Grrl Power #1167 – The labors of Rowan
It’s possible Deus has warped Maxima’s taste in whiskey over the last few years. She may be super sus of him and his motivations, but she’s not going to turn down the top-tippy-super-promise-definitely-the-highest shelf stuff. If she’d thought about it, she’d have realized her own personal stock has slowly evolved from Jim Beam to stuff that’s at least 15 years old. She’s not “Drive a car till it runs out of gas then have her people just buy another one” rich… well, considering how rarely she drives, she could do that, the point is she doesn’t have that mentality – but – the average bottle of whiskey in her personal bar is rings in at around $150, and she doesn’t think that much about dropping that much on a restock.
It helps that she doesn’t really drink that much. If her and Anvil and Peggy are staying up late and talking, the three of them would probably go through a bottle. Anvil can keep up with Max. Peggy is a normal human 5’4″ woman that weighs… uh, I’m going to say 110? Of course she’s missing a leg below the knee… No idea how much that would weigh. I’m convinced that all writers are on FBI watchlists. (I know that seems like a non-sequitur, bear with me.) I personally have googled “what sedative does Dexter use,” all kinds of stuff about guns and explosives, military prisons, the pentagon, “woman leaning over pool table,” etc. I feel like googling “woman individual body part weight calculator” might tip the threshold to “active surveillance.” So I’m going to just guess that Peggy weighs… ninety… uh… four pounds?
Anyway. Max takes 3-4 weeks to go through a bottle on her own. She’ll sometimes cap off her paperwork with a shot before she settles in for a trashy TV show before bed.
Panels 2, 3, and 4 are supposed to encapsulate the “Honestly I’m really trying not to look at your boobs but they’re right there…” >glance< “Yes, we both know I just got caught but it was just a flick of the eyes, not a leer, I’m really trying not to…” >glance< “Dangit!”
I mean, women are fully aware of it, right? They have to be. Okay, off-topic, but I really want someone to make a first person shooter, and if you pick a female avatar, all the male NPCs do the boob glance. But the game company never says anything about it. I bet you’d have a bunch of male gamers being like, “The in-between mission section around the base was kind of creepy for some reason.” and female gamers would be all “I can’t put my finger on it, but something about this game is just so realistic.”
I know when I’m playing Lara Croft or FemShep and some NPC starts coming on to them I’m immediately like, “Yo, you know I’m armed, right?” I can’t tell if that’s me channeling Maxima and being offended for the female character, or just me being a het dude and reflexively uncomfortable at being vicariously hit on… yeah, through a video game. I know, it’s stupid, but it’s there. That’s all totally different from when my FemShep boned down on Garrus. Garrus was rad. Although I really wanted FemShep to get with Tali, because she was super rad. But you couldn’t to that without a mod, and installing some random .EXE on my PC so I could watch a user-generated clunky Skinemax cutscene seemed like a poor decision.
The June vote incentive is finally up! Maxima is prepping for her night out.
And in the Patreon variants, she gets (un)dressed and takes a look through all the makeup options.
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I will again predict a “Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice…” cutaway to Sydney.
Does she call the Brown Orb “A Surprise Tool That Will Help Me Later”?
Does she kiss her Orbs ‘Goodnight’? Give each one a shaking the following morning?
Let’s see her in-HQ base apartment. Figurines and a big TV? Vintage rotating comic book rack?
Evil Movie Directors exist – check out the story behind The Wizard of Speed and Time, it gets very very crazy. Not to sure about Producers.
Ever heard of a guy named Harvey Weinstein?
reporter: what advice for young actresses starting out?
ScarJo: I shouldn’t… buuuuttttt If you get invited to a private party by harvey weinstein, don’t go
Who’s conduct was so infamous even twenty years ago that his own brother greenlit a slasher movie that was, in retrospect, a pretty clear warning shot across Harvey’s bow that his decisions were going to be his undoing. Unfortunately, he didn’t get the hint and kept up that predatory behavior for quite some time.
Are we talking about Mike Jitlov here?
We’re not talking about Mike Jittlov himself, but rather the evil movie producer he worked with.
17.55 lbs roughly….also most medical personnel are probably on watch lists as well
Maybe that’s why all of you are on that ‘every medical person’ list. If someone has certain knowledge and isn’t on the list, they’re on another list.
Make all the excuses you want. She’s being a bit of a jerk.
iirc, Dexter was almost caught when they found his stash of body bags because they could ID the veterinary tranq he was using and chase down his identity…..but no one is coming forth with the results of their google search…
from the Dexter Wiki: Dexter Morgan injects a tiny dose of Etorphine to his victims as a way of immobilizing them. The sedative works instantly, rendering the the person immobile and unconscious within a couple of seconds, and lasting for several hours.
Etorphine is terrifying. When we used it to dart things, you always drew up the reversal first and wore a face shield and gloves that were taped to your cuffs. The LD50 in humans is 3 micrograms, and even a small splash on a mucous membrane can be fatal. If Dexter was routinely using it, he was killing most of his victims outright through respiratory depression within a few minutes of injection.
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I’m sure everyone in my military career field is on a list of some kind.
Bit of a story for you readers to laugh at.
I was at a bar doing college homework while the wife was playing pool.
Now like most avid readers, if we see text, we instinctively try to read it without even thinking about it.
There was a rather well endowed woman there wearing a T-Shirt with a block of text on it, but it had a fold in the shirt and part of it wasn’t readable. Without even thinking I keep trying to figure out the obscured text.
If it wasn’t obvious, she noticed and came over and started yelled at me.
Without even a thought I replied, “I’m trying to read your shirt, and if you don’t want people looking looking at your boobs stop putting writing on them, especially when it’s folded so you can’t read all of it!”
She was definitely taken back by that, and after a few seconds she straightened her shirt and let me read it. I don’t remember what it said, but it was rather funny, we chatted a bit before she went back to pool.
During the silence after my reply to her yelling at me, I could hear in the background my wife telling one of her friends, “No, he really means it.”.
So the not a moral, just some mediocre advice after you stop laughing at that anecdote of mine, don’t put writing or even pictures on bodily regions you don’t want strangers looking at.
That’s great!
seconded.
As someone who reads all the posters it’s very hard to not read body regions.
It’s a lot easier to not look at a large decollete than at even the flimsiest piece of text.
The leg prosthetic, if it’s well designed and intended to give the wearer normal movement and balance, likely weighs just about the same as the leg would.
So if you think Peggy looks like a woman who weighs 120 pounds, it’s likely she weighs 120 pounds.
Actually I don’t think she’s that scrawny. If she’s in shape to keep up with military units, she’s carrying some healthy muscle mass. Even though she’s somewhat “thin” I’d guess at least 135 or so.
Muscle does tend to be heavier and Peggy’s very fit for her size.
But the point was guestimating how much booze she’s likely to go through, and her prosthetic isn’t increasing her blood supply to match pre-amputation.
Though I don’t actually know for a fact that amputees become more of a lightweight as a result.
Meanwhile, a certain scarred-face character is asking for ear lotion.
I just watched M3gan the other day and your comment makes me think of a certain character.
You know I am starting to like this dude, she needs to hang around with “normal” people once in a while.
Once upon I was invited to a tasting of German wines, as a guest. There were about ten of them. The closer was a trockenbeerenauslese of superb vintage and wine area. The front end was ‘this is you give vineyard grape pickers with their lunch…I remember the taste clearly, because it was more or less indistinguishable from shaving lotion.
With respect to word lists, you might consider that the computer search will also call up other references on the author, e.g., which fiction writers’ groups he belongs to.
Laphroaig and Glenfiddich. I like Max even more as a character now. X-D
On the matter of boob glances, I feel the need to share a rather unexpected date experience today. My date had a slightly too tight bikini. It climbed. She seemingly did not notice or care until it was actually climbing over her nipple. I didn’t realise it was climbing (there was underboob from the start) until I saw her areola, upon which I kind of forgot that I should mention it to her. As her nipple was finally getting released, I looked away and she reacted. It feels a bit as if I lived a comic comedy strip.
There’s a website for body segment data – https://exrx.net/Kinesiology/Segments
I found some of the same data on another site and I can appreciate that obtaining it in a scientific manner requires an accurate way to measure individual body parts, which would mean you have to separate them, limiting the types of bodies the scientists get to work with.
I recall seeing an interesting rule-of-thumb method in the past where you divide the total weight by eleven and head and each arm counts as 1/11 each and the upper torso, lower torso and each leg counts as 2/11 each to get a reasonable approximate weight. I assume this is probably good enough for writing a story.
I’ve seen the same rule, except phrased as a rule of nines: 9% each arm and head, 18% each leg, 36% torso. This was from some RPG (Top Secret SI? Some edition of D&D or errata?), though I no longer remember why it came up!
The rule of nines is used for calculating body surface area. It’s really about burns. Paramedics and Fireman need a way to quickly calculate how much % of your skin was burned, and tell that to the hospital, who then does a calculation on how much IV fluid to give you over the next 24 hours, and that equation is called the rule of tens. It doesn’t actually relate to body weight. You should be able to Google both of those though and find out how to use them.
Metal Gear Solid 4 has my favorite boob shot of all time. Solid Snake is talking to a scientist woman who has her shirt unbuttoned to show lots of cleavage (because this is a Kojima game, and he likes boobs) and while the cinematic camera angles are showing very dramatic angles and closeup shots of faces, you can just hold the first person view button and see that Snake is staring at her boobs pretty much the entire time.
I gotta say, DaveB really has put this comic together with a rarely seen level of ability.
TWC resets all comic ratings at the beginning of the calendar month so every comic has to earn its position on their list every month. Grrl Power has consistently gained #1 position within the first 3 or 4 days & *stays there* for the rest of the month…And has been doing this over a span of multiple *years*
This is a true testament to DaveB and his…
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(replacing dialogue in panel #4): talent
Next time Max wants to go out again,she should change her hair color so that the people she met previously won’t recognize her…!!!(Or maybe she tries to pass herself off as Harper’s ‘sisters’ or ‘cousins’?!?)
I wonder if her team has cooked up several different fake IDs for her. The choker can do more than just change her hair color, right? Skin tone probably? Eye color too?
Though, I expect she will sometimes /want/ these people to recognize her, and maybe have a set of familiar/friendly regular people to hang around with. So she should carefully remember these exact choker settings for future use.
The team had to hack this choker to deal with her shininess, it can no longer do skin tone but it can do hair. Eye color might help a little but only once someone is very close up.
“Wait, HAS he produced movies? Damn it he probably has.” – Back of Max’s mind, probably
145 thousand pounds a bottle right here
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/2099/glenfiddich-1937-64-year-old
The events are happening slightly in the past
According to google the average 5’4″ woman is 110-145Lbs and a whole leg is 18.43lbs with the thigh making 11.75 of that so assuming she’s near the middle to upper end due to working out I would say 130 start weight minus the about 7 for the loss of lower leg would put her at 123 or so. Though considering how muscled she is the start weigh may be higher.
If this dude had curly hair, it would be a clear pallet-swap of me & my sister… like down to the eye color & everything… so now I’m finally learning why they put that stuff about “any resemblance to persons yadda yadda” in everything. It’s surreal in ways I’m too autistic to articulate…
Lifestyle creep is a financial no-no Max.
Sorry for the late comment — I’ve been catching up. My dad was a doctor and the rule of thumb was that a healthy woman, 5 feet tall, weighs 105 pounds. Add 5 pounds per inch, plus or minus 10 percent. So by this formula Peggy should weigh between 113 and 137 pounds, probably towards the upper end because of her muscles. As a point of reference my 42 year old daughter is a competitive weightlifter, 5 foot 3, and weighs 128 pounds.