Grrl Power #94 – The Step-Mother of all Origins
And back the story. “Story” used in the broadest possible sense of course. I’m experimenting a little with trying to fit just as many jokes and content on a page with fewer panels. I think this one came out pretty good, but the next page… We’ll see how it works out.
And as Zeph points out, just finding them underwater does lack the drama of spelunking an ancient temple or a prophetic inheritance or something, but it’s all part of the plan.
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Now I’m wondering if the old guy in the scuba class is Sydney Sr.
He seems so used to Syd’s behavior he uses it as cover for his wandering eyes. And if it was a family trip it would make sense that they get their certification at the same time.
Also, Syd Jr. does seem to have a strong daddy influence. Perhaps it was a single father/only child type scenario?
I like the spinnie star from Krull on the shelf there. Just wish that movie hadn’t been made in the ’70s.
Thot that was 80’s. Ah well, canna remember. Loved the movie tho. Should see if it’s posted online somewhere. Still like me cheese. \o/
Also the Sword of Omens, the Master Sword, the Sword of Greyskull and a lightsaber. I want to find that shop! ;P
The Glaive, and the movie was filmed from 1980 onward and released in 1983.
AHHHH! i found halo in the comic ‘The Lounge’
she wanted to trap max in her basement!
https://thelounge.keenspot.com/d/20030408.html
Seeing as that strip was made eleven years ago that would have made here thirteen at the time.
Holy crap that does look like her.
yep…. but its not her….. cause that girls name is amy.
oh well….. maybe its a twin?
That looks like a interesting webcomic, I think I’ll give it a try.
hum, Sydney is a comic-book nerd, Amy sounds like a comic-book nerd, both look-a-like, 11-years apart. sounds like a female doctor (pops up just before some big disaster) as Rie Shibata from catgirl Nuku-Nuko TV would say “this is a bad omen”
Not to mention that Amy is more well-endowed than Syd, enough for the former to apply for the “Most Common Super Power” trope.
So Sydney, or her doppleganger, has been around some other comics without your knowledge DaveB now that is scary.
lol, been two-timing him
It happens, I was in a comic book shop and on the cover of a book was a woman who looked very simular to how I described/imagine my character “Rhulan the sorceress” to look. Granted I didn’t give her any super-unique features, but still it was pretty damn close.
I saw so many jokes in the last panel.. funny, Glaive from Krull, Sword of Omens, the sword of grayskull..
So-far, we’ve covered (with the 1st-5 orbs) in-order:
– Transport (Flight)
– Offense (“Pew-Pew-Orb”)
– Manipulation (Pseudopod)
– Reconnaissance (Telepresence)
– Defense (Shield)
So…
…speculating on the remaining 2 orbs, I’m guessing they only become apparent when needed…?
Example – If one happened to be in her hand while someone was speaking French…
…& she understood him, without having ever taken a French-class.
Perhaps she might understand the pheromone-language of an ant-colony, or the territorial song of a bluebird (or a wolf, or a whale).
(A “Universal Translator” might be standard equipment for some exploring star-ship, far from home.)
That, & “Healing” seem to be (to me at least) the most obvious of the fundamental attributes that one might want to measure in a superhero.
Healing?
Self only, others only, others and self?
I think having it be useable on self and others would make the most sense for the ‘toolkit’ scenario, since a healing orb could be the equivalent of a first-aid kit. In which case, like a first-aid kit, the utility and efficiency of the heal-ball would be directly in proportion to the user’s knowledge of medicine and anatomy.
I was thinking of general-purpose healing (either self-or-others), such as:
Analyze subjects DNA, compare (projected healthy profile) against (damaged profile) & (perform repairs).
@Lictre:
Ideally, yes, but “in extremis”, you might be alone, wounded, & too out-of-it to focus properly for that. If the healing-function is automatic, you increase the owner’s survival-odds.
how about the ability to “total piss someone of with out trying”, think about it, Sydney’s in a group fighting some villains, who’s villains going to attack? the group as a whole or the one pissing them off, bearing in mind she does have a force-field, thereby allowing the rest of the group to to fight the villains with out worrying about getting hit
The ability to “total piss someone of with out trying” seems to be a natural talent for Syd so having a orb do that would be redundant.
Yep, Sydney’s a orb of taunting all by herself.
ya, true, just ask Max
Is it just me, or does the Chinese guy running the ye ol Ancient Chinese Secrets store look like Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield?
It is just you. It is suppose to resemble “Egg Shen” from ‘Big Trouble in Little China.”
More specifically, actor Victor Wong.
Oh man… In the process of looking him up, I just found out that he died in 2001. :-( :-( :-(
OK wtf am I the only one that noticed Dora swimming around in the first panel?
nope, a few of us have
It pays to read all the comments first. Saves you and me from repeating ourselves.
Not Dora. Dory.
She looks pretty good in a diving suit. Lithe. More curvy then she looks in jeans and T’s.
Well wetsuits ARE form-fitting after all. where as jeans and t-shirts are more relaxed wear type of clothing (Unless, of course you’re wearing them 3 sizes too small…..)
Sydney’s pretty darn comfortable fooling around with that flying stone, but I suppose that’s to be expected. Flying is way cool.
Sydney has to have tried this – Since she seems to be able to control the positions of the orbs fairly well, what happened when she tried to stand barefoot on the Flight stone so she could have her hands free to do other things? Complete fail, really shaky levitation/flight, or it works just fine as long as she can keep her balance?
I’ve been thinking about how Syd is still playing around with her orbs while she’s being interviewed and now I’ve got this image in my head I can purge:
Syd using the tentacle orb to hang upsidedown in a classic Spiderman pose.
I now want to see this actualized
Do you think Dave could pencil it in for the next page? I mean he’s got a more than 7 hours to do it, that’s plenty of time (LOL).
hury with the next one please
Monday 6AM central
What if one is some sort of record keeper like a flight recorder. another origin for the orbs themselves?
Might bee the operator manual as well
Love your work. and I always wait for Monday to roll around so I can see the next page. Let’s face it Sydney’s funny as hell. I did have 1 small comment/critique: The scuba tanks on the table appear to be the same model, should they not be of uniform length? Also, from the vantage point we the reader are given into the scene, should we not see the bottom of the air cylinders?
Thanks again for an awesome comic! XD
Most likely. Perspective is not firmly seated in my wheelhouse of specialties yet. And honestly, there are times where I shrug and say good enough on non-critical background stuff. I’m sure the valves make no sense either but I was too busy finding decent references for coral and cartoon swords. :)
Swimsuit girl and the old guy remind me of a scene from something but I can’t think where it’s from….
Oddly enough Gremlins just was on TV for me here. Didn’t watch it that long enough to see Gizmo.
who’s the smart ass who decided it would be a good idea to give her a knife, also that’s one pervy old dudeXD *thumbs up*
I find it hilariously appropriate that Dory accompanied Sidney to the coral reef.
I recognize everything in the shop except for the sword on the bottom shelf.
Anyone?
Ever played any of the Legend of Zelda games?
Just asking.
In the second panel, it says “see here… for the first time on film.”, shouldn’t that be “seen here…”?
Yup! Added to the fix list.
You just know thats not first time he had to use that rolled up magazine to swat her hands.
Hehe Dora And the explorer.
How did Sydney get a cameo in Pixar’s Finding Dory?
Wow, I just realised… you show that star-y weapons form that movie I watched as a kid once ~ something about a Beast, a princess and a… man? He used this weapon (that he got out of lava or something?) to defeat the evil Beast. It protrudes blades, I think, from its rays. Wow-walk-down-the-memory-lane :3
That description doesn’t narrow it down much, for a second I thought you were talking about Thundar the Barbarian, but I think you’re actually referring to the Glaive from Krull.
Love Dory in the first panel. XD
I just noticed the hot chick with a band-aided knee next to an old guy.
Looks like she found Dory, too!
I guess Deus gets most of his weapon collection from little Chinese MacGuffin shops.
Should at least be an obvious source, methinks…
If one of his “servants/employees” can find one of them, at any rate.
Fate/Destiny role-of-the-die??
If the balls were embedded too deeply in coral, and she was too far underwater, she could have drowned after touching them—given how they’re tethered to her.
Yeah, she’s lucky about that. Though she might have discovered the “Air Orb” power at that time, and she could have ripped the reef apart with the Lighthook tentacle, given a bit of time.
*laughs from the future*