Grrl Power #953 – Saucegate
If she’s not using them, I often forget about Sydney’s orbs until I’m placing them on the page, which I usually do near the end, and sometimes that results in the orbs being shoved off to the side while she eats. They’ll eventually drift back into place if she doesn’t give them a thought now and again.
Everyone at the base thinks Sydney and Frix are a cute couple, even if Fridney isn’t the best couple portmanteau. Some of that is just because of the ridiculous height difference. Cora has a type, and Frix is right at 7′ tall.
If Grrl Power was a different type of comic, I might spend some time on people saying that human/alien relationships are abominations and “against nature” all that jazz, but it’s just so… tired and predictable. I don’t mean predictable as a story trope, but predictable in a “humans suck and have always sucked and will probably continue to suck for the foreseeable future” kind of way.
Claiming things that a person doesn’t like are “against nature” always cracks me up, cause they’re usually doing so online, and we all know how natural computers are. Half of them are wearing eyeglasses, surely freshly picked from the eyeglasses trees. If you’re naked and yelling at a city from a hilltop forest and are riddled with parasites and ringworm and half your teeth are rotted out of your head and you die at 32, then knock your bad self out, otherwise, shut up about shit being natural. Humans are natural, therefore anything we can accomplish is by extension, natural. Unless you’re prepared to make the argument that beehives and beaver dams aren’t natural either.
Which is all my long winded way of saying yeah, there are people in the Grrl-verse that are against supers and humans dating supers and are against aliens and people dating them and allowing them on Earth (even though the only jobs aliens have stolen thus far is “tourist” – not including Dabbler, I suppose), there’s enough of that depressing stuff in the real world and the PR team does a pretty good job of keeping that sort of stuff out of the faces of Archon personnel.
Daniel Schinhofen’s third Luck’s Voice book came out last week. Breaking the Bank. I’m not a fan of wild west stuff at all, but this is wild west LitRPG (lite) with magic and elves and dwarves and the like, and Schinhofen has a pretty good track record IMO, so I gave it a shot. The audiobook for the first book in the series recently began recording as well, so keep an eye out for that as well once it gets through Amazon’s capricious submission gauntlet.
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Talk about “lost in the sauce.”
Sydney is such a saucy girl…
Oh my, Dabbler porn sense is tingling.
It must be tingling almostball the time in this building.
Why do you think the galactic wanderer decided to settle down here?
Sure won’t be starving around here.
yeah but she’s not allowed to *zonk out* any of the team members on site so it has to be like walking around the buffet and only picking at the occasional Hors d’oeuvres.
She’s not allowed to feed directly on her team members, doesn’t mean she can’t snack on the scraps, or members who are not part of the team, ie SPARQ or Dark (bet she would love a piece of X) or simply admin
Didn’t she outright say supers have more sexual energy and that is one of the reasons she keeps hanging around?
I never will I never expected to see anvil in a Marilyn Monroe pose. Also next vacation I think Sydney wants to spend time flying around with herspace boyfriend
With DaveB always expect the unexpected. Usually with a sexy twist.
After an urgent and vigorous face washing!
Meh, not that much meat in the sauce, just a bit of contact
So a regular face washing should do
A sexy twist… and ninja (Spanish ninja)
A part of thinks that Syd kind of deserves that,but she’s already been splattered by much worse materials.
Worse as in not vegan friendly bits of human with identifiable bits of skeleton. And considerable amounts of internal organs.
Kenya seems to have a lot of issues with long skirts having wardrobe malfunctions.
A subtle variant on the “No capes!” rule.
Loose clothes, loose hair…
She likes skirts! I suspect she is OK with the occasional wind-based wardrobe malfunctions, given her choice of profession.
Didn’t Maxima have to remind her to wear panties at all times?
not her specifically… i think she was actually making a pointed observation about Harem, and has ‘probably’ already gotten hate/fan mail from BOTH sides of the view concerning her clothing ‘malfunctions’ that may or may not have already happened before the comment was made in-comic…
23rd!
Anyway… Lots of wind for an in-atmosphere contra gravity drive.
Also… Hey! Good for the supers to save the world as much as possible AND still have a social life.
I’d like to think that the normals lump all the supers and aliens and supernaturals together so if THEY mix and match it is no big deal.
OTOH not sure how anyone super or not feels about normals and supers hooking up.
(“What does she see in that guy? I not sure how that would work mechanically. Doe he stand on a chair?”)
Well, you have to ask how it works.
Is it some sort of Mach effect drive that’s pushing on the entire universe, and thus not measurably on any particular piece of it?
An advanced/retarded wave, (Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory) drive that throws out packets of momentum that interact with the first particle they encounter, but have immediate thrust for the ship no matter how long they take to have that encounter?
Or is it a gravitic drive, that pushes on local matter, really stretching the term “local” for space, and just hundreds of meters in an atmosphere?
The latter two would have atmospheric effects, probably diffuse for the gravitic drive, and under the ship for the absorber theory drive.
All we really know is that it’s not a rocket engine, because her ship isn’t sitting on a column of flame that’s burning a hole in the planet’s crust.
Any vehicle which moves at just under the speed of sound,* and is of as large a size as their space ship, would displace a lot of air and muss hair.
* The likely speed that they would have chosen, given the lack of a sonic boom balanced against the desire not to waste too much time in approach. As evidenced by their sudden arrival.
Honestly, I think of it more as having instant acceleration and deacceleration like the space ship which arrived at the Alari homeworld… or the Men In Black car.
Ah yorp, you’re like a staple of grrl comic lore now lol
Yorp has been canon in this comic since page #16–Marketing 101 (Dec. 10, 2010). Not so much as a staple, per se, because this isn’t the paper version of the comic, ergo no staples to hold it together…
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*wags tail happily*
Or even a cavorite wing, which would produce wing lift by making the air above weightless. Air would slip past the wing edges into a tremendous updraft
The last line was meant to reference these guys.
Imagine she’s a WtC breakthrough and he isn’t.
(Not sure this link works or is allowed. Eh. )
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0404/7601/products/my-girlfriend-tania-part-1-415648_9daa7bc3-bdee-4afe-8b91-6a643286c70c-389612_200x.jpg
it worked.
But is it allowed?
I may be on Dave’s list.
Anything that moves through the atmosphere is going to affect air movement.
And since Cora’s ship wasn’t in sight in the previous frame and now is, it’s going to displace a lot of it.
If she just quickly dropped in there would still be a sudden displacement of air. The party was interrupted by someone breaking wind?
Even if the ship nullifies/negates/ignores gravitational effects, it very well might still have a need to push against what’s “below” it in order to slow down – even though the earth would be a lot of mass to push against, the air is also a lot of volume.
I can’t help but think that anything that worked by pushing matter in the opposite direction
…would also push against the air – not just the ground.
It might be able to push at a distance, but might also have an effect on the air and thus create a high pressure pocket at the ground level that will push out, and create a low pressure region just under the ship, pulling air in to replace the air and then pushing THAT air down.
Even if the drive is advanced enough to only push against the ground, there’s still the displacement of the air as the ship gets closer to the ground
Hope that doesn’t give Sydney any PTSD flashbacks.
she’s gat a warm, semisoft, teddy bear like thing close to hand if that will help.
I don’t think Frix actually got her face covered in sauce (from the ribs in this page).
Check out the ribs in panel 1 and 2, then compare them to the ones in the final panel. You will note that sticky sauce is no longer on the ribs, but is on Sydney’s face.
I rest my case, milord.
For more than a few seonds I thought that the sauce caused Sydney’s eyes to bulge out like that.
…
Then I finally understood that the sauce is on her glasses.
Sydney already got sauce in her eye once…ONCE.
And regretted it mightily.
She seemed to actually like it. Made her look like a mini Sagat.
Sydney’s Cora-made replacement glasses have a little-know upgrade, as tiny little windshield wipers materialize out of hard light and squeegee the lenses clean. Fritz licks the rest of her face clean. Thoroughly.
My Internets for an Edit button! Of course, “little-known” and “Frix.”
He better check of she needs cleaning elsewhere too. Can’t smell like food of you are a professional superhero you know.
Those aren’t glasses but her balls. Two of em moves to protect her eyes. You can see that there are only 5 of em still in the circle formation
I’d love that to be true – but where would her glasses be, then? I can see the nose bridge on her nose, so the simpler idea is that that’s her glasses. Then again, this strange rim around the lenses… Maybe you’re still righ but I have no idea how this could possibly work.
Panel five is the funniest on this page. Sydney is marking her territory against the other females.
I rather think she’s annoyed the others are watching.
she is absolutely right… they really are a cute couple.
oh my, scandalous! love the throwback to some spice scene we can pretty much figure ourselves out.
also, yeah humans suck… completely agree
Somebody is in a reverse hanged-man pose. Foreshadowing?
Anvil sauce is my favorite sauce.
Well, given her precariously balanced pose, and the huge blast of air …
… possibly.
I’d have thought Sidney and Frix’s portmanteau would be Sidnix.
Not Fridney?
I think it would be Six, just Six, Six, Six all the time.
Nein nine.
Six.
That last quip in the flavour text at the bottom is probably only half right. If it’s a marinade then you’re technically right that the sauce itself isn’t an animal byproduct, but due the nature of marinating things it’s generally fully incorporated some tasty tasty meat juices which is in fact an animal byproduct through the cooking process.
*licks lips*
I bet Sydney tastes delicious!
Umm … for licking purposes.
(Thankfully we all know that mean the current situation… Alas… Frix has already… tasted…)
I don’t think the marinade from the ribs is the “sauce” the flavour text was referring to.
The most recent archive binge I’ve done was a month or two ago, but I can’t remember what the sauce incident refers to. Doesn’t help that Frix is only marked up until Feb 28th in the archives and as such the scenes in the pool and when first meeting him aren’t shown, but closest I can find was the moment in the pool when Frix shook the water out of his fur. Was this something in a Patreon-only bonus comic?
Very probably happened off-screen and it would belong to some subscriber-only bonus comic with a 18+ rate (if Dave did those).
Closest thing to that is the Patreon and a couple of sexts from Sydney to Frix he posted on there.
Noodle incident kind of thing.
Yup.
A saucy noodle incident.
A canoodle incident, if you will.
A spicy canoodle incident
I expect it’s just a private joke and that this is the first we are hearing that there *was* such an incident, as opposed to it having occurred in-comic anywhere.
it might be the noodle-eye incident which is fairly early. look for the panel where Sydney is going all piratey and work back. this incident gets her banned from the doctors office. which seems a little over the top. Sydney has surely been to the doctor before. to get the meds if nothing else… now i’m trying to imagine how that went.
Yeah, but Frix wasn’t around at the time.
Sex. They’re talking about sex. It’s Frix’s “sauce”, and – unless this becomes a *very* different comic – we are not going to see that incident.
Isn’t this the second time Sydney has talked about obliquely about being unexpectedly “splashed” during sex? She got some sort of liquid in the face – maybe at the time of the noodle incident, I don’t remember that – and made a comment about flashbacks to some old boyfriend.
Syx is a better couple portmanteau than Frdney
While we’re on terminology, everything that can possibly exist in the world of the senses is “natural”. It’s a descriptor of those phenomena that are covered by what we call “natural sciences”. What people mean when they judge something to be unnatural is that it makes them uncomfortable and they’re so conceited they think their feelings is a valid basis for universal law.
so I could say that hot chocolate flavored frozen drink is unnatural, but then id be trying to establish dominance over that area of culinary arts.
People on both sides of the cultural divide tend to use “natural” as having a positive sense, and “unnatural” the opposite, for their purposes. For instance, on the case of homosexual relations, the pro- side point out that various animals have been observed engaging in such, therefore it’s natural, therefore it’s just great!
Of course, then you can point out that there are multiple examples in nature of war, rape, genocide, cannibalism, and necrophilia, so all of those are just great too, right?
It’s just not an argument, on either side.
My favorite retort to the Natural Fallacy is “Hemlock is natural. Doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”
The five most powerful toxins (by LD50):
1) Botulinum toxin, produced by anaerobic bacteria, 1 nanogram per kilogram
2) Maitotoxin, formed by a dinoflagellate, a kind of marine plankton, 100 nanogram per kilogram
3) Batrachotoxin, come from the skins of tiny frogs, 2 micrograms per kg
4) VX, nerve agent, human-made, 3 micrograms per kg
5) Ricin, obtained from the beans of the castor oil plant, 1-20 milligrams per kg
… Nature:Humans 4:1.
There is no war in nature. Lot of killing, but no war, as for war you need level of organization only humans possess. Rape, genocide, cannibalism and necrophilia, yeah. (Humans are not FIRST species who managed to cause mass extinction. That prize goes to cyanobacteria who came up with oxygen.)
Check out dolphins, gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees some time if you dont think animals engage in war. :) It really shocked the zoologists too.
Not Sure Otters build Dams
Just saying
They don’t. But an easy conflation to make.
They do not. Beavers. I expected to find this higher up, but I am unsure how many people read the comments on this.
Not otters. It is actually hamsters who build dams. There is a famous one in the Netherlands. Although, it was originally built by cockney hamsters, leading to the the name everyone calls it now.
No, it was definitely otters in the Netherlands, that’s how their 2nd-largest city got its name. I believe the term you’re thinking of came from the French revolutions, after the barricades the roosters kept building in the streets.
You can blame Barry Cryer or possibly John Junkin from a TV quiz show called Jokers Wild in the early 70’s UK for this gem of a long winded joke about a dead parrot sketch, only involving a the purchase & expiration of a hamster. Concludes thusly……….
The pet shop owner tells him to cook it into a meat paste for sandwiches & jar it for consumption.
When he goes to try it the taste is revolting & throws the lot into his garden, in the morning there’s a garden full of daffodils. So he rings the pet shop owner & tells him.
“That’s very odd”, the shopkeeper says.
“Why?”
“Everyone knows you get tulips from ‘amster jam”
Well, that’s quite saucy.
.
Thank you, thank you, I’ll show myself out now.
Such piquant commentary.
Well, seeing that they are not including Frix in their orbit, at least we know that ‘boyfriend’ status does not also include ‘crewmember’ status.
He must be the engineer, he’s tooling around with Sydney, even if that tool is a hammer.
that was good. She will of course double list you or something for it.
Pfft, double listed. I’m aiming for The Book of Random Guy.
it will turn out like the book of random numbers…
https://www.amazon.com/Small-Book-Random-Numbers/dp/1452818363/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=book+of+random+numbers&qid=1623844897&sr=8-3
quick odd thought- if the book is used, are the numbers still random?
If the publisher printed more than one book then they are no longer random, they repeat.
SQUIRREL!
OMG, I almost missed it in the final panel!
Grrr grrr! Return of the evil squirrel overlord! And now he is flying!
Oops, penultimate panel.
Still not seeing it…
Just to the right of the girls on the roof. Definite squirrel sized object silhouetted there. Can’t be anything but Satan’s furry helper!
SQUIRREL?! Where’s a squirrel?! BARKBARKBARK!!!
I think you mean beaver dams. Otters don’t build dams, although they do use abandoned dams. When they do, it’s called a holt!
So, you’re claiming that otter dams are unnatural?
Tch … humans … so predictable!
Otterly unnatural, obviously
OK, lets call a holt to that!
*drags Yorp to the previous page if he’s going to make bad puns*
Maybe it’s just me, but Sydney’s glasses look a bit odd.
Maybe it’s the somewhat thick frames (compared to the size) that makes them look especially noticeable compared to most pages.
Do they look … alien? :-)
“[…] there’s enough of that depressing stuff in the real world and the PR team does a pretty good job of keeping that sort of stuff out of the faces of Archon personnel”
I would still REALLY like somebody to make that kind of comment withing earshot of Sydney and see her fly off the handle as only she can. I have a feeling it would be legendary.
Maybe with Maxima in the background wondering if she should help her, or the poor idiot who couldn’t keep his mouth shut
most likely it will happen at her shop. come to think of it. that is where the protests would be easier. Archon is probably authorized to use tear gas, rubber bullets, overwhelming lust auras (dabbler), and something else creative from the magic section to clear the entrance.
I think Sydney might actually be relatively restrained in her response. Restrained, but sniper-accurate. Remember her response to the peanut gallery leering at Maxima, back when they were helping rebuild after the Restaurant Rumble?
I’m willing to strike a blow for intersapient harmony and risk personal exhaustion if you have Dabbler’s number.
Hey! Sydney didn’t get her eyes hurt from sauce this time! Yay glasses!
Part of the reason “human / alien relationships are unnatural!” rants from straw villains feel so overdone is precisely because, despite what those who try to write them as allegories for some sort of real-world bigotry seem to be implying, most of the audience of the work are modern products of Western society, and modern Western society is embarrassed by its own past bigotry to the point that it has done everything it can (as a society) to put it behind us. We’re horrified when we see it happen in reality, as a general rule, and yet the stories that write the cliche you’re avoiding tend to be written as if modern Western society still agreed with the straw villain’s position.
It only gets worse when it’s conflated with actual points of debate in modern Western society. “If you believe X that is in debate and tends to get people riled up on both sides of X’s issue, you’re also a bigot who would hate human / alien romances for reasons that everyone agrees are stupid and wrong,” is really rather insulting.
It’d be like writing exactly that sort of plot but having everybody screaming at Sidney for it also being, I dunno, animal rights activists or environmentalists, painting it as if being an environmentalist or animal rights activist makes you a bigot.
Nobody likes being told they obviously hold a position they revile because they hold a sincerely-held, unrelated belief that the author happens to also disagree with, and it’s bad storytelling and bad argumentation because there’s no actual correllation except in the author’s own determination that people not on “his side” of a debate must be against “his side” of every debate, and thus also evil.
“…modern Western society is embarrassed by its own past bigotry to the point that it has done everything it can (as a society) to put it behind us. We’re horrified when we see it happen in reality, as a general rule…”
I think you over-estimate the embarrassment and/or horror experienced by many fellow members of your society (no matter which country you live in). If you ask members of any minority group in your country, you are likely to be horrified when they describe what they suffer each day.
‘most of the audience of the work are modern products of Western society, and modern Western society is embarrassed by its own past bigotry to the point that it has done everything it can (as a society) to put it behind us.’
umm no. unless you mean bury it, forget it, and then deny the systems left over. we have people attempting to rewrite history to deny it ever happened without fixing the systems.
Well, a loud minority of the public still opposes interracial marriage.
https://www.newsweek.com/20-percent-america-thinks-interracial-marriage-morally-wrong-poll-finds-845608
So it wouldn’t be unusual for Sydney to get some kind of hate for it if the relationship ever went public.
Aaaaaand Jabberwocky has been blown off the rooftop, as a cautionary tail to children not to stand tip-to on top of safety railings no matter how good your balance happens to be, because you never REALLY know when a random interstellar alien space vessel is going to descend from orbit and buzz the local landscape.
“Let me guess: It happened to a friend of a friend of yours?”
“No, actually she was kind of a bitch, why?”
New plan, Sidney. Frix doesn’t need to wipe his mouth before smooches, but he DOES get to lick you clean!
Frix: “That’s not a ‘new plan’. We did that yester-”
Sidney: “SHUSH! That’s not what he meant!”
Cora: Houston Control, this is Cora flight 8. Estimated insertion to Earth’s atmosphere in 2 hours.
Houston Control (NASA): Roger; we have you on radar. The Hubble Space telescope will be on your side of the Earth at that time, so please avoid it. The ISS should be on the other side of the planet at the time.
Cora: Got it.
Houston Control: Cora 8, there’s some space junk close to your projected path. Would you mind clearing it up?
…
NASA: Cora 8, this is Houston Control. Contact re-established. Contact Houston Center at 132.65.
Cora: Changing radio frequency to 132.65 KHz Amplitude Modulated. Thank you.
[ Changes frequency on recently installed radio ]
Cora: Houston Center, this is Cora 8. Requesting Flight Level 800. ( = 80 000 feet altitude)
Houston Center: [ Thinking most planes can only fly less than half that height ] If you can get there, you can have it.
Cora: Thank you. Descending to Flight Level 800.
Houston Center: Cora 8, I don’t seem to have your flight plan. Can you tell me your Mach number, destination and transponder code?
Cora: Oh, I guess I should turn this thing on. We are moving about 13 times the speed of sound and we are going to Archon headquarters. We should be there in about an hour. What transponder code should I use?
Houston Center: Let’s see. Set transponder to 1235. Maintain Flight Level 600 or higher while above the speed of sound. Otherwise speed is at your discretion. Watch for U2 traffic below you. We would prefer you slow below Mach 1 while over the Gulf of Mexico.
Cora: Transponder set to 1235. Maintain 60 000 feet or higher until we have dropped below the speed of sound, preferably while over water. Watch for low-flying slow airplanes. Got it.
Houston Center: Radar contact established.
This whole comic is so far set in 2011. Arecibo has not collapsed yet, so that facility is still able to use radar to track near-Earth asteroids, space craft (mostly human made) and other objects. It sounds like Goldstone observatory is going to get upgraded to do some of that job in the next few years.
Hey, really good sim dialog there.
But check http://www.stuffin.space/ I discovered. Cora needs to up her sensors a bit, maybe NASA could learn some (astro)navigation? And check the altitude on some of what’s been put up o-O
Oh, and http://astria.tacc.utexas.edu/AstriaGraph/ . This eats CPU and/or Graphics, but it’s bloody impressive!
Vegan BBQ (faux) ribs are a thing that exist, and some are quite tasty. That having been said, I’ve been to enough different events where mixed food was served to accept that it’s likely better to do the vegan BBQ ribs on a different day than the non-vegan BBQ ribs. Especially since there’s just one vegan I’m aware of, and her favorite BBQ sauce probably would require many of the others to wear gas masks, because cap does have a vapor pressure, even if it is generally pretty low. (It would probably let us identify which supers aren’t interested in spicy foods because it doesn’t really do anything (I’m sure this isn’t just Achilles) versus which avoid it for more traditional reasons.
Sidney? She’s vegetarian, not vegan – I understand she will sometimes eat fish too… so maybe pescatarian?
2nd to last panel: There’s a wire pentagram suspended above the rooftop that Sydney and Frix are on. And it looks like it’s hooked up to something (maybe it’s lighted?). What’s that for?
that’s the rappelling tower from the previous page. That “pentagram” is the network of stabilizing cables for the guy-wires attached to the tower
It could easily be a dual-use training tower for magic users as well, Archon’s still got to get their budget approved by the government so that would help trim / obscure some line items.
that might have been an accident but I approve of it anyway. well done.
You could even say that Sydney is a saucy wench.
What is up with Sydney’s balls? They are not behaving like they should be…
Read the first paragraph of the author’s comments on the page…
But, when was it established in-world that they can do anything except orbit her head?
She’s consciously altered their flight patterns several times, such as during her spar with Math and during the restaurant battle.
But not like this, this is basically removing them from her centralized location entirely
Ever since Tubey. So like, page 4. Or perhaps 86. Or shall we turn to page 293? I’ve probably missed a few.
But more recently, page 933 has them tilted on their side, like on this page.
I think Anvil loves “matchmaking” so much because of her stated problems finding a guy tall enough to suit her tastes, so she vicariously lives by helping/forcing/watching others hook up
That sounds very probable. Good psychological reasoning. :)
Humans can consent. Sapient aliens can consent. If the biology can be compatible, then there’s nothing unnatural. Might be kinda disturbing if the alien is particularly inhuman (insectoid, sapient slime mold, etcetera), but not “unnatural”.
Might be kinda disturbing if the alien is particularly inhuman (insectoid, sapient slime mold, etcetera), but not “unnatural” & has a habit of biting the males head off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcMd1xAInuI
On the “natural VS Non Natural” thing, why do those people think the human race evolved? The planet wanted Plastic for itself, of course!
That, or we’re an evolutionary response to the asteroid that rubbed out the Dinosaurs, evolved so we could figure out a way to handle NEOs and Comets and protect the Earth that way.
I like that as the story progresses, Sydney’s gained more and more control of positioning where the orbs hover, even she doesn’t fully realize it. I know she’s always been able to control them a few at a time, but just subconsciously shifting them to the side so they don’t bonk into the big fluff’s face as he towers over here is pretty neat. Also proof of her training, as she’s also gotten (mildly) less clumsy overall.
I noticed that also and thought it was a nice touch. I look forward to her using an errant orb to “accidentally” stop a car or a fleeing bad guy.
I’m now going to use a new hyperbole “It was so intense it blew the sauce clean off my barbecue!”
Giggle, YIFFY!!!
Upsizing panel 8 unreasonably big, it looks like Jabber has been blown up – not away from the wall – one foot is almost as high as her hair – and given her superhuman agility she should be able to grab the wall as she falls.
Next to her raised foot there’s a dark blotch that might be either a graphic artifact or – hopefully – Detla’s mask?
Detla has one arm out, possibly grabbing Jabber’s foot.
Not even counting the possibility of snagging a flying Heatwave, Jabber should be fine … although embarrassed about losing her balance just because Cora’s pilot decided it would be fun to play with the groundlings.
The comment about the eyeglasses trees just makes me think of the Xanth series in which things like that exist.
For example, one can get a new pair of shoes from a shoe tree or a fresh loaf of bread from a breadfruit tree.
Xanth runs on puns. just be careful of a Cat Trophy. and remember the walls have ears in certain circumstances.
Reminded me of Schlock’s eyeball trees; eyeglasses should be a cinch by comparison.