Grrl Power #1163 – Abracadatebra!
I didn’t realize it, but Julie Strain was 6’1″, just like Max. I’m assuming most of you know who she was. If you don’t, the short version before you hit up google is that she was basically the cover girl for Heavy Metal Magazine. Not literally, they had a zillion amazing covers, almost all of them painted by amazing artists. But I think Strain was featured on more covers than anyone else. She was also in a zillion terrible movie whose plots were “who cares, the camera doesn’t cut away when the girls in it shower or change clothes, and they do that A LOT.” Unlike Maxima, Strain often wore towering high heels, pushing her to 6’5″ or 6’6.” And that’s really tall for a woman. Immediately after this shot, (from Day of the Warrior – a terrible yet free-with-ads streaming movie) she turned around and smacked the guy in the face with her boob, causing him to flip onto his back. It’s the only good scene in the movie. Well, okay, the scene where Shae Marks changes on camera doesn’t exactly suck, either.
All of that has nothing to do with this page, but I watched Day of the Warrior (purely for research purposes) so I can’t confidently say a 6’1″ woman would draw a lot of attention. Especially if all the actors around her are shorter than her in her heels. Max likes cleaty boots, but they don’t really add any height over and above the standard shoes most anyone would be wearing. Maybe half an inch over loafers.
Anyway, I guess none of the other guys who have been queuing for Max have tried humor. At least nothing that didn’t feel forced. Which is a tall order, admittedly. Pick up lines seem to come in three flavors. Sincere, if somewhat cynically motivated flattery, flat out sexualization, or just straight up attempting to elicit a giggle. Of the three, it seems trying to get a laugh out of a girl would be by far the most effective to break the ice.
I’m sure women use pick up lines on men occasionally, too. And I assume gay and lesbian folks probably use them as well, but for some reason, I picture lesbians using pick up lines the least of all the groups. I’m not sure why that is. Probably because I think of girls using them on guys only as a goof… Maybe I think of lesbians as kind of a serious bunch? Hmm. I’ll have to give that some more thought.
But yeah, the “make her laugh” has to be the best approach, right? I mean, has the “Hey baby, do you have any Irish in you? Do you want some? Hur hur.” line ever worked? Sure, as a joke, but I mean has it ever worked when played straight? “No, seriously. I want to put my Irish penis in you.”
The vast majority are just groaners. If I was a girl at a bar, (who was attractive enough to have a steady stream of dudes hitting on me) I think by about the 4th guy, I would sound like Kif sighing at Brannigan.
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Who is the girl trying to hook her brother up with Maxima ? Talk about your wingwoman.
That’s Shioh, aka Skal Gal. I absolutely love her and have since she said ‘Skal!’
My kid sister was like that for a while, I was in grieving after a thing happened to my GF, and she was trying to shake me out of it… Until I blew up on her…
I’m just noticing this, but… Is it weird that I’d be more interested in buying a drink for that guy’s sister than for Max? That’d be doubly true after watching her shoot down several guys and make it clear she wants to be left alone.
Based on how many of us here — it must be natural. Girls with the looks of Max imply a whole lot of demands, even if unspoken ones. So, doing a hit on one is a huge challenge, with competitors who a re usually way richer than you, and then, even if you succeed, there’s no guarantee that this would be a healthy relationship, or even a good sex, really.
And the ‘sister’ girl? Just perfect in all aspects.
Honestly, if what my most attractive guy friends have told me over the decades, Shiloh is more likely to be good in bed than someone who looks like Max. She’s also obviously a whole lot more fun in a bar than Max, and they are both just as cute.
She also seems to be incredibly laid back and fine with people who might be acting a little cringy. She seems to find it amusing when the bartender and the blonde guy were wondering if Max and purple dress woman would kiss.. There was this amused smile on her face from that.
I’ve had some similar talks and experiences. To explain, women that look like Max don’t think they need to put in any effort. That can extend to just laying there. They know guys will put up with it, or she could get another guy within a day. Women like Shioh know they are cute but not too cute to get by without a personality. So they put in some effort and return your energy.
“A pretty girl, men fight for/
They’ve even started wars/
But how pretty does she have to be/
When she’s down upon all fours/
I find the ones who aren’t so pretty/
Are diamonds in the rough/
The pretty ones may look good/
But the ugly know their stuff!”
-Hey Nonny Nonny by The World Famous Poxy Boggards
Just spend the night with Mabel
I overcame my fears
By going to the Gock and Bulls
And drinking fifteen beers
She’d do it all night long that girl
She never calls it quits
And her favorite way to please you
Is by rubbing with her…
baseball mitts
Julie Strain’s autobiography was titled Six Foot One and Worth the Climb, and the reason she was the Heavy Metal cover girl of choice was because she was the wife of Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who was the publisher of Heavy Metal from 1992 until he sold it in 2014. Eastman and Strain were married from 1995 to 2006.
Julie Strain is a name I haven’t thought of in years forgot she passed. Is a maxima cosplay in the future Dabbler and Sidney would Team up.
A pushy, well-meaning sister, and the socially inept brother. Well, if anything, it got Max to laugh! And every guy standing there complained? cheezy one-liners and Max laughs at the one come-back between the sibling pushing, and the guy that DIDN’T want to try. I don’t know Dave, Max looks quiet a bit like Julie Strain, only Max seems to be a the type to actually BE a gun-toting hot lady, not a weak actor LOL. Both are very nice to look at, but I wouldn’t want Max to catch me drooling…
Max would probably only snicker if she saw you drooling unless you go too far, in which case it will hurt or get VERY embarrassing.
Soldiers have senses of humor. Often dark and bitter ones, but they do have them.
She would have 7 inches on me, AND way prettier than even my wife was back in the day, so yeah I might drool a bit but it could of been a drunk dribble from my last drink right? Right? Joking aside, only a complete idiot wouldn’t appreciate at least enjoying the view.
OMG! Max can finally wear a 2-piece now without blinding anyone at the pool…. Yeah right, like she’d agree to that…. And the collar might not handle the water…
[quote] Soldiers have senses of humor. Often dark and bitter ones, but they do have them. [/quote]
Not our fault that dark humor is like child soldiers, some of them never get old.
Poor guy, he has absolutely 0 chance. Maxima is more likely to go out with the guys she just rejected than HIS scrawny big-schnozzed butt.
Hey, at least he’s recognized that Maxima’s not interested. She might keep him on that barstool just as barfly-repellent, especially if he’s willing to play that part.
He made her laugh, naturally, without trying. That will get her willing to talk, especially if it keeps the other guys away.
Might also remind Maxima of the interaction between her and her own brother. Which could be a conversation starter.
Chance to hook up? Maybe.
But there’s a good chance at some level of connection and conversation. And Max likes dorky people (see: Sydney)
Some women do appreciate wit… and remember Cyrano D’Bergeraq. According to him, it’s true what they say about the size of a man’s nose.
Max is not likely to seriously date a mortal, when she hangs around with guys who are off the mortal scale, but if she friend-dates, then a guy whose natural wit is fun has a much higher chance than a guy who’s just average eye candy.
Y’know, hooking up doesn’t really seem to be Max’s plan here anyway. Maybe a guy who isn’t trying to get into her pants but COULD be a nice non-work friend is exactly what she needs tonight?
Dude reminds me a bit of Grover… don’t dis Grover, Grover got game.
Not my read on it. The guys she just rejected she rejected for reasons that haven’t changed, and this guy has already done a bit of what they got rejected for not doing: demonstrated humor, some degree of humility/self-deprecation, and some degree of empathy before going on.
I’d say he’s earned at least an unrejected first few minutes of having a conversation, which is doing better than the other blokes present. He might even have the wit to ask what she’s looking for instead of jumping straight to assuming this is about immediate sex.
As for looks? People like what they like. We got no idea what Max’s opinion on “scrawny big-nosed” guys is, or whether looks are a major part of what she finds attractive in the first place.
Yeah, people like what they like and we already know what she likes. HIRO, and I assume guys like him.
To be honest? I think just to boost the guy’s confidence AND get the remaining ladies to notice this poor guy, she’d talk to him a bit before leaving… If for no other reason to find out what they talked about etc…
Is the sister Shioh or Shiloh?
Shioh, unless DaveB made a spelling mistake (since Shiloh is an actual name (like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter’s name) and I’ve never heard of anyone called Shioh.
Unless DaveB corrects it, I’m just going to keep calling her Shioh. Or Skal Gal. :)
Well my OC doesn’t look like he’s going to get introduced in this scene. Although TBH he doesn’t really need to pick up women in bars. Like Max his problem is usually fighting them off. And men, and lesbians who decided to “change teams”. Up side he’s aces at face-to-face negotiations, down side he gets a lot of unwanted attention from men who decided to temporarily “change teams”.
As Ivan Vorpatril says, “She laughs, you live”.
Bujold’s Vorkosigan series – relationships are a thing.
I thought the origin of ‘Abracadabra’ was a progression.
a
aba
abcba
abcdcba
Mistranslated into ‘Abracadabra’.
Not exactly, but the fact that it is close to the first five hebrew letters, alef and bet and gimel and dalet and he, means you’re on the right track.
It actually came from an aramaic phrase – avra kehdabra (I will create as I speak). Which came from two hebrew words – avra and kedoobar (‘I will create’ and ‘as was spoken’).
I really enjoy etymology.
Okay now you’ve impressed me, Esquire. I figured you spoke Latin, but I didn’t know you knew Hebrew too. If you add some poetry to my full real name, I’m “I am your friend from the mountains by the sea”. Take a guess what languages!
Ok so… I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking. At first I thought you meant that your name is similar to the hebrew for ‘I am your friend from the mountains by the sea’ but that doesnt sound like any sort of name.
So i’m assuming you’re asking me to guess your full real name which is a translation into some other language, which in english means ‘I am your friend from the mountains by the sea’?
Call them Ishmael?
My first, middle, and last name, when poetry is added and its translated to English is “I am your friend from the mountains by the sea.” Sorry, I should have made it more clear.
okay so far the only names I can think of for a first name which might fit what you’re saying is in Arabic. And I know almost no arabic so I might be wrong (because that sentence in Arabic rougly translates phonetically to ‘Ana sadiqak min aljibal ealaa albahr’ And several of those words could be names (Ana, Min, Ealaa posibly if you use the l from aljibal first since that would be more like leela, etc). And it sort of depends if you’re male or female. Like… if male there’s one name it could be in Turkish, and if female there’s another name it could be in Arabic.
Oh also thank you :)
Why does he remind me of Sidney’s dad and Sidney herself?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this
IMHO even the worst pickup lines you can think of were working when they were fresh, and it was because they were funny. They stopped being funny and working when they became too known.
And why shouldn’t Max go average guy number 12, he’s clearly got a sense of humor and that might be exactly what a woman like Max needs. Someone she can have a true conversation or a laugh with. Also, not good with women doesn’t mean stupid, a lot of smart guys lack confidence with the opposite sex.
Max certainly doesn’t need BS loaded on top of more machismo…
Of course all Max wants is someone she can relax around and not feel the pressure. I wouldn’t be surprised if she hits it off with this guy *specifically* because he isn’t pushy or trying too hard. Rather, he’s naturally funny and has that brand of snark Max enjoys.
I can easily see Max seeing his well meaning but bumbling attempts as charming in a sort of “He’s trying his best and that’s what counts” sort of way. He’s not viewing her as a sex object, which is super important in Max’s book. He’s just some guy who is kind of a bit sweet, well meaning, and can make her laugh. Seriously, what else could Max ask for?
Also, as a side bonus, not that it would be at the forefront of Max’s mind at the moment. Just imagine Deus’s FACE when he finds out this guy is beating him at wooing Max. If they turn into an actual thing, I could easily see Max letting that slip to Deus JUST to rile him up.
Well, this night has taken a turn. Let’s just hope she won’t spend the next 30-40 years making clumsy passes at her boss.
Um… Who are you talking about? Who is “she”, and who do you think her boss is? Because I think you’ve got something confused.
I thought the “not THAT straight” girl who’d been hitting on Maxima for both herself and her friends a second ago had just outed herself as a witch, assuming no one in the bar would care.
O….Kay.
You’re gonna…have to walk us through that one.
Her name is Shioh (Shiloh?) or Skål Gål.
The ‘magic’ she’s referencing in the final panel is, to be clichéd about it, the magic of friendship.
But you’re still gonna have to explain whom you thought her boss might be.
“The ‘magic’ she’s referencing in the final panel is, to be clichéd about it, the magic of friendship.”
Is Skal Gal secretly a care bear? Discuss!
No.
Pony.
Little Care Pony? She is suggesting that friendship is magic…
Ah, wait. I think I’ve got it:
You thought Skål Gål was outing herself as a witch, and would therefore be recruited into Archon by Max, and subsequently continue to flirt with Max (or some other member of Archon).
Is that right?
That dude is Waluigi. I can’t unsee it so now you all have to suffer with me.
I’m already stuck on Jay Leno because of the chin and what Bharda said a few comics ago.
What do you mean, suffer? I love it!
someone totally needs to stage a Waluigi flash mob at Walmart
Magic? With her speed and strength, Maxima should be able to pull off some actual feats, but cover them as magic tricks. “See the coin on top of the glass? I can just tap the coin, and it falls right through to the bottom.” Is anybody going to notice that at super-speed, she grabbed the coin, lifted the glass just a bit more than the thickness of the coin and slipped the coin under the glass? The other options is to actually push the coin through the bottom of the glass, but that tends to leave a hole in the bottom of the glass.
Oh hey, it’s fear boner guy! Also, first one to make her laugh is always the one to win, common knowledge kek. He might not be an olympic athlete, but he definitely has charm.
The dude looks a little like the gay blonde guy from Archer.
Max is formidable, Shioh is adorable. I know who I’d pick.
Shioh is far less likely to make you regret it in the morning, also less likely to result in a trip to the emergency room. Think carefully before you reject that summation; Max’s skin is metallic because it’s METALLIC. and it’s full body coverage, likely including the naughty bits, so even if you managed to impress her enough to get to that step, you’re putting your junk in a super-powered vise, and if you do it right?
The female orgasm is like an epileptic fit, but pleasurable for her. Just consider what that would do to a mortal man.
she gets off, and it’s the last time you have sex with anyone ever, because they might be able to reattach one that’s been severed (see JW Bobbitt) but they can’t reconstruct something what’s been crushed and torn off.
She is delightful and adorable and fashionable and unfortunately I do not look like Colin Mochrie.
Julie Strain, the Queen of B movies. I’ve laid many an offering at her feet (technically the TV’s). She married a proper geek to, another plus in her favour.
My best pick up line at a bar was when I watched a girl fling her arm to the side and smacked some poor girl in the face, no damage and she was very apologetic to the girl so she no mad. After a minute (to let her arms reset), I slide up beside her and asked her if I stood here was she gonna smack me in the face too? She laughed, we talked for about five minutes, and her boyfriend came up, with her drink. I gave him the “fair enough” chin wag and went on my way.
I am saddened she has two eyes.
Wow, you don’t know a lot of lesbians. Also you may have issues with women.
I get more of a vibe that he doesn’t fully understand women, but at least he’s trying, and unlike guys who go down the toxic route, at least he admits when he doesn’t know, and is trying to learn.
Although this dating bit has felt a bit off (okay, a lot off). He does, however, solidly pass the Bechdel test.
Um… us lesbians use pickup lines.
But also, when we use them, it’s kind of… ironically? Like we’re not going for a laugh, but more of a “Just so we are abunduntly clear here, I am currently hitting on you.”
Although, Lesbian dating is fraught with its own perils.
There’s a running joke in the Lesbian community, that if one Lesbian marries another lesbian, has two kids by adoption and one by science, and two dogs, and are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, they may begin to suspect the other girl likes her.
Sounds a bit like the sheep joke. X’D
can’t be, that sheep joke is baaaaaa’aad
No! Stop that! (Swats with rolled up newspaper because that is not even worth a ninja)
All the ewes that’re hit with print!
Fortunately, I’m not sheepish, even when I know I’ll shortly be lamb-baasted. I think I have an inkling about what Pander wool do next, out of shear spite.
I lol’d at the first line, bravo. No notes, I have mutton to add to this glamborous tail.
*dials on phone again*
“Actually I need one more squad sent out. They’re all being used on the Evil One target? Hrm… do you have any trainees available? Yeah I don’t care if they’re not as precise on the method of torture. He’s a long time perp… Oh he also has a Get out of Hit Squad card so if he does use it make sure to take the card afterwards. Yeah… yeah exactly. This is my sixth one this week right? Oh.. fifth? Okay no problem I’ll let you know when I have another target. Thanks.”
*hangs up*
She, thank you.
Pretty sure the other hit call below is yours, I’m merely a secondary target today. Which puts me in charge of the side dishes and drinks for this weekend’s BBQ.
Also, not wasting a precious high-level artifact on a squad of grays, I’ll take my chances.
*on phone*
“Yeah…. yes three dozen of them. Yes to the usual place. The Evil One. Yeah. Sheep puns this time. Yes bring the pirates as well. Yes and the koalas. You know what? Also bring the zombies. All four types of retaliatory hit squads. Ninja, pirate, koala and zombie. Yeah trust me… it’s necessary.”
*hangs up phone*
Sounds like they’re missing out on dinosaur and robot hit squads.
Wonder if the major will ask if there is a story behind the scar on his eyebrow. If this leads to old soldiers exchanging (not classified) war stories, there may be a good conversational foundation.
Lt. Colonel
“Maybe I think of lesbians as kind of a serious bunch?”
I don’t think it’s that lesbians are super serious, it’s that a particular political bent that is highly over-represented among lesbians is super serious.
How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb? THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!!!!!
Or more that us Lesbians are frustrated by guys constantly not taking ‘no’ for an answer. (“I’m a lesbian” should be an instant c@#^-block, but… no, for some reason the moment we mention we’re lesbians, they start talking about threesomes, and I’m like, “Do you not know what a lesbian is?”)
So, we’re not serious, but guys have a tendency to see our serious side more often than not.
I call them “Incels on the wheel of Dharma.”
Guys who can’t get laid because they are assholes, and then are assholes because they can’t get laid.
Not Being An Asshole is a simple thing really but it’s beyond them for as long as getting laid is the literal ONLY thing in their heads. A woman has no value to them aside from getting laid, so an Incel On The Wheel of Dharma can’t imagine any good outcome of respecting a categorical rejection. And yes, that goes exactly where you think if it goes much further.
Not Being An Asshole means stepping off the treadmill and starting to learn and respect basic things about others, but that would require paying attention to something besides their own overly-dry dicks.
That was painful to read. Tracks, with everything I’ve seen, but still painful.
Like seriously, guys like that are why we need to bring back prostitution as job, and a reason why lots of feminists want respect for sex workers (with of course a million job protections and one of the strongest unions ever, because f@#% the exploitation that resulted from it in the past. I’m talking full-coverage-no-questions-asked healthcare, daily health checkups, employee-run businesses, pleasent working conditions, full staff, 100% no-questions-asked-whenever-you-need-it-heavily-encouraged-don’t-you-dare-come-into-work-sick unlimited time off, a good wage, and early retirement plan with clear path for advancement and mandatory lessons for all new customers to teach them, “No, they’re not selling you their body, they’re an entertainer whom you’re paying for a personal performance, and you better treat them like the skilled professional they are, and any harm comes to them and their bouncers will end you.” and screening to make sure the customer isn’t diseased; and shouldn’t be allowed if its anything less than all this.)
Because those laws preventing it are just another form of control, and some girls enjoy that kind of lifestyle (you know, if treated properly), and it’s one of the best ways to move wealth down the social ladder, so we should very much allow it. But… no. Instead it’s demonized, still happens, but set up on damp street corners and filthy dive hotels which is just begging for a disease outbreak. And then, those people on that cycle you mentioned can have an easy way to get off that cycle, and start using their correct head for a change. But… no, we’re stuck with puritan laws that don’t do anyone any good, other than make some religious prudes clutch their pearls a little less tightly.
At least isn’t Mortal Kombat fanfare, lel.
Someone commenting lesbians are super serious for some reason. And are automatically femminists. Weird. I am bi and have dated a lot, also 6 foot tall so taller than most other women. I was just in Vegas and so many shorties there. I suppose if you don’t know many lesbians there’s just an intimidation factor from being unknown, just remember men you have more in common with a lesbian than a straight girl, stole that joke from modern family. I am old enough pickup lines have long mostly gone away, I just pick a story from my life, and start off with ‘This reminds me of’ then I just be an interesting person. Which I suppose is a pickup line in a way but mostly I am just starting a conversation to have fun, not to pickup someone, if it goes further or not doesn’t matter, I just make sure I enjoy myself.
Anyway what I was originally going to comment, the guy has a mustache so is clearly more evil than any villains, and better not have a shot
To be fair, it is a fair stereotype.
Most lesbians I know (myself included) are feminists, because of course we are, there’s every reason to be and no reason not to be.
Feminism just means standing up for women’s rights, and why would we kowtow to men when we’re not even interested in them, and we’re just as often as not the primary working adult in the house?
Now, whether we’re the Maxima type of prudish lesbian or the Dabbler type of free-love lesbian (or some hybrid of the two), or something else entirely, depends on the individual.
Maxima isn’t a Lesbian.
She is very much a feminist, though.
I agree she’s a feminist soully because of all the guy’s that have tried to pick her up using the cheezist lines ever and just got sick of the whole thing. Or she fell for it once and
never.
forgot.
or.
forgave.
Can’t say I blame her either way. The typical “Chad” would tell people to save his masculinity is that she’s lesbian or a bitch and spread lies to cover their tracks. Just imagine how a 18 y/o Max would take that? And how many stitches would the guy need afterwards?
Yea, that came out wrong. I didn’t mean Maxima was a lesbian, I meant the prudish type of feminist. That was a (what’s a typo, but in your brain before you even write it? A thoughto? Anyways…)
It’s also language drift. Feminism USED TO BE about being treated equally. (Do the same job, for the same hours, get the same pay unless you fuck it up). THOSE Feminists aren’t what fills the political and social interaction spectrums today, because THOSE feminists became “everybody”. aka more common than the girls who tolerated (or even wanted) the old regime, leaving behind the stereotype activists who just can’t stop and enjoy a win for the same reason Evangelicals can’t stop. Their activism, and status AS activists, has become the defining trait of their life, and if htey run out of causes, they’ll have to learn to latch on to some other role instead-so they just shift to more extreme versions to keep their comfort zone intact-even at the expense of not only everyone else’s, but the good of the causes they want to champion.
Those types? they’re your stereotype who frets about VIDEO GAMES and imagines slights where none existed, and make up the bulk of your headlines. Instead of tolerance and respect, they’re just pissing people off.
So you’re saying men are allowed to complain about video games, but women aren’t?
It’s still about being treated equally.
That’s actually a misnomer.
The “feminists today are just a status thing” isn’t really true. It’s from a propaganda piece put out by some incels and anti-feminists awhile back. There’s till the lack-of-equal-pay gap, our healthcare is still largely ignored by medical science, and the supreme court took away our reproductive rights.
The thing is, fighting systemic isn’t our identity because we choose it to be, but because every aspect of our identity is constantly under siege. Most guys who actually google all the shit we have to deal with very quickly realize it’s not performative, there’s a lot of very serious issues we’re dealing with that regularly cost lives and futures.
Is it me, or did Maxima snorting just make her way more attractive? Dunno, just something about a woman who snorts when she laughs. It’s real, honest, and way hotter than an oversized chest in a push-up bra
I’m amazed that Shioh knows who Julie Strain was….!
I’d call what happened ‘The Roger Rabbit Factor’.
Has anybody here NOT seen ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit”? There is a nice little exchange in it where Eddie asks Jessica Rabbit what she sees in Roger. Her immediate response is, “He makes me laugh.”
Big muscles and/or brooding sexiness works. But the regular-looking dude who is funny and quick-witted always has the potential to sweep the field.
Well, the interesting thing with that, is it’s also implied Toons find a toon who’s funny and such as more attractive. Jessica per “toon culture” was likely actually seen as an *ugly* girl due to her being, you know, more or less an adult cartoon thing. There’s a reason Betty Boop called HER lucky and not Roger. Roger was seen as attractive by other toons. Jessica was seen as attractive by humans. (On a side note, Jessica’s toon side does show up once or twice in the movie, like when her logic to protect Roger was clobbering him over the head with a frying pain and hiding him in the trunk of a car).
Fair points. Maybe that was not the best example of what I was trying to get across, but still.
Okay, another possible example. British actor-comedian Dudley Moore. Short guy, had a slight limp, not ugly but not especially handsome either. But he was smart and funny, and subsequently women went wild for him. There are others – people whose looks are or were, objectively, fairly average at best but somehow still manage to be full-on sex symbols.
It seems to me that a new villain has appeared. Without all of the distractions, Sydney’s destructive potential becomes clear. Shioh has shown her ability to scheme, plan, and, most importantly, maintain focus. A mighty, irresistible force.
In Maxima’s world looks can be changed by alien technology or magic. Character is more difficult.
Also there are aliens and monsters that look realy ugly for humans, but can be realy nice at the same time.
So hopefully Maxima is able to look behind looks.
I think the main reason lesbians don’t use pickup lines all that much is because we’re all clueless. Like, its entirely possible to be regularly dating a girl without either of you fully realizing it.
Has everybody forgotten that Max merely wanted to try a night out by herself, without the rest of the Archon team? Is there any indication in the previous strips that she’s looking for sexual company? Anvil and Dabbler are childishly keen on the idea that she’s looking for a hookup but that’s not necessarily Max’s intention. She’s trying to be social but she has shot down almost every man who’s approached her. Take a look at this strip when a man tries to pick up a woman at a bar when all she wants to do is drink: https://somethingpositive.net/comic/getting-to-know-you/
“Has everybody forgotten that Max merely wanted to try a night out by herself, without the rest of the Archon team?”
ok before I respond I re-read my post and I want to make sure i’m not meaning it in any sort of rude tone since text is difficult to parse tone from. :) I’m just being quippy, not rude, I promise.
No. She wanted a night out ‘as a normal woman.’ And she chose to go to a singles bar as a ‘normal woman.’ And DaveB has already pointed out it’s a singles bar. And Maxima has already internally monologued about this as well. And in the unlikely event that she has somehow forgotten it’s a singles bar, the lines of men (and a woman) who have been trying to pick her up, coupled by the purple dress lady who outright stated the point of why women are in this bar in the first place, would have clued her in at this point. As for her shooting down every man who has approached her, that’s the point of why she’s gone out to a singles bar. She’s trying to lower her normal defenses that she puts up for social interaction, since she’s NEVER had a normal night out as a ridiculously sexy adult woman (given her being gold with purple hair and pointy ears and basically a supergirl expy and one of the most famous people on the planet now.
Plus in this VERY COMIC… she has stated in an internal monologue that she needs the practice on this type of social interaction. On the first panel. Not to mention several panels of yesterday’s comic. Whereas the SomethingPositive comic, in addition to being a very strawman-based storyline (that guy has gone out of his way to be the most stereotypical jerk possible), there’s no indication whatsoever that Audrey is in a singles bar.
To be fair, a sister introducing her brother is a good first sign.
Since this is the Grrl Power world, I’m going to assume the girl’s hand swirls were *actual* magic, which leads Max to wonder if she’s another Super.
As a lesbian, my experience is that lesbians use more pickup lines than anyone else, it’s just that because it’s girl to girl pickup lines, most guys don’t hear or even “get” it.
I see the problem now – everyone elses forget home their wingman/woman!
It’s interesting to learn about Julie Strain and her work as a model and actress. It’s also fascinating to hear about her height and how she often wore towering high heels that pushed her to 6’5″ or 6’6″. That’s really tall for a woman!