Indeed, even to the extent that her hair naturally falls into a “fresh from the salon” look, while the glasses adjust it into more of a “I know what a comb is, at least in theory” look.
Her natural facial colouration is something most women would need “natural-look makeup” to achieve. *Technically* consisting of natural skin and lip colours, but more idealized than nearly any woman on the planet looks like sans-makeup. While glasses on, she looks like most women do with no makeup.
for the record Pam Anderson was flat as a board in her early years. she BOUGHT those puppies and should have Shot her DRs in the face. they were horribly done and has had several revisions.
I imagine it isn’t intentional, but it’s probably important to recognise that binding is actually a thing a lot of trans and non binary folk need for their health, and pressuring some one like that, and disregarding what sounds a lot like dysphoria is super not cool,
I think you miss the (v.i.)point of the speech about how what shows on the outside not matching how you feel inside is in fact really common. She’s not disregarding the unease that comes from that but instead saying you need to accept who you are, including the contradictions that make us who we are. Far from being not cool, I think this is an excellent strip with an important point.
As your local transman let me tell you that binding with ace bandages is *dangerous* and no one ever should bind with them. Binding safely is still a health hazard and while yes, we use it to deal with the dysphoria, that’s not really what this is. This may be body dysmorphia instead which is what most people who don’t like their body have!
I think every miss this part DEMIGOD she can change purposely change herself. but she wont allow her self to cut corners in this illustration of her rebirth hence why she had the unplanned breast bloom age, so I think this was experienced in dealing with her body..now comes the part if she is truly a demigod who was ahe??
Darkmyste I think you’re asking which god is she? If you are, she’s Aphrodite’s granddaughter, hence being drop dead gorgeous without the enchanted glasses she usually wears.
Everyone keeps assuming the glasses have a spell on them. When that hasn’t been stated or even really suggested other then by readers. Maybe her glasses are just really thick and are so because she really needs them to see. because When she wakes up and tries to wake Barbara. the vey 1st thing she dose is put on her glasses. She woke from a sound sleep saw a ghost and stops to put on her glasses that she only wears for a glamor spell. On before waking her best friend who doesn’t care what she looks like?? REALLY? doesn’t wash. As someone who has worn and really needed glasses my whole life will tell you. You wake up you put your glasses on. now if I woke up and saw a ghost and I didn’t need my glasses I would not put them on. The fact when she went to sleep she had placed the glasses right wear they could be found the second she wakes up says she needs them. Not to hide behind but to see.
She’s also shown to be INCREDIBLY self conscious, and is in a room with a lot of people she just met, maybe a week ago. The glasses may also be an emotional crutch, that she literally does hide behind, so her first instinct is to always keep them handy, and always feel more comfortable with them on.
And I also wear glasses. without them I can’t read the monitor that’s right in front of me right now.
Interesting progression. Monica makes no effort to disguise herself, but is touchy from an early age about the attention her bust receives (and the conclusions people draw therefrom). Atsali is more deeply upset due to her lineage and the suddenness of the change, tries to disguise her figure, fails, but doesn’t accept it for a few years. Now Mindy is even more disturbed by her appearance, succeeds in hiding it for many months, and has no idea how to cope with her actual appearance. Even after unbinding, she uses the “glasses of ordinariness”. (Made for her by Hephaestus?) And the “Backpack of Boob Coverage” (Made for her by Kenneth Cole)
again everyone is assuming she using glasses with a glamor on them when she was wearing glasses long before she ever had any hint of getting her mammal bumps. Freud said ” sometimes a cigar is JUST a cigar.” And sometimes thick glasses are just thick glasses.
The art was FAN art. Not art by the writer artist. So as fan art it is not cannon. Now that said doesn’t mean I am right. It also doesn’t mean you are right. It means we don’t know for sure yet ether way. I am just saying Until we KNOW for sure. We shouldn’t go from the point of view that the glasses have a glamor. Case in point. Also a VERY long time ago. when I was in high school I dated a girl who had the dorkiest ugliest glasses ever made by man. They made her look unattractive to 99% of the other boys. Me being more then slightly a misfit myself (weird) Liked her for her brains and her personality. We dated for a fairly long time. When she and I were alone we would take our glasses off to kiss. (neck) The 1st time she took her glasses off. I was dumbfounded On how truly beautiful she really was. She was petite but had a perfect gymnastics body. long dark hair that felt and shined like silk. the darkest emerald green eyes I have ever seen. Even without make-up a face that was literally drop dead beautiful. I thought to myself all the guys at school are fools. And thanked god they had no clue what a total treasure she was in every way. She was super intelligent wore glasses and was shy with everyone but me. The cheerleaders in our school were suck up so sure they were the prettiest girls who ever lived and picked on all the other girls. they were horrid to my girlfriend. but I knew that she was a swan compared to them beautiful on the inside and out. while they were ugly on the inside and plain compared to her on the outside. and I told her so. The point is. “my” girl with her glasses off was drop dead beautiful. much like Mindy. And I am sure that there was no glamor on “my” Girls glasses. But to the world she looked like night and day different with them on and with them off. So until we are 100% sure that Mindy’s glasses having a glamor is cannon let just agree to dis-agree.
i think this is a “Superman syndrome” .. the spiral glasses hide the real Mindy.!!
my partner tried that IRL (glasses = nerd,, to cover the fact that she was well endowed . ((Atsali size.)) .. an nope did not work.!
yep,, before we were dating,, told her the glasses were having the opposite effect.! glasses = naive nerd (bait),.
she stopped wearing glasses an half the guys stopped. bothering her..
You’re right about the effect of removing the glasses. Gorgeous girl syndrome. if they are “too pretty” they don’t get approached, except maybe by the arrogant. This is not even apocryphal. I know someone who was a complete nerd, so he asked out the prettiest girl in school. If he was going to be told “no” it would be by the best. No one else ever bothered to ask her out, so …
She almost always has sparkles without her glasses. It feels like a depiction of a glamour – the way Atsali’s eyes changed when she was singing to Berdine. The implication is that you can’t look at her without being mesmerized by her beauty. Since Paul can’t draw a different version for each of us, she appears as “you probably find her a knockout, and if you don’t, you at least understand what we’re going for here.” Just my guess…
I agree with you, but I always liked the nerdy women. Glamour Mindy would cause too much cognitive dissonance – I can’t see her joining in a rousing chorus of “He is not in the least afraid to be mashed into a pulp. Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his Elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away. Brave brave brave brave Sir Robin!”
Always felt Mindy was beautiful, even more so before the last panel (while, yes, she is beautiful, she is not as attractive, personally, as her usual appearance)
And while personally have preference, will not force her to pick, that is something only she should do, and pic what she is comfortable with, and she is quite obviously NOT comfortable with the final panel
Okay, Paul, it’s not like your style is photorealistic. It’s actually better than that: your style is more emotional than physical. That being said, that last frame showing Mindy is all her mythic glory leaves me breathless. As I said, it’s only a comic, but you manage to transcend that. Thank you.
Has it occurred to anyone that Mindy’s glasses may be both necessary for her to see with, AND that they are enchanted to hide her glamour? Remember that in her original introduction, she was Aphrodite’s great granddaughter, making her a semi-hemi-demigoddess. Assuming she is descended from one of the mortals with whom Aphrodite mated, and not yet another of the gods, that makes her up to 7/8 human, and only 1/8 goddess. Even if she’s descended from one of the other gods who were Aphrodite’s lovers, that may still make her mostly human. Therefore, I theorize that although she certainly has enough “goddess-ness” in her for her dazzling beauty to be pretty much automatic, she doesn’t have enough in her to not be susceptible to common human maladies, such as astigmatism/poor vision. Hence: since she may need the glasses, whoever was responsible for getting her glasses may have decided to put the glamour-hiding effects on them as well, for better or for worse. It remains to be seen if my theory is correct.
so the glasses glamour is definitely a thing that drastically changes how she looks. ~<3
So she shops at the same place as Clark Kent?
Or the para community supplied Clark Kent with his glasses…..Para, alien, they’re both trying to fly under the radar.
Indeed, even to the extent that her hair naturally falls into a “fresh from the salon” look, while the glasses adjust it into more of a “I know what a comb is, at least in theory” look.
Her natural facial colouration is something most women would need “natural-look makeup” to achieve. *Technically* consisting of natural skin and lip colours, but more idealized than nearly any woman on the planet looks like sans-makeup. While glasses on, she looks like most women do with no makeup.
Rather interesting character detail, all told.
Pamela Anderson, The Teenage Years.
No, she’s prettier than Pam.
she is prettier then anyone ever.
for the record Pam Anderson was flat as a board in her early years. she BOUGHT those puppies and should have Shot her DRs in the face. they were horribly done and has had several revisions.
Well damn…
OH…MY…GODDESS!!! THAT’S ACTUALLY MINDY???
Correct. And, correct.
Granddaughter of Aphrodite, remember?
🙄 Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld have nothing to do with what Mindy looks like 😏
I imagine it isn’t intentional, but it’s probably important to recognise that binding is actually a thing a lot of trans and non binary folk need for their health, and pressuring some one like that, and disregarding what sounds a lot like dysphoria is super not cool,
I think you miss the (v.i.)point of the speech about how what shows on the outside not matching how you feel inside is in fact really common. She’s not disregarding the unease that comes from that but instead saying you need to accept who you are, including the contradictions that make us who we are. Far from being not cool, I think this is an excellent strip with an important point.
As your local transman let me tell you that binding with ace bandages is *dangerous* and no one ever should bind with them. Binding safely is still a health hazard and while yes, we use it to deal with the dysphoria, that’s not really what this is. This may be body dysmorphia instead which is what most people who don’t like their body have!
I think every miss this part DEMIGOD she can change purposely change herself. but she wont allow her self to cut corners in this illustration of her rebirth hence why she had the unplanned breast bloom age, so I think this was experienced in dealing with her body..now comes the part if she is truly a demigod who was ahe??
Darkmyste I think you’re asking which god is she? If you are, she’s Aphrodite’s granddaughter, hence being drop dead gorgeous without the enchanted glasses she usually wears.
Now she’s going to have to deal with the fallout of being drop-dead gorgeous. But she’s got a good friend in Barbara who can help her through it.
I can’t help but wonder if/when Mindy will meet Atsali, or Monica, or both ~ and whether she’ll be introduced to her/them by Cas or Bud, or both🤔
Patience. Remember that it took a while for Atsali to meet Monica.
Can she see without her glasses?
The strip last week where she woke up seemed to indicate she does, but she may be farsighted.
The glasses may do nothing for her vision, but are part of the “spell of ordinariness” she uses.
Everyone keeps assuming the glasses have a spell on them. When that hasn’t been stated or even really suggested other then by readers. Maybe her glasses are just really thick and are so because she really needs them to see. because When she wakes up and tries to wake Barbara. the vey 1st thing she dose is put on her glasses. She woke from a sound sleep saw a ghost and stops to put on her glasses that she only wears for a glamor spell. On before waking her best friend who doesn’t care what she looks like?? REALLY? doesn’t wash. As someone who has worn and really needed glasses my whole life will tell you. You wake up you put your glasses on. now if I woke up and saw a ghost and I didn’t need my glasses I would not put them on. The fact when she went to sleep she had placed the glasses right wear they could be found the second she wakes up says she needs them. Not to hide behind but to see.
She’s also shown to be INCREDIBLY self conscious, and is in a room with a lot of people she just met, maybe a week ago. The glasses may also be an emotional crutch, that she literally does hide behind, so her first instinct is to always keep them handy, and always feel more comfortable with them on.
And I also wear glasses. without them I can’t read the monitor that’s right in front of me right now.
If the glasses have no magicky effect, how does one explain the panel-to-panel differences in her lips? Other body parts I can understand.
Interesting progression. Monica makes no effort to disguise herself, but is touchy from an early age about the attention her bust receives (and the conclusions people draw therefrom). Atsali is more deeply upset due to her lineage and the suddenness of the change, tries to disguise her figure, fails, but doesn’t accept it for a few years. Now Mindy is even more disturbed by her appearance, succeeds in hiding it for many months, and has no idea how to cope with her actual appearance. Even after unbinding, she uses the “glasses of ordinariness”. (Made for her by Hephaestus?) And the “Backpack of Boob Coverage” (Made for her by Kenneth Cole)
again everyone is assuming she using glasses with a glamor on them when she was wearing glasses long before she ever had any hint of getting her mammal bumps. Freud said ” sometimes a cigar is JUST a cigar.” And sometimes thick glasses are just thick glasses.
There is some original art that shows exactly what the glasses do. We’re not imagining it.
The art was FAN art. Not art by the writer artist. So as fan art it is not cannon. Now that said doesn’t mean I am right. It also doesn’t mean you are right. It means we don’t know for sure yet ether way. I am just saying Until we KNOW for sure. We shouldn’t go from the point of view that the glasses have a glamor. Case in point. Also a VERY long time ago. when I was in high school I dated a girl who had the dorkiest ugliest glasses ever made by man. They made her look unattractive to 99% of the other boys. Me being more then slightly a misfit myself (weird) Liked her for her brains and her personality. We dated for a fairly long time. When she and I were alone we would take our glasses off to kiss. (neck) The 1st time she took her glasses off. I was dumbfounded On how truly beautiful she really was. She was petite but had a perfect gymnastics body. long dark hair that felt and shined like silk. the darkest emerald green eyes I have ever seen. Even without make-up a face that was literally drop dead beautiful. I thought to myself all the guys at school are fools. And thanked god they had no clue what a total treasure she was in every way. She was super intelligent wore glasses and was shy with everyone but me. The cheerleaders in our school were suck up so sure they were the prettiest girls who ever lived and picked on all the other girls. they were horrid to my girlfriend. but I knew that she was a swan compared to them beautiful on the inside and out. while they were ugly on the inside and plain compared to her on the outside. and I told her so. The point is. “my” girl with her glasses off was drop dead beautiful. much like Mindy. And I am sure that there was no glamor on “my” Girls glasses. But to the world she looked like night and day different with them on and with them off. So until we are 100% sure that Mindy’s glasses having a glamor is cannon let just agree to dis-agree.
Is the lip gloss natural, or just part of what she projects?
On a side note, it is very interesting that these two seem to be having opposite sides of the argument one would expect them to have…
When one is as glamourous as her, it doesn’t really matter… 😉
Indeed…and I completely forgot to mention the sparkles popping all around 🙂
The lip gloss and also her hair and eyebrows.
i think this is a “Superman syndrome” .. the spiral glasses hide the real Mindy.!!
my partner tried that IRL (glasses = nerd,, to cover the fact that she was well endowed . ((Atsali size.)) .. an nope did not work.!
@robnot… nope glasses and well built is using the RIGHT bait..
yep,, before we were dating,, told her the glasses were having the opposite effect.! glasses = naive nerd (bait),.
she stopped wearing glasses an half the guys stopped. bothering her..
You’re right about the effect of removing the glasses. Gorgeous girl syndrome. if they are “too pretty” they don’t get approached, except maybe by the arrogant. This is not even apocryphal. I know someone who was a complete nerd, so he asked out the prettiest girl in school. If he was going to be told “no” it would be by the best. No one else ever bothered to ask her out, so …
Do we know anything of Mindy’s supernatural persona?
Maybe it’s uncontrollably leaking through.
Mindy is one of Aphrodite’s granddaughters
I’m wondering what Barbara’s para persona is.
Since Pablo hasn’t spoken, it’s probably subject to a future plot point.
So I take it from the context and the sparkles that she’s supposed to be “super hot” in the last frame?
She almost always has sparkles without her glasses. It feels like a depiction of a glamour – the way Atsali’s eyes changed when she was singing to Berdine. The implication is that you can’t look at her without being mesmerized by her beauty. Since Paul can’t draw a different version for each of us, she appears as “you probably find her a knockout, and if you don’t, you at least understand what we’re going for here.” Just my guess…
Well, if we’re actually *supposed* to be assessing her appearance here… then “glasses” Mindy has the edge.
I agree with you, but I always liked the nerdy women. Glamour Mindy would cause too much cognitive dissonance – I can’t see her joining in a rousing chorus of “He is not in the least afraid to be mashed into a pulp. Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his Elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away. Brave brave brave brave Sir Robin!”
Is this the most emotive we’ve seen Barbara being?
Always felt Mindy was beautiful, even more so before the last panel (while, yes, she is beautiful, she is not as attractive, personally, as her usual appearance)
And while personally have preference, will not force her to pick, that is something only she should do, and pic what she is comfortable with, and she is quite obviously NOT comfortable with the final panel
The look I see in the last panel is comparative to the one Sophia Loren gave Jane Mansfield.
Okay, Paul, it’s not like your style is photorealistic. It’s actually better than that: your style is more emotional than physical. That being said, that last frame showing Mindy is all her mythic glory leaves me breathless. As I said, it’s only a comic, but you manage to transcend that. Thank you.
Oh, my!
Oh!
GODS!!
I Love the *sparkle* in Frame 4!
And, I’m as straight as a 60+ WASP male can be …
Has it occurred to anyone that Mindy’s glasses may be both necessary for her to see with, AND that they are enchanted to hide her glamour? Remember that in her original introduction, she was Aphrodite’s great granddaughter, making her a semi-hemi-demigoddess. Assuming she is descended from one of the mortals with whom Aphrodite mated, and not yet another of the gods, that makes her up to 7/8 human, and only 1/8 goddess. Even if she’s descended from one of the other gods who were Aphrodite’s lovers, that may still make her mostly human. Therefore, I theorize that although she certainly has enough “goddess-ness” in her for her dazzling beauty to be pretty much automatic, she doesn’t have enough in her to not be susceptible to common human maladies, such as astigmatism/poor vision. Hence: since she may need the glasses, whoever was responsible for getting her glasses may have decided to put the glamour-hiding effects on them as well, for better or for worse. It remains to be seen if my theory is correct.