Grrl Power #40 – Unleash the Filth Kraken!
Is it just me, or does Maxima seem really disinterested in the fact that there’s a bank robbery going on right now? “Hmm, gun, hostag… ooh rolly thing!”
So yeah 12 panels on a page is too much. I really could have cut this page in half and had 2 posts this week. In the future I’ll strive to do that.
Oh and bonking Sydney on the head with a shotgun? Probably not recommended. Unfortunately, being a “hitty” girl may not work out well for her in this situation. Girls can get away with nearly unlimited amounts of punching and playful swipes at their male friends, but against a thug with a gun? Possibly not the best course of action. We’ll have to see how this plays out for her.
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Looks like the blue-clad fellow on the floor might have noticed the tube too. I am so picturing a “WTF?” expression on his face.
And why is the other gunman just standing there?
maybe he’s he’s not completely dumb and wants to survive whatever OMG A Purple-Haired Golden Lady does.
He’s working with a guy to rob a bank and thinks he can get away with it. Judging by the fact that he hasn’t surrendered yet, he probably STILL thinks he can get away with it. I’d say he’s pretty damn dumb.
Jeebus crap! Why is he still holding onto her?? Think it’s to keep Sydney from rounding on him? Vicious little thing….. And is it me or is the case more moving AWAY from Maxima rather than TOWARD Sydney? Whatever’s in there might not like Max too much methinks….?
It’s moving because Mister Shotgun keeps stepping back from Maxima every time she steps forward.
I’m thinking the next experiment is Maxima picking up the tube and pulling on it to see what happens
Was that a reference to ICP? :P
Heh heh. I had originally written up a little rant about their stupidity, but I think it kind of speaks for itself.
Does it ever.
So much to love in this page. Fucking panels, how do they work!? GARBLAHbligleforkingTHARTHF! Love Sydney’s teeth in the last panel!
I really wish you hadn’t said that. Let me just reply that simply because you don’t know the meaning of the song doesn’t make it dumb. As for myself I have an IQ high enough to get me into Mensa and I have been listening to ICP for 15 years. I’m not stupid, never have been, never will be. And these guys you choose to insult make over 10 million dollars a year.
As the entertainment industry continues to prove, intelligence and income often have little to do with each other. ICP’s comments on magnets were, honestly, stupidity of the highest order and the band has demonstrated a rather severe contempt of science. And Mensa membership isn’t much of an indication of anything, either. They include among their members people who honestly believe that the world is less than 6000 years old (missing the mark by an order of magnitude equal to thinking that the distance between New York and Los Angeles is about 11 inches) while excluding famous physicists like Richard Feynman, who not only worked on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb but went on to make a number of important discoveries afterword.
Yeesh. Stick in ass → Remove. People are allowed to disagree with your musical tastes. Get over it.
Hey Shade all I said was I wish he hadn’t said that. I did not in fact say anything impolite or angry so far as I could see. I simply expressed that I had been wishing that the writer of a comic I like hadn’t chosen to insult people that have made a difference in my life. As far as the magnet line, I also happen to be a licensed electrician out here in South Dakota, and so I do happen to know how they work. But the point of the song is to look at the world around you and see just how amazing even the most commonplace things are, whether you understand them or not. I don’t think that is such a bad message.
Now just in case anyone wants to get mad at me for defending ICP, remember, like Shade said, people can disagree with your taste in music. Now I don’t want to take up any more of your time so I will just say, thanks for the comic, the magnet line is still funny coming from Sydney, and I hope you can agree to disagree with me on the subject of ICP.
No, Azrael, you wrote quite a bit more than just that. You went off on a tear about how smart you are and how much money they make and blah blah blah. You were clearly taking it like a personal insult, as if DaveB had insulted *your* intelligence instead of the band’s. And if you really are as smart as you bragged you are, you might have noticed how utterly ridiculous it made you look.
I have pretty narrow tastes myself so I don’t really know anything about their music in general, but their bit about not knowing how magnets work became an instant meme online and made the rounds into the science and skeptical blogs that I read, which as you can imagine were not generous with their interpretation of the lyrics. Broadcasting your ignorance of basic science in a song is one thing, but the next lyric basically said “and I don’t want to lean neither”, all of this in a song called “Miracles,” a word already looked down upon in the circles I frequent online and off.
Now, in the case that they’re just trolling everyone… I guess, well done. But still “I’m ignorant and don’t want to learn” doesn’t make them come off too well.
You did not just insult Syndey :D
That is: Sydney :p
Maxima has her game face on now. She doesn’t know what is up with that tube, but she knows that whatever it is is *not* mundane and passe` like a bank robbery. Now she means business. That look she gives Sydney was wonderfully eloquent.
Nice touch with Maxima walking forward while looking at the tube.
Question to the author – Has Maxima ever encountered something of similar nature to what is in the tube?
Heh, well, she won’t know until she sees what’s in the tube. That’ll be discussed later.
Fair enough. I suppose every Super is kind of quirky and unique, so expecting Maxima to recognize the specifics involved are a bit much. I was mostly curious if she (M) has run into power focii items before and might recognize that specific distance as being significant – assuming that other such items might have the same limit.
AAAAAAAHHH!!!! The waiting is keeling me!
Keep up the good work.
Isn’t Maxima a professional Hero?
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Nice situational awareness on the 2nd perp.
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((Watching him in the reflection of Perp1’s sunglasses?))
She’s keeping track of potential threats. There’s only one in the room. Whatever’s in that tube.
(The perps are only relevant if they have hostages, and only because they might be able to damage the hostage before she takes action. The perp behind her doesn’t have a hostage, and can’t get one without going past Maxima. So, ignore until he tries to move. Beyond that, this is just an annoying slowdown at the bank.)
Oh, Syd… why the backpeddling? Didn’t you decide to come out as a hero? Just go for it and let the fur fly. Maxima isn’t buying your lame-ass excuses, the scum holding you is just giving you a headache… pound his butt!
She was getting all geared up to hero out before she realized there was another super there. Not that she’s rationally plotting each move at this point but 1) why give away your identity/powers if someone else can take care of the situation, and 2) she may have a reason not to reveal what’s in the tube in front of a federal agent.
Well, yes; I agree that Sydney isn’t doing much thinking at the moment (mouth running on autopilot) but Maxima watching a tube moving means that Max will not be letting Syd leave without explaining all about said tube and its contents.
Oh, yes; really looking forward to that talk, once the minor annoyance of the bank robbers is out of the way.
Maxima is on assess and eliminate. You do not want to pose a potential threat by being superpowered until she chills out.
Assess, yes; eliminate, no. Sydney’s reactions show that she’s not with the brainiacs robbing the bank, and a powered villlian would not draw attention to themselves as Sydney has done. So Maxima will probably be thinking of the dangers of an untrained “hero” dropped into a simple takedown of a pair of crooks. And a non-choice of “You’re will be working for me or you will be in for a world of hurt.”
More or less…
Or maybe she’s just curious. Considering what a non-threat the bank robbers are to her, it’s not like she doesn’t have the time to look into something that happens to catch her eye.
Right now she`s an unknown factor. Maxima doesn`t need the confusion, is what I mean. Not being with the robbers doesn`t mean she couldn`t seriously screw up things.
Love it when Syd goes on a cursing jag.
Jubilex effluvia?
Demon lord in D&D. He’s a humongous demonic slime mold.
Yeah, he looks like the thing that comes out of other demons noses. Only covered with eyes and mouths. I believe he’s the demon lord of… yucky stuff.
AD&D 3.5 suppliment “Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss” says Jubilex is ‘lord of oozes and shapeless things.’
Like I said. a Demonic Slime Mold.
Not to be a horrible nerd or anything, but *her* name is Juiblex. Rhymes with “gooey blechs”. 3.5 supplements didn’t pick up quite all the material from 1st Edition.
He,She, how in the 498th layer of the abyss could ya tell?
Actually, Juiblex is male. You’re probably thinking of his sometimes ally Zuggtmoy, the Demoness Lady of Fungi, who shares the same layer of the Abyss with him.
first: i laughed at syd’s outburst
second: i got distracted by maxima’s shiny face
then: i noticed there was no mini comic at the bottom, and i was sad
but: i read the comic agian and was happy once more x3
…..
*shines a flash light on maxima’s face and is blinded by the sparkles*
@.@ worth it
…sorry, but “Unleash the filth Kraken” just made me laugh! XD
I love Sidney’s face in the last pannel =D
Holy shit, Sydney just turned into Kali!
More like E Honda.
haha i love her demon face
Okay, IMO, I can’t stand how much of the lesbian main characters cliche has been used in webcomics, but I would still love to see waaaaay down the road a possibly relationship with Maxima and Sydney.
(‘It’s Okay If It’s You’ trope, anyone?)
often a Yuri fan myself, but tend to be thinking these two are straight
Derrath my friend i agree with you whole heartedly its done a lot in webcomics the lounge is a perfect example of this not that i dislike the lounge for this infact i love it actualy, but every other strong female character either is bi or lesbian, but i have to say Max and Syd would have a great dynamic realationship but i think Max maybe bi with strong lesbian tendancies but much to our dismay Syd maybe playing strickly for the hetero team
im makeing that last panal my background.
It’s not really desktop ratio but here’s a larger version: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/filth_kraken.jpg
You should totally upload hi-res versions of your comic pages.
I’ll probably turn the occasional panel into a wallpaper if there’s call for it. I know Maxima is going to get a big splash page that’d make a decent looking desktop a little while down the road. It’s another one of those pieces that I drew 2 years ago that will likely get re-drawn once it’s time to post it.
Yes, you should definitely make this a wallpaper. I made this my background, fell asleep at my desk, and as I was slowly waking up, was scared out of my pants by Syd. It was awesome.
Looks like she’s ready for a crossover with Spinnerette.
You can tell Sydney is heavy into retail “…store merchandise stocking…” as a curse. :)
Actually the whole clause as I thought of it was “jerk store merchandise stocker” You know as in the gag, “The jerk store called, they said they were out of you.” Of course, since her tirades are bereft of commas, everyone’s going to parse them differently.
I tend to mentally see a pause after each verb… Not sure if that’s how you meant it, but it seems to be easier to parse that way. :D
Heh – I just realized that the tube is moving because the gunman is dragging Sydney outside it’s “leash” range. I thought at first that she was trying to activate whatever is inside it. I wonder if Maxima will catch on, and kick the tube away from the perp, yanking Sydney from his grasp…
Or kick it toward the gunman and see what Sydney does with it. The magnets comment should make her suspect that Sydney knows what’s in the tube and her response to the gunman hitting her implies that when Sydney hits him back (with active powers), she’ll be creative about it.
does her ability to steam filthy words come from her upbringing or whatever is in the orange tube?
I want to see “earwax stained floppy cock flavored” on an actual packet of potato chips just to see the reactions.
Aww, I’m all caught up and we still don’t know what her deal is.
What?! You only update once a week?! Why you earwax stained floppy cock flavored potato chip licking double dipping rim job gargling…
I know I know. I wish I could post them faster as well. I’m working on a submission to the Gold Digger annual, after A-kon rolls around, I’ll be able to dedicate a bit more time to the webcomic, which will hopefully lead to an extra comic every so often.
sigh…A-Kon, the first year that I have a good amount of inventory and I can’t afford to go……
and meanwhile the SanJapan dealer’s waiting list is backed up to 2013
Worst Hostage Ever award goes to….
a couple more shots to the temple liike that from Syd i dont think she’ll have to worry about the shotgun or that guy for about 20 minutes or so
I hope Syd didn’t, ummm, borrow whatever is in the tube when she was off on vacation. I could just see her picking up something at a museum or archeological dig site and waving it around pretending to be a superhero – and then having it suddenly activate and turn her into one for real.
Maxima might not like that.
Even if she dug it up on a beach on her own, a lot of countries these days have laws about taking ancient artifacts out of the country without the government’s permission. (Particularly those who have a lot of stuff from their countries in foreign museums.)
Love the implication that “floppy cock” has a different flavor from, well, “not floppy cock.”
Just realized that rhymes with poppycock, which amuses me even more.
I can imagine that the circumstances that caused the un-floppying could effect… flavor… you know manual vs. visual stimulation. In any case I think I’m channeling some dark places when I’m writing her tirades.
firstly, I think the number of panels is fine: I’ve seen way more panels work as well, but this packs a good amount of info in. I’ve been hopeing for some acceleration in the plot, and here we go!
Also, while usually it would be just bad, if the thug takes his attention off of Maxima to deal with Sydney, not only is Max a lunge a way, but he loses his only hostage shield; it may be more dangerous, but maybe not as much as one might think, and it increases the chances of the thug getting caught
kill them…. with your gold beams
Wow this page was pretty good and you have the most comments I ever did see. Good job!
Thanks. Slowly getting better at this comicing thing and building an audience. Slow but satisfying burn.
Yah. I found this by following a link from something (possibly Spinnerette?) and read about the 1st 20 pages and had to go out. When I came back the ad was gone. I flipped through every webcomic I read about 10 times and gave up. It was 4 days later your ad came back up on whatever rotation that is.
Now I have you bookmarked. ^_^;
Considering it’s Google #7 for Grrl and #1 for Grrl power. Even if you lose the bookmark is easy to find.
(really need an edit button) Welcome BTW
Yeah, that would have helped, if I could have remembered the title. Try googleing ‘super hero works in comic book shop’. Not so much help there. ^_^;
I am quite pleased with these things. :)
Nice the hostage is really use less if she isn’t afraid of him then he is pretty damn screwed.
There once was a robber called Pual
Who thought he could get a big hual
Him and his friend
Lost in the end
When a hostage beat them all
Sorry, just feel the need to point out that Maxima’s glasses keep changing colors. In the profile picture, purpble, in panel 1, clear, after that they are back to orange. Also 3rd day of first full time job, seasonal gardener. By 1 I thought the robins were laughing at me. By 2 I thought they were plotting against me. By 2:30 I was planning on chasing them down with a golf cart to prevent them from using standing water to breed bird flu. Stay tuned to see what my mental state is by the end of summer!
Yeah actually it looks like I forgot to color them in the first panel, the others should be… fairly consistent. I do them on a separate layer and set it to about 65% transparent, so they’ll change color slightly depending on how Max’s face is colored… which in itself should be more or less the same each time depending on how creative I get when trying to make her look shiny.
Sounds good. Will be happy tommorow, friday, will be happier monday when new comics are posted.
Heres a WAG for you. I see Maxima and the robber playing tug o war with sydney using the tube.
Maxima wins by default. (purple win everything :B)
I can’t get over the idea that she looks like Taokaka from Blazblu when Sydney loses her temper.
Is it wrong that I’m suddenly imagining how a Grrl Power/Emergency Exit crossover would work? My brain goes weird like that, sometimes.
Hmm, not familiar with that one. I googled it and found a page with some steampunky sketches on it but no comic.
It’s under original comic archive, here is the link
https://eecomics.net/OriginalArchives.php
Woo! just found your comic today, read the archive, Looking Great! had me hooked right off.
Emergency Exit is on a recreation hiatus as the creator takes it in a new direction. That’s the reason for the concept art. The early work (ie 8 years ago) tended to be a bit random and go through long tangents away from any possible continuing plot (^_^) but it was still good. After that it got better and still improves. Can’t wait till they return. KK Skipper above has an interesting series too, but it’s not for the kiddies. I think she only runs her comments through Feysbook though, which is an abomination I don’t support. (I prefer my spelling thank you very much) :p
Yay for Not Safe for Kiddies comics!
HAHAHA the line about magnets gets a reference in this https://armorgames.com/play/11498/reimagine-the-game were in the big time now :P
Damnit, I just wasted an hour playing that game.
sorry! ^_^ you know you enjoyed it
waste? this game is awesome!
sorry to burst your bubble but that’s from an ICP (insane clown posse) song called miracles
Just saw the new Maxima pic in the lineup. talk about a WTF!? face. Good job Dave!
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/wp-content/themes/comicpress/images/page_gfx/max/port-max-007.jpg
?? iknorite… my money has that being in the next strip
Or the one after that, yeah.
Heh heh, I should probably wait till a comic is posted before I use images from it, but on occasion it could make for a nice tease.
She has the most interesting collection of names to call someone, lol. XP The last two panels are my favorite, heh.
Actually, considering the perp who has her in a choke hold has a shot gun and is trying to drag her out of the bank (with security camera, federal agent/ hero), melee combat probably IS the best option. No way in hell the perp can shoot HER with the gun. She’s too close. Now if he manages to drag her into the parking lot, he can shove her and THEN shoot her off camera.
I swear the gunman hit her ocifer and she became the chubacobrei hahahahhaa
I swear Sydney looks like the Naruto when he’s half-transformed into the Nine Tails in that last panel…