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Grrl Power #953 - Saucegate
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If she's not using them, I often forget about Sydney's orbs until I'm placing them on the page, which I usually do near the end, and sometimes that results in the orbs being shoved off to the side while she eats. They'll eventually drift back into place if she doesn't give them a thought now and again.
Everyone at the base thinks Sydney and Frix are a cute couple, even if Fridney isn't the best couple portmanteau. Some of that is just because of the ridiculous height difference. Cora has a type, and Frix is right at 7' tall.
If Grrl Power was a different type of comic, I might spend some time on people saying that human/alien relationships are abominations and "against nature" all that jazz, but it's just so... tired and predictable. I don't mean predictable as a story trope, but predictable in a "humans suck and have always sucked and will probably continue to suck for the foreseeable future" kind of way.
Claiming things that a person doesn't like are "against nature" always cracks me up, cause they're usually doing so online, and we all know how natural computers are. Half of them are wearing eyeglasses, surely freshly picked from the eyeglasses trees. If you're naked and yelling at a city from a hilltop forest and are riddled with parasites and ringworm and half your teeth are rotted out of your head and you die at 32, then knock your bad self out, otherwise, shut up about shit being natural. Humans are natural, therefore anything we can accomplish is by extension, natural. Unless you're prepared to make the argument that beehives and beaver dams aren't natural either.
Which is all my long winded way of saying yeah, there are people in the Grrl-verse that are against supers and humans dating supers and are against aliens and people dating them and allowing them on Earth (even though the only jobs aliens have stolen thus far is "tourist" - not including Dabbler, I suppose), there's enough of that depressing stuff in the real world and the PR team does a pretty good job of keeping that sort of stuff out of the faces of Archon personnel.
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Daniel Schinhofen's third Luck's Voice book came out last week. Breaking the Bank. I'm not a fan of wild west stuff at all, but this is wild west LitRPG (lite) with magic and elves and dwarves and the like, and Schinhofen has a pretty good track record IMO, so I gave it a shot. The audiobook for the first book in the series recently began recording as well, so keep an eye out for that as well once it gets through Amazon's capricious submission gauntlet.
Comments
D.A. Lamont
Oh no! Sydney needs face licks! 😏
Evan Cross
I'd love to see Sydney get saucy 😜
Justaguy
If you're trying to remember to put the orbs back in all the time, you could just re-introduce the canister. Or put a couple nice little "ball holder" clips on he belt (like some tennis players wear) which they slot themselves into when not being used, keep them out of the way. Added benefit of she can just stand there menacingly, hands on her belt, with one on the pew pew orb and one on the shield. :)
Justaguy
Actually Sydney being suddenly splattered by a large amount of viscous red/brown liquid could incite some nasty flashbacks.
Justaguy
Sauce is 50% plant matter, and 50% sugar, which is also a plant product so. You're all fine.
Eric Loken
Or Sydix.
Polysanity
blew Frix's meat sauce *
Foradain
Yeap. He's perfect for her, as long as she's willing to share. ^_^
CyberSkull
At least nothing got in her eyes this time.
Marc Vun Kannon
It's really hard to have a romantic moment when everyone's staring at you. Plus, for someone with fur, barbecue sauce really doesn't sound like the best choice.
Doug Northcote
Excellent points and much agree on the new Schinhofen book as well. It was quite a nice new book in series. Looking forward to the audio books as well. Andrea Parsneau does a fantastic job.
Woodrobin
So Cora blew meat sauce all over Sydney's face?
Tim
In panel #2, are their speech-bubbles supposed to be connected like that? Looks a little strange.
Cha11engerD
I sense a face lick in her future.
Dave Barrack
Yes. That wasn't in line with her vegetarian preferences either.
Zip Zop
Wait wait wait. Didn't sydney JUST get human entrails sprayed all over her very recently from her perspective?
Thorbjørn Steen
Personally I just went with "Six".
martin leske
depends which sauce you mean and what you define as "animal"
Timothy Sparks
Fridney is terrible but if ya ask me Syix works alot better.
Stephen Gilberg
For one horrific moment, I thought her face had been burned off.
A Patreon of the Ahts
Hey, did you get the Panel Four Death Stare from Baki the Grappler? He does that once.
Evgeny Sandu
She is. Since the very beginning of that story. «Medic!», remember? And Grakz.
Phoenix
I am sure she won't have any PTSD flashbacks to another red substance covering her face after Cora made a dramatic entrance...
Noise
If I was one of the background characters, my biggest reservation about Sydney and Frix would be on the order of "but he seems so stable and centered, and Sydney is, well, Sydney."
Brandon Pio
OMG! Is Sydney aware of the scientific and culinary development in the world of facemeltingly hot sauces!?!
Jabber
> Everyone at the base thinks Sydney and Frix are a cute couple, even if Fridney isn't the best couple portmanteau. Dude. Syix.
Thisguy
"aliens are stealing our jobs!" "The only jobs an alien has 'stole' is that of a position in the military. And we still have plenty of openings. Of course, unless you're a super yourself, you're likely to get stuck in he regular forces, but still, knock yourself out"
Matthew Lambert
It's fine, he can lick it off
Michael Obert
Nothing marks the end of a lovely time like a face full of sauce
eddi_TBH
Well, that probably got the sauce off Frix's face.
Daniel Schinhofen
Sydney looks like an alien with that sauce all up on her face like that, heh.
Guillaume Ravoire
I'm impressed she noticed anything with her glasses like that.
