Grrl Power #91 – FireCat v. MultiCat
I know everyone was expecting wackiness up in the ballroom, and we’ll get back to that, but I thought it was time to check in with some of the other team members for a bit. I know this page isn’t rip-roaring hilarious and crammed full of jokes, but sometimes you got to do a little setup – besides those pages with 10+ panels are killing me. I like drawing a bit bigger than those tight pages allow for.
The crossed balloon tails is a cardinal no-no for cartooning, but I was sort of writing this page as I drew it. Oh well, no Eisner for me.
So anyone planning on playing any Diablo III this week? I was originally going to take the week off of work when it came out, but I’m not sure this version is going to push all the same buttons that D2 did, seeing as I’m an egregious min/maxer. Still should be awesome, hopefully next week’s comic won’t be all stick figures. Can’t decide what class to play first though. Barb or Wiz. Maybe Demon Hunter. Or Monk. Or Witchdoctor. :P
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I wonder if Harem will like having her panties turned to ice?
Brooke’s Fire, not Ice. Talk about hot pants though. :P
In Pickle’s defense, we’ve not yet learned the details of Heatwave’s power. Depending on the plotting-needs of the story you want to tell, pyrokinesis can be done in at least 2 different ways:
(1)= weaken/break the molecular bonds between atoms, so that chemical reactions occur at lower temperatures, & this can “strike the match” that starts the fire.
– [ref: “Slipt”, by Alan Dean Foster]
(2)= speed-up the molecular motion of a material until it bursts into flame – this is basically TELEKINESIS applied on a sub-atomic level.
– [ref: “Firestarter”, by Stephen King]
In the latter case, one can induce cold by REMOVING heat-energy (= molecular motion) from a material.
Whether-or-not she can do this is unclear to us so far. Until the Author chooses to tell us, we’ll have to wait-&-see.
A better term for the second example would be atomic psychokinesis.
there is a third form of Pyrokinesis (granted it is more condusive with controlling fire rather than starting it), that being that the “quality” or (Dimensional imprint resonance) of one’s Astral Body (or Dimensional Imprint) matches or is close to that of fire, thus allowing one to control flames, limited to range and intensity based on the relative expansive reach and strength of one’s “Astral body”.
A simular explination is given for control over very specific things, water, earth, air, fibers, plastic, metal *when not magnetic based*, crystals, paper, ect…
Basically this simularity in astral quality/dimensional imprint (if one wants to think of it in mystic terms or quantum mechanical ones) allows one to control these things as though they were an extension of one’s own body.
Personally I think she’s about to suffer Heatstroke, which come to think of it might not be a bad name for Brooke. She hasn’t been officially introduced as Heatwave yet.
CHICK FIGHT! CHICK FIGHT!
Room temp soda? Oh well, we can’t all be the brightest bulb in the room.
To be fair, against Maxima there’s not much else Brook could do. Now Harem, on the other hand is in for a much worse time.
She could get back at Maxima by only popping half the bag of popcorn. Leaving half in the shell and really crunchy but getting caught in your teeth. That is a real punishment right there.
It’s nice to see the “hothead-trope” that gets used with most pyrokinetics is NOT the Author’s first choice. Instead, she only wanted to respond with a (roughly) equal degree of trouble, rather than escalate into something far uglier.
It’s those kinds of responses that can lead to the worst kind of escilation.
It starts with pranks and ends with a building or car on fire.
Well in all honesty, with this group that kind of escalation would probably lead to the destruction of a signifigant portion of the surrounding city.
And then Halo saves the day…
Plus they are next to a military base. LOTS of things that can go boom there.
Its nice to see an artist that watches the same cartoons that I do.
DaveB are you going to put Achelies and Mr. Amorphous on the cast page?
Eventually yes, but I just finished this page at 11pm last night.
Take your time and get some rest, you need it.
Congradulations for finishing it up early.
Oh and yes on the diablo 3, imma go rock the male wizard, get my ray of frost on. That and I found arcane batrage has a rune called “Death Blossem”. The Last Starfighter FTW.
Barrage, Blossom, an can we get a edit button before we hit a hundred pages?
hmm, batrage sounded so much more fun
Bruce Wayne on steroids? Yeah if he thought it would give him an edge he might use them and HGH to beef up a bit but not enough to change his mental state.
How about a very desperate Bruce Wayne in some universes take Bane’s venom formula, tweaks it and uses it to take on even more massive and dangerous criminals? He becomes the “Mutant Masher.”
It’s already been done – long ago in the early days of the “Batman: Shadow of the Bat”-title, I believe.
Shortly after his spinal damage (Bane’s doing) was repaired.
He encountered the guy who invented Venom, who offered it to “help” (= “chemically enslave”) Batman.
He tried it.
Got addicted.
Started to lose restraint.
Suffered the “tortures of the damned” when he went “cold turkey”.
Turned his back on it.
Actually that story was years before the first appearance of Bane, and it is later stated that the version of the drug Venom that Bane uses is much, much worse than the one Bruce got hooked on. BTW I have the story in question so I am not just talking out my a$$
In the Batman Beyond (2045 AD) series we find out what happened to Bane. He is a husk that is kept alive by the venom serum. A junkie all but totally burned out. He didn’t say anything, just stertorous breathing.
Yup, and in the Justice League Unlimited episode “Epilogue” we found out that Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyond) is genetically the son of Bruce Wayne, through an injection of nanites into his father Warren McGinnis by Project: Cadmus, which caused his reproductive organs to produce Bruce Wayne’s DNA. This also means Terry’s kid brother Matt is genetically Bruce’s son as well. The episode inspired me to write this:
https://writeups.org/fiche.php?id=3759
Which is a version of Terry that exists within a universe I have crafted called Universe AZ for the DC Heroes game, which is how I ended up here in the first place. :)
By the way, if my initial comment about the Batman story titled “Venom” came off a bit smartassy I didn’t mean for it to.
Never got to see the Justice Unlimited series. Maybe one day, sigh. It’s okay, being on the internet you can develop thick skin. But sometimes ones thick skin gets too thick. Still no problem.
The fact that the author called the room that Sydney in ‘the ballroom’ makes me think we are about to see a superball effect.
I’m looking forward to seeing all the gals in fancy gowns dancing a minuet. That’s what ballrooms are for….
It’s! It’s! A Ballroom Blitz!
YEAAH!!!
is it just me or is anyone else seeing any gratuitous fans service in this strip
plus i’m thinking another chain heatwave hit / injure / cause pain to harem, another harem does X because of this causing X thus causing awsomeness
something like one harem hurt thus other harem facepalms thus one harem crashes crane wrecking ball through window into sydneys sheild
╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮
forgot to mention Achillies look like McGyver
Naa im going with she hot pokes the soda can, it asplode, they both get drenched and heatwave “i thought that would of gone diffrently”
¬.¬
I think supposition is fine and all that but i think it’s time to let the writer/artist/awesome do his thing and do the pages in his stories as he sees fit.
thanks for the “gratuitous fan service.”
(‘\(“;,,,,;”)/”)
what’s wrong with guessing? I used to with friends guess what the actuall problem was on the first season of eureka. Doing that now with warehouse 13. Or at least I willagain when the season starts back up.
Considering he’s actually taken some of our ideas and worked them into the comic. I think he actually enjoys our unofficial brainstorming here.
I definitely do. It’s just that Evil713’s post is really spot on.
Thought so.
sorry bout that.
do you mean the one about gratuitous fanservice or the one about exploding soda?
just realized that was someone else, sorry :(
Yes there is a lot of fan service in this strip. Thank you DaveB, we realy apreciate it.
it looks like harem might turn out to be the butmonkey in this comic
Well, she did start it.
I think anyone NOT seeing gratuitous fan service on this page needs their eyes checked, not to mention their reading comprehension, since it is just as gratuitously labeled! LOl
THANKS DAVE
I didn’t see it first time. Saw it the second though. Was too busy focusing on dialogue action to notice it the first time.
Praise indeed.
panel 3 is really terrible.
what kind of expression is that supposed to be?
A “I’m getting surprise glommed by my girlfriend” expression?
You can’t realy have much expression when your trying to kiss someone.
I actually meant the wide eyed empty stare on said girlfriend.
Ah yeah, that was definitely challenging. Most people aren’t wide eyes while kissing, but it didn’t look right with her leaping with her eyes closed. :P Probably should have made that panel half a second before or after where it is now.
Well doesn’t she have a wide-eyed empty look anyway? The stare is only because she isn’t blinking, and a comic can’t blink.
Maby she’s concentrating on getting it right. It can be tough to jump on your boyfriend and kissing him at the same time without hurting yourself. Nosebleeds!
Processing in a different order indeed. She mentioned earlier that she couldn’t have left the marks on the guys, and now she can?
Ah well, I still like Heatwave.
And why am I not surprised at Achilles’ mullet?
i was thinking the same thing,,, how come she knew she couldnt leave the kiss mark before,, but now she think its her anyway,,, weird,, but i can hardly wait to see what she does to daphne,,,,
She’s probably has a one track mind, where unless you are distracted by something else, the way Achelies did you stay on tanget.
In other words, she is the opposite of Sydney who thinks eighty things a min.
I thought is was Maxima who didn’t use lipstick, not Heatwave – i think it was Heatwave that pointed it out though.
Check panel 4 ;) Heatwave is making threats at Max for kissing Amorphous.
That’s what I was thinking.
^me
Yes but who else could it have been? Maybe she’s thinking that Maxima put on lipstick? To throw people off the scent, but Brook’s clearly too clever for that.
I think it’s highly amusing how we’re trying to psychoanalyse your characters, Dave.
Means they are very real and engaging, and your story really wants to be told.
That, or we’re all huge nerds with psychology complexes :P
You are batting 0.500 …… We are definitely Nerds with complexes but that could also be considered redundant. =P
I like that my characters are coming across deep enough to allow for analysis.
I meant amusing in a good way :D Psychoanalysis of fictional characters is so much fun though.
yep, and writers know it (these days), back in the day one rarely had to worry about fans analysing a character’s powers (how they work) or what they are thinking *thankfully this also opened the doors for comic writers to make their characters deeper and less 2 dimensional*
Hell, we are so into this there are specials like, “The Psychology of Bat-man”.
Another possibility is that Brooke is saying something she doesn’t really believe in order to see what her man says about it…
…I.E.: “fishing” for details.
In other words, being a typical woman.
No offence to women out there but that is how you operate.
No wonder you drive us nuts sometimes.
What do you mean “sometimes”? I think it is a
whole lotlittle more than that.Harem really didn’t think that one through, did she? Think she might find that getting her hair scorched puts a damper on things. Mind you Syd doesn’t know about the raid being a set up. I think Achilles & Amorphous might find there’s some backlash when she does.
Amorphous already did. Kicks to the shin and groin, eyes burned by chilli pepper bees, slammed by his tongue, atomic elbow to the back, bitten on the head and punched on the ear… Not to mention being at the receiving end of Sydney’s endless foul language (which still makes me laugh every time I read it).
Should be good to see the aftermath though. Unless the guys are smart enough not to reveal themselves to her.
Plus the Atomic Barf.
mustn’t forget the barf
NEVER forget the barf.
Random bystander:
“…Cannot forget the barf…”
[rocking back and forth in foetal position in padded cell]
ROFLMAO
I can just picture Amorph meeting Sydney and hurriedly finding an excuse to leave…the state.
Or perhaps leaving the States…
Well, Syd might get payback for the bullet shooting and Achilles is invincible enough to survive the PPO blast (or Max might ‘volunteer’ him). Its the only orb that she just described its use vs show (minus the 2 she doesn’t know what they do), so it needs to be demonstrated to the group. Right now I’m picturing him yelling “That didn’t hurt” as he gets blasted out of the ARC building from the 20th floor.
Even better, him standing in the trench/blast path after the PPO blast saying “That all you got?!” Just before he falls on his face. ;)
Same setup, just have him say “I didn’t feel a thing.” before keeling over. lol
would actually be possible if the PPO has a psionic or some other effect besides just purely physical force.
Maybe with spouting a small cloud of smoke…
If Heatwave has the level of control to do it without injuring Harem, burning Herem’s hair off would be awesome revenge… one of her clones would be bald for quite a while.
She dosn’t have to burn it off. Just heat it up enough that it causes cellular damage so it starts to fall out.
Much better revenge that way. Takes longer for her to notice.
she’s capable of popping microwave popcorn PERFECTLY! Of course she has that level of control!.
Or she could just make her hair really frizzy.
Nice pants there, Harem.
Well, at least she knows how to treat the 4th wall. :P
But then again, maybe it doesn’t break the 4th wall o.O? Their resident tech geek might be an assman and she wore those pants to tease the living heck out of him.That’s five sets of eyes and one mind, she most likely saw him checking her ass out at one time or another. Like the should boob bit, she’d probably set it up so she bent over infront of him just to show off those pants, lol. I’ve known women who’d do that just to be c*** teases. Like those pants that have the word “Juicy” written on the tush.
I hope you know that you come off as a dick who does not have a large vocabulary.
Why? Because he extrapolated motive based on previous observation? Sorry Pissed, but Harem IS a tease. Not sure it’s entirely aimed at blokes though, since she enjoyed Arianna’s reaction to the ‘shoulder boob’ incident as well.
Agreed. The pants don’t break the fourth wall, they rest comfortably upon it, providing humour/titillation to the audience and encouraging ‘male gaze’ in-universe.
I still cant decide either. I was originally going for the demon hunter, but after playing witch doctor in beta the Fiery Bats spell almost won me over. Sorry PETA.
I’m guessing the peal off tatoos where how they were deactivating the discuise spell.
I love the ‘One Explanation Later’ bit. XD
Saves space, we already knew what was going to be said, so why waste time and space drawing it?
It also indirectly tells us that these guys know not to fib, boy scout types and all that.
Achilles fits his supranym better with hair like that :)
Yeah, there could stand to be a bit more of teh Funnay in this one,
but I’ll look forward to the next one instead.
I didn’t really get the “Brook, you’re so pretty” – “Aww, thanks… HEY” dialogue. Is there a joke I’m missing?
If Achilles tried for a distraction, it’s funnier if it almost works (her starting talking about her clothes etc) – and clearer if she interrupts herself with something like “Not going to fall for the distraction THIS time.”
Otherwise, it feels like Achilles should’ve said something like “you’re so pretty when you’re oblivious” in order to get that reaction.
(Or maybe you could show some amusing panels afterwards, of previous encounters with him saying stuff like “…when you’re X”.)
Also, didn’t Heatwave have at least some suspicions about the lipstick incident before?
No punchline? How about stuff like “Your soda will WEEP”, “Hold still while I’m irradiating your can” or “Kiss your cold refreshing fizzy stuff goodbye – only without ,you know, actually drinking it because that would be cheating”.
Achilles was basically saying “Good thing you’re attractive, cause you sure ain’t smart.” That, she got.
Thank you for explaining that. I didn’t get it either until you said something.
Makes the expression on Achellies face understandable also.
I am glad you explained that. I didn’t quite understand her reaction from what to me sounded like a compliment.
I’m also guessing that Achilles invulnerability extends to his hair, thus the Jack Burton look.
I do that with my daughters when they’ve done something silly the deserves mild mocking: I pat her on the head and say “You’re so pretty”
Ah, so of course Brook’s gotten similar lines before. That explains how she got the implied subtext that I couldn’t figure.
At least knowing it is an injoke makes it hurt less that Brooke understood something that I had no clue about…
See, I think pretty gals are a good thing, so I just would never have thought to mock someone by saying she’s pretty.
“Good thing you’re pretty.” might be a way to put it that those of us with some social confusions might understand more easily.
Then again, no reason Achilles needs to speak the way I would. Better that he doesn’t, I suppose. I’ll just keep reading the comments to keep me in the loop…
Heatwave just has to be from a southern state. Would explain a lot.
Old Southern folks would say “She’s such a pretty thing. But god bless her, she’s not the brightest bulb in the box.”
If a old southern lady ever says to you” Bless your heart,” Do the smart thing and get out of town and never return. You might not live out the week otherwise.
ahhh another Southerner.
I personally like how there wasn’t a “punchline” at the end. The way it ends, it is left to the imagination and one ending possibly become 12 or however many you can think of. For example, you came up with a few on your own just in the time it took to write your comment.
On the ‘Pseudo-Cousteau voice’:
I read ALL pannels in that style in that voice
Pseudo-Cousteau? I’ve got enough voices in my head I don’t need any more
Then don’t ever watch “Sponge Bob Square Pants” for that will fill your head with a brand new chorus of *insert annoying Sponge Bob + Pewee laughter*
Allen Alda, from when he did that teck show on PBS.
For me it seems more a Maxwell Smart voice from the tv show “Missed me by that much”.
The voice for me was either my own or Rob Lee, the narrator for Mythbusters.
I tend to read narration like that in Mike Rowe’s voice these days…
He does narrate a lot of stuff doesn’t he?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/85
It is a lot easier standing in a studio reading a script than going out and doing all those Dirty Jobs.
I read it in Don Pardo voice
I hear David Attenborough.
You’re welcome.
I heard Tim Curry.
Ps, tnx for the gratuitous fan service
Trouble with having multiple copies (as Maxima proved previously): one gets turn into an iceblock, etc. they All feel it.
With a name like Heatwave, you would think she could only make things hotter, but maby she can cool things down as well. It’s just slowing the molecules down instead of speading them up. Be realy cool if she could do that and all you have to do is have Sydney start talking to Brooke about her powers and if she had tried this and that, and the next thing you know she’s turning the room into a icebox.
I suspect that, even if Brook could make things colder, it’d take someone else possessing her body to figure that out. She knows she has heat powers. I’m not sure she’d understand the phrase “molecular velocity control.” I suppose if someone convinced her that maybe she could run her powers “backwards,” she might try it. (And wind up convinced she can only use cold powers against things she sees in a mirror.)
Or an early example of Sydney’s rules-lawyering tendencies?
well it depend on her power mechanic,, but she doesnt need to alter it realy,, you see if you create high pressure vapor at not to high temperature,,, like lets say you take a completely full barel of water and turn all that water to steam while keeping it at 110 celscius without increasing volume,, that high opressure/low temp steam will in fact freeze anything it come in contact with as it will draw away the heat to itself
What if Brooke pulls heat from the atmosphere around her like Frozone pulls moisture from the air on the Incredibles? If she could control where she draws the heat from she could light 2 Harem’s on fire, freeze 2 more, and let the 5th deal with feeling it all. But I’m sure Dave won’t disappoint no matter what happens.
No pressure there Dave.
Aaaw, I wanted to see how Sydney’s forcefield held up against Maxima :(
You will.
Yeah, but this still means we’re waiting another week to see Max play frontó with Syd.
or two depends on whether we get to see Brooks revenge next week
anyone seen Familiar of Zero? that bit near the start of episode 2 1st season when Saito touches that bubble, just thinking Max punches the forcefield, which bends to adsorb the force of the punch, Max then discovers her fist is stuck to it. just hope she doesn’t touch the field with her other hand to get some leverage.
What are those anyway? Spandex sweatpants? Still gratuitous fan service ftw!
And much as I love me some Diablo I’m not sure I can afford full priced games right now. Money does not love me.
I have learned recently that women’s jeans tend to contain more elastic material than mens, which is how they can be so form fitting. Also in some cases, women’s pants come without pockets on the butt… purely to show off the butt better.
Did your wife tell you that?
You learn something new every day.
my wife tells me that stuff a lot and i get harangued because of men designed feminine fashion.
Women like to blame us for female fashion, but it’s bull. Women dress to impress other women, we’re collateral damage.
then she asks you if “my butt looks big in this”. if you say yes she accuses you of saying she’s fat, you say no she says your lying
https://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00211.htm
Also check the strip before it.
There’s another great marketing idea you’ve come up with.
The Gratuitous Fan Service pants.
I can just see some girl walking by wearing something like that.
Also makes for more awkward “Honey, does this make my butt look big?” moments
Just say Baby your ass looks PHAT!
Pretty Hot And Tasty
I thought the movie quote was “Pretty Hot And Tempting?”
kinda an either/or there
if this was a Japanese anime you could buy them online
There has been already tight fitting pants with legends like “delicious” across the butt. Quite fetching and they are definitely asking for male, and some female, eye contact and interest.
I’ll be disappointed now if that’s not clearly written on those pants for the rest of the day/scene :P
Isn’t Kwaj the name of one of the Troll Gods? Just curious.
According to David Eddings in the “Elenium” and “Tamuli” series’, yes. Kwaj is the Troll God of ‘Eat’.
Looks like things are starting to heat up. Shame Brook isn’t the brightest candle here.
hmm maby Hearwave will make it long lasting on Harems butt
Though we can be fairly certain she’s smarter than a certain sponge or starfish.
I’m totally gonna buy my collector edition of diablo III tomorrow and gonna spend the week on it. And i’ve played the beta test, trust me this Diablo III is gonna be even better than his ancestors ! And this is a fan since the first one who’s talking !
And for my first class, i’m gonna go for a monk to play with a friend who’s going for sorcerer, and i think i’m gonna go for Witch Doctor for when he can’t play and i’m going solo.
Gotta say I really do like this scene. Gives extra depth and personality to some of the secondary characters.
Thanks! I know this page is tonally a bit different than the others but I like having a little character depth now and then. Plus the next page should have plenty of funny on it. I just couldn’t fit it on this page without making it 18 panels. :P
I have the Collector’s Edition coming to me. Bought and paid for. Now all I gotta do it get my hands on it.
Unamused background guard is unamused.
Unamused Gaurd was amused before taking an arrow to the knee.
could of been worse, could of been at Helmsdeep and taken a Hobbit to the knee
DOH! that’s Helm’s Deep
-Nerd Mode Switch-> On- There were no hobbits at Helm’s Deep. Mary and Pippin were with the Ents, and Sam and Frodo were doing their thing.
Harem has +3 ST…only when someone is looking at her butt.
well unfortunately for me the only comp i have working is an older lappy so it won’t run DIII. the monk seams to be the paladin of this version and that was my fav in DII.
I always start with a Melee/Tank, so looks like I’ll be opening with the Barbarian, followed soon afterward with either the Monk or Demon Hunter
Poor Daphne – I hope you’ll give her a chance to show her abilities to their best advantage, rather than acting as everybody’s punching bag.
Panel 2 was fan service. Thank you very much.
I have some proper beefcake coming up soon as well.
I am so happy you draw girls with real muscles :D
It’s a delicate balance. I like fit ladies but it’s easy to draw them too fit. In my estimation that’s a hard line to cross in reality, but in drawings you can go overboard very easily.
Dont worry abot the crossing baloons dave I’ve seen comics with aloth harder to follow dialog criss crossign and over laping nigthmare stuff , but looks like harem has some spaning to do
I hadn’t noticed until these close-ups that Brooke’s choker not only incorporates a H for Heatwave, but also has strong suggestions of a W as well; useful for distinguishing the numerous H-named Empowered in the ARC set-up, if similar secondary identifiers are also present for the others.
It makes me think of the Van Halen logo actually – even though it doesn’t really look much like it.
and if you pay attention Harems has multiple H’s
I picture a fiery doom for someone real soon! XD
by the way nice work on brook’s facial expressions,,,,now if we could only see her smile,, i dont think we have seen her smile yet
So for the two men they are in camouflage? I suspect so from what they were saying and the way they were changing. Is that super secret grade military issue or a super power? Good camo and power armor are hard to find these days. Just ask the Joes.
They were wearing some sort of shape-change disguise thing for the bank job, given to them by the black ops people. It was explained in the ambulance scene, but that was a while ago now.
I think it was on their tatoos, They changed back to their original forms when they pulled them off.
I dunno. Muscles are all well, but these guys look kinda deformed… With those shoulders, how’re they ever gonna stand straight up?
Guess I’m just not into comics enough for stuff like this.
I grant that they look a little weird on this page, at least panel 2. They’re still half disguised, and their bottom halves were made to look a bit smaller by the illusion, so they look especially topheavy in that shot.
Also, I will admit that I’m better at drawing women than men. It may take a little while for me to find the right proportions for them, but they do have that “super hero build.” Not all the guys on the team will though.
Ah, well, the disguise might do it. They look like childrens legs with superman’s upperbody. I’m also, for whatever reason, more sensitive to exaggerated males than females. I think most males in comics look incredibly dumb, because their heads are dwarfed by the sheer mass of muscle.
ha i remember some of the comics released about city of heroes, “Phil i just work accounting.” “Bull****! Your Head is a Pea on a Mountian of Mashed Potatoes!”
yes, that’s a good way to describe it!
I used to work with a guy who was an ex-rugby player and Olympic rowing silver-medallist. He was 6’7″ tall and about 4″ wide. He was an accountant!
I actually I think I draw heads too large in general, but I was weaned on American comics. For all the complaining you hear about hyper sexualized women in comics, I’ve heard the interesting argument that the hyper macho males in comics are equally as damaging to guys – not just physically but the emotional detatchment, loner-ism, ultra-competency, etc. I can see that a little, but I’d attribute comics and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies as the prime motivations that got me into the gym.
won’t say the heads are too big.
Never heard about comic-women being especially damaging to girls, but then again, what isn’t?
Too many freckles…Harem is starting to annoy me. Also I really wanted to see Sydney bounce around the room after Max hit her bubble with the others taking cover.
Whatever physical attributes of Harem you don’t like, she more than makes up for it with the quantity of the things you do like.
You are really overly picky. How are you with real people who are spotted? I’ve got a little of it but I stay out of the sun as much as possible and I was never a full red head. It turned white in my late 20’s anyway.
DaveB I was going to ask you about the added difficulty of putting freckles on anyone without mechanical aid. But it is still better than scales.
The hard part is doing the freckles the right size. If I do them so they look good when I’m zoomed in 100% at 600 dpi, then they’re invisible when I shrink it for the web page. I have to make them way bigger so they look about right for this size but it looks like she’s covered in liver spots at full res.
well i can see a bit of mix here,, you see brook powerup as she look at daphne saying how dare you kiss mah man!,, only to be interupted by a big ball of sidney crashing trough the wall between them,, then sidney rising from the rubbles unharmed saying; That was AWESOME!!