Grrl Power #1267 – Heads up
Hagfish are revolting. Just go to youtube and search it. Just for fun, here’s a snippet from Wikipedia; “Hagfish can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus, from specialized slime glands. When released in seawater, the slime expands to 10,000 times its original size in 0.4 seconds.” They’re considered good eats in South Korea, so I guess the shabby Triad boss there has a Korean grandma or something and grew up on the stuff, and inflicts it on his descendants as well. While drawing this page I decided the gray blazer guy is his son? Not sure that will ever be relevant with these characters, but, you know, backstory!
In the meantime I will vociferously resist the urge to call the guy in the cloak “The Hagfish” because I have a bad habit of sticking with the first name I assign a character. Especially since cloaky hasn’t exhibited any mucus secreting abilities. You can’t name someone The Hagfish unless their primary ability is producing 10,000 times as much slime as you’d expect. I’m sure I told this story a long time ago in a comment somewhere, but Anvil was supposed to be a temporary name, but I couldn’t think of a better one for so long it stuck. Also, Maxima used to be Ultima, and I had a different character named Maxima, who was a Sydney-shaped girl, but she had telekinetic strength, making her one of the “strongest” in my pantheon. I just liked the idea of a skinny girl one-arming a tank over her head. But it became increasingly obvious to me that Ultima should be renamed to Maxima since she’d encounter situations where she’d have to max-out her armor or strength. Even so, I think it took me like 7 years to officially make the swap in my head. And even though I think it’s a little silly when superheroes have given names that serendipitously align with their super powers, I couldn’t help but name Maxima Maximillia. I can defend that though, since it’s just an obvious nickname when your name is Maximillia, and being named “Maxima” on her superhero jersey isn’t actually descriptive of her powerset. Unlike Telford Porter. If I ever make a character with a name that obvious, like, Partikel Beam, you can be assured that his powers will not be projecting particle beams. It’ll be like… psychometry or something.
The new vote incentive is up!
Oh no! Superheroines in a deathtrap! Well… a tickle trap. Okay, not trapped, trapped, but… look, three of the girls are getting tickled. Actually, in a way, seven girls are getting tickled since the other four Harems will feel this as well, but technically it’s only the three shown in the picture since Harem insists there’s only one of her – it’s just confusing since she can be in 5 places at once.
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In that first panel, DaveB…
I think you may have forgotten “Watermelon, cantaloupe, watermelon, cantaloupe”.
Useful Wikipedia reference page for the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla
Okay, I saw the comment about rhubarb in place of background noise, but I always think Jack Nicholson’s line in the late 80’s/early 90s first Batman film, “never rub another man’s rhubard.” I just took it as a non-sequiter/nonsense think. Is there anything older than that using rhubard?
much older.
– oldest recorded one I can recall is it is common in The Goon Show – 1950s British radio comedy (in many ways a precursor to Monty Python).
– when there are crowds it is usually one or two of the actors (there are between 3 and 4 in total on the show) mutter rhubarb rhubarb.
– in The McKreekie Rising there are a bunch of scotsmen muttering mcrhubarb mccustard mcrhu…
The actual pre-cursor to Monty Python was “I’m sorry, I’ll read that again” which had members of both Python and The Goodies
Tom Baker was on an episode of Blackadder in January 1986, playing a ship captain. There’s a scene which is supposed to be confused crowd noise, but there are only four people in the room and Tom Baker is loud and distinctive, very clearly repeating “rhubarb, rhubarb”. But of course it was a longstanding cliche by then.
Thanks to all of you for the answer and additional tidbits. I’m assuming the Tom Baker appearance was in Blackadder was Blackadder II? Either way, I’m kicking myself for missing it. He was and is my favorite Doctor.
Flash back to the “You set a SAVE POINT!!” fight when the tentacular battle bot grabbed it’s core and yeeted it’s self to freedom…
I think this is hus return, with upgraded powers and a new gang.
So they pissed of the Eldritch librarian
Oook?
Better be eight heads in there… Well, seven plus the one on the floor…
That guy’s WAAAAY too tall to be Joe Pesci.
Uhm…
Eight heads in a Duffel bag? Anyone?
Yep. A chunk of the comments on page one brings that movie up.
I do prefer Seven Psychopaths.
My actor brother tells me that actors sometimes simulate conversations by saying “Rhubarb and cheese” while the other one says “Cheese and rhubarb.” Other times they use “Nevertheless” and “Notwithstanding.”
In the 70’s, my dad (dinner theater actor) told me it was “peas and carrots”. I was on stage ONCE (they need somebody to sub for Piglet and chose my 5’8″ self to do so) and we were supposed to be whispering to each other in one scene. I was quite surprised when the Pooh actor actually stayed in character…I honestly didn’t know what to do (we hadn’t rehearsed that). I think I was 14 or so at the time (and never had an interest in acting).
Explain it to them (Hypothetically) as a Mission statement challenge. Find a way to do better than the previous generation. The bar has been lowered, and the mud is now deeper.
Please don’t pick leaders who run clandestine anti x-country influence psy-ops campaigns, by degrading real opportunities to prevent people from spreading viral death risk in vast numbers.
Fantastic lies tend to run faster than the truth.
“Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old
And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable,
politicians were nobleAnd children respected their elders” -Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen – Baz Luhrmann
The Vote Incentive: Curse that Simon Barsinister for inventing the Tickle feather Gun!
If anything, it brought this memory back…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPGrpb_KeY
Sure, the movie wasn’t great. But it’s a fun watch when you want something kinda dumb.
Red Hood called. He wants his Power Move back.
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I thought the “calm guy” boss had holes in his cheeks where he’d been stabbed from the side and it went through between his teeth, like that one dude in Heir’s Game. Weird teeny mustache is certainly a lot easier on him.
I remember a now finished webcomic of decades past repeating the single word general topic of arcane discussions, so for example, Sydney and another truefan deep into a discussion of fannish lore would be “Geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek.” Or “Art art art art art art art art art” between artists. Maybe “Plot plot plot plot plot plot plot plot” between supervillians? “Paranoid” just seems too many syllables. Then there’s the option of having the spoken dialog be Lorem Ipsum….
Rhubarb as the talking noise. Nice.
I’ve always been fond of Rhuba Rhuba, but it seems like it was used in sci fi stories for like, 5 years in the 70s, then never again.
10,000 times the size is actually a lot less than it sounds like, thanks to square cube law. It’s only like, 21.5 times the scale since we’re talking all 3 dimensions.