Grrl Power #1012 - Between 0 and 6 Harems walk into a bar...
Added 2022-01-06 11:01:01 +0000 UTCThanks so much for your support! For serious!
This is a page that I really didn't want to split into two, but I couldn't fit everything on one page and I just couldn't make it a double cause I'm still trying to get caught up after Xmas. (The vote incentive should hopefully update with Monday's comic, BTW.) By itself, this page mostly just sets up the next one. It also doesn't give you guys a ton to discuss, other than guessing what Harem's foible was, that or just pitch your own super powered pranks. It's kind of a limitless field, really, even without getting into weird mind control stuff. "I made him think mayonnaise was underwear," etc.
I will mention that somehow, while Sydney was revealing where she found the orbs, Jiggawatt went and got her hair did. The reason she did that is because I always matched her lipstick to her hair color and yellow lipstick looks terrible. Unless you're a dryad and have green skin. Gold lipstick can work, especially against darker skin, but the yellow wasn't cutting it for me. In the early days of the comic, Jiggawatt had light blue hair, but I fairly quickly realized that if she's doing lightning stuff and there are bright lights nearby, her hair washed out and looked a bit... Stormy. She looked like Storm. So I changed it to yellow. Now I'm changing it back to blue, but now it's royal blue which won't wash out to white even if it should because I'm the artist and I can just fudge it if I need to. Oh, and of course, since I tend to have most of the girls wear underwear that matches their hair color, I guess Jiggawatt also went shopping. Or maybe she had some bras around from her prior blue hair stint.
It's not a fetish of mine or anything, I'm just kind of lazy when it comes to underwear color, and I refuse to have anyone wear beige bras. I understand why they exist: so white women don't have to worry about their bra being visible through their shirt, but that doesn't change the fact that beige bras are equivalent to tighty whities. No one is wearing them to be sexy, and guys, if you're wearing tighty whities and taking your pants off in front of a woman (who wants you to be taking them off), you don't get to be upset by the ripple of disgust that passes through her face when she sees your choice in underwear before she tamps it down and gives you a half-hearted thumbs up.
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Comments
Oh, she was a tourist that was legally there for vacation purposes. But she salvaged the orbs, well, they adopted her and probably didn't declare them to customs so .............. and she didn't so much as lie about where she found them ......... she just was rather vague about where and everyone else just assumed ....................... oops!
Edward Lott
2022-01-08 22:09:03 +0000 UTCWait, Jiggawatt managed to dye her hair cobalt in the space of time between the graduation ceremony and Sydney coming back from her debriefing? That's almost more impressive than the purple lightning
Andrew Park
2022-01-08 12:07:48 +0000 UTCBecause it turns out where she actually got the orbs is territory belonging to a foreign country that Sydney wasn't supposed to be in. Given how powerful the orbs obviously are, if said country discovers that, it becomes a international incident.
J Miller
2022-01-08 02:04:17 +0000 UTCShe lied about where she got the orbs, and it's an international Big Deal.
akrasia
2022-01-08 00:28:21 +0000 UTCI appreciate nudity (when it's of attractive women, and filmed/drawn/presented well) but obviously I'm not the only one watching any given piece of media. I arbitrarily decided the comic would be PG-13 when I started. (PG-13-ish, with way more cussing than you can get away with in a movie, but less direct nudity.) It'd be weird to change it now. The vote incentives are there for that sort of thing (and also to keep the comic from getting distracted with some "nudity bomb" plotline.) :)
Dave Barrack
2022-01-07 14:59:36 +0000 UTCI don't get how Sydney is in trouble for anything,.....other than being a smartass.
Kenneth Winkelman
2022-01-07 13:55:07 +0000 UTCJust as a suggestion for changing the tone of your artwork, scenes like this are great for casual nudity. I love your pinup work and I think your art is fantastic, but I have always appreciated when media of all levels from Webcomics all the way to Hollywood blockbusters treat me like an adult. Example: Starship Troopers. Lethal Weapon, etc. I'm not saying sexy nudity isn't the bestest ever...but casual nudity is cool too.
2022-01-07 03:56:38 +0000 UTCLook at Sidney and her emotional growth. She actually feels responsible like an adult. BTW, she is looking pretty buff in this page. I guess all the training is paying off :).
Matthew Paulin
2022-01-07 02:57:48 +0000 UTCThis page seems done in a different style than usual.
Xinunar
2022-01-07 02:37:58 +0000 UTCPoor Jiggawatt's hair! Bleaching Black hair enough to get such bright colors often will absolutely fry it.
2022-01-06 17:31:16 +0000 UTCBoxers, while not exactly sexy, are definitely the go-to for 'inoffensive' underwear, imo.
Magraal
2022-01-06 16:42:06 +0000 UTCThere you go again making tighty-whities out to be worse than other briefs. I don't get it, unless they're visibly stained. I do agree that beige bras do not have a come-hither vibe.
Stephen Gilberg
2022-01-06 15:17:42 +0000 UTCI'm gonna bet that Harem convinced a dude she was dating (who didn't know she had powers) to cheat on her with herself.
NathaN
2022-01-06 14:58:31 +0000 UTCI feel like this comic could use a character quick reference sheet.
Ray
2022-01-06 14:53:03 +0000 UTCok in the panel with only her hair i also thought it was heatwave due to the darker shade of red of the hair even with the first panel
Otoger
2022-01-06 12:22:10 +0000 UTCAlso, I love the new do on Jiggawatt. Very retro 70s; very cool. It feels like, once she gets done in the locker, some sucka is gonna get got.
Michael Obert
2022-01-06 12:10:49 +0000 UTCI thought that was Heatwave, not Harem. Bit of a shock to see her called Harem in the text. She'd be more likely to be a prankster, though. So many things in our society are built on the idea that a person can be in only one place at a time. I'm surprised more police departments aren't looking into their cold case files thinking how a super powered person could do it. They'd be getting calls simply because it would be possible, even when they had nothing to do with it.
Marc Vun Kannon
2022-01-06 12:04:02 +0000 UTCSexing Deuce during a team meeting doesn't count?
Justaguy
2022-01-06 11:54:31 +0000 UTCIt couldn't have been too bad. She has an ironclad set of morals. She said so herself.
Marc Vun Kannon
2022-01-06 11:53:36 +0000 UTCHarem's being bad sort of seems, I don't know, predictable? So many bodies, so much mischief to cause!
Michael Obert
2022-01-06 11:04:19 +0000 UTC
