Grrl Power #1099 – Honey (with assorted precious gems) trap
As I was drawing this page my white guilt gland made me wonder if making an “African themed” team of superheroines was a tiny bit racist, but even as my “Hmm” gland was chewing on it, my “Duh” gland was like, “Captain America, DUH!” My conclusion being that if America gets to have a dude who wears the flag to fight supervillains and says stuff like “Thumbs up for democracy!” (I mean, he probably says stuff like that. I can’t cite a specific example off the top of my head.) then any country can have a jingoism incarnate. Granted as someone who isn’t a member of another country, I’m not going to be an expert on what their flag wearing hero should look like, but in a similar vein to the discussion from the prior page, as long as the design isn’t trying to be intentionally hurtful, it’s probably okay.
Not that you can get a great look at the whole pride here, except for… I dunno, let’s call her Tech Lioness there in the last panel, but basically the whole team is cat themed and have African looking accoutrements on their costumes. Also, I mean, I haven’t really heard anyone complaining about Black Panther or Wakanda, so I’m not going to worry about it. I just thought it was funny to worry about something like that when a character like Captain America exists. (Not to mention Super Patriot and U.S.Agent, Regular Patriot (Eli Bradley), and probably a half-dozen others)
Aaaaanyhoo. Dabbler’s plan is to wander around the Dakar market with seven million bucks worth of emeralds around her neck in order to draw out some supervillain interest. It seems likely to me that she’ll be fending off every thief within thirty miles before long though.
Those are real emeralds, BTW. As an interplanetary adventurer, Dabbler is, by the standards of Earth as well as many other places, quite wealthy. Of course, what constitutes wealth is going to vary from one society to another, but in any pre-post-scarcity society, scarcity is obviously going to be a factor. The fact that she’s gone on her share of Lara Croft Uncharted Diablo-esque Insanely Designed Mansion with Secret Underground Labyrinths Moonbase Demon Invasion Artifact Gotta Catch ‘Em All Spelunking Adventures and has found multiple treasure vaults over the years (and unlike Lara Croft, Dabbler has access to hammerspace tech, so she can walk out of those places with 100 times her body weight in treasure, instead of accidentally flooding the place with lava or whatever usually happens), means that Dabbler can actually sleep on a ridiculous pile of treasure like a dragon if she wants to. She just usually doesn’t have all that much she wants to spend money on here on Earth, so she doesn’t flaunt it often.
The October Vote Incentive is still up!
The November one is almost done, it shouldn’t be quite the same wait for it as the Blue Babes one. The nude version’s already done, just have to do several layers of clothing. :)
So I have enough “Blue Babes” to do a theme. Eventually I’ll be able to fill in the whole rainbow of my own characters. I did a rainbow lineup previously for those who hadn’t seen it. I’d love to revisit that one of these days.
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Uh Dave, “Sweet baby Mohammad” is almost begging for a fatwa. Just saying.
Far as I know, muslims try not to depict Muhammed as an infant. But I’m not muslim so this is just a guess on my part.
She could be talking about her own kid?
No I’m pretty sure it’s an attempted play on ‘Sweet baby Jesus’ (but that wouldnt work in a nation where islam is a primary religion (89% of Senegal is Sunni Islam, 1.1% is other Islam, only 5.3% is Catholicism, 0.2% is other christianity, and ‘folk religions’ are about 4.1%).
Except it’s not a term ever used in Islam to refer to the Prophet Muhammed, since he was Islam was not developed until he was already an adult, whereas Christianity’s mythos goes back to his being an infant with the whole ‘son of god’ deal.
Mayhaps that’s why the spelling is different?
Completely different baby?
Maybe. More likely just a misspelling.
There’s no universally accepted spelling. Arabic doesn’t use the Roman alphabet, or exactly the same phonemes as English. As a result, the conventions for writing down Arabic names (or words in general) using the Roman alphabet are pretty fast and loose. I once saw a list of variant spellings of former Libyan leader Moamar Ghadafi that was half a page long.
Fair enough. Good point. I’ve only even seen it spelled as Muhammed when referring to the prophet, but I’ve seen a bunch of people named Mohammed so I guessed that they are differently spelled names that are just pronounced the same (homophones), like John and Jon, Mark and Marc, Jean and Gene, Niel and Niall, Sherry and Cherie, Brian and Bryan, or Ian and Iain.
I didn’t take into account that the letters are literally different so would be spelled in English based on phonetics, meaning it could be BOTH Mohammed and Muhammed.
I would have expected Dabbler to be a bit more sly and subtle than this…
(Spit-take all over my monitor) For Dabs, that IS subtle! “NEWS FLASH! An unexpected orgy broke out in the bazaar today, not known reason for it! Film at 11 (Patron only).” XD
She’s an OP magic adventurer. Not the type known for being subtle. Just imagining Lina Inverse in this scenario, she’d be out there with a big pink feather boa using wads of cash as a fan and projecting her voice about how heavy all her jewels are and how she wishes some big strong goons could come and hold them for her…and then either she let them kidnap and then blow them all up, or half burn them alive on the street and make them show her their hideout.
That sounds more like Naga tbh. Lina would definitely try that, get insulted by someone and then blow them up, accidentally revealing the goons in the middle of kidnapping someone curvier (and then dragon slaving the whole warehouse district).
Yeah, I can see that. Either way we can agree this character type isn’t known for keeping their cover like the robe wearing sneaky spell casters are.
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All I have to say is: There’d better be a sweet voting incentive starring the Pride, at some point.
The west african CFA franc is worth about 650-670 to one united states dollar. So whatever Dabbler is choosing to buy there is “worth” around seven bucks.
So the vendor probably should have marked it up more than 66%!
I’d say using a Kardashian style woman as a trap doesn’t really need subtlety.
Is there anywhere to see the prior vote incentive pictures other than Patreon?
Not the naked versions, but the ones that were on the vote pages.
Question, they refer to Dabbler as a “nubile sex demon” in P3, but do they mean that as her being a Succubus, or as her just being overly sexy? Cause it seems to very much imply they know she is a demon, which shouldn’t be public knowledge yet.
It’s a (foreign) government supers team, they probably also know about the things that go bump in the night. Boudas and witches, probably. It’s a small step from there to finding out that archon’s “civilian contractor” is also from the spooky side, albet from someone elses’s house.
Sydney needs to know about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7erf3r9Uw8
Can’t say I understand what is going on or what they are even talking about.
… What part is confusing?
Very difficult to help the confused if they don’t mention what has them confused (unless they are in a perpetual land of confusion, in which case, not even Genesis can save them… )
Reaganomics! ;p
One suggestion for the team member in the last panel. If you are trying to come off as intimidating and/or badass, I would recommend losing the neko cartoon kitty gloves.
Maybe she got her powers from the gloves, like Sydney got hers from her balls
Phrasing!
Yes ovary’s are smaller than testes but they are both balls. after all the average human has one of each.
Only one? o_O
And Lysbeth? Always! :wink:
of each. one testes, one ovary. the average person is… a little strange.
Remember kids, math will make you come up with things like “the average person” and “perfectly spherical cows on an infinite frictionless plane,” and that sounds like drugs. Don’t do math, because it’s like drugs. Math is drugs, kids.
…wait, but I like drugs…
I’ve played myself!
Maybe she’s going for the element of surprise. Lull them into a false sense of superiority, then BOOM!
I think I’m referencing something… But I can’t even remember what it is.
“Subtle as an airstrike” yep, that’s who you hired XD
A more fancy way to say “subtle as an airstrike” could be in Original Version “Ce sont des citoyens des U.S.A, ils n’ont ajouté le mot subtilité a leur vocabulaire, que pour mieux le nier, comme le mot géographie*”
* it’s due to the general lack of knowledge of US residents about outside word , I’m French citizen and in this test although some questions are about the US I’ve had 9 out ten and only 6% of the U.S pool had 8 or more correct answers ….
https://www.cfr.org/report/us-adults-knowledge-about-world
“Beautiful Woman Flashing Cash” is a REALLY good way to find out if there are any criminals in the vicinity. It works on con men, muggers, pickpockets, mashers…pretty much anybody.
if you believe in woke culture, even using brown colors for people’s skin is cultural appropriation. if you have a lick of sense though, then creating a team of sub-Saharan African supers that are powerful, wise, human, and that have personalities is a bigger creative flex than any of the current movies
True, one of the most effective best ways to push-back against reactionaries is to normalize people being people. That said, it’s funny to me that you would describe ‘woke culture’ like that in this context since it reminds me of ben shapiro absolutely losing his shit over the ‘wokeness’ of people being people in The Batman. That first sentence sounds like an op though. Hanlon’s razor aside, if I saw anyone actually make that argument I would suspect them of deliberately poisoning the well cause, yeah that’s not what cultural appropriation means.
You’re not new here. You’re not even new to the comments section. But you are being remarkably generous in assuming good faith.
Or you’re being remarkably subtle.
I wonder if techno kitten (last panel) will later permanently join sydneys A-Team.
Am I crazy or does the outline of the second Lioness roughly match one of the foreshadowed characters way back in comic 186 (panel 6)? https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-186-fingers-to-maximum-steepleage/
Might just be a similar outline and unrelated character, but it was the first thing I thought of when I saw her.
The only one we haven’t ‘met’ yet, is the mommy in the mask (the shadowy figure’s are the vamps on the Council who were working with Sci-fright)
Oh, you meant Mommy Mask! No, the mask is different, and she has hair
When did we meet Mr. Clensing? was he one of the kidnappers? I honestly don’t remember.
Oh, and in case someone else didn’t postulate it before; I think the last ball’s power finishes the ‘free spaceship’ necessity: it’s how to refuel.
While the shield blocks dangerous energy, the last one could ‘eat’ safer ambient energy, like solar, radiation, ect… or could be just the Drain spell: Maxima could just try to shoot it and it’ll drink up even *her* beams.
People have. Repeatedly. I very much hope that’s not the case, because it would break the symmetry of the orbs each having a variety of functions, with minimal overlap, and equal status to each other. If that unknown orb orbited her head differently from the others, to suggest that it was different, or that the others were in some way dependent on it, the theory would be more palatable.
Is the middle-left lioness actually missing a breast, or did Dave forget to draw a line?