Episode 285: The Perks of Perkiness
The TOTALLY AWESOME Dave Barrack brings you yet another hilarious guest comic. Gyno-Star finds an upside to being a sexy, “idealized” comic book heroine.
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That smirking black guy looks disturbingly like the black kid in the previous strip. So sad, that they get taller but don’t get any more mature. XP It also occurs to me that the Objectifier changed Gyno-Star and she didn’t want him. In fact, none of those trio of women wanted him until after he changed them. I wonder if it will occur to him that, even with his altered body, women still don’t care for him unless he alters their mindset. Oh well. Given how screwed up he is mentally, he probably won’t care.
If you go back to his first appearance, it’s what he’s complaining about.
I know! So do you think he’ll wise up and see the futility of his unique “superpower” or just continue blissfully unaware of the irony until the massive organ failure catches up to him?
“So sad, that they get taller but don’t get any more mature.”
Well that’s not at all sexist.
Yeah, the two black guys’ faces could stand to be a little more different. I think the men outside, who know exactly what The Objectifier is doing and just stand there cheering him on, are a lot more immature than the men in the bar, who don’t appear to have any clue what’s really going on and have yet to be disrespectful to her.
Think she’ll noticed it’s affecting her mind before it’s completely gone?
Oh dear… is this setting Gynostar up for retirement from superheroing? Is Little Sappho going to take up her abandoned mantle and save the day? Or is Blue Sun girl (Did she ever get a name? Speaking of which, did Objectifier? Other than Objectifier/Alpha Man) going to swoop in with the application of SCIENCE! to save us from the perils of SCIENCE!?
*prepares to tune in next time*
love love LOVE that two of my favourite comics are meeting like this!!! Can we please have cross-comic cameos???
Rebecca, you were on my dream the other night ! Il try to remember it…;)
So… is he saying Feminism is only for ugly women? :\
I think he’s saying that Objectifier has messed her mind up as well as changing her body. Considering that the idea of “women’s perks” being perks comes mostly from people with Objectifier’s mindset, he probably took the opportunity to bring her into alignment with his views mentally as well as physically.
Holy crap Gyno-Star just becaome actually cool and a really awesome party girl!
Now if only she dumped that idiotic marxist straw-man she hanged with…
Such trolling. So pathetic. Very sadness. Wow.
Eh?
Who’s trolling? Are you nuts?
I am serious :O
She appears to actually having fun for once in her life. Now if she ditched that strawman marxist psychopath…
Trolling…pfff, trust me , when i am trolling i am doing it with style and don’t need to go to such lengths xD
You mean those nonsensical comments you’ve been making have been serious? Holy shit.
On a side note, i love you start your reply with carefully targeted insults – very classy.
Congratulations, Zap, you’ve hit the nail on the head. Yes, Gyno-Star is “cool” now. I’ve long associated coolness with uselessness. It means keeping up with what’s trendy, doing what looks great rather than what is good for others, making sure that your hair, clothes, car, etc., are always stylish so that people stare and coo over you. It’s not about being helpful, moral, decent, kind, considerate or generous. So, yes, Gyno-Star is one of the cool people now…which is why she’s in a bar letting drooling bozos buy her drinks and stare down her cleavage rather dealing with the threat of the Objectifier. Good for you for noticing that, Zap.
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Also who said she is not “moral, decent, kind or generous” – you saw the new Gyno for 3 strips and you already are judging her?
Wow!
What happened to not reading a book by its cover?
She’s sat in a bar, enjoying the attention of a few men while, outside, there is a supervillain who is manipulating people’s bodies and minds against their will. That she is one of his victims, and that her current mindset is a result of his manipulation doesn’t change the fact that her actions, bearing in mind that she is a superhero, are not moral, decent, kind or generous.
What’s funny is that if he was remotely snarky about other men, you’d be whining about how awful and sexist that is, and you’d recognise that her behaviour doesn’t reflect well on her… especially funny, since his first victim was a man, why do you hate men, you misandrist?
Zap: “Also who said she is not ‘moral, decent, kind or generous’ (…)?”
Nobody said that. Not me, the person you’re replying to, nor Ragingagnostic, the person you’re quoting. That’s because Ragingagnostic wasn’t talking about her specifically, he was saying that that’s not what being “cool” is about.
He’s not saying you can’t do both, he’s just saying that if all you care about is being “cool”, then being moral, decent, kind, or generous isn’t something you need to worry about.
And he wasn’t “reading a book by its cover” (by which I assume you meant “*judging* a book by its cover”), he’s judging her based on her _actions_, where she throws out her principals and turns her back on her friend for some entirely superficial “popularity”.
But hey, if you’re the kind of person who likes it when people treat their friends like dirt in public, fine. You’re just not someone I’d like to hang around with.
Have a nice day! 🙂
Interesting, those guys don’t seem to me like “drooling bozos” but i guess it fair to label an entire gender because they don’t conform to your mindset, huh?
You were saying something about idiotic strawmen?
Maybe my math skills have gone a little south recently… but I didn’t know that three people constituted an entire gender?
Four, four billion, easy mistake to make.
I agree with you on “cool”. I’m not cool. I have more important things to do.
While I don’t entirely agree with Zap, I think that labeling all ‘Cool’ people as lacking in morality, generosity and kindness is very unfair ragingagnostic.
I think you will find that those traits occur no less in ‘Cool’ people than in ‘Uncool’ people. The interests you have mentioned are just that, interests. They don’t entirely define a person.
Some people enjoy models, some people enjoy computer games, some people enjoy soccer and some people enjoy parties and fashion. These have no moral judgements on the person just as much as video games don’t make you a raging killer.
I think the term you are looking for, with how she is currently acting is ‘Shallow’, which isn’t really related to an enjoyment of drinking and showing off. After all, there is nothing morally wrong with liking to be looked at, IF that is what you genuinely enjoy. It takes all types to make a world.
Just my two cents. I’m not a popular person myself but I hate to see people make moral judgements on how others chose to live their lives. That’s not really fair.
Weird, I’ve long associated coolness with social power.
Sex is power. Attention feels good. Shallow things are not bad things, they just aren’t that important. But power is important. And demonizing male, and female, sexuality is dishonest and baseless.
Good for you, Gyno-Star. You need a moment to recover, anyway.
I don’t know why but i’m liking this new gyno-star, sassy!
Because she’s FUN?
Because she’s not PREACHY?
Because she finally dumped that iidiotic straw-man marxist psycho-girl who finds “justice” in killing innocent employees that happen to work for a big corporation even though she fights for the working class?
Yeah, i like her better also.
It’s always fun to see americans try to create a marxist character…and FAIL at it.
Now you’re making things up. The only person she ever killed, so far as we know, was attacking her with a handaxe:
http://www.gynostar.com/archives/comic/inner-strength
Also, come on, every character in the comic both exaggerates her defining philosophy and is sometimes a hypocrite, because it’s funny.
To be fair, this guy would not have been long for the world after meeting her: http://www.gynostar.com/archives/comic/the-greatest
Hey, there aren’t any vital organs in his leg. As long as he survived the blood loss, he’d be fine.
Good luck surviving the blood loss you’d get from a complete rupture of the femoral artery. Maybe with an immediate tourniquet (although there isn’t much leg left to stick a tourniquet on), and prompt blood transfusion. Maybe. But getting the man medical help doesn’t exactly seem on anyone’s list of priorities.
Since the blood isn’t spurting, there’s no arterial bleeding?
Lesbian rage cauterisation power?
See? He might’ve lived!
Actually, it was Sapphy who did the killing, not Gyno
Love the comic, hope she turns back and kicks his ass soon ^^ Or else he’ll die some miserable horrible death just like the lab rats did… either or I’m fine with XD
How about this: he dies a horrible miserable death (as he lies dying, he turns to his female companion and asks if she really would have gone out with him, she replies “Sure, but that was before you became a giant douchespittoon” and then he dies) and the effects simply wears off and everyone laughs at his pathetic mutated Leifeldian corpse, and then go have a drink together
Did the beam also somehow transport Little Sappho back 30ish years?
Welcome to the third wave. Equal as long as it’s convenient.
Such butthurt. So flaming. Very hilarious. Wow
You people are killing me. This has always been a tongue in cheek humor kind of comic, and if this arc is influenced by how Grrl Power heroines behave, well i don’t think Gyno-Star is in any real danger.
Plus, she is OBVIOUSLY not staying like this, GUEST STRIP : have you heard of it?
Anyway, i would love to see Gyno-Star making an appearance in Grrl Power, in fact I’m sure her and Maxima are secret BFFs
“…if this arc is influenced by how Grrl Power heroines behave, well i don’t think Gyno-Star is in any real danger.”
No, it is not. The strip is here because Dave Barrack could not think of a way to fit it into the Grrl Power setting. Where it does overlap though is with the humour.
Always bear in mind that Dave is a big fan of Gyno-Star, and has recommended it to readers on several occasions. Plus it permanently features in his list of top recommendations.
The looks and behaviour are designed to sympathetically highlight the negative aspects of the issues, rather than glorify them.
Given that the heroines in Grrl Power read Marvel and other real-world comics, I think you will probably find that Maxima is a staunch Gyno-Star fan herself. Meeting her in person might freak her out. Although we have seen a wallpaper of Dabbler with Zintiel, of Flaky Pastry, so it is a possibility.
The worst thing to happen to Gyno Star is to be transformed into a living example of what she hates most. Arrrgggg!!! How will she get out of this. Reminds me of characters who change in personality after they are turned into vampires.
The change comes with every full moon… and the instincts of the wold takes over!
Mostly being highly social and practicing monogamy.
Looks like we need another mind-control reversing tiara.
Thank you for making her gloves have fingers again!
[sigh] Always two steps forward and one step back for her, isn’t it? And with the way she twists her upper body around now, she’d better be careful that her forward steps don’t take her back.