Grrl Power #1460 – Chemical opposites
Edit: Okay, I fixed the typo in panel 2, and I did another pass on the looked-like-a-strap-on in panel 3. It was admittedly a little distracting once it was repeatedly pointed out. I don’t blame you guys. It did look like Sciona was about to give him what for.
How do Sciona’s bangs get longer when her hair is down? Magic, probably. Don’t worry about it.
Deus sure gets a lot of mileage out of that “I’m going to be a jerk but it’s because I respect you so much” bit. He used it on Maxima, though I honestly couldn’t tell you what page that was. Ironically, the more intelligent the person is, the fewer times he could pull it off with them, even if he was being mostly sincere.
You know, if Sciona… sorry, if Escorpia really was a sicario/narcotraficante, she probably would have had a lot more tattoos than just the… temple tattoo? It’s more like a “mohawk negative space tattoo.” Not that I’m aware of any comprehensive audit of female merc/drug runner tattoo coverage. I guess Sciona lucked out that Escorpia was content with just the one on her skull. Presumably if she can permanently change her hair color and length with a spell, she could probably remove or at least hide tattoos. Really the only reason she still had the one on her head under the hair she was growing out was for you guys’ benefit. (guys’s?)
Sciona usually does not “take smug.” She’s murdered for a lot less than that. But Deus is too important of a potentially exploitable resource to her. He’s also pretty good in bed, which isn’t a deciding factor, but it is a factor. She knows that if she killed him, the Alari from the colony ship would almost definitely assume control of Galytn, which would probably be both good and bad for her plans, and Deus can more or less run interference for her regarding them.
Sciona’s original final line was “I am seriously reconsidering fucking you.” Which I think is more pithy than what I changed it to, (Actually the very first draft read “sleeping with you” but that didn’t feel right either) but the more I thought about it, the more it sounded like she was planning on sleeping with him for his sake, like some sort of transactional reward. I suppose for being good at it the last time, maybe? So not some selfless sacrifice on her part, certainly, but there was something vaguely “It’s a man’s world, and I’m very sexy, which is mostly for the benefit of men, and he deserves his prize” in the sentiment. Yes, it’s possible to over analyze these things, but it doesn’t hurt to occasionally step back and do a paradigm check. The comic is mostly female characters, and while I certainly can’t claim any special insight into the female mind, I do at least attempt to consider that perspective… Even if a lot of them do have fairly typically male behaviors and hobbies. But I write what I know, and would the comic would be any better if I did some deep dive into typically feminine hobbies so Sydney could launch into the occasional dissertation about… quilting? Not that women couldn’t be into literally any hobby, of course, but the point of all this would have been to “feminize” some of the female characters, and saying that Harem is into restoring vintage tractors doesn’t really accomplish that. Although… she was raised on a farm… Hmm.
Anyway, I edited Sciona’s lines mostly because I don’t want all the characters to sound the same, and my first draft felt more sit-commy, and less “sociopathic blood mage.”
I sort of feel guilty when I post a page with only 4 panels. I mean, not that guilty, but for all I gripe about cramming way too many panels on a page and having to draw tiny faces, when I get to the occasional page that just wouldn’t benefit from wedging three more panels in there, it does feel a bit… light? Oh well, I’ll get over it.
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Deus is performing a different experiment: How different would Sciona be in bed if she’s hate-fucking him?
What, has her *not* hate fucking him ever been an option? I thought it was just different levels of hate in the moment…
The first time was more of a transaction.
Transactional fucking vs hate fucking is kind of an interesting experiment actually. Was last time too impersonal? Like at a point she was just waiting for it to end? Maybe if she’s mad she’ll put more into it?
Well, at least in the case of this specific couple, we already know the answer to the second question was ‘NO’, unless perhaps she was running on a tight schedule at the time. Last time was so good it made her weak in the legs and she coyly asked for a second round.
I cannot unsee the Sciona penis on the 3rd panel…
now you have to see it as well.
*AWWWWAAAAYYYYY!*
I was thinking strap-on dildo, but yeah
100 percent came here to type this
Glad it wasn’t just me.
Yup, came to see if anyone else had to blink and wonder if she was strapped up
I just came, because it seemed like everyone else was.
At first sight it did stick out, but I couldn’t make visual sense of it. After DaveB. editted it, something is still there but less distinct. So my first reaction was “It couldn’t be…”, and now I just wonder what was it supposed to be in the first place?
Oh good, it wasn’t just me seeing it.
Ahh found my people lol!!! I had the same thought.
It, uh, jumped out at me, too. I thought maybe strap-on. Or maybe he has his fly open and…? I came to the comments to see how everyone was reacting to what was clearly much more explicit than this comic usually gets. And then, just now, I took a closer look at it (which I’d been kind of hoping to avoid) and realized it’s probably a brown blanket as seen through his thigh gap. But that’s only because I know we wouldn’t actually be seeing the alternatives.
Brown chair. He’s sitting in a brown (presumably leather) chair. But it definitely looks more like a strap-on than anything else. The only way to fix it would be to realign Deus’ left leg so that the shape doesn’t perfectly line up with Sciona’s panties.
And maybe also ditch the fold in the chair padding that just happens to line up a particular way.
Leave it as is! Look how much entertainment it has generated.
Also my first thought, but now I’m bothered by the fact that Deus must have incredibly skinny chicken legs to have a such a wide and straight (so not “man-spreading”, the legs are parallel) thigh-gap while sitting and with someone else sitting on them.
That is a pretty solid point, especially since his legs were together in panel 4 (bottom left) of the previous page.
Yeah, that one made me do a double-take too. I thought wait…. does Dave put futas in this thing now??
He used to have Sydney swear like a sailor, which was fun, but stopped for some reason, then he had one swear work in this one, which I thought was a shift in gears, then I thought ok, maybe actually showing a penis is another shift in gears no wait its just the chair and I’m an idiot.
Sydney swears when frustrated or bangs her knee etc. This hasn’t happened in some time, probably because there’s lots of other humor to explore with all the other characters.
If Sydney swore like a sailor every 20 pages or so it would get old fast.
Not to mention that she’s seen some things by now (alone on a planet light years from Earth occupied only by mile-high laser cthulhu monsters, etc).
So her bar for “This incident deserves a drill sergeant moment” is higher than it used to be.
For that matter the counseling she’s getting as a result of seeing those things may be having other effects.
Let’s not use the f-slur though, alright?
Futa is now a slur? Since when?
And now I have to spend the day wondering if Dave was subtly being a rascal or not.
Yes, I was about to say the same thing!!!!
Dave is being a rascal, but not in the way you think.
Sciona, with her hair down, is trying (and failing) to pull a Sephiroth ‘Shall I give you Despair?’.
I came here to type the same thing. I guess i need to start getting up earlier if I want to comment on something first.
Was gonna say. It even almost matches her skin tone, which is ALWAYS a plus in my opinion.
I’m pretty sure that’s just the chair as seen between deuces legs
I have a REALLY bad habit of doing this.. I get into relationships where I end up antagonizing someone to the point where she wants to slap the shit out of me repeatedly while riding my brains out.
This is bad how?
I’m wondering if he’s a robot or a hologram or something
He could have “borrowed” the tech for a hard light shell, somewhat like Cora has.
And combined with his absolute David Xanatos fanboyism, it’s probably something everyone sees but dismisses as “nah, too obvious”
Nah, he still wants to feel the sex.
I say space latex and a blood filter.
If you want earth tech I say a thin layer of aeorgel or vasoline
With Deus the answer is probably far, far simpler: Absolutely inhuman levels of self-control..
Which is why he got the swabs, so he can get himself detoxed *after* Business with Sciona is concluded and she’s out of sight.
While checking if it’s something he can actually handle or whether it’s time to call in the absolutely-not-on-call Backup.
And meanwhile tagging a memo to see what can be duplicated, with its potential uses for Crowd Control or more… targeted… non-lethal ..Pacification..
And Extraterrestrial Business Opportunities…
This is *Deus* we’re talking about… He’s always got a full restaurant kitchen range going, at all times.
He still wants to enjoy the sex.
Drugs have very much a negative effect on someone’s ability to enjoy anything else than the drug and sex is part of those things.
Also the kind of self control needed to resist drug addiction sucks a lottt of joy from one’s life.
Also how can he know when starting he has the amount of self control needed to resist a drug originating from another super power.
I don’t really like Sciona or Deus much individually but their couple dynamic really upsells them for me. They almost keep each other in check. Sciona’s scheming is more entertaining and proactive than Deus’ grand plans and his arrogance and smugness checks a lot of her more cliche villainous personality traits. I wish them a lovely villain team up and hope they continue to work together possibly sabotaging or hindering each other in the process and then hitting the sheets to fuck away their frustrations.
Eh, Deus is okay for a Supervillain…mostly. He does what he does to get what he’s after. He isn’t evil as such. BUT he is not amoral. His are, very flexible with some limits. Remember, he does not like excessive collateral damage and would prefer NO collateral at all. Better guy to hench for than most I’ve dealt with. And like I said, not evil as such. I’ve worked for evil… they didn’t even offer dental. Those are easy to, walk from. Deus, heh. That kid I’d stick to just to see what happens next. Kind of aMyzklplyxt vibe yet a more understandable intended outcome.
As he put it to Indinge – “A few billions in, dozens of billions out long-term. Most executives only care about the next quarter. They lack vision. I plan in decades.”
Deus is absolutely forward-thinking, and he knows that casually disposing of employees – especially super-powered ones – would be a great way to get everyone hating him.
My problems with Deus aren’t really him as a supervillain he definitely feels more like an anti-hero considering he seems to have morals and his motives don’t seem entirely malevolent, it’s just kind of boring most of the time seeing small incremental steps in a grand plans instead of crashing ARC’s debut lunch party and starting a huge brawl, or trying to create a portal to your home planet to have your alien species invade Earth. Also from a character perspective he’s hard to relate to. He often comes off too perfect, his plans never fail and he doesn’t seem to have many flaws besides a massive ego that often works in his favor. Even Max the strongest hero in the planet has shown flaws and made mistakes, she’s kind of rusty at dating, things like that. Dabbler another super genius has also shown flaws and made mistakes. Deus doesn’t really and that’s likely by design since he is a super genius and that’s not worth much if his plans fail or he has a bad temper or sucks at lying ect. I think partnering with Sciona does solve a lot of those issues though.
I think what her introduction to his team means is we get to see Deus in semi-relaxed situations. In the past, we have seen him basically “on duty” and showing his best. With these kinds of situations, we are getting something different and providing opportunities for his possibly very few flaws to come out.
Yes, but he is going to fark it up, when he does. It’s going to go like a super volcano… But he likely has plans to keep it from going “extinction level” unlike Sciona who won’t care and frankly isn’t as smart or far thinking. He’s at least 50 years plans ahead.
That is very like how I see Deus, only I’ve grown to like the character and his effect on the story.
Deus is refreshingly different from most other super-smart comic villains. He doesn’t try to destroy humanity or the Earth, and doesn’t want to rule humanity so that he can do vile things to us. He seems to be something of an Earth patriot, while doing as he pleases and being very smug about it. That doesn’t seem to be too much to ask compared to the typical “enlightened” despot. If Deus has other despotic failings, they have not come to light yet – perhaps by the time he rules the galaxy and the Earth has outlived its’ usefulness…?
I think this is the most risqué page in the comic so far. Congrats?
“My Chemical Romance”
Yer either OLD or a kid, but old enough I’d ask yah to get me a bottle of Ripple from the red barn. ;) Thanks for the mem….ear worms.
I really hope that someone doesn’t out smart Deus, but just out dumbs him by sheer luck. Like how it just happens to work in Fallout.
Like how the best swordsman in France does not fear the second best, but the worst.
Because the later may do something dumb that is impossible to be prepared for.
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This is unfortunately quite true, especially in the context of a duel, which is highly codified and takes place with a smallsword.
It’s a weapon used solely for thrusting, whereas a human’s most common reflex is to deliver slashing blows. Furthermore, the fact that it’s only for thrusting makes it easy to grab.
Defeating aggressive and unskilled opponents is a nightmare.
Duels at that time were more of a deadly contest than a simple “kill or be killed” fight.
On video by an english about this :
https://youtu.be/bfcpyMdEwzM
And yes I’m french … Born and raised in the hexagon
… Who said anything about a duel?
In the case of melee combat , it’s a mess , luck is important, like armor – curassiers existed until WWI – , and many civilians could suffer from combat paralisys or panick.
Being with level headed veterant improve your chance of survival.
In melee combat unlike in gunfigth your skill protects you …
Right. It like how in League of Legends pro players fighting pro players will know how a pro will react/play in a fight and anticipate their moves while new players won’t do this/know how to dodge or where to walk and escape certain attacks.
These two really are a ****-poor match on every plane other than the physical.
I emphatically do not like X-face, but I can grudgingly respect some of him – so far.
The blood devil woman, I just don’t like. Period.
Good thing then that you are not expected to like her.
She is not just an antagonist in the story (to more than the protagonists even)
She is also a villain in the story.
An antagonist can (but does not have to be) written to invoke sympathy, or at least understanding in the audience.
A villain is first of all /wrong/. They may be flat out evil, but pure evil characters are surprisingly difficult to write well and more often than not end up flat and uninteresting. It is likely why we do not know as many pure evil villains. The ones that are badly written do not stick around…
This also is why villains do not have to be evil, but they have to be unequivocally wrong about their goals and methods.
Incidentally this also makes Deus a villain in the story. He has a goal that is understandable and he is written to be funny and likeable. But his goal end goal might be to improve the lives of the people he rules over, but he goes about it by taking away all freedom (the people are free to chose to do exactly what he wants them to) and his methods include assassination, war, demons and eldritch horrors. It gets complicated that his (written) intelligence generally makes Deus right about what he wants people to do for the good of everybody.
Sciona on the other hand has comparably little redeeming qualities. Her goals are strictly self-centered. Her methods are amoral by any human standard as they included killing most humans and enslaving the rest. This may be a typical tuesday by Alari standards, but not acceptable to a (human) reader of the story.
So, Deus is a villain written to be fun and likeable while he does extremely questionable things. But Sciona is written to be a villain and little more. (and for a pretty evil Alari who is nevertheless just pure fun, we need to look any further han Lorlara. So it is possible)
I don’t think it’s ever possible to bring Deus into despair. Extreme annoyance maybe. But even if you bring him down, he’s more likely to just go ‘oooh, well played’, pick up the pieces and start building better and bigger. I doubt it’s about the goal with him, it’s about overcoming a challenge. The bigger it is, the happier he would be.
You know you might be right. He is like Xanitos in that regard. Even when he looses he’s like, welp that didn’t work, but I learned some things, both about my foes and what went wrong with that last scheme. On to the next thing. I totally see Deus being like that. He would categorize in bullet points, perhaps even a full presentation, what went wrong, how his empire was crumbled by 1 alien, followed by a slide of how to correct each flaw.
I imagine a train of thought like his reaction to Sydney glassing a patch of desert (p1078) — calculating through the problems and opportunities and coming up with a plan to minimize the former and maximize the latter.
Hell he would probably *love* losing here and there just because it means that someone did something unexpected enough that he did not think of it ahead of time. Which is probably an invaluable novelty to him.
Dear God he’s such a DORK.
A dork who’s also a supervillain…super anti-hero…super something…
Lex Luthor WISHES he was this smooth and begrudgingly likeable.
So Xanatos but less serious and more willing to have fun. Also definitely doesn’t sound like Jonathon Frakes.
How DOES he sound in your head?
I’m hearing Yuri Lowenthal in a silly mood.
Maybe Riker on helium :P
Or Bobcat Goldthwait (on helium :P )
Deus is just lucky his chirpy optimism isn’t gerbil-faced.
Sciona… Escorpia have a common superpower for naked females Godiva Hair , aka “les cheveux de Marie-Madeleine” pour les catholiques*.
*”Mary Magdalene’s hair” for Catholics
Mary Magdalene, a penitent sinner, is often depicted wearing only her hair… More than 2,000 years before Bayonetta, Hideki Kamiya may well have had some knowledge of Catholic art.
The saint, considered the “ideal penitent,” represents the archetype of the sinner surrendering the weight of their sins to the Creator. And it seems that the penitent’s long hair is linked to her great seductive nature.
Chemical Opposites? Which is base and which is acid?
Remember kids: add the acid to the bases, otherwise there will be a reaction!
(Learned that washing out glassware. The heat from cold water hitting a film of sulfuric acid was quite memorable.)
Great general solution, that doesn’t match with the effects observed.
When she lifts her finger we see no obvious reaction.
I’m going for physical barrier of some kind.(space latex, hardening alternative on vasoline, etc.
I was about to say, he could have some sort of tactile forcefield in place. Thin enough to allow sensation but just enough “space” to ensure undesirable chemical reactions can’t happen.
World’s most grossly over-engineered covert body-condom, basically. Important to have when you playboy around with ladies of a decidedly lethal persuasion.
This is the healthiest relationship ever
“Is it possible to annoy a woman so much that she’ll…still sleep with you?”
Yes, that’s called “having a wife”.
2 things…
First, why does it no longer show the comments by default???
Second, unless you look really close, panel 3 looks like she is wearing a strap-on…
It… never did, you had to select the comments for them to show up
Bad move removing the strap-on!!
I just randomly glanced at the Who’s Who section, and I find it amusing that Sciona’s on the fourth version of her blurb where she’s stated to be a Senator’s Chief of Staff, but Deus is still just “the head of Machina Industries who seems a bit shady”.
Re: Escorpias tattoos. In my professional life I had opportunity to meet a fair number of people involved with various street gangs including some of the Mexican gangs. Granted they weren’t from the Central and South American gangs and the cartels weren’t quite as big as they are now. Generally speaking, the women had fewer organization related tattoos. The tattoos were often a “I’ve been in jail” thing. The real movers and shakers might have tattoos but they are generally more discrete. I should note that most this involved people who were in the process of establishing competency for trial so it might not be a fully representative population. I don’t recall seeing a lot of tattoos on Escorpia to start with but given Sciona’s abilities to make some changes in her current body It seems likely that she could shed tattoos that she didn’t find aesthetically pleasing.
> she could shed tattoos that she didn’t find aesthetically pleasing
Or perhaps more importantly, unsuitable for someone trying to pose as a high-level aide.
A side effect of being a blood mage that might not have been explored.
Magic tends to be portrayed as “what you wish will happen”. “Blood mage” seems to be mostly about magic affecting bodies, often your own.
So if Sciona wishes for longer hair or she doesn’t like a tattoo I suspect her body changes to match.
The exception would be her discipline. Discipline about this involves things like saying “I can’t afford the energy to change this so I won’t allow it” or “This change would reveal who I am”, and then sticking to it. Even when you’re asleep or distracted.
And blood magery likely involves a lot of discipline. After all, what if you secretly wish yourself dead, even for a moment?
Nahh, Sciona, you are fucking him because he’s very good in bed and you know it, keeping him friendly to you is very convenient for you and you definitely don’t mind good transactional sex, his company challenges your supervillain side in a good way even if you won’t admit it most of the time, and I bet quality hate-fucking is totally a thing in Alari culture given the way you Space Drows are.
I love the couple dynamic of these two a lot. I just dearly wish an unfortunate drawing and coloring of their postures and the chair had not created the optical illusion of Sciona wearing a strap-on dildo or worse having suddently grown a penis. Since futas are a huge turn-off to me, that illusion shatters my enjoyment in a thousand pieces of what would otherwise be a rather sexy scene.
As far as “being so smart that basic chemistry doesn’t work”, it’s entirely possible that he’s Gom Jabbar-ing it.
The effect is totally happening, he’s just also completely aware of it, the reactions it’s trying to cause, and he’s just not allowing it to make his decisions for him, because he’s smarter than that.
The reason I don’t buy “super self-control” as the explanation for drug resistance is that some drugs render people unconscious, or have other serious involuntary effects. I think some power beyond simple behavioral control is required. That’s why I proposed super “body-chemistry control” as an aspect of Deus’ super-intelligence. I think his smugness also justifies a power beyond body condoms or universal antidotes.
Imagine chem-charming a superintelligence is like me when my headache medication kicks in, and then I realize I have 1 extra day on a project. She’s like CBD-coated Excedrin, but with a promise of sex after.
Yes. Because she’s the one who’ll be doing without. Not *him*.
considering how much Sciona has been messing around with this body, it would be funny as all get out for Deus to contract an STD, after being smug about being prepared for everything she could throw at him.
Blood mage, so that seems extremely unlikely.
What, she can exist as half a head glued onto a different body for a century, then (with sufficient energy) change that body back to her original one, but she can’t kill a virus?
Mind you, I suppose if it suited her purposes she could infect Deus with a virus that her body didn’t actually have.
I am revising the “Deus transplanted his brain in an Achilles clone” theory to add another possibility.
What is Deus put his brain somewhere super safe, think “In an alternate dimension” distant with some sort of 2-way remote control box so he could control his body.
And the body has a scar because it isn’t invulnerable at the moment it is implanted with Deus’s remote control device; the Deus created Achilles clone got his powers activated later. Possibly at the same time as the real Achilles, as Deus might have known in advance which power Achilles would get since Deus is super smart in super power research.
Now look at the cast page, lower of the 2 Achilles pictures; imagine a haircut, it looks like Deus made a little optimising for muscles and changed the hair color and eye color, BUT NOT THE HAIRLINE!!
As for where Deus would get tech to do remotely controlling a body.
Aliens?
Vale. A super that can leave her body shell behind, which does not yield a solution to distant communication but does confirm the author was thinking about transhumanism when doing Vale, someone close to Deus??
Opal/Luana Carvalho???
A member of the villain group that attacks the heroes at the restaurant due to V’s violence aura. She normally works for deus for shifting cargo. Has the power to open portals between points in space.
>prep time
Deus is Batman! Notice how you never see them together.
Or Dr Doom. He might have some Deusbots doing some of the more dangerous and boring jobs.
Fingernails… I can’t help but think that if this comic was written by a woman there would be more trips to the nail salon to get their finger and toenails done, perhaps a fingernail-based superhero (Molly Millions?). Hard light can’t replace the salon because they get massages too. I am fascinated that female fencers do the colors of their country’s flag on their off hand fingernails nowadays. Maybe not Max, but Harem would spend a whole body’s worth of time on nails. Horrid to draw, I’m sure!
Due to the texturing of the chair for a moment I thought Sciona had a penis, then I remembered this isn’t that kind of, or rated comic and did a double take.
2nd panel: CERTIANLY
Ah, I see that it’s fixed now, thanks!
You don’t have to neutralize the hypno chemicals, you just need to block the carrier molecule that transports the chemicals through the skin into the blood stream, or block the receptors for the hypno chemicals. I’m sure Deus had fun figuring it out. The thought of Sciona’s reaction when he sprang it on her would have made him giddy with anticipation, and would have motivated him more than simple self-preservation.
It does make me wonder if Deus is wearing some kind of subdermal alien armor to keep the drugs from entering his system, or if he just has broad-spectrum drug normalizers to ensure he can’t be poisoned at all.
I’d consider the “I spent a lifetime building an immunity to Iocane Powder” gambit, but I don’t see him unravelling enough for that.
Guys’ is the correct possessive plural form (ie “thing that belongs to all of you guys”).
“Folks” is almost always better then “guys” because it’s not even slightly keyed to a specific gender, and presumably you have female readers.
What is wrong with you? Of course “Guys'” is the correct possessive. When did “s’s” ever even become a consideration?
He knew she had a chemically addictive touch power. He neutralized it without knowing anything about its composition. He knows a lot about magic and uberscience. Either he’s wearing a force field full-body condom, or he’s piloting a homunculus.
My personal theory, and idk if it was already discussed, bue Deus’ Super Power could be along the line of “Knowledge=Power” so he literally gets stronger and more resilient based off what he knows. The raging megalomania is just a quirky side effect lol.
Bah.
If you can talk during sex, it’s not good sex.
Honestly, I feel like Deus already explained it, he has super-intellect. Immunity to drugs affecting one’s mind is merely a reasonable by-product of that, especially since he technically isn’t running off of his brain-chemistry anymore than Maxima’s strength is dependant on her musculature.
I can see a situation where Deus found out enough to know the chemicals won’t poison him, and allowed Sciona to use it on him to see if it could start to get him drunk, while expecting it to do nothing because he literally doesn’t thinking with his brain. Of course, if Deus was the type to suffer from depression, this same explanation would mean that he couldn’t be affected by anti-depressants.
GAWD I love this “bad guy”.
I put 100 fake dollars on him being the true hero in disguise saving the universe from a threat nobody knows even exists.
Last chapter, universe destroying threat is introduced, everybody gasps, and this guy tells them all his prior actions were to prepare for this.
And then solves the problem they never knew existed.
And it all makes retroactively sense what he has been doing.
here’s a thought – Deux actually is affected by the hypno-touch. But his brain also works at thousand times the speed of everyone else – so he’s able to at least smirk and quip as if normal. Sciona hasn’t asked him to do anything yet.
Anybody else want panel 3 as one of the next pinups? Because wow. Just wow.