Grrl Power #999 – Seven thousand generations a sex slave
This scene wrapped up a lot sooner than I’d planned, because I wanted to shift gears in time for page 1000, so there are still succubus related questions in the aether. I’ll probably revisit the topic after we’ve gotten a few other scenes out of the way. Yeah, I know you want to know about incubuses and how an all female species reproduces.
I just want to point out that Dexon’s tablet has a clip on it, like a clipboard. So you can clip paper to it, which would then cover up the screen. I don’t know why I drew that because the more I think about it the more annoyed I get. I’m not annoyed at myself for drawing it so much as I am annoyed at the potential for such a stupid thing to exist.
Panel 4 – I think it’s the presiding judge who changes sentences. I tried to look this up and it seems to be the case, but I wasn’t sure since all Super crimes are federal crimes in the Grrl Verse. Not that there aren’t federal judges, but once you hit that level then other people can get involved I imagine. I’m sure someone will let me know if I got it wrong.
Panel 6 was suppose to look like the staging scene from ID4 where there are like a million alien troops waiting to invade, but I half ran out of time and half forgot to add them in. I just wanted them there so you guys could tell Thothogoth isn’t some fly-by night “Invasions by Tom” type. I can justify the empty mustering fields by saying that his jaunt to Earth was spontaneous because of Vehemence’s big energy dump.
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* Honestly it didn’t help. I am a little disappointed you don’t get a blast of Carmina Burana whenever you draw the sword though.
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Im gonna guess, Deus?
Most probably
Or possibly Sciona.
Sciona kinda vaporized herself. Utter shame too.
Last we saw her Sciona got herself a new body, as well as for some of the other souls following her, somewhere in… Mexico? Somewhere in Latin America I think at least.
Sciona has a new body now, of a human Super who was shot dead.
But I think Deus is more likely the human who sent the message because that is just so Deus-like of the world’s greatest human, paragon of humanity and virtue and hope for a brighter tomorrow, all praise Deus amen.
Deus was my first thought, but Vale might have the requisite connections and motive on her own. There’s also the Council and its many members, who by virtue of long experience would be more familiar with detecting and negotiating with demons than Deus.
For some reason I’m thinking it might be the guy in between V’s & Tom’s pics in comic 186, have we seen him since? (Not sure & can’t remember)
No contest
Of corse its Deus
Probability is high. Both for it being Deus and for Tom to get screwed – not in the good way.
You kidding? Deus would be delighted if Tom did bring his army through.
Tom would(try to anyway) take over the world but as he already said he would leave the governing power to local players.
Deus already was willing to work with Sciona for a price and said what his preferred food pallets were if her people did take over.
Also if the invasion showed poor performance, Deus army could swoop in to finish the fight to take credit.
Thread count requirements for his sheets.
I can’t imagine Deus playing fair with anyone. Paying them well, yes, but fair, not so much.
Deus -might- settle for being regional overlord of Earth, but I’d figure him for working to overthrow Tom and install himself in his place.
So which other “Nigerian Prince” do you know that notices just about anything super-ish?
Almost certainly. Because Harem. In both places, you know.
yeah the point I was going to bring up, Harem most likely was filling him in on what was happening,
and Deus knowing the stuff he knows probably has some Infernal affairs division keeping track of the hierarchy, ranks, and general whose who of Inferno so this would be the optimum opportunity to make an impression.
ehhhh, Deus knows a lot more than just harem telling him would explain.
yeah, but one of her was at this location so its an easy explination.
Kevin has got a point, but Max can’t just let him go without the court’s blessing.
He can be just as troublesome as dealing with the Hulk but Kevin is so much more intelligent & erudite. And to top it off, this might even be his first time outside of his cell & has a clear head by now.
Heck, he has the mental capacity to consider trying to start a REAL fight (or escape) as long as he still had quite a bit of excess energy…But now that he’s dumped it out, he needs to be thinking along more subtle lines to figure out a way to get out from Max’s thumb (& Sydney’s Orbs). His idea to leave this dimension altogether is a pretty clever one & would ensure a steady supply of “food” for him. I’m also sure Tom wouldn’t turn down the opportunity to let Kevin work for him…
So, Deus is sending out an “Earth isn’t yours to conquer.” notice.
And if Tom recognizes Vale for the eldritch thing she is…
Or he just wan’t another powerfull yet reasonable creature much like himself as a buissness partner. Deus could convince Tom that Earth is better as a trade partner than as a place to directly rule. I’m sure they would become best friends and laugh maniacally together.
The thing to remember is Dues is Lex Luthor, but a Lex Luthor who doesn’t have a obsessive need to defeat the reigning super hero. Which means instead of spending his time coming up with complicated plans to defeat the reigning super hero, or committing complicated crimes that the super hero should (but never does) fail to solve, he can spend his time building his power , control, and wealth in technically legal ways that will almost never result in prosecution, and if they do will suffer no more than a (relatively) token fine. So yeah, this is Dues sending tom a “so, you want access to earth. We can do that, call us for a surprisingly reasonable quote” note.
Yup. Because Max doesn’t even have the authority to keep him out of the US, and wouldn’t try to, if she was thinking straight.
Ackswually… It’s the other way around. Despite what certain politicians seem to think, as a matter of law, the US border is NOT an open one. Unless you have a passport from a country that we have a treaty with to such purpose, NO ONE comes in without being authorized by “someone”. Creating your own port for entry doesn’t mean that said port is a legal port of entry.
It would be more surprising if she had the authority to let him in on her own.
What IS happening is that she is writing up a report on the day’s happenings. Which includes the arrival of an extra-dimensional being with stated hostile attempt. Which will create a bureaucratic chain of events designed to ensure that he is never let back in without approval some someone high enough in the State Department that yeah, “diplomatic channels”.
Not that he needs to be “let” back in. They lack the ability to stop him. But not to make him hurt badly for coming in without an invite.
Instead of obsessively wanting to defeat Max, Deus hopes to charm her into sleeping with/working for him. Makes you wonder how the Luthor/Supes dynamic would have been different if Kent had been a sexy woman.
“technically legal”? robbing the vault, using supers in war, etc is explicitly illegal, he is just somehow able to get away with all of it with no actual reason being given other than a half hearted excuse.
robbing the vault- it is immoral yes. illegal? given that automated deadly booby traps are illegal in many places. and we don’t know if the vault is in international waters or not (probably) jurisdiction is a problem. I could see a salvage argument being made. but given the low profile the twilight council wants to keep, I don’t think its going to use a court of law to prosecute its claims against a thief. also our resident lawyer is biased in this area.
The status of the vault under human law is entirely unclear. Probably international waters, probably not recognized by any human government.
I don’t think using supers in wars is illegal. Maxima, for example fought in Afghanistan.
it wasn’t at the time but supers were not recognized or widely known at the time and i;m willing to bet they were used for very specific types of missions, not for general use.
Fair enough. I also looked up the scene, and Maxima did in fact claim the way Deus was using his supers is illegal.
Although I’m confused about “border expansion.” Is this a series of aggressive wars? That probably wouldn’t fly. I think it’s a lot more shenanigany.
It was mentioned early on that while supers have been deployed in combat by multiple nations, the U.N. was working towards a treaty banning it. Presumably some kind of agreement had been reached by Max and Deus’ dinner date.
The borders of a country aren’t particularly clear things, and presumably the borders of these warring countries in Africa shift regularly, or there is disagreement about them, and the world powers don’t particularly care.
No oil, don’t care.
Give it another twenty years and it’ll be lithium and tantalum.
Deus is more about negotiation and maneuvering than he is aggressive posturing, though he’s not above it when it’s needed. I highly suspect the message is a business opportunity, not a threat.
I agree. Deus doesn’t make unnecessary threats. He makes business opportunities. Usually with a win-win scenario available to the smart business partner.
Because that’s just how Deus rolls – perfect as always, thinking many steps ahead – as is his way, being the paragon of humanity and savior of all humankind, all praise Deus amen.
He does seem to be following the Evil Overlord list to a T.
And the logical upshot of following the Evil Overlord list is to become a truely, not just good PR, benevolent dictator.
To which the only real complaint can be “Slave in heaven vs free in hell”
Quite the opposite, more like “You need help getting a foothold on this planet? Give me what I want, and you can have a base of operations in my country. One condition: never mention my involvement EVER! We got a deal? Call me soon big guy. XD ps that’s my signature, not a ‘smiley face'”
“So, Deus is sending out an “Earth isn’t yours to conquer.” notice.”
…and now I’m thinking of Deus torpedoing Tom through a series of demonic skyscrapers, squashing what’s left of Tom’s head in his hand, then laying waste to an entire demonic civilzation before dropping a boulder the size of a small continent on the survivors before catching the next portal out.
Thanks! :-D
Dear Mr. Thothogoth,
We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.
lol
Well, that is one way to get him to stay away. :) Mind the old Nigerian prince/princess scam is still an honored tradition. It’s like getting a digital fruit basket saying “Welcome to the neighborhood, piss off”
I’m sure that Deus once did get a call about a Nigerian Prince that was leaving him money. It was a scam but the scammer wound up paying Deus a lot of money instead.
That parses.
I thought it was a Galytni* prince, rather than a Nigerian one. Something to bring the country to his attention, and make him pick that one over any of the comparable ‘opportunities’ for his takeover. Deus is a smart operator, but that doesn’t mean he won’t let a bit of pettiness be the tie-breaker in a close decision.
*Or whatever the term is for ‘of Galytn’.
That may very well be. If Deus got an email like that early in his life & already was smart enough to know it for what it is, Deus may have even wrangled enough money out of the Nigerian Prince to front his first investments into the business world…And he’s only gone up from there.
It’s kinda obvious it’s gonna be Deus. The thing is that Deus is the he’d the most dangerous type of ‘villain’ ,one whose realised permanence is better than directly ruling. If he never actually goes for any kind of takeover ARCHON has to leave him be,while D can basically tease Max all the time and do her head in about what he *could* do.
ya, D would never do anything to Archon as long as they don’t can Max ….. if they did i think that would open them up to fair game ……
Good political commentary.
Max is right to wait for a judge as she doesn’t have unlimited authority. That said if our favorite warmonger there were to ship out, as long we could get reports from him about what’s out there and how things look… Frankly, I’d be happy to call it a work-release program and see if we can make a deal with Tom here.
Fuck there might be a number of “problem children” that might thrive in a different environment and help us get information and… *cough* other things from out of town. Win-Win-Win folks.
Better than the current prison system.
Probably at least as open to abuse, though. At least if (to name one example) England’s history of exporting problem-people to other continents is an indicator.
The important thing is making sure Kevin doesn’t come back as part of a conquering force.
And there’s literally no way to do that.
If Kevin gets access to the level of violence a fiend with access to portals throughout the galaxy attempting to conquer everything has access to, I feel like he’d have the potential to maximize his potential.
The few things that could stop him from taking over Earth at that point would probably include
– Distractions. The galaxy’s a big place, and I imagine he’d get to the point where other galaxies would be reachable.
– Potential power cap. We’ve seen him get up to a level where Maxima would have a hard time taking him down without killing him. Where’s the roof?
– Do his powers have any kind of a locality requirement? It’s possible he could be less super elsewhere.
– Does Tom actually do violence? Or is what we have seen so far actually representative of his legion’s MO?
– Morals. It seems like what Kevin really wanted was a nice fight club, rather than actually hurting people. He might find his new boss’ business to not be something he can really condone. He could then possibly end up effectively stranded somewhere he can get enough violence to live, but not enough to take over everything.
– Lack of desire. I mean, does Kevin actually want world domination power? Or just the power he gets from people fighting around him (possibly including him in the fight.)
Does V have a power cap? Probably, though it looks like it’s actually well above Max’s(!). But, like you said, he doesn’t want to conquer the world. He doesn’t even want to damage it really. During the fight, he mentioned some things he could do that would cause war and revolution everywhere, and then said he didn’t want to do that. It’s just what people seem to expect a guy like him to say. Recruiting him into Archon still seems the best option to me: it would allow him to have regular brawls that giove him plenty of ‘vitamin V’, allow Archon to keep an eye on him and even make him a considerable resource, since he’s comparable (in power potential) to Max herself!
I don’t think Kevin’s idea works out. Fighting in a demon army will make him fairly powerful, and he will be able to arrange a return to earth if he chooses. This is hoping he’ll voluntarily stays away because he prefers hell over earth, not effective imprisonment.
It’s the loophole with powers like Kevin’s.
On one hand he could get progressively stronger by picking his battles and continuously fighting until he reaches the point where he just rules over the multiverse. On the other hand; if he destroys everybody who could stand up to him, then he’ll have nobody to fight anymore and slowly wither away.
On Earth, his behaviour is not appreciated and some people / teams can defeat him after he has lost enough power, and then lock him up. Very counter-productive for him.
So really, continuous meal and power-up possibility, in an environment that appreciates this behaviour from him? Win-win all around.
He doesn’t have to destroy everyone – participating in or even just hanging around near battles will make him extremely powerful.
He then can decide to come back when he’s ready, setting up the fight with Archon to his advantage.
Or just show up because he wants to interact with humans again, which then escalates. He can always return to hell when he wants to power up from a battle again.
Or he shows up leading a demon invasion alongside Tom or someone like him, with his job being to take on Maxima.
It doesn’t even need to be a good idea for him – he’s known to get a bit unhinged when he’s high on violence.
Perhaps a Geas compelling him to not attack people he would reasonable know to be peaceful
If Geas or magical pact was an option, they could just use that to control him anyway and admit him on the team as a probational member and meatshield and there would be no need for hell shenanigans.
I agree with Voyager. Unless….. they write some sort of magical Pact which involves him NOT being able to attack Earth EVER, either directly or via a proxy like Vehemence, and have Vehemence sign as well to magically bind him as well.
Also possibly a set of rules on how Vehemence’s powers MUST be used written into the contract, with strict limitations and a requirement to dump all unused power at the end of each battle.
i dunno, as shown over the last few pages, geas and contracts always have loopholes.
Depends on how well you write the contract. ;)
ok, in his last encounter he was able to regenerate whole limbs and an eye. also thankfully, summon pants, and he was still beaten. note that Max, when sure of what was behind her target, with one-shot disabled a battle cruiser. and Sydney out smarted him at the height of his power. what power level could he practically come back with to one up these two? Galacticus level powers? at that point would he care? I think we should count our lucky stars the Dues didn’t hire/find him before the wholesale destruction of an innocent steakhouse.
If he’s smart he simply ambushes and takes out Halo first, just because he’s vulnerable to her portal tricks. He was already at a level where he could throw down with Maxima – he doesn’t need much more power than that. And he’s too smart to be outsmarted easily when he comes prepared.
The clip is part of the protective case, designed to look like a clipboard for irony.
Even more sensible possibilities:
* Protectors can be clipped on … but that’s only the start …
* A foil can be attached for copying stuff off the screen – we are nearly there with reactive screens.
* A “polarising” filter or such can be attached (a very high tech version) – this can be an encryption/decryption filter, a translation matrix, a lock, a wavelength filter to adapt to different species – once you start going on this, there are lots of potential good uses.
And honestly, as long as there’s no risk to damaging the screen (and that could involve the screen being made out of some tough alien material), I can see a benefit to a clipboard-tablet combo if, for some reason, you had to work both on paper and electronically. The tablet would act as a rest for writing on the paper, and you can flip the paper out of the way (or turn it over, depending on how it’s set up) when you need the screen. Beats having to carry both the tablet and the clipboard separately if you need both.
Could do something similar with the pen and make the back half the stylus (again, assuming there’s no risk of damage to the screen, such as the screen being made of a material that the ink can’t adhere to under any circumstance).
I imagine that claw-proof screens would be very popular with the demonfolk.
Some apps for floating runes and burning pentagrams are just what the infernal customers want.
And all of those assume it’s actually a clip, and not just something that happens to look like a clip. We don’t know the physics of what say a built-in force-field and holographic interface would need to work with, it could be an entirely necessary and coincidental form.
Let’s face it, this was NOT made on Earth, for our culture. A Galaxy far, far away, with their own perceived needs…
Come to think of it, the clip-paper thing could be useful… Have youse ever wanted to make a quick sketch of an idea, then realised that whatever graffix pack lies in the library is simply too difficult, complex and you’re low on battery because you forgot to off the navigator?
A clip would be useful for scanning/copying/printing sigils with precision, because it ensures precise alignment to the plane and precise scaling. A camera and some image processing works okay for the visible spectrum, but not for magical runes where even a small drawing error can result in transdimensional targeting issues.*
* I though I recognized it too initially, wait for it…
While Vehemence makes a good point there’s the counter-argument that just because he leaves the earth doesn’t mean he won’t return and after fighting in some massive demon army he could easily return way too powerful for Maxima to survive against or for Sydney to warp into outer space.
@DaveB, about the Clipboard; there are two other possible ways it’s a tablet and a clipboard.
The first is it’s so hi-tech it can display stuff over the paper, holographically.
The second is the clipboard is actually part of its case, and you just open it to view the screen.
The clip raises slightly and a molecular printer underneath produces a typed page, which can then be signed? If the clip is on the back of the case it would work as both a writing surface and an ergonomic support.
To quote Colonel Jack O’Neill from Stargate SG-1:
“Magnets.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/pjhik7/jack_talks_about_magnets_s05e06_rite_of_passage/
Actually @DaveB your thinking was right on, though the clip should have been on the other side of the tablet.
Can’t sign any contracts in blood on a tablet. You have to have paper.
The clip is for holding a lance for those contracts that have to be signed in blood.
Of course you can use the bloodprinter most infernal offices have but for those pacts that need to be signed on exotic locations like on top of a volcano you need something more portable.
If we were to presume that someone got away to report he was there then there are only two possibilities I can think of.
Harem for obvious reasons and Math who made a show or running away into the bushes.
Obvious alternative ways they could know is Harem or the team reporting the goings on to command as it unfolded and things leaking from command. Other spy’s who happened to be watching the team at the time. Others detecting and responding to the energy dump, etc.
pretty sure it was from him… yeah, he is really resourceful.
ps: there is all female species in earth, they reproduce by themselves when they decide it, basically.
The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park!
Life will… ah… find a way.
https://youtu.be/dy-6I8f89K4?t=20
Wasps.
And not the Protestant kind.
I like my answer about cloned all-female dinosaurs with some frog DNA better. :)
There are also some species of Lizards that are all-female.
And Komodo Dragons can reproduce with or without males.
There are also some fish that can swap sex depending on population pressure. Fairly sure it’s a reef species/group, but can’t remember the name.
Chickens do it too.
There are several, one of which is the Clown fish, which if the previous female dies the next largest male will turn into a female to mate with any remaining males.
and now you know why Marlin was trying to find Nemo so badly in that movie.
Man, if that isn’t taking one for the team, I don’t know what would be.
Komodo Dragons are close enough to dinosaurs for that to be very cool as well.
Plus, yknow, real. :)
“THE CHAOS OF YOUR SQUABBLING REGIMES”.
All of human existence summed up in six words.
Yeah, pretty much. I still hold to the idea that a couple hundred million years ago… Mankind’s ancestors were deposited on earth to die as they were a biological weapon used in an intergalactic war. That the chosen planet was also a notorious waste disposal site that got its start when f’muxion tramp freighter had to make an emergency landing to flush the entire waste system of the ship after it was catastrophically infested with oxygen creating lifeforms (highly corrosive gas and a deadly poison to f’muxions). What was once a pristine and beautiful planet ripe for colonization by proper silicon-based life was destroyed. And, the fruits of two points of chaos and disaster meet in a single and singularly powerful species. That is so young development wise that are at that cute “Hormones are hitting, but they have zero clues” that all multigender species go through.
“Mankind’s ancestors were deposited on earth to die as they were a biological weapon used in an intergalactic war. That the chosen planet was also a notorious waste disposal site that got its start when f’muxion tramp freighter had to make an emergency landing to flush the entire waste system of the ship after it was catastrophically infested with oxygen creating lifeforms (highly corrosive gas and a deadly poison to f’muxions).”
I prefer Douglas Adams’ take on it, that humans are descended from Golgafrinchans. Particularly the most useless one-third of their planetary population. They were told there would be three Arks – the first would have all the leaders, scientists, and high achievers. The thid would have all the people who made things and did things of usefulness for the civilizaiton, and the second would have…. everyone else – lawyers, hairdressers, cashiers, piano tuners, customer service representatives, telemarketers, key grips, podcasters, influencers, movie review critics, webcomic artists, telephone sanitizers, etc.
But in reality only the second ship got sent. The other two thirds stayed on Golgafincham, until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
with Xenogenesis stories there is one thing I’d like to see more of.
that humans naturally evolved on Earth, up to a point, until an alien saw them and said, “in a certain light this animal vaguely resembles us” and (no not hybridization) but rather in a move of pure narcissism decided to tinker with the animal’s genetics so it would have the potential by making certain genes more expressive, to evolve into something that a little more (sort of) looks like them, with a closer facial structure, elongated structures coming from the back of the head *hair for humans*, upright structure, curved abdomen, sloped chest *prominent breasts or pectorals for humans*,
a *genetically and species speaking yes humans are entirely from Earth, however a few physical *and side effect of a few mental* things were altered because some aliens thought you’d be cuter, or more approachable later, or whatever other reason if they tweaked your genetics a little bit *either did it to make pets like turning a wolf into a pug* or did it for any number of reasons including that above (hey let’s make them look a little more like us and we can come back later and they’ll think of us as beautiful star beings).
I’m almost certain that I’ve seen a scifi movie or story that’s been about something like that, but I’m currently travelling and not at home or near a computer to do a quick bit of research on it. Definitely sounds like a familiar premise tho.
Hey Tom, I would think any man or woman or demon who gets to make love to Dabbler-I’d call that a high water mark by ANYONE’s standards.
And it was at least five rounds!
There’s a certain real estate developer who wants Tom’s help winning an election…
I think it would be best of we avoid politics on this forum. Even political jokes.
If that wasn’t a reference to Deus, then yes, lets keep politics away as much as possible.
That sounds like something a sensible person would say. Too bad I ain’t sensible! Garblegarblegarble!
Amazon has 899 results for “ipad case with clipboard.” Some of them are at best tenuously related to the search criteria, but it really is a thing.
Ahh note taking is done. It was interesting to get background on Succubi. But, I though Dabb was part alien as well wouldn’t that get around the whole “mana hole” problem?
Depends very much how the parts go together. The drain seems like a fundamental enough feature that it would probably be present down to a very low concentration of Succubus in the mix, low enough that other specific features such as the glamour and the tantric recharging are already lost. With Dabbler being “1/2 Succubus, 1/3 Doppelganger, and 1/6 some unidentified alien species” as per the Cast page, there isn’t really much dilution to work with.
Panel one, “from a succubi’s sensibilities” doesn’t work. Propose “from a succubus’ sensibilities’ perspective”.
Sensibilities can work as well, since she’s talking about how succubi have been treated by many masters, while Tom seems to genuinely love Dabbler and never (as far as we’ve seen and has been referenced at least) abuses his position of power over her.
“a succubi” is the problem Pedant was pointing out.
OHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I only just realized this, and don’t know if this has already come up in the comments before, but if all succbi NEED to be in a master-slave contract with someone or they die in a few hours…. what does that mean for the sheltered teenage succubus under Decollete’s tutelage that Sydney and Co met a while ago? Does the soul-hole only form once they reach a certain age, and then it’s a race against the clock? Has she had a master since birth, but simply doesn’t know it? (like, is she sharing a master with her biological mom?) Is a child/teen succubus’s power-leak so small that they can just get by until they start actively using magic?
I am serieously concerned about the implications here, folks! (yes I know it’s all fictional character’s in a fictional world, but concerned monke brain does as concerned monke brain wants!)
I expect she has a contract with Decollete, whether she knows it or not. In our world, there is clear precedent for slaves owning other slaves, in those societies where slaves had legal rights, such as Ancient Rome.
It’s come up before.
She’s not old enough to need a master yet.
DaveB stated in the comments to a previous page that the drain only becomes a significant problem once a Succubus reaches the age of maturity – insert the legal maturity age for your local jurisdiction here. If you want something that requires less meta-knowledge of local legalities, assume that it kicks in gradually from (the equivalent of) mid teens to early twenties, so it’s only by the time they reach the upper end of that range that it reaches ‘cannot live without a master’ as opposed to increasing amounts of ‘would live more comfortably with a master’.
Maybe Dexon is an artsy person in his free time and uses the clip to retrace the outlines of stuff he pulls up on his tablet?
I really love Dabbler. Have I mentioned this yet? Because I really really really love Dabbler and how she stands up to Maxima. More because of how she stands up to her verbally. :)
And she’s right. Aside from that very initial statement of a PUFFERY warning (which was in response to Maxima’s…. more back-upable puffery warning), he actually has been a perfect gentleman. At least AFTER the bodyslam. :)
We were right about Tom.
Yep!
We can either sing the ‘We were right’ song to the music of The Lone Ranger or…
I will allow one ‘we were right’-based pun without invoking a ninja hit squad response.
A duet would be nice. How about these new lyrics to Guy Love:
Let’s face the facts about you and me, we were totally right.
So proud to say that Pander’s right.
Even though the forum will disagree.
I feel exactly those feelings too.
So I don’t keep them inside!
Cause this lawyer’s in sync with punny you…
And that’s why we’ll write this diatriiiibe…
About how we were right, that’s all it is.
We were right, how true it is.
There’s nothing false about in our eyes.
You ask me ’bout this truth we share…
And I’ll argue with deliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
So proud that Ro and Pander are riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
We have created a poem of true beauty. Of course mere written words cannot describe how totally right we were but it’s close enough.
Truly we are a gifted pair of artistes.
Based on Vehemence’s comment, I was correct. They were never going to let him go.
Can you really blame them for being hesitant to trust Vehemence’s word?
I’m going to guess that the message is from Deus. Giving Tom an official invite to Earth via Galytin or proposing a business arrangement or something. :)
And I once again think a good reason for Deus knowing everything that’s going to happen or that does happen because he either is a time traveler who just knows his history, or he got his information FROM a time travelling Deus from the future, ala David Xanatos.
Or, Daphne filled him in while he was filling her in
That’s….. true. Very good point. He could have found out that way.
But there are some things that Deus has been shown to know that Daphne did not know though. Like the Vault or what Sciona’s initial heist plan had been LONG before Archon knew.
Maybe he’s a super with an info-gathering power?
It’s possible. But I want to stick to my time traveller version of himself gave him the info or he is a time traveller himself since it would be so similar to David Xanatos. :)
David Xanatos (in the episode “Vows”): “The envelope contains two further sealed envelopes and instructions to the Illuminati to wait a thousand years and then deliver the first envelope to a young David Xanatos of Bar Harbor, Maine — it contains one of Malcolm’s coins, almost worthless now, but in 1975, worth… About 20 grand. The second envelope, to be delivered 20 years later, contains a detailed account of how the coin was obtained. That was how I knew how to set this all up. I received instructions from myself, last week. So you see, Pop? I am indeed a self-made man.”
And you claimed to not understand self-consistent time loops….
It still makes my head hurt but it’s cool how Xanatos was described to have done it :)
The only thing Xanatos never explains to my satisfaction is how he managed to keep 1000 years of Illuminati acolytes and back-stabbers from opening the mystery envelope. The longevity of the papers themselves I’m happy to hand-wave as ‘magic’, but that a lot of human greed and scheming for a macguffin to float through unscathed.
To paraphrase Xanatos to Goliath, “[He knows] they won’t because they didn’t. Time Travel is funny that way.”
https://youtu.be/b1vAP6pvCEw?t=1031
Goliath: “If I didn’t fear the damage you would do to the time stream, I’d gladly leave you here.”
David Xanatos: “But you won’t. Because you didn’t. Time travel’s funny that way.”
Or:
“We set up the key, and we set up the gun” :D
Dangit you’re right.
Also while I like Vehemence’s idea, it is sort of a risk since he could always be used AS a weapon against Earth. Although I don’t think that Tom’s ‘invasion’ was a serious plan – just a display of strength. But if he had Vehemence working for him, who knows.
Still, it would be a good redemption arc for Vehemence.
… I guess Kevin got tried and sentenced during the time-skip? That’s got to have been a plea-deal, though, no way a trial would have gone that fast.
Considering (A) the special powers on display, (B) the whole thing was being recorded in multiple ways, and (C) the other participants in essence pled out, (D) he was knowingly attacking a Department of the Federal government with special powers and authority, there’s not a whole lot of a chance of him having a long show trial.
All the evidence was contemporaneous to the crime. The ludicrous amount of effort applied to typical cases, long-term discovery and so on, simply would not apply to a crime that was televised and had a duration of less than an hour.
He was tried right after the Restaurant Rumble
While you COULD clip paper onto his tablet, the primary use of that clip is probably to hold a stylus/laser pen or other tool. With some electronics in the clip itself, it could double as a projector for holograms to present his slideshows.
“Yeah, I know you want to know about incubuses and how an all female species reproduces.”
Maybe they lay eggs like the Moclan from the Orville (an all male species – mostly – that somehow still manages to reproduce).
Or maybe their DNA is so dominant that any species that they have sex with and get impregnated by will produce another succubi – or at least so close that they’re OVERWHELMINGLY mostly succubi to the point where it barely makes any difference regarding the other non-succubi DNA (sort of like the Viltrumites from Invincible).
The Moclan are not all male. They are male and pseudo-male, with a smattering of females who get “fixed” to pseudo-males because girls are yucky.
But we should be hearing the answer to the “all female race” pretty soon. Seems likely that succubi can take contributions from as many other species as they choose, and reproduce either at will or under special circumstances.
“The Moclan are not all male.”
That’s why I said ‘mostly.’ Because it’s not an absolute statement. :) Because there are some moclan that are born female and undergo surgery to become male. But in the show, they already said, even after that discovery, that 99 or so percent of moclans are born male though. It’s so rare for one to be female that there’s apparently genuine surprise and disbelief when it happens.
“Seems likely that succubi can take contributions from as many other species as they choose”
ie, like Viltrumites. :)
“and reproduce either at will or under special circumstances.”
ie, like Moclans. :)
Well, obviously all females are succubae, the question is: what happens to males?
Dabbles said there are no male succubae, does that mean they only produce females? Or are males (if there are any) have a different name?
They might just never produce females. Or if a male is produced, the DNA is not succubi DNA and is the DNA of the father? Those are possibilities maybe? Or maybe occasionally a male succubi is produced, but it’s so rare that most people never hear about it, including Dabbler. Again sort of reminds me of the Moclans from The Orville.
Presumably, the “Soul hole” is attached to something that is only passed on down the female line, like Mitochondrial DNA, combined with the “X” side of the sex chromosome. If you get a Y Chromosome and lack the Mito bloodline, you’re just an infernal, not an actual Succubus.
Maybe. I’m just throwing out multiple theories to see if any of them wind up sticking.
DaveB:
“Panel 4 – I think it’s the presiding judge who changes sentences.”
It -can- be the presiding judge, but it can also be a different judge on the docket who can revisit the case for a hearing on adjusting the sentencing. It depends on which judge is on the calendar for that rotation.
If Thothogoth came back,without going through diplomatic channels,how PO’d would Maxima be???
About 5 megagables. Assuming her psychology is human this is equal to about 34 milikorochs
I’m personally imagining the clip is for clipping paper onto tbr screen so you can draw a quick copy of whatever’s on there for someone else.
Hell, you can even have “Smart Paper” that automagically copies whatever is on the screen below it.
The reason for that clip on the tablet is that it’s something only a true fiendish bureaucratic spreadsheet lover would have.
>Except for catching up with Xuri, that was a total bust.
What else were you hoping to accomplish, dude? You even burst in by immediately trying to confront Xuri.
Anything involving Dabbler is a total bust. And a total ass. And a total mouth. And other parts.
+1 for this post. :)
Heh.
Although clearly not that versatile, if he can’t either enlarge the tablet, enhance his vision or have the tablet upgraded for large holographic displays, direct mental updates or the like.
Nice to see Dave has something planned for comic 1,000!
*wagging tail, whilst preparing pom-poms, skateboard, silver tray, gorilla suit, tutu and cocktails*
What? You have your ways of celebrating, I have mine.
Assuming he has already been tried and found guilty (remember a speedy trial usually takes a year or so since capture), then he could be remanded to a judge for parole to exile. Or a simpler situation would be he has his sentence commuted by a governor or president to exile for X years.
Since ARCHON’s charter falls under federal, not state, laws, and Vehemence was subject to a federal sentence, it couldn’t just be commuted by a governor. If you’re going to bypass the courts and go with an executive branch route, it would have to be from the President. A governor cannot commute or pardon a federal sentence. Which would be, at this point in time in the comic, Obama.
Oh for fucks sake.
I just looked up where Nigeria is on the map. Gaitlyn is probably right there.
Yup. Deus messaged Tom.
Wait. So, Tom is kindly invader who imposes a tyrannical regime only if asked to..?
This plotline is really strange.
Imagine trying to conquer Texas without first convincing the majority of Texans that they want you to conquer them.
Now imagine trying to establish boots-on-the-ground control there.
Now substitute “Texas” with “The Middle East”.
Tom isn’t as dumb as America.
He made the preparations to invade before he actually stepped through the portal, and he was clearly surprised by how strong maxima was. It is more likely that he just didn’t fully know what he was getting himself into and chalked it up as too much of a risk/unknown.
One aspect any invading force to this Earth should consider is there might be other S class supers like Maxima who just don’t out themselves, and even worse case scenario some Omega level supers, who have no interest in getting involved or for various reasons feel like it would too much of a burden or personal risk *like all the powers of a god but still a squishy human body like Storm from the X-men type of Omega*, ect…but a sudden invasion of demons or aliens could get these to jump to action, and areas where they thought there was no opposition they suddenly are fighting three people with Atmokinesis, Particle Control, and Aetherakinesis, and six guys flying around like living munitions shooting energy beams able to pierce force fields and knock ships from the sky…
(maybe not that likely a population density but you never know that guy sitting on his couch watching tv never tried to be a super hero because he just wants to be left alone and also because his powers are insta-kill on anyone like a bio-mass eraser, or gravikinetic whose powers are set fifty times gravity and above only, radioactive beam projection, ect… Hard to be a good superhero when you implode the bank you are trying to save as your low setting. But alien army…well…now you can go hog wild (like Sydney using her beam on Alari, can’t risk using that skyscrapper slicing attack on Earth, but big ugly aliens…go for it).