Grrl Power #1225 – Anthropomorphic Bodybuilding Cuttlefish from SPACE!
Quite a few people mentioned in the comments on the prior page that OG Doctor Who had a budget of about £17 per episode, and the sweaters that I identified as UNIT specific costuming was probably just a standard British Army “jumper.” I put jumper in quotes, because while I know that’s what the Brits call sweaters, to this particular American, the term “jumper” makes me think of the onsie you put on a toddler. Since wearing the kit of foreign militaries, no matter how long we’ve been allies, is probably frowned upon, I experimentally tried changing the color of Maxima’s top to Archon’s purple so I could call it a domestic piece of gear, but I couldn’t get it to look quite right. The next time it shows up I might give it another crack at it, then retcolor (a portmanteau of retcon and color that’s probably more confusing than helpful) the prior page to match.
Maxima doesn’t really like going down to the comic shop for the reason she mentioned on the prior page, and as she’s doing a chili run, why not send her teleporter for a spot check?
Sydney has been excluded from the veil since her first encounter with the Twilight Council, so a physical disguise would be needed to fool her. Of course, a non-Veil dependent illusory or glamor based disguise would still work – unless she Crazy Ivan’d with the Comm Orb. That said, the cap and nose/glasses disguise was absolutely not enough to hide the fact that Kraken is like 9 feet tall and also a swole Cthulhu. She’s just funnin’.
There’s not a lot going on in this page, and I’ll tell you why. (Buckle up because this is barely going to make sense.) Most people who do digital color work intended for the web or print work at 300 DPI as far as I’m aware. It looks good scaled down, and it’s high res enough for printing, at least on a comic book sized page. Maybe for a cover piece or something intended for a poster you’d want to work a little higher res. I work at 600 DPI, because why not? My computer has 64GB of ram (which is honestly probably excessive) and my CPU/GPU can easily handle it, even with a file with 27 layers. Except, I kind of don’t really work at 600 dpi? Sure, the page is 6300 x 4050 pixels at 600 dpi, but given that my average page is divided up into 9 panels, I’m really working on 9 little pages, each at like 67 DPI? Okay, that math is a little suspect, but when I have to draw a little figure, like Harem leaning in the door in panel 3, it feels like trying to draw with one of those horse-leg-sized kindergartens crayons gripped in my fist, and I can’t get any detail in the picture. Yes, I know it’s going to be shrunk down to be 25 pixels high on the web-resolution comic page and being able to draw individual eyelashes on a figure that small would be a colossal waste of time, but my point is that I want to draw larger panels now and again with lots of detail, and a huge guy getting his flex on seems like a good candidate for an occasional large panel.
The new vote incentive is up! Crimson and Scarlett have a present for Ingsol!
It’s them, they’re the present. They’ve decided that “Sire-versaries” are a thing and Ingsol has to be convinced this is a good idea each time. Everyone thinks his pair of names-that-are-synonyms-with-red sirelings who are both women and who were both turned in that age range that ensure peak hotness means he’s a dirty old man, but he actually isn’t. It just worked out that way. And don’t forget that while it looks like there’s a 25 year age gap between the girls and him, it’s actually much worse, as he is 700 years old, while Scarlett is something like 180 and Crimson is only 40. But at the same time it’s meaningless as they were both fully adults when they got turned, so it’s all copacetic.
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This is a weird situation, where because everyone (with one exception) is chill the lethal option of PPO seems a bit much but the hentorb might not be enough to rough ’em up. Gotta come up with a midlevel violence solution!
She really ought to be able to ‘rough ’em up’ using the flight orb and shield in combo. She can do, what, mach 25 through the atmosphere? The amount of force her flight orb is producing to accomplish that is seriously mind boggling, it is NOT easy to push things through air that fast, and it’s shown the capability for terrific acceleration, too.
So, really, she should be able to just float up above him and pile drive him into the ground, using the force field as a hammer.
And she’s just the gamer to figure out it could be used that way, too.
For that matter, he should be well within the hentorb’s weight limit, so that she could just pick him up by one leg and “puny chthulhu!” him.
if i may I vote for the ‘puny Cthulhu’ option. with a looney toons spin dump to make him someone else’s problem.
The lighthook was able to lift 15-16 tons before the upgrade. Now, after the upgrade, there are two lighthooks – that’s another 15-16 ton holding lighthook. While it might not be enough for a demon (fiend) like, say, Tom, it’s probably more than enough for a non lethal takedown of these lower level demons. Plus lululemriel is preoccupied and I dont think Aster is going to fight since he seems like a chill dude who already accepted that it was Parfait’s choice. And we already saw that the lighthook was able to easily stop Brelx in the shop.
I have to ask, how did Parfait get inside the shield with Sydney? There was no hinted smoke or something that showed she was about to teleport or poof or ~insert name of instant to near instant movement technique here~, and unless I’m mistaken, the shield orb has proven to be essentially impenetrable to everything thrown at it so far. If it doesn’t block teleportation of any kind then that’s a glaring weakness that I expect will be exploited in the next few pages, and seems like something Sydney should have known about, considering Harem would be available for testing against tele-fraging.
Maybe, and this is an idea I just thought of as being possible, Sydney is able to teleport (since she can teleport with the comm orb), with the shield up, next to Parfait, so that she’s suddenly in the shield. While the shield keeps out other people’s teleporting, that doesn’t mean it would prevent its OWN teleportation from keeping people out.
Clever idea, but it that’s what happened, it should really have been shown on-page.
Pander’s idea is a good one, and perhaps not to be dismissed quite as easily as Voyager has, if you consider DaveB might be trying to foreshadow a new (to the audience) ability. (I doubt it, but each to their own.)
However, let’s use Occam’s Razor a moment and balance the following:
Parfait has teleported inside Sydney’s shield against all the known rules regarding its operation (i.e. it’s impenetrable to very nearly all but harmless light – not sure if Harem’s personal multi-body ‘telepathy’ counts).
OR…
There’s been a small time-skip since the previous page’s events, during which:
1: Brelx handed off the combat to Kraken (either through command or being incapacitated).
2: Parfait managed to move closer to Sydney (or Sydney moved closer to Parfait). Perhaps while Brelx was commanding Kraken, or during some sort of off-screen combat actions between Brelx and Sydney.
3: Sydney briefly dropped the shield and raised it again, this time with both her and Parfait on the inside.
I know I’m not the first to suggest this, but neither is Brandon the first to jump straight to ‘Parfait teleported her way inside’.
I would guess that since there is no indication that Parfait teleported into the shield, she probably did in fact not teleport into the shield. Maybe DaveB will explain it, but most likely there was some repositioning and Sydney dropped her shield for a second to get Parfait inside.
“… they are all out watching the fight …” Have they never watched Yu Yu Hakusho!? The audience is not a safe place. They have all lost their minds. Oh, yah, elder god insanity thing… never mind, carry on. Sanity is over rated anyway.
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Whaaaaat?!?
He’s a Lovecraftian monster from the benthic deeps? I don’t believe it!
I mean, monsters don’t have noses like that!! He’s actually human, right?
I am now going to use “retcoloUr” in my regular vocabulary.
Sorry David, non-American English still adds the u in our.
The big guy seems to be a real chill dude
He has got to be included in Sydney’s gaming night (or movie night)
Fake glasses and rubber nose is ALWAYS the best disguise.
Almost as good as emotional manipulation instead of leadership ability, but hey, who cares, right?
What matters is who will fall for it, not whether it is any good or makes sense.
Sydney and Parfait are really starting to get on, aren’t they? Flush as she is, with no family, I’m starting to wonder whether Sydney might end up buying her – I assume the ban would still be enforced, since last I checked, the US hasn’t recognized non-penal slavery for quite some time. Bit of an incident.
Why is Parfait in the shield and wrapped around Sydney? Is she Sydney’s prize for winning?? She’s not about to vamp Sydney again, right??
I can very much fantasize about, ‘the succi is your prize for the succi winning the magic duel’ but this is confusing for the reality path!
I have to point out a potential continuity issue. In no way should Dabbler be able to sense or affect Sydney while the shield is up. I say this because of the fact that when Sydney enveloped Vehemence within her shield his magical aura was severed blocking everything. He was unable to affect others with his ability to encourage violence and by implication his absorption of violent psychic energy.