Grrl Power #63 – Don’t leave a sister hanging
So yeah, it was coming down to the wire and I hemmed and hawed and I finally just had to go with something for the team name. ArcSWAT sounds better than FSWAT I think, plus it lets me have unofficial sub teams like the ArcAngels/Knights/Troops/Corps/whatever. Plus this lets me come up with an acronym for “ARC” if I want. It’ll probably wind up being something Latin so that way it won’t have to sound quite as tortured. There were a lot of suggestions, some were pretty funny, some were pretty good actually, I’m not sure if they quite captured the flavor of the team though. Nothing quite had that ah-hah moment though, but they did give me an idea for a funny comic, maybe it’ll be a bonus Thursday comic, though I suspect I may hang onto it to make sure I don’t have a gap in the holidays coming up. There are a lot of mega huge video games coming up in the next month. Skyrim by itself will take be 2 years to beat if I have to play it for 2 hours at a time on Saturday mornings like a lot of my video gaming is since starting the comic. I think I’m looking forward to Saints Row 3 just as much though.
Speaking of which, anyone in to Minecraft? Doing a comic does occasionally make me regret not having this sort of time on my hands anymore. On the other hand, I have a comic, so it works out ok. Minecraft never really did it for me, for some reason I really got in to Terraria for a while though.
I’m not sure why the first panel is chibi, that’s just how it presented itself in my head, so I went with it.
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You are aware of ‘flop sweat’ in theater etc? Well when our ladies are fighting hot and heavy they can get ARC sweat for their superhuman exertions. Kick them while they are up, kick them when they are down. But when they go down keep them down. Alive or dead it is immaterial to the success of the mission. So says the Leader er…the mission specs, not recorded. Kick ass and take names—for the tomb stones of the enemies of a Free People, and super human kind.
heh, i didnt get it at first. kind of a height difference, medium five indeed
There is also the Anomaly Research Center in the TV series from the UK called “Primeval.” A great series about portals between times up and down the timeline affecting the earth. And the ARC team trouble shoots it in the UK.
Ya I mentioned that earlier. It is a good show too.
Got my shirt the other day. Planning to wear it at work on Halloween. Any ninja(s) show up, I’ll be ready.
How about All Records Contained: Special Weapons and Tactics, since they probably want to keep most of what they have to do hidden and secretive.
Alternate Rescue(Response?) and Containment Squad With Advanced Terrestrials.
I just wish the Arc wasn’t lowercase, I cant find any words starting with A with an r and c in that order that seem to fit.
Also… love the comic, die for 6 days out of 7 reloading the page to see if you have uploaded out of schedule =).
Can also use Squads/Squadron/Section
For ARC, please consider Augmented Resources Command.
I don’t presume to influence the creator of this comic. Please don’t think I am. I just like commenting and giving ideas as long as their solicited by you DaveB.
I just found this through an advert in Red Moon Rising. Good comic. Story has a few bumps though. I suggest that you look up Posse Commitatus. It restricts the use of the military in civilian policing activities, especially the military police.
I’ve heard German has a sweet word “sturmpolizei”, which can be translated as “assaultpolice”… “stormpolice”? I dunno.
I think ARC-Swat is a great name: it sounds quasi-military, cool and yet the sort of cobbled-together name that real organisations have (SAS, Seals, SWAT, etc are all a bit goofy until you know what they mean).
And I love the little heads adding editorial comments :)
Do not take this is a negative critique of your comic. Truth told I’m loving it, I’m currently doing an archive binge again, and it gets funnier every dang time I read it.
That said— I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again…
the idea of the US government, or ANY government for that matter, militarizing superheroes gives me the dry heaves.
Let’s review. the US government has the Supreme Court, the CIA, the FBI, Homeland Security, the IRS (yes, they carry guns), the EPA (they carry guns too), all the tanks, bombs, planes, battleships, guns and soldiers, and Audie Murphy. The last thing they need is MORE POWER. And the last thing the WORLD needs, is for a government to have its own superhumans.
It disturbs me to no end how prevalent this meme has become among supposedly freedom loving and independent minded cultures– as if it would be the natural order of things.
However distasteful you might find it, do you think it would be realistic that the government wouldn’t scoop up super powered people in the name of defense? The professional vigilatism in most comics is almost as unrealistic as the super powers themselves.
Defense is ok, but a military group doing police work is illegal. That is what the police are for, the military is not allowed to do police work.
This is addressed later in the comic.
Hey, if Gwen or Dabbler turned undead for a good cause, would they be an ARCLich?
Also, chibi-Max is ADORABLE
I’m a big Minecraft fan, although I do play with a few mods.
In using the barbarism “comprised of”, of course you’re imitating bureaucrat-speak, right?
There’s an agreed upon boilerplate for describing the team.
It’s a great name! Plus minor mispronunciations can turn it into Arsesquat! What could possibly go wrong?
LOL her waving at the camera after having been the focus of it!