Grrl Power #874 – Infotainment
Actually, Max, supers are kind of the one thing Earth has going for it, from a galactic POI at the moment, other than being the latest planet on the verge of dipping their toe into galactic society. That definitely gives us a “new” factor, but once the first few waves of tourists come by and sample our wines, quiches, board games, and erotic lady literature, the thing that will keep Earth front and center is the supers.
Yes, Max is a little extra shiny tonight all of a sudden. I guess she wiped her face with one of those Mr. Clean Eraser Sheets or something.
Presumably, the can of “Refreshing Hot Osmium” (sorry it’s small and hard to read) has a disposable fission generator in the bottom of the can to warm it up, but like with any mass produced stuff made in Space China, it’s cheap garbage and like 1 in 17 cans has a busted heating element.
FYI, osmium has a melting point of 3045C, or roughly 5500F, so 1) what the heck is that guy’s arm made of? And 2) Enjoy that little factoid. Commit it to memory. It might save your life one day.
I admit that part of my reason for this page was to draw good pinup type shots of Heatwave, Achilles, and Mr. Amorphous, (I’ve owed Marion G. Harmon some art for a Grrl Power sourcebook for a while. It’s a little embarrassing, honestly.) but it didn’t really work out that way. I thought about having Mr. A standing there flexing his arm while it’s stretched out into an “S” shape while aliens applaud (tepidly, I’d imagine, as there are probably alien races that are a bit stretchy) as that would make for fine Bio art, but that would be about as entertaining for you guys as it would be for the aliens, but almost immediately I was like “Orrrrrr… I could draw a bunch of alien ladies perched on his arms… for… reasons…” You can see which way I went.
Maybe I’ll have to do a nude pinup of Heatwave and use the clothed version for her Bio. I’m not personally excited about doing the same for Achilles and Amorphous, I don’t imagine most of you are clamoring to see that either. Some of you, sure. I had a vague notion of doing a pinup of Hiro for an April fools things, but eh. Maybe I’ll make it a poll over at patreon one day.
Speaking of segues, Daniel Shinhofen’s second Aether’s Revival book is out, if you enjoyed the first one, which I recommended a while back. Also, the audiobook for the first one is available as well.
I personally have become spoiled on dual narrated audiobooks. A female narrator reading female voices is so much better than listening to a dude doing falsetto, and I find listening to women try and do dude’s voices pretty distracting. That said, Andrea Parsneau does a pretty respectable job of it. She’s also prolific AF and does a lot of books in genres I dig, so I’ve been listening to her a lot while I draw recently.
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I imagine I should recognise the woman Max is trying to stare down in the final panel …
anyone want to link me up?
I think she’s just frustrated with the crowd in general, and the crowd, of which gold tatto face lady is part of, is looking in Mr. Amorphous’ direction.
Yeah, I noticed that “glare off” too. What’s up with that?
She’s not a reference as far as I know. I just thought it’d be funny to have an alien that uses gold accents as makeup/tattoos seeing Maxima. Her implied thinking is “Too much, lady.” but I suspect I’m the only one thinking that.
I don’t care. It amused me.
“Tryhard”
Maybe add it as an u see the comic interaction as you’ve done a few times?
under the comic blurb interaction*
Ha! Fair enough. I am just used to assuming its a reference I don’t know :D
weirdly if you hadn’t said anything a hypothesis (one of several) rolling around in my head was that it was Ray Cosmos and they were either a gender morpher *or general shapeshifter and/or glamored up* before talking to Maxima to look like a smaller pallet swapped version of her.
Honestly scientists should really have a “how humans work, basic info” prepared in case aliens come
Trick there is that to have an effective training document you need to know what the basis is. Imagine preparing a detailed guide from carbon based biology up through psychology only to have aliens be humans with forehead ridges or extradimensional beings that don’t realize that we exist let alone have feelings. Point is, to make a primer you need to know what you’re priming.
Seems like something the galactic embassy wouldn’t mind to provide.
Sure we haven’t discovered it ourselves, but not providing it could be potentially dangerous for everybody.
Most of these folks got the abbreviated version, as listed in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Earth: Mostly Harmless.
And some of them get the flipside of that.
Earth: Please Don’t Visit.
Don’t kid yourself, we have a hard enough time explaining “how humans work” to other humans.
If aliens managed to get to earth, their technology has to be so advanced that they won’t need our information. They had to figure out how to deal with so many sociological, technical, environmental, and other problems and not kill their civilisation before figuring out interstellar travel that they won’t need any help we can offer.
Since there are plenty of humans that have been out in other space societies for generations if not millennia (from which Cora is descended, in part) there is probably a REASONABLE amount of knowledge out there already about how squishy or smelly or violent or rude or passive or whatever, that humans have a genetic predisposition to be – especially if it is remarkably so.
They’d have a reputation as having a certain temperament for any other species that might consider humans a “pet”, or there would be a stigma against (untrustworthy) or towards (exotic / loyal) dating them in one society or another, that would be documented in some enthusiast’s splog (space web log) on the galactinet, and could be parsed quickly for an article on the background of these weird melannic, when someone thought the Fel ship being ‘sploded was news worthy
Also, since there are alien refugees or tourists that are already regularly visiting and hidden via The Veil, I can’t help but think there’s an extra planetary group of folks that has earth on a list somewhere for that type of analysis (and it quite quickly got bumped up to the top of the list when the news of the Fel ship being taken down got out)
In short – there’s a decent chance the galaxy has very recently or will very shortly have a surge of interest that will create many collaborative/compilation type resources – whether out of safety concerns or some type of archeological interest or whatever – about this little planet out in the space boonies
Come on, don’t tell the creepy alien guy was eviscerated offpanel!
We already have Heatwave’s VDSD submission, but I doubt anyone would mind there being more…
Ya know… Given that the extra terrestrial does fall within Archon’s jurisdiction, I would think that someone would have considered putting them behind Earth escort/tourism as a matter of safety policy. As Dabbler noted, the group isn’t equipped with the proper food/drink vendor dietary information for them to be making informed decisions. I would think that Archon would be one of the first to get that kind of thing and as a requirement before any kind of tourism would be allowed if only as a matter of public safety.
if this were a “planned” visit you would probably be right ….. but this is the equivalent of having some skab tourism company drop in on a 3rd world city and think the local “authorities” are up to dealing with it …. when i was in the navy i experienced something like that in U.A.E. but it was a celebrity and just us grunts hitting a game of laser tag and M. Jackson …. they tried to tell us it was a “lookalike” but they were waaaaaaay to nervous for that excuse, we played along anyway ….. this was before all that stuff came out about him …..
yeah I made a comment somewhere in the last few pages, this Ray Cosmos is like the guy with the out of his garage tourism bus that just shows up and points a few things out and just sits in the parkinglot or a parkinglot somewhere dropping off a gaggle of foreigners who don’t realize they could have gotten a better experience either just driving there themselves or booking with a real tourist agency instead of that *Ray’s Spooky Tour Bus* ad they saw on Craig’s list.
Heatwave seems a bit to excited for being used as a canned food heater…. Or has that something to do with the guy she heats it for….
At least it’s not popcorn.
How many times did she burn the popcorn before she got the fine temperature control?
That smell is one helluva incentive to get good, fast.
And having fine control lets her do more things with her heat ability, neh?
How often does she get to cut loose without just turning things into boring plasma, or worrying that her attentive audience will vaporize? It’s like Black Bolt finally getting to have a chat with somebody who isn’t immediately turned into an aerosol.
Some Lerner-Williams Plasma would be a nice change up.
Achilles finally gets his praise!
Space orcs do respect someone who can take a hit..
I don’t want to go up against someone who can take a hit of mace like that.
Does the m stand for Maxima or for matron? Cuz it seems like she has to mother the team quite frequently
From what I remember when I read the Bios of the characters, Heatwave, Achilles, and Mr. Amorphous were vigilantes until they were found by Archon and offered immunity if they joined. As such, they probably have more control than Halo, but still not the sort of control someone that trained for years in the military would have.
Halo is a new recruit and probably getting more field experience due to her unique abilities (shield protection for allies/crowd control and alternative flight for an entire team), so wouldn’t have military discipline. Dabbler is a contractor and we have seen that she defiantly hasn’t been trained in the same manner as most military personal.
The team itself is more laid back than most military outfits and that is also a factor. There isn’t a threat, so the team will do what they have to and then have fun.
Definitely defiantly not trained…
I’ve often felt that the team’s division between military personnel and reformed vigilantes would be a good source of drama for the story, but it’s never been a point DaveB has dwelt on much. I’d like to see more stories of Heatwave, Amorphous, and Achilles’ time as vigilantes, and how it informs their behavior as members of Archon. Not to mention what Jabberwock got up to!
That’s kind of the same issue that Star Trek Voyager down. They started the series with a crew that was half star fleet and half rebels/terrorists.
And then by the third episode they were all perfect little star fleet drones and the original difference was never mentioned again (except for that one special episode every now and then when a writer tried to hamfist it into A Point he was trying to make)
Though here, it is quite obvious that despite the military background of the command structure, this is very far from a military unit indeed.
So … Dave is alread one or two steps ahead of Star Trek writers ;)
Unfortunately super powers don’t always come with the ideal personality for a military unit so I guess Maxima is forced to take that role sometimes. Herding cats like Halo and Dabbler may be stressfull but worth it just to keep them from going supervillain.
I’m curious as to what the CAN of ‘Refreshing Hot Osmium’ is made of, considering the ‘disposable’ fissile heating element.
Wait until a local recycler picks that and other trash up…
He files local patents… Earth tech surges.
He gets rich. Gets alien girlfriends (he’s not sure about gender of a few, but they are fun to look at and capable)
City tries to get in on action, re trash. Puts out bins labeled Alien Trash. Unfortunately they find them stuffed w/skeevy aliens all the time instead of tech samples.
There was a short story about a human discovering an alien landing site (camping) and finding alien toys… which then took mankind to the stars. I think someone even did a cartoon about it.
Agreed, the heating element on its own is intriguing given Osmium’s melting point is over 3000 degrees. Pity our plumbing if said petrivore needs to take a dump because just ouch.
My guess would be that the contents of that can are made of “Osmium” in the same sense a Xenon processor is composed of a noble gas; It’s advertising hyperbole.
Tungsten would work for the can, melts at 3422 Celcius. Many ceramics are even higher if you don’t care about being metal.
Hafnium carbonitride is easily heat resistant enough to hold molten Osmium. Hideously expensive, though.
I’m guessing it would have to be some form of graphite similar to what’s used for melting high temp metals.
Probably some type of sandwiched composite, with heat tolerant material on the outside and inside, and endothermic material in the middle; i.e. a thermos
Also, I wonder if its like an iced tea or some kind of fizzy osmium. Too hot and *gush* all over you when you open it.
The ‘fizziness’ would probably be the result of high energy particle emission from the heating element. Those bubbles are probably helium from Polonium-210…
Probably not PURE Osmium.
Not because these guys couldn’t drink pure osmium, but because if they did, and they liked it, it’d be just like a cheap beverage maker to dilute it with cheap additives and charge just as much.
For a pin up? How about Sydney wrapped around her special puppy in a large -no huge- space bed…
maybe some butt showing but her leg up strategically on him and scratching him under the chin and his tail a thumping w/o control…some how her orbs need to show that they too are satisfied. Maybe snoring on a fancy pillow over her head. The bed should be properly messed up. And syd’s smile one for the record book.
The existence of extraterrestrials may be new knowledge to the vast majority of humanity, but I always thought that the rest of the universe knew quite a bit about Earth. There has after all been clandestine sex tourism going on for some time now. You’d think the tourists would have already known about the value of gold for example.
It might have been one of those actually well-kept secrets. The universe is big, and not everyone goes on sight-seeing tours in the back country.
Only the most hipster aliens knew about Earth and they never told those mainstream aliens about it. ”I was a fan of Earth before Halo made it popular. Can’t stand it these days, too many tourists.
Don’t forget that most of these trips were probably illegal and thus secret to an extend.
yeah, through the main tourism board that had ties with the Twilight Council and secret government meetings. A very secret beach resort kind of feel.
This Ray guy feels less mainstream government (Xevoarchy in this case) approved tourism of the area and more scummy guy who has a big van, put an ad in the cheap tickets section of space craigs list. and pretty much just parked the bus and let the tourists do whatever with the whole *just be back at the bus by such and such time and I’ll drive you back to my lot where you parked your cars*.
I would really like seeing some clearly not mammalian woman having no boobs. And perhaps perplexing about frickin mammals mistaking her gender because of that
Dave sure likes drawing exotic babes.
It’d be hilarious if the arachnid-looking bachelorette told everyone “What? No, those aren’t milk glands, they’re poison sacks! And if you keep oggling them, you’ll find out how hey work!” XD
It’s already been established that, as the last stage in the ascendance of a civilization, they go around seeding a galaxy with their DNA so that the next generation of intelligent lifeforms end up looking like variations on themselves.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-690-gotterdammermcguffins/
So I think we can assume that the top tier civilization that did this to the Milky Way galaxy had boobs, and liked them.
There shall be boobs on all worlds, so says the sowers of life.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/e/ec/Aegis_%28Proemial_God%29_%28Earth-616%29_from_Annihilation_Silver_Surfer_Vol_1_3_0001.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20200703210320
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/ce/dc/54cedc4cb84f5aa846522dbb0d63dbaf.jpg
https://www.deviantart.com/rhuen1/art/The-Doll-Collector-second-attempt-852358910
https://i.redd.it/8fj3xjgwy9h11.png
I don’t think that timeline was so much ‘established’ as it was ‘Syd’s head canon’, especially given the ‘notations’.
When the tax payers provide your income it’s wise to support the tourism industry. Got to keep those foreign investors happy. Also, you got to let supers flaunt their powers now and then.
It’s also an amazing way of alien crowd control.
Most of the aliens will be around you if alien trouble emerges and it gives the bureaucrats options to send teams to prevent it.
Things these hypothetical teams could do: provide more concentrated entertainment for aliens, hand out flyers, figure out under which jurisdictions they fall, manage all the business they attract and figure out their special needs.
Honestly, I’m a little dissapointed there aren’t more non-humanoid form aliens. Seems to be a hard trope to break away from in visual sci-fi. Also a little perplexed that species descendent from amphibians, lizards and arachnids would have mammary glands, but then, it’s not my story to tell. XD
Not complaining, mind you, just perplexed.
Xenogenesis aliens.
But as a note, as popular as it is to say mammary glands. Note that even among mammals human breasts are unique. Now primate line of course only two and positions high up on the chest *not unheard of in some other mammal lines but far from the norm*, but humans are the only mammal whose breasts stay in an “inflated” form at all time *hormone wise humans are also technically in heat for much of their adult lives rather than being seasonal*
if we expand on that and say the unusual traits humans have not shared by other primates are the result of Xenogenesis, upright posture, wavy frame, prominent breasts all year round, long hair on the head, ect…
then we can add these same aliens did something similar tweaking other alien species with a vague enough resemblance to themselves that a little gen alliterating and boom, more sharing a similar shape to themselves.
I mean if you want to get technical, then hypothetically speaking most sapient life should be small (brain to body energy ratio), frail, if able to get into space have grasping limbs. Most Earth type bodies found so far appear to be larger than Earth so higher gravity, so smaller sizes again even more likely. Humans could end up being giants among other sapient life which could end up being like less than two foot tall octopus-crab-parrots.
Personally I use an easy out of just making most inter-species relations across alternate timelines so either Earth based so similar enough in the biped department *note sexual attraction features tend to be up high on bipeds, granted a bird’s inflating sack or sticking head feathers up wouldn’t be the same but eh*, or else are of human descent one way or another *gene-modified or techno-organic beings descended from androids with the ability to reproduce*.
but again, this is looking to go the Star Trek route of some ancient species decided to seed a number of worlds or for whatever reason modified a few.
Human head hair and breasts are like a peacock’s feathers. A biologically expensive display of reproductive fitness. It hardly matters exactly what a species does to display that, it just has to be genuinely expensive in terms of biological resources, to prove you had access to them. The breasts indicate a woman was consistently well fed and healthy during childhood and puberty, and is maintaining a high estrogen level. Long hair does the same for both sexes on a more recent basis: If you’re sickly you probably don’t have a good looking head of hair.
It is a little unusual that the females have the more expensive display, that probably relates to our being an extreme example of a K selected species: We have, for a very long evolutionary time, protected the women enough that they didn’t have to be inconspicuous to avoid predators.
“Most Earth type [exoplanet] bodies found so far appear to be larger than Earth so higher gravity” – Rhuen
Note that there is a significant observation bias involved. The methods we currently have – and probably any others that maybe developed in the future – rely on the size and/or mass of the planet affecting the light of (usually) the host star. A bigger or heavier planet, or one orbiting closer to its star, will have a bigger effect and be easier to detect. I’m not sure whether anyone’s tried correlating the distribution of planets seen against the distribution of method sensitivity, to figure out whether the bias towards super-Earths in the observed data is greater than the methods alone can account for.
Yeah, it’s something I rail against when the 90th consecutive alien shows up on Star Trek and it’s just another race of humans with prosthetic foreheads on. I grant that doing muppet or CG aliens in a weekly show would be hideously expensive and complicate shooting.
As someone drawing a comic, I have less of an excuse, really. It’s just that when I sit down to draw an alien, my first thought isn’t usually about exoskeletons or body morphology, it’s more of an excuse to draw exotic women. Maybe it’s a habit I should try to veer away from for at least one alien per page when it gets crowded like this.
Just keep on drawing what you like. I’m sure most of your audience appreciate it. And let’s be honest, exotic women sell.
well you already have like three times explained it in universe.
We should be glad the original Star Trek didn’t do too many non-humanoids, the few times they tried the low budget really showed *silicon based blobs for example*, by the time they had the budget it was already established as common.
Although I am reminded of the show Farscape, an early episode had Jon stuck on a humanoid world going through its own X-files phase of alien cover ups and national security over-reaction to any aliens as invaders phase where the alien woman commented she was disappointed/surprised at how alike they all were to her own species, until she saw “Pilot”.
the show had a nice mix of humanoids and non-humanoid aliens. I believe they did explain it once as the ancients had been the seeding their likeness types as well. But their galaxy is filled with enough life anyway that plenty of non-humanoid (or about as humanoid as a frog or lizard standing upright is to a human).
to be honest though we can trace most taxonomic traits to some common ancestor that had them, so trying to imagine an alien with no traits that can pointed to Earth is going to always result in trying to make something dysfunctional looking. Parallel evolution is a good excuse.
-example: tails. Not all life on Earth has tails, and most tails can be traced back only along the Chordate line of animals *arthropods with tails are extended abdomens or feelers* rather than the “true tails” only found in chordates. But there it is, something like a tail only with a different source can evolve.
There is this cartoon where the races of the universe declare war on humans for their perversion.
Every female of every species ever looks exactly like an big breasted human woman but colour coordinated to their male counterparts look otherwise wildly different a nothing like a bipadal simian (e.g. a real mushroom, a velocirapter, a space demon). Except for humans where the male of the species decided they wanted to look almost identical to universal females. The perverts …
comic strip,
Oglaf.
majority of comics are very NSFW, and google seems to not want to prove the link to the comic when searched but not like its hard it is just www (dot), oglaf (dot) com
(not providing exact link as it is as I said NSFW.
Hot osmium! Bleah – if you want to clear the area, that’s the way to do it. Know how hot iron smells when you first heat it up? Osmium is notorious for being stinky at even normal room temps, melting it is best done with LOTS of upwards ventilation. In fact, the very name comes from “osme”, which means smelly.
However, when it comes to stinky compounds, selenium is pretty much king. Chemists who work with selenium compounds have been banished to the countryside for months, waiting for the stench to wear off.
Also, one of the oxides of osmium is ridiculously toxic, and can kill and/or blind you at concentrations you can’t even smell it at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium_tetroxide#Safety_considerations
Conversation with Linus Pauling:
Linus Pauling: Well, Matt, you know about tellurium, the group VI element below selenium in the periodic chart of the elements?
Matthew Meselson Uh, yes. Sulfur, selenium, tellurium . . .
Linus Pauling: I know that you know how bad hydrogen sulfide smells. Have you ever smelled hydrogen selenide?
Matthew Meselson No, I never have.
Linus Pauling: Well, it smells much worse than hydrogen sulfide.
Matthew Meselson I see.
Linus Pauling: Now, Matt, hydrogen telluride smells as much worse than hydrogen selenide as hydrogen selenide does compared to hydrogen sulfide.
Matthew Meselson Ah.
Linus Pauling: In fact, Matt, some chemists were not careful when working with tellurium compounds, and they acquired a condition known as “tellurium breath.” As a result, they have become isolated from society. Some have even committed suicide.
Matthew Meselson Oh.
Linus Pauling: But Matt, I’m sure that you would be careful. Why don’t you think it over and let me know if you would like to work on the structure of some tellurium compounds?
Interesting topic. Apparently “tellurium breath” takes months to go away after exposure to even a tiny amount.
reminds me of those food reaction videos on youtube. First time trying American, British, Mexican, ect… foods for Chinese, Koreans, and Tribes people in the middle east. Man the reaction to some foods they never tried before can be interesting, and just as Americans will often make the remark of other people’s food smelling bad, the same is said of American food…especially poptarts…seems no one who didn’t grow up on them likes them at all for the most part.
Heh like the ones of people trying durian.
I kinda wonder what “aster” would think of durian. She might like a tour of the botanical gardens.
I actually like durian. But you do have to make sure to breath through your mouth while eating it.
A friend of mine, though, says, “Look at that thing! Covered in inch long thorns, smells bad. What do you need, God writing letters of fire across the sky, saying “Don’t eat that, you fool!”?”
makes me think of the first person to look at a sea urchin and think, “I wander what that tastes like”.
maybe that was actually the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
There is debate, based on pre-existing local legends and myths as to what the tree was (apple it definitely wasn’t; thank Germanic myth for changing that); Figs, dates, or some imaginary fruit; there is evidence some aspects of the tree and the story around descended from stories of the tree of life in the Epic of Gilgamesh; that tree however eating it granted immortality, was at the bottom of the sea; but before Gilgamesh could eat of the tree the branch he brought back was eaten by a snake that had been sent by the gods to take it from him; but as it wasn’t supposed to eat the branch the snake was punished so all its descendants would crawl on their bellies.
With regard to the commentary below the comic, here’s a fun factoid:
A Factoid is a fun little fact.
And here’s a fun little fact:
A Factoid is something that’s been repeted so often that everybody thinks it’s a fact even if it actually isn’t.
…Sorry, I collect random facts and that one’s been really sticking with me.
Yup, the original definition of “factoid” was “something that looks like a fact, but isn’t.” Thus the “oid”; If it looked like a fact, and was, it would just be a “fact”.
I for one really wanna see pinups of the dudes.
Not that I’m into muscular guys. Or muscular ladies. I just think it’d be fun to see you draw that.
I agree. All the heroes ALL THE WAY!
AS much as I am a cis-hetero-white-male, it always feels weird to me, in this day and age, that dudes don’t get the “pinup” treatment as well…
Remember, there are distinct species that have a lot more similar DNA than men and women; We’re not just cosmetically different, we’ve got different genes, anatomy, our brains are wired somewhat differently.
Men are more visual, we go for pinups. Women read romance novels. Might as well ask why you don’t see many romance novels aimed at a male market.
I can go either way on the pinups but it is nice to see that Achilles and Mr. Amorphous have both benefited from having their art polished up a bit from the beginning of the comic. They don’t get as much page time so it is nice to see their look get some attention. I wonder though, what does Mr. Amorphous’ face default to when he is asleep?
Apparently, prominent breasts, mini-dresses, and marriage are also universal…
As for “But men and women inherently like different things”, don’t be so quick to make a universal biological truth out of something that’s so entangled with culture.
It doesn’t have to be universal, just common.
The first things , not the cultural thing.
Ooh, a lady of Frix’s species.
i’m glad i’m not the only one who spotted that… :D
A refreshingly nice surprise that.
Clearly a WOLF – Woof’s Oi’d Like to Fondle.
you underestimate the curiosity of the human mind.
because a nude of mr. Amorphus sure does seems appealing.
but in a unrelated note: is that wolf-like woman(?) in Mr. Amorphous arms an space wulf?
Maxima said they were there to keep the aliens out of trouble.
Joining the party seems to be doing that.
My question is, who does the transparent tentacle near Mr A’s head belong to?
Perhaps the bachelorette party also include a mostly invisible tentacle girl. That first panel is one of Daves best by the way.
That’s one of the wings of the Bee-girl draped over his shoulders.
No it isn’t, lol. It’s some kind of worm or slug. If you look really closely at the right side, you can see small circles that look to be eyes on it.
or suction cups. Looking close at it, it appears to bend and curves back to the backside of the girl on his shoulders.
So either DaveB forgot to color in an outline there of a suction cup tentacle tail. Or she has a clear appendage.
Hah hah, talk about an art fail. It’s supposed to be the bachelorette’s… well, I don’t know what they’re called. Like a butt cape. Or… a half skirt thing on her waist. It’s like a gossamery… butt veil. It was supposed to denote that she was the bachelorette in question. That and the holo-tiara.
I think train, although not sure if that applies one so short.
But yeah, if the above poster hadn’t pointed it out, I totally didn’t see it, lost in the colors behind it.
Actually, there are places on earth where you shouldn’t do that peace sign. For example in Spain it is not the sign for peace.
And the reverse, “V for victory” gesture is rude in most English-speaking countries. It’s equivalent to showing the middle finger in USA.
Never make finger gestures in foreign countries – you may be incredibly insulting, not communicating.
and thus the Rick and Morty micro-verse joke whose larger implications were lost on so many.
I actually agree with how they act.
By being the tourist attraction you can concentrate all alien trouble to yourself and since you’re here to deal with alien trouble you can than easily deal with whatever is happening.
I admit, the major trouble will probably happen out of your safezone, but neither of them is a particular strong super, so letting them attract and concentrate the small trouble, so the big shots can deal with the major trouble seems like a smart plan to me.
If you also draw the alien crowd to a souvenir shop you own you can make a little extra profit.
What is the deal with Achilies’ forehed? Looks scarred or something. Is it a reflection of all the neon I’m just not seeing properly, like Max in that one panel, or what?
Is that a Silicoid?
Speaking of pinups and Marion Harmon, I would love to see your take on the characters in his “Wearing the Cape” series. I became aware of your webcomic from reading his superhero novels.
I’m honestly amazed Math isn’t here to drool over the hot alien chicks…
Also. Since that orc is carrying a weapon and was completely willing to smash Achilles in the head with it, there might be a planet violent enough for Vehemence out there, lol.
Bachelorette #2 picks up an XXL Rainbow Dash T-Shirt as a souvenir from Earth.
Remember that while uncontacted, Earth’s entertainment is out there for the rest of the universe. She might ACTUALLY be a fan.
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I am a bad person.
“Maybe I’ll have to do a nude pinup of Heatwave and use the clothed version for her Bio. I’m not personally excited about doing the same for Achilles and Amorphous, I don’t imagine most of you are clamoring to see that either. Some of you, sure. I had a vague notion of doing a pinup of Hiro for an April fools things, but eh. Maybe I’ll make it a poll over at patreon one day.” I am Bi, but I do not know about anyone else!?
Samesies! I want to see pinups of all the supers! :)
I agree that Dave should not assume that 100% of his readers are heterosexual men.
Though he should keep in mind that the impossible hulk or Kratos like bodies are not exactly appealing to women (they are male power fantasies). Final Fantasy has acquired a large female fanbase because their male heroes are relatable and attractive (by and large) and not terrifyingly malformed :)
And to those who believe that women do not like to look I can only say
Hah.
I think Maxima needs to give her team a little more leeway. After standing around for a while on guard duty people need to take a break and stretch their legs, or arms, as the case may be.
and by making themselves the attraction they are helping to coral their visitors to one area making it easier to keep an eye on them for their and others’ safety.
This ray guy just parked his bus in the middle of a town and let out what appears to be several unrelated groups of tourists without any guides of any kind *extremely irresponsible*, luckily some local authorities are around to do that job. Which they shouldn’t have to, but again, illegal tour bus, scammer pulling in a bunch of tourists who probably thought Earth was now open to cheaper open tourism and this guy saw the *currency* signs and just jumped at it.
Imagine some guy putting out a craigs list ad and taking a bunch of Michiganians *or whatever people from Michigan call themselves* on his private jet to Brazil and just letting them wander off from the airport without guides and just a (meet back here at such and such a time for departure).
“Speaking of segues” is the most sequitur non-sequitur I’ve ever read.
:D
Maxima’s face may be extra shiny not because she did something to it, but because it’s night and there are a bunch of bright signs around. This means you accidentally did something smart, as the reflections would be bound to be clearer under those conditions. Give yourself an internet cookie.
Would the aliens be all that impressed with most of Earth’s supers though? While Mr. A is stretchy, Achilles is indestructible, and Heatwave is exceptionally hot they’re only really special compared to baseline humans. There are likely entire races that are very tough, stretchy, or generate heat. I can see Maxima as being an attraction as she was able to single handed lay destroy that ship, something it’s very unlikely others can do.
It’s like alien characters in comic books like Martian Manhunter. On Earth he is a hero as he has a whole pile of abilities. On Mars among other Martians he’s just J’onn J’onzz, average Martian.
if the aliens follow the same chemical laws as life on Earth. Yes, powers that breach the physics barrier are still impressive.
Its when you get to the techno-mage, sorcery, and other metaphysical stuff is common “Witch Worlds” “demon realms”, ect… that it stops being as impressive.
I mean sure a F class super whose power is being able to project his thoughts “barely” over radio receivers won’t impress a species with natural EMP communication abilities. Or a D class Taser touch impress a bio-electric shock species.
but show them an S-class Magekinetic who can bend light, create energy blasts, forcefields, levitate, and lift entire buildings worth of metal in the air; that should still impress them as they are still held back by what is biologically/mechanically possible.
They all showed to be able to beat up entire alien squadrons of slave soldiers. I suspect that’s still impressive, especially if you consider the fact that they don’t need any fancy technology to do so.
Would you be impressed if someone could communicate on a distance by holding his hand to his ear, I would yet we have the technology to achieve it.
Most Earthlings don’t have superpowers currently, but Deus is working on that.
So with the first panel, I’m seeing what looks to be a Warhammer-style Lizardfolk woman along with a Puazi right behind Amorphous’ head – am I right on those?
Huh, I guess the one in the middle does look a little Puazi-ish, doesn’t she? I was thinking space deer woman when I drew her.
I’m not familiar with WH lizard people. I assume you mean WH and not WH40K? If they’re just sort of fantasy lizard folk, I’m not sure how you’d tell them apart from D&D lizard folk.
I’ll admit my familiarity with WH lizards are limited to Bloodbowl and the Total War games that came out – so yeah, they’re kinda bog-standard in that regard on appearance.
“Stretch Daddy” is honestly a fantastic superhero name and Mr. Amorphous should absolutely use that.
It’s in the same category as “black Hulk”. Pretty effective, but to much erotic subtext to be ignored.
What he and
Hot StuffBrooke call each other is none of your business!Panel One would make an excellent poster. Just sayin’.
The woman over Mr. A’s shoulders definitely looks like a Puazi. Imagine a Puazi and Mr. A having a “meeting”. With his “abilities”, that would be one happy Puazi. ;-)