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Once again, Sydney lacks that little voice that says "would this actually help?"

New strip. More Sydney, and I think that the doc got skills beyond doctorin'.

She has to have skills beyond doctoring. She is treating Supers.

How does that follow?

If somebody is capable of throwing you into the next wall with simple reflexes, you pick some things up.

Oh that's what you meant.

I initially read "she has other skills" to mean "she also has super powers". My bad.

I really don't want to recycle my posts... but I'm realizing just how frequently I could just post what I had said in @876.

But this time she listened to that voice! She thought she was helping! It's the voice that was wrong.

I just discovered this strip and had the pleasure of reading the entire story so far in a couple of sittings. Poor Sydney and her impulse control problems. Anyone else would at least look around and go, "We're in a waiting room at a doctor's office. Where could a sniper possibly be hiding?"

And Sydney has a killer sense of humor. One of the few comics that actually makes me laugh out loud. Which means the person writing her scripts has a killer sense of humor, of course.

It is a good potrayal of ADHD.

Which is helped by the fact that it's made by someone with ADHD.

New strip. Mostly makes me feel sympathy for Arianna, and loses full effect for me because I mostly think of guano as seabird shit.

It's most definitely both. Trust somebody who lived on a coast with a lot of both bats and birds. :/

Heh, And while we've never used it for a car, the swear jar regularly pays for the anniversary dinner for my wife and me.

According to a quick search online, Sydney is wrong, and guano is really any excrement that can be used as fertilizer. It seems that various flying species, for various reasons, produce the best excrement for such purposes.

Also, I seem to recall hearing that chiropteran excrement tends to have concentrations of chemicals that can affect the neural workings of terrestrial mammals, particularly primates. Or, in simpler terms, too much exposure to bat shit can make you act crazy.

New strip. Largely a callback.

Why is "quiver" on the card twice?

Because it's really funny.

If I ever had any request for this comic, it's that someone will make Maxima saying "Moo" happen. Though I would get into arguments over whether getting her to say "nothingness" in Japanese counts, because I bet that would be way easier.

The double "quiver" is a mistake.

That bingo card may one day be a problem. I feel like every word that would be a good duress code for Maxima is on there somewhere.

First, "potato-deficient famine jockeys" is amazing. Second, the bad guys in her little vision have a ball sack.

I must disagree; the "famine jockeys" line seems a bit too far to me. Mostly because famine isn't something you can ride, and thus it's a backwards formation off of an ethnic slur for those from the Middle East, thus making sidelong reference to said slur. Mad Libs is great as a party game; terrible for creating ancestry-related insults.

Besides, it's not like there aren't hordes of already accepted Irish slurs. I mean, Irish troubles with the law are such that nobody blinks that an anti-Irish slur is still (not as much anymore, but still) used as a term for a police van meant for hauling arrestees.

You gotta admit, if she's ever taken captive, it will probably be exactly like this, mittens and ball sack and all. Considering how she reacts to stress, though, her code word would be buried in a steady stream of inventive insults and cusswords.

I think that's why Max picked "vermillion" as a code word - it's an uncommon adjective that you could see Sydney slipping into a string of invective.

"Billions of blue bilious blistering barnacles!" comes to mind.