Grrl Power #678 – Grrl Power SG-1
This thing looks a lot more like a Stargate than I’d intended. I mean, it’s a circle with some crap attached to it, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Still, I hadn’t finalized the dialog for this page until after I had all the pencils done, so I thought I would preempt the comparisons by having Vale bust on Deus about it.
This is one of those pages I wanted to compress this and the next one into a single page, but I recently spent two hours recently one night rereading a chunk of the comic, and while I generally enjoy reading my own comic, the two things I thought could be better, (besides the odd panel that desperately needs some new art) was honestly, I think the font is a little small. Part of that is the size and resolution of my monitor. It’s 27″, but the res is 2560 x 1440, so everything is a bit smaller than on most smaller but lower res monitors.
The other thing I noticed was that there are definitely a few places where I didn’t really visually show what’s going on as well as I could have. A paper comic has a bit more space to take the time to show the steps in a sequence. Mangas especially, because they’re trying to fill something like 10-12 pages a week. I’m usually trying to fit a… I don’t quite know what to call it. A complete thought on a single page because of the wait between pages. Not a whole scene, but I really want each page to be its own… clause?
Anyway, I thought instead of trying to cram this page and the next onto one, I’d take the time to space them out and have a few larger panels. Man, I really packed the panels in on those earlier pages. I think my record is 17. That’s just nutty.
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Honestly, we’re advanced enough that he could easily have a machine which drives it around in a square. Surely that’d be a much more economical shape to drive trucks and vehicles through.
Maybe, but a circle is the most efficient shape in terms of edge-to-interior-size ration, and maintaining sharp corners with 90 degree (or even lesser angles if you made it an octagon or something) on your magical space-portal may require and excessive amounts of energy. Or they could just create stress points that hasten the onset of catastrophic failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
Not if you want to instal a bladerail as the did there on panel 5.
Speaking of driving vehicles through, it always bugged me that they never took even quads through the gate, let alone other small off-road vehicles. They either walked from the gate or took the long way around with a spaceship.
They, however, DID shot rockets through the gate at least once.
And small drone aircraft.
Well, the only way into the gate room was either through a person-sized door or the missile silo opening above the gate. SO…
Quads could have fit through those doors but yeah they might have had to disassemble them to get them down to that level.
How did they build the Star Gate at that level to start with? o_O
they did mention a shaft from the top of the mountain to the gate room is how they placed it there and when they replaced it with the second gate they used the shaft again….
Lucasfilm trademarked Nazis for Indiana Jones movies FFS
Did they? I find it hard to believe that the USPTO would grant such a trademark.
Deus not only probably bought the rights to Stargate, but has the cast reenact the move on weekends for his own amusement.
May well have trademarked the circle while he was at it.
Eh, I like older comics quite a lot. I even think the style is sometimes better then the current.
It is. The art has been weird for a long time now. I’m surprised that’s not one of the things Dave noticed. (Unless he did notice and just didn’t say so. Or maybe he already knows, since if nothing else I’ve commented on it many times. I don’t recall whether anyone else has until now.)
people’s art styles change over time, deal with it.
mean, hell, remember he’s doing this every week.
Can’t expect the Cistine Chapel in that timeframe.
I find there are pros and cons when it comes to the new style. On one hand, the new style does not do Anvil justice, at all. On the other hand, I really didn’t care for the exaggerated expressions of the older style (personal preference), and those do not fit with the new style.
Does anyone else feel like their eyes have trouble focusing on details of people’s faces with the new art style? Don’t get me wrong, I like the new style, but the older one felt crisper, and more defined. For the background stuff, it looks fine, but I’ve been having trouble discerning facial features and expressions with the new style. The borders of the old style made it easier to see. Maybe it’s just me.
I’m a simple man. I see boobies I focus…
I am gonna guess that the way that Sydney gets back is through Deus his portal?
if so how is he going to explain that to Archon.
Deus: Muahaha, I’m the first human to achieve FTL travel!!!
Sydney: Hi Deus!
“Um, I mean, I’m the first human to achieve FTL travel without having just found some FTL-enabling artifacts of non-human manufacture.”
“What’s that can-opener thing you’ve attached to your not-a-Stargate?”
To which he’d probably reply, “BITE ME”.
Except he probably know last that she would oblige him with that request.
He’d probably just enjoy it. Though, with a dash of her special hot-sauce, she could really turn herself into a lethal weapon. “Loris chomp… execute!!!”
Nah, she’s vegetarian.
Actually she is a pescetarian as she eats (ugly) fish.
Nah… I can see him saying “Vale, deal with her.”
“Her? Forget it, not going anywhere near her or her balls!”
Pretty much the exact sequence of events I’m expecting to happen, I can’t unsee this as foreshadowing now.
The more I hear from Vale the more I like her. she’s kind of catty but still tough enough to mow through half your Army on her own
more like your entire world. she’s an Eldritch Abomination, remember.
Did not realize that have been confirmed. All truth I do find it cute that Sydney had got her pressing the button to move the elevator long faster. I wonder if she knows what Sidney’s orbs are. Also do say Hint it that at full power someone one on the level of that bloodmage chick ( i don’t remember her name) might be one par with her.
It has not been confirmed. She’s just so awesome that it’s hard to tell the difference!
I love her snarkiness too, she’s a lot of fun. This page made me laugh.
I don’t want to disappoint you Deus, but your monopoly on space gates might be short-lived. The Almighty Halo has a stronger version, so federal missions won’t have to rely on you in the future.
Well the aetherium gateway might not be as strong, but it still has 3 slots to upgrade it
It’s of similar size, portable, untraceable (which you would probably want if you are going to do dangerous missions), self powered (vs 108 MW !) and upgradable. It would take a LOT of save-the-world bonuses to make Halo’s gate less cost effective than Deus’.
It’s also powered by renewable energy, can be open permanently and is not attached to a young adult with add
It’s attached to a middle aged adult with megalomania instead.
You say po-tay-to I say po-tah-to,
… Lets just call the whole thing off.
You say ‘potato’, I say ‘NAACHK!’
It’s always surprised me that no one seems to have thought to put on a production of the 1917 Hamilton. They can’t trademark the ten-dollar bill!
The last couple of designs of Canadian printed currency has had copyright notices on it. © Bank of Canada. We have copyright agreements with more countries than we have currency agreements, so this little notice means that it is still illegal to reproduce Canadian currency, but under other legislation and treaties.
Therefore, the 10 dollar bill may not be trademarked, but it could qualify for copyright as an artistic work.
call it a beat.
Every page tries to represent a single heartbeat of the comic. It pushes the story forward at its own pace.
A “frame” may be a better choice.
Except “frame” is already a term used in comic layout.
Beat is too. A “beat panel” is when you draw a panel but nobody is saying or doing anything. It’s like a silent moment in a TV show it’s helps let something sink in.
Would it make sense if that was dialed into Fracture Station?
Probably not. Fracture Station seems to be a Hub for space to space, starship wide portals. While we can’t affirm that they don’t have any small size, planet to station portals, it would be somewhat strange. I think not many civilization would accept portals leading directly to their planets without controlling both sides.
I thought it would make sense if he would try to gain access to an intergalactic transportation hub.
It should be set to the Alari homeworld by default.
If it has presets, Fracture might be one of them.
Sciona’s dialing control panel was set up using blood magic. I am guessing it and the Alari coordinates were wiped out when the ‘secret’ lair went boom.
Vale seems to be dialing in a new destination in panel 4
If they walk in that thing come out the other side and its the same place Halo is at…I don’t know how I’d feel about that.. they’d either get credit for “saving Halo” or she’d make them take her home or…I dunno… hopefully this is all unrelated…
Anyone want to take the odds of Deus opening a portal right behind Sydny and them being:
“Wargh… Deus?”
*Miss scovile? what are you doing here?*
“Oh, you know, just being a tourist. What ere you doing here?”
*Oh, you know, just inventing and expanding.*
“Hmm”
*Hmm*
“Hmm”
*Hmm*
“Hmmmmm…” *Hmmmm…*
[HMMMMMMMM intensifies]
Is than an “ominous” hmmm?
Sargeant Schlock, are you doing poetry again?
Still better than Vogon poetry.
Well, we were told only two things were worse.
Could he opening up a portal to “THE FRACTURE?”
‘Cos I could totally imagine him opening up a portal from Earth to a major alien trading hub like that.
Makes sense that The Fracture could be a point of least resistance.
If they want to keep access to emerging markets they will make it easy to open a portal to their network however they will probably charge for joining up.
I hope the have a good service plan.
Of course Deus have a stargate. He is becoming a bit of a Mary Sue.
Or a Marty Stu?
It just reinforces what people like Bruce Wayne & Tony Stark have already shown us: Immense wealth is its own superpower.
And rich people are Mega Douches
Him having a Stargate doesn’t really make him a Mary Sue. remember the guy’s bene in contact with god-knows-who for years.
btw, “Mary Sue” is usually applied to flat characters that’re overpowered.
Deus may be overpowered, but he sure as hell isn’t a flat character. why he’s a fitting foil to Maxima.
Basically he’s a Lex Luthor that actually put his intellect to productive work instead of antagonizing nigh-omnipotent superhero.
“in addition to” not “instead of”
No, instead of, not in addition to… He doesn’t put his intellect toward antagonizing Maxima… he’s Maxima’s ex-boyfriend, and that’s enough to antagonize her. And she still has feelings for him, which is why she doesn’t just punch his stupid face clean off.
For fans of this idea, I present How to Succeed in Evil (see also the free podcast version).
I do not think he is a Mary Sue. He is pulling a Lex Luthor with Batmanesq patience. But he is someone with money and information. And he uses one to obtain the other. His setbacks are not a fault of his planning. but the actions of others. The super battle by the restaurant serves no real purpose for him and put two of his assets in check. He had to negotiate for their return. He was already well into breaching the vault and was keeping an eye on it. He had to rush when the alarms were deliberately set off. But he generally tries to minimize his risks.
That’s what I like about him: he may be a villain (or at least an antagonist), but he’s got common sense. Personally, I think he’s more dangerous than Luthor or Doom in the long run because he doesn’t let his personal obsessions get in the way of his plans. Love that guy! (And Vale as well: she may be an eldritch abomination, but I just love her snarky sense of humor.)
Or at least he listens when his people warn him that he’s letting his personal obsessions get in the way of things.
I’ll bet that at least one of those staff members is, in fact, a five-year-old kid…
Lets not forget that his name is Deus and he’s the head of Machina Industries
The only thing missing is the Ex :P
that must be why he keeps after maxima. she’s his Ex.
Well, he is the Chief Executive Officer…
And I think Sydney may, in the very near future, be rescued from a nigh-impossible situation by Deus, Exec: Machina. A long, long setup for a pun we’ve all been waiting for; waiting to see if DaveB drops the other shoe here, or leaves it unspoken (possibly forever).
When the character was introduced, that other Dave said that he did not realize the implications of the name and design he chose for him, while the rest of us were making the arguments reiterated here.
Actually, DaveB said the ‘X’ scar was inadvertent, but implied that Machina Industries was indeed deliberate. I can imagine the comic leveraging the pun even if it wasn’t originally intended.
(Also, didn’t realize ‘Deus’ was his last name!)
Also don’t forget Deus’ ex, Maxima
>Lets not forget that his name is Deus and he’s the head of Machina Industries
>The only thing missing is the Ex :P
The man has an X…ON HIS FACE. :)
Who’s to say it’s even a Stargate? Besides the catty comment. It makes more sense (assuming a dimensional portal) to teleport to a fixed location on Terra. It massively reduces one of the issues of that landlocked pocket country too, though the power requirements (which could he spent on other projects) mean it’s not suitable for all goods, even if hiring it up is the biggest cost as opposed to merely running or pulsing it. All speculation of course.
Nobody EVER mentions the big money in wormhole travel, and it’s the cheap stuff to make, to.
Teeny wormhole just big enough for photons to pass. Attach one end to a fiber optic cable plug, attach the other end to another fiber optic cable plug. VOILA! You now have the world’s first no interference, unlimited distance, no charge for transmission, no lag, no delay, unhackable infinite bandwidth communication channel.
Rent those (I presume they take power of some kind to continue existence) for ten thousand a month. You’ll want to make at least a few million of them for the initial offering.
Almost correct, the correct answer is “What is building a financial trade server in Elcheapistan and using portals to give you ms faster trading by allowing you the shortest cord?”
We ARE experimenting with quantum entanglement comms, which is a lot cheaper than wormholes energy-wise. And provides all of the above benefits (except for unlimited bandwidth which I can’t see how the wormhole option would make that possible)
I thought there was a sound reason that couldn’t work.
As much as we’d like sending messages back in time.
Considering the prices charged to have fast access to the stock market computers he could charge a lot more than $10,000 a month.
One straight line fiber line from Chicago to New York goes for millions a week because it lets you see intermarket trade changes a few milliseconds before everyone else. They spent half a billion dollars to build it and the guy who owns the passage has made lots of money off it because the traders who scam the system make even more.
Also, the circle makes sense. You know how the Skybreaker looks like a big manual can opener? Deus just put it on a circular guide track. Now it’s an automatic can opener. Except the can is the universe.
My thoughts exactly. An extremely overpowered automatic can opener, given that Buster was able to work the manual version from a ladder. Clearly most of the power must be fueling the wormhole rather than moving the Can Opener, since this version (apparently) doesn’t use blood magic – I bet Deus has a spreadsheet somewhere showing the exchange rate between 1 MW of electricity and [x] liters of sacrificial blood.
Not that he would harvest death row criminals or anything, but it’s a fairly obvious alternative to check, and he is very thorough about knowing his options.
He already has someone to deal with the landlock-issue
Someone yes, but things are often cheaper and more reliable especially if they are doing the same thing over and over.
I am honestly disappointed Deus doesn’t have the circle tradmarked/copyrighted. I guess there are limits to his greed.
iPple has desperately tried to copyright rectangles with rounded corners.
Wouldn’t work. You can’t trademark anything with actual function — it’s strictly for how you decorate things to show who is the proprietor/creator — and copyright applies to creative works and not to mechanical systems.
Patents on the other hand…
My guess is he’s claiming to have invented FTL travel so aliens won’t have to withold their tech from him
“while I generally enjoy reading my own comic, the two things I thought could be better, was honestly, I think the font is a little small.”
I’m currently typing this off of a work monitor that’s only about 20 In on a lower rez Dell monitor. I can assure you that the font looks fine. Even the little under comic blurbs and side comic bits are good and legible. Any thought like doing some recolors and touch ups on past pages? Maybe correct Jiggawat’s hair to the adopted color after the change decision? Her cast card still shows her hair as white BTW.
…I see some people suspecting that portal is going to open up to Fracture. Possible.
It might also open up to the blasted Alari homeworld Sydney gated away from and lead the space squids to Earth.
Or since he’s clearly slept and double dealt his way through the pants and pockets of a lot of… let’s call them players…. he more than likely has a firm grasp on how to use that thing and is working on approaching his next potential customer for a sale. The location would probably not be intersecting with any of the current mishaps if I’m even close to correct about that.
Is this a trademark violation?
Well, first, this is much more than a circle. This is a raised circle of about the same size as the Stargate, with the same metal-grated walkway, presumably (we don’t know EXACTLY what Deus is planning) about to be employed for interstellar travel via wormhole by otherwise-pedestrians, and they actually have to dial up coordinates. Also, it’s located in a desert, which isn’t a huge point but isn’t doing Deus many favors. The lack of chevrons isn’t enough of a distinction. If it’s close enough to make someone think “hey a Stargate” the moment they see it, and only notice the differences on closer inspection, then it’s enough to confuse with and potentially dilute the original trademark and that’s exactly what trademark violations are made of.
…. but on the other hand Deus does not seem to be using it for any sort of public display, advertising, etc, and appears to have constructed it for use entirely internal to his organization(s). Trademarks aren’t like patents where a company using someone else’s patented process for their own operations is a violation. Trademarks about public perception and identification. If the public never has an opportunity to perceive it and identify it with someone other than whoever owns Stargate (MGM, I think?) no violation has occurred.
So, Deus is safe for now, but he probably shouldn’t make this thing public. … and I’m guessing he wasn’t intending too.
(And of course I’m no lawyer. I’m simply someone talking big in the comments section of a webcomic.)
All Deus needs to show is that the circular appearance is necessary for the proper operation of his “not a stargate.” He could possibly be violating someone else’s trademark if he tries to call it a stargate, as the name could be trademarked. All he needs to do to avoid that problem is to call it something else.
I’m wondering if Deus is like our current President in that he has to slap his own name on anything his companies build. Maybe he can call his version of a space/time portal the “Deus Glory Hole.”
On second thought, maybe not that.
I think dues is more of an engineering guy than a marketing/branding guy. Trump slaps his name on everything because that’s half his value, Dues is more of a visionary/management type, so more like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk.
Jobs WAS a marketing guy.
Woz was the engineering guy.
Well, I meant to imply Jobs was kind of a managerial guy, not an engineer, but I can’t really think of any great management feats for him, so maybe he was more of a marketing guy too (shrugs).
Stargate (the film and following series) was not the first to use the term stargate (or Star Gate) for the interstellar travel network entrypoints. Buck Rogers used that term for the jumpgates used in the comic (1951) and the series in the 80s, And there’s other uses of Stargate that predate Emmerich and Devlin’s franchise, such as the 1980 novel Stargate, Arthur C. Clarke used the term too.
Also for circular portals… The Time Tunnel (1966 series)
I don’t really understand what’s happening here… But others seem to understand, so there’s either something I’m missing or something I’m not remembering. (Possibly both.)
This is in the African country in which he helped over throw the previous ruler. He set up green power and other tech things to revitalize the economy, but it turns out the plan was for it to power a travel gate device.
everyone is cracking the joke because it is round that he made it look like the gate from the TV show Stargate SG1.
did I explain that well enough?
:)
or perhaps even the movie “Stargate”.
The difference is in “Stargate” you had to know the 2 figure coordinates for each of the three axes (x,y,z) and the starting destination, while this device seems to only need that glowing disc to pick a destination for the gate. He’s literally using at least 3 artifacts in a way that, probably, no one else ever has.
Stargate SG1 (and spinoffs Atlantis and Odyssey? Huh … I can’t actually definitively remember what the second spinoff was called) is a sequel to the 90s movie Stargate.
At any rate
Shol’va! How dare you not know this?
There was the 90’s movie, Stargate. Then the first series, Stargate SG-1, and two DTV movies based on that continuity. The first spinoff was Stargate Atlantis. The second spinoff was Stargate Universe.There was a prequel web series called Origins, and an animated series called Infinity, but Infinity is not considered canonical.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my Nerd Cave.
The second spinoff was Stargate Universe. Though Destiny might have been a better title, since that’s the name they gave the spaceship.
And it might have prevented that STD show recently
Or say Dabbler detects it and the team arrives before he opens it. So they can use it to go after Halo.
Seems that thing differs from a stargate in mechanism – looks like the brane ripper carrier is built to turn along the track formed by the circle (so the ‘can opener’ cuts a perfect circle) should more precise than doing it with an automaton ;)
Oh great, a giant electric can opener. Every cat in the country will be drawn to the sound when it is turned on.
The winning comment of the day.
Imagine Deus’s expression if an army of cats invade his boarding room and make the brane ripper gate malfunction ^^
The huge power demand is for an anti-cat force field. The ripper itself runs on a 9V battery.
fwiw about the resolution — I set my default “view” zoom size at 125%. Maybe my eyes, maybe my monitor, but I prefer all pages, across the internet, slightly larger anyway.
Now it leaves one to question,what are those two up to???
Absolutely nothing sinister, I’m sure- the other end probably connects to an empty warehouse somewhere. After all, with his pet teleporter in prison, Deus needs another quick and easy way to transport goods that doesn’t involve crossing the borders of every country he hasn’t conquered yet.
Or at least that’s what he’ll say if you ask him.
Only Opal isn’t in prison anymore, because it was her portal that got him into the Coucil’s vault in the first place. He’ll have to think of another excuse. Which I’m sure he’ll have not trouble finding. That guy is slicker than an eel in a bucket of olive oil!
Well, these are entries/exits to wormholes. Ever seen a rectangular worm? Honestly, who would want that? And what if the entry and exit are differently oriented, say, the exit has a 90° skew in comparison to the entry? No problem with a round shape, the wormhole could adjust that itself, but with any other shape?
weird, you copy all the, very well known, physical characteristics of a thing, and then worry people will make comparisons? gosh, if ONLY there was a way to have avoided that entirely.
Aside from the initial investment of technological construction, Deus seems to have managed to establish inexpensive to produce power, the cornerstone of any hyper-advanced civilization. Now using that power to open a dimensional/galactic gateway means he’ll need trucks to haul away, not his money, but his deposit slips. Earth bananas go for 148 Searklion Torgus each. The Torgus can be used to purchase rare earth metals, which are actually common Searklion metals, and so on, and so forth. At the level Deus is about to be playing at, wealth is no longer measured in money, but in worlds owned.
City of Heroes had Portal Corp, which had a half dozen gates that they could program for alternate worlds. The imagery was a big ring, constantly spinning, with a glowing orb of energy in the center that was the event horizon of the portal.
So, trademark infringement is not a terribly pressing concern. So long as it’s not keyed by seven hieroglyphs, everything should be fine.
Ah, City of Heroes! *sniff *
Sadly missed :(
Dr. Freeman is standing by; NOT that anything could go wrong…
Well Dave you are creating a webcomic. You have to find a balance between the amount of story told per page and the update schedule. As you only update twice a week, your readers expect a minimum amount of story per page, meaning more panels. If you update three times a week you can get away with less panels per page.
If you are updating daily it’s expected to see at least 3 to 5 panels a page.
If you update 5 times a week 4 to 7 panels
If you update 3 times a week 5 to 8 panels
For twice a week 6 to 10 panels is a fair expectation of minimum panels per page
Any less and it takes too long to tell the story.
Of course that would be for low quality webcomics. Dave can get way with less panels and fewer updates per week because of the rediculous amount if detail in his art.
I don’t expect anything from Dave since I don’t pay him anything.
some of his readers are paying him though.
We pay because we appreciate what he is doing already. Anything extra is just frosting on the cake, and makes us giggly with joy.
Some of his readers are paying and supporting him on patreon though.
Not for any specific promise of x panels per week, though. You can’t arbitrarily put that expectation on him just because he’s getting money via Patreon if it isn’t part of the expectations he himself put forward when they started donating.
With webcomics you still need something to happen completely within each update though, otherwise there’s no reason to come back daily and you might as well just do a whole chapter and release it all at once.
the worst thing to happen to any webcomic is infrequent updates, and the dreaded hiatus.
so many dead webcomics because of those two.
the professionals never miss an update, and if they must, they always have an apology or some sort of filler.
is anyone else having problems loading comments ?
They often don’t show up for a bit after posting, it’s been happening for a while.
His stated purpose is to create a portal to allow shipping to a port without paying tariffs for passing through neighboring countries. Whether he is successful, time will tell.
For an Eldritch Abomination, Vale really seems to have taken a liking to human entertainment: Teen Titans Go, Stargate… I wonder if she prefers Star Trek or Star Wars?
Why does it have to be one or other? o_O
How dare you!
…actually yeah, I’ve never understood that mentality either.
Really, even though both are in teh Sci-Fi genre, there’s a different kind of overall theme on how the plot & story goes. Star Trek is a “character-generated” theme, whereas Star Wars is “story-driven” theme.
Star Trek begins with a situation in which particular people are involved, but if you were to switch the Enterprise & her crew with, say, the Voyager & her crew, then these people would deal with the situation in a different way…Basically, the story writes itself based on character interaction.
Star Wars is all about the ancient Jedi Prophecy, mostly centered around the prediction of “he who walks the sky” & “brings balance to the Force.” Since the prophecy IS the story, then it really doesn’t particularly which characters you have, they’ll still have to face the “destiny that was prophesized.”
Nothing wrong with either approach to telling a story…A lot of fun-filled excitment, drama & even humor can come from either, depending on the type of “mood” the author(s) want to express. Being two different categorical types of story is nothing else but personal preference & neither one or the other can be objectively better than the other; it’s ok to like both if you like both types of story-telling.
So stop yellin’ at each other, ya’ cantankerous kids!
Oh…And get off my lawn too!
The Ancients didn’t trademark the circle, that’s true.
They trademarked Pi. That’s what the runes on the Stargate stand for – the first 100 or so digits of Pi. The last one is their trademark symbol. That’s why Deus didn’t try to copy the runes over – THAT would be copyright infringement.
The device is currently operating on 100 megawatts for portal usage. Deus is going to have to up that by a factor of ten to a gigawatt if he wants to use it for time travel as well.
Nah. Newer, more innovative and less power-hungry technologies have been developed since 1985…
…Cue angry Squidward bros in 4,3,2…
They see Vale and immediately BTFO on warp speed.
They see Valeur and exclaim: “Hey cus, didn’t know you had already claimed this world. Maybe you can help us track down someone who killed Frod and blinded Cleq. We managed to track them to this planet.”
I like how the brane ripper is on a track so it can circle around to create the dimensional tear.
And also what can be inferred. The ripper can create a tear, but one that doesn’t last very long. But with planning and energy stable short to middle, or even long, term portals can be created. For as long as the sun is up, anyways.
While I am sure it is a two-fer, or even more-fer, Deus is too good a businessman to ignore the profitability of instantaneous planetary to galactic movement of goods and sentients.
Interesting thing that Vale seems to know how to dial up a destination on the Brane Ripper. Now to find out where Deus is trying to go. Given his preferred recreational activities, he could just be trying to get to the galaxy’s premier pick up bar.
All the way across in New York City?
Since we are back on Earth for the moment, I had a side side plot to add to the current side plot. Before the original portal collapsed, a few dozen (or more) Alari souls passed their gaseous forms over to Earth. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2910
Has Archon alerted the Council to check their spirit radar to look for where they ended up? Are they a current threat, or do they play by Voldemort rules where they have to build up their energy for a decade or so before they can possess a host body?
Yeah those souls are going to need at least 5 more
booksstory arcs to develop from a MacGuffin into an actual world threat worthy of direct confrontation with the GoldenTrioHero.Did the heroes even notice them? At least as something not just random debris pushing them around?
They saw them, they were the reason why Sydney got left behind because her re-programmed response system had her reach for Mr Buble when she saw them coming for her (and they pushed Maxi and co through the portal)
So, Sydney has found her war to a wormhole nexus – and Deus is creating a wormhole portal…. Davey, you got some splainin to do!
Re: “clause”
I think the word you’re looking for is “beat.” As in, “story beat.” Borrowed from music terminology, a story beat is a point of action on which a story is hung.
You’re welcome. Please read my web-comic. Thanks.
Have been reading you webic for… a very long time
A little confused about something: are we still in a flashback to what happened to the bot couple and the main characters’ relative? Or was that finished and this current story is just set in ‘current’ time?
Nope, still in flashback.
Although, there’s a growing tendency to consider those first couple of comics a ‘flash-forward’, and this as present time.
Was referring to Scott Bieser‘s webic, “Quantum Vibe”
In music a beat is the shortest piece though, that’d be more like the equivalent of a panel (also “beat” is already a term for something else in comic layout).
Using music metaphors a “measure” might work better but measures aren’t always complete ideas. Clause or sentence works better I think.
Not only do I read your current web comic, I purchased a copy of Roswell Texas for my Kindle.
RE: your pacing.
I will agree with you on your panel density, though I suspect any pacing issues in your comic stem from your plot to exposition/banter ratio. Jokes aren’t really character development (especially not after the first time) so too many of them can slow down the comic. Ya gotta learn to cut stuff (I think, anyway. Though, tbh, you’ll probably do fine sticking to what you know)