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Grrl Power #1347 - Schwinn...g?
🕑 Added 2025-04-14 10:00:18 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys and grrls are awesome!
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 a conspicuously attractive male and you wouldn't be surprised seeing my face doing a Blue Steel thing in an underwear ad but if you saw me at a bar, your defenses would go up because I look like I know I'm super hot and am therefore kind of a smug dick" way. In the next two panels, that 3/4 view... I think his comeliness drops about 6 points in those. I just couldn't match the face. Or, maybe I could have, but this is two double pages in a row when I'm already pressed for time, so... Anyway, the gag is that he's super hot and women (and a certain percentage of men) go gooey.
Oh, and I'm sure people who are super into cycling might have some opinion about Flash Drive's bike. Look, I don't know how to draw bikes. I found a 3D model of a reasonable looking bike, screen shotted it at different angles, and traced it. Not some titanium $20,000 Tour de France number, just a bike that didn't look like a 60 pound Radio Flyer cruiser that rattles going down a sidewalk like a knight in full plate on a galloping horse.
Comments
KnightRider007
She specifically objects to “Cupps”, which is pickling the purchase option (for coffee) that “gives a bit of eye candy”
Martin Drkoš
Bicycle-Man! Does whatever a bicycle can.
eddi_TBH
Complete with Groucho Marx voice impression and cigar wiggle.
eddi_TBH
He may be the only one with the right security clearances from ARC and everyone else involved in the dungeon project.
eddi_TBH
Pure Unobtanium. Same for his shoes.
eddi_TBH
Pre-clearance. Like the lunch wagons and the mailman.
eddi_TBH
He's got their undivided attention. The only reason Dabbler isn't moving in on him is because Ellie is totally smitten. And it's kinda cute. Max agrees. As to the bike. The difference in $200 and $20,000 is impossible for an untrained eye to spot. All the same angles on the frame and the same gear bolted on to it as far as anyone can tell. The only caveat to that is he uses regular pedals instead clip-ons where a cleat on the shoe locks into the pedal. And since he needs to walk around sometimes to make deliveries that makes sense.
ZombieRonSwanson
this dude is very much hammering me in the Pan...
Marc Vun Kannon
I love the way she says, "My package?" Who else's package would she have been thinking about?
Stefan J Neylon
Given the nature of this project, you would think a random courier wouldn't be allowed to just drive in here.
James Jakes
What special materials has that bike got to be made out of? There's no way those are regular rubber tires.
Hugh Eckert
Kind of reminds me of Val Kilmer (RIP) at his peak.
Otoger
the scrunchies or bands are still in you can see them in the last panel but it just got fluffed up a lot
Jared
She had a loose double pony tail last comic that got pulled out of the scrunchies when he went whipping past them.
Reigys
true
Reigys
haha
Reigys
Accurate tbh
Reigys
Lol
Erin Palette
Thank you for remembering Matt Bomer! His role as Neal Caffrey was a perfect rendition of what an American James Bond would be.
M. Lampi
The bike has a front derailleur but no second chainring. It also appears to not have shift levers or brake handles. If the bike was a fixed gear style, then simply remove the derailleur.
JasonAW3
Looks like a slightly more ripped Henry Cavill...
Damian
It could just be a fixed gear bike, though that would probably be a stress hell for the bike when it comes to stopping at those speeds.
Terence Bryant-White
Also, minor spelling error, you spelled funny as "funy" (although maybe it's a written version of "being struck dumb by your presence" 🤷♂️)
Terence Bryant-White
Maybe all that, with a very faint golden aura with golden sparkles?
Terence Bryant-White
Maxima: "Ehhh, I've seen better 😐" , Dabbler: "😼 *MEOW* 😼" , Ellie: *clean up on aisle 12, and bring a mop...*
Stephen Gilberg
He reminds me of the "Legally Blonde" UPS guy.
Town Crier
Anybody else notice how Dabbler's hair went from a shaggy tomboy cut to a full-on after-sex coif?
Richard du Maine
Don't ask me why, I'm getting Carlos Sainz vibes...
Alex
Not sure what madman would mount Trommel Remmen op een racefiets... But still he'd need some brake mechanisme. Discbrakes would be optimal,.... or posible a fixi setup with the front derailleur as an astetic choise. Gr Alex (Groetjes uit Nederland 🇳🇱)
Robin
He could be using a Coaster Brake (trommel rem in dutch), tough yeah fat chance of one of those on a bike like that. But maybe he's super fast anyway so reversing is fast for him as well?
You_With_The_Face
"I am aware of the effect I have on women."
Mark Nach
You named her after the wine? And this close to Passover. You do play 4D chess well.
James C
I think that might depend on what the package is; ordering something you need, and picking the delivery option that gives a bit of "eye candy" is one thing; ordering something you neither need nor want entirely for the "eye candy" is another matter entirely.
GreenmansGrove
You've gotten a near-perfect synthesis of Henry Cavill and Matt Bomer.
Opus the Poet
And the Akira Slide.
KnightRider007
Max *should* be just as irate as she would be at any guy who ordered a service specifically because the provider was a hot woman. Because that's clearly what Elsbeth has done here. Max isn't written as blatantly hypocritical.
Opus the Poet
You actually drew a dead ringer for Mario Cippolini right down to the 5 o'clock shadow. And he's also a male model after his retirement from pro cycling.
Opus the Poet
Just FYI the jersey and shorts are available commercially.
Evil Midnight Lurker
He obviously decelerated by looping around the track! 😁
TexasTies
Rob Lowe! That's who he looks like in the first head-on panel: a 20-something Rob Lowe.
Michael Obert
Dabbler's thought bubble in the last panel: "I'll sign for that package any time"
Matthew Dodgen
As always I appreciate your work Dave. We all understand that this is art and not a photorealistic recreation of what's happening. Trust me I understand your pain with describing good looking men. My DND character with charisma 21 was described as Fabio with black flowing hair because I couldn't fathom what would make women actually swoon and just did the best I could. 😅😅😅😅
Alex
Speaking as a bicycle mechanic..... You tacticly obscure the most technical bits (the derailer and the second gear at the front). So no worries there..... Though I've got to ask. How does the guy brake without break-leavers? ;D Gr Alex
tsukiouji
That "certain percentage" is a lot, though Voltaire is more my speed for hetero man crushes, lol
TrixieTurner
The hotness is kind of there, he’s a solid 6.5 or a shaky 8.
Thomas Dorner
Very funy ;-) And he just put his helmet on the handlebar, like many cyclists.
