Grrl Power #339 – Superheroes in the shower
We can hope with all the showers going that the tile on that partition has warmed up a little.
Probably the dirtiest joke in the comic so far. You’d think it might come from Dabbler, but where as she is a fan of all things sexual, including its use as a weapon, Harem is more like the party girl. I was going to compare her to Paris Hilton, but that’s a bad match. Harem isn’t a flighty, sheltered nincompoop, but she does care a little too much that her shoes and handbag match when she’s out partying, of course only at the right clubs. Speaking of which, I haven’t really decided what happens if one of her gets drunk. I think it would have a rather attenuated effect on her mental faculties cause she’d still have 4 un-drunk brains, and her coordination and reflexes would only be impaired on the one imbibing. Even that would be mitigated because she can keep an eye on herself from another perspective if she needs to. Basically if she wants to get sloshed she needs to order 5 times as many shots and spread them around. If one of her drank enough to get all of her acting drunk her liver would pickle.
Being a comic primarily focusing on the female characters, it’s no surprise the odd page fails a reverse Bechdel Test. (The Ledhceb Test?) When the guys show up, chances are they’re talking about the women.
On the previous page I may have made Varia a bit too buff. She’s supposed to be marginally fitter than some of the other girls just cause of her hobbies, stuff like rock climbing and soccer, but on that first panel especially I think I was slipping into some old habits. I should try and scale back slightly from that. Not on Anvil obviously, but the girls are supposed to be fit, not off-season-Ms.-Olympia.
The vote incentive is finally finished. It came out pretty good considering I don’t really paint like that much. I was trying some new techniques I’ve been studying lately, of course all painting really comes down to basic competence with anatomy, light and shadow, color theory, and composition. I’m comfortable saying have general anatomy down pretty good, it’s when I zoom in really close and start thinking about how light falls on the skin around the eye sockets or against the nose that I need to go scurrying for reference. That and I could stand to be more bold with rim lights and multi color fill lights, depth of shadows, stuff like that, but I learned a bit doing this one and the next one should be even better. Since it’s so close to the end of the month I may leave that one up for the first part of August. It just depends on how quickly I can get the next one put together. At some point the vote incentive will probably be me putting together the cover of the book.
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I would imagine that at a certain point, a drunk Harem would get disconnected from the “collective.” Maybe function on a subconscious level or in a less glamorous base instinct, zombie-like state. Reconnection would probably result in a shared hangover from both the alcohol wearing off and the reestablished connection sorting itself out. Drinking in excess would generally be a really bad idea.
Also, I have to say that “fwooka” is probably the most accurate onomatopoeia I’ve ever read, you somehow perfectly captured the sound of an empty shampoo bottle.
her brains are connected by “quantum entanglement“.
they may get “desynchronized” but her mental state will not disconnect them.
Kinda liked the look on Varia on the last page, but yeah, could totes see what you mean.
Thank you. Thank you SO much for ruining the mystique of women showering! (This is a 100% sincere Thank You.)
Women are so much more than sex objects propped up for titillation; we are very complex beings who can be smart, stupid, somber, silly, crass, cultured, polite, persnickety, rude, regal, laid-back, and low-brow–we are not, and do not always HAVE to be, refined and elegant, dammit. And sometimes we do actually fart and yes it smells godawful, instead of some imaginary unicorn fart version, full of flowers and candy and glitter-sparkles.
So I’m serious when I say thank you! It’s a huge burden off of our shoulders whenever we can be portrayed as Real People. Even if it’s played for a laugh, because that is something awful and yet quite funny, because it is something that happens in our real lives.
(Although imho, raw broccoli farts are worse, but yeah. Brussel sprouts.)
Thanks! And you’re welcome! It is kind of the point of the comic, to write a variety of characters, many of whom happen to be female. As a herero guy, I appreciate that women can be sexy, but of course it doesn’t mean they’re “on’ all the time.
This is just yet another reason why I enjoy your webcomic so much, DaveB. You do a great job on portraying both gals and guys in humorously realistic ways. It’s one of the ones in my top 5 recommendations: A Girl And Her Fed, Love & Capes, Grrl Power, Girl Genius, and Schlock Mercenary. (In no particular order.)
Already read three of these maybe I should check out the other two.
The only one I haven’t read is A Girl and her Fed. I’ve got the over 4 bookmarked, and check them regularly.
Actually you’ll soon realize after being with a gal fer awhile that all women are horribly disgusting most of the time.
On that matter I seriously recommend everybody DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary by Erika Moen.
If you have any unreal concept (good or bad) about women stucked in your mind, DAR will help you to kiss it goodbye.
Cuddle fart
Hey, guys like me understand, at least on the intellectual level, that women are people too.
…but it doesn’t hurt to dream a bit, isn’t it?…
:P
Well, no. It doesn’t hurt… until you let it affect your expectations in the real world.
And from where I’m sitting, I don’t see many guys who make the mistake of treating women as sex objects. It’s plain to see in how most women act most of the time. That said, I don’t think it can be denied that if a woman is trying to, er, “be seen as a sex object”, then they tend to do a wonderfully fantastic job. This, one supposes, is the reason why “seduction” is a necessary word. And while it’s true that women can be “smart, stupid, somber, silly, crass, cultured, polite, persnickety, rude, regal, laid-back, and low-browed”, it’s really hard to imagine at once one person being all of those things. So it makes sense that guys would tend to focus on the attributes that tend to jump out at them. Since evolutionary logic places sex as the third-most important thing in the universe (after staying alive and keeping your offspring alive), the first thing to jump out at a guy is most often sex appeal.
So… that’s my 2.6 cents.
The only reason that dreams like this even exist is because I understand the difference between fantasy & the real world. My expectations of reality are based on reality; that’s why such dreams exist.
Shower wind?
Hot water causing the air in the room to go out the top vents quicker. Because warm.
I can see some people copying panel 5 and cutting Matt out — perhaps pasting Harem in. I am wondering how intentional those opportunities are (if a printed book could be folded to show it,
I would take it as proof — it’s a suggestion for later, Dave!).
Also Harem demonstrating another of the ferret-themed measurement units: a ferret fart. Can’t wait to see a supervillain ferret, LOL
P.S.: Sydney minor superpower: getting all the shampoo out of the bottle quick!
I like how you did this scene. Still ‘censored’ but in a far more natural way.
Now if only panels 4, 5 and 7 extended just a few more centimeters…
damn camera angles. Pan down, pan down!
The 4th wall doesn’t have a big enough window in it…
…shower….wind?
Hot air rises, meaning when the hot water hits the floor of the shower, it heats up the air a bit and rises, bringing stench from evil farts with it.
“Speaking of which, I haven’t really decided what happens if one of her gets drunk. I think it would have a rather attenuated effect on her mental faculties cause she’d still have 4 un-drunk brains, and her coordination and reflexes would only be impaired on the one imbibing. Even that would be mitigated because she can keep an eye on herself from another perspective if she needs to.”
Except this doesn’t jive with existing Harem canon, where damage to one is felt by all (which is what Maxima discovered when her atomic wedgie set off recursive disaster dominoes as each of the other bodies also jerked, stumbled, and injured themselves further). If pain is shared, intoxication should be too.
Conversely, you have the way it was done in the pSmith arc of Buck Godot, wherein one member of a hive mind drank to the point of passing out-and the other members experienced an attenuated version all right, but when one of them is “utterly wasted”, even the attenuated version equals “tipsy”. Also, “combative”. I know I just gave away one of the plot twists but it’s still a fun read, as starts here:
https://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070505
I would be somewhat surprised if Dave wasn’t familiar with Psmith, but it’s definitely a good read for anyone who hasn’t read it. And that actually might make a good model for harem. While quantum entanglement isn’t distance-dependent, it’s also not entirely biochemistry-dependent. The totally-smashed one would have an impact on the others, it’s likely, but perhaps not the stuff that includes flushed faces and ned noses.
Yeah, other Harems would feel drunk but they wouldn’t really be drunk; those of her that haven’t been drinking would totally pass a B(lood) A(lcohol) L(evel) test. However, Harem does have some experience when it comes to mentally “filtering” the differences out between her various bodies, but it takes a conscious effort to do so. If she’s taken by surprise, her various bodies will reflexively react to something that happens to only one of her.
“other Harems would feel drunk”
Actually there’s only one Harem feeling drunk :) DaveB conjecture that she would feel slightly drunk regarding her global mental process, and totally drunk regarding that body coordination.
“existing Harem canon, where damage to one is felt by all”
“If pain is shared, intoxication should be too”
Being precise that phrasing don’t actually apply. Your mind feels your fingers, but your fingers don’t feel each other nor share anything between them.
As MidnightDStroyer said, chain reactions and the like happens because when one of Harem’s diverse bodies delivers a strong sensation, Harem’s only mind can get confused and make the wrong body or all of them react to it.
But if a body get cut the others don’t bleed, the physical consequence is only local. Alcohol interferes with the chemistry of the brain where the substance is actually present, there’s nothing affecting the chemistry of the other brains.
That suggests that for the most part, if the majority of her bodies are sober, then her mind as a whole will retain sobriety in its thought process, but that if the majority of her bodies are drunk, her mind as a whole will tend towards drunk-logic.
This wouldn’t have any impact at all on the coordination, equilibrium and slurring of the drunk bodies, however, as those are separate localized impacts of the alcohol. The consequence might then be that (if majority is sober) you might get Harems that act drunk, and talk drunk, but are thinking clearly… whereas (if majority is drunk) she might make some reeeeeeeeally impulsive decisions and say some clearly drunk things in bodies that are otherwise articulate and sober.
Apparently Harem shaves down below. Although for a party girl that doesn’t surprise me.
As an old geezer, I’m glad to see that is going out of style, I don’t think women should look like pre-pubescent children, or Barbie dolls.
And no, I don’t care what the teenagers and twenty-somethings who’ve been taught to be repulsed by it think.
Well, as another old geezer (51 last week) I’ve been partial to the Brazilian since I discovered it in the early 80’s, when it was still considered a fetish which was before it became a “fad” and then commonplace. Every woman I’ve been with for the last 30 years has been shaven/waxed, either before or after :D
Amen, and amen. Fortunately, being 33, I’m now in the age-category of the “MILF” types, who care a lot less about hairlessness grooming fads.
Umm, how do we know Blondini shaves below? We don’t see enough, for all we know, she has a “fro down below”
as low as that camera angle shows, there’s no way she could be anything but waxed totally.
Well Dave, thanks once again for making this site increasingly difficult to casually browse in a work setting. you may have inadvertently increased my productivity in the past weeks by restricting my time here. I have been reduced to testing it in either of two ways.
1) Bringing up in a teeny-tiny sliver of a window and quickly scrolling through it looking for some body parts that resembles a poster at a planned parenthood office or a ’60s beach movie. (Starring Sydney Scoville as Gidget!)
2) Bring it up in a second hidden window and do the rapid-fire at-tab maneuver to flicker it to foreground and background, also known as the “is the boss looking?” maneuver.
It is starting to make me think of getting something like a Google Glass for viewing these kind of pages.
P.S. Have you ever thought of publishing in Oculus Rift format for the true 3D experience?
Only a few more pages in the shower. This isn’t one of those scenes that goes on for 2 dozen pages. :)
Awww… :(
…dammit.
Even though I could stay in the shower with the Grrls (figuratively) forever, I’ll just have to settle for other opportunities to see your research in boob-dynamics in other situations. The story isn’t going to get any further in the shower but the boobs will go with wherever the Grrls go.
Oh, hi there Dynotaku, did you see DaveB around? :P
Shhh, you unsecret the worst kept secret.
I vote for a cameo of a strange giraffe-horse with a penchant for restraints and hypnosis attacking the team. :3
Having one drunk Harem affecting all of the too strongly would make a lethal weakness in a fight. It would mean that if one Harem is struck with tranquilizer dart, all of will be put out of commission.
I am more interested about what happens if single drunk Harem unteleports.
That one’s obvious. The other Harems become stronger. She’s not complaining about her arm while the one with the broken arm waits to reteleport until the doc can fix her. Why would unteleporting a drunken one have anything other than the normal effects on the others? Ultimately Harem is a hive mind who can convert energy to matter and vice versa. She might need to maintain one body in the material plane as an anchor but I’ll bet with practice she could learn to materialize her bodies from scratch thus gaining self healing or maybe even to materialize them in other dimensions. Not sure if her mind could survive that if she succeeded though. The human brain is really only designed to deal with 4 dimensions: height, depth, width, and time.
I love comic book physics as much as the next guy, but time is not a dimension.
I still find it a bit weird. One minute- she is dizzy because one body is drunk/sedated and the next minute she is fine?
Harem OP, pls nerf.
Check the wikipedia definition of dimensions. It agrees with most quantum physicists. Time is the fourth dimension of our universe. Mathematically I think they’ve proven up to 11, but we can only observe the 4.
I figure Harem can just dematerialize the drunk one and rematerialize it at home without having to do anything risky in between.
If drunk drivng is a bad idea drunk teleporting has got to be worse.
It would be more a dematerialization than a teleport.
*headdesk* sorry it’d be more like shutting a body down than an actual teleport.
So exactly like a night of drinking then?
I would say that “this much” also means it’s orgy night. Otherwise there’s something else in the superhero package that DaveB still didn’t tell us.
Hulk Splash.
Or it might just be, you know, a joke.
it may be, but it doesn’t have to. and honestly, its harem, she always want to have fun.
You mean like mine? :P
“Something in the superhero package”
Funny on so many levels.
+2
Are you saying rule 34 vision isn’t normal?
It’s normal for Math anyway — But a lot of other people also wear the same prescription of glasses that he wears, so he’s got a lot of company…
I have to agree with Math, women do only do sexy stuff all the time always. I mean, in class today one of my classmates was pounding on her weld to get some slag off and I had to stop for a moment just to appreciate how hot that scene was.
Pound jiggle Pound jiggle…
Yeah, been there, watched that show, got the demerits too. :D
Been there, seen that, welded my piece to the vise/table.
So, you had trouble in getting your “piece” up, huh?
;)
Not my fault one of the cheerleaders in high school was taking “ag” class with me which including basic welding. =P
*starts coughing* And here I thought it was exaggeration, this theoretical male fatal weakness….If I were less of a prude I’d have to make use of it in some truly evil pranks.
To be fair, Alabama, Early August, everybody except the teacher was 16-17 yr old,She’s wearing cutoffs and a tank top under her leather apron, most of the guys had tank tops or no shirt under the apron. There be a lot of looking from all involved. =P
Scary thing is, Dave, I’ve seen that final panel, all too often…Very often. Frighteningly so.
Auuuggghhhhhh! I caught up to real time! Now I have to wait for the next strip.
Seriously, really enjoying this comic. Thanks!
Now you can take the time and enjoy the comments section :D
That’s how it’s been for me since the beginning!
I hate to burst your bubble, but we’re still in “flashback mode” here…We left real time after the first couple of pages.
;)
um… not sure if you meant that sarcastically or not, but I’m pretty sure that JLP meant that he’s just now finished his Archive Binge, and is currently waiting on Dave to post the NEXT comic… just like the rest of us are waiting patiently…
Yeah, it was meant sarcastically. That’s why I put the little ;) at the end.
Sooo, I’ve been thinking about Sydney’s “Trinkets” (as nearly every other reader probably has), and one of my conclusions is that they are ment to combat a tech-inclined enemy. Their near complete resistance to mechanical detection, or scanning techniques, … Ok it’s not solid logic. :-/
Other thoughts; are they semi-intelligent? Were they planted there to be found? What happened to previous owner/creator? Were they the beta version? (Hence lack of labels)
Possible names to add to the pool; Soul Spheres. Jems? Trinkets.
With Sydney controlling them? Loon stones.
Or maybe Looney Stones. Sydney’s already shown us that she can go “Looney Tunes” in a fight (as Anvil & Vehemence can attest).
With the skill tree allowing you to expand the number of things you can do with the orbs – or whatever you want to call them – I got to wondering if they had once been part of some kind of weird laser tag or paint ball sort of game. I’m sure that probably sounds pretty stupid and I can’t imagine what kind of alien or demon or whatever would be willing to risk getting hit by that PPO for a game, but there you have it.
If this weird and implausible theory is correct, might one of those unknown orbs be a sort of alarm, set to alert the player that a competitor is near?
Maybe it’s lost equipment from some interstellar Hunger Games or something. There were already some skills unlocked on it, and if the being who had them previously died they might’ve just been waiting for someone else to bond to.
That certainly sounds a lot more plausible that it being a kind of paintball game!
Oh, and I should have said Pew Pew Orb, not PPO. I can provide Sydney no cred . . .
Meanwhile, when it comes to possible new names for Sydney’s orbs, I do have a silly suggestion. Back at the ballroom interview – in panel three of page 100, to be exact – Maxima described our heroine as “Weapons Grade Bonkercite.”
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/601
I really don’t think Sydney would go along with it, but how about Bonker Balls? It would certainly go along with her habit of bonking people with them. :-)
Maybe it’s lost equipment from some interstellar Hunger Games or something. There were already some skills unlocked on it, and if the being who had them previously died they might’ve just been waiting for someone else to bond to.
Sydney’s balls, are tools, and i do not think they were meant as just a weapon, through might have.
on the other hand, seeing that her forcefield can block pretty much everything (auras, warp-in, mini nukes, doom-fists), making the specification of “tech-inclined” is a little silly.
“their near complete…”
dabbler could detect ANYTHING. i think its well over 100%.
“semi intelligent”
while active but not controlled, they return to the halo formation, so pretty sure yes.
its a bit difficult to speculate their past, when we don’t really know what they are or do.
well, we know the effect of activating most of them, but we still don’t know how exactly they do, and there are 2 that we have yet to know ANYthing about.
other things to consider
when Sydney touched her sight ball, dabbler immediately know its function.
Charming, Harem.
Yeah, she got pretty descriptive in that last panel, but I wonder: Has she ever, in her entire life, actually smelled a ferret’s butt hole vomiting on brussel sprouts before? If not, then how does she figure that as a comparison?
How do we come up with many of the comparisons we make? Take the old stand by “That tastes like shit!” How do you know? Have you ever actually tasted shit? If you have what kind? I would imaging the shit from a carnivore would taste much different from that of an herbivore, I know for a fact that they are visually different. Can’t speak for the taste though. Most times people just think up the most gawd awful mixture that can come to mind and spit it out. At least that’s my working theory.
I’ve noticed that the smell of my shit varies, so presumably the taste would as well.
Given how strongly smell and taste are connected, I always assumed such sayings were relating to whatever it was tasting like the other thing smelled. At least, that’s how I use such comparisons. I have once or twice come across some supposed food that really did taste precisely like fresh dog poop smells.
Yeah, the senses of olfactory & flavor are very closely linked. Please note my comment earlier (first page of comments, this comic page) that refers to it. But overall, in general, to refer to the taste of something using only your sense of smell as a guide isn’t really a good comparison.
Hiro guessing the shampoo fight feels like he is dropping Math a bone. I get the feeling he might have super hearing or other super senses. He seems like the type that has a deep respect for others, and him having a power that automatically invades others privacy could be an interesting part of the story.
You know I was gonna do a sarcastic joke here that would be complementary, but this is the internet and we all know that never works. So instead I’m gonna to thank DaveB again for a must read comic that plays with tired old tropes that really needed a fresh take,a nice inversion,or to be called out for blatant stupidity.
I want those glasses…. I _need_ those glasses! ;D
A free pair of the glasses comes with swearing a legally binding oath to be a lech.
Umm, darn, I hate to be the “stick in the mud” buttttttttt….
How many pages of women showering are there? Yea, I like the occasional soap fight, but I also want to see Sydney grow into a real Superhero, sometime before the rapture, lol (current estimates put that after 2060, estimate given by Sir Issac Newton).
Still I love the comic. It just feels like there are so many ‘filler’ pages.
Damn, you are one of them, aren’t you? The same ones who complained there was not enough action, then when the “Parking Lot Brawl” brawl went longer than three weeks they started complaining about how boring it was and “when is DaveB going to get back to Sydney being silly?”
This is a ‘slice of (superhero) life’, and that includes goofing in the showers (and Sydney has already ‘grown’ as a real person in the last two pages)
I do not care about action so much, I care about [u]story telling[/u].
I would be most impressed if a shower fart became a major factor in the next story arc. However, I find that unlikely.
You must learn patience, grasshopper. As we already know from the beginning of the comic’s first couple of pages, Halo HAS grown into a real superhero…We’ve only flashed back a few months of time to see Sydney’s growth.
True. We have only flashed back a few months of time.
We also have taken the first 6 months of this entire run to do 50 minutes of real time dialogue. This includes an off screen car ride and we are just gettting to Lunch time.
6 months later … and Syd gets to see the Archon building for the first time.
1 Year(!) later and Syd is just about to sign up to be super.
1 year after that and we have had a press conference and find out Syd gets a skill tree.
Also Dinner just started.
2 months later Something Finally Happens ….
…And doesnt get All Wrapped Up for another 8 months. Plus another month before her day is finally done.
Syd was wearing the Same Damn Outfit from Sept 20, 2010 until Feb 23, 2015 because only ONE DAY HAD PASSED.
Im glad the pace has picked up as of late (its only been about 6 months and day 2 is about half done. though she did sleep for the first 8 hours or so…)
Patience is all well and good but there are limits. I dont even recommend this to people I know unless im feeling extra sadistic that day. The whole thing reads fine in one or two sittings. The pace is great. Then you catch up to the present and its down to one page every few days…. it makes me a bit grumpy.
But there are plans for at least 6 more Villains as troublesome as Vehemence … and “a few months – 2 days” to go before we are back at the beginning…
So here’s hoping that DaveB doesn’t pull a “Robert Jordan” and die before this story gets told.
The big problem is that comic book worlds don’t run at the same rate of time as the real world…
:-(
We’d better plan ahead.
Dave, who is your personal Brandon Sanderson?
I have come to the conclusion that this comic has enough material that this “flash back” may finish in time for this decade to end. At which point in time the artist will be all ” ya know doing this to pay my bills is great and all but I think I wanna do something else with my life.” like travel, or have a family, or some other job that doesn’t require writing a story with a theme set in the “present” of 9 years ago.
“So Im going on a hiatus.”
we all say “nooooooooo!”
followed by variations on
“So long and thanks for all the laughs! Good Luck in you next thing, DaveB We will miss you”
6-8 months later DaveB decides he made a horrible mistake and tries to do it again but the readership is gone!
So sad. So Tragic.
Damn, Harem, what have we told you about eating those broccoli, cheese and enchilada casseroles?
This is when Harem discovers that even if all five of her eat different things, her farts from EACH of them smells like a combination of everything ALL of them ate.
As a long time ferret owner, I can say that ferret farts are the worst, so that must be one hell of a stinky fart.
With so much contrivedly covered up nudity on display, I’m forced to point out this reads more like good old titillation than any groundbreaking “girls acting like real people while naked” plot. Maybe you have some publishing guidelines that prevent you from showing any bathing suit areas, but you know what they say about saying one thing and showing another. The carefully composed, conspicuously cropped shots here are showing that being naked in the shower is a Big Deal and Special and Secret, and I don’t think that was supposed to be the message.
Not that I’m dying to see Sydney’s mammoboobs or anything. >___>
I just noticed the guys lack their nipples, too. Wich is weird, since I saw on TV an ad for a cream to treat nipple irritation when running, showing explicitly how to apply it.
as someone else wrote: “This is a ‘slice of (superhero) life’.”
normal girls do normal things, super hero girls do… unusually daring things?
honestly, what else would you expect from harem? doing nothing?! no way… that’s harem.
also, we are not having a “18+” here. do you know how many people would never take a look if it was?
and on the end… “its not like i want it or anything”… hmm, what was that called again?
Well, most people do turn 18 eventually, so I’d say “never” is a low number. But I take it to mean you want to keep the comic family friendly in order to attract a bigger audience. I have no problem with that. I just think it would be cool to see some of that daring you mention in the artwork.
I simply couldn’t see Harem doing “nothing.” With up to five of her running around, that’s a lot of nothing going on. Besides, Dave even wrote her up as being an “experience junkie,” which could also be saying that she gets bored real fast.
DaveB, I was looking at your list of recommended reads and wondering if you had read some of my faves. Then a couple of folks posted some other titles and did not get spanked; so have you read “Peter is the Wolf”, “Girl Genius”, or “Sandra and Woo”?
GG is the very next tab on my bookmark toolbar. :D
Followed by Go Get a Roomie, Misfile, Menage a 3 and Wapsi Square :P
DaveB, sorry to point this out but if we are going to have more pages on the showers, maybe you could do something with the variation in size of the blue tiles between panels (it happens in both pages).
I can’t avoid to see Harem shrinking and growing :(
Shower wind? Is that a real thing? I’ve always found that the shower suppresses fart smell rather well.
Not the Hot and Steamy ones. Something about the relative humidity makes the smallest of dainty farts reek of giant clouds of noxious Swamp Gas.
Or Harem’s digestive track doesn’t like Jalapeno Poppers?
Later they discover that Shower Wind is a minor supervillain whose power is to manifest in girls’ showers and make farts fly up their noses.
So… What happens if Harem reduces to one, takes five shots, and then splits? Are all five of her five shot drunk, or does it split evenly?
if one of the bodies takes in alcohol, alcohol stays in that one body, regardless of her warping in and out.
since their brain power is shared, intoxicating one of her may slow her a little bit, however, since intoxication (like the name suggests) is chemical, only the brain of that that one body will be fully affected by it.
meaning only the one will be wobbly.
Ever been to a place as the designated driver? If there are more groups then the DDs tend to congregate. Now imagine 4 of the DDs at a table trying to talk while a 5th random person who is 5 shots to the wind (lightweight) goes on about their cat … That is the Harem’s in a split after one drinks 5. Sure “she” isn’t drunk, but distractions are not percentages they are logarithmic escalations. Ten seconds later the other four are pouring shots just to deaden the pain.
I just wanted to say that Math is coming off as kinda creepy. First yesterday with his staring at the wall and asking hiro if burning holes in walls was one of his powers, now today with his actual WHINING over hiro daring to not provide more mental wank material for him to delude himself with. Its one thing to make him girl crazy, but I think he is slipping over the line into disturbing territory.
usually, just because someone doesn’t talk about things like that, doesn’t mean he doesn’t think it.
some people are just… more open about this.
way too open about it…
Yeah, and being way too open is creepy!
I see it as a fault in Math’s martial arts training. In his training they went full on celibate instead of addressing his sex drives as he grew up. Thereby creating a major weakness in his skill-set.
You know what we haven’t seen for a while? The list.
Presumably she still carries it around in her back pocket, but at the moment her pants are . . . elsewhere.
Okay, I’m not sure what locker room they’re in, but uh, guys don’t talk to each other in the shower unless they’re exceptionally close with one another. We also don’t talk when we’re peeing either. Basically, if our junk is out, we’re really done with conversation with other dudes, especially anything sex related. I’ve been to a number of gyms and dojos, lived in barracks, and on ship, and were in the locker room/bathroom area to do our business, and get out with the least amount of interaction possible.
I figure Math is too socially oblivious to notice the awkwardness and Hiro is too nice to tell him to shut the ‘bleep’ up.
Heck, I learned that from Isaac Asimov’s “The Caves of Steel” — dudes do NOT talk in the john. It just Isn’t Done.
Women, however, you can’t get them to shut UP in the john. Seriously, sometimes it’s disturbing.
I fondly refer to those R34 glasses as “Awesomevision.”
Hey there! Don’t I know you? :D
R34 glasses should not be worn to political conventions.
Do not expose R34 glasses to groups of small children or retirement communities –the shrapnel can reach 50 feet. Avoid “doubling” –the effect of wearing R34 glasses in a convention setting with Cosplay as this has been known to invert the image into the last thing you would ever want to see,,,
Do not taunt happy fun R34 glasses…
OMG, is Hiro masturbating there?! Everything happens in this comic XD
No, Hiro has that exasperated “Can you believe this fokkin’ guy?” head tilt thing going on.
Looks like he was…um…washing under his junk or something.
I guess I can’t read this at work anymore.:(
Dave said that the shower scene will only be another few pages…You can read it at work after that point.
;)
It is a good thing that Sydney is in the shower and not reading today’s news story about the changes coming out for Diet Pepsi in August. The author just got spared a walloping.
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There are also other preferences not related to taste receptors that affect whether or not a person will like a particular sweetener, McCaughey said. One of these is “mouth-feel,” or the tactile sensations and textures that a food or beverage imparts in the mouth. Milk, for example, can be described as having a creamy mouth-feel and wine aficionados frequently describe the different mouth-feels imparted by their preferred vintages.
In news reports about Pepsi’s new diet drink formula, PepsiCo vice president Seth Kaufman has been reported as saying that the company’s new diet soda will have a “slightly different mouth-feel” than its aspartame-sweetened counterpart. It remains to be seen how die-hard Diet Pepsi fans will react to the new formula’s mouth-feel, which could perhaps be slightly less (or slightly more) “syrupy” than Diet Pepsi sweetened with aspartame, according to McCaughey.
…And that whole long post was just to see if one of us would jump all over you for using ‘mouth-feel’ instead of ‘texture’, wasn’t it?
You know… for a guy who’s so relentlessly heterosexual, Math has little to no respect for the partition there…
Rule 34 glasses. I think all of us have a pair we use at time. Poor is the person that use them all the time.
Sounds like Harem has been getting tips on her similes from Halo. ^_^