Grrl Power #213 – A manxome foe
So Grrl Power as a team has had a few different rosters over the years before I started the comic. Maxima, Anvil and Dabbler were pretty much always on it, and I’ve mentioned before, odd though it may sound, that Sydney was the most recent addition. The other slot was up in the air for a bit. Originally it was occupied by Jabberwokky here. (Yes, Jabberwokky is intentionally misspelled – for branding purposes, though I’m not sure Jabber is aware criminals aren’t allowed to profit from their story. As for merchandising rights, who knows?) For a while Jabber was a lock, then I became dissatisfied with her as I realized in her original inception, she was really just DC’s Vixen. Vixen if you don’t know has animal mimicry powers, so calling on a Boa Constrictor lets her give serious bear hugs (presumably calling on bear powers would grant the same) calling on a rhino lets her smash into people and it would seem, weigh a great deal more somehow. I didn’t know about Vixen till well after I made Jabber, but once I saw her in the animated Justice League it bothered me. Then for a while it was a toss up between her and Harem. Harem always could make copies and had the single mind, but it wasn’t until I thought of combining duplication and teleportation that she really gelled and Jabber was off to the standby pool. Anyway if it seems that Jabber has a tad more personality than the other villains so far, that’s why.
Jabber may seem to still have just animal mimicry powers, after all calling out “Cheetah Style” results in super speed, but there are some significant differences to her power set now that aren’t evident on this single page.
Now we move on to the requisite announcements. I finally updated the vote incentive! Thanks for hanging in there.
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Lol, Jabberwonky
Good one Sydney
Upon Jabberwokky’s entrance, Halo’s Vorpal Blade didn’t go snicker-snack, it just snickered. Her entrance seems to resemble something more like the villains’ side of Keystone Cops in old film lore.
The bad guys have their own Sydney.
So worth staying up until 4am.
I love a good “Hero Meets Worthy Opponent” match.
But despite the author’s promises, is this really it? I mean, can someone who slips on a piece of glass really be considered to be the worthy opponent of the world’s premiere martial artist?
Cheetah power might be good in theory, but remember that cheetahs are pretty much an evolutionary dead end, since they end up with food and no energy, making it trivially easy for other animals to steal the kills they spent so much energy taking down. Just a few seconds into her fast fight with Math and she’ll be panting for breath and out of energy.
“Cheetah power” reminds me of that cartoon when I was a kid where the Indian member of the team would call out “Size of an elephant” and then transform into the animal he just named. Mouse for stealth, elephant for barging around like a bull in a china shop, bull for barging around like a bull in a china shop but with more realism, etc. I wish I could remember the name of that cartoon…
I’m going to wait for this villain to be defeated by her own power. You know, like if she is tricked into calling out “Koala power” and is suddenly smothered by a bus load of school girls who are squeeing at how cute she is.
Sounds like you’re thinking of Superfriends… Apache Chief could change size, while the Wonder Twins could become any form of water and any kind of animal, respectively. All 3 are sent up quite hilariously in various episodes of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law.
Actually, he’s thinking of “Arabian Knights”, a cartoon that used to be part of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.
The character in question was “Bez the Beast”.
As for the Cheetah Power, Dave said there’s more to it than just Vixen-like powers. For all we know, she’s just a regular human woman who has a poor center of gravity and doesn’t look where she’s stepping, until she activates her powers. (Akin to Sydney when she doesn’t have her orbs in her hands.)
I’m sure further pages will elaborate Jabber’s skill set.
I guess her slipping is similar to Maxima not dodging fear vomit – she wasn’t prepared for it.
How good she will fare against Math debends on how much of her combat power comes from increased speed (or whatever other tricks she has up her sleeves) and how much comes from real matial training.
Personally I would advice her to use her speed to change position more often. Just attacking from the front is a weak tactic.
Clearly it indicates that Jabberwokky’s power requires activation. It’s not always on.
Until she called it out, she was a ‘normal human who can’t climb through broken windows’, then swha she was bouncing all over the place like Tigger on coffee.
Heh.
+1
At least she managed to avoid cutting herself to ribbons on that broken glass still stuck in the window frame long enough to activate her powers…God only knows HOW.
Or slip as well.
PS: DaveB just in case that is a page to fix Maxima’s grade.
It’s also why/how Sydney managed to bean Harem in their first meeting: Daphne wasn’t expecting Sydney to freak out or be that fast to react with a punch
It was an Alladin type cartoon on the Banana Splits show
They also had a Tom sawyer, 3 Musketeers, and a live action I cant rember
First impressions can be fumbled. I a Champions session, 2nd Ed. I had set up a huge presence attack on a cult gathering, but 20 1’s on 20d6 still means that only the wimpiest villains pause for half a round as they snicker over my character falling flat on his face and looking like a complete idiot. Of course, that didn’t stop my character from mopping the floor with the lot, but it did make things memorable in a fashion that I would rather be forgotten.
I think you may have hit the statistical jackpot on that move.
rolling a 1 on a D6 is a 1 in 6 chance. 2 in a row is 1 in 36. 3 in a row is 1 in 216.
Rolling 20 1s in a row would be a 1 in 3,656,158,440,062,976 chance. (1 in 3.6 quadrillion)
All those numbers! Good thing we got Math on our side…
Ok, a laugh sneaked out loud on that one.
I’m not sure “jackpot” is the right term to use in this case. That’s kinda like saying “Neener, neener, Mega Millions! You failed to match my numbers yet again!”
What is really ironic, is that I designed the character for presence attacks, but the only presence attack that he ever succeeded on was when he told a fellow hero, a tween (think “Firestarter”), to stay inside where it was safe, cause he had just met her, didn’t know she was a hero, just saw a kid that needed to stay safe for the upcoming battle. Yeah. We got our asses handed to us, since we didn’t have our power blaster to back us up. Heh. I love role-playing.
we used to call that a “Billy Flop” roll. IIRC the opposite was a “BIlly Buster”
Wasn’t that BraveStarr?
“Strength of the bear!” “Speed of the puma!”
“Eyes of the Hawk!” Ears of the Wolf!”
Go Math go! (Yes, I’m saying this again.) Now let’s see how you can hold out against her being a hot girl showing cleavage (as in, I’m hoping he’ll mess up something and get out of it very, very skillfully.) And yay for glass slippage, too.
Also, “wanting wanting” in the mini-panel underneath?
Shhh, don’t point out Dave’s mistakes. He’s doing
doing the best he can.
Actually he likes it when we point out the small errors. Free proofreading
:D I see what you did there. +1
So that *is* a mistake. Hmmm… still don’t get it… :S Captain?
I just take it as being that they would not be martial artists if they did not seek a challenge. There are certain contradictions to that though, such as people who take it up just for exercise or self-defence. So there may be some angle that is just whooshing over my head.
There is a certain irony in the term mind. Especially recalling the inadvertent, albeit now corrected, double word. Given that Mathius is a martial artist, that makes DaveB a martial artist artist.
“Martial artist artist”
That’s a good one.
i would say there’s an irony to practicing martial arts just for exercise.
incidentally, that would also be a correct use of the word ‘irony’
Not just any cleavage either, it’s cleavage with an awesome pheonix/red eagle tattooed on it. Exactly Math’s type of girl.
Hmm, what if she gets her powers based on various things tattooed across her body?
Nah, actually probably not. If it was how her power worked then I feel he would have tattoos on her legs instead of just the tactical thigh-highs.
maybe the fishnet thigh-highs ARE her lower-body tattoos…
Power-activated body painting…
Lecherous Math approves.
There was a guy like that once. “The Tattooed Man” . Circus performer turned supervillian who could call out his tat’s, one at a time. Can’t quite remember who he fought with…
He was usually a Green Lantern villain, though his skill set made him available to be anybody’s villain if filler was needed.
You mean like one of the villains from the shitty “Electra” movie?
Yea. Mind you, I thought the movie was ok myself. Felt a bit odd having her in that one, when she was killed off in another one mind.
I was watching an episode of Wire in the Blood last night, a non-super police drama. But it featured a scene where one of the villains stood in front of a painting on a wall. Because the mural was of an angel, it looked like he had wings.
That would be an interesting variant on a theme. There are plenty of stories where characters can animate tattoos. Plus others where they can bring pictures to life. But activating powers by standing in front of pictures, so they look to be a part of the character, would be an unusual twist. Perhaps it could even allow creation of objects or creatures depicted and/or manipulation of the environment, provided the drawing and positioning the character made it look like they were real.
Severely limiting, given the size and immobility of such though. Unless the character came up with the idea of carrying some useful posters around in a tube. But it could have more flexibility than tattoos, if the character could use any picture. Especially if they practice their own artistic skills, and could quickly sketch out a good enough picture, to use for when something unexpected was needed.
Say drawing some scuba gear, if needing to operate underwater. Or painting a life-sized door in the wall on a villain’s ‘impenetrable’ base.
The idea of someone being able to draw something needed is familiar to me, not sure where from though, whether it was a cartoon or live action, can definately recall seeing that, somewhere/somewhen (and no, no rainbows were involved :P)
I am sure there will be comic versions. But you may be thinking of the late Kenny Everett’s mime. Who could interact with objects he drew. And even attempt to escape through the fourth wall.
“All done in the best possible taste!” :D
Remember watching Kenny as a kid, but no, wasn’t thinking of him this time
I am sure there was a version on kids tv then a kid on that power of three, witch program.
It has been used a few times.
isn’t that just a bit “Wile-E-Coyote–Super-Genius” for this comic, though?
There is no such thing as too much “Wile-E-Coyote–Super-Genius”!
I always wonder about tattoo choices like that. I mean over the years the eagle may spread its wings… XD
If one was going to have a tattoo in such a place they should plan it out so the inevitable would have some kind of effect on the art which would actually be fun or cool to see happening.
Not Superhero at all, but like Celine in Star Ocean? She has tattoos all over to unlock various magical abilities.
I’m sure he’ll find a way to finish her off with a headbutt to the sternum or a palm strike elsewhere…
At least she got to pick her own name, rather than whatever Leon was thinking!
If Leon saw that, he will definitely name her the ‘Glass Slipper’.
+1
HAHAHAHAHA! +1 doesn’t cut it here, so Level Up!
Whoop! That’s fixed.
With that tattoo, I didn’t even recognize any cleavage until a second reading.
What tattoo?
Math has lost many competitions by getting distracted by females. His only hope in this fight is to fight blind or be defeated after attempting motor boating or such like.
Small error in the comic discription:
You shouted out for your Third Gynostar comic thrusday already, so this would be your forth (also it hasn’t updated yet, though I expect that to happen soon)
So practically there is no mistake, since it is his 3rd quest strip that is available. Though I agree, that the “today'” at the end is misleading.
But…if glass is her weakness couldn’t they just chuck some more at her?
Looks more like gravity was her weakness
In that case she’s doomed :P
Gravity is everyone’s weakness…well, except Maxima…and Gretta Gravity over at Spinnerette…
Well actually, defying gravity is the most common superpower
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostCommonSuperPower
We can all fly.
In our dreams.
Actually, everyone can fly in real life too…Until the ground jumps in front of them. It’s the LANDING that most people can’t handle.
Get your hankies out before clicking on this link, if you have a sentimental bone in your body.
I did NOT expect that :(
Ooooo, the feels. Especially when you know how it MUST end…
Saw that clip first over at Kiwi Blitz (the one with the added song is even sadderer :()
Fun (true) fact: a kiwi actually flew before the Wrong Sisters, but seeing how it happened in Canterbury (NZ), the news of it didn’t get out to the rest of the world until after Pussy Eagle
I cannot leave y’all feeling down. Although this sadly lacks audio, here is the unseen end of the kiwi’s flight.
Okay, should have used ‘poignant’ rather than ‘sadderer’, but thank you for this :D
Did you also know, that the “World’s Fastest Indian” is also a kiwi? A local man who lived in his garage (he didn’t have a house, just the garage)
Gravity is a harsh mistress.
So is the moon.
But Greta’s ‘moons’ are so soft and snuggaly and totally motorboatable (not that you will probably live long, just ask the DubDubSea, but whatta way to go :P)
Try reality not working like ‘blockbuster’ cinema being her super-weakness.
Batman could throw caution to the wind for that one, but Jabberwocky isn’t from the DC Universe.
That, and I wouldn’t rule out shouting “CHEETAH STYLE!” was just her doing a variant the anime trope of shouting out your attacks, much like in Street Fighter II. She joined this gang of mooks, didn’t she? Doubtful she’s the equivalent of Deathstroke…
Smooth floor and a big chunk of glass made for a slick entry way. She’s making up for it.
At least until glass ( or gravity ) catch up to her XD
Glassvity?
Don’t mention Colonel Glasshole /whisper He’s still out there
*Walks by picking his teeth with and twirling a NPK officer’s cap*
Still, there’s nothing quite like falling on your ass to spoil a great entrance. Well done Jabba…
She’s lucky she didn’t slash her leg open on any of the glass still stuck in the sill when she fell. I doubt those fishnets offer any more protection than the standard ‘Battle Bikini’
Was just thinking that
Her “weakness” appears to be that, like Halo, her powers have an “on/off switch”. Take her by surprise or somehow prevent her from calling up powers, and it seems your dealing with a baseline human. The kind who trips over climbing through a broken window.
Let her assume a stance and, swah! Look out!; who knows what you’re dealing with.
The trick: figuring out what really triggers the change.
I like the way you always explain your comic pages, it shows you care about each and every character you draw :-)
Looks more like Octopus-style
Only four arms for her to maths six.
She is half an octopus style and also slower.
The fact that Math has to use 6 to her 4 would make her slightly superior, no?
No,4 arms for defense &2 for offense versus her 4 for offense makes two undefended hits
Looking closer at the frame,it looks like Matt let two hit through to hit 4 times
Awesome, I always liked Vixen, so this villain is pretty cool. Also, funny entrance. :D
I love how excited Math looks in pannel 6
He’s finally getting what he was looking for when he signed up with Arc-Swat, a good fight.
Unluckily, she is just really strong and fast with little martial arts skills, because she never felt the need because she could always just out speed or overpower her opponent.
Yeah, I was just thinking if she was really at Math’s level, she wouldn’t have slipped.
Since there usually isn’t a super-villain team that supports rather than back-stabs each other, they rarely have the opportunity of practising against opponents who can hit back.
Hey. Remember when Math was caught by surprise by some newb’s orb? Or when Math was hit on the back of the head with a pool cue? Things happen.
I still love Harem’s comment about the pool cue. “Fight’s over. I won.”
If only she cut herself on the sharp glass as she fell in the broken window . . Oh, well.
At least Math may be able to get some close up wrestling action while he’s at it.
This is going to be random, and likely unknown to readers, but she reminds me of a griffon from MLP with her hair and eyemake up. Randomness complete *wants to see Math is kick ass fight*
I was just about to say the exact same thing! She 100% reminds me of Gilda
Prolly intentional, check out her tattoo!
Most guys probably already have paid close attention to it. :—
And some ladies.
*whistles innocently*
So after further… inspection of her tattoo, I realized that it would have been bloody hard to have that done, not to mention annoying to get dressed. Her boobs have to be pushed up and together to have the image line up right so she’d have to make sure everything was just so all the time, probably with lots of adjusting throughout a given day.
Boob tattoos: good in theory, pain in the arse in practice.
Also, she’s missing her teal lipstick in panel 6. Makes sense in 3 and 5, given the altered way she’s drawn, but it looks a little out of place in 6.
*sigh*
Another good concept lost to reality checking.
Fortunately, although it would fail in our world, Jaberwokky has one thing working for her that we do not have. That useful side-effect which all born supers have, namely an optimised body. Her cleavage is probably self-adjusting. I guess none of the heroes have to even have to brush their hair, when they wake up in the morning!
Touche. Normally I’m one of the “its a comic/make believe, don’t worry about it” crowd.
I retract my comment.
Aww. *hugs* I was not aiming for that. Trying to match things up with real life can be fun, and you did make a credible case.
But I do respect if you choose not to. As it can sometimes a rather abstract exercise. One that could get in the way of enjoying a story, if applied too seriously.
Achilles doesn’t need to do his hair. The rest do though, look at the multiple styles worn be Harem.
Is it a tattoo or the top of a bustier? Maybe we have a villian smart enough to add some protection to vulnerable areas.
Look closer, it is clearly a tattoo
I look any closer and She’ll be getting a motorboat. ;)
I repeat: look closer
My ears are getting warm.
I got a closer look, now my glasses are all fogged up.
Mumf murffle murf!
Getting a look this close is almost as good as ear *muffs*, am I right, Yorp?
:P
Dunno. My ears blush, when I am embarrassed, is all I was saying.
;-)
By the way, are you the DanaS from Heavenly Nostrils?
No I’m not. I don’t know that one; might check it out.
Oh wow, I almost wish it was intentional. I just gave her a last minute hair redesign when the fight started. Maybe I was channeling Gilda.
One wonders what you were watching when giving her her new design.
Nice strip.
Might just be me, but the “THE” on Dabbler’s book is the wrong way round. The common practice is to do a 90° clockwise rotation wheras relative to the book you’ve rotated it anticlockwise.
*In the vote incentive.*
Have actually seen official study-type books like that
I liked how in the incentive, Sydney belted her legs together.
Did she? Good reason to vote, got something to check.
Maybe DaveB can add to a drawing and compile one over a few days for multiple vote incentives.
I think the ultimate vote puller would be to do two versions, as DaveB has in the past. With one being nude, of course. But the cunning part being that he sets it up so that the nude one is uploaded on a random hour each day. Then replaced by the mundane version, after the hour is up. Further spicing up the variety, if there are multiple characters shown, by randomising which of them gets the risqué treatment.
That will ensure daily clickage. Not that the comic needs it. It gets good enough votes without that. But it would make the voting process an entertaining gamble, in it’s own right. A bit like how we get random mixes of the character portraits, in the comic banner.
That could also ensure angry voters, and could potentionally turn some away
You want people to vote because they like the webic, give them a nice bit of artwork as a reward, not something random as a bribe
Randomness itself does not make the distinction between reward and bribery. But, yea, you are right that it probably would not go down well. Although the intention would be to provide interest, not knowing what you see when you login, that is not necessarily how it would be taken. The expectation amongst the wider webcomic community is for downloadable vote incentives. Random ones would not be what they are expecting and so they could well resent it.
Personally I was thinking of it like the rotating pictures on my wallpaper. I like the fact that it regularly changes, and you cannot predict what will be showing next. A single picture, but in two different states (fully clothed/risqué or sketched/inked), that had various panels, like the current vote incentive, could very easily be modified to have multiple versions.
If both versions of a 6 panel page were to be saved, then it would be simple to make 8 versions from those. The basic (inked or clothed version), another one with panel 1 having the risqué or inked variety but the rest remaining vanilla, another with panel 2 altered only, and so on. With the last one having the whole page inked/risqué .
Or, rather than randomly updating, that same basic page could be chopped up, so that only one panel appears each day, in sequence, up until the whole pencilled/fully clothed page is shown. Then, each day, one more panel is converted to the inked/risqué version. Or every other day, to stretch it out for most of the month.
If the uploading process allows it to be automated, then that is a very simple way to keep things interesting for the voters, without requiring extra drawing time. The chopping up and saving of different versions being something that can be done in a few minutes. If it has to be manually updated each time though, that becomes burdensome, and would not be such a good idea.
Likewise if other folks would find it irritating, rather than interesting. The aim being to encourage regular voting, rather than to put them off voting at all.
She used Sydney’s field for a bounce point. Plus high-speed melee action. Math is gonna have to really use clever tactics. Unless Jab is too cheetah-like. they’re fast but they can’t sustain the pace for more than a couple minutes.
Using the field was a bit of a risk. If the shield worked against inertia, she could find herself falling out of the air.
Overconfidence and beginner’s luck make a fun combo.
or actively repelled.
I want to see that.
Wait ’til Sydney gets some fine control over the field. Last second shaping adjustment and some Batroc impersonator goes into the ceiling at Mach 2.
*Punches field, field deforms slightly then is suddenly sent flying* SH-IIIIIIIIIIIIII *Crash!*
i think math just made a new friend :>
Frienemy
Future ex-Mrs Math :P
Now we know Math’s battle-cry. “Finally!” All he wants is someone to keep him from dozing off in mid-fight.
Which is kinda funny when you consider that he isn’t super-powered.
“Yawn. All these idiots do is punch through engine blocks and toss around energy beams, but I never seem to get a decent workout out of it.”
Leon is now unable to assign her a terrible name as she has announced herself.
Plus Jabber may last long enough to be worth adding to the Who’s Who.
He can certainly designate her as “Jabberwonky.”
She made an honourable challenge and entered into a fair fight. It is only polite to reciprocate and respect her choice of name. Of course, that courtesy would not apply to Shadow ‘Crushed Balls’ Boxer, or villains who use hostages or other dishonourable tactics.
Of course Arianna will be sure to distribute (suitably redacted) villain briefings to the press. Including the designated name. Villains will quickly learn to play fair, or face ridicule from not just their opposite numbers, but from the media and their peers too.
The new incentive art is a side splitter. Poor Max just had another reality check bounce, thanks to Sydney.
Hmm, why do I fear Math may go to villainy if the best people to combat turn out to be his own team?
Math wants challenges. Being turned into a cloud of disassociated quarks by Max’s energy blast is not his idea of fun. Besides, he can always have them to tease when he’s bored.
Why would he turn on his team? As it is, he can spar with whoever is available, as well as whoever shows up to challenge them.
If he turned on his team, he’d only be able to spar with them between trips to prison.
Still in 4th people but we are picking up some steam
The new vote incentive should help a lot. Especially as it is simply awesome.
Why is there so much lag in voting when there isn’t a new incentive? The comic is good enough on its own. Went from 5th to 2nd just because of the incentive.
Because we forget about the vote
There are a variety of reasons. Enough that it is not as depressing a reflection on society, as it may at first appear. Ignoring all the mundane ones, there is a less-obvious reason, that has feel-good factor. The comic is simply too good. People will be laughing so much that they simply forget to vote.
I am wondering that myself since day one. What is worst is that the jump do not means a few hundreds votes but more than three thousands and growing. It is a lot of people.
I know. It seems so strange that all these people can’t vote just for the comic itself. I vote for this every day and the other comics I enjoy. It is just one way to say thank you to those who put their time and money into entertaining us. I wish I had money to give to Dave and even a couple of other artists out there. But, I will vote for them.
Same here. The least we can do.
I vote twice a day.
Once at work on my tablet.
Then at home on my pc.
It’s pritty easy to forget.
And there are also alot of people that only check in on update day
And some who still only check in on Monday
Not necessarily a lot of people and, like I say, there is no reason to feel down about it. I know that many of us do not use the sign on feature to vote. Hence we are restricted to one vote a day, per web address. So putting aside the number of folks who just forget, plus the inevitable, but hopefully small, proportion who choose not to vote on purpose, there will be a fair number of people who are registered members. They can vote multiple times.
But, sitting down for a multi-vote session is time-consuming, over and above the login process. Hence I can see that not all would do it every day. So it is fair that they would only make the extra effort on uploads that they particularly like, or when there is a vote incentive. So 3,000 votes could be 300 people each voting 10 times. Which I feel is a good thing. I often wish that YouTube had a ‘this is the best thing I have seen all week’ button, which allowed you to, once a week, add more than just the one thumbs up to the total.
Yorp, I am a registered voter and I can only vote once per day. I vote for 22 comics each day and it takes about 5 minutes. I still don’t understand the regular readers that don’t vote regularly. Maybe I just feel that we should give back what we can, but I guess I am a dying breed.
Impressive work. And there are benefits to it for yourself. For example, your avatar now looks -far- cuter then before I red this comment.
Ahh, you learn something new every day. Clearly I was misinterpreting the comment, on the vote screen. And, looking again, although the two sentences (regarding membership and frequency of login) do appear on the same page, they are separated by the image in the middle. So, although I associated the two as being connected, it was not necessarily intended that way.
Ok, I concede, it makes the discrepancy rather more depressing than I thought.
*hangdog expression, with tail curled between legs*
Yes, it does. :-(
Obligated ‘announce attack style/name before executing said attack’.
Alternate version:
*slips*
*cuts tendons and main arteries in leg*
*passes out bleeding to death*
such a cute couple ;)
I hear wedding bells in their future. Or was that just someone getting their bell rung by a solid punch?
Yes, it was.
No just go back to sleep. The paramedics will be here for you shortly.
:-D
Bugs Bunny vs The Crusher
“Just passin’ by though I’d drop it, duhh, passin’ by (THUD).”
“Now we’ll just pin those little ol’ shoulders to the mat.”
You just know that if anyone tries to “assist” Math in this fight he’s going to beat their ass for it.
I’m with Sydney in the first panel. ‘So-and-so’? There might be children present, Jabberwokky!
I doubt there would be kids there since it was a booked steakhouse, but still, Jabber should be using fouler language if she wants to communicate with Sydney.
If the best someone can come up with is “so and so” they are not taking things seriously
Not everyone can make a sailor blush, and Jabbs isn’t interested in Bubble-Girl… yet!
great introduction missy
gotta say that might get interesting… even more if she keeps on tripping on her own feets.
plus the fact she is a lady math going to have a BLAST for sure hehe.
on another note on the lil “epilogue part” with halo you wrote two “wanting wanting” is that normal or a typo?
The latter has now been fixed. Hit CTRL-5 to refresh your screen with the update.
And to obtain the powers of Horse….”Gagnam Style”? :ducks:
Ducks? I thought you wanted horses…? :P
“Makes Xheralt clothes invisible to people Xheralt is “interested” in”
That can almost be done, in real life. The only part that is missing, with current technology, is the selective viewers part. Genuinely.
That would be almost too much of a good thing :D but thank you Doc
Thank GOD I wasn’t the only one to make that association!
Snicker snack?
*sniff sniff*
I am getting a hint of sword oil. A whiff of leather scabbard. Mmm, methinks that is not much like Scooby Snax.
“Tosses Yorp a Dagwood snack”
Om nom nom. “frank u”
Hmm should be a good fight, I give it a few seconds before the new enemy goes and falls in defeat.
Just as long ans Jabber and Math don’t both get turned on and make out right there and then.
Hang on, that may be worth seeing!
Like tearing at each other’s clothes over the fight and at the end making out? Sydney would blush furiously, then curse herself for not having a camera, or even Leon’s glasses for taping it.
She has her mobile phone, and most have built in cameras these days
Most? Several years ago I worked at a secure facility which had a large “no cameras” sign posted in the lobby. When my cell phone died and I needed a new one I tried to find one without a camera and failed. They all have cameras. Fortunately the sign was ignored by all personnel, civilian, military, and security. I teased my boss about this fact when we were both in the parking lot leaving work and I caught him snapping a cell phone camera picture of a rainbow, he just laughed and took another shot.
A camera and means of transmitting the data, in one handy, every-day item. Just what every spy needs.
I know how a lot of people, management included, consider that worrying about things like that is just anal-retentive behaviour. Which is all well and good for keeping daily life convenient. But such complacency leads to disasters, like Pearl Harbour, being that much more likely and worse when they do occur. For instance parking all the fighter aircraft in nice neat rows. Ideally positioned for strafing attackers to destroy them.
I have seen similarly lax attitudes amongst management in civilian organisations. And likewise point them out when I see them. Which usually gets ignored. One time leading, years later, to a scandal that could have brought down the company. It did end with the chairman being fired, and convicted for corruption, and barred from working in the industry again. Plus weakened the reputation, and thereby finances and standing, of the company enough that it later failed to fight off a hostile take-over.
Clearly common sense would say that smart phones should be checked at reception. To enforce this degaussing loops, and the like, should be placed on all entry ways. Apart from on safe routes that authorised items can be taken through, once examined. Staffed by suitably anal-retentive security personnel.
All this is especially important as only whistle blowers take their leaked information to the press. Industrial spies and foreign governments will quite happily, silently, take advantage of complacency for decades. And there will not be a Pearl Harbour to draw attention to that. Well, until there is. But a bit late, no?
Of course, with incompetent management, people who rock the boat are considered not to be team players. So keeping on raising such issues is not healthy for your career. Something that never bothered me personally, but that those looking to get to the top are mindful of. Which, by a process of cultural osmosis, means that complacent managers float to the top. Until we start jailing them, for incompetent decisions made on their watch, that will just continue.
Fortunately at least some individuals in positions of authority do take such measures seriously.
Real world politics warning. This post does get rather political. But as it is not party related, but just a general rant against the system, I guess that it should not be too controversial. In a vague attempt to justify posting it, this does show how super crime is committed in our society. Vastly more successfully than mere armed bank robbery.
This YouTube talk just arrived in my inbox. And, dry financial matters though it talks about, it really does follow on from what I was saying. Ok I was talking about financial security, rather than intelligence security, but they are analogous. And what he is talking about is saving ourselves trillions of dollars and millions of jobs, so it is actually something important.
I think that guy should be put in full executive charge of regulating both the US and UK financial systems. With powers sufficient that he calls the shots, rather than the President, Prime Minister or legislature. Of course cronyism will ensure that does not happen.
But, it is something to bear in mind after the next big financial crash. Given the escalating nature of these things, it will probably involve mass starvation, rather than just money and jobs that get lost. Which will hopefully give us enough incentive to actually change our system of government at its core. Switch from being an oligarchy to actually being a democracy. No more of this representative democracy rubbish.
Not that direct rule by the unwashed masses will be something to look forward to. But it would be hard pressed to be more corrupt than our current system.
Wow a lot of interesting comments, but I still think the fight won’t last for very long.
And as in uffish thought he stood the Jabberwock with eyes of flame came whiffling through the tulgey and burbled as it came.
Woah, Dragonball reminiscing in that last panel…
This girl looks awesome!!
Uhm, Dave… not to be rude, but Jabber’s lower body anatomy in the last panel looks a bit off to me. Is it an effect of the speed? Because you never do escher girls…
Guess who hasn’t been checking out DaveB‘s guest work? The one above me
Uhm… I’d like to apologise. I was upset about personal stuff when I wrote that comment and now I really wish I could take it back. I’m a cunt. Sorry.
I have never known DaveB to show offence any comment. And we all have our bad moments, where we subsequently regret making a post. Do not give it any further thought.
:) Thank you.
Didn’t mean to offend, was just pointing out that DaveB has done something like that, even if it was just to take a jab at a stereotype (not to mention, the Harem Playboy invotive from some time back, he put a couple of them into painful looking positions :P)
Yeah I think it’s a little off… I adjusted it a few times while I was penciling it but I could never get it to look right. I think if I were to redraw it I would have Jabber’s back bowed instead of arched, like she was a pouncing cat, but too late this time. We can just say she’s winding up for a knee to the head this time.
Eyes of the Hawk
Ears of the Wolf
Strength of the Bear
Speed of the Puma! :D
Brains of a Sea Slug
And with an introductory entrance like that, agility of a kumquat.
Anyone else remember a really really old game called “Mortal Kumquat”?
In truth, I never heard of that game. I just used “kumquat” because it sounds like a dirty word…
Whoever gave a name like that to a flippin’ piece of fruit must’ve been very brave…
Believe it was for the Amiga, early ’90s
MORTAL ZOMBAT!!!!!! it has begun! b rate movie base on house of the dead and dawn of the dead reference.
Cheetah’s never prosper, not even vulcan ones.
Well…there’s Brittany Diggers
Well, if Vulcan teddy bears (Selat) have 6″ fangs, that really says something about Vulkan Cheetahs (Le Matya).
I love how you make Sydney’s bangs defy gravity <3 (vote incentive related comment)
That’s how her ‘flight’ Orb works
Her flight orb realigns gravity so the bangs are not defying it.
That orb has an awful lot of upgrades available. I bet one of them redefines the speed of light, in a similarly creative fashion.
Right, so basically she is not floating upside down, she just changed her own gravity field?
The rest of the Universe is upside down, except Dabbler. Just ask Sydney.
Basically, yeah. Syd is, for all intents and purposes, in her own gravity field oriented any direction she wants it to be.
I just added another vote and noticed that Dabbler is doing some defying of gravity as well. I’ve heard of perky but that’s ridiculous.
Alien anatomy not behaving like the human body? Go figure.
figure 17 never raised that issue that I am aware?
I thought that was her sports bra’s doing.
I have to wonder how much slack Math is giving her just so he can have a fight. Unless she actually has the power of flight, that fast bounce around the room should have been her last move.
Math is standing there watching her come in. She’s in mid-air. Unless she can fly she has no defense at all from any attack he decides to throw before she lands. Given how hard he can kick, what should have happened there is for her to go flying back out the window she entered from.
She has, currently, the power of Speed, Math probably couldn’t have hit her hard enough before she got to him even if he tried
We talking about the guy who kicked someone up into the air, then changed stances and hit her with a double palm strike before she came down? He’s not fast enough?
Nope. He let her close the distance.
I suspect shew saw LeePoN’s ‘fight’ and kicked of a Sidney’s shield just to distract her. Because she also was vulnerable to someone grabbing her foot and whipping her into the ground.
Good thinking.
Tentacle Vs scantly clad woman? I think something else would happen!
i read, watched and know too much to comment on that statement but…. i have seen enough….
You can never see enough of that!
(In The Captain’s voice)
What..Has..Been..Seen……..Can..Not..Be..Un…..Seen!
If only I could buy brain bleach and mental floss…
In case you were wondering, she dressed to take advantage of Math’s known vulnerability.
Unfortunately for her, she did not research what Math likes; it would have been camel style if she did. LOL
So, what you’re saying is that the only part of a camel’s anatomy that interests Math at all is their toes?…
Just waiting for a shot of that one villain sitting on a roof, not doing anything illegal, just taking notes. And planning. We already seen the one who waits and lets the cannon fodder tier the heroes out, we have yet to see the likes of Deathstroke and Dr Doom!!. (Yes, with two !!)
To me, “Bear Style” would allow her to go all Sabertooth/LeePOC on them (as in, bear claw, rather than bear hug)
I’m sure Math would prefer Bare style, too.
He might regret that. She looks like she may have both black widow and preying mantis style.
As long as she doesn’t have Snapping Turtle
Jabber was almost fighting ‘gushing-femoral-artery’ style, tripping while she was straddling the broken window frame like that.
Really hoping that Jabbs becomes a permanent cast member, either reform and join Archon or remain one of their Rogues Galleria members
I smell a ship forming.
And I shall Destroy this ship!
Math probably has his torpedo lined up already…
Just make sure there is no firing before the target is properly lined up and in position
I love her. Make her part of the team after this. She can talk about her tattoos with Peggy and learn the true art of foul language from Sydney!
I concur.
I, also, approve.