Grrl Power #984 – Don’t tug on etc etc…
The problem with someone who speaks in 18 point monster font is that you can only fit so much per page. I’ll probably have to lower his volume quickly. (For reference, the normal dialog font is 6.5 point.)
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
It’s getting close! At least the end of the fight scene is. The chapter is also pushing 10K words by itself so a separate wrap up chapter might be in order. Man, I am not good at planning this stuff out, am I?
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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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Dabbler was able to beat this guy up, as the flashback half a decade ago showed. I can only imagine Maxima is just going to squash him.
Keep in mind a blur and Max when they Spar are relatively even if anyone Halos going to have to pull her strikes to not kill him
That’s where I see this heading. A fight breaks out, Sydney goes into her killing-giant-space-kaiju mode (this time with the added benefit of back up for distractions), and when the big Thot is facing imminent demise, Dabbler steps in and asks Sydney to stay her hand a moment… giving Thot the opportunity to officially release her from any obligations she might be under. Might also keep the aliens monitoring Sydney’s portal activity from making a move if they show up to investigate the pesky Earthers only to see one or two of them taking down a big evil like this.
I’m wondering if those armies that Thothogoth speaks of are the same kaiju that Sydney already ass whupped on Scionia’s home world.
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I would assume Dabbler would found them familiar or at least recognizable in that case. All she said was they weren’t from whatever “space-cops” (I forgot the name) would have usually done something like that
Dabbles managed to force him through a portal, that is not the same thing as ‘beat this guy up’
And we also have no context for that (presumed) banishment – it may have taken her years of prep work to acquire macguffins, lay an elaborate trap, and lure him into it. No prep time was available for this specific encounter.
Zack Tilly!
I believe the applicable phrase we are looking for would refer to “…pulling back a bloody stump” … ?
…my only real question is whether that stump will be his finger, or perhaps his entire lower jaw?
Yes
[Portal Return Invitation Sent.]
Returned Via Satanic Portal
Return to sender/Address unknown/Return to sender/With broken bones….
Even if she’s far more powerful than him, if he does have literal armies, so I hope Maxima realizes she may crush a wasp and anger a hive. If breaking him doesn’t keep the armies at bay out of respect and/or fear, it could lead to a near-immediate global invasion. She’s good, but she’s not “prevent the deaths of millions” good.
Her power output puts her on the scale of LARGE nuclear weapons (100+ Megaton, likely). Depending on how durable each member of the army is, if she catches Thothogoth’s army in a relatively confined area (a “small” circle with a 60 mile radius) she can simply ash them all in one shot.
In fact, this feels like a good opportunity for a Ghostbusters cross-the-streams solution. Got a portal to another hostile dimension? Cross the streams and let the universe ending blast take effect on the AWAY side of the portal.
1) She’s got assets in the zone that she doesn’t want to ash, and they haven’t firmly identified the upper limit for Mr. Bubble. So, perhaps something in the KT range rather than MT. Small nukes are meant* for armies, large ones for cities. (At least going by what they were designed for. The actual plan is that if one nuke launches, they all launch.)
2) Last time they did that, Sydney ended up lost in space AND time.
Actually it sounds like the aforementioned immediate global invasion is their ‘Plan A’. It’s not something they might do in reaction to this guy getting killed, it’s something they WILL DO if nothing stops them. If this invasion does not happen, it will be because something has gone badly WRONG for the invaders and forced them to enact ‘Plan B’ (or further down the alphabet….) instead.
Strategically, this makes this a ‘peace was never an option’ scenario. There is no advantage whatsoever in not killing the guy. His people are ALREADY going to attack.
Correct analysis.
Two options: Either convince him to give a counter-order halting said invasion, or else collapse said portal, thus physically halting said invasion.
Additional objective: Neutralize TGoth, possibly nonlethally, preferably permanently.
Potential asset acquisition: Kevin
– risk – Kevin may see a demonic invasion scenario as an irresistible opportunity for here-to-fore unimaginable vistric harvesting, and deliberately sabotage efforts to prevent this worst-case scenario.
Additional complication: Confrontation with TGoth may result in the general populace becoming aware of the supernatural, and specifically of the exist of demons, et al. This will all but certainly trigger mass religious hysteria and violence on a global scale, and at the very least cause the US to be widely accused of demonic corruption, re: Dabbler.
…but gd, I want to see Kevin become Archon’s answer to large scale industrial warfare.
*popcornpopcornpopcorn*
Would enough violence cause Kevin to go POP? Any container that gets filled to fast, to hard, goes pop…. Just ask Dabbler…
or spill out.
> – risk – Kevin may see a demonic invasion scenario as an irresistible opportunity for here-to-fore unimaginable vistric harvesting, and deliberately sabotage efforts to prevent this worst-case scenario.
Kevin said that he’s not the kind of guy who starts wars. It’s safe to assume that he would prefer human civilization to stay more or less the way it is instead of being conquered by aliens. If they attack then I would expect him to fight on the side of humanity.
You’re misreading the risk.
I don’t think he would want the demons to win. I do think he’d like to see the fighting commence.
So long as the birth rate exceeds the casualties, he’s golden.
Yeah, being part of Archon would be perfect for Vehemence, since fighting is what he likes most. I hope he’ll prove himself during this fight, and they give him probationary status.
Simply collapsing the portal is no more than a VERY_BRIEF delay — they could simply open a new one elsewhere.
Has anyone suggested turning Kevin loose …. on the OTHER_SIDE of the portal, before closing it?
Surrounded by nothing but hostile demons, Kevin could fully let himself go-to-town on them.
Better-still, if Syd-&-Dabbler go WITH him (or at-least “plug the hole” with Syd’s bubble-shield), then he’s guaranteed a “ride home” when he’s done.
ALSO:
A key part of this plan is that “Tom” will be faced with the fact that he attacked them without warning, & yet they INSTANTLY responded with enough force to “bloody his nose”, which should force even so arrogant a foe as this to think twice about whether this is a fight he wants to pursue.
You’re right. This is an “Evil Overlord Handbook” violation, subcategory ‘Never say…’. He’s TOAST!!
I don’t see any of this extra-dimensional entity’s words as being from Peter’s list.
Even demons HAVE to know about Peter’s Evil Overlord List. Don’t they?
I BET Sydney does. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
Syddles compiled appendix B.
Yeah, no matter how powerful Maxi is, she is still just one person
Unless these are the kinds of demons that follow strength above all else and defeating the demon lord just earns you the title of demon lord so they follow you after that.
Uh… is he technically a head of state? Field commanders don’t deal with heads of state. That buck gets passed up the chain. When he threatens the US President with invasion, that’s when per-emptive strikes are ordered by the president and the field commanders get to smash face.
I don’t think anyone is recognizing his authority as a head of state. Not yet, anyhow. And given that the government is well aware of the supernatural, having a working relationship with a council of them, I suspect this is a choice and not something done out of ignorance.
I believe it’s more that he’s ALSO a field commander- possibly a General. Then again, that’s sometimes not an either/or situation…
If situations are tense, hostilities haven’t quite broken out yet, the field commander still thinks diplomacy might work, and the head of state walks up to said field commander’s army and wants to talk? Then yes, field commanders deal with heads of state.
He identified himself as an “Arch-Lord”, which implies that is a lord that has other lords under him… but a lord is far from a head of state. A lord is simply the head of a particular bit of land within a state. The term “landlord” was coined to differentiate between a traditional lord, who to be a lord one needed to own land, and someone who owns land without being an actual lord with all the powers afford thereto.
In short, he cannot be a head of state, he’s simply a supervisor of land owners. This is fitting with “the world taker”. Basically he conquers worlds, appoints lords to rule over pieces of it in a feudal system, but ultimately is hardly more than a military commander of indeterminate rank.
That said… if the Queen of England set foot on US soil and declared immediate war and eluded to an impending invasion force in front of a commander of a US military unit with said unit present, which is what Tom just did in panel 5, and said military unit could legally shoot her as an enemy combatant.
NOT that she’s stupid enough to do something like that. Tom however is apparently that stupid.
He also apparently has not considered the possibility that there could as yet be someone more powerful than even Maxima. He may be on an intel gathering mission to see if there is, but that just makes him even dumber, to announce invasion plans, in person, prior to gathering said intel. Because he’s basically given Maxima just cause to lay him out and take his head… In fact, him touching her against her will is, according to US law, technically assault. And assault means attack, and attacking a military commander is an invitation to get killed no matter who you are.
So basically, there are multiple avenues that make the ensuing beat down perfectly legal…
Dominus Secunde. Kinda comes down as “Second Master” from Latin. So, Likely the right-hand man of the big boss?
That ONLY applies to Heads of State with whom we have diplomatic relations. If he hasn’t addressed the bureaucrats in the State Department, he’s subject to ‘gunboat diplomacy’ by the ranking military officer involved.
Admittedly the last time this happened on a large scale was 1853 with Perry in Japan.
Even if he is a head of state, he just stepped foot directly onto our sovereign soil and declared his intentions to invade. He has already willingly bypassed any attempt at diplomacy and has relegated himself to world-class-threat. Thats maxima’s department by straight definition. She is in every right by her government given duties to deal with him in whatever way she sees fit.
At the moment, he is someone entering the country illegally.
She asked him lawful questions.
He responded by stating an imminent attempt to invade the country by force and escalated the situation with an act of battery.
She is not only a law officer authorized to respond to the use of force with force, but specifically charged with defending the country from exotic threats both foreign and domestic.
We do not really have much of an idea about the balance of power in this situation (the Galaxy’s most popular game show was, briefly, “Are You Stronger That A Fel Supercarrier?”), but any Earthly legal system, civilian or military, would authorize her response with force sufficient to repel the threatened invasion.
She might try further diplomacy, and someone should get a consult from Dabbler while one of the Harems alerts HQ, but it’s up to her.
oh wait, lots of ppl made those points already.
That comes of reading comments on a Saturday haha!
Oh, no… don’t poke the already annoyed Golden Super.
Do eeeeet!
(judo tosses 60-foot demon over shoulder)
Oof, poor Thothogoth is going to lose a finger.
On the one hand I wouldnt mind seeing this jerk getting dunked on. But on the other I also wouldn’t mind seeing Maxima finally meeting her match. Win-win I guess.
We’ve met two of three known matches for Maxima already (and likely have seen the third, but unconfirmed). Dabbler fought Max to a standstill, and V had the upper hand by the end of the Supervillian Battle Royale. The unnamed-and-presumed dead super that fought her to a standstill and put her in the hospital in Iraq is likely pictured here alive: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-186-fingers-to-maximum-steepleage/
I suspect Dabbler didn’t beat Maxima in that fight so much as render her incapable of fighting. Hard to throw a punch when you’re suffering from endless magically induced orgasms.
Depends how much an individual is prone to flailing during orgasm, I guess.
…. also, Dabbler didn’t do that to Max, because Dabbler’s not fired. Also, still alive.
He haven’t seen Max and Kevin go full ham at each other. Sure, they fought to a standstill within their basic capabilities, but neither really let loose with their full capabilities.
If kevin can produce an aura that stimulates violent behavior, he can probably induce the opposite, drain her stamina so shes too tired to fight. Remember that as long as he has power to burn he can basically make up abilities on the fly :)
Interesting point, like Heatwave can absorb heat instead of generating it. On the other hand, she apparently dislikes doing so because it feels “ooky”, so V might have a similar dislike for using such an ability.
> If kevin can produce an aura that stimulates violent behavior, he can probably induce the opposite, drain her stamina so shes too tired to fight. Remember that as long as he has power to burn he can basically make up abilities on the fly :)
“Why didn’t the weakness aura affect you?”
“It did.”
Yeah, it’s about time Maxi had her ‘Gwen Stacy’ Moment, or just have her shiny heiny polished
Maybe this is the moment Sydney gets her promotion
And now I have a theory about what will be on page #1k.
His armies may exist primarily in his imagination. He may be exaggerating for effect.
Regardless, he’s essentially declared war and eluded to the impending arrival of an invasion force, and immediately following that physically assaulted the CO of a superpowered military unit, and who is known to be able to take out a Fel dreadnought with basically a single finger… and to have done so without prior intel gathering about the abilities of those under said person.
He may be unimpressed with the Fel ship being taken out, and may be assuming that rank in the unit is determined by “power level”, but that is a terrible assumption to make.
He’s Number Two of some organisation; a position that Dabbler considers somewhat impressive. So, presumably, that army is real, even if he’s not the top boss.
First words of the next page:
Max: Dabbler, what would be the repercussions for tearing off this guy’s finger and shoving it up his throat?
Tom: … Don’t you mean dow-
Max: No.
So even the demon(?) overlord(?) doesn’t dare to poke Maxima in the breasts despite him talking about how oh-so powerful he totally is.
Dabbler has already pointed out that his size shows his lack of confidence, so case in point. :-)
Also said demon lord has dealt with Dabbler. You get whammy from succubus boobs a few times and you’ll treat em carefully too
Place yer bets right here place yer bets i got golden gal on 20 to 1 odds! Do i have any takers!
On the one hand, I’m in on that action. I’m willing to bet there’s at least a 1 in 21 chance that Max hands this task off to someone on her team.
On the other hand, I don’t have money to send, so let’s bet ninja death squads instead. If you win, I do puns until Pander takes out a contract on me once. If I win, you do puns until she ninja death squads you 20 times.
You are truly history’s greatest monster! *flail*
The best kind of wager, everyone* wins no matter what!
* shhh, it’ll be okay Pander, just close your eyes for the next few pages.
*sob* They’re monsters Brichins. Monsters I tell you.
Tom will have arrived “REady” for Dabbler, He Does after all Know Her
He May have some Clue about Maxima
Sydney and Keven are the Major Hole Cards
If it comes to Killing,
Sydney Will Flinch Hard
Rigardless of the fact that she has likely killed while Fighting Kaiju and Small Craft
She Didn’t see them as Living People
I’m thinking Tag Team Kevin and Maxima
With Input from Dabbler
Or A New Reveal of Power by The Mighty Halo
You know eventually Max is going to run into that one person that is too big for even her golden britches.
Hell, Hulk always thought he was the strongest there was until he faced Thanos.
There’s always a bigger fish.
YES!!!
I’ll take one blue guy from DC…
Is first question wen he confront Thanos will be:
“Do you need a gauntlet for that ??”
that poke there ranks in the top 5 of ill-advised pokes in history :p
Plot twist: An annoyed Detla takes him out.
Or even better, Detla and Tom know each other! Detla just shows herself and says-
‘What are YOU doing here? Are you NUTS? They just took MY service and you POKED the boss???’ *Mutters about stupid males*
This’ about to Interesting, by the “Firefly” definition
I think he aims to misbehave. Max may be considering it herself.
I’m betting 2, maybe 3 fingers will not be broken
Dabbler: Does anyone else hear boss music playing?
Halo: *Playing Doom Eternal in the background* It just seems… appropriate.
When Halo was stuck on that planet and plowing through those kaiju… I had One Winged Angel in my head…
Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Sephiroth
Sephiroth
Sors immanis
Et inanis
Sors immanis
Et inanis
Veni, veni, venias,
Ne me mori facias
Veni, veni, venias,
Ne me mori facias
Veni, veni, venias,
Ne me mori facias
Veni, veni, venias,
Ne me mori facias
Veni, veni, venias, Gloriosa
Ne me mori facias Generosa
Veni, veni, venias, Gloriosa
Ne me mori facias Generosa
Veni, veni, venias, Gloriosa
Ne me mori facias Generosa
Veni, veni, venias, Gloriosa
Ne me mori facias Generosa
I am positively GIDDY at the depths of whupass about to be unleashed by ANYONE/EVERYONE with no collateral damage in range.
This should be the new example definition of “Tiger Error” -the previous textbook example occurred on Dec 7, 1941…
Hah! Jokes on him! Our corruption institutions and squabbling shall corrupt them and make them fall even lower than what they thought possible. By triplicate form, double dealing, and puppets being incompetent we shall corrupt them into being the puppets to frighten the masses while ignoring the problems they slip through the madness.
Corrupt the demons! Show them the might of bureaucratic madness!
Funny you mention that.
In the Secret World MMO, that’s actually the case XD
Humanity is actually what corrupted Demonkind in that case, because they used to like Hell…but due to all the deals and crap, they end up wanting Earth more, so they keep invading (thus giving your agent of Gaia demon ass to kick).
Well, somebody just lost a finger. And if somebody is actually a match for her, then they just lost their head when Halo the Space Ainur decides he’s balrogged a little too much.
BEGONE THOTH!
Next seen in the rec room you see a poster of Thothogoth poking Max.The finger mounted on the wall above it.
Oh, no! I am fully caught up! This is terrible! D: Now I actually have to WAIT like everyone else!
Now you get to join in the discussions :D
Read Tamer: Enhancer while you wait!
Do didn’t just tug on Superman’s cape he used it as a hanky!
*dude
Im little dissapointed that he is evil demonlord with devil army. After introduction general turkey i hoped for little dyplomacy where muscle have no use, but demonic invasion will provide some nice fights.
Ps. This guy is doomed
Kevin will help because, well…
Interviewer : Can you destroy the Earth?
The Tick : EGAD! I hope not! That’s where I keep all my stuff!
Do not poke the happy fun Maxima.
Smash cut to ARC-CLEANUP removing demon-carcass fragments from adjoining counties/states while Max fills out the after-action report later that evening while Halo has another counseling session.
Pretty sure that would earn Max a mandatory counseling session too.
Disagree.
He’s on record asserting invasion, etc.
They’ll probably give her a(nother) medal.
Oh I’m sure she wouldn’t be disciplined for it (much), he’s clearly provoking a fight and just declared intent to invade. Cops are supposed to check in with a counselor every time they fire their weapon, even if they don’t hurt anyone; publicly dismembering a giant demon has got to trigger a similar HR policy.
“Possibly” Ill advised?
Welp, let’s watch an elder demon get handed his dignity, reputation, arse, balls and any other relevant factor to him in an entertaining manner.
Also, is it just me, or has this guy done absolutely zero research on human psychology?
Humans… are a mess, unholy or otherwise. We bicker amongst ourselves, split off into factions to compete against each other over creations of pure fantasy, much less over actual resources.
However, try to conquer them, and they WILL band together. You will be a unifying force, however temporary, as all humans unite together for one purpose and one purpose only: Kicking your ass off their planet. Pray to whatever you may worship that they don’t figure out how to follow you back through whatever hole you crawled from.
The very BEST outcome from Thoth’s perspective is that Max short-stops his attempt before it becomes widely known. Because if there is a dimensional portal large enough to permit an army through… it’s also large enough to permit a nuke in. And we’ve got a whole PILE of those things just laying around with nothing to use them on to flex on others without severe consequences.
If Max and company don’t stop this invasion here, nip it in the bud, this whole comic may go full-bore HFY.
Given that this is fiction, your presumption may hold. I don’t think there’s anything in real human history to support it, however. Recent events suggest that humans will fight each other to their own destruction in the face of calamity.
Or the human factions believe the super power nations and the demon armies will wipe each other out while they are protected by God for whatever reason; or wait to see which wins to side with them (turn coat strategy), or they wait till both sides have weakened each other and attack then.
Or during the war they throw their allies under the bus as it were seizing an opportunity, especially if they get a hold of alien or demon or whatever tech/magic.
the one great threat unifying all of humanity is unfortunately not supported by history. Even when the threat isn’t human but environmental problems, diseases, energy concerns, food supply chains, ect… groups of humans who either can’t beat each other or are like minded will band together but then screw over anyone else. On a small scale humans can band together for safety *local disasters and what not*, but when you get to the large scale and involve governments and their petty leaders it falls apart.
The threat has to be a hostile external party.
Anything else can rationalized (or “irrationalized,” I suppose) away as SEP.
It’s important to remember the distinct characteristics of any given crisis/threat. Monkeys will not try to fight the weather, or flood…but they will absolutely attack a predator en masse.
How tribes and smaller kingdoms behaved among one another when facing a larger imperial aggressor is a good enough microcosm to view a larger scale threat. Not to mention the rhetoric used by larger nations in regards to one another.
I just don’t have faith any world scale alliance would be as all inclusive or last as long as some think it would when faced with alien invasion (of any sort).
I had a nasty thought.
Once Sydney gets the hang of using the GPS (Galactic Positioning System) on her AC flyball option, could she just open a causeway in the right location and just lighthook something into a quasar, neutron star, black hole….whatever?
That kind of skill would put her power set above “God Bother-er” levels.
Other than a Probably Limit,
On Just how close to such Phenomena she can Target….
And Lighthook force application Limits, ( Currently ~15 Tons? )
It is just a matter of time to gain Skill….
I doubt Sydney would take to being an executioner type character well, she did it this once because her opponent could survive it.
Sydney feels like she wants to be a street level or team member hero, but her powerset is better suited for cosmic threats; especially with its potential. Her dial down options are very limited while her army destroyer options are perfectly set.
but again, her personality is in conflict with using those powers against non-kaiju scale threats. I doubt she is going to tell some thief dressed in a bad kangaroo costume to drop his Australia theme only loot or she is going to dump him into the depths of space.
Proportionate response in other words, can’t go threatening to or actually dropping people into space just because they are robbing a bank.
Considering the number of people on The List, that’s not a line I would like to see Sydney cross.
The Greater Galaxy hasn’t SEEN her full power, Tom. Do you -really- want to be a footnote for their next data point?
Then Sydney pipes up ‘Oh those armies? Yeah, you’ll find them shorter a command ship or three.’
If Maxima doesn’t just decide that that glowy crystal seems important and rips it off him.
Can you imagine the terror Max taking it and handing it off and hearing Sydney say “I wonder what this button does”?
Oh dear someone is full of them selves I see, typical demon over sized ego problem. Welp looks like Vehmence is going to be eating REALLY well cause of all the violence that max is going to cause to this moron who is going to wish he never even shown up. *grabs popcorn and watches intently*
“I interpret that last sentence as a declaration of war on the US and your presence here as a invasion. Last warning.”
Considering Dabbler hasn’t tried to intervene in the conversation… She’s probably not too worried for Max. Though I do wonder if there is any relationship between Thothogoth and Maxima’s powers, and that he might have some kind of leverage over her.