Grrl Power #1152 – General matchmaker
To clarify from the prior page, Max isn’t necessarily on board with trying to loot Galytn technology from under Deus’s nose. But she’s in the room with her boss’s boss and there are already plans in existence, so she’s going along with it in the moment. After all, Briggs said to “devise plans” not necessarily to execute them. You can see here that she’s gently trying to steer away from that course of action, but I don’t think there’s anyone who makes it to her rank, especially someone like her who has more than the usual amount of top secret clearance, who doesn’t understand that the U.S. is involved in a lot of shady shit. Sure, the average Air Force Major (her rank before getting the bump to Archon) isn’t getting read in on all the underhanded stuff the CIA gets up to, but a person would have to be especially ignorant not to recognize that the U.S. sometimes protects its interests in ways that are morally questionable. Also downright reprehensible. And sure, most every government has skeletons in their closet, if not mass-unmarked graves full of them. Max is taking the gentle pressure on the rudder approach here, because telling the guy three ranks above you to take a hike is generally not the most productive strategy.
America being put in the position of being at a significant technological disadvantage would cause a considerable reaction, IMO. Combining that with Deus marching an army of literal demons onto the field and I think there would be a lot of movement behind the scenes, and a lot of pulpit pounding rhetoric. The only reason Deus’s demon army wouldn’t be front and center 24/7 on every news station would be if something else dramatic happened. If there’s anything the last few years have taught us, it’s that “the public” has crippling ADD. Something bad happens and everyone is outraged, then something else bad happens and everyone forgets about the previous thing immediately to focus on the new thing. In the less than 6 months, the Grrl-verse populace has had proof of superpowers, proof of aliens, proof of humans living in space, aliens visiting NY, aliens landing in Africa, proof of demons, and several public superpower and/or alien battles. At this point, a lot of people would be going “You know what, I’m going back to my woodturning facebook group/knitting circle/book club and/or r/InstantBarbarians.
To be fair, there would also be a lot of people panicking and spiraling. So, business as usual.
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just waiting for dabs to stick her head in the door and say she can help the eager general get his date.
Yes. That would be lovely… Doubt it will happen, but would love to see it.
Oh my goodness. Your next vote incentive HAS to be Briggs and Deus on a ‘date’.
Never mind vote incentive. Demand a full on spinoff comic.
The Erotic Adventures of Deus and Briggsy.
Think big!
We could name it ”The Military Industrial Complex”.
Ah yes. The TMI Complex. :)
I both love and hate this entire concept.
Yes. That would be lovely… Doubt it will happen, but would love to see it.
Deus “So, Briggs…what’s your Superpower?”
Briggs “Moustache tickles.”
Deus “….. go on.”
It’s the Moustache of Authority, like Dan McNinjas
*light bulb* I knew I’d seen it somewhere before!
I’m going to read his lines in Sam Elliot voice, just seems more fun that way..
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People in the room: Sam Elliot of course, Ed Asner, Taraji P. Henson, Rade Serbedzija, Dan Hedaya, and I can’t decide if Max is more Natalie Portman or Megan Fox?
Sorry, but General Stevens mustache is severely out of regs for appearance and there is NO WAY he gets away with that in the US military. The mustache may not touch the upper lip nor extend past the corners of the mouth lest it be a violation of the uniform appearance regulations and would be grounds for UCMJ action if he did not immediately shave it back into regs. And since very few want the Errol Flynn mustache that is why nearly all US military are clean shaven.
General Stevens is a two-star general. He can pull rank and get away with things other people can’t due to how generals of that rank are pretty irreplacable when it comes to their strategic skill.
That moustache counts as at least one more star.
Is he a viltermite?
Viltrumite.
And it depends if he is voiced by J.K. Simmons. If so, then yes. :)
No, he cannot because there are three star generals that will remind him if he doesn’t follow the regs, no one else will because he can no longer enforce them. Do as I say not as I do DOES NOT WORK in the military. Generals can get away with a lot, but blatantly flaunting the appearance codes will get you punished, and repeated offenses will get you put out of the military for conduct unbecoming. It would lose him all the respect of his subordinates to show up looking like that in uniform. Instant loss of power and authority.
this is Daves universe, he can do as he wants. and if he wants a general to have an epic ‘stach, then by god, he will and it will be in regs.
In this universe exceptionally manly moustaches are the exception to the rule. Its also a well known fact that the thinner a moustache is the more evil it is so big moustaches should be allowed to keep supervillains out of the military.
So then, logically, everyone should have as thick and bushy of a moshtache as possible? Even the ladies?
Especially the ladies. That is a necessary sacrifice they need to do to create a strong and effective military.
IRL vilain mustache coul be big :
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These two guys had a big mustache but they are definitively vilains.
Ah but note the outward twist at the ends of both. These are covert handlebars, which are a universal sign of villainy.
Reading comments on a lot of pages,
I don’t think it is realistic or reasonable to assume any author is fully aware of every subject they include in their stories in every minute detail.
This why *rule of cool*, &rule of funny* and *if it helps just remember its not our universe* are important rules to go by. Heck, for movies and tv shows for the longest time (not sure if still a requirement) they were required by the military to make some things wrong intentionally *as a matter of national security* like for instance the 1998 Godzilla movie in an interview they said they had to get the army uniforms requirements wrong per this agreement.
the fact DaveB does as much homework on ranks, and weapons, and the sciences and such involved is incredible to be honest. It would be so easy to just give everyone Fake-blaster guns like GI Joe, or the same uniform requirements so everyone stands out like having a SGT Slaughter and other colorful characters on the team etc…
I mean this is a super world, they could be wearing weird British supervillain military uniforms like in so many anime with skin tight colorful pants, fake medals, and antenna hair and most who read super comics would shrug it off *provided this was internally consistent*.
It also helps that there are a bunch of us readers that have done military service and physics training, etc. that make comments when that other Dave gets things wrong.
Check out that jawline and that chin. General Harassment there is clearly a Super, and the Moustache of Power is presumably part of his ability.
It seems plausible that the moustache is the source of his power. If that is the case he should get a special permit to keep it big and fluffy.
You have forgotten the religious exemptions, and he is obviously an orthodox barbatumite, possibly of the Order of Selleck.
His name is actually Major General Steven Briggs, not General Stevens.
If it was explicitly our universe you might have a point, but in Dave’s universe there were already supers known to exist, even if only suspected by a small portion of the populace. Regs might be different on a minor point like that, and it’s not like our universe doesn’t have a push to allow beards back into the military. So maybe that already happened in their universe?
Also the limits of that reg get pushed all the time because everyone knows that the proscribed mustache looks stupid. though admittedly when and where matter a lot.
“General Briggs. I do not want to fill out the paperwork regarding the ‘accidental fire’ incident that you are about to walk into. I believe the Admiral will also testify that it was an ‘accident’.”
Or possibly suicide by misadventure.
J Jonah Jameson lookin ass needs to shut his mouth before my friendly neighborhood foot gets shoved in his Daily Bugle.
His moustache is not nearly Hitler-ish enough to be J J Jameson. :)
Its important to know the difference between good and evil moustaches.
Yes. Indeed it is.
Well said.
In the comics Captain America tells him off for dissing Spidey after they’ve teamed up, and makes what could be interpreted as a pointed remark about his mustache.
The next day Jameson was clean shaven.
Yeah. I love that particular comic.
Especially when Cap says “Spider-man is not a menace” then look right at JJ’s moutache “I know what a menace looks like.”
https://i.ibb.co/ydsm7Y7/5-F9434-C6-E5-E3-47-D0-8-B12-8-DD3-F0035155.jpg
Jameson wound up writing a retraction with a new title:
Captain America and Spider-Man Save City from M.O.D.O.K.
And includes the quote by Cap:
“Spider-Man is an asset to New York.”
I love it.
Spiderman can be quite a dick sometimes. But only to those who deserve it of course.
omg, totally imagining an entire series dedicated to Spider-Moustache and friends, a wandering-hero-type setup with just, like, the moustaches of the Avengers,, etc…….
I’d buy that comic.
His moustache outranks your foot
parallel universe…slightly different army regulations.
A government backed Maxima going over to Deus and then on top of that, him managing to sway her to his way of thinking, especially doing stuff the “the good”, would lead to a very interesting character arc and confrontations.
Maybe more end of story though, rather than current story. Maxima is a final boss battle, I mean, where would you take the story from there?
if by interesting you mean straight out of a porno, i agree with that assessment of a character arc.
Remember that if the golden girl decides to tell the Joint Chiefs to ‘go pound sand’, then there really isn’t a lot that conventional military can do about it.
And of the ‘Good Guy’ supers that we know of 1) Sidney might survive her wrath – maybe. 2) I can see Dabble escaping to fight another day but not beating Maxima, and 3) Deus.
In any fantasy world, Maxima’s description would be “High Elven Matriarch”. Duh!
I’m just wondering when Dave is going to drop the hammer on that. Probably when some alien diplomat arrives and starts screaming hysterically.
“In any fantasy world, Maxima’s description would be “High Elven Matriarch”. Duh!”
True nuff. Actual elves seem to be quite attracted by her ears as well from what we saw with the Council.
Deus would obviously win completely and utterly before there ever was a fight, on his own, clearly (all praise Deus, amen), but also remember… Dabbler has actually fought Maxima to a draw in one-on-one combat. Combined with other advanced alien tech and supers, not to mention magic and reality warping abilities, Maxima could very well lose.
Let’s see. Who could survive the “I’ve pissed of Maxima” sweepstakes?
Achilles: Can not be harmed, but he really should try to not piss off a superior officer. “I really don’t get what I am supposed to do with this toothbrush in the bathroom.”
Sydney: Shields up and atmosorb in hand. “I hate being a pinball!” Survivable if she has not eaten a meal recently.
Dabbler: She did it before; she can do it again.
Harem: Maxima can’t hit what she can’t find. Let’s use two bodies and keep telporting away.
Hiro: Well, Maxima may not win, but Hiro would lose. Hiro gets to wake up in the hospital for months of recovery. The question is whether Maxima is in the next room under heavy guard/sedation.
Anybody else is too squishy to handle the Wrath of Maxima.
Sydney: Can Max survive hard vacume?
If she can, I’d assume she can’t for LONG. She does seem to need to breathe, even when in the upper atmosphere, judging from how she had to wear an oxygen mask when trying to test Sydney’s flight ceiling. She probably wouldn’t die from the cold though, but explosive decompression is also possible in addition to the no oxygen thing, even though her skin and ‘armor’ is very tough.
I think her armour would stop explosive decompression.
But we have multiple examples of her needing to breath.
So the fight would be entirely decided by if Sydney can get her through an etherium causeway into deep enough space.
And Sydney can force a draw no problem.
“I think her armour would stop explosive decompression.”
Probably. But I have no idea if her armor is also doing the same job on her INSIDES as on her outside. I know that sort of sounds like Drax from Guardians 2 but it’s still something to consider. :)
“But we have multiple examples of her needing to breath.”
Yep!
“So the fight would be entirely decided by if Sydney can get her through an etherium causeway into deep enough space.”
She could probably time it in the same way she did with Vehemence. Plus we have had examples of Maxima, for some reason, not reacting fast enough because of surprise, like when she fought Hench Wench and wound up getting taken through that portal (and of course, fear vomit from during the bank).
“And Sydney can force a draw no problem.”
Yeah I think that’s a safe enough bet. The only thing Maxima has that might have a chance at ALL of getting through Sydney’s shield is her plasma blast, and even with that it probably can’t. But even if it could, Sydney’s not just going to stay still while Maxima focuses her beam on the shield for however long it takes to get through it. Sydney DEFINITELY could get a draw. But I do think she also could possibly win :)
And of course there’s the fact that Sydney would likely not be fighting alone if they had to deal with an out-of-control Maxima.
If Hiro was to survive a fight against Maxima when she’s not sandbagging the fight, it would be because Maxima LIKES Hiro a lot and wouldnt want to kill him, hence why he’d survive.
Sydney and Dabbler seem to be the two people most capable of surviving a fight against Maxima, and also possibly winning in a fight against Maxima. Dabbler has already shown that she’s able to fight her to a draw, and we’ve already seen that Maxima DOES have some weakness against alien tech, at least if they’re AWARE of her capabilities. If the mercs had been better briefed, they might have succeeded. Dabbler knows a great deal about Maxima, and even before she did, she had been one of only two people to be able to standstill her.
Sydney, as far as we’ve seen so far, has been able to take anything Maxima can throw at her with her force field, although we do know her force field may have some limits from how it was at a warning level with the Kaiju attack on Alar. We also know that Maxima has never gone to her highest power (like she did with the Fel Ship) with the plasma blast against Sydney’s shield, but I suspect it would be comparable to the Kaiju. The Fel ship did manage, even at Maxima’s maximum blast, to shield against it for a LITTLE while before it got through. Sydney is a smaller and far more maneuverable target though, with a shield that is probably a LOT more powerful than that of the Fel ship. Also, Sydney has no flight ceiling, while Maxima does. While I don’t think Sydney can beat Maxima in the same way she beat Vehemence (since Vehemence can’t FLY), I don’t know if Maxima can fly through space (her flight doesnt generate thrust so she probably can). But if Sydney makes an aetherium causeway to somewhere that isnt by Fracture Station or another planetary body or station where Maxima can get a route back home, Sydney COULD possibly beat Maxima. Probably best bet would be to aetherium causeway her to the atmosphere over Alar. It’s far from anywhere else, there’s no spacefaring ability there anymore, and Maxmia would basically either suffocate in space or be stranded on Alar, even assuming the Kaiju were not still there with their warning beacon scouts and assuming Maxima could take them all on in a fight.
And while Maxima can’t kill Achilles, she can do stuff like bury him or throw him into space, since Achilles can’t fly, which would leave him stranded in space and very bored assuming he doesnt eventually fall out of orbit back to Earth.
Achilles [ During re-entry ]: Whee! (at least once there is enough air/plasma in his respiratory system)
Well, I’ve gotta respect the General, he wouldn’t ask his soldiers to do anything that he wouldn’t do himself.
It’s not that the public has crippling ADD, it’s that the elites and their coopted media allies intentionally wave red flags to distract the public whenever a negative truth comes out.
So, repeatedly with Fox/OANN/Newsmax and the Republicans over the past decade, right?
Because that’s literally what’s happened.
I wonder, why is it considered a grave moral duty to order men to their deaths to prosecute a war, but it’s considered kind of sleazy to order soldiers to canoodle with a potential ally to gain tech that could save so many lives?
Probably because we don’t typically order men to die, but to fight to the death, which is an aggressive act. Ordering them to submit to another’s desire would be, well, a submissive act.
Does Deus have any powers of his own?
By his admission, he is supra intelligent to the point he could likely beat Braniac and Mr. Fantastic on Jeopardy by an embarrassing margin and logically predict most outcomes facing him for years in advance. There are also breadcrumb clues sprinkled throughout that he may be far older than he lets on.
Whether his youth and bulgin’ biceps are the result of his mind or technological or majikal discoveries he thought up or found via trade is up for Dave to eventually reveal.
The bulging biceps are presumably due to him being a super. All male supers look like that to various degrees.
Here’s a link to a G.I. Joe/Transformers background music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OD1HV66To
Now which track would be appropriate for this page?!?
None. That’s just from the movie. You need the one that’s over an hour long and has the music from the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbkHg7qces
Right, Brigadier General Faulk mustrespectfully make a request of an officer of a higher rank, even if not in his immediate chain of command, but that rear admiral is effectively the same rank as Major General Steven Briggs, so she can get away with being a little less respectful.
Whatever you think of the general, or his mustache, his last line earns respect.
I am waiting for next chapter
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You want to look away, but you can’t.
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