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Grrl Power #944 - Something about interrupting a Colonel

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. Or left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.FYI: People had been correctly pointing out that the "hyperdrive" branch of the skill tree needed an orb in the first spot, so I've added that now. Not retroactively yet, but at any rate, the OCD amongst you can unclench slightly. Also, the center ring wasn't notated correctly. The "pizz...

Grrl Power #943 - Frixkrieg

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.To get the full impact of this page, you really have to imagine panels 3 and 9 happening in extreme slow motion. Panel 9 especially, because Maxima used super speed to whip around to see what was happening, so she caught sight of Frix at about 10,000 frames...

Lapha tries out her new meat

And she also tried out some variants. At least in virtual space. She didn't have the money for the two extra bodies, plus she wasn't sure where she would keep them anyway.The whole time, Garamm is all "How attached are you to the breasts?" and Lapha is like "The breasts stay you egg-laying weirdo!"He doesn't lay the eggs. The females of his species do, but Lapha is still trying to sync up with her new body, so her quip game isn't up to snuff yet.

Grrl Power #942 - My boyfriend is a marine... lifeform

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.Fortunately, wet Woofs smell like caramelized honey and campfires. That would actually be super weird, if whenever he got wet it smelled like something was on fire.Yes, Detla's mask can do expressions. Or at least match what her eyes are doing. It's...

Grrl Power #941 - Distract a Detla

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.Detla is going to get the impression that Archon is some sort of co-ed college comedy romp. That or she's going to start punching dudes. It's also possible that everyone in Arc-SWAT has decided to cock block Achilles today because that's the thi...

Grrl Power #940 - Aegis. Beskar. Adamantine. Mlem.

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.Callbacks, yo.Please ignore that the layout of headquarters has dramatically changed since that picture. Sydney didn't return to an alternate version of Earth from her space adventure, or anything. I'm just... bad at remembering to look at old pages...

Grrl Power #939 - I double dog promise to be good

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.Jeeze, I hope no one walks out the door to the pool right then. Maybe jump a little to the side there, Anvil.So I was like, Dabbler is kind of a pain in the butt to draw, what with all the stripes and extra limbs, so why don't I have her wear her blonde...

Grrl Power #938 - Fast friends in high places

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.Hmm, take the stairs up one floor to the roof which you then intend to jump off, or just take the elevator down three floors? You have to admit, Anvil is thinking like a super.I imagine most women, and black women especially would like to have a hairstylist...

Grrl Power #937 - Buddy booty duty

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.Flotsam: debris in the water that was not deliberately thrown overboard, often due to shipwreck or accident.Jetsam: debris deliberately thrown overboard by a ship's crew, most often to lighten the load.Lagan: goods that are cast overboard and are heavy ...

Grrl Power #936 - What's blue, horny, and wet all over?

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.I'll admit, this page might be a little gratuitous, but I haven't drawn anyone showering for quite some time. I mean, I haven't drawn anyone showering in the comic. I've done several shower scenes in the vote incentives. Maybe the next wet a...

Grrl Power #935 - Delta mask

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now. Oh, also you can left click then use the scroll wheel to zoom in and click and drag the image. I just figured that one out myself.I was going to go on a tangent about various systems of law enforcement on today's page, but Achilles's "Good enough for me" isn't going to be the end of the "Aren't you under arrest" issue, so I'll save that discussion f...

Grrl Power #934 - Space butler!

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.I'm sure a few of you are like "Uh, didn't she get arrested?" It comes up on the next page.The whole "You spared and/or saved my life, therefore you own my life and/or I must serve you" seems like one of those things that has only ever existed in fiction. I don't know, maybe it happened in Japan back in the day, but it probably almost always involves someone...

Sydney, Pixel and Krona walk into a dressing room...

I tried something different this month – instead of doing one well painted picture with a bunch of dress variants, I wanted to tell a bit of a story. Hopefully it makes sense without any dialog or sound effects. So, instead of one picture, you guys are getting nine. I was going to do a tenth one, but I kind of ran out of time. I might add it if I find the time, or I could work on the next Tamer: Enhancer book. Time management is not my strongest skill, so we'll see.So is this canon? Like is Krona really that powerful? Kind of? An attribut...

Grrl Power #933 - Ding psychology

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.This feels like a jarring transition to me, but the alternative was to stick with Maxima as she does a ton of paperwork and debriefs the team. That was definitely the only other option.The answer to the question, "Why didn't the orbs give Sydney her level up sooner?" is because it amused me more to do it this way. Besides, now that Sydney seems to know how to pull up the sk...

Grrl Power #932 - Designing women

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.And here we are, the end of the Times Square arc. It honestly took quite a bit longer than I thought it would, but I could probably say that about any storyline in the comic, so at least I'm consistent in that regard.Apparently that escape pod has a restroom equipped with a urinal. I think that's a weird choice, but I guess Ray Cosmos has his preferences. I think you have to ha...

Grrl Power #931 - Escape from New York

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.So, is she possessing him? And if so, why didn't she just toss herself onto Maxima's head?The answer is... kind of, but not really. Basically, she's not "high level" enough to straight up possess someone. Right now, she's somewhere between a Trill symbiont, sharing knowledge and memories, and Steve-Martin-bonked-on-the-head-by-a-mystic-bowl. They're still se...

Grrl Power #930 - Emergency escape lizard

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.Whoops! Forgot what day of the week it was. :/In my excuse, 1) that's only the second or maybe third time I've ever done that. Not the worst track record over the ten plus year run so far. If you guys knew me in person, you'd probably think I'd do that once or twice a month. 2) There was a crazy rainstorm that came through north Dallas last night with tornado sirens bla...

Grrl Power #929 - The technicolor yawn is in the eye of the beholder

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.Since I am not talented enough to draw something so beautiful that you all throw up, I'm going to say Umbrivions use some sort of psychic attack to distract prey and their prey's friends with double rainbow levels of visual cortex rapture. Some sort of beholder style psi-aura that only works with eye contact, like a weird gorgon.Oh man, imagine a spell that temporarily turns th...

Grrl Power #928 - This is an ebullient citizen's arrest

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.And we come full circle, back to the alien tourists who launched this whole escapade. We're almost wrapped up with this storyline, as I know a few of you are having Sydney withdrawal, myself included.Uh... yeah. Not sure what else to say about this one. I doubt NYC storm drains are tour-worthy. Well, maybe pinky there is a xenoarcheologist. That would make almost any artificial str...

Grrl Power #927 - All we need is love and fried insects

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.Oh shit, he's dating a lizard person, get it!?Or possibly some sort of hillbilly. It's even odds if you're wanting to put money on it.This is admittedly just a weird transitional page that doesn't do a lot more than kind of develop some, at best, tertiary characters. Had I a more rigorous editorial process, I might have been talked into skipping it, but I don't have...

Grrl Power #926 - Best and brightest

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.Hey, alien lady, just because some of us are total dimwits doesn't mean our best and brightest can't kick your ass. At least these two were smart and/or oblivious enough to circumvent the police cordon keeping lookie loos from wandering into an alien mercenary/superhero/supervillain rumble. (It's the latter.)I guess the best thing you can say about these two is that they&#3...

Grrl Power #925 - Star crossed mercs

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.Well, I did it again, I hit post instead of schedule. Enjoy your early comic!In an mixed alien/fantasy race situation, one could probably get a lot of mileage out of "It's instinctive for my people." or "It's how my people do things." or "My gods require…" It's also an easy way to get busted doing something obnoxious when the party encounters a sec...

Grrl Power #924 - Do not taunt happy fun Maxima

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.Cora is really skirting the edge here, and I'm not really sure why other than it makes me laugh. She does probably have a point about warrantless "wire" taps, especially since she's using crazy alien tech to tap the A/V feed from someone's living nervous system. Anything she records would certainly be inadmissible, and there are probably some, you know, privacy conc...

Maxima lifts a thing

I know a lot of you are here for some Sydney goodness, and the next picture I'd been working on was an A-cup three way with Pixel and Krona. Unfortunately, the whole "Everything is bigger in Texas, including our power-grid failures." kerfuffle left me with intermittent power for about four days, so I was a little behind this month. I partially made up for that by doing a single person pinup, and Maxima won (or lost) the draw this time. Enjoy the special version with guest art direction from JJ Abrams. (Yes, there's a ton of lens...

Grrl Power #923 - Telling pause much?

Thanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have it figured out by now.My first draft of this page had a nonomatopoeia in panel 5 that said "TELLING PAUSE?" but I decided you guys are smart enough to figure that out without the hand holding. Love me some nonomatopoeias though. It was a tough call. I wound up using it for the page title instead, cause I got to call it something and I sat here for half an hour trying to think of something else. I mi...

Grrl Power #922 - After action flippancy

Thanks so much for your support!To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have figured it out by now.Cora and Dabbler obviously have some shared history and sense of humor. Dabbler tries to not fly her "I'm an alien sex demon intergalactic woman of mystery and mayhem" TOO high while she's on Earth, but sometimes it slips out. And if you're thinking "Really? Cause she does lots of sex stuff." Remember that she doesn't orgy the team comatose every night, so yeah, she's keeping ...

Grrl Power #921 - Watergate-SG1

Thanks so much for your support!To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have figured it out by now.Before you go scrambling to google, "obstroculous" is a word Mrs. Slocombe of "Are You Being Served" made up. Based on context, it means "obstructive" or "being difficult" as in a person, not like a math problem. There is a word, "Obstropulous" meaning "noisy or rough, especially in resisting restraint or control," and arguably, Mrs. Slocombe might have been saying...

Grrl Power #920 - Hench 'ya later!

Thanks so much for your support!To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have figured it out by now.I guess HenchWench vividly described her plans to Maxima during the side-flash to Super-super max, otherwise how did Max know she was assuming it would be co-ed?Okay, so here's a question. If Henchwench's powers only work with supervillains, her ability to gain powers from someone makes her a reliable supervillain detector, right? That wouldn't give you prosecutable evidence, but it'd be like war...

Grrl Power #919 - Objection!

Thanks so much for your support!To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have figured it out by now.I like how it's the act of merely stamping a printout of the LLC filing that takes away HenchWench's powers. Although, using devil/fae rules, Arianna probably had to sign the line under the stamp before it affected her. Normally, someone would have to actually submit the suspended form with whatever office deals with that stuff for it to work, but as mentioned, Arianna has special lawyer powers.If the st...

Grrl Power #918 - Ghost fight!

Thanks so much for your support!To view the full-size version... left-click, right-click, new tab. You guys have figured it out by now.I didn't really have any idea how this fight was going to end when I introduced HenchWench, but a lot of you were like "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if..." and I agreed. So yeah, I'm super telegraphing the next page, and I apologize in advance if Arianna doesn't use super proper lawyer speak, but hopefully you guys will be amused anyway.Concretia never learned to fight. She's too slow in...