Grrl Power #172 – One and done
Max and Arianna have the same message but entirely different deliveries. Arianna wants people to feel safe with supers around, Max wants criminally minded supers to be afraid of Archon and her in particular. Both are saying “Hey, you’ve nothing to worry about.” Arianna is doing what she can to preempt any public fear based outcry, and Maxima is trying to play up the fear of any potential adversaries, public backlash be damned.
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“Most powerful person person” eh?
And that is one scary grin.
So i was not the only one who caught that. No doubt Dave will fix this when he he gets home from today’s job search.
Person person = human. As Dabbler has proved, there are non-person persons in the Galaxy.
Is it like saying “Homo Sapiens Sapiens”?
Son of a! It’s fixed. Too bad Evernote doesn’t have built in grammar checking as well.
Dave:
1) I really like the lighting effect around her hand in panel one. (there has got to be a 99% probability that back at headquarters after this Sydney will do her own dramatic replay of Max’s speech to the rest of the team while floating one of her own orbs over her hand)
2) Using it in combat at night might give away her position. But then if the bag guys see it and know what it is they will probably drop what they are doing and run away without her actually having to fire it. This could be her signature rattlesnake ‘don’t mess with me’ warning. (assuming she could power it down once it is started)
3) Max’s statement brings up the question, does this world’s US government have something like a ‘Project Cadmus’ plan to defend themselves from their own supers if they ever went rogue?
Also, anything that makes Maxima a target draws fire away from the rest of the team, so I might consider #2 a plus. She’s a lot more invulnerable than most people.
This world doesn’t have 40 years of legacy backstory involving Shi’ar technology or Reed Richards inventing power nullifiers or whatever. Right now the most powerful thing in the world is the supers. That isn’t to say there isn’t some section of some agency devoted to anti-super contingency plans, but they’re idea people, not giant secret bases with brainwashed clones of supers and Sentinel programs and the like.
And so far it seems that most Supers can be stopped by a surprise bullet, with Maxima and Achilles being the only possible exceptions.
Anvil can absorb kinetic energy. Might be enough to block a bullet
She would have to be ready for it though, I believe.
Nah, Maxima is the only one that shifts her powers around in a pool to reinforce some of them.
And Sydney has to grab an orb to activate the power. All the others have the power simply active
Like something along the lines of a paralyzing shock collar…?
While we’re on the topic, that same sentence you corrected should read “feel like THE most powerful person”, but is missing the word “the”.
So why not use Word and then cut and paste into Evernote?
Peggy correcting Suzie’s spelling is amusing. Especially since they’re speaking.
At least I think that’s Peggy? Or is it the un-named pink-haired reporter?
Oh, yeah. That is Pinky, not Peggy.
Which explains the lack of a Who’s Who entry.
What’s this? Pinky IS the Brain??
“one is genius, the other is insane.” -Pinky and the Brain
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”- credited to Albert Einstein
2+2= fish
40 + 2 = fish
*
* Thanks for all the fish, anyhow.
No, Pinkey is Suzie’s sidekick/nemesis (can’t remember exactely who came up with her nickname first, might have been me, might have been someone else)
That poor tank now wishes that he did take his chances with IED in Iraq, there wont be enough left of it for paperclips
It was said that Maxima is one of the most powerful supers out there. But just how far she outclasses the others isn’t even funny! … Well, it is but you catch my drift.
Maybe she outclasses everyone a little too much?
Hard to imagine how anyone could be a threat.
She’ll probably have to hold back (a lot) most of the time.
After all, she doesn’t want to kill her opponents (most of the time), or other people (innocent bystanders), nor be a danger for her teammates.
Superman usually hs the same problem, as he mostly ‘works’ in populated areas or with people around.
As far as I can remember, there are only so few opponents he’d go all out, no-holds-barred: Darkseid and Doomsday being the two that’d pop into the mind.
Wonder who’d Max let completely loose against…
She’s only destroyed one mosque so far
And it was because that mosque attacked first!
It was coming right at her!
Afterwards, people were asking “Who was that mosqued woman?”
I think is the answer to that
try that again
I think groan is the answer to that
Well she did have 2 other supers that fought her to a standstill, one of them is presumed dead. So she probably went all out there
I have no doubt we’ll see that person again soon
And then Sydney comes into the fight and clears the opponent by herself…
“She probably has to hold back a lot…” Just like Superman. Even he has a little trouble going all out when he needs to. After repressing it so much, more so as Clark Kent. Such power can be very corrupting. Humans are like that.
It will be interesting to see when after this display another such display by someone they have never heard of in some foreign country gives the same kind of display of power. Then Archon will be on the case in the same way SHIELD is with unregistered supers in the Marvel Universe.
Just imagine a religious nutjob with potentially world-ending powers (one way or the other); yeah, that could be trouble.
well she said in her interview that there were only two supers who fought her to draw one is on the team and the other is dead(hopefully).
She may appear to be practically invulnerable, but as we have seen there is one form of attack she is powerless against: people vomiting on her shoes.
She also has super senses. The smell probably got to her as well.
I wonder how Wolverine would fare against one of Sydney’s spicy vomit attacks?
I can see it now. wolvie sitting in a bar down the street, taking a sniff. then passing out slumped against the bar.
Maybe she outclasses everyone a little too much?
Hard to imagine how anyone could be a threat.
Yes she is the most powerfull member of the team. However, people keep forgetting the downside:
When she puts all her power into one ability, she sacrifices all others.
Yes she can make superpowerfull attacks, but she might not be able to hit anything moving with it while doing so.
And this was not even a combat situation. It was a show. Perhaps intentionally made, because the only thing potential villains can compare this demonstration against is them shooting stuff that is not fighting back.
That you are able to hit a target on a Shooting Range does not mean you get the same feats done in a combat sitaution, where you are pumped up on adrenaline, have to worry about people shooting back, don’t have all the time in the world to aim and the target moves or is in cover (to prevent being hit).
Any real target that makes such an attack nessesary will be able to hurt her back while she charges it or dodge it while she puts that much power into damage output. Awesome, but unpractical – unless she has the team to give her a clear shoot.
You seem to be forgetting that Max is a trained soldier, who practiced “shooting” on moving targets almost her entire life, fighting in Iraq and other places.
If you were to explain that to her, she’d just leave you the heck alone with an annoyed face, lol.
This is a good point.
Maxima has showed off a wide range of powers: Speed, Strength, Flight, (Gold Beams AND Gold Bombs!?), etc, not keeping many abilities very secret. Thus everyone can quake in fear at her superwomanability. But she’s only done one at a time, Max-ing out for Max-imum awesomeness. No one (outside of Arc and, of course, our Evil McEvilguy) realizes this limitation, so they’ll assume (incorrectly) that nothing’s stopping her from being a hypersonic invulnerable wrecking ball (WREEECKIIIING BAAAAALLLL) of hot Goldy death. Classic Sun Tzu – where you’re weak, appear strong. (Or, where you’re strong, appear stronger.)
The fact that she can only do 1 at a time is a secret though. For all the world’s supervilains know, she is all powerfull all the time
Yes, that was the entire point.
Quick reminder guys:
Maxima is not Untra-Boy from the Legion. She’s Superman. She has powerful baseline grades of strength, speed and flight at all times. She has reserve power she can use to amp up one ability and even drain her others to supercharge it. But she’s not one ability at a time.
Maybe I’m overestimating Maxima but I don’t think she needed to go all-in to melt a tank.
If I recal it correctly, Dave said that Max is always on 3 with all powers, and can amp 2 of them to 4 whenever she needs to.
Or she can amp 1 to 5 by drawing some power out of the rest
Then again, you might have noticed how much effort little miss super-strength had to put into tossing that energy grenade. I think she drained her strength to turbo charge the grenade. Scary thoughts involve her draining her invulnerability for it, and then having it blow up either in her hand or a few feet away.
That really didn’t look like it cost her much strenght.
Besides, she doesn’t drain her powers completly, only takes it down a notch
How do you negate Maxima? Put the team in a situation where violence is a bad way to solve things. Admittedly that would make for boring reading, but Maxima would be useless in a social or intellectual conflict. She’s smart yes, but her powers are keyed towards violence. Take the violence out of the situation and you just have a gold skinned feminist that can be overly confrontational.
She still has “The Look”, which can be pretty darn effective by itself.
I don’t think Batman’s “look” ever stopped the Riddler though at least not before he commited the crime, and Batman has a pretty good one too… https://www.comicheronews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/batman_pe.jpg
Intimidation techniques can often make a situation worse. People do not like being bullied so again we look at a social engagement and she’s pretty much screwed so to speak. I respect her, but Maxima is a hammer and sometimes you just don’t need a hammer.
Just imagine somebody like Lex Luthor becomes President.
After all, some of the most dangerous villains are the ones with actual smarts.
Give this man an internet. If you don’t understand why, keep reading.
Magic, mental powers, lack of oxygen due to Halon gas or being underwater or in space (maybe, a lot of supers who should be vulnerable to that are often seen standing around in space, like the Hulk and Thanos) and a powerful enough force field might be a challenge for her. She didn’t penetrate Halo’s force field, after all, but she did claim she wasn’t using full power.
Keep in mind “one of,” are the key words here. She may be strong but like the old saying goes. “there are always bigger fish.” Hell even superman has powerful enemy’s. This comic would be pretty bad if someone like Maxima didn’t.
maybe Shiho Huit will mekki mekki her
I don’t know why, but I’m more impressed by the accuracy of Maxima’s throw than the results, which are spectacular. And I’m sure that grin will be more scary once the shockwave from that explosion reaches her.
Oh, and yay! The comic updated before I left for work! *happy dance*
It’s probably even better once the smoke clears, and she’s still standing there, grinning
Did she throw a mini black hole at the tank so the Hawking radiation would melt it?
I doubt it, don’t want to risk swallowing the planet. Probably just a pokéball or something.
No.
I’m guessing some sort of plasma sphere. for it to sink into the metal tank like a stone hitting water, complete with splash effect, the heat has to be enormous. That’s serious firepower.
Maxima used Plasma sphere.
It’s super effective!
Achilles should have caught it just to mess with Maxima…
Ow. I snorted from laughing. It hurt my nose.
Achilles is probably sitting inside the tank by now, just for kicks.
Oh man, NOW I want to see a panel of Achilles gophering out of the tank, all innocent like, and asking “Are we done yet?”
Man, people always underestimate complete and total invulnerability and the sheer amount of ‘messing with people’ it allows.
For example- I have Achilles’ invulnerability. I go to Hawaii and charter a helicopter flight above the volcano. I do a swan dive into the volcano and start swimming around in the lava.
I guess that’s the end to the public demonstration? :)
Comic book store -> Bank -> Arc HQ -> Demonstration area.
Where to now? Back to barracks, so she finds out where she’ll be living? Start of training? Something else?
Back to bank, pick up her car and back to comic book store, she does have lots of explanation to Joel before her.
back to the bank to pay in the money, she should of paid in umpteen pages ago, then explain to Joel
What if she left it on the floor of the bank? When’s the last time anyone’s seen the money pouch?
Probably somewhere safe offscreen. We don’t need to know the boring details when we have super explisons
close, but no – we still have the pressure wave, and yummy molten steel splattering against Sydney’s shield, along with the inevitable gratuitous scene of shocked/frightened reporters, and the outbrief/hotwash…
then, MAYBE, we can tie a bow on TODAY
I’m hoping the next update gives a little perspective on just how much of a mess Maxima has made. That last panel doesn’t really give anything to use as a scale reference.
She made a glass-bottomed bowl, about 100m in diameter and a couple of metres deep, with little hunks of metal scattered around the bottom, sticking up at odd angles. At least that is what it looks like when everything cools.
I doubt the sand goes 100m down, and clay and dirt doesn’t really make “glass”.
oh never mind, i read that wrong, there might be sand a couple meters down……maybe.
I think DaveB is aware of that. Given the caption under the comic “What I would like is a little perspective.” Nice play on words mind.
“Some well spiced perspective.”
Well, seeing as she threw it pritty far away from the press, which has a very powerfull shield around them. I’d say it’s pritty damn strong
“…like you’re (the) most powerful person (/person) on earth.”
Just had to point it out.
Maxima, getting her intimidation on!
DOOM!
“DOOM” is apparently a sound effect. This explains so much.
Queue Sydney stream of amazed invective that will stun the nation into silence. That should REALLY be listed as one of her powers.
I love the special effect for Maxima’s “fireball” in hand, not to mention the sheer destructiveness it has.
POSSUM COMATOSE :DDD
did I win the mini comic?
I think the biggest threat to Maxima would be meeting a well-adjusted, kind yet persistent guy who asks her out on a date. Without any nefarious, hidden motives or an over-developed physique.
Any idea what her problems are if she ever gets a boyfriend!?
Not to mention the boyfriend’s problems..XD
There’s plenty of humor mileage to even get there, but possible story conflicts might be: how can I date anyone, how can I date someone so different than me, what will happen when my coworkers/Sydney finds out, how can I date someone less physically durable than I am, what will the public think if/when we are seen on a date, why does he like me and want to date me… I’m sure you get the idea.
Not to mention the ever-present scare of which super-villain(s) might go after him if it was known that they were an item.
Have we been told much about Maxima outside of work? She could be married and have kids for all we know.
Alternatively, she might not want a date or any relationship with any guy at all.
What makes you think it would be a well meaning, kind, persistent *guy* who would ask her out? ;)
Coz most people are straight, or only slightly bi-curious.
Whomever Maxima would get to like, they have to be careful when ‘cuddling’.
Accidential ‘death by snoo-snoo’ doesn’t do well with the higher-ups.
1st panel, 2nd speech-bubble-bulge, last line, “person person”…
can someone explain the mini comic to me. The only thing I can think of was what-do-you-do comics and the spell that allowed the user to turn into a liquid.
Maxima’s plasma bomb was so powerful, that it liquefied the ground and rock below it.
Pinky is correcting Suzie’s spelling. It’s “liquefied” and not “liquified” (at least in British English, not sure about US English). Looks like a throwback both to the “Possum Comatose/Posse Comitatus” and the “Suzie News” comics to me, but I could very well be wrong.
That’s my guess too.
Liquify: “make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating”, “become liquid or fluid when heated”
Liquefy: “become liquid or fluid when heated”, “make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating”
Evidently, both spellings are acceptable in the UK, while only the latter is in the US.
Huh, guess Hiberno-English is less forgiving. When we spell it in Ireland, “liquefy” is the only accepted spelling.
Hehe been taking lessons in the scary face dept. from Sydney. And That looked like a plasma bomb.
See, that face, and that pride that Maxima seems intent on broadcasting is exactly the sort of thing that tends to come before the obnoxiously arrogant and overpowered supervillain gets violently taken down a peg… I’m not saying that this is going to MATTER at all, since the one with all the superpowers also gets the protagonist powers this time around; but this seems like it should be more a call to action than a warning of even remote effectiveness.
Now come to think that Anvil will come to call Syd the big guns’.
That means that Max and Dabbler will probably be the same
league as Syd, or even be outdone by her.
Scary thought indeed.
THAT is more what I was looking for from Max. The throw was nice and all but this was truly impressive.
This has nothing to do with this comic.
I had a thought as I was waking up this morning and I know that there are some pretty smart people who read this comic and add to the comments section. This is for you guys.
In the 90’s they invented a metal that is a ceramic-alumium cross. Has anybody ever seen if that same process can be done with titanium? They are very close together on the periodic table and I think you might be able to make a light metal that was as strong as steel, that was very resistant t heat stress.
Guys, if you know the answer please post. And if you don’t know ask some people who might be intrested in this kind of stuff. You never know where this kind of idea might go.
Maybe this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_nitride) is close enough?
Thanks! You helped a lot.
You know how it is to have a weird inventive idea pop in your head when you are half asleep. It’s nice to know that some of those ideas are actually possible, and out there in use.
If you want to look at an interesting metal alloy check out K-Monel 500. It’s properties are amazing.
See also amorphous metals, AKA metallic glass. Some very wacky properties there.
If you really want to, you can make pretty much anything you like. We don’t use the strongest/hardest/best material, we use the one that has the highest performance index, which incorporates the cost.
still laughing at the vote incentive; just realized the winner was using christmas ornaments for her “halo”
nice touch, adding Master Chief in the Halo Costume contest…
second to the far right – is that your original Sydney?
The judges were not looking at her christmas ornaments when they were voting for her. And that is why Sydney was so peeved that she didn’t win the contest.
First runner up. Master Chief.
I think next month’s incentive should be the unfolding scene. The orbs getting mad at having Christmas tree ornaments voted as being better than them. Breaking free from their camouflage framework, then chasing the judge and winner out of the room!
Seconded!
Dave, you really need to make a side-comic with all the gags we’re all coming up with.
We’d probably have more pages than the main comic by now.
Even if they’re only black/white, it’d be most awesome.
We didn’t actually see the blast Max used to test Sydney’s shield but we did see the charge-up. It was a “finger point” charge up. Now, we have her throwing energy balls.
Her energy projection powers are very Dragonball Z-ish?
Also, given that kind of power, I’m surprised she still carries a (superhuman grade) pistol. Granted it’s a gun only someone with super-strength can use, but it seems kinda redundant with her demonstration here.
So, even superheroes need less-lethal ordinance sometimes.
(Things like pepper-gas/tear-gas, bean bag rounds, sound cannons, etc.)
Also, as she can ‘move points around’ in her ‘power pools’, she may have put her all into the beam for the demonstration. in an actual combat situation, she probably would balance her pools more, and the gun is a constant unaffected by that particular ability.
Dave’s said it’s largely for intimidation value (as well as alternate payload delivery). A handgun, especially one the size Max carries, is immediately identifiable as a threat in a way that finger-pointing really isn’t.
Now if Achilles was inside the tank when that happened, THAT would be a good demonstration of his invulnerability.
He would still need a few clothes that are as tough as he is.
But I agree.
I’m pretty sure that that wouldn’t be necessary.
Achilles (from crater) AW MAN, I WAS ASLEEP!!!
^ This
But would it wake him up? The question is, would he feel it?
…probably, yes, or he wouldn’t feel anything, which would be bad.
He would atleast hear it. We don’t know if he feels pain though. Seeing as pain is an indication of possible damage, probably not
We need this
Dave! Side-Comics! NOW!
really David? I thought as I read it that Max was not talking about herself, that her key word was “WE ARE more powerful”, and was talking about the team
Implying that she is not the only one in ArcSwat that could seriously kick your ass so hard you wouldn’t be able to even think of getting up again for a month.
im i the only one who sees a scene change with the generic shadow bad guy
gs : challenge accepted
Like some shade from behind in a non-disclosed location watching the entire press conference on a bright display?
Bad guy “Claw?”from Inspector Gadget cartoons!!
Just because ol Max didn’t say yes to him for the prom :)
My take on a few questions raised by people. Max can’t be everywhere at once nor does she know how to do everything. That explains why have other people. Plus she will need other people’s insight on how to handle/deal with problems she might not have experience with but others do. As for the gun: as someone else said- it’s not affected by her moving her powers around so it’s a reliable constant amount of force. Also it’s an psychological thing: Some baddies might not truly see her as a threat yet start sweating bullets when looking down the barrel of the gun. Doesn’t make sense, but doesn’t make it any less true.
Sweating bullets,
I want that super power.
Go into the woods with an empty gun, work up a little nervousness, load the gun.
As he “Bullet” is the projectile part this could actually happen. Just drop Achilles into molten lead then take him out. The lead that “drips” off him will make great “Bullets”. :)
the more scared yo uare the bigger the caliber of the bullet lol :p
And what is the difference between her and the people she is addressing?
Max is a super on the right side of the law?
And most likely a patriot who will defend her country to the last blast?
She’s warning would be Dr. Dooms that power does not give you primacy to hurt or rule others. While she herself operates under the direct control of unpowered normal humans who answer to elected civillian leaders.
It’s not a particularly subtle distinction.
Motive. Protecting those who need protection.
Maxi (and the rest of Archon) is (are) not using her (their) powers to rule people, and she (they) will only use her (their) powers to hurt those who use their powers to try and hurt/rule others
Good thing Maxima works for the government. Tony Stark would have difficulty covering her insurance premiums.
ONE MOSQUE!
That we/her bosses know of, that is.
Boom Baby.
Maxima is Making a point yes, but it looks like it might undo sine if the work Arianna has done.
Yeah right, “messaging.”
Now that’s more like it!
Have you ever considert to make Merchendise?
Like Poster, Wallpapers, Shirt, Mugs or Comicbooks?
Dave probably has taken time to consider merch, at least now that he’s temp jobless. Before he was too busy with his full time job to look into it. He’s mentioned this before in other comments. This has been more of a ‘I making something for my own fun and amusment and I want to share it with you all,’ then a way to support himself.
It’s a totaly rad comic and we’ve been very fortunate that he has been able to take any time to post this to the world. My husband and I are both fans of the comic. Thank you Dave for giving us this oportunity to read this great story!
Yeah, I was thinking about doing some stuff like offering prints for sale as well as some different shirts. I don’t think I have nearly a large enough audience to make a sustainable living off of, but I need to start somewhere.
I would really like to support you by buying merchandise (If the Shipping-fee is not to high. Man those from USA to Europe are crazy)
Maybe you could consider a pre-order(kickstarter like) system. If you got 200 pre-orders for a shirt you give it into printing.
You need to sell squeezy stress-balls of the Orbs.
Dave, I am sorry to say, You have been cursed, Cursed with the gift of awesome comic skills wait what am I saying I am not sorry! GrrlPower has become my one and only Webcomic.
You know, to be honest the superpowers shown so far don’t really look all that powerful. And I think all of them are using some sort of stock superpower or derivative. PS238’s FISS (Flight, Invulnerability, Speed, and Strength) or TVTropes Flying Brick. The only exceptions are Heatwave and Jiggawatt and then they have Elemental Powers. And all of them can be neutralized by conventional means (save Maxima and maybe Hiro). Sidney/Halo; cover hands. Dabbler; sniper. Anvil; gas. Harem; wire mesh (unless she replaces where she teleports to). Heatwave; bury. Amorphous; acid. Achilles; shoot into sun (ok, not conventional). Stalwart; drown. Jiggawatt; poison.
Sooo, what exactly is the problem of everyone having a weakness?
And how the hell do you intend to cover Sydney her hands? How the hell do you want to get close enough to her when she’s operating the orbs?
Every non-shit superpower imaginable has been done already. And Dabbler is tougher than you give her credit for, if her appearances elsewhere are considered cannon.
Love the facials expression in panel 1 and 3. Excellent drawing. Keep up the killer work.
Looks to me Like Max and the PR girl are putting out messages that are a bit of a hindrance to each other. PR girl trying to calm people from being afraid and Max trying to turn up the fear.
But come on Max! When has a super powered “mine is bigger than yours,” ever stooped any supper villain worth there salt from bringing it on? If anything you’re only making yourself a bigger target and inciting them more.
No, their messages are aimed at different groups: Ari (the PR girl) is trying to show the public Archon is no more to be feared than non-Powered police/military, whereas Maxi is telling Powered people “if you want to use your powers for good, join us. If you plan on using them for nefarious means, we will find you”
Also, Ari is just saying what would happen, Maxi is showing (sort of like with the Death Star: no point in just saying how powerful it is, you need to demonstrate it’s full power: “think you are safe on a planet with an energy shield? this station can destroy the entire planet”)
But who gets to decide what is nefarious? Them?
It doesn’t matter. People already don’t trust and fear the police what make them think that a supper powered version is going to be different? Like I said it won’t help the public not trusting and fearing them, especially seeing Max throwing black holes around. And it wont stop supper villains from trying to take them out.
Who gets to decide? Probably the same ones who decide now
But guess you are correct: because the public don’t trust police, or the army, we should get rid of them and just let the public decide things
Pedantry: “That isolation may have made you feel like you’re most powerful person on earth”.
Shouldn’t that be “you’re the most powerful”?
Uh, yes it should. It’s fixed now if you CTRL+F5
RE: Incentive.
At a Dr Who convention in the US (between the end of Old Who and the beginning of New Who) John Leeson, who was a guest) entered the K9 Voice Contest anonymously.
He came in third.
Side note:
I was at a Who convention in the late 80s and Louise Jameson (Leela) was the speaker. She admitted that after joining the cast it took her a while to get up to speed. It wasn’t until her third day on the set working with a robot dog that she looked down at it and said “Oh, K-9. I get it now.”
Even more apropos: Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest…to a man. Talk about harsh.
WOW. That was awesome! I did think the last page was a little lack-lustre for a finale. Amazing artwork in particular on this page.
well, congratulation on panel 3, consider me intimidated. good job. i really felt like i REALLY would not want to take on that woman right now. ^_^
… Or any other day, for that matter.
Maybe when she’s in her 90’s, perhaps?
Nah, not even then (for all we know, Maxi is the Golden Elf Wolverette, with blowy-uppy fingers of death)