Grrl Power #213 – A manxome foe
So Grrl Power as a team has had a few different rosters over the years before I started the comic. Maxima, Anvil and Dabbler were pretty much always on it, and I’ve mentioned before, odd though it may sound, that Sydney was the most recent addition. The other slot was up in the air for a bit. Originally it was occupied by Jabberwokky here. (Yes, Jabberwokky is intentionally misspelled – for branding purposes, though I’m not sure Jabber is aware criminals aren’t allowed to profit from their story. As for merchandising rights, who knows?) For a while Jabber was a lock, then I became dissatisfied with her as I realized in her original inception, she was really just DC’s Vixen. Vixen if you don’t know has animal mimicry powers, so calling on a Boa Constrictor lets her give serious bear hugs (presumably calling on bear powers would grant the same) calling on a rhino lets her smash into people and it would seem, weigh a great deal more somehow. I didn’t know about Vixen till well after I made Jabber, but once I saw her in the animated Justice League it bothered me. Then for a while it was a toss up between her and Harem. Harem always could make copies and had the single mind, but it wasn’t until I thought of combining duplication and teleportation that she really gelled and Jabber was off to the standby pool. Anyway if it seems that Jabber has a tad more personality than the other villains so far, that’s why.
Jabber may seem to still have just animal mimicry powers, after all calling out “Cheetah Style” results in super speed, but there are some significant differences to her power set now that aren’t evident on this single page.
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*Quickly looks through comments* … Damn, I’m too late. The JoJo and Fist of the North Star references have already been made. Oh well.
It’s never too late for either.
ROAD ROLLER DAAAAAAAA
Weeeelllllllll…
If you haven’t had your fill of parody-treated multiple fists flying everywhere & reference to Fist of the North Star, here’s another source:
https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/i-cant-take-credit-for-this-joke
… or ever One Piece, and Monkey D. Luffy …
Hah hah that’s pretty good.
trying VERY hard not to imagine Sydney (Halo) in a straw hat right now
oh, wait… the halo is the brim of the hat, right? ;P
Looks like Math “can haz date naow”…? I mean, he said “finally!” …
Math, ya know’tcha’ve ta do…
He’s probably happy that his opponent is a woman. I mean not only she’s confident in her own power (thus putting her into place will be good both for him and for his team (and let’s admit it for us as well)), that also means that he could vent all that pent up sexual energy into inappropriate grab moves.
Or the ones that called “When-fighting-a-female style” consisting of ass slaps, boob grabs, holding wrists and what was it… hair pulling? Oh yeah C-word PUNT. No that would be too cruel.
OH… Clothing damage.
Hair pulling? Which hair?
She looks like she may also try a version of it.
I suspect that both will try to put each other in their place. And I suspect that this will be an interesting fight for both. Looks like the whole “join super-heroes for a good fight” thing is finally working out.
The thing is, as much as Math likes to oggle ladies, he has never come across as someone who would disrespect (or tolerate disrespect) towards women
The only ‘place’ he would like to put her, would be in his bed, with her full consent of course, no manipulation or coersion or any of that crap
Naughty. (But i think she shaves… (You know how i know this? They’re not showing… https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/47703/894962-xmen4koma_002.png)
Also breasts tattoo… ouch.
“Paipan”? Is that Japanese for “Brazilian”?
Getting the breasts tattooed shouldn’t be any more painful than getting, say, the butt tattooed (the aureolae on the other fingertips… )
Women will just crunch your throat, smash your testes and kick you patellas clean off. If you want to fight keep your hair short. Math would be foolish to do what you suggest. More of a molestation than a fight. Out go your eyes, palm heel you nose. She wins you lose. Not very pretty.
I’ve often wondered if the last panel was Math fending off Jab’s attacks, or Jab fending off Math’s inappropriate feel-ups?
One should not be climbing through broken windows while having nothing on your legs but fishnet stockings… that’s just asking for an owie
Unless she shouted “tortoise power!” before she fell through the window. Or “elephant power!”
Elephants actually have very soft and sensitive feet. Which are probably ticklish. Explaining why elephants are afraid of mice.
Fun fact, they are also afraid of bees.
To the point that natives use fences with beehives on them to keep out elephants.
(Elephants are actually pritty destructive beasts if you happen to live nearby in clay huts. They’ll just come in and wreck your place and steal your food)
And the fact that when one goes rogue you have a multi-ton creature who would have no problem smashing you into a thing, slightly sticky paste.
I think I read somewhere that an elephant broke into a moonshiners still and drank all their moonshine, and then drunkenly tore up a corn field.
Forget moonshine, all an african elephant has to do is wait for the marula fruit to ripen (there is a reason why they use an elephant on the bottles of Amarula :D)
For large animals they can move with stealth. Read about one man who was shocked to see a huge elephant in the bush. Didn’t hear it and fortunately it withdrew without killing him.
I find myself a tad surprised that Jabberwokky favours the sort of hair style that covers one eye, since you kind of need maximum situational awareness in a fight. Unless some sort of super-senses are part of her powers. Hmm…
Unless she is blind in her right eye it makes no sense, except fashion sense, but that is irrelevant.
Have you actually tried wearing your hair like that? It is very possible to still have full vision like that
Am I wrong to say that after looking at the vote incentive, I now ship HaloXDabbler even more?
. . . .I already ship most of the female characters together already. At once!
…With all 5 of Harem, inclusive…
Is it bad if I now point out to DaveB how much Harem reminds me of Array from Gold Digger?
There are definitely some similarities.
Next at this fight:
(Un)Intentional wardrobe malfunction.
Rapt stare.
Kicked chin.
KO’d smile.
By the way DaveB the back of Math’s shirt should be torn.
Math was wearing a white shirt, open and loose, over the black muscle shirt. LPoN clawed it, and Math tossed the remains aside. No error on DaveB’s part there.
And besides, everyone knows that martial artists get more powerful the more clothing they take off.
Yep, that’s why I made the reference to the Bullet-Proof Nudity trope when Nails first shredded Math’s shirt.
Actually, if you look closer, you will see the claws cut right down to the skin (you saw scratch marks on his flesh, but no blood)
Yup, there are two clear rips in his black shirt at last panel in page #211.
“…everyone knows that martial artists get more powerful the more clothing they take off.”
Even more in favor of the malfunction theory then :)
And everyone knows the old wrinkly Masters are the most powerful ones.
Still want them to get more powerful by going naked?
The Celts fought naked. Mind you, they did have the decency to die or retire when they got too wrinkly.
It was mostly the Spearmen who fought naked & painted themselves blue…Spearmen were the “commoners” of the Warrior Class, not really a part of the Celtic “noble” class of Warriors. The noble warriors were very intricate with their hair-styling, although nudity & blue woal was “beneath their station.”
Considering that iron weapons were difficult to obtain, Spearmen were relegated to using “lesser” weapons & not many of them lived long enough to get old & wrinkled…
I think the tears are lower down. Plus Math is leaning back.
With how little Sydney’s been doing, and all those little Chekhov’s guns floating around her head, I’m betting we’re yet to see the biggest smack down in the fight… I can’t wait!
Nah. A big bad is going to come at them, having studied them, and dismissing Sidney, only for her to take it down simply because she doesn’t like people dismissing her. Probably in a way that will require surgeons to preform an emergency groin operation.
Frankly, I’m glad to see a villain get a bit of personality and time. The amount of them just being shut down was getting too high. I understand Halo’s on the ‘combat’ team but it’s kind of silly if they’re that much stronger than all the other supers for no readily explicable reason– government sponsored training facilities only go so far and I haven’t seen any reason they should have managed to cherry pick the best for their secret program they weren’t openly recruiting for.
Plus bad guys with personality are more interesting and longer fights give them more time to develop character.
Max’s estimate establishes that there are a lot of villains out there. Given their sheer number, it’s likely that whoever gathered them was scraping the bottom of the barrel. They’re mooks, and a fair number of them have to get dropped in a hurry, or we’ll be stuck in this one fight forever. As it is, the three Arcs we have counts for have dropped nine villains, and I think Shawn took down another, so we’ve seen a third of the opposing force neutralized. If the rest of the engaged Arcs have averaged even one each, the cannon fodder should be pretty much cleared out.
It’s also worth noting that this is right after the big press conference, so this is probably not a group that has made any big plans before attacking. This is more like local superpowered thugs (with perhaps a few super-powered travelers) that had loose communication before and pulled an “everybody meet at” to get together at the restaurant. Not the best that supercrime has to offer, just the local riff-raff with probably a few higher ups in the bunch.
I hadn’t thought about them all having to be fairly local. This meas that the estimated number of supers really is way off.
Actually, my thought is that Arianna might have “leaked” info about the press conference and dinner for more publicity. With the entire team there she could take more risks than, say, a bank robbery. You could be looking at an international group of villains.
And put her own life at risk if the Villains turn out to be more powerful, or are able to distract Maxi?
I’m guessing Jaberwock didn’t read the poem in Lewis Carol’s “Alice in Wonderland” or “Alice Through the Looking Glass” because Jaberwock (aside from being a draconic eldritch abomination) used VORPAL BLADES, and was not a bare-hand fighter. “The vorpal blade goes snick-snack!”
Actually the hero had the Vorpal blade and took Jabberwocky’s head “galumphing back”.
The Jabberwock had jaws that bite and claws that catch, but no swords. Those were it’s weak point.
No. His hunter used the vorpal blade.
Everyone go read it, and remember your childhood.
https://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html
And now that my memory has rebooted.Does Jabby have a friend called JubJub?
Jub-Jub was notorious for “flippin’ the bird” at heroes, but I think Jabber might be distantly related to Bandersnatch.
I think I dated her. She also liked to leave toothmarks.
Remember that all recitations of the poem should be sung to the tune of Gilligan’s Island.
Donovan did a nice version that sticks in my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-AGLyMVHM
I’d like to see a version with GOT video.
Vorpal blades, best in Wonderland. Famed throughout it and other pocket universes for their ability to cut everything known. Monocule blades of the finest quality and workmanship.
Mono -molecular blades can shear atomic bonds. Have to have special means of storing them. The Vorpillians are expert at it.
What I wont to know is who is her Owner .. She is wearing a slaves collar . But then she could be advertising for one witch could make winning the fight interesting for him . But then I don’t know if it was your intent to add any more DS overtones to the comic . But it would make and interesting dynamic for the chauvinistic Math to deal with a super powered sub going all doe eyed over him . Getting beat by him and keeps coming back for more just to get her jollies .
I LOVE where you went with this. It would be quite an interesting story angle, one I haven’t ever seen in a webcomic yet.
It IS a very strong implication… unless she’s just ignorant and does not understand what message she’s sending out. Would be disappointing, but for some people it is ‘just fashion’.
thank you and your right I have never seen any one come out and just say what is what is going on . Thare are some meager under towns in some other mane stream comics like wonder women but if your not in the community you probably would not see them . I mean heck look at cat women and batman gambit and rouge for a marvel refrance . If you looking at this and wondering what the heck i am talking about look at the older relationship dynamics and then at the costuming Cheetah Cat Women and Rouge all had rings on out near thare collars at one time. Those are just the ones i can pull of the top of me head. and it has kinda been dun before Red Sonya would not let you sleep with her unless your could beet her in battle but i can rember in that was in the comics or the books .
And for give my bad spelling and gamer..thank you
Don’t worry, could understand what you meant :D
Folks here aren’t often bothered about that, in the comments anyhow. Unless it inspires a play on words, you rarely see any grammar nazis coming out of the woodwork. Not that my spelling is that great, given the number of words that get underlined in red, when I am typing. But, I just cheat, by right clicking on the word and picking the one I want from the list of suggestions that pop up. Usually it will have the one I was aiming for.
Of course, you will see a lot of comments regarding grammar and spelling, if there are any perceived errors in the comic. But that is just because readers like Easter egg hunting and contributing to improving the comic.
Red Sonya’s was from the books.
It was a geas put on her, by her goddess.
Thanks it has been menny moons seance I have reed ether so it is a bit hasey .
That’s pretty much why I sed webcomics. :P
As for comics, I sadly can’t say one way or the other as I never actually red/owned any – I’ve researched them for days on end and I know more then most people, but I know them by synopsis/characters mostly rather then seeing the pages myself. It is as you sed, such details are lost on the uninitiated and most descriptions would leave such undertones out by ignorance – willing or blissful as the case may be. In television on the other hand, only time I’ve seen Rogue with a collar was in X-Men Evolution – and unless I missed it, it never had the required ring to be anything more then a punk-rock fashion item. Perhaps in her next iteration it can be expanded upon. One can hope, right? :)
That would be fun, but I think Jabber is merely a slave to fashion. The “wild thang” look calls for a collar, so collar it is. Just like Nails The Faint-Hearted. And there’s no way they are a pair.
Not every one who wears a collar is a slave or submissive. Some might be goth or just simply like the style.
As to the baddies getting knocked down. Maxim already covered that. The one with the real power and talent are hanging back tossing in the weaklings first. Classic group battle strategy. Bad guy groups are especially known for throwing away groups of people at the good guys knowing full well that the good guys can mop the floor with thier people. They just don’t tell thier people that.
Another side-effect of the “send the lesser minions in first” trope is that it gives the major villain a distraction to make a bee-line for his secret escape route if he judges the heroes to be extremely competent…
Thing is she -isn’t- wearing any old collar. See that bit on the front of it? Yeah, that ring is where a leash can be attached. If it was a normal spiked collar – sure, probably just style. But what’s been presented is -specifically- made for slaves. It’s hard to stumble onto one of those if you’re looking for a goth style collar online/fashion store – that bit on the front usually gets left out of regular fashion because it adds production costs/steps that make such items more expensive.
My point is that whoever made/bought this collar, knew exactly what it was and what it implies. Unless sitcom-levels of naivete and ignorance where involved of course.
Or the thing is simply the clasp of the collar and the angle makes it look weird…
A clasp or buckle would be flat to the leather .
It does indeed look like a leather collar with a ring to clip a leash to. It could mean she’s into BDSM.
On the other hand, “punk” outfits not-infrequently include a dog collar. It could be straight from a pet store.
Different vibe entirely. One kind of collar says “I’m someone’s sexual plaything”, the other says “I’m a junkyard dog, a tough and mean fighter.”
Mix them together for a kinky time, expressly if you include the chain. How the chains are used is up to the people involved.
Well, the the definitions between “kinky” or “perverted” are a matter of individual perceptions…For example, to me, “kinky” is using a feather, but “perverted” would be using the whole chicken. I suppose some people would consider a “slave collar” to be kinky if it’s used with an actual purpose. But I wouldn’t say that simply *wearing* such a collar to be kinky or perverted…Just a whacky kind of “fashion sense.”
If it’s something I do, it’s Erotic.
If it’s something I don’t do, but might try, it’s Kinky.
If it’s something I won’t do, it’s Perverted.
+1
+1
. . . Is the chicken alive or dead at the time, and is anyone else involved?
I suppose the status of the chicken would be up to the people involved…Either way, it would be to “perverted” for me. But if my “partner” shows up with a jar of mayonnaise & a shaved squirrel, I’m outta there!
Still doesn’t mean anything, unless you are going to claim that the old school punks/heavy metallers were either all secret subs or all complete idiots (just because whatshisname {know who he is and what band he fronted, but the name currently slipt it’s collar and don’t want to make it worse by using the wrong names} got his look from the local BDSM shop and started the whole “Leather and Chains” thing doesn’t mean there has to be any secret message/code, like tapping your foot in a public toilet or asking if there is any spare bog-paper in the other stall)
In terms of the art above, yes you are right. Although DarkVeghetta‘s comments stand well in their own context, if you were to see somebody wearing a ringed collar in real life. DaveB will likely have used a reference picture though, and the one he picked just happened to have a ring on it. So no cultural implications need be taken by that alone. Of course, it may have been intentional, in which case we will likely see corroboration of that later.
Googling “spiked collar” several of the images I saw had rings. Although I guess that the ratio of rings to none, might change for someone who had searched for other sub./dom. terms before. Those sneaky algorithms do personalise our results. But I doubt that anyone would get images with no rings, as they are a recurring optional feature on collars. When talking images, rather than what you might find in any given store.
Whereas, when I modified my search to “punk” I did not notice a single result which had a ringed spiked collar. Not that there was a high ratio of collars being worn, so it was a fairly small statistical sample. But if it holds true, then I would deduce that in punk circles that is well known, and they will avoid buying ones with rings. Unless they are into that scene too.
*bows* Thank you for the kind words and for the research. It only later crossed my mind to google some terms and check what I’d stumble on to (btw, there are ways to force google to not use custom results, but it’s quite the hassle).
What I sed I already knew from my previous searches for slave collars in online stores – I made it a point to find ones with the ring, and it was surprisingly hard to find them in non-BDSM stores, and the quality/durable ones where rather pricy (to be expected really for a hand-crafted leather and metal product).
I know a chick who is into the goth scene and she wears BDSM collars because compared to normal chokers she found it was much easier to find ones they fit her thicker neck well while still looking how she likes. She rather explicitly made it clear to people that she wasn’t interested in BDSM sexytime at all and if anyone even hinted she was a sub/slave she would beat their ass until they realised just how very Dom she is.
Ya kinda made my point there. :P
Your friend -knew- just what kind of message it was she was sending to people in the know.
She might just be a badass that doesn’t care about people’s opinions as long as they keep quiet about them/fear her.
There’s also another possibility – depending on how well you knew her – that she was really a submissive, but played the tough dom towards anyone she didn’t find worthy. You see, some subs won’t admit what they are to just anyone – the right dom needs to impress her/him enough to have the secret revealed to them and only them.
For some reason this reminds me of the bulky/tough male hosts at an old famous club – they where often payed by gay customers to sleep with them/perform for them in private, but it was known that if you ever dared to call them gay to their face they would beat you to a pulp. Thing about us humans is, we sometimes tell lies/act for different reasons.
Juuust sayn’. *sheepish grin*
Not sure if anyone has ever mentioned this in previous images, but props on the detail on Maths forearms. That shit is accurate
Erm…I don’t know if this helps, but I don’t think she does have animal mimicry powers. Or, if she does, she’s able to combine multiple animals at once. I say this because cheetahs can’t actually bounce around like that. They’re fast, yes, but they’re built for speed of movement, not reflexes and control. If you want fast reflexes, look at something like a mongoose, or a lot of insects.
Bouncing around like Jabber does would require an enormous degree of fine motor control, eye-hand coordination, and the ability to accurately judge trajectories, and to re-orient herself in mid-air. If I were to guess, I’d say she’s combining abilities normally found in an ordinary house-cat, some variety of monkey, and probably a few other things, as well.
Of course, she may just be imitating animal movements to give her an advantage over other humans, in which case, yes, Math might well have his hands full.
If you want a really cool set of super-powers for he (assuming you don’t already have them fleshed out rather completely), take a look at Stan Lee’s Superhumans show, which gives a whole host of individuals with truly awesome abilities. So far, my favorite by far is a guy who can imitate monkeys to run roughly twice as fast as the fastest normal human sprinter.
This could set up a nice dynamic, where, of all the supers in all the groups, the most dangerous tend to be the ones who rely not on their super-human physiques or powers, but upon their simple, completely human minds and techniques. This would give a very real theme to the comic that today’s society seems to have forgotten: that it’s not what you are born with that counts, but what you learn to do with it that really matters. And, to be honest, in my opinion, that’s one of the things that makes this comic great: it’s not about what abilities the characters are born with, or acquire in other ways, but about what they DO with those abilities.
That’s just it, Jabbs doesn’t become a cheetah, she just gains the speed on top of her normal human abilities (she wouldn’t be able to punch either)
Kangaroo powers activate! (and if you want punching powers, go with the mantis shrimp. It has the fastest attack and highest impact force per weight of any animal.)
“Sloth style!”
What? They have extreme energy conservation techniques. Not everything has to be about speed and power.
What was that bug that shoots super-heated steam out of it’s butt?
Blast-ended skrewts?
Bombardier beetles. But if Jabberwokky starts doing that, I think Math will be less keen on fighting her.
Yeah, that kind of fighting style really stinks…
Skunk style!
Their fists probably sound like Gatling guns going off.
Well, THAT sounds freaking awesome! Thanks for the mental soundbite. :D
true gatlings have a lower rate of fire than several machine guns but a deeper thump from each round. a good alternate to name would be a vulcan or saw.
I really do not hear those fists pounding with the sound of “Live long and prosper”
I am surprised that nobody has yet mentioned the fire and lightning effects going off outside the window. At the very least, we can tell that the firefight has expanded, beyond just shooting straight up at Maxima. And there is either a lot of smoke being generated, or someone is summoning mists.
Although, looking at the fire beyond Jaberwokky’s wrist, there is the outside possibility that those displays are actually her way of making an impressive entrance. Rather like
villain-dude-with-X-scar-on-his-face* Deus’s thunder and lightning machine.* We really could do with an expanded cast list, to include the villains and other ancillary members, like Suzie News. The number we need to remember is growing with every page, thanks to this battle royale.
Yeah, thought it was just part of Jabbs’ entrance at first as well, but if you look closely just to the side of her left hip you can just make out someone creating the fireball, possibly Maxi is hidden by Jabbs’ elbow because it sure looks like the fire hit something or someone
Not unless he is made out of mist. I cannot make out anyone else in panel 1, other than Jabberwokky and Sydney’s chibi. Are you sure you are not just ‘seeing faces in the clouds’?
Possibly, just looks like there is someone just beside her hip creating the fireball, unless just looking at the end of the fireball and not the start
I can see the fireball, and what looks like either the path of it going there, of wreckage that resembles it. Could be either, as there is other, similar colored wreckage going to the edge of the panel.
At most, I see two faint rectangular shadows at the beginning of the fire streak that might represent arms. The fire itself looks like someone is shooting a jet of flames, which is striking something and billowing up/around it to form the fireball. It’s presumably coming from the fire-aura person near the left side of panel 5 on this page.
The trouble with superhero comics in general: Wild Speculation is Wild. I mean, it could be someone made out of mist.
…………Someone working on this webcomic has played KOF’s recent installations.
That would be DaveB, he’s a one-man team
With the support of one woman. But Mrs DaveB clearly prefers to stay out of the limelight.
why i am reminded of that red haired guy(Hak Fu) in jackie chan adventures?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVajui035JY
Now Sydney just need to comment on how Math reminds her of Vegeta in that last panel :D
Not just that panel, but all panels he has ever appeared in
I can’t help but notice they both have rather emaculate teeth.
Good dental plan, plus america has some top-notch dental surgeons, can give anyone (with the correct amount of money) a full set of brand new teeth (and not falsies either)
be interesting if she ends up with a reserved cell….so that she’s always around
Jabby released…..get’s in fight with Math or someone else….Jabby in jail again….
“Maybe we should start charging her rent….”
Why does everyone believe that Math will automatically win? DaveB said that at least one member of Archon will lose (possibly permamently), and no, can’t remember where he said it
Sounds like the bookies could make a killing, if nobody else does.
“Why does everyone believe that Math will automatically win?”
There are patterns to storytelling, and a lot of people recognize them. Just based on the flow of the story and a given situation, people will have a pretty good idea in general what is going to happen next. That doesn’t mean the author can’t pull a surprise here and there, but too much of that will ruin a story.
The last couple pages have established Math as a bad-ass. The stage has been set. Next up, a Real Fight, in which there is actually a chance he could lose. People thought it was going to be LPoN, given his dramatic introduction (He actually -hit- Math!), but that one proved to be a fake-out.
What the story calls for at this point is a drawn out fight in which at some point it looks like Math actually might lose. Then he pulls off something cool and wins anyway. Everyone has a general idea what is meant to happen, and is now waiting to see the specifics of how it plays out. That’s why Everyone believes that Math will win.
I’m expecting that when Jabber takes off that coat, she will be wearing Not Much under it, which will cause Math’s well known Lechery disadvantage to crop up. He’ll lose his combat focus, and get pounded a bit. I still expect him to win, but it won’t be a Flawless Victory.
Oh, what I foresee is Math winning this fight, even if it’s something of a close call, and Math winds up with a long-term “Nemesis Villain.”
Or, as an alternative, Math happens to beat Jabber somewhat more easily than I just described & that sets us up with a greater respect for Math’s skills…Until an even *better* fighting villain than Jabber comes along & becomes his Nemesis.
This fight between Math/Jabber could be used either way: Establishing a Nemesis for Math now, or building up Math even higher to introduce a more True Nemesis later.
Here is my take on it. But I shall encase it in spoiler text, for good reason. So click at your own peril.
The reason being that it is drawn from the author’s comments, above, rather than inferring from the scene. Jabberwokky was originally going to be in the role that Sydney is in now. Therefore she is major league/. At least on a par with Math, but possibly more. I think he will fare well, but will get his arse handed to him on a plate. Maybe by another villain kill-stealing.
Couldn’t help it, but the last panel just looks like an overture for a very kinky sexual encounter. Both are a way too cheery for *just* a fight.
Actually, a good fight is sometimes considered a good aphrodisiac. It gets the blood pumping, the adrenaline flowing and provide a good thrill for those willingly involved and a few other things.
Then, I only had pretty bad fights in my life – regardless of who turned out winner. I also never felt any accomplishment in being a winner in any kind of competition. Maybe I simply lack any kind of passion for this kind of “fun”.
Sounds about right.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my
blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!
Arrrgh! The Pain! Make it stop! Make it stop! I’d rather you throw me out the airlock that do this to me!
I quite liked it actually. The metaphysical imagery was particularly effective…
In which case, I must not hesitate in pointing out that it is not my own work, but just quoting the late Douglas Adams. Who, in turn was parodying Lewis Carrol’s Jabberwocky. Which itself may have been a piss-take of The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains.
If you actually enjoyed it, then you weren’t strapped into a Poetry Appreciation Chair.
…Or, perhaps you think that you might get away with bare-face lying your way out of getting tossed out the airlock…All evidence included, that tactic won’t work & I’d rather just get tossed out.
I know, that’s why I replied with Arthur Dent’s comments :)
At least, as far as I remember the end of the first radio show…
Oddly enough, no one posted the actual poem in the comments yet. I SHALL… not do that. Instead, would you kindly listen to it being used as a delightful song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-AGLyMVHM
If you’re feeling in a hurry, feel free to skip to 0:22 when the actual lyrics start.
Damn, didn’t notice Bismarck posted a link to the poem around the mid of this page (page3). In my defense, I was very tired and heck, I gave ya’ a musical link. I REGRET NOTHING (except the first sentence)!
getting close to comic 1337!
you know Sydney will say/do something special there, maybe her newest skill will show
I think DaveB is way too cool to mark traditional milestones like that. I am sure he would want to choose something esoteric, rather than mundane hackerspeak. Err, no offence to hackers intended. And nothing interesting on my computer. Pretty boring defences too, so not even a real challenge. And those girls, they are all eighteen or over!
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I think I have that orb’s skill set partly worked out. One bit has just one part active. The other active branch has 3 active parts. I think the longer one is for her telepresence and each of the bits there represent an ability. She can see, hear and project her image through it.
Not sure if this was mentioned, but honestly I half expected for there to be ARC Cross or something showing up to save Jabberwokky after she slipped on that glass with her left thigh directly over that jagged glass. Femoral artery cut anyone? Then again Jabberwokky actually impresses me more that she had the presence of mind and the ability to avoid getting cut there.
Of course that could of also been a cool power stunt moment for Sydney, either tourniquet with lighthook or maybe one of the mystery orbs is turns her into a white mage.
I see what you did there…Archon’s emergency medical response sort of named in line with Red Cross.
Maybe call it ARC Med? Or would that name be too close to Achmed, the Dead Terrorist ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=achmed+the+dead+terrorist )?
As for her powers, with that eagle tattoo on her chest, and her mention of “Cheetah Style” I’m guessing she has the ability to manifest various animal powers.
Animal-themed supernatural martial arts styles, apparently. (See the Who’s Who).
I read this comic and then look to the side and what do I see but a link to a comic called “Walking on Broken Glass”.
Heh, funny co-incidence. Those banners are generated randomly, probably out of the author’s control, from quite a few possible ones. Although I once saw a similar match, when we had the bunny orphanage destruction. So it is within the bounds of possibility, that there is some element of subliminal suggestion. Depending on how recently a particular concept had been thought up. And whether DaveB even sees the content of the advert banners, when in administrator mode.
I know this is a bit late, but it’s “chica”, not “chicka”.
At least, it is if she’s trying to talk Spanish. I just realized after I commented that that might not be the case.
Cheetah-style looks more like Gibbon-style, with all that bouncing around.
Dunno if this has already been said, but not every state has a “Son of Sam” law. So, in some states, criminals can profit from their story.
I do not recall that it was, so thanks for the info.
Mind you, the state that she is in has that law.
Probably. ;-)
Just a thought, on re-reading:
How handy is Harem with a sword? Jabberwocks are, after all, reputed to be particularly vulnerable to VORPal weapons…
Harem is only in her 20s and is employed by a modern military unit. I would estimate that she has very poor, if any, swordswomanship skills.
Anything less than well-trained and a soldier is far better off utilising what they are qualified in. Especially when dealing with a highly skilled opponent, like Jabberwokky.
Although the poetic reference is appreciated, in its own right. :-)
*swishes tail like a watch-chain in Wonderland*
A fair point, although not necessarily a conclusive one. The military themselves tend not to train their recruits in sword combat, but they are often quite supportive of those who choose to seek out such training as a leisure activity.
Against an experienced sword-user, especially one of the calibre of a certain upcoming antagonist, I agree she’d be better using another option. Against an opponent suspected of having a particular weakness, or in circumstances that somehow favour such a weapon, it may well be worth a try.
…. Gilda?
The more I look at these two, the more I ship it.