Grrl Power #726 – A return to abnormalcy
This scene would go down really different with just about any other Lieutenant Colonels in the military. Granted, there are fewer R. Lee Ermey types in the service these days, but glomping your XO is probably still generally frowned upon.
Yes. Dabbler went to Balor University. (She was 85% of the way to six different doctorates before wandering off.) Their collegiate rivals in the Doom Bowl was and still is Pit Fiend U. Although watch out for Marilith U. They only allow lady demons to enroll there, but while sexual dimorphism is fairly extreme among demons in general, we are talking about species that can summon fire whips and regenerate from eating corpses and… I don’t know, fly and breathe fire and probably other stuff with fire, the amount of muscle mass you’re walking around with matters for a lot less when it comes to collegiate sports.
A few things about this page. The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed that it looks a little different. So here’s the thing. I’m getting ready to move from one side of town to the other. This involves selling my house, which involves getting my house ready to sell. At this point, anyone who’s sold a house and moved may be surprised that this page is anything more than stick figures, because, damn, it’s a lot of work. Though I will say it’s probably healthy to have a bit of a stuff purge every once in a while. I tend to slough off about 20% of my stuff every time I do.
This feels like a good time to thank everyone for your support over the years, financial or otherwise. It’s amazing that I can do things like living in a houses because of all your support. You guys are my wonderbra.
Anyway, I had to find a way to speed up the comic process a bit. I was going to post this page with just the flat colors, but I experimented with a sort of cell shading with some smoothing around the curvy bits, and a few highlights. This took a lot less time than my more rendery style, so I may stick with it for a while, or I may be forced to be resort to just flats here and there for a few weeks, so we’ll see.
But Dave, don’t you have a guy who colors pages for you sometimes? Yes, but I spent nearly $200 on empty boxes and stuff like tape and bubble wrap this month, so you know. Choices.
Something else different about this page is that it’s a bit bigger. Updating the back end of the site made it easier to make the whole thing wider, and I’ve thought for the longest time that the dialog font I use is a smidge small for the size I post the pages at. Hopefully this will help with that. And also… it just makes the page bigger.
Edit: Whoops! Fixed the left-handed salute.
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Holy lack-of-shading batman
THE ARM, THE SALUTE ARM CHANGED
WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!
Bilateral Symmetry.
Her salute changed sides… as did the part in her hair.
No it didn’t, both her arms got flung up from not expecting a random Sydney Glomping
Yes, it did: panel two, the part is on the left, panel three, the part is on the right
DaveB flipped the image in panel three to ‘fix’ the left-handed salute
I actually really like this style. I like the normal way its rendered, but actually prefer this.
I think I prefer it too!
I third this comment.
I prefere the plain style with some highlights over more realistic renders. Not that it´s bad and i would of course still read it but it is a personal preference.
I fourth this comment. The normal way is amazing, in terms of art, but it can be too busy and eye straining, in the small panels of a comic. (A few pages back, it took me a minute to figure out that Max’s boot was crushing someone’s face. It might just be my bad eyes, but sometimes it seems that excessive shading ends up hiding some of the details)
This way, it’s easy to see to see what’s going on in the comic. Plus, how could anyone not love Max’s face in the last panel? :)
The normal shading method would be good to save for the large, artisic panels, where we’re supposed to spend a long time admiring the image.
I feel your pain on the move.
Only like times a hundred because what I’m helping to move is the company I work for, which is going from over 20,000 sq. ft. to less than half that. With product that is located in semi-random locations among the shelves, and only partly located in our database and there hasn’t been any sort of count (cycle or otherwise) for more than the 24 years I’ve been working there.
Oh. My. God. There’s dust in that place that’s older than half of my coworkers. O.O
So, yeah. Feel you on moving. Moving sucks.
Yikes.
Reminds me of a Shadowrun game that a friend started. He used the random generator in the core book to create our first run. Which basically amounted to stealing research from a corporation that was moving its headquarters.
No. Really. Moving it. Like moving a house, but they were moving their entire research center. During working hours, no less. How they were moving it, I don’t know. NASA crawler, maybe? Anyway, figuring out how to get into a mobile research lab being escorted by a convoy of armed vehicles and AV’s was just the first hurdle.
I feel you on moving, too, having done it twice.
There is actually a research base which moves, on Earth. The British Antarctic Survey lost a number of bases due to the glaciers they study periodically sheering off or otherwise behaving in inconvenient building-destroying ways. As such the current one, the Haley VI Research Station is designed to be able to more around.
Mind you presently it is abandoned, for the winter, because conditions were deemed too risky to leave it manned during the Antarctic winter. And not for the first time.
Err “glacier” is the wrong term. “Ice Sheets” would be the more appropriate one for a non-geologist to use.
Been there, done that…but as a slapstick comedy. I once worked for Time-Life Libraries (those gawdawful people who call you up in the middle of dinner to sell you books, videos, etc), and while so employed they moved the office.
A) Because they can’t ship out books that have been returned, and those books had a nominal value of about $20, the headquarters would sell mixed lots of returns to the call centers at $1 a volume, which handily dropped the value of each volume under the level the IRS requires to be tracked, and the call centers would use the volumes as incentive prizes. Hey, presto! Taxable inventory that can’t be sold vanishes! Naturally, this involved more copies of the first volume of each series than the mind can comfortably conceive…and they were all OVER the place. Even with the feeding frenzy (see item B following) we left that space with figurative snowdrifts of books (and some CDs Videotapes) in the weirdest places. I sometimes wonder how the building’s poor owners dealt with the mess, but I never heard anything about it.
B) One of the Bosses, who should have known better, casually said that since we were getting all new furniture anyone who wanted something could take it. Or that is how whatever he/she said was interpreted. In fact, a lot of the furniture was to be sold to a dealer, and there was a bit of a flap later. Bit the immediate effect was that, on the last day people were taking just about EVERYTHING that wasn’t nailed down, and as the old saw goes if you could pry it loose…
I got a rubbermaid desk (yes, that’s a thing) for my Lady’s workshop, and some office grade file drawers. Some whackos tried to get the conference room table out. It was HUGE, and put together in such a way that it didn’t disassemble. It wouldn’t fit in the elevator, and trying to take it down the stairs, the managed to jam it so thoroughly that they couldn’t get it out.
I REALLY felt for the building’s owners over that one.
*snerk*
Hmm, where can we find a Balor U outlet store here on Earth. I need a Balor U sweater. Preferably without having to apply for college admission.
Maxima actually looks a bit younger in this style.
Its not quite as full bodied but even with a little flatter tone on the shading its still the highest quality regularly updating (i.e. No month/year long gaps between pages) comic that I read…
thats saying alot considering I try and fail to keep up with somewhere over a thousand different comics.
Really hope you’re using an RSS reader and not maintaining bookmarks or anything! 0.o
I quite like Feedly myself, the web site is great but on my phone I access Feedly through the Newsify app. I ‘only’ have around 300 sources (not all comics) but it ends up at only a manageable few items a day.
unfortunately I am on bookmarks, after my last computer crashed i could never get rss to work correctly again. the worst part is how many of the comics that I actually liked reading that just evaporate into thin air..
checked one about three weeks ago, sweet! new page, checked it monday of this week and the whole damn site was gone…
me too. I don’t know if my poor memory has more to do with health problems, or keeping up with dozens or maybe hundreds of different webcomic stories in the back of my mind. I read about a dozen three times a week, and then I often dive into some of the MANY others that I might have missed for a year or more.
I like the style for most of it… The only thing that feels off to me is Maxima’s face. Its not bad, its just not max… Feels too much like cute teen to me. Maybe more angular and a bit more severe? Also, cheekbones.
It’s the eyes, in the first panel.
Yeah, she looks a little too teenage pixar in the first panel.
I thought that was Heatwave until I read the tags. Then I remembered Brooke’s hair is like 4 shades darker than Strawberry Harem.
Heatwave is like really really red. Like Black Widow red.
Oh come on… You actually thought that Harem WOULDN’T be there just for the opportunity to play Double Agent again?
Okay, 99.5% of the comments in here are about Maxima’s salute? Okay, cool, great. Glad we got that covered ad nauseum. <_<
So instead, might I say that that is the absolute most freckliest that we've ever seen Harem's pink-haired body before? I approve. :-D
I think she was more freckled than this around #92 when Heatwave was going to pour boiling soda on Strawberry Harem over the ambulance lipstick prank.
I vote to change Strawberry Harem’s name to Freckleberry.
I mean they’re all about equally freckly aside for the tanned one, where they blend into the tan, and I think the goth one covers it with foundation or something?
Freckleberry, you say? A worthy suggestion! Seconded! :-)
I can see this freckle thread becoming something in the comic, next time the media is covering Harem and wants public input or as a side thing on Arianna’s tablet as she searches comments on line.
I think it would be funny… than again I’m weird.
The Dawww is strong with this one.
“ParaMILFitary.” Heeheehee!
Yeah….exactly how old is Maxima?
Old enough! :P
Technically, you can be a MILF at 19
34 according to the cast page.
“You guys are my wonderbra.” … That leads to images I really didn’t want/need. But seriously, good luck on the moving situation! We’re finishing up our packing here and moving to a new house on the 19th, so I totally understand.
This was the page i was waiting for. Sure the coloring is different, but it looks great! Sure it was prolonged for a bit with these last few pages. But… It’s good to be home Sydney!
Am I the only one (besides Math) who really wants to see Cora and Dabbler bake cookies together?
No. You are not. Cora could even dial up her “two-armed Dabbler” hard light facade, but need not.
The next few pages should be of Sydney trying to resume her normal routine….
…while evading Dabbler’s porno sense and inevitable interrogation about Sydney’s sexy funtime with a woof.
*smiles*
I think that is one of the warmest looks we have ever seen on Maxima.
Also, I actually like the look of the page, if it helps you out too, double word score!
You of course realize, there are now two things on Earth that the Squidwards are out for the blood of… The Alari, and Sydney…
Not necessarily.
It is, in fact, possible that the Squidwards weren’t even directly after the Alari just the Gate which was going to open.
The Squidward attack force could be a preprogrammed automated, genetically engineered
defense system left by some long dead race which is designed to eliminate potential threats to the space time continuum itself.
When Sydney destroyed Scionas drone making the gate, it tore a RIP in the fabric of the universe which eventually connected to Alari as intended but in the future. Possibly without the presence of the orbs that tear could have been long lasting and grown larger on a cosmic scale.
The Squidwards could have been awakened by sensors monitoring the universe beginning when the gate first opened and sent to deal with the tear, and destroy whatever made it.
When they scanned the orbs, they identified something which can manipulate the fabric of the universe.
So maybe the Squidwards are now just looking for the orbs since the gate has come and gone.
Except, they had already wiped the planet clean (mostly) of Alari life
No, they had not.
The Gate existed in time from the anchor point when Sydney shotgun PPO’d Sciona’s automaton in her lair until it collapsed leaving Sydney stranded however long the interval was later.
Sufficiently advanced technology may have been able to detect the Alari end of the gate before it opened due to it’s coronal preexistence from the earth side
Chronal. Stupid spellcorrupt.
You are still working on the assumption that the wormhole was a portal through time
Also, forgetting that that ‘Gate Keeper’ woke up after Sci-fright walked over it
They still wiped out the Alari, or thought they had until Sci returned home. And if one Alari can build the portal once, then another (or the same one) can do it again
Sydney may now have the ability to create a Causeway, butt she did not create the portal from Dirt to Alari Prime
Absolutely I am working on the assumption that the gate went forward through time.
My conjecture does not rely in any way upon Sydney having created the gate generated by the Skybreaker (although she did indeed help cause it to go awry) it merely postulates that an advanced civilization could detect such a potentially cosmic disaster and have measures already in place to annul it.
I am also postulating that the presence of the orbs may have mitigated the disaster.
I am going to say since they didn’t they don’t.
Simplest answers
A: The Alari much like the chart showed ticked off the wrong species either directly or by attacking a world the squidwards were protecting (or otherwise had interest in),
or
B: Builder class civilization saw the Alari world, decided they wanted it, and proceeded to mow over the surface and any locals to clear space to build on (no declaration of war, just clear cut and build unless the locals can put up enough of a fight)
Assuming they are some higher level civilization that could detect a temporal anomaly and then try to prevent it…and their way of doing so was a genocide run on a planet’s surface rather than something that reflects having such technology like a chrono-correction wave *time-quake changing events so the anomaly can’t occur*, or just…time travel to the earlier point in the connection…and being a wormhole directly detecting the other side of the portal that the earlier point of time is on…hence they would traveled to Earth prior to the point the portal was made, the point on the Earth and lied in wait to prevent the event.
If they were trying to prevent a temporal anomaly as you suggest using this haphazard genocide run, I’d say this is like seeing a car crash about to happen and trying to prevent it by standing at the cross walk where the accident happens and randomly shooting people….I mean you “might” prevent the accident but it stands to reason if you KNOW its going to happen ahead of time then you have access to enough details to know the model, license plate, point of origin of the car, and cause and go to the source and take away the drunk driver’s keys.
Plus…not only did nothing they did stop the portal ahead of time…you can argue that their blowing up the area around the portal, also blew up the sigils on Earth and closed the portal but…if they were there for that specific reason and willing to go that far; they would have waited till the portal opened…already having something in place to detect it upon appearing, and then surgically strike that exact spot.
They didn’t blast the area because of the portal….they didn’t react to it. The guard drone reacted to a survivor walking over a sensor. It activated, scanned Dabbler, Maxima, and Sydney. Sydney set off its high alert, it called in back up, and the back up using its attack targeted them. The portal wasn’t scanned or even acknowledged, they were a kill crew; with the extra insensitive of knowing something that made them freak out when Sydney appeared….heck for all we know those orbs are like the green lantern rings from wherever they are from so they tried to cover up their crime by shooting the cop they detected. But in the end regardless of what about the orbs or Sydney freaked them out like that, no, they clearly weren’t there for, or reacting to the portal.
Wow that’s a stretch
Honestly, I think I like this version of Dabbler the most. She’s so over the top most of the time that it’s nice to see her casual, greeting a friend.
Hm, honestly I kind of prefer this style of coloring, no offense, the way you have been doing coloring for a while has been a bit too detailed and well defined. If that makes any sense.
So… when is Sydney going to break it to Maxima that Max is no longer the fastest?
Hopefully while she is ferrying part of Arc-Swat someplace far away.
Subsonic up into the stratosphere, book it to the destination, subsonic down.
Sit around and wait for the Lt. Col.
Then brag a lot later.
It’s possible that Max may be happy that there is someone on the team who can nearly keep up with her. We’ve never seen her top speed, have we?
I bet Maxima doesn’t have a weird magic related speed limit, and thus can still go faster. In fact, I bet Max can make it to at least Mach 32, aka orbital velocity.
While I’m not going to make bets on whether Maxima is still faster or not (although if I HAD to make a guess, it would be that Sydney is now faster because of the earlier foreshadowing of it during the flight speed tests with Maxima), I don’t think Max is able to get to orbital velocity speeds (or at least not that speed for any sustained period of time, while Sydney CAN maintain that speed indefinitely), although I also do not think that with Max, orbital velocity speeds are required for her to go orbital, since I do not think her ability to fly is based on thrust, like Sydney’s orbital velocity is not based on thrust (we know this already because Sydney was able to go into orbital velocity without going any faster than Mach 4 on the Alari planet.)
I’ll just post a quick ‘I think I actually like this art style more.’ Maybe not more, but it is honestly still quite good. Max looks really different, and I can’t tell if that is just her not being quite the same, the art style change, or a combination. I must say this style makes her look a lot softer in most senses of the word. Her features aren’t as sharp, and her lowered reflections make her look like she just has yellow skin with a bit of a glow to it than actual shiny metal.
(Frix to Maxima) I hope I’m not being rude by asking, are you non-biological entity?
(Maxima) Despite appearances I’m a human. My skin is unusually reflective. I don’t know how.
Maxima: “Also I apologize if Sydney did anything like call you Barkley. She sometimes does stuff like that.”
Frix: “Oh no, not at all. When we fooled around while bathing each other, she was very respectful.”
Maxima: “Oh okay that’s good beca- wait what?!?!”
Dabbler: *laughing nonstop*
Why has nobody asked if Xuriel can properly speak Frix’s name?
Because Sydney has only been ‘home’ for two minutes and hasn’t introduced her new friends?
It’s probably a given that Xuriel is very proficient with lots of foreign tongues.
Phrasing!
It seems quite possible that the next page will show Dabbler giving a rather militarily inappropriate hug to Altus (or maybe Cora, for that matter).
Or both
Just as well Dabbles isn’t military then :P
Ok… so, I had a bit of a shower thought…
Sydney’s fly orb basically switches off the effect of gravity fields for her. The shield can take the explosion of multiple nukes going off at once and still keep on ticking, and protect her from the radiation from said blasts… Put these two together and she could explore Jupiter, probably all the way down to the “surface”.
And that got me thinking, ignoring gravitational fields means she could possibly pass a black hole’s event horizon safely… that is if it wasn’t for the Hawking radiation, which would affect her because it increases as gravitational fields increase.
But why would an increase in the gravitational field affect her if she can just ignore gravity? Because it’s not the gravity that would affect her, but the hawking radiation… See, gravity can still get through the shield, as evidenced when she was playing taxi, carrying people in her shield.
So then that gets me thinking… if someone has the power to remotely control gravity, they could conceivably kill Sydney by concentrating enough gravity inside of her shield to spawn enough Hawking radiation to cook her.
An explanation for those playing at home:
Hawking radiation is basically “virtual particles”. That is particles that aren’t fully real. They spawn with their antiparticle and instantly self annihilate. They’re also generally not exotic and consist of things like electrons, protons, etc, and they’re already everywhere. They bubble up out of the fabric of space, filling every nook and cranny of a vacuum. They increase in density with both energy and mass. Black holes have a habit of gobbling up the anti particles, which allows the ones that spawn to become real particles.
This is why passing the event horizon would be lethal to her. the event horizon CAN penetrate her shield because it’s just a region of space caused by gravity, so the shield can’t keep it out, and as such can’t keep out the hawking radiation.
Gravity does NOT affect Sydney while she is using the fly orb. It also has some secondary effects as well which seem to be automatically activated at the same time, like ignoring vertigo and having a ‘localized gravitational pull’ within a certain area around her – which is why her hair keeps moving downward in relativity to how her body is positioned. Ie, if she’s upside down, her hair it being pulled upwards, towards her feet, the same as if she was standing right side up.
However, it’s not automatic that this is always in effect. We’ve seen that the shield does apparently have limits, of which the first Squidward alien giant seemed to be taxing to its limit. It’s possible that the localized gravity function might also have limits as well, and if it does, a black hole would be a pretty good test of that limitation. Not to mention the black hole might even surpass the ‘pull’ force exerted on the shield itself, assuming Sydney doesn’t just get pulled into the black hole entirely rather than try to fly away from it.
Could be wrong though, especially with the foreshadowing of how a black hole might be in Sydney’s future from the aetherium causeway navigation science lesson from Altus not too long ago, and how there are safety precautiosn on the orbs that can be shut off.
As for the Hawking Radiation problem:
1) It’s theoretical radiation. Hawkings had not been able to prove its existence. There have been no provable results that hawking radiation exists at all, in fact. He only came up with the heoriy because of quantum effects near the event horizon, which is another theory he has, which he also could not prove. So hawkings radiation is an unproven hypothesis created to explain a different unproven hypothesis. It’s not THAT much better than science fiction at this point in time, and the only reason he even came up with it is because he needed a way to explain flaws in his existing computations. Sort of the same way that, when theoretical physicists could not explain why their models on universal expansion did not work, they created the hypothesis of ‘dark energy’ – which basically just means ‘if we add this much energy to our formulas, it’ll work.’ Same as how they also created ‘dark matter’ – which is just ‘matter that we can’t see because otherwise our theories don’t make any sense mathematically.’
There other theories of how black holes might lose mass, but they’re also unproven, and I’m not a physicist so I only am repeating what I learned in AP physics courses from high school, physics courses from college before I changed majors in my first year, and a bunch of TV shows on the Science Channel by people like Michio Kaku and Brian Cox.
Point is, though, there’s no reason to assume that Sydney has anything to fear from Hawkings radiation (although there are a lot of other more provable (but still theoretical) dangers of a black hole, including that a lot of the energy sucked into a black hole gets ‘spit’ right back out from its sides in two high energy jets in opposite directions, perpendicular to the accretion disc.
“they created the hypothesis of ‘dark energy’ ” False assertion. It’s effects have been detected, therefor it exists.
Incorrect. Saying ‘dark energy’ exists is like saying ‘the stuff that makes my calculations work’ exist. It’s not a definitive ‘thing.’ It’s a way to make calculations work where they wouldn’t otherwise work, same as dark matter, because of an acknowledgment that there might be matter and energy that we cannot detect. The fact that we cannot detect it in any way is why they said it’s ‘dark.’
‘Dark energy’ just means energy that has not been detected. They say it exists because their calculations for the total amount of energy in the universe differs from the amount they can measure. Therefore the energy that they can’t measure is ‘dark energy.’ Saying it exists period is bad science. It’s a hypothesis, and not even a definitive hypothesis, since there could be mutliple different reasons for the disparity, including that whatever it outside of the universe (ie, actual nothing) exerts a pull on everything in the universe). Those aren’t my words btw, that’s Michio Kaku.
I think Vsauce might have made a video on that too.
No, dark energy means we don’t know it’s nature. It’s been detected and confirmed. Same with dark matter. Not only can we detect dark matter, we’ve found two galaxies that strangely do not have it.
Dark energy however is a little more up in the air than dark matter but all possible alternative explanations so far have been either falsified or no test can be devised to falsify then, making them unscientific.
As for Hawking radiation not being discovered .. wrong… It’s virtual particles when an event horizon eats the anti particle. We’ve already confirmed virtual particles and even use them in every day technology at this point… Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay, and other tap things, as well as amiibo sand any other near field communication exploits virtual particles.
I think all this comes down to things that Sydney would probably NOT want to try (unless truly desperate or with an ironclad guarantee beforehand) n the very simple grounds that if she exceeds the (so far unknown) limits of the orbs’ capabilities, then there will probably be no safety net or return afterwards.
All very well to throw yourself off a cliff and fly. Different thing to throw yourself off a cliff and hope to somehow figure out flight on the way down.
Your comment made me think of two tv shows.
One was an animated Superman episode where Bizarro Superman stayed behind in a building that was about to blow up to save Superman and Lois Lane and Lois asked if Bizarro Superman could survive the explosion and Superman’s reply was something like “I don’t Know, I never tried to survive an explosion that big.” (my memory might be a little off)
The second show was an episode of Babylon 5 where a character said “If you fall off a cliff, you might as well try to fly.”
Yup. When there’s absolutely nothing left to lose, might as well Go Big and hold out for the million-to-one shot. But doing so when it’s NOT the only choice or even simply under the heading of “I wonder what would happen if I …?”, maybe time to rethink one’s priorities.
I dunno how it is in Archon or the Air Force, but in the Navy we get yelled at if we salute bare-headed – gotta have a cover (hat) on.
Granted, it’s almost certain someone in this absolutely massive comment section already said that, but on the off chance they didn’t!
Are you gonna be the one to yell at Maxima? :)
Those rules do vary from service to service. And who sets the rules in Archon? Maxima. I don’t think she will be shouting at herself for breaking any rules.
Not unless she gets an evil twin. So keep watching this space.
And who sets the rules in Archon?
Pretty sure that would be General Faulk.
Discipline is generally somewhat relaxed at a party of this type, however.
And I misspelled my email.
Unlikely. The chain of command goes from him to the President of the USA and the Secretary of Defence. General Faulk will have far far too many demands on his time to micromanage things like uniform code of conduct in each of his departments (Arc SWAT just being one branch under his jurisdiction). Maxima is the head of Arc SWAT (with other heads for Arc-Light, Arc-Dark and others) whereas General Faulk is the head of Archon.
However he will have veto, so should any particular issue prove to be controversial he could of course order Maxima to change it.
Rereading my own post, I should give credit to you, for picking up on me using “Archon”, rather than “Arc-SWAT”. I was being lazy in conflating the two. Most of the time it does not matter, but it does in this instance.
1. Maximilia is not in uniform.
2. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen DO NOT SALUTE when not in uniform.
3. The original left-handed salute-like gesture was perfectly okay, since it wasn’t a military courtesy being rendered by a uniformed individual. Pointing that out could have been added to the milfitary casual wardrobe comments for why Sydney needen’t return any “salute.”
All of those schools and not one Miskatonic University reference? Shame on you.
Give him time. Besides, you can probably by MU shirts at Sydney’s comic shop.
I’d like to see Harem in a Sunnydale High shirt.
You can do your freshman and sophomore years at Alternate University. It’s not really a junior college as such, but all the credits transfer.
Am I the only who that noticed that Sydney seems to *much* more relaxed about her sexuality now?
I could not imagine her making that comment about Maxima’s outfit earlier.
Go back and reread.
This is extremely tame compared to Sydney’s bald merkin quip.
Well, she did recently vavavoom.
Definite “Awwwwwwwwww …..” moment there. I approve.
For “paraMILFitary casual”, wouldn’t at least one of them need to be a mom? (Maybe Dabbler has a hundred kids on various planets, but she’s not being a mom to them.) On that topic, what would Harem’s teleporting around do to the baby if she got pregnant?
That was more of a dig on Maxi’s age (and the fact Sydney thinks she’s hot, and not just to the touch :P)
Just like losing a limb (or a life), that’s probably on the Daphne’s “Not Interested In Experimenting With” list
More of a dig on the clothing than on Max. Although Syd might be saying that Max looks like a Milf in those clothes.
hahahahaha I just noticed the boots are wrong… the zipper is usually on the inside, it wouldn’t be visible from that position… lol airforce boots with their zippers… :D
Notice how the zipper doesn’t go to the top? They don’t actually do anything, except ‘fashion’ (or maybe provide ventilation to prevent Stinky Feet)
For combat boots, they generally do go to the top.
You may need quick release if the foot is injured, or physically trapped.
Laces are still necessary to insure that the fit stays tight over time, as the leather or fabric will stretch
you should google tanker boots, they got a cool strap.
OK I see the next page or two being Halo reuniting with the group but I also see it being about the refugees they pulled from “Coruscant” and lumping them in with the others in Africa.
Anyone else notice Dave’s comment about “living in a houses”, which I’m sure is wrong in some way.
How dare you make me cry!
This bit went pretty much how I thought it would. Still quite satisfying though.
“Whoops! Fixed the left-handed salute.”
Oh, Dave. XD Mirroring the panel doesn’t fix it! Her part is now on the wrong side! (So now she’s like a video game sprite! :P ) Not to mention that faces and bodies rarely look right when flipped from the way they were originally drawn, anyway.
Sydney says Dabbler’s shirt is spelled wrong. What does she think it’s supposed to say?
Baylor, which is a Christian University
Maxima’s face looks different and I can’t put my finger on why.
I really, really like the affection I see here between Sydney and Maxima. From the little we’ve seen, Maxima strikes me as lonely. She’s bored with being an involutary Sex Goddess, and maybe a little afraid of her own power level. If Sydney gloms onto her as a Big Sister, I think it will be good for both of them.