Grrl Power #65 – A slight overreaction
Wait, something is happening with the tube? Yeah, let’s get this story moving along a bit.
This page is for anyone who was wondering why Sydney is suddenly ok sitting out in the sun given her previous reaction to it.
I almost want to mark this page NSFW cause of how much I chuckled while drawing it, don’t want to get anyone in trouble. Hopefully you guys’ll think it’s as funny as I do. I know it’s a good page when I can’t decide which panel is my favorite. I’m starting to think Sydney’s role model is Ace Ventura.
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Oh MY GOD
laughing my ass off
on another not,,,, 3rd square maxima look positively hot
very nice work
Its the news ticker on the screen that really smashes it.
I agree. It adds the finishing touch to the page.
lol,, just read you ace ventura remark,, and yeah,,, you should do one of her sneaking like he does in hios first movie at some point
Careful, Max. Yank that thing the wrong way and she might smack her head on the underside of the ambulance.
mmm,, i foresee one of two main pôsibilities,,, one,,maxima use the tube to simply drag sidney out and force her to come with her,,,, or for some reason sidney’s power awaken from the interaction on maxima with the tube and she kick her sorry ass in a vengefull burst of rightous furry fueled rage,,, and then apologise to her before atempting to flee as her secret came out
If Sydney should join the team,Maxima better locks her door at night or she will wake up painted mate black one day.
That would be worth paying money to see.
On the other hand, she might actually enjoy some time NOT being a female Oscar trophy.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Outstanding. Looks like Maxima has pretty much figured Sydney out.
… And I wonder how Arianna is reacting to the bizarre U-turn her ‘cunning PR plot’ has suddenly taken.
” I, have a cunning plan”
so did Boldric
STOP DROP ROLL DOESN’T WORK! WHY. WOULD. THEY. LIE?! Flee to the shade!
LMAO
It’s one of the best puns I’ve seen in any comics lately. Touche ;3
And the news station is running a poll on it too.
Un-be-lie-va-ble how well you make Maxima and Sydney work together. Sydney is just completely nutso in the melodrama department, it’s frickin’ HILARIOUS!
And then that little grin from Maxima in the last panel, perfectly placed. Love it!
Amazing how easily Maxima just lifts the car to free the tube. Sydney is not going to like what going to happen next lol!
And apparently even Dabbler’s confuzzled by this new turn of events. And how Maxima looks like she has fun at Syd’s expense with her highly reflective skin. Max is probably immune to light-based weapon attacks like lasers eh? ;)
I think Maxima just switched around her stat points and upped her reflectivity levels.
As for the lasers thing, you should know by now that if something has colour that a tune-able laser can be set for the one NOT being reflected. Mind you Maxima has to know its incoming before she can put up a proper defense else she is as good as any crispy target
Naw, she just put on her sunglasses and then the sun came out and reflected off her skin. Sometimes the simplest answer is the best answer.
And this is where Maxima simply walks backwards away from Sydney, thus dragging her out.
The news crawl absolutely makes this one. Absolutely hilarious.
But poor Sydney, after putting on a performance like that, on the local news, she is never getting laid again. The guys will be laughing too hard.
I wouldn’t be….I think its hot. *rimshot*
i dont know,, i think many goth guy might like it,,, or many geeks to,,, and i know as a female myself i find it endearing,,, and wouldnt mind a piece of her :)
Perhaps with a love interest she wouldn’t be such a spaz. All her imagination is running in overdrive without a focus. That tends to happen to people with high IQ’s.
Well for the most part Sydney is still a kid she hasn’t actually been forced to grow up yet even with the job and everything. That and very little impulse control think most people at a sci-fi con just without the booze. Though the sun is evil give me the dark any time of day.
Guido
I’m greatly enjoying your comic. Just thought I should mention that and show some support. Love the way you blend Western-style art with a touch of the manga. That’s easily (way easily) overdone, but you pull it off perfectly. Looking forward to more! And if you ever print it, looking forward to purchasing it!
Thanks a lot! I do plan on doing a book once I have enough for a collected work. At a page a week it’ll take a while but I’m more than a year in so it’ll happen eventually.
I just now had it click between your NSFW comment and the comic itself.
Now I am really super curious in exactly what you meant by that.
All that this Monday morning perverted brain can come up with is having her flash Sydney. A double combination whammy to Sydney’s super sensitive skin and ego.
I just mean NSFW in the sense that if you laugh out loud in your cube you may draw unwanted attention. “What are you laughing at?”
“Oh… this… Excel spreadsheet is… ironic.”
I don’t normally assume that people are going to crack up while reading my comic but I think Sydney is in rare form for this one.
These days, I assume ‘NSFW’ equals nudity, or very close. If someone comes and looks over your shoulder at a comic, you get a stern talking to at the worst. (For a first offense.) If it’s ‘porn’, you can get fired on the spot.
Assume anyone who is willing to read your comic is fine with laughter. That’s what they come for. warnings are about images of things you aren’t allowed to do in public.
I usually laugh out loud to this comic, but you are right about her being in rare form…I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder XD
Woo! Lets get the story moving! Your art and story telling have improved massively, but Sydney’s lunch break has gone on the best part of a year.
Don’t get me wrong, the comic is awesome and I love my new A.E.N. t-shirt :)
Heh! I’ve gotten a lot of comments about my A.E.N. T-shirt.
You don’t suppose Sydney’s powers trigger automatically in direct sunlight, do you? I never read the cheat blurbs so I am suddenly wondering if her aversion to sunlight is part of her instinctively hiding her abilities.
Nah she’s just a nerd who doesn’t like the sun…
Cause she was blinded by the light.
… and she’s rev’d up like a Deuce
Before someone tries to call the writer on how the car is being lifted – Looks like Maxima’s fingertips are lifting up against the bottom of the disk for the rear brakes. After all, she only has to lift a very short distance and for a very short time so it should be okay.
As a display of casual strength goes, that’s pretty darn impressive but she could do it that way and not have metal bending.
I thought at first she was lifting against the wheel cover then I noticed the fingertips.
Yeah she’s reaching into the… bit that the wheel bolts on to. You may now marvel at my extensive knowledge of cars.
I am constantly breaking out laughing at work… But that’s just me.
I totally saw it as that she is lifting that tire off the ground by picking up on the hub of the aluminum rims the vehicle has. Which is fully plausible and possible…..for a real strong person with a really light car maybe (Really light)
Just rember to lift with your legs and not your back. I have a Honda Civic and Yes if you are a bit strong you can lift it up slightly, most of the weight is on the other three tires.
If that is a drive wheel and it’s in park(or in gear) that is totally doable.
I’m guessing maxima is a pain to be around at the beach. Poor Sydney and her geek Vampire body. Still incredibly funny.
Not if you want to get a nice golden tan!
For a moment it looked like ‘the finger’ as opposed to ‘fist of defiance’.
Maxima better handle that tube nicely, for all you know there could be some sort of weird alien or demon that has a short temper and will appear from the tube to give her a beat down.
I would say Maxima already has an idea or two as regards handling The Tube. Remember ‘YOING!’ ?
True but still whatever is in the tube must be quite powerful, still it would be funny if it turned out to be too much for Maxima to handle and stuff. :P
I can only imagine what’s going through the News crews head as they’re wirness to Sydney’s outburst. Freakin hilarious! Instant internet sensation for Sydney as soon as the news crew quits filming. Dude! I’m dying here. Thank you for the laughs.
That’s an easy one: “Ratings! Cha-Ching!”
… And, at this stage, Arianna Having A Cow.
If Joel is somehow watching, probably just a very deep sigh and a mild headshake. I am sure he has seen worse from Sydney.
I can see the video going viral.
For normally ‘over-the-top’ Sydney, this is… well… Call me what you will but this seems too far gone into the ridiculous to be funny (Yes, I’m aware that the comic has already set the precedent). On a related note how is anyone on the team going to take Sydney seriously?… check that, they won’t. … How is anyone going to seriously take the suggestion that Sydney become a team member?
Considering the Anvil considers Syd a “Big Gun” alongside herself and Maxima just before this year-long flashback started….I wonder.
I always assumed it was because her powers are significant. Also doesn’t her bio say she is good at coming up with power stunts? She probably proved her worth a couple times on missions by that point.
Especially since the bio page puts her at 3rd place in power, just behind Dabbler and higher then Anvil and Harem *Shrug*
I just checked her bio page and it looks like she can generate some serious badass shields, can fly fast, telaport, lift things like cars with her powers, and shoot energy beams. If i’m reading the symbols right.
Dave said earlier this year that he needs to redo those symbols or create a legend for them in his copious free time.
The tube (or rather its contents) getting stuck seems interresting. What happens if it is wedged and Syd falls off a cliff? Does she hang in the air Wyle E. Coyote style?
Just had an evil thought… What would happen if Harem T-ported the tube and its contents away? Or T-ported Syd without the tube/contents for that matter? I could see this easily developing if Sydney gets a bit too defensively belligerent about recovering it from Maxima immediately.
I have the feeling that if Harem tried to teleport one without the other Harem would be yanked up short and the port would fail.
In a word, “YOING!:.
From the future I have to guess Harem would leave with the tube and the contents would stay behind.
Taking off my Shadowy Hat of the Anti-Social Loner long enough to comment and thereby confirm my existence…
MY SKIN IS LIKE THAT TOO.
I’m so glad someone understands. T.T
‘Kay, back to lurking.
Since I don’t know sydney’s abilities what if contact with that tube grants her Maxima’s powers?
Sorry just a guess but what if she gain’s Maxima’s superstrength and hitting the underside of that ambulance results in it either brekain in two or being flipped over with its two tied down passengers?
Breaking in two, dear god my spelling is awful!
it took me 3 minutes to stop laughing. not giggling straight laughing. XD
Few subtle things I noticed:
1.Where is the cameraman in frame 7?
2. Dabbler’s ears, being connected to her eyebrows, are compliant with the “raised eyebrow” WTF? face. Apparently Sydney is just a little too weird…
3. The baby on board sticker on the orange van.
4. the shadow of the cloud moving throughout the page. Well done.
the cameramans running for his life.
The cameraman stepped just of panel to get a better angle, because that’s much easier to draw.
That is the cameraman’s story, and he’s sticking to it.
Judging by the road markings in Syd’s stop drop and roll panel, I’d say the cameraman is standing off panel behind the blue car.
If I remember correctly (and I do, because I went back and checked), that orange vehicle is Sydney’s subcompact crossover (Kia Soul I hope? I can see the dancing hamsters now), so it probably says something snarky like “unfertilized eggs on board”
That is a mini-van you are talking about so no that’s not Sydney’s car with the baby on board sign.
It’s supposed to be a Honda Element, so yeah it is Syndey’s very poorly drawn car.
Sorry, My bad.
So, what’s the sign realy say anyway?
“I prepared Explosive Runes this morning” in really tiny letters?
Nerd on board!,,,,,
“Caution Nerd under pressure
may explode at any
moment!!”
ah, I see it now…
the dancing hamsters – they mock me
That’s just damn FUNNY!! XD
I love this comic, Sydney is hilarious and aside from hiding under ambulances and pretending to be on fire, that is exactly how i react to sunlight….i also i really want to carry around a poster tube like hers.
if you ever set up a store i seriously recommend getting a stock of poster tubes….and add a shirt saying “In case of direct sunlight – Stop, Drop and Roll.”
Oh god, typical Sydney. That is all I can say by now. You have made her such a weird off the wall goofball that her acting serious for more than three panels is almost like the idea of Spock cracking a smile for more than a nanosecond, maybe three.
She has a thing about Nuns, she hates sunlight, she has inhuman tolerance for spice. She is just so totally out there.
Don’t forget her fear of being attacked by ninjas. LOL
Expecting something, preparing for the inevitable, isn’t the same as fearing it though.
Spice tolerence, hmmm, obscure Dune reference, hmmm.
Sydney in a dtill-suit? lol But she does have the weird(ing) way. :)
Should read STILL-suit the editor in my head is AWOL today.
I just want to point out that third panel Maxima looks like a golden Michael Jackson.
I take it her secret will not be a secret for long?
I will admit I would prefer it to say a secret.
Oh and who is Ace Ventura ?
Ace ventura is one of jim careys most famous role early on in his career,, two movies,, ace ventura :pet detective,, and ace ventura::when nature call,,,,, he play a weirdo goofball pet detective that so happen to be realy great,,, while beeing VERY unconventional and weird about it!
Film: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, starring Jim Carey. What’s the matter, failed google-fu?
Google does not help with making conversation. You should know that.
I love how the reporter is hiding behind Maxima. And how Maxima instantly “gets” what Sydney’s up to, and plays it up with the Shiny thing.
After working 3rd shift for years my reaction to unrestrained sunlight was much the same as Sydney’s.
Same here. There was a time when I worked two full time jobs indoors and usualy only saw the sun about twenty min. a day for like eight months strait.
I would drive home in the morning with the sun blinding me and making me sleepy from the warmth. Not even the caffeine or crazy drivers could totally dispel the warm sleepy feeling from the direct rays. Came close to trouble a couple times.
I had to get a new drivers license around the end of that period in my life and from it I came up with a great band name ” Three Days Dead And Stoned ” because that’s what I looked like. I had cop’s stoping me on the streat and asking me what I was on. When I told them that I was just working two full time jobs and taking classes they just looked at me with pity and walked away.
Yeah more than once I got out of a ticket because of both the job and the cops knew me (my stop-n-rob allowed free coffee for police or fire). If I got a ticket I usually deserved it. Most of the cops had enough work catching the stupid criminals.
Yeah, I was working at a Speedy Rob doing the graveyard shift at the time. First week there I got robbed by two crackheads and pepper sprayed on their way out. ONELY reason I didn’t quit was because my mom was working there too, and the manager informed me that if I did quit she would be the one taking my place behind that register.
Been rubbed twice 1 amateur 1 pro. Didn’t get hurt either time and strangely was unaffected emotionally. Know some who totally lost it afterward. Not saying I’m tough or anything in fact physically the opposite. But when it was happening I was totally rational and wasn’t really scared. Sh*t happens. No one ever got killed in that store and I worked there 17 years yet in the shipyard I worked in for 3 years several people were killed. You never know.
you were rubbed? and it didn’t hurt you, okaaaay. I don’t think I wanna know. LOL
I feel like the secret isn’t quite going to be revealed yet, but the fact that she’s definitely tied to the tube will become a very well known fact.
“My savory essence will attract the raptors” is another line that should be a T-Shirt.
And I fear that the news team are going on the list once Sydney sees that news roll.
With a picture of a raptor with chopsticks.
Would they be dino or bird Raptors? Because the term can refer to either Birds of Prey or Velociiraptors (the dino) which Sydney-the-nerd would know. She is probably worried her spicy (slightly) cooked flesh will cause birds to flock to her for a gourmet treat.
I imagine that Sydney is thinking of the raptors from Jurassic Park, even though raptors actually looked like chicken sized versions of those with feathers. I guess most people don’t know that actually.
My understanding is that the Utahraptor species of velocirapter, the first fossils of which were discovered in of all places Utah AFTER those scenes were filmed in the Jurassic Park, were aproximately the size of the one in the movie.
Even chicken-sized raptors would be dangerous as they hunted in packs. And chickens can be very nasty. The term pecking-order was invented to describe their social behavior.
stop drop and roll panels is my favorite