Grrl Power #1413 – Discombobulate a dragon
The thing I’ve recently discovered about drawing big dragon guys covered in scales is that it rapidly becomes tedious to draw a big dragon guy covered in scales, on account of all the scales. His face doesn’t help either.
I already knew that, academically, but these pages have driven the point home. On top of that, I recently found some time to catch up on some comic reading – I’ve been supporting the Gold Digger “Colorize the first 100 black and white issues” kickstarters, and was reminded that I wasn’t really taking advantage of the medium of comics fully. Good art (or as good as I can manage) is fine, but if good art is all a comic can offer, it’s probably going to be a little boring. I love Joe Madureira’s art, but… I don’t care about the story in Ultimate Avengers at all. Battle Chasers better, but honestly, I think the art actually detracted from the few moments of levity in those books.
The ideal solution, IMO, is something like One Punch Man, equal parts fantastic and goofy art, and never takes itself so seriously that the humor is atonal. Obviously I’m a huge fan of Gold Digger and there are a jillion other examples, mostly in the manga genre.
So today we get… not quite Super Deformed dragon guy. I think proper SD is where the head is at nearly as big as the body. Also, I just like to occasionally take the time for a back and forth panel sequence, where you can see the gears turning in someone’s head, and the page isn’t 85% word bubble. Which I fully admit I am the poster child for that style of comic.
Kobold Sydney vote incentive! Is finally done!
So… you know, check it out. Oh, and as usual, Patreon has a scales only version.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
You commenting about the problems of drawing scales reminds of of what a fantasy artist once said about drawing piles of gold coins before he learned to ‘fake’ it. Before he learned that he didn’t have to draw every single coin and mastered the technique of making it look like he had drawn them, while in truth he only drew enough outlines to make the human brain see it as a pile of single coins.
I had a thought about just such a concept yesterday.
As long as the idea gets conveyed convicingly the art dosn’t matter.
My explnation. One Punch Man. Art was total shit, nobody cared, the story was too damm good.
Dave B your art is great, but at times it dosn’t need to be as long as the story gets told.
> Dave B your art is great, but at times it dosn’t need to be as long as the story gets told.
But DB’s chibi art IS great, too!
I appreciate Dave’s dedication to his art but honestly I’m mostly here for the jokes.
To propose a reframing: the art was not shit. It was simplistic and lazy and did not conform to the usual expectations, but it was also evocative and emotional and clear, which made it effective and good art.
The ONE drawings weren’t great, yeah, but let’s give credit where credit is due: Yuusuke Murata made great drawings. As expected of someone who worked with Obata-sensei, tbh.
Stuff like the late author of Berserk drawing pages upon pages of a dragon covered inintricately designed, positionally persistent, scales still blows my mind to this day. That is a helluva indulgence in manga.
The common dragon curse they see a lone adventurer in their cave and think , he’s harmless I’m about 10 times taller than him .
“But they are game for the munchkin an only a lunatic or a munchkin lurk alone in a dragon cave ” and lunatic population of given area is not extensible.
Maxima is a supemunchkin , superman level.
Try looking at it from the dragon’s perspective, rather than the perspective of the one guy who finally took down the dragon.
*Many* people came to feed themselves to the dragon over thee aeons. Most of them came in groups. Finally, one came by themselves. This wasn’t the first time this happened, by any stretch of the imagination. Why would this one be any different?
That difference is why the story is more interesting than the thousands or millions of other tales in which people went into the dragon’s cave to defeat the dragon, but failed.
I am reminded of how Tarquin described in in [i]The Order of the Stick[/i] — sure, eventually some hero will show up and succeed in killing the tyrant, but until then I get to live like a king and afterwards I get to live forever in song and story.
Depend of the word iand tech level …
In a modern word any MANPADS is deadly threat to a Dragon , more than a vorpal sword.
And a dragon vs any gen 4 or 5 combat aircraft is unfair as a sperm whale vs a modern Japanesse Whaler .
Imagine Smaug vs a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II , or a gigantic Dragon of the size of a supercarrier after being in a proximity of a lauched ASMP-A ( airbust nuclear missile , range more than 300 milles , accuracy <10 m , 300 kt warhead) …
A 300 kT warhead would within a millionth of a second release 300 trillion calories of energy primarily in the form of intense light.
The fireball would extend more than a mile in diameter and at its center produce temperatures of over 200 million degrees Fahrenheit, about four to five times the temperature found at the center of the sun. It's like to compare a lighter and a volcano.
And it's 1852 lbs , 17'6" in length , a little less than 3'2"in wingspan and little less tha 1'2" diameter missile not an ICBM.
And unless the dragon’s scales are hader than 16” of rolled steel my old rifle squad could drop it in short order. We never left the wire without at least 8 LAWs spread amongst us and our grenadiers carried HEDP that was good for 2 1/2” of armor. If we thought the threat of armor was high we’d add another 8 or so LAWS and some AT-4s if we had them on hand. Our Assaultman attachments and CAAT teams on QRF had even nastier stuff if we thought we were gonna see tanks. Dragons are just not a realistic threat to a modern military setting, which is why it’s so rare to see a good story that pits the two against each other.
Which makes that modern dragon movie even more ridiculous (unless the dragons were able to do more than just burn London to the ground)
The LAWs have significantly less collateral damage than the nuke, too. Even if the dragon’s in some isolated lonely mountain in the middle of nowhere, you’ll probably at least want to be able to salvage the hoard.
Have you seen the anime Gate? The premise is basically this: some fantasy world opens a gate to modern day Tokio with intention of raiding the place. Japan retaliates by sending its Self-Defense Forces through said gate and things snowball from there. Contact between modern army and a fantasy one goes pretty much as expected. Dragons fall to modern airforce predictably as well.
Gate is a perfect example of the setting determining effectiveness. While I don’t remember the name of the manga another setting had dragons imbue their scales with magic, which meant you needed magic to even hurt them, so modern weapons did jack-shit to them unless they were enchanted first, and even then they lost a lot of effectiveness because modern weapons are either piddly little bullets, where a .50 cal would be bug bites to a proper dragon due to its sheer size, or high explosives whose heat does not really hurt a dragon since the dragons in that setting nested in active volcanoes. So yeah, it would depend on what dragons do in this setting.
Agreed. Armor Penetration with modern weapons is based on heat melting the metal so the rest of the round can forge ahead. What happens when your organic scales harder than steel don’t melt? It simply becomes impact damage, which a dragon should be able to tank surprisingly well.
If they are D&D dragons, most of them have DR/Magic, so the damage would be reduced even further unless the shrapnel is magical.
If it is NOT a fire-resistant/immune dragon, however, it’s likely toast, yep.
DR againt a nuke is like bulletproof vest against the same nuke , 25 damage in D&D is about a .50 , a 300 Kt nuke is 4 to 5 the temperature of the center of the sun on more than a 1 mile radius.
DR is meaningless wher you took 3 000 000 hp hit.
Fire resistant it’s a quetion of sheer level.
And a 120 mm , APDSFS is a giant flechette round and the amunition of a modern Tank it’s a a kinetic penetrator …
A Leclerc could target an helicopter , dragons are not in many case faster than an helicopter.
120 mm is an MBT standard round…
As you said: setting means everything
If you are in their world, not only will modern weapons mean diddly, it’s possible they won’t even work at all
In our world, doesn’t matter how big and scary the dwagon is in their world, here, they are just a giant flying lizard with no protection other than what a regular non-flying lizard would have
– I’m immune to the weapons wielded by men..
– I’m a computer targeted missile , I’m weilded by a motherboard …
Killed by a technological kamikaze construct …
… Some dragons are resistant to heat, a few types even straight-up immune to it. Those often makes their nests in lava pools or vulcanoes. The radiation can be counted as necrotic damage with a disease effect, but dragons has a famously strong Constitution, therefor they probably can survive the radiation too.
Yeah, but what about the initial blast?
They may survive a nuclear fallout, but what about the blast itself?
Depends on the dragon.
In my setting, the more powerful end of the still-mortal dragons could indeed survive a nuclear blast, though if caught off guard, they’d be injured enough to teleport out and come back when they have figured out a specialized counter.
Though it also depends on what sort of spell contingencies they have set up — there are auto-contingencies that will grant a few seconds of invulnerability, though they also immobilize the protected target (relative to the planet and its rotation, or equivalent situation if not on a planet) and keep them from affecting the world at the same time.
Though dragons from worlds that are also high-tech would probably have specialized counters. A simple detect-and-transmute could simply turn any un-warded fissile material within range into lead, and could be maintained with a trickle of mana to for the detect part, with the transmute part triggering automatically, which draws more mana. For a sufficiently powerful dragon, the range of such a spell would be miles.
If the material is warded, then it becomes a power contest between the dragon and the amount of power invested in the ward, which is capped at the power of the person who made the ward. And a dragon that old would probably have already thought to create a specialized contingency that triggers if the transmutation effect fails to work.
For any individual—dragon, human, or other—who reaches true immortality, they would probably reflexively act to sensed danger and do something outrageous to negate it, such as a sword swing that jumps the intervening distance to cut a missile out of the sky, even if they don’t understand why that distant object was a danger. But even if you did manage to ‘kill’ them with enough nukes, well, they are true immortals. They’ll be back in a year or two at most, though *where* they will remanifest is unknown; it could be on any planet or world that they have visited before.
Celestial agents vary in power by type/tier, but there are several tiers above the level of immortals ascended from mortal-kind.
The power scale goes up from there, but this is also why deity avatars do not act directly near a planet unless the planet is already fucked. They enter combat only if they can’t actually make the situation worse. Which is why they have priests, champions, and celestial agents do most of the work for anything shy of an in-progress world-ending event.
But anyway, dropping back down the power scale, yes, most un-prepared dragons would be fucked if they were too close to zero-point, though any dragon above a thousand years old is tougher than, say, a reinforced concrete bunker.
The flip side is that humans can become that powerful too. They start at a larger power gap and they have to work for it rather than becoming automatically stronger as they age, but this also means they can grow in power faster, because they aren’t soft-capped by not being old enough either.
Mind, technology is still a power multiplier. Just as a powerful swordsman can slice through unenchanted tanks, that same personal power applied to a sniper could allow a sniper to potentially take out said swordsman, who would be immune to gun fire from a standard grunt. They synergize, and worlds that have maximized both tech and magic can do more than any world that has specialized in only one.
I feel the blast itself would be pretty much an instant hatch for a large horde of dragon eggs
And one day Sydney will exceed her. In power, if not er…dimensions.
Does Digital Art Tools still not have libraries of ziptones like the sheet based ones Adam Warren used to get around repetitive ink patterns?
We all understand when the comic requires too much effort with a production deadline. Everyone around Dallas Fandom knows Fred’s Megatokyo initial issues over artwork obsessions that caused months of wastage and led to a domino downfall.
Another Megatokyo fan!
He’s still putting pages out, if OMG painfully slowly. I also try to catch his occasional live stream on twitch. They can be an interesting, but not *too* interesting, second-monitor video to help keep my brain happy when I’m doing my own writing.
Also, the man is too self deprecating for his own good, along with other issues.
Oi! I’m a absolute fan of MT. It’s so out there in just the right direction. These multi-month waits for a page are HARD…
I gave up on MT when one page took more than a year to update.
I have a bookmarks group for ‘slow-updating webcomics’ I check every six months.
But if Egoma were to best Gaxgy in a… respectful exchange of martial prowess… then how would Gaxgy be feeling about the situation?
Aside from “very surprised”, which I believe we can take as given.
I’m guessing that it would be this situation, IN SPACE: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-837-wheel-of-girlfriend/
I suspect he’s now like, I found you hot before, now I find you INTERESTING. Damnit.
Years ago I had to draw a large tree as the center piece for a theater group T-shirt and was faced with the similar prospect of drawing hundreds of leaves and tiny branches. I discovered that I could just draw the major branches and just scatter “leaves” like a cloud within the outline of the tree. The “leaves” were just a small, spread out “V”. Took maybe 10-15 min for hundreds of them. Came out great.
Yeah I do that a lot, but it only works for “clumps” of things. Leaves, grass, piles of coins, etc. Scales are ordered, at least on Gaxgy they are. I could see a more “monstery” looking lizard monster where you could brush scales on with a particle brush.
I think its fine here, oull back far enough and you can’t see a snake’s scales, and you just see the surface pattern. This is the same way now that the character has been introduced.. also Halo visiting the comic shop probably has similar issues on new comic day. we just take it for granted that she’s still popping in from time to time!
I genuinely like the shifts in art quality on this page. The regular shots, the highly detailed closeups…then the sudden lack of details, like a visual version of a record scratch “stop every and hang on for one moment!!” And then the super detail followed by the regular artwork. It’s brilliantly well-done!
Why is there a Coke machine on a space ship?
Know it says Cuke nut not fooling anyone.
Is this a commercial transport like a space bus?
Like Swedish Meatballs, every race will come up with their own version of Cola.
Even the ones for which it is a deadly poison.
Let us not forget jynnan tonnyx.
cuke
/kyo͞ok/ noun: cuke; plural noun: cukes
a cucumber.
This is Dabbler’s base, so a cucumber dispensing machine may just be a thing for impromptu urges.
They are on a fixed-position space station (solar forge) with a sizeable permanent crew.
Thought they were on a transport ship when I asked that question. Thanks.
Hmmm… I’ve been working on the wiki (grrlpowercomic.fandom.com), making mental note to maybe do an entry for the Cuke machines…
The drink machine is interesting as it leaves you wondering what types of drinks it has. But, what I am truly wondering about is what snacks does that vending machine hold? Maybe hot spicy favored chips like the meal that even Sydney found to be a challenge. Or, gummy aliens that run away when you open the package?
I dunno if there’d be enough demand for super-spicy chips (as opposed to the “Flamin’ Hot” ones that made Sydney roll her eyes) unless there’s a whole species with Sydney-level spice tolerance (which I suppose isn’t all that unlikely to exist somewhere).
Because we all know what happens when Harem gets something with an interesting name.
Well done being the serendipitous tumbleweed, Sydney.
Cora, that is not something you tell a dragon (or man) who is that level of smug and expect them to leave it untested.
Egoma is on a clanless master journey. These journeys are filled with fighting. Dave may not want to draw all of these battles, but we know they happen. We can, if he so chooses, proceed to Thursday’s update having a little narration bubble at the upper left corner of the page saying “One boring fight later” and leave it at that, since we all know right now that there’s a fight going to happen between these two and Egoma will win. None of us need to see the fight to have us understand that outcome.
Now, am I saying to not show it? No. But it will be a lot of dragon scales to draw, even though most of the page would be expected to be in the no scales chibi form shown in the middle of this page. I do expect it would be a relatively uninteresting fight, because she’s not looking at putting on a show, she’s looking at completely shutting down a would be suitor who thinks that a male winning a fight with a female causes said female to want said male in bed.
Dave can always turn it into one of those weird noodle events that a million years into the future will have become mythology of ‘How the dragon lost its scales’
You understand the underlying evolutionary reason that women would want physically strong men, right?
Things are quite a bit more complicated than that. Not the least of which is that we have the freedom to consiously decide. (yes, I know, that is a fairly recent development where women cannot be sold to a future husband).
But even before proto humans had developed enough cognition to think about these things there was a strong evolutionary pressure to /not/ go with the ‘strongest male’.
The fossil record clearly shows that for the last several million years the gender dismorphia between male and female hominids in the homo sapiens lineage has /decreased/. This only happens if there is a pressure to select partners who are not the strongest fighters.
While it is partial conjecture, there are two significant pressures for this effect. One is that while a strong male is likely to have strong children (though really only in the male line), the high levels of testosterone required for both the muscule development and the aggression, makes from poor providers. They’re not that great at being protectors either.
Ever since the earliest hominids banded together for protection the ability to cooperate became vastly more important than raw strength. A tiny hominid male, no matter how strong for its species was never going to stand up to the predators of the time. Even today, when humans are nearly twice the size, a bodybuilder is not going to win a fight against a lion.
So, while starting out with a much more pronounced gender dismorphia (akin to that of gorilla’s of today though vastly smaller), humans started evolving in the direction of chimpansees and bonobo’s. This is an ongoing process.
And just so you know, the body-builder look does not appeal to a high, nor even significant, percentage of women. The most attractive is called ‘lean and moderately muscular’ So, some definition but nothing extravagant. Certainly not the popping veins common in overly muscaler men. (think ballet dancers like Nureyev rather than Schwerzenegger. Or a large number of the male characters in the final fantasy series).
But for Gaxgy’s species, it is entirely possible that females are attracted to strong males, leading to the propensity to only mate with males that can defeat them. This would explain his outlook on the situation.
More likely he’s just trying to appeal to Stygan values of martial prowess
Weeeell… I personally find it convenient having someone taller to reach the upper shelves or doing the more physically demanding things for you, and having appearance that can sometimes shut down unwanted attention from other guys with a look doesn’t hurt either. On the other hand, there’s definitely diminishing returns and would rather have a small unmuscular guy than roided out human fridge.
– Ever since the earliest hominids banded together for protection the ability to cooperate became vastly more important than raw strength.
We’re a tool-using social species. Empathy and intelligence are our superpowers.
Which makes current trends *extra* depressing.
Understand the point you were making, butt… body-builders are not known for their strength, in fact, at the highest point of the competition period (when they go out after showering in oil) they are at their weakest (even little old ladies can beat the snot out of them)
There is a reason why the strong-(wo)men look like a keg on legs: they can pull a body-builder apart and toss the pieces miles away in different directions :P
It’s very funny to me that you mention Nureyev because I just the other night was showing my kids some of his dancing (as an outshoot of a comment about his duet with Miss Piggy doing ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ on the OG Muppet Show).
Can definitely attest to preferring that look to the Schwarzenegger look, no shade on anyone who prefers the latter. And I defy anyone to look at that man’s muscular control and claim he was weak!
Was specifically referring to the height of the competition stage: when they are posing in budgie-smugglers three-sizes-too small and a gallon of oil, they are at their weakest
“At their weakest” is true, but that does not mean bodybuilders are actually “weak”. They do still have massive muscles as a result of near-constant weightlifting. The muscles are temporarily weakened by a period of extreme dietary fasting and dehydration to get their skin as thin as possible for “competition”, but they are still large muscles.
I agree any decent strong-man/woman or skinny (looking) MMA fighter would destroy a bodybuilder in a fight, but the little old ladies you mentioned absolutely would not.
Is that what passes for education these days?
I never said that brains don’t matter. They clearly do, and likely too much. I said that they want physically strong men.
Where was it shown he was any level of smug?
*Giggle/snort!* I love Maxima’s little smirk in panel 7 – and everyone looks so darned cute in the last panel!
Dubious, intrigued, and a little bit *concerned*. He knows Cora, trusts her judgement, but at the same time is pretty damn certain that he could best even the most skilled Stygian, so there must be *something* going on…
They’re doing a pretty bad job of their ostensible aim of bringing in a ringer to the tournament.
Since gossip travels faster than they can. Likely even using Nth tech.
OTOH maybe there’s a deeper game afoot. I wonder if Egoma is actually going to be the disguise she’s going to end up using in the tournament, and they’re starting to build interest.
Stygan vs. dragon is likely to have the bookies not even allowing a bet. Too one-sided, so something’s going on.
“Stygan” vs. dragon would maybe draw bets. Though setting odds would be really hard, so maybe that wouldn’t work.
I’m also wondering just how much they can change their party out. I think Cora will also have to don a disguise to make bets (and also the ship), otherwise the rumor mill will join up “Egoma” pretty fast with whatever disguise Max comes up with.
There’s the field of signal or traffic analysis, where you don’t know what’s actually being sent, but you can derive information from how much, when and between whom.
Get’s her name slightly out there so she dosn’t startle them too much. Ask any con artist, you want the mark to be a little bit aware. so don’t look too much into things. expecially when the teck can be really good.
No, this is not the form Maxi will be using in the Tournament: she won’t be using a disguise in the tournament
They’ve already said she’s going to be using a *different* disguise in the tournement. The example was Robbie the Robot.
I guess he isn’t accustomed to the concept of small people having strength that isn’t proportional to their size.
Like some kind of “super”…. “strength”.
Why, it’s almost as surprising as a 99-pounds-soaking-wet nerdette taking down a superpowered military trained agent!
I find dragon-boy’s flirt-by-sparring technique entertaining, partially because I have a woman in my serial who practically lives by the mantra of sparring being a form of foreplay. When she was single, Moriko would have taken that offer in a heartbeat, though during that time she’d have probably lost (and still enjoyed it).
If that scenario were to happen with her current self, I think Moriko would win. Moriko has been taking on teleporting dragon-moose and soloed a kobold sorcerer who was supposed to be a raid boss (living dungeon). But he has some other hurdles to overcome for Moriko’s current self.
A) She already has a dragon-boy at home (one of the other MCs), and B) additional, temporary partners generally need approval from her husband and wife, one or both of whom might also participate. Which isn’t even an actual rule yet, but they have hit the one year mark of her initial promise, and it’s time for the three of them to talk about some things now that they know themselves and each other better.
Can I get the name of your serial or is it not out yet?
Cap’n Crunch ;P
@Duffenblaster
“No Need For A Core?”, currently free on Royal Road and Scribble Hub. :)
Note that there are two other serial authors with similar names that begin with Z. “Zagaroth” is the only spelling I use, and I will be professionally published sometime next year by Podium, under the name “A. B. Zagaroth”.
The currently free material on the web is less thoroughly edited than the final version will be, plus they are hiring voice actors for audio books, so it will be a little while before that version comes out, at which point I have to take down most of the free version (I get to leave up a couple of teaser chapters).
If you’re telling a story (as opposed to drawing “because it looks cool”) then a fight should advance the plot.
Certainly “foreplay” can be “advancing the plot”…
Agreed. Throughout most of my serial (current word count is over 850k), there are relatively few fight scenes, though many more training-tier fights are mentioned in passing, along with other training activities.
OTOH, when there is good reason for there to be real fights, I start off in broad strokes covering a lot of early, less dramatic encounters and slowly ramp up detail as the fights get more important and dangerous. The finale battle of recent events begins at the end of one chapter, takes place over another chapter-ish worth of content (as seen from two different PoVs), then the first half of a long chapter finishes off the fight.
Multiple characters doing important things in different places — I usually try to avoid overlapping time by much between PoVs/chapters, but sometimes it is unavoidable. My readers don’t seem to mind, and now we are into a very long down period of recovery, dealing with repercussions, and overall moving on with the slice of life aspect for a while.
Just remember, how Max normally is, and Dragon like to sleep with gold.
What does Cuke taste like?
With that “‘swoosh’ and being on Dabb’s fabtory, I bet it is a creamy gel.
So slurm adjacent.
I don’t think Cuke is refrigerated, more likely served warm.
Almost entirely unlike tea.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
I loved the surprised dragon so much. Adorable, really.
Just had a thought from two comics ago.
You know how you don’t put a bag of holding inside another?
Maby dabler likes to use folding space for her swords. Turn it into a micro chain-saw blade or something like a plainer edge that can cut through force feilds.
Some one might have already come up with this thread. Don’t know, just reread comic and jumped to this page to post idea.
Not part of the comic but thought you should all know this.
Working graveyard shift for extended periods of time will give you a %80 chance of having a stroke.
I learned this from overhearing two doctors while laying in a hospital bed not able to move my right side.
If you have any friends or relatives please tell them this.
This does explain certain observations about a certain president …
She could always throw the fight…
Maxima? What you smoking?
She may like him but not that much.
She’s sandbagged before (Hiro mentioned it during the restaurant fight). Plus, there’s always the lure of the exotic
Hiro meant she played down how strong she was, not that she lost
Kinda like when Goku wore the weighted clothes (that weighed more than Krillin… each: one Goku boot weighed more than one Krillin)
So, how hard is it going to be to keep this “episode” from ever reaching Deus’ and Dabs’ ears?
Harem is a known double (triple?) agent. Deus knows all of this. He’s probably planning to make a sizeable wager in the upcoming fights. Dabbler would also find out quickly, either through Harem or Cora.
Max’s top when I first looked at it just made me think it had a bat cut-out. And, that she needed a utility belt to go with it.
Just show him your real form and he will follow you to the ends of the galaxy.
I’m entertained too easily I think
Sydney making a loud Kirby PYOOO just has me in stitches.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned that Cuke is from The IT Crowd.
Michael Whalen also did not like drawing scales after this piece. https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/filed-teeth/
I am a simple person. I see good comic, funny writing, excellent story, characters I’ve invested in, and I keep reading. So, since I’ve been here so long, that HAS to say something, Dave. **Hugs!* Miss ya. Take care, keep Arting, and be well.
Is “Discombobulate a Dragon” part of the “Confuse a Cat” franchise?
Yeah, that’s what I would assume. MPFC reference spotted.
A good friend will help you hide the body, a great friend will make sure you’re not the body in question.
It’s simple if wrong: The dragon is a shape changer. When he is listening to intelligent advice, his scales, etc, fade, and he becomes what you see. And when he is doing romantic things, his size and skin texture are close to Cora or Sydney.
Imagine his reaction if Cora mentioned Tzerki could beat him too…
Tzerki can’t beat a water-logged paper-bag without help
Counterpoint: Pages 655, 667 and 980.
When she stopps messing about and actually focuses, she’s *terrifying*.
Counterpoint: your links don’t work
They aren’t links. They’re page numbers.
That’s the point, you post counterpoints without a way to check easily
You’re old enough to know how to edit a url.
Not about age
Wow… click on address bar, delete the number and everything after then type in the new number. That’s your link.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1413-discombobulate-a-dragon/#comments
to:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-655
Thank you, and that just reiterates the point stated: with. out. help.
What help did she have there? She was alone on an alien planet. (And I’ll remind you that the orbs are under her holodisguise, and that they are effectively a symbiote for her at this point, so they’re part of her for the purposes of this discussion)
Heh, reminds me when Dr McNinja got to the Tennis Temple: the alt text was the author talking to the other artists.
‘We’re in this together, but we’re going to be drawing a LOT of bricks. In perspective.’
Yesssss, crazy dragon faces! As a big fan of The Ink Apprentice by Lydia Ling , I am here for this.
Both Cora and Maxi are smirking in the last panel at Gaxgy’s introduction to Sydney :P
If you are looking for a mugshot for Gaxgy: panel eight would be good, or if that’s too much Gaxgy, panels four or six would work :)
If you think Gaxgy is bad now… wait until he discovers Max ia gold.
Dose he have a tail? What type?
That’s what I really want to find out.
Okay, so I haven’t read through all the comment section to see if someone already posted this idea for you, BUUUUT… Have you considered assembling a ‘mask’ in Blender? Should be relatively simple with one sided visibility, starting with an invisible wire mesh of the dragony head, then skin it with semi transparent scales that you can match to the angle of your future camera shot, render a mask, and add the mask to your cells as an overlay? Once you built the character mesh and skin, you could just change the camera angle, render it, and have an entirely new overlay for each time you need the character in a panel. A little effort at first but a lot of payoff from there going forward for recurring characters that you want with a lot of fiddly details. Just a thought.
This is the site I spitball ideas on after the initial flurry of posts have stopped. If you want to use these ideas youself, go ahead. If you want to pay me back later if you make you $$$ off of it thank you.
New idea for the future. Been thought of before not yet time to impliment but maby whithin next 10 years. If you have money maby start now while cheap.
Pound scum tanks in the desert. Certin types can be easily turned into oil. you get me now. use water catching teck and funneling from monsoon rains to gather the water. no need to import water to start, just wait, you have time.
we may one day get cut off from the middle east. It would be viable to start now. Sell idea and fuel to military, they always need fuel. They would love to have a indipent local source.
Look into Switch grass as additive instead of corn. Twice the sugar than sugarcane. Can grow up to five crops a year.
Maby turn it into a new alcalolic beverage first so the lobbyist can’t f*ck with you too much.
I have ideas. Some good, some bad, some great. No way I can do them now, and I forget some because I had a stroke and a slow menabilisem that got slower so I am slowly getting fatter eating regular until my body shuts down.
So until then I will post my ideas on old pages of this comic because there are a lot of inteligent people who read this and sometimes reread old posts to see what people responded to their posts. Do it myself. If you can use these ideas good for you.
I have to ask: is Cuke a Schedule I reference?