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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The evil squirrel overlord is spying on Sydney
All praise be to the Squirrel Overlord! We shall giveth gladly Yorp’s nuts as a sacrificial offering your bushy tailedness! Hail to the sacred acorns! Hail to the peanut bird feeder! Hail to the one true squirrel!
*runs away and hides in bunker*
*hangs sign on door, before closing it*
He may be spying on Sydney, but I spy upon him.
I, for one, acknowlege few as my equal & none as my superior. Therefore I have set cunning traps worldwide that I might eliminate this potential rival to my plans of world domination. Thus far, I have only captured many of his minions, but I shall prevail. Even if I must first force him into acting on his own behalf by eliminating every single minion he has, one day I shall lhave him by the balls.
MUA-HA-HA-HA!
(Queue up mood music)
Really did not need to see a dead squirrel hanging from their nuts…
I second this. I hate squirrels like only a former telecom repair technician can and that picture was still not okay.
Reminds me of a video I saw on 9gag of a (live) squirrel with his balls caught in a fence:
https://9gag.com/gag/aXYEzZb
The dead one probably just fell and got caught, may even have died of the shock/pain, but you really gotta wonder how the critter in the vid managed to get his nuts stuck into that small, horizontal slit…
I’m surprised no one is snickering about the Planet Express hat the alien on the communicator is wearing.
No, that is M’Ress from Star Trek: the Animated Series (TAS for short). Her appearance in Futurerama was likely just a cameo.
Hey, don’t look at me like that, I am a Trekkie first and foremost. TAS is a classic, and at least half of the episodes are considered strong Cannon according to Gene Roddenberry.
No the guy on the cellphone is Squiddie Four-Eyes.
i think thats a prawn from distric 9
Wherever they are from, they are the one wearing the Planet Express cap, not M’Ress
I think the word ‘communicator’ is the source of confusion; it refers to the device in the multi-eyed, squid-faced alien’s hand, not the Federation badge. One has to remember that in STOS and STAS, unlike in STNG and later, the insignia were just sewn patches, not communicators.
Or maybe Gilhelmi thought it described M’Ress’s role on the bridge, I guess. But it was the device the Squiddie Four-Eyes was talking into which MajorFalcon71 meant.
Is that Atomic Skull in the background?
might be the one from scoobydoo
Yes, that one came immediately to mind.
Now I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen the moment Sydney looks to her right and sees M’ress from Star Trek: The Animated Series standing right next to her!
Really? Catians are in StarTrek universe? I thought, it is the catian M’RRRT´T´TÄRKÑ “Rosepetal” Silpurr the first wife of Admiral Boyce Kline. But you know, i am not expert about trekkie uniforms…
Yeah, Caitians are Star Trek – if you’ve seen the new movies, you may recall the cat-girl twins Kirks is in bed with at one point?
(And, they’re not the only feline species – D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry asked Larry Niven to write some episodes for TAS, which lead to Kzinti also being Star Trek canon…)
… for Animated Trek. It was a e write of a preexisting short story by Larry Niven – ‘The Soft Weapon’. Pretty good, I thought.
A Caitian (in Star Fleet uniform) can also be seen in the Federation Council scene at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’.
To such degree as it’s worth mentioning, they’re also a playable race in the Star Trek Online video game.
The cameos are for the readers.
Sydney would, at best, see an alien who looks
*somewhat* feline in a uniform that *resembles*
Starfleet except for the color and stripes.
Holy shit, Zeiram? Now that is an obscure cameo if I’ve ever seen one.
Two live movies (granted the second looks and feels more like a power ranger villain),
an animated OVA and a Manga.
but I guess today in the west it has become somewhat obscure. But back in the 90’s the anime was part of the Anime club set they’d send you for signing up, and in regular rotation on the sci-fi channel’s early days Saturday morning anime *like so early its still night of course*.
One of the people in our weekly game night way back in the day had unsubtitled imported laserdiscs of both of the movies. Yes, laserdiscs, that’s how far back in the day it was.
I mean, back those days I did see the anime and then the first live-action film, so I remember it from that era. But I found it in my local comic shop’s rentals, I didn’t know it was ever aired on cable, and it didn’t seem very well known. Honestly the only time I’ve ever heard mention of it since is on Anime Abandon. So I definitely count it among the most obscure things I’ve ever seen, but not so obscure that I don’t remember it. And by that I mean I don’t really remember the film as much as I do the anime, because for some reason the aesthetics of the anime always appealed to me.
Nice to know I’m not the only one who remembers about Zeiram! I actually have its action figure in my collection (as well as that of the heroine who fights it, Iria), based off theirlive-action movie looks.
If anyone liked the movies, I recommend you also see “Moon over Tao: Makaraga”, which was made by the same people and has a similar story. Should be available in the usual place to search for obscure cinematic imports.
I wish he had both Zeirams in the shot. :D
A close look at Cora’s hands makes me wonder if that is armor or if her hands and possibly arms are prosthetic. I’m hoping for armor because I’d hate to find out that Cora is like Peridot and is a little shrimp without her limb enhancers.
Could be like Star Fox – got the limbs amputated willingly because the prosthetics were more functional/capable. In Fox’s case, it prevents the blood from rushing to his legs during hi-G maneuvers.
Reminds me of a story about a one-legged WW2 British ace. IIRC, it also helped him freak out the Germans who caught him after they shot his plane down ^^”
Give me the phone cause I
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C A L L E D – – I T !!!!
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The question is since I said this would happen like – back before she was fighting the world destroyers – did I call it – or did someone read my comment and go “Hey – great idea”
No, you did indeed call it. Kudos where kudos are due.
I Spy Holocaust from Age of Apocalypse, Zeiram from Ira Zeiram and the Live Action Movie, and of course Diablo from the Diablo Game Series…
The other cameos besides the Star Trek person who I only recognized by the uniform are mysteries. Hope to get confirmation later or maybe a pic with spoilers from where the cameos are from and confirmation of who they are… Kind of like the one Deus had of his collection that Dave labeled later on
Not Diablo, it’s the cyber demon from Doom 2016.
I believe you are right about it being from Doom, I mean he looks like Diablo, but I was wondering about that glowing light. Which basically makes sense being that Cyber Demon, cause Diablo does not have a light on his chest like that.
Looks more like the scooby doo villain than Holocaust, since it’s green not glowy orange.
I really can’t tell because the designs are kind of similar, but the reminder about the Orange Flame makes me recall Holocaust much clearer and…Holocaust has a whitish armor… darn. So you are possibly right, because the Atomic Skull from DC is also a contender with another slightly similar design.
Edit: Checked up on it and only a couple designs of his look like the character in any kind of fashion, which means that it is in fact that “Ghost” from Scooby Doo. Good eye there!
At the extreme right is a Puazi from Incase’s ‘Xenobiology’ comic.
HA! I was wondering if anyone else would catch that one! Perv ;-)
Fellow appreciaters of fine art, unite!
The cranial bone structures are quite distinctive (read: it’s very easy to notice someone that horny).
This reminded me of an old HFY post that I had to go look for. https://i.imgur.com/0JOOi4K.png
As a Cybertronian Minicon with Pretender Armour which lets me eat stuff, I can agree Earth food taste AWESOME. Do have a random thought tho, if they consider Earth a Death-World, what would they classify Australia as? Even the local realize the place is literally crawling with things that wanna kill you! Heck, Daniel The Human’s quadruped canine companion killed a “Western Brown” or “Dugite” snake a few days ago…
She sure draws a crowd XD
Then a Chozo walks up, orders a bowl, and can’t figure out what the big deal is.
Yeah, I know phylogeny doesn’t work that way with aliens.
Been reading some about Resiniferatoxin …
Spiciest substance currently known.
16g of it pure may be fatal to humans (not actually tested – if survived it’s expected to seriously harm health).
Known to trigger a strong sensation of pain – which somehow translates into it being used to desensitize nerves.
Did Sydney have a run-in with some of this stuff when she was younger? Could this explain a little about her?
People do eat the super hot Chilis, some people do it for the you tubes.
Yeah, it desensitizes nerves… permanently!!
Nobody mentioning Cora’s customizable ammo gun? It’s set to what, lucky bullet powder? :P
Do you feel lucky, punk?
Red alien on the far right is a Puazi.
It would be horrible if she somehow stumbled and made skin to skin contact with Sydney… truly horrible.
+1
Welp that makes her easy to spot, but geez she is attracting a crowd. I thought the idea was to keep a low profile? This is the OPPOSITE of that idea, but I guess at least it makes finding her easy for that blue skinned maiden.
Keeping a low profile never was Sydney’s strongest point… and in this case she’s in pepper heaven, and truly ablivious to anything around her.
Let’s be honest, boys and girls, far more of us recognise that red alien on the far right than any of us would like to admit in public :P
Until yesterday, I never even heard of those. Heck finding the one comic with them in it was a rather odd challenge. But yes … now that I get the in jokes people were making, it really isn’t one of those things you’d admit to in public.
“This is not the end of me, succubus. I shall return and a mighty burning shall herald my comming!”
176 – Intergalactic Baggage
I think I see him in the background, next to Robot Cowboy.
… here we were all thinking it was Maxima’s Kid’s Meal sized Gallic Gun. But in honestly it’s the infernal death clouds coming from Halo when she hits up the bathroom later tonight.
Good catch, and it’d definitely be a mighty burning worthy of heralding a demon king.
Nah, this guy (or gal?) has four small eyes. Dabbler’s old acquaintance had only two, and they were larger and rounder. Don’t know how he thinks he can win this time – last time Dabller defeated him on her own and now he would have to take on the whole team!
Maybe it’s Surtur from Thor Ragnarok?
This is hilarious! And that keyword search method is honestly quite clever. Though I am a bit perplexed about “floppy” and “tented”, lol.
Wait. I just realized. How is Sydney going to pay for this? Was some payment agreement arranged between the previous page and this one? I’m worried. O_O
I’ve been wondering that since she found the shop.
Let’s see what happens with a few cases of dine n dash …
‘Serial Dine and dash dater faces up to 16 years of jail time…’ – excessive much?
‘Asked him for his shoes and threw them in the canal’ – satisfying, yes, but the tab is still unpaid.
‘Bouncer collects the fee…’ – this one applied to Sydney could mean some hilarity. ‘We’ll be taking your orbs in lieu of payment’ w/ no more success than Max had with Tubey.
Cora uses her tab as the reason to get Sydney to co-operate.
“I’l buy lunch if you come with us.”
Remember Sydney was paranoid enough to confirm the identity of the financial advisor summoned to talk to her at ARCSWAT HQ. She may not just wander off with Cora on her say so.
Since they are familiar with humans, they may also have dealings with our currency. Sydney said a few pages back that she had $17 on her. I could just see Sydney pulling out a ten, a five, and two singles and sheepishly ask how much she owes. The cook grabs the tenner and gives her $2.50 in change. No explanation as to why he has U.S. currency on hand to make the transaction with, he just does.
Which “Humans” are you talking about?
After all Starfleet does not use money….well kind of. its apparently complicated.
Squiddly McCommentator knows she is human, just not sure about gender
ok let me clarify
in that group is a United Federation of Planets Officer, a Organization that thanks to the time she was included into cannon was part of the weird Global Hippy commune thing where “Humans no longer use Evil money But we do know All about it you Greedy Evil money using scum” Federation…. They prefer that you “Trade” with them and get there condescending smug sense of Moral superiority to keep you warm in exchange but If we have to we can also barter, or Would you like to take our Obviously Non Existent because we don’t use money but will trade them to you anyway Federation Credits in trade.
Another person in that group if I remember correctly would only know about humans from a group of survivors from a failed Interstellar exploration ship in the 29th century. The crew being “Kinder Gentler more Collectivist utopia populated by Benevolent Soviet Overlord Cultural bigots” from a book written before the Soviet Union’s Critical Existence Failure. Again its a moneyless society.
You are forgetting (or ignoring) the fact, that in this time and universe, Dirt is a Galactic (Sex) Tourism spot (Sydney spotted a few in the nightclub in New York, and Dabbles even took one home with her)
Well, I never thought I’d see the species on the far right of the first panel anywhere else…kinda flabergasted.
Heh! One of the old voting incentive pictures included Dr Graevling’s Monara, for example. Dave isn’t exactly shy about letting readers know about his tastes in hentai artists :P
y’know, while everyone is focused on the cameos and syndey eating ultra spicy food, there is something I wonder.
on that last panel…
did corra mean she`s still alive because she expects trouble or she`s expects trouble because she`s alive?
Yes.
Her, let me edit that for you: Yes…
and of course, the spell-check didn’t notice i spelled “here” wrong…
Better than This! This! This!, etc… :P
Yes. Yes, she’s alive because she (always) expects trouble, and she expects trouble now because she’s going to pick up a trouble magnet.
So I am going to out myself for this but did no one else notice the Puazi girl in the background?
About half the people commenting noticed her.
I think that a lot of people don’t seem to realize that the comment section splits into multiple pages once enough comments have been entered. I’ve seen this many times where something is commented into oblivion on page one of the comments, only to have someone bring it up again on page two. Get a third page of comments and it starts all over again.
Please don’t think I’m picking on you in particular, Fable Owl88. You are just the latest in a long line of commentators who have done this. It must be pretty easy to miss the comments on the previous pages, because it sure happens a lot.
People seem to ‘miss’ comments when it’s still the first page, can’t really blame them for missing the little numbers at the top and bottom of the page in their rush to post the most important question of all time before anyone else has (skipping over the same question already posted three times already… )
Maybe that is a function of the unknown orb? Galactic credit card?
I joked about that last page, but could you imagine if it was a shared account among the Aetherium players or something weird and she suddenly uses so somewhere in the galaxy an alert goes off (Guild Commander someone has just accessed the account…looks to be from a player ID that dropped out some time ago…wait, its the same account but a new player has picked up their account.
I have no idea who the creature in the top left corner is…but I recognize it from somewhere…? I believe it was either a cartoon or anime?
Also who is that dude with the purple orb in his chest, the one with the weird grey armor with flower petal like protusions framing his round head? Maybe a…Kamen Rider villain?
That’s a Slayer from the film Krull, and the orb isn’t in his chest, it’s one of Sydney’s.
Holy cats, a KRULL reference. Talk about deep cuts.
A million scovilles is pretty good for a bowl of nosh. Million and a half is a little high for me for every day eating. So three bowls, yep, Sydney is hardcore. Best hero ever.
One Scoville is all I want.
So, I had someone point out to me that humans are the only species where breasts are a permanent adult feature on the females. All other mammals have boobs that only come up when it’s nursing time.
Did not know you were a Doom player Dave? ;-D
I know someone has got to have linked this before but…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX-rZKCU12g
Oh holy hell I recognize that alien on the first panel in yhe top right corner. If I remember correctly, the short comic is called “Xenobiology”. What a good read that was
Yeah, the Puazi. There’s a couple, actually, or a couple chapters, at least.
This is one of the greatest comic pages in the history of comic pages. So very many things to like right here.
Is that an incase reference on the far right on the top panel?
Have A Comic As Usual Day! It’s my favorite holiday! Thanks, Dave!
Ah, Sydney, I knew you could do it.
A few more we might end up seeing:
Ryoko, Ayesha, and/or Mihoshi
Jaco and Tights
Mayberry Melonpool and Ralph Zinnobopp
a few Hani and/or Kif (not that Kif, though maybe him too); if both, there will be a Law Machine from Buck Godot trying to separate them
for that matter, Buck, Louisa Dem Five, The Winslow, or a few PSmith’s might show up, too
at least one non-humanoid member of the LOSH on a temporal holiday
Edsel and Zeke from Heavy Metal
a few Salusians
a troop of Gamilons on shore leave, or conversely, a troop of Zentradi
Roger from American Dad!
a Perv and/or a Deveel
a few Uruyuom
Head Alien and his henchmen
Any other ideas?
Ooh, I know, Judah the Hammer, and/or Clonezone the Hilariator.
Surprised no one has mentioned the orbs after all the previous discussions on the Squidwards firing at her on sight, but it appears that no one in the crowd is taking the slightest interest in them. I think we can confirm Dabbler’s expert opinion that they’re not a known item for most of the galaxy, and certainly not viewed as an imminent threat.
Well once the videos go viral galaxywide anyone who DOES know about the orbs will be headed for the Fracture. I envision a re-enactment of the fight at the restaurant…IN SPACE!
That guy in the scarf looks neat
That would be Zeiram, or Zeram depending on your localizer.
The terror of the galaxy, a horrible monster that absorbs a host and gains all their knowledge and abilities, it can also create mutant monstrous clones of anyone it bites…
oh and also the real organism…is the hat, the body under it is the assimilated host covered in the bio-armor shell Zeiram puts over them.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/c/c0/Zeiram%27s_Core.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091017163113
That explains so much!
No one has mentioned Sydney is having an iced tea with her grakz?
No ice?
The tumbler is probably refrigerated.
(Which due to thermodynamics would make the outside warm
and the inside cool.)
((Or it could have been serving temperature in an ultra insulated glass.))
That’s because it’s not
Maybe it’s something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea.
Space Cola :D
When the alien says “gene-mod” it could mean more than just supers. It could also mean other human descended/shifted species like vampire, theironthropes, and others that are “turned”, as well as supers and basically anything that is genetically modified outside the majority population.
Yup, Genetically-Modified (which, when you really think about it, would even included modern Humans, compared to Neandertal or Cro-Magnon)