Grrl Power #1204 – PTO request imminent
What Sydney really wants is Niles from The Nanny and the MI6 version of Alfred mixed up in a transporter. I never watched The Nanny, but apparently I missed out because Niles can throw shade with the best of them.
If you don’t know who Parfait is peeping, his first appearance was as one of Deus’s henchmen here, then he suddenly showed up working security at the comic shop. If Parfait has her way, this will be the second time a cameo character adds a notch to their headboard in the comic… well, off-panel anyway. (Prinrin the Goblin also got a hookup.) Maybe I should add that as a disclaimer to the cameo thing on the Patreon page. Like, “let me know your preferred level of chastity for your cameo character…”
Anyway. I know what you’re all really asking; Olivia has a smoothie, Sydney is munching on a veggie wrap of some sort, no doubt steeped in moderately spicy-for-her hot sauce, but not scary plasma-bunghole hot. Not everything she eats has to technically qualify as a biohazard, but she’s pretty used to some heat in her meals now. And honestly, most veggie wraps probably need a little something to zhuzh them up. Not all, of course. You could get pretty creative, and Sydney has the leeway of being vegetarian, not vegan. Like, fried eggplant with mozzarella and marinara sauce in a wrap sounds pretty tasty. Also, anything with baba ganoush would be good. (If you’ve never had baba ganoush before, it looks kind of like hummus, but it tastes like the filling of a southwest eggroll, which is weird, because it’s mostly eggplant.)
My point is, when I hear “Veggie Wrap,” my first thought isn’t some of the more creative stuff you can do that would actually be pretty tasty, instead I think of like, lettuce and… I guess alfalfa sprouts. That’s it. That’s what my brain tells me is in a veggie wrap. Well, maybe some oil and vinegar or ranch dressing.
Oh, and Parfait is eating chili-cheese fries, because as a succubus, she can do that and not worry about her BMI or developing an oily T-zone or whatever humans have to worry about. She’s still learning to do the persistent “perfect beauty based on the general local populace ideal” glamor, but even without that, she’s immune to cellulite.
The August vote incentive is up! Yeah I know it’s late, so hopefully I’ll manage to get some bonus (read: overdue) incentives up as I attempt to catch up.
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So Sydney wants Chris Barrie’s character from the Jolie Tomb Raider movies?
I remember when I saw that and was like, “Oh hell it’s Rimmer!”
And then he pulls on a vest and gets out a shotgun and you go “wait, what?!”
Sydney needs to go to the origin and read everything ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ from P.G. Wodehouse.
Considering the kind of fights Sydney may got into, I wonder if the right butler wouldn’t be Walter C. Dornez, also known as “Angel of Death”.
She needs a full Jeeves to manage her zany antics.
I don’t think Walter is quite there, unfortunately.
Are we talking original recipe Walter, or Team Four star Walter?
Also, there actually is such a thing as a field-valet for officers.
They’re called “batmen.”
(The joke that Alfred is Batman’s batman is rather old and worn at this point)
Batman’s gentleman’s gentleman is Batman’s batman? I have never heard that before.
Somewhere there must be an officer named Alfred with a batman.
Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(military)
And now I’m wondering what Syd’s reaction to learning this would be.
She can afford to kit out her own Batman with gadgets, armour and Batmobile.
Archon might insist on approving personal and legal would insist she doesn’t use any direct symbols or design of Batman trademarks/ copyrights so she would need to get creative. That could either be very close but not Batman or something more wacky and unique.
When I was a kid in the 1960’s, I had a tan toy “Batmobile”. They obviously couldn’t put a Batman logo on it, but it was recognizably supposed to be reminiscent of the Batmobile from the Batman sitcom.
Sitcom? It was supposed to be a sitcom?
Was about to mention batmen
And Sydney would have to officially hand in her Nerd Creds and her signed Bat-family badge
I would suggest that Syd become Max’s batman, but I think she’d last all of 5 seconds in the role.
I think Harem is running that role for ARC atm?
Those Batmen also have their own theme-song
Before anyone else mentions it, that is what inspired Tolkien when writing Samwise Gamgee, he was written based on the the loyal batmen Officers had beside them.
Tolkien was at the fucking Somme.
I’m pretty sure that’s not the Somme which Tolkien was at.
Tolkien was at the fighting Somme.
Tolkien was at the “War is hell. No not the warm fuzzy sunday school hell. Real hell, where your friends die screaming and there’s nothing you can do about it” Somme.
The whole Lord of the Rings story by Tolkien was inspired by his really horrible experiences during WW1, when he and 3 of his childhood friends were drafted.
Samwise Gamgee, by Tolkien own words, is the real hero of the saga : humble, honest, willing to put himself in danger to help those he loves, and he managed to make it back fromm that whole ordeal without comprimising his principles.
Even the name of the character, “Samwise”, is symbolic of the wisdom he managed to earn during that grueling ordeal.
By the way, Tolkien was the only one of his group of friends to make it back, and he was deeply traumatized by what he had to live through, like almost everyone in that horror.
Darn it, beat me to it.
But yeah. If Sydney learned that little tidbit, I feel like nothing on heaven or Earth could stop her from getting one. (Which is why Dabbler would have to step in as the voice of reason.)
Also-also, The Nanny is amazing.
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention a batman. And knowing Sydney, I know where that would go quite quickly. However, I don’t think batmen went into combat.
Batmen were just regular soldiers detailed to act as an officer’s orderly. So yeah, they did go into combat. They drove the officer’s vehicle, dug his foxhole, and acted as bodyguard.
They were the ones who did the actual fighting for the officers (the ‘gentry’ officers, not the ones who moved up through the ranks)
And a lot of the time, they were the officers’ literal butler (or driver or valet or whatever they had back home)
Zombie tendons are strong but brittle, so trauma breaks them, and the zombie falls apart.
Except the tendons in the jaws obviously.
I never cared for the conceit of The Zombie.
Imagine being chased down the highway by a wrecked car.
Never watched “Duel” then (no, not that recent sword-fighting crap, Spielberg’s first movie, although technically it was a truck doing the chasing…)
Which was based on the short story printed in Playboy magazine. One of the first things where I read the story, then saw the movie and went, “Wait! That wasn’t in the printed story,” at various changes Spielberg made.
Isn’t that basically the plot of “Christine?”
Maybe more Overdrive or the terrible film version Maximum Overdrive.
Maximum overdrive is the greatest movie about an 18 wheeler with a goblin face that’s ever been made!
“Christine” was more of a possessed car rather than an undead one
Zombies being stronger than they “should” be, when there’s thought behind it beyond “it makes them scarier/cooler,” is typically attributed to the fact that they no longer have pain signals and similar telling them “stop that before you hurt yourself” – they’re always functioning at 100% strength, like a person high on adrenaline accomplishing strength feats well beyond what they can normally do (and likely hurting themselves in the process). Of course, that still shouldn’t let them bite through a human skull – the skull’s shape is all wrong to get a good grip with teeth (unless you’ve got an absolutely massive mouth, well beyond what fits on a human), meaning you’d more likely just scalp the bit that fits in your mouth rather than biting through anything. Something supernatural (beyond just “that corpse has been animated”) would need to be going on to be able to actually bite through a skull… but if that’s the case, zombies basically being “glass cannons” is probably fine (the magic allows them to harm targets more readily, but doesn’t protect them at all – so they can bite through bone just fine, but if you instead headbutt them in the jaw, their rotting teeth basically shatter along with their jawbone).
That’s essentially why chimps are enormously stronger than humans, too. Human muscles are kind of “derated” in operation to enable fine motor control, and make them last our whole lives. Chimps don’t need fine motor control, and live shorter lives, so it’s ok for them to wear themselves out faster.
Depends on if the teeth manages to slip into one of the cracks in the skull (yes, all skulls are not one single bone but several that fuse together during the baby stage, is why it’s often fatal if a baby falls and lands on the top of their skull, that’s typically the last part that fuses and still has a gap)
Sydney and Parfait are so alike.
He instinctively began hydrating as soon as his subconscious picked up on her attention. I’m wondering if she’ll blow his cover, since they’re sort of coworkers. She’s a subcontractor to his boss, anyway, and friends with his other boss.
Nope, she don’t work for SmugD, no more than Dabbles does
Their master does, but they can do what (and whom) they want
I keep wondering where the heck is The Veil in all of this. Do regular people see a purple demon-y succubus in Parfait, or a regular person? Last we checked, it works on everything by default, except for special exemption.
They did bemoan that the veil did not cover people with superpowers because they were too varied if I remember right. Dabbler also walks around with an illusion. So I would say that succubi are not covered by the veil for the same reason. They vary too much. Compared to them the other supernaturals are rather uniform in looks and abilities.
That would be my guess.
Tamitha (young succubus from the club) had her tail and wings covered by the veil.
I think there was some talk about how much it could cover and stuff slipping through from time to time. So an adult succubi with as eye catching as they are are likely to be the ones who would see the most cracks in the Veil. While a younger succubi or pink kitty who is keeping it discreet is likely to slip through without anyone really noticing if something glitches.
“It felt like I was being hunted by an apex predator. I played it off, taking a quick gulp of water while trying to figure out the source of the feeling of danger. Oddly, I just couldn’t keep my eyes open, as if something were holding them shut. Somehow I heard old Whitesnake tunes faintly playing. Weird.” – water bottle dude
I think what we’re all really asking is, “Where is this?” Is this Sydney’s new home now that she’s raking in the dough? It does kind of look high class suburban, except the way there’s no hedge along the road is kind of dodgy. (You usually want a bit of privacy in your backyard.)
The former church her comic shop is in now would probably have had a rectory, maybe this is it? It does look kind of like a posh rectory. That would explain Core being there.
I think the “out the back of the shop” is pretty clear?
This is at the church/store, yes. DaveB went into some detail about the church this place was modeled on.
I’d considered that, but the front end and back end surroundings just don’t quite match.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-779-sydney-a-portrait-in-light/
Note that there’s a rather large parking lot to the right front of the building, (2nd panel) where the building shown here has what appears to be an attached garage.
Well, I suppose that’s just artistic inconsistency, and you’re right.
Building in the middle top-left has the same flying butresses as were either side of the stained glass window.
We’re assuming that’s a road bottom-left, but could be the parking lot? Or the road there is new (New roads do happen)
It’s the parking lost, if you go by the strip 779 and this one, this was the social area, where the church has family events at. There’s a large church not far from where I live that have several out-buildings for everything from a gym to an arts and crafts setup. Even a decent sized school for bible studies.
The prayerful hordes use a parking lot. The resident of the rectory has the garage for his car.
The Nanny was such a good show! I loved it when it was still on. You can still catch reruns.
I think Max has it for streaming now.
Hey, that’s uuuuhhhhhh Olympia?, Olifant?, Ophelia?, [checks early comics] Olivia! The sister/cousin of whatsisname [not going back again], who got broomed as love interest. Knowing that, I assume they are at a pavilion behind the defunct church that now serves as the comic shop.
Evolution of the necroa *virus* not of the individual zombie. A zombie that’s not capable of doing its task will have trouble spreading that specific strain. On the other hand, zombies are disposable and not expected to last long; durability has its costs thus strains that make the spread-vessels glass cannons outcompete the slow-but-durable.
I’ll buy that for the Viral / Bacterial ™ versions of what spreads the zombie plague. Also, durable zombies would likely be ones that did retain some sapience, just very hijacked and those I’d expect to be the bacterial…because the bacteria is the boss. Later, off to feed the mutated catfish with poison barbs and plasma teeth.
So, checking out the previous appearance, a lot of people were all like “he’s obviously a spy for someone!” But I want to offer an alternative: security guard for hire is his low profile, low stress job he does when inbetween big, potentially dangerous mercenary missions. Or maybe it’s even further then that, and he’s retired from the mercenary business, with security work just being something to keep him busy during the day.
… You really believe SmugD would just let one of his lackey’s ‘retire’? Specially one who was there when he took over Galatyn by murdering the former king?
Sure, why not? Deus doesn’t kill people for trivial reasons. Remember when he made one of his followers watch a presentation on the life of a low-level thug she killed? Deus values human life.
Yes. It promotes loyalty in the henchmen knowing that they will actually get a chance to spend the huge sums of money they’re making.
Isn’t having a good retirement plan part of the evil overlord list? It helps promote loyalty and it’s a good recruiting tool. Especially with lower level minions you can let them move on before they learn enough to contribute to your eventual overthrow. Alternatively, henchboy may be double dipping with a retainer from Deus. He gets an easy job with plenty of time to workout at the gym and Deus gets a set of eyes in a business owned by a member of ARC. It wouldn’t be a high priority operation but it seems like a Deus thing to do.
I think Deus is extremely unlikely to give a whole heap of superpowered people reasons to want to kill him and betraying people who’ve worked for you is right up there as a reason for current staff to kill him.
I think this page suggests that he doesn’t retain them all under continuous employment, but hires some of them just for single jobs. Deus generally appears to prefer incentives over force, giving people reasons to work for him, rather than threatening them or controlling them.
What Sydney wants is Jeeves, of Bertie Wooster fame.
Knowing Sydney, she will end up with Baldric :P
Jeeves only rolls his eyes internally. I would go with Benson. Sydney would appreciate his constant snark.
Or Higgins, of Magnum P.I. Sandhurst-educated former regimental sergeant-major and majordomo of author Robin Masters (and perhaps he actually might be Robin), full of snark and good with firearms and guard dogs.
No, because in the OG Magnum he actually knew Robin in ‘Nam. Just like the chopper pilot and a couple of others, but Robin was an early example of “embedded journalist”.
Ah, thanks. I didn’t know that – I had given up on the show in the last few seasons while Robin still hadn’t been seen. Still, Higgins would fit the bill here.
Don’t remember that part
Was it mentioned in one of the early episodes?
Always figured Robin was supposed to be much older, WWII era at least (same as ‘Higgins’)
All of Magnum’s friends were with him in ‘Nam: TC the pilot and that semi-sleazy ‘nightclub owner’
actually in the final episode they kind of dropped the ball that Higgins was Robin williams, and Magnum knew it all along.
Yeah, that makes sense, would explain why Magnum was always pushing the boundaries and shit, to see if ‘Higgins’ would finally snap, but don’t remember seeing the final episode either :(
Masters, not Williams
How about Woodhouse, from Archer?
Agreed, Niles was THE Butler. Get him some combat training, and a little knowhow about metahumans, and you’d be set.
Nah, Jeffery could out-butle Niles any day
Mr. Belvedere would beat both of them with a feather duster!
could you imagine a cross between Mr.Belvedere and Columbo?
Can vaguely remember the name of ‘Mr. Belvedere’, but can’t recall the show
Wasn’t saying that OG Jeffery was the best, just that he was betterer than Niles
This Parfait arc has been priceless. My attention has been elsewhere so I binged the whole arc and I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard since the beginning of the whole comic. Well done, Dave.
It’s funny you say this. There are a number of regulars who have been following it as it unraveled and on the way have become increasingly upset as the comic started to make a bigger and bigger mockery of consent. I wouldn’t be surprised if the comic lost a not insignificant part of their readers, maybe permanently.
“I only want to read edgy fiction as long as it pushes other people’s boundaries, not mine”. Cool cool cool, sounds like you’re GREAT to write for.
How is Grrl Power been edgy?
I want to clarify I’m not one of those regulars who left the comic behind. I didn’t abandon CAD when the LOSS arc happened, so I can handle this too. What I did have concerns with however is the undesirable parallels that can be drawn between the two arcs regarding a sudden tonal shift that makes part of the audience uncomfortable.
a) It hasn’t previously been overly edgy.
b) for some people consent about sex is important
Syd: Hey, Raph, snap out of it! What’s with you?
Parfait (guttural): HUNGRY…
Syd: But you haven’t touched your fr-OOOOHHH, I get it now. *swats Parfait with a rolled-up newspaper* Bad succubus! Finish your meal before you have dessert! Didn’t your mom ever teach you to clean your plate?
(From what Dabbler has let spill about their mother, she did NOT.)
I hope we will see Dabblers mom in the comic someday.
I see Syd more as a squirty bottle type person, rather than a rolled up newspaper type person.
I wonder if the PPO has an upgrade for that?
cat toy laser mode on: =^o.
.o^=
What’s the red thing coming off Olivia’s sleeve in panel 3? Kinda looks like Parfait’s collar?
Weird. It doesn’t seem to be there in panel 2.
I think its parfait’s choker duplicated. Its probably its own layer for ease of comic creation but they forgot to remove it. Oopsie.
There is also Halo’s semi-inivisible choker: visible in panel 2,3 & 6; invisible in panel 4,5 & 7.
*shrug* Details…
Yeah, zombies IRL would be trash.
Because the most exceptional part of humans is Intellect.
So turning a human into a mindless murder machine that actively rots is an active debuff.
We’re also pretty good long-distance runners.
It’s how we think we hunted back in the “barely got fire” days: Literally just keep chasing the target until it falls over from exhaustion.
Yeah that’s a minor leg up we have but not what really won us the game.
True. What gave us the biggest leg up was empathy and cooperation.
Without that, tool-use wouldn’t have done much.
The main issue with most zombie apocalypse scenarios is the contagion and lack of impact of damage on a zombie
A big issue is that in most combat if you punch somebody in the face most people react badly and struggle to be effective after it
If you punch a zombie in the face they continue to try and eat yours
Also if you scrape your hand on their teeth (common in a punch) there’s a good chance you’ll end up zombified yourself.
Get zombies in an area with a lot of civilians and the spread would be pretty huge
Get simultaneous outbreaks in lots of areas and I can certainly see huge problems for civilisation (resource distribution becomes problematic for a start)
Man, even the average civilian has more stuff on hand than just their fists and zombies, by their nature in most media, aren’t really “sudden”.
And since zombies are incapable of planning or subtlety, they’d be the easiest enemy combatants to track down ever.
Problem is, tracking down and eliminating requires planning and cooperation on the part of the remaining non-non-dead, and you see how rare that is at the best of times: first sign of a breakdown in order, and it’s all arseholes for themselves, screw everyone else, unless you manage to get a Negan or a Grimes
It’d be fairly easy for any country with a formalized military.
That’s actually an unrealistic conceit of fiction and some people in power. In reality, people in terrible situations almost universally react with empathy, cooperation and pooling resources.
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IRL, you’d shoot zombies through the hip. Nice big target and zombies can’t really walk/run with it out of operation.
Look up Niles on YouTube, especially his burns to Cee Cee. His shade delivery puts all of them to shame.
immunity to cellulite is a superpower
…no, still pretty inane. (Where the hell are they, anyway?)
you make an interesting point.
Huh. I typed Thats_the_joke dot jpg between brackets, and it showed up as nothing. Weird
The forum rips out anything between angle brackets.
Feels like an overzealous html sanatiser to me.
Not everything. There’s just a very limited number of approved html tags, and anything else that looks like it might be one is stripped. It’s possible to insert angle brackets using entities if you want to actually display angle brackets.
I try to have as little to do with the many angled ones as possible. Using them to insert brackets in a comment, and then having to spend the rest of your life avoiding corners seems a poor tradeoff.
I want to know when Sydney is going to mention and sample the new hottest pepper in the world (maybe become the spokesperson) “pepper x”
And probably go on a side track about it being a mutant or superhero itself.
I want to know when Syd is going to remember Krona wants to look at her orbs in upgrade mode when it’s not a time-critical situation.
She might be able to ID what the nodes do. (Yes, I get that there are narrative reasons for everyone to forget about that…)
Missing and forgetting that they haven’t figured out Varia’s interaction is excusable. But I also want to see what costume ideas they (read: Dabbler) come up with to make them reliably stay in skin contact while having all 4 hands free (yes, I’m assuming that the pair of them together can use 4 orbs at once).
Quite a while, since time has not progressed in the comic as quickly as it has in the real world. It’s been less than a year, and the comic started in 2010.
My wife’s a vegitarian… which kind of makes me a vegitarian, and hot sauce was my go-to early in our relationship. These days, I’ve learned how to make delicious food that’s not just hot sauce. I still lean pretty heavily on the salt and MSG, but it’s just a skill you have to learn like any other kind of cooking.
Sydney doesn’t seem like she’d be into cooking, and most restaurants’ vegitarian food is just flavored with peppers and cheese, so her diet seems very plausible.
So, where is this place? Pretty nice digs, out in the ‘burbs it seems. Is this an ARC facility or Sydney’s new home? I mean, she can certainly afford it.
That’s out back of the comic shop. They purchased an old church, that’s some kind of gazebo, possibly for weddings or something? If you look at the top left portion of the building in the first panel, you’ll see the… stone wing thingies from the front.
They are at the comic book/gaming store that Sydney co-owns. Sydney’s celebrity was sufficient to improve business and they were able to buy up a disused church and refurbish it as a store.
Disused churches would probably provide a pretty good topic for a sociology research article. Christianity still seems to be thriving, at least in the Southern U.S. but most cities seem to have a disused church or two, ranging from a storefront up to multi-building complexes. I’ve often wondered what happens to them as organizations.
its actually pretty bad. the majority of self-identified evangelicals do not attend church regularly anymore. there are some people who collect statistics about Christian churches in America and the world. what’s happening is the small churches are being consumed by the large churches. overall attendance is down.
as far as the organization- its really easy for a small to medium church to end up landlocked. there are church buildings that have changed hands and denominations several times. as far as what happens when attendance reached catastrophic levels? it depends on the overarching organization. part of what’s making United Methodist’s split so bad is that the parent organization owns the buildings and the land so when a church breaks away (some for being too conservative, some not conservative enough) they have to buy the building and land from the denomination.
What do you do with a disused church?
Turn it into a house so you never have to take out the garbage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKIX6oaSLs
I actually know what became of my childhood church. The town dried up. It was never more than 500 people during the last century. At its peak 75 people was a good Sunday. The school closed in the mid 1980s and the only businesses left are a couple of mechanics. My high school shop teacher bought the property that the building sat on but since he has passed I could probably buy it if I were so inclined. There are three church buildings still standing but only one of them is owned by a functioning church (Methodist) and it is just used for storage.
My dude, Alfred (Batman) is prior Airborne (I don’t recall if the Airborne do the ‘never former’ thing), he’s absolutely as badass as required.
When he’s not MI6 embedded in Paris with the French Revolution to fight off the Nazi’s.
That I think is the saddest part of comics moving forward in time, all the cool “I was in WW2” backstories stop working.
I’m reminded of something I read about one of the first Dr Who companions, Ian the chemestry teacher. It went something like this:
“He’s a school chemestry teacher. But he’s occasionally very effective in a fight. This is surprising for modern viewers, until you remember that it was the 60s, which means there is almost certainly a rather important event that happened in his past.”
So yeah, setting stories in the 60s lets you have your “meek civillian” characters pick up guns and be seriously effective when you need them to be, without needing any explination, because they were in WW2. Setting stories in the 90s lets you do this with grandpa.
I honestly think we’ve lost a lot of the respect we used to have for war, now that the WW2 vets are all aging out of life.
But we’re back to your co-worker being able to identify an IED and being able to pick up a rifle and know how to take cover and kill, due to Afghanistan and Iraq.
I worked with enough infantry and officers and Special Forces to overthrow a small country, had they been put together with any logistical tail.
Hell, even woithout one, any local trouble would have been *over*.
“due to Afghanistan and Iraq.”
We haven’t had a draft. Most people haven’t gone through that.
WW2 had a far, far larger percentage of the population see combat than any conflict since then.
“Ex-military” isn’t a near-universal backstory anymore.
A lot of people joined up willingly, and still do
Not everyone had to be forced to join at literal gunpoint
The percentage of the population who is ex-military has still gone down significantly since then.
Point
I guess Parfait’s ring tone will be the the “you’re spicy hot!” whistle, very conveniently reminding of Sydney.
I mean, I’d go for him too
In case you are interested, there are youtube compilations featuring every interaction between Niles and C.C. Babcock for each season of The Nanny. They’re a very entertaining watch.
> If you’re going oyt ou should wear a scarf for your neck
> It’s not that cold!
> No, but it’s *that* old…
looks like the main course is ready
And with that, Parfait isn’t going to disappoint Tom…
I’m sure Sydney won’t mind if her security is out of
commission for the rest of the day….
*chuckles*
I’m in danger.
Daniel Davis, the actor that portrayed Niles on The Nanny, is from Arkansas.
Hilariously, viewers would comment that they wished Charles Shaughnessy (Max Sheffield), who is British, would sound more like Davis, who is not British.
One other fun fact is that the Southern accent is believed to be the closest accent to that of the British of three centuries prior in the modern day.
Most british (and especially scottish) actors have to turn their accents waaaaaaaay down for american audiences.
Just look at Doctor Tenant: he has a wickedly strong accent when not faffing around in an old police box
Oh you sweet summer child.
Tennant’s accent isn’t strong.
Try visiting a Glasga pub on a week night.
Didn’t say it was undecipherable to many English, just that it is strong when he’s not using an ‘English’ accent
Hael, back when Taggart was still being aired, they either tried to have him subtitled or they did
And was actually agreeing with you about certain actors and actresses having to tone down their native accents
I am getting an M. C. Escher moment here with the walkways. The one at the top of the stairs and the one at the bottom of the stairs both lead out to the road and meet it at what appears to be the same road level.
P.S. the pond has a curved dashed line in water. This may get the comic banned in some southeast Asia markets.
The grass slope bends where the darkness changes. The upper path runs along the edge of the raised area that it’s on.
I see next to Olivia’s elbow is a left over asset of Parfaits choker.
LMAO that will backfire. ‘Let me know your preferred level of chastity for your cameo character…’
‘Make All the Babies!’ for half of them
So, don’t ask me how I know this.
Living bone is made up of living cells. It’s actually a form of tissue. Living bone is not nearly as hard as the dried bones most people have touched. Even the bones on your steak have started to harden, since it’s weeks or more since the cow went to the great pasture in the sky, and cow bone is quite a bit denser than human bone. Think of dead dried bone as leather while living bone is the fatty tissue that can become leather.
I could definitely see someone biting through a skull, because tooth enamel is quite a bit harder than skull bone. The real trick would be getting your mouth around a skull.
The zombie virus itself evolved. Strains with weak jaws don’t spread but stains with strong jaws spread like crazy.
Sydney wants a batman.
In many, many ways.
In the figure, the tan part of the building would appear to be levitated. The ground slopes down, and it does not.
Add an edge from the corner of the building to where the path meets the road.
Or Geoffrey from Fresh Prince.
OG or Edgy version?