Grrl Power #155 – Halo (The Mighty)
I had originally intended to skip this page since it’s really just Sydney introducing herself by her hero name for the first time, and then some banter, but then I realized as I finishing the next page that it was this page I was planning on rolling out the Halo graphic in the Who’s Who. Not that it’s such a momentous event, it just seemed weird to have it show up without any real prompting from that day’s comic.
I’ve started on an Anvil pinup for the vote incentive, but we had a super busy week at work with extra hours and I barely got this page done on time. Plus I can’t decide if I want just a picture of her flexing, casually lounging, or maybe something a little more cheesecakey. I’m not sure I like what I have so far. So I’ll continue to work on that, and try and get the SEAL shirt somewhere those interested can buy it, we’ll just see how this week is at work.
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Well…
There go’s my theory that she had a naval drill instructor for a father.
I’m still going with “Her dad is rich and crazy”.
How about just ‘crazy’?
Nope, Sydney has enough disposable income (enough for vacations to Caribean islands even as her supposed job is being partner in a dramatically unsuccessful comic book shop) that I’m sticking with “rich and crazy”. Besides that fits with having a father so obsessed with passing down his name that he made his _daughter_ a “junior”.
That could still just be ‘crazy’
And don’t know how she got to the Caribbean, she could have just as easily won it in a spicy food eating contest (if she did have ‘enough disposable income’, don’t you think she would have been putting enough of it into the business so that it wasn’t ‘dramatically unsuccessful’?)
Florida keys, you could just drive there from anywhere in the continently US.
See you have a new stat=bar for Sydney. Nice.
Agreed very nice solution to the orb situation. And puts them on a standing midway between characters with no speaking parts and those important enough to get a mention in the who’s who. Yay for the orbs of THE MIGHTY HALO.
The bar provides a good quick reference – I still don’t remember which orb goes with which power.
Halo the Mighty
Roams through the countryside
She never needs a place to hide
With Peggy as her sidekick
Fighting with her boom stick
Righting wrongs and singing songs
Being mighty all day long
She’s Halo— Halo the Mighty!
Oohhhhhh—
She’s Halo the Mighty
She’s really flighty
Everybody likes her
‘Cause she has a crazy grin
Halo—
Halo the Mighty!
Xena had the best songs.
Joxer called, he wants his theme song back. =P
Cruisin’ through the universe, havin’ lots of fun
Here comes Sydney Scoville, you know she’s the Mighty One
Despite her telepresense and her mighty PPO
Syd is still a comic nerd but she’s the only one
With the floating orbs to make her really super strong
Syd can be a winner if we only sing along!!
Yeah, yeah, I know. Jim wants his theme song back…
? Have link to the original?
From the first line, and ‘Jim’ I take it to be this.
Nope, don’t believe it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRli1rRMoSQ
I’d point to the printed lyrics also, but almost all of them are chock full of mondegreens. Eg, “dirt-eating chewing length of worm, flash” rather than “dirt-eating chewy length of worm flesh”. Some controversy over whether that’s “link” or “length”, but eh. Seems best to just try to decipher it yourself. It actually seems fairly clear to me…
Ahh, that would explain why I missed the reference. Have never seen that before.
Saw a few episodes as a kid, don’t really remember it other than it was “Grrooovy!” :D
Me likey. Thanks, DaveB.
Annnnd again she forgets she has an audience…
At least she kept her language clean this time.
….. for now.
If you ask me it wasn’t fair for sidney, they were hiding behind the camera
Actually, in the shots with the cameras (when DaveB remembers to put them in :P), they are behind the reporters
I’m honestly surprised she hasn’t said ***, ****, ******, ****, or ****weasel****************bucket*************** yet.
We don’t know what she said when Harem did the “Badger!” trick
I like the update to the right, showing Sydney’s orbs.
From the side legend of the orbs powers, it should probably be “Clairsense” and not “Clarisense”
Yep.
Thought that was supposed to be “Yorp!”
:-D
personally I tack on the suffix ‘IE’ on words if it only works part of the time, I could see DaveB going for something like that with this
Unfortunately Adobe Fireworks doesn’t have inline spell check. In any case, it should really say “Telepresence” I’ll update that when I get a chance.
Very true, it does cover more than remote sight. There is an audible component too. Presumably two-way, so would also cover clairaudience. Plus the illusionary projection of herself. So there is a lot more going on than just clairvoyance.
Arianna to Sydney in a future staff meeting. “I don’t care that it takes longer to say. You can’t call it the ‘TP’ orb. The marketing department won’t go for it”.
“Clarisense” works as a semi-Latinate construction, and sounds more euphonious than “clairsense.”
Even “telepresence”, though, doesn’t include the illusory facsimile. Maybe “bilocation” would do…
That would be a useless power for Sydney. She is straight, judging by her resisting Dabbler when she was dialled above 10. Don’t believe the rumours.
Bi-location in the Paranormal is the person being seen in two locations at once. Something that Harem does all the time only it is Quintolocation.
It gives her the ability to sense when gals named Clair are nearby?
Completely useless near college sorority houses.
Actually, Clarisense works, because it uses the root Clari, as in clarity (literally “clearsense”)
Non. Eet is from ze French “Clair“. Who’s root is the Latin “clarus”.
Clārī is both the nominative and vocative masculine plural. * Neither of which would be appropriate because this is Grrl Power.
* Warning: knowledge observed in the rear view mirror might appear larger than in reality.
I almost spit out my drink.
common ariana,, we all know you love how this is going,,, sidney is doing a bang up job showing that super are people to
Press reaction before the demonstrations: Oh, isn’t that cute. She has personal quirks just like regular people.
Press reaction after the demonstrations: Oh my god! That uncontrolled maniac has the ability to fire weapons that could level a city block!
A couple of things about your name that’s had me curious for some time…
O.B.? Does that mean you’re an Obstetrician?
Do you have any relatives named Obi?
If so, wouldn’t that make him O.B. Juan’s kin, Obi?
Sorry, no MD for me. I simply picked the name because I wanted something geek-ish and I am partial to puns.
(May the farce be with you)
…the cookie IS a farce…
I hope they have this thing on 5-second delay. If Sydney keeps forgetting about the press, she might also forget to curb her tongue.
BTW, Despite the fact that Sydney is only a Recruit, she’s listed as having the rank of Cadet in the Cast Page.
Yeah I haven’t updated the cast page since I learned what the difference was. :/
Are there any supers that hold ranks between Lt. Colonel Maxima and the two first Lts: Peggy and Anvil?
You mean, other than Major Hiro?
I don’t remember Major Hiro, when was he mentioned?
ah ok, he’s the guy with the black hair. When was his rank mentioned?
Unless you are keen-eyed enough to make out his rank insignia, just by a comment from DaveB.
I thought she was a cadet when we first saw her at the base waaaaaaaayyy back at the begining. When the whole things starts off ans she tells us she has a second job. Wouldn’t that actually be say a few years in the future from this point? By then she may actually be a cadet. So it still stands.
Corporal. A couple of months. Yep, possibly. If she is good. Or it may get corrected, if she does not behave responsibly enough to deserve the responsibilities which go with the rank. Provided she manages to pull of the trick of convincing the world that she can still be an effective policewoman, whilst having childish fun, it is within the bounds of possibility that she will make NCO.
the two unknown are pricking at the brain cells for me… i think still think the green one could be where she mimics the active powers of the others. halo mimics harem’s powers at the press conference… MWAHAHAhah… ha.. ha… okay arianna would have a meltdown
Officers tend to not stick their tongues out like that. Survive Basic Training and then see if there is a recommendation to apply for Officer school. Not likely (the recommendation, not the surviving) for Sydney.
2 pages from now, back at Even Horizon Comics: Brad, the obsessive comics fan, comes into the comic watching something on his Cellular-enabled tablet.
Daphne: (over the tablet’s speakers) Badgers!
Sydney: Hey that’s my material!
Brad: Hey Joel, is Sydney here? There’s a woman at this superhero press conference looks just like her.
Joel: She should be back any minute. Wait, Sydney a superhero? I don’t see how that would ever happen. Let me see that.
Sydney: I am not a pirate!
Joel quickly fumbles for the TV remote control and turns it on.
Sydney: (from TV and tablet): A.K.A. the Mighty Halo!
Joel absently grabs his can of Jaw-Drop soda.
See if the basic training facility survives.
I rest my case. She should not have been allowed near the press. They could have said “We just found her today and are still negotiating her joining our organization. You can talk to her tomorrow.”
I mean, she is going to discover new ways to make herself look like an idiot in front of the press.
It is all adding to her public appeal. Amongst specific demographics, admittedly. And will distract the press from worrying about a military organisation having policing responsibilities. It will not stop the relevant interest groups from bleating about it. But if the members of the public and press which are naturally inclined to negativity are fixating on THE MIGHTY HALO and her antics, then other unfavourable issues will get less air time. Notably, as she is a new recruit and therefore fairly harmless, it will not impede too much on serious coverage about the new organisation.
So, kind of a Dan Quayle effect? (Yes, I’m old)
today, it would be more like the Joe Biden Effect: VP’s are “selected” as running mates to act as PR Flack & are REQUIRED to say the kwaaa-zee-ist t’ings.
She is as harmless as an hyperactive squirrel with explosive weaponry. Literally.
Point well made. Contextually though, in my defence, I was talking in PR terms relating to her oddball behaviour in front of the cameras. Rather than her destructive capability on the Richter scale.
Hopefully Max or Arianna will have the foresight to, discreetly, tell her not to start blowing up things when the demonstration gets going. They want to impress the press. Not scare the s**t out of them!
Ya, I can hear the pundits now. The gun-control (or anti-super-powered people) are going to go ape over Sydney. I like hyperactive squirrels, I am one my-self at times, but I do not talk to the media. I have trust issues with them.
“Next at 7: Is giving squirrels explosives a bad idea, are the squirrel armies going to overthrow humanity? Find out next.”
There are squirrel wars raging as we speak! In England. Once the green and pleasant island was inhabited by lovely, cute, red squirrels. Beloved by everyone. Then came the invasion from America. They had killed off all their experimental war ‘gators by filling them up with gunpowder and blowing them up. Back during the British Civil War in the Americas.
So instead, the anti-monarchists had to turn to the evil grey squirrels, to stealthily invade by proxy. Murdering all the innocent red squirrels and taking over the forests. All bar a few pockets of isolated resistance.
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
And now, if that is not enough, the dastardly grey squirrels have mutated! Gaining strange unknown powers and even their very appearance has changed to match their evil nature. The deadly black squirrels now devour all in their path!
THEN, there are the wallabies…..
The Wallaby is basically a smaller version of kangaroo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaby ). Over the years, quite a number have apparently escaped from zoos and private collections to establish themselves in the UK (and several other places, according to the Wiki).
Oh yes, there’s a war against squirrels on…designing squirrel-proof bird feeders is a world-wide multi-million dollar industry. For more details, refer to the British documentaries “Daylight Robbery” & “Daylight Robbery 2.”
Oh, dear… I’ve just had the mental image of Sydney coming face-to-face with Rocket Racoon! Let the chaos commence!
I totally just realized she could totally cheat her way through college with the comm orb reading the book during test.
They glow. You have to get the orb into the test unnoticed first, then hold it in your hand while doing the test and being observed. Hint: She’d get caught.
She holds the orb in her non-writing hand and keeps them in her pocket. The issue’s more that the comm orb Sydney can’t flip pages, so she can only see what’s on the page she left open. Better make it a one sided cheat sheet.
It is a lot better just to do the studying. And if Sydney turns out not to be good at studying then she probably would be happier avoiding jobs and roles that require it. There are very very few situations where cheating is acceptable* and even then the risk to benefit ratios really need to be favourable to consider it. Getting dishonourably discharged is not really worth the transient advantage of additional information in an exam. And if I were invigilating she would get caught. You just count the orbs in orbit. If there are less than 7 then closer examination would follow.
* For instance if on a special forces survival exercise with the instructions that you are not allowed to have any gear that is not provided. Under such conditions using your initiative is vital. Just do not get caught cheating against direct orders. There will be consequences.
True, true. But idea was about cheating on college exams. She’d have her other orbs in the tube (unless the college required her to have them out and sit in the back so not to distract others). It’s still not worth the effort.
Good points. I did note the college bit in your previous. My logic was as follows. She now works for the military. They like to encourage studying, so would almost certainly pay for her course and allow time for her to attend classes and/or do homework. Albeit likely part-time and fitting around her regular duties. Anyone caught cheating in exams under regular circumstances can face severe punishment. Being expelled is not unusual.
Although I do not know first hand, I expect that the military would take a similarly harsh view of their personnel cheating, even if it is for a civilian exam. At the very least it would risk damaging the reputation of the armed forces. As such, a dishonourable discharge might be possible, depending on how severe the infraction was viewed, any mitigating circumstances and whether it risked becoming public knowledge. Likely there would be a lesser sanction, but whatever it is, the risks are greater for someone in the military.
Ah. I get what you were saying now. My bad. Good point.
Officially, yes. Unofficially, don’t get caught.
seeing as “any gear provided” logically includes yourself she would be able to use orbs based on the wording she could make the loophole suggestion of well my orbs are part of me thus they were allowed right? Unless they specifically say no powers and no orbs
but that’s ignoring what you were implying I agree with what you said just thought id throw out that perspective out there
Actually I agree with you. If she were put on a default course, she would be foolish not to use them. We know the orbs are inseparable from her, so she should use them whenever able. As you say, they are essentially part of her.
Mind you a sensible survival trainer will say to her “with your range of powers you do not need to be on this course as you could overcome any problems nature could throw at you”. As Sydney turns to walk away…
“However, have you considered what would happen if you could not use your orbs? For instance if you have frostbite or even burnt hands from whatever crash or attack left you stranded in the wilderness. For the purposes of this course, I want you to assume that the orbs have been rendered inoperable. So you will learn how to stay alive if that does happen. As you cannot leave them behind I will have to put you on your honour to not use them.”
Subtly, the entire course may just be a front. The real test being one of character. Will she cheat or will she show herself to be trustworthy?
I honestly didn’t expect this to turn into a whole debate. I was mostly going off how she thought to use them to cheat at skee-ball and could possibly use them to cheat on basic test where her ADD or AD-HD could make it impossible to focus or pass. Another thing on the test is that she doesn’t need to constantly hold the orb, she could pretend to scratch her leg touch the orb for a second to enter the room with the answers and mostly use it when she gets stuck on the harder stuff.
Also for the burned hand thing I could only see that happening in a training course since in a real life scenario she would instinctively grab the shield or flying orb to either protect herself or fly away from the danger zone.
Brick joke! :-D
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/450
Less a brick joke, more just another data point on Sydney’s behaviour. A brick joke would be, say, Maxima throwing something into the air a dozen pages ago and it suddenly gets Sydney back on track by bonking her on the head all this time later.
Ahh, I had wondered what the trope was, and that explanation makes sense. In joke terms I would have called it a running gag. Albeit one with a long stride. Or a recurring joke, if that term is not familiar to someone. But I would agree that the first instance was closer to a behavioural issue than a straight joke.
Whereas today’s one is very much in joke territory, because of being so over the top. Albeit peering over the parapet into believability, because of Sydney’s past behaviour and the fact that she must be getting fatigued and stretched by the day’s events. Mind you the best sitcoms do that. Stretch circumstances to a hilarious end, whilst maintaining plausibility, given the context of a particular situation and the behaviour of the individuals involved.
It originated.. well, literally as a brick joke. I don’t recall the specifics, but it ran along the lines of one joke told without a punchline that ended with a brick being thrown into the air or otherwise misplaced. Then later on another joke is told with the brick from the first appearing as the erstwhile punchline. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrickJoke
Basically something small that happens with no real explanation or followup until you’ve completely forgotten about it, then it plays an important part. This forgetting that there is an audience is just part of her ADHD behaviour; she got distracted, and stopped paying attention to the press, so they no longer existed in her mind. It might be a recurring way of displaying her attention span (or lack thereof), but I don’t think it’s a running gag.
You mean sort of like how she got distracted by playing with flaws in the window tint coating, and “totally forgot that guy was there”? Sure seems like a possible running gag to me (depending on how often she does it with comedic results (ie, getting orange dust on Maxima’s jacket that time, or public humiliations galore this time)).
That: “I totally forgot that guy was there” https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/450
This: “I totally forgot you guys were there” https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1015
If it was merely that she lost her situational awareness twice, “that” might be a foreshadowing of “this”. But with the extreme similarity of the of associated comment, looks more like a running gag. For foreshadowing, you don’t need a catchphrase.
IMO. YMMV. VWP.
Now, if it’s a running gag you’re looking for..
https://oneoverzero.comicgenesis.com/d/20001007.html
‘Don’t be mean. I don’t know how to military.’
I’m laughing my arse off right now.
Just try using that line against the enemy.
Achmed: Ok i will not move my arse
Walter: You Idiot you don’t have an ass
Achmed looks at suitcase where walter is at with Jeff
Achmed: Was that Walter?!
Jeff: Yeah it was
Achmed: He scares the crap out of me…
(continue the joke at the youtube video achmed the dead terrorist)
I just dove back into the archives to see how long ago that Sydney got the eyepatch, so I could refer to it in a post whose content I have completely forgotten. In any event, she got the eyepatch last November. They’ve been holding the press conference since this May. Since the start of the comic, the strip time to real time ratio has been about 1 hour per year.
I mention this not as a point of complaint, but just to marvel at how engaging this strip is, considering I’ve been tuning in faithfully since 2010, despite the fact that nothing has actually happened outside of a buttload of exposition, 1 staged skirmish, 2 friendly tussels, 2 spicy meals, 2 staff meetings, 2 and a half sucker punches, one and a half press conferences, 157 pop culture references, and a barrel of swearing. Oh, and banter. Lots and lots of tasty banter. It just shows the importance of good writing.
Marvel Comics has a 7-1 year timeline.
Every 7 years they age about 1 year.
Look at Spider Man as a refrence point.
I’m going to try and make myself a better editor and concentrate on distilling some stuff coming up into as few pages as possible without losing the flavor. I want to get this day wrapped up and move on to future shenanigans.
Well, if you double the pace of the story, you should be able to move onto the next day in only 3 or 4 years. ;-)
DaveB said some time ago (when people first started getting annoying about complaining about the pace) that once this first day is over he will be moving things along at a quicker pace
….. At which point, I daresay there will be a few who complain about things going too fast.
I am ok with whatever pace Dave sets. Just so long as the next scene is not Sidney Schoville the 4th going to his grandmother’s funeral.
Actually all that would be is some really heavy foreshadowing that Sydney(Jr.) was able to find someone to reproduce with at least once, that the state consented to allowing said reproductive product at least long enough to permanently name it, and that Sydney(III) did likewise. That could result in the orbs passing to the closest young person when Sydney(Jr.) passes on making Sydney(IV) the New Halo… to then have another 4000 page “first day as a superhero”. And Dave would continue the cycle with frequent flashbacks to Sydney(Jr.)’s checkered career.
He he, that made me laugh long and hard. Especially love her forgetting the press. On multiple levels.
I’m not sure which is a scarier thought. Sydney as an Officer or a Sergeant…Actually, scratch that Sydney as a Drill Sergeant is MUCH more terrifying a though.
She does have the language for it. :)
correction they have the language for HER
I don’t remember Drill Sergeants calling recruits Dolphin Blowhole Molesting Gonerrea Milkshake.
XD so damned true there, but then again that’s sydney for you, if she can make it into a swear she will
That just means they don’t have the same improvisation when it comes to swears as Sydney does
I wonder if Sydney ever uses her clarisense orb to check her hair from behind. Beats double mirrors.
Panel 7. Is THE MIGHTY HALO leaning over to ask Peggy? Which is how I originally took it. Or is she using the Flyball to levitate like that? Which might explain the momentary additional silence from the press corps. Albeit in this case a stunned silence rather than a tumble-weed silence.
Never mind. Fly ball in orbit, not in hand. I should have thought that through a bit more before asking.
Yeah, I thought it’d be funny if she was leaning way over, which is why her pony tail is dangling.
Why… why does Arianna continue to let Sydney talk ლಠ益ಠლ
Because it would take a lot longer if Sydney was to introduce herself through mime.
That would surely mean getting the tentacle orb in on the act. I don’t think even Arianna could handle the repercussions from that…
and can anyone really keep her from talking without the use of duck tape?
unfortunately that would look a bit odd at a press conference
“Duck tape”, so-called because it was green and shed water like a duck’s back. Then they started using it on ventilation ducts, made it silver, and changed the name to “duct tape”.
In the Navy we called it Hundred mile an hour tape. Because it would stick to the aircraft until it hit 100 miles an hour, then it peeled off.
Always believed it was originally called “duck tape” because they made it from ducks (their feathers mostly)
“Duct Tape is like the Force, it has a Light side and a Dark side and it binds the universe together.”
What sort of crazy tangent have I started? e_e;
The best kind :D
Yeah, any kind of tangent that includes “crazy” is immediately bumped up the list into the top 10. since this particular tangent also involves duct tape, it’s likely to stick around for a long while…
Because I guarantee you this, the press and viewers have completely forgotten about Dabbler and Harem’s mischief by now.
I doubt that. They just serve as the setup, with Sydney as the punchline. The press conference is meant to announce a new government agency. And what the press sees is that it is full of undisiplined, superpowered crazy people.
Remove the ‘superpowered’ and you still have most folks impression of government agencies.
The Clarisense orb: It combines the power of Clairol and Herbal Essence, thus giving the user the ability to turn their hair any color while giving it a fresh clean scent!
Any takers on the bet that once she gets rolling, Syd works in a plug for her comics store?
Doubtful, she’s a bit spacy so she prolly won’t even think of it.
Agreed. And she is knackered from a long day too. If she can forget about dozens of people sitting right in front of her, she is unlikely to remember to get her plug in. And it would be a bit tacky on this occasion. It is not like an evening chat show, where that is an expected part of the process.
what’s the ol’ saying “if you can’t bedazzle them with brilliance, befuddle them with bullsh*t?”
Sidney’s superpowers aren’t her halo of spheres…it’s her ability to completely confuse and confound the enemy!
There is another version of that I have used. “If you can’t Baffle them with Bullshit Drown ’em with Data!”
*Looks at Brent Spiner* But I LIKE Data!
Data +2, Picard +3, Worf +2, Q +2, Geordi La Forge +1, Tribbles +1, Diana Troy -1, Wesley Crusher -99
Tribbles are a +Infinity (managed to adopt one when was in Vegas back in 2000 or 2001)
Yea, I have one too. I love how it purrs.
Unfortunately, the bottles of Romulan Ale and Klingon Bloodwine didn’t it make past the customs officers car boot :(
I’d have thought Q would have a higher bonus than +2; When HE lays on the BS, it STICKS!
And yet Picard still manages to get one up on him. The perks of being the good guy, of course. But he does it with class. And he pulled off a great bad guy during his Borg phase. Whilst still being able to look what members of Star Fleet survived the massacre in the eye. With sincere regret, but still doing his job. That is how he rates the +3 instead of Q.
Nice new Halo picture with the orbs
Personally I am glad you did not skip this page DaveB. Obviously any page that heavily features Sydney plays to my preferences. But also the humour is good and it has nice character development in it. Not as regards her personality, as this is true to form. Rather in developing her public exposure. It will be interesting to see if her behaviour will be altered in future, depending on what feedback she gets from this event and how much that may or may not affect her.
Also, I find Sydney’s expressions in the first three panels to be fascinating. Somehow she seems sickeningly cute on one hand with a hint of sinister menace on the other. A very strange juxtaposition on the face of it, but which does not seem incongruous. What looks like a slightly forced grin makes her appear to be struggling to maintain her usual cheerful demeanour through the fatigue of a long and stressful day. With the excitement of the moment giving her a second wind (or fourth or fifth, as she has flagged before).
Seconded. Also Sydney could have her brain replaced with a ferret and her powers of concentration would improve.
just as long as she isn’t fed any sugar (like Kiki from Sluggy Freelance)
I liked the cross-over with the Posleen Wars. Picture the worlds biggest tank powered by Nuclear Reactors and firing antimatter rounds with a picture of Bun-Bun on it saying “Lets dance Posleen-boy!’ while waving his omnipresent switchblade.
It went both ways; there was a comic with Bun-Bun and Kiki running power armor, taking out all the Posleen surrounding them.
“ACS’s Don’t go POING!”
(poing poing poing poing)
Is it wrong that I want to feed her an entire bag of capsacin pixie stix and wash it down with a 12 pack of Jolt Cola? Because if that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
I had an idea for the Anvil vote incentive.
She’s in a nice but sexy long red dress, slit to mid thigh. In 1 hand, hig over her head she is holding something (a tank?) and the other hand is casually blowing a kiss to her fans. (not sure how to work in casual relaxing while holding a tank up)
:)
Sounds good, just not sure if you could get Anvil into a red sequined evening dress without a direct order
Given her skin tone I think Anvil would look better in a slinky white dress.
Doing a ‘Marilyn’ while holding the tank above her head? Please let that be the Anvil Incentive :D
Wait, Sydney’s cast page says she’s a cadet, but according to this page, she’s not. And back in the introduction she was referred to as a Corporal, which is an NCO rank, so I guess she shouldn’t be a cadet?
Sorry, I don’t know how to military either.
Yep, DaveB mentions above that he has not had the opportunity to change the cast page. Officially she is a private, despite any contradictions elsewhere. Likewise there are some other early rank references for other characters that will need to be changed at some point. But they are not huge priorities.
Bearing in mind that I cannot remember a time when Dave has even been late on an update, let alone missed one (ignoring changes to schedule for conventions, which is fairly standard). And has things like today’s change to Halo’s who’s who. Solving an issue that has had many reader requests. Plus sorting out putting the SEAL t-shirt on the market and so on. Frankly I am amazed that he manages all that on top of his day job.
Well this is all a flashback so when it gets to present day she might be a Cadet.
True.
Unless it gets retconned, Sydney is a corporal in the present. Which implies that she has gotten her act together. Which Anvil’s playful “Watch out, here comes the big guns!” also seems to suggest.
Yeah, technically, Sydney is still a private until she finishes Basic Training (ie: Boot Camp) & also passes her Specialty Training. Depending on the specific Specialty Training, she might get an increase in rank automatically. In the military, it’s called “Push-Button Promotion.”
You mean the very first few pages? Those are a few months from now. AKA between 90 and 180 real time years from now.
Nissan Infiniti Car Owner?
Nano-Integrated Computer Object?
Never Input Contra cOde?
North Indiana Cheese Order?
Non-Commissioned Officer.
Which is the right answer. But if wishing to give a literal answer to Sydney’s question
I would point her at Google Maps.
Is Joel going to be hurt he didn’t find out about this until the press conference?
… Actually did she remember to TELL him to watch the press conference? Because if he didn’t watch it then someone is bound to come up and ask him questions about her and he wouldn’t even know she came out :)
I think a lot of us are keen to see the answer to that. The Joel bit, that is. Not the Sydney ‘has come out’ rumour.
How could she tell him to watch the Press Conference? When has she had the time to let him know why she hasn’t come back from lunch yet?
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There was a little jump in time after this page, so she might have called him then, or gotten Max or someone to call him. We still haven’t learned what her condition for joining was.
she had enough time to be fitted for a uniform, and obviously they had to physically get TO the conference. She could have easily texted him or called him. We know both have cell phones as she called him after the bank roberry
came out as a superhero.
Personally, I think that Halo would be a fairly petty officer.
Heh..
Aren’t they all?
Well, a Petty Officer is aligned with the Navy, while Corporal is Army…A Corporal is more “boots on the ground,” while Petty Officer is like “flippers in the water,” but the basic premise is the same as far as rank advancement goes.
“Where’s NCO?” doesn’t make a lot of sense. If she’s saying it as letters then she should be clear that it isn’t a place, and her response comes off as her being a deliberate doofus. It should either be “What’s an NCO?”, if she honestly has no clue, or else something like “I’ve already been to Encino!”, if she heard it like a proper noun.
I think she means it as a place and she’s pronouncing it as it sounds to her.
Anvil said to “get to NCO”, which does make it sound like a place. Maybe it’s in LA?
Where’s NCO could refer to the NCO ranking, such as “where in the ranks is NCO?”
NYC is a place, why couldn’t NCO be?
There are several, in different US states. You can look for them on Google Earth.
Sydney doesn’t know NCO means Non-Commissioned officer, she thinks it is a place, which is why Peggy said “Please tell me your kidding” when Sydney said “where’s NCO”.
I just realized… How many avatar pictures do you have for each character up top???!?!??!!
The weirdest one was crazy-looking Arianna and embarassed Maxima… seriously? Does Maxima get embarrassed by ANYTHING? That can’t be possible!
Also. Since when do you have to be an NCO before you can be a cadet???
that’s the way it is if you are going the “Mustang” route… that and I’m sure that the powers-that-be in charge of Archon want to keep tabs on the new civilian consultant recruits before allowing them the chance to go officer… a lot more chances for stuff to backfire if they are unproven in the field and are thrust into a command position too early, on the other hand, if they were already IN the military as enlisted members, then it would be easier for the PTB to bump them a pay-grade or two, or even put them thru OTC (officers training camp/class??) as they are already a somewhat “known” quantity. and those personnel like Max that were already officers, for them, then it’s just getting a transfer to a different duty station, no biggie.
I try and keep it to no more than 50. I don’t know if it would bog things down at all if I let it get really high, but I just clip them from the comic and pop them in the appropriate folders. I haven’t done that for a while. I need to go add some new ones.
She’s so cute. Don’t know how to military, but she’s mighty might tay. I’ll bet Ari was hoping for this sort of adorable naivety.
Great gods- I feel so bad for Arianna right now.
Has anyone else noticed that Peggy’s scars keep moving?
You do know they are not photographs? Some textures and the like can be stored and re-used. But at the end of the day, DaveB has to draw everything that changes. Her scars are on Peggy’s face, and Dave gives all the characters a huge range of expressions, so their features are constantly changing. Which means there are bound to be minor differences each time scars, or other details, are re-drawn.
Unless there are glowing mystical runes around them when they ‘move’ it is probably not plot significant. It is fair enough to look for ‘Easter Eggs’ as Dave does like to give us hidden detail. I certainly do myself. But he also puts in hints if something out of the ordinary is going on that we should be aware of.
Of course, having said that, in a year’s time we will probably find out that Peggy has been a deep-cover infiltrator set up to befriend Maxima years ago. And Sydney explains how she unmasked her “Well, at first I thought it was just my imagination. Then I noticed that each day her scars were slightly different. That’s why I searched her spare leg for hidden make-up gear. Thinking back on it, the very first thing she did, when she found out that I can see through illusions, was to make sure I could not penetrate prosthetic disguises. If only someone had spotted her before the White House!”
I realized that a drawn image will not be the same each time it is drawn, especially given different expressions, angles, etc. HOWEVER, the movement I am referring to is not just subtle differences in orientation, but a significant repositioning on her face in regards to each other.
Specifically, sometimes the scars intersect and sometimes they do not. This page is the best example of the phenomenon, since Peggy appears twice, one with scar intersection, one without.
I had first noticed some time ago when she appeared with crossed scars in the page, but without in the cast panels along the top.
I’m sorry, I notice things like this.
If you want a real-life explanation on why the scars sometimes do and sometimes don’t intersece…. depth, scar tissue, time and lighting. My son has a small scar on his forehead from where he ran inot the wall and split it open. He need 3 stiches. He was 5, now he’s nine. Over time his scar has faded. But under the right light you can see the line and holes from the stiches. Angle his head, have him wrinkle his brow and parts can seem to disappear. Sometimes we see the hole marks and no line, other times the line stand out.
How much you see of her scars will depend on how deep they are, how grown over they are, the way she holds her head and if she is changing her facial expressions.
Yea, most of mine are big enough to be noticeable all the time. But the kinds of things you mention can affect even those. And the thin ones, like Peggy’s, behave just as you say.
You kinow the whole “I don’t know how to military.” thing has me thinking. She’s going to go through basic training, which should really be mostly a 3 months in a montage page, but somewhere in that you need to give her that “Sobering, formative, superhero moment” or she is going to crater a school or something. It doesn’t have to be deadly though. I don’t know if you’ve read Lois BuJold but she has a similarly hyperactive character names Miles Vorkosigan whose formative moment is in the amazing short story “In the Mountains of Mourning.” That particular story would not translate well to Sydney, but she needs to aquire some kind of anchor to reality or she’s going to wind up somewhere between Harley Quinn and the Tazmanian Devil.
You say that like a Harley Devil would be a bad thing >.>
I don’t know, I kinda agree with you and kinda don’t. Yes, she needs that moment, I agree, but I don’t think it has to be sobering. I really like her breakneck chaos. I personally would prefer she get a moment where she has to stop being silly and seriously throw down against an adversary and realize the power that comes from sanity without stripping her of her innocence.
Plus, that might be more dangerous, she’s deadly silly, that quick thinking chaos with a serious tone would make her unstoppable. And keep the fun going too.
For example, see the fight of Deadpool vs. Taskmaster. Ordinarily Taskmaster can analyze, predict and copy anyone’s fighting style. But because of Deadpool’s mental instability he was able to beat him by employing the tactic of being completely random.
I agree that Sydney needs some martial arts training to instill some sense of order to her actions. She could try studying the style of another female hero White Tiger. Then with the addition of a new costume she could go by the name “HALO Kitty”.
Those tactics included breaking out into a dance. Not something like Caopoera the dance related martial art, but actual dance. The Thriller dance if I remember right.
Sydney and Deadpool have so much in common. All we need is for Anvil to crash through a building to her death and be saved by the indoor pool she landed in to be filled with 700 pancakes Sydney made just because and for Sydney to start talking to us.
I’ve seen a super-heroine character that has the power of molecular transformation who would use her power in silly, chaotic ways…But she was careful enough to tone it down from “potentially or immediately fatal” to “highly embarrassing.” For instance, turning a villain’s pants into air.
Needless to say, the villains that relied mostly on “unique” equipment to commit their villainy were VERY afraid of meeting her…
Hmmm, personally, “The Almighty HALO” sounds betterer (but that’s because of “The Almighty Johnsons” (a local show about reborn Norse Gods juggling their human sides with their new-found Godly powers)
The alternative now has me thinking of “The Mighty Boosh!”
BTW, loving Sydney poking her tongue out at Harem :D
Is Harem horrorfied about the thought of Sydney being an Officer in general? Or that she might be her Commanding Officer one day?
As Kosh would say… “yes”…
“Yeeeesssssss.”
It’s a good thing Sydney has such an oblivious and upbeat personality. Everything’s a comedy and consequences aren’t real. If I was in the same position as she was on this page, I’d be way depressed at the obvious disdain absolutely everyone at that conference is displaying for me. They’re treating her like a child that they have to put up with, an annoying embarrassment. That’s what the body language screams to me. The audience, at least, had a laugh at some of the other antics beforehand, but those were likely planned shows of charisma. At this point they just seem tired at the blunders of someone who is part of a serious and groundbreaking organization and who might potentially have extremely destructive powers. I hope Sydney doesn’t lose her sense of humor during training if this attitude continues.
Well, to be fair, she does act like a child. Never act in a way you don’t want to be treated. The last anyone has seen of her before Archon swooped her up was swearing so bad that the entire Navy of the world’s ear hair caught on fire and she threw a man by his tongue.
Now she’s further keeping up with this attitude in public. In real life I’d have started treating her like a kid myself. Then again, if I had the orbs, Archon would have had to put me down. Or swept me up to control my greedy impulses.
Just waiting for one of the reporters (either Pinkey or Bob Newhart) to query the ‘JR’: “Ummm, aren’t you a girl?”
So kawaiiiiii! <3
I’m Sydney Scoville Jr, a.k.a.
The Mighty Halo! Know it well, I say
For though you claim that I am but recruit
I’ll wager now, before the game is done
Before the opening I will have won
The rank of Corporal, and not Cadet
Though how I get there, we do not know yet.