Grrl Power #116 – There was never really any choice
Not really sure what to say about this one, other than you probably shouldn’t hire me to design a name and theme for your restaurant, because apparently I can only come up with really silly ones. I would totally eat at a place called Luftwaffles though.
I finally finished the Dabbler vs. Zintiel wallpaper, you can vote for it at the usual place, and once you do that hit the DeviantArt page for the full sized image.
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This is a little off topic but I think some of you might enjoy it. I don’t have nearly as much time to play video games as I used to (just finished the first playthough of Borderlands 2 this weekend) so I keep my eye out for games I can play in smaller chunks now, and I rediscovered a classic this week. For anyone who thinks that games these days aren’t <i>nearly</i> violent enough, and are also way too easy, I recommend you check out Brutal Doom. It’s a mod for Doom I/II that… well makes it way way way more violent. I played through the first few levels over the weekend and I was giggling constantly. So for anyone interested here’s a few links:
Check out this Video, then download GZDoom, and finally Brutal Doom for GZDoom
I don’t know if you actually need Doom I/II installed to play this, but here’s how I got it working:
1) Installed Doom II via Steam
2) Unzipped GZDoom into it’s own folder in the Doom II install
3) Unzippled Brutal Doom into the GZDoom}y folder
4) Drag brutalv017gzdoom.pk3 on to gzdoom.exe
5) Groovy.
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Fusion it is! Sydney go eat!
And Luftwaffles made me laugh, nice one, Dave!
Peg didn’t even have time to blink. I know it’s just a sight gag but, damn that’s fast! Even Math was slow enough for a “ZIP.”
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/524
I can see 2 ending with the fusion place, both starts with Peggy walking in and finding Syd in tears:
1) Peggy “Whats wrong?” See’s plate of food pushed to one side. “I told you it was Spicy”
Syd “You call this crap spicy. Please I piss spicier stuff than that”
2) Peggy “Whats wrong?”
Syd looks up with love in her eye’s while trying to shovel more food into her mouth “iuytr loooiiuhhvvderr tghyuisdf plkihgaxcd” (I love this place)
She probably does, though I wouldn’t want to find out.
You forgot option 3.
Syd orders something and the ArcLight complex goes on total system shutdown to combat a chemical weapons threat. Everyone breaks in in full hazmat gear to see Syd grumbling about things not being spicy enough.
I like this one! :D
You left out the part about how Syd is adding some “special sauce” to it, because it’s not spicy enough.
I wonder if she’d need a little Niacin added to it so she can feel the warmth.
maybe it’s not fast so much as sneaky
Dave, quick typo alert! In the last panel you left the “y” off the “they.” If you fix it quick and delete this post no one need know.
End of second line of Peggy’s dialogue.
Thanks for the heads up. Quick fixed it before I headed to work.
I can just see Cupps franchises popping up all over. Expecialy if they serve subs with their coffee.
That window art already gave me a “foot long.”
There is something similar in the Puget Sound region, dueling coffee chains, Cow Girls and Bare-istas. They are both a chain of drive ups with bikini (or less) clad baristas. Well, usually bikini, but sometimes lingerie. Saw one in Puyallup yesterday, she had a cloth, hanging down her front like a backwards mini-cape, from a hoop necklace, (I think, hard to tell at 30 mph) and pasti’s and a g-string. I wanted to stop for coffee but my wife vetoed the idea. Said our bank account couldn’t handle it. According to the news some of the baristas top $700 in tips on a good day.
Luftwaffles, copyright it now.
As corny as that name is, I’m sure someone has to have come up with that kind of idea before.
If not, they really should. In Berlin.
It was also used more than 10 years ago in the long-defunct Polymer City Chronicles
Wow. I thought that was totally original. I should know better. The breadth and depth of media available nowadays pretty much ensures that every joke has already been done. Oh well, it’s all down to execution anyway. I do like my Iron Eagle turned Iron Chef Eagle.
Yes, I loved this logo as well :)
As much as I hate it when my original ideas turn out not to be, I’m fairly sure it was also on and episode of the Simpson’s.
Jawohl mein fuhrer
Jawohl mein fryer
Iron Chef (copyright Food Network) uses two crosses chef’s knives for their logo. Close, but no cigar (LOL)
YAY, someone else remembers PCC.
And it’s not entirely dead, Chris still has a Deviant Art page and does the occasional bit of artwork: https://urusaiwrangler.deviantart.com/
I do miss PCC.
I didn’t know anybody was still paying Polymer City’s hosting.
A Google search on “Luftwaffles” (with the quote marks) produced 35,100 claimed hits which produced 732 actual hits, including Luftwaffle t-shirts at cafe press
Can’t. There was an Onion article about them years ago. Here you go.
Good one though, and I’m looking forward to someone trying to pepper-spray Sydney and discovering it’s like throwing gasoline on a fire. “Your force field can’t stop pepper spray you little … Aiiigh! Get her off me!”
Some people spray mint flavouring into their mouths to freshen their breath. Sydney uses pepper spray
The drawing I pictured was the bad guy holding up the pepper spray canister and Sydney jumping forward, her mouth wide open.
Sort of ;ike jumping on a grenade if you’re invulnerable.
More like jumping on a grenade when you are invulnerable, because you like the feeling. I wonder if Achilles is like this.
He did seem bored with run-of-the-mill explosions.
Sydney, the woman who thinks kimshi mixed with wasabi (which I think should be labeled an WMD) is for wimps.
Which makes Sydney a woman after my own heart. I eat wasabi bits as a warm up, so to speak. (pea sized balls of the wasabi paste, the real stuff not that gak you get in most American sushi bars)
Sydney might use peper spray as a mouth wash.
Read the bonus comic out loud as soon as I saw it and it had me floored with laughter.
So Sydney’s doesn’t just like spicey food she really loves it.
Also I would love to eat at Luftwaffles, sounds like a delicious and hiralious place too eat.
Apparently she burned out her taste buds years ago and can only appreciate REALLY HOT food.
Or that’s actually one of her powers or a side effect of them.
that and FRC’s (or since Sydney is an RPG nerd, the Fart of Room Clearing spell)
Shouldn’t that be “Phart the Dispersing”? (Which is actually a card game I believe.
Capsaicin binds to cells (nerves involved in heat sensing in particular) and tells them they are on fire; it does so by binding a protein channel used to detect head https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPV1
Repeated exposure causes cells to become desensitized (using the natural tuning and anti poison processes of cells) so that it has reduced effect from repeated exposure. Such desensitization means it doesn’t feel as hot to her as it would to someone else.
Her taste buds would be functioning perfectly normally, and humans are incapable of TASTING capsaicing, the same way you can’t say something “tastes cold” (but you can certainly FEEL if something cold is in your mouth)
“detect head” should be “detect heat”
freudian slip there perhaps?
If the capsaicin is still involved in that process, that could be quite painfull for both parties.
Actually many *ahem* “warming gels” have a tiny bit of capcaicin in them to provide the “warming”
isn’t that one of dabbler’s actual powers?
It’s her Porno Sense. SOMEONE always loves it when that sense tingles. ;)
That slip gave me the biggest laugh in a month. Thanks.
Its time to evacuate the building,at least if fusion tries to make to food spicy enough for Sydney
They might have heavy-duty vent fans for just such occasions.
no just an airlock separated sealed room so the added air spicyness saves them on condiments while protecting other less extreme eaters.
In one room is Fusion’s kitchen. Next door is ARC’s chemical weapons lab. There’s only a saloon-style half-door between them.
Sydney sure does have a big hand in pannel two. It’s probably just a perspective drawing, but the hand is almost as big as her head.
Perspective because it’s closer.
Yeah, I was going to say that it looks pretty strange to me too. Even with perspective, I don’t think it should look that big.
Luftwaffles. . . Flying waffles. . . I see airplanes and ballon themes to this place. Should replace the logo with an ME109 with the crosses changed to waffles though.
I do love the spicy food place got the beeline action from Sidney.
There is this restraunt in Houston called the Potato Patch. Serves steak and big baked potatoes, anyway one of the servers underhand pitches the rolls to you at eighty MPH.
I know this dosn’t have any thing to do with Luftwaffles, but I thought it was intresting.
Actually I believe luft is closer to air so air waffles which sound yummy.
as opposed to the air biscuits floating out of fusion
LOL, I’m sorry but air waffles sounds like a fart to me, and there ain’t nothing yummy about those in my opinion.
Well if you do waffles right they are light and airy inside so more air would mean lighter and more syrup absorption.
I wonder what is in the rest of the minimall? The tourist trade is going to pick up rapidly during the next week or so. I see a definite love/ hate relationship developing between the civilian and military parts of this building.
Also kind of wondering how long until Sydney starts planning to move the comic store here. Or at least a small branch operation news stand kind of thing.
Your second paragraph is a terrific idea.
I also wonder if anyone else on the team reads comic books.
I’d rather wonder who does not? Arianna perhaps, but I won’t bet on it either (although she’s apparently not familiar with hentai…)
comic starts off in the building
Well, they do appear to have a much larger building, but sydney has to get into her car to get from there to where Anvil and Maxima are at Archon. I had assumed that super heroes becoming a proven thing and the asdvent of a super hero orgasnization (and now that we know that they don’t bother with secret identities, the fact that there is a known super hero working at a comic shop) generated a huge boom to their business and they were able to move to a bigger building. Maybe they found so many things to put in the Archon building that they built another one right next to it which in the present houses their comic shop and to get to the main building, Sydney drove because the man-made shade of the car would protect her from the sunlight she’d be exposed to had she walked. Man, that was onde bad run-on sentence.
Maby she could make it a part of the deal for her to join the team. Low, or free rent in the Mall. That’s the biggest chalenge of owning a store, Keeping up with the rent during slow periods.
Sydney’s Mind:
FOOOOD! … bright shiny object … man, they are going to ask me to join a SUPER HERO team!!! … don’t think about Dabbler, not a Lesbian … spoooon! … Joel was worried about something, what was it … man, that dog looked shocked this morning … this needs more spice … OMG! the shop might close in 6 months!
I think it’s all going to be restaurants, at least on the floor they’re on. I don’t know if there will be a second retail floor though. I’ll decide that when I need to.
(Trying this again, without any attempt at href, given that the webpage seems to have eaten my last attempt. With a dash of spicy sauce.)
Given that it was only this morning that Joel said the comic store may have to close in 6 months (#16 https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/147 ) it will probably be on Sydney’s mind. If she can secure cheap rental for a shop in the building (if another floor is a mall, or even snapping up one of the vacant spots on this floor intended to become an eatery), it will be the mother of all comic book locations. In a public access area, within the headquarters of America’s national superhero organisation!
people would shop there just to say they actually were there. Imagine the tourist retail options.
Owned and operated by a real live superhero!
Mark up someone else here who LOVES the idea of a place (or franchise) called ‘Luftwaffles’. TM and Copyright that sucker NOW.
…… And Cupps is a place I’d be interested in checking out at least once – but don’t tell the wife. I’m also guessing that certain characters we’ve already met spend a lot of time there.
But Math keeps striking out getting the ladies to about more than his order.
Oops!
… to talk about …
You kidding? I’ll bet Math barely realizes there’s other restaurants there.
please if LF doesn’t have a math special as full course meal two mugs of german brew and a fire hose for any smart stuff twards the beermaids I will paint my scales neon green, or a standing contract with max to waitress/bouncer at maths table if no fire hose.
I’m salivating thinking about the Luftwaffles. Do you think Sydney will trigger the buildings chemical warfare alarm with lunch?
Flock and gawk! Is that something like “shock and aw”? Little sister maybe. Hmmmm..
It does make sense that a ‘.Mil’ would say something like that.
But my main question is, if I start up a waffle place, will I have to pay you royalists?
Only if you’re with a group that supports a Monarchial kind of government. (I think you mean “royalties”.) ;-)
Run….
****Helmet starts to target Messenger****
Bismark, (looks around for Adamas,) don’t shoot the Messenger.
*Anti-pun tentacle grab’s Thang’s leg and starts swinging him around*
sometimes Missiles are too mainstream
I love the way you “shake that Thang”. :)
***Fires and missis Messenger, do to falling and ROTFLMAO!!!!!****
I knew that would go someplace, BUT I never expected this kind of “Game, Set, and Match”!
settle unsteadyly to the ground, facepalms, and groans.
great more bad puns and looks like the jokes just sank bismark early in the war.
*Tentacle starts beating Bismarck with Thang’s screaming, flailing body*
Sings “We’ve got to sink the Bismark cause the world depends on us!”
A couple of motion lines or a sound effect at the vaccuum located Sydney might not be out of line. For a second I thought we’d discovered another secondary power of one of her orbs.
I thought of the same thing when I looked at that picture.
it’s used in anime. alone the lines of person A is talking to person B, person A says something person B is interested in, person B then disappears, leaving person A talking to an empty space indicated by a blinking doted outline
I was thinking: Oops, has someone attacked her/made her invisible? Has one of her orbs unlocked a secondary power? (Detect super spicy food) Has Dave had to leave for work early? (poor unfinished Sydney) What a cliffhanger!
That was, until I read the speech bubble :)
i forgot to say it’s a blinking dotted outline not a white silhouette
How you enjoying Borderlands 2 so far, Dave? :-) Hope you’re having fun.
I’m surprised the building is actually a mix of military base for superhumans and open-to-the-public commercial spaces. That presents greater security problems than a facility that’s purely for military and government personnel. A mall frequented by a lot of civilians means a) non-authorized persons “accidentally” (both literally and euphemistically) entering sensitive areas, especially once the team gets fans after their public unveiling, b) danger to those civilians in the event of some sort of attack (yeah, it might seem crazy to attack a building filled with super-powered beings and elite soldiers, but a big enough combination of bravery, determination, care and power in a superhuman or an organization can do it if given a reason to do so). If this was Arianna’s idea, then the military gave her a ton of leeway for it.
Syd’s left bang in panel one seems off since it looks like it’s hanging to her right. It should actually be blocking her left eye from that angle.
I’m surprised Luftwaffle’s hasn’t offended people with its theme. Wouldn’t a theme like that attract Neo-Nazis?
As for Fusion, I don’t suppose they have some dishes that aren’t that spicy (or that Peggy was exaggerating). For a resto to survive, it has to cater to a variety of tastes. Unless it’s really, really good, it can’t afford to rely on a very particular bunch of eaters.
The Luftwaffe was around both before and after the Nazi party and basically refers to the air arm of the military. There were 2 World wars which involved aerial combat.
Actually, the Luftwaffe was founded after the Nazis rose to power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe
I stand corrected. Nonetheless it was not a “Nazi” term.
It remains very strongly connected to them as the 3rd Reich’s air force in WW2. German-Austrian culture and cuisine is easily distinct from the Nazis, but the Luftwaffe not so much.
From my experience around 1980 (doing inventory for the people repairing the very last Fiat G-91 “Gina”s), I can assure you that today’s Luftwaffe is as un-Nazi-or-Wehrmacht-like as it gets.
It is rather irritating that so many people only see us in clichees over half a century old. But then, people in the US seem to still be fighting their civil war (or “war of northern aggression”, depending on which side they are) – that war officially ended before modern Germany was founded (von Bismarck, 1871) …
Alas some of the idiots here in the U.S. seem to still be fighting the Crusades.
You give them more credit than I do. I think some are nostalgic for the Roman Empire. Bread and Circuses = TV and Welfare.
More like burgers and footballXD
The bread was given away free in Rome.
Ve haf vays of prefenting Nazi’s. No vone vith ze name Ignatius iz allowed in.
Brand new branch of the goverment at a time when budgets are really tight to begin with. Maby they got the property when the owner got caught in a RICO case and they decided to open up part of it to the public in order to make $$$ so they could pay for all that cool stuff they have.
@Messenger
‘Luftwaffe’ is German for ‘Air Force’. Some people can be offended by absolutely anything.
Yeah, I saw that sign and was like “Oh, so they serve nice airy waffles? I prefer mine a bit more on the crunchy side but I’d give it a try.” Nothing nazi attached to it.
I refer you to once’s response above. No matter how you cut it, there’s a historical and strong link between the Luftwaffe and the Nazis it served. At the same time, (Neo-)Nazis and other fascists not only continue to exist but are active and even thriving, given how many of such parties have gained government positions in Greece and Italy. Germany still has to take its own Neo-Nazis seriously.
Throw in the whole train of recent Holocaust deniers and the like and even if some people take offense at anything, it’s really not something you can just dismiss. Thank goodness Dave B means it as a joke (and admits it as well), but it still treads on thin ice.
I consider Holocaust deniers to be one of the lowest forms of humanity, and I accept that some sensitivity should be shown in referrences to such matters.
However …..
I do NOT believe that sensitivity should ever extend as far as total excision. Pretending that certain words do not or should not exist just means that people become unaware of what they once meant. Just the same as airbrushing swastikas from historical pictures or omitting them from historical scale models (both of which I have seen) does not achieve anything other than to mollify the ‘eternally offended’ crowd.
Just being careful. Or else I would’ve drawn and posted my “Nazi Ninja vs. Rabbi Samurai” on the internet already.
Correction: … my “Nazi Ninja vs. Rabbi Samurai” idea on the internet already.
I agree with Messenger in that the neo nazi situation, in Greece in particular and Europe in general, is a growing risk, which needs to be opposed. However, in no way is Dave “treading on thin ice”. This is clearly a play on words, and in no way even implies support for Nazism or the Holocaust. Even going so far as to disassociate from it by making the uniform prussian themed (as Scott’s Folly mentions).
In particular, this is a parody of the Luftwaffe name. Parodies mock the subject, as opposed to support them! Artistic humour should not be censored to mollify the overly politically correct.
As an aside (albeit loosely related), it should be noted that the Luftwaffe behaved honourably during the Battle of Britain. Nazi high command had ordered that parachuting British airmen should be shot down. The Luftwaffe pilots disobeyed the order (bear in mind how serious that is, so it is no trifling matter) and did not comply.
Given that Britain had a shortage of pilots, but a surplus of aircraft, this could potentially have changed the outcome of the war, had they been dishonourable!
One of the significant differences between the Archon building and other government facilities is that a great deal of the security of the building is up to its inhabitants. Obviously you have to have a competent staff no matter what the physical security arrangements are, but in Archon’s case, they have to worry about shapeshifters or people who can tear fire doors out of their tracks and walk though a hail of bullets.
The only way that people who can’t fly can access the interior of the Archon side of the building is the killbox lobby seen on page 75, so having civilians mingling nearby isn’t considered an added security risk.
But the amount of collateral damage during an “incident” could be enormous.
Welcome to the killbox lobby! Have a pleasant, if short, stay.
*Zuriel paralyses the evil invulnerable planet eaters, and have them agree to keep earth safe in exchange for her exclusive videos…*
Collateral damage indeed, she might have to dial ‘lust power’ in the city-wide range to do that, LOL. At least 9 months later, most superheroes would have kids to prepare for the next challenge … LOL
You showed tremendous foresight as a writer and in-world by pointing out that the Archon and mall buildings are actually separate with the former having a reinforced structure, but any chance baddies breach Archon by tunneling from the mall side into their building? (I watch a lot of heist films.)
Sure that could happen, but they’re dealing with super powered incursions as well. Someone could just phase through a separating wall or just teleport into the place potentially. There are plenty of part in their portion of the building that are considered “minimum security” like the ballroom they were in that simply doesn’t have much in the way of vital info or access, but they’re still monitored and occasionally swept for bugs, etc. There’s medium security, like the lounges with the sofas and the big TVs. They’re only considered higher risk because of a row of offices like Leon’s that are right there. But there’s always a half dozen or more supers in that area. There’s also a few ultra high security areas, with walls filled with wires and sensors to detect phasing and tunneling, with heat, sound and pressure sensors to detect teleportation.
A half dozen supers in the lounge most of the time? Hmm.
The Pain: [ Drops into the lounge from the skylight above on a rocket pack ] I am The Pain! This facility is now mine! You will do as I say! [ The Pain appears heavily armed and armoured, holding an automatic rifle, like P90’s, in each hand ]
New Panel
Harem (Thing 1): [ Was sitting on the couch. Stands up and turns around to face The Pain ] Oh dear. What are we going to do?
Voice from up by the pool table: Excuse me.
Voice from Leon’s office: Hold that thought a moment, please.
New Panel
Two glowing purple shapes appear behind The Pain (sound effect: VORP) and grab him.
New Panel
The area where the three were standing now only shows a rocket pack falling to the ground. Harem (Thing 1) sits back down.
Anvil: Where did you take him anyway?
Voice from up by the pool table: Ok, I’m back. It’s still my shot?
Voice from Leon’s office: Now where were we?
Why would a teleport need a jetpack? Didn’t you see Azazel in X-men FC?
It depends on the functionality of his teleportation. If he retains momentum between jumps and tries to “fly” by a series of teleports (without landing or having some other means of flying, levitating, parachuting or gliding), all he will do is fall until he reaches terminal velocity. So, unless he found some way to slow himself, he would likely die whenever he got too tired to keep teleporting himself to altitude again.
The Pain can not teleport, so he uses a jet pack to get around. Harem, on the other hand, I thought would selectively teleport The Pain, leaving the jet pack behind.
Um… DaveB said Harem can’t teleport large objects, including people.
I just realized that a superhuman intruder alert at Archon would be a really exciting and interesting thing to watch.
*ALERT ALERT* Hostile superhuman activity incoming! Analysing….
… Presence of potentially lethal levels of capsaicin detected. Possibly concentrated Trinidad Moruga Scorpion venom. Recommend immediate bio hazard containment and evacuation of mall/cafeteria level!
Cancel Alert it’s just Halo’s lunch bag. (muttered) third time this month!
“The only way that people who can’t fly can access the interior of the Archon side of the building is the killbox lobby”
Presumably non-flyers could use the elevator that Peggy & Sydney just used, after thwarting whatever security measures are on that.
“Luftwaffle” might attract neo-Nazi types out of interest. But if the sub-comic’s anything to go by, they’re themed rather more towards the older ‘Prussian’ aristocratic temperament: “professionalism, aggressiveness, militarism, and conservatism“. While the original Junker aristocracy on whom the stereotype is based were largely ignored by the Nazis, one suspects that any funny business in the restaurant would be addressed with the usual Junker directness.
Even with the ‘killbox lobby’ as the only connection between the public and ARC parts of the building, I would have thought that the mall would be bit of a liability in terms of security: a lot of potential cover for an attacking team and/or a lot of potential hostages if/when the attack goes belly-up. But in a way, that probably works both ways: give the ARC team five minutes’ warning of a potential attack, and there can be a pincer squad blended into the crowd by the time the attack starts at the killbox. If nothing else, it certainly makes it a lot easier to justify severe retaliation against someone who’s attacked the base if they’ve done so through civilians, compared to if they’ve just dropped a big rock on a few buildings in the desert.
Luftwaffles? Thats got to be the most brilliant thing ever XD
poor poor peggy,,,i hope she doesnt turn blind from exposure to sydney’s meal fumes.
but who know,,, maybe fusion will hire sydney as a new spoke person for them if they realuy specialise in spicy foo d:)
wow,,, i wonder who made peggy’s artificial leg,,, cause she sure has no troouble walking like she doesnt have one with it,,,,, probably something dabbler made,,if so it make me wonder what kind of “price“ she had to pay for it
Do we really want to know? Knowing dabbler it possibly involved satisfying her in bed, being 1/2 succubus it may of taken Peggy all night (if not longer)
i know someone that has both legs with prothesis and he gets around just fine.
Depends a lot on what is intact muscle and nerve wise.
There are some really good prostrtic companies out there nowadays, Europe seems to have some of the best, so her leg could very easily be from Earth.
Some of the better ones are a result of the armor solders wear now protecting their lives but not their limbs. More limb injuries mean more attention is paid to prosthetic development.
Peggy: and Sydney’s language forced the closing of the 3rd Reich’s lutwaffles division! It was all over youtube!!
Maxima: Best friend ever!
Sydney: they shouldn’t serve such CRIMINALLY WEAK SAUCE!! …and now the public has been reassured I am *ONLY* a nazi and will no longer demand my execution! Whew. Say anyone seen my pew pew orb?
team: [worry they missed something]
Matt: [missed the whole thing, was looking at boobs]
P.S.: Zintiel VS Sydney:
Zintiel: OMEGA… MURDER… SPICEBLAST!!!
Sydney: OMG best cook ever!
Okay, Luftwaffle already exists, it appears that it did. Ah, that site is just a joke; maybe the trademark is available. Cupps is a bakery and coffee shop in Vermont; the website does not say what the serving staff wear. There are several restaurants named Fusion or with Fusion in the name.
BTW, you can not copyright a name, just a creative work (like, say, a web comic). You can register a trademark on a name, but only for one particular industry. e.g Purolator courier and Purolator filter are both allowed because they are in different industries.
That’s why we can get a half dozen movies with the same name and NOTHING connecting them
You would need to get a small tank to get my ass out of that Cupps place. Good coffee and hot chicks? So there.
Oh, and for a game you can play in small bursts Dave, have ya tried out Team Fortress 2?
A small tank? Hey Max, this guy just called you a … [ runs away ]
next comic will probably start with “a few hours later” and with people being removed from a cordoned off toxic zone crying about the pain as syd tries to figure out why fusions will be closed indefinitely, rofl
You know, a few of us had already come up with the Luftwaffle joke after discovering Japancakes.
I expect that they honor each other’s coupons and specials.
Also, I really thought that the mini comic was having the guy yelling “you will be SATED!”
To which I say, “well yes, I hope so; I’m rather hungry”.
Sated? I read Satiated… and thought that was gonna be Dabbler’s favorite eatery…if she can manage to get herself on the menu that is. o.0 :P
After having seen the kids meal named ‘tentacle grape’ (which is way too close to ‘grope’ or rape for confort, not to mention the picture of the schoolgirl and the tentacles), I am no longer surprised by Japan.
Except when I saw Gon, and the lotita feminine noncombat transformers series, and that video game where you… walk a dog.
Japan is the world’s leading exporter of weird.
California cant be to far behind
… I can neither deny nor confirm that statement. I can only say ‘Look at what hollywood put out in the eighties’.
Actually “Tentacle Grape” is made by a California company, with 6 sales locations.
3 are in Florida (What ARE those retirees getting up to?)
1 is in Kentucky
1 is in Colorado
and the last is in South Australia
It seems to have no physical company presence in Japan, but can be ordered online, so who knows.
Sydney spicy right weak sauce there at this new place poor cook is going to get an earful.
Dave, you might want to try GOG.com if you’re feeling a little Old School (Fallout, Ultima, etc)
Hooters meets Starbucks. Brilliant. “Do you have anything larger than a C cup?”
*Puts a 128oz cup on the counter* We have the Triple F cup.
I actually had a cup that big. I got it while working night shifts at a stop-n-rob. I drank diet coke (didn’t need all that sugar and I like the taste).
Sorry about this DaveB.
https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ec57/
Now that is a coffee cup! 8)
And YES! I am a geek! I just got my zombie bag last week!
LOL, well I’ve cut down to one cup a day
[snob] Ugh. That’s an *American coffee* cup. If I filled it with *coffee* (my regular espresso, for example), it would have qualified as a WMD [/snob] :-)
I like my coffee strong enough to beat you senseless with your own spoon, and drink a quart of it a day.
Personally, I like my coffee by the Slice.
The cake is a lie. :>
“The world’s largest coffee cup”, eh? This sounds like a challenge…
Uh-oh, she said the magic word. I hope Ace didn’t hear it…
You kidding? He’s probably already there.
I’m going to feel extremely stupid for asking this, but who is Ace?
A charecter in a web-comic called Too Much Information. He carries his own hot sauce..that has caused his buisness to evacuate more than once, and has a sister that likes Cayenne Cake.
Sounds like he could be a good life-partner for Sydney. Well he would survive her food choices, anyway.
This guy: https://tmi-comic.com/comic/these/
Should’ve gotten the one where he was making a home-made Cayenne cake.
Or the one where he has habanero ice cream.
Yeah that’s one way to take care of a bully. ;)
Personally, I hope this Fusion place lives up to it’s hype. I think it’d be funny if Syd actually found a place that was beyond even her super heroic tolerance. I can see it now: 2-4 panels of Syd breathing fire, rolling around in agony, sweating/crying enough to put out your average forest fire. Final panel: her holding up her bowl with two hands, uber-cute look on her face and a quiet ‘more please’ while Peggy and the others look on with shock and horror.
Syd breathing fire, rolling around in agony, sweating/crying enough to put out your average forest fire. Final panel: needs salt
That final panel can go one of two ways. The Oliver Twist route – puppy-dog eyes and “Please sir, may I have some more?” – or the Conversion route – calling the chef Master and grovelling for an apprenticeship.
No no. Master Chief is from the other Halo!
I’m kind of imagining Sydney sitting in Fusion, sending back her order a few times with the command ” MAKE IT HOTTER!!!!”. Near-panic amongst the staff.
Reminds me of a rather funny story about a friend of mine. He LOVES Indian food – curries in particular, the hotter the better. So, when a new Indian restaurant opened in his neighbourhood. he HAD to go check it out.
The waiter takes my friend’s order, and then enquires as to the hotness wanted. The choices are Hot, Medium, Mild, or Extra-Mild. Something like that.
My friend says “Extra-Extra-Hot, please”.
The waiter has a little difficuty taking this in (my friend is most definitely NOT Indian). But, when convinced that this is in fact what is REALLY wanted, my friend swears blind that the waiter’s face then lights up with joy as he practically RUNS to the kitchen.
A short wait as the meal is prepared. As it is brought out (with extra respect), at least a couple of the kitchen staff also appear to watch proceedings from a discreet distance. Thw waiter is very conscientious in setting my friend up for the experience, with all the trimmings (and a discreetly-sited glass of something soothing, just in case).
My friend then hoes in. No dramatic reaction whatsoever. The waiter waits awhile, then very politely (and with a ####-eating grin) asks if the meal is satisfactory
My friend then looks up, with tears running down his face, and says “It’s G-O-O-D!”
I believe he is now something of a minor celebrity when visiting that restaurant.
Luftwaffles!! Have to send this to a friend… long story!
Silly names? I can totally see those being used in Real Life.
I’ve SEEN worse puns in real life. There’s a Thai restaurant near me, called “Thai’d up” and a few others that dammit, escape me right now.
Worst name ever was a fried-food place called “Birdie num-nums” *shudder*
Found at a restaurant in Shanghai, China.
https://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/12/rock-blasting-small-cock.jpg
I have the feeling that those restaurants and what not are part of Arianna’s marketing strategy. You know, if the general public was allowed into that part of the building, they might have the chance to run into their favorite superhero. It’d be like seeing a celebrity in a restaurant.
who about a shoe shop called Daz Boot
look it up
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/
If it measures up to the other place (name escapes me) it would be interesting to see a cook-off between Fusion and it with Sydney as judge.
Fusion Vs King of Siam?, would the insurance cover the fall out?
Pass out gas masks, that should do it.
by the way did lil’ dabby teach zintiel the omega murder spells? or is our loveable (lustable), little purple arm-y, hellion the one to learn new magic?
mmm, just did a couple of posts which never appeared after submitting. No message about “awaiting moderation” or the like. I did try using the href tag, which might have caused a problem, if I did it wrong?
I had found a sandbox, where you can try out version of HTML code:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_test
However it appears to use a different syntax to the tags listed at the bottom of the page (for instance title is handled differently under href). Is there a similar one elsewhere that is compatible with this comic’s tags?
Never mind, I have found out that the syntax they have there works fine here. So I can now test any posts with links or the like, before posting them.
I can see Fusion becoming Sydney’s home away from home. If they are spicy enough. I have been feeling real sad for her since she was so cutely hungry in #98 https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/589
And thank you, thank you for the Zintiel vs Dabbler artwork! It is Flaky Pastry that originally got me hooked on webcomics, and have continued reading it every week since. My favourite City of Heroes character “Zintrine” is an amalgam of Zintiel and Nitrine. Part chaos elf and part mad scientist goblin.
If you ever feel like doing another, Zintiel and Halo would be the dream wallpaper. I can just imagine Zintiel’s hair grabbing Halo’s orbs!
While everybody else are contemplating various diner names, I noticed something else. For something like a year and a half, we wondered what was in that poster tube, but Sydney wouldn’t even show the orbs to Joel. Now that they’re out in the open, she suddenly seems to hesitate about stowing them *away*.
Sydney is awful at lying and obviously did not like having to hide the orbs from Joel. Now Sydney’s balls are out of the tube, it is a weight off her mind. Especially if she had been wondering if they might ask her to keep them secret still.
That sounds vaguely sexual.
“A-Rats” – Haut Quisine for Soldier, Sailor, and Marine!
Run by ex-NCO military cooks.
Blessed Goddess no! *Pictures Halo blowing the place up because they have nothing hotter than Tabasco sauce.*
Luftwaffles is excellent. Even to the Iron Eagle with a chef’s hat and grasping a waffle is inspired! Knowing Sydney she carries her own hot sauce. She may be like the bald men from the future in “Fringe” their taste is so blunted they have to really spice it up to taste it. Hope her farts are manageable.
Welp, I daresay we’ve just been guaranteed a suspiciously partial collapse.