Grrl Power #337 – Superheroines in the shower
Lots to talk about on this page. I’ll start off by pointing out that I did not forget Sydney’s glasses, she took them off to run.
It’s fair to say Amorphous and Achilles were given more laps to run than Sydney. I’m not sure how many were assigned, but do I remember before I started getting into shape, running even halfway around one of those tracks (which are 400m or just under 1/4 mile) without stopping to catch my breath would be pretty much impossible. Also I’d get shin splints and cramps in my side. (I was very out of shape) Nowadays I could probably do 2, maybe 3 laps even though I don’t do a lot of aerobic exercise in the gym. Sydney’s only slightly better off that I was given her hyperactivity and the fact that she probably weighs half what I did, but in any case, Peggy’s not trying to kill her, just exhaust some sense into her.
When I originally envisioned Grrl Power, the plan was to have a lot of scenes in the showers because I thought that would be fun to draw. Just like the lounge area with the red couch is a recurring set, I’d have all sorts of conversations that don’t necessarily have anything to do with showering take place in the showers. I also planned putting in a lot more dirty humor in general. What I didn’t plan on was since Sydney is the main character, the tone of the comic was largely set by her early on, and while she’s not a prude, she is body conscious (at least around a bunch of superheroines) and easily flustered when people she perceives as being adults or generally more with it than her start being raunchy, especially if it’s even remotely directed at her.
Anyway, I finally get to draw a shower scene and who knows how often it’ll happen in the future, but the next few pages will be mildly NSFW. Nothing more than what’s been in the comic so far, a little cleavage, sideboob etc. It will just be more glisteny than usual.
Oh and that last panel? The background took so long to draw – I know it looks simple, but laying in all that tile in perspective was a huge pain in the ass – anyway it took so long I went and got a subscription at cgcookie.com and I’m now trying to learn Blender cause dayum, if I could build some sets in 3D (and render them so they don’t look like cheap 3D hopefully) it would save me a ton of time in the long run.
Since a few people are asking, here is a better look at Peggy’s tattoos. SFW and NSFW (obviously you get a better look at her tats on the NSFW version, but you know, nipples.
I found a fun webcomic for you guys. I actually made the time to read through the whole things, so take that as my recommendation. My only complaint as is with all things I like is that there isn’t enough of it. It’s semi-auto bio, maybe more of an “inspired by real life events” affair. Anyway the site is Jennifer Draws Comics. She actually has three comics there, (three discrete comics, not three strips of the same comic) and I’ve only had a chance to check out “Sprinkles” which is the auto-bio one. It’s consistently pretty funny and cutely drawn so give it a read, and optionally check out her other comics if’n you’re inclined. Personally I identified with that first Sprinkles comic; I am chocked full of trivial information, not so great with the practical stuff.
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wear are the girls who are showering keeping their towles ?
Probably on the shelves, or benches behind the camera
but the hooks are on the wall we can see
TOWELS?! BLASPHEMY!!
no one here needs to be ashamed of their bodies!
hiding such treasures would be a grave sin against humanity!
i would rather that lovely flesh not be damaged by not being dryed properly
you forgot the obvious reason.
Heatwave full body massaging them dry.
The wallhooks are for any peepers that get caught.
then they’re going to have to learn how to break the 4th wall to drag us in. However, I don’t consider my enjoyment of the esthetics of the human female form to be a personal “hang-up.”
I drew the hooks then forgot to put towels on them. :/
No, Sydney just grabbed all of them :D
Yeah, sounds & looks about right…
Probably another set of hooks on the other side where we can’t see them ;)
nice touch to show the bruise on sydney’s leg from her rematch with math
Aha. I was about to ask what that was.
There’s a bag on Heatwave’s foot too from Mach the knife’s knife.
Wonder why that wasn’t healed up when they did Sydney’s face after the fight?
Actually Sydney’s wearing makeup over her bruise.
Don’t forget to show them slowly again if Sydney is below the shower.
Looks good keep up the good work
I’m surprised she knows how to do makeup, Tom-boy & all…
She’s a cosplayer. Her regular “makeup” consists of a moisturizer with sunblock. If you go back and look at the pages right after the fight, it’s pretty evident that she went for her big kit of cosplay makeup.
Fair enough. Forgot to take that into account…
That and the bag over Heatwave’s stabbed foot.
I love the attention to detail of consequences in this comic (well initially, he’ll forget when colouring the next comic ;) ).
The part that I’m curious about is how Peggy will handle showering considering her prosthesis. I take mine off when I shower, which leads me to use a bench. Peggy’s a hell of a lot more athletic than I am, though, so she could probably stand on just one leg while cleaning.
There are also prosthetics that are waterproof, though Peggy’s doesn’t look like one of those.
She likely will take it off anyway, although it’s not necessary it’s recommended, stump hygiene and check is pretty important and shower time is good to do that.
The hip high, partial walls between stalls probably make it easy for Peggy to move around without her prosthesis.
Surely there were a couple of special equipped stalls, it’s mandatory in many places.
Right killing her comes later. ;p
What kind of cigarette are you Sydney? Because you just got SMOKED!
why does it have to be a cigarette? lots of things get smoked. ham, salmon, turkey, bacon….
sydney dus like to ham it up on times
BACON!!!
It was Sydney’s goose that got cooked…It’s just that she’s still smoldering a bit from it.
must be salmon then, remember that sydney is otherwise a vegetarian.
LOL, yeah, a vegetarian that likes Chicken Alfredo
https://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eat-and-drink-ethically.gif
What, Chicken Parmesan isn’t vegan?
Is the blonde [part of] Harem, or someone else?
It’s harem. Check out the neckband.
that is hair not a neck band people tend not to wear electronics in the shower even if they are waterproof
Check the comic below the comic and compare it to the main comic. You’ll notice that both women have their neckbands on there, even though they aren’t on in the main comic. And the same with Sydney’s glasses.
well dont i feel stupid
No, you were right: the one in the shower sopping wet is not wearing her choker, and Harem would hardly be the only female blonde in ARCHON
…except that the blonde Harem in the under-comic has visible shampoo suds in her hair.
So how did Varia (who was doing basic training), Heatwave (who was just at lunch) and the blonde Harem (who was not at basic training, as that was white-hair Harem) all manage to wind up in the showers at the same time?
(Yes, I know Sydney asked it below the main comic, but I still want a real answer.)
varia and harem was probably doing scheduled pt they were doing training after all heat wave on the other hand probably got food on her during everything that went on in the lunch hall and is cleaning up after she finished eating
Yeah, but that’s still the wrong Harem. The white-haired Harem body was the one at basic training, and would have been the one doing PT for it, but the blonde Harem body is the one in the shower.
like it matters she probably switched because the one in training had the cell that had not run out of power or something like that
One does not need to be in Basic Training to do PT, plus ALL of Harem’s bodies need to exercize for each to remain in shape. If you check out the Vote Incentive picture featuring the Harems, then you will see that they are all in pretty buff shape.
So, I guess this is the cue for Yorp to start fund-raising for the age-gate again? Or, a “Dabbler’s Cut” run of the books…
sounds good in thery but i dont want dave taking time away from the main comic to make it
You’d think that with the funding they have, they could afford some shower curtains! Even my college had shower curtains!
On the flip side.. imagine a long shower ‘stall’ that’s extra sized, and has 8 shower heads in it. And 30+ people who need to use it in rapid order, getting about 5 minutes each for showering. So every one is lined up outside of it and in a hurry.
Real boot camp sucks worse than this one does.
thats how they do public pools and high school showers were i come from
Heck, it’s the way my church camp did showers. (Things may have changed in the last 25 years, though. They might actually have individual stalls now. Obviously I haven’t been there since I was a teenager.)
From my understanding of the Military, they tend not to give a stuff for expending extra money on prudencey measures like curtains when the current step up works just fine
They don’t. They barely acknowledge the need for separate showers for men and women.
Heh. I just remembered taking a whore’s bath, in the field, right next to a very buff woman. I recall that the conversation was about her bitchin’s tats, and my complete lack of tats (minimize any identifying marks), and exchanging back scrubs, which is pure Heaven when in the field. Being overall pretty scuzzy, neither of us were thinking about sex, just getting less nasty.
Had to google “scuzzy” there :P fair play to you sir.
not universally true – new construction tends to have individual shower stalls. the new gyms at Tyndall & Lakenheath both have stalls. its just that the US military or any government agency will use a facility for MUCH longer than a private businesses will.
Why would there be shower curtains in a public shower?
Great I seem to have accidentally subscribed to the thread.
Why are Brooks feet bagged?
sume people do it at public showers to stop them getting / passing on verrucas
Nasty little gnomes, Verrucas Gnomes.
She got stabbed in the foot just last night.
Last night? OMG! Feels like it was a year ago^^
But thanks for reminding me, i totally forgot that happened.
One of her feet are bagged because you are supposed to keep wounds clean and dry and showers are a good source of bacteria and water.
Source of the injury?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1361
Oh right, that happened. (Over a year ago) -.- I totally forgot about that. Thank you, guys^^
You’re making her run in combat boots/fatigues? that is mean for her first day :-P especially as fresh unbroken in boots tend to blister if you run in them. Or even walk to much.
thats what she will be running/fighting in on the job the more used to it they are the better
Keep in mind that these are military boots; modern military boots are mostly nylon with a Gore-Tex liner, and leather over the toe and heel for extra durability. So the boots are less likely to cause blisters than the work boots / motorcycle boots / cowboy boots you may be familiar with. (I’m not saying they can’t cause blisters, especially if they fit poorly. I’m just saying they’re less likely to cause blisters.)
Also, for those who don’t know, Gore-Tex is designed to allow sweat to evaporate while at the same time being waterproof, to help your feet stay dry. This helps avoid athlete’s foot, trench foot, paddy foot, and other foot syndromes caused by prolonged wet conditions.
Also, we can assume that the boots–as well as the rest of the uniform–is the most top-of-the-line stuff made, and has properties that exceed what we would consider possible, due to the fact that they have supers making the uniforms.
Yep. Definitely higher quality boots than the oldfashioned (but quite tough and durable) leather combat boots I was familiar while doing my mandatory year of service as a grunt in the Norwegian Air Force back in the early 90’s. Those things _definitely_ needed time to be broken in, but when that had bee done they were fantastic. Definitely heavier than modern boots though, so more difficult to run in.
Also, military boots need to have two pairs of socks underneath, especially if you’re running in them. First socks on the feet are the relatively thin, nylon/polyester blend, covered with thicker cotton-blend socks. This reduces the amount of direct rubbing-action on the skin of your feet, reducing the chance of blisters.
As they said in boot camp about it: “Thin against skin, thick over thin.”
Unless they are a lot better than the boots we’re getting, there’s still about a week break in period :) especially as they are for some one who is at the range and training for combat, they should be safety-toed (I’d assume modern ceramics anyway for that.)
They were made by a super-tailor with fashion-ninjas. They presumably fit perfectly without any need for ‘breaking in’…
Word.
I agree – full uniform for a jog is ridiculous. We knew the LT was angry, but this… honestly, boots are not made for running a mile and a half in. Also, unless the uniform is really good at keeping her the same temperature, she should be in t-shirt and shorts, and I don’t care how much Halo burns from the sunlight, little miss vampire girl. She’s going to need the air to take the sweat off – and you’d better believe she’s gonna be sweating.
Thought I’d clarify a bit: If you’re running off-road for not more than two or three miles, they’re okay. For hard pavement pounding, I don’t recommend going faster than a fast (“double time”) march. The reason is because boots usually force a heavy heel strike when running in them. If you *must* run in combat boots, try to shorten your stride and land mid-foot (instead of heel first).
The military is turning away from wearing combat boots for physical training. The only reason they still run short distances in combat boots is so soldiers can get used to the added weight and to get used to wearing them in actual combat situations, because it isn’t good for your feet and shins.
Would Achilles even get tired? What with the can’t be hurt bit, would he build up fatigue toxins?
he would would be my guess lactic acid is produced when there is not enough oxygen for the energy needed to maintain movement as such it would build up and would still need the oxygen debt to be payed before it would disapait the only difference would be that i don’t think it would damage him like it would regular people and im not shough whether he would feel it
Achilese doesn’t need to breathe though. So he can’t run out of oxygen, even on a cellular level. He isn’t just invincible, as the discussion last page pointed out, he’s unchangeable.
So I guess the punishment is boredom then?
Yes, which is why he’s trying to make a game of it and get attention with his Tom Cruise impersonation. The only real way to punish Achilles is to bore the crap out of him.
I’d say that Achilles doesn’t get fatigued. Even if his body produces fatigue toxins (which I doubt), they can’t hurt him…They would just get flushed out of his his system by his bloodstream just as normal people do, but they wouldn’t have any negative effect on him.
At the core of things this is the response to Ironrogue’s question about why the two of them are being punished when Sydney’s the one who was making the primary ruckus.
It may be the same activity, but it’s barely a punishment for Amorphous, and nothing really punishes Achilles.
I suppose I can’t begrudge you some indulgence in the showers, I know there would be plenty of locker room shenanigans on the boys side if I were to make a superhero comic XD
Also, I really like that fifth panel. The wet hair effect is done really well and it just looks nice. Sydney’s head is maybe a big big, but she’s half-chibi anyway.
I try and be an equal opportunity offender, so expect at least a glimpse in to the boys’ shower. :)
I approve of this. I approve of this greatly.
That would only be fair to the distaff readers of your comic after all. You’ve already done two scenes in the ladies’ shower & only one scene with Harem pulling a Half-Monte on the guys so far. You’ll have to pick up the pace to really be an “equal opportunity” offender.
no there was a scene in the guys locker room with math staring at a poster
That scene (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/933) was in the men’s locker room, not in the shower. Therefore, I’m still correct in saying that there’s been no “shower scene” with the guys.
Lol, don’t worry about it man, I know you’re good for it.
Just try and squeeze Vance in on the boy’s side somewhere and I’ll be an extra-happy camper ;)
I don’t think Vance would take showers or baths. All he’d have to do is remove his outer covering & toss it into the laundry…
O.o
New question for Dave: Does Vance shrink in the wash? Is he dryer-safe?
If this had been an actual run, we would be seeing all that pasta/anti-pasta exploding all over the track. Running after a heavy meal sucks…
Not everyone pukes when they run after eating
And yet, as I was reading this page, I was reminded of that scene in the first Police Academy film.
“I want you to make cadet Mahoney run until he pukes, then I want you to make him run some more!”
Thank goodness, Peggy chose to be a bit nicer than Lt. Harris was.
Exactly! I’ve never had a problem with the whole exercise-after-eating thing, for many years I thought it was a myth.
If they’re used to running, then you’re right. Most people new to running, highly likely to lose said lunch.
remember, Sydney does have training with Scuba diving. you do need to be in fair shape to do that properly.
Which has nothing to do with whether she vomits after she runs or not. Just pointing that out.
Yep, if I exercise after a heavy meal I can expect a painful stitch but don’t feel the need to puke.
It’s all about when and how much you eat and drink. If you eat too soon before working out, stress causes the body to shunt blood away from your digestive system, and this might cause vomiting.
On the other hand, if you try to run on an empty stomach, this can lead to hypoglycemia… and this might cause vomiting.
Overexertion can cause vomiting because your body is emptying out liquids so it can absorb the buildup of acid that occurs. So if you drink too much… this might cause vomiting.
On the other hand, if you don’t drink enough, you might end up dehydrated… which might cause vomiting.
There’s a specific list of things you can do to avoid vomiting during or after running. Stay hydrated before, during and after running by drinking small sips of water at a time; avoid over-hydration. Eat smaller meals 2 to 4 hours before running to make sure you have enough fuel, but are giving your body enough time for digestion. If you forget to eat, consuming a small snack at least 30 minutes before running should not cause a problem.
If you start to feel nausea while running, slow down. Rest for a moment until the feeling of nausea goes away. Pace yourself and don’t push yourself to the point of vomiting. Avoid eating foods and substances that can irritate your intestinal tract, including caffeine, alcohol, spices, artificial sweeteners, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen.
The reason I know all this? Air force fitness regimen. You have to be able to run 1.5 miles (that’s six laps around the track), and do as many sit-ups and pull-ups as possible in one minute. You get a number of points based on how long it took you to do the run, and how many sit-ups and push-ups you were able to do. You get a maximum of 20 points for the sit-ups, 20 points for push-ups, 60 points for the run, and up to 10 points for an abdominal circumference of 35 inches or less. You have to get a total of at least 75 points.
The target numbers are approx. 13 minutes to run 1.5 miles, 44 push-ups in one minute, 46 sit-ups in one minute, and an abdominal circumference of 37 inches or less. You get maximum points for 67 or more push-ups, 58 or more sit-ups, and completing the run in 9:12 or less.
If your run takes more than 13 minutes and 36 seconds, or your abdominal circumference is over 39 inches, or you do less than 33 push-ups or less than 42 sit-ups in one minute, you automatically fail.
(Note: These are the numbers for men under the age of 30. Age and gender is taken into account, so the standards for someone my age are lower.)
Air Force PT, so you look good at the business meetings.
Damn straight! :-D
Dayum. I can probably do the sit-ups in time, maybe run the mile… eventually, but 67 push-ups? Perhaps 25, but no more in one sitting (at least for now).
Hats off to you, sir.
Well, let’s face it. In the Air Force, physical training is not really about raw physical athleticism, at least not for the pilots. For them, it’s “is your body, especially your heart and lungs, healthy enough to handle the extra stress put on it by high-G?” (and to a lesser extent, “are you going to be able to fit into your flight suit?”)
Also, you wouldn’t actually have to do 67 push-ups… the average is 44, and the minimum required to pass is 33. You’d only try to do 67 if you were deliberately trying for the highest possible score. Remember, you need 75 points (out of a possible 100), so you could get away with doing the minimum number of push-ups if you could make up the points somewhere else (by doing more sit-ups, or completing the 1.5-mile run in a shorter time.)
For the record, I did about 50 sit-ups and about 35 push-ups, and finished the 1.5-mile run in a little under 12 minutes… but that was more than 20 years ago.
damn normally managed 35-40 push ups first minute 15-25 second minute 45-50 sit ups first minute 20-25 second 7:45 first mile 8:00-8:15 second mile and staying under body fat limits (waist size was part of calculating but age height and neck size mattered too). max time for 2 mile 16:30 so one needed an 8 minute mile or 4 minute each half so 4*3= 12 minutes …… and I was always considered weak at push ups.
Given that Harem swiped Dabbler’s tickle laser earlier. This seems as much like foreshadowing as a callback.
We didn’t actually see her take the tickle laser, did we? All we saw was a suspiciously close hand. Besides, doesn’t all of Dabbler’s gadgets teleport away when she lets go of them? Harem may not have even been able to steal the thing . . . unless maybe the teleport gadget had yet to be installed in the tickle laser.
Not only that, but in order for Harem to have swiped it, you’d have to assume that Dabbler is air-headed enough to not notice that the device she’s been working on for days has suddenly vanished.
Days? Nah, the idea just occurred to her after the fight yesterday. That’s just this mornings “not be too bored” work.
@Ignoble, while Dabbles told the press that her gadgets auto-teleport after leaving her hand, does that necessarily have to be the truth? I mean, there’s no reason she couldn’t have tossed the mini railgun and then teleported it back to the lab, is there? Could just be a con-job to discourage sticky fingered inquisitive types. *cough*Harem*cough*
You may be right. After all, when her sword got knocked out of her hand, it didn’t just vanish. Instead, it ended up stuck in that tree Vehemence was standing beside.
Then again, her sword doesn’t exactly qualify as “technology beyond current Earth capabilities”, either. We’ve been making swords for thousands of years… they’re just not made out of whatever hers is made out of. To the casual observer, though, it’s just another sword, so there’s no need to have an auto-teleport built into it, unless she’s afraid a scientist will get his hands on it and try to analyze it. On the other hand, her mini-railgun is far beyond what we’re capable of.
It might be feasible to build a man-portable railgun … someone has built one that is not quite man-portable yet, and so far it’s only about 5.6 kJ (kilojoules). Hers is obviously far more powerful than that, and far more portable. For comparison, the Office of Naval Research has built one capable of 33 mJ (megajoules). I think they’re planning to begin full-scale tests, mounting it on one of our Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, within the next year or two.
Let me put some perspective on that. Let’s say you had a one-ton (907.2 kg) truck moving at 100 miles per hour (160.9 kph). That’s one megajoule. This railgun has at least 33 times as much power. I’m not sure what the weight of the projectile is, but I do know it has a range of about 110 miles (177 km), at a speed exceeding Mach 6 (~7,170 kph).
Dabbler’s mini-railgun is nowhere near that, but undoubtedly more than the DIY 5.6 kJ railgun that I mentioned, which puts it beyond our current tech level.
Also, her sword wasn’t teleported in, it was magic’d in.
Let’s not forget that Dabbler’s gun doesn’t have enough recoil to throw her back a mile or so either. She has some type of compensator to allow her to fire something with that much force.
Yeah, but it’s still far beyond our current capabilities even without the compensator, which is why I didn’t mention it.
Please tell me there’s gonna be a Halloween Special Background where Peggy is a totally kick-ass Pirate…. the only other question is…what would everyone else be dressed as?
Her crew?
yeah like the whole Grrl Power cast… what Halloween costumes would fit their personalities/looks best.
I want to say “Tavern Wench” for Anvil… but that could more for my own reasons than because of her personality :P That said I do think she would like the chance to be in a dress and not feel like she’s going to be stared at. Ya know because of how young she was when she got big and strong. I kind of get the idea she didn’t get to do many “girly” things like. Doubt she’d let that keep her down but we’ve all got things we wish we’d done or had the chance to do. Halloween could giver her just that option
Dressed?
verb
past tense: dressed; past participle: dressed
1.
put on one’s clothes.
“Graham showered and dressed quickly”
synonyms: put on clothes, clothe oneself, get dressed
“he dressed quickly”
2.
treat or prepare (something) in a certain way, in particular.
Hmm, Anvil is always having problems. Maybe a black Big Barda, who is supposed to actually be 7 feet tall.
Nice to see that Heatwave is wearing a plastic boot for her injury
Don’t feel too self conscious Sydney, Peggy is right beside you
Wouldn’t that make her more self-conscious? Peggy is by far the hottest thing in there!
The face of Sydney on the third panel…
Priceless
Actually, I also kind of like the way DaveB drew the light trails behind the orbs. Maybe it’s just me, but it makes it look like even the orbs are as exhausted as poor Sydney.
Actually, that does make sense. Much of what the orbs do depends on Sydney’s mental impulses…What she’s thinking (even right down to “reflexive” impulses) is translated into orb-behavior. Since Sydney’s mind is currently occupied with the feeling of physical exhaustion, the orbs will seem to act exhausted. So the orbs appear to be figuratively “dragging themselves along.”
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Yorp hasn’t shown up yet, but I’d think her impression of a panting dog would tickle his fancy.
Don’t see why Sydney is complaining. She’s not wearing her glasses, so her shower buddies are all blurry. BTW, where are her glasses when she is running? I always wore my glasses when I ran. And when is Sydney going to get her first pair of birth-control glasses?
She’s near-sighted, not blind (and based on the way she wears them low on her nose so she can look over the top, I’d say she probably only needs them for reading). DaveB specifically said she took them off to run.
If she were near-sighted, she explicitly would *not* need them for reading, but for everything else. I’m near-sighted, and whenever I want to read or use my phone, the glasses come off. If Sydney were far-sighted, having the glasses slung low on the nose would make perfect sense.
Oops… you’re right. My bad.
Other way round. If you are near-sighted (like me, 20/400 vision or at least I was until I started needing bi-focals) you can see up close just fine without glasses. But anything at a distance is blurry.
I’m not sure how I made that mistake. My mother is 84 years old… she thinks she’s slightly near-sighted and needs bi-focals, but the eye doctor tells me that ever since her cataract surgery she’s almost 20/20. I’m 45 and starting to get slightly near-sighted; I can tell because it takes me longer to get my eyes to focus on really small print (and I have to use brighter light or hold it closer to my face).
Again, that is FAR sighted. People get more far-sighted as they age. If you are near-sighted, you can see things near clear. If you are far-sighted you can see things far away, but not close up.
When I was in the exercising mood, I would take my glasses off for anything that involved a lot of running, football, soccer etc. Of course for baseball or tennis, glasses on. For weight lifting, push-ups, sit-ups glasses off again.
Either way, you’re still making the point I was trying to make, that Sydney doesn’t need her glasses to run. She’d probably have to be almost legally blind to need them on the track.
I am not legally blind, nowhere near, but I do like to see where I am going in a crisp and clear fashion. I will accept, though, that Sydney’s glass are rather ill fitting, and so she took them off before they simply bounced off of her nose and she stepped on them. She may want to look into some prescription sports glasses.
military standard if you need glasses in normal daily operation you will wear them at PT, if you just need them on for a specific task AKA don’t wear them to drive or at meals or to walk down the hall type you don’t need to wear them at PT.
BTW, brionl, maybe I worded it wrong, but are you telling me that not being able to read street signs from as far away as I used to, or having to hold a book even *closer* to my eyes, is far sightedness?
I’m not sure that’s how it works. I don’t think far-sightedness means get CLOSER. If that’s far-sightedness, then I’ve been wrong about the difference between near-sighted and far-sighted for the last few decades and nobody’s corrected me.
Considering the individuality that is allowed in ARC, and the fact that Arianna wants all the supers to be marketable, putting birth-control glasses on Sydney is not something I would ever see happening.
Okay, Sydney is out of shape, but she can’t be totally without earlier training, can she? She did go SCUBA diving at one point and I seem to remember that they don’t just hand out even rental kits to would-be divers without making sure they have some competence at least.
Come to think of it, she did say she took diving classes. She must have done some swimming. And that is really a very decent kind of workout.
While some degree of fitness is required for taking diving classes, and while swimming does indeed burn a lot of calories, distance running is still a very different type of workout.
That’s because not all your diving will be the same – water and weather conditions vary from dive to dive and even from the beginning to the end of some dives. You may be required to maneuver through strong currents to reach your dive site or perform a long surface swim at the end of a dive, or you might get caught in a sudden riptide. Divers need to be able to perform unexpected strenuous physical tasks. Compare that to running on a track. There’s nothing really “unexpected” like there is on a dive.
Also, most of the “unexpected strenuous physical tasks” while diving tend to be of short duration, whereas long-distance running is about prolonged activity.
yes but its also a very different workout i for example cant run far without being extremely out of breath within 5 minutes but i can swim lap after lap for an hour and a harf and be fine.
and sum places will hand out scuba gear to anyone. i was on holiday once and went scuba diving in the sea after a 20 minute talk having never done it befor. (and it was amazing)
I live with a swimmer- have for the past 23 years. And I’ll tell you that the ability to swim like a shark doesn’t translate to running. That’s a totally different set of muscles, being used in a totally different way.
I’m most alarmed at what they are showering in. Water isn’t baby blue like that.
Windex perhaps? :p
No, it can’t be Windex. They’re all naked… Windex is supposed to keep you from streaking.
*quietly rolls up a newspaper*
*eyes the rolled-up newspaper warily*
*whap* while MSpears is paying attention to catch.
*whapwhapwhapwhap*
*Just sits back & chuckles evilly at the show…* 3XD
Also, Windex contains Ammonia D. They don’t need Windex for that because there’s already more than a few double-D’s in the showers.
Arright! This is the joke police! Put down the quips and come out with your hands up! You are under arrest for causing extensive head injuries to innocent bystanders who were compelled to facepalm themselves forcefully when they read that! :D
I refuse to comply. I am not legally responsible for the actions of others that result in self-injury.
O.o
All you Windex abusers just got shined!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikbc1dY2kM
‘Nuff said, True Believers.”
Could be treated with a disinfectant or something.
“three discrete comics”
It is a judgment upon the Internet that my brain at first thought that the wrong word was used, because the wrong word is always used on the Internet. I actually had a brief mental stutter, there. Well played.
Your efforts and attention to detail in the background tilework and perspective are very much appreciated on this page Dave!
As for setting up your environments in blender, wouldn’t tracing / painting your backgrounds in your current artstyle over the top of a quick render give you the benefits of accurate perspective / consistent geometry without it looking like cheap 3d? Not sure how much time you’d actually save doing it that way but maybe its an option to consider.
Potentially- but in that sort of work, what ends up happening is that you’re putting in about the same amount of work- you don’t have to set up the perspectives or outlines, but you still need to put in all the fiddly details, etc. etc.
@Dave, what I’d suggest (as someone who’s been learning Blender for the better part of 5 years) is figuring out the basics of modeling, then focusing your research on UV mapping and Materials systems. You won’t need to do much Texturing (and Textures are discreet from Materials) in this sort of style, but you want things like specularity and subsurface scattering and reflectivity to be correct (though actually, you’ll probably want to do reflections by hand, so you probably don’t want that on- instead, just use Specularity to ‘fake’ shinyness).
But figure out how to make your environments and models, learn how to “Export UV Layout”, use that UV layout to draw in your textures and stuff (the tiles, etc.), then put that on your models (if you do it right, you won’t need to fiddle with the UV mapping at all- just ‘plug n’ play’, so to speak). Also, learn the basics of Rendering- camera angles, aperture sizes, focal points, etc.
dave, i don’t think the water works quite like that. (unless its something else)
it is not supposed to make her hair green in the panel 5.
also, could be worse sydney, there are walls at least. That’s something.
That’s not water, it’s some kind of blue powerade/Gatorade from their universe
The bottle’s label says Joule Juice, so I’m betting it’s some kind of sports drink.
I’m wondering about that track they had to run around,is it a parade ground or something?
Also I’m wondering if the author is a fan of those women in prison movies,unless Peggy tells Sydney to think that way.
I don’t read this comic for the cheesecake, but it is appreciated.
Even so, there’s enough cheesecake in this comic that staying on a diet is impossible.
…Take notice that this is NOT a complaint…
I cant help but think Peggy is a real bicth myself, for getting Achilles (who were innocently eating his food) and Mr Amorpheous (who were not doing anything besides trying to stop a buddy from eating dirty food) involved in teaching Sydney some manners though.
Achilles deliberately provoked Sydney in the last panel of last Thursday’s page by using “mouth feel” again, and Amorphous could be (by saying “but what about the grit?”) setting up the situation to give Achilles the chance to provoke Sydney again. So they all get punished.
Even without that, they’d probably all get punished anyway, for roughhousing in public while in uniform. (I’m not sure it’s that much of a punishment for Achilles, since he doesn’t suffer muscle aches from lactic acid buildup, and doesn’t even have to breathe except when he needs to speak.)
Doesn’t breathe. Doesn’t sweat. doesn’t feel tired. So Achilles is basically just a very normal looking zombie. You know what else has a really good mouth feel? BRAINNSS!
I’m pretty sure Achilles isnt that big on the brains department.
Actually, Amorphous tried to physically intercede with Achilles eating the gritty burger by reaching around with his stretchy arm. If he had kept his hands to himself, Amorphous would not be getting punished.
It’s not nearly so gruelling a punishment for Mr Amorphous, though, and basically a non-punishment for Achilles. (Not sure how you’d punish him except via boredom, though…)
You can tell that fan service has occurred, otherwise the steam would have obscured the view in the final panel. :D
Fortunately, DaveB knows his audience better then that. Plus, maybe it’s so hot outside they’re showering largely with cold water. *points outside* I certainly am in this weather.
I don’t know if they’re using cold water, there aren’t any “thermometers” visible. Plus it isn’t hot where we are, Down Under. They’ve had a bit of snow at Mount Panorama it’s that cold, rare thing to happen. West Coast isn’t as bad, but finally feels like Winter. Local temps don’t affect webcomics I’m thinking… :p
Adelaide is experiencing an actual winter this year, heck I even felt the need to wear long pants and a sweatshirt some days.
Achilles kind of reminds me of Louise Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist!
“Now let me show you the running technique that’s been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!”
Question: Does Aquiles get tired or is he an unstopable machine
He may not need to rest for physical reasons, but I’d bet he still needs the dream cycles during sleep for psychological reasons.
Lingerie tickle fights.. I’ve found my happy place
then you might be able to get to an even happier place, if you go to Dave’s Deviant Art page & look up the two pics he did for Harem’s Playboy session. To see one of them, you’ll need to be logged into Deviant Art & turn off the NSFW filter…
Now that it has been mentioned. We must now SEE the Lingerie Tickle Fighting. IN DETAIL. You cannot mention it and NOT show us. That would be wrong. Oh so wrong.
Thank you. Just…thank you :)
Also, would love to see more detail on Peggy’s tattoos at some point.
Well there is this old vote incentive if you’ve missed it:
(NSFW-requires a DeviantArt sign in): https://davebarrack.deviantart.com/art/Peggy-No-Cameo-Wallpaper-433939101
And a SFW version – https://davebarrack.deviantart.com/art/Peggy-PG-Wallpaper-433932532
Woah, first, nice tats, second, I LOVE the prosthetic she has there, functional, tech-y and practical! It’s great!
I just want to say, Joule Juice is the best juice. I wish that was a real thing, and if it was, it’s the only energy drink I would buy.
I even have a fantastic advertizing slogan for it: “No Calories, just Joules!” which isn’t much more deceptive than most advertizing.
They would have a spokesperson in their commercials named Vern.
“Whether you are traveling around the world, under the sea, in a balloon, or just relaxing on a mysterious island, Joule Juice will keep you hydrated and ready for whatever life throws your way.”
*Hits Juan with a coffee table sized volume of ‘The Collected Works Of Jules Vern.’ .*
Joule Juice has what Newtons crave, for a distance of one meter.
Oh my. I want a zoom-in on Peggy! She was pressing all the right buttons for me before, but there she just cranked it to eleven! What do I need to do to get a 10000×30000 version of this page? :-D
Yeah. Yeap. Just. All the things.
Every thing about Peggy in panel 6 for me.
Just.
All of it.
Probably been asked and answered, but who is the young lady in the foreground, I recognize Heatwave and Harem. She is the one I do not recognize.
Varia, the woman Sydney met a few comics back at the firing range.
It’s quite a contrast, isn’t it? Peggy walks into the shower with one towel riding low around her hips and another one draped around her neck. Sydney walks in there covered from head to toe. You can certainly tell who’s more relaxed in that environment.
Peggy’s a lot more comfortable being on the A-Team than Sydney is.
Well, there’s that, and then there’s also the fact that Peggy has been in the military for at least a few years already. As Town Crier pointed out somewhere above, the military doesn’t spend a lot of money on prudency measures like shower curtains. So Peggy’s already used to it, whereas this is Sydney’s second day in the military (and her first military shower).
A person tends to lose a large measure of “body modesty” after some time in the military…Any such displays of that kind of attitude tend to attract a lot if ridicule, so it’s likely to wear off quickly.
They may eventually get Sydney to be a little more relaxed, but I don’t expect that to happen any time soon. What I am expecting, however, is for her to take this shower crouching down and trying to hide behind those divider walls.
Or using the Lighthook as a makeshift ‘curtain’ to hide behind while taking the shower.
*groan*
I seriously considered putting washcloths around each of her calves too, like you wear a towel on your waist, but I thought that might be a bit much. :)
Nobody tell Sydney that they sell hooded, full-length terry-cloth bathrobes.
I have two and they’re awesome.
I see a future scenario with Achilles and Amorphus are later walking around in one of the non public areas of the base, Achilles mentions ‘Mouth Feel’ and gets another Lighthook punch to the head. View changes to Peggy looking at Sydney disappointingly to which Sydney shrugs and replies “What? We’re not in a public place.”
Optional cut to her doing laps again because of the sass/lack of control
Alternatively, they aren’t in uniform anymore, and she tries to use that as her excuse.
The legs, in the last panel, look a little off. Peggy actually looks like she’s retaining fluid in her lower leg.
Yes, we need a much bigger version of peggy in that pose.
Perhaps with a smaller towel as wel.
Or just has a really muscular shin. For one thing, Peggy is a fitness buff. For another, people who have just received a prosthesis tend to put more weight on their intact limb for the first few weeks, to protect the leg stump (which is going to be sensitive at first, especially if the surgery was fairly recent). Learning to walk with good, equal weight on both the sound and prosthetic leg takes time and gait training, so that may be (part of) the reason why her shin is so muscular.
It doesn’t look muscular, it looks puffy and soft; nothing like it looks in her vote incentive picture. Heatwave’s also looks a bit too puffy and soft. These ladies are ripped, and their legs should be less rounded and more muscularly defined.
At second glance, you’re right. It’s probably a perspective thing, though, because of the way her foot is pointing outwards.
From Dave’s under-the-comic blog:
“Also I’d get shin splints…”
I hear ya’ bro. I didn’t even know what shin splints was until I was in boot camp…And I learned that because I was getting stress fractures, so similar to shin splints.
“Peggy’s not trying to kill her, just exhaust some sense into her.”
Yeah, Sydney is effectively a captive audience because she can’t get away…Hard to go anywhere when you can’t even move.
“…the plan was to have a lot of scenes in the showers because…”
Say no more…You need no excuses to have my approval for that decision.
“I also planned putting in a lot more dirty humor in general.”
For this, you get more than just my own personal Seal of Approval.
https://soepic.pl/index,view,1682,seal_of_approval_meme.html
“I finally get to draw a shower scene and who knows how often it’ll happen in the future…”
The more opportunities you have to display all of your hard-won boob-dynamics research, the better.