Grrl Power #600 – High level machinations
Normally when Arch Villains face off you get a lot of monologing and grandiose scheming but little action. I thought I’d mix it up and show some petty bickering.
If Sciona actually wanted to inconvenience Deus, she would have smashed his fish tank. I’ve barely ever shown it (You can see a bit of it there in panel 6 – it’s on the left side of the big conference table as you look out from Deus’s desk) because if I did, in addition to all the other background stuff I draw, I’d also have to do fish. And probably a little castle. But there’s not much more inconvenient than water damage. Sure, acid damage or toxic waste damage, but Deus doesn’t keep stuff like that around his office. Probably.
I had to change the font and color of the text on Harem’s shirt, and even still it’s kind of hard to read. Apparently pink is a bad color to write text on. Anyway, it says “You had me at “I’m a terminally ill billionaire.”” Don’t read anything into the state of Deus’s health. Harem just thought it was a funny shirt.
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I’m not sure what happened in the fifth panel.
Well the small panel 5 is just Sciona giving Deus a significant glare, past Vale’s pushing hand. However I suspect that is the larger panel 6 that you are referring to, as that is where the action is.
The translucent blue ‘blades’ that you can see are Sciona’s wings. Which must be very strong, as they are smashing a marble pillar. To spite Deus.
Yeah, those wings destroyed 1 of the pillars back in the vault, so they seem to have some power to them…
Judging from what we’ve seen, the powers of her wings are “Pillarbane”
Heh. At least +4/+8 vs pillars. Or do they use +2d6 damage nowadays?
I think either Vale or Sciona just got punt out of a window. Or the fish tank kersploded. And sooner or later, Harem’s second job is gonna cause issues…not seeing any conflict of interest YET…but sooner or later…it does not bode well.
Naa, assuming that you are referring to the things that look like smashed glass, in panel 6, they are just Sciona’s wings. Confirmed in the final panel by Deus’s mildly irritated frown and dialogue. Appropriate for having witnessed Sciona vandalise his newly pointed marble pillar.
Whereas if his long-term bodyguard and confidant had been defenistrated, he would be alarmed or angry. And if it was Sciona he would be even smugger than normal.
I think the consensus of opinion is that Deus is stalling, to give time for Arc-SWAT to swoop in.
Marble ligned pillars as it loks like the core is metal. Still, now he need to replace the marble panels all together.
Looks like concrete to me, besides DaveB has no reason to change RL building rules.
Also covering concrete pillars with marble is probably a lot cheaper.
Yup. Looks that way to me too. Plus Deus’s dialogue gave a hint that it was not solid, in talking about his ‘marble detailing’. Which normally refers to a small piece of architecture that can change the tone of a room. A pillar is not particularly small, but cladding a pre-existing pillar in marble would fit the turn of phrase well.
I am working on the assumption that Deus would have his office at or near the top of the building. Putting a lot of thick metal infrastructure up there would require that the entire building below it was significantly reinforced, in order to be able to support it. Which would add significantly to the overall cost of the building.
Doubtless he will have some parts beefed up for security reasons, compared to a normal office. But if he put in bullet-proof glass it is not Sciona-proof.
Krahazik‘s basic point is right though, in that it is only an outer layer of marble, so no where near as costly to replace as a whole pillar of the stuff.
Pretty sure Deus is using ‘detailing’ in the same way you have a car detailed — thoroughly cleaned with extreme care and attention to detail. Not that he’s had some remodeling done.
He just had his office scrubbed and here she is trashing the place. How rude.
If you look at the previous page, though – it appears that she came in through the window.
ARC showing up is going to raise some very uncomfortable questions for Deus. Sciona gets caught and the story comes out about Deus being there in the reliquary…I cannot see Deus doing that. he could come up with a story that he took the items into custody to save them from Sciona, but that raises more questions. how did he know ahead of time? why didn’t he lets somebody know? Nope. Harem did this all on her own. but she’s going to have some questions to answer for as well.
YES! That’s something in opposition to the Deus-is-good-Samaritan schtick: if he knew ahead of time about Sci-fright’s planned assault, why didn’t he let Maxi know?
Nope! Deus has been bluffing this entire time, knowing that Archon is looking for this evil criminal. So he’s stalling for them. God bless Deus!
And if they ARE to find out he has the stuff, he can say that it’s for research on the very dangerous materials that the Council has which can be better used to protect the United States by researching it, which Archon will most certainly benefit from.
Was talking about Sci-frights previous assault, the one in which Deus stole items for his own purpose
He was obviously getting the dangerous objects away from Sciona so she wouldn’t be able to get them all. Plus he wasn’t stealing. Salvage. Totally legal salvage. :)
He’s a GD hero. Thank you Deus for protecting us all.
Oh and he didn’t know for sure. He wouldn’t want to send Archon on wild goose chases after all. Thoughtful. That’s his real middle name.
Deus Thoughtful “X” Machina.
You really are a lawyer!
Zealous advocacy!
In any military organization in the USA, any outside work must be approved in advance.
Guarantee, this isn’t approved. It’d be worse than the Navy Seal porn star.
Although I grant that an object falling can be classed, in science terms, as ‘working’, I don’t think that being defenestrated, from a skyscraper penthouse office, counts as valid employment.
OK maybe for Achilles. But he is an exception.
Achilles is the kind of person who can fall from grace, but then stand up, brush himself off, and then walk away aplomb.
Whilst having enough style to avoid the temptation of wiping his c**k, on the curtains, on the way out.
Well obviously his cover story would be he found the vault while on a salvage mission… And given that it was already breached when he got there he salvaged what he could get his hands on…
So are those items behind him new additions from the vault or stuff Deus has had for a while?
Yeah, that stuff’s been there for a while. Can’t see if the half-of-Maxima’s-power-source-geode is still there tho…
I don’t think Dues would be dumb enough to put them on immediate display. More likely, he’s got them in a secure facility (maybe not even in this same building). He might probably have someone studying them more thoroughly right now, just in case there might be some new data that can be learned from them. He’s the kind of guy that won’t settle for ambiguous references & dusty old tomes for complete information, after all. If so, you can bet that he’s got “top men” (aka: the same guys in reference to the Lost Ark) on the job.
A good opportunity for this question hasn’t come up recently, but, given the arc is still on about dangerous items stashed away by the council.
Should Halo be worried about the council in this regards?
I mean back when she first joined the team (like a week or two ago in-universe) she revealed her main reason (even to the extent of never going flying) of hiding her powers was fear of the government locking her up somewhere and doing tests on her.
Kind of get the feeling had the “monsters” found her first she’d have been forced to help them or be locked up, and the fear should be there; given how powerful those orbs are and can potentially become, that the council as marked them as dangerous *has allowed a skinny little human power enough to cancel out magic attacks and go toe to toe with powerful magical constructs* and sometime to wait and see (likely waiting till Sydney dies of old age…or darker factions may be considering other tactics..heck an ally of Archon underestimated them enough just trying to pull a batman behind you bit) to take those orbs and lock them away suspecting they are some dooms day lock or something.
Good points, while there may be factions within The Council of Doom who may want Sydney’s balls, the (current) head(s) of CoD are friendly (note: friendly not ‘best buds’) towards Sydney (or simply scared of Maxi)
WORST. PUN. EVER!
I’m sure Archon told the Council that the orbs wouldn’t work for anyone else. Or the Council doesn’t want to piss off Archon (and Maxima).
Its not something regarding (if) they’d really try, just something that should cross Sydney’s mind at some point given her previous fear of “government sponsored vivisectionists” and the fact the council of miscellaneous boogymen and boggarts who operate outside of the law among their own and yet have been squirreling away objects of magical power they come across (I doubt too many creepy dolls are really eldritch horror levels…some sure…especially some made in Japan near hotsprings that house gods of madness long forgotten and trapped in a harmless shell forbidden to be touched by visitors and even the flies will not go near it…)
I mean, that she at least should have it cross her mind some of them might try something.
Aha! So, you ADMIT that Deus is an archvillain. This is reading more and more like the arms dealers Canto Bight… selling arms to both sides. Deus, you naughty, naughty boy. XD
You seem to be a smart cookie :D
DaveB is clearly just saying it to misdirect.
Selling arms? Ooh ooh! Two please kind sir, Mr Deus.
I wants to be able to open tins!
Two arthritic left arms coming right up…
Hey, so long as they fit the stipulated criteria of being able to open tins, that beats just having paws! Pain I can live with. Although the degenerating nature would be more problematic. But doggies only have very short lives, so it may not be an issue for me.
I think that the implication here is that, thus far, Deus hasn’t sold anything illegal. (At least in these last few panels… executing warlords does violate international law, not that it’s stopped our government from doing the same thing.)
Nor is Deus directly responsible for any wrongdoings committed by buyers who obtain his weapons. (This argument breaks is certainly not very moral though… assuming that Deus actually distributes dangerous weapons. We haven’t actually seen him do this YET.)
Remember that the beings that Deus took the items from were technically monsters (a counsel of mythical entities), so the law really doesn’t protect them. They are violating all kinds of laws. Arguably, Deus took weapons away from beings who have been magically manipulating the entire world with a glamour, “Oops… you didn’t know you were tag-teamed by a tentacle monster and his swamp monster friend?!… Sorry about that subtle mind control.” Was Dorothy a murderer when she took the slippers from the Wicked Witch and her monkey minions?!
Also, off topic. Are we supposed to assume that Deus is the Billionaire with the Terminal Illness?!
One would think so, but that is not the case. Whilst murder is illegal in pretty much all countries, that is handled through national laws. But each of them only has jurisdiction in their own patch. Plus every country has different rules, exceptions, sentences and so on.
Hence why there are international treaties set up to cover extraditing a suspect from a jurisdiction where he has committed no crime (i.e. there is no international law under which to prosecute the individual in the territory he presently is in), to the one where the crime was conducted.
This is very important because whilst a law is just national, rather than subject to an international treaty, then it is subject to the abuse of that nation’s lawmakers being able to make exceptions or for presidents to grant pardons.
Deus is the de facto leader of the country. He has a puppet figurehead who ensures that all Deus’s orders are carried out. As such we can be certain that nothing Deus did is illegal in the country he runs. To the extent that he can talk about it on pubic television, and not face any risk of prosecution, anywhere in the world, should he feel inclined to do so.
It is directed at him, as a joke by Daphne. But there is nothing actually wrong with his health. Check out the author’s blog above.
Yeah, I’ll bet can openers are a real problem without opposable thumbs.
Calling Dr. Frankenstein! Calling Dr. Frankenstein! The patient is ready to see you.
Oh, sorry…That’s pronounced “Fronk-en-steen.” My bad.
;)
Well hey, selling to both sides is to ensure that there’s a “balance of power” between both sides. If one side has an overwhelming advantage, they’ll use it & likely wipe out the other side completely. Even though there’s still going to be war, destruction & death accruing on both sides, the balance allows each side the ability to preserve itself. At least, that’s how Capt. Kirk explained it to Dr. McCoy in ST:OS #45, A Private Little War.
Then again, Dues does that mostly to perpetuate the war for the profit potential, which violates laws against War Profiteering, but nobody’s perfect…When it’s done for the profit motive, then it’s illegal.
Heck, even Lex Luthor can admit that he’s a criminal…He routinely breaks the law & does so on purpose, mostly to fund his research & engineering projects. He figures that it takes an honest man to be a criminal…But he’ll never say that to any law enforcement authorities, of course.
Actually, he’s admitting that VALE is an arch-villain. She’s the one squaring off with Sciona.
Arch-Heroine. Protecting an innocent (if sexually-harassing pig) of a business man and a police officer from attack by an Arch-Villainess is a suitably heroic act.
Deus is a CORPORATE super villian. Presuming he’s organized things correctly, with a compliant board of directors (presumably including all his super minions), he’s nearly untouchable personally. The company might have to pay massive fines, of course, presuming he’s not bought any political influence.
(Side note: Microsoft took no interest in politics until they got hit with antitrust restrictions. At which point they started buying political influence. Yes, our system needs to be reformed, but this gets fought against by everyone with a trace of power or money.)
Harems shirt doesn’t have any text in the previous page. I find this error disconcerting.
It, er, only shows up under certain conditions?
It is there, just apricot font on peach material (or is it peach on apricot?)
In his blog under the previous comic, the author points out that there is text on her shirt. It just was not legible at the resolution displayed.
So today I realised that Deus’ company is called Machina.
You could call him Deus “from” Machina.
Which would in ancient greek become…
Deus Ex Machina – the famous trope from ancient greek theater.
I am sure a lot of you realised this when he was introduced, but better late than never I guess.
You mean “Deus, with an X across his face, from Machina”? ;)
Nope. You’re the first person to ever figure this out. :)
I’m just messing with you. I kid because I love.
So the fun part about Supers in this universe, is that they are all wildcards.
The mythical races that make up the super-natural are all well documented. You know the power range each individual has.
So Deus knows how strong Sciona is. But Sciona has no idea how strong Vale is.
Whenever Deus is on screen I seriously want to know where he got that scar, because I’m not sure if you could get a clean enough cut without damaging his vision or sense of smell if it was the cause of an accident or he decided to screw around with his sword collection or something.
… What I’m essentially Fan-theorizing is. That Big “X” Scar? It’s a Tattoo. Deus probably got it to purposefully scare the shit out of his Minions/ lesser business rivals.
Sorry this is probably off topic but it bothers me every time I see him. Where’d the Damn “X” Come from?!?!
Same place BanchLeomon got his stylish chest x-scar, LoL
https://dma.wtw-x.net/DMA/DigimonStands/Toei/BantyoLeomon.jpg
I thought he might have got it way back earlier in his career, from a vigilante once known as Xavier. He was a sword-wielding, Zorro-wannabe that Dues defeated & made him realize that he should put more resources into his defense…
;)
I was going to use this joke first: a face shot from Ex-Veemon,
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/digimon/images/f/f8/Vee-Laser.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090608143955&path-prefix=de
as I thought Cyclops with the X-mask had an X-shaped beam but couldn’t find a pic of that so scrambled for something else I knew of with an X-shaped burning/cutting attack…and saw BanchoLeomon and was like…I like this better.
Yeah, that’ll work too. I just didn’t have time to look up some kind of appropriate “X-shaped” mode of attack.
My guess? He has powers similar to deadpool and once took a large arrow or balista bolt to the face… (It had a modernish X shaped metal head on it which left a neat X shaped scar where it hit…)
This is so true. And not just inconvenient but just straight up damaging. As a multiple home owner (not all at one time, I’m comfortable but no silver spoon for me) I can tell you that water is the worst thing ever. You might think it’s fire, but really the elements are struggling for supremacy and the final round is not over.
I have suffered from both a water damaged house and a fire-damaged one. The water caused far more damage!
But only thanks to my Fire Warden, Miss Kitty Fantastico, waking me. Otherwise the house would have been razed (it has enough wooden beams and floorboards that would be inevitable)!
Plus I would have died, but that would have been from smoke inhilation, before the flames got me.
Incidentally Miss Kitty’s skills have been confirmed. She gave her alerting meow the other day. Bringing my attention to the fact that my dinner was starting to burn! Yet again she saved the day, as her prompt warning allowed me to remove it with only a small amount burnt.
I am glad that I have been learning Cat. So I can distinguish “alarm” from “go away or I will attack you”, “you’re hurting me” (from over-rough kitten play-fighting, I hasten to add), “I’m a lost kitty”, “I’m hungry” and “open the door servant!”
Fire damage, if caught early, doesn’t cause nearly as much damage as the water that was used to put out the fire. Heck, the smoke damage is usually far worse than the fire damage too.
I know people who were out of town when their water line broke upstairs. When they got back, the upstairs was downstairs, literally. That was in September. They think they’ll get the final painting done soon, get new furniture and move back in. Insurance was out major money on them. Total destruction of everything out to the side walls, and those had to be stripped to replace wallboard.
There is an electronic water valve that hooks to the incoming water line and shuts off when any sensor detects water – the sensors are placed in likely spots for leaks, water heaters, bathrooms, laundry rooms, etc. It’s worth it.
Cats, cattle, chickens, dogs – animals have a set of warnings and calls, learning them isn’t hard. Just yesterday, my chickens were screaming “emergency, death near” over and over. Walked into the back yard, and chased a hawk away from the pen. They immediately calmed down, and started begging for handouts.
Yea, mine was similar, albeit a decade and a half ago. Walking back into my housing estate I could hear what sounded like a waterfall. As I got closer I decided that it was loud enough that it must be someone’s water tank overflowing in the loft.
By the time I got just round the corner, from my house, my heart was sinking, and I was thinking to myself “I hope that is not my house!”
But it was. I had what (emotionally) seemed like a river flowing out under my front door and down the pathway. Although I literally had to put up my umbrella, when I walked in, to avoid getting soaked!
But the insurance companies are professional gamblers. They know they can’t win every hand, but they also know that even a big losing hand doesn’t put a dent in all of their small winning hands.
I have of course maintained home owners insurance on every residence I have ever owned. And I’ve also purchased renters insurance prior to being a home owner. I’ve never filed a claim. The total I’ve paid in might be trivial next to the payoff to almost fully restore the home of the folks in your anecdote, but not many people suffer such a large loss so the insurance company wins in the end. And when there is a large scale disaster, the insurance companies run to the government for a handout, at the expense of the taxpayers. And because they are of course huge political campaign donors we all pick up their tab even when they come close to losing. They work natural disasters into their actuarial tables and still get the government to pick up their losses!
Natural disasters (especially of the ever-increasing frequency and destructiveness of them, with global warming) are beyond the ability of any one insurance company to handle. Whilst the risks and costs of an individual disaster can be spread across the industry, if they get too big or too many occur in a short space of time, then that principle of being able to pay out because only a few customers get affected breaks down.
Literally the mechanics of the system get overwhelmed. If the payouts are likely to be more than the amount paid in then this cannot be handled by insurance companies alone. Most countries recognise this and allow natural disasters to be excluded, with the understanding that the state will provide the necessary aid. Calling for international aid where their resources are not enough.
The USA does not like that principle though. So tries to force insurance companies to cover disasters. With the mish-mash results that you describe, due to the fact that the private sector cannot handle it alone.
Incidentally I am highly cynical about the insurance industry. Due to it encouraging complacency and a tendency to rely on making a claim, rather than taking adequate precautions to prevent one. Theoretically market forces should reward the latter, but that is not how it often turns out in practice.
Which I only mention so that you will appreciate that I am not a champion of the industry. However for the issue in question they are not at fault. Insurance never has been intended to cover acts of God and trying to force that role on them has not been implemented well. Provisions for those who do not have household insurance (without which you cannot just get ‘act of God insurance’) is very varied across the USA.
So many are left to fend for themselves. Including various friends of mine who have suffered this way. It is easy for folks to shift the blame to the insurance companies, but that is not actually deserved.
I should point out that there are folks in areas where disasters are so likely that they cannot get insurance. My comment was not meant to indicate that only those who choose not to take insurance are to blame for their decision (or lack of wherewithal). It is a lot more complicated than that (and varies a heck of a lot from state to state, hence why only speaking in very broad terms).
PICK FIRE OR WATER!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofn1VRP2XUM
I Can’t wait to see what Vale can do, in a fight. The more I see of her, the more impressed I am. I thought she would just be a sneaky type, but now she is showing super strength. Would Dues ever try to give her bottom a swatt, I wonder?
Well he has two arms still. Unless one or both are cybernetic, we can at least assume he has not done so in the past.
;-)
You beat me to it, was going to comment on how Deus would only slap Vale’s succulently squishy tushy if he had finished with his arm and no longer needed it :P
I don’t think Vale is the type of person who would sign any contract of employment that would include such terms in it…
What? That she’s not allowed to removed offending appendages?
I suspect Deus would only want to confirm her right to bear arms, not to remove them. ;-)
Guys, I don’t know if anyone brought this up, but I love that shirt at the bottom right, “You had me at I’m a I’m a terminally ill Billionaire!!”. With who happens to be wearing it that shirt just fits in one of the more twisted ways you can imagine.
Heh. The shirt tickled me too. It is very cleverly done. I hope that Dave’s fashion house will put it in their range. When he starts one, that is.
It is only twisted if the billionaire’s health is terminal mind. Whereas Deus looks to be perfectly fit and healthy. To the extent that folks often decide that he must be a super!
Actually I’ve entertained that idea of Deus being a super, however his power could be some form of intelligence ability which in his case seems to be bent toward evil though. At least that’s what I was thinking, why else would he have supers with the powers and abilities they have working for him. Not only that but that would also explain how he built that massive company of his. He has no actual ability dealing with powers which he can use in battle just a hyper intelligent mind.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was charisma or persuasion oriented.
Vale seems to have an interest. Maxima seems to have an interest. Daphne seems to have an interest. He does have the super physique, but that doesn’t seem to have Maxima or Daphne mooing over the male members of Archon, or any of the other supers they’ve run into such as the gang at the steakhouse.
Deus also has a lot of supers, if not on his direct payroll, then at least in his Rolodex so he can call upon them and expect that they will take a temp job he needs doing. That could be explained away as “money can buy anything,” but Deus could probably do a lot of what he does with conventional methods which would also probably be cheaper. Some of those jobs are very questionable legally, and yet we’ve not heard a peep from any of them about that. That could just be the fact that Deus targets supers known for not giving much of a fuck about mortal things like laws and rules, but it could also be him influencing them in some way. Because once Archon went public you’d think that at least a few of the unknown or otherwise employed supers would wonder just how they might fit into that organization. And we know that Archon pays well, so Deus doesn’t have that market cornered.
You both make good arguments.
Selling arcane relics of Doom sounds not very smart to me. I understand that Dave will probablyl reveal some details down the line but none the less: These artifacts were hidden in the most secure vault ever constructed for a reason, there won’t be a “Ring of create Sugarcandy” among them. Selling any of them would be a detriment for Deus for so many reasons. Firstly, he won’t be able to use them himself. Second, they could be used against him. Third, it could compromise the hitherto unknown operation and giving the council a lead as to where all the stolen artifacts are. Last but not least, what would a multibillionaire want with more money?
Yes yes now you come with “But he can exchange the relics for favors instead of money!” Not worth it. He already has a cabal of supers at his disposal, money alone is enough to buy the rest he’d need for any purpose.
Or how about “He’ll just scheme the customers only giving people artifacts who will act in his interests!” Again, not worth it. Scheming on this level has more downsides than positives, see my points above..
Meh, guess I’ll wait and see what comes of it. Just my thoughts popping up when I read that line.
Deus has said in the past that he is counting on Harem being a triple agent. Plus Sciona is Archon’s enemy number one. So presently Deus has a police woman next to him, who he is confident is reporting everything he says straight to Archon.
Then have a re-read of the last page. At no point has Deus offered to sell anything to anyone.
The word “customer” has a meaning. Look it up if that meaning escapes you.
Customer
noun
1. a person who buys goods or services from a shop or business.
2. a person of a specified kind with whom one has to deal.
So 1. is met by offering Sciona the service of viewing artefacts.
Likewise 2. is met by having a customer who is awkward enough to demand something that is not on offer.
I mean’ she’s kind of an inept supervillain, isnt she? If there was something she wanted in the vault, why didn’t she take it while she was there? Explains why she spent such a long time as a bodyless head-top riding an unwilling donor.
Also, there’s no way Deus doesnt know Harem works for ARCHON, and there’s no way Harem doesn’t know that Deus was raiding the vault.
What gives here?
To the contrary Harem has no evidence of that at all. The only witness was Cooter/Wyrmil. Wyrmil was saying nothing. Cooter was flapping his mouth non-stop, but he had died before Deus arrived. So nothing he said mentioned Deus. And, as far as we know, Archon have not received any evidence implicating Deus. Prior to Sciona showing up in his office, that is.
Well everybody knows that she is a cop. But what she had done was provide confidential information to Deus about Archon. So, yes, he knows she works for Archon, but she is claiming to be a double-agent betraying them by supplying state secrets. Much like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, except providing it to a corporation rather than to the media.
Deus though is not fooled and believed that she was actually just pretending to betray Archon, and said as much to Vale, much earlier in the comic.
So, in conclusion, yes there is a lot more to the scene than meets the eye. Deus is playing a deep game.
Something deeper than it appears on first reading.
Thinking about certain ‘theories’ how do we know that what Sci-fright is angry about was even in the Reliquary? For all we know, Mr Fandouchedick robbed her warehouse on the way to stealing from under her nose
Occam’s Razor.
It is the thing that Sciona wants. It is magical in that it allows you to find the truth. All you have to do to use it is follow the least complicated explanation and that will usually be the correct one.
We don’t know anything about it, other than she wants it, and she wants all of it which implies there is either more than one of it (a set) or it’s a liquid (like, say, a certain psycho’s blood supply)
Certain sounds to me like Deus robbed her while she was robbing The Council, and then showed up with his squeaky trolley to rub it in even more
I am aghast* that, in a community of arty types, nobody has identified the picture we see in the first couple of frames. Nor even made any calls, prior to this, to identify it!
* Not a ghast.
Isn’t it obviously a self portrait? o_O
Oh how silly of me. That shoulder does look rather familiar.
Okay, so I am sure someone else has postulated on this before, but is anyone else considering how insanely powerful Vale has to be to simply dealing with Sciona calmly?
My personal theory is that she is a sort of augmented human, perhaps with a somewhat scaled down version of Maxima’s power if Deux somehow got that geode that gave Maxima her powers originally.
Yes.
Surprisingly similar line of thought to others. Although I must admit that my mind had not gone that way.
Also robot.
Well he IS pissing off Maxim, so…
Just as long as he isn’t pissing on Maxi… (reverse golden shower? o_O)