Grrl Power #108 – The Passion of the PR Lady
Download attachment fortheloveofgodpleasesperatethesetwo.jpg <– This is a link now.
Having Arianna reading youtube comments amused me but in comic form it’s admittedly a little wall-of-texty. At least we know that she really enjoys her work.
I didn’t get a chance to color the vote incentive, I was rushing a bit to get this page done faster cause I spent most of Saturday at Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 release party. And both BL2 and Torchlight 2 come out this week… so… we’ll see what happens there.
SuperheroThey're super, thanks for asking!
Meatspace ComicSeriously these are awesome. Check 'em out!
Not UpdatingNo longer updating or only updates sporadically, but definitely worth reading.
SeriouslySeriously you guys. If you like Grrl Power the check these out.
"Mature"Mature subject matter and occasionally something explicit but usually safe. Can't guarantee the ads are safe though.
Dongs Ahoy!Full frontal and backal. Lots of skin, sex on some or all pages, explicit or otherwise.
Just thought of something: Maybe Dabbler isn’t making fun of Sydney, maybe she just wanted to try on her glasses and the face she was making wasn’t mocking imitation but instead just having trouble adjusting to “Sydney Vision”. That happens to me a lot, my vision is crappy enough that I’ve needed bi-focals since I was seven, and people get kinda messed up when they look through them. I know one guy who’s legaly blind in his left eye, his dad tried on his glasses, took them off while blinking heavily and said “Damn, who needs drugs?!”
Agreed, but I have one problem with it, someone already mentioned this and Dave said sydney was only slightly farsighted. That is a merely a rebutle not the reason I’m commenting.
The reason I am commenting is with my own story. I have terrible vision. Other people with glasses don’t believe me when I say I won’t see them. They think I am joking, then they see how think my glasses are. All they have to say is “man you are blind.” Also my vision is bad enough that when they are off all I can see is colour and motion which actually increases my reaction speed, that should provide reference to how bad my vision is.
I’ve had glasses since the 2nd grade myself, where most people have a strength of 2 or 3 my eyes need 9.5. Thank God (or technology your choice) for contacts.
Or maybe she just wanted to pose for the pic that max was taking of her lol
Meh, for the sake of accuracy it’s best to thank God for creating the person who invented contacts. I did something simular once when I got a nasty case of heart burn for about three days straight, found myself thanking God for creaing milk and the man who invented peptobismal. It should be noted that I’m only 23 and have been getting bad cases of heartburn since high school. Yeah, fairly certain my body hates me.
You really should look into getting diagnosed for acid reflux/gurds. I had a similar problem (bad heartburn frequently since 4th grade) but I find the over the counter acid reflux pills from rite aid work well for it. Might be worth looking into.
Duly noted. I tend to keep Tums with me, along with a medley of other such things. I go by the idea that life can kick us in the ass any time it wants, and that’s it’s best to prepare accordingly and not let it get in the way. Fortunately, I’s been over a year since I’ve had a case of heart burn that lasted more than a few hours and most recent cases have known causes rather than being random. On top of that I recently dropped my dosage for ADD meds down by 20 mg so that should help. Still, if it starts coming up again real bad, I’ll probably take your advice on seeing a doctor.
I had cataracts as a kid and had to have my lenses removed. This was before artificial lens implants were available so now I have to wear either contacts or very thick glasses to see clearly. And when I’m not wearing either. . .
What’s worse than bad vision? Uncorrected bad vision. I was in second grade and couldn’t recognize playmates at thirty yards. Got my glasses two years later and found out that trees had leaves! And there were wires everywhere! I just didn’t know, and nobody checked, so I really was blind for years.
Pretty damn trippy, huh? Before we try out corrective lenses, we just assume that that’s what the world looks like. The moment corrective lenses are put on, it’s total “mind is blown” scenario. I think everyone who’s vision challenged has some memory of seeing the world “for the first time” like that. Makes you wonder if maybe your color perception may very well be reversed. All your life everyone told you this color you were seeing was this and that was that, But all along the color your seeing orange and you’ve been calling it blue. It’s not uncommon for color blind or challenged individuals to go through a sizable amount of their lives not even knowing. After all, that’s the only version of the world you’ve ever known, how could you know that it’s really any different?
It’s even more fun when you started out as a 3yr old with farsightedness and lazy-eye, then as a 10yr old you find out you’re myopic. Junior high introduced astigmatism, and High school identified that one-day contact lenses only last 6 hours before they start to disintegrate. That was a fun trip to the hospital too.
Just rummaging through old comments while I wait for the new comic. This was my first thought too! OMG! Trees have leaves! Everyone always drew them as green blobs on brown sticks and that’s what I saw, after trees it was clouds… Sharp edges? What is this madness!
Ah, well noticed good sir.
Well, I wish I could one-up your story but by comparison my vision really isn’t that bad. My prescription is L: -4.25 and R: -3.00. I do know some one who’s even worse. He night blind to the point of only being able to see silhouettes (at least in one eye) and the other eye …well… He demonstrated by closing his good eye and trying to walk through the doorway and walked straight into the wall about four feet to the left of said door. There was slightly dim lighting so I think that was partially the night blindness.
My prescription is L +12.50 & R +13.00.
Like I said ‘cataracts as a kid and no natural lenses.’
yeah mine aren’t to too bad, I only have -7.5 in both eyes
It’s like that old saying about one person complaining he has no shoes, until he meets someone with no feet.
I don’t complain because before I had the surgery I was “legally blind” and now is definitely an improvement, and because I still remember the truely blind people who helped me cope with it back then.
damn, i thought i was the only one willing to admit to being that blind
My prescription screws almost everyone up. Nearsighted in the left eye, farsighted in the right, astigmatic in both eyes, my left eye focuses too far to the right and my right eye focuses too far up.
You think your dad was experiencing a trip? Try my buddy ‘s glasses, they mess with your vision to a degree that makes you wish you were on a serene cannabis induced episode rather than the freak out these glasses give you.
Just wanted to say how much I LOVE this webcomic!! It’s one of the highlights of my Monday’s, reading the latest page! Thanks and keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot, I’m glad you enjoy it, just with I could produce it faster.
Oh, DaveB!
You make my week, every time another “typo” sneaks past your “spel-chehkr”!
:P
;)
:)
i find it funny that this comic has been going for about two years and not even one day has passed
Now that you mention it, yeah, I’m worried I won’t live long enough to see this team on their first real mission. That’s all right, though, the trip has been fun. Getting past the introductions is always the hard part…
another reread of this strip shows that only 3 hours have passed since the “bank robbery” so the story sofar has taken about maybe 5 hours total.
“It’s astounding, Time is fleeting, Madness takes it’s toll………”
That is what ripped thru my mind when I read this ^^^^
Showing my age again! :-P
I KNOW THE TRUTH!
Sydney and Dabbler are lost half-sister who reincarnated from a long lost kingdom!
I mean just look at the last panel: It’s OBVIOUS they are siblings.
I’m on you DaveB, you won’t misdirect me with the false Who’s Who.
LOL!
A friendship between lt. col and lt.? Now this is a rather loose outfit, but relationships with lower ranks are looked down on in most organizations.
I would assume with an outfit of about a dozen (field) people, there’s not much choice
There are about a dozen supers but there must a few dozen non supers for the armoured guys we saw earlier
Even in businesses it’s looked down upon but that doesn’t mean it wont happen. They just have to keep it low-key and they can always say they had to discuss business.
based on the history listed, I can’t say it’s all that surprising though – Max has had an apparently recent quick jump in rank – I’d guess she was a Captain (O-3 version), and Peggy is *probably* prior enlisted, so the age disparity is likely less than the cast page shows, and their rank difference was probably much lower before now; additionally, they’re battle buddies, so the friendships tend to go deeper, irrespective of org charts. As long as there’s no negative impact on good order and discipline (and Peggy seems to be much more professional than the others on the team), it shouldn’t be an issue.
Not make friends, so the military and corporate structures of this society promote sociopathic tendencies?
Well in all seriousness regardless of what some self imposed black and white tight shirts might want, its not actually possible to have a group of people, especially a small group, work together for a length of time with out succumbing to some form of human psychological imperative, such as forming friendships, and even social groups among their co-workers regardless of rank/position if they have regular contact.
For more on that read up on (The Pseudo-family), and (The workplace as a stand-in tribe).
https://www.centrahealth.com/health-library/m/714-married-to-the-job
a short article on this relativly new (as only in this past decade really researched about) phenomonon
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/credit-and-blame-work/201104/re-enacting-family-dynamics-in-the-workplace
Basically it all comes down to how our minds are socially wired. In a natural setting those in charge would be our elders, peers our siblings and cousins, and those beneath us the youth. So a psychological transference occures that superimposes (transfers) these roles onto those around us in a setting where we have to work with a group of otherwise strangers on a regular basis.
I just checked out some comments on a youtube video of the rock taking pictures with a group of girls that saw him while he was working on the Pain and Gain movie. Here are a few choice comments:
“the rock fuked all there candy ass’s later i bet lol”
“they’re gonna get filled to the brim with what the rock is cooking”
“Sounds to me like they want Dwayne Johnson’s Johnson”
So yeah, I was surprised at the rather decent spelling of the youtube comments. You did a good job with the comments in your comic DaveB. Based on this research of mine your comments seem very authentic.
Thanks, I’m always trying to find the right balance between realistic, funny, dirty, gross, etc. We can probably assume there are much cruder and more poorly spelled comments if you scroll down just a bit though.
Oh you definitely got the dirty in >:D.
Erection and handjob lol
DaveB.
For doing this, (fortheloveofgodpleasesperatethesetwo.jpg <–NOW A LINK)
You get this…..
*****One fast nod of approval******
Got to feel a little sorry for Sandy. First she’s in the bathroom either texting or playing a game on her cellphone and someone startles her into loosing her phone in the toilet. Then she has to deal with a Psyco-Bitch boss with delusions of being a genus. That and having to deal with superheros can make your day pretty messed up.
You know, I have a really terrible memory so I always get here through a bookmark I set, from the page “Passion of the nerd” (Oh you all remember it, still at the comic book store, with Sydney asking Joel if murder was still illegal?)
This time it’s the PR lady’s passion huh?
Hah, I forgot I used a derivation of that already.
Do you check that box before you submit comment?
I kinda want to see a full view of all the youtube comments
Need!!!!! More Story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umm…If your having trouble finding the time to do moar story like this then what if you tried something like cheap uncolored four panel gag strips as vote incentive? Give fans a chance to see more of the crazy cast bouncing off eachother without having to do anything complicated
Yeah that’s what the Harem Tangent started out as: (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/625)
i gotta say i prefer THIS style of peggy over the one in the cast
can’t wait to see the new update tomorrow at this point
has anyone notices sandy has like almost no neck
That’s cause I’m only decent at drawing people who are skinny, fit, and very fit. I’ve done a little touch up to help that and a few other adjustments, but it will be a while before I can draw heavier people with any competence.
your a good artist and a lot of artists ive met have trouble on the heaver people especialy the collor bones of slighly heaver people and yours are very realistic i only noticest the neck because of the realism on the collar bones
Just want to point out a small error, You gave your 1st Lieutenant the badge for a 2nd Lieutenant. The bar should be silver, not gold.
So does Syndey still need glasses when she’s using her truesight?
That’s… a good question. I don’t know.
I wonder if one of the mystery orbs allows Sydney to control all the others without holding them
The other is a universal healer. Those are my choices DaveB.
looking back, I have to say that’s the most mature and rational youtube comments section I’ve ever seen (no sarcasm).
That third panel… That’s the most realistic fictional social media comment section I’ve ever seen! Both believable and hilarious!
I like that it’s generic enough that it’s not clear what site it is, but it still looks like a real site.
I now ship dabbler with Sydney because of the last panel
I need more of those comments
… the worst thing about needing glasses is when you set them down in any place than your normal spot and need someone else to find them cause you can’t see them
Pink haired girl is attractive.
Yes that’s really all I have to say.