Grrl Power #364 – They like us! They mostly really like us!
By saying “attitudes trend positive” Arianna is obviously glazing over the more extreme fear mongers and other individuals or organizations that garner the majority of their ratings through emotional appeal without regard to any long term consequences of doing so. While some of those people may well have valid points, they also tend to move on to the next scandal or policy hypochondria quickly. Eventually the more relentlessly belligerent voices will need to be addressed, but not today.
The concerns about Dabbler’s origins are the usual conspiracy theories and theistic lamentations. They just happen to be right in as much as Dabbler is not a super human, but is actually a demon, but they’re also wrong that she’s here to swallow our souls. Humans are enormously tribalistic, a word I use to mean that we can find an excuse to hate murder anyone who isn’t in our group, be it race, religion, gender, sexuality, hair color probably. “Methodists? They make Episcopalians look like Presbyterians.” The joke being that few people not actually in one of those groups can identify any meaningful differences, (often many who are in those groups can’t either) yet in years past, Protestants and Catholics over in England, who were almost entirely racially homogeneous and agreed on 99% of everything murdered the shit out of each other for decades. I think one group was more in to Mary maybe? It’s a way less funny prequel to “There’s Something About Mary”
Anyway, that’s why they’re being cautious about outing Dabbler. Probably going to try and wait till she’s saved the world at least once. Besides the whole demon thing, it’s proof of advanced life and civilizations beyond humanity which is actually way bigger news than an official federal super team.
No one there has anything in particular against Kelly Rippa. It’s just fun to watch people unaccustomed to spicy food try and eat something genuinely hot. I like this video, it’s not full of spice noobs, but one guy does eventually bury his face in a gallon of ice cream. Not surprising since they all load up Ghost Peppers (900K Scovilles) with “Satan’s Shit” (1.3M) and “The Source” (7.1M). It’s a little bro-y, but they suffer for your entertainment so it’s ok.
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Puts hand up*
Also, Didn’t know that Big Gay Al was a reporter… Good for him.
Cannot unhear…
Gotta help pay for the theme park some how…
Plus boat rides (especially the Big Gay kind) are very expensive to maintain.
*puts both hands up*
*puts gloves on his feet and puts two hands and two “hands” up*
*puts four hands up*
What, alien succubi get a vote, right?
Has entire clone army raise hands.
That’s 25 votes.
25,000 votes.
KA-BLAM minus 1 now.
*sniffles*
I am excluded from voting.
Who needs a belly rub?
*wags tail, enthusiastically, and rolls over*
We could put a glove & sleeve over a paw & front leg…
Or tail.
“09, 10, 11- #11 seems to bee swinging their arm side to side is a strange manor….Oh well, 11, 12…”
In this particular case, a paw serves the same purpose as a hand.
Yes, you can vote too!
:-O
Town Crier tricked me into casting four votes! Poor Kelly is going to need medical care.
*waves wing*
“Gets some barbecue sauce”
As a fellow chillihead I’m voting for HP22B Selected (aka Carolina Reaper) chilli for the sauce. I’m going to try growing them myself next season; so far the hottest I grew was 7pot Jonah Strain :)
(The latter’s name comes from the idea that one chilli pod is enough for 7 pots of stew.)
I stay away from anything much hotter than a habañero – it’s my experience that once you pass a quarter million on the Scoville scale all you’re adding is heat, not flavour … and, in fact, much beyond that point, the heat actually takes away from the flavour.
If your only reason for adding hotter peppers is to make it hotter in some sort of macho ritual, why not just squirt lighter fluid into your mouth and set fire to your tongue?
One or two finely-minced habañeros are plenty to season a pot of my “Mexican” spicy rice to the level that no-one in the house but me will/can eat it.
Oh – if anyone wants the recipe for Mike’s Spicy Rice, drop me an e-mail at fairportfan{AT}outlook{DOT}com…
I’m not too extreme myself; far from eating Bhut Jolokia raw, but I do like spicy food. For my enjoyment, it’s one or two Trinidad Scorpions or similar superhots per a pot of stuff. The regular chilli powder that I can get in a shop in my neck of woods is too weak, meaning I would need to throw so much of it into any hot dish that it would totally change the expected taste. A pinch of homegrown superhot chilli flakes does the job without messing with the recipe much.
Also: Capsicum chinense chillies (Habanero, etc.) grown on a small scale on the balcony have an AMAZING aroma. Nothing mass produced and available in shops can match it.
+1
Food is supposed to be nice to eat, once the heat starts takeing away from the taste there’s no point other than trying to show off about something most people dont care about anyway.
That’s not exactly correct.
1. Capsaicin does not interact with taste buds, only with heat receptors, and many people who eat really hot report that it actually increases all the other flavours.
2. Some people (like me) simply enjoy hot food and the satisfying feeling it gives, without pretending to be uber-macho. I usually cook hottest just for myself, when I’m alone and there is no one around to admire my gustatory manliness :)
3. Some people (I don’t belong to this group, at least not yet) love the endorphin rush after having your mouth burned off. Heck, I even know a guy who admits that he enjoys the burning sensation on the next day, in the bathroom…
The professional YT idiots are a category in themselves, of course.
I like heat to a certain point, but eventually it’s just heat for heat’s sake. Heat can add to flavor, as it makes you concentrate on the taste more since you are more aware of it in your mouth. It can also enhance flavor since the heat can react to your nose (where you actually taste the most) and increase the notes you get.
Certain types of heat are good. Indian and Thai cuisine that is massively hot is also quite tasty, and once you adapt to it you realize how good it is.
However, the chili nuts who think that just adding more peppers and fermenting and distilling over and over again adds ‘flavor’ aren’t correct. It just adds heat. It’s just big, burly lug heads who are trying to make other big, burly lug heads cry so they can laugh at each other.
It’s hilarious though when you get those guys together eating ghost peppers and over-reacting to it, and then walk up, bite into one directly, chew it for a while, and then state calmly “This pepper has no flavor. Adding it to your chili just means you don’t know what taste is.” before walking away without so much as a reaction to the heat.
If I ever got to sample Sydney’s sauce, the one thing I would savour the most?
Still being alive afterwards.
Until it’s time for walkies.
Then it’s pray for death.
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The thing is, though, enjoyment is subjective. If someone likes food really, really hot, ‘heat for heat’s sake,’ that’s no different than someone who likes very bitter food, or sweet, or any other flavor or texture or what have you in the eating experience. If they enjoy heat, then it’s not heat for heat’s sake, it’s heat for enjoyment’s sake.
YT?
Yoga Therapy?
Youth Theater?
give me something to work with here…. :-P
Google showed a distinct bias in its results. Top hit = You Tube.
But, what with personalised results, and my surfing habits, I guess that is fair.
7-day chili: my mom made it in a crock pot, and you can top it up, adding a spicier/hotter pepper each day to build up your resistance, as well as to allow for the different flavours of peppers to add to the chili’s. (you could also start hotter, and work your way down, which will allow the hottest peppers to leach into the chili for longer) basically, you top it up after serving, with extra meat/beans, etc., and toss in the peppers you want to add in for flavour, also tossing in other ingredients to change the chili (like roasted corn, etc.)
“the heat actually takes away from the flavour” Often that’s the point. When I’m cooking with older veggies or less meat (aka leftover fry-up) I’ll add extra spice to cover up the poor ingredients.
Habañero is the limit of my tolerance as well. That’s straight up eating them. Used in food they are fine, and I think they add a very nice flavor on top of the heat component.
I pickled some habañero a few years back to see if that reduced the heat level. Nope.
I can’t go beyond ghost pepper.
Wait, it’s one pepper for seven pots, not seven peppers for each pot of stew? Well, that explains a lot. I have some apologies to make.
Ouch. I bet you do :-]
*continues eating Swamp Thang’s stew* Really…cuz I think it was pretty good. Though it could use a bit of thyme and maybe a bit more browning on the meat to get that deeper flavor and so it falls apart better. *continues eating*
Oh man, that least panel…
Looks like the QM is the only lefty.
Who’s the one missing two fingers?
I”m going with the demo guy.
I don’t know if that’s ‘missing’ or ‘just has those two fingers down.’ I know some people who do that.
The latter, DaveB confirms in another thread that he was just mixing it up, to keep the visuals interesting.
That would probably be Peggy and her gun-fixation… I mean enthusiasm
Or katniss
Maybe someone’s putting both hands up…? :P
Hey. Some guys i know wrote a song about Kelly Ripa (just one “P”, BTW) – and sang it on the show.
(God – i’ve known Fred since ’86… Where does the time go?)
I was gonna ask about the spelling of her name. Did DaveB do it wrong intentionally to save himself from being brutalized by lawyers, do you think?
It was not misspelled.
The R just looks like P until you zoom in a bit.
Sorry, but it is misspelled. Like Fairportfan was saying, it’s spelled Ripa, not Rippa.
You also typo-ed the strip title. you left the “y” off the second “they” (THE really like us)
sorry, was supposed to be on Dave B’s comment
Oops. I guess I should fix that. Better than the first version where I somehow typed “Keppy”
Daveb might like watching hot pepper game reviews on youtube
In case you don’t know what that is…. here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIWPU-VJ64I
Thank you for making my day start off right. I didn’t know I would enjoy seeing Egoraptor in so much pain.
I loved this game review… XD
Forget Einstein, that is a great way to show that time is relative. His 5:20 seconds will not have felt like the 5:20 seconds that anybody had preceding that!
It was interesting to see the heartfelt creative process, which managed to spontaneously conclude:
maybe its been asked before, but what happens if varia touches dabbler? would be intresting wouldnt it?
I am sure anything that involves touching where Dabbler is concerned would be “interesting” :)
+1
Varia gets superpowers whenever she touches a person, whether they have powers or not. Dabbler may or may not count as having ‘powers’, but Varia would get something anyway.
Unless, of course, it only actually works on humans, in which case she might not.
Oh she would definitely be getting something from Dabbler……lots of something’s. Yes sounds like a vote incentive to me :D
I imagine Varia blushing dark red and Dabbler grinning from ear to ear.
Vote incentive!!!
I don’t know, she was flirting with Harem in the showers pretty well. A double order of Hypno-boobs, with 2 servings of Succubus hunger anyone?
Last panel about cracked me up… in my car… on the public parking lot… the kids in the car next to me are eying me suspeciously… :D
The part about that panel that made me laugh the most is the way Maxima phrased it: “burn his face off.”
Heh!
She said “burn HER face off”.
I think you might need some glasses or a new prescription.
…Or maybe take a second look at what I’m quoting from BEFORE I hit the Submit Comment button…
you are reading this comic while in a car?
well, at least you weren’t actually driving. right?!
*CRUNCH*
Not anymore . . .
Not driving… else this would have resulted in an accident for sure! :D
I have to say that, considering that they didn’t even know her 24 hours ago, Sydney seems to have been quickly accepted as “one of us.” Aside from Vance’s little quip, there hasn’t been any hazing of the new one that I can see.
Harem & Varia did a bit of hazing in the shower room…
Once you are certain level, there is no need for hazing and d*ck-beating. They are all elite together. Snark and cattiness are to be expected, of course :)
I have had a privilege to meet some really top class musicians and what they all had in common was that they were all regular, almost humble folks in everyday interaction. No need to puff youself up when you really know your value (and your shortcomings).
It’s usually in the elite units where you’re most likely to find “haze the noob” going on. Especially in military, which Archon is.
Where I live (formerly behind the Iron Curtain) the worst hazing used to happen in the regular army units, which were conscripted, usually from the bottom of the barrel (anyone with 3 working brain cells would invent a way to avoid being conscripted). So the people who did the most hazing were the social rejects who somehow managed to scrape through the first year of their 2 years in the military and survive the hazing themselves.
A big life and death fight will do that to a group. Especially if the newby suddenly turns around and commands everyone else to victory. Fast track to respect
Well, Lance had a go… But, first time the recruits met her, she was joking around with Harem, Peggy and Maxima – it’d be like deciding to haze the guy who just gave the President a noogie and then got a high-five from his Secret Service bodyguard.
That’s an…interesting image….
Which President? o_O
The only one I can picture without cognitive dissonance is Ford. But I’ve only seen the Simpsons version of him so that might not be all that accurate.
From Australia’s perspective, George W. Bush Jr could have done with a bit of excessive cranial massage at times…
giving him a few “dope slaps” to the head wouldn’t have fixed him any… he’d just absorb them into the baseline “duh” that his brain consisted of anyway, with no meaningful difference portrayed outwardly.
Note to self: Don’t read Grrl Power comment section while eating.
I totally pictured someone doing that to Obama. Nearly choked to death on my turkey & cheese sandwich.
Now imagine it being a wedgie.
Keep in mind as well, that halo has already made her bones. She has actual fight experience, and among the noobs, only jiggawatt can say the same (loudly, she is still having hearing problems) So its not like hazing a regular nooby, its hazing a vet.
Now I’m curious. Is there an official explanations why the other recruits missed the press conference, the common dinner and the resulting fight?[/fridge logic]
Because they are recruits. Halo got a pass because she was on the news due to Ariana’s faux bank robbery.
Jiggawatt was at the press conference. She wasn’t at the common dinner because of her half-brother’s wedding. I think she was at the battle because she could get there quickly. The others could not.
Pretty obvious why Vance was not at the dinner. Opening up a box of flies and having a bunch of spiders flow out of his mouth, to gobble them up, might have put the rest of the team off their food!
possibly they WERE at the conference… Daveb DID skip over QUITE a few introductions in interests of preventing screen-time dragging out for the conference part, like the General, Math, Stalwart, etc… maybe they were introduced off camera? knowing he was going to be doing a lengthy fight scene soonish…
If someone had saved my life, or a friend’s life and put me on the winning side of a nationally-important battle, I too would accept her as “one of us”! The fact that she is a fun, wacky, extrovert too, does not hurt.
mini comic. dabbler. this
I WANT MORE ARMS!
not got enough. grumpy. [queue childhoodesque tantrum]
They are coming. Once we can create mind-controllable artificial limbs as replacements, similar systems could be adapted to provide multiple appendages.
Doctor Octopus may one day be real?! o.O
Insert hentai joke.
“I’ve watched enough Hentai to know where this is going”
That’s the joke you’re looking for.
Wrong the joke I made went over your head.
I thought you were aiming rather lower?
nope, ear, surely.
I mean, I’m just an ordinary guy
Well, if you don’t happen to be this guy…
https://jokes2go.com/poems/9719.html (NSFW)
…then it’ll be god to know that someone is giving you an…option…
Arrgh! “good to know,” not “god to know.”
Stupid edit function gone AWOL even before reporting for duty…
haha, that’s terrible and brilliant in equal parts :D
I’ll be honest, what I had in mind was this hero.
I was tempted to resort to toilet humour, but resisted. On this occasion.
Peniticles. Peniticles everywhere.
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Inserted, you say? Inserted where, pray tell?
Although about hentai, I’ve often wondered what’s in it for the tentacle monsters. They never seem to be getting any pleasure out of tentacle raping all those young Japanese girls…
If Sydney forwarded those website links like she said she would, Arianna could tell you that…
If you look below the linked strip, you see she did… :P
What’s in it for the monsters tho? Never seem to be getting pleasure out of it? Maybe you’re only looking at the softer stuff. Usually it’s a breeding thing, mess everywhere afterwards…
Daniel the Human keeps deleting all my stuff. Something about “some of it’s OK, but the rest of that stuff is just wrong on so many levels…”
count me in for testing, even if it is like panel 2 of this beauty
:D
Potentially Exploding Eyeballs is one thing. But keep those Pocket Presidents outta my head!
Ah, the pocket president program. Mind Fuck on a grand scale.
“I WANT MORE ARMS!”
[insert second amendment joke here]
a well-handed Thom, being necessary for the manipulation of things, the right of the Thom to have MORE ARMS, shall not be infringed.
Of course, like the original, it’s a conditional clause with the right being removed whenever the situation isn’t met, so I’ll emend it once more to make it an absolute statement: I. Want. More, Arms. (whether from bears, wolves, or even tyrannosaurus-reges)
“Hands O.B.Juan 2 bear arms.”
Attached to a live male grizzly bear.
Is someone missing fingers or are they just one of those people who favors the fingerguns
Vance and looks like a fingergun.
If you go back and really look, it IS Vance, and he does have all his fingers.
Sydney: “I make a mean weapons grade spaghetti sauce.”
Yeah, I’ll bet she does. :P
Sydney will probably recommend Fusion, after she gets a supply contact for that Unmaker. She estimated it at about 2 million Scoville, just by taste alone…And then asked if they had any pure Cap to top it off!
3 million actually
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Re: Catholics vs Protestants, it was mostly about politics. Which king you answered to, or whether the Pope could overrule your king. Religion was more of a tribal shibboleth and excuse.
Very true. A lot of the”religious” wars were actually entirely political.
Three years ago, I cooked up some Greek style chili for a contest at work. All the judges bitched that it wasn’t burn your face off spicy. It wasn’t supposed to be. So the following year, I spent a month distilling pure capsaicin and dumped it into a small batch with a little chili powder and tomato sauce. Needless to say, they never complained about it not being spicy enough and appreciated my lamb white sauce chili I bright as the real entry. No idea what the Scoville level was, but I bet Sydney would approve.
The judges still had enough tastebuds to correctly rate your white sauce chili after that ? :)
Probably not, but they were too terrified of the previous entry returning to dare it!
They might not have any taste buds but show some signs of retaining their self preservation. They just might have saved the world from whatever LT could have created for next years competition.
I’m not that cruel. I also brought water saturated with cane sugar since cane sugar neutralizes capsaicin.
Your capsaicin-burn remedy is approved.approved by all interstellar-traveling Bugs who wear Edgar-suits…
Mmm, contradictory clues are visible. His skin does look like it might be a little loose. But then again, he does look like he is wearing the men in black uniform!
I think there is only one solution, which would cater for the worst possible case.
[Send Vance to investigate. A super-spider colony, in a silk Vance skin, should be able to deal with any bug, alien or not. Just tell him to bring napkins. And maybe a really big gun.]
“Swings the 10m cannon into position”
Just bring a battleship’s deck gun. The guns on the Missouri have a 16″ bore & the shells weigh in at about the same as a VW Beetle. Much better results than a mere 10mm.
No matter what they tell you, size does matter…
Humans, you have so much to learn.
OK, I’m kind of curious what kind of pepper Sydney just mentioned. Is it the bhut jolokia, the naga viper chili or some other kind of pepper?
Also,on the newspaper…Where are the capes and tights?
I vote…
No capes, Because trenchcoats and longcoats are better.
Dusters and trenchcoats are cooler, too. No capes and tights are fine with me too, but I still wonder if they should be wearing their underwear outside their clothes . . .
Naw, let’s just leave that to Madonna and her ilk.
Quick Googling suggests perhaps Carolina Reaper or maybe 7 Pot Primo. The logical answer may not be as extreme, and something that Sydney can more easily afford to use consistently on the limited income of a comic shop owner.
Of course now with her commission… the “Halo” Pepper could be in the breeding. Why would it be called the Halo, well both named after the super who commissioned its creation and where it’s likely to send to after consuming it.
Carolina reaper is actually relatively cheap. A 2oz bottle of puree’d pepper is about $20 US. I use about 5-6 DROPS per Quart of chili and I’m the only one in my family that can eat it. That bottle last me about a year. Not sure I’m going to ever buy any more though. Nice heat. No flavor.
Really?
I have a Carolina reaper plant next my driveway. It’s not a top producer – maybe 3-4 peppers a week – but I had no idea they had significant monetary value. I’ve been cooking with them mostly.
I had been wondering about your name. I guess that explains it.
Well, they are too damn hot to eat raw, so they’re pretty strictly a cooking pepper. That lets you spread the heat through all of a batch of something.
As to the name Morituri, it was a small joke in another forum. We’d noticed that we had about fifty people and no single language was a native tongue to more than five or six of us. So we switched from English to Latin on a lark, because English is something all of us were getting enough practice with anyway and Latin is weird enough to be fun in itself. Someone called me a Carthaginian, then finished with “Carthago delenda est”, and I riffed on it.
Since then, I use it sometimes, mostly on fora where my more usual handles are already taken.
*giving his best Edna impersonation* NO CAPES!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslFCFTUXQU
i agree, long coats are way cooler than capes and tights.
this site really needs upvotes.
Yah, Colombo looked so cool in his long coat. Maybe you are thinking of Angel in his private detective long coat. My favourite long coat belonged to Tom Baker’s Doctor (along with the long scarf).
A man of taste. x 3
(points at duncan mccloud in front of sign reading “there can be only one”)
sorry he rules that his is the only long coat superhero outfit.
BTW, it’s Duncan McLeod.
The clan name is McLeod (pronounced more like “mick-loud” than “mick-cloud”), not McCloud.
You get an A for effort, even if the results are more like C-…
McCloud? He was driving his boss and Brockherst nuts while visiting New York.
Trenchcoats. Capes are soo Golden Age. And don’t overdo on thights, please.
Daniel the Human wears a trenchcoat. It’s surprising how fast it can be dropped if needed, just slid off the shoulders. No neck-holding capes here…
Quick as a flash!
LOL
Naa, the way he does it, it’s be better for the full streak. And the way he puts it on, both sleeves at once at times, maybe a quick get away…?
OK, I can hear him doing that angry throat-rumble thing, as well as the Rattler’s Eggs, so I think I better make my own quick retreat…
I vote no capes also, because they obscure that fine rear view of a super powered woman wearing skin tight spandex.
Can Harem vote 5 times?
Yes, she appears to have a conscience deficiency and the means to exploit that. Oh, you mean legally? No, not if they are aware that she is one person in five bodies. Plus she only has the one birth certificate. So she could only get multiple votes through some means of fraud.
We just held a national election here in Canada where I ran one of the polls. I checked a voter’s ID, we marked off the person’s name on the list of electors and I gave the person a ballot for him/her to mark. In order for Harem to vote 5 times, she would have had to register 5 times, but having one name, the same birth-date and one Social Insurance Number (the Canadian equivalent of a Social Security Number), would only allow her to register once. Mind you the biggest obstacles to Harem voting here in Canada is that she is not 1) a citizen of Canada, 2) a resident of this riding and 3) real.
Pfft! She is as real as you or I. In fact realer than you. Her image changes every time we see her. You haven’t moved a twitch in all the time I have known you! You have all the symptoms of being dead. Barring the whole talking thing. But that is just a technicality.
Nicknames for characters:
Sydney: Multi-ball, The Spaz, The Explosive Nerd
Max: The Valkyrie of Destruction, The Gilded Terminator, Shiny Nightmare Fuel
Harem: What Bros Dream Of
Dabbler: The Alien One, The Bros Dilemma, Ms. Pocket Dimension.
Please..feel free to add more.
Keep in mind, you’ll want to think of them based solely on what the media would have seen so far.
Just wait till someone makes the joke about pounding on the “Anvil”.
I would’ve thought “Forging on”. Although just “Hammering” would probably be the more common. After half of them explains what an Anvil is to the other half.
Isn’t an anvil that thing you drop on toons?
No, Anvil gets dropped on Kevin.
She will have to avoid getting drunk in public where the celebrity reporters can see. The headline would be “Anvil Gets Hammered”
Halo – Shield Maiden
Admit it, thats an awesome name, and its basically her primary tactic during the fight, and what she would be most known for during the demo she gave.
Halo – “Few balls short of a ballpit”?
“Miss Hal-SQUIRREL!”
Dabbler – Sexy Techy
Max – Big Boom Boss Lady
Harem – “Quints! Quints! 5 times more fun…” (OLD mini toy doll, wiki no show me info tho…)
Insult Sydney like that and every geek/nerd fan of hers will hunt you down and do evil geeky/nerd things to you.
Come on, ya gotta admit, she can be more than a bit erratic, confusing & confusing. Behold, the power of ADD/ADHD. I can definitely see some people throwing those names & similar her way…
The ADD-Avenger maybe?
“Facing The Mighty Halo in battle? 1 Powerball, & you’re out of here…“
My only quarrel would be with your squirrel one. It wasn’t Sydney who showed a dislike for the fuzzy little guys during the restaurant fight, but Hex. I will admit though that Maxima did nickname this other girl “Budget Halo.”
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I’m just saying, Sydney finds it hard to fo-SQUIRREL!!…….Finds it hard to concentrate at times, the whole ADD/ADHD thing. The attacking Supers did at least-SQUIRREL!!!…..They did at least suggest distracting her with something shiny after all…
The Evil Squirrel Overlord strikes again, and again!
“The One That Shoots Purple Lightning Like The Emperor”
Or just “Lady Palpatine”, I guess.
or JiggaWHAAAAAAT?
Just don’t use Jigglybutt.
Hmm, just what exactly did that smouldering pile say to Jigawatt just before he got zapped?
What about Duke Nukem.
Stretch Armstrong for Mr.A
Mullet Man for Achillies.
Side note: He is invulnerable to anything. What about harsh language and mean mean words? He is gonna catch a lot of shade for wearing a mullet.
Or because he is looking like Brad Pitt he may bring the damn thing back. (so retro its cool again; But only if you look like Brad Pitt)
I wonder if Achilles’ hair can be used as a cutting wire for steel.
Maybe if you saw at it. :-D
The question then is, considering that he is absolutely invulnerable to absolutely everything that’s been thrown at him so far, how would you get the hair away from him to try it?
From The Halo before Christmas:
Max: Goldie,
Dabbler: Pornstar,
Harem: Groupies,
Heatwave: Hotstuff,
Anvil: Brickhouse,
Math: Ninja,
Mr. Amorphous: Stretchy,
Achilles: Mullet,
Leon: Joel (mistaken identity)
The Catholic/Protestant difference was a matter of a rejection of the incredible level of corruption in Catholic Church at the time, including granting something that is basically a forgiveness for something that you haven’t done yet to people that gave enough money. Some people like Martin Luther protested on the idea of trying to get the Church to reform and from there the reformation movement resulted in people rejecting the political and religious leadership of Rome entirely.
So the argument was one side thought that everybody should bow to the Vatican’s commands while everybody else felt that they wanted to do whatever the hell they wanted to do. But, yeah, Henry the VIII’s Church of England was essentially Catholic but we don’t have to listen to that Pope guy, just our monarch.
Not entirely, in England the Catholic Prodistant thing mostly stemmed from Henry VIII wanting to break all the rules on marages for personal and political reasons but the Pope saying no…. so he invented his own church that was basicaly the same but with him in charge :P The whole Lutharian thing about coruption and authority and so on meant very little to Henry VIII, it certainly wwasn’t why he split from Rome. Though probably was for some of those following him.
Also, a lot of people overlook that the Roman Catholic Church had its own reformations, including the ‘big’ one started at the Council of Trent. A lot of the ‘delays’ were due to political wrangling between the French & German monarchies and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who wanted to have a say in religious matters. To see how that sort of thing worked out, look at state-run events like the Spanish Inquisition – which replaced the church-run Medieval Inquisition (So mild you’ve likely never heard of it)
Henry VIII started his own ‘English Catholic Church’ so that he could get divorced & remarried. It was his son, Edward, who made it Protestant. Since all his advisors were already Protestant, persecuting Catholics was the perfect excuse to get rid of political rivals.
Is someone missing two fingers, or is this person just folding them in?
Just doing finger guns in an attempt to make each hand look unique and not like I copy/pasted 15 of the same hand.
Suzie Wen – or Suzie News, as she once accidentally called herself – seems to have taken a real shine to our heroes. I mean, she’s practically been playing cheerleader for them since day one! “Yesterday,” I mean, so far as Sydney is concerned. Remember her behavior at the demonstration in the desert? https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1092
And now calling Max “The Goddess Of Ash?” They may have to hire her away from that little TV station she works for and make her their spokeswoman or something.
Fairly sure Ari would love to get her hands on little Suzie…
During the super-brawl last night, when Vehemence started up his aggro-aura, she did get her hands on Suzie…And vice-versa.
As a cheerleader she’s more effective outside the organization.
She has now adopted it as her professional name. No doubt by popular demand. Check back through the comic, and you will see her captioned as such, or introduced by that name, somewhere. Plus it is on her Who’s who entry too.
I am a firm favourite of her. Placing her near the top of the cast list, even above many heroes!
Her raw enthusiasm is refreshing. She loves that super heroes are real and is not ashamed to revel in saying that. Plus, unlike me, hers is not tinged with a degree of cynicism.
Finally I like that she has had the same kind of meteoric rise as Sydney herself. Mirroring each others experience. Yesterday morning she was an intern, being sent out to buy the doughnuts, pick up the director’s laundry and having to pop into the bank because she forgot to request money from petty cash, before going out.
Yet today she is the most recognisable face in a new field of reporting: Super Correspondent. And, to cap it all off, she has even become an anchor. But I doubt she will let herself be tied down behind a desk,* she wants to be out in the field, toe to toe with the supers!
* Unless it is with Arianna. They seem to have hit it off.
Klingon kisses.
Re: religious fights over tiny differences, the classic is homoousios vs homoiousios.
Nobody threw up The Shocker in that last panel and I am extremely disappointed in David Barrack for this.
“Pulls out cattle prod “
Here…You’ll want these.
*Hands a package of batteries to Dr. Revenge
nah, the Doc won’t need them… he’ll just get Jiggawatt to help power it up with a few good zaps…
I just use the force.
The prod is just a prop.
In the bottom panel, behind Maxima, we can see the Archon logo. Do we know what the motto encircling it is?
Wasn’t that revealed near the start of the Meal Mayhem? When it was first revealed on her shirt?
Thank you. I found it here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1159
To quote DaveB:
“The words around the seal in case you can’t read them are “VELOCITAS, INCURSIO, VIS” which is Latin for “Speed, Surprise, Violence of Action” which very much describes Maxima’s attitude toward combat, but isn’t a very friendly slogan compared to something like the police, who have a more “To serve and protect” attitude.”
Has it changed though? What about the Cum Amp- whatever?
Yeah, I changed it, though I may not have uploaded all the changed comics yet. It now says “Cum Amplus Potentia Venit Amplus Onus”
Which, assuming I’ve translated it correctly, means “The more powerful, the larger burden.”
Loosely then “With great power comes great responsibility”
From the teachings of Uncle Ben.
Wouldn’t it be easier to say “With great power comes great responsibility.”?
Ahh!, ninja’d.
ALWAYS expect Ninjas.
Especially invisible ninja rats with explosives.
Wait, wha–*EGSMSPLODE*
More like “With great power, comes great responsibility”
To be accurate, “The more powerful, the larger burden”, going by Google Translate, would be “Potentiorum maiorem quantitatem.”
“Unus adversus tenebrae”
Would that work? ^
My family actually had a motto way back in the wayback, but we haven’t put it on anything for a century and a half now because it’s…. unfriendly.
Ahh, I think I am familiar with that one, judging by the few clues we have:
Which, if Google Translate did its job right, should mean something like: “We eat Carolina reaper. Then we die. Then we rise from the grave and drink the blood of the living.”
When I ran the Latin through Google translate, here’s what I got:
Carolina ate together. Then we die. And the blood of the living, then it will rise from the ashes
English has noun piles like “Carolina Reaper,” (or “noun pile” for that matter) where one noun is used to modify another in an unspecified way. Latin doesn’t. And Giggle translate doesn’t really get enough practice on Latin to do a very good job. And well, Latin is weird. All the noun cases confuse the hell out of most attempts to translate it.
Actually, “Nil inultum remenabit,” or in English,
“Nothing shall remain unavenged..”
Although I sort of like yours too. :-)
I think your family one works fine, even for modern life. If nothing else, it might discourage folks from nicking your parking spot, at work.
My mum lives by it. She can put a Sicilian to shame, if she decides to hold a grudge, for some slight!
Is this the media prep portion of the briefing?
BTW-I saw the fan art of Magical Girl Neil with Maxima and was wondering if Neil should inhabit the same universe as Grrl Power?
No, this is still part of the Debriefing, the Media Awareness class (that Sydney has been ordered to attend before gong home) is later
It may be next on the agenda, we ARE moving in the direction of media relations after all. And if sydney is volunteering for a tv appearance, well, she is going to need some training pretty darn quick.
Along the lines of “DON’T BURN THE FACES OFF ANNOYING TALENTLESS HACK ACTRESSES ON NATIONAL TELEVISION!!!!!”
I would recommend she appears on The Chew instead. How would Mario Battali and Michael Simon deal with Sydney’s food and antics? Ooo, let her go on Rachel Ray instead.
Rachel: Help me welcome two of the really powerful members of Archon: Lieutenant Colonel Leander, code-named Maxima, and Private Scoville, code-named Halo. Wow, you are big!
Sydney: What are you talking about? You’re taller than me. remembers who is standing behind her Oh, you mean her. Yeah she’s big in a lot of ways: rank, height, power levels, bra size, ego, urk!
[ Sydney is lifted by the hand wrapped around the back of her neck, slowly turned so she is facing Maxima. Sydney pretty much hangs limply. ]
Max: What did Ariana and I say about who does most of the talking in this session?
Sydney: Got it! [ She is lowered to the floor. Sydney is now staring at Max’s fully clothed stomach. Turns around quickly to face Rachel again. ]
Rachel: Well, why don’t you ladies have a seat? *CRACK* Oh are you alright?
Max: I guess I should not have put my full weight on this chair.
Sydney: [ Quietly ] big weight, big butt … [ Max glares at Sydney as stage hands bring out a much more robust chair ]
Rachel: Well, we have put together some footage about how you two met.
Max: Oh, no! You didn’t …
Rachel: You see these two met at a bank robbery.
Sydney: Just for the record, I was not part of Archon yet when this happened.
Where would this fan art be?
“it’s proof of advanced life and civilizations beyond humanity which is actually way bigger news than an official federal super team”
I’m not sure… one is just a confirmation of what were were expecting for a long time, the other was never supposed to be anything more than just a fantasy.
one an effect of a random chance allowing creation of life somewhere in the universe, the other is questioning the fundamental laws of the universe.
i mean the super powers, not the part when they are a part of federal team.
In the Grrl power universe, the supers were already known, just the federal team is news.
it seemed to have been a news for Sydney, and and she can’t possibly miss something like that with her genre “savyness” (gowever you spell it) so it couldn’t have been a public knowledge.
yes, the government knew, but they also knew about dabbler and magic so if you count them, then nothing is news really.
If you check back, right at the beginning of the comic, Sydney and Joel were talking about it as if it were public knowledge. * But it is possible to read it as joking banter, fairly common amongst geeks and fans, talking about their passions as if real. **
DaveB has since confirmed, a couple of times, in comments that the public were generally aware. And, next time you do a re-read, it is all consistent with that. For instance Maxima is not attempting to hide her appearance in the bank. Plus she has no vehicle, so she probably flew there. And Joel talks about not having seen a flying super himself yet (but with the implication that he knows others who have).
* In the same kind of tone that we might remember from talking about the Stealth Fighter and Bomber, even being able to buy accurate models of both in shops, but still seeing, on the news, the US government denying that they existed.
** Not that I would ever do that myself of course. And no need to, as we know that Halo and company are real, and Dave is just doing a PR job introducing them, and getting public feedback, to help hone that.
the only thing i can say is…
then why was she expected to be experimented on?
that’s the main part that doesn’t hold together.
if supers were a common occurance, then she wouldn’t be that special, therefore she wouldn’t have anything to fear.
plot hole? or Sydney being Sydney?
its definitely not “just Sydney”. if she knew, she wouldn’t try so hard to hide it.
also, look at the text on the newspaper.
“thy are among us”, as if it needed confirmation.
as for your comparison to the “Stealth Fighter and Bomber”, well, people talk a lot, and they always come up with some conspiracy theories.
some turns out true, some do not.
there might have been rumors, but they are just that, and super powers you wont believe in unless you see them.
I said supers were “public knowledge”, not “common”. It is ‘geeks making joking banter’ which is fairly common.
If I were in Sydney’s knickers,* I would have had equal concerns. We are talking about a government which is perfectly happy to kidnap individuals in other countries sovereign jurisdiction, smuggle them across international borders, subject them to various forms of torture and hold them for years without trial or due process. Doing so based on nothing more than suspicion, in some cases.
Then raise the stakes by adding in technomagical items, which grant all those super powers? If it were not for Maxima’s passionate statement, swearing to protect her freedom, Sydney was absolutely right, to work on the assumption that the government would stop at nothing to get their hands the orbs!
* What? Her shoes would not stay on my paws. The normal analogy would make no sense, for me. It is not a hobby of mine!
“Looks at Yorp and nods.”
Thursday nights don’t count!
Of course not.
And your win streak of 26 weeks at The Pink Poodle is just a coincidence.
so the end argument, is because America and their “we will do anything to protect our citizens”, or so they say… hard to argue with that, considering the mind control conspiracy theories, heart attack gun that turned out true, and the current battle over the freedom of speech.
It’s actually worse than that, because logic.
See, Sydney found the orbs and now they “Belong” to her, right?
But they probably had a previous owner.
If Sydney can use them even though they had a previous owner, then why can’t somebody else use them even though Sydney owns them?
Well, the most plausible reason would be because the previous owner is not present.
But you can’t have the orbs around while Sydney is not present; they won’t be separated from her?
How can this have come about?
Well, logically, it must mean that the previous owner is dead.
Oh, so, if Sydney were, um, post-vital, we might be able to transfer these orbs to someone else?
It doesn’t necessarily follow….
But there’s one way to find out.
Um, yes, that’s true….
No, no they can’t find out that way. Not unless they are able to survive having their throat ripped out, by a very angry doggy!
*in guard mode, eyes unblinking*
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
you broke the comment section…
All part of the process, to get beyond the 4th wall!
why it’s the 6th and 7th that don’t access easily? ooh wall not dimension………sorry. not that the fourth wall is that hard to crack either just ask deadpool.
The guys of ‘Good Mythical Morning’ have done a few hilarious chili challenges. This one is their first contact with the dreaded Carolina Reaper. It is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb-QVfwCmYg
They looks suspiciously fresh until the end of the video, even no sweat at all. This is how someone eating a comparable superhot looks like (the guy is a pro and has an awesome chilli farm, so definitely used to it): https://fatalii.net/kalle.mp4
Warning: A bit disgusting.
I very respectfully disagree.
They are absolutely sweating and their discomfort seems genuine. There is also am immediate follow-up video where they get some of their camera crew to try smaller pieces of the same thing.
Check out “Flaming Brian’s Kitchen” for some fun hot sauce related shenanigans. It’s on the Cinema Snob’s site.
https://www.thecinemasnob.com/flaming-brians-kitchen
DaveB needs to start gathering e Sydney Cookbook.
See it yes. Eat it, no. I once had spicy spaghetti at an italian restaurant, on a saturday. I had to stop off at my workplace 2 miles down the road, and damage the restroom.
Wuss. :)
No idea who Kelly Rippa is, but got the gist and it still had me laughing out loud. As did Sydney’s overwhelming enthusiasm before that!
She used to be part of the regis and cathy lee morning show thing when cathy lee left, then she came in. Regis left and now its just her. Its morning talk show stuff.
Well, not quite just her. Let’s not forget her new cohost, Michael Strahan.
She also is a bit of a hack actress
Aww, poor girl. Grrl Power is now widely enough read, that there is a good chance someone will refer her to this page. You might have made her cry!
Kelly, I thought you were very sporting to stay and dance to the song about you. Funny though the lyrics were, you must have been blushing like anything!
Thanks DaveB, for pandering to us wide-mouthed-Dabbler fans. The difference is noticeable, compared to the previous page, and much more in keeping with her original flavour.
Was going to comment about the return of Dabbles’ wide grin *____* :D
Eh…..United Methodist here. And we tolerated some real asswipes at my church specifically around the turn of the century.
Will not say as it gives my location but yeah.
Yeah it’s the asswipes (Including the preacher) That basically made me tell the whole church to go suck Jehovah’s rooster.
It warms my heart to know that Dave is a fan of wreckless eating. Or at least that video of theirs.
“Xenophobic” is the word you are looking for to describe our fear of other. Although tribalism is it’s own problem. To be fair some of us are xenophilic, which is probably why DaveB didn’t notice it was hard to draw a shirt on Dabbler’s original design for quite some time. ;b
Xenophobia takes on a whole new meaning though, when you have an alien in the room.
…And more in the comments…
How about xenophilia?
You have got to love it. The power of the hypnoboobs.
ALL HAIL HYPNOBOOBIES!
I just critically failed my geek lore roll. Which Ash is meant here?
I know about Ash, the Egyptian god of oases, but that makes no sense in a “Godess of Ash” context.
“Ash” as in “Volcanic” “Left after fire” etc.etc.
‘Ash’, as in what is left when you burn down civilisation, not a person (although, ‘Ash Ketchem’ used to be popular :P)
Goddess of Ash, because that’s what she can turn you into.
*lights fire*
Ash as in what Maxima turned a large portion of desert into while Suzie Wen was present.
I thought that was glass, not ash.
That was pre-press corps arrival, although the glass would have remained. The mini-nuke was the demonstration that the media, and Suzie News in particular, saw. A nuclear dust cloud is very reasonably described as an ash cloud.
that Kelly Rippa thing better happen.
From that one headline we can only see the first two letters. Something like “Kryptonite real too?”
“Kryptonite is my mittens”?
You can see part of the third letter, too, and (from my perspective) it is definitely a “Y”. So, it’s probably “Kryptonite”.
I can think of some ‘better’ options for her sauce, but that’s just me….
I bear absolutely no ill-will towards Mas Rippa but, for a spectacle such as Max describes in the last panel, I’d happily pay money to watch. It seems very likely that many of Sydney’s teammates have similar feelings..
*Puts hand up* You had better include that scene buster.Cause it would be too good not to.
It could actually make for an amusing episode. If they warn kelly ahead of time she can gracefully bow out at taste test time, then sydney dares the audience to come up and have a taste.
“Just sign this waiver first.”
Thinking of the restaurant that Sydney visited ‘yesterday’.
That much destruction requires more than a waiver. Oh, I guess you are talking about Fusion, where she had lunch and slight mishap.
Yes.