Grim Tales From Down Below

Hmmm, I think I heard of that word in that context before.

edited 10th Jun '13 7:58:11 AM by MarqFJA

You're unfamiliar with the Rack? You hang out in the wrong places.

No, not unfamiliar with it. It's just that I don't see/hear the word "rack" used often as the name for the aforementioned torture device, hence I more or less forgot about that sense of the word. No prize for which senses of "rack" I am more familiar with^note Namely, "shelf", "frame on which to hang stuff on", and "slang for breasts"..

edited 10th Jun '13 8:58:26 PM by MarqFJA

How does one even shoot arrows like that?

What, you mean such that they split those apples neatly in halves? I imagine it's a matter of hitting the correct spot with not-too-strong-but-not-too-weak force such that the force distrubtion results in macroscopically "perfect" splitting (microscopic level is another story altogether). Arrow heads are pretty much flat, you know, so as long as the arrow hits such that the flat edges are vertically oriented, it should be theoretically possible.

Still.

Those are some crazy archery skills Mimi's got.

Meanwhile, possible pairing of Aku/Him continues to creep me out to no end.

Minnie, not Mimi.

I wonder how Mandy matches up to the other underworld rulers at this time. She does have Grim in her pocket but she was mortal to begin with.

Darn it, keep mistaking. :c

As for Mandy, I dare to say she's a competent enough combatant to be even against the other underworld people. And if that fails, she's got Grim on her leash anyway.

Sure she can mow down tons of minions and stomp on handpicked assassins but if she has reason to go one-on-one with the likes of Him or Aku (or Mimi or Chi for that matter) without Grim's assistance would it turn out as well? Minnie and Junior have gotten their share of beatdowns already.

Mandy, if Him had the kind of balls you're attesting he'd do that shit himself not send his daughter to do it for him.

That last panel is filled with AWWWW!

Well, he had to have had a lot of balls to even think of screwing with Mandy in any way — and not just once, but twice, and within a very short time frame too. And he did actually involve himself personally the first time around (confronting Junior); he's using the second time to punish his "daughter" Her for failing him, with Mandy being a convenient target. Besides, sending Her to do the dirty work can be easily taken as implying that Mandy is, in Him's opinion, not worth wasting his time and dirtying his hands with Mandy's blood by doing it personally — i.e. he looks down upon her. That's a double insult.

I don't think any of the three big players would face each other in person except as an absolute last resort but once Mandy successfully brings down the dance floor one of more of her rivals might have to choose between an old fashioned eldritch blastdown and defeat with humiliation. What then? Grim seems a bit too much of the diplomatic type to just stomp her foes for her.

Another update. There's a stock phrase for this... "Walking straight into the maw of the beast", I think?

Two Hundred bite marks? Masochism Tango anyone? On the other hand I'd be willing to take a few of those for the team.

Another update. Uh-oh, hunger-induced hallucinations, anyone? Or might it be something more sinister?

I just figured it was a rescue.

No, Jeff is a spirit head in Him's office.

Unless he got out.

New strip.

Update. And here I thought that it was going to end with Mandy calmly giving an armor-piercing "If you're jealous of the girl, just say so" response to Minnie, prompting a furious denial.

Thanks for the correction.

edited 23rd Jul '13 3:11:40 PM by MarqFJA

That links to the comic beforehand. here Huh, that doesn't work at all. Weird.

edited 29th Jul '13 11:01:19 AM by tricksterson

Works fine for me.

Now it's working. Yours, still not mine.

OK, I know what's wrong: Your markup somehow added tvtropes.org/ to the URL.