Grrl Power #77 – She’ll get there eventually
I wanted to have a panel or two showing that maybe 5 or 10 minutes had passed since the last page, but I tried to cram too much in on this one and had to lose them.
So yeah, nearly 20 pages after her first appearance, Heatwave finally opens her mouth (to do something other than stuff it with popcorn. Evidently they must go through boxes of the stuff there), results are mixed. Turns out, the rarity of super powers in this world does mean you don’t always get to be quite as picky when it comes to some of the other desired attributes when recruiting. Heatwave just has a different, some would say slower, method of processing data. Some would just say she’s dumb. But she can follow orders, fly, and her heat rays are formidable. She’s not going to lead her own squad, but she’s still a valuable asset.
Also, if you haven’t stopped by since the last page went up, I’ve posted a voting incentive over at Topwebcomics.com, some of the lines came out a little light but honestly I haven’t done a pencil piece in years. Next one should be better. I’ll try and do at least one a month, I’d love to do one a week, but if I had that sort of time, I’d rather spend it on doing more comics.
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You know at first I was wondering why the army would put up with some one this slow, even if or especially a superpowered one. But then of course I remembered the FOUR PAGE manual on how to use a HAMMER.
Maybe they deal with this kind of problem more often than they would like to admit
and your point is?… now how about the Bill that was to be introduced to Congress (i forget whether it was the House or the Senate) that needed something on the order of 50,000 signatures before they would accept it, in order to ban “Di-Hydrous Monoxide”, as it is an extremely corrosive agent, is a contributing factor in a majority of automobile accidents, and it is a major factor in accidental drownings.
and the people that sponsored this bill actually GOT THE SIGNATURES… now, those are just our “ordinary, everyday folks”… so don’t knock the guys n’ gals in the military (army specifically) for being “dumb” like Brook thinks the others think about her. it takes all kinds.
is it bad that it took me a moment to translate that to H20? :(
Considering 50,000 people never worked it out at all, you shouldn’t worry about it.
I know I’d been asked to sign petitions like that numerous times in the 1990s, and some of the people I were with at various times for those responded with, “But that’s water! Oh, hell, yeah, I’ll sign, this will be a riot.”
I’ve no idea if any of those were instances of the petition that actually made it, but I’m betting a few of the 50,000 recognized what it was.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!
HAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAW!!!!!
heheheheheheh!!!!!
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(didn’t figure it out till I read your post so your not alone) Also gravatar messed up the joke I was trying to do in the first post.
People in the military are no dumber or smarter than civilians. Having worked and hung out with (also related to) both I know where of I speak. What you are talking about is bureaucracy which seems to have a inverse relationship with size and intelligence. The bigger the bureaucracy the dumber it is. There are whole libraries on why this happens but it boils down to no one wants to make a REAL decision because it might affect their cushy job so the buck gets passed or altered but doesn’t stop till it runs out of road.
Bear in mind that the chief source of the Military’s massive overspecification of every detail is the fact that many people will cheat them if they can. Fortunes have been made by selling armies boots with cardboard soles and blankets made of loose woven cloth packed with lint (both actual examples). In the Spanish-American War, American meat products caused more U.S. casualties than Spanish weapons. So the Army took to specifying every detail about everything in self defense!
It is well to remember that the military (any military actually) is simply a select subset of the greater population.
As far as the general population goes, think about how stupid the average person can be (especially as conditions grow more congested)… Statistically speaking, half the population is even dumber.
You know anybody can make dumb-ass mistakes, expecialy in the milatary where many times doing something wrong can get you and others killed. So to have someone who once they are trained to do something in a particular way continues to do it in the corect way because they pay attention to what they are doing because they know that they arn’t the brightest crayon in the box compared to a smart ass who think they know everything so don’t pay attention to what they are doing and get you killed is one of the reasons the milatary dosn’t discriminate because of inteligence.
The movie Forrest Gump is an example.
My Dad was in Criminal Investigations most of his adult life. He told me a good Constable Plodder who can be given a slow, boring job and trusted to just keep doing it until it was all done is a treasure!
Do we need an epiphany when it comes to comomn sense? I mean, do we have to figure it out all by ourself? Or are we smart enough to look for it? Should it be called rare sense since it’s not always so comomn?
Wow. I opened a big angry can of worms there. I did not mean to imply that the army is made up of idiots (that would be congress :p) I was really just making a funny comment about the hammer manual. You guys are taking me way to seriously.
That also is endemic to our society. Everyone has an axe to grind and a sacred cow. There can be very little discussion online that won’t hit a few landmines. The true measure of maturity is how you deal with it after it happens.
Or, you can just go with ad hominem attacks, like Gamesman.
For an example of those that can’t help but be combative over nothing you are perfect.
However, outside of my crack about Rachel Maddow, I didn’t insult anyone or make it personal. You on the other hand, in a single rambling post called me a brain dead drone, a the monger, a hypocrite who ignores the deaths of millions to force women to carry their babies to term, and a humorless religious zealot. Incidentally, who are the millions whose deaths I’m supposedly ignoring? Besides DaveB, nobody on this site even tried to debate me on the actual issues, and even he had to drag in irrelevant points and non-sequiturs to try to make his argument. Face facts Gamseboy, you’re not in kindergarten anymore, and I’m way out of your league.
the monger = hatemonger. Somedays, I hate spellcheck.
Maybe no one debated you because this is a COMIC discussion thread. Please take your opinions to a place they might be welcome. No soup for you troll.
Epic Fail!!! I was responding to Sheela, Adamas, you and DaveB injecting politics into the thread. Tey again troll.
depending on said land mine the best method is usually “insert foot in mouth.” This is what I use when I actually care about whom I’ve offended, such as the armed forces, I like those guys.
If I don’t care my response would be something like, “this is the internet and you don’t know where I live, nanna nanna na na!!! :-D
For my eagle scout project i was told to make the discription of how to be detailed enough that anyone can do it if I was unable to. I wrote a whole page on how to use a tape meseaure, and that was not even to the point of actualy mesuring.. .That took another 2 pages. Needles to say I would of had a text book on how to make a rose trlesis if I was not told to scale back. Still ended with 20 pages.
“But then of course I remembered the FOUR PAGE manual on how to use a HAMMER.”
I watch YouTube videos, you would be surprised, how many don’t know the proper use of hammer!!!
Posted: Oct #1, 2019- Halloween.
Sorry, “a hammer”!
I was just thinking about Sydney’s comic book shop and how if it get’s out that a real live super hero worked there buisness would boom, thereby saving their buisness.
Brain hurting thought of the Day:
Sydney goes on Letterman and reads HER version of the ‘Top Ten List’… What would the list be called, and what would be on it?
‘Top Ten Things I Said When I got Superpowers’
#1: “So when do I get my Goddamn D-Cups already?!?”
That’s the most common beneficial side-effect of superpowers in women! :D
Unless you’re Brook(Heatwave). She doesn’t seem to have that particular side-effect. And now she is joined by Sydney!
#2 I’m NOT wearing a g-string over spandex!
#3. yah it’s pritty but whats the point guys?
#4 wearing drinking Mothra nun-scaring Jubilex effluvia …
wow – the censoring system actually worked… Apparently I’m not allowed to talk like Syd here… it literally cut out 40+ words… from now on, I guess I’ll just use “[censored]”
#5 Always Expect Ninjas!
# 6 – Hey my eyes are up here!!!
#7 Hey my boobs are down there! :P
# 8. No @#$!$%ing way am I wearing a *&%)*$% on a puddel !#%$@# knocking, cape!!!!
#9 Do not grab there if you don’t want me to drop you while flying you to safety!
Maxima would say that one.
I don’t have any censoring set up that I’m aware of. I wonder if you fatfingered something that entered a characters that cut off your comment when it was posted.
#10: “The superwoman exists, and she’s American”
(A slight modification of a Watchmen quote, as one would expect from such a comics enthusiast.)
LOL! Spit-take cola! Nice
I like Heatwave she’s got to be seen more often. ^_^
Not to nitpick, but wasn’t it -Harem- and not Maxima that gave the guys all the kissy marks?
…just a thought.
I stand corrected. And I think I’m a little slower than Heatwave for not seeing that Harem wasn’t visible at all during that entire bit. /facedesk
..please disregard my last post. >.<
It was Harem, but she disappeared and made it seem as if Maxima did it. :)
Where is Dabbler? Is she watching Sydney? I was wondering since she is not on the couch and she was when they were watching Sydney getting Maxima riled up.
Good point. Knew someone was missing. But I would suspect (if she’s not in the room with Maxima and the General) that Sydney is with Peggy. Would help avoid more incidents with super-powers, and as a sniper, Peggy should have plenty of patience to avoid setting her off.
Just noticed the pop can, nicely done.
And now for something completely different.
Unbelievable coincidence… Or so.
A few days ago I found another web comic. An SF thing, no super heros, maybe a bit violent. 3D “artwork” created with Poser figures. But a strong story – well maybe I have lower standards in general on such artwork.
Anyway, I just hit this page… https://merceneiress.com/2011/11/06/chapter8page16/
and there’s a guy who can split into 5 clones of himself. No teleportation whatsoever but – all five are controlled by a single brain. Hmmmm?
Actually multiple bodies is a common theme in comics and sci-fi the number is an interesting coincidence though,
This is an old comment, but I want to provide an updated link since the old one no longer works: http://www.merceneiress.com/comics/2156598/chapter-8-page-28/
(Page number is different, but it’s the same page. I guess they did some restructuring or something.)
The scariest thought: Sydney goes on the Cobert Report.
LOL, I got her name right on the last page
I just noticed that Harem is drinking Spit Take Cola! x3
just read this again and was that a thunderbolts (marvel civil war) reference that was made?
Probably not since I don’t know what you’re referring to.
Discovered you yesterday and am now thoroughly enjoying the ride from the beginning. May well have more to say later, but for now I just wanted to mention that I enjoyed my reaction when I got to the penultimate panel and discovered that what Heatwave was doing in the first panel wasn’t playing with bubble-wrap….
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it!
I smell a mystery.
Quick question: If supers (or at least the most common kind of supers) are naturally super-attractive, can they eat whatever they want without gaining weight?
Yup. There may be limits to this but so far no one’s found that calorie limit.