Grrl Power #786 – Temptress of fate
Sydney trying to ‘sploit her genre knowledge has every chance of backfiring. That or she didn’t call out the right thing. Maybe “Smash cut to me stumbling out of an exploded massage parlor!” or “…an exploded chicken nugget factory!” or “…an exploded warehouse full of open topped vats of chemicals where someone definitely fell in and became a supervillain!”
Honestly, anyone attacking wherever these ladies winds up would be in for a hell of a surprise, suddenly facing a mix of Arc-SWAT, Arc-LIGHT, and Semper Vigilatis. Also Olivia. Not sure how her Zumba classes would help, but you know they would somehow be the key to victory.
Evidently, a side effect of lycanthropy for some people is a bit of a step up in the cup size department. I seem to have accidentally drawn Kat with a bit extra up top. (She’s the straw blonde in the green top for those of you who don’t recall the 5 pages she appeared in at the Twilight Council meeting. She’s a were-hare.) Not sure if that’s going to be canon. The new big boobs thing, not the were-hare thing. That’s locked in. But who knows, maybe she borrowed a magic bra from Decolette.
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This is gonna be a good night. Just needs Maxima.
Only if she’s in disguise (she doesn’t want people to know she is a relapsed nerd)
Any disguise would have a heck of a time sticking to her, considering paint has trouble… maybe a glamour of some sort(?) – a tweak in the veil might be quite the “special request”, so I wouldn’t hold my breath for that one.
Sydney would almost definitely discover her, of course — and the requisite yelling of something like “Maxima! When did you get here?!” to reveal the cover when she grabs her true sight orb for a moment
Didn’t say it had to be an elaborate one, simply wearing a hat, long sleeves and gloves could work, or maybe one of those stick-on illusions Les and Morph used in the bank
And Maxi would not be that stupid to hide from Sydney: she would go straight to her and make sure she doesn’t accidentally ‘out’ her
Hell, given the tech on display in this comic, they probably have sufficiently realistic masks for her to wear.
It was established early on, bank robbery, that Archon has access to illusion masks.
Not masks, illusory stick-on tattoos
Which masked their identities
Wide-brimmed hat, long-sleeved coat with turned-up collar, gloves . . . now I really want to see Maxima dressed as Carmen Sandiego. :-)
Dabbler doubtless has some suitable glamour in stock. The only problem is that it would come with embarrassing wardrobe malfunctions built in.
Which is why Dabbles would be the last person Maxi would go to :P
She hasn’t forgotten the ‘clean-up’ spell in the Twilight Chamber
Maxima’s just lucky that she’s unlikely to need a warming-up spell at the same time…
Time to get some “high tech aliens” to weave her a skinsuit disguise…
A Magic Illusion spell would work. As we know from the Bank incident, they do still work on supers.
Of course that would raise questions if the Illusion came off. Questions like “How TF did you do that? Secret Hologramm Tech or is Magic real?”
But I just realized, with Coras Hologramm tech, this might actually have become a feasible option for Maxima. “Alien tech did it” is the new “A Wizard did it.”
“still work on supers” meaning they can be applied to supers? Or that they work to fool supers?
Cora’s tech would probably indeed work quite well to disguise Maxima if she wanted to, as it’s called “hard light” – so I have to wonder what Sydney’s true sight orb would make of hard light? She certainly had the opportunity to find out while on the ship, but that was never referenced, that I recall.
It would be interesting to hear @DaveB’s statement, because that would be entirely too easy to get an alien hard light projector and awfully enticing to perhaps Deus X, if it could fool even the Truesight orb… not that we’ve seen any evidence that Deus has any idea who Sydney is at this point…
@DaveB?
Thank you for showing me that people can still not understand the simplest of statements and over-explain the obvious to the point of ad nauseam. I try to not expect anything from others but I still get sad when the lowest bar I have fails to be set low enough. I just wish people would put the effort in to get up to snuff. I hope not to be back to comment ever again but I’ve disappointed myself before so who knows.
What? o_O
Look back at the bank incident comics, and you’ll see that the answer is clearly yes. They were applied to supers successfully, and they could fool supers.
Deus knows who Sydney is. Sydney visited Deus office with Maxima, they’ve met. Sydney’s seen Deus’ sword collection (and no, that’s not a euphemism).
Assuming “X” (the guy from ARC-Dark who was assigned to keep an eye on Dabbler) uses something like holograms, Sydney’s true sight orb works through that as easily as through Dabbler’s magic-based glamour (“the only thing about a succubus that’s designed to be impenetrable” according to Maxima).
It didn’t penetrate a mask made of folded paper with eye holes poked through it that Peggy held in front of her face, though.
So, the question is, is hard light like clothing or a paper mask, or is it like a holographic screen or a glamour?
Maybe the true sight orb would penetrate the disguise/appearance layer, but not the solid ‘wireframe’ structure? Hard to say unless/until DaveB decides it’s story-relevant and depicts it one way or the other.
Speaking of Cora; I have to wonder if Sydney’s True Sight would show Cora floating, nude, in the air with no limbs?
Kinda creepy, I know, but this could come up as a point, should someone use a hard light construct to disguise themselves as a dragon or some such.
The point where the boss joins in is generally the point when the fun stops.
Forget about Kate’s breast. What threw me off was Varia’s waist. A little more meat would complement her warrior look.
Who said she was a warrior? And she is lean, not anorexic
She is lean enough to be missing organs
No she’s not, she’s just as lean as Kat, just taller, plus, she’s a Super with a Super’s perfect physique
Ever watch Ninja Warrior? Any version of them? Plenty of the women look like her
That depends on the boss.
Some bosses are good to have at parties…even when it comes time to foot the bill.
It all depends on what kind of boss.
Off-Topic Topic of the Week:
Does Varia immediately test her powers out on anyone new that she meets? (With their consent first, obviously.)
I would think just the opposite.
She should be wearing gloves.
Fairly sure she is not like Rogue: she can control her powers
Nope. She doesn’t drain people, so it’s not as bad as rouge, but she doesn’t have full control over them. At least that’s what I got the last time she was on page, which was quite a while back both IRL and in universe.
Was more meaning that she can touch people without having to wear a full bodysuit and finger to shoulder opera gloves
Maybe not everyone new, but at least the ones she will see more often I would think. If only to make sure an accidental brush in doesn’t activate some kind of ‘turn water into steam’ power while standing next to the water cooler.
She seems to have some way of recognizing and controlling the powers she picks up on contact. So water coolers exploding into steam might not be a thing that randomly happens when she touches a new person.
That said, neither she nor Sydney seemed to have any clue that the orbs changed their orbit when they were touching, so… Inconsistent power set?
Varia doesn’t HAVE to test her power out on everyone she meets – she just likes to. Having a power that manifests differently when she touches different people, she’d want to try it with as many people as she could. Hope she’s not an introvert!
Speaking of which… Varia is standing VERY close to Olivia in that first panel…
*Olivia and Varia’s shoulders incidentally touch, Varia sparkles as a new power manifests*
Varia: ooOOOOOooh!! *spins around, spins Olivia around to face her* HI pleased to meet you what’s your name??
Olivia: Oh! Um, I’m Oliv-
V: Hi Oliv I’m So-cheel it’s SO great to meet you do you want to be friends I think we should be friends let’s be GOOD friends and hang out a lot do you want to hang out we should hang out
O: Um, O-
V: GREAT LET’S GO GET DRINKS! *whisks her away*
Elspeth: …Rude!
So they going experiment with Homosexuality later on or what?
Where did that comment come from?
Looks like It Came From The Internet!
It came from the stupid end of the Internet. Titan is apparently one of those basement dwelling incels that believe all women are latent lesbians.
They’re trying to start a polyamorous relationship with the same guy, it’s not that far of a leap in logic to assume they might experiment with each other
Relationships work better long term if people actually get to know each other before the bump and grind…and make sure they want a relationship.
While I’d agree in general terms with that, does it apply to the three specific characters here?
Leon has near-zero relationship experience (referred to “both times” a girl has asked him out (i.e. Krona, and later Sydney), and didn’t really imply his own experience as the asker-out (ask-outer?) was much greater). He specifically said “I’ve hardly dated enough women to have established a ‘type.'”
Sydney has evinced a willingness to become “snow” with a “woof-shaped snow angel in it” basically hours after meeting Frix. Unless she equates space with Las Vegas, it might be safe to speculate that she’s willing to “get physical” before laying (no pun intended) a relationship structure on other levels, if her fancy is struck the right way.
Krona’s reaction to Leon’s question about whether Sydney was suggesting all three of them date each other was “Why would you jump straight to that!?” in contrast to Sydney’s “I’m not into girls!”
If anything, Sydney seems to have definitively said she’s pegged (no pun intended) to the hetero end of the Kinsey scale, so even though Krona’s seemingly more bi-receptive (at least conceptually), that pretty much shuts off the notion . . . unless Sydney discovers her ability to be attracted to other people is broader than her previous experience/assumptions. The only specific experiences we know about involve an Edward Elric body pillow and a space Woof, which I’m assuming aren’t the whole list, or necessarily representative. Maybe?
I was going to say she didn’t know she was attracted to furry anthropomorphic beings before Frix . . . but she knew; she just didn’t know there were actual examples available for . . . errr . . . snow-angeling.
That depends on whether they really want a relationship or whether they just want some orgasms with cuddling afterwards for a time.
Sexual desires change with changes in circumstances.
Well.. a couple of them ARE lesbians actually. Pixel and Elsbeth are at least bi, and in a relationship. Or at least something that involved pixel being put in fuzzy handcuffs and being spanked.
Not all but two of them are. Pixel and Elsbeth (okay, they might be bisexual instead, but they’ve been in at least one sexual encounter with each other that involved fuzzy handcuffs and spankings (where Pixel was on the receiving end).
Didn’t think we had seen enough of Elsp to know what orientation she was: all she did was say that she had fuzzy handcuffs (when asked if she had manacles in her book) which prompted Pixelicious to grin like a schoolgirl and counter that Pixelicious likes to be spanked, nothing to indicate they were connected
I’m pretty sure that no one else knew that Pixel likes to be spanked from Pixel’s reaction.
It’s a pretty good guess that one has done so to the other.
Or they are close friends and traded some private talk at some point. A game of Truth or Dare, or an in vino veritas moment, or whatever. I mean, it’s not out of the question, but it really wasn’t made clear exactly how they each knew about the other’s kink(s).
It’s possible that they’re close friends who tell each other about their kinks, true. I just think that the scene in question was telegraphing that they’ve been in a scenario where she would have known it from personal experience.
From the doe eyes that Kat and Pixel are exchanging, and from the fact that 8 of the 10 women in that party are seriously endowed, and 3 of them wear clothes that hug their figures like paint. Varia is just the one who’s most on the nose there.
“doe eyes”
ISWYDT
3 out of 9 (Sydney, Pixelicious and Kronahrome are all A-Team members), and that is an elbow next to Vahriah
Pixel is kinda-sorta in the “A-Team” Remember her Were-Jaguar form
I read that as Were-Jaggar form. Yeah, she seems about as tough as those Girl Genius warriors.
Is that more or less tough than being as tough as the lead singer of the Rolling Stones? I mean, think of what his body has endured…
Also, Girl Genius’ are Jagers (German for hunter).
Thought they were Jaegers
That just goes to show you how confused I can be first thing in the morning.
Technically the correct spelling is “Jäger”. But the Umlaut-free compatibility spelling is “Jaeger”. Despite Unicode being a “thing”, people still seem to prefer the Umlaut free spelling internationally.
Jager does not mean anything. Except for sounding close to “Mick Jagger”.
In both Dutch and German jager means hunter.
(Wiki: Jäger, Jager, or Jaeger, meaning “hunter” in German)
So if I drink jagermeister, I’m drinking master of the hunt.
That makes sense actually.
Yes, you have seen the emblem on the bottle, haven’t you?
It’s more the fact drinking it makes you the Master of the Hunt, not that you are drinking the essence of the Hunt’s Master (the sweaty, salty, essence)
That’s because having to remember the Unicode when on a non-European keyboard is a pain in the neck, and adding the ‘e’ shows the correct pronounciation
Was going by their appearance in that panel, remember, Kat in her were-bun form has no boobs
But she got those LEGZ FOR DAYZ!!! Mmmh!
Yes, yes she does :)
She’s got legs, and knows how to use them :P
Syd, stop tempting fate like that……
You’re basically chumming the waters, then DARING fate to come get you……
That’s why she’s the main character. She makes stuff happen.
Blame the veil for the cup size upgrade. Maybe you can pay the council for a cosmetic upgrade package on your alter ego.
I’m imagining that as a micro payment system now. Ten thousand gold per permanent cup size, six hundred gold for a one week boost, two hundred per makeup pack skin.
They’d make more money than Valve.
Huh… hit the wrong button, and instead of 1 cup permanently, you spend the next week 16 sizes larger…
This reminded me of an interview with a former Playboy model where she recalled Hefner bitching to her about how much he spent per year on cosmetic surgery, because it was apparently a free perk of being one of their models.
Hmm, just how much boost can a padded push-up bra provide?
Quite a lot actually
I think it depends a lot on how much you’ve got to begin with.
With the correct bra, even an A-cup can look like a C
Butt yes, it does greatly depend on how much they have to work with, most of it is relocated fat so if they are too skinny, there is really nothing that can work without adding something externally (obviously not referring to surgery)
Women are chameleons… They can change appearance fairly dramatically from day to day, outfit to outfit, makeup and hair, etc.
So who’s overseeing this little event this time? *drum roll*
Hmm. Yea, Archon would send an officer or an NCO on an outing with recruits. They had Peggy and Anvil both at Club Oontz. Probably wouldn’t send the Doctor though she’s probably an officer in Arc-Lite or Arc-Swat. Hiro is male. There are surely some we haven’t met. Maybe Heatwave?
The aforementioned Maxima idea?
Well Sydney i think you just threw down the gauntlet for Krona to make it happen by the end of the night.
The ware hare thing is recent and new for her, right>Dave B?
Maybe now it’s fully integrating with her and making her more curvaceous.
Ie more attractive for a mate…you know rabbits…
Also Veil might be at fault here. Culturally rabbit girls are thought to be sexy ie playboy. So a nerd repairing the veil might tweak a few things to make girls he likes more fun to look at…
Or it could be that She is eating better…
Nah, wonder push-up bra
Suddenly, an amorous French wereskunk appears…
Smash cut to him standing in front of a judge on a sexual harassment suit!
But it turns out to be his cousin, a French judge. The French jubilantly sweep the wereskunk into elected office.
Maybe her bust size increases during Rabbit Season? And concomitantly reduces during Duck Season? Let’s not even think about what it does during Elmer season.
And, thanks for Rule-34-ing Looney Tunes for us. Is nothing sacre… oh right, Rule 42. (－‸ლ)
My evil plan is coming together.
Soon we will sing the anvil song…
Krona is looking so, so cute and pretty here, but the theory that she hacked herself to look more Asian in (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-775-grrls-night/) is looking more and more credible.
I should point out that her self description as an indoor nerd makes the likelihood that she hacks her appearance to give herself unnaturally wide animé eyes more likely. The eyes we normally see her with are only normal in animé.
Except that Sydney and Pixel have the same size eyes (as per their cute, petite character designs, particularly to designate Sydney and Krona as nerds (I don’t know if Pixel is just meant to be short or also a nerd)) and while the latter is a shapeshifter, neither have hacking powers or anything that specifically can alter appearance like that.
Yeah, but DaveB has said that Sydney is intentionally drawn animé style for expressiveness.
Which means that Krona’s eyes are as big as…animé eyes.
BTW, I gotta point out that “Asian eyes” =/= “animé eyes”. I’m talking about eyes with an epicanthic fold that is common to people from Asia, particularly East Asia and Southeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.). It gives a distinct shape and look to the eye. You can see this in the update I linked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicanthic_fold
Right. Those are the eyes Krona probably has.
Not the unnaturally ly wide eyes she often appears to have.
for those of you who don’t recall the 5 pages she appeared in at the Twilight Council meeting
I only connected the face thanks to that side remark, and honestly, the art style has evolved since then.
Here’s the relevant page:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-447-grand-kawaii-seizure/
Yeah, thought her hair was different, butt nope, just her face that’s different (is it just me who liked her original appearance better?)
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Aside from Kat’s bust size, I am more worried about VARIA’s spine and waist – is that healthy anatomicly speaking ?
The only women I’ve seen with waists like that had surgery to remove a floating rib or two. Not really healthy.
But on Varia it’s probably just the “Supers all look unnaturally good.” effect that’s already been noted to be part of the syndrome.
Guess you have never watched professional athletes, Ninja Warrior would be a great start (Australian NW has just finished, shame the only female to make it to the Grand Final splashed out early :( )
Compare the width of her shoulders to the width of her hips and waist.
Again, what does that have anything to do with it? Have you seen a real female professional athlete?
Look at Kat, she is built the same way, she’s just a little shorter than Vahriah
Where’s Harem?????
Not invited (and sulking, with three tubs of different ice cream, one is On Duty and sulking even harder, the last one is sleeping)
Harem was about the first one who invited herself. Arguably even before Krona.
She did? When?
Oh right, butt didn’t Sydney turn her down? Like said: not invited and sulking
So you interpret “Alright! I’ll ask Krona if she wants to make it a group thing” as turn her down?
Yes, because rather than take Daphne up on the offer, she phoned someone else
Did you not see Daphne’s face after Sydney said that?
The thing about a Grrl’s night out: It’s all fun and games until they visit a tattoo parlor. Or a bar with a glory hole.
One of those is a typo.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/character/elspbeth/
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/character/elsbeth/
But ‘Elspeth’ would be fine.
( Shall I call you Mr Important?
Or Not? )
Could be a woman.
In which case, shall you call her Miss Information?
First name Ing?
I think she’s been named on-panel as Elsbeth (as opposed to the our-world real-but-uncommon name Elspeth). Both almost certainly being variations on the same root as the far more common Elizabeth.
Nice to see Specs again :D
What the heck is her power? Gotta be better than ‘sees through coloured lenses’
It wasn’t really put on display since it wasn’t needed, but she can basically look in any direction without turning her head. The ability does disable her ability to see with her physical eyes, so technically she’s impossible to blind.
Being able to analyze things is the main use of the spectral eyes at work, but the “hidden” power is a personal time dilation effect. Think a nearly unlimited V.A.T.S from Fallout that can be adjusted in speed to preference, while the freely moving spectral eyes basically lets her have 360 vision at the same time. That’s convenient in a fight for sure, though her own physical abilities are still that of a human so there’s a limit to how fancy she can be in her own physical output while in the time-dilated state.
(yes, it’s similar to Adrian’s power)
She sort of has Superman’s non-harmful vision senses but with an explicit visual effect around her eyes to show they’re in use. We don’t know exactly what kinds of “visions” she has, but she was asked by Archon to look at Sydney’s orbs. She first appeared around the time Sydney first met Pixel (although that’s a lot of updates to look through to find, which is why I’m not linking to it here).
Man, Patreon deleted my original patreon convo with Dave or something, so even I can’t remember exactly what the different options for the specs are able to do. Only Dave knows now. :-o
I’m pretty sure it includes being able to see a deeper color spectrum, though. Like UV radiation and such.
this one
That’s the one, was trying to find it butt Specs isn’t Tagged on this page, and the Characters link only points to this page
She can see in different, umm, wavelengths? dimensions?
Tried using the Characters listing, butt it doesn’t show either of their first times (even Pixelicious has only three entries)
Sydney, saying that to a reality hacker is just tempting fate!
Is it just me expecting that when Cora’s tech recreated Sydney’s glasses they added standard features like holographic recording and transmit function (and a homing beacon) so that Cora and Dabbler can just sit back and watch Sydney being Sydney for downtime? And then I can see Dabbler giving Maxima a highlight reel of “Girls’ night out” to see if any more ‘word bingo’ items pop out.
Archon has Arc-Lite, Ark-dark, and a relationship with the Twilight council.
I think Cora would expect them to discover anything she did to the glasses, and probably would not have done anything Archon would not approve of.
However, Sydney wasn’t wearing her choker at the time the glasses were being made, so using the choker interface cora could have reverse engineered the tactical glasses which the choker used to be the microphone for. I assume she would have told Dabbler if she did that. They are probably hella durable and photoreactive.
… who’s saying Archon didn’t approved it?
Not I.
I am saying that Cora would not have installed much of anything without informing Archon.
She is aware of Archon’s resources as far as detecting anything installed into Sydney’s glasses.
Resources which include aliens with the same technology Cora has.
Butt you are saying she would have done it without Sydney knowing about it, and that would be an extreme betrayal of trust
Sydney gets exited about stuff (like say…holographic fairy wings) Telling Archon and letters them tell Sydney (or not) protrects Sydney’s sometimes eratic feelings if Archon decides she can’t keep alien made versions of what had been secret Archon communications and intelligence gear.
That’s a betrayal in the same way buying your granddaughter a car for her sixteenth birthday but not telling her until her parents decide if she is responsible enough to keep a car is a betrayal.
No, it’s not the same thing, if you had said “buying you granddaughter a car for her sixteenth birthday and not informing her there are hidden cameras and a tracking device” would be the same thing
Like said: without Sydney knowing her new glasses allows Cora and Archon to see everything she sees would be a huge betrayal
But you are suggesting something entirely different from what I was suggesting, so yeah what you are suggesting is different but what I was suggesting is not.
I was suggesting that Cora could have duplicated the functions of the Archon tactical spectacles (which were all originally destroyed in the restaurant fight) into a nigh indestructible pair of glasses for Sydney. Not hidden devices to spy on her.
Try reading what I actually wrote instead of imagining something different and then trying to attribute it to me.
No, not you, butt you seemed to have agreed with ScottotheUnwise that Sydney would not be aware of the recording
And how would Cora know about Archon’s Tactical Glasses if none of them survived their first combat test?
Sydney probably didn’t even know Cora was going to fix her glasses until Cora handed them back to her
As long as the remade glasses are nothing more than what they seem to be, don’t believe anyone would care that they were made using a fabber rather than the ‘conventional’ Dirt-tech way
What will Olivia make of all these ladies???
Olivia is in real danger here.
Her name starts with “O”, she’s pretty and athletic and she is in the company of two beautiful female weres.
This sets up the potential to acquire a were stalker which could further a sequence of events leading ther to become a were..(animal name starting with”O”) setting her up for a lead role when DaveB starts the Semper Vigilantis series.
Were-orangutan* would be super badass. Normal orangutans are super strong and a were version would probably be even more so.
* Do not call her a monkey.
Of course not, Orangutans are great apes.
“Great”?
They’re AMAZING apes!
AWESOME apes!
Hmm… or a were-okapi? Were-ocelot? Were-stritch!
Were- otter, ostrich, opossum.
The girls’ night ends with Sydney taking a very over served Olivia home….!
Hmm, I am sure it was just an artistic choice, but with all that closed off body language (Closed arms, no contact, small pairings) this get together has some tension in it. But like I said, I am likely just imagining things.
I think you’re right. But not for the reason you suggest.
The one on the left rear we know doesn’t give a damn. The one in the middle-right rear isn’t actually crossing her arms – she appears to be gesturing with the left while the right arm isn’t visible. The one in the right rear we know is proud and haughty. Of course, the two nerds are crossing their arms because they’re nerds in a crowd.
That’s Specs in the left rear, not Clover
Not sure who you mean by the ‘middle-right rear’, wait, you mean Olivia
For many of these ladies, it’s their first time meeting (as far as we know)
You’re correct; my mistake. I’m terrible with names. And apparently hairstyles.
My point is that their posture is related to their personality. It wasn’t just an “artistic” decision.
Then again, I don’t know who Specs is, so maybe I’m wrong.
Specs works with Pixel as part of ARC-Light.
She has confirmed that Sydney is, indeed, a special little butterfly. And for that, Sydney likes her.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-429-snap-judgements/
Enjoy this night, Sydney. You kind of left at the very beginning of Basic Training. Your days and nights will be filled to overflowing once again. And, as she is now 2 months behind everyone else, she is going to get a lot of one-on-one training.
But after what she has been through, she will probably grit her teeth and throw herself into training with determination. The whiny recruit phase is likely over.
Sounds reasonable.
YAY! Specs! Man, even I had forgotten about her by now xD
I actually recognized every character even though some haven’t appeared in years; which is kind of impressive for DaveB to keep his characters that distinct and memorable as the cast grows.
I just loved Syndey’s reaction to the were-bunny. It was priceless.
Is the one with the grey hair in the middle of the first panel sporting an AdMec/skitarii style dress?
Have no idea what an ‘AdMec/skitarii style dress’ is supposed to look like
Nah, that’s a red dress, the skitarii wear red open coats with hoods.
The Adeptus Mechanicus coat has a hem more or less like her dress.
Apart from that, I think the AM looks more like a mecha style Santa.
NB: characters from Warhammer 40K.
Thank you D-man
Hmm – smash cut adlibs, Go!
Smash Cut to Pixel and Sydney stumbling out of the smoking ruins of the Bolivian Embassy.. in Jamaica!
Just because Olivia hasn’t displayed any meta abilities (thus far) does not preclude her possession of them.
I’m kinda hoping this arc is where Olivia’s power is revealed (as something lame), but honestly it would feel kinda cliche to have every secondary character secretly turn out to be a super. Halo needs some Muggle friends too.
I guess it’s showing how much of a nerd I am… but I look forward to her guilds to finding out even more than this night out. :)
Krona could probably make a jump-cut happen if she had looser morals.
So many people with their arms crossed high and tight…oddly more of a masculine pose than a feminine one if you look around bars or parties. Also, usually a sign that they’re not enjoying themselves or are ill at ease…
Their version of breast support for all those weighty mammaries?
I assumed the super powers took care of that, otherwise that kind of crossed arm support usually only comes in the first month post augmentation surgery, when things are still healing…
As a person who has had large breasts and who has known people with even larger ones, I can confirm that the crossed-arms support position absolutely happens with people who have never had augmentation. Seriously, just because your boobs grew the old fashioned way doesn’t mean they don’t hurt and sometimes need more support than any bra can offer.
I bow to your direct knowledge of the situation.
Well, they are standing around in line waiting to get in. I know that I’m rarely enjoying myself in those situations.
I think I’m just going to leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZscGvQ6JhSA
Based on the previous comic, Pixel’s bustline in her were form is about where her head is in her human (and Veil) form. Does that mean from her point of view people are constantly looking at her breasts even when they think they are making eye contact?
They’ll be looking at her actual eyes, but later, they won’t remember having had to look so far up to do so.
That can make a certain amount of sense, but out of curiosity, what do you think about things like YouTube videos with veiled supers, lycans, etc — does that require the veil to modify the memories of everyone watching those videos? Or is it more like it would modify the recording (like tweaking the pattern of light that hits the camera sensor) before it gets to the internet…(?)
I assume The Viel works like the tourist glamour disguises, and operates directly on how the object looks in the observable spectrum, rather than on how it is perceived by observers. That’s much simpler and affects people, animals, and technology alike.
“Honestly, anyone attacking wherever these ladies winds up would be in for a hell of a surprise,”
An argument for stuff happening spontaneously around such a group is that the concentration of power sets off plotters of nefarious deeds. The plotters feel that something has changed , don’t know what it is, and decide that the time has come for XYZ.
real world example- off duty LE setting off a gun fight when some drug dealers spazzed at the bar
So now what’s actually gonna happen is they have a relatively uneventful night, but we get to see a shot of Sydney stumbling out of a nightclub, backlit in orange, but it’s because she’s drunk and the orange is the color the disco rig was on when she opened the door.
as a MMO junkie can confim her guilds think she is dead.
That or have figured out shes “That Sydney”
If she always used to talk about the comic book store she was an owner in while chatting it’s fairly likely that some of them figured it out.
Not to mention, the swearing
Swearing?
Chat channels have limits to both to number of characters and post intervals.
Also, it is pretty much the lingua franca in an MMO
Was talking about over headphones, not keyboards, voice channels ten to not have filters or delays or even limitations of any sort
And no, swearing is not ‘lingua franca’ in an MMO, one of those trashy shitstain games like Fortnite or CoD maybe, butt then again, those games tend to be populated by teenagers or younger (either in actual age or mentality)
If someone can make an IRL smash cut happen it’s probably Krona.
Why is Dabbler a green Orion slave girl and when is that going to be a vote-incentive?
Dabbler is a green slave girl because she once pulled that image out of Generally Faulks mind.
In Archon even the top leaders are generally geeks and General Faulk can probably recite the dialogue of evert Star Trek TOS word for word.
Hey.
Spellcorrupt did something almost funny.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder type psychic glamour.
She can aim at a person and instantly pull off their ideal beauty. Dabbler’s up to now public human disguise was even pulled the same way from Sydney despite Sydney being straight (she had to remind herself of that fact at the time, granted Dabbler was also dubbling up with a lust aura at the time).
Shouldn’t Sydney be getting promoted to Corporal soon?
That was her rank in the first appearance, and we’re getting close to that time period.
She hasn’t even graduated bootcamp, let alone been placed in charge of other personnel yet, so no.
Also, the pen and paper superhero RPG campaign which appeared to have reached the final boss in the first episode hasn’t even started and two of the players in that game haven’t been introduced.
If Dave totally wanted to prank the readers he would eventually have a page showing the players setting up for the game. That page would have a next-page link back to the first page of the whole comic, turning it into an infinite loop.
It’s therianthropy. Lycan means wolf. Therianthropy is a broader term covering many mammals.
The betting pool is now open, for just how many comics it will take until we see the exploding nightclub
The unpowered civilian is always left standing right where the MacGuffin will tumble when it’s knocked out of the villain’s hands.
I fully expect Deus to exploit this fact eventually.
I thought that was the Flumphs’ job, but I suppose they can’t be everywhere.