Grrl Power #447 – Grand kawaii seizure
One thing Sydney has going for her is that she recovers quickly. Which possibly is evidence that her reactions are dramatized in the first place, but if that’s the case, it’s her bit and good luck dissuading her from it.
A lycan turning into their hybrid or animal form is a little more involved that just enfuzzening. There’s a moment of strain, veins popping, like someone’s about to jump, or they’ve had way too much fiber, but then the transformation is very fast after that. Really, it should have probably taken Kat a bit longer since she’s not practiced with it, but I didn’t have room for it on this page and didn’t really want to break the comedic pacing.
Since I’m not sure if I’ll cover it in the comic proper, at least for a while, yes, Kat has hair in her hybrid form, Gregor doesn’t. It’s actually something the lycan can control. Some think it looks goofy, some prefer their tresses. In Kat’s case she hasn’t mastered the idiosyncrasies of the change, so she’s stuck with hair in her hybrid form until she gets better. Those who have been doing it for a while can even control whether or not they have digitigrade legs, tails, or even how animaly their faces become, but that’s only after they spend a few points on their Fleshwalk skill. A high Fleshwalk skill is jokingly referred to as Flashwalk, cause there’s not that much use for it besides stylin’. Really most feel it’s better to spend your points on skills like “Sniff Test” which refines your forensic nose skills, “Advanced Territory Marking” which is best not mentioned in polite company, and “Clothes Horse” which allows you to find shirts that fit your giant horse neck without getting all stretched out.
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she looks cute in frame 6
She’s always cute!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
Foul! Kat’s not in the Who’s Who, and it’s basically her page! Maxima’s in there with half a face!
Whoops! I made a badge for her and forgot to upload it. I’ll do that now.
‘badge’… next you’re going to tell us her last name is Hopps?
ALSO! WERE-RABBIT! (Wallace and Grommit beat you to it :p )
Alice from the Bloody Roar fighting game series was ahead of both by years.
Monty python and the holy grail….was that not a wererabbit too? Much earlier.
Nope, vorpal bunny, not were-rabbit…
Which would also eliminate Bun-Bun as well.
You go ahead and try to eliminate Bun-Bun.
Psst! 20 Yorpie Snax™ on the rabbit, anyone willing to offer odds?
Hey, if Oasis wasn’t able to do it, what makes you think I’m crazy enough to try?
Prefer to think of it as a paragon rabbit with the fiendish template. But vorpal bunny does work too.
unless any of you guys got a holy-handgrenade the bunny is gonna stay
so close to rhyme. could have been “f*ck you you motherf*cking bot trying to tell me who is a human and who is not”! Would have been perfect!
It looks to me like she might be a were-hare ;-)
*mirrors Sydneys reaction to Kat*
Looks like Sydney got a bad case of “Cuteness Overload”
Honestly was expecting a Kitsune or something more mystical. Would be interesting to see if Kat has really good hearing in human form.
Clearly Sydney was too.
Want…..
agreed!
I would BEG to be a vampire! If I can’t get some of Achilles immortality in me, I’d settle for the eternal sexiness of a vampire.
One word: Nosferatu. The ultimate in unsexy vampirism.
Three words: Sparkles in sunlight, do you really want to risk sparkling in sunlight? o_O
I’ll take either sparkling, or being unsexy, if I get to live eternal :D
Hey, let’s not go overboard & kill yourself for the sake of earning a living…So to speak.
Sparkling? You wanna become an immortal mirror ball?
Better than a dead fireball
I think Sydney would hug you, the instant she saw you.
Yorp, are you sure you linked the right page? I don’t see any connection here :-\
Yep, Yorp got it right. Xalabar’s avatar is the same as one of Sydney’s plushies seen on that page.
The only time a vampire should sparkle in sunlight is in that split-instant before he bursts into flame.
Or if you electrocute him.
Oooo, wonder if that will burn them to death too? I smell an experiment cooking…
That has already been conducted. Turns out to be more of a KA-BOOM than a flambé.
It’s a bit of both, with left-over flame. anyone got any marshmallows?
“She’s fixed now.”
Sydney, fixed?! Only if she has had her tubes “tied”. She is just as erratic as she has ever been.
Well she has gone back to her more normal state. Of course that isn’t saying much when we speak about that hyperactive.
Well, Sydney doesn’t look likes she’s been wearing a “cone of shame” lately…And she has been using Midol for the past few days too. I think it’s safe to say that Sydney’s not safe (in any sense of the word…).
If they ever to come out publically, were-bunnies, cats, foxes, and possibly canines will get all the action they want from the furry community.
“You’re a what? Oh no, that is a deal breaker. The wedding is off!”
“But honey, why, don;’t you think I look cute like this?”
“Yea. But no way do I want anybody thinking I am a deviant furry!”
Hmmm were-otters or were-mice wouldn’t be amiss, either
Probably more than they want.
Especially if she’s a coverall wearing mousegirl
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/russian-cult-worships-female-cartoon-character.html
well… if she has a bun’s libido… Dabbler would be hoppy!
Dsbbler would be happy for almost any kind of libido. A girl gotta eat.
Let us assume that, unlike other types of lycanthropy, were-rabbitism is spread exclusively by sex I wonder what would happen with Dabbler, given that she is already made up of three different races. Would we see a floppy eared purple were-bunny demon?
It wouldn’t suprise me if Dabblers genes are compatible with werebunnies.
Hmm, the real question has to be: could Dabbles get pregnant via a female? o_O
With magic!
We can do it with technology. Males are now optional.
I thought it was still in research, but I just looked it up. How is that this kind of news always come from the Daily Mail? Their site didn’t work in my machine.
Here you go.
Would you also want to learn about three parent options too?
O_o
You humans can get pretty messed up…
Single parent babies? Wouldn’t that kinda be like cloning? With no other DNA to develop from, the child would only have it’s mother’s DNA to work off, so it’s basically be an exact replica of it’s Mother…
No father does not, in this instance, equate to single parent. If you check out the article the baby inherits the DNA from two mothers. It is just a matter of convincing stem cells (of the ethical variety) to become sperm. One of the women becomes a father, yet remains female.
Is there such a thing as unethical stem cells? o_O
The stem cells themselves are indeed no more ethical than tuna farmed in dolphin-friendly ways. :-)
However the ethics of people harvesting, creating or using them is another matter. It is good that society can now turn from having to harvest stem cells from aborted fetuses, to converting other cells, from the patient’s own body, into stem cells.
As it gets developed enough, to replace the existing uses, that will lift a troubling ethical dilemma, from both the medical community and the public, who all potentially benefit from the practice.
A clone is not going to be an exact replica of it’s donor. How you grow up has far more influence on the the resulting human being.
Oh, it get better.
Some speculate that the male ADN itself is the one triggering the marking that happen in the female ADN that in turn make males necessary.
A theory is that males have inserted themselves into the vital cycle of females via ADN recombination (like virus does).
Never wondered why the Y chromosome is so much tinier? The theory say female biology has been trying to get rid of it. The bigger the Y is, the higher chance to get “hit”, so natural selection has been making it smaller and smaller.
The Y cromossome is hidding and on the run.
Why oh Y?
You know, it’s a fascinating topic.
Hens can lay no-fertilized eggs because the “bassinet” of the eventual child is made by the mother. In mammals the equivalent placenta it’s made by the embryo using the paternal ADN code. Female’s ability has been shutted down and took over by male.
Female birds build a refuge for her kids to grow in, and kept the ability active its whole life.
Male mammals build a refuge for themselves, and deactivate the ability in-womb for lifetime.
BTW: notice that each of us still carry the code that would allow us to wrap ourselves in a flesh cocoon if we wanted to.
Thank you :)
Adding other sources it seems that it’s indeed still being reserched with several problems unresolved, mainly:
– A very low rate of sucess: only two out of 457 embryos (or two out of 598 depending on the source) made it to full term, the rest died.
– One of the two female eggs should be taken from a newborn.
– There’s serious doubts that it would work in humans, and it seems that the only way to know is trying and seeing if the babies develop normally.
Perhaps Dabbler have a more advanced technology, but since she doesn’t share I will stay with magic just to be sure :)
The Wright brothers first flight was under a minute.
If this medical technique is something that society wants enough, to invest in developing it, the techniques will be improved sufficiently, over time, to make it viable. We are making fast enough progress in the wider fields, of genetics and reproductive medicines, that I feel confident in asserting that.
For a start stem cell research was significantly hampered by US restrictions placed on the field. Now that we have ethical means of creating them, which do not require harvesting them from fetuses, the ethical objections should subside. Meaning stem cell techniques will definitely will improve, as they are needed for a huge range of medical applications.
Once society is adept at turning stem cells into the types required, that will improve the outcomes of all fertility treatment, which makes use of such. Likewise any developments with in vitro fertilisation will likely have benefit to this more fringe version too.
Fair enough. I was talking about “Males are now optional”. Likely they eventually will be, but not now.
Ahh, “optional” not “obsolete”. They are related though, and one can lead to the other, but it does not necessarily follow.
However I admit that I was using a dramatic turn of phrase there. So you are right in what you say. The option exists, but it is not a very practical one. At the present moment.
No, the ethics issues will not subside, they will only change.
Many people (mostly men) will not like the idea of women being fathers to babies with no male parent. It’s unnatural and therefore must be wrong, even if there’s no logical reason for that judgement and the proceedure hardly removes the fact that one male and one female parent is by far the easiest way to have a child.
People are stupid, biased and do not have science’s best interests at heart. As a mad scientist, that upsets me.
Yep, Dabbler would certainly jump right on that! She’ll hop right to it!
Really? No comments acknowledging the pun? There, there… Don’t pay attention to those other posters. I think you’re a very punny bunny. (I apologise)
That probably put you within a hare’s breadth of having the pun-hatters declare warren you.
Usagi no Kat [Kat the Rabbit]
Going to get her a date with Usagi Yojimbo
Forget Yojimbo, what about Usagi Tsukino? o_O
She already has a boyfriend. And a kid from the future to prove the point.
So? We are talking about rabbits, you know.
WOW she got ahead of her self pretty fast & loving the tagline of the page. Awesome page!
Don,t tell me she a playboy bunny
I… I love you! Finally, someone else who doesn’t think werebunnies are stupid! And I now have a new second favorite character in the series (no one can top Sydney)!
I nearly choked on panel 8.
One word: Nosferatu. The ultimate in unsexy vampirism.
this does not belong here…. ಠ_ಠ
Ok so, pupils should not dilate and contract that fast. I think she just got eye strain from that. Ever pull a muscle in your EYE?! Its not pleasant!
I DID!!! Vision was dark, and slightly to the left. AAAGH
Sydney has anime powers.
Next page:
Sid:”So what did you do… before?”…
Kat:”I was a police officer.”
Sid:” !!!! ”
Kat:” Call me Hopps and you are dead.”
If anything I would say nurse. If anyone gets the reference I give you many many points.
Mmm… the only things I can think about is the spin off with Jessica Rabbit and the anime (I needed to look up the title) “Nurse Witch Komugi”.
Does she goes boxing too?
Ah, Bloody Roar. Used to love 1 and 2.
Was Alice a boxer? Can’t say I remember that. Primal Fury was my favourite but all the games were good besides 4.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of the “Tank Girl” movie.
Kangaroo!!!!!
The were kangaroo Howling sequel was… weird. Mainly because they looked really bad, as opposed to the concept. Although it was rather out of keeping to my mind.
But they do qualify for weredom in the Grrlverse.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the movie, but that wasn’t a were-kangaroo…It was a were-Tasmanian Devil. A marsupial (thus, related to a kangaroo), but of a different species.
You are not left.
I don’t usually comment, but this comic kinda needed a “SPOILER” thing so you don’t see the KA-BUN transformation before reading all Sydneys guesses
That kids is what you call “cute overload”
Why would she tell her NOT to give herself a flea bath?
Because chemicals which have one effect on a particular species may have a completely different one on another species. I would guess that the were-nature of their skin would make them susceptible to a variety of side effects, which normal species do not suffer from. Itchiness for flea treatment being the apparent problem here.
Under the list of worst acquired powers put ‘werewolf who is allergic to fur’
Actually in this setting it would not be that bad. Given that Dave mentioned they can control how much hair/fur to have when transformed. A bald werewolf would probably look pretty bad-ass. Something like the undead dobermans from the Resident Evil film series.
A bald animal form? It just may be worse than you imagine…For example, a hairless bear:
https://media.photobucket.com/user/GabiJinxx/media/Facebook/IDEK/38154_1339276963849_400950_n.jpg.html?filters%5Bterm%5D=poor%20hairless%20bear~&filters%5Bprimary%5D=images&filters%5Bsecondary%5D=videos&sort=1&o=1
Hey, the purpose of assuming wolf form is to either kill your prey or terrify the daylights out of someone. That image adds to the brown pants factor!
Worth noting that hairless bears crop up quite often in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Falllout4. They are not THE nastiest beasts around, but still not something you want to encounter.
What i find amusing is that NOBODY (and i do mean NOBODY) that I’ve seen doing LP’s of FO4 has yet commented on the names that Bethesda gave them… Yao Guai, and the Stunted Yao Guai… hasn’t ANYBODY seen the YOGI Bear cartoons?? and the Stunted Yao Guai invariably has some nasty injuries… ie BOO-BOO Bear!!! or are they all too young to know that cartoon? i can forgive the non-USA LPer’s as they may not have ever gotten that cartoon where they are located, but the ones in the USA… for shame…
We got the cartoon in the UK. Can’t actually afford Fallout 4. But it does get a lot of mentions in the webcomic community, so I will add it to my wishlist, when the price gets down to single figures.
I noticed that WAY back in Fallout 3. I was like “Yao Guai are mutated bears? Sneaky, Bethesda, very sneaky.”
were-oh-what-the-heck-is-that-hairless-type-of-cat-called…
(yes, were-sphinx)
but what if it were the OTHER type of Sphinx? there’s a riddle for ya.
[stony silence]
The answer is 42.
Well the stuff that kills the fleas may irritate human skin or maybe when she reabsorbs the hair it gets into her follicles or skin. I used to use a deodorant soap on my dog because it knocked the fleas right off. Couldn’t use it myself because it dried out my skin so bad. When the fleas got bad he would go to the tub and get in or try to.
All that stuff in the author comments about how lycanthropes can control how much of them is human and how much is animal… reminds me of midforms from Skin Deep.
Maxima looks like she’s starting to regret bringing Sydney along. Well, she should really have known better. I mean, technically she has only known Sydney for a few days, but that’s more than enough to give her a rough idea how Sydney is going to (over)react in any given situation. I guess that’s one of the perks of severe ADHD: every new person you meet gets a crash course on your personality, whether they want it or not.
Here Truesight orb and the nightclub instance required Halo be looped in. Might as well get the worse of it over with all at once
Max did not bring Sydney to the meeting, she brought the ORBS to the meeting. The fact that they and Sydney are a package deal is just one more thing to give her grey hair.
(As opposed to Katrina, who is a grey hare.)
Okay this raises only one question:
Is there a were Platypus?
And would they lay eggs when they get pregnant in that form?
(Okay, that was two questions).
I hope so. And entirely possibly, given that Dave has indicated that only mammals can be weres, in the Grrlverse.
If they had sex with another were-platypus, then likely. If with a human, it would probably be a lot more complicated. Especially if the female was the human.
If they had sex with a were-bat…
boy would the baby be ugly.*
* But look at the perks. Flight, swimming, venom, sonar and possible blood sucking (vampire bat would be a popular choice, I am sure). Plus, if egg-laying, the undeniable advantage of being able to avoid the trauma of child-birth.
Point of clarity: Vampire Bats do not actually suck blood, or anything, they literally can’t suck with their mouth shape. They gnaw a shallow bowl shaped wound in the skin of a horse or cow and let the blood pool up before lapping it up their tongue.
Well, which sounds better: Blood Sucker, or Blood Lapper-upper-er
That is close enough for me.
Isn’t licking up the blood how the original vampires did it to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-sUH0-fH0
Oooo, does this also mean there’s a chance for…
Were-Drop-Bears?1?!?
Australia must be a dangerous place in this universe. Real Australia have enough dangerous creatures as it is, imagine them as werecreatures. Scary.
Yeah, so much fun here :). Guess that’s why I like it so much…
*runs away, screaming*
Waaaaaa! Run for your lives, that velociraptor might turn into an Aussie at any moment!
Quick, throw a shrimp on Barbi, that might distract it!
Daniel here.
Naa, you’re more likely to find an aussie as a Were-Roo (Kangaroo for foreigners), Were-Wombat (bloody solid buggers, even trucks dodge them), Were-Dingo (kinda like a wild dog) or if you really want a dangerous Were-Beast, see if you can find a Were-Bunyip!
Hmmm, actually, might consider changing my were-Beast of choice from Bear to Bunyip. Shapeshift into a vicious amphibious hunter? Sounds good to me…
But mind you that you’ll lose your were-kangaroo unless you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-LmRNdQiQ
Human babies are already ugly, so I doubt bats can contribute much to that problem.
I try to take on board all reasonable counter-arguments. And there is merit to be found, to support your case.
So I hope you will love and adopt this bat-boy!
…Or adopt this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_%28character%29
I think I would probably have the same reaction as Sydney, granted I would have probably glomped the were-bun. She looks cuddly!
Hey Dave, will you eventually consider updating the “Cast” page? It’s due time, I’d think…
That is on his extensive “To-Do List”
Updating the cast page would mean taking time out of making the comic.
What we actually need is a wiki, and some people that are smart enough to update it.
That has been started, thanks to smart and kind readers. Any contributions, to expanding it, would be greatly appreciated.
If she could have spoken, Sydney would probably have said, “It IS the rabbit!”
Yeah, kinda hoping she’s a kickass fighter.
I imagine her combat specialty to be Savate. Maybe more like the Tai style than the French.
You must be hopping over the moon, with this story development!
Anyone besides me starting to wish Dave would publish his RPG rules?
You would need to talk to Peggy. She is the expert in RPGs. Or are you thinking of some other kind?
Never aim at the ground by your feet, “This end to enemy”, leave the safety on till you’re just about to shoot…
What? You don’t use an RPG like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a975ivCIuFY
Why not?
:P
So which one’s the Kat’s whole name? Earlier she introduced herself as Katarina but the badge refers to her as Katrina…
I hope they dont have cereal at this meeting, sydney is going to keep stealing it from Kat.
Nah, they’re best buds now. Sydney wouldn’t play ‘trix’ like that on her.
Now if they had chocolate cereal and a were cuckoo, then there could be trouble.
“Follow the white rabbit”
Faint, at the sight of the grey rabbit.
Beware the black rabbit.
To quote a certain Himalayan snowman:
“I’ll hug him and squeeze him and call him George!”
Ooh, the abominable snowman. Probably a mammal.
Sydney, see if you can become an adorkable snowwoman!
Which will turn out to be a were-Neanderthal.
…Or a were-Australopithecus Robustus…
Still a redhead and optimised for meat-eating. She would be cured of her no-cute-things-vegetarianism!
Daniel the Human is nic-named “shaved Yeti”, does that count?
*nearly has a fit over Kat*
It took me minutes to recover I was laughing so hard.
If it takes Kat time to “enfuzzen” … then obviously she started back when Sidney started to ask, knowing that she’d not stop.
Kat at Easter do Not transform unless you Really like chocolate.
Or jelly beans
I used to have a D&D character who was a were rabbit. He used to carry a Bag Of Holding full of carrots. He farmed when he wasn’t adventuring.
On the defunct MMORPG City of Heroes, I had an anthropoid rabbit character. I named her (No, not George, that would’ve been too silly even for me) Phooken A. Skyppi. she had the Martial Artist package & I named her fighting style Bun Fu.
I remember being introduced to Blade Bunny (the comic, rather than in person) whilst in Talos Island. That is where a couple of my characters would be parked, overnight. One in the magic shop, the other in the tech shop. So it was a place where I often chatted with friends, before we shut down for the night.
And now I feel the urge to create a bunny girl character. :-(
If it were not for the evil Korean company shutting the game down, development would have doubtless reached the point, by now, where we could customise our minions’ looks. I would love to have a bunny girl mastermind hopping around with a pack of six bunny minions!
I would have each tier of minions match an outfit my leader had. This was a tactic I used for my thug minions (by building the mastermind’s looks to match their appearance).
Of particular use in PvP, so that enemies would hesitate, for a moment, trying to pick out the mastermind, rather than the minion. Which I further enhanced by giving him both area of effect and personal stealth. Should the enemy penetrate the invisibility, they would typically uncloak the minions easier than my main. When they attacked my minion, I would then order it to flee, taking a path through the traps I had laid. Then have all other minions gank the unfortunate foe!
I think the lower tier would consist of three traditional waitress bunny girls. The middle tier would have two leather-clad martial arts girls.* And the top-tier one would use a huge body base and be a fully hairy bunny, with as much of a ‘Mad March Hare’ look as I could pull off. Probably with colourful vest and top hat!
* I would experiment, in the builder though, with this tier, and see what other inspirations may strike, as that seems a bit dull. Variants I might try would be cyberpunk, Gothic-bunny, cyber-bunny or maybe angel and demon bunny (if you could vary the two on one tier).
I’m surprised Sydney didn’t try to tackle snuggle Katrina.
Sydney always knew, in her heart of hearts, that werewolves and vampires were real. But the were rabbit has overloaded Sydney’s cuteness circuits.
Snuggles may yet come. So keep your hopes alive. Especially if Sydney decides she wants to be a bunny-girl too! She will be rubbing carrots on herself and trying to make herself as appealing to Kat, as is possible.
*Reads comment, then waits for the inevitable NSFW fan-fiction…*
So… DaveB, I’m still not sure why the crew is here and what they’re doing. Sydney antics are fun and all, but if we count from when they got to the park she’s been doing them for ten pages straight.
I think it’s time to, as Monty Python tells us, GET ON WITH IT!
Savour the moment. Otherwise, all too soon, you will find yourself on your deathbed, saying “is this where I was going? Damn, why did I keep my finger pressed on the ‘maximum speed fast forward button’?”
Words of Wisdom: when keeping the Fast Forward Button pressed, pay heed that you will all-to-quickly reach…
…THE END.
There are always room for more antics if you ask me. Especialy if done by a cute girl like Sydney.
You haven’t been reading the previous pages? They are there in the hopes that someone on the Council of Make-Believe knows something about Sydney’s balls
And pretty much guarantee, as soon as we get to another action arc, someone will pipe up asking “when are we going to get back to Sydney’s zany antics?”
Just re-read the previous pages again. The reason for them going to meet the council has never been addressed in the comic. Some people have started to address it, but Sydney’s interrupted them and caused the whole thing to dscend into nonesense for pages again. At present all we can do is assume that they’re there to try to find out more about the orbs.
Simply put, as far as the actual plot is concerned, we have been at a dead stop for many pages due to Sydney not shutting up. I’d like the story to do something. Not just be fanservice focusing on “here’s a rabbit! Here’s a dire-wolf! Here’s a vampire! Here’s a collection of mythical/alien/other critters! Look at them all, aren’t they cool?” Because my answer is… eh. They aren’t what I come to this comic for, so they don’t excite me when I see them here.
Do you not think that meeting aliens, for the first time, would be the most profound experience in human history? Well that is what is happening, and more, in these scenes.* And you want to move on from that? You have a twisted perspective of priorities.
Importantly if you want to understand aliens, or any other unfamiliar population, it is essential to get to know them. The cuteness is there for the laughs, and it is working. Which is the point of a comedy comic. However a big part of the reason for them being there, stated or not, is for Sydney to familiarise herself with all these hidden races.
Halo has shown herself to be a critically important tactical asset, for Archon. But, in order for her to make correct assumptions, when formulating tactics and strategies, she must have a well-founded knowledge base. Plus her misconceptions, about the world, need to be shattered and reformed.
This is like a martial artist receiving training in how to fight. Despite this happening right in front of you, you seem to think this is unimportant fluff? It most certainly is not. It is vitally important to Sydney, Archon and the whole human race. Not to mention being profoundly interesting, to those who think these things through.
I certainly have no wish to skip these scenes. My only regret is that Dave has chosen to edit it down, from the 80 pages, of such, that he had planned!
* As always we ignore Dabbler, as she breaks practically every rule or punchy line. Anyhow she is just one alien, whereas the ones here represent the greater community.
This is a world full of superheroes where aliens were already present. Moreover, we already learned that there were more of them in scenes that were handled significantly more eligantly than this one. This moment has no real impact. I do not really buy the familiarizing herself with these species argument at present. The presentation and the impact of these scenes are wrong for that.
I believe you are misunderstanding my request. I’m not asking that they leave the meeting. I’m asking that the meeting start doing something. Accusing Max of being there for a pointy-ear convention, learning that wolves don’t howl at the moon, seeing a were-rabbit and flipping out: do these things accomplish anything? I want them to show some focus, some purpose for being here. Sydney’s antics should an addition, a side-point that add comedy around that focus. They should not continue be the sole point themselves. I want this meeting to feel like it’s doing something.
Well it may not be set up the way you like. Which is a reasonable, constructive, criticism to raise. But none the less Sydney is meeting werewolves, vampires, and on this page, a were bunny, for the first time. She has not met any other aliens, other than Dabbler. This is a distinction from having interacted with them, whilst observing them with her truesight orb. But a very important one.
We may have observed a Dyson-sphere, or similar mega-structure, around a star. But even if scientists continue to fail to prove a natural origin for this, it will not drastically change our lives. Shaking the tentacles of such an alien though, for the first time, will do so. This is even more significant when including the paws, claws, actuators and other manipulators present in the chamber.
This comic’s mandate is NOT to focus on the action (but I appreciate you are not pushing for it to go to such). It deals with the interesting quiet moments surrounding the more showy events. The daily lives of the extraordinary. We have a glut of stories, be it in film or other media, which are jam packed with action, from start to finish. Grrl Power has a different way of approaching a story.
It is worth voicing your dissatisfaction mind, so that Dave can keep his finger on the pulse, to see if too many readers are feeling the story is lacking. But do not be disheartened if it does not yield changes. The readership has grown to the size it has because a LOT of people like the way the comic does not rush past the interesting things, but stops to examine them. And, in this case, talk to them.
Meetings, like press conferences, intrinsically lack interest. Yet they are vital parts of how our modern society functions. So it is right for the story to acknowledge their importance. These are the moments when our society changes. Not when boots get put on the ground (to use the analogy of going to war). By that stage it is too late, the change has already happened.
What Dave is doing is keeping the comedic elements going, whilst introducing all these wonderful additions, to the setting, to us, through Sydney. The formal structure of meetings has a very different tone, and this meeting is going to take up a lot of comic pages. So Dave is making the most of the lull, before that starts. To keep variety over the entirety of the story-arc.
Reading it at two pages a week can seem to drag on
“I’d like the story to do something […] They aren’t what I come to this comic for, so they don’t excite me when I see them here.”
With due respect if you climb to an apple tree do not blame it for do not find peaches. This comic is what it is, if the comic and our desires match, lucky us, but is nobody fault if not.
In panel 7, Kat flops her ear and sticks out her tongue on purpose.
So she is fully aware of how ultra cute she is, and she has weaponized it.
Be afraid (and/or aroused), very afraid.
[I think that she may be (good) friends with Dabbler.]
I once got accused of weaponizing Blade Bunny. By the author.
Better overkill than underkill, I say.
Apex-heroine in training? That’s such a beautiful turn of phrase that I think I may cry.
I empathise with the feeling.
Although the laughter, it provoked, overwhelmed me initially, I too felt moved by the innovation, aptness, beauty, and application of the term.
Sydney: So what does this give you? Do you have super-hopping powers?
Katrina: No, but keep that up and I will get hopping mad.
Bountiful breeding bounding bunny bashing?