Grrl Power #790 – Anti-aliased
“Some of my best friends are demons. Well, one demon, and… best friend is a bit strong. Friend. Work buddy. Friendly but occasionally sexually antagonistic teammate.”
So Tamatha grew up, obviously aware that she was a ‘monster’ of some sort. She didn’t even know what kind for a while, but the tail narrowed it down. The mentor she mentioned brought her up to speed, but even now she’s concerned that she’s ‘bad’ because she’s a ‘monster.’
Some people were wondering about how sexually immature succubi operate. I think I addressed it in the post accompanying a previous page, but I don’t recall which one. It will be addressed in a next page or two.
Sydney does not have undercover chops. A statement which should surprise no one.
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Am I the only one thinking “It’s a trap!”?
Because seducing Sydney outright would be very noticeable, but there are subtler ways to probe her weak points in order to manipulate her. A girl with eye-catching wings and tail, someone Sydney would want to approach. Younger (and shorter) so Sydney naturally slips into the headspace of wise senpai/older sister. Vulnerability, self-depreciation, seeking reassurance, all things that would tempt Sydney into defending her, placing her even more firmly on Tamatha’s side. And topping it off with fangirling, admiration feeding the ego and making it more likely that she’ll share even more info to get more admiration/approval.
On the other hand, it seems equally likely that Tamatha is one of many illegitimate love children spawned from a succubus/human pairing that somehow slipped under the radar and grew up in the human world.
Plus probably jailbait.*
But no, I don’t think that is the way this comic goes. Your ending paragraph does seem the more likely take.
* Although an ancient succubus (by human standards) may look teenage (and even a young adult by their standards is over 100) this one appears to be both naive and juvenile. Plus I bet that succubi mature fast. So she could actually be even younger in calendar years than she appears. And those are the years that courts count.
It has been explained that Tamatha is just the equivalent of a teenager.
She doesn’t need to pretend to be awkward. She is awkward.
All the behavior she has shown is par for the course for a teenage girl.
Sometimes things really are what they appear to be.
You, I like.
Same, I feel.
Shouldn’t this be #790 or did I just skip over 100 strips?
No, Dave did. I feel like tose Bavarians (I think…) with the Great Calendar Update from Julian to Gregorian: “Where’s my 100 days gone? I want them back!!!!!!”
When they switched calendars, the date jumped forward between 10 to 14 days. It depended upon when your country made the switch.
It had a major effect on ordinary people, because their rent day would suddenly come 10 to 14 days early. No wonder they rioted in the streets.
Not sure if this comic numbering will affect us the same way …
Yikes. Whoops.
“Mighty” Halo? Wow, someone’s getting a swelled head.
If you can do it, it ain’t bragging.
Yeah, anybody who’s shot down one Carrier Squidward is already there, let alone two…
That’s literally her superhero name though. The Mighty Halo, which she used at the press conference :)
Also not really the first time an adjective has been used for a superhero name.
Superior/Sensational/Spectacular Spider-Man
Immortal/Savage/Incredible Hulk
Invincible Iron Man
Ultimate
Sensational/Savage She-hulk
Mighty Thor
It’s something that someone who’s very into comic books, like Sydney, would do with a superhero name. :)
Or if you have no shame you can go as far as:
The Man of Molecules
Megaton Man
America’s Nuclear Powered Hero™
Yes. By that standard, Sydney was actually quite reserved.
And to top it of, she didn’t even chose it herself. Everyone started calling her the mighty halo. Add to that she’s just way too much into superheroes, so it doesn’t feel weird for her to call herself. Also, someone put on a good example in front of cameras (Maxima, you’re going to feel bad later, when Sidney gets totally out of control when it comes to bragging…).
About what said Zims: yeah, it could be a trap. But isn’t it useless to set traps for Sidney ? Just let her do and she’ll set traps for herself and fall head on into them anyway…
Oh no she actually DID choose the ‘Mighty’ part. Arianna chose Halo.
Sydney probably didn’t want people confusing her with the video game. :) And added ‘The Mighty Halo’
Then when someone at the press conference said ‘mighty halo?’ she responded back with ‘I’m MIGHTY mi-tay.’ Then got distracted on the differences between cadet and recruit.
Because Sydney.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-155-halo-the-mighty/
And then a cop approaches them because it looks like a drug deal :P
If a cop were to briefly approach it would be because Tamatha looks underage. But it would be obvious who Sydney is and he wouldn’t risk breaking her cover, not knowing why she is there undercover.
typical liberal reaction…”if you think about all the terrible things humans have done”….andSyd KNOWS now there are various other races out there, practicing routine mind control, some of whom specificly manipulate and feed on emotions…under those situations, how much of human history IS actually the humans fault?
It was the Hierarchy I tell you, the Hierarchy!
Way to go, trying to shift the blame like the Blame Shifters of Blameshifter IX
If it’s accurate, it’s not blame shifting. Also, read some anthropology some time, most of the horrible stuff humanity is accused of really wasn’t that bad in the actual doing of it.
Because we form opinions about what is known. There is vastly more about the multiverse that we do not know about versus what we understand. And much of what we think we know is doubtless flawed if not totally wrong. But we still need to function and make decisions. Wimping out and saying ‘I cannot form an opinion because there are elements I do not know about’ would result in total inertia and an inability to do anything.
Which means we have to make do with what we do know. And most of Sydney’s life knowledge was formed prior to learning about supernaturals being real. Those experiences and opinions are not just going to vanish.
Of course once Sydney has studied ‘real human history 101’, she may well form new opinions.
As for mass mind control, the only evidence we have of that is the Veil itself, which is an illusion with a very specific purpose, and only possible through huge effort to create the necessary infrastructure. Whilst I am sure there will be some supernaturals with individual mind attacks (such as the one Maxima experienced from the construct at the warehouse), those are clearly in a minority, so cannot account for every nasty act we observe in our daily lives, from the playground onwards.
Finally do not forget that most of human society is still human. If a horrible dictator-like individual is urging us to do evil things, and we do not resist that, does our inaction get excused if they turn out to be a demon disguised as human?
↑This!↑
Problem, Yorp, is that if folk lore and fluff text is true, and hidden by the veil, the vast majority of those dictators, bullies and serial killers ARE supernatural entities being disguised by the veil.
What do you base that assertion on? Just because creatures exist that have the capability to take the form of a dog doesn’t mean Berkowitz’s neighbor was really an evil werewolf. Just because Quetzalcoatl may have actually existed doesn’t justify Cortez leveraging the Aztecs’ beliefs to enslave them. And it’s both dismissive and extremely dangerous to assume that men like Hitler or Stalin or Idi Amin weren’t human, absent proof.
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” “JFK.
↑This!↑
Alright, sasha, lets’ be more specific. Left wing “progressives” who hate their host countries and act as an enemy insurgency from the inside. Who take the reasonable liberal position of “you shouldn’t hate someone just for being different” and pervert it into “Victimhood is power, oppression is privilege, bow down to my insanity or I shall attack you with a foaming mouth and government swamps”.
Basically, Bernies Sanders, AOC and Twitter.
Strawman caricatures, right, gotcha. Such extremists may well exist, but they certainly aren’t an accurate description for the vast majority of ‘Liberals’ any more than Cooter is of ‘Conservatives’.
You aren’t looking ahead. Human history doesn’t have a predefined direction. Nothing Dannik said was a strawman.
[In a world with mind magic] how much of human history IS actually the humans fault? – chaotik74
Crowley had always known that he would be around when the world ended, because he was immortal and wouldn’t have any alternative. But he hoped it was a long way off. Because he rather liked people. It was major failing in a demon. Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. Over the years Crowley had found it increasingly difficult to find anything demonic to do which showed up against the natural background of generalized nastiness. There had been times, over the past millennium, when he’d felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there’s nothing we can do to them that they don’t do to themselves and they do things we’ve never even thought of, often involving electrodes. They’ve got what we lack. They’ve got imagination. And electricity, of course. One of them had written it, hadn’t he… “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” – Terry Pratchett GNU and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
I can imagine a little exchange off to the side.
Scarlet: Hey, bartender. See that girl over there? Talking with that woman with the pink hair? Have you served her any alcohol?
Bartender: I feel like I should be asking for ID.
Scarlet: Mine says police; I think hers says 16.
Bartender: Let’s see. Ah, here it is. Large ginger ale, free refills. Three bucks. Nope, no alcohol. Because she hasn’t asked for booze, I haven’t asked for ID.
Scarlet: Then how did she get in here?
Bartender: Oh, if we aren’t too full, we often get teenagers in here. You will have to ask the guy at the door.
I can’t see Scarlett caring in any way about drinking age laws, partially because drawing attention to people covered by the veil who aren’t and partially she was born, lived, and embraced before prohibition and the restrictions on alcohol which came with the temperance movement in general.
Nah, Scarlet only asked because, as a vampire, she doesn’t want second-hand alcohol poisoning when she sucks on her later
Scarlett is dead.
She is immune to poisoning of any sort.
That should also include being immune to stunning, and look what happened to Crimson
No, while she might be immune from the effects of the poison, she is not immune from being poisoned, and that still sucks (just ask Les what it mouth-feels being under a restaurant)
“Anyone wearing a man bun is the real monster”
Totally! The wearing of pelts from any lycanthrope, not just the cute ones, is terrible!
https://m.xkcd.com/1871/
Ah yes, the majestic Man Bun
https://m.tapas.io/episode/376221
Apple fritters are man buns.
Little cream filleds are girl buns.
Ms. Succubus is even cuter today. I really hope she can stick around.
As a guest character, she might return at a later date (maybe even on one, never know ;) ), depends on how the story goes (the best writers will tell you that, sometimes, the story changes from what you intended, the better ones will adjust and not stop the change)
Just realize we have our purple. Now we need a green.
Who is that in the green dress picking up the bag with Sydney’s power balls? How is it with a whole panel dedicated to that image, that it is not mentioned in the comments?
First of all, it has been mentioned. The comments sections here default to the latest page; there are multiple pages of comments before this one. Second, the reason there hasn’t been much conversation about it is because most of us can tell that it’s Sydney. She’s showing Tamatha the orbs in the very next panel.
Who is it in the green shirt that is picking up the bag with Sydney’s power balls? Why is it with a whole panel dedicated to this image, it is not the first question asked in the comments?
First of all, it has been mentioned. The comments sections here default to the latest page; there are multiple pages of comments before this one. Second, the reason there hasn’t been much conversation about it is because most of us can tell that it’s Sydney. She’s showing Tamatha the orbs in the very next panel.
No, if they are seeing someone wearing green, then they are seeing something we aren’t
Also, even when there is just one page, people don’t read the comments!
Even if the same question has been asked (and answered) two hours prior and is the last post (ie, directly above the comment box), they still won’t read it!
Sydney!!!
Just want say that I think there are more teeth depicted on this page than in the last 889 pages combined.
I like that “vaping” comment. LOL! So many people will be soooo …annoyed. ;-)
Yeah, read the first page of the comments to find out just how annoyed
Really good job standing up Krona, Sydney.
It’s only been a few minutes, she hasn’t even been served yet
Calling it now: Sydney gets outed as Halo, not by the cute succubus, but by a barman checking her purse to see what she’s subtly showing off.
I’m wondering why she didn’t know what she was or how the veil works. Wouldn’t her parents tell her about this kind of thing?
I suspect she might be half-succubus or adopted, and her demon-ish parent(s) is/are gone.
You would have to ask YukiAkuma about that
Maybe you’ll find out today! Or not. I dunno.
Beware the insane “want to be offended” people when mixing the possibilities of succubus and age-of-consent……
They did give passing mention in the episode to the race in question being low-level telepathic. Essentially, their brains were wired in such a way that non-telepathic communication had to have a common emotional component to have a determinable meaning (also mentioned in passing), hence the references to epic legends. Moments of great joy/defeat/whatever. Since the telepathic communication didn’t need this, the “base” language can be learned in-person, where the telepathy works, and used to build the common super-language with common emotional component for long-distance forms of communication where they can’t use telepathy.
This also solves the obvious problem of how you use this kind of language to do difficult math or engineering problems. You don’t. Engineering teams work in close quarters where the metaphorical constructs are not needed.
As for why they are speaking that way to one-another on their ship? Not addressed, but possibilities are 1) It might be very rude in their culture not to include someone on an open comm line in what people on the other end are saying to each other. 2) They are trying to establish communication, and figure the more they say in front of these guys, the better the chance someone will figure something out, 3) If you are used to speaking without words and going into a career where that fails more often than not, you are probably put through extensive training to ALWAYS use the metaphor speech, just to you don’t forget in an emergency and call up engineering and say nothing when the right two sentences could have saved the ship.
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Anyone wearing a man bun, or drinking “dessert in a glass” drinks. Those are the true monsters.
Ok, I can see it is Sydney now. Thanks for the clarification.
Panel 4: Suddenly the DJ starts playing the Rolling Stones. She doesn’t know why, especially since she didn’t have a copy of Beggar’s Banquet when she got there.
jesus it’s like he’s putting all of his artistic training and experience into making his characters visually unappealing
How about you do something with your life other than try to drag other people down to your level? You can start your own webcomic: Show us all how it’s really done. You must be very talented to be so free with your nonconstructive criticism of this thing that was presented to us all to enjoy for free. Nothing is gained for society by convincing an artist to quit. But I suppose for some, only the broken landscape of shattered dreams is acceptable, because then you can rest assured that no one has achieved more than you have. That no one is, by their own efforts, better than you in your present rude state.
Or you can go back to 4chan or wherever, secure in your knowledge that you are clearly superior to us peons and need waste no more time on us. We’ll not follow.
Oh, and next time you’re out trolling, how about picking a username that isn’t random gibberish on the keyboard? If you’re going to spew hate, the least you can do is not wear a disposable mask. The very nature of your random keystroke username tells me you are ashamed of your own comments, not wishing to have them associated with your “better” nature. So why post them? Does the desire to hurt, to hit, run so deep through some dark corner of your soul that you must verbally bash others for some tiny taste of relevance and self worth?
And before you point out that I am doing much the same. I am. Because I’ve seen too many creative voices, already self-conscious of their abilities, silenced by criticism that was worth less than the people who gave it, if that’s even possible, and yet was given a credence out of proportion to its relative worthlessness. My hitting back has a purpose, and that is to defend the artist, whose work I continue to enjoy, from having his efforts impugned and his willingness to create and share with the rest of us impaired.
P.S. You could stand to learn how to write. For starters, Jesus is both a proper name, and the start of a sentence, so it should have been capitalized. Further, it should have been followed by a comma. Finally, you failed to use a period at the end of your sentence. I’d say you didn’t even try, but you still managed to use an apostrophe in the right place. So you did try. You failed miserably, but that’s on you. Perhaps you should give up writing comments, or anything really, until you can do so without error. Man, that’s cathartic.
nice meltdown. the characters are still visually unappealing.
Yes, humans have the right to decide whether other species are monsters. If we decide it is a monster, then it is.