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Grrl Power #1352 - Ballroom banter

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The following is all totally canon:

Sydney: Ooh! Is that Detla? No wait, her hair is pink. I didn't know Stygans could have pink hair. Of course Detla is the only one I met. It's cool that her skin is... uh, what color is that. A murky teal? I bet she comes from a tropical region of Stygan-landia. I'm right aren't I? Like some part that's very coastal and flanked by chains of islands. I can just picture people with ...

Heatwave Kissu Jiggawatt

And... done! Hope you guys enjoy the nipples and associated comic. This is all fully canon, BTW.

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OMG, an update!

Another update. Next up, nudity. Or backgrounds. Maybe both.

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This month, I'm closing on a new house, selling my Mom's house, finishing packing Mom's house, moving city to city to the new house, forwarding mail, canceling utilities, all that. And after that's done, I get to start the...

Grrl Power #1351 - Flash... back

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In my head, this page was very different. It was done manga style, meaning the sequence of Flash Drive going down the mountain road took 6 pages, and the panels were much larger. One panel of him cycling fast, a shot of his face with wind roaring past, a shot of him thumbing the gear shift thingy, a shot of the derailleur clicking the chain over, another shot of him cycling with a slightly blurrier background and at a sli...

Grrl Power #1350 - Objectified permanence

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There is an obvious breakpoint for any stat where it goes from "nice to be recognized for that thing" to the crippling insecurity of "will anyone love me for me." I won't say something obvious like there's a downside to incredible wealth or comeliness, I'll just point out that a lot of people tend to define themselves by their most outstanding attribute, partially because very few people have the time to develop multiple ...

Grrl Power #1349 - A standing ovulation

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Having never been female myself, I don't know what "Unexpected Feelings of Femaleness" would be. Were I a facetious person, I might suggest a sudden urge to go shoe shopping, buy a bunch of makeup, even though they already have a huge drawer of makeup, to hang unicorn posters on her bedroom wall, or to lay on her bed with her feet kicking back and forth in the air while writing "Mrs. (her first name) (his last name)" in h...

Grrl Power #1348 - Do as I telepathy, not as I do

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I might be overdoing it a little with how good looking this guy is supposed to be (and granted, that profile view isn't really doing him any favors, but roll with me on this.) But as the Mythbusters say, if something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

That said, making a succubus arch her back at you does not carry the highest difficulty factor in the known universe. They were explicitly made to be sex slaves, on...

Grrl Power #1347 - Schwinn...g?

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So Flash Drive is supposed to be ridiculously hot. In the comic, he suffers from my artistic limitations, as well as the fact that I am a heterosexual male with a finite understanding of what women find attractive. The first panel with his face (don't ask what happened to his helmet. He super speeded it off I guess. And... hid it behind his back?) But in that first panel, I think he's probably kind of hot? Like in a "I am...

Grrl Power #1346 - Flash Drive

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There was a part of me that thought this page would have been amusing with stick figure art, in a weird meta comic prank, because this page is a cameo debut that's been a long time coming, and to wait all that time and get stick figure art would be, well, kind of a shitty prank. So I went with regular art. Actually it's kind of the flat cell stuff combined with the more regular art I prefer, at least for the cameo bits. J...

Grrl Power #1345 - Hack or slash

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I mean really, why not an axe and a sword? It's not like Maxima really has an encumbrance limit. The real limit is just how much stuff she can situate on her back before it gets in the way of doing her normal field work. A bag of holding would solve that issue as well, but the dungeon is a long way from being able to produce dimensional alchemical supplies. You need the stomach of a JumpJerk at a minimum. Th...

Grrl Power #1344 - Charity-ish

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Yes, this page is just so Dabbler can debut a dumb shirt. But I hadn't drawn Dabbler at the construction of the dungeon, which she would definitely be involved in, so I guess she was off doing something, be it going over engineering plans or just "charging up" for a day of heavy magic use, but this amused me more than her just arriving by stepping in from off panel.

Max is going to get suspicious when she notices D...

Grrl Power #1343 - Parting is such and such

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Sciona definitely controls the senator, and the senator does sit on the committee that deals with Archon's budget, but that doesn't exactly give her much power over Archon. Not that she is necessarily gunning for them directly, anyway. Well, she might be, but trying to cut their discretionary budget 15% over the next five years is hardly the kind of slam dunk she's looking for. She just put herself where she is because an...

Grrl Power #1342 - I'll show you yours

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Did you know it's only been 3 days since the last comic? Because it feels like it's been 3 weeks to me. Every time I move it makes me want to get rid of 90% of my stuff, but I usually only get rid of like 10-15%. I have a box that has nothing but little boxes in it. Little boxes that some of my fancier dice came in. They're pretty nice boxes. Not cheap cardboard, but like that thick posterboard stuff sealed in... contact ...

Grrl Power #1341 - The quadruple pincer gets 'em dripper?

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The move was Friday. It's Sunday night as I'm posting this, and I'm positive 6 days have elapsed.

Tired.
Itchy.
Tasty.

Deus doesn't need an excuse to invade neighboring countries, but it sure helps with motivating his people and keeping the international community off his back if the countries 1) provoke him or his allies or placed that threw a coup in hopes of inviting his "meritocrigime" in, 2) Are "ba...

Grrl Power #1340 - The Zambia Reversal

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Hah! Deus has a history with air quotes. I forgot about that but someone linked that page in the comments for the previous comic.

Deus has been working for at least a decade in preparation for his takeover bid. He's been quietly improving the GDP and quality of life in Galytn proper for a decade, but he knew his...

Grrl Power #1339 - Qaplonk'

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SYDNEY: "Wait, how am I a danger to myself?"
MAXIMA: "Well, you did you just hit your superior officer with a deadly weapon... even if it's decidedly non-deadly to me. Still, you did just volunteer to peel every potato in..."
SYDNEY: //fidgeting with bat'leth, drops it on foot.//
SYDNEY: "Ow! Ow! OW! Back of the handle right on the long bones!"
MAXIMA: "Also that."

If you were an agen...

Grrl Power #1338 - Shadowcraft

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Sciona's managed to get herself on Maxima's "More info needed" list. She'll pass on her suspicions to Zephan about it he'll assign someone to investigate further.

It's got to be a party foul when you're hanging out with people who can see in perfect darkness, and you light a cigar by emitting plasma from your fingertip. That's quite a bit of contrast all at once. Of course, beings that can see in pitch black may not be doing ...

Grrl Power #1337 - Nothing to 533 here

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Hey look! I figured out a way to do art quicker that didn't involve stick figures! Hah hah, well, I managed to amuse myself, anyway. Don't worry, this gag only runs for two pages. Man, it was so hard to stop myself from putting the eyeball hot-spots in to show that eyes are wet and specular. Not that you'd actually be able to see Scooby-Doo style eyeballs in the dark anyway, but there certainly wouldn't be a light source to cast th...

Grrl Power #1336 - Budget anxiety

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"Also I haven't worn my hair straight like that since Friends went off the air. And I want the doll to be more fit. I want little girls wanting to grow up looking like athletes, not one missed meal away from terminal malnutrition!"

Profligate? Just say opulent, Max. Although "profligate" does specifically mean "reckless waste; wildly extravagant / Licentiousness" (Licentiousness meaning "The quality of being lewd and lascivio...

Grrl Power #1335 - Hare brained?

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The concrete setting guy's actual power is to accelerate any sort of chemical reaction without any weird side effects. I mean, no weird side effects like weakening the chemical bonds of the end product. And yes, that would make him insanely dangerous if he used his powers on humans. Fortunately, "organic chemistry" is a little trickier for him to mess with. I put that in quotes because I didn't mean in in the literal dictionary def...

Grrl Power #1334 - J'accuse, boobily

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For those wondering, Sciona's boobs can become selectively sticky. Not THAT way, you pervs. Okay, also THAT way, but it's certainly not how she's doing it on these recent pages. 

This page went through some editing, originally Sciona said something along the lines of knowing how manipulative Deus is so why would she put stock in any claim he makes, that was before he doubles down with the wager. But then I figured she wo...

Grrl Power #1333 - Predictably predictable

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No, she's an Alari P.A! Sciona is an ancient-ish bloodmage who has proven ridiculously hard to kill in the past, and she does look down on nearly everyone. BUT - there's no chance an adult Alari doesn't have a stiletto or a boot knife or one of those switchblade knives that comes out of the toe of their sole or heel or ...

Grrl Power #1332 - Al-ari, al-ara, al-ari, al-ara ha ha ha ha

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I don't know if only a wolverine could be specifically responsible for Lorlara's speech pattern. I don't have any esoteric knowledge about wolverine digestive processes. Maybe a goat could also work. Possibly a housecat with pancreatitis?

I think propriokinesics is a made up word. If you've read my Tamer fanfic novels, you know I have a tendency to do that. Not... inveterately. Just like, once in every hundred t...

Grrl Power #1331 - An ear for accents

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Sciona hasn't given much thought to the fact that Deus probably has access to Alaripidia. Or whatever subset of it the colony ship that took up residence in Galytn brought with them. As that ship was a joint venture between three houses that were aligned on more issues than not, (at least issues relating to colonization and escaping whatever it was that attacked their homeworld) he probably has access to Liglalathapedia,  Wuul...

Grrl Power #1330 - Order of order operations

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Sciona panicked just a little there. She's in a really good position and doesn't want to have to disappear and rebuild another power base. As a professional antagonist, that's the usual pattern. Build up a power base with some questionable yet never fully explained economics, get into a disagreement with local authorities, make some headway in a takeover bid for actual political power, then some young buck hero comes along and smas...

Grrl Power #1329 - How not to be seen

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That would be SO. LOUD. It would make your vision vibrate. 

Triceratopi is definitely the plural for traceratopses. Don't look it up. 

Sydney's new nickname for Slam is "Blue Moon." She won't explain why, or why she's as familiar as she is with doo-wop music from 1961. But she remember the lyrics as "Bong-a-dong blang, clang-a-dang-bang, bong-a-long clang, bling-a-blang clank, Blue Moon..."

Sydney probab...

Grrl Power #1328 - An accidental outing

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Sciona wouldn't give herself away like that under normal circumstances, but she really doesn't remember the encounter with Sydney in the basement. Or... mostly really doesn't remember it. Chrona's kinda-sorta timeloop didn't quite work as expected, and it left some artifacts in its wake. 

So the art took a bit of ...

Grrl Power #1327 - Booty duty peeper creeper

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You can tell an alien likes you when she installs advanced space encryption on your phone for the purpose of secure sexting. Even if she thinks of you as a himbo nitwit. Of course, her general opinion is that humans and most other races are lame, so her thinking of you as a nitwit is less a targeted insult, and more of a general racial narcissism. Which is just racism, really. It's not like there are a lot of racists that think som...

Grrl Power #1326 - Conniption of the lepus

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Just admit you're a furry, Sydney! Your current boyfriend is covered in the stuff, and not because you're dating Dan Hedaya or still-alive Robin Williams. 

Is a were-reptile in hybrid form room-temperature-blooded? And what would that mean for their metabolism? 

I like to think Kat goes to...

Grrl Power #1325 - Open the door, get on the floor

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"Cretaceousify" is the nonomatopoeia, in case it's hard to read. Maybe I should have gone with "Cretaceous-ify," but that looks too close to "iffy." "Cretacify" might work spoken, but written it's confusing. 

"Node runny" is a typo, but... screw it. It works. 

Theriomorphs would definitely have a pecking order. And not just cause some of them are birds, hah hah. Actually, very few of them are birds. But my poi...

Grrl Power #1324 - Were's there brown hare

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Sydney's never more ADHD than when she gets to question supers/weres/mages/cryptids/aliens about themselves. I would say any non-human, but supers are human, and if she found herself trapped in a room with an honest to god ninja he might wind up trying to use the ancient "Chew-Through-a-Wall Jutsu" to escape.

If she was on a blind date with someone who turned out to be an alien cyborg demon mage, (who wasn't Dabbler) they wou...