Nothing to add to this one. Oh, and ignore the ever morphing door hinge/handle situation. Some people may find it distracting once they notice it but it’s just a situation, not an event, and certainly not a happening.
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LOL was she frightened to buy comics and is pissed about it or just pissed that a strange girl pops out of a door adn scared her dog adn her and made her pee her self abit ? im wagering it one of those life questions that wont ever trutly be answered like how many likes does it take to get to the center of a tootise pop the world my never know
Want to know why comics sales are plummeting?
Look at the price. See that $3? When we were teenagers you could buy THREE comics for that price.
Now look at the content.
See that epic patriotic hero, loved by generations? He’s now a racist and a buffoonish mockery of the WWII generation.
See that epic armor-suited hero, loved by generations? He’s a drunken fascist.
See that married superhero couple, loved by generations? He’s now a wife-beater, and she’s a slut.
See that brother and sister mutant team, loved by generations? They’re now an incestuous couple.
See that wall-crawling superhero, loved by generations? he just sold his marriage to the devil to save his zillion-year old aunt from dying.
See that dark knight superhero, loved by generations? He’s now a foul-mouthed, psychotic control freak jerk.
See that star spangled superheroine, loved by generations? She’s now a complete bile-spitting man-hater.
See that caped high-flying hero with the S on his chest, loved by generations? He’s now a gormless buffoon with the personality of a wooden plank.
Hurray for comics!
While I’ve never even considered buying mainstream Marvel/DC superhero stuff, there are still lots of good comics out there in various genres. I make sure to order Empowered, PS238, Girl Genius and Thieves of Kings at my favourite books & comics shop as soon as they come out.
And the list of classics keeps growing – it’s entirely viable to just keep buying the great stuff from the past, like Sandman and Swamp Thing.
Then again, I only buy trade paperbacks, which I hear isn’t where the money really lies for the industry…
Argh, “Thieves AND Kings”, I mean.
Shouldn’t there be some kind of quick edit button,
for when you spot a typo directly after posting?
That would be nice… I’ll look in to seeing if there’s a WordPress plugin for that sort of thing.
Of course, sometimes a good freudian typo is much more entertaining than a well written comment. :)
I stopped reading comics about 20 years ago. I understand the concept of flawed characters; let’s face it, what do you want to see more, a guy who never fails, or a guy who fails but never gives up? But about twenty years ago, some money-grubbing moron saw sales start to slip and thought, “I know! We’ll make them edgier, MORE flawed! That’ll make them more interesting and we’ll get the cash flow up again!”
Next thing you know, the Good Guys start to become as bad as, or worse than, the Bad Guys. Everything’s “darker.” The “Women In Refrigerator” theme takes off like gangbusters and the female of the species start to become the endangered species. The combat uniforms start to look like the summer line for Frederick’s of Hollywood. The parodies made of the heroes are starting to look more and more like documentaries, particularly the ones involving sex.
Heroes are supposed to be role-models, people you look up to…nowadays, most of the heroes are the types of people you could only look up to if you’re a serial killer.
I myself don’t keep up with super hero comics for the most part any more. If I find a run I like I’ll get it but as soon as they swap artist/writer teams I almost never stick around. You can bet super hero comics will come up in my story more than a few times. As to whether the characters are people you’d look up to, you’ll have to decide that for yourself.
I’m an OLD man… I can remember when that would buy 30 (I still own some of them).
Squirrel Girl is still good, but that’s largely due to her not being tainted by her own popularity. If you want to ruin her, make her dark, brooding, and serious… like any other angsty hero
In a similar vein, Ms. Marvel is showing well. It’s the first comic series I’ve actually followed- I’ve even bought the TPBs!
When I was a teen, you could buy 12 of them for $3, then the prices of paper and ink went up, and then you had to pay the artists and writer (and inkers and letterers, and editors) a living wage (even the Philippine artists have to eat…) and whoosh, there go the prices.
To be fair, inflation means that those cheap prices in the past were almost the same price as today.
Honestly, $3 is not the same as it used to be.
Not many comics get translated into my language. And those that are not translated are usually not sold around here :S
Good thing there’s a book store right around the corner that sells English versions of them! Too bad, they sell only one series I like.
While the purist will continue to want the physical copy of a comic, the unfortunate fact is that the mass market is based upon consumption, simplistic convenience, and instant gratification. Comic book stores have morphed into toy stores with lots of picture books on which those toys are based. Some comic book stores are nerd / geek genre stores where one can buy comics, comic based toys, and various geek games like role playing games or board / card games. The only way comic stores will ever be viable is to diversify into something like that.
(None of this is to say that being a nerd or a geek is bad, since I’m probably considered both on some level.)
Just found the site today, looks interesting what with the repackaging superpower and all. And some guys think skinny girls with flat chests are super-sexy. Does that make it a super-power?
Not sure if it’s a superpower, but I do find Sydney quite fetching.
New reader BTW, but methinks I’ll be a long term one. :)
The sad thing is that comics are now pretty much the worst entertainment bang-for-the-buck out there.
I know that my personal purchases are way down.
My solution to crappy comics is simple, I play Mutants and Masterminds with my friends you make the characters and their flaws so you cant complain later
I used to play in a weekly DC Heroes 3rd Ed. game but that fell apart as they all do. That’s what Sydney was playing in Strip #3.
Just goign to let you know im not complianing and if comes off as such forgive me Dave, but i check daily to see if you have updated and i know you update once a week i just hope you can see theat im a very loyal fan and take great joy in part taking of the awesome just wanted to get that off my chest
Believe me I want to update more often but they take about 10 hours to draw. I’ve never been a fast artist but the hope is that the more of this I do the faster I’ll get. Plus after tax season I may get a second Cintiq for my girlfriend to start helping me with inking and doing color flats. I will eventually start posting more often so stick with me until then.
Oh heavens you dont have to worry about me going some place im sticking withyou untillyou burn this place down and then a few days after then ,and i completely understand how tough and how much work it is to get one of these going especialy one as well drawn and with a great story going for it like this one does, so sign me up for the citzen ship progarm you have or about to start cuz i wanna live here
Dave…
We’ll forgive *some* cut and paste / use the same image with different text
If it will improve throughput.
I’ve done some of that though I try not to do it within the same page if I can avoid it.
Dave, I’d just like to say, great comic, keep it up.
Speaking of bang for the buck. All Hail KC Afternoon (home publication of “Ah! Megamisama” and “Sword of the Immortal”) 835 B&W pages for only ¥680 (and no BS like musical writers/artists).
Really enjoying your comic so far Dave. ^^
How do I vote for Grrl Power on, say, either TopWebComics.Com or BelfryComics.Net ?
If you go to the homepage, just grrlpowercomic.com, not the archives, I have a link to TWC and one other. I don’t have one to Belfry, I’m not sure what the voting process is there though. Thanks for the vote in any case!
Unfortently, i’m old enough(born 1956) to remember getting a quarter from my mom and buying 2 comics and getting some candy. Where did the time go? Oh well; I’m still around and HUGELY enjoying the new stuff.
just caught my attention on the third read through……why is she wearing skin tight clothing barely different in color to her skin?
the only reason i can think of is “to draw attention” but still.
ummm why does the dog look like a siamese cat?
Ah, so thats where the dog head gravatar came from.
Is the “yorp” dog based on the one on the thumbnail preview for this youtube video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2ZPcS-bAk
I think so. It was definitely some meme dog.
Holy shit I found the origin of Yorp.
we both found the origin of Yorp a day apart from each other.
What the hell. I found out one day later
Shh, no spoilers now.
;-)
Well Technicaly speaking you did spoiler yourself a few pages back! So bad Yorp.
As punishment you will have to watch one or more youbtube videos of kittens and or puppy’s playing of your choice for as long as you want to.
This page always cracks me up when I go on an archive crawl.
Same
Y’know, that blonde is uncommonly toned enough to think she might be a super herself, judging by the later established (in the shower room scene) and the previously alluded to (“Anyone with super powers is fantastically photogenic”) common traits of people born with super powers in this universe.
Seriously, you should have her show up again some time in a serious dramatic moment and then spoil everything by recognising Sydney.
Blonde: “Hey! I know you! You’re that screaming loon from the comic shop!”
Syd. “Dog-walker Valley Plastic Chick? Is that you?”
Blonde: “That is NOT my super name, you spaz!!”
She did show up again, during the Restaurant Rampage (Yorp was safely in his kennel dreaming of Squirrels… with blood shot red eyes and foaming mouths :) )
So that’s where YORP got his avatar from!
Rereading.
That ? above the dogs head is somehow utterly adorable. :D
Especially with the tongue hanging out :D
Easy: add tables, host tourneys for card games. People come in to play Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon or Magic or whatever their pick of poison, and they buy things while they’re there.
The comic actually starts at just that kind of table. The presence of stock shelves, and the overall look, very much give the impression of it being the back room of a store. When Sydney leaves the game, on the next page, she is in the shop, with Joel. Very much implying that the gaming table is in the shops back room.
That said, Sydney might have listened to your advice, as the comic opened with a flash forward, so that scene is months from the one above. At that time they might not have had the facility. So we may get to see them setting up the gaming room, in due course.
It would be hilarious if the door was always morphing, and no one notices–not even normal, regular, non-powered humans.(Kind of like south park’s kenny character.)
What about doggies?
*examines door carefully, with a puzzled “?” overhead*
lol. Not even super-powered humans would realize the door’s always morphing. I’d say that doggies and kitties, anthros, animals, everyone, too, wouldn’t realize, lol.
Hmmm. I wanna make a morphing bookstore and have no one realize it’s bigger on the inside than on the outside! (With flat-space / fourth dimensional technology. “They have books 1, 3, 4, 5–where’s book 2? Oh! there it is!”)
The Late Terry Pratchett covered the bookstores being bigger on the inside than the outside by bookstores (and depositories of knowledge like libraries) generating what is known as L-Space.
Through L-Space, all bookstores and depositories of knowledge are also all interlinked not only in space but in time.
It’s why in some small second hand bookstores, the owner seems to take several minutes to emerge from the stacks to inquire what you’re looking for.
Oook?
Diskworld series of books. In that universe Knowledge = power = energy = mass so a library in a actual magic university is functionaly infinitely large because there’s an infinite number of universes and there library’s interlink in L space.
I suspect DaveB is talking about getting the door handles consistent. In the second-to-last panel we see Sydney, exiting the shop, has pushed the door open more than 90 degrees from the closed position. If it was open less than 90 degrees, then Sydney should be positioned on the other side of the door. But as she is, relative to Sydney, we see the push-bar on the same side of the door as Sydney, and the pull-handle on the other side of the door. That is as it should be.> However, in the next panel, showing the closed door from inside the shop, the pull-handle is on the left side of door, but should actually be on the right side of the door, after swinging more than 90 degrees to have become closed again.
I love the dogs expression to what sydney did. btw reading comic over again while i wait for new addition is soooo worth it!
I was never a big fan of Marvel, and I stopped reading DC when the killed off Big Barda (my favourie DC character) for sh*ts and giggles. Not long after I stopped reading 2000AD because it had gone all grimdark as well & started taking itself far too seriously for it’s own good.
IMO the comics book publishers dug this hole for themselves.
I identify with the blonde, and I too would be upset if I was asked to buy comics and then the door was locked. ;)
I have actually bought comics through comixology!
it looks like comics have been in trouble for over a decade already, if not more, now a days manga is gaining a lot of ground so the interest is there its just that comics arent gathering that interest