Grrl Power #1500 – High gravitas, low sustain
Ooh, round numbers! Halfway to the next big round number! I like to try and save an important page for the big milestones if it makes sense in the story. This page is hardly a linchpin story moment, but it’s a little more insight into the Red Team. Note Sciona didn’t react like Lorlara and Vale, so you can tell she’s not really part of the inner circle. But Cthillia seems to have just one foot in, and probably realizes he’s more than just some guy who has an annoying knack for knowing stuff he shouldn’t.
When asked, “If you’re a super smart guy in a superhero universe, where’s your power armor?” Deus responds with, “Maybe I’m so smart I don’t need power armor.”
Even doing a comic for as long as I have, I still have a lot of trouble putting what I envision in my head down in comic format. Mostly it’s because I don’t think in terms of panel layouts and word bubbles. It’s all just a movie in my head, so there’s some work translating that into a comic page. Usually there’s some basic things that get changed, like this scene originally took place in a less well lit environment. Not a shadowy dungeon or anything, just like a party taking place at night, so there’d be a better chance for a little dramatic lighting, as the conversation could be lit by a single table lamp or something. Also, I’d originally pictured this exchange taking place after Deus had talked Cthillia out of her head wrap, making it so the “You’re creepy” line was being delivered by a scaly, eye-tentacled anthropomorphic beholder monster, and thereby being a little more… ironic? I guess? I don’t think that’s strictly ironic actually. I’m sure it’s some sort of rhetorical device, but I couldn’t figure out what.
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I think she would get in trouble for doing this. She’d mess up the… floor of the waterfall? Is that what it’s called? The receiving pool? No, probably not that. Anyway, she’d churn things up and cause a ton of weird erosion.
Since you might be wondering, Niagara Falls is about 165 feet high, so Babezilla obviously doesn’t have to be full sized. I’d say she’s about 175-180 feet tall here?
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Deus is as dorky and nerdy as Sydney.
So they were just passing by suite 401 in the corridor after all.
When you’re out on a date with your four (4) women, there’s nothing special about seeing a Mantellan.
The thing I’ve been wondering, this is the final round. The competition is likely to be the fiercest yet. If Cora and the crew are here, and Maxima is injured like in round one, she’ll be alone in the ship. I suppose she knows where the healing potions are, or would she come to the stadium for first aid? What if Earth has another Babezilla-level incident? Sydney’s causeway will have to open from suite 401. Just how far away from there is Deus’ suite?
This is getting interesting…
I had the same thought about the suite. Seems a bit dangerous. Either it’s intentionally being set up as a “oops!” in the comic to create drama, or else the ship is in the exact same spot so Sydney can create a causeway from the suite to the last causeway created for the Babezilla incident, everyone run there, close that one, then open a new one to earth.
We’re handwaving aside the fact that everything in space is moving and the causeway locations are based on some sort of local “anchor” such as the Earth or Fracture Station.
If you stare long into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you.
If the Abyss then says “My dude, are you okay? You don’t look so good” – then you know you have serious problems.
As to Cthillia’s statements – a creature can be both those things at the same time. It’s not that difficult.
Not only is it not difficult, it’s depressingly common.
Okay. What the heck is X-face drinking. =_=
Sioux City Space Sasparilla?
Sioux City Sarsaparilla. The granddaddy of all root beers.
Remeber, Cthillia is a girl and probably really shy. But then again, it’s also true that nobody would give a hoot about how she looks on station filled to the brim with every variation of alien that there is.
It’s a rare chance to get that mask off and don’t care.
In the referenced strip, Sciona and Cthillia are both after the Awkward Stabber. I thought that was because they’re both not of this Earth.
I wonder if Cthillia’s species is notorious, so wrapping is a way to avoid crowd reactions (good or bad).
Previously she mentioned being unique, whether she’s right or not we don’t know but currently she’s the only one of her species that’s known to exist.
I don’t think it’s been outright stated, but I think all the suggestions have been that Cthillia is a transformed human (who would very much like to be untransformed).
On power armour: Quite a lot of upper-range suits these days have a “bulletproof” layer built into them that you can’t see easily. I wouldn’t be surprised if Deus has a skintight forcefield setup like Cora’s, but he keeps it set to invisible.
Am I the only one wondering what Sciona said to get That reaction out of Lorlara and Vale?
I think they overheard and are looking to see if there’s about to be a big showdown.
So not an ancient monster, I see. Otherwise it would have been a little more confident in the bluff calling.
Both things can be true.
Deus have that erojiji look
Last time I stared into…. NDA redaction. I got a restraining order on me. Then there was the time I looked into the void, another restraining order. I’m required to not stare at anything/one. Which is hard, I’m a leg many and tentacles count as legs. ;)