Grrl Power #688 – Don’t look a gift friend in the skin tight bodysuit
Obviously I skipped over Sydney’s immediate reaction, which could have gone down any number of ways. She didn’t flail and knock an alien in the nose with her elbow or anything. She probably just did the slow turn, then Cora gave her the short version of who she is… and then Sydney sheepishly mentioned that she had a bit of a tab at the booth.
Honestly I’m not sure what her plan was for that. The guy running the booth got a crowd and probably a few sales right off, and in the coming weeks he’ll probably get a few people drifting by saying “that’s the place where that human girl ate that super hot stuff!”
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I assume that this means everyone of Cora’s crew are also running around all starkers underneath their hologram bodysuits. Sounds like an arrangement that one of Dabbler’s friends would insist upon.
To be honest, that sounds better than having to wear and wash clothes.
I just realized, if all the buff studs on Cora’s crew are wearing nothing but holograms, Sydney is going to get a real eye full if she powers up the true sight orb.
She said it’s transparent and “just barely colors her skin” so truesight would be kinda redundant.
She doesn’t say that at all, it is right up there this page, she says: “barely does more than color my skin”. So it does more than ‘just barely color her skin’, probably it hides details of her private parts (such as her nipples if she has them) and it might be changing the colors of her skin completely, not just slightly as would be implied by ‘barely colors her skin’.
We know the true sight can see through magical illusions, no indication yet if it can see through scientific ‘illusions’ (holograms / hard light constructs) but Sydney might be in for a shock if she tries it out on the ship.
It saw through X’s invisiblity technology.
Assuming X uses technology and not superpowers.
Sydney can’t see through common obfuscation devices, including masks and latex.
When Sydney’s orb revealed X to her, she saw through the illusion of his invisibility, but not the disguising suit that he wears.
In essence, there’s still no one in Archon that is known to have “X-Ray Vision” capable of seeing through solid material objects (much to Math’s chagrin, as he stares at the outside of the wall to the womens’ showers).
Although she HAS been able to see through cloaking tech and disguise tech. Not sure hard light uniforms would fall under either of those things.
I would figure that Sydney could see, at best, what Cora’s true skin color(s) are…All over & all around.
With many of the members of ArcDark dabbling in magic it’s pretty safe to assume X was using a spell to hide himself.
Good point, I had forgotten about that for a moment.
We don’t know exactly what X uses to make themselves undetectable, but my first impression had been technology back then.
I still think our intrepid heroine will experiment with that truesight orb onboard the ship full of space beefcake. ( Or if she doesnt I foresee a megaton facepalm when she realizes she could have tried)
I have a feeling the male crew didn’t go for the hard light “enveloping” clothing, at least if they have external genitalia like humans.
Even though they are not wearing regular clothes, see the shoulders and arms of Cora’s suit (and that no nipples are hinted or visible): The force field will most likely provide some, er, support, and the hologram obviously provides something above the skin.
I wanna know if the chairs auto-clean themselves, or if there are buttsweat buttprints on everything.
The chairs probably stay pretty pristine, aside from butt grooves.
The hard light ‘protection’ works both ways so the buttsweat would actually be locked in to the small gap between ‘suit’ and skin, slowly seeping out through any holes in the suit. Still, they probably need to regularly turn off the suit, towel themselves off, then turn the suit back on again. Must save a fortune in cleaners bills
They likely could have suits similar to Dune where they absorb sweat, water vapor from breath and likely recycle urine and faecal matter so they can still drink on the go. Even human space tech has got this down on the ISS to about a 96% efficiency.
Yeah, but look at the downside: it’s a piece of tech that’s running on a battery for at least twelve hours a day. A sudden power loss could cause your wardrobe to disappear at a moment’s notice.
For a succubus, that’s not really a downside…
All alien wearable tech should be powered by body heat/electric fields. I suppose cold blooded crew would have to have an out…
They probably have some sort of quantum battery backup that lasts for months.
Could run on the humanoids own body power. Heat, motion and other sources do generate a reasonable amount of wattage.
Casimir Effect nanogenerators: “They’re smaller than a virus and each produce a nanowatt continuously through vacuum energy extraction.”
“That doesn’t sound like much.”
“A patch of them the size of a postage stamp provides more than enough power for the suit.”
Makes me wonder if hard light constructs are vulnerable to EMP. Would make for an interesting wardrobe malfunction.
Hard light constructs themselves probably not, the technology projecting these forcefields however…
It’s like she’s wearing nothing at all. Nothing at all! Nnnnothing at all! Stupid sexy Cora.
Another method by which skimpy, sexy female armor can be effective. Dabbler has already shown us one way (casting an illusion spell on full coverage armor to make it look revealing).
It sounds a lot like a more high-tech version – albeit with added utility – to the modern occurence of people going out in nothing but body paint (and perhaps a few strategically placed hard sections). It’s less versatile and needs more work, but the trend is surprisngly wide spread. Participants often refer to the feeling of greater comfort and freedom compared to traditional clothes, along with the frission of doing something vaguely forbidden without most other ever realising.
Well one step less naked than a Gem at least, whose entire bodies are hard light projections and any “clothes” seen on them are usually part of their bodies and can’t be taken off. At most some may add hats or capes on occasion for status but otherwise all part of the body.
It is kinda in that same category as some pokemon where you realize “that isn’t a dress, those aren’t bows, those are all part of its body”
Let’s hope she grabs some neat stuff before coming home. Video would be nice.
She did seem to be vlogging while comming to the station, so I bet she took some pics.
Sydney should have answered:
The one and only!
Multiverse alternates excluded, of course.
And time-clones.
Not to mention Time Remnants and Speed Mirages.
We still don’t know what that last Orb does.
Not to mention what upgrades to the rest of the Orbs do.
Or that identical twin that Sydney’s parents have kept hidden in the basement.
I thought those were supposed to be hidden in the attic.
Sydney’s got two identical siblings. She was a triplet…
So, one upstairs, one downstairs
One Good.
One Evil.
One Chaotic Neutral. <<<<<
But never under the stairs. That’s where you put embarrassing nephews/nieces.
I’m sure that someone considers Sydney an embarrassing niece.
and/or potential wizards
You know given that Technicaly the hard light is an illusion, it’s probably a good idea if Sidney douse Loy use lightbeee to check it out, given ger line of worth yhere could be some nasty scars.
Does not use ….given her line of work, as there ….
Shesh typoes. Sorry.
I don’t know how the Truesight Orb should react to hard light. It is an illusion so it might be able to see through it. On the other hand, assuming a hard light wall is illusory and face planting into it sounds painful. Would the correct design be to make it look like transparent?
She did say it’s mostly transparent, so the truesight orb wouldn’t help much
….Where do she say it is mostly transparent?
Has the text been edited?
“a hard light construct that barely colors my skin” kinda implies it, no?
Sydney was talking about how tight, i.e. close to her skin/flesh, Cora’s attire appears to be. Literally talking about its depth, its thickness.
Cora grasps this distinction and replies in essence that her suit is so thin, it’s only a little more than a layer of color on her skin…the “little more” part being the forcefield part.
We don’t know how thin or thick the forcefield is, so it could be an inch thick yet utterly invisible…or it could be less than a millimeter thick. Either way, the color projection (as opposed to the shield projection) does indeed follow Cora’s natural curves (for the most part), and follows them nearly skin tight. Various bits and bobbles, genitalia folds, secondary sexual characteristics, even the dispensing spouts on those nutrient sacks, etc, etc., all of that seems to be covered up, so it can’t be completely following every single body contour with 100% faithfulness in its replication.
But again, Cora is merely discussing the thickness/thinness of her apparent armor/clothes. Thickness, color, and transparency are not automagically linked in every single material. It is quite clear htat Cora’s hard-light holographic clothes are opaque, not transparent–the artist and his colorist are both spectacular at making clothing appear transparent, after all. ( Exhibit A ) which was posted back in 2014…and oy, has the artwork and coloring improved in leaps & bounds since then!
If Cora’s clothing was actually translucent or transparent as everyone in these comments seems to think it is…then it would be shown as such.
Instead, we’re getting colors that are flat, metallic, solid, glossy, ridged, patterned…but otherwise completely opaque. You can tell that the blue on her thighs is not her skin, because it is slightly off from her facial coloring, and because it shares the same glossy shine to it that the brassy metallic bits share on her upper & lower thighs.
After all, while a thin veil made from chiffon can be transluscent, even transparent, and will do very little to block the early morning sunlight streaming into your bedroom on the morning after a night of binge drinking, burning that disgustingly bright sunny cheerfulness into your poor aching brain…a sheet of tinfoil (aluminum / aluminium) of an equal thickness to that utterly pointless chiffon curtain will completely block out all light, proving its sheer opacity is utterly useful.
“a hard light projection that barely does more than color my skin”
The part you omitted makes for a big difference in the meaning of her words, as I pointed out to you in another comment, and as Ladyofthemasque above explained quite well already.
Even going by your wrong quote “a hard light construct that barely colors my skin” it still doesn’t imply transparency, only that it changes the colors of her skin slightly. She’d be fully exposed and apparently lacking outwardly visible sexual characteristics if it only changed the colors of her skin, but still wouldn’t imply any kind of transparency of the suit.
“Blah, blah, blah…”
Y’all can argue the abilities and makeup and nature of the hard light armor suit all day. What I want is for them to take her aboard and issue her one of her own, programmed to mimic her Archon Uniform. Force shield is bound to make her even more bullet resistant. And think of the possibilities for wardrobe malfunctions.
Well, she could still be a rival.
A rival, that knows her name?… especially that she isn’t where Dabbler thinks she’s supposed to be.
A rival is possible, but then how would she know about Sydney?
The one thing we know for certain is that she knows dibbler in some way, and not just from a picture or short briefing. It’s impossible to be that same level of annoying without personal experience….
Also, a rival would know just how lethal Dabbler can be, and might decide that anything they could do to/with Sydney probably wouldn’t be worth the problems they’d be facing.
When she brings Sydney home, let’s hope Archon extends their full hospitality to Cora. In particular they should extend to her the full use of Archon’s relaxing group shower facilities.
I assume Dabbler would thank Cora properly.
lol, I actually had questions about that uniform, now they have been answered :P
At least Sydney’s new ‘friend’ (nudgenudge) didn’t leave
Yeah looks like most of the crowd has dispersed, save the one Sydney was talking to, maybe the bug guy with the planet express hat, and Zeiram is still hanging around the booth. Zeiram wants some Grakz to make some spicy Zeiram clones LoL.
I hope we get to see more of grey girl in the future. I’m suspecting that she is the Intergalactic version of someone with a YouTube channel. She travels the galaxy taking video of whatever interesting stuff she stumbles upon, and posts it for likes and the adshare revenue. Watching Sydney wolfing down the grakz has tweaked her interest in humans, so she eventually makes it to Earth and looks Sydney up for follow up video.
We’ll see her again on Earth disguised/cloaked as a human.
Probably July 2019.
But that’s 8 years away! Who knows how long that will take in our time.
If you could make yourself a hotter clone, wouldn’t you?
Actually, I wouldn’t, ’cause I wouldn’t get to be the hot one :(.
Really Sydney? Do you have to be such a catty bitch? o_O
Well, she is tired, survived an extremely dangerous situation, and not in a danger anymore – not to mention that she ate as well. The past events do take their toll, especially when the danger is gone and the adrenalin rush goes away.
We know from before that Sydney doesn’t always react well to the adrenaline ‘downer’.
(Projectilve vometing on Maxima’s boots…. ) And she’s had ‘food’…
Not to forget she has some body issues so being rescued by yet another could-be supermodel probably sets her off as well.
I don’t think she has body issues so much as she is just getting a little tired of seeing a goddess of lust contender every time she turns around.
I think Sydney’s line after being told she was one of the worlds most eligible Bachelorettes while standing next to Max and Dabbler sums it up nicely. “NOT NEXT TO THESE TWO!”
You don’t have to have personal issues to recognize somebody’s got it better than you.
From the cast page: ” and hanging around with ‘all the beautiful people’ gives her something of a complex, both about her appearance and her abilities.”
Maybe saying she has body issues is a bit strong, as she most of the time seems comfortable in her own skin, but it does seem she compares herself to the woman around her and feels to be coming up short (pun intended). That is what I was referring to.
Yea, ‘Body issues’ implies to me something a bit stronger on the scale.
I get more of a “God dammit, is everybody an 11 out of 10 here?” vibe.
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Honestly I’m not sure what her plan was for that. The guy running the booth got a crowd and probably a few sales right off, and in the coming weeks he’ll probably get a few people drifting by saying “that’s the place where that human girl at that super hot stuff!”
See now, given the size of that crowd and the fact that he probably earned quite a rep for that, that’s when you comp the meal(s) in this case and take the loss for free advertising.
I think the vendor got a nice shot of Sydney smiling to use in advertising. I REALLY want to see Deus walk by and do a double-take at said advertisement.
+1 for this. ‘THEY’VE ONLY JUST RECRUITED HER!’
THIS. DaveB, I wanna see THIS. I wanna see Deus’ reaction when he sees the holovid ad and realizes geeky nerdette Sydney Scoville Jr. is being advertised at the Nexus in a looped vid happily eating super-spicy-hot grakz.
I wanna see shock, outrage, brooding…and finally, grudging admiration. (Not sure if it’s enough admiration to let her flick the Background Lightning Generator™ even so much as once…but it miiiight be!)
So it’s a suit that doesn’t cover the body but just… envelops it?
Something tells me the male crew opted for the physical clothing.
Yeah akward boners would be even worse then.
I know more than a few guys who would love to try something like that….
The fact that she doesn’t have visible nipples suggest that the degree of envelopment is variable.
Besides, given Vale’s selection of crew, I expect she wouldn’t opt for those who’d opt for physical clothing.
Or maybe she is just an alien species that doesn’t have nipples
Given that we are assuming she’s actualy human and not humanoid, as that would lead to the if thoes are not mammories then I don’t want to think of the ramifications of that kind of thing….
Which incidentally is a reference to which book/movie about a video game
Why would she be human and not just humanoid like many of the other aliens we’ve seen here? And how would that lead to questions about her mammaries? Several of the other female(?) aliens we’ve seen had those. Apparently having a pair of ‘nursing sacks’ on the chest is very common around the galaxy.
The book was the Last Starfighter, at one point he ran into a obviously Non Human alien with what he thought at first were obviously Breasts…..the realised that if the alien was actualy the male of the species the he realy did not want to think anymore on that train of thought…in otherwords he inadvertently squicked himself….
Dabbler definitely has mammaries, but also six limbs (two terminating in hooves); this makes her hominid (neither human or humanoid). This would seem to indicate that breasts are not limited to humans in this universe.
Dabbles has four mammaries, DaveB stopped drawing the second set because he just couldn’t get her clothing to ‘sit’ properly (they haven’t gone away, she just uses her illusionary magic to hide them), she also has a tail somewhere
But it’s ‘hard light’, so the buttons are probably pressed.
The way she’s acting, I bet she wishes the buttons were pressed more often…
…surely she could call Dabbler.
That’s a good question, do they have FTL comunication?
…I mean, she’s there, isn’t she?
The problem may be just how time displaced she is.
Dabbler needed ‘a gigawatt, at least’ power source to make her outgoing call, so whatever manner of interocitor she used is probably currently off, or in receive only mode. So.. maybe? Cora makes the call, then waits while ARC rounds up Jiggawatt and gets her to where Dabblers interocitor is?
To give you an idea of scale.
Dabbler basically needed her own nuclear power plant to make that phone call. The largest reactor in the US pulls about 1.3.
Or to put it another way, If they turned off New York City for a little over 2 hours, they’d save about as much power as Dabbler needed.
They used Jigawatt for power.
1 Jigawatt in reality is one Gigawatt. It’s actualy an alternate pronunciation of the same word. The part of the story where Max reply’s to Dabs asking for a Jigawatt power supply was her Basicaly snapping back at Dabs, probably due to stress, and probably because she thought Dabs was bein a bit of a smart ass or cnobby over the pronunciation.
Uhh no.
That’s a Back to the Future reference.
1.21 Jiggawatts was the power needed to travel back in time.
And… that’s where Jiggs got her name (Lloyd pronounced it ‘wrong’ and Jigs never had access to a dictionary, ever, to see how it was properly spelt)
Sorry if I’m restating the obvious, but when Maxima said:
“How about a Jiggawatt power source?”
she meant that the team member with electrical superpowers
could be used as a power source.
Jiggawatt.
Um, by definition, you’d draw the same amount of power no matter how long New York was out.
Assuming you weren’t storing the power anywhere yes.
You are mixing up units.
Two identical devices will draw the same amount of power, but if I run one for longer than the other, total consumption changes.
I’m confusing units? You’re the one who gave an amount of energy for a quantity measured in gigawatts.
How’s that a problem?
My electric bill is measured in Kilowatts, and I’m charged for consumption.
Dabbler said she needed a gigawatt power source. Not a megawatt for 1000 hours.
Are we having a regional language use problem, or are you just being deliberately obtuse?
There’s a difference between the amount of power a device draws while operating, and its total consumption over time.
I gave examples of both. Dabbler needed her own nuclear power plant, the former, or NYC for two hours, the latter.
How? Doubt her comms would reach that far (she probably already tried), and could she trust any device Cora gave her?
You know, I think that calling Dabbler is indeed the one type of ID that Sydney could at least ask for. She would also have to ask her one thing that only she could know, since with their technology someone with bad intentions could probably produce an hologram that reproduces Dabbler’s appearance, tone of voice and speech patterns
Not sure but I think No Name wins and claims at least $5 but not actually because I’m sure Dave would not appreciate us gambling on the narrative outcome of his comic book.
There were 2 $5 bets against my shiny penny so I would be $10 richer. Given that this site is not licensed for gambling it’s probably best not to try to collect. That’s the reason not to try and enforce bets made on a near anonymous comment section of a webcomic where I don’t even bother putting in my actual email address, certainly not the practicality of it.
All I could think of was that scene from the Simpsons where Homer is thinking about Flanders. “Feels like I’m wearing… nothing at all… nothing at all… nothing at all!” “Stupid sexy Flanders!” XP
Looks like Cora has won the persuasion battle. It seems like now all Halo needs to do is come down and let Cora take her home
So it’s light that covers you, that you can touch, that protects your body, and that keeps you warm… I don’t see any reason not to call that “clothing made out of light”. It doesn’t count as being naked in my book (although it’s kind of weird to think you could suddenly get naked when you run out of batteries or after an EMP).
The fact that her nipples are covered also suggest that it doesn’t have to be skin-tight, but that it’s just this clothing item that is like that… She really is Dabbler’s friend
I wonder how long it takes Sydney to blurt out that:
A) Cora is basically wearing a Lantern Corps uniform and
B) Dabbler’s wetsuit is somehow even tighter than Cora’s outfit.
Quantum Vibe has something similar with the Anysuit (though that is a full body suit that projects a hologram of any type of clothing you want, and not just a little projector that creates a full body forcefield/hologram outfit)
Actually, Cora, you have to be wearing something, if only a little projector device in an earring or something.
Well the thickest part appears to be the armor on her upper torso, so I could see a “curtain of light” type of forcefield that drapes down and adheres to her general shape with color segment options for aesthetics.
Well in all fairness the hard light suit could be anything from dermal implants to the more mechanical bits of her suit.
Knowing Sydney’s name is a pretty good indication that
she’s legitimate.
Yes…. telepathy….video from Earth…the tag on her underwear…
could have done that also.
You forgot Timetraveling supervilan, The probability that whatever created the orbs is still around, got data from them, and sent someone to pick her up . . .
Cora’s arms are not robotic.
The hard light projection rigidizes her arm tentacles.
Pulsating arm tentacles that can…that is they can fit…
Well, Dabbler’s friend.
Now that we established Cora’s friendship with Dabbler,they should make plans to depart before Deus and Vale spot them….!
Dabbler asked Cora to find Sydney.
Mission accomplished!
OH! I just Realized! with Halo having broken glasses.. if anyone fixes it with magic (or sufficiently advanced technology that is indistinguishable from magic) that would be a total Harry Hotter moment! I wonder if Halo would do some kind of weirdly awesome geek-freak-out.
(on an unrelated not… I spelled “indistinguishable” right on the first try, I even checked with google…its freaking me out man… I know for a FACT that I don’t know how to spell that word!)
*sigh* … Potter… Harry -Potter-
… *sigh*… that’s the name for the character in the Harry Potter porno isn’t it…. *sigh*
Well, it COULD be Hairy Pothead. You know, from the -Alternative- types of publications (Where Hogwarts is just a somewhat bad trip… ;)
It could even be the Hairy Potter from the much more entertaining movie, “Troll”.
What about Larry Gardener?
I KNEW I couldn’t have been the only person to have seen that movie!!
Sydney could use a hard light suit. She’s been wearing the same outfit for a while now.
Why? It’s only been a an hour since she gated into the fracture, her time on the dead world was only a couple of hours her time since the portal colapsed, given that she flys at Mach 4 then 16. And probably less than 10 min passed between the portal opening and closing.
The implication then was that the portal opened to some point in time in the future, Cora May have some way of time traveling, it’s kind of implied with ther first apearace in story. And the fact that more time passed on earth is implied by the solar chimney being constructed on earth.
A fair amount of that time was in combat. Syd is wounded. She is inevitably stinky.
Not realy, most of the time, from her POV was spent Basicaly playing a video game, any time in flyball mode she’s again sitting in her own personal gravitational frame of reference, probably again the same in lightbee teleport mode. Honestly most of the time you never see her sweat.
It’s her expression when she says: ‘So really, I’m not wearing anything at all.’ that to me proves she is really Dabbler’s friend.’
Sydney doesn’t really seem too happy to be rescued, does she. I think she’s finally feeling an adrenaline crash coming on. Hopefully Cora won’t get her hard light boots covered with three or four bowls of half-digested grakz. Wouldn’t make very good advertising for the food guy (gal?) either!
Gi-Valek couple seeing Sidney and Cora in the alley:
“Do you think they are friends?”
“Dunno – sure looks like it. I wanted to let it taste test my home made Grakz, but Interrupting would be rude.”
“Aww – look, it is presenting her pre digested Grakz as a mating proposal”
“Yea, It already dissolves the hard light armor on her feet – that Blue gal is really forward”
“Oh no. Why Is she suddenly running in terror?”
“I don’t know – must have been something it said about her nutrient sacs, because I can smell the Grakx from here and it really smells delicious!”
Humans would have a time with regurgitating species.
Reminds me of Freefall when Sam expresses that his facial tentacles are so cute that when humans see them they instinctively puke up their last meal for him…and he is too rude to pass it up. So as a courtesy he keeps a face mask on.
*in truth he is hideous and smells horrible…also he may be aware of this as the truth is everything tries to eat him to the point he regards Earth as a planet of death so stays covered up at all times.
HA… the stupid sexy flanders reference !!!!
Let me tell you about a girl named Cora. Why, she even made the light hard.
I like the “spicy food vendor”. Maybe he can make the occasional appearance like a certain cabbage farmer/salesman.
But his food stand hasn’t been destroyed, forcing him to move.. yet.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hmm, really thought that would do something..
Ya’know. With Sydney’s warp gate power. Keeping that place on speed dial would be a must. As well as her hopping over every now and then.
If must be a thing. Or two amazing story threads will have been wasted. One being the Grax Vender I’m sure everyone likes. And two the Warp Gate “planet”.
Assuming she works out the issue with the Earth waypoint so she can go back and forth without issues.
You’d think Dabbler would have given her something to say that only she and Sydney would know. Like: “Dabbler said she’s still not going to cut off your arm.”
You left something out of Sydney’s last line:
“Yup. Definitely Dabbler’s friend… And I’m still not a lesbian.”
I am guessing that DaveB had his Lite-Brite taken away at about the age of twelve, when his mother found it under his mattress…
I came in today to say I’d been thinking about Grrlpower too much, as I woke up from a dream where I was talking to some miltary police lady, who was pretty, but then she pulled on what was kinda like a linen mask, and I realized she was wearing a prototype version of some sort of space disguise… it was Xuriel.
But since I read the comic, I’d say I look forward to aliens being admitted or something else, but either way everyone looks up impressed at the spaceship landing over the town… and out comes the owner of that shop with Sydney’s magnetar-quality delivery food. Then he leaves. People look at Halo like “… *starts to say something* … “
If you can’t trust a hot alien with freckles, then who can you trust?
Does Cora remind anyone else of the Syreens from the old games Star Control and Star Control 2?
You noticed that, but didn’t notice the Ur-Quan in the bottom right corner of Panel #1 from the game, um, “Star Control – The Ur-Quan Masters”. A game that I never played (Open source and free to download or so I’m told) but recognize from the fabulous androidarts fan art. .
Now THAT is some hardcore obscure reference from DaveB. Damn dude.
Alas, I’m looking at the free version, regular size, so I must have missed it. Hats off indeed! He’s already impressed me with the writing and imagination and just plain thoughtfulness, never mind the artwork.
And TUQM and indeed the original two SC games were great. TUQM is indeed open source, and I believe the two original games are on Steam somewhere or maybe GOG. tuqm can eat some time but was in 1992 and today a great game. DOn’t know yet about the new reboot just released; reviews are very mixed.
I can’t wait to see Max’s reaction to finding out that Halo ripped through an enemy force that straight-up genocided an advanced civilization as if it were tissue paper as if it were tissue paper.
So where’s that big gun Cora picked up two pages ago? Hammerspace? Handed to a crewmember?
Victoria’s Secret compartment.
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/uruushidingplace.gif
Seriously after that I realised I just don’t want to know ever were somehing is hidden.
Well if you look carefully in panel 5, you can kinda seen the top part of the gun on Cora’s left hip.
Probably means she’s left handed too. People usually put a primary side arm on the users best hand side.
Fairly sure that that is part of the poster on the wall behind her, look at panel one where you can see the entirety of her butt, and there is nothing there
As for panel five, if that was her portable cannon, then it would be on the back of her thigh rather than her hip as she is standing face-on
Waaay back when I was 22, when I was a size F (aka DDD) cup, & had a bf who was srsly into guns, including vintage & antique weapons… I experimented. First I tried a Glock and a Browning 9mm. I learned I could hide either of them inside the lower curve of my sports bra inside my teeshirt from any visual inspection. A pat down search was another matter. Then I tried his Derringer, that cute lil’ itty bitty purse gun? I tucked it into the sports bra between the nursing sacks…and even a pat-down search didn’t find it. A grope would’ve found it, but not a standard back-of-the-hands pat-down search.
Cora may be an H or bigger (and I was one at the high end of my nursing sack days, before getting reduction surgery to cure my daily back pain agony/excruciating misery), but that gun of hers is waay too big even for an L cup set to hide.
I am going to claim some minor prediction powers about Halo’s reaction to Cora:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2994/comment-page-2#comment-708957
Not 100% accurate, but the gist is there.
Huuum… Since we can’t actually see the form of her nipples (among other things) i do not believe that she is being entirely accurate when she says “barely does more than color my skin”.
Besides, we we easily see that her armor has significant volume at the very least around the shoulders and arms.
The hiding of her nipples and other such outwardly visible characteristics would be covered under the ‘barely does more’ part of her explanation. It doesn’t say it only colors her skin after all.
The armor and collar are I think not part of the hard light suit she’s talking about but are actually the device, and additional armor, that generate the hard light projection.
A hard light bodysuit sounds a tad impractical, since you’re onpy one power failure away from exposure to , full nudity. Presumably the power supply is very reliable, but still…
Regular clothes can fail in spectacular ways too. At least a hard light suit isn’t prone to tearing or burning.
I was thinking Cora was another succubus. But Sydney’s gaze went right past the boobs and they weren’t hypnotic at all.
Well, it works for Lanterns of any Color, so why not for Friends of Succubi?
^^
Given everything she has been through in a short period of time which would likely test any hardened military trained super let alone a raw recruit with about a week of basic under her utility belt, I think this reaction from Sydney is pretty darn good. She didn’t do the “Oh thank the Elder Gods I am rescued! and then hop on a ship to be offered up as a sacrifice to some dark denizen, she stopped and thought about it asking the right sort of questions.
Seriously I think it is going to be years before the memoirs of The Mighty Halo are going to be released without out pretty much ever page being redacted for revealing Aliens and what not as well as censored by the puritans for the amount of sex and skin.
HBO will probably get the rights to it.
Maxima will have to ORDER Sydney to go with Cora.
Not sure how they would do that.
Dabbler used Jiggawatt’s power to contact Cora.
I would think Cora’s spacecraft has plenty of power to transmit a message to Earth.
(Using subspace or super telepathy so SETI won’t notice.)
Nah. Netflix, released as “Science Fiction”…until the mandatory nda period has run out, then they”ll fille it under “Documentary / Drama”
along with Galaxy Quest