Grrl Power #844 – Dagger shrimp!
They would deny it because they didn’t. Remember Deus’s shopping trip?
I was getting a little bored of drawing Max’s face with her boring bun sitting in the booth, so I tried a close up in those first two panels for a little variety, but then I wanted it to be obvious she was reading Deus’s list of goodies, and now it kind of looks like she’s nearsighted. She’s not. I guess she’s… looking at the fine print?
Granted, a boring bun is a lot easier to draw than a bunch of wavy locks spilling all over her shoulders, but buns are about the least sexy thing you can do with long hair (besides white person dreads). The only thing buns are really good for is taking your hair out of said bun and then doing the slo-mo hair toss.
Not that anything military is designed to be sexy. I do think it’s weird that women are allowed to wear their hair long though. Aren’t the two major points of having short hair easy maintenance and not giving an enemy something to grab on to? Granted, the US military doesn’t tend to throw women at the front line so, I guess it doesn’t matter if a woman has shoulder length hair while manning a radar station. Still, if I was a woman in the military, I’d get the G.I. Jane and would throw all the other female recruits around by the hair while sparring until they all went buzz cut, or more likely, they’d all pile on me and do that thing where they beat you up with bars of soap. Or whatever the modern equivalent is. Soaking tampons in pepper spray or something.
The loose bun, however – potentially very sexy. Also quite a bit harder to draw. There’s probably some correlation there.
What was I talking about? Oh, right, the comic. Anyway, Deus’s shopping trip might have seemed like an unnecessary ordeal in retrospect, but it’s not like he could have predicted that an advanced alien race would be in need of a parking spot when he set up his like not-a-stargate. Plus, it puts him in a better bargaining position with the Alari, because he’s not as thirsty for their tech.
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Restaurant lighting is typically soft, and Max has her back to the half-wall of their little nook, shadowing the document. She’s holding it close so that she can read it by the light reflecting off her face. :D
As noted above, she’s looking for the fine print. Of course! there is fine print.
Much to nobody’s surprise, Deus actually made that fine print in a 0.2 point font, but spaced the letters out so that they formed the words that everybody’s supposed to think are all there is of the document. Unfortunately for him, Max can actually *read* that without a magnifying glass. She just needs to look closely at it.
I have to say, I have been reading this for less than a week and a half and I am already finished. I LOVE this welcoming and would love to support in any way I can I don’t have much money, but I can give suggestions.
Thank you very much for reading this, N
P.S. please respond if you can daveB
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Voting makes a difference. More eyes gets him more ad revenue and more patreon subscribers.
Yes, this is definitely my favorite webcomic, favorite webcomic author/artist, and also favorite webcomic forum :)
Aw shucks.
While wouldn’t go that far (follow far too many webics to narrow any down), this is the first opened every day
Oh I follow several too, and I even post sometimes on several of them. Usually nothing particularly useful because most comic forums devolve into just a bunch of flame wars or insult slinging while this one has a bunch of readers who for the most part are really good about not slinging ad hominems (the ad hominem insult slingers are definitely in the minority here, most commenters are great here, even in an argument) plus seriously – the artwork, the dialogue, the plotlines and the trope savvy-nature are all great. And it does not hurt that the artist is very engaged with his audience (shows the guy cares about the webcomic and his viewers) or that he updates consistently on his schedule and has done so as long as I’ve been reading it.
Plus of course there’s Deus, the manliest man who ever manned mankind, who is the pinnacle of characters/antagonists in fiction that I’ve ever seen since David Xanatos from Disney’s Gargoyles second season or Amanda Waller 4th season of JLU. Thought I’d mention that just to good naturedly egg you on a bit Guesticus :) All praise Deus, amen.
This is one of only 2 (out of dozens) of comics I follow where I bother reading (let alone getting involved with) the comments, because it does stay pretty civil and is often quite thought provoking. And after a little time you can even tell halfway through a paragraph when someone’s just trolling for fun. :D
Xanatos (and Gargoyles as a whole) happens to be a favorite of mine as well.
That’s why usually don’t bite :P
Plenty who would get very belligerent and toxic, not me though, he’s not worth it :P
Waller is a good villain (anti-villain?), shame they haven’t found a good live-action actress to play her (still feel CCH Pounder would be good, while she may not have the same physical girth as the cartoon, personally feel she has the physical presence to make up for it, she is currently playing the ME on NCIS: New Orleans)
Omg thank you so much for responding
Hola! Welcome!
Good on you, Dave. I’ve always felt like you’re good people, just from reading your commentary. Totally confirmed.
Short hair in the military also makes the fit of your protective mask better and more reliable in an emergency situation. Plus it is easier to decontaminate afterwards.
Women do sometimes see combat duty in the US military these days, I can’t swear to it, but I doubt many of them keep long hair when they start wearing a helmet. Even in a bob a regulation helmet is going to not sit right, and I very much doubt the military is going to design a helmet to accommodate it.
Not to mention that a woman in a combat unit likely has to be butcher and more intense than any of the guys in the squad to get even a small degree of respect from them. “Okay, so you kicked all our asses, I guess you’re pretty tough, for a girl.”
So many guys think that just because they have a dick, that means they have to be a dick too.
When I was in, we had a few women in my unit, they weren’t butch, just held their own. I was a field/combat engineer. The only butch one was a Medic attached to my unit.. her arms were massive.
It’s usually when not in combat they have to have their hair bunned-up
Ever watched “The Rookie”? Has a female character who looks like she has short hair, until she is shown off-duty and she has a two-foot afro
Maxima has the worst poker face.
It’s not that she’s easy to read, it’s just that you can literally see her cards’ reflection on her face.
Strangely, the reflection on her face made me think it was the pages, and of course the pages are at a 90° angle from her face. It took me a while before I figured out that it was supposed to be lines of text, because the pages are so prominently featured in the panel.
She can keep her cards close to the vest.
I think Deus may be underestimating squidkiller Sydney with his little marketing pitch there.
Well, I doubt he knows about Sydney’s off-world shenanigans yet.
There’s a universal bargaining chip. Food and entertainment. If your post FTL civ is absolutely inundated with consumerism to the point where your people start to lose their creative spark, you’ll need to get delicious food and exciting entertainment from other sources. A pre-FTL civ is likely to have much more unique sources of both.
I thought Maxima got the haircut exemption because her hair is really really hard to cut, and she can starilize herself easily?
Well, Archon obviously isn’t the typical military branch. Anvil has waist length hair. (when I remember to draw it that long) But I draw them off duty a lot, and they usually only wear their hair up when they’re in some sort of uniform. Well, dress uniform. When they’re in their usual duty uniforms and on the street, the women usually will pull their hair back into pony tails. (when I remember) They also don’t wear a lot of helmets.
If you haven’t, watch “The Rookie” with Nathan Fillion, his new TO usually has really short hair while in uniform, but when she is off duty, the afro is at least a foot in (almost) all directions
So is it like ‘Okay, I’m off duty’ then *FLOOF* The afro suddenly springs into being?:)
Sorry never watched it
You should, Fillion is great (as always), and the so is the show
I was amazed at the difference in volume between her on duty slicked down, and off duty poof.
Could work with Anvil’s hair, not with Maxi’s (can remember how she needed to use a piece of rebar to hold it in place after the Restaurant Rumble :) )
The Alari like bacon? Well, that might be okay after all. :-D
Everyone likes bacon! Jews and adherents of Islam like bacon, they just night not know it.
Obviously they know it.
If they didn’t know they liked it, they wouldn’t have to forbid themselves from eating it.
lol
This is why no religion ever has had to forbid liver or kidneys.
Technically Jews are prohibited from organ meats.
“…I wanted it to be obvious she was reading Deus’s list of goodies, and now it kind of looks like she’s nearsighted. She’s not. I guess she’s… looking at the fine print?”
You’re overlooking the easy excuse that this closeup was shot from a low angle with a very long lens, so it causes the book to look closer to her face than it is.
(An excuse that is shot down by her eyes clearly focused on something close to her face, of course.)
“I predict they would deny that.”
Might as well say “Yes, but don’t ask them” there, Sir. Makes it sound like you STOLE it- you’re about to have a lot to explain to the deadliest woman alive.
There’s also the possibility that they did give/trade some tech to him, and would then voraciously deny it because that’s a big galactic no-no and they’re not in a position to contest/ignore that rule.
Which is exactly what happened. Just not with the Alari.
Except that we have Word of Author that they did not give/trade their tech to Deus. So, yeah, try to keep up.
The point is he’s been making interstellar purchases that the authorities will conclude HAD to be from technology sharing, and he’s (implicitly) blaming them for doing exactly that.
This results in “big galactic no-no” blame falling on the Alari for tech trading rather than Deus directly for making purchases on a station where they have no idea he could ever have been.
Basically he’s throwing the Alari under the bus here and they don’t even know yet that they’re being set up to take the fall.
How about you read the last sentence
Not really. DaveB said he didnt NEED their technology as much because of his shopping trip. He did not say they did not give him any Alari technology.
It does seem probable though that the alari have not given him most of the technology he has, if any, from his last sentence about how he felt they would deny any such allegation though. Either because it’s true that they did not give tech, or because of galactic trade embargos, or because the Alari do not want people thinking they give away their superior tech. In any case it all works out for Deus. :)
We need a bit of a think here. An Alari ship appears in (presumably) Low Earth Orbit, thick black smoke pouring out of the rocket nozzles, and Galytn authorities ask if it needs a landing pad…
Exactly what tech have the crew or passengers got that they can offer Machina Industries? Even assuming they can find their way without too much language (English is probably not the Galytn Official Tongue) hassle?
Maybe we’re looking at hull materials (sheet and fasteners), or perhaps navigation aids (current star charts and galactic spin data with dust forecasts), powerplant designs and fuel requrements? Planet-side things like autonomous vehicles? (Do you know how much infrastructure change those need? I do.)
The simple fact is that the Alari on that ship have nothing of tech to offer except their ship design and build. Which I don’t think the Triumvirate Committee is about to let go of.
Mayhaps not tech itself, but tech knowledge? That can be just as, if not more, valuable (give a fish, teach a fish, etc.)
very good point, even if the tech is above what they have they could be just that much closer to have a better idea how it all works and what different components are.
Like someone only familiar with an Atari 2600 might in time if they had been shown a PS4 figure out what some of the components are, but only guess at parts and functions for additional technology that didn’t even exist yet or was only in its infancy (hell the memory space alone would baffle them how it was possible in such a small space),
but someone familiar with a PS2 while still behind would have a closer working knowledge of what the specific are and the relationship with other tech available and applications; to act as a way to bridge that gap a little more.
The real point is not clear here. Most people do not understand the technology they use, even if they are experts in using it. And any knowledge they have is useless if the listeners lack basic scientific understanding.
Send a fighter pilot back to 1600, and watch him try to explain how the jet works and how to produce its fuel. Let alone how the face up display, radar, or communications work. No matter how expert, he is only a user, not a manufacturer.
Send you back to 1600, with your laptop or tablet. Now, how much do you know about its electronics? Chips? Screen technology? If you’re an American, you pay somone in China or Ireland to go to college for you and learn all this difficult stuff. You just swipe right on Tinder, or order pizza. Or comment on comics…
My point is that the Alari are highly unlikely to be designers or manufacturers of their technology. They probably can’t help much in deciphering how their stuff works.
to be fair it is a colony ship so they should have repair workers, engineers, and a manufacturing facility for materials on board.
But again, which I didn’t spell out in this conversation thread. Deus got from the fracture what the salesman called state of the art tech, which he felt Deus would have a hard time getting through customs because of the tech level difference. So it is reasonable he meant that by Fracture/Xevoarchy standards.
We know from Dabbler that the Alari are below the Xevoarchy, while they have an empire it is to the Xevoarchy like a third world dictatorship that has been invading stone age islands to gain territory. As she said the Xevoarchy were getting sick of them invading less developed worlds and could at anytime (and have done so to other species like the Alari who try to be expansionist empires once they get into FTL levels) bomb them back to the industrial age or lower.
So operating under the assumption the Alari tech isn’t as advanced as what Deus brought back, which could harm his cover of implying he got any of it from them if not clever about it, but also means their help in utilizing and reproducing the tech would work both ways, they get access to tech more advanced than what they have (namely portal tech) and in return they act as a bridge between Earth science and the more advanced science as they’d likely have a closer understanding of the basics of how it works.
By the bye, How DOES Maxima control the length of her hair? is it slow-growing or does she pull a “Superman/Supergirl” and trim it with her own beams?
Kryptonite blade inserts in her scissors.
Yknow, that never quite sounded right to me. Why would you use something that kills you for hair grooming. It’s sort of like a human (without cancer) using chemotherapy instead of a razor.
I’d think Superman or Supergirl would use their heat vision (like Superman does in the JLU cartoon) or red solar radiation, which is NOT lethal to them, but instead just reduces their strength to that of roughly an in-shape human being (since Kryptonians are basically living solar batteries based on the wavelength of the solar radiation – blue and white are off the charts, yellow is current superman levels, orange is about half-power, red is human-level and brown dwarf is weak).
So… just have a red solar radiation light in the bathroom and shave under that. It’s canon – Lex Luthor designed an entire prison room for his Superman clone so that he could beat the crap out of the clone, and Project Cadmus had a special prison cell for Kryptonians as well. Also the Preserver had a containment area that used red solar radiation, and the bottled city of Kandor has red solar radiation being used on it 24/7.
Didn’t blue Kryptonite reduce them to earthican levels?
Pink was for ‘special’ occasions ;)
There are about 2 dozen shades f kryptonite, each of which has distinct powers. Although practically all of them have the astonishing power to grant Superman’s writers powers as well – laziness and disregard for established canon.
The same reason some humans use a carcinogenic smoke for relaxation purposes :(
You seem to be confusing Maxi with Les
If it can bleed, it can be cut
How Maxima cuts her hair: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-372-conquest-rodeo
No, that was an offer., from the Hair Stylist, tho she may get it cut that way.
The Barberian
I love that name. I can only hope he’s also has a first or last name that compliments that fan-given nickname
Then he could be something like Cohen the Barberian or Kevin the Barberian :)
I thought he did have a name, but can’t find it looking back through the relevant arcs. ‘Kevin’ is taken by a major character already, but Cohen is a great candidate.
it is also a real name and real people can share the same name, so it is very odd so many fictional series are held to some odd rule of (no two people can have the same name); its not like its some eldritch true name of power. If you have a comic world and imply only one Tom, Josh, Harry, Rick, Steve, exists in the entire universe it actually makes it less believable.
Either that, or Ian Barber. Sometimes, you just have to take the nominative determinism for a ride…
So, I have to say, Deus is most likely incorrect about his fighters. They are the third most powerful thing in the sky…
Is it just me, or is Lorlara incredibly attractive?
She makes me think of AD&D Drow.
Yes, she is quite attractive and spunky in a psychotic, sociopathic, willing to kill you for bacon kind of way.
Can you blame her?
It is bacon, after all!
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, may I present you each with your portion of Exhibit B, 12 Plates Piled With Bacon, for your consideration.
The defense rests.
I can say as an attorney that this is a foolproof legal argument to get your client out of any trouble whatsoever.
Murder, Burglary, Copyright Infringement, Class Action Lawsuits, Parking Tickets, you name it
Okay maybe not Class Action Lawsuits if the lawsuit was against a bacon company not giving enough bacon in their packages, and the reward for finding them guilty would be giving more bacon to all the class action plaintiffs. Then they would lose and the bacon defense would work against you.
But then the fall back is the Kevin Bacon defence. As everybody knows him, he will easily be able to ingratiate himself with the plaintiffs and get them to withdraw the action.
“Inverse bacon! Inverse bacon! The prosecutions requests a 3 day recess!”
“Motion den-”
“Also, the prosecution withdraws Exhibit B and remands it into your custody, Your Honor.”
“… motion granted.”
I love how you can see reflections of what Max is reading on her very shiny cheeks!
Can’t play poker.
Yea, Maxima can’t even sit on her cards.
Query: is my browser caching strangely or are we still working with December’s vote incentive?
It should be Anvil, and she’s not December’s invotive
It’s long in the tooth, admittedly. It’ll be updated with the next comic.
The unknown orb in a backpack modified to work like a jetpack. Controlled with her mind to move left right up down forward backward. Not sure how to turn.
She must have it in her hnd, she tried other ways, it didn’t work.
She must have one in her hand to control it’s function, she can, however control their motion without touching them. Remember the sparring session with karate perv?
It’s quite clever for Deus to take in Alari refuges and imply his tech comes from them, because it gives him the perfect cover for his actual source of advanced alien tech, access to a secret portal device.
*nods*
No implying. He is making a broad, wholly honest statement, whilst Maxima is jumping to her own conclusions about the details. And Deus is, very rightly and truthfully, telling her that the Alari would deny that assumption.
Nothing gets a squads point across to the fuck-up quite like a bar of Octagon brand soap in a military issue wool sock smack in the middle of his gut while sound asleep while four big guys hold him down by using his military issue wool blanket. Thus, the term “Blanket Party”, the one party at which you do not want to be the guest of honor.
“it’s not like he could have predicted that an advanced alien race would be in need of a parking spot when he set up his like not-a-stargate.” -844
“He just has an annoying knack of knowing things he shouldn’t” – 566
You are writing this of course, but are you really sure he didn’t know? No, don’t answer, not that you are likely to in an honest way.
I’m tellin ya, Deus had hints given to him from his time travelling future self or something along those lines! :)
Well I didn’t tell him.
*puts paw against side of nose*
Honest!
*wink*
*wink*
A visitor from another reality probably recapped The Archon Adventure Show for him. They’re two seasons ahead. The conversation probably started, “So are you and Maxima married yet, or is that still in the future?”
Might be a troll.
I assumed it was up that close to hide her trying not to laugh at how ridiculous his friend was being. She IS trying to be professional after all.
bacon and… snail?
White truffle gruyère bacon wrapped shrimp, on dagger.
White truffles are a mushroom that grows underground, at the base of certain trees. Gourmet flavor. Gruyère is a fancy Swiss cheese. Bacon is bacon. Shrimp is a crustacean normally used as bait to catch tasty, tasty fish, but can be eaten if you wrap enough bacon, cheese and mushrooms around it.
there are different kinds of bacon, including some rather fancy gourmet sweet and spicy decadent bacon that makes your tongue squirm involuntarily.
Deus replying that way is brilliant imo. The way he couches his response, “I predict they would deny that,” heavily implies that they did, despite what he says. Even if they didn’t give him the tech, which they certainly did not, any sudden advances in technology Galytn produces will have all the global eyes convinced that the Alari did at the very least give Deus and his science division a nudge in the right direction. Legally, there’s nothing anyone can do about it, and they’ll at the very least be convinced that anything Deus comes out with will have Alari fingerprints all over it.
Meanwhile, with all the attention focused on the alien refugees, Deus will quietly continue to use his warpgate to get all sorts of goodies, all the while ensuring plausible deniability
Until Sydney bumps into him on Fracture, spilling all the genitals out in public
By the way, bacon daggers should be part of table setting whenever you have a bacon-centric dish – you know, the way there are crackers for crab shells and special forks for lobster, etc.
And to fend of anyone trying to take your precious meaty treat
Or to castigate — without anaesthetic — any chef who fails to make enough for the party.
The short hair in the military is about maintenance, conformity of equipment, and hygiene. Its harder to pick up lice and such with short hair.
Bacon… Mmmmm… Be glad you’re not on salt restrictions.
I think supers should get the same exemption powerful demons and spell casters get when it comes to uniforms and hair styles.
After all going by hygiene what parasites are they going to encounter in the field that could even dream of sucking her blood and thus making a nest in her hair? Same on defense, some people mention things like hair pulling but…provided super strong thin strands don’t just slice up someone’s hand like silica blades just having the strength to pull her back by her hair is unlikely unless facing another high end super.
Depends very much on your Super, and what powers are specifically vested in their hair. Your comments would apply far more to Maxima than they would to Harem, to take two examples. While it may not be as technically necessary for some to follow the standard haircuts, it’s probably far less trouble if all are required to do so regardless. If only to avoid the various issues of establishing a scale of vulnerability, drawing a threshold of eligibility, evaluating who’s where on the scale and therefore who gets an exemption, managing any morale issues about the ‘different’ treatment, potentially flagging up to an enemy which Supers are tough and which are squishy…
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Just post the link clean
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Links are standard HTML ‘a’ tag, a few other tags like ‘spoiler’ are the square-bracket style you used
Love the pages reflecting off her face!
Is he implying his jet beats Halo?
i mean the united states aparently is just going to gain both an alien spacecraft of their own AND a working FTL engine so i would guess that would put a small damper on his plans
he probably doesnt know her full capabilities, no one actuaally knows that she fought against an entire alien super armada and defeated two alien super weapons in like an hour and that those orbs are probably the most advanced piece of technology in the universe
I’m just sitting here trying to figure out if the ASF-X.2a is just a generic fighter name or a reference to Ace Combat’s ASF-X Shinden II
“I do think it’s weird that women are allowed to wear their hair long though.”
I’m guessing that a military which requires a buzz cut for all recruits might have difficulty recruiting enough women to meet their recruiting goals. Particularly if they’re being leaned on to “match the percentage in the population”.
It’s not like they haven’t changed other standards depending on how close to their goals they are.