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.
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Lavender works too. Lavender honey rocks! Oh yeah, a were- honey badger. Talk about awesome sauce.
Awesome sauce you say? https://spicefreakblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/140/
Honestly though, lavender isn’t my kind of honey. I prefer light wooded tree pollens but, if you want something a bit more unusual, try birch (dark honey) or buckwheat (tastes wholemeal).
If only I had some good honey-based sauces I could have tied that in better but they seem to be US exclusive.
That. Was. Awesome.
This is all because bards will mate with anything.
We do it with pride.
So they’re the James T. Kirk of the D & D set?
And many, MANY interesting toys.
🙉
HONEY BADGER *inhale* DONT CARE!!!!!!!
But, on the other paw…
Haha wow, that’s beautiful! XD
That’s like saying that Honey Badger is more apathetic than lethargic; they don’t care what’s really happening, but they are physically quite active.
Unnoticed in all the poisoning and badger clawing mayhem is the fact that the manikin had revealed yet another weapon! So far the list is:
• Automatic grenade launcher (with multi-purpose anti-supernatural payload)
• Magic/armour piercing palm spike
• Poison claws, on right hand
• Wolverine-style claws, on left hand (go by panel 8, and ignore the continuity error in panel 9)
Yups, had noticed it, was going to post something along the likes of “You call those claws? These are claws!! Want a closer look?”
And this is a knife.
That’s not a knife, that’s a spoon!
Don’t tell me he was trying to spoon Bart!
He’s an outback Aussie, what do you think? o_O
Sometimes a spoon is preferable. Or even a a tea cup.
Hey, even a can-opening key works too!
No one else said it so I will.
And The Tick shouts out his battle cry!
This comic never fails to disappoint lol
Never fails to impress* dammitall
Heh. I did anticipate that clover might be able to one-up Katrina. I kind of underestimated by how much.
I suppose the change in wording does make for quite a bit of difference in meaning. =OP
SQUEEEE!
I love Clover. She is a bad ass!
Save the Badgers!
*guitar riff*
The wabbit, however…..
Noo, not Katrina! She has such a nice “KA-BUN”!
I’ll take my own self-induced interpretation of your comment & head off for my bunk…
This is how I fear that my Thanksgiving will go: ceaseless arguments abruptly shifting to an all out brawl.
Seriously you are one awesome artist, and webcomic author ^_^. Seriously awesome that you made her a honey badger. The only thing more vicious and hardcore than a honey badger is a Tasmanian Devil. Still Clover’s all sorts of bad ass, and definitely squee worthy.
By all rights that should kill this one. Nobody has been destroying the markings that are part of the golemic ritual, which I suppose one can kind of attribute to the folks that we have seen going after them so far not being that used to dealing with such.
The alternative possibility of course is that once the golem is made, the magic is part and parcel to them and the handprint and such are just sorta tattoos now. Still, it’s very shades of “Regenerate this.”
All the more reason, once this is all said and done, to go searching for the mannequin that went all ‘splodey in the tunnels. If it reformed (and not in the penitent sense) and can dig, the council could be sitting on a time bomb (“He’s baaaaaaaaaaaack….”)
I wonder also if the mannequins have some sort of shelf life, e.g., they only last so many days (best used before mm//dd/yyyy) or until the death of their creator.
a best-before data would be very troublesome, who knows if it is dd-mm-yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy? Could be some mighty difference! Is it usable until the first of June, or the 6th of January? The plot thickens!
(Of course, there would be no plot at all if Evil Inc. would just embrace ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd, the only one in the world that makes objective sense: every number is a smaller increment than the previous, even when you add hours:minutes:seconds, it also sorts nicely in “dumb” alphabetic sorting)
dd/mm/yyyy makes just as much sense as the inverse but anything is better than the illogical American system.
1) For dating most things, I prefer the yyyy/mm/dd system since, as Jules wrote, it arranges things in chronological order.
2) While the mm//dd/yyyy system may not make sense to you, there is nothing inherently illogical about it. It may be that when it was adopted, it proved more useful to them than other alternatives.
dd/mm/yyyy and, by extension, yyyy/mm/dd work very much like elementry level maths in that, when one column overflows, you add 1 to the next one along. With mm/dd/yyyy you fill up column 2 first, then 1, then 3. It just doesn’t mesh with the rest of the mathematical world.
And yet, most people wouldn’t say “My birthday is on 27 April”. They’d say “My birthday is on April 27th.” Which is most likely where the mm/dd/yyyy format originated.
In my world (I’m a programmer as well as doing on-site service & support), it doesn’t really matter, since MM, DD, and YYYY are stored as three separate fields. So the program, internally, may sort by yyyy/mm/dd (in fact, they almost always do), while displaying as… whatever you have the preferences set for.
No, you’d say “My birthday is (on) the 27 of April”. The latter feels weirdly mechanical to me.
Your second version I mean.
I always express mine in the format “on the 27th April”. Growing up in South Africa gave me an odd mix, as they matched the English way for some things, and the American for others. Which allowed me to be fairly objective in deciding which was better, or even if they both have merit.
For instance counting the level you walk into a building as being the 1st floor is logical. But so is calling it the ground floor. In that case it actually matches our number system better, as the ground floor is equal to the ‘zero’ floor. But it does not cause any problems in missing out the zero, as we do not normally need to perform mathematical operations with floor numbers. We just need to know which one to exit on.
But for the date issue, I do find the American way to be weird and, more importantly, causing potential problems in international business and relations. Dates do not just exist on computers. And they have to get in there in the first place, by someone typing them in.
If the person keying it in does not notice the business is from the other side of the Atlantic, then any date in the fist 12 days of the month can end up being inverted. With potentially serious repercussions in missed meetings, deadlines or the like.
This is just showing the case for standardisation mind, as it is true from either perspective. But if choosing a single standard, then the most logical one is the best candidate. And I feel that to be DD/MM/YYYY. Most of the time we are dealing with things happening in the present year. So it is logical to have that at the end, so that the important information can be picked up quicker. And allowing the rest to be omitted.
If you are going to have the biggest unit at the end, then it is silly to say, “OK now lets put the smallest unit in the middle, and the middle unit in the front”. The point about setting a standard is to make it logical, rather than weird.
Have always used (and prefer) mm/dd/yyyy, for me it just flows better, also, by saying the month first just have a closer time frame, whereas with the day first you have a much greater time frame (28 to 31 days as opposed to 12 months)
You live in a cyan country. Stop being all weird and magenta. Go with the majority of the world! Don’t let Hollywood seduce you with its funny pink system!
Beware, go down that route and you will end up wearing your baseball cap back to front and thinking that you should put on body armour to play ball games!
Let’s see you put THIS back together!
If they can’t, can we call the mannequins “Humpty Dumpties”?
only if someone bites one, and says ‘omg, these things are delicious!’
You haven’t heard of the nursery rhyme? o_O
That made me think of this.
Is that “one” used in the fist-person personal pronoun sense?
This explains so much about Clover… and when she is truly angry she must be terrifying to behold.
Clover vs the Hulk: Who wins?
^_^
Well, if this may give any indication…
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/what-if-31-what-if-wolverine-had-killed-the-hulk-w/4000-21953/
The person who gets the ten-speed racing bike?
And, there was another “What IF?” where Hulk ripped Wolverine in half
Oh, well…That was something like 19 issues later…
;)
I don’t know if that fight would have a winner- maybe a survivor, perhaps, but not a winner.
Man, I am getting such a Bloody Roar Vibe from clover’s transformation in that last scene!
Anyone else feeling that game?
Also as of the time of this post, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
I’m at work right now but I will be later tonight ;).
I’m pretty sure I’m late to the party with this one, but I think I found out where Adam and Jamie’s surplus crash test dummies ended up…
But Buster was vaporized at high sub-sonic speed.
One of them, anyway. I always did wonder why they stopped using the Buster that they had made (the one with wood to represent bones and such). Best guess is that they got tired of rebuilding it all the time.
I didn’t even realise that they had. Maybe they got sponsorship money from a crash-test-dummy manufacturer, for product placement. Any times when Buster was showing signs of wear and tear just representing lean times on the company’s balance sheet.
oh i see…she dont give a damn
Except that I don’t think “damn” begins with an “f”, =oP
Come to think of it, isn’t Grrl Power #178 – Maxima DGAF -or- The cliff has been hanged missing an “N” between the “D” and the “G”?
Hah hah, I forgot I used that already. Well, it fits in either place. I guess Max’s is a contraction.
It’s not necessary to think that a letter might be missing in DGAF…After all, DaveB could’ve just used ‘Doesn’t’ on #178, while he instead used ‘Does Not’ here. It’s just two different ways to say the same thing, essentially.
;)
Well, they don’t either!
I keep thinking of Sydney as a were-ferret. Because ohhhhh shiny? Because of the boundless energy?? Because surprise is measured in ferret balls???
make that ferret *ORBS*
Sorry, that’s one of those things that can’t be unsaid. :)
were-hummingbird. yeah, i know it’s not a mammal. Sydney’s weird. :)
Or just Slytherin. We’re well known for our imagination and fascination with shiny objects.
I love that the mannequin had to double check that the poison was working. Dave, you managed to perfectly convey the expression on that expressionless mannequin perfectly.
Well since they can’t talk, they can’t say “what the f***!”
Yeah, even Vehemence managed to say it:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1508 (last panel)
Oh no. She’s awesome. I’m in love.
While we don’t need no stinking badgers, apparently they are darned nice to have around.
It’s always the unexpected things that end up being the coolest.
Just found one scary fact about Honey Badgers (and truly hope it’s not part of Clover’s repartee): one of their attacks is castration, and then wait as their
victimprey weakens from massive blood loss!Guess who they use that on?
.
.
.
Lions.
Anything else with balls, really.
Even ACDC?
Especially ACDC.
And here’s a suggestion as to what to do with them afterward.
Thirty years later, his balls are still firmly wall planted \m/
At the very least, it looks like they had a ball.
I think they are Halo fans. “She’s got big balls!”
A castrated mannequin… I would love to see the expression on his face.
See (mini-)panels three, five, and seven. Probably something like that.
‘Cause she don’t care=Honey badger.
HOW IN THE SWEET-EIGHT-POUND-FIVE-OUNCE-BABY-JEEZUS DID I NOT SEE THIS COMING??!!!
I was right I was right! Sydney is Hentai-ing a manequin! Yay.
Hentying
I see no bondage chickens anywhere….
It is because they flew off to have a hen party.
Did not read comments & pretty sure I am not the first who saw this coming, but, before scrolling down past set of frames, I said to myself, “Honey Badger has no fucks to give,” because I said to myself, “What horribly dangerous, little know critter is both a apathetic ball of gratuitous violence and largely unimpressed by toxins of almost every stripes?”
God I love this comic…
I love Sidney even in the midst of battle she still geeks out.
I just hope we get to meet her parents some day…
Well, come on, she’s been only in the middle of this whole world for less than what, a week, tops? This whole comic has only been going on for a week in story time. If I was seeing incredible, fantastic crap every five minutes, I’d be geeking out too!
Exactly, but I’m 60 years old. Let me rephrase it. I hope I live long enough to meet her parents…
…and then she dies from the poison, moments after watching the bunny die anyway…?
You don’t know much about Honey Badgers do you? There is a youtube clip of one stealin a meal from a cobra, getting bit by the cobra, killing said cobra then, after taking a nap to sleep off the poison, eating said cobra.
You don’t know much about Honey Badgers do you? Resistance to some snake venoms don’t give you universal immunity, real life HB do are killed by poisoning.
Anyway, yeah, I don’t think the mannequin is using cobra venom, but an enhanced were-HB likely will have a wider resistance. Clover’s confidence strongly hints that.
I think Sydney is rather entranced by the fangasm going on. I’m just waiting for her to continue squeeing over something someone from the not quite human crowd is doing and rather instinctively deal with something on her own and not even really notice. Like maybe lighthook some mannicreep that’s setting up a bomb and doing an over the shoulder toss into an air vent or something. :D
Still hoping something like that happens, after all, Sydney lives for comic book cliches. :)
I just noticed the background on the last panel. I think she’s doing something like that already. :D :D :D
I am honestly a bit surprised Poison would even work on a were-creature, considering they have regenerative abilities that can only be overcome by Silver to the point where a bullet to the brain won’t stop them unless it’s a silver bullet, of course if said poison was Wolfsbane extract I would understand it, since that has a rather severe effect on werewolves just by touch alone, but if it was wolfsbane it should have taken out Clover as well, poison resistance or no.
Please note this is just going from normal lore and things might work differently in the Grrl-verse.
Yes I am a fan of werewolf legends :P
The Poison doesn’t have to kill tem, just slow them down and weaken them enough for the SWATatons to finish them off by hand
be that as it may, the main issue is that it wouldn’t affect them, as they would heal from the poison faster than the poison could weaken them, then again the poison might have trace amounts of silver nitrate, not pure enough to work like real silver, but would definitely be silver enough to work as a poison, would probably work on other supernaturals with equal if not stronger effects as well, so it’s actually rather likely come to think of it.
You’re missing a very big point, though. Normal poisons may work that way IF they’re stereotypical ‘were’ creatures. If they’re completely biological without a magical part then a normal poison would work fine.
Also, do you really think the ‘magical automaton’ has normal poison? No, duh. It would have a mystical one. Then all it would have to do is be able to overpower the ‘magic’ of the were for a bit to work on them.
Regeneration is simply the ability for the body to heal physical damage. Some poisons cause cellular and organ damage, hence would be of no use to fight a creature that could regenerate as fast as the lore you are citing. Other poisons though do different things, such as interfere with the operation of nerves, making them behave differently.
As an example the platypus venom causes severe pain, by this mechanism. But, as there is no physical damage to heal, regeneration would have zero effect on combating such poison. Not that Honey Badger cares about pain. But there are other kinds of effects which would be debilitating to any were, such as paralysis, hallucinations, or (as Katrina found out) weakness.
Of course a particular poison might have multiple effects. For instance causing both physical damage and disrupting the body’s command and control mechanisms. But being able to resist part of the effects does not grant immunity to the remainder. If your heart and lungs stop getting the signals to operate, even a were will find their ability to function compromised.
Also bear in mind that such lore has come from medieval sources. So the ability to heal sword wounds might not match the ability to counter a grenade blast spreading their limbs and organs around the room. Likewise it does not inform us as to how resistant they might be to neurotoxins.
The key point to bear in mind is that Katrina is clearly being affected by the poison. Rules lawyering it will not alter her health.* Whatever is in that poison is weakening her, to the point she has collapsed. Therefore it is potentially fatal, for the reasons outlined above.
* Although that would be an interesting property for one of the mystery orbs. “Rules lawyering” being able to challenge reality over how super powers and supernatural abilities can operate in conjunction with each other and the normal universal laws. Henceforth to be considered… guidelines.
Werewolf lore, before being somewhat defined by our modern media, would come mostly from medieval or renaissance times. While they could create nasty stuff, I’m pretty sure it pales in comparison to what modern science can mix up. I wouldn’t be surprised if this poison could insta-kill normal humans.
In some of Patricia Briggs’ ‘Mercy Thompson’ stories, werewolves were tranquilised using a mixture of Dimethyl Sulphoxide (to get the other ingredients through their skin), Silver Nitrate (to weaken their resistance), and Ketamine…
In the Kate Daniels series a half dozen Weres were killed by Priests of Apep who had fangs and very strong Hemotoxic venom and another incident was mentioned where a… were-Bear I think it was, fell into a copperhead nest. It was explained that the virus responsible for lycanthropy couldn’t reach the venom fast enough to destroy it before it spread through the Lymphatic system since one of the effects of Hemotoxic venom is blood clotting in the area of injection.
I have no idea of what those 6 panels are supposed to depict. Sigh, you should really work on making your panels more readable.
If you mean panels two through to seven:
2: Clover is looking down at the hand in her stomach
3: SWATaton is wondering why she’s still standing
4: Clover looks at SWATaton
5: SWATaton is getting confused
6: Clover lights her snake-arette
7: SWATaton checks to make sure he’s not shooting blanks
I think it stems from DaveB wishing to downplay the gore, but having taken it too far. Thus ending up with the lack of comprehension you and I suffered from. The thing which would have given us the clue that there was a problem would be by showing blood around the hand in panel 1. That way we would realise that Clover has just been stabbed in the stomach with the pointy claws, rather than just having her shirt grabbed, as it appears at the moment.
Not helped by the fact that “Squirt” is positioned over the bloody hand, as pointed out by MidnightDStroyer. So we cannot clearly make out either the blood or the poison being tested. Again this is considerate in downplaying the gore. But it does also obscure the key thing we need to see, to realise what is actually happening.!
We can confirm that this is actually what occurred though, by the time we get down to the final panel, as we can see the damaged shirt, with blood stains on it. However, as I had not realised what had actually happened, in panel 1, that left me confused. “Where has that wound come from?” Thus taking another read-through to figure out the sequence. Which, as you say, indicates that the visuals failed to convey their meaning, without a fair bit of detective work.
This one is my new favorite, I can see the spin-off now. The laid back apathetic cop and the plucky energetic rookie going off investigating paranormal crimes all over the city. Along the way they learn about unrequited love and the cold betrayal of jealousy.
“The laid back apathetic cop and the plucky energetic rookie…..”
That’s practically a trope.
Finally. Someone destroyed the palm print. It was a liiiittle more than I meant a couple chapters ago, but whatever works.
“BADGER’D!!” /StrongBad
Maxi finally arrives: “What did I miss?”
Clover finally digs up Max: “You know, that’s not as easy as you make it look”
Full of awesomeness! I did, however, notice that the mannequin’s detached left hand suddenly became a right hand.
This was awesome but I sincerely hope Clover has a sibling who’s a dire wolf / honey badger hybrid.
Strictly speaking, Clover herself is a dire wolf / honey badger hybrid, though. 😕
Or did you just want to see a male version of her? 😉
From what Dave said, let’s say 97% of mixed “Clan” births are one or the other, so she’s a Badger, not a mix.
Right. I want to see a weredirehoneywolfbadger.
Dire Honey Badger.
Nope. To much awesome in one place. Will cause the heat death of the universe.
It might be worth it just to see Sydney’s reaction.
her reaction will be much like when lil miss Werehare went all “Bun” and sydney just foamed and fainted, only tha there will be a real stroke, heart attack and suffocation involved.
Perhaps a bit more accurately, Clover has the mixture in her genes, BUT only one species actually manifested as dominant. It’s possible that Clover may someday give birth to a were-dire wolf, even if the father was a normal human…Or she may give birth to another badger.
Genetics actually work like that…the genes for both are present, but only one complete set are dominant within a single generation.
“the genes for both are present, but only one complete set are dominant within a single generation”
Just in case, dominance in real life is at the level of individual genes.
If by “complete set” you mean a genome, no, there’s no dominance of one genome (for instance, the mother’s one) as a whole. If you mean a chromosome, it only happen with the X chromosome, since one of the two copies in females suffers a deactivation as a whole (and not really, some genes remain active anyway).
Of course it could happen by chance that in a particular individual all the genes in the genome of one parent were dominant respect of all genes in the other, but that would be a really astronomical coincidence.
That said, the weregenome could have a different behavior, though. Maybe only the genome of one species is inherited. Or both are but dominance do happens a genome level, as it seem you are saying. Who knows :)
Were-Shadow knows!
Daughter of darkness, daughter of light, nobody sees her in twilight.
And what you think you see, is actually her shadow (going by the girl in “Wapsi Square” anyway)
So how many attachments do the mannequins come with, because this looks like the third variation in the eight panel (considering each of the mini-panels as separate panels, otherwise it would be the third if one counted them as one)- first the palm shaft, then the fingertip needles, and now the knuckle blades? Do all three mannequins have all types or does it differ from mannequin from mannequin?
Oh, and I just noticed two more things (don’t know if anyone else has, as I haven’t read through all the comments):
1) Clover’s swipe took off his arm as well as shredded his front, and;
2) I wonder how Wolverine (TM) would feel about this mannequin stealing his look?
I’d guess that they are specialized. Though they may all have those rather simple attachments (spike in the arm, knifes, poison darts), I’d guess they all have a different core enchantment (like the Vaccusuck one to kill any surviving mages)
I would think they would all have that enchantment, otherwise whoever created them risked the chance that one of the mannequins without it would get chosen by the Council to examine.
it might be that the mannekins have the same ability as Erza from the anime7manga Fairy tail, where they use magic to equip what they need at any given time.
Presumably the enchantments are very expensive. So it’s possible they had to specialize.
And it depends on how the enchantment works. Either only when targeted, or just suck mana out of the area.
However expensive enchantments may be, the possibility that the Council could trace a captured mannequin back to creator(s) would be even more costly.
Each time they reform they develop a new weapon, designed to counter the attack which dismantled them.
Except, no one with claws dismantled them the first time
I did not say they copied the attack. I said they developed a way to oppose it.
Mind you I was just running with the line of thought. It is broadly similar to ‘For Whom the Bell Toll’s’ defense, so I would downgrade the likelihood of it being that accordingly. However that is somewhat mitigated by the fact that they retain the power that is gained, rather than just manifest one counter for each specific attack. So they can deploy an existing power against a new foe. Albeit with no guarantee of success, as we see above.
All that said, it is more likely that they have just had a lot of capabilities built into them. Specifically designed to give them a good chance of combating the diverse powers in the Council leadership.
Either way, if this manikin does get up, and reveals another new power, ideal for taking down were Honey Badgers, then that would shift the balance of probabilities. Alternatively, if they have to rely on existing powers, then it would disprove the speculation.
The Honey Badger: ICE Cub’s spirit animal, because they don’t give a *****! *Badger, Badger*
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Whoops, copied the text from the previous comic. Should be fixed now.
Now THAT is how you do a mannequin challenge.
Its not for dummies.
If it were, one would expect to find a book on it.
Then it wasn’t Gregor’s family after all: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2257
Not unless he re-married or something like that.
Was it stated hat Sir Barkley was a monogamist?
A short summary of werewolf appearances since Maxima brought Sydney to the council meeting until the mannequin attack:
Not here. (Although I’m surprised Sydney doesn’t ask him what shampoo he uses.)
Nothing here either, although Barkley does look too sexy for his shirt.
And… still nothing here, but then again, he only appears in the last panel.
Of were-dire-wolves and possible celebrity werebeings, but still no mention of of his exact marital status.
Then we come to The (full) moon myth, The Kat’s out of the bag (even though she’s a rabbit), and “as far as anyone knows lycantropy is restricted to mammals” (I provide this quote as a service to anyone who needs it later, even if Barkley isn’t in it), before info on succubi and vampires.
We finally get back to werewolves (indirectly) and get our first glimpse at what might be a possibly magnanimous… I mean, monogamous werewolf couple However, it should be noted that:
1) the page doesn’t state that werewolves generally (or even this couple specifically) are monogamous;, and,
2) if this couple is monogamous, then that makes less likely that that’s Barkley (I suppose his first wife could have died and he re-married).
Then we have another discussion that includes Barkley and is vaguely about werewolves, but nothing concerning his mating habits, as well as what could have been “a werewolf walks into a bar” joke and Sydney’s imagined ARC-VI team-up,
I don’t think I missed any and I find no mention of whether Barkley is monogamous anywhere. Now, I’m just hoping I got all of my anchor tags right.
*Ahem*
too sexy for his shirt and “as far as anyone knows lycantropy is restricted to mammals“. (and I just noticed that “lycanthropy” was misspelled and that my spell-checker doesn’t recognize “lycanthropy” either.)
Yea, I had come to the conclusion that it could not be Clover’s mum there. But there is no reason why it cannot be Barkley’s sister, holding her niece. That does still look like a young Barkley, to me. Plus Clover seems to be a match.
Whilst the symbols would imply that each pair are a couple, the intent of the message still remains the same. Even if mum did not give a s**t about family photographs.
At least we should be able to figure out which college he went to: the University of California, Barkley.