Episode 314: Flame Resistant
Hey lovely readers! Sorry for the wait since the last update. As you may have seen (because I posted about it), a couple weeks ago I busted the screen on my laptop. Totally destroyed it. But I did manage to order a new one and install it all by myself! So all is well once again and I’m back to making comics.
During the hiatus, Gyno-Star did make a couple of other appearances, including a quick but memorable cameo in Superbitch!, and an encounter with a drunk (and doomed) Deadpool in a voter incentive for Grrl Power — click the link and vote to see the comic. She’s really getting around, isn’t she?
As always, thanks to my supporters on Patreon, who are helping me get paid. If you’re not a Patron but you’d like to pay me, too, I encourage that! I’ve got things like new laptop screens to pay for after all….
Hide a flame in a closet, and either the flame will be unable to breathe and snuff out, or it will ignite everything around it and burn the house down…
Time to see which happens here…
but he isn’t in the closet.. he’s rather comfortably out
Wait a sec. Gynostars power to inflict the pain of childbirth work on Robots?
if it can feel pain I guess
Why? Why was I programmed to feel pain?!?!?
Even if something couldn’t feel pain, I imagine it would still possible stun or overload, as it would still be an energy blast, just one that interacts uniquely with human physiology.
it’s also possible i’m overthinking this…
There’s an even simpler explanation, that Rebecca already used in the Strip itself:
http://www.gynostar.com/archives/comic/its-not-just-for-dust-anymore
I think you meant the one that came just before that strip.
I’d forgotten that arc, in any case.
http://www.gynostar.com/archives/comic/semantics
For robots, the sensation is that of cleaning out nine month’s worth of unregulated app bloat…
Do you know, it’s been so long since she’s had an actual fight, I’d forgotten she HAD that power. ^_^;
(time to re-read the webcomic from the start, I suppose).
That’s a bit…stereotypical of you Gynostar. Not everyone gay needs to like the same things.
He could genuinely enjoy beer pong and there would be nothing ‘Un-gay’ about that. Just poor taste.
His rather odd response “it is a thing I enjoy” comes off as being stilted and forced, an effort to fit-in with straight folks rather than being something he actually enjoys.
It is my belief that every instance of the consumption of beer is an act of assimilation.
Surely gay men are allowed to play dumb drinking games as well.
I hate to ask…what’s “beer pong”?
A party game played by drunken frat boys and football players, where you basically have to try and toss a ping-pong ball into an open red cup of beer. variations with actual ping-pong tables and paddles exist. Usually the game is scored by, if you get it in, your opponent has to chug the cup it fell in. Since the ball often misses and ends up on the floor, rolling through the puke of the last game’s loser, it’s not very sanitary. I would have to be very drunk indeed to be convinced to play. :/
Thank you for the explanation. I managed to avoid that sort of thing in college. Seems like I was lucky.
There was a Questionable Content guest strip that illustrated the game (and problems with it) quite well. Let me see if I can find it… yes.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=934
Now if only Blaze was dyslexic!
If he thought about “Peer Dong” he’d be heating up in no time! ^_^
Hey! I have an idea for a story. Take a 60 year established character and arbitrarily make them black or gay. That’s ripe for mining.
Iceman on line one.
There is a strip mall near where I live. It’s situated hard by the university. It is called (unsurprisingly) ‘University Plaza’. The hardware store at University Plaza sells packs of ping pong balls specifically for ‘beer pong’ and the grocery store always has a huge stock of those red cups.
Every time I shop there, I feel my own personal flame of happiness extinguish. So on some level, I relate.
Perhaps Blaze should take on a new career as a cigarette lighter… or a drag queen.
Wait is she making robots feel pain? Does that even make sense?
Or am I forgetting some other power?
There’s an even simpler explanation, that Rebecca already used in the Strip itself:
http://www.gynostar.com/archives/comic/its-not-just-for-dust-anymore
I like the stiltedness of “Beer pong is a thing I enjoy!” XD
Where is the half-naked birdmask guy when they need him? He’d relight Blaze’s flame in no time!
I’ve been thinking on this since you updated and yes…yes a homosexual flamer CAN like beer pong and still be himself. But, what do I know, I’m straight…he’s still a guy. 🙂 If Tony Curtis can enjoy his purse…