Grrl Power #831 – (Not a) Date night
Clearly, Maxima’s idea of evening gowns is influenced by the last time she wore a fancy dress, which was probably her high school prom. My original pencils for panel 5 included something on the back of her waist which was either going to be a giant bow or a big ruffly flower. I ditched it because, well, I didn’t want to spend time drawing all the ruffles, but also because Maxima may not be able to conjure the image of a sleek elegant evening gown off the top of her head, but she knows the difference between that and a quinceanera dress. Honestly I don’t know how manga artists deal with drawing all those ruffle trimmed French Maid outfits. It’s so tedious.
Do hispanic Jewish girls get a bat mitzvah and a quinceanera? That seems like a decent scam, or it would be if you got to chose your gender, race and religion when you’re filling out your player sheet. You know, the one you fill out before you’re born? I assume that’s how it works.
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I vote for the mess dress as well, for two reasons:
– it would totally be in character
– it would backfire, hilariously. Deus likes strong, dangerous women. He’s way too suave to drool in public, but his thought bubble would be one long ‘grooooowwwwwl’ for like three pages ;)
Quinceaneras traditionally start with a Catholic Mass, so no, Hispanic girls who are Jewish would not get both. However, folding the quinceanera celebrations into a bat mitzvah would probably happen.
Unless they were Jewish by race only, and not religion.
Might depend on the person.
I knew a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) who converted from Jewdism. She did not consider herself ‘Jewish’ after joining the Church. And, you can not change your ethnicity.
Also, Jewish (or Semitic?) is not on any ethnicity forms I have ever seen. I do not think it is considered a proper ethnicity.
Semitic actually is a series of languages within a certain ethnicity in the middle east. It started being used as code in ‘antisemitism’ in order to hide from the mass public when they were anti-jewish. Because at the time people did not know when you said ‘antisemitism’ that you were saying you hate jews. It’s wordplay that was invented to hide the fact that the people who were doing it were bigots.
Judaism (not jewdism) is a religion – although because it’s a relatively exclusive religion (ie, it’s not simple to convert to Judaism like it is to convert to Christianity or Islam, although it’s easy to LEAVE the religion, unlike some other religions), it’s often split into ‘judaism as a religion’ and ‘ethnic judaism.’ Which is why certain genetic illnesses are exclusive to jews (specifically ashkenasi jews – there are several tribes of judaism although the main two that still survive are ashkenasi and sephardic), like Tay Sachs Disease.
Thing is, Judaism may be a religion… but it’s also a tribe and a culture with its own specific traditions, practices, and standards. For instance according to the traditions of the tribe, one isn’t really Jewish unless one’s mother is Jewish. Converting isn’t just about shifting a personal belief structure… it’s about being accepted into the culture as a member in good standing.
As a friend of mine who is culturally Jewish but leans towards pagan/agnostic put it… “Religion didn’t give me this nose.”
That and a good bit of the old testament can apparently be best thought of as a civilization codifying and recording its culture after they lost their cultural cornerstone (The first temple/capital or somesuch. Don’t remember exactly) and started being nomadic/civilians in a foreign empire (rome).
Absolutely.
Panel 4 Anvil is the stuff of nightmares.
Why so serious, Max?
Or wet dreams
Surprise butt sex!
I( heartily approve to Deus Taste in Whisky (if we are talking a macallen 25 that was bottled before around 008, is after all still my number 1 Whisky ever^^).
Also, Drow Assistants are the best.
More a Dark Pixie with those wings, than a Drow, it’s really just the coloring.
Me: Uhh, don’t you mean Drow Assasi-GLLK!
Drow Assistant: Your coffee, newspaper, and meeting schedule for today, sir. You have an urgent in a half-hour, I, uh…
*glances down at my twitching body*
…took the liberty of clearing your schedule, sir.
Is it just a coincidence that Macallen 25 was the $2,500 a bottle stuff that was being counterfeited and used as an explosive by the pyrokinetic in Marion George Harmon’s Wearing the Cape: Recursion? Do George and DaveB have the same outrageous taste in vastly overpriced hooch? Or did DaveB just borrow it?
For $2,500 per bottle, that crap better cure heart disease, alcoholism, and covid-19.
For the last one, there was a Brit in the Wuhan quarantine who claimed to have been cured by Gin and Tonics. On the other hand, he could have been too buzzed to know what was going on.
I prefer cocktails to straight liquors most of the time (except for peated whiskey and really smooth vodka) anyway though.
Theoretically speaking… The “tonic” in gin and tonic is quinine water, and they have actually had success treating Covid 19 with various quinine related drugs, so it’s not all that far fetched.
Well, except for the fact that you’d have to drink a freaking lot of quinine water to get a therapeutic dose, at the concentrations you’d typically find in quinine water. Enough that the water toxicity would kill you instead of the virus. I suppose if you were using the concentrated syrup you could do it.
The “tonic” was actually used as a prophylactic against malaria, and probably Yellow Fever (but: citation needed).
It was originally created to make quinine palatable. Not very successfully the amount of quinine reduded so gin was added and the G&T created for alcoholics who liked to pretend they were taking their prophylactics
A useful video on that very topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDg4bHEclPg&list=PLplS0NggyEobD-aVUBHjiGWHQFYsI9d5z&index=11&t=0s
Autocorrect really screwed that up. Anyway even in the original formulations, there wasnt enough quinine in tonic water to be effective.
In the very original ones, taken in malarial areas, there was. But no place else, cause quinine is REALLY bitter, enough so that nobody is going to drink it at effective concentrations unless they really need to.
Lolara is my new fave. Her evil grin in the last panel is classic “BWAHAHAHA!” material. “Mewling subservience” is a winner too. One wonders if she isn’t building a homemade planet destroyer or a death ray in her quarters when she’s off duty just to stay in practice.
She really does fit Machina Industries motto to a tee: To Crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentation of the women!
Wouldn’t that be “Crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentation of the lawyers”!
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Ha, I get to link to the same relevant scene in one of my favorite comics twice for the same page!
Same. I just love how over the top expressive she is.
Also her apparent lack of an indoor voice (going by her facial expressions) and understanding of the concept of personal space.
I really hope we get to see more of her in the future.
You would think she’d be a terrible henchman for someone with the public facade of an ambiguously amoral businessman, but he’s charismatic enough to pull it off.
The character sheet is like the free filing tax form, when it’s time, you have to know to ask for it, otherwise you’re stuck with whatever the DM rolled for you.
I do find Lolara’s over zealousness to be hot! I have a new Waifu!
A “No sense of personal space” character in a time of social distancing.
She’s that “Let me press my boobs into you for a bigger tip” hair cutter girl we’ve all had…
Every time I see Lolara, I think she’s a Drow.
At least Lorlara skews towards the Benevolent Dictator side of the scale. She actually believes in rewards for mewling capitulation.
Well of course. Training new underlings all the time takes time and effort away from doing more fun things like crushing enemies.
Pretty sure that’s on the Evil Overlord list someplace, but replacing minions is way less effective than training them. As one of my favorite comics puts it, they’re impossible to firearms-train, they throw up bad dialogue, they leave blueprints to the secret base all over the rug…
Just an entire planet of Karens, demanding to see the Universe’s manager, aren’t they?
Getting dressed for this date is all about accessorizing. Max should bring along Hiro, Stalwart, and Goose as accessories.
She could fly herself but it might wrinkle or otherwise mess up her uniform.
Have Halo in HER finest uniform chauffeur her in the bubble.
Uh, oh. Lorlara appears to be ambitious, competent, AND loyal. This can only end badly.
I imagine Deus is voiced by Tim Curry.
“No one controls my mind, Xuriel!”
Just from his “Nyah!” That sounds like a Tim Curry line.
Nope. Patrick Warburton is who I hear.
well, maxima is really shines on a dress. but I doubt she would be comfortable with all that shine
If ever I am in a position to hire a personal assistant, I need to find a Lorlara.
You know, if she wanted to really throw him a curve, Max could go in her dress uniform. Of course, Dues may get oddly turned on by a gal in uniform, if just to urk her back.
I would happily mewlingly capitulate if it scored me a bottle of Macallan 25.
DaveB really didn’t draw Max in frills, bows and ruffles is Max would break his drawing supplies…
Would love it if Lorlara was actually very sweet and caring but put on a no nonsense totalitarian facade to please Deus. It would be even funnier if she an Sydney crossed paths and they just fan girl out together.
There was a missed opportunity at the Wars warehouse with the “Are you a drow?” girl.
I really, really, really like Lorlana.
Deus would be an amazing employer.
Even with the weirder employees.
five non-existant bucks that drow is planning a world domination………………without Deus…….. :P
Honestly, the powermove here is to Marlene Dietrict it. Wear a wellcut suit and outdazzle the guys in it anyway!
Mmmmm… what kind of food would you find at a restaurant whose name is the french word for LENT?
My guess would be seafood.
To anyone who thinks Deus was dumb for letting all that slip on the TV show….
You fools. You think he ‘let anything slip?’ He plans 10 moves ahead. He said that specifically so Maxima would have to go on a date with him. All part of the master plan, kids. All part of the master plan.
You know, we have never asked the question of whether Maxima’s golden metallic skin might just be magnetic.
Now imagine if Sydney found this out and started leaving kitchen magnets ‘around’ where they would make touch contact. The gags!
–and then DaveB could have her fight on a beach with iron sand and come up from a tackle looking like she needed to shave.
I did NOT get what I wrote down on my character sheet, lemme tellya.
Panel 2: Hammerchin.
Lorlara is my new favorite character
Y’know, it’d serve Deus right if Maxima turned out to be dating someone totally mundane who has an incredibly wholesome job like a middle school teacher or something, and they’ve just been paranoidly keeping it under wraps for months.
I’m picturing their meetcute moment being her intervening in a school shooting and a big part of his first impression being positive was him getting shot to protect his students while Max rushes in to defuse the situation.
It is standard practice for an active member of the military to wear their dress uniform to formal evants.
Unless they can figure out a way to avoid formal events altogether.
Maxima’s way is the most common way.
Pretty sure Max would destroy every camera in a 100km radius if she ever put a dress on.
Still loving Lorlara, and looking forward to whatever Max ends up wearing. What is Max doing with her hand in panel 4?
She knows Anvil is behind her making that face :P
Lorlara has a lot to learn about life on Earth…
Muslim and Judaism, are known at Abrahamic religions, and Christianity, is also an abrahamic religion. They all worship the same God, The God of Abraham. Judaisms and Muslims are all Semitic. So saying a “jew”, is antisemitic, is ridiculous Also, vise Versa.
It is possible to hate your own kind
The impression I’m getting from this whole page is
“Personal space? What’s that? Is it good to eat?”
This is still set pre-Covid. Back before people walked around with 2 meter rulers.
Lorlara is holding a mirror up to Deus.
( who can pound nails with his chin )
I just realized… Alari are just space drow… o-o God how have I not figured that out?
Don’t feel too bad. Similarly, I only realized that on Lorlara’s introduction.
Well, they’re space drow with pixie wings or something. I think DaveB also said they’re not specifically matriarchal, but it’s odd that we haven’t seen seen any Alari men yet.
Mostly because DaveB himself hadn’t fully figured that out until the time came to invent Lorlara.
Re-read the Author’s Notes on the previous page for more details.
Please, have Anvil play ‘Dress up
BarbieMaxi’ for a ‘real date’, don’t do it for this, she is on business not pleasure (with SmugD, it’s never pleasure)I could do with an assistant of that caliber.