Grrl Power #81 – We’ve all been caught doing stuff like this. Right?
I hope this one makes sense. If no one understands what she’s doing, this would be an interesting way to learn that I’m the only one that’s ever lined up specks of stuff on a window (or a tear in the tinting) with stuff on the other side – at least I keep the narration to myself. Anyway it amused me and it was in character for Sydney. Also we see that she can in fact embarrass herself, it’s just that her ability to detect embarrassing situations is on the blink most of the time.
We’re getting close to the grand opening as it were. I haven’t scripted it all out exactly, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be before page 90. Probably quite a bit before but I don’t want to promise anything yet.
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Oh my holy Lords, Sydney! Honestly!
Love Max’s “What have I done?” pose at the end.
More like a ” Can this day get any stranger” look.
A question to which we all know the answer by now. As her day will continue to have Sidney in it ithas a rather high probability to get stranger still. However there is also quite a lot of fun to be had in how Sidney will break the minds of all her coworkers.
So far max was the one hit by the nexus of wierdness and neurosis that is Sidney. now however she gets to watch others being the ground zero. Bet you she will steal some of Heatwaves popcorn!
Oh the fun she could have with Harem.
She already punched Harem in the nose.
Exactly. What will she do next? He! He!
I think she’s counting like: 21….22…
I feel sorry for Mr. DeskGuy. He must hate his job. XD
I bet he’s recording it all for youtube.
That would get so many hits! XD
She probably has a cult following from the toung fu, and follow up interview already.
It’s a wonder Sydney hasn’t gotten a network offer for a Reality TV series already. Of course it would have to be from HBO or Showtime due to language, but it would be a hit.
She might. The days still young.
true,, and lets not forget that in grrlpower side,, it has only been a few hours so far :),,,like it started not long before lunch time,,, and now it aint even dinner time so,,
if i were him i’d get a kick out of it. i would have to write that stuff down to post online somewhere later
…after flicking back a panel or two to make sure I hadn’t skipped a comic or two….
…AND, after taking a moment to read the panel comments through carefully…
…I finally got the joke…
…and laughed my frickin’ ARSE OFF XD !!!
The things we think up and say when we think we’re alone.
Who hasn’t done something like that?
Ya indeed but I find it funny that this comic and another one had this type situation around the same time.
No Desk Guy is probably chuckling because this is the most fun he has seen in days … not including Harem though.
With his finger hovering by the security button the whole time.
Laugh at the weirdo who might have superpowers – and is most definitely crazy? Somehow, I doubt it.
Well theres at least two startrek episodes referenced here, the one with vampire gas and the one with the energy wife keeping everybody young.
Also seriously, 7am update time, do you live in french polynesia?
He lives in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Also a simpsons episode and either carebears, one of the macross, or sailor moon.
I schedule it for 6 AM my time. I suppose I could schedule it a bit earlier given that I have a few international readers…
Schedule it when ever you want. It’s a great comic and your consistant in what time you post so it’s a reliable comic. You don’t get many out there who are like that. (Megatokyo)
Most webcomics that update on a regular schedule and time usually do so at midnight (in whichever time zone is theirs), or UTC -05:00 if they are international with a large North American audience (since half the population of the US is in UTC -05:00).
But do whatever works best for you.
Not caught …nope don’t think so
Love Maxima’s face on pannel seven, You poor girl such a weirdo.
Emabarrased Sydney is ADORABLE! Also the look on Maxs face is priceless. Kudos.
She even has Cheetos mouth.
I know that look, Maxima is doing the whole, big sister feeling sorry for her much loved but “special” little sister, look.
Need an aspirin there Max?
Possibly a couple.
Or maybe a drink of something strong. It has been a VERY long day for her. ;)
Gimme a bottle of whatever is stronest. The day I’ve had, make it two.
On another note…
Max and Colossus!! Peter’s always been a gentleman (at least during the years I was reading). I think he’d have a chance. Unless…
However, just thinking about the naked light reflections is making my eyes hurt.
I thought he should have had a little smile when he handed her that buffer.
Maybe – I was thinking Daredevil, since most of her hangups seem to be rooted in people’s perception of her appearance…
Love how Sydney blushes in the last pannel. So she dose have a sense of shame! I thought she was one of those people born without one like those people who cant feel pain.
Max’s amazing size changing chest makes another appearance I see.
I guess Sydney just got bored waiting and her mind wandered off into Geek-land! :D
Like the detail of the mess from the Cheetos. Can’t wait to see what the others think of Sydney!
I used to do that when I worked graveyard in this little convience store. Came up with about five book ideas, and a few ideas that could probably make some good money if I wanted to take the time and effort to do them right.
Also a few great t-shirt and bumper sticker ideas.
ROFLOL………yeah, I have. Much to the embarrassment of some of my friends. :)
1st T-shirt idea
(front) Why Are Texans So Friendly?
(back) Because If Your Not We Shoot You.
2nd T-shirt idea. Good for tip jars also
Change is good.
Dollars are better.
Republican National Motto
3rd T-shirt idea. Good for bumper stickers also
Another Day
Another fifty cents after taxes
I’ll be honest, I didn’t ‘get’ it until after I read your comment but more because I didn’t realize she was looking out a window. I thought she had found a bit of plastic and was levitating out of boredom it so I was thinking ‘cool, one of her abilities is telekinesis. Which makes sense as she did move the tube’.
Found a new restaurant for Sydney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GthvVWxU490
(according to Henchman Publishing, if you can eat ALL of it, you get your next meal free or a tshirt)
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Oh, and until I got my meds right, I used to hold animated conversations with imaginary people. No, not schizophrenia, according to my psychiatrist, just a very vivid imagination, but apparently I’m VERY lucky that I never experimented with any mind/mood altering substances.
Oh man, I do this sort of thing all the time, only I pretend I’m the gunner behind a laser cannon, the speck on the glass is the targeting dot, and the gun is firing every time I blink.
I’m so happy to know its not just me who does this….
Yeah but do you make sound effects? I catch myself making Pew Pews.
I go “whooom whooom”
In space no one can hear your sound effects so no.
depends how loud you think them
No air in space to transmit sound. Only sound would be the sound inside your (I assume ) pressurized ship. And maybe the death-knell of debris hitting your ship at thousands of MPH.
Just imagine it’s the Star Wars universe, where you can hear the electromatic noise a blaster makes.
That’s all it is, Imagination.
I have a strange brain, it insists that even fantasies be logical or at least follow their own logic.
On the other hand, near the weapon on the ship/turret carrying it, firing stresses could be transmitted as vibrations through the hull/superstructure, or personal comm gear may pick up EM-spectrum harmonics as ‘sound effects’.
The noises don’t even have to be the actual effect of the weapon itself, they could be generated by secondary systems within the weapon that simply have to engage at the same time, until those noises become associated with the actual weapon itself, for example, the sound of the electric motor that accompanies the sound of a minigun firing.
Very true and even a quiet ship will have noise from the environmental and propulsion systems but unlike most sci-fi movies explosions make no sound in space, If you were within viewing distance of a supernova (and could survive) you would not hear it.
Actually it is possible an EM pulse could induce a booming sound in a close call but the rest of the explosion would probably destroy your ship.
I make SFX under my breath. And yes, there is sound because my laser cannon is being discharged through atmosphere. I imagine it make a similar sound to the railguns from Eraser, followed by the inevitable explosion when the laser impacts a car’s fuel tank….
My muttering gets noisier when I switch out the laser cannon for a .50 cal machine gun (for shooting up any surviving passengers).
Yeah, I definitely do this. Usually in the car, usually whilst chanting “switch all power to front deflector screens”. The truth is sometimes slightly sad.
I use to do this…….. Talk aloud to myself while looking at things, then get surprised when someone walks up behind me looking at me wierdly since I was talking like a crazy person.
Hehe… happened tome at the company once… Then a colleague asked me “Did you think you think you were alone?” *megablush* That’s indeed what I thought O_o
There is a solution, wear a bluetooth headset. then anyone will think your crazy talk is to the person on the other end.
no I usally ask myself something and then answer myself after thinking about it for a few seconds… I have had entire conversations with myself… but that doesnt sound like a bad idea.
o.O!!!!
I…..Is Sydney blushing?!….
……..CUTELY?!
Dammit, I’m constantly going to be hearing the Metal Gear Solid alert noise whenever Sidney has her little ! moments.
Also, love the cheetos-residue. Subtle, there.
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OH GOD THE CHILDREN!!
Yeah, me too. I just LOVE details like this. Subtle and (because of that, even more) funny :) :) :) :D
Er, I mean the cheeto traces…
This update reminds me of the update on Panda and Boo. Basically doing some thing embarrassing and finding out some one was in the room.
Btw, I just clicked on Gwen’s image and was taken to the cast page where there is no Gwen and no Zephan. Since they were introduced already (at least sort of) – Dave, how about? ;)
Yup, need to add that to my to do list. Hopefully there are no big video game releases this week, and especially not if it’s the third part of an action/RPG space opera trilogy… or anything like that.
Yay for Collectors edition. Unfortunately I had to go through best buy online and the store isn’t doing a midnight release.
The guy who does Nerf NOW is taking the whole week off (he updates daily) to play the game. Since most of his comics are game related he could call it research. :D
Compared to you his art is pretty simplistic more newspaper comic than comic book art but still quite good.
Your to do list wouldn’t happen to be anything like “the list” now would it?
Also new epic game = 0 productivity. This would be why I am forbidding myself from buying it yet (i’m in college).
Naw. More like the honeydo list a wife makes up.
But it’s a list his fans make up instead to make this a better webcomic.
Naw. More like the honeydo list a wife makes up.
Except it’s a list his fans make up instead to make this a better webcomic.
hehe i know what you mean,, i have been si psyched about it i preordered the collector edition last MAY!
they didnt even have a release date yet beack then,, only spring 2012 :)
I guess we are going to be screwed. EA games just released the sequel to the old 8 bit Syndicate. BUT if you start playing you need to invite ALL of us to your Syndicate. That would ROCK :)
I used to do that, sure. When I was 7 or something…
Lol, haven’t done that specifically in ages, but I still do other very silly things on the same range of childishness.
Oh, and the last panel killed me :D
As far as I know I have not done that. But I also have double vision so I would see 2 of those holes in the window. My glasses to correct it to a point. However objects close will be double while the object far away will be single. Although it depends which object I am focusing on. The focused one is single while the other is double.
Like right now when I look at objects behind my monitor the monitor it self is doubled. While the objects behind are single. I look back at the monitor and the objects in the background become doubled and the monitor is single. If I take off my glasses every thing is double. I was born that way though. So I also gained the ability to turn off one eye sort of speak. I mean it is still open but I no longer see out of it.
Looking at the comic again she did have one eye closed.
Amy what you’re describing sounds like a symptom of having two eyes. That’s what happens to everyone when they focus on something, everything else doubles up. Most people ignore that, so maybe what you’re talking about is the fact that you’re unusually distracted by it?
I didn’t know that was normal. I just know if I take off my glasses I have double vision. The eye doctor even says I have double vision.
Can every one else control how far apart the 2 versions of the same object are? Some times it is just fun to see how far I can get them apart and then bring them back together.
sounds like an astigmatism, a bump on the lens in the eye which causes blurry or double vision. it can be corrected for partially, but not completely in cases of severe astigmatism.
Yep that is what I have. Came down genetically. My grandmother and Mother have it too. Seems to just be in the female members of our family too. Each of use that have it have it to different degrees. One of my aunts daughters had it so bad she had to have surgery.
So how are 3D pictures for you? (ie. Can you see the sailboat?)
3d movies, pictures and the like are nauseating. Basically I can not watch them or look at them. They are less 3d then what they call 2d movies.
That sucks. I’ve been very near-sighted most of my life (first glasses 2nd grade first 1 eye then both) and can say I LOVED my first pair of contacts (in my twenties). I would have killed for them in high school but they didn’t have soft ones back then. Even with new glasses I had to sit closer to the movie screen than I really wanted (they never corrected me to 20-20) and the distortions played hell with my depth perception the first few days.
i know the feeling, 3d give me headache and nausea,, altough i can now see the new 3d tech,, it still give me those syptoms,, and i couldnt see the old one tough,, the one using colored lense,,in my case its mostly because or eye dominance issue,,basicly if my two eyes have view that are to dissimilar,, my right eye take over and my left eye kind go to off if that make sense
It’s called binocular diplopia. If you’re not cross-eyed, then it’s a result of your brain miscalculating the distance from your fovea (center of the retina) from the object you’re looking at. As such, when you try to look at something, your brain has failed to properly mesh the two images.
Provided you’ve had this problem most of your life, then it’s not likely something nasty like a brain tumor messing with your brain’s ability to integrate your vision, and is a result of a slight deformation of one of your corneas, effectively twisting the light as it enters your eye and throwing off your brain’s calculations. Did you have this problem before you got glasses? Or has it just sprung up?
Sometimes in children the brain compensates for double-vision by ignoring all the incoming information from one eye.
I got glasses to correct the double vision that and things were getting fuzzy. One lens is thinker at the bottom and thinner at the top while the other one is the other way around. I originally went in for the fuzzy vision after several tests the doctor said I had astigmatism, double vision, and near nearsightedness. I didn’t even know double vision was not normal until after I got my glasses which allowed me to see one of every thing instead of 2. Took a long time to get used to.
Here, these might help if your friends want to go to a 3d movie.
Arrgh, the link didn’t work.
https://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/miscellaneous/e9b4/?srp=1
Wow you to can pay 9 buchs plus shipping and handling for defective 3D glasses.
The way the new 3D works is by using light poloraized in different directions. These glasses just have the same polarization in both lens positions you could make your own by getting two pair of the free ones and putting two lefts in one and two rights in the other. then you will have two geeky pair of glasses for free, and they could even have some 100% real scotch tape on them too, what is more geeky than that?
If you want movie vision similar to Amy, then the best effect would be to swap the lenses. then you would see the left view with the right eye and vice versa. I think it is prety cool that she has enough occular control to diverge the objects. since she now knows we see single things maybe she could control for mesh instead of divergence. of course maybe she like chameleon eyes, since that is how they see.
I tend to get double vision if im really tired, and i can move each eye independent of the other, also, this kind of thing(in the comic) happens to me when im either headbanging with loud music, or making random noises due to hyperactive boredom, and someone barges into my room.
Yah I’ve done this quite a bit.
I also put my Scooby doo mystery machine toy on the car door window and “drove ” it past over the traffic on the other lane.
Ten?!?!
I just realized the chair she was sitting on is gone and so is the tube.
Usually all the sound effects are internal so no one hears or knows what fantasy, sick or otherwise, is going on.
Desk guy was probably amused by Sydney an wondering if she is an escapee from some asylum or off her meds. Funny how some of the most imaginative can be boarderline schizophrenic but with enough intelligence an less of the debilitating side of schizophrenia to be very imaginative. Schizotypals may be socially weird but they can create some incredible things. Salvador Dali is an example.
With such imagination one can jump off into many a wonderful idea like the imagining going on here by Sydney. I get some of my greatest ideas by what I just happen across.
Poor Maxima, in her Minima mode, having to deal with a fire cracker like Sydney. She has no super power to deal with that. Now does the tube often disappear like that? If so it would add to its mysteriousness. We can’t see it but it is still connected to Sydney.
Also it sounds strange to me that Sydney would be talking about the creature “sucking dicks” but not pussy. Since she is a she after all an I’m sure that would be cool to her too. (Better than sucking souls away.) I blame the male dominated comic book market where even the few ladies are sucked into that machismo world find themselves doing the same thing that the males are doing with the men an women in the comic book worlds.
Well the tube didn’t disappear, I just didn’t think there was an angle where you’d be able to see the chair it was sitting in. Maybe the top edge on two of the panels.
Nice :)
Maxima’s pose is perfect in the last panel.
The folded corner in top should be darker; the material is doubled,
and the more realistic shading and stuff is, the easier it will be for people to recognize the hole.
Also, I missed Sidney’s exclamation mark in the penultimate panel at first;
perhaps it should be a bit brighter/colorful.
It actually is very slightly, but I should have bumped it up a lot more.
FYI – Sydney’s visitor pass and lanyard went missing again.
Sonofa!
Well, knowing Sid, she probably took it off, played with it for a bit, noticed the chink in the window tinting, forgot completely about the pass and put it down on the chair with the tube.
seems in character to me.
Reason # 54 to put the lanyard around your neck and LEAVE OT THERE!! You only have to wear a dummy badge (temporary ID) one day to learn that lesson.
ot should be it
Typing skills so fail. Reason #2 I’m not a writer.
Seems plausible to me too.
Sydney gets a new shiney, you think she’s just going to put it on and leave it? Of course not!
Yeah, no long term surveillance work for Sydney! You definitely don’t want someone that easily bored, that easily distracted by shiny buttons, trying to remain inconspicuous in an equipped vehicle of any kind!
Very true but when I started looking up stuff on ADD after my diagnosis I found out that ADD people do very well at hunting and tracking. One Doctor had a theory that people with ADD were the hunters and trackers of the early tribal groups. Many have the ability of intense focus where the rest of the world kinda fades away into the background and they have to be “woken up” to return to normal awareness. Sydney just showed us a sample of this. When I sometimes get really involved with a book, game etc. you have to yell or shake me to get my attention. I loose all track of time and surroundings. Reading on a bus could be a problem sometimes.
Your description also fits many autistics. Total concentration in a single thing an ignoring everything else.
Sydney’s ADD would be an advantage in chasing, and in tracking. Not much good for waiting though. For surveillance, you need an entirely different set of neurological disorders.
That or she clipped it to the front of her jeans, which are not visible in this comic. Alot of people don’t like having stuff hanging around their necks anyway, especially hyperactive folks like chihuahuas on coke and black beauties like her.
true, but in high-security places like this, and many areas on military installations in general, it is REQUIRED to have the badge placed on the lanyard, or if no lanyard, then clipped to the collar or breast pocket. and a lot of the times if you DON’T have it there, then they call security on you, because anybody that belongs there knows that’s where it goes, so if you don’t know then you probably don’t belong there, ergo, they call security…
Nice cheeto face, cheeto face :P
So a tube of nothingness….hmmm….sounds epic. You named her Halo, so I keep imagining its like a magical golden Halo, like Thor’s Hammer only an angelic Halo *would be ironic given her personality* LoL
When I was in school that was an almost daily occurrence. For me school was about as challenging as breathing so my ADD was a real problem. Never did learn how to study.
new to the comic and loving it so far but i am a little lost with remembering some of the other characters names. Love sidney though she reminds of a friend i had in high school minus the tube thingy of course. youd think the comic book guy she works with wouldnt be quite so trusting if he knew her that well :P
Anyway loving it and hope to see much more soon.
Yes, we’ve all been caught doing this, or at least something like this with CHACHACHACHACHA…..(Plane lights on fire)…VRRRRRRRRMmmmmmmmm…..(Spirals) PRLORGBROUGH..(Crashes, explodes, pilot dies). Then a respectable person walks in…who you were supposed to impress.
Yup, done that many a time. Been caught having entire conversations with myself. Sometimes my inner monologue comes out aloud.
And I love the way Sydney says “Susie News” instead of the reporters real name. Which is… um…
We may not know the reporters real name, because she started off the interview with Sydney by saying “This is Suzie News,” which the producer commented on, but they couldn’t really do anything about.
WE know her real name, it’s Suzie Wen, at the end of the robbery, JUST before Max went into the ambulance. HOWEVER, i think that Sydney doesn’t know that, since she only talked to the reporter (intern) during the time when she was interviewing her, and that’s when she introduced herself as Suzie News…
Wow…. This might be the cutest Sydney has acted to date. In fact I think this is only the second cute thing we’ve seen her do. The only way it would be more cute is if she’d hidden in a conveniently placed box that had been there unnoticed this entire time instead of behind Max.
Like a kitty! :D
So it’s a contest to see who gives Maxima a stress induced stroke/aneurysm first? So far Sydney is galloping up to Harem and Dabbler and will soon pass them.
Harem and Dabbler combined couldn’t match Sydney.
Poor Max.
dab as a soldier probly has to much respect for max to do the drive her crazy act around max, now revenge stress on the team for how they irritate max would fit her playful inoccent act perfectly