Grrl Power #537 – Cake exchange
Don’t forget that Varia has that thick Bostonian accent. It’s just that she’s not saying anything particularly afflicted by it on this page. I suppose I could have had her say “Can I ahr um, help you?” she doesn’t talk like JFK.
It’s weird, panel 1’s POV shot seems really gratuitous, and it kind of is, but only if you’re a guy, right? Any woman can look down and get an eyeful of… well, woman. (Ignoring Xochitl’s uncommon level of fitness obviously. Very few people have that line running down the middle, much less all the ripply bits to either side.) I don’t know, maybe it still is gratuitous, just because it’s a mundane vista to half the population doesn’t make it non salacious.
I remember when Trespasser came out, (the ambitious but janky Jurassic Park game) the HUD was minimal, and the healthbar was a tattoo you had to check by looking down. And it caught a bit of flack for that. But I think that was mostly male reviewers (the game came out nearly 20 years ago) being offended for women? I dunno. At the time I was like “heh heh boobs” but now I’m just like, that’s what half the population sees if they look down. (If they’re wearing an appropriate top. Or not wearing an appropriate top.) I’d be jealous, but obviously were I so equipped, as I said earlier, the vista would be considerably more mundane.
See, now I’m curious how many readers did a boob check while reading this. I imagine women have to do that a few times during the day anyway to make sure their bra isn’t popping out or the right number of buttons are still fastened. Still, I bet money a few male readers did it too. I did it while I was writing this.
Oh and this page it totally gratuitous, who are we kidding? I felt like drawing sweaty boobs and abs and I did.
BTW also going on in panel 1, Sydney is a surprisingly good swimmer, but not that good. She’s holding the flight orb and dolphining. Probably making squeaky chirps and being a general nuisance.
Edit: Changed Varia’s dialog in panel 3 to she doesn’t sound like she has a skin condition or something.
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Sydney’s secret weakness, to come in the next chapter: fidget spinners with blinking lights!
Actually, fidget spinners have been used for approximately two decades to help people with Sydney’s particular living condition focus. If the easily-distracted part of your brain has something that can keep it distracted for a decent chunk of time, it won’t be looking for a second thing to distract it, so more of an aid than a weakness, unless she’s playing with it in combat because it does occupy a hand. Also, by next chapter, fidget spinners will have faded back into the mists of obscurity.
ACKSTHSULLY
A kitten seems to have run onto your keyboard. I assumed it chose your name too?
I find tying a sock, onto a piece of string, is good for encouraging them to go in a particular direction. Be that away from the keyboard, or towards a preferred part of it, if you want to influence the message, to some degree.
I think you may know him by his other screen name: Covfefe’.
No, Sydney’s weaknesses are getting riddled with bullets, mittens, and shirtless men with 6-pack abs.
Oh, you said secret weakness. Since Sydney already revealed the weaknesses I mentioned, they’re not secret anymore…
Don’t forget direct sunlight.
Reflected off of Maxima isn’t too good for Sydney either.
If this comic never includes a fidget spinner I will be grateful. I see those things everywhere. I have ADD myself but I’m 25 and I know me. I would be more distracted by it instead of less.
Absolutely nothing to do with the current page. But this does have relevance to Archon collecting information about supers who have not been involved in any criminal activity. If you pause and consider that collecting data on ethnicity and religion (or, for the comic, the possession of super powers) makes it easier for them to be rounded up and put into concentration camps.
I really hope that the US enacts data privacy laws. What that company has done would be totally illegal in the E.U. there would be criminal investigations and people going to jail, in due course. Y’all should demand that your personal data be comprehensively protected, by law.
Wouldn’t make a difference. The people that want to abuse such knowledge are the same ones who write the laws- so even if it was made illegal, then once they feel like breaking those laws, they’d just write the activity as legal.
Your cynicism does not match reality though, in the E.U.. European national leaders have just within the last week being pushing for end-to-end uncrackable encryption to be built into the internet. Specifically without any backdoors. And having legislation to enforce that.
Yes spy agencies can always try to subvert such public statements. So we should not always assume that a public declaration matches what happens behind the scenes. The difference is though that if they get caught, once such laws are in place, they do not get away with it.
Without those laws however, we see every company, country and group with a vested interest compiling data on our personal lives. The E.U. has shown that data can be protected. America does not even try.
The linked article is a false grievance. All of the info was gathered in the public sphere. The suppositions around party affiliation and political/issues views were from posts in public forums. As has been said on Slashdot for the last 20 years “the internet is a public space, saying on line is the same as screaming it in the town square” The scale of the database is impressive, but the ability to learn someone’s political/religious/other views by skimming their reddit/disqus/facebook profile is something anyone can do. The company in question just did that 200M times and wrote it down. If people are upset that other people can read what they wrote online, then perhaps they should stop writing online. Freedom of speech comes with the price of people remembering what was said.
This^
Far too many people think they can say (or post) whatever they want on the interwebs and no one can do anything about it
Especially those really dense-minded criminals who actually post YouTube videos of themselves while actively engaged in criminal activity & other social media.
Incorrect. Each utterance was to do with a single point. People have a right to conduct a social life, without fear that everything they say is being recorded and stored. The E.U. recognise this by making such compilation of databases illegal. This allows European citizens to live relatively free of such fears.
Whereas the argument you are supporting would require that nobody ever say anything on the internet. Most of those people will not have stated “I am a Christian”. But the database can analyse those who support issues that reflect Christian values, and assign that as the supposed religion. You would be restricted to only commenting anonymously (reducing your credibility on matters of import) or not to say anything about any subject.
Your stance is limiting freedom of speech! Why should we have to trade off the right to public debate against the fear of being rounded up and put into a concentration camp?!?!?!?!?!?
The grievance is valid and enshrined in E.U. law. It is not an ill-thought out measure.
Just a small thought here, I don’t think the gathering of such data is illegal per se (at least not where I live), but it is illegal for governmental agencies. So the government is not allowed to keep or maintain records on political leanings. This was the republican party, so it would still be illegal though.
Here (any E.U. country) it is the act of putting it in a database, by anyone (company or person) that is illegal. Otherwise it would simply be a matter of a government agency hiring someone to collate the data for them. Or accessing the data that had been independently collated. Same net result of people going into concentration camps.
There is not a thing we, the public, can do about it, if there are armed troops doing that. Well, barring kicking off a civil war (which you really do not want with supers on one side and the rest of humanity on the other). But making it harder, by putting legal obstacles in the way, to easily rounding up people of specific ethnic groups, or religions, is a precaution we can take in advance.
And bear in mind that this did happen in WWII. Not just the Nazis. Japanese Americans were interred too. And present day politicians (both sides of the Atlantic by the way, so I am not isolating any one party) are calling for similar measures today.
Once they are all rounded up, then the next step is easy to take, should someone in power decide that is not enough. Fortunately that is one only the Nazis have committed though. So far.
Which part is it that only the German National Socialist Party committed? o_O
The “Final Solution“. Note that it was conducted by a democratic country. By a leader who ran on a platform which included stating his intent to persecute a minority religion. And that by the time that most of the population became aware of the true extent of that persecution, six million people had been murdered.
Not that this should be taken to imply that everyone was blissfully unaware. There were plenty of people who would have seen the concentration camps and their workers. And slave labour being worked to death in mines. Not to mention neighbours being rounded up on the street, to be taken away.
Fortunately we know that Dave does not intend to go down the ‘civil war’ route, as he has said as much. So that is not a prospect that we face in this comic. Plus the comic is set in Barack Obama’s administration, which makes that credible.
The problem being that information collected in one administration can be used in a subsequent one. Information does not have a conscience. It cannot say ‘I will not allow myself to be used in this fashion, I am only intended to protect the public against super villains’.
Mind you, if that is the case, why collect information about honest law abiding citizens?
Because honest law abiding citizens have nothing to hide?
Yeah, everyone and their goldfish goes on about how the Jews were persecuted, but the Jehovah Witnesses were more so: with the Jews, Hitler wanted them out of the country, with the Witnesses, he wanted them obliterated from existence, and, guess what, some countries to this day are still trying!!! Russia has recently made them an outlaw religion
It is perfectly right to speak out for any persecuted group. I wholly approve of that and am taking active steps to reduce that in the world. Such as can be done.
I purposely did not mention Jews, as I know that there were many persecuted groups. To put a quirky twist on the grim subject, one of which was selected because they were republicans. And another were Christians (which you just mentioned).
The former being Spanish Republicans, but hopefully it will jog people into realising that it is not just other groups who can be singled out in this way, even within a democratic Christian nation.
The article itself is reasonable to focus on them because the title of the program was “The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem”. The title of which should give you the clue that you are doing Jews a disservice, by claiming that Hitler only wanted them out of the country. That was only an early solution.
In your zeal to champion one cause you were incautious, in how you referred to another. In a way which could be taken as trivialising the Jewish situation. It is far better to show solidarity with other persecuted factions. Especially all those who faced the final solution.
In that spirit I must agree that it is poor that the article does not even link to articles with a wider perspective. I imagine that is a protected page, to prevent anti-Zionist editing. But hopefully a fellow reader might know their way around Wikipedia well enough to suggest suitable links on the discussions page.
Sorry all for taking this down such a grim path. It is just very alarming when I see us failing to head the mistakes that history shows us all too plainly.
Cheerful programming will now resume.
“to reduce that” = “to reduce persecution”
Guesticus said:
> Because honest law abiding citizens have nothing to hide?
Really? Cool. In that case, you won’t have any objection to doing one of the following:
1) Admit that you are a liar and/or a criminal.
2) Put a video on YouTube showing your face as you recite and simultaneously display photos of your full legal name, address, phone number, Social Security Number, bank account and routing number, all your passwords, mother’s maiden name, name of first pet, any misdemeanors you may have had, every embarrassing picture of yourself ever taken (naked bath time as a baby, 80s haircuts, doing a kegstand, etc), links to every flame you’ve ever posted on the internet, your college transcript, your job history, a detailed statement of your political and religious beliefs, and your voting record for the last 10 years.
Just because have nothing to hide, does not mean have to show everything
Which means that the choice about whether or not to show everything should be in the hands of the individual.
Two hundred million Americans have had that choice taken out of their hands.
As that is no longer available, I will mention one other way a publicly accessible database like that can be used. If a terrorist wanted to target an attack against a particular group of Americans. Let us say Republicans. Or Christians. Or Democrats. Or Muslims.
That list gave their names and addresses. So they could pick out individual targets.
Plus can be easily collated to show where they are concentrated the most. In the event that the terrorist had some massive attack planned.
Guesticus said:
> Just because have nothing to hide, does not mean have to show everything
Don’t play stupid semantic games. Either you are fine to reveal that information or you don’t want other people to have the information. Based on your answer you obviously don’t want to reveal it, meaning that you object to other people having it. The only way to prevent other people from having that data is to make it illegal to gather it.
is anyone else surprised to read some actual text there and not some Lorem ipsum filler….. https://www.lipsum.com/ <- for those that don't know this.
and for those stuck with the regular size: https://quotecatalog.com/quote/kylie-scott-god-david-i-V7Lrzja
that's the first paragraph anyway
paragraph 2: https://quotecatalog.com/quote/lauren-blakely-he-drove-his-to-Z7EyKM7
paragraph 3: https://quotecatalog.com/quote/anne-rice-then-his-hands-lawJBdp
below
both pages appear to be the same:
https://quotecatalog.com/quote/catherine-millet-ringo-came-and-R1kx557
What varied research you do, Dave.
The text is too small to read for me, what magnification did you have to crank up to?
It is illegible to me at 500% magnification. However the double resolution that patron readers can see the comic in would doubtless make the difference, as I can almost read it, at that magnification, even in regular comic resolution.
panel 1’s nice n’ all, but panel 2’s straight up enchanting
Yes, yes it is, such beautiful eyes
didn’t notice until after I read the whole and had to do a double take
Yea the lewd double-entendre hidden, disguised as plain smut, in panel one, is shocking!
Is that Maxima and Sidney under water with Sydney holding onto one of her orbs to better annoy the aqua dwellers?
Yes, yes it is. Panel one also has Sydney play dolphin, it seems.
Seems like Math should be reading that book. For maxima effect, over Xochitl’s shoulder.
Math was sentenced to days of studying naked women on the internet. Clearly this has pushed him further along his path to enlightenment, and he is no longer content with abstract smut. He has reached the need for life studies.
There’s a line past which extra muscle definition just looks weird and unhealthy to me. Like, hydrate or something.
You’re sort of right. Body builders hydrate to an extreme right up until a few days before a competition, where they only drink minimal fluids in order to quickly shed water weight and get an extremely cut look. Super’s in the Grrlpower universe are more than a little bit over the top, as even claiming perfect human physique does not include the totally cut body builder look. That look is artificial and does not occur in nature. Defined muscles, sure. Just not what we’re seeing on this page or with the supers in general.
Is Math reenacting that one pose of Yujiro Hanma’s intentional or is that just a stereotypical martial arts pose and Grappler Baki’s just one place where someone really muscular’s done that?
Which pose? The one-legged stand or the “Van Damme” at the end?
The Van Damme pose, which also happens to answer my question.
Doesn’t he pretty much always assume those kinds of poses, except when in the shower?
This comic made me think of how Sydney found the orbs, and a possible reason WHY she found the orbs. It has been shown that the (current at least) user can not move past a certain distance away from the orbs. If Sydney got one of them sucked into the pool drain and lodged there she could not come up for air. Perhaps the former user got him or herself caught underwater in a similar situation.
I don’t think the orb would lodge anywhere. Sydney IS able to move the orbs, didn’t you noticed? Although … not sure what would happen if something would EAT one of the orbs.
the thing that ate them would get dragged along by the orb as it is proven that not even Maxima going full tilt can move the orbs out of the maximum range and the anchoring just stopped her dead without having any effect on Sydney, meaning that no matter the force enacted on those orbs you would require so much force to force the orbs away that you would probably just be better off just knocking Sydney out and then take both rather than just try to get the orbs away, that being said it is not clear what would happen if Sydney tried to move away when Maxima had the tube, if the orbs would just stop her from moving while also stopping Maxima from increasing the distance, effectively turning itself into an unmovable object or if they would drag Maxima along after Sydney with unstoppable force, ignoring all attempts to stop it
1. Tubey left in car, yanks Sydney back – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/184 https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/196
2. Throwing tubey, it reaches max range and drops – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/201
3. Amorph moving sydney drags the tube – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/224 https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/226
4. Max steps on tubey, yanks Sydney back – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/268
5. Max attempts to drag Sydney out by pulling the tube, ends poorly – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/370
It appears to be based on who does the moving. If Sydney moves away from the orbs she gets yanked back, if somebody moves Sydney the orbs follow her and if somebody tries to take the orbs away from Sydney they get to comically smash their face into a thing. I don’t think there’s a lot of power involved when Sydney moves the orbs. In the bank she’s being cautious, but when they’re stuck under the she can’t get them out. She does later jedi pull them out of maxima’s hands, but that could be explained as max being caught off guard and not holding them tightly.
They can generate enough force to completely shatter someones arm by striking it. And a rather tough and beefy arm at that.
The thing with Maxi and Mr Tubey, was that Maxi wasn’t ready for the sudden halt, and she had been standing on the edge of the curb and slipt, we haven’t actually seen what would happen if one (or all) of Sydney’s balls where secured and an attempt was made on moving them or her away from each other
That is on the list of things to find out during “training”.
We’ve seen Sydney get yanked back when Max stepped on tubey, preventing the orbs from moving to her. I’d be curious as to what happens if the orbs are secured in some way and then Sydney is dragged away.
Actually, what happens if somebody else holds an orb? Can she share powers?
I wouldn’t think so.
But when Varia touched Sydney, the orbs started circling her head too (maybe meaning that Varia could use them), but no one in the room at the time seemed to notice; Readers noticed though…
We know what would happen. She got Tubey stuck on something in her car, and it prevented her from entering a restaurant.
If the orbs can’t move, neither can she.
Max tried to drag her out from under the car by the tube and wasn’t able to. So while the Syd can’t move if the orbs can’t also the orbs can’t move if she doesn’t want them to.
Although I don’t think we’ve seen any attempts, we still have never seen the orbs move via anyone’s efforts other than their own or Sydney’s. While it’s possible that a sufficient outside force could move them, I doubt that a pool drain qualifies.
Equal exchange. she knows what he’s doing he knows what she’s doing. and has no issues providing for the demand
Anyone else noticed Halo going dolphin like 4 feet in the air? … I think she’s using the flight orb for that :o
Dave mentions in the blog below comic that she is using the flight orb and maybe even making dolphin noises.
That’s a lot of muscles on display.
Dave gets paid by the ab, now.
Rimshot
Maybe DaveB could whip a few ab-banners (misspelling is intentional there) for other websites with a crop-shot of that…
Heh, nice one.
I feel like the focus angle is what makes the panel feel exploitative, putting more emphasis on the foreground than there should be given what she’s looking at. Although I didn’t notice until you said something.
Learned all he knows from his great-grandfather, Happosai
I could totally vomit… but I’ve stopped looking at the page.
What the hell is with this comic and flashing muscles all over the place? So freakin nasty.
Ciao!
I hope that was sarcasm. Otherwise, I suggest you read the synopsis again:
“Grrl Power is a comic about a crazy nerdette that becomes a superheroine. Humor, action, cheesecake, beefcake, ‘splosions, and maybe some drama. Possibly ninjas.”
So you knew from the start what you were getting into.
And there’s something nasty about flashing muscle? Since when? Since never, that’s when.
There’s muscles, there’s extreme muscles, and then there’s the creepy over the top that can’t even be human anymore muscles. I’d put these characters in between muscles and extreme muscles, or in some cases, just extreme muscles. Except for Sydney, she’s more of the ?muscles? category.
Maxima knows what’s going on but she doesn’t say anything so she can enjoy the wiev.
“I have a condition.”
Instead you could use “I have one condition.” to make it clear.
Unless you want it to be ambiguous. :D
Some people, actually talk like that, they know that ‘a’ is singular so there is no need of saying ‘one’
“I have a condition. A … skin … condition.”
(“I have a stipulation”?)
I admit that was what I first thought she meant. Even though it should have been obvious what she meant in this context.
Since the word ‘stipple’ means the presence of small spots, the word ‘stipulation’ itself sounds like a skin condition. :)
I’m sorry, you make it sound like ‘a’ has ever meant anything but one, when used in that context. It doesn’t need to be “made clear”, it’s already perfectly clear.
Scratch that. I misunderstood what you meant. I see what you’re getting at, now… though I’d still say it doesn’t need clarification for most readers.
The allure of boobs is powerful in him
he is watching that sweat hardcore though….
It’s like following the bouncy ball. Your eye can’t help but track it.
I thought Math was the one that said he had a condition since he would be referring to his “condition” of having to…stare at boobs was it?
Follow up: does double entendre have to have a sexual meaning as its second meaning or can it just refer to a word that has two different meanings (i.e. condition meaning requirement or malady)
usually but not necessarily. the trick is what condition you use it. use this as a guideline….https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleEntendre
double entendre basically means the ‘twin intent’ that two things are implied if not specifically spoken.
That said most of the time it’s used to refer to a second sexual meaning.
Thanks for the edit. I thought she was apologizing for having some kind of illness, or for being in the sun…but now it makes sense :)
It made sense before
Is that why so many people thought otherwise? “I have a condition” was a highly ambiguous sentence and the comic has been objectively improved because of the change.
Get over it.
She’s caused Sidney to run around with a mental image of fire then roll around on the ground. while Maxima and the reporter looked at a non-burning Sidney. all because maxima took off a hat and the sun shined onto sidney from her skin
mental misspelling for the win. I know I consistently misspelled her name
Ambiguously answered if you continued reading the comic
Again, the number of people that commented about it clearly indicates otherwise. You’re in the wrong here; Dave’s edit made things better and more understandable. Admit it and get over it.
If it had been left as that, but if you read Math’s next line (I’m listening) and then the final panel, it was fairly easy for people to figure out the context and the meaning of “I have a condition”
If DaveB is going to have to run his script past the community in future to avoid confusion, that will be the end for me
Dave does not have to. But like any good entertainer he needs audience feedback to know if his massage is getting through to everyone.
A stand up comic will find it out directly, if someone, in the back of the room shouts out ‘speak up, I can’t hear you!’
This is not heckling, it is one of his customers (amongst other more timid ones who were afraid to call out) who is not able to understand the performance.
What would not be constructive though is someone sitting in the front saying ‘oh ignore them, I can hear you fine, carry on.’ The comedian needs to either project his voice better or have the sound engineer turn up the volume on the speakers.
A playwright has a tougher time. Initially all he has to go by is how loudly the audience clap, or whether people start looking bored or walking out. But will get scathing reviews, in the paper the next day, if the latter happens.
There is no way to correct that, until the next evening’s performance. But if the writer can figure out that the problem was simply down to his dialogue being misinterpreted by some individuals then he can tighten it up. This will then be of benefit to people who have not seen the performance before.
Even if it played OK to most of the audience, and only confused a proportion of them, it is not the intent of the playwright to cause confusion. He wants his clever message to be carried clearly, and without ambiguity. So that everyone can focus on the core message, rather than get lost and confused.
For a web-comic though the writer can get that feedback directly. It is otherwise no different to any such need for feedback.
I realise why you are upset about this. It is the thought of an artist having to compromise his artistic vision (be that art or writing) to pander for an unappreciative audience. That is not what is happening here though.
When Dave had the orbs circling Varia, that was a deliberate artistic vision. The ambiguity between how the characters were reacting, and a point that only the audience were spotting (and only some of them at that) was very much deliberate. And something which he should not compromise on, should people complain that they did not spot that.
In this situation though it was not Dave’s intent to be ambiguous. This is the kind of thing that he wants feedback on. Without it, the joke does not work as well. Previously it was mildly amusing but a bit confusing. Now I find it hilarious. Just the same as you did from the outset.
It is worth noting thought that I (and likely others) were content for it to remain as was. We did not get it properly, but mildly amusing is OK. It is Dave who chose to improve the scene, because he did not want to leave us unsatisfied. He wanted everyone to get the belly laugh.
So this is a good thing.
I’m probably the only person who’s noticed this but isn’t the way she’s holding the book a little strange in the first panel.
I just checked and, no, it’s the correct position to hold a book open with only one hand. You use your index, middle and ring fingers to support the book, and the thumb and little finger to keep the pages open. Of course, it only works with paperbacks.
I guess it depends on how wide you tend to open your books when you read. Personally, I do open them a lot, breaking the spines in the process, but getting pages that are flat, instead of those inclined pages with variations in lighting that can be difficult to read.
(besides, it helps keeping the pages straight if there is some wind, which is important when on a poolside, among other situations)
Anyone else see the name of her book
Yes, I think I’ve read that one.
It’s exactly what it says on the can.
That edit, to the dialogue in panel 3 works very well. As in it instantly conveyed the connection between that panel, and the final one.
I just want to say that this crap is pretty boring when you have Halo porpoising in the background and we could be watching her try her powers out under water (and how does Max do in the water anyhow?)
Well we are getting both, as we can see that in the background. And if you check it out a bit closer you will see that Halo is trying out her powers underwater. Quite what she is planning to do though I have not figured out yet. It may involve swimming trunks though.
I should think that Maxima does extremely well. Obviously her super speed will allow her to swim fast and her super strength will allow her to overcome water resistance more easily. Further we know that her skin is slippery, thanks to the force field (makeup does not stick), so that will serve to reduce her water-resistance somewhat too.
Plus her flight ability should work just fine underwater (it is zero-range telekinesis, so there would be nothing to prevent it).
In effect Maxima’s only speed limitation would be the danger of exploding internal organs of any organic life, in water, if she approached anywhere near her top speed. She would need to be careful not to break the sound barrier unless intending to attack with such effects. The higher the mach number the more deadly it would become.
Plus her outer force field is not flush with her skin, so Maxima would have a bit of extra air. And we have seen that Maxima carries an air mask, for regular flying, which would sustain her underwater too. Especially if it remains within her force field, and is of a rebreather type, as it could help replenish the trapped air as well as just the air she exhales into the rebreather.
Just remember: Maxi’s slipperiness of her skin will only work if she isn’t wearing a bulky wetsuit, oh wait…
I had forgotten actually. But the outer force field will be beyond that. It is not unreasonable to suppose that it too is slippery in nature, being formed by the same process.
Oddly. I had to take a second look the day this panel cropped up. First time around I forgot to notice she and maxima were in the pool. Math’s comment reminded me
I’m still waiting for Varia to turn into a velocah-raptor someday.
it’s be pretty funny if she touched one of the ‘weres’, and gained a random transformation (touch the bunny, be a gerbil, etc.)
Nope, while you as the author have the right to edit your work however and whenever you wish, changing Vahriah’s dialogue was totally unneeded
It was for me. I did not get that the guys were there because she stipulated it as a condition. Even with threads which indicated I was missing something about her comment. It was only after the edit that I twigged that it was at her insistence, rather than Math’s.
That is a fairly significant difference, that is worthy of an edit, to make sure that everyone gets the intent.
That’s what pisses me off, and always has: enough people managed to figure it out just fine and actually mentioned it in a few different posts, but people don’t bother reading the posts, but they still post asking “Duh, what is going on?” and expect someone to read their post and reply with the answer, when the answer has already been posted!!
Don;t forget that Dave does supply the comic in more than one manner. We are folks who come to the website to get our fix. Others though get it through their RSS reader. So will have no comments. Dave is correct to cater for all his audience.
Plus, in this case I did read all the comments, and still did not get the point. Everybody was saying how it could be taken two ways, without stipulating what the actual point was meant to be. I knew it was not to do with ‘a skin condition’. But failed to join the dots to figure out what other kind of condition it might be.
The only one that sprang to mind was her power. But that did not seem to be particularly relevant to the scene.
It is one of the reasons why my comments can get so big, occasionally. It is at times like this, when I miss something that most people seem to be getting just fine, that I realise it is safer to cover all the bases, for folks who might be missing a subtlety. I am impressed when folks do the same thing much more simply.
Dave’s edit being a shining example of doing the same, but with brevity.
Screw this, if people can’t be bothered to read the comments, then not gonna bother reading them either and join the mass of dumb
*shrugs*
While I agree that it is annoying when people keep asking the same questions that have already been answered several times there is some merit for a change if there are many comments indicating confusion.
The comic has to be able to stand on its own after all without explanation in the blurb or the comments.
So you DID change the dialogue.. I re-read it and was thinking.. “How the fuck did I read that so wrong?” LOL
Man. Swimming with the flight orb must be almost as awesome as just plain flying with it.
I don’t see a way to contact you privately so I am saying it here, even though I think it will get lost in the flood of comments.
The “Action Time Buddies” link you have in your site bar is directing users to a malware site. You should likely do something about that. Also “Sabrina Online” should be marked as Not Updating since it’s been finished for a while.
You did right in mentioning those problems here, thanks.
I am sure Dave will see this, and act on it promptly, when he does. Right now he is likely finishing off tomorrow’s comic, so there may be a delay before he does get to see the message.
Ok, that’s fixed, but in doing so I discovered the old Text widget I used to make it has been updated and no longer accepts HTML code, so it got broke, so I figured out how to fix that, but then the cast page was showing up under the comic, so I’ve had to temporarily disable it cause I don’t have time to fix it all right now. :/
But thanks for the heads up on Action Time Buddies.
Ahh, and that explains the cast problem I had. Thanks for acting on this all so quickly, and keeping us in the picture.
Oh, the joys of being bi~
:-D
Hey, don’t be so conservative, try tri~!
;-)
Nah, then I’d be pansexual, and I don’t find pans sexy.
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*whispers* Stupid sexy pans with their copper bottoms and their hand safe handles.
It is time for today’s episode of “Will it Float?”
Since the guy supers all have about zero body fat they might not have enough buoyancy to stay at the surface. Stalwart can definitely sink if he wants to. We still haven’t found out if he can REDUCE his effective mass and float like a cork.
For the women, most are equipped with a higher ratio of (strategically located) body fat and should have no problem. Max’s teenage transformation may have left her with a higher specific density than normal and she may sink without her levitation.
While it is true that the women have a more body fat it should also be noted they likely have higher density muscles and as such much more muscle mass . This could counteract the buoyancy of their breasts.
[Cesna] citation needed.
If women of comparable mass, to men (adjusting for the difference in body-fat) are actually stronger, then various sporting disciplines need to adjust their justification for having separate events for men to women. The morality would be unchanged. But it would lessen criticism of such, if it was seen to be applied without bias, as to which gender was stronger.
Is… is Sidney dolphining?
Yup. Check out the author’s blog, above, for details of how. Although, if you check the art carefully, it does all match, even without the explanation.
Re how many did a boob check: let’s just say that my eye is drawn elsewhere first.
(Though I must admit that the general Super physique reminds me of Meg Davis’s song about the unseelie, _The_Elf_Glade_, which starts with the exchange “Yes, they’re real.” “No, they can’t be.”…)
As this is a ‘cake exchange’, I would like to swap all the beefcake and cheesecake for just the one fruitcake. Or a nutcake, if that fits her better.
I want to read that book Varia’s reading. “Jack the Bodice Ripper.” LOL
A book by that title is commercially available. Here is an audio version.
Amazon do not appear to have the paper or ebook alternatives. Apparently they stock the popular one because it is hands-free.
It’s amazing the unabridged audio version is 34 minutes long. So basically it’d be a pamphlet if there was a physical version.
Sydney arching like a dolphin from the water is my new favorite animal.
Well Hailo to you too.
I could vomit.
Well, I mean I’m not going to vomit since my eyes instinctively retract into my skull when that much muscle starts showing… Hooray for self-preservation mechanisms…
But seriously… that is disgusting. Really disgusting. =(
Rereading again… (10th time?). Anyway all of Math’s scars are missing in this panel. The ones fromhttps://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-112-hot-beefcake-injection/ here. Btw that level of cut scaring comes from training with stop guards on blades… Not a practice anyone sane does….
Whoops! I totally forgot about the scars.