Look at that, she’s effortlessly stopping crime already, the true mark of a hero.
Why would that stuff even be legal to sell if it’s that strong? I mean seriously, you could take hostages with it. “If I see one cop, I’m adding condiments to my poppadoms!” It just seems a bit silly to me.
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I’m thinking her tolerance of heat in food may be an early indicator of high pain tolerance — maybe granted by the contents of her little parcel.
Gotta wonder if there’ll be a hold-up when she goes to drop the earnings at the bank. It’d be a classic reveal for her powers.
One thing’s for sure, if there is a super-villain that fights with capsacin, Syd will be immune to his attacks.
You don’t remember the Condiment King from Batman?
actually resistance to capsaicin has absolutely nothing to do with pain tolerance, gender, age, toughness, etc.
It is a neuro-agent that binds to your nerves neuro-receptors and (falsely) tells them that they are on fire, and in pain. It does so to mammalian nerves but not avian nerves. It evolved in desert peppers which were of necessity very small due to lack of nutrients for the plant. A single mammal would clear and entire bush’s worth of seasonal fruit in a single meal, the pass them all out in one lump. Meaning most likely no reproduction that season. While limiting it to avians means dozens of birds spread the seeds far and wide.
Your body treats it as a neurotoxin, evoking systems in place to defend against venums/toxins and to calibrate the gain on your relevant nerves. The more of it you are exposed to, the less sensitive your nerve cells become to it, permanently. A “tough” person eating lots of capsaicisin is simply not feeling it because their nerves have recalibrated to not feel it. Receptors can either be permanantly desensitized (capsaicin & insulin) or temporary (caffeine, which takes about a week for complete desensitization and about a week of abstaining for resetting to your default levels). Capsaicin just happens to be in the type that become permanently desensitized.
caffeine takes about a week of abstaining to reset to default levels you say?
I Tried For A Month And I Still Was Immune.
when you taste spice your tongue is processing PAIN so yea it actually is
I love how she pulled her bangs up before digging in
That came about simply because I started drawing her leaning over to eat and her hair was getting in the way, and I thought “if only there was some way she could keep her hair from getting in the way… hang on…”
Invention, mothered by necessity.
The father is Angus McGuyver, if you didn’t already know.
My sister also puts her hair up to eat.
yeah me too, but i don’t have bangs, they look wierd on a long-haired male.
not really i have friend who have bangs male
Leewei… that seems too obvious.
I’m hoping for a surprise.
Not to spoil anything, but something can happen at the bank and we can the story moving, or nothing can happen at the bank. It may not be… quite what you expect though.
Ahh, the Scoville scale of spiciness.
Reminds me of that chilli some african people only dip in this bigass pot for a second, then hang the rest on a fence as an elephant deterrent.
And it still makes you think you’ve swallowed a nuke.
Also? MRS B. IS PYRO!
That pepper is called the Bhut Jolokia-Ghost Pepper. What she might like to try is some sauce from this site https://www.hotsaucemall.com/ They have some as high as 7.1 million Scoville units.
Your telling me. I had one of those once… Or tried to. Was in africa with some family friends, and saw them on the fence. Said friend said they were good to eat, so took a bite. I did not talk to him the rest of the day and most of the next.
You know I found it odd when Sydney originally pulled up to this place and was the only car around, but after this strip it’s clear to me that all the other patrons pay their checks and race as far away as possible when they see Sydney’s car pull in.
Actually it’s cause I’m no good at drawing cars and they’re tedious and time consuming, but yeah, let’s go with that.
If you draw 30% of decor undetailled/less detailed, but post updates 5% more often, it’s totally worth it. Unless of course that peculiar decor has comedic/dramatic value. Like in old cartoons where one bush is somewhat off color because of technical limitations and that’s how we know someone is hiding behind it before it’s hinted at in any other way. And of course if you can draw Sydney fast then you can draw her as a devil on one shoulder and a mexican cook on the other (even Sydney-devil is afraid of that one!) and that hides much decor.
Well you could draw 1 generic car then just resize or rotate each one till you have however many you need color or customize as needed. It’s what all the big animators do.
biological attack!, i think that stuff is worse than nova 6!
OH NO! I’m from germany, and the word “maced” is the first one in the comic series i don’t understand!
But even if I don’t get the word, I know what it HAS TO mean, according to the next pictures XD
And Sydney… looks kinda gross when her food is too hot^^ But you’re type of drawing is AWESOME!
Mace is a brand of tear gas. It’s used to incapacitate crowds.
Pepperspray is different, but the act of macing is the act of spraying a strong irritant into the face of an adversary, and generally includes the use of pepperspray.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_%28spray%29
Mace is the brand-name for pepper spray (kind of a hand-held tear gas). I’ve seen people eating ridiculously hot foods, and they tend to having running noses like that. It’s pretty disgusting, and amazes me why people would want to do that to themselves.
That being said, this is a good strip. Nice use of shading and detail work, although I would recommend going back in later and adding in more cars.
With some people, it’s the best way they know of to really clear the sinuses, get an actual working sense of smell for at least a couple of minutes, and receive an adrenalin rush into the bargain. Works better than Haagen-Dazs for an instant pick-me-up.
I have a family history of sinus problems, and the day my Army basic training unit went through the gas chamber (many a year ago) was the best I had ever breathed in my life.
Here is an example on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKzAvyaYYb8
Yes it is VERY disgusting, but the oxygen afterwards makes up for it.
Wie der verlinkte Wiki-Artikel schon erwähnt, ist das Original in den meisten Ländern verboten. Deutschland gehört soweit ich weiss dazu, bei der Schweiz weiss ich, dass er verboten ist. (Sportschütze zu sein bringt irgendwie eine gewisse Kenntnis des Waffengesetzes mit sich. XD )
Wie aber auch erwähnt hat sich “to mace so.” inzwischen als Verb eingebürgert, dass den Einsatz jeglicher Art solchen Selbstverteidigungssprays gegen eine Person beschreibt.
Thanks, glad you’re enjoying it so far.
Sydney Scoville?! That explains a lot.
Yeah that’s actually a coincidence, her name came from my proclivity for alliteration, and the spicy food jokes, besides being moderately amusing, were originally a set up for a few things later. It was just serendipity that it worked out the way it did.
I could claim it was all planned but it’s more amusing to me how things work out in the course of a writing project.
So Sydney’s eating habits borderline a war crime?
I hate to see what happens if she makes chili… that could be used as an interrogation method.
She’s probably banned from making chili by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
It’s a little known fact her father was from Three Mile Island. And the meltdown there actually took place during the church chili cookoff. ;)
Grrr forgot, no edit. Just thought the father bit was funny. No banhammer please!
Hah hah don’t worry, I’m not a marketing and/or PR department. No bans for potentially mis-timed or politically incorrect comments. I’m sure it’ll happen in the comic itself from time to time.
Chili-heads rock-out! I’ve had my face look like that before. Quite fun really.
For a minute as I was reading and scrolling down I thought I was going to see a car crash.
Oh by the way I was just sent the grrl power anime via netflix.
I actually considered a panel with a Simpsons-like crash and explosion, but I figured it’d be better to get on with the story.
Ya I bet people are wanting more crime fighting or some actual super hero stuff to happen. I know I am.
You and me both. I wish I could draw/post faster. At some point I’d like to think that I’ll speed up that I’ll be able to post 2 a week. I’ve finally found a program that seems to decent for helping with backgrounds. Illustrator CS5 has a perspective grid that I accidentally discovered the other day, so I spent part of the weekend learning how to use that. I was doing perspective by creating a layer and manually setting a vanishing point placing lines radiating out from there, which is time consuming and not tremendously accurate, so the Illustrator tool should speed me up just a bit. Every little thing helps.
You should try xara it is a nice graphics program. Saves me a lot of time when making images for my 2 sites.
My kinda grrl!
That’s one huge restaurant.
It’s obviously part of a strip center, or ‘mini-mall’ if you prefer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
Yes, that’s the joke for those that do not get it.
LOL.
https://www.hotsauce.com/16-Million-PURE-Capsaicin-Crystals-1-0ml-p/hsc-16-million-crystals1.0.htm?click=2704
This is nice but to hot for even me to take pure.
LOL Oh dave you had my sides spliting and then you slayed me yet again with your comment about the the page
Well I know you said last week that this wasn’t based on a real place, but you did use the name of the Thai place down the road from me.
I think there’s a limited pool of names for Asian restaurants. There was a place I used to get takeout from all the time but I lost their number, I tried to look it up, thinking the name was something like “Chopsticks” but there were literally 5 places within 10 miles of me named Chopsticks, Chopstick, Chopstix, Mr. Chopstick, etc. I had to drive down there and place my order then wait. Turns out the place was named “Wok and Roll” :P
I’ve been to a Wok and Roll hehe. My favorite Thai place is called “Thai 101”
Duhh! I just realized the last name of Syndey. Can’t believe I’m that dumb XD
heh i only just now realized it just now, so many weeks later
hehe. has her worried for later…
anyway, duh, Scoville could you make that anymore obvious….
also, I dunno if any one else noticed it yet, but I like the profile picture shuffler you have at the top there. ‘cept Harem’s and Peggy’s don’t change…
Yeah that’s a little php rotator I found. Each one pulls from a folder of images. I just don’t have many other pictures of the characters I haven’t introduced yet though.
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Just added two more of Harem.
Heh, going to add panel four to Halo’s folder of images?
Heh heh I should.
I am just aching to see a crossover between this and Leftover Soup, now.
TWO PEPPER ENTER
ONE PEPPER LEAVE
That’s a pretty funny strip. I’ll have to add it to my… Arrg! There’s nothing in the RSS feed. >:(
I am curious as to where people are getting all this spoiler info? Please tell me?
What do you mean? There’s some spoiler info in the cast page.
Sorry to post again so soon Dave but I thought you like to know those silly Ghost Peppers Have been dethroned Officially. And these Viper Pepper Taste Good! Then you begin to scream. But they actually have a good flavor.
I Still have No idea of that chocolate thing I ate once but it was hotter still.
https://www.chilefoundry.co.uk/2011/03/08/naga-viper-seeds-availability/
while(1)
{
sexyness–;
hotness++;
}
// shouldn’t that be
sexyness–; // ?
nevermind I just saw for myself it eats the double minus
trying quadruple minus here
test—-;
aw it ^^%$%$^$%ed it in yet another “feature”. So much for speaking in source code.
Does the code tag not work?
while(1){
sexyness - -;
hotness++;
}
Congrats nuke-breath! You may inadvertantly have created 3 super villains/heroes using the “toxic waste random unreplicable accident” route.
She’s also entitled to roll 1D6 plot hooks on the Random Contrivance Table.
Nuke-breath is her secret new Super power !
That sadly not that big a Secret.
I wonder if this could cause her secret ID to be revealed ?
Halo ” How did you discover my secret ID as Sydney Scoville? Doctor Evil!”
Doctor Evil “Here Hint and a MINT !!!”
Halo”What?”
Doctor Evil”No really take it I could smell your breath from across the state!!”
Halo “I not going to ”
Maxima ” TAKE THE DQ!#ED MINT!”
LOL
LOL
Panel 2 was very well done. I have not had no slow down problems lately on this site. I guess the probelm is fixed.
Great. That’s a good thing cause traffic has picked up quite a bit in the last month or two. Nothing to crow about compared to anyone advertising on Project Wonderful but I’m getting there.
Why are you keeping me from my sweet and delicate Anvil?? Bring my beloved!!
On a slightly more sane note: FANTASTIC comic. Sydney reminds me of a crazy little blonde chick I used to know that was almost excessively animated and her cravings for hot and/or spicey food often times surpassed the boundaries of masochistic. Sweet girl tho. I have high hopes for Sydney as a person and character, not just as a superheroine. I see nothing but good things in you and your comics future and wish good things for the whole on the aside.
Back to crazy: Bring out the tender and sublime blossom that is the fair maiden Anvil!!
Peace and best wishes. I will be reading and spreading the word.
Thanks I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
Let’s see, we’ll meet Maxima in a few strips, then after that pretty much the rest of the team, so hang in there. In the meantime, here’s a new picture of Anvil I did for an ad banner. Going to see what traction I get with the cheesecake angle. Of course, people might be disappointed if they click on that and all they get is Sydney. :)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pw_160x600_anvil.jpg
I don’t know. Syd in a bikini sounds cute.
Well played sir.
I did follow the cheese cake ad here, and not disappointed so far. I’d like to meet someone with the heat tolerance Sydney has!
Anvil, fair!? Fair means pale.
It can also means pleasing or attractive.
Daves insanity sauce sold one that was 6 million scovals (aptly named 6 million reserve) cost 100 bucks for an ounce and required a legal document be signed that you’d only use it on food because it’s 3 times stonger than police grade MACE
Dave himself said it tastes like hitting your tounge with a hammer
It Weird’s me out that I would love to find a woman to spent my life with,just like her.
I am a chili head, I eat habanero peppers the way others eat jalapenos, Sydney and I would render the area uninhabitable. I make a chili so hot, people swear the water in the toilet turns to steam when they use it.
LOL bio-logical attacks – like there are bio-illogical attacks ;-)
NOOO! girls don’t poop, don’t destroy the illusion!
dave’s insanity sauce sold a spcial sauce that you had to sign legally binding document saying you’d only use it as a food additive because it was something like 3 times stronger than police grade mace
called 6 million reserve (after it’s scoval score)
ahh damn i already posted that that will tech me to re read a comic page
I tried that Dave’s Insanity that Xoer mentioned above. A quarter-teaspoon in a two-gallon vat of my spicy spaghetti sauce rendered it inedible — and I’m a guy who downs Tabasco classic sauce like most people would catsup.
It does make you wonder why that stuff is legal. I’m not promoting a nanny state or anything, but when you think of the stupid crap that has been outlawed that has way less potential for mayhem it makes you wonder.
oh I’m in RUT! that’s my kind of grrl! sadly I’m already hitched, don’t to the whole multiple wives thing and she’s a cartoon…SAFE. only the third person that could enjoy mudbugs the way I make them.
PLEASE tell me these sauces are real and where I can find them!!!! SO-O-O W-A-A-A-A-A-A-N-T!!!!
The three hottest ones I made up, sorry, though I’m sure there are plenty of equivalents out there.
Wait, there is actually a hot sauce named “Pain 100%”?
Yeah, I’ve only seen it at one store but I imagine it’s available online.
I don’t know if you’re still looking for a source, or if you already know about them, but you could try http://www.pepperpalace.com – the only retail space for them I know of is in MoA; otherwise, online. Nice store, though they didn’t have the BBQ sauce I was looking for. :)
A friend of mine is bringing some Ghost Peppers from his folks.
Thinking maybe half them and do some nice bacon and cream cheese stuffing, then throw them on the grill. ;P
I have a dozen dried ghost chili’s. I want to see if I can get the seeds to sprout and set up a hydroponics rig to grow them in and make hot sauce out of them. However there is a new “king of the hill” the T Butch Trinidad Scorpion, 1.45 million Scovilles, and as of June 2011, hottest pepper on earth, new hybrid. LOVE to get seeds of THAT!
12 ghost chilis
4 habañeros
4 jalapeños
1 can chipotles in adobo,
12 Fresno chilis (for color)
1 1/2 head roasted garlic
1 ping red wine vinegar
Under broiler, roast all the chilis till slightly blacked (except the canned ones) and slip the skins off. Remove seeds and veins, chop fine.
Place all in a medium sauce pan and bring to boil, reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer all for 2 hours
salt and pepper to taste
strain through fine sieve into a glass bottle with a shaker top. O baby did this work GOOD! I bet Sydney would love it.
I assume you need some sort of titanium cauldron to cook that in?
Nope, stainless steel worked just find (just do NOT use aluminum or copper!)
Your Ms. B kind of looks like a smaller Asian version of Meriom Spinster from Disney’s Recess. You’re winning.
if it’s too spicy it’ll work with the acid in your stomach to start eating into the lining of your stomach
also before it gets there it might damage your throat
People have actually confused really hot sauce with a biological attack before. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7025782.stm
Art imitates life?
I’m glad the article included how to make the “chemical attack” hot sauce, I plan to try it. ;-)
I’m thinking that is decidedly NOT how you use chopsticks. Sorta strange for someone who is supposedly a regular at an asian restaurant to not know that (i.e. Sydney)
That may not be the ‘real’ way, but that’s how I hold them. Top one kind of like a pencil and the bottom one wedged under the thumb and controlled by the tip of the ring finger.
I believe, by your description, the use is correct, but I think the drawing, from an angle most of us have never seen ourselves using chopsticks from, doesn’t quite look like what we expect. Not sure it’s drawn right or wrong, I think that is a matter of interpretation, but it’s close enough. I know that what you describe how you use them is correct, because of all the stares I get at Asian restaurants since the technique I use is dead wrong, but VERY effective. I go with one held between index and thumb resting on the web between, the other between ring and middle, going under the middle to across the top of the index, and that is the mobile stick. I thought, long ago, I was getting stares because of this “round eye” being so good with them. Recently I learned the correct, but for me awkward way, and am retroactively embarrassed. But not enough to change how I use them ;-)
Here’s an image of the “correct” usage. I think this is what you described, and drew from a strange angle.