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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Can’t be sure, but it looks like Dabbler dance partner is one of the Earth mercs Supers, not one of the tour group mercs.
yeah, that is a human, and I am curious about that fight, as well as if someone is in pursuit of the flyer that took off with the stasis gun.
And I wonder if this is still a valid tactic in the middle of nowhere (although Max can still fly to the nearest clothing shop)…
Probably not. As much as she might hate it, I feel like Max has the resolve to fight fully nude without trying to hide herself if that is the only option. That would have to be one hell of an opponent though, someone going toe to toe or even surpassing her while she is going all out herself and each attack from them is enough to break her outer field and her clothes.
Speaking of, how powerful are those grenades to breach her outer field enough to ruin her clothes? Atomic Bombshells fully charged explodey bolo was only able to destroy the clothes immediately touching it and hurt a bit, while these grenades are enough to ruin her clothes immediately touching it (possibly stinging a little.) It didn’t seem like being in contact was enough to bypass the outer field to damage her clothes, but maybe so.
“Max can commandeer anything.”
“OBJECTION! Fourth Amendment! Fourth Amendment!”
Valid, but Max can claimTactical Necessity (the reason a cop under fire can hide behind your car,even if it gets your car shot up,without buying it from you), AND can easily go back and pay up.
For Furriners and Muricans who weren’t paying attention in high school Civics, the Fourth Amendment:
“”The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Note the word “unreasonable”. This amendment was added because British Colonial Customs officers had been given General Warrants, allowing them to search for contraband anywhere, anytime, for any reason (or none).
Maxi can commandeer anything, but she won’t, her personal morals won’t allow her
Most commisioned officers do indeed have some fort of personal assistant. Even if that said personal assistant is a noncommisioned individual they’ve just happened to decide is their assistant.
Not much a private or what have you can do when their lieutenant say, “you for go guard the gate. Terry’s going to go do errands.”
Often a formal position in the top echelons, though it’s declined, used to be normal enough even for frontline lower ranked commissioned officers to have a batman or an Aide-de-Camp as the term is for the general’s assistants. Bit of cinema history here strangely David Niven and Peter Ustinov both served in WW2 to get around issues due to their ranks (Niven was a Colonel and Ustinov was a private) Ustinov was made Niven’s batman so they could still work on The Way Ahead together (actor and writer respectively).
Actually, despite what you might see on cop shows, commandeering applies to the federal government forcing STATE GOVERNMENTS to take actions that they otherwise would not take, or to let the government take use of state property that they otherwise would not have access to. And in 1997 the Supreme Court said that comandeering violates ‘principles designed to prevent either the state or federal government from becoming too powerful.’ – Basically, like you said, the 4th amendment, but more importantly the 10th Amendment. Printz v United States (1997) – Antonin Scalia’s Opinion Ruling: “The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to addres particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.”
However, depending on the state you’re in, the POLICE can do this. It’s just thee federal government and their agents that cannot. And ARCHON is a federal agency sooooo technically Galactic is sort of correct.
More surprisingly, if a regular police officer is to commandeer your vehicle and it gets damaged (or even if you get hurt during it), they’re under no obligation to actually compensate you. Most police don’t realize that the individual does not have a legal right to compensation though, funny enough. There are some laws in certain cities and states that do allow compensation for liability, but the actual laws and case precedents on commandeering don’t actually require it.
One of the reasons Federal agents cannot do this? Something that DaveB has actually mentioned in the comic. The Posse Comitatus Act. It’s rather obscure that people tend to not know this though, since it’s so popular in hollywood depictions. :)
Sort of the same way that most people think Miranda Rights MUST be read or you can’t be convicted or arrested. That’s…. not true either :) It’s just generally done just to be safe, but if they don’t read it, most of the time it won’t help you have an out from the arrest. Miranda vs Arizona was a particular set of circumstances that necessitated it in order to protect the fruits of an interrogation by first reading those rights to the criminal suspect. :)
Setting aside the perfectly valid “Commandeering” arguments, let’s think how this plays out in the DA’s office:
“Boss, I have a case where America’s most popular superhero while fighting both aliens and a criminal gang arguably shoplifted a t-shirt and some Daisy Dukes. Shall we prosecute?”
“If we do that, not even my mother will vote for my re-election.”
“But we have the whole thing on video!!!”
“I’d like to review that evidence in private. Leave me now.”
That’s hilarious :)
Kinda funny but now that guy is suffering a problem instead of Max. XD
A few things:
1. The guys idea was pretty clever. And by his smirk, he doesn’t seem as concerned yet, so I think he’s tougher than we’ve even guessed from his ‘annoyed look’ at the punches a few pages back.
2. I doubt he’s going to be as concerned about being naked, though it does make grappling a bigger concern!
3. Thank you for mentioning Monica Bellucci. One of the most beautiful women in the world. She’s so beautiful and graceful and elegant, that I almost would rather put her on a pedestal for a statue commission than take her to bed. Almost.
Meh. Not everyone is so concerned about nudity that they will frantically cover their juicy bits while getting punched in the face. I’d lay long odds that Maxima is fully capable of dishing out the damage and ignoring her state of dress. Or undress, as the case may be.
Why? Because he is male? That’s a sexist and narrow minded position. I’ve known plenty of guys who were embarrassed by even such casual nudity as hopping in the showers after a team sports game.
She is gorgeous. I’m curious if she’s had ‘work done,’ because her chest size in earlier movies seems smaller than in later movies. Compare her look in My Cousin Vinny to her look in Matrix 2. Women are chameleons though, so it could just be done via clothing.
the reason that Monica Bellucci doesn’t look the same from those two movies is because that she didn’t even act in My Cousin Vinny… the actress that you are thinking about for that film is Marisa Tomei…
OMG… I know you’re right, but the two look so similar to me that I completely confused them…
on the first point he sounds like he was relying on a comedy trope from anime; and a pretty dumb one *especially when it gets played in otherwise serious scenes with serious toned characters*. The “dangerous/powerful woman gives up fighting or defending herself to cover up when disrobed*, the she falls to the ground in embarrassment because someone took her robe belt, sliced her already small top exposing her, ect… In a pure comedy anime it works with all the other insane tropes at play; but how often it comes up in more serious moments as comedy relief is an eyeroll.
The idea here is, it seems this guy got his battle tactics from anime and is trying to use it in a “real” fight. So conclusion his power and the world has made him delusional mixing fiction with reality; otherwise thinking he can rely on such an inane trope is simply idiotic. Maybe he thinks the heroes will let him go after the fight if he promises he won’t hurt anyone and/or will train to become stronger to give them a better fight next time; or if it looks like he’s losing his team can challenge their team to a baseball game.
weaponized pac-men…. sure why not. XD
So, with “the noise of a million microscopic pac-men”, technically the joke ended with a “wakka wakka”.
https://i.imgur.com/ehWPP1X.jpg
Kermit facepalms.
A LTC doesn’t get an aide. In the US military you pretty much do all your own paperwork, but a LTC would have an XO who would be the one doing quite a bit of that paperwork. Archon is wonky, so I guess Maxima might have an aide. But that aid would be military, probably a Lt or a Sgt. If Archon has some civilian administrative staff, which it seems they probably do since they have a dedicated PR and legal staff, then someone could just be sent around to pay the bill. But since Archon does have a PR staff, Maxima would probably go to pay her bill in person as part of a photo op, possibly wearing even more Gap clothing during the visit to give the shop she essentially robbed some publicity.
precognitive pornosense pinging….
Isnt he meant to have a hole in his shirt from max shooting him
He was shot in the knee, as a test of his durability
so wheres the hole?
You would have to ask the artist
both of the guys knees are below the frame. so we wouldn’t see it. though no fabric was shown. so like in a really unrealistic xcom 2 mod, we have people doing military things with shorts on. this… I am conflicted about. pot, kettle. kettle, pot.
Panel one, there is enough of the knees shown to show that DaveB forgot to show the damage
Pretty sure there was no damage because he’s a super – the round bounced off.
why didn’t it eat his boxers? local spell censor laws?
Rule of Funny
Believe someone mentioned it on a previous comment page (this is page three)
Why did the Gap have an “ARC – SWAT shirt? Have they already started doing outside branding?
I’m not a lawyer, but I’m not sure a clothing manufacturer needs any kind of licensing to place “ARMY” or “FBI” on a shirt or other piece of clothing. The same would apply to Archon or Arc-Swat.
Not even a closet full of moths could disrobe one’s wardrobe any faster…
Man the main cast seems to be either fighting Darkseid or going into curbstomp battles heavily in their favour.Kind of reduces the action some if im honest.
you have described every super hero/super powered/and even just action scenes ever created in all of history.
either the hero is waxing the floor with a goon; the goons; or they are fighting a lone opponent who is nearly, as strong, or stronger than them to drag the battle out.
to expect anything else *like what constant struggling in every battle….then you diminish your action star focus as pointless* is folly.
the focus here also is clearly on comedy; don’t expect constant *oh no one of the characters could die at any moment, struggling against all opponents*.
PS: these fights are spectacle, that is your primary focus in super hero battles.
“Conservation of ninjutsu” is the TV Trope.
In video games it’s “Mook Mobs vs. Boss.” You’re either facerolling 100 kobold or getting your ass handed to you by Tiamat.
– Marion G. Harmon, Recursion (Wearing the Cape Book 9 or so)
Not every battle in the WtC universe is a “Fair Fight”. In fact, very few were. Either the bad guys brought what they hoped was Overwhelming Force, or the Sentinels did. As MGH had Atlas point out, anything else is stupid.
exactly. Another reason I don’t get why some people think the heroes need to have a hard time in every fight.
although that may be why so many action anime have tournament arcs *aside from being an easy way to rapidly introduce and test new characters on the audience*.
Maxima won’t get into the slightest trouble with the emergency clothing comondering, Arianna will see to that.
Arianna’s job is PR and she loves getting the team exposure, but even she knows too much exposure is NOT good.
Heck, the store can use it as advertising;
when in a clothing emergency pinch, Archon chooses us.
that would be a short add for shorts…
Wait the Gap stocks Arc-Swat merch?
What? You thought she would have gone to Old Navy next door? NEVER!!
It took me far too long to realize that the butt window in Max’s underwear was from grenade damage and not a feature.
you know, it didn’t occur to me when i first read it, but later, i wondered if dabbler might not have also made to safety pins on the grenades he wear, disappear also, and they all gonna drop to his feet and go off under his family jewels.
might hurt worse than if max had just kicked him there, cuz he would be dealing with blast force, heat and shrapnel. (says with evil grin “Can we say eunuch city?”)
the best Dabbler face ever in the 2nd to the last frame
I believe Dabblers dance partner looks alot like Tifa Lockhart.
Cross between Tifa and the dead chick? Didn’t the dead one have that sort of skirt, with Tifa having that top?
Oh, it was a solid tactical idea. It was just a really bad location to pull it.
It hinges on the distance to the resupply points, wich unfortunately are just a small gap away…
Dabbler casting face is so silly/cute :D
Even if she wasn’t fast enough to dress herself in an instant, does he really think Max would prioritize covering herself over fighting if he was any genuine threat?
For a second there I thought he actually might have had her.
And then she super sped clothes and I was like, “Oh.”
But still, I applaud that idea, it was a pretty good one.