Grrl Power #522 – Little Giant Miss Matchmaker
I haven’t shown nearly as much of this as I’d have liked in the comic, but Anvil and Max are pretty good friends, and Anvil is concerned that Max hasn’t been on a date in a while. ( Or under a date in a while.) Not that dating her subordinate is really an option, but maybe she figures pressing her up against a prime slab of beef might ignite her interest with other options. Or she just thinks its funny to smoosh her naked teammates together.
Considering there’s a slab of concrete in between them, Max is secretly just a little impressed. And flattered. Not, you know, flattered in a “I’m validated by male attention” way. More of a “I know I’m sexy, not that being sexy is central or critical to my self identity, but it’s still nice to know that others know I’m sexy.” People are complicated.
Both Max and Hiro are stronger than Anvil, though when she’s all juiced up with kinetic energy, she could probably take Hiro. She burned most of what she had stored with that Super Suplex. Still, Max and Hiro both know to be careful with their strength, even when a friend is being totally inappropriate. Plus if Max pushed Hiro away she wouldn’t be able to cover herself.
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We’ll just not mention this in future.
Hiro: Superhuman but not inhuman.
That salute is through a slab of concrete. That’s one vote for inhuman.
If the shirt doesn’t survive then there’s no point lending it out. Also, she’s probably a little distracted.
Damn it, wrong comment thread. Things always go wrong when I read at work.
One would also think, that if we zoomed out, the “elephant trunk” graphic might be needed behind Max in Panel 7?
nah, he would have needed to somehow shrink a few inches for it to rear its trunk under max.
it might be nicely squished in the max-hiro sandwich though.
Now I’ve got a mental image of Max s-l-o-w-l-y being lifted off her feet, as if by an unseen lever.
lol +1
Prime Dabbler moment right now… appearance in 3…2…
Definitely.
PORNO SENSE TINGLING!!!!
Porno Sense OVERLOAD!!!
Meanwhile elsewhere Dabbler is twitching on the ground and screaming: “It’s over nine thousand!”
Yes I use old memes just to mess with the hipsters.
+1
Teanfourstar welcomes the business.
*Back at base*
Sydney: “Teach me a spell and I’ll teach you something better.”
Dabbler: *excited curiosity*
Dabbler ‘s eyes would be brimming with tears. “Kenya, I’m so proud of you right now”.
And the mischief of Anvil is showing. Among, you know, things of the other two.
This scene really makes me want more Anvil storylines.
You know, I kind of have to wonder about her and Dabbler being together. The amount of trouble they could get into is rather mind boggling.
The amount of trouble Dabbler can get into with just about anybody is pretty staggering.
Dabbler + Halo = ADHD meltdown (Did anybody keep up with that exchange?)
Dabbler + Faulk = Orion slave girl (already shown)
Dabbler + Hiro = Maximum recharge (for Dabbler)
etc.
If I was a betting man, I’d say Anvil was trying to play cupid with Hiro and Max.
Yup. Or at least to encourage Maxima to find some man, by reminding her what she is missing. Per Dave’s blog above.
What I like though is that Anvil is doing that in a cleverly deniable way. Just hugging friends, and glad that they are OK.
Clever and caring. I am glad we are seeing more of Anvil!
But we have yet to really see more of Anvil…
I don’t know if I just had a flash of precognition or what, but I think we may see more of Anvil before too long because, well, Max just might find some form of (roughly) equal vengeance on Anvil for this.
;)
the vote incentive shows you “more” of anvil i am hoping the color one is done soon. just the look on halo’s face sold the shot for me.
I don’t think DaveB mentioned that he intended to colour it? Obviously I hope that is the plan. But it may have just been provided ‘as is’.
Minus the motocycle
Cupid uses his own arrows. Anvil uses Hiro’s.
Very nice two last pages. XD
Just a question. Is now that slab of concrete broken? I mean, more broken than before?
It looks that way…
*nods*
That’s the way the concrete crumbles.
Yep. Have you ever seen what a jackhammer can do to a slab of concrete?
You mean like this?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1917
To be fair, he was pulling that chair in two different directions. Not quite what was going on here.
I think you interpreted that differently. I always figured he was pulling it towards himself, and the conspicious crack and bursting of stuffing forward was from something suddenly hitting the back of the chair hard enough to break it.
She can feel it through the concrete slab? Is Hiro’s penis registered as a deadly weapon? Because daaaamn.
I’d assume he broke through.
Considering what the Barberarian did to the chair, no doubt about it. This is especially so considering who he just got sandwhiched in with. That slab is no longer a slab…. it’s gravel at this point.
Another case of the “infinite spear”.
“oh your poor wife!”
Self control? No really, Max. Guys have no control over that. It has a mind of it’s own.
Yep. Ask any guy who’s been through high school about random boners and you’ll find that out quickly enough.
And that’s random boners when there’s no super hot basically naked girl squishing her boobs against you.
Hiro must keep a whole stack of spare pants at HQ. Or maybe he’s mostly desensitised by now. Hmmm…
Unless I am an outlier on this bell curve, I have never been desensitized to this.
Probably just some boxers made by Archon’s clothing ninjas
That or a titanium codpiece just for the issue.
A light breeze, a traffic light changing, or a slight change in the tides were about all it took.
And there’s nothing stating that Hiro doesn’t harbor an actual attraction for Maxima. But as she is his superior officer any relationship is a non-starter, so he’s been exercising that self control and being professional.
But self control has limits when pressed against the one you desire.
Or pressed up against anyone naked, pretty and of a gender you are attracted to. Sydney is the one I fancy, but I would react the same way as HIro. There are certain responses that are hardwired into our body and bypass the higher cognitive functions.
Yep. It takes someone on the line of a Tibetan Monk practicing mental discipline techniques for several decades to the higher-level mind to overcome the lower-level instincts.
…Maybe if Hiro started thinking about washing a sinkload of greasy dishes?…
Apparently if you’re already aroused, pretty much anything else you think of at that time will then become ‘sexy’ to you. So if he starts thinking about dirty dishes in a sink, he’ll start thinking about bubbles, and soap, and how slippery it is, and maybe aprons and what may or may not be worn under them.
So yeah, thinking deliberately ‘unsexy’ thoughts to quash physical arousal? Gooonna backfire pretty badly, usually.
As far as I understand it, there is a degree of “self control” possible through willful ignorance of the situation, hence the last page. One can only ignore so much, though, and physical contact is usually going to break that mental detachment barrier pretty thoroughly.
“Break” as in, “Smash into rubble, then pound rubble into dust”.
Actually, Hiro has quite a bit of self-control. Problem is, he used all of it up last comic, averting his eyes.
Hiro does have some self-control, but he doesn’t have ALL the self-control.
I think the expression is he’s got muscles in places most men can only dream of.
mind you I think Dabbler may be interested it’s concrete penetrating properties
The Bob Hope quote is, “He’s got muscles in places I don’t even have places!”
I think that would put Sydney off mind.
Anvil is right, thinking about it. Neither of those two have a wide range of potential partners. Many of the people on the continent, that they could have a safe relationship with, are already in the same unit!
Ironically Anvil is one exception, as her kinetic absorption power would protect even the most enfeebled partner. When the super-brawler punched her, it was like a baby hitting her. By logical deduction,* from the way her power works, she would be able to do exactly the same to prevent her actions from harming others too.
* Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. But Anvil can choose to affect one without the other, for instance when releasing energy, she does not get propelled backwards by it. Otherwise she would have ended up in Manhattan, after her last blast!
But Hiro is described as a bit of a ladiesman. How does he find that many women stronger than concrete?
a ladiesman does not mean he sleeps with them all… and if you go back and look every time hero has his shirt off “all the girls come to the yard” as it were. so the term “ladiesman” in his case would be more of a gentleman or nice guy who happens to be hot.
Well, he did bring home two groupies from the club in #383.
He may just have to be very careful. That would be potentially dangerous for them, but they may be willing to take the risk. Going by Sydney’s expression in panel 1, I doubt she would be one of them!
For a guy, it’s a little easier, as long as you either have access to super-material condoms, or have the presence of mind to ‘aim that somewhere safe’ before you “Woman of Kleenex” their brains all over your ceiling.
And didn’t Hiro have that pair of ladies he went home with after the night at the club?
I’m thinking of Hancock. Before they edited it out, there was this ridiculously perfectly hot chick at the beginning of the movie that wanted to /show her appreciation/ to him. He said that /at the moment/ she’d have to get off and out of the way.
Then there was a hole in the metal roof.
Imagine how he learned that the girl would have to get out of the way.
Probably the first time he read a National Geographic special on African Tribes, and needed a new toilet door
To be honest, and with an admittedly minor understanding of her powers, I’m sensing that Anvil might not really get that much out of a physical relationship.
I mean, think about it: A sexual relationship can involve quite a bit of kinetic energy being expended on the parts of either one or both (or more, if you fancy that) of the participants. Anvil’s ability is the complete absorption and storage (as well as nullification thereof) of kinetic energy expended against her. I would think that would make a physical relationship with her somewhat frustrating for all involved…
Selective absorption … she can choose to reduce the absorption or not absorb when desired. At least that seems to have become the working theory.
I was gonna say the same about Hiro and or Max. They can, within reason dial back their strength significantly and comfortably to make normal relations possible. Theres alot more delicacy involved in say, washing a bunch off dishes, opening a door handle or pushing an elevator button than involved in the more common babymaking activities we’re familiar with.
Seeing as both are dealing with such delicate activities on a daily basis there may be alot more control to be had. Hiro may have super strength but that also means super dexterity and muscle control. Remember onepunch man throwing a punch at Genos and pulling it at the last second so as to destroy the mountain range behind with the aftershock but not harm Genos himself? Super human strength and speed would be a curse and impossible to handle without that level of control inherently developed and sustained.
I think Anvils just trying to match up two supers that would enjoy the higher range of possibilities and thus enjoy a more relaxed relationship. They may not be limited to super human partners but cant get it on with normal human partners as intensely as they’d like to in terms of their own pleasure.
“Plus if Max pushed Hiro away she wouldn’t be able to cover herself.
WTF??! Now I hate Max. I hope Dabbler ports in right about now and gets to fill out another box on her Super Max Bingo card.
Dabbler: Max, you’re naked
Maxima: No I’m not, I’m wearing Hiro
Dabbler: But Hiro is naked
Maxima: …
When did Dabbles develop personal porting technology? o_O
She’s got magic. She’s got Weird Science & technology. Between those two, is there anything that Dabbler doesn’t have (or can get or can build)?
Maybe so, and she does have portal technology, but so far, there has been nothing to indicate she currently has the technology to portal herself
Magic spell to open a portal. See? Magic can solve all sorts of problems.
Heh. I missed out on that particular implication.
Mind you datora is right “thrust”, “penetrate” and “erection” are all on the bingo card. Plus Maxima is clearly going to have to ask someone to get her some “knickers”. Whereas “orgasm” and “quim” both have potential on a denial front.
Dabbler may be able to get a “tingle” though. From Dallas.
Since Dabbler is powered by things like these this might give her a big enough power boost that she can gain temporary extra powers.
Max: “I didn’t know you could teleport Dabbler.”
Dabbler: “Only when something incredibly sexy like this happens. It’s like a irresistable beacon of porn and…”
Max: “Good for you. Now wipe that grin of your face and give me all your cameras.”
He he.
Burial: even my eye?
Max: expecialy that and any data file back ups!
How after rechecking it was spelled correct before hitting submit did spell check change xurial on me I wasn’t even highlighting her name at the time ?
Clearly a gremlin infestation in your phone. The only solution is to drown them!
Do check your warranty and user-manual though, before trying that.
Ummm. In the movie, putting a gremlin in water is…very bad.
Eeek!
https://grrl-power.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Make_Maxima_Say
There’s a word on there that comes to mind that neither Halo or Xuriel got her to say yet.
I’m surprised “Excelsior” is on there, too. That’s one that’s going to be hard to get anyone to say. I am aware that “excelsior” is used to indicate superior quality. This is due to its Latin roots (Ex- and celsus, “beyond” and “lofty” respectively; combined, they’re usually taken to mean “ever higher”).
Unfortunately, it also means (at least in North America) curled wood shavings used for packing fragile goods or stuffing furniture. That’s why I always got a laugh out of the U.S.S. Excelsior in the Star Trek movies. Do you really want to go to space in the U.S.S. Packing Straw (which is usually made out of aspen wood)?
If Sydney has that word on her ‘get Maxima to say’ bingo card too, then she clearly needs to try and get Maxima to come to a Star Trek evening. And steer the conversation that way, at the appropriate episode.
Maxima “used to be” a bit of a nerd.
Get her to Sydney’s comic-shop.
Start talking about early Marvel Comics.
And, as Stan said, “Excelsior!”
This ^ :D
+1
I want to know how Dabbler got Maxima to say Trouser Ferret!
1) Sydney is wearing two shirts, so she could probably spare the HALO logo shirt, but the (H) would look more like (I—–I).
2) Although she can maintain her completely inconspicuous disguise as a insulation mascot, Pixel is also out a set of clothes. She left them on top of the building that was subsequently rubbled, and incinerated.
Both Pixel and Sydney are tiny compared to Max and Hiro. Their clothes would not fit
If Krona’s still around, perhaps she could reset Maxima’s clothes to “intact”, or alter something into fresh clothes for them…
What, she can’t? So Maxima’s gonna have to remain naked? Awww, such a shame…
…And Daniel the Human’s glaring at me again, so I’m gonna wrap this up…
It’s not a matter if Krona has the skill to do it, it’s whether she’s too distracted to think of it at all.
It’s like when 2 superheroins are having a catfight, heroes can think of a way to separate them but… decide not to… and bury to the bottom of their minds that there even was a way…
So sayeth Max Mercury (in an issue of the original ‘Young Justice’ comic, before that title got borrowed for a TV cartoon series that was really more ‘Teen Titans’):
“A wise man brings only two things to a catfight: A comfortable chair, and popcorn.”
^_^
I got my popcorn… :)
Woof woof!
Though you are right about relative sizes re: shirts. Have we established whether or not Halo’s force field is always transparent or just by default. It seems to have some variance in what it allows in at times.
So, if (and this is a big IF) she could get Max extracted from her current embrace, do you think she could bubble around herself and Max and obscure her to the outside world to at least a degree?
The only variance I have observed is the pattern that appears when the shield is under attack. And it has to get pretty intense to be noticeable.
One exception is when the enbiggener button was used. and we saw the shield being lowered gradually. Either way though it was not translucent or opaque.
On the other paw, the conversation at the beginning of the comic, regarding force fields blocking lasers, is a hint that such might be possible. Plus now that Sydney is getting the hang of what the special buttons do, she may be able to figure out what the ‘opaque’ icon looks like. If it exists.
So maybe.
Or Sydney could get Hiro into her shield, and turn it opaque, so she’d be the only one able to get to him, or see him naked.
When did she indicate she can turn her shield opaque?
… i’m not seeing this as a problem.
now if anvil and sydney were to somehow loose their clothing too…
Umm, no, last we saw of Pixel Panther (before she was flung into Wars, she was still fully clothed
Yep, confirmed, Pixel was in now tight clothing when she was sent to Mars… :P
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Yup. Mind you Defnestor was correct about the clothes being left on top of the building. However the checkpoint reset restored Pixel’s clothes to her, and the nasty not-robot attacked her before she got to take them off again!
*defenestrates toys*
Yes, but the point was, she was wearing her clothes again at the time the building was rubbled
An interesting point being that they should have a look around the rubble and see if they can find the clothes. Or check Sydney’s pip boy footage to see if they can spot the clothes still folded up, at some point after the checkpoint.
Because if there are two sets of clothes then they should start to look for evil-twin of Sydney and Pixel, plus a good-twin of Harem! Krona never left the checkpoint area, so if there was a double of her it would have been obvious already.
Of course Pixel had her clothes back. The reset point was set before she took them off to try and stealth mode her way into the Mars Factory. Ergo she should be clothed, and since the shirt is big enough to fit her Were Jag form, Maxima could consider borrowing it.
You are making an assumption, namely that time was reset. Clearly it was not as Maxima and the rest of the world carried on experiencing it without the loop. Therefore the effect was just local. How the local effect was achieved has been the subject of debate though.
Whilst I am not a proponent of it, one of the proposals was that Krona’s power created duplicates, of those at the checkpoint, and just downloaded memories into the one who triggered the recall. Meaning that their original bodies could still be out there.* Alive or dead as the case may be.
Duplicated clothing would be an indicator that this had happened.
* If the power did not simultaneously disintegrate the old bodies, for whatever reason.
Those last panels… that counts as a threesome, right? Need camera with instant image sharing!
Not cool, Anvil. Sexually harassing two senior officers in a combat situation while simultaneously immobilising three big hitters…
Yep, not cool. Rule of funny though.
And yes, this would be a perfect time to find out that the bloodling has survived, absorbed the power burst, and is right under their feet.
Exactly what I thought. This was TOO easy to be true. Previous fight with lesser automatons was much longer. With Maxima out of the picture, true, but still…
And now I remembered something from another comic. Let’s hope next page won’t have practical example of “Evan’s spiked tentacles of forced intrusion”. All the required elements are at the scene. Or were.
The combat comments are correct, but rule of funny overrides that, as the others said.
As regards sexual harassment, deciding that is purely down to the people involved. Outside observers have no say in the matter. Anvil and Maxima are good friends, so Max is not bothered about her doing that. And Hiro is enjoying himself! Ergo there is no sexual harassment.
Actually, any witness can make a harassment claim, in that the situation they were exposed to make them uncomfortable. (at least the army tells me so)
So Sydney could go to her SHARP rep an stammer out something about holes in concrete, and all 3 of the participants might have to talk to the General. Not saying much might happen beyond a “chain of command guys, really!” warning, but hey.
Ego the person is involved.
Sydney would indeed have that option and could cite a ‘hostile working environment’. And she has been subjected to several other incidents that she could use to support her case too.
That said I don’t think Sydney would want to do that, despite clearly finding it shocking and embarrassing, on respective occasions. She clearly likes Maxima and fancies Hiro. So whilst this is an environment that she is not used to, I think she would prefer to adapt to it and get used to the banter.
Take for example the current vote incentive. Whilst Sydney looks grumpy there, surrounded by all the ‘amazons’, she is not trying to hide herself, like she did with her mummy outfit. She is starting to get used to be more comfortable with herself and therefore less troubled by others around her.
If she does not find herself coping though, it is not necessary to resolve it by starting a harassment claim. In fact even if intending to do so, it is better to simply have a word with the boss and ask if she can get the behaviour toned down.
This would then give Maxima the very important information that Sydney was not happy with the banter, and could take measures to reduce or stop such incidents.
Which could lead to a funny scene if Dabbler decided she wanted to counter-sue due to this making a hostile working environment for her! Although she could not use sexual harassment as the basis for that claim. However she could indicate that she was being deprived of sustenance necessary for her health and even having her life endangered!
Comical though it is, it does serve to show the other side of the equation. Namely that these are soldiers who have to live with each other 24 hours a day. Society is obliged to allow them some degree of sexualised behaviour, because their off-duty time, when such would be considered normal and acceptable, can be fairly indistinguishable from their on-duty time.
It is just that a balance needs to be found, where living a normal social life does not compromise any particular individual’s desire to be free from harassment. And, unlike civilian life, a soldier does not have the option just to walk away, if their duty requires them to be at a particular location. Likewise they cannot simply quit and sue for constructive dismissal. So it is a particularly complex issue for the military.
Neither the “friends” defence nor the “enjoying it” defence would go all that well in court for deliberately holding two inadvertently naked people against each other without their consent.
I will accept the rule of funny defence, given that this is a comic book, however:-)
Actually it would never make it to court. It is not possible to make a sexual harassment claim unless a participant makes a complaint. In this case it would include Sydney, as a witness, if she felt harassed herself by the action. However, as I outlined in the replies to Rakaydos, above, the fact that she is likewise is not (too) bothered and also considers Maxima to be a friend and fancies Hiro means that the ‘friends defence’ will work very well. It is just not required in court.
Please note that this is not opinion* it is fact. How sexual harassment is determined to have taken place in the workplace is whether someone involved feels harassed (and reports that).**
Your opinion (and mine, for that matter) is totally irrelevant in the matter. Whilst an uptight boss might hear about an incident and attempt to prosecute, without their co-operation, the attempt will fail, as he or she lacks this necessary element to prove the case.
In effect your statement is akin to claiming that a murder has occurred when nobody has died. If they are all friends enjoying themselves, then there is no sexual harassment.
* Other than as to making the claims about their attitudes and relationships, although those are fairly self-evident (and various of them are supported by comments made by the author).
** Sydney certainly has felt harassed over some of the incidents, such as being embarrassed and shocked on respective occasions. However if it is to to a degree that she is not significantly bothered about it, and decides neither to file a report or support a third-party trying to do so, then it amounts to the same thing.
No complaint (from any participant) = no crime to answer.
By the way Dave, how about a “CRUNCH” sound effect on the bottom of panel 6?
+1
+1
So +2 so far?
+ 3 (net)
Soooo, it took a Net +3 to trap Max & Hiro together? That takes a fairly serious level of enchantment skill to get that bonus.
Nah. +3 is like lvl 12-15 or so. You’re not really serious until you go epic, so +6 or so.
Maxima getting angry, who didn’t see this coming? :p
Nah, Max still knows what humour is. She’ll have a stern talk about it later, but nothing more.
Epic story material, though.
………..So….
That implies….
His boner… literally went through that scrap he was covering himself with.
He really can’t get with normal gals can he hah
That was not scrap. That was a piece of concrete.
I’m sure he could get with normal gals. Just has to be super careful. So… probably just be safest to let the girl do all the work.
He can, it just has to be at HER pace………..
Lets hope he can, or those two groupies he brought back to ARCHON HQ after they went to Club Oontz left disappointed.
Well, it might have been mind-blowing for them. Depending on how super strength enhances ejaculation.
Well he is not quite at ‘man of steel, woman of kleenex’ levels, but I suspect extra care would be required. Extra durable condoms perhaps.
The relevant work is “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” by Larry Niven.
I disagree Maxima. I think Hiro is showing a LOT of self control, given the situation.
Yeah, I mean seriously Maxima even with her personality, cannot be unaware of her looks, course it might be a sore spot for her?
Maxima probably is… tender… in some spots.
Hiro, try to think of something unsexy. Maybe this will help?
Bwahahahaha!
Dave needs to see that, lol
XD Very much so!
Unfortunately, that… doesn’t really look much different :(
Look at Max’s face…
I believe it’s an attempt at using humor to distract from the sexy naked lady pressing against his body…
…wait, why would he want to do that again?
The point is, apart from closing her mouth and changing the colour of her nose, there wasn’t really much of a difference (could see the intent of the changed image, just personally didn’t see a truly noticeable change, and had to actually look at the two several times before spotting the changes)
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Awesome job!
*for you*
I’ll take eight!
“Now kiss”
:-)
I thought no dialog = no Who’s who. Halo doesn’t have any dialog on this page.
Would you dare to leave the Mighty Halo out of that list?
I’m fairly sure that the dialog rule for the who’s who is for the introduction of new characters, so that the first time there’s an Archon crowd scene of new characters, the who’s who isn’t 12 or 20 bios tall.
Well, I think this chapter lines up perfectly with the current vote incentive. Did you plan it this way DaveB?
Have some self-control?… he would need to be either a Eunuch or Gayer then the Cowboys in Brokeback Mountain to not have a that reaction.
Totally
Anvil is without a doubt the one that is enjoying this situation the most, even more then Hiro.
I don’t think ALL of Hiro is enjoying the situation, just a particular part. I think the rest of him is trying to…….remain calm……so he won’t be reduced to base components…
Yeah, arousal does not necessarily mean enjoyment.
Oh I agree, with both you and Spicefreak.
He definitely is doing his best to be a gentleman, but that doesn’t mean that this one moment isn’t pleasant. So yeah.
Even Max, in panel 6. That very much looks like an expression of pleasant surprise. But then she also has to emphasize that this is neither the time, place or situation for it & there’s duty & regulations getting in the way too.
Exactly.
Awesome funny, hot, and kinda cute. “Hands up, don’t shoot”, Hiro. Hehe. Can’t wait to see how they get out of this predicament.
Just pointing this out; But Sydney got a full view of EVERYTHING. One can only wonder if she’ll face repercussions or if she just got some of the world’s best material for a Spank Bank LIVE? Care to clarify, DaveBarrack?
Why should Sydney be facing repercussions? o_O
Because she’s frozen in a combat situation again?
Yeah, but her superior officers are both standing around calmly chatting, while naked
“Calmly” seems quite debatable to me.
Standing around quietly, whilst the officers decide what to do, is precisely what a recruit should be doing. There is no case to answer.
*here you go Sydney*
Good point. Given recent experience, this would be a REALLY bad time for Sydney to say anything at all.
In panel three, they sure looked calm to me
She ‘survived’ her little encounter with Achilles. She’ll be fine.
I see no evidence of it but if Kenya is wearing undergarments she can loan out her shirt and shorts.
(She would then look like her Vote Incentive illustration.)
A excelent exuse to give us more female muscle fanservice. Not that I think we realy need a exuse but anyway.
Why has Anvil’s face become dwarven? Wide nosebridge, glabella, bulbous nosetip, thick but short and very spaced between eyebrows.
Was wondering that as well, it’s not just the colouring, it’s the entire shape of her face (and not just the exaggerated look of Troll in panel five, but in all the panels she is in this page)
I was OK with all that myself. The thing that made me sad though was Sydney looking like she has been crying!
Good solution on the rubble front by the way DaveB. The intent is nicely carried, without any need to detail it all.
About artwork: Kenya seems to have a bigger mouth in later panels. Still fine in the fist panel but somehow on the way into uncanny valley in the last panel. I can’t help it, this is my impression.
grrrrz… “fist” -> “first”
And two boobs that are as big as her head each. :D
No, the bewbs are the same as they have ever been
The fact that Max was/is able to sense Hiro’s sudden rise in ardor through that slab of concrete he’s holding is impressive. Kenya’s also amused, seeing Max flummoxed by their current situation. LOL
Sexual harassment suite! Sexual harassment suite!
I agree, we need a follow up to sexual harassment with… more sexual harassment. Until we have enough incidents to all it a suite. (-;
Heh.
It’s not harassment if they go to a suite………
Yeah I was thinking “sweet (suite) or sewt (suit)”?
Sexual harassment suite! Sexual harassment suite!
With different people involved, yes. But not with a group of friends, such as these. Sexual harassment can only be prosecuted if one or more parties feel harassed. None do.
jack: Sorry for being pedantic. You mean a harassment suit.
A suite is a number of connected rooms, or a set of furniture for one room (e.g. a bedroom suite), or a couple of other definitions, none of which have anything to do with a lawsuit.
Hey Max, blame Anvil, not Hiro. And Hiro, this might be a good time to learn some ice-themed songs.
There are some *ahem* …… instructional videos …… that made use of ice. So, I don’t think that would work.
That level of self control does not exist.
Court Martial in 3…2..1…
Heh.
Funny, but it would not happen in a casual elite unit (even in the real world). Besides which there is no case to prove. You cannot prosecute the major for having an autonomous response. Likewise all Anvil did was feel happy to see both of them still alive, and give them a hug.
Honest ;-)
But they are all friends, so no one is going to be bothered. They know Maxima well enough to realise that she is just blowing off steam here.
I love the second to last panel.
Yea, it is superbly done. It is both funny and clearly carries the intent.
Plus Maxima looks great. It is not easy to do ‘shiny metal’ yet still have all the characteristics of a normal person too.
Kudos to Dave and Keith.
Okay, the first reaction shot was funny, but now they’re crossing over into “stand casually around talking while the villain gets away” territory. Ole’ top-head’s big laboratory full of blood-drained corpses is literally across the street. Now isn’t the time to stand around flapping their naked body parts. Now is the time to rush across the street, naked or not.
Well, the “Full Frontal Assualt” approach was suggested in the comments of the previous page…
This comic operates on the ‘talking is a free action’ rule, so we should not be overly concerned about that. Sciona has had plenty of opportunity to escape already, if that is her aim. A bit of character development is not going to make any difference, one way or the other.
Dave had to pick and choose what aspects of the super hero comic genre to incorporate into his setting. Banter and personal interplay being one of the most compelling parts of super hero stories* I am very glad that he chose to keep this aspect as an underlying aspect of Grrl Power.
* It is one of the things that made me a Spidey fan. He was not invulnerable, yet still took the time to cleverly taunt even enemies who were much stronger than him.
Most of the time, Spidey became the verbal wiseass during fights because it helped him to not be afraid. There have been situations when his banter had no effect against the villain or his fear though…One case being when Spidey & Dr. Strange were opposing Dr. Doom & Dormammu from implementing the Bend Sinister.
The levels of flapping and bouncing involved would deafen any bystanders.
Well this seems like foreshadowing for a similar incident near a camera for Arianna to run damage control on. Assuming there isn’t a game camera or something out there.
Quick! Freeze frame! Ctrl + S! Load into Paintshop! Save File!
Okay…Got it! Whew! that was close!
We’re losing him!
Why did Max take his arms out when they were covering his boobs before the hug? (Fanservice purpose is 4th wall breaker)
Probably automatically tried to stop the naked Hiro suddenly moving towards her.
Oh so the robot is good and busted then, Anvil is lucky though she can absorb kenetic attacks cause I’m pretty sure Max is gonna smack her one. Or maybe thats the point, if that robot thing is still around Anvil can have a go at it and make it good and destroyed. Hiro on the other hand, yeah… I’d be careful as in he will get his ass kicked if he can’t keep himself under control.
This makes me wonder, can a super boner break concrete?
We know it can break chairs.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1917
If it hadn’t Maxima would not be complaining. Had the concrete block just move closer Maxima would not have supposed a specific cause (his leg pressing against it would have the same result, for example).