Grrl Power #838 – I’ll have the wedg(i)e salad
Yes, I drew Dabbler’s long tongue thrashing around all over Anvil’s cleavage. They’re not directly interacting, but I’m sure Dabbler won’t be offended if you pretend.
I modeled Archon’s Mess Dress largely after a Marine I found with a little googling. It had a cloak, so naturally I went with something like that, but decided to give it a few tweaks, including jackboots and those epaulets with the tassel fringe. After I drew it I realized that Max kind of looks like M. Bison/Vega. It wasn’t intentional, but I’m super okay with it.
I’m not actually sure what regulation military underwear is. I think I read something about, depending on the branch, everyone gets a few basic standard issue boxers or tighty whities, plus an allowance to buy like a week’s worth of your preferred style or something. And there’s probably a line somewhere about not wearing thongs and shit that’s going to chafe. I don’t know if they do underwear inspections, but they do barracks inspections so if you’re going to get caught in your drawers, that’d probably be the time.
I imagine Lt. Colonels never actually have to prove they’re wearing the right kind of underwear, (I’d like to see the general with the balls to check Maxima) so I’m not sure how valid Max’s protest is there in panel three.
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I bet Dabbler’s popular at certain parties.
Also, that mess dress is quite intimidating, or is that Max?
It’s (modeled after) a Marine Boat Cloak… and it looks magnificent
Fellow Terminal Lance reader, I see…
I just thought she looked like M. Bison.
Holy crap, they are magnificent. I’d never heard of boat cloaks before today, but daaaaaamn. Marines definitely need to wear those more often.
I keep seeing a mental image of Edna Mode saying “No capes!”
But honestly, the Mess Dress makes her look Maxificent.
And it’s sort of a toss-up as to what turns me on more: Just the idea of Max wearing that flimsy little thing that’s only slightly larger than a postage stamp, or Dabbler’s tongue & the permutations that can be implied with it.
That only applies to fliers, not flying bricks
> Also, that mess dress is quite intimidating, or is that Max?
Yes.
> Also, that mess dress is quite intimidating, or is that Max?
In Teamups and Crossovers, Marion Harmon’s story of his flying brick heroine Astra getting tossed through various universes, there is a chapter where Astra winds up meeting ARCSwat at a media convention, and fighting alongside them {Dave co-wrote that chapter; i think there’s a link to guy a copy somewhere on the site}.
There’s a wonderful line i’m sure Dave wrote: “Normally Maxima’s whatever’s-happening-had-better-not-annoy-me body language inspired confidence in her allies…”
She’s popular at every party.
“Not regulation”?
There’s no regulation on underwear
Indeed there is. For the USAF I refer you to AFI 36-2903 (Dress and Personal Appearance of Air Force Personnel) Section 6.5. Undergarments.
Never heard of it. I was in the AF.
Former US Navy. I know than in our sea bag (i.e. our ‘required gear’) we were supposed to have a certain number of underwear of a certain type. Mostly you kept a pack around in case you ever were required to submit to a sea bag inspection. That pretty much only happened if A) you were young and new and they were trying to teach you responsibility or B) you did something to get in trouble that wasn’t enough to warrant officer attention and they wanted to inflict an monetary penalty because nobody kept a complete, regulation sea bag outside of training. Too expensive, too much space, too much of a hassle.
There are few things the military don’t have regulations for.
Yeah there is. It’s mostly “not visible from the outside of your clothes.”
You’ll want to stick to natural fibers and avoid polyester blends in certain environments. Of there’s a fire it’ll melt and cause serious damage, worse than if you were totally naked. At least in the areas covered by the underwear.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/258343/1
That page details female underwear in USMC. It’s manga (drawn by Japanese), but manuscript was written by former marine from Okinawa. Cancer claimed her life some years ago :(
Maybe Max has regulations on underwear. Not for other people, just herself.
There is no damn way thongs would be regulation, not even fucking Klinger would wear a damn thong!
He would if he thought it’d give him the “section 8” he was so desperatly spending those years trying to get from th US Army.
That last panel I don’t know if it makes me want to avoid dabbler in fear or kiss her to find out what she can do with that tongue.
You can also bet she was waiting for someone to grab her tongue like that in a casual situation just to pull that stunt.
Here eyes and open-mouthed smile show she is happy she finally got to pull that stunt.
At least we now know that Sydney should NEVER use her signature throw on Dabbler.
I don’t know, if she needs a flail type weapon… :P :D
that’d have Sydney flailing all right…
Canon or not that situation needs to be seen, Anvil alone will freak even more if it’s full length is known while Math, if he is in the area will get ideas.
Though Dabbler has already shown she can handle surprised flailing Sydney early on so…
For any fellow Terry Pratchett readers – Dabbler’s physicality reminds me of Nanny Ogg’s private speculations about a certain frog prince…
I wonder if she’s got like…inch markers tattooed on it.
Let’s be honest, I don’t think she’s ever left a bed partner unsatisfied.
Sore and unable to walk straight, maybe, but never unsatisfied.
Getting a M Bison ? Vibe off that first panel. Think it’s the purple cape.
That was my first thought too
Max wears the boatcloak? That’s not stodgy.
https://terminallance.com/2019/11/08/terminal-lance-happy-244th-birthday-marines/
Hah. I kind of wish I’d seen that before writing this page. Ah well.
I love how Max went cross eyed looking at the thong!
It seems Sydney isn’t the only one who can pull off the “puppy dog eyes” look.
What surprises me though is that Max either failed her Saving Throw against it, or Anvil caught Max so off-guard that she didn’t even roll the die…
Some days I remember where I first encountered Dave’s artwork.
This is one of those days.
You can’t say that and not at least provide a link to the page and his Handle.
I don’t remember the specific site or the handle. It was a comic about the production of a porn, and a character that looked a lot like Max was the director.
I have to agree with Kenya, dressing sharp can boost your confidence and that also goes for the underwear you use.
If you want to test that, try wearing some old boxers/slips where the elasticity is gone and see how you feel when it droops halfway around your buttocks. Same as when you wear something that chafes in the delicate places. Ouch!
Yep…
So how does it help said confidence when you wear something that you need to fish out of your butt crack regularly?
That’s a trick question.
It’s supposed to stay there :)
“Every guy’s crazy ‘bout a sharp dressed girl…”
She still considers herself human? Good.
This implies successful therapy after her transformation while a tween.
Good point and good catch.
*Starts singing White Zombie’s “More Human Than Human”…
https://youtu.be/E0E0ynyIUsg
*Daniel the Human joins in…* :)
Max wears the boatcloak? That’s not stodgy.
terminallance.com/2019/11/08/terminal-lance-happy-244th-birthday-marines/
Max looks like a WH40k Commissar, only thing missing is a bolt gun and a chainsword. Although she doesn’t really need them.
Max still has her handcanoon, but i assume it’s seen as improper attire to bring that to a dinner.
Besides that, she probably punches harder than the bullet from that gun will hit.
A mutant like her as a commissar? Heresy! BLAM!
Well if you want to dress to impress I think a bolter and chainsword can be a rather effective accessoire. And don’t forget the proper commissar hat.
Also she is missing the tall cap with the skull and the Aquila and the sash.
Dabblers tongue: “Oh my God! It’s like a tape measure!”
First thought: “mmm, are there hatch marks tattooed?
do you need your measure taken?
Dabbler will measure up inside and out. You have been warned.
*Measure you up
I expect no less. granted I also expect to need medical attention afterwards. The grin though… stays.
Dabbler seems almost zonked by having it handled, maybe it’s a succubus trance thing?
One of the benefits of being Maxima is that nothing chafes.
except other people. and she’s to polite to.. uhh.. ‘fix’ the issue.
More like “too decent.” “Fixing” people who chafe you the wrong way is the sort of thing a villain does.
Making panel 4 basically a lie.
It doesn’t have to chafe to “not feel right” to Max, it just has to go where it’s not wanted.
Well, that’s debatable. A discussion of what can even possibly “not feel right” to a person with a skin which is invulnerable to most weapons might be interesting. It’s difficult to weigh the fact that Maxima clearly has nerve endings and the sensitive touch that all normal humans have, but while the normal human has a very small range between the sensation of a caress and, say, a pet cat accidentally using a claw on it’s owner, Maxima’s range is so vast in comparison that it almost doesn’t stand as a comparison. When a cat’s claw isn’t going to be painful, how is a tiny piece of cloth possibly going to make that person uncomfortable? Maxima could ignore a cat’s claws on her tender bits, so trying to support that a bit of cloth can cause her discomfort is a very hard sell.
Maybe Maxi is simply ticklish, and there is a vast range of types of discomfort, or even unpleasantness
For me, anything coming within a certain distance between the eyebrows is ‘unpleasant’, doesn’t even have to touch the skin, it just causes the nerve endings there to go nuts
Just because it doesn’t cause Maxi discomfort doesn’t mean it’s not an unpleasant sensation
My very first thought at seeing Max’s Mess Dress was M-Bison… and I was not disappointed, either!
In some situations all parts of the uniform should meet regulation specifications. When you sleep in the field, underwear could be the outermost layer. When practicing with fire hazards, or in CBRN situations, there could also be special needs.
This can cause problems. Here is a story from last October, when one soldier describes being less than satisfied with the new version of “standard issue” gear:
https://blogg.forsvarsmakten.se/gronsak/2019/10/07/trosa-m-16/
https://blogg.forsvarsmakten.se/gronsak/2019/10/19/trosa-m-16-fmv-jag-ger-mig/
This sounds like a case of the lowest bidder winning the contract, and too little Army involvement in the QC process before acceptance.
The US Army suffers from this on occasion, but several years back the BDUs (battle dress uniform, the camos you typically see soldiers wearing) got a re-work and they actually went through a period of soliciting feedback as I learned from some friends who were still in. So now the vest pockets are angled so it is easier for a gloved hand to reach into the opposite pocket, and a few other pretty decent ergonomic changes.
Sorry to be off topic (but it did have Dabbler offering skimpy clothing
to Maxima) but what happened to that sketch of Halo, Anvil, Dabbler and
Maxima in a D&D adventerer supply shop?
Did it ever get colorized?
Good eye. Dave! We’ve got a question for you.
Again, Kenya’s Succubus handling backfires!
Anything not showing is fine. I showed up to basic wearing a black and white striped pair of boxers, which were quite comfortable, but then we were issued our PT outfit of tee-shirt and shorts from out of a 1970’s basketball game. You know, shorts which would scream your sexual preference, accurately or not, if worn on the street today. And my boxers hung out past their hem by a good 2″. So of course I got my first introduction to the number 1 rule of Basic Training: If you’re smart, you don’t do any fucking thing that makes you stand out, unless it’s doing a good job quietly. Anyone violating that rule is an instant target, magnet, or whatever other metaphor you might want to apply for Drill Sergent *ahem* attention *ahem*.
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On a related undergarments note, I’ve never done it but I’ve had several friends who did Civil War reenactments. They unabashedly wore panty hose under their period pants. Large, bearded, and probably mostly hetero men would make a run to the store and pick up a few pair, and cut them off just above the knee. Why? Because the nylon prevented the reportedly horrific chafing that a pair of period wool pants can inflict on your tender bits and your thighs.
Nylons also work as an under layer when breaking in new, rigid combat boots … you look like a fool for 2 minutes in the barracks, but at the end of the day your feet don’t chafe nor bleed.
I’ve heard that panty hose were also “standard wear” for actors in those old Western Movies when they had to spend a lot of time on horseback. It’s been difficult for me to reconcile that this meant that the likes of John Wayne & Clint Eastwood were included…
I first heard about that in a “behind the scenes” for the Star Trek movie, about Stewart and Shatner filming the scene riding horses
Am I the only one who’s getting M. Bison vibes from that mess dress uniform? Just me then? Okay…
Also, are puppy eyes Max’s kryptonite?
We’ve seen Sydney do it.
Not sure Dabbler can without it looking sexy.
Maybe by tweaking her glamour spell?
To be fair those were megaton class of power puppy eyes and Maxima did manage to resist.
I’m sure Dabbler has some sort of kawaii variant of her glamour spell.
that should most definitely be a vote incentive
…. if the Brass would let them get away with it, the military bureaucrat would try to regulate how often a soilder scratches his or her ass while using the shower.
Still a very amusing scene.
Probably in the minority here, but I think this has gone for too long, especially when the end result is apparently making Max wear something she doesn’t want to wear.
Felt just as bad when Sydney forced not-Duke to wear those gaming t-shirts, but at least then it was only a page.
Maxima’s mess dress makes her look like a refugee from the Beatles’ Sgt.Pepper album….
Underwear is one of those things that doesn’t get enforced except in the field.
Also, we knew Dabs had a prehensile tongue, but D-a-a-a-a-yum! There’s prehensile and then there’s “Strangles you before you get in arm’s reach.
I think that tongue is for a very different purpose than strangling, although if she is not careful, a kiss could suffocate her partner.
Max’s formal wear is an M. Bison cosplay?
Whaaaat? Dabbler is getting weirder and weirder! o_O
Well, she IS an Alien/Succubus/Changleling/Other Hybrid.
“She shoved her tongue down my throat. Literally.”
Tonsil hockey.
TONSIL hockey? That’s “taste what they had for dinner” kinda length there… O_O
Just pray that Max DOESN’T get her knickers in a twist… It would be bad… Very, VERY bad…
Sooooo, Maxima is M. Bison now? That cape isn’t part of any american military dress uniform I’m aware of.
If ARC’s going for the hero angle, they probably shouldn’t issue outfits designed for supervillains. XD
It’s a boat cloak It’s an optional accessory for Marine mess dress.
I stand corrected!
Perhaps the USA is allied with Bisonopolis in this reality and have decided to use a similar military dress code. If they can work with Deus a alliance with Bison is not that far fetched. Who can resist all those Bison dollars right?
Given that Max and General Faulk are both former Air Force, I would have expected them to go with that mess dress uniform. I understand going with the Marine one though. The Air Force mess dress is basically just a shawl collar tuxedo with some decoration and the Marine mess dress is a lot more distinctive.
Most powerful human on the planet, huh? She seems to be forgetting the ass kicking that Vehemence gave her.
Sure, it isn’t his baseline. But is potential was seemingly limitless.
To be fair, she did not actually attempt to kill Vehemence by blowing his head off. It is possible that might have killed him, so she might still be the most powerful in that regard. Assuming a battle to the death as baseline for who is more powerful.
Daniel here. Kevin also unknowingly took advantage of Max shifting her power distribution before locking those levels without realizing. So Max shifted power distribution, Kevin took advantage of that (even if he didn’t know), then locked that distribution in (again, didn’t know he was doing that) with his lightning from memory…
I’d put Max down as the more powerful with Kevin POTENTIALLY higher if he charges up enough, but if it WAS a battle to the death my money would be on Max…
The only under inspection I’ve heard of is Highlanders, there was a mirror on a boot mentioned…..But then, it’s just hearsay at this point…take it with a grain of salt.
Are they inspecting for presence, or absence?
Dabbler looks so very alien in the last frame. It’s … disturbing. To borrow from the Marvel universe, is it weird that I want to do it even more now?
DaveB, is it intentional that the final panel could be described as Giger-esque?
So when do we get a picture of Max in said underwear?
Maxima confirmed to be powered by superconductor electromagnetism
Is Anvil channeling her inner Halo here? First puppy eyes, then grabbing somebody by the tongue… somebody who, unbeknown to her, can extend such tongue, BTW.
As magnificent as that boat cloak is, I am a little disappointed to realize that it is actually regulation and not something Max was talked into.
Lol, in the 14 years I’ve been in the army I have never had to prove what I was wearing. However, relation wise we are limited by color for sure and sometimes people get hemmed up for brightly colored bra straps showing… males have been hemmed up for ridiculous prints when they don’t have their shirts tucked properly and you can see their boxers.
One can only hope that in the next scene Kenya whips Dabblers tongue out about three feet and then lets it snap back into her mouth a’la Bugs Bunny.
Windowshade gag.
For Deus it was the night of his life, but for Maxima… it was Tuesday.
Max can always bring a pair of comfy cotton boy-shorts underwear along. She can change in the powder room, and flush the evidence away.