Grrl Power #942 – My boyfriend is a marine… lifeform
Fortunately, wet Woofs smell like caramelized honey and campfires. That would actually be super weird, if whenever he got wet it smelled like something was on fire.
Yes, Detla’s mask can do expressions. Or at least match what her eyes are doing. It’s space tech, don’t question it.
When all the super ladies are having a girls’ night and talking about their boyfriends, you got to figure quite a few of them are probably dating fairly impressive guys, right? Anvil went on a date with a basketball player (off camera), Harem is “dating” a maybe-supervillain maybe-philanthropist billionaire, (who, granted, might be trying to score with her boss) (I’ll just link this related page because I like it), at least one of them is probably dating an actor, but while they’re all extolling their paramours’ virtues, Sydney can just sit there and smile, then finally say “My boyfriend can stay underwater for an hour.”
Then someone else can point out that her boyfriend is actively in a reverse harem with a blue-skinned space babe and has also schtooped Dabbler. Sydney knows all of this of course, but pointing it out is a good way to get added to The List.
Then Heatwave can leave the room, walk to the other lounge, then return dragging Mr. Amorphous’s tongue with her, arch an eyebrow, then release it with a wet snap.
The new vote incentive is up! Some of you got sort of invested in Lapha and Garamm, so her she is testing out her new duds. I don’t know if or when they’ll show up in the comic again, )(probably more a question of ‘if’) but we’ll have to see if she got any other options besides the tail. Personally I’d go for retractable, venomous fangs, but presumably if you get those, you also have to get a special upgraded pancreas or liver or something, in case you accidentally bite the inside of your own cheek with your fang. As usual, there are a few variants over at Patreon, and as is becoming more common, a little follow-on comic.
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Yeah much of the jokes in this comic are about the normal characters like Maxima trying to herd cats like Halo.
Commanding Sydney really is hardcore difficulty leadership challenge.
Could Delta have some info on what the skill tree is? Like maybe she is able to read and translate most if not all the nodes or at least know the history of who created the orbs and contact them?
Pretty sure it’s classified, like Max says, and that there isn’t any writing to translate, just blips of light in rings connected by lines. So I don’t think there would be anything for her to translate. Frix might be able to help a bit, him and the rest of the crew already know more about the Orbs than most, but they never got to see the upgrade map thingy. If they get to see it, despite being classified, they might have more ideas than before…
Still, Delta is still a pretty new character that we know little about yet. Her people, or her background might allow some understanding of it. And when I say translate I dont mean the literal sense of it like we might translate words from one language to another. I mean something like reading a map and understanding what symbols or layout means what.
Doubtful. If such artifacts are common knowledge for at least some species, they would be recognized on Fracture as something extremely valuable and nobody took notice.
I am more wondering why the team does not ask Krona to dig deeper into those orbs as she was clearly able to see much more than anyone else. In fact she seemed to see their internal code so to speak.
They probably will once they get Sydney inside with ARC-Light to examine the skill tree.
While Krona could see more in the Orbs than anyone else, that was only when they were in upgrade configuration. She’s already on the call list for ‘the next time it happens’ (which is now), but hasn’t necessarily got on-site yet.
Might well be just shock at seeing a runic Christmas tree over someone’s head. Know it would surprise me.
That bottom middle panel is ooohhh so familiar.
Like, an experience you’ve had in the past (in which case, congratulations!), or familiar from the comic? The image is from Syd and Frix’s “bathing date” in that ridiculously impractical pool aboard Cora’s ship.
Hmph, my link didn’t work…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-704-trip-to-the-vet/
Hey Maxima; remember that time you accidentally crushed your shower knob? I wonder how resilient Detla’s spine is!
shower HEAD
Of course, Achillies can hand around underwater as long as he wants….
I’m wondering how he breathes underwater, exactly, the mechanics…. if using gills like a fish, wouldn’t the chlorine in the pool make that painful or does pool chemicals not harm fish…..
They could be using a non chemical cleaning method like UV filters or his advance alien medical stuff make him immune. But yeah fish don’t handle poisons in the water well.
At least on Earth, furry amphibians don’t extract oxygen from the water, they’re just really good at storing and economizing on oxygen.
Is there a pip missing from the PPO orb’s set? I think she had an extra one round the outside that give her the scatter/rapid fire.
Actually, checking back it appears only the Telepresence Orb and Flight Orb have any updates. Even then the flight only has one extra pip and no pip for the interstellar travel.
So missing a pip from the PPO, missing a pip from the flight for interstellar travel and missing a pip from the “Wheel”
talking to yourself is an early sign of dementia
Anyone else disturbed by how flat Frix’s teeth are? Not sure if we saw his teeth before so don’t know if they are weirdly flat or if this is just for the gag.
See comic 716 – “Emboldened Sydney is bold”. Those look suspiciously like Primate dentals, lacking carnivorous carnassials, but making up in molars. And yes, canines a bit bigger than ours.
think its just for the gag
that smirk in bottom right panel is either “I saw things that are important that they really dont want me to, and i know what it is”
or “I TOTALLY know how she knows he is amphibious…”
Either one could get her in LOTS of trouble, yeah.
Look at panel 7, bottom left.
Dabbler is NOT asking a question she doesn’t already know the answer to there.
Doesn’t the pool have chlorine?
Not necessarily. An elite unit like ARC would probably have an EPA-approved mineral sanitizer (this would be Silver BTW) which would be arguably cheaper to run than the Bromine/Chlorine alternative, and less toxic. We need to remember that the ARC pool is somewhat deeper than the standard Olympic puddle.
Or Frix isnt bothered by chlorine.
Plenty of sunlight providing uv like the blue light fitted to fishponds and kettles and topped up with rain water plus thermal control for changing training conditions…
The only thing missing is flow like a river so it isn’t stagnant. Doesn’t mean it isn’t just unstated and also we have only seen this surface area, might be more to this aquatic training location.
Could also be a salt water pool. Been in a few of those as a kid, and can safely say it’s far more membrane friendly than a chlorine based pool, and definitely cheaper to keep sanitized and conditioned when you don’t have kids to deal with.
maybe its a hydro-morph working off their debt to society….
unless stated otherwise thinking normal pool water,
although of all the fancy pool cleaning techniques I’ve seen repeated no one has yet said, maybe they just have strong filters and using the shocking method to keep it clean because of its size.
Lucky hydro-morph….
Really? I literally cannot open my eyes without pain/burning in ocean water >.>
I would think that height difference is weird but I’ve met RL couples like that so……no it’s still weird to me hahaha
Meh, I’m 5 feet tall, and have the same build as Sydney. The only time a level of height difference is weird to us is when it exists and the much shorter woman can still lift the boyfriend off the ground under her own strength. A guy over 5 inches taller than me should weigh more than a 100 lbs greater than me. (that’s what- about 43-45 kg right?)
I mean maybe the super short girl is also super buff?
That is a highly unfortunate position for Sydney’s neck in panel three…
Thank you for the best laugh I’ve had in weeks.
Super sex is.. well.. super.
oh my god… he is really that hot stuff, isn’t he?
I’m screaming so loud, that must be the best second date if he can do that .
kinda jealous.
also, on an almost unrelated notice, in the grid, where that points Sydney bought last? in the center ring and the ftl branch.
ps: oh, so she did get the tail after all?
I am still puzzled how Halo is not permanently bowlegged after having a round with her boyfriend.
like he is biig.
and when Dabbler “grabbed” him, he was biiigger.
Probably because they actually never get to that part
Yoga.
(Reads comments from previous installation.)
Okay, EVERYONE spotted it, and I forgot about Detla’s promise-keeping ethic. I award myself .000001 points for effort, and -10 for long-windedness.
Given her extreme energy and ADD’ness and other chaos personality traits I could totally see syd being a bit of a size queen/experimentalist with her toys… more than preparing her for someone as big as frix :D
Not to speculate … but to speculate … he’s sorta doggy.
the whole splurge you write at the end of each comic…I must have a page about what you just described
Anyone else spot Max’s security mistake? HINT: Building-sized MIRROR.
Betting Detla’s mask has a recording feature. A profitable trip to Earth after all, then, IF she can sell the god-tech intel without the buyer doing away with her.
Max: That’s CLASSIFIED!
Detla: Thank$, good to know!
a few problems.
the skill tree can’t be seen by technology so even if the mask has additional aids and recorders and not just a lens, she will be surprised to find the skill tree missing.
all she has been told is that what she got a glimpse of is classified (to a pre FTL world, so wide range of guesses as to what all such a primitive civilization might consider classified)
nothing about the orbs reveals they are Nth level tech by just looking at them like this, heck most of what they can currently do could be attributed to either tier 1-2 tech *hyper force levitation swiss army knives* or magic (insert wide range of magical orbitals). It was only thanks to them breaking the known limitations of magic and tech thanks to their size and no apparent power source while suing an Aetherium Causeway that clued Cora as to just how advanced they could be. Something that isn’t on display right now.
but yes her face was tuirned towards reflective glass so while not as good a view she still has some view.
(Reads comments from previous installation.)
Okay, EVERYONE spotted it, and I forgot about Detla’s promise-keeping ethic. I award myself .000001 points for effort, and -10 for long-windedness.
Already been covered that they don’t show up in recordings, after the initial press conference (which means they likely don’t show up in reflections, since that’s sort of how recordings work in most cases.) They didn’t even show up in Dabbler’s cybernetic eye at all, completely incapable of viewing it out of that eye, let alone recording it. Detla probably shouldn’t even be able to see it here, if her mask has any sort of optical tech or anything between her eyes and what she’s viewing.
Actually this isn’t even THAT advanced for Earth Tech.
We ALREADY have Eye & Facial tracking for VR Helmets.
So there’s no reason to think that a Space Helmet like that, wouldn’t have similar if not SUPERIOR abilities
Honestly, it’s WILD just how fast VR is progressing these days!
Dabbler’s Porno sense tingling.
Detla’s Mask is easy to explain… OLED displays with face tracking inside it to track the movements of her eyes and other various facial expressions.
I can build one of those from parts I can buy on Amazon… right now. Today. With TODAY’s technology here on Earth.
Ever seen furries? Ever seen one that was a Protogen? Yeah… same exact stuff, just with more in the mask than just some lights, but with some face tracking sensors and such to affect actual facial expressions instead of having to press a button to change it to something pre-programmed. Honestly you could still build that thing she’s wearing right now with today’s tech… it’d just be a real pain in the backside to do it. :-P
On the voting incentive – noice! I especially approve of the Fifth Element-style “modesty bandage” outfit.
I just want to see one thing:
How Detla would react to an afternoon’s perusing a Comic Shop.
You know, what we refer to as the wet fur smell is probably the smell of all the stuff a dog gets caught in it’s fur getting wet and emanating odor. So, a sapient being that has fur but cleans themselves regularly probably wouldn’t get that normal unpleasant ‘wet fur’ smell.
Nice 5th element reference in the vote incentive. Very appropriate to the situation as well.
Okay that’s pretty funny.
11 years.
Well, I guess I’ll read the rest, I’m here already.