Grrl Power #289 – Misunderstandable
Maxima’s statement about how everyone will be processed comes with a huge asterisk, primarily if anyone has any warrants out, they’ll be in trouble even if they had no part in planning the attack. I’d say warrants out for super powered crimes, but that wasn’t officially a thing up until today. “Boilerplate’s” tale of how he got recruited hints at the info they’ll collect during the debriefings, which I probably won’t actually show in the comic, but the team may get debriefed later with a short expositional summary.
Maxima arguably need some work on her diplomacy skills, something people involved with Arc-SWAT in early days were concerned with, and is one of the reasons the team has a permanent PR staff built in. Not just because of Maxima, this would be a hard sell no matter who was leading the team. At least Maxima knew not to bring up Harem’s point, even if she was thinking it. At least not yet.
Maxima also went right to the worst assumption about Hiro’s pantomime, largely because despite her general intimidatiness, she’s been hit on in far less subtle ways in the past. It’d be interesting to see who immediately got what Hiro was going for and if anyone thought what Maxima did, however fleetingly it occurred to them, and if that might be influenced by getting hit on in gross ways or at inappropriate times. (Something I’m sure is about 100 times more likely if you’re a gal. Not that guys won’t ever be in a situation like this, but let’s be real.) Max’s expression the third panel was supposed to be a mix of confused and mad, eyebrows pinched together but still angry eyes. I couldn’t quite get it right so I went with mad and surprised instead. In the final panel it’s a mix of contrition and “That was still entirely your fault.”
I think my favorite thing about this page is that Maxima is using a piece of rebar for a hair tie. (She did on the previous page but it was really small.)
I’ve finally updated the vote incentive with a probably not canon piece. I have it further along than the pencils but I spent a chunk of my afternoon watching coloring videos on youtube to see if I could up my game a little. We’ll see how that turns out.
I’ve also finally finished the book I was reading, “The Dark Lord’s Handbook” I had assumed I’d jump right to one of several superhero novels I have simmering in my kindle right after finishing it, but Handbook got rather good right toward the end and so I went and immediately got the next one. I’m eager to get through it though because I have Secrets of a D-List Supervillain, Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon, (a sequel to Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Supervillain) and Small Town Heroes (Wearing the Cape Book 4) waiting for me when I finish. Someone please make the day 8 hours longer. :/
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I guess I don’t go out enough. I have NO CLUE what it is that Hiro is doing
Some kind of underwear are called briefs, so de-briefing can be read as un-briefing.
They are usually carried in a briefcase (not).
“de-briefing” He’s trying to tell Max to use the word debriefing so people are not so defensive about getting questioned/investigated.
Right, language puns
Actually, it’s more like Hiro was trying to play Charades when Max mistook him for just trying to “play around.”
;)
I didn’t get it at first either, until Hiro stepped aside to tell her what he meant & Max got his meaning. I thought Hiro was trying to tell Max that her own undies might have been pulled up far enough to show.
:/
Yeah… wishful thinking as well…
Thank you, I was at a loss also.
I thought it might be “do you need me here or should I go somewhere else”, but yeah, suggesting the word “debriefing” makes more sense.
Don’t feel bad. Took me a while to catch the double-meaning as well.
I think I only got it on the third read through.
Even the intended audience (Maxima) didn’t catch it on the first try.
Didn’t get it until the last panel.
Same here. Then it made me laugh at the effectiveness.
Also didn’t get it till the last panel, though for a moment there, I also thought for a moment he drew a pair of boxers… which coincides with the comic’s little line at the bottom as well. Hehe… deboxering…
that would be “thinking outside the box(ers),” wouldn’t it? Or maybe, “the box(er) being outside the thinking?”
;)
And then I thought, can boxers still think, outside or otherwise, after many blows to the head? =3
I prefer booze over boxing. I’d rather just get drunk, rather than getting punch-drunk.
Pantsing just doesn’t have the same ring.
I was once told by someone from England that it took them awhile to get used to people talking about buying/wearing/etc pants. It’s hard to take a conversation seriously when it’s about underwear apparently.
And this in a genre where the heroes wear their pants outside their Lycra trousers.
Aren’t briefs/boxers called “underpants” in England as well, or is ‘pants’ a short version of it?
I know trousers and that pants is the American equivalent, but didn’t know this.
Took me a while to figure out the de-briefing part… reminds me of my attempt at “Charades” to try and get them to guess ‘cocktail’… I split it up in two syllables and leave it to your imagination how I was trying to get out of that one.
Yeah, calling underwear “pants” in England took me a while to figure out, even watching as much British comedy as I do. Fanny took me even longer. Over here it means your butt, over there it means lady bits.
Mind you, as Fanny is also a woman’s name, it does not get considered as a serious profanity. So it has long been a favourite of folks who wanted to spin a double entendre, in polite (albeit not stuck-up) company.
Another favourite one is talking about Mrs Slocombe’s pussy. Which you can get away with in any company, in England. Because, quite clearly you are referring to her cat. And it was a recurring gag in one of the best-loved sitcoms.
The american phrase, “My Aunt Fanny.” would go over sooo different over there. (I wonder if it actually CAME form England?? O.O” )
That was a very funny show, “And I am unanimous in that.”
It would have whooshed over my head, but for Google. I, for one, not having come across it.
But then again there is a similar English term, but with a completely unrelated meaning. “Fanny Adams” or “Sweet Fanny Adams” or just “Sweet F.A.” all meaning “nothing at all”.
We know sweet F.A. about most of these villains’ backgrounds.
Huh, that’s a new one on me. I just thought it was a phrase people used to avoid swearing. Puts the Doctorum Adamus cum Flabello Dulci in Jingo in a somewhat different light.
A phrase that kind of gets used out of context is when someone says, “The point is moot,” or “That’s a moot point.” By definition, it means that the topic is open for discussion, but people might say it when they want to stop talking about it.
Go figure…
:/
Often moot points are like religion, everyone has an opinion and talking won’t solve anything.
Moot points can’t be simply talked to a resolution or agreement.
“moot point” has a couple different meanings.
One is that a final decision isn’t possible. Like Faust said.
Another, used in US law, is that the point really doesn’t matter. “What’s the appropriate prison sentence for this man’s crimes?” “Well, he’s dead, so we aren’t going to put him in prison at all.”
I love Joey Tribbiani’s take on that one.
“this a moo point.”
-“a ‘moo’ point?”
“Yeah, it’s like a cow’s opinion. It doesn’t matter… it’s moo”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwYpSCrlHU
Sweet F*** All gets said a few ways.
I totally agree with you on that part, it was almost as if she deliberately was making those double entendre’s. And Mr. Humphrey’s reaction was gold. It’s shows like that, and “It ain’t half hot, mom”, “Dad’s Army”, “Keeping up Appearances” and “‘Allo ‘Allo” that taught me the little typical English humorous phrases that get people to think I’m an actual Briton.
Like “Peter”?
That sort of thing does go both ways. A friend of mine got some very strange looks on one visit to America, when he said he was going outside to smoke a fag (over here a ‘fag’ is a cigarette, and ‘smoke’ is not a euphemism for ‘kill’).
As an American I’d have guessed “smoke” meant “fellate” in that context.
Another common way of phrasing the comment is to say “I am going out to have a fag”.
Mind you a Brit who, in America, says “Anybody got a fag I can bum?”, really should seek the services of a native guide, before leaving the airport.
I can see where the confusion would pop up there…I definitely wouldn’t want to have a fag for MY bum…
At least he didn’t also try to bum twos straight after saying that.
Don’t comment when tired lol.
To be fair, it depends on where in England. In the deepest darkest north (I grew up in Newcastle), pants is used to refer to trousers.
If I’m right.. Pants is a shortening of Pantaloons, and was probably used to refer to trousers, before underpants (ie, under-pantaloons) got shortened to pants…
When I moved down south, there were some conversations made very confusing by the different usages.
“…leave it to your imagination how I was trying to get out of that one.”
In my imagination, it’s more like I’m trying to avoid getting that one out!
O.O
Yeah, that was my problem as well… Couldn’t actually flip it out, as our main language is Dutch, so as soon as I started to mimic the tail, I realised: “Crap, we don’t have a sign to tell them to translate in English”
Roosters?
I just read Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon. It was a good read. Not quite as good as the first but good nontheless.
Agreed. (Attempting to avoid spoilers) Though the concept of mad science biotech was fascinating, I think it might have been overplayed, and used too much as simply an excuse. Much like the Librarian in the first book, I feel like this might be a favorite thing for the author- final battles in a chaotic environment while someone/thing massive and scary is chasing them down.
Have you read his book Quite Contrary?
Good read, and new look on the fairy tale/ story book universe.
Took me a while to get the debriefing pun… God I’m slow so early in the morning…
Didn’t get it until the first posters explained it. Feel so dumb…
I blame the Superbowl…
I got there, before the end. But I was going back and forth, between panels, for a while. :-D
I pity anyone who does not have English as a first language. Puns are particularly hard on them. But, I have been known to make the odd one myself. So the struggle to get it, was appreciated, when I did.
Mind you, it had to be suitably hard to get, otherwise we would think Maxima to be slow, not to get it either. So DaveB did a good job balancing it.
I pity anyone who doesn’t know more than one language.
Because bilingual puns are the best puns.
Sadly I haven’t figured out how to make a bilingual pun out of that statement yet.
what about trans-language puns?
a pun that require 2 languages to understand.
That would be the ‘bilingual puns’ that NorthernDruid mentioned.
Mind you a transuranic pun is possible. One that requires English and geek, to get. They are unstable, and need to be broken down, given time, into more familiar elements.
i was sure it was name of some strange language i don’t know about.
Ah the time where such decay to lead is a splitting notion
There was a Star Trek: TNG episode about that, Half a Life.
Are you positive?
Only if somebody rubs my fur the right way.
Well, that goes without saying. If someone rubs you the left way, you turn negative. completely different ionic charge there.
Ah lovely static. I zapped my mums cat four times on the nose yesterday by accident while clapping it. I was wearing the wrong top.
Unlike cats. Whichever way you rub them, you produce positive ions.
But, if anybody rubs my fur the wrong way, I get very negative about it!
I always knew you were an alpha dog. But it’s beta not to make this thread decay any further…
Good humour has no half life.
… it would need to be something that links with english, such as romanic languages and possibly german. I guess if it involves cyrillic, arabian letters and possibly chinese symbol, it might have trouble to come across as well. ;-)
I tried to come up with some. Best I found:
1. The cat named “un-deux-trois” is a bad swimmer by nature.
2. There are two that fear sex. One went missing. Now they are down to 245 .
… well it appears to be possible, but maybe not a recommendable.
Ich bin ein Berliner.
The entire anime series “Yakitatte Jaa-pan”. Literally: “Freshly baked [nonsense] bread”. It’s about a boy trying to come up with a Japanese bread. the word for bread in Japanese is borrowed from Portuguese, “pan”, so since you have “Furansu-pan”, “Doitsu-pan”, etc, why not call Japanese bread “Jaa-pan”.
It’s a terrible pun, and uses the English name for Japan to tell a joke in Japanese.
Heh.
That reminded me of an anime film. The three heroines were (phonetically, from memory) Ako, Beeko and Seeko. They were kickass girls who, if faced with a hail of incoming rockets, could jump from one to another, kicking them out of the air.
Towards the end of the movie, you get to see them talking to their dad. Sitting in his armchair. Having his red cape hung over the back of it. With the hint of a yellow “S” symbol showing.
At which point, the penny dropped, and I realised that, with an American dad, it was actually Ako, Bko and Cko.
Project A-ko, yeah. Actually, the Superman-implied dad was only A-ko’s. (Her mom was elsewhere implied to be Wonder Woman. How that resulted in a redhead daughter, I can’t explain.)
B-ko was the villain, and she was the daughter of some superwealthy guy who ran a weapons tech firm, thus explaining how she could get hold of all the stuff she used to fight A-ko.
C-ko… was a ditzy, almost-childish girl, who bith A-ko and B-ko were head-over-heels for, and it was being her best friend (in the dubs, meaning the original was probably more of a romantic leaning) that the two fought over. Also, C-ko was, unknown to herself, apparently some sort of space princess from a really weird alien species, most of whose adult females inexplicably resembled middle-aged men, and every day A-ko used her super-speed to take herself and C-ko to school, they’d inevitably run over the same person – D-san, a secret agent from said aliens, who kept trying to spy on C-ko.
As for the weird names? A-ko, B-ko, C-ko, etc., were just placeholder names in the original script that nobody ever botherd to change.
Oh yeah, oldschool anime nerdity for the muthaf–king win.
I really felt for the D-San guy. Manoman but he had a rough job.
B-ko was the daughter of a Japan-ized Tony Stark :)
A-ko is definitely the daughter of Wonder Woman and Superman – they give hints to that at the very end of the first movie when A-ko passes by her mom and dad – her father’s reading the Daily Planet, her mother has the apron on that is exactly the same as Wonder Woman’s costume (as well as her bracelets on).
https://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ako2.jpg
https://comicartcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/05-Project-A-Ko.jpg
Heh! I just watched the Project A-ko movies not more than a week ago! Classic!
7thsealord:
PS – Agent D isnt a guy.
There are only two guys with any sort of significant lines shown in the entire series – K and B-Ko’s father. A-Ko’s father (Clark Kent) doesnt even have any liens, and the only other lines by any males are usually one off background lines like when the steel I-beam thing happens. That’s sort of the joke – every single main character and supporting character with lines (other than those aforementioned two) are all women.
The only thing I have to say about Yakitatte Jaa-Pan is “Arabian Oil Shock”
Back in college I was at a gathering of friends (OK, a D&D game), one of which was going on about how he was having difficulty with his French class and the spelling rules. I noticed during a later snack break “Oh no, we have three people eating cheese! It’s a fromage et trois!”
FYI, this is the same person whose D&D character later found and adopted a baby dragon as a pet, naming him ‘Phydeaux’.
I happened to take Spanish as my requirement. My female Spanish teacher was telling us of a story that once she was with a group of native Spanish speakers and was telling them about a camping trip she recently returned from. (The key to the next part is that Americans pronounce poncho with an ‘ah’ sound) They asked her if she got cold sleeping outside and she replied ‘No, I had my poncho to keep me warm”. The native pronunciation is to say it with an ‘O’, as the other way means ‘Pancho’ which is a man’s name. She got some funny looks from the other people in the group until she realized how she said that sentence and corrected herself.
This isn’t as funny as “Pancho”, but a lot of the cafeteria employees where I work are English/Spanish bilingual, and often alternate between speaking the former to customers and the latter to each other. About a year ago, one ran out of $1 bills at the register, and asked another for a stack of “singles”. She wound up getting a stack of $5 bills, because the other heard “cincos” which is “fives” in Spanish.
The best puns are bilateral as well as being bilingual and bi-literal.
Unless you can also make them bi-sexual.
Dabbler’s a good one for making someone to go that way…Jabberwokky stands as witness.
I always think the best punch lines can be interpreted 5 different ways. The more you think about it the more laughs you get.
I thought he was just “freeing” up the conversation for a second before realizing what it was about.
Speaking of Super Bowl, my thought with 20 seconds left of the game: WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!???!!!!!
That would have been my thought 20 seconds into the game. Shortly followed by “where is my remote control?”
The ‘where’s my remote’ question happened during the halftime show.
I had a ‘what channel airs the Superbowl here?’ moment, but then I realised it would’ve been aired well into the night here, so I went to bed instead.
Lucky for me I had to work, so I missed the whole thing.
I hope you’re not complaining about it…they don’t call the TV “boob tube” for nothing.
I’m glad people didn’t get it right away. I was worried that people would jump on Max for being a dummy, but this way it’s easier to at least partially blame Hiro.
I kinda figured that was the point, too. At least not until we see the punchline in the end. If it confuses the crap out of us, it oughta be confusing for her, and she doesn’t even get the benefit of imaginary briefs like we do.
His first attempt at silent communication gets a “Doy!” anyone would know that! And the next one is completely lost on the recipient. For a military guy and second in command his hand signals to the rest of the team leave much to be desired.
I thought “attack the enemy” is a perfectly normal thing for an officer to command a subordinate. Given the limited vocabulary of military sign language (assuming it was drawn from that).
Whereas, on the other paw, his subordinate’s response, whilst really funny, was insubordinate. But forgiveable, by me anyhow, under the circumstances.
But, as for this attempt, yea… he needs a week at charade camp.
I missed the joke completely. But the expressions on Hiro and Max in the end I get. “Sorry” and “Geez, that was lame!”
Heh, I got the de-briefing right away, then got a waitaminute @ Maxima’s response. I’m disappointed with myself since I had to take a minute to recognize the innuendo aspect. I’ve spent too much time in the kiddie section of the puns crowd apparently.
I really didn’t get what he was getting at, or even really doing. Was he magically throwing his underwear away? Symbolically saying “pants, away”? Because I wouldn’t interpret that as hitting on (that said, guy), I’d more interpret that as “You’re a nudist?” or something to that effect.
Still don’t really get it, even after you explained he was allegedly hitting on her.
Reading this, I suddenly re-imagined the opening act of Romeo & Juliet.
Maxima: Do you toss your breifs at me?
Hiro: No.
Maxima: Good.
Hiro: But I do toss my breifs.
I bite my thumb at your analogy.
Do you quarrel, sir?
I quibble, sir.
i find the use of quibble the perfect response to quarrel. you both made my morning, literally.
I tribble at the humor here
Do want any bits with those quibbles?
No, but I do debate peoples’ intelligence with with a remarkable regularity.
Isn’t that among the top ten internet activities?
And their seal orientation.
My crossbow uses bolts, not quarrels.
;)
He’s doing a visual representation of the word “debriefing”.
My first reaction was ‘that makes no sense’
Than I realized that you people call that briefs. Weird ass name for clothes.
Than again, the english language has alot of weird ass names for clothes. Why the hell do you use a plural word for a single piece? (pantS)
“Pants because trousers, because they were originally 2 separate sleeves with a codpiece put on afterwards.
don’t forget that one item which is called “a pair of scissors”
Well, that’s because it’s made of two blades affixed to each other with a screw. You can take them apart and just have one scissor.
No, that’d be called a blade, or a knife.
The scissor is the thing that combines the 2 blades in a specific structure that makes it easy to cut. English language than made it confusing
Incorrect my dear fellow, for what is a knife or blade, but that which cuts or scises? (To scise means to cut or penetrate, as in incisor, the cutting/penetrating teeth)
So, yeah – a single blade of a pair of scissors is an blade, for scising, thus a scissor. So two joined together make a pair of scissors – much like a pair of compasses.
Concider me educated
Oldest trousers found so far.
Just make sure you keep your ferrets out of ’em.
Bingo!
Originally they were two separate pieces that tied together. At least that is what I heard. And yeah English is a weird language mainly because it’s basically a whole bunch of languages put together.
*laughs*
*pants*
*chortles some more*
…yet a brassiere is a singular item
…that holds two other items…
…once in a while.
The best part of a bra is when there isn’t one.
Definitely the best kind… depending on who uses it.
Well some pants hold three items that are very precious to the owner. Crap ok now everyone is thinking of Gollem.
That would have made it harder for Isildur to defeat Sauron…
I once came across a list of ten names of items of clothing. Supposedly a Brit and an American would agree that all ten referred to items of clothing, and if sent to go buy them would return with the same ten garments – but not agree on which name referred to even ONE of the garments.
I don’t remember much of the list though. I think vest, jumper, and suspenders were on it.
I love the new vote incentive picture. I think there are alot of people here that concider it a neat little side-head cannon
It could be canon. Maybe Vehemence somehow gets a super baller jail cell for….. I don’t know preventing him from starting prison riots with his powers?
There were many suggestions that the best place to contain Vehemence is in a monetary, full of pacifist monks. Ones who could use non-aggressive martial arts styles to contain him, without undue violence.
But, as regards Halo:
HUG AURA ALERT!
Monastery :P
Rofl. Err, yea.
*kicks spell-checker out of the window*
Damned thing, letting me choose the wrong word!
So that’s what the inside of the Federal Reserve looks like.
If becoming a monk is what it takes to be in there, I’d consider becoming one.
Hah hah, a monetary.
V: I’m going to start a riot.
Monk: I’ll give you a fiver if you don’t.
V: … make it six.
Fast forward 10 years. Vehemence leaves prison. Ponders restarting his life of crime. Counts his money, and decides to retire to an island paradise instead.
That’s one way Vehemence could monetize his debt to society for his crimes…
I love it, too. After my attempt at powered up Vehemence, I wanted to draw V with Sydney together as well, though a whole lot less meditating, and a whole lot more spicy noodles (and crying… lots of crying).
Overall, I like it, except I think Sydney should have her left eye open a bit, not her right eye. Vehemence is that kind of guy that you gotta “keep an eye on” at all times.
;)
Nah. I think V needs to keep an eye on her instead, especially after a fresh bowl of Unmaker. :d
Yeah, at the very least, his olfactory sense would be a major distraction from focusing on meditation.
I sincerely hope they actually start offering to recruit some of these guys. This guy and the hairdresser at least seems nice enough. For the ones that are actually assholes, they would call it probation.
So want to think of what kind of questions they would ask each of these guys.
-What are your superpowers and how did you get them?
-Who are these other superpowered individuals you know?
-How did you get invited to this brawl?
Invite anyone to add to this hypothetical list.
Would not be one that I asked, as it would seriously compromise the entire interview, by asking a leading question. It implies three things, one that there was planning. Two that it was for a fist-fight, rather than a cop-killing assault. And three that the person being asked was not involved in organising it. Better to phrase it as:
– How did you come to be here?
Other useful questions being:
– Describe the course of events throughout the evening.
– How was contact first made?
– When you first heard about it, what did you plan on doing?
– Was the purpose of coming discussed, at any point. If so, at what stage, and how was it expressed?
– Was anybody giving orders? If so, who, and what did they say? *
– How practiced are you at using your super-powers?
– What are your opinions on police and policing issues?
– Did you see any TV coverage this evening? If so, what, and when? **
– What did you know about the people in the restaurant?
– Did you participate in the attack on the restaurant and/or any other individuals this evening? ***
* Note that we have at least one instance that we can corroborate an answer on this particular point.
** This helps to establish time-lines for who was where at particular times, in a subtle way. Plus allows Archon to build up a picture of how well informed (or not) particular individuals were.
*** Regardless of any eye witness or camera evidence, as to them doing this, it is important to establish if they now can recall being involved. And what they remember of their motives. So leading questions must be carefully avoided.
Always be subtle and lead up to the questions they don’t want to answer. Boilerplate sound like he’s already working on his alibi so he’s not going to be of much use. Yeah I’m pre-judging him but that’s how it goes. The sleepers will be a better source of overall information which may be more important than details about the individuals.
How could that be Boilerplate? Max broke his arm and dislocated it at the shoulder.
There’s no way he could be waving it around like he did.
That’s him alright. Yellow hair and mask, now worn around his neck. The armor got lost during his free flying lesson. He got better somehow. Regeneration?
Not the same trousers/pants though. So DaveB accidentally left out the dislocated shoulder AND put different colored trousers on him, or it’s not Boilerplate.
They need to get Hiro a sub-cutaneous transmitter-receiver.
Some technical difficulties actually implanting it :3
oh god “debriefing” shakes head
Max’s expression could peel paint.
Does Max heal really fast? Her nose seems to have improved?
Come on, it was months ago that it was damaged. Last year, even. *shakes head* Even I could heal up a broken nose in that time.
On a more serious note, I think we can assume that all natural heroes will indeed heal faster than normal. But this would be unnaturally fast. It is either an Easter Egg, that DaveB omitted for us to find (otherwise known as him forgetting it, to the less charitable), or the force field which protects her body, also pushes things back into place.
That might not constitute healing, per se, if it is just surface features, such as skin, being moved. Although it may help to contain bleeding and promote healing. But, underneath, there would still be broken bone.
As such it would constitute tacit acceptance of the super-hero trope that supers only show their injuries whilst they are still in a deadly situation, and brush it off afterwards. Even if they are still hurting, underneath.
That certainly seems to have been the case for one of the villains. Who had earlier suffered a dislocated shoulder, at Maxima’s hands, but was subsequently able to rejoin the fight. Perhaps after re-setting it, hardcore style. Or otherwise he does simply heal really fast.
Regeneration or rapid healing certainly seems standard for the muscle-bound supers. Maxima is more multi-poweed than they are, but I guess she still falls under the same category.
It could also be that a portion of all bricks just so happen to have regeneration fields, and nobody ever took the time to acknowledge it.
Well, surface repair wouldn’t allow for her to be making expressions like that. If she’s going to wrinkle up a twice broken nose in a fit of feminist misunderstanding, it’s going to be uncomfortable.
True dat.
Maybe Hiro, being closer to her, is picking up the pain, and realising that she must still be really pissed at him, to endure that regardless? *
* I am obliged to run with the ‘Easter egg’ until it falls off my spoon and smashes open.
“As such it would constitute tacit acceptance of the super-hero trope that supers only show their injuries whilst they are still in a deadly situation, and brush it off afterwards. Even if they are still hurting, underneath.”
In the Champions game system, that would be Maxima having taken her Recovery Phase.
:D
She could’ve put it back in place herself. It’s not uncommon for tough people like her who don’t go “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH, BY DOOOOOSE!!!” *, but rather “Whelp, there goes my nose. That’s what you get for nosebutting a piledriver, I suppose.”, to just pop it back into place.
* Translated from broken-nose-landish: “Aaah, my nose!”
My uncle got his nose broken while we were out logging. He pushed it back into place with his fingers, stuffed a wad of Kleenex up his nostrils, put a strip of electricians tape over the bridge and had a beer. Ten minutes later he was back at work with the chain saw.
First aid tip: if you have female friends present, a tampon is perfectly suited to stopping a nosebleed. Also, putting ice on the bridge of the nose can help stop the flow.
Practical advice. But it is very easy to see why someone in a particularly macho profession (such as logging) might not follow it.
Also if you lack anti-biotic, in a survival situation, and have an injury, get a nice dog to lick the wound. The antibiotics in their saliva is far better than human’s and will give you a decent chance to avoid infection.
I don’t want you to lick me, though.
If you can use Contact Telekinesis to protect against transonic buffeting, presumably you can also use it as a splint. Even with a fully broken major limb, a CTK ‘exoskeleton’ could probably keep you mobile enough to get help.
i am soo confused about the …..OOOOOoOH DEBRIEFING……i feel dumb now :(
So does Hiro from the look of things. He thought it was clever. The rest of the world is going “What was that?”
Seems they might really have been brainwashed or coerced into coming to the fight, at least, that is assuming he is telling the truth and not lying to get away with it.
He is totally shitting the bull
If he is, Maxima and her crew will uncover evidence quickly enough. Hers is a wise path which does not commit her. Whereas the other one irrevocably leads to a legal fight. One that would ultimately harm all supers and not actually help serve justice.
however… Archon still needs to quickly separate the perps from each other, so that they don’t have the time, nor opportunity to combine stories… whatever those end up being. you DON’T want ALL of them ov erhearing Halo and Arianna going at it and ALL of them “suddenly remembering” that it was Vehemence that was the only common factor of all those “interviews” to get them to go in the first place, and then they ALL get off scott free… we’ll see how it goes of course, but at the very minimum, they all need to be separated so they can’t share notes…
Indeed. But the task is made a lot easier by the fact that most are currently sedated.
Also, potential for “You will tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, and we’re enforcing that with as much magic as we can fit into this room”
Would a magical lie detector be admissible as evidence? Would it even be legal? Then again, if you told a lawyer “We put a spell in place – your client can either tell the truth, or stay silent, but will be physically incapable of lying” how would they react?
(That middle clause is rather important – the whole “not incriminating yourself” thing – but at what point does silence itself become incriminating?)
This would be the equivalent of using a truth serum, such as sodium thiopental, a.k.a. Sodium Pentothal. Use of which, in interrogations is unreliable for determining the truth. * As such, no civilised country would use it in a court of law.
Sadly, the U.S. lags a bit on ethical issues and has set precedent, by allowing it’s use. Despite the fact that such would, in my opinion, clearly supersede the person’s volition, about whether or not to incriminate themselves. Therefore violating the Fifth Amendment.
This is a slightly different issue. The first deals with forcing somebody to tell the truth, against their will. Whereas this point is regarding the detection of lies told. And magic. I will deal with the latter in a separate post.
‘Lie detector’ machines do not detect lies. They measure the body’s response whilst the subject is being asked questions. The analyst of these measurements then uses them to guess whether the response was due to a lie or some other cause of anxiety. Such as being asked a critical question, which they know might see them incarcerated for life or even executed.
Clearly there is scope for such interpretation to be wrong. And the consequence would be damning. The base line tests would all show valid true/false results against other verifiable facts. Whereas the critical one, which the subject is anxious about, would be shown, in front of the judge and/or jury, to have been a lie. Incorrectly.
As such, no civilised country will allow their use in court. Except err the… ethically challenged U.S.A. Fortunately they do place some restrictions on their use, so the miscarriages of justice are not as widespread as they might otherwise be.
As regards your final point, as a Brit I have always felt the Fifth Amendment to be a flawed concept. We do not have any corresponding protection under our law, and I do not perceive any injustice being done as a result.
In fact our laws regarding police cautioning ** were recently changed to add (from memory) “… but failure to stay something, which you later rely on in court, may be held against you”. †
But it is clearly felt to be important in the U.S. and is enshrined as part of the constitution.
However clever manipulation of the public and judiciary into fearing terrorism, more than a desire to uphold constitutional rights, means that this issue is being re-examined by lawmakers (as regards truth serums and similar issues).
Of course, should the reliability of the means of detection be shown to be very high, then that does alter the above arguments. Infallible lie detection would be of tremendous value. But would magic provide that? And how comfortable would the public and the courts be in believing and/or relying on that?
Taking the determination of truth out of the hands of the judge and jury, and placing it in the reliability of a spell and it’s caster. Quite an emotive issue. And one, where the history of religion underpinning court judgements (for example we still swear by placing a hand on the bible ‡), will have a bearing too.
* Anne Bannon; Stevens, Serita Deborah (2007). The Howdunit Book of Poisons (Howdunit). Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books. ISBN 1-58297-456-X.
** Their previous form was very similar to the ones used in the U.S.A. and remain so, other than that point.
† The potential for harm that might come from this is reduced by virtue of all police interviews being taped. Speaking outside of a formal interview, without the presence of a lawyer, carrying the same risks it always has.
‡ Other options are available, in certain jurisdictions.
The Witchcraft Act 1735 held it to be a crime to claim to be able to cast spells (earlier versions of the act had made the casting of spells illegal, which is slightly different). This was repealed in 1951, and replaced by the Fraudulent Mediums Act. Which, in turn, was repealed in 2008.
So there is no law against the casting of spells currently on the statute books.*
You may wonder why I cited the above law, given that it applies to the laws of England and Wales, and not the USA. It is because that is the act that was in force during the most famous witchcraft trial in the Americas. Namely the Salem witch trials.
At the time however, Salem was part of a British colony, so fell under their laws. The USA would not come into existence until decades after that event. To the best of my knowledge they never enacted any anti-witchcraft laws.
Whilst certain states have laws against using (or as the case may be claiming to use) certain powers, such as predicting the future, which might be applicable, there is no outright ban on the casting of spells.
* South Africa actually does still have it’s own version of the The Witchcraft Act 1735. Which may seem odd, but actually it is quite sensible. As tribal spellcraft does put high value on the use of rare and exotic materials.
Which has the result in putting a premium value on the use of parts of endangered species. But, even worse than that, human organs are likewise highly prized. There are, as we speak, investigations going on into the murder of at least twenty children, in the Ivory Coast, likely for such purposes. And that is just one case. It is actually a widespread problem in Africa.
Of highest risk are albinos. Who’s organs are considered the most potent in magic. So huge sums have been shown to have been paid for such, by rich and powerful members of the community. People who would, on the face of it, be well enough educated not to be susceptible to superstition.
Although such crimes are covered under laws against homicide, and the like, it is probably not a bad idea to discourage the practice of a system with such serious and widespread abuses within it.
Regarding your comments on Africa superstition, albinos and such…
Unfortunately you are … absolutely right.
I’ve seen it first hand and is completely absurd.
I have a huge tattoo on my back, won’t go into details, but when people see it some get scared and call me a witchdoctor, it’s completely ridiculous.
Saw a case also of an albino that had to run away from a soccer game because the fans of the team that was losing started saying that he had been ‘planted’ there to throw their team game…
I could give many more, some are actually really disgusting like the believe that if you had sex with a virgin you would get healed from AIDS…
…only method to make sure it’s a virgin…get them as young as possible…the rest of the description is to sickening.
Among the majority of people, even supposedly educated ones, superstition is a serious problem.
I’m not sure Jabber is a good idea for a recruit but as a sparring partner she’d definitely earn her salary.
Maxima’s hot but I have to give some credit to the guys who decide to just walk up to the gold amazon and start hitting on her.
Less so to those who pick the worst times. Hitting on her when she’s already mad for one. I have a feeling Max is very much a wine and dine type of girl. You have to set the mood and make her feel comfortable. Being who she is and what she is makes her a little prickly but so are roses.
Life IS a bed of roses, as long as you can avoid the pricks…
Sorry…Maybe I shouldn’t be commenting here when I’m feeling a little thorny.
*hides behind the blast shield*
The old ones are the best.
Virginity is like a balloon, one prick and it is gone.
Or even: Do you know the difference between a light bulb & a pregnant woman?
The light bulb can be UNscrewed.
I do hope we get a sequence of all these “now possible” villains getting debriefed. Like maybe a quick montage of the minor jerks, and whole comics for the major players.
Something like that was suggested in earlier pages of the comments, by setting it up Dragnet-style like they did at the end of the show.
I think the ‘debriefing’ could be explained a bit better by putting a [Maxima Vision] in. I claim no expertise in sign language, but pointer finger to hip then sideways does not seem like it would translate to debriefing.
Hiro isn’t pointing to his hip, he is pulling the top of his briefs up with finger and thumb to make them visible.
AH.
Then that is the part that should be clearly emphasized. It just looks like Hiro has his hands on his hips unless you actually take the time to look carefully.
Ii was at that point I noticed Hiro is wearing black-colored unders…I don’t know about anyone else, but if it was my chest that Stalwart stepped on, they would’ve turned brown.
I find the hinted explanation as to how those not-such-much villians gathered a bit anti-climatic, even if this would make it easier to explain how Vehemence had them trolling along.
Also, I have trouble believing it since it still would mean that there is some kind of “shopping-list for supers”, or they couldn’t been simply picked up.
As for Maxima’s missunderstanding … well I still don’t get it either.
Mainly due to the many possible meanings:
1. … one of those duties would be to get clean clothes. My underwear, for starters, is soaked.
2. What those guys are saying is garbage / an old pair of socks / heaps of dirt.
3. They certainly left heaps of dirty laundry.
4. Those guys are full of sh*t.
5. De-Brief-Ing
6. …
DaveB:
“Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon” ? Seconded. Still gathering hours to actually read it though … and Waiting for Wearing the Cape 5 ;-)
Well, they had a person who could make portals, so the gathering is bound to be a little anticlimactic
… only that you would still need to know where to make a portal to.
I recently read “The Miranda Contract” where there is a girl who is able to take people places ( by turning everything into grains of sand ). She runs a telephone pick-up services, where all you need is her number, your GPS coordinates, and the number of a valid credit card. You call, type those in, and she`ll pick you up within minutes. Only side effect: You believe having chowed sand afterwards. ;-)
You hit on maxima, maxima lands hits on you
You grab her arse and she kicks yours.
take her to the super bowl she cooks some soup bowls (read close to a good hangout event)
While Max obviously had some diplomatic issues, she’s still a better choice than hiro. He seems to think a bit simplistically at times, per his orders to jig earlier and this current discussion.
Simplistic..? his orders to Jigs were actually quite valid, the situation was pressed enough that her help was needed, but she also did show how not being able to communicate with the rest of the team was a liability that could have lead to her being told to withdraw.
As for the current discussion, then he was the one who came up with the solution of calling it a debriefing, and thereby defusing the situtation.
I did not get the “debriefing” or the come-on bit from the drawing of the gesture. I did get it once both were mentioned; however, I’m having a difficult time imagining how that gesture would be enacted in real life without a cartoon underwear graphic.
The action of miming removing underwear is a lot easier to do with animation, or in real life. You simply replicate the actions you would take if undressing. DaveB could simulate the same with the use of multiple frames. But those are precious, so he short-handed the issue.
It is unconventional, hence all our initial confusion. Is he using some super-power? Did she just notice he had no underwear on? Had he whipped them off real fast?
Of course, how you do that mime, without getting a slap in the face… that is the harder bit to envisage.
Consider that the imaginary drawing is more for our benefit. As for how to do it, step one, point down your pants. Step two, make a pulling gesture as though you’re pulling something out of your pants. That’s pretty much what Max is seeing.
I get the feeling that this is one of those times when the joke “looked good on paper”. I’m sure Dave B. was laughing as he drew the comic. Sometimes the best laid jokes of mice and men fall flat on their ass.
I think the fact that it’s easy to miss helps you relate to Maxima who didn’t get it either. The moral is don’t choose Hiro as your partner for charades.
Agreed. Mind you I would choose Hiro in preference to Sheldon.
Sheldon had better take a pass on the word, “cocktail.”
… And, comes to that, pretty much any other word starting with a letter.
And never choose him for pictionary! LOL
As Dave indicated, we’re supposed to be confused till the last panel just so Max wouldn’t come off looking stupid. Even before Dave said it, I know I got a good laugh once the last panel spelled out the joke, so mission accomplished.
I honestly thought Hiro was trying to suggest some kind of trick or something, debriefing went right by me…
It went over many peoples’ heads, I assure you.
Seems to me that Maxi’s major (get it? :P ) issue with Hiro was the time and place of him hitting on her, rather than him hitting on her
He he. There was no hitting. He was discreetly trying to mime “tell them it is a ‘debriefing’ “. But his miming skills are hopeless, and most people just would not get it. For Maxima’s response to make sense, in the final panel, Hiro must be verbalising the suggestion to her (unheard by us).
The fact that he comes out of it with neither a black eye, nor a reprimand, indicates that there was no propositioning taking place. That and Hiro’s categoric denial in panel 6.
Mind you, I can understand the thought to the contrary. Maxima is casting a foul look in the final panel. But I think that is more down to disgust at his lack of miming skills, or finding a better way to get his point across. That and it would take a while for her to wind down from being roused to anger, and for all suspicion to be forgiven.
Mind you, I must confess that I have absolutely no idea what the bit in the middle of his dialogue is referring to. Namely “ham ham what?”
That’s “Hah hah what?”, as in slightly confused, slightly nervous denial.
I read it as hah hah, not ham ham.
Ahh, thanks both, I see it now. Doh!
I didn’t get any ham ham, but I got some chicken chicken.
This afternoon, I had a local kid saying he did not have any ‘ham ham’ for his baby sibling. To be honest I am not sure if he is just using the English word, or if it is a Bulgarian (or Turkish) phrase. It may, for instance, translate as ‘medicine’.
That kid is pretty transparent, if he is trying it on. Whereas today, he looked genuinely desperate. Which is not how he looks when he is (honestly) just saying they have no bread. I gave him what I could, and it seemed to be enough to cover whichever his need was.
That may have been playing on my mind, unconsciously, sad as it is.
No, you had a premonition that you were going to hear this song…
Spooky, huh?
I got the de-briefing as soon as Max said it in the final panel. Which is perfect, because it means I was right along side her with her “What the what are you DOING, Hiro?!” However, I do like that, while Max is glaring at Hiro that the misunderstanding was all his fault, Hiro’s glaring right back, because screw you, you figure out a better way to pantomime that concept, lady.
Yups, agreed about his return glare :D
Personally I pick up on the pensive twist in his lips. To me it looks like more of a contrite, somewhat worried look.
It is fun though, to find out what folks think, as I am sure many people will read that in different ways.
In the invotive: is Sydney wearing an Aang t-shirt? o_O
Aang didn’t wear Tshirts, he wore robes
I could not fathom what Hiro was doing even after Maxima said it. I half thought he was saying he lost his underwear in the fight, but I can still see it.
I was still on the Track of :
“Excuse me we Colonel . We have a Problem” and so all I got was :
Dick is missing ( as in Achilles cant be found … )
He really should have grabbed someone elses communicator
Personally I blame Halo. Her weird ways are rubbing off onto others!
I blame his lack of a shirt.
The real fault is Max being so touchy (more accurately, “you be not get touchy”) about how often guys might try to hit on her. Her first thought was feminist in nature.
But hardly an unreasonable one, given that nobody has yet said “oh, it was obvious what Hiro meant”. Which does rather limit the options, given that he was looking at her and pointing at his crotch. Then miming something about taking off his clothes.
Also, she did not leap, rather she asked.
I never said it was unreasonable, or even out of context with Maxima’s character…Just stating an observation.
that bloody (English not my first) corner in panel 4 looks like Hiro’s 6th finger.
also, the only thing i got from the hiro’s performance was “pants off”…
I hadn’t heard of “The Dark Lord’s Handbook” so I think I’ll have to look it up, along with that “Wearing the Cape” series. I have read “Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon”, and poor Penny still can’t get away from being misunderstood as a Supervillain. I have “Secrets of a D-List Supervillain” in my list to read as well. I can definitely say I understand your problem there.
This was probably the best solution (and what I would’ve tried suggesting if I wasn’t rushing to work most mornings) as it gives them a means of filtering out the real trouble makers from the ones who just got caught up in Vehemence’s powers.
I forgot to mention, but if you are enjoying the stories of Penelope Akk there is a non-super series that might also appeal to you. The “Earthcent Ambassador” series. The first title is “Date Night on Union Station”, and at present there are 4 titles in the series (and yes, there is already a 5th title planned). They have that same grab-you-and-won’t-let-go that Richard Roberts novels have (he’s got far more than just superhero/villain novels he’s done).
Yes, very well put, Hiro. But you could have just spoken up.
Yeah, I would have gone with “Colonel? Sidebar…” or something similar.
Less amusing for the readers though.
The main thing that threw me off is that the little picture looks more like boxers than briefs. I thought he was suggesting an atomic wedgie. And/or that the guy wasn’t wearing any undies.
I’m proud of myself for noticing that Maxima had her hair tied up with a piece of rebar BEFORE reading the comment section. That’s an amusing little detail.
I too missed what Hiro was going for. The only thing I could come up with before moving on to the next panel was he was suggesting they pants the ‘bad guys’… which made no sense.
What is that thing that Max found to tie up her hair? With her, it could be a piece of rebar from the parking lot.
Doh! I failed to read the author comments and admit my haste to post. (posthaste?)
That just means you figured it out on your own :D
137.4 times actually (yes that’s a joke. I don’t know the actual percentage) ^_~
Did you know that 37.4 percent of people believe any statistic you tell them?
What do you expect when people get used to the fact that 59.24% of all statistics are completely made up and 87.7343465873795739845797534275% are given with more significant numbers than the data provides?
It rises to 65% if you assert your statistic was from a scientific survey.
And in at least 47% of the times a scientific citation is used, it doesn’t even exist.
MidnightDStroyer forgot to credit the source of that statistic. It’s from “Use of statistics in social conversation” by Dr. Gertupp Lygisdottir at the Reykjavik Institute of Social Mathematics.
I realized midway through that maxima had a twisted piece of rebar for a hair tie, can we just talk about that for a second?
Ok…
Time limit reached.
Recycling is good?
If her hair is as strong as her it was probably a good substitute. You really don’t want her to whip her hair at you!
Of course, now im wondering how hard boilerplate is spinning his story on how this happened and whats real. They gotta “debrief” everyone separately so they cant get their stories straight. The ones who werent conscious to hear sydney talk about the agro aura might have a more interesting story to tell, and if the guys who DID hear about it are questioned apart from each other, we might learn if they were making this up. And no, I didnt get what hiro was doing till he explained it and maxima said the word. More because I woke up 10 minutes ago and am tired. And now im even more tired because I had to shovel knee deep snow out of my walkway and driveway (I took a break mid comment to shovel lol)
Breaks are good. Especially with snow shovelling. Far too many deaths, from heart attacks, caused by unaccustomed exercise otherwise.
Archon will be doing that. It is all part of standard police procedure. And most of the villains are unconscious, so there is no chance of cross-contaminated alibis from them.
Maxima is not concerned with Boilerplate’s spinning (or truthfulness, which is the other alternative), as DaveB comments above, they will find evidence to support or refute either, easily enough. And they can always charge them later. What she does want to do is avoid making charges prematurely. Once that happens, then a clock starts ticking, and the expectation of prosecutions is raised in the minds of the public.
But, if you just put out a statement that “the mastermind villain behind the attack have been arrested, along with the other key culprits”, * then you do not raise false expectations. But rather get an impressed public, who are reassured that there has been a swift result to a major incident.
But, let the ball start rolling by arresting others, and then the speculation and expectations get out of hand really fast. If those charges do not convert into prosecutions, public demonstrations and riots could target supers. And what started out as a bad police call, could end up as a full-scale civil war!
Doing a debriefing, rather than charging, in order to ultimately avoid genocide… good call.
* (Shadow Boxer and Death Knell, neither of whom could claim to have been affected by Vehemence’s aggro aura)
Archon will be shoveling snow out of people’s driveways? Awesome!
I say let the weather forecaster do that shoveling. It’s his poor judgement of what “partly cloudy” means that breaks my back!
Careful Sydney needs practice with the PPO. Melted blacktop could get messy.
Just have Heatwave do it and hope your flood insurance is good.
I just realized something. Nobody died!
I miss that but I’m still stuck in morning fog mode
Damn it!
I was going to respond to this that of course not babe settle up kind of doubt that he had no intention of killing as much as possible, you preferred to keep the main characters alive, and killing set the wrong mood for the story.
We still haz not seen Peggy, for a long while. And Concretia had a big score to settle, with her.
*sniff*
Noting that Concretia never actually SAW who shot her, either time. Granted, Peggy is the only one walking around with a firearm. That we know of, anyhow.
Phasing through rock does give rather an advantage when sniper hunting.
Not to be picky* , but Maxima and Goose are both armed (though not sniper rifles, granted).
* I like to think of it as a duty to the lurkers.
… OBVIOUS firearm, then.
There’s Duke Nukem on the team, a marine guy, Peggy, and Maxima. They all carry guns. Also Dabbler.
Mind you, it is all a ‘moo’ point. Given that Concretia did find Peggy, as eddi kindly pointed out below. Just follow his link. It is something that I had not noticed in my post-Christmas catchup on the comics.
So my mind will not be put at rest until we know that Peggy is ok. Because nothing she has, at her disposal, would keep Concretia down, in my opinion.
Not that I am too worried mind. Concretia could have taken a form that was susceptible to some form of sedation/knockout. Maybe a metal one that could be zapped with a strong tazer (Arc are bound to have dino tazers)? So there are ways that she could be prevented from becoming intangible and pressing home the attack.
But we have seen nothing to support that possibility. Unless the claymore mine simply overwhelmed her, where a bullet could not. In the meanwhile, we can only hope that Peggy’s lack of concern is a sign that she had good reason to believe the claymore had done the job.
The last Concretia body we saw had been shattered by a claymore mine. And Peggy was just fine. Panel six plus Dave’s commentary.
Ooh, thanks. Two points that I had not noticed before. Thanks. Mind you, having her body destroyed did not seem to bother Concretia before…
Since she can be hard to spot in phased form, I suspect she either quit right after getting blown up before the aggro aura happened or because she was phased, it had no effect. Either way she is, I think, long gone at this point. Only two escapes out of that whole mob. Not bad.
Huh? What? I don’t ge… oooohhh…
I miss that but I’m still stuck in morning fog mode
If you like the Wearing the Cape series, check out Ian Thomas Healy’s Just Cause series.
Aha! I just knew V was a monk, explain the manners and bald pate. Errr….ummm…. So,
is Max a virgin? Inquiring minds want to know. Be an interesting side story with her mind set and the dynamics of her superness not to mention that she could accidentally kill a normal or fracture bones…among other things. OHO, maybe that’s why she projects that unapproachable macha attitude, having suffered from a tragic teenage tryst giving a new meaning to term “she had a crush on him”.
You draw up a scary image .
But i think she would have mentioned that to Sidney as a coutionary tale instead of a destroyed Wall
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/720
That, in no way, explains her personal life. Could’ve been a roommate.
As she was sleeping on the couch, she could’ve also just crashed at his place.
I thought it was her brother.
My initial thought as well. Don’t know many guys who would pop a paper bag.
I went with “brother” too.
Yeah, I seem to remember DaveB responding in the comments for that page that the guy who learned not to startle Maxima is her brother.
One wonders how his bladder control is these days.
The fact he stayed dry then suggests excellent control. Although having Leander for a sister might have tested that on other occasions. I wonder what his irritating nickname for her was? Goldie? Annie? Inquiring minds want to know.
I’m not so certain that he stayed dry, given what we saw of one particular event – https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/720
Seems like the purple hair and gold skin isn’t hereditary… Unless her mom ór dad is the same.
Terrie Daiquiri from Highly Experimental seems to have purple hair and golden/yellow skin. Plus, her biological mother hasn’t been introduced yet.
Though she lacks Maxima’s stature. Or any stature for that matter. Poor girl is 19 and not even 5 foot.
Link https://highlyexperimental.net/
Her profile pic is on the info page and there a number of colored pages throughout. She’s got yellow skin and purple hair in all of them.
More of a pastel yellow than a jaundice yellow.
Speaking strictly from a superpowers deconstructionist point of view, who could possibly break her hymen?
If she does a full stat dump into flight or speed or big boom skills, her armor might drop low enough for stalwart or hiro to help her out with that. Assuming she didnt take care of it herself.
As far as ‘taking care of it herself’, I’m suddenly imagining her doing the deed with her energy beam, uh, point blank. Explosive, huh?
To quote a certain smutty She-Hulk picture I saw once: “Damn, I go through more jackhammers that way…”
If she (or any woman for that matter) is being stimulated correctly/enough via foreplay first, the hymen won’t break. It will stretch instead.
People seem to keep reacting as if Maxima always had her powers when we know she didn’t get them until she was sometime into adulthood (or at least she seems to have acquired them as an adult). Since she was a normal human for much of her life she had plenty of opportunity to end up with someone during that period.
Max was a teenager when she blew up her house. Well, one wall anyway. See Kichumen’s link.