Grrl Power #794 – Sapphic snack
It’s a really good thing Decollete didn’t do the hypno voice in front of Maxima. While Max understands that monsters got to monst, and The Twilight Council polices themselves, mind control is way over the line, even if those dudes would have 100% definitely raced to buy some drinks without the nudge.
Would Max be okay with Dabbler using it to interrogate someone? You know, in one of those ‘time is running out and if I was Jack Bauer I’d shoot you in the knee’ situations? Jury is out. Honestly she’d probably be okay with it if it meant saving a bunch of people and the interogee was a real tool.
Normally, telling someone they have a ‘wonderfully distinct face’ is a bit of a stealth burn, but Decollete means it sincerely.
I’m not 100% sure if YukiAkuma’s version of Tamatha is quite this naïve, but I thought it’d be funny, so here we are. Actually, in the Grrl-verse, succubi tend to mature quite quickly once they hit puberty. At 14, Tamatha would be a very late bloomer, but now that things are starting to happen, they’d progress quickly. Like, if she was strictly my character, if Sydney met her again in 6 months, she’s look a lot more like Harem than she does now.
This all isn’t some stealthy way to introduce a creepy lolita thing into the comic, it’s just the result of thinking about how the biology of other races would work. Over the last few pages, there have been quite a few comments about the age of consent for different races like elves for example. If high elves live to 1,000 and don’t start puberty till they’re 45, then the 18 year old age of consent we’ve arbitrarily picked for ourselves simply wouldn’t apply. Conversely if… I don’t know, gnolls only live to 60, and they start puberty at the age of 8, then 18 might not be the right number for them either.
So succubi, with their tantric energy needs, have a different number than humans as well. Even if they can live for several centuries, they develop quickly.
All that said, don’t worry, Tamatha isn’t going to get up to anything inappropriate. When Decollete says “top up by proxy” she means to stand outside the bathroom and feed through the wall.
Books!
Michael-Scott Earle’s next crowdfunding project is up. This time it’s for the next Space Knight. This series is very LitRPG, but thankfully it’s not set inside a video game. I can’t stand books like that. I honestly can’t think of lower stakes than fictional characters playing videogames – unfortunately this means that 85% of LitRPG novels are of no interest to me. But Space Knight is dudes in space killing monsters and getting loot, they just happen to have a way to scan the loot and get stats off it through an Empire spanning database. It’s a very action heavy series, but MSE writes good, clean action, which is unfortunately a somewhat rarified skill among pulp novelists.
I’ve never specifically recommended Space Knight before. I never connected with the characters in it like I did with Tamer or Star Justice, but if you’ve read Tamer and thought, “This could use 100% less base building and 100% more action.” then you might dig Space Knight. If you want a taste of it, the first book is available for free at his website.
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I don’t know it works for Dave’s universe, but in Dangerously Chloe, Giz sets Succubi age of majority at about 15-16, with Chloe herself as a late bloomer suddenly encountering the Panties of Doom.
she could have just asked for a moment alone; given that men in general have been established mostly as drooling, servile idiots and comic relief, they no doubt would have complied as readily. but then we surely can’t expect monsters that are all about seduction and reading people, and who have an interest in blending in with human culture, to know anything about social skills.
Ignoring that she LITERALLY STATES that yes, it would have gone just the same if she had just asked, that she didn’t need to push the suggestion to make them do it, but merely that it would help ensure they got plenty of time alone to talk?
You seem like you were a little bitter, to be forcing in that mini-rant despite it being unrelated. You do recall that some of the men have been established as competent trained officers, right? That some of the women are also horny idiots or comic relief? It’s almost like they’re just people in a superhero comic, and comic relief and cheesecake tends to pop up…
just another (this time tiny) grammar note – it’s “make do,” not “make due.” Think of it like “I want to make it do the right thing.” Make due would be like making something run out of time, like your English paper is due.
Hope that helps!
Love your comic, by the way, and I don’t mind the flatter color. If it saves you time, I’d say go for it all the time. The art and color still looks good, I don’t know that we really NEED time-consuming 3D modeling, or whatever it is you’re doing that takes so much more of your time?
I read the comic for the story, and occasionally a goggle at all the pretty people in clothes apparently glued to their skin (GRIN).
But honestly, i like Sydney but & Frix (MMMM-FUR!), and Peggy (if I’m remembering the name right) but basically all the people who are a bit different, or geeky, all those who have to deal with being muscled more normally, or even like your generic gamer or geek types (male or female) in a world where they are surrounded by apparent Greek gods and goddesses (the Adonis or Venus ones, not the more rotund types, like Dionysus) all the time.
I guess you just have to get used to it – and of course, being excessively beautiful and getting hit on all the time, and it being hard to tell if people like you for yourself, or just your looks – those are problems too.
But personally – i identify with the geeks, and your story is rich with their lives in this ‘saturated with gorgeous people’ milieu that they have to deal with. It’s an exaggeration of real life for many people – and therefore funny. I also love the trope of a normal comic fan who suddenly becomes literally a real comic book heroine. Her knowledge of hero comic tropes and patterns have already helped her on multiple occasions. (It’s a bit – ‘HAH parents – and YOU said playing video games would never make me a living {wins million dollar tournament, or creates a mega-popular phone game, etc} but it works, because we’d all love to have that kind of success story, right?
Keep up the good work, and congratulation on your house (I realize I’m reading an old comic, and therefore out of date, but I’m still glad you were able to sell and buy and hopefully are still pleased with your new home.
ANYWAY just wanted to express my appreciation for your fine art and storytelling!
But it is “Make do.” :D