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Grrl Power - Dabbler’s Science Corner #5

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Yeah! Double portmanteau! Ouroboros + Organism + Orgasm =  Ourobororganasm! Alert the... uh, people in charge of writing awards. Pulitzer! That's the guy. Or the Nebula. Yeah. Alert Thaddeus Q. Nebula, which is is a fictional person I assume the Nebula award i...

Grrl Power - Dabbler’s Science Corner #4

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I personally wouldn't deal with any company that offered a la carte insurance on my body. If the core function of their business isn't "we keep your body completely safe and healthy while you enjoy our rental bio-surrogates" then you may as well just stick your head...

Grrl Power - Dabbler’s Science Corner #3

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The return of Dabbler's science corner! It's been... geeze, 10 years? Probably should have slipped a few more of those in there along the way. 

I didn't want to interrupt Peggy's flashback, but I had a sudden time crunch, and it was this or switch to some...

Grrl Power #1297 - God, fate, plot armor...

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In case it wasn't clear, I don't know anything about fishing. Like terminology-wise. I'm sure most of you don't either, but the one guy who does would definitly be all "Akshually, you'd only use that on a downwind cast." or something. (I don't even kno...

Grrl Power #1296 - Assets include... sand

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Designated Marksman Rifles are designed to be effective around 800 meters. Plus or minus a bit depending on the actual rifle. "Proper" sniper rifles start at about 800 meters as well, but it can depend on what they're chambered for. The AWP, or Arctic Warfare Polic...

Grrl Power #1295 - Well there's your problem

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As far as I can tell, a Pave Hawk is basically the same thing as a Blackhawk, just with a different loadout? But I decided on the Pave Hawk based on my deep military knowledge, AKA I googled "what helicopters does the air force use for transport" or some such. ...

Grrl Power #1294 - Sheet Fighter: Sapphic Warrior Turbo Plus Alpha

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Dabbler: Question my ability to attach things to other things, do you? Engarde! (produces giant, floppy dildo from hammerspace)

Cora: Indeed I do, scurrilous trollop! Prêt! (produces fleshlight from hammerspace)

Dabbler: Allez! (sword fencing noises, b...

Grrl Power #1293 - Ambivalent leg syndrome

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Dabbler knows medical stuff. She can do stitches, set a bone, mix up some alchemical nonsense to soothe a burn, even whip up a variety of healing potions. Reattaching a limb? Brain surgery? Organ transplants? It's not like she can't do that stuff - sh...

Grrl Power #1292 - Pod psychology

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You see, it's like the Odd Couple, except one of them is like My Favorite Martian, and the other is a relentlessly ravenous amoeboid covered in eyeballs and teeth. I speak of course of Pirpo the Enlightened Loves Azbblethog the Jubilexian. It's funny if you enjoy s...

Grrl Power #1291 - Sole searching

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You silly primitives and your lack of advanced space medicine. Just invent advanced space medicine already, geeze! Is it so hard? What are you waiting for?

Blowing off a supervillain's leg when there's a very good chance that it will get caught on a camera ph...

Grrl Power #1290 - Double date

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This page was intended to move things forward a bit more, but then I got distracted by the idea that these four a sort of on a double date. I mean, not really, but they are kind of acting like a pair of old couple-buddies.

Eating bones requires that ...

Dabbler Sunbathing (NSFW)

Dabbler bathes in the sun. And also something else.

Grrl Power #1289 - Holo-mouth

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Presumably, if you have a really good translator with all the extra options, you can move your holo-mouth around, like how Garamm is offsetting his there in panel 7. And clearly that sets up all sorts of possibilities for sexual shenanigans. Also a lot of upsetting...

Grrl Power #1288 - Horrorito

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I had to re-write half of this page moments before posting, because I watched (part of) Trigun like, 25-ish years ago, and I did not remember most of the significant things that appear in the wiki when I went to double check it. Good thing I did, or all the comment...

Grrl Power #1287 - Cultural exchange

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I accidentally drew that apple way too realistically. 

You'd think that "trying to steal my body" would put Lapha on "The List" (which come to think of it, we haven't seen in quite a while) but, Sydney also has a checklist of superhero tropes that she's ...

Grrl Power #1286 - Super clique

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I bet you want to know who won? 

I kind of want to leave the question open, but... Math did "lose," in the sense that he eventually got pinned. But only after taking on four experienced adventurers/fighters that out weighed/strength/reached him, with at ...

Grrl Power #1285 - Getting to not know you

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Alari, have a superiority complex concerning basically every other race. Most sapient species are probably going to have some degree of that. It's hard to say since humans living all alone on our spinning hunk of dirt don't have any other races to poll against, but...

Grrl Power #1284 - Hey baby, I bet your sign is bioyield

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We cut away from the fight since it's not going to be, as at least one reader complained, a 30-episode chocked-full of flashback Naruto style fight. Honestly I tried to watch Naruto once upon a time, and I just couldn't hang in for fights that legit lasted 5 episod...

Grrl Power #1283 - Feintception

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The true measure of a martial artist is how quickly you adapt to getting kicked in the face because your opponent has bendy bones. 

No doubt Math has blocked hundreds of swings at his face, and is very secure in knowing the only way he's going to get hit...

Grrl Power #1282 - The speedening

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Maxima allows an absolutely non-military amount of casual interaction on her team. In fact most people who start reading the comic even a few hundred pages back might not realize that Arc-SWAT is a military outfit at all. Or know what Arc-SWAT is, come to think of ...

Grrl Power #1281 - Match game

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Imagine onid kids playing dodgeball in middle school, only they play it with rocks because they're a hardy race, then some kid gets clocked in the fun-knee bone and has to spend the next hour with a tingly stiffy. It's the kind of thing that the other kids won't le...

Grrl Power #1280 - Kneedful things

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Not the most surprising turn of events, admittedly.

Math was like "let me look at some anatomy charts for youse guys so I don't accidentally explode your appendoid, or your vom deference, or your pancreatic couscous , or your cumulonimbus duodenum, or your ex...

Sciona (NSFW)

Once upon a time, Sciona posed kind of weird and then took off her clothes.

Grrl Power #1279 - Punchy McPunchface

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Math is one of those guys who punches iron bowl full of hot gravel every morning. The skin on his knuckles and the back of his fingers is like the sole of an elephant's foot. He also does a bunch of other crazy Shaolin monk training, like sitting at a table without...

Grrl Power #1278 - Alpha sucker punch

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In reality, I don't actually know how much of a speed advantage the smaller guy has in a fight. Overall mass is probably more of a factor. A chonky 5' fighter vs a 6' 4" lanky dude? I suppose fighting style is a factor as well. 

The thing is, given the s...

Grrl Power #1277 - Team boy abs

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Math decided he wanted to fight a bunch of professional Space Marshall Adventurer Mercenaries who all have at least a foot on him. Taking bets! Cora thought 3 to 1 in favor of her boys was fair, but Dabbler thinks it will be closer to 1 to 1. Maxima doesn't doesn't...

Grrl Power #1276 - Performance enhanced politics

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Very select, eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a slight shift in the art on today's page. (I'll pause here for you to go reexamine it in case you missed it.) The important point being that if you noticed on your first perusal, you are a special butterfly.  2024-07-18 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Grrl Power #1275 - White lines

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If Sciona could figure out a way to package her toe sparkles and sell them in dime bags, she'd be rich. Also, I assume there's some gap between a new drug hitting the street and it being declared illegal, especially if it's not standard fare. It's probably not a st...

Grrl Power #1274 - Soul X sole

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I'm going to pop back and forth between good guys and bad guys in shorter sequences for a bit here, instead of going on 80 page benders. I'll probably return to that once I hit a good stride with a storyline, but if you're wanting to see what happens to Sydney afte...

Grrl Power #1273 - Going loud

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Doc Chevy is super interested in Frix's Tissue Recombobulator. Her powers accelerate the body's natural repair mechanisms, but she's become about 8x more effective with her abilities since she got her doctorate. She's trained as a trauma surgeon, but her specialty ...