Grrl Power #1276 – Performance enhanced politics
Very select, eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a slight shift in the art on today’s page. (I’ll pause here for you to go reexamine it in case you missed it.) The important point being that if you noticed on your first perusal, you are a special butterfly.
Okay, seriously though. I’ve mentioned I have been going down to my parents’ house for a week at a time to help out with my mom, who is having some mobility issues. Actually, she’s gotten better… well, not better, but she’s improved a little. At this point I’m mostly helping out my dad with chores that pile up. He’s in good health be he is in his early 80’s, so I help out with the heavy lifting and just anything that is a two man job. Plus, they just like seeing me, because before all this went down, I was visiting like 2-3 times a year, cause, you know, life keeps you busy.
So anyway, I drove down last Sunday, (from Dallas to Houston) and if you watch the weather channel, you might be like “Doesn’t that mean you were driving toward hurricane Beryl?” Yes it does. For arcane reasons of scheduling that aren’t worth getting into, last week would have been the best week for me to visit, only when I got up that Monday, we had about an hour of power, and then, the terrible privatized power grid in Texas with a long history of extended failures, predictably, failed. So I hung out with my folks till about 5 pm, then decided I just couldn’t sit around not working on the comic, and I headed back up to Dallas. I felt a little bad leaving them without power, but they had a full pantry, fridge, plenty of flashlights (I think most people who live in Texas have a stockpile of flashlights at this point) and there was literally nothing I could do to help besides keep them company.
Anyway, they got power back mid-Wednesday and are fine, and I decided to make up the lost time by having fun with a stick-figure adjacent style, which… you know? I don’t hate? I’m not going to switch the comic over to this or anything, but it’s fun to experiment with a minimalist style, and it reminded me of art principles like “the fewer lines you use, the more important each one becomes” or… I don’t know, I think that’s a saying. It’s easy to lose sight of old lessons when you’re busy worrying about bounce light hues and the like.
As for the page itself? Yeah, Sciona’s stolen super body can make the good-good. Or more like the good-good-good-good.
The new vote incentive is up!
Oh no! Superheroines in a deathtrap! Well… a tickle trap. Okay, not trapped, trapped, but… look, three of the girls are getting tickled. Actually, in a way, seven girls are getting tickled since the other four Harems will feel this as well, but technically it’s only the three shown in the picture since Harem insists there’s only one of her – it’s just confusing since she can be in 5 places at once.
As you can probably imagine, Patreon shows what happens if they laugh, and also has a comic revealing who is behind this nefarious situation.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
SuperheroThey're super, thanks for asking!
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Not UpdatingNo longer updating or only updates sporadically, but definitely worth reading.
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"Mature"Mature subject matter and occasionally something explicit but usually safe. Can't guarantee the ads are safe though.
Dongs Ahoy!Full frontal and backal. Lots of skin, sex on some or all pages, explicit or otherwise.
Sicko. :-D
Seriously though, hope your parents are ok and YOU are ok after driving towards a hurricane. I’m in the UK, we don’t have those, so I’m wishing you and your family all the best.
If you need to simplify your art any further, you are going to be looking like XKCD. You would just have to figure out how to keep the different characters distinct.
to be honest.
i could live with this style since the story is so good
I vote for that.
I would prefer the normal better art but this is fine on a temp basis. I do prefer this comic for the story primarily (its not like I dont read OOTS or used to read 1/0 regularly or read THIS comic since it first started with not as good artwork) but I also love the normal artwork.
Right? Good story is all I care about. Plenty of badly drawn webcomics that I enjoy. And the drawing will always get better with practice. Questionable Content is an example of that. Selkie’s a good one too.
A decade is a really long time to hold a grudge even for what appears a life destroying move.
The senator and his daughter are not someone you want to upset.
There are people holding grudges for stuff that happened centuries ago. A single decade is nothing.
People are still mad about that whole thing with Judas Iscariot.
Humans still live in fear due to the thing Cain did.
It’s only long because she hadn’t done anything until now except seethe and fume
She maybe, but her father kept in that same decade a grudge against his own daughter for getting kicked out of sorority and kept up a political career.
Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakker.
Once more punto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our Punish thread.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest silence and banality:
But when the breath of humor in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the Jester;
Loosen the sinews, clench the sphincter,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a humorous aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the glass cannon; let the thought o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold not the breath and drink up every spirit
To this false height. Pun, pun, you ignoblest Bastards.
Whose blood is wet from bottles of fourty-proof!
Bottles that, like so many drunkards,
Have in these parts from morn till even drought
Ne’r sheathed their words for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That she whom you call’d Panders dost reget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to pun. And you, good women,
Whose limbs were made in Heaven, show us here
The mettle of your posture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Hairy, Heaven, and Taint Gorge!’
I regret being even partially the inspiration for this, but I can’t help but be impressed.
1) That took a weird sexist turn at the end there. 2) I did it better.
Whatever.
https://images.nightcafe.studio/jobs/EJF2aYIFgtucsi59U27B/EJF2aYIFgtucsi59U27B–4–sw2lg.jpg?tr=w-1600,c-at_max
Fan Art: Sydney (AI)
MY EYES.
That’s just creepy and yet, strangely familiar.
Well, as long as you kept the cleavage.
Sci knows where he draws, so he kinda had to :P
She went to a lot of trouble getting that back
As Long as you don’t abandon your Comic like a some Artist~ *Cough* Everett *Cough’cough*
This was still entertaining to read.
The three webcomics which were the most annoying because of the sudden abandonment for me were RPGWorld (which ended right when it was at its culmination of the storyline), ElfsOnlyInn, and PS238. I’d have added PVP to that list but it sort of killed itself by completely changing its storyline wit ha massive timeskip, then a timeskip back, without any explanation. Erfworld ended suddenly as well. :/
It is annoying. and pretty Pathetic, that they lose the “Love” they had in their Comics.