Grrl Power #937 – Buddy booty duty
Flotsam: debris in the water that was not deliberately thrown overboard, often due to shipwreck or accident.
Jetsam: debris deliberately thrown overboard by a ship’s crew, most often to lighten the load.
Lagan: goods that are cast overboard and are heavy enough to sink, but are tied to a floating marker such as a buoy.
Derelict: abandoned goods that have sunk to the ocean floor, which no one has any hope of reclaiming.
Derelicte:
I guess Ray could technically be called a sexual derelict, but unfortunately, he’ll likely be reclaimed. By which I mean, he’ll stand up, scratch his bare ass, and wander into the breakroom to raid the fridge.
I don’t know where Dabbler found “The Pornews Journal” but I have a tough time resisting a dumb portmanteau. The articles on the front page look more like stuff you’d find in a magazine, though. I guess it’s part Journal, for keeping up on… sex? Also part opinion pieces and entertainment. I’m sure there’s a business section which includes a “Going Down on Jones’s Industrial Much More than Average.” A personals section, naturally. The comic section is just the latest Hentai – like a Shonen Jump, but all tentacles. Probably a Sports section, for some sort of… competitive sex stuff. Distance? Volume? I don’t know. Maybe tag-team events.
The new vote incentive is up! I tried something different this month – instead of doing one well painted picture with a bunch of dress variants, I wanted to tell a bit of a story. Hopefully it makes sense without any dialog or sound effects. So, instead of one picture, you guys are getting nine. Well, you are over at Patreon. The vote incentive is just the first one. And yes, Pixel is bendy enough to do a full on T&A pose.
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Didn’t see that coming.
Still, Max has got to get in on the upgrade thing.
Something else no one saw coming: If you look too close, or not close enough, Ray’s foot looks like soemthing else entirely when you first see it.
I did *not* need to have that pointed out to me. Yeegghhhh….
So Ray doesn’t have the “no-body-hair” thing human supers seem to have?
Neither does Pixel, her super form is the “in-between were” form and covered in pink leopard fur.
Are you sure? Pixel doesn’t seem to have any body hair. I don’t thing morphing superforms count.
Also fur, although similar to hair, isn’t exactly the same thing.
He’s not a super. He’s an alien who uses an amulet to get stronger.
I’m calling him “Hanover Fiste.”
[Yes, I am that old.]
thank you
*applause* Well done
“golf clap”
Sternn!
I am somehow massively amused by the hairy ass
He’s… not hyu-mon, nor a super
Where did you get the idea he was either?
He might be as human as Cora is. I don’t think it’s been specified.
Somehow I don’t think those that can get the ‘Pornews Journal’ would bother with that particular quiz.
Do keep in mind that paper is in Sydney’s imagination, so it has all sorts of things she thinks would be in it, whether AVN (or something similar) does or not.
It appears to be a flashback, not Sydney’s imagination.
the way the scene is structured it has that weird Steven Universe flashback feel to it where its clearly a detailed showing of the past, but somehow its also what the main character is imagening like they have some past viewing super power. Except in this case without the aid of being a story being told to the main character..
So I am going with its a flash back and Sydney is reacting to the naked man only wearing a cape lying on the couch knowing Cora and Dabbler double teamed him.
conversely Sydney could have been in the room when that conversation happened and they walked out of the room together.
I think it is a “Meanwhile, back at the ranch…” moment. It seems likely that anyone in Archon seeing a sexually depleted stranger sleeping on the couch would connect them to Dabbler.
Of course, even in the rare case when the culprit was someone else, you just know Dabbler will claim the ‘scalp’ anyway. Not that I’m suggesting any of the other lovely ladies would
be so rude to a guestdo such a thing… some of the men, on the other hand, especially if framing her seemed funny at the time…As The Mighty Halo is in a relatively safe environment for this upgrade session,
I recommend activating the last Orb.
All orbs have activated nodes; we just don’t know what many of them do yet.
See if any of them involve brain-bleach.
Putting aside Ray, this is a good opportunity for them to examine the level up grid in a calm environment. Plus if Krona is around she can actually make notes on the crazy information she can see. (I wonder if anyone can “share” her vision with a spell of some kind, and get Dabbler to have a look at it as well.)
Anvil looks good. I quite like the dreads.
Agreed, I missed her. She is like the sexiest one there. Then again I like them tall.
Why is the color so much darker now though? It used to be a nice solid red now its a much more boring darker red
Her muscles are much more defined, blame’ it on the artist
Her physique probably changes depending upon how much kinetic energy she has stored. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
That means she could hulk out even more. Nice.
I meant her hair, wasnt her hair a much richer red before?
For a shade as unusual as she sports in the top-bar rotation images, there’s a strong change it varies according to when she last visited the hairdresser. Natural ‘red’ hair is generally more ginger, and predominantly associated with much lighter skin tones.
Something tells me that after this they’re going to get a designated repository for Dabbler’s cast offs…. that and probably a new couch set.
Nahh, it can be cleaned unless he has digestive problems, everything else will clean up with a soapy cleaner. Yes, even on leather, biohazards clean up fairly well on leather as long as they are not allowed to soak in, like get it within 6 hours or so and then follow up with the leather “food” kind of cleaner to restore the fluid balance and it will be undetectable.
I don’t do fancy delicate leathers, so Obenauf’s products is my recommendation. Best stuff I’ve ever put on boots, gloves jackets etc.
Anything can be cleaned with enough effort but man, all those buttons and tucks would be a pain to clear out. There is a variety of institutional furniture that has cushions with a molded vinyl shell. The styling is a little bland but you can wash it off with a firehose and it is durable enough to survive even Dabblers wildest antics.
Or fire.
Fire works too.
Well there is a wide gap sometimes between if it can be cleaned and WHO will clean it.
The space cooties angle alone (real or imaginary) would have most toss it to the curb and video who is desperate enough to grab it.
A reverse Waiting Room?
A ‘Waiting for you to leave’ room?
Recovery room…
They probably have a super with cleaning powers on staff. Ii know I would.
They probably have a super with cleaning powers on call or on staff. I know I would.
There are some things that even ‘Haz’ Matt the Super-Janitor won’t touch.
He does not have to touch it. He just teleports the “dirt” to the designated receptacle. No fuss, no muss, no touching things “man” was not meant to touch.
Touching it directly with your brain sounds far worse than with gloves and industrial cleaner.
This is funny. Too much stamina but also not enough due to his personality.
Talking with Dabbler, (Yelling at her, really.) Sydney gestures dramatically, and slams the point into a random node. Hilarity ensues.
Hah hah.
the voice of god is amused. RUN.
Syd. Hm … so that’s the molestation button.
Dave.
We’ve all talked about it, and we’ve decided that “this would be wrong”.
Funny, but wrong.
Now, making it into a vote incentive….that would be funny.
The butt hairs are a nice touch.
That isn’t butt hair, those are splinters from the naughty paddle you get for talking when you should be…doing other things.
Coarse hairs, like on a feral hog. Just not as many…
Thirty to fifty of ‘em, I estimate.
You looked that close? EWWWWW!
Not the hero we needed, nor the hero we wanted, butt possibly the hero we deserve.
I would say eyes closed and drooling is quite discharged.
The flashback takes place before Sydney’s eyes were scarred into wishing she forgot her glasses.
That said, I hope those two took a long, hot, soapy, decontamination shower after that.
hint for a vote incentive?
That’s the forcefield orb she’s grabbing, isn’t it, so she’s made that the orb to upgrade now?
i think its the upgarde dot in her hand :squints: so far as i can tell all the orbs are atill in the halo
Seconded
She learned to not randomly grab orbs at any surprise
Xuri did have a good handle on at least one orb though
Geeze, at least put some pants on the dude when you’re done with him. Sometimes, Xuri is stupid for a genius. Or at least wildly inconsiderate.
Considering she’s classed as a ‘genius’ when compared to Dirtican’s, that’s… not too high of a benchmark
it is my understanding that dressing an unconscious person is rather awkward. but I think its more likely that he actually walked himself to the couch like that. being in total denial of his sexiness, his energy, and the willingness of the other ladies to ‘indulge’ him. that fits with his charater reference- he disgusts Dabbler after all.
“I just need a minute…”
“Zzzzzz”
Math solemnly lays a blanket over him. Hiro respectfully requests any stray possessions from the women. then the men haul him to the back door, and throw him in the mostly empty dumpster. solidarity must be maintained as well as confidentiality. tickets and temporary IDs are inserted into his possession just before the toss.
I do not want to know what happens if Sydney tries to hide behind Maxima and accidentaly manages to sink her skill point into Maxima instead of the Skilltree
This… Is disturbing…
So you propose that the skill point isn’t a part of a user interface for Sydneys balls (that sounds so wrong that I feel it needs to be left there) but rather a kind of universal power upgrade…
Yea… I have a hard time imagining anyone who needs that kinds of power upgrade less than Max. At the same time just about any upgrade Sydney can unlock will also be incredibly overpowered for everyday super villain policing work. But given the interstellar interest shown lately it’s not unlikely some really Big Bad will be taking an interest, especially if they recognize the Halo orbs as precursor artifacts of incredible power. And then neither of them will look quite as OP anymore.
No, it’s quite possible that she could, say, upgrade the air generating orb, and get something that’s handy, but not particularly impressive, like generating generic food bars, or finding that she doesn’t need a toilet if she’s holding it.
Or really disturbing, getting both powers with the same upgrade.
Plenty of options that wouldn’t make her any more overpowered.
Ok, Sidney is looking for Max. Last page, Max was dealing with Detla. So, multiple plot threads, randomly associated, or is Detla going to recognize the orbs, and maybe share some information about them? She does seem the type to be way into fancy, exotic weapons. Or, is two pages a week too slow, and the mind struggles to fill the empty hours by imagining links that aren’t really there?
I want her to find Krona first instead. Oh, the universe laid bare!
That’s the name of Dabbler’s sex tape
Xuriel’s Sexual Jetsom is my electronic Ska band name.
t-shirts. its not a band unless there are t-shirts.
Whatever happened to her gauntlet-computer-comms-thing? She’s running around manually looking for Max when I thought she had a way to phone her right up.
Although we can see Sydney wearing her comm neck band here, on the previous page Max at the pool is not wearing hers. That’s probably why Sydney is having to run around looking for her.
I imagine appointments with Dr… Frost are some of the few times members of Arc-SWAT aren’t expected to be on call.
i bet this guy doesn’t get the courtesy of “memory wipe” after succubus sex
just to spite him into not getting any fulfilling sex on his own later on
No, the mind-wipe is only on hyu-mon’s, Raymos has access to females of his own species(?), plus countless other worlds
Even so it’s not likely they are capable of providing a succubus tag team experience anytime soon…
OK, so Cora isn’t a succubus, bet hey it seems she’s pretty well trained in the arts, so my argument stands…
Ray has that access, to try if not necessarily to succeed. But do any of them have those muscles?
>double-team
Considering the state Dabbler alone can leave guys in, I’m surprised he’s still alive after 2v1.
You’re assuming Dabbler bothered to look at him instead of working on Cora, and he was just second hand succu-sexed.
Lay back, close your eyes and think of Sagittarius B ladies
we are just circling the drain of good ideas here.
I’m happy to see Avil properly use Jetsam in that sentance…he definitely isn’t flotsam. Also..just like hey that’s somebody else’s chair, I hope they have Heatwave decontaminate the furniture. I bet she can fully decouple the long form polycarbons to reduce pollution.
He’s jizzsam.. or maybe sexsam? Either way discarded :P
Hes the used condom at the end of the night.
Thought his name was ‘Ray’, not ‘Sam’…
Even at his best, I’d still bet that Ray doesn’t get nearly as…big…as Vehemence can.
Okay, what ‘charge’ are they talking about? Doubt it’s his stamina
And why should they care? Just shove him back on his ship and have Maxi punt it (not into Sol, just… close enough he gets a fright)
Charge on the amulet thingy he used to hulk out when the fight started, they’re saying it’s about another hour before he reverts to his normal form.
Oh, that makes sense, he’s back to his ‘normal’ size in panel two
Easy way to remember the ‘sams
Flotsam floats, and Jetsam was jettisoned
That is almost correct. It all floats, if it doesn’t, then it’s debris strewn along the bottom. Flotsam is anything floating, jetsam is as you say jettisoned, or thrown overboard, usually to prevent sinking. What usually happens is people use them together when they should use flotsam for all of it and jetsam when talking about a specific piece that you know was jettisoned.
Ray here, is definitely a specific piece, discarded like a used condom.
And Roy was Jetsonned.
So Mr. Spacely is yelling at Ray?
Wait…I don’t get this page. Why are Cora and Dabbler having sex with Ray in the first place? Aren’t they disgusted with him? Like, if they just want to have sex, either one could easily do better, let alone both at once.
I seem to recall Cora offering to spend the night with him in exchange for him guarding the prisoners so she could go rescue Sydney.
the ‘deal’ was struck here:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-909-making-soup-and-having-kids/
It wasn’t a deal, Cora just decided that between his beefy ‘Hulk’ form and him kind-of-sort-of doing the right thing towards the end (even if the whole situation was predicated on his aggressive entrepreneurial spirit in the first place) that he had just barely crossed that “I guess I’ll slum it with an ex” threshold.
Cora just decided to announce that fact to him just as she needed a favor when she went off to look for Sydney.
So, you know, a romance for the ages on all sides. She decided to tag in with Dabbler because they’re both Ray’s Eskimo Sisters, and she also knew Ray would immediately pass out after his amulet ran out of juice, and an hour is like warmup stretches for a succubus.
then… I sit corrected.
So is Cora attracted to him physiclly but find his personality repulsive?
wouldnt say “attracted”…
She honoured a deal. And used him as a living sex-toy.
No Cora and Dabbler are BOTH attracted to him physically when he’s all charged up. Gerard’s correct. They just can’t stand his personality at all.
See last panel:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-876-mercs-and-mayhem/
Apparently his enhanced form is beyond her ability to resist her personal urges about.
Interesting…thanks for the clarification!
I was about to say that I disagree based on how I read it, but then I noticed who I was replying to. If you say that’s what’s going on then Word Of God that’s what’s going on.
Still, that’s not how quite how it reads in the comic, at least for me. It seemed more like he was kinda-sorta doing the right thing because she said she was going to sleep with him, and their apparent reluctance/resignation here kinda seals that. Gotta say I’m happier with your explanation than them bribing him with sex though.
Funny thing, “sexual jetsam” is a term I’ve heard before.
Objection. Move to suppress story.
[Like that would work.]
It was the early 80’s, and it involved a couple of those customized vans – with beds in the back.
[Insert your own imagination here.]
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[Done yet?]
How I got through the 70’s & 80’s without catching something I’ll never know.
that’s weird im usually pretty imaginative, but i found this note says gone fishing where my imagination is…
Keep your wits about you as you rummage through that tackle box… Tetanus might now be the only thing you catch.
Insufficient data. Although I wish I had one of those…
So…her upgrade point lets her see back in time ? That could be very useful…
Or very, very, very disturbing ;) the good Dr. had best clear her calender for the next few months…
Umm, no, she hasn’t upgraded yet, that is Anvil relaying what happened (because she watched the whole thing)
For the love of batman can we finally get krona a good look at these damn orbs? Shes the only one that can see the deep code behind them and this would be a perfect opportunity to finally get some real info!
That’s probably who Sydney is looking for instead of just picking an upgrade right away.
They just have to find a way to do that without breaking Krona.
The orbs were created by the race that created the universe. The universe is in fact an MMRLRPG (Massive Multiplayer Real Life Role Playing Game) for their kids. Their kids explore, have adventures and blow up the occational star for fun. And while doing these things they level up and specialize.
Real life World of Warcraft for ascended teenage nerds.
That’s why the orbs choose Sydney: she’s a nerd too and the orbs think she’s their former owner.
LOL
Replace ‘parents’ with ‘Dave Barrack’ and ‘kids’ with ‘patron donors’ and you’re pretty spot on.
“That’s why the orbs choose Sydney”
Personally, I’ve been assuming assuming Sydney is descended from a member of the Nth who took a human bride thus is capable of wielding the orbs. An advanced form of Biometrics in theory similar to the idea of the Ancient technology in SG-1 and SG: Atlantis being keyed to the presence of a particular genetic sequence. That would also provided a reasonable answer to the question of why Varia can’t create fusions with Sydney as she would with any other human, even one altered by supernatural or magical forces.
It might also explains some things about Sydney herself and whether she actually has ADHD or that’s simply an expression of mental traits the Nth might have found desirable to create and wield the forces they did.
Personal mileage may vary.
Actually, if you look closely at the Varia scene, THE ORBS STARTED ORBITING BOTH OF THEM. This probably means when touching Sydney, Varia can use the orbs.
Well, at least one orb. Still has to have a hand on Sydney. Unless Sydney has a hand on her instead. Still max of 3 orbs unless you try doing some sort of touching that doesnt involve using hands. Locking arms together maybe? Then you can have 4 orbs at the same time.
Maybe if Varia locks arms with Dabbler and, I don’t know, grows 2 additional arms, then locks arms with Sydney…
Then you can have up to 6 of the 7 orbs used at the same time. :)
Varia’s powers activated at the club with a hip bump, so I think a piggyback ride would work while leaving all 4 hands free for orb use.
My guess is it’s going to be like having someone who does a bit of Python programming look at the code for a neural network with a couple decades of training behind it. The code behind them is going to be so far beyond her skill level that she’s not going to be able to make heads or tails of it.
Maybe not, but even being able to see the general shape of it could be useful. For instance, there’s been a lot of speculation about what effect the pairing points on the lines between the Orbs have. If their block of code is heavily linked to the ones on either side with only a bare scaffold tying them together, that tells you something very different from if it’s a compact and self-contained code block.
I’m guessing Dabbler left him on the couch like that hoping it would piss off Maxima.
She wouldn’t even have to think about it. At this point, doing something to p1ss off Maxima must be an ingrained reflex.
Looking at all the comments here…I really can only add one thing…Sydney’s face in the second to last panel is just…its just PERFECT. I LOVE IT. So well done!
“Really need to burn that couch.”
Too bad the Nuclear Test Ban treaty is still in place. (it’s the only way to be sure)
You could launch it into the sun . . .
The couch, that is. Launching Ray into the sun could have detrimental effects on our solar system.
You definitely don’t want to give Sol a case of space herpes.
Is anyone able to read that shirt?
‘My Mouth Is Up There’
Ugh! WHY? She doesn’t even look like she was enjoying it. There was absolutely no reason to do this. This is exactly what I was complaining about when this was brought up in a previous page. Have more self-respect!
They’re treating themselves as nothing more than cheap pieces of meat. They look like prostitutes who hate their job but do it anyway because they don’t have a choice. Look at their faces. Those are not the faces of women who are having or expect to have a good time. Those are the faces of women who lived a whole life of rape and sexual abuse and at this point are just desensitized to doing it with disgusting men they despise. I know that’s not the writer’s intent, but that’s exactly how it looks.
They are acting as thought the only thing left in the fridge is liver and onions, and Mom won’t go grocery shopping until it is gone. They know it will still be there tomorrow if they don’t eat it today.
Either way, why do it at all? What did they lose by not doing it? What did they gain by doing it?
They gained tantric energy, at least Dabbler did. Besides there are many people who have knowingly had regrettable hookups with their ex’s. Sure it was distasteful when they did it, but the still did it.
“Doesn’t matter, had sex.” is just as valid of a reason as any, no matter of if you approve of their justifications nor agree with their motives, or not.
Cora kind of agreed to it to get him to help out (and hypothetically his beefed up form is also pumping out beefed up pheromones, because his beefed up form isn’t that hot, but they still got turned on, so that’s my headcanon. It also implies he’s good in bed, which considering his tongue looks worn out, I can assume is at least somewhat true.) And yes, Dabbler with tantric energy. Also, elsewhere in the comments, Dave said they’re using him as a warmup because he’ll only go for an hour, but Dabbler and Cora can both go much, much longer.
He didn’t even ask, though. She just offered, even though she looked like she didn’t want to. It’s not like there aren’t other, better guys they could have slept with. Why this guy? It makes zero sense.
Back in 876 it was established that Cora and Xuri find him sexually attractive even though they dislike him. Sometimes sex is that way. It’s not rational.
Rationality never did anyone any harm. This looks like it’s doing them a great deal of harm.
Are there really any better options? Page 371 establishes Dabbler is forbidden from “zonking” team members, so anyone working for Archon is out. Concretia and I guess Detla currently occupy a nebulous space where they may or may not be members of the team. Hench Wench got away. As did Garamm and Lapha. That leaves Brut, the goons who were guarding Concretia’s body, and the other three aliens in custody.
I suppose they could’ve hit up Barberian again, but that would cost him at least a whole day, and it’s kind of a jerk move to call him up in the middle of the night for that. Especially considering how much hair dressers rely on making appointments…
You must have a very poor opinion on men to assume that was the best they could do. Realistically, it’s actually easy to find people to sleep with that don’t make your stomach churn. I still assert that sex shouldn’t be handed out like candy, but if if you do, there are ALWAYS better options than this for any even remotely attractive woman.
In the middle of the night? After a brawl that shut down Times Square?
Remember “do you need to eat, or do you choose to eat?” Sometimes when you get unexpectedly called into the office at night, you’d rather have cheap microwave pizza than take a midnight jaunt to Jersey to find someone willing to spend the better part of a week in recovery for a thrill they won’t remember in the morning. Even barring Dabblers preference for supers.
My guess is that his amulet somehow pumps him full of energy, which is dangerous if not burnt off.
Cora re-activates it in #909, and tells him that she’ll help him get rid of excess energy afterwards.
Or, alternatively, he runs on lust and the amulet is a mere trinket.
(Regarding “burning off” – I’m thinking of MoveIt #11, I’m sure many will get the reference. :-) )
You have serious problems. Mostly myopia. I don’t think I want to know what kind of life you’ve lived to be simultaneously so sheltered and unimaginative, yet also have such strong, negative opinions about sexuality, but you should probably find someone to talk it all out with.
That’s a lot of words to say absolutely nothing.
This page was kind of hilarious, but mostly OMG ANVIL’S NEW LOOK! HOLY SHIT SHE LOOKS AMAZING!
Unlimited Ding! Just kinda walking around with her level up status showing to ask Maxima how to spend her point. At least it’s not followed by the sound… was wandering around in WoW last night, swimming in deep water. Got close enough to an area that I was planning on just passing, to get the discovery. I had headphones on so super quiet other than the gurgle and bubble of water. All of a sudden *BRRAAANNNGGG!* Achievement! jumped tfo of my skin.
Can we get a close up of Dabbler’s shirt? Or least tell us what it says?
Hold up….if Ray is still here the next day.
did he at least take the tourists back to their “cars” before spending the night, or do we have a bunch of alien tourists in a hotel somewhere right now?
Like Anvil’s dreadlocks !
In the sports section… The Hentathalon would have a three-legged race, a hammer toss, a caber toss, a pie eating contest, a relay race, fencing, rhythmic gymnastics(floor, raised platform, beam, and vertical pole), an 805 meter swim to the Isle of Sirens, and tag-team innuendo.