Grrl Power #644 – This is how my culture says hello
Introducing yourself via giant explosion is just how powerful beings let each other know they’re in the club. It’s like a secret handshake, only everyone within thirty miles can see it. The point is the inhabitants of Sciona’s world were probably more impressed with this sort of thing than Maxima.
Could they have made it through the portal before the explosion? Probably, but then Sydney really had no idea what kind of attack it was, or that it had that “heat the ground” delay on it. Honestly, she didn’t know it was an attack, it could have been about to put on a light show, but let’s be real, she’s played her share of Final Fantasy games. She knows what it looks like when a summons’ superweapon is about to go off.
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Dave must be a fan of Press Your Luck…
Sydney has used it a couple of times now, so you could be right. Although oddly “whammy” and “no whammy” have grown beyond those gameshow origins. The gameshow did not make its way across the Atlantic (well not in a way that came to my attention anyhow), yet I have used those terms.
Similarly Sydney is probably too young to have seen the original series (although may have caught re-runs of course). She was only six when the last episode aired.
They did try to bring Press your luck back at least once. She might have caught the new incarnations, which probably is where the staying power of the “No whammy” really cemented itself in pop culture.
Thinking about it, I probably picked it up in contexts like this. So, without anything else to go on, probably took it as a wacky way of saying “curse” or “hex” (or the simpler “bad luck”).
Or maybe just a fan of Mike Larson.
I admit that sometimes I don’t understand the more obscure American expressions in this comic, but what is “no whammies” or what does it mean in this context?
It is from an 80s American TV show, Press Your Luck. If they were unlucky they would get a “whammy” and loose all their winnings.
Contextually it is Sydney hoping for good luck.
And they probably got the initial *Wham* idea from George Michaels and his boy-band, who got it from the Adam West’s “Batman” (although, just having checked the intro, *WHAM* is one onomatopoeia not used… they had *WHAP* instead)
Whammy has been around since the 1940s: mostly associated from the 1950s with the cartoon strip Li’l Abner, in which the hillbilly Evil-Eye Fleegle could ‘shoot a whammy’ (to put a curse on somebody) by pointing a finger with one eye open, and a ‘double whammy’ with both eyes open.
Whoo! My inferred meaning was right!
*does happy witch-doctor doggy dance*
And he said Oo, Eee, Oooo, Ah, Ah, OOO, Eee. walla, walla bing bang…”
I bet the gigantic space cthulu just farted.
The tentacle thing from before alerted Space Cthulu that there is nobody around to witness it’s horrible farts and SC came down quickly to spare the others in it’s ship from the horrible stench.
I first saw it as a kid in the 70s in the “Wendy the Good Little Witch” comics. The witches called their evil spells “whammies”.
*updates orbs notes*
Wait where did the update come from? Also I doubt that that was giant robot space Cthulhu biggest attack after all from the look of it the planet is still there.
*taps paw to head*
Data- The boss has stopped trying to murder you directly.
Data- There’s a rising tone playing and it’s glowing.
Conclusion- Nothing good is about to happen.
yeh you gonna get fired (on)
I can see how you would need to have Valium, in order to read this comic. Otherwise you would laugh yourself to death.
Albeit that his page is more about death by WHA-BOOM.
IF/When they survive this I can’t help but wonder if Sydney will get another power point…. perhaps more then one.
OR
Are we about to find out what her last orb can do…
Well, you know the old proverb:
It is just a matter of how it will do that, when grasping the Brown Mystery Orb:
Will Sydney have to say “Mecha-Cthulu I choose you?”, to summon one?
Or will she do a magic-girl transformation and manifest a Mecha-Cthulu mech around her, with Sydney as the pilot?
Or will it allow her to mesmerise this Mecha-Cthulu and cause it to become her pet?
Damn it, now I so want to see Sydney as a magic-girl manifesting a Mecha-Cthulu mech around her, with her as the pilot. You just know she’s dreamt about it.
You seem to have ignored the option of it being a Ditto-style transformation orb, which specifically requires Sydney to be looking at whatever she wants to become. Thus, she becomes a Mecha-Cthulhu. (Unlikely, but not out of the question, since she couldn’t figure it out alone.)
Oh the indoganity of it. The lovely Sydney, transformed into a Mecha-Cthulhu, and never able to hold her balls again!
I hate to be the one do drop the paper in your canine muzzle but that is very incorrect.
One grasping limb per orb – as a humanoid she is limited to two – as a space Cephalopod she can handle all of them simultaneously and at the same time even.
I was just going by the art. It appears to just have weapons mounted into the limbs, rather than being limbs holding weapons, for example.
But, I guess that weapons could still be fitted into tentacles and not loose too much dexterity. Not sure about the fine manipulator capability though. That would need to be at the tip, but that is where the weapons are mounted.
Plus it would harm her looks!
That thing is the greatest expression of ‘Nope.’ that ever noped a nope.
Aren’t the crew already in the middle of a nope retreat?
400th!
I got comment number 400.
*does a happy little doggy dance*
*blows out a cake with 400 candles on it*
*gets out a telephone book-sized notepad, and flips it open*
First I would like to thank my parents and …
Errr….
The comment counter says/said 406. Yours appears to be that number, as the most recent but for this one. I suppose the other six could have been replies to posts above, but I think the numbering is entirely arbitrary.
I, too, am now suffering from “Sailor Sydney” magical girl mecha cthulu suit sysndrome. Bad dog! No biscuit!
Mine did indeed tick it over to 400. The subsequent ones were on previous comments pages. Hence why the counter is now up to 413, despite there only being three comments on this page, since I wrote the one under discussion.
The page numbering (in the URL) is weird. However the comment count works fine.
Hope she can squeeze that thing through the portal.
I think the bubble, team and all is going to be spat through the portal like tennis ball out of a can cannon.
Heh.
How the hell did I miss the control mechanisms the first time I read this…