Grrl Power #1306 – Exposure therapy?

In my eagerness to put this goofy page up, I have skipped an important transitional page, which would have shown - without dialog - a doctor talking to a forlorn looking Peggy, a doctor showing an X-ray of what was left of her leg and Peggy looking slightly green, then a series of panels where Peggy is psyching herself up to use a crutch for the first time to get to the bathroom. Not a funny page at all, but something to show that at least a day has passed since she woke up. Hopefully the limp hair, yellowy bruises and absent neck brace show that at least a little time has passed. I hope people don't read the previous page, then this one and think she's sitting in the hospital and no one has interacted with her since she woke up. If they do then it's my fault for rushing ahead to this one.

I honestly apologize to anyone who's had a catastrophic injury like Peggy here. But it also makes me laugh so... here we are.

Can you imagine sitting in a hospital on a ventilator, recovering from say, West Nile or something, you turn on the TV to the stacks of body bags scene in a plague-pocolypse movie like Outbreak? Then you change the channel and find yourself in the middle of Contagion, then on to The Andromeda Strain, 12 Monkeys, then... I don't know. 28 Days Later? People think of that as a zombie film but it's really a Super Rabies-ish film. Anyway, you'd think someone was playing a prank on you.

When this page occurred to me, I started working on it right away, looking for scenes in movies where people get legs cut off. While it does happen in movies, by comparison, arms and hands are ejecting from bodies like they're both positively charged magnets. If someone does lose a leg, it's because they're getting eaten by a shark of they stepped on a mine, and that's the last we see of them. There's very few leg-losers that continue to appear in media after the event, with some notable exceptions like Lieutenant Dan. (I've never actually seen Forest Gump so it wasn't upfront in my mind while googling famous limb-be-gone scenes.)

You know what sucks? The panels on the left obviously started as screenshots, but then I meticulously painted over them and rebuilt all the backgrounds like that Bespin shaft and the forest litter and creek and bridge and it just looks like I ran them through a slightly smudgy oil paint filter in PhotoShop. Maybe I'm a dumbass, because each one of those took me like two hours, at least. Well, okay, maybe the Planet Terror one took an hour. It's a simpler picture. I maybe should have tried to redraw them entirely in my own style, but I didn't want it to be ambiguous as to what she was watching if I couldn't quite capture it right. Ah well, maybe next time.

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Dabbler went somewhere tropical, in a very small bikini. As you might guess, it doesn't stay on for long, which of course, you can see over atPatreon. Also she has an incident with lotion," and there's a bonus comic page as well.

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