Grrl Power #583 – Everyone owes each other a coke
Dabbler should have known something was up, because her hearing is way better than anyone else in either of those rooms. Her glamour has human sized ears, but she’s still rocking those pitcher plant ears of hers for real.
Ok, maybe she shouldn’t have expected that Cooter would grow a tentacle arm, even though I feel the pieces of that puzzle were pretty well laid out there. And the box with the finished picture was sitting next to all the pieces. But she’s never met whatever race Wyrmil is, and the artifacts in the vault introduce a lot of variables.
I was sorely tempted to make “what” the only dialog on this page, but I don’t quite have that editorial discipline.
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Its Wormy time
WHAT!?
I only have one thing to say to that…
This is the guy. The one that all the stand-up comedians talk about.
*Blink* *blink* I…. What? That doesn’t even make any sense, why are they chanting ‘what’ at him? It doesn’t even work for the bit he’s doing, it just sounds so stupid.
It’s the crowd imitating one of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s signature… behaviors. Specifically, whenever he heard something (or from someone) he didn’t like (and there was a lot he didn’t like), he’d reply with an angry “WHAT?”. The audiences picked up on it and added it to the live shows…
We’ve seen enough hentai…blah, blah, blah.
What? Someone had to say it, so I just got it out of the way so we can all just move on.
:)
Well, it’s a GOOD thing that Dabbler’s the one in that room with him then……………..
If anything, it’ll at least be an “interesting” experience for her if she doesn’t enjoy it outright……….
Eh, she’s been there already (remember her comment when Sydney was introducing Arianna to Hentai?)
except wasn’t that non-canon? She still knows about it, but that character…
murphieschecker, most side-comic are canon, that one is one of the rare few that is canon.
Maybe HE’S the trap…..
Ooo, Dabbles thought Deco was the one
Two Succubus present, and not ONE tentacle joke between them? XD
Hmmm…Since I’m the first to make a joke about tentacles (specifically in the context of hentai, no less) does that mean I have to get in between the two succubi?
Oh, God, YES!
…If I haven’t responded after 30 minutes, don’t bother sending the Marines. It’ll already be too late. Instead, just send the Undertaker…
People paid to go watch that.
They are all that guy. The one that all the stand-up comedians talk about.
I bet they all voted for Trump.
“How did he even get into that position?!?”
“I don’t know… But what impresses me is how he somehow got out of it, fetched a tripod and a camera and somehow got BACK into it.”
*Hammers non-existent like button*
Maybe because it’s a surprise tentacle?
No, it’s because Dabbles has such good hearing that she is surprised
Okay Deco, time to turn your coat inside out
Or maybe wrmyl’s body absorbed Coot’s brain and now Coot has his powers?
Since Coot was:
1. Having a conversation in his head with someone who clearly wasn’t him, and
2. Is now moving without his volition
we can be sure Coot doesn’t “have” Wyrmil’s powers. They’re still Wyrmil’s.
Probably Wyrmil didn’t just regenerate, he also reconstructed Cooter as a disguise as part of his escape plan.
That said, this is weird or stupid on Wyrmil’s part. Had he just gone along with the interrogation, even if he allowed Coot to reveal everything about Sciona’s plans, he’d still get away since everyone thought he was dead…
Hm. Something doesn’t add up.
Blood based powers side effect from what happened to him before. It was probably anticipated and leaving him was a means of gaining intelligence.
If so, Wyrmil just blew his own cover. It would still have made sense to keep quiet.
In fact, Cooter couldn’t even have revealed much, as a monster-hating sacrificial pawn. So I think the “left behind to spy on the council” plan isn’t it. I think this is all improvised on Wyrmil’s part.
Also, Sciona already has spies on the council, with at least one Semper Vi vampire part of her group.
Or wyrmil had saved rooted in order to infest his body so that he could save his own life and right now is the moment where he comes bursting out of old coot and realized where old coot was being held in.
That, Quin, is the most likely answer. He simply regenerated inside Coot to survive, nothing more, nothing less.
Nobody said Wyrmil was smart. ^^;
Have the guys in the dark room been looking at Coot’s exposed butcrack the entire time?
I’m not surprised Max left.
Now that you mention it, having Cooter facing away from the observation window seems odd.
They thought he would DEDUCE the mirror in his cell was one-way glass?
PS: What happens to the bones in an arm that suddenly becomes a tentacle?
Is it even one way glass? The room’s purpose isn’t interrogation, and we see right through the glass right now in this page.
That last panel is just for our benefit
To be fair it’s possible that it’s NOT ‘one-way glass.’ They had him tied up and not facing the window anyway.
Although I agree that it’s probably for our benefit. But I can see all sorts of arguments that it’s not, especially since it isn’t an interrogation room.
There sadly is no such thing as one-way glass. It is just partially reflective and much better lit on one side. Same as how you can’t see into an office building on a sunny day.
Re-purposed as helical collagen I would expect.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6213135_The_arrangement_and_function_of_octopus_arm_musculature_and_connective_tissue
Yeah… There’s no reason for it to be one-way.
Was Blondie using it as a mirror?
I’m sure Dabbler could have modified it.
Oh he bonded with the nearest remains after all “Coot” was blown to bits so if Wyrmil’s brain was “killed” by that anti-life field maybe it survived bonding itself to “Coot”?
Since Cooter has become a monster, does that mean he’ll have to kill himself?
…After he’s killed all other monsters first, of course…
Eh. No worries. Fortunately for him, there’s already enough various creepy-crawlies and weird things that’ll quantify as ‘monsters’ in his book hiding about on Earth to keep him busy for the next several hundred years, at least… And, if he happens to learn that some of them are genuine space aliens in that time, he’ll probably put an indefinite hold on the killing-himself-part, thinking himself needed for the defense of the world, just in case “more of ‘dem little green buggers trys ta invade later.”
Agreed, but it’s surprising the convoluted rationalizations that are possible to one so free of the ravages of intellect.
You don’t even have to be ‘free from the ravages of intellect’, just ask OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!
you beat me to it, you swine!
FOUL!
And here I was thinking I could just blissfully forget about him…
Othar’s unforgettable, just like a colonoscopy…
so… does that mean… COOT WYRMIL, HILLBILLY MONSTER HUNTER! or something is coming? XD
Indeed, Othar may lack tact and wisdom, but he definitely has intellect.
Coot, the part-monster monster hunter can now hang out with Blade, the part-vampire vampire hunter.
I’m shocked. SHOCKED!
Well, not that shocked.
Sooo Wrmyl absorbing Coot or Coot’s mind in Wrmyl’s body?
Either is weird.
I think he moved in when Coot moved out. Unfortunately, Coot didn’t take his mental furniture when he left. Wyrmil has the physical side done, but still needs to get rid of the beer cans and the pickup sitting on cinder blocks….
What!?
For the record, Decollete never finished the second what. She doesn’t owe anyone a second coke…. Dabbler and Ingsol on the other hand are not off that hook. :P
Who said anything about a second coke? o_O
The rule of jinx. First round happens in panel 5. Basically everyone breaks even. Round 2 is in the last panel. Dabbler and Ingsol would take the hit but Decollete never finishes and would be exempt from the jinx. So Dabbler and Ingsol would owe her a coke.
Shouldn’t Ingsol be going “VHAT?”
He forgot to add his accent in the excitement, obviously
Asking the important questions here.
Same reason why Dabbles forgot to say “thumbone” in the first panel
Stuff to think about:
1. Wyrmil was said to be unkillable…
2. … so why would he want the Regenerator artifact…
3. … and how did the anti-life shell manage to kill him?
Pointing these out because the contradictions are fascinating and how DaveB is demonstrating them in the story is very entertaining and interesting, particularly given how he survived “as” Cooter and how everyone here guessed it.
For one thing, if we take “unkillable” in its most ambiguous form rather than thinking of it as straight up “immortality + indestructibility”, it makes sense.
And now I’m wondering if people thinking of him as “unkillable” is actually the mutation of his rep among other supernaturals rather than accurate knowledge of him.
I don’t think anyone ever said unkillable. Just “extremely tough to kill”
Also last time we saw him, he had just taken an anti-life field to the face, but he was still talking (he said “Bitch”as he was on the floor. We never saw him be dead.
True, but one would think even the anti-life shell would have done less to him with such a rep.
Besides, why leave him behind from the perspective of Sciona? It would only make sense if he appeared sufficiently affected by the field to seem dead to her. Leaving him behind betrayed but surviving means the Twilight Council will find a witness to her crime and insight into her plot. He had to have been “dead enough” to Sciona or else it would just be weird on her part.
Also consider Deus didn’t take him with him as well. Deus is the kind of guy who could find use for Wyrmil.
Sciona bailed on everyone. Including people she hadn’t betrayed yet.
You are right on Deus. Either he didn’t care about Wyrmil, or perhaps Wyrmil’s core had already crawled away by the time Deus was done with more important matters (raiding the room)
I doubt that Wyrmil’s surviving remains crawled away before Deus was done because Wyrmil was (near) slain in Deus’ presence. Any sign of survival on Wyrmil’s part would likely have impressed Deus, being the pragmatic businessman that he is.
Most likely Wyrmil seemed dead and Deus’ time in the vault ran out so he left him behind.
Because in the first place, it isn’t called “the Regenerator.” It is called the Regenator.
And in the second place, we have absolutely zero idea what its power(s) is/are.
https://youtu.be/YE9S3zQx_2k
Huh?
Well, at least I don’t owe a coke to anyone for that…
Ah, you beat me to it… damn these time zones :-)
This is the guy. The one that all the stand-up comedians talk about.
Coot always had a bigger worm than anyone, he said, and soon he’ll be able to prove it!
Those enhancement pills he ordered from that Indonesian website *DID* work! … They just had a delayed effect… of a couple years… :P
You mean that “enhanced virility and strenght potion with extra fiber” Scion gave him?
TRIED to give him, he turned it down as he’s never had a problem in that area of expertise before, remember?
Missed opportunity folks, we could have had a whole comment section just saying “What!?” (Also “how”)
Maybe a few when, where & why thrown in for good measure.
“WHICH?!?” D:
WHENCE?!
“WHEREFORE?”
“WHITHER~~~???”
Waffles?
(from Sunstone)
https://i.imgur.com/EyvIL85.jpg
Meanwhile, fans of the old “The Tick”-cartoon can use this opportunity to stage an intergalactic conversation, consisting entirely of “What!”-vs-“Hey!”.
[Season_02, Ep.11: “The Tick vs. The Big Nothing”]
Well, that explains the “other” speech bubbles in the previous page, and how Coot survived. Coot and Wyrmil got merged somehow, betting Wyrmil had to discard the material killed by the death field and replace it with whatever was on hand-er, tentacle, which happened to be the bits of Coot painted all over the chamber.
I would have guessed she might have thought she likes where this is going.
She would like it if there was implied sexy times ahead, random naked hillbilly going all Old One on your ass isn’t sexy.
Guess you missed out on the glory that was What Now?, it was great up until the 00’s, then it Major Lee sucked :(
Anybody else see the movie ‘Life” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson?
Personally I was thinking more along the lines of “The Thing” with Kurt Russel and Keith David.
nah, “The Strain” fits better.
I wonder if there should be references to the British TV show of the 1960s-The Prisoner?!?
Oh, let’s see if, between all of the commenters, we can come up with at least 6 references?
:)
I’m NOT a Number… I am a Wyrmil!…
And then hentai happens…right?
The Old Ones are hungry, not horny. A fearful “WHAT!?” is the proper response to being locked in a box with confused transforming hillbilly.
“And so the worm turns.”
“And as it was so written (by DaveB), so shall it come to pass.”
~Not a Beholder (Looking For Group)
What?
Well we now know that Coot is a Warrior, since he has “Tentacles for Arms” as a Weapon, although it seems Coot himself were unaware of that fact, though I suspect the Wyrmil part of him knew.
Well you know how it is when you are sharing a body and the other person is a bigoted idiot who doesn’t like monsters or symbionts…it’s hard to start conversation much less plan the day.
You’re such a card.
Coot’s abusing the Right to Bear Arms, because he’s clearly got octopus arms there…
Insert gif of Darth Vader sitting in his TIE fighter saying “What?”
This string of dialogue seems all to familiar. The Tick vs The Big Nothing.
“Oh no! It’s The Nothing!”
~quoted from The Neverending Story
I… have absolutely no idea what the title of this comic means.
I’m GUESSING it has to do with everyone saying ‘What?’ I’m also guessing, from the comments, that is has SOMETHING to do with pro wrestling? Which I know nothing about? So…
Closest thing in my experience would be this episode of ‘The Tick’.
Your life is a far richer one for knowing nothing about “pro” wrestling.
i am going to go out on a limb here and assume he’s using the standard “Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? method of requesting the full story of something/someone, etc.. Who? is obviously Cooter. When? Right Frickin’ NOW. Where? In front of my FACE!!, they DO seem to be stuck on What? right now though… eventually they’ll get around to the Why? and How?…
When two or more people say the same thing at the same time, whoever says “Jinx! You owe me a Coke!” is owed a Coke by the other people.
… It’s an American thing.
Not for this American. When I was a kid the “jinx!” thing was a thing. But it wasn’t tied to any product, or any debt owed.
where i grew up(southern Utah) if you called jinx first you could demand a favor of some type or impose a condition on the other. most of the time it was that they couldn’t talk without permission for a hour.
And people, even kids, actually allowed someone else to prohibit them from speaking for an hour just because they happened to say something at the same time as someone else, and that someone else yelled out “Jinx!” before they could?
This is the guy. The one that all the stand-up comedians talk about.
Décollette’s glasses have gone missing again. Then again, they weren’t there on the previous page either, maybe she took them off.
Look at her view of the interrogation room in panel 5. Now tell me that if you had to stare at Coot’s crack for an undetermined length of time you wouldn’t prefer to do so in low-definition rather than high-definition (if her glasses are anything other than cosmetic, of course).
I called it.
Lucky for Coot! Most likely Wyrmil is anchored in Coot’s digestive tract, so the redneck is in for a crash diet. If Wyrmil doesn’t out-and-out digest him, Coot should lose some unnecessary fat pretty quickly.
Coot: *Never eating at Taco Bell again.*
Oh gads… I just noticed her shirt…
Looks like Coot really did become a “worm meal” after all…
And now it appears that he’s becoming a meal worm… talk about irony… or… um… wormy…
Is the opposite of Irony, wrinkledy?
Apparently, what we have here is a failure to iron out proper semantics of language.
Nah, he became Wyrmfood
So you are saying that “the Wyrm has turned’?
I am vividly reminded of the time Brainiac revealed it had been parasiting around in Lex Luthor, in the DCAU…
Dave,
A few pages ago you brought up some art issues regarding how Maxima looked in various panels.
One friendly comment on today’s comic. In panel six I would say that Coot is definitely ‘off model’.
I understand why you didn’t make “WHAT?” the only dialog in the comic itself, but it would have been pretty funny if in the under dialog you’d have said “WHAT? also how?”
Oh hey there, Migi.
Hard to say who’s getting the short end of the stick here… Wyrmyl being stuck in a perverted backwoods country bumpkin’s body or Coot, having a worm stuck in his perverted backwoods country bumpkin body.
This reminds me of the remarks made when Sydney introduced the Hent-orb er… Light hook. The remarks to Arianna about tentacle porn take a special significance now…
Coot hasn’t shown any signs of perversion
well, judging from his photo in who’s who, he is at the very least rather rude, crude and probably in the mood…
10 seconds into his introduction to a new group he stuck his tongue between his spread fingers and declared himself the knee buckler … how good sir do you define perversion?
Guess wyrmil finished his “fantastic voyage”