Grrl Power #666 – Demon stuff!
I hadn’t planned on cutting away from the battle again, but someone pointed out that page 666 was coming up, and I knew I had to do something featuring Dabbler. (Even though the actual number of the beast is 616 but someone translating something one day decided 666 was punchier and just changed it. It’s almost like the whole thing was made up or something.) If I can figure out how, I’ll bump page 663 up to 665, so the pages cutting into the battle scene will be back to back.
Anyway, back to this page. Dabbler’s apron isn’t censored for the sake of the comic, it’s supposed to be actually printed that way, so anyone looking at it in real life would see that Japanese mosaic effect and will fill in dirty stuff to the limit of their imagination. Imagine it was a picture of a tentacle, or a picture of two butts touching, if you’re Tina Belcher, or a picture of a ▛▓▞▓▚▛.
As the commander of the team, Maxima should probably be a little more stoic, and not wandering around the base at 3:00 am in her pajamas. She’s obviously taken a sort of motherly shine to Sydney, and is frustrated she can’t punch this problem in the face to fix it.
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Nice!
Naked apron Succubus for page #666. DaveB just won the Internet today. The peanut gallery is a nice touch as well. Dabbler does like an audience, plus she is doing the team a service by giving everyone a distraction from their worry over Sydney.
I am curious as to how Dabbler’s armlet managed to jump from her top left arm (panel 1) to her upper right arm (all the rest of the panels). Also wondering what word on Dabbler’s apron could possibly be so lewd as to require pixelation. I mean we’ve already heard Sydney use every obscenity known to man. What bawdy word could possibly be left that might offend anybody who regularly reads this web comic?
Guess I should have read DaveB’s commentary a little closer before posting. He did explain the pixelation.
That’s the point. Because every obscenity imaginable has been used, the only way to 1-up that is to use an unimaginable obscenity.
Unimaginable Obscenity is the name of my next Norwegian Death Metal band!
They used to be known as Embarrassing Fetish, but then the drummer left and then there was a thing.
I heard he disappeared in a cloud of green smoke.
I kinda pictured that as the name of a mariachi-yodelling fusion band.
I would kind of like a band name “Unpardonable Sin.”
To be honest, that particular phrase was something I never even contemplated in my life until I read about two characters in a book discussing the topic of a story using that name. Curious, I went & found the story that they were talking about. After reading it, I figured that I could not have imagined anything else that better quallifies.
The kind of effect that Dabbler has on people (like Jabberwocky) might be getting close to it, but then again, that’s the nature of a demon, isn’t it?…
Regardless, I can’t find myself in disagreement with Math.
But all of that being neither here nor there, I still think it would be a pretty cool band name.
When it comes to metalness per capita no one beats Norway.
Finland and Sweden do.
And technically she wasn’t naked either, Dabbler did state she was wearing panties and an apron as well.
Whoops, stupid armlet. By which I mean, stupid artist!
Maybe she got it from the same place Han Solo buys his jackets.
I’d chalk it up to this being her security system alert and thus she can’t remove it without every piece of tech hunting to find her.
*Psst* Its not a glitch… it’s a feature of her ‘hammer-space’ weaponry closest
The main character in Hit or Miss has her panties change colors and patterns in every panel. Maybe that’s Ponytail Guy’s fault?
Due to my eyesight being as extreme as it is (very strong lenses, not available in contact form), I’m actually fairly good at being able to resolve pixelisations, as the blocks and detail tend to “fuzz out” to the same level of blurriness.
To me, it seems to read “COOK THE COOK” which is both apt and something that might be censor-applicable.
Of course, there is a slight element of bias, just as there would be if someone was using software designed to resolve pixelisations. But looking for what might be lettering, and following a lead that yields a fairly innocuous word seems to me like a fair assessment in the case.
Change one of the O’s to a C and it sounds more like dabbler
I’m assuming some parts of ARCSWAT are busting their ass to get Sydney out.
Oh – here’s a small paper on the Number of the Beast I stumbled over on the net years ago.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gsphisma8txin4r/beasty.txt?dl=0
I doubt it, if they were Maxima would be there making sure they had absolutely anything they might ever need.
Plus, as Dabbler said, there’s nothing they can do but wait. Earth doesn’t exactly have star-faring or time-traveling technology.
A blue box (1mX1mX2m) fades into view, making a pulsing grinding noise as it does. The words “Police Box” can be read near the top. A door on the front opens and a man and woman step out.
Man: [Looking around] Hello. I’m the Doctor and this is …
Dabbler: Doctor? But nobody here is hurt.
Woman: Oh, he’s not that kind of doctor.
Max: Is that what I think it is?
Doctor: Well, that would depend on what you think it is, wouldn’t it?
Max: I am thinking that is a Type-40 T.A.R.D.I.S. with a busted chameleon circuit and locked brakes.
Doctor: Well, [ mild sputter ] then it is what you think it is. But you sound American.
Max: I am American. You are in the United States, in fact in the state of …
Woman: I told you this was not Piccadilly Circus! But no, you were all “I do know what I am doing, young lady.” Well, clearly you don’t, ’cause you got us lost.
Doctor: When you can go anywhere and any-when in the universe, what’s a few thousand kilometres?
Woman: That reminds me. [ To Max ] What year is it? Let’s see if he buggered that up to?
Max: Uh, 2011.
Woman: Well, thank God for small favours!
Max: Excuse me, Doctor. We have a team mate lost on a distant world. Would you be able to rescue her and bring her back here?
Doctor: Rescues are kind of a specialty of mine.
Woman: And no side trips after you pick her up.
Doctor: So, where is this lost sheep of yours?
Harem [ Off to the side, out of frame] : He clearly has not met our Sydney yet.
Max: [ Glances at Dabbler, then back to the Doctor ] Um, we’re not really sure.
Doctor: Well, that makes it harder.
The poor doctor doesn’t know what he’s getting into ;) once sydney sees the tardis, i guess the doctor would end up on a galactic tour before getting back to picadilly ;)
Well, if battling a 500′ tall alien home wrecker doesn’t kill Sydney, then meeting the Doctor will definitely put her into a spastic glee coma from which she may never recover.
Well, even if he did bring Sydney back to the Picadilly instead of America, you’d have to admit that a multi-sonic-speed flight “across the pond” would be quite a bit easier for her to navigate, in comparison to where she is now, yes?
;)
OMG, Gilligan’s Island Dr.Who mashup immenent!
It’s almost like he met Ace 2.0 combined with a hyperactive Donna.
I was going for Donna Nobel, with a bit of the attitude of Martha Jones from Blink. I did not see much of Ace’s interactions with McCoy’s Doctor.
Think of Sydney:
The Doctor: I don’t suppose you’ve completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any nitro-9, have you?
Ace: What if I had?
The Doctor: Naturally, you wouldn’t do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?
Ace: Of course not. I’m a good girl; I do what I’m told.
The Doctor: Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.
<3 Love it! <3
Nice idea, and I think these two will be 11 and Clara.
I see it more as 7 and Ace.
#4 and Leela of the sevateem
If the TARDIS were to show up, that would be the first rescue to end with the rescuee exploding in Squeee!
+1
Those cookies are sinfully delicious.
I like the buns.
be careful! those goods are hot!
be careful guys, these goods are hot!
Cookies? I prefer the dough.
And the doe. (She does have hooves, so it fits.)
Cookies? I prefer the dough.
And the doe. (She has hooves, so it fits.)
With an accidental double post, you get a side order of DOH! as well to complete the trifecta.
D’OH!
yeah my bad
Same here. D’ohh.
The change in the number of the beast came with the translation from Greek to Latin. Because the numerology is different with different alphabets. The translator knew (or assumed) what was meant.
I heard an assumption that it was the roman emperor Caligula. Because his name adds up in Greek and Latin to the according numbers.
Is what I heard. I do not do numerology myself.
That miraculous hairdo while she’s being a baker is simply the best. :-)
The power of sexy love, always so strong!
Punching problems in the face…
Isn’t that how most of them are solved?
… apparently the secret ingredient is indeed love.
and lust!
…which is of course just the sugar free version of love.
I hope Maxima realizes that plastering the phase “Stop Staring” across her chest is only going to result in more staring. Sort of the Streisand Effect for boobs.
people can’t not read signs. People will be staring just because something is written there. Also that way of wearing the T-Shirt doesn’t seam to be that comfortable to sleep in. Dabbler singing at 3am should not be that loud if Max can sleep with what Dabbler would be normally doing at that time.
“I’m not staring. I’m reading. … Slowly.”
Just don’t let your BFF let you see you you moving your mouth…. or using Braille :)
I’ve actually seen something like a shirt with braille printed on it, but it wasn’t raised bumps, so could only be read by someone who knew braille but wasn’t blind
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… what?
Yeah, Max totally knows that, and for some reason she has a large collection of shirts like that she would never wear in public.
I too have a large collection of shirts I don’t wear in public. For an entirely different reason. (My gut hangs out)
Given the way the entire team gives her a hard time, I imagine she gets a lot of gag gifts on her birthday.
Are these gag gifts of the ball, cloth, duct tape or just the humourous version?
Yes.
‘Twould suggest that Max does, in fact, like the attention.
She tolerates the attention from those who respect her for who (and what) she is, which is why she will wear it around HQ, and not make her a crate of hippos
It looks like she has a few shirts like that.
https://www.deviantart.com/davebarrack/art/STRIP-Webcomic-Expo-Doodle-254073264
She is a nerd after all :)
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Called it
And
Called it.
Thanks Dave.
So… your telling me none of their intel people just started scrying what Halo is doing yet? Like 52 inch crystal ball tuning into the fight going on.
Or just cutting to the end standing on that things dead head making like a sand person.
The problem there is Sydney is also displaced in TIME. If the scry is ‘up to the minute’, it’s not going to give useful information, as Sydney doesn’t yet exist in the current timeframe. She skipped over ‘right now’ and exists far enough in the future that an entire planet could be sterilized of life, but not so far in the future that Harem has lost a body or died of natural causes.
Where exactly has it been established that Sydney is in a different time? I know there was a lot of speculation as to such a thing in the comment section, but I don’t recall having seen that established within the comic itself.
I think it was inferred by the extra Harems
That is more or less to be deducted from what Harem told Maxima – that she wasn’t disoriented due to a too large distance between other copies of herself but by there being too many copies of herself at the same time.
Harem can create additional copies of herself when she ‘levels up’ so to say (is older has more experience) since the more bodies she has the faster she can gather experience, new bodies of hers can theoretically be created in shorter and shorter time intervals.
So from what she said about the space Sydney is in, we conclude that there is enough copies of herself to throw her into confusion so this would have to be located some – if not many years in the future – between 10 to 80? As a very rough guess.
That also means that the team has no reason to hurry with the rescue attempt.
Any time divergence between Sydney being stranded and being rescued is likely to occure due to the rescue team miscalculating the exact point of time the stranding event occurred, rather than too lng preparation time.
Or just 1 day in the future. Keeping track of six I of five (because one is duplicated by the time travel effect) would yield the same result.
Instead of 5
Is what I meant to say.
Harem doesn’t need to have created an additional body for there to be “one too many ” at that point: Just adding the one that’s jumped forwards in time to the pre-existing five who (because this one has then gone back to its “proper” time and then gone into the future again by the regular day-by-day method) include another copy of the same body would do it.
Valid, even a single day difference would mean one body too much.
But would a single additional body really throw her that much off the loop?
The number of extra Harems must have been more significant I’d say at least 10/5 if not 20/5 to cause her distress. (And it could be even higher if ‘exponential Harem creation’ is a thing.)
It might if there was a copy of one body. Harem does say she felt an echo that disorientated her.
But we still do not definitively know what Daphne meant by too many of her, so no conclusion can be certain if it is based solely on that statement.
I still believe that there is a reasonable possibly that when the portal pulled the team to Sciona’s planet, Daphne instinctively tried pulling her blonde self out of harm’s way. This would be analogous to a normal person yanking their hand away from a hot stove before even realizing that their hand is being burned. Trying to vorp her body away while it was in the midst of the portal’s version of vorping could have resulted in her blonde self arriving at both destinations. Looking at the chart on page 491 it looks like Harem is due a new body, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for the portal incident to have forced the addition.
As for Harem’s discombobulation after the trip through the portal, it would be quite likely that the sudden unexpected addition of a new self would play havoc with Daphne’s proprioception. As the instance of Harem newly created was the one with the team on the Alari homeworld, that would be the one Daphne’s proprioception needed to get used to. As we have not actually witnessed what Daphne goes through when a new instance is created, the momentary discombobulation may be a normal period of adjustment. If you found yourself suddenly with a fully functional but brand new arm, how long would it take you to get used to using it?
Now all of this is complete conjecture on my part, but it fits the currently known facts just as well as the time travel theory. To be honest, it would not surprise me if DaveB has something up his sleeve that none of us anticipated.
Oh yeah, agreed.
For all we know, there could have been one extra Harem, one duplicate, maybe the one that went through the portal WAS the duplicate in another dimension, there could have been also been a link through the portal so the number of Harems effectively doubled (across time or dimension, take your pick), or the instantaneous creation of a new Harem at the moment she went through the portal. There are numerous possibilities but we don’t know for sure which one she meant.
What it means to me, is, one day Harem is going to stumble into a closed-door meeting, again, and announce “Today’s the day for the rescue.”
Another reason I reject both the time travel and the alternate dimension theories is the nature of Harem’s quantumly entangled mind. As we should all be aware of by now, there are multiple instances of Daphne’s body but only a single mind. The meat brains are connected on a quantum level allowing Daphne’s mind to occupy them all simultaneously.
If Daphne traveled to the future, then either that instance of Harem disconnected from the present mind in order to link to the future mind, or a connection was established between present and future mind. Either way, the Harem with the team would have memories about Sydney getting stranded before it actually happens to her. As no attempt was made by future Harem to share any foreknowledge with the team, it seems far more likely that she had no foreknowledge to share. Therefore time travel to the future is contraindicated.
If however the team traveled to an alternative dimension, you still have the issue of our Harem’s quantum entanglement getting tangled up with the alternate dimension’s Harem’s quantum entanglement. This entanglement would have to bridge the dimensional gap, and you still end up with 2 different Daphnes having to link minds into a single sentience.
Quite frankly I see these issues as showstoppers for both the time travel and the alternate dimension theories. The Daphne spawning a new body theory avoids these issues. With that theory there never was more than one Daphne mind, thus no issues with how 2 Daphne minds would interact.
There’s also the “both” option – they traveled to a future time in an alternate dimension.
I disagree with the dimension thing being off-limits and the time being off limits as well for a similar reason: time is a dimension (just not spatial).
Anywho, my reasoning can be simplified by imagine a 2-D rectangle (say a piece of paper) in the xy plane. Now imagine an external force shifts the paper to be in the xz plane. Now it is in another dimension while retaining the same properties. As long as there was another higher dimension tying them together, quantum entanglement is still easily possible.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks the time travel and alternate dimension theories break logic. You seem to use the same reasoning I do.
My money is still on Different Dimention.
It would account for everything that happened as well, and we already saw the blade used to make the portal, open a rift to a different dimension full of Trentacles…
What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen…?
Now. You’re looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
What happened to then?
We passed then.
When?
Just now. We’re at now now.
Go back to then.
When?
Now.
Now?
Now.
I can’t.
Why?
We missed it.
When?
Just now.
When will then be now?
Soon.
How soon?
If Sydney is lucky maybe the new point in her flight stats unlocked Ludicrous Speed.
Halo might even go into plaid.
It’ll be difficult to safely test out to see what her new flight capabilities are until after she’s dealt with her current problem…After all, right now, she’s surrounded by A$$holes.
Major A$$holes ?
They’re not all the same rank. Some @$$holes are more rank than others…
…Jabberwokky may not be cured yet, but she is much calmer than she was(+my money’s on Math doing the shibari tiedown)-otherwise either Pangolin or Crusader style would break the chair…
Math would likely be the one for it. It’s also pretty cool to see someone tied to a chair _properly_ (ie. effectively). Most media/tv/comics seem to just throw some loops on and call it a day and don’t know the basics of ropework. Go Dave!
Assuming there’s anything to cure. I still think that spell wore off just fine, and Jabberwokky’s obsession with Dabbler is, in fact, all her ad the spell is just a convenient excuse.
I am with ya there. She’s got obvious denial about certain aspects of herself and I doubt a spell is to blame for her continuing to be gaga for Dabbler.
One idea that I had in her problem is that she seems to fight with a series of summoned totem like powers, maybe the attraction spell attached to one of those totems, and then it going dormant caused the spell to continue affecting her but with no outlet to dissipate until she uses her power again.
Maybe eating one cookie wil cure her.
at this point, I think it`s pretty evident one cookie isn`t gonna cut it. she wants to eat a whole box. ;)
“she wants to eat a whole box. ;)” *giggle*
I seem to recall reading many years ago when I studied religious history that in the translation the number of the beast was miscalculated due to a difference in numerology methods.
and you’d be right, in the original texts it’s actually 999.
that would help explain all the panic about 1999
A fragment from Papyrus 115 is the oldest manuscript (about 1,700 years old) of Revelation 13 found as of 2017, in it the number 616 is given as the Number of the Beast. 616 is also the area code for Grand Rapids, Michigan, the home of Amway.
Maybe the Beast convinced the translators into changing it to 666, because it’s edgier.
and you’re saying Amway ISN’T?!?!
I lost it. I completely and utterly lost it when Achillies said “I’m going to assume that’s a rhetorical question”. I was actually crying form laughter.
Funniest thing I’ve read this week.
:D
best answer ever.
Super villains take note, NEVER back Sydney into a corner. Once Sydney gets back debriefing panel is going to be EPIC.
I believe ‘debriefing’ is what most of the people in panel 8 of this comic are thinking about.
There’s always a sense of relief when one is finished with debriefing…
:P
first you let her take a shower and get some food something spicy for her homecoming and some sleep. Then you stick her in the room and talk to her until you get the whole story.
Is it me or is Anvil looking a bit more “stocky” then usual (also squareishon the face )?
Also her chair has to be a lot shorter then the others to be barely taller then Math.
She’s slouching.
Ah, that’s why her knee looks so big, I was wondering about that.
I was thinking that she looked wider than her usual representation. Has she been packing on the pounds recently? Fat, not muscle, I mean.
Cookies do that to a person.
I think that she look more massive because she’s all slumped up and you can’t see how slim her waiste is compared to her shoulders, likewise how long her legs are compared to dem thighs.
Agreed, all of them in a row look kinda funny.
I like it with Anvil though – she looks more, ahem, African (*prepares for beatings*) in nose shape, rather than her previous presentations in which the main way her face was different from the rest of the cast was the skin tone. Makes her look a lot more distinct, and (admitting it’s in a playing-to-a-stereotype way) a lot more like a Black woman.
Geez, can I say Black? African-American? What if she’s not American but is just living in America? And doesn’t “Black” gloss over an immense number of genotypic and phenotypic differences for whatever geographic catchment the term is meant to cover?
She is supposed have fairly nubian features. Like somewhere in between Grace Jones and Gina Torres.
If you’re playing around with different ways of drawing her, my experience as a “reader” is that this version of her captures that much better :)
Definitely a great step away from only six faces!
Sometimes a person’s face just looks really, really different in different situations.
Don’t know if Michael Jackson is the best example to cite here :)
Most of those are before and after face surgery.
Is not the first time Anvil is drawn with a more african face features.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2490
And I think that if she is from Kenya, this Anvil design is the right one.
She is not from Kenya. Her name is Kenya Cassidy.
If I may present my not-particularly-autorithative opinion on the art: As WLU said they all look weird somehow. Especially Math, who suddenly looks to be 60-70 years old, and Anvil who apparently compressed vertically.
Sorry to be blunt about this Dave, because your art usually ranges from “very nice” upwards. Even when you mentioned you were attempting new art techniques you weren’t confident with they always delivered great art.That panel is the first time I found something uncanny-valley unsettling in this comic.
On the other hand: Maxima and Dabbler are not just very well drawn, it’s better than that. Even when Maxima’s drawings were well done individually in the past one could find tiny variations like a slightly bigger hand from one panel to the next. This time not even the harshest critic could make this claim. They’re perfect (except for Dabbler’s jumping armband of course)
I don’t think she looks stockier, as she’s absolutely that broad-shouldered – rather, she looks shorter… vertically compressed, like when you resize an object along a single axis
Considering those remarks, I’m really hopeful that this fight will be Sydney’s “Did you just punch out Cthulhu?” Moment when they reunite. Achievements in ignorance for the win!
I just realized….Dabbler can smack her ass, press her boobs together and still do…..other things… with her free hand….I’m actually somewhat relieve she doesn’t have a tail…Lord knows what that would do.
Course, if she was still her original model, all she’d be able to do is press her boobs.. and she still had four hands back then ;)
And she did have a tail back then – even if it was detachable. (Call me a perv, but I really liked her boob quartet. It fit her somehow.)
Huh, I honestly figured Dabbler was more of a brownie girl. So are they all going to be wrecked when their shift starts?
While this comic is highly entertaining, morally instructive (at your own peril) and full of useful info, it is not actually the Bible, so DaveB is free to use whatever Number of the Beast sounds the coolest.
There should be a Math-related comic for page #999, to fit with his claim to be the 999th super kung fu guy in his line. Or a math (lowercase) related one, just to mess with him.
Speaking of ‘math’, 8 years to get to 666 means that we will be seeing page 999 sometime in 2022.
Since I have emphysema, I may not live, to see that. Don’t be sad, I’ve lived twice as long as I expected.
i may not know who you are, I man not know what you look like but I am sorry to hear that and my positive supportive thoughts go with you regardless of where you are. if anything happened to you, be sure someone here will read the comic and keep you updated through prayers on each update( or you could come and read over our shoulders as a ghost ;)
she seems to be singing some modified version of “hips dont lie”. quite appropriate for her.
why do Math and Anvil have faces that make them look like they’re 60?
Math especially – he looks positively geriatrically gaunt.
Anvil’s face looks… well, fat (which as she is also saying “I’m here for the cookies” makes it worse…)
On the opposite end of the age spectrum, Max in panel 5 looks really really young – I don’t know, maybe it’s the smoother features, but she looks like she from school.
Actually, I realise that this page was supposed to be a Dabbler page, but the end of the focus makes me feel really bad for Max :/
Max looking young honestly might just be her being a bit surprised and not … not exactly flexing but forcing the muscles to stand out more. After all if all the supers look like they are in the prime of their life then that means they will look early twenties no matter how old they are.
I suspect that Math looks that way because most of the blood has drained away from his face. His body redirected it to someplace where the need for blood was most urgent.
I actually did not recognise Math in this page. He looks at least 20 years older. Anvil a lot heavier in the face. And Jabberwocky is missing her eagle tattoo, that is her most distinct point about her.
Kinda bet it’s all the late night research Max assigned to him.
Meanwhile,back in our world,Dabbler decides to make cookies at 3 A.M. just wearing an apron….
“It’s not like she’s going to try and fight that thing…”
Yeah, I thought they knew her better than that…
I believe that at this point it has only been about 2 or 3 weeks since Sydney and Max first met. Apparently Xuriel still has a lot to learn about Sydney.
One week, if it’s still the night of their fight with Sciona. Of course, it’s possible on their side more time has passed…
STOP. CUTTING. AWAY. FROM. THE FIGHT!!!!
…Please?
After this page, the story is sticking mostly with Sydney for a while.
Traditionally, the line about “not dumb enough to attack the city-killing monster” comes just before we cut back to the person in question doing just that. I’m hoping the next page starts with a good dramatic shot of Halo punching Squidward in the face or something.
We just came from a page of Sydney doing just that.
Well technically you could say Sydney was giving Cthulhu Squidward the ultimate hand job.
You know if there was a video feed from somewhere, they would be putting it on UNN/GNN or UPAN/GPAM (Universal or Galactic) networks.
Wonder what the betting pool would be like.
Even better if Syd got a cut of the take for a ‘Exotic Tours’ ticket to earth.
As for Dabs little ‘project distraction’ I bet it would be the first channel people found out about when QE (Quantum Entangled) routers go online
“Watching Dabbler cook is a spectator sport”? No, it’s spectating. The cooking is the spectator sport.
DaveB, There is a problem with your statement about crackers not being cookies.
You have forgotten about animal crackers – which are crackers with a cookie taste :)
Also Graham Crackers :). Another food bridging the gap between cracker and cookie.
it’s actually because both of those ARE cookies.
Correction – all cookies are sugar cookies; a cookie without sugar is a cracker.
technically you could say crackers are biscuits, and biscuit is another word for cookie! crackers are just cookies with a different purpose (just teasing)
I’m from the U.S. of A, and round these here parts, biscuits are little bread rolls, and we don’t do none of that British talk, ya hear?
Yet they call them crackers, so as a lawyer I am using that as a technicality that crackers are sometimes cookies.
I rest my case.
What does the # do just before the Reply?
no idea
Hover over it and it’ll tell you
Hovering does squat on my tablets.
As far as I can tell, it links to the comment thread it’s a part of. Likely so you can reference this thread in another thread (on this page or another) if necessary.
Just realised #6 answered below before me: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2967/comment-page-1#comment-700359 (or you could scroll down four threads).
It only appears on comments that are NOT (recognized by the site as) replies to other comments. It’s a link to the next such comment.
To put it another way, if you think of a comment that isn’t a reply plus all the replies hanging under it as a thread, it’s a link to the next thread.
hahahaha
*portal opens* “Sydney?” *cussing sydney gets blasted through safely in her shield* Dabbler: “Did you make a friend?” *creature tries to grab dabbler. Dabbler smacks it with a frying pan* “Bad creature. dinner first”
Weird. comments not appearing again lol
You just have to give it time. Wait a few minutes, refresh the web page and voila, there is your comment (unless DaveB blocks it).
666 or 616? The cyborg, demon, doppleganger, and some unidentified alien species is in the details, DaveB.
Now we know who’s in the kitchen with Dina.
*Like*
That octothorpe is a link to the comment that it appears in. It is a convenience provided for anyone who wants to bookmark and/or share a link directly to that specific comment.
Unfortunately another “convenience” the comment section provides is how it sometimes decides to disconnect your reply from the comment you were replying to.
If you have a script blocker it can cause that.
I don’t have a script blocker, but I have noticed that I have more problems posting from my tablet than I do from my PC. It may be a difference in the way the Silk Browser (tablet) and the Chrome Browser (PC) process the WordPress scripts that run this comment board.
Also sometimes loading time can cause it. I have it happen way more on my slow internet connection than on my fast one.
I noticed it when I used a alt-click on reply to make a separate tab, vs primary click and it shows up under the comment you did a repay to.
“It’s not like she’s going to try and fight that thing.”
I wonder if she managed to say that with a straight face…
Seriously Dabbler, this is Sydney we are talking about here… Sydney, you know the one, chilli fiend, ADHD, has “The List”
I’m fairly certain, cthulu’s younger sibling is on the top of that list, if she had time to write him(or her.. we dont know) in yet…
I can just see the next panel… Max walking away, going”Your right, Sydney wouldn’t fight it would she…..” Facing then snapping up in horror, slaming back into dabs and screaming “We need BACk NOW”
Plus I am sure this is better than having to have a PR meeting with Arianna and the General about the likely Death\MIA account of Sydney. Especially given taking an untrained recruit of less than a full week into a live combat situation. Though “Self sacrifice in the face of a world killing Mecha-Cthulhu monster to save the team” would be a good news title. The media love a good old the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few or one line don’t they?
In the ordinary Military, Max’s career would’ve been over (or at least she would have been removed from command of ArcSwat) after letting Sydney participate in the diner battle. That didn’t happen because (a) Archon runs by different rules, and (b) it’d ruin the story. So it’s only the PR fallout from the “We regret to announce that at this time the Mighty Halo is M.I.A.” story. Of course the classic way this ends if for Sydney to suddenly appear at the press conference behind Arianna. :-)
Who Knows, if she does it enough she might just get the same reputation for being unkillable as Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!).
Motherly shine, you say? Personally I figured it was more like she saw Sydney as the kooky little sister she never had, or something along those lines.
Dabbler, you only got it half right, and all wrong: Sydney is a smart, resourceful, powerful (way more than she was two weeks ago), AND a pro-actively aggressive person in RPG’ing and RL. She most definitely is going to try to bring the fight to the enemy. Throw on top of that, she’s a fast learner and excellent at improvisation (her swearing rants are a very good example of that), and she’s gonna keep trying until she has no recourse but to retreat and hide.
Well she did try and retreat first, but she ran into difficulties with that plan so switched to combat.
If she hadn’t been interrupted, she probably would have stuck with hiding for only another five minutes before her ADHD took control of the situation.
Yes, trying to hide was probably the safest, most logical course of action. Of course, this is Sydney we’re talking about, so instead she acted like she was in an RPG instead of reality. Her Luck stat must be maxxed out, or she would never have made it so far.
Safest? For her or Squidward? or the Universe at large?
For Syd. The squidly is certainly doomed, I mean it messed up her face, that alone invokes the ‘break the cutie’ rules where hammer space is invoked at the very minimum. :)
yeah, i mean, it’s clearly not level appropriate CR. She can’t NOT try to murder it, she is way to much of a munchkin not to teleport inside its sheilds and give it an PPO anema. well, she could try to murder it with a bag of peables, 3 gerbils, omiglue, and a crosbow. oh, and also a goat
Did anyone else notice Dabbler “Boop” max, and get away with it?? Max is Definitely very worried
Yeah, with the back end of a spoon while turning around. I doubt she even noticed.
Considering Dabbler’s hypnotic body and that watching her jump rope was enough to put the whole team in a trance, I’m surprised that after watching her sing and twerk in panties any of them were able to form words to answer Max. Or even realize Max was there. I suppose rule of funny does apply, though.
Umm … Sorry Max … I Can’t!
Does Maxima look a lot younger in Panel 5 to anyone else?
Yeah same! partly because their noses look a lot rounder than before, and partly because Dabs has her hair in a ponytail, like a schoolgirl might.
Yeah, getting ages just right is surprisingly difficult. Harem almost never looks to be the right age to me when I draw her.