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Panel 8 could do with a comma; “Take that, you little twerp.”
Panel 10 could do with a question mark or comma; “What is this? About three million Scoville?”
Just sayin’.
In my opinion it’s just fine, it shows that they are all talking fast, informal, naturally. Perhaps they don’t speak perfectly, who does? And for that matter, the waitress is not speaking, she’s thinking. For clarity it’s put into words, but who really thinks with commas?
In dialogue a writer has a great deal of flexibility to convey their point. This is well within the acceptable as far as I understand.
Because this is the internet and we don’t know each other and I’ve gotten shit flung at me for this very reason, just let me make a final note, not reflecting on you in any way just saying it, that I’m not disputing your right to voice your opinion, I’m merely supplying my own in counterpoint.
Does nobody else say “comma” or “question mark” or “period” etc. etc. when they think? No? Just me? … … … Well then(period)
As you ask, no. You make an amusing point (ahem… no pun intended), but the mark does not actually represent the sound “comma”. If anything, it is the sound of silence, or a pause for breath (when translating between written and spoken speech, of course).
More importantly though, it lets you know that this is the spot that separates one concept from another.
If you were telepathically listening to her thoughts, she might well pause at that spot, exactly the same as if she were speaking it.
Hence, a comma makes it easier for the reader to understand. Although, in this case, the sentence breaks at the boundary of the thought bubble, so it does not stand out so much.
Engage edit mode:
Although, in this case, the sentence breaks at the boundary of the thought bubble, so it does not stand out so much.You could use the phonetic punctuation invented by Victor Borge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw
A funny application was when Victor taught it to Dean Martin, and they then applied it to singing: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3aact_victor-borge-dean-martin-musical-ph_fun#.UPXaB2c51w8
In absolute agreement about the missing comma in panel 8. Derailed my reading of that panel to have it missing.
I think panel 10 could work well with an ellipsis, indicating a pause for consideration
“What is this… About three million Scoville?”
I don’t think a question mark works, since she rather than asking, she is leading into a hazarded guess. A comma would be fine. It diffidently needs something.
Gah… the lack of an edit feature has undone me!
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I am in absolute agreement about the missing comma in panel 8. Its absence derailed my reading of that panel.
I think panel 10 could work well with an ellipsis, indicating a pause for consideration
“What is this… About three million Scoville?”
I don’t think a question mark works, since rather than asking, she is leading into a hazarded guess. A comma would be fine. It diffidently needs something.
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Yay, fixed.
ehh..
Umm evac…
Evac now.
NOW YOU !(&#^!%#$!@
THIS… is why you always where stylish Z71+ rated ballistic grade eye protection.
Something tells me that this is so infinitely much worse than getting lemon juice in you’re eye. And apparently Sidney’s fireproofness doesn’t extend to the rest of her face.
*chuckle* I love the Star Wars reference in panel three. Soooo glad you decided to do this page.
I gotta stop reading this in my break – it got indian curry up my nose.
This is what pure genius looks like.
I especially like panel 9 with the shocked waitress and the cook making an “impossibru” face.
NOW we shall find out that (after a 3 Stooges – like effort to ‘fix’ the eye — causing MORE pain) — ahem… we find out that one of the last ‘mystery orbs’ provides a good eye wash. :p
After that last batch of hot sauces I figured we’d see another shelf of uber hots. Unmaker. Well played, I laughed til I cried, and now Syndey cries too.
Oh my god I can’t even look at panel 11 my eyes just water up. Partially in sympathy but mostly because I once got a bit of ghost pepper sauce in my eye and was in pain for days.
Really funny joke though. HEY MAYBE SHE’LL GET THE UNIDENTIFIED ORBS OUT AND HEAL HERSELF I HOPE THAT’S WHAT THIS IS FOR!
Here’s how I see it happening:
Syd’s poster tube starts rattling as one of the orbs inside begins to shake in response to its master’s need.
Peg, realizing something wants out, opens the tube and all the orbs fly out.
While the other orbs take up their standby position one of the unknown orbs drops down in front of Sydney’s face as if it’s begging to be used.
Taking the hint Syd grabs it and a light from the orb baths her in an aura/halo.
Sydney is restored to full health.
or they figure out the reason why she can take such hot stuff is because of an orb.
giving her healing powers as well makes her too powerful.
Pretty sure Sydney was eating mega-hot food long before she aquired the Orbs.
Agreed.
Something tells me Peggy sees Syd as a spice food maniac or something, taking so much punishment and yet surviving. Her gut must be made out of something that is not of this world, I imagine dabbler wouldn’t be able to handle such a powerful hotness that would burn the very soul in someone’s body.
I have to say now there’s an idea, a hot-food contest between the supers.
Fisrt I love the unmaker, and how its glowing . Second ilove that is inside a bow within a box. And third I like that that second box is marked asbestos.
It’s all about the little details….
Like the tiny ray of ‘unmakingness’ coming out of the box — like something from the briefcase in “Pulp Fiction” -or- the yellow and black ‘warning stripe’ around the bowl of delivered noodles. Classic comic kraziness aside, a cool entry and more incredible work from the cast and creator(s) of Grrrl Power.
Hehehe still a hot food contest between her and Dabbler would probably make her the winner considering she is eating stuff that would probably burn the inside of someone’s body. Can the alien demon thingy handle the stuff of intense spiciness or will she feel the intense pain that comes from consuming such a thing? Haha my imagination is coming up with a few ideas on how it ends. XD
All I can say is thank you… Thank you for making me laugh so fricking hard that my sides hurt. I literally spewed soda outta my mouth.
Fortunately it didn’t hit the computer, but I really need to go clean the wall.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Loved the comic too. Syd totally messes with everyone’s minds with what she can handle, then she gets her comeuppance all in one comic.
Glad you like it. I usually get a few chuckles out of these while I’m drawing them but I never have the benefit of going in and looking at the pages fresh, so it’s hard to judge how funny they are from that perspective.
You are one of the best artist out there in that you pic quality over quantity in both art and humor.
I know we all want you to be able to put out more per week, but what you do put out is first rate gold.
Thank you. It makes our monday’s bearable.
Looking at the the update again, WITHOUT a soda this time… noticed something that I didn’t when I was laughing so hard the first time. In that last panel it’s like Sydney’s eye wants to twitch and she’s doing everything in her power to keep that from happening since it would hurt like nothing else if she blinked.
Quickly! Grab the Super Mega Eye Drops Sphere! This is the perfect opportunity to test it.
Boo… My “original” comment was not original :( Kol Drake beat me to it…
For those who didn’t notice, options in panel 4 came directly from
“Drip-Along Daffy”
3 million? Sounds like my chili… I put about a tablespoon of The Source (7.1 million or so) in a pot.
Why not have Halo and company spend a night in Heck House the most haunted house on Earth 2436 ghosts reside there.
WTUHF happened there? A complete genocide of a tribe?!?!
my guess would be that it has become a Nexus of sorts. Drawing all nearby spirits to itself.
SSSSHHHHHH Don’t tell them our secrets! Aw Hell, it’s too late now. I’m figuring Ley Point under the house.
Panel:7 Syd’s eyewear flys off. They are even mentioned again in panel 10 on the table. thats a very nice attention to detail, I must say.
Usually I forget details like that. :P
We have become the little voices in the back of your head, we speak up and remind you of forgotten things.
It would be freaking cool to get a bunch of people together for a Monday release.
Probably hard to do as most of us live in separate parts of the country if not earth.
Looks suspiciously at the Martian-Who-Claims-to-be-From-Earth
I only summer on Mars, winter is far too cold.
He winters on Venus
Nah too humid. (:
Mercury?
Earth because it has the most INN-teresting peopples.
my domain is anything to do with chairs :P
What she needs right now is quick access to an OSHA eye wash station like they have in welding workshops.
If this place really wanted to advertise their more ‘extreme’ dishes – I see a special menu, kind of small and slim, black and yellow stripes, great big Bio-Hazard symbol on the cover, contains all their menu items that require legal waivers to order.
And then whenever someone orders from it they make a production out of it so everyone knows to watch the show. Dinner and theater and fire all in one!
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I I I ____ I. I I
I I I I I I. I I
I I I I I I. I I
I I____ I I____I I. I I____
I_____I I________I. I_____I
I don’t think this appeared how you thought it appeared. Should have used the
codetag.Lol
Nobody mentioned it but starting in Panel 5 “She’s got her eating hair on”.
Which appears to be reacting very badly, in the final panel. Either that, or the Unmaker has been angered, and is causing the pillar to crack!
Unmaker: You DARE to continue to eat me?! I shall blind you and make the ceiling fall uppon your head, puny mortal!
That comment is almost funnier than the actual comic
Well heat and humidity can do that to my hair too.
This is why you wear the glasses.
Glasses came off in panel 7 due to heat exchange. Super-heated air in Sydney’s mouth meets (relatively) cool air in booth = very small and very brief powerful winds.
I love this comic, it’s absolutely amazing. Wish you had a store and made books though it is great that you post once a week. It makes me wish for monday to come around again, not natural by the way
Thanks! I’m still working on the store stuff. And a book obviously. I want to get all the intro/1st day stuff into it so it’ll probably be… I don’t really know. 200 pages? 225? (I’m not sure as I haven’t written every page to the end of the first bit.) So it’ll be a while before I have a book but I have some other ideas for a store. Just have to actually do the art for it all.
Great news! You have a lot of very marketable content in the comic, and a rapidly growing fanbase. Although, initially, you may not be able to to much more than defraying expenses (pretty much the norm for web comics, I understand).
However, I feel that Grrl Power has the potential to make the transition mass market sales, if you handle it right. The superhero movies are hugely popular, and give you a big market, if you can find a way to tap into it.
Plus you have great one-liner and one panel gags that will translate well into t-shirt and other formats. Over and above the book sales themselves!
Boring point, but as you are investing time and effort into commercialising, do not forget to state your intellectual copyright clearly. I have one personal friend who had a whole comic (concept, characters, world setting, style and story) stolen off her by one of the very people she had approached to publish!
Plus followed the saga of “Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic” going through a protracted fight to stop someone selling art (on t-shirts and so on, I think) with neither acknowledgement of the source, nor paying royalties. And they are not alone.
Yeah, I need to set aside time to actually make some merch, just literally do the design work. I have several things that I think would do quite well… except I think they’d be print on demand because I sure as heck don’t have time to spent on the weekend with packing and shipping. Still need to investigate that.
I would like to pre-order ( call dibs ) on whatever the first thing you manage to put into hardcopy is.
Seriously…
When you DO decide that it’s time, do a Kickstarter campaign… i know that i’d back it in a heartbeat… and seeing as how you are in the top 5 at TWC every month i’m pretty dang sure that you’d be funded within a day or two of starting it… then you’d have to figure out STRETCH GOALS!!!
Mwhah, Ha Ha… (can’t spell out a mad scientist’s evil laugh for crap… bleh. but y’all get my drift.)
This is real life humor in action… we all have a friend out there who lives for the heat… This is the exact sequence of events that happens every time that particular friend of mine finds something hotter to try. Without fail he always gets it in his eye…and we all laugh. You might consider hic-up’s. That was his reaction the first time he tried dave’s ghost pepper sauce straight out of the bottle….just sayin…
You are all light weights put a mint tea wash in the eye cover with a mint tea bag. Mint numbs the heat receptors, Capsaicin dose the opposite numbs the cold receptors.Its why mint makes drinks Taste colder.Mint dose not do it as well but it will stop the burn. Same reason pepper stops a Ice cream head ache. :) And when I feel evil I add mint to my super hot Curry and the mint wears of and you hear the screams :))! Capsaicin lasts longer so you need to keep the Mint tea bag on the area Affected.
Yes I have done what Sidney has done except it was sweat on forehead and a finger with Red Habanero. I have had Arthritis since I was a kid no deformities and Pain managed with out drugs Just lots of hot sauce! You learn to love it. I wonder If Sidney got a medical reason for her obsession to? Knew a Guy that could only taste food with Hot sauce on it due to Sinus issue.Other reasons like Genetically high cholesterol.
The enemy cannot eat pure capsaicin if you disable her eye! MEDIC!
(Also, I feel so much empathy for Sydney right now. I used to work in a sports bar, and got chocolate-habanero/naga viper buffalo sauce in my eyes once. I still tear up reflexively when I think about it.)
These are the rules. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don’t do your job I’ll kill you myself! Welcome to Fusion.
(What a mouthwatering sauce. Although, less tempting on eyeballs. Somewhat.)
Oh if Peggy is on the ball she will do the following. One bottle of water please… Sydney lean over this way… Flush the eye. Hurts like hell but it has to be done quick or it just gets worse.
Actually if saline eye drops are available that would be better though you would need most of the bottle.
A closeup of panel 5 so needs to be in the picture rotation for Halo.
All hail the power of Bailfire the Unmaker!
I am a big fan of the “Impossibru!” face in panel 9.
Weird question
I wonder if you planted really hot peppers around the edge of your garden would it keep the rabbits and deer away?
There are a whole bunch of different plants that are known to repel (or attract) various animals. For instance purple flowers attract butterflies (their vision extends into the ultraviolet and purple is in the middle of their visual spectrum, and stands more out to them). Whereas certain herbs with strong smells (and those that numb the sense of smell) are useful in repelling ants and other creatures that rely on smell (possibly including rabbits, although I do not recall that).
Peppers though? I have not heard of it. I suspect not though, as they are easy to avoid. Especially red ones. Unless you have a variety that causes irritation by just touching it, perhaps? If you are a keen gardener, I suggest looking up herbs on Wikipedia. I know they have a section that covers this topic.
A friend of mine tried growing habaneros on his farm, he planted around 20 plants. Deer eventually came by and mowed down the entire crop of peppers.
I can definitely say they will not work as a way to keep animals from eating crops.
I know for a fact that various kinds of bird LOVE tucking into raw chili. We had pet canaries when I was a kid, and they couldn’t get enough of it. Don’t know about other critters..
Have heard a few times that the stuff repells certain kinds of insect, but don’t know any further details. Presumably, there is a reason why wild chili plants evolved to load up on Capsiacin (or however the h##k it is spelled). Doing so in order to discourage/repell certain pests is as good a reason as any. Other plants do similar things via other chemicals, or by growing spikes. or having extra-thick bark, etc,,
Okay, I searched through all comments and it seems I am really the only one who got freaked out by the noddles in panel 11. My first reaction was, “What the hell happened to her tongue?”, and from there I went to, “Wait, did she have a forked tongue all along?”, which naturally evolved into “Oh, I get it. The food is so hot it actually made her tongue split and curl up.”
Believe it or not, realizing those are just noodles in spicy tomato sauce and not her tongue proved to be quite a letdown.
Who said anything about tomatoes in that sauce? Most hot peppers when ripe are also red.
Noodles cam also be colored when they are made by adding different ingredients or food coloring.
I too found that picture confusing, at first, to be honest. Looking at it for a while, before reading the “Sluuuurrp” and putting two and two together. And then cracking up. Personally, I am not artistically skilled enough to be able to suggest a way it could be improved, for ‘first look understanding’.
However, in terms of continuity, the previous panel has Sydney eating a pepper. If Dave shared the concern, he could change that to twirling noodles/spaghetti on a fork, with some dangling down? This would provide foreshadow by making the reader subconsciously recall the tricky behaviour of food like that. Thereby helping to interpret the next panel.
After reading this page I needed a good five minutes to calm down enough to click the comment button. Have not laughed that hard in ages. Seriously, might have woken up the people next door and my sides really hurt..
Well played.
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Awesome. I really like this comic. Thanks, DaveB. :D
The healing is not as rewarding as the hurting Syd…
Of Sydney ever gets a date, I pitty the poor man who kisses her. It’d be like licking a boiler.
Grr stupid autocorrect
A boiler? No, that would be too kind. It would be french kissing molten lava!
So that is why Sydney’s wedding fantasy was with Wolverine. He’s the only one tough enough to handle her breathe weapon.
This is why we wear goggles, people.
Well, now we know how Nick Fury got that eye-patch.
And now a word from norm Abram. ‘Remember there is no better safety tip than to wear safety glasses”
i once rubbed my eyes after cooking with tabasco sauce, the PAIN!
well done lol
David: You might want to change what Sydney says in the 10th panel from
to
Changes:
Adding a ? between this and about
change drop -> fleck
The first might be superfluous if in the original drawing there is a , but as a web page that one doesn’t show up.
The last one since pure capsaicin is a crystal and Pure Cap is just an additive to make food hotter without adding another flavor to it
i personally like how the cabinet is labeled “Asbestos”
I’ll have to credit Michael Maltese with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnU2s3P8LKE