Grrl Power #596 – Big brother is watching and making snide remarks
That’s not ARC-Light’s HQ so much as it is Zephan’s office. I really would have had some extra time so I could have added some knick-knacks around the place, like a terracotta warrior in the corner, a collection of ceremonial daggers. Some… shiny rocks? You know the sort of thing.
The red long johns with the butt flap, or “drop seat” are formally called a Union Suit. I didn’t have Sydney refer to it as such because I had to look that up myself and I didn’t think most people would know that either. They also don’t have to be red, but they usually are in cartoons to my recollection. It’s also possible Cooter was able to find a pair of overalls with one of the shoulder straps broken, or just some Daisy Dukes.
I almost had Sydney call Zephan on being a bit of a wealth snob, with his “Such as they are.” comment, as up until quite recently, she was herself limping along with a few hundred in her bank account and a pile of credit card and comic shop related debt. But as usual, it was a tangent I didn’t have room to develop. At least on this page. It’s a topic I’d like to revisit with her as she’s in that limbo of “poor person who became a rich person who hasn’t come to terms with being a rich person and is still living like a poor person.” Well, not poor-poor. Like, upper lower class, or lower middle class tops. Not the sort of person who would spontaneously buy themselves a giant new TV or a trip to Europe on a whim.
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Checking the Uber is good…
Lyft should also be looked at, if it operates in that area.
Also Arcade City
Yep, and it tells us that they only took that name about 6 months prior to this page. I’d be surprised if they had anywhere near today’s following back in 2011 but, not being american, I can’t actually say for certain if widespread knowledge of the company is anachronistic or not.
Widespread knowledge of any company BUT Uber is anachronistic. Seriously, place has a helluva power over the market. Advertising can do a LOT.
Which is weird because where I am, Uber has a very small presence compared to Lyft. I see far more Lyft drivers than Uber, and never see any businesses advertising Uber.
Wait, why would a proud Southern Boy wear a ‘Union Suit’? That goes against everything he believes in!
:P
As DaveB pointed out, most people probably don’t realize that “union suit” is not what most people think of or know about until they go look it up. Cooter doesn’t seem like the type to make heavy use of Google, but if he ever did find out, would probably shuck them off faster than he could an ear of corn.
You are all very welcome for that mental image…
:D
Huh…part of Victorian Dress Reform in the First Wave of Feminism…Huh. I mean…huh. You learn something new every day!
Why are you apologizing? I imagine Coot could probably shuck corn really really nicely, and quick, too. Like, 2 seconds, no silk left.
If I recall, it’s called a “union” suit because the tops and bottoms are joined together. Nothing to do with the American civil war.
I always thought of it like the Union Jack, which is the BRITISH flag…. so for Cooter same reaction, wrong war.
It, was a bit of a gag, hence the tongue at the end, maybe should stop making jokes as people never get them :(
it’s mostly to explain for people who don’t know what one is, Guesticus.
A joke? o_O
never underestimate the power of human ignorance, foolishness, stupidity, and punning.
“For your consideration, a traditional red union suit, patented in mid 1850’s and became a Victorian wardrobe staple for the next fifty years.
The nickname Long Johns is rumored to stem from the a colorful Victorian bare knuckled prize fighter, John L Sullivan, who wore long underwear in the ring and dominated boxing in the late 1880’s.”
Definitely pre-Civil War
Actually, would have been around just in time for the Civil War (1861-1865)
Don’t under-estimate the stupidity on Murican’s when it comes to names (remember that whole ‘Freedom Fries’ nonsense? because some POTUS had a problem with the French during one of their ‘conflicts’ {not saying the conflict was with the French})
*snrk* And the POTUS in question was told, by the French, “Silly American! French fries were invented in Belgium!”
Never claimed the POTUS was particularly smart :P
I know. That’s what I was laughing about. The current one isn’t any smarter, either. I dread the day when we elect a Cooter.
Merged with Wyrmil he can shapechange. I think you got your wish!
We did elect a Cooter. An anti-intellectual, non-reading, non-comprehending ignoramus with the attention span of a four year old whose primary motivating drive is the endless flattery of those willing to debase themselves publicly with their constant sucking up.
I remember that “Freedom Fries” stuff, and responding to people, “Freedom is a synonym for France? Of course it is! France is the birthplace of modern freedom! France IS Freedom! Viva la revolución! “
It was more the fact the POTATO didn’t like France’s objections so was basically implying they were the enemy of Freedom, so they no longer had the right to have their name on Murican’s favourite consumed vegetable dish :P
I never agreed to accept their reasoning. XD
No sensible person would :P
Don’t you mean “vive le révolution”? Spain was one of the countries trying to contain and reverse the French Revolution, after they p***ed off all the monarchies of Europe by executing their close relative Louis XVI.
I thought the ‘such as they are’ comment reflected the likelihood that Cooter is probably an all-cash guy, who doesn’t trust credit cards or (shudder) online payment. That’s how the Guvmint tracks you, y’know?
Yeah, either that or works on a barter or trade system (hopefully not ‘in kind’ :P )
Probably has a roll of dollar bills in a jar hidden under some rock somewhere. Or under the matress. Who would touch Cooters matress, even with rubber gloves and pliers? Safest place in the universe…
Having seen Cooter in action that roll is probably a Kentucky Bankroll, a $20 wrapped around some pieces of newspaper cut to the size of bills.
It would have to be either a mason jar or an old mayonnaise jar…Hopefully, with no old mayo left in it before stuffing it with money.
Yuck!
He obviously has SOME resources, if only because he was heavily armed when he first appeared, including (at one point) having ammunition to waste for effect.
But I could easily believe that he doesn’t have any significant credit rating and mostly works on a cash-in-hand basis
Well, his credit rating does have 2 significant digits. Does that count as having a significant credit rating?
Not if both digits are zero.
In that case, the leading 0 is not considered significant.
I dunno, I feel that there is quite a significant difference between 9.0 and 0.0. Especially if in Bitcoins! And those are formats that you might expect to see on a credit rating form (albeit that 0.00 may be more common).
Someone with a 0 Credit Rating isn’t a bad risk, they are an unknown risk because they have never borrowed money before
You can only get a credit rating, if you borrow money: if you have never borrowed money before, your CR would be 0, even if you have millions in available funds
I thought in America the standard way of the “Guvmint” tracking you was by your tooth fillings (as well as other dental hygiene products) and the occasional late night anal probe made to look like aliens had abducted you so you wouldn’t tell?
As if Cooter has ever even SEEN a dentist…
He’s Murican, not British!
May I ask for an explanation of “such as they are”? I can’t make sense out of it. A literal translation into German would amount to considering the object in question as it is, without looking as its value or attributes of any kind. But it seems to mean something else.
Basically going “if you can even call them that”.
its one of those things that is most likely cultural.
The person making the we are monitoring his accounts such as they are, was basically saying that “Cooter” doesn’t really have much/good accounts.
as an example, the vast majority of people in USA will have 1 or more bank accounts, 1 or more credit cards, they may also have/use prepaid cards etc.
what this means is that they have a pretty significant financial presence / history which means if you have access to “near real time reports and updates” you can track and monitor what the person is doing.
for instance I have a primary bank account.
I have the ability to pay for things with cash, visa debit (essentially an electronic check that draws from my checking account, visa credit (essentially a bank iou) etc.
Thank you very much!
And I thought the “such as they are” comment was in reference to the fact that he escaped naked and didn’t really have a way to get money, besides robbery of course.
Ooo, it’s the return of Dabbles holographic ticker-tape top, although it’s slightly different to the one she wore previously (isn’t it? the original was more of a corset and this seems to be just a bra
Which kind of begs the question of where the rest of her clothes are. I know she gets a lot of leeway in regards to her dress, but it’s still a military base and some level of professionalism is expected… Makes me think Zeph what almost caught “examining and researching” Dabbler and succubi.
Actually, ‘bra’ was the wrong word, meant one of those midriff revealing tops (you can see that the back is just a thin strap, rather than the previous ‘full-length’ corset she wore last time)
Well, remember that most of the people on the base don’t know what Dabbler is, since she uses an illusion to appear human, except for in “battle form”. So really, she could be wearing something completely different than what we see. Possibly something that actually fits the dress code.
This is what I wanted to point out. Thank you.
Or the other way around when she throws on a human glamour to go outside she has it include a uniform
The only thing they don’t know, would be her extra-terrestrial heritage
People like Zee and Budget Dinklage would know that this is her real form
I thought he was Budget George Lucas?
Nah, you are thinking ‘Mini George Lucas’ :P
Her species’ use of clothing may be limited – I don’t think we know here. If succubi evolved in the coldest climate on their world, and that world was “mild” in its variations, they may not have any cultural history of clothing. (Comfortable in the cold, they wouldn’t invent clothing as they expanded to warmer climes)
If her warmest native climate was colder than our coldest, she’d be hot here, and abundant clothing may cause her to overheat biologically (as opposed to sexually). So wearing any clothes at all may be an uncomfortable concession to Terran-21st-century-Western society. Keep in mind that not even all Terrans are in agreement as to how much clothing is “appropriate”.
Hey! As Dabbler would tell you, she’s hot EVERYWHERE! =P
I wonder if it’s, in part, a dominance display. “I’ll dress however I want; you can accept it, or give me an ultimatum — and I’m far too valuable a team member for you to risk that.” She doesn’t push it *too* far because, evidently, she *likes* being on the team (or else she wouldn’t be doing it), and she knows for a fact that there’s some bullshit Maxima will simply not allow, utility be damned.
Zeph is living in the US, briefing his American boss on the speed of an American fugitive on American roads. Why would he use KPH? Even if the military is more metric-savvy, we still talk in MPH.
Km/h is the way to go.
Actually, km/h is a measure of speed, not direction – it’s not the way to go, it’s how fast you get there.
According to the map Zephram’s looking at, south is the way to go.
Because that is what he relates to. He thinks in kilometers per hour, so that is what rolls of his tongue first. As an American, I think in miles per hour, and I was constantly having to restate speeds in kph when I was in other countries. “Gee officer, I was only doing 60… erm… 100, I guess.”
Wait, isn’t he British? They use miles over there.
They are also drive on the left side of the road and have the drivers seat on the right side.
Officially the UK adopted the metric system in almost every aspect but the speed and distance, mostly due to the costs of replacing signs… The use of it in day to day life seems to vary as I know a few people who are still using imperial units.
– not being a Englishman here, so… tell me if there is anything wrong in my observations from that one trip I had to GB.
There is also the fact that Imperial measurements remain very popular with the British public. So the standards agency is very wary about changing any that are not vital. And no government wants to fight the public without being both in a strong position and having a strong case to put.
Given that the present government has a tiny majority thanks to allying with a minority party, it is in far too weak a position to do anything, even if it wanted to. Plus, in this case the strongest case is that “the EU use this so it makes sense for us too”.
Given that the British public voted to leave the E.U. to allow the country to carry on doing things the way it wants to, that is politically a very poor argument for any government to make at the moment!
You answered your own question. The military is not just “more metric savvy”… everything is in metric, to conform to the NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG), except for the following:
(1) A few weapon calibers that were “grandfathered” in (like the .50)
(2) The Air Force still uses feet above sea level to measure altitude.
(3) The Air Force and Navy still measure speed in knots and distance in nautical miles. (However, these are now accepted as SI units by the BIPM; so officially they are metric units!)
(4) In the Navy, they still measure the main guns in inches and the submarine fleet measures distances in terms of “kiloyards” (equivalent to 914.4 m), depth as “feet”, and velocity, in some cases, as “feet per second”.
Of course, Zephan is not in the military branch of Arc-SWAT, but as Town Crier points out, because of the culture he’s from, he relates to the metric system.
Also we can’t hear accents, for all we know Zephan isn’t originally from the US.
Navy uses nautical miles, because they are better.
I will leave the reason why as an exercise for the student navigator.
One advantage nautical miles has is that 1 nautical mile = 1 minute of latitude or 1 minute of longitude at the equator, so it directly relates lat/long and distance.
Zeph is from British controlled Hong Kong, and his family moved to the US in advance of HK turning back over to China, so he would be more familiar with MPH, but it’s a military intelligence agency.
Plus everyone should switch to metric because Imperial units are dumb and arbitrary.
I love metric, and have been steadily re-training myself to “baseline” using metric.
It’s like, “Can you move the decimal place by one digit? Congrats, you just learned how to do all the conversions, movements, scalings, etc. in metric.”
Boom.
Seriously…
10 milliliters in a centiliter. 10 Centiliters in a deciliter. 10 Deciliters in a Liter. 10 Decaliters in a Hectoliter. 10 Hectoliters in a Kiloliter.
10 millimeters in a centimeter. 10 Centimeters in a decimeter. 10 Decimeters in a Meter, etc.
Off the top of my head.
Now imperial of the top of my head…
There’s 12 cups in a gallon, 6 gallons in 8 pints, 64 inches to a pint, 13 children’s hands to an inch, two hands per foot (but only if you’re doing foot massage?), and someone’s wanting to do something about my yard… how big is it? Long enough to toss a frisbee across and the dog to chase it, that’s a yard, right? And you can have a dozen yards, and a dozen dozen is a lot, and there’s a lot of yards in my neighborhood, so a lot must be like 16, that must mean a dozen is four (since it’s the square root of a lot), which means since 4 yards is a dozen and there’s some number of kid’s feet in a yard (I can see three kids running around in the neighbor’s yard, that’s 6 feet) so a dozen is 24 feet, but only if it’s a nice day, something something the windspeed of a coconut laden sparrow. F’ it, I give up on the implerial system.
*Giggle*
*ahem* Coconut-laden SWALLOW *ahem* *AHEM*
No way a sparrow’s strong enough to carry a coconut to the British Isles from Northern Africa. It’s a simple matter of wingspan!
Depends on if his name is Jack, dun’it?
Heh. We even have photographic proof of this means of palm tree dispersal!
Plus even regular sparrows used to be bigger.
Yorp…. I love you so much right now. I’m glad you’re my alter ego.
And not just conversions in the same measurements.
There’s 1 cubic centimeter for a milliliter, 1ml of water weighs 1g, 1Nm of torque is 1J of energy, and so on.
Because the metric system is better. Come at me yanks.
1) The metric system is fine for people who can’t do math.
2) There are two kinds of people in the world: those who use metric, and those who put man on the moon.
Mars Climate Orbiter CRASHED because someone send it command in non-SI units.
For the record, that was not NASA’s mistake. It was one of the subcontractors that screwed up.
Was it the one which made the buck-catcher, on the front of the vehicle?
laughs Cute, but no. The error was in the software.
Propulsion engineers, like those at Lockheed Martin who built the craft, typically express force in pounds, but it was standard practice to convert to newtons for space missions.
So it was some programmer at Lockheed Martin that screwed up. The software that calculated the force the thrusters needed to exert was programmed to use pounds of force, while all the other software on the probe used newtons (1 pound = 4.45 newtons). As a result, it didn’t use enough thrust to enter a stable orbit, got pulled into the upper layers of the Martian atmosphere, and atmospheric friction tore it apart.
“Better, faster, cheaper” was the mantra at the time. The Mars Polar Lander, which launched 23 days later, also failed. The cause was completely different, but the failure still stems from that mantra. In this case, vibrations in the lander’s legs convinced the onboard computer it had landed, when it was still 30 meters up, so it shut the engines off and crashed.
Fortunately, NASA learned from these two mistakes, scrapped several planned missions, and went back to basics, rebuilding its Mars program based on conservative strategies and concepts that had already been tested. The result were the landers Spirit and Opportunity, which not only completed their original 90-day mission, but were still working six years later.
It was some programmer… and his boss who should have organised some quality control checking… and the NASA guy similarly in charge of assuring sub contractors did their job right too.
And the programmer’s dog for not making sure that he had enough sleep the night before.
The mistake was a bit subtler than that. A while before the mission, NASA had gone to an all-metric standard, and everyone (including the propulsion engineers) knew that and calculated/coded appropriately.
However, the mission was re-using some older modules from a spacecraft software library written back in the pre-metric days. (As a general rule, it’s better to re-use software that’s already tried and true than to try to reinvent the wheel every time.)
The folks re-purposing the old software knew full well it was pre-metric, and took pains to update all the lines of code involving units so that they would now calculated in metric units.
They missed one.
except NASA uses metric.
I know its just the angle, but Maxima looks extra busty today.
I had the same impression, almost looked like a drawing mistake tbh. As its the case for the 2 last panels
A black top is meant to de-emphasize the bust isn’t it?
black top de-emphasizing the bust works better when it conceals the shadow and isn’t super skin-tight in more of a grey colour with strong downward lighting. So, yeah, she’s looking her chest. I mean, best.
Thought a black top was a highway…
… insert the sound of dabbler giggling and some comment about ride-sharing.
That was the response was hoping for :D
Research (ahhemm) has found this almost side-by-side comparison of Maxima’s and Dabbler’s bioartillery.
I think they are a little misrepresented today.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/607
Actually, if you check that strip, you’ll note that Dabbler has her “glamour” on and is using an illusion to make herself look human, so that’s not her true form. Also, she taunts Maxima by making that comment “Are you jealous you’re not the biggest girl in the room anymore?” while cupping her own breasts. To me, that implies that she was using the illusion to make her bioartillery appear bigger (perhaps considerably) than it really is. It could be that today’s strip is a better representation of their actual comparative sizes.
Alternatively (in addition to the glamor explanation), it could be Maxima is still …. ahem…. growing into her powers, as it has been mentioned that supers naturally morph into a more idealized form. And as I understand, Dabbler’s not a true Super, but has enough magic, weird-heritage, etc. to make her equivalent to one. This would imply that Maxima may be yet to reach her peak power or has only recently reached it.
He he. Greta Gravity would have arch-villain powers in the Grrlverse. Likewise Giant Girl would be rated above Maxima.
I wonder if Dolly Parton has superpowers? You know, other than her voice. Clearly world-class whatever they might be.
there was that gag villain for Power Girl. Her Power was to control men and to be even bigger then Power Girl.
Super MILF?
Okay, so how long after the Skivvy-obstacle Run is this?
Minutes?
Yeah, butt how long did it take the Tardy Trio to complete it under four minutes? Guess that should have been the question asked :(
Actually, clear chalkboards are essential for math that has to be read from both sides.
If you can read backwards
Ah, the beauty of dyslexia! I evol it!
Only marginally related, I notice that Dabbs is left-handed. In her particular case, would that mean she can write with both left hands at the same time, or is that normally limited to her upper left hand? If she were ambidextrous, would that apply to all four hands, or only her upper two hands?
She’d have to be tetradextrous to use all four.
…Midnight, I think the answer to that would be ‘no’…as all her hands control independently. So…she wouldn’t be “Left ahnded” she would be “Upper left handed” or “Downer left handed”. Ambidexterous would likely also have a qualifier. (I’m betting using predominantly ‘downer’ hands has a bit of a stigma…or is used by Succubi who are VERY succubi!)
how well can you write with out looking? I usually drift when i try it. I think that a good part of writing is hand eye coordination and as such writing with two or in this case four hands readable is nearly impossible. Dabbler could have a write mode in her robo arm of cause, just send text, the tech does the rest.
It’s possible that she can use which ever hand is most convenient, so she can be working on four things not-quite-at-the-same-time, with four different-coloured markers and simply switches ‘on-the-fly’ (poor fly) without having to move her hands much or change marker
That’s usually how people ‘normally’ do it when using just two hands: you can see them switch viewpoint and the ‘abandoned’ hand simply stops mid-motion
It’s also possible Cooter was able to find a pair of overalls with one of the shoulder straps broken, or just some Daisy Dukes.
Gunna call this one out actually. Given that he’s traveling on the coast somewhere, more than likely he would have found some sort of bait/hunting shop more so than anything. He’s probably looking more like a lumberjack going out for a fishing trip more so than anything.
The broken-strapped overalls and Daisy Dukes were meant to be as much of a ‘Southern’ stereotype as the red long-johns with the open butt-flap (and they are always open, it’s like the Law or something)
If it’s all Selma Hayek is wearing, i’m perfectly fine with that breast of fresh ass.
Maybe he found some fishing waders and an ‘I’m With Stupid’ t-shirt.
Wyrmil would LOVE that! It’d be pretty easy to convince stupi-… Cooter to wear it, too.
That would be great if DaveB would make at least the T-shirt canon in the next panel we see Cooter. That would be so spot-on.
…It really would.
A stereotype needs to dress the part I guess.
And Coot would totally wear gingham :D
Looks to me like Dabbler is actually working on a formula related to Sydney’s level-up or intra-orb-association systems.
Hmmm…That got me to thinking…
Between Max & Syd, the prevailing theory is that the orbs are much like an astronaut’s tool kit. Maybe there’s a higher level function on the Flight Orb that would allow her to go FTL, for example. Shield & life support also fit in well. The Lighthook acts as a towing cable.
The PPO might not function only as a weapon, but could also act as a cutting tool for asteroid mining…If so, I might guess that a useful function in that case would be some kind of cargo space, so maybe one of the unknown orbs might have Sydney’s much-coveted Hammer Space!
If she likes her arm, she can keep it!
If anything has a hammerspace function, efficiency would tend to dictate it be part of the lighthook. Why engage a second orb (especially since one is providing life support already) when you can just have the ‘hook itself drop things into subspace on contact?
Remember that one of the prevailing theories is that the Orbs are designed for a species with more than two hands. Even a three-handed species would have a much easier time ‘juggling’ them- one hand dedicated to life-support, one using Lighthook or Flyball for maneuvering, one using Commball or Cutter for work.
Easy if you’re Dabbler:
– life support (air orb)
– shield
– fly
– can alternate depending on current needs
Yea, having three hands is pawey.
*gloomily licks paws*
Still thinkin’ that last ball is the Room Ball.
First function switches what room is active (like the PPO’s gatling or laser)
Second function has to do with traits available (if it is a Room ball, then it doesn’t create a room. It simply has the effects of the devices that would be in that room- a bed trait in a quarters room would let Sydney hover in place, but not take up Fly’s function because she’s supposed to be asleep. Space doesn’t have up or down so you don’t need to be horizontal to Earth to sleep in a space bed.)
An operating table trait in a medical room could grant regeneration, or the lighthook’s hammerspace would be the ‘in’ and the Room ball’s cargo bay trait would be the inventory and ‘out’.
Stuff like that.
Sounds like an interesting angle.
One question is how does Halo activate the Rumba?
With a catchy Cuban beat: Chick Chicky Boom!
The clear board has been a feature for various weather presenters on TV news for quite some time. The TV weather guy would stand behind the clear sheet of rigid plastic or glass and draw various things on it to be seen from the other side. I don’t see an audience on the other side of the board, so that is probably not the reason.
It’s also how the Because Science videos from Nerdist work.
Clear dry erase boards might not be impractical, depending on ink color and the color of the wall behind it. Plus, given it’s Dabbler, there’s a high chance that whatever ink she’s using is high-visibility fluorescent in her visual range.
I can confirm that clear whiteboards or Windows/mirrors are entirely practical.
The problem with Windows like that is you lose all of your mathematical formulas when the Blue Screen of Death pops up. Better to use a transparent Unix, or something…anything…else.
I see what you did there. I appreciate it.
Hmm, knock your socks off. Mythbusters tested that myth and declared it busted. Any hit strong enough to knock someone’s socks off would kill the person as well. I guess Max could do an uppercut that strong, but that would end pretty much any target she hit that hard..
Well, panties might be easier. At least, the ones worn by succubi
Don’t get your panties in a twist.
Right. Because it doesn’t solve anything, and it makes you walk funny.
Don’t forget there are supers that have higher resistance than that of a regular human. She could punch Achilles that hard without any issues (aside where they’ll have to retrieve him from orbit).
Well, yeah…Pretty much. Most people, if they get hit hard enough to knock their socks off, their feet are likely to still remain in the socks. If you were to think of the visual to that, think of some of those violent video games that make use of “gibbets” in the graphics…
Can remember seeing an episode using a car, butt believe that was to test the ‘Knock you out of your socks’ Myth, so not quite the same thing
(i believe the word you want is “but”, “butt” is short for buttocks, altho there are other uses of the word that don’t necessarily originate from buttocks)
Nope, spelling it the way want it to be spelt, butt thank you for the etymology lesson
Unless the target was also superstring and nigh invulnerable. Superman could take take a hit like that and come back for more.
Butt, would he be knocked out of his little red booties? o_O
And that depends on if he still wears them, or if he ditched them along with his red pants (talk about long johns, except his are blue and skin-tight, without a flap of any kind… must be one of them Fremen ‘still-suits’ to recycle waste because he ain’t getting out of that suit in a hurry to relieve himself :P)
Nah, if he needs to relieve himself he can tear them and use Super-Sewing skills for repair. :)
Though I wonder if the toilet would survive the experience…
But then, of course, his powers must include ‘super bladder-control’ and ‘super bowel-control’…
^_^
“or just some Daisy Dukes”
And thanks for that mental image. There should have come a warning before that, it hurt to think about that for even a split second.
Would you like to order up for some Brain Bleach™, or maybe some Inter-Cranial Sandpaper™? How much should I write you down for & what kind of billing terms would you prefer?
;)
That’s why God invented tequila.
Or so I’m told.
I’d think that a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster would work better than tequila. But you know that God loves you & wants you to be happy when you have beer.
~paraphrased from Ben Franklin
Very paraphrased. Probably with the assistance of an ultimate improbability drive.
I’ll have some of Dr.Cerebrum’s Corrosive Cortex Polish (“Guaranteed to remove noggin cloggin'”), extra strength.
Garbler, are you trying to sneakily peddle some Soviet Union?
The Daisy Dukes would go well with the makeup he’s wearing thanks to Dabbler’s cleaning spell.
Max, you walked right into that one.
Not quite. If Max took a half-step forward, Dabbler would be getting smothered by them.
Don’t those two(Dabbler and Maxima)ever get along???
And before it gets REAL ugly,Maxima sends Sydney to her class…!
Those two actually get along great. Dabbler just likes teasing Maxima to get a reaction, and she often gets one, so she keeps going.
Part of the reason I down-low ship the two.
Consider- Maxima NEEDS someone to pull her out of her rigid formality, and she actually knows this. That’s part of the reason she likes hanging around with Sydney so much- and Dabbler also does that for her, albeit in a more lewd way.
Maxima ALSO has issues with being ‘the strongest one in the room’- she likes it from a Military perspective, but from an intimacy/dating side, she’s even worse off than poor Kenya- but who among all of ARC, even across the globe, has beaten her? Dabbler. Meaning that, on a measure of strength/power, Dabbler is at least an equal, if not a superior. That’s an important thing for a relationship, I think.
And Dabbler, being an independent contractor, also bypasses all those pesky little ‘dating a subordinate’ issues.
I mean, nothing against Hiro, and he and Max are cute together, but Dabbler isn’t an unhealthy choice either.
Honestly, I doubt they’ll ever get along as long as Dabbler insists on consistently sexually harassing people, Maxima included. Toxic workspace is one thing, but the way Dabbles goes, that workspace is liable to become genuinely acidic.
In terms of romance options for Maxima, Dabbler is about the most unhealthy option on the table. Anyone who takes people saying ‘stop that’ as ‘keep going, but harder’ isn’t someone you want to become emotionally entangled with.
You seem to have a completely false impression of Dabbles
It is a fair assessment, from a human perspective. From a Succubus’s the social dynamics are very different mind. One of Dabbler’s key aims, since Maxima made it clear that she is not interested (by putting Dabbler through a wall) is not to keep trying to get into her knickers. Rather it is to break down Maxima’s repressed barriers.
Fortunately Maxima knows this, so is not taking this all as actual attempts to seduce her. She knows Dabbler is just teasing her. Although, clearly, she would still be keen if Maxima ever did change her mind.
It is very important to take into account a different societies values, when interacting with their members. Especially for points where they are doing things which impact core values.
Just look at the different attitudes between Japanese and the western allies, in WWII, when it came to matters of surrender and suicide, as examples. An allied officer seeing a Japanese one executing a fellow officer, by cutting off his head, would be horrified. Not realising that they were behaving in an exemplary manner, in the terms of their own society, by assisting seppuku.
Maxima takes into account these social differences, in her dealings with Dabbler.
That’s kinda what meant: Dabbles is big on consent, she will keep pushing but she does know when to stop
The thing is… even though Dabbler is not trying to actively seduce Maxima, she IS engaging in a continual string of sexually charged teasing that Maxima has made clear is unwelcome and unappreciated. That is textbook sexual harassment, and frankly Maxima has EVERY right to call foul at ANY point. Coercing someone into an unwanted sexual encounter isn’t necessary for it to meet the definition of sexual harassment.
Further, as much as Dabbler might claim to be big on consent, any being whose mere biology is inherently mind-altering (such as Dabbler and her hypnoboobs) swims in incredibly muddied waters. It is explicitly impossible for Dabbler to be ABSOLUTELY certain that anyone who can see her is ACTUALLY consenting to anything she does with them, because the act of seeing her influences their judgement more than seeing a non-succubus of the same measurements would.
Besides which, any claims that Dabbler is actually big on consent went right the hell out the window when it came out that she fondled Maxima without getting it. In a situation where something she wants is in front of her, she has no reservations about grabbing it and playing with it like a carnival attraction, consent be damned.
Ultimately she doesn’t care, because she’s never actually had to.
And your claims go completely down the gurgler when Jabbs is involved
Her hesitance to leap on Jabbs can VERY easily be read as either a case of A) not really being THAT interested, or B) genuinely being cowed by the potential reprisal if she violates human standards of consent in a human workplace.
Hasn’t stopped her before (remember Barberian? and whomever she brought back from the nightclub, probably Geenie)
We’ve got no indication that they weren’t consenting, at least within the bounds that someone whose mental state is altered CAN consent.
Which just goes to my point. If the fact that the people she sleeps with aren’t clearly consenting of their own free will (because she can’t know if they are due to her inherent Succubus abilities), then consent ISN’T that important to her, only that they’re reasonably willing when they’re drunk on the sight of her. Further, as I said, sleeping with Barberian and Jeanie had no consequences for her as they weren’t on the team. Jabbs IS.
Meanwhile, the one person who has explicitly told her to STOP she feels comfortable continuing to make passes at. If consent doesn’t matter when ‘stop’ is called, then it isn’t really consent.
Pardon… “If the fact that the people she sleeps with aren’t clearly consenting of their own free will (because she can’t know if they are due to her inherent Succubus abilities) doesn’t give her pause, then consent ISN’T that important to her, only that they’re reasonably willing when they’re drunk on the sight of her.”
Which, come to think of it, is actually a substantial part of my point. How much would you trust the respect for consent a person has if they always see to it that their lovers are cognitively impaired to the point that their ability to say ‘no’ is unclear? If every person they take to bed is drunk to the point that their inhibitions aren’t engaged?
Now imagine someone who A) DOES THAT INVOLUNTARILY, and B) was raised in a culture where doing that still counted as consent.
I’m not saying Dabbler is unethical by the standards of her culture, but the culture she’s coming into needs her to adapt to it if she’s going to stay because the grace period is only going to last so long.
TL:DR version, it is explicit that what is stopping Dabbler is not the ethics of consent. It is the threat of reprisal. Do not mistake that fear of consequence for a moral stance. It isn’t.
Taken from the standards of western human civilisation Dabbler’s behaviour is unacceptable. All you are doing is keep on repeating that. Similarly so is chopping off someone’s head. You could not do that in the high street and expect anything other than a custodial sentence. In modern western society. Feudal Japan though was a very different matter.
As to the concent side you keep your blinkers on. Maxima was relating an early encounter with Dabbler, when she had her breasts grabbed because they were so shiny they entranced Dabbler.* So this could well have been before Dabbler had been given proper instruction in human social behaviour.
Normally such training is conducted verbally, rather than punching someone through a wall mind.
Plus, where Dabbler is behaving herself morally, with Jabberwokky, you are going out of your way to find a motive which suits your agenda. Whereas, according to the rules of our society, we are obliged to start on a basis of ‘innocent until proven guilty’.
So you are not even keeping to the same standards you are asking Dabbler to play by. Yet, in that instance, she is!
And to show that you are actually doing an injustice, allow me to point out a scene where Dabbler goes out of her way to protect an innocent from sexual impropriety, purely from her own recognizance. There are no witnesses, nor had we seen Maxima threaten Dabbler, nor even warn her to behave herself.
If Maxima were truly afraid that Dabbler was a molester she would not have left her alone in the bathroom with Sydney. Even if your theory that Dabbler ‘only behaves due to threat of physical violence’ was correct, Maxima would surely have taken the precaution of repeating her threat, in such a potentially exploitable situation.
Maxima and Archon however are making allowances because she is an alien and has very different drives and mindset. Plus they need her far more than she needs them. Even this rational would be weak though, if she were the monster that you say. Whereas the scene I linked shows that she is not.
The above really is play-acting and teasing between friends. Which by legal definition is not sexual harassment. Only those present get to decide if it is. Your opinion has zero legal bearing on the matter.
Maxima is not harassed by this. Sydney may find the atmosphere oppressive, which, if so, would meet the necessary criteria. However we have seen that where she does disapprove Sydney has no hesitance in complaining nor in taking direct action herself.** With neither involved party raising a formal complaint there is no sexual harassment. They are not bothered.
The morality of this matches the legal situation too. The parties involved are the ones who get to arbitrate on the morality. Third parties only get to have any input if any of them feel that there is a problem. Which is fair. How they get to live their lives is their choice. They should not be obliged to pander to your morals.
* Ironically, given your complaint about Dabbler’s hypnoboobs.
** Because, again, she knows that the underlying motive is not actually sexual, but is the way someone from a different culture is used to establishing friendship bonds. And she knows Sydney is smart enough to realise this.
Contrast Sydney’s reaction at the poolside, to Harem’s inadvertent sexual harassment (which legally is full-blown sexual harassment, despite the ‘inadvertent’). There she had a full-on breakdown. She cannot handle sexual matters. Not when she takes them to be genuinely intended.
With Dabbler though she has seen her true nature and so does not have that fear. But she will aggressively set her boundaries and protect her personal space. Even from a friend.
Dabbles must like that pattern, slightly different here butt fairly sure it’s a similar ticker-tape band along the top of a completely different top
Mind you, Yorp, that the same moment you reference is exactly where Dabbler lays out that her capacity to warp the minds of others is A) perpetual, and B) to some degree involuntary. That’s central to my point. Dabbler gets (and deserves) a certain amount of leeway simply because her mindwarping isn’t something entirely within her control. It makes consent practically impossible to arbitrate in in-person encounters, but the fact that it is involuntary means that it is necessary to excuse a certain amount of sexually charged behavior.
As to whether or not Maxima is harassed by this… She’s SAID that she objects to Dabbler’s behavior towards her, even to the point of modifying her behavior choices (as pointed out explicitly here https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2723 ). She’s CONTINUALLY ( https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/598) told ( https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/601 ) Dabbler ( https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/607 ) to stop. These are all clear indicators that yes, Maxima explicitly DOES feel harassed and has effectively said so. When you modify your behavior to avoid being in the presence of someone when at all possible due to how they specifically treat YOU, that’s a textbook reaction to continuing and pervasive harassment. At this point, the only thing keeping Dabbler in the workplace is her utility to Archon.
“** Because, again, she knows that the underlying motive…”
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“** Which Maxima approved of because, again, she knows that the underlying motive…”
“It is very important to take into account a different societies values, when interacting with their members.”
The thing is Dabbler needs to do that too. Most people who she interacts with are accommodating and shrug it off (or embrace it) but Dabs needs to learn when to back off on her own without waiting for Max to put her through a wall.
Dabbler has a slow learning curve, for any given subject. The exception being things which interest her.
That includes Maxima’s boobs, but not human sexual taboos.
Hey! Don’t knock bib overalls. They are soooooo comfy, especially in the summer. Lots of air flow. Plus, on wee bairns, they act as handles, which is very important for keeping such from imminent disaster, like running into traffic.
I remember liking them as a kid too, haven’t seen one in person in a long time though.
We obviously don’t travel in the same circles.
Yeah, but with one strap missing? Instant redneck, just add chewin’ grass.
This particular style fits best on adult females, according to what I’ve seen…
Sooo… According to the map, Cooter is somewhere in New Jersey?
And he got out of the sea at some point not far away from the very small, dry town of Port Republic (that is where the red “X” appears to be, in any case).
If Cooter (or, rather, Wyrmcooter) went out from the underwater vault as fast as possible and in a straight line towards the coast… That means, given that the vault was “a mile underwater” (or more), that it was off the continental shelf, or in one of the canyons at the edge of the same…
…Which means, then, that Wyrmcooter managed to cover roughly 150 km (a bit less than 100 miles) from Wilmington Canyon all the way to the New Jersey coast in a really really short amount of time.
Or even >200 km (roughly 160 miles) from Hudson Canyon, also all the way to the New Jersey coast.
If he is able to go *that* fast underwater, maybe he is able to go *way* faster on land?
Maybe he is not hitch-hiking; maybe he hasn’t stolen a vehicle… Maybe he is just running *that* fast!
Shush with your speculative logic! He’s obviously driving one of those rusty red utes with a crane on it, even if he had to steal it from a (guvmint) museum!
I am thinking that the X is where Wyrmcooter was last detected. In the map in panel 1, the red line hasn’t gone around the Great Bay yet. I am thinking he started his journey from the vault under a Cedar Bonnet Island, came up on the island or maybe Beach Haven West (where might be able to swipe some clothes and transportation), got onto the Garden State Parkway and then onto Interstate 9, south-bound, by the looks of the map in panel 2.
Looks like route 9. Possibly going to Atlantic City. Small air port that they should put on alert.
I am wrong he is east of the road according to their marker. And my map suggests the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.
Makes the 100kph rather scary. Either off road or small town roads. On Rt. 9 though that would be slow.
They said he’s traveling “down” the coast so I took that to be going south so the X is where he is now and he started out further north.
Speaking of terra-cotta warriors — they will make a full-size one with your own face for you. Zephan could afford one.
They got the idea back in ’06, when this German guy dressed like one of the warriors, rolled in clay, and jumped down into the pit to stand among them. Search “2006 German student terra-cotta warrior”.
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Nice!
Well, Dabs is tenacious, I’ll give her that.
But do you have the stamina to keep up with her?…
So perhaps we should call her Tenacious D?
And her Pick of Destiny, would be Maxi :D
“Not the sort of person who would spontaneously buy themselves a giant new TV or a trip to Europe on a whim.”
The big TV….That’s exactly the first thing Sydney would get.
And she can get to europe for free.
From DaveB’s blog: “Not the sort of person who would spontaneously buy themselves a giant new TV or a trip to Europe on a whim.”
Says the guy who wrote the story to make Sydney comment that she could afford to buy a horse after she saw her first paycheck…
;)
“…a trip to Europe on a whim.”
Does someone handle Supers, with flight ability, who decide to pop round the planet to stop off at a nice cafe selling some decent coffee and some pane carasau.
Since they don’t have to use airports, would they still have to carry passports & other (official) documents that allow them to bypass customs, in case they’re stopped by local law enforcement? Certainly they would have to know about contacts with US Embassies & other such authorities as well.
They most certainly would need to formally clear border checks if they wanted to be there legally, but they might be able to do that via special arrangement.
They would need to carry all the ID, including passports and check in the Customs/Border Security/etc. (whatever they name that agency in each country). They just get to surprise them by not having a vehicle.
Halo lands at the Billy Bishop Toronto Island Airport and heads for the Canadian Border Services Agency office there.
CBSA Agent: Good morning. Welcome to Canada. Can I see your documents please?
Halo: [ Hands over her passport ] Here you go.
CBSA Agent: Can I see your ticket?
Halo: I didn’t come in on an airline flight. I was flying myself.
CBSA Agent: Okay. Where is your plane? We will need to inspect that.
Halo: Oh, I don’t have a plane. [ Grabs the blue orb and starts to hover ] I flew myself.
CBSA Agent: Oh, I get it now. Fine. What is the purpose of your visit to Canada and how long do you intend to stay?
Yeah. It’s one of the many many issues with “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.” The way they were fighting in Paris but hadn’t called ahead to get clearance (let alone support and assistance from French authorities, who could have set up roadblocks, cleared the streets of innocent bystanders, etc). If you call ahead you’re a friendly agency working to provide assistance against a common threat. If you just charge in and start shooting, you’ve committed an act of war.
And now you know!
and knowing is half the battle.
One of many details concerning international protocol that consume time “IRL”, but which are (usually) overlooked in a (book / play / film)-story, in order to keep the plot from getting bogged-down with excessive detail. Some people are fine with glossing-over such matters, & others will obsessively “fridge-logic” it to death, but “YMMV”.
It’d be pretty easy to cover without slowing the plot down.
Commander (to unnamed aide): “oh and send a message to XYZ and let them know we’re coming”
aide walks off screen. Done! all the rest can be hand-waved as boring behind the scenes stuff.
Please promise us you’ll never put Cooter in Daisy Dukes…
Or a least, never show them in-panel if he does.
So you want him to remain buck naked the next time we see him?
Now you’ve just raised the philosophical question as to which would be the worst thing to see.
As for me, I think I’ll just keep my eyes closed because I don’t think I’d really want to find out.
[whispering]
Daisy Dukes, with his arse hanging out!
Something similar this, perhaps?
DaveB should take note, for when he starts up his fashion house. I can see that our readership would like variants on those for various of the heroines.
I suspect not favouring Cooter so much though.
Ooh, ooh, I got the ‘Good Will Hunting’ line. I am not a total recluse!
*backwards Egyptian walking with a hop and a skip*
Go doggy, go doggy!
So, she was a poor person who owned her own business. If all poor people could be so lucky. :p
Also, not sure I’d take the comment “Such as they are.” to be a wealth snob comment. Thought it just meant, he didn’t really have any money.
“So, she was a poor person who owned her own business. If all poor people could be so lucky. :p”
Lucky if the business survives. Most of the small business startups I have know had every spare penny tied up just trying to keep the business afloat. Inventory probably represents a substantial chunk of cash for the comic store but Sydney probably had a hard time finding two nickles to rub together toward the end of the month.
She wasn’t on the poverty line… yet, butt she was dang close to it
She probably had enough to keep the store ‘propped up’, with a little extra to keep her apartment and her car licensed, butt not much more than that, so yeah, to most people (except those financially below her) she would be considered ‘poor’
Yeah, agree with you about the “Such as they are.” comment
If you check Amazon, you’ll rapidly find there are people doing things like selling bags of “fresh cut hickory chips for smoking”.
Though why you’d want chips for proper smoking is past me, I trim the trees a trifle whenever I need smoking wood. (Yes, I can smoke a mean ham, than vanishes like magic when you put it out on a table. As in “uhhh, what happened to all that ham?”)
Dabbler: “I hope you’re wearing panties because I’m about to knock them off.”
Maxima: “Socks, Dabbler… you knock socks off.”
Dabs: “Not the way I do it.”
Maxi: “Just show me what you’re working on…”
And just that fast, it went over Max’s head… She DID just show you what she’s ALWAYS working on Max… getting your panties off… of course, she just succeeds in getting them in a wad most times… LOL
Other variants: Bunch, twist, wedgie… you get the idea…
I know the one guy’s short, but there’s no need to overlook him in the who’s who.
…*badum-tsss*
he isn’t overlooked, he didn’t speak UP.
He almost always speaks up.
With his traveling cart though, he can usually see things eye-to-eye with most people.
I do hope folks in this thread will stop looking down on Lucus!
I don’t want to have to get short with y’all!
The convention used by the Esteemed Author is that “Who’s Who”-entries are limited to those who SPEAK in that page. Superfluous word-balloons consume the Author’s valued landscape-visuals.
What would you have him do…?
Order Lucas to speak…?
“SPEAK, boy! SPEAK! Good Boy!”
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Sorry, but that just seems so WRONG to me. Why would we want to demean Lucas so…?
D’OH!!!?!
:(
This was supposed to be a ‘Reply’ to [Kittenykat], above, sorry.
I am convinced, if Dabbler tried to knock Sydney’s panties off, Sydney would gain literal super strength just to punch her into the city over, with out the use of power granting orbs.
Modesty-powered super strength? That’s a more interesting idea than it has any right to be.
I have seen a live action ecchi (but not hentai) short with this theme. I think it was even called “Super Virgin.”
Allegedly, there was also one where some girls are given powers by aliens that immediately start shredding their clothing when activated, the power source being their own embarrassment. Don’t know what it’s called.
Sydney would be an asset to that team.
Embarrassmentic energy.
And then there’s the Empowered comic book…
Yeah, but Empowered is actually the opposite. She doesn’t get powers from a desire to preserve her modesty. Instead, she’s actually *weakened* by her body image issues, which are exasperated by the soap bubble she wears as a suit.
She’d be far stronger if she’d stop worrying about what other people see.
Or at least that’s my understanding, based on the T.V. tropes entry. I’m only through the first volume at this point.
I kind of like the idea of Sydney having super powers but they are subtle changes to people’s personality. Like when Sydney first met “Barkley” and Ingsol says, “Does she have a stupidity aura,” and Maxima just goes “That would explain a lot”
Not quite: Empie isn’t weakened by her body image issues, her suit, well, empowers her, and the less there is of it, the more ‘base strength’ she becomes
Ah. My impression is that the suit’s power was tied to self-confidence, or something like that. It’s more durable (and thus more powerful) when she’s not feeling timid or self conscious. Since she usually is, it tears easily and leaves at her squishy human base power.
If cooter is running and wearing daisy dukes imagine the wedgie…
Imagine the wobble…
To be fair, clear whiteboards can be practical if there’s a white wall behind them. At which point why not a whiteboard? Well, there’s that rare occurrence where it literally helps to get another pespective… also with a couple projectors and two of them, you can turn it into a holographic display.
Sorry, but the phrase ‘clear whiteboard’ just throws up an oxymoron logic error in my brain. Kind of like the phrase ‘jumbo shrimp’. (I could say ‘military intelligence’ but this comic’s audience may complain)
‘clear whiteboard’ makes sense, because there is no coating for chalk to adhere to and the same sort of dry-erase markers are used on it.
That is quite a sensitive phrase for my brother. He almost run over a pygmy elephant once!
My biggest military-related complaint is when friendly fire isn’t.
I guess a true clear whiteboard would be some kind of translucent milky white? Like they use in those fancy glass lamps to diffuse the light?
Something that bugged me in the Iron Man films was their transparent monitors/phones etc. It makes them difficult to read with the wrong background and anyone can see what’s on your phone from the other side.
The dude is smart enough to build a suit of flying armour, yet you cannot give him the credit of assuming that he can have the device adjust the text/images to have a suitable contrast to the background? Even I could figure out the basics for how to track the user’s eyes and calculate what would be behind the screen, from their point of view.
Even with mundane technology there are a variety of choices for cameras which would be able to survey all the relevant scene. Whilst Stark would be able to create an unobtrusive miniature version, for his toys.
Give it up Maxima, you’ll never gonna change the way Dabbler opperates lol.
I took his “such as they are” to mean something about “well he’s a hillbilly and a paranoid, he doesn’t exactly have a stock portfolio and 401k, mostly tries to stay off the map” sort of thing, y’know?
Yeah, he doesn’t leave a trail, not that he’s dirt poor (and dirt can be quite valuable, no joke, just have to have the right kind)
*making a sandcastle out of Lunar regolith*
Or if you treat it right.
Most dirt is mostly carbon… extract that, fire into pure carbon suspended in solution, line it up on a magnetic extruding system… carbon nanotubes worth more than weight in gold.
True value is measured in calories. Pasta tubes are a far yummier arrangement of carbon.
Clear-boards (not being white boards, or chalkboards – chalk wouldn’t stick – so; clear-board) do have their uses. The military likes them because they can be looked at from one side while someone stands on the other side and updates them as necessary (probably writing backwards). Although they are less meaningful in the age of large LCD monitors.
But, yeah, for most purposes, not really something you should bother with. And as said, rendered even less useful with modern electronics.
Large LCD monitors aren’t of much use without power…
Further evidence that a way to get Dabbler in a serious relationship with someone is to always have them conditioned to say ‘I’ve had better’ after sex and have her see it as a challenge.
Dry-erase works really well on glass. So much so that Swanky offices generally have a sheet of glass screwed to the wall instead of a whiteboard. They are definitely harder to take a picture of though after you’ve done all of your scribbling. and scribbling is the reason why you want a whiteboard and not a monitor of some kind. it’s just not the same to be able to do your Swirls and draw stuff to link stuff together. You can kind of do it with mind mapping software but it’s not quite the same.
Also Sydney would be dumb to pay for a flight to Europe she can fly there herself much faster than a jet can take her and she can lug all of her own luggage along with the light hook inside of the forcefield. The order of operations would be load up the light hook with her luggage, fly up a sort distance and then quickly switch to the force shield to encapsulate it and off she goes. Another option would be just ship her clothes there with FedEx or something. Think of the advertising tie-ins they could use for that! FedEx used by Supers to get stuff there quick with no lost luggage at the airport.
Not sure if anyone else wrote this yet, but it’s not a clear chalkboard. It’s just a clear ‘whiteboard’ using dry erase markers. :)
It may look that way, but the comic text calls it a clear chalkboard; therefore, until retconned, it is, in-canon, a clear chalkboard. (It’s okay, I made the same mistake myself). Therefore, it’s probably some kind of textured glass or crystal with fancy colored chalk… just because he wants to show off in his office.
Max: “Just show me what you’re working on.”
…Methinks Max may just come to regret asking like that from Dabbler…
This page made me think of Sydney’s last unknown orb. If we go with Sydney’s spaceship idea; https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2562 – navigation & tracking could be what’s missing. So what if she finds out she can do what Dabs is doing?
I am sure that Sydney could sexually harass Maxima, but would she want to?
Easiest way to “sexually harass” Maxima, and it wouldn’t really even break company policy:
*koff ahem*
“You know Maxima, I really appreciate how you fall into traditional gender stereotypes. The whole ‘sexual liberation’ of Feminism, like the rest of that movement, was just a passing fad. Thanks for helping reinstate traditional values. I appreciate your restraint despite the influence of that devilish liberal influence, Dabbler. I often recommend to my teenage daughters to show your level of sexual restraint. I’m even going to enroll them in an abstinence-based sex-ed course at the local catholic school.” – bonus points if you’re wearing a Texan garb and a big cowboy hat and say, “Baby Jesus bless your soul” at awkward times in conversation.
Then give her thoughts a week to stew on her thoughts and you should be good.
That said, I don’t recommend actually doing this. The more sexually prudish Maxima is, the better. It would be bad to have to deal being near ‘bedroom-caused ground-zero’ events springing up around the globe. Death by snoo-snoo is no fun if you’re just a bystander vaporized in the impact shockwave.
Heh.