Grrl Power #1070 – 8-ball in the zygomatic
That guy she put the beat down on will probably still claim he got to second base with her.
“Well, then she took off her bra…”
“Yeah?”
“And then her bra… uh, touched my face…”
“That’s not really second base.”
“It still counts!”
Harem’s combat comms might lack a certain level of professionalism and/or urgency, but as far as anyone knows, she is an unbreakable relay. If one of her of off base, there’s no way to shut down Archon coms. Well, short of blacking out a whole city. Even if you knock out the power for a dozen blocks, she’s a teleporter, so she can pop down the street in like 12 seconds and find a working cell tower, so you’d have to take down hundreds of square miles to really slow her down.
And if you’re planning on knocking out the off-base Harem, then she instantly knows she’s been attacked. I almost wrote “the rest of her knows she’s been attacked,” but that reinforces the idea that she’s multiple people. There’s one of her, but it’s confusing because she can do 5 things at once, seemingly totally independently. At least until things (AKA stimulus) get too intense.
So seriously, of all the people at Arc-SWAT, the one I’d least want to fight is Harem. I mean if I was a Spider-Man level villain. Sure, it’d suck to get crushed by someone like Math, but at least you’d be like “That guy is an amazing fighter and I don’t feel bad getting beaten by him.” But against Harem, she can teleport, so it’d be like fighting Nightcrawler, but there’s 5 of her, so it’d be like fighting 5 Nightcrawlers, who are all perfectly coordinated. Wiff a punch through some empty space she used to occupy and suddenly you’re getting kicked in the back of the head and the knees and as you’re spinning one of her TP’s above you for a double foot stomp on your hips and it’s not like she can’t go and grab some pepper spray or brass knuckles while three of her kick the shit out of you.
The only disadvantage she has in a fight is that if you do manage to connect, then there’s a decent chance that all of her will go reeling, but there’s really nothing preventing her from TPing 20 feet away while she recovers to prevent you from capitalizing on any possible advantage. Even worse, if you manage to knock one of her out by rattling the brains in one of her skulls… she’s still conscious, so she can de-teleport that body and you can’t use it as a hostage.
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Also it hasn’t been shown much, but as you knock out Harems, the remaining ones get stronger, right? Does she heal as her copies are not present? Or do they have to recover normally at some point? That is a possible long term weakness, KO her copies and keep her from recovering, standard human endurance hunting once you KO 3 or more. Just need a way to track her, and another teleporter or three to keep up with her.
Judging by the broken wrist aftermath of the brawl fight they need to heal normally. IIRC she had to re-teleport that copy in with a freshly broken wrist to be handled by Archon’s doc. Injures to copies have no effect while de-ported though. She does get physically stronger the less of her there are, that’s to do with the de-porting.
Thinking about it, the best power suite to counter Harem would be AOE aura type thing. Like, someone who can just have an ambient electrical field around them. Harem gets shocked for hitting you or even getting close, and if you have even a little ranged capability and some mobility she can’t just try to kite you.
Plus, any hit on one of her will cause a tasing reaction in all of her allowing them to gain some momentum.
Of course, that is still in the idea of a straight one on one[five] fight. Harem would still always have the trump card of sending a copy out of the fight to go call the cavalry.
Assuming she doesn’t have a rock… Or a slingshot… Or a gun…
Any ranged capability would remove negate that sort of ability.
Maybe a counter-shield? Something that automatically interdicts anything close in and fires back in response to incoming projectiles?
Or… well, fast-acting sedative gas + gas masks. Maybe a gas that kills in a painful way instead? That way one of the Harem’s gets knocked out, and the rest start screaming in incoherent agony?
Speaking of slingshots, I first thought that this was how Harem intended to use the balls in her bra, before I realized that she was actually going for a variation on Rincewind’s half-brick-in-a-sock :P
The attention to detail was actually interesting, the authentic moves in the background, and even the shifting of Harem’s eyes as she is pulling her bra out of her tight shirt. Showing that the bra caused some stimulation, likely from the movement across her nipples which with the adrenaline flow were probably very sensitive.
You can even read what she is feeling in the first three panels due to the expressiveness of her eyes. Casual disregard knowing her others had him handled, the stimulation in the second with how one eye is closed and the other is half lidded, and in the third the bright eagerness to use her improvised weapon. Even as this is going on the action and movement is smooth with no sign that any of it was an afterthought.
Really this was a very dynamic page, showed attention to detail, and the love the artist/writer has for his work. Bravo!
Especially since she can teleport into the air including momentum shenanigans and use that to divebomb you with the rock.
Just realized she could teleport heavy objects into the air and drop/throw them without even sticking around. A quick session with several copies could emplace a rain of projectiles onto a target, and she could be gone before the first one struck.
Also fall while holding it, then teleport right on top of you and release it, giving you no time to react.
How heavy they are has some limits, but a 10kg iron ball at terminal velocity still hurts a lot, and she could just prepare a stack of them at Archon for functionally infinite ammo. Also any sort of payload that fits in the weight limit.
Harem is a Rod from God generator. an RfM if you will.
It’s canon that a Barrett .50 about (30lb or 14kg) is right at her limit in the Steakhouse Stomp.
It was answered when one of her broke her arm and she immediately de telephoned. Then laster she telephoned her in and it was as if it just happened
The issue with that scenario is that Harem is a Special Forces corporal and thus trained with firearms, not to mention swift access to almost any ordonance. In case of doubt, she is simply going to blow your brains out, ambient electrical field or not.
mind control. got one, got all.
That’s assuming that trying to mind-control Harem isn’t as difficult as swallowing a bowling ball whole.
I’m thinking something more akin to an LSD-attack. One Harem being drugged on super-hallucinogens could theoretically affect them all, maybe even worse than the pain of a nasty attack would, because the disorientation, confusion, hallucinations and even potentially psychosis, could theoretically go through the entire ‘network’ at once, making it much more difficult to mount a counter-move. She might not even be sure which clone was the source of the problem, making de-porting less of an option.
I think the best part of this strip might be the onomatopoeia of ‘The People’s Elbow.’
Not quite as good as `Wilhelm!` but it’s still pretty electrifying.
I think I like the People’s Elbow even more than the Wilhelm scream. :)
Actually, it’s not the People’s Elbow (which is a standing drop), it’s Macho Man’s patented Flying Elbow
Or maybe Kairi Sane’s InSane Elbow
Maxima on hearing that message is going to be a bigger problem for the stability of Arcon’s tower than this whole crew. 1 By sonic boom carrier wave with the speed she returns by and 2. Whatever she does to Harem and the shockwave it emits.
Or, interestingly enough, Max might ask for a ride from Harem or Deus. I bet either one could get her there faster than she can fly.
This might be a badly received comment buuut…
Why does Harem (Blonde one) even bother whit a bra?
It dosent look like they sag or anything when they loose support so why?
Granted the bra seems to do well as a sling and if that is the case then so be it.
Also *giggles and points* side boob =)
Friction. Women get friction burns on their nipples if they go braless.
Also bounce.
Also cold.
Also 60% of all men lose their higher brain functions (which is annoying)
Also 10% of all men lose common courtesy and self restraint (which is really really annoying and potentially dangerous)
Not true unless the men you are talking about are young and haven’t seen a breasts before, but us older men are immune to boobs in general i.e marriage and watching your kid breastfeeding tends to tone the boobs effect down
This is coming from a 51 year old father that saw his daughter being breastfed over months
My experience says that that “60% of all men” comes from someone not yet out of college. I don’t even think 60% of college men lose significant brain function with a typical pair.
Maybe 60% of the men who never made it to College, or finished school.
You know what you may be on to something..
When I was in college I saw a lot young men that would do anything for a” well stacked woman with pair of breasts that they could use as neck rests”
You may be on to something I remember a lot of the younger soph and juniors going breast crazy to quote “give me a chick that has well stacked body and pair of boobs that I can use as neck brace and I’ll be happy”
For some reason people care if other people are wearing bras or not, so maybe she has some consideration for public opinion.
But probably mostly for the fun of taking them off, or the fun of someone else removing it.
I agree. It tellingly makes no difference at all to her figure when she removes the bra. This contributes to the “made of stone” quality of the artist’s (otherwise excellent) figures. These women don’t bounce no matter what they do.
Note: What Harem did is (military) police brutality.
:V
And what the attackers are doing is… what? Peaceful assembly?
Doesn’t matter, these people are attacking a military facility. Lethal force is authorized. Heck they could shoot you for trespassing, and these are armed and attacking. Their deaths should be a far gone conclusion.
Plus, they are not in the public section of the building
Try merely approaching a designated military facility anywhere in the world while waving any kind of object resembling a firearm. In the unlikely case you survive that, try complainig about police (or rather domestic military) brutality and see how far this will get you.
Nowadays? Instant Millionaire with legions of rabid followers supporting you against the unjust assault
I’m curious about these millionaires that are happening “nowadays”. There are surely some examples and it wouldn’t just be an unsupported assertion.
reference V. Putin, et. al. ad nauseum. Any “private citizen” with a “Security Detail” of military trained ex-soldiers who have been kitted out in mil-spec gear. Saudi Princes(eg Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud), South American drug cartels(eg Pablo Escobar), Yakuza, Triads, a laundry list of African warlords(Idi Amin, Muammar Qadhafi)
It’s a Titzling!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqxWhBZXF8Q
A bit of trivia for those fans of the brassiere
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/nz3zg/til_trivial_pursuit_wrongly_credits_otto_titzling/
I kinda hate to say it, but it’s been a really long time since I’ve felt any kind of tension in this series, and it’s reaching it’s peak here. These guys are completely non-threatening. I’m hoping that at some point someone shows up who can actually give them trouble, someone on the level of Vehemence who can actually kick Max around a little. Everyone likes to see heroes being awesome, but if it doesn’t feel like they’re ever in danger then things get boring real quick.
If you want an action comic, then you may need to go somewhere else: this has never been about life-threatening action, but the ‘boring’ day-to-day shit in between
Yes, even this comics version of Lex Luther is more Havelock Vetinari than Johan Liebert.
There have been several, and each time there have been people in the comments complaining, either about how OP the new enemy is, how the fight is dragged out because (insert assertion of what heroes could have done to end it quickly), or the complaint it is too dark (see Sindey being captured comment sections). The end of the day this is a superhero cheesecake action comedy. Given the front page taglines the fact there is even as much action as there is is surprising. Someone could come in expecting more day to day super antics like tall shows, paparazzi, accidentally melting you bathtub or other silly hijinks. But yeah this is advertised as comedy so one shouldn’t expect some Attack on Titan anyone can die, or deadly threats every page..
Which if you binge the comic you get the real pace of the story and there is plenty of action as is. Too much according to some in the comments.
Reading the about page, I don’t think there was ever intended to be much tension in the comic — at least as pertains to the superheroes fighting element. Unfortunately, the Vehemence fight ran a bit long, and seems to have given some readers the wrong impression about what to expect.
This is a comedy as much as beef/cheese cake universe and to be honest real world crime fighting is rarely as it is portrayed in the movies/TV drama’s. My sister’s ex and my wife’s brother were both cops it’s as much as sitting around doing paperwork and briefings as anything. Let’s face it: if supers were real and as rare as they are in the comic they would do a lot more of the paper grind/briefings and training than the RL cops.
Huh…just realised that Harem is like D&D Tiamat:
5 Brains/perspectives, 1 consciousness.
She’s got a great pair of knockers and she knows how to use them.
And the pool balls too ;)
she’s definitely a knockout, and using those knockers quite effectively
Missed that before panel 5 she turns from view and there’s a faint “wait I surr..” CHUD! Yeah “fun time” Daphne is at it again but in this case I’ll allow it (running footfalls) from over here (faintly). Not that it matters LOL.
Just remember: if she can see you, she can get you
I know ;P hur.. hur.. hur.. OW I’m joking hunny! (grumbling while rubbing top of head)
Taxman,
While amusing and (pun intended) titillating, this seems like a perfect way to ruin a good bra.
Speaking as a husband with a wife and two daughters (two of whom are on the larger/not so easy to fit size). While I realize that monetarily Harem may not have a concern, but finding ones that are a good fit & comfortable always seems to be a challenge for them.
To be fair to Harem? She does work with a super who specializes in clothing.
Oh it is I know picture this: A well muscled gruff factory mechanic with stained fingernails and heavily callused hands standing in the woman’s bra display explaining to a petite wife what those stupid size instructions mean on the back of the package, then going home to measure her by those (still fun though), and then going back to the store and sitting on a hard bench for well over an hour while she tries of 15 bra’s before settling on 3 at $50 each. Only reason I know what the scale on the package meant was I have two sisters and had done it MANY times before (against my will of course)!
I think it would have been hilarious if she had been humming something while preparing
“Smack up your troubles with your ol’ tit bag and smile, smile, smile”
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Watch out for the Panders ninjas. Still, worth it.
I think he’s safe. Was what he did really a pun? It’s wordplay I suppose but not the evil that plagues this planet known as puns.
my ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling..
knock knock knocking on heaven’s door…
ring my bell…
wrecking ball
We will Rock you.
only if they had been Curling devices, and for that, her bra would’ve needed to be a much larger cup size
An odd question, and as Harem can’t make more of herself than she has I don’t know if this has been addressed. When Harem first made a new copy did she copy everything she had on her like Multiple Man, or was it a fresh clone situation and nude? I know she can store herself and what she has on so not sure how that worked when new.
Seems like it would have to be a case of duplicating everything she had on her. That said, she probably doesn’t get any advance warning when she’s about to get a bonus her, so she can’t plan to use that to duplicate something particularly valuable.
New clones probably appear naked. I don’t see how or why she should be able to duplicate her clothes. But she can always teleport somewhere safe/discrete or just de-teleport, if the first is not possible for any reason.
Judging simply by what she has displayed, each dupe has their own ‘stuff’. A new dupe has no stuff, and so would come in completely nude… and go about getting her own sets of stuff.
So, no, she doesn’t duplicate objects between selves. They each have their own sets.
Ah, the over the shoulder Boulder holder attack
Thats why you vpn your phone number, like say though google voip. Disaccociates you from number to number tracking via celtowerl
Then use VOX for peer to peer encrypted voice thru a onikn (tor) network
Sag also may not happen all at once but over several hours, as well as it’s a battle of elasticity vs gravity.
Age and having kids play a huge roll in that too my wife went from a “C” to “DD” after our first child and then back to a “CC” after the second and during that time the need for bra’s almost 24/7 reared it’s ugly head. That’s when she discovered “Victoria’s Secret” and my empty wallet syndrome began LOL.
I can’t be the only one who wants a better look at that beefcake underwear fight happening in the background XD
I wonder with Max,Sydney,Anvil and Dabbler overseas, did some enemy force/group/faction saw this as am opportunity to attack the Archon base????
It’s the same group I’m guessing, they must of figured with the heavy hitters away Achon would be an easy target while their big gun would keep Max and co. busy. Someone is just an idiot I guess! I had wondered if Deus was behind this but he’s waaaaay smarter than that. Unless there’s more to this than a take-down action… hmmm…
…. did her shirt actually change texture when she removed her bra? it may be me but I am sure some of the shirt sunk in a little except for two parts.
That tank-top is cling-fit so yeah it did get a bit tighter once the large bra was removed, at least we know she wasn’t wearing a padded one! lol
Technically there should be more prominent nipple protrusion on account of the fabric’s cling factor, but that might stray a little too close to not safe for work.
Yorp, I know you’re a good dog, but could you PLEASE stop moving asteroids around? You’re making astronomers’ jobs harder.
https://www.planetary.org/articles/20141211-the-yorp-effect-and-bennu
You’re asking a doggo to not play fetch and spin around. That’s like asking a fish not to swim. :)
We NEED to see a draw-over of that JoJo part 5 bit where what’s-his-name and other-guy are kicking the crap out of some innocent pedestrian, and then third-character finishes his tea and joins in… But it’s three of Harem.
Haven’t heard the term Eskimo Sister (Train?) before, am I going to regret googling it if I do?
It was used in this comic before when Dabbler was talking to Sidney about Frisk. It just means women who have had sex with the same partner
It’s been mentioned in the comic before, and DaveB provides an explanation in his post below the comic on that page.
that bra thing was strangely sexy to me. Kind of like putting your hair up before oral sex, but the opposite. Taking your bra off to beat someone with billiard balls in the cups. that’s hot!
I do have a question about Harem’s teleporting/de-teleporting.
In one of Dabbler’s Science Corners, she said that there was a problem where if Harem teleported to somewhere too far away, like the home where she grew up (because she can teleport to places very familiar to her even without seeing them) she can get into the position of teleporting somewhere from which she cannot teleport back.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-dabblers-science-corner-2/
(last two panels)
Dabbler: “She can teleport anywhere she can see, but that doesn’t mean she can jump 17 miles to the horizon. She has to actually see her destination. Magnification helps, but there’s a diminishing return. Eevn with a giant telescope, she couldn’t teleport to the Moon.
“However, Harem’s range INCREASES with familiarity. She can teleport back to the farm she grew up on from hundreds of miles away. This can create situations where she can teleport somewhere, but not back.”
Now… we know she can do this ‘teleporting somewhere familiar to her even if she doesnt see it because she’s teleported to Deus’s private office (more than a couple of times) despite not ‘seeing’ it (She’s obviously very familiar with Deus’s office for the smoochy smoochy). And she’s likely very familiar with ARCHON’s building as well (ie, to get the popcorn and then teleport back to the training area where they were sparring with Vehemence (I’m assuming she’s VERY familiar with the training area as well therefore). I’m also assuming that she’s able to teleport through solid objects even if she cannot see in through the solid objects, because she’s teleported through doors, and teleported into the ambulance outside the bank.
We also know that she can de-teleport herself, and every time she does, the remaining Harems double in strength/etc. So while 5 harems are normally a peak strength for a girl of her age and build, when she’s just one person, she’d be 16 times stronger than each of the 5 Harems are individually. (panels 4 and 5 – Dabbler’s Science Corner 2 – above link)
We ALSO know that when she re-teleports herself it can be near her other selves – which she did when she re-teleported herself into the doctor’s office to get her wrist healed. I’m going to assume that she’s very familiar with the doctor’s office as well.
My question, therefore, is this…..How would she ever get so far away that she can’t teleport back (as was stated in the first link) if she can always just de-teleport herself, then re-teleport into existence near one of her other selves?
I’m a little confused on that. Any theories? I have a few but they have some holes in them so looking to see if anyone else can explain this.
I… don’t think I really have much to add to that, other than that I have all the same questions. My impression is that the restrictions on her teleporting ability were not well thought out, and given just for the sake of making it less powerful.
Because if she can communicate with each of her bodies, regardless of their distance from each other (as shown by still having a connection on Alar), and can de-teleport unconscious bodies, even if they’re nowhere near any of her other bodies… Where is her consciousness located? Is she still conscious if she has de-teleported all of her bodies at the same time? Why would range matter at all?
I’m assuming that she doesn’t actually ever teleport directly from one place to another, but that it’s always a two-stage de-teleport, teleport process, which… seems a bit unusual for a teleporter.
Well, if there aren’t any other Daphne’s out, then she can’t simply re-*VORP* next to them
We don’t know when she *VORP*ed home and had to take a taxi back (would have been cheaper to catch a bus), but maybe her farm is too far from Archon HQ and she wasn’t too familiar with the location to safely *VORP* back
I would assume that the “unable to teleport back” scenario is based on the condition that there is no other Harem in the original location.
For example, had she gone on the Galytn visit, Harem would have been able to teleport back to HQ (range permitting), but thereafter not back to Galytn, due to lack of familiarity with the African nation.
Granted, this is not explicitly spelled out in Dabbler’s Science Corner, but I believe it is what’s intended.
This is my take as well. Anywhere with long familiarity or another instance present has an anchor of sorts, which she can target. But if she’s got one instance exploring a new city and zaps it back to Archon HQ, there’s nothing in the new city for her to focus on for a return trip. Hence the scene with her taking a cab to someplace new like a baseline human would have to, rather than chaining a bunch of short line-of-sight trips.
You played Streetfighter, the RPG, didn’t you? Background moves are a big clue…
Wait, I thought second base was touching breasts, not putting your face in said breasts?
The base system is complicated.
You tend to use an awful lot of words to describe Harem when “She’s a gestalt hivemind with strength-mitosis, up to 5 bodies whose injury-state/satiety is persistent, and teleportation,” would suffice.
Hmmm I kinda want to see a sparring session between Harem and Math now. I’d love to see how he does agaisnt an opponent like her. That could be a real workout for a guy who gets easily bored fighting super humans.