Grrl Power #731 – Here’s the windup… and it’s a triple!
Dabbler’s serious, succubi are actually so disease resistant they can cure some ailments venereally. Virological, bacterial, even some kinds of thaumitological conditions, like certain curses. It’s like a really thorough laying of hands. It’s not universal though. A cure for xanthous palsy to one species is priapismal fever to another. So I guess they do have sexually transmitted cures where Dabbler and Frix are from. Fortunately these effects aren’t communicable. There aren’t any succubi driven “positive plagues” with side effects similar to slipping Viagra into the local aquifer. The have spells for that if they’re feeling mischievous.
Succubi disease resistance is by design. They didn’t evolve from another branch of demons naturally. Dabbler will tell Sydney all about it one day, but it’s a long tangent so I won’t get into it here.
Frix isn’t tall enough on these recent pages. I had to cheat to get him to fit under the word balloons. He’s supposed to be like, I dunno, 6′ 8″ minimum. (Measured to the top of his head, not the horns or ears.) All of Cora’s crew are way taller than her.
He is certainly taking Sydney’s behavior in stride. Some people might be offended by her antics. He also recovered quickly from Dabbler’s groping. He’s resilient. That or he plans on spanking her later. Both probably.
I’m not sure why there’s a bottle of hand sanitizer just… floating in the hallway there. (Down in the corner of panel 1.) I guess they are standing by the elevators. People can be weird about buttons.
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Debrief Sydney?
She already has been debriefed by Frix.
Seriously though I too am eager to see her report to Maxima about her accomplishments and survival by the planet killers, as well as her upgrades.
…and they were cute ‘lil briefs.
So Sydney DID get laid. I thought there would be a chorus of Angels or something.
Seriously, losing it to a Fur in a Starship while doing FTL is the Geek Dream….
Also, in Deep Space.
The Trillion Mile High Club.
Better to call it the Light Year High Club. That’s significantly more than a mere trillion miles.
Advantage… space no one can hear you scream, moan etc.
Wait… you call that an advantage?
If you have easily-annoyed neighbors in the next ship-compartment over, yes.
Initially i was sure this was the case, but given what she just said, now i’m not.
What would make me fall over laughing would be if Syd found out later that Frix was pregnant through contact with HER
Frix ain’t from Ork, ya dork :P
Wonder how many would get that reference (without having to look it up, which is still okay, just not as special as already knowing)
Oh, my God.
If I keep dredging up that deeply into my brain who *knows* what the hell will come up. Jonathan Winters, maybe.
Bet both Mork and Mindy were glad Jonathan hatched from an egg :P
And didn’t need to be breast-fed (betting he wasn’t happy about that part though :P)
Personally, I’ve always wondered more about Orson. What was his agenda? He must have had some nefarious purpose to send a scout to interact with us humans on a social level, with individuals. I mean, it must have been quite expensive on resources & time to send anybody so far. He would have needed to keep costs low enough to limit to only one scout.
The only time I really questioned Orson’s ethics was when he gave Mork amnesia, on the grounds that Mork had gone too native. Of course, Mork had his memory back by the end of the episode and persuaded Orson to give up that battle.
I always thought Orson really sent Mork to earth to get him off Ork for a while for a bit of peace and quiet.
Kinda like with Gordon Shumway :D
Interesting how ‘kinda’ gets the little red line under it, butt ‘Shumway’ doesn’t…
Mork was the “Invader Zim” of Ork. (with less manic cackling)
On Mork’s first voyage (the episode of Happy Days he appeared on as a guest star), he happens to bump into the one human in the setting known to have superhuman abilities (Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli) and that the Fonz’s power of Cool is sufficient to allow him to overcome Mork’s Orkan (or Orkan tech) ability to freeze him in stasis.
I kind of had a head-canon that Orson developed an interest in human potential for that reason, and sent Mork back in the hopes that he’d stumble onto similar exceptional beings, or even discover the source of their potential. That said, if you’re sending someone to uncover the secret of Cool, and Mork is your best choice, you have my deepest condolences.
I remember that episode. I thought the plot was silly, but Robin Williams really impressed me.
Pity that by the time Mork returned (in the 80’s), all the Cool was gone (or at least, none in Colorado :P)
Nanoo, nanoo!
Shazbot!
Yeah, forgot both of those until it was too late :(
Nanu nanu
We really don’t know if this was Sydney’s first time; in fact, it was kinda strongly implied that it wasn’t.
However, it *definitely* was the first time with a muscular furry blue woof, so there’s that.
Don’t believe anyone is saying it’s her first time, except maybe for those who believe Sydney is the typical twenty-something geek-nerd virgin
Sydney is actually pretty cute and endearing, I would assume some eligible persons have shown interest in a relationship with her.
OK, I was interpreting Joe Guy’s “losing it” comment to it being her first time.
See, that’s also just a stereotype. Nerds kinda have been seen as “Attractive” since Bill Gates showed up on the scene.
Then again, I do agree there’s a lot of people who still think Stereotypes of certain folks apply to EVERYONE who looks remotely that way, Like people who assume all Muslims are Fanatical suicide bombers/Terrorists. It’s more like 20000 at best, out of TWO BILLION.
It’s a LOT less than 20,000. I sat down and did the math once to prove a point about how stupid the “Muslim = terrorist” assumption is. In making my point I ended up writing a most-of-a-page essay with everything detailed to an absurd degree. The basic points weer: based on the number of terror attacks in the world since 2000, if you assume that A) they were all perpetrated by Islamic extremists (they weren’t), B) all those extremists were still alive (they wouldn’t be), and C) it took 100 people to plan and execute all of them (FAR less in most situations) you could get the number of Muslim terrorists to like 0.05% of all Muslims, around 10,000. By MASSIVELY inflating the numbers with completely and obviously BS assumptions. The real numbers are a lot less.
Those are just your calculations, not the actual numbers. Let’s not forget all the ones masquerading as refugees (which pisses me off, since real refugees are typically good people who just want their families to be safe) over in Europe doing consistently unspeakable things to women and children, as well as driving the country’s citizenry from their homes. Yet conspicuously you tend to get jailed if you try to speak too openly about it. Serious problem in the UK in numerous places.
You don’t have to be a small-minded Islamophobic moron to see what’s going on over there at the hands of refugee-posing extremists as horrific and unjust, especially since they keep demanding that the countries they’ve been taken into adopt Sharia Law while running amok as they form knife gangs in countries that’ve all but banned all weapons for its citizenship. Trying to get my little sister out of London as we speak after what’s happened to her closest friends.
Try growing up a nerd in a small farm town. I was pretty much plutonium until I got into a larger, more tolerant environment.
That said, I really have only been back twice in 30 years.
If that was 30 years ago it may have been as much the time as the small town.
We don’t know when the last time they were back, could have been last year
And it’s usually, the smaller the town, the more stasis-locked their attitudes are: anyone or anything viewed as being ‘different’ is shunned
Oh, “statis-locked” is a pretty good description for it. “Petrified in amber” works too.
It’s one reason why a lot of the old towns survived for so long, just a shame a lot of it is due to bad attitudes :(
Eh, nerds and geeks are cool these days. Plus Sydney is an attractive woman even without the geek chic. Poor social skills or not it’s unlikely she’s still a virgin unless she wants to be, which is possible but in which case I would very much doubt that Frix would have happened. She has almost certainly had opportunities, whether she was spazzing out about it or not.
There is SOME implied stuff in this strip that she was a virgin, or just engaged in some ‘halfway there’ stuff, by saying she’s ‘as pure as the driven snow.’ But other there’s also some stuff in the comic that also implies that she’s had boyfriends before, so it’s possible she’s had sex before as well.
It’s possible she was saying ‘pure as the driven snow’ with the understanding that driven snow isn’t pure
Kinda like the classic Mae West line: “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted” :P
Possibly :)
I’m glad I saved this:
ImpTwins said, “I think this definitely lends credence to the idea that their fooling around wasn’t quite a home run.”
DaveB said, “Yeah, they fooled around, bases were… uh… based? I don’t know baseball, but there’s things they didn’t get up to. Basically, there’s plenty of reasons for a second date.”
meTo put Frix in Clinton’s shoes, “I did not have sex with that woman.” [Remember? He didn’t count anything but vaginal sex as sex.]
To be fair to Clinton, he asked what Congress was counting as sex, and THEY specified vaginal sex.
Loopholes!
To be fair to Clinton, he is a shameless horndog and had no problem taking advantage of an impressionable young woman that worked for him. Had the press treated him the way they treat treat conservatives accused of similar misbehavior his Presidency would have been over.
You mean like how candidate Trump, who bragged about sexually assaulting women and walking in on half-dressed teenagers was elected to the highest office in the land?
More like how Clinton sexually assaulted women and his wife bullied and threatened his victims. One of the reasons why Trump was able to hammer Hillary Clinton so hard is that he was the first person to ever give Juanita Broaddrick an opportunity to speak up.
Can we not get all partisan here? (Especially since it puts me in the VERY uncomfortable position of defending Donald Trump. I do NOT like Trump… but there’s a REASON he was elected, and it comes down to Clinton demanding that we vote for the lesser of two evils, and failing to make a convincing case that she was a lesser evil than Trump)
Actually if you listen to what Trump said he was bragging about how the groupies let him grab them by the privates. In other words, he had consent. His locker room bragging may have been crude but he certainly never advocated assault.
Sadly, no matter how often you repost this people will still insist on believing things completely contrary to what DaveB said.
Specially when you have Sydney herself leading the contradictions (heh heh, they said ‘dick-shins’)
Can we skip all the politicians crap?
Idk about dream but I wouldn’t pass it up
To be fair, they’re not lying, or overstating the obvious…….
Someone’s been watching The League lately
Hah hah, yeah, full rewatch a few weeks ago.
Magitech and nanites…so pretty much any disease on Aesperia…granted every single disease was invented by some wizard or another as a bio-weapon that had to adapt to both magical resistances and the nanites all Aesperians inherit from their parents.
but this does mean even the joke ones like “silver zits” could possibly infect her (you can play it off as a nose ring…provided its on your nose LoL).
Yeesh, that sounds worse than the Great Old One’s wars in the Dark Tower series. The wastelands they left behind were like what would happen if wizards had access to nukes.
Lina Inverse would show you that nukes are ineffective.
One of the series that influenced the design of the Aesperians, a people with fantasy and sci-fi elements whose physically can have the powers and withstand the abuse characters in fantasy anime often exhibit. In other words, healing from wounds that should be mortal, fully healing from burns, being thrown fifty feet into the air and landing with only minor injuries, taking impact damage like a grenade level and greater in stride. When people become incredibly resilient yet still want to harm and kill one another they need to get creative.
You mean “again”?
Oddly Dabler is ignorant of the fact that the presence of Dangerous STDs or what was considered ab std have historically been a major motivator in increasing sexual conservatism.
Shhhh!
Don’t spoil the jokes by interjecting reality.
You’re stealing my shtick.
Well i’m one of those who lived the “every time you know someone who has HIV you end up cataloging yours and his dates and cross referencing” Era of HIV. No wait that’s still goes on, its just more likely to be a “Life long chronic condition what will shorten your life expectancy” nowadays.
Sorry, having most of my friends die within a few weeks or months of being informed they had AIDS back then does tend to color my attitude on certain topics. Seriously just Dabler making that offhand comment would have had me blister Sydney’s ears if she had not been careful and used reasonable protection.
Yeah, some jackasses online a while back were talking about pulling out and orgasming on the woman as a method of birth control because they don’t use condoms, and I’m like “are you NUTS?! ”
One, as birth control goes, that is really unreliable, and Two that is saying nothing of STD risk!
If nothing else, the woman shouldn’t trust these douchebags.
A homosexual relationship of course doesn’t have to worry about unwanted pregnancy, but the STD risk is just as big an issue.
No glove, no love!
Okay, in a committed monogamous relationship; fine. But that really didn’t seem to be the case.
Assuming they weren’t completely full of shit and they were actually having sex with anyone.
Condoms are generally inadequate long term, both for prevention of pregnancy and for prevention of disease. If celibacy isn’t an option then vasectomies and tubal ligations are best to prevent pregnancy and constant checkups will at least give a chance to cure diseases which are curable at all early.
Condoms are pretty guaranteed to fail except for people who function at both a more sedate pace and for short to moderate duration .
Condoms are supposed to be a ‘one-time use’ item, which means each time to go for penetration (or after each ejaculation), you should be using a fresh condom
Cartoons and hentai where the condom fills up like a water-balloon is not what they are designed for
Exactly.
And for people with either a high tempo or an extended stamina (let alone both) they tear every time.
Tubal ligations and vasectomies are far more reliable.
And nothing at all is perfectly reliable for disease prevention during sex.
Is Frix being comforted because he was third to make the remark?
I think the conjoined word bubble is implying they all said it at the same time.
Yes… Simulteaneousity would be better indicated with the words
printed once in a speech balloon with three tails.
In bold text or a slight misalignment of it being typed 3 times.
I did that once physically.
“What are you boys up to?” asks the restaurant’s server.
(I and two others made the “I am this tall gesture)
(Would have been funnier had the 4th guy done it also.)
Orrrrr…..
The three seperate speech bubbles not exactly overlapping.
One opaque, one partially transparent and one even more partially transparent.
(the more transparent layer would be on the top to give the impression
of being on the bottom….my brain laughs at that.)
I think, he’s laughing and hugging Dabbler…
Yeah, Max & Sydney are high-fiving, while Frix strongly looks like he’s laughing…
You don’t normally give a reassuring pat to someone who is laughing, normally that is for someone crying, accompanied by a “There, there”
Nah, it seems more like *pat pat* Yeah yeah, you’re a riot. You’re all riots. So funny. Ha. *sarcasm* *pat pat*
Okay, that could work
This is how I imagined it.
Well technically yes she is an alien from another ?planet? or plane of reality, as is Frix, it could be that he needed to do his equivalent of a facepalm laugh because hey we all thought the same thing at the same time
Yaaay, we have Word Of God confirmation that Frix is just laughing really hard…
And I used a new big word…
I think he’s laughing so hard that he is leaning on Dabbler for support.
I don’t know why Sydney is getting so uppity and high and mightyt about this given that she knew before hand that Cora and Dabbler knew one another and was pretty much explained beforehand that Cora also had been yiffing. Just because she did the groinal lambada does not mean he is exclusively hers or her property/boyfriend.
Sydney doesn’t exactly always think everything through before her reactions.
Especially if she’s off of her meds…
Or on them
She was aware of what she was getting into, but now she is actually having it paraded in front of her, and we all know how she likes to overreact.
So, Dabs can literally save lives through sex? OMG, did I just began a slashfic?!
Whorehouse, MD.
Hah hah!
I wish I could upvote that
Your post is upvote sentiment enough, plus I got DaveB to laugh at my joke :)
“Dr. (whore)House, is that a cane you’re carrying, or are you just happy to see me?”
Maybe something along the lines of M*A*S*H with hookers instead of surgeons.
With sexual triage…
Gives a new meaning to Major Hot Lips…
I get this image of a requiting type poster with a succubi on it, pointing at you and “stuff”. The slogan saying:
“Boink a succubus today!
Help feed the ‘starving’ and also
do your part in eradicating AIDS”
AIUI, slash is particular to same-sex pairings, especially of males.
Yeah, I’m old, I don’t always get all this new terminology. So, what the correct term for erotic/pornographic fanfic?
If it’s not about a specific pairing I think it would just be erotic or pornographic fanfic. Maybe “smutty” depending on the level of detail.
Well the .jp/manga variant would be ‘Doujinshi’ eg self-published work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Djinshi
Well it’s any pairing (eg: “Max/Frix fic” would still be a slash fic). Same sex are just more common with those.
Don’t let Math know about Dabbler’s conjugal cures. He will be out trying to expose himself to every disease known to man just to have an excuse for Dabs to cure him.
Just turn your head to one side and cough then please assume the position. No not that one, we are doing the one on page 113 today.
People should be weird about elevator buttons, door handles /knobs /edges, & light switches. These are some of the least likely-to-be-remember surfaces when it comes t housecleaning.
We always think of cleaning countertops, windows, & floors. We might even remember to clean the handle on the toilet tank. But you actually touch doorknobs, door handles, door edges, elevator buttons, and so forth far more frequently in an office building.
Seriously, whoever is reading this, when was the last time you cleaned the doorknobs in your house (and/or place of employment)? If they are made out of steel, stainless steel, or aluminum…they will harbor those bacteria for ever.
If they’re made out of genuine brass, it takes 7-8 hours to self-sterilize.
If it’s made out of genuine copper, it takes just 2 hours to self-sterilize.
But if it’s made out of genuine silver, it’s just 1 hour.
Unfortunately, most of us do not have genuine brass doorknobs, let alone copper or silver… so go wash your doorknobs!
Yeah. I don’t think I’ve ever cleaned the knob on my toilet properly…
and some of the light switches have visible fingerprints.
(grease, mostly… I tinker with my car now and then… )
When I use a public restroom I usually open the door with my elbow when leaving.
(They’re either just push-to-open or have door handles. Never come across those knobs that are so ppopular in the USA. )
And at least here in Norway it’s common to see hand sanitizers(touch-free dispensers) here and there.
I read about a study a couple of decades ago that came to the conclusion that only 17% of American males wash their hands after using the facilities. My own personal opinion based on what I’ve seen is that 17% is way too high.
As one of the few males who washes up religiously after using the facilities this unsanitary behavior disgusts me. I really hate using public toilets where you have to pull open the door to exit, because I know that no matter how well I washed up I still have to touch a door handle covered with the filth of all the guys who never wash. I actually have a mental list of restaurants that I will never go back to simply because I cannot wash properly and remain clean for the meal.
So yeah, the world is a pretty filthy place; or at least most of the people in it are.
I must admit I use a Dettol spray a couple of times a week on not only my bathroom/toilet doors but the flush handle and use a Dettol wipe on the light switch lol.
Additionally if I have to use public loos I always have a pack of wet wipes on me for the seat and a tissue for the door handles, especially when I worked in an office building. When you get an announcement that a disgruntled employee smeared faeces over the toilet mirrors, wash basins and doors you go prepared. Seriously I think adults are far more disgusting than children could ever be.
Heh heh, always liked the old insult “Doorknob of a Kender” :D
doorknob of a Kender: ‘that looks a lot like the doorknob I have at home!’
Kender: ‘not anymore.’
Yeah, I imagine silver doorknobs are a bit pricy. I wonder how common/affordable copper doorknobs are?
The brass ones are quite common and not that expansive. Copper is a lot more expansive as material and harder to machine so it’s rare.
I disagree. Brass has a coefficient of thermal expansion of 11.1 but copper has a CTE of only 9.4.
I’m pretty certain he meant ‘expensive’. (It’s a very common typo, or possibly an autofail spellchecker at work)
And copper is a pain in the ass to machine. It’s very plastic, so it sticks easily to the cutting tool, covering or blunting sawblades and milling tools almost faster than you can swap them out.
Don’t forget the handrails in the stairways. My daughter’s high school biology class went around their school swabbing surfaces and culturing the results. She said the handrails were the worst, along with the buttons on the drinking fountains. I don’t think I’ve touched a handrail since then.
George Carlin explained why hand rails are that way years ago.
Have Dabbled slide down the handrails, no problem!
Heh, that’s what I get for using my tablet to reply. Dabbler, drat it.
It actually turns out that the toilet is the cleanest item in the house. Just think about it. How many other items in the house get so thoroughly cleaned every week?
The sink basin.
Try again
Yup. After each person brushes their teeth in the bathroom, or after washing dishes in the kitchen.
Every week. Yes…
I clean the entire house almost weekly – full clean – but I’m a bit of a neat freak. I’ve been thinking of just hiring a maid service but I want to buy a safe first that I can bolt to the floor of a closet or something.
Darn, you lost a chance there. You should have just said knobs.
I’m not saying don’t wash them but doorknobs, handrails, etc aren’t good places to cultivate germs (unless there’s something sticky on it or something). You’ll get way more germs from breathing the same air as other people in a crowd than a 20 year old door handle that’s never been washed.
You should wash your hands before eating or wiping your eyes regardless but for healthy people your nose will have more germs in it (and transfer them better).
I have to say dabblers taking this very well. Also all three of them with the saying come back to dabblers Sexual Healing boast. Of the three I think Frix got the best result
Okay, the punchline eludes me.
It’s an American euphemism.
“Blue Balls” refers to a painful condition a male can be in when they are sexually excited but stopped before sexual climax. Needless to say, one does not generally suffer this spending time with Dabbler, so this is the most obvious “ailment” she can cure. That’s why pretty much everyone mentioned it at the same time.
“Blue balls” is also a phrase used by guys to try to convince their partners that they’re “genuinely medically suffering” and are “in danger of physical damage” if they don’t get to have a climax. Sometimes they’ll even go so far as to say their suffering can “only” be alleviated by some sort of sexual activity with a partner, and that it “won’t” work if they just go off somewhere private and handle the matter themselves.
There is no such thing as “blue balls” syndrome.
These and similar things are all often-repeated lies meant to trick and/or coerce a partner into engaging in sexual activity.
A guy NOT getting his rocks off / having a climax with a partner will not harm him.
Priapus (an erection lasting an excessively long time) is NOT the same thing as “blue balls” and is a genuine medical condition that cannot be cured by a sexual partner. You must go straight to a doctor or an emergency clinic if you have this condition.
Anyone trying to convince a person otherwise is either lying or so dung-pile ignorant, they’re going to get themselves killed. (Probably not fast enough, at that.)
If you are experiencing unrequited sexual arousal, you have to accept that the other person does not care to requite it, does not want to assist you, and has the right to say NO and have that NO respected, however loudly or quietly they state it. If your partner is reluctant, don’t press the issue. Literally go somewhere private and take care of the problem yourself.
If you are experiencing genuine unrelenting priapic problems, get thee to an emergency room. Sex is NOT going to help you, but a proctologist might know what’s going wrong.
(*This lengthy reply is for anyone who really is this ignorant about the sheer amount of pressuring guys do to gals (and other genders) trying to trick them into sex…and that means the guys doing this, because some of y’all aren’t aware of just how coercive this kind of BS is, as well as the gals who were never allowed to learn otherwise. If you have any problems with any of the statements above, feel free to be a doctor specializing in sexual health before making any corrections, but be aware first that these are generalizations; individual circumstances may vary. (Additionally any fully trained doctor would actually know that “blue balls” is NOT a genuine condition anyway…so I doubt they’ll correct me on that.)
Ooh, burn in stereo!
…with a woofer.
I’m not so sure how much of a sub Woof is.
Depends on the Dom
Interesting… So now I have to wonder if Dabbler could cure herpes by sleeping with the afflicted party.
At least that break-out anyway.
Sydney dear, driven snow is not pure: it’s full of dirt and stones and other crap
Fresh powder snow is pure
Actually ‘driven snow’ means, or at least meant when it first came out, snow that was carried by the wind into drifts, which is a type of ‘falling snow.’ :)
Ask Mae West just how pure a snow drift is :P
And you know what else gets carried by winds? Dirt and leaves and other crap
Hehe. Okay. I’m just meaning that originally, driven snow literally meant ‘fresh falling snow’ :)
Guest clearly doesn’t live on the Prairies. mean, sure, yes, we have dirt, leaves, and other crap, but when Driven snow’s showing up there… it tends to be buried under OTHER snow at the time, hence the driven show stays “pure.”
Course, then you get places like Lower Mainland BC, where most folks’ve never seen ACTUAL snow in their entire lives and assume the slushy crap they get for maybe a week is it.
No snow is pure. It requires a particulate of some sort to nucleate — to crystallize around it — so each snowflake has at least one piece of dust/trash/volcanic ash/etc. within it. The bigger and more compound the flake, the more nuclei it has in it.
I’m confused… i re read the bath scene. But, now did or didn’t he have a sexual relationship with that woman?
Like. Did he put is hoooooooonk in her poof? I thought it just stayed to frix-ing around, a.k.a. petting his fur and rubbing her back.
Polite friends don’t ask.
We assume what we want to believe and talk behind her back.
First Sydney calls herself unclean for having unintentionally shared Frix with Dabbler. Then she calls herself “Pure as the driven snow.”
…Sydney casts “confusion” on everyone. It’s super effective!
Nah, just that she doesn’t have any diseases
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-75-at-least-sell-arcnuggets/
It could be a power.
Or maybe an aura…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-442-fablupus/
This reminds me of a young lady that I knew in college. She would occasionally declare her self to be a “Born again virgin”. This statement usually occurred between boyfriends.
Love the borrowed line from The League.
think pure ad driven snow remark refer to no sicknesses or STDs so on. while pawprints part of it shows well frix plowed her xd
Triangulate that burn :P
just wondering, but why did Dabbler recross her arms from panels 3 to 4? it’s not like the conversation was that long, plus she just crossed them from panels 2 to 3 XD
Because flipping the art is more visually interesting than just copy pasting it from panel to panel, but redrawing it so it doesn’t look like she uncrossed and recrossed her arms adds time to penciling, inking, flatting and coloring. So I usually just hope no one notices.
Pay no attention to the mirroring behind the curtain.
I wouldn’t have but now I can’t stop seeing it.
For those interested in where the title of this page came from: aroudn the 3:30 mark, well, maybe not exactly, butt close enough :D
Maybe we’d better transition to the party…..!?
There is a science fiction novella that’s all about a sexually transmitted cure for a rampant mutant HIV infection that’s hit a billion or more people. Huge attempts to suppress the cure, because of both vast amounts of money being spent on finding the cure, and also because people are terrified of sex. With anyone.
Can’t remember the name of it though. Sorry.
And Dave, you haven’t spent any time in any Federal buildings or military bases recently, I’d be more surprised at a picture that DIDN’T show a hand sanitizer bottle than one that did. It’s in the halls, it’s in the bathrooms – there’s more of the stuff than you see in most hospitals. And posters telling you to use it, oh GAWD, the posters. So much hand sanitizer.
Called it! Lol
The ‘or at least some paw prints’ seems to imply something like heavy petting, if you want to read it that way.
That was my interpretation also.
Frix the doctor is interested in Dabbler’s disease immunity.
Frix the engineer is about to comment on Maxima being an
artificial person.
“The musculature although exaggerated is remarkably
accurate. Quantum entangled or massively parallel brain?
Wow. Facial mimicry also. It’s almost like you’re angry.”
Imagine if this is what Maxima became when she was bathed in Geode juice! She was slowly replaced by a nanite army that made her mostly or completely artificial, except with the same patterns and basically the same mind?
Earth`s medical science can`t see her internal organs.
Maybe Frix has some alien medical scanner that doesn`t use
Xrays.
Just to be fair, many viruses can only infect a specific species or a small group of species. Eastern equine encephalitis, for example, his highly contagious and lethal to horses, donkeys, mules, etc. but can not infect humans. Humans can spread it from one horse to another if we don’t take sanitary precautions. This is part of the reason we can eat raw veggies but want to limit raw meat. A disease that attacks our ability to manage chloroplasts will generally have no effect on an animal, but be deadly for a plant.
Alien genetics and cell structure is likely to be soooo different from humans that any disease they have will be completely ineffective against humans. Likewise, a human-adapted virus or bacteria will have a hard time getting anything going inside a demonic succubus. They will not find a refuge before her immune system can wipe them out.
Oops. I grabbed the wrong virus as an example. Eastern equine encephalitis has been known to affect other mammals, including humans, because our lymphatic systems are similar enough. That said, many viruses are really limited as to what species they can infect.
Unless they species jump. Like in that game, The Last of Us :) Where that disease does a species jump from insects to humans.
How about a real-life example, like avian influenza?
The video game examples are more fun and less nerve-wracking to think about. :)
Yup. If the DNA of the cell isn’t compatible, there’s nothing for a virus to hijack.
Nah, the real reason people tend to eat raw veggies (or steamed at best) is because cooked tastes like crap
That is why I prefer raw vegetables when I eat them.
I think this is a large part of why viruses that do manage to mutate the right way to cross over become some of our worst epidemics (think swine flu and bird flu). Because, until that point, humans had never dealt with a virus of that kind, so it’s a bit of an outside-context problem.
It’s more that the effects they have in their original host species aren’t all that bad (so the disease continues to exist because it doesn’t kill off its hosts) but when it makes a species jump the thing it does is a lot more dangerous to the new species than it was to the old one.
Unlike HIV, which originally came from “Bushmeat”.
But some bacteria/micro-oganisms jump from species to species. IF they can’t eat directly of the cells some of those other bacteria’s toxins produced as a biological life process is still capable of causing sickness. And even if they don’t harm the current carrier other species could be harmed as the microorganism is transferred by some vector.
Some vegetables are grown in feces. The feces feeds and houses the micro-organisms and such is how even vegetables can be a vector for disease.
From a creature to its poop. From a its poop into a local pond, from the pond back to another creature.
Blood borne from a rat to a flea. From a flea to a human. From a human to a flea and back to a rat again.
There are many disease vectors. Louis Pasture even proved that micro organisms that cause spoilage of soup can travel upon dust.
Viruses, bacteria, parasites & fungi; These are some of the things that make up VD’s.
In a setting where life forms can have hazardous aspects that can cut, corrode, irradiate, poison & cause cancer and so many other bad things one must check for “sexual compatibility”. (Preferably via a handheld device. I hear the Greys are known for thier “probes”.)
In panel 3, Frix says “All?” as though someone said “all” before him, but no one did.
Frix is referencing Dabbler’s STD immunity claim.
Basically asking her to clarify if it is complete immunity or not.
Yeah, he’s starting to say “All disease?” but Dabbler cuts him off. It doesn’t quite read that way because Sydney is basically holding her own separate conversation with herself, and it breaks the flow of the dialog between Dabbler and Frix.
You did just have a one night stand with a guy you knew all of five minutes, so stop whinging.
So when will Sydney go over her new powers with her superiors like she’s supposed to (teleportation, superspeed, warpspeed)?
After she phones her parents.
Maybe Sydney just keeps sanitizer in her utility belt Dave. She’s got all sorts of other random stuff, like pom poms.
Maybe Sydney just carries sanitizer in her utility belt Dave, I mean she’s got all sorts of random stuff in there…like pom poms.
That will be when General Faulk takes time for it.
My guess is before the party gets underway, or the morning after.
Just as well Dabbles is such a nice person, what Sydney implied was rude, nasty and in very poor taste
I literally just made a much longer comment (that doesn’t seem to have shown up yet) saying much the same thing, with the addition that Maxima really needs to have her ass dragged into the General’s office so Arianna can point out that you don’t need to be male to be engaging in a very blatant display of sexual harassment.
I’v had similar moments in real life where three or more people said the same “oh snap” line in response to someone. Always great.
“And if three people do it! Can you imagine three people walkin’ in, singin’ a bar of “Alice’s Restaurant” and walkin’ out? They may think it’s an organization!”
What gets me is the realization that Frix was saying it purely to be affectionately teasing towards his friend. Maxima and Sydney… there’s a lot of puritanical judgementalism behind their words.
By which I mean that Frix is saying it in a “yeah, you cure blue balls – because you are great at that and I love you for it and I am NOT the only one who adores you for that” sense, whereas Maxima and Sydney are saying it in a “yeah, you cure blue balls – like a street whore who we are no longer legally permitted to have arrested for speaking to decent folk in public” sense.
I don’t know about Sydney (though I would think that Frix would start to get annoyed about her attitude towards his friend after it’s gone on long enough), but Maxima REALLY needs to get dragged into the General’s office so that Arianna can have a talk with her about how her treatment of Dabbler is bordering on sexual harassment.
You do realize literally like 2/3rds of what DABBLER does could be considered Sexual harassment, right? Might want to archive binge and recall Dabs literally goes out of her way to antagonize, and at one point GROPE Max.
I mean, i love the hell out of Dabbler, but she kinda deserves getting a bit of comeuppance in the only way she understands.
I’m fairly sure everyone understands that Dabbler’s from a different society with a different view on sexuality.
She gets a lot of slack for that but she also has to understand that she’s in a different society with a different view on sexuality (and she does mostly).
Oh yes. But there are a few differences. For one, Dabbler isn’t doing it out of contempt for someone else’s sexual proclivities – she’s being playful with Maxima as a friend, not making thinly veiled comments that would sound all kinds of misogynistic if they came out of a male mouth.
For another, Fritz and company are not just aliens, but they’re OFFICIAL aliens. The kind that the government would be bestowing diplomatic privileges upon. Do you really want a U.S. Army Colonel insulting the aliens that can offer so much as potential allies?
True, but they aren’t bugging Cora’s crew, they’re bugging Dabbler.
You’re all forgetting Dabbler’s been on Earth long enough to KNOW it pisses Max off, and she does it anyways, which is also why she isn’t flying off the handle pissed that Sydney and Maxima just got her back, which, btw, is pretty much them doing to her EXACTLY what she does to them, for pretty much the same reasons YOU guys just listed.
Can’t have a double standard here, especially since Dabbler’s been thinly-veiled insulting Earth for the last couple pages about us being “Prudes” TO said crew.
I’d sleep with Dabbler if she could cure my diabetes.
I mean, most people would if it didn’t so that’s a low bar ;)
I’d sleep with her if she made my diabetes worse.
Well, I’d kind of been shipping an ongoing, possibly exclusive relationship between Frix and Syd, but with that reaction, I’m betting that’s defenestrated…
Given the speed with which Sydney has flitted from Barkley to Trent to Frix, it’s not just Frix who isn’t ready for exclusivity. Girl’s got more crush than an aluminum recycling plant.
Don’t forget Wolverine in nothing butt a bowtie and stripper pants being forced down a wedding aisle
And giving Olivia’s brother Tony the ogle. And Leon.
Oh, and who was it that initiated the trading of sexy pictures between male and female horndogs of Arc-Swat?