Grrl Power #198 – Sydney’s a what?
Like I said under the last comic, biggest reveal yet! I’m a little nervous about this one, but hopefully there won’t be too much gnashing of teeth and lamentations. Some people aren’t so keen on vegetarians and vegans, but really that’s because there are some of them who won’t shut up about it and endlessly try and convince you that having one more bite of your hamburger will give you soul cancer. Sydney is obviously not one to make a fuss about it. There’s been scant evidence in the comic to make anyone think she is a vegetarian, except I put little tofu cubes in her meal back at the King of Siam restaurant… although looking at that page now, you can just see one cube and it’s bright red from the sauce.
So anyway let me explain. When I started the comic I wanted to avoid a few common writing problems and two I knew of were 1) the man with boobs feminist for Maxima, and 2) obvious author insert. I knew Sydney was going to be very nerd literate and very A.D.D. like me and I wanted some characteristics that set her further apart from me. I’m not nearly as hyper as she is and obviously I’m not a gal, but I wanted some other differences, and I am very much not a vegetarian of any sort, so I figured, why not. While it may seem that it hasn’t affected her behavior in the comic so far at all, I actually got the idea that she started eating spicy food as a way to replace the loss of “savory” as she weaned herself off of meat. That’s right, despite having already named her Scoville, (which I did because I have that same naming alliteration sickness that Stan Lee has evidently) her affinity for spicy food came out of her being a vegetarian. Since I’m sure people will ask, the particulars of Sydney’s diet will be covered on the next page.
I made this page much harder on myself than it needed to be by including Gwen in it. I could have easily kept this scene between Sydney, Peggy and Goth Harem, but no, without Gwen I couldn’t use the phrase “The Hot Topic twins.” Oh and I know I said that all the pages up to 200 had a mini comic under them, but for this one apparently I was thinking of the intra-page mini comic (panel 6), but 199 and 200 definitely do.
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So she’s a vegetarian, is what’s outing her that she’s interested in all of the beefcake around there?
Like, to hell with the diet restrictions, yes?
A vegetarian who’s breath can be classified as a weapon …Interesting.
I enjoy how Peggy is sitting in the tendril as if it is a chair.
It’s a tentacle. G_G Which raises interesting implications.
Still Vae…. Vegetarian who likes spicy food? Does that work? Those dead tomatoes and peppers died for her enjoyment! Monster!
XD
I hear the screams of the vegetables!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5Jgw_Nwx4
It would amuse me if the first alien race we encounter are plants. You can bet that being a vegetarian would rapidly be a bad thing to mention in polite company! :-D
That will be a sad day… This comic will be censured from all records for containing “Materials Deemed Hazardous to Lasting Relations with the [plant race]”
Kind of like how Huckleberry Finn is on and off the restricted reading lists at school. But that is another subject.
Not neccessarily. There is MAJOR difference between animals and plants:
No animal wants to get eaten.
But many plants produce fruit exactly for the purpose to get eaten – it’s one way to spread the plant’s seed.
Therefore, stating that you are a vegetarian on a planet of plant may not be unwelcome at all.
no animal wants to be eaten?
Don’t be too sure!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LetsMeetTheMeat
What do you mean?
Ridiculous commercials and such aside: To become eaten means to experience death. No animal (no real-world animal, if I must) wants to die – well, now that I think about it, there is a (sort of) exception, one that isn’t even mentioned on the tvtropes page: A certain kind of spider. At one point after the baby spiders ar hatched from the eggs, the spider mother digests itself to provide food for its young. The spider babies then eat their dead and internally liquified mother.
But that’s a very different thing on many levels.
Do not get me wrong. I have no intent to argue against vegetarianism. When vege friends visit I provide them with suitable meals. I do not preach to them. And the same happens in reverse. The difference being I can provide them with a sub-set of my normal foods. But they can provide me with anything they normally have. Some of which I find very tasty. Others of which I am happy they avoid offering me mind.
But if we do meet intelligent plant aliens they might find ALL humans to be immoral evil creatures that can only exist by killing others. Except for those few who only exist on fruits and other parts of plants that will not kill them by being eaten.
Kind of like how you would not be too keen living next door to a vampire who could only live by killing humans. But you might tolerate one who could get by on just sipping your neck once in a while.
But would less enlightened members of the plant aliens care about the distinction? After all they do not need to kill anything to live. They just stick their feet in the ground, sprout their roots and soak up sunlight for most of the day. To them vegetarians, omnivores and carnivores would all be pretty much the same thing. Eaters of life.
Well, I interpreted “You can bet that being a vegetarian would rapidly be a bad thing to mention in polite company” as if it would make a difference to be vegetarian or an omnivorian. If that’s not the case it would be bad to be a human at all.
My point was, given plant-live similar to that on earth, considering that some plant create fruit with the purpose to be eaten, mentioning to be a vegetarian (fruit-eater) must not necessarily be a bad thing. In that light, being a carnivore might not be received any better. In the best case, the plants would not care, because carnivores don’t eat plants, but carnivores also don’t help to spread the seed. In the worst case, well, you said it: Life-eater. Which would apply to any vegetarian who mentions that he does not only eat the fruits of plants, too, indeed.
Many lants also produce highly toxic poisons to avoid being eaten by insects and others. For example, nicotine was first invented (by the tobacco plant) as an insecticide. Chocolate and cocaine too. Even fruits often have toxic chemicals in them until the seeds are ready, then these chemicals are neutralized and/or flushed as the fruit ripens… Plants are pretty cool. That’s why I came up wit PETP years ago…
Having been a vegetarian myself (until the physical intolerance faded and the need to fill my stomach without going broke became a thing), I think its very much the level of sentience that we perceive that makes people dislike eating creatures.
For instance, while having stopped being vegetarian, I would still have difficulty eating something that is as sentient as for instance Apes, or dolphins. Pigs are not that much as a problem for some reason (I don’t know why, they’re pretty intelligent), but knowing that I’m eating something like elephant meat or cat meat (endangered species and standard pet aside) would still turn my stomach. If I’m hungry enough I’d keep eating, but it would stay with me for multiple days and I’d go out of my way to avoid it.
Which is why I think eating plants should not be a problem for a sentient plant species, since we eat mammals as well (not counting completely different moral values, or a different way of functioning society for plant aliens)
i think you meant peppers instead of poppers in panel 3
No, Jalepeno Poppers is a type of dish
Jalapeno poppers, deep fried peppers filled with cream cheese, and you have to remove the seeds first.
Find some, try some, (not nearly hot enough for Sydney or me, not even if made with habanero)
Got It! Harem needs a quick way to get back in Sydney’s good graces so all five port away momentarily and return with hot sauces from around the world (wearing hazmat gloves to present) and Sydney’s favorite joint from earlier.
I wonder if one of Peggy’s eyes are fake. It does have a scar across it and doesn’t seem to track right sometimes…
If so it may mean, by the comic-law of association, she has the potential to become a great detective.
Also a good opportunity for a cyber-video eye device, like Eden has in Doomsday! Awesome!
It’s entirely possible that whatever blade or shrapnel caused the scar otherwise missed her eye.
Otherwise, it’d be awesome if she had a cyber eye; those are my favourite things in Shadowrun, especially the Speyeder modification. Great for turning stomachs, of course, but being the infiltration specialist I usually play (in any setting), that is an INCREDIBLY useful thing to have. Hell, I had TWO. Which caused problems when the hacker in the party was being a dick.
Strange. Seeing the soul, of what it is to be a super, gets two pages of comments. Whereas revealing that Sydney is a vegetarian gets four. No wonder soaps have such high viewing figures. Humanity fixates on the mundane, far more readily than it marvels over the extraordinary. It explains why, despite the predictions, our generation did not get to build the bases on the Moon.
XD It’s four pages not because of the impact on the comic, but because it spawned massive quantities of philosophical debates. Which are always great fun, until someone loses perspective, then only fun for the person safely poking holes in the other’s overinflated ego….(gotta love the internet. Allows me to have the fun of intellectual debate without the risk of someone closeminded deciding a fist works better than words.)
It could be because very few people know a genuine superhero, whereas almost everybody knows an annoying preachy foodie. Could be Vegans, could be Atkins, could be any number of things. But there are a lot of people who aren’t shy about letting you know you are eating the wrong thing.
As the saying goes, “What three people know, the whole world knows.” Harem is five…
Yeah, but when one Harem knows it, five Harems know it. She’s still just one person. She does have the ability to blab a lot more quickly and broadly than any other one person (except perhaps Madrox), but she is still only one individual who knows the secret.
Not to change the rather enjoyable topic of the philosophical implications of vegetarianism, but what in the name of Bacchus is Peggy drinking, and where can I get one? Anything with an upended bottle of liquor in it has my attention. (I didn’t notice it till zooming in today to check on Peggy’s eyes because of an earlier comment)
Fairly sure she is going cross-eyed (eyes not ‘tracking right’) because she is watching the liquid go through the goofy-straw
Rainbow drink going through a goofy-straw? Who wouldn’t go cross-eyed to see what it does?
It’s just the goofiest looking drink I could think of without adding nonsense like a slice of pizza on a toothpick hanging off the side.
You should totally have added that…more chaos is a goodness!
I love that someone threw out the princess bride “inconceivable” reference. Or at least I can’t hear it any other way when I read the panel. Maybe it’s just me.
Nope, not just you. :-)
Somehow it is a much more quotable line than “my method does not seem very civilised.”
Hel, it was probably Leon saying it that time, meaning it WAS the quote.
I tried to track through all the commentary but got kind of lost. Has anyone asked if Sydney’s going vegetarian is a side effect of gaining the orbs? Like maybe meat tastes bad now or something?
It is not impossible that the orbs are either easier to use when Sydney acts more like their builder or maybe even are actively pushing her mentally in that direction.
Nope. More than a few of us have implied that vegetarianism is abnormal (in a teasing way or not). But none have gone so far as to suggest that it would take alien mind-control to make normal humans behave in such an aberrant way.
But I like your line of thinking. Just don’t tell Sydney I said that!
I’m not implying it’s unnatural (I am an omnivore myself) but merely (?!) that being linked to the orbs mentally can be assumed to have some effect on her mind. Even if it is only a small one.
If we knew they were built by humans I wouldn’t be as worried about the possibility, but for now at least it must be considered. Process of elimination must be used on all pieces of evidence re: Orbs until somebody figures out for sure where they came from and more importantly *why* they were built in the first place.
While a reasonable theory I doubt it based on the fact that she probably wouldn’t be so big on hiding it. If it’s a side effect then the supers knowing wouldn’t be a big deal. How I see it it’s more she doesn’t want to have to defend her dietary choices.
I’m extremely underwhelmed.
Plenty of incidental humour on this page but, for ‘the big reveal’, my main reaction was “So?”. It is possibly the least weird unusual thing we’ve found out about Sydney so far.
Obviously, Sydney has absolutely no problems about dining alongside NON-vegetarians. Which is to her credit, IMO. Other opinions of mine, not especially relevant or important here. End of story. Moving on.
this isnt any big reveal, you’re putting too much weight on it. Its just character interaction and discovery.
Also vegetarianism reveals a lot about her and IS a surprising fact.
Isn’t a big reveal? It is a MASSIVE reveal!
Oh, you mean like compared to finding out that superheroes are real?
mmm, nope bigger than that! ;-)
Sorry, but I’M putting too much weght on this?!? Check out some of the other posts sometime.
“hot topic twins” really got me XD
Wow… y’all really have much different experiences with vegans and vegetarians. All the ones of both persuasions I know of don’t jump down anyone’s throats — it’s the self-proclaimed ‘carnivores’ who go on the warpath as soon as they know they’re sitting at the same table as a vegan.
I’ve never had issues with “carnivores”. I’m omnivorous myself, with a penchant for bacon, a good friend of mine is vegan, but doesn’t push her food beliefs on others. In fact, the only issue I’ve ever had was with a vegetarian, and that was only because an argument broke out over fish. Apparently, she thought fish were a plant.
*blinks* Seriously? And I thought the city girl who though chocolate milk came from brown cows was bad…
Actually, other than my insufferable cousin who refused to even carry a platter of food out to the reunion dinner table because it had meat on it, I’ve never seen either behavior you describe.
My wife has a close friend who is a vegetarian, and I like to cook, so when she visits us (which as an airline attendant is fairly often considering the distance between us) I just see it as a chance to flex my kitchen skills a bit. My greatest challenge there is that while she is a vegetarian she doesn’t have a lot of cultural dining experience. Felafel she didn’t care for (I love it), but Indian cuisine she did enjoy.
One day we were all at my in-laws, and they were serving typical Italian fare. There was unfortunately nothing vegetarian on the menu, which I hadn’t noticed until very close to dinner time because I wasn’t involved in the meal prep. My mother in-law said something like “Well, can’t you just pick out the meat and eat the rest?”, which I knew was a no-starter. I said something like “Let me see what I can do” and headed into the kitchen. It was long enough ago that I don’t recall what I prepared, but my wife thought I was the hero of the day for fixing the problem. Which is, after all, what we men do best. :)
Frankly, although I am an omnivore, I could go vegetarian or perhaps “frequent-vegetarian” and not miss a lot. I love barbeque pork, and bacon, and a good steak, and lamb, and chicken, and all kinds of seafood. And when I travel I really enjoy trying all the local foods, and I have enjoyed rabbit and boar and bison. But if I could only eat them once per week I think I’d be happy and satisfied. But while traveling I’d still eat my fill of whatever local unusual meats were available, because I just can’t find them locally, and even if I could the natives make them better than I could.
Aaaaand, I missed the closing bold tag after “love” and screwed up my post. It’s a shame there is no way to edit, even if it was short lived and just for typos.
I think Syd turned veggie after a bad meat-related incident.
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A Vvvv….. a Vvvvvvv,,,, Gah! I can’t even say it! Who would deny themselves the artery choking goodness that is Bacon! >.< …I'll be honest being… finding out that her little Hyper'ness is… "like that" makes me kinda sad … But don't worry! One day there will be a cure!!
+1
For information, the cure is vat-grown meat. Once they can get it tasting as good as the real thing. Purely for the ethical vegies/vegans of course. Not for those who do not like the taste or have some other specific aversion. Although, of course, allergies and other biological problems can literally be cured.
Sadly it will have the consequence of significantly reducing what little bio-diversity we have left. To see what I mean, replace ‘cattle’, ‘pigs’, ‘sheep’, ‘goats’ and most of the horses in this picture with ‘vats of synthetic meat’.
Not necessarily. If we don’t need to raise livestock anymore, that should reduce the acreage that we have to devote to farmland, which in turn gives wild animals a chance to make a come back.
There is no toughness whatsoever in eating meat – unless you hunt and kill the animal yourself without using a long range weapont. And then only when the animal is capable of efficiently defending itself, so rabbits and cows don’t count.
I don’t know why even vegetarians seem to believe that meat eaters could be any tougher then vegetarians. Or that they would have any reason to believe that they are tougher.
Sadly I did consider that when phrasing my argument. But the human population will keep expanding until an unstoppable barrier is reached. Typically that is only when humans die off from starvation. Anything less is considered disposable. Be it the Amazon rainforests or game reserves. The theory is that nature is preserved. The practice is that if people are starving in an area adjacent to land that is only being used by animals and trees, it is nature that looses out. Default morality places human life above animals and plants.
Therefore the gains you make in switching to vat food are temporary. And when the freed-up land is gobbled up by such practices, it will be noticed that those woolly four legged things are taking up valuable space that could be used more efficiently for vats. Bye bye baahh lambs.
That’s not true. Or to be more precise, it used to be true, but isn’t anymore. Delayed marriage and wide access to birth control are pushing the global population growth rate steadily downward, so much so that there’s probably going to be a major population crash around mid-century.
And here I thought the cure was a giant plate of bacon…mmmh, that’s what cured me ;)
As a side note, I think I’ve heard people claim to not like the texture of meat (adding the the list of why they might not eat it). I’m not sure how many types of meat that would cover though, although if they were incredibly picky, I could see them not caring for the texture of any meats?
I never got the appeal of bacon. It’s ok, once in awhile, but waaay too fatty for my tastes. Now, a nice, lean, tender London broil on the other hand….
Bacon Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches. BLTs. The flavour feedback makes the experience greater than the sum of its parts. But always only have good bacon however you eat it. If you are not getting the right bacon to start with, the experience will always be sub-standard.
It is extremely hard to get any decent bacon in Bulgaria. However you do it, you usually have to pay a premium to have it imported, as the local butchers and supermarkets just do not understand bacon properly. Which is something I can only rarely afford. So it is a special treat for me when I can sink my teeth into it!
Have you considered making your own bacon? If you can get access to pork side, then finding the other ingredients should be easy!
I know you’re just joking, but at the same time I’m pretty sure those types of condescending “you poor thing how could you DO that to yourself!?” and “vegetarianism is a problem, bacon is the solution” comments are the main reason why Sydney didn’t want to share her dietary choices.
…is it just me, or are Peggy’s tattoos…spreading. She should really get that looked at. I think it might be some form of super-powered wasting disease.
Oh no! A Super-contagion has infected Peggy! She caught it because she’s spending a lot of her time around supers & her tattoos spreading are merely a visible symptom of the wasting disease now running rampant through her body!
You’re right…She really should get that looked at…
Where did the creepy looking Sydney pic at the top of the page come from?
nevermind. its changed already
Try looking at the portraits and then hitting F5 a few times. You will see that they change every time you load up the comic, or refresh it using that key. DaveB populates a list of those pictures by copping them out of the comic as he draws it.
There are a few ‘creepy-looking’ Sydney pictures in the rotation, given how expressive she is, so that does not really narrow it down. But it can be fun trying to place which comic each picture came from. Barring a couple of exceptions (such as those in the cast pages) I think all have appeared in the comic, as published, so you will have seen each somewhere.
It was the one where she has a wide eyed scared(?) expression, black veins(?) on her face and neck and a tentacle in the back ground.
that’s probably from the page(s?) right before the orbs were revealed, where Sydney mentioned having to “wake them up`, prompting the others in the room to mentally speculate on what could be in there.
Ahh yes, when the goddess is summoning her minion Cthulhu. I always think of that as being less scary and more exultant.
Vegetarian? I thought Sydney was a pyrovore!
oh shit. anyone else notice that someone JUST went on THE LIST?
Superman is a vegetarian…
just want to point out…”Buddhist monks” are not Vegan, that’s pretty much ignoring Siddhartha Gautama’s teachings and history, and disregarding the whole “extremism is bad m’kay?” bit
Peggy suggested they were vegetarians, as opposed to vegans. She is not far wrong, when you consider various of the traditions. For instance the Mahayana schools encourage vegetarianism. In fact, those who follow Brahma Net Sutra will not eat flesh of any kind!
Whereas you are probably thinking of those who follow the Theravada traditions. They only have certain prohibitions on eating meat. However the monk should not kill or allow such a killing just for their own benefit. Although it does get very complicated.
I said vegan, meant to say Vegetarians.
Also I am a Buddhist, so not to be offensive, it’s rather redundant linking for me a link of Buddhism no?
Not that what you posted isn’t good insight! ^^
Mmm, your name did not really speak to you being a Buddhist, so I was unaware as to your leanings. Mainly I provide such links for general information. Especially if it is an area that I feel I know an answer to, from general knowledge ,or as a half-remembered fact from some researching I have done, then I often have to search for the details myself.
In such cases, I work on the assumption that other readers (not necessarily just the individual I am replying to) will likewise not be conversant with all the pertinent facts. As I have the link open, in front of me, it is the work of a few seconds to embed it in my comment, and save others the hassle of repeating my search.
But my apologies if it came across as condescending, it certainly was not my intent.
I am particularly interested in the various Eastern religions mind. I know my knowledge of them is inadequate, and love to hear more information about them. I daresay that there is a lot of insight that can be thrown into the various debates we have here, when viewed from such vantages.
In particular how the mind-sets of different philosophies, theologies and cultures can change viewpoints on some pretty unexpected things.
For instance (clearly unrelated to Buddhism) the way that the Japanese culture has a different, more positive, take on robots than the more cynical view often seen in the West (eg Frankenstein, and numerous robot rebellion movies). Much of that stemming from the prevalent religions and thereby philosophies, which hold influence over their culture.
But, given that most readers here are less rather than more likely to be familiar with such topics, I hope you do not mind if I link even fairly basic stuff, when dipping my toes into such areas? It allows others to follow the topics much more readily. Improving the odds that they may wish to join in. Whilst reducing the possibility that they will do so in an ill-informed way.
Oh, by no means did you come off condescending!
I use this name to imply something that I am not, that is I make no effort to mess with a persons mind, thus my name contradicts who I am. I tend to be a very self contradicting person.
I also make a point not to force any part of me on anyone else, beliefs quite included.
Anyways, I believe your ways a good thing, after all if we can’t share our knowledge, why bother knowing?
I too am fascinated with religions, though I am one of those Buddhist who believe Buddhism is not a religion, just a spiritual calling at best. Though I don’t specifically focus on any area of religion, I am simply fascinated with each persons concept of religion.
Anyways, I say, link away, though I personally prefer Wiki based links to be a last resort, while its gotten far better over the years…its still Wikipedia…
Sounds like we have a lot in common. Although I developed my own philosophy independent (other than through the usual cultural osmosis that underpins all such things) of Buddhism, I realise that elements of mine are present in that, and the other Eastern philosophies/ theologies.
As regards your last, I appreciate that it is best to take any Wikipedia entry with a pinch of salt. And it is downright dangerous to rely on it for important matters, such as medical issues. When actually faced with such a condition, as opposed to just improving general knowledge.
But, that said, Wikipedia is actually FAR better than it’s reputation deserves. Independent analysis, comparing it to the rival paper and online ones, found that it’s reliability is comparable in general (if you factor in that any troll alterations are dealt with promptly), to even the traditional paper encyclopaedias. And it is, in fact, actually more reliable if dealing with topical issues (and that is taking into account the online versions of it’s predecessors).
I keep a close eye on bleeding edge research, in many fields. And, as such, cannot count the number of times when I have popped into Wikipedia, to flesh out my knowledge for the topic in general, only to find that the entry is already fully up to date, with the latest development. Even when the newspapers still have the ink drying on their stories!
Whilst I will quite happily link to an original source, if I find it,* there is still one problem. Quite often they can be very dry, too technical or otherwise hard to read (wall of text or poor font/colour combinations being examples). Whereas Wikipedia has a hell of an advantage in standardised lay-outs, guidelines on how to make the topic readily understood to the general public and so on.
Of course, one must always pay attention to those “citation needed” and other warning tags. See too many on a page, or if they are associated with critical issues and, fan of Wikipedia though I am, I will simply close the page and keep looking. Mind you that is one of the reasons why it is good. People will point out if the standards are not up to those expected of an encyclopaedia.
It is something I have thought long and hard about. But, personally speaking, I am happy that the pros outweigh the cons. Especially as, if I link something, and someone more knowledgeable about a topic, points out that it is in error, then I can do my bit for the Wikipedia community and (after verifying the claim) update the entry.
Bear in mind just how picky our community can be, how frequently I link such articles, and the sheer number of experts, in numerous fields, we have, there is one interesting point. I have never had to make such a correction, to date.
* Bearing in mind that the Wikipedia entry will usually be a lot easier to locate most of the time.
I didn’t notice “The List” last time. Nice.
Daphne is pretty much the worst person on this team. Or worst five persons.
Yup. She does have some redeeming features though. And it may turn out that she is acting under orders, as a double agent. But, here, she shows that she does have bad flaws, even if she is not a traitor.
Rereading this comic again and just noticed how relaxed Peggy is. The other two look like the beginnings of a proper hentai with the tentacle while Peggy appears to have a matter of fact, beats walking type reaction. Which, with Maxima’s relaxed comment of Peggy being armed REALLY helps establish why Peggy rocks (and is also my favorite character throughout the series).
Kudos on a great job of making all the characters so different in personality.
Um… why would someone be so eager to hide that they’re a veggie?
I don’t get it.
Is this just a thing these days?
Like would it make much of a difference besides the added complication to getting protein in the diet?
Because they get teased mercilessly about it, by people like me. And it wears thin after a while.
I officially want one of whatever Peggy is having to drink in this comic. XD
I know I’m pretty late on this one but Army Ranger =/= Navy SEAL. I get that it’s not directly comparing the two, but if you’re listing spec ops units that are on (roughly) the same scale, the Marine Raiders or Delta Force would be a bit closer to the SEALs. Army Rangers are more or less comparable to Marine Force Recon.
(I am not in the armed forces. Several of my friends are Marines and this is stuff I’ve picked up from hearing them talk)
Sydney’s point was that being a special forces dude of any stripe probably exposes you to more challenging obstacles than just being a vanilla soldier. And at this point in the comic, Sydney knows less about the military than I do anyway.
Does she get the vegan powers Tod had? Or do you have to be full vegan for that?
Even the slightest wavering from pure veganism looses those powers. Sydney would stand no chance to even gain them initially.
Too many comments already, so this may be redundant, but one word stood out among all others for me on this page… Ka-click. Syndey’s pen, with the List’s support, makes that sound arguably at least as intimidating as the same one from a switchblade, and when she gets that look, even Bun-Bun MIGHT opt for a negotiated settlement.
The line “Eh, Peggy’s armed” makes me laugh every time.
Along with Peggy nonchalantly going along with everything.
It occurs to me that there was a missed opportunity of foreshadowing here.
At this stage in the comic, we already know that Harem is a double-agent…
…But this page could have been used as a way to hint at it, because Sydney confided in this group, and Harem blurted out the secret, paralleling how Harem blurts out secrets of Archon for fun.