Grrl Power #1318 – Have two feet, will probably travel
Peggy’s new favorite thing to do? Not hopping when she gets out of bed in the morning. I mean, sure, she’d probably keep her prosthetic next to the bed, but I assume she has one especially for the shower, fully hydrophobic, with a non-slip foot pad, and doesn’t want to strap the everyday peg on to walk ten feet to the restroom. Her second favorite thing to do? Making fists on the carpet with her toes. (And then fighting off a high-rise full of assorted european thieves posing as terrorists, but that’s just obvious.)
I bet all of her existing footwear has different wear patterns on the inside of them now, cause the faux-foot on the end of her peg is designed to be functional first, and mostly foot shaped second. Even if it was a mirror image cast of her left foot, the way it would flex and move inside the shoe would create different erosion. I’m sure some shoes will be better than others, but she’s probably going to have to update about half her shoe collection.
Peggy had never given anyone a foot job before she lost her leg. Now? She’ll probably have that “I should do everything that involves having two feet” mentality for a while. So if you happened to already be dating her, I guess now would be your best bet, if you were into that sort of thing. Not that it’s impossible to give a foot job it with one foot, I suppose. I just kind of assume a single foot would start to cramp before the end. I dunno, maybe wearing high heels trains women’s feet to do strenuous things for extended periods of time. Not that guys can’t give footjobs… or wear heels. I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. Just ignore this part.
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Does this mean that Heatwave can get her pinky toe back?
I think the dead toe was either the second or third toe, counting from the big toe as number 1.
So either “stayed home” or “had roast beef” toe?
“Became roast beef”, I think you’ll find.
How the heck does a little piggy become roast beef? The heck kinda poem you doing?
“This little piggy had all the roast beef, and this little piggy had none.” :-)
Heat waves turn fot her foot from the first ever superhero battle in the grrlpowercomic.com universe
“This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none.”
Australian regional variation?
A cool vid to watch on that topic – Tom Scott going on about “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away…” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5u9JSnAAU4).
Trying to re-learn how to walk is gonna be wild for her! People tend to forget that when you lose a leg walking with a prosthetic is not the same as the real deal no matter how advanced or accurate it is! You don’t really appreciate knees and ankles until they’re gone! She will have to take a sabbatical until she no longer wobbles like a baby deer.
Or space magic might shortcut that. If they can regrow a limb, I think they can probably condense the physical therapy to something like a 30 minute VR session.
“wobbles like a baby deer” is now my new go-to metaphor for someone or something unsteady on their feet.
Probably going to use “newborn” for “babuy” though. :D
Semi-related to the foot-job comment, when he offered her the space-hanky, my brain initially did not go to “tears of joy” which I’m assuming the intent, but rather “sudden nerve input triggered other releases”. Brain… gutter…
Nice to know it wasn’t just me.
I on the other hand am as pure as the driven snow because my mind did immediately go to tears of joy.
I thought it was for leakage of other bodily fluids too, I kept looking to see where she was bleeding from! :D
No, I went with tears of joy TBH.
Huh… I went a completely different route and assumed the hanky was just for wiping her foot. Like, I figured brand new foot might be extremely sensitive like a baby’s and hightech hanky would be the softest, best feeling thing. Or like, to get rid of the foot juice the leg was stored in (Was it stored in liquid? I don’t remember). Either way I was a bit confused tbh.
Oh, thank you! I had no idea why he was offering the hanky because the only reasons I could come up with just didn’t seem sensible. ‘other release’ of two different types was on my mind.
I admit that offering her the space hanky had me confused. I thought he was offering to give her a different kind of foot tickle that was gentler & smoother, instead of a claw to the instep.
It’s the space hanky of panky…
I was just thinking tears, based on her expression…
So, is Heatwave going to ask for a new thumb now?
In an unrelated matter, how does one delete a comment?
I don’t know that you can. We’re all going to know that you said thumb instead of toe forever.
That would be up to that other David, but he seems to like leaving in the little mistakes.
Can I use “English isn’t my native language” as an excuse?
Only if you say it in Klingon.
Est-ce que le dire en français compterait aussi?
(Would saying it in French count as well?)
In this comment section we don’t need no wussy deleting or editing comments.
Besides, lean into your mistake. Say that the thumb is the big toe of the foot.
Happy New Year!!!
What will this mean for Peggy, will she be able to wear shoes again or what?!?
Its going to feel very weird for her when that foot touched the ground. And then its going to a be a quite painful couple of weeks……until she ‘grows’ back the caluses (calii?) everyone -else- has on their feet. Its something people experience when they have been stuck in a bed for months, the old calus can separate and slough off, leaving ‘baby feet’ which are hyper sensitive and can only be walked on for short periods. But maybe ‘space tech’ can grow the calus back as part of the replacement, or Peggy will have to use a Hollywood ‘peg leg’ prosthetic for longer walks, for a few weeks (yes, its an old thing in Pirate movie props and prosthetics)
Hypersensitivity from new nerves that haven’t been dulled with practiced use in addition to the “Grow calluses back” factor, could be painful, or maybe a Dabbler was not just storing the leg, and could have done a few tweaks that at least temporarily make initializing pain response be a bit more pleasing stimulus.
Perhaps with results not entirely unlike the warming spell that Halo received.
I would assume that Space Medicine advanced enough to grow new feet would be advanced enough to grow them with calluses already established.
So I thought it was a prosthetic replacement and not a complete regrowal
It was regrown separately in a tank, I believe using Peggy’s DNA. It’s been “complete” for quite a while; Dabbler’s had it stasis while Peggy thought about it.
Maybe… If you look reeeaaalllyyy close, you can actually see the line of demarcation between her old leg and new leg. I was under the impression that it was a space-cybernetic leg mocked up to look human, hence why he asked if she wanted it to be blue. He could just toggle the inputs to change the color quickly.
If it was organic/based on DNA, I think it would have taken slighly more time to complete the process since turning it a different color would have either required a blue ‘tattoo’ over the entire replacement or rewriting the DNA to have the color expression be blue.
Foot job? I… did I just *assume* Peggy was into girls? Don’t try to correct me about it being possible to give girls foot jobs. For one, I think feet are gross, so I don’t even want to imagine that, but also she wouldn’t need two feet for a girl.
She swings both ways technically, and yes, I agree it is possible… rather you’re just using a foot to stimulate someone instead of a hand :P Then you get into the umm… “other stuff” like that, but with heels… and still wearing them…
Her being bisexual was established pretty early on, whilst admiring the shirtless men of Archon. Sydney was similarly surprised to hear that Peggy appreciated the view. Fortunately, Peggy didn’t take offense (or at least not too much offense – her “Is it because I look like a big ‘ol dyke?” could be read as defensive, but I got the feeling she was more joking around).
Ohhhh right! I’d forgotten about that. Thanks!
First established in that exchange with Syd, and confirmed in a major way in the aftermath of the lust-aura incident, when she was shown to have thoroughly enjoyed the threesome with Ron and Seneca, including the “walking crooked for a few days” part.
Yes, it’s absolutely possible. It’s…not my thing as the receiver, but I’ve been told my feet are freaky-flexible…I guess that makes it better somehow?
It may not be twelve inches but it smells like a foot!
Walking in heels properly *does* use a slightly different set of leg muscles, so there’s that. Also positions your foot differently, so if you’re on your feet all day, the new position/walking method can help your feet feel a bit better, since your weight isn’t distributed the same way.
By “properly,” I mean with your weight balanced on your toe-ball, instead of your heel. Kind of like how cats walk on their back paws, really. It takes some practice (without shoes on) to get used to it, but if the shoe has rounded toes (as some platforms and boots do) then it’s a no-go method of walking despite the heels. Still, it’s how you can wear stiletto heels to a garden party without sinking into the dirt. Also prevents your heels from just sliding out from under you on certain floor surfaces, and gives you that somehow satisfying single-click noise when you walk. :)
To be fair considering how its more likely that a normal human might lose a limb as collateral in a fight between people with super powers… Having access to limb restoration technology would be very nice and quite possibly needed.
As seen with the Sydney example of protection (why the people with regeneration always get hurt instead of anyone else)… Its very easy to get injured in these fights.
Interesting. You can see the connection where the tanned existing leg meets the untanned organic replacement. Look closely enough (yay mobile phone screen zooming ) and you can see the original skin merged with the new stuff…
I’d be tempted to run a finger from original parts to new additions and back feather-touch gently and back again while Peggy keeps her eyes closed, to help measure the sensitivity of the connection…
Wow, you’re right. Damn, Dave pays attention to the details!
This is how tickle fetishes develop. She’ll be wanting people to tickle her feet day in and day out from now on.
I continue to be very impressed by Frix as a person. He seems to have an extremely on-point sense of empathy. I applaud his choice of stimulation to welcome Peggy to her new leg.
Now to get that tattoo back!
They can probably program it on for her since they can change pigmentation
Just want to say that it is SO VERY NICE to see someone ELSE doing the Huge Sydney Scoville (Jr) BIG EMOTIONAL CARTOON EYES in a moment that abso-danged-lutely WOULD be BIGLY EMOTIONAL! Well done!
Just imagine being numb to a limb for years on end and then getting such a delicate sensation as a tickle.
My friends that are missing legs (yes I have more than one) don’t use their prosthetics in the shower. They all use shower seats so they can sit down while showering. Much less danger of slipping that way.
Imo she was likely using crutches to get to the bath, and certainly had handrails/grab bars installed in places. (Search “Home modifications for amputees”)
Putting on a leg for a couple minutes, to then switch to a different one seems … cumbersome?
Some amputees don’t even use their prosthetics for mobility at home. (learned that on tiktok)
Sitting down is underrated. Wearing a leg with a waterproofing cover may be something she does when hitting the showers after training, but always showering with a prosthesis seems like an excellent way to get a skin infection in the interface.
https://youtu.be/xnGai5Z8Rec may be an interesting watch.
I appreciate the ragged tan line below her knee. Nice detail.
Though I’m sure Frix could have tan-matched it if she’d asked.
I think he’d thought they were going to color her blue
It would be interesting to how it tans in terms of fresh out of the vat vs however old Peggy is.
One day that shall be standard health care for Earthlings. One day.
And it will cost a year’s salary in the US, if not 5.
Hopefully it won’t be too long before the USA overcomes oligarchy- and parochialism-driven political taboos and inertia about health care and the metric system, and joins the rest of the developed world. Even so, at least at the beginning new technologies, medical or otherwise, shall inevitably be for the wealthy elites, the military, and a few lucky test subjects. And porn, if applicable. It’s an iron law of progress.
Her expression on the bottom left panel is absolutely awesome.
She should get a tatoo of where the seam would/ should be.
I agree, but I don’t know enough about psychology to know if this is a good idea. I was initially all for it, but thinking about it a bit… might that interface not make the (now-former) amputee disassociate the new limb from their own body, thinking of it more like just a really advanced prothesis? That doesn’t sound healthy. Leaving the new limb the original color and letting it naturally get tanned to match the rest I think is a good idea, as it essentially gives the patient time to adjust to the idea of having their limb back, but I’m not longer confident that a tattoo or similar to mark it is a great idea. I want it to be, because that’s a pretty awesome look, but I’m not entirely certain.
This was a REALLY nice thing to start the morning with. Yay for Peggy! :D
Note: that this is the only circumstances that the average solders toenails will be clean.
Also how long until she discovers an under-utilized erogenous zone.
Pretty sure she already did by that last panel
There goes her weapon of final resort aka ‘taking her leg off and beating someone to death with it’ ;)
She has her very own breakable, sprainable, burnable, cuttable, stompable leg back.and she LIKES it !!
Bet it doesn’t make as good an improvised rifle rest as the Borg one ;)
It’s always good to see good things happen to nice people and she’s one of the nice ones…as far as we’ve seen…so far.
I’d be surprised if the leg wasn’t itself a gun.
Nah, she can still sling the old leg over her shoulder if she wants a not very effective bludgeon.
Scoring four points against Liefeld.
Time for a new pair of boots.
UPDATE: New kink dropped
SHOE SHOPPING!
Like the tan line detail.
I want to know how Frix got both to be the same length.
He jokes about the hanky being super advanced, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was. Like what are the chances its just machine sown plant fibers, animal fur, and/or plastic threads. Wouldn’t be that surprising to find out its a special reactive material that is hyper absorbent of moisturized particulates, drawing them deep into the material so repeated used can be done before it feels gross, and this fiber was developed in conjunction with a special cleaning non toxic solution that when applied to the hanky causes it to become hyper phobic of any material not the hanky making it very easy to thoroughly clean.
I think the hanky is more like a tribble and is alive.
Expect the hanky to show up is various panels around the ARC HQ as it explores its new home.
The questions are how sentient it is and how quickly it divides in its reproductive cycle.
that puts me in mind of the dentites from Farscape. These little worm things that were explained as to how they keep their teeth clean, just let them roam inside your mouth cleaning your teeth.
Everyone focused on fetishes and I’m just sitting here wondering how she couldn’t feel the surgery. I sense that it wasn’t a normal anesthetic. If that device is responsible, by what method was it preventing sensation from traveling to Peggy’s brain? Was it negating the electrical signals from moving along her nerves via a hyper localized anti-electrical type emp field? I’ve never thought about emp and its effects on the human body, and now I’m curious. Is there a way to just absorb the nerve signals from the human body? What a novel idea.
As far as I’m aware, EMP doesn’t affect human nerve signals, since although it’s technically an electrical current, it works differently to wires and computer chips. Those work by electrons moving through metals and semiconductors. Since every atom has electrons, it’s dead easy for an EMP to knock them loose and start up a current that’s too powerful for the device to handle, frying it and shutting it down. Nerves work using sodium and potassium ions, which are roughly 10,000 times heavier than electrons, and they have to move through specific proteins in the nerves to produce a signal. As a result, they’re essentially unaffected by an EMP.
Hm, so an anti-salt field? Haha, but that’s interesting, and now I’m even more curious as to how one could impede such a biological process.
Perhaps it works more like noise cancelling. Instead of stopping the pain signals, it detects them and transmits the inverse so that they cancel out.
TENS machines work by running an electrical signal across the body to interfere with the pain signals. So anything inducing a current in the body can have an effect, OTOH the body’s not really a very good aerial, so I don’t see EMP inducing current.
Anaesthetic is simpler, use a local or a spinal and you can still be talking during surgery. And being able to stop the anaesthetic working quickly is a plus point, so Frix probably just turned the local off when he was finished.
Well, she has her leg back, but can he heal the scars across her eye?
Those are some loooooong toes!
Does her new leg come with matching muscle development to her other one or is she going to have to spend time building up the fitness to match?
Come to think of it, her other leg would be somewhat hypertrophied anyway as compensation would’t it?
So, work one up to match the other coming down and meet somewhere above the midpoint?
The leg she’s lifting up and is in view in the last couple of panels is the new one.
It looks like pretty standard musculature compared to what we can see of the other one
There presumably will have to be some training to get used to it again but it doesn’t look like it’s going to need strength training
The next item up for possible remediation is the facial scar(s). Although it would be simpler, she may think of it as her ‘badge of honor’ to remind her of her time at the front line and the others in her unit that she lost.
Foot starts to cramp up around 4-5 hours of intense bending, so I’d imagine the single footjob would be fine. Use mine for gaming.
Shoes. Lots of them. Maybe a good pair of space Nikes. She’s going to get all new shoes because the ones she has will not match.
And like Dumbledore said want some socks for Christmas
Arc-swat has extravagant salary and Peggy’s not a fashion victim. This is a moment when buying all new pairs of shoes would be the right thing to do. Three pairs each of combat boots and athletic shoes, two pairs of office flats, two pairs of dress shoes, and a pair of beach sandals, and that’s probably a complete set for her needs.
I love that look of wide eyed wonder on Peggy’s face in panel 6.
Just thought of something… if they can regrow a limb, they can probably erase a scar, right? Will Peggy want to keep the scars?
Humans can also erase scars with plastic surgery, I’m pretty sure. :)
They can reduce the impact of some scars to a point for some of them and not necessarily looking that natural afterwards
It might not be that easy to do scars near the eye without risking complications
From the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
“While there are no medical or surgical methods that can remove a scar completely, Specialist Plastic Surgeons can often improve the comfort, function and appearance of a scar by making it less noticeable or easier to conceal.”
They can reduce the appearance of them, but erasing them is a bit more difficult. The location of Peggy’s scars also adds a level of challenge, and there’s no real guarantee on the results or how they’ll age. With space magic on the other hand…
On the other hand, she’s a bad ass so she might actually be proud of the scars.