Grrl Power #791 – This. Is. Puberty!
There’s more to being a tweenage succubus than Tamatha’s gotten to, but you know, I can only fit so much on one page.
Having never been a young girl, I’m operating under the impression that something goes ‘ping’ one day and all of a sudden it’s boys boys boys 24/7.*
Okay, not really, but everyone has that moment where they suddenly notice the cover of some magazine or a singer or an actor or actress and they’re way more interesting to look at than they used to be. I say that, but I don’t recall a specific instance myself. I grew up on comics (big shock I know) and I guess I just noticed Rogue looking better and better in that green and yellow outfit with the little bolero jacket? Yeah, that was good stuff.
*(Or girls girls girls, depending on how that particular bit is flipped.)
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Is that… Ron Stoppable? o_O
Almost missed Ben Tennyson, should know blondie (not Phantom, that other guy, similar powers?), no idea the kid at the back
Yeah, hanging out with Ben 10, Johnny Test, and … I don’t know the bloke with the mole on his face.
That’s Marco Diaz, from Star vs. The Forces of Evil. :D
Ah, thanks Lexi, the one character I couldn’t identify. Never had the channel Star was on, pity, I heard the plot got wild later on. For a second, I thought it might be Baljeet from Phineas and Ferb, but he has curly hair and no birthmark.
>I heard the plot got wild later on
It is, indeed. Unfortunately, the last season pretty much shat all over the concept of ‘plot’ by cramming three seasons worth of material into one, while cutting all the unnecessary padding like ‘character development’, ‘logical story progression’, and all the jazz.
While not nearly as disgustingly degenerate as the disaster of Steven Universe grand finale, which can not be remedied by any effort sans rewriting everything in the last two seasons, it, however, leaves a bitter aftertaste – for even through a jumbled, nearly incoherent mess of story, you still can see the greatness of that what could’ve had been.
Teal deer: last season of SVTFE should’ve been three, and that would’ve been glorious.
Benioff and crew must have thought it worked well enough…
Cool, I got three out of four, and I have never seen Star, so I don’t feel too bad missing that one.
And Ben 10, Marco Diaz, and Johnny Test lol
Diaz and Test were too late for me to get really into, but I know when I was a teen I was absolutely crushing on Ben and Ron.
Ron Stoppable, Ben Tenneson, Johhny Test, no idea who the guy in the back is though
Johnny Test, that’s the dude, remember catching a few episodes and recognized the hair
Marco Diaz… why is that (vaguely) familiar? Was thinking of that carton about the imaginary foster home, butt wasn’t that a girl with the mole though?
Marco’s from Star Vs The Forces of Evil, and is basically the magic-less Ron Stoppable to Star’s Magical Kim Possible.
To sum it up
Ron stoppable from Kim Possible
Marco Diaz from Star vs the force of evil
Ben Tennyson from Ben 10
and Johnny Test from Johnny Test.
Don’t forget Rufus hiding in Ron’s backpack!
and Ben 10
yes yes it is. There’s also Jonny Test and Ben from Ben 10. idk about the last guy tho…
The release of that movie doesn’t really fit in with the timeline of how old Sydney is/what year it is.
It was 13 years ago, so she would have been, what, 12-14ish? It seems right to me.
Assuming this comic works on a sliding timescale like most American comics and the setting is always “The Present”
The comic is still 2011, which means Syd would have had to be a late bloomer (17 or 18, isn’t she still only 21 or 22?)
I can imagine that.
The comic is taking place during the Obama presidency. I think there’s even a specific year.
Or it was, once upon a time. It’s totally possible that Dave switched to a sliding timescale
Sydney made a Skyrim reference a few pages ago, but Skyrim came out in late 2011. We’re definitely dealing with a slightly wibbly wobbly comic book sense of time here.
Timy-Wimy
…A big ball of the stuff.
Bethesda games, especially Skyrim, are eternally relevant tho.
The ol’ “fade into Skyrim’s opening” meme is probably being made somewhere right now, for instance.
Or did the makers of Skyrim reference Sydney?
Could just be a slightly different timeline compared to our universe.
I’m sure the emergence of supers would have knocked the development of technology and production of movies around a bit – like how Earth Beta in Worm is a fair bit behind Earth Alpha technologically in general due to the pressure from Endbringers and superpowered warlords, but has access to the odd tinkertech which is Dabbler-level or sometimes beyond.
Yeah don’t worry about details like that. In the superhero genre er should be tolerant about things like correct timelines.
Yeah, but in this comic Obama was the prez 3 months ago.
I know I’m slam dancing into a minefield simply for saying this, but I gotta wonder if the comic is ever going to progress to the current presidency, and how it wouldl play out with DaveB, the characters and the fans.
Pretty much guaranteed Maxima wouldn’t be a fan, for obvious feline-seizing related reasons.
Likely all conjecture tho, DaveB’s pretty good about keeping polarizing topics out of the comic, which I admittedly prefer.
Oh god….
Just 1 word.
Spacewall!
(He already wants the military that could guard it)
Eh… to be honest, a Space Force sounds like a pretty awesome concept. If you can get over your loathing of the guy who called for it.
Even in the absence of aliens, there are genuine extraterrestrial threats to deal with – like asteroids that could cause an extinction event. Not to mention that, in order to have a Space Force, we’d have to develop the technology necessary to keep large groups of people alive in space for extended periods. A lunar or martian military base would need to be self-sufficient… and in that case, we would have the technology for civilian colonies. Which would ease SO many of our current problems.
It really is a bonkers idea that sprung from the mind of somebody who watched too many cheesy science fiction movies, or perhaps that one James Bond movie.
Right now we can barely get a single car into orbit (okay, a little more than that but that’s perhaps three cars if they are not too big and heavy).
There is nothing in LEO that needs defending against.
The only threat that we have and that we might be actually be able to deal with barring significant technological as well as scientific breakthroughs are asteroids on a collision course and those do not require soldiers to deal with but a competent team of engineers and a decade or three.
By the time we have actual fusion power and have such reactors out and about in the solar system a couple of soldiers are not going to be able to deal with the kind of damage that can be dealt at that level of technology. You can accelerate asteroids to 80,000 km/h given fusion power and a couple of months of thrust and aim them not just at earth but at a city of your choosing. Of course at that speed you don’t blow up cities but entire continents. You are not restricted to one of those kill missiles either but can launch an entire fleet.
A space navy is not going to ‘shoot’ at that. Unless they want to make things worse instead of better. Assuming they have the firepower needed to reduce a 20km nickel-iron asteroid to pebble sized debris
What the space navy can do, assuming they have enough hardware in orbit, is to pull an ‘Elysium’ on the rest of the world and deny everybody else access to space. Of course those soldiers and their hardware are just sitting ducks up there with orbits predictable to the nanosecond and their fortress has about the density of a tin can. They possibly can deny a launch. Less certain is if they can deny a coordinated launch for across the globe. Even less likely is if they can deny a dumb weight from launching. You only need to have a brick and an engine attached to it to create a missile capable of taking out those sattelite bases of the american space navy. And once you score a direct hit on the first the Kessler cascade will make life very ‘interesting’ for everybody else. Especially the ones already in orbit.
The problem with space is that you can not hide and you can not really dig in either. Armour after all is heavy and heavy is not going to be launched any time soon. The only defense you have is distance and enough distance that enemy weapons need days or weeks to reach you to give you time to dodge. Not something you can find at 500km above the earth’s surface.
Most of all though, the rest of the world is not going to give the USA the ability to unilaterally lock any country out of space. As soon as the USA starts to weaponise space, Russia and China (at the least) are going to follow suit, wiping out any advantage as well as a couple hundred trillion dollars.
I am not certain which idea was more hare-brained: Reagan’s Star Wars defense or Trump’s Space Navy.
Both are evidence that you do not need to have any connection with reality nor a functioning brain to become president of the usa and the person who could conceivably end human (and most other) life on the planet with a single order.
Yah, and thanks to genii like you, we are no further to putting a colony on the moon then we were in the 1960’s
So yes, well done, thank you for keeping us (literally) grounded
Excuxe me?
Where did in my (admittedly many) words did I say that we should not go to space?
I said that putting /an army/ in space is a bonkers idea. And it is.
The only thing out there that we need defending against (and that we actually can defend against) are stray asteroids aimed to wipe out all higher life forms on earth. Those do not need a platoon of gi joes armed with plasma blasters and laser swords. A team of engineers and a couple of years of prep time is what actually is going to do that job.
But thar army in space would be useful to try and deny the rest of the world to leave the planet, and will lead to a space arms race and likely too much debris to safely launch more sattelites. At the most optimistic. At worst we end up with a petty despot in high orbit who holds entire cities at ransom.
As far as current-tech militarisation of space goes, I’d say you’re correct. Things start getting a bit more feasible militarily if orbital KEWs without on-site Humans become a factor, but we’re several technological developments away from that.
Where a ‘Space Force’ does potentially have merit, however, is in exploration. Note that there is a long tradition of scientific research bases in remote and/or difficult locations being run (or at least supported) by the military. It also gives some leverage to get the military budget behind the development of ‘boots on the ground’ spacefaring capability, rather than just the science budget. Of course, whether there will still be such an appetite for using the tech in a military context by the time it’s potentially ready, or whether priorities have changed such that it gets incorporated into the civilian/scientific side, remains to be seen.
I really don’t see a problem with a ‘Space Force’ :) Feels like NASA 2.0. But would have better funding.
I’ve watched Armageddon and Deep Impact and don’t want to have to rely on a bunch of deep oil drillers, which includes Owen Wilson and Dave Buscemi, to not die.
Plus that other stuff that Archone said :)
But here’s the big question… would we be able to have giant ships that turn into mechs to pilot as well?
We need a Japanese teenager who sings and causes the aliens to become transfixed listening to her.
oh snap… a MinMei reference, in this day… I salute you.
This is why prolific authors who assiduously avoid references to real world politics are usually (although admittedly not a hundred percent of the time) the ones whose books are still read a century or so later. And stories which stray often fall out of the portfolio.
A classic example of this would be Agatha Christie. Her books are still being read today but The Secret Adversary first published in 1922 is beginning to fade, mostly because the subject is a murder on the Lusitania (the sinking of which lead to the United States entering The Great War) with lots of skullduggery and secret messages and what not. The problem with it today?
Undersea exploration of the wreck and bringing up pieces of the wreck confirm the German Account that the ship had a cargo hold full of munitions. It was a legitimate target with unknowing human shields and the plotline about sinister Germans no longer play well.
The politics of the day seldom holds up against the perception of tomorrow.
And Heinlein once wrote a story called the ‘coldest place’ which took place on Venus. When he wrote it, it was generally assumed that Venus had a locked rotation; always presenting the same side towards the Sun. The coldest place would then be on the ‘back’ or nightside.
But after he sent it in to a magazine, the first Radar images of Venus came through, and revealed that Venus did in fact rotate. He tried to get the magazine editor to drop the story, but he refused, and in the end they put a note at the beginning of the story to explain that flaw in the storyline.
Sometimes even the Science of the day doesn’t hold up, either…
Not quite: The Coldest Place was written by Larry Niven (in fact, it was his first published story), and set on the far side of Mercury, which was discovered to have a 2/3 rotational cycle after the story was submitted, and before it was published. Niven did try to get the publisher to pull the story, and was turned down.
You had the general theme of observation updating the science after the story is set in type correct, though.
Ya know, it might not be “300”. It MIGHT be she was watching a DVD of “Troy,” which had a lot of exposed abs & dudes fighting in it, too…and which came out even earlier. Brad Pitt as Achilles was *unffh* in that movie…and no, I wasn’t a teen when that movie came out. I was a teen when “Labyrinth” came out, and that was most definitely a puberty moment.
Nope, definitely “300”, check out the dude getting curb-stomped in the middle panel
It’s 300, that shield slam moment is pretty iconic from the film.
No, its 300. Look at the guy being slammed. Thats a 300 persian mook.
Don’t look now, but there’s a miniature company preparing a Kickstarter to fund production of a Resin cast mini of David Bowie slouching on his throne…
(Yes, they have a license. They’re also doing minis of figures from Dark Crystal. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yfxfDTYDw&feature=youtu.be&t=60
Ahhh.
The Area.
(it should have had its own credits for that movie ;))
He worked so HARD for her.
Work it. Work it.
300 came out in 2006, and in the current timeline, Obama is still President so it has to be between 2008 and 2016 now (I think someone once said it was 2011-2012). So… yeah the timeline is wonky in order to make the joke work I guess, since for Little Sydney to be a tween (around 12), if Sydney is now 24, then Sydney would have been 18-19 when 300 came out.
So I guess there is at least one difference in the Grrlpower Universe from the real universe (aside from aliens, demons, and superpowers) – 300 came out 6-7 years earlier in the Grrlpower universe than in our universe.
To quote Owlman from Crisis on Two Earths:
“With every choice we make, we literally create a world. History branches in two, creating one Earth where we made the choice, and a second where we didn’t. That’s the secret of the universe, you know. Billions of people, making billions of choices, creating infinite Earths. Some so similar to each other that you could spend a lifetime searching for any distinction. Others so radically different, they defy comprehension.”
The main difference in the grrlpower universe is Zack Snyder was many years ahead of his time in shirtless abs film technology.
You’re missing an important clue, though. Look in the background behind young Sydney there. It’s made deliberately foggy, but… that’s a bookshelf. And a door to what may be a bathroom, or some other room with the lights shut off.
She’s watching it at home, probably on a DVD.
Yes but my point is…. she would have been watching it 6-7 years BEFORE it came out.
Then she isn’t watching 300.
She is watching 301, a copyright safe parody/homage that is fictional in our reality, but existed in hers and came out years earlier.
Like such famous films as Star Truck, Galactic Battle Star Wars, Dragon liver, The Lord of the Butterflies, and Yes Virginia there is a Tooth Fairy.
Another important factor: look at the size of the fucking TV!!
Some girls start as early as 8
Yeah. I have it on good authority of at least one that started at 6…
As a male I can attest to hitting that particular landmark at 10.. Classroom boners in 3rd grade X_X
Ten should be fifth grade …
Don’t shame him. It’s not nice to point things like that out.
I had a late start. Because of my birthday school regs had me starting at 6
Ten is also the end of fourth grade. If he was one of the lucky kids who’s birthday was at the cut off for entry level, he would appear to be one year older than the rest of his class. Still young for boners but not out of range. Bet the girls didn’t know what to make of you, Adamas.
Psylocke, i think, was it for me.
sorceress from the original he-man, hottest thing my fragile testosterone washed mind had ever seen.
I got a distinct “Huh, that’s… interesting” when it was established that Princess Ariel from Thundarr the Barbarian couldn’t use her magic when her wrists were tied.
And my course was set.
Geeze, DaveB, unless you were watching that later on on Boomerang or Cartoon Network, you might be older than me! Dated yourself something fierce there, brother. XD
I can’t really talk though, Lady Jaye and her tough-no nonsense attitude really did it for me. To this day, women in uniform still catch my eye.
When Cheetara started a trend for you. You not only date yourself, you out yourself as quasi furry, or at least someone with appreciation for nekomimis…
Also She-ra’s skirt did things to my 5yo heart…
Cheetara? That shameless hussy.
In my day we dreamed of proper ladies.
With decorum.
Sweet Polly Purebred.
Hey, have you heard that dating yourself helps prevent cancer? Cookie for the reference.
That’s funny, I just took it as “can’t use spells requiring gestures” like in D&D.
Golden Era Wonder Woman seemed to get tied up a lot from what I read.
As an Amazon it cancels her powers.
Moulton (WW’s creator) was a real freak. Seriously. Look him up.
Well he was majorly into BDSM if that’s what you mean.
Ian Fleming was somewhat that way as well.
BD, yes. SM, not as far as I know. Moulton was also polyamorous (Wonder Woman was a composite character based on his wife and their lifelong companion (she outlived William and lived with Mrs. Marston for the rest of Mrs. Marston’s life, and if I recall correctly, they both had children by William).
For Marston, submission to a positive female authority was key to turning around trends he believed were exemplified by the “War to End All Wars” (World War 1): to overemphasize and idolize stereotypical masculine traits (aggression, conquest, fighting, etc.) and de-emphasize and disdain stereotypical feminine traits (cooperation, compassion, sharing, etc.). Something like the modern notion of “toxic masculinity” (cleaving to unrealistic ideas of what masculinity is, even when it’s destructive or self-destructive).
Wonder Woman’s lasso having the power to bind people and compel them to submit was a key element to him. And Wonder Woman losing her powers if she allowed a man to bind her bracelets together was key, too: knuckling under to the status quo (male dominance) dis-empowered Wonder Woman, his idea of the feminine ideal. (Later writers made it include unwilling restraint, accidental entangling, removed the rule that the binder had to be a man, ignored it except when they didn’t, etc., but none of that is Marston’s original concept.)
And, yeah, he found bondage erotic, too. True enough, and nothing wrong with it. Whatever floats your invisible plane, as they say.
Actually yes. But even worse, there was a comic where the bad guys taped her eyelids closed, and she couldnt pull them off because…. and I quote “My feminine vanity won’t let me pull off my eyelashes! I’ll have to escape blindfolded!’
Silver Age was really wacked sometimes. New Earth was the best age for comics.
For you it was Ariel … Me? I blame Daphne always being bound and gagged for my tastes in redheads and BDSM.
I started off with Wilma & Betty. But when my parents let me watch live-action it was Mary Ann all the way.
I’m from the Jeanie generation. But, yeah, Mary Ann was much more attractive than that “movie star”, whatever her name was supposed to be.
Ginger
People ask if I’m a Ginger or a Mary Ann.
My reply?
Morticia!
Oh yeah, that was my crush as a kid. I was seen as a very odd one.
Morticia and Lily Munster
Unfortunately your inner child was Wednesday Addams?
Josey and the Pussycats. I remember my sister enjoyed the cartoon as well, and she thought it was great that I was “letting” her pick her favorite cartoon on Saturday mornings. It meant I got to watch Speed Racer without a fight.
I have one word:
Cats
the musical that is, not the upcoming movie
So many gender identities were shattered by that musical :)
The cartoon boys are Ron Stoppable, ???, Ben 10 and Johnny Test. Who’s the second?
Ok, I recognize Ben 10 in the last panel, and I know I’ve seen the kid with fiery hair. Dunno the other 2
Johnny Test
Ben 10
Ron Stoppable
Whose the fourth bloke?
Cool. From left to right, Ron Stoppable from Kim Possible, Marco Diaz from Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Ben Tennyson from Ben 10, and Johnny Test from Johnny Test.
Okay, no, never seen SvtFoE (only hentai of Star)
Ok, we got Ron Stoppable, Marco Diaz, Ben Tennison and Johnny Test.
And of course that’s how Sydney realised boys were good.
First! Woo!
Hooray for you… or not cause you ain’t.
Give him a break, it takes a while after the comic posts to see comments.
Ben 10 and Ron Stoppable I get, but why crush on Marco Diaz and that weird Johnny kid?
Getting her head turned by one of them is enough. She only has one head.
Also, “a hundred times worse”. That would make Quasimodo look like Adonis.
Saturn Girl.
I was 11.
Yvonne Craig as Bat Girl. I’m old.
She was pretty awesome as batgirl. Yes, I am old too.
Yvonne Craig in every role.
Still now.
Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing and Kitty Pryde (also a dancer).
Same here, thank the gods for reruns…
Then you know the correct answer to “Ginger or Maryann.”
“NO. Ginger AND Maryann.”
True!
But I liked Annette, even before she had those boobs. I too am old.
Same here. Yvonne Craig (Batgirl), but also Julie Newmar (Cat Woman). MeeeOW!
There was also Hattie Wilson, who was only seen in one of those Spidey’s Super Stories live-action skits on The Electric Company…She played one of the villains in a foxy (literally, her villain-part was named The Fox) costume.
Speaking of The Electric Company, that’s the first place I ever remember Morgan Freeman & his unique voice. As one of the core members of that show, he sometimes played the part of “Easy Reader” in some of their skits.
What about Naomi?
We will never know how “Love Of Chair” turned out.
I was a fan of Julie Newmar’s, um, ‘body’ of work as an actress. The character Shahna (green hair, silver bikini) in the Trek episode ‘Gamesters of Triskelion” also got my rapt attention.
My full appreciation did have to wait until the shows went into syndication, about a decade after the original airing.
Shahna (sic) was played by the late great Angelic Pettijohn.
Both Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar as Catwoman.
My heart fluttered during an interview with Julie on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast. She called Gilbert a naughty boy who deserves a spanking.
Catch some of the con panels she was on. Youtube has ’em.
… who could possibly fault you for that ? ;-)
I like myself the “dark types” too, only for me it was “Dark Angel” ( Jessica Alba ) .
Same too, but was beaten to the Post by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars)
Linda Carter in Wonder Woman. Yvonne Craig and Lee Merriwether from Batman. Nichelle Nichols from Star Trek.
Nameless purple wigged moon girls from UFO.
+ THIS!!!
Why couldn’t our future have turned out like this?
Did they ever explain why the female (and only female) staff on the moonbase had to wear the purple wigs? I always assumed that Gerry Anderson just had some weird purple wig fetish.
Maybe clones, or gynoids or something
Saturn Girl for me too. I think I had just turned 12.
Terra from teen titans
daria morgendorfer
pop-bottle glasses, stick figure and monotone voice? downright frighteningly intelligent?
Trent? Is that you?
The mom figure from The Hurculoids I think I was 9. Yes, I’m That Old
Haley Mills…Then I found out that she was already a grown woman by the time I was seeing the Disney movies.
Carol Cleveland for me. I watched a lot of Monty Python.
Ron Stoppable, Marco Diaz, Ben Tennyson and… I don’t remember the fourth.
Johnny Test
Ok, so, that would be the most insane high school ever created with all four of those in attendance. and I’m including Hogwarts in that.
I’m going to agree on this one. Hogwarts had to actually create some of it’s insanity (Triwizard Tournament)- those 4 in one location almost guaranties some sort of hi-jinks (of the potentially world ending sort) weekly XD
Got to panel five (tail peek is panel three), and was wondering why TweenSyd was watching a porno, panel six “Oh, the gay porno” (not only was it based on a comic, the is an older version of that battle already, got the DVD butt need to find it to tell you the name of it, and the year it came out, sometime before they invented colour)
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2A194yTWoQ
Okay, the one thinking of might or might not be “The 300 Spartans”, still haven’t found the DVD butt looking up when “300” came out had a link to the other one from 1962 (the cover is different, butt that doesn’t mean much)
hehehehe, hehehehe
‘butt’
hehehehe, hehehehe,
If it wasnt for Leonidas wife Whatshername both the film and the comic would basicaly be gay porn.
Marco Diaz is from “Star Vs. The Forces of Evil”.
First time commenting, just to say that mini-Sydney is the most adorable thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Yes, yes she is
Speaking of… GET THE CRASH CART PREPPED BEFORE YORP SEES THIS PAGE, STAT!!!
This is not a test, there will be nose-blood in-bound!!
That explains the dog-shaped object that just rocketed past me…
Almost 200 comments in and still no Yorp…
You don’t suppose he simply fainted dead away at the sight of panel 5, do you?
“… particular bit is flipped.”.
+1 for going binary on quaternary sequences – as far as gender related stuff even is defined by genes.
Also, awesome aerobics Tamatha. With skills like that one might suggest cheerleading, though she doesn’t appear the type.
It’s gradual, but yeah, suddenly you find yourself crazy for cutie-pies of whatever kind catches your eye. And then you realize, wait, have I always been this cutie-pie-crazy? And maybe you can remember a few other instances…
Sometimes there can be little crushes even as early as kindergarten/first grade, but the only one I really remember was mostly just “I need to put on lots more of this grape chapstick so he’ll notice me being Adult Female!!” and it’s stupid, and you realize later in life that this was just WAY too young…but mostly it’s puberty & running into walls in middle school (junior high in my school district) onward.
And you have these stupid dreams and stupid crushes and you get crushed by cruel rejection because, well, boys can be VERY cruel at that age…and you don’t dare ask out girls because being bi was taboo at that age and liable to get you not only bullied but punished by the school…
… we need to talk about your obsession with Ponies.
Or “both both both” if the bit is in a quantum superposition.
Indeed. In this brave new world it might be “Space-Squid Space-Squid Space-Squid”, or “Sentient Carbosilicate Amorph..” who knows. (Although humans being what they are, squid is already included in our fine art histories courtesy of Japan.)
Space-squid like the “girl” (Laliari) from Galaxy Quest?
For some weird reason, that gave me a mini-crush on Missy Pyle.
“Now that’s what I call a super-position!!”
I’m sure that’s a quote from somewhere, but I can’t remember who/where.
Tammy keeping her right leg straight like that on the recycling bin, OUCH!
I think extreme flexibility is one of the mandatory secondary superpowers of any succubus
Just want to say: Very well done getting the reflection done right in panel seven, many artists forget to ‘flip’ the image
Gonna just ask, unless 300 came out earlier in this universe….Isn’t Sydney like 21 or so, and the comic is taking place still in 2011?
Hey! Give him a break! It’s been a few years in the making! I can forgive some real world timeline issues. Bedsides Dave is the writer and all writers are given a little fiat to run roughshod over timelines. I can forgive that. Especially for the utter cuteness that is this entire page.
Remember Valeur watching Teen Titans on the Smug-jet? Yeah, sometimes anachronistic inaccuracies slip in to help with the Funnies
And, like said earlier, Syd, being a geek-nerd could have been a late bloomer, not noticing boys until she was 17 (it happens), not everyone starts getting sexually active at 12
By the time puberty started I was old enough to legally have sex, and by the time puberty progressed to where I actually desired sex a lot I was overseas moving around in countries where it was readily available. Had the battalion not moved every few months I would have gotten married young.
Panels 2b and 8.
How does she not step on that?
Also…
What? No way she could hide her species in gym.
She had to have been home schooled until she learned of The Veil.
By ‘that’, you mean her tail? It’s not that long, no more than ankle length
As for gym, plenty of people manage to skip it their entire school life
Did you miss the part where she spent so many years tucking?
But it’s visible in both of these panels. Without the Veil she might have got found out…
Yes. Although Physical Education credits are mandatory to advance through the American school system, waivers may be granted with paperwork submitted by a physician and reviewed periodically by the school administration.
An easier way is (or used to be) to obtain physical education credits through sports participation.
How far can a Succubus jump, even with her wings taped?
The veil works even when the supernatural creature covered by it is unaware.
And the fact that she was keeping her wings and tail under her clothes would have prevented them from being discovered by touch through the veil.
Public school would have been fine.
She could have changed in a stall, and just assumed people were oblivious (which, thank the Veil, they functionally were)
Unlike male puberty the switch flips OFF depending on the time of month. So weird to have this newly boy just be… boring when you wake up one day. Then 2 weeks (or months) later he (or someone else) is the most important thing in the WORLD again. After a few of those you eventually figure out its just a crush and… either chase that buzz or firmly ignore it. (A surprizing number of girls pick “ignore”)
Not surprising. Many writers (including “Pygmalion’s” Shaw) have remarked upon the fact that historically women must be infinitely more practical than men. Men can afford to be fuzzy headed romantics.
The human female is the only female in the animal kingdom, ready for sex at anytime, but she can choose not to.
The bonobo female makes the human female seem an absolute virgin. I understand there are some other species that a human male would be very jealous of.
Ahh, walking into things…..I remember a GenCon from so long ago that it isn’t funny. Or in Indiana. Or in Milwaukee. Anyway there is a gorgeous young woman who was walking around wearing a chainmail bikini (and wearing it very well, and causing all sorts of accidents in her giggling wake). The best one (I was kind of following her……) was a very young boy that was so busy watching her that he didn’t watch where he was going and walked right into a Ral Partha display. It caused a Ral Partha display domino cascade that caught one of the Ral Partha dudes in the cascade because he was also watching her……ahh……memories.
Panel 4 is dumb (descriptive words, yuck) but….
but….
BUT!!!
the left half of panel 8 is absolutely priceless. That pose is so adorably hilarious, I can’t praise it enough. That one really deserves to be bigger, more detailed…
should be a motivational poster of some kind.
Really cool
Why u no like panel 4? Tween Sydney is adorable!
Sydney is fine. I just always run away screaming when I see soundwords that aren’t soundwords. “ssstaaaaaaab” is not trying to recreate a sound, it’s just a description of what happens. Hence “(descriptive words, yuck)”
In my universe, soundwords aren’t supposed to narrate. 4 decades of comic consumption will do that sometimes.
That pose in panel 8 is still like winning the lottery. Everything’s in the right place.
EM-BIGGEN!
EM-BOOBEN!
KA-PANTS!
It’s not exactly the first time in the comic where DaveB uses non-onomatopoeic onomatopoeia :)
Wow, can’t believe I spelled that right first try.
My favourite DaveBism is ”Endatassen”.
The vestigial wings are for regulating body temperature or are they tantric energy antenas?
Both?
The MLPs had to have been 99% antigravity for those wings to fly.
Could she have that too?
Given that Rainbow Dash was shown doing Mach 5 in a dive (from the angle of the shock cone), I’m going to go with magic for the ponies. As for succubi since we have never seen any in this universe fly, I’m going to go with radiation cooling and/or sense organ as you suggested. Much like the ears on the African elephant are dual purpose for enhancing hearing and radiating heat to the environment.
Am I the only person who doesn’t want Tamatha meeting Dabs? Don’t get me wrong, I love Dabs but she can be…. overwhelming? (not sure if that’s the word).
What would it be like if Sydney encountered a…transgender succubus!?
I thought it’d been established that Incubi don’t exist, but Succubi can appear male if they want to?
An incubus is a stage in the Succubus reproduction cycle.
When they are ready to breed a Succubus retains the semen from a male and morphs into an incubus male form during which process the semen is changed so that it will produce a Succubus. The Succubus then proceeds to inseminate a female compatible with the male from whom the semen was originally recieved.
That is not how succubi work in this setting. Dabbler explicitly said succubi are only female.
Then this model would follow.
Because in this model the resultant child is always female, always a Succubus, and the incubus form is a temporary stage Succubi take on temporarily only during the breeding cycle which (it’s been a long time since I spent time poring over mythology texts) if memory serves, only occurs every so many years.
Why are you so insistent that succubi must follow a specific and not at ALL universal folkloric interpretation in a webcomic that has already established that monsters do not follow all elements of their real-world folklore?
There is absolutely nothing in this webcomic to imply you’re right, and plenty to imply you’re wrong.
No, Dabs never said there weren’t any Incubus, just that all Succubae were female, and that it was ‘complicated’
There are plenty of female-only races that breed with males from other species: the child is always female, and resembles the mother
No unnecessary, over-complicated, body-morphing required
Name three.
The amazons from “By The Book”
And no, don’t have to name more, the point is, having succubae retain the sperm while changing into an incubus to impregnate a woman of the same species as the donor is stupid, when the succubae could simply get pregnant herself
The word is “historical”
Granted, it may also be stupid, but then so is a lot of mythology.
The bigger point is: the ‘historical’ succubae and incubus were ‘invented’ by randy priests to explain nuns locked away in a nunnery ended up pregnant, and why the child looked like the only male for miles around, the priest
There weren’t Roman Catholic priests in ancient Rome.
Myths about Succubi predate Roman Catholicism.
Succubi were more likely invented by some creative centurion trying to keep his men away from the brothels when on leave at a time when there were no treatments for venereal diseases which actually worked.
I recognize three out of four of those people that she’s tripping over herself watching. Honestly that one guy in the pink I’m surprised is not Danny Phantom or that buck tooth kid from the one with the fairies Tommy something like that
You need to watch “Star vs the forces of evil”.
Right now.
You are thinking of Timmy Turner with the fairy godparents
Yes he’ll know. I think I was getting out of cartoons when that show started to get big
Anyone else hear the FX from panel 6 in the voice of the ‘Honest Trailers’ guy, or just me.
No wonder she keeps running into walls, she is surrounded by the Protagonists of cartoons where they have to do a lot of running and/or fighting! One of which is literally a spy(?) and another acts as a superhero! Another has a habit of getting in trouble by screwing with his sister’s super science BS and another keeps getting dragged across dimensions.
Also Protagonist Physique makes them always look good.
Only way it could get worse is if she was surrounded by anime protagonists instead, especially ones (or, well, really even the background characters) from Dragonball or JoJo!
Or Marco in his adult form…..
^_^
Shout out to my fellow Aces! Raise your hand if you have no idea what this feels like.
Not sure I’d call myself an “ace” – I consider myself a sapio – but yeah. I have no clue, either.
Yes. Exactly! There’s more than just the binary out there! Plus I find it hard to believe that this is truly how it is for all allosexuals. Some must have a less extreme experience, right?
*high fives* In middle school I started noticing girls were pretty. Sometime around the end of high school or early college, I noticed a few of them looked rather kissable. But it was never a real distraction, let alone a driving force, and I was always weirded out by how seriously most people seemed to take it. “Hey, y’know THAT feeling–” No. No, I don’t.
Pretty sure I’m just 99% Ace then. Puberty installed the correct wetware and hit the “test” switch a couple times… then nothing. While I fully understand the joke on this page… I literally read porn for the plot. (Well, only when there is nothing else to read) Nor do I really miss it – the crushes of puberty were VERY uncomfortable and damaged my test scores.
I’ve had some crushes, but never to the extent of them affecting behavior to the extent shown here from either of these two. Have also read some “porn” for the story, but have no interest in ever experiencing any if that for myself.
Ace high-five! This is all foreign to me.
Then you’re totally missing out! …Kind of like how I’m missing out on going out and getting totally wasted and partying hard.
It’s supposed to be awesome and cool… the only part I enjoyed about it was that, since I don’t drink, I was sober enough to enjoy the ridiculous antics of the others. They can enjoy it, but I don’t need to be a part of it. I can appreciate that they’re enjoying themselves… just don’t tell me that I’m missing out by not joining in.
Loving the teen boy squad cameos here, topical and hilarious. Also, can totally empathize with Sydney on this one. Being a dude who loves his cheescake, I can totally grok (and not fault in any way, shape or form) the peeps that love their beefcake. Two or three sports dude/fireman pinups a week in my facebook feed shows there’s a healthy audience for that market.
Ace high-five! This is all foreign to me.
confound it, I replied to the wrong person
Or: Girls! Boys!, Girls, boys, boys, girls, boys, girls, girls, girls, boys. BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER!
What is that movie that young Sydney is ogling there!?!?
300. And even if the scene isn’t a dead giveaway, the title of the comic is.
Wow, I got here about 4 hours after the actual post & it’s almost to the bottom limit of the page already.
…Or would this post show up on page 2?
Dangit! There’s only one way to find out!
Marco Diaz from Star vs. The Forces of Evil
Johnny Test from Johnny Test
Ron Stoppable from Kim Possible
Benjamin Kirby Tennyson from Ben 10 (specifically from the Alienforce/Omniverse period of the show)
50/50 split between Disney and Cartoon network
Jeremey Berimey
What sort of nonsensical post is that? It clearly means nothing. Clearly, sir, you have gone completely insane.
On the other hand, Jeremy Bearimy is the true shape and nature of time. :)
How is that school still standing?
It’s still standing better than it ever did
It survived the four boy hunks
It teaches all the teenaged kids