Grrl Power #611 – Sciona ups her negotiation game
Well, a few bandaids will fix that right up. The shirt is probably a write off though. And the pants.
Remember back when I was all “I don’t know how much gore I want to put in the comic, even though I actually love super gory manga where dudes get cut in half down the middle and you can see all their stuffing?” Yeah I’m over that. Even though it turns out drawing remotely accurate bisected organs is really tedious and I’m obviously not good at it yet, so it’s not like I’m going to be shooting for maximum gross out factor for no reason anyway, but why shy away from it? I mean, I did just do a bunch of pages with Harem having sex during a team meeting, Dabbler playing funhouse mirror with Maxima’s boobs, a shower scene, and a bad guy accepting check, MasterCard, or naked time as s form of payment. It’s not like the comic has ever been PG anyway. I just need an excuse for Sydney to go on a swear tear. She hadn’t done that in quite a while.
The Vote Incentive is finally updated. This piece isn’t quite finished. Max’s face looks a little off, I think her eyes are too close together, and there’s some other tweaks yet to make, but I’d been sitting on this one half finished for a while because I messed up the perspective a bit. The background looks like it’s a low angle shot, but Max is kind of straight on. Also the blank spot on the wall behind her was supposed to be a mirror like a lot of gyms have. Not that I would have objected to drawing Max’s backside, but that would have also involved drawing more of the gym, and drawing gym equipment is about the most involved and tedious thing I can think of. It’d be like drawing a cityscape, but every building is under construction, and also full of pulleys. So instead I’ll probably just put some of those big blue pads the stick on the walls of basketball courts so people can run into the walls without smacking into bare concrete.
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That didn’t take long.
just a hit and run no one saw the driver and cant remember the vehicle, as well the area looks rather sparsely inhabited.
maybe an Ezekial chariot with Ben Hur wheels did a 360 around the poor old -perverted sausage- man?
I count three other pedestrians in panel 2, one facing away, the other two most likely facing towards. Unless they were both supernaturally aware individuals, the veil would have to come up with something.
Really, it all depends on how the veil works – if it’s a real-time editing, it would have to accommodate Sciona suddenly showing up, show her as someone not odd at all while she chopped up Cooter, and then compensate for her not being there anymore. If it’s more of a post-event sort of effect, making people come up with their own explanations, then she might have just been edited out of their memories, while Cooter blew himself apart.
Or, since supers are a publicly known thing now, all it may have had to do is change her hair and skin color, and those two people will end up being all “OH NO! SUPERVILLAIN! I saw it all officer, she was wearing some kind of power armor or something I think!”
Well even the hair and skin colour does not really need tweaking. Those are well within the deviation of super hero looks.
Sorry had to cut short my comment as a kitty was trying to leap up onto my lap/keyboard.
In full it should have included an acknowledgement of a good solution.
*wags tail approvingly*
Now that supers are public knowledge anyway, does the Veil even have a viable function for covering up anything anymore? Besides, if there was any way that this event could be linked to Dues (even remotely imaginative), he’s got his own Vale that might cover this up.
There is a difference between humans with special powers and actual monsters. We might be cosmopolitan enough not to care, but the general public probably has a lot of folks who would not be happy.
It seems he was run over by a helicopter.
+1
Hmph, she didn’t waste her time did she?
Ohhhh-kay. That looked …… unpleasant
“’tis but a scratch”
It’s only a flesh wound!
Stop laying around Cooter!
Don’t worry too much. It seems that the pain won’t last long…
How is he talking? Looks like his voice box is cut in half, so he can’t exactly squeeze air through it.
If I have to gess:
Magic.
They can turn a five finger arm in to a six finger tentacle in seconds. That’s “I have my own pocket dimension with organic matter” kind of “magic”. Sooooo…
If it was my comic, he is usin the floor as an improvised resonance wall.
if I was to guess, he healed. at least that part is healed and whole again. the arms not so much, as they probably didnt have any connection remaining, so it will probably take a few moments to properly kickoff the restoration effort.
if you look, you will notice how his body is orientated, and if you then look at the shirt, you will see where the middle line is, and that there is no cut there anymore.
+1
that wasn’t his Voice box. it was his entire left arm.
also, looks like her wings just cut his face in half, not his throat.
Scratch that… but…. it’s still possibly MOST of their voicebox is intact after being Trisected :P
maybe its just their thoughts and what they wanted to say, and what actually came out was at gest a gurgling wheeze
3 cuts means 4 parts, so quadsected?
Please, this is Grrlpower in action. Sexsected.
Guess you’re not going to Wyrmil your way out of this one so easily, eh, Coot?
Well, they are still alive.
They are. But the key word is “easily”
The main question would be: Still alive, but for how much longer? He/They lost a lot of blood there. Wyrmil was still trying to recover both himself AND Cooter from some pretty messy injuries.
Wyrmil was described as being basically unkillable and it was only a “die instantly” effect that even affected him. Cooter was EXPLODED previously to wyrmil fusing with him. I think it fairly safe to say they are merely disabled for the time being rather than facing any serious threat of death.
Cooter, you should have ducked!
Sorry for the fowl pun.
Well, it looks like today’s commenters, as well as Sciona, are all a bunch of cutups.
WyrmCoot probably doesn’t think we’re very funny though. Not that his opinion is going to last much longer…He seems to be of two minds about every topic.
Well presently it would be very easy for him to give you a piece of his mind. Physically.
Butt, would anyone want it? o_O
Scientists would be queuing up. A human upgraded to have super regeneration. Those guys who want to dissect Sigourney Weaver’s alien relatives (and probably Sigourney herself now) would be at the front of the queue.
I would like to calculate the reacton time from sciona and her muscle speed with this. But… I’m so F**** tired right now. XD.
In any case, she is FAST. She picked up the scythe and flew over 10 meters up before the blood of a downward cut landed.
On top of my head that’s… Mach 2 at least. And reaction time 5 times faster than human.
I think that the blood spraying up as she flies away may be from slipstream, and perhaps her wings ripping their way out again. But yes, she is definitely much faster than a human, and her acceleration in flight is pretty impressive. She also seems to have only a passing relationship with inertia given how fast she stopped and then reversed from her initial pounce.
…wonder if her wings can cut Max?
You may have a point in the panel 6 blood. That reduces A LOT her speed. Still, hell fast.
Those wings look sharp and strong. But Max has a high as hell hardness rate. (Maeby even higher than diamonds) Yet she is not undistructable. As seen against Vehemence Punch.
Yeah, she was making a little blood water spout as she launched there.
So she’s artistic, too! Who would have guessed it of Sciona? ;)
More like in a hurry and not waisting time.
You may laugh, but his internal dialogue has certainly improved.
Aw fer the love of…. That was supposed to be a response to Rock in the thread just below…
You know the:
Hmmm…Since Wyrmil merged with Coot, he’s been of two minds contained withing a single brain. Since Sciona bi-sected his brain, does that means he’s of four minds about everything now?
Yeah, butt what about his hygiene :P
Looks like his butt got split in two, and is currently exposing the rest of his body to all sorts of nasty matter and germs. Not to mention whatever gunk happens to be lying on the road itself.
Just as well Dabbler cleaned him up, so at least he was not covered in grime to start with.
Wyrmil survived anti life fields and holes in chests, cooter survived being exploded, apparently posthumously, by virtue of a should be dead Wyrmil melding with him, and a vampire of all things said he thought Wyrmil couldn’t be killed. So suspect infection is not a concern for Wyrmil/Cooter.
Well it is still icky. Just like Achilles eating food straight off the floor. And it is not going to do their complexion any good.
Actually, was meaning his hygiene in general, not just because of being Sci-fricasseed (minus the actual cooking part)
Coot seems to be adjusting well to his life as a schizophrenic.
I think you mean ‘sufferer from multiple personalities’.
no-one actually suffers from that. technically.
( because if they do, there’s always more than one…)
Sciona! She slices! She dices! She makes julienne fries!
Why Deus wanted to tap that is beyond me…
You said it yourself. She slices, dices and make julienne fries. Whats not to like?
Living? In one, healthy, piece?
Once you jump, the fear is gone.
Yeah nah, the fear remains until you land
Not if you suffer a fatal heart attack before you land.
I’ve heard that some people consider danger to be an aphrodisiac.
Some consider it a laxative :P
Or a diuretic..
… Same thing? Butt yeah, was thinking that butt always have trouble spelling that word
What Veil? I only see a hit-and-run victim and not the semi which hit him!
If the veil can work retroactively, it probably would show a granade or something with a lot of dispersion power.
That would be one hell of a shrapnel grenade!
I would have guessed a thresher. Or an industrial curly fry maker.
Yeah, was thinking of something like a combine harvester
He got run over by the cleaner from The Labyrinth.
Heh, no wasted motion on Sciona’s part. I approve.
Loving the change in Coot’s description… damn, that’s funny.
XD Thanx I did not notice the change
Anyone else surprised the hat doesn’t say Make America Great Again?
Comic takes place in 2011
And Barak is cannon here.
I hate to do this, but the word is ” canon.”
Thanx. English is not my first nor second language.
I mean he might have a cannon.
He routinely got 21, saluting him.
They keep missing him though :(
Well they do now. He is no longer POTUS, so would not be hanging around conveniently in their line of fire. Not unless they are hunting him down, on whatever golf course or beach he happens to be enjoying his retirement on.
He fled the country and on his way to a recently discovered continent
Ooh, I hope you give him a warm welcome in Hobbiton.
Well, there is a convenient mud pool area that visitors ‘accidentally’ still fall in and, well, boil
Just as well the ‘accidentally’ was in there. As any threats against the safety of the President are illegal. Given that the secret service have a sense of humour bypass, any attempt to prove that it is only a joke could well be made from inside a jail cell!
You really should put a fence around that by the way. You would not want toddler hobbits falling in. ;-)
DAMN!
She went full Yoshitora Tokugawa on his a$$ in less than two seconds!
Anyone else notice Wyrmoot was wearing a pink t-shirt? :P
It was all he had.
Or he made a good fashion choice to go with blood and gore.
It takes a manly man to wear pink in public.
The sound effect of panel 4 should make me think of the sound of helicopter blades…not Curley.
Well I can’t say I didn’t see that coming
In Cooter’s defense, he didn’t actually see her in order to do the shotgun thing.
Of course that’s the only reason he couldn’t do it. Because as good American he always has a shotgun .. somewhere.
Re: the invotive, have figured out what seems ‘off’: Maxi is smiling!!!!
She has been known to smile on occasion. even laugh. remember when her and Hiro were “disrobed” by that explosion? or when she told Sydney how inappropriate it was to comment on Hiro putting his shirt back on after the Vehemence fight?
Of course she is smiling. She obviously has a crush (engine in her hand).
I’m surprised that I have not seen a Chinese restaurant actually named bok bok chicken. Great name.
Surprisingly, there is a Bok A Bok Chicken. In Seattle.
I don’t know where to comment on the incentive, so i will say it here.
Greate picture, except for one thing.
Whoever designed the gate should be fired. this thing will NOT close, and therefore is useless.
It’s not a gate, it’s a military press/bench press machine for super strength. Maybe I should put a weight counter on it to make that clear.
Please do! Knowing just how many (dozen) tons she’s effortlessly one-handing would even make it even sexier. Sorry Max, please don’t crush me for saying so, it’s a harmless compliment I swear!
Lol.
Will this be Cooter’s final appearance???
Still talking so I doubt it and his character is interesting especially now, but even before he and Wyrmil became Cooterwyrms his was interesting in the same way an accident is.
The issue with the incentive is three-fold: Her lips are too thin/mouth too wide, the bridge of her nose is too wide, and her eyes aren’t quite wide enough.
Yeah there’s a lot of little tweaks to make. There’s also a balance question between realism and style choices, but I need to up the realism before I worry about that stuff.
Also, note that Sciona isn’t human and the facial proportions might reflect that. At least in w40k Eldar aren’t pretty humans, they are deep in the Uncanny Valley so it isn’t as if that is unprecedented.
Ooooops, didn’t realize you were talking about the incentive, not the comic. Mea Culpa.
Yep, you need to have her go off on a swear tear again.
As for the gore, it’s all about context. So if it makes sense for the story, and doesn’t take away from the tone of the story (gratuitous, raunchy, verbally obscene (in a given definition*), fun fic. About super heroes, fan service, and a Sydney SoL.))
So far we haven’t needed any Gore. Having it in would’ve detracted from the story (sans Vemmy being delimbed). But with Sciona, a bit is expected, and you’ve been good at using common sense for when it’s needed for the story.
*https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/obscenity , I definitely have some pity for Arriana. Sydney’s mouth is a PR nightmare. Still Sydney’s Swear Fu is one of the best parts of this fic.
Darn it the lack of an edit feature. Addendum:
While I say obscene. I think that’s one of the fun parts of the fic. So far all the Racey things are really well balanced with story.
Agree with what he said. It’s been far too long since we’ve had a good Sidney Swear-Tear!
I think Max’s mouth is too wide.
about the incentive,, other then show off bimbo who want to have a wardrobe malfunction,, no women in theyr right mind would excercise with such a tight front button up shirt,,.
The outfit doesn’t quite match Max’s dress sense, but I wanted to draw some muscles. Maybe I should have made it a picture of Anvil. :)
Nah, it’s fine as is (well, maybe a few less buttons… :P )
Don’t you know? Only real men wear pink.
So the question I have here… being the worm bros at this point, can he actually pull himself together from this? Could worm reasonably separate himself now that he’s accumulated quite a bit of mass at this point?
And we have an example of Deus’s information network/intel gathering abilities vs that of all the ARC branches combined. ARC is ‘narrowing it down’ while Deus can provide the intersection and time Cooter will be there.
Slice and dice!
Sciona, she balls nasty. She Billy Berserk.
Good point , since Archon is not lacking in money , Deus superior information gathering cant be technological in nature .
So superpower confirmed ?
Or human-intel, that is to say connections which is not necessarily based on money.
The comic might never have been PG, but the past few pages have some of my least favorite in the comic so far. You can obviously do whatever you want with your story, but that’s my feedback. It feels like a significant tonal shift from out of nowhere, and it makes things not nearly as fun.
ROFL, in several pieces.
He he he. Cooter – bag of gore on legs.
Maybe this should be a running gag. Every time Cooter shows up, someone cuts or gores him up.
Now that he is combined with Wyrmil he does have a bad power.
…But…But…After getting cut up so badly, he can’t be a running joke until he at least regenerates back up again.
…The danger with haivng too much gore? Your comic can easily become “Gore porn”…and you can push a lot of potential viewers away. (Not just by going PG-13…but by accidentally going R)
Then again, it works for Goblins…(Is that still top of the heap?)
I’m not planning on taking it that far. I’m not planning on having a splash panel of flayed bodies a la Game of Thrones or something, but I don’t want to obscure something important if the story calls for it.
I’m with pidgey and MitchellTF on this. I am primarily interested in this series for the fun characters, starting with Sydney, of course. When it took ages before we even learned anything about what her powers were, other than her attachment to her poster tube, I didn’t mind because her antics made it worth it. I *don’t* think scenes as gory as this are really necessary.
With character like Sciona they ARE necessary. What was she supposed to do, hit him with a baseball bat? Look at it from the other side: the attack was quick so it didn’t distracted us from returning to Sydney longer than necessary.
Also, Harem having sex on meeting WAS fun.
The violence could be sorted out by category.
If an ex vice-president was murdered it would be called Al-Gore.
If you killed an ex leader of Russia it would be called Gore-bachev.
If you killed someone from the Lone Star stye it would be called Gore-Tex.
If you killed a intellectual writer it would be called Gore-Vidal.
If it took place in a Slaughterhouse the victim would probably be Kilgore Trout.
If you killed someone, cooked him, and served him in a cornmeal crust it would be a gore-dita.
(If the person eating it liked it, he it would be a gore-mand.)
If the victim was cut up into right triangles it would be Pytha-gore-an.
If the victim were wearing a fuzzy sweater it would be an-gore-a.
If the victim were killed by an ape it would be called gore-illa.
Gore-owns.
*groans again*
As Spider Robinson has said; “The beauty of a pun is in the oy! of the beholder.”
A pun is the shortest line between two groans.
Someone who is a bit slow on the up-take can be said to be “Hear today, groan tomorrow.”
It looks like Peggy has major league competition!
I am not into American football, but he is one guy I will be rooting for.
Oh, yes, most definitively!
at least the headline won’t be anything to the tune of ‘living Foosball player found in NFL’
WyrmCoot needs to pull themselves together and wiggle out of there before someone sees them and calls 911.
“911, what’s the problem?”
“Ummm, there’s some dude lying in pieces on the street, like at Fifth and Main and there’s blood, like everywhere!”
“In pieces, sir?”
“Yeah, yeah, guts, like everywhere, y’know, it’s like really gross.”
“Alright, sir, the police and an EMS unit are on the way. Don’t hang up so we can track you” (hand over mouthpiece) “Why do I always get the whack jobs, Susanne?”
Dunno, I think emergency call centres are all too used to hearing calls of that nature, in such a location. An unseen hit and run could well account for the lack of any mention of a traffic incident. And a sufficiently large or fast moving vehicle would provide the ‘in bits’ often enough.
Cooter needs Max to show up and administer her patented ‘tough love’.
“Think we got all day? Quit laying around and pull yourself together!”
The veil could cover that up by letting it seem like he got hit by a farming machine of some sort. Those could slice you neatly in pieces.
Or a truck full of sharpy stuf. Plains of glass/metal.
Both of which lack any trucks in sight though. Meaning that it will have to conjure up a totally illusory truck. So CCTV footage of the surrounding area will not show it travelling to or from the accident site.
Will The Veil have to alter all the stored images on its virtual path into and out of the city? Likewise altering the memory of any witnesses, who did not see it in those places originally, and who could testify that the images had been tampered with somehow.
Likewise The Veil would need to create bits of glass, skid marks and other forensic evidence, to match the evidence of the crash. Which there almost certainly will be, as cross roads, within cities, practically always have CCTV covering them. Not to mention that, in broad daylight, there is a very good chance of witnesses being around too.
And all forensic material which gets gathered up, and put into an evidence locker, would need to be maintained for years. Plus potentially be subject to forensic analysis, to determine which vehicle it came from, confirm impact speeds and other such points. Every single one of which will require tampering with the minds and machines involved.
So potentially a massive ongoing drain on resources, just to cover up a single incident.
Doesn’t look like it is an area with any CCTV cameras
Contrary to unpopular believe: America is not covered in CCTV cameras (don’t believe what you see on TV or movies)
I go by statistics. America has two of the top five cities with the most CCTV coverage worldwide.
Plus next time you are at a traffic light, at a major junction, look up. You will probably see a small CCTV camera. It is not there to spy on you, but to see whether there is enough traffic queued up to justify changing the lights early. But, regardless of its purpose, if it is recording the images then those can and do get used by authorities to determine the behaviour of vehicles involved in a traffic accident.
Plus there are often pure surveillance cameras covering the junction itself, in any event.
Finally we know that Wyrmcoot is travelling through a city on the West coast. So is likely well-developed and rich enough not to be skimping on traffic / surveillance technology. Efficiently running roads improve the economy and CCTV is a cheap way to help combat crime, in high-density population areas.
Two, out of how many cities in the US? o_O
No traffic lights here, just a single Stop sign
Umm, he’s on the East Coast, West coast has California, and there are still plenty of small ‘one-horse towns’ on either coast
Err your statement is nonsensical. It is out of all of the cities in the world. Everything other than the five most significant being disregarded. So it does not matter how many cities there are in America, only whether any appear on the list. If the state of affairs was as you claimed then none should have featured!
The fact that it has a disproportionate number of cities (40% of the result, when America only has 23%† of the world population), gives us a reasonable indicator that it is well above the world average.
Of course it may turn out that these are not representative of other cities in America, but I have already argued my case for why a East coast city‡ is more likely to fall higher in the results. For info New York always appears. Other years/methodologies it varies between being Houston and Chicago.
Whilst some have all three. I just took the more conservative average, as I felt that was sufficient to make my point. But if you prefer, we can take the larger 60% of the results.
Oh of course, how could I forget that, in the Shires, a couple of hundred folks would count as a big city!
*wags tail cheekily*
Last we saw, on the map tracking Wyrmcoot, he had passed through the lower population density areas and had reached some with higher populations.
† 7,466,964,280 / 323,100,000 x 100 = 23.11% (2016 figures)
‡ Thank you for your correction.
OK, maybe this will be more difficult than I thought.
How very Parasyte. :D