Grrl Power #822 – Every (digital) man
“Hey Max, I’m taking my 15 minute break so I can run some visual gags with Goose.”
“Oh, uh, maybe don’t do that… and she’s gone.”
Weirdly, when Goose is fully kitted out in tac gear, he looks like a character from dozens of different video games. Just one of those faces.
This is a weird page, admittedly, but I’ve been planning it since the first page Goose appeared on… Holy shit, I forgot about those armored suits. Hah hah, those should probably show up again sometime. Anyway, Goose admittedly looks a bit… Nukem-esque, and people commented on it. So of course, I decided to do a page about it 8 years later. That’s how I roll.
Fun fact, “sigh” is the most Goose has said on a page to date. It does make me wonder how he orders food at restaurants though. Maybe he just taps on the menu and answers questions about “well done-ness” and side items with glares.
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DUKE NUKEM YES!
Damn I loved that game – the first 2 anyway… :-(
I’m surprised that Sydney didn’t bruise her knuckles when she thumped his arm. Got to be like thumping an I-beam.
I immediately went there too. Second thought was Guile, but he has that giant, knife-edged quiff and Duke just has the high top.
Bet he doesn’t have the music play when he enters a room though.
When I first saw Goose in the comic, my first thought was Duke Nukem. Later, I thought, DUDE! Maxima could totally cosplay as a yellow skinned Lara Croft and they could do a paired cosplay photo shoot to promote Archon and Sydney’s shop!
it was better when it was a freeware side scroller
Duke Nukem?
Surely you jest, this is clearly none other than Marquise Kaboom!
Although such misunderstanding is understandable – he is Duke’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate, after all.
Just wondering what is Goose’s military rank? Is it Master Chief?
https://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/godmode-halo-is-duke-nukem.jpg
You weren’t a fan of Duke 3D? Like i love the Side Scrollers, but Duke 3D was a masterpiece to me.
Played most of them. I have Manhattan Project. and Duke Nukum, 3D.I may have the side scrollers too.
Last!
Last!
…. ^_^
Propreantepenultimate!
Serious Sam t-shirt, perfect!
In the webcomics by David Willis (his “Walkyverse” comics & the other universe, the “Dumbingverse”), there is a character named Beef who apparently only communicates with grunts. This guy though, he looks more like someone that doesn’t say much in general. Wonder if he has 1 of those “embarrassing” voices, high pitched or something…
So… Like Batman in Justice League Dark? XD
Or like long, luscious eyelashes, maybe?
Once Sydney catches on that he does not speak she will break out the G.I. Joe Snake-Eyes costume.
Or Gordon Freeman accessories.
Did Beef ever make it into the current incarnation of the Walkyverse, Dumbing of Age? Never got into it because of burn-out on the college drama trope.
Yes but he has barely appeared. Mostly just background.
Yeah, Beef has made a few appearances in Dumbing Of Age, mainly in the background like Rowen says. Daniel the Human showed me how to do this…
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/beef/
Maybe the next shirt should have a yellow stripe?
She should try either a Guile outfit or maybe a Duke Nukem outfit. He’d probably rock either of those.
He’s already wearing the Duke Nukem outfit XD
“It’s time to kick ass and chew through ammunition, and I have plenty of both.”
Fun fact hem loves show tunes, gilbert and sullivan, long walks on the beach, flowers and he’s a brony. ;-)
Who doesn’t?
I mean, you’re not really a tough guy unless you can sing the ‘I am the very model of a modern major-general’ song.
The only question is ‘Rainbow Dash or AppleJack’?
Turns out he’s a Marble Pie man. Giant plushy of her in his room and everything.
Twilight Sparkle FTW
Probably fosters kittens and does macrame in his spare time.
When he lives off base and he’s home, the kids in his neighborhood will run to his house for Band-Aids if they are closer to his place than their own when they get a scrape.
Holy panel economy Batman! I nominate this comic as a possible ad lib comic.
‘Blondie? Is that you? Aw man, I been waiting forever for him to show up!’
I’m surprised Goose is letting her dress him up like that. I mean yes Sydney seems to be one of the rising stars of the team but we haven’t seen her and goose interact much we haven’t seen her and most of them and try too much and the fact that she was gone for 2 months doesn’t help.
It has nothing to do with Halo being a rising star and everything to do with her being cute & tiny & smiling hopefully.
She has the face he cant say no too.
Also the Stupidity Aura she projects helps.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-442-fablupus/
It seems that she draws everyone around her into her flow. Even the Vehemence seemed to get tripped up and caught up in her flow despite resisting it better than some
Getting free t-shirts doesn’t hurt.
It’s because Goose failed his saving roll vs. puppy-dog eyes
It’s better than some of the other female team members who are always finding excuses to remove his and others clothes.
Like Maxima, he apparently sucks at rolling saves vs. puppy dog eyes.
Sillies! Goose doesn’t go out to eat. He is a wizard in the kitchen. But he only cooks for himself, because that’s how he rolls.
It is kinda funny how to date that armour has never been seen again. Would probably come in useful if they were fighting, say, an alien invasion.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-766-bullet-dump/
It would be useful, except when you need to get out there now and the armor takes 15 minutes to put on.
Is Sydney trolling the Goose? o_O
Maybe Sydney might try ducking a couple of times before trolling Goose?…
Why is Sydney ‘borrowing’ the merchandise, if she is getting Joel to put them on her ‘tab’?
Any mechandise that was worn by an ARC-SWAT member gains several zeroes on the pricetag.
Inventory.
Quickbooks doesn’t care that she’s the co-owner / Trademark celebrity / Superhero.
Was it sold to a client? Is it expired stock? Was it damaged prior to sale?
Apparently Joel is running the place like a business.
She’s paid enough that she can buy stuff she wants….up to a point.
The point was, why ‘borrow’ if she’s paying for it?
It was the usage of the word ‘borrow’ that is throwing me off. Unfortunately, there are people like that, so there is not need to change it
She says “borrow” and though experience Joel hears “buy”, applies employee discount
and puts it on her tab to be deducted from her next paycheck.
(Actually direct deposit. )
Presumably in case of damage sufficient to render them unsaleable. The intention being to return them to stock, but if something breaks (and isn’t then worth more for being ‘as tested by the Genuine Glowering Golden-Glasses Goose’) then it comes out of Sydney’s paycheck. Or if Goose decides he really needs a Con costume and decides to keep it, I guess.
Untitled Goose Game: It’s a lovely morning at ARC-SWAT, and you are Goose.
Now I’m just envisioning Goose as one of those folks who actually would love to make friends and hang out with people, but who can never figure out what to say so he stays silent, and just has one of those faces that defaults to a grimace.
More like an intense grimace.
I’d swear Goose’s facial muscles are all trying to wrestle each other into submission.
His life goal is to make 100 friends, but we’ll never know it because he doesn’t have the kit space for a spiral notebook to carry around.
Yes, I know a man who has the opposite problem. His face looks as if he is smiling all the time, even when he is angry or sad.
Goose may be a shy guy, who can’t get people past the look on his face.
Is it this comedian that starts out his show lampshading his giant grin?
Meanwhile, I’m half hoping that when Max or another superior drops in on them he just starts signing to them in ASL, revealing himself to actually be mute. I like to think Sydney wouldn’t know what to make of that. On the one hand that’d make him fit the silent protagonist tradition of video games, but on the other hand his resemblance is to Duke, who is certainly not the silent type.
Imagine a grizzled vet version of Guile suffering from cumulative hearing damage from his Sonic Boom attack, deaf as a doorknob. He’s embarrassed about the vocal slippage (that “deaf person accent”), so he avoids speaking whenever possible.
Maybe I’m just stuck in “origin story with mild pathos” mode today, though.
i’m not sure he should be Mute (given that the mute and the deaf can’t join the military, and he was certainly in one of the military branches prior to joining Arc).. but the awesomeness potential of him speaking in sign language anyway should still be explored.
Perhaps he just has a lot of experience with stealthy infiltration missions. So much so that he automatically speaks in tactical signs, with English now a definite second language that takes a bit of effort to remember (how) to use.
You ever see those blokes in the movies (& other) who get on quite fine with their peers, but morph into complete idiots with pretty girls? Perhaps he finds thatsilence is golden?
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https://youtu.be/TZG1eqPEYbY
Do a scene where he’s in a Finnish sauna and suddenly gets talkative!
https://satwcomic.com/small-talk
The guy looks like Duke Nukem, and she wants him to dress up as the space marine from DOOM?
So far in this comic (& on this very same page, no less), Goose has already said more than the Space Marine has ever said throughout the whole of Doom 3.
And the space marine went through Hell & back again…
Duke Nukem, or Doom Marine, or Guile, or Ken…Or probably a few DOZEN I’m missing.
Yeah, well, considering the (game)longevity the better choice.
Also: https://youtu.be/TZG1eqPEYbY (But I repeat myself.)
He could use a touch-screen kiosk to place his order, and then just sit down and eat it.
He reminds me of a mate from uni. Did everything tho get as big and tough as possible and looked like he stepped out of a comic. Until he opened his mouth and the thickest accent came out, maybe goose did the same and never talks to hide an embarrassing vocal tic that doesn’t fit the visual style he’s carefully crafted.
I’m going for the Abe Lincoln high pitched nazel whistle.
His voice never deepened with puberty so he sounds like an 8 yr old.
Or maybe his voice was always deep & low & puberty just made it too low for humans to hear it? Elephants listen to him though…
Taciturn, probably. He doesn’t seem like the type to be witty when he speaks so much as just brief.
Talk to me, Goose . . .
Well… Slick his hair back and put darker shades on him and he’d look like Albert Wesker!
Poor, poor Olivia.
Joel: So, why DID you get so drunk last night?
Olivia: I’unno… prob’ly needed ta f’rget som’thin’… seems to’ve wrked, tho… oooh my head…
Something tells me he’s been through this gag with others as well. Who wants to bet he’s got at least two of those shirts at home that he’s been given as gifts?
You know, Sydney might just being clever here and getting the first side of beef around to take their shirt off for her. Any bets that there’s a crowd peeping at Goose while Sydney does this?
Looks more like Duke Nukem.
I just noticed he is already dressed as Duke.
Change of hair color and lose the glasses, he could easily resemble either Doom Guy or Serious Sam. XD
He’s probably only heard that a gazillion times tho. xD
Also, the Sam gag matks the 10th time this comic has made me lol so hard it hurt :)
A gym bag of merchandise for him to try on ?
I still gotta say, I LOVE the old art. As someone who’s been following since… week 2 I think, I like that your art has progressed and evolved yet the old stuff from pages 1-100 has a special spot in my heart. It’s more comical i think as well. Personal preference? HELL YES!!
Keep up the great work, Dave!!! <3
Goose’s patience with Sydney’s shenanigans is admirable.
And maybe Goose is actually mute, which will allow Sydney to hyperventilate again once she discovers it.
I figure that Goose actually likes Sydney so the tolerates her they way that you tolerate the Child of a Million Questions.
Hey Dave,
You linked to the previous Goose page and it shows the old-style 5 point Archon star logo. What you need to ret-con this into your universe is say that basically this is not your universe. What happened was when Sydney first used her Aetherium gate portal she made a dialing mistake and ended up in a slightly parallel universe where the Archon logo had been designed with a 6 pointed star. When Sydney eventually notices the difference and that she has access to different dimensions this could lead to a ‘Multiverse’ storyline and some sort of big situation to resolve it. What was that word? It starts with a ‘C’. Cataclysm? Calamity? Conjuncture? Conundrum?
So… Sydney went flying without her Wrist Communicator. That may get her into some trouble with Max.
Also: what is she standing on in Panels 4, 6 and 7? She is nearly eye to eye with Goose in those three Panels!
At first I thought she still had her flight ball in her hand …
but, I see it over her head in those panels … odd.
She’s flying. She can fly. That’s one of her abilities.
But she can’t fly with the fly orb not in her hand, that’s the thing.
Flyball is in her hand. Notice the blue glow.
Only in panel #1.
I figured she is either leaping up in those panels or he’s crouched down, either way is odd.
He’s sitting at the workbench
YES … I can see that … now
He’s sharping his knife, sitting at the workbench, Sydney is standing next to him. Their heads are about the same height.
When he stands up, after putting on the T-Shirt, Sydney’s head is below his.
I love how Goose is so accommodating. Also, he’s really bulked up since his days as a Galaxy Ranger. Wonder if he still plays?
I have to wonder though, as the Slayer helmet and chestplate are SYDNEY sized.
I thought the same thing, but I guess Sydney got her hands on some Dragon Ball armor that stretches to fit the wearer.
Way back in comic 114 it was mentioned that Zeph and his team would be researching the orbs. Will we ever see the results of that?
No. Eventually we may see some admission they didn’t found anything.
Maybe Goose is like Swoop from Drop Zone, and only talks to people if they’ve been in a Hot Zone with him. Goose doesn’t consider any misisons that he’s been on with Sydney so far as legitimate Hot Zones, so he won’t talk to her, but he does respect her time MIA, and so will acknowledge her non-verbally.
I had a taciturn roommate in college. The one time we went out to a restaurant together where there was an option that would’ve required indicating how one wanted their meat cooked, he chose a different option that didn’t. (Every instance of us going out to a restaurant together was due to my father coming for a visit, as taking me and my dormmate (whichever one I happened to have at the time) tended to be something he at least attempted. I’m guessing my first roommate went along with it most of the time in large part because it didn’t require a response. The one time my first roommate turned my father down, he just held up the textbook he was studying and put it back down.)
TIL Goose is like Morn from DS9… presumably talks, but not on-screen.
And people have entire conversations with him just sitting there just holding his drink.
“I’ve gotta get back, good talk Duke. Er, Goose.”
Wasn’t there a theory that Morn was actually Telepathic and they just never showed his side of the conversations?
This page made me laugh out loud.
Goose is now Sydney’s new best friend!
Goose is Mute confirmed