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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Well… to be fair, I’m sure there are people who do. I mean, Playboy apparently had stories from authors such as Shel Silverstein in it that had nothing to do with the rest of it’s content. I know it’s not quite comparable, but it may not have been the only one, and I’ve been told that that particular story is the first reason some people even picked up the magazine.
Cavalier, a mens magazine that had become yet another Playboy in the 60s, had writers like Isaac Asimov, Robert Shelton, Ray Bradbury, Robert Coover and Stephen Fucking King.
Arthur C Clarke also wrote for Playboy at least once.
Once upon a time, Playboy and Penthouse were THE big sale for an author publishing short stories. Folks like Don Westlake, Ray Bradbury, and Ian Fleming published in Playboy and Bob Guccione published Omni where F/SF names and names-to-be like Walter Jon Williams and George R.R. Martin published shorts. The showcase was huge and so was the paycheck.
As a sidebar, aside from the fiction mentioned above Playboy had interviews with basically everyone important through about three decades: Fidel Castro, Martin Luther King, pretty much all of the Beatles (I think they missed Pete Best), Marlon Brando, Steve Jobs, Steve Martin, Mr. T, and oh my does the list go on. For a while, their music reviews and artists rankings were considered as authoritative as the Rolling Stone’s.
Penthouse couldn’t compete with that but they did have a dedicated Vietnam Veterans’ Advisor column for about a decade that was one of the few in any ‘mainstream’ publication. They also did some reportage on government corruption, but I don’t think anything they did really made a big splash on its own.
Natsune, Shel Silverstein published a lot of work through Playboy and was a regular at the Playboy Mansion. There’s pictures of him playing guitar and singing to a crowd of guests and Bunnies.
Ah, I see, thanks! Yeah, the only one I was aware of was the one where a guy played dice with the devil, which was brought up because I read some of his children books, but I imagined he made more. My family actually had a number of Playboys stored away, amongst our short stories.
I’m bisexual, so it’s possible:Also for Jabberwocky, which is why the kiss isn’t wearing off.
I’m bisexual, so I know it could happen, it may also be why the kiss isn’t wearing off for Jabberwocky
She might also really like watching people make cookies :)
Okay maybe not that :)
Yeah we already know. Dabbler you lost that bet.
…. Dabbler, FFS it’s Sidney OF COURSE SHE IS GOING TO TRY AND FIGHT IT
To be fair to Dabbler’s evaluation of the Sydney situation, not only do we the readers know that she is wrong but we also know that Syney initially did try to disengage as far away as possible. She just didn’t stick with that plan for long, probably due to the author feeling that some action/fight scenes were going to be more exciting than some hide and seek or just “Wow, I got away” scenes.
Ah… Papyrus 115.
I think you might be interested what the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) has to say about that: [spoiler]They say it’s not giving a definite number to the beast[spoiler]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_115
https://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/vmr/api/transcript/get/?docID=10115&pageID=160&format=html
And if you want a more detailed explanation about the Beast and its Number; https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2004241?
Some corrections.
Revelations wasn’t a prophetic writing. It was allegorical, using symbolism to talk trash about the Roman Empire (how they were greedy, corrupt, and debased), as well as talk out against Domitain (an emporer some called Nero Reborn.)
The whole 616 or 666 debate falls to whether you think Paul was using Greek Isopsephy or Hebrew Gematria. In Hebrew NRON QSR (Nero Caesar in Hebrew)) is 666, if using Isopsephy and the Latin Spelling of Nero it becomes 616.
Which is where that confusion comes to. That and modern people take it literally. Rather than a coded message to followers back in the day that Rome was going to fall, and it’s days were numbered.
Humanity would have turned out much differently if it did. Rather than spending every generation looking forward to the end times which aren’t coming. They never were.
The heads of the beast with crowns are the same numbers of Augustines and Caesars.
The one killed and reborn was talking about Nero Reborn atitle given to Emporer Domitian.
The whore of seven hills is the Seven Hills of Rome.
Etc. But it is what it is. Humanity will still have people saying the end times are coming in their time (hell 12 12 12 was a great day since I got to laugh at people.). All for something that was never meant to be literal.
I did a lot of laughing myself on May 21, 2011. That was the day Harold Camping predicted for the Rapture.
Don’t Laugh too hard ai_vin , the rapture did happen but the only person that qualified was a guy named Ted in Mobile alabama. Since only one guy qualified they took him and gave up on the end of days thing
I knew Ted. Dude made the best homemade beef jerky ever.
You… didn’t ask him where the meat came from, did you? o_O
Two corrections. First, it’s “Revelation”. No s on the end. Second, putting aside whether Revelation is a book of prophecy or not, the end times were predicted outside Revelation. By Jesus himself. I’m inclined to think he would know something about that.
If Jesus, ever existed.
Whether you believe the gospels or not, he definitely did walk the Earth. Personally, I do believe them, and Jesus spoke about the end times. Being the son of God, it follows he would know a thing or two about the end times. That’s all I’m saying. Now, if you hear somebody saying they *know* when the end times are happening, they definitely don’t. Jesus talked about that too. We *might* be able to make a guess about the “season” or the “hour” if we’re paying attention, but not exactly when. If somebody says they *know*, they’re either crazy or they’re trying to con people.
Pretty sure they found archaeological proof already that he did exist, regardless of miracles involved. His speeches are a matter of record in non christian historical accounts. Even most atheists accept that there was a literal real person called Jesus of Nazareth, plus that he was, in fact, crucified by the Roman government of that time.
No, on all points. Sorry.
I’ll explain one point so you have some idea of how wrong you are.
They have found archaeological proof that a place called Nazareth didn’t even exist at the time Jesus was claimed to have lived. It was created later for the pilgrims.
“The writer of Matthew started the deceit that the title ‘Jesus the Nazarene’ should in some manner relate to Nazareth, by quoting ‘prophecy’:
“And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.” – Matthew 2.23.
With this, Matthew closes his fable of Jesus’s early years. Yet Matthew is misquoting– he would surely know nowhere in Jewish prophetic literature is there any reference to a Nazarene. What is ‘foretold’ (or at least mentioned several times) in Old Testament scripture is the appearance of a Nazarite. For example:
“For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” – Judges 13.5.
Matthew slyly substitutes one word for another. By replacing Nazarite (‘he who vows to grow long hair and serve god’) with a term which appears to imply ‘resident of’ he is able to fabricate a hometown link for his fictitious hero.”
https://www.jesusneverexisted.com/matthew.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24cQMaJzPk
@ David:
No he didn’t.
He never predicted the end of times. That and in Mathew he said it would be in a generation. In that generation saw the destruction of the old Covenant (AD 70), which destroyed “the world” as they knew it. And in Jewish tradition, the destruction of all creation (since Jews (which Jesus was a Rabbi of) saw the old Temple as a Microcosm of all of Creation. And the physical residence of Heaven’s power and greatness. It’s destruction, in the Generation that Jesus said it would, represented the destruction of said world. And “Even heaven and earth’s power will fade”.
https://biblestudyforcatholics.com/jesus-predict-end-get-wrong/
A lot of the problems Christians from the time of Constantine on up is the misinterpretations of the bible, or ignoring important parts. Such as people claiming that “God Hates X” or “God finds X an Abomination”. Where in fact there are only 7 things God hates and finds an abomination.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+6%3A16-19&version=NIV
@ ai_vin:
Yeah. Which is what I find also both sad and funny. Over 70% of all Christian’s believe the world will end in their lifetimes. And actively pray for it. It is just another way human’s find to put away the need to think of consequences while shifting blame onto others.
Why would you be inclined to think that? Even assuming that Jesus ever existed outside of fables and fairy tales, why would you think that any man would know the future? No man has ever had a divine revelation because no god has ever existed. And that includes any man whose weak-minded followers claim is ‘actually’ God in the flesh.
Now I’m weak-minded huh? I didn’t attack anyone’s intelligence on here. I followed the evidence and it lead me to a different place than all of you. That’s it. You answered your own question by the way. I believe Jesus is God in the flesh, and alive today. God the son ought to have a pretty good idea what God the father has in mind.
Yes, you are weak minded for believing in something which is just as much a fairy tale as the Easter Bunny or Snow White. But for the record, it’s not ‘now’ that you are weak minded. That started the moment that you, as an adult, still believed this to be true:
Children are excused for believing the lies that their parents tell them. If you are a child, then you are not yet weak minded. And consider this your wake up call to throw off the shackles of blind faith and lies over reason and fact.
If this were a movie or a series, Dabbler’s comments would be interleaved with shots of Sydney fighting (ala Raph and the Foot Soldiers in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
Because you suggested it I will imagine that all of Sydney’s battles posted over the past weeks occurred while Dabbler was speaking.
Or to quote Jayne Corb…”I’ll be in my bunk”
Of course Dabbler is making cookies. The Dark Side has the _best_ cookies. :3
She did explain that she feeds on tantric energy. Judging from her peanut gallery, this probably counts as a midnight snack before the cookies ever make it to the oven.
This also fits with her describing super powered people as “so yummy”, so again, just like cookies.
She gets to have her cookies and eat them too. :-)
#Lewd!
Heck, with Dabbler in the world they now have a step above #Lewd!, they have #Dabbler!
I have long thought the reason Maxima is so indulgent with Sydney is because she has been Super for so long that it doesn’t really have any meaning for her; it’s just how she is. Then along came Sydney, who is just recently Super and finally able to cut loose with it and enjoying the (insert [in]appropriate Sydney term) out of it, and it brings back some of what Max has forgotten. Look at Max’ expression as she paces Sydney flying in #158.
Bingo. It’s a kinda kid-sister vibe. Big sis will be annoyed and strict when she’s around, but she’s fairly indulgent and worries when little sis is missing.
Also kinda think Max wants in on the cutting loose and opening up a can of whoopass on something that deserves it.
Or a team Mom, strict but fair, who has dedicated herself to duty and honour suddenly finds she’s adopted a Genki Girl who’s honest spontaneity and enthusiasm charms her and reminds her that you can be honourable and dutiful, but still enjoy life. Heck, that’s probably a trope but I’m not going diving into tv-tropes to find it. :-)
Either way there’s definitely a Mentor/student vibe at play, as well as an (sometimes annoying) genuine bond of friendship/kinship (Max & Sydney are probably the two most likely to hand you your own backside no matter what your powers are, Max knows what growing up with that is like, and knows Sydney hasn’t realised the horrible truths of that yet). Add to that that if Sydney decided to destroy Achon HQ and everyone in it, provided she raised her shield before anybody guessed, only those who managed to escape or were invulnerable would survive. And now she know’s what the air orb does, they’d be unable to launch a successful counter attack. Max want’s to take her under her wing and make REALLY REALLY sure she doesn’t go to the dark side.
Is the ‘infinity gauntlet’ reference an anachronism in this point in the timeline, or is Dabbler secretly a comics nerd and is referring to it because she has read the dead-tree version of the story?
I dislike that the comic has fallen so far behind current cultural references, so let’s just say that Sydney has slowly been educating Dabbler on human pop culture in between scenes. At some point you guys may just have to accept that comic time is a thing because I don’t like that only a week has passed as far as we’ve seen.
Just turn Sydney’s planet adventure into a couple year time skip! I’m sure no one’ll mind :D
However, in the opening RPG segment, Sydney says “lets go back a few months”
The only thing that really dates the comic is having Obama as the president (That’s why most fictional stories make up a fictional president), and that only changed a couple of years ago. Gamers will still be playing Skyrim for years, etc.
I think a multi-year skip would be a huge waste of potential material for the strip – I’m looking forward to watching the team develop individually and collectively as Archon establishes itself and the new recruits get training and make mistakes.
Sydney popping back into a well-established Archon after say 5 years would be a nice surprise from their perspective, but it would completely alter the comic and all the interpersonal dynamics. It would almost be a reboot / sequel.
?! A week! That is canon confirmation only a week has passed!
DaveB, I’m sure you’ve seen the debating in the comments all along about this… but unless I missed something, this is the first confirmation from you.
(Also you write a wonderfully compelling story. Please don’t try to keep up with cultural references too much and sacrifice your plan of the story. Cultural references are like fads and many comics I’ve seen fall victim to overuse of references *cough Spiderman and some more recent Marvel movies*. These are short lived and cause disconnection later. But, if you add in a few based on the story’s timeline, then you more strongly orient the reader in the story rather than their present.)
This was part of the genius behind Star Wars.
The original three Star Wars, not the re-imaginings and sequels/prequels.
A good John Williams score is timeless.
An expy of an existing musician…isn’t.
Maybe Sydney has made the ‘generous’ offer of letting Dabbler hang out at her comic shop and read any of the titles she finds interesting. And the effect that a half-nekkid purple woman spending time at her shop would have on bringing in more customers is completely coincidental.
Except that Dabbler’s natural purple form is supposed to be a ‘battle form,’ so she should be in her human disguise any time she is in public such as she was during the press release. And certainly no voluptuous blond woman hanging out at a comic book store is going to bring in any male customers. Wait, nevermind.
The secret to keeping up to date is to avoid all pop culture. Stuff ages faster then a flea.
That said over the past few years a few comics that are only a month long in comic time went from CRT screens to smart phones.
I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Just avoid the big changes, like politics (presidents etc.) and basically put in what you like of the smaller changes. So some things didn’t exist when the comic started. Big deal! Comic time works differently anyway. That way you can ‘sneak up’ on the present without having to use unrealistic time jumps. (Although, having Sydney return to Earth in 2018 might have been cool – wonder what ARC-Swat would have been like after being around for that long. But it would fly in the face of the ‘several months earlier’ comment. Not to mention it wouldn’t really solve anything long term.)
If Sydney manages a relativistic flight speed, it might very well be several years, but the RPG scenes don’t appear to show her as aging overmuch
Relatively speaking, she would age slower, than they will.
The Alari homeworld is 700 lightyears from Earth so even if she got very close to lightspeed, a minimum of seven centuries would pass on Earth before Syd would make it back. To Sydney it might have taken only days, but everyone of her friends and family would be long gone. (With the possible exception of Achilles, Dabbler and maybe Max?)
Syd would also have to have a dynamic tracker to earth and a very detailed and usable galactic map and lots of way points. Which given the number of suns in the local galaxy alone, is a HUGE database.
Yikes what a problem.
700 lights years is approximately 4.1150378 x 10^15 Miles. note1. you would need about 10 or 11 significant digits for 3 values to get ‘in the ballpark’
now optimistically you would also have to be able to recognize earth (near miss) to help at all narrowing this down. ( note 2:at 9 Billion miles or 9e x 10^9 – a dot) you still have a number a million times too course (6 orders of magnitude)
Space is big – what a understatement. Regular calculators are not nearly precise enough to even help you compute that. our galaxy has at _least_1.7 Billion stars according to the best map we have of it now. Scientists even now don’t know exactly where we are from the galactic center.
Kinda make me wonder if Pulsars were intentionally setup as way points.
other factors:
– gravity sources would cause deviations which would cause you to miss
– our galaxy is moving in space and so is ‘Alari’ – moving target to moving target.
factors that would help
– we have been broadcasting radio for approximately 200 years? so if you have a radio detector, earth would have about a 400light year diameter sphere of radio signals to help find it. Still Alari would probably have never seen any earth radio signals yet (maybe in 400 years or so). note: Even within a 200 light yr radius, you would have problems detecting the signals at all.
Syd needs help getting home.
1) https://www.space.com/40406-gaia-release-color-milky-way-map.html
2) https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/in-space-how-far-away-can-you-see-earth
Hell, for a 700 light year journey you’d even have to factor in the speed of the target solar system and lead it in order to avoid having to chase it down or spend a lot of unnecessary miles/time constantly adjusting for it’s current position.
And hell hell, your tracking system would even have to be smart enough to understand that any light it was getting from the target solar system was also 700 years out of place due to the motion of that solar system, and aim you in front of it compensating for both its travel as you move towards it and its travel as the light from it reaches you.
Say for example that the solar system was at mile marker 1 on an imaginary highway at some point, and the light seen by any observer 700 light years away reaches that observer at that time. At the time of observance the solar system will be, hypothetically, at mile marker 25. But you can’t just aim for mile marker 25, because by the time you get there the solar system will be at mile marker 50. And aiming for mile marker 25 and making constant course corrections to eventually reach mile marker 50 will make your flight path an arc instead of a straight line, increasing your total flight time unnecessarily.
Um, the Inifinity Gauntlet is actually kinda dated if you consider that nerds read about things in comics which don’t make it to the big screen until much, much later. :)
The easy fix is to base the current year in the comic on the real life date of the end of the comic rather than the beginning of it. So if the comic is completed in august of 2024 and the canon time period was three months, then the date of all of the comic is between april and august of 2024.
That would be even worse than having ‘dated’ references
It is not anachronistic if you read comics. This can take place any time after the early 1990s when the original comic run of the gauntlet’s appearance happened. There were comics and games pre the mcu that had it. Not hard for a geek to know about them without having time skips and claims of anachronisms.
What? There were things before the movies? YOU LIE!!!
IIRC, there was also the chibi Marvel cartoon pimping a Marvel MMORPG running around that time (Shows name escapes my nyquil addled brain atm), -with the Infinity Gauntlet quite promenent.
For the movie, sure. But the Infinity Gauntlet story line came out in the early-90s and spanned so many Marvel titles that if you read any one of them you had to have noticed. I don’t know exactly when Grrrl Power is set but it seems like it must be post-90s if only due to the prevalence of cell phones.
Fuck the cook.
Eh, its a bit tame, but I would go with something more contextual like ‘eat the cook’
“Handle the Heat”
Mister Amorphous doesn’t seem to mind.
Oh, you said, Heat, not Heatwave. My bad.
Indeed! Leaving aside the distinctly unworthy prospect of handling someone against their will (Dabbler is generally not only willing but downright enthused by the prospect of prospects. But Heatwave? Less so), engaging in such behavior with a literal team of super powered beings captained by Maxima? It would likely be brief, and emphatically final.
I was going for a play on the old proverb “if you can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen”, but I fear I made it too vague.
Correction: aside from friendly groping (intended to rile), Dabbles knows about boundaries and respects them. She gets a hell of a thrill out of teasing Maxi, butt that is the limit she will go
I did get the Harry Truman quote, I just wanted to be silly about it.
Though re-reading what I wrote, it sounds as if I meant Dabbler handling Heatwave, which isn’t quite what I was try to get across. While I expect that Mr Amorphous (are we ever going to get his given name?) would be all for that – provided he could watch, because men – I doubt Brook would be, and even if she were, she seems to have enough jealousy for the both of them; she’d get pissed at the idea of him ogling Dabbler, even if he were ogling her (Brook) at the same time.
Someone could take it literally. Bad idea.
I think the censored word is pretty clearly XXX. It isn’t censored enough that you can’t read it if you blur your eyes.
Maybe on the planet Digitalia that bit pattern is extremely raunchy.
I kinda like “fondue the cook” kinda makes sense with Dabs too >;-P
I could watch Dabbler cook just to watch her cook. Four arms going at once? She would crush it on an episode of ‘Celebrity Chopped’.
Celebrity Chopped?
More like Super Chopped. Heroe’s and villains all cooking for the top spot! Using their powers would be implied, but as long as you didn’t interfere with the other contestants.
Harem would win, if the rules as far as I understand them are unchanged from the non-super powered version of the show.
Opponent: “Are you really going to use all three deep fryers?”
Harem: “I’m standing at all of them, aren’t I?”
Opponent: “And both rangetops?!?”
Harem: “I’m standing at them, aren’t I?”
She would win just by monopolizing all the workstations and preventing her opponent from getting anything done, which I’ve seen used as a tactic on Chopped.
And even if that were made illegal, with five persons doing work in parallel she should be able to beat even speedsters who can still only do things serially, even if very fast.
Harem (peering over Leon’s shoulder when she notices he’s slacking off watching YouTube videos): “Hey, I think that’s an episode of Celebrity Death Match I never saw before! My dad used to love that show, Mom always complained if he let me watch… who do they have fighting?”
Leon (sighs): It’s a three-way between Gordon Ramsay, Takeshi Kaga, and William Shatner.”
Dabbler: “Really?”
Harem: “First, it’s a three-way <fight, Dabs. Second, it’s fake claymation. Finally, those three? Eeew.”
My money is on Shatner regardless of his age. Especially if claymation.
His Kevlar toupee gives him +2 armor class on his head.
And when his shirt gets ripped he gets +5 strength and other D&D references which I don’t know since all I know about D&D are from reading Order of the Stick and Goblins webcomics.
When was the last time you saw The Shat? He appeared on “American Pickers” a couple years ago, and doesn’t wear a toupee
gotta love looking tied hair from behind. Go Dabbler go!
story-wise, DaveB, I have to say this is one of your better pages – it gets back to your original stated goal of providing “slice of life” for extraordinary people – absolutely fleshing out characters and humanizing them in a way their heroics and banter do not. BZ!
More continuity problems: Dabbler’s choker is missing in panel 1, but present in the others. The apron around her neck isn’t going to cover all of it.
U.N. Owen, it’s Maxima. Of course Dabbler is going to lie to her about this. If they can’t open a gateway back to Sciona’s world, the safest thing for everyone involved is to convince Maxima that Halo will be safe. And there’s basically no way to tell her convincingly, ¨It’ll be a good experience for her. It’ll get her to use the orbs a lot more than she has been doing, and she’ll get enough level ups to be able to make it back home on her own in just a day or two.¨
Poor Max… Worried, impatient Max is insanely hot at 3 am… Nice touch with the Anime/Manga boobie bump… “boop” indeed!
Max’s sleep shirt looks well used if the printing is starting to flake off… A shirt like that is an old friend… you just can’t bring yourself to part with it because its the most comfortable thing you own. The message is kinda lost with it being a sleep shirt but I find it odd that she’d tie it up like that to sleep in… Maybe she was hoping to find Hiro in the kitchen…
My guess is that she couldn’t sleep so she tried going to the gym or some other physical activity first, hence the tied up shirt.
With Dabbler’s last statement, “It’s not like she’s going to try to fight that thing”, I immediately thought, “No ….she’s fighting BACK”….. and she’s not doing too bad, either.
I’m pretty sure this is the correct deblur. The second would be O has a rather pronounced gap on the right side, much like a C would.
Nice, page 666 has demon stuff in it!
What a weird coincidence. The first thing I saw when I opened this page was Dabbler in black lacy panties so I scroll down to make a comment on that and what should I see at the side of the page? The same panties in a “la senza” ad.
That…might not be a coincidence. AI has been getting stronger, and Google is one of the pioneers.
Um Dabbs,have you met Sydney?
I’d guess that Maxima is trying to pressure Dabbler into using her alien tech to rescue Sydney. I’m also guessing that the only alien tech that Dabbler has access to that could possibly work would not be able to deal with the opposition that would surely find them. Also, Dabbler would get into huge trouble back home if she brought any team members with her on that trip… possibly including Sydney, which would make that trip guaranteed to be a political problem.
Hmm. I wonder if Dabbler called Carl from ‘Demons ‘R Us’…
HOLY ▛▓▞▓▚▛! Dabbler has four arms, while the other succubi we’ve seen (in that demon school flashback) have only two. Is she possibly a descendant of Xera and Kora?
Two of them are robotic.
She’s only part Succubus. The other parts are Doppelganger and alien. Presumably the second set of arms comes from her alien ancestry?
The other parts are Doppelganger and alien…
If Boxxy wasn’t so self-centered it might be proud.
She has a cybernetic hand, as mentioned in 1771 and 1228. Nothing was said about entire arms. And in 1771 she says that the hand was a result of not being as good at swordfighting as she thought, suggesting that it is a replacement for a biological hand.
Actually she said her arm, not her hand. But just one, not two. Her species apparently normally has 4 arms tho.
I don’t think there’s anything ‘normal’ about Dabbler’s species, since it is a fairly unique mixture.
But at least one of her ancestor species is multi-armed, since according to superhero genetics she should either have a 4-armed (in the “Magic! You get this exact thing from one of your ancestors, because you got it! And no crippling deformities!” methodology) or perhaps a 6- or 8-armed species in her background (in the “Magic! You get a part of something from one of your ancestors, but you got half of it since you’re half that*! And no crippling deformities!” methodology).
* Substitute 1/3, 1/4, or whatever as appropriate. Hell, maybe Dabbler is 1/5 of some 30-limbed species…
One of her arms is cybernetic, not two. One was cut off in a swordfight.
Waitaminit, the number of the Beast is actually 616? That explains so much about how bad Marvel got in recent years.
Nope, Number of the beast is 666
Nope, it’s 666
Depends on if you are talking Greek or Latin. Both numbers work and both numbers refer to Nero.
I think Dabbler’s apron kinda works as a Rorschach test, you see whatever you want to see…
If that were the case, it would be transparent for about 99.9% of the population.
Who says it isn’t in the GrrlPowerverse?
DaveB did specify that the apron has the word censored in-universe. :v
AlyxVixen meant about it being transparent :)
“Censored the cook”? Who does she think she is, Gordon Ramsay?
And here I figured Dabbler just read the original infinity crisis instead of waiting for the movie
Surprise twist, Dabbler was involved in the events of Infinity Crisis several decades ago and many light years away. The entire Marvel universe (Cinematic and comics) is the result of her getting drunk with Stan Lee shortly after her arrival on Earth and telling him adventuring stories all weekend.
Don’t tell Sydney that. It just might break her heart.
Infinity Gauntlet was written by Jim Starlin, not Stan Lee :)
Just have to say, something about Panel 5 really has me loving the looks of the two of them. Maybe because it doesn’t have Max looking so rough?
I love Dabbler, and I look forward to seeing Dabbler’s reaction to Sydney winning against the planet killer. That would be priceless.
It’s implied that they have transportation and are just waiting for Daphne to get wonky again. So did she get any memory from that time or a general sense of when it’s going to go down?
Not a fan of Math and Anvil’s new looks. The change in art style has not been kind to them.
“or a picture of a ▛▓▞▓▚▛.”
Missingno? I didn’t know it had that kind of connotation…
Bet even space truckers blush when they hear “▛▓▞▓▚▛”!
Not Ace Garp though :P
GBH on the other cheek… :D
BTW, it is truly obvious that one must “Aunt Jemima the cook.” Bill Murray set that precedent.
Going to have to ask it… WTF HAPPENED TO MATH?!?!?!?
Maybe he’s just sleepy? But his eyes look really weird for him – with the bug-eyed look he normally has.
Moments like these, I wish it’d go back to the line drawing plus colour style. DaveB’s getting better, but it still tends to look rather smeary.
He’s probably been following Maxima’s orders a bit too long…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1874
well, she DID say ” until he`s bored”
Yeah, that’s what I was wondering about – what are the odds Math will EVER get bored of boobs?
Speaking of out of date things, your comic’s copyright date still says 2017. I don’t think it actually matters that much, but wanted to point it out now that I’ve noticed it.
Oh, hah, that’s just the template for the tall page I used. I’ll update that for the future.
Kenya looks a little strange here, as does Math, is it just lack of makeup and tiredness?
https://giphy.com/gifs/502-HoupOGCh9l2jm
I think she’s better at baking cookies than Dabbler.
Say, a question about something else: On the cover of “Wearing the Cape: Team Ups and Crossovers”, who is the fourth heroine? I recognize Halo, Astra and Velveteen, but who is the lady in green with the Varia hairdo?
My guess is either the soldier woman or the fish hero from the end story.
Art comment.
generally good this time. but the shading on the men’s lineup is HO.RI.BLE!!!
seriously. please fix that… junk. their faces look like they’ve just come out of a brawl and all of them lost.
And bees stung their noses.
Agreed. As I said earlier in the comments, the change in art style has not been kind to them. Particularly Math and Anvil. Math looks a few decades older, and Anvil looks… well, she looks like a completely different person altogether. It actually took me a few seconds to recognize her.
This Anvil more closely resembles Original Flavour Anvil than the more recent (and hotter looking) versions
Heh, oh Dabbler! To paraphrase a common Looney Tunes quote, which was in turn referencing a Red Skelton gag, She don’t know her vewy well, do she?
Dabbles is trying to calm Maxi down, not send her into a deeper depression (or worse, Kill Rage)
so I know I`m being nitpicky here but dabbler`s panties look very flat, not a lot of relief.
ehh I`m just gonna assume they were painted on ;)
They are lace, you try drawing intricate lace-panties by hand and see how long it takes for your hand to last
oh I am fully aware of how hard this pattern is. like I said, I was being very nitpicky, and tried to add a little humour in my comment.
I am by no means dissing Dave’s artwork nor did I intend any disrespect. he is amazingly talented and experience
Well Dabs does like really, really, really skin tight wear considering her swim suit.
Wouldn’t mind adding my batter to Dabbler’s eggs~
let`s be honest. you probably got a fair shot. we all do ;)
Somewhat disappointed that you didn’t use “Hentai The Cook” instead. Allows for clear text, filthy, filthy interpretations by the viewer, lends Sydney some street cred, repetitious joke on Hentai and will bother both Max and Arianna.
Well, Trent may still be in the building…