Grrl Power #793 – Décolletage deflectors
While Sydney sometimes wishes she had a larger chest, she’s not the kind of girl that’s ever gone shopping for a guy by putting the twins on display. In fact, with the exception of a few cosplay outfits, she has almost no V-neck shirts. The vast majority of her wardrobe is T-shirts. She has a button down shirt… excuse me, blouse, somewhere in the back of her closet for the rare occasions where she needs one. But as a self employed technically-an-adult, she gets to wear basically whatever she wants. Prior boyfriends were acquired mostly though mutual interests in geek stuff, at cons, via game nights around some tabletop game.
Of course, now that she’s in Archon, she has a few more button down shirts, but it’s not like she’s going to traipse around in her dress uniform shirt with the top 5 buttons undone. Harem definitely would, as long as no one who outranks her is looking.
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There’s finally a new vote incentive! I was trying to redo this old pinup of Max. The new one is higher detail, and a bit better anatomically, but it’s still lacking something. Well, saturation for one thing. I hope to do a little work on it yet, but we’ll see.
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Guy in the gray shirt seems more interested in Sydney than the full body decoy let. I wonder what planet he’s from
Seems like quite normal Eartling male behaviour to me.
So you’re saying that a practice and schooled succubus like decollete only draws two out of three human gentlemen eyes?
There is a significant variation in what people are attracted to. I myself find Decollete to be unpleasant to look at. I have a few doubts that succubus powers would make me stare at physical characteristics that I find myself repulsed by.
Meanwhile Sydney is adorable.
Exactly
The obligatory gay male bodyguards, then?
Eh? Gay bodyguards? I don’t quite understand your comment.
Not OC, but my assumption would be that it would be a good idea for a succubus in need of bodyguards to hire gay (or asexual) bodyguards, as they would (well, might) have a higher resistance to the “literally hypnotic” effect of a succubus’ physical appearance.
I’m not sure that would actually be sufficient, since during the early scene where Dabbler was “pushing her lust aura” (magnifying the normal effect of her appearance), the straight women were repeating “not a lesbian” like a mantra (in thought balloons, so apparently they’re needing to remind themselves), but General Faulk was able to resist by reminding himself not to “dip your pen in the company ink.” Willpower and discipline seem more advantageous than inherent disinterest, so hopefully a well-trained bodyguard would be sufficiently armored by professionalism and self-discipline.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNr4w3U5lEk
They are Blondie’s bodyguards, not Deco’s
So basically, you reject the entire premise of comics (what if impossible technologies and fantastic powers and arcane magic all existed together) as what that might mean for you is uncomfortable.
Well, why not read something else?
The rule of succubi is that they are supernaturally attractive in ways that make people be fascinated by seeing them whether or not they are normally interested. That’s the point of the overwhelming magical effect. Not seeing it would mean it wouldn’t affect you.
Kiera Knightley / Natalie Portman > almost anyone else.
I think he’s just trying to avert his eyes altogether.
Guys that aren’t wanting to see sights of this kind do not go to trendy dance clubs where you can hardly hear. This isn’t a place for quiet conversation or proper decorum. It’s a meat market.
Unless the guy was dragged there with his friends, of course. I’ve been the awkward nervous guy on the fringes of all SORTS of fun events who really just wanted to go home and get back to his new book. If that’s the case, he’s probably friends with the other two, and just following them so he doesn’t end up alone and picked off like a struggling gazelle.
….Sorry, Asexual experience talking. I doubt it’s this, but it’s a funny thought to me.
Well lots of people would be on the fringes of a place like this were someone to drag them there.
People who don’t like to be intoxicated or to be around people who are intoxicated would be trying to ditch the friends who brought them.
As would people who find that many decibels painful,
Or who don’t like the type of music
Or who just spotted their boss…or their ex.
Just wanted to tell my story, I don’t dislike the experience of a club per se, as long as I am with friends / gf. But I do use ear protection, either those small foam protectors or a piece of tissue paper. I do this since I was 13. I HATE the decibels of the music, and as long as I won’t be hearing what anybody says, I might as well keep my hearing.
Yeah, as someone who can’t drink doesn’t use drugs, but enjoyed industrial music & tolerated EDM I ended up at a lot of clubs, playing wingman and occasionally bored out of my skull.
He could be socially awkward, or that he may be there at the insistence of his friends, or that he may just have different personal tastes in attractiveness than ginormous boobs.
You don’t know. Can you read his mind?
It’s a myth that liking big boobs is a sign of being heterosexual. It’s just like the myths that all women like big muscled men (or that big-muscled men are never gay). Some women do, some don’t (and some muscle men are and some aren’t).
Not all hetero men like big boobs – particularly after they move out of their teens. Have you noticed how many married women come in smaller bra sizes?
As you mature, big fake ones become a complete turn off. You know what a real boob is like, and you can see that they hang wrong and feel wrong. The lady might as well stuff tissues in her bra to perk it up. It’s cheaper than the silly operation.
If a succubus is using her powers, she is probably creating a form which attracts the less mature male, as he will be full of unfocused sexual energy. So she flashes the big ones to get the victim she wants.
i’m reffering to what dabbler says in the las to panels of this comic https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-196-girls-go-to-the-bathroom-in-pairs-to-talk-star-trek-and-boobs-right/
I seem to recall that in one comic she evens says something alone that line that male, female, straint gay or bi it makes no difference before a succubus.
The first part of what you said is true, but some men, even mature ones, really do prefer the big fake ones. Were that not the case then breast implants would not really be much of a thing.
Not me. I’m with you. If I met a girl like Sydney in real life who was a bit closer to my age – Sydney herself is about 10 years too young for me to seriously consider dating – she would have very little trouble getting my full and undivided attention. Though, in my case that’s like 60% her personality and 40% having pretty danged near what I consider a perfect female body. But I know some guys around my age who would be all over Decollette and her massive, habitually-on-display boobs.
Women don’t get the fake bewbs to attract men, they get them to outshine other women, just like they don’t dress to attract males butt to piss off more attractive women
Inflated bewbs are good to look at, butt the bitch they are attached to are toxic
It’s infantilism, pure and simple.
it’s a preference. it is neither good nor bad.
Maybe he is just the type who thinks “OK, I don’t really have any kind of chance with a hottie like that one, but the little strawberry blonde is kind of cute. Maybe I should chat her up?
As you’ll guess from my comment above, I would not see Sydney as the lesser choice, but the better one.
Of course Decollete would catch my eye first, because her appearance is screaming at me – “Look, look. look at me!!! I’m leaking sexiness everywhere!!!” Her succubus glamour is designed to catch the kind of guy who wants a quickie, not a girlfriend.
But in real life, Sydney is the one I’d choose to go home with. Decollete might be fun to sleep with -for one night. I’d prefer to wake up with Sydney – more likely to be intelligent, interesting and less self-centred. And more fun to explore a sexual relationship with.
And, children, in real life, that’s what I did. And never regretted it.
;-)
Are you suggesting that simply because Decollete is incredibly attractive she can’t be intelligent, interesting and not self-centerd? And fun to explore a sexual relationship with? Particularly that last one — I would imagine that all succubi are *extremely* good at sexual relationships.
No. In real life, succubus types may be genuinely intelligent and interesting. Not all blondes are dumb. Some are dangerous indeed.
However, I can only speak from my own experience. In general, females who spend too much time and money on their looks are boring companions. Like succubuses, the glamour turms out to be fake when the dawn breaks.
With the Sydney type it’s WYSIWYG – what you see is what you get. And they can chat intelligently over coffee in the morning.
When the dawn breaks one is dead with mythological or horror genre Succubi, and so drained even a super is out of it with comic book Succubi.
With Grrlverse Succubi it has been established that one is so sexually entranced with the Succubus that one is ruined for mere humans unless the Succubus erases the memory of the experience.
Umm, that last part? That was because Dabbles has parts that hyu-mon females can’t compete with, and probably full succubae as well: remember, Dabbles is only part succubae
i think in the grrverse you are either born succubus or not. there is no hale succubi and no male births. the different body types are due to parentage https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-449-a-surplus-of-succubi/
She was raised by humans for most of her formative years. Her sense of social propriety is naturally going to be closer to Syd’s than Dabbler’s.
I know I should be commenting on the strip instead, but I just wanted to mention the vote incentive is REALLY well done :)
Agreed – although I quite like the old version too, it’s much more of a ‘comic book’ style and I like the plasma lightning. The old version looks a lot more butch – popped collar, square chin, gloves, expression – but also a lot more dangerous given her expression.
The style and expression on the new seems like it could come out of Max’s PR photoshoot. It actually reminds me a lot of Gal Godot in Wonder Woman (say this shot, or this one); much gentler and more ‘traditionally feminine’ appearance, but still has a hint of how ready she is to beat you to a pulp if needed.
I thought the same thing :). Yes. :)
It is really well done, but her right boob looks unusual in this pose.
That ^ wasn’t me
May have a bad memory, butt spelling like that? Not gonna happen
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I figured it wasnt you when you wrote ‘but’ instead of ‘butt.’
Yeah that’s what’s throwing that picture off for me. Her hips are only about 5 degrees off Square and the way her shoulder is twisted around, I would expect that her right boob would be smaller still considering that generally the left one is larger on most women. So we have a slightly larger right boob and it’s supposed to be further away. And because of the way she is standing your head looks off center compared to the Centerline of the rest of her body. I do like the pose but I think that’s what’s throwing it off for me. It may just be the over large right boob throwing off the whole thing.
Tammy looks like she’s about to start cussing them out.
Guy staring down Sydney’s chest is Wingman #1 he’s down with his “supposed” sacrifice, so his buddy can do his thing w/Decollete / Wingman #2 is just hypnotized, forgot his mission to support blondie.
Alternatively, he heard Decollete refer to Sydney as “Miss Scoville”, and has realized who she is?
The other guy is looking behind Deco
…at her butt.
And he cannot lie
*Spots a familiar-looking couple in the background of panel 3.*
I understand that reference.
I hadn’t even noticed that. Good catch.
Then you must have missed the entire first page of comments…
Kinda, yeah. By time I got to read this, the comments were already at page two, I guess. I tend to read what’s up first before going back to prior comment pages.
That’s understand, just… have a long standing vocal problem with people who don’t read the comments (even when it’s the first page) and repeat the same question that has been asked (and answered) several times already :P
Personally, wait to make a new comment until after reading everything, if come across a post with a similar comment was going to make, will tag on to it (kinda like you did), so like said, understand where you are coming from (and didn’t mean to sound so harsh)
and always post the right way.
Hey by the way Guesticus, did you notice that there’s a meme couple in the background of panel #3? :)
you don’t need to read any comments. it doesn’t matter if you repeat a question, hardly anyone comes back to the comment section after the first visit anyway.
Are they in a beauty salon or something? That shelf in the background looks like it’s populated with lotion and shampoo rather than liquor bottles.
Some fancy booze comes in fancy bottles so they can be used as shelf decoration. Kinda like “see how (rich, smart, discerning choose one) I am/we are.”
It’s weird. Normally, I don’t much notice the size of Sydney’s eyes. Guess I got used to them in the first few weeks. But with the wig and minus her glasses it’s pretty clear that in addition to having an asbestos tongue and throat, Sydney has Manga-eyes. Maybe SHE’S an alien, too.
*grin*
perhaps she got her own version of the veil going on she doesn’t even know about, people see her as a regular human and it doesn’t occur to her thanks to growing up reading comics and watching anime that she is just outside the human norm into Alita territory as no one reacts to her anime face.
That’s my personal theory too. Especially with the eye colour
There’ll be a tearful conversation with her parents where they reveal they found her in the wreck of a spaceship on the family farm.
…alongside half a dozen empty bowls of grakz?
bulky jackets protect from gazer beams???
not very well.
Man, that meme guy is never going to live it down
Those three men, something about their faces, looks like they are tweaking out right now.
Regarding vote incentive….it’s the expression. In version one, she looks fierce and don’t-fuck-with-me. Far more bland expression in version two, expressing more model-like haughtiness than ‘I’m a badass superhero colonel.’
*dies of laughter from the Meme Couple in the background*
*resurrects with a question a moment later…*
Hey, DaveB, is that the Prince who was formerly The Beast from Beauty and the Beast, in that last panel? ‘Cause that’s who he kinda looks like… (Not complaining! You do a pretty good job of giving the gals/gays/bis some hot guys to gawk at, after all!)
Hah, good catch on the meme, I totally missed that. Not sure about it being Prince Adam from Beauty and the Beast tho, hair’s not long or full enough.. Very close resemblance tho.
You know, I was about to get all bent out of shape about men being stereotyped as leering, ‘male-gazing’ leches, but then I realized that the women in this webcomic do it just as much as soon as the men’s shirts come off, so I decided not to get my panties in a bunch.
What? Yes, I said ‘my panties’; men can wear look just as sexy in lingerie as women.
…
DONT JUDGE ME
“DONT JUDGE ME”. Never will. As to another part you referred to, I’m Bisexual, and I find it hard to look away. :)
I remember a while back I was with a co worker who was, to be blunt, a bit too nervous around me. Until one day he asked what I was doing and I said checking out a very nice ass. That made him laugh, and from that point on he relaxed around me because the ass I was looking at was very nice and his, to be nice was more like skin and bones. I think he finally realised I was never checking him out and was not interested in him that way. although oddly I often get “the why were you not interested in me” from some straight guys.
Man that one gets me right in the > . < …
"Because there is a huge difference between finding someone attractive (general aesthetics) and being attracted to them (personal appeal)."
Alternately:
"Dude, you're like a brother to me, and that'd be incest, ew."
Or:
"Because it's 100% possible to be friends with someone, and just friends with them. Yes, guys and gals CAN be 'just friends.' Gay guys CAN be 'just friends' with no romantic or sexual interest between them and other guys."
And of course:
"Dude, your personality / the misogynistic way you treat the ladies is sh***y. Why would I want to risk exposing myself to that?" [Applied only where applicable, of course]
Yeah, about your first statement
Personally would change it to “finding someone beautiful and being attracted to them”
If you find someone is ‘attractive’ then, by definition, you are ‘attracted to them’, whereas, you can see the beauty in them and yet not be attracted
Like a lot of the actresses, many of them will admit are beautiful, most of them do not find attractive or appealing at all (Aniston, Godot, Robbie, the Cardashian
whoreshorde), someone like Emilia Clarke on the other flipper… she is just someone would find enjoyment just hanging out with (same with The Vixen from ‘The Chase’)That’s just POO by the way
Third panel: In the foreground, looks like Crimson and Olivia and in the back is a couple that look like they stepped out of an internet meme…! (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
BTW-Where’s Harem!?
Dancing with herself (and herself, and herself)
Weird. I seem to be the only one reading Tamatha’s expression as “Crap, not THEM.” As in the guys are a known problem. Not a leering annoyance. And I read the two dark haired guys as bodyguards for the center guy who were evaluating for problems, not checking out cleavage.
Interesting take, except, that would be like having a problem with free food
Another odd-ish thing about the conversation. Decolette saying she’d never seen Sydney dress up before. But Decolette’s only actually met Sydney twice before, within a couple of days of each other. The first day when she found out the Council existed, and when they visited the Black Reliquiry and Dabbler was questioning Coot.
I would assume that since the day Archon went public that everything that could be found about its members has become the subject of tabloids, newspaper articles, television documentaries, and dedicated websites.
Sydney admitted (when clothing regulations for flying in civilian clothes were issued) that only dresses she owns are for cosplay, and we always see her in tshirts and hoodies. Some people just like to be comfortable.
Yes but Sydney hasnt been around in Archon for months. At least from her perspective. And from Earth’s perspective, she wasnt ANYWHERE visible for the past two months anyway.
Yes, but during those two months tabloid reporters would be discovering old photos from college, or some friend’s wedding, or a con, or her first driver’s license. And because of her celebrity and the dearth of information about her superhero websites would blather on about each discovery for a couple of days.
And Decolette has a protege who is a huge fan (after all there is a similarity in height).
National Enquirer:
Halo is secretly a celestial world eater and Maxima her cosmic herald,
also Harem self orgy seen by quadcopter drone, story on page 4.
…. I’d believe all of that :)
Not that implausible compared to what crazy adventures Halo have already experienced.
Sydney: “Do you mind?”
Male Hopeful: “We do not.”
Strangely enough, their parents also complained about them not minding when they were young.
You probably already noticed (or did it intentionally), but I thought I’d better mention it just in case…
The new vote incentive is awesome, but it very much looks like Max just farted a little pink cloud that her hand just happened to move in front of. I’m assuming it’s supposed to be a superpower effect coming from her hand.
Love your comic! It’s the only webcomic I check often for updates.
Letsee; Tom Green, human Prince Adam (Beauty and the Beast), and no-idea.
Test, ignore message
The shading on the flesh looks artificial, seems it should be more fuzzy where the light meets the shadow, like it is on the shirt.
The “more conspicuous targets” may “draw [the most] fire”, but of that group it’s Krona that I’d be keeping an eye on. Never was much of a fan of the ‘fishing’ look, especially if calm-casual is also an option.
really well done on that blonde guy in the last panel, easily looks like he could be from a 90s disney animated flick
too bad about panel 2 sydney though, holy hell