Grrl Power #178 – Maxima DGAF -or- The cliff has been hanged
Ok Maxima’s done being a jerk/diva now. The question is how much of it was calculated on her part to put out that honey badger vibe, and how much was her actually not giving an eff.
I suspect Maxima’s sudden departure wouldn’t have caused an actual “boom” simply because she’s not quite big enough – after all some of the noise a gun makes is the tiny sonic pop from the bullet (assuming supersonic ammo of course). Maybe I should have made the sound effect “Sonic Bloop” or whatever onomatopoeia comes in between pop and boom. Boop? Somehow a Sonic Boop doesn’t have the same impact.
And yes this page had to end on the cliffhanger cause I couldn’t fit the reveal on the page and do it any justice.
Is it just me or does the pacing suddenly feel especially slow now after two weeks of double updates? I experimented with drawing two pages side by side this week to see if it would speed me up at all. It does, but not much. Really only when I’m coloring, and even then not by much, but that’s fine, anything that helps I’ll probably stick with.
I’m also working on setting up a Patreon account. Several people donated using the recurring payment option, which I very much appreciate, but for some reason those automatic payments failed, even though the regular one-time donations worked fine. Having a Patreon account will create another option for those interested in setting up something recurring. The hard part about setting up a Patreon account is actually coming up with rewards that don’t take a huge amount of time away from actually drawing the comic, and also don’t eat into potential rewards I might use to kickstart the book, like PDFs of said book. I know I could just set it up without all that fancy stuff, but obviously it would do better if I could give back something.
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Keep meaning to comment that I’m really enjoying the comic, though, will all honesty, I am really looking forward to the next day.
At the current speed? Love the comic, but Dave really needs to make it his full-time job. I don’t want to ‘read the next day’ in my will.
Seems to be going around one hour in comic for every six months real time; Assuming the comic book store was in the morning, and the test range is some time in the afternoon.
I believe the comic book store was just before lunch. Also are you excluding the first 4 pages in that equation?
Yeah, the first few pages seem to be at least ahead of this page. Whether hours, days, months or years, it’s hard to say.
Months. The flashback started with Sydney’s caption saying “Let me back up a few months.”
Of course, the idea that this whole thing is part of Sydney’s narration is broken a bit whenever the scene switches to someone else. Especially the bit with Harem and Deus.
You can help DaveB by funneling all your spare money to him. Given him money and halve your friends do it too. When he is fully funded he can spend more time on it. Still it is hard to do all the work fast. He created it, writes it, draws it and colors it. Not too many on the Internet does that. Very few.
Halve your friends? So I should go get my chainsaw.
too messy, use the lightsaber.
Welcome out of the shadows. Beware the light of day, it burnnnnssss!!!
Yorp, I think your savory essence is attracting the raptors.
I am allright, so long as they do not know how to open doors.
They figured out how to open doors in the first film. Lock them in a fridge and you might have time to escape.
Fridge temporarily. Then de-clawing, de-feathering, gutting, cleaning and pop in the oven. Scale the time and temperature from a turkey, based on the weight of your raptor. Roast potatoes and a dollop of cranbury sauce. mmm, now that is savoury.
How do you prefer your extinct species?
*sets up a rotisserie* We have some Triceratops here!
Medium Rare or cook till it stops actually bleeding. Or if you’re doing the whole Thanksgiving thing how about some squash and yams to go with.
You realize that the actual velociraptors are only about the size of a turkey, and covered in feathers, possibly with brilliant colours. The ones in the movie were about twice as tall as they should have been.
“The actual velociraptors were the size of turkeys”
Utahraptors were larger than the ones depicted in th Jurassic Park movies. And the smaller ones were certainly larger than turkeys. Fast and dangerous. It would have might life for prehistoric humans much harder if they had survived or a precursor to evolve in a similar niche.
1. That wasn’t really a Velociraptor in Jurassic Park.
The sad fact is, Velociraptor’s claim to pop-culture fame is based on a lie: the movie’s special-effects wizards have long since confessed that they modeled their Velociraptor after the much bigger (and much more dangerous-looking) raptor Deinonychus, whose name isn’t quite as catchy or easy to pronounce. If life were fair, Deinonychus would be much more famous than Velociraptor, but that’s the way the Jurassic cookie crumbles. https://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurbasics/a/velofacts.htm
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Name:
Troodon (Greek for “wounding tooth”); pronounced TRUE-oh-don
Habitat:
Plains of Asia and western North America
Historical Period:
Late Cretaceous (75-65 million years ago)
Size and Weight:
About 6 feet long and 140 pounds
Diet:
Meat
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Unusually large brain; long neck; sharp, serrated teeth
About Troodon:
One of the last theropods to evolve and prosper before the K/T Extinction 65 million years ago, Troodon was unusually brainy by dinosaur standards: paleontologists think it may even have been as smart as small, primitive mammals like opossums (that may not sound like much of a compliment, but you have to remember that most dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era, especially the plant-eaters, were about as bright as tree stumps). Troodon doubtless owed its advanced brain to its equally advanced predatory arsenal, which included a fast, bipedal gait, stereo vision, and probably a sharp sense of smell. (See 10 Facts About Troodon and How Was Troodon Discovered?) […] https://dinosaurs.about.com/od/carnivorousdinosaurs/p/troodon.htm
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Deinonychus
By Bob Strauss
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Name:
Deinonychus (Greek for “terrible claw”); pronounced die-NON-ih-cuss
Habitat:
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Historical Period:
Middle Cretaceous (100 million years ago)
Size and Weight:
About 12 feet long and 150 pounds
Diet:
Meat
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Light, sleek build; giant claws on hind feet
About Deinonychus:
If Deinonychus looks familiar, that’s because it was popularized in the blockbuster movie Jurassic Park under the catchier name Velociraptor (real Velociraptors were actually much smaller than the fast, sleek, man-sized predators depicted in Steven Spielberg’s movie). See 10 Facts About Deinonychus and a gallery of Deinonychus pictures
Although it was far from the biggest dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, Deinonychus was especially fearsome because of its speed, its presumed ability to hunt in packs (tangled Deinonychus bones have been found in close proximity to the remains of Tenontosaurus, a tasty and slow-witted ornithopod), and the enormous, sickle-shaped claws on its hind feet that it used to rip apart larger prey. We can thank the famous paleontologist John H. Ostrom, who discovered the type specimen, for much of what we currently know about Deinonychus–as well as for the idea that raptors like Deinonychus eventually evolved into modern birds.
As is the case with other raptors, the actual appearance of Deinonychus is a matter of debate: today, it’s often depicted as sporting primitive feathers, though its skin may well have been more reptilian in appearance, at least on portions of its body (as it was portrayed in Jurassic Park). As for the presumed intelligence of this dinosaur, that has been way overstated by Hollywood: there’s no way Deinonychus could have turned a doorknob, as depicted in Jurassic Park, and in fact it could easily have been outwitted by a six-year-old child. https://dinosaurs.about.com/od/carnivorousdinosaurs/p/deinonychus.htm
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At first I thought the velociraptors in Jurassic Park were misnamed. Turned out I was correct Just like the name of the Park which should have been Mesozoic Park. Wish they could be cloned so we could watch their behavior and seen just how smart, or not, they were.
Well, we don’t know how smart they were. Granted, they probably wouldn’t win very many IQ tests,as with the other dinosaurs.
But note that modern critters like birds and rats don’t have especially large brainpans either – and they can STILL surprise the heck out of us.
Yea, I must admit that line of thought passed my mind too. There are an awful lot of things that we do not know about our minds and how they work, let alone other living species. Making definitive statements about species, so long dead that all we have to work on is their silhouettes in stone, always strikes me as being overconfident of our own knowledge.
There are aspects of the heart and cardiovascular system that indicate it could be a significant command and control centre of the body. Operating independently of the brain. With the ability to store and process information in its own way. Supported by (rare and not particularly reliable) anecdotal evidence of individuals retaining memories of the donor in heart transplant operations. If dinosaurs made significantly more use of that side of their physiology for aspects of thinking they might have been very intelligent despite having very small brains.
Likewise a breaking discovery is that phobias can be passed on via genetic memory. If phobias, why not other aspects of behaviour and thought processing. And in some species or genus that or other ‘weird’ means of thinking might be much more prevalent than in human.
As a ‘what if’ example, let us suppose that dogs are very similar to us and that both species are mostly reliant on the brain and only to a lesser degree genetic memory. Whereas cats might be biased the other way. It would explain why they are so hard to train compared to dogs, if they are reliant much more on racial memory and less on reprogrammable memory.
Likewise, it would explain why cats are so arrogant. They can remember the time of the Pharaohs when they were treated as divine.
I disagree that https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/07/a-sober-look-at-the-northern-polar-vortex/
They will teach her the weirding way!
Actually, at this distance, the sonic boom would have a much sharper sound than just a rumbling boom–think more like the crack of a whip than anything else. However, depending on her speed, what is depicted as the results may not be all that inaccurate.
Actually, what would worry me is the concern of what might happen if the team ever WERE to encounter somebody operating at or near Maxima’s level. The collateral damage could easily be nearly catastrophic in scope…and ARCHON, being a government body, could well find itself called to account for it.
Harem could probably teleport them away from the area and drop them in a volcano. Dabbler on the other hand could probably adapt her teleport tech to put an opponent 4miles down.
Harem can teleport herself. Doubt she can move other people
It was stated by DaveB that she can teleport things with her but NOT people (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/345).
It could become very embarrassing if she couldn’t teleport the clothes she’s wearing.
Embarrassing, or super awesome?
Depends on who she is visiting ;)
The sonic boom isn’t what causes damage. It’s the rapid air displacement. The sonic boom is generated by the air crashing together. From right next to someone the air displacement from a human sized object moving that speed could easily knock people over.
Crossing fingers for Thursday :)
I always imaging Sydney making the sounds like Link does hehe
This just in:
Scientists are working on a laboratory model that mimics how lightning is created in a volcanic ash cloud. The experiment is being done at Maximilian University. Coincidence?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/01/volcanic-lightning-in-a-laboratory/
I wonder what powers Halo would get if she took the Morituri process.
I think the Morituri process only works if someone is very physically fit. As in, everybody in Archon except Halo.
I don’t recall that the process gave powers appropriate to personalities.
Given the HUGE mortality rate (and distinct lack of any need to attempt anything so dire), why would she?
There were 351 comments when I posted this, so forgive me if the subject has been covered, because I really don’t want to read through them all.
“The hard part about setting up a Patreon account is actually coming up with rewards that don’t take a huge amount of time away from actually drawing the comic, and also don’t eat into potential rewards I might use to kickstart the book, like PDFs of said book.”
You might consider the option chosen by Rich Burlew of The Order of the Stick. In his Kickstarter campaign he set as the top reward for contributors the opportunity to be a character in his story.
This is both cheap, since you’re already telling a story, and does not take away at all from drawing the comic, since all you’d be doing is blending in contributors ideas for characters.
I can see some downsides, since having 100+ new characters because 100+ people signed up for a recurring payment would quickly flood the comic with way too many characters, but it’s a starting place and I’m sure you could find a sweet spot which made it work for you.
If an excess of characters is acquired in that way, just use some as cannon fodder.
Or make it a cameo appearance rather than “a character in the comic” – as the latter implies some semblance of permanence – and THEN use them as cannon fodder :P I’ve seen several comics do the whole “here’s-a-new-character-oh-dear-it-seems-to-have-died”-thing over the course of one or two pages as contest/kickstarter/younameit prizes.
Yup. Girl Genius is a good example, they had a wide range of diferent options around the “get yourself into the comic” stuff, like your name included somehow (a referenced but not showed character, a street’s name, etc), an already planned character named after you, show up and die, etc, etc.
Even having a very minor character with a passive role would be fantastic, I’d jump on that reward faster than a pig on a truffle.
Especially if the character had a minor but quirky power. Say one that only happens periodically or in a very unlikely situation. Like maybe he/she gains power when in a methane atmosphere on earth.
The dreaded Baked Beans Man?
And than risk dieing because of said methane?
The problem with the Patreon option is that there’s no distinction between sponsoring at a level for one month and sponsoring at that level ongoing. Compare $25/month for one month versus $5/month for a year. Which one is preferred and which one gets the better goodies?
Red shirt characters? That’s very interesting. Could I get a third party to be a disposable character for a little extra? My niece just started reading this comic, and it would tickle her to see a familiar name in the strip.
Does anyone remember Police Squad? All the guest stars usually got killed during the opening credits. I always thought that was funny.
Hmm well looks like something happened to Syd’s orbs, curious as to what but maybe it has something to do with Maxima using so much power and such. Maybe the shield didn’t just protect Syd it absorbed some of the energy of the blast and now its on overload or something.
Or maybe we’ll finally find out something about the other two orbs.
My thought is that the shield orb also acts as an energy absorption orb powering the others. It absorbs any energy that hits it converts and stores it. This would be essential for a space-faring race as the faster you go the more energetic the collisions thus at near light speed a grain of sand could hit like a H-bomb. Thus it would not only protect but help power the vessel. Assuming of course they came from out there.
I happen to think that the orbs are from space myself, but then again I might be wrong.
My first though was “Oh, so they’re finally hatching.” Apparently my mind came up with this theory a while ago (hence the “finally”) and only just decided to tell me now.
Just finished reading through the archives… wowza! Nice comic! Mark me down in the “likes big archives” section. I just wish there were more.
Because of the large archive and sooo many comments, I don’t know if any of this was covered, so bear with me…
On the subject of killing Nightcrawler with “a pile of sawdust and a fan”… wouldn’t work. His power displaces gaseous and liquid matter (including airborne particulate) when he teleports. He doesn’t “destroy the original” either as he actually moves through an extra-dimensional space when teleports. (In fact, offhand, I can’t think of any mainstream supers that use the “destroy the original and create a copy” method of teleporting… I expect there are some out there, though.) Rebar might work, provided he’s teleporting from a significant distance, but he has a “sixth sense” when teleporting to nearby areas that prevents him from teleporting into solid objects.
On why Maxima’s clothes aren’t damaged when she uses her plasma beam or kicks a tank (or flies at super-sonic speeds, for that matter)… well, Dabbler’s little science class revealed that much of her super strength was actually touch-range telekinesis (allowing her to pick up an ambulance instead of simply tearing the side of it off). That could mean that her invulnerability is actually a personal force field that also protects her clothes somewhat. Perhaps her boot is protected since she’s not actually applying thousands of tons of force to the tank, but rather telekinetically “kicking” it. Just some thoughts.
Oh! And I ran a Champions game about 10 years ago with an NPC heroine that went by Maxima. She had super strength, toughness, speed, and flight at moderate levels, but could boost any one of them at a time (via a fixed-slot multipower) to extreme levels. I like your version of Maxima even better though. Keep up the good work!
There was one super with a similar ability. At one point the Thing (Fantastic Four. Marvel.) could swap between human and rock forms but it created copies of him that were jettisoned into limbo whenever he swapped due to th whole displacement thing.
My vote for what the Orbs are doing is –spawning another orb!
The current unidentified orbs are the “scanner” and the “replicat-orb” which detects the presence of a new and unusual power not covered by the others, determines a need for such and builds another Orb. Since it requires an enormous source of power to do so, Maxima’s demo just kick started the new Orb creation…
Can I say I like this idea? ‘Cause I do.
Yes, but what ‘new and/or unknown power not covered by the others’ has been detected?
List of Powers not in Orbs, but met today (JUST THIS DAY)
1) Teleportation
2) Kinesthetic Sense –Math’s knowing your move jutsu could be considered a power
3) Stealth (Arc Dark guy)
4) PORN SENSE!
5) Organic Metal Tissue Conversion (Max Skin)
6) HAMMERSPACE
7) Anything in the demo not covered already…
Max’s skin has nothing to do with metal…
Yeah, and still not determined when she went gold: either born looking that way, or turned into a golden elf when her powers awakened (personally feel she was born a golden elf and only got the powers as a teen: took that long before her brother became an annoying younger sibling :P)
Metal. Metallic. Spell checkers that _help_ suck.
And we do not actually know that she isn’t metal, but she does just happen to be very hard and also reflects very well. For all we know she *could* power down the self only tk field and go pink pale and mousy brown hair. Maybe she just hasn’t run into the “off” state.
errr… something came to my mind… why isn’t maxima evil? (apart from the “dave decides what to do with her”). I mean, she’s basically Superman, and since absolute power corrupts absolutely everything… yeah, why isn’t she evil?
Evil isn’t a matter of power, it’s a matter of control. The more a person wants to control events around them, the more likely they are to become evil. Maxima seems to be quite content to follow orders (as long as it’s an actual superior giving them), so the whole lust for control thing that causes villains to pop up doesn’t really apply.
In layman terms, she has what she wants, so she sees no need to take; which is what villains do.
I think it is more a matter of priorities. What is more important to her getting her way or other people? I had to learn how to deal with people who weren’t quite as bright as me. It can be a real eye-opener that other people don’t get it as easy as you. You have two ways to deal with it. Treat them like equals who have other talents or treat them like lesser beings. This essentially is what powered people have to do. Evil is basically treating other people as less important. The greater the difference the greater the evil.
The simple answer is the Spiderman line –with great power comes great responsibility. If she took national control then she has to spend all her time either smashing the tree huggers or listening to them. This way she can have just as much control as she can stand without smashing those under her.
The press conferences would drive her so nuts she would end up clandestinely helping those trying to overthrow her rule.
No boom for those behind her – the sonic boom is from compressed air pushed ahead/away from a supersonic projectile/person, and those behind her would have the air pulled away, not pushed at.
In other words, there would be a great sucking noise…
Acceleration: If Maxima hit the speed of sound over about 580 meters, 10Gs, 290 meters, 20Gs, 115 meters, 50Gs, 58 meters, 100Gs. And <6 meters, 1000Gs, otherwise known as "splat".
Yeah, it’s why when you hear a rilly large plane, you look backwards (not behind you, doopy) to find where it is (not always, but most times)
Um, when I hear a plane/helicopter going overhead I look AHEAD of where I hear the sound to see it, since the sound takes time to reach me, and by then the plane has moved on.
A thought on “Evolution doesn’t work that way…”
Perhaps the “X-gene” doesn’t alter your appearance or your strength or your agility, perhaps it doesn’t give you the ability to fly or control the weather or project beams of force… perhaps it doesn’t do any of this DIRECTLY. Perhaps it just allows your brain to access and manipulate some quantum/psionic/magical/whatever force that reacts differently to each individual’s thoughts and personality. Your ability to touch that “power force” is what grants you powers… including affecting your appearance. For most people capable of accessing it, that means an idealized version of your own body. For some, it means… something else… like gold skin and purple hair, or rocky orange hide, or becoming a giant green rage-monster. Whether you gained access to the “power force” from genetic mutation or some “radiation accident,” that would give nearly all powers (an argument could be made either way for super-science and magic and even alien super-powers) a common source and would mean that “power dampeners” would make more sense. I mean, if all those powers really are gained from separate sources and work differently from each other, it makes no sense that a single device or power would be able to affect all of them.
IIRC the “Dampeners” from the X-men comics worked by interfering with the Bio-energy field given off by all living things. They had to be specially calibrated for who they were attached to. They WOULD still affect another (example. Bishop getting collared with a dampener calibrated for Storm might have his energy Projection nullified and his Absorption severely weakened.) but nowhere near as effectively.
As for rewards you could print and sign their favorite page of the comic and send it to them. The signature would make it personal and they could frame it on their own.
Oh sure, leave on a cliff hanger. now I have to wait! Dude I would so by this in paper form. Just need money.
[A Note To DaveB]:
Having followed “Adamas” over to a different webcomic (“Too Much Information”, by Andy Odendhal):
[https://tmi-comic.com/comic/spiteful]
…I was reminded of a “kvetch”, voiced by several fans of this site, concerning how it’s difficult to edit “typos” out of a post. I noticed how the “TMI”-site handles this, by giving the post-er a 4-minute countdown to review-&-alter the post, before it becomes “set-in-stone”.
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I don’t know how hard-or-easy it might be to implement a similar protocol here, but I thought it might be worth a look-see, at least.
That ability to edit posts over at TMI has only been around for maybe 2 or 3 pages
P.S.:
Another point, which I noticed in yet another webcomic’s forum, is the idea of having each page’s ability to accept new posts automatically shut-off after a set number of days/weeks/months. This might minimize a troll’s ability to “seed” the older posts with spam, at the expense of denying any latecomers the ability to contribute to old threads.
D’OH!?!
I was trying to “PS” to myself, not to you, Guesticus – sorry!
Intihgss like this liven things up around here.
Wow, I have a comic-stalker! I feel so Loved.
Wait until DubDub learns how to navigate away from Greta Grabbie :P
Have mercy, if you please – “Stalker” is your choice of word, not mine. I can’t think of a single word as a label for you at present, but “Fellow Fan” comes closest, I think.
Our similar reading-tastes led both of us here, to “GP”. Finding you on the “TMI”-forum was simply a nice “frission” of recognition for me. I blame myself for my original wording having a darker, unintended interpretation. I had meant only that your post was already on the site before I started reading that page.
Truce, Adamas?
(…extends an Origami Rose, made of red-foil paper, as a peace-offering…)
Now see the real question is
are Sydney’s orbs arranged in a heart shape right now because lesbian crushes 5ever
Either that or they’re doing something horrible! Oh no!
Sydney has very little self-control, yet withstood Dabbler radiating full-on lust power. Despite having no hesitation in enacting other primal urges, such as punching in the face or swinging with a chair. If she fancied Dabbler, the Succubus would have had to peel her off.
I think we can take it that her tastes go the other way. As evidenced by her crush in the comic book store, her plans for Wolverine and her interest in Leon.
The look on her face in the final panel above does not say to me that she is looking on a pretty heart shape. Or ponies dancing in the sky for that matter.
Something horrible… maybe.
Lust and love are two very different things
Aha! One (or two) of Syd’s ‘unknown’ orbs just awakened thanks to the shock wave from Max’s departure. What new power(s) will our bespectacled young recruit have at her disposal now?
Tune in next week. Same Grrl time, same Grrl channel.
950 JDJ, .30 Ruger Blackhawk, my favorite, the S&W M460xvr; about human sized, the good ol’ M1A2 Abrams with a M68A1. Knock you off your feet if you’re not paying attention next to it.
So yeah, Maxima could sonic boom.
If she moves fast enough she’d create a vacuum behind her.
I just got this funny image in my head What is orbs formed a circle over air and beamed each other to form a 7 edge star and summoing the demon :P
Just started reading this (and caught up) today, thankyou for providing me with laughs I much needed.
Now that it is Sunday I am finally ok with waiting for the next update.
No update this week, see you January 20 ;) :P
This is no longer ok. I shall now regress into my own paradoxical world where they suddenly turn into stick figures so I can continue the story myself.
Here I am.
*tumbleweed rolls by*
Seems quiet. Where is everybody?
When silent things go super sonic, they make a “crack” as opposed to a “boom”. The a whip makes it’s sound by the tip going super sonic. A jet breaking the sound barrier is also generating a huge sonic wave from it’s engines, while continually breaking that same wave, hence “boom”. Maxima would probably make a hella loud whipcrack. But BOOM reads better.
If you had the ability to zoom off into the distance like that, wouldn’t you practice just the right fillip in mid move to register a sonic boom or damp it to near nothing so that you could do either by choice? Lessee, legs in for no boom or legs out and spin for mild boom or spread eagle flurry from hell for a mega boom… option three and we have a WINNAH
Ah, well. At least The Boom has gotten certain people off asking over and over and over why Max’s unifrom isn’t so much ash.
Sonic Boop would be a good name for a band/video game character/attack move.