Grrl Power #78 – Melodramatic Sydney is Melodramatic
So not a lot of plot movement on this page, or any really. I just needed something to space out the previous page and the next one, and this made me chuckle a few times. You’d think that if Sydney’s stomach was that insistent all the time she’d be a little heavier, but I’m sure no one would be surprised to learn that she has a blazing fast metabolism.
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Ha ha ha ha! Love the sequence of growls! Even when she’s not trying, Sydney is mental! And double listed? Sounds serious!
Fus Ro Dah win, to boot!
Her hunger has a mighty Th’aum!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeIw6lZlaww – Only a dozen Ding-Dongs can save us!
@ Elfguy..About time you showed up here!
I don’t think she has enough spare change for a snack to fill her up!
Well, this does explain her whip-thin build: incredibly fast metabolism.
Oops. Wait. I forgot she threw up.
I wish I had a fast Metabolisim. I eat less than most people and I still gain weight. If I didn’t walk all over the place I don’t know how big I’d be.
Three small meals spaced out with three SMALL snacks in between. keeps the metabolism from thinking it has enough to store for later and burns through it faster. Speeds up the metabolism by tricking the body into thinking it better get as much of the nutrients as it can then and there. The old school concept of three square full sized meals a day is actually bad for your metabolism, it actually slows it down. Starving oneself in a fad diet also slows down the metabolism and makes it go into survival mode where begins consuming muscle tissue. VERY bad for you.
Three small meals and 2-3 snacks in between and your metabolism goes up.
I can vouch for this. Ever since I started college, I’ve miraculously lost weight (or at least kept it neutral) despite feeling like I’ve eaten more than I would at home. Turns out between the walking and the schedule I have to put up with, I naturally fell into this.
You think they can hear her stomach roar in the next room?
Did he just let Sydney get out of his sight?
I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s not like she’s trying to escape at this point. She’s not going to voluntarily engage in mischief the way Harem does. But hilarity can still definitely (involuntarily) ensue at the vending machine.
Such that the poor machine winds up ‘on the list’? :)
Most likely with the machine on the floor shatterd into about eight pieces as Sydneys hunger crazed frenzy has her using the tubes contents to rip the machine apart.
more like she puts her money in, makes her selection and it just balances on the edge.
Sydney shakes the machine, still balancing on the edge
She shakes the machine some more, still balancing.
in her hunger crazed frenzy, she picks the machine up and slam’s it on the floor (everything falls to the bottom, but her selection which is still balancing on the edge)
Great Idea for a story.
Oh wow, I can just see that happening!
Considering the “Blazing Hot” Cheetos are the best that machine has to offer, and Sydney requiring “a bit more” heat than that to be happy, I am certain that poor machine won’t know what hit it.
nope, she’s on the floor from the digestive FUS RO DAH!
from the looks of the hallway, his desk seems to be in a corner, so he would still be able to see her.
ok,,, sidney is aparently EXTREMELY flaxible,,, cause otherwise she couldnt bend like she does on 7th panel
Skinny people can bend themselves in some weird ways. Expeecialy if they work at it with yoga.
I don’t think it’s a weird way of bending – I think the POV of that panel is from her stomach, and all Syd is doing is bending over to tell it off.
Apparently Sydny is some kind of human/hummingbird/weasel hybrid.
Not really surprised.
She did loose her lunch and use up a lot of energy in a small time beating up that bank robber.
Not to mention the effects of the stress she’s definitely under in her current situation.
When I first started reading it I thought the tube was doing the growling, it was only towards the end that I realized it was her stomach.
My original guess, since she was holding her phone, is that those were her ringtones.
Mine too!
Her ringtone is “My Little Pony,” revealed in a previous page. :)
ok,, i didnt get the barbarian at first,, its the dragon born from skyrin using a shout,,,
oh,, and i also just noticed his hand about to hit the alarm button under his desk on last panel,,, nie touch there
Calling for a escort. You don’t leave outsiders alone in a milatary or police instilation. and this is aparently both. For superhumans, so You have to be extra careful.
I don’t think that you call a escort with the alarm button.You use the phone for that.
I don’t blame him.
Yeah that got just a little cut off. I <bush>misunderestimated</bush> where the edge of the panel would be when I was penciling/inking. I’ll just say that it’s supposed to be extra subtle.
Completely missed that, thanks for pointing it out. Makes the whole thing even funnier now!
wow,, is it me or does disney look way creepy in fiorst panel,,,
Can you rewrite that, I think you typed to fast.
LOL,,,ok,, that was a typo i swear,, i wanted to write sidney there
*LOL* – took me a second to see what exactly was switched there :D
I just love this comic – twice. Once for itself, and then for having the best comments ever :D
On the monitor I think it is showing Sydneys vitals.
I am not so sure those are “Vitals” in the normal sense, if at all.
There is the oval symbol in the center of the screen with a bar going to the table at the right.
The table contains, from top to bottom, a sine wave, a filled trend curve, a red dot with text, and a trendline if I can make it out correctly. Outside of the dot being an old trek style pulse monitor the others do not look like any biological signals I know of.
Dave …. Care to enlighten us with some techno-babble …. [that’s trek writer lingo] ….
Just had an odd thought for Dave – Tech sheets / pages – sort of the bio-pages for the technology and artefacts everyone takes as a given but the readers interested would like to know about [ also helps the writer keep concepts consistent and there are no note pages to loose latter ]
I wish I had time to stick in jokes and little details into everything on the page, but I tend to do stuff like computer screens and little set pieces last when I’ve been coloring for 6 hours and I’m ready to be done. I literally googled “Military computer screen” I think. Don’t tell anyone, but his screen is just showing a Stargate Atlantis Wallpaper that someone made. Normally I’d throw some attribution his way, but it’s so small on my page it just looks like some graphs or an LCARS readout or something, which is all I wanted – even though this guys job more likely involves a lot of Word and Excel.
This it?
Stargate Atlantis Computer Screen 28862
ROFL, apparently sydney’s stomach is a fan of Skyrim, or a dragonborn. nice man, the Fus Ro Dah beats godzilla
Sidney’s stomach’s POV is… disturbing?
I wonder, will Sidney ever get a boyfriend or similar? Because considering her diet I feel really, really sorry for whoever has to make out with that girl. Even if it’s Achilles, I imagine, maybe no pain but still.. ew.
Unless of course he has similar tastes or inherent immunity like Iceman which could have comic potential. They kiss and steam surrounds them.
Flaming Hot Cheetos! We can’t get those up in Ottawa (or any of the good spicy flavors of pretty much anything). To Sidney’s point, the “flaming hot” part may be a criminal example of marketing lies, but they’re better then the regular pablum-flavor.
I always hate how they stain anything they touch. Sort of like mustard.
I’m one of those guys who will get a 3 out of 5 spicy when I go to an Asian restaurant, and mind you, that’t the 3 they serve white people, and to me they’re barely hot even when you scarf the whole bag, but yeah still better than vanilla cheetos.
I used to love Frito’s and when I worked in the shipyard I’d take a big bag of them with my lunch unfortunately as soon as I opened the bag everyone had their hand out. I solved the problem by buying Jalapeno Frito’s (they used to make them) which solved two problems 1) no one asked twice and 2) I wouldn’t eat too many myself. Wish they still made those things they were yummy. :)
We can still get the Jalapeño Cheetos here around Seattle.
You can still get them at your local convenience stores if you go there early and ask the local Frito Lay vender to stock them for you. I used to work at a convience store and whenever a coustomer would ask the venders would usualy start puting out five bags to see if they would indeed sell.
Yes when I was working my stop-n-rob I could get them to stock the small bags but it irked me that there were no large bags (more economical but less profit for vendor) since I was the only one asking. BTW did you have to deal with idiot marketing guys too?
Na, I worked graveyard. They ususly didn’t show up untill after I left.
Once had one complain to my boss that the shelves weren’t “full enough” because of course we sold some. He wanted the vendor to show up everyday (he already came twice a week) to restock. She told him we could put up a sign that said “for display only do not buy”. The look on his face was priceless. Not what I would call a genius.
I managed to convince my favorite asian fast food restaurant that I can stand more than average by taking a bottle of Piri-Piri there (it’s just Tabasco class but they don’t know :D) to spice up the food – now I get a few tiny hot chilis extra when I say “very hot”. :D Looks like the give them to nobody else :) You might try that, too :)
Heheh – love the sweat-drop in Panel 7, followed by the double drops two panels later.
I like how her stomach made her drop all her stuff on the floor in suprise.
Hearing the Podcast – 30% through… I like it. Your voice is reminiscent of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. Seems like your personality is a bit like Abernathy Darwin Dunlap from Accepted. Respect intended. I love that there’s no rehearsal. You just speak from the heart. Very cool.
Thanks. I need to seriously slow down when I’m speaking. It’s like I’m in a race or something. Also focusing on answering the question asked instead of telling my life story as a preamble.
Look at Kevin Smith, as an example … An Evening with Kevin Smith is very entertaining. He doesn’t just answer the question, it’s just a jumping off point for a story. LOL
Some of the technical points about hit counts and stuff about the website … Most people just don’t know about what goes into what you do.
It’s nice to see behind the Wizard’s curtain from time to time. Most people don’t bother with the bonus features in DVD’s, but the Commentary track on The Mummy is entertaining as hell.
One of the reasons I find Craig Ferguson so funny is he doesn’t stick to a script. It feels much more real when he goes off on a tangent and it is more entertaining. Relax and be yourself we already love the comic and once you feel more ay home with us you’ll probably find it somewhat enjoyable. Sort of like a letter to friends.
1 small criticism (don’t take it personal a lot of people do it) try not to say “you know’ so much. It tends to stand out if repeated often.
Absolutely. Evidently that’s my go to bridge. I need to tighten up my speech a bit for interviews, but this is probably only the second time I’ve ever been interviewed. Another skill to refine!
Haven’t listened yet, but don’t worry about the “you know” too much. I took a public speaking class, and the instructor was telling as about the nervous habits people have when speaking. We were told to avoid them if we noticed them or if told about them, but were also told they were pretty much inevitable.
The instructor had been teaching the class for 20 years, and was very proud to have squashed all his little nervous habits when speaking, until a female student came up to him after class and asked him if he could please not play with his wedding ring the entire time he was lecturing, as the light glinting off of it was very distracting…. he told us this story as proof that as soon as you quash one nervous speaking habit (saying “umm”, “you know”, “the fact of the matter is”, etc. is best solved by slowing down) another pops up.
Love the perspective in the first panel.
Thanks! I’m very slowly getting the hang of it. That’s just a simple one point perspective, though I fudged the next room, which you can vaguely see through the glass doors. That hall is alongside the edge of the building and the next room has a 60° wall cutting inwards. I have no idea how to mix angles in perspective yet.
Anyone else surprised that the windows/wall are still intact?
On the undercomic: Only commercial chips that I’ve come across that are in anyways ‘heat noteworthy’ are the Doritos Habanero ones, if they’re stilll being sold give em a try.
well president’s choice did make those louisiana hot sauce that were hot,, but i think they stopd manufacturing them,, then there is pringle’S extreme blazing cajun,,, also president’s choice piripiri chicken,, and they made a jalapeno popers flavopred chip to
I am not surprised.It is a building for supers,everything is probable reinforced to survive their shenanigans
I had a feeling Sydney was going to get hungry again after “loosing her lunch” :D
But will she get the not-really-hot Cheetos, or search for something more to her liking?
I wonder how that vending machine will fare?
There will be caos and destruction. Chip bags and cookies everwhere. She will accidentialy start a fire and something will go boom.
Well, that’s my opinion anyway.
I also see Maxima covered in cheetos and flame retardent foam.
Or better yet Dabbler coverd in cheetos and foam.
This filler strip just goes to prove that one cannot assume when Sydney is involved…
Maybe it also hints at the potential power level she’ll show? Even in a world of supers, how many do you think have Dohvahkin sized hungers?
Not even Godzilla can beat the mighty and powerful Sky Rim. lol
FUSRODAH is louder than Godzilla?? But yeah, noice. X3;
Sydney best get something quick before, Archon has to be called out to stop her stomach’s rampage of sustenance. LOL
“At least it can’t get any worse…” and I thought she worked in a comic shop, shouldn’t she know better?
everybody was wrong on who was watching Sydney! including me… i wonder if it was because we were guessing on who was watching her?
I think the reason she’s so thin is that the sheer amount of spice she consumes melts the fat away.
Also, fell off chair laughing at FUS RO DAH!
My laughter had to be bottled for laughter use thanks to its sheer magnitude. Yeah I’m saving this for after work.
was wondering how long before we got a skyrim related portion, great way to throw it in there
Just had to spent 4 minutes capturing the reference for the FUS RO DAH, but whatever.
I believe that is the full power “Force” shout which explains her being thrown from the chair. And thank you Dave B for NOT using the arrow to the knee reference. :)
It’s funny, everyone says that meme is overdone, but after… I dunno, 80 hours of game time, I’ve heard one person say that. Maybe cause I sprint and Whirlwind Sprint everywhere, I don’t hear a lot of the inane stuff.
It’s more prevalent in game comments on the web or game sites.
It’s overused as a joke on forums and stuf, not in the game :P
Also you should try to talk to the guards more often. Sometimes they say funny stuf, and often they make a direct refference to what you have done so far.
PS I want a stomach that knows Unrelentling force.
Also, this should totally be a Notable Appearance.
one of my favorites is after you finish the Dark Brotherhood line: “Psst. I know who you are. Hail Sithis!”
Check youtube for a video called An Arrow In The Knee by RageNineteen. Its pretty good,
OOpps, sorry guys, should have mentioned this one is NSFW due to profanity.
I love the little background jokes, like the comments on the news report about space llamas, ferret balls and “Please stop this girl swearing..”
Beginning to wonder how much is Sydney and how much is her superpowers (Powerful stomach, inhuman spicy food tolerance)
Don’t forget her Inventive Invective pseudo-Power. Not many people can convey such emotion and implied obscenity while remaining within an ostensibly PG language bracket.
Her last name is Scovillle so the spicy tolerance is genetic not a super power. The rest (as I have said before) can be explained by the incredible hyperactivity of slight girls like my sisters (which may be a survival skill for outnumbered and out-muscled female siblings). Although I will say my mother held a “man’s” job for 20+ years while raising us. She was the one who fixed things around the house.
But then that assumes that superpowers are not heritable genetic traits. Just because it’s genetic doesn’t make it not a super power.
But her powers come from whatever is in the tube not genetics.
Sidney Power Tube – activate!
Sorry couldn’t resist (^_^)
Is that Gravatar……Jeremy Clarkson? I hope it is.
Honestly? After the toxic mess she had for lunch, I’m surprised the thuum didn’t come out of her butt. If the fumes from her dragon breath send people into nerve gassed spasms and protests? I am terrified and amused at dangerous potential of the other end.
Why? Because farts ARE funny. A girl farting is even funnier. Sydney letting one go would potentially win you a web comic comedic award of some kind.
And for the record my favorite stomach noise was Godzilla. Everyone loves the G-man.
She’s still got to meet Arianna and, presumably, be interviewed about The Tube. Cutting one loose then is always possible – those things are always funnier when there is an audience.
I dunno who’s stuffier… Max or Arianna? They’re both great characters and both of their reactions together would be comedy gold.
And she can run away in the midst of the chaos yelling ‘NINJA! VANISH!’, escaping under the cover of her own personal home-brewed concealing vapor barrier.
It would be the perfect escape. I think it would even stun Max.
Godzilla as a tummy rumble?! Epic! Sydney’s EASILY my favorite character so far.
I just like the fact that even the guy at the desk here has seen the bank video.
My stomach is currently only at Chihuahua level. Must eat soon.
I’m guessing they run a somewhat loose ship there, plus I bet they just LOVED the fact that Amorphous just got his ass handed to him by a little girl. I would be telling all my friends about it, and laughing my ass off.
I can see personell lining up to get a look at her.
The problem is, now Sydney knows everyone has seen the video of her losing her lunch in the bank, (the part about Amorpheous getting his hat handed to him won’t mean anything to her yet.) As a result, I expect Leon to soon make his first appearence on the list.
Weak chips offend.
Stale chips offend more.
People have diffrent senses of taste, I know this one woman who cant stand even mild hotsause.
I myself like a variety of diffrent foods, but cant stand stale chips.
Little known fact. Your taste buds change every seven years.
Got to agree stale is far more horrible. Will eat chips I don’t like over stale favorite chips bleeeg. D:
GO SKYRYM!!! ;))))))
I want to say something about this comic, but I just don’t know where to begin.
It made me chuckle. It was awesome. Great page.
Or there’s the quote, “I laughed. I cried. I fell down. It changed my life.”
Or I changed my shorts.
I suspect that on that screen is a read out of Sydney’s inner workings an maybe more. The whole room may be covered in hidden sensors an tied to that screen readout. But Sydney’s antics are enough anyway. Love the visual representations of Sydney’s stomach sounds getting louder an more insistent. Though junk food isn’t the best to feed on too much. (For Sydney she’ll eat an still be hungry.)
DaveB I think that word you were looking for in the interview was “pedantic.” Great to hear you to have a voice to match the face. An your experiences. I’m in Texas too but way down in Houston.
I recall that in the past such people like Sydney, being hyper active an clumsy were called “spaz.” I can see that being made a possible “hero name” for her. Not that Syd would stand for it though.
Patronizing was actually the word I was trying to think of. :P
Oops! Sorry an as Emily Latella would say when caught in a mistake——never mind.
1.) Chihuahua level=Taco Bell (of course)
2.) Bear level= Favorite Big Burger (Hardee’s Six Dollar is mine)
3.) Godzilla level=All you can eat buffet and steak
4.) FUS RO DAH=Viking feast (whole roasted cows bread by the loaf etc.)
Epic.
You COOK your cow?!! You..you BARBARIAN!!
Well Vikings weren’t exactly known as cuddly vegetarians and I don’t cook them… much. I prefer my beef blood rare. Fortunately I also enjoy every other food group. Fresh fruit and veggies are a close second. I would probably get along well with barbarians they had no lawyers. :)
If your ever in Austin try going to a restraunt called The Salt Lick. They buy the cattle, let it feed in a feild for a month, then slaughter them and cook it the next day. One of the best BBQ places in the state in my opinion.
actually I meant you don’t just chase the cow and cut the steak off it’s flank? disgraceful! :P (Carnivore here ;) )
Nah stick that cow on a spit and baste it. Lots of good eatin on there. I’d even crack the bones for the marrow.
i am a member of p.e.t.a. People Eating Tasty Animals :P
I too am a member of that organization. I eat my steak rare.
Meat is murder…. Tasty Tasty Murder.
but how do you prefer your human? I like bar b que and chocolate syrup on a lightly seared body.
Haven’t tried “long pork” yet but I hear if you eat too much certain proteins build up in your body which can cause nerve and brain damage.
Like in the movie Book of Eli.
The old couple.
Hmm thought it was a catastrophic hormonal cascade causing a particular form of insanity.
That’s only if you eat brain matter, and it goes for any brain tissue, not just human.
only if not cooked well enough and not enough salt then it can be good pigs brain is good if done right
I was thinking about Sydney and her tube and came up with a thought that maybe the whatever in the tube might be getting energy from her in exchange for her powers. Thus it would be a symbiotic relationship and a good reason to stay within a certain radius of Sydney. Also it would probably speed up her metabolism just a bit. Turn her into a “Matrix Coppertop”. lol
That is the second best Fus Ro Dah reference I’ve seen.
The best one is still this one
I was actually considering sticking Bolt in there. If there was a 5th one, it would have been him. The only thing after that would be Blackbolt hitting his thumb with a hammer.