Grrl Power #372 – Conquest rodeo
If you think the chair got it bad, now he straight up needs a new pair of jeans. Inconvenient erections are inconvenient enough on their own, but a teenage boy with super strength would probably need to keep a few extra pairs of jeans in his locker, or buy jeans with quick release snaps in the fly. If there’s ever a Grrl Power After Dark comic, it will probably contain exploding denim.
Dabbler is acting awfully smitten with Barberian, but it’s all part of the service. Some guys are “Yeah, we did it, high five, it’s casual, whatever.” Barberian is in the “Yeah I’m in the rotation but I like to think I’m her favorite.” category, and Dabbler doesn’t mind playing to that. Obviously there’s a much larger spectrum as well. The “I don’t really like that she has a rotation, but as long as I’m included I guess I can’t complain.” all the way to the straight up jealous types, but they don’t get invited to play in the first place.
Since this comic tends to be very moment to moment, I don’t think I’ve really mastered the “passage of time” transition. This takes place in almost the same place as the previous page but Sydney has had enough time to change. Now that I think about it I should have put them down in the lobby or something.
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Who knew alien succubi could be so strangely adorable?
sounds to me like it would be their defining charistic
Sexy =/= Adorable.
but Adorable is easier to slip past defences
Yeah…but she is both.
Her name is Dabbler for a reason, people seem to keep forgetting that ;)
They are not quite the same, but they are also not mutually exclusive either :D
obvious boner hiding is obvious
Awkward boner is SUPER awkward…
HAH!
I get it!
I think you mean:
Awkward SUPER BONER is awkward.
Fixed it for ya.
Or awkward SUPER BONER is SUPER awkward.
Super awkward super boner is…awkward?
Super powered boner is dangerous to furniture.
Which sort of goes back to what I had postulated in the comments of the previous section…Dabbler has the tools & intellect required to solve the problem of “Man of Steel, Condoms of Tissue Paper.” For the most part, it shouldn’t have much effect on Dabbler herself, personally, because being a succubus (even a hybrid) probably gives her the ability to consciously control her own fertility.
But this comic page also emphasizes that the idea of “protection” is NOT be limited merely to prevent conception.
The problem with the Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex argument in the first place is that it actually raises further, worse issues. Namely: if someone has involuntary pelvic muscles that strong, how do they use the bathroom without destroying it and possibly the building it’s in?
Well, the Golden Age Superman had super control over literally everything. Including super hypnotism and super illusion creation and super can take a dump without destroying the toilet power. Plus super can take a pee without destroying the toilet also. But if he wanted to he could carve a new Mount Rushmore while urinating. Because he also has super artistic talent and can detect minute fractures in the rock with his super vision. And given that his super breath allows him to exhale far more volume of air than his lungs could conceivably hold (unless you consider super inhalation and compression into a liquid form power), he can also pee long enough to finish the sculpting job in a single go. Because he has super bladder capacity.
He’s SUPER! Thanks for asking!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
I just heard some omnious creaking noises. As if a PG-13 rating was being bent to the maximum stress level possible.
Untrue! PG-13 can (usually) get away with (brief) non-sexual nudity. Back in the day, it even was done in PG movies. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen for example…
You could even get away with butts in G if they were brief and non-sexual.
G and PG ratings are different. This comic being rated PG-13 means that some (P)arental (G)uidance should be involved. This still leaves room for plenty of innuendo & implication, but it only attempts to keep it from being explicitly graphic.
(P)arental (G)uidance depends heavily on the parents, with today’s helicopter parenting that demands trophies for participation and won’t let a kid ride a bicycle without seven layers of combat armor? you’re lucky there is even a movie at all.
Yeah, I was just given an old go-kart (Old-school style, just a floor-frame and a seat) and told “Have fun!” Three days in I rolled the bugger when I took a corner too fast. Couple days of hammering the frame later and I’m off again. These days if it happened there would be screeching about a dozen things and lawsuits and “OH GOD PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!”
We need, and by we I mean the internet, to make a movie about a badass 7 year old decked out like neo taking out ISIS.
Correct. Another example would be Avatar (As in, the James Cameron movie, not as in “The Last Airbender”.) The female Na’vi, particularly Neytiri, occasionally showed a nipple, but you had to really watch for it… and because they were just sort of “there” and not sexualized, it kept its PG rating.
Avatar was PG-13. It was way too violent to get a PG rating.
Point is that it wasn’t uprated to R or NR-17. You know how the censors usually are.
Arr.
*vomits up a frog*
Ahem, sorry just clearing my throat.
Somehow, I think Leon will opt for having his chair replaced rather than repaired.
She’s like a horny, purple, demon-spider … from space; climbin’ up yo earthlings and getting jiggy like it’s her job.
Wait what was I typing? I blacked out for a second there.
Hide yo’ pants, hide yo’ condoms, cuz she be sexin’ errebody in here.
I think Leon is going to hide his replacement chair.
Only six limbs, so more like ‘demon-insect’.
*looks at the clock* Where did those 6 hours go?
Sexin’ up the Barberian.. that’s a Fire paddlin’.
She really can be cute, can’t she? When she says ‘fives’, she means several high fives?
I often go for the double five myself. She can give the double double (or quadruple) five.
I think it’s just a way of saying ‘high five’
Yeah, that’s how they were doing it during the debriefing session earlier.
“Fives” is just a way to call out for a “high five.”
Convincingly argued.
*holds up nones (also known as paw)*
Fives!
Shouldn’t it be “fours” in her case?
as in “she wants him on all fours?”
Nope, four-fingered hands.
humans have four fingered hands with a opposable thumb while dabs has three fingers and an opposable thumb
Goat legs and mouse hands.
Mickey Mouse, that is.
Disney Corp. is notorious for running a huge Mickey Mouse operation anyway…
Yeah, if someone is calling out to Dabbler for it, they should be saying “fours”…But when Dabbler calls for it, she’s requesting “fives” form people who actually have five.
She’s not wearing any pants, is she.
neither is the harem in a wight dress
… if she has a weight limit on teleportation… what is going to happen if her cloths are too heavy?
and the average wahat of female underwear is what 50g to 200g??
Just the underwear? 20g to 60g, depending on the style, with bras usually being on the heavier end of that. This is also true for men’s underwear. Don’t ask me how I know this.
see without that last sentence i would have just assumed you worked for a catalogue or mail order service now it sounds way more interesting
how do you know this?
The dude hides professionally. He cannot reveal his techniques.
No…things like that I’m happy to reveal. I just don’t tell people how I hide so efficiently. If I gave out that secret, everyone would be able to find me.
A while back, I wanted to figure out if there was an accurate way to guess what a person weighed by taking into account their clothes. Because of this, I weighed various types of clothing, both male and female, in various sizes and styles. How I acquired them is the interesting part of the story. I went to various thrift stores and rummaged through piles of clothes trying to find pieces I didn’t have so I could get a good range. It was very weird when I would walk up the cashier with a bag full of ladies undergarments and buy them.
I cataloged all of them, then started working on figuring out how to determine a person’s undressed weight through sight alone. I ran into two major problems which caused the entire experiment to fall through. One, determining how much muscle to fat on a person through sight alone becomes much harder as their size increases both in height and girth. Two, long hair became very tricky due to the various thicknesses and nearly random nature of it.
I was able to get a pretty decent estimation algorithm set up that could take various inputs and could put their weight into a range of about 3kg on either side. However, in order for the experiment to be a success, it needed to be within .5kg on either side. I never was able to correct for this.
That, or I just searched it on Google. Which do you think is true?
Exchange interesting with kinda creepy……..you could have just said it involved a whole lotta shaggin.
Waldo may not always be in hiding, but when he is, he might not be in hiding alone…
He just keeps hiding in the closet.
Well, looking at Waldo’s avatar up there, it appears he’s already come out of the closet…and is very pissed off.
Well, if I was going to do that, I’d look for those carnival “Guess Your Weight” guys and find out how they do it. It’s something about your upper arms.
I think she simply can’t teleport, or would have to decide what to leave behind before initiating
Maybe that’s the reason Harem dresses so sluttily – to keep the weight down?
She can take about and additional 20% of her own weight with her. (I might have said 10% in the past but I wasn’t thinking about her own clothes with that figure. She’d barely be able to take a jacket and boots if that was the case.) She’s taller than average for a girl and more muscular, so she doesn’t weigh 100 lbs. I’m bad at estimating weight though so take this number with a grain of salt, I’d say around 140? So for easy math let’s say she can take 30 lbs with her. That number goes up if there are fewer of her out in the world, so if there are two of her her weight limit is up around 80 lbs, and 100 if there’s only one of her but she almost never does that. In fact the reason there’s only 4 of her now is the Doc was to wiped out after the battle from dealing with more serious wounds to take care of Strawberry’s wrist.
I remember the character saying 25% but I could be wrong and don’t particularly feel like checking right now.
…and helium balloons DO have weight!
Yep, we should be talking mass here, not weight,
Could also density and concentration of mass into the equation to let you technobabble her abilites to be in line with what the story needs sometimes, like say that a certain mass of simple clothing distributed across the body is slightly easier to transport than one or more continuous objects made from far denser and per-atom heavier materials? Kind of working on the same principle why heating many small objects will go faster than one solid piece of the same mass due to increased surface area or the like.
Or we could just apply the assumption that we are talking Earth gravity weights, and just mentally convert that into the relevant mass. The use of “lbs” clearly just being employed for day-to-day convenience. Rather than to imply that Harem’s power would be vastly greater in micro-g.
Mind you, if Dave wants Harem to be able to become a living spaceship drive, then that is a way to go.
Now I want to see an actual Wight Dress. Either one composed of a wight, or wights, or a dress being worn by one.
Perhaps it was already made by a wight or wights, in one of the original meanings.
Not sure if Vengeful Dead clothing would make a good company name.
It wouldn’t. It would make an awesome company name!
Sounds like a potential rival to Hot Topic in terms of “biggest goth teen demographic, clothing category”.
Would a dress, made of the wight stuff, attract the right man?
Mostly likely not, but the wight dress made of the wight stuff may attract the wight man.
every time i see [glasses] harem, i just want to remove whatever shit has stained my monitor… oh wait…
You are using the wrong end there buddy. I have said it before and I guess I will say it again: Make sure you finish swallowing before reading Grrl Power.
uhm…
the [glasses] harem’s skin has spots. way more than the other ones seem to have.
it looks weired and dirty, but not in the usual harem/dabbler way of dirty.
Facially they are all similar enough that I have not noticed a difference. Given that freckles can do it for me, I probably would pick up on that. But, that said, I do fail my spot check at times.
[pause for effect and mental drum-roll]
Any difference that there may be is easily accountable for by make-up. Having dated a couple of freckled girls though, I can tell you that freckles can stand out more in some circumstances, than others. And, more than that, can vary in appearance, say after a day in the sun.
Maybe it is just down to the tan coming on, but there can be a noticeable change. Especially for someone as pale-skinned as Harem is to start. However we can check to see that, despite such variability, even their backs are consistent, between the Harems, when viewed at the same time.
Guess he’s going to have to go back to the sweats he was wearing this morning for the walk of shame.
And avoid tight jeans for his weekly “therapy” session. Anger management issues. They should consider him the second tier from a recruit, an auxiliary who trains at Archon for a civilian certification. Non military arm, like Dabbler herself so no problem with fraternization there.
Heh. If he does Ashley’s hair, he could trade for boned resistant denim jeans…
Boner resistant. Spellcheck snuck one in on me…
“Yep, we’re boned.”
~Frequent situation-assessment spoken by various people in Futurama
“Walks by sharpening a fillet knife.”
Not for long.
Ouch!
Dr. Revenge is notorious for his sharp comments & cutting commentary…
“Walks by carrying a Tetsubo.”
And do not forget my crushing wit.
And then there’s those pointed remarks, too…
“Walks by carrying a spear.”
*blinks*
*does double-take*
Oh, its you, DR. REVENGE, at first I thought that was Barberian walking by.
“Walks towards Yorp with a pole net”
*scarpers quick*
[thinking: thank goodness I don’t have any Polish blood in me, or he would have had me for sure, that time]
To be fair, in order to be boner resistant, they’d probably be boned in some fashion or another.
Or deboned.
He certainly failed in his attempt to be debonair.
I imagine that Barberian will be running his own salon by next year. Or salons. He can provide an invaluable service to a certain class of superhero: he can cut their hair, and he knows how to cut their hair. And once it gets out that he’s Stylist to the Supers, the ordinary rich and famous will be flocking to Barberian’s door.
This brings up the old thought puzzle. Where does he go to get HIS hair styled?
Any regular stylist, unless his hair is super-tough.
With reasonable skill and a number of mirrors in the appropriate positions, it IS possible for someone to cut and/or style their own hair. It would be more difficult and take extra time, due to the natural difficulty of having to position & move one’s hands against the reversal-effect of mirrors, but it can be done.
However, that’s why there’s usually more than one barber/hairdresser on duty at any time; they do each others’ hair much more easily. Indeed, if you go into a shop & see one barber with a good haircut & the other with a lousy haircut, you should pick the one who has the bad haircut to do your hair…
Maybe part of his superpowers is a natural ability to overcome the difficulty of that hand-positioning-in-mirrors situation you describe… meaning he could plausibly have a previously-unexplored talent in calculating position and movement angles of objects…
And do not forget really flexible to.
Though Dabbler would know for sure.
By now.
So, is Dabbler’s hair her natural color, or is it dyed?
Only her Barberian knows for sure…
Maxima’s hair is fine, though.
Send him Achilles. That ought to be annoying.
OOOhhh Vote Incentive Idea! Achilles walking out of the Barberian’s salon with a snazzy new style with a thought bubble that reminds people why his hairstyle hasn’t changed since 1987
More like:
“Hnnngh… GGGNNNGH… Super-Strength… diamond-blade scissors… THEY DO NOTHING!!
AND IT’S ONLY ONE HAIR!!”
“Yeah, I should probably warn you, I’ve driven all my other hair stylists to super-villainry. They hate me that much.”
Achilles may not be able to get a haircut, but he should be able to get it styled according to its current length. Besides, he shouldn’t ever need a haircut, because his hair stopped growing about the time it could no longer be cut!
That’s what I meant. he never got it changed because a) It can’t be cut and b) IF someone WAS able to cut it, it’d be that way FOREVER!
Not a good candidate to advertise for any kind of salon…He could never claim to be a “repeat customer” for the hair cuts, only for the styling.
We simply have to set up an appointment for Achilles then. Consent optional.
“Walk of Shame”? Dude just bagged (was bagged by, same diff) a succubi sex goddess/superheroine. And she liked him enough to ask him back for seconds!
Try Walk of GLORY!
Well, at least after he gets his sweatpants on.
*Hundreds of Adamas-model Synths form an Honor Guard from Archon’s door to his taxi and salute as he passes by*
For the next 24 hours his footsteps automatically generate “Staying Alive”
Barberian may have been “conquered,” but he has survived & remains unbowed (if maybe a bit bow-legged for now).
And now I’m picturing him doing the Gru from Despicable Me 2. Walking down the street and just being goofy-happy. Popping coins in Parking meters, Picking up a car illegally parked in a handicap zone so someone who needs it can park there, Buying a girl a flower and saying the shy guy in the corner bought it for her, etc.
Despicable Me is enjoyable. But Groo is awesome! Even when folks were burned out from 24 hour gaming, at conventions, if someone whipped out a deck of Groo cards, people would be up for a game.
Easy to learn, great to break the ice and it is really funny too. Win or loose you still have a good time. Perfect for recharging the batteries before diving back in for a more in-depth game.
If they are burned-out, then they are not true gamers.
Heh, the weak ones started to drop after day two. By day four, you could distinguish the hardcore. But Groo acted as good smelling salts for the others. I am equal opportunities-minded and work to help the less fortunate.
My parents still have a set, with the original dice.
with random bouts of eye of the tiger lasting several hours over the next week.
Was thinking Meatloaf’s “Out of the frying pan” or “Running for the Red Light” for some reason.
Well, he was being chased like a bat out of hell. And by a demon, at that!
But no Silver-black Phantom bike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1VuMX_G88
;)
Looks like Barberian _is_ going to end up as ARC’s unofficial official hairstylist. He’s already got Harem on the client list and I imagine Max would find it more convenient to use someone who could actually cut superstrong hair than dialing her invulnerability as far down as it will go and hope it’s enough.
And I can imagine she’s not exactly comfortable with dialling it down
AND as Dabbler’s “emergency power bank”.
That’s the stuffing of the chair coming out, right? Not… something else?
Sure, we’ll go with that.
Anybody else see what he did there?
nope nothing coming out, that chair is straight I tell ya
Not any more
Poor chair is going to need therapy. Maybe some reconstructive surgery. If the chair was one of X’s buddies in disguise, well…
Most chairs could break a bone, not the other way around…
Think it’s safe to assume that Leon won’t sit in that chair again. E-VER..
Last panel: Leon is just saying “no” to panel #6’s crack…
Spandex, man. It’s short for Ex-pandex. Remember that.
And the voting begins on the next super having a variable sized prehensile penis that allows him to juggle cars.
Isn’t that Amorphous? Minus the lifting cars with his junk.
In reference to https://evil-inc.com/comic/hands-free/
That’s not a car getting lifted, but the principle is the same.
Hudzen 10. ‘Nuff said.
That’s normal human penile power. Iron Dragons power is to summon a mecha.
That’s why he didn’t try lifting a car, obviously.
About fits, but this one would ONLY be able to Mr Fantastic his dick. As in any combat involving his power is a literal cockfight.
Reminds me of one of the companies in the Grand Theft Auto series (most noticeably in Vice City).
“Spand Express… we stretch to meet all your shipping needs”.
I get this feeling that a lot of male supers with super strength simply choose to wear sweatpants.
That’s why a lot of us evil masterminds wear robes.
He needs to call Dr. Bruce Banner and ask him where he buys his Hulk-spandable pants.
A few phone calls later:
Barberian: “You have them in my size? Great!. What do you mean they only come in purple?”
Asking such a personal question of Bruce Banner, and the Hulk, is not wise. You would not like them, when they are angry.
I’d ask the Hulk personally, the way Banner treats the Hulk I’d prolly say hello with a ten pound sledge to the abusive fucks face.
Bruce Banner would survive that, because anything that might kill him triggers a reflexive transformation into the invulnerable, Incredible Hulk. However, you might not survive that.
Depends, how often do heavily abused toddlers get angry at us for beating dear old dad to a bloody pulp?
Although I can’t say if it’s canon in the Marvel Universe, I think it has something to do with that particular shade of purple dye. It seems to give extra elasticity to the material.
Given that, regardless of purpleness or lack thereof, pants are the only clothing item of Banner’s that DOESN’T expand until ripping apart, and that, unlike most any other man in supertight pants, Hulk has no visible bulging occuring, maybe the nickname Hulk has for his alter ego, “puny Banner” isn’t just a dismissive remark about Bruce’s relatively-slim physique…
Then again, if that’s the only part of him that doesn’t grow proportionately when the change occurs, maybe that also explains why Hulk seems able to hold on to his anger so long…
https://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/earthhulknopants.htm
‘Nuff said.
I know I’m being a bit picky, but the Barberian’s eyes seem a little odd to me. Too small, perhaps? Just compare them to the last page and you’ll probably see what I mean.
Second panel seems to be missing his pupils. Third panel, they somehow make him look disappointed with what’s happening…
I think you mean the iris, rather than the eyes, given that is the largest difference. Not that they stood out as being either different or odd to me. And look ok, even re-examining them. Although I enjoy a more realistic style, I am used to Dave mixing in cartoon effects (not that this comes across as cartoonish, but it is clearly not photo real), so just take it as being within the normal artistic palette.
Clearly the iris size does not normally change, but unless you have a full-panel sized portrait, such things as pupil dilation would not stand out, as readily as they might be picked up on, by someone in the room. But altering the combined iris and pupil size could convey the impression, at first glance, if photo-realism is not an issue. I doubt that it is being intended, for such purposes, but possibly it is.
In which case it could be indicative of the side-effects of him recovering from his amnesia spell hammering? Or, more likely, just the emotional roller-coaster that Barberian is on.
Okay don’t you think it’s time for Sydney to attend that media prep course???
I think it’s time for Sydney to attend a lot of courses on any kind of public speaking.
Especially considering the kind of speaking she uses when she gets excited/scared/angry/startled, etc.
To be honest, I don’t believe it’s possible to retrain those things without rebuilding the entire person. At best the result would be a human machine, at worst a sociopath. Tho the difference between the two is negligible at best.
Which she will easily pass and then never utilize.
Considering everybody is off duty now and going to a club, maybe it’s been canceled until tomorrow? Arianna wasn’t expecting Max to run off with Sydney earlier for a flying lesson, so with the big meeting coming up and Arianna apparently having to take part in the second meeting, perhaps they just ran out of time today. Halo will just have to be on her best behavior until she gets that course taken care of.
I’m sure nothing will go wrong.
Could never get the ‘nothing’ link to resolve.
Sorry. My line was that nothing would go wrong and the link led to a picture of a guy saying:
“Yeah, right . . . Get Dafuq Outta Here.”
https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/57396625.jpg
Isn’t it time for Sydney to head back to her shop and haul that huge pile of money they made today over to the bank for deposit?
Sydney has just gotten changed. Perhaps she has that in mind. Unless something has distracted her? Nothing like that going on, right?
I think “do not leave before taking the media prep course” was overruled by “take the rest of the day off.”
At least, that’s what I’d say if I were Sydney. :P
If Sydney has to give a speech,I could imagine the word balloons will have images of garbage cans tipping over-signifying that whenever Sydney opens her mouth garbage comes spewing out…!
Who would be shocked the most Maxima or Arianna?
Well, “take the rest of the day off” is from Sydney’s direct superior officer, whereas “don’t leave until you attend” is not even from a part of Sydney’s direct chain of command, I’d go with Max’s order first…
mandatory training is mandatory and max can’t override but we have what could be part of the day zero media training in arianna saying no clams on cam.
Along with that media prep course that’s being skipped, I just realized that something else isn’t being done. Way back on this page, we see Max order Harem to teach Sydney how to stand at attention and salute. She clearly says to have this done before the day is out.
Think they’ll practice this at the club?
I just read that as being something that has happened in between comics. For instance Sydney has probably been to the toilets too, but that has not been shown. Far too much detail happens in any one person’s day to show every moment. And a lot of the day of a recruit will be tedious tasks.
As for the media prep course we have actually seen that, or part of it anyhow. Namely when Arianna was talking about flyers not flapping their clams. Doubtless there will have been a lot more covered then. But those were the amusing highlights.
Well, today we got to see all of The Barberian’s t-shirt clearly, so I guess I can proudly say that I got it all exactly right. Of course, the question of what words all those blanks actually represent would be a matter for a nice and X-rated parlour game.
Some elements of last night’s situation are still classified/under investigation and so needed to be redacted.
I’m sure the shirt is printed with special ink, so that you can fill in the blanks with the particulars of your own ARC-encounter. So much cheaper than printing specific details for each wearer.
Dabbler used UV reflective ink. She can see it just fine with her eyes. Humans, maybe not.
Or it might be the type of ink that changes color with temperature. Once Dabbler gets him hot and bothered enough to read the lettering she knows he is ready for round 2, or maybe 12.
Thinking about it, wasn’t Dabbler’s status as an alien succubus supposed to be a highly classified secret? Sydney wasn’t supposed to know, and now The Barberian does?
What makes you think the Barberian knows? As far as he knows, Dabbler likes to use her “battle form” in other circumstances than battle, as already mentioned, and is exhausting.
While Harem mentions it here, it is in a private conversation at a distance, and the Barberian (and others) are presumably distracted enough that the conversation remains private (and is probably well within the theatrical boundaries of an expository “aside”).
well they could say they were having a rumble in the jungle.
She has to use a memory edit on them so they can still be attracted to others of their own species. I’m sure the edit will block the alien bit when they’re not together.
Difference is in who told him.
Arc can keep it a secret all they want, but they can’t do anything about Dabbler but asking “please don’t tell anyone?”
I wonder if it’s possible to build your way up to being able to handle the Dabbler Experience without needing the amnesia mallet afterwards.
It would be fun to try. :D
Practice makes perfect.
Just how many knees per leg does Dabbler have for her left hoof
to be near Barberian’s navel?
Make that his right hip.
i believe she only has one.
if you compare her leg to a human leg, and say that the hoof is JUST The fingernails, where should the rest of the foot be?
Actually, Dabbler’s hoof part of the foot would be the equivalent of the “ball of the foot & toes” as corresponding to the human foot. In effect, Dabbler’s walking on her toes.
Between her hoof to the first “knee” would correspond to the main part of the human foot, with the arch. that first “knee” you mention would be the equivalent of the human ankle & it even bends in much the same direction.
Dabbler’s real knee would be that “second, or upper knee” you see on her leg & corresponds exactly as the human knee does.
The same kind of “leg anatomy” is found among the hoofed animals in the real world…And that’s how it’s described as Digitigrade Legs in biological description. In short, Dabbler’s walking on her toes & the main part of her foot is extended in length before reaching her ankle.
Not quite right. Hooved animals aren’t digitigrade – that’s, for example, cats and dogs. Hooved animals are unguligrade; they walk on the tips of their toenails. Digitigrade animals walk on the bottoms, not just the tips, of their toes, plus the balls of their feet.
(Humans are plantigrade. Our heels also touch the ground while walking.)
I think it makes more sense if her left leg is behind his back, and it’s her right leg visible here, folded back on itself (and with the ‘ankle’ rotated).
Dabbler’s legs do use goat-like articulation, she has one more joint than humans do. And, apparently, is particularly gymnastic.
One of my cousins can bend her hand back far enough, that the fingers touch her fore-arm (with a little bit of assistance, from her other hand). Helps that she is double-jointed.
Yes, yes. *twitches snout and snorts* I have a complex family tree.
I used to be able to do that, but I didn’t practice my flexibility enough, so now all I can do is parallel to my arm. I should practice that again; I bet I could get it back. It’s such fun to freak people out. :)
Also, I like how you’ve become a staple of the grrl power comments, and how weird it is when you’re gone. When did you start reading it?
He’s one of the first IIRC, I came in like 3 weeks later I think
Thanks. I was a very early reader. But actually was a lurker long before I started to comment myself. The civilised nature of the commenting readership, and the intriguing nature of the comic, finally overcoming my resistance to doing that.
I know I picked it up after Sydney revealed she is a super-hero, but honestly cannot remember which particular comic. I fell for Sydney at the point when she rested her head on the shop door. But was already an avid reader well prior to that stage.
Lurking is my specialty, but I agree; grrl power’s comments are some of the most thoughtful and troll-free comments I’ve seen on anything with this many followers, so it tends to draw out the lurkers.
Could’ve sworn you were here before me and I came in about the time of the restaurant I think.
Dunno what stage I actually made my first comment. I do recall that it was to ask permission to use the doggy avatar. But finding where that was defeats both my memory and googling skills. The fact that “gravatar” appears on every page plus “avatar” and “copyright” are frequently used does not help.
Searching by “Yorp” and specifying “earliest date” would be the obvious route, but Google Advanced Search, does not have that option.
Wait, you asked permission for that? Were you new to the internet? My smily was nicked from somewhere and it’s been thru at least 7 edits not counting the chaos stars.
I did, and got it. Not sure why Electronbod‘s search did not pick that up. Looking at the confidence of my confident style there makes me assume that I had earlier (if less frequent) posts, that were missed in the search.
I do not allow general practices, on the internet, to set my moral standards. They are all too lacking.
Not that should be seen as a dig at you, or others. The social norms are as you say. But, unless there is a core of individuals, who respect copyright (and other) laws, then the system cannot function.
If nobody bought copyright material, rather than ripped it off (or asked permission to use it legally, as in this instance) then the book, film and gaming industries could not survive. Not in their current forms anyhow.
Other models are available, as this very comic shows. But the bulk of our entertainment does not use such alternatives. I am proud that every CD, DVD and game, in my collection, is legally bought and sourced from outlets that would be unlikely to have pirated them.
The search was prolly using google, and google has very little on me for previous years I’m guessing archive purge.
Heh I don’t allow LAWS to set my moral standards, just because it’s legal to have a person who happens to have fur executed doesn’t mean it’s RIGHT to do so.
As for the game companies crashing to the ground, as a modder heavily leaning toward open source since hot coffee, that sounds like a dream come true. Look at just about any industry and tell me if it truly looks like they’re taking your concerns or finances to heart when designing their highly expensive barely useful “product”.
Both copyright and patent law are now used to cause what they were intended to prevent and prevent what they were intended to cause. We don’t keep leftovers rotting in our fridge out of nostalgia or some belief that the rotten pile of slime is really an excellent steak, why should we keep and especially adhere to this literary waste?
I am all in favour of changing the copyright laws, they are archaic and not well suited to the digital and internet world. However they are the present mechanisms by which we ensure that the creators of intellectual property are rewarded for their efforts. Until we implement a better alternative, I have no intentions of stealing from them.
If someone sets a price for their material, that exceeds my ability to pay, what moral right would I have to take their work? Rather I turn to the nearest cheap or free alternative. And if none exists, I do without. Which is what I would have had to have done if the person had not created it in the fist place.
Blindly following laws is, as you say, idiocy. But if they have a good moral basis, then they should be respected. And part of that is each person’s idea of what is moral is slightly different. However living in a common society we have to agree on which are so important that they need to be codified in law. And then we need to respect it, even where it differs from our own.
Some laws are so badly framed or implemented that they are unworkable, whilst others are totally immoral. Clearly the ones which are not fit for purpose cannot be followed. However I do not feel that copyright law falls into that category. It still operates and provides jobs to millions of people around the world. Let alone giving us all a golden age of entertainment.
If we are to switch to an open-source model, I would rather it be done in a deliberate, planned manner, which allowed us to preserve all those big-budget films, games and super-stars which we all love having entertain us. Catastrophic collapse of systems clearly does bring about change faster, but brings a lot of misery with it.
@Yorp since the threading won’t go this deep.
As to copyright laws the “but the creators need to be paid” excuse just doesn’t work anymore. The laws were intending to prevent publishing houses from taking a writers work for a pittance and getting fabulously wealthy off of it. That is precisely what is happening today. M$ gets paid for Windows, but the original coders don’t get royalties because partof their contract involved signing all rights over to M$. So the creators ARE NOT getting paid for each copy licensed, only the publishing houses are because tho they did none of the work they own the rights to the work.
Making matter worse when it comes to Microsoft in particular is that what they produce now does not fit the needs of many customers, and they refuse to either make the new work right or distribute the old versions which did. It gets worse when you simply CAN’T do without because M$ has used their influence to insure that new hardware will only work with their new OS, which doesn’t work and is loaded with more malware out of the box then anything I’ve found on the bay.
Nonsense. Of course they get paid. As salaried employees. Likewise all the people necessary to support them. I am sure that if one coder managed to offer Microsoft the complete code for Windows 12, she would be offered a huge royalty or lump sum, as they choose. That ain’t going to happen though, is it? Because of the diverse range of things expected in each new version, the millions of lines of code etc.
Just as with blockbuster movies, these things have to be done as a collaboration. The principle creative inputs will be the writer, the screenwriter, the director and the actors, but there are many others each contributing their parts. The lighting director, the cameramen, the prop makers all doing so directly, amongst many others.
Then you get the behind the scenes staff, like caterers, casting staff and external companies handling things like special effects. Sometimes (especially with low-budget affairs) even ancillary staff might get offered royalties. Rather a risky proposition for someone with children to feed. Doing months or years worth of work, and potentially ending up with nothing, if the movie is a flop.
Hence why most such collaborations are handled the traditional way, by paying the bulk of the staff fixed salaries, be it for time worked or a contractor negotiating a set fee for a particular project. However, more enlightened companies can offer staff bonuses, shares or other returns for a successful enterprise, as part of their package.
All of this though is protected by those copyright laws. Millions upon millions of people who rely on that safeguard, to earn their living.
However, I can see the cause for jealousy that a movie writer will earn significant royalties, whereas a hard working coder only gets his nine to five salary. After all, they are both the creative forces behind their industries, regardless of how many people it takes to turn that into a finished product.
They do have the choice though. They can create a unique work, that never existed in the market place before. Many unfortunately will fail to either create something worthwhile or be unable to find a means of capitalising on it. The lucky few manage to establish their own company, and have the option of selling out to the big players, for astronomical sums.
Each of the creative industries has its stand out success stories, like J.K. Rollins. But that would not happen if everybody chose to steal their work. Somebody has to give them their reward. I am happy to be one of those people. Pitiful though my contribution is nowadays.
Law at its best defines the minimum standard for how much we should respect each other, and defines what lines disrespect must cross before it becomes legally actionable (whether through lawsuits or police action).
Having higher personal standards is just fine – most people do and I wish more did. Particularly for one’s own treatment of others, but also for what one is willing to put up with from a specific person and continue to regard that person as a decent human being.
Unfortunately, law – being crafted by humans – doesn’t reliably reach its best. Frequently the standard it sets is too high, too low, or unenforceable; and there are significant amounts of law on other subjects entirely. When it gets into realms affected by changing technology (such as distribution of what is essentially data – copyright law, pornography law, etc.), it generally gets stuck in a constant game of catch-up.
Fairly said. Not that I manage to fully keep up to the standards I aspire to, mind. I will watch stuff on YouTube. Trying to salve my conscience with “if they can’t be bothered to enforce their copyright, on the biggest legal video sharing site in the world, then it can’t be hurting their finances that much”, but that is only an excuse.
One thing I would like to be able to do is, if I make my fortune, is to assign a minion to the following task. Get my YouTube viewing information from Google. Locate all videos that I have watched over half way through (or have in my ‘watch later’ list) Track down all the copyright owners (including the ones taken down – presumably the challenger’s details need to have been recorded too).
Then ensure that they get paid the going price for streaming (or renting) their material legally. Plus, if it got a thumbs up, buying a copy too.
Ain’t gonna happen mind. I can’t see Google co-operating in something that profits other people, rather than their own bottom line. But I can dream.
@Yorp number two, Exactly as I said. They get a pittance while the publisher makes billions. Also the coder could just as easily find themselves without that salary and begging for spare change like writers often did prior to copyright law. Meanwhile the publisher is set for life and even has the right to stop selling the book and simply make money from lawsuits.
Also you should know by now that no woman could ever program Windows, they’re not nearly as good at pretending that complete fuckups were by design as we are.
Mmm, I can’t say that you have convinced me that getting rid of copyright protection would actually help them earn more though. Nor any of the other millions dependant on it. I think a lot of them would just end up going hungry.
By the power of Binary Search * , I was able to find… Yorp’s first comment, on page 114. Assuming, that is, that once he started he continued commenting on every new page. Probably a fair assumption… ;-)
But that doesn’t seem to square with your memories (or Yorp’s), so maybe I missed a few.
As for me, I first found this comic when it was at page 100, then lurked (on and off) for about 2 years before the comments drew me in.
* yes, I used a computer algorithm IRL. I’m that geeky.
Dude, find mine. while yer at it see if you can find my legal name, I think google has started to forget me and no one’s annoyed me enuf lately to bring about another bout of “oh shit, chaos is here”
… and another cock-up I can’t edit away… 8-[
Honestly, my mistakes hang frozen here like Replicators in orbit.
I had the right page, but didn’t scroll down far enough. This is Yorp’s first comment, present and correct, not AWOL. I probably got drawn into reading the comments, rather than getting on with the task in hand. Yeah, that’s it. 8-)
Ooh, thanks for tracking down that.
*eyes mist up*
… [lost for words]
Lurking is very fun. I started to read this during the beginning of the archon conference reveal.
I’m hyperflexive in the hips and shoulders. Want to really freak someone out? Take off your shoes and start combing your hair… while holding the comb between your toes. I used to be able to do that.
*hands the monkey a banana*
No. It’s not an extra joint, that joint (often called the hock in mammals) is the equivalent to our ankle. Dabbler walks on her toes (hooves), just like goats, horses, cats, dogs, birds etc…
@Yorp: of course, reading your comment again, you meant “one more joint in her leg than humans…”. Please ignore the unnecessary correction. I iz stoopid.
Don’t worry about it. That was an interesting point, in its own right, which deserved mentioning.
Gotcha. Anyhow it produces a noticeably different gait, in werewolves and aliens. I would be better off saying that the articulation is altered by the bone lengths, combined with altered ligature and musculature, to allow that kind of stance.
It wouldn’t seem all that odd to me but than if I’m not wearing shoes I tend to walk on my toes as well.
Do you find yourself howling at the moon? If not check the palms of your hands, for hair.
Looking for hairs, on the palm of your hands, is an early indicator of insanity.
…Or a frequent masterbator…
Personal knowledge hmmm ?
Nah, I’m just going by what my mom told me a few decades ago.
I do it too, and while the moon is especially invigorating I don’t find that there’s any urge to howl unless something is very srsly wrong. Or when I’m pissed off past the point of hissing and growling. I do like my meat to be literally bleeding tho. Honestly meat without blood is disgusting.
Actually in the olden times supposedly having eyebrows that meet (Unibrow, or just having hair between your eyebrows) was a sign of Lycanthropy.
got those too…..unfortunately the local (and very cuddly) rom gal is adopted so I doubt she’d have much intel.
I don’t really see that being the case, her upper leg joint would be equivalent to our knee, her lower joint equivalent to our heel, and her hoof joint equivalent to our toe joints. The only true physical difference being that she only has one to two toes per foot so she would have no reason for having five bones between the heel and the toe.
Also your cousin is rather lucky as most people who find that they can do that with a lil outside assistance tend to scream a whole bunch.
Humans and goats (pretty much every mammal really) have the same number of joints in the rear limbs: hips, knees, ankles, toes. It is just the proportions that are different.
For two-toed ungulates, like goats and cattle, they walk on the nails of the two middle toes/fingers; counting from the thumb/big toe as 1, they walk on the nails of digits 3 and 4. The other digits have recessed. For horses and other one-toed hoofed animals, they are walking on the nail of digit 3. For many carnivores, they have claws on the end of their digits, often with a recessed thumb, instead of nails, like most primates do, or hoofs like most ungulates. It is the same structure, with the same chemistry, but with different proportions to get a wide diversity of vertebrate forms.
So glad I’m not the only one who stared at that leg positioning for a while and still couldn’t figure it out. :P
Why would he want to come back next week? He don’t even remember it.
Word of Dave:
Given his resistance to Vehemence and the amnesia hammer (needed two doses), it appears he already remembers enough.
You know, come to think about it… dude is remarkably resistant to abuse. Even for the crowd he’s in.
He’s a straight hairdresser, between the abuse spewed by assholes at him and the abuse he gets when defending his fellow hairdressers from said assholes I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s effectively immune to mental abuse.
….
WHAT abuse?
Unless you’re talking about the gay barber joke, which he recognized as the joke that it is. Like any reasonably confident person would
……
Just how long ago do you think it was that it was considered socially acceptable to beat the living shit out of a gay dude? I rather doubt our mohawked friend here is so young that he doesn’t recall gay bashing including literal bashing.
There is a big difference between bashing and teasing. Harem’s comment was cheeky, in playing on a gender stereotype. So was politically incorrect. But it really did not go over the top, into abuse. Only if it fell into a pattern of behaviour, or was couched in a hostile or aggressive way, could that be taken as being abusive.
I didn’t indicate Harem or anyone else in the comic so far as being one of those assholes Yorp.
Shh… don’t interrupt him. He’s getting his victim on.
And that MIGHT have been an issue if he was actually gay. He’s not. (Harem knew this, because he’d been busy with Dabbler)
Calling out a someone’s stereotype in a friendly setting is not abuse. Calling your friends gay is not abuse. Neither is it bashing.
And even IF it could be interpreted as bashing, do you know what the best cure for racism is? Treating it as a joke (or just, taking control over the stereotype).
Do you know where the rainbow flag comes from? Back during WW2, prisoners in concentration camps had to wear a badge denoting their ‘status’. A different colour depending on the reason you were there. Gay people also had to wear a rainbow patch (on top of their other one).
After the war they adopted it as their own, completely dismantling the hate that was once associated with it
abused spewed by assholes =/= friendly teasing
Circling right back to my initial question: WHAT abuse?
You seem to be the only one who thinks there is any, so provide some examples
The abuse he’s no doubt put up with in the past, prior to his appearance here, by ppl who are not in the bloody comic. Something that just happened, right now, would have little effect on his psychological reaction to it unless his conscious mind was controlling his physical body at this point from 20 years in the future. Srsly why in chaos do I keep having to explain the obvious to ppl?
He remembers it, he just doesn’t remember it in the detail that would lead to him comparing it to any further sex attempt (and noticing the future is bleak).
What, you thought he was just chilling with a horned, 4 armed demon on his lap WITHOUT knowing what that’s about?
You know, I had never even thought of that Harem could be, well, her own harem…..
Then you will probably have missed the implications of the mini-comic, at the bottom of this page..
You forgot the Playboy Shoot incentive on his DA page
Well many shoots, of that nature, are purely aimed at the audience, so have little bearing on the preferences of the models themselves. Straight girls are just less inhibited than straight guys (on average) when it comes to contact with the same gender. So will find it easier to play the role of being turned on, if their job calls for that.
Fashion photographers get so used to putting women in such poses (and one assumes the models do so compliantly, as a matter of professionalism, unless they feel it is going too far) that clearly they do not think about (or just choose to ignore) the implications at times. “Dude, you do realise that, as her twin, you are getting her snuggly with her sister, right?”
Fortunately, even if extended beyond just posing, and into actual sexual acts, for Harem, it would not cross the boundary line into incest. Rather it would just be masturbation, for her.
You know, that’s one of the only situations where the answer to “If you did yourself, which would it be?” is pretty clear-cut.
Her other bodies aren’t clones, or alternate-universe doubles, or time-twins. There’s no separate consciousness’, or free wills aside from her single self- in that respect, her bodies all act simply as different limbs of a single, distributed body.
Either Xuriel’s legs are really long or there is something strange about her legs.
Also, I like the detail on harem, and her dress, and on Sydney’s hair color from her halo orbs and the small notebook she carries in her right back pocket.
as R pointed out above, she has move of an equine leg than simian, so her “foot” extends from her hoof (toenails) to an ankle about where we would expect a calf, up to a knee, then to her hip. So in the panels above, we’re seeing her left leg wrapped around his back, and her right leg squeezing up against his left ribs, but instead of wrapping, it’s resting on his left hip.
The answer is Yes. … her legs are digitigrade. That is to say they are like the rear legs of a quadruped …
or a bird and as such can tuck up under themselves like that.
Picture is worth a thousand words. https://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Tkturials-Digitigrade-Legs-Guide-439423997
Technically, she’s unguligrade (because she has hooves), not digitigrade. From the standpoint of drawing them, however, the difference is mostly academic. From Encyclopaedia Brittanica:
Three types? What about the ones who’s feet mostly do not touch the ground, at all, during locomotion? Such as bats.
I’m sure the whales and dolphins are feeling left out as well…
That’s one way to keep a man from leaving.
Sounds like the Barberarian needs to switch to kilts if he’s going to have any sort of relationship with Dabbler. ;)
Man of Steel, chair of Kleenex.
*gives Yorp a plushie Dabbler*
Make it a Sydney plushie and see what happens.
Thanks. I would not say no, to either. Any chance of rounding out the set with a Peggy plushy too?
*wags tail cheekily*
Working on a whole line of them
still working on the copy rights of the deshante doll set before trying peg or jiggy sorry
Is it a life sized Dabbler with the sheath?
You’re talking about the one Soul Reaver goes in, right?
As a succubus, Dabbler IS a Soul Reaver…
;)
Not in the slightest.
*looks around* Where’s…..mah…PLUSHIE!!!!
“Hands Adamas a Math plushie.”
:-D
With kung-fu action grip.
…and life-like hair.
*”FWOOSH”-es Math plushie and throws a Sydney plushie with “Flail-fu action!!” at you*
You’d have to find and catch the math plushie first.
“Sets out a Jabberwocky plushie in Boobie style pose”
So that was Boobie Style & not Blue Tit Style? It was hard to tell at the time, considering that Jabber’s front was under shadow at the time.
Jabs calls it in
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1432
On that note, I doubt ordering math to watch porn until he’s bored will work. I’d suggest nude sparring matches with models, after getting his ass handed to him for the thousandth time by untrained models his combat effectiveness will either increase or he’ll have to hand in his man card.
well there certainly will be a need for Kleenex after….
I see what you did there…
Actually, I’m fairly certain Dabbler has a rotation. Probably several she uses in some of her more interesting positions.
And the super boner problem can be solved by just not wearing tight jeans. Although this problem could explain costumed male comic characters fascination with wearing codpieces.
Even without the boner breaking through the paints, there’s still a gigantic boner sticking out breaking through the chair
at first i thought he ripped the chair with his hands. but then realized otherwise. yikes. does he only sleep with other supers, if his boner is that strong?
If Barberian’s bed is made of memory foam, it would be easy to determine how often he has erotic dreams.
Dabbler, being at least part alien, is seen here doing her impression of the face huggers from the movies . . .
I have no doubt she did some kind of face… hugging with him during the night as well
I see Sydney must have a rebellious streak in her, given Arianna’s disapproval of that top. Although, I guess, she would not have any other civilian wear to hand.
I wonder if Sydney intends to hit the maul for something more suitable? Or a quick flight home. Or is that rebellious streak going to see her photographed, at a public venue, in her WWDPT top?
Why should she worry about what Arianna thinks of her shirt? It’s not like Arianna is in her chain of command. The best Arianna can do is bitch to someone ranked higher than Sydney and hope for a sympathetic ear.
She should care, primarily because she has the services of a highly-skilled public relations advisor. Ignoring Arianna’s advice, without good reason, is not wise.
Plus Halo’s commanding officer has ordered her to attend and learn from the lessons. It does not matter who is giving them. It could have just been a movie. The command authority does not extend from the lesson. That comes from Maxima.
So uhm, how did Sidney leave the room and change clothes between this page and the previous one?…
It’s in the last paragraph of DaveB’s comments under the comic.
Sydney mentions that she would have fled the room, but it looks like she did anyway, if only to change out of her uniform and back into her street clothes.
I think the convo was getting a little too heated for her.
Yea. Which means it is crossing the line into sexual harassment. No matter how cutely she blushes, they should realise that clearly now and ease off the heavier sex talk, in her presence.
She is the “new guy” and it is clearly in the rules to mess with the new guy. ( Spiders everywhere )
Heh. Teasing is allowed, and I am all for it. One just has to use particular care in judging things when sex, or sexuality, is involved. For legal reasons but, more importantly, being embarrassed enough to flee the room really is an indicator that it has passed beyond teasing.
What one person considers teasing, might be enough to drive another to suicide. Especially when dealing with sexual matters and gender identity. They are very powerful drivers, in the human psyche.
You do see news reports, of suicides, clearly linked to that, from time to time. So the considerations should be taken seriously. This is not an area which I consider to be just political correctness gone too far.
Whilst Sydney is showing signs of joining in the teasing, having a laugh at it (such as in the showers) or playing up the ‘take it to a room’ role, for comedic effect, it is fine. But when there are indicators that it is actually getting to her, the brakes need to be slammed on.
I haven’t seen dabs do much by way of flirting with Syd, I’m pretty sure she likes Syd more for her mind and personality then as a sex toy and expecting a succubi to never flirt at all given that she feeds on the arousal energies like we breathe air would be like expecting a dog to go vegan.
It isn’t just Dabbler, Harem has been getting in on the act too. Importantly (in legal terms) as a group, failing to stop when asked. Mind you, so long as Sydney is OK with it, this is not a problem. If she is laughing, or otherwise having fun, and just saying ‘stop’ jokingly.
These are not really things we can easily judge from static images, given that we miss out on a lot of cues, such as tone of voice and subtle changes in expression. We do however have body language, and that was indicating strongly defensive reactions.
Your feeding analogy, in particular, does not bear up to scrutiny. I consider myself to be a carnivore (my brother went vegi and someone had to balance things up), but it would not be considered acceptable to snack on a fellow office worker!
IF Sydney is finding it oppressive, Dabbler will just have to switch her feeding habits to avoid eating in front of her. The same as Vance, she will have to discreetly feed, so she does not gross out her workmates.
After all Dabbler has been allowed to bring a packed lunchbox in with her today. She can eat it anywhere she wants.
“…Dabbler has been allowed to bring a packed lunchbox…”
In tune with the general “common super power” of having an incredible physique, yeah, Barberian does look pretty well packed…
thats the row i get into with gals all the time. “I’ve made myself perfectly clear so you’re just an abusive asshole” When it comes to flirting perfectly clear is perfectly legally clear as in “DO NOT EVER FLIRT WITH ME FOR ANY REASON”
Which puts you on a very solid legal footing. If they persist, they are failing to respect the laws of the land. Sadly, in our society, we do have people who choose to ignore laws, if they are not convenient to them.
Well, I suppose I could remove the smiley, which presently looks very little like the original and replace it with the face that more appropriately matches my current…..affiliations. I’ve been thinking of doing that anyhow, as the ‘ I escaped the mental institution ‘ smiley doesn’t fit as well anymore. M$ can still lick my asshole until they decide to stop being eco-nazis tho.
Stretch pants. Or jeans with extra room in the front.
dang it Dave, if you’re going to keep mentioning a ‘Grrl Power After Dark’, you’re going to have to make it a reality at some point
I think that is an aspirational goal. Once we have gotten the comic viable enough to warrant full-time support staff.
Bear in mind that Girl Genius is of comparable quality and manages to update three times per week. But does so with three people working on it. Namely a writer, an artist and a colourist. Who can share the various ancillary roles, such as web-site maintenance, between them.
Of the various spin-off comics, Grrl Power After Dark is definitely my favourite proposition.
And I add my vote for Grrl Power After Dark, even if it’s subscription only.
… I can’t afford any subscriptions. Heck, the only reason I’m able to play WoW right now is I was able to snag a couple prepaid time cards…
Likewise. But my parents are asking me what I want for Christmas, so I could get a limited-period subscription that way.
Fortunately my dad is the computer literate one, as I know my mum would not be happy, if she stumbled across the content herself.
Mind you, I would be surprised if the patreon model could not cope with that. I think it would be important to differentiate the two schemes mind. Not everyone who supports the present comic would necessarily want to support a higher-rated comic.
Likewise I think the adult content would attract a lot of new sponsors. Some of whom would only want their money sponsoring the risqué side of things.
I’d suggest that DaveB talk tothe guys who do https://barbarianprincess.com/ and https://tmi-comic.com/ about their business angle as both do the NSFW as side work. Also I’d like to see them do the GrrlPower gals and guys up in their style. I’d like to see the tackle Sydney in particular since their NSFW tends more towards large chested gals then I personally like. Does no one take back pain into consideration?
Sydney’s Yellow Orb, her Teleprescence. I wonder what the reach of it is? Could she project herself all the way back to her Comic Book Store from where she is now?
Good question! I don’t think any specific range has been mentioned yet, though. The farthest I can remember seeing it go is across a parking lot so that she could chat with Vehemence during the restaurant fight.
If you take a peek at the orb being demonstrated, you will see that it does so by means of a mini-inner orb. Any time that feature is not in use, you can actually see it inside the yellow orb. As visible in both panel 4, above, and its Who’s Who entry.
Panel 1, of the page linked, shows the mini-orb in its normal place. Panel 3 shows it in-flight. Panel 4 implies that it has similar properties to the regular-sized orbs, as it is radiating light and illuminating the wall close to it (but that does not preclude it being a projection doing the same). Panel 7 shows the true-sight orb without the mini-orb in it.*
Before the projection can start, that mini-orb will have to reach its destination. As yet we do not know:
• How fast it can travel.
• What its maximum range is (although we know it can reach the far side of a car park).
• Whether it can pass through solid objects, like walls.
• Whether Halo can see via it (the same as she can if it is projecting the image) or if it is blind and thereby unguidable, until the image is projected.
• Whether the orb can self-guide, to a familiar destination. Of note we have never seen any in independent operation (other than following default behaviour patterns, such as following Sydney and not moving beyond a set distance from her). They even gradually drop down, to rest, when she sleeps. Whilst that is a behaviour, it is within the bounds of a programmed (or simple instinct) behaviour.
* As a matter of interest, this orb is not alone in doing that. The tentacle lives inside its own orb, and you can see its absence, when the tentacle is deployed. This strongly implies that the mini-orb is tangible too. With the further implication that it will need to find a hole (such as an open window) in order to get to the far side of a wall.
Sydney can see,hear,speak and possibly smell (that hasn’t been mentioned yet so unsure) through the projection but while she’s doing that she cannot see through illusions like Dabbler’s Glamour and cannot see through illusions though the projection
The mini-orb within it is the relay station. She has to consciously send it to the location she wants the holo-clone to appear. This might imply line of sight control during flight, since it does not transmit audio/video data back to her until it is activated, and then is basically locked into the location and mimics Syd’s actions.
Once Sydney starts playing around with orb combos she might think of using the flight/com orbs in ‘Ghost Recon’ mode when the team needs to see into a building during a mission. First, fly up a thousand feet or so above the building out of harm’s way. Second, send the com orb relay down to about ground level. Then fly slowly forward using the holo-clone as her eyes. She will pass straight through the walls into the building. As long as the lights are on inside she can flight up down and around inside the building and report what she sees over her intercom to the rest of the group.
FYI, if she first puts on an actual ghost costume before trying this stunt, it would make a great prank for Halloween back at ARC headquarters.
That part has not been established yet, although I agree it seems likely. If not, its recon capability is greatly increased (albeit being severely offset by being a glowing yellow ball).
The rest of your comment, regarding reconnaissance and prank capabilities are very true. That orb has a lot of scope. Although Sydney must always remember to keep pranks behind closed doors, given the classified nature of the orb.
In the shower scene Sydney considered peeking in with the telepresence, this suggest strongly enough experimentation to know she _could_ do it. Probably did a bit of ‘peeping’ from within the comic store.
so i gotta ask super strenght boners? how does he have sex with non super strong women?
He’s very, very careful. With his super strength, he’d have to be cautious anyway to avoid causing injury.
Let her ride. Interesting tidbit, having her on top doin all the work is actually more dom then being on top yerself.
Same reason he can shake someone’s hand without crushing bones. Or you can hold an egg without crushing it.
Knowing your strenght
Look, all I’m gonna say about “Grrl Power After Dark” is that after making webcomics for over a decade David Willis started putting stuff on Slipshine and is now Pornlord David Willis. And a father. And Slipshine’s subscriptions tripled.
And his comic is still pretty SFW.
Just sayin’.
In the second panel I cant tell if he is happy or faking it, and the third panel doesnt help much. Also, is dabbler NOT wrapping her legs around him? It looks like both of her legs are on the same side. And finally, cruel cruel dabbler, making the poor exhausted super shearer bust a chair (and a nut) after the night he already had.
Looks to me like happy, but startled/ alarmed. The mouth is in a transitory stage, between a smile and gritted teeth.
A speech or thought bubble could fit his look, in that panel, with the word “Whoa!” The fact that it is not there implies that he decided, in a split second, that social proprietary is not as important, as the risk of her taking that literally and stopping.
Ear nibbling is an intense thing for those who prefer it. Barberian’s reaction is quite fitting as far as I am concerned.
Dabbler does not have human leg bone lengths. She really can wrap her legs all the way around him.
Effectively her leg can bend twice, to humans’ once. Albeit that, as pointed out above by Electronbod the extra joint is just Dabbler’s ankle, positioned at a higher point in the leg, than in humans. The extra flexibility gained, by that type of physiology, is part of what makes goats such superb mountaineers.
“Dabbler does not have human leg bone lengths.”
Well, last night at least, Dabbler had the (human) bone lengths of Barberian’s…
Reading other queries, and re-examining the picture above, I concluded that whilst wrapping around is possible, with Dabbler’s legs, that is not the case on this occasion. The leg goes too far, even factoring in the extra joint.
Rather the right leg, is folded up on itself, with the knee completely bent (confirmed in panel 4), and the second goat-like joint (equal to our ankle) allows Dabbler to turn her hoof and pastern, at right angles, and place it underneath her bum.
So in the other frames we are seeing, on the top, the upper part of Dabbler’s left leg, which wraps around Barberian, but otherwise remains unseen. Below that though, we are seeing her right hoof.
Funny. Except for the fourth panel, I found it hard to read. (That’s what she said!) It took me a minute to figure out who was saying what. But other than that, funny stuff!
Agreed, the panel was tricky to follow. Logical enough to follow, but I did find myself having to consciously work at it, rather than it flowing as naturally as I would like.
I think that is bound to happen in any situation where the first bubble cannot be linked directly to the speaker. If you want to check who said what, you do loose your place, whilst tracing the line to the speaker. Then have to figure where you were up to.
No biggie mind. The carefully alternating positioning of the bubbles made it easier to follow the back-and-forth nature of the conversation. So the risk of ambiguity was reduced, in that way.
I can’t be the only person who thinks Dabbler is really, really disgusting, right? She’s really freaky looking, and those bare hooves really gross me out.
He he. As I was reading it, I was thinking “I know someone who will be freaked out by Dabbler’s legs doing that.” Accompanied by a mental image of you, modified with a suitable expression.
The legs don’t bother me. I’m friends with a contortionist (and have taken a lesson or two from another). Being flexible in seemingly impossible ways is my bread and butter…
BUT DEM HOOVES! Like, all I can think of is bestiality, and no. Just no ಠ_ಠ
By the way, how do you modify text like that?
It is only bestiality with an animal, as they cannot be consensual. With an alien it is xeniality. This word has the same roots as xenophobia (fear of the strange or different) and xenophilia (love of the the strange or different). The meaning being hosting or having relations with strangers (specifically, in ancient Greece, with people of other cities, although in the modern era, the context would be wider than that).
Don’t worry buddy phobias can be cured. Get a good psychologist and you can be fondling and kissing Dabbler’s hooves in no time.
I’m not saying it IS bestiality. What I typed out was that all I can think of is bestiality. I see those dirty hooves, and I think of something that goes “baaah,” or, “moo.”
“Don’t worry buddy phobias can be cured. Get a good psychologist and you can be fondling and kissing Dabbler’s hooves in no time.”
Ew. EW EW EW EW EW EW EW!!!!! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
(Cringes harder than he’s ever cringed before.)
Not to mention that playing Footsies with her might even cause actual injury…
To hot-link, and thereby change the text colour, just copy the entire website address (eg https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/), which you wish to link, from your browser. Then embed it in the following:
<a href=”website_address_goes_here”>text_you_want_displayed_goes_here</a>
If you want to test that a link has worked, you can try it out, using the sandbox here:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_links_w3schools
Personally, that is where I go to create my hotlinks. I just paste the web address over the relevant part, and then overwrite the other section with my replacement text. Hitting the “SEE RESULT” button, then displays the finished hotlink on the right.
The final result is actually usable, so you can click on it to check that it works. Although some complicated sites will not display within the sandbox (most notably YouTube videos). However you can at least tell that the hotlink is displaying OK.
Then copy the hotlink code (from the left hand side), and paste it in your comment. No need to include the <p> from the front of the line, nor the </p> as they just put the hotlink on a separate line. Mostly you will not want to do that, if using the result in a larger sentence.
Thanks mate!
My pleasure.
Dabbler was giving the bowl one last lick to check for a missed bit of frosting. And from the look of the chair, her people measure in units about 2 inches long, So when she calls for “fives!” she is measuring his chair busting size.
I don’t envy the artist the necessity of figuring out how Dabbler’s legs work in this position. It looks like the left leg is around his back, while the right leg is turned sideways, resting on his upper thigh. It doesn’t look exactly right to me, but in fairness that could just be because Arm/Leg automatically make one think of human equivalents, and Dabbler’s proportions at any given time could be totally different.