Grrl Power #1211 – The opposite of “Wallet-sized I.D.”
To be clear, summoning her wasn’t the misunderstanding, Parfait getting her stink all over Sydney was the misunderstanding.
This cohort of demons (who might actually receive names in the comic at some point) definitely did not do their homework here. They probably only know that Parfait is not near her current master because of some tracking spell, and probably didn’t know about Thothogoth getting banned from America. (Well, banned in the absence of legitimate travel documents and possibly a diplomatic invitation – he’s just not allowed to pop over unannounced.) Tom definitely wouldn’t advertise that he got his butt kicked by some gold plated bint one sixth his age. Parfait on the other hand… well, she might not be as mindful of not blabbing things that could damage her master’s reputation. I mean it’d be pretty good water cooler gossip.
Demons generally know about some Earth countries because they have a long history of coming here (and other pre-galactic-community worlds) and fucking around with the locals. It helps to know that you want to go to Assyria and not to, as the demonic travel agent is pushing for, Norway. (Presumably the travel agent is getting kickbacks from Baba Yaga, Mata Yaga and Tito Yaga – you know, the Yagas – to send some hunky demons up north for some ice cold witch sex. Yeah, the Yagas are using demonic travel agencies as dating services in this scenario.)
I wrote the bit about the Quarterback sneak, then decided to look up what a QB Sneak actually was because I know dick about sports. If I had to guess, I would have said it was that move they do when the QB pretends to hand off the ball to some guy running past him, but instead he keeps the ball and goes in the other direction. Actually, the most prominent example I can think of using the phrase “Quarterback Sneak” is from when Ace Ventura tried to un-kidnap Dan Marino. That’s how much I know about sports.
Turns out the QB Sneak is very misleadingly named. It’s when the QB gets the ball then just goes ham straight at the defensive line? I guess? Apparently it’s used when the offensive team just needs a few yards to get a TD or do something with downs? The only way I can fathom it being called a Sneak is if all the play names in American FB are intentionally misleading to throw off the other team on the off chance of confusing professional career football players? Like when they kick the ball the play is called the “We’re definitely not kicking the ball” play or when they going to pass the ball it’s called the “Let’s walk slowly backwards then get tackled” play. Which honestly is how about a quarter of pass attempts seem to go from the 3-4 hours total of all football I’ve ever watched. Given that footballers are about as likely to wind up with concussions as boxers, maybe misleading play names might actually work on them. Of course, I’m basing this entire theory on the one single football play that I’ve actually looked up, so I’m definitely talking out of my ass here.
The Vixen War Bride book 6 is out, and it’s a good’un. It’s also the final installment of the series, which is unfortunate because I really enjoyed them. It’s probably tied with Upon a Savage Shore (NSFW Literoptica link) for my favorite xenoanthropology book, by which I mean the POV changes to the alien’s perspective quite a bit and they’re all “Humans are weird… but also I have to eventually admit kind of sexy.” Honestly, I could read a book that was strictly from the alien’s POV. There’s probably plenty like that, written closer to the dawn of sci-fi novels and the aliens in them are properly alien like asexually reproducing ambulatory celery, not like Star Trek aliens, which are just humans with some sociological quirk and some prosthetic stuff on their forehead. Anyway, the series is great, buy it.
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The September vote incentive is up! Let’s call it the November vote incentive and just say I’ve still got two I.O.U’s, eh?
Well, Dabbler is doing her Dabbler things, and the Patreon version has a nude variant and a comic that… I don’t know, expounds on the goings on of the initial picture?
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So, is that place still called Event Horizon Comics? Or has it been renamed to the new branding?
nope, it’s named The Mighty Halo comics emporium or something like that now.
You’re right, bottom left corner of today’s page, a little cardboard standee on the counter that reads “The Mighty Halo’s Comic & Games emporium”
Archon rebranded them to sell the whole super hero fans stuff, and that Archon got their share of it. Plus they merged with a few other shops, so it’s normal to change the business name afterwards.
Classic movie. A unofficial prequell to Doom and WH 40k.
Event Horizon is just a gritty remake of The Dark Side of the Moon (1990).
Upon a Savage Shore is a great read, I just think it’s a shame the other story they started in the same universe seems to have been abandoned.
Don’t forget, 1/2 of analysis is about getting to the ‘bottom’ of things
The play you mistook for the QB sneak is called “Play Action”. It’s used to try and trick the defense into thinking its a running play, when it’s really a pass. It normally doesn’t fool them for long (or at all if your running game stinks), but a good long doesn’t need long.
A better football metaphor would be “end run” where the offense tries to use pure speed and a bit of misdirection to get around the defense.
If the demons end up with a name remember this pages to retroactively update the who’s who. And the tags below, we know we would en up searching for them in an far beyond future when they pop up again and are relevant.
Usually people don’t get retro-name updated to avoid possible spoilers (go back to Maxi’s and even Sydney’s first appearances)
Provided of course, they survive this.
Bets?
“if you are woundering where your god is she is right here {and she is fresh out odf mercy}”
put me down for survives but is severely inconvenienced.
QB Sneak. Is classically a sneak play due to only the center and the QB moving at the snap.
The former church idea is not appealing really.
The reasoning behind calling the play a “Quarterback Sneak” is that the quarterback almost always either hands the ball off to someone else or throws it to someone else. The position is one of skill, intelligence, and situational awareness, so most quarterbacks are not as physically suited to run straight at the defensive line as practically anyone else on the field. So the “sneak” is that they hope to catch the defense unprepared for a player hurling himself straight at them a split second after the play begins.
In practice, this is rarely a surprising play anymore, but it represents another thing that the defense has to think about dealing with. Usually when the quarterback stands 5 yards behind the center the defense knows this is a pass play, but for some quarterbacks it’s simply room for him to gather momentum for a Juggernaut style rush through the middle. The method of stopping this is much different from the method of stopping a pass play.
Also the play usually has things lined up for trying to make other team think something else will happen instead of the quarterback trying to sneak through the defensive line as soon as play starts to squeak out what is usually 1 yard (2 at most)
I bet you this demon ‘s name is Axe(because he seems simple and he likes axes). In Madden voice: and here is Axe making a classic quarterback sneak play on parfaits goal line. Oops that’s a fumble by Axe. Better luck next time big guy. Today’s action was brought to you by Axe body spray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8
’nuff saiid.
So is no one going to comment on horny(-ed) lady looking like a mini-Maxima?
Is that little demon based on the “Hobs End devils/Martians” from “Five Million Years to Earth”
I wish someone would say “Wait, I know who you are! You’re that girl that ate three bowls of grakz on Fracture Station! How painful was that, anyway?”
Reference, by the way.