Grrl Power #109 – Innate abuse
This is the last page we’ll see the ball room in for a while. It went on longer than I thought it would but I guess as long as it’s entertaining the background art isn’t really the important part of the page. It will be nice to finally break up this scene and not have to worry about where 10 people are positioned, though I guess Harem bugged off and X re-cloaked when Sandy came in, even though I didn’t actually show either of those events happen. I didn’t want to burn the page real estate on showing that stuff and both of them can come and go with little fanfare.
Of course now Sydney gets to meet a lot of other team members soon, so I’m putting myself in the position of drawing all new characters with all new backgrounds so that won’t be stressful at all.
I’ve decided that it’s more hassle than it’s worth to try and be creative with the rank insignias so I’m going to back and slowly fix all the ones in the art as I have time. Apparently there’s a tad more leeway with non-commission chevrons though. I may play around with those.
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I’m just wondering if Sydney will remember to pick up The List as she leaves. We got teased with that and haven’t found out about it yet.
She keeps it in her back pocket.
When Dabbler put Sydney in a chair a couple of pages ago, it fell out and landed on the floor beside the tube she keeps the orbs in when not floating around her head.
Ok. Forgot about that. Thanks.
More likely Harem will pick it up and we will finaly find out who’s actualy on the list…..
That is actialy a great story idea.
Previously whenever Real!Sydney and Telepresence!Sydney were shown in the same panel and speaking, they both would be speaking and saying the same thing.
Obviously there wasn’t enough room in this panel for this to be easily shown.
Is this a limitation of the orb or is it just easier to control in this manner?
Similarly body motion appears to have this limit. Is this also the case?
heh :) I was wondering nearly the same: ‘why it Sydney’s “tele-me” speaking about itself in 3rd person as if Sydney-original would be doing the speech – while Sydney-original is silent?’
Both versions of her should have a balloon tail pointing to her but it’s a pretty crowded panel already.
‘Abuse of super powers concerning the invasion of privacy’ = what Level of privacy are we talking about: Bedroom, Computer or Other?
Original Star Trek
‘Original Star Trek’ of course being the ultimate level of privacy…..
How so?
Orion slave girls, which is what every red-blooded American fantasizes about
So every red-blooded American[tm] is a nerd? And a trekkie. And a geek. And a wannabe-jedi too. Shit, a nation^Wcountry^Wcontinent full of weirdos. Yes, ’tis logical, the general is a neeeeeerd. Ha ha ha ha.
And apparently Peggy got a scar retconned. As in, not in the cast pix. Got that while parking the souped-up helo, did she? Makes sense. I hear the damn things are temperamental and won’t grow up. No wonder the marines like them.
Orion slave girls? I thought they were Starfleet noncoms!
While I didn’t find the green woman sexy at all (her hair being mysteriously reminding of swamp mud, and her skin to Shrek…), it only made Maxima’s reaction funnier than sexy ever would! Plus it hints at Dabbler cheating at “eeny meeny miny mo” seem all the more devious, LOL.
Oh, and she only gets to target one person with the SPELL, doesn’t mean she can’t cast the net wider with a boob grab! No one’s listening indeed…
So, does this indicate that the general is a geek as well? :)
I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be an Orion slave girl or She-Hulk but, either way, I admire the General’s taste.
I’m going with the Orion slave girl, he seems like a trekie.
So apparently even when I’m not trying to draw muscular women they can still be confused for bodybuilders. I’m getting better though, you guys should have seen how I used to draw them. :)
I’ve obviously got to do with softening up the ladies. Not Max or Anvil mind you. Just most… well some of the others.
She-Hulk didn’t look all that muscular to me. Very well-toned and statuesque, yes. But not like most female bodybuilders (Who half the time look like males wearing bikinis to me)
Oh dear, bodybuilders. So fake. Yech.
It is quite conceivable that most of the members of Archon engage in regular phyiscal exercise, even intense exercise, so the musclular development we have already seen on Harem, for example, should stay. Sydney, on the other hand …
you don’t need to be a geek to have watched a tv show and found one of the characters or character type really hot, even if it doesn’t make sense to you.
When I was growing up they ran a Star Trek marathon almost every year.
I wish they would keep up with that tradition. Now it would take a month to play all the episodes of the various Star Trek series out there.
SciFi channel Hint, Hint…
Over 700 episodes for over 30 years, and not counting the movies for screen not tv.
Yeah, it would be great if someone took a month or more to have a Star Trek marathon like that.
They could advertize months in advance and they would get buisneses lining up to advertize their stuff.
I wonder if we’ll ever get the story behind Peggy’s scars.
I’m willing to bet it has something to with the accident in Iraq that cost her her leg as mentioned in the character profiles.
insert skyrim joke about knees and arrows
Can actually shoot anyone in the knee?
The author might have accidentally moused over the wrong photoshop thing, so technically Peggy’s first draft could have lost a leg to a computer arrow!
The accidental erasure of a knee (with no replacement after by the local ‘God’ or maker) does HURT LIKE HELL and tends to make characters wonder if a knee to the groin of the creator would be a good idea…
…but then, no knee no more so the jerk creator can claim having FORSEEN the revolt and prevented it such. That’s because the creator is only limited by having to maintain a delusion of coherence…
OK, only kidding. Peggy got… a bullet to the knee!!
Okay here’s my question relating to that subject: In Peggy’s bio it says that Max was injured just after Peggy lost her leg and they spent time in recovery together. So just how the Hell did that happen? Was that before Max’s powers manifested or did the Iraqis shoot Max with a bloody MBT or what?
Max got her powers after that is the only obvious answer I can come up with.
Or ahe went toe to toe with someone in her class.
She (meaning Max)
I’m thinking antitank mine or anti-aircraft missile if she was flying.
Max has to be ready for an attack before she can react to it. Sydney’s yoga-hwarf caught her off-guard, after all. And perhaps Max was maxing out another ability and depleted her armour, making her more vulnerable.
Look closer at Max’s bio… she probably did a stat dump at the wrong moment and got hurt that way.
I want to tell that story but there isn’t a lot of funny in it, and I think it will take 8-10 pages at least. I don’t want to alter the mood of the comic that much for 2+ months, so I’m not sure what to do about that. If I could draw an additional page each month I might use it as a vote incentive or something but I can barely keep up with the vote incentives when they’re just pinups.
…my two cents-do it bit by bit then upload it to the Forum section and/or add it to the print version…
Maybe you could do a “Background Story” sketch on weekends…just sketches, not fully inked and colored pages, and do a prose story to go with just 1 or 2 pictures.
Sounds like great Thursday extra stuff you could try out. You don’t need to be quite so great with the art in those filler background comics.
Or you could take the time and do it up right, not publish it until you had it fully finished and then put it out on a week when you needed to do something else instead of draw this comic and put it out then. Sort of a backup comic story for emergencies.
It’s up to you what ever you decide.
I’m just putting ideas out there.
that part of the backstory might make for a good prose sidebar (maybe even a dedicated page) for the book
well at least its SFW …
More’s the pity, that…Also she’s looking great like that, but I wonder what’s her fasination with groping herself in public all the time?
possibly either size comparison, a subconscious thing she does due to her ‘cubi part, or just dave giving fanservice
I have it on good authority that women do occasionally give themselves a heft every once in a while in private. Dabbler doesn’t quite have the subtleties of “the naughtier it is the more private it needs to be” down.
I see women adjusting their bras all the time in public.
then they complain about guys adjusting their package…
Those sexist bitches.
Hmm… it just appeared to me… the Glamor is nothing but an illusion, this was already shown by the ass grope on Max done with Dabblers invisible hands and is hinted by the way it comes into affect: Just an optical effect. Then why is Dabbler groping herself just now as if there could be something new to feel?
I wrote something about that on the previous page near the bottom.
Check it out if you are intrested in my opinion on the subject.
She is a succubus, why WOULDN’T she grope herself in public?
I am not sure if it is an optical illusion rather then a “mind control field” with very specific application (control your mind to make you see something that isn’t there). But either way her boobs should feel identical to normal and thus she is groping herself merely to appear erotic to the people around her.
However, it is possible she groped herself to “see how it looks” rather then “to feel how it feels” if she can see her own illusion.
I’m sensing another hot sauce overload at the restaurant, lol.
Never ate an MRE have you? Trust me, you’d want the Masochism sauce with some of those.
That’s what happens when you try to make something everyone can eat anytime anywhere that stays edible for an indeterminate time.
The time is NOT indeterminate. It is INDEFINITE. Just wait for it to turn into something else with about the same level of flavour.
Though I like the freeze dried fruit cake.
I was assuming that MRE’s can’t survive the sun’s eventual red giant phase but I might be wrong.
Mmm, warmed up Bacon and Eggs in a baggie. Yum. ;( Mind you, if you are hungry enough, anything with nutrition is edible.
Edible yes, like grass soup. Tastes like something besides half congealed chicken fat with two drops of tabasco sauce? That, not so much.
Well hell, As I like to say, “hunger is the best spice.” I brought one of those MRE’s fishing once, hungry as all get out and nothing else to eat. Gotta say, under those conditions it was mighty tastey.
Actually I found some MREs to be quite tasty. But yeah, others definitely need the habañero touch to be edible at all.
Interesting, when Sydney uses a telepresence she doesn’t have truesight. Does she have to drop the ‘presence to get the truesight or does she still have the truesight but has to look through her real eyes instead of using the ‘presence?
Hey just wondering here, why is there a patch of normal skin in the unaffected by glamour area?
Also kudos to Dave B for doing a comic without a mistake in it, or at least not one that I have noticed or has been in the comments up till this point
There isn’t…she’s wearing pink briefs.
Poor General…didn’t quite get “Don’t you dare!” out.
it’s the Daisy Duke-type shorts she’s wearing. Although you do bring up an interesting point..What kind of underwear does a hoof-legged, tailed, part-succubus wear?
I’ve never known a succubus to wear any kind of underwear.
Yeah thanks, that is just a wierd colour for clothes
I was going to say something on the underwear thing but my mind couldn’t bring the words out properly
I can see how goin on that train of thought might make it difficult to form sentences, especially if your mind becomes fixated on the visual aspect.
Actually I got the impression that all her cloths were illusion by the area of skin revealed. If she is comfortable with the room temperature that could lead to casual bumping of others for a quick thrill. Both hers and theirs.
If all her clothes were illusion, Syd would have said she was naked before, back when she saw through the first casting of the glamour spell.
And given Dave fits trying to make the image PG-13. =P
. . .we now, that’s a happy thought!
Damn I meant “well now”
No I just have trouble with sentence structure
Maby the General has more than one fantasy girl and Dabblers spell was sorting by wich was the stronger fantasy in the Generals mind.
Those are swirles of color showing the transformation from the 4-armed purple dabbler to the 2-armed green dabbler.
So… did Maxima have a lipstick accident, or are her lips floating away?
Biting her lip to keep from laughing
I think a bar stating “a few minutes later” might be helpful if you could squeeze it in. Also dabbler’s pointing finger doesn’t look right in panel 5, I think it’s just the crease between the pointing finger and the second is a little too long. Also the team should be glad that his fantasy’s aren’t worse. I’m sure Max can illustrate if she’s been a geek till 1999, and probably earlier.
The finger in panel is hyper-extended, that is bent up. The middle finger is not as bent as the ring finger and this makes it look shorter; it just extends toward the “camera” a little more and appears fore-shortened.
I can’t believe no one asked about Peggy’s leg! Maybe the artist decided she has a lesser amputation, or some cyborg parts, or simply removed that detail… but if Peggy tastes Sydney’s food she might have to amputate her mouth LOL.
A lot of the new prostetic out there are made to be unnoticable as possible, and relativly easy to move around with. So Sydney probably dosn’t even notice anything is wrong with her leg.
Yeah I can only fit so much on each page. Peggy has a slightly stiff gait and she doesn’t clank or squeak, so it’s hard to notice if she’s standing or walking. It will come up eventually. I imagine she has a more utilitarian attachment like those running bows, and I’m sure she has a more rugged one that’s good for shinning people.
I was thinking Dabbler made her leg. I doubt a simple cyber-prosthetic would be considered prohibited tech since we’re almost to that point now anyway.
Not so sure. Not saying it wouldn’t or couldn’t happen, but still.
Thinking Peggy MIGHT prefer a prosthetic that she can conceivably repair and/or modify herself if needs be – not something using stuff that only one (alien) being on the entire planet understands.
Hence the “simple” I’m not talking molycircs here. But say small pistons and an easily swapped-out chip.
I’m sure Dabbler’s tech and/or biotech might be up to cloning a new limb and nerve tissue from Peggy’s own cells but since she has history (or would that be herstory/) of being minus a limb suddenly having two good limbs would be a dead give away.
Well we’re I’d say about 10 years before we have actual mechanical prosthetics that more closely mimic actual function. So Peggy could say it’s a prototype.
They already have limbs that can sense nerve impulses in prototypes. The biggest hurdle is replication of the movement and versatility of human limbs.
From what I’ve heard, some of those prostetic legs out there are more versitile than a human leg in some ways.
Of course they don’t look like human legs, but who ever said that the human leg is the best designed appendage anyway?
Hey isn’t peggy supposed to be 4 inches tall than Sydney, I saw a comment that said “finally someone normal sized” but Sidney is 5’0″ so I don’t really think that is a normal height Sydney is just short
it looks about right to me, Peggy’s eyes seem to line up with the crown of Sydney’s head.
I agree.
Look at panel 4, their heights (not including hair) match up almost perfectly
I looked, and they still look a few inches diffrent in size.
It’s a result of me still learning perspective. Sydney is 5′ and Peggy is 5′ 4″ but Sydney is standing further back so she’s “higher” as the plane of the floor receeds to the horizon. It’s still a little wonky I admit.
i’m 5’4″ and everyone under 5’2″ is a shrimp and i have a lot of people tower over me so i think it is funny when i am around shorter people so that i can say that i am the tallest.
I don’t mean to be a nit picker… but Sandy’s left eye panel 4 and max’s mouth in the final panel look really distorted. And i noticed it on my phone before i got home to look at it on a large screen.
what gives DaveB?
Ignore the part about max’s lip biting I missed that answered previously in the comments.
That’s just how photoshop decided to scale it. Little bits of detail work like that are hard to judge when you’re at 600 dpi. I probably shouldn’t have even tried to draw eyes for her, just put dots on her face or something.
I’d just like to say that i love the fact that you respond to so many of your fans!
You’re awesome!
I love reading though all the comments, and I’m trying to make the best thing I can here but I’m only one guy, so if someone points out an error I’ll try to either defend it, explain it or fix it.
CONGRADULATIONS!!!!
You are the first to spot a mistake on this page.
Shades of Ray Bradbury You are the man!
Don’t you mean Gene Rodenbary?
Na, she may have been red, but the thought reached Rodenbary, lot’s of similarities.
Too lazy to read through comments, so someone might have already said this… but did anyone notice how she said that she had already “done” Sydney? As in the first glamour was her fantasy?
Yep.
So the previous glamour was sydney’s deep sexy fetish thought?
And star trek had ALOT of sexy ladies. Damn shame it was 50 ish years ago. Ahh the good old days.
I remember 2 or 3 where the upper part of the costume could theorically fall off if she ran and stopped suddenly, LOL.
They probably did.
And I’m sure the guy’s didn’t mind reshooting the sceene again at all.
That was called the “Theiss Titillation Theory” wherein costume designer William Ware Theiss posited that “the degree to which a costume is considered sexy is directly proportional to how accident-prone it appears to be”
And it apparently involved a lot of double-sided tape. Ouch.
I recall reading about one occasion where an actress actually did have some skin pulled off. All further rehearsals for that scene were done with her in a bathrobe.
“I already did you”
– I sprayed my tea over my desk at that, thank you SOOOO much ;p
– who was it aimed at ? Sid ?
Yes, the Beholders Beauty glamor she walked in with came from Sydney’s mind. This time its the General’s. I kind of wander what would happen if she did go around the room and do each person.
I realized tonight that I’ve seen Archilles power before: Adam of Destine from Marvel’s Clan Destine. When Adam was introduced in the trade paperback, the Silver Surfer was cruising through deep space and found a VW van with the driver in the front seat. While the Surfer was looking through the shattered remains of the driver’s side window, Adam turned to look at him. Later (in another issue), one of Adam’s children, Walter, comments “You couldn’t change Adam’s appearance with a nuclear warhead.”
In Clan Destine vs the X-Men, Adam is smashed through a portal during a fight with a demon, landing at Wolverine’s feet. Logan complains about Adam smelling like the demon and attacks with his Adamantium claws. Adam doesn’t bother to dodge, just clamly appologises for the ‘stench of demonic ichor’.
Adam was also about as strong as the Hulk as well, he just didn.t like to show off.
As far as I can remember, Adam wasn’t superstrong (Walter was), Adam was just invulnerable (though he also can do Blob’s immovable trick).
Never read that one. Achilles to me is a reaction to a trope that I believe is called The Worf Effect or something, which states that Worf, being the best fighter in the crew, gets his ass kicked as a way of quickly establishing how much of a threat the enemy du jour is which can be hard to do when you’ve only got 44 minutes to tell a story in. The result being that Worf got his ass kicked up and down the galaxy. I’m not saying that Achilles won’t ever be hurt, but it will actually be a rare and surprising event when it does.
Yep that is the Worf Effect. You have a character that is established to be tough, so naturally to show how tough a new character is you have to pound on the toughest guy; but do it too often and your main tough guy gets diminished in the eyes of the fans as just a jobber.
half-step above a redshirt just because he survives these encounters?
Pretty much. It ends up making your tough guy of the team look like he’s all bark and no bite. There are even joke characters out there now thanks to this effect.
There are plenty of ways to deal with a nigh-invulnerable character. Achilles isn’t much stronger than a baseline, and wouldn’t be that hard to restrain. Magic is always a good idea – an invulnerable toad is still a toad. Sensory overload and psychic attacks don’t actually do anything physically, so being invulnerable isn’t any defense against them. For situations like that, Dabbler would likely be the one who gets Worfed.
(Worf effect, Dabbler style)
In the danger room!
Dabbler: ok I put a forcefield of alien magic over here ’cause this bad guy is sending me some kind of chainsaw boomrang.
bad guy #2: *bonks Dabbler on the head with a simple baseball bat at merely 150% human strenght.
bad guys do a high five and say: ohhh she fell for the shiny distraction like you said!
This is when Dabbler goes: I hate holograms you can’t make ’em fall in love with each other! *does acrobatics requiring 4 arms, 2 legs, and alien flexibility enhanced by years of, hum, succubi style training*
Bad guy boss: m’wa ha ha! Shoots distracted Dabbler
Maxima: ok simulation’s over, Dabbler you NEED someone to watch your back and can’t go off on a mission alone!! And Sydney… stop staring at the artifact of DOOM, it’s a fake, and you flunked the test too!!
In Dabbler’s instance I’d think for her it’s she’s A) got so many tricks she might choose the wrong one or B) has fallen into a pattern of attack that can be studied, which could also fall in A
So wait, she makes herself look sexy according tot he desires of a particular person? And without knowing herself what those desires are?
Dang if that isn’t too powerful of a spell.
Also, wait, I don’t understand what Sydney is testing, let alone what she has learned.
She was testing to see if she had truesight while projecting herself. She learned that she doesn’t. I would have been more explicit in explaining that the real her holding the parent orb can still see through it, but I lost that part of the explanation cause I ran out of room and I couldn’t see where to save space elsewhere to fit it back in.
I think when she gets introduced to the team formally I’ll make a full page comic that explicitly spells out what they know about the orbs but I would have had to squeeze too much on the page to be more explicit here.
Although i agree with yo completely about massive text pages, that’s probably another one you would have to do that on, Maybe like a classified report about the orbs from Zephram to the General. Could even be a vote incentive so it doesn’t interrupt the main comic. Just some ideas.
All I can think of is perhaps one of those little under-the-comic chibi afters you do from time to time.
Might want to put less on the explain-y and more on the telling the story-y? Just a bit?
I’m one of those who likes the background details. I like to write that kind of detail. Best to have it separate from the main story so only those like me would read them. I don’t play video games but I like to collect the books on them like Resident Evil to get all the backgrounds and scenarios. Why I also like the movies.
the real question is will she actually grab the truesight orb to see if she does get truesight through the projection?
She’s already holdin the truesight orb. It’s the projection orb as well. She can see through illiousions with her real body, just not with her projected body.
NOT. OK!
Can someone call for an excorsist?
Alrighty! So I heard on the radio that today is official comic book day, and the listeners were urged to re-read their favorite comic books. To celebrate, I’m going to start reading Grrl Power again from the very begginning! Okay, I’ve actually done that several times, but I know I’m not the only one and at least this time I have an excuse.
*Protectron* ERROR!! ERROR!! EXCUSE NOT REQUIRED! ERROR!!
At least it wasn’t Mr. Handy or a Robobrain. “Please come out where I can shoot you”
Mr. Handy was weird. “And who gets to clean up all this blood? ME!!”
He definitely had attitude. Personally I’d have to shoot him just to shut him up.
Yep. Same here. The Sink’s central computer is almost as annoying to me.
An Orion slave woman from Star Trek? That brings to mind a certain national anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRygZ-0nPAo
Superheroes as enlisted? This is the one point in your story where I have a disagreement. I don’t see superheroes willing to be enlisted. The pay is too low and everyone gets to tell you what to do. Can you imagine Superman, Wonder Woman, or even Green Lantern being Privates? Green Lantern comes the closest, but is more equivalent to a Texas Ranger than a member in the Armed Services.
There is a precedent. All fixed wing pilots are officers, even heli pilots are warrant officers. Also, just because someone is a Lieutenant, it doesn’t follow that they command anyone.
For the pay and respect that rank gives, I think every super on the team should be Second Lieutenant or above. For the “norms” that are capable of fighting with the team, at least Warrant Officer. The support staff should be enlisted.
By having the heroes as officers, it gives them the same freedom that USAF pilots receive.
Its the modern trend, most comics in fact are moving away from the costumed vigilante thing (its been Hell on DC as they try to cope with this atmosphere as few of their heroes would work in this setting).
But most new heroes end up becoming a private security firm (with lots of charitable actions), government funded, or set up so they arn’t technically vigilantes just crap keeps coming their way and they are forced to deal with it. Actual cops and paid detectives are popping up more too, and mercinaries, ect…
The Avengers has become complicated as a mix of private security and government aid, which has made the Avengers regulated (hence the apperance of Avengers Academy so younger would be heroes can train and learn to work as a team to become the next Avengers when they graduate. like a police academy only teens can join. Even seasoned heroes like X-23 have to go through it. She is technically a teen, but with enough kills and world saving under her belt to embarass most if not all the other cadets).
Same thing in the Generation-X series. They had Jubilee taking classes with the new kids. A Fact Beast mentions, along the lines of “We all know you’ve been with the X-men for awhile, but you still have to pass this exam.”
That was my initial thought, that all the supers would be officers, soft of like a genetic ROTC or something, but as soon as I started writing Sydney it became apparent that it would be a ridiculous idea to put her in charge of competent soldiers. Yes a Corporal can be the one flying a plane, but a pilot is a professional soldier first and foremost, largely because there are far more people who want to be pilots than there are planes for. With the scarcity of super powered beings in this world, they can’t be nearly as choosy. These guys may not be interested in polishing their boots till they reflect lasers or having every button on their ultra starched uniforms at exaclty the right angle, but if they have the right suite of powers and can be depended on in a fight, then Archon is willing to work with them.
For those of old enough to remember G.I. Joe were all officers with the ranks and pay outside the unit, but were given enlisted ranks to reinforce the hierarchical leadership structure. Only those Joes that were in traditional “officer” roles kept any officer rank badges, and these were also made to fit the role that was being filled.
The Joes were to be a highly specialized group that had more training than most officers, but were to be used like we use Navy Seals and other special units today.
I know that I’m taking this too seriously. But, the pay that enlisted are given is often below poverty level and would allow our soldiers to qualify for welfare, if they didn’t live on bases.
Since the supers are all highly specialized and are not really ready or able to lead soldiers, then making them Warrant Officers would be reasonable.
I simply would reject working for the government in any capacity if I were to be paid below poverty level.
I like the idea presented earlier that this group would be the nucleus of a new “Meta” team outside of military structure, but allied with it.
also, making Sydney a “Cadet” implies that she’ll become an officer. If Sydney is going to be an enlisted soldier, her rank should be “Recruit”. Oh and by the way, on behalf of all Non-Commisioned Officers, FUCK YOU Dave. NCO’s and enlisted soldiers are just as professional if not MORE so than Officers are, they aren’t Soldiers, they’re fucking politicians that give real Soldiers orders. Soldiers are led by Non-Com’s.
Forgive him, MisterWolfe, he knows not what he says.
forgive me if im wrong, but i think all pilots in the air force are commisioned officers. Ergo, Peggy is an officer.
Presently, and for quite some time precviously, yes.
During ww2 though, the US Army Air Corps (which later became the USAF) had Warrant Officers (senior NCOs, basically) serving as pilots. Likewise, the Commonwealth air forces of that era had plenty of Flight-Sergeants that were pilots.
As an aside, the USAF’s ‘Pilot = Officer’ policy has been giving it personnel difficulties in recent years, since they extended this to also cover the operation of UAVs. A lot of pilots aren’t at all keen on being assigned to this particular duty. Contrast with the US Army which has been using senior NCOs to operate their UAVs, and have had much fewer personnel problems.
…. Leading to suggestions that maybe the USAF should rethink its policy as regards only officers being pilots and/or that only officer/pilots can operate UAVs..
I wasn’t implying anything about professionalism, I was simply talking about who’s in charge of who, and I don’t see Sydney having commang priority over anyone for some time. Good to know about the Cadet/Recruit thing. Man Wikipedia does not do a good job of breaking down military command at all. I need a military consultant.
Seems like you might have a few takers here, Dave. There are also probably forums where one can find out this sort of thing as well.
Wiki is helpful in a very general fashion, but can approach “the guy I spoke with on the bus” level of reliability for detail.
try this link and click on military ranks pdf… shows the ranks and insignia for all forces for Enlisted, Officer and Warrant
https://www.army.mil/symbols/
by the way Cadets are officers in training, normally at the Air Force and Army Academies or Officer Candidate School (OCS). Midshipmen are Navy/Marine Corps Cadets. Recruits are an informal title, not really a rank, for Enlisted personnel in training as some services allow Enlisted to be in basic with a rank as high as E-4 to determine their pay grade.
And except for Pilots (which in the Army can be Warrant officers) A Warrant Officer must first make it to Sergeant before submitting an application to WOCS.
P.S. If you REALLY want a military consultant, you can e-mail me, (though I was in a REAL service, The Army, and not a premadonna wussie like the Air Force).
I’m an Airforce brat, just curious as to why you have such a high opinion of them?
Umm I likes ‘Mo’. I wanna see mo.
Here’s a thought to improve flow, Dave; Put a word balloon line between “Miny” and “Mo”. Her sentence is crossing panel borders, so having her word balloon do the same thing only makes sense.
Maybe its my colorblindness, but she doesn’t exactly look….green to me. I’ve seen ST episodes with orion girls, so the color difference doesn’t seem right, but maybe its a very light green? My colorblindness is weird.
I actually googled images of Marta an Vina and sampled colors out of those images. Of course they were snapshots from the original TV show which wasn’t exactly filmed on Kodak diamond premium or shot with a digital Red camera or anything, and I believe they were painted green and then powdered so the paint wouldn’t come off on anything. Those factors made them come out lower saturated than I’d normally color, and they’re not a hard grass green. If proper green is 50/50 yellow and blue then they were more 40/60 but still mostly green.
If you look at the green makeup on the Wicked Witch of the West and to a lesser extent the Winky soldiers in “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) You can see that they tried to vary it a bit like real skin. Lighter and darker areas even some parts that have a more yellow look to them.
Your site rocks and your art is amazing. One thing, though. You mentioned that you were limited in the ways you could draw the rank insignia. Why? You have a group of super heroes and the only ones that their rank should mean anything to is each other, and if it IS made public, it could be ALL entirely new. If something like that were to happen in reality, Joe Public would love that they stand apart and would be eager to learn the new rankings. I know that I would and I was in the USMC fror 5 years. I love your stuff. Please never stop.
Thanks! I had some funky designs initally because I didn’t really understand about military stuff. When researching rank insignias I noticed there’s a fair amount of variation between them so I took that as licence to go crazy. What I didn’t notice was that was only for enlisted, the officer ranks are the same across the board – so yeah I could come up with whatever crazy symbols I wanted, but this is supposed to be basically Earth, not some post apocalypse anime, and whenever I showed Max with a brass bird on her jacket, a lot of the comments would be “what rank is she, that’s not even a real insignia” and it’s distracting for readers that know what those insignias should look like.
That’s supposed to be the Orion slave girl? Gotta say, my first thought was She-Hulk, too. She-Hulk seems to make more sense for the General…
Also, her first glamour was based on Sydney’s imagination? Iiiiinnnteresting…
I’m not sure if this is an “easter-egg”, but in Panel_5, under Dabbler’s left-armpit, I’d expect to see the wood-grain of the wall behind her, not a triangular patch of solid green that’s darker than any of her other skin-tones…?
No, I’d say that WAS her armpit.
I still obviously draw women a bit more fit than is generally accepted as the ideal, so all my women have a little back muscle, so that’d be her lat under her arm. Arguably it’s a bit wide, maybe I’ll add it to my fix list.
I don’t see it as being a ‘high-priority’-fix – it just seemed odd to have that one green area that was SO different from all the other green areas in that panel, that’s all.
I’ve come to the conclusion DaveB is obsessed with boobs. GOOD!
That makes him a perfectly normal American male.
Correction, that makes him a normal HUMAN male.
Not exactly, some societies find other parts of the body sexier or or are less obsessed with boobs.
I think I saw a future plotpoint drop in that last panel. And it wasn’t green. ^^
I guess when your dandruff is 24karat it’s a little easier to get a black card
I figure it’s collateral is a DOD ‘”Black” fund.
Hey – is anyone else having problems getting through to the 910CMX forum?
I just checked it and it looks like they’re migrating the server, should be back up some time early next week.
Thought about potentials struck me while looking at the cast page and reading bios:
Assuming Math is in charge of training team members in hand to hand (seems likely), and occasionally gets deployed to the field himself (almost certainly) he would pay extra attention to the individual or individuals who would be with him in the middle of fisticuffs.
In short – Imagine Achilles after six months of sparring for an hour a day, every day, at full effort (Achilles doesn’t get tired?) with Math. Kinda scary contemplating Math backed up by a black belt who is invulnerable to physical damage, isn’t it?
Might depend to a large extent on their respective fighting styles. Word of Dave is the Math doesn’t have super speed, but even just the relative body sizes would produce a speed difference. Throw in Math’s focus on high-speed, high-precision throws (far harder for a bulkier man, particularly one who’s used to tanking down), and they might be better off not interfering with each other,
I only just noticed! Apart from one panel, in this page Sydney is the only one acting like an adult. LOL
She hadn’t noticed their reacton until she realised they were paying attention to what she was saying…
Of course it would be interesting for her to comment on this in the next panel asking why they were so stunned with Dabbler’s new form and then mention comparing Vima to She Hulk to Dabbler!
I’m guessing she go’s to a lot of sci-fi & comic book cons, so isn’t fazed by green skined women. She’s probably seen women with their skin painted in every color in the crayon box and more.
Of course, Gooold card for a golden superhero.
Does that mean Maxima has black african ancestry? That’s a detail we’ll learn when we meet her family!
porno senses… tingling…
Dabbler is officially my favorite character