Grrl Power #982 – (No longer) Sleeping with the archenemy
This may shock you, but Dabbler’s been around.
Yes, it’s the return of the dumb joke from page 77. (And 92. And 200. I still stand by that Status Quola joke. That makes me laugh to this day.) Started of as a little gag I thought of on the spur of the moment, and now it practically needs to be listed as one of Harem’s legitimate superpowers. This page is also a callback to both 176 and 186. So, yay for planning ahead? Huh, we’ve actually met over half the players on that page now. Might have to come up with another gallery of villains soon. And by soon I mean like… 4 years from now. :/
The boyfriend is holding stadium speakers on the soda can there, Say Anything style. No idea what it’s hooked up to or powered by. I would try amarula flavored soda. Although now that I’m googling for relevant links, I realized I screwed up. Amarula is the liqueur (which is pretty good IMO), Marula is the fruit. Maybe Harem is secretly drinking Amarula flavored beer on the job.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
Worked some more on the final fight. I wrote last time about how most fights generally need to be close matchups or else a book can either lack tension or you wind up wondering why the book is following a particular group of characters if they get their asses kicked to within an inch of their lives every time there’s a scuffle.
Right now the fight’s kind of even, but I don’t know if I want a close fight or a slam dunk. I guess we’ll see how it turns out.
September’s vote incentive is up! It’s been over a year since Max was featured in one of these, so I figured it was time to revisit.
If you just popped by to see it right when it went up, you might have missed the update. Her nipples were a touch high in the first version, and if you poke through the comments there, you can see the reference I used, only that model’s boobs were about 3 cup sizes smaller. Anyway, I flew her nipples south for the winter and updated the relevant pics.
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I wonder – this could be something modified by Krona as an early warning detector for friendlies – and it’s only when they’re acutely aware of it. Seems like it’d be the kind of thing she might come up with, especially if she had a phase where she messed around with reality a lot more at some point.
We’re expecting a big fight, but with the antagonist has a name like Thoth O’Goth he may turn out to be an Irish/Egyptian Embodiment of Teenager Angst And Existential Despair, who just wants Xuriel to mope along with him drinking absinthe in a Dublin pub watching Marilyn Manson play at the Great Pyramid over the telly.
Alternate spelling: thot ho’goth
That would be his sister…
He seems like the whiny sort. Part of it may be that she stole a chunk of his Aetheon throne to make her sword, and now it’s not so comfortable when he plays WoW.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-223-unlike-a-dead-parrot-heavenly-sword-does-go-voom/
I’ll grant you, it seems like the perfect opportunity to use V’s ridiculous powers. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want him getting so revved up with V-energy from fighting Thogothoth that he can poit the Earth off into another dimension, or into crumbly Earth Oreo bits, with a flick of a finger.
No, I see a Sydney solution is at hand. Maybe V can be a distraction, but this is “Sydney-style” all the way.
Sydney’s always able to get inside the opponent’s head, following Math’s “Three Moves Ahead” advice.
So how about if Sydney gets inside Thogothoth’s head–literally. Or, at least, inside his body.
Here’s how I see it:
1. Sydney shuffles off inconspicuously off out of sight, whistling merrily while looking inconspicuous and watching the clouds & trees.
2. Once out of sight, she activates the shield orb for protection.
3. She activates the teleport function and runs right inside Thogothoth through whatever portal he has open at the moment. Preferably one without a lot of itching & burning feelings happening at the moment.
4. She teleports inside him, wearing the shield.
5. She fires up the PPO and slices & dices Thogo-Dude like he’s the lawn & she’s the lawnmower.
6. Teleports out of the messy left-overs and dusts off her hands. “No big deal, everyone–I got him.”
7. We find out whether he can pull himself together for a rematch?
Or . . . is THIS when we learn what either of those other two “undefined” orbs can do? Dun, dun, DAHHHHH!
Also quoting the Alien films.
lol. works for me.
A pondering,
so regular portals require jump points, or calculating and diverting around gravity wells and adjusting for spacial bodies right? and leave behind a signature.
assuming another star gate model with a quantum entangled system can bypass much of that so long as there is a receiver. Issue is just setting that up first; but from then on easy regular travel.
Aethereum Causeways get to skip all of that and act like it has a receiver and ignore gravity wells and such as it bypasses regular and sub-space entirely.
so, how do magic portals relate in this setting? Especially the interdimensional kind?
Assuming Hell worlds are another dimension and not going all Disgaea and they are actually planets in space; and if they are then how Hell Gates and such relate to other portals is a curiosity.
What?! No 10′ tall ghetto-blaster? How disappointing. :)
It might still be bellow the lip of the portal. This guy doesn’t seem like the clothe wearing type and a 10′ tall ghetto-blaster would be convenient to censor him for us.
Am I the only one who looks at last panel Dabbler and sees Himiko Toga? It can’t be just me right?
Wait, I figured it out. He’s on Balor U’s alumni association.
“It’s possible to get so off the grid that the government will not know where you are…and your alumni association will still find you.”
“Please contribute today to our endowment fund, and remember to include Balor U in your estate plan!”
Dabbler seems more like the type to take voluntary donations herself from other people’s endowments.
repeatedly.
At this point I’d assume that there’s an artisanal soda can artist with powers of precognition.
Prophecy
In hospital at the moment, catching up on everything since “… you will be facing her”.
Utterly awesome!
Here is a slice of life, in exchange (actual words, figures translated, so you get an insight into my brain). This follows brief friendly banter (I’m the same with everyone).
BOSS: Were giving you a pay rise of Yorpie Snax!
ME:Is that per month?
BOSS: No per hour!
ME: That’s good, money is short. Stuff to do.
Next day … in here.
*pawses for comedic effect*
So there will be an indeterminate delay, but now that my salary has charged from “probably illegally low” I will be joining the ranks of Patreons.
*wags tail contentedly*
That’s great to hear! A lot of people definitely missed seeing your comments. Hope you’re ok :)
I second that emotion. Get healthy, and congratulations on the good news!
Hope youre doing okay yorpie! Many Yorpie snax await you when you get out of the hospital.
Aww thanks all.
“What? Why not?” One might hope that V is actually trying to learn something.
Completely unrelated to today’s page, but I just noticed the two (arguably) strongest supers on the team aren’t… well, aren’t supers. Sydney and Maxima are both alien-shenanigan-powered. Weird how that works.
Deus seemed to suggest that Max would have been a normal super if not for the geode. That it was waiting for a super to break on. Unless I got the wrong end of the stick in that conversation.
Max has a superpower, plus has a symbiote.
In my head cannon his name is pronounced “Thot-ho-goth” because that’s silly AF
Well at least Thothogoth was better than Darth Bobo on his entrance and was facing the right way….
Is this guy the reason Dabbler created that internal organ malleability potion she gave Sydney? Inquiring minds want to know…
“I’ve been trying to reach you about your starship’s extended warranty…”
Did Harem drink a Kumquat flavoured soda called “Global Pandemic” back in late 2019?