Grrl Power #795 – Dinner belles
So not too much to say about this page. Tammy’s just getting herself a late night snack. The ambient energy in a place like that would keep her out of a deficit, but the older she gets, her requirements will outstrip what she can absorb from the stuff just hanging around in the air.
Theoretically, as an adult she could survive like this, by hanging out near and active crime scene, as it were. Dabbler’s convinced it would never happen. But it would be like living as a level 5 vegan. It would be… unsatisfying.
My attempt to do a disgusted expression on Tamatha in panel six seems to have suddenly aged her 40 years.
Oh yeah, that silhouette in the last panel. It’s not Dabbler. Count the arms.
Edit: Whoops! Must have set the time wrong on this. Oh well, early comic, y’all!
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Spinneret doesn’t use a dagger… Or wear a goofy hat.
That could be a braid.
Wasn’t there that `90s Spinerette that had a sword and all the pouches?
Yep, and it was called The Pouch Sword!
Was there even a sword under there, or was it a sword made from pouches? (Which would make it more like a club I imagine as it lacks cutting power…)
Don’t recall 90’s Spinny ever taking the sword out of the pouch…
And a spine on a 360 degree swivel. *Shudder*
A what? Is this the Spinneret webcomic? I haven’t followed that in years, so I apparently missed that part. Where’s that bit?
It was a short segment where they ran into a few multiverse copies from different eras of comics. Silver age and 90s along with the modern fighting the editor who was preparing to retcon the universe again.
And Modern Spinny had a re-encounter with 90’s Spinny and Mecha Maid (including the obligatory shower scene)
The version of Spinnerette that was based on ’90s comics looked liked…well….she was from 90’s comics, big bewbs, improbably narrow waist, and had a tendency of bending her body in ways nobody outside of Cirque de Solei contortionists should ever twist their spine.
That’s where I went first too.
Haha, that’s some serious spontaneous old face.
There’s clearly an untapped market in tantric cuisine. Instead of “pass the salt” it’s “move the machine fetishist two steps to the left.”
Fisto would never be out of work…
Smash cut to Sydney stumbling out of the flaming remains of a destroyed nightclub with Tamatha.
Hey, hey, hey! That’s Decollette’s destroyed nightclub you’re hypothesizing. Better they should ALL stumble back in from a flaming taxi.
All I got to say.. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-370-rrrko/ is prophetic
I would be OK with that.
Smash cut to Sydney and Tamatha stumbling out of a destroyed nightclub on fire.
I don’t think Sydney or Tamatha should be on fire regardless unless Rule of Funny applies.
I’m not sure if you made a dad joke just now or if I should specify ‘nightclub is on fire’ not ‘sydney or tamatha’ :)
Well done sir.
I’m a grandfather now, and yes is the answer to your question.
Time to play Who’s that pokemon!
IT’S PIKACHU!
it’s ALWAYS Pikachu!
Until it’s Clefairy.
+1
Ditto
I’m pretty sure it’s not Ditto except in the Detective Pikachu movie.
:)
Best. Ditto. Ever.
Better hope it’s not Charmander…
Flaming destroyed nightclub…
Missingno
My mind went straight to Spinnerette, who has had a cameo mug shot in the series but… it’s hard to imagine her completely showing up in the grrlverse.
Unless that’s 90 spinneret I don’t see it being her. And even if it is her where is her pouch sword?
It’s Teen 90’s Spinnerette. She has no sword yet, just a dagger. Or 5.
That does look like a knife in Middle Righty. I wonder if she ever got control over Bottom Lefty grabbing attractive butts when Spinny wasn’t looking?
Six pouchdaggers that can be combined into a big pouchsword would be very nineties in my opinion.
90’s Spinny was quite Liefeldian in her shape, and this intruder has definite clearly defined feet (which is very non-Liefeldian) so I’m thinking not her. Of course a cross continuum alternate reality 90’s Spinny might be less Liefeldian and more “human normal” in proportions, so I’ve just negated this whole paragraph haven’t I?
Either way, attacking a club owned by a succubus, and currently hosting some of the most powerful supers (and supernaturals)? NOT. GOING. TO. END. WELL.
A stupid attack on other protagonists in a nightclub with some silly exuse sounds like something a nineties superhero would do.
Actually superheroes, not just those of a nineties type, have always fought for stupid reasons so my argument failed there.
I know, right? In order to pack in the obligatory combat scene even when there were no bad guys being fought, two or more superheroes would invariable get into a Three’s Company-like misunderstanding and start taking shots at each other.
There were always characters who people wanted to see fight, Superman vs Captain Marvel and The Thing vs Hulk or Hulk vs Thor. It didn’t matter how flimsy the pretext was those comics would sell. In the nineteen sixties in particular cashflow was precious with comic book companies often struggling to pay the printer or forced to reprint golden age comics because new stories weren’t ready or the artists hadn’t been paid.
Well, yeah, because Captain Marvel was created by a rival company as an alternative to Soupcan (and whose comics outsold the Blue Boy Boyscout, prompting DC to buy out the other company in a bid to put a stop to The Big Cheese), and Hulk started out as a bad guy (the Avengers were formed to stop Hulk, after Loki set things up to make Hulk look like an unstoppable monster)
The original Captain Marvel.
Billy Batboy.
Yups, the whole damn Marvel Family
Didn’t even come close to thinking that was Dabbler on the roof. TOTALLY wrong silhouette beyond just the arms. Doesn’t look to be a welcome guest to the party.
If the six armed anonymous spooky is up to no good, they picked a bad night to do it. There are several of Archon’s and the Twilight Council’s top women in the club. Of course six arms may just be another one of Decollete’s friends.
I believe that Pixel has cat senses even in human form.
Dunno if all the girls stayed at the club though.
Bringing a knife to a laserclaw fight won’t end well.
Decolette and Scarlett probably have the best chance of no exploded nightclub ending, followed by Sydney’s lighthook.
It’s never that easy. Have to keep things entertaining.
Laserclaw Fight sounds like an 80s glam metal band.
They have perms and play the laser harp, no doubt.
Yeah. They were all girls about five feet tall, each with brightly colored hair.
The percussionist had these glowing spheres moving around in the air, and she could play two sets of drums and a vibraphone simultaneously…
Demon-O’s Breakfast Cereal — now in nut free Sapphic Tantric Energy flavor.
I think we’ve seen that en-ponytailed, multi-armedassassin-y figure before. Anyone else?
Just me? I dunno, just feels familiar.
The feel is like early Spiral appearances when she was a tornado of angry rage before she became controlled and calculating.
*rhythmically pounding on desk*
Spinerette Crossover!
you. can. not. convince. me. otherwise.
It would explain why they suddenly switched to running White Heron repeats.
Yeah, when read they were going o be posting the next White Heron story, was hoping it would be a new White Heron story, that followed on from the end of this one (don’t have a problem re-reading it, and still waiting for the next KickStarter, want to get the third figurine, already have Greta and Spinny)
Can’t be Spinny: she doesn’t use weapons (except 90’s Spinny), and she’s not fucking evil!!
Panel 6 is the equivalent of eating a delicious foot long hot dog with all the trimmings.. then you go on a tour of the hot dog factory and see how it is made.
I don’t know where you get your hotdogs from but if they’re THAT good i want your supplier
“Eating a delicious foot long hot dog with all the trimmings…”
Careful how you phrase that, given who owns the night club.
I was going to write “As Dabbler would say…”, but we all know she wouldn’t beat around the bush. So to speak.
That’s the face someone makes when they find out how the “sausage” is made lol.
Tamatha is too adorable and I hope we see more of her as well as the other cuties and how old is she anyway?
Tammy is 14
Okay she is way too young to be here Succubus or no Succubus. Were is her mom in all this?
Her legal guardian owns the club.
Um that is her Mentor or her mother.
Not mother, and who says a mentor can’t also be her legal guardian?
They could, but generally for more stable emotional maturation it is best not to break the parent child bond unless there is some sort of actionable behavior on the parent in which case the parent is probably incarcerated anyway.
Since we know that Tamatha comes from a loving (if uneducated about Succubi) home there would be no reason to move her guardianship to Decolette ranther than just having Decolette teach Tamatha.
I do assume that Succubus school is in another dimension and probably a boarding school, not sure how the parents are going to arrange that.
Where have you been? Your question has been answered in canon of the past couple comics and also discussed at length in the comments.
Would you rather let her starve?
“My attempt to do a disgusted expression on Tamatha in panel six seems to have suddenly aged her 40 years.”
Was that intentional? Was this a… maturing experience for Tamatha?
I’m going to ignore the little silhouetto of a man…iac. Unless its Scaramouch come to do the fandango and Decollette can cast thunderbolt and lightning, maybe a fear spell…
Mama mia!
I’m gonna be honest. Tamatha looks SUPER skinny. Like, practically skin and bones. Like, cat skinny.
Well yeah.
A fourteen year old teenager with growth spurts.
Growth spurts AND incorrect, unbalanced diet for a while.
Is that Spinnerette ??? If not then can it be ?
Well technically she can see her 3 headed cerberus friend. She should be able to see through the veil
You do realize that Dave had to actually WRITE that censored balloon. and then censor it. Who here wants to know what it said?
I bet it is “Stuff that Fish Finger all down in that ketchup”
Do we really need to know? I’m sure most of us have good enough imagination to think of something good anyway.
And everyone knows, It’s fish fingers and custard.
Wow. That lurking figure looks really sinister.
What – so early?
Ok – let’s hear it for our next contestant!
Best possibility: Spinnerette from Spinnerette.
Worst possibility: Khepri from Worm.
Doubt it’s Khepri, those’re very definitely full humanoid arms for all six.
Also can’t be Spinny, not even 90’s Spinny, even more not so Evil Spinny (who is a literal spider woman)
Also, putting The Escalation Queen in the same
roomSTATE as Sydney is just bound to have… unfortunate side effects: (warp core breaches, spontaneous total protonic reversal, random declarations of EXTERMINATUS!, eezo destabilizations, and other events of similarly energetic nature)Actually, putting Sydney inside Kepri’s range (with her shield down) would probably result in the Fel just disappearing overnight.
And another two reasons it can’t be Khepri:
No beehive.
The other two aren’t there.
Did Kehpri still have the arms working? I thought they’d stopped working by that point.
And it can’t be her anyway – no flight pack.
Got to say Dave, content like this is going to really get the sickos out there excited. Please steer the ship away from cringeville.
Explain
Yes!! Explain!!!
Explain how!
It’s not that hard to figure out. There is no reason to mix fucking and underage people in this comic. Nor do I want to see the pedos jump up to try to defend it when it’s pointed out. No need for it.
Tammy is not involved in the ‘fucking’, and the energies from other people involved is literally how she feeds
Tammy does not really exist. Dave does. However she is portrayed or what ever her actions are, are made by the author. There is no need for it. It is just a bad idea to mix the two.
You are aware of the research that says easy access to rape porn reduces the rape rate, right?
And the rather obvious extrapolations from this?
^ Illy, I have personal friends who are professional marriage / family counselors with a focus on sexual issues, and regularly read serious studies on this sort of thing as part of their ongoing training. Your statement absolutely runs counter to everything I’ve ever heard them discuss.
Please provide some links to articles published in reputable professional journals backing up that premise if you expect anyone to believe it, or your extrapolations from it.
This article ( https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/all-about-sex/201601/evidence-mounts-more-porn-less-sexual-assault ) has a set of citations at the bottom. Is that enough for you?
Yes, it’s all stochastic data and extrapolations, and may or may not apply to any specific individuals. But it does apply over populations as a whole.
Also, I have to ask what type of marriage councilors they are? Because there are some people in that field with some seriously unhealthy views and practices. I had a personal experience with one that tried to keep me in an abusive relationship (and try (and obviously fail) to fix from purely my end), and possibly didn’t even recognize that it was an abusive relationship. So you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t rate their opinions very highly.
I read the article – it has 0 references to “rape porn” specifically, so not sure if that was a mistype in your initial statement or you misremembered its contents. As for the conclusions that article draws…
First there’s the fact that Psychology Today is not generally considered a serious academic source. Wikipedia notes that “its intent is to make psychology literature more accessible to the general public,” and that the site contains “hundreds of blogs written by a wide variety of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, medical doctors, anthropologists, sociologists, and science journalists.”
In this case the author’s profile notes that he is a journalist – not a psychologist or researcher. This is not a peer-reviewed paper; it’s one dude’s pet theory for his column, regardless of the status of the papers he cited. So no, “having a set of citations at the bottom” is never enough for me to accept an article at face value.
The biggest problem I have with the article though, regardless of authorship, is that like every other article with a headline that Betteridge’s Law allows me to ignore, correlation. is. not. causation. Okay sure, the rate of rape went down over the same time that porn access went up (the date ranges given jump around, but roughly the mid 90s to when the article was written in 2016). Some of the references might even say that could’ve been a factor.
You know what else happened between the 90s and 2016? Cell phones becoming ubiquitous around the world, significantly driving up the risk of being identified or caught. Public awareness and support for victims speaking out. In the US, Anita’ Hill publicly testifying on TV against a major political figure, leading to harassment laws with actual consequences. Campus safety measures. The MeToo movement. It’s difficult (and borderline ridiculous) to point to a single factor for just about anything in social issues, but I’m willing to bet none of those references in the article looked at many other factors, and the author also presents absolutely no discussion (let alone rebuttal) about the opposing viewpoint.
Which is also why your comment about ‘what type of counselors [my friends] are’ is irrelevant to your larger point (though I’m sorry to hear you had a bad experience), so there’s no point in addressing it.
I never said that article was a serious source. I was entirely treating it like Wikipedia – Using it for the citations list.
Then don’t refer to its content seriously, because the articles referenced certainly don’t bear out its premise or conclusions.
From the references’ abstracts / conclusions:
It’s absolutely not enough for me, in any way.
I tell you what.
Why don’t you go to Pandora’s Aquarium and After Silence and talk to three or four hundred people who were raped as children and ask them if the adults who raped them also read pornography with alults having sex with minors for inspiration?
A whole lot of them will absolutely know.
If those two sites are no longer busy sites there will be new sites that have replaced them.
Feel free.
I understand your basic concern, which I feel is justified. Like you, I am uncomfortable at the pictures of a 14-year-old having a voyeur experience of adult sex.
I do not understand the crudity of your comments, which imply that anyone arguing with you is a pedophile. That is an argument that only a 14-year-old would make, and you owe readers an apology for the insult.
For those thinking the figure on the top of the lady’s is Spinnerette, don’t forget Silver Age Spinny had an evil doppelganger that was never caught…
Silver Age Evil Spinny? Don’t remember her, will have to read the books again (after finding where they were put)
She was the tiny one in the blue uniform, and showed up first in Modern Era Spinnerette’s universe as in the first of the alt-Spinnies and villains. There was a big long arc about this.
Got all the books, just… have a bad memory about a lot of things :(
Can you recall which volume it was in?
That was my first thought too.
I think the funny hat might actually be more like a scorpion tail.
In the time skip when Sydney was off planet we had the short but lethal introduction of Escorpina where she was killed and possessed by Sciona. If she was a super (or shape shifter) she may have had a scorpion form.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-744-recycling/
Sciona may be the only one brave/foolish enough to take on a whole building full of Sydney and her Super Friends. And she definitely has a grudge against Archon.
Oh, good call. I’d quit wondering what she was up to.
From what I gathered, Escorpina’s powers seemed to be drugging someone. Not sure if it was just euphoria, or maybe mind control. That was just my interpretation of the effects, though.
Now, since Sciona has determined that she (and possibly others) can possess dead supers and keep their powers, who is to say that she hasn’t gone on a tear. Maybe that IS Sciona – she may have abandoned Escorpina to take another super.
Poor Tamatha,being exposed to such…things…at her age.
I wonder who that figure with the multi arms is,Dabbler or Spinnerette!?
It might be one of the enemies mentioned in Grrlpower #186 or someone working for them. Perhaps the cat lady from panel 6? (He/She does seem to have claws on her foot, but I don’t see anything like cat ears on the silhouette.) I’m still hoping we get to meet some of them and the Cat Ninja Lady looked like a cross between Harley Quinn and a ninja – an awesome combination!
Can’t be Dabbler, she only has 4 arms, not 6.
So many people thinking Dabbler or Spinnerette, and not one person thinking Spiral.
I feel old now. :-P
I’m old enough I don’t recall spiral and am thinking of one of mephisto’s demons from the 70’s…a name can’t recall because. hello old guy here, took few hits to the head? hmmm? raised kids (eyebrow) enough containers of questionable content and source to float the navy…I’m lucky to remember how to USE a keyboard. Now, Spiral who?
Spiral was introduced in two ways:
As a member of Freedom Force (formerly Mystique’s version of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants) as they were to capture Magneto on the behalf of the US government to put him in trial for his warcrimes.
As a …. puppet … obeying Mojo, potentially created by a future Mojo from an alternate(?) version of Ricochet Rita in the Longshot miniseries.
I do not remember when she showed up first.
If Deco is the severe, proper mum, can Dabs be the crazy, cool mum to Tamatha?
And once again this comic goes to an uncomfortable place… for the sake of comedy, right? Right?! Sure.
OMG!!! It’s the Kung-fu Arach-Nunja!!! She’s a nun, who was scorned by society and the Church, that was bitten by a radioactive Kung-fu master and nursed back to health and trained by the aged anti-hero Spider Ninja (who was also radioactive and bit her daily).
I know all about her, because she has a secret weekly podcast. Awesome snickerdoodle recipe!
If Peter Parker were bitten by a radioactive cat, he would lay around the house all day, and sleep in a sunbeam.
With great power come great…snoring.
Would an Arachnun be attached to the Convent of St. Charlotte, of the Order of Our Lady of Some Terrific Radiant Pig?
*sigh* This is why we can’t have nice things. Damn night club killers/idiots.
Umm, is the Ladies’ Loo inside a box inside the nightclub? o_O
Its on the edge of the dance floor. Looking up the shiva wannabe is on one of the platforms that the trapeze performers swing from.
No, she’s standing on top of the loo
The loo is under one of the platforms.
Go back and look at the view of the layout from the page where Sydney first spotted Tamatha.
This isn’t uncommon in larger buildings especially things like converted warehouses. You need a smaller space with some privacy? You basically build a box in the building, since a small(er) room that runs the full height of the space would use a lot more materials than just closing the top 10ft up. Plus, easier to heat, plus a smaller room would look really weird with a 30′ ceiling.
:-)
Yeah, if you have ever been in a bar with the lights on, lots of them don’t even have a finished ceiling. They just spray the rafters black and keep the lights turned down.
And… this would be why I said that I hoped she had adult supervision. In this one page she has been exposed to unpleasant words/concepts associated with her feeding (which implies some SERIOUS failings on the part of Decollete, because no way should even a young succubus be shocked, let alone horrified, by aspects of human sexuality), and then stalked by a potential demon slayer (someone who is, by succubi standards, a serial killer who targets demons AND is really really good at it).
Also, yes it’s bias. Tremendous bias, in fact. You know how much straight and bi guys love lesbians? Straight and bi women LOOOOOVE male-on-male erotica. There are entire genres in Japan dedicated to male homoeroticism… and driven by female consumers and creators. Just google “Yaoi” to see what I mean.
and then look again at exactly how ‘masculine’ most Yaoi are (pretty much just flat-chested girls)
That’s just because different cultures have different standards of masculinity. Bishonen aren’t thought of as girly by their native audience.
her face in panel six is teenage me hearing my parents in the other room
Which brings up a question. Did her adopted parents* never have Happy Fun Adult Time (TM) while she was around? Don’t know what the range is, but bedrooms are likely to be as close as Tammy is to the women in the bathroom.
*Assuming she had two or she had one who was sexually active.
Quite likely not.
Very many parents don’t have sex when the kids are around.
Even when the kids are asleep in their own bedroom? How are second and third kids made?
The kids are never always in the house, nor always with the parent.
During infancy attentive parents are generally worn out and as soon as they are old enough parents usually start leaving them with family for short periods.
Another factor is that when you have kids the housework never quite catches up with childrens ability to make messes. This makes a night (or even just five hours) in a hotel with no barbies or leggos on the floor and no jelly handprints on the bathroom door attractive.
Yeah, dude, trust me when I say, plenty of parents still have sex when the kids are in the house. Offspring being in a nearby room doesn’t stifle romantic or physical inclinations.
Do you think bedtime is so early so kids can get a good night’s sleep? XD
Sex with my wife is not something one could pretend that kids might sleep through. Had we done it with a child in the house then we would have to have intended for the child <to be forced to listen. On purpose Trust me dude, we weren’t parents who would do that.
Anybody else notice the magically appearing earbuds in the last panel?
They’re not magically appearing. She inserted them because she didn’t want to listen to was was going on in there.
* what was
She put those in to block the sounds coming from the bathroom. Unfortunately, it will also block out the inevitable “Look out behind you!” that someone is about to shout in the next page.
In my head-comic I am seeing Sydney do a Yoink! maneuver with her Lighthook to pull her out of the way of the attack.
Don’t you just hate it when you’re at your favorite diner and the people in the next booth ruin the enjoyment of your meal by talking so loud?
Could be worse. A closer analogy to this situation would be that your table is just across a too-thin wall from the diner’s kitchen, and you can clearly hear two goof-off excuses for cooks chatting about how hot dogs are made.
+1
I don’t know, I think Sapphic tantric energy would be like a light healthy snack while Achillean tantric energy would be more… … MORE. Almost too savory/spicy and loaded with calories.
Sapphic and Achillean, huh? Classy.
Achillean tantric energy makes me wonder: would Achilles be a literally inexhaustible source of tantric energy for Dabbler (assuming mutual interest and consent, of course), or would his invulnerability prevent her from tapping any energy from him?
Up on a rooftop stab, stab, stab, I see dear ‘Ol Slayer Dad!
Sapphic and Achillian, huh? Classy.
Is the bathroom outside? Is that silhouette on the roof? A club having the bathrooms outside is a building code violation.
The dance floor is surrounded by platforms from which trapeze performers swing over the dancers.
The bathrooms are beneath one of those platforms and evil spider babe is on one of the trapeze platforms directly over the restroom doors.
“All that dude energy?” Geez. Right, ‘cause guys are just gross. That’s some internalized self-hatred, right there.
No, you decided that it was ‘gross’, DaveB simply stated that he felt, personally, that Sapphic tantric would taste better
Just like, for some people, finding pork tastes better than lamb doesn’t make them anti-Semitic (if it’s okay for you to reach for something not there, then it’s okay for me as well)
I rolled my eyes at it, but more due to the deeply internalized belief that content creators tend to have that others share their own tastes and interests. That, plus traditional straight male domination of the creative industries, is why there’s such an imbalance in the levels of male eye-candy vs female eye-candy in almost all types of media.
It’s something that’s slowly been changing in recent decades, but still pretty deeply ingrained, and there’s still a strong belief that females are a niche audience. When writing for a general audience, you write for men, first, then add stuff to draw in the women, if time and budget allows.
At any rate, I really got the impression that Dave’s blurb was tongue-in-cheek.
I mean, guys’ shampoo and cologne and deodorant, in my opinion, objectively smells worse that the female equivalent. Dudes’ stuff all smells like chemicals, and girls stuff all smells like baby powder and cucumber and shea butter. I don’t know what that is exactly, but it probably smells better than the chemical fire that is anything made by Axe.
Plus dudes are way more into sharing their farts.
Extrapolating from that, if it smells good then it probably tastes good.
That does work with coffee though. Coffee smells great but it is bitterness incarnate.
That pretty much depends on whether or not the men in question are willing to spend as much money on cologne and shampoo as women do.
If you are only willing to pay for aXe and Old Spice then yeah, not that great.
Go to Bath and Body Works. Try Mahogany Woods or Dark Amber shampoo and C.O. Bigelow Elixir Black cologne.
It’s a matter of dollars.
DaveB, do I need to send you a commercial for Dr. Squatch? :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEK7qQKRDY
Is that something you clean with? Or eat? o_O
All those ingredients are food!!