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Grrl Power #1309 - Hell-oooo nurse!

🕑 Added 2024-12-02 11:00:17 +0000 UTC

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Mike

I'm loving Peggy's expressions in this arc. Just amazing and for some reason with the hospital hair they're all more impactful.

eddi_TBH

What's the anesthesiologist. I Don't Know is the surgeon.

eddi_TBH

He was like Leslie Nielsen but in the opposite direction. One went from drama to comedy and the other comedy to drama. Without a misstep.

eddi_TBH

Peggy's first version of Max's appearance strongly hints she was already bi. I don't think she ever needed "Don't ask, don't tell." She's too smart to risk a career for a night of boom-boom.

eddi_TBH

Sometimes you just gotta drop the mic.

eddi_TBH

Military bureaucracy is to other government bureaucracy as military music is to Top 40 pop music.

eddi_TBH

Something subtle, like this. David Rose - "The Stripper" - ORIGINAL STEREO - '62 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACHPtToZApk

eddi_TBH

I think a good tailor could actually make them. The ankle bracelets could hide the connection.

eddi_TBH

The eye thing is deliberate. Open extra wide, makeup and just a touch of magic. Somewhat wasted on Peggy and Max. but she likes to keep in practice.

eddi_TBH

She has trouble with authority figures. She really likes Max. Think what she would be doing to some self-appointed boss she didn't like. 🤯

eddi_TBH

Max might explode. Or say, "You just killed my childhood."

eddi_TBH

Dabbler is a massive Distraction Attack with her illusions. Or holographic outfits. Peggy is smart enough to look for the hidden stinger.

eddi_TBH

She was so disappointed when there was no X-Rated version available.

eddi_TBH

Boingy! Boingy! Boingy!

Thisguy

The nurse is actually a time traveling Sydney after various regenerations.

gaijin 99

I throughly expect almost any official thing to take a while military or civilian. I'm just saying that IN THEORY it could actually be fairly quick. At least to cover the basics. In practice? Even people who aren't Sydney are going to have a zillion questions and there's no way you'll get out with just a brief like that.

Woodrobin

Amanda Rogers, in the episode "True Q". Both of her parents were Q who had chosen to live in human forms and had conceived and born her in the human manner. The Q Continuum killed them with a tornado when she was an infant, and she was raised by the Rogers family. The tornado was very unusual for Topeka, Kansas (where she was born) because of the weather control systems in place in that era. So they were killed just for pretending at being human too deeply, never mind actually being in a mixed relationship.

Paul Watson

Which is where he and his brother belong!

Opus the Poet

Locked in the water tower at the WB studios.

Opus the Poet

There was a Human-Q couple in TNG, who had a daughter that was orphaned by the Q Continuum. I forget the name of the episode, but it should be on Memory Alpha somewhere.

Opus the Poet

Obviously Dabbler based her eyes on the closing credits of I Dream Of Jeanie.

Opus the Poet

Some superpowers are real in our universe. I mean I don't fly outside of an aircraft of some type, but I have walked away from getting hit by a motor vehicle while crossing the street, twice. And survived getting hit by a drunk in a pickup truck going an officially estimated 60 MPH. That one sent me to a hospital for two weeks of surgery and recovery. And oohs and awws from the nurses.

SantaTheHutt

> Here's a question; <-- should I use a semicolon there or a colon? Here's the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw

BJ

Credit to Peggy she was more focused on the magic than the succubus.

Gelatinous Cube

Obviously that's the lack of crayons and bad MREs in your diet.

Hugh Eckert

The only thing that would make this better is Dabbler casting her wards by crossing her arms and doing the blink/nod. After saying "Yes, Master!", of course...

Hugh Eckert

I was thinking of it with the Eurythmics "Who's That Girl?"

Hugh Eckert

It's super effective!

Person

That's George Burns, in his pre- cigar days.

Person

That's Admiral Grace Hopper, back when she was just a wee butter bars. (Grace was a programmer on on ENIAC, and invented the compiler)

Bradley

Dabbler will never not be a walking HR violation. LoL

Bradley

Dabbler looks a little bug eyed in panel 4, might want to make 'em 20% smaller. She looks fine in panel six though. The rest of the page is awesome as usual though.

Terence Bryant-White

"Mysterious nurse" after reading Peggy's fantasies: "😳 🤤Oh my...you're an interesting one !!!, can we keep her Max ?" *looks at Maxima with knowing eyebrows 😏*

Sardines are us

excruciatingly long safety briefs must be a Marine / Army thing, in the my units (AF) it was usually a couple of minutes.

Mark Magagna

I guess they had to (sort of) explain why humans weren't blasé about Q's antics due to overexposure.

Mark Magagna

Peggy showing Sydney that it wasn't solely hawt women on the team, there were hawt men too. Sydney gets quizzical about Peggy's response.

IvyReed

At this point in the timeline Maxima is desperate to get Peggy on the team, just so she has someone to work with who isn't an absolute troll

Anton Schleef

Maybe not, but now I can't get that thought out of my head, so our crowd is growing.

Anton Schleef

I'll leave the Dabbler specific parts of that alone, but to expound on the grammatically correct part: semi-colons are for things such as lists where you have compound items as a single entry, which would make using commas confusing, while colons are more of a means of conjoining two strongly related sentences that would normally be a run-on sentence but make more sense as a single sentence, frequently utilized for adding a description/answer to the first part. The second part isn't exactly a hard rule, but that's more because of the fact that so many people have used them improperly that only the most uptight of English professors are still fighting it.

Person

J.R.R. Martin, before his writing career took off and ruined his figure with all that time sitting at a keyboard.

Erin Palette

Dave, I don't know which impresses me more: the deadpan "The veil is N-95 rated" line, or the fact that you somehow managed to fuse thigh-high stockings with harem pants and make it look plausible.

Stephen Gilberg

Nick at Nite determined it was Samantha.

Erin Palette

It was indeed mentioned. Perhaps this was the inciting incident?

Gullindjemprins

And they’re always the same, because people keep doing the same stupid (/fun/hilarious) stuff.

You_With_The_Face

Now I'm wondering if it was mentioned in am earlier comic. So many backlogs...

fiun dagner

Mr amorphous working on his disguise abilities. Obviously!

fiun dagner

Being completely serious I thought Peggy swung both ways. I swear I remember reading that and one of the early comics

fiun dagner

Clearly you're somebody who's never had to deal with the military and government in General on a regular basis. Weekend safety briefings that boil down to don't do the dumb shit can take 6 to 8 hours on a 3 day or 4 day

Town Crier

Dabbler uses major distraction and major confusion algorithms in her security coding.

Kile Mullen

I think you’ve found your next vote incentive.

gaijin 99

Presumably Max saying "nurse!" was supposed to be a signal to Dabbler to set up an anti-snoop field not to come in.

Matthew Thompson

If I remember correctly, she was referring to Q!

StLOrca

1. The nurse is Col. Rosa Klebb testing her new, alternative assassin rig. Now she’s all stiletto, all the time.

gaijin 99

I mean, it doesn't HAVE to be a long read in: "superpowers are real, magic is real, there are aliens, some of the aliens are also demons, and most beings you know about from mythology are real."

Jared Kolbly

I'm not entirely sure what is happening the first couple panels. It seems like Dabbler is supposed to be undercover as a nurse and Max called her in, but then she is suddenly telling her to not come in. Unless that is Peggy off panel telling the "nurse" to not come in to protect the confidential subject in the room, which would be odd for her to try to overrule Max. I suppose they could have planned to have Dabbler secure the room from outside when Max called, and Dabbler decided to barge in instead. But it just looks like Max told her to come in but then told her to stay out.

Czarzhan

Don't you recognize Sydney without her glasses? That veil really does conceal!

You_With_The_Face

Peggy's inner thoughs: not a lesbian not a lesbian not a lesbian... EDIT: Looks like people with a better memory than I say that an earlier comic says Peggy swings both ways. It certainly has been a minute, since I clearly forgot about it. My bad.

Woodrobin

Not sure if the Q/human thing would work. Other than de Lancie Q, most of the Continuum seem pretty strongly opposed to mortal-mingling (though to be fair, Samantha caught flack too). Hence the famous line "What are you doing with that dog?" (Q and Janeway glance at the pet he's conjured for her) "I'm not talking about the puppy."

Michael Obert

Yeah, well, at this point Peggy doesn't know that 😆

Woodrobin

The answer is that you should use a colon, for three reasons. It lets Dabbler make a double entendre about the proper use of a colon, it's grammatically correct, and it's difficult for anything to remain a semi around Dabbler anyway.

Justaguy

I was thinking of the juxtaposition of the "Dah da, da da da da dah" of the I dream of Jeannie, and the "dun da da dun da da dun da da dun" of barracuda. (Also it being used as intro music for Lucy Lu in the early days of Ally McBeal).

Woodrobin

I was thinking "Man-eater" by Hall and Oates. Barracuda is about a sleazy publicist that put out a story that the sisters in the band Heart were lovers.

Miyaa

Larry Hagman hasn’t been the same since that who shot JR episode of Dallas.

Robert Miller

Dabbler out does Barbara Eden.

Demian Buckle

Where's Wakko when you need him.

Madcat6204

I actually thought it might be Harem at first, though it quickly became apparent that I was wrong.

Paul Watson

Hellllloooooooooooo, nurse.

Justaguy

Dabblers theme song is the I dream of genie music playing in one ear, and barracuda playing in the other.

fiun dagner

Zephan zoeng. Obviously it's a magic user in a disguise spell

fiun dagner

Hiro, obviously. Can't have your shirt destroyed in a random explosion if you're not wearing one

Daniel Jenkins

Am I the only one who read all that "who's that nurse" but with "who's that pokemon" tone to it?

Thomas Dorner

She never needs to, she has her hammerspace.

Thomas Dorner

It's Harem, she's always the nurse.

Julian

Until the magic bits showed up I was thinking it was Harem, but she was probably far too young during this flashback.

Michael Obert

At least you know she's not hiding a weapon under that get up, I mean, unless you count her and here sexiness - which I do. This is what happens when Aliens learn another culture from TV and porn 🤣 (and no, you don't need to say, the heterochromia was a dead giveaway)