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.
Also if you haven’t seen it yet there’s a new piece of bonus art/vote incentive up at TopWebComics.
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Regarding Sydney’s bangs constantly arching to either side like that? That’s my hair. I have 3 cowlicks. One straight down the middle and one over each temple. The ones to either side force my normally straight hair into water-buffalo shaped curves…which I have affectionately nicknamed my “devil’s horns.”
The cowlick down the middle versus the ones on either side force me to part my hair strictly down the middle; any attempt to part it down one side (or the other) means the middle and far side cowlicks gang up on the attempted part and shuffle my hair back toward neutral-balance. Straight. Down. The Middle. I’ve tried for years to have stylish hair, but though very soft and fine, my hair is the equivalent of a reincarnated follicular Houdini, because hair sprays, gels, mousses, and even permanents utterly fail to bend the stuff to their will. I can scrape it back in a ponytail or a braid while wet, even attempt to flat-iron it straight, but by the end of the day, the inevitable water-buffalo devil’s horns are back over each temple.
Because of this hairline-positional gangwar, I cannot have short bangs. They stand straight up when shorter than my brows, and arc out to either side slightly when shorter than mouth-length. In fact, I have given up on bangs all together and have tried my best to keep my hair jaw-length or longer because my hair will attempt to do a very unflattering version of Anime Bangs™ if I don’t. Sydney is lucky in that her hair actually looks cool while doing this. Mine? No such luck. The advent of stiffer, stubborn-er gray hairs at my temples in the last few years have only made the devil’s horns effect even more stubborn.
Anyhoo, quite enjoying this comic strip; I stumbled across it from an add on (I believe) GWS, and read the whole go in one sitting. Can’t wait to see more!
Your description of your hair challenge was hilarious! Thanks!
Yes, this one made me chuckle. That final panel there.
You’d think after everything that she’s said on national television, this wouldn’t be that big of an embarrasment…
So when are we gonna find out whats in the tube! What are Sydney’s powers! ARRRGHH, I wanna know!!!
Loving the comic so far. I have a soft spot for non-traditional superhero comic/books. Such as Hero Alliance, Common Grounds, Noble Causes, and Superfolks, to name a few.
But I gotta say… Having read the character bios, there is no way in hell that a 5’0″ girl with measurements of 32A-26-33 weighs in at 135lbs. Not even fully clothed and dripping wet. That’s about 35lbs too high, or 35% too high, if you look at it that way. She’d need some super-heroic density increase, and since she seems to have no intrinsic super powers, this does not seem possible.
I’ve seen girls like that. You don’t think they are that heavy but with the way they are always moving around and doing stuff they have a denser musciliture than you would expect.
Muscles are denser than fat. One could be compact enough an not look fat an still weigh heavier than you would expect. Plus muscle carries its own weight plus some unlike fat which can’t even carry itself.
Yeah I completely made that stuff up. Originally Sydney was supposed to be a little overweight but I couldn’t draw that to my satisfaction. I should probably remove all that stuff and just keep height, eye and hair color.
Okay, I’ll accept the challenge if you both will. Show me stats on any girl of even near measurements (up to +1″ in any or all of bust/waist/hips, up to +1″ height, up to +1 cup size) who weighs 135 lbs or greater. Is that generous enough?
Because while I understand that muscle is heavier than fat, I also still maintain that 135lbs is simply not possible given those measurements.
My best friend looks like a skinny little thing, is 4’10” on a reeeeally good day…and weighs 143 pounds in her undies. Of course, she has boobage, unlike Sydney, but that only accounts for about 10 pounds.
Would it be rude to request photographic evidence of this short skinny boobaged person? You know, for uh, artist reference of course. :)
Hope your wife isn’t reading the comments section.
MONICA from Wapsi Square! you know another REAL ONE? Paul won’t post any pics of the real one he knows.. drat…
Will we ever get back to the present? I just remembered that what we are reading now is actually a long “Let me start at the beginning” flashback
How do you know that wasn’t a flash forward?
How about a Flash Sideways! :D
You did say at the beginning that we are going “a few months back.” An you can fill us in when Sydney get’s her high tech wrist device we see her wearing at the beginning.
Yeah, I do shit like that and never realise when people are looking at me while I tilt my head randomly and clap my hands in time with the buses’ blinkers and make shooting sounds and blegh…… noooo it’s brought to mind every embarrassing thing I have done at school!
yeah, i tilt my head a lot, now i learned to keep it in my head… less confusion around but when you have two differing things going on that is when you go huh?!
At first I thought it was Sydny looking through a hole in her hands (between her fingers or something), Then I saw the hole in the tinting and thought it was a hole in the air and we were getting a peek at the Tube’s abilities.
(I’ve been stringently avoiding your cast page because I want the nature of Sydney’s tube to be a surprise. XD)
the blurb he put in there to begin with has been redacted until after the reveal… go a head and look, there isn’t any spoilers of that nature in there.
Dave none of us know, but the writer/creator/illustrator of this comic DaveB at the moment what is in that mysterious tube. So please read the bio briefs.
I’m glad you explained what she was doing in the comments section cuz I had nooooooo idea. This was a confusing page for me.
Haha lol. Something like this happened to me the other day when i wa playing with some new action figures :P
I have to say how much I am loving this series; if it were an actual comic book I’d buy it. Its rare to see a (if super-humans popped up in a real world) type setting that genuinly felt “real” and humorous with out needing some dark secret conspiracy angle like so many go with.
Thanks! What about dark conspiracies with wacky twitsts?
Howzabout wacky conspiracies with dark twists?
I am a few years late in coming across this comic, but this one made me laugh. The way you’ve created Sydney… She’s fudgetastically amazing! And super hilarious. This one… You knocked it out of the ball park. Thanks the laughs. :) Uuuuuuuu… Super excited for the next panel!
Hey Dave, just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the bonus pic, I like it. FWIW Captain Atom has had a few mini-series of his own, and was the central character (team leader) of Extreme Justice (much better series than the title suggests), plus an alternate version of Captain Atom is the villain known as Monarch. Only 5 more hours till update, Yay!
There are certain people born with super human abilities including greater resistance to electricity, being able to run much further for much longer an take a very long time to get tired. Super long range vision, able to generate enough heat to survive in the sub zero air without freezing to death.
I do like twists an turns an some well written conspiracy stories. Bring them on!
How long has Max been behind Sydney like that?
thats totally me illl pick up a random object and start playing with it like its a space ship or something lol
I totally do that lining up spots on a window with stuff beyond in the real world! It becomes a laser, or telepathic transmitter, or bomb sight. I figure it’s harmless most of the time, although people honk a lot and my passengers shout at me for no reason if I do it while I’m driving. I don’t know why.
I’m willing to voluntarily suspend belief enough to allow the existence of Sydney in most regards, but what she says in frame 1 really makes me skeptical. A fowl mouthed girl, even a fowl mouthed tomboy, wouldn’t say that. Unless she’s a tranny too, and it doesn’t seem like it.
If she was fowl mouthed she would have said ‘cocks’. Why there would be roosters on the plane, I have no idea.
Considering Sydney is around males all the time it must have rubbed off on her. Since sucking pussy, in her vernacular, would be fine too.
You ever done that thing where there is a rain-drop or something on the side window of a car… and you focus past the window to like… a continuous guard-rail by the side of the road…. and try to keep your head positioned so the guard-rail always goes between the two copies of the rain-drop?
I used to do that so much.
I think it contributed to my going short-sighted.
I think Maxima is way beyond second thoughts…. Probably closer to 1,958th thoughts.
“I take it back, I don’t think we’ll ever be ready for you.”