Grrl Power #964 – Young superheroines in the back seat
Cora might be a space whatever-the-opposite-of-a-puritan is, but even that caught her off guard. (Anvil is currently 28.)
When Anvil was 14, she had a figure surprisingly close to Maxima’s current dimensions. So, an awkward freshman year in high school, one might imagine. Awkward for her, but a hell of a time for select 14 year old boys, apparently. With most of them, she probably had makeout experiences that were the equivalent of the Boston Molassacre, or the Kalamazoo River pipeline leak. (I’m saying they were disasters and large amounts of unwanted fluids were released.) But apparently there was at least one guy who got the job done. He might have gotten early onset carpal tunnel syndrome, (cause Anvil’s second base takes up half the outfield, see?) but it was probably worth it.
As far as Maxima falling madly into bed with someone, while that does sort of seem like the kind of thing that might occur in this comic, she will probably insist on a few get to know you dates first. But I suppose we’ll see what happens. Maybe there’s some guy from high school that jilted her when she turned gold that she wants to get some kind of sit-commy revenge on somehow. Not that she couldn’t crush his car into a cube or anything if she wanted. She wouldn’t do that. That’s petty and psycho. If such a theoretical guy existed, she might move his car from one side of the parking lot to another. That’s probably pretty harmless? Well, until he goes to get an MRI because he thinks he’s getting early onset Alzheimer’s. Max’s actual revenge (again, assuming a hypothetical high school jilter) is being a rich, powerful superheroine who doesn’t spend any time dwelling on shit that went down in high school.
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Yeah. Max just doesn’t seem the type to dwell on petty high school grievances.
the best revenge is living well
…and, if confronted, loudly unremembering the jerk. “Who are you? you’re saying you knew me in high school? I am so sorry, it must not have made an impact.”
Why am I sensing that the August vote incentive will be Sydney’s expected smash cut?
I’m in favor of some Anvil cheesecake TBH
Why not both? You know…A double-header incentive.
(all puns intended)
So… Max waking up in Anvil’s bed?
YES!!!!!!
And not because she was hung-over and ‘needed a place to crash’
I suddenly feel incentivized.
Preferably not jailbait Anvil.
14 yo Anvil would probably look 18-20. Jailbait actually looks underage. So that’s a tough one :p
And yes, this is a joke. I doubt Dave would do it anyway
Jailbait means you are under age and look over 18.
Early 2000s had a lot of 12-15 year old’s who looked like they were 18-20 year old, really scary time when you are talking to some pretty girl and learn they are 12 years old. The worst part is when they lie to you and say they are 18 and have fake ID to prove it.
Goes back a long way before that. Back in the late 60s I knew a couple of lairs got in deep poopoo with both the fathers and the law. Turns out both girls were substantially under 16. And both the lairs needed plastic front teeth… Top and bottom.
IIRC in Errol Flynn’s memoir “My Wicked, Wicked Ways” he tells of hanging with a more senior Hollywood star in the 1930s or 1940s and being warned off the “Jailbait – San Quentin Quail”.
The book is a good read, definitely fits the title.
You are confusing ‘jailbait’ (looks legal age, but isn’t) with ‘loli’ (doesn’t look legal, and isn’t)
Except for, technically, the Loli Dragon…But don’t Lewd her!
… Which one? Kanna or the new one?
Are you talking about Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid? A friend just got me into that anime. It’s pretty hilarious.
Haven’t seen the anime, but have most of the books, including the two spin-offs (or was it three?)
Hiro and her should just cave into the tension and forget the office rule book. How would you fire them? Archon despite the gloss is a prison of their own making. Keep working for them and go outside or get locked up if that is even possible. The story has been fairly clear, either you work with them or you are in trouble. Also where is Achilles and New space girlfriend?
Re your last question: “busy”? ;)
They’re not in a prison.
They would just not be allowed to act as Law Enforcement. This is spelled out at the start. Vigilantism is illegal, so either live a normal life (you get to capitalize on your powers as long as you don’t break the law), act illegal and get imprisoned, or get a badge.
I have said a dozen times that the crew is big enough for SG1 style squads. So split the group, make Hiro a LtCol and take him outside of Max’s direct line of command.
Fixed.
I mean, tbh, considering Maxima and Hiro are the primary examples of why archon is able to actually enforce that stance on vigilantism, and can each flex on basically the entire rest of the team solo (at least Maxima can, I don’t know for sure if Hiro can, but considering the quote I’m about to reference he probably can). At the press conference Max said IIRC, “There have only been two supers capable of fighting me to a standstill, one of them is dead, and the other is on this team.” Or something along those lines, and I am fairly certain that the member of the team she is referring to there is Hiro, since he is frequently referenced as being the closest to her level.
My point is, if they did fire Maxima and Hiro for fraternization (or whatever the official term is in the military, I think it’s fraternization, but I could be wrong) they have basically no means of stopping them from doing pretty much whatever they want, and knowing their moral compasses to be what they are, I find it highly unlikely that either would be willing to sit on the sidelines when things go wrong in front of them, just because a law says so.
I believe they refer to Dabbler having fought Maxima to a standstill. In the comic you refer to Dabbler gives Sydney a knowing look. And later I believe DaveB explained that Dabbler managed to force Maxima in her maximum armor state. And while Dabbler was unable to injure or disable her, Maxima could not switch out of her max armor state without exposing herself. I think this was around the time they fought Kevin.
Considering Dabbler’s actions in that very same comic, yeah. Dabbler is the one she fought and is “on the team” the other, heavily implies Sciona.
Sci-fright wasn’t known at that time, not even by Maxi, and she knew about the Twi-hard Brigade
What wasn’t known at that time was that she’d lived. Which was reasonable, who’d expect somebody to survive having their head cut off at the jaw?
The Council cut her head off, Maxi was not involved in any way, form or fashion
Doesn’t matter *who* cut her head off, what matters is whether Maxima knew that Sciona was presumed dead.
Also, while it was said that the joint effort between Archon and the Council shown in the comic was the first ever joint effort between Archon and the Council, Archon is new. What’s to say that Maxima could not have been the one and only super who was assisting them but not on the Council for that fight? We don’t know exactly when that happened, just that it was before the staged bank robbery.
The guy who maxima killed was a middle eastern guy in a turban. In the “whats the worst that could happen” *smash cut all future villains*, turban guy said a thing in arabic to the effect of “dead am I? So much the better”.
Maxi didn’t even know Sci-fright even existed before the attack on the Council Chambers
Fairly sure it would have taken Sci time and resources to replace her body, plus enough time for the Council to believe her fully dead and no longer a threat
Nope. It was an Afghan super.
“Do they have supers in Afghanistan?”
“Not as many as they used to.”
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-150-not-sure-where-max-stencils-her-kill-marks/comment-page-2/
Although that one in particular may not be as neutralised as Maxima thinks…
This later confirmed with Dave’s explanation of her power shifting by the Vehemence punch. Wherein Dave tells Dabbler fought her to a standstill by cranking the damage output, so Max had to focus on defense.
I thought it was implied, via Dabbler nudging Sydney when that line was brought up, she was the one able to fight Max to a standstill. She might not be powerful enough to beat Max, but with magic and a bunch of equipment at the ready she sure could make things difficult for Max when really trying.
Seems my previous comment was eaten. I agree. Dabbler’s actions in that page speak loud. And the “other one” was (obviously/heavily implied) Sciona
Ahh, and of course the other one now shows and I can’t edit or delete. Oh well lol.
Max didn’t know Sciona back then
The Twilight council kinda beheaded her
Sciona was not a known presence (to Archon) at that time though. The other one who fought Maxima and is presumed dead is the turban and mask wearing guy seen in the page of people reacting to Maxima’s press statement, Link here.
If I remember correct someone in the comments translated the Arabic as ‘Dead am I?’ or something like that.
Best as I can puzzle out from my minimal arabic and translate it’s something to the tune of “This is good/a blessing. I’m dead am I?”
It can’t be “heavily implied” because Sciona didn’t exist as a character at that time.
On that same page, it was heavily implied that it was an Afghani super.
“Not as many as they used to.”
There is the matter of professionalism, dude.
There is a logistical power disparity and if it ends badly it could seriously hamper team relations/effectiveness.
They really are just better off finding non-team people to date.
Having worked in an organization where fraternization within the chain of command is discouraged but there are difficult to recruit, high value individuals I can say that a Max-Hiro situation would probably be dealt with through a convenient reshuffling of the org chart. One of the players, Hiro probably, would find himself transferred to a different chain of command and then loaned back to ARC Swat. Policy would be tweaked or otherwise rewritten. Consider that as supers Max and Hiro are are almost one in a million and as top tier supers they are probably pushing one in a billion. Max and Hiro both give the impression of being sufficiently career driven to follow the non-fraternization policy but in the real world Administration will often flex policy to keep productive, high value players happy.
That’s the exact opposite of what’s clear. There are plenty of legal and super characters in the comic who don’t work for Arc.
Quite a few have been mentioned, and some even fought Arc under mind control without being forcibly recruited afterword. (Jabberwocky is the only one who *was* forcibly recruited, afair.)
Jabberwokky wasnt ‘forcibly’ recruited. It was voluntary. She had warrants out for her arrest already for stuff like bank robbery, where she also beat up a bunch of police officers. She could always have volunteered to go to jail based on the crime that she actually committed. This is more of a ‘work release’/rehabilitation program for her.
Max, Hiro and most of the rest are committed to the values of the organization. The values are personally inconvenient to them, but they know it is not all about them – military and the like with fraternization is just too prone to abusive relations. It’s a sacrifice they make and whether or not we would make that choice, it is kinda in character for them to do it.
Sidney: ‘Wait for it!’
Me: ‘Dang, another CLIFFhanger.’
C.U. next Monday! ; )
What if….. the mystery ball actually gives syd 4th wallbreaking dimension manipulating powers… and it just haven’t happened yet cause she lacked the understanding to control it…
I think if they gave Sydney the power to break the 4th wall that would be the first thing that manifested!
Beside … maybe it has. How would they know? DaveB starts writing lots of stories that just feature Sydney eating her favourite spicy meals? ;)
when we see Sydney walking her Very Good Boy. we will know that she has broken the 4rth wall.
it’s 4th, I know it’s nitpicky, but there’s already an ‘r’ in the number 4. (sorry)
and yes, I still took the time to type it anyway because if I didn’t, my brain would probably never shut up about it.
also, for the people that do it, there’s your and you’re, and they do not mean the same thing. thank you.
There, there. They’re, theirs.
exactly, those too, ty, Rune
Smash cut to SYDNEY waking up in bed next to a random dude, suddenly realizing that she was smashcut
The highest likelihood of that is if the ‘random stranger’ in question isn’t really a stranger…Frix, for example. The humor in that particular situation is if Sydney gets the smash-cut instead of Max.
Imagine if Sydney, Max and Dabbler all become eskimo sisters due to Frix.
You’d never get Dabbles to shut up about it.
I can’t imagine the 14 year old boy who was lucky enough to impress a 14 year old Anvil
one with enough Chutspa to not be afraid of her, and talk to her like a normal person ……
This. From what we’ve seen, Anvil really wants to be treated like a regular girl.
And … it might not have been the boy who took the 1st step.
When you were 14, if Anvil asked you to take a walk down by the river … ?
*stands to attention in more ways than one*
I’d be saying yes.
I have a thing for strong and tall girls.
Maybe he’s super too.
Yeah for some reason Sydney thinks that being fourth wall where gives her the powers of the beyonder
Hmmmmm????? Is that a little bit of excess visceral fat I see on Siddles’ waistline? Pp 7, 8 and 11? Sydney Sydney Sydney… You need at least 30 minutes of elevated heart-rate IN ONE SESSION for tummy-fat. Now get out on that oval and gimme 5. Laps. In 60 minutes. NOW!!!!!!
That or Puppies!
Puppies?
But it’s a birthday party! There was CAKE!! And of course she got a second slice. Because birthday girl!!
GREN, are you saying puppies will get rid of tummy fat?
Cuddling them, or eating them? Asking for a friend…
Given her boyfriend, giving birth to them? Followed by day to day puppy care.
Archon catering to all team members needs to keep them happy thus starting a in building childcare service.
*cough*JackJackAttack*cough*
In a few years ps238 antics and in a few more Sky High.
in what order does Zoom come, when you include ps238 and Sky High? Or does it not count because there wasn’t actually a school?
i’d say that Zoom and Sky High could be Rival Schools making them ongoing concurrently (at the same time)…
could you imagine the Mascots???
Nah, visceral fat tends to distend more of the belly, that looks like external fat. My wife’s got a little roll there, too, and she’s otherwise quite slim.
But, seriously, it could just be the shirt being tucked in with too much slack.
In the beginning there was a gag per panel, ten panels per page. Now it’s more like ten pages per gag. It is possible to overdo character development.
I actually hadn’t noticed. Maybe I appreciate spacing the gags.
There’s four to seven jokes and gags on this page, depending on how you count. They may not be funny to you in particular, but they are there.
Not much in the way of slapstick, if that’s what you mean.
This made me think … is the whole “Birthday Choker” sequence character development or plot?
I think it is not character development, so far. Each character remains the same as they were; the only decisions made so far are in support of the idea that Max’s friends like her, which is something we already knew. Max herself remains the same; her only decision so far was to go along with the urging of her BFF Anvil, which is something she’s done before albeit reluctantly. Max remains the same personality we’ve seen for years: super professional, professional super, and unwilling to risk dating, or even going out for some non-romantic fun, for reasons of appearance (…it might actually be more complicated than that, but that’s what she uses for an excuse.)
Now her friends have more-or-less solved the appearance problem for her. This gives her the opportunity to develop as a character, because she’s likely to try some new experiences – if only visiting a track meet without everyone pointing at her. Maybe her character will develop from this.
But as for the number of gags … while there is plenty of humor in this thing, and there is plenty of adventure, it is fundamentally not a humor comic nor an adventure comic; it’s a relationship comic using humor and adventure as the setting.
Or something like that.
It’s only tangentially character development so far, and there may not be a lot of plot per se, but the Hue Bender is potentially a powerful tool for enabling future plot and/or character developments. And/or gags.
Weeeeelll… depending on how MUCH of a prude Max is… and how much she can dial down her invulnerability… she may just maybe still have an unpoppable hymen. In which case, Hiro better be up to the task.
Also, I miss Yorp
Max does look really good that way – the black hair definitely works well with the skin tone they settled on.
Wow that went dark for a minute there hahahaha…
Awkward…
Still dont see why the device would not be able to change the appearance of her ears at the same time as changing the skin tone/texture.
Because to change the appearance of her ears it would have to ‘cut off’ the tip (or give her ears that are exaggeratingly large) as well as change how her hair moves around the invisible tip, and a bunch of other small stuff to make it look natural it isn’t designed for. The current device works with what there already is and makes a ‘minor’ cosmetic change.
The current device is like the bucket tool in paint. Change one color/area into another color. You don’t use the bucket tool to cut, paste, and draw as well.
In Soviet Russia, bucket tool use YOU to cut, paste, draw
Typo in panel 9: if halfway thRough a date
Next comic:
Tableau from last panel of this comic holds for P1, P2…
P3, Sydney slumps, “Awww…”
P4: Smash cut to completely unrelated scene
More likely, a smash cut to something completely different, like someone else in bed.
Deus, for example.
You want to get *really* cool, smash cut to Max waking up in a bed and having no idea how she got there… with a completely new subplot going.
If max ends up in bed with a guy at any point in the comics future there needs to be a button added to the navigation buttons on this page labelled “smash cut” that goes straight to that page.
Why the desire for black hair, instead of back to her original blonde, anyways?
Either preference, she may have wanted to dye her hair before or as added disguise to stop being recognised by anyone who knew her when she was young or has seen pictures of her when she was young.
Her personality makes me lean HARD toward the “preference” camp – presumably, nobody on Earth outside this room, except perhaps the twilight council, knows that this kind of thing is even practical… idunno – thinking people that knew her when she was young or have seen pictures of that time would have ANY expectation she would look like that is jarring to even consider
I’m quite confident she just doesn’t want to stand out too terribly – and if you think the darkness of her hair is like a dye job, I could believe that, but she can adjust when she gets to a mirror if she doesn’t want black hair, so that could be in her future, or she intentionally shies away from society’s “typical” pretty to have her merits speak for her instead of getting attention for her looks.
is it just me or could maxima do an awesome half-elf/elf cosplay with this? hell im suprised sidney isnt thinking of it already
Speaking as a guy who is 6’5″ and is built like a classic dad stereotype, I’d love to meet a woman who’s 6’1″ and built like a Heavy Metal magazine cover girl.
…wait, was Maxima inspired by Julie Strain?
I could see that….Dang, I just did a search on Julie Strain and saw where she died earlier this year.
Sex Metal Barbie, Homicidal Queen! Only thing running through my mind after reading panel 2. Thanks for the corruption In This Moment.
Panel 8 and 11: in my brain, Anvil slipped out of the room and left behind a cardboard standee of herself, just to mess with Sydney.
Is it weird that I enjoy how in panels 7 and 8, Maxima and Anvil are surprised that Sydney appeared, but not surprised that she appeared? Like, they’ve already gotten used to her just popping up for random commentary.
Sex between 14 year olds would be a Blue Lagoon learning experience. That said 16 is pretty much legal and 18 is safe. But yeah, a normal 14 year old boy would figure it out real quick although panel four says it all with the creepyness of the concept. Heck I’ll wager that most 18 year olds of both sexes are still virgins. But Cora’s comment brings into question the sexual age legality among alien space faring races. Brings to mind whatshername “Keth” from Star Trek: Voyager with an extremely short life span. It also works the other way if a species doesn’t come of sexual age say until they’re 25 or so for physical or social reasons. So, while Cora’s statement on the surface and in human reference may sound creepy, in her other worldly perspective it’s probably a normality. Don’t even have to go ‘alien’ just look at the Earth’s animal kingdom.
The ‘child’ alien in Voyager was named ‘Kes’
Considering so many US states can’t fully agree on what constitutes ‘legal age’ to have sex, age really is just a number when it cums to sex
Yes, many teens and pre-teens are not ‘mature’ mentally to have sex (or at least the consequences), but there are many ‘adults’ who are not either, and most of both comes from the refusal to even discuss it with children
Ain’t that the truth!
That the states can’t agree to something proofs nothing. They can’t agree on anything from defining child rights (on which basically the entire UN agreed in the end, but the USA couldn’t come to an internal agreement about) on to health care the states are around as united as the holy roman empire was before Bischmark.
This isn’t necessarily bad(one could for example that the ensuing government decentralization acts as an extra defense from dictatorship and fraud, meaning it’s more resiliant against the attacks of enemies such a super power attracts), but it means that proofing population bound hypothesizes by how well they can come to an agreement is a case of extreme sampling bias.
Lets take an extreme example of this indecisiveness, since 2015 every UN acknowledged country in the world except the USA has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the USA pushed by the way, which it did with good reason, since it was actually quite popular under Americans, but it never took off, because a small portion of the states refuse to ratify it, because they don’t agree with the rest of the USA that executing children should be illegal.
Let me describe it another way. For the states to agree on something the two ruling parties (democrats and republicans) wouldn’t only have to agree with each other, but with themselves.
You mean… The USA is a disagreeable place? Surely not!
Bear in mind Cora is Human, just not from Earth — and though certain cultural norms are doubtless different for many and varied reasons, there is a decent argument based in physiology as you approach post scarcity, in terms of how plastic a child’s brain is and how long they can “learn” effectively (in the sense of primary, and maybe secondary, structured education) — that would probably continue to affect any human in any society so long as their genetics remained appreciably similar to that of Earth humans.
I understand the generally agreed-as-acceptable age of consent to be a combination of the amount of time children learn in a structured environment and the complexity and interconnectedness of the society they live in – I’d love links to studies or books discussing anything else that contributes. As children have been expected to stay in school longer and society has gotten more and more complex (and controlled by societies and governments at a grander scale), the age of consent has gradually increased. Makes sense to me, anyway…
If anything, assuming I have even a sliver of veracity in that conjecture, I would imagine a 14 year old human in “space society” (that is not growing up in the “space streets”) would have a much larger community and government to contend with, and much longer educational career to busy themselves with, and has a greater chance of being sheltered from things like intercourse than a 14 year old in an Earth society. so she may be speaking with a little more authority than the others in the room can appreciate. Or maybe not.
The average life span has gone up significantly in the last 100 years, from 45-70+. that also would make you raise the consent age, when your only expected to live till your 50 your have to start your family’s sooner too. you marry your daughters off at 14.
You misunderstand statistics. The lifespan is muddled by the large amount of infant mortality. If you track average lifespan of people who are already age ten, or otherwise those that made it to age 10, then average age of death is 80 and has been for centuries.
Pretty much only in cases like the hundred year’s war with long term heavy warfare would a the average age of death be 50.
That’s a misleading claim itself.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity
There are areas in Italy for example where the average age of death *was* 30. These were working age men who had died from labour and diseases associated with age. It’s true that the curve evens out somewhat but it’s not true to say that the average age of adults has been 80 for centuries. Between 1850 and 1949 it was 70 for example.
Women also used to die much earlier, usually because of pregnancy.
Basically while possible way back when, it was exceedingly unlikely that you would make it to 70, but if you say, reached 60, then you’d probably reach 70. But these were decidedly few in number and typically belonged to very wealthy families. So over the past few centuries we’ve eked out 10 years, more for women. However even today most deaths are not as such from natural causes. Take the UK 22% of deaths in 2019 were considered avoidable.
If you want to consider the maximum age that people can live to… that’s a different game altogether.
According to the Nature journal, there’s no upper limit. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05582-3 and according. Most analyses an the subject matter predict that the maximum human lifespan is currently between 125 and 150 years.
Yet, to take for example the UK most people are still dying at relatively young ages. A good many men only live to the age of 79. (Shocking).
What do mean disregard? A shapeshifter prankster teleported Max away minus her clothes and themselves into her clothes. But luckily they can’t change skin and hair colour. >>>>
Hmmm, an additional thought regard space alien sex. It could also be dangerous, harmful or even fatal. Sex is basically about reproduction, so the ‘face hugger’ from the movie ‘Alien’ is having rape sex which is ultimately fatal. And it’s not like parasitical egg laying as the infant incorporates the genetics of the rapee. Then go the other way where alien sex has beneficial properties, other than grand orgasms, such as healing, longevity, ooooo bestowing superpowers!
As for parasitic egg/larva growth, there are lots of wasps that lay their eggs in other organisms. The nutrients of the host are incorporated into the wasp larva, but not the genes in any significant way (except as raw materials). That thing still matures into a new wasp, not whatever its host was going to become.
Reminds me of a clip saw on discord (saw the thumbnail, didn’t click on it) of a spider that was killed, and a two foot long worm-thing came out of the dead spider
Hey from comic#5 till now we’re still in flashback mode. Anything can happen.
Yeah, I’m thinking Dave needs to retcon that comment that all of this has taken place in “just a few months.” Sydney is much more confident and together in those first few pages and that takes more than “a few months” to develop, as well as just the sheer number of events that have taken place couldn’t be crammed into a period of 3-4 months (the definition of “few”). Change that “a few months” into “a few years” and the whole schedule of events becomes more believable.
Sydney already is showing vast improvements in confidence and ‘having her shit together’
You’ll be surprised just how much can happen in a short amount of time
I wouldn’t worry too much how long DaveB has taken with this saga:
From Freefall index: “The adventure begins! 4/9/1998” page 1
From Freefall index Year 2012: “I’ve been around Sam for almost a month…”
@DaveB – take your time cobber, there’s no need for undue haste :)
I would at least like to see Sydney get promoted to private. She’s still a recruit
Getting thrown into the fiery crucible of a hell hole with your life on the line, puts “shit” in perspective. You learn darn fast.
Would it surprise you that George Washington was a LtCol at the tender age of 22.
Remember she also has training wheels and they help a lot!
Ya if max moved someone’s car with her bare hands there would be giant hand marks in it as the weight of it would all be one 1 or 2 small points. If she tried to pick it up by anything but the frame it would rip the exterior off.
Comic book physics.
Remember when Max lifted the ambulance way WAY back? She doesn’t just use her strength, but also a zero-distance telekinetic field to do stuff like that. So, no big hand-shaped dents to give her away.
Remember how she lifted the ecnalubmA?
I’m reminded of a line used by Julie Strain..
“Six feet tall and worth the climb.”
Now Anvil’s a bit…more epic than that.
But the same sentiment applies.
Oh no. Max is even hotter as a brunette.
Brunette is brown, Maxi is currently black, which is ‘raven’ (can’t remember the other name, but it ain’t ‘brunette’)
“Brunette” includes dark brown to black. It’s also 80-90% of the world population.
“Chatain” is light brown, although they also used the word “brownette” back in the late 70s early 80s.
https://everything.explained.today/Fischer%E2%80%93Saller_scale/
Wow, redheads get a completely separate numbering system on that scale. That may be the fastest I’ve ever seen Godwin’s Law triggered.
What about it is godwin’s law? It is a reference to a scale that a nazi made, but none of it is a comparison involving nazi’s in general?
With the black hair and trademark jacket Max is a pretty solid Elisa Maza. We already know Deus is really Xanatos, Sciona is a good Demona stand-in, Frix would make a decent Goliath… what other cast has a decent analog here?
Her skin’s not dark enough to be Eliza Maza. remember Eliza’s Half African-American/Half Native American (NaVajo, or another tribe from the South).
She’s close, but not that close.
African? Thought she was half Puerto Rican
“Boston Molassacre”. That’s good. I have actually heard of it.
For ear concealment use a cowboy hat.
Immediately works as a distraction from other features that might rat her out.
Imagine Anvil falling into a cauldron of an ancient Gaulish magic potion when she was eight years old and it had a permanent affect on her-even contributing to her growth spurt!?
…
I wonder if the contents of the geode were in fact this ancient Gaulish potion?
No, that potion only gives strength and speed, not invulnerability
Ha, Anvil and Obelisk having the same back story! I think they’d be friends, although given his childlike nature I can’t see that ‘ship sailing.
Was actually reminded of that comic just this week, but can’t recall why. The 12 Tasks storyline is a classic, especially the one on defeating bureaucracy.
I knew a bloke like Obelisk once. You *could* consider him “childlike” if you actually meant “so tough he didn’t need to care” :) He wasn’t nasty or anything, but you’d have better luck challenging a D11 dozer to do something he didn’t want or like. He was highly employable, but always considered non-humans to be of better character.
It is probable the Maxi and Obelisk would get on like a Mastiff bitch and Rottweiler dog: famously.
You don’t mean Lenny, do you? From ‘Of Mice And Men’?
And Obelisk was different to the rest of the Gaul’s, for a start, fairly sure he didn’t have a speed boost (that was usually reserved for Asterisk)
Correct. But when you’re arrow-proof… And can lift ox-carts…
Ummm… Not Lennie.
IIRC Obelix can run and move at superhuman speed.
Don’t remember the big guy running
I don’t recall it from the (few) comics or cartoons I’ve seen either, but here’s a clip of him matching pace with Asterix: https://youtu.be/JdCCYmg44Eg?t=75
Hah, Anvil almost got canceled in real-time.
As for Max’s choice of sexual partners, I am thinking of the reversal of Larry Niven’s “Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue Paper” to be “Woman of Gold, Man of Tissue Paper”. If he is tough enough, you get “Man of Steel, Woman of Gold, bed of kindling.” If Max is waking up in a random guy’s bed in the morning, he will be suffering from life-altering (or maybe life-ending) injuries.
Max has shown plenty of control. For your scenario she would have to loose control during the act or have completely no control of her vaginal muscles during orgasm.
Besides, maybe she prefers more slow loving.
Losing control during orgasm is a thing with “normal” people of both genders, nothing says it couldn’t happen with Max, or even Sydney. Wouldn’t be fatal, might be life-changing.
Counter: not a random, but Joel. If the point is to be semi-normal, why not start with someone normal that is plausibly “introduced by a friend” and who has regularly dealt with Sydney-levels of crazy. Might even play to Max’s suppressed geek interests.
Why are these people so obsessed with Max going on a date? It’s just so upsetting and annoying. It’s like that old statement about how someone needs to get laid because you’re being testy, it has been a while and, ooh, I’m dating somebody and he has a friend! Sheesh, I wonder if a man would get pestered this way. If so, maybe these people need to get hobbies that occupy their time so they’re not thinking so much about someone else’s love life.
It’s definitely annoying if the person keeps pushing it even when you tell them to stop.
Because Maxima is essentially an incel (original meaning before creeps took it over). It isn’t that she doesn’t want a relationship, but her available dating pool is candidates either disqualified for work place reasons or for being hung up on her looks (beauty and abnormality).
Her finally getting the chance to have a healthy romantic life is generally a good thing.
Plenty of men get treated the same way
And they are not so much ‘obsessed with Max going on a date’ (or ‘getting laid’), as much as they want her to (be able to) have fun, whether it’s simply going on a date, or doing something she enjoys without being bothered by gawkers (or worse)
That smash cut could be the next voter incentive lol
If you DO go with the smash cut thing, I would like a thought bubble saying “F–k you Sydney…”
with a response of:
‘you first’
It won’t be a random guy. It’ll be Deus, and she’ll wake up to find her thighs still shaking and him grinning like a demented fool.
And his bodyguard sitting in the corner, reading a book and looking bored.
Or Deus dead by crushed pelvis yet still grinning like a demented fool.
at the risk of being sued by his prophet can we petition for this fate for Dues?
You mean, killed painfully? Yes please, with golden sprinkles on top