Grrl Power #411 – Tete-a-Tet Offensive
Deus actually isn’t too bad at this. Maxima gets paid well, but not that well. But still he knows just dropping a check on her by itself isn’t going to move the needle.
After I wrote this page I looked up Tiger Woods’s Nike contract, and apparently I thought he was getting paid quite a bit more than he actually was. His contract was a 5 year contract for $40 million in total, then another $100M over 5 years, not per year, so Deus’s offer is… pretty good. I think I was thrown off when I heard estimations of Woods’s total net worth during the whole divorce kerfuffle. Obviously he had more revenue streams than just the one endorsement. Anyway, a quarter billion isn’t nothing to Deus, but then he would be getting value for it, and if nothing else, Maxima would be tantalized by the idea of a generation of little girls growing up eschewing heels for combat boots.
I think putting 80 year old scotch on a $3000 suit might actually make the suit more valuable, given what that stuff must go for per bottle.
Now, while I do normally stick a lot of pop culture references there in the background, I should say than the stuff in panel 2 is… well, I’ll just tell you this time. There’s the Maltese Falcon and the shard from the Dark Crystal on the shelf. The rest is either nonsense or stuff that’s actually there for a reason. I thought I should call out the two actual refs before someone sprains something trying to identify “…that key is the one Buffy used to open the crypt in episode…” no, it’s just a fancy bottle opener.
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Hilarious that offers $50 million but freaks out over $3,000. Sure, he may need to change before his next meeting, but is that worth AAH-ing about?
I don’t really think it’s about the cost so much as it is about how long it took to actually get it made just right for him. The price is more than likely about the annoyance of having to do it again.
Plus how embarrassing is it to go to the tailor and say you want your purple pimp suit tailored?
Actually, at a certain level of wealth I think it’s kind of a point of pride. You’re so rich you can get away with basically anything. Hell, it might even start a new fashion trend, given the influence people at that social strata wield.
Then he should go the whole distance and add a fedora, a feather boa and a pimp stick. Maybe some gold teeth – he can afford it.
He can be called Pimp X! :)
Unfortunately I don’t think Maxima would appreciate being called his ‘bottom-bitch’.
Also his pimpitude will never measure up to Sydney’s anyway.
Personally I’m just surprised that Sydney didn’t make a comment about him stealing his wardrobe from the Joker. Nor did she make an Agent X crack because of the X scar on his face, (I mean she’s obviously digs Deadpool.)
(Agent X has part of Wade Wilson’s brain in him and healing factor. So he also wise cracks, and breaks the 4th wall.)
back in the day purple was the color of royalty, cuzza the rareness of the dyes required to make it
If you are that rich, you buy suits by the six pack or trucload
And how much he liked that suit.
The freaking out is because a $3000 suit is tailor made and therefore means he will have to take time out of his schedule to get a replacement fitted if that one gets stained.
When you consider how much money Deus makes half hour to and an hour of his time is pretty expensive.
Well he always just try and get that textile guy on retainer and not worry as much about his expensive time as much.
Once you find a good tailor you keep him. They can and will keep your measurements and notes on fit preferences on file. You won’t need to go in for fittings every time. Expensive suits are status symbols, this guy uses every tool he can to exert his influence on the world. He is SUCH a tool.
I am beginning to think that the reason he is upset, is that he wound up putting the 80 year old scotch on his $3000 dollar suit. OBVIOUSLY 80 year old scotch should be accidentally spilt on a MUCH MORE EXPENCIVE suit, in front of (politicians/forchine 500 CEOs/Dictators of small country’s) so that he can be like, “*pfpfpfpfpfpf* This is nothing, I can get another $30,000 suit completely talored and everything in an hour, and another bottle of 80, or even 160, year old scotch in 30 minutes from half way around the world.”
He’s also basically laughing for the same reason most of us laughed. No One expected Maxima to jokingly ask for an invisible jet. Her Humorous Interject was just so unexpected as a stout paladin who regularly is all serious face in meetings. So he wasn’t actually annoyed about the suite rather perplexed that he now had 40yr old scotch on it and now smelled like a distillery.
50 million is a business deal, one he expects to make a profit from. Spitting on a 3000 dollar suit is just money down the drain
And no Billionaire made money from spitting it down the drain (unless they are in the plumbing business)
It’s more a question of if he can sell the suit like that for more than the time it would take to replace it.
Buy a suit worn by Deus for $50’000? It would be gone before you finished your sentence!!
Speaking at 5 foot 2 with 42 shoulder width.
It’s extremely hard to find exact fitting blazers or suit coats. And since my arms were determined by a few doctors to be the length of someone a little taller than I am. That’s an issue as well. Then there’s the pants leg issue. 36 by 29 is harder to shop for but easier to hem. Most places don’t keep the 29s in stock unless its an off brand that isn’t always comfortable or looks right to me.
He, is of a build that it’s hard to find Stock sizes for.
Its the $3000 suit? Must be laundry day..
The alcohol in the whisky can acts a rather effective solvent. Depending on which dyes are in that suit, the whisky could discolour the spots he spat on.
It probably oxidized the protein chains in some very rare silk.
But the Maltese Falcon was covered in gems; in fact, I had originally been going to joke that “oh you should’ve covered it in gems so it’d be the Maltese Falcon,” thinking that it was supposed to be something else. But then a) I figured that would’ve been a massive pain in the ass to draw, and b) I then read your rant….
Maxima looks kinda cross eyed in panel 4.
Probably some kind of reflex action from talking with Deus.
She can’t look directly at him. So she looks as close as she can.
Yeah, he had other streams. I used to work for a golfing app company that tried to get him. It was one mil a year, five year min, half payable up front, just to put his name on it. Using a picture or actually having him in a commercial was more.
Knew it was the Maltese falcon… So how many people died for him to have it?
Many Bothans died to bring him that Falcon.
Only a million Millennial’s, and no one cares if they die
AS A MILLENNIAL I was wondering if anyone wanted to switch generations?
I’m looking for so thing along the lines of Baby Boomer, but will settle for GenX…
Okay, I recognize the Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn’s Horn,and the Maltese Falcon, but what are the rest?
5th element’s Air crystal thing, and skyrims black soul gem
Not sure if that’s a unicorn horn or a narwhal horn. Since unicorns don’t exist, a narwhal horn would actually be worth more.
um… sorry to disappoint you BUT…
Awesome link. And the Black Soul gem probably contains Deus Soul. Since i dun’ think he has one in him right now. MWAHAHAHAHA!
Also cant help but notice that there is room for 9 objects in the case but his shoulder is blocking one completely… i are suspicious
I knew I recognized that Falcon. So, did he pick it up in Malta?
For those who are wondering, it is theme with him. He has the Maltese Falcon on the shelf, He has the Millennium Falcon parked out back. On the weekends he drives his Ford Falcon. He also owns The Atlanta Falcons. His favorite member of the Avengers is Sam Wilson. His favorite Hanna-Barbera character is Blue Falcon. At last year’s Christmas party he served Falcon Punch (unfortunately, it was made out of actual falcons).
Women’s this, women’s that… He must think Max is pretty shallow.
I mean, it’s not like a woman wouldn’t have interest in something like curing cancer.
I think that Max definitely has a bone to pick with these issues (everyone on the team also seems kinda exaggerated and shallow, which is normal for team comics without a lot of time to build up the characters). Also, with a total of $420,000,000 being spent on cancer research grants alone every year, I doubt $50,000,000 would be as much of a change on that front as sending 50,000 people to college.
Wow, that was an offensive statement. 3 women get killed per day by a current or former male partner, just in the US. 38 million of your women have been assaulted by a intimate partner. Paying money to definitely make life better for a significant amount of these people is “shallow”? Really?
I mean, hey, cancer research is cool, but it isn’t the only way to help people, this is an area where people definitely need help, and if possibly helping cancer patients is non-shallow, then definitely helping women shouldn’t be shallow either… unless you don’t consider them people, in which case fuck you.
Women’s shelters receive about $4 billion every year. Men are half of domestic abuse victims, but have no shelters and no funding. Yes, Max is shallow.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZnRN4XhDLAkJ:www.saveservices.org/downloads/Estimated-National-Expenditures-for-Domestic-Violence+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Incidentally, STEM is the only area where women aren’t surpassing men in education. Women are about 60% of college graduates, so piss off with the sexist scholarships.
In Sweden they’ve found, to their frustration, that no amount of spending will make women as interested in STEM fields as men anyway.
that statistic is for ‘psychological abuse’ not physical abuse; women are still far more often to either end up in the hospital, on the run, or dead, hence the disparity.
Nearly, 15% of women (14.8%) and 4% of men have been injured as a result of IPV that included rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime
Every 9 seconds in the US, a woman is assaulted or beaten
1 in 7 women and 1 in 18 men have been stalked by an intimate partner during their lifetime to the point in which they felt very fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed
Women between the ages of 18-24 are most commonly abused by an intimate partner
1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men in the United States has been raped in their lifetime
72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are female
actual woman on man physical abuse/ rape is extremely rare; the numbers you are seeing are probably more of a reflection of the homosexual population
Wrong on all counts.
The report i cited specified domestic violence.
The stats you quoted are standard sourceless propaganda, and easily debunked.
https://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers/
If you count prison rape, men are the majority of rape victims. Human Rights Watch says there were 140,000 men raped in prison in 2001. It’s hard to get real numbers on female-on-male rape because in most places it only counts as rape if the perpetrator penetrates the victim. This makes charges against female rapists vanishingly rare.
I find your conjecture about homosexual rape inflating the number of male victims interesting though. Did you know that domestic violence is both more common and more severe in lesbian relationships than any other pairing?
“If you count prison rape, men are the majority of rape victims.”
Now that’s just ridiculous.
The statistics for women who are raped is 1 in 6. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/172837.pdf
“Did you know that domestic violence is both more common and more severe in lesbian relationships than any other pairing?”
More likely to report does not equal more common.
“If you count prison rape, men are the majority of rape victims.”
Now that’s just ridiculous.
The statistics for women who are raped is 1 in 6. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/172837.pdf
“Did you know that domestic violence is both more common and more severe in lesbian relationships than any other pairing?”
More likely to report does not equal more common.
Why is that ridiculous? Is it not still rape? Or can it only be rape (or non-consensual intercourse) if the victim is female and the perpetrator is male? o_O
That’s the same ‘reasoning’ why you hear so little about ‘female-on-male’ domestic violence: because that simply can’t happen, right? A delicate female flower beating up a rough tough male? IMPOSSIBLE!!
Not that; I meant that the numbers just don’t add up.
Are you suggesting Deus would get more traction with Maxima if he suggested she use the money to help battered men and set up a scholarship for men only?
No, no, no, not at all.
None of it is out of character for either of them, and it makes sense in their context. Maxima is allowed to believe things that I disagree with.
I’m just yelling at the internet for being wrong. I do that sometimes.
Didn’t read that from McBlaggart‘s post (Deus knows his audience), it seemed more aimed at the readers who believe only women need (or deserve) Refuge Centres to escape domestic abuse
well being military she’s certainly had to sit through all those breifing about these issues and heard all of the DOD, DOJ, stats on the subject ad nauseum. including the stat on male soldiers in relationships being the most common victims of domestic violence on military installations. so i wouldn’t be too surprised if she put some money towards reducing all of those stats not just for feminist reasons but also to not have to sit through those briefings every month when there’s training to be done.
I think you might be reading a bit much into what Marscaleb said. He wasnt being offensive. He was basically just saying that women’s political issues don’t just involve ‘women shelters and womens health issues. Ie, all issues are womens issues.
Although I think it’s reasonable to assume that Max would have a particular interest in helping abused women, since she considers being a strident feminist to be an important selling point. Max and Deus have a history together, and he probably knows the types of things that would really motivate her. And I don’t think Max is particularly shallow at all – she just has specific interests which would motivate her more than others, at least in Deus’s mind. Given her initial reaction, this seems likely to be true.
I’ll tell you where she should dump those charity $$$$, Trauma Counseling for Emergency Responders. hear in Queensland more Cops, Ambulance Officers/Paramedics, Fire & Rescue Oficers and Secular Chaplins (who are volunteers) Quit or are disqualified from service because of PTSD triggered by attacks from bystanders or friends & relatives of victims than any other cause (almost equaling all other causes combined) each year, and it continues in to the hospitals where the Doctors & Nurses cop it to.
Share the Love with the Emergency Services Community that she is now apart of.
I certainly hope Maxima manages to take some of the air out of his… balloon? Tires? Air sack? Hunh. Y’know, I just ran out of steam with that metaphor. I’m starting to wonder if it was ever as effective as I thought it was. I need to think long and hard about this.
Deus drinks whiskey with a raised pinky…
okay thats sad I lost a little respect for him there…
What’s wrong with a pinky? Personally I don’t even think about such things, my pinky just automatically raises when holding my drinks like that
Considering the size of his ‘meat-hooks’ and the size of the glass, where else is he supposed to have his pinky? o_O
debating with his brain about how to take over the world. where else?
Good one :P
Deus should Hook his pinky finger UNDER the glass to reduce the chances of dropping it .
any “heavy drinker” or Alcoholic will do this (you are only an alcoholic if you go to meetings)’.
So Dues is playing the Feminist Social Justice Deck, until Max pulls out her Super Rare Geek Card and blows him out of the water.
Nice!
Very Nice! Although, Deus might take making her a real invisible jet as a challenge! :)
If he doesn’t already own one…..
lets be honest, his “invisible jet” would probably be a k’tinga.
The Nerd is strong in this one. +2 to Nerd Godhood achieved
+1 to me for knowing what your talking about
If Maxima does not like the current set of offers, maybe Archon could do something classier, like the deal DC did with their Super Friends franchise. Although I’m thinking if Max ever saw her image in that spot then the sh!t would really hit the fan.
https://www.aquamanshrine.net/2013/06/dc-super-friends-diapers.html
If that one is too juvenile, there is also something geared to a little older demographic.
https://comiczine-fa.com/reviews/dc-super-friends-potty-time-power
Maxi (and the girls) would be on the girl diapers (unless you feel that that would be even creepier), and who says her face would be on the front anyway :P
Would that make them Maxi pads?
Have been waiting for someone else to attract the ire of Maxi by saying that for a very long time! :D
Maybe it ‘s just me, but isn’t the shading backward on Maxima’s face? Or does that bit of hair hanging over the left side of her face emit light, like some sort of unidentified power, so that the right side of her face (her temple and chin) have that perpetual shadow?
I see what you mean. It looks like her face was drawn first by itself with left hand lighting that shadows her right side but not her forehead. Then the hair was drawn with multiple spot lighting effects and dropped as another layer over the face. This should have cast a shadow on the forehead, but the interaction between the two layers was not resolved.
You’re right about the lighting. I need to get better about directional shadows and stuff. I actually meant to do a reflectivity layer on her face to cover that side of her face a little with hair reflections, but I thought it would look weird if I suddenly started to do that right in the middle of a scene. I’ll have to remind myself to do that starting from the next time she takes shower.
Oo-oo, a Maxima shower scene! XD … Dirty mind aside, the way you have drawn her, like so, since the beginning of the comic, I dare it is her “look”. So much so that nobody had noticed it but me. Please forgive me. I am a Virgo and know how to nitpick such things.
Meanwhile the elevator is got stuck, and Sydney’s meds have just worn off.
I don’t think a stuck elevator is much of an issue for syd. the light hook is not Max strong but chould easly let Syd peel the top off the car and fly out
Deus obviously super proofed the elevator allowing for the comical situation you seem to want to deny me.
Still would like to get a good look at his desk, it was probably just the angle, but it looked weird last page (the left side seemed longer than the right, and it had a curved piece in the middle for Deus’ giant beergut that he releases from his “Captain Kirk” brand girdle after a large meal at his desk)
I just realized that Deus is wearing the Trinity Knot, classy guy!
He has been wearing it since his first appearance, even been several rounds of discussion every time he appears (including once where, in one panel, the knot was reversed but not in the rest of the panels he appeared in :D)
Love the Wonder Woman reference.
I know you said you already have it penciled, but might I suggest Maxima in a sports bra and yoga pants? Or perhaps Maxima in just the sports bra, or just the yoga pants? :-P
Or… you know… maybe Deus might be trying to have an excuse to show off how much his suit costs.
Someone like Deus doesn’t need an excuse
And again, he knows his audience and knows she wouldn’t be impressed or care
I guess Deus should’ve had his suit treated with… ScotchGuard.
Jeeeeezus. Now I’m mad I didn’t think of that for the little outtro joke on the bottom of the page.
You win this page’s comments section with that terribly awesome pun, Josh.
Is his preferred brand of ‘sticky tape’, ‘Scotch Tape’? :P
Do you think Deus overreacted? It was funny, but spilling his drink like that …
He was trying not to laugh
Really? Only two actual refs? That ‘fancy bottle opener’ does look like a key, but I think the style has been used in a few different titles in the PS2 generation. Also, on the top shelf that looks an awful lot like the Unicorn’s Horn from Tales of Symphonia. However, lets be realistic, when it comes to Japanese game artists half of the stuff they create looks like the type of objects someone with way too much money would have in display cases where they can show it off (partially so that they can then make plastic replicas of it to sell to otakus who are way to into collectibles, this trend started late in the SNES era and came into full stride in the PS-X era, it hasn’t slackened in the past 20 years).
One thing no one has pointed out in all the discussions about the suit is that $3,000 isn’t really a lot for a suit. It’s a lot for a suit for everyone who reads this comic, but it’s nowhere near what you’d pay for, for example, a bespoke Savile Row suit. At $3,000, it’s probably not tailor made for the wearer, or if it is it’s made out of some quit cruddy material. It’s been some years since I’ve been familiar with this market, but I’d guess that these days $3,000 *might* get you a Brioni’s entry level, pre-made two-piece suit, but not cover the afterpurchase tailoring.
Basically, a $3,000 suit is probably what Deus puts on when he wants to do some backyard gardening.
A low end off-the-rack suit with alterations is going to run about a grand, assuming not on sale, based on my life experience. Mind you, with a little time spent at the front end, you can look pretty good in one of those, but it won’t like last very long, compared to a higher-end suit.
Three-kay for a suit is going to get you decent-to-good tailoring and material. Just the thing to bum around the office in, but I’d expect not the “deal closing suit” you wear for impressing your competition.
I think Deus is trying to make Maxima laugh, because as we all know, women disrobe once you get them laughing (or so many pick-up-artist books claim). This could also be even more manipulation on his part, eorking the same angle in reverse (“Oh no, you have cleverly outmaneuvered me rhetorically so well that I have lost control in an embaressing, expensive, and humorous way! I thus cede your superiority!”).
I just listened to an interview with a Bond Street tailor. He said his firm’s low-end offerings started at US$6500, and was rather dismissive of anyone who would buy them.
Or what he actually means is the reverse: “I was lucky my assistants found such a good suit that cheap”.
Or he’s exclaiming the same way someone might shout “thank you for spilling my 5 Dollars” after someone bumps into them and they drop their freshly-bought coffee that already was too expensive.
I considered making it more, I mean it’s supposed to be a nice tailored suit for a muscular guy who’s 6′ 4″ but I genuinely don’t know what a nice suit like that would cost. Maybe $7,000?
I personally know a man who works on wall street, not a billionaire by any means. He just dresses so that his clients will “take me seriously”. He has four different suits that were custom tailored, each suit cost “in the neighborhood” of $10,000. His Rolex was $38,000. Just an fyi…
Good lord. Maybe I should go edit the price of Deus’s suit.
Eh, just add another zero :P
On the other hand, I wear a suit every day., I have about 20 of them because I don’t want to be the guy who wears the same suit to work every day. Most of my suits are in the $150-300 range. A few are in the $300-500 range.
I am a piker in the expensive suite competition I guess, and yet it works for me.
I guess he should have been using… scotchgard. I know, I’m sorry for that.
And a day late :P
Deus talking to eccentric billionaire, Maxon Graves…
Deus: “Damn it, how is it the cleaner didn’t fix this?”
Maxon: “Fix what?”
Deus: “My suit! It still smells like eighty-year-old scotch!”
Maxon: “Oh. I think that’s me.”
Deus: “Huh? Why would you smell like eighty-year-old scotch?”
Maxon: “Well, not from drinking it. I soaked my suit in a barrel of the stuff. And it was hundred-year-old scotch.”
Deus: “Why?”
Maxon: *deeply sniffs sleeve* “Oh yeah… Smells like home.”
(internal) Dammit! How’d she KNOW about Project Crystal Wing???
Why are the ‘good guy’ charities always so passive? I think Maxima would prefer a legal defense fund to assure that abusive husbands get life sentences, or grants for middle-school girls to be taught marital arts and basic self-defense.
What about abusive wives? Equality and all that malarkey
About that shelf behind Deus in panel two. I’ve been staring at that thing at the center of the display ever since DaveB posted this page and I’m convinced I’ve seen it before on some movie, TV show or cartoon, but I cannot remember what it was. It’s starting to really annoy me . . .
Does it seem familiar to anyone else?
Twisted Metal, maybe? I remember the game had a similar trophy case (even included Kratos’s swords as an in-joke due to both games having the same chief developer).
Nope. Sorry, but since I’ve never played the game, that can’t be it. Thanks anyway.
Wait, if Maxima doesn’t know he’s a villain does that make Harem just a double agent?
Quintuple agent, potentially…
umm, depending on which one employed harem first, if it was Arc, then a double agent on that would be that deus thinks harem is spying for him, but in reality she spys on him and she reports it back to base, giving him either half truth or out right fake spy info when he asks for a report, other way around if dues employed her first, but in both cases arc has a reason to spy on deus, and if this is true that reason hasnt been shown yet,what we DO know is that harem spies on arc.. so i think this is just my round-about way of saying.. i think you mean spy rather then a double agent..
Well, the only ones who even think he is a villain are the ones who side with a genocidal warlord
As a writer-slash-artist myself, I would just allow people to come up with an identity for random junk in the background, and then run with it. Sometimes your fans are smarter than you.
Ah the “basket full of mice and some salt” methodology.
alert: Wheel of time reference!
Welp Maxima knows how to push his buttons, but I dread to see what would happen with Dues and Syd working together. Its something I dread to imagine but I cannot help but watch.
Oh and Deus, for $1 mill to the charity of my choice the video footage of you spewing on your $3k suit does not get accidentally uploaded to YouTube. Per year. Make a fuss and I will give it to Sydney to make memes first…
Many thanks, this website is really helpful.|
Now I want to see Maxima and/or Sydney trolling people by flying in the obligatory “seated at the controls of the invisible jet” position.
https://www.engadget.com/2005/05/13/movie-gadget-friday-the-invisible-jet-from-wonder-woman/
This idea triggered me to think of what would be an excellent unlock for the ProjectOrb (since she has to keep the Truesight aspect secret). Have Sydney figure out she can project anything on or attached to her in any orientation or size. One word : Props!. So add in a transparent plastic jet on a keychain and project her own invisijet (and herself) over herself. Grow her head and project and OZ image –using a flashlight under her real chin to set the effects. Giant hand pointing “this way”. Giant finger … um wait maybe we shouldn’t give her hand gestures that can be seen from space….
Golden Freedom on the shelf…
I just noticed: is that a Scroll in the case? (second shelf to the left) does this mean he’s stealing/replicating Ruby’s stuff? I can only guess his next addition will be an artificial clone of her with speed powers and more durable copies of the stuff
So that white rectangular box IS NOT the Geometric Nucleus as seen in MST3K Episode 301. Cave Dwellers???
…
I just slipped into Simpsons comic book guy voice.
I feel so dirty. :(
I think is kerfuffle