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If Sydney considers this well handled, it’s possible she’s had some sort of significant episode in the past. Really the only thing I could imagine giving her a worse fit would be something like getting stuck in an elevator with some significant sci-fi/fantasy/superhero icon like Shatner, Nimoy, really any of the main cast of some of the Star Treks or Wars, Stan Lee, Gary Gygax, Pratchett, you know the type. I’m not sure if it would cause some sort of fangasm, or catatonia followed by delayed onset fangasm. It’s safe to assume there’s at least one nerd luminary with a restraining order out against her. Maybe she just considers it a success simply because no one was harmed and she didn’t accidentally light the check on fire.
Lots of funny and amazing names shared on the prior page. It seems the easiest way to avoid some terrible name for your kid is to give Richard a rest for a few decades. Really, just sound out whatever name you’re planning a few times, consider all the nicknames, and if you have a cool last name, give the kid a cool first name, but then maybe something normal for a middle name so they have that to fall back on and they don’t resent you.
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You’ve all missed the critical question: Where the hell are they that there’s only one table and one saltshaker?
because they managed to remove every other table, chair and shaker before the money-mad Sydney could nab em
If you mean the second panel looks like some sort of break room. Which looks very normal office esque compared to the rest of the building.
Yeah, fairly sure Sydney was in a break room when Sandy found her
The real question is: how did she get hold of a salt shaker and candles? o_O
um, what part of BREAK ROOM do you not understand… the Salt shakers were there already!… as for the candles, yeah that’s got me kinda stumped as well, however, they MAY be part of the emergency lighting system in the event of an extended power outage?… you know the thing, at least three days of food and water plus a whole passel of other stuff that you gather up one time and forget about it until you move houses, then you’re like “WTF?, Why do i have this many Tongue Depressors and Saline solution bags in my first aid kit??”
Ps: those of you in the SCA up here in An Tir may know the origins of THAT reference…
Never been in a break room :(
I was, but they threw me out after I broke it.
No the real question: what break room has sporks? I’ ve never seen one in real life, yet she found two to hold her check.
Plus three more for her ‘Claws’
Plastic cutlery is likely among the assortment of random seeming junk she carries around with her.
I’m beginning to think that in the absence of purses, ladies in this universe have pockets lined with TARDIS technology.
It’s at least possible that she carries a spork or two around with her, I suppose. You never know when your going to come upon a spicy meal after all.
I think the more likely answer though is that the Archon break room supplies them. I know the company I work for provides little packages of plastic cutlery like the ones you get at fast food places. Perhaps to save money for things like Ospreys and huge salaries, they decided to economize by only providing sporks rather than separate spoons and forks.
It wouldn’t be much of a savings, I know, but every bit helps.
Two things:
1) Gold chain over the tie? Feels tacky. But gold chain under the tie, no one notices.
2) How has no one commented on the Spork-a-mantium claws in her right hand? Best detail yet.
Only just noticed that, was going to make a new post but then read yours :D
I don’t know, I rather like the power cable that’s making her a salt shaker unicorn :D
To me that seems like a really good way to get salt sprinkled in your own eyeballs.
It could be something other than unicorn. She may be trying to do an Xmen mashup of both Wolverine and ‘Cable’.
is this still day 2? Syd having a very up and down day.
Very up and down life! And now things are really going to get interesting!!!
That’s a hell of a fire hazard right there.
Where did she get those pillows anyway? Not something I would’ve expected to see in cafeteria.
She’s not in the cafeteria, which makes you wonder: what was Shawn (remember, doesn’t resemble a seal) doing there? Unless, by the looks of things, he simply walked into the wrong break room at the wrong time to eat his hoagie in peace
I’m not sure that ANYTHING can be done in peace if Sydney is in the vicinity.
Remember the red couch Sydney was sitting on as she tried to figure out how to put her gun together? I’m guessing those “pillows” are the seat cushions off that.
I thought the same, but then i looked back two pages and the couch she was sitting on was definitely brown.
They’re supposed to be red, I think they’ve drifted a little to the rusty/orangey side lately to keep them from blending in to the red carpet.
It’s interesting that he appears to be pitching a broker to her. Given Sydney’s seeming inexperience, and the fact that a broker would have no fiduciary duty, it seems like an adviser might more likely pitch a passive investing approach (essentially a basket of low cost index funds).
Pitch? Not so much. He was worried she might have one already who would now have access to a much larger pigeon than before. I’m waiting for her to call Joel to tell him she’s going to buy up the other stores in their strip mall to expand to a lasertag/rockclimbing/scifi café/comic shop experience!
That would be interesting.
I approve of this idea.
It will develope into a theme park, which will in turn become Halo’s base of operations and mayhem.
So do they call them “brokers” because they make you broke? =OP
(With apologies to any brokers that might be reading this comic/comment)
Hey, look to this way: Sydney never thinked about buying a gigant robot yet.
Megas XLR => Pimp my mech…
I’d say her new job has better chances of getting her access to a giant robot than large sums of money alone.
Or she could start small and buy an anthroPC, leading to a GP/QC crossover.
Oh Lords! Can you imagine Sydney and Pintsize? If they don’t get along? Or, worse, if they do!?!?!?
I’d think Sydney would get along better with Momo than Pintsize. Just imagining Sydney’s reaction the first time Pintsize offers to show her his harddrive is bad enough.
which frame, her original or her new one?
Was wondering that as well
I would think she would get along better with Momo in either frame than she would with Pintsize.
It’s ironic that this page, with talk about wise investing and brokers, should come out on a day when stock markets are plunging all over the world…
The picture on the page with your link of the old guy with his hand over his mouth needs the caption “Oh dear, I may have to fire some of the illegal immigrant staff I have at one of my 17 mansions! Who will decanter my Antarctic core sample icewater now?”
Of course the moment you do that you find out the guy is some sort of ultra philanthropist or something.
Here’s a sea of red figures we can all enjoy:
https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2015-08-24/cya
I know their suffering will not last, and it’s only on paper, but still…
Today would be a good day to BUY stocks, actually.
…And hope they don’t keep plunging…
I would name your wife’s daughter Wanda.
Didn’t read previous comments so apologies if this one was submitted.
If Sydney’s in an elevator with Gary Gygax, Leonard Nimoy, and/or Terry Pratchett, we have bigger problems than her nerd-celeb freakout.
Nonsense! We’ve merely discovered the powers of Orb #6!
Resurrecting the dead? o_O
“I see dead people!” said the little kid in the The Sixth Sense.
And Sydney?! o.O
Seeing dead people isn’t all that hard. Just become a mortician.
Hey, if we can resurrect awesome creative people, I wouldn’t call that a problem.
I was thinking more an extraordinarily nerdy zombie apocalypse.
Or maybe Weekend at Gary’s.
They were all alive within her lifetime, I wasn’t implying this happened last week.
Sydney: “But, I WANT a pony.”
*GIBBS Slap*
Aurelius: “No, you don’t!”
It would be unwise to slap Sydney. She hits back.
And bites.
I will admit… kind of upset that it’s going this way. I was kind of hoping that it would turn out that she’d be good with money. Like surprisingly good.
It still might happen. She’s just got to get used to the idea first . . .
Where did you get that idea? Her business is failing!!
And it doesn’t matter how good you are with money, you should still get a competent financial adviser when (if) you come into a huge amount of money
“Her business is failing” does not necessarily mean “she’s not good with money”.
I know the owner of our local comics shop is actually quite good with money (his degree is in accounting), but during the economic downturn between 2007 and 2009, even HE had to turn to his other career (carpentry) just to keep the shop open.
It doesn’t help that even comic books are going digital… both Marvel and DC Comics have an app for the iPad and iPhone. You can download individual issues for $1.99 and store entire collections on your Apple devices.
The good news is that most people who have collected comic books for a long time think of comic book stores as a community. When you go in, you’re talking to people who know what you’re looking for. You can actually talk to someone on his opinion about a book. Everyone is into the same stuff.
So, most stores are going to make enough business to stay open because some people like the “community” aspect of a comic book store (and others, like me, are old-fashioned and prefer the feel of holding actual paper in your hand), but they will lose some customers to digital services. That’s just how it is.
yep. in retail you can be good with money and still go out of business if your sales dry up
‘Being good with money’ doesn’t always survive the initial shock of ‘more than I made last year in one paycheck’. And she hadn’t bought a horse YET, she’s just realizing that she actually has enough to do it.
My personal mental image from Sydney’s comment in panel one was more along the line of a ‘my precious’ joke, but maybe that one has been done too often. Out of curiosity, does Sydney need the extra NaCl for her salty language?
No, she mines her language for the salt, naturally :P
Is the seriously reading a book titled “[Something-something] a 1%”? lol Syd, you aren’t there yet.
I think this proves that the 1% does not deserve our scorn or hate. They deserve our adoration. For Sydney is one of the 1% and she will buy us all ponies.
Horse are a good investment. I love horses. GO FOR THE HORSES, SYDNEY!
Better than diamonds or most forms of jewelry. At least you can rent time on your horse when it’s not in use, for like mounted tour groups and such.
.. And, if all else fails, one can EAT a horse. That’s one quality diamonds lack.
Can still eat diamonds, how do you think people smuggle them out of the slave mines? o_O
The nutritional value of diamonds is, however, absolute zilch – unless ine is Matter-Eater Lad. Horse meat is a definite thing in various cultures.
Wait what??
I was expecting Dabbler or Harem to be there with a phone…you know Maxima will be pissed that she missed this :D
Blondini is in the doorway, looking up at Anvil
there is an MLP pony princess joke to be made here.
I kind of expect she would have a different reaction if Pratchett was in an elevator with her… though a fangasm and a zombie reaction would be an interesting combonation to see.
OMG ITS A ZOMBIE!!! OMG ITS PRATCHETT!!! OMG ITS ZOMBIE PRATCHETT…
Now I made myself sad… I miss him
We all do…
Am I the only one that thinks Aurelius needed to bring a rolled up newspaper for this particular meeting.
I could buy a horse *bap* Life size Enterprise bridge set for teh living room *bap* Orlando Bloom in costume *bapbapbap*
THEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-HsqArxhWU
i’ve said for years if i was a football coach money management would be a required class for my players to take (dosen’t have to bee freshman year but before the draft you gotta pass the class)
Given the recent article about coaches scraping the bottom of the barrel getting rapists like Sam Ukwuachu on their teams to win I don’t think any math class would help. Baylor university protected him & denied his previous coach warned them of his past.
Nimoy and Gygax are sadly both departed. Is this a hint that one of the supers in this series has the ability to talk with ghosts?!
Also Pratchett. It’s been noted above…
Sydney and her Fortress of Saltitude!
Sydney should take investing seriously. She is the only hero in the group, so far, that does not rely on an innate power, and she has no idea of the motivations behind the orbs. She could lose them all tomorrow and be back to being a mundane just like that.
Exactly.
Have a feeling that even if she lost her orbs, they’ll still want her about. A for hanging around as most of the cast seems to have taking a liking to her, and B for helping create plans and power stunts.
True, but she probably wouldn’t be paid as much, as a consultant. I expect that Peggy gets paid more than your standard military sniper, but nowhere near as much as one of the supers. Sydney could end up in the same boat.
She also doesn’t understand how they work, she could run out of power, or she might take a skill tree ability that weakens a power against all enemies except a certain type.
This whole story arc is based off of how Dave thought he would react when Grrl Power gets successful.
In 5 years, Dave will be sipping caviar out of Dallas Cowboys cheerleader boots. Thats how rich he will be.
I think you misspelled boobs there…
Just don’t tell Dave’s significant other about that…
My favorite part about this whole scene is that everyone but Shawn has vacated the room and is staring in. The supers ran away and the navy seal is just sitting there eating his sandwhich, trying to see if he can get some salt from the salt goblin under the table fort.
that’s Salt QUEEN! to YOU buster…
Whats wrong with the name Richard?
it’s nickname: Dick…
Huh. Have you read “Worm”, DaveB, because i just realized just now, even though I’ve read this for years, that it’s pretty much “Worm”-Lite. They have the Brutes(Max, Anvil, Achilles, etc.), Blasters(Max, Sidney, Jigawatt etc), Movers(Max, Sidney, generally all who are faster than normals, can fly or teleport). There’s a few other categories, where Max would be in a few of them too.
A lot of superhero genres break down to those archetypes. City of Heroes kind of did it, a few superhero novels have too. I haven’t read Worm even though it keeps getting recommended, primarily because it’s a daunting time investment. I like to finish books I start and apparently Worm is crazy long at this point.
Found your strip thanks to City of Heroes.
Damn I miss it.
Yeah, most estimates I see place it at the length of 10-15 paperback novels.
Waaaay back toward the beginning of this comic, Worm got mentioned in the comments section. I had to go find it for myself & once it was done, made it into a .mobi for myself. It is a huge file compared to other books – 7mb, compared to 500kb (on average) for another book. Makes it (using paper numbers) instead of a 200 page book, about a 2800 page one (again, on average). Worth reading, but it will take you some time to finish >.>
The first Supers genre game I played started you in one of three templates and you could customize from there:
Bricks (the strong and tough types like Thing, etc.)
Ubermensch (anyone with innate powers, as in not derived from a device or artifact. Take Human Torch or Tobey Maguire Spiderman (i.e. no mechanical web shooters) as an example.)
Toolmakers (the smart, creative, gadget oriented types like Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, etc.)
I’ve never heard of a comic/story/movie with super powers that couldn’t be broken down like that.
I didn’t mean it resembled Worm because of the powers. I meant it resembled worm by the way it is. Capes getting powers and then either going independent, joining or forced into gangs or going with the “good guys”, i.e the government. Which is also common. I really can’t explain it. It just reminds me of worm. Doesn’t help that Taylor and Sidney are both tomboy-ish.
How about having Halo and company make efforts to reform criminals.
I seriously love this guy, he has the kind of patience that only millions of dollars engender.
I couldn’t stop laughing for 10 minutes once I saw the second panel.
I would like to say 2 things
1) You made us sad… We would very much like Mr Gygax back…
2) Something about Sydney’s reaction reminds me of Dune… I’m not sure I can explain this
“The salt must flow.”
Looks like Mr. Sharpnell has his work cut out for him on this one…..he’s just lucky she went crazy inside the base and not out in a marketplace.
Mr. Shrapnell has a new item added to his job description; rein Sydney in.
I’m pretty sure he’s not paid enough for that. Or more likely, is already paid too well to even consider such a task.
Curse of the lottery winners- it’s a real thing, people; look it up!
Yeah, a lot of them end up worse off than they were before they won
Pretty sure it’s because of the lottery winners just being financially stupid people in general, not a curse. :)
They were poor before and living beyond their means, then when they became rich, they still tried to live beyond their means. Unfortunately, when you’re rich and live beyond your means and buy 3 houses and a yacht, it hits harder than when you buy an iphone when you run out of money.
Not all ‘poor’ people live beyond their means
But you kinda hit (likely by accident) on the reason why the end up worse off: they buy a huge mansion and cars and yachts, forgetting that they need ongoing funds (things like rates, utilities and fuel)
And no, it doesn’t happen to all big winners, it’s just the big winners are the ones most likely to ‘splurge’ on things they have always wanted
IF I ever win a big lottery I have it already planned out, about a third set up in trust funds for youngest nieces/nephews and to take care of my mother, a modest home, and a competant advisor to make sure I don’t get a wild hair and blow everything on a car with gold-plated engine parts.
Dave, I have to say thank you. I was having a really rough night, but the laughter your comic gave me vastly improved it. Now I just need to talk to somebody about my burst organs…
the first thing I thought of when the guy said broker and Sydney said “horses” was this https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Horse+breaking not bookie
To be honest, I’m sure a lot of us would go a little crazy with that much of a income.
Ha! I don’t even need that much of an income to go crazy.
To be honest, I’m sure a lot of us would go a little crazy with that much of a income.
Pretty sure I wouldn’t – but I’d LOVE the oppurtunity to find out.
Sid really needs to learn how to calm down.
Where’s the fun in that? That’s like asking Maxi to stop being so shiny in the sunlight!!
she could buy the other half of the comic shop and own everyone in it
You mean, buy out her best friend Joel? o_O
Or did you mean ‘buy out the rest of the mall’?
dafuq? At the top of the web page it shows Dabbler with swamp-green skin and black-green hair. When did DaveB draw that?!
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/660 It’s a start trek reference. The general is apparently a kirk fan.
Yeah, that was the late Yvonne Craig in her role as the only alien in Star Trek who wanted to kill Kirk rather than sleep with him
The only alien female that wanted to kill Kirk, quite a few of the male aliens wanted to do that as well. And, as I recall, with Ms. Craig’s character, (her name is on the tip of my tongue, Marla, Marta?) it wasn’t and either or thing, she would have been happy to sleep with him and kill him.
Good point, that one missing word makes all the difference :(
Are we SURE none of the males wanted to sleep with him then kill him? =P
Correction: The General is apparently an Orion Slave fan.
And who isn’t? o_O
My general plan on the off chance I came into major money:
pay off all taxes that will be owed on this windfall
pay off my debts
pay off my family’s debts (as much as possible)
invest enough to have an interest of 50k to 100k annually
use the rest to support my self-publishing and publishing other people.
expect to lose a lot of money and not touch that money that gives me my yearly stipend
That’s pretty much what a grandmother did: she put the money into a savings account and only used the monthly interest to live on
The problem with that is the usual costs related to inflation are more than the interest from a normal savings account. It’s better to put it in something that gathers interest/dividends that are greater than the inflation rate.
This was about 60 – 70 years ago
1) Pay off all debts (mainly school loans)
2) Buy a house in an area with low property taxes
3) Pay off my mom’s house mortgage.
4) Put the rest into a high yield interest account if there’s enough that the interest will pay my daily life needs + investment money.
5) I’d probably keep working as an attorney because I’d get bored if I didn’t.
Most of my siblings can pi$$ up a rope as far as I’m concerned but if I get enough I’d have it set up that I get say $3000 a month. I figure if I’ve survived on less that $10k a year I damn well better be able to handle most normal things at $36k and splurge occasionally.
I was considering factoring funding convention appearances, merchandise and so on…basically pay myself a salary for writing books and creating games.