Grrl Power #486 – Post-denouement loiter
I went into this page thinking one big panel would take slightly less time to draw seeing as the holidays are coming up and it would be great to get a little ahead (or less behind) so I don’t have to spend most of Xmas day drawing. It, in fact took slightly less time. Slightly. :/ Still, I normally totally over do the panel count, so mixing it up a little every now and then can’t hurt anything. Actually, laying out all the dialog so that it flowed sensibly was a challenge. Let me know if anyone has trouble following it, but it all reads across then down. Gunnhildr’s underwear comment is an orphan bit of dialog so it doesn’t matter when it gets read.
I don’t think the fact that humans don’t naturally have blue, green, purple or pink hair is any excuse not to have words to describe someone with that hair color. Also, I am vociferously for the brown and black hair having separate words. Chestnut curls and black Wonder Woman hair are not the same thing. It’s understandable if someone has some dark ass dark brown hair, but there’s a whole range between that and blonde.
I feel like I should point out that usually after combat, Arc-SWAT doesn’t usually start milling about and hobnobbing, they’re supposed to immediately snap into processing mode, but the Council’s people are examining what’s left of the mannekillers (you’re supposed to be helping Ellie!) so there are a few moments to spare to complain about having mud in places mud is never supposed to get.
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Even if Dabbler doesn’t take this as an invitation to hose Max down, it seems to me like magical favors like this are how Dabbler gets the leverage to overturn the rule against zonking teammates.
Yes. This must immediately right now be a voting incentive. Let’s all beg Dave until he draws us a Dabbler-Max shower scene.
We’re still waiting for the Pixel spanking incentive, among others….
There’s a big wish list for next valentine…
And getting bigger every episode…..
OK, how about Sydney spanking Pixel in a shower with Dabbler and Max?
The lighthook could give quite the spank, even Max might feel that one.
Mike, I love your devious mind.
asking dabbler for a spell to clean off the dirt might be a bad idea… i mean technically clothing is foreign material aka dirt.
I thought of that too, and realized Dabbler isn’t stupid enough to risk that. Max is ticked enough as it is about losing her jacket. If Dabbler makes her lose more than, there won’t even be ashes left.
You just know she’s thinking it though.
Of course she’s thinking about it. I figure she will like TRY to be good,,,maybe….
She’ll totally not be good but she won’t push the point beyond all survival instincts.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND JOY TO ALL!! Love the hair color’ing fun, and I’m SURE that whatever Dabbler whips up? Somehow I don’t doubt that Max will end up in Tons of Xuriel’s FUN. hmmm… XURIEL’s MEGA WASH and WAX, a new power for her cyberarm? Or some new spell. ((and I can hear the “oops, sorry, Max, but you’re clothing vanished…” :D ))
I guess with a super like Max you could use a buffer attachment to get her nice and shiny again.
And a tub of Turtle Wax…..
That doesn’t sound like it would be flexible enough for a articulate, flexible being.
Which is too bad as I really liked the idea of the way she would look and smell after this wax was applied…
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…been done as fanart w/Colossus and IronMan handing said items to Max…
KNEW remembered a fan-art of that!!
You mean, this one?
That’s the one :D
Whenever you say cantrip my head goes to capnip and/or beartrap…
I share a similar affliction.
What are they referencing with the hair colours? I feel i should know but i can’t think
DaveB’s artist brain is making him write an artist joke.
The three girls are currently the three primary colors Yellow, Blue, Red (if you count pink)
She is saying they also need the three secondary colors Green, Orange, Purple.
Thanks! I too was wondering this.
Nice I caught the hair colour part but I didn’t get why Green, Orange, and Purple would complete the set.
I thought the complete set would be hair colours to match Halo’s orb colours.
It’s more likely that Halo’s orbs are a reference to the same thing.
Oh come on, it’s the rainbow song!
Red and yellow and pink and green,
Orange and purple and blue!
A sexy cantrip I bet
I doubt she has any other kinds.
Soapstorm. Do you have a coldwaterstorm? I feel unclean.
Think a Sandstorm will do the job if a Soap or cold water storm won’t?
heres hoping for a foamparty spell
cleanliness spell; funny that reminds me of an old nippit I did, “Dirt Repel” a spell that was commonly used by sorceresses / adventurers with fancy outfits as a way to travel the dirt roads and engage in battles without needing to constantly brush off and clean those outfits. It worked well as both a minor defense boost as well as keeping their outfits clean from small particulates that would otherwise stick to them.
Had a player in my 2nd Ed D&D game who made 8th level Illusionist and slotted two Cantrip spells daily to make sure his appearance was always perfect – hair always in place yet able to ruffle fetchingly, clothes well pressed and always spotless. He eventually researched a spell called “Dapperly”, which lasted all day but could be used for no other purpose than being GQ.
Permanent Charisma boost is worth a spell slot.
In 4e that’s a ritual, “fastidiousness”. And I played a character that had a somewhat different, but very good, reason for using it every day. She’s a gnome, and her hair was 70 feet long when she began her adventuring career… it’s grown since then.
… *Pictures an ogre grabbing the hair and using the Gnome as a flail*
A friend of mine used to spend hero points on his “super” character every day for dramatic effect. hair was always perfect, smile was gleaming white, wind always caught his cape in cinematic fashion, moonlight would highlight his figure, cameras always captured him in stylish pose.
There is even a scene I remember where he was working out with weights alone in the base’s weight room.
“…3, 4, 5, 6 …”
Then someone walked in on him. Without missing a beat, he dropped another hero point.
“… 2,675, 2,676, 2,677, what’s up guy who just walked in on me?” (yeah, I can’t remember the other guy’s name).
Maxima in that last panel is just perfect. Badass and majestic enough to make Wonder Woman look like a rank amateur.
Sandals seem like a bad choice of footwear for the job.
And from previous strips we have seen that Pixel removes them at every opportunity.
Uh oh Max, you might regret asking Dabbler for a spell that will remove things from you. Especially with a damaged wardrobe!
Sign me up for a Halo, Krona and Pixel set, now that we have them as a package.
I like the way your thinking , very succuby , yes that wardrobe counts as dirt
Those clothes are dirty. Maxima did ask Dabbler to remove the dirt.
If the dirt help the clothes to still stick, max is going to have a surprise :)
Get in line, Yorp. Line starts over that way —>
Maxima could just spin really fast to get clean. Sure, some of her clothes might leave with the dirt, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.
But wouldn’t that make her turn into Wonder Woman?
Max in a Wonder Woman costume ala Lynda Carter https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ic8zbHSKWUA/Tu9SXoyTx-I/AAAAAAAAmrQ/RRDVxKA4ZwU/s1600/LYNDA+CARTER1.jpg definitely vote incentive material…
Maybe Robot Chicken’s ‘Reverse Wonder Woman’, knowing Xuriel.
Also, Dave thanks for drawing my favorite thing in at least eight universes.
P.S. Thank you, Dabbler.
guy with purple hair? hmm…. tedd from EGS anyone?
Yeah, me about 9:00 this morning on the 1st page of comments.
Anyone who can pull off a mowhawk can pull off any colour.
I am not convinced on the idea of a purple mowhawk.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3203/3291024431_cc65de96b8_z.jpg?zz=1 or https://orig14.deviantart.net/5c59/f/2013/051/5/0/purple_mohawk_by_surrendertonothing22-d5vlsdy.jpg aren’t bad.
Had a classmate in my Russian classes in college who had a 2′ long mohawk dyed vermillion – and she looked amazing in it. She most often had it moussed up but on occasion she wore it down. Only mohawk on a woman that ever did anything for me, but she would have looked great no matter what. Amazing woman and totally sweet-hearted.
I agree wholeheartedly on this.
Yes. Rare is the man who can pull that off.
…powergirls? super rangers? [insert-power-ranger-team-name]?
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(note• 0:22~>0:24 ) ￣ω￣
I thought it was canon that dirt (and makeup) didn’t really stick to Max’s skin (or whatever that gold stuff is)?
Make up-no dirt-yes, grease paint-kinda https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1782
Dave that’s the last thing we need to see is Maxima and Dabbler all covered in sudsy wet bubbles…and nothing else…and what the hell am I saying of COURSE it needs to be seen! *evil grin! EVIL I SAYS!*
Dammitall, I was thinking a guy with purple hair would do well in the RWBYverse but after reading this page I’m rethinking it
Dabbler didn’t take Prestidigitation? I thought she at least had a level in Wizard.
It just occurred to me, couldn’t Krona adjust reality to polish Max up, and improve her wardrobe?
Perhaps, but Krona isn’t Max’s subordinate and seems to be busy data-mining reality at the moment. Plus her idea of “improving” wardrobes doesn’t seem entirely dissimilar to Dabbler’s.
A man with purple hair is obviously just a ‘Purp’ :D
” if someone has some dark ass dark brown hair, ”
Which is what I had, when younger.
Just wait till it all turns gray…..
black hair goes grey, brown hair turns metallic silver. at least mine does. pretty much one strand at a time, randomly.
I started life dark brown, but now it’s mostly white with a salt and pepper beard….
That depends on the person. My dark brown hair is doing this weird thing where some brown hair is going pure white and going very straight, some is turning silver and remaining wavy, and some is going to almost black from dark brown.
Getting old aint for sissies…
I’m picturing an apparently harmless spell that not only removes all the mud and dirt from Max, but restores her wardrobe… sort of. Impressed, Max tells Dabbler, “Thanks! I appreciate your restraint.” Dabbler says, “It was my pleasure, believe me.” Then Max turns about and we see that every back panel of every part of the uniform and underthings are as transparent as crystal.
Really enjoying this arc but I do hope this means we will be seeing Arianna and Co. again soon, I miss them!
I wonder what’s next,I hope there won’t be a second wave….!
All I want this holiday season is for us to FIND OUT WHAT THE HELL SYDNEY’S OTHER TWO ORBS DO. Or at least one of them, come on!
halo orbs now available at Wal-Mart. they’re calling them Christmas decorations.
Why does Maxima need a cleaning spell? Dirt is not supposed to stick to her due to her forcefield. I am surprised, she managed to stay dirty while flying through corridors back to the room.
I was raised on a farm and spent time in the infantry, and I promise dirt and mud sticks to everything…..
It’s not that nothing sticks to her, it’s that the junk she wants to paint herself with (makeup or camo-paint) doesn’t stay where she put it
So I’m really liking how Dabbler is blending two entirely different poses together in the last panel.
Am I the only one who wants to see the results what Krona did to Gunnhildr’s underwear?
Right about this time a group of armed (and supposedly legged) individuals storm into the room announcing ‘Don’t worry. The Council Commandos are here!”
Krona, annoyed at their tardiness says to herself “Time to make their clothing match their name.”
:-D ;‘) ;-p
Aaaaah yeah xD
I’m sure this has already been discussed, but what are the limits on Krona’s ‘Hack Reality’ power? It obviously has the potential ludicrously overpowered in a turn-off-the-universe kind of way.
Gah, damnit! There’s a “to be” missing from the second sentence. The to be decided to not be…
So you are saying the use of “to be” or not “to be” was in question?
Tubey, or not Tubey… whatever happened to Tubey?
+1 to both of you! :)
We don’t know the limits, but she tends to prefer small, subtle things…..
I’m wondering if she could hack Sydney’s orbs to find out what the other two actually do.
I bet the orbs have hack protection just as powerful as the magical scry protection it has
Her ability to hack reality is just normal spellcasting with a cool user interface. However, instead of having to memorize spells, she has the ability to look at a target and see certain ‘parameters’ she can alter on the fly.
She can’t hack a parameter the interface doesn’t give her, and how many or which parameters she gets per target, and how she can upgrade this aspect, is unknown so far.
So if a criminal is aiming a gun at her, she might be able to alter his ‘has a gun’ to ‘false’ with a few gestures (swiping or tapping the interface), and doing so would presumably cost her mana. Or she might not have ‘has a gun’ as an option to change, and have to alter their ‘facing my direction’ or something else to deal with the situation.
I suppose that raises two questions (which I don’t expect you to be able to answer, these are intended to be rhetorical); what constitutes a target and what defines the parameters she can change. Would a building or the Moon or the Earth itself constitute a target? What sort of parameters would she get; could she target the Hulk and switch the parameter from “Hulk” to “Bruce Banner”, or target Superman and switch his underwear to Kryptonite-laced undies?
What we’ve seen her do so far is minor shifting.
Changing the texture and structure of an undergarment, and shifting the mechanics of a ballista. Both are relatively small and wouldn’t even need “reality warping” level to achieve, just molecular shifting. Still very impressive.
But a User-Interface form of magic has been seen before in series like Fairy Tail and Modern Magic. It basically just takes the (Write in Book) magic and mixes it with the (Sigil Wheels) *which you don’t see the Sigil Wheels much anymore, (they would turn wheels within wheels in sigils to align patterns to create different effects), but the computer interface thing using “magic code” is basically the same thing only easier for the audience to comprehend.
chances are there are basic limits on what she can do, range, size, amount of mana, complexity of change, ect…
Something like “has_gun” may be too coarse and well-observed a parameter to change subtly on the fly, but there might be some mileage in “cartridge_fill_compound”. A gun that’s designed to detonate a few grams of cordite might have problems detonating a few grams of sand.
Raven-haired has been used in literature for years as describing a person with very black hair, Jet-black is another term for black-haired. brunette literally means brown-head girl
Agreed. We don’t need yet more terms for people with black hair; we just need to educate enough people that “brunette” was never one of them.
dat ass tho
Why are you looking at Inggie’s ass? o_O
Why not?
Other than the fact that its totally obscured by a cape right now. (or is this an age thing? If he didn’t like ’em young his dating pool would be pretty small)
Hey, there’s not an ass in that last frame that I wouldn’t mind looking at. Even though I prefer women, I can appreciate a well-toned man! XD
Okay, weird thing with the hair color terminology. Despite what Clairol will tell you blonde doesn’t actually refer to a specific color. It just means lightly colored; so any brighter hue would still be considered blonde (I.E. Pixel and Krona).
Poppy-locks! Blonde has always referred to the shade-spectrum from just above white (but not white itself) to light-brown, including such shades as ‘straw’, ‘yellow’ and ‘strawberry’, but not pink
I guess pink might be referred to as raspberry blonde, or possibly strawberry lemonade blonde :)
Guessing it really depends on how bright the pink is: normally have dirty-blonde hair (which a touch of ginger), but have removed the occasional hair that was most definitely pink
Ugh, I remember reading a fan fic that insisted on calling the main character an “orangette”, which bothered me for a couple reasons. Most notably, the character in question was male.
Wait, wouldn’t that be a ginger? o_O
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Uh… I apologize for pointing out grammatical errors, but I think Pixel’s comment is a little confusing. Like it needs to be “assuming those wedges came from a typical longsword” or “assuming what those wedges came from was a typical longsword”.
This was mentioned on the first page, and still say you are WRONG!!
Stop ‘reading’ it and hear as if it was spoken
True, and when Dave gets back from enjoying the holidays he will probably thankfully agree with you and change it. (if he actually has enough time to read through these at all)
As far as what Guesticus is saying.
I am not all that good at grammar.(which is probably obvious) When I read things I am “saying” them to myself in my head so when I notice something wrong it is because it SOUNDS wrong. After noticing that I then try to go back and figure out what is so grammatically wrong with the sentence that I couldn’t comfortably ignore it.
Maybe she just speaks in this odd way but I haven’t gotten that impression in her few other lines.
Well, it didn’t sound wrong to me, and some people do speak like that
Honestly, to all these grammar knobs, do you go around correcting people in the street? o_O
Do you carry around marbles to shove in peoples’ mouths so they ‘speak proper’?
LOL its too late in the night to be reading “grammar knobs” and “shove in peoples’ mouths” so close together.
If she speaks in an odd sounding manner repeatedly then I stand corrected. If she’s correct to herself then that’s good enough for me. This comic doesn’t seem to have a search by character function so it would be a pain to find a chunk of her dialogue that wasn’t from this fight.
In this fight, where she has had a decent little chunk of dialogue, she hasn’t spoken in any odd sounding way other than this one little thing which looks exactly like a mistake that people make when they change a sentence halfway and don’t see that the first little bit no longer quite matches up with the changed bit anymore.
I wouldn’t correct people in the street cause I have no idea how they speak normally and I don’t need them to make sense. If I had to work with someone who consistently spoke in an odd enough manner that they could not be clearly understood then I might bring it up. (it would have to be pretty bad since I’m not looking back on memories of English classes where I scored all that well… )
Considering her line of work MIGHT require her to communicate a lot of specialized info to those without that specialization I bet she usually tries to speak well by a certain common standard even if its not her original manner of speech.
It is possible that this is an error and if it is an error then Dave might actually LIKE the fact that it was pointed out so it could be dealt with. If not then he will ignore it cause he knows everyone will forget about it by the next post. Jeeze, I know authors that ASK commenters to post typo’s in threads the author created just for that.
Don’t see why its a big deal. *shrugs*
Merry Christmas Grrlverse
Merry Christmas Random Guy! (and all you random guys and grrls out there! :D )
Likewise, ditto, and right back at you!
Happy Holidays!!
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Bah. Humbug!
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Wait, who’s the shorty squad member with red and orange hair?
Crimson, one of Ingsol’s sirelings.
Wait… I thought that just about nothing would stick to Max, so how is, a mostly water based mix managing to do just that to an extent that she can’t just like, dog shake it off when no one’s looking?
Let alone the fact that she must of zoomed her way back after digging herself out, you’d think it would fly off along the way though by the looks of it, it mostly did.
Makeup will go on her, but trying to blend eyeshadow or the like causes it to smear in a way it wouldn’t on regular skin. That and it never sets right. Casual movement and blinking causes it to flake off. It would be a lot easier for Max to wipe the mud off herself off than a regular person, and eventually it will slough off on its own, but she’s still got dirt inside her clothes etc.
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I’m surprised no one’s pointed out yet that the masculine form of “brunette” is “brunet”. (Also, the masculine form of “blonde” is “blond”.) So, if you did continue the analogy, “violette” would be feminine and “violet” would be masculine, not “viol”.
Actually, “brunette” only means black hair. Brown hair is included under “blonde”, because brown is just dark yellow. (Although some have used the coined term “brownette” to differentiate brown from yellow hair.)