GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics

[Traab]

The whole team is making a game of it. That Dabbler hasn't already won shows that the game is difficult. Maybe less difficult than for say Sidney, if Sidney is playing at all, but if there was no challenge it wouldn't be an enjoyable game.

Oh she is playing it. She got her first word crossed off by getting max to say cloaca at the general meeting when max gave her a trigger word if she was being held against her will and needed to signal her subtly.

[Dragonus45]

Wow Kenya is so cruel, and Hiro is so screwed.

[lord_khaine]

Thats about as unlogical a statement as it gets. How on earth are Hiro screwed from standing around discretely trying to cover important parts with a block of concrete?

[Traab]

Yeah max is being a bit unreasonable here. Its understandable, she IS being poked atm, but its not like its something hiro can control and I would bet cash money her nipples could be used to etch diamonds right now. All I know is, im expecting something embarrassing to happen here. Suzie news showing up with camera rolling for example.

[Dragonus45]

Thats about as unlogical a statement as it gets. How on earth are Hiro screwed from standing around discretely trying to cover important parts with a block of concrete?

The part where his superheroic erection has blasted through that concrete after Kenya called for a group hug. Although I wouldn't say Max is being unreasonable either. Her immediate response would be as much immediate reaction as Hiro's is.

[Leewei]

Unsecured combat areas are pretty far from the best situation for pizza delivery boy roleplaying. Given their personal invulnerability, I'd guess that this is far from the first, or last, time time this sort of thing would happen.

[lord_khaine]

The part where his superheroic erection has blasted through that concrete after Kenya called for a group hug. Although I wouldn't say Max is being unreasonable either. Her immediate response would be as much immediate reaction as Hiro's is.

Yes so thats the argument for why Anvil is in trouble. Im waiting for the on regarding Hiro, who as such are as much of a victim as Max in the sexual harashment lawsuit that wont come.

[Dragonus45]

Yes so thats the argument for why Anvil is in trouble. Im waiting for the on regarding Hiro, who as such are as much of a victim as Max in the sexual harashment lawsuit that wont come.

Have you seen the look Max is giving him, I would likely die of terror from that look before she even had time to take a swing at me.

[Spamotron]

They know there is another dangerous hostile in the area and hostages. Seconds count on the battlefield. It reflects poorly on their discipline as soldiers/supercops when simple nudity is causing them to waste this much time.

[Onyavar]

They know there is another dangerous hostile in the area and hostages. Seconds count on the battlefield. It reflects poorly on their discipline as soldiers/supercops when simple nudity is causing them to waste this much time.

Dito.

Hello? Common sense? Name me a situation where you forcefully couple two superior officers mid-battle and it's remotely okay.

Drama knows three forms of nudity: desperate scenes, funny scenes and porno scenes. They may overlap: desperate+porno = rape scenes, desperate+funny =humiliation scenes, funny+porno= sexy hijinks.
Dave is trying to mix all three, but there is no such thing as 'funny rape scenes'. It just stops being funny. No author commentary can make that up.

Anvil is wrong ethically, legally and tactically. She's doing noone a service here but the adolescent fan reader.

But regarding the overall silliness of the comic, I won't be surprised if in nine months comictime, Maxima gets to enjoy motherhood.

[AvatarVecna]

Dito.

Hello? Common sense? Name me a situation where you forcefully couple two superior officers mid-battle and it's remotely okay.

Drama knows three forms of nudity: desperate scenes, funny scenes and porno scenes. They may overlap: desperate+porno = rape scenes, desperate+funny =humiliation scenes, funny+porno= sexy hijinks.
Dave is trying to mix all three, but there is no such thing as 'funny rape scenes'. It just stops being funny. No author commentary can make that up.

Anvil is wrong ethically, legally and tactically. She's doing noone a service here but the adolescent fan reader.

But regarding the overall silliness of the comic, I won't be surprised if in nine months comictime, Maxima gets to enjoy motherhood.

Fortunately, that's a few centuries in GrrlPower webcomic time, so we'll all probably be dead long before it's devolved that far.

[Traab]

Meh, they destroyed the robot, there is no current threat attacking them, and they are way too naked to continue hopping around looking for clues. Taking a minute out of their busy schedule to process this and maybe get a damn shirt or two, isnt all that horrible. I wouldnt be surprised if the rubble was still settling. Yeah anvil isnt being very appropriate here but as has been dramatically established, this is closer to the avengers than the seals. These guys are friends who screw with each other constantly, and basically only technically military to keep things nice and legal. Yes this is obvious beefcake and cheesecake for the viewers to giggle at, but it doesnt feel forced to me, as I swear I can see anvil pulling this on maxima especially.

[Dragonus45]

Dito.

Hello? Common sense? Name me a situation where you forcefully couple two superior officers mid-battle and it's remotely okay.

Drama knows three forms of nudity: desperate scenes, funny scenes and porno scenes. They may overlap: desperate+porno = rape scenes, desperate+funny =humiliation scenes, funny+porno= sexy hijinks.
Dave is trying to mix all three, but there is no such thing as 'funny rape scenes'. It just stops being funny. No author commentary can make that up.

Anvil is wrong ethically, legally and tactically. She's doing noone a service here but the adolescent fan reader.

But regarding the overall silliness of the comic, I won't be surprised if in nine months comictime, Maxima gets to enjoy motherhood.

First off there is totally such a thing as a funny rape scene, This is the End proves that off the bat. Also I think you are taking it a bit farther than they are, clearly there is no penetration there just an awkward erection. Anyways everyone in the group hug is so many varieties of immortal I doubt they have much to worry about. MY thing is that its kinda stupid that Kenya does the group hug but Hiro gets yelled at, after he went to a great deal of effort not to sneak a peak in the last page.

[Celestia]

First off there is totally such a thing as a funny rape scene, This is the End proves that off the bat. Also I think you are taking it a bit farther than they are, clearly there is no penetration there just an awkward erection. Anyways everyone in the group hug is so many varieties of immortal I doubt they have much to worry about. MY thing is that its kinda stupid that Kenya does the group hug but Hiro gets yelled at, after he went to a great deal of effort not to sneak a peak in the last page.

No there absolutely is not. Period.

And that movie was garbage, anyways. It had maybe three good lines.

[halfeye]

No there absolutely is not. Period.

I quite agree, there is no such thing as a funny sexual assault. It's probably funny to the perpetrator, in all cases, but NO.

[Dragonus45]

Good for you, you're wrong.

[Forum Explorer]

Good for you, you're wrong.

In the interest of curiosity, prove it. What source (you don't need to provide a direct link) did you find a funny rape scene in?

Actually, I suppose a few of the comic strips in Oglaf are pretty rapey.

[Dragonus45]

Its not really something that needs to be proven but I guess with some people it has to be repeated. EVERYTHING IS FUNNY. Rape is funny, genocide is funny, war is funny, cannibalism is funny, assault is funny, cancer is funny, me stubbing my toe on the way to the bathroom in the morning is funny, and the more depressing awful, and unpleasant something is the funnier it is. That it literally how humor works. Oh and for an example I would say the Fruit Boinker in Penny Arcade is pretty funny, as are the infamous Phallus Wolves.

[lord_khaine]

Have you seen the look Max is giving him, I would likely die of terror from that look before she even had time to take a swing at me.

Well i on the other would not feel anything at all besides perhaps a touch of annoyance towards Anvil. Partly because Max would not have a moral leg to stand on, but mainly because an extremely proffesional Colonel is not going to punch one of her people while on a official mission...

me stubbing my toe on the way to the bathroom in the morning is funny

No thats very funny

Oh and for an example I would say the Fruit Boinker in Penny Arcade is pretty funny

Those meanwhile are bloddy hilarious, i laughted long and hard the first time i saw one of them in On the Rainslick precipy to Darkness.

[Shogo]

I'd have to agree with Dragonus on this one. Rape scenes can be pretty funny.

While rape isn't funny in and of itself, that doesn't mean a scene involving it can't be funny. Comedies can, will, and have used it for comedic effect. Usually by both not taking it seriously and using it as a way to punish some kind of villain.

"Haha! Look at that stupid villain getting violated!"

Or it's done to a man. Because a lot of people who are horrified by a woman being assaulted think a man being assaulted is hilarious. Those crazy kids with their double standards.

Anyways . . . Whether you like it or not, comedy is subjective and black comedy is a thing that exists.

[halfeye]

I'd have to agree with Dragonus on this one. Rape scenes can be pretty funny.

While rape isn't funny in and of itself, that doesn't mean a scene involving it can't be funny. Comedies can, will, and have used it for comedic effect. Usually by both not taking it seriously and using it as a way to punish some kind of villain.

"Haha! Look at that stupid villain getting violated!"

Or it's done to a man. Because a lot of people who are horrified by a woman being assaulted think a man being assaulted is hilarious. Those crazy kids with their double standards.

Anyways . . . Whether you like it or not, comedy is subjective and black comedy is a thing that exists.

Let's put it this way, in every rape scene, there is someone for whom it is not funny.

[AvatarVecna]

Let's put it this way, in every rape scene, there is someone for whom it is not funny.

I have to disagree with this, but only because of the existence of Crack!fics. Found a fic awhile back that I'm almost positive started as a bet to see if the author could write a hilarious crack fic that was basically nothing but the most absurd rape scenes, and while the characters certainly weren't into it, they at least seemed about as confused as put out, and after awhile just kinda ambivalent.

Rape jokes can work, I think, so long as the rape itself isn't what's considered funny. But that's not really relevant to this comic, since there is no rape here except perhaps visually.

[Dragonus45]

Let's put it this way, in every rape scene, there is someone for whom it is not funny.

For every joke ever told there is someone who does not like the joke. Doesn't stop the joke from being funny.

[Shogo]

That's true of a lot of humor, Halfeye.

You might laugh your butt off when someone slips and falls. Or when someone does something that makes them look stupid. Or most any joke at someone else's expense. It's not funny for the person who is the butt of those jokes. Doesn't stop most people from laughing.

You can find a joke about a taboo subject to be funny without thinking the taboo subject is itself funny.

[Traab]

Or its just schadenfreude. Which, if I remember my german, is enjoying it when bad things happen to guys named freud.

[Onyavar]

Okay, I admit that there seems to be a few people who seem to think that rape can be a funny subject. I guess that's taste in humour and how much thought you put into it before laughing/being outraged.

Also I think you are taking it a bit farther than they are, clearly there is no penetration there just an awkward erection. Anyways everyone in the group hug is so many varieties of immortal I doubt they have

My 'ahem' joke about Maximas pregnancy doesn't mean that I thought she was penetrated. (though Hiros comment about her warmness may be a hint).
Well, ANY sexual harassment that involves unwanted body contact, constitutes rape in many jurisdictions. No need for it being male-female penetration.

Imagine a theater where your two follow actors are just undressed in the common changing room, nude expect for underwear. You, on a whim, press them together skin on skin, just as demonstrated in the recent update. Regardless whether your colleagues are attracted to each other or not, they COULD sue your behind off. Sexual harassment is a great way to ruin or strain a friendship. It's not a prank you should try on April 1st.

[Onyavar]

Or its just schadenfreude. Which, if I remember my german, is enjoying it when bad things happen to guys named freud.

Heh, close. It's when you enjoy observing others' bad luck. Literally translated, it's 'joy of damage'. Yes, Sigmund's family name is 'Joy'.

Note that Schadenfreude is not about inflicting damage on others yourself - you're just the observer who breaks out into laughter when Jerry blows up Tom with a bar of dynamite. It shows that you're empathic enough to know that it hurts, but on the same time emotionally distant enough to see the humorous aspect of it.
If you ever watched the full youtube video of that guy who really blew up his real cat with real dynamite, you already learned that some bad things are less funny than others.

[Traab]

Yeah I know what the word means, I just recently read that joke and couldnt pass it up in a scenario where it could actually be used without being random. As for humor, its very subjective, but I just feel like I should mention I used to have a collection of joke books titled something along the lines of, "Sick disgusting horrible joke book" that had such gems as, "How many babies can fit in a phone booth? Depends on how powerful the hydraulic press is." Or, if disabled humor is your thing, "What did helen keller say when someone pinched her butt? Nothing, she was wearing mittens." Those arent precise quotes as its been a very long time since I read any of those, but as I recall they were up to book number 14 of the series when I stopped reading them, so clearly there is a market of people who love awful jokes.

[Roland St. Jude]

Sheriff: Please take this discussion back in a forum-appropriate direction.

[Forum Explorer]

Yeah I know what the word means, I just recently read that joke and couldnt pass it up in a scenario where it could actually be used without being random. As for humor, its very subjective, but I just feel like I should mention I used to have a collection of joke books titled something along the lines of, "Sick disgusting horrible joke book" that had such gems as, "How many babies can fit in a phone booth? Depends on how powerful the hydraulic press is." Or, if disabled humor is your thing, "What did helen keller say when someone pinched her butt? Nothing, she was wearing mittens." Those arent precise quotes as its been a very long time since I read any of those, but as I recall they were up to book number 14 of the series when I stopped reading them, so clearly there is a market of people who love awful jokes.

Knowing who loves black humor is the key to winning Card Games Against Humanity.

Anyways, back on topic, I think this whole scene is just wasted time. Unless they are planning to have Hiro be Maxima's romantic interest.