Grrl Power #769 – Incoming (eventually)
Cora and her crew have heard of the exploits of the supers that Dabbler has been hanging out with, but it’s obviously different seeing it in action. Probably a touch humbling too.
I’m not sure why Maxima is standing like a model. It was a weird confluence of me randomly deciding to tilt her head up a little and not being sure what to do with her other arm. I threw her coat over her shoulder and suddenly she’s all vogue.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the previous page. There were some votes for leaving it as it. I think it’s a bit too far for Sydney for forget she was watching a press conference 20 minutes ago, but… she has had a few busy days. My favorite suggestion was Sydney complaining that she was iced out of the XP from taking down the Fel. Honestly, the team should be involving her in as much combat as possible since she’s the only one who gets a direct benefit fighting. I mean, everyone on the team benefits from fighting, but Sydney literally levels up.
So… I guess for now, imagine she says something about that, or the original thing.
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Dabbler, no doubt, would say something along the lines of not having had the chance to scan Max with *all* of her doodads…
Knowing those two Maxima will not let dabbler get his hands on and she would want to be.
MAX: WHAT?!! NO! I’m not letting you use those probes!
DABBLER: Cmon Max, it’s the only way to do a deep scan, plus it’s a classic of human alien fiction.
Damnit! That was my first thought on reading that panel also.
Scan isn’t all some of the doo dahs she would want to use can do.
My PKE meter is off the chart! This is the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska Blast of 1909. And for a change it wasn’t us causing it!
Tell him about the twinke
What did you do Merf?
I read that like Mathhew McConaughey from Interstellar.
It was only a twinke, I swear… one the size of bus..
Put your pants back on Merf.
I saw the Gigameter first, then looked over to the other instrument and saw it was a PKE meter and giggled inside.
Love the Mycon reference at the end …
There were StarCon ships hanging out at Fracture Station. Is there another sci-fi race of mushroom ladies (Fun Gals?) that I haven’t heard of?
But Dave missed the asterisk * symbol…
You are the Non, Not part of *Juffo Wup*
*Juffo-Wup* is All. Omni-existent, spreading and changing the Non into *Juffo-Wup*. You are the Non, who must become *Juffo-Wup* or Void.
I don’t remember the Mycon ever using asterisks. That was an Orz thing. If you must *squeeze the juice*, remember the *flavor*.
Version differences.. the orz certainly did, but I swear mine had it on the Juffo-wup too…
It was only a matter of time.
And again, Sydney, who is really the big gun here, didn’t do anything.
So we’re actually MORE AWESOME than is about to be reported….
I wouldn’t count Maxima out just yet. Sydney seems to be better when dealing in a group and Maxima while going solo though I doubt Sydney will ever have the high speed single person anti-personnel skills that Maxima has
Did you miss the part where she killed thousands of fighters and their mothercrafts over a dead alien world.
I already said it on some previous page – no, Sydney is NOT the big gun. She may have killed thousands of alien drones over alari world, but those were (probably unshielded) greys. Maxima would have done it much quicker, probably in a single blast, and she wouldn’t even need to sacrifice her ability to steer or compromise survivability like Sydney does. When she needed to deal with enemy shield, she had to resort to a trick and get INSIDE said shield first. After fleeing from the first round and spending couple of minutes coming up with that strategy.
Maxima doesn’t deal with such crap – as shown on previous page, when she wants the stuff to blow up, stuff blows up, up to and including shielded super carrier that is designed to withstand punishment from capital ships. She just has to let loose a bit. That’s what I call big gun. Sydney’s strength is drawing aggro and then tanking it. Oh, and being able to cross galaxy in couple of minutes. But definitely not DPS. Just some claws to complement her other abilities, pretty weak in comparison to what else she can do.
Max is a walking wave-motion gun.
The Fel will definitely have second thoughts about attacking Earth, I dare say.
No, wait! The Fel that got here aren’t going to have second thoughts about anything anymore…Heck, no more first thoughts either!
I think there could still be some living crew members on the ship … as it didn’t completely explode.
I always had a problem with shows/movies where a starship … allegedly able to keep the crew alive during (and after) space battles … is unable to keep crew alive through a crash landing due to said battles.
Seems like the designers and/or engineers would have thought of that possibility.
Unless you’re dealing with the Galactic Empire, a la Star Wars. Storm Troopers & TIE Fighter Pilots were intended to be easily expendable…No doubt, this particular Empire is not the only example in the sci-fi genre of tyrannical interstellar regimes making widespread use of this practice.
If a ship is crash landing, it is pretty much a given that a considerable quantity of systems and structure are damaged, inoperable, or just plain gone. So while engineers may design a ship to be able to survive a crash landing, their designs could easily have been rendered moot by the aforementioned failures.
This is all true. For now. Maxima and other supers don’t have the same access to improved capabilities that Sydney does, however*. There are a lot of empty level-up locations on all of the orbs, including the PPO.
* Other than by the many ways that superheroes have gotten power-ups in comic books across the years. Superman just had new abilities added to him without comment any time the writers needed/wanted him to have a new ability, so at some point he has had idiot abilities like ‘super-hypnosis’ which was actually repeated in the first Superman move but worse: ‘super-hypnosis kiss.’
Actually that was the second Superman movie.
First had him alter time to resurrect Lois.
Second had him reveal his true identity to Lois, then decide that it was too dangerous to be with her like that (as he needed to give up his powers to do so) and removed her memories.
Thanks for the correction. It was still stupid, regardless of which movie…
There was no ability more stupid than “rebuild broken brick walls vision”.
http://whatculture.com/comics/superman-20-stupidest-powers
I read Superman comics for a few years as a kid. Even the child me was sometimes fairly disgusted by the way they would tack on some new ability to try to make up for lousy writing. Like the “super friction” example in the list I linked above. It’s fairly obvious that the writers simple had no knowledge of how welding works, and thought they had to make up a new power to make Superman capable of doing what they wanted the story have him do.
The vast majority of Superman’s powers including the most ridiculous of them is taking something that normal people can do and emptying up to stupid often just shy of reality warping.
Why the hell would they givr him “super-friction” to weld when using his laser beam eyes would be a perfectly acceptable, comic-book logic compatible, novel (at the time) use of a well-established power!?
Unless it was from the early 40’s or something, when his powerset wasn’t fully defined…
Paireon, as I said the writers are, well, writers. They probably had no clue how welding is done and were limited by their own real world knowledge to try to come up with a way to get Superman to do what they wanted him to do.
Super Landscaping!
In which Superman just throws plants and trees at the ground, apparently.
https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2014/03/super-landscaping.jpg
Or Super-weaving!
Which is just weaving at superspeed. So… normal weaving, but superspeed.
https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2014/03/super-weaving.jpg
Or even better… SUPER MATHEMATICS!
Or as we call it, on Earth, normal sixth-grade-level multiplication. Which he got wrong. 20 x 16 x 10 = 3200, not 32,000, Superman you super-idiot.
http://komplexify.com/images/2007/SuperMathematics.jpg
Re: super-math – you forgot that Superman doing math always involves force-multipling by his super-power (10^1)*, so he was right after all!
Re: super-weaving – huh, that’s what he does with his free time… uh, I guess everyone needs a hob… no. No, even without knowing the larger context, that’s just stupid, and insulting to readers. BS like that is why, even though I enjoy modern incarnations, I have no interest in reading anything from the early days of comic books. I’m glad they survived long enough to acquire some decent plotlines and at least a semblance of continuity.
* I know, I know, and I’m not even sorry.
I am of the opinion that most silver age DC writers were very likely high on the wacky weed when writing most of it. :)
It’s not just Superman btw. It’s … a lot of comics from Silver Age :). Superman just has the funniest examples.
There was a Wonder Woman comic where Wonder Woman was forced to fight blind because they put tape over her eyelashes, and if she opened her eyes with her ‘superstrong eyelids (they literally said that) then she’d pull off her eyelashes, and ‘her female vanity’ (they literally said that too) would not allow her to do that. So instead she fought with her eyes shut. Instead of like… taking off the tape with her hands carefully, or not caring about her freaking eyelashes in the first place.
That eyelashes thing may be one of the least self-aware examples of writing I’ve ever heard. It’s incredible looking back how incredibly sexist (and cheesy) entertainment was just a few decades ago.
I enjoyed a couple of recent Bond films (sucker for tech gadgets) and thought “hey, I should go watch the classic Bond films that kicked this franchise off!” …yeah. Tried 3-4 and turned them all off partway through. Turns out I actually just like Q, and Bond should probably be rotting in Gitmo or wherever, preferably after being outed behind enemy lines by any of the women he’s ever worked with. Plus his various international crimes against humanity and screenwriting.
Here’s a scan of the Wonder Woman one btw:)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/53/ac/4f53acef20d3ed5d4aaab48c5963a5ab.jpg
Oh Diana, you’ve come a long way, please never go back to this.
If we are speaking about the future, she may grow into being big gun, there are indeed a lot of unlocked upgrade slots. But for now my point stands. There are much bigger guns on the team.
Sydney may not be the big gun of the team, but with her Genre Savviness (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreSavvy), she might well be the brains of the operation.
According to Anvil she IS the big gun of the team :). Although Anvil could just have been joking.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-4/
Those fighters took out their Alari counterparts, so unshielded is off the table as a viable explanation for why they were grays to Sydney.
I would assert that a more likely explanation is that the PPO has a safety governor which attenuates the power output within an atmosphere.
We didn’t see how Alar fell. Maybe they didn’t bother with drones until their big guns broke the major resistance. Or just started with orbital bombardment (which Sydney barely avoided two pages after the big fight).
It’s possible that the Squidward’s blasts dwarf Maxima’s blasts, in which case… that could be a reason why Alari Prime fell so quickly. Plus they have shields which were capable of deflecting Sydney’s PPO (until she used her teleportation trick to bypass their shimmer shields), and possibly any Alari weaponry as well. For all we know, it could deflect Maxima’s blasts as well, since the Kaiju’s shimmer shield didnt seem to ‘block’ a blast, it just made the blast go around the Kaiju instead – redirecting a blast rather than just stopping it.
To be fair, Max DOES actually need to sacrifice armor and maneuverability for her blasts. She allocates, remember?
I have to wonder if she’d have been able to put forth nearly as much energy if she’d been flying, or close enough to be within the blast zone.
Yeah, it might have been nice to show the “allocation meter” used in the fight against IGetStronger in the shooty scene, so the readers could understand that (or if) Maxima was finally getting a chance to use her blast at full power.
welp earth is most likly #1 on most dangerous Backwater Primitive peoples now.
Wanna post a Dr Who quote about how Earth doesn’t have to worry about aliens invading, it’s the aliens needed to be warned about the Humans going into space, but can’t find it right now…
I remember a Fantastic Four issue a few years back…
Leader of Alien Fleet: Conquering this planet will be a snap. They’re not even tech level four.
Alien IT Person: Sir, I’ve finished downloading their history files. They’ve beaten back Galactus six times!
Leader: ALL HANDS HARD ABOUT! REVERSE COURSE! GET US OUT OF HERE!
Soemthing similiar in a DC comic (which I can’t remember).
Invading fleet arrive expecting an easy picking. Then find out that Earth is protected by two (or three?) kryptonians, four green lanterns and a little bit of this and that, and quickly reconsider.
What’s Power Girl’s origin this time?
IMO they should just say Power Girl is from Kripton, and chalk up any differences in her power set to the difference between Krypton and Kripton.
Yeah in DC just the fact that Earth has 3 full time green lanterns plus another 1 or 2 for the sector in general should be enough to scare off any alien invader who has brains (other than ones like Apokalipse or the Reach who aren’t scared of Green Lanterns or have ways around them).
Actually Earth has 6 full time Green Lanterns – Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Jessica Cruz, and Simon Baz (although apparently Jessica Cruz was just killed off). Because Sector 2814 is of particular importance compared to any other sector for some reason, so they had all the Lanterns of that sector be humans. Before they learned whatever they had learned about Sector 2814, there was just one non-humsn Lantern assigned to Sector 2814, Abin Sur (the one who’s ring went to Hal Jordan when he died).
Earth is also protected by New Genesis by an intergalactic treaty, which is why Apokolips doesn’t keep continually going there to try to wipe it out. And of course it has at least 3 Kryptonians there (Kal, Kara Zor-El, and Kara Zor-L) – possibly 4 if you also include Karsta Wor-Ul, who’s been hiding on Earth for 50 years before Kal even got there.
they actually had an explanation for this at one point.
While the guardian’s planet OA was supposedly at the center of the universe,
Earth was the nexus point of the multi-verse, sort of like A planet-size ‘hell mouth’ in Buffy.
the guardian’s and new Genesis did not want Higher powers messing around with Earth
when it could conceivably cause all of Existence to collapse.
which was the back story for the first ‘great crisis’ crossover that DC did
when they killed off the Barry Allen flash and Supergirl among others,
and destroyed Most of their alternate realities with only 52 left at the end.
course this was just a way to get rid of all those pesky crossover realities
from the 60s and 70s that Management couldn’t really keep track of anymore.
Yeah I heard of that – Crisis on Infiite Earths :) They also sort of alluded to Earth being a nexus of the multiverse in the ‘Crisis on Two Earths’ animated movie with Owlman’s little diatribe about his plan to kill everyone who ever existed or ever will exist.
5 if you count Conner.
It was actually in New X-men #105 where the Shi’ar aliens run away after reviewing Earth’s recent history of fighting off Galactus.
There’s a scene in one of the Marvel comics (can’t at the moment recall which) where aliens arrive at Earth, on some task. They figure a primitive world is going to be a pushover, until someone gets around to looking up “Earth” in their version of an Encyclopedia Galactica, and learns that Earth has successfully repelled most of the galactic Big Bads.
Wasn’t that an X-Men parody of the DC ‘Invasion’ arc? They landed in Australia and things got wacky if I remember correctly.
-There is evidence of Skrull, Kree, Shi’ar and Badoon activity on this world.-
Alien: What!?’
-This world is the chosen home of the Phoenix Force.-
‘WHAT?!’
-This world has faced Galactus four times during it’s recent planetary history – and beaten him back.-
‘WHAAAAT?!!!’ (Hurries off to warn his leaders and gets killed for his troubles before he can even tell them.)
And that doesn’t even take into account the number of times Earth has beaten back celestials for no main reason why they should be able to stop the Multiverse from collapsing in on itself and failing doing that rebuilt the Multiverse
Welcome to dimension 5, Milky Way, encyclopedia galactica archive kiosk how may this A.I assist you today?
It’s a fairly common trope of early science fiction that humans are just about the deadliest things in space, even compared to highly advanced, multi-system alien empires. Sometimes we’re just more ‘vital’ and the aliens are decadent and apathetic. Sometimes we’re better at military strategy and tactics. And sometimes we’re just more plucky and determined, however that’s supposed to work in the metaphorical equivalent of a fight between a biplane and an F-15…
Well, humans wrote that science fiction and we are definitely the deadliest creature WE know.
Fun fact- a Biplane could win in a low-speed dogfight against a fighter. They corner better. So… In theory, if you were fighting in and around skyscrapers, say, the biplane would actually have an advantage. And bullets don’t have to be particularly large to take out planes- just lucky or in high volumes.
That’s a huge leap of logic from a single metric. Modern jet dogfights take place at a range of several miles, and the enemy appears (and hopefully disappears) only as a dot on the tac display. A biplane pilot, even with an equivalent HUD, wouldn’t even see the jet in the distance before the missile hit. If the jet pilot decided for some reason to just use bullets, they’d still be firing and turning away well outside the biplane’s range.
Even if they started in the same location, beginning the fight in the air “back-to-back” duel style, the jet would simply disappear over the horizon before the biplane could turn around, aim, and fire. Biplanes top out around 70 mph; modern jets doing Mach 2 (~1500 mph or 2200 ft/sec) would literally be outflying the biplane’s bullets.
a story that was In analog science fiction magazine a few decades back called ‘hawk among sparrows’
had a vertical takeoff and landing supersonic jet from the 21st century fall back in time
to World War I
Since it flew So fast it would outrun its own bullets it only had missiles.
said missiles programmed to ignore things that weren’t legitimate targets.
nothing he could do would get them to lock on to the wood and cloth biplanes.
he finally ended up taking out all the Germans by flying past them at Mach 2
and they pretty much disintegrated from the shock wave.
Fun fact: When you set up an “arms firmly tied behind your back” match it’s easy to make any side the winner…
Biplane vs F-15 has only one realistic winner without your kind of silly handicapping. As brichins said, the stand-off capabilities of the F-15 make the biplane’s maneuverability irrelevant. The only way the biplane even learns of the F-15s existence is if the biplane has too low of a radar image for the F-15 to spot. The radars on even small (frigates) naval vessels can track seagulls so they could see a biplane with no issue, but I have no real knowledge of the comparable capabilities of the radars in a much smaller vehicle like a jet fighter.
they can do better than seagulls… they can track the steel tow-cable for a plane pulling an unmanned/unpowered drone for CIWS testing… one of the FC’s i knew in the Navy said that one test they were doing had to be aborted because after the CIWS had finished shooting down the correct drone target being pulled by another plane, the gun kept on firing at “the target” which it thought was just a really really long skinny thing with big lumps at the front and back ends… but was in fact the tow plane and the drone connected by the tow-cable… and was tracking the flailing cable right back up towards the plane that was doing the towing!… there were “many words” spoken to the designers after that incident let me tell you…
I had an Uncle who was a fire control technician in the navy tell me that exact same story. He said that the crew of 3 had left the control room (just stepped outside) to watch the fire against the towed target. When it started walking up the tow cable he said there was a few seconds of a 3 Stooges “3 guys all trying to squeeze through a door at the same time” routine.
But regardless, I think that a seagull has a lot lower cross-sectional density and a lower radar profile than a steel cable…
This happened during WWII actually. Brits flying Glocester Gladiators from Malta managed to shoot down faster and more modern fighers because of their maneuverability. But if the opponent had had any long range capability at all, they would have been mincemeat in moments. Against an F-15 the best they could have hoped for is that some of the fabric on the wings or body got sucked inot the F-15’s engines and caused a stall…
I’m pretty much of the opinion that even without their standoff firepower that the F-15 would win hands down. I don’t care how quickly the very slow moving biplane has. The F-15 doesn’t even have to hit you with it’s 20mm canon. It probably wrecks the biplane by flying past it. Hell, it can probably fly though a wood and cloth aircraft without taking any damage.
Clearly you’ve never visited r/HFY, or read Hambone’s Deathworlders
well i mean we have “Hal Jordan” “Captain Marvel” “Doctor Who” we lost “Tony” rest in peace, Lobo….
and at the very least in this univere we have Private A.D.D (Sydney), Captain Shiney the destroyer (maxima),
The Sexnomancer (Dabbs), Tank Girl (Anvil), and of course The JUGG BYOCH (Stalwart) then theres everyone fav little Fate weaver (the reality bender lady?)
Lobo’s not human, he’s a Czarnian.
he is however a regular feature on earth in the comics and became a semi common defender for a while.
probably cuze it was fun.
as we were talking about defenders if remove all not human well that removes a decent number of the regular earth defenders as well as a lot of mainline hitters
Most of his comics don’t take place on Earth. He’s an intergalactic bounty hunter. Most of the time when he’s on Earth he winds up fighting with the JLA or Superman in particular (or Supergirl in New 52) :) He’s also not particularly heroic in general (although Slobo from Young Justice was).
I have this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAjbSkKF-Q
I do like that Doctor guy…
Found that quote I was looking for. The Doctor had just out-dueled an Alien invasion force then told them to pass the word; Earth is defended. As the ship left, a force fired 5 weapons at the ship and blew it up, at which point the Doctor turns to the British PM (who ordered the attack) and says this…
DOCTOR: I gave them the wrong warning. I should’ve told them to run as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming. The human race
I may be Cybertronian, but even I have noticed you Humans can be really scary…
I has baseball bats, magnets, and a sick and twisted sense oh humor.
Humans will be considered space cryptids from now on
Why not, I mean we are already considered the equivalent of a cross between noxious weeds, herpes and the in-laws*. Nobody really wants us, everyone that doesn’t have it is trying to burn it back and those that do, just hopes for the moments when the itching and burning goes away.
*the tv trope in-law. MINE are awesome.
in so many tv shows, games and stories we are always
1. Damn apes that breed across the cosmos.
2. Pests with dangerous weapons.
3. A viscous accident waiting to happen.
4. A strange exception to a dangerous species always killing itself off.
5. A possible cute pet.
6. All of the above.
This is more than likely the case
Don’t you already have a imp pet named hctib elttil?
Personally, I think 4 is the big one. We are probably the closest thing to a tight rope walker that any species has ever been.
Yuffo-Wup eh? The Mycon have come a long way from their planet-cracking days if they are now part of space police.
https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Juffo-Wup
RIGHT! man but the reference took me back. ive been wanting to load up some dos box and play some StarControl for a while…
Look up ‘Ur-Quan Masters’, you can play it on modern computers now.
That may be so, but I’ve always said the original version is best. In UQM, they dumbed down the language for a more mainstream audience and I’ve always felt it loses a lot of its charm. (Also, they made a significant error in the Mycon dialogue that removes a clue that’s vital for winning the game)
I love Star Control 2 and 3. Amazing games.
Who wants to bet that syndney notices those two things above the cloud and goes screaming after them before Cora can warn her off that that’s the Space POPO! (not to be confused with the Space Pope or his eminence the Holy Llama)
His expiatory Eminence is not amused.
The Holy Llama spits in his face.
All Hail the Holy Llama!
Regarding Sydney’s comment on the last page, I don’t know if it was suggested or not, but why not just change it to:
“They ended the press conference before talking to me!?”
Or “I missed my chance to plug the comic shop for free again…”
That’s not bad:
“Wait – The Press Conference is OVER?”
The video was uploaded to Gal-Tube under the title of “Top 10 reasons not to fuck with Earth”.
That one single clip alone contains 4 of those Top 10 reasons
The title causing temporary confusion, due to the similarities of “Don’t fuck with humans” and “Don’t fuck humans”.
On Earth, Humans FUCK you! (said with a Russian accent)
Looks likewe’ll be headed to cosmic-land someday, make sure you have your 3-D conceptual entity glassed on when you enter the area.
Panel 1 Max is perfect for a stand-alone pin-up.
Re:
Makoto
Dabbler, no doubt, would say something along the lines of not having had the chance to scan Max with *all* of her doodads…
And Max no doubt would say ‘That is not a doodad’ and ‘Keep that thing away from me, you blue maniac’ (and not necessarily in that order)
You know you can just click reply right?
And what makes you think I did not click reply?
Half the time the forum decides for me that I really do not want to reply and just puts my comment at the end.
(though it looks like this time it ended up where I intended it to go. It has something to do with the script blockers that confuse the forum, I think)
And of course this will bring up the galactic equivalent of Bear Grylls and Steve Irwin to Earth to ‘Show you the most dangerous wildlife in the known universe’ ;)
Galactic Blue Planet, with David Attenborough.
“Ey yo babee, lemee smash!”
“And here you witness the call, of the Greater Crested North American douchebag. Despite vigorous social pressures and an, admittedly loud, yet wholly obnoxious mating call, the Douchebag continues to manage to breed, aided, in large part, by the presence of the Lesser Painted North American Ho.”
Just pass it off as fake news
Max is just feeling pretty jovial after getting to go full blast… that and probably enjoying the attention of some hunks
I guess Maxima did hit the pursuing ship didn’t she? With everything she’s heard from dabbler and the bits and pieces she picked up from going to pick up Sydney she’s got to understand that there’s a reason why humans from Earth had made at all over the known Galaxy.
It’s maybe late for the competition, but my two cents are “Only four vans for the very first press conference with an alien?”
By invitation.
I imagined Sydney did not realize it was a live broadcast, that it was recorded when she was not on earth or something.
She WAS at a firing range and preoccupied with LOUD and cool hardware, i think, if i my memory did not fail me again.
She saw the part where Cora was the main speaker, so I’m pretty sure she knows it happened after Cora got here.
A nice little detail on second frame; I like how Harem is using a digital camera rather than a smart phone to take the picture. Clearly she cares about picture quality a lot.
Few petajoules on a square meter? Meh, SAPL can hit with 150 petawatts…
San Antonio Public Library? Suction Assisted Protein Liposuction? Societe d’Astronomie Populaire de Limoges?
Solar Array Pumped Laser or as it is better known Serious Ass Powerful Laser from Troy rising.
Few HUNDRED petajoules on a square meter? Bring 4 more SAPLs, please!
Heh, somehow misread that, but even better :)
Her output is more powerfull than a frikkin ten kilometer battlestation that is powered by the frikkin sun :D
By the way…not sure if anyone’s mentioned this already, but the “Who’s Who” panel isn’t appearing on the site’s front page. It works on archived comics — including the latest comic, when you browse directly to its page number — but not on the front page. So, for example, it’ll show up if you browse to https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-769-incoming-eventually/, but NOT if you just browse to https://www.grrlpowercomic.com. You might wanna fix that.
I am seeing the Who’s Who, but the taller guy talking to Maxima is not in that list.
I love how Frix’ ear goes up when he is curious. I have a Chihuahua that does that. I also appreciate the Ghostbusters callout in his left hand.
Is the scanner Frix is holding a reference to the P.K.E. Meter?
I wonder if the space cops are going to call it in and then land to establish contact or just wait for backup before calling in an exterminatus on this horribly dangerous planet.
Anyone knows what the equipment on the left is?
another ghost buster call out I believe, its called a gigameter
No.
It’s already firmly established that the spacecops are really big on inaction and foot dragging.
And when the Exterminatus looks up the planet in a very ancient database they see Class 11 and higher arcane species on it dormant at the present. They can exterminate all mundane life easily enough leaving only bacteria in the deepest soil and oceans. But that just might wake up worse things that may decide to spread out from this peculiar nexus and really trash things for an eon or more. NO they are told to leave and beef up any warning buoys that don’t seem to be working now. (They were set up over a 100 million years ago by 3 extinct species now.)
Both spirits and arcane life-forms can be read by the Gigameter and PKE meter. GVE’s off the Gigameter arcane energies and PKE’s off the Ecto Energy Reader. Those devices put closer to one small section of Type I civilization on the Kardashev scale of civilizations.
I love how Frix’ ear goes up when he’s curious. I have a chihuahua that does that. Not to mention the Ghostbusters reference in his left hand.
Maxima is standing like that because she finds the Captain’s crew as attractive as the other women do. She’s just reacting subconsciously to her attraction.
Perhaps, though I think it’s because they are paying attention to her for her abilities and powers.
So 2 space hunks are attracted to what she can do, not how she looks. And she is (probably unconsciously) reacting
to it.
Poor Sydney, she missed out on the battle….
Hahahahaha, the Juffo-Wup! Yessssssss!! I love you for that reference! <3
Personally, I just figured Sydney was making a joke on the last page. She knows the tropes, and knew it would be funny if she reacted to something other than the clearly obvious. Sounds like a Sydney move to me.
“I’m not sure why Maxima is standing like a model.”
She’s had a good morning and is now the center of attention for two male aliens who managed to meet Cora’s vigorous criteria for intelligence, competence, looks, and *ahem*. Plus, they’re TALLER than she is! Not by much, but enough.
Oh, and they’re not in her chain of command. She COULD flirt, a little. Not that she has to, but if she wants to, she could.
Frix : My god it’s over 9000 !!!
“just a handful”
Maxima and Sydney can do that alone, lol.
I’m thinking this is more a “WTF” video that many will scoff at as artificial in origin.
DOCTOR: I gave them the wrong warning. I should’ve told them to run as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming. The human race.
There is an Edmond Hamilton story about that, and another with a similar sentiment from Gordon R. Dickson. Those are the first two to pop into my head.
If you can find a copy of “With Friends Like These” by Alan Dean Foster it’s a pretty fun variation on this theme.
I am a big fan of Alan Dean Foster, and that is one of the best.
That one is amazing. I have it in a collection of short stories.
Does one Harem taking a picture of another Harem still qualify as a selfie?
By her own words, she doesn’t do selfies.
Not in the “Usual way”, anyhow… :)
And now the “earth is space Australia” / “humans are space orcs” begins.
Nah. The rest of Earth has a long journey before we can bring them up to our level. First, humans of other nations must learn to swim with Box and Irukanji jellyfish in the same waters as Saltwater Crocs and White Pointer sharks. Not to mention several of the world’s deadliest snakes and insects…
Then we will show how to safely cuddle a Wombat. Even our deserts harbour very dangerous fauna. Did you know that most Aussies don’t have guns? We don’t need them.
Australia is personally and directly responsible for the fact that Earth, while officially classed by Galactic Research as a Rank 4 Deathworld due to weather volatility, natural radioactive material deposits, volcanic activity, widespread viral and bacterial disease vectors, and other such hazards, is un-officially classed as nearly a Rank 5 Deathworld because of the contient’s staggeringly-vast array of biohazardous flora, fauna, and environmental conditions.
And not only do we live here. We have thrived.
There is actually a webnovel (“the deathworlders”) with that premise. The galactic comunity have a system to classificate the abitabilty of a world, based on gravity, weather, deadliness of flora/fauna, etc. Most worlds are in the 4-6 range, above 10 they are considered ‘deathworlds’ and are supposed to be unfit/unable to develop intelligent life. By that scale Earth is a class 12.
I find space orcs a really good description.
Most of them are weak fodder, but there’re a few “bosses” with the strength of a billion humans,
They have a great to fighting about who has to be the leader and they’re aggressive to everybody who they don’t consider part of their group.
I see Cora is not concerned about a crashed and burning spacecraft nearby.
Good to know.
ARC-SPARQ is on the job. So no worries. Possibly.
I meant no Warp Core, Antimatter or Captive Singularity to worry about
destabilizing, escaping or imploding.
What’s this I hear about that the smaller a micro black hole is the faster it evaporates?
I think that Max is trying really hard not to drool over the fuzzy standing to her left.
If you look, she is side eyeing golden boy, not Frix.
Cora: So, Max. Sydney and I got attacked by a mugger gang on the space station and well, she wiped the floor with most of them, without needing to resort to lethal force. After seeing your team in action, I guess she is not as unique as I thought.
Max: Oh, Sydney is still unique. Thank God. I don’t think I could handle two of her. (Remembers a conversation between Dabbler and Sydney – Oh dear!) But she is not the only powerful person on this team.
Cora: Oh yeah, I can see that. Two Sydneys? That could be fun, and scary.
Max: Yup. [ Shutters ]
Ha Ha <3
Might be an upgrade for that.
That is >shudders< "shutters" are what's on home windows to protect glass from weather and nosy neighbors
Are those PKE meters in the first panel?
Do change it. It is too far, and not just ‘a bit.’
For the last comic, you could potentially reference in a later panel that she knew the “aliens” were having a press conference but not the rest of her ARC-colleagues.
Dabbler was on the podium and Maxima at the end but before the reporters would have stopped broadcasting, so Sydney would (should) know that at least some Archon members were present.
In fact, given that Maxima stormed the stage and ordered everyone to shelter, Peggy should have had a better idea what was up. I guess we can assume that they were shooting and not watching during that last bit. But still, all the networks would have had their in-studio people talking about what had just happened on the scene, and at least some of the on-site reporters and camera operators are probably the “stand in a cat 5 hurricane” kind of idiots who would ignore or at least very slowly respond to Maxima because their career ambitions outweigh their self-preservation…
I’m pretty sure Peggy’s attention was focused on Sydney’s handling of the firearm, and had nothing left to spare for what’s on the TV.
Sure, but then you get a call from “dispatch” that you answer and the firearms are put down and the TV is still on, so the chaos at the press conference should have been known to Peggy and Sydney even before they arrived on the scene.
I could see Sydney thinking that they sent her to the range with Peggy in order to keep her from the press. Certainly Arianna would worry about a loose Sydney in front of the cameras. So Sydney’s reaction might have been more along the lines of, “WTF?!!? They sent me away because they said they wanted to avoid a disaster!”