panel two… oh, there it is in panel five
I look at that comic more than 5 times and didn’t see it till you pointed it out that is a effective trap, granted they are basically the same color as her hair and reasonably thin
It’s actually there in panel 2. It’s just super hard to see. I had to get my nose about 3″ away from my 23″ monitor to see the slight color variation.
No, that’s a trick of the background: if you zoom in until her ear is as big as the monitor, the hoop is still not there
Did you check to be sure the gray blotches on the wall are consistent?
Crap, can just make out the very faint yellow of the edge-on loop now :(
Stupid details. My next comic will just be different colored spheres. Wait, I can’t draw circles. My next comic will be done in Illustrator.
At least it’s not MS Paint :P
Hey, don’t knock MS Paint-done comics. Prequel is a work of ART.
Let us tell you about Homestuck.
My people.
Wasn’t exactly knocking, more mocking (or just making a joke :( )
I can draw a really good Dilbert in MS Paint :)
Decollet is enjoying the show. Perhaps as a professional curiosity.
Decolette, stop being mean to puddles.
We do have feelings, you know.
More like the oil skim on top of a puddle
“Seem thuper thmart”? Dabbler’s lisp is slipping…
She also said “first.”
Not like he notithed.
Thuthtaining a thervicable fake lithp requireth thuperoir conthentration, thudy and practith.
Thufferin’ Thuccotash!
*Thuccotath
Hey so, not super related to this page, but I did some fanart of Sydney if that’s your thing.
Or here? Not totally sure how anchor tags work in these comments.
There you go! You go it. The link works and I like the picture. More please. :)
Oh yes, agree with David Nuttall, that is a very good ‘realistic’ interpretation of the Migh-tay Halo :D
Well Done!
Might want to go with a non-white background if you’re going to put her in a white shirt.
First off- very impressive. a nice, natural pose, properly focused eyes… What program did you use for this? DAZ? Poser? Or was this a full from-scratch in Blender or Maya or Max?
As a fellow 3D artist, a few constructive suggestions:
Her hair is slightly too volumetric- it’s accurate to the comic version, but very, very often “Comic” or “Cartoon” hair is too poofy and large on realistic models- I’d suggest narrowing the strands widths to about… 10% of their current width, and multiply the child strands by an inverse amount to make up the thickness (if your system can handle the rendering), and then comb the non-bangs down just a little- right now she looks like she’s wearing about 5 bottles of hairspray. The bangs of course, are perfectly anti-gravity.
Second- I think Syd’s glasses are more meant to be wire-frame than plastic- that might just be a situation where you’re working with existing models (and good job matching as well as you did if so) but the thick white frames break up the lines of her face more than in the comic. In addition, consider making the lenses fully transparent, and instead putting refraction on the glass to show its there- this’ll get you a more realistic look, as non-cosmetic glasses tend to grow or shrink what’s behind them somewhat. They shrink the eyes if the person is nearsighted, and make the eyes bigger if the person is farsighted.
But yeah, very cool. I’m with shaun about the white-on-white, but other than that, it’s an awesome rendition of our favorite mighty mite.
Thanks for the tips!
The overall render was done in DAZ, with custom morphs for her model, then some bits and pieces remodelled in Blender and textures produced in Photoshop, then edited further in DAZ’s texture editor.
I’m not looking to revisit her, at least for quite a while, I’ve got 1000 other projects on, but I’ll bear it in mind for future pieces!
For a succubus, interrogation seduction must be the equivalent of leg stretching or light training.
That.. or a snack while working.
Given the IQ of the subject, I was thinking – shooting fish in a barrel.
With the barrel being that of the gun doing the firing…
More like (to quote Something Positive) – “Dropping a tactical nuke in a bucket of carp”.
Or this.
I suddenly came to think of something Robin Williams once said: “…and then you realize that god gave you a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one at a time.“
I’m not sure coot had enough for either to begin with.
What, a penis? o_O
And did Deco lost her glasses? She looks better with them. #chickswithglassesarehot
Yeah, noticed as well (and asked above :D)
Dave just forgot them.
This page made me snigger so hard while at work. I love how both Dabbler and Decollete are pushing Maxima’s buttons right now. Sorry Max, I love and respect you, but I’m with these two on this issue.
So… room full of blood and bits, Syd’s all smiles. But watching Dabbler ‘interrogate’ Coot brings her nearly to the point of heaving…? Something’s not quite right with her… :)
Sydney nearly threw up then as well, it is only because she had a moment off screen to collect herself that she was able to go in there.
Yeah, saddened by that as well, ignoring the fact this is possibly the first time she has seen Dabbles ‘in action’, Coot is not that un-attractive (no, not saying that he is, just not vomit-worthy), and unless The Council has had dealings with Coot before (and even then, doubt they would have handed Sydney the file) they would have no way of knowing how ‘pleasant’ he is
Note: Sydney is the only party member who’s been visibly disturbed by the smell of the place… which likely extends to much of the rest of the facility at this point.
I’m with sydney on this one. Stupid turns a 10 to 2 with me; Brains does 2 to 10. And obvious manipulation triggers my FFFF response to “flight”. But I doubt what Dabs is doing is obvious to Cooter.
Well, if it was obvious, then Dabbles would have failed
For me that depends on how my blood supply is currently distributed. See comment by Autist above for details about how that works for most males. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be disgusted with myself once the brain has rebooted though…
The attractivness of Coot is subjective. Think about the guys that Sydney has been around (and oggeling) for the past few days. Those beefcakes are Sydney’s new “normal”. Looking at Coot through that lens, he is repulsive.
Unless her barfiness is ‘this is how men want me to act around them’?
Maybe it was the line about all his blood trying to escape through his dick? That image got a big ol’ “eww!” out of me.
I’m thinking her queasy stomach is for Dabbler’s act…
“Decolette doesn’t have the dichromatic tell,”
So, I’m feeling dense. What does this mean?
Oh, and I’d love to know how many tons of force would be registering between the Colonel’s clenched teeth!
Do you really want to ask Maxima if you can put something pressure sensitive in her mouth?
Two different colored eyes
Dichromatic refers to something having two colors. In the previous page we could see the blonde girl has two different colored eyes, the same as Dabbler.
So ‘the dichromatic tell’ is ‘the two colored hint’ [that the girl is Dabbler].
The technical term for different colored eyes is ‘heterochromia’. Get it a lot in huskies.
Fairly common in cats too.
I figured it was a mark of chimerism.
Note for Dave: “Dichromatic eyes” means you can see 2 different colours (like a dog, or some people with coloublindness). “Heterochromatic eyes” means that your eyes are 2-or-more different colours.
Most humans have homochromatic trichromatic eyes (same colour, see RGB) but some can go up to tetrachromatic (see 4 colours, most common in women)
Of course, Dabbler can probably see 6 colours…
This.
Did he use ‘dichromatic eyes’ somewhere though? In the text under the comment he uses “dichromatic tell”, which means there is a two-colored hint at who the girl really is.
Even then, since dichromatic only means something has two colors, I think ‘dichromatic eyes’ could also mean eyes with two colors.
Dichromacy is when a person has two types of color receptors (instead of the usual three).
Someone who has two colored eyes has heterochromia iridum.
It’s in the “Who’s who”
In Greek, hepta- is a prefix for 7. hexa- is the prefix for 6. Hexachromatic is seeing 6 distinct ranges of colour.
Dabbles would totally use the Latin word :D
Dabbler eve slips up on the Lisp here and there, maybe to prove to herself that he’s thorougly distracted. :-)
A “fucking bimbo”, huh? Did Max mean that literally or is she just swearing? I’m leaning towards the latter, but I don’t remember her swearing all that much in general.
Also here in Germany “Bimbo” is a highly offensive word for a black person (dictionary translates it as “darky”, but imo “dumb black male slave” is more accurate), so I had to look up whether or not that meaning exists in English, too, because I couldn’t imagine Maxima using a word with a racist alternate meaning, even when it’s obvious from context what she meant. So, yeah, good to know it doesn’t exist.
While a C+ in P.E. sounds quite unbelievable, it does sound quite believable that this was the best grade he ever got.
Hey, I got a C is grade 9 P.E. A+ (95%+) in health, decent endurance but pretty much total klutz in anything else. Of course, that was my worst mark in grade 9.
In English, a ‘bimbo’ is basically a dumb slut (the male term is ‘himbo’), and yes, it is just as offensive, but it’s supposed to be (or at least derogatory)
Not just a slut, but an oversexualized, stupid slut.
… Basically what Dabbler’s doing.
And exactly the kind of woman an ignorant pig like Cooter would looove to get to know better…
Pig? Probably. Ignorant? Depends on what he is supposed to be ignorant about (he does know about monsters afterall)
I have never heard the term “himbo”. Thanks for teaching me.
Aka Mimbo
Never heard of Mimbo
Same thing as a himbo. Mimbo was the term used on Seinfeld and on Zoolander. Zoolander was a total mimbo.
Seinfeld was a series that should have stuck with its original premise: a one-hour stand-alone programme
Ironically, the term Bimbo was initially meant to mean “Strong but Dumb GUY”. It was masculine first. and apparently has Italian roots?
and Bambi was a MALE deer’s name, but it’s been used for girls a heck of a lot more.
I suspect Max is almost as disgusted by women like Dabs is pretending to be as she by men like Cooter actually is.
The isn’t so much disgusted, as frustrated. Dabbler tends to mess with her worldview just for fun…
There is a reason why most of her teammates mess with Max, she’s an easy mark.
‘Most’? Try ‘all’, even the rookie Sydney does it (unless that’s just Sydney being Sydney)
“FWIW”, the earliest usage of “Bimbo” that I know of is as the name of a small, male, dog-like friend of Betty Boop, seen in her earliest cartoons. It wasn’t until somewhat later that “bimbo” became a descriptive term, used to describe “a physically attractive (& somewhat promiscuous) female of low IQ”.
Bimbo (pronounced: BEEM-bow) is also a fairly large Latin American snack cake manufacturer.
Betty’s Bimbo versus Jim Reeves’ :D
Yeah, apparently ‘Bimbo’ came from ‘Bambino’ and referred to little boys, then it started to refer to brainless women sometime in the 1920’s
Had to check if ‘bimbo’ was on this. It isn’t.
https://grrl-power.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Make_Maxima_Say
Strangely, it’s also a bakery.
I love how she even labeled her shirt (right across the boobs, no less) as a honeypot trap. It took me until this strip to make the connection.
I like the way it’s actually a Winnie-the-Pooh hunny pot – even to the backwards N.
Actually surprised at Maxi, she should know that the best forms of interrogation are those individually designed for the subject, to make it easier to get the information out of them, preferably without them knowing they gave the information
Or would she rather be in there with a baseball bat? (yeah, there are some readers who would be shocked she isn’t)
I’m sure she knows.
Of course, knowing something and liking it are two very different things….
So, she only likes it if she’s the one doing it? o_O
Why bother?
There’s nothing she could do to him with a baseball bat that she can’t do with her little finger. In fact, being so VERY “up close & in-your-face” would be yet another part of the intimidation-factor.
Nose boop!
Same reason she carries a gun? Gun or baseball bat sends different messages to the subject. If the purpose was simply to torture – sure she can do that without tolls. Intimidation could be assisted by a visual aid.
*tools, Grrr.
Yeah, she doesn’t have to actually use the weak and relatively ineffective tool, but having it there as a visual aid is what is important
If Max were in there with a baseball bat…
She’d probably be using it on Dabbler.
And THAT’S why she isn’t.
Kinky! Just hope she brings enough lube… :D
https://img00.deviantart.net/0619/i/2016/079/9/2/_what_do_you_mean___glue___by_dovsherman-d9vslnh.jpg
From what we have heard so far, we can be reasonably sure that the person talking is Cooter and not Wyrmil in disguise. Wyrmil may still be using him as a host body to regenerate himself. At some point we will probably have the equivalent of the Alien ‘chestburster’ scene of his new wormy self. (If this were ‘Arc After Dark’, Dave would be hinting at this in Crimson’s comment in panel one.)
O_M_F_G!!!?!
What if Crimson has mis-read this, & it’s WYRMIL, not blood, that’s straining to escape Cooter’s body???!?
THIS is the exact reason you want an interrogation-room on-site, rather than risk carrying an infiltrator into your base!
SHIELD really needs to learn this. About every week or so they manage to ‘defeat’ one villain or another and take them to the heli-carrier to interrogate them or lock them up. The standard taunt to the villain is always ‘You’re not so tough now, are you?” About 10 minutes after they arrive the person who took a dive to gain entrance to the ship manages to escape and either unlock all the other cells or sabotage the engines keeping it aloft.
What’s even worse is if the ‘prisoner’ is carrying a computer disk or USB device, their initial reaction is to take it and plug it into their (fully networked) main computer to see what ‘secrets’ it is holding. The only secret being that it had some nasty virus that the good guys just loaded into their own system past all their own firewalls.
Please please please can we get a real t-shirt to buy for ourselves? :>
Been wanting Crims’ t-shirt ever since she woke up on the slab
Decollete got Maxima good with that comment about easily she tends to write off men. Maybe someone should tell Maxi that there are women out there just as shallow
If they’re still in the vault, I wonder where Decollete got the popcorn? I’m not actually complaining, because (1) Rule of Funny and (2) Running Gag about ARCHON going through popcorn like nobody’s business. Plus it makes Decollete more adorable that she’d eat popcorn while watching “Dabbler Theater.” I justify it to myself that Dabbler used her sorcery to conjure up the popcorn for Decollete,
I can’t tell if Decollete is snickering about how much scenery Dabbler is chewing or Max’ reaction.
Considering that Dabbler has been able to, in a simplified sense [not literally], retrieve weapons out thin air – I assume that Decollete has some kind of similar ability that let’s her retrieve popcorn out of ‘Thin Air’
Either that or the vault has a snack bar or emergency food supply storage area.
It might be simpler than that. Winner of the “coin toss” gets to play with Cooter, and the loser gets to watch with popcorn. A sort of gracious victory on Dabbler’s part, since her teleporter is technical (and built into her cybernetic arm).
Maybe they relocated to Archon’s holding facility to interrogate the prisoner/witness. This kind of room would be required. Also, there’s popcorn a-plenty there; it helps Heatwave practice precision heating.
Last line of author commentary. Still in vault.
And I can understand why there is an interrogation room in the Vault: In the event of a mind-controlling artifact or other relic that is difficult to remove from whomever might be wielding/wearing it, it might be easier to bring the ‘host’ down, figure out how to separate them (possibly in the fully equipped med lab elsewhere in the facility) and then stuff the Magical McGuffin in Warehouse 14.
Yup. Just read that. I missed that last line when I read through the first time.
To summarize one of the basic Evil Overlord rules “Do not bring a captive back to your secret lair for interrogation if an off-site facility is available.”
Follow her eyes, they are looking up and back at Maxi
“Some men actually are only as deep as a puddle.”
Completely true. And when you show a man giving items of wealth to a woman, who immediately swoons, you can say exactly the same thing of some women. (“Every kiss begins with Kay” is actually the most offensive ad campaign in history… but that doesn’t mean that, for a least a significant subset of women, it’s wrong, anymore than the shallowness of men being described here is wrong for some of them.)
Human beings (or either variety) are generally pretty dang shallow.
People in general tend to be pretty shallow for most ‘base’ instinctual things. And sex is a pretty base instinct.
I’d say ‘especially men’ but I know a lot of women (including good friends) who are both very shallow about appearance or about the financial state of the guys or girls that they’re into. It tends to be mainly the 3rd wave feminist types that think that women are infallible virtuous deep creatures while men are cavemen brutes who just want one thing. Women tend to want ‘one thing’ also – it’s just the one thing is often a different ‘one thing’ than what the men want as their primary desire.
Truth be told, this is true about me also to an extent because I’m not going to be a hypocrite about it. If I’m in a relationsihp with a guy, my requirements tend to be 1) that they’re financially stable because money can be a relationship killer, 2) intelligence because ignorance is a mood-killer, and 3) appearance (I accept that I want a guy to look fit, healthy, and appealing. even if it’s third on my list instead of first. If the guy is really ugly or …. Cooter-ish in appearance, I’m pretty sure all the money in the world isn’t going to make me turned on by him, and I have a good enough job and education that I don’t have to be dependent on a guy for that sort of thing as a survival technique.
Oh. And he must love animals.
To eat or pet? o_O
Pet! You dont eat the kitties or the doggos! :)
Damn! I was so close to 4 on 4! ;-D
I failed even more. I’m intelligent and love animals (and plants).
But I’m ugly and broke. Ladies *wink*
we must introduce you to a plant-animal hybrid girl, then.
8P
Poison Ivy? But she despises men
I was hoping for Lyecca.
Cooter’s blood is not trying to escape through his penis; it is trying to escape to his penis and fill up 3 spongiform chambers to form a hydrostatic matrix. Dabbler should be getting a bit of charge out of it.
On an only semi-related topic, I’ve read the hypothesis that humans don’t have a “dick bone” like so many other mammals an an evolutionary prevention for persons with poor health passing on their genes. It goes kinda like this:
Since humans don’t have a “dick bone” (baculum. No, not Scott baculum. Of course it is the little known Richard baculum) and rely only on hydraulic pressure to be able to penetrate the female, a male with blood pressure issues or mental/emotional issues preventing an erection would have a difficult time passing on his genes.
I tend to think it’s a lot of bunk. Most blood pressure issues come long after adolescence, when a male could already have passed along genes that would likely ensure that his descendants also had blood pressure issues later in life, after they also had passed on those same genes. So that doesn’t seem like a winning evolutionary strategy. The emotional/mental thing seems to be more likely.
When I look at it from the point-of-view of evolutionary theory, the baculum may have reduced/eliminated in humans, but not other apes, because it somehow interfered with our ancestor’s survival, maybe by interfering with bipedal motion, or as our society developed we no longer needed it (committed pair bonding, extended mating times, managing our predators) and the resources could be used elsewhere.
Male adult humans have the largest penis among primates, not just because we are the second-largest primate, but because babies are born with such large brains. A woman’s vagina is wide to accommodate the large head of a human infant; even then it is real work to expand a one-inch tube to the size of a baby. Because of the large diameter, the human vagina is long to allow the various defences in there to have a chance at combating any invaders that find an easier time getting into the wider opening on the outside of the body. To be able to deposit his semen at the cervix, his penis has to match the shape and size of her vagina, so his penis is huge in comparison to other animals that are born with smaller brains.
If we were relying on a baculum to provide rigidity during mating, then the bone would have to be long and thick (to prevent breaking). As our penis grew over the generations due to larger brain sizes in infants, this bone could end up displacing to much other tissue and prevent the function is was there to enhance, so the guys with better reproductive success had larger penises, but smaller bacula, so these days, after millions of years, it isn’t there at all.
Another thought. When you are mainly walking around on all fours or with your front up against a tree limb, the baculum would be fairly well-protected and avoid injury. When walking around upright, a bone the size of your index finger running down your penis, with only one point of articulation (at the base) would be in serious risk of damage if you take an impact in that area. It still hurts to get hit in that area, but with a broken bone and not just bruising, that would be so much worse. The finger can bend at 3 points, making more resistant to breaking, but still gets broken. A bone in your boner is just asking for trouble.
Oh god, just imagine an open fracture in your dick. Brr…
Well, without a baculum, you might not get an open fracture, but.
Ouchies!
TL;DR: Big brains means bigger dicks.
Today I learned…. :)
Of course with humans direct life/death is a pretty minor evolutionary pressure and so looking at features of our bodies and trying to figure out how said feature means more sex or less death leads to a lot of misdirection.
In reality humans have advanced brains and advanced social interactions so whether they pass on genes rarely has anything to do with how good their bodies are and more with how well their personality and specific skills fit the situation to become an advantage to mates.
tl;dr: humans pass one genes despite our body’s flaws because our brains are enough of an advantage to overcome them all.
Which is, in my opinion, the reason why several recessive weaknesses seem to be more widespread decade after decade (for example, sight issues).
It’s been a long time since humans have not been “natural”.
(this is also why I have a hard time believing our little finger is actually shortening over generations)
Yet, David Nutall explanation may be valid. There was a looooong time between leaving our trees and reaching a point where natural pressure was a negligible factor on reproduction. After that, all our physical changes are more probably related to nutrition and health factors than actual natural selection.
Oh, I was talking about millions of years ago, not just thousands of years. That kind of change takes time. There is evidence that our social structures developed long before agriculture and civilization. By then, all evidence of a baculum has completely disappeared.
Obviously it’s not literally trying to escape through his penis, and I’m quite sure Dave knows how erections work. It was hyperbole. :P
unless its a side affest of the potion. or we were wrong and wormil isnt going to bust out of his chest…
And Sydney earns her place in the Who’s Who with the um, speaking line of *hurp!*
Established characters get their entry just by being there, if there is room
Is it just me, or does this feel a lot like ‘He’s gross, no matter what’s actually happening’ orders? I dunno. I think Cooter’s awesome so far. Nothing vomit-inducing.
Not so sure about the awesome part (interesting, sure), but completely agree about the not vomit-inducing, even if naked with a foot long stubby
I consider him awesome mainly because I really want to see him as a badass normie (although so far he has not been particularly badass) who bucks any type of politically correct role. This comic is good about doing that, and I think those characters tend to be the most interesting. It’s why I adore Sydney also. The more flawed and human the person is, the easier it is to relate to their situation, even if I don’t share their personalities.
Yes, that sounds good
Like said below, had forgotten that ‘awesome’ doesn’t always have to have a positive spin
Considering it’s Sydney she might be getting sick over Dabler’s actions rather than Cooter.
“Awesome”, I.E.: “inspiring awe in others”, is not always done in a GOOD way, though.
Oh right, forgot that meaning
I just like that he’s atypical honestly. :) I don’t want to see him die in the same way I don’t want to see Deus fail. I don’t see either of them as blanketly evil, and that does inspire a bit of awe that they’ve managed to survive given who they go up against.
I always wonder how awful isn’t a higher degree of awesome.
That was it, tend to view ‘awesome’ as the opposite of ‘awful’
I feel both Sydney and Maxima. That’s just… ew.
I’m trying to figure out what’s so gross about what’s happening so far to Sydney’s perspective. Dabbler gave him a motorboat opportunity and is acting bimbo-ish. Nothing nausea-inducing so far. No hillbilly porn happening yet.
IMO bimbos are pretty gross. Also Cooter.
Since they’re still in the Vault, it may still stink of blood and viscera.
I’m with O.B. Juan in thinking that she is reacting to Crimson’s comment, not to the scene in the cell.
Especially with a comment on blood probably making fresh memories from the Vault drip on her mind…
Except she is looking towards the window
I think it’s largely DaveB trying to say ‘we’re not supposed to like this person, he’s gross’ – although I think in that respect he might be failing (no offense DaveB, love the comic) because the more I see Cooter, the bigger a fan I become of him as some sort of antihero type, or at least sympathetic antagonist.
Largely agree with you: Coot is ‘offensive’ but he’s not ‘gross’ or a particularly ‘bad’ person
That other comment was mainly in regards to the possible reason for Sydney’s gagging, really don’t believe she is that shallow to pretend to be sick, and she didn’t seem horrified or sickened when she first met Coot
I know how Max feels: I facepalmed too on that second to last panel.
Vegan burgers…Made with real Vegans…
Can I get that with a nice Chianti? I think I’ll have some Girl Scout cookies for desert.
…& maybe some fava beans…?
I also want enough cookies to make a landscape with them.
Okay, hopefully someone can answer this (with as few ‘smartarse’ replies as possible), but just what about this doesn’t Maxi like? Like interrogation itself? Or the methods involved? Or maybe even that she’s not the one conducting it?
I believe she hates seeing women objectified, stereotyped, or portrayed as weak or bimbos. Dabbler is doing a really good job of doing all of that.
Good point, butt Dabbles is doing it deliberately, or is it because she is doing so because she is getting her cue’s from Coot?
And Dabbler is one of only teo people to ever fight Maxima to a standstill. Definitely not weak.
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The problem is the same thing happens to men as well.
My psychoanalysis of the situation is that ever since Max went through her metamorphosis from gawky teenager to golden goddess she has been getting a large amount of unwanted attention from men (and some women) who look at her as an object, ‘literally’, of sexual desire and not as a person. As a response, she has strived to overcome this by attempting to be exceedingly professional and an overachiever in her career. She thinks she has earned the right to be respected. When she sees another woman willing playing the role of a stereotypical sex object, in an unconscious way she feels that person is betraying the ideal that women should be treated as people rather than as playthings.
That makes sense
Good analysis :)
As long as they get the information they need why does Max care, especially since she knows what Dabbler is?
Personality tic? She’s never been OK with what Dabbler does (makes me wonder if Dabbler used her whammy on Max in the past).
Did no one notice Crimsons’ t-shirt? Or has no one seen “What we do in the Shadows” yet?
It was noticed way back at the start of this arc, back when she attempted to sneak into ARC-HQ, back then it even had a date
By the way, “What we do in the Shadows” is a local documentary the rest of the world believes to be simply a ‘movie’
Does a succubus coin toss involve a coin purse?
Calling “heads” or “tails” in a coin flip means something very different when succubi are involved.
Methinkth the lady doth protesteth too much…
Whath the matter Max? Getting a bit jelly that Dabth ith havin a little fun with Coot?
Pleathe thtop thpeaking like that.
Thecil the Thea-thick Sea-Therpent that thorting thea-thellth on the theventh thtep while thinging to the thealionth at Thea-World in Than Diego :P
CRAP! Mitthed an eth :(
Thuckth to be you. :)
I thay that with love, obviouthly.
:D
I’ll make it clear then… WHY is Max so upset that Dabs is doing this? I’m pretty sure that Dabs isn’t doing this just to yank Max’s chain… or maybe not JUST that. Max has no vested interest in Dabs debasing herself like this, even to just get information so why so upset? It’s almost as if she is hiding feelings she might secretly have for Dabsie-poo…
You have to wonder… if Dabs saw how Max was behaving, how badly would she tease Max? Which begs another question… I know Dabbler is a succubus and all and keys off lust, but would she know if Max really DID have feelings for her? Is this why Dabbler goes to great efforts to hint and tease Maxima? Remember the invisible arm but grab? (“All you had to do is ask…”)
Well, I certainly can’t say I’m not enjoying these shenanigans, but I would also be rather interested to see how that “some blonde” girl might have attempted to interrogate someone of greater intellect (they wouldn’t have to know that they were being interrogated, but it would be interesting to see a succubus deploying real seduction tactics rather than just automatically seducing the person cause they have 2 functioning brain cells).
Dabbler was able to partially hypnotize Sydney, accidentally. Sydney is very intelligent, and ostensibly heterosexual. She was also able to do the same to an entire group of people at the steakhouse with little to no effort. I’d imagine she’s able to do so, quite reliably, to nearly anyone, regardless of gender or orientation, if she put some real effort into it.
You do realise that the “some blonde” is an act specifically designed for Coot? o_O
I’m really hoping Cooper just goes full-on gentleman and refuses to reciprocate Dabbler’s advances. It’d be a really cool character building moment, where you see there’s actually more than meets the eye with Coot, rough around the edges though he may be.
man, you made me laugh out loud with this page. been a while since a comic has managed to do that. XD
If he was truly shallow, she would never have had cloths on at all, and she would never have spoken a word. Just sayin’.
One of the best parts of getting a present, is unwrapping it ;)
There speaks someone with a little depth, at the least. Heh.