Grrl Power #609 – Little black encyclopedia set
Deus is rich in money and… other stuff. You know, friends. Sort of.
I could have come up with something other than a Draugr, but they’ve been on my mind lately. I like the name Rannevig. I may reuse that someday, but I don’t think Deus is going to run into that particular one anytime soon.
I never said what Sciona was before this point because I was just blanking on a name for her race. Sometimes I get really hung up on stuff like that, but there are a bunch of name/word/language generators online, and if you refresh them enough times, they get your fake word engine started. I did a quick google on “Alari” to make sure I wasn’t cryptomnesiaing something and typed it in. And of course, as it goes with these sorts of things, it wasn’t even 4 days before I saw Alari as the last name of a minor character in a book I was reading. I probably wouldn’t have noticed it otherwise. Weird how that works out sometimes. It was Baader-Meinhof adjacent at the very least. Yes, I’m going to make you google that. The most pronounced instance of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon I’ve ever experienced was upon learning the word “voluptuous” while reading a Piers Anthony novel. That dude sure knows how he likes describing women, that’s for sure.
I forgot to color in Deus’s nipple on the last panel there. He looks like Apollo from Star Trek: TOS. Apparently, they actually covered his nipple with makeup, because at the time, male nipples were too much for the viewing public. Maybe they thought it would get the lady folk aflutter. That’s pretty bonkers when you think about it, but this show also had the first televised interracial kiss in it. Before that, Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were shown sleeping in separate beds because showing something on TV that was representational of every married couple in the country was too scandalous. Maybe 50 years from now we’ll look back and think how archaic it was that we didn’t have televised explicit eroticism during prime time. The 5th reboot of Power Puff Girls will be freaky.
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Deus has a Pokédex. Gotta love ’em all.
Sounds like Arianna would like him. Let us hope that Suzie News does not let Deus tempt her away!
And you KNOW Dabbler would approve. Come to that, HOW is Deus not already hooked up with Dabbler?
Have they met? Dabbler only arrived in Archon a few weeks ago.
Dabbler literally has porno-sense. I can easily see her tracking Deus down like a bloodhound.
She might even have the scent, since she was sitting right next ti Daphne while Daphne and Deus were going at it.
“Sittin'” and “goin'”, if you want to keep your Scottish accent consistent.
I mean, it’s not unlikely the two of them hooked up during her pre-Archon adventures.
Keep in mind Deus is in Africa. And with access to travel portals at will, is likely to have most of his sex at home where his “passion library” can be signed.
Possibly they might have portalled through to Africa. I don’t see Sciona as being trusting enough to allow that though. It would put her at even more of a disadvantage than just being on his own turf and Vale hanging around.
As such I assume that they are somewhere in his penthouse in that office building, along with his trophy bookcase. But there is nothing stopping him having copies in both locations, and elsewhere if need be. Or getting minions to carry them through on trolleys, as we saw with the bamboo being transported via portal into the vault.
Do recall though that Deus only recently acquired Opal’s services. So his previous modus operandi will have things set up for more conventional transport.
Although, of course, as he is banging his way through the Guide to Supernatural Sex Tourists ™ (not to be confused with the Guide for Supernatural Sex Tourists ™) he may well have access to magics and supers who can facilitate such more readily. Including extraordinary means of travelling or summoning partners.
Poked em deck FTFY
More like bookcase. Look at the identical rows, with space for that one volume on the top shelf.
Dude gets around.
That bookcase contains his research notes in the focused study of Rule #34.
However, in my research, I’ve found an exception to Rule #34
Good eye.
How does he find the time?
Deus is my favorite villain right now. He reminds me of a taller, richer version of myself.
That’s especially amusing given your avatar.
He reminds me of me… in my youth.
Back when you were really much more modest?
This is it, I am now officially on rooting for the villains! Team Deus ftw. XD
Been doing that ever since Deus showed up!
I just keep thinking of “Guardians of the Galaxy”:
“Man who has lain with an A’askvarian!”
“That was *one time*, man!”
never forget to link to what these look like,
although it doesn’t provide any links to the women,
https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/A%27askvarii
Who said there are any women, maybe that is why he was so defensive about the matter :P
the comics say they have women, also I think a female one might have shown up in one of the newer comics and/or the Guardians of the Galaxy cartoon.
Would have been funner if there weren’t :P
So… Apparently Sciona has no “body-consciousness” at all.
This is the third scene where she has shown no inhibitions, in that regard.
Kind of stands to reason – she JUST got the thing back, so why not show it off?
Why should she? o_O
Think about how she views humans. Do you feel body-conscious in front of your dog?
That all depends on how likely that dog is to invade your “personal space”…
…& for what purpose.
Personal grooming, to fetch slippers and to sit on lap.
Well, yes, but that’s YOU…
…whereas [Mechwarrior] is (I believe) referring to ‘dogs’ in general, not You-in-particular.
YOU, we can trust.
Well Gene Simmons used to keep a huge portfolio of photos of all the girls he banged. Guy’s gotta have a hobby it seems…unless this is ll part of some crazy magic binding ritual that needs both intimacy and a signature (perhaps a sneaky way of acquiring one’s true name?).
Gotta admire the balls on a guy who’s just been told he might end up a pet and what does he do, start making demands on living arrangements. There’s confidence and then there’s Deus!
I also cant help but wonder about the big scar on his face. With everything he’s acquired over the years in terms of abilities, contacts and artifacts why does he not bother to get that fixed, especially given his level of ego?
“chicks dig scars”
besides, Deus probably had to go to quite a bit of trouble to acquire a big X scar on his face.
Maybe, the big X scar in a character is a BIG manga trope and Dave is obviously a big manga fan.
The trope I found was: X Marks the Hero – which seems sort of opposite … unless Deus isn’t really the villain.
This reminds me of something: Germany’s Heidelberg University is credited with starting a bizarre fad around the beginning of the twentieth century. Fencing was a popular sport with the students and their equipment was different from ours. Fighters wielded sharp, heavy blades and wore metal armor on their chests and arms. The neck was wrapped with a thick cotton rope to protect the carotid artery and the eyes and ears were guarded by a pair of mesh goggles. However, as you may have guessed by the title, fencing wasn’t the fad.
Thick, ghastly facial scars were the obvious consequence of this scenario. Students weren’t put off by the disfigurements – they loved them. Pupils would tear open their fresh wounds and rub red wine into them to make them more noticeable.
Medical staff would be on hand at each duel and were instructed to do a poor job of sewing them back up. This became so popular that facial scars became a trademark of German aristocracy.
That was quite fascinating, thanks for sharing.
He probably was probably taught at Xorro Academy of Gigolos. Where he duelled against Xorro himself, getting the duelling scar in the process.
It’s part of his “Deus X” schtick.
Word of author says that the author, and this seems thin but I’m taking him at his word, didn’t put together the facts that he had a character named Deus with a corporation named Machina and a large X on his face… So, perhaps it’s a part of his shtick per canon, but it’s not by design.
The scar is clearly his actual mouth. His face opens in a big X to devour the souls and essence of those who have signed his contract, wherupon he can call them back out at any time to do his bidding.
+1
That reminded me of this one from waaaaay back
https://media.omaketheater.com/4koma/Pocky-Game.jpg
The fastest way of getting ahead in gaming.
+1
Cats make demands about their living arrangements. Deus is at least as egotistic as a cat.
He needs to demand additional space; his ego needs its own recreational areas, in addition to those for Deus himself.
:-D
Football stadium sized, at a minimum.
Thats for sure, Ive got 2 cats, I know!
Perhaps Deus is a fan of “Kenshin Himura”, AKA: “Samurai X”…?
[https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=dqOUWorXMcWe5gLeuKvgAQ&q=rurouni+kenshin&oq=ruroni&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i10k1l10.2593.4069.0.9014.6.6.0.0.0.0.162.700.1j5.6.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.6.690…0j0i131k1.0.EfnWgsrhq1U]
a) is that a picture of Max on the wall?
b) I wonder how he’s got those books organized – it’s obviously not alphabetical by name.
a) Somebody with long hair standing majestically. No idea who.
b) By rating (1 to 10) then alphabetically. That seems like the obviously shallow thing he would do.
Just by order of ‘conquest’, probably. The way those sorts of personal volumes work, you just fill one up until you need another book.
Also- note where the empty spot in the shelf is. That’s only the 5th volume, and he’s only about halfway through it. Alphabetical it is definitely not.
So, by your reasoning, he is displaying a mere five volumes of conquests, and a bookshelf of ‘not yet’?
Whilst this does match the ‘pale blue dot’ and the reminder of all the things out there he has yet to acquire, the empty volumes here would not make an impressive display to visitors. I suspect his ego demands better.
I think all those volumes are full, and only the one Sciona is holding has any gaps.
Although there may be a few ‘tried but failed’, such as Maxima. Probably not on these shelves though, due to the lack of boasting rights.
If my guess is the right one though, that volume position would indicate either close to a “1” or a “10”, unless he will reposition it, now that he has had his way with her.
Or, he has only the one book and the rest are fake books filled with bottles of lotion
I would consider that each book, or set of books, might hold a category of conquests; so most books have entries, but most books are not full. Plus, he does have quite a write-up, with drawings, of each conquest.
Mayhap they are in order of research, “conquered” or not. Remember, all the information was already in the book. He just needed her to add her signature. Which would mean, incidentally, that there’s no way to know how successful he’s been other than counting signatures… but he sure is ambitious!
Thought that that was Valeur leaving
[Mockery] … Possible answers, regarding “Part_B” of your question:
1)___The books might be alphabetized by SPECIES, then by likely INDIVIDUALS within each species, with signatures for those who consented to sign (These would be a sub-group within “conquests” – we shouldn’t assume that ALL of his “bed-partners” agreed to sign.)
P.S.:
I’d also imagine an even SMALLER sub-group, within “signers”, of those who consented to more-than-one such get-together…
…a word that takes on a rather ironic twist, when you consider that it’s a concatenation of the 3 words: “TO_GET_HER”.
P.P.S.:
Having written the above, it occurs to me that it’s entirely possible that the female mind-set which refuses to sign, might nevertheless STILL be willing to have a repeat encounter. There’s no reason to assume that only “signers” would be open to the idea of “another round”.
2)___The books might be covering a WIDE VARIETY of topics that are only tangentially related to each other, at most. By having them bound in identical covers, he encourages the ladies to ASSUME that he’s had so many “bed-partners” that he needs this many books to list them all…
…in other words, it’s just an ego-driven intimidation-tactic, designed to impress. It’s even MORE impressive when you consider that he’s been so (apparently) successful DESPITE his off-putting, annoyingly arrogant presentation of himself.
…& now, after reading the REST of all the threads, I see that I’m just echo-ing what others have said…
…sorry for being redundant.
It’s alpha by species, by volume, as supported by the fact that “Alari” falls in the fifth volume. And then alpha by name per volume, as supported by the fact that “Sciona” seems to be past somewhat more than the halfway point of the fifth volume.
I’d like to know what he does once he discovers/meets a new someone/something he wants to fuck. But he is so rich I suppose he can just have the volume or the set reprinted at need.
Good thing he’s never gotten serious. I’d hate to face Deus’ ex.
… with a Machina gun.
It would be the one entry in his books that would be written with a lot of bullet points.
(…groan…)
Hey, at least we’re all staying on target.
The caliber of our puns never fails to impress.
You’ve got a lot of brass to make a pun like that.
Was that a rim-shot? No misfires as yet though.
Well, if he WAS going to be serious, then I suspect that his pride would demand that he be the highest-quality of faithful boyfriend — the kind who would (by his example) make all of her female friends envious.
(…mind you, I started this post with a rather significant “IF”…)
…not much for video games?
Not as much available time for it as I’d like, no, sorry.
I originally thought Vale was feeding Deus information, but it’s looking like I got it backwards. Stealth mind-meld perhaps? Deus’s shallow motives are perfect cover, especially if his motives are shallow and Vale is the real diabolical genius.
Also, if that’s the case, Harem might be immune. Vale is right to be concerned.
OMG, Deus is one of *those guys*!
Makes me think that perhaps Dabs would be better suited for Harem’s undercover (or under the covers) assignment.
I’m thinking that Dabbs would consider Dues to be like “junk food” for a Succubus. He describes his own books as “memoirs of fleeting passion,” which indicates that he mostly “goes through the motions” but experiences little or none of the actual passion. By definition, seduction is the act to persuade another person to do something…Which is mostly an intellectual task, not emotional.
Dabbler would probably sense that Dues is quite capable in the physical performance, but pretty scarce of emotional context. In her viewpoint, it might be like eating filet mignon that tastes like sawdust…Nutritious, but devoid of flavor.
So, tantric energy is more than just sex and feeling horny? Interesting.
Thank you! Attempted to say that on the first page, and got ridiculed over it
I’m hardly Deus’s biggest fan, but I have to admit I like this page.
A fan of Piers Anthony. That explains a significant amount.
I haven’t read his stuff in a long time, but I probably got through, eh, 20 of his books back in the day. Spell for Chameleon, the Incarnations series, and a bunch of one offs.
Yeah, use to be a fan of his, read almost all of his Xanth books (stopped at the book with the 100+ year old zombie king was chasing after a 16 year old girl, and this was long before Twilight), first three of his Incarnations (not sure if he ‘borrowed’ the artwork for one of them from Meat Loaf, or Meat Loaf ‘borrowed’ the artwork for “Bat Out of Hell II”), “Bio of a Space Tyrant” series (very good read, good description of space flight and combat, likening it more to submarine conflict than Star Trek) and a few others, his “Bio of a Space Ogre” autobiography gave a good insight into who he is and why he writes what he does and why
I got sick of the Xanth series when I found out that Piers, who frequently described teenage girls’ panties ( and named a book accordingly), had teenage daughters of his own at the time. The “ick” factor was too much for me.
Same here, specially if you read some of his other works, where, quite frequently, you had a male approximately his age (at the time) sleeping with a girl the age of his daughters (the males’ age would go up, butt the girls’ would remain the same: 18-20)
He has several books where pre-teen girls actively pursue sexual relationships with men roughly his age at the times of writing.
Butt, still written by a middle-aged to older man, so it doesn’t count (unless you are counting ‘male fantasy’)
The point is that it appears to inform the reader of what he considers appropriate relationships, as he’s promoting these relationships as good and healthy.
NAMBLA does the same thing, still doesn’t make it acceptable
You’re not normally this thick. I’m not saying this is a good thing, I’m saying that the fact that he writes crap like that should tell you what type of person he is.
I seem to recall discovering Mr.Anthony thru my interest in Martin Gardner’s [Mathematical Games] articles, & thru them, I read the [Man / Manta]-trilogy:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Man_and_Manta]
Explains… what exactly? o_O
Read four of the incarnations (Death, TIme, Fate, and Evil) , The last Space Tyrant book, and the first five books of Xanth. Every so often, during the 90s, I’d try to get back into them but it never really lined up. Eventually dumped the Xanth books.
I am somewhat astounded by the sheer quantity of his output since then.
I’m convinced Deus has the power to convince almost anyone to lay with him
As always, I’m reminded how all my favorite comic girls are villainesses, who always tend to be exotic and hot-see also, Demona, Mystique, Lady Death, Purgatori.
I am even more convinced that Deus’s power is informational in nature. Also is it just me or does he suddenly hulk out a lot in the last panel?
Well he did re-energize himself with electrolytes and such with that powerade knockoff.
You know, there was this old Storyline in Marvel where Black Window was infected with “Mind Controll STD”. She did not sleep around enough for it to be a issue. But she did Sleep with Tony Stark. And he kirked himself through the Marvel Universe.
I have the feeling this book (and the Information) was created through him having sex with her. And that it might give him some power over everyone he banged later.
Without giving it away, I’m old enough to remember the Baader-Meinhof reference… Baaaaaad vermin….
You won’t believe how much that term has cropped up recently!
Once. Including this time.
He must buy specter oil in bulk.
Man, I really expected to get returns there, for not having a safe filter on my browser.
Everyone is necrophile for Sylvanas.
That being said, I still don’t like the idea of Deus being a massive sleazebag.
Yea, being a villain with an outward appearance of respectability is fine. But to turn out to just be so icky is a shame.
The romantic in me is disappointed with such behaviour.
My take on Deus is that he may or may NOT have filled every book in that bookcase, but he is for damn sure going to imply that he has, just to get Sciona’s reaction. Half of them could be full of chocolate chip cookie recipes.
Same thinking: way more impressive to imply you have a full bookcase of conquests
I would still be impressed if he had a half a bookcase filled with that many variations of chocolate chip cookie recipes. Inb4 we learn that his other hobby is cookie baking.
Now this feels more like a villains with sexual activities conversation.
I wander if the books auto-fill (magic) hence when did he have the time, or isn’t so much a list of who he HAS been with but prospective *encounters* and has them sign when he has
-evidence being Sciona’s isn’t the latest page of a book, but rather the “in the middle” (that classic cliché, which does make drawing books easier). and she is going forward *if we assume western reading rules* finding the other entry she comments on.
Have to make a comment reading the below strip comments, the name thing.
Come up with a name, and find it somewhere else. Drives me nuts sometimes. Especially if I am trying to make a name for a powerful demon lord, angel, ancient spirit, or something…google it…and its a common name in some country.
weirdest one was, way back with my first big fantasy series I decided to name the continent (Ravashira), sounds so magical doesn’t it?
Many years later after googling some other character names, even finding Rhulan isn’t as unique as I thought it was a name (although I am certain I am mentally pronouncing it differently than the real world equivalents), I googled Ravashira…its an Indian dish.
I keep wondering if they are both trying to play each other. She wanted him to finish his drink in the last page and now he has her signing a book. Did she spike his drink in a way that would give her some measure of control over him? When she signed the book did it give him some control over her. The thing with the drink is hard because Vale is there watching.
For those who don’t remember de-nippled Apollo, feast your eyes and empty your regurgitational orifice here!
And here is a nip-slip in the first 8 seconds (blink and you may miss it, the censors obviously did)
Im guessing deus is immortal if he has that manny completely filled fuck books. Because that would take alot of time to complete.
Ever heard of Wilt Chamberlain?
Ehh true but hes also in peak fisical condition extermly good at everything, and extraordinarily rich honestly he wouldnt have the experiance or congsent skills to do this with our having some sort of powers. Im guessing immortality because even wilt chamber lin the is way to manny books there expesialy if you consider the size and page desity the is probably about 10 to 20 thousand pages unless thats all pre purchases book wise.
But you’re all assuming a mere “1 side-of-a-page-per-person”, aren’t you?
Depending on the amount of research done (not to mention the amount of detail needed in each image), there’s more likely to be multiple pages devoted to EACH person…
…& the longer-lived the species, the more pages that might be needed…
…especially if they’re long-lived enough to change their appearance several times, to match the changing eras, thus requiring several images!
Sciona’s entry might well have 3 images:
—before her beheading
—during her “Orc-ish Phase”
—her current look
…remember, Deus had no trouble recognizing her when they met in the Vault. His research is just THAT good.
Dues is my new favorite character in anything.
i hope we will move from this, deus naked only in shorts do weird things to me… in good way
Deuss, everybody!
The man who struggled long and hard in life, building an empire,, and banging another empire, to compensate for his tragic lack of nipples.
Probably lost them to friction during all that sex.
And with Sciona’s comment, we are reminded that people don’t like to think of themselves as ‘evil’. If only by comparison with someone of even greater evil.
Alar is a perfectly valid word. It means wings or winglike. Alari would be ah, wingy, I guess.
hmm, wingy you say,
Wingly,
(Legend of Dragoon) race with light wings.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/legendofdragoon/images/4/4d/LenusFletz.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120323203951
Alar- individual of race
Alari is race name/ plural form,
Look at how obvious if not huge nipples displayed on people and other creatures in Billy and Mandy. This is a cartoon show that was canceled 3 times and brought back and this was about 13 years ago. On Adult Swim now showing them again.
Like navels in the 1960’s, by the end of it navels were freely shown including on Star Trek.
This man is a pervert after my own heart. Stop making me like him, it’s disturbing. XD
Hah! Use (correctly, no less) of both the thorn & eth characters.
I love the comic, always will, but all the ecchi shit is turning me off it a bit. I have no problem with it, it’s just not what I’m here for, and if what I want doesn’t line up with what dave makes, well that’s my fault, innit.
Ok, assuming one page per woman with 350 pages per volume, and with the number of volumes shown, assuming 5 women per day, Deus must be hundreds, if not thousands of years old!
Mind you, I only assume this with the concept of him having different ratings for each shelf, or the alternative is, this is his fifth volume of ‘conquests’ and he’s being VERY ambitious!
I only skimmed the comments so I don’t know if these things have been mentioned, but 1) Did Sciona sign the book? it’s not very clear to me in the comic, and 2) NEVER, NEVER, EVER sign anything Dues hands you for any reason.
I would think that in a world where magic exists that anyone who practices magic would know to be damn careful about putting their signature on anything.
No sign of her doing that. I bet most of the pages are unsigned. I can’t see most women, alien or not, wanting to add to the trophy bookcase.
Sciona is a mage though, she will probably know how to look out for magical contracts.
Sciona’s pose in that last panel is… inspirational. Nice work, DaveB.
You may stop saluting now. Ladies present!
Ladies, your presence is enough. No need to ‘present’ as well, unless you wish to!
I severely would not mind seeing some of the more strongly built female characters sans clothing.
Just a thought for next V-Day.
A few pages back,I am amazed that Sciona didn’t toss Vale aside like a garbage can…!
Except, we saw that Valeur was physically stronger, effortlessly pushing Sci-fright back, even when Sci was ‘digging-in’ and ripping up the carpet with her combat boots
That wasn’t carpet under Sciona’s feet…That was marble getting scraped. That’s why Dues mentioned the complaint that he’d just recently had the marble resurfaced when he stood up & looked over his desk at Sciona’s boots.
It wasn’t a marble floor, just marble-lined pillars
from the wording I assumed the floor was marble with a carpet over it, hence mentioning it before Sciona destroyed a pillar.
Okay, we don’t know what was under the carpet, butt it was still the red carpet we actually saw her boot ripping, whether the under-lying material was or was going to be damaged, we don’t know, and SmugD didn’t want to risk it
Why?
Everything so far has indicated that whatever Vale is, is more powerful than Sciona. Or at least something Sciona was ill-equipped to handle at the time.
So just a thought but…. is Deus a super? and if so is his power to copy and stockpile the powers of every…thing? he’s had sex with? becuse that…. would make him stupidly over powered just from what we’ve seen, let alone what we can assume.
He’s like Batman. His superpower is money.
+1