Grrl Power #292 – Crime may not pay, but villainy is evidently humorous
The more I think about it, the more I think this page should have come before the previous one. I’d have to redraw Sydney without the peacoat though. I may do that when I do my editing for the book cause I think it flows a little better that way. In any case, this isn’t quite the last page of the book, but it is the last page in which that parking lot appears for a long time, Xenu willing.
Let me break this page down by rows since there’s a lot going on. Maxima might say this outright in the comic at some point, but she wouldn’t mind sporting a crooked nose since some people would consider it a -1 to comeliness, which is fine with her, and it makes her look more like a scrapper. The problem with that is she doesn’t want to walk around sporting any particular villain’s trophy injury on her face.
Achilles winds up being either enormously useful in fights, or gets pinned under rubble/tossed over the horizon. It’s about 50/50. Also, what the hell is that poster tube made out of?
Some people have a chronic nervous laugh, some people have something called the Pseudobulbar affect, which is actually a neurological disorder or can be caused by a brain lesion. It causes uncontrollable laughter or sometimes crying. I assume the Joker has this affliction. Deus… just seems to be privy to a joke only he gets. I think I should draw a tablet or something in his hand in that last panel, otherwise it looks like he was staring out the window down at the parking, and his building is nowhere near that fight. Also I realized after I finished the page that I should have revisited the dramatic lightning gag in panel 9, but if I put lightning behind him, then the “oops, busted” look over his shoulder wouldn’t work right. :P
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ya know i was wondering dave. harem left her neck thingy in D’s room like forever ago. were you planning to do something with that? you either intentionally or figuratively forget to put her neckband on this particular harem. and everytime i see her barring the time she is with sydney a little after this she didn’t have the neck thing. so were you planning on using it?
No she left it on her own nightstand before she went to visit him. I could have made that clearer with a better establishing shot, honestly.
Dave is good about avoiding spoilers. However the common consensus amongst the readers is that Harem left the choker to prevent Archon’s GPS tracking and communications (built into the choker) from revealing her location, during her visit to Deus. Showing us that she is making active efforts to avoid Archon knowing about her (treacherous) relationship with him.
Of course we also know that Deus thinks that she is actually a double agent (thanks to his comment to his henchwoman). So Harem may actually be acting under orders from someone at Archon, despite this apparent ruse.
Achilles, should a. carry guns or missile launchers and b. wear heavy exoskeltons, because he a. has super strength, b. gets always punched away and c. has little way of attack.
deus looked so derpy when he evil laughed.