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Grrl Power #1073 - Spooky scary shapeshifters
🕑 Added 2022-08-08 10:00:06 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Hopefully people get what's happening here. I could have drawn a dotted outline of X standing opposite Chimyriad, but it turns out that not drawing people is a lot easier than drawing them.
Chimyriad is a cameo character, and technically this is their second appearance. (The prior one being the previous page) Only, they're a shapeshifter, so who knows, maybe they've been in dozens of pages?
Someone suggested that I occasionally randomly add X to the Who's Who. That struck me as really funny, but I probably won't.
ArcLIGHT and ArcDARK usually recruit all the supers with spy powers, at least, assuming they have the temperament for it. Shapeshifting could be useful when it comes to thwarting super powered bank robbers of course, but it's far better to not let the enemy know you even have the capability. Members of ArcLIGHT are really more analysts, whereas ArcDARK doesn't even exist on the books, and they probably do a lot more than invisibly hang around Archon HQ.
Dumb people are a considerable drag factor in a lot of professions. My wife's been working from home since the pandemic - it turns out a lot of jobs don't require dedicated office space, whoda thunk? - but the number of times a day I see her throw up a hand in that "what the fuck how is anyone this dumb" way almost makes me chuckle (but also makes me grateful that my job no longer involves a lot of (or any, really) coworkers).
If you're a con man or a legit sales person, it doesn't matter, dumb people are probably your bread and butter. Unless you're selling something like, I don't know, oil derricks, or something that requires a great deal of expertise and manpower. Then you probably (hopefully) don't deal with a lot of dumb people. But I dunno, maybe the people buying stuff like that are dummies and that's why they have a massive team of engineers to deploy anything.
Comments
Brett Peirce
how else is he going to be quiet?
Dave Barrack
I do care. :)
Thed Preston
dunno if you care but it's spelled "temperAment", not "temperment"
Alan
seeing as how X is invisible does he need Chimyriad? Maybe Chimyriad is the muscle.
eddi_TBH
Smart people will sniff suspiciously at anything that resembles week-old spam. Dumb people will start making sandwiches. So why bother to learn spelling and grammar?
Andrew Denton
I've heard that that's why scam emails are so obvious: they're trying to filter in favour of dumb people.
Foradain
It's an arms race, between engineers, trying to design fool-proof whatever it is they're making, and the universe, producing bigger and/or more creative fools.
Foradain
I like the way you showed Chimyriad imitating X's voice. ^_^
Ian Brown
Working in Tech, as much as I hate them, idiots equal job security. As long as someone is screwing something up, there's someone willing to pay me to unscrew it. And I ALSO support working in X more on the sly.
Kaelzaad(The Silverback Grizzly)
That fifth panel, though. Uncanny valley-level creepy. Looks like it was fun to draw. hehe
martin leske
dumb people make it much harder for developers to fool proof their software...
Dan Merget
It's the second appearance of the shapeshifter, not of X. (I thought the shapeshifter was Amorphous until I read the commentary, and realized it was a new character.)
Thomas Dorner
2nd appearance? What about "Ninja sense tingles" in 103/105-107?
Tim
I mean, X is wearing a mask, a hood AND a hat that covers at least one eye, all at the SAME TIME. He has more than earned some constant low-grade ribbing.
Alenil
He should use it more.
Fogel
Ok but that smiling visor is legit creepy as fuck
Thisguy
What’s vampires got to do with purple ponies? … oh, right, you’re referring to the other Twilight. Lol, what does it say about me that ponies come to mind before those books/movies.
Miyaa
Is there an ArcTWILIGHT? And do they sparkle like a vampire being pummeled by Maxima on the equinox at the equator?
