Grrl Power #1158 – SHOT
Yes, Maxima can metabolize an incredible amount of alcohol. So much for a low-key start to her evening.
Max has literally never been an adult and looked inconspicuously human. She knows how they’re supposed to act, but she’s always been the center of attention one way or another. Let’s see what happens.
If you had super strength or telekinesis, etc., the temptation to “create parking opportunities” for yourself would be real. Especially if some jackass is parked crooked or is taking up multiple spaces. You’d be morally obligated to relocate that car into a tree or next to a fire hydrant.
I actually had planned on a whole page of Max driving around until I realized I’d be condemning myself to drawing not just her car, but a whole bunch of other cars blocking her access to parking. I can draw a car if I have good reference, but I’m not one of those artists that lives for drawing cars and/or mecha. Like there’s no way Shuichi Shigeno, the artist responsible for Initial D, wasn’t super into drawing cars before he set out to create that manga. I can assure you neither this or any other comic I work on will heavily feature cars. Unless I somehow become an expert at Blender.
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Cracks me up, the gal (blonde) in the last panel is LOOKING at the guy’s “fear boner” and saying eww… With a grin!
Yeeeeeeah, that’s not his first fear boner.
That’s not a grin. It’s an awkward grimace/smile.
I was immediately reminded of the meme of Elsa looking shocked and Anna looking excited with the caption “The two types of reactions to a big dick”.
Props for the “chewable dark beer” line. Max is my kind of gal.
I like a lot of different kinds of beers, but my go-to is usually something that resembles used motor oil, such as (Russian or otherwise) Imperial Stouts and the like. As a bonus they tend to have a ridiculous alcohol percentage.
Many are regional or limited production, but here are some suggestions that are more widely available: Ten FIDY (Oskar Blues), Yeti (Great Divide), Moose Boots (Prairie), Narwhal (Sierra Nevada), Big Mistake (11 Below), various by (Clown Shoes), So Happens It’s Tuesday (The Bruery), Jolly Russian (Odell).
Yeah, she needs a good German lager, about 3X the alcohol content and almost the same thickness as baby oil. My late great-Uncle Otto introduced me to that when I was a boy, MAN talk about a coughing fit! LOL! I was only 14 at the time, told me it’s put hair on my chest, NOT in my throat! Ah Germans… it’s said they give watered down beer to the babies…
(Insert aggressive Russian saying “In mother Russa, we give vodka to babies instead of milk!”) That’s nice (eyeroll).
Tactical Nuclear Penguin an American Imperial Stout made Brewdogs in Scotland. The strongest beer on the planet, when you want to nuke brain cells and pickle your liver this is the beer for you.
Tactical Nuclear Pengun hasn’t been the “Strongest Beer on the Planet” in over a decade. The current “Strongest” is Snake Venom by Brewmeister.
Mmmm… Gummi Beers.
Gummi Beers!
Schlorfing here and there and everywhere!
Hangovers beyond compare!
They are the Gummi Beeeeeeeers!
I just watched a video where this “good ole’ boy” had taken a large gummi beer, stuffed it into a mason jar, filled it the rest of the way with everclear. After about 3 weeks he took it out, it was a gooy mess, and tried to eat it. Pretty good he said,
then tried a shot of the now gummi/everclear, and about threw up on camera! I about died laughing…
I dont really drink beer so I didnt get this line until others posted about it. Mainly because when I think ‘beverage, the word Chewing makes me think the drink has congealed or something. :)
I’m not much of a drinker but I understood what she meant. It’s a lot like saying that you’re going to “peruse a good book” instead of saying that you’re going to “read carefully with my full attention.” In that same context you could be saying that you’re chewing on a good book…Same meaning, just different way of saying it.
I hear a lot of people in your profession have alcohol addiction issues, and I’m glad you don’t :)
I’d like to say it’s for some more responsible reason, but the truth is, with the exception of a VERY small amount of insanely sweet drinks (baileys, gewurztraminer, this drink called ‘cinnamon toast crunch’ which tastes like the cereal, etc), I don’t drink because I really REALLY dislike how most alcoholic beverages taste. Trying to get me to drink alcoholic beverages is like trying to get a picky child to eat Brussel sprouts. I’d rather just have a soda or watermelon juice or something. :) Drives my friends nuts when they want me to come out with them for the evening. Every time they try to find something I might like, I take a little sip, go ‘bleah’ and get something like a shirley temple or ginger ale instead to get rid of the taste.
2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon Whiskey
1 oz lemon juice
4 apple juice
1 oz simple
Shake with ice, pour into a frozen mason jar (or glass) with ice, garnish with a few thin slices of green apple.
Stick a cinnamon stick in it if you wanna be fancy and expensive.
If you don’t like it, I’ll send an Uber Eats meal on me.
I will try it for three reasons:
1) It’s a win-win – if I like it I find a drink I like, if I don’t I get uber eats.
2) I do like apple flavor. Might taste sweet.
3) Chimyriad just made a drink suggestion to me. Obviously I must try it.
PS – what does ‘simple’ mean?
Simple syrup.
Have a bartender fixit it for you.
They substitute the brand of bourbon, but not the measure.
I’ll ask the next time my friend drag me to a bar to try to find something I actually like. :) Thank you Chimyriad :) :) :)
‘Simple’ means that it is equal parts sugar and water. Heat it while stirring until it boils and let it cool completely before using it.
Sounds less simple when you say it that way. :) Would prefer something just out of a bottle or from a bartender, as my brain is mostly full of facts about history and law and pop culture. If I add too much about other stuff, some of the existing information will probably slosh out, like water going into an already full rain barrel. :)
Btw, already printed it out so I can ask a bartender the next time my friends drag me out for a drink. Something for me to try and hopefully like, otherwise I will revert back to ordering a shirley temple or ginger ale. :)
She never said that, just that she’s not a beer drinker
I’m not really an any alcohol drinker, beyond VERY rarely. Definitely not beer though. And aside from gewurztraminer, not wine either. I just don’t like the ‘hollow’ taste that comes with alcohol. That’s the best way I can describe how alcohol tastes. ‘Hollow.’ And beer tastes bitter AND hollow. Wine tastes medicine-y and hollow. Even the ones that most people claim is ‘sweet.’ Never tastes sweet when I take a sip (except gewurztraminer). Same with most harder liquors, although there are some of those that do tastes sweet enough that I don’t think it tastes terrible.
But just so you know, he assumed correctly anyway. Although I do think beer tastes especially bad.
I’ll send you a bottle of beerenausslese, if you have an address that you’re comfortable receiving a gift to.
It is a very special kind of vintage, generally served as a desert wine, and usually reserved for special occasions, at least in the US.
If you like it, you can comp me for it later, and if you don’t, gift it to a friend.
I would but I’m not sure how to give you an address without having everyone know it. I can look it up and see about buying it though directly. I know that gewurztraminer is a dessert wine as well so sounds like something I can at least give a try. Thank you. :)
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I quit drinking altogether when I got married and started a family, had better things to spend the money on. Well that and I had a bleeding ulcer by time I was 28. Stressful job and drinking shots got the best of me I guess? A “chewy” beer is a thick, strong beer that’s banned in the USA, it can be imported, but it’s not legal to make in many states.
That’s just not true. Strong beer isn’t banned in the US. There are dozens of breweries making exactly that kind of beer right here in the US. Russian Imperial Stouts, Imperial Stouts, Imperial IPAs, etc etc etc.
Things have changed then, my father used to gripe that you couldn’t get a REAL beer in the US, most of his family came from Germany post WWI. I haven’t drank much in 30 years so yeah, kinda out of date.
My reply to that is “bah,” and “double bah.”
My go-to brews are all imports. Gulden Drak, Asahi, Mythos, Tsingtao, and Belhaven all immediately spring to mind. The “good” beers I’ve ever had in the US are Kona’s Longboard, and Ballast Point’s California Kolsch.
North Coast’s Old Rasputin is another great Russian Imperial. Taxman Brewing specializes in Belgian style ales, which are also usually good if you like something dark and just a little sweet. So far I’ve only tried their Deduction, a Belgian dubbel, but I definitely intend to sample more of their offerings in the future.
Decon’s Pure Ethanol. Beyond Everclear.
By time it’s Everclear, you’re only a rounding error away from pure alcohol anyway. (We used to have debates in college back in the 70’s, about whether you could really get drunk by leaving your finger in Everclear long enough. Personally, I figured you’d probably kill the skin first.)
I’m not much for beer, maybe an occasional shandy; I just don’t like hops. Home brew mead, instead. But my brother home brews beer, and I knew what she meant about beer she could “chew”. Some varieties get pretty thick.
By the time it’s Everclear, you can’t really distill it very much further anyway (Everclear is 95%, maximum is 95.6%), since it forms something called an azeotrope – the ratio of ethanol to water in the boil-off is the same as the ratio in the original solution, so you can’t make it any stronger. If you use methods other than simple distillation, you can get up to 100% alcohol, but it involves horrendously toxic crap like benzene, so it’s not suitable for drinking.
Eh, there are less toxic approaches to removing the last bit of water. But, what’s the point, unless you’re doing chemistry? Just bragging rights?
There are several amusing options at this point. A half-dozen large street punks walk in, looking for a fight. Geniuses carrying submachine guns walk in and announces that this is a robbery, but first the tall woman strips.
“The tall woman strips” alrighty, the guns from your hands and the skin from your faces.
A interesting recycling of the attack idea is the presence of another Superhero a foreign one:
One in waiting for a formal meeting at Archon if he was an official.
The attack could
“Hands up it’s an hold up”
“If I had been given a euro each time this sentence was pronounced” and “It’s not your most fortunate day”
Two shape blink due to persistance of vision.
“Oh you’re the local team” “Who are you and what does you do in our country ?”
For an official French superhero Deus invoking hell in Africa and the not so subtle intervention of american superheroes in Senegal is more than enough to demand a meeting with the U.S team.
What do the guys with guns even do if the tall woman nonviolently refuses to strip? I think one of them puts his gun down and manhandles her. I’m *pretty* sure that’s the answer. They won’t get what they want if she’s dead.
…I suppose they might alternately shoot a bystander over her noncompliance.
Meanwhile, Digit is busy re-inventing the Nude Bomb
I understood that reference.
just watch for the fallout.
Quick, call Agent 86!
Well my OC is definitely not in that bar, but the night is young. Nobody wearing a mask or veil yet in appearance, or walking in wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet. Since my character can canonically change a persons Kinsey rating in his favor with just a glance I don’t see him showing his face in this dive. We did have him go to a lesbian bar to drink in peace in one game and start a riot he just barely escaped.
At just 3% ABV off the azeotropic limit and unpeated it’s just an expensive version of Everclear.
Unpeated? Where do you get the idea it’s unpeated?
I don’t know who these other guys are, but I’m guessing they’ll be relevant in the next few pages.
And while I don’t drink alcohol by choice, boy do I sympathise with trying to find a break at the bottom of something relaxing. Soda is my great weakness.
Kava and hot baths have become mine
I was just about to say that the colors of their eyes is sus.
“A good dark beer. Something I can chew.”
My kind of girl! I recommend the dopplebock from the brewery in Los Gatos, CA.
Or if you’re in Britain, Cocoa Wonderland porter by Thornbridge brewery, in the middle of the Peak District. 6.8% of heaven, I tells ya. Trouble is, no bar ever sells it, and as soon as a bottle shop gets some, it vanishes off the shelves immediately, so the only option to order it by the case, direct from the brewers.
I got a definite Marshall and Lily vibe from two of those barflies. In “How I met your Mother” the one guy could have been Barry sporting a mustache, and the brunette, Robin?
I’m already way ahead of that guy on the left in the last panel. I got mine 3 pages ago because of panel 6, page 1155.
184? Pfft!
In BattleTech circles, there’s a drink called the PPC (Particle Projection Cannon).
4 shots everclear
1 shot of: something to give it flavor (beyond “Paint Stripper”)
peppermint schnapps (steiner)
sake (kurita)
ouzo (marik)
plum wine (liao)
bourbon (davion)
tequila (capellan march)
They make an ER (Extended Range) variant with 190 proof.
Had a Steiner variant of the ER.
Satan’s Scope.
Drank one while I had a sinus infection.
The next morning? No sinus infection.
>skål
I didn’t know Maxima had Swedish-speaking ancestry
The speaker isn’t Maxima, but “black haired and green eyed girl”.
The other patrons are with four
We’re calling her Skål Gål!
I love that name.
Isn’t Leander a Swedish name? But why would this reflect Maxima’s ancestry – isn’t it the wine girl?
I feel like they’re probably going to have to cut her off on general principle soon, unless she outs herself.
…aaaaand I actually already basically posted it. Speaking of…
Wait… it just dawned on me…
is alt-form Maxima the black-haired girl from page 3, of Sydney’s gaming group before we hit flashback???
No that’s the cousin/half sister of the hot comic shop customer Sydney was ogling near the start of the comic. Here, DaveB even confirms it’s her in the paragraph under the comic : https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power19-byo-laugh-track/
The Los Gatos brewpub was sold in 2015.
In my headcanon Max nicked the Dramatic Lightning Button from Deus’ office. She put it in her pocket to make sure he’d stop using it but then had to leave in a hurry and never gave it back.
With great special effects comes many opportunities to abuse it.
Would be fantastic if this turned out to be true, although she’d owe him an apology once she got a taste of how fun it is to use.
Just realized that Fear Boner looks like some wise and benevolent soul combined the best parts of a young Robert Redford and a young Mike Farrell,and empowered them with Leno’s Chin.
oh God now I see the Leno’s chin part and can’t un-see it.
It’s even better when you realize the Skål Gål looks like a Younger, female Alan Alda (Hawkeye Pierce) as interpreted by Dan Shive, over at EGS.
The tall guy in the back could be a cross of David Stiers (Winchester) and Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon), and the Big Eyes Girl could easily be a young Loretta Swit (Hot Lips Houlihan) with a shorter hair-style cast in the role of “manic Pixie girlfriend-but-not-really.”
I really like the reaction/look of the Skal Gal. She looks the most unphased by Maxima’s entrance and display of drinking ability. I can sort of see the Sheldon thing too but his head is too square-ish. :)
Nah, more ‘Dwight Shultz’ without the glasses (the really annoying fuck from the “US Office” show) than Parsons
But definitely a M*A*S*H-up with the rest :P
“Schlorf” is now my favorite drinking noise.
Who needs super strength? I threw two illegally parked rental e-bikes out of the road myself, only today. Those things are an absolute menace to blind people you know.
……………………….. Cool. Post again when you throw an illegally parked Toyota Camry.
What’s the chance that Max gets caught driving ‘drunk’? She may not feel intoxication but the amount of alcohol she got intus can still be measured by the police.
I wonder if supers with insane alcohol tolerance will be able to get some kind of official exception on their license.
For me, when it comes to alcohol, I’ve learned a few things. Vodka makes me sick (alcohol content is irrelevant), wine gets me sick if I have four glasses (and only mildly drunk) and if I drink anything less than 85 proof it does nothing. Also, stuck in Utah so I have to hunt for something decent.
Potentially relevant: I have intestinal cancer (to slow to kill me) and a hiatal hernia with half my stomach through my diaphragm.
Also come from a family where alcoholism happens because beer is usually enjoyed on the same level of soda. I just hate the taste of beer and it won’t get me drunk gay enough to justify it.
And if course I come back to find my phone messed up and somehow added the word “gay” while I fought with the text. Broken phone is frustrating.
Older brother worked in a small town pub in England, came up with a few drinks, copied a couple down and went looking for the ingredients to try it, even going through Europe couldn’t find one of the ingredients (no idea where the recipes went :( )