Grrl Power #828 – Wingwoman
Anvil is the only one who could get away with this. Max and Peggy are good friends, but Peggy respects the chain of command too much to try and manhandle Max into a date, even if she were physically capable of it. When Anvil is off duty, Max reverts to being her bud, and that’s something that Max actually appreciates despite any evidence to the contrary.
This room was supposed to have a window in it so you guys can tell it’s evening, but I forgot. Sydney had more classes throughout the day, but it was stuff like police procedure and law 101 stuff, which is probably boring even in montage form, so I decided to skip to the evening and catch up with Max since we haven’t seen her in a few pages.
They don’t have an Officer’s Lounge at Archon HQ, which is to say it’s not commissioned officers only. This room is more of a… Leadership Den, so Sergeants like Anvil can hang out and so can non-military people like Arianna and Dr. Frost.
As blind dates go, Max isn’t necessarily impressed with athletes. She doesn’t have a problem with them intrinsically – she definitely like a guy who applies himself and excels in his profession, but just being a pro athlete isn’t enough for her. That’s mainly because she perceives a lot of athletes as being full of themselves, but if she sees one of them be able to make fun of themselves, like in a guest role on a sitcom like the League or something, then her perception of them will shift quite a bit. Ultimately, she wouldn’t seriously date an athlete unless she knew they spent at least some of their extracurricular time doing things like charity training camps for kids and whatnot.
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Death by snu-snu?
If you gotta go…
BTW, Swell avatar!
Yup. Shame his fangs are so small though.
:-D
Well, he’s young yet.
He’s like a millennia old
He is one of the few Jäegers that didn’t transform much on the outside (But if you get him mad then the fangs come out) when he took the draught. Really helps in his Jäeger General role.
It helps in his undercover role as being a sneaky-type agent for the Heterodyne’s (and, without giving away too big of a spoiler, he won’t be lonely no more ;) )
Sottle un schneaky-like Jager!
Just a little fooling around between missions.
“May your life be interesting?” That is what it says, Arianna.
That friend sure as hell needs to have an awesome personality because Max has…. Standards? Issues? The list is too long.
Volunteers at the local dog shelter, has probably the ugliest mutt in town?
Ohhhhhh, I sooooooooooooo needed that laugh!
Poor Max. Anvil isn’t taking no for an answer. But the poor guy who tries to shmootzie up to Max?? Hahahahahaha.
Well, it all depends on how many guys she meets remember watching the press conference when Max completely obliterated that tank…
“Impress me with your silence.”
*Mimes sexily*
On the other hand, it could be someone who is in the same situation as Max. Getting dragged along, and not intimidated, or horn dog, just someone who is putting up with their friend.
I was going to say that. You’re right, if there’s some mutual ground then that’s a good starting point.
Also, Max is not “poor” in this scene – if she did not want to be moved by Anvil; if this was not a “show” of protest; if she seriously and sincerely wanted to communicate to Anvil that she did not want to go on this date and will not be convinced to do it; she would simply not be moved. Anvil is strong as hell, but she might as well be an Ant to Paul Bunyan when it comes to moving Max…
Max is playing. Plain and simple.
I dunno, couldn’t Anvil push against Max’s resistance until she was as strong as Max? Does Anvil need to be struck or can she be powered up by physical force directed against her that isn’t an impact?
Yes, it needs to be kinetic energy, and you don’t get that from simply pushing
Walking down the road, yes. Pushing over a golden statue, no
It has come to my experience that when someone who is reluctant to socialize is forced into it, disaster ensues. If someone says that they’re not going to enjoy it, they often make it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But you never really know, sometimes it actually works.
I used to have a friend that did this to me all the time- and it worked every time. And every time I fought.
It was just my:
– fear of going outside
– fear of being abandoned
– fear of being in a crowd
– fear of being somewhere I didn’t know the safety level of
but since a friend brought me and stayed with me (not next to me just semi-within eyesight) I was able to enjoy it.
Anvil can’t force Max into anything – Max is playing. if she didn’t want to be moved, grabbing a couch is entirely unnecessary. she would simply use her powers to not be moved and Anvil couldn’t do a thing about it.
Yes, take the couch with you, if the date goes well it will save time.
Rofl.
(Pst. I think Max may prefer being a couch potato)
I like how Maxima is holding the couch as a lifeline or something like it would really help, and Anvil is just like stop crying baby, we’re going outside. Lifts Max + Couch up. Guess finding a seat where they are going won’t be any trouble.
I ship them
Naa, Arianna is happy with Suzy News.
;-)
Can we please get Hiro a promotion or two already?
One promotion and she would be equal rank to Max who is a Lt Colonel, 2 would make her a full bird Colonel and that is where things get weird with regs.
Not how it works. Anvil is listed as a 1st Lieutenant. Above that there’s Captain, then Major, then Lieutenant Colonel.
Here is the time in service chart, with maximum percentages allowed to be promoted and maximum percentage of each rank of the non-general officer ranks. Note that special purpose forces tend to really skew rank heavy.
2LT >>> 1LT 18 months 100% (unless you’re a dirt bag, you get promoted) (Lieutenants are 44% of nGOs)
1LT >>> CPT 4 years 90% (Captains are 35% of nGOs)
CPT >>> MAJ 10 years 80% (Majors are 13% of nGOs)
MAJ >>> LTC 16 years 70% (Lieutenant Colonels are 6% of nGOs)
LTC >>> COL 22 years 50% (Colonels are 2% of nGOs)
Hiro is a major though, isn’t he?
Yup.
Anvil is actually a Master Sergeant. Hiro (who Dark Kuno is talking about) is a Major. 1 promotion and he will be a Lieutenant Colonel as well, but he would likely still be 2IC due to seniority, unless they break the field agents into two teams, with each Lt. Col. answering directly to General Faulk.
It turns out the cast page is a little out of date. We know what the green orb does (at least some of it) and Anvil’s rank was adjusted to senior NCO instead of junior officer, just because of the things she is doing/expected to do. After the steakhouse battle, we know that Hiro has some form of sound manipulation. There is an unofficial Wiki around here someplace.
This just confirms what I always knew about 1st Lieutenants. Their being promoted to 2nd Lieutenant is only notable if it DOES NOT happen.
That’s pretty much true through Captain. And at that point it is pretty much a matter of “up or out.” A captain+ who is passed by for a promotion may eventually get it, but their military career will never be a stellar one after that.
I’m fairly certain max is stronger than anvil. But whatever gets her dating right?
A boxing match between Anvil and Maxima could be interesting.
Or not. Max can move a lot faster than Anvil, and no matter how strong you can get over several rounds, it doesn’t halp if you can’t hit your target. So it goes over the full time and max wins by decission.
Trouble is that decision would be heavily contested. Although she would be able to land blows readily, none of them would have any effect on Anvil! Her kinetic absorption would sok up every blow. Would an ineffective attack carry merit in such a match?
In order to be able to land a telling blow Maxima would need to overwhelm Anvil’s kinetic battery. This would depend on the length of the match mind, but if it is open ended then that result is inevitable, as Anvil would not be able to land a blow.
Contrast that to a match of Maxima vs Achilles. In that she would never be able to bruise, stun or knock him out. Of course he would be utterly ineffective against her in return. However Maxima would be able to punch him out of the ring, through the wall, and far enough away that he would not be able to run back in a count of ten.
Boxing-wise, Max probably wins in a similar way. Hard to imagine a method that Anvil wins. Have to go MMA to give Anvil a chance above draw.
Anvil has never seemed particularly inventive, and it’s pretty certain that Max thinks about variations on her own powers frequently, regularly, or possibly incessantly, when not distracted by teammates.
I dunno about that, as far as Anvil is concerned. The comic simply has not focussed on her enough for us to judge that fairly. And I can cite one very clever use of her power, and that was the ‘death from above’ attack, by leaping out of the osprey. Absorbing the impact of the landing charged up her battery, thus allowing her to deliver a devastating surprise blow.
If Anvil doesn’t have a limit to how much of a kinetic charge she can store, she wins. Maxima DOES have limits, they are just very very high. If she maxed out strength and punched Anvil twice, Anvil could punch her back once with twice the force. That could be enough to overcome even her maxed out Defense. Simply, we don’t know what Anvil’s limits are, if she has any.
We know that Anvil has a battery limit, as this has been mentioned by the author in his blogs and comments, various times. Plus Anvil is not one of the elite group who has managed to beat Maxima in sparring. Finally, Maxima ranks 9 stars (and a mysterious “?” in her 10th slot) in overall power versus a mere 5 for Anvil. Whilst bearing in mind that each star is an exponential increase over the previous. So Maxima is WAY more powerful than Anvil.
The thing that stops Anvil from rivalling Maxima is her inability to land a blow on Maxima, other than by stealth, total surprise or guile. Maxima can catch bullets, meaning that a normal human speed punch (what Anvil has) would NEVER land without such an advantage.
All that aside though, Dave has mentioned that Anvil may well be stronger than Maxima [when factoring in the boost she can give with kinetic absorption/release]. So if Anvil does find a way of ensuring her blows hit, then your analysis is fair.
When you’re stronger, and can absorb blows, but your foe is faster, you have to grapple, not punch. Get a firm grip somehow, and just never let go while gradually getting your opponent tied up in knots.
Of course, that’s sparing. In a serious fight Maxima has too many options besides punching/grappling to be beaten by Anvil, she could, for instance, just fly straight up until Anvil passes out from hypoxia.
Maxima floats like a lightning bolt and strikes like a hurled aircraft carrier.
Also to consider is the Speed that Anvil’s power works… If the attack strikes faster then it can be absorbed…. Bang one dead Anvil. Also consider the exponential curve sparring is insanely dangerous which would see a lot of Maxima on super tough and Achilles sparring with the rest of the team, with the Doctor in the room to reattach arms….
Max wins via submission is my opinion on the matter. Anvil in no universe can go toe to toe with Max when Anvil is completely uncharged. All Max has to do is go a bit faster than human perception and then pick Anvil up.
Or just land hundreds of punches a minute using super speed to overload Anvil’s ability to absorb kinetic energy while using the same ability to insure that Anvil can’t land a counterattack.
This is pretty much the last word on the matter. The rules of the match might swing things towards Anvil by limiting Maxima, but that can only go so far. If you don’t make flight illegal, Maxima just wins. If you don’t make her “alien capital ship” destroying energy blast illegal, Maxima just wins.
And even just strength and ability to take a hit vs. the same, Maxima has the advantage of raw power.
A -boxing- match between Anvil and Maxima might result in Anvil winning (assuming Maxima does any offense at all against Anvil). Anvil can tank any kinetic forces like punches. DaveB pretty much already said if Anvil absorbs enough kinetic force, she can probably punch as hard or harder than Maxima during the punchomatic machine page a few days ago.
In a non-boxing match though, it’s obviously going to be Maxima as the winner, since she can grapple or throw also.
*Paparazzi (paparazzo is singular) Paparazzi are named after the character ‘Paparazzo’ from Frederico Fellini’s movie ‘La dolce Vita’ by the way.
Yes, that mistake is extremely odd as well. I wonder if Max was thinking about a particular one?
Paparazzo, the snooping tom scum with flight and selective invisibility (he can keep the lense of his camera visible).
Probably.
They should have a device similar to the one from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds,an automatic camera detector and also an electromagnetic beam that can wipe film…!
If the Paparazzo exists, Sydney foretold his existence early on.
On your cast page you list Anvil as a 1LT, did she get “busted”
Perhaps Anvil never rose beyond the rank of Sgt.Major and quite possibly she may have enlisted in the Marines…!?
The original cast list had a number of ranks which were incompatible with the role assigned to them. Fairly early on Dave got input from a number of experienced military readers, who gave advice on more suitable ranks. Which Dave adopted. However he has never gotten around to fixing the cast list. So wherever there is any conflict, the story references (and images of rank insignia) take precedence over the cast list.
As per David Nuttall‘s comment above, Anvil is actually a master sergeant.
Maybe Dave should use the setup from the 1980s G.I.Joe File Cards included on the backs of the 3 3/4″ action figure packs for consideration for the cast list,for example:
https://www.yojoe.com/images/resize/w/MAX/imagestore/39/79317.jpg
This art style really doesn’t work at all.
Thanks for your input. Taste varies though, and it is quite well received with a lot of readers. I was a rather reluctant convert, as Dave altered his style. However, as he refined it, I became more and more happy with it.
Panel four is particularly effective, imo.
And I was thinking that blouse is particularly fetching on Max in the whole page… which in the absence of any obvious fan service gives an indication that ALL the art must be pretty dang effective.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
“de gustibus non disputandum est”
Latin for “MistLynx” has no taste.
I knew a sheila like Maxi, got rightfully promoted to very high, then got scared blokes would be jealous of her status. Luckily, there was a tradie who couldn’t give a rat’s, he figured out to find what her recreation interest was, joined a club and learnt the rules, then asked her to come along to a tournament… The rest, as they say, is none of your business! They’re still together :) (He ordered beer while everyone else was sipping wine, or a decent Cab-Sav rather than champagne.)
Fairy tale I know, but they do happen. It only needs some research.
On the other hand, maybe Maxi’s scared of her femininity?
I think it is more her being the tall golden elf like super hero. She has learned to deal with it, but perhaps not all of it especially in terms of dating. She was a normal girl who gained super powers at the cost of anything close to a normal life.
Her new status was working with the military since she couldn’t exactly walk around in public due to… Well being the giant golden buff elf. That leaves not a lot of room for dating and anyone who knew of her was either under her command of high ranking… And some of those people may have had egos as large as their rank.
Trying to date someone “normal” would be hard especially with the question of it they like her or just like her power and position?
There’s also the factor of “would they survive an intimate encounter?” that she has to consider. If we assume that in some shape or form a physical component is an eventual goal for dating, there is a minimum durability she needs to consider, and it isn’t fair to her or any hypothetical partner if she doesn’t factor that in from the outset. Given her particular power set this severely limits her potential mates, and, given her line of work and position within that line, she is unlikely to meet a man who has the necessary physical characteristics that isn’t either below her in the chain of command or a villain. Basically, other than Hiro getting a promotion, her only real shot is they learn of someone really powerful, who is deliberately and carefully avoiding using his powers illegally, but also declines recruitment attempts. And then they need to be able to stand up to her standards of personality and attractiveness, and they need to reciprocate.
All in all, blind dates aren’t actually a great idea unless there’s some secret supers-only network that includes Anvil and many civilian supers, which would be a neat direction for this plotline to go, I suppose.
A hero and a villain can work things out, just ask Miss Match and Captain Heroic from “Evil Inc” (well, before their marriage and family were retconned out… to be honest, not sure what’s going on with them right now…)
I mean, they were an exceptional example, and frankly their world was significantly less grounded in reality than this one was, not to mention they were both significantly more easy-going personality wise than Max is.
I don’t think it’s impossible for it to work generally speaking, as there are plenty of examples in fiction and even IRL (I’m pretty sure, at any rate, none come to mind at the moment, but I’m sure it happened) of love blossoming across a battle field, however considering that Maxima falls pretty firmly on the Lawful Good end of the alignment scale, and she has incredibly high standards and expectations for those she lets into her “inner circle,” and as such it would take some serious reaching on the author’s behalf to provide a scenario where Maxima would go for a super villain. It could be done with a redemption arc, but for a villain powerful enough to withstand Maxima’s snu snu they would have certainly done some serious, extreme damage prior to being brought in, and thus would likely be beyond the moral event horizon long before any such romance could blossom, we’re talking decades of in-universe work for such a heel-face turn to make sense to the point of having Max’s respect, let alone affections.
To note, as far as I know the only villain on that scale that we’ve seen thus far is Vehemence, and look at the damage he did, his debt to society is decades from being paid, and that’s even if he were actually interested in redemption. And unless we managed to find another perfect shield super like Achilles, any other potential suitors would pretty much have to be on a similar power scale to Hiro or Vehemence, or possibly a similar kinetics based power set to Anvil’s.
She could probably make it work. Remember how she can pull points out of other powers in order to push one thing higher than the normal limit? We saw her mega-max her strength when she throat-punched Vehemence; she could render an intimate encounter survivable for her partner by pulling all the points out of strength and mega-maxed, e.g., flight.
I seem to recall that even if she maxes out one stat the others still aren’t brought down to human normal. It’s been a while, so I don’t recall for certain, but it makes logical sense, as if she dumps it all into strength, then she needs to be at least durable enough to survive the impact of her force, same thing with speed, she needs to still be superhumanly durable, and if she maxes out durability she still needs to be strong enough to move her own suddenly immoveable flesh. Flight also needs durability for the same reason as speed, given how fast she flies (I’m unsure if flight should actually be considered a separate stat at that point, as her perception needs to keep up with her movement, and it’s kinda pointless to have ground based super speed when you can also fly at similar or greater velocity, as getting from point A to point B will always be more efficient and thus faster when things like the ground, body movement, and obstacles can be bypassed via flight).
That’s just me logicing my way through justifying a half-memory, though, I could be wrong because “comics” still.
That and her perfect physique which includes the most common superpower get her a lot of male (and female) attention, but if I recall from her brief origin comic she was an attractive young lady as well and so probably had a decent amount of male attention even before picking up that rock.
Most of my female friends who have shared their stories of beginning to get a lot of male attention said that it started well before they hit puberty and started picking up curves/breasts and from waaay too wide of an age group of males. As in, not just from their male classmates/friends but from much older men also.
More likely the reverse. I bet Max’s femininity is terrified of Max.
Daww!
Maxima: I am NOT going out on a date!
Anvil: Maxima Override!
:-)
Maxima: I do NOT want to go on a date!
Anvil: MAXIMA OVERRIDE!
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It’s a lot easier to drag someone off the couch when you can overhead press the couch with one hand.
Max might be Ace, Just Not Interested
Sounds more like she might be aromatic rather than asexual
Aromantic, rather. Tho now I wonder how her mutation affected her scent.
I’d imagine she has little to no scent. Scent is usually from oils and other things secreted from the skin and hair follicles. It has never been brought up, but her skin seems to be some sort of flexible metal and probably doesn’t have the glands normal skin does.
Oh, oops, yes, thank you
‘Career’ choice, right!
Also I like Max displaying her Tactile Telekinesis ability to lift the couch by just gripping the upholstery on the arm.
Well it could just be like “The Couch” from Deathworlders which is built to be able to be hit by a truck and only the truck would be damaged…
For the unenlightened:
“Legsy was reclining on the new couch, which was already groaning under the weight. They’d all but destroyed the last couch through piling onto it en masse for movie night, and roughhousing, and this one looked to be rather less sturdy—Vandenberg was already talking about welding together something more appropriate out of a material that was up to spec, like steel I-beam.”
Don’t get it stuck on the stairs.
Hah. It’d be funny if Max met a guy, fell in love, got married and then discovered she no longer aged.
Actually, that’s not funny at all
Plus inaccurate. Maxima does age. We’ve seen her at younger ages, after her transformation.
Maxima does age though, she got doused in geode goo as a teenager
If Max wants a quiet night out all she needs to do is ask Arc-Dark for one of their disguise-o-matic stick on patches to make her look like someone else. This keeps away the paparazzi. But if she ever finds someone she might be interested in SHE then has to be the one to say that she is not being honest with them.
Question though: would the stick-on stick on Maxi’s ‘screwy skin’? o_O
Who wonders what Arianna is going to say to those two…!?
“Can I come with? Suzie is reporting on a story out of state for the next month.”
Why, didn’t I take my camera with me or a journalist? “sad Ariana noises” It would have been, so perfect.
Thirsty, Dateless Max is Thirsty… and Dateless… and intense… and kinda hot. I love how Max effortlessly exudes sexuality without even trying. Even as she tries to play it down, whether it be by her casual dress or other means, it actually intensifies her attractiveness.
That being said, I’ve noticed lately that your renderings of Max have been getting less and less cartoonish and more realistic and it really does Max justice. Cora and the others too, but it really shows with Max. Great work!
Seems like a missed fan service opportunity in panel 9, though. There’s a butt right there, and to me it’s not impressive at all.
Panel 4: Great shot. It really captures Maxima’s emotions, in this slice of life.
And it is a beautiful piece of art by itself. It still amazes me how DaveB can create multiple works of art, each week, and we get so used to seeing them just as part of a story.
Thanks Dave, for keeping this pool of normality going for us. After I had returned to the UK, I granted myself the single luxury of a limitless cinema pass. But cinema going is banned and my shifts are getting tougher and more frequent, in any event. So it is an enormous pleasure to still be able to chill and enjoy the comic and our community here.
Is it bad that I misread the guy’s height as 5’6″
Thought that as well, two inches difference isn’t much
Your thought is the same I had, when reading the comic.
However, you are missing the mistake that WingZero made. Namely that he mistook 6’5″ as 5’6″! A much more common height, so easy enough for the brain to make that substitution. However that would be a difference of 13″! Significant enough that the guy would definitely not be in Anvil’s “type”.
Not impossibly outside of it mind, given her comments above. But we do know that height is fairly important to her, from a previous conversation she had. So the guy would need a heck of a personality, to make up for his stature.
No, as said, thought that as well, and that two inches that much anyway
This is a perfect moment for a super-childish response on Max’s part. I recommend a proper tantrum: flopping to the floor on her stomach, kicking and flailing of legs and arms, yelling, “Don’t wanna! You can’t make me! No, no, no, no, no!”
…as an example.
A Gilligan’s Island cut scene, perhaps?
Why is it when people mention professional athlete, most people think of either the American or European sports. Australian footballers (NRL or AFL) are some of the most down to earth professional athletes you could ever meet. They don’t earn over $1 million dollars and more and more often now, they have a university degree to help them get a job once the finish playing football.
Probably it is just the different skill sets involved. Being able to hold on to the planet, in order to avoid falling off, whilst performing strenuous activity, is laudable. But hardly useful on the top side of the planet.
No no no… We’re holding the planet UP while performing strenuous activity ;)
Touché.
:-)
The lack of elephants, or turtles, in satellite photos, clearly supports your assertion.
Media presence is probably a major factor, plus reader locality.
I like that Anvil gets to like what she likes. Some people do not get to do that. Or at least the word “objectification” comes up a lot when they rank things.
I suspect another problem with professional athletes for Max is that to be an athlete you tend to have to be fairly sure of yourself and pretty competitive, especially on a physical level. They’re likely to try to ‘impress’ her by showing off their physical abilities – and may even try to show that they can be better than her.
Which isn’t going to work, as she’s faster, stronger, and tougher than any of them. Either they’ll annoy her, or she’ll break their ego.
Correct. If he’s not competitive, she’s not going to be attracted to him. If he’s competitive on HER fields, he’s eventually a loser. So the only thing that will work is someone who is competitive in a field that she respects, but does not participate in (or doesn’t have any powers related to).
Really, she could have fun just with board games. She has some geek cred, so a guy who is attractive AND engages her geek side has a chance. Assuming he is durable.
What on earth is Anvil drinking? A chocolate smoothie in a wine glass?
Mmmm. Mint chocolate chip smoothie!
I’d go for that. Mint is the best.
Toothpaste makers agree with you :P
»Roll•Eyes« Duh~uh!!
I think she could also go for a guy who’s non-competitive but more achievement-focused – but they would tend to be working in a field that’s not competitive in the first place. Scientist, engineer, businessman, etc. (Not that there aren’t competitive people in those fields – but they’re fields where you can get ahead without focusing on it.) Given her role in the government, she may actually like someone who’s part of an organization focused on helping others – Red Cross, USAID, etc.
Any of these would let them be an outstanding person without being a competitive person.
Or both
The fact that Max is holding on to the couch is what really sells that last panel.
i cant believe that she thought that it would deter anvil from carting her off.
Well, couches -are- hard to fit through doorways…
This may or may not result in a New Door or a Broken Couch, assuming they don’t figure out how to deal with the couch before it becomes an issue.
Ariana opened a set of double doors, and if the lobby doors are also, or if Anvil takes her through the loading dock, she might actually get out of the building still carrying the couch.
She’d have to sign for it and promise to bring it back.
Can max get intoxicated? I recall her being effectively immune to a lot of external forces don’t remember if alcohol/poison was a part of it. It’d be interesting if all her defensive abilities were undermined by a little vodka or arsenic.
They show max using an entire keg as an upside down beer bong at the end of her overseas military tour. I’m thinking intoxication is out of reach for Maxima.
…but, but, Dave. You said “Do not taunt happy fun Maxima” and I think that’s happening.
Naa, Maxima recognises a friend’s good intentions, despite it conflicting with her own wishes.
Besides, it likely doesn’t conflict with her own wishes [that much]. Max can escape from Anvil any number of ways and is using none that are likely to succeed. We don’t need to accuse her of “protesting too much”. Just about all of us have gone along with a friend’s dubious plan despite well-founded feelings of upcoming disaster. And the evidence we see is that Max has “normal feelings”, and so may feel “before you find your enchanted prince charming, you have to kiss a lot of toads”.
Poor non-enhanced toads.
I vote for Hiro in a big fake mustache.
Plot twist, the mustache is real and it’s not actually Hiro.
Heh.
*paw print of approval*
Since there’s no “Captain” in *this* universe, I hereby dub this…America’s Ass.
/salute
Anvil is probably the only person in the universe that can get away with manhandling Max like that
Personality matters more than height huh? You can say that after you date a guy that doesn’t bump his head on doorways Anvil.
Personality mattering more than height doesn’t mean that height is no longer a consideration.
Harley Quinn The Animated Series had a guy who respected strong women and
displayed a confidence that, if visible, would have been blinding.
If only Kenya or Maxima could find a guy like that.
Do you mean Kite Man?
Hell Yeah.
There has been talk in the news this week about a product that has been out for a few years now undergoing testing for health workers. You can see by the date of the original release that this was put out just after Sydney joined up. One of the Olympian Fates on the council saw what was coming and knew Sydney had pocketed a few advanced medical supplies from Cora’s ship. They decided to release it to the public under the Emergency Archon Temporal Medical Enactment, or ‘EAT ME’ (Sydney got to name it).
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/08/07/1031372/0/en/New-Halo-Oral-Antiseptic-Spray-Kills-Airborne-Germs-You-Breathe-In.html
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