Grrl Power #889 – The denude bomb
Fun fact: This page was fun to draw.
There are a number of reasons this guy might be trying to explosively de-dress Max. One hopes he’s not in league with paparazzi, though I’d wager a super slow-mo shot of that grenade going off in Max’s golden, invincible cleavage would garner heavy interest. If that’s the case though, I can’t imagine what that guy’s cut must be to trade punches with Maxima.
The word “denude” means to strip something. It seems to me that it should mean to dress something. That word and “inflammable” will cost us points when the aliens come to evaluate us for ascendency.
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Wow, he’s fast, too!
Roy will be enjoying this.
Or he could be annoyed.
“That is cheating. That is NOT how do you undress a woman.
Roy recognises him –
“I remember you. You’re Fanservice Man”
I can imagine that. Ray has already shown to have different, but existing principles and undressing a woman by blowing up her clothing could very well be outside of those principles(no finesse)
he is fast, or has a good sleight of hand or a fellow merc who is fast. But yes it happend basically in this page / the smacking of that guy
What surprises me is that Knuckles is FAST enough to shove a grenade down Max’s jacket, considering how fast she is normally.
Knuckles definitely has a high “Slight of Hand” skill.
Question ofcourse is.. How does he get his grenades in a suitable location?
Probably related to his superpower
My money’s on some form of teleportation. Maybe limited to objects below a certain size, so he’s focused on grenades.
Joke character, “Major Miner”: can teleport small explosives into or near crevices, cracks, cleavage, and other spathic terrain.
That’s right, he’s a strip miner.
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That is a pre-16bit style joke. How long you been savin’ that one up (brapp) bubba? Well done by the way.(rrrrripppsqueek) Not overly long either, much appreciated. (ssssssssssssssssssssssssssirp) Seriously, that was a good one. More beans? You can never have too many.
He probably doesn’t move his grenades, that’s probably the work of another super.
if you hadn’t noticed its not about speed he has a type of fazing power as demonstrated on firetop merks shield …. he might have some speed as well but its obfuscation and fazing and yes at this point sexual harassment …..
Wonder what the surviving garments are made of.
Unobtanium? Phlegbotinum? Handwavium?
Probably magic. Or…. Tactile kinesis? :P
She can layer her defense auras out over clothes. It came up during the parking lot brawl.
Max’ vulnerability-resistence field goes out a few inches from her body.
Exactly, her bra and panties, being the most skin tight, are obviously the most protected. Interestingly, when the Blood Golem power core went ZORCH, it DID burn off Max’s bra and comm-collar (and Hiro’s everything).
Here though, the collar was destroyed, but the bra wasn’t. Perhaps Max shops at Lydia’s boutique…
That’s easy, its called Censorinium. If this were posted on a different site, Max’s state of undress might be slightly different.
MMM, i call that a ‘Vote Incentive’!
Patreon incentive, actually
They are talking about the last panel, not the actual current invotive which has a Patreon version
Before anyone asks: no, Patreon does not have an alternative version
Outside of what we might find on DaveB’s Deviant Art account, Max’s undergarments might well be made of Unobtainium. But inside of Deviant Art, her skivvies might not be quite so…resilient. I wonder how much pleading & begging it would take for us to get DaveB to show us…
And the chances of this guy surviving this fight just went down. RIP Explosives Merc for sexual harassment by explosives.
His chance of surviving? No, after all she’s a professional, but it’s gonna hurt a whole lot more now.
Yeah but as he’s survived punches and a knee shot I think this might be the point where she amps up. I mean she’s been willing to delimb a guy before at about this level of resistance, the unveiling of her assets might just top that balance a bit more
Not to mention her less subtle options, like “Hurl him into orbit,” “Grab any two body parts and pull in opposite directions,” or “Make one of her melty balls of annihilation and speed-shove it down his throat.”
Hold on. Maxima can outrun a speeding bullet but can’t avoid a thrown grenade at less than one hundredth the speed? Even with her armor up that does not make sense.
It’s not thrown. The grenade just is there, under her shirt, suddenly.
that is one possible implication – that it was suddenly there – which is why some folks are thinking someone has some sort of harem-level mass teleportation that put them there.
HOWEVER, we don’t know for sure just yet that he didn’t have sufficient super speed or Mathias-level reactions to put them there while she was leaving that bruise on his face
I’m getting the feeling this guy is some sort of generalist like Maxima – no obvious use of flight or energy beams just yet, but a small amount of evidence that he may have super speed, durability and strength that at least holds up to Maxima’s baseline stats
It was not thrown, it was stuck within her clothing. First within her jacket and the second below her belt. She didn’t even know they were there until the moment they went off.
Not a thrown grenade. More like a grenade sneaked in. It is not about speed – it is about misdirection like a reverse pickpocketing. And real pickpocket artists can do crazy things – search on the internet, if you are curious.
And this magician seems to be backed up by basically magic.
Well at least he’s going to die as a legend and an absolute chad for this act.
Either this guy has speed/reflexes on a level that are even above Maxima (when she is not overcharging on her speed stat at least) or he might have some other ability that lets him do this (like short range teleportation). He actually seems to have some skill and ability to think he can go up against Maxima like that.
It seems to be a reaction – anytime he’s hit he can choose to have an explosive placed on the striking target – it means he’s willingly not targeting Cos if this is the case, though.
Ok… I dunno what this guy’s deal is but he’s not only tanking hits from Maxima but somehow slipping in grenades while she’s putting those hits in. Might be he’s also exceptionally fast but maybe there’s some nuance to his power/tanking which lets him transfer something from his body to theirs when they touch him or something, which might be why the bullet hurt but Max’s punches aren’t scratching…Might also be why he uses the knuckle dusters.
Whatever the case, I no longer think he’s a complete moron for taking a crack at Max. I’m sure she could probably nuke blast him as well, but there’s a lot of people around so that covers him from her pulling that.
Until she remembers she can fly: grapple the fucker and fly straight up
And get totallly blown naked by turbo explosives, punched in the face with nega nuckles and still needing to get trhough his defense.
If you can grapple your opponent you were already close to winning.
Let’s see how well his defences work after being dropped from the Mile High Club
Do you think he is a two-bounce kinda guy? or a no-bouncer?
And how well does his defences work against his own explosives?
No need to drop him. Just toss him out into space in a non-orbital trajectory, something 90 degrees to the planetary plane so there’s little no gravitational interference from other spheres.
Which brings up the comment about why, in every space movie or TV show that I can think of, do spacecraft seem to ALWAYS approach and leave a star system along the planetary alignment? You never see the Enterprise leave Earth heading out 90 degrees from the planetary plane. They always zoom past Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, etc. on their way to somewhere else. I guess it just makes for good visuals to do it that way?
Gravity Assists. When approaching a planet (even if you’re not planning to orbit or land), the gravity can pull you in, giving you acceleration for free. Do it the right way, and it’ll throw you out without any additional expenditure of fuel or momentum as well.
IIRC, that issue gets lampshaded twice: The finale of Next Generation where the Enterprise comes up from underneath with the phaser lance, and this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTUTNenvCY
Have often wondered about that as well, and then realised, depending on point of departure and destination, leaving via the ‘planetary plane’ is the quickest (shortest even) way to leave the system
Make a circle, put a line through it (to indicate the planetary plane), put a spot any where along that to indicate planetary departure point. Now, measure the distance it would take going at a 90 degree angle to reach the outer edge of the circle and measure the distance going along the planetary plane line. Tell me, which one is shortest?
Entering a system is another matter
What a complete and utter pillock!
He’s using super speed to prank Maxima?
Up until that moment there was no reason to believe he also had speed, but now…
That’s so up there on the ‘supervillains list of things not to do’, right under ‘monologuing’…
If you have a non-obvious power, keep it under wraps until you NEED it!
And when you need to use it, try to avoid using it in a showy way. Or at least downplay it as much as possible.
bl**dy amateurs!
My guess is that it’s not super speed, but something like a very limited timestop ability, or maybe some sort of short range teleport.
Not sure whats happening in the transition from panel 6 & 7?
Max uses “ippon seio nage,” a judo technique for throwing an opponent to the ground.
Demo clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKfUXAAdZ0
I’m impressed, but who taught her Judo? She’s so strong she doesn’t NEED any slick throws…
Because she’s not fucking Superman, who basically relies solely on his strength and speed, and who couldn’t punch his way out of a paper bag if he got depowered (which happens way too often to him)
Learning the moves shouldn’t be a problem, because that’s all you are doing: learning them in practice, not performing them in earnest
Actually I think Superman actually got boxing lessons at some point? Which goes to reinforce your point that even for someone superpowered aquiring skills is still extremely valuable.
Yups, from Mohammad Ali (and, if memory serves for once, Soupcan actually lost that fight)
1950s Superman studied martial arts intensely with Batman. At one point in the 1950s comics he was confronted by three surviving Kryptonian men — not the motion picture 3 — and stomped them into the ground in no time.
Actually Superman and Supergirl know kryptonian martial arts.
Supergirl knows Klurkor – which is basically kryptonian karate.
Superman knows Torquasm Rao and Torquasm Vo. Whcih are basically a kryptonian version of Aikido and Tai Chi, respectively
She’s with the military. Of course she knows martial arts
Um, I was a US army serviceman, and the very little martial arts I know all came from other sources. You’re made and kept fit, you get weapons training, but martial arts? Nope. There are some exercises you go through that could be considered martial arts adjacent, I guess. Bayonet use, some “rough and tumble,” but these are not given any serious attention. Maybe in some special forces, although I’d assume that their time would be better spent learning to use things like night vision gear, a wider variety of firearms, etc. About the time you need to flip someone over your shoulder things have probably gone very, very wrong.
I blame Hollywood action films for this notion that military personnel all know martial arts.
If you’re on a modern battlefield and you’re trading kicks, punches and throws with the enemy, something has gone horrifically wrong. Even in the case where you’ve been disarmed, where the hell is the rest of your squad and why aren’t they dealing with your pugilistic opponent.
Based on what my father told me from his Marine days, it’s generally assumed that for self preservation alone, a soldier/warrior will learn all they can to keep themselves alive. He liked living so he himself and many others did practice various fighting techniques and martial arts, including such stupid things as knife catching (where a fellow marine throws a blade at your head and you catch it) which in all honesty is great for reflex and perception training, at least till a guy gets nailed in the eye and loses half of his perception I guess.
I don’t think she’s under the impression her powers alone will ALWAYS be sufficient – she has Dabbler, unknown super that also fought her to a standstill, and probably to an extent Sydney, and also pretty recently Kevin to give her pause before she ever decides to rest on her laurels…
Though she has a lot of power to draw from, there are always going to be counters that power set will take away the “punch” of one, two, maybe even three of her powers at once. She will need a skill set to draw on to back up any remaining powers she has. She ain’t stupid.
Beyond all of that, she’s in the military with some very capable strong folks and speedsters, and at least one Jill of all trades, so in order to make sure they are at their best, she needs to be able to train them and push them. Keeping Math from getting too bored will take some technique in addition to speed, for instance.
Wasn’t there also that Arabian dude from the splash screen introducing Kevin and Sciona? IIRC, Max had trouble with him in the Middle East and they currently think he’s dead.
I had thought he was doing some sort of tricky mingling of the words ‘impossible’ and ‘espionage’, but an obscure martial arts technique works, too.
(Irregardless, I have just added the portmanteau ‘impossionage’ to my vocabulary.)
There is only 1 s. Its a really basic over the shoulder throw, though Max seems to be turning the wrong way to perform it fully. She is using the ground and not a nearby building, so that is good.
I don’t think he’s manually deploying these grenades. Maxima would notice if someone fumbles around with her clothes like that, and him being fast enough to do that to Maxima is unlikely to begin with.
He probably using a power other than speed to do this, like for example teleporting small items.
Well, the “de” in “denude” is a different one to the “means the opposite” one, that means “completely”. Same with “deprive” (completely bereave) and “deprave” (completely crooked). For “inflammable”, it means something can be inflamed! “Inflame” doesn’t mean the opposite of “flame” :)
Exactly! Something that can be put *in flames* is inflammable.
“Flammable” is a completely uncromulent word.
Flammable, Inflammable and Non-Flammable.
Flammable materials can be set on fire through traditional methods, i.e. with a lit match, or added to a wood or coal fire.
Inflammable materials were thought to be impossible to burn, using traditional methods, but were later found to burn at the higher temperatures generated by oil fires, thanks to the widespread use of oil-based materials such as plastics.
Non-flammable materials don’t burn even at the higher temperatures generated by oil-based fires. Which is not to say they can’t burn, just not without a massively intesnse heat source, such as high explosives, etc.
When I took a Fire Safety course many years ago, the trainer went deep into the historical contexts.
Wish I could remember more of my chemistry classes (unfortunately they happened too many years ago), but I vaguely recall that our uses for the words flammable and inflammable were dependant on whether “it burns” or “it needs to be present for something to burn”. I’ll have to look through old papers and see if I can find it our exact usage.
I don’t think that’s the origin of inflammable – inflammable comes from a different latin root of ‘in’, that means ‘into’, and is the same group of words as ‘enflame’.
It’s possible I’m rmemebering it wrong, or that he was indulging himself (you’d imagine he’d know what he was talking about if he’s training people, although why we needed to know about how household furniture was labelled in the 1950s when we were going to be in a petrol station in 2001, I don’t know!). The main take aways were that some materials burn, some don’t, how not to combat certain fires, and which fire extinguisher to use when.
Maybe because, in 2001, there were still houses that hadn’t been updated since the 1950’s?
I’m wondering if it’s a reference to The Nude Bomb. It was a feature length movie of the tv series Get Smart. The main character in that was also named Max.
Exactly. The ‘in’ in ‘inflammable’ is of the type that means ‘into’ so the flame is being enabled rather than prevented.
Also, the fault lies with Latin rather than English. In both cases.
Disgruntled. Unscathed. There are so very many words like these. I have never once heard of someone being injured described as “she was scathed in the accident.” Nor have I ever heard of someone with an even temperament, or who is difficult to get angry, being described as “he is almost always quite gruntled.”
Possibly due to their root word having gone out of style. Possibly because the etymology just happens to use what looks like a form of negation but which doesn’t mean what we take it to mean. Inflammable is one of these, with the ‘in’ portion not meaning at all the same thing that it means in a word such as ‘inappropriate,’ due to (to the best of my knowledge) being derived from different etymological sources.
And some words were designed as a singular word with a specific meaning, not a combination of two root words (specially if the rooted words are from two different languages)
Scathe does see modern use in a figurative sense, as in “scathing criticism,” and it does mean what you would think assuming unscathed is a negation.
The prefixes de- and dis- do have the annoying trait of having a root that can mean “apart/away,”¹ “lack of,” or “totally,” (the conflict comes from the pre-Latin root having “down” as one of its core meanings which was adopted both for use to say “the opposite of the assumed normal of up,” and “down to the bottom”), with “disgruntled” meaning “grumbling in totality.” Like with the in- prefix this isn’t English’s fault, the multiple uses go all the way back to Latin.
1: This is the version used in denude, combining with nudare, meaning “to strip,” to get the meaning “to strip away.”
Okay, now Maxi is gonna be pissed
As the saying goes “This just got personal!”
He better have some kind of conditional invincibility power, cuz otherwise, this lad is ‘le ded’. Max is gonna be absolutely livid.
On another note, does Maxima have a power pool limit/cooldown overheat? If she constantly shifts from max Strength/Speed/Toughness will she get exhausted?
Actually, when you think about it, it’s a cheap way to make (mostly) un-traceable money. The papparazi hand over the cash for (mostly) de-clothed pics of our Lady of the Golden Skin, and win or lose the fight, that money is going into El Thuggo’s pocket despite the best efforts of the law.
hmm, makes you wonder what other bounties were put out there. He did start to mention there were some more lucrative ones that didn’t include death….. wonder where the other hidden cameras are? Is this being live streamed? $$$$$
Hidden?
They’re surrounded by an army of tourists. You don’t have to hide your camera there.
I can’t believe I didn’t think about the soft-core pr0n industry when he mentioned the bounty.
I mean there is nothing to say that someone else off-screen is doing the grenade shenanigans. it could be clever misdirection.
You mean, someone off screen who are using the grenades that are strapped to his chest?
yes, if they’re fast enough or can pull/displace her clothing with some sort of teleportation to fit in the grenade
I’m not sure I think it’s the best writing on DaveB’s part if this is the case, but I’m still coming back twice a week, so I’m not disappointed in his product overall, so… I am guessing it’s something else
but it’s not impossible
If it is someone off-screen with those abilities, why not just use their own weapons? Why rely on what he is carrying?
Misdirection: If the grenades are being teleported from the obvious target’s inventory, it would generally be assumed that he is the one doing the teleporting. If they were coming from apparently no where, you start looking for that source.
Of course! That explains why they went to to all that trouble of also opening the clasps holding Juggernot’s grenade holders
If Juggernot believes those grenades are going to do anything to Maxi other than piss her off, his next trick should be to shove one up his own nose, it would be less messy (and less painful)
Meh, probably the page I liked the least of the whole story. This is just WAY too obvious male wish-fulfillment for me. It doesn’t feel consistent at all with everything else we learned about Maxima. She stood in her own fall-out without her clothes getting damaged, it took Atomic Bombshell’s best shot to get through her outer field, and some measly hand grenade is supposed to do it now? Yeah, right.
Whatever this guy is using, I guarantee you that they are not standard issue hand grenades. There’s no way someone who punches hard enough to hurt Maxima, and can tank her punches in return, would carry those, since his punches do more damage.
This is probably not even the first time they raid alien tech (remember they stole the stasis beam), so there could be all sorts of advanced tech in those grenades.
There is a hella difference between standing in the fall out of an explosion some distance away, and one that is literally within her clothing (and the Atomic Bolo was not her ‘best shot’, but it was, again, inside Maxi’s ‘shield’ when it went off)
You do know that the author of this webic is a male, right?
The explosion would be tamped by the field, and if in contact with the clothing it would absorb the entire blast.
The only thing limiting the damage is that its funnier and doesn’t go too far.
I still think this is a distraction while others steal the spaceship.
Regarding your last line: so? look at Gisele Lagace her webcomics and then tell me doing these kinda things is male only…
Yes, have been reading her comics (and funding her Kickstarters) for years now, the point was simply, that the author is a male, so he could have her undress at any time, it didn’t have to be a ‘male wish-fulfilment’ to do it here and now
Without reviewing to be certain, I still think you’re wrong on both counts. The ‘explody bolo’ shot was indeed Atomic Bombshell’s best shot, and nothing is ever ‘inside’ Maxima’s force field because it is skin tight, and extends just a few mm from her skin. It’s just that close and violent effects can harm her clothing despite the force field. Maxima has her armored skin to fall back on, which does not protect her clothing.
Fairly sure Atomo said (or thought in her head) that that wasn’t her strongest, and the reason she didn’t throw another more powerful was because Maxi appeared unharmed, could be wrong though
Vekter: “Hit her with the biggest thing you’ve got.”
Atomic Bombshell: “[…] I can’t hit her.”
Vekter: “Let me worry about that, just use your overnuke.”
AB: “Yeah, not unless you want to die too. I think a shaped charge is in order.”
This doesn’t imply the shaped charge is weaker. AB having several equally powerful options and rejecting Vekter’s first suggestion for the collateral damage is a perfectly valid reading of that scene.
I think the idea comes from assuming AB’s last response it’s directed to the “hit her with the biggest thing you’ve got” but she isn’t objecting to that, it’s a response to the overnuke suggestion specifically.
Her reaction also doesn’t mesh well with her having something bigger up her sleeve.
This could be setting Ray Cosmos up to do something unexpectedly chivalrous. Max gets stripped down to her undies and Ray offers her his cape to cover up. It wouldn’t be the first time that a lothario behaved properly in the hopes of future reward.
Or jealousy combined with hypocrisy.
If you cover her up nobody else will see her in her undies.
It might not even be him teleporting, he had one person pick up loot, Might hav a friend that can teleport small objects. So while he’s tanking hits and dishing out dmg the surport is making it look like he has more then one power?
Right, so he’s shown her his, can he take it if she decides to pop a mini ‘big bang’ down the front of his pants?
Let’s find out, shall we ?
I think there are more to the mercs than just him and one of said cohorts has a teleportation ability.
More, of the scene, will be revealed when we check in on some of the others, once Dabbler gets back with her camera.
Ya know at this point I think Max would be better off making her “super hero outfit” just her undies or something skin tight if she keeps losing outfits like this. Know she wouldn’t go for it but just seems like the practical solution.
Or she should start wearing the same attire as the rest of the team on the field. Sure it adds a little, but it’s still super power enhanced armor she will also be able to enhance.
About the only thing she is wearing different than the rest of the team, is her leather jacket, or was wearing
Case in point…
Also her pants are also non-standard issue and don’t survive this encounter either.
While there are obviously other supers on team-bad, the tank is the one placing the grenades. If someone else was placing them, then it would make more sense that that person would be carrying them. The grenades appearing in Max’s clothing are coming from the tank’s carry-strap, so he must be the one placing them.
Sorry. This reply was supposed to be attached to a subthread where someone was speculating that the tank had a helper placing the grenades. I have no idea how it ended up here. I’d delete/replace it, but I don’t see any delete option…
I like this idea, because it would be such a good justification for the skintight lycra costume trope.
But yeah, she wouldn’t go for it.
I usually don’t comment on grammar errors, as I know I have made share of errors in the past but I must correct this one (because I am one): the correct term is Louisianan.
Thank you, Sario. It was bothering me too. For some reason, when it’s your own heritage you don’t want to let it slide. I think he must have written the note really late at night. Places ending with “-land” add “er” to id the people of that place, like Iceland, Portland, Greenland, and Newfoundlander… I don’t know of any that add “nder” to a place name ending with “a”.
Not all “-land” places use “-lander” for their associated people. There isn’t really any coherent pattern as far as I’m aware: you can have a Newfoundlander from Newfoundland, an Irish from Ireland, an Icelandic from Iceland, a Swazi from Swaziland (before it was renamed to Eswatini)…
Always figured Anvil was a darker chocolate colour
https://youtu.be/dxgMzJz8RRA
Is Max’s hair and eye color due to a gold nano-particle effect? (Wiki ‘colloidal gold’)
Apologies if this was commented on earlier, I just got through the initial reading frenzy last week.
Her skin and hair are both an effect of her alien(?) symbiote merging with her. Take another look at the pages where she and Deus are discussing the geode in his office, specifically page 415: “Are you there God? it’s me, Maxima”. whatever is happening to ickle!Maximillia isn’t simply skin deep. It’s changing the pigments in her ALREADY GROWN HAIR. Y’know, the portion of the hair that isn’t actually alive anymore.
I do not think it’s super-speed, because if it was, Max wouldn’t be possible to see his fist coming. Short-range teleportation seems to be the most plausible explanation.
Nope, something even simpler: Sleight of Hand
Slip the first grenade down her jacket while she is punching him, and clip the second while she is hip-tossing his salad
Yeah, so much for Roy being any use in this fight. At best he’ll be ogling catatonically. More likely, groping until he’s knocked into catatonia.
… Well, at least she’s in the right town to get new clothes.
As an aside, who wants to see something similar done to Halo, so that the sexist girl in the world can show off her abs and butt?
Unfortunately, I don’t think DaveB thinks there are enough folks interested in the less-well-endowed ladies and guys, perhaps leading him to write her character to be more reserved about voluntary exposure. I’m an exception to that! I would love to see Halo stripped down for a moment!
Also, she does not have armor skin, so if you’re talking about Sydney having a gaping, spurting, mortal wound because someone put a grenade down her shirt, I don’t think you’re going to find very many folks here that will agree. I certainly hope that’s not what you’re looking for (?)
Back to what I hope is reality – I am still holding out hope that her more “reserved” character may share a Valentine’s day sex drive photo with Frix, that – because we’re not part of the comic universe – we might be able to eavesdrop on (?), despite the no doubt high levels of encryption she would use to share it with him.
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Who wants to see a similar effect done to Halo, so that the sexiest girl in the world shows off her butt and abs?
Here here!! Though I would love to see it happen to Sydney and Krona
You… want to see both Sydney and Kronachrome have an explosive device go off against their skin?
You do know that neither of them have the durability to survive, right?
I’m sorry that it needs to be explained. I really am.
For the same reason why it has to be explained (over and over) that Juggernot is not doing this with the intent of blowing Maxi’s clothes off, he’s hoping for some of her body parts to be coming off as well
What has that to do with a request to have Sydney’s outfit destroyed so she can show off her (by now) toned and muscular appearance? (There, I explained it).
Because it sounded like you wanted someone to destroy Sydney’s clothes via a similar explosion, an explosion Sydney would not survive
And why would you want to put Sydney in a situation like that when we know she doesn’t like it?
Remember the last time something even jokingly suggested it? She had a brain haemorrhage just thinking about exposing herself like that
You think it’s funny to do that to her just so you can perv at her?
I can’t. I just can’t…
No one can. And yet Guesticus still persists in trying to make us.
That expression in the last panel as she realizes that she may have to fill an expense report where she admits that someone shoved a grenade down her pants.
she may forgo the report or find a suitably empty euphemism. Arianna will have picture of this dammit. Legal reasons- claim copyright on them to get them of the interwebs.
Sounds like a fun case.
Soo removing somebodies clothing without their consent by strapping high eplosives to them.
What will we call this: sexual assault with a deadly weapon?
I never thought r/shockwaveporn would be made literal.
This is a very clever use of tactics because it means Dabbler is much less likely to intervene
whyzzat?
Oh! Because she wants the titillation to increase… got it…
How did this one get handheld bombs that are powerfull enough to break Maxima’s first level of defense.
Nukes that size are still in development.
I think the explosion bypassed her first levels of defense, because that level covers herself and her clothes, and the grenade was put *under* her clothes.
If that is the case you would expect the clothing to remain intact and the blast to escape by the neck blowing her hair upwards.
This breaks her first level of defense, because it doesn’t do that, but destroys parts that are enforced by it.
It could be that the outer defense is passive until activated my a huge force. So the act of placing thr grenade was not enough, but the explosion between layers causes a compressed charge making it stronger. And that does the damage. The blast area is very small considering it’s a grenade. Those normally have a blast area in feet not six or eight inches on her chest.
Yeah, I’m betting he has an ally who’s doing the ‘grenade placement’.
What kind of underwear is she wearing?
Insert gingerbread man It’s a thong! GIF.
I bet a lot of readers will expect Max to be thinking about punishing this guy, for the way he has embarrassed her. I suspect though that she may be thinking about how to recruit him. He has shown versatility and talent, in addition to his raw power. And she has shown an ability to put up with a lot of s**t, in order to be able to retain the best talent.
Albeit that there is a conflict of interests between her dual roles. On the military side there is the Dirty Dozen option, where criminals can be utilised for military purposes. With dozens … ahem … of historical examples where people have been offered the choice between prison time or signing up, in the hope that the latter will break them out of their criminal behaviour.
Whilst on the police side there is the principle of zero tollerance. Would the public retain confidence in a police unit if they were known to include criminals in their ranks.
But Maxima does have Arianna on her side, ready to provide public relations spin (and backed up by a lot of potential political influence at Archon’s disposal).
There is also the aspect of: could she work with someone who has actively, and intently deliberately with own volition, tried to kill her?
Jabbers was under Kevin’s rage-influence, and she showed signs of remorse and wishing to atone for her actions
Max is so powerful that this guy may perfectly reasonably expect to do no more than inconvenience and embarrass her. His motivations and character would obviously need to be explored before she made a decision to hire him. Should your assessment be spot on, then, yes, I agree that would be a major bar.
Not necessarily an insurmountable one mind. Humanity is facing challenges up to and including extinction level ones (see the Alari as an example). Being aware of the options available, should her current team not have the capability to overcome a particular challenge, is wise.
For example:
“OK this guy did try to kill me, but it was not motivated out of malice. He had been hired to do a job, and I was just the battlefield opponent he had been pitted against.
Our psychologists and analysts have a high degree of confidence that he is principally motivated by money and peer approval. We have evaluated that he respects supers, but not aliens, so conclude that he would fight for Earth, rather than an off-world threat. Plus he already is a team player, as a professional mercenary.
Importantly he has the one combination of powers and skills necessary to save Earth from this latest threat. Increase our funding enough to hire him!”
Actually, he is motivated by malice, he wants to kill Maxi for her bounty (not that one, the monetary bounty)
He doesn’t know that Maxi is strong enough to survive the explosions, and he doesn’t care! Because he will be paid either way
He has expressed he prefers her alive for the bounty(monetary)
That was before she tried to shoot off his leg
good point
Speaking of ‘criminals in their ranks’: Morph, Les and Brooke were all vigilantes before joining Archon, and vigilantes are criminals
but vigilantes are criminals only because they fight crime instead of letting the police “handle” it – many would argue their hearts are in the right place, but their methods conflict with society’s general idea on how aberrant behavior should be handled.
kinda like how it’s much easier to convert an atheist to a theist or vice versa, than it is to convert an agnostic – atheists and theists may think they’re on the opposite side of the spectrum, but they both are in the situation of HAVING a belief the stronger the belief the better), so they’re pushing somewhat hard in a given direction, like a firehose. It’s much easier to redirect that firehose of belief than to hold your hand (or anything else) over the end to make it stop.
Getting a vigilante to fight what they see as crime for an official organization, by giving them some gadgets and a few extra rules to follow is much easier than putting your “hand” over that urge to “right wrongs” that got them vigilante-ing in the first place by locking them away with “other criminals”
Yes, because a thing, and it’s absence, are totally the same thing.
This is the most utterly nonsensical & irritating “argument.” In large part, because it has the burden of proof and false equivalence fallacies baked in.
Do you think the public really gives a shit about the details of their criminality?
That’s like hiring an ‘ex’-arsonist to be a firefighter because they know how fires work (considering the number of firefighters who were actively arsonists while on the job)
To the general public, a criminal is a criminal, even if the only thing they actually did was jay walk: if they have a record, then they can’t be trusted!
The general public cares about the details, but not necessarily in the ways you would expect or hope.
For example peeing in public. Due to it being a sexual crime the law keeps convicts from functioning in environments that are in danger of such crimes(schools, sport clubs, etc.). Yet the general public wouldn’t find it appropriate punishment to a tree with seemingly nobody close to it, but does consider it appropriate if you do it in the middle of a class room full of underage students. Some do consider it worse than others. Although even those people generally don’t tend to think people who do it in secrecy like with the tree should be unfit to teach
Why is it a sexual crime? Kids take a piss in the middle of a crowded room all the time
a. Depends on the prefered angle explanation:
– political: it recquires political showing private parts.
– juridical: because it goes on your criminal record comparable to public exposure, sexual harrasment, etc.
b. I had a hidden axiom(sorry). I assumed this was being done by an adult.
If all they are doing is taking a piss, why is it a sexual crime? Unless the person who made the law was into watersports
Taking it out and waving it at people, or masturbating, sure, then it’s a sexual crime
People can still see it even if they don’t want to and you can choose to avoid this exposure. It is also hard to differentiate between waving it at people and using it to pee without justifying waving it at people as long piss is coming out of it.