Grrl Power #378 – Plethoric princess proliferation problems
It would be cool if the next Disney Princess was actually a Marchioness or an Arch Viscountess. Cool may not be the word I’m looking for. Still, it would be interesting to see her standing in that Princess linup, knowing that even though she’s very much a 1 percenter, she’s still basically a scullery maid compared to the rest of them.
If I was Sydney I would have some serious questions about how Dabbler’s glamour works. She might be wearing that dress for real, but she’s certainly not wearing those boots. She has hooves, she can’t wear any kind of shoe except something that stays on with nails, or maybe some sort of spats. (I googled this just to be sure and it turns out they do make little booties for horses, so maybe she could actually wear something over her toes. In any case her glamour still has to disguise their true nature.) So if she kicks glamour shoes on to the floor, how far away can she get from them before they fade from existence? Well, the answer is that it depends on how hard she’s trying to fool someone. In this case, Dabbler knows Sydney knows that her human appearance is a disguise, so she’s not cranking it up. After she kicks off the shoe, it falls to the floor and disappears as soon as someone isn’t looking at it, just like a body in a video game that’s trying to conserve memory. If she was in an environment where someone might be suspicious of her identity, she can create a version of the glamour that makes independent phantasms for each article of clothing and accessory that she can kick off or leave on a nightstand, something that could last for days on its own. Obviously this takes much more energy, and she would just wear real clothes and accessories in place of making illusory version. The boots would still present a problem for her, but not all succubi had hooves. They’re a physically varied species, since they can integrate traits from the father, or more accurately, the non-succubus parent.
Dabbler, as a Jill of all trades, is not the top of her class in much of anything, (except for her math and science ability, but that’s innate, not a skill she had to learn) so her abilities as a succubus aren’t as keenly practiced as some others. We’ll have to see if Sydney’s truesight can penetrate an A+++ glamour. I guess that’s S-Class really. Anything over A+. Sydney might just be edging out Dabbler’s ability, or it may be the equivalent of dropping a tungsten rod from orbit onto a log to make firewood. Dabbler will eventually talk about the origin of Succubi and why their glamours are normally so tough to crack. Also Dabbler is eating a finger full of guacamole, not a spicy nacho. I meant to draw her with a blob of green stuff on her finger but the panels didn’t quite work out that way.
More importantly than any of that, Adam Warren has decided to post early volumes of Empowered online as a webcomic. Or a web serial as he calls it cause he’s old school. I think just volume 1 is up now but my understanding is that he’s continuing to post the other books, maybe a page at a time? Anyway, check it out, be aware that it’s about a superheroine who gets her completely skin tight costume ripped up which makes her lose her powers and get tied up constantly. I wouldn’t call it NSFW exactly, but that will probably depend on where you work. It is funny and sexy and plays with superhero tropes so for the most part I’d wager the Venn Diagram of people who like Grrl Power and Empowered has significant overlap.
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I notice that there is a distinct lack of indignation on Sydney’s part at the the knowledge that world governments have hidden the existence of extraterrestial beings from the common populace. Covering up Dabbler is one thing, she’s a single instance and is too busy with ARC to do much interacting with most people. But to cover up actual aliens hidden in plain sight? Not only is that a violation of a whole bunch of laws, its putting a whole lot of aliens they know very little about in close contact with the general people who aren’t aware of them. This sounds like something that is NEVER going to get publicly released, because no one wants to be the one to tell the world, “oh ha ha, btw, aliens exist and we’ve been hiding that for years.” It’s much easier to hide behind some kind of bullhockey sage wisdom and say something like “the people aren’t ready for the truth yet.”
I’m sure the moment they are revealed Donald Trump will proclaim that they should be barred from entering the US, because who knows what they may be up to. “There is a lot of probing going on. Who is doing the probing? Somebody is doing the probing.”
“We need to keep illegal aliens out. Especially the extra-terrestrial ones! We need to build a wall… a wall around planet Earth.”
I’m pretty sure Donald Trump is an alien. With a very poor human disguise.
It is my understanding that Donald Trump is human, but the thing living on top of his head isn’t.
It’s a variation of the Head Crab, as seen in Half-Life…It’s actually controlling him !!!
He got it from Dennis Rodman’s supplier? (had to do the MIB callout)
My personal theory is that he’s actually an illegal immigrant from the other side of the (now-defunct) Iron Curtain somewhere, and his weird skin color is a side effect of KGB mind-control drugs to keep him under Putin’s control… Or else he’s been genetically engineered from a turnip or something. I’m not sure which.
Cmon now, lets not get political. We need to discuss serious stuff instead, like how Thor is a Disney Princess, reasons for aliens visiting the Earth, and why humans are awesome weapons of war.
Awesome weapons of war?
It is a tough and dirty job but some one has to be it.
Well we do have a small talent for war.
Love that episode. Proof that peaceniks will doom us all! :)
Violation of what laws? Name them
All the same laws violated by illegal immigrants from Mexico, including not just entering the country illegally, but getting a job, using a fake social security number, lying about your place of birth on your tax forms, etc.
It would also be illegal to use a glamor while posing for your driver’s license photo.
Also, unknown nonhumans pose a huge problem to law enforcement whether they are illegal or not. Imagine one committing a crime and getting away with it because they can’t find his DNA on the hairs found at the scene of the crime (because he has scales), or because no human being would be physically cabale of committing the crime they accuse him of but someone of his species is.
Thought they were talking about violating laws in covering up the illegal aliens
Specifically the First Amendment, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Washington Public Records Act. Withholding this kind of vital information from the American people would require forcing the silence of a massive amount of people, without much justification. It’s not like they can say its a matter of National Security when they’re just letting aliens wait tables in bars, etc. presumably all across America.
“The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may maintain control over the instruments that they have created.” Revised Code of Washington 42.56.030, (the Washington Public Records Act)
So its real garbage that the government has decided that Americans can’t know about aliens, especially considering their close proximity to the common people.
Unfortunately, it is entirely reasonable to think the government might try to hide aliens. They are hiding enough that we should know about. So it is not that much of a stretch to have them trying to hide aliens as well. A more serious problem is their degree of success. The papers are full of such “secrets”. Assuming super-science and other methods of disguise allow us to pretty much ignore the problem, but in a “real” America, the knowledge of aliens would be widespread.
For motive, we have all sorts of choices. Bill Gates is an alien? or partner with one? There was a “war”, of alien vs alien, and the winners don’t want to rub that fact in the losers’ face. Aliens are big political contributors…
Yeah, one major problem with that: ‘hiding’ aliens isn’t just an American issue, so they have to weigh how revealing that information would impact the rest of the world, you know, the parts that are still not under US control?
Probably because Sydney realizes the MIB adage about people.
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat.
And fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”
500 years ago, everybody who worried about the point knew the world was a sphere. Columbus’ voyage would have seemed clear suicide if they had deemed the world flat. [For that matter, they had good reason to deem the voyage suicidal even on a round world.] The idea that those of importance in 1400 thought the world flat was a myth made up by American historians in the 1800s.
Knowledge that the world was a sphere dates back to before Aristotle, who gave 5 proofs of that.
You need to get some facts straight and to the point America did not make the myth of earth being flat till the 1400s it’s “fact” that many cultures believed the earth was flat till different periods in time. China believed the earth was flat till the 17 century that’s the 1600s and Aristotle accepted the the spherical earth in 330BC time. Over time as the idea spread and mathematical knowledge grew to support this theory and eventually prove the theory correct other cultures would adopt this belief as their own. So please next time you say “facts” look up what your typing for history is areas of theoretical subjects like the flat earth theory to time to spread. Modern world wide communications didn’t exist back then and knowledge only traced in small intervals. Majority of people back before the 1400s-1500s didn’t even have the equivalent of a third grade education.
I really hate auto correct lol
You sure it was Aristotle, and not Eratosthenes? IIRC, he not only determined that the Earth was round by noting that at noon on the summer solstice, a stick stuck into the ground in Alexandria didn’t cast a shadow while one in Athens did, but also calculated the Earth’s diameter (with an error of only a few hundred miles) using only right angle geometry.
Not bad for a bunch of backwards pagans, eh?
David Argall dd stipulate that it was before Aristotle, whilst then going on to point out his contribution. Which would then tie back to the more specific information you gave.
Genetically modern humans are no different to humans 200,000 years ago. No smarter. No better. The same.
Imagine a da Vinci level intelligence hunter, 100,000 years ago. Figuring out such basic things, when he was ten. But stuck in a society where nobody would appreciate what he discovered. He too could study the anatomy of animals and human corpses. And develop an understanding of how things work.
His cave paintings of helicopters might still exist, in some deep cave. Having figured out that his audience might not mature enough, to understand the concepts, for thousands of years. His time capsule might give us the cure for the common cold. And relay the messages from the aliens, he figured out how to contact.
Keep looking. We may have discovered the truth a long long time ago.
That’s not for Sydney, or ARCHON, for that matter, to decide. Just cause some shmuck in an administrative role watched Men in Black too many times doesn’t mean they can just disregard the people’s right to know. These are some very basic rights that are being blatantly violated, here. It’s written into our law that the government CAN’T make these kind of decisions, because then the government isn’t being controlled by the populace anymore, and there are plenty of people in the government whose job it is to make sure that doesn’t happen. Human ability to comprehend can’t just be hand-waved aside with some adage from a movie about how we’d all panic and destroy ourselves.
1) Laws only count if they’re enforced. Exempli gratia: LSD is a Schedule 1 drug according to the DEA, if memory serves correctly, meaning that there is very little experimentation allowed into its medical uses, yet in the 1970s the CIA was using LSD, amongst other illegal drugs, as part of a top secret experiment into mind control techniques in blatant violation of multiple US and international laws regarding human experimentation. (Google “Project MK Ultra” for more information. I guarantee that you will probably never trust the government again after reading the details of the project. I know I didn’t after finding out about it!)
2) How do we know that there aren’t extraterrestrial sentients here on Earth already, despite what the government claims? I can’t say for certain what crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947, but I can say with absolute certainty that whatever it was, the government is STILL covering it up, and that according to eyewitness reports from back then, whatever crashed there was NOT a weather balloon!
The male version of a succubus is not a male succubus, but an incubus…
Yeah, Dabbles already mentioned that in-comic some time ago
I thought this universe didn’t yave male succubus? (All succi born are female?)
Yes, all succubae are female, the males are incubi (by the way, Incubus was a sucky band, so guessing the name was kinda appropriate? or would that be ironic? o_O)
Dave,
There are definitely a few frames in this last sequence that would make for interesting vote incentives or patreon pin-up rewards (Hint Hint). Dabbler as each of the Disney Princesses (Hmmmm) ;)
I’m loving this club sequence the pacing is great.
Cant do Patreon (I dont have a regular credit card), but I’d definitely buy prints of Dabbler done up as different Disney Princesses. Heck, why not do several of the cast in different roles. :)
I laughed at the mental image of Maxima’s face while in a princess dress.
Just got a mental image of Maxima singing ‘Let it go’, I can thank my sister’s kids for getting that one firmly welded into my memory.
Xander, I have a three year old daughter and several nieces of that age group and now every time they demand I sing “let it go” with them I can secretly laugh at the image of Maxima doing so… thank you.
do what I did, got one of those reloadable prepaid debit cards for the express purpose of such things (Which reminds me I need to reload it.)
Great–now I have a mental image of Harem cosplaying as “hotter and sexier” versions of the different Disney Princesses all at the same time, and Sidney pointing out the errors in each costume.
Man, how I wish I were an artist, so I could draw that!
Have I mentioned how evil you people are around here lately?
Have a better thought, how about Harem as all of the Princesses at once.
Has anyone noticed that Dabbler is eating from Sydney’s plate unscathed?
The guacamole isn’t spicy, just the habaneros welded onto the nachos with cheese.
Habaneros are not nearly as ‘hot’ as most stuff Sydney eats. :)
Since when is guacamole red? That is a little cup of Suicide Wing Sauce.
Next panel:
Dabbler: Hmm, tasty. Ooo, it gives a little tingle on the back of the tongue. Jesus! what is happening to my mouth?!
Sydney: You can say that without bursting into flames?
Dabbler: My mouth is bursting into flames no matter what I say! [Grabs her drink and downs it in one gulp]
Sydney: That’s not going to help; that drink was water and alcohol based. You need something fat-based. I guess the alcohol could deaden the nerves, but not very much; definitely not enough. Here, try the sour cream.
Thought that that was just the bowl it was in
Okay, so this is one of the few times I did not actually read DaveB’s big blurb before posting.
Princesses are a dime-a-dozen, which is why every alien women turns out to be one as everybody knows that alien queens produce countless offspring, often by laying eggs everywhere.
I can’t remember the title, but many years ago I read a Sci-Fi short story about an insectoid planet where some higher being decided that this world was ripe for conversion to worship him as their deity. He chose a female and impregnated her with what he thought would be his special messenger. He did not quite understand the physiology and she would up laying an egg sack that hatched into hundreds of offspring. They all grew up having special powers and spreading the message that they were each the one true savior and that the people should follow only him. This lead to a fragmenting of their society into dozens of sects, and the eventual destruction of their world in a massive religious war.
It may have been in Analog magazine, which is now confusingly available in digital format.
The proportions on Dabbler’s legs are really off in panel 1, Longer than the rest of her. Maybe her glamour is struggling to emphasize things to mess with Sydney
Maybe they are closer to the viewer (and Sydney) than the rest of her
Unlikely, her legs are parallel to the couch, and anyway if the point-of-view were close enough to create foreshortening it would be in front of Sydney.
It’s probably an art goof, but I do like the idea that it’s a glitch in her glamour. Is it reacting to her taking the high-heeled boots off, and warping to make sure Dabbler’s hooves still line up with the ground? Is the glamour based off Sydney’s idea of “sexy woman” getting confused by her idea of “Dabbler, deadly alien teammate”?
Thx, got it now. (Btw., AFAIR Superman was nicknamed Supie here in Germany back in times…)
The art in these last few has been exemplary you can see in Dabblers body language that she is a hungry predator, in this one a lounging lazy predator just wanted to mention it as authors\artists often don’t get praise when rightly deserved.
Is it odd that I find glamoured Dabbler actually disturbing and the type of woman I would personally avoid like the plague irl?
What about her makes you feel that way? Not saying you can’t feel that way, just wondering what it is that has you feeling that way
it’s the predator aspect right? that can put people off.
Can also turn some on ;)
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Internet it’s that no matter how much something squicks me out, someone, somewhere, is turned on by it.
https://derpicdn.net/img/2013/3/23/277360/full.jpg … I’ve heard that too
I just assumed that she’s trying to feed on the audience since she may not get much from Sydney
Oh god, that movie. Why do people that make multi million dollar movies constantly fail at third grade science? That should have gone like this:
“We don’t fire it or launch it at a target. . .”
“WE DROP IT. OBSERVE”
*Clunk*
Then the rest of the movie would just be them sitting around watching a chunk of metal orbit the Earth, drifting gradually away from their space station.
It isn’t so much that they fail at 3rd-grade science, but that the executives controlling the money think that we fail at 3rd-grade science, and force the writers to dumb down the movie.
Most movie writers studied English in university, not math and science. They never even took the science classes. Also, third grade was way too long ago for most of them.
Eh, that’s true, but that doesn’t mean that all of them ignored math and science. Case in point, the movie “The Core”. If you read the blog of the writer, it was the executives who wanted windows in the otherwise indestructible drilling machine. It was the executives who wanted them to encounter that giant hollow geode (which at those pressures is impossible, btw).
More importantly, the reason we got the giant geode was because the executives originally wanted the core to be hollow and have dinosaurs. I shit you not. The writer was able to stick to his guns on the dinosaurs, but had to insert the geode as compensation (the executives absolutely wanted them to have to leave the safety of the driller to add drama).
And Joseph Kosinski (director of Tron: Legacy) actually has a degree in architecture. In his words: “The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing,” which is how he ended up as a director.
Which is why I wrote most and not all. But to the point, those movie executives were probably art majors in university as well, not physics or engineering majors.
More likely, the execs were business majors, possibly with art as a minor. The problem is that in their arrogance, they are either ignorant about science themselves, and/or think the audience is too dumb to appreciate anything with science in it. A good example of how they tend to think of us…
Remember Enemy Mine? The writers were forced by the executives to include the subplot about the pirates operating a mine (with the Drakh as slave labor), because they thought that people wouldn’t understand that “Enemy Mine” meant “My Enemy”, and would want to know where the mine was.
Then there’s the original Men in Black. Originally, there were two races on the verge of war, and the bug’s job was to push them over that verge. But executives forced them to change the plot, because apparently they thought we would be confused if there were THREE races, as if we were so dumb we couldn’t count higher than two.
And yet another example is when Paul Thomas Anderson was making his 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love, one guy from the marketing department literally told him, “Paul, you have to understand, the people watching your movies aren’t very bright, so we have to tell them what to think and what to feel or they won’t know what to do with the movie.” Too bad we never got the chance to tell the marketing guy how insulted we are that he would think so little of us.
It’s even more common in TV, but the “80-20 rule” is partly to blame for that. Market research shows 80% of money spent on television-advertised products comes from the lowest 20% in terms of education and intelligence, so show content is naturally geared towards them.
Actually, dropping a piece of metal from a space station would result in the metal drifting further away up to some point where it drifts back to the same orbit (though the station should be in a different point by then). Not only will it not land at a high speed, it won’t land at all–the piece of dropped metal is just in a slightly different orbit from the station and would eventually return to the station’s height above the ground.
Correct. That’s why I said ‘orbit’. Assuming the ejection force was non-negligible then the metal would be in a similar if slightly adjusted orbit. Depending on the vector of ejection the metal might have a lower or higher Apoapsis. After hundreds or thousands orbits they might even cross paths again, but their vectors of travel would be similar enough that any potential collision would be gentle as a space lama’s fart. Probably.
They would have had to give it some degree of push, or wouldn’t even leave the airlock
which could be done by not totally evacuating the air FROM the lock.
Anyone else notice dabbler is slowly getting undressed?
I think she’s playing a game of chicken or go with Syd. Or waiting to see how far she can go before she complains.
I have no problems if this ends with Sydney winning the game of chicken. any outcome involving that would be either hilarious or hot as hell.
Both
Can’t it be both? :)
I assume that dabbler could whip up a surrogate and pilot it remotely if she really had to. Also nothing says there weren’t small groups of aliens who picked earth to be amish on and that they’ve been quietly hanging out the last 1000 years or so occasionally yelling at their kids for breaking cover and sourcing all the crypto zoology myths out there. Then I belive they’d technically fall under the same status as the native American tribes
Yup, if they have been living in an area longer than ‘humans’, then, technically, they are now ‘native’ and the ‘humans’ are the aliens :P
Sydney is a princess!
Whether or not someone is a princess is almost always the least interesting thing about them, unless it isn’t and then they’re pretty boring people.
I guess that would be true. Not that I get to hob-nob with many princesses, to be able to say that from personal experience.
Clearly I have been failing to kiss enough frogs.
Psst! DaveB! I’m pretty sure the word you want is “sapient” (“wise, or attempting to be wise”) not “sentient” (“able to feel and perceive things”) Easy mnemonic: Humans are Homo Sapiens
Yeah I had that wrong for the longest time because the writers of Star Trek got it wrong.
technically, we can go one step further and insist that bio-genetic forms (living matter beings) are sapient, and no-living (and not including previously living matter) beings would be sentient [ re: autobots/decepticons ] a combining of the two {cyborgs} would be able to fall under both categories (again, technically).
Earlier on I mentioned about how much Sydney makes me think of Milo from Atlants. Today Dabbler is making me think of Kida. I’m probably just weird xD
Great job as always!
It’s not just you, but sydney’s mouth kinda de-rails any attempt at a disney parallel. although stitch was apparently pretty foul mouthed. “istaaa mana quistaaarr” indeed.
Do you show affection to your parental unit with that orifice?!
Parental unit’s done worse…
With their orifice? o_O
Well, they’ve been making booties for sled dogs that have to travel off snow for decades now. It took them a few years to figure out how to get them to stay on. I’m sure that Dabbler would have a much easier time with that, no nails or glue required.
Besides, with her tech skills, she could probably make shoes/boots that look rather normal without much glamour at all, and when she takes them off, they quickly and quietly reshape to seem like normal human versions.
We actually have memory materials that can change shape. I know we have single shape, dual shape (I’ve heard it called bi-phase memory), and I’ve saw a post that somebody created a triple but I don’t know if that one was real or b.s.. Of course, it’s still early, and we have nothing useful created with that somewhat finicky tech, but I doubt Dabbler is that limited, especially since there has been mention of nanotech for her.
You know… I never thought about people shoes being a problem for her until just now…
Blacksmith: Good morning, young lady [ Starts hyperventilating and sweating, not from the forge behind him ]
Dabbler: Do you make shoes for goat feet? I am looking for something with some grip on smooth surfaces, like concrete floors and asphalt.
Blacksmith: Most goats are too small for shoes of that nature to be practical. How big are this goat’s feet?
Dabbler: [ Holds up her hands into a rough circle about 5 inches in diameter. ] About this big.
Blacksmith: That is a huge goat. That might actually be a type of sheep [ under his breath] (or cattle). That big I can work with. Do you have the animal with you?
Dabbler: Let’s go into the back and I will show you.
[ 10 seconds later ]
Blacksmith: Holy Jesus!
Dabbler: Please don’t say His name. He really has nothing to do with this.
*Hammers non-existent like button*
adds to pile of broken non-existent like buttons waiting for repair.
“Waiting impatiently for the payment scene.”
Next movie Disney should make the princess, despite still being the star, the villain, just to see the wtf it would cause and don’t even give a hint of it until Just before the credits.
Didn’t they already do that with Maleficent? I’m not sure. I didnt actually watch the movie.
They did take the first step in Frozen by making the Prince the Villain.
Dabbler’s boots could be self powered props with a holographic projector of some sort. Thus she would be wearing boots, but they just look like human boots.
In regards to Dabbler’s leg proportions… perhaps she isn’t as good at illusions when she’s a wee bit drunk?
Sydney’s face in panel 3, and Dabbler’s in panel 5, need to be put in cast picture rotation.
You’re not the only one.
That was supposed to be in reply to the “I find Dabbler off-putting” comment above, but replying doesn’t work with scripts blocked.
Thanks for the Empowered tip – that comic is awesome
Those legs look like they could kill a man.
If she kicked you, you better believe it!
just squeezing could work at the face or waist level (crushing) and if shes over a guy by just not stopping her motions.
Death by Snu-Snu.
Works for me.
meant demon hides equivalent of road rash as she grinds not dehydration snu-snus not teasing sorry. you obviously don’t have a sister willing to spend two hours lightly tapping you to cause a bruise.
LEGS STRONG ENOUGH TO KILL TEN MEN
*Dabbler flashes some leg*
*Ten men keel over*
I would like to say that Dabbler doesn’t know what she’s getting herself into saying something like that to Sydney, but it being Dabbler, she probably knows exactly how she can use it to torment Sydney, or maybe Maxima by proxy?
Thought that occurred to me last night that has probably been covered but I’d still like to know –
Has Dabbler seen the control symbols Sydney’s orbs project?
Dabbler might not be able to scan the orbs, but if she really does know as much about magic and non-human societies as she claims than maybe she would recognize the language they are written in. Okay, it might not be a language, but if she can recognize the symbols at all, even by style or age, that would be a huge step towards knowing where they came from.
Control symbols? No mention that I recall.
Skill tree?Yes, she has.
She saw the skill tree but from what she said she did not see any writing when it showed up. The control symbols Sydney has been using appear to be individual to each orb, whereas the skill tree is about the set as a whole. Given that the only close up look at an active Orb Dabbler has gotten ended up with Sydney trying to bean her with a chair, I think it entirely likely she never noticed the symbols if they showed up.
I still would be interested to see Dabbler’s reaction to the symbols. Her not recognizing them would be almost as interesting as if she did.
This might be how we find out what the two mystery orbs do. If someone can read those symbols they can make pretty darn good guesses about function.
“Don’t touch the red orb’s “quan-tok” symbol”
Why?
You want to turn your nation into a glass bowl 3 kilometers deep?
It’s an awesome concept, one used by Niven and Pournelle (who actually originated the concept while working as a defense contractor) in Footfall, but it is called Project Thor, not Zeus. Zeus is from a completely different pantheon, and didn’t wield a big hammer. Although he did hurl lightning bolts on occasion, when he wasn’t becoming an ox or a swan or a golden shower (I am _NOT_ making this up) in order to impregnate human females without his wife noticing, so I guess I can see the connection.
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Ok, I noticed this in the last update but refrained from commenting. But it’s still here in this page, so here goes:
How are Sydney and Dabbler managing to be alone in the lounge? There are many reasons why this should not be able to happen.
1) They are being paid to be here, and that naturally implies access to them by other patrons who will pay to enter for the chance at such access.
2) Dabbler is sex personified, and I can’t imagine that no men (or women) saw her and Sydney go up the stairs to the lounge, much less watch that happen and then not decide that it was a perfect opportunity to approach her and make their move.
3) Imagine that Sydney and Dabbler aren’t there. So, this club has a large, well furnished lounge which is empty at times? Why would they bother maintaining it?
4) If someone is using their powers (super or otherwise, frankly) to give them private time alone, then they are still violating point 1.
I have been in establishments with rooms that are normally closed off unless specifically in use for an event, so it’s possible that this is one of them and part of the deal is allowing the supers to use it if they need a breather.
Also the important thing is that the heroes are seen to be there, which they have, not that they be visibly there the whole night.
There is still 2 or 3 harems, Anvil and Hiro still down stairs so the 2 up on the roof is no problem.
And Peggy.
Must not forget her.
On pain of getting shot.
Dabbler is still sex personified. In no universe where guys (or girls!) see her head upstairs do they decide “Hey, she needs some alone time.” She would be swamped, and she’d love it.
Maybe, someone had the foresight to put a big Archon-sized bouncer at the foot of the stairs leading up
Archonites are being paid to be there, not be a the beck and call of every grubby patron
Right, because paying top dollar to be at a club where “Hey, a couple super heroes are upstairs!” is worth the entrance fee…
They need to be at the very least least in view to make it worth the money to pay them for their appearance…
Yeah, and if they get mobbed they can just leave via the roof top (or the ladies loo)
Is Dabbler a princess? Well I doubt the Princess and the Pea test would work with her; the pea would end up squished from all her activity.
Dabbler is definitely my princess
Just a quick point. One light year is a bit under 6 trillion miles. 100 billion miles is significantly more than the distance to Pluto, but way less than the distance to the nearest star.
Actually 100billion is just about the distance from outer edge to outer edge of the Kuiper belt.
+/- a billion or so.
There is just something odd about her legs.
They are not spread far enough apart? o_O
I just reread the whole strip. (Love the new beginning pages, BTW!) I so want to see this as a series directed by Joss Whedon!!! All the banter and dirty jokes. Special effects. Dirty jokes. alien makeup. Dirty jokes. Did I mention the dirty jokes? It would be an instant cult favorite! Sidney’s ADHD powers, (Cue the guy in Batman cowl saying ‘Scoobity do wop!) It would be amazballs!
Wait, did DaveB re-do the start? o_O :(
Just remember what the MIB did in the comics and the three movies and cartoon show.
Halo – Dabbler OTP
I know Dabbler is all sex personified, but it seems like the last two chapters is a buildup leading to a smut scene between Dabbler and Sydney.
You say that like it would be a bad thing…
I feel that withholding the existence of aliens is an extremely immoral act, since so much of philosophy and religion would be affected by that revelation. particularly if aliens not only exist, but are capable of traveling to earth. Christianity, Judaism and Islam would be utter destroyed since humanity is no longer the only fallen race, as there is now confirmed to be instances of war and suffering on a galactic scale. Buddhism and Hinduism would rise to be the new top world religions, and nearly all of western culture would be massively impacted by the loss of identity. Aliens existing would downright change how people think. Also, knowing that earth is a very small part of a very large galactic society would be the best thing possible to get the earth to unite as one planet rather than being a series of divided continents.
May just repost this tomorrow since to increase potential discussion.
Guessing you are not one of the ‘big three’ religions, or you simply don’t care about the utter collapse of society and order
… am I the only one wondering which sauce Dabbler stuck her finger in?
DaveB, in his blog under the comic, tells us that it was guacamole, not the spicy stuff that Sydney likes.
FYI, an oxymoron is a set of words that appear to contradict one another but are actually true and valid. :/
To be fair, the next “Princess” is looking to be a demigoddess. At least, I think they’re going to be sticking Moana in the Princess lineup.
Princesses for everyone.