Grrl Power #478 – Clover DNGAF
Fun story, when I designed Clover (as in Clover honey… honey badger, clover honey badger, hah hah I’m clever you guys.) I made her haircut look like badger stripes, coming down over her eyes. Only, that’s the way a regular badger looks (one might say, a vanilla badger), not a honey badger. Womp waa. I guess if she wore her hair like a honey badger it’d be a bottle bleached crew cut. But then she’d almost definitely have to be a high school girls’ volleyball coach or a ladies tennis pro. Hah hah! Stereotypes, y’all!
Clover being a honey badger isn’t a result of the previously mentioned genus drift that sometimes affects weres, instead more simply, her mom is a honey badger as well. Usually the offspring of a mixed species union is one or the other, but occasionally bizarre hybrids have been known to happen. So someone could conceivably be a were-jackalope for instance, but it’s pretty rare.
Lycans have enhanced attributes based on their animal form. Most in the Carnivora Order, and especially those in the Canidae Family and the Canis Genus have a considerably enhanced sense of smell, as well as better night vision, though most suffer from reduced color sensitivity, i.e. they can’t tell red from yellow. This is hugely pronounced in their hybrid forms, but still present in their human forms to some degree. Various species have other abilities based on their particular species. Kat’s hearing is off the charts, and Clover has tremendous resistance to toxins and disturbing pain tolerance.
BTW honey badger ears are weird. Not “the male seahorse gives birth” weird, just, they’re not sticky out ears like most animals have. They’re even less sticky out than human ears.
Happy Thanksgiving to American readers, who will be largely be doing thing other than their usual routines today so comments might be a little slow, at least until everyone decides they need a break from their families and sneak away to the get 10 minutes of screen time.
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Oooo Badgers!
Indeed! Sydney predicted this way back… Ok, not really, but it might be funny if she thought she had.
It’s taken me this long to remember that classic moment?
And DaveB could have re-used the title: “Badgers. Apparently terrifying.”
No “apparently” required. Not for those on the receiving end of their claws.
Yeah, I…
hmm…
Yeah, I’m okay with this.
There you are! This is certainly the page for you. :-D
I even mentioned you yesterday, albeit that I rather abbreviated your name.
I totally called this. she’s sitting there looking bored… and turns out to be a huge badass… who also happens to be a Were-Ratel.
Nice to see you too, Yorp
“Badgers? we don’t need no stinkin’ BADGERS!”
(only for the Mel Brooks reference)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7txPU6efos
Original is still the best :D
Precision point making. The best way to get your message across.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000003413226/zombie-strippers-badges.html
Maxima was rather concerned about mixing badges with Sydney.
Although Arianna was more worried about her brain potentially being irradiated, than about badgers.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=0ahUKEwjIyt_Y-cLQAhUF0oMKHQpXDLEQ8TUIGzAA&usg=AFQjCNF1sHlk2z9QIx28jtvfnGP_UlkifA&sig2=4ZKPJwadkHE9HYXjdc0yfQ
YouTube uhf gadgets
Google YouTube uhf badgers
:-D
I don’t think Kat would agree with this version though.
Why not just use the Youtube search function itself?
Does the same job. Literally, as they both ‘work’ for the same company, albeit that each program has its own code. However the video tab, on the google results, always has YouTube clips at the top. Plus, as I use Google Chrome, I can just highlight the key words, and right click to bring up the menu including ‘search Google’. Making it the quicker route.
So if someone is more familiar with googling then that is a perfectly good option. Whilst I am proficient with both I chose to follow the advice and google it. And, popular though YouTube is, I would bet a table full of Yorpie Snex™ that there are more people familiar with googling than with YouTube’s search function.
May I offer you some good smelling badgers instead?
Are those like smelling salts?
Lacking any experience in the matter, I would need a
victim, I mean volunt… hey, Yorp, want to try something new? Depending on whether you live or not, there might be some Yorpie™ snacks in it for you. =OP*peers out through periscope, on top of bunker*
*periscope shakes from left to right, several times*
*”Strictly NO visitors” sign illuminates, on blast-proof door*
Ath Thylvethter might thay: “Thpoilthport.” =OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
Huh! I was expecting her to be a ninja.
:-/
I still expect her to be one. Oh yea of wavering faith!
Is it possible to be a wereninja? I bet they only change at the new moon.
Perhaps you should get a waiver for that wavering?
Oh well, can’t have everything I guess.
Oh hey! Gregor could be slipping into his shinobi shozoku right now! That could be why he’s still back there in the shadows!
Honey badger.
Good one.
A little help to keep the comments going from the other side of the ocean.
I was wondering about her from her hair. I was thinking either something like this or a skunk….
I love it! Honeybadger don’t give a ****!
That explains SOOOOOO much about her.
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I have to admit, my reaction would mirror Sydney’s. “Squeeeeee!”
That would make two of us. Squeeeee!
Have a great spanksgiving my dear friends in the USA.
It’s ‘Slaps-giving’ over here, thanks to HIMYM.
Alyson Hannigan may give me slaps anytime she wants to, no special day required.
Unfortunately, wanting something and getting it are often two different things. =OP
Oh I would give it about two minutes, from initially meeting her, before I got a slap!
Mainly because my powers of speech would have departed, and the random assortment of syllables would come up with something off-putting by that point.
Slapsgiving sounds a bit tame compared to spanksgiving. Well, have a good one whatever you choose to do.
Spanksgiving has become soooo commercial. The leather industry has positively overtaken the spirit of the season!
You aught to protest at their abuses, and whip them into submission!
So we should protest their commercialism by buying more of their products? Isn’t that a little like letting the beatings continue until employee morale improves?
Except you have to hit harder, harder… HARDER!
Best part is that they can have no valid argument against you. They also have ball gags.
I’m not really a squee-doer but my god did her beast form make me want to play Bloody Roar some more. Even more than the recent discussion did. Why do we not have a ??? the Badger in there already?
Yes, it actually justifies the description of “lackadaisical” in her Who’s Who entry.
But as of right now, we have an example that Honey Badger does give a f**k…She done f**ked up that SWATamaton real good!
OK, Halo, now would be a good time to learn to project your force field around someone (or something) else… like all the remaining mannequins, for safe transport to some secure facility.
We have covered rather constantly that she doesn’t know how, if she’s capable of it at all. The shield is not the end-all be-all answer. She has to be inside the shield if she puts something else in it. For now.
OP comment is not as silly as usual stuff about this topic. “now would be a good time to LEARN to project your force field” doesn’t imply she could and should do it. She probably won’t learn it because it would be too overpowered, but one can wish.
Yes, but in the middle of a fight is not the place for playing with your balls (other than Jareth of course)
Every time’s the right time if you’re Jareth.
Well, with those pants we wore (or were they body paint?), there was very little of anything in between him & playtime…
Plus, she’s undefended and unarmed while in the shield. PPO would just get her in the blast range, Lighthook doesn’t form inside it, Flyball would just bring the mannequin along for a ride, and the Comm-ball is… she should maybe use that again, actually. She’s a lot closer to those things and they’re using their own powers now so more information could probably be acquired at this point.
Here’s your sing.
And another trophy for obvious
Who knows? Maybe it will be some sort of power upgrade in the future.
Ooh, I got it right.
*falls off chair in amazement*
Well, sorta. Vaguely in the area. I was right to keep to the black and white fur theme. Panda was only a continent out.
*gets back on chair*
Actually suggested her being a badger couple pages back (or maybe it was just last page, the comment about the censor boxes), but was thinking of a regular badger
Just as well nominative determinism did not decide what were Clover became. Otherwise she would have ended up as a were-friesian!
It does make me wonder though, with the various black and white mammal suggestions that were made, if Clover could be an even rarer breed. Namely a super-supernatural. Her supernatural nature making her power manifest associated with her lycanthrope nature, allowing her to turn into any black and white mammal. In which case she has some good flexible options:
Badger, Panda, Skunk, Cat*, Zebra, Dog * (including the English Sheep Dog), White tiger (they still have the black stripes), Lemure *, Tapir, Cow*, Commerson’s Dolphin, Dall’s porpoise, Fin Whale, and Killer Whale!
* Various breeds.
I was thinking wolverine myself…..
Well, if that had been the case then Sydney’s wedding plans would have taken a surprise route! Likewise her options for Sydney Scoville 3rd.
Legal in all 50 states. But Syd has made a statement about that.
Wolverine, honey badger – close enough to the same thing (and surprisingly closely related).
And that golem’s definitely feeling a bit rateled.
Ratel. Points for the obscure pun.
Obscure? that’s the more commonly used name. Honey Badger is just the more common western version. believe it or not, there are people who name stuff outside the states.
Actually this is something that is easy to fact check, using google search frequencies, as a handy rule of dew claw. Logically the term that people use to search with will be the one they are either more familiar with or the one that they have come across, and want to find out more about. Which, together, give us a reasonably fair way of assessing which is the more common.
It is worth pointing out that whilst “Honey Badger” had “animal” as a way to narrow down the search results, “ratel” did not have that option. So the “ratel” result will include all search uses, be they for the infantry fighting vehicle, the ratel radio or other uses (including the animal).
Here are the results. As the link is dynamic, and may be different for future readers, at the present time the red “Honey Badger” bar chart is so much bigger that the blue “Ratel” one is barely a blue line, by comparison!
We can even check out the searches by geographical regions, and see that “Honey Badger” is used far more widely around the world. In fact I cannot see a single country where “Ratel” is used yet “Huney Badger” is not. Although, interestingly, there was slightly more interest in both Serbia and Kazakhstan, for “Ratel”.
For some reason there was a slight peak in searches for “Honey Badger” yesterday. Well within the normal global fluctuations, but something has to cause these things. Be it getting mentioned by a celebrity, on TV, or in some other form of mass-entertainment. :-)
Trends is a very tricky tool to use because it referes to Intenet searches, not to real word. While English is spoken by 5.5% of the world population, 53% of the internet sites are in English. If you want to find something in Internet you must to search the English term, even if it is not the one you are more familiar with.
As an example you have South Africa. According to the 2011 census, isiZulu is the mother tongue of 22.7% of the population, followed by isiXhosa at 16%, Afrikaans at 13.5% and English at 9.6%. HB is “nsele” in Zulu, “ichelesi” in Xhosa and “ratel” in Afrikaans, however it is “honey badget”, the english term, the one more used in searches by far.
In 2011 a You Tube video titled “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger” became viral. The graph in Trends shows a sudden peak in HB searches in 2011, previous to that it was head to head with ratel. The first asociated search related to ratel is “ratel animal”, the first one to HB is “honey badget youtube”. Like The Mule in the Fundation series, a puntual anomaly tipped the balance triggering an interest in searching a term, not because that term were the more familiar in real life, but because it was the way to find a viral video.
There are more factors in play. The share of Internet users vs world population is pretty different for most countries. For instance USA have 4.5% of the world population but 8.7% of Internet users, so searches from USA will weight twice than they should.
The participation also varies. For instance, while almost 90% of people in USA use Internet, less than 28% of people in Africa do, not to say how much the people in each region use it. If 100 million persons in USA use the term “A”, and 160 million persons in Africa use the term “B”, and every one that use Internet makes a search, that means 90 million searches for “A” and 45 million searches for “B”. Trends will show that “A” is twice than “B”, when in real world it is almost a half.
Even more, if you want to trace a trend over time, proportions radicaly change. In 2009 USA had the same share of world population than today, but near to twice the share of Interent users (14%), while most other countries had less instead. Comparations will look even more inaccurate.
Trends is a very tricky tool to use. It’s main goal is to let you know which words to put in your site to be found easier :)
Most of your points are fair. The languages one is flawed though. We are talking about the usage af words in the English language. So the non-English speaking populations are irrelevant to this discussion. They can use whatever word they like, in their native language, without it impacting on this discussion.
The only one that is of any significance is Afrikaans as I grant that Afrikaners are probably more likely to use ratel, even in English (and most are bilingual, certainly of my generation). However the ratio of English (940 million) to Afrikaans (7 million) speakers, in the world is 134 to 1. So not really very significant after all.
Therefore, despite their preference, if wanting to discuss the animal they may find themselves needing to use the more common term, if speaking to people beyond just South Africa.
Your point about viral videos actually explains one modern aspect of the propagation of new words. Historically the two words may have been of comparable usage* but by watching the viral video a lot of people learnt ‘honey badger’. They did not learn ‘ratel’ though, so the former, as a matter of course, becomes used more often.
In fact it can, in extreme situations, wholly account for the propagation of words. I saw one example on the news, this year, where a kid made up a useful word and it spread via his viral video,. Getting into common usage so fast that it became entered in the Oxford English dictionary!
Your point about national usage of the internet is however irrelevant, as the comparison provided a geographical breakdown. So we can see the precise ratio of both words, in each country. So if the USA has a higher internet presence, per capita, it affects the results for both words. And, besides which, we can see that “Honey Badger” exceeds “ratel” in every country that uses the worlds (bar the two exceptions I listed above).
Yes search trends are not a perfect tool for the purpose, but lacking a specific study analysing the actual spoken frequency it does give us a very useful estimate. Which is all that I claimed it to be. It is certainly better than the subjective opinion of a single speaker.
* Which is not what was being argued in the initial comment, in any event.
I didn’t argue against your conclusion in this particular case at all, I just commented the characteristic and limitations of the tool you used, and though I cited a couple examples based on the same terms, it was just because they were at hand.
“So the non-English speaking populations are irrelevant to this discussion”
It happens that “ratel” is a term used in Spanish, Portuguese and French as well. Being a Spanish speaker, I had a more general interpretation of “there are people who name stuff outside the states”.
That is not unreasonable. However it is pertinent that the discussion is within a comments board that exclusively uses the English language, and that it was in response to a play on words used within English.
Not that I have any objections to widening such out beyond that, I just do not see that it is relevant to whether an English pun was well chosen or not.
Well, I didn’t reply to Pendrake’s post but yours, and you were talking about how to “fact check, using google search frequencies […] which [term] is the more common”, so my intention was to share my knowledge on the matter.
Beside that, if regarding such goal to have shared words with other languages seems irrelevant I can’t add anything more.
BTW, there’s another tool, and more useful in my opinion, sadly it covers only to 2008, and nowadays eight years is a lot regarding language development: https://books.google.com/ngrams
It is only irrelevant in the context. As a stand alone or general point it is valid, and worth exploring. Trouble is you intermixed your reply with points that were consistent with the prior content of the thread.
So not only did it convey the impression that it was covering both the general and the context specific aspects, it also meant I needed to reply in kind, as there was both no easy way to separate the two, nor any indication that such was your intent (given that your general points lead into your specific ones, so were supporting them).
I say this only to help future debating, rather than to ‘argue the toss’. If you had separated the points which were relevant, to the specific gist of my comment, from the more general points on ‘what Google search trends are useful/not useful for’, then there would have been significantly less that I needed to contest.
That ngrams tool is a useful one, thanks.
“Argue the toss”
– Oxford Dictionary: British informal – Dispute a decision or choice already made:
– Longman English Dictionary: British English informal – to continue to argue about a decision that has been made and cannot be changed
– Urban Dictionary: An idiom meaning to stubbornly quibble over something inconsequential, irrelevant, minor or off-topic. A cavilling dispute. Another way of saying “to argue for the sake of it”.
Ooookey.
Virgen santa! I just realized that I totally misread your comment. Please, forget my previous reply, it was a sorry mistake :(
Jeez, I should better stop comment…
* Hands Yorp a sturdier chair for future “Grrl Power” reading*
Father a wolf, mother a honey badger.
Drunk kinda night out.
… And the ‘Morning After’ would’ve been memorable, too.
Or possibly true love.
Or both.
DIRE wolf. so…. she’s a Were-Dire Honey Wolf Badger?
I was curious enough about this to search for the evolutionary history of the Honey Badger. To see if there might have been a bigger ‘dire’ version, in the past. However, by the time I reached my boredom threshold (page 2 of the Google results), the most informative line was “as of 2012 there has been little research into the evolutionary history of the Honey Badger”!
It seems nobody gives a shit about Honey Badger!
OR that people are too scared to ask them any especially personal questions..
Well, if honey badger doesn’t give a fuck about our curiosity, then why should give a fuck about its history?
Hmmm…Now that I think about it, taking a stance on the concept of “an eye for any eye” with a honey badger may not be the wisest way to approach…
O.o
https://synapsida.blogspot.com.uy/2015/11/teeth-of-giant-honey-badger.html
Back in 1924, palaeontologist Otto Zdansky believed that he had found a fossil of one of those early relatives in China, and named it Eomellivora – the “dawn honey badger” […] one of the few things we could definitely say about the animal was that it certainly seemed to be rather large – not monstrously huge, or anything, but noticeably larger than the living species, so that the name “giant honey badger” seems quite appropriate..
[…]
A few years back some unusually complete fossils of this animal were uncovered in Batallones, a hill about 15 miles south of Madrid.
[…]
So, giant honey badgers were apparently a real thing. And they lived for several million years across a fairly wide chunk of the globe. […] just how big was a giant honey badger, anyway? This can be a bit hard to tell from the skull alone, but if we make the reasonable assumption that the rest of the animal was broadly in proportion to it, and much the same shape as a honey badger is today, they would, on average, have been a little larger than the very biggest living wolverines. Which is to say, about three-and-a-half feet (110 cm) long, and maybe 70 lbs (30 kg) or so in weight. And these, it should be noted, were not the largest species of giant honey badger – those that lived later would easily have dwarfed any mere wolverine.
Take care not to bump into that in a dark alley.
badgerbadgerbadgerbadger mushroom mushroom SNAAAAAAKE its a SNAAAAAAAAKE!
sorry couldn’t help myself.
badger badger badger…
bailiff, please refrain Haiiro from badgering the witless
Whatever you want, honey.
Dangit, I’m going to have to get to the updates more quickly. That’s the second time in two installments that I’ve been out -ninja’d…That’s going to make my rep suffer.
Badger badger badger 85, badger 85!
Weebl and Leverage reference merge? You I like.
Here, help yourself
That was an unexpected mushroom.
Maybe it’s a ninja mushroom?
More like a “Game over, man! Game over!” mushroom.
https://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
Or you could look for Russell Wilson, who comes from “a whole pack of badgers”.
And for our British friends confused about why we celebrate Thanksgiving, here’s why they’re confused:
https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/footy
Thank you.
^_^
I am disappointed that an American would side with the Imperialistic English, and link to propaganda showing Cornwall as part of England, rather than recognising its status as an allied duchy!
*reverses tail wagging direction, to show disapproval*
Thank you DaveB for posting a strip on Thanksgiving. Totally badass that Clover is a honey badger & in the way that you revealed it.
Happy Thanksgiving to DaveB and all our American* readership!
* Non-Canadian flavour.
Err… thank you?
Well I know that Canadian Thanksgiving day has already passed. And I have absolutely no idea about whether any other American nations, outside of the States, celebrate the day or not. I would guess the latter, but if any do join in the festivities, be it at home, or in the USA, I hope they have a good time too.
For everyone else, we will just have to make do with happy comic update day!
I guess we might as well ask around. I know that in Mexico, they don’t celebrate their independence day, but Mexican independence *is* celebrated here in the USA.
Well, in most of Mexico. There is at least one city that does (but then again, one of the most important battles happened there, so they have a reason to celebrate), and all of Mexico acknowledges it. But no, it isn’t a national holiday.
Thanksgiving as USA people see it it’s pretty much only there, but celebrations associated with harvest are varied around the word. Obviously they will happen at opposite times of the year in both hemispheres due the inversion of seasons.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/harvest-festivals/
However I have the impression that they seems to be more common the more away of the equator you go. I guess that people that have harder winters ahead are more inclined to be grateful for the food :)
Spain has no harvest celebration that I’m aware of, so latin american countries tend to do not have national ones, although there are local ones here and there mainly related to native traditions.
Just in case, this seems to be a easy book about the topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Thanksgiving-Harvest-Festivals-Holidays-Celebrations/dp/1604130962
Quite well reasoned, Duende; that sounds very plausible.
Inversely, the spiciness of food tends to get stronger as you get closer to the equator. Before refrigeration, spice was used to cover the taste of rotting meat. In northern and southern climes, food spoiled more slowly due to colder temperatures, and cellars provided natural refrigeration. Alternately, more food was preserved via salting, pickling, or drying to ensure they would last the winter.
(In regards to using cellars for refrigeration: The earth itself makes very good insulation. Even in the middle of the Nevada desert, if you dig down six feet, the temperature is a fairly constant 60 degrees (~15.5 Celsius). I know a family in Nevada that air conditioned their home that way; they dug an air tunnel a few feet under their home and set up ventilation fans to draw air through the tunnel.)
I know of English country estates which still use Victorian era oubliettes, filled with ice, as their primary bulk cold storage, all year round. The kinds of quantities they need would otherwise have a huge electricity bill, in order to maintain a bank of walk-in freezers. Plus it has the advantage of carrying on working even if there is a power cut.
Having to go in and out by ladder, and use a block and tackle, to haul carcasses and other heavy items in and out, is an inconvenience, compared to a walk-in freezer. But that is a minor issue, as it has stood the test of time, even against modern technology.
Reading a bit it turned out that in some regions people have multiple harvests a year, either the same or different crops, especially if they developed irrigation methods. This is more suitable in regions with temperate wheather.
I’m guessing now that not having an actual end of the harvesting season should be a more important factor in the equation :)
IIRC originally spices were used mainly to actually preserve the food.
I never would have guessed how badass a honey badger zoanthrope would have been otherwise. Definitely agree.
You can get much better.
That? A mere piffle compared to Clover’s ability to not only create sinuses for the mannequin, but to make sure they were permanently cleared all in one swipe.
Aaaand Clover is now my favorite shapeshifter in this comic. I always wanted to see one in action, well always since reading “Bite me”.
I still prefer Kat, myself. It’s easy . . . well, easier to be a stoic bad ass when you know you can take a lot of punishment and deliver huge blows like that one. Kat though is fun, was willing to play along with some of Sydney’s silliness earlier, and has some pretty dazzling moves.
Clover or Kat, they both seem to be doing more than Gregor is doing right now. Kat was holding her own until she got poisoned, and Clover is, well, right now kicking ass. And not giving a frak.
Gregor I think was fighting an Assasinakin off camera.
No, Sir Barkly was heading to safety because he knew mommies daughter could handle things
Gregor is an old wolf. Who knows how quick he can move at his age.
What I want to know is what the vampires are doing.
The Shadow knows!
**
Only Hanoi knows!
I mostly liked Sydney’s face when Kat shifted and her ear flopped.
I absolutely love Sydney’s face, in the final panel. When Sydney is ecstatically happy, I am too.
*wags tail in ecstasy*
However I am rather concerned about Kat’s head flopping onto the conference table, in the first panel. It is no longer just her legs which are all wobbly. That is one fast-acting venom, making her prospects extremely worrying!
*tail slows to a halt, and crosses claws, for Katrina*
Actually makes me wondering if Kat’s reaction in panel one isn’t to Clover taking a claw to the gut and maybe thinking “Oh no!! Not Clover as well!!! Now who will save us both?”
DDDDAAAAMMMMNNNN!!!! Who knew Clover could deliver that kind of uppercut?! I am impressed!
I guess now we’ll be able to see the limits of the Creepy Evil Mannequins reconstruction ability though. Will it still be able to rebuild itself after being trashed like that, some of it’s bits seemingly being reduced to sawdust? I’m thinking not, especially considering that the head and it’s palm print were part of what was destroyed.
Meanwhile, I’m loving the bit with the mannequin apparently being so surprised that Clover didn’t go down that it had to check and make sure his poison claws are still working. ☺
And I guess the debate about what that is sticking out of her mouth is over – she’s a smoker! Now we can fill up endless pages of comments debating on exactly what she’s smoking, though!
What does she smoke? The desiccated remnants of her last ex-boyfriend, probably.
LMAO! For some strange reason, I was thinking it was tobacco or pot or some such thing.
Pot would make a sort of sense with the laid back attitude but generally has a darker smoke. I’d guess they’re more likely to be tobacco but the tagline at the bottom says they’re flavoured.
Nah. Those you sniff.
According to the bottom of the page, she’s smoking “snake innard flavored” cigarettes
I missed that! Thanks!
The fact she destroyed the head (and the handprint) should mean that Kat has been avenged and this SWATaton is permanently shut down
But that also ruins the ability to do fingerprint / hand-print comparisons to find the wizard that sent these golums on their mission.
“…it had to check and make sure his poison claws are still working”
Thank you, I realized what but couldn’t figure out why.
Yeah, couldn’t figure it out at first either.
The sound-effect (squirt) is covering up the fingers, making it hard to see what’s really going on there. If DaveB would be willing to move the “squirt” more to one side, then we could see more clearly.
Agreed. I had the further complication, in that I was ignoring the text, to try and make out what was beyond. As my monitor is not positioned at an ideal distance,* the image is always a bit blurry for me. So my initial glance just made out the red,** which combined with the two factors above, looked like flames.
Given that Clover’s matching panel had her lighting her cigarette, I took this to be the classic ‘setting fire to the enemy, without them realising it’ gag, and moved on. However the way that played just did not seem right. ‘Why would the manikin just stop attacking’. So it was not until my second read through (after posting my initial impressions) that I realised my error.
My clue being that I was trying to figure out what the red was on Clover’s shirt. The first panel had looked more like her shirt being grabbed, to me initially (note the fabric looks like it is being pulled away from Clover). Gore there would have helped first-glance realisation, rather than being gratuitous.
Further I suspect that DaveB intentionally positioned the “squirt”, over the bloody hand, to lessen the gore factor. Sadly it does also lessen the comprehension, given that several people (myself included) did not get it initially.
* Any closer and it is at risk of being knocked over when I get up out of my arm-chair.
** Which I now appreciate is from the blood.
One reason why there was no blood in the first panel, could be because there hasn’t been time for the blood to come out, as that shot was literally taken as the claws went in
I agree that is logical, and probably why Dave did it that way. But it does not help the comprehension. The alternatives, if wishing to avoid blood, include showing the rip to the shirt. However, just like the intent to show a forward thrust did not succeed (for me anyhow) likewise a rip could be from grabbing the shirt and pulling. The distinction between the two is subtle and very hard to both depict and interpret.
Whereas a bit of blood does stand out. We instinctively spot that, as we look for it, in hazardous situations, like combat. So it does not require a gore-fest. Rather all it needs is just enough to make it clear that an injury has occurred.
Psst! Yorp! Your mn is showing !! 😏
As is my secret identity! Oh, no!!
Heh. Yea, and on a few more. I spotted it on this one. Then got distracted by the bright shiny comments, that needed replies. And the need to remove the typo had fluttered out of my mind by then.
Never mind. Or Mind Not, if you prefer.
If you meant the forward thrust from the Shrededaton in panel one, that happened between the last panel on the last page and the first panel on this page
Mmm, on a second thought, perhaps the manikin’s second panel (in the three out-staring each other panels) could have shown the bloody hand being held up, in much the same position as the “squirt” panel? Thus allowing the squirt to be obvious even without the onomatopoeia.
Not that I am suggesting this as a change. Dave has enough work on his plate without making significant changes, on a regular basis. He already gave Katrina her cute tail, after all. This is just a speculation for its own sake, or maybe to help with a future similar situation.
You can still see both the red tips of the fingers and the green spurt of toxin (it also looks like Manny squirted his own face)
Ah, the Mark. Yeah, I was wondering about that. I just hope that the red mark isn’t fresh blood from a ‘good guy council member’ or whatnot and destroying it means they die (though I guess they’d be freed from continued or worse things if someone was able to get that much of their blood to do that) and the mannequin is a different form of magic or something that has some sort of control ability over whatever/whoever’s blood gets on it, and someone else is magically controlling it. I said that confusingly:
-Someone controls mannequins to give it purpose
-Blood on a mannequin makes the mannequin mobile
-Mark links the blood and the owner of the blood together, destroying one destroys the other
Nice small touches:
Clover has wiped the smile off the manikin’s face, with her stare-down, if you compare it with the previous page.
The manikin did manage to draw blood.
The not-so-nice part is that Clover has now been exposed to the poison too. Assuming that it replenishes itself, rather than having been used up on Katrina. Clover has managed to keep going gainfully though. Tough girl.
However, let us not forget that honey badgers can resist snake venom VERY well. There is a famous video doing the rounds of a honey badger that was bitten by a poisonous snake just before the snake was killed, and although the badger was unconscious for a while, it recovered and ate the snake.
If there was any were that would be good at resisting poison, it had to be a were-honey badger.
Also, as previously said, honey badger don’t give a
Or a were-mongoose, were-hedgehog, or were-boar :P
These animals share similar mutations in their neural receptors that make them resistant to snake neurotoxin.
Yep, they build up venom resistance through their lives.
And, come to think of it, that’s with *their* tiny body mass, not big human body mass. Clover’s resistance should be through the roof!
I meant to say honey badger don’t give a *bleep*
Honey Badgers. Mostly Toxin-proof, bump that up to 11 because she’s a were, then you’ve got someone who can resist even magical toxins.
Well, considering we see its hand… finger stumps, squirting poison, it may not have gotten a chance to do so. I think she flexed her abs and tore its fingers off. … Lady scary.
No, it did that to check if the poison was still flowing, kinda gives the SWATatons some sort of semi-sentience (or they are being directly controlled individually)
Not only that, but they would also almost have to have some sort of sentience (or very advanced sub-routines) to switch between choosing which weapon to use.
That’s why its looking at its own fingers squirting. It wasn’t sure if it had run dry from the lack of reaction.
That mannequin had its head f**ked twice by her.
We know the mannequin had enough poison. That’s what the tiny panels show us. The mannequin being confused, and checking to make sure it still had poison.
Love how Clover is saying so many things with just a few glances. “Not impressed, dude.” “You. Ruined. My. Shirt.” “Fine, just gotta light up first, also, still not impressed.”
Add in the mannequin looking confused then down at his claws like are these things on?
She had to light up. The nicotine helps keep her calm. The ruined shirt was harshing her mellow.
Shame she is a smoker, although she was very cool with it. But, on the plus side, her extreme toxin resistance should help her resist its poisons. Although not so sure if that would also apply to the carcinogenic properties. And her lungs will still get that black tar coating so distinctive in autopsies.
Presumably the were part of her would resist the cancers.
Urban Fairy Tales!
A friend of mine said he got x-rayed and his silia inside his lungs are way more numerous than they should be and naturally keep tar from collecting. Clover could also be a smoker so she can increase her own toxin resistance without the need to get poisoned in combat with snakes and spiders and things. I wonder if she eats blowfish sashimi.
Interesting mutation. I should point out that the cilia are in the air passage ways, rather than in the lungs though. It is the cilia’s job to trap impurities, like tobacco smoke particles and asthma-inducing pollen. So, by having more, than in a unmutated human, what they are doing is spreading out the work load more. This is good, for him, both because it is reducing the amount of particles getting into the lungs and likewise the amount of tar landing on each one individually.
I would not rely on that lasting mind, as cilia are harmed by tobacco smoke. As more get damaged, more smoke particles will get into the lungs and settle there. So this is only helping him temporarily.
Further what he is currently doing is reducing the risk of lung cancer but increasing the risk of throat cancer, by having more of the carcinogenic substances getting trapped at that stage.
Smokers rarely listen to anything which would get them to cut down, or stop though. So I say this mainly for your information. You may wish to learn (from a properly accredited organisation) how to perform a tracheotomy. That way if, someday, he does find himself unable to breathe, you will be able to bypass any blockage (be it accumulated tar or something cancerous), long enough to keep him alive, until a professional can take over.
My father was a lifetime smoker; what finally forced him to cut back was the price. Texas added a $1 per pack luxury tax (and they were thinking about adding another $1 per pack, but were convinced not to, when they realized what a political shitstorm that would cause.)
When you’re retired and on a limited income, and the price of your cigarettes goes from $55 a week to $95 a week (and when you just had surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer), it strongly encourages you to cut back.
Go figure that despite being a two-pack-a-day smoker, he never had lung problems, and I’m the one stuck with regular coughing fits because of more than 40 years of secondhand smoke inhalation (despite never once putting a cigarette between my lips.)
Yea, it is sad that secondary smoking can affect smokers children and friends like that. As for smokers themselves ‘dodging the bullet’ it can go the other way too. Both my parents quit smoking, for over thirty years. But eventually both came down with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Which was attributed, by the appropriate professionals, as having been a result of all the smoking they did in their early years. Of course, if they had not quit, when they did, they would likely have come down with it much sooner, rather than in their retirement, when it does not impact on their quality of life quite as much as it would in younger people.
Assuming that cancer did not get them, before that. Which is a big assumption given that my dad got one flavour anyhow (not smoking related), which pushes up any risk evaluation for him.
Something that I find even sadder: All the advertising that the cigarette companies like Philip-Moriss are not allowed to do in the United States, they still do in poorer countries. That is to say, their advertising targets children, to make it look like the “cool” thing to do. They get away with this because the countries where they do this, cannot afford to sue them and/or to have them pull out of the country; they need the tax income.
My mother was a registered nurse who worked at times in the emergency room and in long term patient care. She told me and my siblings when we were young that the two things we would never do is ride a motorcycle or smoke cigarettes since she had seen the result of doing both.
Were-Honey-Badger! That is the BEST FUCKING THING EVER!!!
I’m sorry I’ll go geek out about this in private now…
Why? You got plenty of company geeking it out right here!
Squirt?
The bad guy was so shocked by Clover not going down that it had to check and make sure it’s claw was still working. A little of the poison got squirted into the air.
Thanks. I was mentally spinning wheels on what looked like a non sequitor. I didn’t think of an automaton having that kinda surprise-reaction.
Its secateurs are on its other hand.
Would that make referring to this hand a non-secateur?
Looks like I got to learn a new word today.
Well, there’s already a whole movie devoted to “Edward Secateurhand,” isn’t there?
;)
So uh, I couldn’t tell clover was a woman until i read it in the commentary. Not sure what that says about me.
You’ve seen too many bishe’s/bishie? whatever. and your perceptions have adjusted to assuming masculinity when there isn’t any so that you don’t get unpleasantly surprised anymore, maybe?
It happened to me once. You should go back to normal eventually.
It means you do not read the comic: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2187
It’s a little hard to see behind Clover’s huge strike in the last panel, but it looks like Sydney has the bad guy with the knight’s helmet all wrapped up in her light hook. I hope it doesn’t decide to explode or something while she’s deciding how best to wreck it.
I wonder if it could escape her by disassembling itself? We have seen that their individual bits are just as dangerous as they are when together, after all.
I think capture and study is still a good idea at this point. Move it to a secure place and VERY carefully attempt to glean as much info as possible from it.
Mage Guy already tried that.
Well, except for the “move it to a secure place” and the “very carefully” parts . . .
Bingo. Right idea, wrong execution.
Also, Mage Guy only tried capturing it through magical means. A non-magical examination might work better for them.
And inside a very secure bunker.
No, Guy was simply examining the lead SWATaton
He was trying to find a weakness so that they could capture it, so I guess I can give you this one on a technicality.
Who says that the one guy that looks different is a puppet and not a puppeteer
The one in the knight helmet? Well, he did get smashed up by Maxima and have to reassemble a couple of pages ago. As you can see here, the helmet is in the pile!
Since there are established ways of getting new powers: Will Sydney or anyone else we’ve met so far be picking up magic, lycanthropy, etc?
You would think that there’d be a limit to how many of these you can get (or else everyone in that room that had any sense would have a whole bunch of them) and I imagine they all have their own downsides outside of training requirements and getting used to new instincts, but getting one or two that aren’t incompatible should be possible right?
I imagine Maxima would veto Syd gaining anything that would be a dangerous mix with her lack of self control though, at least till Syd calms down a little. She’s dangerous enough already without the temptation to eat people or violate fundamental laws of magic! XD
Why would Sydney want more powers? She has her balls which she has enough trouble controlling as it is
She’s Sydney? I mean she has already offered to get her arm cut off to gain access to hammerspace…..
I wonder if Sydney Vampire could walk around during the day with her shield up.
We already know she did some lawyering in the future (remember this is all a flashback) related Vampires and forcefields: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/55
Sydney has been told that the mechanisms behind how super powers work are not understood. Whilst they know some broad patterns, such as them being more common in industrialised nations, they do not know how they are gained or work. Therefore giving supers new powers would not be possible, outside of a narrow range of options.
For instance they could give someone a cybernetic limb. But without Dabbler’s technology, or similar off-world or super-genius inspired inventions, they would be limited to our current technology. Which, for the most part would give a limb that is inferior to the natural one. Although specialist sprinting ones, for example, can ‘give an edge’ in sporting events. Which, whilst nice for equal opportunities, does not really put them on a par with super speed runners, or the like.
Likewise it is possible that someone’s super power is to grant super powers to others. Such an individual would be highly prized and sought after the world over. Provided the powers were useful. As examples, very short duration ones, or just granting the ability to project a coloured spot on a wall would not fall in that category.
Of course mad scientists are the turn-to-guys in this field. Were it not for their megalomaniac instincts and desire to build world-destroying death rays, instead of making other people super powered.
However, when Sydney was told that, it seems they were referring only to superpowers, and not supernatural or magical powers. For example, we already know that Sydney gains new powers by leveling up (even if we may not know the precise method required for her to level up). Furthermore, Dabbler implied to Gwen (I think that’s her name, but I could be wrong) that she could have taught her a levitation or flight spell- although some might quibble with identifying a spell as a “power”.
Yep, that happened. Also, Gwen got her magical powers by finding a book that contained legitimate information.
Yup, magic is another matter. Mind you, whilst we may thing that ‘if it is in a book it can be copied, and learnt by others’ that may not necessarily be the case. The reason why I say this is not just to play devil’s advocate however, it is simply from the observation that we do not see genuine magic being performed around us, on a daily basis.
So possibly there is something intrinsic, about magic, which prevents this. Different (game/story) systems handle this in different ways, if they wish to keep magic rare. One example, which would fit these circumstances, is that copying a spell might actually just move it from its current location to the new one. Doing a ‘cut and paste’ rather than the ‘copy and paste’ that was intended.
Alternatively magic might be bound into the book itself. Thus requiring that an apprentice perform a ritual, in order to draw upon the magic of the spell. Anybody else trying to use that book would have no joy. Likewise a physical copy of it would not possess the magic, so would be worthless, from a casting point of view.
Gwen, by ‘finding’ a book would, in the latter example, have come across one where the original owner had died. Thus allowing her to successfully follow the instructions (within it, or elsewhere) on ‘how to bind this grimoire to yourself’. Something which probably would not work if the original owner was still alive. Unless they participated in the ceremony, and magically transferred ownership to their defacto apprentice.
Alternatively we can note the existence of the mage delegates on the Twilight Council. Likewise the fact that their most important protection is the Veil, a world-spanning magical device. Which they go to great lengths to protect. Just as the mundane world has a ‘nuclear non-proliferation treaty’ I would expect the supernatural world to have a ‘magic non-proliferation treaty’.
As such mages would be allowed to have a strictly limited number of apprentices (probably one, if trying to keep the global balance static, or maybe just enough to make up for unexpected losses, where mages have died before training an apprentice).
Whilst anyone, like Gwen, who stumbled across magic would be given a blunt invitation ‘sign up to the non-proliferation treaty* or face the consequences’. Which need not necessarily be a death threat. Stealing her spell book would probably do the trick. Or a curse could be laid upon her (of any one of a number of creative options) to either stop her spell casting, or make it undesirable to attempt it, or to prevent her from teaching anyone else.
* Or maybe even ‘join the mage faction of the Twilight Council.’ Although I imagine that would be treated as a reward for those who prove themselves to be trustworthy. As unwillingly conscripting someone, who can cast fireballs, is not necessarily the best way of ensuring a harmonious council meeting.
Trying to compare Mages in GrrlVerse with the Jedi and Sith? o_O
Nope.
Thinking about it, that’s probably why Dave named her Gwen and gave her pink hair- Gwendolyn Tennison got Charmcaster’s abilities because she stole her stuff, and another time because she stole someone else’s magic charms. Her grandmother is apparently not human at all, and said that there is no such thing as magic, and her species color is pink, which would be why Gwen has that pink stripe.
But all that stuff with Gwendolyn was really just a catalyst to help her learn what she really is, and then start getting access to those skills.
It may turn out that, once in a while, Varia’s power operates differently. We have already seen examples with both Halo and Harem that it does not always work the same way. Possibly, for example with someone who has latent abilities, which have not yet manifested themselves, the gestalt might not grant Varia powers, it may give them to her partner. Permanently. In essence awaking their latent powers.
Possibly it might even do that in addition to granting Varia a power herself, if she is just acting as a catalyst speeding up something which would have occurred on its own, in due course. Which, once Archon realised the implications, may in turn give them insight into how super powers work. But, even if it does not, the usefulness of helping to awaken new supers, in a safe, controllable, environment, has advantages over getting holes blasted in people’s living room walls!
Lycan is a weird word. When I first watched Underworld I thought they were talking about Lichens.
Can you have a Were-Lichen?
Lichen is already a symbiosis of algae and fungus. Cross kingdom lycanthropy would be hard enough. But a plant, animal, fungi mix? That would take some serious weirdness.
Well, Castela in Wapsi Square is part blackthorn. The rest of what the lab mixed in is unknown, but she usually looks like a slightly-oddly-colored human with weird eyes.
You do NOT want to get into a fight with 80 pounds of sapient, animated, angry thorny vines. Trust me on this.
ESPECIALLY one that fire ?plasma beams? from her hands… and is considerably more mobile and active than a Venus Flytrap plant…
yep, Minecraft has one… The Creeper… here’s the You-tube video explaining the apparent biological composition of The Creeper that covers this subject.
Always hated the usage of “lycan” to describe a were. I can understand it, as it’s a shortened form of lycanthrope, but still… It’s like seeing “thru” when you’ve always spelled it “through.”
IIRC, DaveB has already written that weres are only mammalian in the Haloverse.
Correct.
No definitive evidence yet if it includes both marsupials and monotremes.
(with the possible exception of a certain hat-wearing platypus)
Take notes Sydney because even Max would be impressed by this level of “like a boss” attitude.
And thanks for posting this on the holiday, hope you enjoy whatever plans you have.
After the fight, Clover gets invited to carve the turkey for dinner…
(After a wikipwedia dive) And I though Wolverines was badass …
Honey badgers are smart, strong, tenacious, and more then a bit ill tempered. Best to just let them have thier way and deal with the aftermath after they leave.
They can also play defensive back for the Arizona Cardinals.
Young cheetahs fur looks like a honey badger as protective coloration. That right there should tell you something.
That is a very fun fact indeed.
Wolverines are just the North American cousin
I remember seeing a documentary about wolverines, and they can even make a grizzly bear back off. Honey badgers have the same bad attitude…….
fun badger fact: their skin is so thick and loose, that even if held by a larger predator’s claws, the badger can turn around *inside its own skin* and attack whatever’s holding it.
Yup. Pretty much the only safe place to hold one is by the back of the neck (and I bet even that isn’t a guarantee.)
Because no one has yet to come forward and volunteer to test it
If I had to do it, I would choose to hold it by ten foot long pincers, from within the safety of an armoured vehicle! Which I would make sure was well insured.
Insured against honey badger attack? Good luck finding a carrier who will accept that proviso.
There is, of course, only one choice for which vehicle to use.
Oh, a nice “f*** this guy”- slap.
If her mother was a honey badger, can you imagine the end of her pregnancy?
“Don’t bother with the epidural, it won’t work. Okay, so I’m fully dilated. You say that like I’m supposed to be reacting. Ow. Oh, look. It’s a girl.”
pain in childbirth is mostly a human thing. in some species, birth is actually pleasant feeling.
A lot of which is due to humans only recently having become fully bipedal. So a lot of the anatomy is a compromise between making that work and yet still be able to reproduce. But never fear, there are a few upgrades that can be made, to the human genome, to make the process safer and less painful.
Which would grant an evolutionary advantage to populations favorably disposed towards genetic tinkering, over more conservative ones. Once any bugs have been worked out.
Depends on how well-received Spider-Man movies are :)
I mean, no one really flipped out about goats being the biggest spiders in the world, and I’d totally date a goth chick with a natural red hourglass.
We must all find love, where we can, so I shall not try to dissuade you. Do ensure you administer an anesthetic though, just before you consummate your relationship.
*puts on black foreleg band, in anticipation*
The best answer so far…
https://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/168/216/9ec.jpg
Peter Pork’ed-her’s last thoughts “Still got laid, so didn’t die a virgin!”
One reason why human infants are so under developed compared to many other primates is that there is a maximum size the head can get and still get through the pelvic girdle. The final development of the brain has to occur outside of the mother.
Not in the spotted hyena, where adult females’ testosterone levels are so high (for establishing dominance) that they have — and have to give birth through — a penis-like structure, though!
Somehow, I can imagine that line being spoken in an absolutely flat, Ben Stein-like tone of voice.
There are reasons why at least one model of gun (.30 caliber) and an infantry fighting vehicle (the South African “Ratel”) are named after them. They have been known to drive lions off; they have even been known to attack Cape Buffalo. (And as Yorp can probably confirm, Cape Buffalo are extremely dangerous, to the point they’re called “The Black Death” or “Widowmaker”.)
*nods*
They are highly unpredictable, which meant that it was not possible to domesticate them. Big (900 kilos), fast, unpredictable, sharp horns… avoid.
Man!, what kind of GIRLS have you been dating? :D
None of them. Girlfriends are expensive.
Though this thread does remind me of two friends of mine who had their first child not so very long ago. When their daughter was born, the father (who had been wanting a boy, and pretending to be all macho) said, “Well, why don’t we just shove her back where she came from?”
His wife looked up at him, batted her eyes, and said, “I don’t know. Wouldn’t that be kind of painful… for YOU?” :D
Yep, total deadpan voice. That’s how I imagined it.
Honey badgers….!
After this arc runs, Sydney should have a dream sequence where she is dressed like the lead character from a 1970s and 1980s Mexican TV sitcom El Chavo,and the other ARCSwat members turn up as the supporting characters also.
Sydney has been an official superhero less than a week and is already in her second major battle. By the time she finishes training her dreams will be a bit ‘interesting’ in so many ways…
Sydney started to have that dream sequence. Sharing it with everybody is what got her kicked out of the chamber.
Maybe Sydney should dream about this Brazilian TV series of he 1960s:
https://www.internationalhero.co.uk/r/rodovaiario.htm
And we could see a guest appearance from our own Yorp :D
I’m not sure that Yorp’s ever been to Brazil…! Or maybe he’ll play the dog on the series I’ve provided to link to?!?
I have been around for a long time, and have been to many places. Plus, in my time, I have played many parts.
Shakespeare reference?
Well spotted. And a nod to Highlander too. Albeit only being part of my line, and paraphrased, at that.
Unless that’s some other mannequin’s arm flying off in the last panel you made a mistake there.
His left arm got ripped off and his right can still be seen at the edge of the panel but it’s a right arm in the air.
PS Ditto to all the nerd squee-ing and thank you very much for this page.
DaveB has had prior problems showing the correct placement of thumbs
The remaining M-Anakin (the one Sydey is not fighting against) needs to have two left arms then. :D
i was under the impression that Max had piled all the parts she diassembled into one heap. unless the mannikins have some identification scheme, they might get the wrong parts back when reassembling in combat. kinda like Foghorn Leghorn’s solution.
Uh, that link didn’t work. Here it is raw, ugly and cutty pasty: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S9dF5xuJBbM
No, he correctly drew the thumb in the correct place in panel eight, just not in panel “Squee”
Clover has destroyed the head and the torso, hope the last standing M-Anakin ends up using the remainings of the others to become a megazord-like multiarm wooden robot.
There is still one regular SWATaton unaccounted for, not counting Lone Helmet currently tied up by Sydney
Sorry. Perhaps, I didn´t explain myself properly. I meant that whether the last M-Anakin standing is the one Sydney is fighting or the one Gregor (presumably) is facing, would be great if it becomes a Machamp-like thing, taking the unharmed limbs of it´s fallen comrades.
It may be a little bit predictable though.
Yeah! Venom resistant Honey Badger FTW!
She’s a Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger. She don’t really give a $!@#
Also, BADGER UPPERCUT!!!
I would love it if she went totaly Sagat on the villains in the next page. Badger knee! Badger! Badger! Badger!
Badger style kickboxing is stronger than tiger style.
Interesting fact. When fox hunting started to go out of fashion (in yea olden times), lots of owners of Jack Russell packs found that they no longer had a job to do. As the breed‡ had been specifically chosen and bred for fox hunting. So they looked around for a new purpose, and found it in badger baiting.
The Jack Russells of that era were too fragile for that mind, so they got cross-bred with another hardier variety, successfully making the breed more robust and able to win a fight. Given that they would be put down badger holes, and have to fight them, in their own dens (in order to drive them out), they had to be!
Badgers are a lot bigger, heavier and better armed. Jack Russells have to be more skillful. They were highly successful in the role, so their intelligence paid off. Whether that was due to having been smarter to start with, or natural selection having gotten rid of the dumber ones, it does go towards explaining why Jack Russels are as clever as they are.
You think a were-badger is tough? My money is on the were-Jack Russell. :-D
‡ For lack of a more appropriate word, given that historically they were not registered as a breed, as Reverend Jack Russell was averse to the inbreeding that could result in attempting to keep to a defined breed. Albeit that they have been recognised in America now (a.k.a. the Parson’s Terrier).
Dachshunds were bred for doing that, too.
So were the Seeleyham Terrier (think: Jack Russell chopped off at the knees)
Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger… not to be confused with the Crazy Sexyass Sake’ Badger…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahs0MDTWG5Q
I prefer Ice Cream Badger and Sleepy Badger.
…so,we have 3/4’s of the A-Team; Clover is B.A.,Peggy is Face+Murdock’s piloting skill and Syd is part Hanibal/Murdock crazy(Add)…
That will have to be a dream sequence as well.
Clover officially gives no fucks.
And jolly Thanksgiving everyone. I’mma just chill, at home, by myself, eating turkey delight sandwiches and sipping tiramisu tea… by myself.
Aww, don’t worry, you have us to keep you company, and ensure you have a happy Thanksgiving!
Neat! Wanna play some video games? I’m A Gray Phantom on Steam. Avatar has blue hair.
(Although my handle might read as “Keyboard Broke :-(“
No joy, I am afraid. Several “Grey Phantom”s but none with blue hair. Nor for “Keyboard Broke”.
I doubt it would be fruitful in any event, alas my collection of games is heavily biased to solo play and I only have a handful of very old (read dirt cheap) games.
Sorry it took so long in working my way back to this thread. It would not have left much time, as I have to get a bus tomorrow, so need a bit of kip tonight. One of the perils of hanging around in a trans-Atlantic (/global) community, sadly.
The best I can do, under the circumstances, is to offer my moral support. You are not alone… errr… in being alone (cuddly pets excluded).
*hangs head*
“Gray.”
Nah, it’s fine. Not like TF2 is free or anything. I’mma just add some bacon to this turkey delight.
Heh, that sounds yummy. I hope you gobble it up.
As an aside you never see “Turkish delight” for sale here in Bulgaria. Not under that name. Although I know at least three shops that have that as most of their stock. With every variety you could imagine. The reason being that Bulgaria was occupied by Turkey for hundreds of years, and Bulgarians, in my experience, are highly averse to anything openly linked to Turkey. So selling a product, under that name, would be most unwise here!
My dad and I jokingly call it “Bulgarian delight” instead.
That reminds me of a certain former U.S. president who changed the name of French Fries in the White House cafeteria to “Freedom Fries” (only to get reminded by the French, “silly president, French Fries were invented in Belgium!”)
As part of my job (on-site service and support), I travel a lot. And part of my blood pressure medication is a diuretic, which means stopping in a lot of gas stations and convenience stores. You know those sleazy gas stations that have a “family planning center” (AKA. condom dispenser) in the men’s restroom?
Well, I saw one that said “Freedom Tickler – It’s the American thing to do.” I laughed my arse off when I read the small print: “A product of Taiwan.” “The American thing to do”, indeed. *snickers*
Strange…I’d have thought that the Freedom Tickler would have been made in China. Most stuff is nowadays.
In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have been surprised. Outsourcing your labor to other countries does seem to be “the American thing to do”. Or at least, the “corporate America thing to do.”
It is a global phenomenon, not a national one.* Every country, which follows a capitalist agenda, where profits are dependant on producing at the lowest cost, ends up with that happening.
The alternatives are, broadly speaking, either to be willing to pay higher prices for goods or to encourage immigration of labour willing to work for the lower price.* Either of which has their own potential problems, depending upon folk’s political leanings.
* In the appropriate sectors, where labour costs are key, of course.
It’s actually less of a “corporate” thing to do as much as it is a “government” thing to do. Government is what keeps driving up the Cost of Business (by overly-excessive taxes & regulations to the point of absurdity) to the point where the company just has to GTFO & do its operations elsewhere.
@ MidnightDStroyer: The reason there are so many “excessive” taxes and regulations is because almost every one of them is a response to a company doing something (usually to employees, customers, or the environment) that they shouldn’t. Before anyone complains about such regulations, they should first make sure that they, and similar company police themselves before the government needs to take necessary action. And most companies don’t move because they have to, but because they simply find it more profitable.
Taxes and regulations can contribute to it, sure, but the phenomenon still happens, even without that. Rich people like lots of goods. As a country gets richer more of its citizens wish to have their share of that wealth. Eventually even the poorest will have accumulated enough that they need not take the worst jobs (ie the ones which are so poorly paid that they cannot match the cost of living in that rich country).
One solution to this is to put in a national minimum wage. But, as you pointed out, that makes business in that country even more uncompetitive, versus countries which both have a lower cost of living and a lower (or no) national minimum wage.
Tough choice. Make local people work for less than they need to stay alive. Or require rich people to pay more for their goods. Mmm?
Or allow the system to balance itself, without interventionist policies. Let poor people, in countries with a low cost of living, get the jobs which are uneconomical to do in rich countries. Eventually their standard of living will rise, and they will cease to be as competitive.
If you look at it from the global point of view, like this, then it is a good thing. Rich people get their toys. Poor people get jobs and an increased standard of living.
Rather than trying to stifle it, it should be increased, until there are no really poor people, with a low standard of living, anywhere!* Then the jobs will come back, as nobody will be able to undercut the price, by that means anymore. So ‘buying locally’ will no longer hurt the pocket.
* In regions where locating factories is viable.
Actually, it seems to have been “two Republican congressmen” and “the House of Representatives’ cafeterias”… not that said president wasn’t involved in enough silly anti-French rhetoric himself.
Turkey Delight, not Turkish Delight.
Take deli turkey, cranberry sauce, cream cheese, and your choice of bread ;-)
I spotted the distinction. Hence my ” I hope you gobble it up.”
Sounds yummy. :-)
Even better than fish heads.
You guys can always hang out with me if you want to. I’m Viirin on Steam, and my avatar is that of a uintatherium. I wonder if we… no, Dave would never have one of those as a were.
Very kind of you to offer. Sadly Steam has no privacy options at all. Everything you do is logged, collated and accessible to anyone on your friends list. Conveniently totalling how many hours you played in each game, both in the last week (or whatever) and in total.*
Basically it gives me far more information that I want to know about other’s habits. And I certainly do not want anyone knowing even a fraction of it, about mine.
So I have a flat rule that I do not use Steam for any social purposes. Albeit that I did waver yesterday, hearing a member of the community in need. So, although I searched in earnest, I was rather relieved that it did not pan out. Strictly from a privacy point of view, as I was genuinely sad, that we were unable to hang out together, from a social point of view.
Should Steam ever introduce comprehensive privacy options I would change my policy mind. As I rate gaming very highly, and social gaming has considerable advantages. But, even then, I would still want to spend a big chunk of my time in private gaming, without interruption. Something which was easy when I just played solo games off CDs, but is a real problem now that my key ones are on Steam.
Incidentally I never ;log on invisibly’ as I have friends who may need to contact me in an emergency, and that is the only route for a couple of them to do so, as they do not use Skype.
* Beware of ever getting a job at a company where one of your friends works. Should they turn out to not be as good a friend as you hope, they have a lot of leverage, about your personal life, which they could use to their advantage. If they are of a malicious nature.
Which is why I don’t add anyone as a friend on Facebook. I’ve lost job opportunities, had a conspiracy to kill me, and once was publicly attacked.
Portland feminists be cray-cray.
Although if anyone wants to follow my Facebook fan page ;-)
I have to agree that there are privacy issues. For instance, you know those pop-ups that you get whenever one of your friends starts playing a game? You can opt out of receiving those, but you can’t opt out of sending those. The only way to make sure your friends aren’t notified that you’re playing a game is to log in invisibly. If you just don’t want to be interrupted, you can set Steam to not log into Friends, which means they know you’re online and can see that you’re in a game, but can’t chat with you.
I personally think that Steam needs to add a feature that lets you opt out of sending notifications. Actually, “opt out” should be the default and you should have to “opt in”!!! I also would like to be able to make my profile private, so only I can see it. (Of course, a friend wanting to talk to you has to view your profile page and then click on “Send Message”… so that’ll have to be fixed somehow.) I’ve made both those suggestions to their tech support several times.
I’m not worried about people knowing what I play or how many hours I’ve spent gaming, because I can make the argument that those numbers aren’t always accurate. It’s possible to Alt-Tab out of a game and forget that the game is running (and in fact I have done so, several times), and Steam still tallies those hours even though you’re not actually playing.
Re your last point, that is very true. In fact even having a game launched, but at the main menu can still be logged as being ‘in game’. However I do not intend to have to justify, make excuses, or explain my time usage to anybody
I see no merit in anybody in the world having access to my information, for any reason. It serves no purpose, so is a data privacy abomination, which should be burnt. But I do not know what server it resides on. So I would have to destroy them all!
Of course, you then hit the OTHER problem, the fact that Steam allows user reviews. Maybe it’s just me, but I sort of like to know (especially when reading a negative review) that the writer has at least spent SOME time playing the game. Otherwise it would be a nightmare to screen out all the people who write a negative review just because they don’t like the company that published it (it’s more common than you think), or just “for !#$% and giggles”, and never actually played the game.
I’ve written game reviews for several web sites in the past (all those sites, except one, are long since relegated to the dustbin of history, and the last time I wrote a review for the one that remains was two years ago). Unless the game was extremely short, I didn’t feel I was doing my job unless I had spent at least 10 or 20 hours playing it.
BTW, if you don’t want Steam recording your in-game time at all… You said that most of your games are older games; usually those can be started directly, without going through the Steam app. You just have to figure out how to set up a shortcut that points directly to the game’s primary executable file (e.g. SYND.EXE for Syndicate, ORION.EXE for Masters of Orion, etc.) You can’t get any achievements that way, but most of the older games don’t have achievements anyway.
Honey Badger don’t give a shit about achievements.
True, all over.
With the achievements, lots of the games I have either don’t have any and I don’t care, or do and I don’t care, but the ones that I do care about are games that Steam doesn’t have so I have to hook it up via .exe or .ini. I do want achievements for Alpha Centauri, Black & White 2, Megaman X4, Starcraft, Kirby, and The Legend of Mana.
That’s why people should play the games (hear the music, see the movies, etc.) for themselves instead of just relying on reviews.
@Deof: Yeah, but those games cost money. I don’t know about you, but I can’t afford to spend $40 to $60 on a game that sucks so bad, that I play it for an hour or two and never play it again. (Make sure you play it within the first week after you buy it, and make absolutely sure you don’t play more than 120 minutes, or Steam will not give you a refund for any reason.)
In which case be very sure not to leave the game on in the background. The ones I play (admittedly old ones, so I have no idea if the same across the board) count you as being ‘in game’ even if you are just sitting at the main menu, and have not played a game.
I did note this point being made by a reviewer of a new free game mind. Someone saying “well as you have 200 hours logged, it can’t have been that bad”. To which he replied that he had played less than 20 hours, and the rest of the time it had just been sitting in the background.
So at least one modern game, on Steam, also has that issue. Making Steam reviews (and returns policies) have rather less merit.
Not that I would want to increase the tracking detail mind. I would still want to have the option to block all tracking. And only unblock it, in the event that I wished to do a review (accepting that it would only track from that point on). But ONLY for the game in question. If it required allowing tracking on everything, I would keep it turned off permanently.
I used to be a prolific commentator on YouTube. And built up a respectable reputation, under my handle, in the areas that interested me. But I have never posted one word since Google insisted that I abandon my anonymised name and only post under my gmail account name.
How much I choose to make available on the internet, about myself, is up to me, not some faceless big-business corporate suit. If I ever come across the executive who made that decision, he will be lucky to walk out of the room without a bloody nose. If he can walk, with me chewing on his ankle!
And a happy Thanksgiving to you (and everyone else).
Honey badgers and their amazing ability to not give a fuck.
Although she does look particularly non-angry for a honey badger.
so, um, i may be showing the intersection of a) my age bracket and b) my britishness, but I keep thinking Bodger and Badger, Honey, and wondering if/when Clover’s chill demenaour is going to be replaced with a geek out for mashed potatoes…
and, again, i fail to close my italic tags…
It suddenly occurs to me just how chill Clover stayed when Sidney was busy …badgering…. the werefolk. Also, Dave, I don’t suppose we could get a few repeated alternating panels of one of Ingsol’s sirelings and Clover here? What’s her name again — oh, right Crimson. So yeah, her and Clover. Over and over.
*Slow loud clapping*
One hand clapping…
Just watched the latest Gotham, too soon
One paw ‘air guitar’.
See how I managed to do the ‘air quotes’, even without fingers?
I already ninja’d you on your last sentence, waaaay back https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2187/comment-page-2#comment-453893
So honey badger don’t give a shit eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb6bWsa_LdQ&list=PLuo22FkBFVUGYSK2AcKyZLioUBPJrdGOV
laughed my ass of on this one
TFW you learn that Electric Gecko isn’t from america. I thought this was the case for some reason lol.
Also okay, so. Clover is gregors daughter. The vampire. Gregor. And it’s stated that HER MOM IS A HONEY BADGER.
So….gregor had sex with a honey badger? An actual one? Or….
Gregor is the werewolf that Sydney dubbed Barkly. Ingsol is the vampire.
Okay, that just raises MORE questions lol.
Gregor probably saw her mom in a bar in her non-were form. Said “Hey babe wanna get nasty?”, She said “I don’t give a f***”, her choice of words likely co fused Gregor but the ice was broken.
Confused*
Gives “doing the wild thing” a whole new meaning…
Fourth panel? Ok, maybe not.
Were-folk probably hang out at Furry conventions to mingle and meet new people. Just try to keep the hew-mons happy and stick to the traditional handshake. Save the butt sniffing for more private circumstances.
That explains her apparent apathy. They really just don’t care.
…on second look now about that chip that went flying out on the upper left of the last panel… that the explosive or the core?
No, that metallic part is the joint for the neck.
You seem to be referring to the object just above the mannequin’s shirt collar and the upper approximately one-half of which is in front of “w”-ish-shaped piece of debris from the mannequin’s head.. Crestlinger/b>, on the other hand, seems to be referring to to the silver-bordered black rectangular thingie about halfway between the top of the “S” In “Shrak” and the left panel (although probably a bit closer to the latter) and which indeed looks something like a chip. However, since the mannequins appear to be magical in nature, I don’t know whether they would need a core (that is, if he means a core processor).
Alas, the mistaken tag strikes again. There obvious should have been a close-bold tag after “Crestlinger” and another bold tag surrounding “appears to be”.
I was looking at that, too. I think it’s just the zipper from the jacket. The small piece in front of the neck I was thinking is the neck-joint too, but it looks like more than that- too detailed.
The good guys seem to finally have a handle on these baddies. One has blown up, a second one has been destroyed by uppercut, and one has been caught by Sydney. I’m guessing we’re finally going to see what Dabbler and Icon can do together against that last one.
Oh my God, she’s a were-honey badger! This is one of the best webcomic update birthday presents ever!
Hippo Birdies two Ewes!
Oddly enough I did come across a honey badger related birthday picture. I won’t link it though, as it is a bit rude. Apparently honey badger doesn’t give a s**t.
I do though, happy birthday!
Aww, I just normally post the link, but I do also mention if the link is NSFW as a warning. that way, anybody who follows the link is doing so at their own risk of sensibilities and/or sanity.
It was just a picture of a honey badger, so would not fall in the category of “NSFW”. But, the combined impact of the image and the message, in this instance, would come across as dismissive and rude, specifically to the birthday girl. Hence why I toned it down, by describing it, for the laughs. Rather than just linking it, and risking giving offense instead of giggles.
Attitude-wise, I’m getting a kind of Myra (a Bugbear from Kory Bing’s webcomic Skin Deep) vibe from Clover. Badass-wise, too.
Awesome and epic. Every and each panel of the page.
It’s Clovering time! – Phillip J Fry
I’m gonna run now before I get clovered…
If it goes that far, may you rest in pieces.
Should have given Clover Mike Baron’s The Badger paw-symbol somewhere on her jacket….. Would have been another neat little homage. ^_^