Grrl Power #1342 - I'll show you yours

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Did you know it's only been 3 days since the last comic? Because it feels like it's been 3 weeks to me. Every time I move it makes me want to get rid of 90% of my stuff, but I usually only get rid of like 10-15%. I have a box that has nothing but little boxes in it. Little boxes that some of my fancier dice came in. They're pretty nice boxes. Not cheap cardboard, but like that thick posterboard stuff sealed in... contact paper, I don't know. And they have foam inserts to keep the dice nice and snug. Some of those boxes are actually carved wood or die cast metal. I'm never going to put the dice back in those boxes, but I still stared at that box filled with boxes and debated if I should just chuck it all. Why would I keep that? Why wouldn't I keep that. I'm not going to tell you if I decided to keep it. I like dice though. For my birthday last year I splurged and bought myself a 25mm solid Tungsten D20. It was... very expensive. Was it worth it? The day I got it, my wife got home and saw the stupid grin on my face and was like, "What did you buy?" Apparently I have a tell. And yes, it was worth it.

Confession time. I did mess up slightly when I wrote this page, because in my mind, I had shown what the Skybreaker's portal looks like. (The Skybreaker is the thing Sciona cobbled together from that sickle from the underwater vault that she used to hop to her homeworld.) But in fact, I didn't actually show it in the comic, just the reverse shot of lights playing over Deus and Vale. I don't recall why I made that choice at the time, but it messes up this page, where Sciona is supposed to be recognizing her handywork and realizing Deus is profiting from all her efforts. Maxima, however, wouldn't recognize the portal, because here it's functioning correctly, whereas the first time it opened, things went squiffy. 

Sciona's last line "…for the senator." has the same energy as "They're waiting for you, Gordon… in the test chamber…" I think we all remember that line as a little more dangerous and a lot more arch than it was actually spoken. "...in the tesssst chamber..." In reality it sounds like someone who wasn't specifically cast for a voice full of gravitas just clearly enunciating his line. For some reason, in my mind, it was spoken by the G-Man, and like everything he says, it's in a vaguely threatening register, and the "in the test chamber…" has him on the cusp of sexual gratification, with his voice barely cracking, like he was trying to do an impression of WOPR.  (God, that movie was so good. If you haven't seen it, rectify your transgression.) Of course if Sciona suddenly went all gravel and ice, Maxima might just stop the byplay and demand to know who Sciona, er, Isabella really is. So instead Sciona is just grinding her teeth so hard that powdered enamel is puffing out of her mouth with each breath.

Okay, not really, but close.