Grrl Power #293 – Zonked
Why settle into bed gently when you can slam into it mid laugh? For those of you wondering, Sydney used to go with the geeky sheets, but eventually she decided she wears her geekdom on her sleeve enough already, and generally speaking you can get better quality sheets if they’re not concerned about having Star Wars or She-Ra printed on them. This was originally the last page book 1 but I realized I needed to address at least one more thing, so the next page wraps it up and then we’re off to book 2!
Most of the posters in Sydney’s room are movie posters, but the one above her computer is a Rainbow Dash I found at DeviantArt (used with permission :)
Be sure to check out the Valentine’s Day Sex Drive picture I did this year (NSFW, as are all the participants). I particularly like the Star Cross’d Destiny submission as well, so be sure to check that one out through their vote incentive, and check out the comic too (click on the comic thumbnail on the left.) The main character tends to look a bit like Maxima at times. She does have purple hair, but she only looks like she has gold skin occasionally because Blair, the artist, actually takes colored lighting into account when she colors. :)
I hope to have the vote incentive updated by next weekend, but I’m having some much needed foundation work done on my house this week and that involves jackhammering through the floor in a few places in my office, disassembling the computer and general distractions as I have to deal with all that stuff, so we’ll see.
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I beg to differ Mr. Dave.
I have had several snooooooork moments without much practice.
Really cool you asked for permission for using the poster picture.
You’re a nice guy.
Just saw the Valentine’s Day Sex Drive picture…
My apologies, you are a nasty, nasty guy!
My kind of nasty.
It’s awsome!!!!
Ooooooh, my!
If I recall correctly, there was some comment earlier in the comic where someone wondered how far you might have “mapped out” Dabbler’s stripey pattern. Thanks for the answer, Dave
O.O
Did I see two belly buttons on her?
No, they are water drops (on her, not the glass)
Indeed, you did. Same as here.
Ooh, nicely spotted. Lending credence to the supposition that she has other anatomy doubled up.
*Drifts back off to fantasy land*
“Snork” is for amateurs. It’s the “mimimimi” that takes talent and practice! :-D
SNOOOOOORK is easy, Mimimimimimi not so much
….is it bad that I originally thought the ‘mimimimi’ was the orbs conferring?
:D
now that would be cool and something to consider deeply… are the orbs sentient? do they only work for those of disney heart? are they experimenting on test subject number 398472? do they just like Sydney and want to take care of her? are they like the one ring and called her to their hiding spot so they might work their ADHD way back to their evil master?
Only their hair dresser knows for sure…
I had the same thought, only it included “Snork!” from the shield orb, and “mimimimi” from the lighthook as an answer…
Made me think of Curly of The Three Stooges when he snores.
+1 Shemp too.
It’s nice to see that one other person knows the reference
Two other people, at least. I’m old enough to have grown up on the Three Stooges.
You know it’s a good job when you have a minor panic attack after the first day before collapsing of exhaustion
Her meds are probably completely wiped by now.
At this point, I think even her doctor would agree that she wouldn’t need ’em, at least until she wakes up…
Being hyper in your own dreams is an adventure.
Whenever I get dreams like that, I wake up even more tired than I was when I fell asleep.
If this particular day for Sydney is what she considers to be “average,” then I sorta wonder if she could even survive an “extreme” day.
With her orbs? Easily
Yeah, she’s going to regret not falling on the other side of her face later.
That’s for future Sydney. Present Sydney doesn’t care
I would vote for President Sydney.
So would I
Only because I’d be scared not to.
Couldn’t be as bad as some we’ve had. The scariest thing I heard is ANOTHER Bush might run. Now where did I put that Lee Harvey Cloning kit?
The only big problem with Jeb is he has an unfortunate case of misplaced loyalties. With his brother it’s understandable, With his party it’s mystifying.
To those of us on the outside and looking in – which party since I can’t tell them apart form their calling each other names.
Question: why do you put up with that so called two party system? It’s self perpetuating.
I’m afraid the question furnishes the answer. The only reason we don’t have one President per decade or two is because after Roosevelt the Republicans pushed a Constitutional amendment for Presidential term limits. To their later regret I am positive.
As to party, Jeb Bush is Republican (conservative). Ex-governor of Florida.
Republican, yes. Conservative?
Not so much.
Over time, the two parties have become entrenched with a series of election rules that exclude outside parties and limit input from the population. In many states you cannot vote in a primary to choose someone to run in a party unless you are registered as a member of that specific party. Gerrymandering controls voting blocs.
On top of all of that obfuscation and control, you add the fact that both parties have made the decision to sell themselves to the highest bidders, and what we have is not a democracy, not even a true republic anymore, but rather an ogliarchy.
Ogliarchy is a government ruled by the highest bidder.
Less than 100 people provided 90 percent of the republican party’s funding last election ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/super-pacs-dominate-republican-primary-spending/2012/01/11/gIQAdcoq3P_story.html ). That money buys control.
Our spy agencies answer to the president, lie to congress and do not even bother to tell anyone what they are doing. And we have begun exporting our surveilance-state government model to the UK, Aus, and anyone else willing to sign onto it.
In the end, we can call our government whatever we want, but what it is fast becoming is tyranny in very pretty clothes.
Yeah, some of us Americans have a hard time telling them apart too. Maybe because no matter how much they scream that they oppose each other on every issue, neither ever undoes anything the other has done; and everything they do serves first and foremost to expand the power and reach of government – any other effect is secondary.
There are many, many other BIG problems with Jeb besides family loyalty. Much, much bigger.
It’s his cabinet selection and foreign affairs advisers that concern me.
Though, to be frank, so long as whoever wins doesn’t continue the trend of using the Constitution as wiping paper as W and Obama have (they’ve done A LOT of the same sort of sh!7 and Obama’s cranked up the notch on some of it.), I don’t care. I’m still looking into third party candidates. BTWs it’s better than not voting. And, if enough people vote third party, we might actually get a third party president.
Unaffiliated, moderate.
Nope.
No slur intended on the U.S. but that would require being a citizen of the U.S., which would also necessitate swearing to give up all other nationalities. I much prefer life as a non-U.S. citizen thanks.
Unless it turns out that some close analogue of Sydney is actually real. In which case, hand me the lyrics to the “Star Spangled Banner”, plus the crib notes on all those American pie things I need to know, to pass me the test, and show me where to sign.
I used to think the same. Now I realize that it’s a false hope. Our two party system is so locked up that even a huge majority third party President, which is just about an impossibility, would never bring about an actual third party. The Ds and Rs have to approve it, and of course they won’t. And they have all the tools to tie up the process with a failure to allow it on the schedule at all or a filibuster if it is scheduled, or a simple failure to pass in either of the two houses.
For an actual third party to be allowed to exist would probably require something along the lines of this:
1) A member of that party as the Speaker of the House;
2) A member of that party as the Senate Majority leader;
3) A majority in both houses;
4) Either major concessions to all remaining D & R members of both houses or resorting to death threats.
In other words, it will never happen.
I voted for Ross Perot in 1992, thinking at the time how great it would be to have a President who wasn’t beholden to either party or to special interests, and who would run the country more like a business than like the political circus it is always run like.
I realize now that I was wrong. A third party President would be beholden to either party, but neither would any member of the Ds and Rs be beholden to him. His agendas would have support from neither party, no one from either party would risk losing the support of their colleagues by fighting for any of his agendas, and he would probably be the most ineffective President in history.
Unfortunately, that is simply how our system of government is designed to work, for some value of that word.
Fortunately, Clinton won despite my vote for Perot. And I say that even though I voted for Bush, Sr. in his first term. Bush, Sr. was actually a pretty good president, but not good enough IMO to have earned a second term.
Bah, typo and failure to close a tag… Fixing:
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A third party President would be beholden to neither party, but neither would any member of the Ds and Rs be beholden to him. His agendas would have support from neither party, no one from either party would risk losing the support of their colleagues by fighting for any of his agendas, and he would probably be the most ineffective President in history.
Unfortunately, that is simply how our system of government is designed to work, for some value of that word.
Fortunately, Clinton won despite my vote for Perot. And I say that even though I voted for Bush, Sr. in his first term. Bush, Sr. was actually a pretty good president, but not good enough IMO to have earned a second term.
Sydney for dictator.
Her first order would be,
BUY MORE COMICS!
Yorp has already heard that campaign slogan…
I’ll start buying comics once they
put in the refrigeratorretire all the entrenched sociopaths in the industry and hire writers who are sane and artists who can do things like perspective or anatomy.You mean like our beloved author Dave B.
*puts up a “DaveB for President of Marvel!” sign*
“Replaces adamas’s sign with DaveB for president of all comics”
Mine is “Wallstreet bankers go to maximum security prison and their affiliated companies/firms pay back the bailout loans”.
+1
They are the ones who took the risks, choosing to turn a blind eye to the likely consequences, they are the ones who accepted the profits (and who still have all of it, for that matter). So they should be the ones who face the consequences. Which should be harsh, given the hardships they have inflicted on the rest of the world, as a result.
And far stronger measures should be taken to prevent the similar actions continuing to this day. Not just in Wall Street mind.
I like the screen saver, but it would be hard for me to fall asleep with a big light source like that in my room. Sydney is obviously used to anoying light sources while going to sleep.
… as demonstrated by exhibits one to seven. She`ll certainly never have trouble finding the keyhole in the dark to open the door.
At least those stop glowing when her own lights go out. Yet another hint that those orbs are interacting with her on various levels, some quite deep.
Which is probably a good thing. We wouldn’t want her unconscious mind taking control of the PPO. Rather than ‘sleep-walking’, there would be ‘sleep-blasting’.
Ooo, you’re correct. I caught the orbs relaxing downward but never thought about them being used while sleep walking.
there was a discussion earlier about how deeply those orbs take their mental signals & it brought up some points like, how much effect does “sleep paralysis” act like a safety switch, and so on. Until now, Sydney could have always slept with them stored in the tube.
Yesterday (in-comic yesterday, not “our calendar” yesterday), back in Archon, when Sydney was ready to show “the panel” what her orbs were, they didn’t come out of the tube right away & she said that sometimes they seem to “fall asleep when not used in some time.” And yet, that didn’t necessarily mean that the orbs would “fall asleep” when Sydney’s asleep & dreaming either.
Dave’s definitely being consistent.
d-(^_^)-b
Questions are:
How do the orbs move from one possessor to another?
Does the current possessor need to consciously ‘will’ possession to another?
Can they be stolen while the current possessor is asleep/KO’d?
Is the current possessor stuck with the orbs until death?
All of which tie into the big question. How did Sydney gain control of them. That flight scene is beautiful, but there is evidence that Sydney may be an unreliable narrator in this case. That whole story has yet to be told.
Remember how difficult it was for Sydney to actually fire the PPO? That probably precludes any inadvertent firing. Other orbs might actually be able to be used on an unconscious level without any danger to others, and with great benefit for Sydney. The force field orb, for example.
The screen saver is a variation on the ‘convenient information’ trope. Just like when anyone in a movie turns on a radio or TV and immediately hears ‘We interrupt this program to inform you that an escaped serial killer has been seen in the vicinity of (your location here).”
Don’t have to tell me twice, Killianti. On my computer (which is in my bedroom), I’ve had to tape a security envelope over the Power and Hard Drive lights, which are those (trope: Buffyspeak) ultra-bright blue LED thingies. (/Buffyspeak)
That’s enough light to keep me awake at night, which is why I had to cover them.
Yay! Ponies!
Looks like she thinks RD is best pony. RD mouse pad and possible RD poster above the computer monitor.
The mimimimi before her entourage goes to sleep too makes one wonder…
For that matter, the fact that they even go to sleep – let alone when Sydney does, is food for thought.
Well, she does ‘mimimimimi’ twice, and we already know they ‘power down’, remember when she opened Tubey in the ballroom and had to poke them to ‘wake them up’?
Was I the only person who found themselves thinking:
“Huh. Never saw the orbs make sounds like that before, cool…oh waitaminit, duh.”
I thought for a brief split-instant that maybe Dues’ condition of Villainous Hyenism might be more common than we would have thought; even her eyes contracted like dues’ did! then I figured out that Sydney’s condition is a variant, distinctly different from Dues…Sydney’s showing signs of Exhaustive Hyenism.
Second homage to “The Three Stooges”. It’s hard to find one, but usually when the Stooges slept, it was Larry who “snorked”, Moe who exhaled, and Curly who “mimimimied”.
“hard to find a video of it on Youtube”
Just went to youtube, typed in ‘three stooges snoring’ and there wasn’t any mimiming.
She snores like my wife.
Is that the 3 stooges type snoring…?
Curly, some Loony Tunes,
Definitely stooge snoring. :)
I remember it from Boy meets World.
As a side note, did the orbs go into sleep mode as well?
Yup. Nothing happening here for a few hours, so time to conserve some energy.
I love the subtlety of the orbs gradually dropping down as she sleeps.
Sydney must be utterly knackered after what happened today.
Well, she narrowly missed dying at the bank once & who knows how many potential times during the mid-dinner Battle Royale.
She’s fought (& beaten up!) a superhero (although she wasn’t aware that Mr. Amorphorous even is a super, back at the bank) & several others (that were obvious supers) again during dinner.
She was highly instrumental in bringing down the Big Bad villain, performed some other non-assisted take-downs & pulled off a number of “assists” in the battles of other heroes.
Yeah, it’s been a pretty full day for Syd…She’s undoubtedly set quite a few new personal records for one-day’s worth.
Don’t forget the paperwork afterwards.
Paper cuts with lemon juice ?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/515
I just hope Syd has flex frame glasses. Even if she does, sleeping like that’s going to leave some… interesting marks.
Awwww, sleeping Sydney is adorkable!
Don’t you mean, ‘asnoooooorkable’? :P
Do you mean like in this debut episode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdCgYZLCaf4
Or do you mean like this little guy with the glasses? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhselLfxTyE
Was actually thinking of these guys
And kinda hot.
Scorchio!
As one who is not impressed by “the most common female superpower” I have to say Sydney is always hot.
Contrary to the impressions I’ve given here, I’m not blinded by the “Hollywood Standards” of beauty…Although it is distracting. Sydney would be a fine catch…if you could actually reel her in. Even though describing her with the phrase “she’s got a fine personality” carries some negative connotations about how a woman looks, Sydney certainly doesn’t fit that meme at all.
And life with Sydney would never get boring, for certain…
Hey, that’s how I usually go to sleep.
Btw, does she live alone?
I’m thinking family home and this is her room. My surprise is how neat it is.
No, remember her calling her parents and saying she’ll visit soon, since she can fly now?
So she doesn’t live with her parents
If she didn’t live alone I would imagine whoever she lives with maybe wanting to have a word with her before the whole sleeping thing.
As she kinda went from a “nobody”(globally speaking) to a celeb super hero over the course of a day.
I like to think that, in such a case, she’d be threatning that person with the PPO if they’d keep her from sleeping
What card-carrying, self-respecting nerd doesn’t live alone?…
Nerd Level: Experts live with parents I thought…
Then that would put Sydney at Nerd Level: Professional. She’s evidently getting paid enough at her profession to live alone.
So did she ever get the money back to the comic book store? He’s gonna be so pissed with her!
Why would she get the money back to Joel? o_O
she never got a chance to deposit it at the bank it closed before she got to use it
It was still in the bank in it’s deposit bag thing, so as soon as the place gets cleared (what is the half-life of that stuff she used to empty the bank?) it will be picked up by staff and either dealt with or the store will be notified
That is where the Hazardous Material (HazMat) Decontamination Team comes in. It should only take them a few hours to clean it up. It turns out to be non-toxic (compared to some of crap those guy have to deal with) as it can be handled by sewage treatment facilities. Just make sure it does not go down the storm drain.
The police will have collected it as potential evidence and after determining it has nothing to offer, they will contact the store to come to the police station, identify the bag and contents and then probably release it. Then it can finally get deposited at the bank.
“Just make sure it does not go down the storm drain”
Why not? It seems to me that it would clean out those pipes real good. Kill any fungal build-up & dissolve any metal corrosion along the way.
Think of the poor giant alligators! They will be driven out of their natural habitat and have to go on a rampage of death and destruction, in order to flee the toxic environment.
Hey, that’s prime material for Grade D horror movies, right there! It’s been done already.
Yeah? So? That could be a storyline in a few days comic time…so maybe in twenty years our time.
water in storm drains does not go to a treatment plant, they go straight into canals or natural bodies of water.
Dune proves you wrong!!!
That was Arakkis, this is Earth.
What happens on Arakkis stays on Arrakis (except for the Spice exports).
As a someone who used to make store deposits I can tell you there is a deposit slip in the bag they will process it and the next time someone from the store shows up they will give them a copy of the deposit slip. Also some deposit bags have locks on them that the bank has a key to.
said bags are also made of an easy to cut material unless they are made of kevlar which then it could still be cut but it would be a lot more difficult and not worth the effort vs the reward. most of those bags are made of leather or vinyl and since the store hasn’t been doing well lately it probably only has a few hundred dollars in it.
no way the only comic book store were you can meat a real hero he is going to see $ sines not be pissed
Well, Joel was trying to get Sydney more pro-active in advertising the store & he got it…Albeit not quite the way he might have expected, but far more effective. What better PR could Joel get, fer crissake?
Considering the intro to the comic, it would seem they’ll be raking in enough to buy a whole new store… unless they add a second storey onto their strip-mall locale.
I think their next move is set up a mobile store in a van placed in front of ARC headquarters. They could use it to sell Japanese graphic novels. Sydney will name it the ‘Manga Cart-er”.
Oy vey!
I don’t think Sydney will let just anyone meat her. She’s impulsive, but she has standards!
Meeting her, on the other hand, shouldn’t present any problems. At least not at first. The larger the fanbase, the higher the chance of crazies.
true enough but it whount stop people going to the store to try and meet her
expressly after https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1020
The higher the chance of crazies, the higher the chance of getting to ‘demonstrate’ the orbs!
Some people complain about getting “c***-blocked”…When Sydney does it, it’s known as getting “ball-blocked.” It’s far less pleasant, as Shadow Boxer can attest.
THAT deposit was prepared before the bank robbery, therefore is not affected by Sydney’s new celebrity status. Considering the stated condition of the store’s financials, Joel might be concerned about the deposit not showing up at the bank, but it probably won’t be an immediate crisis – and it WILL show up in due course, although he or Sydney might have to go by the police station to retrieve it.
DaveB has confirmed that the bank deposit was resolved, off-screen. Although many people have picked up on that, over the years, it is a mundane issue, which would not advance the story, nor any character development.
In due course, the lack of any repercussions will make it clear that nothing untoward happened. The sole story purpose was to show how Sydney happened to be at the bank, when everything kicked off. There are many day-to-day activities which are omitted from such story telling, if they add nothing of value.
For instance, nobody has (that I can recall) considered that Sydney’s car is sitting untended somewhere. Possibly being at risk of being towed away. Perhaps it will be. But, unless Dave finds it amusing to come back to that,* it is another thing which Sydney would resolve off-panel. A normal irritation, which any of us might have to face, but not something which would be intrinsically interesting to see a super-hero dealing with.
* Mind you, he has the ability to make anything interesting. But is wise to focus on things which move the story along, when possible, rather than getting too stuck in every detail of a day.
I half expected one of the unknown-function orbs to continue orbiting or otherwise stay active while she sleeps. Maybe as a watchdog for danger or performing a function upon her sleeping body (healing while unconscious? sucking vital essence or blood to power the orbs?) that wouldn’t be permitted or too uncomfortable while awake.
I’m actually pleased they just sort of settle down for the night when she does.
I agree. I find it really interesting that they fall into a sleep/unconscious state when she does. It might just be as simple as they’re linked to her so they reflect her active/passive states, though I am curious to see if it’s something more than that (maybe their energized state is because they ‘feed’ off the more active brainwaves that occur when she’s awake? or maybe REM sleep is deep enough that they can’t sync with her?). It’s definitely curious, and makes it obvious that would be one of her main weaknesses–if someone were fast enough to take advantage if/when she dropped her shield, she could be knocked out and there wouldn’t be repercussions from the orbs staying active, etc.
I think one of the Orbs might turn out to be life support. Able to refresh atmosphere in the shield orb, healing, brew coffee, that kind of thing ;)
And make pizza…I just couldn’t handle it if they couldn’t also make pizza…
+1
Nope, no pizza. It can toast bread though, but only one side at a time.
The PPO can toast the whole thing at once…Main problem is that the whole slice of bread is reduced to fine ash.
Best origin of a doomsday device ever. “Toasters. Miserable boxes — wasteful, slow, imprecise — cluttering up our countertops. Have you ever dared dream of toast automatically cooked to perfectly even golden brown without pale or charred spots? Don’t we owe it to our children the perfect surface to spread marmalade on? The problem is that in our universe heat radiation obeys an r-squared law that guarantees the failure of conventional designs which treat that flaw in the universe as some sort of basic constraint. Fools!”
Looks like the Sleep mode is triggered when the user is sleeping – subconscious triggers? Or just Snore triggers (Audio trigger)?
Wonder if they can be stolen this way…
no they were inactive when max was pulling on the tube they were in
Astute observation.
They were also “sleeping” in the tube when Sydney was in the boardroom interview at Archon HQ. she had to wake them up before they came out of the tube.
Also, she did the ‘Jedi’ thing at that time. So she can call the orbs to her hands even when they are in sleep mode!
We don’t actually know that. We only know that they were asleep when she opened the tube in the ballroom. At any time prior to that, they might have been asleep or awake; we don’t know because we couldn’t see inside the tube. It’s even possible that they might have been asleep, but Sydney’s attempt to move them, or to move out of their tether range, itself awoke them.
I had been planning on making a follow-on observation, but I fell asleep…
That said, it parallels yours.
When people are disturbed, in their sleep, and it turns out to be something routine, then they just go straight back to sleep. Provided it only took a few moments to resolve. Somebody could be awoken, briefly, several times during the night, and not even remember that, come morning.
Possibly (either naturally, or due to their association with Sydney), the orbs may behave in a similar way. Be it Sydney’s Jedi Yoink or Maxima’s attempt to throw them. Wake briefly, deal with the minor disturbance*, then resume nap.
* Yes, that would put an interesting perspective on things. Given that they casually resisted the strongest super on Earth, trying her hardest, to throw them.
Max did not try to “throw” the orbs, she tried to use the orb’s tether to yank Sydney out from under a truck. That’s when we find out the tether works both ways and MAXIMA was yanked down instead. Unprepared for it, she landed flat on her bottom.
Yours is not an unreasonable interpretation. However, given that Maxima was getting the kinesthetic feedback, and also knew just how much effort she had dialled up, I put a lot of stock in her reaction.
Maxima tried to use force, but was brought to a dead stop. Ok, she then has the pratt fall you describe. But she clearly was not claiming that it was the stumble which was the root cause. Her strength had failed her. Possibly for the first time, judging by her reaction.
That said, it is just an anecdotal situation. Rather like how we had to judge the strength of Sydney’s force field by Maxima giving it love taps in the board room. Until they had the chance to conduct more rigorous testing.
Until we get some other situation, or test, which confirms it, we can only go with our best guesses. But I am fairly happy with my claim, on the grounds I have described.
There is an honest to god Totoro sitting on Syndeys bed.
She may be a nerd, but certainly has taste.
Also, can she get any cuter ?
Only in her PJs.
The PJs with wings.
Footy PJs with wings and a tail, and a cutey mark on the butt.
I’d say NOOO!!! But she probably has a pair.
Oh good. YouTube is kindly assisting me with the background to that comment.
*breaks out the scooby snax, and settles down, for some research*
Have done that a few too many times: ended up so tired fall asleep instantly (strangely enough, those times are more satisfying, for someone with Chronic Fatigue to be able to stay awake long enough to be one of the ‘walking dead’ is a huge accomplishment, and means was able to do a lot more than usual, but like Sydney, always wanting to do one thing more)
Amen [fellow CF victim here]
Falling asleep with glasses on can’t be comfortable in the morning.
Even less comfortable after literally falling onto bed wearing them
it really depends how you sleep face down like this not good but if you sleep face up it makes no difference. and if you move a lot in your sleep you can wake up with cuts from the broken glasses
Who wears glass lenses anymore?
the frames brake and sharp pointy bits of metal and plastic can cut you as well the lenses shouldn’t brake they are the strongest part
Those of us that have corneas so worn that we don’t qualify for the surgery (me). Oh, and people who can’t afford the surgery. And people who don’t want the surgery. And people who live where the surgery is not available. And people who don’t get along well with contacts (me). And people who look good in their glasses…
he means they dont make the lenses out of actual glass anymore. i have broken lenses and i have broken glass they brake very different
Ah. Glass lenses are still better for extreme prescriptions, which Sydney doesn’t have as her lenses are thin and light, according to the way DaveB has drawn them.
I think he meant as opposed to plastic lenses, which don’t break over easily.
I’ve fallen asleep with my glasses on many times, and woken up to find them either on the floor or squashed under my body. But mine have plastic lenses and flexing metal frames.
As have I. I find myself knocked out on the couch and end up finding my glasses inside the cushions. The bridge is pretty much a lost cause, but everything else is great. Plastic lenses and flexible frames are awesome that way.
Wearing two monocles is more stylish. ;)
Merely one monocle is a test of willpower.
https://www.troopsofdoomcomic.com/2012/11/30/forgetful/
Two monocles would be a real Mindbender…
I’ve bent more than one pair of glasses doing that :)
Join the club…
meh, ignore the glasses… she fell asleep directly on her BRUISE!! THAT is gonna hurt a heck of a lot more than any amount of glasses will…
So….. she makes Beaker sounds when she snores. Interesting :)
Three stooges!
Holy crap! Sydney snores the same way I do (according to my family at least)
I’m a light sleeper but Sydney could snore all she wants if she looks that cute in bed. Also she eats dinner in front of the computer. I do that a lot.
Nah, that’s the raiding snack plate. Why the fork then? Well as someone with a raiding snack plate, finger foods and keyboards do not play well. The fork was invited by human civilization to deal with the eating of sticky/powdery/flakey/crumbly/drippy foods while keeping the fingers clean. This works for just about everything, except doritos chips, for which I have considered mastering chopsticks. Although I could argue that if it’s a snack food that cannot be eaten with a fork, it likely isn’t a very healthy snack.
if chopsticks are beyond you. you could use some ice tongs you know the small tongs used to pick up single ice cubes.
It was quite possible to eat while playing Diablo or Plants vs Zombies and a few other games. A small roll of paper towels (also useful for cleaning your screen after spit-takes) is a must when eating anywhere near electronics of any type. TV remotes are made with this in mind but a greasy remote is nasty.
I saw the plate, fork & cup on the desk & thought, “How’d Dave figure out what my desk looks like?”
O.o
Just had to say – Dave, that is some beautiful artwork.
I agree, your artwork has improved greatly over the years.
That’s why I always say you are one of the best artists in webcomics.
I had just gotten to the point of deciding I must mention that, when I get to the end of the comments. Thanks for getting the ball rolling.
I hope DaveB gets a showing at a gallery, or even a permanent display at a cultural museum. Seriously. I would rate the above page as being significantly better, and more enjoyable, than three quarters of the stuff I saw the last time I checked out the Tate Modern.
It’s at this point that I have to question again what the power source for the orbs is… I suspect that they’re pulling energy from her. Kind of makes her ADHD a super power of sorts if that is the case, right?
The orbs are powered by Nerdic energy! No wonder she was able to beat a mere Vehemic energy user!
(Forgive me…)
Oh look! Sydney’s balls have finally dropped.
*runs away*
“Looks like another victim for Halo’s patented low orb attack has just stepped up Dan”
“That’s right jon and if he doesn’t start apologising to her real fast he could be saying goodbye to his favorite body parts!”
“Let’s hope for his sake he can talk REAL fast”
Max: Sydney don’t torment the norms even if they annoy you. We have to be be better them.
“But that’s what I am proving here, that I AM better than him”
But Sydney can easily show that she’s better than them without actually doing anything…Easily, she’s definitely more ballsy than anyone else.
A major factor in deciding Sydney’s gender for the comic, I’m sure. If Dave had gone with a male MC, the ‘Sydney’s balls’ jokes and puns would never stop.
Well, that and the whole ‘female superteam’ angle that DaveB was apparently aiming for. I’m a bitsurprised we haven’t had more jokes about her globes, though..
Well rounded, nice and firm, comfortable handfuls, but sometimes require playing with to perk them up. Since they popped out during the interview, she seems to prefer keeping them on permanent display – it certainly helped her get the job!
My instincts are to leap to her defence. But I do recall Dabbler fondling them, in the interview, no less! And even Maxima commented how useful the sight was. Not to mention Arianna having an orgasm, at the thought of exploiting them for profit.
Math was floored when he got a faceful. Handling them later, he was a bit rough and she wound up somewhat bruised – but the payoff seemed worth it and I think she’ll go back for more.
(Not to mention that they let her get Shadow Boxer by the balls)
It’s gonna be a little odd seeing her wearing different clothes tomorrow. Unless the comic does like so many others do, and just keep her wearing the same outfit forever.
well comic #4 and #5 are fucher Sydney (everything so far is technically a flash back lol) and in that she is wearing a different top. the jeans look the same but jeans look the same and most people have a few pears of them
Also, during the “‘truth’ about tubey” strip with Joel, she had a different top on for each of the excuses
They make jeans out of fruit? [innocent look]
Yeah, but they first have to work the Fruit through the Loom…
If you look at the inspection sticker in the windshield the “future” is now 4 years ago…
this is a comic time stamps are iirelevent :)
after all marvel has been taking place ruthly now for 40 years and only bout 4-7 years of comic time has passed
Attention to detail geek: Love the fact you bother to draw the door frame in detail, including the faceplate! :)
I don’t like doing background, but you have to have a certain level of detail or they get hard to decipher visually.
How well does being a government superhero pay anyway?
it would be considered a high risk job so probably better than you would think. i would say enough that Sydney could give up working for the comic book store but not enough for her to want to
Sydney’s co-owner of the store. That’s bit different than working for it.
And, with the unprecedented publicity, that it now has, it is going to be a very lucrative store.
And does Harem get paid once or five times ?
interesting thought…
she is One conscienceness in Five bodies, so all them should be one entity => (one paycheck)
or, if you consider each body an entity in their own right => 5 pay checks…
but considering she only has ONE body wearing the uniform… one pay check?
I’d say two, since she DOES have to provide for the needs of those 5 bodies seperately. That should be enough for what she needs and with a bit of budgeting most of what she might want, especially if she lives “on base” as it were.
I’d guess that, in accordance with military payroll, Harem would get one paycheck, but five additions of subsidiary forms of pay like, commuted Rations, Uniform Allowances, etc.
If she does the work of 5, she should get paid for same.
Precisely – she counts as 5 for the headcount.
Hmm… Does she need all 5 to be asleep at once each night, or can she get away with always having a body ‘up’? (Physiological vs Psychological effects of sleep…)
each body has separate needs while “active” so they each need to eat and sleep eventually, as for the psychological effects, she’s able to take in 5 Complete, Separate and Independent sensory streams simultaneously, so it’s an interesting question.
…But only one of her has to be in uniform at any given time…
Only when she is on Active Duty
She can do five times the work that anybody else could. If she only gets paid once, then it is perfectly reasonable that her unpaid bodies get to do other things. All of a sudden, we get to see why Harem moonlights for Deus.
I like that thought , a legitimate reason to work for others than Archon , but whom are the other 3 working for ?
Why am I not surprised that her favourite is Rainbow-dash? :)
That’s applejack fool! Get it right
Apple fool is quite yummy. But applejack fool sounds like it would breach Sydney’s code of not eating anything cute!
OMG! At first glance, I read the title of that website with the second “o” as a “c”
I never realized dyslexic how much I am.
Rainbow Dash mousepad, Rainbow Dash poster above the computer (even according to Dave’s commentary), where are you even seeing applejack?
And she slept for two and a half years.
Nah just a few months. That’s how far back this flashback is
Then she slept through her training as a recruit & woke up as a corporal…
In the morning she will have an impression on her face from the pillow and a puddle of drool where her mouth is.
Not to be depressingly topical, but hopefully Leon & Co. have already secured her computer, and a few discreet ARC security folks are hanging around to discourage trouble-makers.
Hmm…a scene with the security detail could both wrap up details and foreshadow book 2.
“Hopefully?”
More like “definitely.” Leon adjusted Sydney’s phone while at the restaurant, but he probably took care of a lot of the other security concerns between the press conference & the dinner. while in the restaurant though, Leon did say that his security setup was only partially completed at that point.
1. holy crap that room
2. Please tell me we’re gonna get the friends and family reactions soon, that’s always one of my favorite parts!
Or the massive amount of fanboys that will be visiting her store
Why just fanboys? o_O
anyone else notice she is still wearing her through mic? i wonder if that could coarse a problem if she talks in her sleep
Sydney asleep: max get him ZZZzzzz
max: Sydney whats wrong whats happening
Sydney: snoooorrrk
max: DAM IT SYDNEY YOU DUN IT AGAIN HOW MEANT TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU…..
They probably route the feed to an automatic monitor if this happens. After the way her day went they would need the assurance nothing is attacking her while she sleeps.
The end of Book one you say???
I look forward to the next three years of book two…..
Seriously would some rich person please just pay Dave to do nothing but make this comic a normal bi weekly full book thing? Oh and give him enough for a support staff too
I totally would if I were fabulously wealthy, but alas I am not.
Crossing fingers for lottery win?
In a way he is. His patreon has $3k a month for donations.
Oh wow $36,000 a year!!! Did you not read up above where he said he’s getting foundation work doneon his house? Dave’s house is falling apart,he’s got a wife and kids to feed and you think $36,000 years not for him to quit whatever else he’s doing and do this comic full-time? G. T. F. Oh.
Behold, the majesty of Halo.
She mixes “adorkable” & “majestic” quite nicely…yes. Not many can pull that off at the same time.
1. Why am I not surprised she’s a pegasister?
2. She still didn’t get the deposit to the bank.
3. You’d think Mom and Dad would be waiting to swarm her.
4. Aaaaand villain attack in 3… 2…
1. Her phone blared out the MLP:FiM theme right after the “fear vomit” episode, while sitting next to Maxima.
2. No, but the deposit is very likely either with the bank or the police. It’ll get there eventually.
3. Her parents already believe her to be fine, and they’re not coming around at 2:41 AM.
4. Sydney would probably have murder on her mind if woken up now. And no court in the land would convict her.
Actually, she got the deposit to the bank perfectly fine, she just didn’t manage to get it to the counter and a teller
I am a bit surprised that wolverine didnt have pride of place on her bed. Thats her future man ya know!
I also wanted to add that, like a few other posters, I am really looking forward to seeing the fallout from this. Her friends and family, the new surge at the store, I wonder if the press will dare try to talk to her considering how her last interview went? Spunk factory isnt technically on the list of 7 words you cant say on tv, but I am pretty sure they will include it for the future. :p
he’s in the basement securely until the wedding. (whimper) please no syd I didn’t mean to tell (whimper)
I notice that the Wolverine plushie is still within fairly easy reach from the bed…interpret that as you will.
At least the Hugh Jackman poster on the wall above the plushie goes well with it.
I seriously hoped the orbs would glow each time she snored loudly.
Two observations:
1. Sydney has a very firm bed.
2. Sydney probably has $500+ flex frames. I’m taking into account that she has a nice new car, and has been on a nice vacation recently, so I am assuming that she invested in a nice pair of glasses. I did the same with some FLEX spending at the end of the year, and the glasses look great, are super light, and can take some serious abuse. Worth every penny. Screw the cheap glasses shops with the crappy frames and lenses.
Though the comic book store of which she is co-owner was bleeding red ink during the flashback. Both glasses and car could have been purchased during more prosperous times, but her willingness to eat out implies she’s not hurting financially.
If the dishes she gets are mostly noodles and hot sauce they may not cost that much.
You saying that Sydney weighs more than she looks? o_O
Well, considering that Sydney is a fictional character that exists as an electronic image on a computer screen, I’s say she doesn’t weigh much more than a few trillion electrons…