Grrl Power #776 – Dr. Aptronym?
There are probably a lot of psychologists who would like to take a crack at Sydney… Well, maybe not. She’s not that complicated really. A ton of ADHD, lots of humor deflection-itis, whatever that’s called, a little Peter Pan Syndrome. Probably some other stuff, but fairly straightforward. Still, even if her diagnosis is fairly pedestrian, she’s going to be one of those patients that requires a little overtime.
This page does give us some new important information about Dr. Frost though. Nothing to do with imagined powers though. Apparently she sleeps above the sheets. And doesn’t wear a bra to sleep. I’m actually pretty sure almost no women do, but I just wanted to point out I drew her breasts right where they should be when a braless woman is laying on her back. In her armpits.
And I mean… if she had ice powers, wouldn’t the tips of her hair be blue and not red? Unless they’re… RED HAIRING TIPS!
Bam. Planned it.
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Okay, I didn’t.
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I’m not sure what you’re going for with this, but if you’re saying the bottom tags should be the same as the character tags, that is a no. Personally I think the bottom tags should not be visible at all, but the numbers behind the names refer to which version of the Who’s Who image is shown.
I am saying that the bottom tags are very useful tool to use and get the top tags applied to the whole comic.
If you highlight the two different fields, they go to different places: the top goes to the Cast Page, the bottom goes to a list of all the pages with those tags (in this case, it won’t include the first appearances of Sydney to prevent spoilers, and when the Brown Ball’s abilities get revealed, there will be a new halo04 tag which won’t link to this page)
I am talking about using the bottom tags as markers for on which pages to put the top tags, it’s irrelevant that they go other places.
It’s still easier to match the tags to a few tags that belong to one character than going through more than seven hundred pages to mark when each is present. And most characters only get one “who’s who” so it won’t be that hard.
It’s true though that with how the tags go from newest to oldest a new reader that is only at the beginning of the comics and tries to use the tags will be sent right to the newest pages with spoilers. That needs to be addressed.
They are two different sorts of tags
At the moment, if a person uses the bottom tags, it will only show the pages with Sydney after she discovered the Air Ball, thus, no spoilers being broken
Someone who has just started, is more than likely not going to be using the tags as they will be reading the webic in sequential order
The tags on the comics are actually used to drive the “Who’s Who” panel. That’s why they have numbers after them, so they’re ‘current’ up to the the page they appear on.
I really should spend a weekend updating all the character names, because at the moment they only exist back to when I changed the back end of the comic from ComicPress to Easel. Those should definitely be consistent.
I’d be happy with you taking a week off and adding to the cast page.
So many characters with multiple appearances who don’t have an entry.
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Sorry, I really need to update that but I’ve gotten behind with the house move and some other stuff.
Have been voting every day (at least once per day), even without a new invotive
I can’t speak for WASP, but I don’t think he was telling you to update the vote incentive, but that a new month had started so people should vote to keep this comic at the top.
I’ve been noticing that, even if Grrl Power slips down to #2 or #3 at the beginning of most months, it’s usually back to #1 within just a few days. Which means people ARE voting.
For me those reminders help.
– Got married (it’s been awhile since you told us about this)
– House move (ongoing/catching up)
I think I know what the “other stuff” is.
Congratulations.
I vote without needing the incentive but cool about when there is one :)
WASP regularly posts ‘vote’ on the forums as a reminder to other readers to vote, DaveB. I don’t think he was addressing something to you, no worries :)
Yeah, specially at the start of the month, just a friendly reminder to other readers to vote, not that the invotive needs to be updated :D
I can’t help but have demon slayer vibes when I look at this page
Maybe it’s to do with the medusa hair. Straight, very straight until it wants organic curls. XD
Maybe it’s the colour but getting the impression it’s sturdier than normal hair and acting very interesting.
I was going to comment something along the lines of her hair doing interesting things as well. Could be just unusual hair, or could be *interesting* hair…
Dr Frost is in bed alone. That’s sad.
Looking at the covers/linens, maybe she is on site at Archon right now and just not up to bedding down with aliens or coworkers while at work.
That’s a point.
Hey, she may be one of those rare people that prefers being single, it happens!
Or to maintain a relationship needs professional calls which can interrupt sleeping of others to be in a separate room. Also helps confidently. Doesn’t mean she is single though.
The alien was eating cookies in bed; she kicked it out.
My parents sleep in separate bedrooms for a very serious reason.
My father has acid reflux and uses a wedge under his mattress.
But of far greater concern, his snoring can can wake the dead. He is the reason I started wearing ear plugs when I sleep.
Your father should be examined for sleep apnea. Snoring that badly is an indication of a blocked breathing passage that can be causing both the acid reflux and a very high level of stress hormone that can lead to heart disease (which will be exacerbated by the low oxygen) plus a number of other really nasty side effects.
There is no situation in which one snores that it is not causing physical damage, except the situation where one is faking it.
Have acid reflex, butt don’t snore
Now Sydney won’t be able to get to sleep for the rest of the night at least up until she forgets the question again.
It’s Sydney. It’s not gonna be hard. (Has she sent Ironcloth a gift basket yet for saving her life?)
Off-Topic Topic of the Week:
If one Harem sneezes, do the rest of them instinctively close their eyes?
If one Harem yawns, do the rest of them cycle through yawn contagion?
Yes. They feel each other’s orgasms, leading to in-universe awkwardness and our real world entertainment.
There’s also that one Harem can hear something funny which the other Harems can genuinely spontaneously laugh at.
Well they are all the same Harem, so it make sense that she would be reacting to things she is doing, or having done to her. If anything, it’s kind of impressive that she can get as much done, simultaneously, as she does without mixing them up.
She explained that times and times again: there is only one entity called Harem, a single consciousness controlling multiple dislocated bodies. Usually she is able to maintain the reactions limited to the body that experienced the stimulus, but sometimes she get the signal crossed. I’d say most of the times the sneeze is limited to the body that experienced it, except maybe for the most violent ones.
ATOMIC WEDGIES for example.
MAXIMA WEDGIES
The yawn is the most critical experience/question that I don’t think has been explicitly addressed. Considering how contagious even the WORD yawn is to some people, it’s hard to imagine she wouldn’t accidentally yawn at “inappropriate” times now and then, across all her bodies
The real question is can they sleep at different times. I think it’s an all or nothing deal there. What if one of her is knocked out though?
I don’t think it’s THAT absolute. Like, she can certainly sleep with one body and be at boring lesson with other one. And if one of her is knocked out or really tired, it will sleep no matter what other bodies will do. But when something exciting happens to body which is awake, it would definitely risk waking up sleeping bodies, so I think if she wants good night sleep she needs to sleep with all bodies.
Harem’s multi-reaction depends on how prepared she is or how intense it is. If she has three “ha” before the choo, she probably won’t need the other four to react.
Why is she wearing gloves? The spheres don’t work when she’s unconscious.
Just in case…
She was shown in previous comics to be worried about grabbing for them when waking from a PTSD nightmare and activating them upon waking.
And it makes no sense. They stayed in the tube just fine before. Just put them back in the damn tube.
Indeed, the tube essentially had the same effect. They probably just forgot about it/ overlooked it. Stuff like that happens, either because it was seen as something used for a specific thing (hiding the orbs) that her current potential incident issue doesn’t make her consider the tube.
That or the author just forgot the tube can also work like that, which is probably the case. But let’s be kind and say it was totally planned and the characters just didn’t realise it.
I think that the mittens are for comedic effect.
She probably leaves tubey at home so she can sleep better there. Just may have forgotten to bring it to work with her.
Pretty sure Archon can spring for a second tubey…
She’s got to get Tubey back eventually, since she had it in the opening segment which we apparently still haven’t caught up with.
Isn’t the tube the type used to transport blueprints, etc?
As a comic shop owner, Sydney would mainly encounter them being used to transport posters.
Or neoprene mats for games.
She didn’t realize that they wouldn’t immediately respond when she opened the tube. They have also been shown to float above her until she’s well asleep, then nestle down next to her. It’s possible that she doesn’t know that they aren’t active when she’s unconscious, since she’s unconscious when they’re not active.
Source: I have incredibly severe sleep apnea (severe starts at 30 AHI (an index of 30 apneas and/or hypopneas (choking or stopped breathing during sleep) per hour). My AHI is 204/hour). I had no idea that I was choking about 3 times a minute every minute every night, until I was informed by someone I was sleeping with, and didn’t even really believe it until I saw it on video taken during a sleep study. It’s entirely possible to have pretty non-standard stuff going on when you’re asleep and not having any notion it happened when you wake up.
Also, considering Sydney’s punched someone in the face when startled, I’m pretty sure mittens are a sensible precaution. And “sensible precaution” is definitely a skill that Sydney should try to grind until she reaches skill level 100, Skyrim style, every chance she gets. She got it high enough to choose the “Three Steps Ahead” perk, but there’s still plenty of room to grow there.
I’m pretty sure the spheres could burst out of the tube if unconsciously summoned by Sydney. They were strong enough to stop Maxima from pulling them away from Sydney on page 66. At least the oven mitts prevent the hand contact necessary to activate them accidentally.
She’s already had one semi-awake incident that thankfully did not result in loss of life except for a few greys on the Alari homeworld.
If you have incredibly destructive powers at your fingertips, it’s better to be safe than sorry. And they were prescribed by Dr. Frost few months (our time) ago as a cure for possible nightmares and lashing out with PPO while half-conscious. It’s wise to follow your doctor’s orders (and unwise to wake her up in the middle of the night to ask questions like this, but that’s another story).
How would she know this? As far as we are aware, no-one has checked to see if the orbs work while she is asleep and she wouldn’t know this without outside observations.
While we are at it, has anyone tested to see if another person could wield the Orbs while in close proximity to Sydney? The only comment I remember is Sydney stating that it could harm others, but also that she then said that she didn’t actually know what would happen [can’t recall exact comic].
We do know the orbs “deactivate” when she falls asleep. Hard for me to look up the exact update because I’m on mobile now, but it’s the one where she finally gets some sleep after awhile but early in the series. Sydney plops down on a bed and the next panel has the orbs falling to the ground.
But that’s something only we the audience have witnessed, unless Archon is violating Sydney’s privacy with surveillance equipment during her downtime.
No one has “tested” if they can use the orbs. In fact, we’ve never really seen anyone else hold them. At most, just Sydney using them as a blunt instrument.
Still, whether Halo can or cannot use the orbs while unconscious… better safe than sorry where they (Sydney included) don’t know. Even if they can only activate while she’s awake, waking up in a panicked state as a result of a nightmare or PTSD or similar can be disastrous if Sydney unintentionally but definitely grabs her PPO. So I applaud her and Dr. Frost’s caution.
I didn’t ask how we know that they “deactivate” when she is asleep, as you saw them do so in a previous page. What I was asking the original poster was how would Sydney (or anyone else in this universe) know this from the information we have seen?
Agree that it is better safe than sorry with the power she has in her hands, though.
The Orb test thing was just something that has been bugging me a bit. I could see how useful it could be to give another Hero the “life support” orb to hold while they are flying with shields up. We also have seen attempted testing on the orbs, such as how we found out the “life support” orb had that function and their tests on the shields and flight orbs, so was wondering about this lack of testing.
That’s why I said Archon would only know by violating Sydney’s privacy by watching her while she sleeps.
Sydney would have to wake the orbs when she gets up.
As we saw in the ballroom briefing, when deactivated they have to be shook a little to wake them up.
That was because they had been ‘asleep’ for too long
Check out panel two: they woke immediately
Oh, you meant if she stored them in Mr Tubey? Again, depends on how long she leaves them in him
Makes me wonder if they could have been attuned by someone else after they’d been deactivated for so long. Does their current user lose “ownership” of them if they leave the orbs dormant for too long?
What about the woman who gets a new superpower when touching someone? They tested that when she held Sydney’s hand, but everyone was distracted by something and missed when the orbs started orbiting both of them. That doesn’t mean she could use them like Sydney, but it’s an interesting canon effect.
Her name is Varia I think, and I bet Sydney DID notice. Or at least her subconscious self did, and she will remember it when exploiting it is the only solution to some problem (similar to the scene with Mr/Ms X).
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-324-she-should-put-all-those-answers-on-a-shirt/
Had to have a look back as I couldn’t remember any distractions. Looks like Halo isn’t looking and Varia is looking downwards. Unsure about the other recruits, so can’t say.
Never actually noticed the orbs hovering over both of them in the page before. Would be a great way to hint at Varia’s power gain from Sydney without revealing it.
Remind me, does Varia actually have to hold hands to get whatever power she unlocks with a person? If not, that’s at least a way to get 3 orbs going at once
Or a back to back harness that has shoulder contact. 4 orbs, true co pilot
Or bare calves lashed together, three-legged-race style. That allows pivoting from back-to-back to side-to-side, or even face-to-face. Although in that case, Sydney would be face-to-clavicle, so aiming might be an issue.
No.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-406-peanut-gallery/
One thing that always bothered me about that page; if Varia had touched Sydney before Sydney found the orbs, wouldn’t Varia have had a normal gestalt power manifestation? So not only did the Orbs go into orbit around Varia and Halo simultaneously, but their presence suppressed whatever gestalt Xochitl would have had with Sydney.
Yes, exactly! I’ve been wondering that for ages. I’m guessing her orb-less powers would’ve been some unholy combination of caffeine and capsaicin, like ADHD fiendfyre.
Oddly with them going out a few seconds after she went to sleep I was left less with devices turned off. And her cats cuddling up with her when she went to sleep. And she went to sleep with the air and shield bubbles taped to her hands and it appeared the shield stayed on. So they don’t wink off just because she is asleep.
There is no privacy in the military.
Was going to mention that
Not to say she will be actively monitored…
Someone else found it. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-293-zonked/
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Just speaking as someone who has had PTSD since before it existed as a diagnosis, PTSD dreams are nightmares. Some moreso than others, but since I got PTSD almost every dream I’ve had has been a nightmare.
We saw in a comic strip, after the parking lot fight, once she was asleep, the orbs went dull and stopped floating…
however Sydney, being asleep at the time does not know this… secondly, we do not know of their reactivation response time… if it’s faster than the brain returning to sanity post nightmare, then gloves are very prudent
“Why is she wearing gloves?” – Joe Guy
To avoid accidentally activating an orb, either in her sleep or in a waking reaction. She could keep them in Tubey for a similar effect, but the mittens gives the call-back to Sydney’s Kryptonite.
Yes, well done Dave. Good accurate bust drawing (like I’d know).
For me, the 5th panel positioning above sheets, splayed out limbs, and the look seems like an “oh god why is it so hot”.
And as the weather warms up, going into summer, I’m not looking forward to having that look myself.
I miss winter…
(puts on deer stalker and holds pipe)
My I deduce that you reside in the sub-equitorial temperate zone of the planet?
I always thought that Santa’s delivery in that hemisphere would put a strain on the reindeer, what with having to maintain hypersonic speed and losing the cooling effect of the arctic air.
At speed Santa’s reindeer are moving (650 miles per second, 3000x speed of sound), air would have no cooling effect no matter if arctic or not.
You all assume that flight is their only power. Clearly they (and Santa) can also phase through matter.
Hey guys this has nothing to do with this comic but I am trying to find another super hero comic I used to read and it is starting to drive me crazy. It was about a married couple were the guy was basically superman and his secret identity was as an account which is where he met his wife and it was a whole daily life kind of deal. Sorry I can’t remember much about it other than that and the character style but it is starting to drive me crazy and help would be appreciated.
That was “Love and Capes”.
THANK YOU!
Seems like it went serialized which explains why I had such a hard time trying to find it.
Should read some of the authors other comics, they are quite good. His current one is the adventures of two cupids.
Waiting for it to finish, I read to fast and weeklies drive me nuts with the waiting.
Love and Capes?
I can’t think that her apartment or her bunk at ARC would be so cold as to require a heavy quilt for warmth, so does Sydney sleep under a weighted blanket?
You actually get your best sleep with a comforter and a cold room. I thought everybody knew that. We use comforters year round and keep the AC cranked for that reason.
Some people just sleep better under heavy blankets. Hell, there’s a company that makes them specifically for that purposes. One of my buddies uses it, sleeps like the dead.
Keep meaning to get something heavy, like a cot-mattress, problem is, so many of them nowadays are made out of foam
For me, it’s not so much the warmth (although use three water bottles: one for chest {helps ‘muffle’ heart beat}, one for knees and the mid section, and one for the feet {bad frost bite as a kid comes back as killer chilblains}) as it is the weight
Best sleep ever had, was as a kid sleeping in a mattress that had been folded in half and left standing upright
https://www.mycalmblanket.com/pages/how-it-works?gclid=CjwKCAjw29vsBRAuEiwA9s-0B8vUjqVZLSJmn9guVzQpNKgrJraBqnx-nsFHZn3X8wTrfzpClQEPMRoCsmUQAvD_BwE
Weighted blankets. Sadly, not cheap. $99-$119 depending on how heavy. I’m sure there’s other less expensive options, not sure the composition tho.
I made a weighted blanked for a friend of mine. Not quite the same as that with the weights in the pad, but it’s pretty simple and she was very happy with it.
Basically I just used a sturdy 14oz denim for the shell, one layer of batting, and a nice flannel for the inside, then sewed a “point” together through all three layers about twice per square foot. I made a wide hem down both sides out of two layers of denim, and threaded a chain through it. The chain I used is about two pounds of metal per foot, so that’s nearly 30 pounds of chain. Holding the blanket tight across her I guess more than pressing down, but it answered her need. I never really understood the need itself, but I aim to please.
Wonder how expensive old PE mats cost…
I sleep best by far when my face is cold.
I think that’s her “blanket cave/fort” like she had the first time she tried to sleep back at ARCHON HQ after returning from space.
Y’know, the orbs are in a dark room and should be a lot brighter, normally. Not complaining, just think that they automatically dim when Syd is in sleep mode… which will be far less distracting if she ever has company.
I can’t tell if you’re stating a fact or asking a question.
But either way, have this
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-293-zonked/
Daniel here. I might have another reason for this behaviour, Sydney waking up and doing something random. Back when I was 18, I had a medical episode called Psuedo-Seizures – my body decided to replicate an earthquake but it wasn’t Epilepsy, officially the cause was unknown. The last event was also the longest, an entire hour of wrestling my own body for control, not fun at all.
For a good while afterwards, my body recognized the sensation of going to sleep as the start of another Psuedo-Seizure and would either go full alert or if I woke up early enough, I’d would only have my brain try to distract me with something. If Sydney was going through something similar with her ADHD thrown in the mix, I can very easily see her behaving just like this…
Doctor Emma Frost actually has a form of pyrokineses obviously.
Based on panel 6, I’m betting it’s Medusa hair. Those locks seem to be standing up and paying attention.
Yups, noticed that about her hair as well
They are certainly not behaving like normal hair should
Yeah. i saw that in-panel as well and came down here to see if anybody else noted it as well. I’m with you guys. Totally prehensile hair.
Maybe a combination. Pyro Medusa hair.
Since this topic tackles it:
Has there ever been a Marvel, DC , big brand name comic where a character has a name that implies one kind of superpower but actually, because it’s their real name, not only does it have no relation to their abilities but it even is misleading or the opposite of what they do have?
With the trope pointed out and superhero comics (plus the larger body of work) being around for almost a century, you gotta wonder if writers and creators have subverted the trope.
Oh, wait.
Emma Frost.
Oh, wait.
Emma Frost. Does not have same or similar powers to Bobby Drake.
Frost described her personality, the Ice Queen of the Hellfire Club.
Believe that was Messenger‘s point: she has a name that does not relate to her powers (except that one time, when she possessed Bobby’s body, and taught him some new tricks with his own powers)
well, don’t forget Emma has a diamond form power. And ice can slang for diamonds, so it fits one of her powers.
The diamond form power was an (unnecessary) upmod that came along with the notion of “secondary mutations” that provided the writers with a good lazy excuse for either munchkin-ing up their pet characters or getting around the limits of something. Same goes for Angel/Archangel having “healing blood” which seriously if it were real, would have been discovered LONG before then. Iceman doesn’t have a secondary mutation though. He’s just incredibly powerful and has the imaginative depth of field of a CPA. Which he is. Because it was easier than the harder mathematics.
Yeah, it took Emma possessing Bobby’s body for him to stat getting creative with his ice-form (just look at how long he went from being a fluffy snowman in boots to an actual man of ice)
She had Bobby’s powers for some time, when she was in Bobby’s body, back in the 90s.
It was the first sign iceman was more than a loser; Emma in Bobby’s body was scary powerful
I was wondering something similar.
Has something ever happened like an arachnophobic gets bit by a radioactive spider and then said screw this I’m going with a cat theme?
DC had a non-powered character (a police officer in Washington DC, who was dating the second ‘Dove’ but got killed) who said that if he ever acquired powers then he’d deliberately choose a misleading name…
At least 3/4 of the Fantastic Four have names that have nothing to do with their powers:
Sue Richards (neé Storm): Invisibility and force shields
Johnny Storm: Fire and flight
Ben Grimm: Stone creature (name describes personality, but not power)
Reed Richards: Elasticity. Name possibly indicative as he can make himself thin as a reed.
Plus, Reed is a major dick at times :P
“Oh gee, I have around 5 inventions on the lab shelf that could provide the world with clean energy and halt global warming. But it would be a pain to do the paperwork to get it on the market, so why bother.”
Unless Guesticus was referring to Susan Storm Richard’s favorite application of her husband’s stretching powers. :-)
(And yes, they have actually referenced that in a comic . . . she was shown disheveled, sprawled in bed, as Reed was leaving the bedroom to check on the kids, and she told him (in a word balloon and font distorted to imply her voice was shaky) “Have I ever told you how glad I am the cosmic rays gave you that particular set of powers?”)
Actually, wasn’t being literal, O.B. Juan got it (make sure you make an appointment with your chemist to get it cleared up)
“you gotta wonder if writers and creators have subverted the trope.”
The prior Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila was Cardinal Sin. If a comic book writer came up with that one the editor’s would have said ‘Change it. No one would believe that could happen.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin
That happened with Alan Scott, DC’s golden age Green Lantern. The original character name was Alan Ladd (as in Aladdin, and the golden age GL got his powers from a magic (train) lantern and accompanying ring). They changed it because they thought it was too on-the-nose.
Actually, they kept the train lantern motive, they just modernised (contemporized?) it, that’s why they are still called ‘Lantern Corp’ and still use a lantern to recharge the rings
Definitely. The Golden Age to Silver Age transition at DC involved a move away from fantasy/mysticism/mythology and toward science and science fiction. Green Lantern is the most obvious one: Golden: recipient of the prophesied third gift of a mystic green meteor. Silver: recruited by a dying alien to join an intergalactic police force. Captain Marvel gets punted off to Earth-S (for Shazam, but also for Silly, and Simpler — a world whose nature reflects more innocent themes and adventures). Wonder Woman’s mythic nature gets de-emphasized, and the invisible jet and Amazon tech played up. The list goes on and on.
Later on, they retconned the green meteor into being the Starheart, the physical embodiment of the chaotic and mystical parts of the nature of the immortal Malthusians, excised so that they could become beings of pure order and science. Doing so transformed them into the Guardians of the Universe (Silver Age Green Lantern’s bosses). The Starheart used the Golden Age Green Lantern’s ring as an escape valve, slowly releasing its energies into the universe by granting GL his powers, in order to weaken its prison and escape by possessing GL, but Alan Scott’s willpower allows him to remain in control.
Because, you know, comics.
Forgot to thank you for explaining all that :(
So, thank you for explaining all that :)
And there was an Anglican bishop, in England, with the surname of Warlock…
Love and capes, its finished and being published as a comic now
No, she’s simply related to Emma Frost and therefore a mutant with a frosty personality.
No, she actually has a warm personality… when not woken up in the middle of the fucking night by a deranged woman-child :P
I can see them assigning an overnight staff to intercept Sydney’s calls, answer/deflect her questions or just be there to talk to her. Otherwise they may need to fine Sydney for bothering others for non-emergency questions.
It’s not a completely crazy question. Nominative determinism is quite obviously a thing in a ton of settings – although not this one, it seems. And not just that, Dr. Frost definitely has the kind of physique that superhumans in this setting have. Even if it’s not ice powers, she may very well have some kind of ability.
Except that we’ve already been through this with Aurelius Shrapnel. No powers at all. And none for Mervin Shrapnel either.
Or, she is just a woman who knows how to work out
I suspect people working at Archon around supers all the time feel more pressure for that than normal.
I have noticed that a tv meteorologist is named “Storm” (Not that one, but she’d have accurate forecasts.)
Oh my, those hipbones. Yet another fetish acquired.
“Unless they’re… RED HAIRING TIPS!”
This put me in mind of a message from J. Michael Straczynski on the B5JMS mailing list many years ago:
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><<A male baldness pattern, perhaps?
Zathras blew joke.
Zathras meant to say, "Male pattern baldness." Male baldness pattern not make sense. Very bad. Or very bald. Zathras can never be sure.
Zathras always screw up joke. Zathras say, "Priest, rabbi, minister walk into bar. Bartender says, 'What is this, a joke?'" Never gets laugh. Requres too much explainings.
Zathras humor very sad.
Zathras sad, is very funny.
Universe hates Zathras.
… but at least there is symmetry.
Zathras is distantly related to Rodney Dangerfield.
I’ll see myself out.
Imagine Sydney’s reaction if Dr. Frost had told her to “let it go.” (Don’t know if “Frozen” is out in the comic’s continuity, though.
well, the X-men comics and comics in general are part of the continuity, therefore Marvel is, therefore Disney is because they own Marvel, so Frozen exists.
Plus it was mentioned in a vote incentive.
No, Frozen wasn’t released until 2013, two years into Grrl Power’s future
Well, Varia made a reference to Frozen when she was talking about one of her gestalts a while ago.
No one else seems to get the reference, but it could just be that no one in the room regularly watches Disney.
But at the time of the Chicago Comic-Con (Astra Gets Grrl Power), Sydney had been invited the premier of Avengers III, which puts that event not enough earlier than Age of Ultron (2015) for that invitation to be practical. Which means that, like many super-hero settings, the passage of time is highly variable.
Except, Grrl Power is still set in Sydney’s flashback, which is set in 2011
Sydney’s segue into the flashback (in which the rest of the comic so far has occured) was published in 2010. I can’t find any text in the comic or description mentioning when it was said to have occurred in-universe. Would you mind referencing where you saw that 2011 date?
Check the tag on the car, that set’s the timeline
The windshield stciker that has “05-11” on it? Do you have a tag on your windshield with the current month and year on it? I don’t. We’re sure it’s not her parking sticker for garage level 5, berth 11 in the Archon underground parking garage? Because I do have a windshield sticker on my car that says where I’m allowed to park in the parking structure where I work.
Is there a point where DaveB says that sticker references the date, or are you assuming that sticker references the date?
It’s a common thing particulary in Texas USA, where the author lives. It shows the registration expiration date (annual).
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/07/26/lawmaker-seeks-ag-opinion-dmv-registration-system/
It has been pointed out several times, I don’t remember DaveB confirming nor denying it.
On the other hand Josh Earnest attending the meeting “a few month” earlier would set it to 2014.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-314-contrition-condition/
Relating to Astra, another preview chapter was released and the next book looks to be on track for two weeks from now.
I’m not sure if it’s in Grrlpower’s continuity, but there was a one-shot thing that DaveB made on his deviantart page where they were watching Frozen, and Elsa is up to the part of “The cold never bothered me anyway.” And Math says “Said no woman ever.”… which got icy (pardon the pun) stares from Maxima and Heatwave, although Dabbler seemed to enjoy the joke, and Sydney DEFINITELY liked the joke because she offered a high five for it.
https://www.deviantart.com/davebarrack/art/Frozen-483747477
It was a page or vote incentive because I have it in my pictures folder on my computer.
Maybe he put it in his deviantart page after it was an incentive then.
Yes, he has done that for a few invotives and special pages
These little extras may well be canon, they are just not at the same time as this flashback
You get a thumbs-up from me for accurate breast drawing. :P
Great news about the return of Wapsi Square :D
YIPPIE and Yiffy!
Looks like her Super ADHD Powers work even while she’s asleep
Her hair is flat in pannel 5 and cooking in pannel 6. Confirmed for hair kenisis
Kudos for realistic breasts sortof. But as a slightly larger breasted woman I would like to point out that a LOT of (larger) women sleep on their side (with thick pillows) or on their stomachs. The reason being that the weight of the breasts can actually make it hard to breath. At the very least Dr Frost would SNORE up a BLIZZARD sleeping on her back…. ^.^
Also no woman with long hair leaves it out while they sleep. Or they wake up looking like this : https://style.disney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Anna-waking-up-in-Frozen.png
Yeah, butt how many women have hair-kinesis?
And having the hair look like Anna’s depend more on the humidity (and even short hair can end up looking like that)
Oh and also, have long hair (down to mid back, just above the butt-crack) and have never woken up with hair like that, forming into dreadlocks sure, butt not like media likes to portray as ‘bed hair’
Considering her pose it makes me think she went to bed dead tired or something.
First I thought Sydney had a red ball in her mouth.
Yes that Shiny tongue looked like she had swallowed an orb and that is why she woke up gasping.
Response to part of DaveB’s under-the-comic blog:
Your research in Boob Physics has been consistently “on target” through the whole comic. Did you spend ‘X’ amount of time before starting this comic, or is your research still on-going? My guess would be it’s still on-going…And I hope that your Significant Other is not only a major part of your research, but an enthusiastic contributor.
(wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Had a Bi-Polar room mate who would frequently do that to me. Sound asleep or close to, then suddenly (TACKLEGLOMP) she’d lay into me with a barrage of questions until I untangled myself from her grip and threw her back into her room and barricaded my door shut.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to wake up to imponderable questions in the night. As to Dr. Frost’s powers, I can imagine the frost cracking around the words “Miss Scoville” as she hangs up the phone.
Hey ! !
The British once had an Admiral in their Royal Navy whose family name was “Seaman.”
I suppose in the name of patient confidentiality, Sydney will be renamed “Melbourne” in Dr. Frost’s book. No one will figure that out.
Sooo… end of book 2?
Or at least the last Time Sydney pulled this it was end of book 1 just before page 300.
This book is longer but I guess it’s been following the whole Sciona saga and then through space.
Obligatory shot of the doctor in a leather bustier in 3…2…
This is sooo Sydney: Going to the trouble of putting on mittens which, while they do stop her blowing things up in her sleep, also prevent her from doing anything else easily. The simplest solution would have been to put the orbs back in Mister Tubby for the night and hang out of the way or shove it under the bed.
Doesn’t look like it took her long to get her mittens off and her mitts on her phone, just a shame it didn’t take her longer so she could realise her question could wait until the Twelfth of Never :D
I thought Dr. Frost had dark eyes?
I hope the good doctor is already cleared for what Sydney has to tell her…!
She was probably cleared before the first session
Let’s see…
Sydney calls Dabbler in the middle of the night & the call is cut pretty short. Strike one.
Sydney calls Dr. Frost in the middle of the night & the call is cut pretty short. Strike two.
I wonder who will be Sydney’s “strike three” for the third middle-of-the-night phone call? And what “Striking out” will mean for Sydney in this context?
The next middle of the night call will be to Charlie.
He’ll ask if the meadow is on fire, Sydney will say no, and he will hang up.
Man, poor Charlie has to know all kinds of obscure stuff.
No Sydney, it’s the Dr. Frost’s power if you make her demeanor turn icy.
Wow, you DID draw her breasts in the right way! Yaaaaaay, DaveB! *shikkas pompoms*
(seriously, most artists fail at that; you did great!)
For just a second, seeing panel 2, I thought the joke might be that Krona had zapped Elsbeth’s bikini top onto Sydney while she was asleep.
How do you know she didn’t? (G,D,RLH)