Grrl Power #889 – The denude bomb
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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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Boom goes the dynamite. That shot is outta sight.
What the hell kind of grenades were those that they made such a small compact explosion, and yet were powerful enough to eat through Maxima’s outer shield layer? O.o
depending on how the grenades got there they might be inside the outer shield layer
Being inside something doesn’t mean you can break it.
If I put you in a wall you still have to overcome it’s tensile strength to break it.
But it may be in the same layer as her clothes which is why it was able to damage them
That would suck. that means that the outer shield layer may end up shaping the blast more towards max. but that would also explain why she seems to be able to feel the explosions if her own shields are concentrating the blasts from the grenades.
Perhaps Knuckles’ power is the ability to get past shielding. He had no problem getting through Flamehead’s shielding after all. His power is letting him slip those grenades underneath at least part of Max’s shielding.
if you put a small bomb inside a safe it’s going to destroy everything in the safe. the fact that the grenade was touching Max’s skin inside the jacket means all the k’boom was firing outwards, which also explains why the bra survived because it was closer to max than the bomb. Tactical pants are usually a loose fit everywhere except the waist, which is why the grenade inside her belt shredded them, but not the undies. Also, y’know, pg-13
looks like max has got fire in her pants!
The surprise spankies face is priceless. Although you could also say she may have had the spicy burritos from Taco Bell. They have that “Boom” effect.
… that last frame could be used in a curry related farting gag later on. lol
I like thi’s guy he is my favorite type of fighter. The one whom are squirrely.
If he is teleporting the grenades into her clothes, the snaps on his bandoleer should still be together.
Good point, shame those who keep mentioning the damn teleporting don’t read the comments
“You may spank it.
Once.”
Still wondering if those knuckle-dusters don’t have something screwy going on with them.
….. we all know he isn’t going to survive this.
He definitely shouldn’t. He made it clear that he didn’t mind killing her for a bounty, and the level of force he is using is definitely far above “lethal”.
At this point, Max should either ash his arms or punch him so hard that he is either dead from the hit or dead from the lack of air at his new altitude.
It was probably not a smart move to waste the surprise factor of his other superpower on denuding Max. Now she knows she’s up against a speedster. If he just has speed and strength, he’s dead next round. And that’s assuming Halo and Dabbler continue to stay on the sidelines eating popcorn.
I doubt that was any super powered maneuver, purely because this can be achieved with simple slight of hand. If you could, idk teleport objects you touched or whatever teleporting grenades into clothes seems like a horrendous misuse. For one a grenade in the stomach seems far more useful. Or a piece of rebar into the thigh if we’re being nonlethal…
It’s unlikely to be teleportation, as per nibnob’s observation a few comments above.
Even then, that kind of power likely has a manton limit. And even if not, Maxima’s internal defenses might protect her.
There are two possibilities, and both involve a partner. Either the partner is s speedster at a higher level than Max, or the partner is a teleporter.
Either way, if Halo comes back, the other team is in deep doodoo. If she just globes Max and beefcake, Max wins.
If it’s a speedster, then Dabbler’s lube spell wins the day.
We need a full screen version of that last panel…. The look on Maxima’s face made my sides hurt.
The worst part is my brain immediately went to sydneys eating Grakzt and the “consequences” it had
The “denuding” reminds me a bit of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma when there are explosions of flavor ^_^
The Denuder sounds like a good name for the guy with the grenades.
….She’s still wearing those special undies isn’t she.
The ones Anvil and Dabbler picked out
Undies selected by Dabbler would be off before you know it. These ones apparently cannot be removed. Anti-Dabbler panties.
Those got selected for the not-a-date with Deus.
It is at least a full training camp later.
If you’re still wearing undies from before your last training camp you should probably overthink changing them.
Her retribution will be savage. He is doomed.
She wasn’t gentle already, that’s an over the shoulder throw and he broke the road surface.
No, she was definitely gentle so far. Breaking the road surface is far easier than taking a hit from her sidearm, for instance.
Her next hit should be “please look away now” level. At that point, if he survives the hit, he should die shortly from lack of air at his new altitude.
Of course, before she does that, she should max her speed and pull the pin on every one of his grenades. That would definitely solve the immediate problem, and problem the bigger problem with this guy, as well.
Yea, that’s gotta be short-ranged teleportation, no other way is he gonna get that grenade under that jacket that tight.
In other news, it was nice knowin’ ya, kid. I mean, ya got chops, don’t get me wrong. It’s not just anyone who can shrug off a round like that to the knee (insert Skyrim meme here) and a punch from Max, after all. But now ya done gone and ruined her leather jacket. All over a cheap prank that didn’t actually help you tactically.
Except…
He is now GUARANTEED to have her attention. Whether he survives said attention or not is up to question, but he now has her undivided attention. That may be the plan. Since she is 1) The most powerful of the team (Halo has more abilities, Max is WAY more powerful and precise) and 2) Military trained, she is the one you really do not want to give time to set herself. Keep her off balance until you finish your heist or whatever.
Laugh it up while you can, Mr Knuckles. This is gonna HURT.
Also potentially significant: the first grenade appears to have taken out her throat mic and available comms to the team at large.
NICE. So it’s tactical, not arbitrary.
Looks like Cosmo is going to end up actually saving the day.
You… do know that jacket has a zipper, right?
I love how the sound effect is just the name of the throw. I’ve done that throw, and been thrown by it. That’s a dope sound effect.
My condolences to the road crew on that one, it’s gonna leave a mark because she doesn’t seem to GAF if she damages the uke.
For Max’s sake I hope today wasn’t the day she decided to finally try that crotchless underwear Dabbler keeps suggesting to her.
Re: The selling of such pictures:
There is precisely 1 character who has actually been introduced in the series with the financial/connection means, and motive, to pay for such pictures.
In spite of the author introducing it as a possibility it’s not LIKELY. But still. If that’s WHAT it is, we all know WHO it is.
Is it too much to ask for a reverse shot of the last panel to be a vote incentive or patreon special? After the smoke clears, obviously. XD
Dang, did he just punch through the explosion he set off? Looks like speed brick vs speed brick.
Oh boy I think that guy is dead, maxima is getting pushed pretty hard and that means that she is going to break the guy’s entire body at some point cause if you do THAT to her expect to be facing a very VERY angry turbocharge super powered cyborg lion.
Don’t know if this has already been said, but “Denude” comes from the Latin “Denudare”, which means “to strip bare”.
Guys – ‘Denude Bomb’ is a play on words… ‘The Nude Bomb’ was a ‘Get Smart’ movie from the 80’s.
There’s something off about establishing that a character doesn’t enjoy being exposed or objectified or casually touched, and then putting said character through those things over and over and over again.
You mean like how Wolverine always ends up getting impaled, or Lucille Ball always ends up in embarrassing situations? Characters have individual challenges. If it didn’t bother her, a la Dabbler, then you wouldn’t even notice that it was happening.
It’s the job of a writer to give a character interesting problems, get them up a tree, throw rocks at them, surround the tree with alligators, knock them out of te tree onto the alligator, etc.
Sleight of Hand, guys, not teleportation. The grenades don’t have to be powerful to be capable of stunning, confusing or upsetting the equilibrium.
ESPECIALLY against a target with enhanced vision and hearing. Also, Maxima’s clothes are just clothes, if she’s concentrating ‘tough’ on herself against an unknown super, having ‘super clothing’ is maybe a lower priority than ‘super skin’.
I am thoroughly impressed he is managing to place those grenades while wielding those knuckles. That’s some finger-dexterity
What, not a single JoJoke? Okay, lemme try…
“Hah! I told you wouldn’t make it in the big city!”
“NANI?!”
Holy crap. is he teleporting the grenades into her clothes?!?!? that’s actually kind of cool. like that girl from a certain scientific railgun. I’ve been waiting for this ability to show up. so many possibilities. so many ways to write it. so many limitations and loopholes that such an ability could have. I’m fangirling a bit here. I’m so curious about if her outer shields would help to shape the blast in that situation or if they would instantly dissipate around that area to avoid such a thing from happening as it’s an organic shield rather than a machine generated one. how flexible are her shielding abilities? can she shift to put more strength to one part of her body and weaken the rest of her shield to strengthen the one part? What about flexing her shield around an object? if she practiced could she manage to bend her shielding to neutralize something like a grenade later on or is it only able to cover her body in one way?
Personally I’m not thinking teleportation or sleight-of-hand.
I’m thinking another cohort with some type of Power to be unnoticed.
Invisibility, intangibility, glamour, temporal phaseing, perception filter, psychic illusion,
Something that lets them pull and place the grenades without being seen.
On a note that has nothing to do with this specific page,
I’ve been thinking( a very dangerous thing) about the nature of the supers
They don’t seem to occur on any other planet, they’ve been around for a Long time
though the Vail apparently has been hiding them like the supernaturals.
We are assuming that halo’s Balls are Nth tech, also, Maxima’s abilities,
Given how she acquired them, may very well be Nth
But what I am proposing is the source of all supers is Nth.
My head Canon, barring ‘word of God’ is it some time in the past
one or more Nth visited Earth… maybe 65 million years ago
to watch a honking big rock splashdown in the Yucatán? and They Forgot
Some stuff when they left, maybe some ‘energy drink’ and the kid’s Videogame
Maybe something like a camping power unit buried in the lava but
still putting out little pulses of energy each one triggering a super.
And Deus has half the geode that gave Maxima her powers …
there might be enough residual to allow him to create the supers he claims to have.
Well, it’s just a thought..
Now I be waiting for her to send him way way way up where she can hit him somewhere that buildings won’t incinerate from the shockwaves. Or give him a crotch shot for going for her clothing. RIP big guy… or small big guy.
Knowing some of the fans of this comic, Max isn’t the ONLY thing that’s getting spanked at the moment.
:D
Maybe a localized time stop ability? Maybe even absorbed from the gun? Takes too much power to move something that’s not ‘his’ very much, but he can do it enough to nudge some clothes slightly to shove in a grenade. Just takes way to much power to overcome the inertia of full body Maxima so he can’t punch her to any great effect and such?
(BOOM) That’s what happens when Max eats Radishes.
I’ve read this ten times now and I have absolutely no idea what that onomatopoeia is supposed to say. Ipponseoinage?
I had to look that up as well, it’s a judo shoulder throw.
Ippon Seoi Nage
So it’s not an onomatopoeia.
https://youtu.be/SGHQrj09O-g
Wow!
He doesn’t realize it yet, but that was the dumbest thing he could have ever done!
That city is about to suffer some definite collateral damage from Maxima’s next attack!
Unless she drags his sorry excuse to high altitude before using him like a paddleball.
Even then, the sonic booms will break a LOT of windows.
.
Seriously, that is pushing all the wrong buttons!
Or all the right ones…
He has her attention and can clearly take serious hits. While he has said attention, what are the REST of his team doing?
This is going to wind up hurting Mr Knuckles, but he is clearly not a complete idiot. He has to have planned for that. He is showing a mean streak, sure, but he is ALSO taking the most powerful member of the team off the board for a few minutes.
What ELSE is going on while he is having fun? (And getting set up for a long period and painful period of physical therapy)
Is it me, or is her underwear proving to be grenade-proof?
…feels like that needs an explaination.
It’s very close to her skin, so is protected, by her armor!
Very astute. The grenade did not need to defeat the outer layer of Maxima’s defences, as it is underneath that force field. Hence why the clothing could be destroyed with even a small explosion.
I hope that he prepared his will long before meeting Maxima. He is better be, cause he is good as dead.