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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DaveB:
“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.”
I’m sure Dabbler’s solved some problems exactly like this with a fist, either hers or someone else’s.
And I think that might be the dirtiest thing I’ve ever wrote on the forum.
Dabbler is a handyman who knows how to use what is at hand to finish her job.
She has four of them. Adds up.
She originally had four of something else when her character was first thought up, but that amount of Hypnoboob would likely have destroyed any minds within a forty meter radius around her.
She can count to sexadecinal on her fingers too (16)
I’m pretty sure that sexadecimal is base 69.
BTW, similarly to Rule 34, of course someone actually made a system which actualy uses base 69. Here’s the blurb about it on GitHub:
“Base69 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme inspired by Base64 encoding.
Why Base69 when Base64 is adequate? Because it’s NICE!”
Nice.
How do you think she lost one of her arms?
She said she lost it when she found out she wasn’t as good of a sword fighter as she thought she was.
This doesn’t make it less dirty.
Given that she is lacking a penis, it’s no surprise that Dabbler is a poor sword fighter.
Does anybody really think the majority of the people who disapprove of supers solving everything with their fists would be happy about supers solving things using other parts of their anatomy?
Weird how this guy declared himself an invading force with intention to rule Earth – and a good boinking sorts all that out?? ‘Scuse, but boinking and megalomania don’t have all that much overlap, usually. It was unexpected. It’s still pretty inexplicable. To be fair, it may be just that we don’t know how effective it really is, because we haven’t tried it very often historically. But, just imagining myself to be megalomanic for a moment – I don’t think boinking would sort that out.
maybe it’s just more of a standard greeting and he’s so used to giveing it that it just happens
It’s entirely possible that this was more of a “I’m here on personal business, but if you vex me, mortal, I will casually overrun your world.”
Mob bosses are a bit like that.
“I’m just here for the cannoli, but if we gotta make it a ‘thing’…”
Makes sense especially for a strength is everything and one cannot even appear weak type culture demons usually have
He never claimed he was there to invade and annex Dirt, he was just introducing himself to Maxi, like she did to him
“Needs must when the devil drives”, cried Dabbler, always ready to take one for the team when frustrations ran high. “Let them come — Matthew 19:13”
ROOOOAAAAR!
“He comes in peace!” Sydney couldn’t help herself. “Shoot to MMph!” Maxima’s hand clamped over her mouth with prescient and lightning fast diplomacy.
Bikkie said:
> “Needs must when the devil drives”, cried Dabbler, always ready to take one for the team when frustrations ran high. “Let them come — Matthew 19:13”
That’s a little creepy given the context of the verse:
13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
I guess the Catholic Church read it the same way you did?
Let them come, you say?
https://youtu.be/eA0BujmYxSo
You’ve come!
I’m not sure he has an intention to rule Earth, so much as he thinks it’s just kind of inevitable. His armies are itching to do something, and here he is. He’d like to give the impression that it’s just something they do, doesn’t really require a lot of planning. They just show up and bring order.
Also… I think it’s an idea that just kind of floats around that boinking sorts things out. Or that most problems are a product of insufficient boinking. A lot of behavior does have that as its fundamental goal.
I think he was a nerd demon in High School, who had a crush on Dabbler. After school they went their separate ways, maybe dabbler had to “adventure” a temple he was hired to do something with, and they crossed paths and got sideways during it. he finds her and comes to earth to exact revenge, but secretly he wants to show off his new CV and impress the one that got away. That’s the reason for the giant spell and the whole “world domination” speel. Any guy would do something like that.
I swear there was a panel in one of the previous stips that showed a classroom scene. Tom, dabbler, and I think decollette were in it. Dabble was a nerd, and so was Tom.
Page #311 has been mentioned repeatedly, but I’m still guessing it’s the one you’re thinking of.
I’m curious if Vehemence can absorb lust as well as violence now. His markings are glowing pink instead of orange.
Maybe they are getting into some BSDM action. Similarly he could get a good meal visiting a Klingon brothel.
Klingon brothel strikes me as the sort of place one almost has to sign a waiver just to know about, let alone go inside. do they offer an honorable death service and who would pay? the kids?
Rich Ferengi with a fetish. Quark definitely has that holoprogram.
Either with great pleasure may come pain situation, or he is now learning he along with violence and the emotions that go with it can absorb demonic lust *which is a tad different and more predatorily aggressive than the average human lust*.
He’s absorbing the energy of the violence of their vigorous physical activity.
Check the smile, on his face, in the second panel!!
Most of the characters are smiling in panel 2. They were standing uncomfortably in panel 1, with awkward looks on their faces, until Sydney broke the tension with “Those quarry walls sure are echoey”. (Except for Delta, who took it all in stride.)
Vehemence did seem amused at the weird turn of events today.
There’s either an art error or V is definitely gaining energy. Check the back of his hand between panels 6 and 8.
I think Dave just forgot the lines in panel 6. As far as i know, the lines are always there and only change color when he gains energy. But the pink color does imply that he is feeding off this.
He may just be displaying the energy he gained from the body slam.
I was putting it down to Kevin being gay. He has set. He set my gaydar off from the moment he appeared.
Violent fornication is still violence.. and fornication.. would probobly produce both
Only demons could achieve precisely this combination of sex, romance, diplomacy, and top it off with a vehemic amuse-bouche for our glowy friend.
Why is Kevin pink now? Does this count as violence, or can he do both?
With pleasure may come pain.
Also angry screwing, remember Dabbler was avoiding this guy for some reason so this is like an angry f*ck.
Math got all Pixelated…
…with a capital P… no censorship!
Nope, Pixel isn’t here, and Math hasn’t been censored, you can clearly see his naked butt
You mean it isn’t Pixelated?
Well sure it’s Pixelated… and I think everyone would be just a little bit happier if the censors decided to pixelate in that way… >^n_n^<
So, everyone is having to deal with this hard Math problem now.
I’m going to stab you like that speedster fuck did Heatwave’s foot
The speedster is designated Mack the Knife.
“Mach” the Knife (embedding a joke about speed)
Close. Mach (as in “the speed of sound”) the Knife.
You’re not wrong, although Azurion is right – Math did everything right except his order of operations.
Complex fucktions are tricky.
You just have to keep straight which are the real parts and which are the imaginary parts. If you mix the two up, then the results may not be a conjugal as you expect.
True, but they may turn out complex…
yeah, he needs to make sure of where the parenthesis are before he does his multiplication and adding…
A potent problem that wont go away for a while.
no, if it last more than 4 hours we have to call medical professionals.
The medical procedure for addressing priapism is horrifyingly dramatic, even when presented by one of the gentlest YouTubers I follow. But theoretically better than the alternatives. D8
Or we could just try the leeches.
You calling Detla and Jabs leeches? You know they are down to a good sucking
No, I meant literally just slapping a dozen leeches on a dudes priapic junk & seeing how that works.
with all due respect. you first. one of those memories in the bleach pile is that at one point that treatment did show promise with severed bits. though as I recall the article had the good taste to talk about slightly more comfortable bits like hands and fingers.
It might take a LOT of leeches. At work we once had a fellow whose bad reaction to his medication included priapism. As soon as you took the needles out he would start to re-inflate. He was not a happy camper. The poor fellow was mentally ill to start with, covering his junk with leeches would be nightmare fuel.
I will exercise restraint. I have seen and/or read about too many medical procedures involving the male pointy bit to want to know more. I’m still trying to bleach the whole Bobbit story.
Oh yeah…I remember that whole thing.
Mrs. Bobbit may have had a _slight_ overreaction, but everyone agreed that the dipshit brought it on himself.
Such a pity it wasn’t a complete loss.
intersting side note. after she cut off his member she ran out of the house and thew the offending organ our into the street. it landed on an older couple’s windshield. when it hit the wife said to the man “did you see the dick on that bug?”
I can just imagine how Maxima will phrase this. Something alone the lines of “extradimensional incursion contained with minimal force, negotiations with entity proceeded swiftly and smoothly once a common ground was established,” perhaps?
Dabbler took one for the team. Very military.
I think Maxima frowning on “silk work” is kind of like fighting with one hand tied behind your back when it comes to Dabbler. She missing a great force multiplier
The scene in panel five, lol. It’s like a nuclear firestorm.
First time we saw Tom, he did say ‘there will be a great burning to herald my coming’. Seems he was right
Kinda like how todd doesn’t exist from the waist down in panel 7.
Sorry, I meant Kevin.
I meant Kevin, not todd. Who is todd? No idea why that name poped up.
“You’re Todd, Phil.”
“… No, my name is Sea..”
“Quiet, Mark.”
“But.. I..”
“I’ve heard quite enough out of you, Frank.”
“How do you even..”
“.. I said, GOOD DAY, SIR.”
I like that V is so expressive. Goes from rage face to goofy little grins with ease.
I genuinely want to see him get work release & become a regular at THE MIGHTY HALO’S COMIC SHOP & GAME STORE.
I feel like he’s a guaranteed draw, and can probably keep up with Sydles ADD-fueled geekery & nonsequitors.
I actually had them shipped in my headcanon, before a certain Space Woof appeared.
Ok, now I really do wonder what kind of things he’s into, other than violence. Does he have any hobbies? a day job? I mean, that seems like it would be a good thing to explore in a comic about what supers do in between punching things.
I like to think he’s actually solid B Tier chef with his own little cafe somewhere in the PNW. Probably doing French-Vietnamese thing, with a rotating selection of dishes from other countries, seasonally, as the whim takes him.
I expect he reads a lot, and probably takes a course at the local college to keep his brain engaged & elastic. Probably a nostalgic console game nerd. Like, SNES & PS1.
I would be shocked to find out he doesn’t take at least one wine tour every year, know more about whiskey & cigars than Deus, or play piano like a goddamn genius.
Ya, in my head, until proven otherwise, Kevin is a real Renaissance Man
Honestly, I’d be pretty happy to have a harem book where [and then they do it.] is left in as the bit where they do it. Just once, in one book, but yeah, that’d be cool.
I love how Vehemence just is so tickled by the shenanigans. Like the aura of “this is definitely more entertaining than prison.”
Punk Vehemence? Is he absorbing tantric energy by accident? Would be a weird plot reveal and moment of personal discovery for him if this is how he found out that he could.
My theory: Kevin is awash in vast amounts of tantric energy, causing the pink glow – but he can’t process it.
I wonder if he dumped enough energy to reset to white, and he’s just blushing like mad.
Love that Sydney’s like, “Because I literally do know exactly what she’s talking about, I must high-five. It is my duty, my charge.”
And so her Watch begins.
somehow I don’t think she wants to watch the math bits. some math problems should be solved in private.
She also knows the golden rule “Don’t leave a high five hanging”
Just realized Hiro is probably having some flashbacks. “Dammit Math, you’re breaking the rule!“
It took me to just now to realize that Jabberwocky and Detla … working together … have defeated Math.
It may be a temporary defeat, but it is total and it is humiliating, and they did not break a sweat.
Jabberwocky already defeated Math with the power of b00bs
Ha! You’re right!
The first time was an accident but this time she seemed very happy to take advantage of his weakness.
What a great opportunity to bond with Detla – probationers gotta stick together!
I love that ‘batman shadow’ panel. I dunno, just everyone lit in only shadow with just the outline of their eyes. It just looks so cool.
I love the fact that Detla’s eye glow is illuminating her hair in that panel, a pretty cool bit of art IMHO.
No, I wasn’t expecting that either. What is life without a little surprise now and then.
Huh. I just looked at the character sheets in the sidebar – i’ve been thinking that was Harem…
At this point I think we can safely say either Detla can’t recognize an Athereum Causeway on sight or she can really keep her cool seeing one so unexpectedly.
the first seems likely based on the idea they are so rare and hard to produce, she may have heard of them, but never seen one.
Or that she didn’t get a good enough look at the one(s) Sydney popped in the quarry, what with all the dust flying around.
“Was that a – ? Can’t be, it takes a generator the size of a town to create one of those.”
the outgoing I can see that, but in the return trip the dust was settled.
I swear, Math acts like quagmire sometimes. gigitity gigitity.
Detla:… I don’t understand the hand-slapping thing.
Jaz: Just put yer hand up, girl.
The sudden jump to teh sexings feels sudden
Agreed, Dabbler had been avoiding this reunion but suddenly after a few questions from her new teammates she’s apparently reversed course aggressively.
Dabbler’s negotiating technique could solve the majority of the world’s problems.
Peace by snu snu.
“TO THE DEATH!” “By snu-snu?” “Eh, sure, why not?”
I’m sure its more painful than I can even imagine. but still, the thought that my family would have to cremate the body just to get the grin off my face. I will face the peril.
It would be extremly painful as the pelvis, urinary tract, and lower digestive system are crushed, upper leg bones, muscles, tendons, all severed by pressure…honestly as a sexual act the giant woman regardless of if its the giant amazons from Futurama, Lady Dimetrescu, or some Oni or Taurian or whatever commonly seen with this reference; due to the internal bleeding and pain the male would lose the tiny (relative to her size) erection real quick to the point that after that they are just painfully killing you without getting anything back for it.
sexual acts with something that much larger, especially if their intention is to acquire your sperm, taking a note from spiders to avoid death may be in order. In short, despot sperm into a bio-degradable packet (for safety), and fist her, squeezing the sperm packet out inside her. To keep the giant bride distracted and pleasure her, you may also need to make out with her giant and at face level clitoris. Thus insuring a successful and safe mating with the several times larger female.
Or you could just be hung like John Holmes or John Dillenger and do her from across the room.
Okie, this is coming across to me as Dabbler put up a horniness AOE the moment Tom showed up. Not a really powerful one, but just enough to nudge people in that direction. Math wouldn’t need much of a push, but the whole throwing his clothes off right in front of Maxima is a bit sus – Detla and Jabberwocky seem just a smidge too ready to entertain the thought as well…
Again, I don’t think Tom needed much of a nudge to take it in that direction, and though I think Max could have definitely handled a fight, I wonder if Dabbler was like “… I could use a little Vitamin T… and a real fight would mean a lot of collateral property damage and maybe even loss of life… though I know Max could take him…. well, I’d prefer to take him instead, so…. lets say a level 2… just a nudge should do it” then “Oooo she put him on his back – that’ll work”
That’s an interesting theory, but usually when Dabbler pushes her lust aura, you get the pink speech bubbles with hearts around them. As far as Math is concerned though, he’s a contactor and enough of a horn dog I don’t think he needs a push.
I admit that Kevin is a rather reasonable sort of guy.
I really like Kevin, I hope he makes the switch to being a team member, he would be a real force multiplier and I’ll bet DaveB can write his dialog in his sleep.
Shouldn’t Math have a call-out in the “Characters” list?
That only happens when the character is talking. the designation “character” is generally understood to be the entity’s BRAIN that’s doing the talking… right now his brain has been hijacked by his “secondary brain” ie, dick… and has become non-eligible for that distinction in the characters listing… I’m sure that once Max has had her conniption fit over his “uniform” choices, and metes out his punishment thereof, his brain will be fully back in control and thus eligible again for the “characters list”.
It’s kind of hard to believe that Max is standing there calmly (even if unhappy) instead of going full kaiju-berserker here. Quite literally caught between Dabblers’ noises and Math’s sudden appearance, she’s gotta be under a lot of stress.
And if Anvil has trouble finding dates (“all the guys my size turn out to be jerks”) one need only imagine the stress Maxima is under (“If I boink somebody too hard I’ll probably turn them into chunky salsa accidentally”) to get why she’s such (in Dabbler’s phrasing) a clenched-up prude.
Just sayin, she’s under a lot of stress given the current environment, and likely a lot of frustration she’s never admitted to anybody, and it just seems as though Math (ahem) popping up would present a person and event against whom that frustration could be vented.
Depending on how self-aware she is, she might recognize that she’s likely to react more strongly than warranted because of these very reasons. But even if she recognizes that, she needn’t show any particular restraint beyond what the regs require, so …
So why is she so calm?
She hasn’t done anything – yet. The next words out of Math’s mouth may determine whether he is ever in a position to act like this again.
I don’t think Maxima would be willing to pay the price for overreactions. Namely, the respect of her team. Right now they like and admire her, they see her as a leader and not just a commanding officer. That kind of respect is valuable and needs work to maintain.
Throw Beady Eyes in with Dabbler and her ex. That would be the perfect threesome.
I just noticed Syd’s expression in panel 3. Embarrassment and wistfulness at the same time?
Sydney isn’t complaining…:lol:
… So what’s Vehemence going to do with all that energy from now on since apparently venting it can have consequences? Pretty sure Dabbler could figure out a battery for it if she doesn’t already have something like that, but something tells me having that much energy sitting idle and portable would be even more dangerous.
Probably just tell him to vent it at a slower rate rather than dropping a massive jolt all at once? maybe have Zephan and Gwen (and any other magic user types) get some training in defending against some magical type attacks, thus using up that stored energy in a constructive way?
I’ve been wondering what the protagonists in Dave’s ‘Enhancer’ series is going to do when they get some firsthand evidence that the “translation” effect they’ve been so amazed about (enabling people not only to speak and/or hear perfectly translated speech – including seeing the mouth movements and lip-synch of the translated version they’re hearing, and to read messages in an unfamiliar language and alphabet and find them indistinguishable from their own language) is even more amazing than they guessed, and translates DNA as well as it does every other form of communication.
This is of course speculation.
So you have characters of different species, who consider the idea that they could get pregnant together laughable… and are likely IMO to be wrong.
It’s hard to fathom the motives of plot-device aliens, but I can find a rationale for it – as well as the other ‘inexplicable’ stuff which mostly adds up to putting enormous survival pressure on the characters – if they’re doing some kind of evolution experiment and trying to create a species which can reliably survive in these conditions.
for someone who is so good at fighting that they can’t tell if it’s an actual super power, he sure has a shitload of scars, which makes me think he hasn’t always been supernaturally good at fighting
https://img.memecdn.com/jake-the-dog-on-sucking_o_799995.jpg
As far as Kevin and Halo are concerned I think if you look back to the Super Free-for-all, the two stood there just observing with Kevin thinking “Nice Kid, Hope she doesn’t get killed.” And Sydney ‘Takes him down’ later by just talking him down, and again Halo defeats him w/o a blow being struck by Sucking through a Wormhole. Yeah I think these two are just ‘Frenemies’. Sydney has her “Space Boyfriend” after all and she knows about altering shapes to “Get that Semi under that Bridge.”
Hmmm.
Kevin’s pink pines..
extra hornyness,
Is Kevin accidentally doing a tantric compulsion, like he intentionally does the violence compulsion?
sigh
pink*LINES*
I am just imagining the comic where they are babysitting the little imp that results from this encounter.