Grrl Power #1398 – Princess popular
This is hardly Sydney’s fault. The holo-disguisinator on Cora’s ship really is more or less like a character selector in a video game. Pick your race, then customize the particulars. There are a lot of hairstyle options across the myriad races in the galaxy. Plenty of races have special customizations, like horns, scale patterns, etc. For the race Sydney picked (Mantellans, it comes up in a couple pages) you have to select “forehead jewel shape and color.” Probably clarity, purity, and whatever other things people care about gems. Also, they probably have a better name for that thing than “forehead jewel.” I just haven’t thought of it yet.
Now, there might have been an info box on the side of the selection UI thing that mentioned that the forehead jewel instills a significant sociological hierarchy among their race. And Sydney might have gotten distracted by all the pretty gems and not paid attention, cause she was busy picking out the coolest/prettiest one. It’s also possible that she also noticed that info box after she picked the best one, and went, “Eh. Whatever. What could the Mantellan population of Fracture Station be anyway? I didn’t see any the last time I was here, and not just cause DaveB hadn’t invented them yet.”
That’s why she knows the situation is about to… evolve.
So yeah, it’s her fault.
Ooh, look! A new vote incentive! And it’s updated with color!
Well, in progress, obviously. I have another one that’s actually a bit further along, but everyone was all, “Sydney Kobold vote incentive!” So I switched to this one. Plus the other one was a multi-character picture so it will actually take me longer to finish. I hope to have an update for this one each week, so stay tuned. There is a slightly higher res version on Patreon.
By the way, this gunmetal blue-ish background and teal pencils are how I draw the comic. I set it up this way so I don’t have to spend all day staring into a bright white blank page.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
For all we know Sydney did follow custom and selected her own birth stone. Looked at the info box and thought, “Cool I’m a space princess.”
That sounds a lot like something she’d do.
Sydney’s a September baby?
…yeah, there’s no way I’m buying her as a Virgo.
If she was born in the last week of September, she’d be a Libra instead.
Oh yes Libra tracks. Not sure though, I think her birthday (range at least) was mentioned previously when she missed it while in space.
Attu the Watcher; “I see you included me!”
Huh. There’s a … lot of Mantellans on Fracture, huh?
I wonder what their deal is.
…
A xenomorph with a Pinkie Pie suitcase.
Really?
They were out of Fluttershy suitcases.
And they’re smoking a cigar…
“In space, no one will call you a brony.”
The cigar in the pharyngeal jaws is chef’s kiss.
That’s Jeri from a old Alien comic.
Looks more like a cigar-smoking xenomorph with a Pinkie Pie lunch box.
Ah, a fellow Venture Bros watcher.
IGNORE HIM
Nah, that is what Sydney should be saying…
Shouldn’t her boyfriend know this when he made the disguise?
This is all thoroughly explained in Dave’s commentary under the comic. Yes, it was known, which is why Sydney realizes there’s about to be a problem and is saying “run”.
Did Frix used AI to make Sydney’s disguise? “Hey, AlienGPT, come up with a disguise for my precious princess of a girlfriend”
Must be using space spandex, to get those big hands through those pipe stem sleeves…
I note the Mantellan/Mole person popping up through the ground in the bottom spread page. Seriously? They are allowed to tunnel through the Fracture ‘Space station’? Seems a bit ‘iffy’ to me!
Not if that’s an official maintenance shaft or somesuch, or if he’s doing work underground on the station’s infrastructure.
That said, popping up like that would admittedly still be mighty unprofessional.
Fracture is a Dyson sphere. It’s ridiculously huge, the size of a planetary orbit around its star. Plenty of room to have a layer of dirt and rock to serve as a “traffic lane” for burrowing species. :D
I love that DaveB’s actions are now a confirmed part of Sydney’s thought process.
Is Dave on a Marvel kick right now? Specifically Power Pack?
I know the Kymellians and Zn’rx are making more appearances in the cosmic side of Marvel, but they’re still pretty obscure.
Also, a Watcher, Ch’od of the Starjammers, and what appears to be a very small Celestial, and an oddly-clothed cyberman
XEnomorph, Uatu of Marvel fame, The abomination from Marvel, My little pony one the lunch box and lots of other easter eggs in that drawing.
This feels like what it would look like if a bunch of halfling urchin rogues spot an unprotected trading caravan crossing the city.
Is that a Zn’rx (Snark) from the Marvel Power Pack comic? Wow, I’m feeling old, since I collected that series when it first came out.