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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Have we forgotten the hazmat special plate she had for lunch? Any update now that’s gonna move south on her and there’s gonna be fallout….. And the sun will be the least of her worries.
Maybe thats why she avoids sunlight, the food might spontaniously combust.
Panel 4 could be a plushie.
Lol at Sydney’s expression in the last panel.
I only looked at the panels and I laughed my ass off… after reading them I laughed my ass off even more.
Hilarious comic, but is it really wise of Maxima to reveal Sydney’s weakness on live TV? Maybe she’s just going to _threaten_ to use the tube, so that Syd crawls out voluntarily.
Hell no. She’s gonna grab the tube and start doing laps around the building with it. And a good laugh will be shared by all at the meaningful and heartwarming lesson we’ll learn from it.
I’d agree that our shinning one may be behaving in a dubious way. Miss[ing] Sanity is a possible teammate and broadcasting her weaknesses is not good tactics. Of course, keeping anything about her under wraps is pretty much a lost cause anyway, but it would be best to at least try to avoid making it obvious.
psshh – no way Arianna would let that footage get out… Leon will probably arrange for the cameras to go offline immediately after Maxima’s speaking part
Given that the footage is ALREADY out, it is a moot point.
wow – critical fail on observational skills today
bad jee – no donut
not really… they are on a 5 second delay, remember?
Which has well ‘n’ truly passed – noting that the rest of ArcSWAT is now watching ‘Stop, Drop & Roll – Is It A Lie’ on their bigscreen TV.back at base.
Good stuff man, good stuff.
the marble maiden huh i wonder whos name that is
See, now, the sad thing about this is that I’m over thirty, but I actually do this. I’m not this extreme about it, but, for years, I have swatted at the sun, hissed like a vampire/cat, or screamed “bright light! bright light!” in a Gizmo/Gremlins/mogwai voice whenever confronted by bright sunlight.
Simple things amuse me. Very simple.
What, you’ve never done the
“The light! It burns us, Precious!”
Gollum voice?
That’s my usual reaction to bright sunlight, but I have done the Gizmo voice too. I’ve never felt the need to hiss or swat at the Sun, though.
And yes, I’m over thirty as well. ^_^
Same here, but that’s from working graveyard shifts for awhile, we’d get out of the factory right about the time the sun came up right into our faces.
In my forties, have worked nights for years, regularly look up and wonder what that big glowy thing in the sky is when my shift ends. Occasionally actually ask people about it.
My Mom once told me (and it proved true) when you work graveyard shifts there are 2 things you will ask. “What day is it?” and “What time is it?”
You should add a Top Web Comic voting button near the comic. If I knew you were hooked up with them I would have been voting since day one!
Oops. Just saw it at the very bottom of the page while commenting. Still, you would get more votes if it were near the comic.
Yeah I could push it more but I’m torn between pimping the comic and not cluttering up the page and feeling like a street vendor in Dehli. “You want comic? Here eez comic. Good comic. Get comic for beautiful wife, get much romance tonight!”
HA! HA! Nice comment.
OMG – I’ve met that guy in Iraq, Afghanistan AND Qatar… he REALLY gets around…
Hell, I met that guy in San Francisco!
I just bookmarked the link for voting. Out of a list of over 200 webcomics I check on a regular basis, depending on their update schedule, this is one of 7 I vote for daily. Having it linked is a lot easier when I want to vote. :)
Thanks a lot I appreciate it. I’m actually kind of bad about voting for it myself. I should make that a daily task.
Hilarious :)
Huh. Stop, drop and roll joke here. Then the next day we have one here too. Coincidence?
Great job making Maxima shine and sparkle like that. Almost had to put on sunglasses to read the comic.
When I first saw the page and could see out of the corner of my eye the panel where she is engulfed in flame, I got really worried that she was demonstrating her powers on TV.
Also, the ticker on the bottom of the news channel made me laugh out loud. Thank you!
The sun does that to me too.
I only now just noticed the purple threading/decorative uniform line on maxima’s uniform coat and pants. You’ve been doing Really good on details in these strips and I understand how that can be a severe time consumer.
Could it be possible Maxima spawns a new power that when she gets hit by Bright sunlight like that a church choir starts singing angelic notes?(lol)
Yeah the detail work is a timesink. I understand why Fred Perry (Gold Digger) puts so many of his characters in monochrome body suits.
Stop drop and roll! Is it a lie? Bwaahaha
Come on!!!! I love this freaking comic one of my fav’s!! I am laughing out loud now. please update more often. Like 2x’s a day.
That is all I ask. not much just like 4 times a day.
Sidney: No how and you can’t make me!
:Ambulance drives off:
Sidney: E-heh.
Maxima is probably going to use the tube like a fishin’ pole, and hook Sidney out from under that ambulance.
I have now got GIR from invader zim in my head yelling “YAY! IT BURNS!” if anyone has watched the walk of doom episode
I just have to say, I love the line:
“My savory essence will attract the raptors!”
That is all.
I see a music video of Sydney screaming and wildly gesticulating then rolling on the pavement then under the EMT ambulance to the tune of “Shake, Rattle and Roll!” but the lyrics are “Stop, Drop and Roll!” Also I feel the heat of the direct sun and don’t like it. I keep out of the sun and cover up as much as I can. Having fair skin, a few small freckles, blue eyes and red-blond hair turned prematurely white before I was 30 I found I was in the 90 percentile for getting skin cancer. It does burn. Pale light is better.
What if it is that the stones don’t like the sun and are linked to Sydney so she doesn’t like it either? Also this one is the funniest yet. Sydney is an excellent device for humor. Though she takes it very seriously and would hate anyone laughing at her antics. But we can get away with it. Zim was burned by water, so any of our food burned him. A twisted, doomed hilarious, sickening world of “Invader Zim” why I like it. Funny and gross as hell. Sydney also has some of the best lines too like the one quoted by Minigendo above.
Grabbing the tube will be enough for Sydney to jet over to Maxima so fast she might think that Sydney has other powers like super-speed too.
I must admit that I don’t fully grasp the meaning of “NO HOW AND YOU CAN’T MAKE ME”, I mean “and you can’t make me” ist pretty clear, and “No” on it’s own also – but the “how” makes the whole thing not working for my. I believed up to now that I’m quite ok in english while it’s not my native language but here I fail.
Help, please?
It’s a idiom or slang term RockBarnes. At one time people would say “No way, No How” which was slang for “There’s no way I’m going to do that and nothing you can do to make me no matter how you try.” Sydney’s just mangling it in her typical fashion.
Don’t worry, Sydney’s not speaking good English there. Honestly in modern English, you don’t really hear “no how” any more. It’s basically an answer to the question “How are we going to (whatever)?” “No how” would mean there’s not a way to do it, but usually you’d answer “we can’t” or “it can’t be done” which is actually probably poor grammar really. If the question is “how”, you’re asking “by what method” not “can it be done.” I’m sure there’s a term for that but I’m not an English major.
It used to be you’d hear people in movies use “and how” as an exclamation of positive intent. “We’re gonna beat that team and show ’em nobody messes with the Steel Workers of America softball team!” “And how!” I guess it’s like a 1940’s version of “huzzah!”
There’s a classic and often stolen joke from the Three Stooges (for all I know they stole it from someone) where the camera does an establishing shot of a lawyers office, and on the door, the parters’ names are Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe, so if you read it out, it sounds like “Do we cheat them? And how!” which is of course eminently applicable to lawyers.
Where are you nativing from RockBarnes? ( <--another example of bad grammar)
I see – also thanks @ Doc Savage :)
I’m originated from Germany – I hope that’s proper grammar ;) It’s bad enough when I’m lazy in my native language ^__^ … “Rock Barnes” is not my real name but I use it in several places that are somehow art related. (I selected the name because there are some rock barns near to my home town :D I mean barns that were built out of rocky stones…)
‘I’m originally from Germany’ would be correct grammatically, but only works if you’re now somewhere else.
‘i originated from Germany’ is correct grammatically, i Think, but is a bit weird and i’m not sure what context you’d actually use it in.
the usual way to state your home country would be ‘I’m from Germany.’ if you’re outside of Germany at the time (the internet counts for this expression.) while ‘I’m a native of Germany’ is always correct if that is where you were born (and implies you did at least some of your growing up there too.), though sounds a bit formal. (If someone asked where you were from while you were both in Germany you’d probably give a city or region instead, and if you were in your home town/suburb etc you’d say something to the effect of ‘I’m a local’ or possibly ‘here’, though one would usually elaborate on the latter with more detail.)
fear the grammar!
… I’m not an English major either, but That doesn’t mean much. (heck, i didn’t even attend university.) because English in native english speaking countries is not a Language subject, it’s a Literature subject (well, honestly, it’d be more accurate to call the entire nonsense ‘media studies’ at this point. books are, after all, a medium by which information is conveyed.) what you’d actually want is a Linguistics major (or at least someone who took courses in the subject) who focused on English, so far as i can tell. I’m not actually one of Those, either, but given that i make languages as a hobby, i do a bit of reading on the subject and actually pay attention to such things.
(fun fact: it’s entirely possible to form sentences which are grammatically correct and still a load of meaningless blather. “rocks drown in an orange void”, for example (though admittedly not a very Good example. one can do much better. not that it’s something one really has reason to be good at.make good passwords though.)
also:
hate sunlight.
doesn’t so much burn the skin as try to melt my brain by way of my eyes.
(i have a rather significant light sensitivity. the resultant headaches can really suck. i wear specially coloured lenses, which are also darkened, to compensate, and even then STILL have to wear wrap around polarized sunglasses over the top when i go outside in summer… … i don’t think i could actually stand to be in line of sight of Maxima on a bright sunny day <_<)
I agree with the grammar issues. and spelling…I have an European friend with terrible spelling issues I try to help him with (: and if you think about it, you can’t even claim it to be English…it’s “American” English because of all the slang and perversions of words we use every day that would confuse the crap of someone that’s a hard core user of the Queen’s English, say… my advice? don’t talk to the teenagers XD we probably mess the language up even MORE…I mean, some every-day terms I heard being used in Middle School I didn’t quite get until High School…and even then I was going “hunh?” XD merely from having a private education vs. a public one lol
and yes, I realize my writing’s aren’t completely grammatically accurate, to the grammar nazis out there d: it’s easier for me to type when I need to be quick, and except for capitalization of my sentences just about everything should be write, so wanh lol
Huh… Just stopped giggling about “Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe” – I love puns like that but I wouldn’t have understood this one (<- uh oh…) Of course there are untranslatabe sayings in german, too, like "Du bist schwer auf Draht" = "You are heavy on wire", meaning that you cannot be fooled easily.
There is also a variant of it that’s : Winn,Dewey,Chetham,and Howe
Robben, Olde , Widdowes & Laffing
Just look at the film “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) when the travelers reach the Emerald City and the obstinate guard tells them the “Wizard won’t see them not no way, not no how…” which is where I first heard the usage of “no how.” Not the homophone “know how” which means ingenuity and knowledge.
Anyone else hear Rarity’s voice when they read Sydney’s dialogue?
Actually I hear Dash’s
LAUGHED….MY….BUTT OFF *roflmao* I am just going “oh SHIIIIIIIIIIII-…XD” at Maxima going “hm, car *lift*…TUBE. I got your number Syd.” and the reactions of everyone watching it LIVE ON TV?? XD there should be like a page where you get various people freaking out at what they’re seeing on their screens, maybe think she’s getting attacked or something…
“Her skin gives her a natural -100 SPF”
Technically, that would mean she would sun-burn 100 minutes before normal skin would. Given that light skin near noon can burn in under an hour, this implies Syd will sun-burn 40 minutes BEFORE entering the sun… truly a super-power LOL
Now, I know you meant that figuratively, but it got me thinking that it would be an interesting power if taken literally. In a dark cave, and suddenly have a sun-burn? You will exit, one way or another, in 40 minutes.
Hanging out at the home base, with no intention of leaving that day and suddenly have a sun-burn? An emergency of some sort or another will arise in 40 minutes… better put the troops on alert!
As far as the ability to predict what’s going to happen I always liked the idea of being able to hear life’s sound track as a power. “Oh no, dramatic music is happening!”
well,, seeing as she is a comic geek she could easely develop comic awareness,,, just like deadpool,, fr those who dont know him well ,, go there,, https://x-men.wikia.com/wiki/Deadpool,, near half the page,,, part called breaking the forth wall,,,
nice comment name :3
and yeah, I have seen that in comics, where one or two characters will talk to the readers, and others are like “whatinell you doing…??” it’s really funny XD I recently read a Promethea comic where that happened, where someone talked about how our perception of reality could be interpreted as something else, and someone with him’s asking who he’s talking to…I can’t remember the EXACT comment, but it’s something like “oh, to some people on the other side of things” or “to be people who needed to know” or something like “my imagination” XD I loved the reply, whatever-it-was…interesting series, I would definitely recommend it :3 Alan Moore, with America’s Best Comics…
hunh….that makes me of one of my favorite RD episodes…Red Dwarf…hey Dave, you like ’em, right? d’you remember the one episode where it was like an alternate reality, like in season five-ish, where nothing had happened? and then there was a time disturbance, and I guess this is technically BACKWARDS of what Rage was saying, but it’s still smegging funny, and when Lister and Rimmer got beat up they didn’t react, only to look like complete idiots (as usual *snicker snicker*) to the captain as they urked and acked and almost danced around with the movements they would have had from their beating?
did that work right?? I’m not used to the coding for this site….. -_- urg…
either way, I didn’t want to ruin it for people if they’re trying to watch the comedy, so I tried to spoiler it *rubs back of head* enh….. ^^;
Ray, not Rage…. sorry >.<
Yeah that was a good one. If I had to pick a favorite, it’d be… well, anything with Kryten in it, but maybe… I think it was season 7, Tikka to Ride. They time travel back to Earth and mess up JFK’s assassination by accident. But really, any scene with Kryten in it is fantastic.
what about the one where Kryten lost his sense of morality, so he’s all just “why should i care? fah!” lol
yeah, I like Lister more though XD and yes, poor Kryten…he doesn’t deserve Rimmer’s nickname for him, either version d: yeah, that’s one of my faves too ^^ I like how they work that one around, and it is done well enough to raise questions regarding reality lol
and the one when Rimmer left? that was interesting… XD quantum leap does a JFK one too (:
Look for papers on resublimated thiotimoline (sp? it’s been about 30 years since the last paper was released on the subject) a material the disolves in water .03 seconds before coming in contact with it.
OH, OH, OH, OH!ng- that’s what I said reading this page. Will Maxima try to recruit her?
I really don’t think Maxima would reveal Sydney’s secret like that… If she’s smart enough to know that the tube would make Sydney a Super, than she should know better than to let Syd’s source of power be seen in live TV…
I agree, i think the TREAT of her opening the tube will be serious enough to cause Sydney to stop with the games and come out of her own, free will… now whether or not she gets dragged out from under the ambulance or not… meh, i give even odds either way.
Argh… i want edit ability in my own posts… it should be THREAT not treat…
I know, I HATE that…. >.<
Who said anything about opening the tube? Maxima has seen that Sydney can only get so far from the tube before one starts moving in the same direction as the other. She’s just going to use the distance limit as a rope to pull Syd out from under the ambulance.
I would think that Maxima will be leaving with Sydney right behind. Best way to lead Sydney is by her precious tube carrier.
MY SAVORY ESSENCE WILL ATTRACT THE RAPTORS
Hilarious.
Epic. Nuff said.
This webcomic makes me smile. You know the kind that stretches ear to ear.
I do believe that is considered a grin :D especially if accompanied by chuckles lol d;
This made me laugh. Are you gonna throw in a reference to Armstrong from FMA with all those sparkles?
Maxima already seems pretty efficient at handling the hyperactive Sydney for only have known her for probably about an hour comic time. I wonder if she’s an older sister or has experience with kids. Or perhaps it’s just that the rest of the team is hyperactive in their own ways that Maxima has developed very strong coping with insanity methods.
Maxima does seem to have coping skills and tolerance around insanity auras like Sydney’s. Remember when Harem ran that little errand, popping into the ambulance? She called Maxima “Mom”. What if that were literal? Maxima raised Harem?!?
Does anyone else notice what the news say in the TV? “STOP DROP AND ROLL! IS IT A LIE?”
I thought it was absolutely HILARIOUS that that’s a special news flash XD yes, I had noticed lmao
LOL!
ROFL. I love, love, love the way Maxima is annoyed by Sydney — and yet she’s the one who understands what Syndey is doing. They’re the perfect duo!
a ROFL classic rendition of striaght man crazy man comedy sketch
The subtitles in the fifth panel made me laugh. Take that victory to the bank.
She don’t need a thing when she got that much bling.
I would love to have Sydney as a friend.
Those spectators, with the beads of sweat, on their heads, would be even more alarmed, if they knew Sydney is actually a super-hero. Oh the sweet sweat ironies involved.
I hate to say this, but there are some significant inconsistencies with respect to how far apart Sydney and her tube can be. On page 48 /archive 268 the tube is near the curb and Sydney is unable to reach the ambulance. On the very next page (49) the tube hasn’t moved (Maxima still has a foot on the strap) but Sydney has somehow reached a point along-side the ambulance. That’s first big glitch; she should have been able to get that far before getting forcibly halted.
On the page after that one (50) Maxima probably no longer has a foot on the tube-strap. Sydney has a chance of recovering her tube, except for being busy with a phone call.
The other significant glitch is the orientation of the ambulance. Back on page 48 (and also 47 and 49), the rear doors of the ambulance are directly facing the bank. On this page the side of the ambulance is facing the bank. (and on page 50, of all the weird things, the ambulance appears to be parked at an angle). I’m not sure what the best artwork solution is, but something ought to be done about it!
Or, alternatively, we could just allow artistic licence.
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