Grrl Power #421 – Let’s get physical
The doc is a bit of an anti-Maxima when it comes to tolerating quirky supers. In her career she’s met more than her share.
In a week that doesn’t involve a super battle royale, she’s only at the base once a week, since her powers put her in such high demand. She works in trauma wards around the city, but after the fight she was needed to get the team back to ship shape. (As well help with some of the more significant injuries to the red team.) Archon has priority on her time, but Max would probably defer it if a school bus flipped over or something. There’s also a small staff of non-powered doctors who fill in at Arc-SWAT the rest of the time, but Doc Chevy prefers to do the initial physical herself when the rare opportunity presents itself.
“Uie Maa,” I’m told from some Google searches and twitter Q&A means something like “Dear mother.” I wanted her to say something along the lines of “Good lord that was loud.” but make it sound like someone who also spoke Hindi might say. In case that doesn’t read right to someone who actually is bilingual, if you have a more organic suggestion I may change it.
Sydney’s reaction to Harem’s arrival seems to be a conditioned response at this point. The exploding cuff merely startled her.
On a completely unrelated note, Overwatch is really good. It’s basically Team Fortress 3, minus the hat economy, and the character designs are bonkers good. I mention it cause I may do some fan art since one of the characters in the game looks rather a lot like one of mine. Coincidentally I’m sure. I’d be surprised if anyone at Blizzard even knew of my little comic here, but I thought it’d be cool to draw them together.
In the meantime, here’s a (vote incentive) painting I did of Max in that new style I’m experimenting with, being skeptical/displeased with something it seems. I have mixed feelings about it. It’s alternately pretty good and a little wonky. I’d like it more if it took less time to draw, but I was playing with brushes at the same time and learning as I went so hopefully the next one will look better and take less time.
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My question has not much to do with this comic page, but as I read Dr Chevy’s bio, I was reminded again that I’d like to see a compilation of all the bios already existing (especially to get straight some names mentioned in discussions). But I can’t find any other page than the cast page with such information and, for me at least, it is limited to a score of characters.
Is there a page that actually compiles the up-to-date “who’s who”?
There’s nothing that compiles the Who’s Whos because they change as the comic progresses, so they’d be spoilery to have them all in one place.
Ah, okay. That explains. Thanks for the answer. :-)
Just to add my two cents about the spoiler issue, I expected it to work the same way as the current cast page. Just a gallery of characters with the description available when clicking on them, organised by Archon division (and additional sections – villains, press, comic shop…).
To be honest, while reading the descriptions is indeed interesting, the who’s who would be most useful to remember… well… who’s who… :-)
For example, when you mention a character in a comic, but he/she does not appear in the page and, so, is not on the sidebar, and I can’t remember where we saw him first/last and what he/she was doing, I would definitely appreciate to be able to see an up-to-date list of characters, only clicking on those whose portrait would not be enough to make me remember who they are.
Besides, so far, no character has ever been introduced as a villain or a hero to then switch side (well, Deus is still on the line between both sides and Harem also deserves a question mark) so there would not be much spoilers, in my opinion, about the way people are distributed between the categories of the who’s who (and, if it happened, you could leave them in their original slot, with the text mentioning their switching side) and the texts themselves, well, if someone clicks on a character despite the spoiler warning, they made their choice. ;-)
There’s more I could do with it definitely. Right now the code doesn’t allow me to put links on the WW portraits, but it could obviously be enhanced in the future. The Bio page is in dire need of an update anyway.
Well, it’s true that I’d like for it to be update. But the comics is more important so, take your time… ;-)
Out of curiosity, are the “Who’s who” panels in the sidebar connected to a database or do you write them everytime (copying descriptions from previous pages)?
WordPress lets you tag posts, so if you post about, I don’t know, barbarians, you can tag it with smilodon, bastard sword and metal bikini, and then that lets people search for those tags if you have the blog set up that way, or WordPress can suggest other articles with the same tags. I’ve co-opted that system for the Who’s Who, so there’s sydney01, sydney02, halo01, halo02 etc so I can match progression to the timeline of the comic.
Well, on one hand, that’s a clever way to bypass limitations. I like it. :-)
On the other hand, conversion for the who’s who would not be easy, I can see that… The best way to manage that I can imagine right now would need you to have the possibility to create dynamic (PHP) pages (and access to a database) for the cast AND for the sidebar… Well, I changed my mind, the cast page is not so important… ;-)
I just watched a couple of episodes of ‘Powers’.
I now wonder if Dr. Chevy is related to their Dr. Death. (I’m sure that’s not his actual name, but I’ve only seen a couple of episodes. No, I don’t have a playstation to watch it on.)
They seem to be a rather similar situation of having to deal with the results of people with super powers. His case is as coroner, hers as dealing with living enigmas. Either way they both seem to react very similarly.
Sorry if it’s been mentioned, but is that a Kryptonian eye chart behind Sydney? Neat choice if so.
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One, do you think Sydney knows what a prostate is?
Two, could someone please explain Harem’s joke? I’m afraid I don’t understand it.
she’s referring to the first swearing of the hippocratic oath “above all, do no harm”
given syd’s vocabulary i wouldnt be surprised if she has called at least one person on the planet a prostate connoisseur with full understanding of what she was saying.
Oh yes, Sydney knows what a ‘prostate’ it
Bit of an odd question, but I am surprised no one has asked it yet: are the loops in Sydney’s irises just an artistic choice/shortcut or is it the sign of something else i.e. biological changes caused by the orbs? Irises are normally just a mess of lines, which while they aren’t always straight, to my knowledge don’t double back on themselves as depicted.
Fairly sure it’s just artistic style, most irises are not ‘just a mess of lines’, if DaveB had left it ‘clean’ people would have been questioning that as well (if you look closely at the invotive, Maxi has a similar pattern going on)
Now that a kick ass doc. Wonder if she can heal also. :)
The chart behind sydney changes between a normal one and a kryptonian windings one.
Sorry i did not notice the perspective changes.
Cue the Olivia Newton-John.
You go, Doc! Spank her!
This doctor is entertaining. XD
I wonder how much training the doctor has. You’ve got to imagine that if she went through the full medical school she’d sometimes feel that she was wasting her time since she already has her healing powers. But of course, even with her powers, how light on the medical training would people be willing to overlook?
“uie Ma” in Afrikaans means “onions, mother!” now there’s a point… a Suid-Efrrrrikaan doctor. There’s room for a lot of inventive non-English profanity here…. and okay, “Onions!” doesn’t sound too sweary. But in a Saffie accent… forget not that in Afrikaans, the phrase “Foot-sack!”, spoken with enough intensity, menas “Fuck Off!” (Voetsaak, for those who want the spelling)
Why does the doctor threaten to blind Harem in her other eye? It was Sydney who got blinded by that spicy noodle.
Cause Harem said that only having four of her was like being blind in one eye. Though reading it now I suppose I could have made it less confusing by having her say it was like being deaf in one ear.