Grrl Power #1324 – Were’s there brown hare
Sydney’s never more ADHD than when she gets to question supers/weres/mages/cryptids/aliens about themselves. I would say any non-human, but supers are human, and if she found herself trapped in a room with an honest to god ninja he might wind up trying to use the ancient “Chew-Through-a-Wall Jutsu” to escape.
If she was on a blind date with someone who turned out to be an alien cyborg demon mage, (who wasn’t Dabbler) they wouldn’t be able to accuse her of not showing an interest. Of course it would really be more of a general “what’s your people’s deal” interest than “what’s your deal.” At least at first. Someone could pivot her to a personal tale of what it was like fighting in the Demon Foreign Legion.
When weres first transform, it’s usually a very Stan Winston-esque biological thing with a lot of stretching bones and rolling around on the floor while the magic “in-betweens” the human body with the hybrid one. It would normally be rather unpleasant or downright painful, but the lycanthropy symbiote virus will flood the brain with magical serotonin, dopamine, and lycotophine, which I totally just made up, but let’s just pretend it makes the new were all beast happy and instinctual for a while. (Shifting during sex is definitely a thing.) They’re usually stuck like that for a while, and some don’t even notice while they gradually transition to full beast form, caught up in all the new sensations and instincts and sounds and scents they experience.
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She seems a little sad about the lack of real world consequences, although to be fair so would most all of us.
So… Slam and Peggy in the future?
Also, whatever Slam’s wereform is, it’s going to be so awesome that Sydney won’t know to have a heart attack, stroke or aneurysm from excitement.
Probably all three.
By the name, ‘Slam’, I’m guessing… were-salamander? Probably completely off-base.
Werewalrus? What else slams… some birds do sumo for dominance.
I’m guessing Kangaroo. There’s something about the build, the name, and the suit full of pockets that make me think they would have a were-pocket.
Sydney guessed giraffe and they do slams!
Red-legged Seriema.
I have my reasons.
How about a whale. Or if it’s an ironic name a gerbil or a hamster.
Slamster the Hamster
Obviously beaver.
Sydney in DaveB’s explanation reminds me of Kender from Dragonlance.
They’re just as curious to an ADHD degree (on top of being subconscious kleptomaniacs). In fact they’re so curious that one interrogation/torture technique is to lock a subject in a bare room with a bored Kender.
I can’t wait to see the Sydney version of this.
We saw the baddies accidentally subject themselves to something arguably similar when they kidnapped Syd and gave her a truth serum.
“Enfuzzen.” Hee hee.
Also, bunny butt.
That cute little tail…
‘Are there were-giraffes?’
Well, I remember Were-Giraffe by Night mentioned in volume 2…
So it’s likely they exist.
There was one in One Piece, as well. Don’t ask me to look up his name – wait I just did, it was Kaku.
In the year one million and a half… Humankind is enslaved by giraffe.
Man must pay for all his misdeeds… Wen the treetops are stripped of their leaves.
So, did Kat call Sydney a tater, that is a potato? Seems a strange thing to call someone even if she found Sydney a bit irriTATING.
You never realized how good potatoes are at asking questions, did you?
So…where is that girder supposed to be going before you got distracted, Sydney?
I admit I got very uncomfortable realizing that Sydney was manipulating a, what, multi-ton length of steel? while her meds appear to be wearing off. And moreso, that nobody else seems to be taking that as a bad sign. Did they just ask her to hold it still? Can she just set the lighthook to auto such that she can’t accidentally do anything with it? Even if everyone there are mages and/or supers, no doubt she could accidentally drop or drag it along the ground and muck up hours of engraving or whatever. To say nothing of, if something freaks her out and she throws it into the distance… or at the person who surprised her.
Or am I being a bit obtu(ber)se?
Here’s a question for ya: would a super get immensely stronger as were? Just a small boost? Maybe weaker?
Well we do know of at least one were (Pixel) who is only super in hybrid form. She has laser claws.
Maybe she also has them in animal form, but they would be less useful. We haven’t seen that.
It’s possible that “super”-ness grants additional powers instead of boosting the ones you have?
Bit of a scene transition. What are they doing here? Is this still the dungeon creation site?
i think it is, especially since there’s an interaction of the magic folks with a super; i saw what looks like Stonehenge-type silhouettes in the background in a few scenes
Shouldn’t a female werewolf should be called a wifwolf?
You’re being rude, Syd. Go ask the were-elephant if he can catch musth.
The secret handshake is a legend about Freemassons the masonic handshake is more myth than a sing of appartenance nowadays …
And freemasson are divided the The Grand Orient de France (GODF) is the “mother lodge” of Continental Freemasonry.
Continental Freemasonry, otherwise known as Liberal Freemasonry, Latin Freemasonry,and Adogmatic Freemason …
It’s the schism of 1877 when the GOdF changed its constitutions to allow for complete religious “laïcité”. While the Anglo-American tradition had long required candidates to acknowledge a belief in deity, the GOdF removed that requirement, stating that laïcité “imposes that all men are given, without distinction of class, origin or denomination, the means to be themselves, to have the freedom of choice, to be responsible for their own maturity and masters of their destiny.”In sum, the GOdF would admit atheists, while the lodges in the Anglo-American tradition would not.
The difference was not limited to the requirement in belief. Following the 1877 changes, the Grand Orient also removed all references to the Grand Architect of the Universe from its rite, and removed the Volume of the Sacred Law (which in France was the Bible) from its ritual.
Another difference between Continental and Anglo-American Freemasonry is that political discussion is allowed in Lodges following the Continental tradition, while it is strictly banned in the Anglo-American tradition.
Continental Freemasonry has been concentrated in traditionally Catholic countries and has been seen by Catholic critics as an outlet for anti-Catholic disaffection. Many particularly anti-clerical regimes in traditionally Catholic countries were perceived as having strong Masonic connections.
Mexican Freemasonry was also seen as following the pattern of Continental Freemasonry in other Latin-speaking countries, viewed as becoming more anti-clerical during the nineteenth century, particularly because they adopted the Scottish Rite degree system created by Albert Pike, which the Catholic Church saw as anti-clerical.
Freemasons attached to the more mainstream branch of Freemasonry, affiliated with the United Grand Lodge of England and the 51 US Grand Lodges, have often claimed that the anticlericalism of the Continental Branch of Freemasonry is a “deviation” from proper Freemasonry.
Within the United States of America there are scattered Masonic Orders and Grand Lodges, such as the George Washington Union (GWU), and Le Droit Humain, that belong to the Continental or Progressive Universal Tradition. The Women’s Grand Lodge Of Belgium (GLFB or WGLB), and the Feminine Grand Lodge of France[36] also have liberal lodges in North America.
Even in discret societies , there is a lot of variation… Freemasons are diverse and in latin countries fremason use the “tu” and not the “usted” or “vous” formal you to adress others.
Love the Empowered reference.
? Missed that
At the end of each volume of Empowered there’s two-page spread where Emp gets all meta and directly addresses the readers, much to Thug Boy and Ninjette’s confusion. Volume 2 teased the future appearance of “Were-Giraffe by Night”, and it became something of a running gag when the character repeatedly failed to appear. Along with the other running gag of a never-delivered explanation of why Emp’s notoriously clingy costume doesn’t show camel toe, the gag was eventually dropped in later volumes as the story took some more dramatic turns.
Useless trivia: there is no such thing as a “lady were” because of Old English. Let me elaborate:
A werewolf is always male, because “werewolf” means “male manwolf”. “Man” used to be the gender-neutral term for people; a male man is a werman, and a female man, a wifman (which is where “woman” comes from btw).
So the word for a female manwolf is “wifwolf”.
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Are were-creatures all from mammalian stock, or can you get were-crabs… uh, actually, scratch tha… oh for…
CHANGING the subject rapidly, if were-beings are indeed only mammalian, can you get were-whales or were-seals – or is that we would call a selkie?
Hmmm – could you get were-bats? I imagine the confusion with the vampire side of things could get confusing.
There’s a Larry Niven short story about a were-sea lion.
Slam appears to be out of her element if she is truly a “camo”.
Perhaps she’s actually a cameo? :-)
Is Katrina from Boston / New England area? Interesting seeing the Celtics players in your style Dave
Imagining were-creations NOT from mammalian stock . . . Were-Tortoises probably wouldn’t be very successful at expanding their domain through turning others into were-tortoises–just too slow. Were-snakes . . . would turn into . . . what? Were-fish turning into other, larger, more aggressive fish? Like were-sharks? I can imagine larger, more aggressive were-birds, but if a Goldfinch “goes Were”, do you get a Golden Eagle with rabies? Or just a slightly larger Goldfinch that even more annoying? Were-amoebae? Were-cows seems funny–right up until an angry one is chasing you with longhorns facing forward with barbs. Were-snakes came to mind, but morphing towards a hairy mammal . . . turning a boa constrictor into the boa worn by strippers–but with a penchant for biting to transfer the “were” organism/germ/whatever over to said strippers . . . who’d be turned into . . . what?
“No, no, you don’t understand, it was absolutely necessary and entirely artistically justified for me to draw a panel straight out of a bad porno for a cheap throaway joke.”
“Bad” porno
I’m pretty sure Kat isn’t a good source on the heat thing anyway, since rabbits (and I think jackrabbits/hares too) don’t have a heat cycle like a lot of mammals do…
I think you mean Rick Baker, not Stan Winston. Rick did “An American Werewolf in London.” Stan Winston is famous for “The Thing.”
Yup. I should have double checked that.
Gosh, I wonder if this new character is gay. Dave is just so subtle about this things, we may never know.
Would Sydney as a Were be able to use the orbs in Were Form?
No reason to think she couldn’t. Her paws would still basically be her hands…But then, they’re paws now?
Hmn…
But what if she was a were-chimp? She’d still have hands then.
As long as Sydney isn’t a Were-slug…!!!!
If she shifted to a critter with four hands (like a monkey or a gecko), would she be able to use four orbs? (Do spiders have hands, or are those feet?)
Hm. Hmm! Someone call Cora and graft a couple of extra arms to this woman, stat! Science demands it!
I think she once mentioned she tried to use more than 2 orbs at once using her feet, or maybe armpits, etc. and it didn’t work.
Love the comic series, been a fan for a long time, but just felt I had to comment on this page as its the first time I recall seeing such happen but someone needs to tell Sydney that “Lycanthrope” is not the correct term to cover all were-creatures as it is specifically for those of the wolf variety.
So I assume that Boston had just beaten Miami?
Yeah, I read the first text bubble and expected to see the Miami Heat, not the Boston Celtics. Double take.
I love how that was a question. XD
This is all nonsense of course because in real life lanthromorphs develop 4th dimensional growths; typically only a micron wide but the gravity of the moon (not the full moon, that’s stories again) makes them “fall over” in one direction or the other and they appear to we casual 3rd dimensional beings to have “morphed” into a new form.
Really they’re just bigger than everyone else; it’s why they’re so difficult to kill. Pop one of their hearts, don’t worry their stowing another in an off-dimensional parking spot.
Hmm, carrying a giant wrench in the background? Methinks Slam is a follower of Stargate SG1 (we already know DaveB and Deus are :-P)
Well, if it ha a spike on the end It would actually look like the wrenches commonly use by ironworkers for alignment purposes… But otherwise my guess is a ref to structural work.
That’s not a giant wrench. You see them that big all the time if you work around heavy machinery.
Getting Certificate Errors since the Cert renewed last night.
Looks like it’s only allowing http://www.grrlpowercomic.com, and not grrlpowercomic.com (SAN Name). Looks like it took the header out as well.
403?
Not really a comic comment more of a website issue, but Chrome is saying after this update was made that it’s unsafe as Mike King mentioned. Whoopsie.
Hare today, gone tomorrow.
Who WOULDN’T enjoy a good Caramelldansen with floppy ears!
Italobrothers – Stamp On The Ground is playing as I read and commented
OMG, I finally stopped getting 403’ed!
You made a minor typo: consequences instead of your concequences.
In the second panel, what’s on the bottom of Sydney’s cup? It looks like a face.
Aww this is cute, but also, I know this is pedantic, but she wouldnt have pads on her hands if shes’s a rabbit were. Rabbits don’t have pawpads, even wild rabbits like jackrabbits, their paws are covered in fur.