Grrl Power Guest Comic – Corn & Franklin
Today’s guest comic comes from Paul Corn & Landon Franklin of Wayward*Cross.
The comic brings up an interesting point, one which I haven’t fully considered, which is the status of foreign super organizations, so allow me to just vamp for a bit. Certainly they exist, but none are recognized publicly – they’re all black-ops, security/bodyguard or spy groups. The US has their own versions of these, some of which are being folded into the ARCHON umbrella now. This all means the previously mentioned press conference will officially be a Big Deal. It won’t be the first public acknowledgement of the existence of supers, but it will be the first official one complete with press events, funding and legislation.
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Ha! Love the manga style!
They made Maxima a little too skinny.
Good art though.
Yeah, but that isn’t outside the realms of manga drawing.
The only thing missing is a thought bubble over her head and then it getting popped.
I vote for Hyper Battle Maiden Next Generation Mitsuko to join the team!
I vote for the tenticle monster to join the team, and so do Harem and Dabbler.
no dab already had a fling with him and she found him to tame and uptight for her.
Yeah, Battle Maiden Mitsukp and her octopus idekick are a must as guest stars.
Heh. Nothing like other writers tipping toes in your world to make you go “Oh crap! I hadn’t thought of that.”
You know how it is. Start reading something intresting like this, and next thing you know ideas for the diffrent storylines start popping up in your head.
If ever a character gets a spin off comic it has to be Hyper Battle Maiden Next Generation Mitsuko.
Oh, please let HBMNGMitsuko join the team later on! PLEASE! Especially if that little wand of hers is actually a Nanoha-class weapon that can blow apart monsters with great explosions.
Isn’t that what the PPO is supposed to do? Okay, right now it takes out the neighbourhood as well, but Sydney can work on that.
“My wand is better then your balls!”
Syd” IS NOT!”
Max: *facepalm*
Love the top hat on the tenticle monster. They should of added a monicle to complete the look.
A monocle would make it look like MrPeanut.
What is needed is a cape and a rose clenched in his … er … uhm …..anyways…. the classic sailor moon-unit guy sidekick is always wearing a hat of some sort, a mask and throws roses as projectile weapons (always missing too – that all have bad aim).
If I’m not mistaken that is a flower in his right tentacle. So half-way there! :)
the flower was actualy not supposed to be a real weapon normally more an attention grabber for the following monolog or distraction to let moon girl setup/figure out a way to save herself. when it was meant as a weapon it was weak but effective with pin point accuracy.
Followed by:
Max is looking confused/annoyed staying where she was.
Security: [Off-panel] I’m sorry miss. You aren’t allowed past here. Ooph!
Sydney: Oh, $#|+! [Thud] !$%^!^%&@^%* !
Next panel has Sydney reentering the corridor from the hall she ran down. She looks dejected.
Max: Was that really necessary?
Or maybe:
Sydney is running full speed (well, her full speed, what, 12 miles per hour?) down a corridor. Max catches up to her, looking displeased, but not appearing to exert herself in any way.
Max: You do realize I run faster than you, right?
Only if it’s this ( https://liliy.net/wam/cast/cast-security/ ) Security. XD
12 MPH thats a 5 minute mile and military standard is dependant on age a 6-9 minute mile so syd be a mild speed daemon in adit to the listed powers?
I didn’t say she was doing that for any distance. A 100 m dash as only 12 miles/hour will take over 18 seconds. Admittedly, if she has the endurance to go an entire mile at that speed that would be quite remarkable.
Does it even count as thinking in broad racial stereotypes if this is how a culture chooses to represent itself?
IMHO: No, it doesn’t count.
I’d say it does count as stereotyping, but doesn’t really matter if it’s a stereotype that the ‘host’ nation is perfectly happy to promote and/or play along with.
I think Japan would be disappointed if their superheroes did not turn out that way.
well you can blame America for Hyper Battle Maiden Next Generation Mitsuko, because basically the whole magical-girl gene came about because of “bewitched”, therefore you could blame America for Hyper Battle Maiden Next Generation Mitsuko
I’m fairly sure Bewitched was not about 12 year old fanservice….
Japan has issues. :)
Yeah, Bewiched had nothing to do with it.
It was I Dream Of Genie.
It was more likely Mary Marvel, of the Marvel Family.
Neither was the first of the “Magical Girl” genre – which was, in fact, inspired by “Bewitched”. (See: “Sally the Witch” on Wikipedia.)
The “12 year old fanservice” came …years later.
I thought Mary Marvel was the first magical girl.
DaveB (and anyone else), on the subject of mecha, has anyone heard of Edenworld Saga? I was reminded of this series by today’s guest comic. https://www.edenworldsaga.com/
The only thing I took away from this guest comic is it was co-made by a guy named ‘Corn’… Poor corn! D=
wtf?
i thought the bad art joke was a one time occurence…
oh well, let’s check next month.
It’s called “guest filler” dude. Far as I know, regular comics resume next week.
Dude – seriously? What’s with the hate?
We prefer a kinder gentler breed of nerd here – please save the negativity for /b/
I actually like the art (do comics and manga actually count as art?). It shows the characters in another light than what we would see if it was only DaveB drawing.
Eeheehee! This is so in-character I almost didn’t notice the art is by somebody else!
I like it. Kudos to Mesrs Corn & Franklin. Nice job, guys.
Sydney’s visualization would certainly have run along those lines – just possibly crazier.
I’m hoping to see some Canadian supers eventually even mentioned if other countries are going to be involved (hypothetically speaking) I can’t tell you how many American comics talk about world affairs and reference other countries, but somehow gleam over Canada. You’d think we were more important then that.
But if we do meet Canadian supers, they have to say something about Hockey and Maple Syrup every time we see them.
Now that is stereotyping Max.
Grrl Power makes for great reading keep up the good work.
Thanks! I plan to.
she’s prob closer then she realises there military uniforms actually look alot like the US ones but they also have ppl like Adriana in Japan
The artist has the habit DaveB mentioned before: making the hips unproportionally small. No hate. Also, I couldn’t tell who Maxima was until panel 4. And in panel 5, Sydney reminds me of Piro from Megatokyo. :)
Can…. Can this be canon?
Was this drawn before or after the actual introduction of Trent the tentacle hivemind?
This was certainly the reference Dave was making when Sydney named that character Trentacle.
i like how it references the character trentacle.
It’s a call-forward to the “friend” they find in The Forbidden Vault .