Grrl Power #120 – Faceball
The eagle eyed among you may have noticed that I didn’t quite have time to finish the page this week since I was either at the Austin Dragon’s Lair Webcomic Rampage over the weekend, or I was driving to or from it. It’s not a terribly long haul from Dallas, about 7 hours round trip, but I have colored the page in less time on occasion. In the meantime here are the pencils. I’ll try and get the inks done by Tuesday and the colors later in the week, so keep checking back.
As to Maxima’s shortness with Sydney, well, Max got to spend a blissful 30 minutes or so apart from her and within seconds of meeting back up with her is reminded how challenging she can be.
Also IGN is having a best webcomics poll. It’s a curiously short list, but they do have a write in option. The poll runs until Dec 17, I don’t know what the rules are for how often you can vote, or even if they allow more that one vote/IP address per day or week or over the lifetime of the poll? I have no idea, I’ll assume it’s one vote a day?
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Update: So I’ve replaced the pencils with the inks. You’ll notice the orbs have disappeared, I add them in last from a reference file so I don’t have to redraw 7 orbs x 11 panels all the time. Since this week’s page is going up in stages, I thought in might be fun to provide the full res inks in case anyone wants to try their hands at coloring a page, or just a panel or whatever. You can download that here. And here are the web-sized pencils if you want a reference. I’m not sure when the colors will get done, I need to get started on the pencils for the next page or I’ll be behind the ball forever.
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Update 2: Foreground colors! At least now the comic makes sense with the orbs laid back in.
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Math really reminds me of Jiraiya from Naruto in a lot of ways. Even has the white hair and does the posing and posturing. I wonder if I’m the only one who sees that. Course that makes Maxima the Tsunade of the group. :)
Its a trope, the perverted martial arts master.
Juriaya, Hopposai, that hat and sandles guy from Bleach, Master Roshi, ect…
if Karate Kid had been made in Japan master Miyagi would have had a stash of playboys and oggled women.
You mean Shunsui Kyoraku right? I havent watched all of Bleach, but he doesnt seem as perverted as the other characters mentioned, merely chivalrous from what I’ve seen. Yeah I forgot about Roshi, haven’t watched Ranma in a long time, but he is the number one pervert ninja in my book. hehehe
Eh, Roshi is from Dragon Ball. Happosai is the pervert from Ranma…
Hat-and-Geta-San is Kisuke Urahara the shop owner.
Be careful what you say about Jiraiya… I named my cat Jiraiya.
(Yes, I’m that much of a narutard)
Jiraiya is also a badass name. Even if I didn’t know the series, and I heard it, I would still name something Jiraiya.
Also as to the comments about whether or not Math will ever be able to live this down. So far she has made fools of or blind-sided almost every member of the team she’s met within the last six hours. In order, Mr. Amorphous, Maxima, Harem, Dabbler, Math. Can’t wait to see what happens when she meets Heatwave.
Heatwave: [ floating down from upstairs, where she just finished a pool game ] Hi! So you’re the new … Ow! What was that for?
Halo: My hand! You burned my hand!
Heatwave: You punched me while I had I my heat aura up. Of course you are going to get burned.
Maxima: I told not to surprise her. Mind you, it might teach her a lesson, I hope.
Heatwave: Why are you licking me? Stop that! [ Shoves Sydney away ]
Halo: Phooey, wrong kind of heat.
Math watching from across the room, thoughtbubble : So if I throw hot sauce on them she’ll …..”
Heeheehee…
Ditto.
Double ditto
I still have the feeling that Math is going to wake up with sharpie drawings all over his face.
Umm panel ten = Wallpaper?
9 would make a better WP (minus the flailing leg of course)
She should totaly try a spin attack with those orbs when she’s training.
WHO 3LS3 NOT1C3D TH4T TH3 ORBS FOLLOW3D TH3 4RC OF H3R SW1NG? YOU’D TH1NK M4TH WOULD C4TCH TH4T, 3SP3C14LLY G1V3N TH4T SYDN3Y 1S NOT P4RT1CUL4RLY S3XY 3NOUGH TO B3 TH4T D1STR4CT1NG, SO ON3 SHOULD TH1NK H3 WOULD C4TCH TH3 FL1GHT OF BR1GHTLY COLOR3D ORBS FOLLOW1NG H3R F1ST.
Speak English and stop shouting. Please.
All I could see were those 3s.
Maybe, if he noticed she had balls orbiting her head in the first place (he seems to me as someone {read: perv} who only noticed she was female) and the fact the balls only started to follow the trajectory of her fist after she started the swing (plus, he was focused only on the fist when he started to dodge)
Acceptable explanation. Now lets see if on their next encounter, he makes the mistake of assuming they’re just satellites that can follow her strikes, and ignores possible powers they may possess.
Still can’t believe that some people don’t know homestuck.
Believe it.
Do you REALLY find it necessary to do that on things completely unrelated to Homestuck?
Feh, whatever. >:]
Yay! Color!
This is the fourth time I’ve read this page and it still makes me laugh out loud.
So, wait, did he let himself get hit? If not, GO SYDNEY!!
If you hadn’t noticed yet, I’m into seeing characters with naughty or rude habits getting punished.
Yes! She got the blond pervert!! I have despised him since his first appearance. (Don’t ask me why–personal issues involving a certain disgusting blond vampire responsible for ruining the last two seasons of BtVS.)
Healing powers and working miracles are two entirely different things.
Although there are intersections, of the two sets, when the miracles are used to provide healing. Which is what faith healers use to justify saying that their powers are divinely granted. Whereas scientists would be keen to attribute such healing to the placebo effect, putting it outside the area of overlap. Which is true is a matter of opinion and faith.
Likewise in a world with super powers. Although most comics tend to avoid dragging religion into it. For fear of controversy. Especially as many of the super powers, typically those used by villains, are clearly not what you would expect from a benign deity, granting super powers by miraculous means. So if all super powers were divinely granted, then it would imply a dualistic or polytheistic universe.
But I could easily envisage a setting where some super powers were divinely granted, such as healing and protective powers. To counter some the abuses of other super powers, which were created as a result of the free will of mankind. Be they technological, genetic manipulation or otherwise.
Of course that would be a setting which pandered to the mores of monotheistic societies, so would be more acceptable to some cultures, and less to others. Although the same principle could be implemented in a slightly different way, to accommodate other religious points of view.
Wish more of then did add the religious component since it is central to so many people’s lives. (Not mine though.)
You would have the Saints and the Sinners dueling it out. They would either find reasons in interpretation to accept it all or to damn it all. Islamic, Hindu, Judaic and various Christian are the four main groups on this planet with many others as subgroups and small groups. Just like in the old days when there were certain men and women who had extraordinary power. (Given by various deities of course.)
Especially since the cornea of the eye can’t heal itself. Also one of my favorite pages.
The more I read this comic the less entertaining I find Math. He’s treading a little far past “lovable pervert” into “would be the person at work I’d make every effort not to be alone around”. As good as it is to see him clobbered like this, he definitely takes it too far.
Well she’s got some….balls to do that huh?
I’d imagine that hit being in slo-mo.
Comics will always be the most amazing thing ever invented.