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Grrl Power #929 - The technicolor yawn is in the eye of the beholder
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Since I am not talented enough to draw something so beautiful that you all throw up, I'm going to say Umbrivions use some sort of psychic attack to distract prey and their prey's friends with double rainbow levels of visual cortex rapture. Some sort of beholder style psi-aura that only works with eye contact, like a weird gorgon.
Oh man, imagine a spell that temporarily turns the visual cortex into a pleasure center for the brain. That would be a weird spell certainly, but I think it'd be a lot worse than a sphere of darkness. Instead of no input, everything you look at makes your eyes flutter and your knees buckle. A sword comes flashing at your face and catches a glint of sunlight, and you're like "Aw fuck, so good, just like that baby!" If that spell swapped the function of your visual cortex and pleasure center, you'd be blind and jizzing yourself every time you looked at a bright light... then if someone flicked your nipple, you'd see a burst of... leaves? I don't know what a nipple flick would translate to visually. Dancing pastries?
What I'm saying is that in a world with magic, there would be some fucking messed up recreational spells.
This page partially exists because I felt a little bad that Henchwench had a pretty amazing run, where Robert Nava's cameo only got a single page. But there's other story stuff I wanted to do to wrap up this Times Square sequence, (which is almost done, hang in there) so it's not just a pity cameo or anything. :)
Star Justice 12 is indeed out! The audiobook version will be out when the narrators can get to it, probably a month or two.
Oh, wait, that's not the cover. That's the fan-art one I did that MSE showed his artist and said, "Do this, but better." (Here's mine: https://grrlpowercomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SJ12d.jpg , click the link to the e-book to see the final.) To be fair, he definitely succeeded. I actually think mine is pretty good, but it lacks the final one or two passes needed to make it "professional" looking. The proportions need that Liquify filter tweak, the lighting could use another pass, as could Juliette's hair. Also the background is atrocious. It looks like an obligatory placeholder, which it basically was.
Comments
Mike
No new comic, did something break?
Mark Nach
Overloading the receptors causing something akin to an attack of vertigo perhaps.
akrasia
It may be more than a bitch, it may be fatal.
Reigys
He did that? How
Foradain
Oh, and congratulations on possibly causing a new TVTropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoPrisonSegregation ^_^
Brett
Not the worst reaction. In 2nd ed DnD looking at a naked Nymph could outright kill you. And as the old joke goes, I’ve never been so happy to make a saving throw😈. Also I’m pretty sure Dabbler has spells with sense swapping properties. No way the succubi would miss that trick.
Churchill (formerly TeaBear)
To quote ST:TOS "Is there in Truth No Beauty?"
A Patreon of the Ahts
Rule 34, 3..2..
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I mean thank you and this awesome, a most disturbing and glorious "reveal".
Paul Rendell
Looks like he wasn't lying about being both beautiful and making people vomit. Not sure how the "being beautiful enough to make people vomit" thing works but... um... something something flashing lights?
Nimrod009
Getting some Biblically accurate/As described in Dantes Paradiso Angel vibes off of the Umbrivion fellow, I wonder if his appearance affects species with dominant non-visual senses such as eco or eltro-location/imaging. Hopefully, the Eel/Aquatic Snake Alien has some sort of rapid cycling filtration system as part of his suite, eww.
Man now I want to see some pinups of Pinkie...
Marc Vun Kannon
So it appears watching them catch their prey is beautiful, watching them eat their prey is not. Or perhaps there's a secondary aura so prey too far out to catch are repulsed, so they can't come to save the prey closer in?
DakkaDakkaWAAGH
Heh, my first thought was that it was a fluorescent-LSD Corpse Flower, and that it was the stink that had everyone hurling.
Ray
That poor snake alien. I hope their suit designer planned for such events.
Mark Nach
I do feel for the poor water breather. That fouled helmet is gonna be a bitch to deal with.
Stan
Magic or psychic attack matters not to the victim. Hopefully Umbrivions don't consume sapient life forms while they are un-digesting their food. Land wars on their planet could've been a real mess if they (the Umbrivions) aren't immune to their own attack. Not much mating going on either.
Whoriar
And the book is pretty darn good too. (SJ13) Read it this weekend and now I'm suffering from withdrawal...
Mark Nach
Got to love Pinkie and the Umbrivion for trying to help.
