Grrl Power #605 – Telecoitus
Honestly, I have no idea what the other 4 could be. As excuses go, how do you beat “I can’t have sex with you because I’m somewhere else.” That’s hard to top without magic or superpowers being involved. The only thing that comes to mind immediately is some sort of body swap situation. “I can’t have sex with you with Lauren’s body!” or a gender bender situation, or something involving both.
Deus looks weird in panel 2. I don’t have actual face blindness but I have trouble recognizing people sometimes. Not really people I’ve met, but I have a lot of trouble placing actors I’ve seen before unless they meet a certain distinctiveness threshold. Even then, put a wig on them and I’m easily flummoxed. My wife is the polar opposite. She’s like an organic IMDB. We can be watching an old movie and some kid will say a single line and she’ll snap her fingers and say “that was Heath Ledger when he was 7” or something. 9 times out of 10 she’s right. More like 19 out of 20 really. The way I see it, everything about the human mind exists on a spectrum, sexual orientation, math skills, ADHD, all that stuff. If actual Prosopagnosia (face blindness) is a 1 and my wife is a 9 (at least), I’m like a 3 – 3.5 maybe.
The hard thing about being an illustrator who has a hard time with faces, (not just drawing them, although certainly that too) is when I draw a face and it looks weird, it’s sometimes hard for me to figure out what’s wrong with it. In this case I think he looks, I don’t know. Puffy maybe? I think his nose is too big – although he’s supposed to have quite a nose and chin/jaw on him. It’s still too wide? I don’t know. Actually, he reminds me of Matt Smith, like his face is too big for his… face. Oh well.
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HE has a superpower too!
I’d say so
His superpower is “magic fingers” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
That’s my ‘superpower’ too. I used to embarrass my girlfriends by doing it one handed through layers of clothing. Hug/smooch; oh is this yours?
I’m beginning to suspect Deus is like the Sydneyverse version of me. I like him even less.
So do I.
What if it actually IS you? just, in the future, where you’re rich…and smug.
And time-travelling back to the Obama administration, with an ultra-technology android bodyguard and a library worth of information on a chip in your head, would explain how you have all that knowledge which everyone thought was top-secret. Particularly useful was:
Could you write a tutorial on that, please? Seriously.
I dunno, Dabbler can probably do the same trick by snapping her fingers from the other side of the room.
I would totally trade one of the boys for this trick and feel no sorrow.
It’s not really all that difficult to do.
First off, is identifying the nature of the clasp. Most modern bras use a three to five ‘hook and eye’ catch. These are easy to do one-handed, and can have virtually an identical reaction as depicted (other than you generally being in her arms might block it without some sort of tai chi). One finger (ring finger) goes under the clasp and pushes out. Then with thumb and forefinger, pinch and slide, like you are making the universal ‘bribe him’ gesture. Then just let go once clasp is unhooked. Instead of a bra-snap (which will get you slapped, unless she’s into that sort of thing), you end up with the elastic recoil bounding the bra forward, and thus down her arms.
With practice, it’s little more than a moment of fine manipulation.
He he. Just what had me laughing on first seeing this comic too.
No superpower needed for the bra trick, but I’m betting a hot cup of tea was involved…
no superpower needed? So how rid he get the straps off her arms?
He just made all the molecules simultaneously jump one foot to the left, in account rance with the laws of indeterminacy.
But it is her arms that are the problem, not the foot. Tangling up her left foot would just trip Daphne.
Kind of hard for Harem to trip over her feet while she’s sitting down…
But that trick with getting the bra straps off her arms is a pretty good bit of slieght-of-hand. He might have learned it from a stage magician or something…
I appreciate you, just thought you should know
if the shoulder straps connect to the chest strap with those common “s” shaped clips, then a bit of sideways force is all thats needed to take the thing apart. though, imo, much easier with the left hand due to the clasps.
Multiway bras have detachable straps. Those can come loose and with rapid movement like that, you wouldn’t notice.
Sadly in this case, it’s Vale doing some hocus-pocus for her boss.
We can actually see his fingers doing the trick.
Although I will grant that your suggestion is possible. It is just not a certainty.
Mind you nor is the superpower option. But it is a good laugh to suggest that. Mind you it would be interesting if Vale was doing as you suggest. It would show a very personal relationship between her and Deus.
And if you do it really well you can change the bra into a bowl of petunias as well.
Oh no, not again
It sounds almost impossible.
I saw what you two did there.
^_^
Bonus points for the name.
What happened to the newly formed and rather confused whale?
To get a whale to appear is a different trick though…It takes being a powerful Jedi & the ability to Summon Bigger Fish.
But, it doesn’t look like he has a cuppa… which means he has No Tea. It takes a heavy-duty philosopher to have both ‘tea’ and ‘no tea.’
*serves a cup of quantum tea*
Here you go, this stuff is simultaneously present and not present. Just don’t look at it until you fancy a drink.
*placed down a plate of quantum cake*
You may both have this and eat it.
When dealing with quantum cake, it helps to lack a sense of perspective.
Or proportion for that matter.
Is it fairy cake?
If it is fairy cake, refuse it or it’ll totally destroy your mind…Unless you happen to be Zaphod Beeblebrox, of course.
For once, I think I’d rather take
the coffee.
Alright, I finally got it to work!
Aww that is sad. Not quite the same level as having no sense of smell. But I haz feels!
quantum cake.
Excuse me, we ordered the quantum cake
yes?
why have you brought us a square pie?
think about it.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!
No, no, no… it’s all wrong.
Pi r square is incorrect.
Pie are round. Cornbread are square.
Pi r yummy.
But magic squares are totally like quadrature dude!
A really hot cup of tea, a particle accelerator, a contraceptive and a pair of rubber bands.
Just be careful not to wind up looking very silly, or dead, or both, as a result.
you forgot the piece of chewed gum
Duct tape is a good substitute.
If you want to slowly and painfully rip off your own
fingerpaw-prints…Re: face blindness – when I was in the Militia I worked with this reg force Corporal for over a year and we always wore the olive drab (dark green) uniform. One day I met him in a mall in civvies and didn’t recognize him. He had to tell me it was him.
That’s when I learned Superman’s secret identity thing would work.
I’m pretty sure his face looks fine.
Drawing Deus with a seductive look on it for the first time means softening his features, especially around the eyes. I doubt Dave’s had to do that before. I noticed the change and it seemed absolutely correct given the situation. Looks great to me.
That’s very much an expression we haven’t seen on his face before. Nice to see that he’s at least an upstanding lover.
It’s the Jawline that’s throwing the author off. At the start he has a deep round jawline. At the end he has a pointed high jawline.
Personally, I think his face is a little long and his nose is a little too big for Deus. If the space between the bottom of his eye and the tip of his nose were to lose about 16-25% in length and the nose thinned a little bit, it would be fine.
Also re that: I think Deus looks handsome in panel 2 and (automatically) assumed that he makes this face on purpose. For the lady. (ladies?)
Funny note on that fact… a kind of opposite situation… when Trump’s hair coming off was all over the news, I was curious and looked, but all the pictures were only of it flopping around at best, and I was curious, “What does this guy look like bald” so I broke out the photoshop to switch out the hair for baldness. I then had the creepiest feeling I had seen him before, and stared at it for quite awhile…
… then someone piped up, “Wow, when did Putin put on so much weight?” It was then I realized that a bald trump and putin are like identical twins and I had never seen it due to the weight difference and the hair. But now that I’ve seen it, I can’t un-see it.
As lovers age, they begin to look like each other. Same thing with people and their pets.
… So you’re saying all old mammals look the same? ;p
Yes, yes and yes.
I worked as a security guard for two years. Every day at 5PM, I’d get the keys from the secretary, we’d chat for a few minutes, and then I’d lock up after she left. There was a meeting to discuss new security cameras and such and security was told we could come in street clothes. When I said hi and addressed her by name, she could not recognize me. It wasn’t until I told her to turn her back to me and I asked her for keys that she realized who I was.
This is technically GrrlPower’s second sex scene
First was here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1630
second point five.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2717
Huh… That one didn’t really register as a sex scene to me
Except chronologically both of those scenes occurred after this current scene with Harem, so you’re all wrong. :p
Actually everyone is free to place the chronology as they like, because this page starts off with:
So, depending on how ‘recent’ people choose to interpret that as, it could have been half an hour before Sciona burst into Deus’s office. Or, as you are taking it, a few weeks ago.
Nope, this meeting had to have occurred before both of those pages, before Halo joined the team in fact. This meeting is discussing Archon going public, which should have occurred before the press conference. Since Sydney joined on the day of the press conference, this meeting would predate Sydney’s involvement by several days or even weeks.
Ahh, I either missed/forgot the ‘once we go public’, or misread/misremembered it as ‘now that we have gone public’. You are right in-universe chronology speaking, anyhow. Page sequence wise though is another matter.
That poor pillow, it’s rape shall forever go un-bemoaned :D
If I interpret the graphic of the heart floating up from the pillow correctly, that made it entirely consensual.
Oh, there was certainly moaning involved…
And of course, Ed gave back as much as he received. ;p
*looks up from sewing a pillow-costume*
What, nothing to see here! Move along!
Don’t forget this one, I guess it counts as 0.25 – foreplay…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1917
Now, as far as the chair is concerned, I doubt that instance would have been entirely consensual.
Its legal guardian specifically refused consent!
And then immediately revoked any claim of gaurdianship, no less. Barbarian ruined the chair for any future of normal relationships…Which, for a chair, means no more anal action.
It must feel like the stuffing has been knocked out of it.
Guess Sydney knows the bra trick too. Because not taking her long, tight-sleeved shirt off would make bra removal difficult.
Difficult, butt not impossible… >_>
Other situations:
1/ Seer/Time Traveller: Sorry, I can’t sleep with you because I know that I don’t end up sleeping with you.
2/ Time Traveller #2: Yeah… I think I suspect that a future version of me might be your mother, so…
3/ Alien: I don’t actually have compatible genitals. Seriously, whats down there has teeth and drips with acid. A male of my species would find it hot though.
4/ Time Traveller #3: Eh, sorry but we already did it and it was pretty bad. I just came back from the future to NOT do it. Yeah, it was THAT bad.
5. Time traveler #4. Paradox, schmaradox. Who cares?
6 Time traveler #5 Who can I screw history with today?
7. Vale: We can, but if you do your job correctly, I will break apart and an eldritch god will eat your soul. Up to you.
8. My super healing grows back my hymen if you stop for 3 seconds
… there are many, MANY other things which can be experienced.
9. My tentacles gotted knotted and I still haven’t gotten them untied.
“I can’t sleep with you, I have chronic insomnia”
"Regretfully: Attention user! The 'Intercourse' DLC is not available in your region. Gynoid Inc. apologies for the inconvenience."Rare drop from a loot box.
“Gynoid Inc. has heard your feedback and would like you to know that we are very concerned about our customers. While we will still not provide the ‘Intercourse’ DLC in your region, please accept the ‘Throbbing Gazorpazovum’ DLC as an apology.”
A lot of the cast would have good excuses to turn him down.
Heatwave: I’m too hot for you. Literally. And my boyfriend can do amazing things with his tongue that you can’t hope to match.
Anvil: Sure, but just know that every time you thrust, I’ll be absorbing your kinetic energy and comparing it to one of Vehement’s punches. No pressure.
Halo: No, I’m still trying to figure out what these two power orbs do. I can’t deal with two more right now.
Halo: Sorry, but you’re too young for me. I’m holding out for a supercentenarian Canadian named Logan.
Maxima: If I clench up during the moment, you will die.
Alright,I’ll play your game…
Other Excuses
1) Crazy Lady: Look, I really like you, but the Hamster that lives in my vagina has a hard time telling difference between guys I hate & don’t hate, and I’m worried he might devour your dick.
2) Angel: Okay, for starters, what your trying to insinuate is against the natural order, the equivalent of an animal trying to have sex with a human, and the humanoid parts of my current form are clearly male, so that even more sinful. Plus if you ever read the full story of Noah you’d know what happened to my now disavowed brothers who did have sex with humanity. Also, stop trying access other planes of existence, it’s only going to cause trouble
3) Chick from Animeverse: If it ain’t a tentacle, I’m not interested!
4) Time Traveller: WTF DAD!?! I just came from the future to tell you that some of the projects your working on right now end up been used to kick-start an Alien Invasion!
That has got to be Dabbler’s best poker face. She has a pornosense, and Harem is quantumly entangled with someone right next to her, and yet Dabbler seems perfectly in control.
They don’t even register on her radar. 2 humans screwing? Meh.
She knows what’s happening, and approves of it as normal, sensible behaviour. She has a different set of values.
The point is that she is feeding without showing any of her usual lustful behaviour. I think it is more a matter of not wanting to disturb Harem. So Cesret‘s comment does make sense, looked at from that point of view.
This might be the very reason Dabbler is sitting next to Harem in the first place.
Her equivalent of eating popcorn while watching a nature documentary.
So… Is Dabbler going to notice what’s going on? Can she ‘feed’ from one Harem while another is ‘busy’?
If yes, does this make Daphne the succubus version of a Cup-a-Soup, to snack off while on duty?
These questions and more will (hopefully) be answered on Thursday. Same Grrl-time, same Grrl-channel
I immediately had the same thought. Like she gets steamy inside the meeting and dabbler starts feeding off that. While that’s no evidence of sex, one of Daphne’s doubles might just be browsing for porn but given her proclivities it’s more likely that she’s making one indeed.
Good point, Dabbler should be able to tell. Porno-sense FTW.
Maybe, maybe not. Harem’s only 1/5th having sex. That probably registers to Dabbler similar to someone thinking sexy thoughts about the speaker. That said, it’s canon that she doesn’t know what’s going on (maybe due to the aforementioned reason) because Dabbler as (chronologically) mentioned later that’s she’s genuinely curious what happens to one Dabbler when another has sex. This would imply that tantric energy (unsurprisingly) is tied to the body.
Oh dear, I did it again. Where I said “Dabbler”, I meant “Daphne”.
Hmmm…This makes me wonder:
If all five of Harem were having sex with different guys all at the same time, how would that five-way feedback loop accumulate in her one mind? Some women complain that most guys can’t last long enough to give them a multiple orgasms, but Harem has a chance of achieving simultaneous multiple orgasms.
0.o
Heh. Yea.
why would you suppose all her partners to be male? five bodies, c’mon.
Topological party tricks FTW! (I guess?)
It only works if you first pour your date a drink from a Klein bottle.
Gotta admit, I’ll be glad when the story moves on. Aside from the guy having sex with someone half his age, it really drives home how much I dislike Harem for her traitorous tendencies. Traitors always rub me the wrong way, and since her excuse for this is just `sex and giggles` leaves me hopefully looking forward to the day that Max catches on and cuts off her meal ticket.
I mean, she could still pull a believable heel-face turn, but my money is on something she babbles getting one of her teammates killed. Bleh.
While I get your point, Harem is probably older than him in terms of time experienced. Though she does have young-person’s hormones.
Shes 19. Thats all there is too it. Doesn’t matter how many yous there are.The fact is, she WILL get someone killed or seriously injured. She keeps saying she has more experience than others but she lacks one thing, in my opinion. She does not have the ability to take responsibility for her own actions. She thinks she can teleport out of any situation but her actions will catch up with her, and she will have to deal with them and take responsibility. Till she does, she is still a 19 year old gold digger who is going to make dumb decisions.
No, not older. This was in a previous comic, but I can’t remember which one – she hasn’t always had her powers, and she hasn’t always had four duplicates (started with one). She has been accumulating experience faster than most for a few years, so even ‘experience’ age she is probably younger than he is.
Besides which, she is clearly far less mature.
Author has stated she’s lived about 50years though. Sounds impressive, but a good chunk was still in high school. And her experience as an adult? Was all as a hormone driven young adult.
Yeah she does not come across as someone with a 50 year old’s wisdom. But as a gaggle of 19 year olds.
Yeah, age & experience don’t always equate with emotional maturity. I’m certain that most (if not all) people here have known of someone who might be in their thirties, but still act like little kids (throwing temper tantrums & the like).
I have not found an upper age limit to that. In fact beyond a certain point it starts to get worse. ;-)
I through temper tantrums when I miss a turn.
ITYM ‘better’. ;)
The International Tournament of Young Mathematicians (ITYM) would be better, true, as they are talented youngsters with a focus that can help their emotional stability.
Some folks, who do not emotionally mature, can worsen as they gain financial independence or get into some kind of position of power. Then they can indulge their tantrums and other childish ways, without the usual checks, such as parental guidance, to keep them from excesses.
Further, once senility hits, and someone’s second childhood starts, their emotional foibles can get much worse than the first time around.
She was also incorrect last comic about her relationship with Deux being none of Maxima’s business: their relationship represents a serious security risk to Archon, and therefore absolutely *is* Maxima’s business.
“Incorrect?” She’s a out n’ out liar. She told Max she hadn’t compromised anything. This looks very compromising to me.
The ‘incorrect’ was regarding Maxima having no right to say who Harem can date. There are military regulations which do precisely that.
Aside from that your observations are correct. The conclusion about ‘liar’ though is a bit unfair (in the context you frame it), as Harem clearly has spoilt girl mentality and is not thinking things through with her military head on.
Working on the basis that Daphne thinks she is allowed to date anyone she wants, and Deus is her boyfr … friends with benefits. Then she believes that she has not compromised anything. She can still observe him. Better now that she has regular easy access to him.
She just does not realise that she has emotionally compromised herself. If she does find something incriminating about Deus she would have a conflict of interest in reporting that. Not to mention the risk of him turning her and making Daphne into a double agent.
Oops… the boat has kind of sailed on that one.
Finally she is endangering the efficiency of the unit. For instance if she and Deus break up acrimoniously he has the power and foibles such that he may choose to cease to supply Archon or harm them in some other way (something which does not loose him as much money being significantly more likely). But that is just one example of how relationships with a key supplier can have a negative impact on the unit.
Another might be press reporting on the conflict of interests and Archon getting too cosy with someone who has himself the conflict of interest of being strongly associated with a foreign government (a.k.a. being all but a foreign head of state).
So I think Harem has done the things you accuse her of. But just does not realise that, without Maxima walking her through her responsibilities and risks. Which should not be necessary if Harem paid attention in her training. I suspect she is going to be auditing a few more courses yet, with Sydney!
Deus also has potential blackmail material on her.
Very good point!
Prove that she has compromised anything
Just because she is screwing (have seen no indicator that they have slept together) doesn’t mean she has compromised anything
For one thing, Deus already was counting on her being a triple agent (unless this is what tipped him off, as it was after Sydney joining when he mentioned that), also, unless she has fallen in love with him, she hasn’t even compromised her own feelings
I still think it’s much more likely she’ll end up being the “fall girl” because of Deus’s actual sources, which I’ve suspected Vale of being for a long time.
So where does that place me if I have an actual diagnosis but know there are worse sufferers out there? Leave some scale for the rest of us, man.
No wonder Maxima was hard on Harem…..!
Unless she has no love lost for Deus?!?
“I can’t have sex with you because I’m an eldritch abomination.”
He might actually have heard that one at some point.
“I can’t have sex with you because your penis reminds me of someone who is now dead.”
The whole someone or just their penis? o_O
To be fair….it could be both
It’s not you. Dues’ face is off. The corners of his widows peak are gusually lower on his temples, his jawline is usually far softer in the corner, his mouth is too wide, with too big of lips, and the side of his forehead on the left side of the page needs to be brought in a hair so that it shows more of his hair going down his right temple. For reference; grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2762
And the ‘X’ is all wrong
For reference, just look at the MugShot on the side
“His face is too big for his face” is one of the best descriptions of Matt Smith I’ve ever seen. It is also a line I could easily picture Matt Smith delivering.
I have to admit that I often have a hard time telling your characters apart. Some are very obvious because they have very distinct features, but others not so much. The blond and (peach?) haired Harem look too similar to others to tell them apart. And most of the superhero guys look alike. The only guy that is clearly different is the martial artist. I wouldn’t know Deus except for his x scar face thingy.
Wen did Abby change her glasses? This has to be after Bank Bungle as Abby had different glasses then (you can see them in the Mugshot))
Probably a few days or weeks before. Max is talking, and didn’t really have an opportunity for another conference between bank, Sidney, and press. The contents of this also seem like a “before we shake up your lives” type of thing.
Except, she is wearing these same square glasses in the current time (go back to the pages where Sci-fright breaks Deus’ window or just two pages back)
Damn Deus must have a finite improbability field to make all the molecules in that bra suddenly jump away.
He must have a hooked up a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter and brewed some tea or coffee.
Truth be told, opening bras isn’t really that hard…. ok, with just one hand it is.
Two fingers, one second. Not hard at all. I know a guy who could literally snap his fingers & open a bra (had to also be touching the catch, but still). Someone challenged him, he popped it in one second flat, through her shirt.
Deus superpower revealed: a man who can remove a woman’s bra without being stumped by the little fiddly latch or hindered by the straps getting in the way. (Still can’t avoid getting laughed at though…)
My wife is the same. Except her record is better than 19 out of every 20. I think she’s been wrong once since I’ve known her. My gift is different; I can spot resemblance. “That guy looks like William H Macy around the cheekbones!” And then she’ll tell me I’m crazy. But I’m not.
Would that talent be useful in casting movies or TV series?
I’m a fan of the ‘Wearing the Cape’ books and I’m trying to imagine a young Dennis Leary for the role of Dective Ficher and the ‘The Rent Is Too High’ guy as Mr. Shankman.
If Grrl Power were a movie……who would you choose as cast members?
Whomever is playing Harem is going to be really busy.
+1
I eagerly look forward to Grrl Power the movie. Sadly my casting skills are compromised by not being able to remember names. So it would be an awful lot of work to try and track down the faces I have in mind.
Okay. We know one more thing Machina can do.
One. Thing.
And we don’t know whether it’s biological, magical or technological. So stay tuned…
“Puffy” Deus is the right word. Compare him with panel 3 and 7 from two pages ago.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2762
Also, the puffi-ness reaches further down than it does in the last panel of https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2751
You’d featured some incredible things in this comic, but this might be one of the most unbelievable.
Here we are in the middle of the MeToo era, and you expect us to believe in an arrogant billionaire who cares if the woman he is about to have sex with “seems hesitant” and who asks for explicit permission before continuing? Everything I’m seeing today is that’s not how rich, powerful men behave in private.
I mean… it just feels weird. It’s not like Deus deserves ‘credit’ for what one would think are minimal standards of decency or that makes up for other awful things he’s done. It’s not like I wanted you to portray the opposite either. But wow, I just never would in a million of years have pegged Deus as a man who gives a crap whether a woman he’s with seems hesitant or is interested in getting explicit consent. It surprises me that he’s not awful in this way too… am I making any sense?
Your argument is consistent. But it betrays a level of ignorance based on stereotypes. I grew up literally associating with a variety of millionaires (back when that meant as much as billionaire does today). Simply because my dad was a film director, so happened to have those in our family’s wide circle of friends. However I was fortunate in that my folks were discriminatory and chose to associate with the nicer ones.
As such though I can assure you that there are some who are very nice people. Many are not (hence why the stereotype exists). However some were amongst the finest people, and nicest families, who I have ever met, and would trust them with my life. Along with my wallet and wife, should I actually get one.
I should say though that money and the pursuit of it can change people and shape their character. So it was very obvious how much it did affect a proportion of those I knew. Even with the filtering out of the worse types. So you are very right to be cynical and wary. But you are wrong to tar everybody with the same brush.
Chalk it up to the way that mass media makes narratives. Successful people being decent isn’t news.
Unless they get murdered. Sadly there is a case like that in Canada at the moment. A philanthropist couple.
Well, some of the nicest buddies can be spouse-abusers, and let’s not even begin with all the interesting proclivities of religious figures in multiple religions…
Nicety is very context dependant!
However, to tie this back to Deus’ own philosophy that everything is about selfish greed.. it could just be selfishness: Deus’ time is in high demand, and as such he wants to spend every minute as awesome as it can be.. if his current partner is distracted, he probably has 12 other young bodacious groupies on call (three of which waiting outside the door), who will be more focused, and therefore more enjoyable.
“Up to you if you want to continue, but if you don’t, please excuse me, I have another.. appointment”
If you NEED him to be evil, just read it like that instead of “I respect you, therefore your decision”
I see where you’re coming from, and if Deus was about to bone a non-powered individual, with no chance of other female powered individuals listening in, I don’t think he’d be as careful about consent. But if his super powered fling wasn’t giving consent, he could get hurt pretty bad before his bodyguard shows up.
By all accounts Keanu Reeves is that kind of proper gentleman, and he has loads of fame, money, and power (at least in Hollywood).
Being considerate and compassionate is a key part of controlling the matrix, which clearly is how Deus does the bra trick.
It’s actually totally in character for Deus. Despite lining him up as the Lex Luthor of this world, DaveB has always been careful to show us that Deus at least puts up a facade of being a decent guy. And with a face like his, you can afford to be nice to your lovers.
Really love Dabbler’s look there.
The outfit or the serious face she is giving? Or well both? Both? Both. I like her outfit and the way she is drawn here
The face has a hint of ‘spaced-out’ too. I love how expressive her face is, yet here we can see her trying to keep a ‘I’m paying attention’ expression. But I think her mind is drifting. Which I can totally empathise with, having done that enough myself.
The other thing though is that her pose shows an extra arm, but with all of them in a relaxed and comfortable position. I guess I just like to see her at ease and not pushing her seductiveness. Even though, as you say, her outfit is doing that, we are getting to see more of her anatomy than just her cleavage.
Normally she will be making use of those extra arms. Otherwise, if they are all dangling down, they would get a bit cluttered together. Yet here she looks comfortable.
Her porno-sense is tingling. She is enjoying the distraction from a boring meeting.
This faceblind person thinks that you’ve drawn his face too long in panel two. Like there’s 2-3 mm extra cheek and nose?
I draw people’s faces okay, but I have huge problems with making the aspect ratios of the top and bottom of the face, or the left and the right of the face, match up. Meanwhile I can’t recognise my own face in the mirror, or in photos, and frequently “lose” people in a crowd when I haven’t made a note of what they’re wearing.
I have imdb open whenever I’m watching movies at home. Or I’m going “which conventionally attractive white brunette/blonde/action star with close cropped hair is that?” Meanwhile my husband is more like a bit above average with faces. And then there are people who are “superrecognisers”, who are very much in demand in police forces! And they can recognise people they say as children for 2 seconds, 20 years ago, plus a big change in weight. I can’t even imagine living in a world where I could do that.
First, I thought that was a window in the last panel and that was Vale hovering outside and it was she who did the bra thing (getting it around her arms and through Deus without her noticing)… Kinda creepy in its own right but then I noticed he’d tossed it over his shoulder.
In Panel three her glasses look incompletely drawn… the eye kinda picks up on that… but looking back through the whole comic you pick up that her hair is in the way.
Moral of the story is, never trust your eyes… It’s odd that you never see things right the first time through an dits not until you’ve really studied it two or three times that you see what’s really there.
Speaking of Vale: where is she? Sent out to get post-coital smokes? o_O
A meeting? That’s a lame excuse. How about “one of me is within hearing distance of Sydney, so I may burst into hysterical laughter at any moment.”
Good point. And if she ever does that while bedding someone it will be *very* hard to explain, unless, of course, the partner has actually met Sydney.
The setting is “pre-Sydney”
I’m sure Harem has had plenty of opportunities to use the Sydney excuse after they met. :)
Anyway Sydney-induced laughter isn’t even the worst possible thing that could happen. If someone assaults one of Harem while another is having sex, she might have to explain why she kicked her partner in the groin.
Heh. Damned good point!
And, with her having super-strength, that explanation might be either posthumous or delivered to somebody in intensive care in hospital!
I’m kinda surprised that Xuriel doesn’t realize that something is going on with Daphne. I’d expect her to be glancing in Daph’s direction with a sort of half-smile.
Didn’t they already go public? This meeting seems to be a little bit odd after that whole press conference and demonstration that they did at the beginning of the comic.
Oops never mind. I didnt see the little yellow box at the top. But dear god the pacing of the comic has me confused to the passage of time.
A clock confuses you with the passage of time
Other reasons… Well, Deus is aware of alien temples, and we don’t know how he acquired it… How weird can alien coupling be?
Maybe the alien had a naturally female figure but was actually male, and said alien thought Deus was like the females of his own species.
I remember over a decade ago, there was a phrase put forward to express the notion of sex over the internet via use of… *interface devices*. I believe it was called “teledildonics”.
Deus’s hugeness becomes creepy once you start trying to illustrate him physically interacting with another human of mostly normal size.
Wait, Berry isn’t checking out Brooke’s berries in panel four, is she? o_O
Maybe. Or Super Hiro’s abs.
Given what her other body is up to, those seem more likely than her looking at something innocuous beyond them.
His abs are covered by his arms though :(
“put a wig on them and I’m easily flummoxed”
I hate to admit that even though I was a big fan of the BattleStar reboot I failed to recognize for an entire season of ‘Lucifer’ that the actress playing his mother was one of the androids. Mainly because of the hair color change.
Well, there goes my “obfuscating virgin” theory!
Pity, I’d have loved to watch the girls on the team alternately laughing and trying to “help” with the “problem.” (Dabbler would be especially insufferable.)
The answer is it is the best creepy party trick in the world. Totally needs to be animated.
It was animated. Look at what happens to Elsa’s hair and shoulder in the movie Frozen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxSV9RxG7JM
And there I was thinking you may be linking to this incident. Which was recovered from most professionally.
Although there is another one which has an anime theme, but without the clothing issues.
Can’t watch the wardrobe malfunction (which is the only reason anyone, specially straight males, watch figure skating :P)
Ethical reasons, or doesn’t YouTube allow that to be shown in the Shires?
Literally can not see it, IOC has blocked it on ‘copyright grounds’ (guess they own that nipple, or something)
Oh, now that is really weird. I had actually clicked on the link to check that it was still working for me (I routinely do after posting as well), before replying to you.
Now though I am getting the same message as you. I cannot think of how I was able to view it at a point when a successful copyright claim had been made. Unless, for videos which may have varying copyright ownership by region, they have to do the blocking region by region?
That could be an issue with Olympics coverage, as even the official stuff is licensed out to various TV companies around the world. But, even given that, it does seem like a stretch.
The first error was simply it not being available (or something), second time it came up with the IOC copyright crap
Ahh, that explains it. The first one was probably just prejudice against Hobbits, and it being blocked from viewing in Hobbiton. It is sad, but these things happen.
Hmm… the only significant thing I could see as an issue with Deus, is his left eye appears to be looking too far to the right
On the face: You’ve made Deus’ cheeks (the cheekbones, specifically) a LOT rounder and more pronounced than you usually do. Enough that he looks different, but, as others have said, not outside of the realm of facial expressions.
On the face blindness thing- it’s entirely possible that you take your recognition cues for people from hair or circumstances. I know I have a hard time recognizing people if they change their hairstyle significantly, because I don’t ‘recognize’ based on faces myself.
other excuses:
Alien -This is my encountersuit, I’m actually a sentient diamond with no holes (and I didn’t get holes below the belt; my mouth is also an illustion). Plus you’re not made of living, sentient rubies, so…
Old seer witch -Sorry we have to skip today and do it tomorrow, or I’ll birth the next Hitler. One was embarassing enough…
Deus -Sorry, I am you from the future and no time to explain! Take this gun and… OMG I HAVE A RIB IN MY EYE! WHYYYYYY???
Lovecraftian horror’s worst nightmare -Sorry, I didn’t bring my inflatable pikachu, my alien noodle incident paradox remover to avoid split ends timelines, a borrowed physical body from an eldritch abomination, and the stars aren’t aligned enough for the safe word to work when I climax.
Grinning colossus -You didn’t burn the rope!
Mom -Slither out of the X scar my little Goa’uld, and show me you your green hymen is intact; your arranged marriage is tomorrow and HE is not going to save your planet if you’re not a virgin!
Unicorn -Unicorn horn up the butt, or I will vanish in a puff of rainbows! I take my sex where I can find it…
snow woman -Sorry you’re too hot!
based on Deus’s who’s who picture I’d say that his nose is about 30% too wide. I wouldn’t obsess too much though, artists make inconsistency mistakes like that all of the time. I probable wouldn’t even have noticed had you not pointed it out.
Too wide, and the ‘X’ is wrong