Grrl Power #837 – Wheel of girlfriend
Mo’ai, BTW, is the proper name for those big Easter Island heads. Thought I’d mention it here because I had to look it up.
It should be clear from this page, Max has no idea what she wants in a man. So she’s… kind of like everyone else.
Harem’s idea of being a girlfriend is largely modeled after what guys think they’d want in a girlfriend. She’s both feminine and/or a tomboy, can overhaul a transmission (while leaning over the hood in a pair of Daisy Dukes, naturally), talk about sports, birth a calf, cook up a killer meal, and is sexually adventurous to a fault.
And by “to a fault,” I mean it’s really fun dating her for a month or three, but can become exhausting before long. She tends to have one or two semi-long term boyfriends, but sometimes will rotate through 1-2 guys that fall more in the “pump and dump” or “torrid affair for a month” category.
I think I drew Anvil a tad tall in that last panel. I guess she put heels on?
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Max does not like to use one of her superpowers which is being a Golden Goddess.
That’s just one power?
Max looks like a super villain in the last panel.
and we shall dub this look Carnovatrix, or perhaps Huntima, hmm, or just go lazy and bite it, Maxima the Hunter.
no wait, Mad Maxima.
Maqd Max is too derivative, I like Maxamatrix.
Of course technically Sidney already speculated about “Dark Maxima” so really she already has a name
Maximum Maxima?
Or, Max Max for short?
In some future plotline, she will get shrunken to the side of an ant, and will be called Min-Max, or Minimax.
just to finish this line of jokes.
Her secret lair will be called
the Maxi’s pad.
Have we heard names for the various Harems before? Referring to one as just “co-ed” was weird to me.
Some were reader-named, but it would be fairly natural to have the characters name them as well. Sydney referred to one as “strawberry” while Dave said Harem herself referred to the blonde one as Vogue (though she’s frequently called Blondini by readers).
That… would be me
In order of her Who’s Who:
Berry, Gothamer, Blondini, Bodie (short for Boudica, the Celt Queen who fought the Romans) and Abby (named after the character from NCIS)
I just tend to go by their hair colour – Pink Harem, Black Harem, Blonde Harem, Purple harem & White Harem. They don’t seem to change hair colours that often, so it kinda works…
When we first met Harem her strawberry blond (pink) haired version was wearing a “Thing #1” shirt. I’ve always assumed from that scene that the strawberry harem is the original body, and so I tend to think of that one as Harem Prime.
Thing is, not even Daphne herself is sure which is the original, Berry is just the one with the least amount of mod done to her bod
Is that canon? Makes sense either way, if your consciousness suddenly had 2 identical bodies how do you tell them apart? Other than perhaps which was sitting in the original spot, and which suddenly seemed to be in a different spot.
Classic premise of course, used in many places like Multiplicity and in Dr McNinja, but it’s generally addressed by having the original be unconscious. I think Harem was awake and alert, which is the only example of that I can think of at the moment.
Fairly sure it’s canon, can’t remember if it was mentioned in comic or Author Blurb
Happy International Women’s Day, Deus!
Heh, Deadpool reference
He’s rich and attractive and a good lay. Max, on the other hand, is independently wealthy, famous and uniquely attractive. This is kind of a Hollywood dynamic. Both of them are going to find it easy to have fun sex with various partners, and impossible to find trusted lovers.
Wich probably is the main reason that Max is not comfortable [I do not think that’s the right spelling of wat I try to say] with partners.
Golden Goddess and all that. Tends to atract all kind of verming.
Loud verming
Verming? Do you mean vermin, as in unpleasent people? I can see how Max would attract such vermin…
Guess I’ll just have to protect the Golden Goddess…
Daniel the Human says that *I* now qualify as vermin?! No way that could be true…
..could it?
Introspection
I would have to disagree with “impossible to find trusted lovers”, for Max. I think She and Hiro have amazing chemistry, similar backgrounds, goals, life experience and hobbies (kicking ass and saving the world). Unfortunately, they both seem against the idea of “dating outside rank” (as mentioned in their post- explodey-nakey time chat).
By rank, she’s his boss, and the military has some really strict rules regarding sleeping with a subordinate.
That is called Fraternization in the Chain of Command, and is very highly frowned upon in military organizations. As she is his superior officer, it would put her in a conflict of interest. Each service has a policy for Fraternization in the Chain of Command, or called something similar, which would lead to demotions and/or dishonourable discharges on conviction, with the more severe punishment being applied to the more senior member. I would expect that Archon would have a similar policy.
With Deus, the relationship could be defined as “Woman of Gold, Man of Tissue Paper”, but with Hiro, it would be more like “Man of Steel, Woman of Gold, Bed of Kindling,” which would also describe their carriers after the Court Martial.
I doubt very much anyone is going to “Demote” Max or Hiro. They are unique assets. If anything, I would expect Max to be a little sensitive about breaking the rules simply because it would be demanding special treatment the military would be compelled to give her.
I doubt very much anyone is going to discharge Max or Hiro, but demotion? Especially considering that demoting Max can make ok for Max and Hiro to continue their relationship? Totally possible.
Remember how James Tiberius Kirk was demoted to captain several times?
What happens if she walks out? Unique, irreplaceable, and single handedly more potent than a fleet of warships. They really have no other asset that can serve in her place. How can they risk upsetting her? I’d have a team of psychoanalysts in some room somewhere, monitoring her and making sure she’s not getting unhappy, finding ways to keep her engaged and interested. She’s not a soldier, or an officer. She’s a strategic weapon with boots on.
What I think would be Maxima’s type would be, a guy who finds her attractive on an intellectual level, rather for physical attraction. (Although that WOULD be a part of it, it wouldn’t be the part that is the main attractor. In other words, she’d be loved for her mind,but her attractiveness is a nice bonus).
Neither of them are attractive. They’re quite grotesque.
A beter explanation for Kenya sudden growth is her non oficial power.
Dramatic oversteping. [I do not know if that sounds coherent in english]
Just like Harem’s nostradamus drink or Max dramatic lighting or Sindney’s confusion chaotich [insert badmouth] rant/aura debuff
What is Harem’s nostradamus drink?
It hasn’t cropped up recently, but her choice in sodas tended to have prophetic names: “Villain Assault Lingonberry”, et cetera.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to order her a delivery of “Full Frontal Fruit”, “Shameless Cheesecake”, and “Steamy Fanservice Strawberry”. (Xuriel suggested “Wild Orgy Orange”, but I suspect Max would vaporise the fridge…)
Interesting, I didn’t notice that. Thanks!
Wait till you try “Innocent Cherry Cheerleader”… it isn’t…next ingredient after Cherry is Rum…last is water. (basically Cherry and Cherry Juice, Rum (3xtypes), sugar, tropical fruit juice concentrate, enough caffeine to perk the dead and some water because legal reasons or something).
It’s eerily similar formula that I used for my Alcoholic Coffee drinks (posted on FB)
Haha I’m not wearing pants – Delightful tequila cocktail
Mother-in-Law is coming for two weeks Strong Rum based. Hell we cold pressed coffee with RUM and sugar water here. Think spices too. Won’t care after the first.
Two Weeks Later and she’s still here (same formula but 50% more alcohol) (bigger can too 16 oz vs 12 oz)
Traditional Irish Cure – whiskey coffee cream…w/small bottle so you can add extra to taste…errr help with your medical needs.
etc
Who makes this? It sounds like a commercial product, but when I googled it to see if it was available around me all I found were links to Return of the Young Cherry Cheerleader, a porn book written only slightly better than most amateur fan fiction. And that only because there was clearly some editing done to remove the spelling and grammar errors that seem to plague fan fiction despite the existence of spell checkers for well over a decade, and even some free grammar checkers now.
for some reason some spell checkers, and especially grammar checkers can be hit and miss. Especially if they use word pad instead of any other method. There is also the problem that if they type directly into some sites such as Deviant Art and Fanfiction (dot) net that while their spell checkers usually work sometimes; especially on longer documents they might not even fire up on occasion.
Also, there is the, its a hobby not being made to be sold, so why bother doing it by hand if the machine isn’t pointing them out. So long as its still readable and the errors are mostly just a few typo types and the rest is still enjoyable you shouldn’t let a casual bit of fanfiction online be detracted by them.
Everyone typos, even professional writers with a professional editor backstopping them. And I wouldn’t complain about the occasional typo. But the constant typos and grammar errors (your/you’re, do/due, mixed tenses, sentence fragments, etc.) in most fan fiction is just jarring, and yes it does detract from the enjoyment of the story, no matter how well written it might be otherwise (but unfortunately a person who makes a lot of typos is almost certainly not writing a good story either). If you don’t have the money for a copy of Office, Open Office is free. Hell, you could type your fan fiction into the comment field of this web comic forum and Firefox (at least) will flag your typos for you to correct before publishing. There is really no legitimate excuse for putting out shoddy work.
So, was this what she was drinking when she decided to hook up with Deus?
http://www.leftfieldbeer.co.uk/uploads/6/9/4/6/69461149/s953221515899680717_p762_i2_w480.png
Darn. That didn’t work right.
So how *do* you properly embed images?
Darn, that didn’t work right.
How DOES somebody embed an image here?
Carefully.
You can’t, only linkages
I’ve seen DaveB do it occasionally, so it can be done within the format, but it may not be accessible to ‘standard’ users.
Just because you’ve got me wondering now, I’m going to try the format I’ve seen used in other HTML sources. The first copy below uses round brackets (which should leave the contents visible for reference), the second uses angle brackets (as used in most HTML formatting e.g. bold, the third uses square brackets (like the spoiler tag). Obviously, I neither have or claim any copyright on either the original image or the instance linked.
(img src=”https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8-4T-2dG4d8/UUUkhM0NT_I/AAAAAAAAJtc/YIX3pb-FxLY/s1600/cat_who_walked_by_himself.jpg” /)
[img src=”https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8-4T-2dG4d8/UUUkhM0NT_I/AAAAAAAAJtc/YIX3pb-FxLY/s1600/cat_who_walked_by_himself.jpg” /]
Well, there goes the easy-ish option!
Arrogant Bastard is a damn good beer, by the way. And Double Bastard is even better.
What is a nostradamus drink?
Watch what Harem is drinking on any given page; It’s usually a gag, e.g. she was trying a lingonberry soda called Supervillain Blitzkrieg ( It assaults your tastebuds with felonious intent!) just before the first big fight spun up.
Dang I wish I could upvote this.
Thanks! And sorry for the doublepost…
Wow! A “Wheel of Harems” sounds, interesting. But with my luck I would either hit Bankrupt, Lose A Turn or the damned wheel would fall off.
Not concerned with having 4 harems pegging? (If I guess the intent of the inner wheel correctly)
That is the number for the Harem that will do what is listed in the arc range. Only list four as one is saving herself for marriage.
No, one has to be on duty at all times, or at least ‘on call’
True, but also there’s a Harem who’s saving herself for marriage.
It’s odd then that there appears to be separate pointers for the inner and outer wheel. I figured it was “That task will be performed by this random Harem”, but then, the borders of the numbers line up with a specific range of tasks. The wheel doesnt lend itself to easy interpretation.
Based on the position of the green and yellow on the bit of the inner circle that we can see, I’m guessing our “lucky” contestant has won himself ♫ ♪ Two Harems pegging. ♫ And a butt plug in his ass ring. ♪ ♫ ♪ Aren’t the holidays festive?!?
Ah, since the inner and outer rings appear to be fixed for some reason (I’m going with “art error) that would be ♫ ♪ Three Harems pegging ♪ Two feet of prolapsed anus ♫ ♪ And a butt plug in his ass ring. ♪ ♫ ♪
Better the wheel falling off than a certain portion of your anatomy…
He’d celebrate it by sleeping with a woman from every continent.
pretty sure he knows “sleeping with a woman from every continent” as “Tuesday”
I would point out how the natives of Antarctica have tentacles but I doubt that’d be a deal breaker for him, or even able to morph mouths and other body parts anywhere.
Dabblers face in panel 4! Awesome!
Last panel is great as well :D
I think Max is leaning back against the sofa in the last panel. Solves the scaling problem.
Nothing wrong with Max going out and having a normal night out like a normal woman. But given that she’s actually trying to meet him to have an actual professional discussion about a serious issue that Archon should be actively concerned about? I don’t think THIS is the night she should be doing that. Or would be doing that.
True that this is not a date and note the evening to push Maxima into having a ‘normal’ experience.
The problem is, when is it?
Maxima is on duty, or at least she is mentally in on duty mode, 24 hours a day.
That is not healthy and a fast track lane to burn out and super ulcers.
Inappropriate as it is (and it is), the way I read these past few comics is that Kenya is trying to pull Maxima out of her comfortable turtle shell and get her to do normal woman things. Like having a night out, being hit on by guys varying from ‘kind of cute’, to ‘ish’, ‘meh’ all the way to ‘sleeze’, and ‘why isn’t he arrested yet?’. Preferably with other women so you can giggle to each other while throwing meaningful looks at the guy to make him all insecure and paranoid. You know, the usual stuff. Oh, and also letting her hair down and stop being responsible all the time.
The biggest problem is that Kenya and Dabbler seem to think that Deus is a good ‘catch’ while Maxima, who does not hold typical men in the highest regard at the best of times, has more accurately pegged (heh) him as somewhere between slime mold and cockroaches.
It would have been so much better if Kenya had started out with saying: I do not expect you to have a date with Deus, nor to flirt with him either. But you can dress up nicely, have a good meal at somebody else’s dime and flutter your eyelashes. You know just to see if you remember how that feels. Maybe you get him to talk about what he is doing in Africa, but try to have a little fun for once. Girlfriend, you’re not in the army anymore, you’re not in the sandbox and you’re not surrounded by a platoon of horndogs who can think of only one thing when they see you. Oh, and watch out that he doesn’t slip you a roofie.”
But then, the story wouldn’t have been so adorkable about Kenya trying to get her friend to loosen up a little and Maxmima resisting doing anything out of her tiny comfort zone.
Maxima was in the Air Force, not Army, but she is still in the military. It is likely that Anvil is the senior NCO, so conversations between the senior field officer and her would be common, usually on more professional topics, but this should not break down military command and discipline.
As for all co-workers being horndogs after only one thing, well, except for Math and Dabbler (both civilian contractors), everybody is behaving themselves, even if Hiro was moderately compromised for a short while.
Technically it was mentioned at the meet the press event that Archon falls under the department of defense but is considered federal police force. They are not strictly a military force, even if they apparently use military ranks and a large part of their enforcement officers (as opposed to their investigative branch) is ex-military.
That said, fraternisation rules also apply to police forces from how I understand things (they just aren’t always as strictly enforced apparently).
For the last part of my ‘what Kenya should have said’, I was of course refering to her tours of duty in Afghanistan, and Kenya would have applied the kind of hyperbole in the characterisation of the typical (male) soldier that Maxima would also use. (and let’s just say that she would have cause as the army culture is rather women unfriendly to say the least, and the airforce in many respects is far worse when it comes to fighter pilots in particular0.
Dabbler looks almost like a kicked puppy when she finds out that Anvil isn’t suggesting any hanky-panky
Dabbler: Wait, what? I thought we were trying to get her lai-
*Kenya slaps hand over Dabbler’s mouth*
Kenya, to Max: ANYWAYS….
Kenya, to Dabbler, sotto voce: Baby steps! She’s not there yet!
Dabbler, internal monologue: Ooooh… I love the way you womanhandle me…
The central part of the wheel reminds me of the Go For Broke racing.
Panel 6: Do the two wheels spin independently, or do the various Harems each consistently only do specific fetishes?
Probably, note there is a separate arrow for the number of Daphne’s the date could end up with
Spinning the outer wheel also spins the ring with the arrow for the inner wheel. However the outer wheel stopping does not stop the inner ring, which has less friction and therefore continues spinning longer than the outer wheel. Thus the fantasy choice is settled first, and then a few seconds later the arrow stops on the number indicating which Harem will be participating.
While within the realm of possibility, the inner ring is still in exactly the same orientation with the outer ring at the end of the spin. So they appear to be fixed in place, or it is an art error. Probably the latter, since you wouldn’t even need an inner ring if it didn’t move separately, you could just put the numbers on the other ring and be dine with it.
*be done with it…
It looks like the rings don’t move just the arrows, the arrows have ‘ghosts’ behind them to indicate motion.
Anvil in heels… Now there’s an industro-glam footware challenge!
What sort of weapon licence would they attract? (Remembering they’d be oh, around a kilo each, with stiletto-ish risers…)
Titanium steel stilletos…
… that leave dents in concrete?
Could Max simply be asexual? She seems completely disinterested in dating, sex etc.
She seems interested in Hiro, though that seems to be mostly cause she knows he’ll be a submissive bitch
Being interested in someone doesn’t rule out being asexual
Hiro’s not a submissive bitch. Think you’re getting that confused with “Decent Guy” given how awkward (and gentlemanly) he was when they both ended up nude.
She knows he won’t see her as an object.
Daniel here. I’m with Pendrake on this one, Hiro is in fact a seemingly rare & elusive example of an “actual nice guy who respects women”, typically known as a “Gentleman”. Sometimes, it can feel like a very scarce resource that many women & even some men are looking for. Me, I’ll admit I’m a subgroup of the Gentleman” – the “Perverted Gentleman” – which mean yes, I do treat other people with respect & be nice to even the pains in the asses and all that, however I will also admit I don’t mind the view of a nice lady…
“Perverted Gentleman” – STILL a nice guy, polite, everything that qualifies as a Gentleman, but I will admit to appreciating the sight of a attractive lady…
No shade on Hiro here, but since he hasn’t had much spotlight time we really don’t know if his “must … avert … gaze” response was out of a purely chivalric response or out of his knowledge of Maxima’s personality and his desire as her subordinate to not push that particular button of hers.
No matter how much he might secretly desire to pay attention to another of her particular buttons.
When presented with the chance, Max 200% checked out Hiro. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-523-field-flirt/ “I appreciate that you didn’t stare . . . I have to admit I hypocritically didn’t return the courtesy.”
Even a dead heterosexual eunuch would check out Hiro
I wouldn’t. Not my type :)
Toby Stephens, though, stomps all over my usual heterosexuality…
… ekhem. In this comic? I’d definitely want to date Max. She’s awesome.
I’m glad I don’t have to share showers with the superguys of this comic. Speaking of showers, we haven’t had any supershowers in a while. Dave seems to like drawing those.
checked the strip, there’s definitely flirting there
The strength of her reaction here, and the tangent she distracts herself with, would seem to argue against that. She has also reacted to Hiro’s nakedness before in a manner that suggested at least some physical reaction (although that would also be her sense of propriety at work, given the circumstances.)
Alright, then. Why isn’t she interested in dating? Everyone is interested in dating!
Just because she’s not asexual doesn’t mean she can’t be aromantic. Not everyone is interested in dating.
As a more general statement, “Not everyone is interested in _fill_in_the_blank_” is generally true, regardless of what you fill the blank in with. This does include “continuing to breathe.” It’s probable that there are some exceptions to this rule, but I can assure you dating isn’t one of them.
Dating can be a very messy affair, especially for people with social anxiety. As attractive as Max is, it seems to me that she has a fairly high level of social anxiety, which she handles by removing herself from situations that induce it. That is, dealing with normal people in normal situations. So long as she can keep her relationships in militaristic situations with a regimented social protocol to follow, she’s fine. But she’s very uncomfortable stepping over that line.
This is possibly because she has this recognition of just how bad it would be if she let her hair down around normal people. Someone like Hiro or Achilles could take it. But anyone who isn’t super-durable could be easily injured by a casual move made without thinking about how much she needed to dial things back for the other person.
Sex puts this on an entirely different level, as I’m sure if Max is into receiving penetrative play, she has crushed more dildos than she’d like to think about… but she’s thinking about them all the time.
Speak for yourself.
Funny how’s she’s not condemning Harem for sleeping around…
Hypocrisy thyme name is Maxima
Maybe there’s no log in her eye? You know, the one that should be removed?
Alternatively, perhaps some people do understand the USA is allegedly a free country, where individuals can make up their own minds about personal behaviour?
She apply standards to Deus (a guy) that she’s not applying to Harem (a girl)
So yeah, she’s been hypocritical, and kinda sexist
Panels 5 and 6… “Have I mentioned he’s already sleeping with Harem?“… “I assume she rotates herselves through her partners for variety.”
That’s hypocritical? Really? Oh, sorry, of course Maxi should have taken disciplinary action against Harem for her proclivities. Multiple boyfriends, bedroom exercises with all of them–often simultaneously… We have a term for that, it’s derogatory: Bedroom Laws.
Should we reconvene the Puritan Inquisition of Salem?
If she threats Harem the same as Deus that doesn’t mean she lies restrictions on her behaviour, just that she openly disputes of the course of action, since she also never forced Deus to behave different, just disputed of his behaviour.
To say this is more layman terms: how she treats Deus is on a whole different level than your comment implies.
I mean it can be interpreted different ways. One of Maxima’s character flaws is being a tad judgmental but I think in this case it’s more that he’s sleeping with a co-worker/subordinate so it would make things awkward is she started dating him herself.
She applies the standards to Deus as a potential partner and not to Harem as a subordinate.
She’s not being set up on a date, ‘date’ or not, with Harem.
I see no hypocrisy here, unless the situation is viewed through a very narrow lens, almost as if you chose your result and then manufactured the lens to only show that result to you…
Hypocritical: characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel. How does Max behave that contradicts her own beliefs?
There are a lot of things that consenting adults in my opinion may do with one another without me having to do them or me wanting/liking my partner to do.
She’s not condemning Deus for sleeping around, either. She’s condemning him for his shady business practices and “extra-legal” connections.
She’s implied that she doesn’t want to share bed-partners with her subordinate, or perhaps that she’d prefer a monogamous partner.
No. She is just saying “She doesn’t want to date someone thats sleeping around”.
Plus she hasn’t condemend either of them.
Close, personally figured it was more that she didn’t want to ‘steal’ someone else’s fuck-buddy (specially if that someone is a subordinate, and that she knows is already sleeping with them)
Max brought up Harem because she doesn’t want to involve herself with someone else’s boyfriend. Even if “boyfriend” might be a strong term for it. The fact that Harem is her subordinate would complicate things more, but she wasn’t actually judging either one of them. At least not for who they’re dating.
Ah… I see. It’s just easy to misunderstand based on Maxima’s past behaviour
I think she’s not crazy about what Harem does, but she knows that openly condemning it wouldn’t help anything.
Is “co-ed” Harem the one with the short white hair and glasses?
yes.
On the wheel of harem I get the replicant ref, but what’s the squirrel one? Squirrelgirl, El Goonish Shive, or something completely different?
I thought of an episode of “The Drew Carey Show” in which he dates a woman with a squirrel suit fetish.
The Easter Island heads are Moai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai)
And I see now that was you stating the name… for some reason I read that as a question. :-D
Ok Dave, but what dose Harem like in women?
I imagine pegging is still on the table.
Now I am seeing a Harem wearing a fake beard and speaking in a bad Russian accent. “Hello, my name is Peggy. I am your date tonight. Yes?”
Now that would be a voting incentive comic… the look on the guy’s or gal’s face(s) would be totally worth it.
Seriously, if she doesn’t want, she isn’t any less of a “real woman” for that.
And to be honest, Deus is kind of an ass. Max wants a guy who respects her, hence why she’s attracted to Hiro.
And yet, Deus is a much more interesting character than Hiro…
Anyway, I’d like to see more of Deus / Maxima relation and how come everybody thinks they are dating. Has it ever been explained?
Deus is a rich white man who apparently makes a business practice of “business dinners” with attractive women and basically nobody else. He’s also Archon’s primary equipment supplier.
Even if his business dinners are entirely legitimate, that looks a lot like dating. In order to get the equipment deal he has with Archon, I’m certain there were quite a few business dinners involved. Per Deus’ own statement, there were a number of them with Max.
And also, he was buying her things under the guise of ‘customer relations’. Sometimes really extravagant things, even by her standards.
And Hiro isn’t more interesting simply because he hasn’t been in the spotlight so far. But Deus… yikes.
Well, I’m surprised no one’s brought it up yet, but the black segment on the wheel is a little hard to read. My first guess was “pissing”, but now I think it’s “pegging”, which is definitely funnier here. I also can’t tell if it’s totally in the 3 zone or split between 1 and 3.
It’s pegging. Look at the mini-comic under the main page. :)
I don’t know HOW I missed that.
I don’t know. I think you’d need a clear line of communication with Harem if you wanted to date her. Her dating multiple guys is a given but it seems like something that can get really messy really quickly without establishing the rules very clearly first. It would be fun to see all the guys she’s dating at once meet up though for like a girlfriend convention!
and Gals too.
Personally I’d like to see her asked out on a date by the elf. He showed general interest in her, even though he kinda blew it on first impressions. But if he plays his cards right he could play to Max’s inner nerd on all things Tolkien and score at least one date with her.
Anyone else wondering if the wheel is made of a light material, so she can VORP it into the bedroom at moment’s notice? lol
Shady “A.F.”? Didn’t get the slang.
AF= As Fuck
Was at first thinking how cool it would be for Maxi to actually flirt with the waiter (or Guy Breadmore) to put SmugD off his game, then realized: Maxi would never do something as shitty as that (shitty to Guy, not SmugD)
Think about it? sure. Actually do it? not a chance
The 5th Harem isn’t on the wheel? What? Underage? Not into guys?
One has to be ‘On Duty’ at all times, the number is how many the lucky partner gets to be with (note how the inner circle has a separate arrow, and the size of the wedge gets smaller as the number gets bigger: 1 is 50%)
Daphne has said that she is keeping one of her bodies virginal for her eventually getting married.
I think Harem said at some point that she is keeping one of her bodies a virgin till marriage.
Is this the first time one of the characters refers to a specific Daphne in-comic?
No. I’m pretty sure it’s not been. I think but I’m not as certain that this is not even the first time one of the characters referred to ‘co-ed’ Harem… but it’s possible that was Daphne making that reference herself.
Deus is not just a jerk, he’s a manipulative jerk. That in itself is plenty reason to avoid him when possible and keep things purely on a professional level when not. Unless Maxima thinks she can manipulate him back, which we saw her briefly consider last page. Except that Deus is also obnoxiously smart and probably finds an evening of Xanatos Speed Chess to be a massive turn-on.
Well, the guy does love what he does.
This.
Xanatos Strip Poker.
Getting some real real Ember Island Azula vibes as a comparable fish-out-of-water scenario.
>pegging
*takes a moment to read all the other choices*
worth the risk
*squints* Harem owns a fursuit.
Welp! I guess the Mess-Dress is out. Kinda hard to flirt with a water when you are wearing your authority. Since it is a very nice restaurant, she should go in a black tie pants suit. Show a hint of cleavage, do up the hair. Sexy and professional, and not giving one inch to Deus.
Just… not with an actual tie, please!
BTW. Am I the only one who is a little bothered by Maxima wearing a tie as part of her uniform? As far as I know, women in USAF don’t wear ties…
I suspect that’s more of a personal choice the USAF lets her get away with. But you are correct, the women wear tie tabs instead of ties.
not sure how US military does things, but in Finland women can choose to wear the ‘men’s’ version as long as they follow the regulations (which individual items can be used together & how etc.) IMO women look better in the men’s uniform (which is available in ladyfit) than in the women’s.
She could wear a tie, but have it fashionably loose. But a subdued necklace would work better.
Dabbler’s disappointed expression in the 4th panel is just too precious!! XD
What I don’t get is why the inner part of the Wheel has portions of different size. Does it mean Daphne and/or Deus have a specific preference for which body of hers (Co-ed I suppose although I am not how sure she and others identify the other bodies apart from one obviously being Goth) spends most of the time they have allotted to their affair, and the other bodies only get used occasionally? I suppose it might be justified if either or both of them like to roleplay the “sexy schoolgirl in an affair with a more powerful man” situation as the default kink of their relationship.
I know she is saving one of the bodies for marriage but there are various things I dislike with the idea so I prefer to ignore it.
It means, getting pegged by four Daphne’s has a lesser chance than just one
Hmm, so the inner pie chart would be about how many Harems en body gagé in the act at once, not which bogudy does it? Well, I guess it is a valid interpretation too. At least it would explain why the slices are of diminishing size. In different circumstances I would be torn between envying or pitying the guy (or gal; Daphne is a practicing bi) that has to satisfy the libidos of multiple Harems, but if there someone in the non-demon cast that may rise to the challenge, it is Deus.
harems version of the gong show features lots of girls in booty shorts and pigtails eating ice pops
so, closer to Hee-Haw, then…
The only complaint I have is that there’s no such thing as a self-made billionaire, and I feel like Max would be smart enough to know that.
Why do you make that claim?
It is literally impossible for a human being to do a billion dollars worth of work. Anyone who has that much money has drawn it primarily from the work of others.
‘Self-made’ basically means they didn’t inherit it
Someone nitpicking about this claim who followed your definition could argue that a human being is capable of around a billion of dollars worth of smart working in the sense that there’re multiple jobs that don’t involve entrepreneurship and still pay around a billion or more in a life.
Examples involve: top sporter, top artist, dangerous substance transporter, pilot and professor.
Someone actually arguing against the claim would tell you that taking the risks of enterpreneurship is work on its own.
It’s not nitpicking. It is literally and physically impossible to “earn” a billion dollars or more. The only way someone can become a billionaire is through ruthless exploitation of the working class, manipulation of inherently unjust and exploitative systems, abuses of tax loopholes put in place specifically to allow the wealthy to become even more obscenely rich, and outright theft. Billionaires are not just a policy failure, they are the embodiment of immorality.
Out of all those careers you just listed, NONE of them are billionaires. They are wealthy, yes, but I don’t think you quite grasp the sheer magnitude of scale separating “million” from “billion.”
Let me make this live for you with an analogy. I want you to picture in your mind a staircase, with each step representing about $100,000 of net worth. That is several years of working wages saved up for tens of millions of Americans.
Half of the people living in the United States are currently on the base, or on the very first step. Almost 200 million people who cannot even get up a single “step” in our current system.
Those households in the 80th percentile – the people who are richer than 4/5th other Americans, and who we mistakenly refer to as “the middle class” – are on the 5th step. $500,000 dollars of net worth.
Those with more money than 90% of their fellow Americans – those millionaire careers you listed, who we consider our “upper-middle class” and “professional class” who live more than comfortably, are on the 11th step. Most Americans won’t even come close to accumulating this much money over an entire lifetime of working.
And a billionaire? Someone who has acquired a single billion dollars of net worth?
TEN. THOUSAND. STEPS.
That’s enough to walk up five Empire State buildings. It would take three hours of walking, non-stop, to get there if this were a physical staircase. And it only gets higher from there. Each extra billion? Another ten thousand steps. Do you think the people with that much wealth care about the petty squabbles of anyone on those first few steps or so? From those dizzying heights, they couldn’t even tell the difference between someone living below the poverty line and a surgeon worth several million dollars even if they WANTED to.
And someone like Jeff Bezos? Who, last I checked, is worth 132.8 billion dollars? His staircase is so high up, that the only way to properly describe it is in distance, not steps. His stairs take him up ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE MILES. That’s about halfway to the International Space Station. That’s about 24 consecutive Mount Everest’s all stacked on top of one another. To walk that height would take, non-stop, no sleep, over two whole weeks, and each single step is worth more than five poverty-level families in America COMBINED.
There is no justification in the universe for that much money to be hoarded by any one single individual.
So, no. You cannot be a “self-made” billionaire.
You must be a fan of Ben Shapiro. You’ve failed to address any of the actual points I made, spouted a bunch of bullshit with no relevance to the argument, and then acted like this is the end of it. And I suppose that last part is correct; this is the end of it, because I refuse to try and argue a point with a billionaire stan who can’t understand something simple like the Labor Theory of Value. A person who owns a company doesn’t actually put in any of the work that makes them rich. It’s the laborers who work at that company who actually generate that wealth, and then that wealth is funneled away from them – because, under capitalism, wages are always less than the true monetary value of their work. That is what profits are: surplus value generated by the people who actually earned it, and which is stolen by the people who own the company. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
You will never be a billionaire, no matter how many of their boots you decide to lick.
What distinguishes capitalism from “the free market” is that it fundamentally rewards ownership, rather than labor. They don’t even pretend to have “earned” their wealth through labor, but are rewarded for owning the right things. You can’t win at capitalism through labor, no matter what kind or how much of it you do, until you use some of your earnings to purchase ownership of something, and begin to exploit the labor of others.
Oh, my mistake I’m not really good with these numbers in english.
You’re partly right: top sport still can get you to billionaire without entrepreneurship. Example: Lewis Hamilton for example makes 52 million a year and could thus earn in 20 years one billion and pretty livid living cost if he safely distributes it to tax heavens.
Ofcourse not participating in tax could be seen as exploitation of the working class, so maybe this one only proofs your point.
By building a company which brought them the wealth by the fruits of their efforts, not any inheritance or other gifts.
It occurs to me that while the thing prompting this meet up is the implication Deus may know how to make supers; he should also by proxy be questioned about the Alari. Not their motives exactly, but if he knows anything about “the enemy” the Alari are fleeing from. Seems rather important Earth’s forces know everything they can about these world enders that forced the Alari to take refuge in the first place. Such as do they know why they attacked? Did the Alari manage to take down any of their fighters or kaju, how likely is this enemy to want to pursue their refuges to a small backwater planet that aliens normally only visit as a tourist destination with a do not disturb the locals rule?
Earth governments, or at least the US government, will also have a lot of questions about the Fel, since a US military base, well, building, was attacked by a Fel starship and a swarm of Fel drones or whatever they are called.
And if Cora isn’t interested in answering those questions, they should turn to Dabbler. Who would be fired if she refused to cooperate. And then to Sydney, who can apparently just pop off to that faux Dyson sphere and pick up the information on their equivalent of the Internet.
And hell, the US government is said to have knowledge of The Council and The Shroud, so they must (or at least should) know that aliens are both a part of The Council membership and also here as tourists. So they can also ask The Council for the answers.
Technically, they can’t fire Dabbles as she is not actually employed by Archon
The best they could do is ban her from the premises (or even deport her from the country)
They could learn more about the Fel that way. Dabbler apparently didn’t recognize the beings that had attacked the Alari home world; despite in retrospect just looking like kaiju-fied versions of the Fel; although their ship was a different design.
The most direct source of intel should be explored first before questioning others who might have that information.
You didn’t draw Anvil too tall. Xuriel is shorter than usual next to her as a result of her bending her legs to appear shorter when she went “puppy dog eyes” a little bit before. She won’t extend to full height as it makes her appear less dangerous (childlike) a thing Succubi are trained to do (right into muscle memory territory).
Army advanced training in the early 90’s, we had a situation where the C.O. (captain) of the training battalion was having sex with a female student (private first class). This violated anti-fraternization regs three ways: superior/junior in chain of command, officer/enlisted, AND cadre(teacher)/trainee. He’d also exerted (abused) his authority to keep her from graduating, forcing her to remain in the training unit (and thus with him). Literally every single student (including myself) in the battalion was sat down and interviewed by the office of the Army JAG. The evidence against him was completely damning; he (deservedly) got slammed, hard, afaik.
If your local army behaves the same as the dutch army according to my dad’s stories it’s only the abuse of power to keep her from graduating that got them so far as to convict him of anything, but since you don’t imply any normalcy of comparable behavior in your local army I assume that it’s not the norm where you served, so my compliments to you guys for having such an ethical army structure.
For your record: yes, they have rules against it, no, nobody obeys or enforces those rules, yes, complaints get responses and no, the way they handle it doesn’t create a safe environment for filling complaints.
I’m glad to hear that he got slammed and I hope that she got justice and not a mark on her record, since she could have been coerced even if she was otherwise enjoying the relationship. She probably was going to suffer career impairment for ‘failing’ her training already…
But was he really violating superior/junior in chain of command? I went through a pile of training in the Army, and I don’t recall a single time past Basic/AIT where an instructor was in my chain of command. I’m not trying to defend the guy, at all, I’m just wondering about the particulars.