Grrl Power #732 – Party pauser
This is a weird page because it kind of exists just due of the layout of the base. Granted, the hallway outside the elevators they were talking in for the last few pages was sort of a non-euclidean phantom zone. I mean if you look at the walls with all the different angles the camera points at in the various panels, I’m not sure there’s a way out of it. There was an elevator door but no hallway.
But – back in 3D space, the elevators are in a hallway behind the lounge area, and there’s no way into the rest of the building from the elevators without going through the lounge first. As that’s the only practical place to have the welcome back shindig (possibly besides the one big lecture hall) this page had to come before the next page. Just… topographically speaking.
There are more people around the corner there. I just ran out of time to draw them. Also more food. It’s more than just the one table with cake pops and a cooler of tea.
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Absolutely incredible powers and the attention span of a goldfish
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS!!!
Itty bitty attention span…
Thank you for making this reference! That line is the first thing I thought of!
An ADHD D&D wizard could be so cool. concentration disadvantage, but can have two concentrations simultaniously.
that’s what low Wisdom does, but not too many people in my experience roleplay that bit (I did it with an Warlock alchemist- profession, not PF class- but that was more…. me, not so much RP)
ADHD is not the same thing as low Wisdom. If anything, it’s a power feat to wisdom to reduce its potency but spread it out over more items as Felidae pointed out. D&D Wisdom, the way it’s handled, would be much more appropriately named “Creativity and possible outcome prediction” which are two things people with ADHD excel out.
Kender Mage
wand of wonder table
wrong spell components, but every spell somehow works
*throws cookies at you*
Did you just insult every goldfish, everywhere?
Don’t worry about it. They won’t mind in a few minutes.
Yeah they’ll get over it, in about 3 seconds.
Favorite joke between a coworker and me is “Oh no, I’m drowning…Oh wait I’m a goldfish…Oh no, I’m drowning…” it goes on, to the point we’re both laughing so hard, we can’t breathe. Granted we are both warehouse rats, meaning we start an order at one end of the warehouse 3,000-5,000 lbs later; we forget how bad that sucked and start a new order 15 more times. You’ll laugh at anything to get past the repetitive mind and body destruction. Long story short, love goldfish jokes.
Didn’t Mythbusters bust that one? While Adam’s fish died, Jamie’s fish were trainable and could remember stuff for more than a few minutes. I think fish in a bowl have limited mental capacity because of under-stimulation, and well, being fish not mammals.
You can train them, building up long term connections in their brain.
This takes time, and you’re limited you fairly simple inputs/actions as anything more complex is, well, more complex.
They’re never going to be able to play that game where you have a tray of random junk and when something is removed, have to try and work out what it was.
Had a goldfish when I was little. Not mine… just like a family goldfish. It had its tank near the phone and could recognize family vs strangers. Anyone outside of the family was a “Target” as it would gulp water then spit it at strangers, Goldfish x Archerfish style.
I’m really hoping Jabberwocky doesn’t ever use “Archerfish Style.”
Jabberwocky: “Archerfish Style!” <>
Flying Bad Guy: “Agh! My eyes!” <> “. . . ow.” <>
Never mind . . . objection withdrawn.
Ok, that was supposed to be *Spitoo!* after the Jabberwocky’s line, then *Crash! Thud!* followed by *passes out* on the Flying Bad Guy line. I did the markup wrong. Mea culpa.
Yeah if you add in angle brackets it’ll interpret them as HTML code.
Because I screwed up the markup on the previous comment, let’s try this again (and if someone who can wants to remove the screwed up version with no sound effects, please feel free).
I’m really hoping Jabberwocky doesn’t ever use “Archerfish Style.”
Jabberwocky: “Archerfish Style!”
Flying Bad Guy: “Agh! My eyes!” (CRASH! Thud! thump.) ” . . . ow.” (passes out)
Never mind . . . objection withdrawn.
…much like Sydney.
Experiments show goldfish have a memory span of about 3 months.
They did. Goldfish have perfectly functional memories. It’s just another myth about them. Like the fact that they just “grow to fit their containers” and thus keeping them in a tiny bowl is okay. It is not. It is extremely not okay. Goldfish are members of the carp family and keeping them in a smaller container stunts their growth AND has the even worse effect of chemically burning them with their own waste which breaks down into ammonia.
Keeping them in a bowl is like keeping a human in a phone booth their entire lives. Yeah, they’ll survive for awhile. But they’ll be sick and miserable. A *proper* goldfish habitat is 30 gallons for the first, 20 additional for each past that. Properly cycled and filtered. Not kidding. They’re MASSIVE waste producers.
Source: Longtime aquarist.
Don’t go with myth couldn’t bust if it hit them in the face. They were as incompetent as they could be. Maybe just stupid.
AGAHF has a great ADD poster that Dave should ask to borrow the art for.
Was just about to post the link to the ADD poster!
“ADD: Making life interesting since about, oh, six seconds ago.”
“[subtitle]Paid for by the commission to find out what the hell that squirrel is doing[/subtitle]”
Goldfish don’t actually have that short a memory or attention span
I wonder if goldfish get ADHD?
Oooh, what is that I see?
or, human food. she ate a lot of things. but nothing beats local
Well, cake-pops…
This is gonna be good – next strip…
*hgnk!*
Had to Google Cake pops as never heard of them, is this a common American thing?
As Anvil had better just breathe or she may asphyxiate given Sydney’s attention span.
nope, they are known in Europe as well.
Not just American
And Anvil did breathe, she is the one talking in the last panel
I never haerd of them before either, and I live in New England.
They were one of those things that bakeries made to repackage and sell unsold product: stale cake, add buttercream, form a ball, put it on a stick. Nowadays, they’re a thing themselves, a global thing, most often found in coffee shops and bakeries.
There’s a recipe for them, minus the stick, that’s been floating around my family for a couple decades. We called them dirty balls before cake pops went and got popular. Basically mix crumbled cake with melted frosting, freeze, and dip in melted chocolate or almond bark. Not much to them really, but they’re delicious.
A Sydney is as a Sydney does.
Take. Your. *MEDS!*
I think it’s common enough that she has meds in her emergency pack that she didn’t have to worry about it. nor did we need to know she took them lol
It is possible to shove several months of adhd med into a pouch. and she may have gone that overkill preparedness route
You don’t always *want* to take your meds.
1) Sometimes meds keep you up. hell, ADHD can keep you up and the meds make it worse. If Sydney thinks she’s gonna be sleeping soon she might not want to take them.
2) Sometimes they take a bit to kick in. Sometimes it’s kind of gentle, but sometimes it’s like popping a clutch. Depends.
3) She’s probably forgotten them. This happens a lot.
4) Sydney’s ADHD is also being played for laughs, so it’s being exaggerated. She’s *got* to have more impulse control than this. (I have it *real* bad, and I can concentrate if I concentrate on concentrating… you get the idea)
depends on the med. and the extent of adhd. Mine. I haven’t had meds for adhd in years. but that’s because of a medical eff up that I’m not willing to risk again. 2 friends of mine however cannot skip a day. not because of the chemical aspect. simply because their adhd effects are so encompassing that it’s hard to concentrate on bad days with medicine. and harder to concentrate on good days and bad without it.
Phone home?
You gave Jiggs a make-under? o_O
Wow. I was trying to figure out who the orange puffball was.
@Dave, next time just put a bunch of legs behind the balcony. save time by not drawing whole people. then we can entertain ourselves by trying to figure out who they are by the bottom halved. You could even draw George in silhouette because the barrier is taller.
I was trying to come up with a good reason for Jiggawatt to have a ‘fro instead of the dreads (aside from just changing her ‘do, obviously).
Thinking maybe this is what happens if she completely drains her charge, sort of the opposite of what happens with a Van der Graaf generator…?
I think her hairstyle is a side effect of her generating a massive amount of static cling to hold all the balloons in place. They’ve got no strings (to hold them down)
Like Sister Jackson, just with golden hair, not black
Good to see Scarlet was invited (wait, Scarlet was the vamp who attempted to infiltrate HQ, wasn’t it? the one in the back behind Vahriah?)
I believe her name is Crimson.
So Scarlet is the white vamp-baby
Wait, you sure? Was fairly sure that Crimson used to be in a band…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-451-vampire-201/
Yup, Crimson.
Thank you, knew Crimson was in the band, and knew that the vamp in back ‘tested Archon’s security’, just got which vamp was which mixed up
I can just imagine that vampire teaming up with our favorite were honey badger…
What a team they’d make!
Crimson and Clover…
Over and over?
Now, you don’t hardly know her.
Actually linked to that song on that page Pedantic Paragon linked, way back when :D
Think how different the lyrics and beat would have been if the song had first been recorded by Rick James and The Shondells instead of Tommy James and The Shondells.
Please don’t…
I wish she’d come walking over
Now I’ve been waiting to show her…
Incense wine and candles.
If you are referring to the Daisy Duke wearing Caucasian female with red hair and green eyes, then I think that is supposed to be Heatwave (Brook).
Oops. Crimson is the one behind Pixel. Sorry. But at least her Unholy Masquerade Tshirt from her prior appearance is now relevant because FX is now carrying the series “What We Do in the Shadows”.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-577-the-other-side-of-the-one-way-glass/
Though I see the resemblance to Crimson. I think its more likely that is Gwen.
Gwen is goth pale, and wears her hair with the back dyed brunette.
There are probably more people in the room than fit into this view.
Now it’s probably not true but according to my headcanon Sydney was all about to make her to her Maddox Peach and didn’t even realize she picked up a cake pop until she was like wait what’s in my hand and realize she was holding cake pop and wam there were her train of thought
Who is ‘Maddox Peach’? o_O
Looks like a speech-to-text error to me. “To her Maddox Peach” = dramatic speech.
Sounds like a grunge band.
Or a variant of the MADDOX-01 Slave Trooper Armor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVMxczmOGc
Never heard of a band called Maddox Peach, but I have heard of Broken Peach.
The one on the left doesn’t seem human, like a robot
Okay, had a look at some of their other songs, and it seems they have had a few different line-ups (difficult, for me, to tell who is who, apart from the girl with the extra teeth)
I was very confused by that as well.
That sounds plausible
There is an ‘to her’ as well: ‘make her to her Maddox Peach” could very well be ‘make her dramatic speech’
Hope e_voyager doesn’t think was making fun of them or mocking them, just wanting to know what they meant and attempted to ask in the least… nasty way could think of :(
Yeah that was supposed to be dramatic speech. Using Google to voice type on the phone because the screen is far from great. And truth be told I never heard of Maddox Peach before either
Hey, you never know, you may have just coined some new slang that all the hip kids will be saying on the west coast.
“So, there I was, totally lit with my fam, and we were dabbing, when all of the sudden..”
“Oh, great, here comes the maddox peach.”
Who is guest #8?
Heck, just name everyone please.
That would be Harem
From left to right: Sandy (Ari’s assistant), Morph, Heatwave, Les, Hiro, Anvil, Wart, Harem, Jiggs (with a bad hair-don’t), Spider-suit guy (Sydney’s fellow rookie), Vahriah, Scarlet (or Crimson, one of the vamp-babies), Pixelicious, Ren (another rookie), and Math
Vance is the spider-suit guy, if i recall right.
That’s him, simply forgot his name (almost forgot Sandy and Ren’s names) :(
Just call Ren ‘Blulk.’
Yeah, was going to go with that, butt remembered he didn’t like that name
I’ve been thinking of him as “Ramp,” because he can ramp up his strength, speed, etc. Easy to switch gears into in the field, too, if someone was about to accidentally call him “Ren” (although, since the Grrlverse is skipping the secret ID trope for the most part, using civilian names isn’t as much of a faux pas).
‘Ren’ is short for ‘Adrenalin’
Unless miss-remembering, he doesn’t ramp up his strength, just his speed (physical and mental)
Can we call spider colony guy “Stimpy” to make a matched set?
That’s what makes it a great name to call him.
The name he expressly said he didn’t like? o_O
Yes. Exactly.
The vampire there would be Crimson, if it’s the vampire girl, not Scarlett. Crimson’s the one with the darker skin. Otherwise great.
Scarlett isn’t here to meet Sydney. Because frankly, she didn’t give a damn.
She may stop by later, because tomorrow is another day.
Ow. I’m not sure if it’s my sides that hurt or my sensibilities from those puns.
Oh.
I understand.
The move and such.
It’s ok Dave.
Mylar balloons with graphics and text would be too time cunsuming to illustrate.
Draw one latex balloon, color and shade for several colors, paste, paste, paste.
Oh…..very thin strings, can hardly see them.
Sticky air is a BS spell!
Aren’t Hiro’s, Mat’s and Anvil’s heads disproportionate to their legs ?
No moreso than Harem’s butt compared to her head :P
Guesticus, I suspect that the proportions are correct in Harem’s case. Her butt is more relevant than her head.
…And sometimes she mistakes using one for the other. If she keeps on Vorping into meetings that are above her paygrade…
That is the alien rebuilt glasses with the upgrade of “Flex Focus*”
*This is a new feature for races without electronic heads-up wear, that reshapes the lenses so that the appropriate anatomy is enhanced (enlarged with specific focus) relating to procreation or attempting such.
This saves time and effort when looking into a crowd of not-so-nice looking folks in identifying those to make time with. Unfortunately as a side effect, in an especially good looking crowd some exaggeration occurs.
VOTE
Oh, and don’t apologize for the invotive, update it when you get the time, personally don’t feel the need for rush
I don’t know whether to think that Sydney was actually distracted, or if she’s intentionally acting that way.
I’m wondering what she was so intent on doing before she got distracted, before she got distracted. Maybe give her parents a call?
Thanking the tailor.
Oh yeah, for the bouncy shrapnel protection shirt
Proclaiming her alpha status as a half-pint?
Is Jiggawatt staring at Harem’s ass?
I don’t blame her…cause BAM dat ass is dat assing. (yes I verbed that)
To be fair I would also be distracted by cake pops. Those things are great
More so than Dat Ass?
I don’t think you understand how delicious cake pops are, dear. :)
Or dat ass :P
Looks like most of the gang is here….!
BTW-how would Anvil look wearing the same style trousers as Obelix?
Who’s the guy with the tiny head in the shirt and tie?
That’s Stalwart.
Stalwart
And the random problem of replies getting disconnected from what I was replying to hits again.
Wait. I’m just noticing that they Friday fixed her glasses …including creating a lens… why not just fix her eyes? That seems like technology within reach.
Heehee, Friday. He actually *fixed her lens*. And maybe because it’s intrusive and perminant he was more reluctent and didn’t bring it up? Or maybe she would have needed to go with blindfold for a while (like with real life laser treatment) so it was a bad time for it.
Imagine the words in the * are balded. I have no idea how to do it.
Use the HTML tags: <b>bold stuff in here</b>.
Similar for italics, but use the letter ‘i’ instead of ‘b’
If you want the words to be balded, shave and wax them.
Or put a bald merkin on them.
Uh…bolded.
Something that always confused me about George W Bush. The guy was always telling people that he was “Proud to be a Merkin!” If I was a Merkin I think I’d keep that information to myself.
It’s proud work, assisting all of those poor women afflicted with alopecia of the coochie.
Jimmuh Cahtah talked that way too.
It’s a southern thing.
Actually, it was Cora who fixed the glasses, we will just have to wait and see what ‘upgrades’ she made
See note in the “Distortion” discussion above
As an alien doctor, Frix wouldn’t want to work on a sapient’s eyes he doesn’t have experience with.
Humans may not be in his medical database other than ‘avoid if possible’.
Stitching Sydney’s wounds may have seemed safe as long as the equipment is sterilized before and after.
Also, he’s probably leaving soon. No chance for a followup exam.
Laser eye surgery (or equivalent) on a human cornea when you had probably not even seen a human eye before? I really don’t think that would be a good idea. Mind you, most of Cora’s crew seem to eyes very similar to humans, so it might not be that much of a stretch.
Also, if she fixed her eyes and did not need the glasses,
1) she would not be able to hide her superhero identity from the public. and
2) she could not complain about being allergic to Retinax 5.
“Hide her superhero identity from the public”? I do believe that that ship has sailed.
What better way to be able to hide, than to make such a ‘flamboyant’ Super-persona
3) She wouldn’t look as cute.
What’s with Anvil’s t-rex arms?
Yeah, so Anvil’s arms are about the same size as that of an extinct predator that appears to have had feathers when you and lost most of them as it grew older. So what? Those things had comparatively tiny arms for such a large body.
Oops. Had feathers when young and lost most …
sorry bro, but the faces look awkward on this page. you trying out a new ‘technique’? or did you space or something? maybe just feeling a little uninspired? i know there isn’t anything interesting going on for this page but bro you gotta pay attention
oh, and from someone currently majoring in art (which is to say “not an expert but most def knows some shit”): eyes are always at the midway point from top of head (not including hair) to the bottom (unless you got some crimson chin shit going on, then you might need to do some calculating). Hiro’s face man…
Want to repeat that in a nastier tone? Am sure you can if you try-hard enough
He hasn’t drawn most of those characters in months, so naturally is out of practise with them. And until you finish college, don’t critique a published artist’s work. It makes you look like a dick.
No, it really doesn’t make him look like a dick. A person doesn’t need an education or a vocation to have an opinion. They don’t need to be a chef to critique a meal. They don’t need to be an author to critique a book. And they don’t need to be a director to critique a movie.
But rushing to defend someone who can very well defend themselves if they choose to do so? That does make you a suck-up white knight.
Yes, having an opinion, even a negative one, doesn’t make you a dick, how you express that opinion does, specially coming from someone who is still in school telling someone who has been working in the industry for over a decade to do better
Speaking of ‘suck-up white knights’, that’s basically everyone over at “YAFGC” (which is still a fantastic webic, can never tell Rich that any more)
So you’re a suck-up white knight for rushing in to defend Grumpy Crow. Got it.
And I called him a dick because he was coming across as one.
FOCUS SYDNEYS! THE IMPORTANT QUESTION, NOW, IS WHAT WAS THE IMPORTANT THING THAT SYDNEY WAS GOING TO-* Ooooo! Sprinkles!
A couple of months of calm shattered in just a couple of minutes by exposure to “The Sydney”.
So nice to see everyone again!
Is that Jiggawatt standing next to Vance? If so, damn, I like what she did with her hair!
Yup.
The author mentioned, a long time ago, that she likes changing her hair regularly.
Is the IT guy missing?
or did he grow and go blond?
Blond guy is Vance (spider suit guy). It looks like Leon is around the corner.
Yea. Or helping to download Sydney’s pip-boy records and figure out how to synch them up. Normally this would be done automatically (as we saw in the fight at the Steak House car park), in order that the intelligence arms of Archon could get to work immediately.
However the fact that Sydney has a different subjective (and actual) timeline to the rest of Archon will likely have messed with the program.
Nothing that could not have been programmed in mind, but not likely to be something they would have anticipated or prioritised when designing and testing the system.
Odds are though that Maxima will have wanted Leon to be one of the familiar faces to greet Halo. So I agree he is more likely here, but out of shot (the author confirmed that there are such, in his blog above).
Let’s be fair: She’s been off her ADHD meds for several days. Given how short her attention span is with them helping you can’t really be surprised that she can’t hold on to a thought for a full 3 seconds right now.
I will say, though, that hers is the worst case of ADHD (or ADD for that matter) I’ve ever seen. And considering how bad mine can be at times that’s really saying something.
Maybe that’s what she wanted to do first: taking her meds?
It’s being played for laughs. There is no way someone this level of disfunctionality would be able to run half of a comic shop without thoroughly pissing off their partner. I find it hard to believe that Sydney’s character is capable of dressing herself sometimes.
Sure there is.
1. dysfunctional comic shop half-owner has wealthy parents who are propping up the comic shop so their child can live their dream life.
2. Other comic shop half-owner is also highly dysfunctional in some way.
3. dysfunctional comic shop owner isn’t nearly so dysfunctional in her normal environment.
4. dysfunctional comic shop owner is drawing in a sizable crowd in some fashion such that they’re able to make ends meet.
Considering that Sydney had gone on vacation to the Keys a few months before the start of the flashback, I’d say at least one of 1, 3, or 4 must be involved.
Life is different when you are able to live in a controlled daily working routine, able to take medication regularly, and not being subject to innumerable life-threatening experiences (including dying) and repeated cultural shocks (vampires, aliens and more).
So, yea, you are spot on that a lot of it is played for laughs. However I think Sydney could have credibly maintained her half of the workload in a comic shop. Joel was clearly the more business oriented (he knew they were going broke, she did not), whereas Sydney has the genre knowledge necessary to engage with the customers. Plus being a girl really helps pull them in (yes, not that politically correct, but when you are analysing profit margins you need to appreciate whatever advantages you have).
Without the innumerable mitigating factors above (and others unmentioned, but including sleep deprivation, hunger, exhaustion, post-grakz trauma) Sydney’s level of distractibility would be much more manageable. Bad, but no so bad she would be unable to do her part.
I see Anvil hasn’t been skipping leg day. She might want to start focusing on the upper body.
TBH, I focus a lot on Anvil’s upper body…
I sure about half the population does that for her
Hey, I think I saw Yorp a couple of days ago. I couldn’t tell for sure but I didn’t have any chance of talking to him because it was so crowded there.
Woof woof WOOF WOOF!
I think a squirrel is trying to steal those balls! EVIL SQUIRREL ALERT!
The major looks like he really wanted those cake pops for himself
Heh.
Or maybe it is just him reacting as the second in command of the unit. Not having had the bonding experiences with Sydney, that Maxima (or even Anvil, to a much lesser degree) had. So it makes sense that Anvil would see the lighter side of things (being friends with Maxima, they will doubtless have shared a lot of the emotional side of things about Sydney). Whereas Hiro may be viewing the scene as a career military officer.
Let’s see if I can identify everyone there, from left to right.
Sandy – (Arianna’s Assistant)
Mr. Amorphous
Heatwave (Brook)
Achilles (Harold, I think)
Super Hiro (Hiro)
Anvil (Kenya)
Stalwart (I think Stewart)
One of the Harems (Daphne)
Jiggawatt (I forget her name, begins with A)
Full-of-Spiders-Possibly Guy (Vance, I don’t remember if he has a hero name)
Varia (Xochtli, I think)
Pink Werejaguar Girl (Pixel, I don’t remember her superhero name) – in front
I think the person in the back is the vampire, Crimson, but not sure why she’d be there.
Ren, who is forever Blulk to me (Adrian)
Math (Matthias)
How’d I do?
Eensy, Weensy, Teensy, Legs, Fangs, Venom, Terror are a few of Vance’s’ names (I hedged my bets for how you pluralise individual names of a collective masquerading as an individual).
You forgot Charlotte.
Ahh, nice call, but sadly it was lost on me, as I am not up on American children’s literature. Growing up in South Africa I was exposed to a lot of American comics (S.A. had an interesting mix of English and American pop culture) but not their books. My family got me into sci fi and fantasy at an early age, so by the time we moved to the UK (when I was nine) I had already progressed beyond most children’s books.
There were a few exceptions mind, such as Tom Swift’s Adventures (hats off to American sci fi literature) and a few others aimed at children (one of Arthur C. Clark’s standing out in my mind as being one of the best children’s books I read).
So even if Charlotte’s Web was available in my local library, in the UK, it would never have found its way into the stack of books I took out each week. And it was not much beyond that when I had exhausted all the sci fi and fantasy that the library had to offer (without ordering in more specifically), and I turned to expanding my own collection. The library simply could not keep up with my reading pace, and I had no interest in topics outside of my passions.
Maybe Vance is his (their?) hero name . . . V.A.N.C.E.: Verisimilar Anthroarachnid Neocortical Collective Exosuit?
Nah, the A would stand for arachnid or something like that if that was the case. :)
D’oh, I just realized you wrote anthro-arachnid.
This is bad. Lawyers should be better at reading. :)
Lol
Just as everyone is celebrating Sydney being back the bad guys would have followed Sydney, show up in their giant ship and it takes everyone to fight them and destroy the ship
If they followed her (which is doubtful, the Causeway is undetectable once closed), they would have followed her trail to Fracture
Which can probably focus all of that power into an insane weapon which eradicates vast space armadas with a few firings.
Thus, nothing so convenient is likely to have happened.
Wait, are you saying that if you were building a super hero/villain base, you wouldn’t have floors where the elevator anti-chamber (is that the right word?) have a hologram (preferably one way) over the actual exit, making any attackers have to take that much longer trying to figure out where the exit is.
Or for that matter having floors that don’t have exits?
Hmmm…I think an anti-chamber would be wide, open space.
Or did you mean ‘antechamber?’
Anti-matter chamber … for the unwelcome guests.
You almost got it right. antechamber.
Jiggawatt has a new hair do I see…!
Personally don’t like it
oh! squirrel!
Woof woof WOOOF WOOOF WWWOOOOOFFFF WOOOOOOOOFFFF!*
[spoilier]* Translation from canine: Squirrel … Squirrel, EVIL SQUIRREL OVERLORD! I TOLD YOU HE WAS BEHIND IT ALL![/spoilier]
Now that he’s been lying in wait long enough for most of us to forget about his debut, bringing him up again kinda does make it spoilier than comments made after his last appearance.
(Honestly I’m just impressed you can type that well without thumbs)
So, the next page had BETTER have someone handing Sydney a refill of her meds. They know she hasn’t had any for 57 years…
I missed the page where DaveB said, either in Comic or in Comments that Sydney failed to carry a week’s supply of meds and ran out after two days away from base/home. Could someone post a link?
The team were not equipped for an off-world or even a wilderness trek. Their utility belts are therefore only equipped for normal policing duties (as opposed to carrying a full military backpack or webbing). Therefore anybody who is working on the assumption that Sydney may have run out of her meds is not being unrealistic.
Sydney did run out of her meds, in canon, when they went to the Twilight Council. After which the amount she carried was increased. However it would have only been increased by an amount proportionate to her expected duties. Their emergency scramble, to hunt down Sciona, had them clearly equipped similar to what pilots may have in such a situation.
I don’t think pilots carry much more than a couple of day’s emergency rations and the like. And we know at least one pouch of Halo’s utility belt is arts and crafts material. She was getting hungry when she got the opportunity to eat grakz, so it is fair to infer her meds had likewise run out. Although (as ever) the speculation may not be correct.
I do not know if Dave has explicitly mentioned it in comments however (this time round, but he did regarding the earlier incident).
Interesting speculation based on a previous experience. Nevertheless, absent word from DaveB, I expect that Sydney would be carrying at least a two day supply and more likely a week’s worth. Her meds do not take up significant weight or volume. It’s not like she’d have to leave half of her googly eyes behind.
She has only been gone for 53 DAYS, and 51 of those don’t count
Hey, it might be a good time to update the Halo entry on the cast page:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/castpage/
after all, we do know (mostly) what the second to last orb does: It makes fart noises in the pool.
:-D
Dave is busy moving to a new house at the moment. I think we should cut him some slack, for some time to come. He has a bunch of kitties that he will doubtless have to keep indoors, at the moment (or in the near future), so that they get used to their new home and do not run off. Along with all the other stress of moving a family. And keeping the comic updating bang on schedule, as good as ever.
*hats off to DaveB*
What’s a cake pop, and why would it be distracting?
They are a small piece of cake on the end of a stick, covered in frosting. They are distracting Sydney for exactly the same reason a piece of candy can distract a small child. Achilles enjoys them because of their mouth feel.
whap
Tentacle orb hits #6.
Thank you.
TEXTURE! SAY TEXTURE DANGIT!
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I don’t frequent Starbucks, but I do get a cup of coffee from them maybe once per month on average (as in, I might go more frequently when the pumpkin spice is available and then not at all for many months), and I have seen those things in their display case. I assumed they were an abomination that couldn’t possibly be less than far too sweet (given the frosting to cake-ball ratio), or dry as dust from sitting in a cold case dehydrating and under lights for a few days, or in one of many other ways unappealing. So I’d seen them but pretty much dismissed them from memory as irrelevant.
I also don’t have much of a sweet tooth and tend to limit it to things like pumpkin spice coffee, no whip.
They’re actually really really really delicious. Think of them like a donut hole (or you might think of them as an Enterman’s Pop’Em Donut) on a stick, but with a more frosting-like consistency on the outside.
Meh, would rather have a rum-ball on a stick