Grrl Power #686 – Inter(stellar)net famous
“Nursing Sacks” is probably the least flattering thing to call breasts, but they would be pretty weird to an alien species that came from a planet where nothing evolved mammary glands or fed its offspring from its own body.
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The dish Sydney is eating isn’t actually anything beyond the physical capability of human digestion, but you can imagine the reaction of 95% of humans that came by your stall and bit into something hovering around a million scoville. Maybe a million and a half. You know how it is. Every chef does it a bit different, sometimes you get unlucky and you catch the kitchen just after they’ve given everything the mandatory monthly cleaning, and you don’t get any of that deep, baked in flavor.
Suffice to say, while there are some sapient species that can functionally ignore the effects of capsaicin, most species do feel it to either a lesser or greater degree than humans, and this dish is hot enough that anyone who can feel the effects, does.
BTW, some of the crowd in panel 1 are cameos, some aren’t, so don’t kill yourself trying to identify everyone.
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I guess Humans are going to be famous now.
Sydney for Ambassador!
Famous? Infamous? What’s the difference really? :D
Infamous: more than famous!
Say it again, Kenny!
When Arianna finds out she will have to update her spreadsheets again. >;p
Give her time to recover from the biggest (solo-induced) orgasm she has ever experienced first :P
Hands free too.
I think seeing that level of Interstellar fame of Sydney would would be the first time she ever orgasmed herself into near unconsciousness in her life. Simply by viewing the upvote count. Which I think would be high enough that if it were a power level would explode all Scouters in the universe.
Arianna, we are getting orders for Halo merchandise from off planet. They are asking if we have Sydney figures that spit sparks.
And we have some interstellar companies looking for a sponsorship deal with Sydney for their dangerously spicy food. The royalties Sydney would get are astronomical for Earth Standards.
Everything from space is astronomical.
Wouldn’t that be a marketing campaign? Chilli restraunts and cafe’s all over the galaxy could sponsor Sydney and she could come eat at their dina, and do media campaigns “The Most Durable Human in the Galaxy”, “The Human with the Stomach of Adamantium” etc.
Time for a song and dance number
Hello, my baby
Hello, my darling
Hello, my ragtime gal…
Great now that song’s stuck in my head.
Also, guess just how much this song would piss off Maxima.
https://youtu.be/qUKqs51EMqM
What? Since when has Maxi been anti-frog? o_O
Yay, M’Ress!
… What, I can like caitians. Shut up.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed her. I think she was only in four or five episodes of Star Trek the Animated Series but she’s got quite the following regardless
Hmmm, I can’t possible think why.
Well, she’s a canon anthro cat in Star Trek!
You can’t really get much more win than that, can you?
^_^
Nah, it’s all good, fam. One of the earliest instances of anything ‘furry’ that fans of science fiction are probably familiar with. Pity TOS couldn’t get away with her, or any other crewmembers more alien than a vulcan. XD
Yeah, I think pulling her look off in live action was way more than the makeup budget could handle. I mean, original series Klignons didn’t even have rubber foreheads.
More’s the pity. the orange chick assigned to Checkov in “Gamesters of Triskelion” was supposed to be a Caitian, but the time crunch and bean-counters said “no way!”
Where do you come by that information? I can’t find anything to corroborate it.
As far as I know, the first appearance of the species name “Caitian” is in 1974.
Someone also did a webcomic of her…
Fanfics also.
In one she’s stranded on a planet and survives
by depending on her feline ancestry.
You don’t mean Freefall do you?
That’s a Bowman’s Wolf.
Probably M’Iskiti from Haul Trek, who was copyinconsensualycopulated into Lt. Mzzkiti of Freighter Tails fame. Which was a long, long time ago – long enough to slip into compleate obscurity by this point.
She also appeared (with M’Rex) in Peter David’s New Frontier series.
Well, you’re a bobcat, so why not.
Nursing sacks, snicker.
i will say i have heard a lot of descriptions for that, funbags, cancer-sacks (joke a friend made that took), attention grabbers, headlights, her “other eyes”….so many crude ones and only a handful even remotely acceptable to repeat in-front of women without embarrassment. How is it most of them were told to me by women?
“Nursing sacks” thats a new one.
I call ’em food bags, because that’s what they are…but nursing sacks is more accurate. I might use that, or perhaps nursing bags, from now on…
This isn’t the exact one I was looking for, but I only remember a few lines of that one, which are turning up nothing, so this will do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP6MXbRikns
The Robert Lund song is the first thing I thought of. :)
It’s at least an accurate description! XD
“Nursing sacks” is what they are for. Their primary function is to suckle the young. Nourish and boost the child’s immune system. Modified sweat glands to be precise. Logical, all the others were just for males to ogle over.
It was to differentiate the incubators (females) from the inseminators (males), the species almost died out before they worked that out :P
without the males to be ogling, that particular female would have no descendants of her particular genetic strain; it’s logical that men should ogle, emotions and lust drive the reproductive urges; ofc, that’s only purely from a biological standpoint-now that civilization and the idea of romantic relationships have gotten involved it’s rude to look at a woman that way without her permission, so logically it would be a bad idea cuz it would mark that man as an unfit mate due to lack of self-control
I heard them called “nursers” in “Two Broke Girls”.
Well, at least she won’t have to worry about paying for her meal. The entertainment value should be enough for her to get a collection going.
So much nearly free Good Publicity at the cost of only a few bowls of the spicy, worth it.
It was just gonna eat thru the bottom of the pan anyway.
It’s gonna eat through the pan of her bottom in the morning. I’m guessing at least a hypernova followed by a super massive black hole.
For some reason, i think her stomach and intestines are used to the fallout from the high intensity as well.
No one will be safe from the gamma ray burst coming from Uranus.
A Gamma Ray Burst comes from two neutron stars colliding. What the Kutullû race use to wipe out any bothersome species. Fortunately they are “extinct” for a billion years and only their remnants survive. (They liked building dark energy stars which litter their regions of space. Stay out for your own good.)
are you an HP Lovecraft fan?
Unless the food court administraton hires creatures similar to Otyughs, I would pity those who would have to clean the restroom after Sydney uses it…
*Your qualifications?
(I literally have no ability to smell)
*So why are you here?
(Rumor has it the spice hole arrived. I’d like 10 times the ordinary pay for the position of excrement waste removal professional. Once. I have a feeling I will need to follow that entity to it’s home planet to clean the fallout.)
**Sir, someone has eaten three bowls of Grakz
(I require payment in advance)
*You’re hired.
But how did she get the first bowl?
…please tell me it was with googly eyes or gold stars.
Fair point – after the first people are probably buying them for her but…
Don’t get too close there blondie: the fumes may not kill you, butt they may come close to burning your pretty eyes out :P
Space pepper-bees are not to be sneezed at :D
Was meaning the other blondie…
You mean the one that seems to have a living flame on her head? If that’s what it is, I doubt she needs to worry about fumes from spicy food.
She’s also in a Slave Leia outfit…
That’s the one :D
i think it’s a hologram of a flame not an actual flame, maybe what her race views as personal decoration
Delicious grakz, just like Primary Gene Contributor used to make back home!
Cora the Explorer doesn’t rate a mention this time? :(
She better get there quick to get good odds in the pool.
can see it now for the vids title: Super ratings for The Volcano! Two thumbs up on the Scoville scales!
Cool, nice to know that the galaxy at large likes earth sci-fi! Between the slave Leia’s bikini And uhura’ red Starfleet jumper, that’s pretty much the greatest hits… does that mean that the movie “Alien” got out there too? I wonder what that reaction would be like lol!
There was a xenomorph poster on a recent page so I would assume so.
OMG. It’s Bob from accounting in that poster! So thats what he was doing that year!
Would it be sci-fi if it was introduced to Earth pop culture by extraterrestrials? One of the costumers for ILM was really a Twi’lek?
If it’s based on non-earth or future tech and isn’t a straight up biography or documentary then it’s sci-fi to us. Maybe just regular fi to them, though.
Yes, because that’s what happens in MIB, the tv series.
Um, you DO know Star Wars was just Lucas’ re-writing of an alien history textbook he bought while he was on Fracture Station, right?
Good. Just making sure.
Actualy M’ress and Uhura worked together (or were they on
different shifts?) In Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Amazon Prime? Netflix?
I just checked.
Amazon Prime video.
And Netflix
I don’t remeber the exact Starfleet (Or RL military) terminology but IIRC Uhura was head of the Enterprise’s communications team and M’Ress was her deputy. Obviously in any sensible organisation there would have to be round the clock cover for every important position so there would be a team working in shifts.
Not too off topic I hope, but did you notice in the 1960s TV shows….
Mission Impossibe: Black person works the radio.
Hogan’s Heroes: Black person works the radio.
Star Trek: Black person works the radio.
I don’t know about Mission Impossible or Hogan’s Heroes, but in Star Trek having a black communications officer was a deliberate choice. Gene Roddenberry wanted to have a black person in a position of great responsibility on the bridge. The idea was to get white Americans to view black people in positions of responsibility as normal. This was the 1960’s after all, when way too many people still thought that janitor was the most important position a black person could handle. As it was, I believe he still had a rough time convincing the suits to let him have Uhuru. They thought she’d get the show banned in the south. A fear which back then wasn’t as unreasonable as it sounds today.
What nearly got the show banned in the south was the Uhura/Kirk kiss.
If i recall correctly, wasn’t that kiss also the very first interracial kiss in televised history?? that, and when she was at an ECCC a couple of years ago, she said that her and Shatner purposely flubbed up that scene multiple times in order to force the studio to keep the version that THEY wanted in the final cut rather than the one the studio execs wanted to go with.
Actually, it didn’t. The execs thought it would, but in reality, they received very little rage mail. The one “hostile” mail they received, according to Ms. Nichols said, in part, “I am totally opposed to the mixing of the races. However, any time a red-blooded American boy like Captain Kirk gets a beautiful dame in his arms that looks like Uhura, he ain’t gonna fight it.”
Also, Shatner should get more credit for that kiss– he completely and totally screwed up the “not kissing” take the suits wanted at the end of the last day of filming, forcing them to use the scene.
There was pressure on her to leave the cast, too. But a call from Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. himself gave her the strength to carry on.
ever been a janitor? Always always always ask and take the janitor on any type of adventure/space travel.
one: they enter every office and lab, read all the notes and see all the hidden communications/overhear all the “private”conversations.
two: they know where everything is including those spaces that the engineers think are not worth knowing about
Three: they have to be able to fix almost every piece of equipment and so are the generalists while most of the rest of the crew are specialists and
five: they tend to be the people that can synthesize solutions out of the general scrap and materials laying around.
i will never understand folks looking down on janitors when i was teaching/working at OSU most of the janitors where PHD students/holders that needed to be on campus so they could continue research or just to lower the cost of the programs they wanted to be in. lots of time to think, uncomplicated work and plenty of time to check the growth of an experiment all the while being paid to be on campus and available. pretty nice set up IMO.
One of the “Sector General” novels dealt with a doctor whose ethical systems forced her to cut off one of her OWN limbs because she was ordered to amputate a limb on a patient.
I’m not sure how, but she ended up as one of the Maintenence/Engineering staff. (She got a medical job back at the end of the novel, though NOT as a surgeon)
Or it’s the other way round, and some hollywood film directors are aliens with no sense of intelectual property.
Would explain how out of touch with the public they are
Did anyone notice the alien guardsman from Krull?
Maybe it’s his day off?
He’s looking for a new job, seeing how his last employer is, you know, dead
At least he got to keep the snazzy armour :D
Great – she just got there and she’s already famous!
Oh Boy – don’t let her see M’Ress – she would try to get an autograph.
Given Sydney’s previous behavior when she’s met a furry she’d try to do way more than that.
Hair-> Weird.
Sydney must NEVER LEARN OF THIS.
Oh please, we’ve seen her struggle with a headband to keep her bangs back. She knows her hair is weird (for a human).
I doubt her hair is as stubborn as Agatha’s…
I wonder if Agatha Heterodyne is related to Gina Diggers?
I wonder if they serve that Euphorbia resinifera cactus? A mere 10 thousand times hotter than the hottest known hot pepper. Sydles might need a glase of milk to was it down.
Nursing bags!
Misshandling that statistic again? The resinifera isn’t even a cactus, let alone that hot. It’s just a cactus-like spurge that contains a compound that much stronger per weight than capsaicin. It doesn’t contain as much of it as specifically bred chillies do of their compound so the ratio does not hold true between plant and pepper.
That said, though, I would be concerned about rather more than just sheer strength. Resiniferatoxin has such a high heat per weight because it’s a smaller, more efficient molecule without the tail that allows capsaicin to be sparingly water soluble. It’s far harder for bodily fluids like saliva to rip resiniferatoxin away from nerve endings, meaning that it tends to latch on long enough to induce permanent nerve death.
Hot as it might be, it’s also physically impossible to appreciate a second time.
I blame Wired magazine, and Don Trump of course.
Well it could be what’s in the drink she’s having
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resiniferatoxin
The active ingredient in the cactus latex is Resiniferatoxin. It is 500-1000 “hotter” than pure capsaicin which puts it ~5000 times hotter than the upper end of the chili pepper range ( Pepper X, Carolina Reaper, Dragon’s Breath, Naga Morich ). But that doesn’t mean the cactus is thousands of times hotter than chili peppers which are specialized delivery systems chosen for by selective breeding. The cactus shows no such high concentration of active ingredient. Indeed, even the dried latex has resiniferatoxin (RL9) as just one fraction of the C-L component which is 7% of the sample.
Hergenhahn, M., Kusumoto, S. & Hecker, E. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol (1984) 108: 98. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00390980
Also, dried latex is not a popular ingredient in cooking anywhere I know, while chili peppers and their bell pepper relatives form the vegetal and body components of numerous sauces and preparations. The cactus doesn’t appear to be food, but rather a toxic plant sometimes used as traditional medicine.
Let’s see, there’s that cat alien from Star Trek the Animated Series (I forget her name). Behind her is Zeriam from Iria: Zeriam. Even further back is a greens skull in a spacesuit who frankly could be a a LOT of characters, the design is more common than you’d think. The first one that springs to mind is Harry Daghlian from the Manhattan Projects, so I’ll just go with that. Moving forward we’ve got a semi-generic demon, two fish people (one of whom is cosplaying as Slave Leia), and what looks like a pair of D&D Tieflings, one red one grey.
Krull beast soldier next to the tieflings, Planet Express blogger might be Meik?
Hah! Knew that Krull soldier looked familiar
Good eye, I noticed him too. Wonder if it’s a fan of the movie in cosplay, or a rogue that escaped the Beast before his fall.
Beast soldiers are known as SLAYERS!!!!!!!
And I see Atomic Skull in the background. There’s a few others I recognise but typing this in a hurry since I’m running late for stuff.
Red one is actually a Puazi, a race with rather lewd origins. Most notably because, aside from being created by Incase (who happens to draw a lot of porn), is that humans are basically Deltans (if you’re familiar with the Star Trek race) to all Puazi, to varying degrees.
I was thinking that was a Puazi. I don’t know where they’re originally from but I do remember Gwen from Trials.
When I saw that Puazi, I was surprised she wasn’t the one leaning in and wanting to start a conversation with Sydney. If I recall, Puazi find humans extraordinarily sexually alluring, and experience an orgasmic and narcotic effect from human bodily fluids. Maybe the core-breach-level spice fumes are masking the alluring/addictive human scent?
The top left gray creature is an artistic rendering of the dog amalgamation from Undertale.
PUPPIES!! Five of them in fact (or is there more?)
Thank you for knowing who Zeirem is. That was one of the first anime series i bought.
I’ve got an old VHS bootleg of the live action Zeiram that I picked up at the Bi-mon Sci-fi Cons they used to hold here in the Chicago area almost thirty years ago.
The animated Iria serious came out about five years later.
do you also have the live action Zeiram TWO?… with same actors for the two humans
Green skull looks like a green version of https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/William_Rolfson_(Earth-616).
I’m pretty sure it’s actually a NASAGHAST, hard to tell from just the helmet though.
I was thinking the demon one with the horns in the back right, looked like the one that had a one panel, saying Ahha I found you, when they had the press conference of Arc Swat.
“some of the crowd in panel 1 are cameos” => couldn’t help but identify the puazis in the background. Naughty ones, aren’t we ? XD
No no no, it’s knowledge that can be useful, you know, just in case it’s needed…
Like, if this puazi comes near to Sydney and reacts the way they’re supposed to do in presence of humans… ?
Coul it be we just discovered a SECRET ARC #rule 34 into this webcomic ?!
Grakz, it does a Sydney good.
XDDD
You win the comments for this page! *highfives*
“Oh, man, you gotta see what she’s doin’ with the Thaumatian Doom Flakes! She ain’t even usin’ the tongs! She’s jus’ sprinkin’ ’em on! It’s like… OH GODS SHE’S UNSCREWIN’ TH’ CAP!!”
SHE DUMPED THE WHOLE THING!
The AIR is on fire!!!
Given the Puazi’s biochemical issues, Sydney could be in a lot of trouble.
First I wondered how the Puazi could even live a life on earth, then I assumed that most of them would have good enough control over their biochemical urges and that the human would still have to consent, so I think that Sydney wouldn’t need to put up a serious fight.
(But indeed, the Puazi was the only one I recognized on first sight :P)
To be fair, Incase shows the most porn-tacular situations. I’m sure there are plenty of Puazi affected far less than the examples we’ve been given, based on the though-boxes of the first Puazi lady Incase introduced us all to XD
In the original Xenbiology story, InCase introduced us to the character Anna Jelenko. By her own admission she has an extreme reaction to humans. However, InCase once stated (and, I paraphrase here for lack of exact original quote) that “Yeah. Ms. Jelenko is just that much of a slut.” In context, he was explaining that Ms. Jelenkois affected by humans more than the usual Puazi, but that she also uses that as her excuse to engage in copious carnal behavior with humans.
Puazi get along pretty well in human society. And, some of them do so by fornicating their way through most every human they meet. Bob’s wife, Nadia for example, is able to contain herself in the workplace all day long … and then assault Bob on sight when she gets home.
Sydney is as safe as she wants to be. Does make me wonder if Dabbler either has a similar effect on Puazi, or is jealous of the effect humans have on them.
You still have to consent but that doesnt mean Sydney wont be red face blushing with steam coming out of her ears if the Puazi wants to flirt with her.
so… an puazi who resembled Edward Elric would Sydneys kryptonite?
> Does make me wonder if Dabbler either has a similar effect on Puazi, or is jealous of the effect humans have on them.
Remembering the shape-shifting Dabbler did for general Faulk, I’m sure she can have all the effect she wants on them :^)
Now, if only David and InCase were to connect and collaborate on a crossover side story.
“Xuriel’s Vacation On The Planet Of Puazi”
Excuse me now. I have some intricate and drawn out daydreams to fantasize about.
True, but on the other tentacle we can’t assume that this particular Puazi knows about humans and the *interesting* biochemical interactions they have with her species. Even if she knows enough about humans to identify Sidney as one, it will likely only be academic knowledge, not the practical experience Earth-dwelling Puazi have had to acquire, so how much self-control she’d retain should an accident happen is anyone’s guess.
Also, fridge logic/fridge horror: is there a minimum age/developmental stage for Puazi to get affected by human secretions? Nadia’s daughter and son are proof that teenage Puazi are already affected, but what about younger ones? Well, InCase isn’t into loli/shota, so I suspect that he’d say that they have to hit the Puazi equivalent of puberty to feel the effect/the full effect, but that’s still pretty scary when you think about it: puberty hit humans hard enough as it is…
“Nadia’s daughter and son are proof that teenage Puazi are already affected”
Technically they’re in college with the way he describes them.
If she said no to Dabbler, she’ll say no to a Puazi…
I think…
Sidney isn’t the one I’m worried about in this case: Dabbler is a full-grown succubus in full control of herself. This Puazi girl, OTOH, could be totally unaware that Sidney is a living aphrodisiac for her species and that a mere touch or whiff might send her into a nymphomaniac trance, if she’s one of the ones with a strong reaction.
Of course, for all we know she could also be doing regular tourism on Earth under a disguise ^^”
I like stewed beef tendon. But because a blonde woman who can’t tell the difference between gelatin and fat freaked out with “You served me a bowl full of fat”, the SF Chinatown restaurant was reluctant to serve it to any more caucasians.
Haha. Mammals are the only class of animals on earth that are affected by capsaicin. Makes this page a little ironic.
actually untrue. We’re just the only species that ENJOYS eating it. pretty much everything else considers it toxic, kinda like Theobromine, or just doesn’t care.
That doesn’t jive with most of my reading on capsaicin. I know birds are unaffected by it, and apparently the chemistry supports this behavioral finding (it doesn’t bind to nerve receptors in their mouths the way it does to mammals). I don’t know about other classes of animal. A brief googling turned up conflicting results regarding amphibians and reptiles, and some research papers that are well beyond my meager biology education. Although I did learn that capsaicin kills or deters certain fungi which is pretty interesting.
Recent research suggests that it may, in fact, just inhibit the fungi’s reproduction.
You’re half right but mostly functional. Back in the day meat, especially fish and paultry but also beef and the like – were almost huranteed to have worm lavae or other parasyte eggs in them. High capsiacin levels in foods though would kill those parastyes usually at egg form but for definite once they hatched – so spicy food was actually intended to prevent infestation and sickness.
Since then most people just enjoy it for taste. Also Dogs and cats can have spicy food but at their body sizes and weights they can only tollerate 1/10,000th of what the Average human can. If your dogs have worms it was common to spice their meat with ground peppercorns. etc.
If it’s been proven it kills or deters fungi, then that could explain its use in flavoring foods, as a way to slow decay, and would thus be useful as a component in food preservation…which would be really handy for the thousands of years people didn’t have modern fridges and freezers and vacuum-pack equipment.
Just to be clear Humans are the only species who enjoy it but all mammals are affected by it. I can tell you first hand that dogs do not enjoy it.
It has been found, both anecdotally and in a variety of studies, that other mammalian species can and will develop a taste for chilli if forced. They just don’t have the cultural use of it that we do.
… I don’t suppose Halo’s thought about how she’s going to pay for this has she. XD Then again, the person manning the counter might just consider it payed with how much attention she’s drawing to their booth.
The crowd can be expected to put up a few Yeets each.
Joe gets paid and Sydney gets some spendable curency.
“It’s not displaying its nursing sacks like most of them do…”
…what envoys have we been sending? Are we going to find out soon that Dolly Parton has a storied career as an intergalactic ambassador?
Yes, she is, to Dirt, not from Dirt :P
Just like El-Ves and Mikle Jaxson :D
Nah, more likely they are tuning in to the Playboy Channel or Porn.hub ;)
The lost episode of SNL explained this.
Dolly Parton was exiled to Earth because
hers were so small.
Maybe they are familiar with Vale’s human form?
It has been my experience that the nursing sacs are fairly visible on most human females above a cup in size with most outfits. There are some outfits that can effectively hide C cup ranges especially depending on body type.
This wasn’t the kind of page I expected, not at all. But what it is, though, is a whole lot better than what I had pictured.
Thumbs up!
Oh, and thumbs up for the mighty ship, Planet Express Ship cap!
That’s one way to have Deus catch wind of her presence…
deus and Sydney are not going to cross paths in this arc as it would give to much away
Is the Puazi on the far right a canon character or is it simply a guest appearance?
I suppose both. Nearly all of fiction seems to be alive and well in Grrl Power. So smut has its place! There are already succubi anyway.
… and if there are no incubi, well, a male puazi will do-
Future Grrl Power comic idea:
We are in the middle of a battle!
Fiery explosions and lightning flashes are all around!
Spells flung and debris hurled!
Quips exchanged and insults parried!
….
and then… a rumble begins…
above the startled combatants… a ship… massive and terrible… it parts the very clouds with its decent…
It hovers above them… a ramp extends… and as it touches the ground trembles for miles….
A creature steps forth. Its frame massive, great tusks jutting out of its moth, its a huge club like polearm casually held in one hand as its alien eyes taking in each of the earthlings and finally settling on Halo. Extending its free arm and it indicates that she is the one it seeks and speaks in an alien language.
Maxima: Dabbler….
Dabbler: Hold on a second…*Dabbler doing magic-science things*…. its… an invitation..? *Dabbler speaking back, the Alien responds, Dabbler does more magic-science things,Dabbler speaks again, Alien speaks again.*
Maxima with twitchy face: DABBLER!!
Dabbler: They… want Sydney ….. a trail? contest? *Maxima give Halo the “WHAT DID YOU DO!!!??? death stare*
Halo: Gah! *Halo flees and is inside bubble and also hiding behind Anvil and holding up Achilles with the tentacle as a shield.*
Dabbler: This can’t be right…
Maxima: Dabbler ……..
Dabbler: Well it can’t be… its… they want her as a judge for a spicy food cookout….thing?
Halo with HUGE googly eyes: OOooooOOOOooooh! *Halo with maxed speed appearing before the Alien with a smile so creepy its even freaking him out…if its a him*
Maxima with DEATH STARE turned up to ULTRA behind Halo: Recruit…Did I give you permission to leave?
Far in the background. Random Villain A to Random Villain B in a whimpering voice: Why haven’t we run away yet?
Random villain B responds to random villain a I don’t know about you but I’m screaming this to social media it’s not every time that we get to see aliens from outer space come specifically for one of the heroes we’re fighting. Also a pretty sure that that golden mother hen would have us knocked out the second she knows his we were trying to escape
Random villain C gets very angry and starts shouting: “Hey, I like spicy food, too! I can out-eat ANY stupid Archon superhero!! I can judge that contest!”
Sydney: “Eat-off! Hey, alien, got any Grakz??”
Random villain C: eats one spoonful, face turns red, eyes stream tears, spoon hand shakes… Bravely eats two spoonfuls–taps out, screaming and begging for mercy.
Sydney: finishes first bowl, asks for another.
I am now hoping that someone is t recording this for dabbler in fact Cora are the Explorer should get a view of it before she goes to pick up Sydney. Reason being at least then she’ll know the being she’s looking for looks like
In the next strip….
Vale: Huh. They have smartphones too. I would have expected something more advanced.
Deus: A news bulletin? Several different speices are checking their phones.
Vale: Are they looking at us?
Just because it LOOKS like a smartphone doesn’t mean it’s not much more advanced than ours. Like, HIS probably has FTL net connection.
So the legend of Halo begins. I wonder how she’s going to cover the cost for that food that she’s wolfing down
Royalties and “residuals” (the painful kind).
If the owner has any spin at all, he’ll give it to her on the house in exchange for the free advertising at a minimum, and try to get her to be an official sponsor / spokesperson if at all possible.
Well, she didn’t start any intergalactic incidents… yet. Nice cameos BTW.
Wait until she’s asked to pay :|
Well, the 1st thing she said was that she didn’t had any money.
Page seems to be borked on my old android. the right panel appears, but then the comic shifts right & covers it.
Android 6.0.1, Samsung Note 4, kernel 3.10, if that helps.
I like how that panel describes Sydney! At least it didn’t call her “retarded!”
Cora is all ready to go!!!
Pray she gets Sydney back home…!
“Human eating Grax!? And no spontaneous combustion yet? Oh, i just gotta see this!”
“Not displaying her nursing sacks”. See this is what happens when others species intercept non stop broadcasts of the Kardashians and then assume our entire planet is this backwards. Would explain why so many of them come here expecting a non stop sex vacation though.
or its more to the fact most species only have visible breasts while nursing their young and this including our closest relatives the apes.
“Not displaying.” doesn’t mean uncovered. Look at the alien ladies behind Sydney, their breasts, even if they’d been fully covered, are still visible. Sydney, however, is flat as a board. She is not displaying breasts, which are one of the primary ways to easily tell a male from a female at the quickest glance.
How is that backwards? Also, how is having mostly bared breasts backwards, even? Should everyone just wear burkas then, since showing skin is apparently primitive? I swear, the more these types show up the more it seems like we’re going back to the 1800s.
@Whatnow – You misunderstand. I am talking about the Kardashians in general being backwards, not someone showing a bit of skin. With their “antics” being broadcast into space as we talk it doesn’t give other sapient species the idea that humans can be rather intelligent.
so, poeple have identified some things, but i dont think there is a complete list of referernces anywhere yet?
so, leyah and startrek shirt are obvious (someone said there was even a cat character in ST)
some identified “puazi” (the red thiefling lokoing one?)
Right next, someone called out “krull beast”
greenskull had a name but i cant find it again. (wait, zeriam was it?)
the cowboy robot to me looks like the one from blade bunny (not sure if still runing)
right next to him is what appears to be the “butcher” from diablo series.
i believe thats leaves…
the fishman
the gray not!thiefling
the ghost
the stall owner
the weired light in the shadow face, between “the butcher” and the fish
The green skull guy isn’t Zeiram. Zeiram is the guy between him and the Diablo knock off. Source material is Iria btw. I’ve got the box set. :P
Source material for Zeiram is two live action movies. The anime is a later prequel.
Heh, didn’t think anyone else knew about Blade Bunny :P
The guy with the glowing green skull should be the animated corpse of Major Tom. Venture Bros., The Ghosts of the Sargasso. Season 1, episode 6.
But, he’s not screaming.
True, and I mis-remembered his outfit. Major Tom just had a tattered flight suit while having the glowing skull, not a full enclosed suit. But either way, perhaps he would be screaming if he tried the stuff Sydney is eating.
I think it’s a NASAGHAST, from Dr. McNinja, but not sure because of the coloring and because we can’t see the rest of its body.
Event older thatn Venture Bros… SEE Johhny Quest late 1960’s was a villain horror from that series. (re Skull guy)
Woo Zeram! iris was one of my first anime!
Well, this post made me laugh. Far too long and loud for my work environement, even at midday break…..
I blame Sidney!
Midday and working…Britain?
Have a safe Comic as Usual Day.
Deus: “Gotcha!” picks up Sydney
Syd: Quietly “Excuse me…”
D: “Why did you say that?”
S: Louder “Excuse me again.”
D: “Huh?”
S: Belches loudly into Deus’ face causing Deus to cringe and recoil dropping Sydney.
Crowd: Laughing at Deus for the humorous reaction
Shopkeeper:
D: “Vale, what did he say?”
Vale: “Pay up, clean up, oh and I’ll be able to retrieve you in a month”
D: “Wait what?”
Cora: “Come on Sydney, time to go home…”
S: “Now what’s going on”
C: “Dabbler sent me to ‘retrieve’ you”
S: “Ah ok, what about my bill and him?” pointing at Deus
C: “No need to worry, it looks like he is paying your bill”
S: “Squeee” to Shopkeep “Can I get more Grak to go?”
SK: Hands over several containers
C: “Grak… Grak… Woah that stuff is volatile”
S: “Meh, it’s only just hot enough, I’ve been adding these spicy flakes”
C: “Ground dried pepper scorpion venom flakes” O.o
S: “Can I get some of those to go too…”
Heck, even on Earth, humans are unique in that the female of the species has its mammaries constantly on display. Other mammals, even primates, only have mammaries on display while actively nursing young.
Some mammals don’t even have mammaries!
Scientists aren’t exactly sure why that is.
We are also somewhat unique in that we don’t have a mating season at all. We are just constantly horny.
It might be because they lay eggs.
It’s entirely down to sexual selection. Human males are, for the most part, predisposed to prefer well endowed females as mates. Supposedly there initially may have been a correlation between size and glandular productivity. That sets in the preference for size that continues to be selected for. Metabolic efficiency curtails the productivity angle, and the general demands of survival kills off any outliers of excessive size before they can contribute to the gene pool.
https://livestocktrail.illinois.edu/dairynet/paperDisplay.cfm?ContentID=297
Common misconception. While unique among primates. They aren’t the only species that have predominant / a majority of breast growth / development pre-pregnancy.
But if you’re talking about human like breast in terms of location and development. Look no further than Elephants.
https://www.nathanmyhrvold.com/index.php/travel/essay/elephants-have-fabulous-tits
I’m a bit surprised Dabbler mentioned Spicy in describing Sydney. She was on a dead planet being attacked and no known Interstellar flight capabilities. Unless she told Cora to have spicy food on hand since Sydney might be hungry.
Could be she just has the tags already set up, and just sent them as is to Cora.
Again, have to question how she’s getting by for paying for that. Usually places like that make you pay before they actually serve you the food.
He may not be able to speak English, but he can understand it, so he’s encountered them before. He’s probably seen a few humans try it and beg for mercy…and gave her the first bowl free for the sheer curiosity…and when she got the second bowl, look at all the customers he’s attracted! Some -will- linger, and maybe try the grakz for themselves to see if it’s “too weak” (though one presumes the fumes are potently apparent)…and they’ll buy other foods, since if he made it good enough for a human to withstand, the rest is probably great, too.
Pay? Now it will be easy. one engraving on the counter where Sydney’s sitting.
“The first offworld human Halo sat here and survived MY Grack, and liked it”
Yep. With all the free publicity and the crowd he’s getting, I’m sure that makes up for not having alien currency. What with how many peeps are putting vids on SpaceYoutube. Heck it’s be really interesting to see Dabbler watching those vids and commenting.
Doesn’t Sydney’s utility belt now include safety glasses for when she dines in just this manner?
Is that the Mother****ing Cyberdemon in the back?!
Didn’t know you were half-Cyberdemon…