Shadowgirls

SporkBot said:

Hmm…glowing red glyphs COULD mean involvement from Moira, but then, she's a little occupied at the moment. Y'know, what with a powerful artifact bonding with her ocular cavity. That, and who know how far away the police station is from the mall? (Okay, BESIDES the Daves…)

It COULD be another mage, possibly on Becka's side. But then, this Dream-Weaver seems to have a hint of the ambiguous.

Rule 1 of Thalmaturgy (hope I speeled that rite): A thing is only as far away as your nearest connection to it. I don't know for certain that Granny Gollum has a bit of Becca's hair or blood or nail clippings, but at the very least she's a direct blood relation, so metaphysically it's not that far.

Also, Becca's technically in whatever we're using as the other realm here. Might be Dreamland, the Astral Plane, the Nevernever, or some other lesser used version, but regardless the one place she isn't is physical relatity. 

I wish my grandma could lay traps for metaphysical beings that torment me daily!  Or this is where the Destroyer's mini-series ties into the main story.

Not sure abut the complexity of a Ward in SG-verse. But anyone with knowledge of Magick,and a photo, or even just a clear image of them in their mind can cast a protective spell with a few minutes of prep. So if that is a ward, and it was cast by Moira and not the symbiote's own protections at work, it could've been done after Moira left the trailer for her hotel the night they met.

That's our DRey – narrowly skirting kiddie pr0n charges by selectively fuzzing the model's anatomy.   (sir, I salute you, and if charges are pressed I'll devoutly deny saying so… oh, wait)

Post edited 10:57 am – June 23, 2010 by Bounty

Forsythe said:That's our DRey – narrowly skirting kiddie pr0n charges by selectively fuzzing the model's anatomy.   (sir, I salute you, and if charges are pressed I'll devoutly deny saying so… oh, wait)

I was actually really shocked, because I remember WAAAAY back in the corn fields when the Dave's had a discussion on just how far they'd go with Becca vs. Charon, and I'm pretty sure that Anime style clothing blasts were solidly in the "we won't do that with the 14 y/o" column.

EDIT: Found it, kinda:

by Mach Sabre on Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:06 am

Believe it or not hon, as big of perverts that me and D.Rod are, we actually do love and cherish our female readers. I actually take a little pride in the fact we have a book that can appeal to both sexes. And while yes, I do occasionally fall into "cheesecake" territory with some of the more "exhibitionist" pages I've drawn, it comes down to this:

I drew a line for myself long ago. I have no problem with nudity, or even intense sexual situations IF the story calls for it. (Outright porn though, is an outright "no".) However, as one of the creators of the book, Shadowgirls will never need to call for it. It's not because I'm self-censoring, but it's because it's unneeded. Why the hell does a book about a mother and daughter monster fighting duo need nudity?

(I think I just answered my own question about the censored words.)

My problem is, I actually love the page. The part of my brain that reacts to things that are socially unacceptable though is screaming about the page, (the panty shots were setting it off some too) and I finally figured out why:  the collar.

If something blasts her clothes off, that's one thing, that if it blasts off only the clothes that need to come off to shoot Pr0n…

Dave Reynolds said:Yes, the collar wasn't destroyed. That wasn't accidental.

I'm not saying it was. I actually figure it's going to be important to the story, possibly a minor artifact in it's own right. But I am saying that if you forget the comic for a moment an let your mind dwell on the phrase:

" 14 year old girl wearing nothing but a collar."

The almost imediate reaction is "WHOA! is that Safe for Work?"  The follow-up question, which is the one that I feel like a Dick for asking, but is the one that matters, is "Will the story be negatively impacted if Becca doesn't loose her under-garments?"

Or it's become imbued with an echo of Becca's own power if she wears it alot, and since she wears it ALL the time…

Besides carrying part of the Child of Nodens inside her? Seems like thats a fair bit of powah to me.

Bounty said:

I'm also looking forward to how this affects the story line.

Aye. I was thinking yesterday that, if she pops into the dressing room naked, and there's no sign of that likely expensive dress, brows shall furl, questions will rise, and the first and worst assumptions are the ones people (in the comic) will stick to. 'Cause hey…it's Becka, after all. She may have a scant number of people ready to die, kill, and terrorize jocks for her, but that won't apply to snobby fashion store clerks she off-handedly called an Oompa-Loompa.