Grrl Power #987 – Dear pentagramhouse…
Battle a giant arch-demon to save Earth from an invasion?
Stand off to the side while your co-worker and/or subordinate catches up with an ex in an extremely visceral way?
It’s not that Maxima doesn’t enjoy a good fight, but she also is cognizant of supers being accused of solving their problems with their fists. Not that she’s looking forward to filling out the paperwork for this excursion. Actually, Hiro’s there, so she can probably kick it down to him.
I keep meaning to pimp this, but me no brain good. The webcomic The Hero Biz is winding down after over ten years, and they’re going out with a kickstarter for a print volume that collects their final season. For those of you unfamiliar with the comic, it’s about a PR firm that deals exclusively with superheroes, like if Arianna got her own spin off.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
The book is done!
Now, when I say done… I mean it’s readable from start to finish. Oh, except one sex scene that currently just reads [and then they do it]. I’m going to run through the book and do a consistency pass to make sure someone doesn’t introduce their Eye-Q stats twice or anything obvious like that, do a little light editing along the way, and tackle that sex scene when I get up to it.
October’s vote incentive is up! This is a redraw of a comic I did in 2011 I think, but never published. I had originally pictured the comic going through an establishment phase, and then taking occasional breaks from the storylines for little one-off moments like these. Which I guess I could still do. I just got wrapped up in the story telling and forgot.
So Dabbler and Sydney are up late one evening on night watch but Dabbler has just discovered Cinemax…
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To be fair to Kevin, this wasn’t how I pictured his day going either. I also expect Math’s day isn’t going to go the way he’s hoping.
If by that, you mean him facing a court-martial? Sure
Civilian consultant, not soldier. Could be arrested for indecent exposure, though
If they are using it for prime-tier super training (kevin vs max) then Im pretty sure that quarry is privately owned property. Most places allow nudity on private property, so this would come down to in-house punishments, but no legal action.
He’s working for a government organization, ostensibly the military, and he just flashed his co-workers/squadmates and superior officer intentionally during what was originally a scheduled training exercise. Pretty sure private vs public property doesn’t matter in this case.
No civil charges perhaps, but a court martial seems imminent. Even if Detla and Jabs vouch for their interest, the rest of the team shouldn’t have to deal with this kind of work environment. Some kind of consultant audit for Dabbler’s actions is probably warranted as well, although I have no idea what they can say to her about handling the situation differently.
Some unique new pages going in the company operating handbook after this all winds up though.
He’s a civilian, he literally cannot be tried in a military court.
Oh, I’m sure someone would suggest it. Probably with a line about “his privates”.
Doh, you’re right I forgot he was a technically a consultant like Xuriel. Still think he’s getting a performance review about his debriefing.
yeah, I wonder what he’s thinking? He knows how sensitive Max is about things like that, and on duty as well!
I’d say he performed said debriefing expertly. 5/5, must promote.
What makes you think he knows they’re missing? I mean… not present? Not that he thinks they’re playing games with girls — I can’t stop digging can I?
Hiro looks like he wants to do some problem solving with Max
So does Blulk…
Sounds like the writing on book two is going to finish with a bang.
It may not finish anytime soon. Looks like Dabbler and Tom will quarry on rock and rolling for quite some time.
I did not consent to this punishment.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
–Ambassador Kosh
Kosh had some great lines… :D
Kosh & Ivanova definitely had the best lines, but Londo & G’kar remain my favorites.
A lot of G’kar’s script is just…like, actually really great stuff for the real world. o.o
Second to last panel! If it didn’t take too long, that would have been a colorblind solution to the speech bubble blobbing in the previous page.
So…what happened to Math’s shorts?
Martial arts, baby. Martial arts.
Marital.
they got shorted. reddit has them.
Hands of diamond are always cold
But a woman’s are always warm.
Math you better have your boots on there are tons of sharp pointy rocks you do not want to step on in quarries
Math has likely done some variant of the ‘punch into a sack of dried rice/sand/pebbles’ training for the purpose of toughening his hands and feet.
Also, it’s not that martial artists don’t feel pain? It’s more that they train themselves to not care about pain. (source: living with a martial artist)
Some of it is psychological, but there’s definitely a physical component as well, like building callouses and bone density, and deadening nerve endings on the main contact areas.
You’d be surprised how quickly your feet toughen up if you go barefoot a lot. I can walk and run across gravel with no trouble these days, and I usually hike barefoot. It just feels like a foot massage.
Kevin is pretty nice. All of the villains nave been quite well rounded like this. It makes for good plots.
Atleast Kevin can’t complain about Math since he kinda exposed himself to everyone else before already.
Well Kevin apologized for exposing himself and kapantsed himself. No such manners from Math here.
Also his nudity was unintentional.
Wait, what do Kevin’s pink lines mean? Is it a depowering stage? If we take their first fight for reference, I recall they’d turn green, right? Or is he getting high on tantric energy too? Would that mean he can actually absorb every primal energy?
Judging by the sounds he may get two meals for one here.
So it would seem, as Kevin did dump all of his excess Vehemic energy is the process of accidentally summoning Tom
I wonder which would start more wars
In panel 2 Kevin looks like he have learned to absorb tantric energy.
nah, violent sex is still violent
Pfrt… los (laugh out silently)
Some quite funny faces in todays comic.
Kevin get best line.
I snort so hard I scared my cat & trigged my gag reflex. XD
Vemenence getting tantric energy?
Dabbler and Tom going at it rough, so not exactly.
Heheh, Kevin’s all pink, ‘cause some sexual encounters are a bit vehement in their own right. Which leads to the questions regarding the effects of pink tantric/vehement enhancement? So is he going to hook up or wind up with a giant case of blue balls? Whoa, check out the scars on Math, Dude’s been in the shit! Or, wait, are those scars of passion? I mean, he hangs with supe Grrls who got CLAWS,
Pixelicious in her super-were form
I think she’d probably cut him to ribbons quite by accident. But there are probably others who are at least slightly more survivable.
There’s also the fact that he was there when Maxima flipped Tom and slammed him into the quarry ground, which is violence.
To borrow a line from another comic universe it is “the most epic of hatefucks.”
“is [Vehemence] going to hook up or wind up with a giant case of blue balls?” – SFCGator
Dabbler’s in the vicinity, and he’s not on the team. He won’t be left to suffer for long.
Math is double caked up goddamn
Kick it down to Math after that display.
Like many others, I’m curious about Vehemence’s unusually ‘tantric’ colored, uh, power lines.
Maybe it’s just an effect of rapidly depowering from Red down to White, but the timing and the events are way too coincidental for that.
I doubt he can absorb tantric energy as well. I’m assuming it was just a flavor text sort of thing added in without real consequences… and if the question is forced the explanation we’ll get is just something like “A tantric energy user is going full swing not to far away. He’s not actually gaining energy from this, but he IS feeling the effects.”
Of course… it could be intentional with actual reasoning. I’m assuming the literal sex demon who is also a violent warrior and the freaking world ender there are not exactly having vanilla sex. If the sex is sufficiently ‘violent’ he could be gleaning some of it even from the distance.
Gotta say, it’s not the first time I’ve wondered:
1) If Dabbler and Vehemence will have sex at some point. I’m sure Dabbler wants to for more reasons than “She likes sex.” But due to his prisoner capacity there’d probably need clearance AND supervision, again for multiple reasons (security, research into both their powers… horny higher ups who come up with an excuse to watch).
2) If they did, exactly what would be the outcome? Would subdueing him sexually manage to be a non-violent takedown that drains him a bit. Or if they had sufficiently ‘violent sex’ would they both keep powering up further and further til they were equally matched as the two most powerful beings on the planet?
Questions I want answers to.
We have seen that Kevin can use his vehemic energy to power up his abilities. If he used his energy to power up his sexual prowess he might actually give Dabbler a run for her money. Despite the case of Kevin feeding off of vehimic energy the personality shown so far doesn’t seem to fit with engaging in the level of “violent” sex that generate that energy. My theory is that he feeds on the vehemic energy of others. His own violence doesn’t nourish him, it only serves to provoke this violence of others. I’m thinking that no matter how rough he and Dabbler got, unless she gets angry or enraged, he isn’t going to get any vehimic energy.
In #265 Kevin said: ‘I attack you? Still makes me stronger.’ so I guess even his own violence nourishes him.
He is still feeding of of his opponents response. Otherwise he could just get by on property damage. I think he is just telling us that it doesn’t matter who initiates the violence.
Regarding Kevin’s pink lines — maybe that’s his way of blushing.
OK, I’m not where I thought I was. Who ROARRRRed? And please don’t blame it on the mouse. (Ummm, think Peter Sellers. For the mouse.)
We don’t mess with the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. They managed to win the Cold War after all.
I can’t help but feel that math has completely gone to booby La La Land. How did you lose all his clothes by stealing their bras I still don’t understand that.
He was “engaged” in operations with Detla and Jabberwocky a few comics ago, I don’t know how long that took but obviously they’re back and dressed and he’s still streaking.
He stole the bras, thinking that they were just about to follow him into the bushes anyway. They were persuaded of the principle, but not necessarily with him and right then and there; unfortunately he only heard as far as the comma before streaking off to get ready.
Wait a sec, Vehemence can absorb Tantric energy too? interesting…
Also, damn the paperwork for this episode sure does looks complicated
Sydney didn’t really need to see that…!
kicking “Make love not war’ up a notch
With those two, it’s probably “Make love AND war…”.
Anyone else notice smiling Delta looking at naked Math in the last panel?
To be fair, she and Jabberwock DID flirt quite thoroughly, not only in front of him, but including him, even suggesting a three-way with him. I’d say she’s into him enough to at least enjoy the view, and maybe want some of that cake.
Looks like Detla and Jabber are both grinning in the penultimate panel, probably smirking at pranking him into this situation by virtue of not telling him to wait until they got back to base.
Hey, hey ,hey! You don’t cut another man’s grass, Math! No messing around with Achilles’ space butler/girlfriend!!
Eh, I always got the impression that Achilles was part of Heatwave’s coterie/harem. Yes, Mr. A is her primary, but sometimes she just needs a chunk of 80’s hair.
So Max decided to let Dabbler resolve things using sex instead going for death and violence.
How oddly practical.
I mean…I saw one awesome sex scene that was just.
“Oh my.”
“Oh my.”
“OH MY!”
And it was awesome…
did it include Sulu?
Hopefully that and not something involving lions, tigers, and bears.
or possibly all 4?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXSk8ItIIAAxgl6?format=jpg&name=900×900
because I just had to find it
I reluctantly HAVE to applaud that you found that.
I love Kevin’s expressions during this comic. When he’s not loaded up on vehement energy, he pretty much acts like a normal guy.
Looks like he’s loaing up on a different kind of violent energy… unless his base color is normally pink?
Dang, I love Math every single scene I see him in. And this gal LIKES seeing him … and I usually don’t like blonde guys that much.
Math doing a Barrowman.
Nice reactions (Especially with Halo’s eyes) from the observers.
This is one of many things in the Grrl Power universe where things would go very differently if a spy satellite happened to be overhead and watching them at just this moment. Especially if a still shot of it made it into the local equivalent of Google Maps.
Deus is probably enjoying the show if I know him right.
So Math just showed up dressed for the PT he heard (from the echoes) was going on. I note that all Archon members are wearing the PT outfits except for Syd in fatigues.
Everyone except Syd was there for training.
Syd was there as insurance. So of course she’s the one in proper combat gear.
Yep. Knew math wouldn’t have any issue if someone hid his clothes. though he might after he wakes up in traction via Maxima
Even subtracting the … err, afterMath, this may be the funniest 5-page arc ever.
Boooo! Hisssss!
There’s definitely a “can’t look away” factor here, but the entire team seems far too comfortable with just watching this together. Reminds me of this Bond scene where he’s caught on satellite in flagrante delicto.
Looks like they have their backs to the quarry to me.
…and now that you point that out, I think you’re right. I was just thinking it’s a big quarry and they were on a point for some reason, but Math’s appearance from the shrubbery clinches it.
Still kinda weird to just stand there and listen together though.
Someone’s got to make sure that the potential threat doesn’t somehow knock Dabbler out and go on the rampage. And for some things, team solidarity meant you don’t leave a friend to face (away from) it alone.
We know Jabberwocky was infatuated with Dabbler following the melee. Panel two has me wondering if they ever actually hooked up.
I love how this page is all about the reactions to what’s going on unseen. Seven characters on-screen. The two men on the left are just kind of neutral. V is amused and laconic. Max is resigned to a mass of paperwork, amused at Sydney, and professionally angry at Math. Sydney is trying to be cool and failing utterly. Jabber is loud and proud. Detla is all about the very straight observation (possibly more witty in her native language) and the subtle smirk. Hilarious!
Max really does want to trust Kevin it seems. I get its not much of an advantage considering their power levels, but they seem perfectly find having him standing behind them. The fact that he doesn’t even seem to be considering this option? Yeah, there’s a lot of hope to see him part of the squad in the future I think.
In a realistic story they would never let a potential threat like Vehemence out. But Dave B is wise enough to let rule of funny and rule of cool decide what happens in a superhero comic.
The entire group is made up of potential threats. I would argue due to her level of weaponry and spaz attacks that Sydney is a bigger potential threat for damage and loss of life than Kevin is. Kevin, even when fully powered has proven to be entirely reasonable. Heck, during the original fight he was actually responsible for there being ‘less’ collateral damage than even max who threw him at an overpass. Heck, the only person he was out to ‘kill’ was Max, for the exact same logic both she and Sydney used in threatening/trying to kill him.
It’s embedded pretty early in the comic’s premise that for their society to function, they have to find a way to trust very powerful people walking among the general populace. Overall, the comic strikes a positive, optimistic tone towards the concept of law enforcement, and takes the position that criminals can be rehabilitated.
His comming was heralded by a mighty burning indeed…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-177-intergalactic-baggage/
You and me both, Vehemence. You and me both.