Grrl Power #350 – It’s localized, it’s just not personalized
See, you guys probably thought I forgot to draw Sydney’s wrist-com for the last few pages didn’t you? >cough<
This page started off with Maxima in a tank top like the one Anvil was wearing on this page, but it didn’t make sense that she would wear a top like that around the base, especially with some of the perverts they employ. So then I redrew Max with her jacket on like so:
But Sydney’s comment at the end of the page didn’t really play right no matter how much pinchy Y cleavage I gave Max, so I went back to the tank top but used the more conservative she wore during the interview. I couldn’t tell you why she took her jacket off in the meantime. I doubt Candace managed to get her to even unzip it a little.
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Is that a skylight or do they have a hole in the ceiling with the express purpose of flying down it upside-down?
I gues the weather is nice and the window can open?
Looks like maybe it’s the entrance to that room where Sydney was introduced to the team, Maxi, Ari and Faulke (and some others) were standing on higher level (same room maybe where Harem decided that the guys’ shirt were all dirty at the same time and Sydney was drooling over the side)
Judging for the furniture I think the room where Syd was introduced is the same where they were watching the news at the beginning, the one where Max doom-descended from the sky.
The shirtless guys room I think is a different one (blue couch instead a red one). Jiggawatt called it “Media 2” in her text-to-all-ladies, maybe the other is “Media 1” :)
It looks like they’re about to walk into the lounge which does have a skylight.
But Maxi isn’t appearing through it, her foot is on the ceiling of the corridor
Yup
Thank you, that’s the one :D
:)
I would even say that they are coming back from the same corridor Sydney left here.
The fact the couch is brown lends credence to that claim
Hmmm… could be some difference, but they still seems close enough to me, I will stick with it :)
Same colour couch, check!
Corridor in the same location, check!
High ceiling and open-able windows, check!
Seems consistent with it being the same room, but only DaveB really knows that answer, if anyone does :D
Sh*t, my memory glitched, I took “lends” as the opposite semantic (lessens?), thus my reply :( I need to sleep.
No worries :D
Considering the number of flyers they have, I imagine many skylights, and windows that open…
… And, it seems only logical, corridors and rooms with extra-high ceilings.
Yeah, I think you have the right of it. Architecture for flying folks would be interesting.
Perhaps similar setups to those cat/dog-flap-door things where the chip in the collar unlocks it? With those neckbands allowing tracking as shown during the big fight last night, so it’s possible hatches open for them or at least unlock (At Maxima’s speed, auto-opening might not be fast enough) when they get close enough. Throw in a few extra security systems, & you have speedy access for flyers…
Skylights below the edge of roof fixtures or near higher walls –with palm print access, video and a deathtrap (non-lethal, but with increasing options). Better if they have a holo covered wall with a straight passage downward to the actual entrance … fail to identify and all the AC output is temporarily redirected to that one area shooting the intruder out like a watermelon seed.
if you were the guy designing a building for super heroes wouldn’t you include a skylight or 70
They are in a corridor just off of an indoor courtyard, with several balconied floors above/ around it leading to a skylight.
Hey, Max! I can see up your shirt!
RUN!!!
You can’t run fast enough.
he can could see if its possible tot eleport to a different universe.
she cant get him there unless she knows a wizard…oh right.
It’d still probably be pretty hard, with us having different physics and all that. (Superpowers aren’t part of our physics.)
Maybe I want to get caught…
if you want to go to space that badly, there are less painful options than a hypersonic boot to the rear.
I’m geting a mental image much like that of a small package of ketchup that was dropped to the sidewalk & stepped upon…
That doesn’t seem very survivable.
Maybe if you politely indicate that she’s very distracting like that, rather then saying that line, it might be survivable…maybe?
It’s probably survivable if you tell her in a non-sexist, calm and polite way. That’s probably one of the few ways not to get clobbered by Max, and might even allow for a decent relationship.
And yet once again, Dave’s diligent efforts in boob-physics research pays off…And does so quite well, IMO.
Your eyes are _down_ where?
well, the heroine from Wapsi-Square has a personal bra designer who has a degree in structural engineering, that’d probably help, right?
Nope. I don’t care how good the bra is, they’re made to hold boobs up. Turn a woman upside down, and the girls are gonna, well, do just what they’re doing here. :P
No, Monica’s new bra only prevented force from being applied (and hurting her), like when that ninja assistant tripped her and her new bra saved her from faceplanting the floor
Face-planting or boob-planting?
No, the non-Newtonian and spider-silk (forget what species :() bra that she landed on saved her from face-planting and squishing her bewbs two feet either side
Despite such scenarios (like when she landed on top of Vehemence here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1500 ), I dare say that the very nature of Anvil’s powers would make non-Newtonian clothing more of a detriment than an advantage.
So, say Max is flying along at a couple of machs, when she comes to a sudden stop due to something like Sydney’s force field, or whatever; wouldn’t she have a damned good chance of knockering (deliberate spelling) herself silly?
I mean, double invulnerable pillows to the face, and then to the lower chest area, rinse and repeat as often as physics demands…
And if she hits at an angle, we’re talking something like an uppercut + round house combo…
Milkshake. :P
You seem extremely… interested.,.. in the topic.
This has been one of the prevailing preoccupations of all Mankind ever since there was a Mankind to mention…
Mankind? Or Cactus Jack? :D
And what if Max decides to leave her hair loose and do some head-banging? Wouldn’t that be like thousands of purple razor blades whipping around in a 2 foot radius?
Headshake. :P
(Though in truth, maybe she can turn off the attack factor of her hair so that it becomes normal hair?)
…That’s one serious head job we’re talking about…
There are many different qualities that make up a material. Maxima’s hair obviously has a lot of tensile strength and shear strength, or it would fail catastrophically (blow to flinders) every time that Maxima did something particularly energetic, due to sudden impacts, quick accelerations and decelerations, various shockwaves, and simple air resistance. However, it also has low flexual strength–equivalent to human hair from all evidence–which makes its shape subject to the influence of low-grade forces like air resistance at walking speed, gravity, or compression by a hat or hair tie. If it didn’t have this low flexural strength, it would grow out straight, basically normal to the surface of her head until/unless deflected or deformed by a force strong enough, like her handsrunning through it. (And then the question of whether it would stay deformed or bounce back would be a question of its yield strength.)
Of course, from what DaveB has said, this might be all subject to her current level of zero-distance force field, assuming that still affects the non-living portions of her body (hair, nails, epidermis, etc.). In which case, her hair should be as close to normal-human durability standards as the rest of her body. Which means that if you can see her hair move, then her whole body is more vulnerable to the effects of forces. If so, it would be a visible indicator of how she is allocating her power pool. Punch her in the face and her hair whips around? Low points in shield. Punch her in the face and her hair is like a solid helmet? High points in shield.
It also brings up the question of how much of the durability of her hair is tied up in it being attached to her? If one of her hairs falls out, is it just like a normal hair, or is it still super strong, like a diamond filament?
That last point is interesting. If her hair is nigh-invulnerable, or at least super strong, then Max’s hairs would have serious commercial value. So, too, would be Achilles’ hair.
You greatly over-estimate how much boobs can actually move within their own skin. She is no where near large enough for that to be a concern and there’s nothing in this comic to indicate it follows japan’s ecchi comics rules for boobs which equate them to balloons filled with water or pudding.
What you’re seeing above is as close to her head as she’s able to get them without someone grabbing and pushing, and even then, it wouldn’t add enough to touch her chin.
Re: echhi physics- Chubby Mermaid and Flatscreen comes to mind.
You want an accurate simulation, think about that fat on steak/pork/whatever. Fat has a cell structure; it’s certainly not water. You can move it, but it’s elastic: the further you move it, the harder it is to do so. Gravity is certainly a lot of force, but not enough to move even a large lump of fat very far.
Yeah, but she would be flying around 1500 mph when she does a sudden stop. I’m guessing that a firmer structure wouldn’t help much in that instance.
Hopefully, she has the good sense not to do that, because without added invulnerability, that’d tear the cellular structure apart. The answer to your second comment, however (“rinse and repeat as often as physics demands…”), is probably around 2. Again, it’s not water. Think more like styrofoam, for this scenario.
Or you may try using an over-stuffed beanbag chair for a simulation…the outer covering will flex enough to allow distorting the shape, but not by a whole lot because of the densely-packed styrofoam pellets inside.
To be fair, I have actually caused a woman to hit herself in the face with her own boobs. Caught air going over a hill small curved bridge I didn’t know was there with her in the passenger seat. I wasn’t watching (for a number of reasons) but she told me her boobs hit her in the face.
Granted… she was more than a little overweight (so am I… so not a condemnation of fat people).
I always thought the X-Mansion had lots of skylights.
Hole in the roof?
You could merely repair it…or….skylight!
If I had an idea for a 4 or 5 panel comic featuring the 1990s Rogue and Jubillee,
how would I get that drawn?
who is the drow in the far right of the vote incentive?
The demon girl in red? She looks sexy (but I don’t know her name).
No, the drow beside the Martian Queen
Ah right. Somehow I just remember the demon girl in red. :B
The ranger from DOTA2. There is an extreme lack of named drow characters outside of novels. Drizz’t has been on enough covers that someone could include him in a male version of this picture, but there are virtually no female drow that are identifiable at a quick glance. There are a lot in Drowtales, but I’d have to look and see if any of them have easily recognizable dress or markings or hairstyle that someone might be able to identify them out of context.
There’s Liriel Baenre but it’d be hard to do so without the Windwalker Amulet.
what about champions of norath’s drow ranger?
I would have recognized Quian’tana or Ariel (as an adult) pretty much instantly. Very distinctive.
https://wiki.drowtales.com/index.php/Quain%27tana_Val%27Sarghress
https://wiki.drowtales.com/index.php/Ariel_Val%27Sarghress
ooo, and Kharla, Kiel, and Chirinide (all as adults) as well:
https://wiki.drowtales.com/index.php/Kharla%27ggen_Vel%27Vloz%27ress
https://wiki.drowtales.com/index.php/Kiel%27ndia_Vel%27Vloz%27ress
https://wiki.drowtales.com/index.php/Chirinide_Val%27Kyorl%27solenurn
Yup, definitely Kharla
What about Naal’suul? Pre-whatever turned her into that poor creature locked in the basement of the school
Yeah I thought about Naal… but everyone there are clear adults. And adult Naal… would be out of place.
…. except Modest. And a few others I don’t recognize.
I take it back, Naal would have been a good option too.
Yeah, a young Naal could fit in along with Modest Medusa and that green girl sitting at the table happy to be allowed to be there :D
There’s Viconia Devir from Baldur’s Gate series https://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Viconia
Aurie noticed and obviously did a cost benefit analysis on saying something about it.
Yeah, was about to comment on his look towards Ari in the last panel (“Sure, you only noticed her hair!”
Gosh I’m so gullible… It never appeared to me that Sydney meant anything else except Max’ hair… until now.
I was staring at her foot for most of that, trying to work out how she’d moved to get into that position. I didn’t even notice the rest of her apart from a general impression of her pose. Some of us apparently just have different priorities.
To be fair, I actually didn’t notice until I saw Halo’s last line. Then I was like…. “huh? Waaaait a minute…. BOOOBAHS!”
And I pride myself on being a grade A perv. Me and Math would get along famously…
Or be viewed as a rival :D
“And here we are at ARCHON’s 1st ever Perv-off, long standing member Math pitting his skills against newcomer Wolferz to see just how perverted they can be WITHOUT going too far & getting reported. Target selection is indeed important here, more easy-going targets may let you get away with more, but are worth less base points. I am your host (and camera team), JackNHack, & I will be using my unique skills to monitor both contestants without being noticed by anyone. Yes, I was tempted to join in, but being able to turn part of yourself into someone’s panties was decided as cheating…”
I agree with Sydney, it was her hair that was distracting.
no really, Why yes I am straight why do you ask,,,
Heh. It took me reading the comments to figure out that it wasn’t actually her hair that Sydney was referencing. So for me it really was her hair.
Hair for me too, the boot for Daniel the Human…
I think Sydney needs to spend a day or two with Sandy. That was a lot of paperwork.
Good to see that Archon reconsidered that false-ceiling option.
Archon, like Kirk’s Khan, needs to learn to think three dimensionally.
8008135!!!
Eh, I don’t get it. Is this another Human thing? Doesn’t help that Daniel the Human’s chuckling at me too…
GAH! Ceiling ninjas!
Too much ‘thump’ and ‘woosh’ for ninjas.
So… I had this really weird thought. Does this mean that Max can do her toilety business at extra fast speeds and return to her WoW game in less than a second?
She probably can, but I’m less sure about the integrity of her clothing after such a stunt… And I’m OK with that…
(Another thought just struck. At speeds like that she’d probably wreck the toilet, and suddenly it doesn’t sound as appealing…)
An outhouse a half mile away from the house…
Unless it’s a super-titanium toilet? Though there would be the matter of what toilet tissue is strong enough…
And the speed part – are you referring to the toilet shattering or the exit speeds? :P
Best…scatological…discussion…ever…
Why, thank you. :)
Even just pee. If she empties her entire bladder in 1 sec that’s going to be coming out at enough speed/force to cut through a lot of things.
Well, Speed/Strength are different things in her power set (which makes physics kill itself, but moving on), so I’d say that being super speed when she spits or in other way produces fluids would result in them moving fast but not hitting super hard? Let’s go with that.
Maybe it just splatters everywhere… on the walls and such.
*now has laughing pains*
*has had too much sugary stuff today*
After reading this discussion, I got an idea of a really weird super-villain. Consider the following scenario when Archon personnel arrive on a crime scene.
Crime scene investigator:
“Somebody has cut through the steel door with a flowjet cutter. The cut is not straight, so he must have done it by free-hand. The crime scene has a faint smell of urine, and there are several crushed beer cans laying around.”
Maxima:
“Beer cans… he has been topping off his ‘tank’ after making that cut. These are light beer with low alcohol content, so he is trying to stay sober while preparing to do some more cutting. Ok. Everyone, the suspect is a large man, wearing a kilt and carrying a backpack full of beer. He is armed and dangerous.
Halo:
“How do you know that the suspect is wearing a kilt?”
Maxima:
“I know this guy. He wears the kilt because he likes to fast-draw…”
Gives a new meaning to “Quick Draw McGraw” :P
And if his urine could do that, what about the . . . stuff that comes out during a sexual climax? Wouldn’t this hypothetical criminal be a serious danger to his romantic partners?
Just ask Lois Lane ;)
Read Larry Niven’s “Man of Steel, Woman of Keelenx”: https://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
That sounds like the MacKenzie brothers. If you’ve seen their movie, “Strange Brew,” you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Somehow, I’m getting the idea of industrial water-lasers as a simile…
You mean like this stuff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_jet_cutter
Yeah…It can cut through brick, concrete, wood, plastic…Even steel, if there’s sufficient water pressure.
I feel sorry for any tavern restroom urinal where that guy goes drinking…Poor thing.
:(
That implies her freaky superhuman biology even needs to do “toilety business”. When things like metal skin and purple hair enter the fray, there’s no way of knowing what the internals might be like.
Because I’m feeling extra-funny today… That food has to go somewhere and there would be waste. I would assume they form little ball bearings.
It bears repeating that this comic posits a world without our notion of physics. Harem can TELEPORT. Jiggawatt can TURN INTO LIGHTNING, and continues to think while in that form. Achilles is literally invincible. If Maxima’s food never leaves her body in feces form it would be like the fiftieth least plausible thing about her.
For my own idea (and yes, I did make this up without stealing it), I’d say things like this work off a similar, but not equivalent physics to our own. If we were to say the superpowers here work off “magic,” then I’d say entropy is a measure of magic energy.
I apply this idea for all comic universes, unless they have their own explanation already.
I am now picturing Max dropping rabbitlike pellets and it is hilarious.
Well, she has a mouth, and we’ve seen her eat. Presumably the other stuff works the same, which is to say that there’s no indication that she wouldn’t also need to excrete.
Indeed, given the nature of super powers it is entirely possible that the energy requirements for flying, energy blasts, and general damage/physics reduction comes from total energy conversion of the food she eats. It is however rather unlikely that that would account for all of the mass/energy of the food she ate unless she had some ridiculous overhead/metabolic costs. Which would mean that she could excrete anything, from mundane waste to iron fusion byproducts, or from depleted uranium to non-coherent light. (Hey, it works for unicorns so why not?)
On the other hand if she does need to use the restroom (for purposes other than costume changes) it is likely that doing her business can’t be accelerated beyond what you or I could do. The reason is simple, her waste gains the effects of her powers while it is inside her, and accelerates and decelerates as she does. If it didn’t then she would soil herself any time she did a really high G maneuver, or at least feel like she got punched in the gut, from the inside. Really it comes down to the effects of the “Zero range telekinesis” that reinforces her cellular structure and lets her pick up ambulances etc.
“she could excrete anything, from mundane waste to iron fusion byproducts, or from depleted uranium to non-coherent light.”
Literally shitting bricks.
Um, max… She’s supposed to have that on when the battery’s dead too? How does she recharge it anyway?
it could have a micro nuclear reactor that keeps it going FOREVER.
or it somehow has a wireless connection to another power source. kind of like the pylons of the protoss, because super powered quantum mechanics.
Her battery was dead when she left home this morning, that’s why she had to stop for directions from the traffic helicopter. It’s probably on a charger somewhere right now. Hope she can remember exactly where, go get it and make it to the roof. Times a’wastin’ and Max doesn’t like burning daylight for nothing!
well then, if they aren’t already then they should upgrade them soon.
“Alright people, I have good news &….other news. The good news, we have new micro-nuclear-reactor batteries for your comm units. The…other news, you may end up….developing new powers & so on, due to the batteries influence…”
While I admit this is not normal physics, this does not appear to be D&D physics (See Dabbler’s reaction to gamma radiation). As stated in a Full Frontal Nerdity strip I am far too lazy to find, “[Shouldn’t this be more realistic?]” “Here, have some cancer.”
I think that was the “…& so on…” part. Guess she doesn’t wanna come straight out & say it’ll turn you into the next Deadpool…. :P
from what i heard, his “regeneration” is not actually a power, he was cursed with life so he couldn’t be with “mistress death”.
although, maybe outdated version? don’t read much of it.
Well, obviously DaveB try to keep realism when it comes to physics.
When i say “super physics” here and there, i do not mean that standard physics don’t apply, just that if you have super powers you can sort just go around them one way or another.
you know how everything is supposed to be on some level made out of energy?
let’s say there was a super, that can actually LIQUIFY ENERGY!
i mean literally, turn energy, to create a liquid.
such a thing would pretty much has its own set of rules it obey, rather than the standard physics we are used to.
The implied answer is that the wristcom should be functioning at all times she is expected to wear it. Consider military boot-camps where equipment being organized, cleaned, shined and above all kept in working condition are drilled into a recruit. Equivalent effort here would also nclude proper and timely charging / battery replacements such that a critical piece of equipment is always available when needed. Imagine if she didn’t have it during the fight with Vehemence! ::shudder::
For a piece of equipment THAT important there should be multiple rechargeable batteries that can be ‘hot swapped’ (plug in 2nd before removing 1st) so even long battles, at end of shift, with low battery won’t be a problem.
Good point. A snarky recruit, which Sydney qualifies for in spades, might point out (in a suitably dry delivery manner) that she was given the wrist-com but was not issued the regulation charger, and so now having it on her would be complying with the letter of the law while only extending the amount of time she was not available via wrist-com, since it is charging. Being the Colonel doesn’t mean you can’t have your own errors pointed out to you.
To cover the writer: given she’s upside down and her height, there’s a good chance that had she left the jacket on, the back of it would have flipped down and possibly gotten dusty/dirty on the ground. That’s why she took it off before flipping upside down.
Her jacket is a leather one that barely reaches her waist, not a full length ‘duster’
a flopping around upside down jacket is really distracting though…
It’s also fairly tight, there wouldn’t be much to flop (maybe a bit of hiking up).
Man, even Aurelius lost his moustache in the last panel.
He has the secret power to retract them. The sound is something like *shooop* :P
Naaa, it’s still there, it’s just blending into his top lip due to his size in the pic. If it was a bit bigger, it’d be easier to see…
My bad, turns out it’s been fixed now, before I get my 1st chance to have a good look at it. So much for that other screen…
They really should consider an atomic battery or something for those pip-boy things. Last forever, only mildly irradiates the user. ;)
Yeah, no problems. The 2nd head will help keep an eye on the battle around them…
Spider Max, Spider Max,
Does whatever a Spider Max does.
Can she swing, from a web?
No she can’t, she just flies.
Look out! Here comes the Spider Max!
I would think her pipboy would have replaceable batteries…
I agree, we should officially petition to dub sydney’s wrist comm a pip boy or something similar.
Maybe that’s why she has a different one in the pre-flashback pages. Her current one cannot hold a charge, her ADHD keeps causing her to forget to plug it in, and so they gave her a better one. Or will give her a better one . . .
The next model looks more like an mobile strapped to her wrist (at the moment :P )/a> as opposed to her current full-gauntlet setup. It is possible it could changed tho, retro-whatzited so it looks different…
That’s the mini-unit, designed to blend in with people’s smartphones that they strap to their arms, although with reduced functionality and not a good idea to wear in combat. At least, that’s what I think DaveB would say.
Don’t they also all have throat mike r/t’s?
They still have to plugged into something
The mikes are plugged into the collars. The collars connect wirelessly to either a special Arc smart phone or to the wrist com. Max gave Sydney the wrist com because it also has a transponder and Max did not want an inexperienced flyer to wander unannounced into local flight lanes. That is also why the battery went dead so fast when Syd did not turn it off at home last night. Which would also have looked like an downed aircraft in a residential neighborhood. I wonder if the FAA sent someone to her address to investigate that signal? And please tell me that Sydney’s home address is 42 Wallaby Way. :)
*Mic short for microphone. Mike is a name. ;)
Ari? No one is buying it, your little ‘secret’ is going to come out sooner than later :D
in votes we are BY FAR in the first place, and it snot even the first day.
is this going to be another “month of the Grll Power”?
I thought its battery was dead?
Probably quickswap batteries.
Even so it is using Earth technology, and we have really bad battery life. Especially for something with as extensive functionality as the Pip Boy.
Moreover nikolai60 is alluding to Sydney’s Pip Boy having been drained flat, so that she could not use its navigation function to find her way back to the Archon HQ. Thus leading to her having to try and find her way by eyeball, and getting lost.
Although I do appreciate that your reply indicates that she would not have a significant delay in recharging it, once back at base. Plus Archon are clearly not short on cash so, even if they only have built in batteries, that have to spend time recharging, they would be able to give Halo a spare to use in the meanwhile.
I wonder what Maxima wants with Sydney on the roof???
The plot thickens…!
Yes, was wondering what the next part of Sydney’s training would be that required being on the roof, of a very tall building…
Now wondering what else Maxi is going to do to Sydney for not having her pip-boy charged up, plugged in, worn and turned on
Issue herself 10,000 pushups? It’s Maxima’s fault that Sydney doesn’t have a charger, after all. She was given the wrist-com but no accessories. And she had plenty of time to have Harem deliver it while she was collecting Sydney, so that’s twice Maxima has missed out on an opportunity to keep Sydney’s wrist-com charged.
Now, there’s gotta be a non-com in the organization who’s responsibility it is to ensure that everyone has the required gear. But that person may not even know of Sydney’s existence yet, so really it’s all on Maxima until she sorts things out.
“This is where we drop poor cats and watch them plummet to see if they can twist around to land on their feet. You drop em’ Sydney and I’ll catch ’em just before they go splat”
*these poor ‘lil cats
Max catches them, but due to sudden deceleration, they splatter like lumps of strawberry jam (Daniel the Human say kudos to anyone who recognizes the reference). They would call off the experiment, except the whole box is already airborne…
Well, the team is going to grab her and throw her off the roof into a mud puddle. They say she can come back to the penthouse when she wins a medal. In the process Sydney unwittingly releases a giant monster bug that multiplies into a swarm that attacks the city. Which can only be defeated by Sydney diving into a volcano.
You know, standard recruit training.
Perhaps they go to the roof to view a huge mountain of potatoes that Sydney needs to peel!
Maxima:I want those spuds PEELED!!!!
Sydney can feel some sort of pain!
Sydney: Can’t I get the kitchen guys to do this?
Max: You *are* the kitchen guy!
Sydney: Actually, I’m a girl
Sydney deploys the PPO: “Those spuds no longer have peels, Colonel!”
They are now french fries maam!
Well, there goes my theory that sydneys next task was going to be forced to sit through and pay attention to the arianna pr instruction lecture if she wanted to go to the premiere.
The EVENTUAL premier is for a movie that won’t start filming until after at least 2 more movies have been released, or 2-3 years from now, so THAT isn’t a reason to rush.
Yeah, but arianna wants halo to go to the lecture today and pay attention, so holding tickets to the grand opening of the upcoming avengers movie over her head would have been the perfect hammer to beat it into her skull with.
It took me a few seconds to realise that in that last panel, Sydney was talking about Maxima’s boobs. My thoughts went to this direction:
>wait what does she mean by ‘localized gravity’
>her hair?
>oh yeah it’s down
>though it’s not that unusual
>now why would it be distracting
>wait is she embarrassed
>oh wait wait she’s talking about boobs
>they do look pretty funny here
And then my mom says that I have a dirty mind. I didn’t even notice Maxima’s boobs before they were semi-explicitly mentioned
Agreed on all points except that my mom doesn’t read this comic. Also, I didn’t get it until I read the little joke in the bottom left corner.
I’m a visual person (instead of a numbers or words person), so I looked at the panel from top down and thought the boobs looked a bit funny. Then I read Sydney’s blurb and went – ah so that’s it.
Well, at least they didn’t pop out. :)
Maxi has them well trained, after that cheerleading practice incident :D
I’m now left wondering what colour the smarties are…
smarties?
nips. :P
probably the same as her lips.
Probably (and personally would have gone with ‘pebbles’ over ‘smarties’, or even “M&M”‘s :P)
Now if we can just get our female characters to stand in a line, we can have an assortment of confectionery that I’m sure Math would drool at.
*imagines*
Woah…
Now that’s an interesting notion.
Reminds me of the idea that a person’s pubic hair is usually the same approximate color of their eyebrows, and that a man’s lips and the tip of his penis when not aroused are also often roughly equivalent in hue.
DaaavveeeB! Fix Ari’s mustache in last panel. Aren’t you glad you have so many attentive (Anal-retentive) readers?
Ha! Looks like I’m still in time to join in on the “Missing Mustache” bandwagon!
It’s fixed. :)
Also, it’s interesting to see how Sydney’s power balls are floating together more tightly in panel 2.
The author has mentioned that since the orbs are often drawn in later over a group shot of people, he sometimes has to change their default orbit size to avoid collision with other people in the scene.
Consciously or unconsciously, Sydney probably caused the orbs to tighten up their orbit. She didn’t want to punch Arianna or Aurelius in the face like she did that time to Mathias.
Nice porno pants on Maxima.
Boy, Sydney really has adopted the male gaze as her own. Is she just a little bi or does she just find demeaning women funny?
Maybe she just admiring a body that would be hard for her to physically achieve? I know I looked at Max and said ‘Wow, how amazing would it be to have that figure?’.
Yeah, saying someone is attractive isn’t demeaning them. Sydney has a bit of a hang up about the supermodels who surround her, but she doesn’t have any disrespect towards them that I can see.
‘Porno pants’? o_O
Finding someone attractive (of either gender) does not demean them, nor does it automatically make them gay (if that other person is the same gender)
No woman is going to wear pants so tight as to show off her vulva (without giving her camel toe), unless she wants to show off her vulva.
As for the “compliment” of being distracted by boobs, that isn’t saying that the person is attractive. That’s demeaning them by reducing them to their mammary glands. Especially with the smug smirk Sydney has on her face.
And I didn’t say there was anything wrong with being bi, that’s all you guys. I find it disturbing that is where you minds went. I meant that she spends a lot of time looking at boobs. True, it could be boob envy but then the boobs wouldn’t be that compelling.
Don’t see any toes belonging to a camel
Exactly, no camel toe but you can see her vulva outlined. I think she must be wearing one of these: https://gizmodo.com/5785736/10-alternative-uses-for-the-anti-camel-toe-guard
Here, I found a man equivalent of her pants, real life too! : … I’d say NSFW but technically its just a guy wearing jeans… click at your own risk!
Ergh, forgot the link!
https://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18wa017lbk4vojpg/ku-bigpic.jpg
why doesn’t max use some kind of high strength auxetic sports bra? would solve a bunch of problems.
Ahem…
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That is all.
More like
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That… looks like a sad puppy face
Actually, my first thought was Grumpycat. (Or at least some kind of cat.)
I was once present when a well-endowed girl did a sudden inversion and a back-flip dismount on a jungle jim, while wearing a halter top. They didn’t impact the chin…
It’s also the reason Max isn’t wearing the jacket. As her feet hit the ground the buttons on the back of the halter just vanished.
Anything not very firmly attached to the jacket would have shrapneled the corridor.
I’m going to assume that all the girls in the vote incentive are from something pop-culture-like. I’m pretty horrible at things like that.
I recognize:
Marvel’s Lady Death (I think), She Hulk, and Tigra
DaveB’s Dabbler and Maxima, natch
A World of Warcraft Draenei
An Avatar girl who is much less sexy than Neytiri/Zoe
A female Jedi of a race I don’t know the name of. I’m not sure it was ever even mentioned in the movies.
What looks to be a female Green lantern, but I only know GL as a male. And just the one guy, also. I’ve heard there were a few different ones, but not when I was collecting comics, and I was much more of a Marvel guy in any event.
That’s it. Not much of a score, a possible 9 out of 22.
By the way, the girl with the stripped stocking sitting on the stool looks like she has her tits out, because the sides of her breasts visible past her arms are the same color as what looks to be an exposed and flesh tone midriff.
I recognize one or two from (0_0 ) ( 0_0) (0_0 ) alternate sources (InCase and Dr. Graveling).
The Green Lanterns are an entire corps so there’s lots of them.
The orange Jedi is a main character from the clone wars cartoons, the orange floating girl with the tray is from Teen Titans, The tiger lady could be from numerous places.
On the other side There’s Modest the medusa (you’d probably like it if you’re a fan of Grrl Power), what’s her face from Gargoyles, and the chick with the orange bangs is from the Flaky Pastry webcomic (another one I’d recommend to GP fans).
The were-cheetah is Brittany from Gold Digger.
The orange girl with the tray is Starfire from Teen Titans.
The white girl with orange bangs is Zintiel from Flaky Pastry.
Beyond those three, Maxima and Dabbler, I don’t know any of them.
I guess there’s no copyright on an idea… I would have sworn that the “tiger lady” or “were-cheetah” was clearly Tigra from the Marvel Universe.
The “orange floating girl” looks nothing like anyone from Teen Titans I’m aware of, but it’s been a long while and comic teams change. She also looks a lot less realistic than I’m used to seeing the Teen Titans drawn in their comic. Perhaps an animated series character?
The ‘were-cheetah’ is behind Maxi (and taller, the third tallest), and Tigra is on the floor distracting Ahsoka and going for the floating hotdog
There are two ‘orange floaty girls’: one is Starfire holding the tray, the other is Arisia (a Green Lantern) with green speakers too close to her ears
Yeah, it was the faux-Starfire I was referring to. I’m used to seeing Starfire look like this.
The “Starfire” in the vote incentive is far too cartoony (yes, I can say that even though the real Starfire is a comic book character. There is a difference.) and is wearing way too much clothing for an alien who grew up with no nudity taboo.
That’s the ‘New 52’ Starfire, the Intergalactic Supermodel version, technically the ‘faux-Starfire’ came first
No. I have some very old comics where Starfire is depicted almost identically. A bit more covered, but the costume is generally the same. From the same wikipedia article we have an example.
Yeah, but the New 52 is wearing even less
No, wrong Lady Death :D
Who’s the red hot demon girl with white hair?
She is Kneesocks, from ‘Panty and Stockings with Garterbelt’
Like many others I’m sure, I’d love to see a larger and word-bubble-free version of that bottom left panel where Maxima is upside down. For… scientific purposes. Gravitic calculations. Yeah. Calculations.
I think the calculations you’re looking for can be accomplished with Paint Shop…
Mr Shrapnell is cute!
So when will Sydney remember it’s new comic day?
I swear no matter how often I see Maxima she looks better, hotter and fitter every single time you draw her.
I would give my left nut to be the custodian at that place.
XD THE FUCKING JANITOR! he went from surprised to oh yeah…supers…welp, time to get the ladder.
Wow, can’t believe I’m the first.
HEY DAVE, Halo didn’t have her pipboy on when she saw Max last, in front of the NATO guys. You could argue she was distracted by more pressing issues, sure, but technically this is the 3rd time she’s seen Sydney without her iBracer.
(Once inside the Skype room, once outside and now here)
Actually she did, it was under her sleeve.
you can easily tell Here . I kind of assumed it was still under her sleeve..
Ok I was wrong about the NATO meeting – the pipboy is clearly visible in a couple panels, poking out of her sleeve.
BUT in the gun range scene, after the clothing change, there is no visible evidence she still has it on.
Though it’s likely intended that it only came off for the shower and never went back.
[Damnit I wrote this entire comment on the wrong box I feel so stupid RN jfc XD I copy-pasted it here though because it’s important *cries silently*]
Uhm, I don’t have a cleavage as impressive as Maxima’s, but as a female who flips upside-down a lot allow me to say, for future reference: unless extremely tight and and made of very thick and hard fabric which is also elastic enough to fit (like something imitating denim but with elastane woven in it), in that position a shirt would have followed the breast, and in Max’s case, bunch up and rest right on the underboob, while the upper part would go over and rest around the clavicle.
I spent many seconds wondering over what didn’t make sense, and then it occured to me: the tightness on the shoulders makes it look like the fabric is straining towards her boobs, which conflicts with the fact that she’s upside down. Yes, they would peek out a bit in case of a very tight and thick tank top, but not so much as to strain the fabric in a direction opposite to gravity…
….but I understand all this is nearly pointless if not downright annoying nipticking, since the whole situation was a setup for the joke.
Though, TL;DR: if it rides up the abdomen, then it also goes over to the clavicle; if it stays in place and boobs peek out, chances are it won’t ride up the abdomen either. Just thought I’d give the help, as someone who has boobs. :)
After all, I can never seem to draw pants right on a guy whenever it’s not just neutrally standing up.
If I may ask, why do you flip upside down a lot?
Probably gymnast, excercises or has kids.
*exercises
We need an edit button.
Some kids need to be exorcized, spawn of demon seed that they are :P
Yep, amateur gymnast. (As in I don’t do competitions and can’t legally teach, just do it as a workout because I like it)
But I’ve also been a babysitter so there’s that too. And yes, an exorcism or two would’ve come in handy :P
I understand it as that the bottom-most part of her shirt is pretty tight and made to fit her hourglass figure. That would leave it caught at the bottom of her ribcage. If it’s caught pretty tight, the rest of the shirt design makes sense, except one thing: everything above her breasts should be loose. The straps should be off her shoulders at least a little bit, and the section just below her clavicle should be hanging instead of sticking to her skin.
While you are right… ;)
that can sometimes happen :)
Are those you? Either way, very nice (^3^)-b
I would like :) but no.
holy crap you got to my deviantart account XD (well I do have the same name everywhere so not surprised XD) upper photo is me.
Dunno who the lower one is, but my point stays: that’s a thick shirt and boobs still ain’t peeking out ;)
;)
Yup, I was as curious as everybody else about your comment. Then your picture looked too good to not be used :)
Second one is random, it’s more like an example of strain “opposite to gravity”, but it usually happen when the shirt is stuck into the pants, so that picture is kinda exceptional.
You do some really excellent art. I especially liked Dawn and the Incubus.
To be fair… Maxima has a rather different build from most women. Most wont notice it as much cause of the ample… “taterage”… in the chest and buttock areas… but she’s actually a bit…. “barrel chested.” She has a bit of a body-builders build. I notice cause I’m actually in to that sort of thing.
That was driving me crazy, I knew I posted a reply to this, I just forgot it was on the Vote Incentive thread.
I’m curious as to why you flip upside down a lot. I’m hoping it has something either to do with testing roller coasters or some sort of rope assisted ceiling dancing.Already answered as you obviously do some poling, which is an amazing… sport/exercise thing. The difficulty of some of the moves is pretty incredible. Of course people conflate it with stripping since stripping and pole dancing are intertwined inextricably at this point. I think if I was a gal I’d definitely get into it. As a dude with a bad shoulder, that seems like a bad idea.Given that Maxima’s skin is kind of slippery, her shirt should have piled up on the underside of her boobs, but I didn’t want to make the picture that gratuitous. I see what you mean about the disconnect between the shirt loose at her waist and also straining against her breasts. I really should have just drawn it tucked in which would resolve both issues.
I have trouble drawing slacks. I’m never sure how to get the crotch to look. I’ve spent 5 years drawing jeans and (tight) cargo pants, so the radial wrinkles are easy for me, but most slacks are much looser and it throws me off.
It is quite simply explained sirrah. Although Maxima does not have gravity locus on her flight she does have touch TK on her strength. So in any position where she engages the lightest of strength her clothes will adhere to her anywhere they already touch. SO she puts them on (dry) with everything set elsewhere and changes the power balance to add strength and hold them in place. Its probably why she could fly upside down without holster flop or jacket doing strange things while her hair is well hair.
My bet is that if she draws down all strength to do a speed run she might actually outpace her clothes, making for a “golden streak”, but can react fast enough to be a blur to any cameras.
“Fast enough to be a blur to any cameras.”
For some cameras, that’d have to be pretty fast.
Hence the reason for using spandex for superhero costumes. The elasticity of the material keeps it from doing obnoxious things. Bump it up to super-spandex, and you’ve got an ideal product for supers’ costumes.