Grrl Power #423 – A priest, rabbi, & hyperactive nerd walk into an OB/GYN…
Not Sydney’s finest hour. But also kind of weirdly selfless. I’ve said it before, but Sydney is a little culturally sheltered. Not that she’s never seen a bindi before, (though she might stumble a little describing actually what it is and what it means) but her snap judgement was clearly… well, too snappy. But maybe that’s what you want in a bodyguard… who you never hired and aggravates to violence every time she’s around. In any case, shame on Sydney for not knowing that snipers using laser sights is entirely a Hollywood creation.
Asking anyone “you’ll never guess what my gynecologist/proctologist told me” is the perfect setup for any number of jokes. Really it’s on them if they don’t have a killer reply locked and loaded.
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“Boy, with a temper like hers, it looks like this Chevy has gone Nova.”
(crickets chirping)
I’ll be going now.
claps slowly…
As a connoisseur of bad puns friend i found that… adequately punny… your reward sir… ha haaa…
^_^
Yeah, that takes some drive.
Someone else take the wheel. These puns are automatically due for a trashing. I think I have a few spares around here, but I’m a little tired to go looking for a proper vehicle for all these puns…
*car parts rain down from the heavens*
It doesn’t go. Or in Spanish, “no va”.
I like how the wastepaper basket somehow ended up on her head despite the orbs.
I like to think that the Orbs are Sentient and decided to let the wastepaper basket past.
There is some evidence for this, like when the “lighthook” swatted a piece of foam at her Syd, to teach her about the Shield.
When “Laughter is the best medicine.” meets “It only hurts when I laugh.”
You can’t spell Slaughter without Laughter!
Awhile ago when Harem “vorped” in the room and the doc said something about examing a prostate, well what if Chevy said: “I could’ve been checking a general’s prostate!”
Later in Maxima’s office,she tells Sydney and Harem that she just received a complaint from Dr.Chevy and she jerks her right thumb toward a tower of paper on a dolly cart.
Sydney’s eyes widen,Harem is just dumbfounded!
Sydney didn’t hesitate to give her own life for another’s here.
Yup, our girl is a true hero.
*sniff*
*uses paw to wipe a tear away*
So true. To bad her first reaction wasn’t to grab the shield orb. It looks like some training is still in order.
Er, I meant to say “Too bad” not “To bad”.
Panel 8 is the face of a woman who has put up with enough shit.
Syd, be careful. With your track record (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/704) you may be in danger of losing healing privileges.
Three and one half years later, and not only does Doc have a name, but she looks more ‘realistic’ in art as well (shows that she has gone from being a background character to a fully developed character)
This seems to be the week of sniper-dots: first here, then on NCIS, and now in Skin Horse
Maxima should have a talk with her about those reflexes. Using her body as a shield instead of her shield orb is probably bad policy…
Yup. Although reflexes are something that need retraining, rather than just a talk. Sydney is going to need a lot of practice in throwing up her shield in an emergency.
The benefits of such training far outweigh the much rarer down sides. Not dying being chief amongst the good points.
Bear in mind also that the shield is spherical and the doctor was in a doorway. For Sydney to be able to shield her she would have had to be right next to her. Jumping on the doctor to get her out of the doorway would also help.
Am I the only one to think Sydney’s rocking that mesh Mongolian shepherd look?
I wondered what you meant, at first. But, yea, that final panel does have that kind of look. Only Sydney could pull off using a bin as a fashion accessory so successfully!
DaveB would be best avoiding the temptation of adding a bin hat to his clothing range.
Is it just me or does Dr. Chevapravatdumrong subscribe to Tsunade’s philosophy on “when you’re the healer you must train defense.” ?
I think it’s more of “You can’t heal anyone if your dead, dumbass!”
that’s pretty much word for word the second thing she told Sakura if I remember right.
Sydney is hilarious…and needs a cultural sympathy class. Badly.
Sydney is rather like the late Sir Terry Wogan. She amusingly takes the wee out of all cultures, with an even hand. Albeit that Wogan did so on a carefully calculated basis, whereas Sydney is far more haphazard, or in this case completely accidental. But think back to her escape ploy, from the nuns, to see what I mean.
To quote Dr. McNinja:
He hurts with one hand. And heals with the other.
Dr. Chevy is just Ambidetrous in that regard :)
Oh my god, Sydney! *facepalm*
To be fair, I suppose a false positive is better than a false negative in that case…. But still, bad Sydney!
Halo’s “Sniper!” reflex needs to be grabbing the force field orb and enclosing the target in with her. Just like her Kung-Fu forehead to the table was a bad reflex, so is not using the forcefield to automatically protect those the things are about to be shot by a sniper.
Which if course means that she’ll eventually be killed by an assassin who uses an sniper to paint a laser target on the face of some innocent, just so she can get 5 seconds alone with Halo inside her force field in order to assassinate her.
Because that’s how a good assassin works, damnit. Watch The Mechanic (1972, 2011 is rubbish) for a primer.
Or even Leon.
Of course mechanics are rubbish for printers. Especially laser printers. They are trained to repair cars and similar devices. You need to hire a repairwoman trained for such electronic devices.
As you say, Leon would be a good choice to fix a broken printer. Although I am sure he would not want to assassinate Sydney with one.
Primer or printer, it’s all the same to me. I can’t fix either one.
It could’ve been much worse… Sydney could’ve assumed it was the Mark of the Rani and started looking around for Colin Baker and Anthony Ainley.
If I hadn’t read the commentary, I would’ve been totally lost on the “Sniper!” thing. I thought she was *calling* her a sniper. Or Sniper.
You may be a Sniper, Sydney…
But the doctor is an entire Swat team.
Oh no! A red laser dot on the forehead! Syndey, suddenly soar to stop that sniper!
Not sure how anyone would mistake a bindi for a laser dot.
What I’d like to know is what Sydney was writing in the list in the first panel.
Man, I’m rereading AGAIN the comic, and this will always be my favourite page.
syd, daph , girlies don’t piss off the healer that’s how you die