Grrl Power #141 – Soapy bosoms and shirtless heroes
And if anime has taught us anything, it’s that Leon is trapped in that locker with a girl. And they’re both naked. Well you know, certain kinds of anime. BTW I know the word is “bosom,” I just think it’s funnier sounding with the extra “s” on the end.
Speaking of anime, I’ll be doing a panel at A-kon this year, panel “Humor-Based Webcomics 1 – Humor in Story” where hopefully I’ll have something more poignant to say than “Think of funny stuff and write it down.” Here’s a link to the page with the webcomic panels. I won’t have a table in artist’s alley or anything since I have nothing to sell yet, but if there’s enough readers there and interest, maybe we can organize a group lunch or dinner.
This page wasn’t planned originally, but one or two people mentioned that they’d like a little fair play since we got to see into the ladies locker room. However with the addition of the imagined shower scene the girls remain ahead by one. Still, I think the page came out pretty good. That Hiro guy can’t seem to keep his shirt on can he? After I drew him I thought that guys are probably required to wear undershirts when decking out in their military finery, but that would interfere with the point of this page, so I guess Hiro will get his shirt tucked in and his belt buckled before realizing he forgot it.
Thanks for all the superhero book recommendations. (In the comments for the previous page in case you missed it.) There seems to be quite a bit of material out there but Amazon does a poor job of categorizing superhero novels together. I’ll have to come up with another post and review them after I’ve gotten through some of the suggestions.
Also, there’s a new webcomic app out, currently only for iOS, called Comic Chameleon. It lets you read panel by panel which is a good solution for tiny phone screens, and it’s the first app to my knowledge that works with artists and pays them some portion of their ad revenue. Due to the added effort of setting up the comics for panel by panel reading, they’ve launched it with only 25 comics, but are working continually to add more, so I encourage you to pester them to add Grrl Power on their twitter or facebook accounts, as well as any of your other favorite comics they don’t already have.
SuperheroThey're super, thanks for asking!
Meatspace ComicSeriously these are awesome. Check 'em out!
Not UpdatingNo longer updating or only updates sporadically, but definitely worth reading.
SeriouslySeriously you guys. If you like Grrl Power the check these out.
"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.
Sydney is the only Super with the ability to invisibly spy on either locker room.
What orb is she touching?
That’s the telepresence orb. The one that lets her have a hologram of herself somewhere, and she can see through it too.
Apparently she can see through it enough to navigate without being telepresent as Hologram Sydney as for other power stunts she can do with it… keep reading the comic
Looks like Peg is wondering the same thing (she’s looking at the orb between Sydney’s fingers)
I don’t think the telepresence thing can be invisible though.
But she can set it up anywhere in a tiny hiding spot before ‘materializing’ (in lack of better word) it
like say…a locker?
You’d almost think a certain omnipresent artist placed it there specially for people to hide in
Looks to be the ‘see-through-obvious-disguise’ Orb
Yup, the telepresence orb and the ‘see-through-obvious-disguises orb’ are one and the same orb.
Although, nit-picking, it is actually the ‘not-see-through-obvious-disguises orb’*. Mind you the latter definition would also cover all the orbs.
Thought the only thing it could see through were obvious disguises (this was the orb she was using just before Harem’s impromptu beefcake display)
The comm-ball
Yeah, the comm-ball has the abilities to allow Syd to project an exact duplicate hologram to another location, see what the hologram sees and while she herself is holding the ball, it gives her an extremely powerful True-sight. A locker, regardless of size, would work for her since the hologram isn’t solid!
So it does 2 things? Maybe the other balls do 2 things as well, just haven’t figure out what the secondary abilities are yet (not to mention, the 2 she hasn’t figured out at all!)
Yea. Possibly complimentary, possibly opposable. Like the Comm Ball provides both an illusion and the means to see through illusions.
Hmmm, complimentary (and/or opposable)? PPO could also be the healer orb (could work as both complimentary and opposable)
I don’t think that would fit in the exact same lane of thought. While a knife can in theory heal certain injurys, it’s certainly not a tool of both healing and killing (a gun would be an even more extreme example).
Where a ‘turn invisible’ device might turn an invisible thing back to non invisible, a desintigrator (I misspelled that I think) can’t re-assemble molecules.
What I’m trying to say, is that they don’t fit in the same school of thought
I find that sign funny, and I like that Sydney was planning to spy on the guys when she was afraid that the guys could spy on her.
I’m wondering who put that super evil sign up in the first place.
Whoever did it was a evil genus.
Oh yes I think Math is right, that sign is Evil you can see it in his eyes. and it is the funnest thing I saw today. you had made my day and would LOVE to get a copy of that sign and hang it up in the guys locker room at my College, just to see what happens.
Could be worse, it could have been a TV tropes trap
Damn, for some reason I replyd to the wrong person. Ignore this one :p
id love to hear the results of that XD
The results can be found here.
That’s how Gingers danced back then :)
Really, you Rickrolled the comments board?
*Hangs head in shame It sounded like a funny idea in my head.
It was very clever, raise your head
Ha! If I had your skilz with the clicky links, I’d counter with a different Rick…
https://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/31356755.jpg
I’m putting my money on Arianna.
Wouldn’t put it past her, she’s crafty like that. Harem and especially Dabbler are the teasing type, but I’m certain they would be more explicit. Could have been Deus from Machina Industries, he’s definately got the evil thing down. In fact, Arianna could have had them manufacture it!
I dunno, I wouldn’t put it past Dabbler either. Seems like a prank she’d pull just for A) That look on Math’s face or B) to make them easier to seduce later by putting those thoughts in thier head, or C) daring them to drill a peep-hole in there and watch the fun when Max finds out.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-evilest-thing-i-can-imagine
‘Nuff said !
Links to interesting, but time-wasting, websites when I have other things I should be doing? Now that’s the most… eh, never mind. If I really wanted to be doing them, I wouldn’t have been reading this anyway.
Could be worse, it could have been a TV tropes trap
unless my memory has gotten worse, i believe i found this comic from tv tropes.
i think it was some reference to col goldengrumpy, but could be wrong.
Well, I linked to someplace OTHER than TV Tropes because when I said “‘Nuff said,” I MEANT it.
Given the “sexy X-ray” poster in the woman’s changing room I expected to see a gag poster in the men’s changing room. What I didn’t expect is that this poster seems to be aimed right at Math’s weakness and that he seems to be giving more consideration than would be due if it has always been there: Maybe the “evil genius” is so evil he goes around and changes the posters to keep the jokes fresh.
In fact this could make for a great running gag for Dave to keep going. . .
My idea for a fun poster would be one in the holding cell that says “If you don’t behave we’ll put Sydney on guard duty.”
That’s pure evil, not fun evil XD
now that is a stellar idea.
Thanks guys, I do try. Now howabout we have a contest to come up with more poster ideas?
Just because Math just happens to be looking at the poster at the same time as Sydney, Peg & Sandy are talking about something similar doesn’t mean it’s new (it’s probably the sort of thing that always catches his attention, just this is the first time either Hiro has been standing beside him, or just the first time Hiro mentioned burning a hole through the wall)
Heh… I see a possibility for both a running gag with the different texts on the posters to the characters wonder who is responsible for swapping out the poster, and how they keep doing it undetected!
(I’m The Sign Guy/Girl: I have the power to change the text on any sign that does not contain graphics! I work here as an office clerk.)
doesn’t the X-Ray poster have a grafic?
Dabbler handles illusions, can do them on other people, and is kinky evil.
Love that Peg crawled under the desk with Sydney :D
Bets start here on who came up with that sign: 10 to 1 it was Maxi, 2 to 1 it was Ari, 50 to 1 it was Dabbles/Harem
My money’s on Dabbler.
Yeah, those two are obvious candidates, hence their odds
Longer odds mean it’s less likely. I think you meant to put 2-1 on Dabbler. I’d put Harem at slightly longer than her though, maybe 5-2 or 3-1.
Nope, obvious candidates have to have the longer odds so don’t end up losing money ;^)
Please, do not run a betting house, you will lose a lot of money.
My bookie would love you.
Sorry to say mac, I’ve worked at a casino. The most likely have the smallest odds. They might pay off more often, but they pay off less. Dabbler might get you a two dollar return for every dollar you bet.
And no, Maxima didn’t do it, her rampant feminism wouldn’t allow it, unless someone got her drunk and high so I would put her odds actually around 300:1
And I wouldn’t even take the risk with that return. :P
D’Oh!! You are correct, had it around the wrong way :(
The problem is, they are the most likely suspects, thus, the least likely to have actually done it
That’s why it’s called gambling. That and risking your money on stupid crap doesn’t have the same ring.
I’m betting on Areiona.
She has the sheer evil audicy to think of this.
Well, she is a lawyer, after all.
I’m betting on one or more of the guys currently in that locker room, starting with the guy patting Math on the shoulder. They did it specifically to torture Math as payback for kicking their collective asses.
Ooh, that’s another good one. That smile he has in that last panel may not be a “I feel your pain, man.” kind of smile, but instead a “Ah ha ha, suck on THAT!” kind of smile.
Or maybe it’s “I DO have that power, but I’m not going to use it.” or “I’ve already seen them in a nude ticklefight.” or “I actually have X-ray vision, but it’s not as exciting as you’d think.”
Now that would be funny – If he did have XRay vision and he put up *both* signs!
What would be really funny is if no-one in the organisation is putting up the signs. For now they all think it was someone else. Then later they start to get suspicious…
If it had been Maxima, it would have started out with “DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT….”
And ended with “Your death will be slow and agonizing, you will be turned inside out over a long period of time!”
That wouldn’t be Blonde Harem standing behind Hiro, would it? O_o (might explain the look on the guy on their left)
BTW, nice to see the guys have nipples (or at least, aureoles)
No, it’s “yet unnamed willowy blonde” from this page. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/672
Eh, I’ll just call him Will for now then.
That’s always been a bad name to have if your work involves guns.
Just in case someone shouts “Fire at Will!”
Oh god, I remember them saying that on Star Trek: TNG with Riker being with the group and going “Welp, there goes the bearded one!”
Please take note of the picture of Arianna that Solbet has as his gravatar in the above comment. That was more or less my face when laughing at both of y’alls comments!
What do all these people have against Will anyway?
If it was handled by popular vote amongst the sci-fi TV watching public, the common phrase would probably be changed from “fire at will” to “fire at Wesley”.
Oh right, forgot about him, but still, not as much fun as it would have been if it was Blonde Harem ;)
Oh, I just noticed you updated Peggy’s entry on the cast page.
You changed her rank!
No, she has always had the rank (not sure about removing Peg’s original snapshot, the full-blown image is okay, but liked seeing ‘where she came from’)
Changed the rank symbol though.
Oh, stopped paying attention to the symbols
Symbols can be important. Without such understanding, someday, if you are being chased by a mad albino monk intent on killing you, you will not understand why!
Yeah, but when the same symbol can mean at least 2 things at once, you kind of ignore them altogether (the symbols, not the things they are attached to)
Yeah, I’d say the second of those two are definately on the list of things not to be ignored!
Fact is, with Harem and Dabbler, the girls probably have more ability to spy than the guys, hell, Dabbler could read minds, disguise herself… or convince the guys to do anything…
And if this were anime, Leon would be wearing a handkerchief around this head, stealing the girl’s underwear, and running away yelling “WHAT A HAUL! WHAT A HAUL” followed by angry girls with brooms and bats.
Leon is a teck geek, he would have a micro robotic camera crawl in and climb up a wall for a better angle.
Dam. I said leon, i meant Math, martial arts expert, then someone ouuumay have got my Ranma 1/2 reference
Actually, can kinda picture Math doing that, but only as prank/joke not because he’s a dirty perv (he’s a perv, but a clean one :P)
Wonder if she could like the old tv series Automan, and phase her telepresence self into the wall and just have her eyes out.
I was actually thinking about that show last week.
I wonder how many readers actually know what we are talking about.
Loved Curser, wish I had a super tool like that one in real life.
(Raises hand and apologizes for accidental blank post)
[also raises hand]
Oh yeah, I know. And now I feel ooolllldddd. :)
That is kind of like the strategy submerged crocodiles use when hunting.
watch enough anime and you’ll see various phaseing or projecting characters do it.
off the top of my head
one female example: Ryoko in the various Tenchi series
one male example: uh…that ambitious joke of a space pirate guy whose name I apparently forgot in the anime (Photon).
Otto Mann …. yeah…. and don’t forget Manimal, and the fluffy kitten scene….
You don’t know the fluffy kitten scene? Gasp! better try Google
We’re making the young’uns confused by our references to obscure 80’s tv shows. And Curser..the original Omni-tool.
Keeping the young’uns confused is the best way to keep them from taking over.
Umm, is ‘Curser’ anything like those sentient gadget things Doc had in Galaxy Ranger?
I think that should be Sydney’s nickname, she sure does a lot of it.
Curser was an actual computer Curser that could change into anything as long as it had the energy, Car,Helicopter,Guitar…(NEVER ride in Curser with Automan unless you like being thrown into the door, he makes literally 90degree turns.
Yeah, I remember that TV show…funny as hell, once I got past the sympathetic pain from watching him get slammed around.
Galaxy Rangers was so good. I need to watch that again. (and probably be reminded of how bad it actually was and I just don’t remember because of the haze of nostalgia.)
A few years ago managed to obtain 2 DVDs of it, pretty sure there is at least one more out there as they didn’t have the episode with an actual metamorph or the descendants of a Native American astronaut on an alien planet (only saw parts of that episode as our TV was playing up and never saw it again :()
How can she only have her eyes out without her forehead and nose out too?
Two words: “Marty” & “Feldman” :P
Hiya Peeps,
has anyone else noticed something about Leon? Besides being trapped in a locker in the women’s change rooms that is..
It appears he’s got a nosebleed from observing all that “delicate” femininity just out of arms reach…. ;)
Cheers & Thranx
Yup, noticed it (but kept forgetting to mention it :()
Manga refrence. In Japan when you think about sex in manga’s and anime your nose is supposed to bleed.
I have never had that happen to me. The blood pressure increase in men is actually quite localized, and has little to do with the respiratory system. Mind you, I have elevated blood pressure anyway.
I have a friend who has to take particular care with his blood pressure medication. If he fails to, eventually blood starts to squirt into his eyeballs, blinding him, and he has to be rushed to hospital. Typically involving being immersed in a bath full of ice, in intensive care. And reviving him any time he dies.
its a Japanese thing, and linked to the smaller nose with condensed capillaries or something. It basically means the Japanese nose is more prone to nose bleeds than the wider and longer European, American, Australian, or African noses. Where the rest of the world might turn beet red in the face it seems that getting a nose bleed was common in Japan.
I’m pretty sure the nosebleeds are just an allegory for erections that has evolved into its own thing. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen girls in animes get nosebleeds too.
yep, they do to.
Mariaholic, which is about a lesbian girl, gets them so badly she has to eat things with plenty of iron to make up for the blood loss.
Suspect that, if Leon was somehow telepathically linked to Dabbler, he wouldn’t merely get a nosebleed. His head would explode.
Niagara Waterfalls are just a drip compared to that nosebleed :D
Have you been there? The Falls are quite spectacular in person. I discount Leon’s nosebleed.
Niagara is overhyped, Victoria is where it’s at (you can hear it miles before you see it)
You are comparing height and volume there. Victoria is much higher but far more water goes over the Niagara.
Nope, was comparing ‘spectaculari-ness’ (that’s how you compare things that are different, like zuchinni’s and poodles)
Niagara is less than a two-hour drive for me. Victoria is a trans-Atlantic flight away. I have seen Victoria Falls on video and stills though.
Wait, that sign really is canon, and not just Sydney imagining it? LMAO
She is only imagining 2nd panel (why she put Leon in the locker instead of the more obvious Math is a mystery, unless it’s simply she refuses to think of Math any more than she has to :P)
Actually I think it was Peggy who suggested Leon would be in the locker.
Right, Peg suggested it and Sydney’s imagination provided the rest
The sign is canon. Whether or not Dabbler runs around sudsing others’ bosoms is anyone’s guess.
Dave, I know the first item you can have made to sell, and it’s that sign. It’d be a killer poster.
Actually the first one was the ‘Always Expect Ninjas’ shirt. I have it, and it’s amazing
I’m pritty damn sure she tryed it with Max a few times
So, I’ve been meaning to ask this for a few weeks now ever since I noticed it.
Is Math’s eyebrows on the underside of his brow?
Not sure he even has eyebrows
I’ve been a little inconsistent with that. Basically he doesn’t have any, it’s just the brow ridge, but I’ve drawn them in a few times when he’s surprised or quizzical.
It all goes back to last year’s staff picnic and the ‘barbecue incident’.
(and by the look of his hair, I’m thinking if he wants a hole in the wall all he needs to do is point his hands at it and say ka-me-ha-me-ha!)
Does Vegetable-head say that? Been too long since been able to see that show :(
Yes Goku does say that.
Goku is not Vegetable-head :P
If that phrase doesn’t work, Math could try “Fus Ro Dah.”
Math becomes my favorite character more and more with each page he is in XD
He looks close to either develop spontaneous X-ray powers or make the wall crumble with pure willpower.
He certainly has more than enough motivation to achieve either of those powers.
Speaking of which, I cannot help but notice that Math seems to have both hands stuck really DEEP in his pockets, in panel #6.
He’s playing pocket pool.
You need really large pockets for that most wouldn’t reach far enough.
From the way he’s standing, it’s probably out of frustration. Besides, you don’t play pocket pool in a changing room with other guys standing next to you. Not even Math (I hope)
That’s kinda the real reason for the notice (you don’t want to risk accidental towel-raising in a locker full of buff guys :D)
Yeah, I noticed that too.
The final panel makes me realise how Math has achieved the skill he has already. Pure determination. I think you are right, if it is possible to spontaneously develop x-ray vision by sheer willpower, Math is the guy who will pull it off.
Most of all that panel reminds me of the Bride in Kill Bill *, in the scene when she is staring at the coffin lid, thinking “I am going to punch my way out of this grave!”
* Good, the name came back before hitting submit, so I did not have to keep it as “Kill Whatshisname”
I think that last would have been a MUCH better title for the movie.
Believe the original japanese movie was called “Lady Snowblood” (have “LS1” & “LS2” but haven’t actually watched it yet, but pretty sure it has a sticker on it saying it was the inspiration for “Kill Whatsisface”, but then again, they also say that “Hidden Fortress” was one of the inspirations for “Star Wars”… )
I’d guess Dabbler is behind the sign. It’d fit her provocative troublemaker character, and her smarts and magic might keep (humorless, responsible) commanders from finding out and taking it down. (Yes, I’m also guessing that the sign is canon, not just Sidney’s imagination.)
Is Sydney disappointed she missed out on the Tickle Fest? And is that as a participant or spectactor?
A tickle party with Dabbler and Harem is a bit intense for her first day.
For one thing, they’re probably both very good at tickling, due to having an average of thirty-five fingers each.
So, just spectator then?
So we’re counting all of the harems as one person I get that, but your math is off, if you don’t include thumbs then you only have an average of 21 fingers and if you count thumbs you have an average of 33 fingers, if you head back to where you can see dabblers hands you can find out that she has 3 fingers and a thumb on each hand not 4 and a thumb on each hand though they do look like they have four on some occasions
While you’re at it, try not to think about purple elephants.
Muskrat …. Muskrat …. Muskrat …. Muskrat …. Muskrat …. Muskrat ….
speaking of elephants, the best way to hide one is to paint it purplish pink….nobody will admit to seeing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnE4vF9CQ4
That clip does bring a smile. But I really thought you would have linked the classic YouTube pink elephant clip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJfXgTO7J4
True, but try not to think about that song now! :P
the only song running through my head after that conversation is this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJv2Mugm2RI
No, this is the music to not associate with elephants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgOQIo42oc0
Totally remember seeing that a couple years ago as a multi-hour loop (would have it playing as a pleasant background noise :D)
Catchy, but that clip includes only a fraction of the song, which is now probably the best-known Finnish song world-wide. A better video of the actual performance, with Finnish subtitles and English translation, is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4om1rQKPijI
There is more info on the song here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ievan_Polkka
However, this one has better audio, using one microphone per singer instead of 2 mikes total. However, some fool engineer messed it up so the stereo presence doesn’t match the placement of the singers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ygdAiDxKfI
I kind of like this trance remix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3avv-JCGDzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGGWr54JQM
Houston, we have an official running gag. You suppose whoever puts those signs up is precognitive?
You ask that about an organization with Supers? O_o
Ooo, just caught the bit how it’s only unrealistic that Leon would hide himself in a locker, not that he would peek (or that Harem and Dabbles would do that with the soap) :D
of course it’s unrealistic… he’s the TECH GEEK!!!… he’s hide a WIRELESS CAMERA… not HIMSELF!
Unless… he got interupted while planting the cameras :D
true, but that’s implied by the “due to zany circumstances” line.
Another very good page. Just my pet peeve about calling women “girls” cuz they are way past that stage. I know it is done all the time but that is my peeve. Now I am happy. But some of guys at ARC have their libidos turned up too high. Or is it just Sydney’s version of it? Cold shower solution? Maybe I need it now. I’ll be back….(he runs to hit the cold showers.)
That’s something I’ve always done just because to me, the word “woman” conjures the picture of a 50 something mom type in an ugly floral print dress with a fancy hat like she’s going to church. I don’t know why that came about, but I tend to reserve the word for females much older than “legally an adult.” On the same note, I think you need to be about 40 to even begin to qualify for the word “man” and even then it depends on whether or not you wear a tie to work. I see news stories all the time “the 22 year old man was last seen…” and I think to myself “22 is not a man. That’s just a guy or a dude.”
I’m old enough that 22 is “Boy” =P
I habitually use “girl”. Try it the next time you are speaking to a grey haired lady. Refer to her that way. I have never found it to be unappreciated.
Ironically the only girls who might not appreciate the term are those who are young enough that their concern is being viewed as a grown woman. :-D
Sorry to tell you this, but “girl” has meant “any young unmarried woman” since mid-15th century.
I support strong language skills, and speaking clearly, but ignoring almost 500 years of language development is a little extreme.
Er, is that to mean that you support “strong skills in language,” or that you support “skills in using strong language?” ;)
Both of course! :-P
Well, Sydney’s definitely got the second form down pat.
Given the choice of using two words, one which purely utilitarian and the other of which brings pleasure to the person I am conversing with, I know which I prefer to use. I choose my words carefully, and my intent is carried perfectly clearly.
Sometimes I favour archaic words. Sometimes I will modify an existing word, but in a different way to convention. Just for the heck of it. Used judiciously, they can make a conversation more interesting.
um, you do realize that way back then, the age at which females were married off by their families was when they were 15-16ish and even YOUNGER… so yeah, any “young unmarried woman” means just that… young (12 ish or younger), UN-married (because if you weren’t married then you were a nun after that. not many other options for single women back then), and a “woman” as opposed to a male… all adds up to “girl”… so it basically means the same back then as it does now, just for different reasons.
Around here, conventions are much different. One girl I asked how she was getting on said “Awful, I don’t think I am every going to find a man! All my friends are married and having babies. I am the only spinster in the village!”
I dutifully ignored any hint that she might be interested in an older guy like me, and told her she was very pretty and would have no problems. And said to her that she was much too young to want to settle down yet, anyhow. “Oh no, don’t be silly, I am fourteen!”
And that is just an example. Pretty much all the rural girls get married by that age. At the latest.
Interestingly, despite common belief to the contrary, between the 14th century and the 19th, the average age of marriage was 25 years of age. Grooms were usually 2-3 years older than their brides, putting the average age of the bride at 23-24. Take a look at the books”Kinship and Gender” by Linda Stone, ” Peasant and community in Medieval England, 1200–1500″ by Phillipp Schofield, and “The World We Have Lost” by Peter Laslett, if you want more information.
I’d say, when it comes to superhero names the word “woman” is so long and awkward on the syllabils and rolling off the tongue that its hard to use in a superhero name other than something already taken like Wonder Woman, while girl is nice and short with a nice roll. Although Maiden works, but only really for more spiritual type characters.
and using “female” feels contrived or parodious.
Thank you, DaveB! This is awesome in every frame. The handing of the bag in panel 1, the “bosoms” in panel 2, reality check in panel 3, the speculating and quashing in panel 4, the sign in panel 5, the beefcake for the ladies in panel 6, and the look on Math’s face in panel 7. It’s all good. :)
Thanks, I’m pretty pleased with it myself.
Yes you should be pleased and when I think of ladies flouncing it is bouncing as they go. That sign is torture. Maybe one should be put up by the guys. And I say “young women” as in post pubescent but still young. Not yet 50, but that is myself. I don’t expect anyone to change. Just remember that Fred Flintstone called his wife and Betty “girls” too.
Sermon over.
Sweet Mother of Kittens. More Hiro!
Wow … that is an intresting choice of word … Flouncing …
I actually had to look that up to figure out what the heck it ment.
Wish I could attach an Animated Gif … but my work computers suck.
Wow, the dictionary definition is definitely not what I had in mind when I used that word. I was thinking it meant “pretend you’re on a trampoline, also wiggle more, now bump into each other and grope a bit.”
I was thinking like the scene from The Replacements (2000 film with Keanu Reeves) where the new cheerleaders were dancing about on the field … (https://youtu.be/TEXF78SREnM)
Don’t know if there is a singular word for that =(^_^)=
What they are doing is not ‘flouncing’
Well they are moving in the way … at least I think they are … as Dave envisioned =(^_^)=
“pretend you’re on a trampoline, also wiggle more, now bump into each other and grope a bit.” Minus the trampoline.
Also … one definitation of Flouncing … is to move about in an exerated manner as to draw attention to one self.
They are most certianly moving about in a manner that draws attention =P
I think flouncing has to do with the ruffled fabric of a skirt and/or the gait that makes the ruffles flap. That gait would be the part where you’re drawing attention. When I think about it, flouncing has been a feature of many dances/dancing costumes. (I have five sisters, is how I know.)
If your dictionary led you to think you used the wrong word, its definitions are lacking. Contextually, I found no problem with the word. And in no way incongruously with previous contexts I have heard, or used, it in.
1flounce
intransitive verb \ˈflau̇n(t)s\
flouncedflounc·ing
Definition of FLOUNCE
1
a : to move with exaggerated jerky or bouncy motions ; also : to move so as to draw attention to oneself
b : to go with sudden determination
2
: flounder, struggle
Origin of FLOUNCE
perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian flunsa to hurry
First Known Use: 1542
2flounce
noun
Definition of FLOUNCE
: an act or instance of flouncing
— flouncy adjective
First Known Use of FLOUNCE
1583
Rhymes with FLOUNCE
bounce, jounce, ounce, pounce
3flounce
transitive verb
flouncedflounc·ing
Definition of FLOUNCE
: to trim with flounces
Origin of FLOUNCE
alteration of earlier frounce, from Middle English frouncen to curl
First Known Use: 1711
4flounce
noun
Definition of FLOUNCE
: a strip of fabric attached by one edge; also : a wide ruffle
— flouncy adjective
First Known Use of FLOUNCE
1713
Always pictured it as a kind of ‘floaty bounce’ (so whatever those street-walkers dressed in cheerleader paint are doing is, by that definition, not ‘flouncing’)
Tiggers are flouncy. Also check out the video for “Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia.
I prefer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJFyz73MRcg
Hiro’s putting on a Navy uniform, yes?
I think more AF than Navy, the blue of the pants is too light. At least on my monitor.
Well it’s supposed to be really dark purple, so there may be something wrong with your monitor.
Yup, same colour as ‘George’ in the background (much better name than ‘Will’ when around firearms)
“When ready” works.
A term used in archery always gave me mental giggles. If somebody was going to walk in front of the target, usually to retrieve arrows, “fast” would be called out. Now I know it is short for “hold fast” ie. keep a grip on your arrow and do not shoot. But it just sounds like somebody wants to get rid of the guy, quickly!
Or, maybe they are telling the guy to be quick before fingers ‘accidentally’ slip :P
was thinking the shoulder not the pants.
Just gonna point out, Sandy is becoming a far more likable character now. Before she was more of a Random NPC, but she’s beginning to flesh out nicely, especially being concerned about Sydney now.
I just noticed Sandy (sitting in the chair) and the guy patting Math on the shoulder look a lot like each other. Relatives or accident of art?
I think DaveB has already mentioned he hasn’t quite gotten down drawing people so their features are largely distinguishable or something like that. But I could be remembering wrong.
Either is possible. But do not discount the probability that in any large organisation you will have at least a couple of people who have a resemblance to each other. Although quite a compliment for Sandy, if you feel she closely resembles someone with super-hero-enhanced good looks. :-D
More like a failure of art. Hiro is Japanese (ancestrally anyway) Sandy is… whatever white people with black hair are. Italian-ish mix mutt? Asian people are really quite challenging to draw so they actually look Asian I find, and everyone else in the comic has sort of a generic face except for Sydney obviously, and Max, Anvil and Dabbler. I need to study up on facial shapes, eye shapes, nose shapes etc. I don’t want to rely on hair/costume differences to make my characters distinguished looking like a lot of comic and manga art tends to do.
To me, they all look unique, just some have a slight familial similarity (even if they are not related, or even the same ‘race’)
I think maybe you didn’t quite show the epicanthic fold as well as you could have, especially in the last panel. The eyelid near corner of the eye should probably be more curved and less sharp so the eye is more almond shaped. Just a thought.
Still, this is superhero modified physiology, so it can look however it wants to look. :-P
And the standard dye-job just adds to the confusion.
I think this is the first appearance of Sandy where I don’t have the urge to ask what the heck is up with her neck. She always looks like she has turners syndrome.
that sounded way less flippant in my head.
You know… This semester, on mondays I have class all day. Last week and this one again, I made the stupid mistake of reading this during my class of Especial Education… it seems that when you shouldn’t laugh, you laugh even more… My professor is talking about kids with special needs and the difficulty they have to go through and I’m here, having trouble containing my laugh…
“…and maybe Carol can tell us what she finds so amusing about crippling autism.”
I think she meant she was trying to not laugh at your comic during the class and failed.
It is like laughing during a funeral. The original laugh wasn’t probably triggered by the situation, but something silly said or done at the time, but once laughing in a highly inappropriate situation, it is really hard to stop, because your sense of absurdity kicks into high gear. I once was dressed down for having a giggle fit during a general’s speech. And it was all because my waitress, at the dining in, kept up her own running remarks about his speech. On a good note, she turned out to be a really fun date.
The best last-ditch defense in that situation is to fake a coughing fit.
Meh, I would not be surprised if the professor wasn’t a fan already. He, or she, probably gets used to students getting distracted on a Monday and has found out the cause. ;-)
Peggy keeps going up in my opinion. Crawling under the desk, with Sydney, was a nice way to stop her from hyperventilating. Far less intimidating than staring at a pair of combat boots and imagining a scowl on an unseen face.
Yup, on all counts :D
Yup again.That gravatar-worthy panel with Sydney huffing into a bag was hilarious, the poor thing. Seeing Peggy under there with her was a jolt of warm fuzzies. So much grace in such a simple thing. Peg may not be super, but she’s outstanding. In her low key way.
Taking bets on who’s going to be Sydney’s new best friend:
Peggy: 3-to-1
Leon: 7-to-2
Dabbler: 4-to-1
Math: 5-to-1
Max: 7-to-1
Not sure if maybe you put Maxi too high (or too low, depending on how you view these things), or maybe Maxi will become more of a mentor/giant-golden-older-sister
You forgot:
Harem: 6-1
Mr. Amorphous: 18-1
Achilles: 17-2 (after she finds out about the bank robbery, as in “You tried to shoot me!”) 67-3
Ariana: 11-1
Hiro: 14-3 (Sydney: Yes please! Hubba hubba! Hiro: Wow, this new girl is even weirder than I thought.)
Now that I think of it. Mr. X. You know, Dabbler’s handler. He might possibly be the only one (?) to be able to slip into the women’s locker room unnoticed. Dabbler of course would probably spot him with her porno sense, though she might not say anything, because she’d secretly enjoy the attention. Not to mention having some juicy blackmail material to use against Mr. X later on.
Mr. X, if brazen enough might make a pretty penny selling pics to Math and Leon until Max caught one of them. Then there’d be hell to pay.
well actually… according to when Dabbler was talking about how she knew Mr. X was there she mentioned he ‘occluded sound’ meaning in a shower stall situation (with mist and stuff) his basic outline would appear quite clearly. While he *might* be able to get away with being in the locker portion of the room (far, far away from the showering area) [hehe… in a locker room far, far away…]… remember, he’s part of the intelligence unit of Archon. He probably has access to videos of each of these women that would be twenty times more embarrassing :p
X gave me the impression that now the hiding flaw has been revealed, it will not remain a problem for long.
You mean Tingles?
I was thinking of the part about:
That is easy enough to work around (say by standing behind a curtain).
As regards porno-sense I guess that he will be capable enough to figure out a way. At the very least he will get Dabbler give updated details for her file. If she co-operates, he will know what range it operates at and anything which blocks it. And can operate accordingly if he thinks that secrecy is any point now that his cover is blown.
Was it actually extablished if X was a Mr or Mrs?
Emphatically not. I was about to mention that X (no Mr.) might actually belong in the women’s bathroom.
Either way, a lot of people (both in comic and out) would be interested to see what is under that suit
Harem #6?
Now that *would* be pretty much the ultimate spy. Of course that would mean all of the stealth systems were created by the suit or someone casting spells on it.
Dabbler probably could tell though, especially with a ‘regular’ Harem in the room to compare when the ‘Porno Sense’ incident happened. At the very least Dabbler could tell make or female after that scene.
ICHIGO 100% reference ah good times
with great power comes great oppertunities to abuse that power.
xref the motto of https://gregor-comics.com/
poor math he looks like he is going to die in the last panel from strain
Or at the least, pop a large blood vessel (or become the next Marty Feldman)
“Damn your eyes!”
“Too late.”
Next to last panel, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! I wish I could draw guys with definition like that and make it look good. :) Keep up the good work, oh and the story is good too.
I have basic anatomy down pretty good, but I’ve also been building up a “Beefcake” collection in my reference folder. You could always do the same. :)
Math looks like Vegeta here.
Yups, was thinking the same thing (more so than Carrot-chops) :D
Oh Math, just give up and watch porn… There seems to be a lot of unprofessionality with the signs in the changing rooms in these places. I like it!
On an unrelated note, I remember when you gave that explanation for Math being the only guy with a choker. Thick necks and so on. But methinks it would look alright blondie back there, the “bishonen” (yes I just used that word, deal with it) who hasn’t said a word yet.
Stop being lazy and give Blondie a choker! :P
Blondie will be properly introduced later, I’m just establishing his presence now. He’ll get a choker since he doesn’t have beefneck. All of them will have something but I think some of the guys will wind up with torcs.
Maybe “Golden” ones? :}
Random thought- Doesn’t Dabbler have multiple mammaries? Or was that in an earlier incarnation? In any case, I’m fairly certain that, under the right circumstances, Harem can legitimately refer to her breasts as her bosoms…
Only in her cast list picture, never in the body of this comic. Although, as the Gentlebastard implies below, she may have appeared that way in Wereworld.
Last week DaveB confirmed that he has decided against the original concept idea, as drawing clothing that did not look odd on her was problematic, with that physique.
Maybe they are just retractable/deflatable
Dave – I well remember the early discussions about why Dabbler had 2 vs 4, and you intimated that you had difficulty drawing her with 4 breasts in normal clothing without it looking “lumpy” and misshapen. Over the intervening months, however, your already-formidable artisitic ability has improved vastly. Given the relatively consistent drumbeat of queries about it, I wonder if you’ve ever considered retconning that particular detail to match Wereworld Dabbler…
I think I actually have a way to make both versions of her kosher. We’ll see how that pans out though. :)
Just could have been a phase her species went through. Imagine if she should ever be pregnant. Maybe six or eight!
didn’t dabbler originally have bosom-s plural? or was that just wereworld?
just wereworld… IIRC, he said that he’d have gotten tired real quick of having to go thru the effort of drawing them all the time, and having to remember to draw them correctly each time, versus just going with two and then just have to worry about the second set of arms, and if he got tired of doing it the comic would suffer overall… so yeah, she’s only got two, like us humans…
Finally managed to get my laptop back, so have been able to bring the separated parts of the Halo Orbs List back together, as requested.
Note: The posts are currently awaiting moderation (an anti-spam feature for any post with multiple links), so will not be visible yet. Obviously this link will not work either, until they have. But I need to get to sleep, and did not want to forget to post this.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/793/comment-page-2#comment-38043
Hopefully if anyone wants to comment on them, they will do so to the third post only, otherwise they will just get split up again.
If you bookmark the above link, it will take you directly to the first part of the list (once they have passed moderation). Handy for the next time Halo is holding an orb if you can’t remember it’s properties.
Excellent work. Thanks!
Nyooo~~! Why do you already have your shirt on, Hunter? I wanted to see your muscles some more ~w~
you are required to wear a v-neck undershirt with dress blues. but it’s impossible to tell without taking the shirt off so a lot people don’t wear them when it’s hot.
For the Canadian Military you do not need to wear an under shirt while in your DEU’s (Distinctive Envoronmental Uniform) or Military Formal Wear