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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Wow… theres someone so creepy in the grrlpower universe, even a succubus of all people will cover up. Thats… both amazing and terrifying at the same time.
I was gonna comment and say the same thing. It’s GOTTA make a statement when both CORA and DABBLER decide to cover up.
Obviously they’re prudes.
Bet they don’t even take their skin off on the first date.
Not really. That same behavior would be accepted and fawned over if either of them liked him. Much MUCH lighter behavior is considered sexual harassment if the girl in question doesn’t like the guy in question. It’s much more likely they have a history than that he’s actually creepy enough to turn off a succubus.
Succubi thrive on the emotion of lust. If the dude is predominantly feeling possessiveness or arrogance or some other emotion upon setting eyes on the ‘cubi, yeah, that’s not gonna be sexy to ‘cubi sensibilities.
Is it possible to learn this power?
I wish Dabbler would wear clothes like the latter outfit more often. She looks great.
I suggest you go check out “Treasure Planet”. Those clothes are the clothes of the ship’s captain.
Plus it’s genuinely disney’s best film ever imo.
The above plus: The character who wore that uniform, Captain Amelia, is among the most fun characters Disney has.
Yes, but I’m wondering if Ray can speak Flatulant.
He doesn’t strike me as the sort. I’m sure he’s fluent in Smarm, though.
All the time…
She’s also responsible for many boys awakening as either full blown furries, or at least kemonomimi enthusiasts.
That was my first guess, but then I thought that it couldn’t be. I wouldn’t say that it’s Disney’s best but it was a lot better than a lot of the complaints when it came out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Eisner This was the period when Eisner said that he didn’t need Pixar anymore and could do CGI in-house. Unfortunately, he had already forced out many of his good animators and managers of animators with his micromanagement and poor business practices. So the film was very good, but could have been a lot better without Eisner’s interference. In addition to be part of the impetus behind dumping Eisner, it added force to the push to reengage with Pixar.
This is false. Emperors new groove exists.
Name checks out. Also, I’m inclined to agree.
Oh thank goodness, it wasn’t just me.
Did Ray Cosmos remind anyone else of Robbie Rotten (from “Lazytown”)?
A little :).
Yeah, but now I’m sad about Robbie Rotten’s actor Stefán Stefánsson passing away. :(
Don’t insult ROBBIE ROTTEN!
Thank you, Robbie would be insulted to be compared to… that!
I think you may have forgotten who robbie rotten is. He’d recognize a brother in cosmos.
This was my thought, exactly – he’s like a grape flavored Robbie Rotten in clothes stolen from Sigfried & Roy’s wardrobe.
Ha!
YOU CAN’T EXPECT ME NOT TO COMMENT ABOUT THAT LOVELY OUTFIT!
Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet! Such an underrated movie, if they really want to do live action remakes that one would be -perfect- for it!
Oh! I was thinking ‘tin solider’ or ‘nutcracker’ for some reason, but spot on :).
Thanks for confirming my suspicion – didn’t even realize it was a known costume until I read the blurb from DaveB!
I like him. Suspect he will be entertaining.
I see you and your Treasure Planet outfit reference! Excellent!
Okay, is it just me, or am I the only one reading Ray Cosmos like a sleazy Bruce Campbell character?
Are we talking Ash Williams, Sam Axe, or Elvis (old home folk) renditions? Think Ash might be a candidate.
Why would it need to be one, a lot of his characters were smarmy, and the only difference was how obnoxious he got. I never saw Ash, but Sam Axe seams like him, except he had a code of honor and a heart of gold.
Oh my god! I’m reading it that way now!
To me he’s just straight up Johnny Bravo.
Johnny’s voice would be good, but he’s way too naive to pull off the lines that Roy no doubt will have.
…and Fblthp is STILL Totally Lost…
I just looked up Fblthp and I adore him! :)
Congratulations, you made me hate this guy from the very first panel he appeared in! :D
wow, a man so sleazy even the succubus gets frigid around him. that is legitimately impressive, and a little disturbing
This sky must be a REAL scumbag if he even makes Dabbler want to cover herself up. I’m… almost impressed.
My computer changed guy to sky. Not phone, computer. …what?
sky, cosmos, same diff
Well, someone’s going to be getting a free trip to the Stratosphere if he tries that with Max.
How much you want to bet he can take almost anything physical she could dish out? I think she’d have to go “Daisy-Cutter” on him to make anything stick.
(Probably the only reason Dabs and Cora just covered up instead of just clobbering him)
Why did Dabbler do that???
Definitely hes Robbie Rotten
No, no he’s not, Robbie had class
I really like Cora’s coat. That is a very well-drawn fur lining.
Whoa. You know the Guy’s awful when even a Succubus puts on the “Nope” clothes. Should we warn Earth Ladies?
Too little too late.
MUHAHA, you will never succeed
He’s like an unsuccessful merger between Deus and Math.
At Least, Deus, is charming!
hence: unsuccessful.
Getting some Capt. Quirk vibes off this guy.
…Space Quest V, for the six other people who remember it.
I remember all the Rodger Wilco games
Your discussion of Captain Quirk made me look it up. It looked like a clone of Captain Zapp Brannigan from Futurama. If there was to be a “sleaze contest”, who would you go for Captain Brannigan, Captain Zapp, Ray Cosmos, Robbie Rotten, Leisure Suit Larry, or name your personal favorite for lowest of the low. Even Snidely Whiplash had more class than these guys.
I read Ray’s part as more of a Lando Calrissian personally.
this is the cannon now
Lando had more style then this dude XD
LOOOOOOLLL
So apparently if you have Puritan values and some people are annoying you with too much skin, the most effective measure is reverse psychology, lol.
Correct, we puritans know that, but only a few of us have mastered this art in combination with the discipline to stop and the conscience to actively cause emotional harm if someone doesn’t subscribe to our norms.
Remember that most ways people get to puritan ideas are out of despise of one of these ideas:
– religious: the reason is basically always to give others more option to concentrate on the divine
– shame: dickishness is shameful too
– alternative to self-discipline: if you need an alternative for it you apparently don’t have enough of it
– fear of despise of the community: dickishness doesn’t necessarily make them a lot happier
There’s a reason we’ve started the irritation other people inflict to try influence the outcome.
People like Ray often have it easier, because they often just don’t stop and aren’t aware they’re inflicting emotional harm and the art comes naturally to them.
Yup!
Yorp!
I would just like to honour an heroic canine cyborg:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53949310
Each time I check out this comic, it makes me chuckle.
I think we may have just discovered somebody who “really needs a shootin’.”
Maxima’s willpower may be tested!
I think that in that in this aspect she’s absolutely the most trained human alive, since she is basically her entire career capable of destroying anybody she wants, irritated by this exact course of action, in an environment sensitive for it and has a figure that attracts such reaction.
So… Superman, if he had tits, and was painted gold
Nah, he’s also different in the other aspects: he could destroy anybody he wanted, since his first contact with earth, doesn’t work in an environment sensitive for it and hasn’t openly expressed any disgust in this regard.
More like wonderwoman
Does no one think he looks like Trelane from the original Star Trek?
Ooh, a good match for hair, sideburns and outfit colour scheme/feel. Albeit missing in a number of aspects, such as skin colour, ‘beard’ and not being a total skeeve.
Plus let us hope that he does not have the same powers. Being able to move planets around and rearrange matter into energy and vice versa, on a whim, would make it rather … problematic.
I don’t know so much about “skeeving out” a succubus; if anything, even Dabbler observes certain lines of decorum, and in the interest of simple expediency, it could make the interaction smoother as a representative of Arc if she didn’t have to deal with this weirdo with his head almost into her decolletage the entire time.
TL;DR – My take is, even Dabbler understands and observes “a time and a place,” when it suits her.
Stan S. Stanman ?
quick, demonstrate how comfortable this coffin is!
I am already interested in seeing more appearances from this guy.
Dabbler is like a connoisseur, confronted by slimy three-day-old baked fish. I understand that.
In other news it seems that there are a lot of human-derivatives from The Great Elsewhere, who are roughly the same shade of blue.
If this is a genetweak that’s common among human-ish people from, let’s say, Way Out Of Town, like Cora and Cosmos, what does it signify? Are they to some extent photosynthetic? Does the odd pigmentation protect from certain forms of radiation?
Or is it just something that somebody thought looks cool, that got way too popular for a while?
Cora establishes here that there are a lot of aliens with a human form, because it proofed evolutionary beneficial and there have been humans thrown in the gene pool by cliché alien kidnapping and that the blue shade is an epigenetic mod, which allows them to photosynthesize and eat whatever she want, while keeping a healthy diet.
I get that the “guy” is a creep BUT Dabler goes OUT OF HER WAY to make people stare at her and that is ALL he was doing. If he was touchy feelly or inappropriate with language or in some other way crossing a line that would be one thing but all he was doing was looking, and doing so in a way those two characters have made clear they approve and even encourage. I get that there is some history here we don’t understand but still a double standard.
of course all they did was change to less revealing clothes so their reaction isn’t unfair or anything just interesting that we just saw what looks like a herd limit for Dabler whom should get some direct benefit from the guys interest.
Just consider that the guy is such a turn off, that there is zero chance of any succubus getting to feed, whilst he is in the area, and you might follow the reason. Even if he is clearly readily available succubi, and Dabbler in particular, like to play the field. But if being associated with him would drive away all other prospective partners, and taint her reputation, then, yes, she would be driven to cover up and discourage him. With no double standards involved.
Sex is food for Succubi, and this guy is a walking famine!
What you’re not taking into consideration is they already know him. They’re not reacting to what he’s doing, but rather what he’s done in the past.
Think about it: if some… ‘guy’ (as you put it) forced a succubabe (who literally feeds on sexual tension) to cover up, then there is something seriously ‘off’ about the ‘guy’, something that will be examined… shortly
Basically, what the two above me already said
https://gr.pinterest.com/pin/644085184179056766/
did you dress Dabbler as captain Amelia ?
I’m sure it has already been said, but RIP Black Panther.
NSFW warning!
Seeing your comment about the octopus dress, DaveB, I thought that you (and many of the readers) might enjoy this octopus being worn, as the only item of apparel, by a witch, in one of the best YouTube shorts.
What a cool little film! Even without the title I’d’ve guessed it was French.
Wait a tic…Dabbler’s uniform
That’s Captain Amelia’s uniform from Treasure planet! I thought that looked familiar!
Someone requested that you put Dabbler in the unfortunate Colombian woman’s cycling team uniform?
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/funny-clothing-fails-14-5979e6d8e2850__605.jpg
I mean, I’m not kink shaming, but an outfit that makes you look like you are naked from the belly button to the tops of your thighs probably isn’t the best change of clothing for covering up from the pervy dude’s staring…
Did Dabbler just get a taste of her own medicine? XD
And mannn is it bitter.
Remember (or learn) that Dabbles literally feeds on sexual energy, so her turning down free food must mean something, right?
Nah, course not, let’s just mock Dabbles instead
Have you ever encountered small kids.
They technically feed on food, yet they turn it down all the time.(grumbl)
I’m not sure whether my old comment came through, so maybe you get this one double.
Dabbler has enough ‘food’ available, so her turning some of it down doesn’t mean that much.
Infant children who’ve enough food available will turn down any number of food just, because it’s not familiar, ‘yummy’ or cool enough.
First the red neck,¿Any bids tha the next “impolitical incorrect” guy to die will be this?
I want to punch him repeteadly in the face. Whuke wearing an Irina gauntlet. Which…makes him a perfect character for who and what he is.
Argh how do i edit a post in here? Phone mangled that last post…
I don’t know if anyone mentioned it, but this Dude looks like a cross between Little Richard and Sammy Davis Jr.
OH MY GOD its the captain’s outfit from Treasure Planet!