Grrl Power #890 – On brand
Maxima wearing “goldenrod” underwear is the same thing as a white woman wearing beige undies. It’s an attempt to make the underwear invisible if their shirt is too sheer. It’s certainly not to look good. A beige bra is the female equivalent of slightly off-white tighty whities with a saggy butt. Though I think the goldenrod actually looks okay on Max. Maybe it would look worse if it was more of a canary yellow. Of course, Maxima is supposed to be one of those women who is so crazy hot that she could cosplay as a potato sack and it’d still cause a bonerocalypse. Still, even in their primes it’s hard to imagine even Kate Beckinsale/Monica Bellucci/Megan Fox/Angelina Jolie/That tennis chick picking her wedgie/the hottest chick in the universe according to your preferences/etc. pulling off beige underwear. Honestly Jessica Biel in Blade 3 was pretty hot. She was in very good shape. Too bad that movie was ass – especially considering that Blade 2 is in my top 10 action movies of all time. Blade suplexes a footsoldier. One might be tempted to ask why the guy balanced himself on Blade’s shoulder perfectly upright without struggling, but that’s not the important part. What’s important is asking if you imagine Luke Skywalker suplexing a stormtrooper or James Bond piledriving a henchman? No, because they got no flourish.
What was I talking about? Oh, right, the comic.
I was going to put Maxima in an “ARMY” shirt, then I remembered “Oh, right, Arc-SWAT exists in this universe, duh.” While Max imposed a 6 month ban on personal endorsements for the team, Archon itself can sell merch.
And yes, Max can’t commandeer anything, but… if she can operationally justify it, she’s not going to get into trouble for it. She might not go back in that store to pay for the shirt and shorts (and probably some new drawers), but a Lt. Col probably has a personal assistant of some sort. And if not, she can just get Harem to pop in (literally) with her AmEx Black card.
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It’s not Shoplifting. I’m sure she took a millisecond to leave an IOU.
It’s not shoplifting, it’s advertising!
That “EEK!” was from the assistant who suddenly found an I.O.U. tucked down her blouse
At least the spells target isnt Maxima.
Dabbler is mischievous, not suicidal.
I mean, how do we know she didn’t just leave her black card doing a coin spin on top of a paper with the SKUs for the items she took. Also WHAT THE FUCK ARE HER UNDERGARMENTS MADE OF?!?!
Her personal “Force Field” is just loose enough that tight undergarments are “inside” of it. In theory if she made her outfit a skin tight spandex catsuit, it would be indestructible too, but at that point, why really bother?
Note the damage to her lacey’s? They weren’t quite tight enough ;)
Methinks she’d need a thong, but I imagine that’d be rather out of character for her to wear.
Max DID wear a G-string to the meeting with Deus due to Anvil’s persuasion, had to high-speed adjust them at least once. But this is an actual mission, even if it was intended to be a non-combat mission, so she would want to wear something practical and comfortable….
I would think that boxer briefs would be the best for actual utility, but the least fun to draw.
Dabbles has a very tight outfit made of unearthly materials that is extraordinarily form fitting that she could give to Max. Of course, would Max take up that offer and look like a space floozie?
The Space Floozies sounds like a band I’d pay to see.
They are made of pgratingum.
There’s special underwear for this type of threat:
https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081022
And this kids is why if you are going to be a proper criminal you need to have no nudity taboo. Same with being a hero at some point in your career you are going to end up fighting naked. So be ready for it also if the inverse armor rule applies the minute you are naked you are impossible to hit.
Especially of are a superhero or super villain. Clothing damage is a occupational hazard for them.
Agree, just ask poor Empowered about that.
See, my nudity taboo is more based around the fact that my nude form is so narsty that it could, in theory*, be weaponized, and not because I actually have an issue with being naked. As in, I don’t cover up due to my own hangups, I do it out of consideration for anyone and everyone with eyes other than myself. So, if I were to be put into a situation where I need to fight naked, it would actually be a bit of an advantage.
PS, I briefly considered providing a rudimentary description of just why it’s so grodie, but ultimately decided that that would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, and as far as I am concerned y’all haven’t done anything to warrant that.
*I promise, I have never tested this theory on anyone who didn’t literally ask me to prove my point, and it was always in very brief increments so as to minimize the fall out. I don’t think I have used my nude body to commit war crimes, or other crimes for that matter, but I probably could.
I love this comment. All of it.
You’re so beautiful that all undigest to say it with the alien in the “not-a-cap”
Having played alot of Horizon: Zero Dawn recently and i now understand that Aloy was just cosplaying as Jessica Biel. *the whole time*
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbR_-kVEYQ0
Yes, he’s an idiot. No, he’s not a proper anything.
Proper anythings do not use explosives to disrobe women they’ve just met.
I’m stuck on what is holding the hand cannon on her leg.
There’s a strap going up to her belt, but it’s on the far side of her hip.
Yeah, she managed to get a new belt too, as the ‘trunk grenade’ was tucked under the old gunbelt, and is obviously gone in the damage assessment shot. You can still see the thigh strap though.
Personal head canon: the holster is slightly magnetized and sticking directly to her thigh
She has a glassy surface right? Suction cups would work. Especially lots of small ones made by some super-tech person.
artificial gecko toe tech
Daniel here. There actually IS “Gecko Grip” technology, allowing much better grip than Humanly possible, maybe even eventually allowing things like robots to climb skyscrapers to clean the windows…
Wonder if there’s a Super in the Grrlverse whose power is having a grip like a gecko…
Gecko Girl, and she’s still trying to get that name changed (she is now in her
redacted, never ask a lady her age)Love.
Or possibly lust.
I mean, if *you* were that holster, wouldn’t *you* hold on to that leg?
Now we’ll see if he used censorite fibers for his underwear.
Assuming, of course, Dabbler’s spell doesn’t eat those as well.
This is Dabbler.
They’re going to eat through it as well. Probably in a way calculated to be amusing/arousing.
Well Dabbler has been fighting for a while, this is her wayof getting a light snack from the onlooking women.
i call bulls**t, it’s impossible dabbler could miss the chance to target maxima with this spell.
Do you remember the last time Dabbler harassed Maxima?
I’m sure she has before and there was a consequence she considered negative in return for it
Plus, she’d just need to re-dash into the store and change again. If it kept harassing her clothes, that would be an issue of know when to do that and it’s not during a fight with bounty hunters and supers.
Dogrobber for a Lt. Colonel would likely be an enlisted thing-if they kept some of the old traditions (which would make some sense given the extreme elite status if the ‘line troops’ in question).
The only dog’s body worthy of Max would be Sebas Tian from Overlord, and I am certain that Ainz-sama would object.
It would also likely make Tuare cry, which I think would result in Sebas getting very, very cross…
Nonono, this is a superhero comic. Maxima would have a Batman.
Okay, in my head canon, this guy is now *required* to be played by Dwayne Johnson in the movie version.
That last panel is all Dwayne.
Not as much Dwayne as it’ll be when the declothesifying spell finishes its job…
The turned have tabled.
So…if Max is moving at hypersonic speeds…that’s going to result is a lot of ruptured eardrums & broken glass, at that elevation.
Probably. But she’s had enough practice at this point that she should be aware of the exact setting for “just before glass blows” memorized. And setting up a ton of store fronts in the desert and running back and forth, slowly increasing speed until she got it just right is totally the kind of training she would do.
Maybe. There are some definitions of super-speed that wouldn’t result in sonic booms. Mostly those involve speeding up time.
Time manipulation is not within Maxima’s power set. Besides, if you want to appear to be going really fast, I think you’d need to slow down the passage of time. That way the trip to the store and the change of clothes that would normally have taken 20 minutes will only take 10 minutes if you’ve set time to half speed.
While we weren’t given Maxima’s trip time, it very much seemed to have happened “in the blink or an eye.” I’d be willing to bet that any scientific analysis of her speed would put it at well above the supersonic. You don’t get to compress a 20 minute shopping trip, which is a generously short amount of time for someone to run a block, find specific items in a store, change, and run another block back, down to ~5 seconds without an extremely fast rate of speed.
Dabbler’s being nice.
I would have used a spell to detonate the remaining grenades on his tactical braces.
Those grenades are going to be used as suppositories
Chock full of vitamin T(hermite)!
alright, as a guy who WORKS at Times Square, I am a little bit irritated that you had her fly into the Gap for new clothes when considering where they were fighting she would have been right in front of the Levi store…you denied me the vicarious thrill of seeing a Superhero enter my place of work!
oh wait, upon further inspection it seems she isn’t in my part of the square, given the arrangement of the stores they appear to be a block further down, close to where the ball drops on new years
I refuse to believe the Gap would ever sell any shirt that doesn’t “Gap” on it somewhere on the front
maybe Max stopped at reGeneration Gap, for clothes that can heal themselves
So this guy is delusional more so than we thought. He just tried to invoke an anime trope, the cut away the clothing of the strong female character so she suddenly turns all embarrassed and focuses on covering up rather than defending herself or giving chase. Personally find this trope (outside of a pure comedy, and sometimes within if it doesn’t match the character) as eyerollingly dumb as the old weakness of Wonder Woman’s where she worried about her vanity.
Well, he is a proper idiot…
I disagree. It seems clear to me that he is still just a half-wit. Give him five more years in Buffoonery and he may yet make a Complete Idiot.
I mean, yeah? But also, Maxima has been essentially advertised as “Invulnerable” and “Prudish” in equal measure- so “distract via nudity” is kinda clever in a way.
Prudish among comrades, this guy is not in that circle so his knowledge should only be the same as public knowledge and maybe some mercenary black market *our contact wants her for a secret mission she did where she murdered his father or destroyed their arms shipment*; but not anything to the degree that we the readers would know.
That said it is still a pretty bad trope. When I first saw it (Outlaw Star) I was dumbfounded, a powerful assassin suddenly stopping in her mission because she was disrobed? It was idiotic. I did see more of it and realized it was a comedy trope in anime; but its still a pretty bad one; and if we assume this is a world that doesn’t run on anime comedy logic like Fairy Tail. Well assume someone tried to blast off Captain Marvel, Valkyrie, Gamora, or modern day Wonder Woman’s clothes thinking they’d be too focused on covering up to defend themselves from assault.
Looks like Max is the proud recipient of two Golden Globe Awards
I’m just surprised they had something in her size.
Coming from another tall woman (I’m 6’0″) – that’s probably why she has shorts and a short-sleeved shirt – more likely to fit, because length is less of an issue. I can buy socks, shoes, and sometimes T-shirts, tank tops, and shorts in a regular store. Trousers or long-sleeved shirts… I can forget it.
Where did his brass knuckles go?
The same place they went when he caught the stasis gun (note how they are not there in panel one)
Maybe its a manifestation power like the weapons in S Cry Ed where they are projections his power creates to pack an extra punch.
I know it’s silly for a comic like this, but what door can survive being opened at max Maxima speeds? Unless she learns to pull a Flash and vibrate through the materials without shattering them.
When she lifted the ambulance Dave said she can extend her forcefield around objects she’s carrying so maybe that works for doors too?
Ah, I’d forgotten about that! Comic physics saved by logic. Thank you!
Im not sure i get the modesty thing here of why she would bother getting the new cloths at all for a few reasons.
1. it’s a battle situation with an dangerous opponent with unknown abilities and she is not all that much exposed with undergarments on.
2.She a large woman and i think would have had a really hard time even finding something that fit her off the rack at GAP.
3.honestly, even speaking to the guy is a complete waste of her time, this guy is obviously a danger to many people in the area and she could have hit him hard dozens of times or taken him to space with out any air ect, in the same time span as getting a new outfit.
Speedsters have that problem: in a rational combat environment, they’d just cuff or pummel their normalspeed targets.
Therefore, there must be some law of the universe that prevents it. Perhaps interacting with normies at superspeed creates lethal gamma radiation, casual loops, or acceleration of the normie to superspeed.
Ask Dabbler or Sydney.
It’s also been suggested on previous pages that this guy might be worth talking to because he’s clearly got skills that would be useful to Arc-Swat if he can be rehabilitated.
When a guy kicks a cop’s ass you generally don’t interview him for a position on the police force.
You certainly as Hael don’t give them advanced training so that next time (and there would be a next time) they can do a better job of the kick-ass’ing
Normal speed not super strong+super durable targets, but yeah.
Her law of the universe seems to be power moving: for super speed she needs to give up super durability against an unkown kind of super or her super strength against somebody who’s at least super strong.
Definitely agree about Jessica Biel in Blade 3, she was ridiculously hot in that movie.
Ryan Reynolds too for that matter. Woof.
Objectively, I know that movie is hot garbage but I kind of love it anyway. I just wish the ending didn’t make literally 0 sense.
Which ending? You mean when Dracula shape shifted into Blade to fool the mortals? And then the illusion expired he slab?
i can personally testify that hot garbage is not fun; i was once in a city dump in the middle of summer
Sadly, they had Posey as the villainess. She delivers her lines the same irregardless (now in the dictionary) of character played. Always comes across as a theatre geek, doesn’t project power, sexuality, presence or anything.
And with a dick bigger than Triple Aitch’s :P
Arc swat t shirts now that is something to buy…
re: appearing/disappearing brass knuckles
They only show up when he is punching, so my guess is that one of his powers is a MegaSuperPunch (SuperMegaPunch?), and the knuckles only manifest when he is using that power.
Ah yes, Blade 3.
Or the “how stupid can we make blades enemies and allies look, the Movie”.
Lazer Bows.
Vampires blowing up in fieryash if blade only gets close.
Dracula(ugh Drake) bein a turd.
Only good thing of the whole movie where Jessica Biel and the vampire actress when she wasnt being “I need to be sassy and dismissive, cause I`m a Woman in Pwoer” Mode….
Despite Dave’s comments in his blog above, I envisage Maxima having left a note on the sales counter, with enough cash to cover buying the T-shirt & shorts. Or, if she did not have the cash, she would clearly identify herself in the note and indicate that payment will be made imminently.
Mind you, the note would probably be worth more than the items!
Her wallet was in her back pocket, alas.
His actual evil plan was to destroy her Social Security card!
“The noise of a million microscopic Pac-Men!” Ha! It’s the little added extras I’ve loved about this comic over the years. I appreciate it man. Keep it rockin’.
she should really have a spell that can do that to all of his equipment. grenades included.
he is also extremely fast.
her running off to get dressed should buy him time to have done all kinds of things with his own superspeed.
bit irresponsible of her to just run off and get dressed. Bad maxima! just fight him! … yes…
“A beige bra is the female equivalent of slightly off-white tighty whities with a saggy butt. ”
You have been looking at the wrong beige bras. There are plenty of sexy beige colored bras out there that won’t stick out in a too see through shirt but are still sexy as hell.
Wish there was a “like” button, for this comment.
I’m thinking of Evangeline Lilly’s beach scene in the firt episode of LOST.
Panel 10 is amazing
Has “Dabbler, don’t you …” every worked?
Nope, she takes it as a dare.
Still a little worried that the actual game was to blow out her tac collar doodad – still missing. He doesn’t seem remotely worried enough by that failing. Him having six other plans to try out is the ideal here (because it’s possible a bunch of them just got wrecked by Dabbler’s, uh, interference), while the nastier option is that he’s lying and forcing her to fight with one hand tied up on modesty was never the point.
Hey Dave. I suggest a security cam footage capture of the inside of that clothing store for a future vote incentive.
Let’s see if he can take what he’s dishing out then.
DaveB, I wanted to thank you for having a different rendition of one of my favorite bad-a** moments in a manga I got to read while growing up. Similar situation. Female character fighting male that decided he wanted an edge and so trashed her clothing.
Her reaction was priceless (link in the website URL)
good on them, pulling a trope slayer on one of the dumbest tropes in manga/anime history.
drives me nuts every time I see it with some enemy removing the tough female characters clothing only for her to cover up in embarrassment, shriek, try to hide, refusing to even defend herself or give up the battle. The fact this trope pops as out of character moments and in serious fights is a massive eye roll when it happens.
So that was all just to gain a tactical advantage that could be easily nullified with his own speed powers, which he knows Max has? This isn’t ordinary stupid. This is…ADVANCED stupid.
This might have already been said, but I love this page. It inverts the trope. I expected Maxima to have to fight in the buff or near-buff for like 30 pages. Instead, she’s immediately dressed again! Yay! Dabbler’s spell on the dude is just icing on the cake.