Grrl Power #544 – Bikini AWOL
Dave, going back to the wardrobe malfunction gag so soon? Yeah, but this one’s a little different? Sort of? Just go with it. This page and the next were one page in my head, but I started drawing it and I didn’t want the art to be the size of a postage stamp, so I had to break it up.
Hopefully Harem’s phone is water resistant. Come to think of it, would she have 5 separate phones? There’s probably one of her at the base nearly all the time, and presumably there’s good reception there. Anything any one of her sees can be relayed through the one with the phone if needed. Hmm. But I guess she probably would have 5 phones, cause a phone is a lot more than just a phone these days. One of her might need to use the camera or a recording app. Or just play a game while she’s on the phone. Hopefully she gets a good rate on the family plan.
Of course by now, everyone at the base has heard of the previous incident involving Max and Hiro. Harem was there after all. It spread faster than any single human could have relaid the info. Gender biases being what they are, Hiro has calluses from all the high fiving, and no one has said a word about it it Max, at least until now. But Anvil is the sort of friend who will razz her friends about stuff like that. Also everyone who is still poolside was there when it happened, so it’s not like Anvil is being a gossip.
BTW are bikini tops buoyant at all? I didn’t think to research that, but it seems like if any part of a bathing suit is going to come off in the water, that’d be the one. I would thing there would be some small attempt to make them float at least long enough for its owner to make a one armed grab for them. I assume if they have the padding in the front to keep the water temperature reporting to a minimum, that stuff is probably semi buoyant, right? I guess Harem’s was just a few layers of fabric.
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I wonder just how refined Harem’s teleportation is.
Could she teleport out of the water completely dry, would she carry a film of the water around her, can she even go as far as teleporting herself without the water saturating her hair OR her swimsuit?
Or better yet, can she teleport out of the wet swimsuit?
She must have some degree of control, or else chunks of floor, or gravel would go with her too. Barring some hinky explanation about a ‘close proximity body aura’ which kind of glosses over when she does take things with her that are not in intimate closeness.
For instance Peggy’s 50 cal gun was only in contact with her hands, whilst the majority of it would have had to be some distance from her (it is a big gun).
In the Grrl Verse such issues seem to be resolved by intent. She intends to take her clothing and the gun. Whereas Harem does not want the carpet.
This is supported by the fact that the author has indicated that power stunts can be developed. Which is easier rationalised by focusing the users intent appropriately (as opposed to gaining conscious control over some intangible aura, which normally acts autonomously).
“Whereas Harem does not want the carpet.”
Would ask if that is how she gets her bikini-line trimmed, but then remembered Supers don’t have body hair… butt, does that include pubes?
Yes, it does, given that “body hair” is the common advertising euphemism for that region, second only to “bikini area”.
Stil, we now all have the mental image of Harem going VWORP and only a roughly-waist-level gently-downward-drifting puff of hair left behind…
teleport body-waxing? telewaxing? …. you’d make a mint as a beautician if you could.
Good point.
Even more if you offered the destination point, for the customer, as being on their chosen holiday beach, with a complimentary return ‘port, at the time of their choosing.
Tasmania. leaving a map of Tasmania for the real Tasmania.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GQ63NStxk
You have inspired me to be interested in cartography. In particular the scene showing eating out of the map of Tasmania.
Om nom nom.
Map of Tasmania …
Brings back memories of school days in Maroochydore.
And, of course, Blue Light Discos …
https://youtu.be/wxXfef56_Oo
Now if you were willing to go to medical school for seven years, you could advance from just being a beautician, to offering a range of medical procedure teleports. Teleport patients to a rest and recuperation resort, where their condition can be monitored, by trained medical staff, whilst they relax, until given the all-clear that it worked fine.
There are far too many conditions, that could be treated this way, to detail but, as an example, just picture arriving there, with all your cancerous cells left behind.
I’ve known some women who would try to teleport away from their freckles.
Tell them to come my way instead. Freckles are a huge bonus for me. That is the one redeeming feature that Harem has, which Sydney lacks.
Yup, medical teleport, standard procedure since Star Trek TOS. Virii, parasite, tumoral cells, bacterias, all gone with one beam.
And yet, the biofilters do not depopulate the gut microbiota.
Yes, it does, why do you think they use the replicators instead of real food? Starfleet personnel can no longer process real food, also explains why there are no toilets on any wessel, newclear or othervise :P
nor do they destroy the “guest” dna in every person’s cells. not just mitochondria – there are other non-human critters in human cells; plus we acquire crap as age.
this guest dna is an important part of evolution, unknown how important. But wide spread use trek biofilters would definitely screw up humanity’s long term development in unpredictable ways.
Yea, medical tinkering is best done to specifically target only conditions which are causing an individual great harm. Until we can say with certainty what everything in our bodies do (and not just the most obvious, but the subtle things too), we should not go messing with things on a wide scale.
Of course humanity will. But such is their nature.
Just like you can do postal order genetic ‘testing’ (of dubious merit) today, it will not be long before some company will be offering to ‘make your children beautiful’. And bang goes genetic diversity and any useful properties of the genes that get ditched, on a massive scale.
All of humanity who can afford it (and fail their wisdom check) will end up pretty but gormless.
I’m thinking of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” for some reason. :P
I’m going to guess that she can, although it probably takes more concentration than just teleporting everything clinging to her skin, including her clothes. But we’ve seen she can selectively teleport off clothes before :)
You mean when she did the male revue? Don’t believe she *VORP*ed the clothes off
She did vorp the shirts off actually
No, fairly sure she just yanked ’em off the old fashioned way
Do you mean I am supposed to teleport out of my shirt? Would make getting it over the wings easier.
To settle this I looked up the scene…
… and found a My Little Pony poster in the background!
OK who is the Broney or Ponyette? The only one we have any clues about (other than Halo, and it can’t be hers as she only just arrived) is General Faulk!
Oh, the shirts thing? It could go either way. Each reader can have their own headcanon on that, as they prefer.
I thought Gen. Faulk was a trekkie cuzza this.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/660
I guess he could be both.
They prefer the term “Pegasisters.”
This thread has caused several archive dives. I’ve read them all multiple times each, do I really, really need to… never mind.
Anyway, the Arc-Dark mentions made me think of a strictly nautical branch with one super who displays a fondness for spinach . It would be named Arc-Arc-Arc-Arc…
Heh.
I wonder if Olive Oyl would gain powers too? They do seem to have been kicking around for a very long time. Perhaps she grants longevity and health? Plus Popeye appeared to be principally strength-based, without particular defenses (other than the usual toon capabilities). So maybe the health granting powers include regeneration?
A handy gal to have around when there are incidents of mass destruction. Which seem to follow Popeye around.
anti-material gun?
how about this… anti material
What about an anti-materia gun? Because you want the ultimate weapon? Eh…. ehhhhhh?
….
I’ll let myself out.
Heh.
Im a litle slow, could someone please explain the fart joke anvil made?
She wasnt making a fart joke. She was making a topless joke since Max was sans shirt after the super mannekin explosion at the Mars factory.
Just so. It was playing on the author’s mind (as per his blog) that he had made two wardrobe malfunction jokes quite close together (in terms of it being a few pages back). As such he felt that people would be focusing on this aspect of the page more.
But do not feel bad, as you are in good company, as several of us fixated on the spectacular fart as being the point of Anvil’s comment, rather than thinking back to the previous loss of clothing. And, we know that those who comment are ‘the tip of the iceberg’, so there will be others who did not either. Amongst a fair number who did go the route Dave wanted.
To give Dave credit, he has laid out the panels logically to try and get folks to follow the train of thought intended. But with two competing things that Anvil could be talking about, and one of them so out-of-the-ordinary, it is inevitable that a number of people would go the wrong way.
Also my mind is not in the gutter so to speak ;)
Instead im childly focused on fart humor XD
Thinking about it, there is a distinct difference between the way the two conclusions are reached, which will mean one is reached by those who read the comic with the visual elements given the greater priority. Whilst the other results from those who give greater emphasis to the dialogue.
Be that just for this page or, perhaps, more generally.
If you just follow the pictures, the sequence is easy to follow to the bikini conclusion. Naturally enough as Dave is an artist, so we would expect him to be primarily influenced by visual cues so will find those the easiest to convey.
Whereas if you use the dialogue to reach the conclusions as to what they are speaking about, then you will find the red herring fart.
Of course we are all comic readers, so we do look at both. But in this case those who are following the dialogue route will find the huge fart, to support their supposition. Oddly* there is nothing in the dialogue to support the visuals that lead to the bikini conclusion. So those relying on the visual side of the medium seem to be more influenced by that than those of us in the opposite camp.
It seems fairly logical, mind, that our community would be heavy in folks who find the visuals to be important. Those at the opposite end of the scale would probably favour novels (or other non-picture dependant media). Personally that was my poison for many years, so my hypothesising might be suffering from a bias. Even though I would not place myself too far down that scale. I find the visuals to be important all said and done.
* Given that most people seem to have found the bikini conclusion, from the small numbers of those indicating the contrary
Missed the opportunity to call this page “Loud and proud” based on the fart prank and Anvil
If they ever encounter a mute assassin, DaveB has got to call the page “Silent but Violent” :D
Or if Jiggawatt has antiproton farts they could be called Dark Sparks.
i think the joke is silent but deadly but violent does sound alright
‘Silent but violent rhymes so has long been used, in English-speaking playgrounds, in various parts of the world.
Besides age rating on the comic, why is Harem covering up? They’ve all been super naked together in the showers, and it’s only women out there right now.
The guys could be out of camera view. There was several guys in front of Varia.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2545
Except two strips later, they were no longer in front of her.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2555
Dave did indicate that they are still around, but as they are not contributing to the current scenes he is not depicting them.
More to the point, there could be cameras, for security and training review.
The pool is technically a military training site.
Because she feels exposed and vulnerable, having been forced into that position. It really is more to do with herself, than anyone else. Having notable witness might make it worse (or, if she decided that she liked it, it may make it better).
even I would cove up if I lost my trunks whilst swimming. regardless of if the company had seen it all before.
There’s also the fact that one face of the tower is overlooking this pool, with who knows however many people behind those windows.
How is Harem staying so high in the water? She is treading water just using her legs. I would say that her head should barely be above water, if that.
Archon uses heavy water in the swimming pool. It provides extra buoyancy, and they also use it to circulate through the main reactor powering the building. (They are hoping to get lucky and induce more super powers in their staff by exposing them to the radiation).
That might just lead to a lot of people with really bad anger management issues.
That’s their secret. They’re government employees – they’re always angry.
Actually, a heavy salt content in water increases buoyancy. Particularly on bodies that have a high fat ratio (as we all know, female boobs are mostly fat for the volume, even if the rest of the body is relatively lean). If you live anywhere near Salt Lake in Utah, you can see or try it out for yourself.
Oh, that may also explain why Harem seems to be floating a bit higher than you might think…
;)
But too much salt can be just as dangerous as too little. Despite the fact that the salt-induced density of the Dead Sea makes sinking impossible, it still is one of the world’s most deadly bodies of water with regard to drowning risk, as it is nearly as impossible to roll over if facedown than it is to sink.
They act as flotation devices? :D
Yes, they actually do! (if they are real – fake ones add no buoyancy) But they tend to push you on your back, not straight up like Harem is. :)
Which is why navy seamen called life vests “Mae Wests” back in WWII era. They were designed to float that way, even if wearer is unconscious.
Ahh, Mae Wests = breasts.
I knew the former term, from a young age, I just never took it as slang, so did not draw the connection to the actress.
Also, Mae West = well-endowed actress of the time
the previous generation’s Dolly Parton.
At least Mae’s were real.
I did not know that about Dolly’s girls. Her personality is so real, no bs, I thought she was for real from top to bottom, as short a trip as that is.
“It takes a lot of money to look this cheap”. She’s a character.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_569cfbfae4b0b4eb759f100c
I knew that Dolly is like Sydney, in having lost a look-alike-contest. Plus I knew that she wrote “I Will Always Love You” (amongst others that I like). I did not know that bit about Whitney Houston’s funeral though. Most poignant.
I believe I read somewhere that Dolly Parton’s werealready like 40DD before getting them enlarged or something along those lines.
Harem probably has her own family plan plan at the base.
well if they didnt’ have gov provided special locked phones and all.
I suspect prior to her joining up she probably used famly plans with shared unlimited data
She is likely to need family planning.
If her teleport control is supreme, she can vorp away without any “biological donations” and never have to worry about that. That could also mean she never gets a cold and doesn’t have to worry about cancer.
+1
Lovely effects on the art again. Much preferring the direct light colouration, as opposed to the more diffuse pastel shades, when they were under cover.
The latter effects were quite nice, as stand-alones, I was just not keen on how they worked for the two characters involved.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1809
Not the first time a harem fart has been brought up!
So there is a lot of that going around.
Although we do have the author’s confirmation, by both blog and comment, that the above scene refers to the loss of clothing.
Man, when’s the last time you did your own laundry?
Clothes in GENERAL float, unless you make an effort to push them underwater.
Especially if you just blasted them with air bubbles.
I close the lid when I do laundry.
How do you get them inside the machine without opening the lid?
1) Open door
2) Put laundry in
3) Close door
Note at no point has the floatyness or non-floatyness of the garments been determined
4) Do whatever magic ritual is required to activate the technomagical device.
5) Walk away until the device informs you that it has completed the chore.
Me at ten years old.
1) Open door
2) Put laundry in
3) Stuff a folded up piece of cardboard into the hole that has the door interlock switch
4) Turn on the washing machine with door open to see what happens inside
5) Notice that the agitating action of the washing machine quickly soaks and sinks the clothes
6) Clothing I’m wearing gets soaked
7) Learn how to operate a mop
Shroediggers clothes. They exist in a state of buoyancy and non buoyancy until observed.
Also, I too through it was a fart joke because I thought Maxima turned her head in response to the comment, and therefore may not have realized a wardrobe malfunction had occurred prior to composing her retort, which presumably she did before whipping her head around to deliver it.
In retrospect, it’s logical that she was watching Halo the whole time to see what shenanigans she was getting up to after she dove back into the pool, but this was never established visually. (Comics are HARD.)
Good points.
Bathing suits are mostly of neutral buoyancy but can trap a bit of air between there fibers. Making it slightly boyant. For a while.
Here is a little something to think about the next time you go down to your local pool. A recent study wanted to quantify the question of ‘how much do people actually pee in a pool?’ They tried to find a biological marker to measure (like urea) but chlorine breaks down most compounds. They settled on using a stable compound present in almost all people, artificial sweetener. They tested a number of public pools over a number of weeks (*cough* ‘Canada’ *cough*) and compared the values to the baseline amount found in similarly sampled tap water and the concentration measured in urine samples. Their final calculations showed about 20 gallons of pee in a 200,000 gallon pool (or about 1 in 10,000 by volume).
Hopefully, the Archon pool is treated better by the users. However, Daphne may have just spilled a sizable amount of artificial sweetener in the pool, possibly skewing any samples taken.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00043
I am never going into a public pool again, thank you.
I would be remiss if Idid not include this link now.
https://youtu.be/jRdYL2cf57s
I prefer this one. Far better than being sucked into an endlessly looping clip.
Oops sorry, wrong link. I was meaning to send the link of the pool guy saying how everyone pees in the pool, but apparently that’s on the South Park website. Here. This one instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtzN1Yjs5xM
That one is better. :)
Let us hope that someday we can redeem you.
That other Pander was my evil twin. Note the goatee and exposed midriff and black eyeliner
LOL!
If urea breaks down, then there is effectively no pee in the pool since the major components of urine are and water.
Artificial Sweetener is a toxin, boycott any product and slash or company that continues to use it!!
That actually makes me wonder – What happens to the water when Harem teleports into it? Does it get displaced(violently you’d assume), exchanged with the place she occupied previously, dissipates, dissapears or whatever? If it just displaces, wouldn’t that make harem teleporting into closed rooms create a sort of pressurizing effect where she pushes the air tighter(only really relevant in air tight rooms but still)
We have never seen things being disturbed by her arrival. For instance when ‘porting in close to Sydney, her hair is not blown away from Harem. So air being displaced is unlikely.
Conversely we have seen Harem Vorping away from Sydney, without her hair being sucked towards where Harem had been standing.
Plus we have seen multiple scenes like this (e.g. in the resupply run). Dave does occasionally forget details, but never having seen such behaviour means that it is unlikely there are any such side effects.
The most likely way it works is that the air at Harem’s arrival point is simultaneously exchanged with Harem, so that it fills what would have been a void at her departure point, and Harem has a nice gap to arrive in, without air molecules interacting explosively with hers, when they both try to exist in the same place, at the same time!
Dave has alluded that this may be the mechanism, in the past, but has not stated it canonically.
For good reason mind, in that he has stated a number of times that super powers simply work the way they are intended to. If this requires multiple complex tweaks to the physics or chemistry of a system, then we can assume that those are handled in as precise a manner as is necessary to allow the result to occur as intended.
So whilst we, as readers, can have fun speculating on the specifics, they are only relevant if the author wants a particular power to create an interesting problem, under certain circumstances. Or if it allows another power to be used in a creative way, that is only possible if exploiting a particular side-effect. Where this is relevant Dave tends to do a Dabbler’s science corner, or similar explanation.
By the way, did you feel flattered, at Harem doing her impersonation, of you, in panel 2?
Hope that smartphone was waterproof.
Love Harem’s face in panel five.
not sure if its been mentioned, but maybe harem has 5 phones that spoof the same account? so when she sends messages they’re all sent from the same number, all five accounts get the responses, etc
It was mentioned by DaveB. In his blurb under the comic. He theorizes that she hopefully has a good family plan.
That would be very useful for her indeed.
There are circumstances under which Harem might want them to behave separately mind. For instance if she wants to set up a ‘phone to ‘watch her back’. That way four could be on guard duty, with one monitoring the four different video feeds and standing ready to ‘port to the rescue.
Needless to say an app could probably handle that, but the more you diverge from normal uses (for instance one that is created to allow video conferencing with multiple participants) the greater the difficulty in getting it to work in a non-standard way.
Of course Harem does have the advantage of being able to order custom-designed gear and programs. But it is much more convenient (and more likely to have critical bugs sorted) if able to get off-the-shelf stuff, that has good reviews.
Unless all five harems are driving at the same time, she’d never have a reason to talk/text while behind the wheel. …does she drive? What reason would a teleporter need to drive?
Harem has deliberately chosen to have as broad an education as possible. So I would be very surprised if she had not learnt to drive, Daphne has had five times as many opportunities to learn as anybody else.
And, yes, she very much does need to be able to drive,* due to the particular limitations of her teleportation. She cannot teleport to anywhere that she cannot see (other than to familiar locations). As such it is much safer for her to use mundane transport for routine travel.
Just contemplate the alternative. She could teleport anywhere up to the horizon. But she cannot make out any details. So whilst she can determine if the arrival spot is clear,** she cannot tell if the footing is safe. Imagine walking around the countryside, but blindfolding yourself before you approached a spot you have only seen at a distance, then jumping to that point.
Will there be a pothole you could not see (even with binoculars), stinging nettles, thorns, a cow pat, a wolf trap***, barbed wire, a landmine?
Moms warn their kids to ‘look before you leap’ for a reason. I am sure Harem’s mom will have gotten tired of telling Daphne to ‘look before you teleport!’ And will have gone out of her way to make sure that Daphne attended driver’s ed, and got a car, as early as possible, to cut down on the number of bruises, cuts and worse that her daughter came home with.
* And pilot an aircraft, or operate boat, but they have less day-to-day benefit for her.
** Plus her power has a safety feature that means she is safe even if appearances were deceptive, such as with an optical illusion or mirage, and there was something blocking her arrival point. She can sense that, with enough time to abort the ‘port.
*** You may not have this risk, but somewhere round where I live there is one. It took the leg off of a very nice cat who used to visit my house.
Lol, I’ve been swimming with plenty of female friends, and I’ve seen the bikini loss plenty of times.
Usually when they dive in, but a ‘blorp’ like that one could certainly do it. I’ve seen a couple lost due to an unexpected or big wave also.
Floating. Well, in general most of them kind of float, but they tend to go down easily if somewhat slowly, unless there’s a downward current there for some reason. Like some hand or foot action from a nearby swimmer or even the person grabbing for it forcefully and just missing.
So that page is totally plausible, I’ve seen it happen several times, minus the giant air bubble. :)
Is it just me, or is it funny that Sydney is perfectly happy to display her …modest figure around the other supermodel types, so long as her skin is actually covered? Even though her suit leaves nothing of her actual proportions to the imagination?
Shh. Don’t draw her attention to that! Sydney is trying, really hard, to avoid thinking about that. Her duties require her to be around them, and she is making use of whatever she can to help bolster her confidence.
Mind you the only reason why she need worry is if there are verbal bullies around, who wish to taunt her about society’s current preference for a more endowed figure. There are enough of those around, that such is a fair general fear for her to have. Likewise anime and manga promote such behaviour, and as a comic shop owner she is probably all too aware of those and other depictions, which would only fuel her feelings of inadequacy.
In due course though she will learn how desirable she really is. Until then she needs whatever prop will help her through the anguish. But at least she is amongst civilised folks here, who are not body-shaming her. Or at least those who might (Harem springs to mind), are minding their manners, knowing that Maxima would come down on them, like a ton of bricks, if she heard.
And those pointy ears seem to be pretty good. Even picking up a loudly spoken (but not shouted) comment at the distance we see above is noteworthy.
Maxima aught to listen carefully the next time she is in Deus’s office. She may be able to hear his secret doors.
“Just relax. Nobody’s going to bite your head off. You’re just going for a nice swim with your friends, who will be watching you and silently judging you!”
I love the water effects throughout, by the way DaveB. I know how very hard it is to do water realistically, and you have a water doing a lot of things here, any one of which would look odd if you had not captured it perfectly.
In particular I love the orbs shaking themselves off, as they come out of the water!
Holy Seeing Eye-Dog Batman! I never even noticed that, You earned your Yorpie Snack on that one….
Splashing people in or near the pool, or pushing them in, has become a much less funny prank since the distribution of mobile phones and other devices became common!
SPLASH “Haw Haw! You got all wet!”
“You MUTHERFUGGIN IDIOT! I HAVE OVER $1000 OF ELECTRONICS IN MY POCKETS! YOU BETTER BE THE FASTEST CHECK-WRITTER IN THE WEST!”
Why didn’t she fall down? For a while, there was very little water supporting her… The support from the rising air and little water trapped by it is next to nothing…
An instinctive series of micro-teleports, too fast for us to see.
Probably.
‘very little water supporting her’? 90% of that *BLORSH* is water
Hey Dave, I actually have some info from my experience wearing bikinis. Ladies’ swimsuits have varying degrees of quality. Very nice ones are designed with quick-drying in mind (meaning that you won’t need to remove your top and squeeze out a bucket of water). They can have foam padding, but that foam is resistant to water, much less permeable. The fabric is also designed to dry within a few minutes. This is preferable for convenience, as well as health (you really don’t want your privates staying damp from pool water for 2+ hours).
Lower quality ones are designed mostly for looks, and to wear while tanning. The fabric holds a lot of water, and the padding acts like a kitchen sponge. So, based on Harem’s bikini sinking in the pool, I’d say it was a lower-quality suit not intended for swimming.
About time!
But how long until she’s a ginger alien?
Hopefully never. I’m sure most Dr Who fans want their Doctor to have a soul.
(I’m kidding)
I’m not really a Whovian enough to know or care if this is a big deal or not, or if it’s normal for his race to change gender from transformation to transformation or not.
The possibility of the Doctor regenerating as female has been speculated / fanfictioned since canonical mention of another Time Lord, The Corsair, frequently gender flipping in “The Doctor’s Wife.”
He has also been a “time lady” before, for all of about 10 seconds.
It has not happened before. Plus he has actually used up all his lives. This should be the last one. But they already decided to rewrite that bit of canon.
Now it is up to five hundred and seven times.
I look forward to seeing how they will handle it when they reach that limit. Maybe his final regeneration will be as Achilles?
ok, ‘fess up….which of you did this: (note the pic of harem’s bikini)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini
it may have been DaveB, now I think if it…in tribute, sorta.