Grrl Power #350 – It’s localized, it’s just not personalized
See, you guys probably thought I forgot to draw Sydney’s wrist-com for the last few pages didn’t you? >cough<
This page started off with Maxima in a tank top like the one Anvil was wearing on this page, but it didn’t make sense that she would wear a top like that around the base, especially with some of the perverts they employ. So then I redrew Max with her jacket on like so:
But Sydney’s comment at the end of the page didn’t really play right no matter how much pinchy Y cleavage I gave Max, so I went back to the tank top but used the more conservative she wore during the interview. I couldn’t tell you why she took her jacket off in the meantime. I doubt Candace managed to get her to even unzip it a little.
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I know *I* was distracted. :)
You’d think that Maxima of all heroes would use a bra. Not because she needs one. Her default strength and invulnerability means she can carry her boobload without noticing and without sagging over time. Her accelerations into and out of flight would do more to reduce her perkiness than gravity ever would.
Because Maxima is such a feminist and hates being sexualized so absolutely, she’d wear a bra just to keep her boobs from bouncing around in a fight and say, starting to ooze out her cleavage when she’s upside-down.
She is wearing a bra (ever been in an air-conditioned building without one? o_O Having someone like Math and Dabbles around would soon have you wearing one if you weren’t already)
If you pay a little attention to the area where the shirt is really stretching, you can see the (horizontal) line of her bra.
Zack Tilly
I’m totally hetero, and I was distracted too!
She probably has a super reinforced bra… but Asgard help us all if her nips ever get pokey.
Zero range TK should allow her to make her…. Ah….. Hair? Dance around however she wants. This means she either wasn’t thinking or deliberately let herself do that.
Ok that is disturbing now I imagine her doig that with her……. “Hair”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ15vCGuvH0
Hey, c’mon, calm your tits.
I remember seeing that commercial on Teens React :)
So what localized gravity effect would be affecting her hair?
Sydney orb’s one.
I actually was distracted by the hair. I didn’t recognize the breast thing until I got to Dave talking about how he was drawing pinchy Y cleavage.
I was distracted by the foot.
It’s a good thing that the ceiling light fixtures are sitting flush with the surface of the rest of the ceiling; someone like Spider-Man might get a bit cranky if he stubs his toe on those…
I was distracted by the hair too and didn’t realize what Sydney meant until I got to the ellipsis in “yeah…her hair.” Then I was like, “well what else would she be talking about? Ooooh, now I get it!”
Ditto. Even coming back to the page, to read your comment, I still took it as being her hair, until remembering the other aspect when Arianna asked the question.
Dave, I realize you put a lot of work into those breasts, but I have to say Maxima’s arms and abs are truly a work of art, brilliantly rendered. Keep up the good work.
I agree with that too :)
Thanks, I’m pleased with them. I think they’re a good balance, fit but not overly developed, given that Max does lean toward the extra fit side.
Ooo! Goldie has a crush on Maxi, doesn’t he? That’s why he wears gold and purple!!! :D
I wonder if she feels like she’s upside-down when she’s upside-down.
Yes, Maxi would (what with not having her own localized gravity that Sydney has when flying)
I think that’s why Maxima described Sydney’s flying as ‘flying…albeit in an aggravating manner.’
“Now I’m thinking like a rich person!” But too late Sydney!
You know, I’ve always laughed at Arianna’s line that she wouldn’t put anything in Sydney’s contract that would make her have to sue herself. If she’s any kind of lawyer at all, she would have inserted all kinds of weaselly language to make sure that never happens. I’m not saying that she’s corrupt or anything because we’ve yet to see any hint of that, just that lawyers know what they are doing.
As I’ve observed before, Arianna is the team’s lawyer, chief PR flack AND business manager. That basically makes her the Perfect Trifecta of Ultimate Evil.
I wonder how she manages to do all 3…
She coordinates the team’s legal efforts but delegates all the actual work to “the ground team”
…. Whom she keeps referring to as “minions” or “witless fools”, I daresay. ;)
From all I’ve seen of her, she has one thing very much in common with Dr Sheldon Cooper of ‘The Big Bang Theory’ – BOTH are ” … just one lab accident away from becoming a Super-Villain.”
All of us attorneys are.
It’s not limited to attorneys, despite their justified reputation for being evil. I think, human nature being what it is, that we’d see a lot more super villains than super heroes.
Bear in mind that she’s the lawyer for a team of SUPERHEROES. Remember what happened to the accountant who tried blackmailing Bruce Wayne in “Dark Knight.” Arianna’s a smart lawyer indeed; she knows it’s better to have these powerful, honorable, and loyal metas who will protect their friends and think that most problems can be solved with the proper application of overwhelming force as… friends.
Aurelius knows exactly what Sydney was talking about, look at his eyes.
Look at the thumbs up he’s giving her.
“Huh, what? Who has hair?…” XD
Panel 2 where Sydney is vein’ all devious and evil…I’m sorry but she is too damn CUTE right there. >.>!
In the last panel is one orb not colored or am I beginning to be colorblind?
You’re right. Comparing with the previous two panels, it looks like the PPO has lost its firey orange colour.
Huh that’s weird, it looks like there’s two yellow ones. Might be a trick of the overlay lighting, but I’ll check the file just in case when I get a chance.
Might just be because it is mostly hidden by the Flight ball
Huh. Apparently it’s not just the Succubus that can hypnotize Sydney that way.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1832#comment-376611
Well, Maxima is back and obviously in full control of her faculties. I told you all that my guesses were never right. It’s just as well, though. What DaveB actually comes up with is always better than my ideas would have been.
Maxi seems more pissed than her usual cheery self, so maybe something happened during the photo shoot she is now feeling a little ‘guilty’ about, and decided to take it out on the ‘rookie’
Or maybe she’s just a little cranky because she couldn’t reach Sydney over the communicator and had to go hunt the rookie down. Surely they have an intercom system, though. If she wasn’t sure where Sydney was, she could have just paged her. Then again, just paging wouldn’t have given Max a chance to do a little showing off.
considering the general consensus (ooo, big word :P) is they’re in the common room thing, maybe that’s where the nearest external access is, & she was on her way to the intercom when she heard Sydney’s voice. Then she just does her little shock-&-argh show, heads back out & Bob’s your Uncle. Or your Aunt, never know these days…
I fail at boob distraction susceptibility. Didn’t even notice.
Likewise. But Sydney did not. I wonder if Dabbler encounters might be stimulating Sydney in that regard? Engaging her curiosity. Alternatively she may simply be focussed on such due to her ongoing sensitivity as to her own build.
Well, they were closer to her face than they normally are :D
Goldie also noticed (so did Ari, just look at her face in panel five: that’s totally a ‘Seen it before!’ face :P)
I was caught up in “Maxima angry”
…now i wish for ceiling furniture for some reason
According to the Mythbusters, you can make your own with normal furniture and a little super glue.
Very soon we’ll have GeckSkin and maybe even the option to walk and sit safely on ceilings.
Max should skip the “overwire” bra and just go straight to the “barbed-wire” bra.
Next page: Sydney hovers over the roof with her wrist comm. The charger is still plugged in, but she is holding the plug for the wall socket in her hand.
Sydney: Come on, you stupid piece of junk. Aha!
Wrist-Comm display: Power Low. Recharge immediately.
Then it powers off.
Max flies down with Heatwave behind her.
Max: Why are not wearing that? (pointing at the wrist-comm)
Sydney: Because it is out of juice. I only…
Max: Make sure you always have your spare battery fully changed to prevent this kind of problem!
Sydney: There’s a spare battery for this thing? Cool, but when do I get one?
Yeah, this sounds about right…
Yea, it would add a small sense of “military realism” to ARCON.
Because there is always that “one thing” that supply always runs out of that you end up having to trade for later with someone else.
One would think Archon would improve on the iPhone’s battery life :)
I’m sure someone pointed this out already, but her wrist comm died, and she was never given a charger. So it’s really Maxima’s fault.
If you look at this page:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1646
You’ll see that Sydney says she “probably should have charged it last night”, implying she was given a charger, but crashed out before thinking to use it. Though to be fair, her schedule was pretty much “Ok, I’m home, what to do next? umm, “.
Gaa! That didn’t parse well at all.. The last bit was SUPPOSED to read as “OK, I’m home, what to do next? Umm, (pass out asleep)”. Danged html tags, in my day…
This has nothing to do with Grrl Power, but I did want to wish everyone happy holidays.
*Grumble, grumble*
I work in retail and my store just recently started to get in it’s merchandise for Christmas. We were getting Halloween stuff all through August, as well. This is standard procedure and they do it every year, but I guess it’s better than waiting until the last minute.
What really has me stunned though is how we put all of that stuff out for sell earlier and earlier every year. Mark my words! Before this month is out, my store will already be selling both Christmas trees and spooky skeletons.
*Grumble, grumble*
Sorry, I needed to rant about this just once more and all the other people I know are already saying things like, “We know, Iggy, you told us! Shut up now!”
It’s all part of one of Nybbas’ plots, I tell you! (“In Nomine” reference.)
For those who don’t know, in “In Nomine” (at least in the English-language version from Steve Jackson Games), Nybbas is the Demon Prince of the Media… one of his schemes is to celebrate Christmas year round, thus eliminating any remaining significance of Christmas Day.
Oh, it’s only Maxima? Phew. Sidney was expecting ninjas.
I must be slow on the uptake when I didn’t even realise they were talking about her boobs until I read the comments and I was RAISED on 70s Britcoms.
Sydney: “Now I’m thinking like a rich person.”
Too late; she should’ve been thinking like a rich person before signing the contract.
I can hear the phone call now…
“Yes, I’m calling on the behalf of Archon Tower’s maintenance department. I need to place an order… Let’s say five units, standard plastic sandwich-board. The thing is, I need them to say, ‘Wet Ceiling’… Yes, I said, ‘Wet Ceiling’… I can’t really discuss that… I can neither confirm nor deny that… Look, can you fill this order, or am I calling someone else?… As soon as possible, please… Thanks, you too.” *click*
I could have done with one of those once, in my previous house. A bit of a flooding problem. I (quite literally) had to put up my umbrella in order to cross my lounge without getting soaked.
Hah! I just love that little mini-cartoon. “No, wait, remember where you work.”
Not sure if David is watching messaging threads back this far, but if Sydney was really on the ball here she would try to get some sort of sell able item that is exclusive to HER store. Instant customers.
Dave sees everything.
I doubt that Arianna would restrict official Archon merchandise, as that may cause friction with major outlets. But she may allow Sydney to commission something personal, using her own super hero image, for sale in her shop. Marketing contracts would usually otherwise ban the sale of competing goods, especially by a key representative.
I’m thinking one of the punishment details would be cleaning the base. Which would involve stepladders to clean boot prints off the ceiling lights…