Grrl Power #1012 – Between 0 and 6 Harems walk into a bar…
This is a page that I really didn’t want to split into two, but I couldn’t fit everything on one page and I just couldn’t make it a double cause I’m still trying to get caught up after Xmas. (The vote incentive should hopefully update with Monday’s comic, BTW.) By itself, this page mostly just sets up the next one. It also doesn’t give you guys a ton to discuss, other than guessing what Harem’s foible was, that or just pitch your own super powered pranks. It’s kind of a limitless field, really, even without getting into weird mind control stuff. “I made him think mayonnaise was underwear,” etc.
I will mention that somehow, while Sydney was revealing where she found the orbs, Jiggawatt went and got her hair did. The reason she did that is because I always matched her lipstick to her hair color and yellow lipstick looks terrible. Unless you’re a dryad and have green skin. Gold lipstick can work, especially against darker skin, but the yellow wasn’t cutting it for me. In the early days of the comic, Jiggawatt had light blue hair, but I fairly quickly realized that if she’s doing lightning stuff and there are bright lights nearby, her hair washed out and looked a bit… Stormy. She looked like Storm. So I changed it to yellow. Now I’m changing it back to blue, but now it’s royal blue which won’t wash out to white even if it should because I’m the artist and I can just fudge it if I need to. Oh, and of course, since I tend to have most of the girls wear underwear that matches their hair color, I guess Jiggawatt also went shopping. Or maybe she had some bras around from her prior blue hair stint.
It’s not a fetish of mine or anything, I’m just kind of lazy when it comes to underwear color, and I refuse to have anyone wear beige bras. I understand why they exist: so white women don’t have to worry about their bra being visible through their shirt, but that doesn’t change the fact that beige bras are equivalent to tighty whities. No one is wearing them to be sexy, and guys, if you’re wearing tighty whities and taking your pants off in front of a woman (who wants you to be taking them off), you don’t get to be upset by the ripple of disgust that passes through her face when she sees your choice in underwear before she tamps it down and gives you a half-hearted thumbs up. I can confidently say there’s no such thing as sexy underwear for men, (at least from the perspective of a heterosexual male.) There are only less bad choices.
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And far worse than anything Sydney has done since joining up, I’m sure.
Well, worse than anything she’s done SINCE joining, but before joining she started at least one forest fire, smuggled weapons across international boarders, presumable inflicted cruel and unusual punishments upon the idiot who tried to mug her, and unleashed biological weapons upon an inhabited area whenever she got the hankering for spicy food, which was presumable very often.
The forest fire was an accident. The smuggling, weeeeellllll, Uncle Sam is happy.
Stomping a mudhole in the guy who attacked her? He was bigger, faster, stronger, possibly armed, attacked her unprovoked and was committing a violent felony that put her in reasonable fear of being injured or killed. Sydney might weigh a buck and a nickel sopping wet. If she had torn his head off and beat him to death with it it probably wouldn’t have even gone to the Grand Jury. By-the-book self defense.
You’ve got me on the violations of the Geneva Conventions, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Crimes Against Humanity.
on the upside she probably saved a few people from muggings and the like
That bank robbing image of Jabber reminded me. When are we going to see that marble/jade looking lady get found?
Nah, she’s just Concretia. Bam, loose ends tied up.
Except that Concretia is low poly, and Jade was out heroing at the same time the bad guys had Concretia under control. So probably not unless Jade was some kind of long term “generate public trust so we can exploit it” plan on their part.
I sincerely doubt it. Concretia didn’t know she could do half the things she can actually do (the powers don’t seem to match), the personalities of the individuals don’t match, and then there’s the matter of look/build; Concretia’s look in stone/astral form is identical to her real body which is distinctly different from the Marble lady.
Plot Twist: Marble Maiden’s powers have absolutely nothing to do with carbosilicate solids. Her powers actually allow her to refract light. Among the side effects of this: she can change the appearance of her skin to any pattern she desires. She just likes the color and patterns of marble.
We literally had this very argument/debate a few comics ago. The arguments that Concretia and Marble Maiden are two entirely different people made a LOT more sense. :)
I remember that argument. can we just do rock puns instead? or would it be to hard to roll into a new subject?
LOL.
I would almost prefer puns then rehash the Concretia is/is not Marble Maiden debate. :)
That should give you an idea of my view on it. ;)
What I can’t understand is why anyone would want them to be the same character.
It would be a start on whittling down an already very full cast list, but by this point it would be very much just a gesture.
Why would fewer characters necessarily be preferable to more?
I personally find it annoying when an established character is stretched and deformed to make them fit a story, presumably for the sake of name recognition, rather than introducing a new character. The world is full of sequels and remakes because of that preference, and so much new, interesting, original content gets left by the wayside because people would rather turn to something familiar, even if it’s been distorted to the point where it’s barely recognizable.
Kinda like why Holyweird keeps regurgitating the same actors and actresses rather than risk a remake of a remake on someone new
I don’t agree with the position that fewer characters is preferable to more, but it is one that’s held by some. As I understand it, their thinking is that the cast list should be compact enough that the average reader should have no problem recognising whoever turns up on page and remembering the pertinent points of their backstory. I can see where they’re coming from with that, but I don’t agree – not with the underlying rule, nor with the pessimistic assessment of the ‘average reader’s’ comprehension by which it’s often implemented.
I’m not sure. They seem very focused on it though. :)
Puns are the height, of Intellectual Humor!
Funs are the lowest form of wit, but the greatest pun.
Who has been poisoning Sasha’s impressionable mind with these scurilous lies?!
Actually, puns really were the ‘height of intellectual humor’ a few hundred years ago.
And leeches and head drilling were the height of intellectual medicine. :)
Both of which are still used i might add.
If I was to go to my gynecologist, and he suggests leeches to draw out the bad blood from my womanly parts, chances are good that I’m going to get a new OBGYN.
And much as I know there’s an opioid crisis which prevents me from getting vicodin for a chronic migraine, if the doctor then suggests drilling a few holes in my head (trepanation) in order to release the evil spirits from my skull, I will politely decline and get some extra strength tylenol and hope for the best.
https://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2011;volume=57;issue=1;spage=65;epage=71;aulast=Porshinsky
“… he suggests leeches to draw out the bad blood from my womanly parts, chances are good that I’m” in a shitload more trouble than you thought :(
If the doc thinks I need trepanation to “release the evil spirits from my skull”, I’m going to shoot him/her/it now while I can still see. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3993008/ . Quote: “A 10% ethanol solution administered intravenously is a safe and effective antidote for severe methanol poisoning. Ethanol therapy is recommended when plasma methanol concentrations are higher than 20 mg per dl, when ingested doses are greater than 30 ml and when there is evidence of acidosis or visual abnormalities in cases of suspected methanol poisoning.”
Tylenol is NOT recommended.
well things like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t03W1OW7lvo
and perhaps you should follow this man’s advice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_vkKozA8OI
and now I know why the men were sweating….
Me!
I should have known. My most dastardly nemesis. Release Sasha from your evil machinations.
“A form of wit to which the Wise stoop and fools aspire” –Ambrose Bierce
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Nobody’s wearing beige bras to be sexy? Yeah, right. When a woman wears underwear that matches her skin and wears one of those knitted dresses with all the little holes, it looks like it’s all she has on.
That’s pretty sexy, and a deliberate effect.
Not at all the same thing in tighty whities, unless maybe you’re an albino.
As a bisexual male, I’m not sure I completely get finding tighty-whities less sexy. I guess I’m not HUGELY into clothing or lingerie to begin with, so maybe that’s why the idea doesn’t turn me off (?) — it’s more about what’s underneath the clothing for me, and tighty whities are more form fitting…. idunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jabberwokky finaly got her own choker, or was it on display before?
She’s had her own choker for a while now.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-973-ulna-you-di-int/
(panel 1)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-825-punch-practice/
(panel 3)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-824-fist-of-the-sigma-octantis/
(panel 3 and 4)
Sydney, compared to some of the stuff your teammates have done you don’t even rate “naughty”. And most of that was before you were recruited. You are experiencing something that has been part of the military since Sargon the Great of Ur. If your boss is a competent Officer or NCO part of their job is to stop avoidable poop from raining down on you from higher up and outside. The other part of the deal is that you are straight with them, pull your weight, and accept a world of grief from them when you screw up. It maintains unit cohesion, discipline, and loyalty. Above all it supports one of the most important rules of any large organization “Don’t make your low-level screw ups a high-level headache.”
She didn’t even screw up. She 100% did the right thing by just not telling them in the first place, imo. The orbs just having been found ‘somewhere in the keys, Iunno where’ was completely fine
As she pointed out, what else was she going to do, she can’t give up the orbs, they’re a part of her
They shouldn’t have pushed her on it
No, they totally should have pushed her on it, because it’s not like she excavated an acre around the orbs to 10m deep to see if there was anything else of interest there. Alien space ship, the rest of the orb shipment that set fell out of, a naked singularity dropping stuff out of an alternate universe… No telling what she missed.
And she wasn’t just vague about where she found them, she lied. To federal officers, so a genuine, people go to jail for it, felony.
Sure, there was negligence on their part, too: They should have had her fly them to the exact spot she found them, so they could check it out. So that SHE could check it out, now that she knows about the true sight.
But, yeah, screwups all around, and serious ones.
Multiple bits on this. She was not under arrest and did not have an appointed attorney available for advice. Even in a court martial they would be remiss for not at least contacting the Area Defense Council to talk to her.
Sydney has an active imagination and a paranoia about those in authority. From imagining medical examinations to future security breeches. That do have historical precedents.
She has been learning to trust her teammates and her commanding officer. But it is not easy for her. And her ADHD means coming out on some of this is difficult to begin with.
C’mon man! It’s not like the U.S. government has ever opened up with machine guns on veterans protesting to receive promised benefi… oh, never mind.
Ah, a historian. MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton covered themselves in glory that day in action against the B.E.F.
How about we step back a couple. Syddles is in the queue at the bank and decides to intervene in a bank robbery. Long story short, Maxi discovers a curious relationship between a tube of… stuff… and Syddles, then it comes out these… things… have remarkable power. Syddles is “invited” to join the Good Guys and spends the next couple of weeks flat out fighting the Bad Guys, then gets lost on a distant dead planet. On return to Civilisation, she finds herself inducted and doing pushups at ungodly hours — but no deep and searching interview re the Orbs.
Not to put too fine a point on it, and remembering the Rule of Story, somehow the pretty toys have been glossed over. I’ve been there myself, and it’s not funny in the real world when somebody realises you’re doing things you’re not qualified for. (And doing them very professionally I might add, making others look somewhat undercooked.)
Yes, mistakes have been made. Unfortunately, they have been made by Those Whose Job It Is To Not Make Those Mistakes. And the Elder Gods have come to hear of It, as they always do.
“Yes, mistakes have been made. Unfortunately, they have been made by Those Whose Job It Is To Not Make Those Mistakes. And the Elder Gods have come to hear of It, as they always do.”
Ok, that sounds like the end of a blurb on the back of a really bad, or really GOOD, book (depending on who wrote it)! I know I would be intrigued and want to read it!
You may wish to check out Misfile…
Great webic, both versions
Isn’t Arc a branch of the military? I don’t think that someone in the Armed Forces would fall under “Federal Agent” in this circumstance, so she may not have lied to a Federal Agent.
She hadn’t agreed to join at that point either, so there’s no chain-of-command issues.
Do we know for sure after she signed on that she pointed to a spot on the map and said “here”?
I think they’re specifically NOT part of the military, because they have to operate on domestically. More an internal agency like the FBI, though obviously the structure is military-esque.
She was very vague about where she got the orbs though, and they didn’t push her for specifics so I don’t think it could be considered it an outright lie, and she wasn’t being interrogated either, so lying isn’t exactly illegal. She said it was “around the keys” during the interview, before she signed, and nothing else came up until now.
Coast Guard and National Guard operate domestically as well, but Archon was described as “atypical” in their debut press conference so I think just about anything goes for them.
She claimed it was while scuba diving off the Florida Keys, the Keys don’t extend that far
They are military, but they are not subject to the Comatose Possum, allowing them to operate on US soil
Wasn’t the Comatose Possum a right-wing terrorist group that believed in Mow Lawn Labia and that courtroom flags shouldn’t be enfringed?
Sometime fairly soon Pander will serve us all with her Ginja drinks in chocolate cups :) Take care but, these can be lethal if she is less than judicious with the aguardente…
Despite my not knowing half of what you just said, it sounds so unintentionally menacing that I totally agree with your statement of my nefarious plans.
yes off the keys… if you keep going off the keys the next land you hit is the Yucatan Peninsula. “off the keys” is as vague a distance statement as “soon” is for time based replies without a scale provided. Soon in Geologic time scales is 10,000 years but if you are waiting for a job change or dinner, that time scale may not work as well for you.
If you accept vague statements, don’t complain when there is no accountability on the results.
It was literally brought up during the press conference about the existence of Archon. As a new branch of the military it is easier to transfer between branches than to discharge someone and hope they come to the new branch as requested.
And Posse Comitatus only applied to Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines. So as a new branch they were not subject to that restriction. (Dangerous precedent if you ask me. Meet the new Home Guard. For a long time the oath for the armed forces is to protect against foreign and domestic threats. But were bound away from the domestic side. Now we have the force to face those threats head on. Home Guard will now be granted half the budget of the army, navy, and air force so they can be up to speed and with all the fire power they need to handle insurgent threats.)
They absolutely should have.
It is very much relevant to all their interests where and how people can just randomly come across super weapons.
” Sargon the Great of Ur” That is a name, I haven’t seen in many years, long before most of you were born!!!
“Sargon the great of Ur” makes me think of PowerRangers . now when power rangers was a thing my parent banned me from watching it so I could be wrong.
I question I have, is did they ban you from watching it for religious reasons, or because it was a silly show?
i think it was because it was teaching kids to solve all there problems with violence…. I think.
So there’s 2 options here:
Either Harem’s worst prank is real bad, or she realizes that what Sydney did is real bad, based on this conversation.
Did Sydney just roll for a successful deflection here? Despite having five or six bodies worth of experience Harem is, as we have seen at other points in the comic, relatively immature. Although not at Sydney’s level, she also seems to have a touch of impulsivity. I wouldn’t be surprised at a backfired prank of epic proportions.
I’m going to guess Harem’s prank was something along the lines of “walking in” on herself having a good time and accusing her partner of cheating on her with her twin…
What we’ve seen of her implies that she’s a very “physical” prankster. So, maybe something like stripping her high-school football team during a match?
O hey, Sydney is wearing her magical hairband!
Nice
it might just be that I’m bad at recognizing people, but until I read the note about Jiggawatt I had no idea who that was with Jabberwokky, Harem and Sydney
I have problems paying attention to faces. Worst with drawn ones. I tend to confuse this body of Harem with Heatwave.
They’re quite a bit different. Do you have a problem distinguishing Red (Heatwave) from Pink (Harem) or something?
Also a good way to distinguish is Harem has freckles. At first I thought that was Heatwave because the pink isnt as light pink as it usually is. Then I noticed the freckles and realized it was Harem (Strawberry).
TBH, in the last couple panels at the very least, her hair was rather darker than in previous appearances, in the first panel a little bit as well but not as dark as at the end of the page, and that bit was in the background so easy to gloss over who all was present in that panel. I thought it was heatwave as well until I read the note, because pink hair harem’s pink is usually much, much lighter.
harem probably just showered
Honestly I thought this was Heatwave, especially as I first saw today’s page on my cellphone and the red looked more *red* on it than now on my tabletop PC.
My art is pretty inconsistent, which is why I made sure they all had their chokers on. Also I knew the Who’s Who would help. Actually I should probably update Jiggawatt’s entry with her current look.
Ummm… maybe a bit of a gallery for selected individuals? So when new visitors read the older comics they won’t get confused?
We already have different versions of the Who’s Who tags for some characters, using the same image with varying text to avoid spoilers. I suspect it would be not much more work to do versions with the same text and different images, for those characters whose appearance has drifted significantly. The tricky bit would be going back through the archives, to replace all the “Jiggawatt” tags with “Jiggawatt01″, Jiggawatt02”, et cetera as applicable.
Particularly considering that there’s two sets of tags already, the “character” tags, and the generic “tags” tags that are just used for the Who’s Who, and neither set has been completely applied to the archives.
Jiggawatt’s character design seems awfully variable, if you ask me. I mean, to the point where you’d never guess one appearance and another were the same character, sometimes.
The other characters shift around a bit, but nothing like Jiggawatt. Almost makes me wonder if it’s a secondary power; In some fictional versions of shape shifting, (Turning into lightning and back might count!) your ‘normal’ form can change over time, because you’re just changing to what you remember looking like, and maybe your memory isn’t all that great.
been a while since we’ve seen the barrette that Decollete gave to Sydney.
Hey Dave, for your next vote incentive you need to have Sydney wearing her barrette under a beret while firing a Barrett machine gun with a Beretta strapped to her hip.
Got to accessorise with a pink teddy bear-etta
BOOOOOO!!!!!!! HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
Afterwards she drinks water that’s been through a Britta filter
I keep waiting for Brett to endorse this thread.
Bret Hart?
Sydney’s actually starting to look kind of ripped. She’s got some pretty decent shoulders developing here. The superhero lifestyle is starting to pay off. Or I guess all the morning vomit inducing pt anyway.
Delts ahoy! Get that woman a compound bow, stat.
(If she used a longbow, it would just would scrape on the ground, and if she used a crossbow, she’d fall forwards from the weight imbalance.)
Sydney is just over-reacting about it like when she barged in on a video call with the president and chief of staff. Dumb ideas or pranks are the normal with any high risk group in my opinion. I was a fireman for 10 years NOW that’s a bunch of rough-necks lol.
Honestly I really wish I could see this building on April Fools day. With some much tech and super powers you know it can get very good, very funny, and very messy. Someone’s gotten covered head to toe in feathers, someone’s gotten pied in the face and boobs, someone ended in a flagpole wedgie, and someone has had all their clothes stolen and replaced with nothing/something more embarrassing. Oh, there was that one time Dabbler turned someone into to a- well let’s just say it’s classified.
Leons Code-zit magic nose zit virus that dabbler helped him write….
Maybe the constipation canteen coffee
And on a really good year, all those “someones” were the same person!
Yep, I mean most super’s are going to be harder to prank. That often leads to collateral for the more non powered members of the building. ;)
That’s why you take a day off each year and come back to see the aftershock of the prank wars.
The best super powered prank I can think of was the one played on Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality on his first schoolday in Hogwarts.
I’m not gonna spoil it in case someone else wants to read it and if you know what the deal is with the prank beforehand it’s way less funny when you read it.
YES!!!!!!
Oooohh, I forgot that one. Rereading time!
Uh-oh, just remember Sydney, you ASKED for it!
male underwear… well there’s the large-boned man wearing a speedo. given how many men want to see women in thong underwear, they should wear the self wedgie stuff too. I suspect that Dave is right. if the man’s gonna strip for his lady, (consensually!) commando, cute, or something that suggests the size of the package is best.
in related note- it seems hard to look good getting normal pants off.
Disclaimer- Palmvos is not feeling well, and his mind may not be firing on all cylinders. enjoy.
Commando definately, it’s really the only thing that works, shows that you thought ahead.
Wear a kilt. They will look special. Much easier to take these off sexily than trousers.
I dunno if it’s apocryphal or the real history but I read once that Napoleon made trousers part of the French soldier’s uniform to make them much more difficult to take off.
A kilt is also a pretext for not wearing the underwear you won’t actually be wearing. And she will be imagining what’s under it the whole night.
Silk Boxers. Silk Boxers are the sexiest male underwear. Live it, love it.
In that case, zippers are Hell!! :)
You don’t know the half of it! There’s something about Mary…
Man, if a lady is into you and wants you to be taking off your undies, she don’t care what undies you’re wearing. She wants them *off*. Same the other way around.
As a bi man, I generally concur, but also, patience is a virtue… anticipation and all that…
My wife seems to disagree regarding the claim that there is no sexy underwear for men. Just saying.
I’m not saying there’s no such thing a sexy underwear for men, I’m saying it’s a matter of perspective. From my own, it’s all degrees of horror show. Really, I think it comes down more to the guy than the underwear. A fit, well groomed guy with at least a little bit of a tan (I don’t care if it’s unhealthy, I’m just concerned with the visual here) can swing any kind of underwear better than the cave-dwellingly-pale-skinned dad-bod doughboy with black fly hairs jutting from his waistband, which is how I assume 95% of guys look, so maybe I’m biased.
Sexiest pair of underwear I had was a pair of silk briefs that was almost a banana hammock, but at nearly $40 (US) I was grateful for the gift but I can’t afford to buy any more. They were comfortable to wear, too.
What a guy thinks about sexy mens underwear and what a Grrl thinks are entirely different things. Go check out Duluth Trading Company underwear. They’re spendy as hell but I got them because they’re the most comfortable things ever and keep my “boys” happy plus the wifey thinks they’re totally hot. I don’t do sexy mens underwear, I do practical, but hey if my lady thinks they’re sexy it’s a win, win.
I usually think, with very few exceptions, men in silk boxers come off as sexier then men in speedos/briefs, imho.
It does also depend on the guy’s build though.
It also has a lot to do with the beholder… Some people like abs or arms or legs; some don’t have a preference. Some like hair, some couldn’t care less. Some have a preference for clothes that merely hint at body shape, or clothes that fit well or tightly, or clothes that have a pattern or color or clothes that don’t; others prefer fewer clothes if possible.
There may be general trends that describe large swaths of the population or even correlate with certain demographics, but tastes vary – me, I don’t think tighty whities make a man less sexy…
Yeah. I was just referring to my own preferences (imho= in my humble opinion) :)
Although….. if we have to argue from an objective standpoint of pure and unadulterated FACT…
Deus wears boxers, or boxer briefs. And since he is the ultimate in male sexiness, objectively speaking, that is the sexiest possible choice for male underwear, and is obviously not something anyone can argue against legitimately, unless they are clearly insane or intentionally lying, most likely out of jealousy of the perfection that is Deus, paragon of humanity and light of the universe, all praise Deus amen.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-608-twofer/
(first panel)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-609-little-black-encyclopedia-set/
(last panel)
Honestly, the sexiest underwear on anyone is the underwear they like. Something that feels good, fits right, and makes them feel pretty/ sexy/ hot/ yummy. My boyfriend has… a liking for colors that sear the eyes of anyone watching. But when he’s standing in front of me smiling and pleased with how he looks, that’s sexy as hell. My personal taste is for boxer briefs on dudes, but seriously, anything that suits someone’s personal tastes is a yes.
I will admit that the extremely comfy pair of cotton whatevers that have lost most of their elastic and gone rather grey from washing are not the sexiest on anyone, at least in my opinion.
“… extremely comfy pair of cotton whatevers that have lost most of their elastic and gone rather grey from washing are not the sexiest on anyone …”
Fashion is supposed to be about comfort, but why is it so hideously painful?
So, am I the only one looking at Jiggawatt and thinking that she’s become several shades darker? I mean, look at her in 243 or even the Cast Page. She’s more light-brown/tanned looking there, while now she’s a very deep, dark brown. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been paying attention and she’s appeared elsewhere, but that’s a sharp change.
Jiggawatt is perhaps the most inconsistently-drawn character in the entire comic, with basically no consistent features from one appearance to another. Anvil would probably be the second.
Yeah, noticed that as well
I’ve had trouble trying to figure out how to do black skin well. She’s definitely darker here than she was in the graduation ceremony just a few pages ago.
The funny thing is that black skin is more reflective… well, it appears more reflective than white skin because of the contrast, so trying to eyedrop a skin tone sample from a photo of a black person is ALL OVER THE PLACE depending on where you select. But honestly, from the perspective of an eyedropper, a lot of black people’s skin isn’t all that much darker than the skin tones I select for the white people in the comic. But again, there’s a range. Obviously there are some quite dark skinned people out there, like compare Will Smith to Djimon Hounsou. Even then, differences in the lighting of the photograph and color balance means you can probably find photos where Smith looks darker than Hounsou.
I quite like how Jigg’s skin looks here, but it is admittedly inconsistent with her previous appearances.
Don’t need to try and ‘eyedrop a skin tone sample from a photo’, just have to pick a colour and then stick with
The best way to do that is with a character reference sheet that shows the basic likeness (specially good for a character with tattoos) with the colours used
Can be very useful for a character that doesn’t get used too often, makes it easier to refer back to than taking the extra time to hunt through the pages for the either their first or last appearance
Nothing to stop you from making changes, specially with colours (even skin-tone). but it should help with keeping their physical appearance consistent (coughAnvil and Mathcough)
Hope that doesn’t come across as being rude
Should Jabberwocky slip back into her old habits?!?(If she had any…)
Wait, she was a nun?
Ouch. I can already hear Pander wimple-ing and reaching for the ninja speed dial.
Shhh… nones the wiser
OH I’ve already had to hire a full time staff to take care of all the calls to Dial-a-Ninja-Hit-Squad. You people have created a cottage industry regarding necessary punishment.
By habits,I mean her old criminal habits…..!
Black Rose is spared from the ninja hit squad. Don’t fall into that dastardly lot of pun users. Stay strong.
So young criminal habits are fine, then! Reckon she’s about in her mid-twenties?
Sydney: “Did you ever, and this is just spitballing, travel back in time, to wipe out the dinosaurs? No? Ho about salvage treasure from a wildlife reserve? Okay so maybe I did mean felons. I just wish I knew if I actually did it!”
Harem: “Well that’s yatzee on my Sydney Bingo card.”
Incidentally, what does everyone thing would be in a Halo Bingo Card for things she says or does! Stuff that’s not so easy polease!
My gut says Halo’s cards would have to have relatively calm, normal phrases
“Your hair looks nice”
“You only startled me a little”
“I’m not hungry right now”
“I prefer less spicy, please”
…that sort of thing
I imagine that Harem is scrambling to find something awful to tell that doesn’t involve how she’s been fucking Mr Deus behind Archon’s backs.
Do we know that she isn’t doing that to spy on him for Archon?
Unclear! Though knowing Maxima, she would probably be repulsed by the idea of using sex this way.
Maxima Does Know,
And Has expressed a Very Negative Opinion…
Maxima has expressed her thoughts on the subject.
Jiggawatt’s hair colour should be Electric Blue of course…
Gee. And I thought that Jigg could change the color of her hair because of her super powers. Basically her hair has an electrochomatistic quality to it that she can change. It wouldn’t be the weirdest super power out there, and very doable for Jigg.
The color choice explanation is more prosaic than my first guess. I was thinking Jigawatt’s yellow-to-blue shift was either a comment on, or some sort of multiversal balancing of, Electro’s blue-to-yellow shift.
Is it just me or does Sydney somehow become even more attractive with her glasses off?
And, for the record, that’s freaking WEIRD coming from me. Glasses usually make women more attractive to me, not less. Kinda makes me wonder if Dave draws her face a little different without the glasses. Like they make some of her features harder to show in detail or something.
Reduces the size of her anime-eyes?
More to do with her nose I think. I dunno. Just something that hit me as I was reading this one.
If you are consensually stripping for a lady more-than-a-friend, would you not remove the underwear at the same time as the pants?
Grab the waistband of both and drop them together
No. That is just taking off clothes.
If you are quick with your fingers and can use both hands you can grab underwear and pants at the same time and then your socks too. You can do this. It is possible. This can get you naked in two fwips one for your shirt and one for everything below.
But this is NOT stripping for a lady more-than-friend.
Calling it now: Berry found something in her locker she shouldn’t have left there
It looks like she spotted the something, made the sound, then quickly shut her locker again before turning around
So, WOW, in that last panel, Brook(?), looks just like an old ex of mine. In a good way.
No, that’s Daphne, Berry in particular (gone extra Berry with her latest dye-job)
“Get demoted back to recruit” Is a thing. Probably won’t happen, if she’s a corperal (sic) in a few months.
“I made him think mayonnaise was underwear” makes me think:
“Slipping into something more comfortable” ;-)
@Dave’s Rant
Yea, tighty-whities are horrible, and boxers don’t really make anything pop as they’re basically just stylized flimsy shorts (making your de-clothed underwear pop should be easy for you guys, for obvious reasons). That said, it’s not that there’s no good male underwear. There’s male thongs and silk bikini briefs and banana hammocks, all of which I’ve seen wrapped around some loins in my day (okay, not some loins, only one set of loins… breaking up with him was difficult), and those can look very attractive. But guys almost never wear those, which is really disappointing; I may be bi, but girls make it so much easier to find them attractive. Lacy black hip-huggers vs yet-another-tighty-whitey with some slightly disturbing stains…. easy choice there. You guys need to up your underwear game.
I’m Bi, too!
Woooo! Bi girls unite!
“You guys need to up your underwear game.” Last time I upped my undies I gave myself a swelfie :(
But seriously, us guys are like artichokes: take your time peeling off the protective leaves until you reach the heart of the matter… Oh, bliss!
No offense, I’ll give some pieces of advice.
No offense, but not if those layers are covered in urine and poo stains, peeling is too much of a hassle to be worth it. However, if they’re like rose petals, the process can be quite enjoyable. Make sure those petals are nice.
If one of us girls ‘mocks’ you for a ‘lack of masculinity’, it’s actually a hidden compliment (and also a mild test… a guy who gets defensive, we know holds femininity in lower regard and thus holds us in lower regard; we’re fellow humans, and want to be respected as such).
We’ll typically spend a couple hours getting ready each morning. This is because we desire to make the world a better place just by being there. I’ve given this advice to guys, and for those who did it, it took wonders. Put as much effort into glowing as we do. Spend that hour cleaning up and looking nice. Make sure your colors match, make sure your underwear is sexy for anyone who is lucky enough to see it, take time to read romance-guides so you know how to make a lover moan, pop that top button. Respect that the other gender(s) are fellow humans, and although not identical to you, are more similar than different, and deserve the same amount of respect.
And remember, what girls think is a good-looking guy is very different than what guys think is a good-looking guy. Guys frequently assume the hottest guys are built like the Hulk. This isn’t true. If you want examples, the traditional-hottest guys I can think of are: Xanatos from Gargoyles, Riker from Star Trek: Next Gen, and Marcus from Babylon 5. All smoking hot. (I emphasize traditional, because, as a human, tastes vary. I, for example, find Korean boy-bands the source of the hottest guys.)
Anyway, caring about appearance and presentation will make a world of difference. They say not to judge a book by its cover, but you need to use the cover to decide which books to crack open to give a chance.
A guy who does care about his appearance typically jumps up to a 6 at minimum, and a guy who doesn’t rarely passes a 5.
Typo: For guys who did it, it “worked” wonders, not “took” wonders. Sorry
Question:
Am I correct that there is huge disagreement in general about the attractiveness of(cleanly trimmed) beards.
Explanation I’m a straight man who likes to observe and analyze the world around him and the world around the attractiveness of beards always confused me.
Addition(no denial or attack, but an addition)
I agree with your statements about men’s dressing habits, but I would like to add that part of the problem/advantage is that men and their fashion still mostly follow Victorian guidelines, due to the fact that contrary to women they haven’t been opposed in the same by those Victorian guidelines and that these Victorian guidelines still make working with other people less intense.
Explanation: before the 16th century well-off men wore clothing with which they intentionally stood out and actually increased beauty.
This didn’t keep up, because the reformation happened and one of its key points was that the leading religion(roman catholic) at the time put too much value in things of beauty and too little in the Bible, sobriety and hard work, thus happened what always happens when a group of people opposes a well established power effectively: they went to the other extreme. All men and women of importance wore the same black, all distinctive features that were not on the face were hidden, etc.
Later women rightfully rose up, because they were being treated like shit, just had gotten the power to do something about it, felt their newly gotten power getting taken away, needed said power to eat, etc.
In their rightful anger they aimed themselves just as the protestants in the past at all the arbitrary rules of their adversaries, which were now suddenly for a big part these same protestants who were now the established order not willing to change.
Under these arbitrary rules fell (surprise) clothing rules too, which meant they had to decide their own clothing rules and since the amount of potential partners had been fiercely reduced in the very recent past(WWI and WWII) beauty came forth as a good baseline rule.
The men on the other hand did have less reason to abandon the whole past and since change is tiring if you don’t make it yourself they “only” abandoned a big part of the things that had opposed the cultural changes that had now established themselves as worthy of defending.
The new fashion basis the feminists had just established fell not under these things.
This actually causes problems if women go into places with an established male presence, because the men find standing out through clothing in general a bad idea, while the women see that idea as (discriminatory) oppression.
The statement about intensity of working with other people is reliant on the idea that if everyone is clothed completely featureless you don’t have to think about their clothing and thus think less in general.
“I agree with your statements about men’s dressing habits …”
A very perceptive round-up. Not arguing, but illustrating those little exceptions… Back in the late 60’s I bought a really nice suit, about Au$200, grey glen plaid with matched seams and hidden pockets. In context, in those days an office-regimental would set you back $50 – $75… I soon noticed that when I turned up at a do, every eye was on ME. Not because everyone else was in jeans and tees (they weren’t) but because they may as well have been. I stood out like the proverbial while everyone else hid behind camo.
I think that most men could do better for themselves if they make a decent investment in advertising their ability to spend properly in things that matter. FWIW, I had the suit priced for a new one, Au$3000.00. For a young fella, an investment (see what I did there?) for at least the next twenty years, if not 30.
Also lack of masculinity is taken as an insult by men, because a. they evidently identify themselves as male and thus also with it characteristic traits(the definition of masculinity) and because they often consider it a somewhat positive
As a comparison: if someone called you less feminine would you take it as a compliment?
This is actually good to know. I’ve been a black-athletic-boxer-briefs person for about the last decade or so. While I don’t consider them as bad as tighty-whities, I’ve never thought of them as actually attractive. I’ll take this under advisement.
Hmmm, Random Unwise Power Stunt….
Achilles Entered A Demolition Derby, Driving a Speedo ;)
Wearing nothing but a speedo :P
The original speedo, not this new-fangled half-wetsuit leggings thing
Was about to ask who the new grrl was when read the commentary. The blue hair alone might not have thrown me, but new color, new hair style, unfamiliar (lack of) outfit was enough I didn’t know.
She’s actually had this hair style for awhile, but last time she still had brownish hair
Technically, in order for Harem to match Sydney her thing would have to be 5 times as bad, in order to make it equally bad per capita.
Boxer briefs in solid, dark colors has been a winner for first dates and early in a relationship. I started with simply black. Later into a relationship, more ‘fun’ versions seem to appeal, at least for my wife. We had a subscription to MeUndies for a while (then quality dipped, we haven’t checked it back out yet to see if they have fixed issues), and my wife was quite happy to select options that had turtles or star wars characters and such.
Given that the power of teleportation just begs to be used for pranks, Harem is probably the Loki of the group. Harem’s worst is bound to be impressive. Probably not as impressive as her second worst. Everybody always goes just a little bit too far.