Grrl Power #485 – Miniboss fight music record scratch
Time to wrap up that fight! And yes, Pixel likes the occasional spank, but we don’t know if Elsbeth likes being cuffed or doing the cuffing.
There’s no real female equivalent of “Bro.” Obviously there’s “broette” but that’s just tacking a feminizing suffix onto a word as a stopgap since there’s not a real word for it. Someone can be your sister in a way that doesn’t mean a literal relative, the same way someone can be your brother (he’s not heavy) but “bro” is still different.
There should be, it’s not like groups of female friends don’t get together and do dumb things… I should explain, in my head, being a bro with someone usually involves the phrase “hey, watch this…” If you have a friend you catch the occasional movie with, or have dinner with, that’s a friend, it’s not really a bro. If you’re ever doing anything that involves diving in after them, or tell the girl he’s trying to pick up that he’s the world G-Spot finding champion, or ask “does this look broken?” then they’re a bro.
Horsing around, I guess, is how you define a bro, and it’s not like girls don’t do it. They’re generally not as renowned for it though, especially in popular media, where women are either catty with each other, or only have male friends, or are incidental characters.
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AND she’s pissed off…..
Oh yeah, she’s super pissed about that jacket. I’d like to note that that’s two jackets down. How many more does she have?
We’re going to start rating bosses by the number of jackets required to defeat them.
“Wow, Vehemence was really strong!”
“Puhleeze, that was strictly a one-jacket battle.”
So how many jackets equal one Radditz?
Please, Radditz would even could as popping some stiching on a side pocket.
V wasn’t the one that messed up her jacket that time. =P
Two jackets, plus her shoulder holster and gun.
… And the state of both her trousers and her footwear are yet to be determined.
don’t forget the nose
She might not be carrying her absurdly overpowered gun. Someone needs to tell her about over penetrating a target. Someone other than Dabbler.
An Eve Online friend would disagree as per his rules of combat:
1. If it moves, shoot it.
2. If it doesn’t move, poke it with your turret and then shoot it.
3. When in doubt — empty your magazine.
4. Overkill works.
5. Never share a cockpit with somebody braver than you are.
I think #4 would apply here very nicely. ;)
From “the 70 Maxims of Maximuly Effective Mercenaries”
34: There is no overkill, only “Open Fire!” And “I need to reload”
In my circle, it’s stated one of two ways:
“There is no overkill. Kill, or kill not.”
“If it’s worth killing, it’s worth overkilling.”
“Subtlety is a thing for philosophy, not combat. If you’re going to kill someone, you might as well kill them a whole lot.” – Vulcan Raven, Last Days of Foxhound
Trying to make a penetrate plus Dabbler joke.
That’s all well & good, but don’t discount the penetrative properties of a round that’s full-metal jacket or teflon-coated either…
;)
Shlock mercenaries rules check’em out and live by them in that game.
Personally, I would modify #4 up above to state: “There’s no such thing as overkill, because there is such a thing as under-kill.”
I would also add:
#6: Be willing to admit when your opponent is dead, but only after this is confirmed as a fact. Shooting something continuously after it’s dead only wastes the time it takes to confirm it and to waste precious ammo.
She has Ashley aka Iron Cloth on speed dial. I suspect he has that pattern memorized.
Don’t worry about it – her Uncle Sugar has lots.
She has a lot of leather jackets and boots.
They must smell gross when they explode though.
Having actually cut leather with a laser before I can affirm that it would in fact smell horrible.
Dave, if you EVER get your hands on an animator, you HAVE to give us a “gearing up”-montage for Max, accompanied by .
Meh, fucked up the link: https://youtu.be/9UAwhhaFQgQ
Has it really been twenty years? Wow, where has all the talent gone? :(
In the end, all was well. Snake had one match & one cigarette left.
:)
It was actually a comment on the quality of the movies and the calibre of the actors since then
In a supers game I played in, the “team uniform” was a leather bomber jacket with the team logo as a patch on the left upper arm and a larger patch on the back, the character logo as a patch on the left breast (we later found out that patch provided 2 points of Armor to called shots to that area), and an optional patch could be placed on the right upper arm. The word “Federal” was above the logo on the back and the word “Agent” was below that same logo.
Yes, we had a PR firm. Yes, we had a merchandising branch. Yes, we had design consultants.
It was a very nice jacket. Still you think she would be used to it by now.
Of course she is she’s Mad Max.
Now why didn’t I think of that.
This is why my hero’s tend to only wear street clothes I know it isn’t a nifty uniform but you can replace it cheap. If you want fancy a leather jacket which gets tossed aside as the fighting starts. That or clothes that are made out of a nano base fabric self repairing pants or pretty much anything you need them to be since they can alter on the fly.
Had a character that was a teenager ‘brick’. Since he had no real income, his ‘uniform’ consisted of random dollar store shirts with his logo sprayed on. He started using a stencil after a couple weeks, and was very proud of himself for thinking of it.
That reminds me of the story in Action Comics, set early in Superman’s career post-Flashpoint, in which every copy shop in Metropolis claimed [to tourists] to be the one where he had his shirts printed…,
^_^
Okay everyone, time to break out the old saying when confronted with a hot, bad ass female.
I’ll go with hubba hubba, with a side of yowza.
RIP Deltarno
Dibs on his stuff! Or did Maxima burn it along with him?
Nah everything but what he was wearing when she RIPed him in half.
In this situation I would go with “Here’s your moist towelette, Mam.”
“Would you like to borrow my jacket, Colonel?”
“Looks like you ran into a water buffalo. Care to borrow my towel?”
Fletch!
This is why Douglas Adams had it right in tHHGttG. Always carrying a Towel has many amazing befits. Firstly it could be offered for cleainig up a bit, and second as an emergency toga.
Well, in most cases, yes. But with women as tall as Max & other women as overall big as Anvil, it might take something like a full-size beach towel to function as a toga.
No need to go full torso cover when a two piece would work just as well.
But The Book says carry a towel. Where does the second part come from?
What, you don’t carry two towels? What if your first towel gets dirty or stolen? Or you have to leave it draped on the face of a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast while you sneak away?
I’m pretty sure you sneak away with the towel over your head, because the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is so stupid that it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you.
But it’s been many years, so I might be mistaken.
No that was a misprint that cased the death of many unfortunate hitchhikers.
Correction: The misprint was that it made “a delicious meal for hitchhikers, not “a meal of delicious hitchhikers”
Maxima would look great in two towels…
Sounds like the perfect thing to say to the happy, fun Maxima. Now excuse me while I get out of blast range….
“Dude” has pretty much become unisex.
And my, Max sure looks irritated More so than usual, I mean.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard “sistah” as a female version of “bro”…
sistah, dudette, how about ‘bra’, or ‘brah’? possibly cuz (cousin)
Cuzzie-bro!
I’ve hear both “sistah” and “girlfriend”
Or just “sis” to keep with the whole one-syllable thing.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard my wife call her close female friends ‘babe’.
I second ‘babe’ as a feminine for ‘bro’. Have seen this being used elsewhere.
I was hoping for a comment from sydney that only maxima’s torso is magically impervious to damage, or is this too much of a 4th wall breaking?
Using “babe” might work when talking female-to-female, but with male-to-female, the guy might be perceived as somewhat “cro-magnon”.
I always assumed it was just “sis”, but in a meaning of girls that go out shoping with them or chatting about news, but if it’s the girl equivalent of a bro, than she’s a bro.
I always just use bro to refer to literally everyone in my circle of friends, and most everyone I talk to on the internet.
For me, the term “bro” is strictly limited to people I play Smash with.
I have female friends who just refer to everyone (regardless of gender) as bro.
I’m sort of surprised he didn’t realize that “Grrl” or “Gurl” works as well.
Granted, it’s generally a little sassier than the use of Bro, but “Oooh, Gurl, you di’n’t!” is just about the same as “Dude, Bro, no way!”
I think “Grrl” works. I asked my daughters, though and they disagreed, saying that “Bro” is perfectly acceptable under the circumstances, and perferable to “Grrl”. They both agreed, however, that “Broette” sounded lame. “Dudette” is marginally acceptable, but only if the speaker is a surfer.
Best not to tell her she looks super sexy like this.
I doubt anyone would survive that
Sexy…….Scary as hell but yeah Sexy.
It’s weird. I usually find women less attractive when they’re belligerent and/or literally dirty. So why does this turn me on more than any other in-comic drawing of Maxima?
I dunno…Do you maybe like to watch women mud-wrestling?
Only full contact…..
Possibly because of her usual spotless gold look. For most women, being dirty or fighty is a ‘step down’ away from the ideal of ‘clean human’- but Max, due to her golden perfection (in looks and combat), is high above that ‘clean human’ ideal, and so making her dirty and a little battle-worn brings her down, closer to human.
Sort of the reverse of the Uncanny Valley of sexyness.
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+1, good Anvildude.
Badass, powerfull and scary women are sexy.
Dabbler survived with a bump, but she was probably using shields
I wonder if she was still wearing Icon. That would have helped.
You kidding, as soon as she opened her mouth Icon separated and got the hell out of the way.
yep
He’s no fool. No sirri. He’s gonna live to be ……….( sorry we have no way to guess age at this point to say a long time more).
He is a suit of full plate mail. And a fine looking example, at that. That places him at about the 15th century AD. Earlier the tech and technique to make such a suit would not have existed, and later than the 16th century the amount of people with the skill to construct such a suit of armor would have dropped fairly significantly as the call for the skill dropped significantly.
Of course that doesn’t eliminate the possibility of some wizard coming along much later and enlifening some museum piece, but then Icon wouldn’t have many valid memories of being worn by various heroes.
I’m thinking earlier than that. Plate armor showed up in the Hundred Years War around the 13th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_armour
It did, but it hadn’t yet evolved via battle testing and the never ending arms race between armor and weapons into the best versions which were made in later years. And in many cases it was still backed with chain, which Icon is clearly not.
You managed to look inside Icon to see what he has behind the outer shell? o_O
FWOOSH!!!
Richard would be Proud and Giddy!!!
Richard would also say something seriously inappropriate… then get flattened. Whether or not he’d survive… Well… that’s debatable.
Depends on how dead he was when he said it
Uhh… Don’t you mean ‘undead’?
(And by survive, I meant being able to get up and walk/crawl away after Max is done dancing all over him.)
Melting the magical mcguffin in her muddy mitt?
Is that an appropriate act for ancient artifacts?
what astoundingly alliterate allegations.
Anyone here really good at math? I need you to make a graph or chart or something that explains Maximas Hotness by Anger scaling when its effected by both grime and tattered cloths… trying to visualize it is beyond me. Wait the fire is also in effect, that means shadows and light adding to it all… yeah this is just way beyond me.
Best to ask DaveB about that. He’s already calculated it all out by the time he draws it, apparently. After all, merely his research into Boob Physics stands out to attention…
As I mentioned in an above comment, I believe it’s something like the Uncanny Valley, but reversed. The Ideal Peak, perhaps? There’s an ideal “Clean, Healthy Human of the appropriate gender and actions” for everybody- as you get away from that, either down or up the scale, you lose attractiveness. Most of the time, the Peak is at the very end of the X axis, as for most humans, acting ‘perfectly’ and being completely clean is the pinnacle of what they can manage- Maxima, however, is capable of going further due to her unique physiology and capabilities, in which case ‘dirtying her up’ actually brings her back down the X axis and closer to the Peak.
Dabbler must have seen that one coming, yet she still said it.
Yeah, I love Dabbler.
Probably it was a ‘Worth it’ moment to make that comment.
Dabbler likes to poke the bear, even when it pokes back. It’s a succubus thing I guess…..
I think the word you are looking for is bisch
Bisch, maybe, but that entry is for “bish”, the shortened form of “bishounen”, usually translated from japanese as “pretty boy” or similar. I don’t think the word means what they think it means.
Looks like pixel just got nominated for vote incentive.
Well, February is coming again…
Pixel and Halo in the shower. Many levels of exposure are available in that scene. And maybe Sydney will smack her butt to start something. A water fight, a wrestling match or whatever Dave has the most fun with.
Oh, yes please.
Lingerie tickle fights….
Don’t forget the whipped cream (fresh or canned)
maxima looks decidedly done with that affair
Stuff getting past her outer defenses and resulting in wardrobe malfunctions seems to be her “110% done with this line.”
And then having to dig out, just to make it more fun….
I like to speak for all of us and express our sadness that the clothes destruction had to obey PG13 rules.
No matter how much damage the person takes, the damage to their clothes will not result in any exposure.
Take Wolverine in X-Men 3. When others get dissolved in seconds and several attempts fail to completely dissolve him, his trousers still maintain his dignity.
… Or the magic purple-gray pants of the Incredible Hulk. In the comics, at least.
Yeah, though in the movies that are actually good that was mostly to lampshade the silliness of the giant stretchy purple pants.
I’m not so concerned with how they grow to match his size, as much as I am how the fuck do they shrink back down?
In the initial comics, I think his transition in size was more like the old TV series – “from wimpy looking dude to really buff dude”. Which sort of works on a one-size-fits-all stretch pants. The trouble is that the pants survived the power creep of “transforms into genuinely giant green monster man” and “the angrier he gets, the bigger and stronger he gets”.
Part of that anger is fuelled by the monumental wedgie caused from stretchy pants reaching their stretch limits, which just makes him get bigger, it’s a wedgie domino effect
Anger makes him grow -> growing cause the pants to give him a wedgie -> wedgie makes him angry -> repeat until he starts to roar in soprano
And now I’m imagining the Hulk singing Michael Jackson songs
…
*smacks you with a paper fan*
Hee heeeee!
now imagine Hulk at a piano, dressed like Liberace
Thank you very much for that mental image that seems to be winning my fight with it. I hope you are happy now.
“I wish my brother George were here!”
In the comics, Banner went from about 6′ tall at his normal height, up to 7′ 6″ as the Hulk. Even the Marvel Universe series & any other place that Marvel would mention it, they would describe the Hulk as “7-1/2′, 1000 lbs of unfettered fury.” When the more modern movies started using CGI for the Hulk, they more than doubled his height to 15′ tall…Because they felt he looks more “impressive” that way.
To me, what’s even more impressive is that it’s true that the madder he gets, the stronger he gets…No one has yet been able to stand up to the Hulk long enough to determine IF his strength even has an upper limit at all.
I think the general formula for the hulk’s strength is whatever he is fighting +1.
or +100 in the case of Loki. “Puny God”
Loki is almost entirely a spellcaster; he’s a plotter & schemer, a manipulator & instigator, not a brawler of any appreciable level. What physical strength he has that’s superior to a normal human is entirely due to his godly origins. So yeah, he was just a wee bit over-classed by Hulk in the muscle department…
… A-N-D (at least in the movie) that Loki chose to stand his ground and harangue the Hulk – instead of very sensibly running like F##K – suggests that he didn’t exactly outclass Hulk by that much in the brains department either.
Well, I’d say you’re right about that. Tony Stark even warned Loki that, “We have a Hulk.” :D
This assumes one believes that ‘losing’ wasn’t part of Loki’s plot the entire time. Look at the scene where he and Thor are going off-planet–that smirk is pure Xanatos Gambit Smugness.
Remember, at that point, he was banned from Asgard. Thor taking him back home was precisely what he wanted the entire time. The invasion of New York was simply a means to get Thor to play his game, by threatening Midgard sufficiently that Thor had no choice.
Death Battle did a pretty good one with Hulk vs Doomsday.
Yeah, but that was a bit unfair. Doomsday is almost literally unkillable at this point.
For me the REAL question is how did they change color? No matter what color pants Banner was wearing they always come out purple. Maybe gamma radiation (in his world) has the magical ability to to turn fabric purple? Or he always wears purple stretch pants under his regular pants?
Maybe whatever causes his skin to go green turns the stretchy-pants purple
There was a comic, back in the 90s, where Banner was completely denuded (but got a sheet to wrap up in) and went into a thrift store to get some clothing. The only thing they had was… a rack full of purple stretch-waist pants on ultra-clearance because no one wanted to buy them.
Then there’s the webcomic “Exposure”, where the only thing flimsier and more full of holes than the clothing is the plot.
At first I thought you meant “Empowered”, but I see you correct, and I have another webcomic to read, so thanks.
Like the Hulk’s pants. He’s hit the atmosphere at 50,000 mph and made a huge crater, yet walks out pants intact.
And then take Empowered and Gen-13 as examples of “Let’s test that theory to the fullest.”
+1 x2 for mentioning Empowered and Gen-13
Did the plot of Gen-13 ever get around to actually resolving anything? I gave up after two or three years of beautiful art and nonsense plotting.
Gen-13 had a plot? I thought it was just a vehicle for fan-service. Empowered did have a good plot, and a lot of thoughtful story lines, despite the prolific fan-service, so it can be done.
Only thing I remember about Gen-13 is one of the characters was like the first openly lesbian character at the time.
Years and years ago, managed to get a pair of those mini-cutout stand thingies of Fairchild and Freefall
Is it wrong for me to have a crush on Pixel?
Yes, no, maybe.
you forgot “possiblyyyyyy…”
Could be.
If it’s wrong to have a crush on Pixel, I don’t want to be right.
No, you are just a Lolicon.
VOTE FOR GRRL POWER,OFTEN!
At least once a day, every day (or every time open the InPrivate browser: GrrlPower is the first site to be opened)
I always forget that. Shame on me.
can we see pixel getting a spanking please.
Yes two palms up (or paddles if you want)!
Now THAT’S a vote incentive…..
I’ve heard ‘girl’ used in many of the situations ‘bro’ would be used between guys. In fact, you missed a prime opportunity to use ‘grrl’ here. Tsk tsk.
Usually by sassy black woman, while swaying a finger back and forth.
I know, right?
Mmmm-hmmm…
These girls are definitely grrls.
Am I the only one wondering how Elsbeth knows this about Pixel? First hand experience or just such close friends that they are open to talk about their specific kinks?
Yeah it opens up some questions and very likely now a heap load of fan fiction.
“I’ll be in my bunk…”
And that poor monkey is spanked again!
That’s a monkey? I thought it was a Baboon.
I thought it was you.
Depending on exactly who is included in the various fanfics, you might say that there would, overall, be a butt-load of it.
O.o
What? Butt-load IS an actual unit of measurement!
now back to the debate I started in Afghanistan, which is more, a butt-load or a fuck-tonne?
A buttload is something that can fit into the trunk of a large car. For a fucktonne you need at least a pickup.
But do you mean a fuck-tonne, or a metric fuck-tonne?
No no… The fuckton is a unit of weight, while the fuck-tonne is a unit of volume. The metric fuckton differs from the imperial fuckton by approximately 1.3 assloads.
Except tonne is also a unit of weight (well mass) so why would fuck-tonne be volume?
different substances being measured will have different density factors. For example, a fuckton of feathers & a fuckton of water will take up different volumes, even though they’re the same weight. Also, a fuck-tonne of water would weigh a lot more than a fuck-tonne of feathers.
So it’s good to have measurement values that are based upon different properties.
;)
Years ago, a friend on mine asked for a “buttload of ketchup” at a local McDonalds. He got 8 packets. He thought nothing of it until the next time he asked for the same amount of ketchup and got – you guessed it – 8 packets. He and we began to experiment and, over a period of three months, we found that, consistently, regardless of which McD’s in town to whichwe went, a buttload of ketchup was exactly 8 packets – no more, no less (At the time, we had five McD’s).
A friend suggesting asking for a “Fuck-load”; we did and got 7 packets – consistently and over a three month data-sampling period. A shit-load was apparently 6 (we did get only 5 packets once over the three month data gathering period).
Mister Wolfe (Hello, Mister Wolfe!), I regret to inform you that we never asked for a “fuck-tonne”. My apologies.
Now, what I want to know is, was there a laminated visual aid taped to the wall, or was this a result of training?
:D
…Any bets on Dabbler ,since Pixel works with ARC…
Pixel also works with The Council, because Cloverfield knew to toss the shard to her, so probably first hand pleasure
I believe pixel stated rather appropriately that she does not work for her and that she only works for the council. She works for the division of the council that is like Arc.
Pixel works for Archon. We first met her in their tower of power. Plus she was in the bubble bus. Bored and reading her tablet most of the way.
You might be thinking of Krona, the [i]third[/i] tiny girl with incredible powers.
She probably noticed her in the local scene
Depending on where Ellie lives that might be hard to do. It is implied that Arc is in the middle of the country and the council is in New York.
They’ve known each other for a while. Along with Gwen and Iza and a few others.
Which leads to many, many more interesting questions….
And how did Max knew she had to destroy the shard? did someone tell her? did she over -hear?
My guess is it was more of a “To HELL with the potential side effects. This. Thing. Dies. NOW!”
Either she kept her comunicator, or had common sense of “people always put an equivalent of a brain into a head-part”
Which is usually a bad idea, much easier to protect the “brain” in the torso, which would be easier to armor as well as the human “instinct” to aim for the head.
Yeah, just ask Krang
If Krang wouldn’t have been stupid and left an open hole where they could SEE HIM, much would’ve been different. =P
Oh, don’t get me started on Krang. I was a fan of the ORIGINAL Turtles, by Eastman and Laird. I weep bitter tears of rage when I see what they have done to them…
Their recent team-up with Batman was fun…
Except for the most dangerous of persons, those with actual combat training, who are instructed to aim for center-mass. Given that, and the probable lack of any other “vital organs,” the best place for the animating sword shard would be under the swat flack vest but nowhere near the heart or sternum. So, the crotch. Within a depleted uranium box.
Then again, a steel helmet could certainly be backed up by a decent amount of anti-ballistic armor when only required to protect something as tiny as that shard, even considering the small additional size for the depleted uranium box.
Company of the Depleted Uranium Codpiece?
I dunno, it doesn’t have the same “ring” as Company of the Cast Iron Codpiece…
You would probably need more than that to stop Dabbler.
Even depleted uranium may cause you to sire mutant offspring. I think some more research may be necessary. Since Dr. Revenge is better equipped than I in the field of scientific research, would you care to volunteer for this project?
O.o
Yes please do volunteer.
I can always use new guinea *massive coughing fit* I mean research associates.
The important point here being that depleted uranium isn’t going to cause blood-manikins to sire mutant offspring. Making it a very decent option for protecting their major vulnerability.
So when did you study the Life cycle of renegade Manikins?
And where did I mention specifically that the codpiece was being worn by those unliving manikins?
Oh right.
“…may cause you…”
I don’t know…Do you claim to be an unliving manikin?
:P
And then there was a wizard, who transferred his brain to his butt before fighting mindflayers… Guess what one of the mindflayers got a taste of?
shit for brains?
Still not as bad as the guy who was cursed so that his digestive system worked in reverse. He had to stick food up his anus & would defecate from his mouth…
In the Old World of Darkness, that was one of the things that could happen to mages who built up too much Paradox. (Fortunately, it was only temporary… a week at most.)
that depended on how much Paradox they were willing to invest in it…If they decided to spend 5 Paradox points, it could be permanent.
Some magic systems use a law of sympathy–if you want to control a body, you need to place the control mechanism in the head.
In the case of robots, of course, yeah, frikkin’ stupid, but then why would a robot NEED a head, anyway–at least a combat model?
That or she was simply starting with the head and if that hadn’t worked she was gonna continue until it either stopped moving or ran out of parts
This may be the equivalent of the movie setup line:
“How did you know he would land in the pool when you tossed him off the balcony?’
“Oh. There was a pool there?”
She likely figured it out from the one that exploded…..
Welp that was over quick, but still though I think a vampire was involved since there was bloodmagic in that thing. I was told it might be the priest but I don’t think so, a priest would use holy artifacts an such not bloodmagic.
But a priest to what is the question in that case. Not every priest is a “good guy”.
What about a priest that is also a vampire?
“Hail Longinus. Hail the Spear of Destiny.”
Probably to do with what they had at hand and had a knowledge to use.
Would a vampire really want to use a sword that drank their victims dry before they could?
maybe he came from Nosgoth?
Valid points all around, but I still say a vampire is the cause of this. Never ever trust a vampire even if they talk nicely they are probably just looking for a spot to back stab you.
Prefer to backstab someone while looking them in the eye
Ah well I am more the straight forward sort, charge at an enemy smash em into the ground and that is that.
I wonder how Elsbeth knows that…
I would have gone with “girl” instead of “broette”. Like “you go, girl”, and “hey, girl” sound similar to “hey, bro” or “cool, bro!”
Or bury her in the mud, destroy her jacket, and tear her clothes half off. (Without her consent no less.)
Who feels that Elsbeth should say to Pixel….
“Y’know,maybe I ought to clean out that sewer you call a mind???”
I guess this does not really count as Deux ex Maxima as we knew she would be coming back, eventually. Eventually just happened.
Arrg! I meant Deus ex Maxima.
Those last couple of images remind me of my “Forged in Fire” fan-fic, but with Brooke, not Max, doing the melting. I really should get around to finishing that, now that I have other gags in mind and I have figured out the order of finishing.
Deus Ex Maxima to the rescue!
Good one.
Not really, since we knew she would return to the fight, plus the situation wasn’t hopeless.
You forgot to add that joke was used already.
Hey, have you noticed the konami code on that banner? :-P
Someone is trying to push buttons today I see.
Why should Dabs have all the fun?
If you wish to take it that way. The emoticon :-P is supposed to/intended to suggest a tongue-in-cheek or teasing comment, but text is devoid of emotional context.
Snark fails in text as well.
What is that golden thing in front of Gunn’s chest?
That’s Elsbeth’s book.
Elsbeth’s book.
I been ninja’d again!
*bows and disappears in a puff of smoke*
I really DO need to get here a bit earlier in the mornings of updating…
Doing that would require getting up earlier, and I don’t do that anymore…..
You could always retire later (like the rest of us)…
I ain’t old enough to retire yet, you whipper-snappers! I’ll retire when I’m damn good & ready!
…But I’m old enough to sometimes wonder if I’m going to wake up again…
Aaaand now I’m definitely an Elsbeth fan.
Wait, so, Elsbeth knows this how?
Personal experience. ;)
Is it just me, or does Maxima look hot?
It’s not just you. In fact, several commenters have been trying to calculate just how hot Maxima looks with all that’s happened to her.
I am still wondering who could get away with offering to give her a good polish!
PAX
Fuck me, that’s a good line in that situation.
And yes, I’d so bring that line if I were there, consequences be damned.
Sorry you are not our type.
But the invitation is noted.
Max: (flat, even tone) Why yes. I would enjoy one very much. However, it is pronounced ‘Polish’. Mustard and kraut, please.
I’m seeing that now. Casually hand her a towel and when she’s done scrubbing the mud off just stand there holding out a buffing wheel.
Can recall an image of Colossus with a buffing machine and a tub of wax, can’t recall if he was alone or if others were with him (depending on how old the image was, could have included Maxi and Cable)
Hot has more than one meaning in this case…..
I know.
Where is Katrina?
Also that cluster of combatants would make a great team.
Sitting down at the table maybe, shaking off the last of the poison?
But hey! Barkly’s back! Just in time to add absolutely nothing to this fight! Except maybe his daughter.
Most likely correct about Kat, and we can’t really blame Barkly there, he didn’t know the fight was over.
Yeah, he arrived thinking it was over
There was still a boss monster to fight, and the grunts took down two of the council members in one shot attacks. Without Max that could have been a bit of a messy combat.
Yeah, but he was seen leaving the area while there were still two of the grunts in play (not counting Lone Helmet who was tied up with The Molesterer)
He was pulling security for the rest of the council in case one got past the chamber and returned when everyone was safe so he could help.
Just ran out of space to add people in that panel.
I was sort of thinking that Maxima would return just in time to save the day. I just thought it would be at the end of a brawl with this final Creepy Evil Spiderquin, possibly right at the last moment before it hurt Sydney.
On the other hand, I must admit to being mildly disappointed with Sydney’s performance here. She’s the star of the comic and yet all she ended up doing is spending the entire fight standing around with one of the no-gooders lassoed in her lighthook. On the other other hand though, I do recognize the drawbacks to using her PPO in there and so there may not have been much she could have done to contribute in all fairness.
That’s what almost everyone gets wrong: Sydney is not the star, she’s simply the current narrator because it’s her Flashback
Keeping 25% of the hostile force out of a melee is non trivial. Plus right before Clover went all DGAF Syd was starting a rescue of Kat. Sydney’s power set really isn’t a close quarters combat power set, at least until she has finer control of the PPO.
When the opponent is all offense-oriented, keeping something out of the fight is always a chalk mark in the win column – that’s that much damage not being dealt out in the fight.
Totally in agreement with you here.
and alerting the others in time for Maxima to respond to the initial attack…
Awwww, I wanted to see Dabbler engage it in hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand combat.
Something like this times four?
You could ask the Barberian about wrestling Dabbler….
That wasn’t wrestling.
I think the female equivalent (or rather gender neutral equivalent) to bro is brah.
No, Brah is just a more surprised version of bro
There is something missing in this scene. Namely, leftover scraps from Maxima’s bra.
Did she even wear one?
Why would we be seeing her bra in tatters? Her shirt is still (mostly) intact
I’m wondering what material would actually be able to function as a bra for her. Seriously the tensile strength alone would have to be incredible. And consider if her “Headlights” turn on. I’m guessing bras are mostly a fashion statement for her.
Probably just a regular bra. Her clothes are protected by her powers. She doesn’t need special invincible clothes while flying at super speed or anything.
Wapsi square has her tailor working with the fashion ninjas.
you assume she was wearing one at the start (too lazy to check myself)
considering her powers would she even need one?
It’s a bit difficult to say if Max even needs a bra, but it really looks like she’s not wearing one here, even though she’s still looking pretty firm…
How does she know that Pixel likes to be spanked in the first place?
Pixel’s Who’s Who says she is ‘experienced with artifacts’. Maybe one of those is a grail-shaped beacon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXT_IOt81Xs
Who put Pixel in charge? Wasn’t it her who set off this final booby trap or mannequin form or whatever by getting Izanagi to donate a little blood? I know she’s an ARC-Light special agent, but it feels to me like she’s probably the lowest ranked person in that group.
I suspect she was trying to change the subject away from pink handcuffs and spankings. Before Dabbler got into it. The conversation, we can assume she is into the handcuffs and spankings.
Don’t generalize spanking and handcuffs are two different things. Handcuffs involve submission while a spanking is a light punishment or (in some cases) encouragement.
I wasn’t, however both got mentioned in the same conversation. I however did assume that Dabbler might like both, depending on the context of her current “feeding”
Sorry thought you were talking about Pixel. A lot of people think if you like 1 you like the other. I guarantee if you try to put cuffs on someone who likes a little spanking without a whole lot of discussion and probably safe words you are going to get a big surprise and maybe physical and legal complications.
Dabbler & Vehemence might both benefit from this…
It’s possible that she is actually the next highest ranking Archon personnel currently onsite, or probably just to end that embarrassing line of thought
She’s the highest ranking Archon individual I see in the room; Sydney is a raw recruit and Dazzler is a civilian assisting, while Pixel is an “arc-light special field agent.” That doesn’t mean that either is in Pixel’s chain of command — Pixel is arc-light, where Sydney is apparently arc-swat (which uses military ranks rather than intelligence agency ranks) and Dazzler appears mostly attached to arc-swat.
DaveB hasn’t defined chain of command. Now everybody can guess to their hearts content……
Most likely “quickly changing subjects”, I agree. However, I can easily see Archon’s chain of command in the field to follow expertise rather than strictly rank, since they respond to abnormal threats with a small roster of field personnel.
Yeah, like even Maxi listened to Sydney’s advice during the Parking Lot Rumble
Someone has to take charge. Usually it’s just the first one to do so that is in charge
From “The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn’t know what’s going on.
well said.
A Mortal Kombat: Annihilation reference???
Oooo, could we swap Pixel’s “Who’s Who?” mugshot for the one of her blushing in panel spank?
I concur with Dabbler’s opinion.
*ducks*
About Max and mud or about sexy Viking Vampires? Or both?
Which opinion in particular? o_O
Considering it earned Dabbler a bump on the head in the mini-comic, I would have assumed from the fact that Yorp ducked that he was talking about her opinion about Max and mud.
Indeed. Maxima looks good like that.
About most of her opinions in general, Yorp’s pretty randy.