Grrl Power #1155 – War paint
When I first introduced the chroma-choker, I really didn’t think it’d be this long before Maxima got a night out, but I’ve always been bad at estimating the length of storylines.
The prior scene didn’t end with that phone call. As previously mentioned, that committee meeting covered demon invasions, the attack on ARCHON HQ and all manner of stuff. Max only got back in time for a night out because she can travel from DC back to Dallas in like 30 minutes, and that’s if she’s taking it real easy. Faulk is staying in DC to do… I dunno, political stuff.
The modified choker has a fixed skin color, because of the issues covering up Max’s specularity, but if she wants to, she can still change her hair color with one slider, and she has some makeup options with the other slider, since makeup doesn’t really stick to her skin, and the choker’s glamor would cover it up anyway. Dabbler put in a variety of options, and you have to imagine it’s like choosing your makeup in a RPG. Starts off with some subtle eyeshadow/eyeliner with muted lipstick color, then some increasingly tarty options, then a few straight goth variants, and the last few are like a dia de los muertos skull, a Furiosa full-black from the cheeks up, a jagged Jack-o-lantern pattern, a geometric “Somebody that I used to know” option, and a few others that would make Max balk at first, but then she’d turn her head, think about it, and nod.
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OKay but goth max is hot as hell *fans self*
Agreed!
Goth?
I thought it was “Biker-Chick-chic”!
Yup, Bicker-Chick, not goth
But… how would she look as a Goth Lolita?
A six foot tall loli?
I seriously don’t think there is anything ‘loli’ about Maxima’s look.
That was actually meant for Guesticules sorry. I realize your post was written in an ‘incredulous’ tone instead as it relates to the idea of Maxima and lolita being used in the same sentence. :)
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See e.g. Babymetal. It might work.
Gothic Lolita style isn’t restricted to “loli” aesthetics – yes they share an etymology, but GL emphasises black-white contrasts, lace, and accessories (based on a “doll-like” effect), while “loli” really stayed on the “teenage” meaning à la Nabokov.
Think of them as “elaborate victorian doll” vs “reminding of this book with that guy who’s really too into the young girl”
Yes, those ^^
What snekb and Lysbeth typed
Lolita is definitely not her style.
Cue up “Rock you like a hurricane” montage
As described in the when the disguise first showed up: Heavy Metal Magazine cover girl
Hot Goth chick? Come on, she’s way too hot to be Goth.
wtf man
80’s rock girl. goth nvolves powder white skin/makeup, skull ornaments, lace and fishnets
Not necessarily. That describes mostly Victorian goth, and that’s *not* the only style. I for example am mostly about cyber goth. But yeah, that’s a rock girl look.
She’ll get lots of looks like this! Because hot dang, she looks downright amazing in panel 5!
She looks like she is about to crack a marble counter-top in panel 5. Perhaps you mean panel 6.
Of coarse she’ll run into our favourite megalomaniac.
Maybe, but I’m doubting it.
What she almost certainly _is_ about to run into, is at least one bar full of What Life is Like for Ordinary Women.
People tend to forget how much of or culture runs off visual information & assumptions based thereupon. This is going to be something that Max may have observed, but probably has little actual direct, personal experience with. Remember, she was a relatively young kid when she got geo-ed, and so didn’t ever really get the social training most women do in our society.
Her height & raw scary-sexiness while ward off a fair few creeps, but there are going to be at least a few particularly tall gym rats who are going to try putting moves on her.
…and I don’t think Max ever learned how to handle Male Attention like a normie.
At a minimum, she risks outing her alter ego as being a super, if she breaks character. That could windup with someone calling the cops, who in turn call Archon, and then Max having to explain why she hospitalized a bunch of guys on her first night.
All of which is a long way to say, I’m excited for Max, but also extremely anxious.
I hope she goes to Decolette’s place. I feel like that particular succubus is best suited to helping her “adjust”.
Remember Max has dated before so would have to be aware of the more idiot members of the dating pool
possible, but she dated before with gold skin so, I doubt she was working with a typical male or two.
I suspect she did encounter a typical male or two that was unusually bold. However, they were at least on notice. Now they aren’t.
To be clear, that isn’t to say whatever happens is Maxima’s fault. Nobody should have to put up with that crap, I don’t care how “normal” they are. I mean, if they’re the sort of individual who *enjoys* getting subjected to that, I don’t mind them having the option. What I do object to is it being a fact of life for every normal but attractive woman out there.
She’s still far from ordinary, haha. I doubt she’ll have one of the merciful days where people don’t gawk, whistle, honk, make comments they shouldn’t within a kilometre of a child…
She doesn’t look like the immediately recognizable and fantastically dangerous known super who has been credibly referred to, on television, as “The Goddess of Ash.”
So yeah, she’s definitely gonna get cat-called and otherwise harassed, and she has to make the conscious decision to either blow her cover, or deal with it like an ordinary, non-super woman.
Which I strongly suspect might just be genuinely traumatic for her, because…
Tell me, who here has seen ‘My Life As A Teenage Robot?” Specifically the episode titled, “The Return of Ragged Android?”
I think it very possible that Max is gonna get caught on her desire to do the Clark Kent for a while. To paraphrase Bill, “to put on the costume in order to stop being Maxima for a while.” But as I mentioned, being a “perfectly ordinary girl” in this modern society Carrie’s a lot of shit she hasn’t likely had to learn to handle. Which brings us back to the dilemma…and one extremely dangerous, very plausible outcome. If her desire to blend in is strong enough, Max might just fall victim to the thing she’s most opposed – and vulnerable – to.
She might just decide to “roll with it.” Rather than give up her chance to “fit in” for a while, she might find herself internalizing the sexist expectations placed on women by America society. Yes, it’d likely start as “just part of the disguise,” but the thing with masks is, that they usually reveal a lot more than they conceal. And if you “play the part” long enough…eventually, it stops being a mask.
The really danger, though, isn’t in Max suddenly turning into some caricature of a docile little bar mouse. Rather, the extreme self-alienation that might emerge from forcing herself to participate in and internalize modern American misogyny could lead to some real serious mental health issues. Overcompensating while on duty. Displaced frustrations leading to lashing out, or any number of other potential problems…that could very, very quickly and easily damage unit cohesion and trust in command. That sort of thing will get someone killed, given sufficient time.
…I know that a lot of people here think of Max’s strident, even confrontational feminism as some sort of deep-seated character flaw. As a rough-edge that needs to be ground away, so she can be “normal.”
(There’s a SpongeBob reference for those in the know)
But I think this says more about the people criticizing her for it, than it does about her. It demonstrates an unwillingness to be challenged, to broaden their perspective, to see and engage people on their own terms.
Max should probably spend some time with Dr Frost after an outing or two as a “normal” supermodel out on the town. She may or may not have worked through her teenage crises from being converted into a super and losing a chance at a normal life, or she may not have. But an outing or two is likely to raise some unpleasant memories either way.
My thinking exactly.
It would also do her some good to think like a comic book hero for a bit. If you’re going to have a secret identity (petty sure I remember the initial presser explicitly labeling that a ‘no-no’), she needs to come up with answers to very ordinary questions.
What’s her name?
What does she do for a living?
What music does she like? What kind of car does she drive? Does she have a favorite ice cream flavor?
And yeah, on an emotional level, ho does she deal with that persistent sex-pest marketing jock who keeps trying to ply her with booze? Because you’re absolutely right: she might not have ever learned – had to learn – how to handle “that guy” without resorting to violence, even if implied. It’s entirely possible that on some level, she’s still in the developmental stage of an awkward adolescent girl, and without that very specific intimidation-based skill-set…she might be in for a bad time.
That partly why I hope she goes to Décolleté’s place. The succubus den-mother is almost certain best able to discern her identity discreetly, and help her navigate this…ah, “stage of her development as a young woman.”
X’D
Of course, that said, I also kinda feel like Dabbles would also handle that role well. Despite her usual over-the-top nonsense aside, I feel like she might actually care about and respect Max enough to genuinely and authentically support her, much as with Tamatha. I also suspect that Sydles and she have enough rapport between them that she could help, no-doubt with plenty of goofy sempai-kohai references and mildly embarrassing inside jokes. Pixel could probably relate, having a lifetime’s experience of balancing her tiny, cute, girly form, and all the societal baggage that Carrie’s, against the literal murder machine lurking just beneath: insert “LYCANTHROPE IS A METAPHOR FOR PUBERTY AND/MENSTRUATION” symbolism here. In _some_ ways, Chimyriad would be an ideal mentor for Max on this, but that’s a story for another day.
I absolutely agree, however, that if Max is going to make use of that Trinket, she needs to be taking the time to work with Dr. Frost, bother for own sake, and that of everyone else around her.
I assure you that the goddess of ash would have more than enough catcallers. This isn’t about survival instinct, but lack of empathy and this matters. Catcallers don’t catcall, because they think they can take you. They catcall, because they think it’s not a problem. This stays true independent of whether or not a woman can turn into ash with a snap of her fingers.
In her form of the goddess of ash she would still have catcallers, because many catcallers don’t care whether they “can take her”, they truly don’t see the problem.
Being scary doesn’t protect against that it actually worsens it, because the slightly less disempathic will see the issue with catcalling as power difference making of a compliment a threat and since she would clearly not be the less powerfull(high public official that can turn you into ash on a whim) not see the issue.
Anvil and Dabbler squealing together about Maxima even considering a possible hookup is kinda cute somehow.
Dabbler in panel 5 is event better
Panel 6
Krona: still hanging around Archon, still adorable.
IIRC she’s an ArcLight consultant as well as a Council member, which is why she has building access. Archon is laid back but just dating a team member doesn’t get anyone a security badge. Come to think of it though, many of them live on base so maybe it would rate a visitor’s pass…?
Dabbler’s sexual jetsam had to get in there somehow.
When you’re dating their tech guy building access is probably no issue at all; more so if you can hack reality.
She’s hanging around her boyfriend
tbh the max panel looks weird to me. the lips being off and the hip swing being out of character for max.
It was hard to catch Dabbler on the second floor railing the first time I read the panels. I did catch her the second time, that is one happy smile.
I didn’t even SEE that. And yes it’s great.
It’s perfect, you just know they’re going to follow Max!
I doubt it. They are her friends and respect her privacy.
Now that really makes me think they will either follow her, or use some method to spy on her.
Like Scrying.
They’ll probably tell themselves it’s because they’re concerned friends (before Dabbler tries to spy on anything she shouldn’t).
You are such a kidder.
Now I really can’t wait until Thursday
Max looks totes amazing on this page!
Whats the line on how many of them follow her?
Panel six is killing it, for more reasons than one. :D
let me guess…
she meets Joel. it doesn’t work. he lives to tell the tale. catch is.. he didn’t figure out who she really was.
Joel? Sydney’s business partner?
Or you mean that skeever who creeped her out so much she retreated to the roof to avoid turning him into red mist?
Joel was my guess as soon as DaveB implied that Max wanted a semi-normal dating experience. Which she still won’t get, because comedy.
Another option is that Joel figures it out, but tries not to ruin her evening. Classic “both sides know, but don’t want let on that they know.” Again, comedy.
Also acts as a good segue back to comic shop shenanigans.
Max hitting it off with a non-super would be fantastic, great plotline material and a chance at a normal relationship where she can feel secure in being valued for herself and not her powers or celebrity status. Although of course she’d have to reveal her identity eventually, and navigate any fallout, but that balancing act alone has driven many a romcom.
That has the opposite issue to Man of Steel/Woman of Kleenex story, where the operative term is “muzzle velocity”.
Max would end up having to go back to Dabbler for an “accommodation” potion that would make the poor boy more durable…
The excellent Interviewing Leather is an extended interview of a female super, and has a chapter on her POV about the logistical difficulties of super/normal relations and why it sometimes leads to hero/villain relationships.
The good thing is that Maxima has a dial for her superstrength, so she can turn it off.
The question is whether she can idle her power pool or if she has to put it in something else. Durability would work, but I seem to remember that makes her less sensitive, which would be a negative during sex, speed has a similar issue, flight and firepower don’t work either.
She can’t turn it off, she can only turn it down. She has a minimum baseline for everything and a pool to adjust how much she spends elsewhere.
No, she can go below her baseline, we’ve seen her do it in order to overcharge her strength: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-283-tectonic-uppercut/
Was that really sub-baseline though, or does she just always keep a point in each stat by default? The center changes color (black from white in all other appearances), which does seem to indicate drawing down other stats to boost strength… But I’d expect that as a super ever her “all powers off” state is tougher than a baseline human.
It was sub-baseline. Compare to https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-273-power-drain/ , where the A/N says “Force her into a high armor state and she’s only able to bring her default strength to bear.”
True. #283 describes her powered down state as “probably still tougher than a human”. But that sounds like it could plausibly range into where she doesn’t have to worry about squishing sex partners.
Well spotted, I never remember to read the author blurb when I’m diving for references. Probably time to build a GrrlPower ChatGPT bot that can assimilate all the content and answer esoteric questions for me.
Maxima can idle her power pool it turns out:
“So now she keeps a blue on armor and a green on speed and holds the rest of her power pool in reserve.”
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1123-thats-one-way-to-support-the-troops/
And her baseline stats (at least for speed) are confirmed to “many times that of a normal human” – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1128-get-the-heck-out-of-dodging/
I wonder if these bands will become standard issue.
They offer a good way to keep agents in the field disguise wise etc.
Maybe for Dark…
Fairly sure they already have things (magical, mechanical and mundane) that work on everyone else
Go back to Max’s introduction.
They have much better disguise tech already.
That is a good look for Max. Now can we all become overly focused on how Anvil went from being on Max’s left (character POV not audience) to being on her right, obviously that is what this comment section needs.
I’d assume she did it by “walking”.
I figured she just crossed behind Max as she was walking up to her, maybe she knows which side is Max’s ‘I’m less likely to punch you if you approach me on this’ side.
Of course with Max’s hearing, that’s a moot point.
In panel 6 it looks like there’s more room on that side so I think she just walked around there
Obviously some people haven’t had much exposure to typical female activities that accompany squeeing over somebody’s outfit, which is in effect what this is.
Short version: they’re *going* to look at the different angles.
Hot damn! Max as a normie is straight !!
fairly certain she’s curved. very nice curves…
To be fair she has had the hardest time having a ‘normal’ life added with the issues that while everyone else can take a moment to take a break or find some measure of peace… Her attempts to relax have always been a but more complicated.
Anyone remember the trouble she had with going to the bank when the government/world decided to reveal that super heroes were a thing?
At some point you might want a high for yourself and maybe a stiff drink considering how much more complicated/annoying the future might end up being.
Yeah, but if she just wanted a drink (or to get high) she could do that without leaving her room
She wants something stiff, but it ain’t a drink (might still be wet though ;) )
Hence Dabbler’s joyous reaction.
Sadly, with her power, it takes a very special person to survive Max’s “O” face. I highly doubt she’d be a passive lover, I dated a gal that would jerk, squeeze, scratch, and buck around no matter how we did it, now picture Max like that with a “normy”… EEEWWW…. poor guy…
But she can literally dial back her powers, right? Shouldn’t be a problem.
Ok let’s flip the roles a bit and you decide, in the movie Hancock, he hooked up with a fan girl and when he “got off” he had to toss her off him otherwise his “discharge” would of blown right threw her! The point is if you have to control yourself, you’re not enjoying yourself. Superman was the only one I heard of safely having a child but he had total control of his body, plus being an alien? Max is human and the effort to not squish her lover would also ruin her enjoyment, so why bother?
The problem with Maxima simply dialing back her powers is twofold:
– Her dial only goes *down* to something like 11-15 on a scale of 0-10.
– In that moment, control is something one really has to learn and isn’t really conducive to the mood.
-She can scale her power down further than her baseline.
-If she reduces her strength, she doesn’t need to worry about involuntary movements – the only thing she needs to control is the dial, which probably isn’t subject to involuntary action the way muscles are.
Except reducing her stats below baseline apparently takes some conscious effort.
Drinking alone can be a bad idea. (That’s how you get alcoholics.) I also wonder why she didn’t take Hiro with her. I thought she liked him and I know he liked her. Did they decide not to get involved because they work together or did their relationship cool some time ago?
He’s still her direct subordinate so work rules make that verboten. We haven’t seen any 1:1 interactions between them for a while, but presumably there will be an update eventually. Unless Hiro is only here to show that other supers find Max eligible as well, without actually involving her and cutting off storylines like the one we’re starting.
Also though, she just wants to get away from work and feel normal for a few hours, so taking him along would defeat the purpose, as well as blow her only incognito disguise. She can hang with Hiro sans disguise anytime, but until one of them gets transferred it’s still chilling with a coworker.
To be fair, a significant part of Maxima’s problems going to the bank like a normal cosplayer were Arianna’s fault.
Max should use that choker on Anvil and how would Anvil look in…Smurfy blue?!?!?
I have to ask. But teen Max that got geode sprayed was blonde. Is Max going as a brunette because it is closer to the purple her hair turned into?
I think it is the power of the choker she is wearing, it projects what the wearer sees themself as a human? Please correct me if I am wrong, I know Dabbler gave a spiel a bout it many pages ago.
It’s explicitly under control of the necklace, and this is what she chose at that party they did all the tuning at.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-963-a-memorable-first-date/
Ah, I’m wrong. Black is what she chose, but “the slider on the right will let you customize your hair.”
Has anyone ever looked at their baseline hair and said, “This is perfect, no need to change a thing.”? Still, brunette might be closer to her comfort zone now.
I think hair color matches the outfit (Biker Leather) better than blonde. I also suspect Max has issues with Blonde/Gold interactions in her appearance.
Panel six – next nude art?
Please?
This. THIS. THIS!!! I cannot stress how badly I want to see this happen!
Umm… dang “human” Max is ddg as well.
Hoping she has a good time, but sadly for Dabbler I doubt she’s going to have sex tonight. Odds of running into a super powered man at a random bar are low, and at her strength having snu-snu with a now super is very risky (hence why she has underwear with ‘crush hazard’ on it.)
Indeed, the corollary of Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue Paper would be Woman of Gold, Man of Tissue Paper.
Kleenex
Maybe more like Woman of Gold, Man of Spaghetti. It still would not be good for either one of them.
you’d be amazed at what some men would stick it in. but, this is a first outing. Max has not been presented as ‘thirsty’ enough to try it that fast. I would guess if she was that ‘thirsty’ some of our female commenters would have called her out on it.
Given she can rearrange her powers, seemingly without having to manually hold them on their new settings, she’d only be dealing with her minimum strength and shields. I forget just how low she can get them, but it wouldn’t be as bad as how we usually see her. I wonder if she can leave all of her controlled charge unallocated, or if she’d have to put it on firepower and hope she wasn’t startled.
> (hence why she has underwear with ‘crush hazard’ on it.)
Comic link?
I don’t think Max needs to cheat at the mechanical bull – her base strength is already so high, it really has no chance to throw her off.
That’s not really “cheating”. Using her flight powers or something would be cheating. Simply being strong enough to stay on is just normal (well, for those who manage to stay on, of course).
Hell, she could pick the bull up and give it a ride! (cue the “hur hur hur “wink nudge”) Not like that! Besides crush hazard etc…
they do make metal toys that could help with that kind of thing.
(the idea of what she might start with for a ‘massage’ aid are just… no… please…) though the bull could work….
I would argue that strength powered by the superion field in addition to muscles would already be cheating. Perhaps not by the letter of the rules, but I think probably by the spirit of them. If we’re sticking to abiding by the letter of the law flying probably isn’t explicitly forbidden either (yet, it will be once it comes up).
It’s been months since supers came out in world. Yes, flying is explicitly forbidden by their current mechanical bull rules, as is gripping the bull hard enough to leave a permanent impression. I’m not arguing the motivation for those changes, I’m just asking, do you really think that stuff didn’t come up the first week?
Max is gonna blow her cover when the conversation shifts to the gym and she struggles to make up reasonable PBs for a normal woman.
Max: Did I say tons? I meant pounds.
Why would she even go there.
“My personal best? It’s enough I’m happy with it for now.”
I’m pretty sure Maxima is in touch enough to at least get the units right if she really felt the need to give numbers. But I suspect someone pressing on the numbers would be rejected before they goaded her enough to get her ballpark numbers.
She probably knows either Harem’s or Peggie’s well enough to know what “normal” looks like.
It would have to be Peggie’s; Harem has mild super-strength, especially when she de-vorps one of her bodies.
Harem has mild super strength _only_ when she de-vorps one of her. When she doesn’t she has the strength of a human woman of her age and build, and Maxima is taller and more muscular than her. Peggy, meanwhile, is shorter and skinnier than either of them.
Although it kinda looks like the glamour made Maxima a bit skinnier. Hard to tell under the jacket.
Maxima is probably so strong that her PB would seem implausible even after changing tons intos pounds.
I like that most of the people staring at her in Panel 6 are those who helped refine the chroma choker into something Max could use. Not sure why Max is posing / doing a catwalk hip pop though, and a little disappointed in the missed opportunity for an homage to the distracted boyfriend meme.
Shouldn’t Math’s “new* hot woman” senses be going off?
* He probably hasn’t seen her looking like this, so her look is new to him.
His ‘danger’ sense is probably over riding that.
the look of pure joy on Dabblers face up there in the 6th panel
last panel, it looks like Kenya and Dabbler are each doing a boob squeeze of the other
I can only speak for myself, but Anvil’s over the top pushes for Max to get a boyfriend combined with her reactions here would only make me far less inclined to go out. If someone’s already uncomfortable with doing something, proceeding to tease/needle them about it when they’re already doing it seems like a great way to make them not go through with it.
Panel six Dabbles is absolutely a cat. X’D
While I’m not 6′ tall, I would go out with her! Of course she wouldn’t with me so I’d just creep on her a bit and then leave the bar…. most likely with the cute goth 5′ that had one too many LOL.
Anyway I doubt she’d put up with anyone hitting on her at a bar, she’s just testing it and out trying to relax. Max will get hit on, right up until she either get mad, or people will figure it out and swarm her.
She’ probably going to name the mechanical bull ‘Juan’ and take it home with her.
it’s actually a super that can turn into a mechanical bull
Oh, good for her then.
She def needs some gold jewelry with that outfit to make it “hers”. She has no tats, no sigils, no turquoise, no black lace, no crucifix, so she’s completely lacking signifiers. She’s going to raise hackles no matter what girls are adjacent to her target.
I’d say, one clunky gold tennis bracelet with stones that match her eyes, change the belt to 10k gold. Gold markings or filigree on cowgirl boots. Ideally, change the snaps on that jacket to gold as well, but if that can’t happen, then a gold lapel pin of some spirit animal. Mustang, Eagle, or velociraptor, depending on mood.
Max looks like gold, I’d think she’d want to be as nondescript as possible. Well as much as a 6 ft tall biker magazine babe could be. She’s already an eye magnet looking “plain” as can be, adding any “bling” would just add to it and send a message she’s not into.
I married a hottie, and after while, it got tiring to have to fend off the “Chads”. Some would hit on my wife telling her to “dump the chump” in my face, which meant I had to get into theirs, usually ending with them on their backs and us leaving. You’d think people would learn that yes, I did do the “Billy Jack” BS. For those too young to remember, google it. It’s an older movie by that name.
Fortunately, my “way too good for me” wife is more on the massively cute end of the spectrum, which apparently doesn’t induce the same effect. Picture a 5 foot nothing filipina version of Tinkerbell.
Hot Dang!
Deus was right about Max all the way back on page #186.
I just had to go to Patreon & get a better look.
…I need a cold shower…
If Max was feeling playful, she’d have googlie eyes on her cleavage with the T shirt that says “my eyes are up here ^” That would be both playful and suggestive! But i think Harem would be more likely to go that route.
Are we finally getting Sydney’s promised smash cut to Max waking up in some random dude’s bed the following morning?
No, she’s not that easy. Or careless. If she were, he’d probably be dead.
Now we need her and a Wonder Woman in civvies side-by-side.
Interesting. I wonder if the fact that her hair is consistently covering her ears now is part of the illusion, or just her literally letting her hair down. :)
Max has elf ears, she has to keep them covered or her disguise would be ruined. Check panel 1.
I know that part. I am just wondering whether is physically doing so, or as part of the illusion. :)
The original discussion of the magic choker said that she’d have to ensure that her hair covered her ears so it seems like it has to be physical rather than illusion
Maxima’s secret identity disguise as…The Morrighan.
This or succeeding pages would be a good place to introduce my OC from a Heroes game that had a God-tier level of comelyness, or as the GM put it: “Makes lesbians and straight men seriously question their sexual orientation.” And who has serious problems with random people hitting on him when he goes out for a drink without his (blind) GF, and frequently even then. He wears a full-face helmet in his super identity as a bicycle-riding speedster to “prevent distractions”. I don’t know how Dave would draw him though because his physique is more “ripped marathon runner” that “muscle-bound super”.
While I’m not an expert on Dabbler’s anatomy, isn’t her hoof turned the wrong way in the last panel?
When standing the straight side with the point of the lovely cleft hoof faces forward, so kicking her hoof back in delight should have it facing down, not up, with the curved side facing the same side as her first leg joint faces, n’est-ce pas?
I need to brush up on my Demonology I guess, my syntax is coming up short trying to explain what my eyes are telling me I think I should see.
I know Dabbler has joints like the insides of a Rubik’s Cube,
but what is up with her hoof in the last panel?
Is that the direction it should be pointing?
It points correctly, as in the leg orientation and direction of first knee bend is correct, but the hoof itself got turned around on its ankle facing opposite its normal orientation.
I jumped back to #1045 where I could get a decent chance to see why my eyes were rebelling on me.
That’s not her knee on panel.
Yeah, that’s her heel
Please subvert my expectations and do a “Max meets someone nice and they have a pleasant evening together” instead of the “Max gets hit on by every creep in the universe and retreats further into her shell for comedy effect” scenario that we all know is gonna happen. Be nice if she could get a win, even if she just makes a friend.
Same. Lots more unexplored territory around “Max makes a respectful friend” than “guys creep on beleaguered woman out of their class”.
Biker Max needs to be a vote incentive.