Grrl Power #83 – It’s Adorifying!
This page derailed rather quickly as I wrote it – it was supposed to start off with the General introducing himself and have a joke about her middle name, but the number of gags I crammed into the page make up for it in my opinion.
It would be classier to let someone else point this out in the comments, but I’m pleased that in Sydney’s own fantasy, Wolvie is less that totally on board with the situation. I wrote it, realized it didn’t make sense, then came to my senses and realized it is of course far better that way. Also, Sydney in a dress? Never thought I’d draw that.
I also like that apparently, Sydney thinks that anyone with a number in their name is automatically royalty somehow? That’s what the crown and the Lion King ripoff says to me. What they would be king of is perhaps more of a mystery.
I’m not sure exactly what Arianna is referring to as terrifying, probably either Sydney’s plans to marry a fictional character, complete with “diagrams,” or the thought of her as a parent.
One thing I’ve definitely messed up on doing the comic so far, is that while I’ve discussed Max’s feminism on the cast page and in the comments, I haven’t actually put it in the comic yet, and this page gets a double dose of it. Even a panel of her getting mad at someone for not being able to maintain eye contact with her would have been enough of a set up but oh well, got to start somewhere with it.
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Oh I have a question does sydney have a living mother. I mean it sounds as if her mother died after birth. Specially with the fact her father did not know what to do with her.
Both her parents are around. We’ll catch up with them eventually, and her comments will make a little more sense then.
Guess her mother did not have a say in the name then. Some how I would think Max would have an issue with that and ask the same question I did.
You assume that Sydney’s Mom wasn’t 100% behind the subject. Mom might be the Tomboy Sydney takes after, or a hyper-feminine lady that Sydney rebelled against. Or a hundred other things for that.
So, Tube? Tube? What’s in the Tube? *grin*
Reminds me. I’m a Junior, too, but that was because my mother filled out the forms while my dad celebrated. Dad wanted me to be named after a Formula One race car driver.
I can just hear Sydney’s dad now, “GODDAMNED MONKEY FUCKING SHITHOLE SNIFFING … TOASTER!” when his toast is burnt. :D
Who knows? It could have been her mom.
Just imagine June Cleaver swearing like a fishwife.
Most likely it’s both of them. “Dear, pass the butter.” “What butter?” “The butter in front of your goddamned face!” “Oh, this fucking piece of horseshit butter?!” “YES THAT SPANKING CUM GUZZLING BUTTER!” “Ok.”
It edited out my stuff because I put it in triangle brackets… It was supposed to be
Most likely it’s both of them. “Dear, pass the butter.” “What butter?” “The butter in front of your goddamned face!” “Oh, this fucking piece of horseshit butter?!” “YES THAT (insert random zoo animal) SPANKING CUM GUZZLING BUTTER!” “Ok.” (passes butter.)
I’m trying to figure out if I know any women who have the “Junior” suffix. I’m not even sure I know women who were named after their mother. I know a lot of women who were named after their grandmother.
Personally, if I’m seriously dating a girlfriend and she has a much better last name than me (which doesn’t take much admittedly), I’d totally would suggest we take her last name.
not a “Junior” per se, but I once dated a girl who had the exact same name as her mother – does that count?
when you have junior in your name it usually means the last and last(and sometimes middle) name are the same and junior is part of your official name.
or um X.x first and last, not the last and last O.o
I knew a woman who’s first name was Junior. She was from Texas.
If there was justification for legally changing your name, being named “Junior” would be one of them.
I knew one who’s first name is “Demon.” Don’t ask me what drove her parents to hang that on an innocent baby, LOL. Beautiful woman BTW.
My roommate told me about one of her best friends in college. Legally had his full name (first, middle, and last) to The Mad Hatter.
‘Junior’ as a first name makes me think of the ‘Problem Child’ movies with the character ‘Junior Heeley'(sp?).
I was thinking Indiana Jones dad calling him Jr. all the time.
The dog was named Indiana
That’s because Indy’s legal name is Henry Jones Jr. The older Dr. Jones (Indy’s dad) is Henry Jones Sr.
I was a junior once… once.
I do believe Sidney broke Maxima in that last panel.
BWAHAHA. Bub yer screwed. Diagram B: Chuck Norris getting tongue-fued at a shotgun wedding.
I’m really confused. I assumed that the *Boing Boing* think in Sydney’s fantasy was her bouncing with excitement. But if that’s true then that means that even at the top of a jump she’s still shorter than Wolverine. . . isn’t that one of Wolvie’s major running jokes? Y’know, other than the fact that he’s a berserking, sarcastic, animalistic killer and also Canadian (Screw you Origin!). He’s shorter than everyone. Except Puck of course. In fact, I can’t recall anyone else shorter than Wolverine from the comics, except maybe Jubilee.
Well he’s short but he’s not a midget. I think he’s 5′ 4″ or somewhere in that area. Sydney’s 5′.
Fair enough. I guess it just looks like more than a four inch difference considering the bounce. I mean, if she wasn’t bouncing that’d be about right. . . honestly that is the exact height difference between my father and his mother. It’s a little disturbing seeing it randomly here. But I’m probably overthinking this.
DaveB just caught her at the bottom of the bounce, that’s all.
5’6″ 200lb IIRC
Nothing but muscle and Adamantium.
Question I’d like to see asked during Sydney’s interview: “If you had the chance to TP a superhero’s secret lair, how would you do it?”
“And to which superhero?”
not bats he already got sick of the stunts and has # 5, opps, # jonnie 5 as security to offset that he not being powered is a “soft target”.
I don’t know what’s worse, that going shirtless is acceptable attire at her dream wedding or that she’s imagining Wolverine being suckered into it.
Go with terrifying AND adorable. Probably safest.
This is just great – again!
A serious (but cool) general, Max going through expressions from “don’t know if want” to innocently cute (or vice versa) to death stare – at that point I burst out giggling – to … no idea, but it’s great!
Huh. I just realized that the next comic will be up on March 26, which is my 24th birthday. Here’s to me hoping fervently for the comic to finally reveal the source of Sydney’s powers, so I can finally know what causes them. Call it a birthday present?
Hey, that’s funny. My 27th birthday is on the 25th. Happy (early) birthday!
Sidney can’t marry Wolvie! I’m marrying Wolvie!
But then again, Sidney scares me, sooo…
BTW happy birthday. Half Priced Books is suposed to have a 50% off sale on the 25th. 40% off today.
Sorry, 30% off today.
Doesn’t half price books always have a 50% off sale? It’s in their name.
50% off their current half price. In other words, books, movies, video games, and movies a quarter of the price listed.
This has probably been mentioned before as I didn’t read the previous 105 comments, but you gotta love Maxima and Arianna’s shell-shocked look in the last panel.
Max has been exposed to Sydney-crazy for longer than anyone else in the room. Gotta figure that her cumulative Sanity loss is getting pretty high by now.
Whenever Max meets Sydney’s friend, Joel, I think the two of them will find LOTS to talk about. ;)
This might be Arianna’s first direct contact with Sydney, but she probably had fewer Sanity Points than Max to start with.
The left sleeve thing (right from our point of view) of Maxima’s shirt doesn’t look right. If it’s hidden by her hair, it seems like it should be further right, outsider her hair, since on the right (our left) it appears to go straight up from the armpit almost, don’t know, just doesn’t look right to me, but I’m not an artist or anything. Just kind of jumped out at me, otherwise don’t care. I like how things have played out so far. And no need to be conserned about getting the feminism across. You definitely got the strong woman part across, no need to rush things. After all, it’s only been a few hours in comic time.
Agreed about the shirt thing; it looks like it just up and vanishes…
Shirt and invisible table both fixed.
Which now means I have 2 copies of this page in my comic strip file for this comic (I do this in the event the comic strip vanishes from the internet); I have a few files on discs of comics that no longer exist online thanks to this collecting habit of mine (I have rooms that are like digital dragon hoards LoL). I actually like it when I get a page like that, it makes it extra special to have something no longer available online (granted this was minor changes; not like some drastic ones I’ve seen on some strips).
…Good lord, did seeing that make me feel funny. Need to check more often to see if that was just a one-time thing, or if it’ll happen each time…forgive me if I sound like an ass, but I really did get this weird tingle when I saw the corrected page.
Not sure what to think of it, but I don’t think it was a bad thing…hm…..
I have a running list of things I need to fix for some of the pages, which I’ll try to accomplish without redrawing major sections. Missing a lanyard or glasses, stuff like that. I think I need to do a tattoo check on dome of the Harems too.
I’ll let you know if i get that tingle again, then. XD
So why doesn’t army guy there have a character thingy? He’s practically the best character there is…
I had planned on introducing having him introducing himself this page, but as I mentioned, this comic got derailed almost the moment I started writing it. He’ll have one next page.
Or you could leave it alone for a future and entirely awkward joke. IE: THE CULT OF MILDLY BEMUSED OR SURPRISED SPOCK OR DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON.
I shouldn’t write replies after just waking up >_< *copy paste moves his post down.*
Ah, truly there is justice in this world
OK Sydney likes hairy muscle men with rapid healing factors, I still have a chance!!
Signed
The closest thing IRL to Wolverine
I count EIGHT raised left eyebrows!
(Counting Wolverine’s underneath his mask.)
Hah hah wow I should switch up sides eh? Although the General doesn’t count, he’s probably like that permanently.
9, actually. The general in panels 1, 2, and 3; Max in panel 3; Sydney in 4; Arianna in 3, 6 and 9; and Wolverine in 7.
Arianna raises her *right* eyebrow in panel 3.
She’s a rebel.
Hi Dave B,
I’ve been reading for probably 6 months or so, but had to comment on this one! I’m loving the story and banter so far and really enjoy your characters. Your style is polished and very visually enjoyable as well!
I kinda feel like Sydney struck a true chord with Maxima in that last panel… forcing her future husband to take her name AND wear a bow tie at the wedding – it’s the perfect mix of feminism and traditional values (in fact, I suspect she may be giving Max some ideas).
Thanks for all the work you’re putting into your comic; I enjoy looking it up every week for the update. Also, thanks for keeping your update schedule. I know life gets in the way and it can’t always be easy, but there is really something to be said for being able to keep to a schedule (and it keeps the fans from going rabid, I guess).
Best regards,
Jenny K
Austin, Texas
Thanks a lot! It means a lot to know that people are enjoying the comic and looking forward to the next one, cause I’ve definitely been on the other side of that.
Trying-Not-To-Laugh-Maxima-Face™ is frikkin adorable. I suspect the poor colonel has not encountered very many people who can make her laugh…and definitely very very very few people who can make her laugh twice, if not three times, within the span of an hour or so.
A Woman storms into her Bosses office and sais:
“Boss I demand equal pay!!”
Her Boss replies:
“Do you see John over there? He is here just as long as you, has the same qualification and the same service record. Do you want to be paid his wage?”
“Yes”
“Fine. Starting next moth i´ll downgrade your pay to his level.”
Feminists are behind the times.
There MAY be some remote States in the USA where it still holds true, along with all third world countries, but in pretty much every country where TV exists women are not the weaker sex anymore.
Men are the new women.
Max should watch a little more TV. Does she really want to be treated equally, and be displayed as an incometent, stupid, clumsy and almost illiterate buffoon? I don´t think so.
Wow.
That. . . I. . . what the what.
Flamebait. I’m calling this right now. Soooo much flamebait. Right here.
Also – not to say you’re wrong (which is actually really terrible and insultingly pinky-in-the-air of me to say, and so I apologize, because that is EXACTLY what I’m doing. I guess) but one word: Wal-Mart. Not saying you’re completely off the mark (which you might be. I actually really haven’t personally seen enough substantiated scientific research so as to make any kind of ruling one way or the other) – just wanted to point out it’s not just us backwater states that have problems with this. Now I’m off to polish my corn and water my gun her’ on the Ol’ Family Farm in the great Ol’ I of A. Or Iowa to all ya fancy Sity Folk. We’re watching you. And we’re a bit more concerned about the actual treatment of different gendered workers in the work environment, whether male or female – what’s important is the equal rites (i.e. whichever side needs to gain rites and be elevated to balance in equality with the other gender in all reasonable ways should gain such rites and should be so elevated). And while it is important (watching Tough Guise once was enough to prove that lesson to me) we’re not really talking about the portrayal of men on sitcoms when we talk about feminism.
Okay. Fair’s fair. Apparently I’m flamebaiting too. Sorry guys.
Equal Rites was a fun book.
You’ve got a point. Though the problem is more that everyone is looking for injustice and try so hard to even things out that they don’t notice that overcompensating creates a ton of new injustices.
Overall minorities win, whether it is a woman in a male dominated business, or a man in a female dominated business the minority will tend to get ‘unfair’ advantages due “positive discrimination”
White men tend to get the short end of the stick though, while women in ethnic minorities get the most positive discrimination.
If it keeps going on like this there will be terrible backlash coming up though. Messing with the majority is a high stakes gamble.
Also in the food stamps part men get less benifets than that of a woman does, men gets $0.75 per $1.00 a woman gets.
This is so cute, I love the dialog! Are you sure you didn’t play AD&D with me and my friends back in the 1980’s? Gals on equal ground, or as terrifying as some of us guys think they already are, and at least 2 who are excellent and changing feet in their mouth, and the megal folk….. we know we can DO ANYTHING!
Your comic is exceptionally enjoyable to me on a lot of different levels! It’s obvious why you maintain near the top of TWC.
I’ve been here since page 1 posted, what a winner!
Thanks! I played a lot of RPGs in the 80’s. Mostly D&D and Marvel Heroes as I recall. I have so many sets of dice now that I keep them in a tackle box. It’s possibly a handyman’s toolkit for sorting screws, I’m not sure.
I don’t know where my dice bag has gone (really need to do a major spring cleaning this year) but I have a D30 die that I used for my chaotic characters when a random action/re-action was required. Haven’t found a good game in years. >sigh<
If you’re in the DFW area my church has a D&D 3.5 game that has been running over a year now on the first, third, and fifth Saturdays of the month. We are over in Garland, 1215 Main St. Drop in and watch a game and see if this is a group for you, we are about to transition to a new DM as our current one is getting transferred to Colorado, but the new DM has been playing two characters in this game since about 2/3 of the time so he’s familiar with the game and the players. If you decide to join you’ll need to roll a new character (all of the current players have 3rd level characters or lower)
I have a weekly game night that’s mostly board games, we used to do RPGs but the group got a little big for that. Unfortunately I don’t really have time for another gaming night. Heck I’m months behind on my comic book reading at the moment, but thanks for the invite.
Sadly, that’s a little bit too far… I’m in the Choo-Choo City, Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Thus, the ‘Chatta’ in my handle.) I have been known to drive two hours to game in the past, but not lately.
I think it’s great that you manage to set her up as a feminist without actually giving her the chance to go on a rant.
Now it’s been established by the way people act around her, which will generally be the first warning IRL too.
Aside from the General’s remark there is Harem’s choice of prank (subtle, but it’s there).
The ‘strong woman with a temper’ was clearly established with the collective “oh… you’re dead now” from the team. Which was promptly justified.
So does this mean that Logan “Wolverine” Scoville is now on “the list”?
she made wolverine her bitch lmao
You mean Sydney is like a miniature Sabertooth? ;)
In many, many ways. Actually, last time I looked, Wolverine was so hard up he may actually LIKE the idea of being Sidney’s spouse.
Sidney, helpful hint, you want your man taking your name, try Japan. It’s quite common there, and doesn’t involve a great deal of legal hassle. Just a simple marriage license submitted to the town hall. Plus you have a great selection of marriage ceremonies that can be performed.
Western (US), Japanese, Buddhist, Shinto (some sects actually finish the ceremony with the bride and groom having sex in a secluded altar area before the gods and family ancestors), Hooin (sp) era, Edo era, etc.
So should we call the general, Dan hedaya or Martin Perez?
I find it most amusing that just moments after establishing Max’s rather forceful view on feminism, its the other woman in the room that is getting the Death-Fem glare (panel 6)
I just voted for you today and saw the drawing. I liked it! Gives me a new outlook on getting buff.
I don’t know if I would call it “laughing,” but there was definitely some kind of reaction that her drawing got out of me.
I love the mini batman logo on Sydney’s shirt when she’s holding up her king child.
Also, I can see why Maxima brought her in. Nothing intimidates Sydney. She treats Maxima like a normal person she wants to be friends with, not someone with extraordinary powers and looks. Robbers, superheros, secret high security buildings, high ranked military, don’t bother her at all. I think Maxima spoiled the surprise when she caught the bullet aimed at Sydney. Somehow, I don’t think Sydney would have been hurt.
This is such a fun comic. I’m looking forward to whatever comes next.
You obviously missed Sydney’s large “hand cup gesture” references but she IS capable of seeing past the extraordinary powers and looks and see the normal person as well. She doesn’t only make a big deal of out of the ordinary stuff but normal stuff too. And since she has almost no filter, you know where you stand with Sydney. I suspect that Max can appreciate that even when it’s aggravating.
Arianna’s “Assuming you marry…” line had me totally going “WTF has having children to do with marriage” for a moment, until I remembered “Oh, American point of view” xD
Don’t worry, I thought the same thing. Well, I thought there was more of a chance of her accidentaly getting knocked up than her getting maried.
Yeah, just thought of this.
Max: “K, we need to see what powers you have, feel free to attack anvil with all you got”
Syd: “But what if i hurt her?”
Anvil: “No need to worry about that, show her max”
Max attack anvil with energy beam and super punch
Scene jump
Anvil is hunched over in pain with Max looking at Syd in mixture of fear and surprise.
I don’t think she has the ability to negate other peoples powers.
Although, it’s a great idea for a power set, expecialy if they could aim it selectivly.
I think it’s going to be more a matter of since Sydney is a huge comic geek (and geeks in general *tend* to be very good at thinking outside the box and finding creative ways to solve a problem), she’s going to be using her knowledge and… chaoticness to use her abilities and her opponent’s weaknesses in ways no one had thought of before. The results might not be quite what she expected, but probably be more effective than her opponent had anticipated.
For someone like Anvil, Using elemental control as an example, one could turn the ground she was standing on into liquid then solidify it into solid stone after she falls in (Hard to break something if you cannot move a millimeter) Or solidify the air molecules around her for similar effect, again with the purpose of rendering her totally immobile and therefore her strength useless.
alternatively you can use Achilles instead of Anvil.
We know Amorphous isn’t going to volunteer!
ROFL You think!
In this kind of situation, I’m thinking that Sydney would confuse the heck out of Max & Co by bringing Role-Playing jargon into the mix. Inquiries about their Hit Points or Armor Class, perhaps.
Or, when she does REALLY well – “W-o-o-o-o-o-o. Natural twennie! I just CRITTED your @$$!!!”.
You know, roll playing jargon might help them with their classification methods over there at ArcSwat.
So, Sydney is 20-something, and she is still drawing fantasies a-la Jr High School? And I am the only one worried about her sanity for this? (Leaving aside that she wants to marry a fictional bad attitude with a poor track record where women are concerned)
You’re only worried about her sanity now?
Bit late for that isn’t it.
There is nothing she’s done so far that (to me) indicate a lack of sanity, just a matter of perspective (remember, I like foods as hot as she does) and she is a bit,,,,,,scattered for wits. But the Jr High fantasy drawings? Do real grown women do that?
Mostly the way she behaves when it comes to things like the sun getting on her.
I’m more photophobic than she is, and I still don’t do that.
But there has been no indication that Wolvie is a fictional character in this universe, other than his comic book. but then comics in this universe may be a fictionalized chronicling of actual events.
Comes to that, the pic LOOKS like Wolvie, but maybe it is actually Hugh Jackman.
Well, she may be imagining Hugh Jackman.
Hopefully…
Nope. Hugh Jackman doesn’t have the retractable claws out of costume.
… Except maybe in the world inside Sydney’s head. ;)
Actually the first few pages imply that comics are fiction in this universe. They mention comics were a fantasy genre before super-humans appeared and still are despite that; implying comic books were created before what ever phenomonon caused super-humans to start to exist in the real world (kudos to DaceB by the way for doing what I didn’t think of: not bothering to think up an explination as to why super-humans could just start existing in the real world)
so now comics are more like crime dramas I’d say; the real thing exists but the specific characters and situations are fiction. Although in this scenario I could see someone wanting to create a comic based on a real super-hero (although the comic its self might be fictionilized: think the Captain Americ comics in the movie Captain America the first Avenger).
And there she goes loosing her serious edge.
Yeah, I was hoping Sydney could keep intimadating them for at least one more page before her crazy broke out.
As someone with ADD who used to work with someone with ADHD, I can say that wasn’t very likely LoL.
I was looking at Wolverine and had a weird thought. Being he’s an old fashioned kind of guy (200+ yrs old) maybe he thinks he has to because she’s “with child”. Think of a child with his healing and her ADHD. Is the Hulk available for sitting?
He’s around 130-150.
I’m just surprised how long it took a writer to come up with the idea that he had a kid in all that time. Which given how much of a “lady’s man” he’s been in the comics I find it hard to believe that in over a hundred years of adult life like that, that’s he’s only had one kid (Daken); in case anyone doesn’t know X-23 is a semi-clone (every gene is the same except her second X-chromosome came from a female doctor; why they couldn’t recyle Wolverine’s DNA to replace the broken Y-chromosome with either a second X-chromosome harvested from another cellular cloned sample, creating a fully female version of wolverine, or harvested a Y-chromosome from a male doctor….which would have been like Super-boy from Smallville who was a clone hybrid of Clark and Lex Luther.
but off that tangent, yeah Wolverine could have other kids out there (who wants to bet that the X-men movie verse is going to establish in this next Wolverine movie that Lady Deathstrike in this universe is Wolverine’s daughter)
Why ask Hulk? Talk to Anvil.
A peek into her mind is like, Alice Cooper through the looking glass.
“From The Inside” “We’re All Crazy” in”The Quiet Room”
Ah um oh never mind my brain broke this week.
is it bad that syd seems sane compared to the logic and reason the mil personel I hang with are showing?
Her family name is no hazard I guess, because she likes very hot food. The measurement of the heat of chilis is called Scoville scale. It’s named after the american pharmacist Wilbur Scoville. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
Is the General missing a star in the first panel, or is it just at a weird angle behind the comp screen?
You know how it is, you can’t rember every little detail when your under a deadline.
That’s what his wifes there to do for him.
I don’t mind the slow story, I stop by to re-read the comic page during it the week it always makes me chuckle, and your laughing its hard to feel sad
Seriously I am forcing my wife to read this comic for the good of our marriage!