Grrl Power #1245 – Sappyrrhic defeat
Is Garamm bad at his job? Probably. I mean, that was a fairly suspicious setup. But – college is a time for experimentation, and if college romp movies have taught us anything… well, it’s that men are either Aryan looking lacrosse douchebros named something like Kiff Kiffington the Third, or are one of the many categories of Undesirables, but that all of them are some variety of sex criminal, and for some reason the Dean won’t press criminal charges when his car gets filled with popcorn. He just puts the offenders on triple secret probations or whatever. But also, that women are constantly having topless pillow fights and/or showering. Unless they wear glasses and keep their brown hair in a ponytail.
Quick digression here, how is it that every major college seems to have a lacrosse team, but there’s no National Lacrosse League? (Okay, I just googled it after I typed that in, and it turns out there is a NLL – but what I mean is how come it’s not a major televised sport? Do they even carry it on The Ocho after dodgeball season is over?) It just seems weirdly popular until the instant you exit academia. If I have, in my entire life, met anyone who played college lacrosse, it has never once come up in a conversation, leading me to believe that lacrosse is one of those things writers think people do in college because they’ve consumed other media where people talk about being on the college lacrosse team, and now it’s like a writers’ in-joke. “Okay, we need just a bit of backstory for Chad Chaddington… Not much though, because GhostFace kills him before the end of the first act. Hmm. Lacrosse scholarship? Perfect!”
Back to the comic. Would I fall for the sapphic bait and switch? Actually, no, because the idea of watching sexy coeds have lingerie ticklefights sounds unbearably awkward. I mean, watching it I’d be okay with. Being in the room while it happened? A flop sweat would be the least of my problems. Is there such a thing as a flop poop? I’m not saying I would invent such a thing right then and there, but I have a feeling I would find myself preoccupied with the possibility in the moment. And then the girls would be all, “Hey, DaveB, we’re doing some good work over here, but you’re not paying attention. What are you thinking about?” and I would be like, “You absolutely don’t want to know.”
Also I’m ticklish enough that if someone squirted me with the mythic Giggle Juice, I’d probably unmoor most of my tendons while flopping around on the floor, so I wouldn’t dare open that door.
The new vote incentive is up! This is a bit of a weird one as it’s a character that hasn’t appeared in the comic.
It’s my Ifrit Pathfinder 1e monk, Fray! Ifrits don’t really make great monks in Pathfinder, as player characters they get a +2 to Dex and Cha, but -2 to Wis. For monks, Dex is good, Cha is largely irrelevant, but Wis is important as it can add to your AC and also has something to do with Ki points I think. But I didn’t care. I wanted a character with dark blue/gray skin and glowing orange hair, so that’s what I picked. (I don’t think Ifrit even really have dark skin, so maybe she’s 1/4 Drow? Don’t care. I think she looks cool.) Will she show up in the comic? I mean… maybe? Probably in a Dabbler flashback, but who knows?
As usual, Patreon has her in delicto flagrante.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Hmmm…..who in the thingy if Halo at the HQ…..
That’s Tenri, the one that originally occupied the body that attacked Sydney. That body was taken over by Lapha which jumped to Sydney.
Now I want a “space pizza”.
Also the tickle fight.
A “space pizza” would be a orb filled with vacuum…
The last time I got into a tickle fight, a knee hit my
dangles in the worst possible way. “why do I taste
my underwear?”
My poor wife couldn’t stop apologizing…
I couldn’t breathe…
[A “space pizza” would be a orb filled with vacuum…]
Hmm… would that be keto friendly?
Empty Calories
Is anything ever actually “filled” with vacuum?
To be fair, everyone falls for that cunning ploy.
The cunning stunt involving stunning-
Frix has a black eye?
Looks like it, though it might be shading?
Frix has had a spot over his left eye since his introduction.
I also noticed that Frix is a southpaw. This pleases me; I also wield a pistol left-handed.
Possibly ambi, in a crowded space like that doorway, with two big dudes, if they both held their weapons in the same hand, one would only be visible as half a body, and people would be wondering who it was
True, though from a tactical standpoint, it’d make more sense if the two guys switched places (or both switched hands) so they could each use the doorframe as cover, but then they’d _both_ be half-hidden. So the very thing that makes for good comics layout also makes for bad tactics, but I guess you gotta compromise.
It’s all about the layout… considering how *big* the two guys are, that doorframe would have to be 5-6ft wide to both fit like that.
It could be that being hand dominant is just a human thing.
Even on dominant hand; you can train other hand to be about ask good, or more versatile at least.
For me while I know on some things my left hand is maybe 80% or less efficient than my dominant right hand, but on others I have managed train my nondominant hand to be 100% as efficient as dominant hand, allowing easy switching for more opportune side when needed
I’m sorry, but who on earth did he think the co-eds were going to have a tickle-fight WITH? He was the only corporeal being inside that room! They would have asked questions as soon as they noticed the lack of fellow female college students!
He was probably thinking to pull a “Your friend aint here right now but if you want to keep me company…”
of course Tenri is audible and right there on the table so it wouldn’t have lasted but a few seconds before she alerted a co-ed something was wrong, and either the co-ed would have ran for help or Graham would now have a much louder hostage screaming for help in the room…
so I’d say he wasn’t thinking with his big head…and being a reptile he might have been outvoted two to one on that decision.
Yeah, I’d say his reptile brain won that one, but that was predetermined, wasn’t it?
His people refer to that as his “simian brain”.
Was it me, or did Sydney get a bit…bustier while her body was hijacked?
It’s you.
Lapha was essentially an idea in Sydney’s brain. It’s not as if she can think about stuff and it happens.
I think you’re thinking of the conclusion of Young Frankenstein.
“Vhat did you get from heem?”
{Sexy Grunting}
Also, she had a chest strap, works betterer than a pushup bra and a tight shirt
perfect comic for april fools day
Lacrosse is the violent version of hockey
How many lacrosse players have had major cuts/their throats slit while playing?
my thoughts are not how its shown (unless its shown he got magicked) but as a merc with the knock he figured he was busted and is not dumb enough to try anything on an unknown group that has the resources to find him and probably could kill him if he tried to run
not all mercs are smart… some are more about brawn
Garamm just got CHAK-mated :P
I wonder if this spells long-term separation for Lapha and Garamm or not. I mean both are surely going to prison for a long time, but Lapha shall be a host of Archon super-prison for sure (gotta prevent any further leaks of Sydney’s memories). Garamm might be delivered by Cora to local LE, or to Archon. Theoretically speaking, there would also be the issue of reuniting Tenri and Lapha’s shells with their original owners. However, I wonder if aetholiths care about their customized individual shells that much, or they are basically interchangeable for them.
I might be applying anthropomorphized thinking, but I imagine it’s a bit like a car. If someone steals my minivan, I’d rather have that specific one back, even if there’s another the same make and model parked in front of my house. If the thieves left their custom 4wd battle van there while they took my minivan on a heist, I might consider quietly trading up if the authorities seemed like they’d be cool with it.
A haiku:
Little cricket gun
You don’t have what I need.
That ominous hummm…
Nice and schlocky.
Don’t forget the nice glow of doom from the barrel. Always gotta have a nice glow of doom.
Wait, so you’re telling me that Sterling Archer being on his college lacrosse team isn’t the reason he became the greatest spy ever?
Lacrosse is obviously a rich person’s sport, so the masses are a lot less interested in it.
Now I’m curious. What toppings would a space pizza even *HAVE*?
Pineapple.
and anchovies. and capers.
Pepperoni, obviously.
Mushrooms. so it grows on us.
Never realized just how huge Frix and Sylv, Garamm has to be atleast a head shorter than both of them. And while there is no good human to Garamm height, he is a head and a bit taller than Tenri and Tenri is as tall as Syndi while sitting on the back of the ambulance, so Garamm is certainly not short.
According to https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1005-dads-be-like/
Frix is 7’4″ or in more civilized units 224 cm ..
A small idea of sizes
https://www.instagram.com/rocahistory/p/CqgXWXjuTe9/
At the center on this picture it’s the governator a tiny austrian-american the french a the right is about the size of Frix
Ahhh Wilt Chamberlain, basketball star and total Lothario. And Andre the Giant. Legendary wrestler, consumer of fine wines, and an actual sweetheart when I met him. When I was three. And yowza…you really get the idea of size from this pic. Arnold is impressive. But the other two…holy crow…
I like how it she’s looking at US when she says she hacked the door, like, “yes, Garamm, I wasn’t telling you, I was telling the readers.”
Boob. Actual, complete Dimwit.
What did he think Tenri’s friends would do when they found Tenri trapped in a life support unit by a stranger with a spare body lying on the floor and Tenri’s body missing?
OK, I confess that I have met several lacrosse players. They were all students at the university where I taught before I retired. They were all women, because we had a women’s lacrosse team.
There was a peculiar statistic. For the most part, participation in men’s athletics was uncorrelated with the academic performance of the male students who played. Participation in women’s athletics, and at the time this was over half of the women, was a strong positive indicator of academic success. Half? We had a lot of women’s teams.
If you were at a larger institution, it might have been due to a lot of the men, but not the women, being there on sports scholarships, where they were enrolled just to be on the team, with any academics secondary. While the women were mostly real students who had to keep their grades up to stay on the team.
Division III. No athletic scholarships.
I can’t get past the Tim Curry and Whoopi Goldberg scene from Loaded Weapon… Vilderness gøøøørls! (in bad German fake accent.)
For those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBQT5YcIH6U
I think the best excuse for him falling for that would simply be that he has lived in the area of some succubus population where these sorts of things actually happen on a fairly regular basis.
Soooo … how did Tenri get placed into fire jail exactly? I didn’t see any way to force someone into fire jail if they’re inhabiting a body. I’m sure Lapha would’ve forced Sydney out of her body if she could’ve. I remain very confused about the mechanics of this.
Basically there’s a device that can involuntarily extract aetholiths from the system they’re inhabiting. Such devices have few legitimate purposes so they’re basically only used by criminals or government agents. Dabbler used one to pick her up off the floor when she ran away from Sidney’s lunch.
wait that was Lapha who jumped off Sidney
Lapha also had one and got Tenri with it
Read the last couple of pages again.
And remember that the aetholith on this page isn’t Lapha – it’s Tenri.
Hoo boy! Frix is NOT a happy Woof.
Reminded of the running gag from Schlock Mercenary. Schlock explicitly requested a gun that came online with an ominous HUMMMMMM
This woulda been better with a “PreSENT arms!” Onomonopia XD but good all the same.
Hah get caught punk!
Uhm. I had to create a thing and do a thing just to make my first comment. Been here since the beginning (no really, I have!). Ok, drum roll, throw me a parade and pay attention to my internet pixels: the poster in panel two isn’t just random. It’s the cover art for a fantastic Yes album ‘Keys to Ascension’ and fantastic. I am left to wonder, does our intrepid author and artist have fantastic taste in music, album covers, or both. Great album all the way around.
Reasonable deception, honestly.
Mercs that sloppy are often lacking in common sense.
Woof is a lefty.