Grrl Power #333 – My (golden) angel (of destruction) is the centerfold
Trying something out with the panel layout here. Trying fit a lot of dialog in (also known as “my usual amount of dialog”) with fewer panels. Usually I prefer having more back and forth panels so you can see people’s expressions as they talk, but this obviously takes less time to draw and it helps to mix it up the layouts as well.
Maxima’s rejection of Candace’s offer was initially a bit more curt, but as I was drawing the page I was thinking about what her actual position would be on the subject. She’s not a fan of skanky stuff and it doesn’t help her opinion of you if you are, but she’s not against artistic nudes. Her qualm is people viewing her that way first and foremost. She understands there will be or already are a lot of really bad nude photoshops of her (or other nude models with some lazily applied filters) online, and even a few really good ones, but she’d rather not provide a primary source if she can avoid it.
In case Candace’s Everest reference isn’t clear, especially for the English as a second or third language readers, “(blank) is my Everest” is an idiom meaning that (blank) represents a singular and personal challenge for someone. So “Running a Triathalon is my Everest.” or “Eating the 3 pound burger at Crazy Ray’s is my Everest.” Candace is implying that getting to shoot Maxima in the buff would be something of a highlight in a photographer’s career.
Joe Manganiello for those of you who don’t know is the lumberjack looking werewolfy love interest for the main character in True Blood, and more recently he shows up in Magic Mike XXL. He’s basically the male equivalent of a slutty nurse, sexy librarian and enemy spy lady in the PVC catsuit all rolled into one. I mean, I assume. I’m not a straight lady or a gay guy, but he seems pretty ok looking to me. I could have gone with any of a number of hot actor guys, but he just seems like the sort ladies might have on their freebie list of guys they can nail and not get in trouble with their boyfriend. As soon as he showed up in True Blood my first thought was “no doubt about it, this is definitely written either by an earnest woman or a cynical guy.” I know the novels were written by a woman though I have no idea how closely the show followed them.
Thanks for all the vote incentive votes! I know those pencils are a little light, I will try and get that colored the first chance I have, and will attempt to stream it while I do.
This page colored by Keith.
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Damn she is a bit of a blabbermouth.
Is she on a sugar rush in addition to the excitement?
Looks like it is mostly excitement.
And a tendency to use lots of words.
Sounds like me when I meet with senior management. I’m the waffle-y type.
*opens trench coat, Yorp drops out and scurries away quickly* So Man, can I offer you something *sniff* from the archives? I little bit of page 281 maybe? or perhaps something else may tickle your fancy? Just to tide you over for a couple of days and take the edge off?
Darn, how did you fit my Antarctic base in there?
*routes wormholes via a different scale universe, to resize it to normal, and pops it back in it’s correct place*
‘The power of the grrls’ is nice, but here is where the action is. Too many tumbleweeds, on that page, to hang out for very long there today.
Candace is cute. And very good at putting Maxima at ease it seems.
A slightly different wording on that offer would probably have pissed her off
It annoys me when people don’t stop talking to breath.
That should really be a minor superpower.
In the bottom left panel, she reminds me of Flo, from the Gecko commercials. Kinda.
I thought Flo, aka Stephanie Courtney, was in the Progressive Insurance commercials. The GEICO company uses a gecko in its commercials.
you would be correct
My bad. But doesn’t she? Stand back and kind of squint your eyes, without the tats and the piercings?
Stand back and squint your eyes and anyone can look link a lot of different people.
You just got that woman on your mind is all.
She’s everywhere.
i can see the resemblence…….a little
Ha ha, oh Hiro!
Years. I suspect that DaveB has been waiting years to slip in “Super Hiro”. (DC tries to keep term to themselves, what with He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named-Because-Of-Lawsuits as their flagship title and all that.)
Actually, DC and Marvel hold joint rights to the specifically-spaced-and-capitalized term “Super Hero”(tm).
The only person I know with that specific name is from Heroes.
You must be new, welcome to ARCHON
Hiro has been part of this comic for, well, years, and his code name actually is Super Hiro
Super Hiro was the nickname for a guy in the TV show “Heroes” which first aired on September 25, 2006. This comic started August 23, 2010.
And his name was actually Hiro as well (‘Heroes’ Hiro went back in time after stealing the idea from DaveB)
Plausible given he was a time traveller.
And THIS is why time travel is outlawed.
It makes continuity of Intellectual Property rights …troublesome.
And how do you prove to the patent office that you have precedence on building a time machine?
File for patent #1. By definition no patent can have higher precedence. Of course, it’ll also guarantee your invention is already part of the public domain, but you can’t have *everything*.
https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/this-is-probably-the-fastest-ive-cranked-out-this-many-panels
I hope this link works. THIS is why time travel is outlawed.
Love that webic :D
When you make something against the law, you’re over-thinking it too much & THAT’S why the problem starts…
;)
The layout is fine, though it does make it seem like Candace is rambling abit. Unless that’s the intended result offcourse, in which case: amazing
Yeah that was my first impression that she was rambling. The fact that she skipped her introduction kinda supports that.
Haha, so very nice, noting the comment at the bottom. Fairly sure anyone developing technology and using it in such a fashion related to Maxima will quickly find themselves in voluntary exile, somewhere Maxima won’t look…where ever that is.
I hear Venus is nice this time of year. Relatively, anyway.
Pluto is quite warm at the moment.
Yea, but you can’t just chill out there anymore. Not with tourists flying by and taking snaps. You start out your day just trying to get in a bit of sunbathing. And end up splashed across the internet as the next big mystery.
“Sunbathing dog seen in photographs of Pluto”
“NASA denies conspiracy claims. ‘Just a trick of the shadows and flawed enhancement algorithms'”
“Do dogs REALLY rule Pluto? We ask Disney expert.”
maxima with racy pics…..sounds like an interesting photoshoot
Dangerous, even to contemplate the potential existence is unsafe.. speaking of it and you will simply disappear…. never to be found again….. well at least until voyager reaches another solar system….
Full of Forsaken. I don’t recommend it…
You mean more like “when the cold lump of metal that is Voyager”… it’s powered by a radiothermal generator, which will run out of power within the next 10 years (sometime next year, they’re turning off its gyroscope; by 2020, the instruments which are still turned on will have to share power; and by 2025, it won’t even have enough power left to operate any of its instruments.)
But at least it will operate long enough for a few final measurements: The density and temperature of the interstellar plasma, once it passes out of the heliosphere into interstellar space (expected to happen sometime next year… they’re not turning off the gyroscope until that information is transmitted.) By the way, never whine about how slow your Internet connection is, ever again. Voyager 2 is sending data at a meek 160 bits per second… with an 18-hour lag before it reaches Earth.
Yes, yes. But as soon as the aliens top up the radiothermal generator, it will all whirr into life again. Then they will examine it to see if we sent them some interesting porn.
And after observing the ‘porn’ we sent them they declare war. Their first message to us is “After the tits we have to study math?!? It’s WAR!”
It looks like this, in case you’re wondering. SFW.
They were expecting more after Pioneer, (NSFW, but it should be.)
Think of the lens flare! oh ye gods why wont people think of the lens flare!?
Thats right. No clothes. No Fredricks of Hollywood stuff. (victoria’s secret doesnt make stuff in maxima sizes)
Just superpowered lens flares that somehow know to cover the naughty bits.
Lens flare would set the camera on fire…
…or an interesting Vote Incentive. Especially for the next VDSD.
Such a petty use of wormhole technology!
*reaches paw, through wormhole, to grab a snack out of the fridge*
Om nom nom.
It’s what every single one of us would do if we had a Portal gun
But moon dust gives you cancer!
I love Portal, but I wanted to point out that in real life, inhaling moon dust probably wouldn’t cause cancer. What it would cause is something very similar to asbestosis (lung tissue scarring and shortness of breath). The reason for this is that moon dust has not been worn down by the action of wind and/or waves. Instead of being rounded like dust particles on Earth, it still has sharp edges (leading to the lung scarring).
Asbestosis is more down to the particulate size being too small for our defensive mechanisms to cope. Although regolith is rough, as you say, it is not unique to the Moon, we have the it on Earth, and our body can protect us. We have hairs in the nostrils, mucus, coughing action and more to keep our lungs safe from it.
The issue that has me most concerned, in this regard, is the use of nano-particles in our living environment. There are already several brands of detergent, which have nano-particles in them. Of course the manufacturers would be quick to point out that they “comply with all existing safety regulations”.
Sadly those regulations have been framed without considering nano-particles. And, because detergents are not subject to the degree of scrutiny that medicines require, the impact of these on human health has not been subject to rigorous examination.
Note though that the particles, in those products, are too small for existing filters (in washing machines and water recycling) to remove. So when the waste water, from our homes, gets filtered, to separate the waste from recyclable water, those nano particles can get through with the water.
Note that detergents are designed to be used in water, so these particular nano-particles ar optimised for a watery environment. Making it likely they will get back into the water reservoirs.
Which means I cannot choose to protect myself by simply avoiding buying products which proudly proclaim “extra scrubbing action from nano particles”, because my mains water is already contaminated with it!
So you and I are getting our livers and kidneys gradually perforated by nano particles. But, they have not evolved to actually stop nano-particles Just like our lungs cannot cope with asbestos. So that means they are not able to do the job of filtering them out.
In other words, those nano-particles will also be rupturing other cells, including those in our hearts and brains. Perhaps (we have no idea as we have not studied this) evaporation will also allow them to become airborne. And, as they are smaller than asbestos is, they will potentially poses the same risk to our lungs too. Getting the double whammy from the blood as well as the air.
Of course industry regulators (unlike medical ones) are not proactive in dealing with health issues. So this does not even appear on their radar.
I try to spread the word that we should have a dedicated nano regulator, who can assemble the necessary specialists to consider such issues, and advise/override the existing regulators in other areas. And their standards should be those of medical research.
Note that I am not a Luddite. I can see nano-technology doing wonders for us. But, just like asbestos, that will come with a serious price tag, if we do not investigate the risks before flooding our environment with them!
In due course, I can see this going the way of GM development. Where the EU takes a cautious approach, and the US embraces it with open arms. Unfortunately, with the current US-EU trade agreement not even considering nano issues, we may not be able to apply the GM mechanism of using Americans as lab rats, before risking Europeans lives!
Now you’re thinking with Portals!
Best use I’ve ever seen was scratching your own back in a YouTube video.
Well Yorp would also use it to scratch that annoying spot just above his tail on his back he cant….quite….reach!
https://gogetaroomie.com/index.php?id=570
(Many pages at that site are NSFW – but that specific page is okay)
I don’t know. Never having to ever ask for an “assist” again, should one run out of toilet paper at an awkward time… I could live with that.
Beg to differ…
Finally, a proper use of wormhole technology!
Where can I get one?
So the correct use is spawning small ones just bove the floor so people trip on them?
I wonder if the studio owner’s name is Peter?
[thinks back on the non-‘Stan Lee’ cameo]
I see what you did there. Oh, the tangled webs he weaves…
A photographer named Parker…
Hmmmm…
I’m surprised you’re the only one to notice the photo shoot room is named for Parker.
Clearly you have very focussed vision. Having failed to spot the comment immediately above that one.
:-D
Look at the time stamp, yours was literally only seconds before his(hers?)
I was aware of that. And I am not one to shout “first”, in any event. All I was pointing out was that SK was not the only one to have made the observation.
It’s nice to see Max interact with another strong female character – then again, the name of the comic is ‘grrl power’ :)
i am not entirely sure if “strong” is the right word…
how about “lively”?
“Lively” certainly works, although I think she’s also strong willed, at least. But my God, can you imagine the text wall if she and Sydney hit it off?
everyone would like:
“uh… where is the comic gone? there is just a wall of text separated by some random lines, and with small heads in every part… oh wait… its a conversation”
especially if candace is into nerd culture
Im thinking her flavor of nerd leans more to old skool photography. And tats.
So Suicide Girls should be one of her favorite things.
Now that is the thing I was surprised about. I was expecting each page to be smattered with Suicide Girl threads. Especially as I have recalled more than one regular commentator citing them.
At the very least I was anticipating more tattoo comments than have yet appeared. Even though I am sure there will be more to follow.
I am sure if Peggy (L.T.) gets a session with Ms. Kane at the studio they will have a lot to discuss with each other. If Candace has a history with Archon, she may have even been the one to take this picture: https://img01.deviantart.net/105e/i/2014/044/0/1/peggy_pg_wallpaper_by_davebarrack-d76cohg.jpg
I think Anvil has already had her session, along with Harem:
https://img13.deviantart.net/45d1/i/2013/318/c/a/anvil_sunbathing_wallpaper_by_davebarrack-d6ua165.jpg
https://img04.deviantart.net/2102/i/2013/044/b/e/harem_playboy_shoot_with_tops_by_davebarrack-d5uuwuz.jpg
idk a lot of women who are inked like her are super into lots of nerd culture simply because nerdy things tend to have some amazing artistic assosiations….i mean we are really a section of nerd culture in this comment section because of our appreciation for the artistic prows of this commic…..creative people tend to flock to nerd culture due to the ability to be expressive in some amazing ways
I just love Max’ expression in the 3rd panel :D
About the Everest explanation – as used by Candace, “Mt. Everest situation”, I had no difficulties, but I would have had with “(blank) is my Everest” – probably not in the last because I read the TMI web comic, too…
I for one didn’t know if DaveB wanted to hint at a hurdle, a personal achievement, or men ( artists ) becoming overly distracted by her proportions in the chest area.
Tripple meaning score ?
Hm, I don’t know, I found it descriptive on first sight,
as a perfectly unique achievement that’s somewhat of a hurdle to get to. Totally didn’t think of the chest area affection which makes sense, too. So I now go from different triple meaning score to quadruple meaning score – thank you! Or thinking about it, it’s rather applying the uniqueness to all thre basic meanings:
A perfectly unique chest area that presents a uniquely high hurdle to get at and thereby promises a uniquely high achievement. Wow. That’s so much better!
I think it’s more of a “because it’s there” situation.
As in “every photographer in the world would want to take nude pictures of her, because she’s there”.
So instead of a totally sketchy guy, Max gets a semi-sketchy girl (still wants to take nudes but asks politely).
She asks if Maxima would want nudes of herself though. She expertly spins it around and tries to make it Max her idea
You have a sharp mind. I never would have been able to see through her plan otherwise. :)
And now I just imagined what Maxima would look like if she was naked from head to toe… o.o
a, LOADS of gold. with ears
Now you have me wondering if Max sports a Brazilian, Landing Strip, or Virgin Forest…
I’m climbing in the wormhole now, and pulling it in behind me…
If here hair shares her invulnerability probably a virgin forest. Could be worse though, imagine Achilles trying to get a different haircut.
I’m gonna guess it’s a purple landing strip.
With purple runway lights?
Think Fort Knox with a purple wig and a red pair of lips stuck on :D
Next Voter Incentive?
Please! Please!
I’d be happy to do more risque vote incentives, only it might keep people voting from work. :)
Gives them more incentive to get home early then :D
from work yes but would be voting often from home and cellphone and ipod and any other device i could find
I pop home at lunchtime to check on my pooch and vote or wait till the evening. Plus given how many people log on with their own mobile device Dave I think you should do it. But at the same time it is entirely up to you dude. Would vote for you regardless of a racy pic, that is just the added bonus.
Agrecian
agreed
Actually, that’s a bad idea. TWC rules are that vote incentives have to match the maturity level of the main comic’s rating, and GP is rated PG-13 on that site.
Safer to keep explicit and risque art out of the incentive box, but dang, after putting the mental image into so many fans’ heads, you better deliver! :P
Well, Dave does have his Deviant Art page to work with. It just doesn’t have anything to do with the TWC vote incentives though. Personally, I don’t need the risque stuff as a vote incentive…I vote anyway.
I wonder if it’s within the rules to have a public passcode/redeem code as part of the vote incentive? Then people can use the passcode when they get home.
Actually, the Too Much Information comic used to do that occasionally…That is, the vote incentive was a password that you could use at the website to get the risque incentives. That is, until the site got hacked & AndyO had to discontinue the practice.
The compromise that Dave has used, in the past, is to have the PG 13 version as the vote incentive, and the adult version on his DA gallery. Which is a perfect solution, if discounting the extra work involved.
Works for me! :)
as long as its actualy finished this time.
pretty sure Dead-pub (last month) incentive was not finished
R, some vote incentives are put up as sketches, so are ‘as is’. Others are put up as a ‘work in progress’. Normally if it is the latter, DaveB will say so, at the time of posting it. So if there is no comment, it is fair to assume that there will be no other version to come.
For the Deadpool one, Dave indicated the opposite, in reply to someone’s comment. They were seeking permission to colour it in themselves, which Dave was fine with. Going on to say he probably would not do so himself.
I like to re-read comic pages between updates, so it’s like an auto-reminder for me to go and vote. Especially with this comic. I have to say that this comment system is the largest I have seen. And more convienient than threaded forums. :)
+1
Do it! TMI got my vote today because if the Luna vote incentive. But then I’d already voted for the penciled Anvil, and would again if you colored it. :)
you have my vote!
Max is too “not into it” for me. Non-supers Olivia or Gwen, or both, would be nice.
Which one is Olivia again? o_O
Tony’s sister-cousin.
Oh right, the new employee at Sydney’s store
Gold statue with a punk-purple wig.
You are thinking of her uncle Oscar who works for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Didn’t he also work with Steve Austin? o_O
Not sure, but it likely should have been put as “probably should have led with that.” in the second panel.
Correct, and I hope Dave sees your comment.
You can take a horse to water. But a plumb-line must be weighted with lead.
I did not consent to this sort of punishment this early in my day. Bad dog. No biscuit
:-/
*looks gloomy*
*wanders off, and roots around in cupboard*
*returns with lead, carried in mouth*
*wags tail, in hopeful anticipation*
No Yorp, spit that out, it’s poisonous! Why would you keep a lead pipe in a cupboard anyway?
Oh… lead…
Well, that comment went over like a lead balloon, didn’t it?
:P
That’s what the “plumb” in plumb line means.
Yea, I originally phrased it as “a plumb-line must be lead”, but decided it might be a bit obscure for English as a second language readers. And puns are tough on them in the first place. So I thought I would vary it slightly, to potentially carry the intent, without needing to look up what it was.
Wouldn’t be a Grrl Power without an error somewhere on the page. :) It’s fixed.
Loving Maxima’s hair! I would totally fall for her if she was a guy! <3
Uh, question… Japanese manga has many instances of girls dressing as guys and guys dressing as girls (to say, accomplish a mission). Does Western comics have lots of those instances?
Women generally can pull of wearing men’s clothing, it just looks hotter on them. The reverse rarely does as well.
It happens, but generally its used as a laugh. An awkward guy or guys trying to pull a thong out of their crack all the time looking awkward as heck dressed up female, that sort of thing. I think its done a little more often in europe, I know monty python had a lot of cross dressing in their skits.
What Traab said. The only male characters I can remember crossdressing in mainstream western comics are Captain America (https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/575263.html?thread=14756639) and the Chameleon. (The latter hardly counts). Wouldn’t be surprised if the likes of the Joker or Deadpool also got up to this at some point, though. Also, on the internet, there was a big trend a little while back to show male characters in some of the worst examples of female costumes (and poses), just to show how bad those were https://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/
However, transgender (as opposed to merely cross-dressing) characters have been a thing for some time in comics. https://sciencefiction.com/2013/04/15/top-ten-transgender-comic-book-characters/
They really don’t as far as I’m aware (though check out the list in Paddy’s comment). I think in Japan, gender bending, whether it’s just trying to pass as the opposite sex or a literal physical transformation like Ranma 1/2 is usually played for humor and/or fetish. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a story that involves real transgenderism that isn’t also hentai. There are plenty of webcomics that get into physical transformation, and there are even some that get into trangender issues as they would happen in a world without the magic hand waving. I’ve read a few of them though I can’t recall their titles any more. Those tend to be quite a bit more somber since actual transgender people are still quite poorly understood and accepted by society at large.
Searching for transgender webcomics brought me to this list: https://www.comic-rocket.com/genre/transgender/ though I think those are webcomics that have simply been tagged transgender which is no indication as to whether there was a single strip dealing with it or if that’s the theme of the comic.
Exiern kinda deals with that (this barbarian guy rescues a princess and gets turned into a girl for his troubles, then spends the rest of the comic attempting to either have it reversed back {resulting in a bunch of male priests being turned into females} or accepting the change)
Menage a’ 3 has a transgender character, off and on, but hasn’t gone into the deeper issues. In fact, I’m taking quite the bashing in the forum there for the latest strip…
Well that is a risk you take, for stripping in public. I am fine with it, but the rest of society will take a while getting there.
Isn’t what you do more shedding in public rather than stripping though? :P
She’s not transgender, she just has both parts
The latest strip? Where Peggy is getting the Double-Swirly?
it is indeed. Would have to go back to the on the way to Paris strip to see most of the transgender section
You mean the “Sandra on the Rocks” spin-off? Have the book :D
Well Missfile is a whole comic about a guy becomig a girl and how he deals with it, and El goonish shive has Elen (a magical transgender-curse-turned-human girl).
Oh right, forgot about Misfile (another webic read every week day)
You beat me to the Misfile mention.
El Goonish Shive has everything. And it’s glorious.
One that’s a good look at real-world issues is Venus Envy, though it seems to be dead as of January last year- no official word on it, but no updates, and it ‘ended’ on some pretty heavy stuff.
There’s also things like MSFHigh, which uses transformation and transgenderism in a more comedic way, and The Wotch has a lot of transformations, including gender-based ones, with a little look at related issues.
If you’re looking for Superhero -based transgenderism, check out Whateley Academy and the authors therein. Some of the best superhero webfiction online, in a massive shared universe- and fantastic forums and fanfictions, too.
It has remained firmly in my regular reading list. Helped by the fact that it has a secondary strip which (mostly) has non-canon fun stuff in it. So the author can play around with a lot of interesting ‘what ifs’.
No need for me to put a link to EGS though. It is a permanent feature on Dave’s list too.
*points paw towards link in the “Other Webcomics that I like” banner*
“You are Under Arrest” Character Aoi Futaba ?sp? Is a male police officer, went undercover, pretending to be a woman to catch out perverts that feel up women on the subway system…
Got into character too much, and he could return to living as a man. The show tries to show the issues he/she deals with in a few episodes, dealing with suitors, admitting to men the he/she likes etc… mainly the female cast complain he/she is far more feminine than they are..
Couldn’t return to living as a man….
Well, certainly none of the main characters in El Goonish Shive ever cross-dress…
Let’s see… including transgender, transvestite, and genderfluid characters…
* there’s a new minor character in EGS.
* Rain has several ranging from title character to briefly-mentioned-but-never-seen.
* TwoKinds has one who is transgendered (not just transgender).
* Cherry who’s also a minor character in Footloose.
* a few in Too Much Information (nsfw).
* one revealed fairly recently in Questionable Content (borderline nsfw).
Those are the only ones I know of (unless I’m just forgetting some at the moment) that are both good (in my opinion of course) and currently getting updated regularly. Venus Envy showed some potential but hasn’t had an update in 18 months and had like five new pages in the three years before that.
I need to check out those comics – thanks all. :)
Manga does it in light hearted sort of way… It’ll like “It’ll be so fun if I can be pretend to be a guy/girl (pick one) so that I can go undercover. Imagine being in a room full of guys/girls (pick the other one) without them noticing! *excited squeal*
Heh. If you fancy something a bit heavier someday, check out Shakespeare, He liked to play with issues like that, in some of his plays. And a surprising number of seemingly modern stories (including major movies) are drawn, in whole or in part, from his works. Including the ones that play on gender misidentification or concealment.
I quite like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s remake of Hamlet. But it is all to often under appreciated. Although it is not one of the gender plays, so only sprang into my mind as a classical reworking. And it is simply impossible to get your paws on the full version!
Something that I can unreservedly recommend though is Shakespeare in Love. Which cleverly chooses to retell Shakespeare’s life in the style of Shakespeare. A must watch for any soppy romantic, in particular.
There are various other movies which play with the issues to good effect too. One I recommended recently is Victor Victoria. Old, but hilariously funny.
“Thanks for all the vote incentive votes! I know those pencils are a little light, I will try and get that colored the first chance I have, and will attempt to stream it while I do.”
*blinks* Huh, so my daily voting has been noticed? Or maybe I just started to vote at a period in time when several other people decided to do so also.
Presently we are at 5,300 votes. Which averages out at about 1,000 votes from us per day. So, yea, there are a few other folks voting, at the same time. But every single one of them counts! So please keep it up. There will be fierce competition, from those displaced from the top position. In due course.
And is it just me or does this comic seem to be updating earlier for the past week or two? Is it Daylight Saving somewhere?
DaveB mentioned in one of his comments a few strips back that he was changing the update time from 6AM to 5AM, mostly because “Why not?”. So yes, it’s updating earlier, but no, it’s not because of a time change, and yes, it is Daylight Saving Time in the US.
Ah cool. Thanks. :)
Candace worries me…..
Worries you? She excites me! ;)
she would excite me if i thought she could get anywhere with max…..or max and sydney together…..hmm maybe i am excited lol
Thanks for explaining the Mt. Everest thing, but I roughly understood it. Since it’s the highest mountain in the world, I thought it meant something like “the ultimate goal that can’t be topped by anything else”.
Man, it’s so nice that the tension has been low for a while. I no longer anxiously await each update, I am just looking forward to it in a relaxed manner.
Ok, I’ve got the J. Geils Band song stuck in my head, Thanks DaveB…
Hmm, New supervillan sidecick “the earworm”. Causes victim to have an annoying song stuck in their head to the point of madness.
“Na Na Na-na Na Na” (No, bad Dave. Stop singing along to the worm..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg (share that worm..)
Super Bitch comic did that recently, only he was a main villain, not a sidekick.
That was rather the point of the page title. :)
Forget about some yet unknown enemy learning about those pictures and inventing the first wormhole to get them. Think about what lengths Dabbler, and possibly Harem, would go through to have a peek at such pictures. Even Math might risk life and limb (a literal risk in this case knowing Maxima) to kung-fu himself through a steel wall for those pictures.
dabbler probably already has a collection of her own that she used some x-ray type tech to get….but she wont share with anyone
I doubt a succubus even understands the concept of porn, other than in the abstract. They most assuredly are ‘hands on’. Pictures will not even provide nourishing tantric energy.
Well, at least she did understand the “porno sense” concept.
You assume the only use she’d get is from direct viewing. There are other ways she’d get exposed to the concept – for one, she’d likely enjoy being involved in the making of porn (though having to break things up for the camera might get annoying for her), and also there is the whole concept of ‘sex while watching porn’, that a succubus might well like and take advantage of.
Porn is usually standalone, but it doesn’t have to be, after all. It can be part of foreplay, or just play.
Yeah, I’d wager a succubi generally prefer to do it than watch it.
Just so you know: the current team doing the Dick Tracy comic strip introduced a guest character by the name of Kandikane Lane last year.
https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2014/11/02
Kandice O’Kane was the daughter of Charles O’Kane, Mayor of the City of Ravens Bluff.
If you don’t recognize this bit of trivia then your geek cred is in jeopardy.
Passed through it. Never lived there though. It could not tempt me away from my villa in Waterdeep.
whoa wait, what? Dick Tracy is still ongoing? Awesome!
Of course, this means I have another archive trawl to go through.
Start at March 14th 2011. That’s when the new team of Joe Staton and Mike Curtis took over, which was a huge boost for the series.
That’s it, now I have to make an artistic nude Maxima fan art picture.
… I’m way lazy, that’ll never happen.
Boo! Don’t let the Lazy stop the golden glory from shining!!
Are you aware that the Dick Tracy comic strip *also* has a filmmaker called Kandikane Lane? :)
I didn’t. When I thought of her name I googled it to see if something prominent came up. The most notable thing was a Wii game called candace kane’s candy factory, which I had never heard of. Google is bad about popping “Daredevil’s stripper girlfriend” or whatever to the top of the list. There’s a definite prominence threshold so it’s not surprising the name’s been used before.
You didn’t came across Candye Kane’s “Superhero”? Odd :)
Ooh, I rather like her sound. Thanks, I had not heard that before. Although it makes me aware that I probably missed a play on words, in another thread, due to not knowing of that.
I take it you didn’t find Candy Kane the porn star? That predates the Internet by a couple of generations. I first saw her on the Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder.
I strongly believe that within the first five people to make physical contact with another sentient race, at least one of them is going to try to pull a Captain Kirk and boldly go where no human’s been before.
as long as it looks ANYthing like human.
well, if it look like let’s say, DC martian (the first one we see) there may be people into it.
but xenomorph? they seem fairly intelligent. or how about trying a predator?
Have you not heard of rule 34? Alien/Predator porn is easy. Resemblance to a human will not be required.
Yeah, there’s always someone willing to fuck something, no matter what it is.
uhm… its one thing to photoshop something into having sex, its entirely diferent to actually do it yourself.
Speak not about others’ fetishes :P
Heh, yeah. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the internet it’s that no matter how much something squicks me there’s someone, somewhere, who gets turned on by it.
Zack Tilly! And what turns you on, squicks someone else out
… cue lots of young ones googling for “Zack Tilly porn” ;)
Heh heh :D
“…within the first five people to make physical contact with another sentient race…”
Since Dabbler is an alien/hybrid and considering that a large part of her is also succubus, I’d imagine that it’s already happened…Like, a few dozen (maybe even hundreds) people ago.
you see the aftermath of it earlier in the comic with one of vehemences cronies
Barberian was never a crony
Total chain of custody, my ass. Nobody’s ever heard of a scanner? All she’d need is three minutes before she handed over the prints and negatives.
Ms. Candace does seem quite suspicious “jumping the gun” to that offer so quickly, charm or not. I’m not even in law enforcement or any sensitive line of work, and that would have had me turn around and walk right on out of there. Period.
she is quite fast.
” … a bit of a MT.Everest situation. Speaking of which…”
seems legit to me. she is this close to her lifetime achievement, why wouldn’t she be forward?
Honestly, Candace didn’t really jump the gun. When my husband and I met with our photographer to make our first payment and discuss engagement photos, she asked if I wanted to do some boudoir photos for him before we ever even decided on the location for our engagement stuff. It’s just something they do nowadays. Candace came off as very professional to me, if a little chatty.
Candace is dealing with a very public figure, and as Max pointed out, one with plenty of potential security issues the average Joe/Jane might not be as concerned with. It just strikes me as something i would not broach so early in what is supposed to be a professional interaction with a government/military person.
And again, all it takes is three minutes with a flatbed scanner for those film/paper photos to be as unstoppable as digital. Nowadays any image is vulnerable. Heck, Harem could teleport in and out of Max’s living quarters and snag them for leniency blackmail.
The higher ranked a person is, the earlier you should bring up the most important issues, if dealing with them on a professional basis.
I would not step into a chief executive’s office until I had decided on the key issues I needed to raise. Then, just like Candice has done here, I would present them as quickly, and concisely, as I could manage. Mentioning all pertinent qualifiers, and critical information, that they need to make a decision.
This can actually be formalised, at the very highest levels, where you may be given say three minutes to make your case. At the end of which an irrevocable binding decision will be made. Nobody ever dared put a timer on me. But there was no need, as I behaved as if there was one.
Every minute of their time was costing the company vastly more than mine. Plus other work, that they could be spending their time on instead, may actually be contributing to my own welfare, in itself.
The same is true for Candice. Maxima needs to make the decision “do I want to work with this person, or not?” The quicker she has all the relevant information, to make that call, the better for both parties.
A senior military officer is unlikely to appreciate someone beating around the bush, or trying to lull them into a false sense of security.
Panel 4: This is what Maxima’s face looks like when her mind power-dives into the gutter.
pannel 4 only has the candy.
I dont think arianna would appreciate them doing racy photos even with all the assurances candace is bringing out. Last thing she needs to deal with after last nights battle is potential nude photo leaks.
If Maxi knew it would give Ari a major conniption fit, she would do it and ‘leak’ the pics herself (and then go destroy all copies ever made)
I dunno, it would certainly be a big entry for the plus column, but she doesnt strike me as the type to really be interested in posing for sexy pics so knowing it would annoy arianna would likely make her waver at least. And she would never willingly leak the photos, because once they exist, they would stay on the internet forever. No way to destroy them once they get out.
That wouldn’t be necessary. She’d just have to let Arianna think word had leaked out that such pictures exist and she’s trying to find them, and Arianna would flip on cue.
The fact that the pictures don’t actually exist would be shared between herself and the computer-geek guy whose name I can never remember. (Because he’d figure out they don’t exist soon enough, but waste time looking for them first.) Candace? She’d know that SHE didn’t take any… but that doesn’t prove they don’t exist.
That is exactly what you should use a wormhole device for.
I wonder what Maxima’s first thoughts are upon meeting Candace?
For me, “Everest” immediately invokes “… because it’s there”.
‘Technology is driven mostly by Porn after all’
I suspect we’re about to see some of that happening with VR.
And war.
Mostly war.
Thus we are discussing this on a network originally created by the military, and first used to distribute porn.
to late
Ok, I am here. What am I looking for? Quite a lot of technology. Not much sign of porn though.
mel said he suspects porn in VR soon and he is a bit behind the times because the occulus has porn already
What? She’s not a super-photographer?
;)
Yes she is. She photographed both Super Hiro AND Wolverine.
You sure that was Wolvie and not Jean ValJean? o_O
I am pretty sure which one Sydney would see, when she looked upon him.
Trick question, Wolvie IS Valjean. Damn amnesia keeps screwing with him.
Good point
Enemies-shmenemies. I give it 60-40 the pics would be on billboards 7 minutes after Harem discovered they existed. Max doesn’t even need to leave the shop to find people who would out those pics.
Heck Dabbler would probably do it just because she thinks it would be good for Max.
Come to think of it, that’d be a great way to quickly fill in the blanks on Maxima Bingo.
if dabbler wanted to she could tech/magic maxs cloths off and get the pics….and harem could teleport in as maxima showered and get them before she knew it was happening
Downside is Harem would be quickly filling out the “What happens if one of me dies” section on the reporters list….
Since that question has already been asked, it would be totally appropriate if, at some point in time, that question gets answered; a scenario that would involve Harem to make a sacrifice in order to save the world, or something equally important.
Indeed, when Dave first asked the question in the comic, he'[ll have to also write in the answer, sooner or later.
;)
I was wondering if our tattooed photographer had a thing for Maxima.
It wasn’t before my third sweep that I noticed that said tattoo actually is a flower blossom mini Maxima.
So, yes, she totally has. ;-)
i thought it was just a standard hawaiian girl tattoo
but i like your idea better
I don’t think so. Macima became famous all of yesterday. I don’t think she’d have a tattoo of Max already, and if she did it would still be healing, red and blotchy and probably covered by gauze.
So in the near future, the next Fappening will occur thanks to wormhole technology… gotta love science.
Dave, since you took the time to mention that the page was colored by Keith, I would like to offer a comment on that. To me, it looks like Max’s skin is less metallic than usual and the area around the eyes looks more bruised than shadowed. The highlights on Candace’s skin also look ‘blown out’ to use the photography term. I am not trying to be snarky here. I have personally noticed that editing something that looks good on one monitor can look totally different on another. My suggestion would be to do a calibration check on the screen he is using to see if it may be off somewhere.
Do calibration checks on both screens to see if they are differently off.
Can somebody please explain to me why would Max even want nude photos of herself? Is this a thing in the USA or something? I’d get why the photographer would want one, but why in the world does she think Max would want any?
Not the USA here , but
the Photographer i knew made it sound like it was a vanity thing ,
the young women wanting a picture of themselfes in their prime .
And it seems they were a bit irritated when he said that he preferred photographing older people ( more interesting since life has left traces in their faces )
“I wasn’t always old and hideous. Look at these.”
“Aw Grandma, no! Put those pics away!”
“Sorry sweetie. Pass me that album over instead. Ooh, now look at this photo-shoot. It is the one where your mum was conceived!”
Talk about unwanted images floating around in your head…
That’s almost as bad as waking up in the middle of the night at some point when you were still a kid & walking in on your parents doing the dirty.
Or picturing a big burly (potbellied) Klingon male wearing a bright glow-in-the-day green Slingshot swimsuit ala ‘Borat’
Some women (and men for that matter) want to look sexy. And a professional offering to take the photos (and presumably set them up in makeup, costume, lightning, etc) would give them the best shot. And it doesnt have to be nude, could be sexy outfits, lingerie, or even just sexy posing. She was offering the entire lineup of options to see if maxima would be interested.
You know, there’s real comedy to be had later, when Sydney shows up for her photo-shoot.
How’s Candace gonna pitch that to Halo? If she thought Maxima was a Mt Everest Challenge, here she’d be facing something nearly unachievable. Making the sex appeal show with Halo. Then again, that might just be an artistic challenge.
I kinda have this odd feeling, due to Halo’s mouth/cursing, that she’d end up in a Teacher’s Outfit instead of school girl’s wielding a ruler and castigating a class full of misbehaving cute superguys. Though Halo standing w/o wobbling in spike heels might be impossible more than improbable.
Also could see Sydney wearing the catsuit, holding whip and a mask- and suddenly her evil twin comes forth…well her version of that. I can see max on her Pipboy just saying “NO…NO…NO…Sydney we have uniforms already.” (A chibi dabbler and Harem with one oversized ear leaning into the panel w/interest catching as much of the convo as they can.)
Harem of course vorps to the shoot to see if it’s anything like what they imagined ….
This scene starts DB’s next Patreon drive with “ARC After Dark and other things your Mother warned you about.” DB could also post the pencils to his DA acct, and open bids for the piece. Winner gets the inked and colored print. DB gets paid. And we get more Grrl Power.
DB then can hire more staff- and get the first book errata fixed, and special story/art added…sooner.
Of course most of yah mutants just want to see Arc Dark possibilities…fer reasons.
So would Halo be the “ugly duckling” or the “Cinderella w/potty mouth” (or Cinderella from Hampton (ask a brit bout that)) challenge?
If candace is really savvy and prepared she probably has a “rare” comic in backed plastic and an even rarer miniature still intact in its display case to dangle in front of Sydney to get her to make with the desperate sexy/want/desire puppy eyes…
Also Mission Impossible someone tells Arianna to make Sydney look sexier so she doesn’t stand out as much when she’s out with the other Grrls in public… of course ARC dark (the spies) would have counter arguments of why having someone that can blend into the general public w/o being noticed could be a good thing.
It would be understandable to take ‘artistic boudoir’ pics of Maxi in lingerie (or less), but why would Candace even think to suggest it with Sydney?
Cause she (like many readers) noticed that butt :)
i myself find sydney very attractive and would love to see some boudoir pics of her
Didn’t mean to imply that Sydney wasn’t cute or attractive, just she is less of the type than Maxi
+1
Mount Everest vs Mount St Helens if she got Sydney in there. Unless of course she offered to set Sydney up in various professional cosplay outfits…
I can think of worse reasons and consequences to creating a technology to rip a hole in the fabric of space.
Ripping holes in space time, still less dangerous than looking at the photos in question
The expressions are the thing that make this page.
PANEL 2: This might not be so bad.
PANEL 3: . . . I am disappoint.
PANEL 5: … he did what? (followed by) there are naked pictures of Hiro out there?
Max seems intrigued. Remember the “debriefing” thing? I’m starting to ship those two, a little bit. : )