Grrl Power #521 – To no dress
Hee hee, we do have fun here, don’t we?
Yes, as long time readers know, Max’s invulnerability does extend over her clothes in the form of a near skintight force field. Obviously it doesn’t convey nearly the same protection as her intra-cellular field, which means her clothes can get damaged without getting grievously injured herself, but the attack has to hit that sweet spot damage wise. The fact that her force field is nearly skin tight (I’d say maybe a centimeter or two) means that if someone attacked her while she was wearing a big fluffy fur coat, it would probably get a severe crew cut.
Max is probably a bit more fit that most guys care for. Diagetically, (slightly reappropriating this term, but hopefully you get what I mean) she does this on purpose in the gym. When she first got her powers and her body developed from her slender track runners build, she wound up looking like Jenna Jameson or Pamela Anderson when they were in their absolute primes. She was pretty happy about this at first, but she quickly realized it came with certain social disadvantages. This sort of thing contributed greatly to her particular brand of low tolerance feminism. Now she never was one to wear the sort of clothes that those two did (or didn’t, as the case may be) but being in the military, it’s not like she had the option to wear big fluffy fur coats either. Basically her only option to change her appearance and try and deflect at least some of the unwanted male attention she was getting was to “over do it” in the gym. It’s not like she had the option to put on weight even if she wanted to. Not that she should even have to make that choice of course, but basically her only options were “super slamming beach bunny bod” or “super slamming muscle beach bunny bod.” Hiro is obviously aware of all this and is trying his darndest to be a gentleman about it. As gentlemanly as one can get with their tackle flapping in the fallout.
Non-digetically (again, hopefully you follow my intent here) she’s as muscular as she is because I like fit ladies, (follow me on Twitter for my occasional #BonkersLadyAbs posts. :) and I still tend to over do it slightly.
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About time and seriously, isn’t this a trade hazard? Big deal!
“Big deal” is why Hiro’s got an African elephant, not an Indian elephant.
African v Indian: https://www.thomsonsafaris.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/asian-african-elephants.jpg
What… does that have to do with anything? Other than the specific elephant-head type DaveB used? o_O
Not like he used a mastadon…
So, Hiro is circumcised?
Please note, the elephant-head is in Sydney’s thought balloon.
The size of the ears.
Clearly Hiro’s penis has two “fingers” for grasping.
Maybe this helps
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html A tag prefixed “grrlpower.com” to my link?
grrrrr DaveB, I REALLY REALLY need a “preview” PuhhhhLease? it’s ok if I can’t edit, but I gotta know what the bbcode/forum code thinks of my text.
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Colour me moron, but still don’t see what the ‘big deal’ is about using an African elephant as opposed to an Asian elephant
African elephants have larger ears than Indian elephants. This means the African elephant image covers more area than an Indian elephant would.
In other words, Hiro has a lot that needs covering.
Is this some racial thing? Because Hiro is of Asian descent? o_O
did you notice the size of the ears?
I mean really, ask Invincible or Saitama…..
…yowsa.
Any chance for a commission of this scene from the front, nudge nudge wink Wink?
Also, I assume this doesn’t happen often, due to the strength of her shields.
Careful how you word that, you might get a scene without the elephant censor :P
Yes please
+1 Yeah, I don’t need Hiro’s uncensored view, I need Max’s. ;)
Why not both?
+2
Zoidburg agrees.
Actually, I’d say this would make for a good Patreon incentive.
I agree 100%.
I was thinking, that should be the May voting inventive….
Tackle flapping is my new favorite term.
It’s an old olympic sport. They used to do the oolympics nude in ancient greece.
I don’t know, I’d say it’s a tie with Arianna’s “clam flapping” comment way back when.
just keep that letter ‘L’ in there, eh?
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Tacke flapping?
:-p
As a fellow Amazon chaser, I have no problem with this :D
*VORCH* could have been *DEPANTSED* if Dave was going to spoil things for the Audience. If we get a kickstarter… Can Hiro’s POV be one of the extras?
+1
+2 (.)(.)
+9 ¶
+ 58008 :-)
Not *DEBRIEFED*?
Weren’t there faint rumors about some “Grrlpwercomic in the Dark”? somewhere in the past?
+3. Or +4? :P
Grrl Power After Dark. It is a project that Dave said he would like to do, but would not, in actuality, have the time.
There was also Demon High, and a few other ideas that noone has time for.
Inb4 Dave posts a picture of the sky (which is what Hiro iscurrently looking at).
I was going to post that, but you’ve got it covered. And actually, it would be hilarious if it were a slightly-blurry, wide image (as seen through slightly upturned squinty-eyes), with the bottom edge at Max’s shoulders — so you could see her “Oh, for the love of…” eyeroll.
Oh and there is a cloud up there which is roughly Max shaped. But of course because it is a cloud it has no details.
Hiro is working to keep his looking at her eyes, so his POV ends just a little above her nipples.
Hiro is an officer and a gentleman. Unfortunately Max is nearly naked. This is how a qualify for sainthood….
Now THAT’S a display of respect & discipline for a superior officer! Hiro should receive a Medal of Valor for keeping his eyes above & beyond the call of duty!
“Staying true to the Call of Duty by ignoring the Call of Booty.”
The Call of the Wild is hard to resist.
At least it wasn’t the first yell!
Was thinking you meant the Jack London book slash movie at first
Look at his face! Also a purple heart.
He he. All a bit shocking for Sydney.
Glad that Hiro survived the blast though!
Well, from what I understand, there is a point for women when size goes from being interesting to being intimidating.
it’s 9 inches. after that, the guy’s actually more likely to hurt a woman than anything else.
That depends a lot on the woman, too.
Even if she’s invulnerable, or absorbs,er, kinetic impacts?
Based on the superheroes-as-physical-perfection thing, I’d guess that male superheroes’… endowments… would fall just on the pleasurable side of that point.
In other words, Hiro is a shower, not a grower.
“Hiro is a shower…”
Is that your version of the Golden Rule?
O.o
show
owe
tow
mow
row
low
Are the Judoon around here somewhere?
Elephants not rhinos
what’s a Judoon?
A Judoon is a Dr Who character race.
kind of a mercenary police force they talk in rhyme like what you did.
https://img07.deviantart.net/33cf/i/2011/214/5/7/dr_who_judoon_by_webmartin99-d42hiy3.jpg
Boy am I going to have a mammoth catch-up Dr Who session, should I ever make enough money to get all the ones I have missed by living in my TV-less hermitage. 11 years worth!
I shall need a container-load of Yorpie Snax™ to make it through that lot!
The falcon is three parsecs out with full holds, so where does chewy unload the 85% he lets you have of his new favorite snack.
Tau Ceti. But that is a bit of a long walkies for me to go and pick it up!
Sydney, he does not have that much control over that appendage, as the elephant does his trunk. Also, it isn’t quite that big.
Have you been spying in the men’s locker room? o_O
Hells below…imagine if he DID have that much dexterity with it.
who’s to say that isn’t one of his “Classified” powers. HAHAHAAHAHA
Well Dave has indicated that not all powers are particularly useful ones. Some could be projecting-a-coloured-spot-on-a-wall type powers. I imagine that would include various powers that are pretty useful, say being able to create a large volume of any type of air or gas desired, but which are emitted from an embarrassing orifice. Making them socially difficult to use or even admit to having.
Whilst such have been explored in various comics, they could actually be present in this setting, just unseen.
*has a good sniff*
Projecting a coloured spot on a wall could be a very useful power. Cats of all types tend to get distracted by that. Other videos show other animals checking out laser pointer lights as well.
Halo: So your power is you can fart oxygen? Or sulphur hexafloride?
Gas Bag: Yeah, but not enough that you could actually breath it. Not that you would want to; those stinky chemicals are still in there too.
He’s not Reed Richards, after all.
Ah, they’ve all seen bigger…Recall if you will, when they fought Vehemence.
:D
… So hey… what’s Max’s belt made out of and where can I get one. That’s the last belt you’ll ever need to buy.
must shop at the same place as the Men in Black.
Of course. How else do you think they’d get that kind of quality?
Damn you Sydney for blocking our view!!!
I think that a lot of his willpower it to keep his tackle flapping.
So I was wondering, will there ever be an update of the crew description? Also introducing all new characters which appeared so far?
This page made me go back there because hiro showed some other powers during the last big fight and I realized once more that it was so outdated.
Now I am quite puzzled about how Hire shaves his beard in the morning.
Super strength+Diamond-edged razor?
It never progresses beyond Optimal Manly Stubble.
He’s been seen clean shaven before, though, so… See hampsterpig?
Finger nails or a normal razor depending on how Dave wants to handle it. Fingernails is what Hancock used to shave in the movie. Since the hair is marginally weaker than skin and the nail.
Aren’t hair and nails made from the exact same protein?
Diamond and coal are both made out of carbon. You can get different results from the same building blocks.
Underneath our clothes you will find that we are all made of the same stuff it is just arranged differently in in some parts. Despite our fascination with staring at nudes.
hey so…. on maxima’s hip is that a tattoo or merely whats left of her undergarments? if its a tattoo i totally want to know the story about it.
It’s what’s left of her underwear.
You have to wonder if Dabbler stole all her “granny panties” and left her with nothing but the lacy ones from her own collection.
That needs to be a side comic! EPIC panty raid!
Will have you know, even the most ‘prim and proper’ librarian likes to wear nice things under their austere exterior, it’s quite empowering knowing you are wearing something like that, and Maxi still likes to wear nice frilly things, she just prefers to be in control over who gets to see her in them (or out of them)
Not the most comfortable for those physically active times. Still, cotton boy-shorts panties do a nice job of being comfortable and still looking hot when exposed.
Why on earth would it be “empowering?” I am female. I wear sexy underoos when I plan on having them seen. I wear comfortable-to-be-in-for-16-hours underoos the rest of the time. Lace gets itchy with the least provocation. I find neither set of underwear more “empowering” than the other. In fact, I don’t know that I’ve ever been “empowered” by my panties.
Now, a good sports bra, on the other hand, has definitely empowered me. To exercise without hurting.
Bot I’m tempted to make a superheroine now whose power source is her underwear. They sexier they are, the more power she has.
“Galactus is attacking!”
“Fetch my lamé thong!”
No one can figure out why her power levels swing so wildly on laundry day.
Brilliant! Get to it!
” How is she so STRONG? she’s wearing an Eskimo parka and thick fuzzy boots! ”
‘Well, yeah, but just imagine what she’s wearing UNDERNEATH!!!’
Ten layers of underwear each more sexy than the last.
Empowered?
I think it’s been done. :D
O.K., it’s been done before – Dave, we need this!
I’m pretty sure Tip Wilson, the cross-dressing Lothario of Skin horse fits this Trope nicely. The prettier and more feminine his undergarments, the easier time he has getting almost any female out of hers.
Warning: If you google that, half the pictures will be from MALE models.
Just the last half.
Well, you’ll have to admit that Max can wear whatever she wants & it will never be uncomfortable. Lace won’t make her itch.
That depends. Can Maxima be tickled?
We guys can only comment on how sexy ladies underwear makes us feel, when we wear them.
But enough about Thursday nights. Harumph. Not a fit topic to discuss, with a lady present!
Thursday? I thought that was on saturday?
But…but…this update came out on Monday…
…I’m sooooo confoozed…
Wait! Ah, what happened to my calendar? Who’s been mucking around with my calendar?
Lace itches. Silk gets sweaty. Just say no to leather. Why did I even try chain? (Seriously…pinchy rings around the figs and twig…paaaaiiiiinnnnn) Cotton for everyone!
I know I’m a little late to the party but i think Dabler or her blond “friend” could pull that off a lot better
As far as empowerment via “underoos” there was a thing in the 80/90s that women who only dressed in cotton panties all the time never got in touch with their effeminate side. and when they finally started wearing lingerie they felt sexy, and not the submissive sexy but the powerful, lusty, manipulative, sexy. that is where the empowering from underwear thing comes from. late 90s 2k it became written off as something chauvinists and idiots believed.
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looks like her lacy underwear might just barely got protected due to extreme closeness.
I suspect even with hiro not looking down he will still react to it just based on the knowledge its there in front of him.
And last panel she finally realizes why its a bit drafty and two why he is looking like that, ( I suspect he just got a fewmore respect points in Maxima’s eyes)
No that’s soot marks. Her underwear got carbonised.
No Max is actually wearing black lace underwear.
I was actually going with a theory that the cotton got turned to ash and blown away, but the polyester and elastic melted into something that looks like lace.
My apologies, I thought she was wearing lacy underwear before the *Vorch*. The way it’s drawn makes look like its been burnt to a crisp.
How far along are we on that age-gate commissioned all the way back during the super brawl? (When Glowbug stood under some water.)
Because I doubt I’m the only one interested in seeing more of this…
Dave has mentioned in the past that he is too busy for commissions. In fact you may recall that he was the one commissioning someone else to do a vote incentive of Maxima, some while back.
Glowbug was also a patron character, so unless it was the patron herself suggesting that, I very much doubt we would see such.
I know all that. I was actually referring to your own first comment on the page I linked, which was a reaction to the footnote under that page.
Oh, heh. I see what you mean! Sorry about misunderstanding you.
Dave has indicated, in the past, that he wants to keep the comic at its present rating. Therefore that was purely a comment in jest, on my part. Although I would be happy if we did get to see more, it would not suit the tone of the comic that Dave wants.
So Dave restricts the nude stuff to vote incentives and/or on his Deviant Art page. The former allows him to warn if an incentive is adult or ‘NWFW’. In the latter such pictures can be individually set as being ‘adult’ and thereby not visible on accounts set to block that.
There is one ray of hope though. If the comic manages to garner enough publicity to become world-famous, and thereby we manage to increase Dave’s income sufficiently, via his patrons. Should it reach the point where he can have full-time staff,* then he may be able to free up enough time to do a separate project. Namely ‘Grrl Power After Dark’. Specifically for that kind of content.
Possibly he only meant it tongue-in-cheek, about wanting to do that. But I got the impression he has the desire but not the time.
* Presently he can only afford to hire Keith for inking every now and then.
Butt, GrrlPower is World Famous (not like L&P)
It’s hard to follow Dave’s roundabout descriptions sometimes, but Max *does* go to the gym? I can’t imagine what kind of exercise equipment she’d need to get a proper workout.
She can not only dial down his super strenght but shipon it too.
In a few of the SheHulk comics (years ago) when she exercises dehulked it increased her hulked out strength.
Wait, Jen can de-shulk? Thought that that was permanent for her
It has changed back and forth over the years.
She merely prefers to stay as the She-Hulk as much as possible, but yes she can change at will.
Completely wrong at the moment, sorry.
Current Jen has been deeply traumatised by what happened in the Civil War II event (beaten into a coma by Thanos then wakes up to learn that Bruce has been killed by her friend Hawkeye) and both prefers to be in human form and lacks control over her transformation. She’s not even She-Hulk any more, she’s just Hulk.
Wait, she had a gender-swap? Why drop the ‘She’? o_O
Originally, it was when she got mad.
Then she learned to control it.
Then she got stuck in powered up form for quite a while (I seem to recall it was from taking a huge dose of gamma radiation while trying to save her teammates on the FF but I could be wrong).
Then over time, apparently, the dose wore off and she could turn back and forth again , but she found she liked being the center of attention (and apparently, Wyatt Wingfoot, who pretty much ignored Jennifer).
Since then, her preference is remaining powered up. I recall a few points in various comics when she depowers because the judge to whom she was presenting a case had a problem with her powered form and powering down was easier than contempt of court.
But yeah, it’s been all over the place since the character first showed up. Of course, John Byrne also had Ben Grimm having the same issue – he is capable of changing back and forth out of his Thing incarnation, but his fear of being rejected by Alicia Masters in his human form leads him to unconsciously reject that option (which struck me as being odd once Alicia masters started dating Johnny Storm, but hey…)
And follow this link for more on She-Hulk and a damned fine piece of … art. (surprisingly, I was right about the incident which locked her temporarily in her powered-up form – will wonders never cease).
Meh, I prefer her human form, from what I can see. Although I bet General Faulk would not.
What? Faulk prefers Orion Slavegirls (don’t mention that to anyone in “TMI”, specially not the Orions themselves :P)
And as you can see, the only reason that She-Hulk was allowed to stand in for Susan Storm in the Fantastic Four is that it takes a woman of She-Hulk’s…stature…to match the…stature…of Sue Storm.
Seriously, unless they have changed it (them?) since I stopped buying the comics about 25 years ago Susan Storm is sporting a bra size well in excess of a HHH. She has to use her force field to prevent constant back pain…
This is canon!
And I didn’t spend much time searching. I’ve seen canon images of Sue in her full bodysuit where she was much, um, larger.
So, just like her cousin, she has a split personality going on
Yes she does. They have a super gym in the Archon building, and before that she would improvise, but as Someone mentioned, she can dial back her strength to work out. It’s hard to do it that way though, cause when lifting something, her instinct is to use her powers to help.
I’d think she might dial up her invulnerability to keep her energy off of her strength. She can avoid an accidental injury that way.
wouldn’t that make her muscles immune to the stress of the workout and thus make it pointless to workout?
lift a bale of hay.
now do it wearing kevlar.
same workout, the protection has nothing to do with the overall muscle reaction.
I’m pretty sure boosting her invulnerability wouldn’t keep Maxima from pumping iron and getting benefits from it. Although, she may need something heavier than iron. Perhaps irony?
Stand in an explosion. Armor doesn’t do shit. She’s invulnerable through and through.
It’s different when your individual cells have protection.
Some even have marijuana piped into them.
There was a vote incentive a while ago that showed Anvil lifting 16 tons or so, while Sydney was struggling curling 5 points. Maxima could borrow Anvil’s weight bar for her work outs. We worked out the plates had to be tungsten or a tungsten-steel alloy to have the required density and hardness; lead would distort too easily and gold is too expensive (and will distort too easily as well).
Oops, curling 5 pounds.
8 tons it was 10, 800lb weights per side making it 16000 lb = 8 tons. but yah i’m betting Max uses her weight equipment to.
Think she would dial up her speed more then invulnerability. Then she could do a multi hour worth of working out in minutes or seconds.
Depends on what she’s using to work out with. If it’s simple weights, then sure. If it’s resistance machines, then dialing up her speed either won’t have much of an effect at all, or she’d just break the machine.
She probably also uses Doc Savage™ brand exercises in her fitness regimen.
Sure, super strong people can workout
https://youtu.be/6gqV-i9Ee0g
A montage, Maxima needs a montage, not a gym!
Only one man can help Max She need MONTAGE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ca9cQ3GV4
ROFL.
Very apt.
Where was that guy when Sydney needed him for her first day of PT drills?
Although the situation appears resolved, Hiro should probably not be letting his guard down so easily.
Math might have some company in the near future.
Honestly, the whole crew ought to train together in the nude. Make nudity a daily, ‘normal’ thing, and it no longer has the strong sexual connotations it normally does in our Puritan society. And with so many of the team capable of surviving experiences that their clothing cannot, (not to mention the empirical evidence of 4 incidents of de-clothing, and 1 of a teammate being taken out due to nudity) it just seems like it would be a good idea for them all to get blasé about it.
Welp, they’d have to kick Math off the team because I don’t think he’ll ever win any sparring matches at all with that policy in place…
That’s the only way any of them would win, specially the ladies
The nude training would have to be creative/mental type training. Like puzzle solving or drawing. And maybe SOME nude wrestling as a final exam on the self defense course. Otherwise Math is never gonna pass his “porn” training.
We haven’t seen Math in awhile now. He’s still following his last order… to look at boobs on the internet til he’s bored of looking at them..
A life sentence, with no hope of parole.
Man, if Hiro can maintain eye contact during that entire “ordeal”, just slap him with a GL ring. He more than deserves it.
I have a suggestion as to where he could wear it.
Not sure the ring expands that much.
I’m not touching that joke with a ten-foot pole.
What about a nine inch one?
Ask Hiro
It must be a cold day then >_>
Woo! Lady abs!
The commentary raises an interesting point. How does Max, or indeed any of the stronger supers, workout?
Can they choose not to use their super strength and then load up on extreme weights? It’s been demonstrated that Max can choose not to allot much of her power pool to strength. But I seem to recall that her base level was still pretty strong.
I suppose the easiest way would simply be to workout in pairs (or if necessary teams). Other supers would be able to generate levels of resistance necessary to build super strength, though this might be difficult to quantify. Stalwart would be useful for this, given his gravity abilities. On the other hand if the applied phlebotinum trope was invoked, I’m sure Dabbler could invent something.
I believe Dave showed the weights used by strength supers on his deviant art.
yeah, the plates are like 500 a piece
Max out strenght, throw a boulder, max out speed, overtake it, catch it with submaximal strength?
That actually makes a ton of sense. So a sort of paired crossfit routine.
Anvil is a perfect punching bag for strength workouts.
Not only does it not hurt her, it just chargers her up.
Although emotional damage is possible.
Is that what they call a golden opportunity? 8-)
Well done, sir.
Hiro’s mettle is being tested :)
Would have been better if they had evaded the blast. Then their clothes would have been intact.
Bless you Hiro, you are a true gentleman…your reward, is a little bit more respect in Maxima’s eyes. And that I think, is worth putting Sydney into a ladyboner coma :) Thank you Maxi.
Also I just realized….the robot scratched Maxima in the previous comic…AND DREW BLOOD. Red, even. >:D Let the comments commence!
i’m not too sure that the laser-claw actually even got to touch her skin, let alone cut it… a) she has BLUE blood, and b) it looked more like she grabbed the tentacle and kept the laser away from her skin, and what we saw was the shadow of it from an external light source.
No, no it did not, as explained in the comments for that page
Looks more like a superficial scratch mark.
I argued the case for that being a layer of Maxima’s epidermis being removed. But conceded the point due the the quality of arguments against it. Too many small points to reiterate here though, and spread out over several threads. So you would need to have a look through them, if you are interested.
Eh, it’s just a scratch, but I think it should have been blue, not red. >.> And not that it really matters anymore, cause…VORCH.
Didn’t her clothes get damaged when that girl (who someone wanted to call shebang) hit her with the exploding bolas? Or am I misremembering?
Yes, Atomic Bombshell’s “Overnuke” was enough to get through Max’s outer force field, ruin her jacket and pop her back.
She refused to use overnuke on the account of her being a glass cannon, she (and many other in the fight) wouldn’t survive it. Used something called “shaped charge”. Since neither was more defined than a name, it doesn’t make much difference though.
That’s not the same thing as being a ‘glass cannon’, not if only a handful on the entire planet could survive a detonation that close
World of cardboard speech, world of glass. Same thing, in this case.
A truly valiant effort! He must have a will of steel!
I think the implication here is that Hiro has an impressive “trunk.”
Cue joke about junk in the trunk.
that’s a different trunk, and is situated on the reverse side.
I think this is politically unsound!
;-)
At least Neil feels sorry for the elephant :D
Just had another thought… HALO’S STATIONARY KIT IS GOING TO SAVE THE DAY! That or her duct tape.
the elephant instead of a fig leaf tells us Sydney’s entire pack of gold stars isn’t enough for this situation.
2 silver stars might help Maxima slightly…
Application of the stars might also be.. counterproductive.
just as long as she doesn’t use the googly eyes, i think we’re ok… if she DOES use them, then i don’t think even the 4th wall would be safe…
Now I want to see googly eye pasties.
I’ve seen those in real life. They are, well, weird. And sort of creepy.
Wouldn’t she only need to use one googly eye? <.<
Ahh, the old ‘one eyed trouser elephant’ camouflage trick?
The previous page has a far more naughtier panel, if you look at it long enough…
Imagine Sydney running by and draping those two with a couple of tarps….!
Heh.
Funny mental image. But, whilst Sydney might have been shocked, I do not think she would want to cover up Hiro. Once she has gotten over the surprise, she will be enjoying the view, I imagine.
Albeit probably blushing red enough to illuminate the scene!
Remember, she grabbed Achilles’ rear when his pants got partially destroyed.
Not on purpose!
The poor girl was traumatised. Well up until she saw bright shiny objects to distract her.
Not the white-eared elephant, then? ;)
DAVE: it’s “Maximal effort” for a pun on Maxima. It won’t work for those who read it already, but think of the late readers or re-readers some months down the line…
Why? She’s not a Transformer in the Beast Wars
I think it might be a Deadpool reference.
…and maxima’s period doomed the universe. Muahahaha!
Nah, she has Maxi-pads.
Oh fer gawd’s sake, Hiro, turn your head to one side i you want to be a gentleman. sheesh.
I thought eye contact was an expected part of gentlemanly courtesy?
Yes, but even gentlemen have to fight to overcome natural urges to glance down.
I have actually been in a situation similar to this, where the lady was very attractive and lost her top, and I needed to address her directly. I looked her in the eye, but brought my hand up, palm out, about a foot in front of my mouth. Censored her from the neck down. :)
The exact words you’re looking for are probably intradiegetic and extradiegetic, at least according to TV Tropes’ Watsonian vs Doylist article.
Or is it “Tropes’s?” The word Tropes is plural, but the proper noun TV Tropes refers to a singular entity…
I have to say, she may not appreciate the description, but Max’s scrunchy face in the first panel is adorable.
So says the adorable little devil.
*wags tail mischievously*
So they both lost their chocker?
Don’t get choked up about it.
Maxima did loose hers. Hiro though did not have one on, nor the torc alternative. Presumably he got scrambled from a location where he did not have access to one. Or maybe he was using a pip-boy type alternative? If he was though it is dust now.
DaveB has been know to forget chokers at the best of times, this time? He may simply of gotten distracted by what he didn’t draw
Actually, Hiro did have the thick-necked torc version, but not any more
He used to have it on, but I may have forgotten about it on a panel or two. :P
At least this time there is an valid reason, including Maxi’s disappearing choker :D
For a moment there I thought we had Max giving off pixie dust. It is probably just burning embers drifting away from her clothing.
Hmm… I wonder… What the rest of the cast thinks about these events?
He he. Nicely done!
*applause*
+100 internet points to you, good sir or madam.
Nice job! Dabbler made a clone of herself so she could ogle more efficently.
HA!
Good work
Heh heh.
*Applause* Nice one!
+5 I say! Nicely done!
Brilliant
Y’know, with Max’s particular powerset, she can probably make working out really, really effective. It depends on whether or not she can pull so many points out of one or more powers that they go negative. So for instance, when she hits the gym, she could overdrain her strength (dumping it into flight or armor or something) to the point where she’s weaker than her baseline. She could do the same thing to her speed while doing cardio. Kinda like her own personal gravity chamber.
Nice thought but it has been confirmed that her base strength is above that of a non-strength super and we have no indication that she can spend points on negative upgrades.
I believe (though I haven’t tried to find the specific comic) that DaveB once mentioned in the notes under a comic that Max could, if necessary (I believe the example went) dump strength into another ability to the extent that she wouldn’t be able to move. But yes, her baseline not-even-touching-my-pool strength still (I think) leaves her up there with Anvil and Hiro, so if she can’t dump out strength to below that, there’s a hydraulic ram set up in a sub-basement for her to do military presses with.
Max had to put all her stats into armor in the steakhouse fight with V. Dave said in that configuration she is basically immobile. We also know she was hurt in battle overseas. If she had required an operation to fix an internal injury she may need to do the opposite and dump all her stats out of armor in order for the surgeons to gain access to her innards.
IIRC, when Max dumped all her point into armor in the steakhouse battle, it didn’t leave her immobile per se, just not strong enough to break V’s hold.
Dump it into speed and you’d get more workout done.
+1
I knew it! Just as I foresaw!
That Hiro isn’t circumcised? o_O
He’s got an elephant down there. :D
I wanna see a picture of Maxima from over Hiro’s shoulder! And NOT with her body blocked with his or with smoke and debris!
Scientific curiosity as to the other reflective surfaces of Maxima’s body! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Well, hell. Until I read your post, i didn’t even think to wonder what color those particular nubs are.The only non-gold part of her body other than hair and eyes are her lips. So maybe red?
It sounds like you are willing to risk taking a peek at Maxima!