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[arbre_rieur]

DIAL H #9 came out this week. We get more on the Centipede, the Canadian government's own super-powered assassin...

Roxie and Nelson have a run-in with the Canadian secret agent Centipede, who's after their H-Dial. Roxie dials up to fight him.



Her name's Minotaura, by the way.

Much later, the Centipede works his way free and heads back to base:





Roxie and Nelson decide to break into this secret Canadian super-facility (which turns out to be hidden beneath a government payroll center).

Comments

Oh Canada...

[blue_bolt]

From the people that brought you the Weapon X program, here's our newest creation: Dial H for homicide!

*I was originally going to say "the Centipede," but my pride as a Canadian couldn't let me do that.

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[equinox216]

Dial H for Hosers?

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[crinos]

Dial H for Department H?

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[glprime]

Dial H for Hockey?

(too on the nose?)

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[kraesil]

I read that as Dial H for Hickey at first.

I'll, er, go back to hide in my corner now...

[captainbellman]

I would have thought it'd be indignity enough to be the super-powered being who makes everyone involuntarily shudder and/or remind themselves to get a bowel cancer screening when they hear his name.

[jmacq1]

Again with the secret meta-assassins Canada?

I mean really...what did Canada do that convinced comic-writers they're one of the most evil governments in the world?

[akodo_rokku]

Nobody that polite *isn't* secretly evil.

[icon_uk]

How very true old bean....

[darkblade]

John Byrne decided we were and everyone has just gone with it since then.

[leoboiko]

I'm always bothered by human tits on animal humanoids (birdwomen being the worst). Catgirls should have four pairs of nipples, and minocow should have udders.

…what do you mean “furry”?

[akodo_rokku]

I've always thought serpent and lizard people were the worst. But then I played Legend of the Five Rings for like a decade, with its enboobed Naga.

[leoboiko]

I'll shamefully admit that somehow I had the hots for the Naga-ettes in Chrono Trigger, 16-bit sprite and all. In my defense, I was like 13.

[akodo_rokku]

Well c'mon, look at that halter top and awesome pink ponytail.

[donnblake]

I get that too, but at the same time, they shouldn't be bipedal or have fingers either.

[leoboiko]

I don't know, somehow I'm just particularly bothered by breasts. Perhaps it's the sameness of the standard "female figure" in fantasy art, regardless of species/planet/hybridization.

[halloweenjack]

I'm pretty sure it's a visual "tits on a bull" joke.

[halloweenjack]

For anyone who hasn't read Mieville's New Crobuzon trilogy (and you really should if you haven't), he's gone to the human-animal hybrid well many times; the Centipede isn't quite the khepri (women with a giant beetle for a head), but it's close.

[donnblake]

Visually, maybe, but the Khepri are also one of the most developed xenian races in the Bas-Lag books, and there's plenty to distinguish them.

[bradygirl_12]

LOL, the Glimpse! Very cool! :)

[silicondream]

Props for the "Captain Stochastic" joke.

[bizarrohulk]

"Subyellow"?

Isn't the technical name for that "orange"?

[donnblake]

It's a color you mostly only find in Pepperland...