Grrl Power #1259 – Activate sexy chick theme song
Max had a “workout top” in her trunk, though the hip huggers probably required a quick flight back to her closet.
And before you ask, yes, she is using about 10-6 of her flight power to make her hair just a teensy bit “underwatery.” So she’s not really entering in slow motion while her “Sexy Chick Theme Song” plays, but it kind of looks like it.
I’m not sure what Maxima’s sexy chick song is. Sydney has Bad to the Bone set as Maxima’s ringtone, but Brick House by the Commodores would be totally appropriate as well, or some custom march like Oren Ishii got. What wouldn’t work for her is some straight up sexy song, like Foxy Lady. What Maxima really needs is a song like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, but to my knowledge, there really aren’t any songs about women who a badder than a junkyard dog and are therefore awesome, and not psychos who key your car, Carrie. Maybe there’s some sea shanty about the girl waiting for a sailor at port who drinks dwarves under the table and brawls with pirates, but if so, it’s probably not a “sexy” song. Sexy songs need electric guitar. Songs that are too sexy need saxophone.
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Every so often I get the urge to try and draw Maxima all properly shiny, and this… isn’t my favorite attempt if I’m honest. I’ve been sitting on this for a little while doing little tweaks, and decided to finally publish it cause I’m already behind on these. The next one will (almost definitely) resume the trend of including a little mini comic to extend the scene a bit.
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Hello nurse… I mean, Colonel.
jaw retrieval in the break room. jaw retrieval in the breakroom. please bring drool buckets.
More like: heLLLOOOOO Nurse! with the drooling, bug eyes, and jaw WIDE open…
Yes Animainacs style :)
I thought she might do the “Barbie girl” thing, but she’s too tough for THAT girly of behavure!
Hahahaah.. Dabbler’s senses are going crazy right now. And Anvil is feeling the need to high five someone without knowing why..
:D :D :D
For anybody who’s interested in the magnet thing, magnetism relies on lots of really tiny little bits inside the magnet all being lined up. Heat up the magnet and they start vibrating, which can knock them out of alignment and reduce how strong the magnet is. Heat it above a particular point, the Curie temperature, and it knocks them completely out of alignment and the magnet stops working all together.
There’s also a fun thing where anything that can be attracted to a magnet, stops being attracted when heated up enough. That’s how most rice cookers work! The contact is maintained by a magnet when you push down on the button, and the magnet sticks to the underside of the rice… compartment… holder thing. When the heat goes up, the water stops it at about 100°c. When the water is done evaporating/being absorbed by the rice, the temperature will start going up again. It will heat the magnet to below its curie temperature, to which the magnet says “I don’t care,” but the rice chamber above its curie temperature, to which it says “hey, magnet, I think we need a break.” and the magnet falls, the switch is flipped back, and your rice is ready.
This is also why it’s important to put the right amount of water in your rice cooker, and measure correctly: the only thing that tells the rice cooker to stop cooking is when all the water is gone.
I’d have thought that was down to a Bimetallic Switch, like electric kettles use.
No because they work by steam heating up the bimetallic strip(that’s why there is a little pipe that goes from the top of the kettle down to the electronics, its to direct steam there) . They go off when the water gets to boiling point not when the food has finished cooking.
Could just attach it to the metallic compartment (heating by conduction rather than steam convection) and set it to more than 100°C. Would have the exact same effect as the magnet thing, but with less material, and relying on simple heat expansion rather than magnetic properties.
Honestly while understanding how the magnet system works is more complex than understanding a bimetallic strip, the actual device itself is pretty simple to construct and this method is more reliable if you have different amounts of rice when you use the cooker
By measuring the steam generation, the kettle can work at various altitudes. If you shut it down when the contents reach 100 C, then you take it up a mountain where the boiling point is only 90 C, then it will never shut off and end up boiling dry. So you need to use a method that measures when you reach boiling.
It still works up on a mountain, you just dry out the rice on the bottom a little. But not burn it, because rice doesn’t burn at 100 degrees C.
I say if you don’t turn it off when the kettle starts whistling, that’s on you.
Very clever. I assumed it was some standard timer (I don’t have a rice cooker) but I like that solution quite a bit.
Clever. I’d have thought a bimetallic strip might be up to the job…
MAGNET RAYS?!
*existential screaming*
*cough*
Now that I have that of my system, I think the song you really want here, musically, if not lyrically, is actually Rafferty’s “Baker Street.” It has both sexy guitar, and a very punchy sax riff that is definitely sensual, without devolving into “THIS IS THE SEXY MUSIC.”
I feel that I shouldn’t have to say it, but “Danger Zone” is a good choice too. You can hear the open bars right after he says “Oh my god.” Admittedly, Max was Air Force, not Navy, but I’ll allow it.
Oh, “Good Enough,” by Cyndi Lauper would be perfect. You’ll recall it from the Goonies.
Really, a lot of stuff that came out of the 80’s would totally fit. Aggressive, high energy, action anthem stuff, with electric guitar & aggressive synths.
I was thinking Legs by ZZ-Top. Maxima uses the effect differently but its still the attitude.
Also, this is weird for me. I don’t usually go for statuesque women, but seeing Maxima come in and say “Let’s go to dinner Rowan” is an effect I’m not used to happening. Nobody uses my name, it’s always like Mike or Tom or something like that.
Very fitting! But the Valhalla song is quite fitting, or “Pretty Woman”.
“I’m Not Here for Your Entertainment” by Pink
“Woman” by BoA is the only pop song I can think of that’s sexy and badass at the same time without being psycho or whiny but is still specific to women. In Max’s case, though, I’m all for “Danger Zone.”
I thought I must be missing some obvious English-language song, so I googled and nope, there appear to be no female empowerment songs that don’t involve overcoming some kind of trauma, and no sexy woman songs that don’t involve being psycho or a slut. Pretty sad.
But if you know Korean (or translate the lyrics), “Woman” is pretty much perfect for Max.
Thinking about it, and I reckon you’ve got it in one! Looking at that last panel and hearing that sax-based riff playing, and oh yeah. That works. Big time.
I feel like Short Skirt Long Jacker has the correct blend of menace and competence, though it really fits Arianna’s brand better and it *is* pretty heavy on the sax.
I keep thinking Max’s theme should be from an 80’s fem metal group. Lita Ford, Vixen, someone like that.
But all their big songs are about problems with their love lives :(
There are probably some good options in Japanese girl bands. Off the top of my head, Unleashed by Band Maid.
Fully agree “Danger Zone”-Kenny Loggins absolutely works for Colonel Leander well.
From Rowen’s perspective of the persona he knows before knowledge of superpowers, I was thinking. “So High above Me”-Tal Bachman
BAT CREDIT CARD?!
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your assignment… is to ring up some con gear using an impression machine… on the Bat Credit Card Plushie.
I’ve just dated myself haven’t I?
I know the feeling… I sobbed at reading that magnet bit.
I’ve seen the magnet rays, couple of weeks ago.
The sun gushed out a tidal wave of high-energy charged particles, some followed the earth’s magnet rays down to the upper atmosphere, and the night sky was filled with the light of glowing oxygen atoms. I’d never seen it before, almost cried with delight, did the skinny dork happy dance, and filled my camera’s SD card.
I’d say Max just turned her magnet rays up pretty significantly, too.
“Magnet rays?” Jeez, I’ll grant you, most firemen are just big kids, but Jeesh! That was taught in grade school even in my day, and I’m 64!
Heh. I get the feeling Maxima is secretly getting a kick out of this.
And why not? Making jaws drop is fun.
Of course she is loving it. She is getting the type of attention she has been denied since she turned gold. While being a super did give her attention it gave her abnormal attention. Here she is getting to experience regular pretty woman attention, So the novelty of that for her And the fact that she’s getting back something that was taken from her, Means that there is no way she can’t be enjoying this.
That’s quite the assumption.
An educated on though. Max enjoying mundane normal life drama that being a super has denied her doesn’t feel like much of a leap.
Also, she used to be a nerd.
Nerd girl getting a glow-up and enjoying making jaws drop is an old trope.
And Max gets to ignore all the negatives that can come with that.
Max is enjoying shutting down the nay-sayers, not the ogling by them, she’s a strong feminist, remember? Rowan might change his mind about Max once he learns who she REALLY is, but that’s for another time. Physically I’m now too small to be a fireman, and people don’t get that my back was broken and collapsed, so I lost more height than even I knew, so I get that a lot. Max enjoys shooting down expectations by nay-sayers, and is letting him have the bragging right due him for HER choosing him. His buddies will respect him forever now, unless they decide he hired a pro/actress for this…
Yeah, women don’t really go around just wishing men would pay attention to them. They’ve got things to do.
Yes, but in this i stance, she was intentionally looking to get noticed and drop jaws. She even made adjustments to her wardrobe for the effect. It would not surprise me if she timed her entrance as well.
I never meant to imply that as a woman max thrives on attention that is you reading between the lines. In fact part of what I was saying is that the lower level of attention she gets when she’s not gold is part of the appeal. She’s enjoying normalcy. Facing a problem that millions of women deal with rather than superstar problems.
Fifty is NOT old. It depends on your perspective.
I remember when thirty was old. Good times.
old is 15 years older than the speaker unless the speaker is under the age of 18, then its everyone over 23.
To a 5 year old 10 years is ancient.
To a 2days old a month old is ancient.
The calculation comes closer to everyone t^1,06 with t the age of the speaker is old.
Also, I think Natasha is close to 50 if not fifty already (I think she was born in 74 which would make her 50 sometime this year)
Has Max actually fallen in love with Rowan? Or is she playacting?
And I’m 58, by the way.
Your binary choice is a false one. Because there is no way she loves him yet. From what I can tell they have maybe had a handful of dates. But that doesn’t mean she is playacting eather. From what I understand of her character she likes him enough to want to see were things go. She isn’t playing she is exploring the relationship to see if it will become a long term thing.
Max never had a real relationship pre-super, she was a bit of an introvert from what I’ve seen, after she changed and became super(hot) guys either were freaked out or just wanted bragging rights. Keep in mind she was barely into her teen years when she got that “geode water” in and on her. it’s rare that a teen has an idea of love is…
And suddenly going from a “meh” to a “heLLOOO Nurse” made her into a feminist. Got sick of men acting just like those guys are right now.
I mean, you don’t think she was a feminist before that?
At the end of the day the moniker means no more than not wanting women to be discriminated against due to their gender.
Hot chick shows up at the firehouse to see Rowan about a booty call. Yep, jaws adroppin’…
Well, she is showing up for a meal call anyway. The booty call will have to wait.
Yeah, still not sure that illusion will stand up to the touch test. Although… have they kissed yet?
Although best known as the creature in Species, her short lived TV series She Spies is on YouTube.
In the 2nd or 3rd episode….Furries.
Natasha Henstridge was very pretty, and as an actress, she was very pretty.
Also, Ghosts of Mars and Maximum Risk.
So darn cool. And funny. And over-the-top nice.
Maxima’s man seems to be such a nice, decent guy –
May their love-relationship live long and prosper!
Uh, hello, last year’s son from Norway in Eurovision? Queen of Kings? https://youtu.be/2VS9kqpm0D0?si=nBVAbpOjv_KOb4An
Gods, yes !!!
This song IS Maxima… especially in her current disguise.
Now I want a villain called Magnet Ray. Like budget magneto, called Ray in regular life :P
and his own power is can only stick to objects like a refrigerator magnet XD
Excellent, a possible evil teammate for Slappy Worms, who can slap people with worms at any distance.
I want to see Magnetic Ray as a character as well.
Or if not as a character, as a superhero TV show on their world.
He’s reading the “Science A.F.” magazine.
Dabbler is most likely reading a succubus counterpart magazine titled “Fuck as Science”.
(and yes, i’m fully aware of the horrible pun)
You don’t know fuckall
I will give you a pass this one time.
How about “The Science of Orgasms” weekly…
It’s a quarterly and my subscription expires I think in 2030 or 29, I can’t get to my latest issue right now. Good information on all forms of the female orgasm and latest research therein. And yes they also do males, but I don’t bother with those articles and papers.
It’s the dead-tree version of IFL Science…
https://www.iflscience.com/latest
There is one song I know about a super woman that “Bad” which isn’t about a Psycho.
Yet even though it’s sung by Billy Connelly, it is in no way appropriate for Maxima.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDn8B_Cp8JU
Barracuda by Heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMvMNpvB5M
Nuff said.
Posted same Yup!
some of the readers may be a bit to young for Heart.. hope they take a listen.
for more and more recent (sort of)
Heart – Stairway to Heaven (Live at Kennedy Center Honors) [FULL VERSION]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk
There’s a famous scene in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High in which a female character climbs out of a pool in slo-mo. A clip from the song Moving in Stereo by The Cars plays during this time. Now that song is what I hear whenever there’s a dramatic/sexy walk in scene. XD
I would like to submit W.I.T.C.H. by Devon Cole as Maxima’s theme song.
‘Raise Hell’ by Dorothy is my candidate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XHHxfkImKo
I love her song, “Flawless”. That was the first song of hers I found.
I’m pretty sure Brick House is Anvil’s song.
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
I said the same thing on the Patreon page. Moving in Stereo should be Harem’s song. Thunderstruck should be for Jiggawatt. Every hero should have a theme for when they make personal appearances. I’m surprised Sydney hasn’t set up a pool for this yet.
The Silent by Tragic Tantrum is Sydney’s song when she off her meds.
Yummy, Yummy,Yummy by The Ohio Express…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvpaUFBBMnw
I don’t think a song about oral sex would be appropriate for Maxima.
Cherry Pie for Maxima!
Rowan: In THAT outfit? Yes. Yes, you can! Bye, fellas!
Verner: But, ain’t you on shi-
Fisk: Na-ah, let ‘em go, Vern. Just think happy thoughts.
Verner: But… *watches ‘Harper’ leave* damn…
Fisk: *also watching* HAPPY thoughts…
boring shift guys. boring shift.
Pretty Sure Rowan just became King of the Fire House.
Thinking about Maxima’s “theme” and I’ve got to admit the intro to “Bad to the Bone” does work, though I agree with Bharda that the Sax-led instrumental from Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” is awesomely good as well. If you want something a bit darker and more dangerous then Chiasms “Isolated”, or Curves “Faît accompli” fit the bill quite well.
Rid of me by PJ Harvey would fit perfectly to Maxima.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwG3r9_L9o&themeRefresh=1
I was thinking Natalie Cole’s “Wild Women Do” from the Pretty Woman soundtrack. ♀️
Anyway, would Rowan even be allowed to leave the fire station for a meal out? He’s on the clock, so that might not be an option.
Either way, I really hope Rowan turns out to be a super of some kind; he’d need some way to protect himself from her if they do sleep together (and I mean literally sleep), since she could accidentally crush/kill him if she starts to hug him in her sleep and he can’t wake her up/get away. Maybe that TK using jerk from the Ascender’s group could be his dad? Dude looked old enough. Also, wouldn’t put it past that guy to experiment on his own kids (“I’m a super, why aren’t you/why are you hiding that from me?”), so it opens up the possibility of a kidnap/rescue mission scenario, especially if these guys really are trying to use Deus’ methods (as speculated by the comments when Dues and Vale side-eyed each other right before Max abruptly left for home). Granted, given he was part of the B&E team, he’s likely either in jail or dead (depending on what Chimmy did to him in that room). He could also be the reason why his family “moved internationally a few times.” There we go–that’s why he and Shioh were out–dad’s in jail! Woo! Not something you really bring up on a first date, right? (Not sure how facetious I’m being here, though the idea does make me chuckle.)
I really hope Rowan *isn’t* a super of any kind. Just a fireman/Doctor and genuinely good guy.
And if not for the very real accidental risk to his health, I would agree with you. I’d rather not see his character become a case of accidental death, via snu-snu or otherwise. Also, clandestine or not, if someone figures it out, it’s possible he gets targeted, and him having a way to make them back off without her help would be a good idea, less we want him to be the equivalent of Lois Lane or… Kent’s coworker who kept getting targeted.
Also, apparently the ‘think’ emoji doesn’t translate onto this platform? I’ll have to remember to avoid using picture-type emojis, going forward.
I’m pretty sure Max has enough self-control to not hurt him.
And “Lois Lane” as someone who’s a competant mundane in emergencies is something I like to see.
And yet has mentioned that she’s strong enough to potentially hurt her partner, and has panties with a crush warning caution on them.
Nah, it would be far more entertaining if, when a villain tries to attack him to get to Maxima, rather than him suddenly revealing he has superpowers one of his coworkers just clubs the villain over the head with something heavy, puts them in a sleeper hold, or sends them flying with a blast from a firehose (firefighters are pretty strong dudes by necessity; not super-strength level, but still pretty strong). I’m thinking, fire super starts a fire to draw him out, tries to attack, and Verner does his job of “Point water at hot thing,” simultaneously extinguishing his fire aura and pinning him against a wall with water pressure.
Do we know what type of doctor Rowan is yet?
Or do all docs do a stint in the ER?
Pediatrician, according to the who’s who. Nit sure if that means he’d ever cover A&E; since he has his own practice, it doesn’t sound likely.
I don’t recall him mentioning anything about the ER. He’s a registered paramedic (he commented that being pre-med made that a lot easier), but that’s actually fairly common amongst firefighters (the people they pull out of burning buildings often need immediate medical assistance – otherwise they likely would have been able to get out under their own power).
*blink* Okay yes, that would be funny. :)
….Is the black fireman supposed to be a riff on Neil deGrasse Tyson, or something like that?
I’m honestly not sure if that’s intended to be a joke here, but I’ve seen a bunch of videos with him on youtube and once the conversation started talking about magnets, I couldn’t help but hear the rest of those lines in his voice.
Heh, my brain went with Carl Winslow.
Well, his appearance is based on Granfield Smith from Tacoma FD. I just threw a flat top on him to make him… not the same guy. But yeah, I guess he does look a bit like NdGT.
Has more of a Bernie Mac vibe to my eye
Pretty sure the two are supposed to be Granny Smith and Ike from Tacoma FD. Ike being the idiot muscle head who only reads magazines that end in “A.F.”
Ah, I’ve not seen that show so I missed the obvious reference, and thought it was an entirely different refence.
It’s like side-stepping to avoid a rake, and instead stepping on two more rakes, lol :P
And now we see what happens when a bunch of firemen forget their oxygen supply….
Or possibly lose it from swallowing their own tongues…
Is Rowan on *duty* (response time for dressed and driving measured in seconds, must remain physically inside or close to the station), or on *call* (can be called at any time, response time in minutes)? Since he’s already in the station I’m assuming on *duty*, so an interesting next issue would be Max joining the other three for a few hands of cards or similar.
On a completely off-topic note, while Dave’s ability to draw an attractive body (male or female) is stellar, and this one is above average even for him, I couldn’t help be distracted by the incredibly short space between Max’s crotch and the top of her jeans. Plus the long distance between jeans and belly-button. Unless Dabbler’s spell altered a few things, or Max has physical proportions that are different from the females I have known, certain body parts that should remain hidden in public should be visible here, but are *barely* being covered. Max better not reach over her head or lean backwards.
The other two are wearing identical outfits with the fire station’s logo (or at least that of the department) on them, while Rowan is wearing a button-up shirt. Max would also know better than to try to get him to duck out of duty to go on a date with her – and also her own sense of duty would be opposed to doing so. My guess is that he’s more-or-less just finished his shift and is having a chat with his friends (and maybe finishing up some paperwork while snacking on some cookies, considering the plate and laptop in front of him) prior to leaving.
He has expressed that he maintains the administration of his practice in “downtime”, so the laptop is to be expected.
Oh, good point on the shirt (I hope). Thanks!
Yeah, pretty sure the only reason Max doesn’t have pubic hair showing with pants that low is due to being a super (and therefore not having body hair). ^^;
I was talking about the visibility of the start of the outer labia or even the clitoral hood.
Song : Heart Barracuda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMvMNpvB5M
I have been thinking the opening to “Pump up the volume” by MAARS for her grand entrance since the end of last weeks page… ^_^
If the internet has taught me anything, there’s a cover of Leroy Brown on YouTube by a woman who’s changed all the pronouns.
Laurie Brown? :D
I found a perfect one for Dabbler. House of Asmodeus – Annapantsu
https://youtu.be/3oN7Wxm0aWc?si=xNFQRitV8TVhYL5A
“Killer Queen” by Queen
the song for this moment is… OH YEAH by yello.
todd’s discussion of the song and the group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cms4tkV1A
you know the male hormones are singing it…
I think Fisky is about to need CPR… And again a 2nd time when he wakes up and realizes who is giving him CPR…
Bad-ass theme song for Max?
…either Black Betty by Ram Jam / Spiderbait,or else it’s gotta be someyjing classically Australian:
Eg:
– Cold Hard Bitch by Jet
– She’s Got Balls — AC/DC
– Whole lotta Rosie — AC/DC
– TNT – AC/DC
ncomfortable by
Nah, Yello’s “Oh, yeah”
I second “TNT”.
No.
Black Betty is not appropriate for _anything_.
“Black Betty” is a euphemism for a slave driver’s bullwhip from the antebellum South.
Invincible by Pat Benetar might work
Long time Pat Benetar fan here ! 《 grin 》
That song would’ve been perfect for her when she was still in the Air Force (while doing her service in “the War on Terror”, but the part of the lyrics where it goes “… we can’t afford to be innocent …” would be not be likely to be appropriate in her current occupation
If you’re going to go for Pat Benatar, “Love is a battlefield” works too.
“Trouble in Mind” by Larkin Poe.