Grrl Power #743 – Introducing Escorpia… And she’s dead
Yeah, what did happen to Sciona, and what ever could this page have to do with that other conversation? Hmm.
I complain about selective universal translators in shows, yet here I am saying these people are speaking in Spanish, but I’m mixing in English and Spanish words. I don’t know, I guess in this context I think “puta” sounds better than prostitute or whore. Capulla is like… wanker? Also “female goat” I just googled “spanish profanity” and I thought that one sounded good. I’m sure someone in the comments will tell me that no one ever says that, so I stand prepared to change it if it’s super weird looking.
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And THIS is a change of pace…..
She was alive for a total of 2 arguably 3 panels.
oof
Probably alive again.. just under new management.
takes a solid 30 seconds before the brain goes down from lack of oxygen so since the 3rd panel is shows the moment he shoots then she`s still technically alive at that point in time. grimy, I know but I like to have those details down.
First to Set a comment? SWEET! … oh wait, I got ninja’d. DAMN!
Always. Expect. Ninjas.
… At least Sciona is polite enough to take residence in a recently vacated body instead of evicting the current owner?
Not so sure if it is being polite so much as needing a recently vacated body to take over.
Might be that, or it might be that (being a blood mage) she needs an open wound to serve as a vector. Manipulate blood — possess blood — possess body — ???profit.
She might require the previous soul to have shuffled off, or it might just make the process easier or more convenient. After all, Wyrmil possessed Cooter’s body to save himself, but he got stuck with Cooter as a body-buddy (which is, arguably, a fate far worse than death).
I think Wyrmil did a very different thing. I think that was less Wyrmil’s soul possessing Cooter’s body and more just it being a Wyrmil/Cooter chimera. Moreover, I think it was more Cooter’s soul being the possessing sort, because Cooter was kind of very dead there.
But I do think the open wound was probably more the thing. It probably didn’t need to be an open wound in the body possessed, but I’m sure that did make Escorpia more willing to enter rapid negotiations if she had any say in the matter. I suspect that this took so long to not have a “x days ago” caption because Sciona was shopping around for a suitable host, and of course there’s the need to be present at the right time. There’s places where a lot of people die every day, but many of those deaths lack the bloody mess of this one, and many of those dead are not in otherwise such good health. Probably most importantly, the vast majority of them don’t bear nearly so much resemblance to Sciona.
…She took 50+ days to find a suitable host-body, in a murder-spree country like USA? o_O
All she had to do was hang around a high school or nightclub (or a church in the Bronx)
The keyword is “suitable”. Her new body is not Alari, and she needs assistance to upgrade, so her search parameters would have been a bit more selective.
Beat me to it
And it is still polite, considering she has been floating around Dirt for nearly two months (unless this is a flashback without an info-box saying it’s a flashback) and she waits until she finds a freshly evacuated body
Now we know how it’s so hard to kill her, even when almost beheading her.
She can justifiably claim “It’s merely a fleshwound”
unlike a certain famous knight.
It is also possible that she switches bodies regulary. Maybe there is some sort of decay or Arc keeps breaking her current bodies.
She remarks on the “assets” of this body as if she had a few different ones to wear besides troll, original and original with magic boobjob.
Apparently Alari Ghosts use the “Lucifer” rules, possessing the recently deceased. Probably a living mind is too strong to be casually invaded.
I was thinking the Captain Scarlet Mysterians (not to be confused with
the Japanese Mysterians)
Captain Scarlet has Mysterons.
Rules make sense…
“Can I possess your body?”
“NO!”
“You’re in the process of dying and will soon cease to exist, can I possess your body giving you a chance to at least sort of live?”
“WHY ARE YOU WASTING TIME ASKING!?!”
Well looks like she’s changed her title from blood Mage to body Snatcher. I wonder what else she’s going to do now that she’s back on Earth with who knows how many of the soles of her people with her and what will she do when she finds out that there are others of her race there assuming she doesn’t know already.
…”soles of her people”…
Soles are under the feet.
I’m pretty sure you were meaning “souls”.
How do you know he wasnt talking about the tread on their shoes?
Nope, she took all of her people’s fish of a specific, tasty breed.
Maybe e_voyager wants to point out that since the original owner of the body has left, that Sciona will be the ‘sole’ proprietor of the new body. Though she may want to declare an LLC for tax purposes.
It seems that I forgot that the phone I was replying on head JavaScript disabled because of annoyances.
Funny story there was a comic called Bad Bunny where the main character was applying for a new job at a corporation that has swallowed up his old Corporation and m 1 panel while he’s looking over the application process he asked what else do they want and from behind time he hears someone say all we want is your soul spell Sole as a pair of hands grab him. In the next panel we see the he’s face-to-face with his old boss who restates the statement saying that they want his sole promise only to work for them so a non competition agreement sort of thing. Voice text and Autocorrect aside it comes out as a funny reference
” Bad Bunny”, a comic I loved to read, I reread it at least twice.
I mean she was always a body snatcher, or at least a body-part-snatcher.
Good point by gave her leeway first one since she lost the lower portion of her body through little fault of her own. She’s not the one that chopped off the upper portion of her head at the council was. Admittedly they did it because they likely caught her doing something that is very much against the rules it’s her own fault that she got caught but still I doubt if she would have attached her upper skull to a troll had she been given another choice.
Maybe she just needs body thoroughly covered in blood to possess it.
Nice body, shame about the broken nose.
Sconia entering her body probably healed all the wounds as part of the ressurection
It would be funny if she was too distracted with the boobs to remember fixing the nose.
Or notice the Thugs
They are most probably well beneath her notice. If anything they’ll just be a first sip of the precious red stuff, similar to how Barnabas Collins was awfully thirsty when the construction crew released him in Dark Shadows.
https://youtu.be/ek8Kpr4QoN4
Sci-fright isn’t a vampire
I am not so worried about her broken nose as that hole through her chest. That is more likely an impediment to continued survival. Her talking however indicates that the chest seems to be operating properly again; a hole through the chest would have prevented the lungs from operating properly.
It looks like she changed her profession from blood Mage to body Snatcher. Then again just bodysnatch and could be under one of the blood mage skill set subset skills. I wonder what she’s going to do with the souls of the rest of her people. And what will she do when she finds out that there’s others of her race or planet Earth in their original bodies.
Step 1: kill the two thugs in the same room.
Step 2: To Continue, Insert 2 souls.
Viola, 2 souls from her race rescued, and with the bonus of two minions willing to work with her.
Next step … … start a gang war? Seems like a Spanish variant of one is juuuuust about to start…
Killing both the thugs right off the bat seems… wasteful. She could keep the smart one, especially if she harvests the dumb one first to demonstrate what happens to dumb ones. Voila! Instant native guide/chief human minion.
The dumb being the one who shot her, correct?
Remember, if this is Sci-fright, she has been around on Dirt for a couple decades, she has minions already, she just has to prove that she is who she says she is (knowing who her minions are, and where they be, would be a start)
Vamp lackey: “Who are you?”
Sci Mk II: “I am Sciona.”
VL: “Prove it, or become a juicebox on legs!”
Sci-2: “I found you, didn’t I? Dumbass!”
VL: “… That doesn’t prove anything!”
No, that’s the smart one who keeps working the problem. The other guy’s just there to be told to do stuff.
No, the dumb one shot her instead of getting the location of their money, and for thinking the cartel won’t want both
Cartel boss: “Thanks for the girl, now where’s our money?”
Rico: “She stole it and hide it!”
C: “You killed her before finding out where she hid it?”
R: “… Yes?”
*Bang*
C: “Great, two bodies! You! Want to make it three? FIND OUR FUCKING MONEY!!”
Meh. Considering her methods, I doubt Sciona has a high enough loyalty rating with her former minions. The souls she rescued from her planet are liable to be much more loyal, if only because she hasn’t demonstrated to them that she has no reservations about sacrificing them to get what she wants. Getting a new world for them to rule being, in fact, what she was wanting, I suspect they have more reason to trust her.
Sciona may have a sterling rep with her species. There’s a reason she was on Earth, and it seems to have something to do with wanting to return and upset the apple cart with the result placing Sciona firmly in charge.
This may or may not be important to people who had decided to become brain patterns in a battery rather than facing an actual corporeal death.
You’ve also got to consider who would do that while their world was being destroyed. It seems obvious that there would be no soldiers in the mix. It’s probably a bunch of women and children, with some cowards and politicians thrown in for good measure.
I’d disagree there. Odds are pretty good it’s the rich/powerful who would have had the resources to be near a soul battery when they weren’t able to get off planet. Of course, due to the time difference, Sciona once back would have been able to send a message to them so that it might actually be people who she selected… Dave hasn’t established any causality restrictions yet.
I’d expect that Sciona tries to send a message but it doesn’t get there in time, because that’s sort of what happened with the rescue ship. Alternately, whatever Sciona does on getting back could CAUSE the mechaCthulhu invasion…
When you shoot someone in the chest there’s going to be a lot of blood available for a Blood Mage to work with.
I wonder if this has been happening all over the planet in the last 53 days, with other individuals from Sciona’s homeworld, who were in that Necro-battery thing, also finding new bodies?
And what if at least one of them is someone who’s a bit of a nemesis to Sciona?
That WOULD make things interesting wouldn’t it?
In a hospital Emergency Room
Doctor: [ Applies defibrillator paddles to a male patient’s chest ] Clear!
Nurse: No response.
Doctor: Okay, I’m calling it. Time of death: 1:52 AM. Is his family here?
Nurse #2: Yeah, in the waiting room. Carlie & Matthew Barstow along with a teenage sister, Linda.
Doctor: Okay, I will go talk to them. [ Enters the E.R. waiting room ] Mr. and Mrs. Barstow?
Mr. Barstow: Doctor? How’s our son? We haven’t heard anything about what happened.
Mrs. Barstow: When can we see him?
Doctor: Apparently he came off his motorcycle while driving this evening. The police are still investigating. He lost a lot of blood. We did everything we could to save Tom’s life, but his injuries were just too much and he died a just few moments ago.
Mrs. Barstow: No!! [ Carlie and Linda break down crying ]
Nurse #1: Doctor Hampton! Tom’s woken up!.
Doctor: What?! Excuse me please! [ Runs back to the trauma bay ]
Tom: Asaighnew asgnwin a e egalskjdw akhabhlkadsg …
Doctor: Anybody know this language? No? Get the father in here. Hopefully he can translate. [ To the patient ] Tom? I’m Doctor Hampton. You are in the hospital. You came off your motorcycle and …
Tom: Djasdh kjsdgi adglkjha dsagh, Sciona.
Doctor: Stay calm. Can you understand me?
Mr. Barstow: [ Enters the bay with a nurse ] What? I thought you said he was dead.
Doctor: That’s what I thought. This is one time I don’t mind being wrong. Can you tell me what he is saying? Can you translate for me?
Mr. Barstow: I have no idea what he is saying. He was studying languages at university. Maybe it is one of those?
Tom: [ Closes his eyes for a few seconds ] Dad? You okay?
Mr. Barstow: Am I okay?! What about you? They said you died.
Tom: Died? Well, I guess I’m getting better. I’m still weak. I’ll need some time to recover.
Doctor: Tom? I’m Doctor Hampton. You are in the hospital. Do you know what happened to you?
Tom: I’m still piecing it together, but I think so. The last thing I remember was being on my bike and some crazy car driver side-swiping me.
Doctor: What language were you speaking when you woke up?
Tom: Sorry, I don’t remember.
Doctor: Tom, I want you to stay calm. We are going to examine you to check the extent of your injuries. Okay?
Tom: Yeah. By the way both arms hurt, but my left hurts worse than my right. What is with that hose into my right arm?
Doctor: We were giving you blood and drugs to try to stabilize you. We are going to keep it attached to you until we are sure you don’t need it. You left arm hurts because you broke the bone in your upper arm. Can you feel me touching your leg here?
Tom: Yeah, sure.
Doctor: What about here?
Tom: Yeah.
Nurse: Doctor, his broken humorous, it’s fine.
Tom: Say, about those bags of blood. Where do you keep the rest of them?
“We applied the Cortical Electrodes!”
SCONIA – Main concern about her body is it’s Tit Quantity & Quality
Wait, what? That’s not a normal Human thing? I know when I first got planetside on Earth, I didn’t know about the types of Human out there. Do now tho. Daniel the Human keeps saying I remind him of a “pubescent 12 year old boy”…
Well, yes, but also note “… starts off with …”.
So she’s already planning to upgrade, and we know she cannot do so unassisted.
Is this several weeks ago?
Are the alien ghosts hanging out together?
Is Sciona the first one to claim a human cadaver?
Is she speaking English?
In less than a minute…. Room for two more!
Oops.
Still tied to a chair.
She should have kept those comments to herself until the thugs left.
Now they’ll shoot her in the head thinking she’s a zombie.
I mean… she kinda is, just not the original soul
Yes, she’s speaking English, otherwise it’d be in chevrons.
She knew English before, so she still remembers how.
The point is, Escorpia had been speaking Spanish moments ago, now her ‘corpse’ is speaking perfect English
Well that’s a mood whiplash
I was expecting a “Meanwhile…” but not this.
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I see two thugs who are about to die horribly.
Why? They just provided her with a free body with no moral quandaries
The fact she openly started talking says she doesn’t care about anyone else present. The fact she has killed before also kind of reduces their chances of survival. They may live long enough to give her some information, or if Dave is feeling generous, they’ll escape before she can kill them and she’ll consider them of no consequence.
The “Rule of Interesting” says that the shooter will try to kill her and the other one will be smart enough to get out of the way of her reprisal. That leaves her with at least one “guide” to insert her into the cartel war. Possibly two, depending on how much she wants to make an impression on the shooter.
“About” may not be correct. Sciona does have some need of minions. But don’t sell them any life insurance. One of the lady’s faults is being highly wasteful of minions, as we have already seen.
Though she also sacrificed herself pretty readily to help the Alari souls escape to Earth; I suspect death just isn’t as big of a deal to a blood mage from a culture where “soul batteries” are a refined technology.
Still wouldn’t want to work for her myself, Coot and Wyrmril were clearly not slated for resurrection.
She doesn’t care about Dirt minions, Alari on the other flipper… (she did terminate her own body after all)
“I complain about selective universal translators in shows, yet here I am saying these people are speaking in Spanish, but I’m mixing in English and Spanish words.”
Welcome to Spanglish. The official language of the Southwest… well the Southwest of the US anyway.
Considering there’s thousands of those souls on earth now, this will turn out to be a minor non-malevolent zombie outbreak.
I bet some people will blow themselves up on deathbed because “they don’t want any immigrant freeloaders living in their body when they die”
‘Thousands’? Barely a gross
For a certain value of non-malevolent, maybe.
Hmm, are we sure that this is Sci-fright?
It almost looks like there are two spectre-clouds entering Escorpia (obviously going by the tattoo, she was The Scorpion, butt right now, she is The Corpse :P)
Serpentine.
could you have let met me think we were free of this annoying bi**h for like five more minutes.
For that comment alone… no fucking way
well at least i hope she will get the dbz’s freezer treatment when she come back to annoy us. one sword slice in the middle and shut up…
Due to the fact that about two thirds of English isn’t English and most of it is words that are used in place of actual English words that mean the same thing, for example “council” instead of the English word “moot” or the nonenglish “exhausted” instead of the English word “yolden”, a non-selective translator would probably translate everything into words most English speakers can’t understand.
Most English speakers can’t (or won’t) understand ‘normal’ English anyway
@Tokumei – yes, it’s English. You are talking about Saxon or Anglish.
Root English, even the oldest, is a mix of Saxon (Germanic) and Norman (French/Latin). Then we stole every useful word we ever ran across in any other language, and made adaptations as useful.
Did you ever wonder why we started using the past perfect tense of “to wend” (went) as the past perfect tense of “to go”? Probably because “we goed” sounds like “we goad”.
Plus, after the Norman invasion, there was a social distinction between words. Anglish words were considered low-class, and Norman ones high-class. I recall a quote, “The peasant herds the cow, the lord dines on the beef,” referencing the words cow (Anglish derived) and beef (Norman derived) and illustrating how they were applied.
That whole idea of French being the language of sophistication and refinement started out with the Norman rule of England. To quote the Merovingian from the Matrix trilogy “I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favourite – fantastic language, especially to curse with. Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperies de connards d’enculis de ta mire. It’s like wiping your ass with silk, I love it.”
Compare that with how a scientific treatise on atomic theory might sound with no borrowed words (from Uncleftish Beholding by Poul Anderson — uncleftish beholding being Anglish for atomic theory): “The firststuffs have their being as motes called *unclefts*. These are mightly small; one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called *bulkbits*. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on.” Makes sense, but doesn’t sound ‘intellectual,’ does it?
I’ve unironically used “wend” in conversation and was understood perfectly by the person I was speaking to… But then, I have a habit of deconstructing words and patterns in English to derive old words that are no longer in use, and this person was used to the way I think.
For example…
Here and There answers Where
Hence and ? answers Whence
? and That answers What
? and Then answers When
So I’ve been known to say “thence” “hat” and “hen” where it would be gramaticaly correct to do so given the pattern. Not often, but my brain is weird when processing language and sometimes I can’t think of the usual word, so I back-construct words.
I still say, however, that a non-selective translator that translates exclusively into English would render everything unintelligible to most people, and I personally would probably barely grasp the gist of it after reading it several times.
Fun fact: I was able to grasp the gist of the untranslated Beowulf without having to take any lessons in Old English… but only just the gist.
“Thence” is a perfectly good obsolete word. “We shall go to the store and thence to the party.”
The other two slots are held by “this” and “now”. Introducing homophones for common words like Hat/hut and hen for consistency’s sake doesn’t strike me as any better than what English has now.
You might want to work on that mental thing you have where you think of Germanic Old English as “English” though. English is a Germanic syntax with primarily Latin and Greek word roots. Either change the leading E to A (Anglish) or include some kind of restrictive specifier, because English is what it is.
On another note: I found the consistency of Japanese particles/pronouns/determiners to be refreshing, though. The fact that you could build a consistent matrix was great for a beginning learner. On the other hand, self reference was a bear if you wanted to be correct other than watashi.
Never never never never never say atashi to refer to yourself unless you’re trying to be cute with your significant other… And many other pieces of advice I could give to Western enthusiasts, as a native speaker of Japanese.
Heh, had always viewed ‘wend’ as a past(?) particle of ‘wind’, similar to the usage of ‘wound’ (no, not the injury, sounds like ‘mound’)
No, wend us the present tense of went.
Like said, only knew it as a tense of ‘wind’
“They had to wend their way through the windy bramble path”
English sucks having so damn many words that have different meanings >:{
Capulla? What country is that from? Is this like actual Spaniard Spanish?
Indeed
I’m thinking Mexico.
The original insult its “capullo” the origin of the word refers to one part of the penis (the skin that covers the glande, also its sinonim with a part of flowers).
Nope, it´s from spain. (Mexican Here)
Just a minor complain, capullo is an insult mostly used in continental spain, almost never used in American Spanish, I suggest changing it for “idiota/tarado/imbécil”
Capullo un this context would translate into dickhead, it is vulgar for glans, and commonly used for profanity in Spanish (is Spain at least)
Who says they are in America? o_O
Incidentally google lied to you, those are obscenities. By definition profanities have a religious element.
If you give us a nationality, we can provide a location appropiate insult. Like
Mexico: pendeja
Argentina: boluda
Colombia: gonorrea
so on and so forth…
Couldn’t gonorrhea be any crack house anywhere?
It’s an STD.
That’s what they were implying
Puerto Rico: Cabrona
Introducing a short lived character,or is she????
Getting off the topic of the other comments I read, the Japanese have invented a translator that will handle 43 languages. Not sure how effective it is, it might be as bad as the internet translation programs, but it is a portable audio translator that’s about the size of a cell phone.
You comments did remind me of the Britcom series “Allo ‘Allo. People changed accents to show they were speaking another language. It’s a funny series set in WWII.
Love that show. Herr Flick and Officer Crabtree are my favorite characters.
Good moaning
Minor qualm: Panel 3 has blood ejecting out of her chest when she’s being shot. It doesn’t work that way. The bullets are going to fast to cause a “Splash” or “Spray” effect on the near side of her body. The backside, yes, but certainly not from her chest.
Interesting scene change. Timing, of course is perfect. Hollywood level: I totally blame Sydney for it. :)
Eh. Forensics would disagree with you.
Battlefield experience would do the same.
Pop a pressurized vessel and it can go everywhere. Especially if you pierce arteries.
That would depend on the caliber, type of ammunition, distance and so on. At that range (near contact), with a large caliber, the powder spray is likely to kick up a welt, the bullet punch through, and then the overpressure in the chest cavity will splash in both directions. The frame is frozen at one exact moment in time, so the splash is stopped in the air in both directions… but there’s very little chance his bare chest wouldn’t have blood splash all over it within the next tenth of a second.
Calm your qualms, you’re wrong.
First off, any large caliber gun, especially at close range, will cause backsplash. A cartel thug isn’t going to be packing a pea-shooter, so we can assume that even a 9 mm is on the smallish side of possibilities. A .40 S&W or a 10 mm mag are more likely, even a .45 ACP to ensure proper signalling of his testosterone levels. If he has access to serious money, maybe even a .50 Desert Eagle.
Second, that’s not a single shot. BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! Plenty of open wound right over/through her heart for copious spray in all directions. There’s probably fragments of bone and flesh stuck to Rico, not just blood mist.
“Tit quantity”
Yeah, it’d be nice if I had 7 tits.
That’s like 2 normal women and one Total Recall Mars hooker.
Seems like the kind of things that would get in the way a lot. Two seems like trouble enough for women.
Good moaning
Bugger, landed in wrong comment thread. Ignore me
Listen carefully, I shall zay dis only once!
This is the place for mock Spanish/English, not mock French/English.
Only once? Does that mean you will not taunt him a second time?
It would depend on whether he was taunting an English pig-dog or not.
“Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode of POSSESS THAT CORPSE! and without further ado allow me to introduce today’s lucky winner… SCIONAAAAAAAAA Give her a big hand everyone!”
“Actually, we’re giving her two hands – this corpse is really in pretty good condition. She managed with just the top half of her head during her last appearance on the show, let’s see what she can do with a full body!”
This week on “This Old Corpse” we will be starting our renovation with some much need repairs to the circulatory system and our new owner will be discussing some cosmetic changes to the nose.
+1
“However she plans to keep the rest of the original front elevation just as it is. I think the biggest change will be converting the power system over to a new energy source.”
Your translator seems to be broken, Puta is still spanish. xD
nevermind… you already knew.
Apparently you noticed it yourself… nevermind.
Pretty good gig for Sciona. Central american drug cartel, people disappear all the time, all the blood she could want.
And all the nice tits she can lay her hands on
What? A girl gotta have priorities
Private compounds, anonymous transportation, lots of money, plenty of bodies for her fellow Alari, probably outside Archon jurisdiction…
I’m thinking a cartel is just about the best possible place for Sciona to start rebuilding.
Don’t care if its been done already but obligatory “DUN DUN DUN!” Dammit Sciona least you’ve got your preferences straight
Well my friend “Capullo” or “capulla” is an insult in spanish yes but just in spain, and although I’m sure that there might be Cartels in spain these guys seam Latino to me, maybe mexican to go with the cliched steriotype, a better insult would be “mamona” or “pinche mamona” which would thanslate to “sucker” or “fucking Sucker” respectively you could even sey in Spanglish “Fucking Mamona” and it would be perfect for those of us Latinos that follow your amazing comic jejejjeje!!
well wonder if the other soul is still in the body and she goes full on build another body and place that soul in it or if human souls final words before departing basicly askes sciona to kick their asses. XD
Wait . . . Is Escorpia a pun on ex corpora? As in, “out from the body?”
Nope, Scorpion (look at her head tattoo, that ain’t no lobster)
Hmm, does “explicit gang-style murder” fit into TopWebComics PG-13 rating?
Have you rad this comic? You might review one or two of Sydney’s expletive-saturated tirades.
Also, PG-13 is dedicated to ensuring that children aren’t exposed to an exposed nipple or implied sex. Gruesome torture, murder, dismemberment, and all forms of (non-sexual) violence are all God-fearing, Christian values that are the patriotic duty of all Americans to indoctrinate children with.
Also also, TopWebComics doesn’t give a wet fart about so-called ratings. Several webcomics with graphic porn scenes regularly make it into the top 20 and even break into the top 10 and top 5 slots. GrrlPower could be rated G by those standards.
Of course they do. It’s very hard to get anywhere in TopWebComics rating unless you regularly put new porn image as vote incentive.
If you actually read Syney’s tirades you will find they have few actual obscenities in them. They have a lot of insulting names and rude/suggestive comparisons, but few out right obscene words.
Nope. This is clearly over the top for PG-13.
Not so clearly. There is plenty of room for interpretation in the official description:
‘Some’ is a very subjective term. One gangland killing out of 743 comics is a pretty low rate of incidence. If it were me on the ruling body I’d give it a pass.
I did not say that the entire comic was, I said THIS is. And it is.
One dish with dog poop in it on one day does not retroactively and forever render an entire restaurant to be haram for its whole existence. But that dish is haram.
What a shame that we had to wait so long to get a page featuring “Some Other Guy.” He’s been sorely missing.
As others have said, “capullo” IS really weird looking because it´s very specific to Spain-Spanish, not even Neutral-Spanish.
Considering you are portraying these people as part of a drug cartel, you would be MUCH better off using Mexican or Colombian slang like: pinche puta, mamona, hija de perra, pendeja.
Source: Born and raise Mexican :D
Very few people realize there is “Spanish Spanish”, “Mexican Spanish” and who knows how many different “South/Central American Spanishes”.
In Brazil, they speak Portuguese.
My Puerto Rican GrandMother made absolutely certain that I knew there was Mexican Spanish, Spain Spanish and Puerto Rican Spanish. but refused to let me learn spanish in school claiming they taught the wrong spanish. and wouldnt teach me spanish as she wanted me to be completely american. figure that one out
There was one family I read about that said, “They teach my children in Spanish at school so they can be workers. I teach them English at home so they can be doctors and lawyers.”
Looks like your grandmother agreed with them.
Ok. So Capulla, the feminine of capullo (kah-poo-yo) is literally flower bud and is something I’ve only heard used as a term of endearment. Similar to calling someone cute.
Sciona couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
They may as well be wearing red shirts about now.
They will be soon enough :D
Okay, this is a world where superpowers, magic, and monsters are not only real, but accepted as part of daily life. The corpse just started speaking in a different voice and language.
…Run. Run very, very fast. Or, alternatively, greet the newcomer VERY politely, ask who they are, and offer to untie their new vessel. “Adios, senorita. Enjoy the new body with our complements.”
Hmm. I might have to do that $50 pledge to have you put one of my characters in your comic.
After saying that she got shot and had to yet again be told she shouldn’t keep getting her bodies killed, all the others were sorted out and integrated into human society in under a week.
RE: Translation.
It’s my personal opinion that in, say… Mass Effect? Yeah, let’s go with that as an example. In Mass Effect, the Universal Translator specifically skips certain words that have more meaning to a certain language (Keelah Salai, Ardat-Yakshi, Bosh-Tet), in order to maintain a sense of cultural diversity.
Oh hell.
Why are you all so sure that this is that Alari and not some other Alari? Not to emntion that it might be something else. Naturally, the author never tries to deceive any reader.
Yeah, wondered that as well: it is most likely to be an Alari, may or may not be Sci-fright (remember the last thing said on the previous page)
Because (1) in the prior page, Sydney asked whatever happened to Sciona, an extremely specific segue. The following scene must in some way be about what happened to Sciona.
Also because (2) we know Sciona went to a lot of trouble to rebuild her prior troll body into her original female body, including a minor adjustment to embiggen the tits. As such, there is zero doubt as to who took over Escorpiona’s freshly dead body.