Grrl Power #1124 – Battle (un)dress
I haven’t actually decided, but I think this guy might be trying to impress/seduce Max? He’s definitely planning on fighting her, but I’m leaning toward this guy being just a little too impressed with himself and thinking “While I’m proving my mettle to her, it surely can’t hurt to show off the V-taper and the 8-pack.” This line of thinking ignores the fact that all Supers are in fantastic shape, so it’s nothing Max hasn’t seen quite a lot of over her career.
Writing a guy with this attitude goes against my personal instincts as well. While I’ve heard repeatedly that confidence is something women tend to find attractive in a man, for me, there’s an incredibly narrow window between insecure or at least cautiously self-depreciating and overconfident douchebag bordering on narcissism.
My own personal speed is that if someone tells me “Hey, you’re good at [thing]” my response is usually along the lines of “Well, I guess, compared to someone who is slightly less good at [thing], then technically… I mean, everything is relative.” I guess I’m terrified of ever dipping my toe into lake douchebag, which in my head is some sort of steaming bog full of industrial runoff, whatever snake oil Alex Jones is hawking, and Axe Body Spray. Curiously absent from lake douchebag? Diluted vinegar.
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I don’t know why Maxima is so mad about the breakaway suit. It’s not like she doesn’t see a lot of superheroes lose their clothes to fights, hell, she lost much of her clothing in that superhero brawl. Also, I agree with SM, it’s a nice suit, and it saves money. (Part of me thinks it has something to do with her experience with Male Strippers.)
She’s got him, the fight was over as soon as she landed, Max is just pissed that this guy thinks he’s truly hot shit, and in a minute he’ll be a splatter. Plus the fact that yet another supervillain he’s better than anyone.
Gravity powers are extremely OP, look at Earth’s mightiest heroes, it took almost all the avengers to defeat Graviton, and he was just the intro boss. So I wouldn’t say it’s an automatic victory, plus she landed on their compound, it’s not completely one on one.
I want there to be a scene where she describes the breakaway suit to the male heroes and initially, they think it’s stupid, but when they think about it, it’s kind of a good idea, but Max glares at them for considering otherwise.
a lot of that has to do with power level. This guy is obviously NOT Graviton, who can make black hole level effects, shoot people with meteors from the other side of the planet, and levitate Manhattan Island.
Maxima neutralized his high g just by engaging her Flight Kit. He’s not all that. Most likely he’s going to try to muck with her by changing the direction of the gravity around her, and it’s just not going to go well.
At the very least, he can drop and throw things at her.
I’ll bet Dave has planned at least one unique power stunt as well.
Instead of increasing the gravity under her, she will be messed up psychologically and entangled by increasing her own gravity. Once cars, lamp posts, trees and bushes are stuck to her she won’t be in good combat condition. Street litter, dirt and plant pots, the contents of that dog poo bin…
What way was down again?
Max can fly, why would you think that would effect her? She just has to focus on the target regardless of how gravity is aimed. Any fighter pilot would just do the same in a dogfight.
Eh…not quite.
Gravity is extremely important to aerodynamic flight mechanics.
It may be possible that Max can Wiggin her way through this (the Enemy’s Gate is down) but that isn’t a sure thing.
I’m inclined to think that Super Masshole’s first move will be rapidly reorienting gravity around her head, inducing crippling vertigo. And it may be possible that at closer ranges he has the power need to start dilating space-time. We shall see.
To be fair, she didn’t just ‘engage’ her Flight Kit – she purpled it, meaning she poured as much of her power into that one aspect of her abilities as she could without straight-up debilitating herself in another area.
She purpled Flight and Shield
Also, note how she purpled Strength first before Flight and Shield (and no, she didn’t enter with it purple, she boosted it from blue while she reduced Speed)
Ultimately it took Hulk (with an assist from Wasp and some minor assistance from the rest) to beat him. The other Avengers couldn’t. Every time he increased gravity, Hulk just got back up again. Maxima doesn’t even need to out-strength gravity (which she was originally doing last page) because of her flight powers, which nullify gravity. Soooo he’s gonna get beat bad I’m thinking.
Gravity powers don’t have to be OP though. Freefall from Gen 13 was a gravitokinetic as well and I don’t think she was OP. :)
It is a point of pride made even worse since if enough super powered individuals keep doing it then more shall be made… And think about how what might happen if this becomes a basic brand with everyone having break away clothing.
She is trying to stop a trend before it becomes popular… Especially if break away clothing shifts over to women’s clothing.
It’s because he actually went and put time, money and effort into finding and tailoring a suit that would actually breakaway when needed. It’s just a bit too much.
Maybe Dabbler had a breakaway suit period in the past.
Do you honestly think Dabbler has any clothing difficult to rip off at a moments notice?
Presumptuous of you to think her clothes are anything more tgan a glamour to begin with. ;)
Dabbler’s outfits are probably spring loaded for ease of accessabilty.
Much more fun than mere glamour.
“Just look how that jumped away in all the excitement!”
She’s basically a walking wardwrobe function. No mal, because everything works as intended.
Armor? That’s something you definitely don’t want to come off when you don’t want/need it to.
The fur collared cape was strike one. The breakaway suit was strike two. The breakaway suit to reveal his naked muscle-bound torso was too goddamned much. Max has to be careful to not let too much of her clothing get ripped off in a fight or her picture is the lead story for the next 48 hours, and this bozo does it deliberately just to impress. (To be fair, if Sydney were facing him, it would be game-over for Sydney.)
I think Max has been around Sydney too long, Syd is rubbing off on her.
Nah, the Sydney side of her would have replied “Yes, I bet you have…” like Han Solo did to Greedo before blasting him under the table.
She kinda of needs some Sydney, or she did.
She admits to having been a nerd when she was younger anyway so Syd is basically a kindred spirit.
SUCK HOLE! I’M DEAD!
Ah Max, channeling your Sydney a bit there, that’s the same thing she said to buttsniffer. Sorry Max, I was calling him Supermassive Ego but I just decided it’s just Asshole. Clearly he thinks if he beats her she’ll fall madly in love with him and all will be right in the world. Yet another man-baby with some seriously needed wakeup. Dave, I would love it if after all this build up Max will copy Anvil and give him a Supermassive finger flick that sends him bouncing off a wall. Followed by a chemically induced coma…
“Ah Max, channeling your Sydney a bit there, that’s the same thing she said to buttsniffer.”
And similar to what she said to Heavenly Sword – the threat that they would unless they decided on the ‘Silver Age Rules.’
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my prevision since she’s cancelling his super gravity with her flight he’s gonna mess with her by suddenly releasing it and sending her through the roof
Wouldn’t it not matter since her flight powers seem to nullify gravity when fully engaged, wherever the gravitational force is coming from?
Although she might have a limit to how much gravity that she can nullify, implied from DaveB’s comments. She has a ceiling for acceleration, so she might also have a ceiling for gravity nullification as well. But that’s just an educated guess based on what’s been told so far.
Unless she’s just keeping herself in place and not pushing upward, that wouldn’t happen.
I think he’ll use his gravity powers on himself to raise his density so he can trade blows with her. Along with shifting the fields to boost his movement speed.
Though he really shouldn’t have the visual acuity to keep up with her speed, I’m betting he will. Can’t have a good fight when one person can’t even see the other move.
Doubt he knows how to do any of that, certainly not to the same degree of control Maxi has (or even Wart)
So far the Ascenders haven’t been doing that well in the effective personality department. At least amongst the guys. Maybe the Ascenders are recruiting man-babies and other dysfunctional types as cannon fodder to wear down and asses Archon’s resources.
The Ascenders a bunch of entitled rich douchebags that want super powers. I figure that every single one of them is at least this bad.
I love douchebag as an insult because an actual douche is is so bad at what it’s trying to do that it has the opposite of the intended effect, which is usually true of social douches as well!
Fighting in a nice suit is more intimidating that fighting half-naked, fight me (I’ll be wearing a nice suit, and Ill kick your ass)
True, Bond in a tux is more intimidating than Hulk Hogan in a Speedo.
Bond? Nah.
Sebas!
Depends on which Bond. :)
Sean Connery, of course.
Oh. Then yes I agree. :)
Time to cancel Maxima, as she thinks she gets to name him. :p
You seem te be referring to some kind of social media event (most likely twitter) that I am not aware of.
Could you tell me the story?
Accidental nudity because fighting the good fight sometimes makes shirtless super heros (or certain super hiros in particular) a low key vibe for Maxima. so of course when some sluty manwhore decides to get that way on purpose from the get go … well that just sucks all the fun and or mystery out of it. Goombah is now a suck hole.
Im willing to bet that the Legend of Zorro with Antonio Banderas vs Catherine Zeta-Jones doing that fight/flirt that would up having them mostly naked could have been that trigger for a young Max to go “so THATS what all the fuss is about “
So. . Is Stupid Masshole still on the table as a name option?
Masshole is enough, I think
No, he’d need to change his belt buckle if it’s just Masshole.
Eeh, depends on local traditions. Here in New England, the term “Masshole” is already in common usage to describe reckless drivers, because Massachusetts produces more than its faire share of them.
“for me, there’s an incredibly narrow window between insecure or at least cautiously self-depreciating and overconfident douchebag bordering on narcissism.”
This reminds me of something the author John Scalzi said that I’m likely to slightly mess up the quote for:
“The fail state of ‘clever’ is not ‘stupid.’ The fail state of ‘clever’ is ‘asshole.'”
I’ve found that it is often useful to keep this in mind and occasionally embarrassing to forget it.
To be fair, being able to adjust gravity might be a good way to get a constant workout, especially if his power is fine tunable enough to make only his clothes ‘heavier’.
The same way a lot of ‘large’ people can be deceptively strong after carrying all the extra weight around all day.
I remember one very large, (6’6″ roughly 450 lb) guy being harrassed by a 5’11” over muscled gym rat until he challenged the smaller guy to a foot race, then handed him two heavy equipment cases and said he had to carry some extra weight to make it fair. Whenever there was a good chance of a physical altercation upcoming, I knew which one I wanted as a partner, it’s a lot easier to control a squirming miscreant when you can just lean on them, there are some things sheer mass and inertia can do that are quite useful and cause less damage, and a woundup, spun out or drugged up playmate isn’t going to be impressed when you flex.
This dude has been reading too many superhero fanfics. That much is clear.
And on the confidence thing, I’ve found it’s fine to just allow that you are good at the things you are good at. Just don’t claim to be the best or whatever. I am GOOD at Excel. I can write a fun RPG plot. I am at minimum a competent cook with an adventurous palate.
It’s just the types who try claiming they are the MOST AMAZING [X] IN THE WORLD that gets douchebag aura.
Hmmmm. What do you think about “literally world class at X” when you’re top 100 in the world at it?
Yeah, there is a big difference between bragging and just stating a fact. Considering how long Grrl Power has been floating around the single digits of top web comics (I don’t know if this is still true as I haven’t checked in a while, but every time I *have* checked in the last few years it’s been top 5 or lower) I feel it’s fairly objective to say that Dave is good at making a webcomic, and the various skills that contribute to that such as art and writing, no need for equivocation. False modesty/under-inflated self-esteem can be just as bad as overconfidence and arrogance since it can come off as fishing for complements/ego strokes.
Granted, there are some areas where it’s virtually impossible to make accurate statements of fact without coming off as a douche, particularly intelligence. I check the boxes to qualify as a genius in the literal, technical sense, as in I have an IQ more than 2 standard deviations above the mean (for those curious, the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15, meaning any IQ 130 and above is a genius, mine is 134), and yet any time it is immediately relevant to the topic of discussion I get people reacting with eye rolls and scoffing if I bring it up. I don’t consider intelligence especially important outside of some niche areas, like sure it means I learn faster than most people, but that doesn’t actually mean anything other than a slight advantage in acquiring information/skills, everyone has things they are good at and bad at, and while I take pride in the things I am good at, like anyone with a healthy ego, I don’t think it makes me inherently better than anyone else outside of that one specific metric that barely matters in the long run.
I am also very good at lightest touch boffer fighting, I used to be possibly the best in my state at dual wielding (not determined through tournaments, just that it’s a niche hobby so everyone in the state is within like two degrees of separation so if there was someone better than me I’d have heard of them, and all the people I recognize as the best fighters in the area in general said I was the best dual wielder they knew of) before the plague prevented me from really practicing and thus my skill degraded (although it’s coming back over time). This comes off as far less douchey than the intelligence thing, likely because it’s a skill that took time and effort to build and because it’s not something most people care about and thus most people won’t be bothered if their skill at boffer fighting is considered lesser (it helps that I can actually prove my prowess if needed). Are there people better than me? Yes, especially now, but even then, I would never make claims about relative skill outside of an area that was verifiable, but it would be far worse to self-deprecate in my actual area of competence, much like how I feel it comes of poorly for Dave to try and add qualifiers to the claim that he’s a good web comic artist.
Slightly OT Psychie, but you you a mental health professional? I ask because you sound like you may have dealt with IQ tests in a more than cursory way. I administered a lot of IQ tests before I got greedy and bid into administration (a decision that demonstrates that a high IQ doesn’t guarantee good decision making). My own experience is that once you get above an average IQ, specific aptitudes start to weigh more than a generalized measure of intelligence.
I studied Psychology in college, but never finished my degree due to getting an easy job that paid better than anything I’d get with a degree. I read a few books on IQ testing, both history and methodology, and since my university is one of the top schools for psychological research, the research value of IQ testing came up in a few classes, although it’s clinical usage was generally disparaged as outside of some specific disorders where IQ is specifically relevant a patient’s IQ rarely makes any real difference in quality of life, and as such knowing it is only useful in attempting to diagnose some specific disorders.
I don’t personally have any hands on experience outside of anecdotal experiences from my own life, and any comparisons with other people are largely suppositional since I can only kind of guess at other people’s IQ. I’ve found at best I can sort of tell the difference between when someone is genuinely used to being the “smartest person in the room” and when someone THINKS they are usually the smartest person in the room (basically people who are actually unusually intelligent vs people who are slightly above average and thus think they are WAY above average).
Having said that, my experience is more that interest is more important than aptitude, per se, and AFAIK that is kinda backed up by studies (although the study in particular I’m thinking of wasn’t really looking at IQ but it’s not unrelated). IIRC, the famous study that is often misquoted regarding “it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill” was ACTUALLY about whether talent or practice was more important to becoming world class at a given skill, I think olympic athletes, master musicians, prima ballerinas, and whatnot were looked at, basically various people who are considered amongst the “best in the world” at their specialty. By interviewing them, their parents, their coaches, and the peers the grew up with it was found that while some of them had been considered unusually talented early in the development of their skill, even to the point of being called prodigies, for the most part they were fairly average in terms of natural aptitude, some even spent their early careers being overshadowed by more talented peers. What ultimately brought them to the world class of skill wasn’t their natural talent or aptitude, but rather their dedication to honing their craft, practicing for hours a day every day for years, steadily improving and mastering the next skill until they reach the top. Through this study and related ones it was found that while being naturally talented or having a particular aptitude can give a significant advantage early on in the process of developing a skill, it can also be a detriment to fully mastering that skill since it will eventually stop being easy, and since they hadn’t had to really work for it up until that point it can be easy to get frustrated and quit, and even for the “prodigies” that stick with it, their head start will eventually even out with more average contemporaries, making it fairly clear that the amount of effort put in matters far more in the long run than the amount of natural talent or aptitude displayed at the beginning. This is why I prefer to complement people by calling them skilled rather than talented, since talent is kinda meaningless but skill is highly praiseworthy.
I feel this translates fairly well to IQ as well, someone with high IQ has a very strong talent or aptitude for learning, and that can be applied to nearly any field, even several physical ones, but it also gets really easy to get bored if you aren’t being intellectually stimulated so we tend to get really into the weeds on subjects that we find particularly interesting and hobbies that catch our fancy, but get resistant to things we don’t especially care about (of course, that observation might have more to do with my position on the autism spectrum than my IQ, but having known some other high IQ people who I don’t think were on the spectrum, I feel it holds up regardless). Personally, I am able to have in depth discussions and talk at length about just about any topic that can come up, even things I don’t recall learning (since my narrative/episodic memory is genuinely terrible, I barely have any memories from childhood of any real specificity, but my informative memory (I might be recalling the name for it wrong, I haven’t slept in a while) is really, really good), by simple virtue of the fact that my brain connects dots faster than most and that makes storing information really easy. Having said that, I have a few areas of particular interest where the well is so deep it’s practically bottomless because I’ve spent so much time reading, watching, and thinking about that subject and my brain stores it all as soon as it’s comprehended. Once at a LARP I unironically said “it’s not that complicated, it’s only time travel” and didn’t realize how douchey that was until days later, because I don’t always realize that things that seem fairly straightforward to me can seem incredibly complex/convoluted to others.
Basically, people with high IQ are technically capable of excelling at basically anything, but if we don’t care enough to put in the work to get genuinely good at something then it doesn’t matter how smart we are. I’m a delivery driver because I’m comfortable with a low-stress job with a flexible schedule that pays well, by all metrics I’m wasting my talents, but I’d rather spend my time on my hobbies than anything lucrative. I’d wager that any differences in areas of aptitude you noticed between cases with similar IQs was probably due to their differing interests rather than any inherent differences in ability.
Sorry if that got too rambly toward the end, as noted I haven’t slept in awhile and I tend to have a harder time maintaining a single train of thought when I get like this. I hope that was helpful!
This, from paragraph three especially, lines up with an idea I picked up from Peter Egan. He is an automotive writer who wrote an essay on the topic of becoming an amateur racing driver. It boiled down down to “lots of people could but most don’t want it bad enough to do what it takes to get there”.
As a side note on psychology, you didn’t miss much by not finishing your degree. A B.S. in psychology is pretty useless as for anything other than prep work for grad school.
Grrl Power stays at #1 due to good art, not totally terrible story, and keeps updated on time with a good dedicated fan base, some who border on “the comic can do no wrong” :p
I sort of like the smell of Axe body spray on a guy, depending on the type of scent….
Decent product, but their marketing approach (early years especially) is definitely slanted toward douchebaggery; the ads are cringeworthy in any other context and highly mockable.
If you think Axe was bad, you never saw a Hai Karate ad. Those were super cringe even for me.
My brother left some of that stuff behind when he moved out of the house and into the adult world. That pretty much sums it up. My memory is that it was kind of a flourescent green color and had a floral/citrus scent.
Okay I seriously want to smell Hai Karate now.
From what I could tell the main scent was bergamot(bitter orange), rosemary, lemon, lavender, either licorice or anise seed, vanilla, and some kind of musk.
That sounds delicious, love citrus and anise. Dunno how manly it would come out, but at least an incense or something.
I think ‘manly’ was what it was trying to cover up.
There was an original bottle on Ebay for $75 USD. The advertising of the cologne implied that it would, to borrow a line from AGAHF, “make women stick to you with their vaginas”. I remember as a pre-adolescent thinking, “Eww, who would want that.”
Confidence IS attractive, doesn’t matter what gender is looking. Arrogance on the other hand is NOT attractive. Too much confidence becomes arrogance which usually breaks the attraction factor. Confidence is usually tempered by a measure of humility so they don’t get in over their head. Arrogance doesn’t have any sign of humility and would rather charge head first into a problem than ask for assistance when it’s clear they can’t handle it.
I actually think that humility-free arrogance is not confidence gone wrong, but a cover for insecurity. People who are actually sure of themselves don’t mind admitting that no one can do everything, and that includes them. People who are terrified of looking weak, or of letting someone else have power over them are the ones who need to get to a mental space where they are convinced that they are better than other people.
I love that Sydney’s throwaway “Periwinkle butt sniffer” is now basically S.O.P for Max!
SM = Stupid Masshole
Mass Hole. Definitely.
Suckhole better be bringing something other than grav powers. If that’s all he’s got, I can think of several way to take him out. First thing comes to mind, and only one I’ll post, is for Max to ramp up super speed, get to SH and punch him out before he can react. Since Max has a high profile and SH has been palling around “For Whom…” I’d suspect he’d do his due diligence on how to take her down, but arrogance in bad guys seems to often override their common sense.
Anyway, that said, Dave is known to be tricksy and keeps his box of surprises fully stocked. Looking forward to next week as always.
She has to keep flight and armor up to counter what he’s about to do, so there’s not much left over for super speed.
“Suck Hole” should be an entry on the “Make Maxima Say” Bingo card.
soon as some people get theirs filled again….
I can’t help but think Designated Idiot. He’s the clown keeping Maxima occupied while the rest of the welcoming committee gets into position and/or handles the rest of ARC-Swat.
No, “Designated Idiot” was Goon Squad. Got that from quite a few episodes ago when they attacked the tower when Max and Co. were dropping a visit on Deus.
Like a goomba from Mario Bros, this guy’s about to get stomped.
Take it from a guy who grew up around the cockyest assholes around, girls will jump over a 30ft line of decent guys just to make it with Mr. Asshole. Look at Evil Kinevil, asshole that he was he had girls lining up to do him telling their husbands to wait in the car. Women want a strong man, and no one looks stronger to a woman that a man that does not give a fuck what other people think,
Tom Jones had girls throwing their panties onstage well into his 60s, but from all accounts I read was still a very humble man in spite of that.
All I can say is, I hope that the purple glow from the mask is a hint at a secondary power stunt.
Don’t think so, considering he even got himseld a SM-buckle in the same glow. Seems like pure optics.
Dude, that’s just flashing. If you’re setting yourself up to be a so-called supervillain, why make your crime be something that any asshole with a bad raincoat could do? And if you just want to flash people, this huge secret base where hardly anybody can even see you indecently expose yourself would seem to be a waste of resources, wouldn’t it?
Also: Are Goombahs traditionally from Italian stories? I thought they were only in Japanese stories. Who were they in the the Pre-Nintendo era?
Mixing the Mario goombas and Japan in my head results in cartoon carnage at a teppanyaki restaurant. Also, different goombah.
The “not Italian” is, apparently, due to slang. From the Wikipedia article on Goombah:
“Goombah is a pejorative slang term for people of Italian descent, mainly in the United States, with several related connotations to the Mafia (either the Italian-American Mafia, the original Sicilian Mafia, or other Italian organized crime groups) or gangs of Italian or Italian-American origin.”
And, before I checked this, I was under the impression that it was referring to Mario’s backstory being an Italian Plumber, and the relation to Goombas from the Mario Games.
I’m reading this and the first thought that pops into my head is “Why is he advertising that his penis is small?”
How is he doing that? Doesn’t seem related.
All I can think of is that maybe you think guys should open by showing off their penis before showing off anything else, but that doesn’t make much sense.
The name, ‘Super Massive’
My first thought reading this is “Why is he advertising that his penis is small?”
Max isn’t easily impressed by big muscles even when the exposure is incidental… A breakaway suit that reveals a ripped physique and screams LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!! does nothing but massively annoy Max. Dude’s bug paste…
In reference to the text below, a lot of people with self confidence issues tend to feel that way I think. I do as well; it feels as though having any positive feeling about myself is boastful. I’ve been trying to learn the difference and I think what I’ve come up with so far is a confident person won’t sweat the details and just will deliver a firm “Yes. I can do it.” while a boastful person will try to build themselves up with a list of accomplishments.
Dave, you bastard! That was a perfect cup of hot cocoa I was enjoying until the spittake hit me! I am still giggling over Suck Hole and Gravity Goombah! You…you…magnificent bastard!
I mean, at least Supermassive doesn’t sound like something a three year old would come up with.
You’d need an 11 year old, at least.
One that at least had enough science to know about supermassive black holes.
Intelligence is not this guy’s strong suit. (He apparantly just tossed his strong suit aside) He’s making the unwarranted assumption that if he locks Maxima’s power pool into stading up under his gravity, he can beat her in hand-to-hand combat. he has not taken into account any baseline power Maxima has in her offensive stats or her own combat training.
Nor what she can do with just one finger!
Suck Hole?!? After today, Max should stick him into a sink hole…!
It’s official, Maxima has been hanging around Sydney for too long!
Lots of long-anticipated conversations not going well today for team Ascender.
Confidence is a good thing. Arrogance is not.
Gravity Goombah is in for a very bad day, I think. (and yes, I MUCH prefer that name!)
I wonder if she is one of those like myself who would eat kitkat the ‘wrong’ way just to spite the ads/onlookers.
Wait until he gets downgraded even more. The bingo bet club would Love to hear it!
Not casting shade on the artist, but that dude looks like he’s had a bad Man-boob (Moob) job done. Its surprisingly common in body building circles, specially if someone badly rips their pecs overdoing it. Along with orange eyes (yes, I’ve seen it, the whites of the eye go pale orange from too much of some ‘tanning’ agents, guy was waving around a prize trophy in the restaurant)
That made me look at his right wrist.
If the man-boob deformation comes from the angle of the shoulder joint, then the right arm should be pointing a lot more forward than is implied by the the lower arm shortening and hand angle.
The situation:
these are human traffickers who have also experimented on people, they also attacked a military instilation (new branch still counts), where they not only stole confidential information but also attempted to abduct and/or kill federal agents and military personel.
Maxima is under no legal obligation to take any of them alive, in fact they only need a few for questioning…which again, the guys taken from the swan boat should have been taken into custody and questioned by government agents given they then also had abducted someone and abducted a federal agents (Sidney).
So really as much as they need to take someone alive for questioning, a crush the skulls of the most resistant and question the ones not able to put up a fight and demoralized by the half second skull crush would be in order.
Not sure about Maxima’s personality on that approach, I may be projecting my own OP characters methods, but subjectively speaking from a legal government stand point they could wipe aside some paper work, after all this guy is resisting and attacking with lethal force (as commonly recognized by standard humans). Plus again the whole situation where they had attacked a federal building and attempted mass murder of federal agents and military personal.
Unless DaveB wants to give us a tragic backstory flashback or interesting inter-relation personality quirks (like the alien mercenaries) and make us care about this guy or another there so we don’t want to see them used to make abstract paintings on the nearest available surface.
It’s cute that Max thinks she gets to decide what this guy will be called. The Comments Section, in it’s infinite wisdom, has already named this guy “Masshole”. Get with the program, grrl.
Difference being: the Comments Section isn’t real, Maxi is
Ummm… Are you going to qualify that statement? Did you perhaps qualify it in your head?
It’s a fucking joke, if jokes now need to be qualified, then that’s on the one who needs it explained (if you even thought for a second that that was a serious statement, then that just shows more of your bias towards me than anything else)
My impression of you is a product of your own comments. Why should I assume that you’re someone other than whom you’ve portrayed yourself to be?
Because it’s the internet, Torabi. :)
Which is where we get to see who people really are underneath the mask they wear in real life.
Nah. Internet just promotes tribalism more than truth of character necessarily.
I disagree.
Anonymity is a kind of power, and as Lincoln said, “If you would test a man’s character, give him power.”
Guesti demonstrates his character here on the regular.
What troubles him so, is that he has been weighed, measured, and found wanting.
Agree to disagree there. :)
From what I’ve seen, anonymity is not so much a type of power as is being part of a group that agrees with you.
Group tribalism/mob mentality is much more a type of power than anonymity. Strength in numbers and all that.
Also I would be hesitant to judge a person’s character based on what they say here. The evil pun-users are probably nice people. I mean that’s not going to stop the ninja pirates from doing what must be done… but they’re still probably nice people outside of their crimes against humanity by using terrible puns.
Re: all of the above, obligatory XKCDs 1 and 2.
That second one is great.
No, your impression of me, is something you have made up in your head, and will pick apart posts to reinforce that belief
You got called out, and came out swinging, like you always do
You keep being you lady, because no one else wants that job
I have no information about you other than your comments here. My opinion of you is based purely on that information. I cannot imagine what else I should use to form an opinion on you.
You are a person who says the things you say. That is a sufficient basis on which to pass judgment, regardless of any other qualities or behavior you may have in other contexts. There’s no need to extrapolate, or make guesses about what kind of person you are.
The idea that a person’s behavior on the internet does not reflect on them as a person is utterly bizarre.
I don’t think Max will be able to overpower Suckhole. I’m betting she will be humbled like in V’s fight.
… How was she humbled against Kevin?
She went from declaring supremacy at the press conference, tanking his first (already powered-up) hit, and grandstanding (“wow, you made me step back”) to nearly dying helpless in his grip. She unquestionably lost the 1:1 fight, and was just barely rescued by the joint efforts of the entire team. I’d consider that a pretty solid humbling.
She was only ‘helpless in his grip’ because she had to put all her power into defense, which she probably could have kept up longer than he could maintain his power without feeding it with more violence
Wait, where did she declare ‘supremacy’?
And go back to where she ‘grandstood’, she did that because she knew how close she came to getting her arse beat and by saying that hid from him how close it was (just like when that one with the boom-bolas almost got through her personal shielding: it was called bluffing and if she didn’t make her doubt herself, the bad girl would have just thrown another that would seriously hurt Maxi)
She WAS helpless against Vehemence if Sydney had not intervened multiple times actually, including her plan to finally beat Vehemence. And she did think to herself that she was in trouble if something didnt change soon. When what changed was Dabbler doing sexy jump rope to distract Vehemence, Maxima was… conflicted.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-279-high-risk-reversal/
(Panel 2)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-281-the-power-of-the-grrls/
(Panels 12 and 15)
Also comics #274 and 275 (last panel)
“Wait, where did she declare ‘supremacy’?”
At the press conference demonstration after turning part of the desert testing grounds into a fireball, during her speech about anyone who stands against her being interred.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-176-pose-dramatically-much/
Also comic #172, panels 1 and 3.
Where she said:
Superpowers are rare, and if you have them, chances are you’re the only person you’ve ever met who has them? That isolation might have made you feel like you’re the most powerful person on Earth. That you’re unstoppable. That your power gives you primacy to hurt or rule over others. Well I promise you… We’re more powerful.
Also she mentions rather constantly to friends, enemies, and the press that she one of, if not is the most powerful, person on Earth who had only ever been even stalemated in a fight twice. And though she never said outright by whom, we know that it was once by Dabbler and once by Darude.
Yes, she was declaring ARCHON, as a group, was more powerful, and the Rumble proved it
Thought you would know that people can be wrong, and change their stance or claims (remember, prior to the Rumble, they thought the total number of supers was ridiculously low and most known had already been recruited by Archon or at least being watched, and then over 30 showed up in the same place and came scarily close to defeating them all)
“Yes, she was declaring ARCHON”
She made the declaration immediately after showing her own INDIVIDUAL power. And during the main interview, she stated outright that she was the most powerful super on the planet, of which only two people had EVER fought her to a standstill. That wasn’t talking about ARCHON in general – that was referring to herself personally.
“Thought you would know that people can be wrong, and change their stance or claims”
Yes, but Maxima tends to like repeating that she is the most powerful person. Sydney’s pointed this out as well when it was theorized that when she got her upgrade on flight speed, Maxima might no longer ‘be the best at everything on the team anymore.’
She also made that declaration… after everyone else showed off their individual powers
You even quoted the relevant part: “Well I promise you… We’re more powerful.”
Because, you know, it was a group demonstration
So, it has been shown that Sydney is faster than Maxi? Must have missed that demonstration, do you have a page number showing it?
“So, it has been shown that Sydney is faster than Maxi? Must have missed that demonstration, do you have a page number showing it?”
I did not say that Sydney IS definitively faster than Max now (although it’s likely since it was foreshadowed by Maxima herself – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-354-and-i-would-fly-500-miles/ ). I said that Sydney asked that, when got her upgrade, she wanted to know if Maxima would be okay with not being the best at everything on the team anymore.
“She only lost because she didn’t win!”
I’m dying here…dude, Hubris is Max’s legit weakness. She’s even at least somewhat aware of it herself.
You can say that about everyone before the end has happened, along with “you can’t lose if you don’t start”
We have seen it happen far too often for even someone like you to not have seen it, and it doesn’t even have to be the MC: they are being beaten and their defeat is a fore-gone conclusion, except when they aren’t and defeat (for them) doesn’t happen
If you want an example, go watch a fucking anime, any anime, from the last thirty years. Heck, go watch any ‘blockbuster’ Hollywood movie
“Someone like me,” eh?
Care to explain precisely what that’s meant to mean?