Grrl Power #379 – Don’t forget the alien sex tourism
I imagine if you could pass among a local populace in a reasonably impenetrable disguise, it would be super cool to tour alien worlds. In fact if you could facilitate that, you could probably make a pretty health business out of it. There’s a jillion things you’d have to take into consideration though, everything from basic biological compatibility to the environment and the food supply down to ensuring your tourists don’t smell like kerosene to the locals. They rarely address body odor in sci-fi shows, but even just among humans, we all tend to smell like the thing we eat a lot of that another culture doesn’t (not just our bodies, but the stuff we cook with gets in our hair and clothes), and humans have a pretty poor sense of smell compared to other mammals.
Imagine a race that evolved from some kind of scavenger that strongly smells of carrion because that’s what attracts mates. Sapient Carrion Crawlers or Neo-Otyugh for example, or what about a race that farts chlorine? The big Sci-Fi franchises rarely touch on that stuff. In Star Trek all aliens are humans with prosthetic foreheads that have The One Quirk™ like they’re not allowed to travel at warp speeds until they get married or their amassador has to get to first base with the ship’s doctor or all diplomacy will break down or they’re a race of shapeshifters… And seriously, Wesley didn’t want a girlfriend who could shapeshift? Who cares that she turned into a Spider Wookiee? It shows a staggering lack of imagination on Westley’s part that he couldn’t look past that. I can guarantee whoever wrote that episode had never been a 14 year old boy.
But I digress.
Does this mean the team will eventually have to deal with stinky aliens? Honestly I’m not sure how many aliens the team will deal with in the near future, but there will probably be some of that. Dabbler will eventually break it down for Sydney at some point when I can figure out how to not make that an 8 page expo-blast.
Originally Sydney was going to say “Offer not valid in Florida and France” as France is a perennial go-to to dump on but I didn’t want anyone to misinterpret the not-really-a-slam given recent events.
Let me throw out another reminder about the Amazon link. I’m so bad about Xmas shopping myself, but that’s partially cause it’s easy to lose track of time when you don’t socialize at school or work all day. One of the benefits of being married is there’s someone else around the house to remind you of major holidays.
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Loving Dabbles’ look in the last panel: crosseyed at Sydney’s hand :D
me too! totaly adorable.
I think it’s a bit ironic that Dabbler’s eating a cherry. She gets cherries to eat because she’s definitely lost hers a looong time ago. Maybe someone needs to explain to her that, when it’s gone, it’s GONE for good & you can’t get it back that way.
:P
Maybe she’s going to tie the stem into a knot.
Wait, you mean only virgins are allowed to eat cherries? o_O
Yes. That’s the rule.
But Dabbler “loves” cherries, they are delicious, and packed full of all the nutrients a succubus needs.
Unless they have been on the shelf to long.
Like a certain unnamed ninja.
Or unless the birds have been at them.
“Walks up to Ignoble”
“Looks at radar readout”
“Walks off shaking head”
Why does the Sydney Opera House look like it’s on the back of a giant hippo?
Yeah, it should totally be a wombat :P
Sydney has her own Opera House?! Oh, you meant the place… not the person… my bad.
With her new salary, maybe she’ll buy one.
But I’d suspect that first on her list will be geeky things like Wolverine action figures and such. The horse is still on the table, too.
No it is out back in its stall.
Are you really a fellow Aussie? I mean, everyone knows the Sydney opera house resides on the back of a giant hippo.
No it doesn’t, It reside on the back of Four Elephants on………….
Well, technically, everything on ‘Earth’ does :P
…On Great A’Tuin, of course.
[sigh] Yes, I know, we’re not on the Discworld. But a man can dream, can’t he?
were not? so why did i send a team to go on a expedition to find out the turtles sex?
that is a cool t-shirt, it seems her orbs are having trouble keeping up with her in the last panel she just so fast
Cut me some slack, I haven’t been to Sydney since I was 8
No excuses! You bring shame on your people!
Ah, go take a long walk off a short jetty mate.
The Opera House pic looks quite OK to me. That’s how it really looks if viewed from a ferry near Circular Quay, or maybe from the International Terminal acrtoss the way..
Yeah, seen it myself, plus Daniel the Human actually stayed in a hotel nearby (lucky bugger), & we both confirm that pic of the Opera House is spot on. In fact, quick Google poke found me what appears to be the pic the drawing was based off. Mr DaveB did a pretty good job of it too.
Australia, representing Earth to Alien life beyond the stars. I mean, come on. I’m here, Screwball the Cybertronian Minicon. That means it’s gotta be awesome, eh?
As a proud Aussie, I can think of no nation better suited to represent Earth to Aliens – between our lethal wildlife, mix of ethnicities and cultures, record of invention and innovation, kick-@$$ military history, etc..
And everyone knows why you are called a “minicon”.
Cause I’m a Minicon? Sure, I may be small fr a Minicon, only 3 Earth feet tall, but that just means I fit into my Pretender Armour better. Means I’m about Human size when suited up. Yay me… :p
Walks up to Screwball.
Measures Screwball.
Looks at radar readout.
Gently pats Screwball on the head.
Walks off.
When aliens are looking at Sydney’s brochure for Earth tourism some of them will think, “At least they have Bajoran temples on this planet.”
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is it me or dus the cherry stem in the last pick make it look a little like sydney just accidentally punched badds in the face and given her a bloody nose?
Maybe that’s why Dabbles is looking cross-eyed: Sydney just punched her in the nose
she didn’t
but dabbler could have seen this as a possibility, and her eye movement could have been an involuntary response to danger… or something.
but more likely she is just being dabbler there and… thinking dabbler things.
*dabbs
Looked like that too me. But I guess she is just looking and the handback suddenly in her face.
The traditional sexy cherry stem trick is to tie it into a knot with your tongue, showcasing … dexterity. Dabbler’s an ADHD genius space alien succubus, so I want to see her do something 4 dimensional with that stem.
She can’t do that in public anymore.
But she’s still allowed to do that in private, right? Right!?
But seriously, tying a cherry stem in a knot should be fairly easy for someone with a forked tongue.
Well she could alway knot it, then pass it off to Harem by French Kiss.
It is not that she can’t.
It is that she is not suppose to.
Actually she’s going to spit the cherry out and it’ll be in a knot. but only after Harem does the normal cherry stem thing.
The question is: Was Dave planning to show us Dabbler doing the cherry stem trick or is he going to change his plan now that we’ve all guessed he was setting it up?
Sydney, Dabbler, and a movie night. That alone is a mini-arc.
It won’t be just those two if the rest of Archon catches wind of it.
SLUMBER PARTY!!
may not be the best idea can you imagine what a teenage succubus idea of a slumber party would be dan wants to keep this relatively safe for work
Followed by 5 AM wake-up call!
…Complete with allarms, beeping, then SIRENS & ALARMS!!
“Oh, I’m sorry, do you have a hangover from Midnight-Margaritas…?”
…Saw it in a movie once…
No, just a bugle at one of the barracks hall. Had it happen while I was playing soldier some 30 years or so ago (glad I didn’t partake).
ah, yes, that’ll be fun to add to the rest of the chaos I’ve already mentioned…
…That said, it’s possible Daniel the Human would STILL sleep through it. I swear, it’s like he’s dropped dead some times…
Earthquakes are fun to sleep through.
The traditional Army “Alarm Clock” is an (hopefully) empty 40 gallon or so steel garbage can being tossed/rolled down the middle of the concreted floored barracks.
At one of my later posting, in Germany, where we actually had carpet, the launcher platoon sergeant get a recording of that noise and played it on a massive 1980’s boom box. Thank all thing lawful good I wasn’t on that floor.
The Navy boot camp I was in had an interesting alarm clock. Nothing I’ve ever before (or since) experienced could get me to jump out of bed like a metal trash can bouncing down the center aisle…
Okay, was Sydney nudging Dabbles to let her know she was talking about that waitress? And then found out just how strong Dabbles really is?
Hmm, looking closely at panel three: is Dabbles’ illusion-dress one of those near-opaque materials? Certainly shows off her crackage nicely ;)
I think panel 3 is showing Dabbler nudging Sydney using an invisible arm.
well, 1 and 2 was Sydney doing.
in panel 3 dab had enough.
The dress is not an illusion; if it were she’d have been naked when Sydney true-sighted her – she wasn’t.
The illusion is that it only has two sleeves.
That makes it even better: the tighter it is, the more see-through it becomes :D
And it’s already fairly see-through ;)
Dabbler, the Nymphomaniac disney princess.
You win this round.
shouldn’t that read as: Dabbler, the OTHER nymphomaniac Disney princess. ? (evil grin) I mean, don’t forget Snow White…
Also Belle – she married a real beast ;)
Also, Rapunzel’s relation to that unusually smart horse is left intentionally ambiguous.
Don’t forget Sleeping Beauty.
Do you think it took just a kiss to wake her up?
not sure if i am getting the right story (beauty and the beast right?) but wasn’t she abducted, and only after some time her warmed up to him… then he turned back to human.
also, “its not what on the outside that matters”
It’s what goes inside that matters.
No, she wasn’t abducted, her dear loving father traded her to the beast to save his own life
well, that’s the version you’ve seen…
and it was some time since i last seen it, might be miss-remembering things.
still.
point, it was not of her own will at the beginning, and it took a while.
That’s because it was written back when women were the property of either their father or their husband, and Disney didn’t bother to update that part.
Disney’s Beauty & The Beast: A romantic story about human trafficking and Stockholm Syndrome.
My memories are now and forever more poisoned……
And if you want even worse, try reading the original Basile’s narrative of Sleeping beauty which is even worse, plus of course other ones like the little mermaid who after not getting her prince, commits suicide. Yeah Disney love to pour on that sugar coating alright.
Not in the movie he didn’t. And since it was brought up in the context of Disney, I assume we’re still talking about the movie. In the movie she offered to take her father’s place over his objections. That was self-sacrifice on her part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZtmuwwY8Nk
aaaand its not a “sacrifice” if you don’t believe that you are losing something.
don’t forget pocahontas, she’s really in touch with nature
i prefer Kida, she thinks nerds are sexy. plus she’s the only disney princess to ever kick a guy in the balls (twice) and actually become Queen.
And nature get’s really in touch with her by poking her hot ass
She’s actually this group’s Gadget Hachwrench, when you think about it.
No, we have her, we met her already
Sydney’s hat is so cute, with holes for her ‘antennae’… wait, Sydney has antennae? o_O
She got them from the same place she got the shirt.
She borrowed it from a bug named Theira.
Thank you, just read everything had, great story :D
look closer the antennae are part of the hat
Well obviously, just thought those were holes and the antennae were attached on the inside, to add to the illusion
you would need an opening much bigger to get the ends thru
Ooo, hadn’t seen the ends, but depends on how sensitive they are, ever had to wear a turtle-neck sweater?
i go out in blizzards and the only concession i make to the cold is that i switch to a long sleeved shirt instead of a tshirt i haven’t worn any kind of sweater in over a decade
Same here, but the point was, big things (like heads) can fit through seemingly small holes (specially if the hole can ‘stretch’)
More evidence of my stupidity. :)
I had a little trouble interpreting the three panels across the top for a moment there. I got that Sydney was nudging Dabbler to let her know that this waitress was the one she had been telling her about – the Monaran. My problem was with the flying shoe in the last panel. Was Dabbler not responding and so Sydney threw a shoe at her for some reason?!
Finally, I recognized that Dabbler had in fact just nudged her back, hard enough to knock the mighty Halo over and pop off a shoe.
Took me a little while to figure it out as well :D
To be fair, that doesn’t require a very hard nudge. That shoe pops off all the time, for like, no reason.
I mean seriously, that running gag is used a ton* but only with her. Considering the whole series takes place over, what? A couple of days? she really should look into fixing her shoe problem…
One of these days she’ll be surprise mid flight and that shoe will be GONE!
*Not that I’m complaining about that gag, it’s funny EVERY time!
Naa, the shoe won’t disappear mid flight, it’ll just be sliding around the bottom of the shield bubble as she flies along. But if she doesn’t realize where it is before she drops the bubble for some reason (fresh air perhaps), someone might end up with a shoe dropped on their head… :P
She doesn’t always fly with the bubble up, or at least, not fully encased
I’m impressed with Sydney’s Reset…..it been just of a day and a bit, and she didn’t punch Harem in the face….
instead she almost wacks dabbs in the nose
‘Almost’? o_O
its a cherry stem
Wasn’t referring to that part :P
The “I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tounge… Imagine what else I could do.” gag goes like this: Start with two cherry stems. Tie one in a knot using your fingers. Put that one in your mouth while no one is watching. Put the other one in your mouth while person/people are watching. Move your tounge for a few seconds. Pull out the knotted stem. “Ohh. You’re so talented!”
i can actually tie a knot in stuff with my tongue never tried with a cherry stem but if its supple enough i bet i could
I can make and have made a cherry-stem chain with my tongue, but it takes a while (and long cherry stems).
It can be done without trickery. My wife can do it, it just takes her a while. No complaints here.
Okay, just why is Sydney so nervous around Bodie? o_O
I think she was just surprised by someone suddenly appearing in front of her from out of nowhere.
Can understand with the flying shoe, but why the babble about Dabble possibly being a space princess?
Well, they were just talking about alien princesses a few minutes ago (last comic), so it’s possibly still in her mind. How long will it be ther? Will Sydney’s ADD/ADHD mind, it’s impossible to say… :P
Next she will start searching for the giant seed pods
Maybe she doesn’t want to reveal her knowledge of aliens in the place. Trying to misdirection Harem?
That’s my read too. Amazing that she can do the basics of Op Sec already without just blurting out stuff. Must be some gamer skills being put to good use there.
Halo and Dabbler have already been talking about aliens and whatnot at that location, and harem has been shown hanging out on the couch with dabbler and anvil during the bank robbery arc And she was present for when Halo/Sydney discovered that succubi/demon/aliens was a thing that exists with the com-ball.
ergo all 3 of them know that aliens are a thing, though it remains to be seen if harem knows that aliens other than dabbler are a thing On the planet. (seems like something they would clue her in on seeing as she already knows about dabbler).
Okay, that makes sense: she’s not sure how much Bodie may have heard, and she’s just going on about the last thing she remembers talking about
I.B.S.? I’ve a gut feeling that will bring on some puns…
Yeah, was wondering if anyone could come up with an alternative starting with ‘A’
astrometric
Good, that works “Come be impressed by our A.B.S.!” :D
or cosmic then you get c.b.s.
Galactic
G.B.S.
Universal
U.B.S.
Yeah, but not as good as being impressed by a great set of girl abs (just ask “Spinnerette” ;) )
How about
Xenokosmos
Bureau of
Sojourn.
Shouldn’t that be Intragalactic? As if the distances within our own galaxy weren’t vast enough already.
Am I the only one who immediate thought it was a reference to Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
No. You were not. I was trying to figure you why you would want to advertise that as a selling point of your planet.
I also noticed that. I think it must have been deliberate, given the “Come Be Impressed By Our” part of her shirt. It’s clearly supposed to be a joke acronym of some sort.
I wonder what brings Harem to the rooftop lounge???
i wonder if she just got a word from max “check is sydney is freaking out and if she is get her back here asap”
Maybe as she said: she was getting hot on the dancefloor so she went to get some fresh air
i have dismissed that option as its boring
Or perhaps she wants to know what they are talking about so that she can tell Deus?
Dun dun DUUUUUUNN!!!!
Sorry, I find the Drama Button a bit more fun, it starts with every click, even when already going. Love making it echo… :P
She’s a teleporter. That is her means to get to that room. Oh, you are talking about why she came to the lounge. ;P She wanted to look off after dancing a bunch, and limit hearing damage from too much exposure to the
noisemusic.This is, at least, a two-Harem party. Harem is still downstairs, having a blast. And, hanging out upstairs with her friends.
Once more DaveB misspells Wookiee . . .
well the Wookiee can’t win everything
OBLIGATED RESPONSE:
Yes, but once a wookie tears off an arm of a winner, the definition of “win” takes on new meaning. Funny how the loser rarely loses limbs…
Remember when you shoot the wookie in the head you get a nice rug.
The Ewoks wouldn’t complain. They don’t have written language as far as I know. They probably did in the cartoon I guess.
Season 1 was amazing.
Season is much like Highlander 2. It. Doesn’t. EXIST.
Ewoks.
Best served roasted over an open fire, seasoned with salt, onion powder, and a hint basil.
Saves with roasted fruit of choice.
And when you shoot an ewok, you get a nice doormat.
Should have stuck with France, much more topical.
Your map choice bothers me in a way I’m not sure how to express…
And I love Harem’s “That’s great Sydney” look in the last panel.
Maybe France is more ‘topical’, but it would have ruined the ‘it’s-a-faux-slam’ gag
What is wrong with the map? Have you never seen a round globe flattened before? o_O
It’s an interrupted Goode homolosine projection. It probably looks odd because you’re used to the Mercator projection, which distorts Greenland so much it looks as big as Africa. It has ‘cuts’, but makes up for that with much less distortion. And you can put tables and charts in the gaps!
Not sure why seeing as the French I have found are very welcoming people. It really should have been places like Texas or Kentucky where stop signs are full of bullet holes and most Aliens go for a good local probing according to the locals (they don’t like it up em Captain Mainwaring!)
I don’t know some humans fall slightly out of the normal when you get right down to it, a few (like me unfortunately) have better than average hearing and can actually hear the frequency of a dog whistle. Others have less than average hearing like my dad after spending 30 years working on the flight line when he was in the military. Some people have above average sight (so not me) others (like me) have poor eyesight and wear glasses or corrective lenses. Some, (like me) have above average taste buds. Some (especially heavy smokers) have a poor sense of taste. Then you have the individuals whom have a large lack of one sense and make up for it with another sense being heightened in exchange. I’ve always had above average hearing though and I don’t consider that a blessing. Nor am I trying to say I’m better than other people, please if anything I consider it slightly freakish. Let’s face it I hate it when my dogs whine because I can hear the higher frequencies they hit which make me want to shudder. I also found out about this nice little rd box the police carry for when they run into dogs which emits a sound when activated that’s like being hit in the head by a sledge hammer. mostly only dogs can hear it and its even worse than a dog doing a high pitched whine. I’d frankly wish I couldn’t hear those higher level sounds rather than being able to hear them. When you have a sense that’s better than average its not always a good thing, it means your different and most people despise or hate anything that’s different. But everyone has certain things that make them different from everyone else so in that way were all the same, were all different, which makes us all the same in that we have different quirks which make us unusual.
i got to concur i have better than average taste buds and trust me accidentally sampling gone off food is hell. i hardly ever drink milk any more because i have had too many bad experiences
How about a sense of smell so strong you can smell water in the air (fresh water, and no, not just when it’s raining)
i dont know about smelling water in the air but i can always smell snow and storms before they start sometimes a couple of days beforehand. and i have a bad ankle that can feel changing barometric pressure
Daniel the Human has scary good eyes, average hearing & below average taste buds. And a sweet tooth the size of his home state, Western Australia (AKA F***ing HUGE!!!!). He’s also a Human breathalyzer too, he can easy smell when someone’s been drinking, since he’s allergic. He’s just gotta watch home much he pick up by smell, I’ve seen him when he’s copped too much wine fumes, his head starts spinning like a top & he looses all balance. Apparently that’s part of how he’s allergic top alcohol…
…Guess I shouldn’t have spilled a glass full over his shirt & chest while trying to make him drink. I think he’s still a bit sore with me over that…
…Yep, he’s playing with that metal bar again, he’s still pissed off. Gotta go…
try it when your senses start…I guess recalibrating, maybe I spend from 25-35 having to wear sunglasses all the time because suddenly light above a certain level started a sledgehammer inside my forehead and sometimes I’d spend days trying NOT to react to what smelled like rotting flesh everywhere.
Otyughs, Neo-otyughs, and the Pak’ma’ra. I’ll just leave this here-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jli3ruqWYlc
Oh yes the pak’ma’ra carrion eaters who eat (well gorge really) weekly and whose food has to be “5 days dead and decayed”. And the worst punishment you can threaten a subordinate with is to assign them to clean the pak’ma’ra toilets (apparently what comes out of a pak’ma’ra is even more foul smelling than what goes in..).
Babylon 5, one of the few great science fiction shows that no one has screwed up by trying to “reboot” it.
So far.
Not for lack its creator trying though. I think his last effort recently was to get a movie greenlit?
He doesn’t have TV rights, so the only option he has is a movie.
Personally, I have no problems with reboots, they reintroduce the story to a new generation who will be inspired to hopefully look at the originals. Sometimes I like the reboots better than the originals. In any case, I take reboots as alter realities.
Yeah I just wish there was some kind of warning as to which reboots were not going to feel a thing like the original so you could completely ignore them from the very first signs of hype.
I don’t care about technicalities or what color someones hair was UNLESS it affects the feel of the show. Like in Dresden files Bob has to be a wisecracking randy talking skull because almost nothing else would have the same feel and Murphy has to be short (or at least shorter enough than Dresden to make the illusion), blonde, and blue eyed because it affects everything about her. Feel is important. Find out what makes the feel of the characters and more importantly the overall feel of the show and you can change anything else and still make most or enough of the old fans happy while gaining new ones. But it seems most of those who get the rights to the source material don’t bother to learn about the feel of a show. Or perhaps are simply incapable of such feeling… *cough*Peter Jackson*cough*
Some people argue that all fiction/writing is to some extent autobiography, and that any charatcer is just a sliver of their writer’s perosnality. But the hypothesis gets thrown severely into question when Daveb writes and Maxima doesn’t burst out of the comic page screaming about affective labour…
Oh and space princess. yep
So, everyone on the team is now allowed to know Dabbler is from space? Or is Sydney just forgetting to watch her tongue… again?
Fairly sure the Daphne’s (and the rest of Team Maxi) are ‘in the know’
Not long ago (this day, in the afternoon), this was not the case (not specific to Daphne, maybe it’s just other recruits. She may indeed be in the know, I can’t remember any strip to confirm or deny it).
At the interview, Harem was in the room when Sydney saw through Dabbler’s glamour and had that minor spasm of mayhem. Given all the things they then talked about, Harem must know about the succubus.
Yeah, that’s why specified the Daphne’s and Team Maxi (pretty much the ‘Inner Circle’ that were at the Interrupted Dinner Party)
I am most definitely sure that Harem is part of the inner circle that knows about Dabbler.
She did refer to her as “Alien Demon Sex Godess” on page 372.
Corporals and above are read in. By then they’ve had a chance to evaluate them and make sure they’re not going to freak out about aliens, demons et al.
Clearance isn’t (directly) related to rank. It is completely a ‘need to know’ thing. You could have a Private with a higher clearance than a General. Well, ok, probably only very rarely in the case of a Private. It’s more likely that a Specialist will be more highly cleared than a General officer. And they probably won’t be in the same chain of command.
A Sydney and Dabbler movie night . . .
The image I’m getting is almost something right out of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I see Sydney extolling the virtues of the movies, Dabbler pointing out the nonsense in each, and both of them making fun of them.
Dabbler: Is that a wire, or a defect in the film?
Sydney: Oh, it’s a wire; it is part of how they keep the costume from falling off. Keep an eye out for that critter to fly. I didn’t say “take your eye out!” Gross.
Dabbler: [ Pop cybernetic eye back in her head ] So why would this thing want to attack the city? There’s nothing for it to eat there? What, is it going to lay its eggs in the office buildings?
Sydney: Maybe its attracted to all the lights of the city. All sorts of insects do that.
Dabbler: Only because they use a light source for navigation, like the sun or moon that do not move that much in a couple of minutes of flight time. A local light source like a fire or light bulb gets them spiraling out (which you won’t see) or spiraling in towards the light source. It’s just because modern technology has confused their ancient navigation system.
Sydney: I knew that (mostly). Ooh, look at that. Wait, are those people running towards the monster? I didn’t notice that before.
Dabbler has a WiFi enabled eye. With a few online accounts she could probably stream any movie she wants just by thinking of it.
Has Sydney forgotten to take her medication in all the excitement…?
Sydney, do you have a thing for alien princesses?
Maybe Harem would start to snicker and then gradually become a full fledged bit of laughter….
“Dabbler a space princess?!?!?” says Harem, “She’s no more common and you and me!!!”
and then Sydney will start annoying Dabbler to cosplay as slave leia.
Wouldn’t take much convincing, and one look at a picture of the costume in question and Dabbler would probably say “Oh I have one of those outfits.”
or “Isn’t she wearing a bit too much for a slave outfit? That’s not what I heard they wear on a planet called Gor”
So let’s see: Mount Rushmore, Mount Fuji, a version of the Sydney Opera House, but I do not know the geologic formation. Is that part of the Grand Canyon, or where is it?
Daniel here. The drawing of the Sydney Opera House is from the other side of/a ferry on Circular Quay, most likely drawn from this pic. Going off the angle, I’d say roughly at the lookout above “Captain Cook Cruises” & to the right of “Wolfies Grill”, near the “Fort Denison – Circular Quay” ferry path in this map. I got to stay at the “Holiday Inn Old Sydney” once due to a staff discount, got to have a good look around the area.
Screwball bugs me to take him over there with him, yet he can’t pass through airport security (he’s a sentient living robot made from magnetic material), can fly on his own anyway & can open up a portal from here to anywhere in the GALAXY pretty much. And yet, he still bugs me to take him… -_-
To me it looks like a volcanic crater. You sometimes get a formation like that when a caldera collapses; the magma chamber can blow out the sides leaving remnants of the old peak, or the eruption can continue building a new smaller peak in the center of the chamber. See: Crater Lake, Oregon.
However, that’s a rather large and oddly shaped peak in the center of the crater…
Ah, I found it. And it’s actually a canyon formed by a river’s failure to change course and leave an oxbow lake behind. (Oxbow lakes are quite common – they are created when a river changes course and the old course had a sharp bend.) It’s Horseshoe Bend in Glen Canyon. Which is near Grand Canyon but officially not part of it.
On the topic of sex tourism, I sometimes find it a little surprising that there is not more sex tourism to Germany. Given that prostitution here is fully legal, unlike much of the rest of the world.
I mean, there obviously is, but not so much that it would be a big point in tourism statistics here.
Should have been in [unrelated rambling] tags. I need an edit function.
A valid point. Maybe it’s because many foreigners tend to NOT think of Germany / Germans “that way”.
I’m sort of reminded of that joke – “Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the
mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it’s all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and it’s all organised by the Italians.”
you do know that the stereotype that british food is bad is a load of bloody bollocks right? we have a lot of very good food we are right next to france and germany do you really think we have not influenced each other a lot.
and as for hellish cops try americans
That’s why it’s a ‘stereotype’
All of those are good and bad stereotypes and all of them are false to a degree. The British do not uniformly have the best police in the world nor do they uniformly have the worst chefs in the world. Same with the French, German, Italian, and Swiss.
That is why it is specified as a joke.
Indeed. Just as not all Australians love beer and sports.
British bad/bland food stereotype exists for a reason. their national past time was to either boil/can everything or take over some foreign culture and bring their cooks back for further study.
I totally think about Germans “that way”.(some reason they seemed merged with the Japanese for “that way”ness in my mind) I just don’t think about sex tourism…
Perhaps an advertising campaign were ever such folk hang out on the webs?
An ad about that from a German airline could add a whole new meaning to a “Escort Flight”
Yeah, that’s all we really need…Alien sex tourism would make us take the treatment of STD’s to a whole new level, wouldn’t it?
:-/
Funny thing: Among prostitutes (German statistics again. I don’t have seen international ones) the amount of STD including HIV is a lot smaller than in the general populace.
Taxation, health care and social insurance makes stuff expensive.
Just as an aside, most of the science fiction media that uses live actors use aliens that look somewhat like humans, simply because that’s what is feasible for them. It’s cheaper and faster (particularly for a television series) to have “human like” aliens than doing a lot of CGI or puppetry. That said, if you look at the novels or graphic series (comics, graphic novels, cartoons) the same universes do have a number of very different alien species.
Though Star Trek the Next Generation does a pretty good job of using an entire episode to lampshade almost all aliens being humanoid in the series.
https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Chase_(episode)
I always figured that the more…”exotic” aliens weren’t seen alot was because they might have trouble surviving in the environment.
there’s also those species who are REALLY good at hiding in plain sight *COUGH-Cybertronians-COUGH* urgh, sorry, what was I saying…?
Cybertronians are rank amatures compared to tax collectors.
You never ever see one, but zip there goes your money.
I don’t quite get what happened in those first three panels.
Sydney nuged Dabbler to look through the disguise, because that is Greeni/Jeanie.
Except Dabbler flashed her to say thanks.
I am pretty sure that is not just my imagination there.
I’m not sure where you’re getting anyone being flashed . . .
The first two panels are Sydney nudging Dabbler insistently and repeatedly to tell her this is the alien waitress she was talking about, while the third is Dabbler nudging her right back – hard enough to knock her over.
Some people will do anything to get out of a tip.
And some people will do anything to get a tip. Look at what Sydney did to get Dabbler to tip her.
If Sydney has her way it will be like Justice League meets Disney Princess Stories from now on…
We all know where she is spending too much of her time.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses
Of course the truth is that if she sees possible Princesses practically everywhere else on the team then its probably only Sydney herself who is or will become the Princess.
Her right foot must be smaller than the other or the shoe factory needs to recall that line.
I.B.S. clever and so suitable for travel to foreign lands/planets … Don’t Drink the Water, especially if it’s green or bubbling or smells of sulfur.
Wonder when Sydney is going to remember the adage [I made this up]: If not a Space Princess, then a Space Pirate. Which is starting to remind me of Tenchi Muyo.
If not a Space Princess, then a Space Pirate or a Space Ninja
Space Ninja’s are cool, only you never see them because they’re Ninjas and invisible.
Or in disguise.
As a space princess
space pirate
Space cop
Space waitress
space mechanic
and so much more
Space Dandy?
To quote the Doctor:
…
Clara Oswald: Looks like a Japanese restaurant! Oh, have you brought me to a space restaurant?
The Doctor: People never do that, you know.
Clara: Do what?
Doctor: They never put the word “space” in front of something just because everything’s all sort of hi-tech and future-y. It’s never “space restaurant” or “space champagne” or “space” … you know … “hat”. It’s just “restaurant”, “champagne” or “hat”. Even if this was a restaurant…
Clara: What about “space suit”?
Doctor: Pedant.
The Ginyu Force would say otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LgpZyJihck
And, to quote Frieza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1kpd3nBus
Reply to the doctor,
And you are a “Time”lord?
Unless your metabolism requires those high levels of copper chloride in your diet. Bubbling may be a problem if you can’t handle high levels of carbon dioxide in your diet (drink the iced tea instead). Maybe your metabolism is so high that boiling water is comfortable and our cold atmosphere is in the damn cold range.
And the poor waitress has no idea why the supers are talking about her haha.
Eh, if you are crossdressing as another species you probably always think they are talking about that even as you tell yourself over and over again that they couldn’t possibly be…
She’s disguised as someone good looking, she’s probably used to people looking.
Maybe she thought she picked a non-descript plain ‘model’, not realising she picked the ‘attractive super-model’ model
Sadly I am exactly as (if not more) ignorant as Halo is being right now when I comes to girls going sexy things that may or may not be aimed in my general direction….As she’s doing now its just that ones mind get going on an idea and everything else just fades and disappears.
It was bad enough trying to figure out what happens to Varia after touching one of seven billion humans. Now we have to worry about what happens if she accidentally touches an alien.
Not wanting to review the entire series, has it been determined what happens when Varia touches Dabbler? (Oh not in that way. Get your mind out of the gutter.)
Not that we have been told.
Varia: Yeah, I got three duds so far: Maxima, Dabbler and now Halo. Nothing happens when I touch them.
Halo: Maybe you get super-speed healing, but you weren’t injured, so the healing doesn’t manifest.
Varia: That makes sense; it could be. Yeah, I could get a passive power that doesn’t show up because the circumstances aren’t right for it. Next time I get hurt, let me grab you.
Halo: Um, okay, but gently.
I’ll mention my guess of her basically going succubus herself on contact… :P
I’d say most aliens don’t have superpowers. They may have abilities outside human normal, but they wouldn’t be able to break the laws of physics like the supers routinely do.
(And yes, super-fast healing often breaks the laws of physics. Not as blatantly as some, but it does do selectively put a relatively large amount of energy into small-scale biological processes without cooking anything.)
So if Varia’s super power is to copy other super powers, touching most aliens would probably do nothing.
That said, the aliens that come to earth are not necessarily representative samples of their species. It’s possible that superpowers are relatively common among them.
“So if Varia’s super power is to copy other super powers…”
Actually, Varia’s power isn’t “copying” anything. If she touches a super, she gets a power that might be related to that super’s power, but it’s not the same thing. She can even get some kind of power from touching “normals” as well. So, if Varia touched an alien, she should get some kind of a power even if that alien is considered as a “normal” for their species.
So, anyone want to guess how many knots in the cherry stem Dabbles is making with HER tongue? Its a standard bar trick she would have noted in bars for women to show their “ability” with the tongue. Somehow it seems like she’d have to prove herself to be 2-3 X the standard.
Seriously, twice a week isn’t enough. lol
This is bar-none, the BEST web art on the interwebz. I didn’t say comic, because a comic is something you get in the newspaper, this is freaking art with humor.
Thanks! I agree twice a week isn’t enough. :/
I love how the cherry in panel 4 is floating in midair.
That’s what invisible arm are good for.
I think it is attached with a toothpick to the pineapple (lemon?) wedge that is stuck on the rim of the glass.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to say it looks like Dr Revenge (still don’t like you) got it right, looks like Dabbler’s using an invisible arm to pop it in her mouth…
…And I’m not pretending to be smart, poo-poo head… *walks off & sulks…*
The teeny tiny image of the glass in panel one has what appears to be the cherry already attached to the drink. Unless you think the waitress brought that for herself and you are accusing Dabbler of taking Jeanie’s cherry.
Finally owning up to your lack of processing power?
Needing an upgrade perhaps?
I…But…Shut up…
*Walks off, sulking & pouting…*
Heh heh heh
With an evil smirk .
I’m impress that she ate the pineapple off the toothpick first while the cherry is still intact (the stick is bare in panel 6).
Thought the pineapple was applied directly to the rim of the glass
There was a twilight zone episode once where there were these two or three women from another planet who had crashed on Earth, and the true forms of these aliens were hideous by human standards. But they also had the ability to disguise themselves from all five senses for a limited time to anyone. BUT the effects of the disguise began to wear off as time around a human went on and the human became used to the effect causing the disguise. So this one woman falls in love with this human male, and eventually he starts beginning to notice the various ‘things’ about his gorgeous girlfriend.
First, her kisses taste awful, like some sort of decomposing flesh. So in desperation, she uses her powers to remove his ability to taste ANYTHING.
Then he starts to be able to smell her actual sense, which is like sulfur and rotting garbage. It’s enough to make him gag and retch. So in desperation, not wanting to leave him or tell him the truth, she uses her powers to remove his ability to smell ANYTHING.
Then he starts to be able to feel what she actually feels like, when he touches her and has to recoil. Her skin feels slimy and sticky and oozing. So she uses her powers to remove his sense of touch.
At this point, he is getting frantic about what’s happening to him, and her fellow alien is telling her that she HAS to leave him. But the alien woman is convinced that it’s true love and appearances don’t matter and he’d be able to love her no matter her true form.
His ability to hear her true sound is what he starts to notice next. Her footsteps are squishy, and her voice has this malevolent overtone, but she doesnt remove his sense of hearing, because she’s decided to just drop the illusion she has on herself so he can see her true form and tell him the truth, and that she loves him and that looks don’t matter.
When she drops the illusion and he sees what she looks like, he pretty much goes insane with terror. She’s so hideous looking to human sight that his mind snaps and he winds up being placed in a mental institution, where he can’t stop screaming.
And cut to the two alien women, in new gorgeous female body disguises, and the first female alien sees another guy as they’re jogging and starts flirting with him.
The end.
Sentence two ends with “probably make a pretty health business out of it.”
While a “pretty health business” might be a real thing, from context “pretty healthy business” appears to have been the author’s intention.
I just noticed for the first time that Dabbler has heterochromia.
And what’s with Sydney losing her shoe? Use a double knot!
The blue one is the cyber-eye https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1167.
Apparently they didn’t have one matching her color in stock at Eyes ‘R Us.
I hadn’t noticed that the other eye is different. In my defense, I usually read this on my phone.
Also, you’re usually too busy obsessing over her feet.
“Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, she’s a goer, eh, a goer?”
NUDGE! “I get it, now stop that, dammit!”
VORP! “What’cha do in’on the floor, Sydney?”
“Um, resting?”
Speaking of aliens and body odour, I semi-vaguely remember there being an episode of Voyager in which a race of evolved dinosaurs happens upon The Gang™, sends a couple of cloaked scouts onto the ship to study and/or reconnoiter, and one of them remarks on the weird smell, to which the other replies that it’s because they’re mammals. I always liked that they thought to include something like that.
(Edit: found the one I was thinking of. “Distant Origin”, S3E23.)
*Gasp!*
You’ve got an edit button!? I want one!! I screw up way too many times to be without one!
Sorry for the late reply—I made that edit before I submitted the original comment. Didn’t mean to imply secret functionality!
The galactic tourist write-up of Earth notes only that it’s mostly harmless.
At one point, the Guide did edit in several long paragraphs that Ford wrote, but it had already been a few years AFTER earth was destroyed to make room for a Hyperspace Bypass…which never got built.
I always remember his advice for aliens visiting New York (done from memory so there may be inaccuracies):
Land anywhere — noone will notice or even care!
To make money inconspicuously:
Become a taxi driver: Taxis are these yellow things to get people from one place to another. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got a limb growing out of your head or even understand the basic physics of the area, it’s lthe best way to go unnoticed.
Well paraphrased, Francisco! Your memory is better than mine. Here is the quote from the late and much lamented Douglas Adams:
Tips for aliens in New York:
Land anywhere, Central Park, anywhere. No one will care or indeed even notice.
Surviving: get a job as a cab driver immediately. A cabdriver’s job is to drive people anywhere they want to go in big yellow machines called taxis. Don’t worry if you don’t know how the machine works and can’t speak the language, don’t understand the geography or indeed the basic physics of the area, and have large green antennae growing out of your head. Believe me, this is the best way to stay inconspicuous.
If your body is really weird, try showing it to people in the streets for money.
Amphibious life forms from any of the worlds in the Swulling, Noxios, or Nausalia systems will particularly enjoy the East River, which is said to be richer in those lovely life-giving nutrients than the finest and most virulent laboratory slime yet achieved.
Having fun: this is the big section. It is impossible to have more fun without electrocuting your pleasure center . . .
*From the book – So Long And Thanks For All The Fish*
am i crazy or did Dabbler eyes change shade between panels 4 and 5
You are crazy.
1 blue, 1 green in both panels.
Consider Dabbler’s sense of humour AND that her appearance is a magic and/or tech-based disguise.
With those in mind, I would be unsurprised if her disguise occasionally glitches, or that she might have her disguise do stuff like that just to mess with people’s heads.