Grrl Power #1165 – Rawr?
I accidentally drew Max about 135% too flirty in that last panel. She is starting to enjoy herself, (partially because she has put away a suspicious amount of alcohol) but she’s not at the “Hello, there Sailor” stage yet. It’s possible she’s never been at that stage with anyone. Beyond some teenage crushes. I mean as an adult. I’ll blame the over enthused art gaffe on the fact that she kind of doesn’t know what she’s doing.
Max is hereditarily mostly German, French and “Scandinavian.” Being Irish and Russian as Harper is her excuse for having an iron constitution. (I looked it up, and Russia and Ireland are 5th and 6th respectively in terms of pure alcohol consumed per capita. Belarus, Lithuania and Grenada hold the top three spots, with Czech Republic and France tied for 4th. But they’re not famous for overdoing it on the booze, so citing them wouldn’t make for a good excuse for Max to rattle off. For reference, the US is 25th, probably because of our watery beer, wine coolers and shit like Zima. I also just yesterday saw “Hard Monster Energy” in the grocery store with 6% malt alcohol in it and no caffeine. Honestly, what is the point of that? Whereas in Russia they’re knocking back 80 proof vodka for lunch.) Besides, Max’s time in Afghanistan taught her just enough Russian to get her into trouble. She couldn’t order a watercress sandwich or infiltrate a ring of ballet dancing assassins, but she can toast, order drinks, and insult someone’s lineage well enough.
Hey, the header’s back, sort of! It’s been so long since I messed with .CSS and .php I’m surprised I got this far into restoring it. I knew it would either take me 15 minutes or 5 days to fix it. I can’t figure out how to put the pale blue background under it and attach it to the top of the page like it used to be, but I guess it doesn’t look horrible as it is now, so I decided to leave it up as I work with it.
The June vote incentive is finally up! Maxima is prepping for her night out.
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The version(s) of the June Incentive before Max puts on the choker would make Oscar proud.
I wonder if that guy is Aussie, although we do say that in America we’d generally ask her if she’d ever been drinking with Australians rather than comparing her to dwarves. Considering Max served in Afghanistan they’d be a chance she *did* drink with Aussie’s
Diggers make CT the best wingmen.
A nerd would compare her to a dwarf, and that dude could very well be a big nerd.
Hmm.
*settles back to observe and crochet*
I’ve had to ponder for a few days…but I am once again concerned about the prospect that Max might be at risk for Alcoholism.
She probably could be, if she didn’t clobber its butt automatically every time it arrived. And if she didn’t have so many better things to do.
I could be a great alcoholic if I had more free time….
The problem is less about chemical dependency, per we, than about psychological dependency.
If she develops a pattern of _only_ being able to go into “relaxed mode” when drinking, that’s going to have a negative impact. Especially if she starts consuming volumes that _are_ problematic for her.
Alcoholism isn’t just about the alcohol. So, high stress job, mid level management position, probably a few traumatic experiences, difficult interpersonal situation…Yeah it could happen.
for that to happen, wouldn’t she have to be susceptible to alcohol effects as well? because if she can drink it like water because of her super -metabolism, she might actually not be in danger of falling victim to alcoholism…. because it wouldn’t do much for her, hence no addiction setting in. its not alcoholism if you drink responsibly (and that is an entirely individual amount….)
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of addiction.
Being awkwardly over flirty sounds very Maxima here, so I like it.
Also, the mirror finish on the vote incentive hurts my eyes. :-P
Reminds me of a plasma slash psychedelic image, and that one moved!
German ancestry is common in US 14.4% of Americans had German ancestry, but Only 2.6% of US residents had French ancestry , Norwegians are 1.4%, and Swedish 1,2%…
The most common ancestries in US are German 14.4%, Irish 10.4%, British 7.7% ,Italian 5.9% , Polish 2.9% then French 2.6%…
Aye, mind some of are heavy from the isles…full north and south and east to past wet. Oh…and then you figure the direct continental part. Which is heavy on the german eastern europ, slight dash of french surprisingly eno ugh(though it was never explained to me how etc.) What we allegedly didn’t get was Italian/Mediterranean. And there’s sufficient evidence for mongol coming from both sides of the tree. That this includes a butt load of northern european by way of the business excursions by the vikings is a given.
German and French evokes me more Charlemagne than northmens – viking is the raid not the people – …
Perhaps she was from an Alsace–Lorraine family for one of her ascendants who had emigrated to US between 1871 and 1914 and was married in Us to a Norwegian or Swedish people…
Bohemian[on my father’s sidem] and Anglo/Scottish. Both my dad’s grandfathers from the Old Country [one was a draft-dodgr.] My mom’s ancestry apparently traced back [in part] to the original Oglethorpe colony in Georgia.
I need to see what percentage ofUSAians have Bohemian/Czech ancestry.
For US residents Czeck ancestry % is about 0,49 it is pretty rare …
with a population of over 300 million, .5% means only 15 million Americans.
So… not really ‘rare’ at all :)
Your math is a bit off, 1.5 million. Which, yes, is a lot of people in aggregate, but that’s not how percentages and scarcity work.
Looking at a more human-relatable scale than “the entire country”, it means that out of a (normalized) 400 person social circle (2-3x the probable number you actually have), only 1 or 2 of those people would have Czech ancestry. For comparison, 93 of them (23.3 %) would have British ancestry.
I’m also not sure where he’s getting those stats since most of the lists I could find didn’t mention Russia and did mention Germany in the top five.
Library of Congress, you’d be shocked whats in there, and no search engine has access. You can thank that kid that tried to build a nuke from info he got from there. There was a TV movie made based on that. He got caught because he was trying to get Plutonium and in real life it never would of worked, He was a smart “dumb” kid, like Sheldin from Big bang theory. But it was enough to scare the crap out of the DOD.
I pull an inverted ancestry. I am 25% US American (with rumours of native ancestry), plus some minor Polish, Belarusian and Bavarian mixed in (which in theory would quailfy me as a competratively hardy drinker, if I drank any alcoholic breverages, that is). Born and raised in Germany, though.
“Rumors of Native Ancestry” usually means someone married the daughter of a slave who had high cheekbones.
Apparently, every Indian who outmarried was a princess.
I think that’s because of a misunderstanding of tribal structure. As far as numbers and statuses, chiefs were more like mayors or burghers than Kings.
Randolph Mantooth called it “White man royalty syndrome”.
Depends on the native nation. Some used tribal structures, such as the Plains Indians, but the Aztecs were a sprawling theocratic empire, the Salish shared more in common with the vikings than the ‘standard’ Native American, the Navajo are basically a democracy, and so on.
People really underestimate the civilization that the natives Americans had. It would not a stretch to say that in many ways, the American natives were originally more advanced than the Europeans. The Aztecs has wildly successful cataract surgery that has only been begun to be matched in success by modern medicine, that had a U.N.-like system that had brought relative peace to all the different peoples of the Americas, and they had a communication system that could get a message Oregon to South Carolina in a matter of minutes (For the record, that was the smoke signal network. People tend to think that a signal was just for the surrounding area, but it took special training, and smoke signals were relayed from fire to fire, and there was a solid network crossing North America – this was actually the basis used for morse code which in turn inspired the code behind our modern day internet. It is not hyperbole to call the smoke signal network a pre-electricity internet.) Not to mention that they had built structures that dwarfed anything built by the Europeans. Not to mention mega-builds like Cahokia dwarfed the majority (if not all) of the construction projects in Europe at the time, in addition to far superior small-boats (anyone who has tried both will quickly find a canoe is far faster than a rowboat). And there were permanent cities with complex cultures and road systems and everything else you’d expect from a civilization of the time.
That shouldn’t be taken as dissing on European-Americans ‘not seeing the diamond in the rough’ though. Due to the early explorers who not only re-discovered the Americas for the Europeans, they *also* unintentionally brought over their diseases which the natives weren’t prepared for. By the time the colonists came, the natives had been swept through by serious plagues multiple times. Their entire civilization had collapsed. By the time the colonists came, the smoke signal network had collapsed, monuments were being dismantled for parts, empires had fallen to religious fanaticism, and the few groups that were mostly unaffected were isolated for generations and unprepared for the colonists. Colonists thought they had encountered uncultured barbarians, when in reality, what they had encountered was the Native American’s world having gone Mad Max mixed with Dark ages.
+10 for that review, especially the last paragraph.
That list just about covers my mother’s family, while my father’s is pure German. Family reunions was “fun”, No one could resist using their language while I never learned it, pretty confusing to a 12 y/o! And asking for a translation at best got me dirty looks or yelled at, so I gave up.
Within the United States there can be strong regional bias in ancestry. South Texas is weighted pretty heavily Hispanic these days. Growing up in Oklahoma, having someone from the First Nations in your ancestry was pretty common and there was a small community in Western Oklahoma where at least as late as the 1980’s anyone over the age of 50 could converse in German. My own background leans heavily toward Irish by way of Kentucky. To say that the U.S. is comprised of this or that percentage of some ancestral group may be accurate on the scale of the whole country but doesn’t necessarily reflect the distributions across large regions.
When I was in Prague in 2004, I would drink beer in restaurants because it was cheaper than water (a few cents less for double the amount) – it also was the only time in my life when I actually liked the taste and yet I was never really drunk, never drinking a huge amount at a time. Still, it’s a good thing I only was there for a week.
Never really liked wine, even in France.
As for Belarus, I assume that’s a place no one would want to experience while sober (also, drinking culture similar to Russia but without the cultural diversity on the fringes of the huge country).
I’m still waiting for Max’s night to go catastrophically wrong somehow. Comedy is waning so time for either a time skip or some random criminal to show up… wait… is the bartender Russian? Didn’t they talk about a Russian criminal boss they suspected of using supers?
He could be Ukrainian in this comics we are in 2008 and in this time , Ukrainians are Russian speaking people..
In 2005 34.1 % of Ukrainians claim Russian as their native langage and according to annual surveys by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences 36.4 % take daily conversations at home mainly in Russian, and 21.6% in Russian and Ukrainian.
Actually reject of Russian langage in Ukraine is a consequence of the war.
And Russian speaking don’t mean Russian , Kazakhstan and Belarus have a majority of Russian speakers and Russian is a official langage…In Estonia an EU member state Russian is spoken by more than 30% of Population.
But statically it’s true it’s harder to find a Russian speaker than an French speaker even in the US.
I do remember a conversation with someone in the US.
Him: Nyet. I can find Russian speaker, no problem. My wife has cell phone. Two Russian speakers, in the US? Big problem.
Must have been prior to meetup.com. Dallas Russian language meetup, 58 members.
Max is the senior field officer in a federal law-enforcement organization. She was a senior field officer in the United States Air Force. It makes sense that she can have a conversational level or Russian. She probably understands a few Chinese languages and those the Middle East, like Arabic, Farsi, Persian, etc.
Right now, her super-speed is being used by her liver to process that lethal level of ethanol in her blood, but no one except Max is probably aware of that.
If Max keeps drinking like that and we could get to see Max in the washroom, with her potential sister-in-law holding back her hair, as Max performs a regurgitation fast enough to damage the toilet.
Blowing her cover via literal projectile vomiting, blasting a hole through not only the toilet but also the concrete slab and several feet of soil. Woman of Steel, Commode of Tissue Paper.
Reference images are available from Boca Chica, TX from April 20 of this year, but Max is only using one nozzle, not 33 or 30, but at potentially much higher pressure.
Yes, well. That’s better than it going catastrophically GOOD. Yes, that is a thing. and DAHIKIJK ok…
FOUND IT:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-367-collar-commandeering/
Konstantin Zaitzev. Russian mob boss strongly suspected of using Supers to take out his competition but smart about it, not leaving witnesses or giving away an obvious indication that he does use Supers.
I’m betting on the collar to run out of magic either in the bar or just as she goes to leave.
While I’m not about to start shipping Max with any of these guys, it’s nice to see her let her hair down a little. One can’t be “strictly business” forever without one’s mind going kinda brittle.
Is it possible for Max to hook up safely with a non-super? She could accidentally pulp a guy with a full strength kiegle. Orgasms are involuntary muscle contractions after all. Dumping her power into speed, durability, or flight also present issues.
You’re assuming this scrawny guy has any chance of actually getting her in bed, let alone giving her an orgasm.
You don’t need muscles to get someone off, and of anyone in the comic this guy has done the most to actually be charming to her. What kind of incel nonsense is that comment?
“Incel” huh? Tell us your opinion is completely worthless without telling us your opinion is completely worthless.
Panel five was attest, right? To make sure she was telling the truth?
Not that telling the truth about that would actually mean that if she were a normal human she wouldn’t be courting alcohol poisoning, and the bartender looking at losing his job. Russians aren’t that much more resistant to alcohol, biologically, they’re just more casual about killing themselves that way.
Possibly. Also an honest reaction at realizing he is gaining a customer that just demonstrated she can and will drink 10x more of his high-end stock than most people.
we have not seen her pass the most important test… paying for said top shelf stuff. we know she can, (she could buy the bar if she wanted) but the bartender would like to see her pay for the stuff. it would be nice of course if she didn’t realize that he wasn’t giving her top shelf stuff after the first drink… but no bartender anywhere would do something so unethical… right?
Reminds me of an old Jim Beam commercial from the 90’s: Hercules walks into a bar, asks for Jim Beam, bartender pours him a glass, he takes one sniff, says “That ain’t Jim Beam!” and walks out, leaving a bar of pissed off drunks and a guilty (and scared) bartender :)
You mean Kevin Sorbo, the actor that played Hercules?
so did Schwartzenegger.
Also Tate Donovan, Dwayne Johnson, Lou Ferringo, Steve Reeves, and many others.
If so, it’s not a terribly useful test. I’m half-Japanese, and my maternal grandparents were born in Japan, but neither my mom nor I really speak the language and much of what I do know is from language-learning CDs, or watching anime.
I would change the Russian bubbles to at least ‘КРУТО’ and “РЕСПЕКТ”. The second one is really off, as the verb was left in the infinitive form, so he’s basically saying “to respect”.
That was Maxi saying ‘Respect’
Also, it would be completely normal for someone with passing knowledge of a language to get the details (like word choices or case endings) wrong, like max hypothetically getting a smattering of vocabulary from parents/grand*parents, or from a short course somewhere along the line.
Also, it’s very cool that “РЕСПЕКТ” is the Russian word for “Respect”. I always thought that similarities with English would be very rare, being different language families and all, but once you know the Cyrillic alphabet it is surprising how often you find understandable bits.
It’s not actually the Russian word. That would be “уважение” as a noun, or “уважаю” as 1st person singular present tense verb. “Респект” is, however, the stylistically appropriate slang loanword.
Ah, thanks for the correction. Which of those should Maxi have used in that situation? Even in English, I’m not sure which form of the word is being used. Is it the noun, like “I am giving you respect”, or the verb like “I respect you”? It is easy to think of it either way.
And anyway, even if this one was just a borrowed slang, I still think my point stands: if I run into Russian or Ukrainian text on the web, very often I find familiar words in there, despite having a pathetically small vocabulary in those languages.
That was, but hardly any Russian would word it like she did. Maybe “респект” или “уважуха” would fit more, as Russian only rarely uses verbs (like уважать one) like this. Also, “круто” for “awesome” would do, or possibly more into expletive (“Охуенно”?) as “Офигенно” is half way into it and doesn’t fit well.
Was just correcting who said what (Tim said “…so he’s basically saying “to respect”.” which might have been a simple typo and dropped the front ‘s’)
That would also depend o how much Russian is that barman supposed to know. If we assume that he simply has a few russian-speaking friends, I would expect him to say “ух ты” и “уважуха”. «офигенно» fits fine too. Just not «уважать», of cause.
Maybe Max should let Toonces the cat drive her car…!
Max:TOONCES! WATCH OUT FOR THAT CLIFF!!!
Cut to car going over cliff resulting in huge fireball.
* catchy theme song *
After going through a giant billboard with Sir Cliff Richards’ grinning face :)
The Americans are behind with alcohol consumption because they start so darn late. By the time they are allowed to drink, they are usually already dead from gun violence.
And I hear that you can’t even open carry on the streets in the US, even conceiled carry is prohibited. Of drinks, I mean.
I have a carry permit, I live in Indiana, USA. And you’re talking about a Saturday afternoon here LOL.
As far as the level of alcohol in our drinks, I blame prohibition for that, our SJL (Social Justice League) seems to think we can’t control ourselves… whatever… I think it’s more like they can’t, so they assume no one can. Same thinking gave them the idea that the old rock group “Kiss” stood for “Kids In Satan’s Service”…. dumb I know.
Off current topic but… Can we see Sydney’s room again?
I’m guessing illuminated shelves or cubbies for action figures and figurines.
As famous supers there should be a set of her team, including herself.
Also one wall for the ultra short throw laser projection TV.
June Maxima’s skin tone is phenomenal, and I completely believe it would look like that! Dave, I assume doing that every time she apoears would be a tad…time consuming?
Time consuming and take away from the comic. I love the way it looks, but it would be very distracting if Max’s skin looked like that in every panel.
She should be a guest presenter on The Emmys…
Dressed as the statuette.
I want to dislike this idea, since Max gets enough flak about her specularity, but it’s actually kinda brilliant.
At the very least she should do it for a Halloween costume. Preferably with a sponsored scholarship fund for a cause of Max’s choice, and an accompanying statement apologizing for Hollywood’s history of misogyny.
135%? Darnit, and here I thought for a moment that Max was starting to really enjoy an evening that didn’t involve punching faces..
Seriously. When does Maxima get a chance to relax?
I’d say now, after she got over the frustration of the “slow” trip and the cop. But I think she’ll be back to her normal after this night is over, Being a Colonial is hardly an easy job. Her collar is making it easier to go out and about, so maybe she’ll lighten up a bit?
Speaking of the invotive: is Maxi supposed to be wearing a top?
It depicts her getting ready to go out to the bar, so like most people, she’s not putting her top on until after the usual deodorant etc. (Damn, she looks oily in that pic) Granted she can’t actually wear makeup, but somethings still work for her. If she needs makeup, well Dabbler had set the basics in the collar. I’m kinda surprised she didn’t set it to “sex worker”, but I think she knows better by now ;)
Well, that has me wondering. Would Max have B.O.? Would her skin support the bacteria that contribute to the smell? Normal human skin is practically its own biome but Max has this shiny, metallic looking stuff. Does she even get skin flakes? The whole question of sweating and how that would look on her skin has me wondering if she shows greasy fingerprints on her skin. The difficulty with getting makeup to stick would imply a lack of skin oils or sweat. I’m betting deodorant wouldn’t stick either but that she has very little natural funk.
It’s just, in the thumbynail, it shows her wearing a t-shirt, but the invotive has her not wearing a t-shirt (totally not complaining, just wonderating)
DaveB must have used one of the Patreon exclusive variants to create the thumbnail, rather than the free to view version.
“Belarus, Lithuania and Grenada hold the top three spots, with Czech Republic and France tied for 4th. But they’re not famous for overdoing it on the booze, so citing them wouldn’t make for a good excuse for Max to rattle off. For reference, the US is 25th”
in pure alcohol equivalent french consomption is 11,43 l/year in 2019 but we are not in EU top ten in 2019 it was: Czechia (14.3), Latvia (13.2), Moldova (12.9), Germany (12.8), Lithuania (12.8), Ireland (12.7), Spain (12.7), Bulgaria (12.5), Luxembourg (12.4), and Romania (12.3)
For US it’s 9,5 l/year of pure alcohol in 2019
I’m half Irish and half German. I was born with the last name of McKnight and that changed when I was adopted by he who should never be named and is in the hottest part of hell right now (if it exists) Further desponded sayeth Naught.
Anyway glad to see Ireland ranked so high.
@DaveB you need to put the into the and not the then change the #page-wrap { padding: 10px 0; } css to #page-wrap { padding: 0 0 10px; }
the comment box ate the html :(
it said to use the header position and not the sidebar-above-header position
I don’t know about France not being known for overdoing it on booze… well, yeah I guess… I mean, they don’t really drink booze, they drink wine… and then they drink more wine… and when they’re done with the wine, they go for some cheese… and wine…
I’m serious, the only reason wine is seen as girly is because a lot of very feminine non-French women are socialized to seek out romance to think of France and the French language as especially romantic… and the French drink more wine than the Irish drink whiskey and the Russians drink Vodka. Granted wine doesn’t really have anywhere near the alcohol content of those two, but it is what it is.
If anybody here speaks French, I have a question… You know how -ette is used to signify a smaller version of a noun? Well, I’m looking for some overalls and I understand the word for that is “salopette”, but I don’t want small ones, I want regular sized ones, so should I go ask someone on the street where I can buy a salope?
The primary meaning of salope is “slut” or “bitch.” I don’t think you usually BUY them; a woman you buy is a putain.
Don’t try to interpret idioms logically from the meaning of the component words or syllables. The fact that you can’t do that is what makes them idioms.
Fairly sure they were making a joke, notably where they asked about asking on the street as opposed to the more logical location of a department store
Heh, my French is loads better than my Japanese despite there being no French in my ancestry. The “-ette” ending is more of a feminine ending than a diminutive form. The masculine form would be “-et” because making masculine forms feminine involves adding an “e” and if the masculine form ends in a consonant, the consonant is often doubled. My take is that “salopette” is a feminine noun. And yes, all nouns in French are either masculine or feminine.
I blame a feminine ending being read as a diminutive on the patriarchy.
To clarify my previous post, to make a masculine form ending in a consonant feminine, you double the consonant BEFORE sticking an “e” on the end assuming that you’re going to double the consonant at all.
I don’t think that’s accurate. The ending -et, the masculine equivalent, is also diminutive. Wiktionary has a long list of French nouns ending in -et; for example, chatelet is the diminutive of chateau (originally chatel).
Does alcohol really even affect Max, though?
I’m assuming it does eventually. Also assuming she probably lowers her armor in order that it CAN. Just like when she lowers her armor to almost nothing to appreciate a hot shower, as she mentioned a few comics ago. Otherwise why bother drinking alcohol? Most alcohol tastes awful imho (not that I’m a big drinker, I rarely drink much really), at least when taken straight. And even if you can name some that taste good, I’m pretty sure the one she downed is so highly alcoholic that it could NOT have tasted good (and the other drink the bartender mentioned “doubles as engine degreaser” so that probably tastes awful without being in a mixed drink with something that tastes okay in order to make the okay thing dangerously alcoholic).
Everclear doesn’t taste awful, so much as it chemically cauterizes your taste buds before you can figure out what it tastes like. Sort of like that “flaming” shine I tried a sample of last year, assuming it was flavored with hot peppers, only to discover it was just very high proof.
“so much as it chemically cauterizes your taste buds before you can figure out what it tastes like.”
I will assume that anything that cauterizes your taste buds before you can figure out what it tastes like will taste bad.
It’s actually similar with very hot peppers btw, if I’m going to talk about something I -do- eat, since I (like Sydney) am a spice-eating maniac. The hotter the hot sauce, the worse it tastes. But the more endorphins that are released afterwards, which is what feels good. :) There’s a sweet spot though between where it’s just pain and where it actually still retains flavor. Watch Hot Ones when Alton Brown was on it. :) He went into some detail about this.
I grow this little monster in my garden named the Peach Sugar Rush or Aji. It seems to be in the scorpion pepper family? It is spicy as heck when green but starts to mellow and turn sweet as it ripens. I like it because that means I can choose how hot they are. It also means that the little beer barrels I age hot sauce in can take a season to fill.
They don’t *have* to taste bad unless you simply load it up.
I have a nice ghost pepper hot sauce that has a sweet taste. It is hot enough to want to be used in dabs and dashes for entire dishes, not just servings.
At a CERTAIN point, they do though. There’s a point at which anything you try to add to the hot sauce to give it some sweetness or flavor is just going to be subsumed by the heat of the pepper and it just will be an exercise in how much heat you can take, rather than if it actually tastes good anymore. :) I’m a fan of ghost peppers btw. They’re still within the sweet spot for me.
In the June Vote Incentive, did anyone else see Max as having a tiny yellow hand because of the brightness of the reflective part and the darker shade for the rest of her arm?
Or am I just weird and ruined it for everyone?
… Which hand?
The one holding the beer bottle
Funny thing is I know that bartender. He works in a little sithole boozer in Hackney
hey, Zima’s good. when you can find it.
The alcoholic Monster, however, is not. I say that as an energy drink fiend. It *sort of* tastes like green label Monster with an awful aftertaste, and has no caffeine in it. After Four Loko, booze and caffeine aren’t allowed to be pre-mixed anymore.
AAAaaahhh… A calm Max, never thought I’d see that! I’d bet she could drink a quart of Everclear and still pass a breathalyzer. I just hope she doesn’t flash her ears or get a priority 1 call or something! By now I think she’d go ballistic if that happened! Or worse yet, the collar runs out of juice… Either way, for now, she’s calm and starting to enjoy things.
By the way, “Respect!” in proper use in common Russian would be “Уважуха!”, because “Уважать” is an infinitive form and it’s not supposed to be used this way as a whole sentence. Alternative would be “Уважаю!” as in “[I] respect [you]”.
Regarding the mention of Hard Monster Energy in the post, I believe the lack of caffeine is because the FDA considers caffeinated alcoholic drinks to be dangerous and put pressure on several companies that made them.
I REALLY like this. Not just Maxima enjoying herself and being less abrasive, but her apologizing for her earlier behavior and recognizing that she was being snippy.
It’s always nice to see personal growth in characters :) Makes them more three-dimensional. Like Tony Stark going to an alcoholic, party-going, self-absorbed, sometimes irresponsible billionaire genius to a self-sacrificing, family-oriented, cabin-in-the-woods-owning, sometimes irresponsible billionaire genius. :)
Yeah, I liked how the MCU did with Tony. in the comic book, he never really dropped the drinking and goofing off. The whole “love you 3000” really touched my heart! Plus, he didn’t really want to get involved with what remained of the Avengers, but he did help them and didn’t do anything else until the big fight came up.
I forget; can Dabbler use the choker to peep on what’s happening? I’m sure her sexy senses are tingling.
Dabbles: I thought ethanol concentrations that high were lethal to humans.
Krona: The readings I get off her says not entirely human.
Leon: Still, she is really tough and her liver can probably handle it. It will be converting all that alcohol into aldehydes.
Dabbler: Let’s see. Aldehydes. Ooh, her liver has been working overtime. Look at those acetaldehyde levels. Those look really high, but I will have to review reference material to see what normal levels are like.
Wonder if exposure to certain bodily fluids from certain specific metahumans has a chance to inspire a superhuman origin story… STS, ******* Transmitted Superpowers…
In Empowered, sure, but this is another comics.
Love Changes Everything story arc: http://www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume-1-page-173
Still feel this is so surreal.
Look at him!. He is a gremlin!
Rude.
You’re saying Max is a 10 so she can only hook up with 10’s?
Look at Pete Davidson, Russell Brand, Dax Shepard and David Cross.
I will never for the life of me understand the attraction to Pete Davidson in particular. The others you mentioned are funny at least. :) I can’t even say it’s ‘they’re attracted to him because he’s rich and famous’ because several of his ex girlfriends are considerably more famous and richer.
(Please Pete Davidson superfans – should any of you exist somehow – I beg of you to not fight me on this, it’s just a joke :) … but I really don’t find him remotely humorous)
Please, anyone in the middle of eating, do not look at Davidson or Shepard (actually, even when not eating, at least eating means there is something other than bile to come up… )
No idea who Cross is (and probably a good thing)
Don’t worry Pander, feel the same way about his ‘humour’ and his ‘looks’
Hate the fact he has a semi-recurring role in “The Rookie”
I feltthe same way about Don Rickles.
Looks or humour?
He looked like a pug and his idea of a joke was to piss on the nearest person having a good time so both. I don’t think he was funny, just sarcastic and mean.
David Cross is from Curb Your Enthusiasm (bunch of other shows too but that’s the one most people probably recognize him from). The bald guy with the glasses. He’s reasonably funny, at least when he has a script written by funny people. :) Usually he’s very cringy but that’s most of the ‘funny’ stuff about him … he’s funny -because- he’s cringy.
For the record, the Patreon version looks nothing like the thumbnail under the comic. The Patreon version has her looking like a liquid metal Terminator with a face. It’s beautiful but very much not what was suggested.
Same with the non-Patreon version
Oh don’t tease us with those bedroom eyes, she is NOT gonna hook up with him.
If I said anything, she’d be interested in the shy-guy or the respectful one, this guy seems to be a mix of both. I’d say this may lead to phone numbers and a chance to meet up in a more friendly environment next time. You never know however, Max might just say to herself: “Oh what the hell!” and risk it, it would be a hell of a thing if her collar ran out of magic at the final moment!
“Guys Guys! That hottie last night?!? It was Max!!” And the rumor mill kicks in… So no, I doubt she’d risk it unless she did get really drunk and forgot herself. More likely have a background check on him before the next date.
We already know her type, and they could use him as a hankie.
Ah yes but most of them are a lower rank, therefore off limits due to the regs. I’d love to see Hiro and Max hook up, but one of them would have to give up their commission. This gives her an option without risking court marshal! Not ideal, no, but any port in the storm uhmm…
Meant big, buff guys, not Hiro specifically.
Actually Hiro is the only data point we have, and he’s got lots of other attributes Max may find equally appealing. The only other thing we have pointing to Max’s ‘type’ is Sydney’s baseless assertion about buff guys to drive away the jerk at her store (“she hangs out with this all day”).
Maybe she’s into shy, lanky, self-aware nerds who demonstrate respect for her space and personal autonomy, in which case Rowan is killing it so far.
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying, someone like Max isn’t just about looks! Granted, ANYONE that looks good deserves a casual look, not a fan-boy drooling or the Chad “Hey baby, where have you been…” you get the idea. I suspect being a super also includes “super” needs, so far the only regular female super that hasn’t had “bed hair” is Jiggawatt. and that may change any day. Same could be said for Ariana, she definitely needs a good “relaxing” evening lol. Max, if I read her right, isn’t into the one-nighter, or a long term thing, just a on/off thing when she has time. Max is hands-on only, she’s not a desk jocky that yells at underlings and hardly knows whats going on, so free time is at a premium.
If Max has some French in her,then maybe the idea of having a French-Canadian cousin would work. After all,she would be the same height and have the same gold skin tone but would have reddish-brown hair and blue-green eyes and is a member of the RCMP…!?!
Oddly, the guy of interest is reminding me of Ted Lasso.
No six pack on Max in the vote incentive? She’s been slacking! …or maybe just having trouble finding adequate weights. I assume a gal with super strength wouldn’t get any benefit from crunches, situps, or any other body weight exercise.
Normally, the only time in RL you can clearly see anyone’s 6-pak is if they tense up. The guys you see on TV and movies dehydrate themselves so there’s less “padding” to hide them. I was into body-building as a teen, as long as I stayed relaxed I looked fairly normal, unless I got mad (yes, I would “hulk-out”) or just finished my work-out. However, I had to wear over-sized shirts ALL the time, just the act of scratching my head could rip out my sleeves. Only real give-away was I had no neck LOL! When I got married NO ONE had shirts that was for a 24in neck, I had to use twist-ties to make it look right, and it STILL rode up under my ears…. This was 1985, big and tall stores wasn’t around back then.
Out of curiosity I started crunching numbers in my head, to find out just HOW MUCH alcohol Max had consumed.
The bartender said he’d have to charge max for 8-shots worth for a glass full, and a shot is about 1.5 ounces, so it would be ~12 ounces of booze. But it was also ~180 proof which if more than double the standard proof (most liqours in the US are 80 proof of 40% BV), so it would be something like 2.25×12=27. The equivalent of 27 ounces of vodka, rum, tequila, etc. To compare, 750ml is roughly equal to 25 ounces, which means that one glass max downed had was basically an entire bottle of booze. That’s the kind of thing that KILLS people, even if they are built like a heavy-metal rock star. (and yes being heavier/larger does mean you can drink more, but muscle is better at absorbing alcohol than fat so even if Max had a little pudge it wouldn’t help) So forget cutting her off, no bartender that didn’t want to go to jail should have even served that to her in the first place.
Now, the bartender technically didn’t SAY he was serving max 8 shots, only that he was CHARGING her for 8 shots, which maybe makes sense if the xuidalucha-boobly-boo-whatever alcholol he was pouring was more expensive than normal because of the proof. So she’s getting CHARGED double because the PRICE is double, and maybe it was more only like 4 shots. And a standard tumbler/rocks glass is, according to google, about 6-10 ounces, so that would also make sense, but it’s STILL a horribly irresponsible amount of booze to serve to someone all in one go.
Maybe you’d get away with it in a skuzzy dive-bar in a neighborhood where the cops didn’t come around unless they had a swat-team for backup and the bartender cared more about his tip than having to swear “yes officer she walked out of here under her own power”. BUT looking at the bartender’s haircut and the general ambience I don’t get the impression that this is that kind of place (and also because sober-max wouldn’t probably not want to get into a bar-brawl) but still….
Anyway, these are the kinds of thoughts I have at 3AM when I should have been long abed. Goodnight.
Or maybe, just maybe, Dear Bartender did not think she would down that “ad fundum” but take small, paced sips.
That said, I’m Belgian with Polish/Ukranian ancestry on my mother’s side, French/Spanish on my father’s side, and I survived the “University Initiation Rituals” that consists of downing as many glasses in one go as possible.
It’s usually done with beer (Belgian Jupiler Beer, about three times the alcohol content of a Budweiser), but since I hate the taste of beer when it’s not a fruity, Trappist, or a “gueuze”, I asked if I could take shots of Vodka instead.
Alas, all they had on hand was Smirnoff, and that feels like water compared to the artisanal distillations of my grandpa (35% alcohol content, vs the 55% to 60% I was used to), so even when the “higher ranked” trying to drink me under the table, it did not work (for them).
Back then, I was up to three liters of grandpa’s own per day, very dark period of my life after seeing my father die in front of me, so I lost myself in alcohol, drugs and insomnia.
Still paying the consequences of that 29 years later, but I finally stopped drinking anything alcoholic in 2016.
One of the problems some supers have is the actually amount of alcohol require to even get slightly buzzed you know that happy point were the world is just right. Is insane, we are talking pints and liters of booze. Wolverine basically walks around sober most of the time because of the amount of beer it actually takes to get him drunk. I suspect Max has a similar problem which is why she is hitting it heavy, takes ten times the amount just to get her slightly drunk and twenty minutes after stopping she is stone cold sober.
I’m pretty sure it’s physically impossible for Wolverine to drink beer fast enough to get drunk. Liquor, sure, but not beer. His liver just processes the alcohol too fast.
Canonically, Captain America has that problem, too. He literally can’t drink fast enough to get drunk, because the super soldier serum detoxifies his blood too fast. He might as well be drinking soda.
There’s a very old issue of Wolverine where he tries really hard to get drunk by drinking ludicrous amounts of moonshine, and he’s disgusted because he only gets “slightly buzzed” for like less than a minute after downing the pitcher.
And that was before the first time his adamantium got ripped out and sent his X-factor regenration into hyperdrive.
I’ve stopped following the series because they are a total pain to get here in Belgium, but the theory at the last Comic I read was that the more he gets injured, torn apart, adamantium ripped out, etc, the more his regeneration “levels up”, and he was totally depressed because being functionnally immortal means losing everyone he cares about.
Unless it’s some of Thor’s stuff. XD
You mean Hercules? There was this one story arc where he runs into Galactus, and tries to save a planet (Ciegrim-7!) by getting him drunk on the most powerful liquor in the universe.
It didn’t actually work, but Galactus found the attempt so hilarious he had his first belly laugh in millions of years, and spared the planet on account of that.
https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hercules-Galactus-Leaves.jpg
“She couldn’t order a watercress sandwich or infiltrate a ring of ballet dancing assassins, but she can toast, order drinks, and insult someone’s lineage well enough.”
so basically, she is fluent. that is about 40% of the baltic language group right there.
what can I say, they have some elaborate toasts and insults to your linage.
do any of them mention sick camels of questionable discretion or demeanor?
no, but you’d be amazed at the linguistical Leprechaun lambastes their liquored lexicon includes
*thinks, picks up the phone for a potential order*
No… not a pun. Just alliterative.
Carry on.
*puts down the phone*
Alliteration almost always annoys.
*says through clenched teeth*
Carry… on…
completely chaotic commenters create creative cramps.
Colon constricting consonants causing chronic constipation? Contemplating calling clandestine contractors causing controlled chaos? Call Calaboose Cal’s of Coastamesa, California! Capitol collected in cash, card, checks, or confections. Collateral considered.
*makes a totally unrelated list having nothing to do with ninja hit squads*
Cool.