Grrl Power #406 – Peanut gallery
Obviously there’s no way I could have a team of super ladies at a construction site without a bunch of construction workers doing what they do best. If this was a slightly darker comic, I could have had Max take offence, but it’s a fair bet she didn’t hear them.
Max, like all women (or just anyone who gets harassed on the street) has to continually decide whether to 1) confront and get called a humorless bitch behind her back, (or sometimes to her face if the guy in question has a real lack of self-preservation skills) 2) let it slide so as not to develop such a reputation or simply because engaging isn’t worth her time, 3) skulk away cause it’s not worth the confrontation, or 4) fire back and give as good as she gets. Max is obviously not a skulker. The big difference between her and most women is that it’s basically impossible for her to be remotely physically intimidated by a guy, and once she got her powers it understandably happened less and less to her within earshot. She used to confront people and get in their face, since cat calling from up on some scaffolding isn’t exactly an obstacle for her, but someone pointed out it was the equivalent of threatening a baby with a tank.
Now she usually either ignores it in a real “acknowledging your existence is beneath me” way, but sometimes she does like to fire back a few withering comments. The kind that tends to get the insecure sort of guys who do stuff like that angry and defensive. Again, not a problem for Max, but in the real world that sort of tactic can go awry. Well, it can go awry for Max as well. If she lays into a guy so hard he tries taking a swing at her, and he busts his hand on her face, a butt hurt loser like that might try to sue her for whatever he can come up with. Hurt feelings, lost wages, assault via tricking him into assaulting her. There’s probably a legal term for that, like “too much testosterone.”
Without meaning to, I put all the recruits in field dress and everyone else is basically ready for a picnic. Really, doing PR work like this on team time, they should all be in field dress, but 1) Arianna wants them to quickly establish their casual style and public personas, not that Max is heavily swayed by such arguments, but also 2) Max is obviously not a huge stickler for that stuff either. Yes, when enforcing those laws, she requires everyone to be in uniform, but the instructions for today were “stuff you’d paint your house in.” Also 3) I like numbered lists.
Edit: Well, I managed to misspell Ottawa, canoeing, and flotation. I don’t think that’s a record for me, but it’s close.
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That would be bad….
…. So very very very bad.
And not necesasarily because a possible verbal / physical confrontation could come of it. Instead, how would you bozos like a few compulsory courses in gender relations and sensitivity training?
Sounds like it would be good for a few laughs.
… as long as you aren’t the one doing said courses.
I can recall this kind of c##p from my time in (Australian) government service (Bureau of Statistics, to be exact). Seemed like every couple of months, it’d be yet another compulsory course for all and sundry on ‘Workplace Relations’ and so forth. Mainly just re-re-re-re-iterations of the incredibly obvious, plus a requirement for embarassing role-play to prove we’d gotten the message (again).
Got the message early on. It was like those “worker’s meetings” in the old Soviet Union we heard about, the ones where you had to get together with fellow workers and talk about how great Marxist -Leninist dialectic was, and how you successfully used it that particular week. This was just the same, really.
Mind you, I don’t disuote that some people SHOULD undergo these kinds of courses (such as the ‘Peanut Gallery’ above). But frankly, I see such things as far better suited to being punishment for bad behaviour, rather than being educational or informative for the mainstream. You go through them just once or twice, you certainly don’t want to repaet the experience. E-ver.
Those meetings / training sessions are more about limiting corporate liability than educating Joe Worker. The same goes for Security Training, Safety Training, and so on. Too many shifty types have used the “The company didn’t make it clear that was against the rules / I didn’t know!” defense to deny their responsibility. Good “onboard” training covers this stuff; annual “refresher courses” really are about interdicting excuses.
Also it’s Ottawa….
Maybe he’s mispronouncing it
Would be a serious mispronunciation… O_o Probably put the accent on the second syllable.
Well…definitly not from Canada then, A?
Seriously though the construction workers should be helping. They are the brains of this operation, supers are just huge cranes. I for one would trust a bridge built by non builders way less than one built by professional construction workers.
Though that’s hardly all of them there. And probably none of the coordination sort anyway. I’m guessing the latter currently dealing with advising the super team what to lift and whereto.
Do you have a work permit to enter Canada? If not, you can enter as a tourist, but only for a few months; no working while in the country. Or are your referring to another Ottowa? There is an Ottawa in Illinois, about 40 miles south-west of Chicago; you would just have to deal with differences in licensing and labour laws.
There’s also one in Kansas about an hour from KC on I-35.
If memory serves, they just got done putting up a wind farm nearby not too long ago.
“Ottawa”, with 1 o.
Well, YOU’RE definitely not from Canada. It’s “eh?” not “A?”
https://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/earthtvflight.htm
“Beauty, eh?”
;)
And we don’t actually say it that much.
They appear to be on their lunch break, at least one of them has a lunch box and sandwiches.
Fixed, along with 2 other misspellings.
DAVE hey! If you make mistakes like that, then why should comic characters speak perfect grammar?
I don’t think dialog should use perfect grammar unless the speaker is supposed to be erudite.
Misspellings, like Mississippi, needs more S’s.
What exactly are Jiggawatt and Varia doing? Obviously Varia gets some form of magnetic power from Jiggawatt, but is she using that to fly? And how much is Jiggawatt contributing, besides holding Varia?
Jiggawatt is flying while holding Varia, who is lifting beams with magnetism.
But we’ve never seen Jiggawatt fly, and flying (without turning to lightning) isn’t listed as one of her powers
Well, it seems like flying *and* magnetic powers may be what Varia gets from touching Jiggawatt, so all Jiggers (can’t say her full name twice that close together) has to do is to hold on.
Varia is doing the antigravity-magnet thing to levitate. Jiggawatt is hanging on because apparently Xochitl’s powah only works when physical contact is maintained.
Yup. This.
“By our powers combined, we are…
…Vari-Watt!”
By your card declined, you are
DENIED!
Jiggawatt’s arm placement seems very impractical. Couldn’t she just wrap both arms around Varia’s waist?
Since Varia talks about “Magneto-ing”, I suspect she is using her magnet powers to lift herself and fly, like Magneto does
That’s because it isn’t Jiggawat that’s flying, in fact neither of them are, Varia are using her magnetic powers to repel herself from the ground together with Jiggawat, effectively rendering them both weightless, simple concept really, it’s like trying to push the same side of 2 magnets together, you CAN do it but your gonna need helluvalot of power to force them together, here Varia are using that to repel herself and Jiggy into the air, though she should be a bit careful so she doesn’t suffer complete repulsion and just go skyward :P
Dunno, exactly, but it’s kinda hot!
…I sweah that I ought to send you an mp3 of myself speaking.
You actually have an accent like that? How accurate is Varia?
Just note: DaveB has had to ‘tone down’ her accent since she first appeared
Varia’s accent is based largely on Julianne Moore’s character from 30 Rock, but if you want to record yourself saying some of Varia’s lines, you can email me at grrlpowercomic-at-gmail
… I heard that NASA needs construction workers for their Mars Project…
Man, supers would be the perfect humans to send on a first colony mission to another planet. Or just be astronauts. There’s bound to be some of them that want to
Oh man, this is like a pet thing for me, because long distance ‘porters and gravitokinetics would pretty much casually solve the massive speedbump that comes from getting colonization gear out of Earth’s gravity well.
In the Shadowforce Archer RPG setting, the designers created a a variety of mystic items that when combined (in a fashion I suspect they never intended) actually allow someone in possession of them to reliably teleport to and from Mars. The trick is that the individual methods are unidirectional, and would basically be an entire campaign to acquire. But man, the payoff of being able to actually say “you know what, this world is not enough” and being the first to be able to go to another one instead.
There’s just a lack of exploratory vision when it comes to doing more with super powers than just throwing down with someone — one of the best supers RPGs for that was Trinity (nee Aeon), where the moment humanity evolves long range teleporters we start jumping to other worlds — and it sucks when they subsequently go missing.
SMBC did a comic based on what the most efficient use of Superman’s powers would be. Hint, it wasn’t fighting crime. https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
Back in the Silver Age, superheroes used to spend a lot of their time on disaster relief (where that usually meant “preventing disasters”). You don’t see so many random tidal waves and earthquakes nowadays.
Back then a lot of those disasters were caused by supervillains in world takeover or extortion schemes. Nowadays there is less of that because of more stringent regulations. The villains now have to pay worker’s comp and healthcare for their minions. They have to install railings on walkways over their open vats of hazardous chemicals and warning signs around their pools full of piranha. Plus they have to file environmental impact statements whenever they want to set up a secret lair inside a volcano.
I always thought he could start the Superman DoGooder Fund and fund it by putting stuff in orbit for NASA for 1 million $ a ton (free, compared to normal)
If we can presume that teleportation is instantaneous, and that someone would teleport to Mars when it’s nearest to Earth, then they would have to calculate Mars’ orbital speed & aim their teleportation 4 minutes ahead of where Mars appears to be. At that range, Mars is 4 Light Minutes from Earth & without allowing for that time-frame, they would teleport to some point behind Mars, trailing in its orbital path.
https://www.answers.com/Q/How_far_away_is_earth_from_mars_in_light_minutes
God a sliderule handy?…
Arrrgh! “Got,” not “God”…
Gott is God.
That scenario depends entirely on the method of teleportation involved
In today’s news: NASA plans on sending supers away from earth
exploiting convenient resources for the betterment of mankind? or perhaps an attempt to get rid of all of them, and keep them separate?
we will discuss that with our guests…
(if someone wants to continue, feel free to do so.)
also, i probably could have written it better.
In a Champions game I played in, supers were back-ups to the main effort. Much super-tech wasn’t mass-producable and relying on a given super’s power-set for materials or energy/propulsion systems could lead to real problems if that super was incapacitated or dead.
If the baselines couldn’t figure it out on their own, they would rather do without. Which actually makes pretty good sense, when you think on it.
some people just want to make things into controversies, so they can make money of it, instead being completely fair.
take SJW for example. if something can be taken the wrong way, they will, and when i read the Hogan’s comment, this came up to my mind as a natural followup, if it actually happened.
played one game awhile back, forget the name, but all abilities needed drawbacks, etc., to make them stronger, so i ended up making a teleporter who could only port while running. produced a ‘strobe’ effect, and thusly became rather dangerous to anyone nearby that had epilepsy… it was funny as heck, but it was giving our DM migraines.
Did something like that once – I created a hero who could fly ONLY…if he was flapping his arms.
And not like a chicken, either.
YOU made Ralph??? (Greatest American Hero)
In one of the bonus print comics from PS238, a NASA rep asks the resident metasavant how he gets permissive policies approved that allow him to take students on outer-space field trips. He does it by manipulating the anti-meta faction in Congress, couching proposals in terms of “shooting metahumans into orbit”. (The NASA rep goes on to get a Mars mission through the Appropriations Committee by including an offworld prison for supervillains in the plan.)
Frikin Tigers with lazer beams…..
Took me a little while to work out how Varia could lift concrete with Magnetism….. Then I face palm.. Rebar…
Magnets — How do they work?
The actual mechanism of gravity and magnets we are not 100% clear on.
not exactly true for gravity which doesn’t actually exist, the effects we perceive as gravity are a consequence of the curvature of space as described by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which has been more or less proven true repeatedly.
so of course since it doesn’t exist the answer for how gravity works is that it doesn’t.
Gravity Waves have been detected!
Gravity, per se, still works and it is still a good explanation we can teach to high school students: Fg=Gm1m2/r^2. This is Newton’s formula for gravitational force. While it has been superseded by General Relativity, it still works well enough in most situations that continue to use it. If you want to find out where Nepture is by looking at the distortions in the orbit of Uranus, then this works. See Alexis Bouvard. If you want to find out where Vulcan is based on the distortions of Mercury’s orbit, well then you are out of luck; you need General Relativity to explain why Vulcan is not there.
One of Newton’s formula’s for planetary motion simplifies to Kepler’s laws when you put in some information about the solar system as make some basic assumptions (which turn out to be true for our solar system). Newton’s gravity in like manner can be derived from General Relativity by setting a few assumptions (stuff that turns out to be negligible when far away from a large mass, like a star and travelling fairly slowly).
theory of relativity: all things are relative. particularly in trailer parks.
Incidentally – in the “home counties” of England, and those parts of the Northeast that have retained this feature of speech – the letter R is what’s known by linguists as a “liaison,” like the letter S in French, always pronounced if it’s followed by a vowel.
Listen to “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” for a hint at what’s wrong with Varia’s accent. That’s a New York accent, but the problem there is also a problem with hers.
despite the crudeness, the ladies are indeed looking good.
Indeed, and the comment was well played on Sydney’s part.
Considering that Max can achieve multi-mach speed, Ottawa wouldn’t be far enough…He would do better to look into people who might be selling some real estate on the Moon.
Ottawa, IL would not be far enough; she can get there in short order. Ottawa, ON might slow her down as she should not want to cause an international incident by avoiding customs and going after someone legally in Canada. Besides those air-traffic controllers at NAVCAN can get nasty when you don’t follow procedures properly.
NavCan Controller: Archon 1, this is NavCan Eastern Ontario. Slow to 100 knots, descend to 1000 feet, turn right, heading 55 degrees. Prepare to land at Gananoque Thousand Islands Bridge for customs inspection.
That shot of Max? It just keeps bugging me but breasts don’t work that way when your arms are extended above your head like that
In case you haven’t noticed, Maxima is very, very different. Pointy ears, gold skin, blushes red but bleeds blue, why shouldn’t her breasts behave differently too?
Yeah, one of her arms is about 90 degrees out from her body which would lift the breast a little, the other arm is up higher, so I drew that breast a little higher as well. Admittedly it should be a bit more stretched out, and her shirt shouldn’t cleave so tightly to the underboob area.
Not that I’d complain about it…
;)
Unfortunately stating “I compliment you on your impressive physical attributes”
is socially unacceptable.
But Day-umm!
There are ways of saying that, that are socially acceptable. The recipient might still take offense for some reason. But then that’s because people do not all tick alike and nothing you can really plan for.
Construction work is a very technical job that takes a fair amount of brains to do. Cat-calling is a stupid activity that never works so I’m of the belief that the construction workers who do cat-calls KNOW the women aren’t going to respond positively: They’re not hoping to get a phone number, they know they’re not getting date out of it, they’re doing it BECAUSE it is offensive and socially unacceptable. They are trying to be jerks.
I honestly think by now, cat-calling is almost traditional in Construction Work- not something done for any particular reason, but more because it’s just part of the ambiance of the job, something expected of you. I’d bet female construction workers cat-call (dog-call?) whoever tickles their fancy as well- gay and lesbian construction workers too.
knew they would end up being the ‘tourist attraction” i was right…people are arriving with cameras
No, they are the construction supervisors, someone mentioned how they would have to have official supervisors while on site
Oh right, didn’t notice the construction workers with their cameras in the corner
I think that’s the press down in the corner of that panel. You can see what looks like Suzie Wen with her back to us down there, talking to a guy with a video camera on his shoulder.
Dang! Didn’t see her either :(
Pretty sure that’s Suzie. She is kinda the go-to girl whenever you have to send someone to report on super activity in this town by now.
Also the further guy in front is wearing one of those cliché “I’m from the press” hats, all down to the press id card stuffed into the hatband.
That being said: I’m certain that superspotting is currently becoming a thing in this world. If it isn’t already.
“guy further in front”
I need an edit button. XD
Yeah, it was his hat that had me thinking he was another con-worker
Not only the go-to girl, but also – I’d imagine – on arianna’s list of reporters to contact for positive promotion.
Yeah, this page took long enough that I didn’t have time to draw a bunch of looky loos or other background details, like cars in the parking lot behind the press.
Ah, all the cars are behind the construction office. Where is that off-ramp going? It looks like it going straight into the shopping mall parking lot, where the former steak house is being cleaned up.
Must have been a really, really busy steakhouse.
Or maybe it’s built into a rest stop.
Am I the only guy in the world who’s been regularly catcalled more so than the women he knows?
…
…
in my experience, yes.
There used to be a guy Richard may he rest in peace that had the best backside at conventions here in Washington. We could get at least one or two guys that had never meet him to comment on it and then invite Richard over. It was a simple game of introduce the newbie. Nice guy sigh damn cancer.
Peace unto him and his family and friends.
In my younger days, I got regularly cat-called when I walked by the Gay-90’s on Hennipen. Not so much, these fat, old days. Heh.
I am catcalled relatively often, but I’m under no illusions that it’s more than most of my female friends
Then there’s always someone who’ll say something along the lines of “Why should women get upset by such comments? – They’re complimentary!”
Yep. So many times. So many “Learn to take a compliment, bitch!”…
which is the cowardly and asshole way out… a compliment is only such when you recognize the value of what you’re complimenting, instead of assuming for certain that it only exists for your pleasure and consumption… and it goes both ways.
practical example:
“madam/sir, you have a most fine figure, I am impressed by your physical fitness.” <– fine (if a bit silly)
"damn girl/boy, you look good!" <—still fine
"you know, your ass looks great in those jeans!" <—also fine if you're on close and comfortable enough terms with the person to be talking about ass
"hurr durr I'd go spelunking yer caves/(insert alternate objectifying remark that would imply the reverse towards a man, I can't think of any)" <—not fine
…isn't it very simple?
That’s what I meant with my comment above, exactly.
There are socially acceptable ways of openly talking about someone’s physical assets. And there are some that are not.
A “Hey, you look good!” might not be appreciated by everyone, yes. But it is actually a compliment and there’s nothing dirty about it. (Unless you support it with certain gestures or something, but then it’s still what’s been done, not said.)
Now as soon as you start talking about “that girl has great buoyancy”, you’re entering more dangerous waters.
Truth be told though: If you’re talking that way just among your friends where no one can hear it… It’s still objectifying people which is not a good thing. But at least you’re showing the common sense and courtesy to know it is a guilty pleasure of yours that should not be shared with the general public. So as long as you don’t feel like you should act based on that objectified world view, I’m mostly fine with that.
Now as soon as you start talking about “that girl has great buoyancy”, you’re entering more dangerous waters.
I see what you did there … clever … very clever …
Then she should not ask if a particular dress makes her look fat. “No, your fat makes you look fat; put it on and let’s go.”
Part of it is probably due to the way the Men in question are thinking. I know I, for one, would probably be flattered if some girl was all “I’d ride _that_ logjam” or “Wanna show that mustache a good time?”- I’d most likely politely decline, if they were straight directed at me, but I would in no way feel offended or objectified by it. A lot of that is probably things like social conditioning, the way I was raised, the fact that I’m a good 6 foot 200 lb male with some little training in hand-to-hand, but even were a lady like, say, Kenya there, were to be the one doing the tom-calling…
… are Jigg and Varia fling in this? Can’t really tell by the background.
I would say so. Jiggawatt’s question about do they really have to be flying to do that work certainly suggests they are airborne. Maybe the real answer to the question is no though and Varia just wanted to be held . . .
You know…. that missing “y” really makes all the difference in that sentence. :D
Not being a grammar nazi here. But read that first sentence again not adding it in. Maybe adding an “a” after Varia to make it clearer. ;)
I do believe they’re up a creek without a paddle.
Sorry, all I could think of…
And once again here we go with “Look how bad regular guys are.” Like women don’t rate or insult men when they think guys can’t hear. Any time we even see such a thing it’s played for laughs like there’s no problem. Moment it happens to be guys it’s barely a joke as ‘you did bad now you’re in trouble’.
The point is, it’s bad no matter who says it or who is being targetted
I don’t disagree that there is a bit of a double standard there. Certainly, I’ve been more bothered by Math’s creepiness towards the women around him than I have been about Harem stripping her male teammates of their shirts or taking surreptitious pictures of their butts, so I’m as guilty of it as anyone.
While double standards is sometimes a problem, I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. I would pretty firmly argue, that it’s played for laughs here too.
It’s definitely played for laughs and the girls and guys from ARC seem to have a “give as much as you take” agreement running that is actually working.
That being said: The double standard is ingrained in most of our heads. It’s basically a constant struggle to overcome it. And sometimes might lead to us seeing it where there isn’t really one.
And that being said: It probably wouldn’t hurt for one or more female bystanders doing similar comments about Hiro and company and receiving the same treatment at some point. (The treatment would have to come from someone else but Halo though, I guess.)
A large part of the double standard is due to the elements of the mammalian sexual model that we are stuck with. One male, with enough available females, can start several pregnancies in a day. It does not matter how many males are available, a female can only get start about one pregnancy per year. So a woman has to be very selective because she has only one shot at this so to speak; she wants to choose the best male to be the father of her child. A man on the other hand, can put comparatively very little effort into reproduction, so has an instinctual attitude of sewing his seeds far and wide, as it were.
This leads to the popular joke, “A woman is looking for the one man who will fulfill her every need. A man is looking for every woman who will fulfill his one need.”
Human evolution and society has lead us to use long-term pair-bonds in raising children, so the man is not just “fire-and-forget” in his reproduction, but becomes responsible for helping to raise the children he fathers. In reference to the first paragraph, a man could start several pregnancies in a day, it would be very irresponsible of him in light of our current society.
Many of the differences between men and women when it comes behaviour can be quickly traced back to the instincts and physiology of the mammalian sexual model.
One of the reasons the double-standard exists though, is that male-on-female rape is common, a danger that most women are conscious of on a daily basis, even if it doesn’t happen and their perceived possible attacker actually has no intent on executing. The reverse, female-on-male rape, is not common, and is not an omnipresent threat that looms in the minds of nearly all men. Even male-on-male rape is less common than female-on-male. And I’m not going to try to sort out female-on-female.
Superpowers would act as a substantial equalizer in many cases.
So as much as it’s a double-standard, I’m willing to privilege the female gender and allow that asymmetry. Intellectually, yes, it’s an offence to reason. But regards the daily lived experience of women, they may benefit from the double-standard in the form of a widespread societal disapproval of men catcalling them.
One problem with the female-on-male rape statistics is that these self-same double standards deter the male victims from actually reporting it to the authorities. The actual statistics wouldn’t look so heavily skewed if the male victims weren’t under the “social standard” of being seen as less manly for allowing themselves to get raped.
And yet there’s also many women not reporting being raped due to a number of reasons. So I’m really not so sure how much of a difference reporting all the rapes would make on the balance (for lack of a better word) between the two.
Just like 4 pages ago, the girls were oggling Hiro. I’m not suggesting an absolute equivalency, but I’m also not trying to posit that men = bad. Construction workers (#NotAllConstructionWorkers) do have a reputation for this sort of thing and it seemed appropriate to include it in the comic.
Rule of funny is empress of rules.
Which ones actually do possess acute super hearing or is Sydney just making it up?
Believe Sydney was just pointing out the risk they are posing with their comments
As a construction worker, i find it to be a distraction to engage in cat calling and other bs like that. Its a safety risk not worth taking. And even if it is lunch or break time, it is unprofessional to be an asshole like that. When im out there working, im repersenting my company and tradescraft to the public. So if our company wants more work, we have to show to the public that we are professional and friendly to the community we are working in.
YES, thank you. I was wondering about that.
I mean, the dudes in the comics are obviously not working so it doesn’t affect them, but I’ve often thought “seriously man? all those sharp/heavy things laying around just waiting to cause accidents and you’re gonna stare at butts and/or boobs?”
(yet I’ve been surprised at how many of them occasionally do. good to know that there’s people out here that knows how to do their job)
I find it much ‘funner’ to ask them how they would feel about random blokes saying that about their children. Like Sydney’s comment, it shuts them up right quick.
I’ve worked as helping hand in construction a few times. And from my experience, talks like that do happen. But only on break time. And usually not out loud, just between the workers where only them could hear it.
There was one place with an exception with them openly talking that way about and even to the face of the waitresses in the restaurant we went to for our breaks. Which usually lead to me facepalming with a loud “Guys!” It’s nearly as bad for you caught in a group that does it, as it is for the recipient.
Methinks you and foxtrack are seeing the results of a century’s worth of efforts by feminists.
This individual is, in my experience, far and away the typical construction worker.
Represent, dude! (And may I comment on how pleased that “Dude” has become more and more gender-neutral? Thank you.)
There are still occasions when I hear someone use “dudette.” Personally, I really see nothing wrong with it either.
at least in my part of the world Construction workers come from the “Working Class” that bridges Upper-Lower Class to the Lower-Middle Class, apart from Trade required Education & Skills and Industrial Relations knowledge (both tend to be a a very high level) they tend to be short on the learning, something more specific to my part of the world they have one of the most powerful Unions (that harbors one of our nations most powerful crime syndicates, despite continual internal and external attempts to clean them out) and a major political party (one of our big 3) protecting them from Reality. but all the opaque safety barriers kind of prevent the opportunity to engage in Perving and thus head off the resulting Cat Calls
Anyone else had trouble loading just a few minutes ago? o_O
Wait, you now upload an hour earlier? Why didn’t anyone send me a memo!!! :(
Daylight savings time in the states
The USA is one of 6 countries to start DST in the second week of March. Europe/Asia/etc (about 60 countries) start in in the last week of March. This may mean it seems earlier to you, but not to Dave – at least until Easter
(About 8 counties start DST around October – southern hemisphere – leaving 150~is who wonder why we have this strange clock changing ritual anyway – either Equatorial, or too close to the poles for it to make a difference)
If I remember correctly, not even all states in the USA do make use of it.
And seriously: The way the world is today, it doesn’t really make sense anymore anyway. We might as well follow Russia’s example and stop with the habit.
I wish I had the sort of job where I could just pretend DST doesn’t happen. It seriously screws with my circadian rhythms.
It has been in the news recently that states are considering dropping DST.
Ours stops shortly after yours start, which makes things even more interesting
I see that Jiggawat made the same assumption about those feathers that Sydney did.
I see where that assumption comes from though…Aztecs had an entire industry in their economy that involved capturing birds & scrounging cast-off feathers for use on their clothing & personal articles. Native Americans did something similar, but to a much lesser extent than the Aztecs practiced.
Masks, full cloaks, adorned weapons & much more fetched a high trade rate. “Feather-Art” was an actual skilled, specialized profession for some people.
GURPS Aztecs?
That & my own interests in “armchair history” studies. Do you have a better idea for being able to confirm what they write? I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again, “GURPS really does their research.”
Hey I am in the choir Mr. preacher ninja.
In the back sitting down, but I a there.
Umm, why is Anvil in chains? o_O
If you look down towards her butt – being careful to do it when she isn’t looking, of course – you will see some chain angling away from her. This suggests that she has wrapped some chain around herself so that she can drag whatever it is attached to.
She’s pulling a sledge behind her.
There is a pallet of stone right behind her that I assume she is pulling.
Oh my, the implications of that particular choice…
I think cat calling is a prerequisite for being a construction worker.
And these workers are being pretty soft compared to the ones I’ve heard so far.
Heck, I remember a friend of mine, male, being cat called by a construction worker once, and no, he didn’t resemble a girl.
Wait, Heatwave doesn’t have any lines today, but she still gets an entry?
She’s talked to. She’s more important than a background character
Yeah, but others have been talked to in the past and not ended up on the right
Well, she showed up – that’s 80% of lines, right?
Oh yeah, I guess she doesn’t need to be there, but no harm.
It wasn’t a critique, was just wondering why (and, of course, it’s your webic and you can put whomever you want in the “Who’s Who” box :D)
Good thing Brook can weld her mistakes back together. Rebar is not as cheap as people seem to think.
I don’t know if we can trust her to do it in a way that holds well enough.
Haha, well played Sydne. Well played.
By the way, Sydney isn’t saying what they are saying is bad, just pointing out that the ladies in question may be able to hear them, and they have realised that what they are saying may be bad
Boob heft hands – also known as the “Huge . . . tracts of land” gesture.
Great minds think alike? Lol
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/293
Lol. Forgot about that one.
In defense of the guys on the roof, they are construction workers and at times have legitimate business reasons to carefully survey ‘huge tracts of land’.
“Vast tract of land” hands.
Time to send Heatwave of to find the rebar stretcher. It’s next to the stone bender, between the barrels of elbow grease and turn signal fluid.
Good idea.
My mason’s level needs a new bubble as well…
I need 200 feet of waterline and a bucket of steam, stat.
No steam. Will Jet Wash do?
Careful. Steam she could do.
Get me a can of relative bearing grease while you’re at it.
200 yards of flight line and a bucket of prop wash work instead?
Ok, who stole the case of common sense?
“Stonebender” – does Concretia count? (Also, if she can leave a golem body peacefully, she could make a job of selling ‘sculptures’ of herself)
Did you fill out your eye dee ten tee sheet? Gotta have that for requisitioning those supplies, you know ;)
Construction workers sitting around doing nothing on the job… there’s a familiar sight. Usually there aren’t any superheroes doing the work for them, though.
Now that….is quite the effective way to prevent that kind of talk, very…very effective.
i loved the magnetic effect in the first panel!
I’m pining for her fjords?
So is that a pine tree in your pocket, or are you just happy to see her?…
Hmmm.
Considering the Monty Python sketch that line references, I’m getting a little worried about those construction workers. It’s called the Dead Parrot Sketch for anyone out there who doesn’t know.
Picture this – Maxima is standing at attention at her court martial while General Faulk scowls at her. “Colonel, we found that the only reason those men were still up there on that roof was because they had been nailed there!”
And still No OSHA Compliance!
At least the actual construction workers are wearing their safety gear.
In case of an accident on the site they literally have superheroes onhand.
…Even though those guys would prefer to have some of those heroes in-hand…
Yeah, really everyone but Maxima should be wearing safety gear, even she should have a vest on, I guess the construction guys didn’t want to point it out to her. I really just forgot about that stuff while I was drawing the page.
“Apply force to the deceased horse…”
Let’s just say nobody’s worked up the nerve to tell the supers they’re doing it wrong (either star-struck, intimidated, or just enjoying the show too much).
Still a great lot of fun, based on the comics
Bah, “comic’s comments.”
Posting from the phone
Which of Halo’s orbs am I not seeing?
If that was her hologram speaking with the construction workers she could still
be at her assigned work duty, but that orb appears unselected.
Probably flight
You aren’t seeing the Flight Orb.
Hologram Halo can only do exactly what Actual Halo is doing. So if that is Halogram Halo, Actual Halo is just standing there with her arms crossed.
Panel 3 – “canoeing”
1) I do like the “magnet magnet”…onomatopoeia? I’m not sure what the word is, but I’m sure TVtropes has a page for it (link!)
2) I’m pretty sure the third construction worker means Ottawa, not Ott
owa.3) Anyone else find Varia and Max’s most common superpower particularly…Power Girl in this strip? Like, to the point of being distracting?
No?
Just me?
OK then. I do like, however, that they don’t look like two (or, four) balloons glued onto their chests.Props to DaveB for making them actually look like human breasts.
And oddly, I have no problem with Anvil’s, for some reason I see her as even more endowed than the average super.
In Varia’s case, Jiggs needs to have physical contact with her for the Gestalt to work, with Maxi… blame it on her oh-so smooth skin and her lifting her arms above her head, no clue what Anvil’s excuse is though
Varia pretty much makes a point of it by tying her t-shirt that way, isn’t she.
A sound effect that’s just a verb or adverb/adjective etc is a nonomatopoeia.
Which I originally read as “nomnomatopoeia”, but that’s just chewing.
And I’ve located the TVTropes page where you, sir, are referenced.
Not sure about the other services, but in the Navy there used to be specific uniforms for ‘dirty work’. Before they changed to the digi camo uniforms, the light blue shirt on dark blue pants were the actual ‘standard working uniform’, with the dark blue coveralls you would see on ships being meant for dirty work. It was just generally accepted practice for the captain to allow the crew to wear the much more comfortable coveralls while on ship, but if said ship was at dock, you weren’t allowed to leave the ship in them at most bases. For even dirtier work (such as painting), there were green coveralls that you didn’t have to sew any patches on. For those, you weren’t supposed to wear outside the actual work area, and were generally issued on an ‘as needed’ basis.
Since the change over to the newer uniform, I believe both coveralls have been eliminated. If dirty work is planned, people just strip out of the uniform top (called a blouse if anyone was curious) and go from there. The idea behind Navy wearing camo was not just to be more like other services, but also it helped hide minor stains and paint splotches, leaving the uniform in serviceable condition. Of course, I’ve been out for a few years so practices might have changed by now.
Good info. Maybe I should design an ArcSWAT “dirty” uniform. ArcSPARQ already has one.
It’s actually a fairly common thing in organizations, military or otherwise, for recruits/low-ranking members to be restricted in various ways. In the case, it could very well be that the recruits simply haven’t earned the privilege of going casual on duty for stuff like this
Or have the construction company give them free t-shirts with its logo on it. :D
“…the light blue shirt on dark blue pants were the actual ‘standard working uniform’…”
Officially, that outfit is called “Dungarees.”
;)
Not since they stopped using denim material for the pants. Yes the old salts still called them that when I was in (2004 to 20012) but no one else. I just couldn’t for the life of me remember what we called them, probably because I hated them so much and avoided wearing them as much as possible.
You’re a time-traveller? Cool! What was it like in the year 20012?
Arianna’s next press conference to boost the team’s image will be to announce that Archon is switching to an all-electric vehicle fleet that will be recharged by Jiggawatt.
BTW, panel 1 confirms – Varia does not need to hold hands to gain powers, any skin contact seems to work.
So – four orbs is possible! (5, if I’m right about green…)
What is your guess for green?
The ability to use Butt Orb :P
I’m guessing Deanatay is thinking green is a breathing mask.