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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Sydney better make sure that the Puazi girl in the top right corner doesn’t get too close. That look in her eyes seems to indicate she’s already picked up on the smell of human pheromones and is looking to come and lick the source directly!
Always fun to see InCase’s alien race creation show up in mainstream stories.
Same here.
I recognize the three on the top right along the top.
And the green glowing skull could actually be one of a few characters. It isn’t all that uncommon for a glowing green skull, lol.
I recognize the slave girl clothes, but not their wearer.
And I recognize the Star Trek clothing, but can’t remember an anthro cat person in any of the series I’ve seen.
The cat was from the Animated series.
And one of them is sporting the Princess Leia bikini.
Yes, I saw that too. I thought someone else had noted it before me.
No cat wearing a bikini on this page…
M’ress, a Caitian from the ST Animated series. The created her to add some more “alien” crew members and made her the second communication officer so she could fill in when Ms Nicholle (Uhura) was unavailable to do voice acting due to other contract obligations. She was voiced by Rodenberry’s wife (who was Nurse Chaple, the voice of the computer ST, STNG, DS9, and STV, as well as Dianna Troy’s mom).
heh. i spotted M’ress in that crowd first! she was my fav character from the animated series… (i was a kid who loved cats, what can i say >.> ) and yeah Majel Barret has had at least a voice part in every single Star Trek series… ^_^
Same here, M’ress stands out in the crowd due to her colorful, simple uniform. I was actually the first on the forums to suggest Caitians be added to Star Trek Online, and they were like the first species to be added after release.
Also, when the devs asked what species people want to be added, it was my post suggesting the devs responded to dirrectly, with three of the species I asked for being highlighted as dev favorites. All 3 species were from TAS, 2 of which got added, but 1 of the 2 had to be renamed for trademark reasons, the other being the Kzinti. The 3rd species the devs highlighted from my suggestions was the Aquans, who are a humanoid species that breathes water instead of air.
anthro cat person in the Star Trek clothes is from the Animated version of Star Trek.
The glowing skull astronaut is from a Scooby Doo episode about a scary ghost ship bringing a cackling demon astronaut. He is the “Space Kook”.
Considering what she’s eating it could backfire trying to lick the source.
what is puazi?
It’s an alien race created by an artist called Incase.
It’s amazing how many people that are big into sci-fi don’t even know about the existence of the Star Trek animations. Glad to see Dave did one of my favorite characters from it, and of course, she was voiced with the stereotypical cat sounds in her speech. Too bad she’s not holding a tribble as well. That series had the 2nd tribble episode, “More tribbles, more troubles”.
The Puazi are an alien race created by porn comic artist InCase. They are humanoids with orange and black skin patterns and short forehead horns as well as goatlike rectangular irises. Their most notable feature is their reaction to human pheromones, scents and fluids which trigger immediate arousal to a level that rivals the most addictive drugs, giving them a similar high when they come in direct physical contact with humans.
Wait a minute, those are red noodles. Is “grakz” just what Fusion were serving?
Hopefully there is no repeat of the noodle incident.
Indeed. I can’t imagine that they have human eye cleansing facilities as readily available as we do on earth.
She is wearing her glasses this time.
One lens is cracked though…
Doubtful the noodle incident will be repeated…. she’s wearing her glasses now. She wasn’t wearing them at Fusion.
Odd that you call the noodle incident a noodle incident.
(Warning… TV Tropes may waste hours of time.)
There’s a trope named ‘The Noodle Incident’.
Normally, it refers to an incident that happened in the past
mentioned in passing and not mentioned again.
Astra mentioned her Paulina Street Noodle Incident in Recursion.
It may actually have involved noodles.
And Maxi upgraded it to a “Mosque Incident”
Countdown to Sydney mistaking her rescuers for bounty hunters…
Who says they aren’t? o_O
Yea, that’s pretty much a given. The problem is that she can cause a LOT of collateral damage on station that someone’s going to be on the hook to pay for, whilst trying to escape or eliminate the ‘bounty hunters’.
Also, betting Deus stumbles upon the scene with Sydney trying to evade ‘bounty hunters’ and charges ARC ‘a nominal fee’ (with eight or nine digits) to provide transportation for their wayward member back home.
That would be the normal way it would work out, so I’m giving even odds that Sydney voluntarily goes with them.
Maybe Dabbler gave them a trust-password so Sydney will know they’re on the level (I’m guessing it’s a reference to Maxima Bingo).
Grabthars’ Hammer!
“Come with me if you want to live.”
“Do you want to build a snowman?”
“Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of pure imagination.”
(Names the cinematic Batman actors in order.)
Let’s see, what recognition codes and counter-signs could you use?
“I’m supposed to tell you I’m Luke Skywalker and I am here to rescue you, but my name’s really Cora.”
“Counter-sign: You came in that? You are braver than I thought!”
—
“Are you McFly? Marty McFly? Western Union; I have a package for you. You are supposed to give me a counter sign.”
“Doc, is that you?”
—-
“I am the horror that flaps in the night.
I am the scotch bonnets that contaminate your omelette.
I am …?”
“Darkwing Duck!”
Oops, “I am the terror that flags in the night.” I guess she is double-translating it and chose the wrong word for “scary thing”.
“No, the counter sign I have is not ‘Han shot first!'”
I really want that to be the joke now. The Star Wars line would be perfect.
Oops. I goofed the counter-sign. You came in that thing. You’re braver than I thought!”
Or simplest route, they can open a direct line of communication using a quantum entanglement communication device with Dabbler back on Earth…with Maxima in the background to speak with Sydney directly.
The biggest issues to arise will be a possible suspicion from Dabbler that Sydney has what is coming across as possible ultra tech portal capabilities…and has not only ended up on the Fracture…something that we know Sydney stumbled upon as a past orb wielder had possibly been there, but as an apparent common intergalactic hub…but also found her way to the spiciest food there…yeah Dabbler may have doubts now Sydney is from Earth originally.
Except Dave explicitly said on that one long, medium, foreground shot page that this was the closest Deus & his bodyguard would get to crossing paths with Sydney.
A few hours later.
Deus: So this place you are taking me to specializes in human food?
Vale: Well, specializes is probably too strong a word, but this restaurant comes highly recommended for your species. Ah, here we are.
Deus: This dive? This does not even qualify as a food court, let alone fine dining. Hopefully they are serving meals to humans and not serving meals of humans. Excuse me, what are you serving?
The server/cook taps a manual interface. Dues puts his hand on it.
Interface: Species recognized. Recommended meals:
ʶ̥ˠ͡ϪЯՑՔ֍ٸ ***** Absolutely the best! – S.S.
ʶ֍ٸضףࢴᴞ ** Desert was not that good. – S.S.
Deus: Um, well, if it the best for that human, I guess I can try it. 1 please.
Vale: Oh, so that is why it is highly recommended for humans; this is probably the only place that has served a human, well that survived anyway. <Excuse me, but how many humans have you served?>
Server: <Just one, a few hours ago. It could not get enough of my grakz. It ate 4 bowls of it before it asked for some rastigak. It did not seem to enjoy the rastigak as much. Mind you, I would not want those flavours in my injection orifice at the same time myself.>
Vale clicks on the highly recommended review and starts reading.
Deus: Ah, here’s the meal. Looks okay. A lot of flavour in the aroma. Let’s take a bite.
Vale: Deus! Wait! the review says…
Too late!
Deus: Yeoch! Water!
Oops. ingestion orifice.
Hey, it could be an injection orifice for that species.
Of course, everyone will jump to conclusions when Cora’s team arrive.
The crowd scatters, the shops close their shutters and Sydney palms the Force Field and Teleport Orbs.
“Sydney Scofield! Come with us! We’re taking you to…”
And around this point, wacky mayhem ensues.
I recognize three of those aliens. One is a Cyberdemon lookalike, another looks to be from Star Trek, and the last is the Pauzi. The only one of those i least expected to be there is the Pauzi. Although I think I have seen that fish man somewhere… Also is that an Andromedon in the far background with the skull face?
Also I think that is the Doggo Amalgamation next to the Andromedon
Although the Andromedon looks sorta like a Scoody Villain that I vaguely remember.
The CoyboyBot reminds me of the Coyboy Bounty Hunter Robot from bladebunny.com.
The Puazi, you mean?
I suspect humans are quite well known galaxy wide. The appearance of Supers (described here as gene-mods) has got to have *everyone* freaked out because nobody can explain it.
Interesting that you see “gene-mods” as synonymous with “supers” when, to me, it heavily implies an artificially created species variant. The two interpretations aren’t necessarily contradictory but this would be a hell of a way to discover that those with powers were all sons and daughters of abductees or something and that everyone off-planet was in the know.
Wouldn’t make sense. Aliens are part of the Council back on Earth, and they don’t know where supers come from. Unless the aliens have chosen not to share that I suppose, but it’d be a bit odd.
“she dosen’t look” …
because she dosen’t have the standard super BODY, no ultra tall, perfectly beautiful, and massive boobs hanging out.
So they think she’s a normal.
Actually…. #680 is what aliens consider average human women.
Aliens seeing Sydney may wonder if there’s a race or caste or gender of humans they’re unaware of.
Something to do with the Orbs? She’s an Orb keeper, whatever that is
So obviously, no nursing sacks, because of the Orbs.
I really want a comparison or situation that shows how hot the noodle s are. If she’s creating this much of a stir, they must be paint peelingly hot, lol.
Personally, I’m waiting for someone to look at her and declare the Gratz wasn’t properly made, demend a bowl, and burn their mouth. After all, if shes’ eating it, it can’t be that hot, right? ;)
You don’t need a comparison to show how hot the noodles are. Dave gave a range. 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 Scoville units. That’s basically the low end of Trinidad moruga scorpions. Or, another way of looking at it, it’s around 1/16th to 1/11th pure capsaicin.
Think this stream might hit Earth to Dabbler before Sydney gets back?
Dabbler: Max, Sydney is fine…
Maxima: Yes! Where is she?!
Dabbler: Uhhh…
*Dabbler shows live stream of Sydney wolfing down bowl of Grakz*
Maxima: WHERE IS SHE?!?!
Dabbler: Um, come up to the roof with me. See that star there, the white one that looks like it is blinking?
Max: They all look they are blinking; they are twinkling because of the air!
Dabbler: That is random. That one is blinking because it is a pulsar. Well, Sydney’s there, about 137 years after the light we are seeing now left there.
Max: So she is 137 light years away, on a planet around that pulsar?
Dabbler: Well, about that…
Max: What do you mean she’s on a functioning Dyson Sphere?
Dabbler: Well, it was functioning before she got into a contest to see how spicy she can go
Max: “Spicy”?
Dabbler: Her food
What with Cora all locked and loaded, I’m wondering if we are about to witness the most epic dine-and-dash ever.
There will be a line up of aliens wiling to pay for her meal. Get in on the fame.
I would think with that crowd Joe would be selling
drinks and applicable junk food while Sydney is eating.
The second and third bowls were to keep her busy
so that potential customers would stay.
No one else would order the grackz.
Isn’t it odd that the phrase “Your money’s no good here.” has two interpretations.
1) The scanner doesn’t recognize Earth money.
2) Joe made 20 sales during her performance and the Seconds and Thirds were to draw out the suspence. Grakz isn’t that expensive. It’s practically Ramen. It’s on the house this time.
Or… Cora could pay and Sydney could give her an IOU. Remember that Sydney is being paid bigtime by Archon and Cora is tasked with bring Sydney back to Earth where her credit cards will work.
I get the feeling Cora owes Dabbler a few “favors.”
Probably why Dabs is making cookies
Surprised that no one spotted the Zeiram in first panel.
One other commented on it in the first page of comments. As i said to him, thanks for knowing what Zeirem is, i still have my copy of that show on dvd.
Same here.
this show is awesome it has two of my favorite anime/tokusatsu artists:
Keita Amemiya for the Zeiram
Masakatsu Katsura for the character design
I spotted him as well. Love that show. Aria is on of my fav anime characte.
oh i saw it… had that “i swear i recognize that thing” moment… but no, i had no idea what it was. thanks for enlightening me. lol
Might be due to my status as an oldtaku or my near Sydney nerd fu levels but i noticed Zeram and M’ress about the same time
I didn’t recognize any cameos in the first panel. I have failed as a nerd.
It’s okay.
Someone has to mate.
(Sounds like a lot of work.)
Now all nerds who have not been able to be NERDS know their responsibility it is to expand the nerd population in the hope that some of their offspring might be able to ascend to the peak of nerddom and ensure the way of life does not die.
Honestly, you would have to have been a SUPER NERD to get a couple of the cameos.
M’Ress for example, that is the “Cat girl” in the original Star Trek uniform. She is from Star Trek: the Animated Series. That is the little known (but much loved) series made in the 1970’s. She was the second comm officer to give the crew a more “diverse” range of Aliens.
Surprising fun fact: half of the episode are considered Cannon. Which half? I have no idea. But to me, the whole thing is cannon because Mr. Roddenberry was involved, and most of the original writers and staff. Anyone who says differently is wrong. (stupid rights management issues)
Update: according to Wikipedia, apparently there is no more issue with Cannon. In 2009 the whole thing was declared cannon.
Well that just made my day even better. Glorious.
Noted,
start
running,
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I know I’ve seen that specific green skull in a circle on armor before but I can’t place it.
OG Scooby Doo from the second season, airport haunted by space freak.
This guy?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/swhAv9VcBWc/maxresdefault.jpg
I’ve never seen Scooby Do (though I could have seen clips or images) and that’s not quite the same.
Oh man I would totally do this on Halloween.
https://www.famoushelmet.com/products/full-face-motorcycle-helmets-visor-flip-up-green-skull-skeleton-ghost-rider
That’s the dude…under the costume.
“It’s voice is squeaky. I guess it could be a juvenile. The nursing apparatus does not grow for them until adolescence for them right? I mean, look at the feline female I am standing beside. See how her nursing sacs are pushing out the clothing on the front of her thorax?”
Amazing how many of these “aliens” are built on the mammalian model. The xenobiologists I have listened to have a consensus that if your alien has all the characteristics of a mammal and could be accurately labelled that way, it is probably a local (that is from Earth) that we just did not know about before. It is easier to find humans to play your alien if the alien looks somewhat human. So all those “alien” cats most likely have a Terran origin. Mind you, there is such a thing as convergent evolution, but that many times?
The Ancients came to Earth millions of years ago and decided to take some lions, clearly intelligent, at the top of their food web, and inadvertently uplifted them over the millennia. They totally ignored those small bipedal savanna walkers, with their simple tools, in the middle of the food chain. Any stupid monkey can pick up a stick or smash two rocks together (not recognizing that the stick has been shaped into a spear or the techniques of flint knapping).
Larry Niven explained away the remarkable similarities between humans and Kzinti (no, really: the Kzinti even like bourbon) by establishing that they and we are descended from the same species of planetary food yeast the Slavers used to feed their slaves.
There exists outside of time and space seven celestial eldritch beings, whom created beneath themselves hosts of eternal and immortal races, and finding the universe filled with forms unlike their own, wandered what sorts of creatures could result by influencing the biology of those races to take on shapes similar to their own. For this reason many races have either for the male, female, or both. developed four limbs, grasping hands, long tendrils or hair on the head, two large eyes, small noses, wide mouths, and a wedge, lactation glands, venom glands, or other structures high on the torso with a thinner waist and wider hips with long back legs.
Other eldritch beings had done the same, resulting in many races with tentacles, starfish like bodies, or blob forms. Thus populating the lower planes with beings that upon looking at them see themselves as gods. As well as a way to foster a better first contact situation.
-others just straight up seed worlds in the multiverse with various versions of the same thing or multiple planets with “simplest form colonization”…take a template of your own genome, manipulate that of the local biology so it CAN evolve into a similar shape via that template to code for specific body structures. So when they eventually do evolve into your likeness you can show up and claim the planet as a colony and claim the locally evolved variant as your colonists. *imagine the confusion in some species when the vaguely like them aliens show up and claim they are (in a way) descended from them*.
The guy speaking on the communicator is wearing a Planet Express ballcap.
Honestly, judging by Sydney’s face, this is not the spiciest thing she’s eaten this comic. Whatever she had in Archon’s food court was significantly spicier.
But she’s eating it IN SPACE.
It’s her third bowl, she has adapted to it.
There’s no evidence of her sinuses leaking this time, not even a receptacle for used tissues. Therefore it’s not as spicy.
Look closer: there is something leaking from her right nostril and left eye
…..I appear to have failed my spot check.
Easy to miss :D
The noodles in the food court were not overwhelming until one hit her eye.
They did make her nose leak though.
Those spicy flakes are actually spiky flakes. The pain is not from a chemical triggering the heat receptors on your nerve cells, but due to physical damage, which ends up triggering the heat receptors on your nerve cells, by physically jamming open the pores on your cells and letting the potassium ions out.
“… but you can imagine the reaction of 95% of humans that came by your stall and bit into something hovering around a million scoville…”
I find one ‘Scoville’ to be quite enough… LOL
If it was that hot, wouldn’t Sydney be sporting some reddened cheek bones and some sweat on her forehead? Watery eyes? Just don’t slurp it and noodle smack your eye again Syd!!!
While the current art style doesn’t seem to show it off as well as before, she still has a rather visible red, runny nose and the area around and under her eyes can be seen to be somewhat empinkened in panel two. I imagine that we are still seeing all of the effects that you mentioned.
And, as for the rating, I think Dave might be underestimating how hot 1 million SHU actually is. A single 1 million pepper will usually do when I want a really hot dish so I seriously doubt that 5% of the population could handle an entire meal that strength.
Seriously, one such pepper is sufficient for a massive pot of Chilli for 50 or more people. Those things go a long way.
I eat Ghost Chilies with omelets, or in salsa con queso, or in curry(Bhaingan Bharta) on a regular basis, and the hottest(so far) meal I’ve had uses Carolina Reapers, at one million and a bit over one point five million Scoville respectively.
My late brother and I used to constantly try to out-scoville the other with the spicy-hottest foods we could make. One five quart pot of chili usually had peppers ranging from Thai Dragon at the lowest up to Ghost Chilies, and we usually stuck them in the pot not knowing the other had already spiked it, so we had zero clue how many peppers were used. I think Sydney and I would get along infamously regarding food, and everyone would fear us in the kitchen if we were cooking. So no, one is never enough.
ARC Maintenance is going to hate her. If the headquarters connects to a municipal sewer system….
The green glowing skull dude was in an Atomic Robo story. It was a guard on a Nazi space station equipped with kinetic weaponry that Robo needed to fight some menace on Earth.
Actually that one is a classic Scooby Doo monster.
I thought that was Atomic Skull from DC comics, except that I’m pretty sure he was purple, not green.
I can just see Sydney in the morning…
*stomach gurgles* “Wuh-oh…” *Runs to bathroom*
*Sydney, as heard through the closed bathroom door* “BLOWOUT!!! DAMPER THREE!!! I CAN”T HOLD IT!!!”
Sydney runs very fast but also in slow motion. Gotta respect the classics.
… and her eye goes “booboobooboobooboobooboobooooooo….”
You’re right… you gotta respect the classics…
Have you seen the new commercial Lee Majors narrates with the Steve Austin Doll? Altima I think…
“They’ve made the Altima better… stronger… faster… wait a minute… where have I heard that before?”
I laughed for like ten minutes after I heard that…
The green glowing skull creature was the guard on a Nazi space station in an Atomic Robo story.
3 eyed pseudo storm trooper from Krull
HA! CALLED IT!
Mostly…
Also Happy Thanksgiving all!
I submit that the most demeaning epithet for humans is “man-spawn” (memorably used by Panne in Fire Emblem Awakening). Please comment with something even worse if you know one.
I would love to hear somebody with more molecular biology knowledge than me weigh in on the odds of an alien species having the receptor that capsaicin binds to. I mean, non-mammals on Earth do fine without it, so it’s clearly not required.
The actual odds are fairly impossible to calculate, but it’s certainly plausible. A lot of whether or not a species is affected by capsaicin is down to their diet and role in their biosphere. Birds are insensate to capsaicin, and this benefits both them and the plants that bear capsaicin, because birds need food and are an excellent distributor of undigested seeds.
They actually do /have/ the relevant receptor (transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 or just TRPV1 for short), but it’s working differently in avians than it does in mammals, and one of those differences is in it’s failure to react to capsaicin.
It’s most likely the case that mammals as a broad group never developed such immunity (or developed a particular sensitivity) because A. We never needed to in our biosphere and B. At least some subset of mammals have identified capsaicin as a positive thing to be able to taste.
In humans, we have an association between ‘spicy’ food and ‘clean’ food, with the strong flavor of things like capsaicin making substandard fare more bearable, as well as being directly associated with antimicrobial chemistry. So spicy food is less likely to get you sick even if it’s spoiled, and you won’t notice that it’s off as much, which is a survival advantage for a species living before refrigerators and modern preservatives.
It’s reasonably likely that sophont species of other types would develop with similar chemosensitive needs. Although by no means guaranteed, given the same approximate blend of starting materials strewn across the galaxy, you’ll probably get a crowd like this and, somewhere in the background, a bunch of people who think these weirdos are way into bland gruel for some reason.
Given that, I could easily see a species/biosphere where the local plant-analogues use Bleach in a similar manner. Or Lye compounds.
who’s to say, alien chemistry could be based on so many basic materials that for any given species from any given planet they might or might not even have a chemistry set that included this compound. however its a good bet that each chemical set would have its equivalent of capsicum. it just depends on the basic building blocks you start with what that compound would be. might be planets that capsicum is present in every vegetable life form and the natives have no receptors at all or one where it is a deadly toxin that kills them dead instantly.
couldn’t predict how many since we haven’t seen what the chemistry kits any planet other than our own has
.
Actually, as near as we can tell, the chemistry everywhere is pretty close to the chemistry here. The main difference is proportion, how much of what is available within a given planet’s composition. But everywhere has the same basic building blocks off the periodic table to start with.
Fun fact: Capsaicin and it’s brethren are composed of hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. So basically any planet with a human-breathable atmosphere has a shot at having life-forms that synthesize it as a defense mechanism or, as with humans, an attractive nuisance.
Another fun thing to consider: we’ve detected nebular clouds of alcohol in open space (most of it undrinkable but some of it raspberry rum because the universe is a wild, wild place). Can you imagine Sydney’s reaction to finding a capsaicin nebula?
…I suppose I should briefly disclaim: there is an alcohol nebula spanning some 288 million miles which is comprised mostly of methyl alcohol and is Very Undrinkable. It does, however, contain some volume of ethyl alcohol and ethyl formate which smells like rum and is part of the flavor of raspberries.
It is most likely /not/ actually raspberry rum, however, and if you should find yourself stranded in space somewhere near Saggitarius A, you probably have more pressing matters to attend than sampling unsanitary space hooch of dubious vintage.
Please space safely.
one would think it would be rather sanitary as for vintage you may not ever be able to find anything that has mellowed as long. :)
i have been reading about planetary chemistry and there is a wide range of thoughts on the subject. however; as you say if we could breath in on the planet without side effects yes then capsicum is likely but not assured.
Sydney, imitating Dave: “It’s full of capcacin…”
I think it would be fun if this was the point where Deus and Sydney finally stumble upon each other, and Deus somehow gets challenged to match Sydney bowl for bowl. His ego being what it is, he manages to force himself to keep up, but he is in agony the entire time. Vale of course enjoys watching Deus’ ego driven self torture.
Deus has a different ego, and is quite content to have an underling do things they can do better than he can. He could have eliminated the late, unlamented African dictator himself, but instead had some expensive staff take care of the problem. He likely could have managed to get into that underwater vault, but he lets the competition break trail for him. So he is not going to be goaded into any such contest.
Now the typical macho male is a different story. We may see some rash lad say that if Sydney can eat this stuff, so can he. He buys a bowlful, takes a big bite, and then buys the largest most expensive drink that’s being sold. [That may be how she gets out of having to pay, since the booth makes enough off related sales, but she may find herself having to pay retail while broke.]
Contests are for people who don’t already know that they’re the best. Oh, not that Deus thinks that he’s the best at EVERYTHING. He can’t run faster than Usain Bolt, isn’t better at physics than the latest Nobel Prize winner, and would lose a fistfight with Maxima. But he’s still BETTER than all of them. And the few people who *might* be better than Deus at his core identity skill are highly unlikely to also have what are pretty clearly metahuman genes.
So, if there was a spicy food eating contest going on, Deus… would simply hire Sidney to win it for him. On generous terms, to be sure. It’s not smart to underpay your specialists.
there’s no way Deus and Sydney meet in his arc, that would give to much away. one group may see the other form afar but no interaction will go on.
Zeiram’s just chillin’. Not planning a multixenocidal rampage today, nope.
(Anyone else see the original live action films? The anime was good but I’d hate for the toku to be forgotten.)
Yep… i have both of them…
Well, that’s one way to push off caffine withdrawal with her normal massive intake, fill the void with massive endorphine rushes from killer spicy…
Sydney looks so happy in the first panel!
Also, I’m surprised that humans are apparently so well-known around there. Maybe the alien meant ‘humanoid’? Seeing as there appear to be plenty of species where the females have ‘nursing sacks’. Then again, some of those might actually be males, from places where parents share the nursing.
Greenie/Jeannie at Club Oontz. We’re an intergalactic vacation destination, ‘member?
Note his wording: At least I assume it’s female. It’s not “displaying” its nursing sacks like “most” of them do.
He’s not saying most human females have breasts, he’s saying most show them off.
He admits he doesn’t know a lot about humans but his statement says a lot about his limited exposure.
Too much Playboy Channel :P
Recognized M’ress immediately. Murraow
Okay so I’m sticking on something here
When Superman visits an alien world, he’s referred to as Superman. “Hey, Superman, nice to see you again.” Sure, his friends call him Clark, but his reputation is by his hero name.
That being said, I can’t recall the last time I heard Sydney referred to in the comic as Halo. Shouldn’t she introduce herself to aliens as Halo? Shouldn’t Dabbler’s friends be searching for “Halo”?
that may have different meanings or may be a human only word , so they are looking for descriptive words. three words per identifying feature. in this case hair, diet, accessory, and either mode of movement or how the accessory is displayed
You’re forgetting something. They don’t know which name Sydney herself will use when introducing herself, since Sydney’s only been Halo (or “The Mighty Halo”) for a week or two at most at this point. She’s been “Sydney” for far, far longer than she’s been “Halo” and as a result, that’s who she first and foremost thinks of herself.
Dabbler has lived for well over a hundred years, she’s traveled around, and she probably knows that people with nicknames or hero names sometimes swap easily between the two. She’s also most likely done the bounty hunting thing quite a lot, and has probably helped track down missing persons. But she’s not there herself.
Bounty hunters and missing persons detectives get as many details about the person they’re searching for that they can. And if they have to pass the case on to someone else because they’re stuck in a snowstorm in Buffalo, NY, and the person they need to look for is in Nantes, France, they’re gonna call on a buddy in France, a fellow detective/bounty hunter type, and they’re going to give that person every possible clue they can to help their friend find that target.
Dabbler definitely would have told Cora all about Sydney, the weird bangs, the excessive attraction to super spicy foods, the floaty orb ornament things (including physical appearance of said orbs, though not necessarily their capabilities, other than that quip about “she can probably take care of herself, she just needs a ride bac home”), the fact that she’s probably going to introduce herself as Sydney, Sydney Scoville, Halo, or Mighty Halo…
Dabbler will have also given a physical description, hair, skin, and eye color, general physique, anything unique (like the bangs in front that suffer from the Cowlick Of Doom (which is something I myself suffer from if I’m not careful in how I deal with my hair)), plus a description of the last known outfit Sydney was wearing, and general personality characteristics, such as a capacity to be remarkably thoughtful and intelligent in the same minute as being ditzy, spazzy, and/or easily distractable, plus that Sydney swears like a Garfleek after eating a single spoonful of grakz, but is probably going to want to eat something as spicy as grakz…and whlie she may have a modest amount of Earthling funds on her, Sydney will not have any Yeets (or other acceptable interstellar currency) on her…which means Cora should come prepared to pay for anything Sydney wants to purchase, eat, or accidentally damage. (To be paid back out of Sydney’s salary by the underground currency exchange system that ARCLight runs with the help of the Council.)
…And also a very stern admonition to NOT let Sydney convince them that the cute round purring creature she found would make an adorable pet. (Fizzgig-like creatures are not allowed on Earth. …What, you’d thought I was gonna say it was a Tribble? Oh, puh-leaze, Sydney knows better than to bring a Tribble to Earth! They breed way too fast. Fizzgigs don’t seem nearly so ecologically harmful by comparison…but eating Earth food will give them toxically dangerous farts that will wilt the local lifeforms so they’re strongly contra-indicated for import.)
Is the female with the horns and red eyes actually someone or a Dave original? Either way I like her.
It’s a Puazi, they’re an original race created by the artist InCase. Take care if you search for them, the comics are NSFW.
Glasses firmly pushed in place (grakz looks a little noodley).
wow so many references for one panel, I see doom demon, teno, star fleet uniform, planet express hat, slave costume from star wars, what looks like a tamaranian , and what I think is a poor dead bastard in a space suit from doctor who silence in the library, I am not sure about the rest
The theory I prefer is that the nursing sacks became advertising, saying “fertile female” when our female ancestors started standing up a lot. And big ads work better.
more or less this is it, the cleavage of the beasts mimics the cleavage of the but
It should be noted most animals with a vertical body posture, or near vertical…or whose head or tail are the only parts of their body not dragging on the ground; tend to have sexual, health, and even aggression displays located around the upper torso and head. It makes sense to multipurpose some parts of the body. A biped carrying its young that also nurses said young makes sense to have those glands located up high for ease of carrying the young, although some quadrupeds also have them on the chest…and manatees have them under the armpits, but humans have duel purpose mammary glands. Heck even the males show off their pecs.
Yup, I agree that hot is a great metatag to describe Sydney!
Hey, Zeiram and a Puazzi. Finally a background reference I get.
I is no longer a homeless doggy! My kitties and I will have a shared roof over our heads again! And I got a job as well!
Congrats Yorp!
Gratz, Yorp! You iz a good pupper, yes you iz! *offers pats & scritchies*
Congratulations!
Good to hear! You started your moving adventures like… 3-4 months ago now? Yikes!
Yea, I had minimal savings, no job to go to and no place to stay. But some brilliant folks helped out both me and my kitties. Soon we shall be reunited. Although I have been visiting them most weeks (it took a seven hour round trip journey).
Thanks all!
*wags tail contentedly*
actually they are fake butts, not nursing sacks
Prison School fan? :P
I have just discovered that the evil squirrel overlord is spying on Sydney, right now!