Grrl Power #800 – Give me sight beyond smells
Happy day after Xmas everyone. Feel free to brag about your phat lootz, or at least the weirdest/most confusing thing you got or gave.
So Specs puts the Predator to shame with all her vision modes. She actually puts Batman’s Detective mode to shame as well. I’m sure she has some vision mode that looks like shitty movie monster vision or the Terminator, but she probably doesn’t use them all that much. It’s no wonder she’s in Arc-LIGHT.
Of course, if the first power she manifested when she was younger was the Zim Germ Vision one, she might have freaked out a little. Also walking around, being able to see into the UV spectrum and looking at everyone’s subdermal freckles might either make a person really fastidious about skin care, or make them just give up.
I’m not sure what exactly Specs is looking at there in her detective vision. I assume it’s a chemical, like the pheromones that Pixel is sniffing out. Pixel just lost the trail because she was too short to sniff out the trail going up the wall. She would have found it eventually.
Oh, and I should mention, for those of you who don’t recall from 371 pages ago, Specs is another Patreon funded cameo character.
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First?
I really should go to sleep. It’s 6am here…
It’s only 10 pm here..
Also, “first”? Mate that’s been poor manners everywhere for years now!
Eeh, we’ll put it down to sleep deprivation I guess. :-)
Meh. Sleep is overrated.
No. Raznaak got ‘First’ and by the laws of the internet, he is now our new leader. Do not besmirch our glorious leader, outsider.
In fairness, you may be misunderstanding Raznaak. It was a question not a statement.
“First?” indicates surprise that no one had commented yet. And surprise that s/he was up late enough (early enough?)to see this.
Ah yes, that makes sense. I hereby withdraw my snarky sneer with apologies.
And yet the law of the succession has still been fulfilled. Raznaak appears to be a benevolent and gentle dictator, and (mandated sleep deprivation aside) we will undoubtedly thrive under their reign.
He is nothing next to Mother Tiamat, Dragon of Chaos, GODDESS! My mother.
It is 13:15 here. After every third day on silly long shifts I like to nap.
Handy visual aids. Literally. And a nice way to introduce a new character.
We’ve already met her (on page 429, see the “specs01” link under the comic).
She can even move the Specs without moving her head, but moving naturally is probably less disorienting in a low-tension scenario.
A power that lets you see things that are typically not visible sounds good I wonder if she could see the secret behind Sydney skill flow power up chart
the first three things ARCON wants sydney to do if she can figure it out is put the skill tree up on command. needless to say images, recordings, speculations, and conclusions would be ultraviolet need to know type stuff.
Images and recordings would not work unless they were hand-made. Cybernetic, mechanical, digital, etc. media do not record the skill tree. Not just Earth-tech, either: Dabbler’s cybernetic eye can’t see it either.
Any recording would have to be something like a sketch, painting, or suchlike (or even mashed potato sculpture if you want to go full Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
That said, any such depictions, along with speculations, conclusions, briefing materials, etc. would definitely be classified. If nothing else, at least some of the abilities the orbs provide are themselves classified.
Side note: There’s probably some compromise with Arianna’s grand marketing strategies, of course. “Collect Them All” works better for the “one that lets me fly” than for the “blue one,” for example. Besides, blanket classification would be pointless, since it wouldn’t necessarily be that hard to figure out from news footage from the initial press demo that she’s always holding a particular orb when she’s, for instance, flying or shooting beams.
I thought Krona could see it? or at least many of the underpinnings that make it up whenever it’s “up”?
People can see it, recording devices cannot. Krona is a person, not a recording device.
Krona can see the Deep Code behind the orbs, but only while the sphere grid is up.
Every organic being (be nice to Icon, robots and intelligent equipment are people too but they can’t see it) can see the grid when it’s up.
Note the difference between ‘can see the pattern’ and ‘knows what each node on the pattern does’. At the current level of knowledge about the Orbs, it may be considered an acceptable security risk to reveal the existence of the pattern, perhaps without the details of which nodes are activated or with a few minor tweaks, for the sake of the favourable publicity that a more saleable toy could generate.
The functions of the Shield, Lighthook, PPO, and Flight Orbs were revealed at the press conference, if not all the variations and tricks available to each. Whether Archon would sanction a similar sort of broad-strokes reveal of the function family for the Insight Orb and the Environment Orb depends on whether they think they can get a vague enough description to maintain a desired classification level. Insight could easily be billed with only the visibly obvious Telepresence, for example, keeping the Truesight and Teleportation aspects in reserve.
Penn & Teller: “Aren’t You Glad You Can’t See Bacteria?” song.
She already tried examining the orbs in her first appearance. Her analysis was the the orbs appear identical in every spectrum, but also look deeper than their circumference should allow, so she could confirm that Sydney is, in fact, a special little butterfly.
THE UNIVERSE LAID BARE!
“GOD’S DICE BAG, TUMBLING ACROSS THE VELVETY TABLETOP OF SPACE AND TIME!”
Which, since dice are usually removed from the bag before use, may be a fairly disturbing euphemism.
Actually, I’m not sure God emptying his dice bag onto the velvety tabletop of space and time is in any way less disturbing, all things considered.
She’s new. Nice power, keeps her out of the fighting, and superheroing is about athletic violence.
Trouble is, fighting leads to getting f-d up and the trouble with THAT is you eventually get an injury that STAYS f-d up…
Actually specs is not new she’s the one that told sitting she’s a special little butterfly and a few hundred strips a go after trying to examine her orbs I think she may have shown up during the monster Council one but I could be wrong
Not precisely new, she was brought in when Sidney first showed off the orbs, to see if she could glean anything from them.
Fortunate they a have Super Doc on the payroll then, isn’t it? o_O
Her power actually has a fight-capable aspect to it, though I suspect we won’t get to see it. She can basically do bullet-time, as well as having effectively a 360 vision with the specs repositioning at great speed. But she doesn’t have physical superpowers, so the amount of action-movie stuff is limited to normal human physical capacity, and this world has some really flashy powers in it, so the skills are better used for CSI stuff.
Not enough respect given to the CSI people, the ones who actually do the ‘boring’ stuff, of collecting and sorting the evidence (and cleaning up after the ‘flashy powers’ have been through)
Where do you get that from!?
Specs is a cameo character by BrainBlow, You are doubting word of god dude.
Self-correction. Nice re-introduction. More than 300 pages ago.
Her power actually has a fight-capable aspect to it, though I suspect we won’t get to see it. She can basically do bullet-time, as well as having effectively a 360 vision with the specs repositioning at great speed. But she doesn’t have physical superpowers, so the amount of action-movie stuff is limited to normal human physical capacity, and this world has some really flashy powers in it, so the skills are better used for CSI stuff.
Gosh this comment field is disorienting on mobile. Replied to the wrong post.
It’s all good. We all understand.
Have we seen specs before? Those giant Dame Edna mystical goggles look familiar for some reason..
Also, I think this is where we cue the Mighty Halo theme and let our heroine save the teenage sex demon and really kick some ass (hopefully without causing too much property damage)?
She was seen briefly before. Pixel was introduced at the same time but got more screen time later.
Thank you! I’ve been going on an archives hunt given daedster’s comment of “over 300 pages ago” (and I would have found it eventually if it wasn’t for the inherrent need to re-read the story rather than just skim it)! I can finally go to bed.
Now you need to add it to the Specs archive.
Also, we knew she’d be in the club; https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-786-temptress-of-fate/
ummm… is there enough geekiness in here to justify a wiki? I’ve never started one, but linking to that when a character or question resurfaces could help people’s google-fu…
idunno
There already is one (probably a non-sexual variant of rule 34). Mind you it’s pretty sparce and could do with a few of us rolling up our sleeves and adding stuff.
Gaaa! And I forgot to put the link in the comment.. Bad Dave! Bad Dave!
https://grrl-power.fandom.com/wiki/Grrl_Power_Wiki
She must really hate staying overnight in motel rooms…
I don’t have the ability to see the nastiness in a hotel room, but I still hate having to stay in one. Just because I can’t see it doesn’t mean I’m not aware that it is there.
I imagine it’s worse for anyone with an always on hyper sense like smell. I wonder if Pix carries nose plugs.
Yes, but… that hyper sense comes with an appreciation of smells that we find disgusting.
Some things may have enjoyable nuances of scent that are revealed once your senses have whited out on overtones of stench. Some time’s you’re just going to get more nuanced and dreadful undertones of stench.
No it doesn’t, it just makes the bad smells worse. I know from personal experience.
Looks like Specs had joined Sydney’s night out,but didn’t expect to investigate Tamatha’s disappearance…
Yeah, bet no one expected they would be investigating the disappearance of a succubaby, or that such a critter even existed
Really? The globe spanning network which hides the appearance of 6″ high pixies and werewolves and sentient suites of plate mail and the 8′ tall, black, spikey, fairly aquatic looking creature from the Black Lagoon knock-off (Chorius) and various assorted alien species, not all of whom can possibly have a human looking alternate form (or Sydney wouldn’t be spotting lizardmen and green Orian slave girls in nightclubs, which can become pretty crowded by the way), and none of these can take a walk down a New York city street or attend a rock concert or get on a Japanese train during rush hour, because that would be “asking a lot of the veil?” Really? And what exactly are the possible consequences of asking a lot of the veil? And when “a lot” becomes too much, does the veil just fail either locally or globally?
I’m not sure this bit of dialogue was really thought through very much, or at all.
Maybe it’s the shifting itself that’s asking a lot? Like the veil throws a static illusion on you normally so it freaks if you keep drastically changing size?
There’s also the fact that her shifter form is a 9-foot bright pink thing with laser claws. She might just be pushing the bounds of what it can cover by her sheer flamboyance
Thing, is a derogatory term.
Maybe it only has so much bandwidth into a given area, and so doesn’t work as well in crowds?
Maybe The Veil produces one substitute image for humanish Pixel (why would it bother to?)
and a different image for werejaguar Pixel.
It can’t hide the transition.
We still can’t confirm the veil is repaired fully or not yet.
This. The veil was having troubles BEFORE Sciona torched one sigil and damaged the other.
Yeah, Pixel REALLY dosn’t want to be the final straw that broke the camels back.
Because the internet has so much capacity…
How can it not stream my video right when I’m at the convention center to see Ariana Grande?
She is in a room full of people getting drunk, people who are in an altered state of mind and already prone to seeing things they wouldn’t normally, pretty sure the veil gets pounded senseless in this environment on a regular basis. Probably also why so many people never believe you the next day when you start trying to tell them what you saw…
Yeah, well, when your friends know that you have a habit of getting too drunk at a nightclub, maybe taking some molly, they tend to take your pink panther sightings with a large grain of salt.
↑This!↑
Maybe she’s just careful because she’s not actually knowing the limits of veil?
There’s also the concern that in a nightclub you are likely to have people using various psychoactive chemicals (including copious amounts of mixed booze), which may make it harder for the veil to actually hide things. And it did not hide Varia when she went flame/ice golem. I know she is a super and not a supernatural, but aliens aren’t supernatural either, and the veil hides them. With a damaged veil being a thing now, as pointed out by others, I wonder how much overlap you can have before people start to notice the cracks in their reality.
Varia is a Super, and supers are not covered by the veil.
It’s more a case that hyu-mons are not covered by the veil, supers just happen to be hyu-mons
Indeed – that’s why I mentioned aliens, as despite being mundane in that they are not all supernatural creatures (as far as we know, at least) they are covered by the veil. It would be interesting to find out how the veil actually works.
– It would likely have some sort of catch-all to cover unknown creatures (various aliens, forgotten earth creatures, things of magic and myth – it’s even postulated that the veil may have hidden early supers earlier in the comic, iirc)
– Be well enough known off Earth that aliens trust it & make plans based on it, as it’s explicitly mentioned that Earth is a popular interstellar tourist spot because of the veil.
– Can make large groups of markedly non-human sentients look, sound and act human to other humans. Presumably also smell human, although touch hasn’t been mentioned as far as I know.
– Can apparently cover the use of powers such as flight and magic.
– Can also cover the use of alien technology as it’s safe to assume the aliens on holiday or living on earth use their own tech.
& yet:
– Cannot be based simply on abnormality from the human norm, as supers are not covered & it’s mentioned the veil would have to be re-written to cover them as their numbers increase. This means it does not target by physical appearance or simply having non-human DNA.
– Can apparently differentiate on hiding power use based on the source of those powers – supers again. But then how does it decide what tech to hide?
– Did not hide the alien ships that landed in front of Archon, nor hide the fight. Was this a simple case of overload, did it not hide them as they were not registered, or was it because of the interference of supers? The latter would seem to be precluded by the fact the veil works at all around supers, though.
It was mentioned in the discussion at the council meeting that each alien race had to be entered separately. I do not imagine that there was ever an opportunity nor a reason to bring a captured Fel to earth and keep it subdued so that the Fel could be coded into the veil.
I don’t think that the veil covers giant vehicles either – those have to be cloaked.
Since the genitals had been revealed Cora came down uncloaked.
Ah, I must have forgotten the part about each race being coded – although I do recall discussion that the veil might have hidden early supers.
…reading your last line I’m not sure we are thinking of the same occurence of Cora uncloaked! 0_o
I’m not sure how being drunk or high would make the veil fail. I mean, it’s a pretty poor program* if it allows that gaping wide loophole.
* And yes, it is a program.
Depends. If it works like a Douglas Adams SEP field then being drunk may make you more inclined to believe your eyes rather than what rationality is telling you.
The veil never hid Dabbler. She used her own glamour to create her hot mama human self, and just BSed the press into believing that her real appearance was a “Battle Form.” Other aliens on Earth were using various mechanisms to hide their true nature, as Dabbler informed Sydney during the trip to Club OONTZ!
She is also probably talking about turning into jaguar mode, and a shift from bipedal to quadrupedal is a pretty large jump to cover.
I can give that the benefit of the doubt given the damage to the Veil infrastructure that may not be fixed. I’m more wondering why she doesn’t just find an inconspicuous spot and do this.
When you mess up with the new friend of the off service ultra swat comand in home.
Tamatha is Decollete’s mentoree, and so the Council members there (like Pixil and Specs and Decollete) would be on the case anyway and that would probably be enough to spell bad news for the kidnapper. The fact that their semi-allied (there was that whole “illegally arrested Chrona” thing that seems to have been swept under the rug) Archon pals have a presence there is just a bonus round.
It’s be like kidnapping the kid of a cop while the cop and several of his cop friends were hanging out with some feds they were also friends with.
That would be Mentee or Mentat (Ever wonder how Frank Herbert came up with that term?).
I have usually seen “protoge” used.
Or even ‘protegée’.
Specs is Arc-Light, she had never met Deco before
Kronachrome was never arrested, she was requested to accompany Maxi back to HQ to have someone look at what the fuck she was doing (which she agreed was a good idea)
Max wasn’t as diplomatic as she should’ve been with that request, but Krona was likely so frightened by what happened she didn’t complained to Council afterwards.
In a situation like that, Maxi was a diplomatic as she needed to be: Kronachrome already hacked Sydney physically (put a ‘hold’ on her bladder) and what ever that time loop thing actually was, neither of which Kronachrome fully knew what the consequences of were (what if the bladder ‘hold’ was a permanent thing and Sydney was never able to urinate ever again? or the time loop actually was, and those affected were stuck in it for ever with no way out, because they didn’t know they were in a loop and repeating everything for ever)
So yes, bad Maxi for not being more diplomatic towards the child who is playing with the very foundations of reality
I thought it was pretty clear from context that Krona had already done the bladder “hold” before; She knew how long it would last. Probably has that macro on a “hot key”, it’s so handy.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-494-phenomenal-cosmic-power-itty-bitty-well-shes-short-anyway/
Yeah, she had also done the ‘time loop’ before, butt only on herself, and she had no idea that it wasn’t a time loop
The point is, Kronachrome doesn’t know what she is doing really, and she admitted it
I don’t have a license but I drive very well, officer.
:smirk:
She was arrested, you walnut. Just because you don’t understand the meaning of the term doesn’t mean you can deny canon with your ignorant ass-pull interpretation.
#527? Max insisted Krona accompanied her back to Archon HQ, and she (semi) joked about “not making me put the cuffs on”, but Krona agreed her request made sense, she was never read her rights, charged with anything or actually arrested.
Granted the threat of arrest was there if she had tried to decline Max’s invite or carried on reality hacking before others checked her work and powers – but she didn’t do either of those things. In addition Yorp pointed out that technically all VI agents are also federal agents, so although Max would not be her boss she would have jurisdiction over her as she was a potential universal extinction threat and could order her in for a debrief.
Legally, as soon as you’re not allowed to leave if you want, you’re “under arrest”; Just telling you that you’ll be arrested if you try to leave constitutes arresting you.
Where was she not allowed to leave?
OK check out the scene in question. Whilst reading this bear in mind that Crona is:
1) A Semper Vigilantis. An agent of a non United States Government, yet who is operating on US soil with the consent of the US Government and Archon, under undisclosed agreements or treaties dating back perhaps as far as the founding of the USA.
Given how long that has been going it is likely that there are very specific rules on how dangerous conduct by a S.I. can be handled. And I am confident that Maxima will be operating within those rules. She knows them, however neither you nor I do. Hence my confidence in her.
2) All Semper Vigilantis are also FBI special agents (or equivalent in another law enforcement body of the USA). So any interactions should be read as reflecting this. Pixel is a highly trained law enforcement officer, therefore Maxima does not have to explicitly spell out what rules she is invoking – Crona knows the situation. As such we need to read Maxima’s stated intent, and infer both her and Crona’s understanding.
3) Crona is also the head of an entire Twilight Council Faction. And, as best I can tell, the only member of that faction. So to judge her political power, consider that she is ranked equivalent to every elder vampire on the planet combined. And elder vampires actual power is on the super scale. Further each faction approximates political power equivalent to a member nation of the United Nations (if we take the Twilight Council to be the supernatural equivalent of that). Given that factions also include members of galactic wide races (for instance the succubi are just ONE of the demon races represented by the demon faction).
In political terms Crona is a peer to the president. This alone probably gives her diplomatic immunity. Thus arrest is a non-issue, hence why it was not mentioned.
Now for the scene walk through:
A) Maxima thanks Crona for her help.
B) Maxima indicates that Crona represents a threat sufficient to potentially shatter reality.
At this point Maxima is no longer talking as a cop. She is talking as a person tasked with keeping the people of the USA (and the rest of the world) safe. Crona’s actions are a casus belli (noun:
an act or situation that provokes or justifies a war). Moreover it it Crona herself who represents the clear and present danger stated by Maxima. She is the equivalent of an army, airforce, navy and nuclear deterrent of a major nation. And her demonstrable lack of adequate understanding and control of that power, in casual use, underscores the danger.
If a nation demonstrates WMD they are considered a threat to world security, if they demonstrated use of WMD capable of destroying the planet, and a casual disregard for the safety of the world in using them, that would be just as much a casus belli.
C) Maxima reassures Crona that no extreme response will be considered (stating the rendition outright, and hinting at the more extreme option of killing her). This is a vital reassurance, as in a crisis situation Maxima has the power to start a war against the Twilight Council, and kill Crona, if she considers that is the only way to save the planet. Do note however that Crona is probably the more powerful between the pair of them. This is very much akin to a nuclear stand off (especially given Maxima’s nuke-like attack).
D) Maxima insists that Crona return to base with them. Importantly Crona recognises that she has misunderstood the very nature of her power. As such she is acknowledging that investigating her power is a reasonable action to take (especially given the alternatives).
Now read back through the previous few pages and you will see that there has been a lot of banter between Crona and various Archon personnel.
E) Crona then offers to make Maxima’s jacket two sizes larger. There is one of two ways this can be interpreted:
i) Crona is chronically stupid and fails to appreciate that risking destroying the universe, to make a jacket two sizes bigger is … um … stupid. And would demonstrate that Crona is an ongoing risk to the safety of the world and its populace.
ii) Crona is making a wistful joke about what she would like to do, if it were not for the whole world-ending risk.
Maxima opts to take it the latter way and jokes about putting the cuffs on. However, for those who wish to take it as a serious threat, do bear in mind that such would be a response to i) above. Handcuffing would be an extremely measured response to a stated threat to endanger the whole world!
Oh, and for any lawyers who wish to bleat about ‘laws still applying even if there is a threat to the nation’, please check out Guantanamo Bay and realise that governments ignore laws and civil liberties when they feel threatened. And get away with it under the current US system.
Thank you for explaining it fuller than me ever could
That’s basically what have been trying to say ever since that scene first happened
Actually, Specs being Arc-Light means she was MORE likely than most to have met Decollette before, given A-L actually has worked with the Council’s own team numerous times in the past (case in point, the incident which caused that Were-Hare gal).
They probably just hadn’t met due to Specs uncommonly being assigned to field duty.
No, Oberon the Obnoxious claimed that Specs was part of the Council, like Pixelicious and Deco, he was wrong
As you implied with your last sentence, Specs is not a field agent, part of the clean-up crew maybe, butt not a field agent like Pixelicious
And the fact remains, Deco and Specs had never met before now
Reminds me of Mage: the Awakening, where the various Unveiling spells learned at the very lowest level of different spheres of magic are by far the most useful, interesting, and underestimated part of the Mage’s arsenal. A Mage who asks the right question can see pretty much literally anything, from “germ vision” to having everything that’s actually plot relevant in a scene highlighted. (This makes investigation easier)
Gotta love Fate magic.
Plot relevant in a scene highlighted… Like a video game… There’s this one character in front of an exit telling you where to go and what to do.
Hapy octo-centennial Dave!
Not quite – ‘octo-centennial’ is specifically 800 years, this is 800 strips. However, it’s definitely a milestone worth appreciating. Way to go, DaveB!
(Also, I’m not expecting DaveB to read these comics for a while, as he is hopefully having a happy holiday with friends and loved ones. He seems to audit the comments semi-regularly, though, so he may reply eventually.)
It is Octopost ?
You don’t seem to make any point of it any more, but congratulations with another hundred pages anyway.
Crazy to me it’s only at 800, feels like so much more story than that. Maybe because Dave posts full pages and most of the other comics I’m thinking of don’t? He also tends to speed through exposition and such way more than something like OotS
And. to think the story has only advance about 2 months since it started.
With luck this means that Demon Hunter lady has Tamatha up in the rafters above the false ceiling, rather than someplace miles away. Sydney can use the telepresence orb to quickly scope out the situation, and teleport in when she sees that Tamatha is in trouble. Of course being Sydney she won’t realize that a false ceiling won’t hold her weight until she comes crashing through it. So much for an incognito night out.
…grabs Tamatha on the way down, freeing her and escaping to the floor.
….or…
…grabs Tamatha and discovers she can teleport herself and a guest.
I was thinking that Sydney would intend to use the Lightbee to port right up to Tamatha, immediately bring up the shield, and then drop the Lightbee and grab the Pew Pew orb. Unfortunately the weight of her and Tamatha inside the shield is enough to cause the whole ball full of Grrl to come crashing down through the ceiling right into the middle of the dance floor. It would be a Sydney sort of entrance; clumsy, spectacular and with some collateral damage.
And just what are you looking at so intently in panel one, Miss Scoville?
Looking to see if what appears to be a pink-haired 12-year-old pointedly spiffing around outside of the ladies loo is being paid attention to?
Checking to see if anyone is acting suspicious (besides themselves)?
Looking for her teammates, in case this goes further south than it already appears to have?
All of the above?
Or maybe she’s just glancing around nervously ’cause she’s not really comfortable with much of this?
She is either looking at Tammy’s phone in Deco’s hand, or still looking at Deco’s chest
Tammy was simply standing outside the bog, waiting her turn, not ‘pointedly sniffing around outside’
Oh sorry, you meant Pixelicious pointedly sniffing around :(
Cereally? Aranea is holding Tammy in the ceiling-space above the Nightclub itself? Thought that space looked a little cramped
Rafters, that’s the word was looking for
Actually sometimes that space can be rather large. I have even seen places where hidden access paths for security are hidden up in the rafters, as well as a lot of mechanical and electrical systems. You would be surprised at what can be hidden above the suspended ceilings.
Not necessarily. That’s the route of immediate exit, but we don’t know how far Aranea carried Tamatha before stringing her up. They may be in a neighbouring building, if there was reasonable access across the roofs or between upper windows.
I honestly forgot how tiny Pixel is in human form.
@DaveB, My expectation here is that specs flipped vision types until she saw something on the phone — skin oils for instance and then hunted around until she found the same types where you wouldn’t expect them. We are constantly leaving fingerprints and assorted oil smears on everything we touch or brush up against.
My thoughts exactly – fingerprint oils are full of organic compounds like squalene, amino acids, and lipids. While Specs probably couldn’t detect specific enough levels to identify a specific individual (current science thinks that’s unlikely from what I know), she could easily see a very out-of-place trail of finger contact running up the wall to the ceiling.
“Listen man. Sleep gives you cancer, everyone knows that.”
What? That was supposed to be a reply, not a new comment :/ And why do I have the feeling that this is also going to get posted as a new comment…
from somewhere in western Ohio a soft evil chuckle is heard.
Your issue is you are partially or completely blocking JavaScript. The comment window and the submission button are handled in Java, but the comment id you are replying to has a JavaScript additional function which tracks the comment id/number your reply is associated with. This isn’t tracked in the url. Without that id, your post will not be association with the post you clicked reply in. Instead it is treated as a new post in the form at the bottom of the page, even if it the form properly opens when you click a post reply.
Hopefully you eventually look back at this and see it because a similar function is triggered by the ‘send me replies’ check box so I know you wont get replies either.
Specs is a walking Jackson Pollack detection unit… (Black light/UV vision) hat tip to GOGs
“Ohhh let’s not go into that guy’s room…and Sydney wash your hands NOW!”
That gag also shows up early in AGHF.
And also once in Ennui Go! – one character says the other is having too much sex, and brings in a blacklight to prove it, as sexual fluids glow under UV exposure…
…next panel is just pure white.
A sketch by French & Saunders, spoofing Silent Witness on the BBC about 20 years ago…..
FME walks into the room, she apologises for being late, citing oversleeping & traffic.
Begins her opening observations, fires up the UV commenting no signs of sexual activity on the body, while all the other occupants of the room (Police & so forth) gawp as her face is seen to splattered in white spots & blobs.
It wont help your face, however many bleaching agents are designed with added elements which are reactive to lower frequency UV and the high ends of the visible spectrum. A uv light allows detection but not identification of fluids. Also because of associated interference from commercial products you wont be able to see much under a standard light without a filter and it works best with fluids that have dried.
“Oh, she has no idea. If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting.” — Peter Quill, Star-Lord, Master of Pelvic Sorcery.
> Feel free to brag about your phat lootz, or at least the weirdest/most confusing thing you got or gave.
Nothing weird nor confusing, but I bought a stack of plastic boxes full of chocolates. And 1 box of liquorice. Boxes weigh between 1,4 – 2,16 kg and cost varies between 11,99 – 14,99 €. The most expensive thing on the receipt is an external terabyte HDD (61,90 €), which I bought to my sister. Her laptop(s) and smart phone are full, so she was grateful for it.
I imagine it would look MUCH more like a Jackson Polick painting under a UV light…
She seems easy enough with it. I bet her first was infrared, staring at candles.
But does Specs have anything equal to Halo’s magi-vision?
Possibly. We don’t really know all that much about Spec’s powers except that it’s vision based and she has multiple spectrums of her ‘vision based’ powers.
Specs definitely has more experience in USING her vision … but otherwise … how many points Halo has in her vision? I think she will eventually get better, but didn’t yet.
My geuss is that specs is seeing Sebum.
People need to learn to wash their hands dangit. :)
Also I had to google sebum. But I don’t care. My response works no matter what sebum means. :)
Could someone see what she sees by looking through her specs over her shoulder?
Woo, specs! Fun to see her doing stuff. :D
Slowest “smash cut” ever! ;-)
The potential for “exploding nightclub” still exists, with the coming fight against the evil (?) spider-gal kidnapper of Tamatha.
Do you think they have “superhero” insurance?
And dicks that specialize in denying claims on superhero insurance
“Ooooooh, sorry, footage shows the damage to your building was caused by a super *villain* and you only have super HERO insurance.”
“This claim is denied because your car was destroyed by a completely ordinary boulder thrown by a super hero, not by the super hero themselves; you don’t have boulder insurance on this vehicle.”
↑ This! ↑ : snicker : : smirk :
I doubt she’s evil. It’s entirely possible she’s a half-demon whose Demonic parent is a dickwad, or she was cursed, etc.
Might end up as a member of the Semper Vigilantis (think that’s right) so she can put her Demon Hunting skills to use on folks who deserve it, rather than just judging all Demons as “evil.”
I’m thinking that she’ll be able to train Sidney with the Com ball.
nobody else gonna comment that this is the 800th strip? on one hand, where’s the bombast, the celebration? on the other, yeah, let’s save our frenzy for the big 1k. maybe that’ll bring us up to synch with page 4? only time will tell, i suppose.
I’d Imagine Cheap Hotels specs and Pixel would both not want to be for diffrent reasons.
Not just cheap hotels, when was the last time you cleaned your keyboard? Given it a proper clean?
Or how about your own toilet?
this just in… cleaning keyboard- remove keycaps (take a picture!!!!) and place the keyboard in the dishwasher. allow time to dry before reassembly and test. (thanks Linus)
It… was supposed to be a joke, any idiot who actually puts their keyboard in water is doing so on their own stupidity and should lick it dry after plugging it into a wall-socket
That is one of the recognized methods, the keycaps can stay on, put it into the dishwasher, cold water no detergent no drying. Take out the keyboard, store in a dry cool location, for 2-3 days.
Keyboards don’t contain any of the magic blue or magic purple smoke that most computer stuff has, so it won’t be released by running it through the dishwasher (as long as it’s not a keyboard with a wireless transmitter or something) Just don’t run it on hot or use the dry cycle as these can melt plastic. And make sure it’s dry before you plug it back in.
Zim Germ Vision is exactly like what the blood tear virus infected have from the series “The Hot Zone”. Once it is in your body you are totally immune from any disease and can analyze someone’s whole infection history by simply looking at them, their infection tracks. The last of the infected humans sealed themselves away till they can be unearthed in the future and eventually are in 1997. With humans the Wagaq can reach full sentience. And uses the bodies for their own plans. Like that virus did in ancient Peru 500 years before.
Yawar Waqaq[1] (Quechua yawar blood waqaq crying, crier, literally “the one who cries blood” or “blood crier”, meaning someone with “blood in the eye”,[1] Hispanicized spellings Yahuar Huacac, Yáhuar Huácac) or Yawar Waqaq Inka (Quechua Inka Inca) was the seventh Sapa Inca (Sapa Inka) of the Kingdom of Cusco (beginning around CE 1380) and the second of the Hanan dynasty.[2]
Subdermal freckles just mean basically everyone is freckle-licious~
Day 0 of having powers: getting them
Day 1 of having powers: experimenting with them
Day 2 of having powers: figuring out how to turn them off
Day 3 of having powers: Morality shift and purpose found
Day 4 of having powers: A new hero/villain is born!
I hope DaveB and y’all had a Merry Christmas and/or a Happy Festive Season.
I have a great aunt who gave me a box of random buttons and one glove. She wrapped them in nice wrapping paper too, so I was confused. I haven’t had a chance to talk to her, since she lives out of town, but I want to know if I’m getting the other glove for my birthday or next Christmas or …?
Maybe she thinks you are Michael Jackson, and only need one glove
Ok im done. I decided to wait until 800, see if anything would actually happen. Alas these developements happened after yet more meandering pointless crap.
I mean do u have any idea where this is going, what you are doing, or why any of it is happening? It feels like your writing by the seat of your pants, and not in a good way. I mean since this club/ dance arc started, you could have gotten here much faster if you had removed about 5 or pages of nothing important (varia dancing, two pages that sydney was talking to that teen succubus, or any of the other pages that have little importance to this story).
You’re just stringing this along hoping people will think you’re smart and funny. And the sad thing is, its there. Burried under mediocre art, a mountain of boring characters, and directionless storytelling. But im sure if you show more cleavage and ooze more sleazy sex stuff no one will notice
https://i.imgur.com/hOKPbwb.gif
No problemo.
Oh yes, Vahriah demonstrating her gestalt on random normal (and being accepted) was totally not important
Sydney talking to a true-blue fan (and not just some yutz looking for an autograph to sell on UBuy) who turns out to be an inexperienced Succubaby was totally not important
What exactly are you expecting to happen? And, keep in mind, this is not an action superhero comic
A Bostonian would say Vahrier, with a terminal R. Like Cuber, where Castro is Presidente, or drinking soder (except they’d say pop or tonic because [bicarbonate of] soder is what you take for an upset stomach.)
Okay, thank you, was doing the ‘ah’ at the end like with ‘cah’ (for ‘car’) (and was pronouncing her name with a hard ‘a’ at the end)
If all you have is complaints, we don’t need you. Be constructive, it’s Dave’s comic, not yours.
A vast world exists out there, full of difference and interesting things.
Go forth eagerly and seek your joy somewhere else. Somewhere out there is a webcomic, which will thrill you to ecstacy.
Go for it. Chase your dream.
And stop complaining that this webcomic is not right for you.
Sounds like the jealousy of the untalented. You think you can do a better job, start your own web comic and prove it! In the meantime the rest of us are going to enjoy Dave’s highly entertaining story telling.
Gary – just because someone has unpopular views, it doesn’t mean they are a troll.
There’s no indication that Thatguy made these comments just to stir up trouble. S/he is expressing genuine dissatisfaction with the way the comic has developed, and is entitled to make this view known in comments under the comic. The world would be a grey place if no one had a different view.
If Thatguy continued to complain daily at boring repetitive length, I guess that could become trolling at some future point. But it’s unfair to treat dissent as trolling.
Sure, people are allowed different views, butt when they expect the author to change their story to cater to an individual or lose said individuals readership, then that is being a troll
Read what they said again, they are attacking DaveB, not just voicing an opinion
They sound scarily like a certain other hateful troll who attacks DaveB for pretty much the same things
Again, complaining isn’t trolling, neither is offering suggestions (read several other webics where the author appreciates suggestions, they don’t always do what was suggested, butt they appreciate them nonetheless), attacking the author is
Ok didnt mean to start all this, but when i started reading i thought this would be like empowered (who this guy is a big fan of) a hero parody that plays with rhe super hero genre. That but even though its a parody the plot moves along and the characters are engaging. In thus comic the plot meanders and the one character who gets focus is an annoying mary sue. So after i realized the 800 issue was coming up i thought that id see whether or not something interesting would happen, action wise or not. Something lasting and signifigant or would lead to something quickly. By the time you made it to something wortg it, i had already lost interest. I didnt want to come off as a jerk, i was hoping that he’d pay attention to why one of his fans was leaving.
If you really were one of his fans, then you wouldn’t be leaving because you would have understood what the comic was all about
The fact you are leaving it because it doesn’t have the things you want shows you don’t know what it does have and were hoping to passive-bully the author into changing it to what you want
Please do not feed the troll.
Gary – See comment above.
Germ vision is what you make of it. Check out Moyasimon sometime. (Sometimes spelled “Moyashimon”).
TvTropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Moyashimon