Grrl Power #823 – Vantablackbelt
This is why Math isn’t in charge of teaching recruits. Sydney was just wandering by and said “Hey, show me how to fight.” And Jabberwokky is always up for a scrap.
Here’s a picture of Math’s shirt, since I didn’t manage to have a good shot of it on the page.
I was trying to get a little ahead on the comic, but then I decided it was time someone taught Sydney how to fight, and small action doesn’t really work in comics, so I decided to make this page a double. Luckily the backgrounds for most panels were easier than usual.
I still have a lot to learn about proper comic action though. I think I overdid it with the speed lines actually. Honestly I think it would look better if I had some more background elements to root the action into the scene, like that low kick in panel 5. You can tell it’s a low kick because Jabber has her hands on the ground, but you can’t see it. I maybe should have left some elements of the mat showing or something. Honestly, there was a time factor involved. A better fight scene would have had them fighting over and through some obstacle course or gym equipment. That sort of thing might have to wait for an alternate future where I master using Blender so I can build a reusable set and not have to draw a bunch of gym equipment from a bunch of different angles. *shudder*
Edit: Okay, I changed the stinger. It was late and I forgot he made fists when he blocked.
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He looks bored. The trouble with Masters is that they make it look easy. Also, they’re so far up the mountain they forget what it’s like down in the foothills…
Still, Sydney’s very lucky to be studying under him. Other opponents seems slow and weak after sparing with a Master.
Honestly, I wonder if there are martial arts instructors who are like that…
I do know that there some teachers like that…
I don’t know, sometimes the masters just chain the simple things together so fluidly that they just look like complex moves. The basics are the basics because they’re the most effective moves. Remember what Bruce Lee said: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Hell, when I was wrestling in high school, my move set was fairly limited because I was very tall and lanky for my weight class (5’11” at 145 lb), but I could chain together a few basic moves that took advantage of my long arms and superior leverage from trapping range and win that way against guys who were stronger or more developed technical fighters.
Pretty sure no martial artist ANYWHERE has managed to chain moves together into a freaking SHARPSHOOTER.
I was about to ask “How do you go from throwing someone by their neck into a modified Sharpshooter?!”
That’s a bit of flair at the end, but look at everything he does up to the point he has her in submission. It’s mostly basic stuff.
“I have yet to meet one who can outfight bullet”
And honestly, it’s JW who’s using a lot of flashy moves. Other than panel 2, Math is just dodging and blocking, and defeats her with an underhand chin whip.
Teaching others is a skill to be learned and mastered as much as the skill you are trying to pass on.
Not all of them. Way back in my college days – about 20 years ago – I had the privilege of being in the dojo when Grandmaster paid us a visit. I was about halfway to my black belt in my first style (of 3 today) at the time. It remains the best martial arts lesson I’ve ever had even after two decades and two other styles. Grandmaster was one hell of a teacher. And one of the oneriest old men I’ve ever met too, but that’s a whole different story.
Math is pathologically bored. Maxima persuaded him to join Archon on the promise that super-powered beings would make for actually challenging, or at least interesting, opponents. He had, previous to that, found illegal underground martial arts tournaments and fight clubs insufficient to hold his interest. Even among super-beings, he’s only failed to beat two so far: Maxima (due to just ridiculous strength, speed, and invulnerability) and Dabbler (due to an almost unlimited bag of tricks: she cast a web spell and made it invisible, so she didn’t really out-fight him).
Jabberwocky is a rare treat for him, I think, because her powers expressing through essentially ‘Anime Fu’ martial artistry makes her a not-boring sparring partner, and because he sees some promise in her raw talent, if she actually learns technique to go with it. She’s a student with the potential to surpass her teacher, which I’d imagine Math would have given up on ever finding before meeting her.
AND… The fact that she’s a beautiful women doesn’t hurt any either…
Thought the sticky-air spell was used on Maxi, not Math. Jabbs managed to beat Math due to a wardrobe malfunction (which resulted in his orders to lock himself away in front of a computer to ensure that never happens in combat again… his defeat, not the malfunction)
I wonder if really good martial artists are subject to the same issue as fencing master were: Quite a few lost an eye or took a stabbing from amateurs because they were used to fighting skilled opponents. I recall when I took fencing in high school that early on my move was to whip the thigh of my opponent and then, while he was hopping up and down in pain, score the touche. After a couple days the coach told me I had to knock that off, because it was an illegal move. Which is great for a tournament, but in an actual fight there are no illegal moves…
It’s hard for me to imagine Bruce Lee being beaten up by some random thug, but a few decades ago a local martial arts instructor got beaten up more than once by thugs. I think(/i> that these were all more than one-on-one fights, but still it had be embarrassing (on top of painful) to the guy.
(beat)
Jhoon Rhee was his name, and after doing some Googling it seems these tales might have been apocryphal. There’s nothing about it on his Wiki page, and I found a forum posting discussing the story where a guy who had gone to school with the guy’s son asked and the kid denied it ever happened. Queue the obvious “kid may have lied to protect dad’s reputation/income” responses. But even if apocryphal, the tales were widespread in the DC metro area: One poster on the forum said he’d hear the tales and was in MD. I live in VA and heard the same story. Another person who didn’t identify their location said he’d heard that it was always between 3 and 20 people who attacked him. And at those odds skill is best applied at quickly attacking to make a hole, and then running like the wind. In my opinion at least…
Ah yes: “The best swordsman in the land fears not the second-best, but the beginner who’s never held a sword. He’s fenced the second-best many times, knows his techniques, his habits, his weaknesses. But no-one knows what the novice is going to do.”
If you do your stinger beat on their blade arm, it’s a lot easier to claim it was a legitimate hit attempt. And in a way it is – if the blade flexes enough to land tip-first you get the hit, in the majority of cases where it doesn’t you still get the distraction. Works best if you hit their guard about 10-15 cm back from the tip, to help it bend around the protection onto the wrist or thumb joints.
Of course, the combo of a low bind, a full-bodied lunge, and ‘Oh sorry, was that your groin’ is a classic for good reason.
“Jokes on Sydney, he never made a fist.” — Not true! Panel 6, while blocking- Both hands are balled up into fists! The girl also made a fist; And Sydney isn’t being very specific so she could mean either one of them. :)
Yes this is exactly what I was going to say.
I am still looking………
Yeah, he actually did. It was late and I was trying to come up with a stinger and forgot about that panel. He didn’t use it to punch, but it’s still a fist.
It still works, though (not so much the stinger, but Sydney’s line): Sydney could have been following the part where he was maneuvering with his hands in his pockets. She’s familiar with the Five Ds anyway (Dodge, Duck, Dive, Dip, and Dodge). Everything after the double-forearm block, from the neck grab to the nearly non-Euclidean hold, was totally lost on her.
Side note: If there is an M.C. Escher style of martial arts, Math is undoubtedly a master of it. (Eschkido? Jeet Klein (bottle) Do? Eight Dimensions Palm?)
The MC Escher stye is called: Walking the underside of the stairs.
Besides, making a fist can just be assumed to have happened before the action panels.
Not everything referred to in the comic has to happen on-panel…
Jabberwokky still has one move guaranteed to defeat Math.
No, remember he was ordered to ‘cure’ that issue by watching pr0n…
He was ordered, but did it work?
Probably not. If anything it probably made it worse. To actually cure it he’d need to adjust his thinking so that he looks at a woman and sees a person instead of just a body. Porn won’t achieve that. If you treat him like you would a sex addict trying to get free of the addiction – no porn, no sex, no masturbation for at least several months – it would probably work better.
It could desensitize him, though. For instance, I’ve found that going to clothing-optional events basically eliminated the titillating (no pun intended) effects of simple nudity. Once you’ve seen several hundred people naked at the same time, you essentially stop associating nudity with sex. Viewing porn wouldn’t fix that per se, but he might get bored with simple nudity.
That’s not going to stop seeing Dabbler and Cora making out (for instance) causing him to walk into a wall because he wasn’t looking where he was going. That said, sunscreen won’t protect you from being at ground zero of an H-bomb explosion, either. Some levels of hotness can’t be defended against.
Make Math take 6 months of animator style life drawing courses. The 15second poses bit would definitely help- especially if he’s graded on completion of work in class. He’d be too competitive to let being a letch get in the way.
I’m pretty sure no porn, no sex, no masturbation would work even worse because you can’t stop imagination. You can hardly stop thinking of ping elephant, and that’s not backed up by hormones.
Oh it works. What happens is your brain is forced to focus on something other than sex. That’s why they use that method to treat sex addiction.
In all fairness, knowing how to make a fist is a very important part of martial arts training. A lot of folks don’t curl their fingers the right way. My father would train his students with a bucket of water – a proper fist is one you can plunge into the bucket, pull out, and still have a dry patch on your palm.
Reminds me of the time Michael Dukakis came to the university where I was attending, and the woman who introduced him started talking about how he made a fist (with the thumb inside the fist, which is absolutely the wrong way to do it.)
Spokeswoman: “So when he hits somebody, it’s going to hurt!”
Heckler: “It sure will! If he makes a fist like that, he’s gonna break his thumb!”
I prefer to practice making a fist by punching a heavy bag. The heavy bag is one of the best teachers you’ll ever have – it’s honest. It’s completely and totally honest. It will never lie to you. When you hit it wrong, it will TELL you.
And when you hit it right, it tells you. Practice hitting a heavy bag, and you’ll know exactly how good your strikes are.
I’d argue the most important thing is learning how to fall and how to get back up. For one thing, it’s bound to happen in any fight. Secondly, it’s going to happen way more often outside of fights, which tend to be rare, and you’re _really_ going to be happy you learned when you get old and things get more brittle.
Maybe, but I’m pretty sure there is more than one very important part of martial arts training.
Um, shouldn’t there be something on the speech balloon indicating WHO said, “None of that is helpful!”?
And is Math wearing special shoes to look taller, or something?
There is only one person in the panel and the context of the discussion leaves no room for confusion.
It isn’t really any different from prose that doesn’t say ‘______ said’ every single line.
That would make sense, but based on Dave’s usual visual grammar, there should still be a tail there.
If you mean the last panel, looks like he ‘fixed’ the confusions
Agreed, the lack of a tail on Syd’s bubbles really confused me for a bit.
Whoops!
Okay, fixed!
I agree Math looks taller than the last time he fought Jabberwokky. I remember him as being SIGNICANTLY shorter than her.
And it may just be me, but isn’t his forehead bonier than previously (or has he been frowning so much he’s superdeveloped his brow muscles)?
Jokes on Sydney: He made two fists. (panel 6)
……..for where Syd complains………..
Who does the other dialogue bubble in the last panel belong to? I mean I assume it’s Sydney but it could still easily be Jabberwocky.
I assumed it was Math replying to Jabberwocky’s comment
Last two panels need a few seconds to decipher who says what, but it’t not THAT hard. You just have to treat them as a single panel (which would probably have made reading them easier)
M: And that’s how to fight.
S: None of that is helpful!
M: Where did I loose you?
S: Go back to the part where you made a fist.
Parallel to that conversation you can also read Jabberwocky grumbling about her defeat, how unfair that grapple is and how she’s going for petty revenge by unbuckling Math’s boot. Unrelated to anything those two that are still standing are saying.
I really thought he was going to pull her top down in that last grapple.
That’s what she thought as well
That was a demonstration of his mastery – he telegraphed a boob grab, but feinted to a neck grab.
But he has made a fist. Sixth panel when he blocked.
…………………”You never made a fist.”
Surprisingly, I think that grapple is actually inescapable.
Going for the balls might seem as the obvious attack route, but your left hand can’t reach that over the leg, and you can’t turn far enough to reach from below.
The left leg is trapped in such a way that you can neither swing it for a face kick, nor pull out because the hole is smaller than the foot.
The right leg is trapped in a similar fashion…
Actually it’s still possible to bite into the calf muscle or achilles tendon from there, people always forget the teeth are a potential weapon, and human bites carry a high risk of infection too.
Which is why he has thick boots I wager.
Yup, that would probably stop a bite in this particular case, but I mean that in principle this hold, and others like it don’t stop you entirely from fighting back because it’s very hard to stop someone biting you when you are all tangled up with them.
She may use “Snapping Turtle style”. If it increases the strength of her jaw muscles she could crush the tendon in her jaws.
Pretty sure she could just point her toes, then spread her legs..
I suspect Math would consider that a win too…
No such thing as “unescapable”, but it does depend on how much you are prepared to put in, in order to get out.
However… See how Math has his right arm UNDER Jabbers’ right knee. That is a variation on the “knee-joint leg-lock”, where the defender moves the attaker’s one leg over the back of the other (two) leg, then folds the two leg up over the first (one) leg, and sits on the seat (s)he has just made. All Math has to do is lower himself to sit on Jabbers, and do a biceps curl with his right arm. The pain is considered to be “highly intense, perhaps excruciating”.
And no, pointing the toes and spreading the legs is not possible here. Not that Math wouldn’t be distracted, but his leg-lock simply gives Jabbers no chance. But she could go for the gonads… If she’s quick about it.
If not for her boots, she would probably be more able to escape the leg part of that grapple. They reduce the flexibility of the feet, so the point-and-extract just isn’t physically possible.
If she can get her left arm rotated around, she can push off the ground with it while tightening her core and straightening her legs. That puts her core + both legs against Math’s one arm; no way he can hold that pose. If he sits on her, as would be the logical step, he’d better do it quickly- a moment too late and she’ll force his arm to either release her other hand or let go of her legs. If he releases her arm but holds the legs and sits, there is a decent chance he can salvage the hold, but if her legs get out she’s likely to be free.
If he does sit on her in time, it comes down to flexibility. With her left arm free she can position herself somewhat, but unless she is remarkably flexible or able to keep him from compressing her core, she’ll be in a world of hurt.
I disagree. That grapple relies on pitting Math’s arm strength against Jabberwocky’s ability to pull her leg out. And the one place that she can get any leverage at all pits her calf muscles against his bicep. In this particular case that might be a losing battle for her (I mean just LOOK at Math’s bicep) but under most circumstances one person’s calf is going to be significantly stronger than another’s bicep.
Now that said, even if she gets her legs free, she’s still at a significant leverage disadvantage for anything he uses to follow up her escape.
That’s been bothering me. ‘Arf a tick, lemme check… Da. The muscles youse all want are the thigh. The calf muscles all work the ankle joint, and cannot move Math.
However, I doubt Jabbers has been doing any intensive bunny-hop exercises, either as isometric or against weights, so those may not be able to generate enough raw power to shift Math’s biceps, given the leverage needed.
There’s no point in comparing calf muscle strength against biceps, it’s much like comparing peaches and pineapples :(
If two people are physically matched, the questions are, “how much pain is the pinned willing to endure?” and “how much damage is the pinner willing to inflict?”
What I don’t know is if they are physically matched
BTW, vantablack isn’t the blackest black; https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/24/blackest-black-mit-material-news-vantablack/
Also, it’s not really useful for belts as most belts tends to not like being heated to the temperatures that Vantablack requires to fuse to the object. (Think powdercoating process)
Black 3.0(from Culture Hustle) may be a suitable substitute, though.
Why do stories of the latest blackest black always include pictures? It doesn’t matter what medium they use. They’re *never* going to achieve a decent reproduction of just how black this stuff is without including a sample. Which is physically impossible online, and fiscally impossible in print media.
Even that wouldn’t help all that much. It’s only remarkably black so long as it remains clean. Once it’s dirty, you can see the dirt.
Of course it’s not the blackest black ; black hole is the blackest black, the bigger the blacker. However, Sagittarius A* is not exactly easy to use in art. Also, there is lot of bright stuff around it. And lot of dust between us and it.
And of course even a black hole isn’t totally black thanks to “Hawking radiation.”
Well that’s heat, so I’d guess (I’m not really up on Hawking radiation…) that it would be infrared in color. So, still pure black to human eyes.
He is improving in fighting females. I was sure he’d have given a squeeze on the way in panel 8.
Do love the shirt though.
Also, he seems to be channelling Orange Cassidy a bit there, good to see.
“Also, he seems to be channelling Orange Cassidy a bit there, good to see.”
I was thinking that Myself!
Panel 7 looked like Math was going for a boob grab but thought better of it.
Asking Math to teach you to fight is like asking a mathematician how far it is to the nearest store.
Or asking Harem how long it takes to get there
… or how long is the nearest shore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
Maybe Dave would feel better about his comic technique if he could study under a Master. (Or was that the joke all along, and it was just a little too subtle for me?)
It would be super cool if Sydney became proficient with martial arts to a degree where she could start weaving the orbs into her attacks and defensive guard for an enhanced superhero fighting style like back in #120 – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-120-faceball/ Those orbs, for all public galactic intents and purposes, are effectively indestructible considering Dabbler’s universe-savvy know-how cannot grasp them, so using them as blunt weapons should be no issue.
Pros:
– It would solve her vulnerability of when an enemy is INSIDE her forcefield with her like the time with Vehemence.
– The force field isn’t particularly stealthy, so being able to defend and quietly dispatch an enemy without being a giant lightbulb would be a plus.
– Eventually, she would be able to mix-and-match the Flight orb, Telepresence orb’s doubles and teleporting as well as the Lighthook into her style too and that would get really kickass.
Oh, also, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was intended that the orbs being undetectable with Dabbler’s sensors is the same reason Math couldn’t dodge the orb in #120! That would mean the orbs evade detection from hearing/touch (vibrations through the air), battle sense, or psychic spidey-senses too!
That would be HUGE for a melee-Halo fighting style.
I think you are on to something here.
Math flat out stated that he let Sydney tag him with that follow-up orb (it’s implied he was looking for a sympathy/nursing/mothering reaction from one or more female teammates (remember, “three steps ahead”)). It works, too: Harem gives him a ‘kiss to make it better’ on his lightly-bruised cheek, which for Math would have been worth taking the hit.
When he was taking it (semi-)seriously, he easily avoided all of the orbs orbiting at fairly high velocity, deliberately ‘blocked’ one with a fingertip to distract her, and simultaneously maneuvered Sydney into smacking herself in the shin with another orb.
The only assault skill Sydney has that Math seemed actually impressed with is her verbal assault skill, since he proclaimed her a “black belt in cursing. 5th . . . no . . . 7th dan.”
The first time he wasn’t expecting it, although he hoped for a guilt kiss. The second time he was expecting it.
Glad to see some of the Wiki manga still shows through in Math’s fighting style.
In Panel 11 (the grappling scene) both of Jabberwokkys hands are left hands. I believe on the arm grabbed by math the hand should have the thumb on the other side.
Also in that panel maybe Maths right hand thumb is somewhat far up Jabberwokkys arm, its tip is close to the tip of the ring finger.
It is cool you noticed, and I agree, Jab’s right arm has a left hand on it.
I disagree on the finger placement issue. Finger placement would be correct if Math was holding a cylinder, but arms are more conical. Add the oblique angle of the grab and the least resistance grip is thumb to ring finger. You can see this if you grab your right arm with your left hand and keep the arms more parallel. You would be correct if the grab is perpendicular against a cylinder, but oblique and a cone and the thumb moves.
Holy shit, whoops!
I see Math’s intense “Internet Special” training is paying off… Panel 1 staring at legs – Bored.. 6 Same again.. Panel 8 near miss chest brush, tiny smirk…
Bohantopa I believe both of Math’s hands are lefts as well, his thumb should be on the other side of the arm he is grabbing as well.
I’ve never really thought about reusable backgrounds in art but what about drawing a room laid out in a really linear fashion, like if it was on paper it would 8.5″x36″, or something like that? So either it’s just a panoramic view of a large room, or it could be interpreted as a 360° view of a smaller room (as if someone stood in the center and rotated).
Then you could set action or or conversation in front of different parts of it without having to keep redrawing the same thing over and over?
I’m not an artist so I have no idea if this is a terrible idea or not- I could see how it might start to cramp, having to draw every character from the exact same angle or the furniture looks warped, but it was the first thing I thought of when I read your comments.
I copy and paste what I can to save time, and that technique can work when you’re drawing, for instance, a conversation around a table or everyone just standing and talking. That works well in comic strips, but on a comic page it gets a little boring, so you want to mix it up with a high or low angle shot, or maybe a wide angle. A room built in 3D would work better for that. I just haven’t had the time/focus to learn that stuff.
Actually, building a simple room is one thing. It’s texturing it that is a real roadblock for me at this point.
*cough* SketchUp is great for texturing and pattern fills *cough cough*
I get the impression Math always likes an audience too. *grin*
Be glad Dabbler wasn’t there….
There’s no way Jabs would have been able to ‘perform’ if Dabbles was in the room
The only way to cure Jabs, is for Dabbles to examine her and find out what went wrong, unfortunately for both, Maxiprude has forbade either from being in the same room as the other
That may have been solved offscreen in the last few months comic time.
Something like that deserves an actual solution onscreen
agreed. And it’s not like they don’t have access to more than a few succubi consultants who aren’t the target of Jabs augmented obsession
I think our imagination can fill in the gaps in this story.
I suspect that’s a good Patreon/art book only storyline.
Hi DaveB –
Honestly I think it would look better if I had some more background elements to root the action into the scene, like that low kick in panel 5. You can tell it’s a low kick because Jabber has her hands on the ground, but you can’t see it.
The whole demo is beautifully drawn as is. Panel 5 was never a problem: classic drop-and-sweep, even though Math was probably 7 or 8 moves ahead of Jabbers.
If it’s of any interest, check out Aiki for some good NSFW Martial Arts manga.
What I meant to say is, don’t incorporate too much background where it’s not needed. :)
Seconded. Also, you don’t want a bunch of general gym gear in your sparring area anyway, at least until your trainees are up to “Advanced Prctical”.
Yup, AIKI is great for action. Black God is another one, though honestly that one overuses the speed lines a touch IMO. Onepunch Man is another. Any action by Masahiko Nakihara is good too. He did the Cammy manga as well as a Sakura and Ryu one.
Shouldn’t some of Jabber’s tattoo(s) be visible? That neckline seems low enough that the top part should show.
(I hate posting a “nit-pick,” but I had to read the tags to remember that was Jabberwocky – if the top part of her tattoo was showing, I woud have remembered her. Cast-o-thousand’s does have a drawback, and the cast list box didn’t load.)
Mostly there’s something blocking the top of her chest on this page, but on the next page you can see it… though I may have moved it down accidentally. I’ll have to check that.
That’s a pretty good lesson : Math is constantly evaluating the next and fastest move his contender could do from her current position and inertia (and knowing her abilities), and anticipates proactively. Zugzwang, really.
I honestly love the speed lines. It gives me a real appreciation for just how quickly the combatants are moving and reacting.
Someone was excited in the first panel :wink:
Great fight scene, all around. I totally ship Mattawocky. (Jabbermath? Jabthius?)
At least she was good enough that Math had to take his hands out of his pockets.
Wait, you need to fire your “Funny text at the bottom of the page” guy. Those are Definitely Fists in panel 6.
I love how Math’s going full Orange Cassidy at the beginning XD
Muscles look pretty overdefined in several of these panels. Look at JW’s knee in the first panel: the shadows around the patella and tibia are so pronounced she looks like her skeleton is escaping her body. Panel 6 has Math’s arms looking like they’re covered in vambraces designed to look like muscles more than actual muscles, although part of that is just that he has muscles where there shouldn’t be any in the first place (forearms are almost all tendon). This art style has no outlines, so when you draw things that look like outlines, they look wrong, even if that isn’t what they are.
You’re right that the muscles are a bit overdone, especially on Jabber’s legs. It’s something I’m working on improving with my art.
Although… My reference for Math’s forearms:
I’ve missed Math!!
DaveB – Blender is great for ‘organic’, non-geometric forms. For sets and backgrounds, I’d recommend SketchUp (possibly a slightly older free desktop version, as they’ve recently moved to cloud-only tools for free licenses). It’s the easiest 3D modeling program I’ve ever come across, and has tons of power and styling options, as well as some great free tutorials. It also has a huge library of free pre-built items you can just drop into your model – for this page, perhaps couches, weight sets, windows, table and chairs, light fixtures…
That said, if you give it a spin, use the coloring and styling for linework and maybe color fill, but either color over them or build your own custom styles to export. The built-in styles are good for concept renderings, but very recognizable as “oh hey there’s SketchUp” in the wild and would clash with your current style.
Love the Marvin pun shirt. He is both laconic and taciturn, and always cracks me up. Now hoping for a vote incentive with Marvin and Cora having a standoff on Fracture.
Pity you used Marvin in the shirt design. I don’t do MMA, but I like the shirt (assuming it doesn’t actually exist already). :)
The action is easy enough to follow, and I don’t think the lack of background detracts from the scene.
It took me a moment to reaise that this was Math, and not a continuation of Goose from the previous page.
There’s a lot of characters to follow, and sometimes it causes confusion. Which fair-haired chunky guy is this? Which attractive busty female is this?
Why do the cast lists only show when the comments are opened? It would save a lot of confusion if they appeared with the comic.
Yeah, the Who’s Who panel used to show up on the homepage, and it doesn’t since the sight update. I’ve no idea how to fix that unfortunately.
Ugh! That brings back memories of my studying ballroom dancing.
We had this wonderful regular coach, who was always like “Step forward with your right leg, put it on its heel, then shift your weight on it, simultaneously moving forward your left side” and stuff like that. Sure, it wasn’t easy to do, but you would at least know what you’re trying to achieve.
And then there were replacement coaches, who would show us the whole figure, sometimes ten times longer than that, and then tell us to repeat. Some tried, nobody succeeded.
Really, Seneca’s style (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-819-pew-101/) is so. much. better.
Yea, I tried Salsa lessons. Turns out I have four left paws.
I’ve tried salsa lessons too, best i was able to do was a mild bruschetta
I never tried, kept stopping at the churro stand.
…& while SHE unbuckles his boot, HE gets to tickle her ribs until she cries “Uncle!”
:P
(…if she’s VERY lucky, he’ll limit himself to JUST her ribs…)
Soon Sydney will be able to add “Trained by a Master” to her resume!
Tongue Fu shall be feared around the galaxy!!!
… note that “Trained by a Master” does not actually say that person FINISHED the training, does it?
It’s the only way to defeat Dr. Terrible!