Grrl Power #587 – Good thing the Food Network isn’t doing calamari week
Sydney’s comment about Trent being male makes me wonder if there’s ever been a transgender Tentacle Monster. Or even if they have a gender at all, really. I guess I’ve given a lot less thought to tentacle monsters than I have to succubi. Well, I’ve known about succubi a lot longer. I don’t even know where I first heard of them. Must have been the original Monster Manual. Tentacle monsters are a more recent creation.
Sydney maybe could have pursued Cooter, but what would she do once she caught up with him? She needs both the force field and the flight orb to maneuver and not be crushed and drowned and all that pesky stuff. If she let go of the fly ball to grab him with the lighthook, she’d bob straight up to the surface. She could maybe drag Cooter along with her, but he might pop on the way up. The team knows nothing about what protections Wyrmil would provide him. Though hopefully for Coot’s sake, some sort of cold resistance is part of the package.
Maxima would be the best choice, as she can survive the cold and pressure and still fly around underwater, but it’s really dark at that depth. I mean if it was daytime outside, there’d be like 3% of sunlight penetrating to 1,000 meters? But it’s night time anyway, it’d be pitch black. She could make her hand glow like she was about to deliver an atomic bitchslap, but that wouldn’t penetrate very far.
Trent looks really small there on the couch compared to the volume he appears to occupy in the vault. It’s safe to assume he can squeeze down a bit, but also there’s like 400 square feet of floor space occupied by tentacles, just out of panel. :)
Oh and if you don’t follow me on twitter I do occasionally tweet stuff related to the comic. This one is just me showing the flats of the first panel compared to the nearly finished shading, for those of you interested.
So Patreon. I should make a bigger post about this at some point but it’s late and I can sum it up in a few sentences. Well, first off, I should say to all the people supporting me there, thanks so much as always! It’s incredible I get to work on this comic full time, almost entirely because of you guys.
That said, Patreon is making some changes to its billing. I don’t think it’s gone live yet and it’s possible they’ll recant these plans because there’s been a fair amount of grumbling about it. The short version is that each pledge processed will have a $0.35 processing fee, and I think a 2.9% fee on top of that. The bad part about this is the fee is charged to the patron, it’s not taken out of the money coming to the people you’re supporting. On its face, that would mean more money going to creators – you pledge a dollar, we get a dollar, but it means you pay $1.35 (plus the percent amount but that’s pretty small so let’s ignore that for now for the sake of easy math.) As someone who supports one or two people myself, I don’t mind that. If they do stuff I like I can swing a few cents more. The issue some people are having with this new system is that if you support 20 people to the tune of $1 each, now you’re paying $7 extra a month, which starts to add up. That’s like a monthly streaming service subscription (not Netflix, but like, Britbox, or I think the CBS one). As a creator, I’d much rather eat the processing fees. 1,000 people dropping a buck a month in the tip jar is more stable feeling than 20 doing $50. Not that I don’t love the high rollers too. :D Plus, you know, I just like knowing so many people are enjoying the comic. It gives me the fuzzies, much like a wedge of blue cheese that fell behind the fridge.
Anyway, the point of writing all this is to let you guys know I’m aware of this stuff and while I’m not going to ditch Patreon, I am keeping my eye out for alternatives, especially ones that work better with low dollar pledge amounts. Kickstarter is creating a Patreon competitor. (I’m shocked it took them this long) and there’s one or two others I’ll look into as well.
Huh, I guess that was more than a few sentences. What? Dave’s being super verbose? How weird right? :P
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Dabbler’s shirt confuses me a bit…. what’s the point of having two sets of arms if you’re forced to use them in the sense of one set of arms?
If she glamours herself to appear as a normal human with two arms, it would be kind of a giveaway if her shirt still has four sleeves…
Shirts with only one set of arms are a lot easier to come by, and less expensive
I think she’s borrowing a shirt.
She’s… not wearing a real shirt, she hasn’t worn ‘real’ clothes this entire time
Fashion isn’t always practical.
Dabbler is literally naked, you only think she’s wearing a shirt because of her glamour. She hasn’t worn anything the entire comic.
When Sydney saw through Dabbler’s glamor, she was definitely wearing clothes.
No reason to assume she’s generally not, and “She likes sexy funtimes” isn’t an excuse, as specially chosen clothes make the bedroom much more fun than raw nudity.
Pretty sure Thornbrier was joking.
I dunno, it is entirely plausible that Dabbler is nude most of the time. Only choosing to wear clothes that feel sensual to her (or if they might otherwise aid her in other ways – she may need pockets sometimes). So, on the odd occasion that Sydney has seen through her illusions, Dabbler was only clothed by chance. In my mind’s eye anyhow.
Yeah, just like the ursamorphs in Wapsi Square, one of them only started wearing real clothes so her girlfriend could ‘cop a feel’ :D
Because it looks cool.
Plus Dabbler lives in a society where she has little need to use all four hands most of the time. None of our tools require that (nor judging by Decolette would Succubus society).
The only time we have seen her making use of all of them was when swordfighting. Something that Dabbler has realises she is not doing well at. So this could be a sign that she is shifting her fighting style to something else. For instance even with her current outfit she could easily use four hand guns (/blasters /tickle lasers).
At least Dabbles has only four arms, and the option of glamour to hide the other two, poor Heather Brown has to wear a fat suit to hide her four extra arms :(
Doesn’t this mean Treant is going to have his own cast icon now?
He’s STILL not in the doobily-doo…
I know a ‘Good Eats’ reference when I see one! When’s it supposed to be coming back anyway….
At the dragoncon event Alton just said that it was coming out in 2018.
Does this mean Sydney and Dabbler will be able to introduce Arianna to “I’ve seen enough hentai” jokes in person now?
oh please do thank you
arianna’s hair is sydney’s color. i thik you got it mixed up
That’s because Arianna’s hair is still wet.
Perhaps that was the intent, but considering she’s out of her usual clothes, her hair isn’t fully done up in its usual style, changing the colour just makes her that much more difficult for the readership to recognize. I would have kept it nearer her usual colour ranges.
You don’t recognise the ‘S’ curl? o_O
I think Trent and Chorius need to hang out. They seem to share a similar situation as a erudite mind in a body that others look on as a mindless monster. If they start a support group, they can invite the Hulk to join as well.
Nah, Hulk’s mind is that of a musclebound child. Bruce is more intellectual but also not big and green. Neither really fits the group.
Actually that depends on which hulk, the grey hulk has banner level intelligence after all.
I think the MCU Hulk has Banner’s intelligence, but he’s just. So. ANGRY. that he defaults to ‘Hulk Smash’ and monosyllabic grunts rather than thinking.
Really? He seemed pretty child-like in his interaction with the valkyrie in Ragnarok and that was, as far as I’m aware, the least angry we’ve seen him on screen.
Good point: that may have been a Valkyrie, but not the Valkyrie, unless it’s actually Dani Morningstar, the Cheyenne mutant (believe she became a Valkyrie at some stage as well)
While I am not familiar enough with the material you are referring to, I think you will find that my use of definite article is justified by fact that only one valkyrie exists in context. If “The Valkyrie” is also a hero name, as your response seems to suggest, then my lack of capitalisation should be sufficient to distinguish them anyway.
There were actually way more than just one Valkyrie in the movie, but the one you are referring to is also called ‘Valkyrie’, but not the correct character from the comics, there were actually production art that depicted her correctly as blonde, but for what ever reason diversification they cast a non-white actress for the role
Oops, not Morningstar, Moonstar :(
No, he actually doesn’t have even close to Banner’s level of intelligence, but he’s not dumb by any means. He just tends to have only shown up in situations where the best response at the time involved more smashing than thinking.
That being said, he’s been shown to speak in at least 2 movies I’m aware of so far: the 1st Avengers movie (“Puny god…”), and Thor Ragnarok (which I’ve not yet seen, but I know Hulk has a conversation with Thor in one of the trailers).
Do not equate lack of vocabulary as a sign of lack of intelligence
Butt as you said, so far, in the MCU, Hulk has only shown up when brute force has been required, or when a puny god as angered the Banner-man
That couch gets a workout.
Aren’t they a “they” rather than a “he”? I mean they were talking to each other earlier.
Don’t we all talk to ourselves?
I think it may be a hive consciousness, or something. Each tentacle about as smart as a dog, but able to share electrochemical signals via touch. Thus a group of them is a single entity.
I should note that there are certain species that rely on other species in order to reproduce – not just parasites, but also more symbiotic relationships. It could be that the tentacles are all monosexual, and any suitable female, or even any organism possessing orifices will suffice for the purposes of procreation… in which case the tentacles would be attracted to humanoids. Especially schoolgirls, who are particularly likely to be virginal (and therefore having unoccupied wombs to fill with progeny. Which is why virgins became prized in the first place – if you’re the only one inseminating the female, you know her offspring will also be yours).
Beyond that, if the tentacles enjoy human culture then they’ll adopt human standards of beauty and desirability… but Uncle Ghastly’s comic was not only the one with the prudish tentacle monster being stalked by a tentacle fetishist girl, but had a drinking buddy who would date anything female, including a rather coquettish parrot. (Then again, that was also the comic that featured THREE Jesuses, and… Kwirki… just, Kwirki…)
OH GOD KWERKI…
And yes, very amusing. I even got a chuckle out of the furry parody, as I have known furs like that. (Jeeze, tone it down a bit, guys)
The Patreon thing is even worse for those of us on a pension going through international money conversions.
FYI, yes there can be female tentacle monsters. They’re just better situated to suck than to probe.
I don’t know…I’ve seen enough hentai to know that when they get hold on a male…they can do both generally.
Didn’t post for some reason.
Love and Tentacles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXAQpKmc4zc
What? They have every other country as a human, but they have New Zealand as a sheep?????
Quite some compliment. The author must really like hobbits, to upgrade them to quadruped status!
Alton Brown, cool enough to entertain horrific tentacle beasts from beyond the void. (Albeit a polite one.)
Come on Sydney, you are losing genre savvy cred here. You had a chance to create your very own, real world Earthworm Jim here. What were you thinking?
Wait a minute, you’re telling me Cooter/Wyrmil got away? From a stronger than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, freakin’ flyer? With only those tentacles in the way? Does Cooter/Wyrmil gain super speed as soon as he hits the water? There’s literally on one path out of there. I’m afraid this comic is taking the tropes way too far.
You do realise how dark it is down there, don’t you? Guess not
Not to mention rubbery. Old Woots could probably just slither through the spikes. It’d be crazy easy to miss him. The moment he was in the water under that depth with that level of mobility, with noone with light-based superpowers, he’s pretty much long gone. And Sciona’s the target, not the henchmen. They’re missing a room’s worth of artifacts, they probably aren’t willing to waste time on just one.
They could even wait not far down the tunnel, squeeze into a small gap, see if anyone follows, more importantly, watch them hoon off in a wild direction and then they sneakily go in the opposite direction :D
All she has to do is speed to the end of the tunnel and melt it closed. All the mages in there freeze sections of the tunnel systematically and disassemble each chunk. They have plenty of mage power down there for that.
Oh, and Max doesn’t need light for that solution. ;)
People working on rigs in the ocean need to go on rigorous courses on how to survive a helicopter crash into the ocean. The instant you hit water you become totally disoriented, not being able to see where you are.
In order to even tell which way is up you are taught to breathe out some air and observe which way the bubbles go. A trick that would not be possible in the absolute blackness of the depths (and in a tunnel). But, even with ambient light to help interpreting the once-familiar interior of a helicopter becomes a monumental task, in a time-critical situation.
One that is so hard that the training tells you to rely more on touch. Lacking all the usual visual cues that we unconsciously rely on (such as a horizon, shadows (especially from the sun), familiar objects to help judge distance*, and so on) it takes much too long to try and interpret the sensory information.
Slowly drifting along the tunnel is one thing, doing so at speed is another.
Not being able to accurately judge that speed (especially whilst concentrating on interpreting sensory information and trying to avoid getting turned around **) means there is a real risk of going too fast and creating a sonic boom which, as that depth, would be phenomenally destructive.
The entire tunnel might collapse (killing a civilian – Coot), it would endanger the squishies in the team, and could kill many many creatures in the ocean depths. Plus they are on a continental shelf. Potentially the sonic boom (or if that is avoided the collapsing of the tunnel entrance to contain Wyrmcoot) could trigger an avalanche.
Causing a tsunami would not make Maxima a popular person in any nearby country with a coastline.
* A person, in the distance, helps us judge this accurately, but is that a big spike far away or a small one up close
** People get lost and die even in a helicopter, which is a really small space, with ‘only one way to go’ (the door – the one RIGHT NEXT TO THEM).
Another factor to consider: just how impenetrable is Maxi’s golden hide? Fairly sure she doesn’t want to risk doing a Pixel Panther and impaling herself on one of the tunnel spikes…
Speculation, but couldn’t that bubble trick work with a hand over your face?so you feel which way the air goes, despite not seeing it.
Mr Bubbles is air tight, that’s why she almost collapsed during the Carpark Carnage, and you would still have to be travelling at a fair speed to feel the momentum of the air being pushed aside by your face (normally the air is very polite and moves aside without you having to ask)
I doubt it. If you hand is literally covering your face then it will feel bubbles on it anytime you breathe out, and trying to tell which way they are primarily going is not likely to be practical. Not forgetting that each attempt is using up what little air you have left, to stay alive!
On the other paw, if you think you know which way is up and put your hand in that direction, then any bubbles hitting it would confirm your hunch. But without light/useful reference points that guess is very unlikely to be correct.
In extremis though (a crash at night, with no moonlight) I guess it is better to try either version rather than to drown for sure …
Hopefully the survival course has better alternatives though (e.g. making use of some kind of emergency lighting, be that built into the helicopter or one carried for such purposes).
Most tentacle monsters seem to be hermaphrodites, or have a complex reproductive nature like plants. After all you can see them with both men and women, and…uhum…oviposition being a thing now in either case.
I feel like with sydneys flight speed she would be able to catch coot, though we don’t have any info on wyrms swim speed.
She’d have the same visibility issue of Maxima.
Yup, check out the author’s blog for reasons why it became impractical once he swam away.
Plus if Sydney did go really fast she would risk creating a sonic boom. No biggie in air, but deadly in water. Add in her unstreamlined large shield and the fact that the deeper you go the worse the effects and it could create a devastating environmental catastrophe. And probably explode any Coot organs in Wyrmcoot.
Trent should have his pic in the who’s who
Give him a background check to make sure he hasn’t eaten any orphanages or something and if he passes sign him up.
I can see several pretty good uses for a well behaved Trent. Crowd Control has got to be easy when you can spread out your thousand tentacles.
How about Search and Rescue? He can fit through gaps small enough for light, pick up entire sections of fallen highway and see everyone inside the rubble at once due to all the eyes.
Sure he lacks a bit PR wise but best not to discriminate on the humanocentrically disabled.
The official position of the Government re non-human intelligence seems to be “Look at this flashy red light please.” Plus there is the shroud, but it’s currently on the fritz.
“Er, he is a Mutant.”
“…”
“… Really, really Mutant.”
Unlikely, if you mean that to be a mutated human anyhow, given that he (and likely others) are magically summoned by demons as a standard part of their school process. So it is more likely that he is a member of an alien species (possibly of extra-dimensional origin), or is of a magically-created race.
Although he could be a mutant alien, if they normally come with blue eyes.
It’s a cover story, not a comment on his true nature.
Heh, you are right. I missed the quotation marks.
The shroud seems to be programmed with each specific species/race inputted into it, hence Supers were only part shrouded *why so many thought they were hoaxes and certain ones didn’t get the news they would have otherwise* as they are also humans.
So if they don’t have interdimensional tentacle being from planet/dimension (insert specific tentacle based life form here) it might not work.
Ahh, very good point. Add that as point “4.” to my list below.
:-D
Epic Good Eats/Alton Brown ref.
My late wife and I were both geeks and she was the foodie
Stacey and I would often wonder if Alton was one of us,there were plenty of clues that he was but no confirmation.
A year after the pulmonary embolism took her I got that confirmation when he was on the Doctor Who after show.
It is just a personal preference, but i preferred your old style. was there a reason for the style change?
Define ‘change’? Difficult to figure out what ‘changes’ have happened if you don’t get specific
The old style was more “comicish”, would likely be the word. This style almost looks 3D. Don’t get me wrong, it is very cool. I just preferred the older style.
A few folks have made similar comments. Significantly outweighed, over time, by other comments from folks complimenting the art or some aspect thereof. Although there were a significant number of folks not happy with the transitional stages (myself included). But those stopped once Dave perfected the new style. To the extent that I prefer the new style (but do have a fondness for the older one too). So all in all I would say the change was a success.
Glad that you are in both camps though.
Yeah, the old style is nice, but things change, usually the artist or a new artist
Just look at the difference between older paper-comics and the newer not-paper paper-comics
Unitaskers?O_o?
It’s a complaint the host of the show has – cooks who do only one task, either by assignment or preference.
I thought it was tools that had only one task, like those silly ravioli pasta pressers?
Yep. That’s exactly it. By “no unitaskers”, he’s referring to kitchen tools that are only designed to do one thing (and sometimes they don’t even do that very well). I particularly remember the “kitchen claws”…
The Bagh Nakh means “tiger claw” in Hindi, and is a claw-like weapon from India that consists of four or five curved blades affixed to a crossbar or a glove. This is a Bagh Nakh, in case you were wondering: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Indian_bagh_nakh.jpg/1200px-Indian_bagh_nakh.jpg
And these are the kitchen claws:
https://tribzap2it.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/alton-brown-amazon-kitchen-review.png
The only difference is that the kitchen claws aren’t curved (and are probably plastic). You can find his review of them on YouTube. They’re apparently hard to use as intended, and he absolutely hated them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg
Oh boy, time to remind people that Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic exists and has plumbed these depths before.
It was posted on the first comment page (or was it the last comic page?)
I genuinely want to know what powers he’d get from that thing’s DNA subset (varia)
She.
I don’t think it would be that easy to predict, as the powers tend to be unrelated to the base subject, from what we have seen. Barring a few exceptions, such as Harem and Sydney. For most people though the powers are unrelated to theirs, as most folks do not have any and Varia can form a gestalt with anybody, even mundane non-powered people.
I wonder if Trent has any super powers, or is he too just a non-powered people?
I very strongly hope Trent becomes a recurring character/possible memeber of Arcon.
Also while he’s not terribly similar, he still reminds me of that Flesh Mage from Redd.
What ever happened to that comic? It was awesome and I miss it!
My mind is going all over the place right now. Anyway, I hope Trent stays!
Yep, Maxima should have just asked. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Also, when the hammer almost always works, you tend to forget it isn’t the only thing you have.
Speaking of things that aren’t “unitaskers”, Is that Harem in the last panel? I look forward to the meeting of the hiveminds.
Not Harem, Jabbers
Reply from Trent: “Jab her? I hardly know her!” (he is polite, after all)
:D
Well, the couch conceals what’s going on below the waist, but the reason Jabberwocky pitched her soda into the air is because she just got goosed by a spare tentacle.
He might be polite, but he can’t help his nature.
That makes sense :D
She aught to cut down on the booze. Hallucinating seeing a tentacle-monster watching TV, in the common room, is a classic sign of inebriation.
Whoops, I was thrown off because the hair doesn’t have a visible blue tint here.
so a giant mass of tentacle in a building full of female with goddess-like body… WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG??
Nothing that hasn’t already “accidentily” occured with Dabbler in the building I would imagine >.>
Hey, don’t exclude the guys…
Good to know about the possible changes to Patreon. I have ONE patron who donates $2, so that change could possibly mean I have 0 patrons if they do it.
So it’s agreed. We’re keeping him, right?
It has been prophesied, he will become Halo’s sidekick/boyfriend.
Like Robin?
and we are reminded of Sydney’s Japanese supers imagination from a while back.
I gotta admit, I was hoping to see Trent get his own little cast blurb off to the right of the page lol. My oh my dont you just love Sydney’s naming process for him and Arianna might as well give it up. Everyone know once you name a “pet” its as good as yours to keep.
*seconds and signs petition for the creation of a Who’s Who entry for Trent*
When I see “Trentacles” I can’t help but rhyme it with Greek names like “Sophocles” and “Heracles” and “Pericles”.
And “Testicles”, the god of reproduction. (Not to be confused with Xerox, the god of replication.)
Meet Archon’s new translator — if it’s from a race that has hentai, it speaks its language!
Well, can’t say he doesn’t have good taste in shows. Loved Good Eats when it was on and I hope Alton gets the web series up soon.
I think it’s awesome that he’s watching Good Eats. Trent obviously has good taste.
Just so long as he does not get into Good Mouth Feels.
Anybody who messes with Trent will be screwed…
err because he has formed one of his tentacles into a cork-extractor.
…Somehow, your comment makes me think of ducks mating…
Is it just me, or is the writhing mass of tentacles already one of the best characters in the entire series?
The cast page seems to be broken; the links to /cast redirect to /castpage, which is blank.
You can make use of the GrrlPower Wiki for the time being. Dave is thinking of redirecting the cast list to this, temporarily, until he gets the time to fix the problem (which requires pretty much redoing the whole thing).
Trent’s not in the who’s who? Does that mean he’s not going to be a recurring character?
No. his absence is down to an error or omission. Who’s who status does not require a long-term presence in the comic, merely an introduction and a speaking part. Both of which Trent has now had.
Yeah, butt, does being named by Sydney count? He has had speaking parts, but he hasn’t formally named himself, and ‘Trent’ is not official until he formally accepts that for his Earth-name
The Periwinkle Butt Sniffer only gets to keep his name of choice if Archon approves it. Trent clearly will need to use a human name, if hanging around Archon HQ, rather than ‘Squirm wiggle wobble bend flibble’.
This. This may be the greatest thing I have ever seen.
XD Love the final panel. Especially the looks on Jabb’s face!
Danielle Costello (sp? She drew Girls with Slingshots) has suggested one called Drip. I haven’t looked into it yet. :)
A real pondering.
Sydney and Maxima are among the few aside from Dabbler not part of the higher staff and the magic side of Arcswat that know about monsters and supernatural stuff. Sydney only brought in because her commball let her see through the illussions.
The rest of the team I am lead to believe is not. So how are they explaining the mass of tentacles in a trenchcoat to the other team members? He is in the main living room of the base it looks like where any recruit can just walk in on him.
Veil?
I agree that the Veil should be protecting him. Although Varia is not in on the secret, so presumably should not be seeing what we are. Which seems at odds with her reaction. Hence I see the reason for your “?”. I can offer some possibilities:
1. Dave forgot that Varia is one of the uninitiated.
2. Varia currently has a gestalt power which allows her to see the real Trent.*
3. Varia is not seeing what we are seeing, but the ‘veil concealed’ version of him is still outrageous/ weird/ surprising enough to have startled her. **
My Yorpie Snax are on 3.
* Which would require that Varia be able to retain her power without remaining in contact with her partner. So far we have only seen her using powers whilst touching, but under circumstances where that would not be an issue. Hence it is entirely possible that Varia only needs to do that to set up the gestalt, but not to keep it going.
** If you think back to the scene where we saw what Coot was seeing, of the monster vault robbers, this is plausible. Within the range of ‘possible in human society’ there is still a wide scope for totally bizarre appearances.
Even though her angle of vision would presently not reveal such, I too would be surprised to see a strange guy on the common room couch, being nude other than for a hat and a ‘flasher coat’.
Very good points, except it’s not Vahriah butt Jabbers who got jabbed in her butt by a stray tentacle :P
Yea, even with you pointing out her name, in a post above, I still managed to draw up the wrong mental image.
The good news is that I am now wearing glasses, as standard, when reading the comic!
The veil seems to be programmed with each specific race put in it. Hence why supers were only partially covered as they are also human, and how it was described to Sydney. After all this series hasn’t stated any special aura quality like demonic, angelic, faerie, ect… aura that connects seemingly unrelated things (like Disgaea’s series has demon life signs even for netherworld creatures clearly not biologically related), but in this setting they just seem to be various non-human species which have aided one another in hiding from humans. So if Trent is something not programmed into the veil he could then still be seen by others; otherwise there wouldn’t even be a need for an attempted disguise (not that the overcoat thing was ever a good disguise and seems more Sidney having fun).
animatronics?
Well if Dabbler is getting away with a “battle form” excuse; and given the sort of mutations we’ve seen with Mutants, Inhumans, and Meta Humans; they could claim some supers are more like morloks as a cover story.
https://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel//universe3zx/images/4/4e/Calisto01.jpg
and this guy:
https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/7/73/Squidcallahan3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101216064451
and I just came across this and felt a need to share it…I missed this part of X-men history apparently, as I don’t recall Jean Grey ever having tentacles…
Uh…what. I think I missed this time in X-men history…
https://i309.photobucket.com/albums/kk399/polarboy01/o4YDjlaqeVvXgG4KxJutEy5KKZ7cUTHwEtdGqScIi4gW82lUCkk9zbj-v4pakRcceaOB0vUTV3S5HSi5nNJqjId60fSmxIjKxnTjMn5VgoIFTtUfNe8_zpsb6ef306c.jpg~original
When the hael did Calisto grow tentacle arms? o_O
I had to look into it, apparently shortly before House of M, a villain called Masque mutated her further and caused her arms to become tentacles. Apparently she was shortly after killed off during “Son of M” as one of the mutants Quicksilver tried to repower after M-Day using terrigen mist, causing her to be poisoned…man I hate being reminded of this needless mass kill off of characters (mutant especially) that happened at this time. What a waste of so many good characters like this.
correction: she isn’t dead and currently resides back under New York in the tunnels again. Although she is still depowered.