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Grrl Power #1088 - Password is "drowssap" (Patreon)

Published:
2022-09-29 10:01:00
Edited:
2022-09-29 16:53:44
Imported:
2026-06

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Thank you for the support! You guys are awesome!

Back to the regular coloring for now. I'm probably going to experiment with it over the next few pages. I think the flat cell colors were nice, but would have benefitted from at least one highlights pass. I'll find the right balance. Honestly I'd like a little more time to work on novels and other things, and I basically haven't written anything since I released Tamer: Enhancer 2. I've dabbled with the opening scene for TE3 and I like how it's started to come together, but by dabbled, I mean less than 1000 words so far. 

So this was their ultimate goal. The List. As stated way early in the comic, the government doesn't require supers to join the military or anything, but it does keep a list of them. Ostensibly, this is in case they need someone who can put out forest fires with their mind, or grant waterbreathing to everyone in a 333 yard range, or can fix all the cracks in the Hoover Dam by running his hands over them. There are probably a few people in the government who like having that list "just in case," but this isn't an X-Men comic. Yes, realistically there would be a lot of fear and suspicion around the existence of supers, but that's just because people suck in general, and I'll hint at that stuff on occasion, but the comic is mostly told from Sydney's point of view (obviously not always, as this page demonstrates) but she's mostly shielded from that sort of stuff due to efforts from Arianna and others. Also racism is a pretty boring reason to be a shitty person, and I like my villains to be a little bit deeper than that. I don't feel like I can ignore it entirely as a motivation, because then it feels like I'm just denying an essential aspect of humanity? I don't know. We'll see.

Anyway. Yeah, so this list isn't made public. Of course there are plenty of private citizens who have super powers who aren't shy about letting the world know about it on social media, but there are a lot who want to keep it to themselves for various reasons. Some just want to live life as a normal person, and some realize they have some sort of power that could be exploited by bad people.

This list exists in more than just Archon HQ, but only in places like a basement somewhere in the Pentagon, Quantico, Langley, etc. But the actual FBI headquarters probably doesn't have air vents you can drive a golf cart through, so a blitzkrieg on Archon HQ when the big guns are out was determined to have the best chance of success.

I'm not sure what ecokinesis is. Like, general environmental powers? Or maybe a superpower relating to the economy? Either way it sound OP.

Rammstein was awesome. We were in the third row, but that was off to the side, not in the "splash zone" pit right in front of the stage. I'd guess we were... 150 feet from the stage? I wore earplugs the whole time because my family has a history of hearing loss, and I want to be able to hear things when I'm 90. Honestly I forgot they were in most of the time. It was still sternum rattlingly loud. I kept thinking, "This man needs CPR, quick, get him to a Rammstein concert!" Watching people in the audience and guessing what they were on was at least as fun as the show. There was a woman in the front row who hung on to the railing and headbanged the whole time. I was like, "Hey, good for her for not getting a migraine from that." I'm no expert on drugs, but at a minimum, I'd guess some amphetamines were involved. Four seats over was a guy with his head tilted back and his arms up in the air slowly dancing in a circle most of the concert. For him, I'd guess weed, a little ecstasy, and half a Xanax. Or, hell, I don't know. Peyote and redbull? I am not a drug knower person.

Most everyone there was wearing black, because German Metal, but down in the stage pit, there was one woman with a very Barbie/Bimbo body - probably fake boobs, tiny waist, mid-back blonde hair, and she was wearing a latex pink mini dress and thigh high latex stiletto heels, and she spent a lot of time dancing around very sexily while her short-haired friend filmed her. I couldn't help but think, "She definitely has an OnlyFans page, and her attractive if slightly more butch friend does all the technical stuff for her." I pointed her out to my wife and she had the exact same thoughts, so I'm fairly confident my scenario is accurate.

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Comments

Forecaster

Bit of a typo in the first panel: "with three of our heaviest hitters were" was probably meant to be "when three of our heaviest hitters were". Or the "were" was meant to be dropped.

Adam C.

Aww. I was hoping you's stick to the simpler coloring style and save the highlighted style for special occasions.

Mike

Wasn't the List a plot point in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Justaguy

My first thought for ecokenisis was weird, I was thinking ectoplasm alla ghostbusters style. My next thought was Sydney putting people who stole "the list" on "The LIST".

Techdragon

ARC needs a super like one of my old RPG characters whose powers were about restoring inanimate materials. She could effectively undo recent changes to almost any type of material as long as it wasn't alive and changes occurred recently. Great for after action damage control and excellent support in active combat situations.

Michael Obert

Harpoon Fetish FTW! Never mess with the techies!

Thisguy

As far as I know, Groose doesn’t have any powers. The fact that as soon as the base gets invaded he Immediately goes hunting with the ‘augur’ tells me he doesn’t need them.

Town Crier

Never seen a story line wherein the bad guys mess with an uber-super who just wants to be left alone, but I bet that's how at least one super-criminal organization disappears from the map. I have used this scenario in fantasy RPG's, wherein the party runs into a retired high-level hero who is enjoying the quiet life in a small rural hamlet.

Town Crier

Unsure. I barely know the movie exists. Stallone not being one of my preferred actors.

Aclys

And this right here is why making lists like these is such a bad idea. No government in history has ever kept its secrets forever and the First people to get ahold of those secrets (not counting those the government actively shares those secrets with like their own staff etc) is invariably people of malevolent intent of the domenstic or foreign variety. I get why they want to have that list, but its inevitable that the people on that list would be better off if they did not make such a list in the first place.

Greg Morrow

Remember the guy who can isolate gold from the mantle? Yeah, his name is on the list. I think the attackers will be interested in his name if they decrypt the list.

PucThePlayful

Ecokinesis sounds like the ecomancy from Pirates of Dark Water. Probably the ability to manipulate plants or weather.

BJ

And if they already have a technomancer on the payroll, they're going to get that open in five minutes or less.

Fogel

Whoever invaded the base had a frighteningly impressive amount of intel, to not only know about the existence of the list, but also where exactly to find it, *and* where to find a key to open it

Nematrec

For something like that, I wouldn't be surprised if it had a form of GPS to also make sure it wasn't on foreign soil when someone tries to access it. Not like a tracker that would point to it, just passively pick up the GPS satellite signals, check where it is, and self destruct if it's obviously not where it's supposed to be. Also realistically, there wouldn't be one single list with everyone. More likely several lists, likely with some overlap, which are categorized. A "These guys from this geopolitical region" here, a "Those guys with radiation powers" there, etc. Compartmentalized. Though I could see arc-light having a larger set of these lists than other agencies, and referring to them together as "The list"

Some Ed
>>92584906

Also possibly self-destruct if it can't tell where it is. "If you're trying to use me somewhere GPS isn't available, you're obviously not authorized to have me."

eddi_TBH

Too bad we had skip the All-goose portion of the story. Although I guess most of was screaming and spraying butter cream dust everywhere.

Aclys
>>92623562

I imagine it was a lot like playing one of the better first person shooters, the kind where you can run around with a gatling/mini-gun with bayonets mounted around the tip.

Hurley
>>92584906

Fun fact: all GPS communication is one-way and always has been. GPS "trackers" are really two devices connected together; a GPS reciever and a radio beacon. GPS satellites simply send out their own unique signals constantly. Receivers pick up those signals with an array of antennas and triangulate position using relative signal strengths. This is why a reciever needs to see at least three satellites to work. Receivers also calculate a relativistic compensation to deal with time dilation caused by the differing relative velocities on the surface and in orbit (really!) The GPS network was one of the first real-world validations of Einstein's ideas about time dilation.