Grrl Power #47 – At least her boots are waterproof.
I know I covered the contents of this page in the comments for the last comic, but it’s safe to assume that 90% of people who read the comic never venture into the comments area, and I figured this needed to be said in the comic itself.
I like how the cops are just standing there in the first panel, like they’re afraid to walk up to Maxima. I suppose I should just say that she’s already presented her credentials to them, though I’m not sure how that would work since she’s a colonel, sure, but of an organization that no one has heard of yet. Maybe that’s what the cops are discussing.
And I also thought I’d mention that I’ve set up a Deviant Art page with some older pictures of the characters, I’ll eventually post other stuff there once I’ve… you know, drawn it, or if I dig it out of some directory it’s been squirreled away in. The link is up with the Facebook and Twitter ones.
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Actually, your original post kinda makes sense as well, in a disgusting sorta way… ;)
The scene just shifted in my head a bit and replayed…..it was bad…
Now i can’t tell if typo, or intensional
More like intestinal…
lol xD I think all in all, either way you go with your comment it fits xD
…Maxima is TOTALLY looking at the audience in that last panel.
It’s like she’s saying “This is why, shut up already”
Audience!?What are you doing reading this comic about HOT superman girls?
Outro of Darkness, Then Redness, Then Whiteness.
B00P.
*If you don’t get it… I dunno what to do… Quite quick one o.o*
I do get it.
Badadududududuuu, subscriiibe.
Nah, that’s just the trope look. The look off to the far side that lets you know, “jeeeeeez, oy.”
Love Sydney’s expressions in the last two panels. Kinda cute.
Wonderful page, even to just clear something up once more, I like the interaction.
The EMS guys always work in pairs when moving a patient on a stretcher, for safety reasons. Also, unless you have a motorized stretcher, you need to have two people just to get it into the back of the truck.
If that is supposed to be the severe head trauma guy then he would be strapped to a backboard with five straps, 2 in an x across the chest, 2 in an x across the pelvis, and 1 across the lower legs, and his head strapped down with neck immobilization gear. Afterwards, that whole bit is deposited on the stretcher and three more straps like the ones you have shown are used to keep the whole thing from falling off.
Other than that, I am not sure what you have drawn on the ambulance. Is it an external cabinet or the side door?
Most every pre-hospital medical service I have ever heard of do not wear surgical scrubs, and must not forget that gloves are always always worn when working on a trauma patient.
Sorry if it seems a little critical, just pointing out things that most people may not know for future comics. I have a feeling that this isn’t the last we will be seeing of the local emergency medical service. Overall, I do like.
It is the bank robber Sydney defeated.
(They have different hair and different colour t-shirts.)
Hmm the tube of mystery is there but what about the money pouch?
yea its the one Sydney went ATOMIC on., and not that its right or not, but i can think of a couple times in movies where it just happened to be 1 guy with the stretcher at least for a moment but its always inferred that there is a lot to handle and only so many guys… maybe hes waiting at the ambulance? or more likely inside with the other guy…
and DAVID 2 questions: whats up with Maxima’s nose, and how much time did you spend on that grass haha
I’ll keep those details in mind, thanks. This page took soooo long to draw as it was. I’m not sure why, except for that top panel, it’s not that complex of a page. I really should have drawn some more of the people in the bank milling about or being interviewed by the po-po, so… we’ll just say the other EMT is in the ambulance with the other guy, who is still probably unconscious. As for the ambulance, I just googled them and found one that had a red stripe on the side so people could tell what it was just from the back corner of the thing, maybe I drew a firehouse ambulance that has… I dunno, axes or respirator gear in the back hatch or something.
So what do EMTs wear? Just… slacks and jackets? Let’s just say that the ambulance driver was taking his buddy (who used to be an EMT but is now a nurse, thus the scrubs) to his shift at the hospital where he’d pick up his regular partner, but got diverted since they were right there. See? A reasonable explanation for everything. :)
Usually slacks and shirts with the ambulance company’s/hospital’s name.
There is a tendency for white shirts which comes from the fact that dyes and wounds don’t mix well. Also made a comment a few pages back about cars (which you find hard to draw) which would apply to any set piece or background object. Draw some generic ones save them then you can basically photoshop them in and add any details you need or want. In The Incredibles anyone who wasn’t a main character was a tweaked “generic man”.
Our service wears your typical navy work pants and navy polo shirts. Shoes are supposed to be over the ankle boots that can be polished. Many services will wear a button up short sleeve dressy style shirt with a badge or badge insignia (if a fire department) or company logo (if a private service) and a name tag.
Here are some flickr photos of the local Rescues:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/srq2009/502976863
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7767835@N03/3512602589
Driver side compartments, from front to back: 1) backboards and a large oxy tank, and replacement small oxy tanks for the stretcher. 2) stair chair, vacuum splints, and KED (google that). 3) EMT’s personal firefighting outfit and SCBA
Passenger side compartments, from front to back: 1) tools, boxes of more specialty medical equipment (this is also accessible from inside the truck) 2) the door has a few steps up on the inside to reach the floor level, which is even with the doors at the rear of the vehicle 3) Paramedic’s personal firefighting gear and SCBA.
Although your best bet for getting good reference material for the comic is to visit an analogue in your own area and ask to take reference sketches or photos.
I’d love to have the time to go do research on this stuff. I definitely need some gun references, but Google Image Search will have to suffice for now.
Along with google image search consider a gun shop in your area. They will likely have a wide range of weapons behind the counter, and they would probably be happy to explain any of them thoroughly or demonstrate if there is a range on the premises.
https://imgur.com/r/pics/MoFlL
grr i hate linking gifs sometimes… here we go.. working gun haha https://i.imgur.com/MoFlL.gif
So, when the EMTs deliver someone to a hospital, I assume they have to sign over the guy? Some sort of form that says they had them in their custody/care and are releasing them to whoever? Does the hospital have that form or the EMTs or what? I assume there’s some paperwork involved.
That’s yet another thing that varies between jurisdictions. Here in my part of Virginia, all our documentation is done on computer and filed electronically (and then we have to print out a paper copy for the ER because they can’t access the electronic system, and there’s another paper form if we gave any drugs because the FDA has yet to approve any signature capture software, but I digress…), and we just document that we turned the patient over to the ER staff – very often the nurse that we give our verbal report to is not the nurse that ends up taking care of the patient.
The actual documentation has everything in one place: demographics, vital signs, procedures performed, a narrative account of the call, and lots of drop-down lists with data collection points for the state. It’s pretty normal for the paperwork to take longer to complete than the entire rest of the call (though the idiotic software is very much a contributing factor to that – it was, after all, written by the lowest bidder, and by programmers rather than EMTs).
Same with us, but the paper copy we give the hospital doesn’t really mean anything. It doesn’t go into the patient’s file at our hospitals. The nurses at the hospitals fill out new paperwork (electronically) from scratch using their own systems.
I never did see what they actually do with it though…
The electronic file is very important to the ambulance service however. The verbal report is very important to the nurse, although they usually give an outwardly casual appearance. It’s a poker face.
As a good programmer I take offense at the it’s written by programmers not by EMTs line.
The result you get is the lowest bidder effect not that it’s written by programmers.
For code you have a choice. Good, fast, cheap. Pick two. Add in lowest bidder and it is a choice between good and fast. Seeing there is a deadline the choice is fast.
A good, intuitive to use interface can easily double the cost of a program since it requires quite a bit of contact, from before even a line of code is written to a period after the product is finished, with the experts (in this case the EMTs) of which you are trying to distill the knowledge into a program.
Sorry, I didn’t intend for that to be insulting, or to denigrate programmers at all. I simply meant that there are many facets of the program where it shows the programmers simply didn’t understand what actually happens in the field, and those aspects make the paperwork part of our job more difficult. The biggest problem behind this is probably more that these issues weren’t caught and corrected in field testing before deployment. I don’t expect most programmers to understand EMS, any more than I would expect most Paramedics to understand programming. (Though, this being a college town, we generally have one or two CS majors on the squad every year, and a couple of people that /are/ programmers.)
The “lowest bidder” effect is, however, VERY obvious. The program is bloated, slow, clumsy, visually crowded, with a less than friendly interface, and the whole thing is… less than stable, shall we say? There’s a whole set of software buttons (it’s touchscreen-centric) that just don’t work, and other areas that don’t work the way they’re supposed to.
I’ll stop there, since this isn’t the place for my rant on this (though I’d love to see Sydney deal with this system. In fact, I’d probably PAY to see Sydney deal with this system – the results would certainly be entertaining, and I’d be interested in finding out if it’s possible to destroy a Toughbook with one’s bare hands. :D ), but again, I apologize – I didn’t mean to put anyone down with that remark.
I can say with confidence that I don’t know the work in the EMS field and the paperwork behind it.
Which is the exact reason that a pool of them is needed. If the company I worked for (between jobs at the moment) would build a program to replace the EMS paperwork they’d round up people, who have to fill in that paperwork, to pick their brains.
I’ve some pretty strange, and fairly specialized, knowledge stuck in my skull due to having to take apart what the interviewer got from the experts so that it could be turned into rules needed to build a program. And even then I didn’t do the user interface seeing that my strength is analysis and technical coding.
I understand perfectly why you’d want to rant about that kind of trash. It is the kind of program that management thinks is finished since you can move the mouse cursor and type in a bit of text.
Oh well the only good thing about that is that I’m going to have work until I decide to retire due to that (new job being to take that kind of crap and make it actually work).
Make sure to use P90s, AUGs, and some Famas, those are usually the more common tactical weapons used in ‘that’ kind of business.
Not to mention that they look cool. Sydney, of course, would be assigned a P90 (or a Five-seveN if it needs to be smaller) simply because anything with a larger round would have too much recoil for her. And even then they might have to mount a muzzle brake on it.
It varies by company/agency, but the stereotypical EMT duty uniform is usually dark blue “EMS” pants (like military BDU pants or police tactical pants, but with specialized pockets) and a light blue button-up shirt with shoulder patches and a badge (in fact, many police and EMS uniform shirts are the same thing, just with different patches). Some departments use embroidered polo shirts, instead. A good place to look for references is the Galls catalog and website (galls.com), since that’s a pretty typical source for uniforms and some equipment.
Most “box” ambulances like the one in the comic have several outside compartments. That corner doesn’t usually have a tall compartment like that, but some designs do. (The tall compartment is normally where the backboards are stored.)
You definitely need two people to move a stretcher. All four wheels will move in any direction, so you can’t just stand behind it and push like that and expect it to go where you want – the front end *will* drift downhill. You can control it walking alongside, but the weight of a patient would make it extremely difficult, and most parking lots are not smooth enough that I would want to try it. (I have had a stretcher fall sideways with a patient on it despite both my partner and I trying to right it, and I never want to do that again.)
As far as backboarding the patient, many areas have a protocol now that allows them to clear spinal injuries in the field and avoid having to backboard someone.
So, all that to say “Pretty good for someone with little to no experience with EMS” and to point out a resource. :)
Here is a (odd angled) view of EMS personnel, pretty stereotypical jacket.
https://www.emsfoundation.ca/images/photo_feature_research.jpg
If I learned anything its that some Nurses, doctors or surgeons, do take a shift or two on an ambulance. Of course my source is an episode of scrubs. So don’t take it to heart.
In my area, many of the paramedics work a second job as paramedics in the hospital, or are also nurses working in a hospital or nursing home setting. If the Paramedic is also a nurse, then the two certifications have to be maintained separately however.
Even if they are a nurse, they still don’t wear scrubs on the ambulance. Scrubs are comfortable, but they are very cheap and disposable, and they generally can’t stand up to the demands of pre-hospital care.
Uh, I was replying to a parent comment, not this one specifically. Don’t know how that happened.
Whoops, please ignore the above.
Ignore what?
Dont try to correct little details like why there arent 2 people holding the stretcher. Its a comic about superheroes. Maybe the 1 guy doing has the power of being able to move a stretcher solo.
You are correct about the strapping IF the patient has a suspected neck/spinal injury. If all the patient did was crawl out of the building gagging from Sydney’s power breath the strapping shown would be correct with the addition that the patient would be in a semi sitting position and sucking on some oxygen.
is it just me, or does maxima seem to be getting closer to syd in every panel. is that an unconscious thing on her part, or something? i mean it could be to whisper that she knows about syd’s tube (which would be a duh for anyone in the bank earlier) or just sitting down. i was thinking the guy on the stretcher was one of the people in the bank (b/c of the toxic sauces), but looking through you’re archives i realized it was the robber that grabbed her w/his jacket off.
Yeah that wasn’t intentional. I mean, in the second to last panel, she’s kind of leaning away to bring up her boot, and in the last panel she’s got her leg back down so her torso is straighter, so there it looks like she’s a little closer, but I may have overdone it. It does kind of look like she’s sidling up to her.
It’s Max’s way of unconsciously pointing out to Syd just how much bigger her breasts are :P
Well, I get that Maxima is impervious – but did her boots really survive volcanoblarph unscathed?
Also – what game system are you playing? I caught the power pool reference and that sounds an awful lot like Champions… (the SuperHero RPG, not the MMO)
There are a few game systems that support power pools. I came up with Maxima so long ago I don’t recall if it was totally on my own or if I was looking through a Champions book before I started to really codify her powers. I’ve also built her in the version 2 rules of the DC RPG.
As far as I can tell the tube hasn’t really done anything odd in the presence of others yet. And Sydney hasn’t done anything qualifying as “super” for Max to notice. So other that taking a interest in her because she went nuke and took out at least one bad guy on her own, no power reveal on Syd’s part has happened yet.
Which is fine. I’m only stating the obvious in the hope someone can point something out I may have missed.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/comics/2011-05-16-GP0040.jpg
nothing moves on its own, and max noticed that the tube moved a step for every step back that sydney made.
Hmm. Okay.
I didn’t make the connection that it was moving in relation to Sydney, which would be consistatat to what we’ve seen so far. Still, we have no idea of the powers it gives her.
Took me 3 re-reads and full comments section to realize Max was stomping her foot down to make the hostage taker to step back and see if that caused the tube move again. :)
well, or for every step forward she took (the numbers and timing matched)
Is it just me, or Maxima is getting prettier and more feminine as the story goes on?
Well, the first few pages we saw her, she was being Mrs. McScowleyface in front of the robbers, and now she’s more relaxed. My art though, being fairly inconsistent from page to page could be contributing to that.
My comment was a compliment, actually.
She looks so girly when looking at her boots. It doesn’t seem so much out of character as we’re seeing another side of her character as she relaxes after the tense situation in the bank.
OK, either there wasn’t a getaway driver or he had the brains of the group and booked when it all went bad.
Nah, I bet the cops are really afraid of coming within ten feet of Syd, lest she let loose with another atomic vomit.
Absolutely love the artwork in this one.
Thanks! It took forever to do, I’m not sure why. Possibly watching Doctor Who while drawing may have slowed me down a bit. :P
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Well as her bio suggests Max has issues with men (not entirely her vault) so being friendly with Sydney is not unlikely. Making and having friends is probably not easy in her environment. And Sydney certainly made an impression on her.
*fault (I need a freakin editor)
This takes place in an entirely different universe where, for example, people have superpowers. Given that HUGE difference between their universe and ours, it is not all that much of a stretch to assume tiny differences, like that EMS protocols, uniforms, and ambulance design might be slightly different there. If that doesn’t satisfy you, assume a Wizard did it. (the generic explanation for any incongruity in a comic, story, or fantasy tv show)
Meh, I doubt Max’s credentials will be a problem. I mean she’s actually in the Air Force. How many civillians are actually going to say “7th BGPS? I’m not familliar with that group acronym. Are you a shiny gold terrorist?”
Put it this way. The US has 7 uniformed sister services. Try finding someone who can name more than 5. And no, the National Guard does not count.
OK , off the top of my head Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard (again, used to be part of DoT) Civil Air Patrol, and Merchant Marine, (the overseas logistic arm of the Military)
Nope, CAP is a civillian adjunct of the Air Force, not a sister service, and the merchant marine are not a uniformed service except in times of war, and then they are a Navy Auxilliary. Two more services, as distinct as the Air Force and the Marines.
Us. Postal Service, and… um… The Men in Black?
OOH! how about the Secret Service? either that or maybe Customs and Immigration?
Nope. The the other two services are not under the DoD but they are subject to the UCMJ and use military pay grades.
Ready? It’s the uniformed branches of the CDC and the Geodetic Survey.
The Survey is my favorite, as they are basically Star Fleet. That is to say they are all Officers/Scientists (no enlisted, screw you Chief O’Brien!) and they mostly sail around on ships and do science.
It would seem Max was wearing the reinforced boots of fleetness
I’m enjoying the comic so far since I found it a few weeks ago. I am having a small problem deciphering the power symbols on the bio page. The images are slightly too small and there is no standard that I am familiar with that tells what the symbols mean. A couple are self explainitory but I am not sure about the rest. A key would a very good addition.
Other than that small issue the comic is excellent. I have told several friends about it and they like it as well.
That’s a good Idea! I had to double check all the symbols I believe I got all but one or two. the the ring I’m unsure of, I know that dabbler appears to have one like it too,and the lock on Halo’s section leads me to believe it is a restriction on her abilities. Be they Unknown or mandatory.
Okay let me back track here I counted 13 different symbols and can only guess what 7 or 8 of them are, with confidence.
Yeah I’m working on a key and may revise some of those symbols… at the moment just drawing the comic is keeping me busy enough. The problem is while some of those symbols are fairly obvious, it gets really hard to come up with tiny icons that convey telepathy that also is distinct from empathy that’s distinct from psychommetry or whatever.
It is rather easy if you approach it tangentially and think of it as similar to a icon based language.
Telepathy = Mind + Read + Mind
Empathy = Mind + Read + Emotion
Psychometry = Mind + Read + Object
What you need here is to invoke the power of delegation, so pass this project onto someone else or a team of some-elses and let them worry about making you happy with their work. You might get some unique ideas for future powers or even a full lexicon this way. It’s also an excuse for arriving at local con watering holes with a swarm of people you have gotten to know online.
Plus, she didn’t want to catch the vomit. Dodging is an entirely different skill.
And just where is the HazMat team for Sydney’s Atomic Vomit?
When Max says “See you in 5”, they may be on their way.
Or it may be the rest of Maxima’s team. Dabbler’s skills might help clean up the FV.
Dabbler Might have many symbols next to her cast profile, but I don’t see a mop and bucket as one of them. No doubt the individual who has to clean that may have to use Vicks vapor rub and a filtered gas mask.
Of all the (limited) information on the team members, Dabbler is the most likely to have the skills to deal with a HazMat situation – which Sydney’s FV could classify as from the reaction of the rest of the people in the bank. Either with a machine or magic.
Use Magic on Scoville Vomit? Also by machine are you thinking an industrial carpet cleaner?
Any gas mask they use better have a serious filter on it. Air-fed would be best plus full Tyvek suit, rubber gloves, duct tape and probably rubber booties as well.
Yeah Just be sure to feed in plenty of Oxygen and they might get out alive. Though we haven’t figure whether or not Sydney’s stomach contents have eaten through the floor into the foundation.
Awesome wrap up.
…One slip I noticed that hasn’t been mentioned…Maxima seems to be sitting on the curb with Sydney in the second to last panel & in the last panel she’s sitting on the parking lot pavement. Did she slip off? Or was she still getting adjusted while looking at the FV on her boot?
Yeah I didn’t realize I did that until I started coloring the background, by then she was already inked and colored. I’d have fixed it if it was a more significant error but I was eager to be done with the page at that point.
Well, the way around that is to back up the files at every step along the way until the next strip is posted in case you make a mistake like that. Then you can go back and fix things like that ;)
I don’t see that as any kind of slip. She was sitting on the curb and then she moved to sit on the pavement as she and Syd continued to bond.
Little detail question, the guy on the stretcher…is that the crook Sydney beat up or one of the unfortunate bank patrons having an extra bad reaction to her atomic vomit? Either way I pity them, especially the crooks since they couldn’t run away from it.
It’s the guy she threw. I drew a neck brace, and even the little velcro straps on the side, which I could see just fine at 600 DPI, but of course don’t even show up at web resolution.
Again something I miss, until it has been pointed out. Thank you.
dude where can i get a pair of those boots
And do they come in men’s sizes? And for some reason I picture Max or maybe Dabbler something like: “Now, about that tounge throw….”
I can say that boots like that in my size would be close to $300 if not more.
15 Double wide feet are a pain to shop for.
Or as the joke goes (To Maxima) Ooh, nice boots, do they come in women’s sizes?
Those are sort of SWAT style boots, simplified a bit so they don’t take all day to draw – at least that was the intent with the buckles. I thought they’d be easier to draw than laces (and slightly cooler looking) but I dunno, maybe someone makes a boot with a concealed zipper or something, cause those buckles are a pain in the ass.
Alot of Tactical boots have side zippers as well as laces. As for buckled…try this page, Military spec boots. Gotta love Ranger Joe.
https://www.rangerjoes.com/Ranger-Joes-Direct-Boots-Pro-Med-Tanker-P2532.aspx
thanks dude i just ordered a pair
Another possibility for bootage. These do have the concealed zipper, and are in black rather than tan: https://www.leatherup.com/p/Mens-Motorcycle-Boots/Xelement-Black-Leather-Executioner-Motorcycle-Boots/50219.html
Beware! Beware of the Vomit!
Is that a Honda Element?
Yeah its… my interpretation of one. Cars are not exactly my specialty. That’s Sydney’s ride.
lol, you should add that as one of her super powers! all fear the spicy mace ninja vomit attack! XD
Nah,, it should read spicy mace NUNJA vomit attack :),,, in rteference to earlier pun made by sidney :)
That makes no sense… Even though I know what you’re talking about lol, Sydney isn’t a nunja! She’d have to be a nun! So there! XP
You have just gained another reader. I thoroughly love Sydney, especially the insult ranting. Brilliant.
DaveB did you know there was a game in development called Grrl Power?
Wouldn’t surprise me. The term isn’t unique to me. I’m just surprised there isn’t another webcomic called that already. They better not knock me off google’s front page though.
it is also an 2004 obscure anime for preteen girls in Japan …
and an entire series of pornos called “Grrl Power!”
…hell I wouldn’t be surprised that there isn’t blogs,facebooks, or other social sites of females using the term “grrl” in their heading.
I knew about that one, I’ve pushed then down the google results a bit, and there are tons of blogs, etc that use the term. I mean, I chose it because of it’s a term that people have heard, and it has the double meaning when you’re talking about girls with super powers.
Well the game is a Japanese hentai rpg (I think I can’t read the text) so get ready for cross posting when it comes out.
I don’t really think it matters a lot. I mean, the naming of a webcomic is kinda like naming your newborn child… Even if you think really hard about it and believe you’ve created a new interesting name it doesn’t always mean that just cause you name your kid Anastasia, the real princess Anastasia is gonna come outta hiding just to knee you in the groin and sue you for using her name! It just causes this situation:
“Hey man, did you hear about grrl power?” “The totally awesome web comic or the japanese hentai rpg? Or are you referring to the japanese anime grrl power?…” “The comic…” “Yeah! Wooo I love that comic! Maxima and Sydney are hotties!” “Yeah!.. So do I… Soooo…. When did you start playing hentai rpg’s?…” “Errrrrrr………. (-_-“) ”
lol
“No one expects fear vomit!” :-)
On the opening shot, it looks like Sydney is sitting down in front of the bank’s entrance, but when we see her in the medium shot, she’s in front of the wall.
Oh, and as for the FV, I think it might have been cool to see more people getting oxygen to “clear out their lungs”. :-)
“If you can dodge fear vomit, you can dodge a ball.”
Or alternately
“If you can catch a bullet, you can catch a ball.”
OK I see the ambulance with the EMTs, and I see the cops, but where is the hazmat team?
Just add some BIOHazard tape across the entrance in the first panel and it would be perfect.
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