Grrl Power #662 – Interstellar proctologist
These things, whatever Sydney is fighting, apparently don’t fight a lot of enemies that can teleport. Or at least they’ve decided their shield technology is really good against everything but teleportation, and making it work against teleporters would compromise it in other ways that are unacceptable for 98% of their other conflicts.
If you follow me on Twitter, (where I post insightful stuff like how I don’t understand the difference between clam digger pants and capris) you may have already heard this, but man I dislike drawing rubble. It’s so tedious. It does make me respect those crazy splash pages in mangas of bombed out cities and general wreckage. Of course, manga artists have people for that. There are guys who all they do is draw backgrounds and architecture. There are definitely some kind of artists who would find work like that very satisfying, but all my background work is because I want the characters to feel grounded in the world I’m creating. Some of those earlier pages of the comic have literally no background on the panels. Artistically, that can fly if you’ve established an environment, but still a shadow across a wall or something or a gradient or some cross hatching just to avoid a white panel, at least certainly in a color comic. A black and white one can swing that easier.
The next supervillain lair I’m going to design might look like an igloo designed by Apple or something. That should be easy to draw. I can tell you it definitely won’t be disguised as a freshly destroyed building. :/
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new stratedgy: teleport in with shield, light bee again so you’ve got another teleport on standby, drop shield for PPO, teleport away as soon as danger strikes and reswitch to shield just in case
I’ve attempted to read every post on this page so I’m fairly confident that no-one else has brought up this possibility (but I could be wrong); I think Sidney has left her phone behind at her previous position when she teleported, and it could lead to “Squidworth’s” buddies tracking Sid back to Earth. Future plot line maybe?
Pretty sure Sydney isnt getting any cell reception or wifi. There wouldnt be any way to use an offline phone to track where Earth is. In theory, I suppose, if Sydney had some sort of star chart downloaded on her phone they could use that to find Earth. But in real life, no one has an actual star map saved on their phones…
I have a real-time star map on my phone! :-) Vortex planetarium.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vortex.planetarium.app.vortex&hl=en_US
Sidney’s phone most likely has personal information saved on it, like phone numbers and pictures, as well as being a radio device it will emit radio waves in certain frequencies and patterns. I believe a single Hubble Telescope Wallpaper image or any picture of the night sky would be enough to give a technological advanced alien race an approximate location of the Earth in the galaxy and they could hone in on using the radio emissions of the last hundred years. Once close enough they could search for signals matching the ones Sid’s phone emit and they’ve found the Earth. I think. Really, it’s up to the author (Dave) if he wants to go that route.
I feel like the point about a possible saved starmap is valid. It would be a strech, but Sydney is nerdy, I would accept it. But there isnt anything about how the hardware of a cellphone works that would give you any particular clue as to where Earth is. If you are looking for a set of radiowaves to detect a post industrial, pre FTL civilization, you dont need to work that hard. Assume any alien close enough to receive them would notice. And not because of cell phone towers. Somewhere out there, there is a wavefront from the 1936 olymic games heading out into space, at lightspeed. So you just need to be within 83 LY of Earth, and you really cant possibly miss it.
Also as an aside. Given that Humans are apparently a popular Sex Tourism destination for the interstellar community as a whole, I am sure a simple picture ID of Sydney´s species would be enough.
she didn’t drop her shield in between, so even if she let go of her phone, it would be in the shield.
Would that also mean that she could “Halo-port” anything or anyone within the shield, giving her a distinct bonus compared to Harem?
While she can teleport, maybe also with the content of her shield, she only can port to where the light bee ball is and that doesn’t move faster then her. Harem can port anywhere she can see or is familiar with. very different.
Butt Daphne can’t take living passengers, and she has a weight limit
That would be very cool if that is the case. If so, she had better pick it up before too long, in case she has to drop the shield briefly (not too likely) or it starts bouncing around and clonks her in the head (most likely). This is all pure supposition though, for all we (I) know she stuffed it into her jacket off-panel earlier.
Guys you are forgetting one simple thing. The alien council knows about earth they probably have undercover agents in each government. If this thing is connected to them in any way he/she/it should know of earth and Shdney. I am pretty sure that they are and Sydney is fighting the alien government now.
She took the phone with her when she teleported. The phone was in her lap before she teleported, and her hand was there after, so she was holding onto it.
man it would be cool if in the next page it just showed a detail of her beam cutting through mega squidward
There needs to be one small panel in the lower right of the splash page with Sydney delivering a one-liner.
And one more panel where she realizes she flubbed the one-liner and tries to salvage it.
I haven’t read all the comments, so don’t know if its has been said… But I would ABSOLUTELY have put myself on top of those rocks closer to the ass, rather than right next to the big honking foot that could shift over and kick/crush me. Incidentally being closer to the ass means closer proximity for firing and probably less things that can hit me (unless it is going to take a big squid dump).
Also, if she does manage to hollow him out, I expect an immediate ding.
Oh, it should be at least worthy of a Ding or three.
If she kills him, I can see taking time to realize what she’s just done. She’s used her powers to kill.
Yes, killed something that didn’t talk, didn’t acknowledge her other than to attack her, and showed zero mercy as it blasted everything around it.
I would expect some emotional detachment and possibly even questioning if it was even a sapient life form or even a natural life form and not a bio-golem/bio-android, or some such construct like a RoBeast or Living Weapon like a lab grown monster.
Squiddy also didn’t do anything while Sydney blasted all those fighters (oh right, Sydney has already dismissed those as pilot-less drones)
While I would be delighted to see a battle and a victory for The Mighty Halo, I’d also be delighted to skip ahead to a debriefing in the Archon ballroom with the General, where everyone briefly describes the efforts to get her back and what they found her doing when the reopened the portal (or opened a new one.)
Maxima: We never could have gotten Recruit Sydney back if Dabbler hadn’t realized…”
Dabbler: Much as I’d love to take all the credit, the key was when Harem realized…”
Harem: “But I didn’t have a clue til we returned…”
Maxima: “And then we crashed through ready to rescue…”
Dabbler: “Yeah, rescue her after she got the rest of us safely out!”
Maxima: “But the aliens were in full flight away from Halo – couldn’t get away fast enough!”
Harem: “So, The Mighty, exactly what did you do? Inquiring minds, and all that.”
Well it would be the ideal time to go to another story part like Vale delivering Skybreaker to Deus or archon logistics for digging out Scionas HQ so that we munch our fingernails in suspension what happens next…
Are you a psychic? That’s just what happened! That’s amazing!
Honestly every time I see that first panel with Sydney smiling looking at the blue orb the Grinch song just starts playing in my mind. Your a mean one Mr Grinch etc etc. :)
I feel like the point about a possible saved starmap is valid. It would be a strech, but Sydney is nerdy, I would accept it. But there isnt anything about how the hardware of a cellphone works that would give you any particular clue as to where Earth is. If you are looking for a set of radiowaves to detect a post industrial, pre FTL civilization, you dont need to work that hard. Assume any alien close enough to receive them would notice. And not because of cell phone towers. Somewhere out there, there is a wavefront from the 1936 olymic games heading out into space, at lightspeed. So you just need to be within 83 LY of Earth, and you really cant possibly miss it.
Sorry, previous comment was meant as a reply to an earlier conversation. Although, after thinking about it, I dont really see why they would need Sydney´s cell phone at all. Assuming they were able to take a simple picture of Sydney (and others except dabbler), compare it to a data base, and find that it matches the descriptions of Humans, which are apparently a Sex Tourism favorite. So theres that.
… Hold it, I’m missing something. When did telepresence get upgraded to teleport? (Waited several pages to see if that would be addressed, came to the conclusion that either I missed something or Sydney is misusing the term. Possibly deliberately, to giverself the option of “neener, neener, you can’t catch me because I’m not here!”)
Years late, but then you were late with your question as well. This was the very first upgrade Sydney picked, back after the press conference. She found out what it does when they were investigating the abandoned factory, looking for Sciona.
No “sennen goroshi” joke in the comments, after all this time? Weird.