Grrl Power #365 – The actual most dangerous game
Harem is a real gigglepuss isn’t she?
Arianna’s probably not the only one worried about their new team getting photographed mid-celebutard activity, and there will be plenty of opportunity for it in the upcoming days. Some of them garner more concern that others. Harem can’t fly, but she’s still high on the list. Heatwave is as well. Achilles, well guys can certainly do moronic things on camera but at least there is far less of a chance of a wardrobe malfunction with them. Barring kilts.
Is it weird I have 3 female characters who don’t own dresses or skirts? Not that it’s some sort of requirement for women, especially in this day and age, but personally I don’t know about women who don’t take advantage of the option. But I started thinking about it and I just couldn’t see any of those three wearing them. Maxima because she perpetually downplays her femininity, and also figures at any moment she might get into a serious fight that involves kicking someone in the neck, and would be severely displeased if any panty shots of her started getting shared around. Peggy is just a straight up tomboy, as is Sydney, though I will say of all of them, I could see Sydney choosing a long skirt over shorts in the summer since it would allow her to slack off more on the personal grooming front. It’s just over the years her wardrobe has leaned more and more heavily on jeans until all she had left was the odd skirt for a bit of cosplay. In reality she probably still has a few buried in the back of her closet but she hasn’t worn any in so long they’ve slipped her mind since they’re so far out of rotation. Varia is a tomboy too, (you guys think I have a type?) but I could totally see her rocking a dress/skirt and some big ‘ol boots.
#MakeComics: There are a few ways to introduce a new character. From a humor standpoint, I think the worst way is to have a joke that relies on prior knowledge of the new character. I think writers are prone to doing this because they forget that the readers aren’t as familiar with the character as they are.
The other way, besides just walking them on to the page and saying “this is Phil” is to bring them into a scene in a way that establishes something about them, but doesn’t require prior knowledge. Instead you infer implied prior knowledge about them from what you seen in the establishing scene. I’d like to think I did this here, but in reality this page could have benefited from having Omar (that’s the guy in the beard) introduced previously. Most of you know Max is a bit of a strident feminist, and you can infer her relationship with this guy from what’s going on in the page. Unfortunately I am the least qualified to judge this since it’s my own characters and my own writing. I wrote myself into a little bit of a corner as I realized this scene only has a few more pages and if I wanted to get this joke in I had missed the opportunity to introduce him prior to this page. Also I’m breaking my own rule about putting people in the Who’s Who before they’re named in the comic just cause people will want to know who this guy is and that’s where they should be looking. I could have easily had Max saying “Damn it Omar” but I preferred her with just the death stare.
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HEHE SILLY MAX
interesting that the face is ABSOLUTELY NOT the same on the picture and what she does.
also, why is hiro on the roaster on the side since we don’t even see a tip of the head of him?
Check the blurb at the bottom about a kilt. Hiroyuki makes a showing, just nt in the formal comic.
https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/kazmonster/men%20in%20kilts/got_kilt.jpg
Or, alternately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ35SOU9HTM
You deserve a prize for that. Err, I hope you don’t mind that it is just a Scooby burger?
I’ve eaten bigger ones then that in my youth
near my parents place there was a burger bar, the owner made some food, he made something he called an animal burger:-
16 rashers of bacon
8 pineapple rings
8 quarter pound beef burger
4 slices of cheese
2 fried eggs
1 burger bun
I managed to eat two of them at one point
I would expect as much, from a carnivorous dinosaur!
Apparently, I got here too late to drop that link in…But I agree that this is a good thread to include it.
:)
Hiro is the head below the page asking about kilts. That I guess is enough to show up in the Who’s who on the side.
1 – She’s in motion, so the shot might have happened just before the panel.
2 – My phone camera shots NEVER look like me. Something about aperture and focal length I think.
I’m more impressed that he got an unblurred, centred shot of an angry super speeder. Arc-Sparq engineers must have access to some VERY high tech stuff if that is what he can do on his personal smart phone.
He must have some minor super-speed in there. He got straightened up and produced that phone awfully quick.
Minor super speed, regenerative capacities and the ability to digest modern electronics, I’m guessing.
I’m thinking that DaveB might consider cropping Max’s expression in panel 7 to include it in the cycle of character portraits at the top of the page…
Hmmm, yes. That would be good.
Rule of Funny.
Conversely, Heatwave is missing, despite speaking.
OK, yelling.
Whoops, forgot her.
As is Varia
Dave explains, elsewhere, that he removed her as the Who’s Who was too lengthy and needed to be shortened. Hers was the least significant part, so she took the hit.
I’m thinking that Brooke is going to eventually get around to a considering particular fact, sooner or later: her injury happened because she wasn’t wearing her steel-toed standard issue at the time, which would have prevented or lessened the effects of the injury…BUT, if she thinks kevlar socks are going to help at all, she’ll have to remember to wear them every time she decides to wear regular shoes instead of her steel toes.
Kevlar socks go quite well, with sandals, I hear…
:-/
Don’t forget, most camera phones have a slight pause before they display the image they took, so the image in the phone is when she’s blurting out what while the panel shows her grimace immediately after. Nice touch on that detail.
On a different note, it might just be a biased opinion, but when I was in the Marines, a high percentage of women who served tended toward the tomboyish side. I remember several squadron and unit get-togethers where all but maybe one woman wore jeans.
but they all owned skirts or at least one. the one issued as part of the dress uniform to all females that is part of a uniform inspection.
Sadly, (because of the randomization feature) Max’s face in panel 7 is not the profile picture at the top of today’s page. (at least for me)
It might take awhile before it gets added to the roster
Yup. Much as I too would like the roster to be updated, it may well be that having it too long can interfere with comic-loading times.* If so, we would have to loose some of the old pictures, to make room for the newer. In which case the gain would only be marginal.
However, if it is not an issue, then there are loads I would love to see cropping up in the rotation. Including a couple of Sydney (on the vertigo page). Plus Dabbler looking so cute she should be turned into a plushy (on the Make Maxima Say page). And Maxima looking like she is thinking of Sydney as her daughter, and Sydney being correspondingly adorable too (Touching a star).
* Whether such issues could be avoided, with different code, is irrelevant. Dave has to work with the particular set up he has. Not being able to employ a systems admin means any time wasted on programming, or website issues, isn’t being directed at making the comic or the paper book.
Perhaps if Dave stated what size/ratio/format/filetype the image files should be others such as yourself could prepare images from the comic pages for him to simply review and drop into the rotation whenever he has time, thus releving him of at least some of the work involved in expanding the roster?
Depends exactly how it works if that would be a significant saving, but it’s a thought perhaps.
I would love to, should it turn out to be viable.
The hobbies some people have…
Base jumping.
Hand feeding sharks?
Angering people with super powers.
It’s amazing civilization managed to form at all, with things like that
Deathwish is at the basis of many civilization achievements…
One of these days Omar may push things too far and it will be ruled as “Suicide by cop,” with Maxima being the cop.
Well yes, even in the most comradely way and even were I a super, I would be very careful about trolling Max just in case she didn’t pull back in time.
Nah, if there is one thing pranksters know it is the limit to their pranks and people’s hot buttons.
Omar just learned Maxima’s PDQ and has a running anger image file for later comparison on timing.
Also, never be against an Engineer in a prank war, those guys can get really creative.
Don’t worry, Omar came prepared in case Max accidentally took a swing at him. Under his shirt he is wearing one of those gel-pack impact absorbing vests that were described earlier. He calls them Max-i-pads.
Nah, Maxima is a member of a very exclusive fraternity. That of the superman level of power. She has probably spent her whole life training herself to NOT physically lash out without thinking about it first simply due to her ability to literally kill anyone she brushes against in anger. I really dont think its likely that she would ever react with a anger swing to words because of that.
+1
Part of her anger probably stems from:
“You do realise that I could squish you easier than you can crush a grape? And how hard it is to avoid the temptation to do that? AND YET YOU STILL TRY TO WIND ME UP!”
All true, but some times, you just can’t help yourself… :P
and she will write the I regret to inform letter to his family when she does “it” (possibly again) as a reminder to not hurt without reason.
And then the one to her own family, to explain why she has to write to them, rather than fly.
On the grounds that she would be in prison.
Hey, sometimes you just gotta tug on Superman’s cape.
So, Max has a sensitive spot for burkas, huh? Could this have something to do with The Mosque Incident?
Max is VERY emphatic that the mosque incident was accidental, so I’d say probably not.
I believe she qualified that accident statement with “mostly”.
You know, evey time the Mosque Incident comes up, I can’t help but think of Calvin and Hobbes. You know- ‘The Noodle Incident’.
I’m Pretty sure the Mosque incident is listed on the TVTropes Noodle Incident page.
nope, it’s not listed. someone with an account should fix that. WE RIDE!
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
don’t forget screaming threats to dragons while sitting in polished metal in the sun.
Dragons does appreciate when food comes with a single use oven like that. Just bake until the noise stops and the meal is done. The added metal adds taste and is great for your scales.
And they even come with their own toothpicks!
Also, Peggy might be sensitive about wearing a skirt with her artificial leg.
Wouldn’t Max need to wear a skirt sometimes as part of her uniform? I seem to recall a few female officers in skirts on JAG, way back when.
Non-standard military unit. And, are you going to argue with Max about it? Normal military units require skirts for Class As (and Bs, I think), but this is a unit where there’s a little more emphasis put on practicality.
In this branch (not just the unit), females (and males) can wear what part of the uniform they like, as long as it is part of the proper uniform, which means that Maxi wears the trousers as part of her ‘dress uniform’ (did we ever figure out the colour for ARCHON ‘dress uniform’?)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/993
The subject of skirts has come up before, however briefly.
Fairly sure it was brought up somewhere else
All that springs to mind is a related topic. Once or twice.
Actually thinking when Sydney was introduced to the team, and Maxi Ari & The General were standing on the balcony
Say, we are in book two now. Aren’t we overdue for similar fan service, for this book? With a suitably ironic gag, to go with it.
*puts on best puppy-dog eyes*
Wasnt the extended shower scene enough fan service for you? Both of them?
No, no butt…
:)
So what you’re saying is you want more butts, & no ifs, maybes of buts about it…?
Well, as most dogs are, Yorp would tend to be a bit obsessive about butts…
The colour is a version of purple. At first I thought Air Force Blue, but it is a little different.
Yeah, can remember the discussions, just wasn’t sure if we settled on an actual colour or ‘name’
One branch has “Air Force Blue”. This branch has “Archon Blunt Force Trauma Purple”
That sounds good :D
Peggy seems comfortable enough with it. No signs of shyness in the shower, for instance. Her lack of interest in skirts probably predates her loosing the leg.
Those last 2 panels are why they (Max specifically) are good guys.
If they were the bad guys, Omar would be geostationary right now.
If Omar was ever stationed in the middle east with Max, it might help explain a few of those old ‘incidents’. She clearly has a fair amount of self control NOW, but it would’ve taken more guts than I have for Omar to have started this album of his.
“…Omar would be geostationary right now.”
In orbit or pounded into the floor like a nail, either way would (by definition) still be “geostationary.”
WHAT?!!! Wearing underwear with a kilt?! That, Arianna, is base sacrilege! Go regimental or not at all.
I think that’s the point.
If there’s underwear, it’s no longer a kilt. Then you’re just a guy in a plaid skirt. [insert schoolgirl joke here]
*Processor-image of new character Omar or Hiro in school-girl uniform – fan disservice style…*
Betting Hiro has the legs for it ;)
Well, apparently they don’t have any body hair, so maybe… :P
Problem with that is, if Hiro wore a kilt correctly Sydney would quickly die of dehydration because she wouldn’t be able to stop drooling.
He he. True. We cannot have Sydney come to harm!
Your case is proven.
Be careful how often you call it a skirt, especially in the presence of Scotsmen. Call it a skirt one too many times, and you might get kilt. :D
My god, man! Get a hold of yourself… This is no time to stand on tradition: think of the windburn…
Windburn? Thats just primitive, and necessary AC. Ever see a man in a kilt rocking his hips front to back a little? He’s fanning himself. No joke.
I nominate Omar for the Brass Balls Award. And nickname him “The Mad Mullah” just because.
I´d call him Abdul Alhazred, the Mad Arab.
Does he hang out with Gwen?
Spawq. He hang out with the Gadget-girl
The original Mad Arab hung out with Cthulhu…
M’ballhz Erbig
Sounds like Omar is the resident Maxi-baiter :P
Yes. One could call him a “Master.”
Good attempt Keneth, but bad follow through.
Hey, I was rather proud of that…
Oh well. What would you have gone with?
He knows how to use his tongue, to get under Maxima’s skin. Clearly he is Omar the cunning linguist.
I would have stopped at ‘Maxima-baiter’ if you were going for a masturbation pun :)
Er… maxi-baiter.
Ooh, Arianna, how racist can you get? If any American wishes to express his ethnic and social heritage, including his Scottish ones, he should be entitled to!
How else can a man show his courage, if not by running through a field of thistles, wearing his kilt in the traditional manner?
Always remember: Nothing is worn under a kilt. It’s all in perfect working order. ;)
(“worn” as in “worn out / not working”, just in case anyone missed the play on words.)
If that were true, then in order to comply you’d always need to be barefoot.
Incorrect, you must always have good footwear, which has not worn out.
I blame the slippery vagueness of the English language – it’s just that all footwear is worn under (=”beneath”) the kilt, you see.
Check out this random page of kilt-wearers, and you will see very few who have any footwear. Mostly because they have paws, not feet.
I was thinking culturally insensitive myself.
“If any American wishes to express his ethnic and social heritage, he should be entitled to!”
as long as its not a crime, and you know what Americans think of nudity. even if its not as much as islam does…
“But think of the children!” and all that crap.
If any kid is routinely peering up people’s garments in the first place, then it is probably too late to worry about them being corrupted or whatever.
Besides, these days, they get to see way more and in better detail on the Internet.
Not like the good old days, when I was a kid and found out about female nudity by perusing my father’s old Playboy mags.
On a related subject, Playboy stops doing nudes as of March 2016.
That’s more practical when you can see a lot more online. And I remember finding quite a few interesting articles and interviews when I was a kid so it might not be that bad.
There are articles and interviews in Playboy?! o.O
Yeah, they’re those things people always used to claim were the only reason they read Playboy.
Now they’ll be the only thing left in Playboy.
Market expectations* are for bankruptcy protection to be filed in April 2016.
* Extrapolated from a survey of two people, who have admitted to buying Playboy in the past, but do not expect to again after that date.
Playboy has a hard time selling their magazines. Their best selling issue was way back in the 70’s. That issue sold over seven million copies, and that year the average was over six million copies. Now they sell about eight hundred thousand of each issue and the numbers are dropping.
Back in the seventies porn was hard to get hold of so pictures of good looking girls in the buff was a big thing. Today a three second internet search can get you almost any kind of porn you can dream of (as long as it’s at least borderline legal that is) and you don’t have to go to a store and buy your porn risking a run in with someone you know.
Back in the year 2000 Playboy was worth about one billion dollars, by 2009 they were down to under a hundred million. They have to do something to break that trend, though I don’t know if just skipping the naked ladies is going to save them. The Internet has changed the playing field not only for porn but for just about all forms of publishing. What they are doing might give them a few more years, but I doubt there will be a dead tree version of Playboy available in a decade.
Poor Hugh.
They’ve not had nudes on their website for a few months and apparently they’ve been getting a lot more traffic. They’ll still have the spreads, but it won’t be full body nudes.
If they follow through with their new policy, can the magazine still feature an interview with the band Barenaked Ladies?
as long as there are no images? yes.
so what if its named “barenaked ladies”? a title is not the same as a photo of them.
Asian in a kilt. I think there was some sort of starburst commercial about that, Yorp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h3ewZxrqU4
I was wrong – it’s for skittles.
i clicked your link, it was Starburst
Asians (and other regions throughout the world) have worn kilt-like skirts for millennia. Unlike in Britain, they never went out of fashion. The kilts we see in the Celtic regions, today, are a modern revival, of older traditions.
Somewhere, Math is screaming “DAMMIT ARIANNA!”
Naaa, still too distracted/in happy-shock about being ordered to look at nothing but boobs by Max…
…Or he’s already ran off & started…
Don’t forget the time when Daphne and Ari’s assistant were both in the toilets (Harem still owes her a new phone :P)
Yes! It’s time to play “Where’s Omar!” the fun filled game where you get see if the artist added a new character previously in the background of another panel.
*clicking back*
Found him!
Link please?
Here, seated in the final panel. Plus he is not the only one we have not had an introduction to previously.
So there are no excuses, we have had forewarning if Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher or Harrison Ford turn up.
I think the only ones left in that panel are the three on the right of the upper level.
Those three are:
• Pink haired girl, a.k.a. Gwen.
• Bald brown* guy a.k.a. Space Marine.
• George Lucas.
* Unless you are going to call me racist for using a colour to describe hair, don’t call me racist for using it to describe skin. It makes identifying him, in the crowd, easier.
Think he meant the other pink haired girl. The short one between Gwen and Space Marine.
Oh yea. How unobservant of me, not to notice that there were two pink-haired girls, next to each other! That one gives me a manga impression. So her and George Lucas, are both new then.
We have seen Dabbler’s workmate (on the far right), and both the space marines (the other one being the girl in between Achilles and Stalwart), oh plus Duke Nukem, who is the third marine. But they have not been introduced to Sydney yet.
The only other one I can’t place is the guy, in the blue baseball cap, next to Duke Nukem.
Cool, thanks for that…
I think you did a good job introducing him and naturally establishing him as a prankster, specifically pulling the maxima’s tiger tail. A metaphorical show not tell as it were.
Yeah, I think it work well too…
Yuppers. Funny that the aspect DaveB was worried about worked perfectly. Yet what slipped up was the presentation of a basic pun. Namely making the “no pussy” visual gag overly elaborate, thus loosing a few readers,* and causing others to be unsure if they were missing something beyond that.
* Albeit those not familiar with English terms versus American ones would not get it. But no manner of presentation would change that. It is fairly broadly known, amongst Americans, and extensively used in Britain. So should not exclude too many folks. Excepting the always present victims of puns, being those who do not speak English as a first language. But this is helping them to learn common colloquialisms, so all is good.
Was thrown by the fact he used a leopard and not a house cat (unless it was supposed to be a cheetah and he forgot the ‘tears’, in which case… BATHE HIM IN SYDNEY’S SPECIAL SAUCE!!!!!)
I like Omar. He can stay.
+1
He is helping Maxima, with her anger management issues. The ballsy way.
I hope he’s getting hazard pay for that.
If you get paid for pranks, it’s no longer pranking, it’s social engineering…
Then I hope he’s getting hazard pay for his ‘social engineering’.
So, I don’t need to wear underwear if I wear really loose shorts or really tight shorts?
if there is a zipper… bad idea.
Naturalist Jeff Corwin is prone to going commando (and tends to wear loose khaki shorts). The cameramen learned pretty quickly… in any shot where they *know* Corwin is going to be climbing something, they ask “Jeff, did you remember your underwear today?”
I have underwear that matches my birthday suit.
Best kind. ; )
diapers?
Wouldn’t a Burka be just like a skirt if you flew with it?
I don’t think Omar really cared about that, one way or the other. He just wanted to get a rise from Maxima.
But, yea, running … err flying… with the question, the view from below would be similar to a long dress but that is different to a skirt. If visualising a modern belt-length one, that is, rather than some hypothetical ancient long skirt.
The following is purely to illustrate my previous point, rather than to be gratuitous. Honest!
Flying skirts.
The danger of a short skirt.
“In olden days a glimpse of stocking,
was looked on as something shocking.
Now Heaven knows,
everything shows.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEbYfzhYQo4
:P
This version is much better than the “Monty Python” version, in my humble opinion.
:D
From what I hear, there’s also always the old classic, or related variations…
“I see London,
I see France,
I see someone’s underpants…”
“I see London,
I see France,
I see someone’s got no underpants…”
I prefer this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeURx3mYck
Eh, not bad, but not something I’d make a song & dance about…
The sign with the cat (leopard?) made me laugh. So did Omar. Peggy and Ari both look good enough to make me wish I could become a cartoon character. Too bad Omar is already taken. I could’ve been “the tent maker”.
Thanks, Dave. : )
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All that made me think was, “If I fits, I sits!”
Can anyone explain it to me? Is it a visual gag? A pun? The boxed leopard? What message is it sending? Is it part of the current discussion or from the one previous (off panel)?
The box is a red herring. The leopard is a pussy cat.
The gag is a visual pun. “No pussy”
DaveB‘s explanation being found deep in this thread.
Yes. You beat me me to it. : )
The box is not a red herring. Google “box slang” if you’re over 18 and not at work.
Ta for that, I have never heard that used.
Ari was saying to wear underwear to prevent photos of genitals. The sign might mean “No Pussy”.
And it’s also related to Ari’s comment about “flapping clams.”
…flapping clams…hmph…smirk…heh…Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!…
Sorry about that (he-he). Dave’s just got an interesting way of turning a phrase.
I would like to point the the spots are open rosettes not sold. This is Clearly a Jaguar not a Leopard.
OMG! I swear that they were solid earlier. That leopard has changed his spots!
Jaguar spot rings have another spot in the center, whereas leopards have just the ring of spots with an open center. So therefore I declare that this picture looks an ocelot like a leopard to me.
Wonder how Omar would look sporting the latest Burka?
He’d probably look very indignant…Assuming you could see his facial expression at all.
Somehow, I have doubts that a serious professional would have used the words “flapping their clams” in such a conference. From anyone else in that room I wouldn’t have been so surprised, but to hear it from our professional and business-like Arianna?!
And is Halo blushing over the fact that she doesn’t have a dress, or from hearing that phrase, do you suppose?
Sure, Arianna could have spent a few extra words / sentences being delicate about it – and undoubtedly either put the team to sleep or set off several rounds of wisecracks and tomfoolery. Instead, given the crowd she is addressing, she opted for bluntness – making for extra emphasis AND holding their attention.
This is one of the extremely few times I actually approve of how Arianna handles something..
It’s all about the audience. I’d give her points for that line, if I was there.
Agreed, Arianna knows all the people there well, so is aware of whether any are prudish,* or likely to be offended. Presumably none are, hence her feeling free to use the term. In fact the one she has known for the shortest time is Sydney. And (to give us a yard-stick for how much she might see new personnel) they have already seen quite a lot of each other.
Certainly the only one, of the cast, we have seen getting seriously embarrassed, is Sydney. And that is due to actual proximity to nudity or sexuality (being on the phone with Dabber, having sex, does actually count, as the intimacy makes it feel close, despite the physical distance).
Is a mere crude manner of expression likely to embarrass Sydney? I doubt it. Especially give that her own language can make a sailor blush!
* She knows Maxima is, but (if you remember the scene at the restaurant) she was joining in with Dabbler’s teasing of Maxima.
Sydney could also make a pirate look down & shuffle his feet like a schoolboy with a guilty conscience…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/718
I think she’s blushing over admitting that she might cosplay.
“I was drunk …. It was on a dare …. I needed the money …”
Mmm, I am guessing that Achilles is referring to an internal intranet website, similar to (or in conjunction with) a news letter. Unless he actually has been delegated to maintaining the unit’s formal website member’s profiles, and is just having a joke.
Perhaps its just for a profile pic in association with her number on his own phone? :-)
Yup, was thinking that as well, we have already seen Peggy’s pic for Maxi (Omar was probably the one who took that one as well :D)
He he. Living in my hermitage does make me miss the obvious sometimes!
Mind you, I do use Skype, so the concept is not an unfamiliar one. I even have an interesting issue with it, at this very moment. A new friend and I want to set each other up as contacts. Because I have my privacy options set to the maximum though, I am used to having to initiate such exchanges, as other people cannot see my name publicly, unless I invite them.
Trouble is he is just as paranoid as myself, so I cannot find him either! This despite, when at another, mutual, friend’s house, I can see both of our skype names, complete with distinctive pics. Thanks to him not being bothered about security.
Fortunately that means I can get him, in due course, to set up a three-way conference call, allowing us to get around the head-scratching problem we faced without him.
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Pants are just more functional, useful, and unobtrusive. I have maybe one skirt in my closet that I wear once a year at most, and two costume dresses for Halloween. Everything else is pants or shorts.
Plus, unless I miss my guess, pants have more pockets to put stuff in.
unfortunately women’s pants do not have more pockets. a lot of women’s pants either have no pocket or very little pocket. because they expect us to carry everything in a purse instead.
To be fair to my ex-roomate. I have yet to find a pocket that can hold a laptop
Tell your ex-roomate to checkout SCOTTeVEST clothing. Not sure if they have pants that can fit a laptop but they have vests and jackets that can.
It seems this phenomenon also appears elsewhere. Is this really a thing? Another thing for the “Humans are weird” column. Still, it’s weird stuff like that, that makes me hang around. I enjoy the laughs…
I shook Danel the Human, upside down, until the link, that he had tried to steal from you, dropped out of his pockets. Humans are weird!
Whoops, thanks for that. Seems a link to this Grrl Power got in there too somehow. I recon he might have been trying to pull another prank on me…
Some styles of dress pants for guys is also weird about pockets…They have the hem sewn shut & no lining inside. Literally, a faux-pocket.
From approx middle school until the day I found an awesome, pocketed, practical, ankle-length denim skirt (about two years ago), the only skirt in my possession was the black one for when I was playing in school band concerts. And that only because it was required. I am a big fan of practicality – in clothing at least!
“Achilles, well guys can certainly do moronic things on camera but at least there is far less of a chance of a wardrobe malfunction with them. Barring kilts.”
From what we’ve seen, I’d think Achilles would be unusually prone to wardrobe malfunctions – they’d just be of the “Somebody set my clothes on fire and now I don’t have any clothes!” variety.
And then Sydney will accidentally grab his ass . . .
“accidently”? :D
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1164
Well, it seemed like an accident at the time.
No so much accident as “I’m back to back with someone and I don’t feel cloth…”
Looks to me like she hid behind something that could take the explosion, only to discover she wasn’t leaning against clothes. I guess that counts as accidentally grabbing his ass, feeling for clothes…
It occurs to me that “I haven’t got a THING to wear” is probably heard much more often from Achilles than from anybody else on the team.
Only when he’s been used as a moving target…
Achilles doesn’t “get used” as a moving target…He readily does that on purpose.
with his eye.
By reaching straight into the Lion’s den to pull its tail for much merryment, Omar has been earned this reader’s approvement already at his introduction!
Sudden Muslim Guy Out of Nowhere! Classic gag!
He has appeared a couple pages back, so no, not ‘out of nowhere’
Hmmph, IF I wear with the kilt…it’s because it’s cold. With my sense of cold re-calibrated that means not likely to wear underwear until around zero. :)
I thought Hiro was Japanese, not Scottish or Irish, the two cultures most associated with kilts.
I’m not Irish or Scottish, and I’d wear a kilt just because they look comfortable. They also look like they’d be much cooler when it’s hot out.
Nothing to stop him being Japanese and Scottish by parentage, yet American by place of birth.
… or, simply, ethnically confused. ;)
Oh great…A brand new issue for Social Justice Warriors to harp on about: Transethnic.
:-/
IMO, it’s only a matter of time ….
Scotch-Korean!
Walking advertisement for skittles!
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/56/8f/ab/568fab87cbf64802f683aa80df62d608.jpg
Scotch vs Scots
Pro tip: I always use “Scottish”, to avoid the slip-up, myself.
Please watch the commercial. They call them ‘scotch-korean.’ That’s the joke.
Not to mention that technically, Scotch means ‘having to do with Scotland’ and the beverage is actually called Scotch Whiskey (rather than scottish whiskey).
So scotch-korean actually still works.
Its a photograph. It did not talk to me!
But you are right to point out that I had not picked up on the term, in the advert you linked elsewhere. I blame my mind fixating on the visuals. So you did good.
*wags tail*
Your defence of the term, on the other paw though could land you in trouble. So I will elaborate on that point. Although clever, it relies on an obsolete definition. I note that although Wikipedia correctly identifies the issue, the corresponding Wiki dictionary entry fails to, and even places it as the primary definition. Which is misleading, to say the least!
Others vary the definitions a fair bit, probably (again going by the wiki entry) down to national variability, but which the dictionaries do not corroborate.
All that aside, I can assure you that you risk irritating some Scottish folk by using it.
Worse another (also archaic) definition of it, is ‘frugal’ or ‘mean’. And was historically used as a pejorative term by the English against the Scots. Hopefully this explains why more than a few find it offensive, even today. Which I have seen happening, in person. Hence the words of advice.
Scotch, when referring to objects (eg. Scotch Egg, Scotch Whisky) is fine, but not to people.
But, the advert was funny despite that. :-D
Wait, you saying a Glaswegian can’t be an egg? o_O
Maybe, maybe not…But anyone who is a citizen on the Agean island of Lesbos (males included!) are actually Lesbians…
;)
and scotish the place of rise…
but it was probably nothing more than a joke anyway. he doesn’t need an actual heritage to make a joke.
We are *ALL* mongrels…
…it’s just a question of degree.
Woof!
Full-blown Cybertronian here. Just with “imitation-Human” Pretender Armour…
I thought you were the guy who looked like a sci-fi Creature from the Black Lagoon. =P]
Always thought you were full pedigree, with papers and everything :(
Any breed of modern dogs are descendants of wolves…To get the various breeds of dogs, different types of wolves needed to be eugenically-bred. Yes, even pure-breed dogs are actually the “mongrel” offspring of wolves.
Woof!
Even Chihuahua? o_O
Even Chihuahua. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv10_WvGxo
You don’t have to have any ties to Scotland to wear a kilt. You are even free to wear any tartan you feel like, no matter what clan has claimed it. But if you want to be polite then just go with one of the many “free” tartan patterns such as those found here: https://www.scotlandshop.com/t-GenericTartanList.aspx
For what it’s worth the clan tartans wasn’t a thing until sometime in the nineteenth century. Before that people wore what tartan they felt like.
I would only wear one of these tartans.
Hey, Google, stop being so sexist! When I search for “dog+wearing+Cornish+kilt” it should not turn up with this picture! https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_01/katewillscomp130307_468x294.jpg
Yes, the Prince of Wales is wearing the appropriate kilt for the Duchy. No, that is not a dog standing next to him!
*Tries to keep a straight face*
No-one is going to stop someone from wearing whatever tartan they like, though traditionaly you should wear the tartan of your clan leader. In my case my family is a Border Clan, so while I’m English I have a clan tartan, also, under those rules many people say that anyone who is British, or from a comonwealth country with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, can wear Royal Stuart tartan as that is the personal tartan of the Queen and as one of her subjects technicaly she is considred your Clan Leader.
Interestingly, it seems to be Americans I know who are more bothered about the rules around this sort of thing than Scots I know =P
How would Maxima,Sydney,Peggy,Heatwave,Anvil,Varia and Harem look in burkas???
Like oversized, black robed jawas?
Very mismatched.
Maybe you’re right! Besides, at her height, Anvil would stick out like a sore thumb.
Also does ARC discriminate against those due to their religious beliefs???
I should not think so. They follow heroic ideals, after all. They will do what they perceive to be the most in keeping with their ideals.
But there is also a complication. They would be required to do though is follow official government/military policy, if there is any. France has legislated to ban burkas.* If the U.S.A. decided to follow their example, then their armed forces and police would be obliged to enforce the law.
One thing that most civilians may not realise is how carefully members of the armed forces have to be to avoid getting involved in protests against government policy. I even know American civilians, who only work on a military base, who would turn tail, at the merest sight of demonstrators, rather than risk being thought to be associated with them. No matter what the cause they are championing.
If they want to protest at something, they would need to be careful to do it by some means which does not bring the armed forces into disrepute, by making them appear disloyal to the government. Although I do not know how that expresses itself in practical terms.
Clearly there are some mechanisms, as we occasionally see very senior military personnel speaking out directly against government policy. But I am sure that they will represent a broad spectrum of opinion, in the force, that the issue is too militarily important not to raise it in public. So burka wearing is in a very different category to that kind of dissent.
This reply factors in that this is (in relative terms) a trivial issue. Not one (all other things being equal) worthy of loosing a job to protest over. It would take something more to make me feel a heroic soldier should refuse a lawful command. Refuse to harm an innocent, of course. Refuse to be fashion police? Meh.
* Which I think is silly, but don’t have particularly strong feelings on it, either way. There are arguments for and against. Including women complaining because they want to wear them. Citing, for instance, that they enjoy the anonymity and freedom from lechery it grants them.
If their rights are to be respected, then any concerns about security could require that wearers show their faces to any legitimate official request (eg from the police, or soldiers, in the course of their duty, or from security staff at a bank or other public area).
It would still create a daily oppressive situation for such women mind. But at least it would allow the women I cited to have their choice the rest of the time. Although then you have the much more complex issue of how to protect those women who do not wish to wear them, despite pressure from others. A ban solves their problem easily, but at the cost of impinging on the rights of others.
Plus the religious and cultural traditions of the Islamic community need to be factored in too. Not just focussing on individuals rights. Our politically correct western views, on what is and is not sexism, should not be given blind precedence over another culture or religion.
Hence my ambivalence. I have not heard a good solution proposed, which does not harm someone involved.
So we’ve established that all female supers are well-endowed and have no body hair and are always attractive. Since this is the case, I think the least of the worries is having one of them flash a camera because they took off flying with a skirt without underwear. I think it’d be more prudent to put a clause in their contract that moonlighting as porn stars is a criminal offense subject to court martial. Seriously, I guarantee that with it out there now, supers-porn would be a hot commodity and Harem and Dabbler could make quite a bit of money off of it.
In fact…*starts Google search*…yup…already exists.
Put your filters back on this instant!
To quote whereswaldo.com
We must not risk children finding you looking at porn!
This actually made me laugh out loud. Good dog. *pat pat*
I’m confused. Why doesn’t Heatwave wear underwear?
Did she just forgot, being the airhead that she is?
Or maybe… *activates fridge brain* … what if there is a biological explanation for that? Like her… fluids being … cloth-burning-hot?
That stuff matters!
Also, I demand a flashback showing Sydney in skirty cosplay!
I second the Sydney Skirty Cosplay Flashback. In fact, there is the monthly vote incentive for November or December.
I would like to see Sydney cos-playing as Agatha Hetrodyne. And I would like to see Professors Phil & Kaja Foglio depict Agatha cos-playing as either Sydney or Halo. It would even be in character for her actress alternate self!
This is seconded. Motion carries. Dave, Phil and Kaja, make it happen pretty please!
Now I too want to see Agatha as Halo with some of her flying mini klanks cosplaying as the orbs. She probably could emulate at least the PPO, though the first time she built a death ray she accidentally blew a hole through a mountain…
Whether she ordinarily does or does not wear her undies isn’t being addressed. The way I read it, she’s the only one of the women who can fly who’s ever going to be in a dress, so Arianna singled her out there.
I think its not so much that she doesnt wear underwear as she’s the only woman there besides Arianna herself that wears skirts sometimes and can fly.
Also we saw her flying around flame blasting and fighting in the brawl in civilian clothes without burning them off of herself, so no, its unlikely that she’d need a fireproof suit though one that can protect her precious digits is clearly desired.
General Faulk has already provided us with one, sorta:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/468
The harvest begins…
Over on Dave’s deviantart page has Sydney cosplaying as Halo and losing a Halo look alike contest to a girl with huge… tracts of land.
https://davebarrack.deviantart.com/art/Halo-Lookalike-Contest-431780929
eh, this does introduce Omar as a prankster, but not a particularly funny one. it sounds much more like something a white guy jokes about a middle eastern guy saying than an actual middle eastern guy would say. then again, i’m seeing this joke after attending a protest against islamophobia in the aftermath of a woman being assaulted in public for wearing a hijab. so yeah…
however, the big cat in a box was a funny visual. it brings to mind funny youtube videos of big cats playing with boxes. double kudos for mentioning kilts.
i think it’s realistic for someone to only own like 2 dresses, but most of the “women” in my experience are either tomboys or transperson of one flavor or another. i only own a couple of dresses, which i only wear when i’m having a “bad skin” day, and they are all long dresses. but that’s a choice due to a combo of growing up with a skirt-peeping pervert and being non-binary transperson.
And somehow, I can’t see Max falling for jokes like that from Omar all that often. Unless he’s been collecting for a long time…
To be fair, Maxima does have a hair-trigger, for such provocations. And he timed it perfectly. Big room, serious discussion, about sensitive feminine matters, and keeping his face out of view, immediately prior, to avoid her getting suspicious. The guy knows his stuff!
I doubt that… she’s dating Mr. Amorphous, not Mr. Asbestos. ;-)
DAMMIT! That was a reply to Zwiebelchen above.
Ok, call me dumb if you must, but I totally do not get the sign in the first panel. “No leopard boxes”? It just doesn’t make sense to me, though I’m sure it’s really obvious to almost everyone else. Can somebody enlighten me please?
I’m with you. The only thing I can think of is something to do with leopard print underwear, but I don’t think that’s right.
I just took it to be a no pussies sign, taken to a comic extreme. Although it also conveyed a hint of “no cougars“. Barring the fact that the spots do indeed make it a leopard, rather than a cougar.
At first I thought it was a Cheetah and a reference to Jabberwocky flashing Math, but the spot pattern does clearly indicate leopard after looking at it closer. A quick google search for “leopard in box” turned up what was clearly the reference picture, but I’m still not getting what I suspect is quite a humorous pun. Best guess is a reference to the cat (pussy) not being fully covered/to big for the box (underwear)…
I think Mrs Slocombe says it better than any explanation I could give.
You have earned my eternal gratitude for that link.
Cheetah have ‘tears’
It is by definition a cat, which is sometimes known as a pussy, which is also a slang term for a certain part of the female anatomy.
Arianna just wanted a funny picture while she was talking about getting your kitty out in public. I almost went with just a picture of a kitten, but when looking for references I found a jaguar in a box and decided it was a funnier picture.
Cats like boxes. If you have many cats, they are also a handy filing system.
The spots are open rosettes not solid so the cat is a Jaguar nor a Leopard 8)
of coerce both are among the three large cats that have primates on the preferred diet list so if you meet one you might not be so picky over which one it was ;)
Not idea about the box, but I suspect the leopard is supposed to be pussy.
Instead of having Max say it, you could have one of the guys say Omar’s name? Like Achilles could say “Ooh nice one, Omar! I want that for her profile pic.”
Anyway, good comic as always.
Yup, good point.
How sexist from Arianna. What’s wrong with some flashing?
Omar might want to clean his boots, because they are overflowing with GUTS.
Omar never needs to wear a cup or jockstrap because he’s already got balls of steel…
He DOES need special pants though since they are the size of truck tires.
Regardless of what the morality of flashing should be, it’s something that is frowned upon by American culture. As such, in her role managing public relations, it’s something Arianna would want avoided.
It’s not weird at all to not own skirts. I only own skirts for costume, cosplay, dancing, and formal events, personally. They’re not such a staple of a woman’s wardrobe anymore.
I don’t usually wear skirts either.
Plus if I could fly, I probably would wear them even less.
Likewise.
Psst what happens on Thursday nights club stays in Thursday nights club!
You might want to reconsider the tutu while you are at it.
I don’t own or wear any skirts, either as normal wardrobe or for cosplay…I’ve never worn or owned a kilt either.
I guess it might be said that I got the balls to not wear skirts, but not enough balls to wear a kilt. That’s a strange way to address the confusion about “conventional social mores,” isn’t it?
:P
It typically doesn’t matter if you have to transform to fly, but Elliot has this problem in an unavoidable way.
https://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2090
Go Cheerleadra, go!
Ra, ra, Cheerleadra!
*summons pom-poms, from hammerspace, and starts waving them around*
Ra, ra, Cheerleadra!
Um… How come Omar and Harem get spots on the Who’s Who, but Peggy doesn’t? Peggy and Harem have the same number of lines on this page, and Peggy has the same quantity (or maybe more) of Powah as Omar or Arianna.
Cause I’m a dummy and forgot. I added her back in, but I removed Varia cause she only says one word and the Who’s Who is already massive for this page.
Peggy made Sydney run laps just for getting into an argument at lunch. If Max were in Omar’s chain of command I could see him running laps, around Texas. He may be safe by being in Arc-Sparq, probably as a civilian contractor.