Gunnerkrigg Court

>Better get a closer look at these.
gunnerkrigg.com/

"Giant, muscular strongwoman" really needs to be a more common thing.

Wait. If these are like those tattoos that Anja, Donlan, and Eglamore have, that means Eglamore personally tattooed Parley's back

>still no sign of William and Janet, the two most important characters of the webcomic
How will ever I know if they'll relationship is still secret???!!!!! 0/10, Tom

Is it just me, or is it really hard to pull off a "showing off the powers to your friends" scene without it coming off as... amateurish and fanfiction-y.

Maybe

Or the Court has an ink contact out in the wilds

>Smitty mirin' in the fourth panel

George has never been this cute. I like it!

>Andrew eating up the eye candy
Smitty, pls.

Yeah, and? Ain't nothing wrong from getting some ink from your mentor.

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He's in awe, hugely turned on, and aware of his impending doom all at the same time.

Parley looks off model in the strips
it's like her head is way too small for her body

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Smitty is all about dat visible bra strap.

So, this whole "I have superpowers now' plotline feels really contrived.

not really, parley was appointed as the new protector by the leader dude (janet's dad) so she has to get traiing from the previous dude, eglamore.

She already had superpowers.

Now she just has more.

>character goes to get training to be a badass
>comes back as a badass
>"contrived"
You're just mad cause we didn't see a training montage. Be patient. That's almost certainly what the next extra comic is going to be.

OH LAWD MAKE IT STOP.

MY DICK CAN'T GET ANY MORE HARDER.

LET ME OFF THIS RIDE.

>Annie has magic powers
>Kat has innate, semi-supernatural understanding of technology
>Smitty is just a "normal" guy with ridiculously good luck
>Parley spent the summer in training and came back as a superhuman

Now we just need someone to replace 90% of their body with cybernetics and we'll be full Shadowrun.

N O B O O B S
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Robot has 100% of his body cybernetics

He should get a haircut.

RIP smitty's dick

Where did Eglamoee fuck off to? Gonna go see Jones or something?

Soo, Parley's boobs got smaller? She's getting a realistic female bodybuilder body? That's a shame.

Not smaller in the sense that they shrank, but the added muscle mass pulls them a little tauter.

"Oh, there's one more trick I have to show you. You're going to love this one, Smitty. Jones taught it to me."

>She's getting a realistic female bodybuilder body?
No, she's getting a realistic combat oriented body. Bodybuilders lift to show off. Fighters get swole to fight. There's a very real difference.

>That's a shame.
How is that a shame? That's just how it is.

>tfw finally gonna have sex
>she unfastened her belt
>suddenly a huge bulge is shaping inside her panty
wat do

Lick lips in anticipation, get more lube.

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>tfw Andrei will never draw porn this good ever again

>she big

Pearl, no.

> The "montage" is Parley and Elgamore tanning on a beach sipping margaritas.
> So what now?
> We get magical steroids.
> Neat.

That's because it's basically an exposition dump.
Show, not tell.

Why would you say that?

Well the other way is to have a situation that requires usage of all those new tricks and then it becomes contrived. Or even look like an asspull when "just got it from training" is an exact answer to the situation several times in a row.

>and we'll be full Shadowrun.
Wouldn't mind seeing the gunner gang in this style.

I think the most obvious question here is ...
Why the fuck would the court have brick buildings?!
It's supposed to be this giant artificial landscape of monolithic blocks of concrete and steel that stands in direct contrast to nature.
What is something as old, inefficient and natural as STONE bricks doing there?

Except that's how you generally do it though.
Have you ever seen an anime?

> Hurr contrivance!
Protip: Combat Training gives combat skills and experience. It doesn't happen sitting behind a computer screen getting mad at a comic.

>brick buildings
Good question, but it appears to be presented as one of the mysteries in the story. Tom just says he used Birmingham buildings as reference, which, like most in Britain, are brick.

Some say the founders built the court, by what means we can only speculate; others that the Seed Bismuth grew it.

I like to think of the Seed as a magical thing that creates things inspired by human thoughts, maybe with part of the Tic-Toc property of transforming its environment.

>The ward protects her hand
>Doesn't give her strength
>She's just strong enough to smash through brick walls like the fucking Kool-Aid Man

Pfft. Jones.

And she didn't even try hard.
Very nonchalant smashing.

I want Parley to punch my dick

She's a pretty big girl nowadays.

>tfw when your girl starts sexy times by busting through your bedroom wall bare ass naked shouting "OH YEAH!"

>no excuses now, we're going doggy style tonight

I miss the days when Parley was attractive.

Jeez, no wonder Eggers told her to be careful.

How can you miss today?

I'm so fucking hard right now.

Man, I am really not feeling this

What are you, gay?

Right?
Nowadays she's so blindingly beautiful that I can't even see her :(

Eglamore's had these same powers since the beginning of the comic. Parley not getting them at some point would be weird.

Eglamore never used the breakfall, he just landed hard because he had strong calves

Sad that George is the realistic type of musclegirl.
Women's faces on men's bodies are not attractive.

What, did you want She-Hulk or something, where she looks like a penthouse model but with abs and big biceps?

Too late to turn back now, user. But make this your mantra:

>stay on top

This is where it comes in handy to have a direct narrator in your story. That way you can get straight to the point and address the audience directly without exactly breaking the 4th wall.

>big biceps

It's not entirely clear. He IS shown using the wards when he rescues Annie from Ysengrin, but it's hard to tell if he uses a breakfall when he lands.
Pages 1083-1086 if anyone's curious.

I think we all wanted that.
Most of us had the good sense not to hope for it.

Speak for yourself, hardbody Parley is hot.

I legit am kind of mad that we didn't get a training montage

>I think we all wanted that.
When will you realize that "we" aren't a hivemind?

actually kat replaced 10% of his body with organics!!

He means, for example, if a giant monster appeared out of nowhere and with materially serving no more purpose beyond being a punching bag for the character to show her new powers.

of course we did you giant faggot

I don't think anyone but you wanted that, judging by the comments I've seen here and generally speaking the comments about female superheroes on co.
Most of us would like them to not look like super models and instead look like they can take a hit or two.

agreed with one contention

>realistic

there's nothing "realistic" about a body women can only achieve in real life by injecting mass amounts of male hormones, so if you're going to go ahead and pretend a girl can achieve manstrength you might as well go ahead and pretend she can achieve it while still looking like a woman

Steroids are so stupid.
I hate that they were invented.
They fucked up bodybuilding, they fucked up sports and nowadays most muscular people look like absolute shit because they use em.
They're the worst invention for muscle lovers ever.

Pretty sure they weren't created for that.

First of all, the body produces natural steroids, hormones and the like. Second, I believe artificial steroids were created to treat inflammation and swelling, as well as to supplement the body's own hormonal imbalances.

It was only when artificial steroids were distilled for the specific purpose of promoting muscle growth, for athletes, that things turned to shit.

Sure, but you can still regret that side effect, just like the atom bomb, but worse.

It only just occurred to me that Smitty would be the perfect partner in researching court mysteries. He'd find either the goal, or clues to it, fairly easily.

>Smitty solves mysteries because he's lucky
That's like saying Dawnstar's tracking power allows her to find where the plot is.

Stop being an autist. You know full well what he meant.

Why isn't Zimmy on this page?

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>tattoos
fucking disgusting

Zimmykrigg Gamms

she looks like a heroin addict

Don't get-a-teenage-girl-addicted-to-drugs-so-you-can-convince-her-to-cheat-on-her-boyfriend-while-you-train-her-and-mark-her-with-sex-magic-tattoos-shame.

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she is a crack whore

"Steroids: Like the atom bomb, but worse" - Sup Forums 2016

I understand now how ol' Jimmy Eggsworth is able to give "Stone Cold Jones" the D on the reg.

I don't get it if you like mens' bodies then why don't you just look at men?

You will be very confused if you ever go to /d/

because men are icky

i feel bad for smitty's hips

He don't.

Now we see why her father predicted she would be a male. It can still happen folks.

She'll crack you, you whore.

Smitty cracks whores, and I'm okay.

Sad thing is people think Trans Parley is progressive when it just shows that women can't be strong without becoming a man themselves.

Who said trans parley'd be progressive?