Grrl Power #854 – Crazy (clinically manic) climber
Based on some of the comments, I think some people would have liked to have seen at least one more poker page in order to determine if Sydney is actually good at poker or if she’s a disaster. I kind of like leaving it ambiguous, but I think it’s fair to say that her skill at the game is “capricious.”
People in cubicles don’t generally get sprayed with water 4 stories off the ground. But they sometimes have to use Excel, so it’s a wash. Excel, BTW, isn’t so bad by itself. The problem with Excel, is that you eventually have to use Excel files made by other people. Other people and their VLOOKUPs that used to work three versions ago, but something broke and now they do all that stuff by hand and I just killed myself thinking about it.
Note that Jabber and Sydney don’t have safety lines, because, well, Jabber’s a super, and a lot of things have to go wrong for her to get hurt on that climbing tower. Sydney obviously has the Fly Ball. It’s not like she couldn’t slip and crack her jaw on a grip below her and knock herself out, but there’s water at the bottom of the tower. Yes, she might wang herself on one of those pipes sticking out of the wall as well. She really probably should have a safety line.
This is the beginner side, BTW. All of those hand grips are pretty meaty. I’ve only tried rock wall climbing a few times, but some of the grips the have on the advanced walls don’t even look like grips. They’re like lumps on the wall you have use walnut crushing grip strength on, or a little lip you have to stick two fingertips under, then use near superhuman hook powers to hold yourself in place for a half a second while you grab another ledge the thickness of a magazine. And not a beefy magazine, either like Vogue back in its heyday. More like an issue of “Extremely Thin Magazine Aficionado.”
Jabber, BTW, is using Squirrel-Monkey Fu on this page. Her power is more about what she thinks a martial arts style should be rather than what it actually is or if it even exists. In a way, she’s a little like Maxima. In that Max has a power pool she can draw from, Jabber has a pool of powers she can grab and use so long as she can justify them under some sort of loose theme. She isn’t consciously aware of a list of powers she uses, it’s all instinctual.
Someone needs to sit her down and get her to play a Dragon Ball Z video game.
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She’s actually doing pretty good. Also WHERE CAN I GET ONE OF THOSE?
What, you don’t have the Danger Room option in your house?
I don’t even have a putting green. And the only “danger room” is whichever room the cat is.
I’d like to see Anvil wearing an “Exaggerated Woman” t-shirt in homage to Giant Girl Adventures’ return.
Or maybe give Krona an Ali Kazaam t-shirt, or something like that. Just a little shout-out from one minor character to another.
She can only use one hand to get things off the top shelf, unless Dabbler can design a hat with a stretchy arm.
The question isn’t if Dabbler can – no question, she can. The question would be, will she?
True, but all Syddles needs is the Lighthook… Johnny Cash
Have one question about that video: where can one buy a shirt like that? The first one, with all those buttons
Been looking for one ever since watching ‘Galaxy Rangers’ in the late 80’s
https://www.historicalemporium.com/store/005150.php where you find ALL great things to wear…
Much thanks, turns out to be slightly not what was initially thinking it would look, will have to re-check the cartoon and look around
Hmm, comparing the Cash shirt and the one you showed me, Cash has less of a ‘gap’ between the bottom of the buttons and his belt
At least now know what type of shirt to be looking for :D
Go a little further into the store, cobber, click on “All Bib Shirts”. They have one with the deeper bib, this is in a burgundy colour. I dion’t bother with a full exploration but.
Okay, that is longer, not as wide though (much wider than the Appaloosa shirt though, looks more like a chubby-tie), wrong colour though
Some of them are almost wide enough but not long enough, others are almost long enough but not wide enough (may have to see if it’s possible to get it custom-made, still have a long coat designed by the lady who worked on “Bad Boy Bubby” that needs to be made, been 20 years trying to get the right lining :( )
Still need to check Goose’s shirt (it’s been a couple decades)
Give Dabbler enough time and resources and she will do even better than that for Sydney, she will splice some of her own DNA into Sydney and have her grow two extra arms with hands so she can hold four Orbs at a time. The miracle of magical science.
And then the orbs drop to the ground, having lost their lock on Syndey’s DNA.
They’re not going to do ANYTHING that might result in the orbs ceasing to recognize her. For all they know, even if the orbs stopped working for her, they might never work for anybody else.
Eh, clone Sydney’s existing arms and then go ala Dr. Frankenstein.
Technically not sharing her tech with the world, it’s just Sydney’s own arms.
Or maybe an upgraded version of the Lighthook will grant her additional hands?
Dabbler does not share her advanced tech! Sydney’s genome is safe from Dabbles.
I just realized jabber is bar hopping to get to the top.
Yes I know the pun was bad.
Last panel — Sidney looks REALLY good in that hat!
Okay, but if Sidney were hanging from a rope and put up Mr Bubble, would it cut the rope?
I think that one’s a pretty clear no since it doesn’t slice out a chunk of the ground when she puts it up.
No so, see https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-168-a-harsh-lesson-in-orb-management/, last panel!
Her Boot soles of her boots, were sunk into the ground. were lower than the surface of the sand, so the shield, only picks her up. Since the souls of her boots were sunk into the sand, she picked up the sand. So it anyone was lower than the soles of her boots, they would have part lower that that, she would cut off their feet. However, it may recognize living matter, so no one would get their feet cut off.
No, Sydney was flying when she activated Mr Buble, that’s why it was half full of sand (from the explosion from the tank)
Unless you meant to link to a different page
Her shield was up, at all times, to shield the reporters.
Guesticus is correct here Sasha, Sydney was flying when she swapped the PPO for her Forcefield, the sand that her PPO kicked up from the blast got caught in her shield. As for why it didn’t seem like her shield cut into the ground, it’s possible that Sydney unconsciously recognizes the ground as not being a threat so her shield doesn’t interact with it in anyway.
As thought, you linked to the wrong page, Sydney shielding the reporters (and everyone else) happened after page #168
I see it now, thanks!
We’ve seen a couple instances where Mr Bubble seems to flatten out along the ground she’s standing on, so we know she doesn’t chop holes in surfaces she’s touching. I don’t think we have any precedent for what happens to a rope (or other item) that isn’t ‘fixed’ but crosses the boundary.
I would expect that the shield AI (or whatever) would try to protect anything (ropes, teammates) from getting sliced apart, but also still exclude anything that could harm the occupant. But I can think of several paradoxical scenarios that make that hard. Say there’s a pipe passing through the shield volume – is it carrying oxygen to a kitten orphanage, or is that oxygen fuel for the doomsday device Sydney’s trying to disable?
So does the shield chop the pipe? Open holes to allow it through (hopefully not)? Wrap around it and allow an exclusion shaft through the middle of the shield? Wrap around the entire pipe somehow (where would it stop)? Pass through the pipe without cutting it, but somehow filter anything harmful passing through it the way it does light & sound? Now what if that’s Amorphosus’s arm in the shield space, but she doesn’t know he’s a traitor about to assassinate her?
I’m guessing DaveB has a canon solution for the boundary, but I imagine that it’s partially under Sydney’s control subconsciously, or perhaps consciously as she unlocks the skilltree.
Entirely apropos of nothing, I got to thinking – dangerous, I know, but – back when Halo returned and Dabbler called her an eskimo sister… seems to me that there is a non-0 chance of that being the case for literally everyone (well, maybe Eskimo grand-aunt, but you get the idea). Dabbler has been around for a good long while, has a voracious sexual appetite that she has no qualms in indulging, and most of the populace is perfectly willing to accomadate her if she shows sufficient cleavage. Which she does. I mean, if she hit woodstock, she probably orgied through several tens of thousands of people over three days. Concert hopping could net several thousand more if the concert is long enough and she wears out the security first. About the only people “safe” from that risk are the virginal.
of course, ‘cubi reps have been improving since the 1970’s….I wonder….
anyway, just putting out a silly thought.
“safe” from that risk are the virginal. How so, just the less than sexually mature would be safe.
You can’t have had sex with someone Dabbler has also had sex with if you’ve never had sex. That’s pretty much the only way you could be sure, is what I’m saying.
(please note, unlike Sydney, I’m not actually particularly off-put by the idea of being an eskimo sibling with Dabbler)
There’s a couple of problems with that climbing wall, chief among them those bars. If someone falls down they’re gonna break their back on those.
The dude that’s on belay in panel 6 is also way too loose. If he falls, he’s gonna hit that bar below him and possibly suffer significant injury. You’d have to belay him tight.
On a side note: Sydney’s technique is atrocious. You don’t want to pull with your arms like that, you’ll get rubber-arms.
Regarding tiny holds: you don’t need to be able to crush walnuts with your fingers to hold those. It’s all about putting your body weight on the correct side of the hold to increase friction.
Source: I’m a sport climber and outdoor climber
Get Jabberwocky to play Exalted
Simple question if Jabber is using her powers to get over the wall, why isn’t Sidney?
Whatever Jabberwokky’s doing, it looks like it at least requires physical effort. Sydney’s powers don’t seem to, at least not at this level.
Jabberwokky doesn’t know that some people would kill for a job where all you have to do is sit in a cubicle all day. Like me.
Then again, if my job forced me to become so fit that it’d almost be a superpower, that might be enough incentive for me to take it. Especially if it paid this well. Unfortunately I don’t think I could ever land a job like this, I’m not good enough at following instructions (or rather, understanding instructions), or taking initiative, or thinking on my feet, or pretty much anything you need to do well in this line of work.