Grrl Power #870 – Should auld acquaintance show up at work
I hate to side with the interstellar car salesman looking guy, but… he’s not wrong.
So yeah. It is a small universe. Well, galaxy. Ray is an acquaintance of both Dabbler and Cora, and judging from their reactions, possibly an ex-boyfriend and/or business partner.
I liked Dabbler’s octopus dress, but her new threads are actually cosplay. I’m sure some of you will identify it right away, especially since at least one of you requested it. :)
I went back and forth between the name Ray Cosmos and Ray Cosmic. I have a sneaking suspicion Ray Cosmic might be the name of some radio serial from the 1920’s though.
Maxima’s directions there in the first panel aren’t the whole story of why Arc-SWAT is handling this INS-ish event. I had a bunch more written for her, but had to make some choices for space and wall of text considerations.
Someone pointed out that September August 23, one day before the previous page went up, was Grrl Power’s 10th anniversary! I completely forgot. :p So break out the top shelf whiskey and adult party favors and do something you’ll need to apologize for in the near future on a stage with a podium and a bunch of American flags, but we’ll all really know what you’re saying is “I’m sorry I got caught.”
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How annoying and aggravating do you have to be to make a succubus of all things choose to cover up rather than being leered at by you?
where’s the like button? it’s comments like these that deserve a like button the most.
How sleezy do you have to be? Wait…….I have met people this bad. Promptly wish I had a gun in hand.
Something tells me that Dabble and Corra will both be coming down with Kickthejerkinthenuts disease. Its a very serious disease that makes people kick jerks in the nuts.
It sound serious. One would have no time to do anything else.
(what about nut-less jerks?)
Maybe he’s a Ballchinian?
Aim for the knees like Kirk did. Sometimes, you get lucky!
Hah! I remember that scene! That was hilarious!
I don’t know…
…I’m looking at the way he points that ‘pompadour’ at the girls (in Panel_5), & wondering if THAT’S where he hides his genitals … ?
Damon Knight had a story that featured an alien with similar morphology.
An egg-shaped reproductive organ grew on the top of the male’s head.
When the female was “in season”, she would bite it off & swallow it, to become pregnant.
Thou hast beaten me to it, thine fastness knoweth no bounds.
Please…
I appreciate Archaic English, but there are rules…
Thou – Subject
Thee, Thyself – Object
Thy – Possessive
Thine – Possessive Object
The verb conjugation will normally be –(e)st
The archaic plural subject pronoun is “ye”.
Which I’ve heard is pronounced “the.”
It’s a long story of poor calligraphy and bad spelling. It involves an “eth” and possibly a dalliance with an “thorn”, and who knows y.
One of the few good things coming in modern English, even the worst of spellers today look like saints compared to middle English or even early modern.
On a scale from 1 to 10? 1 Googol
Given that hairdo, the hidden camera in the shoes toe kind…
I’d say cars salesman sleazy, but that would insult car salesmen.
He’s almost as bad a a politician. That takes *work*.
Now that is pretty bad. I remember seeing a image of someone saying I’m no used car salesman but I’d still bang your wife. To be on that level of bad and not even reach the used car salesman level means that the used car salesman has got to be worse
*snicker* “day of the tentacle” spotted
She didn’t just cover-up, she went formal wear.
Still, that frock coat looks GOOD on her!
Dabbler leers at everyone and drops innuendo constantly. Cora managed to not only deal with Math desperately trying to get a peek past her cloud outfit without being put off by it, but she parleyed it into a threesome. Makes me wonder exactly what their history with this guy is if they are so put off by his leering.
It’s the entrance of a new major character!
Also, Elvis really IS everywhere!
We always knew, that Elvis is an alien. He did not die but just got bored from the terran style and hecked out some other corners of the galaxy for the time beeing.
So there is not an elvis everywhere but one Elvis who already traveled everywhere
Nope, that’s not elvis, but Norwegian Rockabilly artist Vidar Busk.
Just check the cover of ‘Vidar Busk & his True Believers: I Came Here to Rock’ album.
https://obriens.no/pop/24927-vidar-busk-his-true-belivers-i-came-here-to-rock-cd.html
He’s just missing the guitar…
Nah, more of a D.R. (from “D.R. & Quinch”) hairdo
I hope he’s not a regular.
Deus might be a jerk, but he has style.
This guy… doesn’t
Turns out, they are cousins, and neither has style
I broke out a bottle of Gekkikan Silver Bullet. Gonna have it nice and room temperature with some damn good sushi. Ten years…daaaamn…
Time flies, no?
Captain Amelia’s outfit from Treasure Planet? It looks good on her.
Yesss! Good to know someone else appreciates it!
I was about to say the same thing.
Man I haven’t seen treasure planet is forever! But it was instantly recognizable.
It does, though as well as Dabbler pulls it off I feel Ryoko-demon did it better: https://www.deviantart.com/ryoko-demon/art/You-will-address-me-as-Captain-or-Ma-am-444887755
I don’t recognize the cosplay, but Ray Cosmos reminds me of someone from The Fifth Element.
With a pinch of Harry Mudd thrown in for good measure.
More like a double-handful of Mudd slung… and he’s look BETTER with a big mustache.
i don’t know about fifth element but the cosplay is based on captain amelia from treasure planet. it’s a good movie.
I’m 90% sure the cosplay is Cap’n Crunch
Kinda figues he’d have a “Flash Gordon” style spaceship to go with that name.
Happy Anniversary!
Well now Maxima knows how to get Dabbler to cover up :)
Too bad it means she would have to endure Ray Cosmos. If I know Max right she would decide that Dabblers skimpy outfits would be the less annoying option.
I suspect Max would prefer NAKED Dabbler than Ray Cosmos.
I see Dabbler is a fan of Classic Pirate Novels set in Space as an Animated Movie
What do you mean? I am pretty sure she has been a Space Pirate, probably as a mechanic on the ship and quite possibly answering to Cora.
Dabbler gets around in more ways than one.
Sayeth means that Dabbler magicks herself the outfit of Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet
He is wrong. That suit Dabbler’s wearing is hot as fuck.
Oh yes most certainly!
Dabbler has rarely been more hot than now. It might be the hottest thing we have seen Dabbler in?
Or at least close to it?
I vote for cookie baking uniform.
I think the hottest thing I’ve seen Dabbler in was the shower…DaveB has his own space at Deviant Art, ya’ know.
don’t tell him.
I think she was aiming for “total power move“
I can’t decide of I like the suit or the octopus dress more. Dave can draw some nice looking clothes.
I’m with you. An outfit need not bare it all to look great.
September August 23? I take it that extra month name just slipped in there somehow. But yeah, Happy 10th Anniversary! So all of this is still set in 2010? The first few years of presentation are just two days, and the rest are during Sydney’s basic training (which is usually just a few months, but she has had some interesting interruptions in that time frame), but still in the same 365-day period, and she is nowhere close to being done basic training yet.
It’s best not to think too much about time in a long running superhero comic. Let’s just enjoy the jokes, superfights and art.
It”s a perpetual now.
The way Veronica went from a Brickphone to a Flipfone to an Iphone.
He looks like an alien twin of Robbie Rotten.
First character that popped in my head as well!
Hah, funny observation.
So glad it wasn’t just me.
Robbie Rotten after seeing real women for the first ever, after a life of having to hang around kids and elderly puppets.
Is Ray wearing strips of gold-pressed latinum?
No, it’s gold-colour tinted anodised aluminum.
Dabbler and Decolette had a coin toss over who got to seduce Cooter for information. With the WINNER getting to be the one to do it.
Let that sink in. Dabbler was happy and eager to play with Cooter.
Ray Cosmos must reach truly astounding levels of skeeviness.
I…. have been told I am not allowed to take lessons from this guy. We’ve just met him, but Daniel the Human has already told me to basically do the opposite of what he does…
I can picture panel five making Max feel very smug, somehow.
Had he done that to Max, I doubt it would go well for him. At the very least his spaceship would get relocated with the excuse that this is a no stopping zone, let alone a no parking zone.
“We’ll just put it up here on the grounds of the American Museum of Natural History. That should keep you out of trouble. Hey, Neil, how many of your colleagues want to interview real extra-terrestrials? I got a ship load of tourists out here for you guys.”
So they start their tour of New York and the museum. Hopefully, they are only mildly amused by some of our cutting-edge science. “Does that say Dark Matter? What is that?” “Oh, I read it. It is supposed to be something to get their observations of the motion of galaxies to line up with their understanding of physics, but I think they just got the math wrong.”
“relocated”, being a polite description for Max picking it up and throwing it? Or just kicking it?
Maybe moving to the zoo to go with the other animals … inside the tiger cage.
Max picking it up and putting it down gently a few miles to the north. It looks like there are still occupants in the craft, so there is no reason to expose them to excessive Gs just because the cruise director/travel agent is a jerk. At the same time, do not expect any favourable treatment either.
Plus which, if you break his ship then he has a good excuse not to leave.
If he pulled that on Max, I think he would rather get some serious Darth Leander vibes than a mere meter maid response.
*chuckles*
All true, and Max is fast enough that they could never prove it was her.
In this case, though, I refer to Dabbler looking less than pleased about the shamless ogling of her assets after everything she has done to Max.
Amelia: “Let me make this as…monosyllabic as possible. I…don’t much care for this crew you hired. They’re- [to Mr. Arrow] how did I describe them, Arrow? I said something rather good this morning before coffee.”
Arrow: “A ludicrous parcel of driveling galoots, ma’am.”
Amelia: “There you go – poetry.”
Rest in stardust, Mr. Arrow.
Damn it, Cosmo, That is why we can’t have nice things!
Uhm… I’m thirsty
He reminds me of Zapp Branigan.
Reminds me more of an alien version of Bruce Campbell. [In a GOOD way!]
No, He doesnt have enough velour to be Zapp Brannigan.
But Space Johnny Bravo? I think that’s more likely. He probably wears a lot of space high karate cologne also.
Now we all have our reaction to this guy managing to make a succubus cover up. I want to see Max’s reaction.
Seeing these two suddenly covered. Will she want his secret? Or be even less cordial?
Less cordial. if hes that sleazy he will have multiple ways of making money from this trip. landing in times square is just the most visible. at the very least check his pockets asap and before he goes. things have a way of falling in and out. important things.
Max’s irritation with them is… sexual. Max and Dabbler are opposites. both are visually very attractive women, Max is not crazy about the type of attention she gets because she grew up in this messed up culture and can see the difference between the way she is treated vs say Hiro. Dabbler on the other hand feeds on it and enjoys teasing Max. I suspect because Max refuses to give into her glamour.
Maybe Hiro is not the best example.
We’ve observed him up close and at least I haven’t noticed a difference treatment not resulting from their differing ranks and powers.
Oggling: once there’s even a strip were there’s shown there’s a special app for it (code shirtless boys),
Rank: they’re pretty close and seem comparable capable,
place in the team: This one is too foggy, because Max is normally the commanding officer and Hiro isn’t.
One irritating surrogate Roy Cosmos: Harem(Hiro) and Math(Max)
“comments”: Sydney for Hiro(example: “if he found a new shirt we have a problem” aftermath Vehemence), Builders for Max.
Which is by the way really good of Maxima, since she’s the commanding officer really irritated about some peoples behavior yet she doesn’t for me noticable punish one of their broader groups she directly associates with their behaviour(feminist vs. feminist).
I was originally going to say male special forces soldier. you are all forgetting the super assist to the road construction after vehemence fight. we got construction workers… commenting on the scenery (max) until Sydney pointed out that max might have super hearing. meanwhile I think Hiro’s shirt failed again.. and not one comment from the peanut gallery. to be fair much of the things max would complain about happen off camera because of the focus on sydney.
I’m not.
I covered the construction workers under ‘comments’.
As for off camera we get of both Maxima and Hiro some implications they’re treated with increased sexual intend(Max: ‘which super heroine is the hottest?’ and Hiro getting photographed by Harem while working by the construction for which she only acquired consent later when she got caught(you’re right his shirt fialed by the way)).
As for your original description.
I seriously doubt that would be a much better example(still better than Hiro, but that’s a low bar).
My dad has as part of his job description to talk to soldiers about their lives and such and from his stories(special forces aren’t his central group, so I don’t have a lot of data on that, but they seem to be an extremer version) the biggest difference seems to be that they’re happy to be treated the way Maxima complains about(including getting ‘questionable’ comments from people they’re not attracted to).
I’m guessing he went to school with at least one of them (I started to say ‘school chum’ and ‘schoolmate’ – but I suspect neither of those term apply IN ANY SENSE).
Skeeving out a succubus is some kinda wild superpower, ah tell hyew hwut.
He could bring that ‘aggregate beauty’ back up by chopping off his face.
Well, his hair does look well-maintained…
Ah yes. But… is it his hair?
Did Dazzler just put on a cosplay of that dogwoman from the sci-fi Treasure Island?
I can’t remember her name, but that outfit instantly reminded me of her.
Captain Amelia’s feline.
And she’s very fine indeed ;)
It’s good to know Dabbler actually got some time for learning pop-culture, even if it was skewed by Sydney.
All fun and games untill the shoe is on the other foot… or hoof, which ever the case might be.
That Fblthp, Totally Lost
It’s Space Johnny Bravo! :)
Don’t be insulting, Johnny isn’t that bad
Only due to the restraints placed on him by American censors. Ray at least treats females as people vs objects he expects to fawn over him.
Hey now I made no claims that he was bad! :)
Ray ain’t good in any sen… wait, you like SmugD, so of course you like Ray :P
For completely different reasons though!
Deus is the ultimate man. Men want to be him. Women want to be with him. He plays 4D chess on a 7th dimensional board. He is the dream client- intelligent, strategic, rich. Praise be Deus amen.
Ray Cosmos is just funny because of his johnny bravo vibes.
Don’t insult Johnny!
I think the comparison elevates Johnny, rather than diminishes Ray Cosmos.
Yknow I was just thinking…. it’s not fair to say that liking Deus is the same as liking Ray Cosmos (so far).
The two are really not anything alike (so far). I think a better comparison would be liking Ray Cosmos is like liking Coot. Which I do, actually.
Here, I will explain why I like Coot and am liking Ray Cosmos and why it’s completely different than liking Deus.
With Coot and Ray Cosmos, they’re basically bucking the trend that they’re being advertised as by OTHERS. They’re characters who were are TOLD to not like, not because of anything they’ve actually done, but because other characters say ‘ugh, people should not like these people.’ I’m a big proponent of show, don’t tell, with that sort of stuff, and I find it endearing to like a comically flawed character who is just automatically unliked in universe just because he (and it’s usually a he) is the de facto ‘don’t like this person’ character.
Coot is actually a pretty tragic character, despite being upbeat – his family was killed by monsters, but rather than wallow in misery, he wants to get revenge and it doesnt stop him from being …. Coot.
Ray Cosmos seems like a Harry Mudd/Johnny Bravo type of vibe. He’s just overtly sexist with how he ogles (although I find it sort of hypocritical of Dabbler and Cora, considering they’re pretty much TRYING to get ogled all the time, and are VERY sexually promiscuous already). He’s comically unpopular with those he ogles. And he seems blissfully unaware of it. He also seems to love things which are very ‘douchey’ – ie, the hair, the sideburns, the pencil thin moustache, the goatee. Individually fine but combined, it’s just comical. He also PROBABLY is the type that chases the fast spacebuck with get rich quick schemes, like an impromptu tourist attraction of Earth. His schemes are very blatant and not well thought out.
Deus, on the other hand, is nothing like that. He’s VERY suave. Extremely intelligent and genre savvy, plus very aware of what every other person thinks of him and he is able to manipulate everything so it still works out in his favor. He can back up EVERYTHING he says, knows he’s right, and it’s irritating to people not because he’s arrogant, but because his arrogance on the subjects he talks about is COMPLETELY supported by facts. He knows how to reward loyalty, he is always 3 steps ahead of everyone else, and despite any arguments to the contrary, he’s a truly self-made man who actually done GOOD, and not remotely villainous (despite his wanting to make a flashy display of being villainous because he likes the villain tropes). And Deus’s plans are INCREDIBLY well thought out – the only example I can think of where another character plans almost as well is David Xanatos from Gargoyles. But I think Deus is even smarter than Xanatos.
Ray Cosmos is a trope (Failure is the Only Option trope). Coot is a trope as well (Tragic Villain/Tragic Antihero trope). Deus is a trope subversion, even though he does sort of have trope elements as well (the Xanatos Gambit trope mainly, but he probably is aware of that and subverts that as well).
You do know am always just messing with ya, right?
Yes my friend. But it also gives me a reason to be verbose about something that isn’t the law :)
So thank you. :)
Ray probably offered budget trips to picturesque Earth….
With the intention of charging three fingers and an ear* for the privalege of leaving.
So, who wanna bet how this schmuck is going to killed by Maxima the moment he lays eyes on her? Because you got to be a grade-A creep to make Dabs, of all ppl, to cover up!
Don’t tell Dabbles that those toight pants aren’t doing her any favours
Two words, sounds like – Tamel Coe
I’m pretty sure Dabbles ain’t overlooking that. If anyone can pour last night’s drink dregs and washup water over an old annoyance, I’ll give a pissed-off Succubus the odds.
Any one else getting a ‘Zap Brannigan’ vibe from this yahoo?
Although, getting more of a ‘Sammy Davis Jnr.’ vibe from his sMugshot
Oi! Sammy Davis has both personality and talent!
Just meant in appearance, completely agree on what you said about Sammy
Dabbler just needs the proper shoes for that
Might i suggest these from Kermit Desoro?
https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/11406708_915820478475076_6375810895958452298_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=2d5d41&_nc_ohc=hAZAN8gNipQAX-4atUU&_nc_ht=scontent-den4-1.xx&tp=14&oh=39917bdeeb23910e0599153808aaf65f&oe=5F6DAEEF
Wouldn’t work for her. (or have you forgotten that she doesn’t have HUMAN feet?)
That looks ridiculously uncomfortable and impossible to walk in without tearing up the TOP of your foot.
Doesn’t really look that much worse than a ‘normal’ stiletto shoe
Well normal stilettos only kill the soles of your feet. This decides to kill the tendons and tarsals parts instead. Very unique in its ability to torture women footwear-wise.
lovin the Capt Amelia outfit there… recognized it even before i read the description ^_^
SECOND PANEL! IT´S FBLTHP!!!!
yuss XD
Does nobody notice that Fblthp appears to be Totaly Lost? D:
‘And the aggregate beauty of the universe is thus diminished’
Ray Cosmos, your words have struck a chord in my heart.
I love how one of the aliens is Fblthp from Magic the Gathering.
I’m already getting the impression he makes “Space Dandy” look like a prude, sensible, and a fashion plate in comparison to this space creep…
Amazing! This man has a superpower that can make Dabbler act with modesty! He can keep her from wanting to seduce him! This is one of the most potent powers yet seen in this comic!
So it looks like alien technology combined Lenny’s face and mind with Squiggy’s physique, colored it all purple, and then said, “What have we done…”