Grrl Power #82 – Who’s interviewing who?
No plot movement in this installment, but I always had this scene in my head where Sydney meets the upper ranks of the team and steels herself for it by making it be known that they better watch their P’s and Q’s, whatever that means.
The general needs a name since he’ll be officially introduced on the next page. I’d call him General Hedaya but that might be a little obvious. Gwen’s reaction is heavily inspired by the scene in Alien 4 when it all starts going south, the alarms sound and it shows the General (played by Hedaya) sit up in bed wearing a tank top. Some woman behind me in the theater said very loudly “Oh my god that guy is so hairy.” Seriously I’ve seen comedy sketches where they glue hair onto someone so they can make jokes about body hair where the guy in the sketch was considerably less hairy than Hedaya.
I don’t know why, but this page took soooo long to draw. I watched 6 episodes of Cadfael and 14 of the old Mission Impossible series while working on it. Granted, it probably wouldn’t take as long if I wasn’t watching stuff out of the corner of eye. Still, Cadfael is good so check that out. It’s… imagine if PBS produced CSI set in the 1100’s. For serious.
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I thought the General looked a little like that hirsute rodent from Aliens 4. LOL
I have to wonder though if Sydney actually has something written in her LIST or if she just whips that out just to mess with whom ever is trying to out weird her?
I hope we’ll get to see, someday, just what Sydney does to people/objects/bodyparts who are on The List.
I’ve no doubt that Sydney has some imaginative means and methods of inflicting her wrath upon those who’ve crossed her. :)
I think if you get listed enough times you go *poof* and Sydney gets a news artifact.
NEW artifact darnit. Where did that s come from?
You got your characters confused. Sydney gets a new artifact, and Suzie reports on the news artefact.
I highly doubt almost ANYONE can out wierd sydney. Dabbler has a chance but still.
Dabbler is an alien, with a bizarrely eclectic range of abilities AND a family tree that is about as …. diverse as it could get without actually breaching multiple realities.. All those things make her Weirdness Quotient a thing to behold.
But I still think Sydney’s Weirdness has the edge.
actually, if I remember correctly, Dabbler isn’t an alien but is in fact a Succubus.
Though that would lead me to believe that the ‘actual’ succubus of the Grrl Power universe are different than the ‘standard’ succubus of daemonology.
I stand corrected – sort of. Alien, as in Not Human, would still apply.
She’s supposed to be a lot of things. I tried to read about her on the cast page, but couldn’t because the wrighting was mixed with the background.
DaveB, could you fix that please?
I think her ancestry breakdown was something like “1/2 succubus, 1/3 doppelganger, and 1/6 an as-yet unidentified alien species”. I may have the first two the wrong way round, but given the propensity for both to shapeshift as part of their ‘job’ I’d guess Dabbler’s physical body is mostly that of the “alien species”.
One of the rare occasions the interviewers and more scared of the interviewee.
Also that “don’t imagine us naked” bit, classic, I can see their really breaking out the professionalism now.
Will Sydney revel her powers? Who will ended up on THE LIST? Will Max end up double listed? Find out next week!
I found my own method of feeling comfortable in front of a group, now I dont need the crutch, but it was what I called the “Superman Effect” basically I wore a t-shirt that under my dress shirt that exemplified my personality. It was usually wildly inappropriate and very politically incorrect at the time. It would be even less so now, but sometimes I wear it openly if the crowd would get the joke it was intended as.
Might pick a name like his ancestors emigrated in from greece, or something, then.
Hahahahaha! Honestly, I agree with Max there! Be afraid of the list, be very afraid of the list…
Love Sydney’s expressions in panels 8 and 9. You go, girl!
Is it weird….
a. that I find Panel 8 and 9 the most sexy pictures of Sidney that I have ever seen?
b. that I stayed up past my normal bedtime (night shift job) just to see what happens?
c. that the concerned looks of Arianna and Max, in panel 4 are hilarity at its best?
Yeah, I realy like Sydney’s expresion in pannel eight. Like she’s trying to decide if she should kill them or not. Unexpected, is the word that comes to mind. That and intimidating.
A. No. I think it’s because she look very serous in those panels.
B. Hey, I got up four hours early to read this, so I’m in no position to judge.
C. I think the expression on their faces is perfect.
A: If so, I think I’ll join you on the weird side.
B: Simply a testament to Dave’s plotting. (Both in the storyline and the evil-plan sense!)
C: I’m not sure about hilarity; for me it’s more of a ‘did I really hear those words in that deadpan voice’ look. But then, that might be because of how it usually gets used on me.
I agree with you on that point. Up until now Sydney’s expressions have always been comically hilarious and all of a sudden….. WHAM! Deadly serious. List out and everything. I think there should be a wallpaper panel 9.
I wonder why Maxima took off her jacket.
1st panel, Sydney got Cheeto finger stains on the arm.
That’s what I would have you believe, but it’s actually so I’ll have one less thing to color for a few pages. :P
Smart. Very smart. One of the best strips yet btw.
And completely incidental to the improved view of her anatomy, I’m sure.
Well there’s that, but this page has 4 different skintones on it, and I color all of the same color at once to save a little time, once the jacket is out of the picture I won’t have to mess with dark green, and now that Gwen’s out of the picture, that’s down to 3 skin tones. Hopefully whatever’s in the tube isn’t too colorful. :P
Arn’t the hot cheeto’s red?
I’ve got a P and a Q for you.
P – Pasted link: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/mind-your-ps-and-qs.html
Q – Query: Until your update today, along the title bar, you had a “group shot” for Harem’s picture. Was that art from some previous strip that I missed, or was it original art that you used just for that purpose? And can I see the full art?
The picture of Maxima is a extra that you get when you vote on one of the webcomics sites. It’s been changed since that one. The whole picture has most of the charictors in a Christmas setting exchanging gifts.
I asked about Harem, not Maxima.
Sorry. He drew that before he started the comic. It’s on the cast page.
The shots cycle every time you load the page. There is a pool of them, which grows steadily as the comic does.
Just pray we never have to worry about the General showing up on the title bar doing a beefcake shot like a high-ranking badger.
Badgers? We don’t need no steeenkin’ Badgers!!!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
Yeah that picture I did specifically so I’d have something to stick in her spot in the title bar since I’d never actually drawn her before doing the comic. That shot is the full shot, but I have a larger version if you like. Also half of her look different, but that easy to explain since she probably swaps out her wardrobe and hair style on a regular basis.
I’m with Gwen about the ewu thing. Seeing a hairy greek man in his fifties or sixties is not something I’d want to imagine. The rest of the women in the room on the other hand….
So you prefer your hairy Greek men in their 20’s to thirties then? Do they have to be Greek? Why not Scottish?
Oh, now you have done it. Now I am imagining the General [halftrack?] speaking with a Scottish brogues with a hint of … what is it … Chicago or a New York accent? Gah – I can’t even get my imagination to be understandable v_v …. Stupid Daylight Savings Time ….
Oh crap – I just made a second read through and now the general is coming through as Colombo ….. hey wait, that may not be so bad, humor served through dry wit ….. and with that random stream of thought come a plethora of passable names leading to this one suggestion ….. General [No First Name to be ever mentioned anywhere] Melchett ….. lets see if any of you trivia / BBC buffs can figure that one out :P
.. Easy – Blackadder (all of them except the first series) :)
Actually he could come through a little like Columbo couldn’t he. Which gives me an idea. General Falk, that way you are honoring two great actors, one through the last name and one by appearance.
Trivia: Peter Falk wasn’t the first choice to play Columbo. He got the job after Bing Crosby turned it down. Wrap your brains around that one.
Hmm, I kind of like that idea. Been watching tons of Columbo on Netflix as well lately. :)
Oh, one more thing! lol
Crazy Sydney bemuses them.
Calm, serious Sydney scares the crap out of them.
Well they know she’s a bit unstable, and suspect her of having acces to some strange powers, so when she shows a serious side it can be a bit scary.
A bit?
Understatement much?
A little dead, a small nuclear war, spouse is a little annoyed, the electoral system is a little broken …..
Maxima realized that Sydney’s about to get dangerous.
Love the Cheetos stains on Max’s jacket! :) Gwen also seems to have “foot-in-mouth” disease! :D
shes just reacting to the pay-attention-to-yourself-not-me counter effect the haloians hit her with while blocking her scan of the tube.
Nope not wierd at all. It IS a little intimidating.
Gotta write that down. . .
Let’s see… Poster tube, ID badge, Lanyard, glasses, Sydney isn’t missing anything, yay. Great page Dave,
And don’t forget The List!!
That’s why it took so long to draw. :P
I NEED a little book labeled THE LIST.
So make one. It’s not too hard to do using Word or some similar program.
Merchandise opportunity there Dave.
I think Dave needs a soulless merchandiser to make him money and put his images on everything known to man. And a heavy duty stun gun to keep him in check.
If my car was paid of, I WOULD SO WANT that job. ;)
Mostly the stun gun part. :O
The stun gun is to keep things like “Max-E” pads from happening!
I love every bit of this page!! Maxima’s jacket, Gwen and the general being unprofessional (I’m working on a story of my own, partly in the military as well, my general can beat the shit out of your general! And she would, because this guy is too unprofessional! lol #shamelessplug), Sidney’s serious face!!
I’d suggest names, but I’m absolutely crap at that, sorry.
I think they are trying to put Sydney at ease, so she won’t be so nervious. Looks like it worked a little bit too well.
Nah. Colonels are the ones who will rip you to pieces for being unprofessional, because they are trying to make General. Once you’ve got your star, it’s like being a professor with tenure, they destress and regrow thier sense of humour.
You may have just screwed up my entire plotline… I think I’ll take even more advantage of the fact that they’re not human and it’s all a metaphor anyway.
um it is meta for what?
(j/k)
*Some* of them de-stress and relearn a sense of humor. Others may get an inflated sense of importance and stress over the fact that others don’t seem to understand they’re the most important person ever. Also note that you can get some recovery of humor at any of the upper levels if the individual decides they’ve progressed far enough. There’s also a rare few who manage to remain mostly decent people throughout the whole process (except, of course, while on the job) and still make it all the way to the top.
A former colonel told me that the most humorless tend to get stuck at sergeant, however: you need to get people to fall in line to rise up through the ranks. But drill sergeant tactics tend to work less on people who’ve actually been drill sergeants and have gotten used to authority. As such, if you can’t learn to manage people on other terms, and you have no other exceptional talents, that’s usually as far as you go. And if you can motivate your fellow troops without ever yelling or otherwise appearing like a classic drill sergeant, you tend to be a sergeant for a relatively short time before getting that next promotion.
I know, names are hard. Whatever I come up with sounds like “Fakename McMadeupname” to me. Or when you try and make a name sound kind of cool it comes across like “Explosion Turbopuma” or something. I’ll just have to go to Whitepages.com and hit random a few times.
Can you please make sombodies name Explosion Turbopuma? You could do it as “My name roughly translates as …”. it sounds like a power ranger theme villian.
One reason why I collect names. The more unusual an “ethnic” the better. Whether they are Greek or Polish or Melanesian should figure into to it. There is no hard a fast limits of spelling an pronunciation either. Maybe look up Greeks in name.
I have always hated thinking up character names. Lately I have been frequenting baby name sites. Especially international name sites with basic translated meanings so I can tailor them to the characters with non English speaking heratiges. So far it has worked out quite well.
Working as a parking cashier, one of our customers had a seriously cool name. Might not work for your General, but I imagine you could find a character to fit the name.
Derek Hungness
I think I got points with him by never treating his name as humorous in any way.
I wound up using a variant in a Role Playing Game. Maxwell Hungness. It was the GM’s wife whose character made the leap into the gutter regarding the name.
If your name was Maxwell Hungness, you’d have no choice but to become a porn star.
Imagine Maxwell Hungness the third.
A friend of mine is named “Doug Blow,” and yes he actually has an Uncle Joe. :) You can look up his family name in South Carolina history too, the Blow family has been around a while. I worked in a call center for several years. Believe me, there are some names out there that would never be used in a comic series because they are too weird (Purple Hayes for example).
You could approach it as part of his character. Start with his heritage and decide what his parents might have named him ( much hilarity could be had there).
My only comment is that Last names only make good first names on occasion. I tried the whitepages.com trick before the internet by using the the first and last real last names in the NYC phone book. it was something like Aabi Zyget. but the actual names were longer and impossible to pronounce.
nearly impossible for ‘me’ to pronounce.
Cadfael. You mentioned Cadfael. You just gained 100 Coolness Points™.
I think I like Gwen.
I am loving how serious you made Sydney look in panels 8 and 9, especially 9. You got her eyes there perfectly!
Her eyes in panel 8 also convey her serious tone, although I find them a little off.
Yeah her head is a little off in that shot. I was trying to make her looking up under her brows with her head tilted forward slightly, the result is that her jaw and chin are a little small and her head is a little big. :P Oh well, practice practice.
If that’s how she looks when the drawing’s “a little off”, I have no objection to more of it! It’s an interesting change of style from (what strikes me as) a very comedy-manga style to a more comic-noir style. Actually, if I’d seen that expression before this page I’d have associated it with an individual like Artemis Fowl (as of the first book, not so much the later ones).
“imagine if PBS produced CSI set in the 1100′s.”
So Downton Abbey is…?
Wait what is this? I may have to check this show out. Never heard of it before.
Wiki is your friend.
Yeah, you should check it out. It’s pretty good, and pretty British.
A twisted version of Friends, set in the 1910s
i know what is in the tube:,,, its previous notepads of the list,, the ones she filled!
FEAR THE LIST!
I like the idea that when Sydney becomes serious and brings her scattered attention to focus on someone, things suddenly switch and you start to realize how dangerous she may really be.
It’s similar to the idea when less-powered heros beat more powerful ones because they know how to not only use their powers more effectively but how to use the other hero’s powers against them.
Also, loved Cadfael.
Haven’t seen it in years…loved that show.
Imagine a investigative monk, similar to the book/movie “In the Name of the Rose.”
And Sydney is someone who spends a huge amount of time just thinking about how one can take down another person with a particular powerset, or various ways to use powers that you might have in new and creative ways.
Gamer and comic book geeks do that a lot, you know.
So it begins, she has some silly moments but when the chips are down it seems she can be serious and intimidating when she needs to be.
Thats probably the reason they gave her the rank of corporal.
Indeed.
Oooh, things are picking up a serious note, now. I’m looking forward to reading more.
See when I saw that big long room with the interview panel at one end, I assumed it was to give the interviewee plenty of room to adequately display their powers.
It probably wasn’t intended as a interview room. Probably a reception room for when they have press or politicians over for things like formal dining and press confrences.
“Mind your ‘p’s and ‘q’s” is a phrase that originates to old school typesetting. With the original printing presses, each letter had to be hand-set and printers would have literally drawers full of small letters made out of (usually) lead. The letters were all mirror images, though, so that they would transfer ink on to the paper so that the printed page could be read normally. Because all the letters were reversed, a lead ‘p’ looked like a ‘q’ and vice-versa. If you weren’t paying close attention, it’d be easy to get them mixed up. Hence, “mind your ‘p’s and ‘q’s.”
This typography lesson brought to you by nothing apropos of the actual comic itself. :)
Actually if you go further back in time, the phrase was used in tending bar. The waitresses were told to be mindful of their “pints & quarts”, the tally the customer had drank. It was often shortened to “mind your p’s and q’s”.
:)
Believe it or not there is a literary figure who’s name was Sir Apropos of Nothing! lol
Very anti-hero.
Peter David wrights some great stuff.
I really liked his take on the “One Ring”. :) lol
Also, I hate to go all Grammar Nazi on you but I just noticed a common error in the title of this page. Since the second “who” is not actually a part of the subject but instead a direct object and the focus of the verb “to interview” it should actually read “Who’s interviewing whom?”
Again, sorry to play Grammar Nazi but that is one of the few mistakes that just seems to bug me, not sure why.
Normally I’d go and correct that, but unfortunately for the word “whom,” it’s been relegated to joke status, the sort of word that you only say while wearing a monocle or being Frasier. It’s one of the few words that when used in speech, will grind any conversation to a stop and make people lob jokes at you about your English degree from Eaton, and would you like some stinky cheese with that and all.
Calling some one a gentlemen seems to do the same thing. It was joked about in a movie I watched last night and they were wearing monocle in that too as a joke about the word Gentlemen.
well I guess I am weird since I’ve used both in a conversation, either that or is because I’m Canadian and we use the language a little differently up here in the great white north.
No, not weird, or especially a Canadian thing (as far as I know.) Most of the people I know use whom when appropriate in conversation, and I do as well.
That said, it does come rarely in natural conversation, which is why it sounds odd to some people’s ears. There may also be geographical factors. While it is a diminishing effect, due to the internet, informal language usage is highly localized, and so there is slang unique to New York, or San Francisco or wherever. More generally, there are some pretty major slang differences in the US between the southern states, the west coast, and the east coast.
“Garner’s Modern American Usage” can be a very useful book in these cases, as the author breaks down not only if usage is correct but also how widespread a certain usage is. The more widespread, the more likely it is to sound correct, regardless of grammar. A rating of 1 or 2 means the usage is limited to a city (1) or small region (2), a rating of 4 indicates it is widely used in informal contexts, and at 5, most people do not know it is proper usage (so go ahead and use it).
‘Who’ in place of ‘Whom’ has a rating of 4 (widespread, informal), except when following a preposition, in which case it is rated as 2 (regional, will sound wrong to most readers).
What does Garner’s have to say about the pop vs soda argument?
https://popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html
Garner doesn’t comment on soda vs pop debate (Wow, didn’t know anyone still used pop… sounds sooooo 1950s to me.) A quick text search shows he uses the word ‘soda’ twice in the book, in example sentences illustrating the usage of other words, so I guess that could be a tacit vote for ‘soda’.
Which is odd, since Garner is a Texan university Professor, and given the map you posted, I would expect him to favor ‘pop’.
They use it in the Michigan area and around the great lakes.
I’m with Quarion on this one. “Who is interviewing who” sounds like “He is interviewing he” Or “She is interviewing she” to my ear.
“Who is interviewing whom? Why, he is interviewing him!”
The truth is unless you run with a highly educated crowd most people will look at you strangely if you use the term “whom”. At least in America. I don’t see this as a bad thing. Languages evolve, new words and phrases get added and old ones stop being used. To me who seems more friendly than whom. The term “Who’s zoomin’ who?” sounds far better than “Who’s zoomin’ whom?”.
but without fancy words like “whom” we can’t say things like “Who dragged whom how many times around the walls of where behind the wheels of what?” placing 5 questions in a single sentence.
Also on a side note, I think my favorite English word is defenestrate.
Actually it’s German. It means something like “Forceful exit out windows” referring to a historical event. Hint: fenster is German for window.
German? I don’t know the specific etymology of defenestrate into English, but I’d have placed it as coming from Latin: de (out of) + fenestre (window) + ate (action). I think it became ‘popular’ around the time of one of the European revolutions: minor aristocracy weren’t so much executed as chucked out the windows of their own tall chateaux.
Of course, modern computing has led to a potential conflict of meanings for the computer-literate: will you defenestrate your computer (change OS) before frustration makes you defenestrate it (out the window)?
Well the problem with saying something is German is Germany didn’t actually exist as a single state for a long time. But the history of the word I learned was that it began when a proposal was rejected by throwing the representatives out of a window in one of the Germanic states. Germans love their compound words so this is not unlikely.
Totally what other country comes up with a word like Geschwindigkeitsreduzierendebodenwelle to mean speed bump!
(it literally translates to speed reducing floor wave)
I think one of my German Language teachers actually told me that the German school system has annual competitions to create really long compound words
The event you’re thinking of is The Defenestration of Prague in 1618. Which isn’t really Germany, though the regions are geographically close. And the origin for the word is apparently Latin.
Love IT!!!! The list comes back into play!
Thanks! Now every time I see the General I’m going to have LMFAO I’m sexy and I know it playing in my head.
Sidney intimidated Maxima. That’s something impressive right there.
Sidney’s personality and look can change in an instant, and going to her serious look in 2 seconds flat, I will admit that I was surprised. She went from Tareme eyes to Tsurime eyes, it looked natural, and that can be intimidating in any setting.
That’s the thing with ADD, one needs a heightened metabolic rate to focus, the animal “fight or flee”.
Most of the time, I am a pretty smart scatterbrain, my mind going in 10 different directions. I see everything, like you would if you were in a strange town. In a restaurant, I stare at my plate in order to eat.
Some people take it that’s all I am, until they argue with me. Then, 10 pretty smart minds all focus on their destruction.
No one wants my full attention, and these people don’t want Sydney’s. Whatever is in that tube is stronger than Maxima. If that faux bank robber hadn’t been stretchy, he could have died.
I love lists.
Very intresting comment. Where do you live so I can avoid it.
But Sydney didn’t use any powers at the bank. At least none I could recognize as such, unless you count adrenaline frenzy and/or peppered breath. And remember the fear vomit? Not very super.
And the tube seemed to act on its own. When I think about the wheel incident I doubt that Sydney has serious control over whatever is in that tube.
No. She didn’t, did she? Nonetheless, bank robber ended up on the floor.
As for controlling the tube or its contents, the modifier on Maxima’s mind is probably “… yet.”
About whom?
I agree with you on that matter. I myself am a bit of s scatterbrain, and to top it off I’ve got and estimated IQ of 185 (I’ve already figured out quite a few things with regards to the nature of reality). And just so that you know, advanced theoretical physics is a hobby to me *shrugs*.
oops, I mistyped the s is supposed to be an a :P.
I would love to have a discussion about certain theories and postulates of my own though some are on evolution, some are on gravity and black holes and others on human nature.
I once heard that the galaxy spins like a wheel and not like a solar system where gravity is the deciding factor in planatary movement.
If it’s not the weak force controling the movement ( Gravity), then it must be the strong force(Electro Magnetics). At least thats my theory.
I must be really strange but I am having trouble figuring out why Gwen reacted the way she did. I mean if she analyzed Sydney they she should already know what she looks like. Unless she did it remotely or some thing.
Read it again. Gwen was commenting on the general’s comment anout picturing them all nude.
Gwen’s going to get some brain bleach.
Wipe the mental Etch-A-Sketch! Wipe the mental Etch-A-Sketch!
Picture Gwen and Dabbler naked! For the love of Stan Lee, picture Gwen and Dabbler naked!!
You made me spew Pepsi at my computer screen. Nice one.
Okay I personally have no wish to see the general naked but I would be surprised if no woman would want to see a fit military sans clothing. Especially if he has any charisma at all. Women don’t tend to be as hung up on age as men.
So you’re saying that Gwen shouldn’t be grossed out by the sudden mental image of someone who’s old enough to be her father naked?
Also, got a cite for that claim about women being less concerned about age than men?
Nam just that possibly not all women would. Taste being individual.
No actual studies I can name no, just 50 years of living and talking to female relatives and friends. Also the fact that women outnumber men in cosmetic adjustments of many sorts. Even if it is only a generally accepted perceived difference it affects people.
They should be afraid right now she is hyper focused on what is happening ADD and adrenalin. She will start running things through her head three or four strings of thought at a time I do it when I troubleshoot computers write code or talk to people it is a great advantage when you can figure out how something is going to resolve ten minutes before it does. Yes most of the time I’m am all over the place but get me in the mood to hunt and it is game on. Sydney has had more then enough time to develop these skills even if she isn’t aware she is using them.
On a side note my money is on Arianna and Zephan going on the list the General will be kept in check by Max and she can’t reach Zephan, Arianna just needs to be on the list.
Oh and I remember people using p and q when I was a kid but I remember is at Pees and carrots. Like I remember people saying mind or pees and carrots. I also remember all kinds of jokes about it so never was taking seriously.
His first name should be David. He has the look like he could be part of the Dave Conspiracy but isn’t. His last name should be something with a bit of power but a faint hint of goofiness. Like Spederman, or Furday, or (if you really want to go crazy) Cage. You said you needed a name. Thanks for an awesome, atypical girl in comics.
Only place I’ve ever seen Cage was Luke Cage, Hero for Hire.
But for the crazy angle you go to Nicholas Cage, Lol.
ROFL forgot all about him, and I love his acting. My Bad.
Your mention of the Dave Conspiracy caused me to look that up, and I stumbled into this: https://www.amazon.com/The-Archon-Conspiracy-Dave-Hunt/dp/0890817669
It does APPEAR that DaveB’s Archon has nothing to do with Dave Hunt’s Archon Conspiracy, but considering the nature of conspiracies and their theories …
Another great page, more character development and made me laugh.
As for a name for the General, why not a multi-layered homage like Patterson Rossman.
Just thought of something, took the tube off and holding it in front of her.
*General-is that a threat?
*Syndey-just in case you decide to go all Witch Hunter Robin on me.
(please, please don’t go the way of Witch Hunter Robin, Pain Killer Jane, and the direction it looks like Alphas is going in, where the whole super-human team is a cover for a secret government ploy to hunt down and eliminate super-humans through study of those captured).
Oh no, very different direction than that.
thank the gods,
To keep the Hedaya-esque quality, do a search for Sephardic Jewish names (Hedaya’s folks were Syrian Jews). Abenzara or Maleha or something.
Watching brother Cadfael? I see we have common taste :)….that show is awesome.
Hunh. Is it weird that Sydney ends up looking the most professional by the end of the strip?
Except maybe Zephan. He’s such a square. :)
The real Dan Hadya turned 74 recently. I first saw him in Buckaroo Banzi in 1984 an the last time was in the fourth Alien film in the early 2000’s when he was in military uniform an got to see some of that very hairy back. I have him well pictured in my mind his voice etc. Perfect casting here. Seriousness with lots of comedy. Perfect for him since he can do both.
Some great “serious” views of Sydney. So serious an those eyes—kind of like LASER scanners when they are like that. “Let’s do this” is very familiar to anyone who has seen the movies or read the comic books for when the heroes are ready to do battle with the evil _________. Delightful!
I noticed no brief bio of our favorite General yet. (I bet he has to work on his blood pressure a lot.)
Maybe even work in those times he has his body hair trimmed. “EEewwww!!!” says Gwen an everyone else.
I also imagine how a live action would be an how the hardest thing for them to do is keeping Sydney’s wing-like bangs arched properly.
Obviously her bangs would have to be toned down a bit for live action the way Wolverine’s hair is for the movies, but I’d love to see someone try and cosplay as her. Kind of easy except for the bangs if you’re a short skinny girl and have access to an orange poster tube.
If this webcomic were to be made into an animated movie, I can see the general being voiced by Ed Asner.
Gah! I know you need the full week to make it look as awesome as it does, but this waiting is killing me. I really, really want to know what the heck is going on.