Grrl Power #779 – Sydney, a portrait in light
They’ve been busy while Sydney was gone. I imagine most custom stained glass window installations usually take a few months to turn around, but it’s pretty amazing what you can get done when you have a government agency backing you… especially when they’re a small agency not bogged down by a lot of red tape.
I’m sure there might be some groups who would be offended by imagery like this. Calling her Halo, with all that implies, is one thing, but the actual halo emitting god rays might be a step too far. Arianna’s policy is that if those people can produce an actual photo of a saint or demigod with god rays coming out their head, then she’ll listen to concerns about sacrilege or whatever.
Oh, and I thought I should mention one more time, Michael-Scott Earle’s Tamer 6 Kickstarter has 3 days left. If you missed Tamer 1-5, you can get them at his personal website, and if you’re an audiobooks kind of person, he has had the first 4 audiobooks rerecorded by a dual narrator team, so a woman is voicing the female characters, which is infinity percent better than listen to some guy read in falsetto. They’re available here for free, which is a pretty amazing deal, though it’s a pay what you want thing. Considering the price of audiobooks on Audible, a few bucks in the pay what you like field might not be out of order, but I’ll leave that up to you. The audio for book 5 should be out this week, if not today, so check back if you don’t see it right away.
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I want that on a T-shirt! And “Halo’s words of wisdom” around the logo.
Please tell me those words of wisdom are just an uninterrupted string of curses.
I agree about wanting the logo on a t-shirt. Damn, it’s beautiful!
Hum. Page 4 comic shop doesn’t look much like this kind of church…
Last page had the old shop closed – this is the new location.
What he means is this is all still a flashback from the first couple of pages which started the comic in media res. The 4th page shows the inside of the front doors which do not look like they go with this building.
Perspicacious observation. Perhaps Sydney will be a bit miffed at this nonsense and relocate the actual shop.
That or this location gets nuked. After all the outside of the shop mysteriously kind of matches part of mr Cleansings is at hands “church”…. that or Dave likes Red Herrings….
Although why a technique used to train horses in following a fox hunting came to be used to imply a false distraction is kind of amusing. Richard Tombs, (1647) Specifically referees to a tube or reed filled with red herring fitted to a hounds neck harnes would leave a trail that could be followed by man or horse.( Because frankly actual salted red herring left out during daytime is a bit pungent and somewhat unique.)
The implication of the ‘red herring’ idiom (distraction with a strong but false or meaningless clue) comes from the idea dragging a fish across the trail of the prey, using the stronger smell to create a competing trail and distract the hounds into abandoning the original.
Although, the ‘history’ section of the Wikipedia article for ‘red herring’ questions whether either technique was ever actually used. The main origin seems to be a political article where the author describes the idea.
Actually, it could be both
The herring around the neck of the hounds so that man and horse can follow when they get lost, and someone dragging a fresher (ie still pink, or ‘red’) herring across the hounds’ path to divert the followers
The observation was more about how meanings change with Time.
Red Herring may have originated with a scent lure being used as a trail for horse mounted hunters.
The exception proving the rule began as the expression the Exception PROOFS the the rule, meaning literally that exceptions Test the rule. Not the other more idiotic meaning of “that somehow exceptions mean that the “Rule” is “valid” and therefore “Proven”, and therefore exceptions should be discarded. Which I heard way too often in the 70s and 80s to somehow justify segregation, and even demands to close Black Colleges as the existence of exceptions to the ‘Rule’ that blacks were uneducable, like Booker T Washington and George Washington Carver and countless others, somehow proved how uneducable “blacks” were, therefore existing Black university’s should be closed outright or converted to white only, and that existing schools should be closed to non white students. (In fact we had one “Suthun Ghentleman” who while he was an Ag graduate, would none the less argue that Carver was little more than a barely literate farm hand who may have had some good ideas about farming but clearly he barley knew enough to parrot from a English farm Journal, and probably stole his work from some probably some poor but clearly better educated educated white “lover” or “lover boy” (his words)yes im old enough to have had too many of those idiots waste my time.
Ouch,
yes I am angry about something that happened years ago.
In the case of red herrings being used as a training scent, the only reference I have seen of using something like that was using a dead cat, hare, or haunch of a dead pig in a leather sack to train hounds to follow a scent. Not fish however. And honestly from my personal experience I find the notion of useing ANY fish as a tracking or training aid to be, well, odd at best. Most tracking dogs are trained on the scents that come closest to what you intend to track. Useing Red salted herring as a lure does sound odd until you realize that only a starving dog would consider it as food, but some horses, even today, are trained on with or often fed salted treats/foods, which may be where the whole Red (salted) herring thing came about, If they were actualy useing the salt fish as a cent lure for horses back then. I find it more likely that they used a Red clay and or ocher + salt mixture.
That’s why it was used for the horses to track, not the hounds
Shame they didn’t ‘waste your time’ with a decent education on sentence structure
Page 4 of the comic had sweeping stairs in the background, lots of front windows, with double doors. That could be the side of the building seen here, or the back of the building, or a different building entirely. The old shop was not two stories so it was obviously not there. So this is potentially within days of that time line for the world but not as Sydney see’s it so we still have six to seven weeks, at least, in her timeline to go before the beginning pages happen.
This is the back of the building we see here.
The big stained glass window is behind the pulpit so that the congregation faces it.
That makes sense. The entrance to the store is on the parking lot side. The stained glass side may actually be the back side of the building, but facing towards a highway or other major road.
Does anyone notice the coincidence that Sydney is dressed exactly the same way on the stained glass window as in real life? She *has* several different t-shirts that we’ve seen, after all.
I’m assuming this is her official superhero costume – it has a Halo logo after all.
Can we all agree that Stained Glass Sydney looks adorable. I really think it’s a great picture of her.
After a long hiatus I am finally caught back up….. I need more new content
Can you make the new vote incentive of the window in background resolutions for the lolz. that would be fun!
It will show up in DaveB‘s Deviant Arts account soon enough
I never wanna get over her expression. Same as Mr. Barkly.
But would be piiiiiissed If I was sydney
Same here, because on the one hand your trying to get me to stop being casually offensive….
And then you try to make me a religious icon like St. Halo? Hello?
Seriously I’m surprised someone has not taken potshot at that Glass already. Unless they retconned the city they are in as being someplace other than Texas, Granted they probably already have a plexiglas cover protecting it.
Seriously when I first got here the joke was in Texas energy 5 car you see is being driven by a Drunk, And every 4 th car car has a loaded gun, meaning every 20th car you see is being driven by a Drunk with a loaded gun….
Which may explain this http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N5F76_iF7Ps/TLPXW2pWhFI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/cvuTwsaPRjc/s1600/DSC_4645.JPG far more than I would like to admit.
It’s far more likely it’s the same drunk with a loaded gun
Why don’t you use the style from the stained glass window for all characters in the comic? It’s actually visually appealing
That would be an odd shift in the art all of a sudden.
IF you do some dimension hopping stuff you could have different art styles native to each dimension. Maybe one could be stained glass world. Draw that for a couple of months, drive yourself crazy. Just a thought :D
you mean like how your art shifts every other page, and sometimes multiple times in the same page? work on your fundamentals.
Oh come on. Next you will be expecting him to keep the stories history consistent! Given that the very first couple of pages stated it was a few months in the future where she is now a full corporal and this is all a flash back where she is simply a recruit. It has been way past the time now so she will be the fastest military promotion in history at this rate of a day or so. Waiting now for the rabid DaveB ball suckers to to tell me to fuck off.
OK, that’s it, I’m going on a pilgrimage!
I’ve backed Tamer 6 as soon as I got a message in the mail.
(What do you think about dual voiceover? I think Jessica can deliver Some voices but not all. (Galmine was perfect))
Where did the choker come from? She never had a choker on… I think. Is that some Ariana’s revenge or something? Is there “Ariana’s b” written there in small leters?
I’m down with dual audio. Male narrators doing falsetto is very distracting.
Two stone? I thought, okay, no, I just assumed DaveB was American.
He is. But the opportunity of deploying such a strong example of the truly awful pun trumps such considerations as unit conventions. What are church buildings traditionally made out of? Bravo, sir.
I can see it now, a far distant future historian…
“… and this is Saint Sidney, the patron saint of cursing.”