Grrl Power #373 – Club step
As Kelvin is an uncommon unit of measurement outside certain sciences, it’s excusable Sydney didn’t realize that 2100 kelvin is actually just over 3300 Fahrenheit (1800 Celsius). I mean, it’s not that excusable, but it’s Sydney we’re talking about. She just blurted out the first thing that came to mind, and she thought since Kelvin starts at absolute zero, 2100 might be within human tolerance, if still alarmingly hot. Actually 295 Kelvin is right around comfortable room temperature, so she was off by an order of magnitude.
Personally I think Sydney’s reaction is really funny, but I can’t help wondering if I’ve seen almost this exact joke somewhere, probably in a sci-fi show like Futureama or Red Dwarf, and I’ve forgotten the source and am committing a dire act of cryptomnesia. Ever since I started the comic, it’s something I get a twinge about every now and then. I don’t care this time, whatever the origins are this makes me giggle (a manly giggle.) At least Sydney has the decency to be ashamed when she realized how far out in left field her assumption was.
It should be concerning to any of her teammates paying attention to Sydney that she considers the intervening half hour between panels 6 and 7 while Harem was wrangling superheroes (only marginally easier than cats) as non-time, because otherwise it wouldn’t be a smash cut from her perspective. Obviously Sydney didn’t black out or anything for that half hour, and is just recognizing those two moments would fit together in a 4th wall sort of way. Incidentally, an amusing villain would be “Smash Cut” who could make anyone do anything as long as he can get them to specifically say they won’t. His powers can only be activated mid sentence.
Harem’s actually wrong about Arianna’s authority here. Yes, she doesn’t have any say about deployment and stuff like that, but making an appearance at a club is exactly the sort of thing she’s there to manage.
Yes the OONTZs are supposed to be over the word bubble in that last panel. That’s my attempt to simulate how hard it is to hear in loud places like clubs. If it is in fact too obnoxious I’ll play with the transparency and blending mode a little. I want to make you guys have to read carefully like you have to listen carefully in an environment like that, but not make anything illegible. (Even though when I’m in clubs (both times!) or somewhere else really loud like restaurants with open walls and hard floors or dealers rooms at conventions, I only catch every 3rd word. I’m fairly good at piecing things together from context, but a lot of times I pause, smile blankly, and nod “yeah!” It’s weird, I evidently have pretty good hearing for my age, except in loud environments like that where I’m almost useless. It’s been suggested it’s actually the ADD, and not my hearing that’s causing the problem. The number of conversations and other distractions taking place make it really hard to focus on what the person right in front of me is saying.
I know VIPs normally get fancy lanyards at clubs, but I’ve already drawn the next 4 pages and I totally forgot to add them, so they get a hand stamp here. Come to think of it, it’s probably in UV ink because I forgot to draw stamps on their hands too. ¬.¬
Oh, and not to be gross about it, but since it is getting close to the Xmas shopping season, I’ll gently remind everyone about the Amazon link I have. If you click on it then shop like normal, then I get a % of the sale. It’s a good way to support the comic without spending any extra money, and also cut into Amazons profit margins if that’s something that appeals to you. Historically those sales don’t exactly pay the morgage, but they do defray some of my own Xmas expenses, so it is very much appreciated. Unless you guys decide to go to town this year and buy stuff like this or this. You know what the real kick in the teeth is there? $110K for a ruby and it’s not eligible for Amazon Prime. If you spend $110K at Amazon you should be eligible for Optimus Prime.
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I find Harem’s face to be quite attractive. My most recent ex-girlfriend is similar. But it is just as well that she failed to convince Sydney to change. Ignoring personalities completely, I find Sydney to be ten times as appealing as Harem is above. Even allowing all modifiers for slightly translucent dress, twirling, jiggling of boobs and bubbly outgoing personality.
Harem, in panel 6, I would just ensure to keep eye-contact with. Sydney, in the final panel, I would have to work very hard to avoid giving in to the urge, to give her a kiss and a cuddle, to get her to cheer up. Let alone sweeping her off her feet, which is what I would really want to do! I doubt that either would be well received though.
Harem underestimates the power of Sydney’s “hug me” aura!
Do you realize you just said that Harem looks like a dog?
You assume Yorp‘s ex was a canine
Perceptively countered, I am not into dogs. Sexually speaking, that is.
Nor is my comic-counterpart either, for that matter.
He wants bitches.
Yorp gave his bitch a Scooby Snack. Bitches love Scooby Snacks.
Get him four, eventually all he’ll want is naps. My aunt’s got one fixed male and 3 females who aren’t as far as I’m aware……the females push and prod him till he gives in.
You mean, like any female?
Well dogs don’t let silly things like “I’m your sister!” or “You’re my dad!!” get in the way. Dogs are very biblical.
Most animals have inbuilt instincts against inbreeding. Having various mechanisms by which incest is avoided. Sadly the way we keep animals in captivity or domestic situations can disrupt a number of those. Likewise there are always exceptions even against instinctive behaviours.
I am not aware of dogs being any more prone to incest than any other mammal, or humans, for that matter, given comparable circumstances.
I could picture the conversation…
“would you mind grabbing your flight orb?”
*snag*
*sweeps off feet*
*Gets clobbered by the orbs running a pain train*
Am I the only one expecting Onomatopoeia (( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia_(comics) )) to pop-up and attack now?
I’m expecting Claptrap.
He’s not able to come. he tried to “Integrate” with Axton and Roland’s turrets
Claptrap? Naah, he’s too much of a fan of club wub to ever visit club oontz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTErMYwl5I
Do they even need to stamp the supers. IIRC they are even paying them to be there. How many girls are going to be walking around there in a DP shirt. Oh and the floating glowy orbs are pretty distinctive as well I guess.
Could be an age stamp, if the club isn’t ‘only 21 and over’?
DaveB covers this in his blog above.
Well then he’ll have to go back and add neon stamps then, every club has blacklights.
Curses! I am foiled!
Doesn’t matter, even the Kard-whores have to get stamped
Excuse me. You are insulting hard working sexworkers everywhere. They do a hell of a lot more work and do it more satisfactory than the Kardashiens ( when they decide to “work” anyhow.)
i have the same problem as DaveB in loud noise situations. All the words run together and I can’t separate shit out. The oontzs are a pretty good representation of that.
I have a hard enuf time doing that outside a club. Between personal speech differences, the sounds coming from everything within say a fifty foot radius, and the echoes of all of those sounds off the walls, and the sounds made by the lights, and the em fields of pretty much everything…….I often just go uh huh uh huh because asking them to repeat themselves 15 times is more rude.
audio processing disorders often go hand in hand with the AD(H)D
All sensory processing disorders also go hand in hand with autism. The SPD itself my be the true cause of your AD/HD diagnosis. It’s really tricky to pay attention to ppl when you can not NOT hear everything within 100 feet and you hear things that are far away better than those that are close. It can also explain poor posture, or staring at the floor when trying to keep track of 100 different objects at varying distances moving at different velocities in different directions makes you just want to sit on the floor, close your eyes and cover your ears and bag chaos to give you the power to erase ppl with your mind.
I adore Sydney’s reaction — “Oh yes, very droll.”
Given Sydney’s pop-culture profile, I’d honestly expected a reference in that last panel
Le sigh. Tag fail
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Ugh. Fuck clubs.
Wasn’t that a movie starring Brad Pitt?
Hey, no one is supposed to talk about the Fuck Club if you’re not actually IN the Fuck Club.
Well, yeah, they say something similar about Las Vegas too, but look how well that worked out.
The Doctor say get your hearing tested and wear hearing protection for any loud stuff. I did mine in before age 30 with chain saws, tractors, concerts, big speakers, etc. Hearing aids suck.
I often consider driving a needle into my eardrums, particularly the left one.
I have a similar problem: excellent hearing, trouble understanding if there’s any environmental noise. I know people who don’t have the same issues will think I just mean that excessive noise can drown out intelligence, but it’s more pronounced in some people; I’ll have trouble in an environment where most people won’t.
To give some perspective: I once sat in on a conversation in an office with two colleagues, both of whom were quiet talkers by nature. They had an entire conversation while I sat there unable to understand a single word, even though I was actually closer to either of them than they were to each other.
It was once explained to me by an acquaintence as a “filtering” problem, rather than a hearing problem. My experience has been that it’s an accurate description. I’ve also found myself replaying in my head things people have said to me, and managed (sometimes) to understand them after several iterations: “running it through the filter a few times” is how I describe it.
Ironically, I don’t enunciate as clearly as I should, unless I’m conscious of it; yet most people don’t have a problem understanding me. Mostly.
Could be related to ADHD. Certainly it runs in my family.
Huh, that would explain a lot.
I have the same problem, and it really feels like the noise from other people talking is overlapping what other people said.
Maybe its the ADD, maybe it’s just so freaking loud it rattling the capacity to process language out of you. There are plenty of situations where over simulation of input can derail even the most focused human brain.
I’m not ADD, but for me in very auditorly active (think classroom with 30+ childeren working on projects, restaurants, etc,) or loud places I find that doing a touch of lip reading helps. I’m a fairly visual person and meshing even partial lip movements with actual words has improved what I pick up on in such situations. It’s a very active action on my part. I have to actively be watching the speaker’s mouth. Kind of like deliberately picking a target sound source to home in on.
When following a conversation I sometimes feel like I’m watching a ping pong match, with lots of head movement, tracking the verbal ball from one set of lips to the next.
Don’t know if a similar kind of deliberate focusing action would help.
It is an ADD thing. I’m ADD/ADHD borderline, and I have no audio filters at all. It’s why I have headphones on all the time, they create a filter that my brain is lacking. Concentrating really hard I can understand someone in a place with a lot of noise, but it takes energy and I’ll often have to ask people to repeat things.
Wow, I thought I was the only one with these problems. It is so good to hear that I’m not alone. Everyone I know keeps telling me to get my hearing checked. I already did that and I have perfect hearing. My ears aren’t the problem.
Often ppl are easier to understand if they’re NOT right next to me, also if I’m not paying any particular attention to them.
Will Harem come up with a plan in case the club gets a visit from the military police,unless ARC has NO military police???
Remember that this whole thing is all about PR. Sending the MPs to fetch them isn’t exactly great PR. Plus, police to deal with supers doesn’t really work well. Maxima is the only person who could realistically be a member of the supers Military Police.
Thought ARC-SWAT was Archon’s ‘Military Police’, or at least, Goose and Co are (unless they are only Space Marines)
Fairly sure Harem was getting the go ahead from someone with authorisation (do you really believe Anvil would be there otherwise? o_O)
No, the roles are very different. Military police are cops who only have jurisdiction over military personnel (plus can investigate crimes against military property and individuals). However they have no police authority outside of these narrow parameters.
Arc-SWAT do not have these limitations, as they can investigate and respond to crimes, such as bank robberies, which have no involvement with military personnel. Whilst Arc-SWAT are military personnel, and they have policing powers, this is not the same thing as being military police.
What squab is saying is correct, in as much as a regular police force would have an a dedicated team who’s only job it is to investigate incompetence, crime and corruption, within the police ranks. In America they would likely be called the internal affairs division. However, as Archon is a military organisation, they will instead have a military police division.
This though is not Arc-SWAT. They directly correspond to the normal police SWAT units, which have no connection to internal affairs. Other than falling under the latter’s jurisdiction. SWAT units are the teams that get called out, when normal crime gets so out of hand that the normal police cannot handle it. They have to call in police with Special Weapons And Training.
What I think squab has missed though, is that there almost certainly is an Archon military police unit, which we have not yet met. Given the shortage of supers, they might not have any heroes in their ranks.* However that is not actually necessary, in order to investigate incompetence, crime and corruption.
Clearly super-powers allow for crimes that might be undetectable, by normal means. But Arc-MPs will be able to second Arc-Light and Arc-Dark personnel and resources, to aid them in any investigation. Thus using their powers to overcome the concealing ones. But avoiding relying on anyone who is under suspicion.
Likewise, just as internal affairs might uncover a group of well-armed corrupt cops, and have to call upon their force’s SWAT unit to assist in any actual arrest, Arc-MPs can call upon Arc-SWAT to arrest any rogue Archon personnel. Including other members of Arc-SWAT.
So, in conclusion, yes, Maxima might well be called out to respond, if Halo and Harem get drunk and start smashing the place up. However she would do so at the behest of the Arc-MPs. And they are the ones who would arrest our girls, if it came down to that.
Although do not forget that there are already senior officers here. Namely Anvil (and probably Super Hiro).
* In fact there are political advantages to be had by having normals running that unit. It will reassure the general public, as they might otherwise be concerned that supers will have a conflict of interest and cover up for other supers. Police internal affairs always have to fight such perceptions by civilians, despite the fact that investigating police is their core job. So avoiding adding another conflict of interest would be useful.
That’s an excellent point in your footnote. There’s been a big push for civilian involvement in police investigations in the U.S. in recent years, at least with respect to excessive force complaints and in instances of lethal force. Regardless of how one feels about that idea, it’s pretty easy to see why it would be a bit of a hot topic. I could see Arianna pushing for a non-powered AMP force (oooh, “Archon Military Police” gets the best acronym!), with the understanding that if actual combat ensues, Maxima and Dabbler are called in to deal with it. If the situation is Maxima or Dabbler, then everyone else gets called into deal with it.
Also, I assume that if the ‘problem’ is Maxima and Dabbler teaming up and needing to be subdued, the plan is, “Get Dabbler to make sexist jokes, and get clear.”
Why not go with ArCHOMP : Archon’s Overwatch Military Police?
And while we play the Acronym game yet again, the medical officers: ArchIMedies ?
Arc-HiTexts the official sign makers, architects and Archon Twitter account spokeswomen.
Thank you, but do know what “Military Police” are, just wasn’t sure who in Archon that would be, but you are probably correct in the fact we haven’t seen them… yet (maybe by the end of the night we might see a few :D)
As I clicked the “Submit comment” button, I thought, “hang on, didn’t Gusticicus say he had served in the armed forces?” Sorry about that.
I consoled myself with the thought that hobbit militia are probably so law abiding that they do not need dedicated military police. Probably the shire sheriff just pops around occasionally, to share a good pipe, and to adjudicate any disputes about drill practice, cutting into elevenses time.
I thinking and IA/CID/ whatever equivalent would be part of Arc-Dark
I did contemplate that myself, but then dismissed it. A principle point of Internal Affairs investigations is public accountability. They need to be a publicly visible body, rather than being part of a secret agency.
For info in the UK CID means Criminal Investigations Department. Which is where all the plain-clothes detectives are based. They do not handle internal investigations. Rather they will be the folks heading up major criminal investigations, such as kidnappings or murders.
Various countries do have military forces tasked specifically with policing civilian populations (in modern times usually in conjunction with a regular police force). Most countries call these forces gendarmes. However in Russia they are known as the internal troops (not to be confused with an internal affairs division, within the police).*
Many of their roles overlap Archon’s remit. For instance dealing with large-scale riots (think on the car park fight), internal armed conflicts (Archon being tasked to deal with those who have super arms) and safeguarding highly important facilities, such as nuclear power stations (Archons will doubtless include this, but also has the wider remit of dealing with natural disasters).
Note that their function (like Archon’s) changes in war-time.
It is worth noting that they have several special forces units (spetsnaz), including the 604th Red Banner Special Purpose Center of the MVD RF Internal Troops, who deal with terrorism and hostage situations. Thus are directly analogous to Arc-SWAT.
Further, they have a rapid-deployment division, ODON. Clearly this would be analogous to the super-travel capabilities in Arc-SWAT, such as flight and teleportation. If Halo sets her shield to maximum size, she may well be able to transport a platoon-sized unit. Super-Hiro can likewise provide air transport for at least a coach-sized armoured personnel carrier. Maxima may just lift an aircraft carrier or marine transport vessel, in the same way.
Further they are tasked with guarding prisons. Just like Arc-Aegis.
* Historically, in Tsarist Russia, they were actually called the Special Corps of Gendarmes, but got reformed into the above format.
Two words that completely disconnected my higher reasoning synapses…”Hobbit Militia”. Just picturing it…and I remember the Halfling army from WFB…Hot pot Catapults ahoy! Imagine tagging Sauron’s eyeball with one of THOSE?
Particularly if that hot pot was spiced to Sydney’s liking.
You know if Sydney did that and was able to shape the field into a more cylinder shape she would have cosplay WW and call it an invisible jet, right?
I thought it was a smash cut because Harem teleported Sydney as she was speaking.
Harem doesn’t have that ability
I am into movies. Partly inspired by my dad. He also gave me insight into the behind-the-scenes side of it, from a young age, as he was a film director.* When I read Grrl Power, I see that it has potential to be turned into a movie.
Sydney Scoville Jr. is into comics. Partly inspired by her dad, Sydney Scoville. She has direct professional insight, in being the co-owner of a comic book shop. When she gained her orbs, she recognised that she was living a life begging to be turned into a super-hero comic.
You will often see me addressing comments to ‘the director of Grrl Power, the Movie’. Despite the fact that we know of no such thing happening. Yet.***
Sydney is simply doing the same. She knows a comic, of her experiences, will be made. Probably based on her own, or team-mates, biographies. And she can tell how that scene will play out, when it does get made.
Whilst she is most likely addressing her remarks through time, to future readers, in her own world, Sydney is also perceptive enough to contemplate that somewhere, in another world, there is an artist drawing a close analogue to her actual story. Thus she can also be partially directing her comments to us.
* I was intensely interested in the process, at an early age. However my grasp of the principles was… lacking. For instance when we saw an Asterix cartoon, a friend wondered how Obelix could lift such big boulders. I speculated that they probably just made them out of cardboard, or maybe he was strong enough to lift ones made from breeze-block like materials.**
My father helped me to hone my deductive reasoning, by taking me on sets, where colleagues were filming period dramas. Saying:
I recall being most alarmed at this, and rushed to point out the flaw. **
** Looking back now, I marvel at my naivety, in not considering that they simply gave the actors magic potions!
*** Although I do have my claws crossed, for luck, that the George Lucas cameo was not an idle one. And this should not be dismissed, out of paw, as Some rich and powerful people are web-comic fans!
George Lucas?! Why do you want a bad Grrl Power movie? :(
Forget Jar Jar Binks, midichlorians and atomic-bomb proof fridges. We can all have a bad day.
The movies that he created changed the face of science fiction. The world would be a far poorer place, without him. And some of the films he created will sit proudly in my collection, until my dying day!
If we’re talking the Lucas who was in the process of making the original Star Wars, I would agree with you strongly. But he didn’t “have a bad day.” He sold out so hard it makes me ill.
By the time of the filming of Empire, Lucas had completely switched gears: he believed that spectacle and special effects were all his movies needed, and all they should have. He infamously became angry with the producers of Empire because, and this is a direct quote, “It didn’t have to be that good.” George Lucas thinks engaging stories and good writing, directing, and acting ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY.
I don’t want modern Lucas near any franchise I care about.
I enjoyed all six of the Star Wars movies. Sure there were a few points which I was not so keen on. But the sum of the experience was more than enough to compensate for those drawbacks. The original trilogy was what got me into movies, in the first place. They were the first films in my collection.
I have not seen the atomic fridge movie, so am unbothered about that. All the previous Indiana Jones movies though were phenomenal! He is indisputably one of the most influential film makers ever. Which makes your protests nonsensical. Provided he had a passion for the project, I am sure he could do it justice.
And, frankly, he is wealthy enough now that I doubt he would get involved in anything which did not move him. He has already founded two of the most successful film franchises. I am sure he has the room in him for a third.
Of course, if you have created any better movies than him, please do tell?
Peace offering.
I’m not a huge fan of loud music either. On the odd occasion I am somewhere where some is present, I tend to bring earplugs…
Loud bass I tend to be ok with, and shooters plugs don’t cut off much, I need flat out deaf plugs.
A special treat for you.
And now I’m craving Gaegogi.
No earplugs for me. I just leave if the sound is too much. Or, were I in Sydney’s shoes, I’d feign an inability to let go of the pew pew org. I seriously do not like loud noise.
Skrillex ? Oh wait, you meant more like “leave out the bass” (snicker)
I could deal with the techno being even MORE intrusive before it bothered me too much.
This is a good chance for Sid to find out if the force field orb would protect her against sonic attacks. I’d so shield and float above the dance floor.
You know that giant beach ball that people always toss around the crowd at concerts? Tonight it can have a Sydney in it. :)
So there’s Sydney, sitting at a table, nursing some ridiculously overpriced, watered down, non alcoholic drink, and watching her teammates dance and have a good time. Suddenly, a shadow falls over her, blocking the flashing lights. For that, our heroine is grateful, but then she recognizes the newcomer.
Sydney: “Brad!?”
Brad: “Hey, Sydney! Fancy running in to you here! Say, do you think you could put in a good word for me with one of them?”
Sydney looks and realizes that he is pointing at Anvil and Harem.
:-D
What a moral dilemma. The opportunity to get rid of him easily (he will persist, if she does not, we know that much) versus dumping him on one of her team-mates.
Harem is there to have a good time and show everyone how hot she is. I don’t think she’d be willing to waste even a moment on him, especially considering that Sydney probably hasn’t had a lot of nice things to say about him.
I think Anvil would be different, though. Even if she has no use at all for the goober, I expect that she would be able to send him on his way with a smile. I don’t recall that we’ve ever seen her be anything but kind and friendly, after all – outside of the restaurant fight of course. She probably doesn’t assume the worst when a guy pays attention to her, like Maxima would.
I wonder if Sydney would ask him to sit down and keep her company however. They share an interest in comics after all and might be able to find something to chat about, if he can rein in his stupid. Having a guy with her would also help to discourage at least some of the unwanted attentions of men who are only interested in fooling around with our newly rich and famous heroine. It seems unlikely, I know, that Sydney would any to spend any more time with him than she absolutely had to, but if she is being overwhelmed with attention from the fan boys then she might do it.
An initial obstacle though makes it unlikely that he would even be there, in the first place. One look at him, and I can see the bouncer pulling the rope across his path. And if he opens his mouth, to object, he will just seal his fate!
I can hardly argue with that, but what if it wasn’t Brad who showed up. What if it were Tony?
Ahh, I am very familiar with this, first hand.
It would involve drooling, knees getting wobbly, gibbering even more nonsensical phrases than normal. Then (passing beyond my personal experience) taking into account her previous history (fearing that he would be attracted to women of super-heroic physique, instead of herself) maybe an impromptu twirling of exposed boobies!
Followed by immense blushing, stammering and an attempt to flee the dance-floor.
Except now Tony has to compete with specimens that actually ‘can’ catch bullets between their buttcheeks.
How do we know that Tony can’t? He’s a good looking guy, all supers are perfect physically . . .
Maybe he just hasn’t revealed his super powers yet.
Maybe he has not even stumbled across it yet himself.
I am hoping that it causes all females to visualise erotic fantasies, when near him.
Sadly, running vodka thru cayenne does not produce spicy vodka as most of the capsaicin oil is gone from dry cayenne and extracting, tho perhaps if we just put the cayenne IN the vodka……
new drink: Jalepeno poppers, hollowed out jalepenos as shot glasses? or maybe you could use the jalepeno and siracha juices with the vodka, and use scotch bonnet peppers as little cups…there’s so many possibilities there…
I used to attend an annual barbecue, featuring a spit-roast hog. Accompanied by watermelons, in various grades:
• Kiddies (for youngsters and teetotallers)
• Adult (one week prior to the event, cut a plug out of the top, empty a bottle of vodka, slowly, into the watermelon, replace plug. Repeat periodically.)
• Magic (as above but with cannabis)
Maybe Sydney would like a selection of Adult Ghost Peppers? I would be willing to join her for a nibble.
So…..since it (probably) hasn’t been brought up yet…
YE GODS THE REVIEWS FOR THAT MONTEGRAPPA 64k$ PEN!
They are AMAZE
I wonder how much they charge for the ink refills…
8-/
for that much, they should come with their own trained squid…
Didn’t Leon change her all password?
Not with the intent of stopping Sydney from having access. Any changes like that, which Leon made, he will have been sure to both pick passwords Sydney could remember and inform her of what they were.
Granted, she might have forgotten, by now. But Sydney is smart enough that such is probably not a high risk.
Nightclubs are just excessively loud disorientating places to introverts, that’s why avoid them like the plague.
I saw this news article entitled “Rare ‘moonbow’ appears in night sky“. Which immediately made me wonder if a super had been created with the name. Needless to say, Marvel have already gobbled up the name.
Sadly they utterly wasted the opportunity. Rather than make use of the evocative natures of either rainbows or the moon, they just made her a mundane bow-woman! No wonder the concept flopped, and the character has only ever appeared in five episodes.
DC, not Marvel :P
*wax on, wax off*
I better keep polishing up my reading skills.
During the Dark Ages, a girl made the mistake of playing in a woodland glen, by the light of a full moon. Bright as it was, it surprised her, when she was plunged into darkness. Unbeknownst to her, it was the night of a lunar eclipse! Stumbling over, in the pitch blackness, she decided to sing a nursery-rhyme, to calm her fears.
Feeling pain in her knees, and shins, she realised she was bleeding. Reaching around for something to bind the wound, rather than risk ruining her nice dress, she found that there were fronds or leaves, of some plants around her. So, continuing singing, she gathered them together to start weaving a bandage.
As she did so, she found the moonlight returning, and with it a pale moonbow, in the sky above! Fascinated by this, she continued the song, making up new words, inspired by the wonders of nature she was seeing. Her hands continuing to weave a tourniquet. But also hearing music accompanying her singing!
Looking down, she almost gasped, in surprise, to see faeries, leprechauns and all sorts of the fey-folk dancing and playing musical instruments, around her. To her horror, she saw she was kneeling in the middle of a faerie ring!
Hastily she continued the song, lest they stop their dancing and turn their mischievous natures on her. Improvising lyrics complimentary to the strange folk around her. Then she saw a number were standing around her, staring at her hands, as she continued working.
Following their gaze, she found, to her astonishment that she was no longer weaving plants, instead her hands were drawing moonbeams, out of the sky, and making silk-like cloth-of-moonbeams!
The fey folk were equally amazed at this, and many vied to copy her feat, but failed. Others then attempted to get her to join their tribe or kingdom. Quickly she realised that there were many factions gathered here, for this special event. And played one against the other. Her main aim being to try and escape, unharmed!
She knew that if she drunk even one drop of faerie drink, or ate one crumb of their food, she would be stuck in their lands forever. But every time she tried to sneak or dance her way out of the glen, she kept finding herself back in it. So tried to negotiate for a guide to show her a way out.
The leprechauns were willing, but only if she agreed to teach them her secret. Carefully she only promised to try her best, but provided they also promised not to take revenge, in any way, should they fail to learn. When they had difficulties, she suggested that perhaps they should try using the power in conjunction with their own speciality magics.
The leprechauns learnt how to make purses, out of rainbows interwoven with cloth-of-gold. In the process, she saw how they easily panned gold from the rich waterfall, that helped form the rainbow the leprechauns used.
Trying it herself, she managed to find gold dust and nuggets of her own. But a single drop of the water landed on her lip. To her dismay, she found she had forgotten her own name!
Demanding to be shown her way home, the leprechauns agreed and showed her how to travel back, by stepping through a rainbow. But others were jealous, and blocked her attempts to leave. Thirst was driving her to desperation. So she quickly wove a large rainbow cloth, and flung the ends through the rainbow.
That way she could trap natural water, from the top of the waterfall, before it crossed the rainbow and became part of the faerie lands. Equally quickly she mimicked the leprechaun’s technique of combining gold and rainbow, to turn her gold into a flask, into which she funnelled water. Finally quenching her thirst safely.
So she had to make similar deals with others. Such as showing the makers of magical sylvan bows, how to make bow strings out of moonlight. But, in the process, learning, for herself, how to make a bow, and arrows, out of moonlight.
Then using this to shoot down birds. But, being sure only to shoot those flying towards the fey lands. Timing it, so that their bodies fell into the glen, where she could gather and cook them, without invoking the anger of others, who had not agreed to let her leave yet.
Each faction, who demanded to learn from her, she ensured taught her something in return. Fashioning their fey magics into her arrows. Fletching each type with the feathers of different pale-coloured birds, matching the subtle shades of a moonbow.
Eventually winning her freedom, she found the cruel fate, of those who stay over-long in the fey lands. Her family was long long dead, and the wheel of time had moved on, by centuries. Adopting the name of Moonbow Eclipse, she took bow in hand and made her way into the strange new world.
They should hire you to write stories, it’s much better than that “New52” fiasco
*wags tail poetically*
Very very Most Awesome. >.>
Aye, verily, it hath the ring of ye olde Celtic myth to it, laddie.
Nope, you are experiencing normal MID-Range hearing loss.
most people describe it as being unable to sort the signal from the noise, worse at restaurants or places with a lot of voices (normal mid-range noise).
I’m diagnosed with 30% left and 20% right hearing loss, all your symptoms match. BUT ! the “normal” range is a curve as ALL people have hearing loss by 30. Modern amplified and environmental noise do a devastating job on our ears. If you go to your doc and have your hearing checked they tell you Normal ( for your sex/age/occupation…But they don’t tell you that.)
i’ve been tested in isolation on the same machine, and my average loss is 45%L and 30%R from 2000 when i was tested in the same machine using the same program ( if there is a person doing the test there is a Bias in the test.) BUT work says “your hearing is getting better ” then why is my car radio and TV… SO! LOUD!.!.!.!
audio processing disorders often go hand in hand with the AD(H)D
I just was thinking… Are all those colors in Sydney’s surprise scene actually there? I mean, do her orbs glow in response to strong emotion? Probably no, I suppose, or. This would have come up before, but… Can you imagine the fun she would be to have at a dance party and to shock her all the time?
* imagining a fight scene where one of the villains shouts ‘go for the jugular!’, and another villain shouts back ‘the one with the balls? I ain’t fightin’ HER!’ *
(waits for groan at the pun)
*Jaguar form pounces, into scene, ready to rip the villains throat out*
It is purely a comic effect, rather than one they would be witnessing. Confirmed by DaveB, in an earlier thread.
And no trying to scare Sydney, to test it out, just for the sake of it! She is too nice a girl and does not deserve that. Besides which all that will happen is you ending up with a black eye.
I thought so, but still, darn.
Also, when experimenting with volatile substances, one should always wear the proper eye protection.
BOUNCER: You here to pick up your daughter mate?
ME: Nope, someone else’s daughter.
BOUNCER: What does she look like.
ME: Pretty face, fairly slim but not too busty. Nice personality and a beautiful smile
BOUNCER: You will have to be more specific.
ME: Nymphomaniac.
BOUNCER: That still matches several of them.
ME: Cool, call them out please. I will take them all.
audio processing disorders often go hand in hand with the AD(H)D
Repeating the same comment multiple times often goes hand in had with AD(H)D. Wait, didn’t I post that a few times already?
Really? I’m the only one that miss Anvil at the Who’s Who?
The bouncer did not get mentioned either. But no speaking part, no Who’s Who entry, so neither should appear.
The exceptions are Halo’s orbs. This might be a clue!
Halo is actually Loki’s finger-puppet, being used on Earth to spread chaos. Trouble is that his hand is bigger than her body, and the orbs are where his finger tips poke through the dimensions.
What, a god can’t have extra fingers?
I counter that the Halo Orbs are merely visualizations of Sydney’s power(s) rendered under the limits of her subconscious mind not wanting to go all godlike on humanity. Enter a set of powered individuals and it adjusts to allow more usage in a familiar interface : skill tree. More power users around her will allow her to grow into more use herself by unlocking her own psyche limiters.
And thus if Sydney gets mind controlled she could easily form a web _between_ the orbs and use all powers at once. (waggles eyebrows)
And on that note: I am waiting for Sydney’s physical to go through. An MRI that shows nothing beyond her skin. X-rays that don’t. Blood that looks right but contains no red blood cells, just colored liquid. Right there after ninjas, “always expect synthoids”
BOOM. Smashcut. GET SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Why is Anvil carrying a Starfleet communicator?
Where? I don’t see one. Maybe it was a flip-phone, or are you referring to the button introduced in Next Gen?
Panel 7, in her right hand.
I suspect that to be her purse, but then you never know. Captain Kirk does have a certain well deserved reputation when there are hot women in the vicinity.
I wonder if the NotAlways family of sites has a Not Always Super website in the Grrl Power universe?
So, being Sydney I am guessing she will be using the fly ball all night to maintain a height where she can see over the heads of the crowd. If it cancels out her vertigo it might also have been blocking the fear registration overall. Thus she loses the introvert reaction to crowds, bright lights and loud music. The other hand will likely be the force field orb as she will be touched by every person thinking her an X caused hallucination.
okay… I apologize. I do not really have ocd, or any other diagnosable trait. but for the love of sanity please, please, please, please, please CLOSE YOUR PARENTHESIS. or remove the opening. (which probably is your better option.) It will big me far into the night, and beyond. To the point where I will probably check back several times to see if it’s fixed. I understand that this is a “me” problem. But I still would regard it as a personal favor. please?
thank you,
)
PERFECT!
Thank you. Now I have closure.
I am content.
You definitely need to make Smash Cut happen!!
Um… Am I the only one who noticed, “at at putting my gun together”?
Whoops! It’s fixed.
I dunno, I think I would’ve preferred “Club Wub”. But then I suppose she wouldn’t have been able to say she didn’t get it, and there wouldn’t have been a joke about her not getting it.
Also, I’m constantly committing “dire acts of cryptomnesia” (that sounds like it should be the name of a war crime or something). Don’t feel too bad about it. ;)
Ah yes, I remember this page. I think it was linked from “Agents of the Realm” in the comments or something. That’s how I found this place to begin!
It definitely has an Oontz of creativity. Unless that’s not really the music, but Dabbler upstairs with a really creaky bed.
Does Halo really need a stamp to identify her? First she is an invited guest of the club. Second she has a halo of orbs circling her head!
:-D
Well… If Zenyatta entered the club.
It might confuse people.
I still think Zenyatta was designed after Sydney.
He floats… his orbs orbit him… and he uses the orbs to fire attack beams…. and his Ult is basically a shield bubble. Basically. Unless I forgot my basics again.
*checks out image*
I don’t think he will be winning any Halo look-alike competitions. Maybe with a wig, glasses and a change of outfit? Plus shrinking a bit.
There do seem to be quite a few pointers to the Grrl Power fan in the overwatch team theory though.
Read it as “Club Donitz” – ie, named after the former Admiral in charge of German U-Boats. Ah, i thought, evidently an “underground” club…
I seem to recall seeing Club Oontz in the comic Questionable Content, but seeing as I’m re-reading this and it’s from several years ago, and I don’t recall how far back it was in that comic, I couldn’t guess as to which of you used it first… ;)