Grrl Power #803 – Juggerbangs
Okay, a few things that need to be discussed:
1) Yes, Sydney is a dummy for not immediately putting up her shield. We do know that she’s probably had a painkiller and a chocolate cake shot. At least. There’s not a ton of alcohol between the two of those, but knowing the group she came with, someone bought a bunch of shots for the table. Pixel in her tiny human form almost can’t get drunk before her stomach fills up unless she chugs something extra high octane like Hapsburg Gold Label Premium Reserve Absinthe, Bruichladdich X4 Quadrupled Whiskey, or The Deep King’s Reserve Dwarven Whiskey.
That last one isn’t real. Well, in the Grrl-verse it probably is.
My point is, Sydney doesn’t have crazy lycanthrope metabolism, and she weighs like 102 lbs. Well, after the grakz incident, she’s down to about 97. So she might be a little buzzed.
And you know what they say. Don’t mix alcohol and vigilante stop juice.
2) Oh no! Sydney is paralyzed and helpless except obviously she’s not because she can control the obs with her mind so I wonder what happens on the next page.
3) Now I’m sad because I was kind of getting used to Sydney with the pink twintails and sawtooth bangs. It’s certainly easier to draw than her usual floppy rabbit ear bangs that I’m positive can’t exist in 3D space. Like, if I, or more likely, someone else, tried to model her in 3D, it would be challenging if not actually impossible. It would have to move around like Lion-O’s hair hook.
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Whatever happened to Ms.Marble, she should have been caught by not considering it’s been months since they said they would find her weeks from now, but sadly, there is no sign of my ferrite friend.
Well, we haven’t seen where Marble Maiden is but Sydney has only been back from Alari Graveworld for maybe a week or week and a half.
When last we was mentioned Archon believed they were closing in on her, and after Sydney got back we learned that Harem had remembered at least fuzzy details of major events to come after she got back from the Alari graveworld.
We have all assumed that Marble Maiden would join Arc Swat because she has been being a vigilante since before Archon went public and that is still my hope but:
1. Law enforcement had been unable to catch Marble Maiden for years. One assumes they tried setting traps with police dispatch but got nothing. She found out about crimes without police help, beat them to the scene, busted punks, and left before the police arrived.
2. If she can do that she may be like Pixel. Even if she joins Archon her utility as an asset to Arc Lite might outweigh her combat prowess and Arc swat would have to settle for occasionally being able to borrow her.
3. She might have found legal employment as a super that pays better with more time off.
4. She may be willing to join Arc Swat, but could have personal affairs that will take time to put in order before that can be done.
5. She may already be part of a new bootcamp class that we just have not seen yet because they decided not to accelerate their training.
6. Insert something super heroic.
6. She’s spent the past five weeks as a pit gladiator on Planet Gargawex after her gender-swapped clone being manipulated by the magma mantis army’s infiltration scout imprisoned her nephew in an extradimensional lobster trap.
That’s a better story than Twilight.
See Spot Run is a better story than Twilight.
I would disagree since Twilight is one of the most popular book series like… ever!
Yes, I personally did not like it but the majority of people who read it did like it.
Popular is not a synonym of good.
Things can be fifty shades of popular because they are prurient.
That’s true as far as it goes; but as bad as it was, I suspect the reason twilight got ragged on so much had more to do with the fact that it objectifies the hell out of some men in a way men aren’t comfortable with.
My little sister said that the book and character were worthless, but she read it because the various powers that the different vampires had were interesting.
Yeah because https://youtu.be/HFhli9SMKHA.
One thing they forgot to mention: Peer Pressure!
How many people were forced into reading or watching that crap-shit because few dared to say anything negative about it because the ‘fan’-base had grown too big, like a cult, that required members to sacrifice their brains to join (wait, that just described every religion… )
You have idiots proclaiming ‘Jedi’ as a religion, surprised no one has tried to register Twihard as a religion… yet
You accused me of being someone who posted on the old AOL forums (or something) without contributing anything useful, so, how useful do you feel repeating some lame-crap regurgitated shit that was never funny even when it was relevant?
And no, the ‘cool kids’ never said that shit, because they were too cool to even see that steaming pile of shit
She may well have gotten caught, but it would be old news by now, so it may not have come to Sydney’s attention yet.
Perhaps it will if your ferrite friend attempts to weasel out of her charges.
Is… there another meaning of ‘ferrite’ not aware of? The only meaning can find refers to ceramic material that is attracted to magnets
Marble is a type of rock, typically not considered magnetically attractive
Miss Marmoreal Mammeries may not be magnetic, but Grrliverse supers are all (un)naturally attractive
So, not mineral (nor vegetable), but rather animal magnetism? Which begs the question: is that the same animal magnetism that makes her costume stay on? :-)
The costume uses Stimpy’s Invention.
https://youtu.be/xEdMX_daDkc
*before clicking link, I put on my Patented(R) Stuponitron Helmet*
IT’S THE QUEEN BEAN!
Yeah, that’s hard on the knees. Just ask Bina from All Night Laundry, she knows that as well as anyone could.
Bina’s knees where the first thing I thought of.
And then had an image of Sydney’s knees being useless for the entire rest of the comic.
Will she come back from this is a startling display of obvious superiority?
*spoiler* – yes… yes she will.
If I had to guess I would suppose that she would mental her obs to hand and use the light tentacles like an alien loader construct to tote her paralyzed body around while she beats the bad guy.
It seems on-brand
I picture her summoning shields and light whip, Wrap aranea up, use the shield embiggened to hold them both. Maybe whap aranea into the shield a few times to make and keep her docile and far enough away not to be able to stick her with another sleepmacher.
Isn’t the light orb capable of lifting cars. Couldn’t she just use flight and then restrain her attacker with the light hook.
I think this’ll be when we learn of the final orb’s power: healing. It was suggested earlier, but never tested due to the horrors of paper cuts after all.
Oh, are you in the “mystery orb must be health support” rotation? I wasn’t expecting anyone else for another dozen posts. :)
it does go with the “I’m a starship” logic that it would be a sickbay. The only other possibilities I can think of are cargo bay or brig
Galley (dining hall). Probably stocked with grakz.
And of course single-handedly (single-orbdedly?) kicking the ass of a Lovecraftian Kombat Kaiju is likely to instill just a touch of overconfidence.
Her bangs are totally doable.
I worked with a girl from Japan who did her bangs in an even more extreme style.
Never once saw her without that hairstyle.
I’m pretty positive it was do to some kind of hair products and not nature, but I’m also pretty sure our world doesn’t have supernatural stuff either. ;)
A number of heroic girls are blessed with “rabbit-ear” bangs, Viviana in “Gaia – Shadowdancers 022” comes to mind most recently.
It seems to be a popular look…
So flight orb and light hook?
Always believed ‘helio’ referred to the sun, or maybe ‘yellow’
You know, like the heliosphere?
You are right about the sun’s reference as Helios was a Sun God, but heliotropium is a genus of little purple flowers which need lots of sun.
From the color of the flower, it is probably the name of the color DaveB selected for Tamatha’s hair.
Thank you for explaining that
that’s some rather fast-acting stuff, just stab em in the shin and boom they are down
Just like the stuff Daphne used after the Restaurant Rubble Rumble
Hmm, what would happen if Concretia ran into Marble Maiden (or vice verses)? Would Cretia be able to ‘possess’ Eminem? Would that kill Eminem? Is that why we haven’t heard from Eminem, even though Archon were close to tracking her down two months (in world) ago?
What if touching Marble Maiden caused Varia to turn into green marble and made Marble Maiden immune to being turned into marble?
Vahriah’s gestalt is not permanent, it only last’s as long as she is touching (or maybe a few seconds after)
Concretia doesn’t seem like a possessor; more a petramorphic gestalt body formation power. Kinda like an elemental aura, only as earthen materials, while also protecting her body in a spirit form; which puts her above most elemental aura types who make more a shield of the material around their body like The Human Torch or (old version) of Ice-Man *yeah at some point Iceman gained cryomorphic powers, not sure if this was ever changed, X-men is a too many titles at once series for me to even try to keep up anymore*.
I suppose another example would be a less supers, more supernaturals with elemental spirits who can’t interact on the physical plane but are aligned with specific forces of nature so can make bodies out of them, water, fire, wind, a bunch of sticks and leaves, dead bodies, mud, ect… except we are to believe Concretia is a super.
I was thinking “It” The Living Colossus .
Well, yeah, she forms a body out of nearby… umm, what sort of material is tarmac again? And just figured Eminem would simply have been a ready-formed body for her to ‘inhabit’
It… was also not meant to have been taken too cereally, hence the repeated usage of ‘Eminem’
“Tarmac is the generic name given to road surfacing materials, which is comprised of tar-like materials mixed with mineral aggregates like Portland cement, sand, gravel or concrete. However, the word ‘tar’ is used to describe a number of distinct substances that aren’t actually tar.”
-definition
petramorphic abilities are always a curious lot and some elements may be psychosomatic in nature, as they can’t claim to form constructs and bodies out of “inanimate” or “inorganic” substances if their list also includes things like soil, tar, and oil. So while a sand manipulator might be a pure Silicokinetic or whatever term you want to use, various metals and what not as well; when that range starts to include very different materials across the chemical spectrum there might just be another x-factor at play in the quantum quirkiness department of their metaphysical powers; like a “low astral resistance control” or something else the author can play with.
-Low Astral Resistance being materials that are relatively low energy, dense structures, with little animate force inside them so provide little resistance to being manipulated on the astral plane by a strong animate force like an astral body, especially if they already have an astral quality matching that of most of the inanimate materials (see elemental spirit alignment),,,ya’know metaphysical explination that differentiates powers like pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis and what not as something special (in-tuned to specific materials as if an extension of their own astral will); as opposed to specialized forms of psychokinesis; thus able to do more creatively with the material than just moving it around.
Tank you for the detailed chemical explanation, butt most people know, when someone mentions ‘tarmac’ they are talking about the black crap roads and runways are made out of (no idea what USAsians call it, have heard one country refer to it as ‘tarmacadam’… which seems to be a word the auto-carwrecker recognizes at least o_O)
While some of us are familiar enough with the term, we usually just use another generic substitute word: Asphalt…
Oh yes, that’s the other name for the ‘black road crap’
Back when I was young and dinosaurs wandered the earth, or drove around in ’55 Chevys, we called it Blacktop because it was… black on top.
Tarmac is an abbreviation from Tar-Macadam; John McAdam was an engineer who developed an improved method of building roads, which was then further improved by binding it together with tar. It’s since become an inaccurate description in most cases, as road building shifted to using bitumen/asphalt rather than tar and the time-consuming ‘Macadam’ construction became less popular, but the name was well enough established to carry across.
In response to 3: You can just have Sydney decide to change her hairstyle, if you so wish. The ‘disguise’ look she’s been wearing for the last few pages is one she liked in-universe and one your readers have liked outside of it, so please don’t be afraid to make it part of the comic’s continual art-evolution if you so choose to!
The problem with doing that is that the first few pages of the comic take place in the future and the entire rest of the comic so far is a flashback that hasn’t caught up yet, and Sydney has her standard hairstyle in the future.
I thought it was already established that her bangs could not be contained by any natural force short of means that would cause her a headache.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-450-bang-jail/
So she’s not going to be changing that hairstyle short of a buzz cutter.
Which still makes possible she changed hair style meanwhile then decided she liked her original style more. Or, she might return to her original style for trademark reason or something.
Or, and this may be a radical idea, she doesn’t change her hairstyle and let’s leave it at that?
I think we’re past those first few pages the intro flashbacks from? That scene takes place at the old game store, which means before Sydney’s interplanetary excursion?
No, the flashback takes place in the new game store. The old game store only had one floor. Sydney’s still in recruit training, in the flashback she has made Corporal.
There were a Game Master and four players in the role playing game, we still haven’t met two of the players.
So, not yet.
Yay, my Sydney is back!
Although her eyes in panel 1 were still a bit on the freakishly large for my particular tastes. But we should be overly fussy in such things, for those we like!
should = shouldn’t
!!!
Those… are her normal size eyes, just compare them to her Who’s Who entry just to the right of it
You are another one who seems to believe her large eyes are the result of her glasses, and you call yourself her “Number One
StalkerFan”!Easy to see that Sydney has not completed the police trainee portion of her basic training yet. Albeit also having less than full capacity, in her current state, as per Dave’s blog above.
I generally don’t comment, but regarding Sydney’s hair, she basically had ahoge hair. And given her knowledge of anime, she likely knows it too. An example of a character she would be ok with being compared to who has ahoge hair is Edward Elric.
She’s had a painkiller and a chocolate cake shot minimum and she weights 97lbs…. She’s more than buzzed unless she has crazy metabolism.
Talk of the orbs fighting reminds me, when Sciona had her, sure the arm regenerated, but there was no reason to not continue the assault, be surprised that even the best regenerator will back off when being hit by a continuous barrage to their arms, legs, head, chest, head again, and again, and again, from multiple angles.
Tell that to Wolverine
And it was Sydney who was surprised, and stopped the assault, which allowed Sci-fright to stab her with a syringe
Wolverine, and even Deadpool have been overwhelmed this way. More so Healing Factor days Wolverine than walk away from a nuke Wolverine, back when it was more a sped up healing not full on “look laddies I grew me arm back”. But even then, a contious assault “war of attrition methods” have worn down regenerators. You see it more against regenerating monsters and a “focus on that one spot and punch through”. Sure she regenerated after a moment, but chain strike that elbow with the same force in consecutive seconds (do we know how fast she can move the orbs?) and she could be taking that arm off. Not the easiest way to cut an arm off, but its a matter of which has the more resistance and hitting the weaker one enough times and fast enough.
Right, when you see that damage from your assault is being regenerated, you double down on your assault to overwhelm the regeneration. She might have actually won that fight if she’d known what she was doing.
Which she didn’t, because she’s just a recruit.
ya, but her spaz out attack method could have kicked in and done it anyway like a blind panic assault. When in doubt go full badger.
Sydney can think but not move?
OK…
She calls the tentecle orb to her hand, forms a ribbon to secure the orb to hold it there.
Wraps tentacle around her upper body under her arms, lifts herself up and carries
herself to the club.
Alternately…
Wills the comball to her hand, creates a Holoclone, buzzes to a safe room, lies on the
Couch, teleports.
Or, she simply forms a bubble and waits for help to arrive, maybe use the MolestOrb to hold Aranea in place (doubt she would be strong enough to drag Sydney like Kevin did)
“To me, my pretties!”
(The Orbs come out and circle her head.)
Good thing the purse wasn’t zippered.
Her hand was in it a minute ago.
And now the unkbown orb’s powefe will be revealed…antidote (against anything and boosts if upgrated well)
“…and apperently the unknown orb’s power is to produce bacon on demand…..I guess whoever built these REALLY liked bacon….I mean it’s not the WORST power but I was hoping for something a little more useful”
Villian:-“BACON!!! Oh no, my fatal bacon allagey!…Throat…closing…up…can’t….breathe….CHOKE.”
Last orb is the Lazy Gun from Ian Banks – it kills people, but in the most amusing way possible….
Wibbly is okay. Wobbly, not so good. Timey-wimey and you’ve got problems.
Considering it is all a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, we’re all in trouble then!
*Sigh* You are going to bankrupt me, because NOW I am going to have to find a US source for the Hapsburg Gold Label Premium Reserve Absinthe and Bruichladdich X4 Quadrupled Whiskey! (I’ve already determined Dwarven King Whiskey is, apparently{?} fictitious.) Seriously those sound right up my aisle!
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at least it isn’t Wurmvater Totenkopfgeburtstagdunkelbrau that you’re craving… Heh, heh, heh…
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I’d say it’s closest to heliotrope. It’s not red enough to be Tyrian purple, and it’s too light to be jasmine or orchid, but it’s too vibrant to be lavender.