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Grrl Power #1150 - Up the chain
🕑 Added 2023-05-04 10:01:00 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Maxima: YOU do NOT get to cast aspersions on Dabbler. That is MY JOB!
Honestly, naming a baby Deus Superion is only slightly weirder than naming yourself Deus Superion. Like one of "those rap people." BTW, that senator isn't supposed to be anyone specific, just representative of one of those typical mummies that have been sitting in their seat for about two decades longer than their ability to comprehend the modern world allows for.
You know, rappers get the occasional bit of grief for using pseudonyms, but you know who else uses made up names? Actors. Half the actors whose names you think you know changed them when they started getting real roles. Olivia Wilde? Actually Olivia Cockburn. Okay, I definitely don't blame her for that one. Natalie Portman? Neta-Lee Hershlag. Joaquin Phoenix? Joaquín Rafael Bottom. Again, can't really fault him there. Hell, if I was just some first grader with the last name "Bottom" I'd want to fucking change it too. Jamie Foxx? Eric Marlon Bishop. Alexander Siddig? His full name is Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi. Honestly if I ever cast him in something I'd beg him to use the full thing in the credits just cause I think it'd be funny to have the whole screen taken up by his name.
Anyway, hooray for action packed... I'd say Senate hearings, but this is classified and there's only one senator there. The meeting itself isn't classified, just the topics discussed, since they're being candid about stuff like alien tech and the fact that Dabbler is a demon, which hasn't been revealed to the public. Only that she's an alien. With horns and hooves, granted, but anything not from Earth would technically be an alien. There's a huge amount of online discussion about everything superheroes in the Grrl-verse, because of course there is. Plenty of speculation about Dabbler being a demon even before they said she was an alien. I mean, there's a lot stupid people out there, and you don't need to look remotely like a demon for some people to legitimately think you are one or are at least possessed by one. As soon as Dabbler switched to her "battle form" and started swinging around her sword with the pentagram guard on it, speculation accelerated. At some point I should mention in the comic that there are protesters who think the US government is in bed with Satan (there's definitely already people who think that in the real world, so it's hardly a stretch). I don't like dwelling on humanities crappier attributes in the comic if I can help it though. It would be star-eyed optimism to think that kind of stuff isn't happening, so my excuse is that the PR people are generally doing their jobs and mostly keeping the team from interacting with the average dumbass on the street whenever possible. Maybe before being allowed into signing events, people have to fill out a questionnaire that reveals their thoughts on the moon landing, whether they are pro or anti-vaccine, the general shape of the Earth, and other conspiracy theories. I imagine most celebrities don't want to hear their fans' thoughts on that sort of stuff anyway. Even people who are deep into that sort of stuff probably aren't interested, because if your version of their dumb thing isn't exactly the same then they, I assume, get just as annoyed as a non-dumbass would. "Oh you think the Earth is flat, but the moon is a sphere and it's hollow and that's where all the dinosaurs went? Well that's one thing too far for me!"
Sorry, went off on my own little tear there. You know, all that said, Cooter was fun to write. Maybe he should make another appearance soon.
Comments
Torabi
Ok, here, in the relative privacy of Patreon comments (hi world!), I would like to state my opinion that Spec's butt on page #808 may be both the best butt DaveB has ever drawn, and possibly the best butt I've ever seen, anywhere.
Thorbjørn Steen
Air Force One is any aircraft from the Air Force (specifically) that the president is on. If he is in a marine Helicopter, it gains the callsign Marine One. So I guess if Maxima or Sydney takes the president on a ride they would become Archon One.
Some Ed
I'm not sure why it took me so long to figure it out, but I know who names their child Deus Superion. Zeus Superion. Deus' parents were supers.
James
In that naming scheme, Deus shows another slip in his full "package" super-intelligence. Despite the meta-awareness of powers and the drawbacks super intelligences have in comics, he still has the heavy pride so many of them have. It just shows up differently because he thinks (claims) he has a full mental package that lets him be different from them.
Dave Barrack
She was more annoyed that he was going my a mononym, but yes, at the time she assumed it was made up. His escalating presence on the world stage have caused deeper investigations into his past.
Tristan N Milner
Hey! General flattop! If you don't want to spend two billion on Max's plan, give it to Education and Healthcare! Stuff your country needs much more than more your war toys.
Dan Curtis
I thought that was a hearing aid
Anton Schleef
And that's definitely the type of people who'd name their son Deus Superion.
Anton Schleef
Which is what Maxima is trying to explain to the senator in the comic, without being condescending.
A Patreon of the Ahts
EWWW ear hair!
William Elliott
Or Evelyn Cyril Gordon [Glory Road by Heinlein]
Dave Barrack
Yeah, there's always at least one or two these days it seems. It's fixed.
Karl-Erlend Mikalsen
Even with that I d don't think anybody's comment on "Galytn" yet. I've done my fair share of proof reading, and it's always a bit dodgy to care too much about text in dialogue, because people don't really speak "correctly". So it might be a choice to have the old dude mispronounce the name of the country, but as nobody else says anything about it, it might also just be an error on Mr. Dave's part.
Dave Barrack
Yeah, there's always at least one these days it seems. It's fixed.
Brittany Huckey
I went to look at the link to see Dabbler's sword. And in the commentary you stated that you didn't know how to draw butts. Haha you have gotten a bit of practice since then. I appreciate your artistic growth
Stephen Gilberg
Seeing how you've received numerous typo corrections already, I hate to say it, but "principals" should be "principles" in this instance.
Swedish Chef
Still thinking Yutte Hermsgervørdenbrøtbørda, moose trainer still ranks n°1
Enigma42
Musk has kids?
Torabi
I love how Max's values compel her to defend Dabbler, while also feeling slightly uncomfortable for doing so, and for needing to do so. That complexity is what makes characters feel real. I do feel like Max's sentence in panel 4 is a bit awkward, and she should have said something more like "he is willing to accept an equivalent value in construction equipment for trade". Willing to trade sounds like he's the one giving the construction equipment, not receiving it. Also, Max implied way back in #407 that she didn't think "Deus" was his real name. Has further investigation suggested otherwise?
Thomas Dorner
1. OMG, even Sydney could become Air Force One. Don't tell her that! ;-) 2. About kids' names, have you noticed how Elon Musk names his? Compared to that "Deus Superion" sound almost normal.
Czarzhan
Not to mention Arnold George Dorcey: Engelbert Humperdink
William Elliott
one very famous case of a pseudonym, Marion Morrison... More commonly known as John Wayne. Samuel Clemens = Mark Twain [nom de plume technically] Norma Jeane Mortenson = Marylin Monroe
Pethrai D'arkos
Perfect setup to a cutaway where Deus is contemplating a photo of his parents, a pair of mad scientists who wanted to create the next step in human evolution (and who better to use as a test bed than their own son)
bradyman50
I feel like the DARPA guy should be willing to spend any amount of money for more tech to play with. Sure they could reproduce the effect with one, but what if they work differently, or Deus's gave some other hints, like the wires being some unknown alloy or something idk
Justaguy
Repeat word in the 2nd last panel. "his really his"
Ryan C. Thompson
Possible typo: I believe the gunship based on the C-130 is designated "AC-130" (A for attack I guess?).
Cley Faye
I think "is that is really his name" is a typo
Czarzhan
Almost certainly
mike stone
It would be hilarious if Deus's real birth name was something like Proinsias Evelyn, and his whole hypermasculine shtick was a reaction to that.
Cat Tillinghast
Technically she *does* become Air Force One, but only for the purposes of contacting air traffic control to expedite her landing clearance. I don't see this as being an issue :)
Damian
Possibly just ARC One, considering the rest of their naming nomenclature. Though also it would be less from her being from a separate branch and more from classifying her as a different method of transport as the name Air Force One is effectively tied to the president, as is Marine One, Navy One, and Army One, otherwise known as any helicopter, boat, or land vehicle they're on/in respectively and regardless of which branch or even person owns it. Least if I'm remembering the designations properly, it's been almost a decade since I got them drilled into my head.
Michael O'Driscoll
I think you may have a type in the 2nd last panel. Also I wonder does dealing with Sydney help Maxima deal with politicians when it comes to keeping her cool.
DakkaDakkaWAAGH
The Senate apparently has what they refer to as the 'Gang of Eight' - a mix of committees and power-bases from both parties. That said, drawing one old fart has to be easier than eight of the bastards.
Kizik Ucalegon
Huh. The Dabbler being an alien and a demon thing just made me think about how other planets would handle supernatural creatures. Do they ALL have vampires, or is that humanity only? Are werewolves and faeries universal constants? Could Dabbler go xenosuccupire if she got bitten, or if she got turned lycanthrope would it be an Earth animal or some hellhound kind of thing? Building off that, if they ARE exclusive to Earth, would alien cultures have their own monsters, myths, and legends that we've never heard of, and would we classify them as aliens, magical creatures, or alien magical creatures if so?
3of4
Given ARCHON is its own branch of the Military, Max would be ARCHON One then. But I feel that particular privilege might be for a certain flight bubble with passenger capacity
