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Grrl Power #1318 - Have two feet, will probably travel

🕑 Added 2025-01-02 11:00:08 +0000 UTC

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Martin Drkoš

I have a small scar on my face and the story is: I was a dumb kid.

Tie Toter

I've never watched that one. I just remember in Die Hard McCain's fellow airline passenger giving him the "makes fists with your toes " advice...

Ian Brown

Nice "Skyscraper" reference!

Ian Brown

Actually, I'd be more inclined to think it was for 2018's "Skyscraper" with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, seeing as how his character had a prosthetic leg during that movie.

Ian Brown

Yeah, that's her default genetic skin-tone, sans weathering/tanning. Sorta like a reverse Trucker's Tan. A few hours in a tanning bed will even that out.

Charles Bradbury

it might be cursed...

Person

Time wound all heels? I don't have any over-arch-ing plan here. I'm solely trying to make foot puns. Something something shoe-in!

Mathew Aaberg

Good eye, I assume its lack of tan?

Opus the Poet

I have some scars with a really wild "I survived" story. And some with no real story.

Bear C. Brown

I hope her losing a foot doesn’t become a running gag. That ground’s been tread.

Opus the Poet

We know two wrongs don't make a right, but what do two wrights make. Bicycles and an airplane.

Opus the Poet

Now she can get a re-do of the tattoo that was lost with the foot.

Anton Schleef

Exactly! You may even have the correct person for when they started to be elevated. As much as most people try to blame it on Napoleon, the truth is he wasn't actually that short.

eddi_TBH

They hit it off from the beginning.

eddi_TBH

Totally. The "do it again" Nearly made me need a tissue.

eddi_TBH

And they weren't that high. See a good riding boot for comparison. King Louis (the short one) may have started elevating the heels.

eddi_TBH

Let's see. Sensitivity normal, reflexes excellent. Emergency tissue deployment successful. Frix marks another win in his dairy.

IvyReed

Hey space doctor, while you're at it (and since I dye my hair anyway) got any hair treatments?

Opus the Poet

Her pinky toe.

Opus the Poet

I didn't lose my leg when I was hit with a truck, but it was pretty much hamburger below the knee. I would have traded one of my kids to get the leg returned to factory spec and function in the first few years after the wreck.

Gelatinous Cube

I love panel 6. I can visualize the eyes growing because I live on YT Shorts watching cat videos. Watch any vid where the cat's pupils dilate right before zoomie-time, and that's what I visualize Peggy doing.

AlpineBob

I was thinking a dotted line too. :) I didn't like the idea of Frix's signature at first, because he didn't really make it. BUT - he is _the_ space alien who did the first human leg implant, and this leg is a memento of that, so I can see it... I like the Mk II and 'Other Leg' ideas too.

Terence Bryant-White

Frix: "Now wiggle your big toe..."

John Anderson

It’s pretty subtle. I’ve had more dramatic changes in skin tone after a day canoeing in shorts. And that was after the sunburn healed.

John Anderson

I hope Peggy doesn’t go too far for too long. She’s one of my favorites. Although I’d be interested in a separate Peggy-centric story line.

John Anderson

Some folks find them hot.

Cat Tillinghast

More likely a crutch for short, y'know, hops

Anton Schleef

Fun Fact: When high heels were first being worn for 'fashion' it was men wearing them, not women.

Hugh Eckert

Awwwww...

Mathew Aaberg

For the rule of cool she immediately needs to stub her toe after hopping down from the table.

Andrew Diseker

She should get a new one on her left leg saying "My other leg is from space".

Andrew Diseker

It goes along with her anime eyes in panel 6

Andrew Diseker

Wow, she got the anime eyes in panel 6!

Person

I just noticed that the skin tone doesn't /quite/ match. Subtle.

You_With_The_Face

Most wholesome foot stuff on the internet

Mark Magagna

Oh - and now we get to see whether the shoe is on the other foot (so to speak) with respect to how chatty she is about it. See the past strip where she and Sydney are talking about vegan crossfitter pregnant superpowered vacation-returning people. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-110-superheroes-are-like-vegans/

Person

How do you know she won't just hop on the other leg now? Oh. Right. Author. (I wreally wanted to spell that "wright" instead of right, but a pun there wouldn't have matched the tone I was going for)

Tie Toter

Nice "Die Hard" reference.

Mark Magagna

Frix might not have thought to offer, or doesn't know how to do it diplomatically. I suspect a number of space societies see them as markers of experience, or merit, or... Even with space magic translators, culture is still a minefield. Which might be a side purpose to his relationship with Sydney - another point of view for cultural investigation. Admittedly he's finding out it's not the "mainstream" view, except when it is. As for having a "shower prosthetic"? Isn't that fairly expensive? I mean Peggy can afford it, being employed by Archon. But the average veteran? Not to mention that you want to clean all of the prosthetics anyway. Human limbs have some mechanisms to keep them fairly clean even without scrubbing, none of which (as far as I know) have been replicated.

Richard Riley

I feel like if that were the case, the images in this comic would have been cropped just a little bit lower...

Person

A dotted line along her upper calf. Not a goddammit thing. Frix's signature.

Person

Abandonment issues!

Stephen Gilberg

Will the new vote incentive appeal to foot or tickle fetishists?

Town Crier

There is actually a guy that teaches balancing on one foot, in various manners, as a way to strengthen your core. You may want to start such training now, so as to be prepared in case the worst happens.

Mike

Also, second to the last panel? Love it!

Mike

The hopping, prosthetic next to the bed thing is something I've been wondering about. I have issues with one of my feet and will probably be losing it one of these days, hopefully far in the future but who knows? And this has been on my mind.

Daikaiju

Honestly did not expect a "kyaa!" out of Peggy. It's right up there with Maxima saying "ara ara"

codesurfer

The transition line looks super cool too. Like waves on a beach

DonnieRamesJio

She better, she felt so close to Peggy after that.

Magraal

I can think of a few funny things, but legitimately? I think the most obvious thing to get is just some variation of a heart, to remind her for the rest of her life how much she loves having two feet, to never take that fact for granted ever again.

Shyster

Will Heatwave also be getting a new toe to replace the one that was confirmed lost in #341?

William Elliott

"are you going to flail wildly and kick me?" Hmmm, training scars from dating Sydney?

William Elliott

probably not. Scars are just "tattoos with an 'I survived' story"

Michael O'Driscoll

Mk II?

Tristan N Milner

Wonder what her first tattoo will be on her new leg?

Thomas Dorner

Since breaking and reconnecting my heel bone my shoes have distinctive wear patterns. And my posture slightly changed, so I guess she probably needs a whole new collection.

Slaygor

I love how if you look closely, the new foot is a slightly lighter shade than the rest of her leg with the transition being right around the top of her calf. Almost like she got a tan while wearing a sock. Nice detail.