Grrl Power #1354 – Corporal salutation
On the few occasions I’ve drawn ice cream or cake, I always have an oddly difficult time deciding what color it will be. I think Dabbler’s scoop started off sort of a pale yellow, like it’d be vanilla or coffee or caramel, but it wound up kind of lavender. I’m not sure what flavor that represents. I’d say taro, but of course, on Fracture Station, who knows what flavors are available, or what flavors aren’t? They’d for sure have caramel. Any civilization with access to sugar and something reasonably resembling dairy could make caramel. Coffee and vanilla and taro are the products of specific plants, but sugar is a pretty basic carbohydrate. But as previously mentioned in the comic, there are humans in space, from generations of impressment or more voluntary space ship crew recruitment methods. I mean, if you’re some some serf living ankles deep in rat droppings and a plethora of sicknesses have decimated all your neighbors and a sexy alien space captain says, “Hey, come work on my ship. We have unlimited food, no disease, and no mud that’s at least 20% shit,” you might be tempted. And if there are humans in space, it’s likely that some of those alien ships also lifted off with a crate of apricots or cinnamon trees or sugar cane or curry trees. (Okay, not curry trees. Papadam trees maybe.)
The point is that Sydney could have probably found a place selling bananas foster on Fracture Station, but she was in the wrong food court, and Dabbler’s ice cream could in fact be taro. If you’ve never had taro ice cream, it’s great. It tastes like waffle cones. And if you’ve never heard of taro, it’s like a sweet potato, only it’s kind of a pale lavender inside. I think the plural of taro is taro, but I can’t be arsed to look it up.
Two random cameos there in the 5th panel. One is George from Zombie Roomie, which I feel is a fairly self explanatory title. The other is Bex from Bex and Keit. Or maybe it’s Krooxworld? It’s not a comic about crooks. It’s about a human chick and her alien chick friend and it’s, like… Triple R rated, if that makes sense? Most of the comics have sexual jokes or implied nudity, but it never quite crosses the line? Anyway, I don’t know what George is doing in space, but Bex fits right in.
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It’s not quite where I wanted it for this update. I kind of skipped over posting just the flats and started shading Heatwave, but hadn’t gotten as far as J-Watt. But I figured I’d post what I had.
I’ll hopefully have more progress soon as things here are kind of slowing down. Still putting the house together after the move, but there’s still plenty to do. The Patreon version is updated as well.
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Oh man, I haven’t thought about Zombie Roomie in ages! Can’t remember why I stopped reading…
Bex and Keit is hilarious. It’s got a similar alien sex-vomefy vibe to Dabbler’s arcs, so great choice!
probably stopped reading because dude stopped publishing, he only resumed like a couple months ago
And it looks like its on the back burner again after the re-boot. His comic Maho Noir looks like its going to be most active – another Zombie Apocalypse strip,
Last time read it (or pretty much any webic other than this one) was shortly after the reboot (or maybe November or December of last year)
Maybe if the cream and butter you use for the caramel is made using blue milk, you might end up with purple caramel.
*Pause in flashback while non-succubi subtly check for bruising.
damn we’ve got a Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no Surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kūnerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no Burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no Shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopii-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no Chōsuke situation over here
Properly prepare taro for human consumption because it’s poisonous otherwise.
Blueberry-yogurt maybe? Blackberry, likewise?
I have this mental image of Dabbler’s lair looking like a chaotic version of the player hideouts in the movie ‘Free Guy.’
I wonder if space bananas would still be of the old timey Gros Michel / Big Mike variety, which was the primarily imported banana in the early 20th century. It was decimated by a fungal infection in the 1950 and replaced by the Cavendish banana that we know now. Apparently artificial banana flavor still tastes like Gros Michel bananas.
…because the flavor was synthesized in time and the recipe survived.
I love caramel and other candy with that flavor!
what flavour exactly is a ‘Circus Peanut’, and do they even still exist?
I only know about Gros Michel from playing Balatro
So that’s why banana flavourings don’t taste like the fruit… much thankings to you and yours
“You may find, that after a time, that having a thing is not so pleasing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is very often true.”
Damn, now I also want icecream.
Now I also want icecream.
Thought George looked familiar (a bit more buffed up George), but the other alien at that table looks familiar as well
One of them is described where she’s from in the blurb, but I think the other is the same alien as Thane from Mass Effect 2?
Obligatory “Uh, actually’:
There actually is such a thing as a curry tree, and curry leaf is a real spice commonly used in southern India and Sri Lanka.
It has almost nothing to do with the spice mixture known as curry powder, though, and while it does come up in some curry dishes, the names are only loosely connected (and it is debatable just what that connection really is, etymology being such a precise science and all ;-) ).
The term ‘curry’ itself is something of a point of contention in foodie circles, in fact. Don’t you just love accidentally stepping into someone else’s a quagmire?
Gigitty! :P
Now you’re just trying to curry some favor.
Getting spicy now.
Ooh, Lululemriel’s family is getting more powerful!
Seeing Dabbler’s tongue in panel six reminded me of a question. I’ve seen photos and even video clips of people who have had the tip of their tongue surgically split. Even in the video, I’ve never heard one of these people speak. Does it particularly impact their speech?