Grrl Power #701 – Trophy crew?
I thought it would be fun doing a reverse harem setup on Cora’s ship. I mean, why not? Being friends with Dabbler has obviously rubbed off on her. I tried to come up with some varied body and face types for her crew, but one guy is a bit more muscular than the others, and that’s about it. Their faces are obviously different, but I really wanted the orange faced guy to look a lot more like one of the effeminate pretty boys from those boy love mangas that girls seem to like. Or at least more like Tuxedo Mask at least. Same thing basically.
I just kind of gravitated to my standard fit male body type, so I guess that just means Cora has her own preferences. That or she values the skills of each member of the crew slightly more than she does having a varied menagerie.
About panel two, I didn’t even try and draw the ship from the bottom. I mean, I did a little in the first panel, but cheated with the blur. I’m still trying to catch up from the holidays, so I figured better to throw in a self-aware joke than to pull my hair out trying to draw a big shot of the underside of the ship.
If this was a manga and I had a team of background artists, this whole page would have been just an establishing shot of the spaceport, then a 2/3 of the page panel of the ship sitting in the dock. That’s fine if you’re flipping through a book, but for a biweekly webcomic, it’d be kind of a bummer to visit a page and just see some sweet backgrounds, IMO.
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Well… Let’s hope she does not have to see the latrine before the end of the trip… it would… burn some bridges.
Yeah, the three bananas system in the bathroom would confuse her.
We advanced to the Yo-yo and disturbingly long conical corkscrew thing, along time ago.
I did read that as “comical corkscrew” at first ;-)
So you all skipped right past the three seashells?
You still use the three seashells? What barbarian uses those anymore.
What with Sydney’s talent for prolific profanity, she will never lack for adequate amounts of loo paper.
The way that the site background is the same color as part of the door makes it kind of look like Sydney got her ponytail stuck in the door.
If she did, she’s not going to notice for a few minutes.
I feel like there ought to be at least one crewmember with an entirely non-homonid phenotype but still exceedingly sexy in their own manner. Like, a crustacean that looks like an enormous Sea Scorpion working in Engineering, but one of his claws is just absolutely MASSIVE.
Or enormous stink glands. XD
It’s easyer to understand than the four Mango system, or the two boot system…
Sorry wrong comment…on my phone…miss-tap…
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Bulge Off is used. It is effective!
Since the crew has the same “hard” light uniforms as Cora has, I’d say that “the bulge is ON.”
If it was fit sexy K-pop peeps you should have used these three songs as a reference.
https://youtu.be/AAbokV76tkU (Fantastic Baby, by Big Bang)
https://youtu.be/GnxNS0casMI (Lucifer, by SHINee)
And the one with semi stripped gay K-pop men sprinkled liberally throughout. And a pretty good song.)
https://youtu.be/hmE9f-TEutc (Blood, Sweat, and Tears, by BTS).
So is there any hope we could see Cora and the Smoulder boy in VDSD 2019?
Or a shenanigan-amenable Sydney.
Now Sydney I more favor with Trent.
What could say “true love” more than writhing tentacles?
I mean, beefcake is fine but there is a lot to be said for pulsating, throbbing…
nevermind
Jesus H., guys, take it down a notch! Apparently, they’ve been out to space for so long that they’ve become bored of Cora. XD
They were, knowing that their retrieval subject was of the feminine gender, merely showing her the full range of a’men’ities the ship offered.
I see what you did there, and it’s worth men-tioning that it was amanzing.
So this brings up something I’ve been wondering. With her nerdy/geekiness and lack of interpersonal social skills, is Sydney still a virgin?
With the way she swears, imagine her close-to-orgasm-dirty-talk.
I will give you about a 99% certainty she is.
She implied no in comic 311 but she’s so flustered about it she could be lying or clinging to a technicality.
Either way she’s not casual about sex.
I’d say the odds of Sydney being a virgin are reasonably high, but the possibility that she is not still remains. Given her reaction here I’d say that virgin or not, she hasn’t had a lot of experience. And any experience that she may have had up to this point was with geeky nerd guys, not with anybody like these 100% Prime Beefcake type of guys.
Not necessarily.
One assumes she goes to Cons, and Cons have gamers on active military duty mingling with civilian gamers. So, if she was interested in a guy playing the same games…and worked up the courage to flirt…courage to…
….never mind. She’s probably only been with awkward gamer nerds.
You saying that military guys (or gals) can’t be geeky nerds? Remember Maxi and the Ioun Stones moment?
I think he is saying that active military guys are reasonable likely to be fairly beefcake. Most guys coming out of basic training are as ripped as they will ever be.
Doesn’t stop them from being nerdy geeks
They will be ballanced.
They may be able to monologue every Star Trek episode mimicking the voices of the original actors, but they can also run a marathon at an hours notice.
They might be able to quote every rule in the old Star Fleet Battles game, but they can also infiltrate scout past an enemy sentry in the middle of a hot night in the jungle.
They will be (as was said) muscular and fit.
They might paint miniatures, but they also snorkel, and rappel, and jump out of airplanes.
Yeah, they buy statues of Marvel heroes and Anime characters. They also buy rifles and ammunition reloading setups.
If they own a vehicle at all, it’s probably either a ridiculously huge truck or something insanely fast – not a junker.
So the deal with Geeks in the military is that they won’t be focused solely on geek culture.
Semper Fidelis.
“That’s fine if you’re flipping through a book, but for a biweekly webcomic, it’d be kind of a bummer to visit a page and just see some sweet backgrounds, IMO.”
That mean you are going to add that in to the Girl Power comic collection book? Or whatever they are called.
Sydney’s next line just HAS to be: I’ll be in my bunk.
Followed by “Where is my bunk?”
… already holding the Henticle.
AWAKEN, MY MASTERS!
In reality, sex between planetary species is likely to be uncomfortable and very difficult if not downright dangerous.
All right, first human to have sex with an alien. How does your species do it?
“First I excreat an acidic compound to soften you genital plates…”
I don’t have genital plates…
“Then you insert your genitalia into my birthing channel”
That part sounds good.
“Then my genital plates cut off your genitalia to absorb your genetic material.”
Eek! I changed my mind!
“What’s wrong, if you’re good we can do it again in a month after your genitalia regrows.”
Ours don’t regrow!
I get where you’re coming from, but I think you may be over-emphasizing the importance of genital comparability to sex when dealing with aliens. I mean, I think we can presume that it’s primarily an issue with aliens that have some concept of recreational sex or an equivalent. Humans have a wide range of options for sexual stimulation that don’t necessarily even involve genitals. Where genitals are involved, there are numerous ways of using things other than genitals to provide sexual stimulation.
In the example you offer, I would guess that the alien species has some means of sexual gratification that does not require cutting off genitals, at least if they have any interest in re relational sex. A tool-building race would likely figure out a way to have sex more than once a month if it was something they enjoyed doing.
Your point works for mating, to an extent, but that’s different than recreational sex.
I would also assume a degree of sexual self-sorting. High sex drive creatures capable of sexual activity with alien races would likely tend to associate with alien races with comparable characteristics. Based on what we know about Dabbler, some alien races are sexually compatible with humans to some degree. Given that Cora and Dabbler used to hang out, it would not be surprising if there’s enough similarity in sexual practices for humans to interact sexually with the members of Cora’s crew. Indeed, I believe all of Cora’s crew have been portrayed as having fingers, and most would appear to have tongues. While Sydney might not be able to fit their “tab A” in her “slot B” that doesn’t totally preclude sex.
If a male is propositioned by something resembling a female praying mantis I would recommend a polite ‘thanks, but no thanks.’
You say that now, but
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/monstergirlencyclopedia/images/d/d9/Mantis_0.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20130611010511
Rule 34.
Barbrady beat me to the punch.
Even on Earth we see a wide range of reproductive and sexual activities in species. The structure of the genitals is related to if the species has recreational sex or strictly for reproduction; in some species the act of sex isn’t even a pleasant one, but a timed one, and going “into heat” for lack of a more universal term can turn into a battle *slugs and snails* between who gets to impregnate whom. While some its as dull as *sprays sperm and eggs into water*.
your example is an extreme, and very spider like example. Where sex can turn deadly, and instinct alone drives it, so detaching genitals to reproduce was a must.
We can assume anything that eats its mate like Mantises or large snakes takes the act deadly serious; although we don’t see anything like that in social species (under normal psychological conditions). Or less extreme, just aren’t interested in sex till the instinct drives them to it; just won’t be interested in sex with other sapient species. With or without some ideological taboo to it.
Among the animals that have recreational sex, humans actually stand out as taking the longest and most prone to get pregnant anyway; relative to Bonobo, Dolphins, and others; granted most animals that have recreational sex seem to do so with their own gender with the genders mixing for reproductive purposes. But unfortunately due to centuries or prudish in denial researchers this is poorly researched.
The biggest problem mixing species is likely going to be less extreme *my species inserts a needle into the female’s abdomen and injects the sperm that way* and more *oh my penile barbs are too sharp your species* or *oh my vaginal muscles are made for something with more support so would crush your penis*; or just a size issue, length issue, corkscrewing penis or female has corkscrewing internal workings with a G-spot hidden mid-way in.
Aside from genitals, you have foreplay issues, what is visually, audibly, and tactile stimulating. Heck YOU may be the fetish to the alien you meet and it just wants to rub up against your back and lick your ear as its penis is located in its mouth and females normally have their vaginal opening on the back of the head, but you’re this weird “exotic” alien so it gets off like that.
Made an example on a previous page as a joke about Deus, where he finds a large breasted alien that is actually the male of its species, and it thinks Deus looks like a large female with huge pectoral ovum sacks stretched out. That stimulate each other orally along the nipples, causing the male to spray out a cloud of aerial semen from the nipples, which the female if she wants to have children would spray out a cloud of eggs from her chest.
But just as Babylon 5 had a throwaway gag about a Pak’mara not being compatible with humans yet appearing in a porno with one and the cutaway showing the crew tilting their heads and commenting “isn’t technology grand”, sapient species that want to stimulate each other sexually and have equal desire to do so…will find a way.
The unique thing about human fertility is that human females are fertile 12 or 13 times a year whereas other creatures, at least the ones of comparable size, are fertile once, maybe twice, a year. Also, most other creatures display obvious signs of fertility, but human females’ displays are very subtle. It is thought this is an evolutionary adaptation to keep the males interested and near by all the time instead of ignoring the females for 11 months out of the year. It also promotes much more recreational sex since impregnation could occur at almost any time.
There is also the intellectual aspect – while humans are still hormonally driven to have intercourse, unlike most critters in their Familial, humans have sufficient other stimulae and impetuses to say “no.” From an evolutionary standpoint, this is hot flaming death on the species. Thus, there grew a requirement for a new strategy to get the next umpteenth generations going properly.
So sex became pleasurable – the ones who found sex most pleasurable, in turn, would engage in the most sex, and, in theory, have the most kids, who would also find sex pleasurable (in theory. There are obvious ranges of libido present in the human species, including ace, which means this theory is flawed, if somewhat useful. It is also a demonstration on the complexities of human brains/chemistry, and the overriding truth that the brain, not the sex organs, are what are ultimately in control. A male ace still has functional gonads, to be blunt – doesn’t mean a damn thing if the brain is sending out a flat no).
Social species are more prone to more diversity in sexuality. In nature it isn’t uncommon for homosexual, bisexual, non-sexual, ect… individuals and pairs to act as “stand by” to adopt or care for abandoned or orphaned members of the group. As well as also aiding in raising, protection, ect…of the group. Social species tend to have less emphasis on requiring every individual to be reproductive.
A trait that is exaggerated in colonial life forms like ants and bees; but for complex life forms with a more social rather than eusocial set up, where any pair capable could reproduce; this off sets the rivalry for mates, as well as the potential for overpopulation so some individuals can devote to assisting and general care of the society…at least this is the theory. Humans have a bad habit of screwing things up with their complex abstract mental constructs being confused due to bad neural arrangements with memory and reality and coupled with social conditioning forming incredibly screwed up histories that run counter to what seems like a perfectly reasonable natural set up for multiple gender identities.
By all means I wrote it as an extreme… using a couple real world biological reproduction traits that don’t exist in a single species.
But several of you are equating what is “enjoyable” and “recreational” very much from a human perspective.
There is simply no reason to assume that an Alien species of human level intelligence would have the same opinions on what is enjoyable as humans do.
There was even an experiment with (I believe) fruit flies (though the insect used could be another) that the preserved a portion of a generation while allowing the rest to go through multiple generations after.
Then woke the saved population and introduced them to the later population. The fruit flies that bred between generations died. Suggesting the small changes over generations could make pairs infertile to deadly to mate.
Meaning even amongst the same species, if you were to time travel sex could be potentially lethal.
Alien species are likely to be all that and more.
I expect the majority of aliens are non-corrosive and humans have long since proven our facility at using body parts and objects not strictly intended for that purpose to get ourselves and our partners off.
Is she broken or venting exhaust?
I think her emergency temperature regulator is overloaded and in need of adjustment.
And people wondered how Cora keeps in shape. :)
Still I bet the crew put extra Smolder in that for their guest :)
Now if Harem were there they would be shirtless. May still be when Syd gets home…
On a different note – “you broke my smolder”.
I think she’s crashed and needs a reboot.
i think the man harem would have benefited from more diverse body types. for example: one of these regular super-man, a bigger plump bear-man you can coddle with, and a shorter more skinny man-boy.
Diversity is the name of the game in a harem.
You think someone like Cora who lives among a smorgasbord of different and exotic maliens to choose from would appreciate a bit more diverse selection of beef.
Unless the harem isn’t sexual in nature; e.g. “Negima!,” where the main protagonist is a 9-year-old boy, and the harem is a group of Jr high/High school girls.
Great, now I question the original intentions of the kid from Mighty Orbots making two nearly identical fembots along with a superman bot, a fatman bot, and a skinny guy bot; and making them so they can view each other as potential romantic interests/rivals.
Clearly Cora has a type.
If she burps now, they wouldn’t go near her with their ten foot poles. LOL
Somehow, I think that this is the best page for you to be using a phrase like “ten foot poles.”
I’d say Sydney should probably go for it. As long as they’re not “eeeeeevil Shenanigans!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNPW2wZ4D2s
If your needing more muscular body types to draw on dor genetic guys there’s always the small framed “math” from earlier. Then there’s also the 1910’s wrestler body that’s more muscle barrel shaped Sith less of a shoulder broadnwss difference from the hip width. That “bulge” off for the returning captain was pretty funny.!
Possibly look into the worlds strongest man competitions for a very different body type as well. A lot of barrels, some with definition though not as cut as these or even close. Or as I put it, the difference between a 6 pack and a keg. And considering these guys are hurling kegs 30 feet in the air behind them, you know they are tough.
Sydney should ask her for a hardlight replacement for her glasses. that way she will never have to get a new pair, so long as the emitter works.
Its been implied that Syd has’t had a boyfriend for a while most likely since she found the orbs if not longer. (the hiding the Tube/orbs could be factor in that)
Dave, THIS is how it’s done:
http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider102.html
On a second thought, I much prefer biweekly than bimonthly (if that)
Ooh, is that updating again? I’d given up on that after 4 or so years.
2 new pages just before new year :)
This is one reason RSS readers (e.g. Newsify or Feedly) are great – you can catch a rare update without wasting time on stale sites.
I once got an update notice from a comic I quite enjoyed after 6 years without updates, and found out about the author’s new projects. The original comic also had an update 2 year after that. I can’t recommend RSS enough to readers or content authors.
Would have laughed harder… but already knew she broke her glasses before and it wasn’t the shock(possibly heat) that cracked them :P
There’s no “d” in “Bulge” but if the spelling is from Sydney’s perspective, it works. The word needed to be padded out to make it properly descriptive… :)
This is definitely a FOD (Friend Of Dabbler)
Did Cora go back to the two arm design from the four she had last time we saw her. Did she only use that form to GE them to the ship then revert? So many questions.
Hmm, HARD light outfits, indeed.
Que little devil on Syd’s shoulder telling her ‘Dooo it…. doooo it’
And an angel on the other shoulder going “A-Buh!”
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/672
You mean panel five on this page?
Oh please, her shoulder devil is clearly a virgin nerdgeek pyromaniac who wants to explode things, but gets nosebleeds at the thought of Nekkid With A Man Time…
Coelasquid of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things put together an infodump on different “fit” male body types, may be worth a look if it’s something you want to diversify a bit more (even among supers, if “ideal” is subjective, you might get some variations on Classic Heroic Build):
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/images/abref.jpg
Nice reference on character design. Thank you!
shenanigan amenable sounds like a good tongue twister (tongue Twister: now there’s a game, but how do you score it?)
Custom modifications:
Upgrading:
Bunk rooms to honeymoon suits.
Canteen to restaurant
Adding:
Spa
Sauna
Massage room
Swimming pool
Bar
BallroomOrbroomOrgy room
cyds brain in last pannel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS43ZgcQ_hE
Nice reference on character design. Thank you!
Drats, the reply ended up on the wrong post…
The lines and shading on the lifted leg of the green guy reminded me of the Enterprise for some reason. To explore where no Sydney has gone before.
Another way to look at it; the bath and bed each come with complementary masseuse specialists. Each is focused on a different “area” of expertise.
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One scrubs her back and the other massages her feet. What were you thinking?
He gave her a foot massage?! (Warning: NSFW). What are you thinking?!
Thus the Fracture adventure comes to an end, SIX hypothesizes and theories in the comments that did not come to pass.
1: Sydney, Vale, or Deus seeing each other (it was mentioned right away by DaveB they wouldn’t but it kept being brought up in the comments)
2: The Squid-titans following them back the Fracture.
3: Sydney being recognized by the Alari thanks to some probe or agents left behind and treated like a hero or bargained with ect…
4: Someone on the Fracture recognizing the Orbs and reacting to them.
5: Deus flirting with a busty woman who was actually a male of their species
and the biggest one that got brought up.
6: Sydney using the googly eyes or other craft supplies as currency.
I feel like the next page will skip past this. So I gotta know, does Sydney accept this offer or not?
She may say yes…but…. sleeps instead.
It’s been a long day that finally catches up with her.
whats with panel two? is that just a 4th wall break or what?
More of a lampshade hanging of breaking the 4th wall, and well in keeping with Sydney’s previous attempts to apply tropes to her own life.
why does the green guy look like he only has one leg?
He’s in a bit of a standing thinker pose. His elbow is proping on his second leg, not on a table.
I saw both his legs, but mistook the gold guy’s leg for the green guy’s tail at first.
Love the fourth walling in panel 2, although I think Apricot Cookie(s) did it better.
0% surprise if Sydney is unconscious.
This is probably not the kind of debriefing Sydney expected at the end of her little ‘extra-detached’ duty. (Hard-light uniforms = no ‘briefs’)
So…. I can’t help but wonder… is Syd on fire with embarrassment or limiter released horomones?
Looks like Sydney’s tolerance for non-chemical spiciness isn’t nearly as robust.
Yes
Does she just enjoy the members of her crew or does she also enjoy the members of her crew?