Grrl Power #1182 – The dark, luxurious arts
Black honey with gold in it is totally something I can see being put on, I don’t know, upscale baklava. Maybe even the saffron, (a subtle earthy-sweet flavor profile with a tinge of bitterness on the tongue with delicate floral and honey notes), and the frankincense (an orange-lime taste.) The myrrh? Maybe not so much. It comes from the Arabic word “murr” for bitter. A tinge of bitterness is okay, especially if it’s swamped in sweet. If it tastes like you’re chewing on a non-chewable tylenol, then probably don’t eat it.
I like Sydney’s logic of “it didn’t say, so it probably doesn’t matter.” I mean, maybe? But more likely it’s like a recipe for fried eggs not mentioning that you need eggs because everyone knows you need eggs. But honey, to me, does seem like it might have that biological/possibly mana conductive property that occultists seem to get out of blood. But if “it came from a living thing” is the only requirement, then presumably any bodily fluid would work, as well as tree sap or grape juice. Presumably the material used, as Sydney posits, has some effect on the nature of the summoning, and you wouldn’t want to summon an Opulence Demon using diaper squeezings. Still, that’s a pretty wild swing for Sydney, going all in on those materials without asking anyone about it. I figure that’s like a… $2,500 to $3,000 summoning circle, minimum? I have no idea how far you could stretch an ounce of powdered gold mixed in with honey.
Oh, and if you’ve ever wondered why Sydney’s pop culture knowledge extends well beyond her generation, this is why. Honestly it’s a little hard to get kids born these days interested in proper, old-ass sci-fi. Some of it holds up, sure, but like O.G. Doctor Who? Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of solid writing, but so much of that stuff is shot like a stage play, with a long segments of dialog shot with minimal cuts, and the special effects are not so special anymore. Especially the chroma-keyed matting. Yikes. Some of that stuff looks like they cut out the matting elements with scissors made of static. That’s why Sydney Sr. knew to start Jr. off early on the classics so she didn’t grow up spoiled on made for streaming series that cost $58 million per episode. Imagine showing a kid who grows up on stuff like that something like the BBC’s I, Claudius. Fairly stellar performances across the board including Patrick Stewart, Brian Blessed and Derek Jacobi, but it’s basically a play with a camera aimed at the stage. Yes, the camera is fairly mobile, but you get my point. No “flying on a dragon” POV shots, armies of thousands massing for attack, or for that matter, backgrounds that aren’t literally theater backdrops.
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That’s a pretty pricey first date
She’s worth it
Yeah, that was my take on it. I mean, I don’t want to read TOO much into it, but Sydney’s definitely putting a lot of effort in here. Could end up spicing up the maybe-maybe-not polycule….
Gold leaf on Amazon is 60 bucks for 25 sheets (3.125 inch squares) so powdered gold can be stretched quite a ways for use as a summoning sigil.
I looked it up, so all y’all don’t have to. The honey pictured there (with that very jar) is a hundred bucks for one and a half kilograms, plus another hundred USD for shipping.
I bought something like an almost 9 oz bottle of Manuka for about $25 but the higher the MGO, the higher the price. Basically, the more helpful, medically it is, the price rises. Could end up spending $60 – $100+ for the same size bottle or a little bigger.
$25 for just 9 oz? Sounds like you got ripped off
Can get a 500g bottle for less than that
The amount/seller/efficacy are all pretty important. Yes, a 500g bottle may go for less, but that’s probably a lower efficacy considering it’s a larger amount for cheaper. While the bottle Xone purchased might have had a higher efficacy. Thus, more expensive for less volume.
It’s manuka honey, not some generic honey
Gold leaf is usually only 9 karats, same as dental gold.
What are you using it for? Gold leaf for exterior gilding is never less than 23, and I haven’t seen anything below 12 used for much of anythingl.
The only application of gold leaf I know of the top of my head is as an ingredient inf food, but according to wikipedia it’s also used in art as decoration.
As percentages of gold. Those vary.
What could possibly go wrong?
Really impressive body-posture and fishnet-layout for Gwen in panel 2.
Did you draw that after efter a pic?
Also, I love Gwen’s expression in the last panel.
It does not look traced, but it may well have been sketched from a reference photograph.
Dave generally is pretty good with bodies and postures so it is hard to say
His figures are quite unlike those of far too many comics ‘artists’ I could mention who have high paying gigs with the big publishers and cannot and will not draw lifelike women (and men) if their lives depended on it to a greater or far greater extent)
(also, see escher girls for a horriffyingly long list of examples of how bad the typical comic book artists can be at drawing human figures)
She sure looks like a super.
Even a worthless power would open doors and give her the body.
would laugh if sydney accidentally summons an angel like a throne (glowing wheels covered with many eyes.), a dominion/domination (angelic middle management work to keep all things in balance including good and evil), or a power (looks like brightly colored hazy fumes, essentially the border patrol between life, death, and the afterlife)
Actually, my own “what could go wrong here” was, ah, to have the summoning work as a binding, per the succubi rules discussed earlier, making Sydney Parfait’s official ‘Master’.
Hell, this could even be Parfait’s intent by giving Sydney the disc in the first place, figuring the invitation was ‘obvious’.
That was actually my take on it too. Parfait likes Syd and Earth, Dabbles apparently thinks Syd is okay, Parfait is reaching the age where succubi have to have a master or they die (I was about to call it ‘age of consent’ but that’s SO NOT THE WAY IT WORKS with succubi….) and I think everybody agrees that Syd is way cuter than Thothogoth. So this is the obvious move for her, and she made Syd a capital-O (so to speak) Offer.
And now Syd is going all out with the ingredients, blowing a whole paycheck or so on this summon – which could read as an actual ‘Sacrifice’ in a way that would at least indicate a “Serious” response to the Offer.
And perhaps most tellingly – although I hate to invoke a trope – the obvious person to consult, the one who would definitely know and understand the rules here – is Dabbler, and Syd consulted Gwen instead. Dabbles has specialized and specific knowledge here (fellow succubus, and Parfait is even her own third-sister). Consulting her is definitely what Syd ought to have done. But if our speculation is true and Parfait handed her a capital-O Offer, consulting Dabbler would have prevented a plot point from happening. Hence it’s Gwen who got consulted instead.
Anyway, we’ll just have to wait and see what kind of capital-O’s Parfait is offering and how she plans to bestow them.
It would actually be damned rude to summon a succubus and then not even boink her once.
Gonna turn out, all Sydney had to do was hold the disc and call Parfait’s name
Didn’t Parf simply say “Call me”? And not “Summon me”?
Kinda like that secret door in “The Hobbit”: “Call me friend and enter” (or something similar, where the password was REDACTED)
It was the Doors of Durin, at the West Gate of the Mines of Moria, and it was in LOTR not The Hobbit.
Ennyn Durin aran Moria. Pedo mellon a minno. “The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak friend and enter.”
Oh right, for some reason was thinking it was Bilbo and not Frodo, do remember the beastie in the water and how they found one of the dorfs from The Hobbit (had initially forgotten that part)
Coulda swored it was a secret door, that’s why they needed the password to open it
The Hobbit one was a key hole you couldn’t see except on certain day of year a shadow would point it out.
Only it actually said, “Say friend and enter.” Gandalf was rather annoyed at himself for not realizing that.
You misspelled, “spoiler friend and spoiler”.
Didn’t lotr come out like 70 years ago? What’s the time cutoff on a spoiler
some folks actually griped about Tolkien’s The Two Towers, stating that ‘that Tolkien dude’ was just trying to make money off of the 9-11 crashes.
* TMac casts “summon fantasy quote pedant*, it’s super effective! *
Although to be fair, the actual line and source instantly went through my head too, just didn’t have time to say anything before everyone else covered it. ^_^
That distinction is going to be important. “Call me” means she’ll pop over to visit. “Summon me” means Parfait will get a Halo collar.
And then Parfait gets magically supercharged off the orbs.
I think you’re conflating a summoning & a pact.
Also, preeeeety sure that Gwen would have said as much, if the “card” were essentially a thaumaturgical pager.
Also, it seems somewhat unlikely that, even if the summoning automatically resulted in a pact, Parfait would get boosted off the orbs.
They ain’t benwa balls, after all.
Not with that attitude, they ain’t.
Hmmm. With the complete telekinetic control of them Syd has, she can do things you could never even attempt with ben wa balls. And I did gift her some ‘stretchy’ potions to help with … uh, things.
Sorry, the comment board ate my pseudo-html tags. Above was supposed to be tagged as “Dabbler’s voice…”
If I remember the succubi rules, a half sister is impossible right? It’d need to be either a 1/3 sister or a 2/3 sister. =)
I think it just means that, say, the same mother, a relative of father #1, and someone else. 3+ people to make 1 person can be fairly convoluted…
No, half sister is fine, it just means that Dabbler and Parfait have the same mother. Dabbler is different because her father was a doppleganger which have the extra steps to have a child. Succubi dont do that inherently. The Feb 7th, 2022 strip explains it.
It’s still not half because Parfait shares half of her DNA with Dabbler, but Dabbler only shares 1/3 of hers with Parfait. It makes total sense for Parfait to think Dabbler is her half sister, because without putting thought into it, all of her siblings are either half or whole.
Trying to work out what it would really be feels complicated. But I think it may just work out to them being 5/12ths sisters. That said, I have a headache from trying to work that out and I’m not entirely confident in the result.
It doesn’t work quite like that. While each parent (assuming there are only 2) contributes half of the DNA for each kid, it’s not all the same DNA, so fill siblings don’t share 100% DNA (that’s an identical twin) and half siblings don’t share 50%. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170668-Average-Percent-DNA-Shared-Between-Relatives&ved=2ahUKEwiw08uM6_WAAxWyhIkEHW9gBtEQFnoECBMQBQ&usg=AOvVaw2HR5nWycfqNCo-1-NdLMXF
Besides, “half-sister” is a familiar term, means shares one and only one parent. It isn’t a scientific term.
Oops, typo. *FAMILIAL
Correct. with regard to the human-specific variable DNA, full siblings average slightly over 50%, half siblings slightly over 25%. The overage is because any two humans share a good chunk of even their human-specific variable DNA. If you included all DNA, then any two humans at random share over 99.6-99.9% (i.e. the differences are only between 0.1% and 0.4%).
To be honest, not really sure what I would say to Gwen… maybe something like “Aside from stunning, does that outfit serve any functional purpose here at work?”
She’s a Goth/witch, (which many goth gals dabble in anyway) Goth’s wear a lot of black/fishnet/make up. What, would you rather her wear a raggedy robe, pointed hat, and have a hissing black cat? Bubbling caldron in the middle of the room? 2 other old gals dressed the same standing around it cackling? I love that look, makes me wish I was 20 again!
I doubt she’d like me much back then though, I tended to lear a lot LOL!
I’m still leering now. I have trouble walking past Hot Topic. The girls are stunning, and I? I am old.
I married a gal that other than her height, would of matched Gwen in looks. While I do still look I don’t need to leer, I’m quite content with cuddling up with the one I have ;) (I still have no clue why she chose me…)
Cosplay pics or it didn’t happen.
To be fair, what other purpose do our clothes serve these days but to look nice, good and preferably even stunning?
It’s not as if we need them for protection and our centrally heated and airconditioned houses and workplaces removed the need for clothes to protect us from the elements.
I totally agree, however my wife don’t (sad sigh…) despite my many attempts to convince her otherwise.
LMAO!
Long running gag she and I have, partly because I miss the days of the honeymoon phase, and the many months of trying to have a baby. We were married almost 3 years for our first, 5 years when my second son was conceived. It took a lot of “effort” both times, I guess I had a low count thanks to a hazing indecent in high school.
its functional purpose is being clothing, and covering naughty bits. Honestly, you ask a question like that, you’d be meeting with HR next day, latest.
Old school Doctor Who had a budget of about twenty cents per episode, and absolutely wasn’t made for modern hi-def TVs. It’s not surprising that half of the effects looked like they did.
By the time that I first saw Dr. Who, Starwars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind had hit the theaters so I knew the special effects were cheap. But I enjoyed the characters and the stories and along with Blakes 7 and Red Dwarf it was available when not much else was. Then again I enjoyed the Flash Gordon serials when they started to show up on Tuner Broadcasting and 1950’s sci-fi movies (Earth versus the Flying Saucers is a personal fave), so no accounting for taste. If it weren’t for the cheap effects we probably wouldn’t have had anything at all.
Old School Dr. Who is still pretty chintzy if you compare it to, say, Original Star Trek. Heck, I’d even say it’s a bit behind the original Lost in Space, which is a fairer comparison point (both straddle the B&W/color TV line, so you’d expect similarity). But Dr. Who went with very minimalist sets, or very mundane ones, while LiS did a lot of freaky planet-settings.
True, I tend to separate TOS and LIS from the British shows in my head. Probably because I can remember, however vaguely, watching them on prime time. I also remember Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants. Dr Who was more of a teenage pleasure. My parents didn’t worry too much about what I was doing on a Saturday night because at 10:30 pm I would be someplace with a television watching Dr. Who. I even got some of my friends who weren’t into sci-fi to start watching it. By then the cheap effects were just part of the fun.
also note- I remember reading interviews with early cast members. Things like – Fraser Hines “We would film Doctor Who on Tuesday afternoon, I had soccer practice afterwards, so I would have my football shorts on under the kilt.”
One week to make the episode, including one afternoon for filming.
Next time, just use blood. Slightly harder to get (if you don’t want to use your own) but much cheaper. Or much easier and cheaper to get if you don’t care if it’s human.
Human blood is free if you’re daring enough.
And some people are far more daring than just getting blood.
Did anyone guess Parfait since Monday?
Most did after seeing the sigil
I guess I’m in the minority. I loved the book I, Claudius, but I found the TV series very disappointing. Yes, the actors and their performances were top-notch, but the writing and direction blew. (As you say, it was produced like a stage play, but that didn’t bother me.)
and god forbid you show them some UFO, space 1999, or Blakes 7
bah forgot to use the icon stoopid me
All three classics, and should never be touched by American re-makers
Talking about cheap props: one of the ships from “Blake’s 7” (wanting to say the Liberator?) was literally a microphone with bits added on :)
Who is Carson?
Johnny, one of the pioneer Late Night Chat Show hosts on US TV
He used to do a ‘bit’ pretending to be one of them fake psychics (complete with turban and cape) and hold an envelope to his head and ‘read’ what it’s written on a card inside it (which is what that dotted line box thing in panel 6 is supposed to represent)
Oh, I didn’t get that at all, but I watched Johnny Carson all the time. If it had said “Carnac” or “Carnac the Magnificent” I would have caught on immediately. Wikipedia has a page on the skit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_the_Magnificent
I actually understood that reference! I’m also of a younger generation (or half-gen… I think I’m actually a Xennial? Or however you spell that), but I remember a late-night infomercial for a Best of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, and the Carnac the Magnificent bits were always my favorite.
When I think of a sci-fi related Carson, it’s Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs, so maybe I have a gap in my pop culture knowledge. So which Carson is this referring to?
It wasn’t a sci-fi reference, it was a pop-culture reference. Johnny Carson was host of The Tonight Show back in the 70’s. She’s doing a Carnac the Magnificent reference where Johnny dresses like a swami, holds up a sealed envelope and answers the question inside. He then opens the envelope to reveal the question. It’s never quite what you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuFSWcNe8hY
Johnny never knew what was in the envelops either, he read the answers from a script and a few times he got it mixed up and the answers didn’t make sense until he opened the right one for the first one. I guess they wanted his reactions to be honest as well? I seen some out-takes for that. I don’t know who laughed harder, him or Ed.
Never stayed up late enough for Carson when I wasn’t out doing stuff. Thanks for the info.
Johnny
You know, that scene from the original “The Shinning”? When the guy breaks through the door screaming “Here’s… Johnny!” that’s who he’s talking about (he’s actually channelling Johnny’s sidekick, not Johnny himself)
Ed McMahon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEz1C7olS6E
Yeah, remembered after watching a clip of an interview with Marty Feldman
You would think that they will understand by now that more than half of Sydney’s repertoire is from pop culture decades older than Sydney herself
1st year…Channeling 3 stooges in the comic book store on the way to the bank.
Is the carpet Scotchgard(tm)ed or is there some kind of Save/Save As/Delete function built in?
The circle evaporates after use? After its SECOND use?
Wouldn’t Parfait need a visitor’s badge in the facility?
Maybe the circle’s materials are consumed by the ritual so it’s self-cleaning?
Also, Archon as a whole is a massive security and intelligence nightmare, and ArcLight/Dark should absolutely be hiring the best in the business to even have a chance at keeping it safe.
Yeah, they need Michael Ehrmantraut.
So, you don’t need to be a practicing mage with mana manipulation or stuff to do a summoning? Maybe the circle collects mana on its own? Or maybe you pour a mana potion on it to get started?
It could be cool if having the orbs gives Sydney gargantuan mana capacity…
Does the summoning circle work like a phone call, so you can choose not to pick up right now if you’re busy with something else l? (Probably *someone* else for a succubus…)
I appreciate the irony of using gold, frankincense and myrrh to summon a literal demon. I doubt the Three Wise Men would’ve been so keen on bringing such expensive gifts if they knew they would be used in a demonic summoning ritual.
Also, is the speech bubble in the last panel misplaced? It seems like it should be Gwen saying “Uh…okaaay?”, not Sydney.
Frankincense and myrrh were the real treasures back in ancient times. Worth much much more than gold. Tree sap… sometimes I laugh at how much more I learned from the internet, fictional books, games, etc than I ever learned in school.
Suck a fat D Mrs. S! I wasn’t a bad student all those decades ago, you were just a crappier teacher than a Brian Jacques novel.
To be fair, teachers had crap resources and expectations back then too, education tech has come a long long ways in the last half century. “Dick and Jane” and chalkboards were both on the cutting edge for the Boomer generation.
Hey now, King Solomon the Wise did a BUNCH of demon summoning and/or binding! Old-school Judeo-Christian religions were a lot more open-minded about that sort of stuff.
Yeah, Solomon is the one responsible for ‘Genies’
what’s a lightbulb other than a ‘genie’ trapped in a glass bottle? Break the glass, the genie escapes.
The speech bubble is now fixed.
I watched the BBC’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the 2000s when I was long since an adult and I’d say this series holds up very well, in contrast to the crappy movie that was made later. But I’m also not part of the smartphone generation, i.e. I grew up with the Power Rangers or the Batman cartoon series (including Batman Beyond). But I do believe that especially the funny shows still have a chance to get kids to be interested in them even if they started out with smartphone content, because when we had to read ancient literature at school the funny books were the most interesting ones to me as well.
I don’t think I’ve seen a BBC TV “Hitchhiker’s Guide”, but I did listen to the radio play. If I understand correctly, that one may have pre-dated the books.
did you see the original Marvin (from the BBC series) in the lineup for the (newer) movie? I thought it was a great touch.
I just realized Sydney is still wearing a Quake2 T-Shirt.
Absolutely no Teenager would wear something like that today. And I would still bet 99 out of 100 haven’t even heard about the game Quake.
That’s not even close to being a Quake II logo.
Besides, it’s Halo’s Superhero Logo.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-781-iconic/
That’s her heroine logo, gold ‘H’ with a gold halo around it. H2 looks more corroded with railroad spikes for the neumeral. If it reminds her of the H2 logo, I’m sure she has a good giggle over it and give a thumb’s up.
No it’s not, it’s an Official Halo t-shirt, she’s been wearing it since she became an official member of Archon (mentioned this in the comments last page)
hopefully there are not special physical requirements Sydney did not take into account for when you summon a succubus…
May have to have been oriented towards the Actual or Magnetic North Pole? Stonehenge? Chicxulub?
This is either going to go very wrong in some hilarious way, or is going to unintentionally provide Parfait some kind of boon/powerup due to using increadibly expensive and coveted (at least here on earth) materials in the summoning, meaning it has a way above average sacrifice value.
Maybe it will lead to sexy time and Sydney’s first girl-girl experience.
“presumably any bodily fluid would work”
I mean, I can think of a body fluid that be very appropriate for summoning a succubus, but Sydney doesn’t exactly have steady access to that unless a certain spaceship is in the area. Also, getting enough for a decent-sized summoning circle would probably call for magical assistance or additional donors.
But honey does also seem appropriate. It even has some tantric associations – I believe it was Egyptian prostitutes who used to utilize it as a sort of “liquid condom” to prevent pregnancy and the spread of STD’s (it’s spermicidal and antimicrobial, and also serves as a barrier of sorts). It wasn’t 100%, and I believe worked better at the former than the latter, but still.
Ah yes, the Smoke Girl.
Does gold even taste good? I know it’s a supposed luxury to put gold randomly in whatever bullshit you eat or drink to own the poors but why bother? Does gold in my saffron-honey candy make a difference?
Gold has no taste. It’s something to eat simply for showing off. You could just as easily nosh on a hundred dollar bill to get the same results.
Which is why rich pricks tend to set a hundred dollar coin on fire to use to light their cheap dollar-store cigar
Gold is an inert metal, unlike steel or copper. I tried one of those gold flake sodas years ago, other than a slight odd tang to it, just tasted like any other sugary drink. Damn costly one at that. Took weeks for the flakes to leave my mouth too… I did have fancy looking spit though! lol.
Is Sydney going to reconnect with Parfait or what?!?
Do Who looked bad even compared to mainstream early ’80s TV. I watched it as a kid, but even my adolescent self was still a little surprised by how bad the fx were.
That’s because Dr Who started in the 60’s, it was reaching the end of it’s original run in the 80’s
There were effects. And they were very ‘special’
Doctor Who was made on a shoestring budget of about three shillings~
hey now, it was an expensive show. After all, Time is Money.
More glitter than a Dollar Tree holiday/crafting aisle.
That crap gets E V E R Y W H E R E ! There are baskets that I’m pretty sure have never been washed in years because of the glitter stains.
I’d once spoken to a mother whose two boys were 6 and 9 years old, and she had them growing up watching classic comedy, including Marx Brothers movies.
I was raised on the 3-stooges, Marx brothers, and so on. It wasn’t until I was a teen before I knew that the good stuff was in color too! ;) I think it was “I dream of Jeanie” that went to color, Barbra Eden was my first screen crush as a kid! ;P
Red Skelton and Monty Python were my favorites, with the Stooges, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, and a bunch of other boneheads through Living Color and All That. Those guys with too many authors to name are responsible for my sense of humor.
*I, Claudius* would be a snooze fest until the “cure for coughing” was applied.
I really appreciate the dotted outline of an envelope in panel 6; without it I would never have known what Carson was being referenced, despite having seen one or two of the Carnac bits.
(And by “never” I mean “until I read the comments”)
I get that her paycheck in like 5 figures, but damn, that one costly summoning signal! I honestly didn’t consider she was summoning Parfait, just trying something she seen somewhere. I just hope Parfait isn’t in the shower, stark naked, suds covering the R-rated bits, and Sydney reaching new heights in red-facing it! Dabbler would love it I’m sure…
Didn’t some Alien tourists pay in loads of gold? That could mean that gold have recently become much cheaper in Halos world and can be used for much more usefull and fun things than hoarding wealth?
Dave and his audience are gentlemen of class and culture who know how to appreciate refined humor where people lose clothes for silly reasons.
As a witch and a chef and a bee keeper, i have to say, REAL Black Honey is RIDICULOUS. It’s SO potent and amazing. I would imagine if it didn’t all go on my toast and in my tea it’d be great for workings.
Something a lot of people don’t realize is that frankincense and myrrh are actually funerary incense. They smell AWFUL but still better than a dead body, so you burn them to cover up the smell of rotting human. They’re also used to be extremely expensive, but these economies of scale have made them dirt cheap, similarly to cane sugar.
I wouldn’t call them awful smelling, by any means. Strong though. Definitely strong.
Frankincense is like ultra concentrated citrus, and myrrh is like a super strong pine scent. Nice in small doses, but large amounts at once get overwhelming.
I’m not sure what fried egg recipes you’ve been looking at, but I’ve yet to see one that didn’t mention the eggs. On account of, y’know, needing to tell you how to fry them.
The idea that the eggs are from a chicken as opposed to the 1000s of other things that lay eggs
You know, it’s occurred to me… Sydney doesn’t NEED to import anything. She can just fly there lickety split and buy it in person. The only issue ends up being airspace. But as she’s traveling “on foot” as defined by “not by vehicle”, I suppose as long as she checks in with border customs and brings her passport it wont’ be an issue. Could probably get annoying given how frequently she’d have to land given her speed.
Hmm, I wonder how far and how fast the comm bee can travel… At any rate, she could go into space, which is outside of everyone’s airspace, and then land, at a US Embassy to skip the whole customs thing I guess?
I’m probably overthinking this. I mean for all we know the shield blocks radar and doesn’t return a signal, and it’s not like local police have a mental database of all persons who belong in the country, and all she’s doing is buying some damn honey.
If she files a proper flight plan and checks in with air traffic control of each region she only has to pass passport control and customs at the start and endpoint of her flight. She may be required to limit herself to the speed of ordinary passenger jets so as not to make things too difficult for the rest of air traffic. Max at full speed has a bigger impact than a superheavy jet, and Sydney can go faster still.
And of course the USA has some pretty strict laws against import of comestibles. I don’t know the details of how it works for sealed packaging, but generally speaking you have to have completed the paperwork to be allowed to bring food into the country. Honey is not on the list of generally permissible, and at any rate it is up to the USDA to determine what amount of it still qualifies as ‘for personal use’. (at least it does not contain meat as that would be an almost automatic ‘no’).
I think Dave has officially debunked the fan-theory that Sidney is faster than Max.
She is basically faster than Max she could open wormholes withe several parsec range.
I’ve a doubt about Maxima ability tho cheat lightspeed.
We haven’t seen a comparison since Sydney upgraded to Mach 16+, still don’t know who’s faster.
Right you are. Here’s the reference.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1082-incoming/
What is “skien” in this context? Online I can only find it as a city in Norway and that does not seem applicable here.
Connecting lattices in the sigil pattern.
Substitute “thread” or “line” for “skien” and it will make more sense. Also it should probably be spelled “skein”.
I before E except after C. Unless it’s weird or foreign. Or neither.
Or sounded as “A” as in neighbor and weigh.
There are at least 943 words that don’t follow that rule. I before e except after c is rubbish.
Yes. More words break the rule than follow it. I don’t recall which tv program checked that.
the full rule is ” I before E, except after C, when it says EE .”
– so the rule is fine, it is just that the limiting clause is usually omitted.
Re: July motivational art. Hate to be picky but rabbits only have 4 digits on their hind feet.
On one foot, she’s in a hybrid form, so there’s going to be human features mixed in with the animal features. Like having hands. On the other foot, DaveB previously depicted her with 4 toes on her feet in hybrid form, so for the sake of consistency, maybe she should only have 4 toes in the incentive pic as well.
I personally think she looks way better in that page from the council fight than she does in the incentive pic.
Personally find the fierce bun kinda hot
Her colouring has gotten a tad darker, but at least the pattern is consistent (did he change her eye colour? was it always green or was it originally blue?)
Her eyes were definitely blue before.
She looks far more human in the vote incentive, rather than a hybrid. The face and foot structure are both less animal. She doesn’t look like she’s covered in fur either, particularly the hands.