Grrl Power #98 – Triple facepalm and a sidebutt
I wonder what Sydney would have done if she had discovered that she could use a third orb by pressing it against her butt? I guess her super hero costume would involve chaps, maybe a skirt. That’s assuming she told anyone, which I don’t see happening. She’s blushing even trying it in private. At least we know she’s thorough.
I played some superhero RPG system, Champions maybe, that included some example characters, and one of the villains was Dracula. Under his disadvantages, it listed “Dies when staked in the heart.” or something. At first I didn’t think anything of it. Vampire. Stake in the heart, makes sense. Then I thought, “Hang on… MY character dies when a stake is rammed through her heart too.” Fortunately the GM had the common sense not to grant me the 40 extra points that Drac got from having that disadvantage as well. The takeaway is that I’m an egregious min/maxer and a rules ‘sploitzer.
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Somebody get the girl a sandwich. Seriously.
Fus-Do-Rah!
Perhaps a steak sandwich?
How about a Grand Slam Sandwich? They’re very popular!
ya. she hasn’t eaten all day, I know she had some weapon-grade chili on the day to the bank, but she did barf it back up (just ask Max)
Idea for a gag –
Sporty Harem pops in with a big sandwich and gives it to Syd.
She turns around to face Punk Harem to give herself a wink and then pops out.
The gag is that from our point of view Sporty is blocking Punk’s view of Syd for half a second and when she ports out we see the sandwich is gone.
Punk to Syd: Where’s the sandwich?
Sydney: Burp!
Funny thing is that she tried the pseudopod orb on her butt. Talking about hentai jokes…
I had to laugh at the triple facepalm and the general laughing. At least he has a sense of humour. Should keep him safe while working with Sydney, I think.
Max is going to blow an aggression inhibitor soon, though. Go Sydney go!
you never know, if she had enough lube it might fit and who’s going to try to remove it?
Be sides I don’t think Sydney could use her tentacle for hentai unless:-
a) the target is a school-girl (or at least the preferred target seems to be school-girls)
b) wearing a seifuku (the next favorite seems to be a tight super hero type costume)
c) Japanese (or at least in all the hentai I’ve seen they been Japanese)
However they’re frequently blonde, blue eyed Japanese girls…
she might make an exception in Math’s case (insert image of the girls forcing him in to a seifuku, Sydney and Dabbler both have evil grins on their faces)
Caution: This post is to be considered dangerously unofficial. Even if DaveB says otherwise: I’m not sure I’d want to endorse it myself.
Picture the scene.
[Interior of ARC HQ. One iteration of Harem and Dabbler are walking towards the bedrooms. One iteration of Harem has just described to Dabbler what ‘hentai’ means to a Westerner, and they’re going to her room to see some examples. Dabbler is slightly sceptical – this seems rather tame, compared to some of what she’s seen – and is checking that she’s heard things correctly.]
D: Blonde?
H: Check!
[Cut to int. Harem’s room. Mathias on the floor, three iterations of Harem pinning him down. Sydney sitting on the bed, with a special-evil smile. One iteration of Harem looks at Mathias’s eyes, as we hear from outside:]
D: Blue eyes?
H: Check!
[Cut back to D. and H. in the corridor.]
D: Schoolgirl?
[H Listens. There is a high-pitched scream.]
H: The ears say Check!
D: Schoolgirl?
[H Listens. There is a high-pitched scream.]
H: The ears say Check!
LOL
DaveB have you ever cored a pickle and filled it with cheese and hot mustard?
If so, whas it good?
I wonder if there are any deli’s that do that?
I actually don’t like pickles so no, but it sounded like it had potential.
Sydney might like jalapeno’s stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon.
I made myself sick on pickles once as a child, haven’t been able to eat them since. Occasionally a fast food place will forget to leave the pickles off something, they usually don’t do it again after I throw up when biting into one.
I hated pickles until my boss suggested I try one of McDonalds Angus burgers with pickles. didn’t care for the burger, but the pickles were awesome. while on assembly our favorite thing to do was grab a nugget and pickle and wrap it with cheese.
Eww ouch man. I go through phases where I will actually buy a jar of sweet gherkins and dill pickles and just eat a plate of half and half. Then im burnt out for a few months and repeat. I love my pickles but suck at moderation is what im trying to say.
We used to wrap Jalapenos in plastic cheese and eat em as drunk food, pretty bloody good too.
So the mustard, cheese and pickles of which you speak might go (after enough beers it would certainly get tried).
Though what you call pickles stateside and we in the the merry land of Oz call pickles may need careful comparison as they not be that similar.
We do have sweet mustard pickles, goes great with corned beef.
What country are you in?
From “the merry land of Oz” I would assume Australia
what they call pickles, we call gherkins
Take thin sliced corn beef. Slather with cream cheese. Roll up with a dill pickle in the middle. Slice 1/2” rounds. Vary any of the ingredients as you deem worthy. Yum.
this is Sydney were talking about, a woman who eats WMD grade chilli
I wrap gerkins in swiss and dip them in spicy mustard all the time. And, like Sid, I’m sooo hungry. But then again, I weigh about 90x what tiny little blondie does. Also, Yay for new Grrl Power!
Harem is still in the bathroom laughing :D
It’s been less than a min. since the fight broke out. Of course she’s still in the stall.
And I doubt she’ll be leaving before her other versions get away from Syd so she can concentrate.
I just love how Harem is snorting and laughing out loud, with the other woman exclaiming, “What are you doing over there?!” :D Is she implying that Harem is doing something dirty? The look on the woman’s face is priceless. :D
Uhhh… when you say “Steak”, do you mean “Stake”?
One is a sharp piece of wood… the other is a chunk of beef.
Although, I expect there aren’t many people who could survive a lump of beef being rammed through their heart, so it can probably stand as it is.
CONGRADULATIONS!! You are the first to spot something wrong with the comic.
Tell Splodge what the’ve won!
NOTHING!!
Thanks for playing.
As I said before: it’s like hunting for the rabbit’s head on the cover of Playboy – you know Dave has made a mistake somewhere, the fun part is finding it first.
Me, I think of it as though I might be “Finding The Ninas” in a Al Hirschfeld caricature.
hunting wabbets? if we wary wary quiet we might find it
Darn… you beat me to it.
I thought one was what you put up when gambling.
Did you notice vampires never get staked in movies? They get pegged instead.
shortage of beef
Just wonderin’
is “steaked” intentional? Staked with a wooden stake like vampire. Steak is something you put on the barbecue. It could be something Sydney would say / mean but you mention it in the below comic box too.
No that was just my brain shutting down. I had been coloring for about 9 hours and I did the bumper comic at the last minute. I’ll fix it asap.
When do you actualy sleep?
I slept plenty last night (if 5 and 1/2 hours is plenty) I just didn’t do anything else yesterday besides color.
No it’s not a lot. Maby six and a half would be all right, but 5& a half is bad.
I know because I once worked two full time jobs back to back and after six months I looked like death warmed over. Seriously I have a drivers liscence photo that I call my three days dead, and stoned photo. Realy grey complexion and my eyes looked glazed over.
So, get more sleep.
For most people they need 8-10 hours sleep. A very few can take as little as 4 hours. If you don’t get a proper amount of REM sleep you will eventually not be able to keep your eyes open. High motor functions will fail. You might as well be drunk for all the good it will do you. Not healthy either.
I’ve never needed 8-10, I usually get by with 5-6 during the week and maybe 7-8 on weekends. On an entirely unrelated note, I’ve drunk 3-5 Diet Mt. Dews a day for the last decade.
3 – 5 Diet Mt. Dews a day for a decade? That explains A) why you need little sleep and B) why you will die at a young age. :D
DaveB cant die just yet, got a years worth of flashback to catch up on first
please, I use to drink an entire 12 pack a day when I was in college…I have in recent years removed caffiene completly from my diet save for special social events (like family reunions and birthdays, unless caffiene free drinks are available).
I’ve been working the graveyard shift of 27 years – 6 hours of sleep is my normal but I routinely go with just 4.
New reveal: two orbs at a time, must be held in one hand each.
reasonably sure that was mentioned a few pages back actually. the two at a time part, at least.
Actually, it’s in her bio on the cast page.
Would Syd be able to use her tentacle orb with a mitten over it and her hand?
I can see why General Faulk was put in charge here.
The last thing you want when dealing with a bunch of people with superpowers is someone without a sense of humor.
If they had put a humorless general in charge, he would have to put up with the Merry Pranksters ALL THE TIME becouse there is nothing they like more than to prank a grouch.
did he have a good sense of humor when he got offered the position, or is it an indication that his perception of reality is starting to change (aka starting to go insane)
The man wears a purple uniform. ‘Nuff said.
New branch of the armed services and they recruited manily from the air force, so it was the closest they could get to Air Force Blue.
And ine if his first lines was to describe himself and his staff deadpan as “dead sexy” so yeah, I think he came with the sense of humor attached.
I’m seeing him as a modern Sherman T. Potter myself.
That begs the question “Who’s Hawkeye?”
Math
love to know who Klinger is
Harem
Think about it, they both keep having wacky shit just happening to them, and a lot of it is their own dammed fault.
Now I wanna know…Who’s Frank and Hotlips?
Too earily to tell. Give it a few months.
Idea! Someone needs to draw the cast as M*A*S*H* charecters for a guest strip! (I can’t draw a straight line with a laser level so not me.)
What is the brown T-shirt about?
Anybody have any ideas?
Firefly?
I doubt it because it has a symbol on it that is none of the following:
1. The logo shown on the side of Serenity at the beginning of the movie.
2. The Blue Sun Trading Company logo.
3. A picture of two dinosaurs discussing cruel but inevitable betrayal.
4. A picture of a firefly ship in a firefly jar.
I believe that these four are the most likely candidates for Firefly or Serenity (two of which because I have seen them myself) but it still doesn’t completely rule out the possibility.
Besides they were called brown-COATS not brown-shirts.
Was thinking it looked vaguely like one of Jayne’s t-shirts.
Said logo (option 1) being the Chinese characters that translate as “Serenity”. What else would you expect in a bilingual ‘verse? (I can’t remember how they’re pronounced, though.)
Having checked wikipedia, it appears to be an Orange Lantern logo (of the Green Lantern stories).
You know I thought thats what it was…
And I have that shirt in black :D
I disagree with today’s comic name.
It should have been “I god damn love pickles!”. xD
True.
Hah hah, seriously the title of the comics are sometimes the hardest part of the whole page.
Now, would they work if she held 2 orbs in each hand? They look to the size that would allow her to maybe hold two in one hand, if she is flexible enough? Is he natural dexterity score high enough? | can just see it: Force field, flight, tentacle, telepresence. Reach out and distract someone while (very) safely above the action. Or we could go with Force field, flight, PPO and perform a bombing run.
There’s a lot of stuff yet to answer about the nuances of the orbs, but we’ll have to wait to find them out. Need to get to the next scene.
somehow i get the feeling that Sydney and her orbs is going to spawn countless posts about their abilities and what they can and cant do.
that bit about the GM not letting you have 40 extra points for the “Dies when staked in the heart” disadvantage. i once played a child on gurps the attributes, advantages & skills came to about 39 points, the disadvantages came to 40 and he wouldn’t let me spend them
I don’t know if this has been covered already, but I’m going to try throwing science at this and see what sticks.
First to address why the limit of 2 active orbs at a time:
Assumption: The orbs require a lot of brain capacity to channel all that power.
Think about it, how many more neurons must be working to control a 3rd arm (tentacle).
If the orbs require a lot of brain capacity to use then only one brain can handle one power at a time, and because the human mind is literally of 2 minds (left and right brains), a maximum of 2 orbs can be used at once.
Why the hands?
The hands have tons of nerves in them providing a large-capacity data channel to the brain.
Which begs the question, could Harem make use of all the orbs, if she “imprinted” them (or whatever it takes to use them).
Also, there are other areas in the human body with large concentrations of nerves, 2 of which are accessible from the outside.
It would be interesting if they had paired with her, but they would go crazy when she teleported away from them. Maybe they’d limit how far she could teleport if she didn’t grab them first.
Well, she can carry things while telaporting, not big things, but the orbs arn’t that big so she probably telaport with an orb in each hand and have two bodies left over to do whateve she wanted.
hmmm, I figured given the connection/entanglement between her and the orbs preventing either from moving too far apart that they would be mixed into her aura field resulting in them teleporting with her, or conversly the connection acting as quantum interference preventing her from being teleported all together. I have a character who can teleport herself, but because her aura is so screwy from all her powers/magic no one/anything else can teleport her (a boon and a weakness as she has to use her own power to follow say a transporter of her comrades).
Likewise I have seen creatures/characters that can’t be teleported or move for that matter far from a certain object due to being bound to it. But Sydney’s bound items are also tied to her and arn’t rooted to the ground. Although the idea of them going crazy and blasting through roofs and such to search her out if she teleported out of their range would be interesting, or conversly she is dragged back to them LoL
There’s also the Medula Oblongota, sometimes referred to as the underbrain, Plus the tongue actually has more nerves than the hands so if that was the criteria she would have a chance of using trhe thrid one there [assuming it fit of course] ^_~
She has little hands, two orbs wouldn’t fit. When winter comes, the techs will have to find a way to keep her skinny little hands from freezing without blocking contact.
fingerless gloves with heating circuits perhaps?
I think there is real-world tech to raise someone’s general body temperature enough that one can manage without gloves in moderately cold weather. The hands are warmed from the body and just radiate more heat.
Heated vests.
Hunters have known for a long time that heated socks can keep up your core temp.
Oh gosh – just had an interesting thought – not based on speculation about the powers not yet manifest though – Dabbler is a multiarmed Jack-Of-All_trades JOAT. Could she, we know she would if she could, give Halo an extra set of arms? With extra arms could Halo use extra orbs?
They would be cybernetic arms, so it wouldn’t work.
Nice Idea though.
Love the looks on their faces when she’s talkin about the pickle, you know Harem will be trying that out real soon.
Probably while they are still in there talking about stuff.
Yeah for having multiple bodies!
Maby she can make Sydney something to eat while she’s at it.
I was just thinking the same thing: We now know the real reason Dave interrupted the flow of the interview for several weeks with the fight in the lunchroom – it’s an excuse to get Harem (who is also still in the lunchroom) into the ballroom so she offer to get Syd something to eat.
She has to climb out from under Anvil first.
Today’s comic made me laugh, oh so freakin’ hard.
Can you do a blow up of Sydney in panel #2 please? That face just needs to be bigger to be better appreciated. It loses something when you zoom in though, but is still hilarious.
Pretty please?
B/
Yeah, nice lecherous face. And the girls are enjoying it as well.
Panel 6 would read better if Sydney’s speech balloon read: “… cored a pickle out and filled it with…”
Also, love panel 7.
BTW, panel 6 also has another one of Dave’s mistakes: He doubled up the word “with”
Blushing Sydney is really cute in that second last panel.
With Syd’s powers revealed and most of the cast having had their debut, I can’t wait to see them in action against real foes in real times of crises. :-)
Also: I hope Syd never has to be deployed or fight in any subzero environments. Frostbite is simply nasty.
I don’t think there will be any action scene’s with bad guys for at least another 4-6 months, with the update rate as it is now.
Of course I could be wrong, but thats how I figgure it.
Is it totally inappropriate that I’m now obsessed with the thought of magical ben-wa balls?
you are a sick, sick puppy I believe we will get along swimmingly also I was thinking the same thing
That depends, have you been reading the D&D PHB PSAs?
If not, here they are on YouYube
I’m sorry, their actually videos so you have to watch them not read them
Also, they’re not actually mentioned until part 5 so here’s the link.
*stands with a rolled-up newspaper in his hands* A-hem. :P
I always found it more effective to use a wooden stake instead of a steak.
This question reminds me of the webcomic Sidekick Girl. The titular character has a short list of things that can kill her, it includes only a few things like being thrown into the sun – and only one way is proven so far (by someone who copied her power).
I wanna know just what Harem’s Stall-neighbor thinks she’s doing….
Probably thinks she’s reading a realy funny text.
may be she’s got a man in there (or another woman)
Oh my goodness that ‘I’m so hungry’ panel is so utterly awesome! I could just see myself wearing a shirt with a print of that panel(ya know assuming I had enough free cash to go around buying a bunch of custom print shirts!).
And your Vampire comments make me think of the Anime/Manga Karin! Still makes me laugh everytime.
a female Oliver twist “please sir, can i have some more?”
Am I the only one who noticed that the random woman in the bathroom got her own spot in the
Who’s Who box?
That is cute. I wonder if DaveB will introduce her later.
She’s one of the Extras. You know, like the “Additional Voices” credits in a movie.
She’s a tertiary character that we’ll see around the base on occasion, and my wife thought that some people wouldn’t understand that panel, which is reasonable if they didn’t recall her initial appearance two pages ago.
Dave’s rule #57 – Only a character with a speaking part gets into the who’s who. She spoke so. . .
also he’s probably heading off the 50 or so people asking “Who’s that?”. We had this problem with Brook.
And Brooke was only supposed to be s small charactor in the comic to begin with and now she has a spot on the who’s who page.
You never know where this comic may go.
Funny thing you should mention Drac’s weakness. In the old stories, Vampires would just stop moving when you put a steak through their heart, but they wouldn’t actually die from it. They’d also remain immobile for as long as the steak was in there. Funny how things have change.
Yeah, you staked them to immobilize them, then decapitated them.
If you realy wanted to make sure, you would cut up the body into pieces and incinerate the parts, then pour the ashes into seperate bodies of water.
Anita Blake talked about it in her latest book.
Ehhh, the usual was to behead with a Sexton’s Spade, stuff the mouth with Garlic and/or Communion Wafers, and bury the head separate from the body.
There’s a lot of diffrent ways to kill vampires.
WM Mark Simmons wrote a lot about this in his book One foot in the grave. Good series.
True, that was just the most common West Europe way.
the one i know is stake, decapitate, incinerate and scatter the ashes at a crossroad.
Joss Whedon made it so much easier, just prick and poof!
Never understood why they didn’t modify a paintball gun (or any auto air gun) to use golf pencils. Instant Vamp massacre.
“Golf Pencils”…
(the improv anti-vampire tool of choice for Hollywood actors)
…popularized by Quentin Tarantino’s “From Dusk Til Dawn”, as I recall.
It would have to be Gatling gun style. Have you seen those things there heavy.
Yeah, pop culture drift is interesting. Sydney’s definitely of the Buffy (stake=dead) generation, though she’s well schooled in more classical sci-fi/fantasy, and come to think of it, I’m pretty sure the rulebook I saw that sample Drac in predated Buffy as well.
what hurts more a stake through the heart or an arrow to the knee?
The stake, for the like 30 seconds for your brain the shut off. :P
“So how do we kill this thing?”
“Stake through the heart?”
“Thats for vampires.”
“You’d be surprised how many things that kills.”
Buffy the vampire slayer.
Yeah, that’s the neat thing about stakes; they work on normal people too.
So if you have any left over you don’t have to let them go to waste.
So do rail road spikes as one of the characters from Buffy found out.
There was a comic called Elementals that ran for a while with occasional hiccups. They faced a wonderfully semi-comical but exceptionally dangerous vampire that they eventually *did* manage to stake – whereupon the flesh evaporated and he turned into a skeleton. They left the skeleton (with stake still in the ribcage) inside an extremely formidable bank vault with a notation that the stake should never be removed…
Couple years later some brand new bureaucrat in charge who just didn’t believe in such things (even though the world had supers now) pulled it out and left the body unattended. Really. Bad. Idea. Next thing you know there are hundreds of vampires and the army has quarantined the city.
There are some who still follow the old myths and make good stories out of it. Sadly; most don’t anymore.
I see that many before me pointed out the extremely egregious steak/stake mistake (no pun intended when I typed that).
On another note, the chibi hungry Sydney is exceedingly cute.
I was wondering whether Sydney would try to scare/confuse Adrianna again, by using telepresence, and hiding the tentacle pseudopod inside it. Making her think it’s the real Sydney (since it seems tangible). Then I realised that the pseudopod would probably remained visibly connected to the real Sydney, making it rather useless, since she would have to stand fairly close behind the fake one.
panel 7 a Chibi-Sydney?
Sydney uses her secret “Cute attack”
Looks like Sydney is about to activate the telapresence orb and the tenticle orb at the same time. Wonder what will happen. Hmmm…
Sydney Mistress of the Triple Palm. As for coring pickles use Kosher or Vlassic pickles both tend to be crisper there by being easier to core out. May need to do this at some point just to test it sounds good not the spicy mustard but the cheese.
Maby with cream cheese and honey mustard.
Replace the pickle with a jalapeno subtract the mustard and wrap it with bacon. Throw in oven. Eat after it has cooked and enjoy.
the problem being that I don’t do hot spicy stuff honey mustard would be good or some sweet relish with the cheese done up as a fondue and already cooked bacon.
Now I want to dip bacon in cheese fondue! Thank you for the idea.
Ohhh bacon. . . [doing the Homer drool]
https://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/
Jalapenos hollowed out stuffed with cream cheese,wrapped in bacon, then dipped in fondue cheese.
Then you drop them in a peanut oil fryer to give it the southern style method of cooking.
Makes it easier to pick up. Finger food.
Most people won’t notice the double word ‘with’ in panel six due to it being on a new line. I’m not sure if it’s a grammar mistake or you meant it to be there Dave, but I’mma point it out anyway
Probably a mistake.
But could be that Sydney stuttered a tad due to both excitement and hunger. That is believable, IMO.
God how does that even happen? My inline spell checker needs an inline grammar checker.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
It’s letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me so.
The limitation of hands is fairly understandable. The amount of physical brain space dedicated to hand sensation and control is pretty substantial. There’s another part of the sensory brain that is comparable, if not larger than this: vision.
The human mind is used too manipulating the world through our hands, so the orbs seem to know that.
oh man i laughed through this whole page super hard. haven’t had one this funny since Sid was swearing at the guy holding onto her and burping chili sauce
Panel six. “With” in there twice. First “with” should be changed to “it”
by the power of the mystical … geisha balls? Oo
Anyone else notice in panel 6 that Harem has an eyebrow raised as if she is considering trying the Pickle filled with cheese and spicy mustard out of curiosity?
Also testing to see if the Orbs can be used with more than 2 is obvious, the fact she tried other body parts is also logical, if embarrasing.
Well there go visions of Sydney with orbs all over her body so that she could use more than two at once. So many butt jokes, and other places, I won’t touch here. But most of your are thinking it though.
If you use actual vampire lore and not the movie crap, the stakes didn’t kill vampires, just kept them pinned down so you could stuff their mouths with garlic cloves then lop off the head. Some writers have used the idea that stakes could only paralyze them not kill them. Also works.
sometimes noted to imobilize the vamp so it can be left in the sun (not always listed as deadly) for days before beheading, burning the body, scattering the ashes in a large body of flowing water, and burying the head on hallowed ground (not all steps used in all lore)
Idea for alternate dialogue in panel 4 –
Sydney: Well, direct sunlight, obviously.
Max: I said seriously.
Sydney: I am being serious. There’s a reason I took up suba diving, no kidding I burn easily. Do you know what the SPF for a 100 ft of H2O is? And even when I’m not in the water I get to wear the protection of 5 mm of neoprene at the beach all day without people giving me weird looks.
Damn, I was hoping for skin contact controll.
I could totally see an epic sceen where she stuffs her bra with flight and shield orbs and goes on a tear with psedopod and pewpew orbs.
This is one case where storytelling considerations trump the comedy potential. If she could use 3 or 4 at a time she’d be too powerful.
What if her total “orb-power” is a constant?
Sharing 2 orbs worth of power across 3-or-4 simultaneously would be another way to lower their effectiveness.
For example, “FLIGHT + SHIELD + PPO + PSEUDOPOD” might be an awesome combo to imagine, but it might leave “SHIELD” weak enough to penetrated.
I think Dave is using those rules for Max’s powers.
Mentioning Dracula and RPGs (and the last conversation between Sid and Max), I remember a Vampire:Dark Ages-session a buddy of mine DMed. He let the group meet the “real” Dracula, in this game a slightly altered version of Vlad Tepes. One of the group members, being the little munchkin he appearantly was, decided to stake Tepes and “take him back home” (in the RPG, staking doesn’t kill the vampire so much as it puts him into torpor).
He said and did so, resulting in Vlad Tepes lumping over, jerking a bit, before it laid still and blood started to spread on the floor. Turned out they met the still human Vlad Tepes, so our little munchkin just drove a piece of wood through a normal humans heart.
Having had that story told to me by said buddy was way more amusing than it was for the group at the session. ^^
I have a question about Harem, When she created her “Personas” did they Imprint on people around them. I mean they Vaugely look like Maxima, ariana Gwen and Heatwave?
Nope, they all share the same personality, she just created the separate clothing styles for the hell of it, that and it lets her experience a variety of the sub-cultures in this country.
DaveB says she grew up on a farm. I’m guessing she is trying to experience as many things at once as she can get away with.
Unfortunatly, she just comes across as a bit immature and trying to act more worldly than she in fact is. While hanging around people who are in their mid-twenties to thirties who have a lot more real world experience than she has, some of it milatary.
Maybe she need feet like a monkey to be able to use more then two.
By the way, in your little explanation essay, you’ve still got “stake” misspelled as “steak”. It’s in the second paragraph, fifth sentence. “Steak in the heart, makes sense.”
Ok take note people, if there’s ever a trivia quiz about Grrl Power, the answer to the question to “Which comic has had the most post day emergency edits.” It’s this one. 4 so far and I also forgot to add my sneaky little grunge wash to the page. I’ll do that tonight.
Would you hate me if I pointed out another mistake? Max does a left handed facepalm in the third row of panels – but in the first panel of the four row it looks like she’s recovering from a right handed one.
Actually she’s brushing her hair off her face in the panel. This page was a pain to set up since I had Sydney, Max and Harem all standing next to each other and delivering dialog not necessarily in that order, hence the crossed balloons. On the panel you mentioned I decided to do a reverse angle so the balloons would be in the right order, so I had to switch which one of Max’s arms where up so it wasn’t covering her face, or her elbow wasn’t covering Sydney’s. This sequential art stuff is trickier than it looks.
I need to go read some comics with lots of dialog and see how other people do it. I never see crossed balloons/tails in other comics, I think mostly because in a regular comic, this would have been at least two pages so there’d be more room to do long shots or to break out a speaker in to their own panel if needed.
I don’t actually have too much trouble reading crossed balloons.
BTW another way to do a scene would be to view it from the ceiling, by have the talkers standing in a ring and rotating the ring till the first speaker is on the top left you can put the balloons pretty much were you want.