Grrl Power #1458 – Chemical romance
Well of course there’s unknown chemicals, he’s only got 5 test tubes full of “stuff that reacts a certain way when you stick a specific other chemical in it.” There’s probably a shorter name for that. But it’s unlikely that her hypno stuff is just chemicals that have obvious “turns blue when exposed to ethyl-bethyl-jethaline” reactions.
Sciona herself isn’t a chemist. An alchemist probably, but that’s magical nonsense – combining chemistry, botany, a little kind-of-sort-of metallurgy, and mana, and that all gives you very different results than chemistry alone. But she is from a space faring race, so she certainly understands elements and molecules, but she’s never taken the time to analyze the bizarre substances her body can produce.
I’m pleased with Deus’s oxymoronic statement in panel three. My first draft had him saying something far more sensible, but there’s some process in my brain that automatically runs most of the stuff I hear through the humorizer, in some sort of semi-real time movie-but-also-real-life riffing sequencer. So after I write a page and am laying out the panels and word bubbles, I replay and tweak the scene in my head and make edits. Honestly it’s a little surprising there are any serious conversations in the entirety of the comic, but I suppose I have some sort of limiter engaged, even though I’m sure it’s hanging on by its last coupler, rattling in the electrical maelstrom that passes for my consciousness.
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Both of ’em. It’s getting like the Addams family only a little more adult and a lot of superpowers of various kinds. Ah, white hot pokers, the wheel of pain… Maybe later, the boss is asleep.
I can’t believe that I have to say this, but…
Deus and Sciona, do not have sex on the mass spectrometer.
Indeed, as it would be bad for the calibration. Calibrating a modern mass spec to be able to identify random unknown compounds is way more expensive than the instrument itself, and the result is as close to black magic as we have in reality. They’re awesome pieces of equipment. Most labs only have targeted instruments, designed to only look for a few specific compounds. Much cheaper, but not what Deus would need here.
No kidding about the arrogant – did he just go trusting the situation to his reflexes, no matter how excellent?
And that her wrist would be safe to grab rather than also coated in the drug?
Or that there’d be a way to detect when she was using her ability at all?
I’ve heard there’s no general anti-superpowers gear in the Grrlpower-verse, so I’m very curious to see the way Deus was planning to survive this exceptionally dangerous encounter that doesn’t rely on things he couldn’t have foreseen, dumb luck, or unreliable solutions made up on the fly in blind trust that any problems that appears will be one he can handle by coming up with a solution after the problem rears its ugly head and won’t move faster than he can solve it and apply the solution.
Maybe he’s actually a solid light hologram here, or at least surrounded by one with heavy duty shielding mounted in subtle alcoves? He has been shopping xenotech after all and these systems have been shown extensively in use on Cora’s ship. And Deus does love to appear completely vulnerable while actually being completely safe with several layers of mitigation of which he only reveals a few.
Sciona is fairly predictable. A true super intellect can run circles around her. The über-golem managed to get the drop on and restrain her, and it’s quite young.
Perhaps he is like Darth Sidious, he does indeed have superpowers and can fight in the higher leagues but he prefers to let others do the fighting for him.
This is one of those situations where the smart character displays a bit of seeming omniscience when dealing with a threat.
Another example I can’t remember the exact title of is a guy letting himself be drugged & knocked out because he knew he was skilled enough to escape wherever the criminals would put him. Seemingly never considering that he might have woken up missing his hands and feet.
Seriously, blood devil woman?
You really thought he wouldn’t be ready and prepared for anything you might throw at him?
No, no, that’s a perfectly Deus thing to say, and also entirely perfect to lure her into thinking she’s got a shot at landing her slap.
The shorter name is reagents.
I would’ve waited until the sex with hypno drug attack.
Also Deus is banking here on the assumption that he’s stronger and faster than another super.
That’s a big assumption unless he had observers during her fight with the Robot.
God do I love this guy! Dave, you seriously need to make a spin-off comic called, Deus and Friends! GP just doesn’t have enough room to contain how hilarious and awesome he is!
Deus is one of the few on Sydneys level of nerdiness.
I would 100% read that, for sure. I love Deus
Shouldn’t that be “fourplay”?
I just love she can’t ever follow anything of what he does, Deus might be a villain but damn, he’s a great one
This is by far the funniest thing Deus has done. A subversion of the sex setup into both of them letting their inner scientist/geek sides show to investigate a unique, chemical reaction.
Love panel 5 with the nod to Wolverine. And Sciona’s shift from blocked attempted mind-control to “What did you find about me?”
Why are Deus’ cheeks so pink?
Does Sciona (or I guess Escorpia’s body) not have super strength? I don’t know why but I assumed she did. I was a little caught off guard that Deus could just grab and overpower her that casually. I guess her power is only chemical creation?