Grrl Power #112 – Hot Beefcake Injection
I was hoping to get some more work done on the vote picture this weekend but dang, this page was a lot of work. Worth it though – I love the panel with all the Harems, and I guess the beefcake lineup, which is more or less the point of the page. It occurred to me that there are a lot of webcomics out there that spend less time on their entire comic that I did on just the mini comic at the bottom of this page. I don’t know why I’m such a glutton for punishment, but I suppose I could produce a 5x a week comic if it was a flat colored strip like that. I thought about making it the vote incentive just to freshen it up, but eh, why make you jump through the hoops?
Thanks for all the input on Peggy’s sidearm on the previous comic. There were lots of suggestions, but if you still want to contribute, please add it to the previous page’s comments, I’ll still see it.
There was a ton of rambling Tarantino-esque dialog I wanted to include on this page that began to introduce these guys, but I had to cut it all to make everything fit. I’ll save it for later I guess, it was more important this page began with “So are there any guys?” and ending on Sydney drooling over the railing.
About the chokers for the guys. I mean… cool tactical throat mics. I’m not a fan chokers on guys in the first place, but if a dude has a skinny neck like Math then I can overlook it I guess, but on Hiro and the other guy with the huge neck it looked really dumb, partially because their traps meet their neck almost higher up than the bottom of their jaws, so it would have had to be really skinny and/or wavy. I’ll have to figure something else out for them, maybe one that only wraps part of the way around from the back or something.
So yeah there are guys on the team – I was holding off on introducing most of them till this page so readers got the same first look as Sydney. We’ll be seeing them intermingling from here on out, but don’t worry, the girls are still the main characters. Speaking of which I need to formally introduce Jiggawatt so I can finally include her in the Who’s Who.
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I was going through the archives when I saw this: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/524
Math’s eyes weren’t always so bug-eyed. How come that’s now how your normally draw him, DaveB? It’s a bit too cartoony (even as compared to Sydney) for the comic. In fact, it’s rather Garfield-ish.
He’s evolving a little as I draw him. He’ll probably continue to fluctuate a little. (As will everyone since my consistency could use some work.)
Porn Sense … tingling !!! :D
That porno sense could use the reverse polarity, for me, right now.
I have decided I’m going to call thinner Blonde guy WHIP! Because he’s what I think of when someone is described as being “Built like they’re woven of whipcord”
im with her i do think hes the realy hot one :3
How about Bullwhip? I feel like that’s an awesome superhero name. Single-syllable names are cool, but they feel kinda “eeehhh” to me.
Yay for gratuitous beefcake! Thank you. Sydney’s drool is pretty funny. :)….. I’m right there with her, of course, in need of a drooble bucket.
You just hit me, good thing Dabbler isn’t around, everyone would be in deep trouble. When I think a bit harder too bad she and Maxima aren’t there.
think again! look at the bonus panel-less section below the comic! No shirtless male escapes dabblers gaze for long
Who is sending the text? Jigglewatt?
Yep, She has a app for topless men alert.
Now if there were out there for a topless women alert.
pay attention to spelling its jigg-A-watt not jigg-LE-watt so bad D-chan no hot water.
Amazing. Semi nekked buff guys are generating almost as many pages as ‘which weapon would you advise…’. Guns and Guys (and Gals) — fan service for all. :p
I guess he go’s for the things people find intresting in life.
I for one like it that he can keep things intresting week after week.
Now if I really wanted to pander I’d come up with an excuse to have a big panel of a shirtless guy in jeans standing next to a gal in lingerie holding rifles with Firefly and My Little Pony posters in the background and someone dancing Gangnam style.
*ear twitches* Perv-Sense… tingling… *Dashes forwards to ask-*
Can we do that? Please? Maybe with several girls, and have ’em nude instead?
only if we get some hotties with big wingspans doing flybys so those of use that don’t happen to be human can get real fan service.
Knock yourself out.
I’m sure if you asked nicely, your loving readers would give you all sorts of excuses. :3
Well how about a short-cut? Have Peggy pose with “Vera” from Firefly. I think they would get along well though she might give the gun a different name.
Does Arc have a policy of mandatory waxings? The public deserves to know the reason for the hairlessness here!
Believe it or not there actually is a reason for that. It will be a while before I get to that though.
Some of us are just naturally not as hairy as others. Also some of them are shaved.
You should really save all of that extra dialog so you can add it to the “Grrl Power” screen play.
Their fleshtone nipples disturb us.
What about torcs for the guys? Fits with the neck-gear, but more manly that a choker.
Very celtic
I can help notice the list is HALF FULL. It’s a small book, but still impressive!
and thats just from the current year (she has more full list books in her house)
Soo… um… am I the only one who noticed that there’s my little pony in the background of the shot with the shirtless abs?
I mean, it took me about twenty-ish minutes of staring before i=I noticed, but can you blame me?
It’s been discussed on the first comment page (this is page 3), so no, you’re not the only one, don’t worry :3
It hadn’t occurred to me until the past couple of days, but I’m curious now as to how many people ask to become characters in your comic(s), for the sheer sake of either A) getting drawn in your art style or B) getting to ‘meet’ your comic characters.
That isn a good question. Are there any of the charactors drawn from real life? And if yes who…
Check out the commanding General Falk.
Actually it hasn’t happened much yet, maybe cause I’m not at a place in the comic where I need a lot of incidental background characters.
I. Love. Math. Like, so much. He’s so adorable~
I find it amusing that Halo said her weakness was cute guys with nice abs… and it is.. :D
Dat right ab on the black haired guy…
sigh.
I’m sorry to all the ladies who love the beefcake, but it bothers me.
Well then now Zellcos you know how bothered some ladies feel about the cheese cake. Get over it. I did and so it doesn’t bother me one whit.
I’m just hoping for a little topless Grrl fanservice to even things out a little. No demands because eventually someone will Rule #34 this comic. But Dave B’s art will be better from the original Dave B.
Rule #34? Already happened.
o.0 I should be surprised, but all I am is curious.
What is Rule #34?
i just saw your submission to hatefarm of mistress missy. did that in some way inspire the last panel, and daaaaaaayum, that looked like it was made by cthulhu
The 2nd panel in the Hatefarm submission is a reference to a previous Hatefarm comic, 6 or 8 strips back or so.
An idea for the males’ chokers…er, throat mics: If you’re having problems with the width fitting “comfortably” between the jaw & traps, something thin is feasible (even without using “comic book technology” to justify it). Electronics nowadays are available small enough that even a multi-channel radio could fit within a thin tube-like structure…And I think a decent “style” would be similar to the old Celtic torques: Made of gold, they would were them for the purpose of having some money if the needed to outright buy something, instead of bartering like most Celts did.
It would wrap around the back of the neck but not meet in the middle at the front of the neck, and with slightly enlarged ends housing the actual microphones, it would even provide partial protection to the jugular vein & carotid artery. The Celts also wore gold torques around their arms too, but would hardly be a practical place for wearing microphones…
When you mentioned the introduction of a new character named “Jiggawatt,” my initial mental image was enough to send me to my “happy place”…
…I can hardly wait.
These days the microphones can be implanted in the jaw direct link to the ear.
I’m surprised she said “A-buh” and not “Hummina.”
I have a stupid question. What happens if Harem gets pregnant? Does the baby get multiplied as well as she teleports/duplicates? And if two of them are extant and separate at the same time and they both get knocked up separately and possibly even by multiple different fathers, will the embryos be COMBINED into one child if Harem goes from being several different people at once and becomes just one again? Or maybe she’ll just get COMBINED with the baby like in “The Fly”. Oh, these things, I’m sure I’m not supposed to think too much on it.
That’s… wow, that’s fairly complicated. Assuming she can even get pregnant.
From what Dave’s told us about Harem, the consequence of Harem getting pregnant is that one of her bodies would be pregnant. It wouldn’t duplicate in her other bodies, although the hormonal rebalancing of one body might influence her larger quantum-entangled mind. If she got two bodies pregnant by two different guys, she’d have two different kids with no ‘combination’ occurring. If she unteleported a pregnant body, the pregnancy (like the body) would be in stasis until she brought it back.
The biggest weird consequence would be the dysphoria of having five brains, some of which are experiencing hormonal irregularities and some of which are not. It’s also possible that things like feeling the baby kick might pass her sensation threshold so that the bodies that AREN’T pregnant feel the baby’s movement.
So… nobody noticel My little pony poster behind there hot men? I guess you ahve mostly female readers.
I noticed the “My Little Pony” poster. I also noticed the extremely butch “Rocky”, “Fight Club” and “Terminator” posters as well. I found the latter three the most baffling, actually. If you’re part of a group of elite super-powered beings, why would you surround yourself with images of fictional beings of power? Oh well. De gustibus non est disputandum.
MOTHER OF GOD… Look at the fanservice picture, in the background, there is a MLP poster. THEY ARE BRONYS?!
Make me a slim firm one that’s tall but you know is really muscular even tho he looks slim and has long waist long hair tide in a ponytail and has a katana(my spell check keeps bugging out on that word) and knows how to use it, minus the shirt, I would basically be licking my screen.
He has to have the long hair, I think guys with long hair are totally hot, basically a Lord Sesshomaru. MY FLUFF!!!!!
jiggawatt has 2 so far, does X has one?
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Just the main girls do, and some of the secondary ones. And some of the tertiary ones.
Holy sexual harassment Batman!
This is the longest time I have ever spent staring at one comic page
I just noticed something odd as I was re-reading all the comics and I just have to ask about it.
In an earlier post it is mentioned that Harem cannot take anyone with her, so what is she doing right now with these guys? Were they already in the room and now being stripped by her?
I’m not trying to nitpick, this just stuck me as an oddity. I probably only noticed because I’ve been reading all the comics and posts over the past day.
Thanks for making such a great comic!
They’re all there in panel 5. I definitely could have done a better job setting up the scene but I’m still learning how to balance establishing shots and getting all the dialog in.
My question is who is the shorter bald guy with the soul patch. I don’t think I’ve seen him anywhere else and he doesn’t seem to have a cast page entry like the others. If I assume the guy next to him is Achilles at least and not another guy who doesn’t have one.
4th one is best… though he still needs something covering his neck.
First two are just gross. Nobody needs that much muscle. Ick.
The fourth guy over (the blond next to Math) his hair or posture or something reminds me of Chris from Sidekick Girl for some reason (looking at them side by side they don’t look all that similar).
I don’t like blonds so Mathias and the surfer boy are struck from my list. Overly muscled men give me a slightly ill feeling; I can’t help but think that nature has been taken a little too far, like an elk with a rack of antlers bigger than his entire body (shudders). So it looks like the hot black man on the far right for me. Oh baby. :P
Two years on, we continue to have no idea who the two chaps on the right are.
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT. Seriously, though, Mr. Dave B Authorman, who the heck are these dudes? My mind boggles at their inclusion in this scene, and their ominous absence from the fight.
Two more years, and they still haven’t shown up on the Cast page. (I’m catching up after being off-net for a year or so, so if they’ve been introduced in that time I missed them.)
The fight with Mr. Chuckles has been dragging on for far too long for me. Somebody made a snide suggestion that I don’t have to keep reading if I don’t want. Excellent suggestion! I’ll stop reading the current pages for now and come back some time in the New Year. Maybe by then the two guys may be explained and Chuckles will have been defeated.
The fight isn’t taking too long. You are just too use to reading it all in one sitting. Come back and read a month’s worth in one sitting. Doesn’t bother me.
So, just rereading the comic again, and noticed that on the previous page Sydney and Peggy passed Jigawatt in the corridor going the other way, and now they just entered the room and Jigawatt is there.
Twins?
Hah, uh, whoops. I’d say anything’s possible since Jiggawatt can teleport, but it’s enormously loud when she does.
Who are the two guys on the right?
They’ll be showing up in book 2.
I agree whole-heartedly with Harem in panel 4. :D
Panel 7 may need to become the background for my tablet, if I ever figure out how to make it so. [/drool]
(Also, my apologies for the late comments on these installments; I’ve read the comic twice and am now reading the comments, having discovered you sometimes reply with non-spoilertastic character information. :) )