Grrl Power #337 – Superheroines in the shower
Lots to talk about on this page. I’ll start off by pointing out that I did not forget Sydney’s glasses, she took them off to run.
It’s fair to say Amorphous and Achilles were given more laps to run than Sydney. I’m not sure how many were assigned, but do I remember before I started getting into shape, running even halfway around one of those tracks (which are 400m or just under 1/4 mile) without stopping to catch my breath would be pretty much impossible. Also I’d get shin splints and cramps in my side. (I was very out of shape) Nowadays I could probably do 2, maybe 3 laps even though I don’t do a lot of aerobic exercise in the gym. Sydney’s only slightly better off that I was given her hyperactivity and the fact that she probably weighs half what I did, but in any case, Peggy’s not trying to kill her, just exhaust some sense into her.
When I originally envisioned Grrl Power, the plan was to have a lot of scenes in the showers because I thought that would be fun to draw. Just like the lounge area with the red couch is a recurring set, I’d have all sorts of conversations that don’t necessarily have anything to do with showering take place in the showers. I also planned putting in a lot more dirty humor in general. What I didn’t plan on was since Sydney is the main character, the tone of the comic was largely set by her early on, and while she’s not a prude, she is body conscious (at least around a bunch of superheroines) and easily flustered when people she perceives as being adults or generally more with it than her start being raunchy, especially if it’s even remotely directed at her.
Anyway, I finally get to draw a shower scene and who knows how often it’ll happen in the future, but the next few pages will be mildly NSFW. Nothing more than what’s been in the comic so far, a little cleavage, sideboob etc. It will just be more glisteny than usual.
Oh and that last panel? The background took so long to draw – I know it looks simple, but laying in all that tile in perspective was a huge pain in the ass – anyway it took so long I went and got a subscription at cgcookie.com and I’m now trying to learn Blender cause dayum, if I could build some sets in 3D (and render them so they don’t look like cheap 3D hopefully) it would save me a ton of time in the long run.
Since a few people are asking, here is a better look at Peggy’s tattoos. SFW and NSFW (obviously you get a better look at her tats on the NSFW version, but you know, nipples.
I found a fun webcomic for you guys. I actually made the time to read through the whole things, so take that as my recommendation. My only complaint as is with all things I like is that there isn’t enough of it. It’s semi-auto bio, maybe more of an “inspired by real life events” affair. Anyway the site is Jennifer Draws Comics. She actually has three comics there, (three discrete comics, not three strips of the same comic) and I’ve only had a chance to check out “Sprinkles” which is the auto-bio one. It’s consistently pretty funny and cutely drawn so give it a read, and optionally check out her other comics if’n you’re inclined. Personally I identified with that first Sprinkles comic; I am chocked full of trivial information, not so great with the practical stuff.
Here’s the link to the new comments highlighter for chrome, and the GitHub link which you can use to install on FireFox via Greasemonkey.
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You know, this may be the very first time I see someone near-sighted taking off their glasses and NOT become hollywood blind.
By that, I mean someone taking off glasses and becoming absolute batshit blind, deaf and moronically stupid beyond anything Mister Magoo would possibly do. Like Leonard from Big Bang Theory completely forgetting the layout of the apartment where he’s lived for ten years and smashing his face in a while WHILE HOLDING HIS ARMS IN FRONT OF HIS FACE somehow. There is no way in hell someone near-sighted would fail to recognize their friends BY VOICE, yet Hollywood blindness still has that effect. They can see the blurry outlines of people and shapes, yet still confuse fire hydrants for their closest friends.
That’s not blindness, that’s terminal stupidity.
Some people simply have a better spatial awareness. I’m pretty damn good at it personally. I had a friend (since passed away) who was living in a house with a couple other guys and for some reason the set up of lights in the place when leaving his place after dark always involved the hall light going out and about 8 steps in total darkness through the living room to get to the front door. Al would occasionally chuckle about how I managed to make those steps without bumping into anything while his two roommates, in his words, would “stumble-dick their way to the door, bashing shins and cursing.”
Even with poor spacial awareness, you can still identify your friends and family by the sound of their voice.
With Hollywood blindness in effect, your friend Steve says “hi!” with a voice similar to Michael Dorn’s and you reply “is that you, mom?”
Ah yes, Mr. Magoo blindness.
Obligatory archive link: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1290
She doesn’t need them anyway. They hang in front of her cheeks and she looks over them the whole damned time.
Besides… who the hell says “near-sighted”? It is short-sighted. Always has been. Most likely always will be.
In any case, I know people whose prescription is so strong that they pretty much can’t see anything without their lenses. But then in those cases, it is obvious just from looking at said lenses.
Lots of people say “near-sighted”. Just as you’ve never heard “near-sighted”, I’ve never heard “short-sighted”, except as another way of saying “lacking foresight”.
If you’d done even a minuscule amount of research, (like I did upon seeing your comment) you’d know that both are valid terms, varying in usage by region.
Well whatever. Americanisms are wrong. Elsewise they wouldn’t be called Americanisms. They’d just be words like all the rest.
The new pic of Sydney up in the Cast header looks really good. Her face looks softer less angular. Is that her new look after the swelling and the bruise goes away?
I’ll be honest. I still think Peggy is the best looking one on the page even with the suicide girl tats going on.
It looks like the blonde in the last panel is levitating her backpack.
(Yes, I figure it’s a gym bag on the shelves.)
Peggie is a well-built character. I’d completely forgotten she has a prosthetic leg until this page – which is great. The colorful tattoos also work well with her.
Personally, I could do without the refuge-in-audacity comments like the “pretend you’re a teenage boy” and the tickle-fights, though. I’ve got no problem with smut or dirty humor, but “one-quarter smut” and juvenile-dirty humor is a little annoying. I like “Joule Juice”, especially because it looks like it’s practically just water.
The “teenage boy” and tickle fight references should both be taken separately. The “teenage boy” reference is a character based joke centered on Sydney’s ADD personality (and actual AD/H/D), while the Tickle fight comment is a running gag based on unreasonable expectations and general absurdity that will likely show up again in the future whenever there is a shower/locker room scene.
Taken separately, they fit the comic well, but in this instance they can seem a little much, especially since they’re placed right next to each other. Given how much Dave probably has in mind for each strip, and all the things he’s assuredly had to cut or delay showing, it’s inevitable that jokes like these would eventually end up together at some point during the comic.
Besides, this is a lighthearted superhero comic, not a brooding antihero comic, or modernized (pronounced “Disney”) children’s fairy. While there isn’t any blatant mature content, there’s also lots of stuff that many parents would never let their six year old read (like almost anything having to do with Dabbler’s powers).
See, I thought the “pretend you’re a teenage boy, Sydney” comment was referring to turning her waking nightmare into a “waking dream.”
Is it just me or does Peggy seem a bit like a mother who uses some boot camp techniques to discipline her kids, but is always a mother first, and she’s being that mother to Sydney?
Actually, both Arianna & Maxima (with Peggy being directly subordinate to Max) have to treat Sydney as a “special project,” that needs particular attention in bringing Sydney in line with military discipline without actually breaking her or causing her to snap & “go postal” on everybody. To do that, they have to also be friends with her, not just superiors.
For…reasons (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/939).
OOoh, so it’s an inside (the phone) joke.
I have a hypothesis given the color of the two unknown orbs. Maybe somebody else has thought of this too and I just haven’t read it… I think they might provide some kind of control plants of and the ground… Atlernatively, i think the green one might have some kind of medical use…
Since it’s glowing in the last panel I’m thinking Gamer’s Mind myself.
They are all glowing in the last panel.
When did Sydney get her leg bruised btw? Did I miss something?
Wait…. was that from when she fought Math?
Yes.
Ok – really impressed at the attention to detail that DaveB is showing then…
just checked the site of thursday the 23 at 12:52 am and this is up on the main page
That’s because DaveB is on Central time, not Eastern time. Right now it’s still four minutes to midnight in his timezone.
Most of the time it isn’t posted until around 7 am eastern time.
Hmm, she still has bruise from hitting herself with an amazeball, but the bruise from GETTING HIT IN THE FACE by a supervillain is gone.
Is it just me or is it kinda inconsistent?
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The bruise from getting hit in the face is still there. She covered it up with makeup from her cosplay kit.
She used her cosplay makeup to hide the bruise on her face. Apparently she’s REALLY good at cosplay, as she is a proper nerd.
Is there really a make-up that could survive hard run and then water to the face?
(just asking, I honestly have no idea)
Yes, lots of make-up is made to be pretty well water proof by being oil based. Thus why there is all sorts of special stuff that advertises how well it takes make-up off.
i usually not this honest but i got really excited for the lat slide not because of the nudity but because i lie woman to be a little toned up.
If you need any Blender help, just ask. you have one of the better teachers as a fan
I think I want to date Peggy.
Lol the trash bag shoes on the redhead.
I have to be super familiar with someone to be able to recognize them by voice.
I’m near sided enough that without my glasses I have to squint to read the top row of the eye chart and in no possible way can I read any sign on the highway while driving. Nope, not even big font speed limit signs.
Anything more than maybe 8 inches infront of my face I rely on color and shade changes to make out what/where stuff is.
Funny, my vision seems to greatly improve the darker it is
The light the 8 year Olds laptop makes from it being plugged in (and facing the wall inside a sqare of the 5×5 shelves from ikea is more than enough to completely light my room so that I see everything on a gray scale without my glasses. Where my boyfriend stumbles through my room to give me a kiss because it’s pitch black.
Also the clock on the oven lights up the kitchen/dining room for me
I have my light in my bathroom at 1% and blue and with the bathroom door open it lights up the rest of the downstairs for me (which is important because my roommates are forever putting in or moving stuff around the hallway)
I find it SUPER bright and leave the normal white light off when I use it, everybody else has to turn on said white light
My roommate bought me blackout curtains…
They don’t black out (everybody says they do, but no, they domt)
Thankfully I’m nocturnal and sleep better in sunlight
When we lost power for 36 hours I got a true grasp of what “dark” was for a couple of hours, I couldn’t see anything except in the kitchen with the big window with the moon facing it
But I didn’t bump into anything.
I might have only moved into this place back in Sept but short of my roommates moving some stuff around every now and then…
Also, for the most part I prefer to walk around the house without my glasses unless I’m sitting with the family eating dinner or on my computer.
There’s been times I’ve gone to hang out with my boyfriend in his room and he suddenly want to show me something on his TV so I have to go downstairs to get them
…
I do have a funny weakness.
If I do not set my glasses down in one of three places within a foot I cannot find my glasses because I cannot see them and I tell alexa meow, white light 100% and suddenly there’s a lot of groping around the room as I panic
…Why aren’t there shower curtains? Are showers in the military actually like that, or did you just do that to torture Sydney? O_o
… I didn’t even have walls in my shower room in bootcamp
Just two polls with a lot of showerheads
You got past it very quickly
Sydney no! Don’t pour juice on your face! :O
One thing I don’t get is why tattoos in webcomics always look like random collections of psychodelic paintings… rather than anything like real tattoos (which tend on average to have far more muted colours).
This is going to be a hard section for my teacher to let slide.
I just love the comic’s caption.
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