Grrl Power #811 – Lightning round penalty box
Sydney’s been building up a bit of a backlog while she had to silently sit out the fight. You know how she is.
So Krona’s chemical isolator is an “active” effect, meaning she needs to keep it going for it to work. That’s why she can toggle it on and off like that. She does have a more… active purge, but there aren’t any drains nearby.
Dabbler was using her tail to arrest her fall. I wasn’t quite sure how to illustrate that on the page so I just drew a picture of her butt. Obviously the most important question Sydney asked was “Has Dabbler always had a tail?” You would think that the answer is no, but it’s a little more complicated than that. I’m sure the answers to some of her questions will come up in the next few pages.
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Okay, those last 3 panels made me cackle WAY to loudly…..
Thanks Dave, i needed that.
Dabbler changes form. Her tail comes and goes.
Also, thanks Dave, for not drawing it coming out of her anus like SO MANY artists do…….
Wouldn’t the coccyx (tailbone) be the logical place for it? The place that every actual tailed animal has it protrude from?
I find these ‘sticking out of the spine at 90°’ type tails to be weirder.
Hate to just post +1 but… Yeah. Misplaced tails may be easier for artists and costumers, avoiding a bunch of awkward questions about costume design and such, but they look artificial. Admittedly I wouldn’t put it past Dabbler to wear a fake tail if she thought it would be either useful or sexy, or to have a non-standard spine, but this is a pet peeves about many anthropomorphics.
Not that I can usually draw worth a damn, but …
Misplaced tails?!? if you have 4 arms you have 4 breasts, that’s the law of Sci-FI.
Look at millipedes and spiders. Each limb requires its own muscle group.
But not necessarily fat deposits.
Dabbles originally had four breastseses, and a tail, she lost the extras on Wereworld
That musta been some battle!
It was disarming.
But she won handily.
She had a tail living in her home on Wereworld and now living in her home at Archon. It is a tail of 2 cities.
Technically, neither do both places qualify as a Fairy Tails.
Well, she did fight a dragon…
Dabbler’s spine is probably not even close to human in design. For one thing, it would probably be way, way more flexible. Both for… ahem, you know. But also so she can do the butt/boobs pose so often seen on comic book covers.
Doing that pose is not that impossible: for a start, it’s a pose, which means they are not going to be holding it for very long
Personally do it every time use our kettle: our kitchen is very narrow, and the sink is opposite where we have the kettle, and it’s possible (for me) to fill the kettle from the sink and put it back on it’s base with out moving lower body (well, not much anyway), which means, that at some point, anyone watching would see both the front and the back at the same time
Dude, I hope you don’t do this regularly. People in packaging industry develop really serious spinal and back issues through regular repetitive motions like this. It really messes up your back.
Keep in mind, Guesticus probably isn’t doing this more than a dozen times a day. People in the shipping and packing industry are doing this dozens of times a minute, all day.
Besides isn’t a dozen or so twists like that a regular exercise? If Guesticus is in trouble, just about every gym member is.
Zack Tilly
And, like with pretty much all forms of exercise: it’s best to do it slowly to build up flexibility, just like the people who can do a full split and pick up a penny with their… butt cheeks (yes, butt cheeks >.> )
Yeah, just because you *can* do something, doesn’t mean you *should*. While someone may be able to adopt that pose, it is uncomfortable, and as we get older we will find are ability to do it declining. Plus as EBA said, that sounds like a repetitive stress disorder waiting to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWL8woekB8
His Aussie audition is even scarier!
The fact he can move like that, backwards, on hands and feet, and so fast… :eep!:
Can say the same thing about soo many things
Some people can run a 100 metres in platform shoes, whereas some people can’t walk 10 feet in a straight line wearing two inch stilettos without falling on their arse
Obviously just because some people can do something, doesn’t mean everyone can, or should, it just pisses me off when people lacking knowledge keep claiming that it is impossible for anyone in real life to be able to do it
Take sword swallowing for example
If absolutely everything about Dabbler was designed for better sex, then she’d look like Decollete. Because no matter how big your tits are there will be people who aren’t at all interested in sex with a purple, horned, tailed, hooved, four armed alien.
Dabbler is only part succubus. Her hooves and purple skin are probably from her non succubus ancestors.
Also, better sex with what species? I’m sure her demon form is downright hot to some races. She is an alien after all.
Plus, who’s to say Decolette isn’t using glamor all the time, just leaving her horns visible, and disguising the rest of herself?
dang leaky tags…..
work sometimes, other times, not so much…
An perfect example of why, if we ^can’t^ edit posts after submitting them, it’s so ^IMPORTANT^ to be able to preview them first!
Consistency is to say. The readers should either see Decollete in her glamored form or not, but not partially. It’s the same way with Tamatha’s sneakers: If she has hooves like Dabbler (notice they both make the same “Tap” sound when touching down) then they should be visible and not disguised as a sneaker. Because her horns and ears and wings aren’t being disguised to the readers, but are presumably disguised for normal humans.
Showing you expertise in glamour now are we?
You already proven how expert you are in the ways of the military and reality, so why not?
I’m showing my expertise in narrative consistency, you walnut.
“Because no matter how big your tits are there will be people who aren’t at all interested in sex with a purple, horned, tailed, hooved, four armed alien.”
Yeah but who cares about those biarmophile freaks?
+1
It depends. Our coccyx has evolved from quadrupeds, but we lost it when becoming bipeds (the more erect the primate, the shorter the tail, if I’m not mistaken). Every animal I can picture that has a fully developed tail tends to move leaning down and, in general, cannot move fully erect (though some can posture), as it is mostly used to balance the body, and you don’t have to balance a body that is standing straight the same way.
So, it would make sense for the tailbone, if it were to be preserved, to change its orientation. Otherwise, it would hinder movement, instead of improving it. The angle may be excessive, but not that much, and magic may have been used to alter it a little bit more, in order to make the tail more useful as a prehensile organ.
And it could also explain the tail’s slenderness, as a bigger, weightier one would cause imbalance.
In kangaroos the tail continues in the direction of the spine, they are the first bipedal tailed animal I thought of.
They use it for support and balance, making them one of Nature’s few tripeds.
Do they qualify as bipedal? They do use their front paws to walk when they are not hopping. Animals on the Australian continent seem to cheerfully defy most classifications…
that actually is a source of debate among zoologists and taxonomists; as the Kangaroo’s primary form of mobility and standing is upright on two legs; it is also technically sitting on its tail in a “tri-pod” like fashion. Meaning in that sense the only true bipeds alive on Earth right now are Humans and birds…and even then very few birds hold a vertical biped pose like a human does, penguins could be argued to be the only ones with most birds in a slanted posture or an L-frame body type.
I’ve heard them being described as ‘monopeds’ because when they’re hopping, their using both of their feet together as if they were one big foot. It’s a means of preserving energy.
So kangaroos can be considered monopedal, bipedal, tripedal or quadrupedal, depending on the situation.
Well, actually, you are only half right. Most animals’ tails do come straight down the spine as you say, but making a sudden 90 degree is not unheard of. Cats and monkeys have their tails do that routinely, so do some dog breeds.
In Xuriel’s case here it does appear to actually come out of the base of her spine, and then turn. Normally I would expect if she had a tail all the time she would have it stick out at least somewhat so as to not be in the way, in this case it was said to be helping balance her landing, so would have to stick out.
Of course the real problem here is that we don’t have any bipeds on Earth with tails, monkeys are the closest, but are still more quadrapeds than bipeds. So without any real examples, everyone is just guessing how it would work. On a quadraped the tail can go straight back – above the anus – because it doesn’t get in the way, but on a biped that would get in the way. It is possible that evolution would ensure a biped lost it’s tail as it evolved into being a biped, but I’m not sure on that.
For anyone wondering, here’s a song clarifying the difference between a monkey and an ape (or anything else)
I see you are also a man of culture.
Im’a just leave this right here. No reason. Or, maybe All The Reasons.
Well, shit. working link without any of the fancy formatting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cklpO4kYZKs
It’s like this:
.a href=”link_goes_here”.Im’a just leave this right here./a.
Replace . with lesser than and greater than as I’m sure you can figure out.
Not sure how you got the colored text without the working link though. That’s a neat partial success.
Thanks, but I do know that. I was trying to get fancy, the way I post on some other WordPress sites, and have the text be boldfaced in addition to being a link. Apparently use of the bold element in the way it’s implemented on this site nulls out the working link part … yet, leaves the text colored & boldfaced. I also add a title=”my snarky comment here” property into my href elements to get a hover text effect. That may have assisted in breaking the anchor. Also. I’m not up on the current standards, but I was an HTML jockey and used to build websites in a text editor for more than a decade back in the day … so, I am certainly being punished for my sins when I try to get fancy and show off a bit when posting under modern HTML standards.
Not sure what sort of skeleton you are familiar with, butt most tend to have the spine continue further than that
Well, if you stick with currently extant species. If you include extinct species, there are therapod dinosaurs, although they tended to lean forward with the tail as a counterweight. Still, they were true bipeds.
Also, does someone want to explain why a quadruped would need a tail for balance?
Speaking of quadruped tails. Cat tails don’t actually stick out at ninety degrees; it’s just that when a cat has its tail in the air, there’s a very tight curve near the base.
A 90° turn at the end, not splitting partway down like this…
Gotta say that tail looks kinda wimpy, you’d expect something more muscular for a creature her size.
How muscular is a lion’s tail?
the answer is YES ;)
Very. Where it extends from their spine and out of their body, generally the thickness of a man’s wrist. And long. With mass and muscle control. Consider, a full grown lioness can be 300 pounds or more, a full grown male can exceed 500 (I think the world record is about 800). That tail acts as a counterbalance for the entire lion.
I agree with the general commentary that Dabbler’s tail could be/should be more like the Voch’Khari, as designed by InCase in his epic graphic porn novel Alfie. Not necessarily as long or as thick, but more in that direction.
Apart from those comments, I find that Dabbler just keeps getting more and more exotic and beautiful as this story runs along. Nice. Thank you, Dave.
Why not there? Dabbler would like that too.
What if she were wearing a high-tech demon-tail butt plug?
I take a break from comments for a few days to concentrate on work and I come back and…..
“high tech demon tail butt plug.”
I missed the comment board :)
Glad you could put that ridiculous legalese down for a bit and re-join our high-brow philosophical debates.
One of the orbs does cover her need to breath actually, just not the way Elsbeth is referring to it now. Unless it is a passive effect that wasn’t discovered yet, but allowing Sydney to talk without pausing even to take a breath would be too dangerous for anyone within hearing.
The orb does not cover the need to breath, it supplies air to breath.
While there is a circular breathing technique that allows continuous playing of instruments like the didgeridoo I don’t think they can be applied to talking. But from role playing we know that talking is a free action. Also witnessed in the opera with long winded speeches before death.
It is possible to speak while inhaling, although it takes practice.
If Sydney ever improves her force field orb to the point where she can have it only cover part of her body then in combination with the air orb she could have a respirator. Place force field over face/head, fill with whatever air mixture at greater than atmospheric pressure, and that’s an inhale. Release force field, or in some other way allow the pressure to drop to one atmosphere, and that’s an exhale. Repeat as needed.
*breathe
The orb doesn’t cover biological requirements, it just creates a sphere of breathable oxygen. What we don’t know about that orb is… everything else! Questions like ‘can it do other gasses’ have been asked by others, and hopefully we get an answer one day.
Thank you. Yes. Breathe is the verb, breath is the noun.
There *might* be an upgrade that supplies the breathable air direct to your lungs, so that you can speak continuously without pausing for breath; I could see that being useful for a wizard under some circumstances….
Observations;
-1: I’m missing Dabblers lower left arm (panel 1 & 2)
-2: Tamatha seems to be holding on to something firm.
-3: Nice tail Dabbler, does it help with your balance when jumping?
Perhaps she turned that arm into her tail?
Cyber-arm Cyber-tail, why not?
Oh, right, Oberon will be soon to say why not, something about ‘not being realistic’
I think that might be it. That is her cybernetic arm any way. And previous page she had four arms and no tail.
The cybernetic arm used to be a real arm, just as her cybernetic eye used to be a real eye.
Both happened because she’s not as good with a sword as she likes to think she is.
Is she subject to a Law of Conservation of Appendages? I would have expected a succubus to gravitate more towards a Law of Observation of Appendages, or even a Law of Penetration by Appendages.
You missed the 3rd panel leg swap.
That panel needs a horizontal flip since the feet are being shown from the front.
I literally only checked the comments to see if anyone else caught this. They do seem like the feet should be the other way right?
Either that or Dabbler was briefly straddling Hiro…for SOME reason.
That’s Tammy’s foot when Dabbler sets her down. Check the shoes.
Right, Tamina is wearing grey shoes and blue jeans with rolled cuffs, while Hiro is wearing brown boots with black pants. Good eye.
Yep, exactly!
Yup, in panel 1, Hiro is on their left and Dabbler on the right. In Panel 3, Hiro is on the right and Dabbler is on the left. They do some midair pirouette or something?
Hiro’s foot isn’t shown at all in panel 3. I didn’t have space to fit it. I guess he hovered down slower than Dabbler fell.
My only concern with panel 3 is that Dabbler’s hoof would probably “CLOP!” rather than “tap” when landing from even a small height. Not sure what you mean by “foot swap.” The perspective just returns to a front-on view like in panel 1 after the rear view of panel 2. I guess, also, in panel 1 it looks like her hoof would already be in contact with the roof, or so close to it that Tamatha’s feet couldn’t fall fast enough under just gravity to catch up and contact the roof at the same moment.
They thought it was Hiro landing beside her, not Tammy, and in panel one he was on her left, whereas panel three shows someone landing on her right beside her
Maybe Dabbler’s wearing tap shoes.
And Tamatha is wearing tap sneakers?
Curses! Dabbler’s ALWAYS one step ahead of me!
“Clop” vs “tap” is a matter of size. For instance, on a concrete surface small calves tap while the cows clop. We are also applying Earth biology to a non-Terran creature. Her hooves may be considerably harder. There might even be entertainment value if DaveB showed her with some sort of shoe bonded to the bottom of the hoof for wear resistance.
1 you’re right
2 she IS a sucubus
3 author’s note says it helps with landing, so I’d say yes
Panel 3 “Tap, Tap”. We know Tamitha is a young succubus but does the similarity in the sound made by her and Dabbler’s feet indicate that also has hooves concealed by a glamour?
If it is, then it is a failure. Because we can see Tamatha’s skin color, her wings, her pointed ears, and her non-human eyes. If only the sneakers are being covered by The Veil then people in the presence of aliens/supernaturals/non-humans all across the globe are going to be seeing parts of them. Similar to the waitress who spotted the dog tail coming off of some were- or another at a bar.
Makes me wonder how The Veil handles a tray of drinks being swept to the floor by a wagging tail that isn’t visible, when it is properly camouflaging things of that nature that is.
* hooves are being covered, not sneakers
Hmmm, thinking on it more, it seems like Dabbler’s hooves are more likely an aspect of her inter-species heritage rather than a succubus trait. The taps may just be a means of establishing that Tamitha is standing on her own and Dabbler has her hands free
Nice handhold there, Tamatha.
It’s not a handheld, it’s a wireless charging point xD
What? She got kidnapped in the middle of a meal, she’s probably hungry.
I find the Content of this response be to Questionable :)
Wrong side ;) https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4181
Or, maybe she was attempting to warm Dabbles up using the body temperature regulator :P
Or maybe she wanted to hear the latest jazz track and went for the wrong dial
Not even slightly body conscious.
Its a good thought that Krona can’t just eliminate the paralytic passively, because otherwise she could probably eliminate Syd’s ADHD permanently if that were the case.
I suspect here Krona accidentally cancelled her ADHD meds too…
You think? She went from can’t move, can’t talk to BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURT in like a second, tops. And it was funny as hell…….
As anyone with a hyper ADHD friend can attest, it seems for these people breathing can be optional. I have friends who can get this way when they get on a roll.
I would love to know if Krona could do that when Sydney’s shield is up?
It doesn’t look like her shield was up.
Yes, that’s the point, will Krona’s edits work on Sydney bubbled. It would show how secure Sidney is from being mind hacked while bubbled. We know it blocked Vengeance’s violence aura. If it wont block Krona, then Krona mind controlling Sydney is something that could happen.
Regardless of the answer to “does the force field block her ability,” I don’t think Krona can do mind control.
It will at least be very complicated. She hacks reality, not controls electricity or something less complicated. That’s like trying to open a locked book on a certain page on a certain time by shaking the world.
not a bad analogy, reality warping tends to fall into “I can do big things, pretty randomly, no idea how, I just do” or “I have studied how things work, and thanks to my power can see and use that understanding to manipulate it as far down as the quantum level”, but while the second is more precise and controlled, tends to be somehow limiting. Like being able to understand and explain it limits your imagination so you can do less; but at the same time do more specific things you couldn’t before because you couldn’t imagine it before. Like the difference between turning the wall into candy vs learning the chemical make up of a wall and seeing how different it is from candy so focusing too much on that to that anymore, but now thanks to learning chemistry realize that by moving a few molecules around you just turned the whole wall into an explosive instead.
Pretty much just becomes “Poof magic” vs “quantum magic”
It could easily be presented as a limitation in the Human (?) brain’s processing ability, that it can only handle so much information at a time. The user may or may not be able to choose on the fly between having a limited amount of detail about a larger quantity, or a higher level of detail about a smaller quantity, but the total amount of information that they can access doesn’t change much.
(Optional extension: add the other two axes of the Quality Tetrahedron to the user’s decision space: Cost and Time, to go with Scope and Detail already mentioned. They can do more detailed work on a larger quantity, but will have to do it more slowly and/or ‘pay’ in some not-necessarily-monetary sense.)
Or like the Planet Express ship’s drive in Futurama. Unlike more standard faster-than-light drives, Professor Farnsworth’s drive on the Planet Express ship doesn’t move the ship at all. The ship stays in place, while the drive moves the rest of the universe.
Every once in a while watching that show it comes across how frightening Farnsworth would be if he wasn’t so random and impractical with his mad science (like inventing a device to view parallel realities so he could see what would happen in a universe where he decided to invent a glove with an index finger extension to make pressing buttons easier . . . in a universe where remote controls are already a thing).
” The ship stays in place, while the drive moves the rest of the universe. ”
Acording to General Relativity, THIS IS A PERFECTLY REASONAL VIEW.
good thing they called dabbler. if they called maxima. would not be as gentle.
Actually, the tail does seem to be a late addition, she’s clearly lacking one early in the series.
Examine the last panel on the previous page.
The previous page isn’t part of “early in the series”, I’d say.
You didn’t look at the last panel of the previous page before you posted that comment, did you? Just a wild-assed guess.
No, her tail has been missing since the start of this webic, her tail and her second set of bewbs
Oh, and there is no tail on the previous page, so… not sure what point you were trying to make
It seems that Krona accidentally “turned off” all drugs in the Mighty Halo’s system, including her ADHD meds.
I suppose turning them all back on (unbip) stops Sydney from exploding?
“ok, lets just stop the drugs in effect in your system” -Krona
*DEAR GOD WHAT DID I DO!* -Also Krona
@Jeff NME ; ↑This!↑
Nice to see the return of Dabbles’ cyber-tail, last seen on Wereworld
“Dabbler was using her tail to arrest her fall. I wasn’t quite sure how to illustrate that on the page so I just drew a picture of her butt.”
I imagine the end of it whirling around like a helicopter, actually.
Is that a Sci-Fi reference?
Momentum damper? Gravity brake? Energy parachute?
(Or the magical equivalent there to?)
Maybe her 4th arm is touching Hiro and he’s supplying the slowing force.
If she had that all along she could never fall to her death.
Allow me to introduce you to Miles “Tails” Prower and his habitual aptitude for flying by whirling his pair of tails around like a helicopter blade…
Dragon Ball, actually: https://dragonballuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Through_the_Air_by_Spinning_Your_Tail
Yes, also Miles, and I think that Felix the Cat might have done it on one occasion.
and Snoopy, with his ears
Bugs Bunny has also flown with his ears as a propeller;
(oddly a number of toon bunnies use their ears to fly, sometimes like a plane (Cream the Rabbit) or like a helicopter like Bug BUnny.
First
Not… quite, close though
I hesitated
And to think, I hesitated.
By tomorrow you won’t even be on the front page.
Only because the front page is now the second page
…. And we have the return of the list! It’s been a while….. And I love this page. I seriously do!
The list makes a come back.. to be fair, the only one confirmed on the reverse of the list is Math..
Math almost made it to the front side of THE LIST, but then Sydney reconsidered and said it was a fair win. Only person confirmed to be on the reverse of THE LIST is Leon (and picture of half-naked Wolverine in a church, but it’s questionable if he can be considered a person).
Nope, Leon is the only one known to be UnListed – Math only managed to narrowly avoid a regular Listing.
The fight was skipped? Seems like a page missing.
Aranea fell for Krona’s door-swappig trick and almost immediately go thit by one of Dabbler’s binder-bombs. Fight was over pages ago. The page with Dabbler getting called in was a flashback.
Anyone else thinking that Krona’s effect here might be purging more than the paralytic? Like, seriously, if it doesn’t differentiate her medication from whatever it defines as “toxins”, then it would send Sydney’s brain chemistry for a loop.
That is purely reader speculation. All the author has said is that Sydney had a lot of talking backlog after being paralyzed and unable to speak for a short while.
Did I we skip a page? Feels like it…
no, last page was a flashback to show how Dabbler was called in, page before that showed Aranea being hit by Dabblers binder.
Hiro looks pretty damn unhappy …
Well, Hiro had a long day, then Dabbler commandeered him for shuttle duty and zorched off what was left of his shirt. There’s been an incident with an unknown nonhuman attacking an underage Succubus, who knows how long the paperwork on thats gonna take…its already three in the morning and somebody unleashed Sydney in hyperspeed babbel mode.
Pissed.
Ya think?
I’m thinking Dabbler just may need to find another way back to Archon.
If there is any justice, it will involve Sydney, and babbeling.
An unknown nonhuman attacking an underage Succubus? Not too long, the standard form 43m covers that and you’ll be done in ~5 minutes.
Tail too high, too angled. Tails follow the spine in a nice smooth curve. Everything else is weird, and not in a good way.
Breathe, not breath. The verb form has the trailing ‘e.’ “To breathe, you draw a breath.” To breathe, two e’s.
Yeah, I’m glad someone else instantly caught that. I guess I’m not the only Henry Higgins “If you’re going to speak English, do it properly” fan here.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
I dangle my participle at you.
Yes, well since the issue is really just a slight misspelling (Writing “Breath” instead of “Breathe”) It’s not so much about the purity of English as a simple matter of clarity. If you don’t want to Breathe, you can hold your Breath. Breathe is the verb, Breath is the noun.
“Breathe is the verb, Breath is the noun.”
Are you ^sure^ it’s not the other way around? :-\
Until I breathe(v) my last Breath(n).
Just realized, at this point it doesn’t matter whether Tamatha succeeded in cutting her way free of the butt-rope. I find this strangely unsatisfying and hope the matter will be cleared up in a flashback.
Too much drama there. Dabbler should have just pinched Sydney’s cheeks. With all her four arms.
“Butt-ass” is delightfully stupid.
Some toons have tails that come and go. It was a running gag with Ren Hoek, but we probably weren’t supposed to notice with Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Maybe the animators, being human, keep forgetting, or else some skip the tails on purpose for convenience.
To be fair, Dabbler used to have 4 breasts with that tail. I wonder if those features are going to be coming back as well?
More random thoughts from my weekend:
B. Obama: [Steps up to a podium with the crest of the President of the United States of America ] Today we are here to recognize the efforts of great courage and gallantry of these members of Archon for stopping the recent attacks in New York City and Baltimore that, had they been successful, would have killed tens of millions and devastated the country as a whole. It is with great pride that,as authorized by Congress, I now bestow the Medal of Honor to these American heroes. [ Turns to the assembled honorees to his right. ] Colonel Maximilia Leander.
Maxima: Mr. President [ Snaps a rapid salute, which is returned ]
Obama: [ Quietly ] Didn’t I give you one of these already? [ Puts the award around her neck. ]
Maxima: [ Also Quietly ] Yes, sir, after we stopped the alien invasion at our head quarters last year.
Obama: [ Looking at the metals bars on her upper chest] Ah, I see you have 3 of these already.
Maxima: One from Iraq, one from Afghanistan and one from last year.
Obama: Oh, what did you do to get the first two?
Maxima: I believe those actions are still classified, sir. If you want, we could talk about it in private.
Obama: Maybe later. [ Full volume ] Congratulations. [ Moves down the line ] Major.
Hiro: Mr. President! [ Snaps a salute which is returned ]
Obama [ Just to Hiro ] Weren’t you part of the alien invasion defence?
Hiro: Yes Sir. I got the Navy Cross for that action. I was a Marine before joining Archon.
Obama: I see. [ Puts the Metal of Honor over his head and around his neck. ] We’re going to have to set up an Archon Cross, with some very stringent criteria at the rate you guys are going.
Hiro: As you say, sir. [ Obama moves to the next person ] Corporal.
Halo: Mr. President! [ Snaps a proper salute that is returned ]
Obama: Hmm, were you part of repelling the alien invasion last year?
Halo: No sir. I was off-base at the time the attack occurred.
Obama: I am sure I have seen you before.
Halo: Uh, well, I am quite active in field operations, sir. You probably have seen me on the news a few times.
Obama: Oh, now I remember.
Halo: Oh dear.
Obama: You were the girl who barged into the international briefing we were having the day after your first press conference.
Halo: [ Sheepish ] Yes, sir. That was me.
Obama: [ Puts the Metal of Honor over Sydney’s head and around her neck ] Congratulations Corporal. Keep up the good work.
Cute, but the MoH requires that the person receiving it having acted “at risk of his life”. Haven’t seen much of that yet…
Thought that as well, butt this scenario is from a year in their future (they haven’t even been to Baltimore yet)
I was thinking that Maxima moved between the cities, Hiro was primarily responsible for saving the New York City area, including major pieces of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut through Rhode Island, while Halo stopped the attack on the cities Washington, DC, Arlington, VA, Baltimore, MD and the areas around the cities. The super-terrorists pushed the individuals in question to their hither-to unknown limits.
I guess that Achilles would never qualify for the Medal of Honor. Too bad. Hmm, what could he qualify for? Silver Star?
I would go with Distinguished Service, which is just above Silver Star. Note that Silver Star requires “valor” which, while possible, would still be much more narrow for him than most.
But you do raise a critical point, namely, that the honor system really is designed for persons with mostly-equal capabilities and limitations. One man armies, not so much.
If you want to go that route, you almost certainly need a separate set of medals, ie: Earthsaver (with silver leaf cluster).
Hence the Archon Cross. If you thought the criteria for an Army Cross, or a Navy Cross is high, wait until you see the requirements for this metal. It is set this high so that you are not automatically awarding one to Maxima, Hiro, Stalwart, Halo or Anvil on every fourth operation.
Oops, the Army Cross is actually the Distinguished Service Cross.
Oops, the Army Cross is actually the Distinguished Service Cross. That’s what happens when a Canadian tries to remember American military honours.
Anyone else thought Krona had a sparkling top when she unbips Sydney?
Maybe the ‘unbip’ is application of a “Krona virus”. °_º
Wow, that’s just as badly timed as my hurricane joke last year.
The sparkly bits are part of her control panel.
For whatever reason Sydney’s lines reminded me of David Della Rocco’s “diversity of the word” outburst from Boondock Saints.
That’s “Breathe”, Dave. ^^;
Tammy is holding Dabbler’s boob. Just felt like pointing that out.
It feels like we missed out on a fight scene. :(
What fight scene? We saw Areana crash into a boarded up window, then get mummied, then we had a flashback to explain how she got mummied
Or were you meaning you wanted a fight scene? o_O
So, uh…Is it just me, or is purposely paralyzing someone because you find them annoying kind of a dick move?
Cause it feels like a dick move to me.
No, Kronachrome originally removed all toxins, or perceived toxins, which, as others have pointed out, probably included her ADHD meds (one step below Meth), so she ‘unremoved’ it and Beth is going to administer a real antidote that will allow Sydney to recover slowly and safely
She didn’t removed ANYTHING. She said “isolate”. As mentioned in commentary, it was some active effect, maybe keeping the chemicals from interacting with her brain.
And while I’m not entirely sure it was intended to show that she also isolated her ADHD meds, it would be understandable if she though she did.
Was wondering why there was a closeup of Xuriel’s ass. Not that I mind, just wondering.
I noted the tail, but didn’t wonder whether it had always been there. So now that Sydney’s asked, now I’m wondering if it’s always been there as I have been known to miss such things as well.
Its detachable. Hasn’t been in this comic before; was present back when she was in the old comic Were World.
Detachable?
King Missile probably has a song for tails too.
Well, not so much detachable as insertable…
On the basis of no evidence whatsoever, I’d like to speculate that the tail is another cybernetic limb normally confined to hammerspace because it too demonstrates that she is not quite the swordswoman she believed herself to be. She whipped it out to bond with Tamatha. It’s a succubus thing.
Or not.
I could delve through Wereworld’s back log but I won’t.
so here ya go
http://wereworld.comicgenesis.com/d/20020420.html
(keep in mind that is a very NSFW comic, also don’t get too invested it doesn’t actually end; its one of those where life just got in the way so the artist had to stop and never picked it back up again)
Best to start at the end and move backwards, Dabbles only showed up towards the end
Forwards or backwards, not interested. Please link to the scenes where Dabbler lost limbs, only.
That wasn’t on-page, either in her time on Wereworld or with ARC. The second pair of breasts was lost in between the two timeframes; I’m not sure whether the rest of the parts (one eye, one tail, most of one arm) were lost before Wereworld or between it and ARC, or even whether they were all in the same incident.
Looking at Sydney’s battle record thus far, she might need to worry she’s a Killer Class (or whatever the tropes name is for this) kind of Super.
Basically unless it involves construction work, destroying something, or killing your opponents their power set ends up putting them at a disadvantage in a situation where they aren’t supposed to kill their opponents; or even severely hurt someone even by accident. Also good chance she’s get labeled a ranged fighter only (stand over there, point and shoot).
Her most successful battle was against alien world enders. Killing two kaiju and thousands of fighter class ships.
however all other fights
-Parkinglot: injured, caused severe bodily harm to one opponent, sat out and observed rest of battle taking an assist role.
-Sciona’s bot: tactical assist and distraction; had to hold back offensive ability for risk of setting area on fire.
-Sciona’s lair: distraction, stood in for Maxima thanks to bubble shield so Maxima could get at Sciona while using that vision reducing psy-beam.
-Alien mugging: Turtled, and captured one guy. Explained not supposed to use lethal force in that situation back home…also chances are aside from the tentacle her only offensive option would result in property damage and civilian casualties.
-Roof top spider rumble: Well…got blind sighted and tried to help with tentacle. Demonstrating her lack of innate defenses *no innate invulnerability or defense aura* If she sees a fight coming she could bubble up and whip it out; but that’s again a reason she could end up a ranged back up.
For all her powers, most are assist and travel based. Defense is limited and limits her options when in use, making her a total turtle and her offense options are either A: beam that can cut buildings in half and causes a secondary explosion in solid mass so even hitting the ground with it will cause additional damage and debris (or) B: a scatter shot of “fire ball” like projectiles that can set things on fire if they miss or are deflected.
Reminds me of what I used to call the Omega Death Man, problem. A super hero who can’t do small things like stop a bank robbery or a mugging because their power has no low setting and goes for the instant kill and/or massive destruction setting only. Just she has the additional (Turtle only) problem. Her tentacle is her only low end option despite her wide array of powers.
-basically: Battle giant mecha-monkey from beyond the moon and she’s flying around, blowing its face up, helping destroy its mecha monkey monions with the team.
but Battle every day C-class villain: Stop…dodging…my…whip! Or assisting in evacuation of civilians using shield while the brawlers and tanks safely take down the villain.
Her particular trope is “squishy wizard”. Real nuke them attack, ability to put in place a powerful defense, but if you can hit her before she puts it up, she’s out of the fight.
It’s true that in “every day” operations her pew-pew orb is not really usable, but I think that with training and maybe few more points into it the whip would be enough on most C-class villains.
Well training using flying orbs as a less lethal weapon has demonstrated potential.
The biggest obstacle is that Sydney is a weirdness magnet and trouble finds her wherever she goes. She’s only a few weeks into recruit training. They can’t get her brought up to speed properly because she is continually being forced to learn on the job.
Well you can’t really blame demon hunters on Sydney. She just happened to be at the bar, she didn’t even know Tamatha before this day and had nothing to do with some random demon hunter picking an adolescent target over the adult demon who owns the bar.
It goes to show you what cowards demon hunters are, to go after the weakest target present.
That’s not cowardice, that’s just good tactics. Pick off the small and weak first (unnoticed if possible), use them build your intel and knowledge of the situation, and save the biggest opponents for last after eliminating their support.
It is demonstrably not good tactics because you lose the element of surprise. Our demon hunter took the weak one and then all the strong ones went on a hunt. Had Decollete disappeared and not a minor child there would have been far less concern. People might just assume she had taken some lucky stud off to a private room for some fun, giving the demon hunter hours longer to do whatever it is she was going to do with Tamatha.
Alternatively, it may show how much more effective a Succubus’s disguise becomes with an extra few decades (centuries?) of experience.
Tamatha probably has less than ten years of practice in blending in, by the time she was old enough to realise that it might be a preferred option. I’m not sure how much older Decollette is (and a gentleman would never ask), but it’s safe to say she’s been doing it successfully for far longer and probably in far more challenging circumstances.
Put yourself in Aranea’s position. It’s easy to tell that the kid looking sleazy by the toilets is a Demon, she’s barely hiding it at all even if her expression wasn’t a sign of something going on. The classy dame who acts like she owns the joint might be one as well, but [i] you’re not sure and [ii] taking her would be far more noticeable. So you go for the target you’re sure of.
Regarding the Pew Pew Orb, if you look at Sydney’s level up tree, part of the Pew Pew orb tree is an oval with six pairs of nodes pointing inward (only one pair of which is already active). I think its its likely that putting experience into node pairs might give her a selection of damage types to chose from.
Hopefully Sydney can eventually get a damage type where at least the weaker rapid fire mode has less potential for collateral damage.
You skipped an encounter. The assault on the council chamber. Where Sydney was holding the biggest “husk”, keeping him out of battle while the smaller ones were being mopped up.
And having to make sure her shield is up during engagement, does not make her “ranged only”. Would a metal worker be “ranged only” if he has to put on protective clothing to enter certain areas? And in the military you can get in trouble for going out without gearing up first. (Outside of emergency situations.)
Add in the fact that she hasn’t even finished basic and is being brought on missions with maxima(as transportation) shows how important that one ability makes her to team action.(She can get a whole group of people to a place more than 4x as fast as Hiro(Who I’m assuming is the 3rd fastest flier on the team.) can fly.) And she has been under strict orders in most of these events to NOT engage the enemy. On account of her not having finished training.
And while several of her powers are good for situation A but not situation B, and visa versa. This makes her good for both situations A and B, where as some people would be only good in one or the other.
And in close combat lighthook and shield together make he quite formidable. Remember that (from Sydney’s perspective) she’s only had the orbs out in the open for (possibly less than) 2 weeks. So give her time, with enough practice, she’ll be wrapping enemies up without damaging them, (in this fight she was hampered by being unable to turn her head to see exactly where Aranea was, and how she was oriented(which matters when trying to wrap something up)) and catching flying cars and people, (and cars with people in them), and setting them down safely.
Don’t forget lighthook has an as of yet unknown max length which, is quite long(I wouldn’t rule out 100+ feet), and can lift over a dozen tons . And none of the upgrade paths for lighthook are maxed out. So it’s possible the weight limit and max length can be extended.
So add it all up and with training, Sydney will be a highly valuable team member on most missions.
As much was said when deciding whether or not to extend her an offer.
While it is true that the PPO’s (current!) upper limit at least approaches “asteroid killer”, we’ve _seen_ it do a multishot that was a lot lower power. Even without upgrades, we simply do not know what limits (if any) there are on PPO power ranges.
But cops TODAY avoid shooting guns for exactly the same reasons mentioned that Halo might have trouble with the PPO. Unless the PPO has a “sunburn” mode, certainly Halo will avoid using it for a lot of “mundane” purposes.
OTHO, the HentOrb is hyper-useful in such an environment. It appears to have effectively unlimited range, and Halo has demonstrated an astonishing level of control with it. By itself, she is hyper-useful in a low-powered/normal human environment. However, she gets a second hand! The immediate use I see is remote viewing. Remote viewing + fine-grained HentOrb control, and she can immobilize low-powered opponents at will.
That doesn’t even start to get into weaponizing the fly orb, and they are yet to experiment with the gas orb. (Can she do knockout gas? Riot control situations want to know!)
This is an inaccurate and unfair assessment of Sydney’s participation. Aside from taking out some flying fire guy, Sydney blocked a few attacks on her team mates with Lighthook, came up with the plan to neutralize (off screen, which was lame) For Whom, and ultimately did the same with Vehemence. It is fair to say that had Sydney not been there there probably would have been a death count, and it wouldn’t have been just on the side of the bad guys.
Wow! Surprised to didn’t blame it all on Maxi, because she could have finished all the bad guys in a minute or two, butt she wanted her team to get ‘combat experience’ (and it cost Brook her toe)
Not sure what you mean by this, but it is absolutely the _job_ of a CO to let the troops do their thing without them coming in to save their $$$$$ every time there is a problem. The CO won’t always be around, and it is MUCH better to deal with a serious problem when the CO is around than when they are not.
Not sure what you are implying with this, but part of the CO’s job is to step back & let the troops deal with a live situation. The CO won’t always be around to bail their $$$$$ out, and it is much better to have a serious situation develop when the CO is right there than when they are not.
Welp alls well that ends well but I’m more concerned that slayer idiot has friends someplace.
and now that she attacked archon agent they are probly going “spiderwoman who? don’t know here nope not getting involved here”
@Xaton lol that is very true they would probably be more like ‘ohhhh shit dude she attacked a cop! nope she ain’t one of us then nope nope nope gonna deny it and say she isn’t one of us anymore’ sort of thing. :P
They are hunting for demons, you think they are going to be deterred, or afraid, because of a few super-cops got involved? o_O
If anything, it will refocus their attention to Archon, and paint them as The Enemy for protecting and harbouring demons
or go full zealot.
I am reminded of an old, (and abandoned) story I started where supers were appearing around the world and certain groups believed them to be demons possessing people or reincarnating in human form. A cult in this scenario believing any supers following their cult were “angels” and believing any supers that opposed them must then be “demons”
the idea being, if you believe and have encountered super powered humanoid beings and already believe/know them to be demons. its not much of a stretch to then assume the public has been duped by the powers of darkness to think some demons are the fictional “super heroes” become real as a way to gain a beach head in the human world.
Zack Tilly
Using something like the Veil to ‘hide’ the truth about supernaturals and magick always back fires in a big way, butt not before innocent lives have been ruined because they accidentally stumbled too close to the truth
I bought a book on Amazon a few years ago and the villains were exactly that.
I don’t think I ever finished it though, as all of the heroes in it were too Mary Sue. Not only were they powerful all the normal wanted to screw.
I suspect that the author wrote it when he was fifteen and just edited it.
I can safely say not mine. Never really got past writing the back stories and histories of the groups and main characters before dropping it as I felt I was ripping off too much X-men and Mutant-X material even with the concept…I was young though, but seriously, the main character was called “Pollia” and her power was basically girl version of Apocalypse from the X-men; and her friend “Pixie Frog” was just girl version of Toad from the X-men with neon high lights (pixie frog coloration).
But I did post a ton of that stuff online back in like 2004 while brain storming. The villain was “Messiah” who believed himself the second coming of Christ…because his powers were watered down version of the miracles.
But really if there is no history of supers, but a long history of superstitions and religions than a sudden appearance of powers would reasonably spark this mindset. I could easily see that happening in the real world; as well as super human concentration camps and public panic hit squads.
and “Demon Hunters” who think, even if society says otherwise, that super powers are caused by demons and “demon blood” ect…
Actually one of them Does have that capability.
We don’t know if the air orb can put air into her lungs directly, which is what it would take for someone to truly talk without stopping for long periods.
Though, from what I’ve heard and seen myself, I can say some ADHD people are born with an ability to inhale while speaking(not speaking during inhale though), or something like that. Making it look like they never stop talking to breathe.
When everybody else stops to think, I just stop to breathe. I just don’t really stop the train of thought; it just keeps running along.
Pardon my grammar/detail demon, but …. In the first panel, Dabbler is on the left and Hiro on the right as we see them. But they land in the third panel with Hiro on the left and Dabbler on the right.
It’s been mentioned a few times now. Panel three, Dabbler is on the left and lets Tamatha’s legs down to her right. The identical taps seem to indicate that both have hooves.
examine the shoes. That’s Dabbler and Tamatha, 3rd panel.
That’s not Hiro, that is Succubus Junior, look at the shoes.
So mean of Dabbler to carry Tamatha, rather than Areana, and not let (shirtless) Hiro fly Tamatha down.
Interesting note.
1st panel Dabbler is on the right and looks like she’s ahead of Hero. However when they land, on the 3rd panel, Hero is in front of Dabbler, and to the right of her.
I call shenanigans!
Hiro is faster than her one of the reasons why she took him as a steed to get to the fight if you want to call it a fight.
Also, Dabbler is at the mercy of gravity. Hiro, not so much.
Personally calling ‘inability to read comments’
It has been mentioned, several times, that that is Tammy who is touching down beside Dabbles