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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COMPANY commander, not battalion. But the whole battalion, all companies, were interviewed.
Omg i just realized. Peggy, pegging… coincidence?
This isn’t the DC universe, so I’m gonna say Coincidence. Not gonna run into an E(dward) Nigma, here.
M3 comic had a character like this “Pegging Peggy” who ended up as the main girlfriend of one of the starting main characters. (admittedly I stopped reading shortly after the spin-off comics stopped and the main comic did a full cast focus change).
The comic-verse name joke there is her leg, not her “proclivities”.
I’m not going to be the one to make it, but this is the perfect spot for a ‘third leg’ joke.
Of course, a variant of the leg could easily facilitate such proclivities.
Honestly, i am not sure i’d be interested in dating harem. I tend to go for a long term relationship with someone who i connect with on an emotional level. I don’t place preconceived stereotypes on them and actually prefer for them to be themselves instead of what they might think i want them to be. If Harem’s idea of being a girlfriend is largely modeled after what guys think they’d want in a girlfriend, then I would probably pass cause ironically that is not what i want in a girlfriend.
There is only one Harem mind, distributed among 5 bodies.
I’m sure she would be devastated to know you don’t fancy her.
I am sure she wouldn’t be. I am just saying that in general the idea of her as this ideal male fantasy is just unappealing to me in general.
Don’t know if this has been said, but “flirt with the waiter” is going to backfire when Deus stocks the restaurant with an all female staff. He won’t mind if she is being flirtatious then.
Also, anyone else want a series where it’s just Harem dealing with Long Term relationships and finding love now? I’m super interested in that story.
Whoever Harem decides to settle down with, if it’s a single individual, they’re going to HAVE to be superhuman, just to keep up with her libido…
The Gong Show? Does anyone remember that entry with the five guys who brushed their teeth with one glass of water? It was kind of like a ’70s TV version of TwoGirlsOneCup.
Did they get gonged? Because I’d have gonged that. The show occasionally had some actual talent, but of course they had to have a majority of shit show contestants or they’d have had to change the name to The Occasionally Gong Show, and that just doesn’t roll off the tongue as well.
They took turns with the glass going down the row. There were four or five of them. That old lady with the big glasses staggered over to the gong while trying not to vomit and hit it while on about the third guy. They kept going like a machine to the last guy who drank the glass when he was done. EVERYONE in the studio lost their shit and prolly a few lunches; the guys just stood there in line like a squad of marines. With all of that, I STILL think the whole thing was a set up. Besides, it ruined my 12yo mind.
oh my, Deus in a Pegging… is an interesting thought. I will keep that in mind… for no reason at all! don’t mind me.
I’m sure he’d be into it. He feels like a very open lover
How did you arrive at that conclusion?
He seems to me to be a common Lothario, interested in pleasing his partners only as a way to boost his own ego. Pegging is a fairly submissive activity, one which I really cannot envision Deus participating in because of his aforementioned massive ego.
To be fair, it’s not a disproportionate ego. His hair is even lustrous!
You appear to be confused about the meaning of the word ‘ego.’ Perhaps due to too much exposure to Trump, who has a massive ego with absolutely nothing to justify it (well, I’ll grant that being one of only 45 US Presidents is a fairly exclusive club, despite his lack of the popular vote). But having a long list of accomplishments doesn’t mean that you cannot be egotistical about it, regardless of what those accomplishments are. Bill Gates could be egotistical about being (actually) super wealthy, even though he earned it. Ghandi could be egotistical about his humanitarian efforts. Etc.
Or he may simply not be into pegging, like most people.
Really, she should go in the huntress dress just to drive home how much of a challenge this “date” will be.
In that case I’d vote for the velociraptor costume :)
My vote mattered. Specifically Grrlpower was second place on top100 webcomics at 2992 votes. But I checked, and it was actually tied with the top ranked one. So I voted for grrlpower and it went from being 2nd place to 1st.
It is awesome when that happens. I have been there a couple of times myself.
Sounds like a good time for the rest of us to keep voting please.
Still planning to vote Halo in 2020, only now that we’re actually working through presidential primaries, I wonder if she might actually be the best candidate. 0_o
Given our two choices? Sydney, or a toaster, is the clearly superior option.
I’ll vote for Biden, because Trump is the worst shit show we have ever had in a president. The joke is on us all for electing a failed businessman and reality TV “boss” and thinking that he could run anything well.
But Biden is clearly undergoing cognitive decay, and watching his speech ramble off into incoherence after the first 15 seconds isn’t pleasant.
We’re not really electing Biden, we’re electing his VP. If the Dems are extra smart, they’ll try to have him hang on until just past the halfway mark so that the VP gets the remainder of the term plus two full elections of potential time in office.
I’m done with politicians that are all talk and no action. That’s why I support Joe Biden. Trump only talks about grabbing women by the pussy but Joe actually goes out and does it.
You appear to be confused. But I understand that this is the common state for a Trump supporter. Trump has far more charges of sexual assault than Biden.
Frankenstein (and not the doctor either but his monster) is a better choice than either of the two zombies who shambled to the top of the heap.
It is ironic how the democractic party managed to appoint (there is no other way to describe their primaries at this point) the one candidate who was as close to(*) Trump as humanely possible and then make him run a campaign that has as its sole message: I am not Trump.
(* No really, he has so much in common that it is not funny. Both are rich white elderly men. Both are ultra conservative with a history of befriending racists. Both have clear cognitive problems that are getting worse over the past couple of years. Both have a questionable (to say the least) reputation when it comes to assaulting women. Both run for the corporate party of America with a not so well hidden program of enriching the rich and further destroying the already merely theoretical social security of the USA. Neither has the brainpower left to do anything about the rapid collapse of the USA that is unfolding. I do not think anybody can find any meaningful difference between these two … )
Frankenstein’s Creature, whom was named Adam.
I know :)
I deliberately avoided referring to Shelby’s original and instead compared to the many movie adaptations by directors who missed the main point of the original novel.
In hindsight I could have picked a better simile :)
Adam Frankenstein,
a son should be named after his father, to paraphrase the line, and Frankenstein is the surname. So Frankenstein’s monster is Adam Frankenstein.
I would suggest that the real goal of sustaining a two-party system is exactly that: to force voters to choose between the lesser of two evils, effectively allowing the party elite to choose the president. And they will choose the people who will be most beneficial to the ruling class, at the expense of the average citizen.
We need to change all the mechanisms that make that the inevitable result. Non-proportional representation and first-past-the-post are two of the biggest problems.
Which one is “co-ed” Harem? All of her selves look like they could be in college
White hair and glasses Harem… That’s Co-ed Harem. If you look back through the strips, Max actually catches her with Deus, then fronts up Goth Harem for answers and GH tells Max in no uncertain terms that line of questioning is off limits.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-603-schtooping-with-the-frenemy/
This Strip is where Max finally catches her with Deus… by then we’d seen her with him at least once…
Well, considering physically she is only 19…
And all her selves are the same, just with modifications
This is the one where Max catches her… Schtooping with the Frenemy..
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-603-schtooping-with-the-frenemy/
Are we gonna see anymore of Max’s backstory. I mean, the poor kid must have been freeking out when her skin was turning gold in bloches :)
It might look like it at times, but IMO Max probably isn’t aromantic/asexual. She seems too interested in flirting with Hiro (and his naked body) for that. Even here, she lets her attraction to Deus show up, even if she does not trust him. Nonetheless, she has a number of things going against her in the romantic/sexual arena: 1) she seems to have embraced professional military behavior as a structured communication channel to compensate for her social anxiety 2) she is a workaholic that feels on duty 24/7, and military regulations get in the way of dating Hiro, the only man we know of she seems to like and trust enough 3) she embraced the misandrist/anti-sex radical wing of feminism, being driven to think the worst of men and heterosexual sex (and be judgemental) in most circumstances, probably to compensate for her “golden goddess” body issues 4) she does not seem to rate high on the Kinsey scale, so women are not a serious romantic/sexual option for her 5) unlike Sydney, who is warming up to polyamory fast, she has hangups with dating people that are seeing someone else. All of this limits her options quite a bit on her side, despite being one of the most elegible bachelorettes on Earth.
For 3 I don’t think it was a conscious decision so much as a reaction to how most men she interacts with act towards her. She’s constantly under barrage by the worst aspects of men in our culture and so reacts accordingly.
She suffers it to the degree truly inevitable for any other top-level attractive celebrity in our media-obsessed culture, and in all likelihood significantly less than the usual standard at least in face-to-face interactions, since she has quite intimidating manners and people know she is a Person of Mass Destruction with a badass attitude. Sure, in all likelihood people all over the Net gossip about her (non-existent) romantic life and write lewd fanfic about her, but this is pretty much an inevitable facet of the awe any super draws. People inevitably are curious and fantasize about larger-than-life figures, even more so if they stand out in a godlike way like high-powered supers do.
The vast majority of the time we have seen Max and other supers interact with normals, they are usually able to command respect of normals with trivial effort, such a mean glance or the like. A lot of the disrespect Max seems to react against simply happens or gets exaggerated a lot in her own head. Otherwise, she simply seems to have the wrong kind of personality to shrug off (or enjoy) the amount of attention a person of her stature and role inevitably gathers.
I don’t think Max is misandrist or or anti-sex either. At least, she doesn’t think she is. She’s just constantly being barraged by people who are either disrespectful or deliberately trying to wind her up.
She embraces an ideology (radical feminism) that has robust misandrist and anti-sex aspects. No doubt she seems herself as a victim of the Patriarchy all the time, but a lot of the time the problem seems to lie in her own expectations (cfr. the way she gets sent to take a few official photos, and immediately starts to fantasize about getting harassed by a sleazy photograher, when the reality is entirely different).
In practice, we have seen she is usually able to cowe anyone but other powerful supers into submission with a glance (cfr. the guy she met in Sydney’s shop, who for all we know might have meant to ask for an autograph). Sure, she finds annoying that journalists ask her questions about her dating life and there entire sections of the Net where people gossip and fantasize about supers, but that’s the inevitable result of being a godlike celebrity in a free society. Otherwise, people that are so suicidally brave as to disrespect her w/o having something like Vehemence’s power set are going to be few and far between.
What has she said or done that makes you classify her as a radical feminist? When has she been described as such, either by the author or his characters? Feminist, yes. Radical, misandrist, anti-sex? I don’t think that’s supported by the material. I can’t find the page, but I remember Max saying something along the lines of “I know it may seem like it, but I’m not actually a prude”.
Dabbler’s face in panel 4. That’s the face someone makes when they find out an animal has to be put down.
Not when it’s the dog from down the road that barks non-stop and craps on your lawn. I like dogs more than people in general but individual dogs have worked hard for my enmity. Cats… are an improvement on rats.
Bad owners, not bad dogs.
Peggy should have made the pegging joke
So Maxima knows at least that much about Archon’s double-reverse-quintuple agent problem…
She found Abby in SmugD’s office
Still say Daphne is ‘on assignment’, authorised by Maxi (or at least with her knowledge)
Wait. Which Harem is Co-Ed again?
… Do they have official (or canon) designations?
Check the first page of comments
Co-ed is the one with white hair and glasses
I initially read the double g as a double s.
So, Harem likes to be pegged and likes to peg.
What is going on in the center of the wheel of girlfriend? What’s with those numbers?
My guess was, which Harem would do it.
No, it’s how many Daphne’s do it, that’s why ‘1’ is the largest segment
Every time you ship tease Max with Deus, like in panel 3, I die a little inside.
Sexy Kunoichi. I’d prefer foxgirl, but I suppose catgirl works. ish.
foxgirl, in a miko outfit
The women in Arc are too damn horny all the damn time.
“The ideal woman is deaf, mute and runs a liquor store” – Frank Sinatra