Grrl Power #927 – All we need is love and fried insects
Oh shit, he’s dating a lizard person, get it!?
Or possibly some sort of hillbilly. It’s even odds if you’re wanting to put money on it.
This is admittedly just a weird transitional page that doesn’t do a lot more than kind of develop some, at best, tertiary characters. Had I a more rigorous editorial process, I might have been talked into skipping it, but I don’t have enough of a buffer to make that kind of call the same night I’m posting the new page.
If this page doesn’t give you much to discuss, we can instead all hate on daylight savings time, which is a stupid thing that no one can justify and why don’t 80% of the clocks in my house automatically set their own time by calling into that time-radio station thing for clocks? Also, why does my microwave and toaster oven need to know what time it is? It’s not like I’m going to leave a raw chicken breast in the microwave for 4 hours while I go out and run errands and see a movie, then expect to come home to a piping hot and probably slightly slimy piece of chicken that I set up with a time delay cook. (Also I probably wouldn’t cook raw chicken in the microwave. I was just trying to be gross.)
The new vote incentive is up! 
Maxima won (or lost) the draw this time. There are several clothing/non-clothing variants over at Patreon, including a special version with guest art direction from JJ Abrams. (Yes, there’s a ton of lens flares, hah hah. I amuse myself.) The a-cups will return next month, so please enjoy this offering in the meantime.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like!
SuperheroThey're super, thanks for asking!
Meatspace ComicSeriously these are awesome. Check 'em out!
Not UpdatingNo longer updating or only updates sporadically, but definitely worth reading.
SeriouslySeriously you guys. If you like Grrl Power the check these out.
"Mature"Mature subject matter and occasionally something explicit but usually safe. Can't guarantee the ads are safe though.
Dongs Ahoy!Full frontal and backal. Lots of skin, sex on some or all pages, explicit or otherwise.
I think we may be reading this sequence all wrong. First of all, Lizard Dude is clearly wicked smart. His appraisals of situations and his advice for going forward have all been dead on. At the same time, Boss Lady is almost suicidally aggressive and determined not to fail. I think all this flirting and joking is an effort to distract her, and to keep her moving along in the right direction, without threatening her pride or bringing out any more of her stubborn streak. Seen in this light, his terrible timing that she comments about starts to much more sense, as he actually gives her damaged pride a much needed little boost.
*starts to MAKE much more sense…
Stupid no-edit (+bad proof-reading)
I’m starting to really like Garam, and am willing to accept this as head-canon burring future evidence to the contrary. I love that he’s just rolling with it (and possibly trolling back?) but can’t help throwing in some advice on the way out.
Garamm is awesome.
Awesome? More like JAWsome am I right?
You know what? I like the character of Garamm so much that I’m not sending out a ninja hit squad to murder you over that horrible pun. :)
*quietly cancels the hit team*
…of course not.
*whispers* Keep them on standby though. Just in case.
makes sense to me, while he did fist fight Ray it looks like he ducked out of the fight after the supers started to mop up his crew and their leader got knocked through a sign.
being a bit more pragmatic.
The ONLY time Garamm was involved in any fighting seems to be when Lapha was directly at risk. He tackled Ray when he was threatening Lapha. Then he wasn’t involved any more after that until he was healing up Lapha when she got walloped by Brut.
Gotta respect his loyalty and protectiveness to his captain/person he like-likes. :)
This actually makes a lot of sense about the puzzling timing of his flirting (since he seems smart and situationally aware) and I’m embracing it as headcanon barring contrary proof. He’s trying to deploy damage control by distracting and boosting the ego of Boss Lady in the light of Earth’s superhumans proving much more OP than they expected, her aggressiveness and stubborness, and their dire need to get out ASAP in one piece. At the same, I assume he genuinely likes her and he’s also trying to throw the seeds of future romance (with some success it seems) when the situation shall be less threatening. Two birds with one stone as they say.
I do like the guy. I mean the 2 weren’t threats. why not give some advice on love. it’s not like the goal was eliminating humanity or anything
I love love. HA!
Swamp flies Give me gas too
Electric blankets too?
Electric Boogaloo two gives me gas.
“If this page doesn’t give you much to discuss”
You mean besides the girl apparently also being an alien reptile? Google has no idea what a “calca worm” is and if you mean “calci worm” that’s no better because it’s pet lizard food.
Just head canon it as, she’s a shapeshifting lizard and Calca worms are something she forgets is a special domestic livestock raised by her people and humans wouldn’t be familiar with them.
Like an alien from an alternate Earth walking through the pacific northwest and asking where all the cuttlefish are because they havn’t seen any swinging in the trees, or remarking how their pet avidon (a four legged…actually imagine an owl bear the size of a cocker spaniel but it has a beak more like a crow’s only yellowish in color), would have loved to run around this park.
Perhaps she’s covered by the Veil? and it works against visiting unregistered aliens?
…don’t know what she is, but an internet search for ‘calca worms’ returns calca as the name of a gene; nothing associated with worms. So she’s either not using an English word, or she’s not from around here.
Or, DaveB simply typo’d, it wouldn’t be the first time
If Dave is going for maximum funny, she’ll turn out to be a lizard person and he’ll turn out to be a demon.
“Lizard Girl is Dating a Demon?!” Is the manga we need.
I still want them both to be Illuminati drop outs pursuing Art degrees at SUNY.
Dave suggested “a lizard person, or possibly some sort of hillbilly.”
Personally, i fail to see a reason hillbilly lizard people – with maybe a thing for banjo, shotguns or even banjo-shotguns – could not be a thing.
She could also be attempting a joke.
joke- sort of. she’s teasing him a bit, and being unpredictable. I have information that cis, het girls do this deliberately to confuse the men they date/etc.
Calca worms are a grub from the Lt. Leary Commanding series, iirc. They are a species that is eaten live with a sharpened spoon to cut the head off before eating the body.
or not. I know people who buy frozen crickets sold for food and munch on them as snacks
They taste like roasted peanuts, but beware if you are allergic to shrimp as they share more than 98% of the same DNA.
‘Shared DNA’ stats are always a bit suspect. Much of the common content is typically on the level of ‘this is how to build a multicellular Earth life form’, and thus so widely shared as to not really be relevant. Even Humans and Bananas share around 50%, if memory serves; specifying that the organisms under comparison are both arthropod animals will account for a lot more.
what do you mean “no better”? It’s clearly the joke she was going for.
Never mind, apparently it was a callback to a David Drake series.
Okay I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVE GARAMM.
more or less than Dues?
I love Garamm.
I worship Deus.
All praise Deus, amen.
Right there with ya. Garamm’s pose in panel 8 makes me think of Randal from Clerks, e.g.
Dante Hicks: But you hate people.
Randal Graves: Yes, but I love gatherings. Isn’t it ironic?
fun fact: you can fry up meal worms and eat them.
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/fried-insects-mealworms-snack-thai-food-market-38769820.jpg
I bought a box of them from FYE *they didn’t carry them since, guess didn’t sell well*, tasted like bland crisps, guess the snack box was just cooked and nothing else. Think they’d be better spicy.
I got mealworms for a science experiment once. never thought to try eating ’em.
just think of them as like shrimp.
I imagine though at some point in the past someone was like, this larva keeps eating our stored millet…lets eat them.
i mean some people eat tarantula, scorpions, crickets, not like arthropods on land are all that different from the ones in water. why eating a cray fish is somehow less gross than eating a tarantula.
When harvesting crickets there is usually bug poop involved, not so with crayfish as they live in the water, and it all just looks like mud. That is my full ick facto for bugs as food. On the other hand I have butchered 800lb hogs and they are icky too.
well there’s your problem. They’re MEAL worms, not SNACK worms. You’re supposed to fry up a panful with seasonings and maybe a nice sauce. Roll them up in a tortilla, or maybe serve over rice or pasta.
funny thought: they better be careful in the New York sewers they might run into some were-alligators, were-rats,…or turtles.
actually thinking about it, the sub-terra for the greater New York metropolitan area is really busy.
you have:
Were-crocodilians,
were-rats,
were-turtles,
were-lizards,
amphinoids,
dark dwellers (AKA Pale Crawlers *usually closer to the surface in drainage and abandoned subway tunnels*)
that one dark elf village,
the numerous troll markets catering to fae that followed humans to the new world,
deep ones/fish people,
mole people,
morloks,
a portal to a dinosauroid dimension,
vampires,
and
insectoids
oh also a secret alien portal port for tourists, very official MIB stuff, check your fruits and vegetables at the gates.
And don’t forget the C.H.U.D.
oh yeah that was New York,
I probably missed some ancient snake people temple too or sleeping old one thanks to so many comics and movies being set in New York, which come to think of it, not sure if underground but there was also a werewolf movie about a pack that roamed the streets of New York.
And a couple of Templar Knights tombs.
And crab people
Then ya get the roudy out of towners like Kong
What about the regular giant alligators?
One really confused Lock Ness monster
A couple nests of amphibious goblins
The several obligitory Labyrinth enterances
A fungal hivemind gradually possesing the local homeless population
The skeletal remains of two plumbers, wearing red or green overalls, bearing a note not to eat the smiling mushrooms.
*lizard dude and boss lady turn the corner and see 4 giant amphibians wearing eyemasks and wielding various weapons while yelling cowabunga* “Wrong way.” “Yep” *turns back around*
be funny if they see the giant hole Henchwench made and get chided by some workers in orange vests and hard hats showing up who are really various shifters *amphibeans, crocodilians, lizards…*.
Honestly, the city would do well to hire swamp dwelling aliens and monsters to work in the sewers; free lodging in the sewer keeps them hand for quick response.
Damn dude, this is the best comic on Earth.
Just finished binging it after forgetting about it for half a decade.
I’m SO glad it’s still on.
As a 3rd world inhabitant in a defaulted country this kind of content is like the BEST thing to have for free.
Thank you for this kind of internet.
Not gonna lie, the seven-foot alien crocodile being a hopeless romantic is kind of great.
Its always key to remember that appearances can be deceiving. Just because you are “bad guy” does not mean you are “bad guy”
+1
quoting Zangief I see…
Yes. You must remember, if not for Zangief, who’ll crush man’s head like sparrow egg between thighs?
IS THAT A WORLD YOU WANT TO LIVE IN?! Well I sure as heck don’t. *salutes the Street Fighter flag*
Chun-Li, of course!
D-damn you. Just… just.. DAMN YOU!
I have no comeback for that.
I don’t hate daylight savings time very much, on a night when I hoped to get 8 hours sleep and got seven.
I hated it THIS year, on a night I could have gotten 4 hours, but only got 3. T_T
I hated it since i got my dri ers licence? Now we have 4 instead od 2 days a year the sun 8ns 8n yor eyes driving to work.
You know…. this might be reeeealy important later, but those 4 just screwed with the Veil, by messing with humanities collective disbelief in the supernatural. (not specifically just the 2 humans, the fact they recorded & will/have apparently uploaded that picture/info to the internet) Until now, everything supernatural was explained as aliens, this has a chance to expand that into the Veil’s territory
Yeah I think the Veil’s life expectancy has been severely diminished over the last couple months. Between supers and aliens (both government-approved and tourist), Muggles are going to be keeping their eyes peeled from now on. The Council races should be monitoring things very closely and having serious discussions about whether to reveal themselves, before the new socio-political-economic structure with supers and alien tech solidifies and freezes them out.
to add to the confusion some of the veiled races are also technically alien, in the inter-dimensional sorts like demons. Although the specific species entered into the veil aspect is likely to keep that going, how the veil knows to cover what is a question to answer if humans as a whole accept various aliens as real but those aliens either have a similar appearance or common ancestor *demons and what not also traveling to various worlds* confusing the veil if it uses DNA but related species are no longer covered.
Of course the lizard loves heated blankets.
And now we have a crocodile in the sewers. Nice.
I mean…
If all it does is to give her gas…
I would say that eating electric blanket without any other ill effect is pretty impressive.
It’s the toasted flies that gave her gas.
And honestly, you haven’t really loved someone until they’ve farted in your bed. Just saying.
Honestly, I just think this is a fun page. Nice to have a bit of random side story thrown in to play around with.
speaking of side stories I still wander how the group that got in the van with the guy and his kids are doing. Feels weird now to have put so much focus on them and them not show back up for another gag or two at least.
Maybe they’ll be seen unloading from the minivan as Ray loads up the ship, covered with Knicks and Yankees gear and hugging the kids goodbye.
or the ice cream guy from lilo and stitch XD
>Also I probably wouldn’t cook raw chicken in the microwave
Actually chicken breast in the microwave works great. Just… don’t do a four hour delay timer on it. That *does* sound gross.
get some ground chicken and toast it on a waffle press
We cook whole chickens in the microwave (properly prepared first of course)
The blonde girl looks like Chloe Grace Moretz.
Nah, more like that annoying blonde from NCIS (no, the other annoying blonde)
I was mentioning the girl resembles Halo, she could be cousin or worse twin sister.
No, we have evidence she cannot be a human female: She admitted to getting gas. Just just in front of but right to her boyfriend, of all people. No human female would ever do that, ipso facto she is not a human female.
This is a sci fi/fantasy comic, so human females can do that.
Mmmh… sort of. The build and hair are similar, but her skin tone is pretty different and the facial proportions are also pretty unlike. Not to mention possibly being a lizard-person.
That doesn’t rule out being a cousin, and skin tone could be passed off as being more of an outdoors person
Why didn’t the shroud work on them again?
their specific species weren’t programmed into it.
hence why a number of aliens still had to use disguise tech at the club.
saying glamour all alien life is like saying glamour all plant life only billions of times more complicated.
IIRC it sounded like it was the norm for all alien visitors to need disguises, and that few if any would be covered by the Veil. Too lazy to go look up the description Syd got during the Council meeting, or what Dabbler explained to her at the club. Or anything else.
Aww… you gave me a soft spot for Garamm.
“I was just trying to be gross”
Rolling for success check: natural 20. You succeeded. Yay, go you. :/
well, humans are omnivore …aka all eaters …or well …most of time we can exclude poisonous and inorganic materials
Though if you go with the current cultural corruption of the word “organic” you would think we ate inorganic materials all the time. Technically, anything humans eat and gain nutrition from is “organic” (Matter-Eater Lad excepted)
… tidepods.
“Guys… don’t eat the Tide Pods.”
I’m not convinced anyone really was, other than a few nutters on tik tok or youtube wanting attention; and the Baby Boomer demographic targeting news stations blew it out of proportions because “the younger generation is dumb” sells just as well as “all new technology and cultural changes are scary and we’ll tell you why”
No I’m just quoting from a College Humor video called “Tide CEO: You Gotta Stop Eating Tide Pods.”
Here’s the link :) It’s pretty hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFKQ7GflRkk
Technically, Tide Pods are, in fact, organic. Most non-metallic poisons are, too.
For the most part, but with some crucial exceptions. Chemically speaking, organic compounds contain only small atoms covalently bound. Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen, with the occasional Sulphur or Phosphorus, maybe even a Chlorine or Fluorine. Life as we know it depends on organometallic compounds: iron in haemoglobin, magnesium in chlorophyll, and numerous other metals in other proteins and enzymes. The salt you put on your chips? That’s an inorganic compound, and the Sodium and Chloride ions you absorb from it are essential to your body’s operation.
When you see something advertised as ‘contains no chemicals’, and have to consciously restrain the urge to break out the correcting marker…
That’s honestly really cute.
I believe he meant calci worms, AKA meal worms. I suspect they’d be rather crunchy toasted.
https://www.edibleinsects.com/product/flavored-mopani-worms/
Think I’ll stick with Queenies mopani worms, bbq flavor, myself.