Grrl Power #1358 – Here’s my gene code, so super me maybe?
Dabbler is kidding with the “In space…” line – mostly. Not that she didn’t say “God’s domain,” she said “gods’ domains.” She was intentionally malapropriating the line people try and dissuade mad scientists with. You know, come to think of it, is there a less successful argument? Has anyone in any movie ever said “You’re tampering in God’s domain!” and the scientist goes, “Oh my gosh, you’re right! I’ll quit immediately!”
In the Grrl-verse, mana really only exists on planets with abundant, sentient life. Planets with sapient life usually have more. Well, not like if there’s 30 people in a research station on an Mars. Planets with a long history of plant, animal and sapient life have the most mana. All that is to say that space doesn’t have much mana. Magic still works there, but you have to supply your own source of mana, like pre-charged wands or other enchanted objects, or mana batteries of some sort. Personal mana will still recharge, but usually much more slowly, and any techniques that absorb or convert ambient mana work at an absolute crawl.
An all that is to say that gods don’t tend to keep an eye on deep space, and rarely travel there, as their personal mana is fueled less by biological creation of mana, and more by the absorption of aspect appropriate mana. Which isn’t to say gods don’t generate their own mana, but most powerful beings like that are loathe to leave half or more of their capabilities behind to go tooling around deep space. Besides, most magical forms of travel don’t handle the immense distances of space well. That flight spell that gives you 60 movement per round? Space laughs at your puny velocity. A teleportation spell? Even if it says “line of sight,” well, guess what? That doesn’t mean you can teleport to the moon. You usually have to be able to reasonably visually discriminate your destination. It’s really “line of sight… through a medium that is relatively mana saturated.” Portals like summoning circles work, or inter-realm (which in the Grrl-verse is really inter-planet) transport like the Bifröst work, but they take asinine amounts of mana, and usually work a lot more reliably if there’s matching gates/sigils on both ends. But straight up deep space? There’s not a lot of reasons for a god to hang out there, and most communication and divination spells don’t work well without there being mana to bridge both ends of it. Again like the portals, it will still work, but the mana costs shoot up enough that even gods wouldn’t recreationally divine the heavens for doing weird shit at the fringes of their aspects.
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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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I’m sure they can hear, but fewer creatures care.
I just like these three together. I don’t know if Max would fully agree but at this point it feels like they’re best friends. They are basically the three main characters and their dynamic when all three of them interact with each other is very fun.
I would argue that Max best friend is Anvil.
Scream not working because space make deaf
“Doctor Moreau … IN! SPAAAACEEE~!”
Yes Sydney, we know you’re a closet furry. You can come out anytime you like…
“closet”? everyone she works with AND her family knows about Frix, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Xevoarchy’s FBI and/or CIA -equivalent already has a file on her that ALSO mentions Frix.
As mentioned below by someone else, her reaction is probably the sudden thought of getting pregnant with and giving birth to a litter of puppies due to her activities with Frix. Whether that’s a worrying though or an exciting thought is unknown to the audience.
And now my ADHD brain just jumped to a whole other train of topics… with all the implied and known sexual activity between the Supers in this strip, procreation has never been brought up. I guess we can assume Dabbler provided access to high-tech (or magical) birth control as a perk.
Are any of the Supers known to be children of Supers? Is access to the Superion field even genetic? Several Supers have siblings who are also Supers, but that could be either genetic or environmental (exposed to same stimulus in childhood / mother’s pregnancy).
Too many rabbits in this hole. Time to get back to work.
If my unreliable memory is correct, Sydney’s “betting board” on Varia’s origin was started by asking if any other supers had super relatives. There was a few cases of siblings with powers, but no Parents with powers. Though that may have been closeting by the parents, as the official statements said that supers didn’t exist, and you didn’t want to know what happened to the ones who got found out.
>human-animal hybrids
there better be kitsune in future strips, with fluffy tails (preferably multiple)
don’t you dare to judge me, Sydney is a full-on furry after all.
catgirls would be acceptable as well https:// www . schlockmercenary . com/2008-03-25
Still a running gag how Dabbler is keeping the back of her shirt from being noticed.
Yes Sydney, space furries.
Dabbler assumes the girl is in the middle in the S’morgasm. How normal.
Wait a sec … isn’t puppy boyfriend an animal-human hybrid? I wonder if/when he will start manifesting powers.
I’m guessing there must be some time factors involved in gaining a power. You probably have to be on planet for a while to marinate in the super-field before the switch gets unstuck enough for an “origin” to flick it into the ON position.
I’m pretty sure he’s his own species… there was mention about his name not being pronouncible by most humans.
Just because some spiders can dive and hunt fish doesn’t make them crabs.
Looking similar and doing the same things doesn’t make them the same.
A woof potentially can be remarkably similar or very different genetically.
What about mana regeneration at FTL, is there a ram scoop affect?
I’m wondering about the “vienna sausage can” maneuver.
No matter how he discovered about superpowers, I bet Deus was involved, somehow…
Last panel – Has Sydney just assumed that Humans/Woofs are mutually infertile up until this moment?
Frix has probably been using superscience male birth control and protection all along.
It would be funny if Frix suddenly appeared pregnant with Sydneys babies.
Aha, I bet that’s it… I was assuming she was imagining a new human/animal hybrid as a 3rd boyfriend. Or maybe thinking that Frix was a human/animal hybrid himself (still technically a possibility for the origin of his species, I guess).
But her suddenly realizing she might accidentally (or on purpose?) get pregnant with a litter of puppies would explain her reaction.
If Sydney and company ever have an encounter similar to Asterix and the Falling Sky….
To read it, go here:
https://readallcomics.com/33-asterix-and-the-falling-sky/
A s’moregasm is when you add peanutbutter to a s’more (graham crackers sandwiching chocolate and a toasted marshmallow together).
Seriously. Best treat in your life (provided you’re not allergic, ofc). Try it. Smear some PB on one of the graham cracker halves. It adds a certain something that *finishes* the s’more to perfection.
Perhaps a clicker would be usefull for Maxima when she is training Dabbler and Sydney.
About human animal hybrids , I think as a french liberal humanist , they already exists , combining human and hog genes you could make the actual P.O.T.U.S .
It’s educated guess , the 747-8 from Qatar as bribe is circumstantial evidence , he eats from any trough as long as it is rotten.
This does a lot to explain ol’ yam tits.
I see no reason why it matters the genders of the various people involved in a s’morgasm. As long as it’s safe, sane, and consensual with a little creativity and kink, it could work as long as they’re all having a good time.
And shouldn’t it involve two brown people sandwiching the black and white person in the middle? A s’more just feels incomplete with only one graham cracker.
Canned chili best not mentioned because it’s Stagg Chili?
I thought the superion field was universe-wide. Why would someone with fibbonacci DNA have to visit earth to activate that access? Hmm… that’d indicate some kind of device on earth that does the activation…
Certainly nobody seemed to have any problems with their powers when they visited the Alari homeworld…
“Asinine” of course means “like a donkey”. I’m not sure what an asinine amount of mana is, how much mana do donkeys usually have?
*chants* sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice
did Sidney just thought about the possibility of having puppies with Frix?
Protesting meddling in God’s Domain works better if you direct it properly.
“Dr. CompletelyMad is meddling in God’s Domain!”
“Oh my gosh, we’ll cut funding to his laboratory immediately. And outlaw his entire branch of science for good measure.”
got it, techno god stays in taiwan. good mana surplus there. when i go god hunting…….