Grrl Power #633 – The universe’s buttholes = X+1
Sydney’s right. I spent very little effort on that sound effect. Honestly, I started coming up with some noises, but I was like, VROUNCH? SHRAAKZZZ? GLUDVOR! Actually, that one sounds like an alien’s last name. Well, it would if it had a lot of unnecessary apostrophes in it. G’luD’voR!
The relationship between the Skybreaker and the sigil on the floor will probably be explained at some point. It’s not honestly critical to the plot, but I know some people were wondering about it. For now just assume that magic is complicated and allows convenient storytelling hooks.
Hah. I just realized I drew Sydney’s hair blowing in the wind even though she’s in her bubble. Maybe she farted. In terror, at the universe being torn a new one? A terror fart, yeah. Even though she’s being characteristically glib.
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Wonder if this will be where Sydney earns her rank promotion.
I bet the other one of the unknown orbs is “fix shit like this”, I mean it’s mostly survival abilities so it would make sense to exuip it for contingencies like this if sundering reality is a common danger in space?
Loading sensors… Sensors detected cosmic bullshit happening. Using “lighthook” to un… er…. well… ok… stitch back the fabric of the universe?
Lighthook upgrade: Suture
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eehhhhhh doubtful. dave looks like he`s trying to be as realistic as possible with military rank and promotions aren`t given through meritorious service, they are given through qualification and time(experience). she could be given recognition, medals and whatnot but not rank( and subsequent pay bump that goes with it incidently).
sorry for the double post but there should be a “,” between Military and rank in my previous message. I just realised it made my coment a little confusing.
Since the fabric of the very universe is being torn asunder, perhaps it isn’t wind that is blowing peoples hair around, but a significant shift in the local gravity, gravity wave hair-blowing as it were. And gravity still works through the bubble as proven by the fact that Sydney doesn’t just stop sticking to the planet without the aid of the flying orb too. ;3
The portal is generating an anti-higgs field? So, could we assume that the Flyball would probably ‘fix’ her hair?
Gravity is not generated by the higgs field
No but Higgs might be the hair stylist, so an anti-higgs field could cause hair problems.
No, Higgs was an an airship crewman not a stylist.
Quit reading the series, but Airman Higgs was one of the more intriguing side characters – always did wonder what his backstory really was.
They dont come out and say it, but it’s strongly implied that “Higgs” is the unknown extra jager general. Certianly he has a long term relationship with der kastle, and he really knows Jagers.
And they know him
Interesting – I always wondered if he might be a Heterodyne deep undercover or something. I seem to recall hints that he had ties to Agatha and the castle, but being a Jager would explain that too.
I took him to be one of Agatha’s relatives. In other words a Heterodyne boy. Just not the most recent batch, as we have seen enough of them to eliminate that option. But if he was immortal, from drinking the Jaeger draft (or something similar, with less conspicuous side-effects), that would make sense.
He seems to have some sort of connection to, or with, the Heterodyne’s, butt always figured he was a Britannia opperative
Baloons can REALLY cause hair problems. Just rub one on someone’s head and see!
Laws of Reality being destroyed in an expanding spherical pattern when in contact with shield: static electricity.
So it isn’t an invincible shield, it just decreases incoming uh-ohs so phenomenally that it still might as well be?
Even worse if you do that with a baboon.
Just as long as it isn’t an anti-hugs field!
Lol.
Nah, Sydney has just whipped around to look. In panel 2 she’s facing Dabbler; in the last one, with the flying hair, she and Dabbler have both turned towards Maxima and the Rupture.
*whistles innocently*
https://media.giphy.com/media/7AxUorkncYBAQ/giphy.gif
Given Dabbler and Sydney’s positions in panel 2, versus panel 5, Dabbler turned around, but Maxima and Sydney have not.
My thought is that Sydney was dropping her shield periodically for refreshed air throughout this encounter. Between panels 2 and 5, she did that, only to realize *not* the right time, and put it back up just in time for panel 5.
Different idea: the force is a magical effect that is not yet blocked by the shield.
:D Key word!
This is a dumb nitpick, but a gravity wave refers to an atmospheric process (the wave is of air density), while a gravitational wave refers to the astronomical one (the wave is of spacetime).
Er, how could we find out if it might be a gravity wave?
Oh, I know! Quickly, does anyone have a LIGO handy?
I mean fabric of reality wavering would probably go trough any shield
Also is this one of those “explosions will fix everythign” or “for the love of reality, don’t let those explosives cause a reality cascade bomb”
Say it with me, “Jamie wants big boom.”
Big Badda Boom.
Failure of reality is always an option.
The onomatopoeia sounds like “Fist of the North Star” in my head.
https://youtu.be/PUxvSEzIOWU
I think it’s more like this
https://youtu.be/FevMNMwvdPw?t=2m12s
sorry i meant this one https://youtu.be/FevMNMwvdPw?t=4m6s
Surely you meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8XTpCwicwE
Was there some sort of mannequin making the portal? Because it wasn’t clear what Sydney zapped.
Also, Sydney supposedly has some trouble using the PPO last time, but she seems to be using it quite casually here.
That was the robot minion that Sciona ordered to finish the portal 9 frames back.
Poor Super Buster!
*puts black fore-legband on*
Poor guy just can’t catch a break. He spent 10 years getting blown up (down, and sideways) by the rest of the team on Mythbusters. Then the show goes off the air and he has to find a new job. He answers an add for ‘laboratory assistant wanted’ just to end up doing it all over again.
P.S. Does that ladder meet OSHA guidelines? Workplace safety is important.
Considering it survived Sydney…
What? No. That ladder has to have the rubberized feet removed and placed on a slick surface to be in a villain lair. If it met OSHA guidelines then Sciona would incur a penalty on her mystical/super villain credentials and find getting properly expendable henchmen from the union impossible.
What we can’t see in panel 3 is off to the side there is another mannequin standing in front of a sign saying ‘Number of Days Without an Accident’ and setting it back to ‘0’.
:-D
And next to it another sign:
Also being reset to 0
“Poor guy just can’t catch a break.”
Oh, really? Looks like he got a LOT of breaks right there…
The trouble was that the giant not-a-robot had a shield.
That’s the Gatling-gun upgrade to the PPO
She probably just tossed her hair as she turned abruptly toward the portal. That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it.
Most ominous!
He he! It even has a crack in its graphics. Kind of worrying mind, when a tear in the fabric of the universe itself has a rip in it.
*looks confused*
Please. If the Universe’s Butthole isn’t equaled to seven equations with seven unknowns, then I would be worried. If it doesn’t involve High End Calculus and Partial Differential Equations, I’m not worried.
Sciona’s landlord is about to come calling. It’s to that which the rent is due.
I`m calling it!
a portal is being opened and Dabbler`s old friend with a urethrae infection is gonna show up!
Eh, the universe is resilient. A few holes more or less doesn’t matter much.
Doesn’t necessarily mean you want to be right next to one….
Major magical Stuff + gnomish Oooops!! = Bad News™
I’ll see your gnomish oops and raise you a kender oops.
I had a kender mage, once. it was fun as heck. wrong components, wrong spells, yet somehow always worked (DM:you just cast a fireball with cone of cold components, what are you expecting the result to be? Me: a giant snowball. DM: roll, damn you. [20] omg, roll that again [20] fine, it works.now the part of the dungeon you’re in is stuffed with snow)
{other magic user: i melt it with a fireball}
DM: you two have just drowned the rest of the monsters in this dungeon. with two spells. no game next week.
That is almost as bad as my Kender Wild Mage in a doors campaign …. Sigil, need I say more?
Next time Deputy Doofus, make sure the one you are disintegrating is the actually the one making the portal
I just heard a name I should legally change my name to.
could i be Captain Obvious?
:D
Why would the wind blow AWAY from the portal, whipping people’s hair like that?
Why wouldn’t the portal suck things in?
Who said the portal was an exit? o_O
It did suck things in… to their Dimension!!
It’s Schrodinger’s GLaDOS hole. It’s an inny! It’s an outy! It’s explosive! It’s implosive! It rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs! Rolls over your neighbor’s… sorry Yorp (but sing with me all the same).
Yes my brain combined these into Schrodinger’s cat and Portal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQGPZTECYs
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gzDC-2ZO8I
But I think the Universe Ripping Asunder still does obey some rules: https://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Calvinball
So that’s where Hiro has been this whole time…
Her hair senses the need for dramatic blowing, wind or no
The Final Orb = The HARLOCK FIELD!
It allows you to survive in the airless void of space while dramatically forcing your hair and cloak to whip about as if in a strong wind – when there’s NO AIR!
>duh duh DUHNNNNNN!<
Unless it’s just an effect from her Kevlar 2.0 suit, mimicking Futurama’s new uniforms (which got eaten by a robofox) that, according to Leela, “you always look like you’re standing in Hero wind”.
Heh, reminds me of what happened the other day hanging out in the Hall of Dolphins in DCUO: some go was just standing there, not moving or doing anything (except for the usual ‘inactive movements’), and his cape was flapping, he wasn’t doing anything, butt his cape kept on flapping
Will they be sucked into a parallel universe or won’t they???
Welcome here :-)
The portal wasn’t complete, so instead of a parallel universe they accidentally connected with a perpendicular universe.
Julie: Miss Kyle? What’s that? [ A large glowing circle suddenly appears above the school yard. ]
Zodon: What the *GUMBALL* did you do to *FLUSH* the universe this time, Von *JUNIPER*?”
Victor: Me?! Why is this my fault?
Ambriel: Hmm… [ Puts on her inter-dimensional eye-piece ] Oh dear. That is really energetic. I hope the laws of physics there are the same as here. But that looks real giggly. I don’t think that’s good.
Zodon: Not good?! Man, you have the *HAMBURGER* gift for understatement. That is about as stable as the mind of a flat-earth believer. If it detonates while we are near it, each of our molecules could end up in a different universe. If your lucky that will *GERBIL* kill you first; if not, you will be really CHOPPED!
Miss Kyle: Hershel? Class 7 in sector 3. There is a huge glowing circle in the air between the oak and maple trees. [ Pause ] No, way too big for a major gas leak.
Dabbler: Wah! [ Lands at a severe angle on her feet and flops flat on her back. ] Oof!
Max and Hiro tumble through the opening, but get their bearings before hitting the ground and fly up. Achilles tumbles through the opening, but just lands on his shoulder/neck first. He gets up and brushes himself off.
Tyler: Uh, mister. Are you okay?
Achilles: Sure, kid. Never better. [ Looks around and then runs over to Dabbler, who is laid out on the ground ]
Sydney: Oh shi.. [ Spots a kid she is about to land on. ] Shoot! [ Releases the PPO and grabs the fly orb. The force-field orb stays on. She still lands on and bounces off the student. She Stabilizes quickly and swings back to her bounce point and notices the kid is still standing. ] Um, you okay, kid?
Polly: Yeah, I’m fine. Where did you guys come from?
Sydney: Umm, New Jersey, but I think one that is very far away.
Max: [ Over-watch position ] Does anybody have eyes on Sciona?
Ambriel looks at Sydney and Max.
Ambriel: [ To Sydney ] Oh good. Your physics laws and ours are pretty close. You could probably stay here for a while without your atoms getting all messed up.
Sydney: Funny, I already feel like my atoms are all messed up. Who’s in charge here?
Ambriel: You should probably talk to Miss Kyle.
Miss Kyle: Okay, kids. Recess is over. Let the adults deal with the big hole in the sky. [ To Sydney ] You are going to fix the big hole in the sky, right?
Ambriel: Miss Kyle, Bubble Lady, that circle is getting more weird. I think it might split or explode or something.
Miss Kyle: And that would be bad?
Ambriel: Really bad. Have you seen my bat. I think I might be able to knock it out of here.
+10 :)
A worthy crossover :) Deus and the Headmaster would be twin souls.
It was PS238 or Magellan Academy, but they installed counter measures since the last inter-dimensional invader came through.
Keep meaning to get back to that, butt can’t remember where left off reading :(
You could always start at the beginning. ;)
“And that’s when everything went sideways…”
I am more in inclined for the obtuse myself
“And then everything went Möbius”
Eh, Sydney’s view of the universe was already pretty skewed.
So did the giant can opener get sucked in and destroyed as well?
Yeah, I also now wonder where the Brane-Ripper is.
“Hah. I just realized I drew Sydney’s hair blowing in the wind even though she’s in her bubble. Maybe she farted. In terror, at the universe being torn a new one?”
Or maybe her hair is in motion because she just spun around, between panels, to look at what was happening behind her? Yeah, that makes more sense.
Sydney’s SECOND crossover!!
What was the first?
Link is on the right.
THIS is why when you are fighting a mage who you know is trying to ‘open a portal’ you get enough information from the damned Night Cabal or whatever they call themselves to know what the hell you are doing!
Stupid move on the part of the team here though honestly once Sciona got to her base it turned into a ‘lose-lose’ situation.
I doubt they had time to ask, really.
Not to mention: they shouldn’t trust the words of a bunch of monsters who have been hiding in the shadows, yet influencing ‘normal’ society, for millennia
The Council is officially recognized by the US government and apparently has been for centuries.
And the US Government has never done anything wrong, in it’s entire history *coughVietnamcough* *coughGulf Warcough*
The fact that the council has been involved, from the shadows, with the US Government for centuries is not helping the case!!!
Max works for the Government, she is literally a US military official.
That explicitly gives her more reason to trust and work with them.
Remember: The only reason Sydney was given clearance to know about the Council was because the sight orb could pierce the veil.
You need to be more specific.
Would that be The Council, Illuminati, Shriners, Teamsters, Senators, Chartered Accountants, Insurance Adjusters?
… Yes
Good point, usually. Of course these people don’t know enough about supernatural things to even know the right questions in the first place. Except maybe Dabbler, but then again she’s a bit on the arrogant side with regards to her own knowledge, and is kind of, err, specialized in her fields of magic.
Besides, it seems nobody is really all that sure what Sciona can do except in very general fashions, and not a lot of her past co-workers or sparring partners seem to have been able to share their knowledge for some reason…
Yes, standard tactics don’t really apply to Doom-device-of-the-week/supervillains, except in broad strokes of disarm/immobilise/get them to monologue.
Custom tactics are…tricky.
Bit surprised Sciona didn’t carve a blood-moat ahead of time, seems like a sensible move for any blood-mage expecting violence. Or throw a tarp over it, at least.
Dabbles has no problem passing on knowledge, it’s her tech she holds onto (double emphasis on ‘her tech’)
wonder if this leads to that demon nemesis Dabbler has
DAMMIT! Quit reading my mind!
OK, I expect and hope for the one most obvious effect of a portal that is NEVER shown – a vortex of air or some gas blowing out of this place OR in from that place.
Opening a portal to some random place that has exactly the same air pressure as here? That wouldn’t likely happen, even if constrained to the Earth – examples: New York city -approximately at sea level- and any town in Nepal. Or New York city street level to the top of a skyscraper two blocks away.
Crossover event incoming?
To fix the onomatopia just add a “KA-” to the front of it.
To fix ANY onomatopoeia, just add the “KA-” prefix…
Every onomatopoeia is better with “KA-“.
Except for poopie sounds, which require the prefix to be added twice.
Maybe my collarbones hurt after a big sneeze because it’s a kasneeze.
and if a giant snake comes out, it’s a Kaa-sneeze
Haven’t you ever seen a man with 50 foot-long prehensile nose hair before?
What’s the dark wibbly blob over Syd’s shoulder in panel 2? I’m assuming it’s not the portal, given she’s shooting in another direction to hit the peon.
it’s a miniature TARDIS
The hole GEoD made, using Sci
Actullay, I think that is where her shield intersects some solid object.
It’s the hole in the blood tank. 10-15 ft away from the shield.
yes, that. but if you look really really close, there’s a miniature TARDIS inside the hole. honest. would i lie?
Well… Sydney was shoow ithout looking so let’s just say her hair went up from her head spinning around to face the impending doom.
…Just throw Achilies at it, see what happens.
Look, just because he won’t DIE doesn’t mean the team wants him ending up 800 light years away. Or even in the planet’s mantle.
……
…… okay, I’m now wondering if FTL travel exists in this universe and, if so, what the hell that does to physics.
I dunno… He does have a tendency to be super annoying.
With a whole bunch of aliens making their way to Earth, either there’s FTL travel of one or more kinds or the entire Solar system has a projection around it to fool the inhabitants into thinking there aren’t a couple dozen habitable planets besides Earth right on the doorstep.
We can see the fabric of space can be ripped ASSunder so worm holes (Buttholes?) are a potential thing between places. Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if they have multiple FTL, teleport and other methods of galactic travel.
Well we are poking around the edges of what may be a warp drive in our reality so a supers reality could have something similar.
I like how the blood dummy is on a step ladder to finish the portal. I like to imagine the dummy taking the time to go to the closet and grabbing a ladder. I dont know why I find that funny
Those two in front are gonna lose their pants again.
Sydney, for shit’s sake, look where you’re aiming!
Not sure of your point – she hit *exactly* what she was aiming, given her comment about “zap the guy making it”, i.e. the golem that Sciona set to finishing the portal.
Whether or not she *should* have been aiming there, I guess we’ll find out.
Standard gun/orb safety, I would think. Don’t even touch the trigger unless you are focusing on what you want to hit.
She probably did, when she started shooting from the hip, then she turned to Dabbles to shoot from the lip
Does she need to? Maybe the orb has autoaiming. Like, automatically aims where she wants to.
This!
I was thinking this. Like a robot wouldn’t need to aim at something they’re shooting at, because it can calculate movement speed and the trajectory from its arm. Orb probably does the same thing.
Since you can’t see Halos other hand, she might have the Air Orb providing her with some dramatic hair blowing, but you can see the other six (obviously not the Force Field Orb) floating over her head in their default configuration.
Veering off topic, I do kind of hope she doesn’t find the screensaver for those orbs.
Her shield is up. So that’s what the other hand is holding.
The 7th orb controls Serendipitous Tumbleweed and other dramatic visual effects, including Action Hair Movement.
Just because she saw Hawkeye look one direction while shooting in another, and hitting the target, in The Avengers doesn’t mean she should follow suit.
I agree with zero, this seems likely to be when Dabbler’s demon enemy pops back up again, looking for revenge.
But that’s the definitive example of an ordinary squishy normal without super-riches somehow managing to be on par with a bunch of supers despite all logic! Who ELSE is she going to emulate?
Her: https://sot.wikia.com/wiki/Pristinely_ungifted
With the sound of the Universe being ripped a new asshole (at least that is what the graphic makes it look like… just sayin’), it looks like Sydney is actually jumping due to being startled by the loud and unusual noise.
Max doesn’t just hold a perp down. She rams their head halfway into the floor.
When you have a perp who can survive it and even talk while you’re doing it, and has clearly not respected having it demonstrated that she’s been defeated before, why not? It only makes sense.
Indeed – you have to adapt your restraint and interrogation techniques to match the captive’s abilities.
Okay, I’m gonna say it’s a Balrog.
That means we know that the wind coming from the portal is in fact NOT a fart. Because “You shall not pass!”
Ah, but “you” refers to the Balrog, not everybody.
Here go the superheroes, GluD’voRing the universe again!
By order of Evil Overlady Issendai, all apostrophes in fantasy names are to be pronounced “boing”.
Man, that rule would make a lot of fiction way more entertaining.
I don’t know what the minimum safe distance is for “Incomplete and possibly unstable universe rifts” but I would guess that they’re too close…
Maria Hill: “If we can’t control the Tesseract’s energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance”
+1
also, RIP
From voice of reason back to randomly shooting with an unknown weapon on another one which is opening an unknown portal in only one strip.
Go Sydney!
Why does the sundering of the Universe look like a vagoo? Or is it just me?
Onomatopoeia suggestion:
VBWAMWMUMEM
Sounds like reality just reverberated!
Cue tentacle monster from Dimension “Stop”? I’d be quite disappointed if something weird comes out and Sydney isn’t reminded of that.
From this point, three things can happen.
1, universe reasserts itself and the portal slowly closes. (possibly helped by dabbler’s magic oh halos balls.)
2. the universe is like a baloon and burts like one too. everyone is already dead, they just dont know it.
3. nothing happens, innitially… then something on the other side finds the portal. Aaaaand looking at the villain list… https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1189 … I think dabbler’s past is about to catch up.
You do realise that page is an imagine-spot?
You do realise we have had at least three from that page already show up, with a possibility of a fourth being a believed Maxi-induced corpse?
We’ve got beads on who’s in 5 of the 7 meaningful panels. Only “Preacher” and “Kitty” are total unknowns at this point, though two of the others — the nemeses of Maxima and Dabbler — have only really been mentioned once in passing and haven’t been named, let alone their powersets characterised (though I’d guess that “Demon” is probably pretty heavy on the fire).
Ever since reading Wearing The Cape, the second dude is my mental image for Simon Pelligrini
I’m just hoping there isn’t some random… oh hey you know what, maybe some inanimate object doesn’t only become like Icon, but gains super powers as well.
If they can’t stop it, they could drop a mountain on it to slow it down/plug it till it self seals.
All they need to do is rig the tunnels with explosives and collapse it all.
If only someone had done so and lit the fuse already…
pretty sure holes in reality dont work like that. has it ever worked for black holes?
For some reason I feel the official sound would be “GA-DUNGE!” I don’t know why.
Is that a Dr Horrible reference?