Grrl Power #875 – Poetic pozzing
I know everyone was expecting a “Viscera Cleanup Detail” level event here, but as little patience as Max has for dudes like this, she’s not going to atomize a guy for a first offence. Granted, trying to tug open her jacket to get a look at the goods is pretty fucking forward, and given Dabbler and Cora’s opinion of the guy, there’s a chance he’s a slow learner, so it’s possible things might escalate.
That is, depending on what that BLURZLZLRL field is.
Dun dun DUNNNN!
Just thought I’d stik this here cause it’s cute and too small in the comic.
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Remember what happens if a terran holds some of Dabbler’s tech? It teleports to Dabbler’s lab. This could be a variation that freezes the suspect, and Maxima just “stole” a glove.
If that was the case (and it’s not automatic ‘porting of Dabbles’ tech), Raymos wouldn’t be surprised in the last panel (and Maxi didn’t ‘steal’ the glove, Raymos slipt out of it like a greased up eel in a sausage factory)
Those eels do some haunting things.
Hauntingly beautiful things.
Ho-o-o-ka-a-ayyy, Ray just used his right hand to unzip Maxi, so Maxi has his left arm/wrist in a throw with her right hand, then winds up with his right glove in her right hand… Damn she’s fast!
Please tell this sleaze didn’t use some form of a Roofie ray.
A “roofie ray” would almost certainly reflect off of Max’s golden skin.
Argh! Stupid field of indeterminate nature interrupting the glory of Maxima’s ire!
beautifully accurate description
Blurzlzlzl is never a good sign.
Isn’t that the sound Cora’s hard light generator makes when it changes her appearance?
Not quite, that is a “ZTLRZTLZ” (bit late now, maybe it should have been “CTRLXCTRLV” :P )
BOOOOOO!
Blame DaveB, it was his official word that gave me the idea
“BLURZLZLRL”
“ZTLRZTLZ”
“CTRLXCTRLV”
ARC Science Guy:- “Clearly these fields are created by a cat walking across a keyboard!”
Ray cosmos defenitely not a slow learner. He is no learner and you can re-call this by going five pages back. So he probably will try hit on Maxima again and again until she will burst out in rage or something like that.
like the old story of the ugly guy:
ugly guy: “i ask every woman i meet to have sex with me”
regular guy: “whow, you must get beaten up a lot”
ugly guy: “true, but i also get a lot of sex!”
morality: you won’t get anything if you don’t even try to get it, and you get it more often that you would think
I think the old saying was, “Ten slaps in the face is worth one roll in the hay.” But sexual harassment law changed that calculation.
“It took me 30 years and some time in the slammer, but hey I still got some!”
Never underestimate the lengths some people will go.
Oh, certainly some people will risk everything, but not most. When you raise the consequence of flirting with someone who isn’t into you from “A moment of embarrassment and potentially brief pain” to “Completely destroying your entire life” you’re going to see 95% of flirting in general suddenly stop.
Which really is an improvement.
No it’s not an improvement at all.
Humans are social creatures and flirting is a part of courtship.
/eyeroll
It’s only improvement if you want people to lead lonely lives, after which they die without leaving offspring. Which pretty much does describe modern Western civilization, come to think of it.
You can be social without flirting. If you think can’t be social without sexually harassing people, I seriously doubt that it’s modern western civilization that’s leading you to live a sad and lonely life. Harsh, I know. But you should really get to know the other person before you even consider flirting if you’re aiming for a lasting relationship. The kind of flirting Ray Cosmos does isn’t worth much to anyone, beyond possible trauma.
There is a huge difference between ‘flirting’ and ‘sexual harassment’
This entire #MeToo bullshit has made it that if a man simply looks at a woman (without her express writing and notarized consent) then it is sexual harassment
We’re blaming social media hashtags now?
Let me see. . .
(Aggressively stares at your butt)
(Aggressively stares at your butt)
(Aggressive butt staring intensifies)
Feeling uncomfortable yet?
I agree that there’s a difference between flirting and sexual harassment. The real problem is people who try to pass off the latter as the former.
Don’t worry he likes the pain
Someone who gives even less space-fucks than Ray Cosmos is opening a wormhole into the street?
Based on the statement from the first universal translator Sydney heard opening your own wormholes is very hard, so this theoretical person probably has reason for his lack of care.
Doubt it’s a wormhole/Spacebridge/Groundbridge, whatever’s going on is happening TO Max! Look at her lit up hair & face – whatever “blurzlzlzlzlz” is, Max is in the middle of it…
“Leave out Captain alone!” perhaps? The loyal crew have no problems with him flattering the ladies, but nobody touches their boss without getting Stasis-Gunned? All I know is I’m not allowed to take romance advice/lessons from this guy…
she is highly reflective, looks like a field is appearing behind her and she is reflecting the light from it all sparkly.
Although given her sudden stop in speech and the panel looks like she may have paused with her mouth open mid speech, *inanimate panels can be tricky sometimes for motion and stopping motion determination*, she may also be being hit with some stasis beam.
It may be panels 7 and 8 are occurring at the same moment.
HaHa!
Imagine Maxima’s Panel 7 dialog bubble mirror imaged in panel 8.
PLEASE let it be SmugD who mis-dialled his illegal gate, and Maxi can legally punch his face off
Well … that can’t be good.
Hmm, another thought… Ariana’s PR sense is tingling (OK, Leon showed her a live stream from an onlooker’s phone) and she has tapped ARC Light for an extraction or intervention…
Long time reader, first time commenter. Love this series. Quick note, it’s most likely due to his lips, but Ray’s pencil thin mustache seems to be missing on panel 3. Aside from that, love Dabbler’s face in this.
Not missing, just very thin (people seem to forget what ‘pencil thin’ means, and it ain’t panel one)
I did a double zoom in, and no, it really is missing, er… erased? But it’s back in P4.
No, it’s not missing, that line you see? That’s not his lip
We will agree to disagree. (But I’m right :P)
@gorblimey i’m with you, I said the same on the first page of comments. Theline on the lips is part of the original lip drawing. the moustache is missing
Ray Cosmos may be the best character ever, in any sort of fiction.
He’s quite fearless in his pursuit of romance, isn’t he? Even when Max puts him in a pain hold, he seems to regard it as a little necessary suffering in the name of getting it on. True, he is practically oblivious to the opinions of the woman herself, but at least he’s honest. This approach MUST work on at least SOME percentage of the women he encounters, he seems quite confident of his eventual success.
Well, he’s probably encountered at least one that’s in a coma… A particularly deep one…
Maybe that kind of courtship is normal in huis home culture/world..maybe even appreciated by the women of his home culture/world.
Looks like she’s losing her powers?
Before I read the rest of the comments, he’s unlocked a new Max Power, Anger Driven Disruption Field. Make Max angry enough and things stop working around her.
You should know better, shame on you :(
That face totally needs to be on the banner rotation for Dabbler.
Upvote this
Without looking, one punch, full strength, at the portal behind her. Destabilizing it.
Don’t think that’s a portal. Given how Maxima cut off mid-sentence, I’d wager some kind of stasis effect.
What ever it is, it has nothing to do with Raysmo
Where is her hand in panel #5?
On her hip
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Maybe we just discovered what the last orb is good for?
wait… He’s not wearing his glove in those last panels… What’s he done?
The glove came off when Max twisted his wrist, it’s in her hand in the last panel.
DaveB? There is something fucked up with our ads: they keep changing every 10 seconds! Which makes typing difficult as the page ‘freezes’ during the change over
Removing the ads (by way of the ‘x’ in the corner) doesn’t help, all that does is not show the ad, not stop the change
Yeah, it is a bit much. I’ll talk to the ad guys. Or, maybe just remove them from the page. I’m getting close to $4K on patreon. Hmm.
Xevoarchy taking control of the being who can one shot the Fel.
Wrong context, but I like this theory.
Thank you, to be honest, was wondering if the problem was just me (it usually is)
I was just thinking, ack; I know. I was wondering if the race that created the Orbs that Sydney has now that she has used the orbs to open a causeway, that use alerted them to come by and say to Sydney ” You must come and be trained in the way of the Mage and needs to leave NOW! ” Of course Maxima has something to say but they say ” She will not be gone long in your time but in her time it will be YEARS! We will bring her back once she is fully trained.”
Now I am sure that this will never happen in the format DaveB has.
The Escaronia got one too.
I am still hedging my bets the orbs are less *chosen one special item, we have to conscript you* like a Green Lantern Ring,
and more (oh my child’s toy fell from her pram as we were visiting the lower dimensions).
-or maybe a little above cosmic rattle and maybe cosmic Gameboy.
What scares me more is, he got his own character description in the side bar…that implies, he is going to be a recouring, possibly even important, character. *shudder*
The Escaronia got one too.
*Maxima disappears in a puff of unexpected teleport energy*
*Ray stands there a second, nonplussed*
Why that little MINX! She made off with my glove! Probably as an excuse to track me down later… E-GAD, Cosmos, you are irresistible!
You know what’s terrifying here? If that *is* some kind of kidnapping beam that’s just enveloped Maxima, they aren’t accounting for the fact that she has a TEAMMATE who has SINGLE-HANDEDLY killed a titanic combat entity on an alien planet AND has the ability to use the most advanced method of space travel in the known universe *on command.*
They’re grabbing the thunder before they’ve caged the lightning is what I’m saying. Better start talking fast before her ADHD kicks in first and the PEW orb kicks in second. :)
Sydney does have access to a top-end travel method, but it is point-to-point. If she doesn’t know where the other end of the Causeway should come out, it’s not much use to her. I’m not even sure whether she’s even able to use it for arbitrary endpoints (yet), or whether she’s (still) limited to a library of ‘bookmarked’ places where she’s been before.
Ray Cosmos has clearly demonstrated a case of Kindunophilia (….love of dangerous things…). Surely there’s significant negative survival pressure on the trait, unless his race is nearly as tough as Achilles.
As for the field, perhaps an alien weapons researcher or xenobiologist is scanning her while she’s hopefully distracted, to see how she works?
(Is an alien biologist a xenobiologist by default? And is there a subfield for the study of exotic creatures capable of focusing several petajoules on one square meter half a kilometer away? High-energy plasma biologist? Nuclear biologist? Eschatobiologist? )
The way I interpreted it (before reading the comments) was that the last panel showed what Max looked like from Ray’s perspective. He is so enamored of her that he can’t even pay attention to what she is saying, and the “Uh…” was him being speechless in the face of her tirade.
After reading the comments, I can definitely see how Ray is saying “Uh…” in concern/warning for whatever is happening to Max.
When will we meet the other Harem? Didn’t she say that the reason she was so off balanced was because there were too many of her. I thought that meant that she had another clone now….
She was the other Harem. There were five of her already present at that point in time, and then another one popped out of a wormhole.
But she went in with them and came back with them. Hope could she be the new one if she existed before the portal?
This would be easier to explain with a diagram… One of Harem’s bodies (the blonde one) was sent forward in time through a wormhole on page #634, to a time where there was already 5 of Harem’s bodies. So at that point, there were 6 Harem bodies, two of which were the blonde one. When she went back through the wormhole on page #649, there were only 5 again at that point in time. The comic mostly follows Sydney from that point, skipping over most of the 53 days she missed, including seeing the 5 harems freaking out over there suddenly being a sixth.
And don’t forget, when past Harem went to the future and was connected to the 5 future Harems, she was still connected to the other 4 past Harems through the still open wormhole, so for about a minute, there were 10 of her.
Ahh webcomics.
The main medium in which characters can not just step over a line, but dance a merry jig on the other side, and not have massive consequences because of it.
Hell, I think it’s expected at this point.
UHHH…