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Grrl Power #1025 - Military industrial simple

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Maxima obviously did some googling before her visit. Certainly hit up the wikipedia page for Mozambique at the very least.

Deus feels that the major problems with your typical supervillain plan are threefold. One, the plans are of such scale that they force an immediate response, i.e., holding a city hostage with a nuke. Two, the plans are public. He attributes this to 95% of supervillains having deep sea...

Grrl Power #1024 - A squeaky clean leader

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To quote Agent K, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." I assume that line is paraphrased from some ancient philosopher or sociologist, because I think it may be the single smartest sentence ever committed to film.

Deus believes ther...

Lorlara finally watched the harassment video

... And took away the exact wrong message. 

Update: I fixed the "two left feet" issue on the final image, and added the bonus comic I'd been working on.

Grrl Power #1023 - One nation under new administration...

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Sydney: "I'm not leaving this country until I learn to curse in Xhosa, Chiktr, Alar, Makhuwa, Changana, Nyanja, Ndau, Sena, Chwabo, and Tswa." (She already knows how to curse in Portuguese.)

Mozambique's "non-surrender" was largely due not just to a grievously outmatched military, but a line of two story tall demons marching in flaming columns.

2022-02-14 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Grrl Power #1022 - Pressed to impress

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This page was supposed to show Deus working out alongside a bunch of soldiers, and I kind of started to do that there in panel 3, but in my head, there was like a line twenty deep behind him and ten lines next to them. I realized I wouldn't have time to draw all that but I was hoping to make it look a little more like he was being a man of the people. (Whether that was just PR theater or a genuine thing would o...

Grrl Power #1021 - The family tree contains several mobius branches

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I guess Sydney was excited to learn that she had a great-times-5 grandparent who was a native Maltan. She's been keeping that one in her back pocket for years in case she needed to trump someone else's genealogy tale. No offense to any Maltans out there, but I'm not sure it's quite the slam dunk she seems to think it is.

Okay, I don't know how the doppelganger pre-zygote thing gets haploid DNA fr...

Grrl Power #1020 - I dream of genealogy

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Don't worry, this isn't another ten page tangent on Dabbler's genealogy. (It's two, I promise.)

I bet a lot of doppelgangers are like "I bet it's awesome being king." but about three weeks after replacing one, they're bummed out by the amount of administrative stuff they have to do. And then the king gets mysteriously ill, and one morning he's laying in his bed, looking like he died three weeks ago. Then ...

Grrl Power #1019 - Rosetta brain

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The important thing to take away from this page is that, yes, the Alari have ass-sculpting technology.

A hundred and thirty languages is a lot. It's one of those figures I could probably justify by reminding everyone that she's a super-genius and also 187 years old, but even so, that's basically a language every year and a half. She probably only learned 3-5 by the time she got into demon middle school. H...

Grrl Power #1018 - The troll under the extol bridge

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Should that be "abject exemplification?" Honestly it works either way. Object = a tangible thing. Abject = the lowest example of. Oh, English.

The "he's a supervillain because he mercilessly crushed his opposition" joke doesn't... quite ring true for me, because mostly he's going after all the corrupt officials that try and pocket 25% of everything that flows through their office and makes creating and ma...

Grrl Power #1017 - Nants ingonyama!

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I'm not pleased with how this page turned out, because it's mostly backgrounds, and I'm disappointed with my results. Backgrounds take so much longer to draw than I ever allocate. The Alari ship is barely just past the draft stage. I needed to put another ten hours into making it look like a hive of activity and showing how it's expanding. Actually, right now it looks like a Level 1 structure in a RTS game, and...

Grrl Power #1016 - Have a nice trip, see you next regime fall

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Is it rude to tell a succubus that teal might not be her color?

I thought it'd be funny to see Dabbler casually cosplaying as the 11th Countess of Abbingdon, but honestly the teal top doesn't quite play well with her stripes.

I think a lot of epic, sprawling TV shows these days have the problem of too many main characters. That is to say, something like Game of Thrones around season 4 and on had so ...

Grrl Power #1015 - Shock and brimstone

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Yeah, everyone called it. Who else would have been calling Tom?

Deus enjoys stacking the deck. Also counting the cards, bribing the dealer, and telling the guy across the table that his mom gives great blow-jobs, and also replacing his girlfriend who is sitting next to h...

Grrl Power #1014 - The Zambezi high club

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An odd page, admittedly, but things are happening on the other side of the Earth.

I didn't write this page intending to dump on Mozambique, but I had to decide where Galytn actually was, and based on other higher altitude maps I've drawn, it's at the southern tip of Malawai and overlaps into Mozambique slightly. The country started off about a quarter the size of Rhode Island, but has expanded considerabl...

The Origin of The Mighty Halo

I think the title is self explanatory. 

Grrl Power #1013 - The Faketrix

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If you can make copies of yourself, there's a lot of mischief you can get up to. Harem has customized all her dupes with dye jobs, haircuts and tattoos in some cases, but there was a time when she had at least two of herself that still looked identical. Well, that happens each time she gets strong enough to make a new dupe. It appears as a copy of her strawberry blonde self, but usually she figures out some fas...

Grrl Power #1012 - Between 0 and 6 Harems walk into a bar...

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This is a page that I really didn't want to split into two, but I couldn't fit everything on one page and I just couldn't make it a double cause I'm still trying to get caught up after Xmas. (The vote incentive should hopefully update with Monday's comic, BTW.) By itself, this page mostly just sets up the next one. It also doesn't give you guys a ton to discuss, other than guessing what Harem's foible was, that...

Grrl Power #1011 - Occupations and hazards

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One might be tempted to think that working in entertainment, the two less mature Scovilles would have no excuse to not know what Ma Scoville's job is, but just because she works in the entertainment industry, it doesn't mean she's working on Star Trek or the latest novel-turned-streaming-service-series-with-lots-of-violence-and-boobs. She does do that stuff some of the time, but I imagine she works for a fi...

Grrl Power #1010 - Apocalypse watch

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Leon and Zephan are both thinking "just hire some fish researchers and slip one of our own guys in the group" or coral researchers or marine geologists or whatever. FYI, a "fish researcher" is an ichthyologist, but a guy who studies coral is just lumped in as a "Marine Zoologist" and that makes me wonder if research professions that have their own special title are hoity-toity and swing their big ...

Grrl Power #1009 - Does Sydney have accident insurance?

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The title of the page is a joke, but... seriously. Wouldn't supers probably need to have some sort of insurance fund set up in case they accidentally elbowed someone through a wall, or turned them to stone, or extincted an epoch/era?

As it sometimes happens, speculation from the prior page's comments could be selectively snipped and used to write this one. The proximity to the Chicxulub crat...

Grrl Power #1008 - Yarr har fiddle dee dee...

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Option 1:
"Do you have anything to declare?"
"I do declare, it's powerful hot, suh. I may have the vapors! And not just because of the all-bean-and-Mexican-tapwater diet!" 
"Seriously, miss..."
"I as serious as a German school marm! I'm at DefCon 1 over here! Where's the restroom!"
">sigh< Out the door to the right, past the next terminal. NEXT!"

2021-12-23 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Grrl Power #1007 - On the origin of MacGuffins

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Okay. If I was reading some comic and it took 1,000 pages for them to get around to "where did you get your amazing MacGuffins," that would strike me as an oversight both on the characters' part, and the authors. This is definitely something that should have been tackled within an hour of Sydney revealing them. I mean, they should have had her tell them exactly where she got them, and within an ho...

Grrl Power #1006 - If everyone's crying...

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This page took a long time to lay out, cause I really wanted to include some dialog that I finally cut for space. Sydney starts off by saying "Didn't Napoleon or Himmler or someone say..." and Arianna responds with "Sydney, as your public relations manager, I beseech you to never publicly quote anyone in Nazi high command. Even if they said two plus two equals four, please do not attribute them wi...

Grrl Power #1005 - Dads be like...

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Obviously Cora launched that FTL Comm Relay. Otherwise that conversation with Frix would have taken thirty years.

I'm not sure conflating Terrans with super powers and mass stupidity in the minds of the alien public is going to be a formula for reasoned discourse, but the space internet is as the space internet does. Let's just hope their space news-feed algorithms are a lot less echo chambe...

Grrl Power #1004 - Meet the coworker...'s boobs

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This page sponsored by any of you still up in the air about which parent Sydney takes after. Also... everyone at Patreon... look it was supposed to be a joke to justify a page about Syd Sr. drifting away mid conversation. Also an excuse to draw purple stripey cleavage, not that such a thing ever needs an excuse.

To be fair to Syd Sr., non-magically hypnotic boobs are still pretty hypnotic, e...

December Vote Incentive - Spying with Lana and Pixel

This month's vote incentive guest stars Lana of Spying with Lana. One of my own secret agents, Pixel, is trying to assist, with various levels of success and... nudity. Well, in the Patreon versions. The Vote Incentive will give you a pretty good idea of what might go down.

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Grrl Power #1003 - There's two of... uh, both of them

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Yeah, it's no surprise that Dad was the larger influence on Sydney. More on that soon.

Lots of talk about genetics under the last page. And yes, I know brunette hair plus blond hair doesn't necessarily equal dirty blonde, or dark blonde or light brunette or whatever Sydney is, but really, a lot of traits tend to skip generations. My paternal grandfather's pinkies both tilted slightly inward ...

Grrl Power #1002 - Windtalkers

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Yes, of course we'll meet Sydney Sr. in just a bit, but he's probably getting autographs or something.

Sydney got in trouble a fair amount growing up, and her and her mom eventually developed this disciplinarian semaphore so Laura could scold her daughter without needing to stop other conversations. Also, they can have obligatory "How was school?" / "Fine." conversations without actually nee...

Grrl Power #1001 - Arc-box achievement unlocked!

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Yeah, I know, this is probably not correct procedure. We should all accept that I will get the military stuff... adjacent. And don't worry about the ribbons too much. I cribbed Maxima's from some Air Force Colonel's photo I found online, then swapped a few things and might have even recolored one or two, so her salad bar is probably about 40% nonsense. When I was asking about Sydney's ribbons, I w...

Grrl Power #1000 - Graduation!

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Let's celebrate arbitrary round numbers! Human nature! Woo!

Okay, seriously though, I'm kind of amazed we're here. It's not something I'd really given a lot of thought when I started this comic. Though I will say I thought it was at least possible, because I name my files "GP" followed by four digits, which means I'll have to wrap up the comic before page 9,999, or else the computer will sor...

Grrl Power #999 - Seven thousand generations a sex slave

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This scene wrapped up a lot sooner than I'd planned, because I wanted to shift gears in time for page 1000, so there are still succubus related questions in the aether. I'll probably revisit the topic after we've gotten a few other scenes out of the way. Yeah, I know you want to know about incubuses and how an all female species reproduces.

I just want to point out that Dexon's tablet has a ...