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Grrl Power #1133 - Powah overwhelming

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Why would you not wear waterproof eyeliner? Honestly, I'm asking. Unless you're about to film the kind of film that involves a lot of gagging, if you know what I mean. Maybe it's easier to apply or something? But then it gets fucked up if you yawn too hard or have allergies - or wash your hands and then touch your face, I assume. I've obviously never worn the stuff.

Varia is an insufferable, well, variable. If you're goin...

My lovely lady were-humps

Kat, you remember, the newly minted were-hare? Well, someone forgot to give her a copy of "Are You There God? It's Me, Were-Margaret." She has questions is what I'm saying.

Grrl Power #1132 - Supervillain Unknown's Battleground

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I for one would play a superhero themed battle royale game. Let people chose three powers at the beginning, or let them select from a selection of pre-made heroes like a DOTA style game, and they fight through a big map and pick up tokens that will upgrade their powers. Admittedly, there was a BR game with magic called Spellbreak, but like a lot of trend chasing games that come late to a crowded market already full of juggernau...

Grrl Power #1131 - A hairy situation

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Yes, SuperMassive calls his gravity balls "G-Spots," because he's just that rad.

You know I've never thought about what Maxima's hair might taste like until I drew this page. Of course, her hair isn't hair, it's like some sort of metallic silk. By itself, it probably doesn't taste like anything, as it is hyper-nonreactive, so it's mostly going to taste and smell like whatever shampoo she uses. She's stated in the past tha...

Grrl Power #1130 - Pop up beat down

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Occasionally some of the characters (and me) remember that Archon is supposed to be a military organization. Maxima isn't big on all of the rigorous discipline and marching up and down the square, but I'm fairly certain that generally one does not yell at one's C.O. If it does happen, I'd guess that mid-friendly fire is probably your best chance to get away with it, especially if the C.O. is the one supplying the fire.

I ...

Grrl Power #1129 - Mess hall

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This page starts about 4 seconds before the end of the prior one. Maxima isn't taking multiple potshots at Super Hole, not after lecturing Sydney on being certain of whatever is behind your target in case they dodge. Because stuff like this happens. Maxima gave the team permission to go weapons free on this assault, but there's a difference between killing someone in self-defense and blowing up a room full of potential enemies....

Grrl Power #1128 - Get the heck out of dodging

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I thought about attributing Super Massive/Suck Hole's speed to actual gravitational time dilation, but he'd need to be putting out a lot of gravity to for it to register as super speed. Like, if you're standing or sitting, relativity is at work, but the difference in the height of your head would be like 1/1x10^36 of a second. Someone who somehow lived on the peak of Mt. Everest would, over their lifetime, accrue a few nanoseco...

Grrl Power #1127 - Mag-neato

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You can't blame Varia for having second thoughts about checking out her gestalt interaction with Death Toll. Going from having no powers to absolutely wrecking the oppo like she is here, then back to nada. Not that touching DT is a guarantee of anything changing on that front, but he seems like a likely candidate if such a thing is possible.

Jiggawatt: (when she wakes up) Why am I so tired?
Varia: You mean besides the ...

Grrl Power #1126 - Don't tug on Maxima's hair…

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Salesgirl: Hello and welcome to SuperMart, how can I help you?
Maxima: Yes, I need a hair tie that can withstand at least 300 gravities. 
Salesgirl: I see. Can your hair withstand 300 gravities? 
Maxima: It can. 
Salesgirl: Goodness. I don't suppose you need a hairbrush that can withstand hair that can withstand 300 gravities?
Maxima: Huh, I hadn't thought about that. Sure, why not?
Salesgirl: A...

Grrl Power #1125 - Splash damage

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"Once I enter, I'll want a distraction."
"I could increase my mass, fall through the floor and destroy whatever's underneath."
"That's always your suggestion."
"And you contribution is to be gold and punch things. We all have our niches."
"Touché?"

Planning an assault with a bunch of superheroes would probably become predictable. 
AM: "Is this warehouse near a river possibly? Because I could..."
BM...

Grrl Power #1124 - Battle (un)dress

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I haven't actually decided, but I think this guy might be trying to impress/seduce Max? He's definitely planning on fighting her, but I'm leaning toward this guy being just a little too impressed with himself and thinking "While I'm proving my mettle to her, it surely can't hurt to show off the V-taper and the 8-pack." This line of thinking ignores the fact that all Supers are in fantastic shape, so it's nothing Max hasn't seen...

Grrl Power #1123 - That's one way to support the troops

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Obligatory. (Futurama clip of them on a heavy gravity world.)

Man, it's been a while since I broke out the Maxima Power Pentagram. I know it kind of looks uneven, with her being able to do 3 powers at the "Blue" level, but also two powers at the "purple" level and on at the "green." These are not official designations, I just color coded them ...

Grrl Power #1122 - Villain shaming

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I, too, am disappointed in Varia's… I don't know, ethics? Honestly the very first draft of this scene in my head went down a very different way. I won't say what that was, cause this probably isn't the last time the two of them will cross paths. It was definitely very cool and/or funny. Okay, I hadn't fully decided exactly what that outcome would be. When it does happen, the rule of cool and/or funny will likely be a factor, ...

Treasure Chest

Anvil delights in buying clothes for Maxima because all Max usually gets for herself is paramilitary biker chic. Queue the quarterly fashion show!

Grrl Power #1121 - Phenomenal Cosmic Roll of the Dice

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Will they unleash a superpowered supernova? Merge into a Tyrant type creature? Or will Varia just attain the ability to come up with dumb pun supranyms? That one would be less useful than Bird Radar, cause I can think of quite a few uses for that power. Nemesis and Omni-Gestalt are really pretty similar powers, or power sets really, since both potentially contain "all" powers. Nemesis likely has a smaller catalog because it's p...

Grrl Power #1120 - Superheroine on cinderblock

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Usually when displaying your captured superheroines, you're supposed to have them face-out. Maybe a plaque of some sort. And depending on the kind of comic it is, their spandex outfit will be placed on a mannequin next to the display, and the superheroine will be instead clad in a maid outfit or possibly lingerie... at most. Hey, I don't make the rules.

This assumes the superheroine in question isn't being forced to run o...

Grrl Power #1119 - How to survive a 1,770 mile fall

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The thing about portal travel over that distance would be the sudden change in the pollen profile. Suddenly discovering hitherto unknown allergies, and not gradually like on a road trip. One breath would be all the pollutants you're used to, next breath would be a full lungful of exciting new spores and molds. Even if you had really mild seasonal allergies, I think the sudden change would tickle the stoutest sinuses.

I lu...

Grrl Power #1118 - The grate escape

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Bassy harp noise, AKA V'YGR.

I'm not sure solid metal bars would quite make that noise, especially if they were bracketed in a frame like the cell bars are, but eh, I needed some sound effect. Bending prison bars across a hall like that would be pretty loud. Famously, the laser blasts in Star Wars were produced by whack...

Grrl Power #1117 - Charge!

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Heh, okay, so a lot of you guys spotted For Whom The Death Tolls immediately on the last page. I mean, he wasn't hiding, I guess I was banking on the fact that there's a bunch of other people with hoods and masks, and the skull mask wouldn't make him stand out so much. I guess putting him back in a red hood and cloak was a bit of a giveaway.

Unfortunately, the fact that so many people recognized him right off will make Ji...

Grrl Power #1116 - Boston express

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Okay, there's a lot of confusion regarding Varia's powers in the comments. That's fair, they're not so straightforward. So, when she touches someone, Varia gets a power (or a power unlocks, no one is quite sure how it works). The person she's touching doesn't get any powers, at least not directly. If the power Varia gets is something that would be harmful, like as we saw with 2023-01-05 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Grrl Power #1115 - Now you're... looking at portals?

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Here we go with yet another year, everyone writing the wrong date on their checks. I can't actually recall the last time I wrote a check though. Probably for some home repair. Contractors really like checks for some reason. I legitimately can't recall the last time I used cash though. I think I've had the same bills in my wallet for around 7 years.

I know I complained about forgetting Varia's accent under the last page, b...

Grrl Power #1114 - Asset accounting

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In order of desirable pretzel condiments:

• Gross ballpark nacho cheese.
• Yellow mustard.
• Yummy fondue made from cheese not designed to normally exist in a semi-liquid form.
• Alfredo sauce.
• Whole grain mustard.
• Whole grain mustard AND Alfredo sauce - Yum!

There's a separate category for stuff like cinnamon and frosting and caramel drizzle. There's an argument to b...

Grrl Power #1113 - Cue Snap

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Happy The Day After Christmas! For some of us, that's when we strike the tree and decorations and for some of us, that time is mid-March. As I recall we usually left that stuff up till... New Year's Eve Eve? Honestly I didn't pay much attention once I got my presents.

So, the... uh, face powder... primer? Foundation? I don't know what it's called, but it mostly got blown off when Jiggawatt turned into a lightning bolt, bu...

Grrl Power #1112 - Operation White Chicks

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The covered faces is really a massive security flaw. It's literally the #1 mention on the Evil Overlord's List. I understand the want for faceless minions, though. An army of faceless goons is more scary than a bunch of dude's faces, but you need to design your skull helmets with retractable faceplates, or better yet, ones that can swivel around and rest of the back of the helmet, so your guards are still at least a little bit ...

Captain Cora; Dress-Up Doll

So this picture is basically the opposite of the prior one, I used lots of photo reference and honestly the nude version almost looks like a CG model to me. I'll find a happy medium one of these days. 

I hope the comics make sense. I kind of over extended myself on this sequence and had to rely on the dialog for most of the heavy lifting instead of breaking it up into a dozen panels like I would have if this had been a regular comic. 

For those of you old enough to remem...

Grrl Power #1111 - Costume quest

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Harem should use the map to find the Info Desk, where she can ask about the secret backdoor used to sneak the rest of the team in. 

It makes sense that if you're designing the Death Star, it's a reasonable bet that you won't get a lot of interlopers running around in the halls, so some maps on the walls making it easy to find things probably isn't going to compromise security. Well, as long as you don't advertise the...

Grrl Power #1110 - Telescout

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Remember, Harem can't teleport other people, but Varia can teleport when she's holding on to Harem. Varia usually just tags along, but she can actually teleport somewhere without Harem. She's just stranded once she arrives.

In case you're wondering, Harem isn't wearing the same body armor loadout as everyone else because the amount of mass she can take with her is limited. She could wear a Level II vest and carry...

Grrl Power #1109 - Beware the handyman

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This handyman is looking to get promoted to security. He practices his taser quickdraw in front of the mirror and phrases like "I.D. please." and "Move along rebel scum." and "These aren't the droids we're looking for." Although good maintenance people are worth 20 security guards. If the doors don't lock and the cameras don't work and the A/C keeps going out and the breakroom microwave keeps going on the fritz, then the guards...

Grrl Power #1108 - Whatever's the opposite of greased lightning

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When Jiggawatt teleports through wiring, it's often really bad for the wires, unless she's traveling through industrial grade power lines. 12-14 gauge residential wiring is not rated for 1 Jiggawatt, much less 1.21, and it's a good idea to replace it if she has to hop through something that weedy.

Jiggawatt's power stunt is to basically just put a steady current through the wire there so the signal has a path to piggyback...

Grrl Power #1107 - Tube... of DOOM

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This is a weird page, and drawing isometric stuff is harder than I thought it would be.

The picture is supposed to be a simplified model of the base, like a LIDAR scan, not a photograph. Chimyriad is hanging her commandeered phone out a window and passing it back and forth a few times and... I guess the phone has a "construct isometric model" app or something. Or hell, maybe she found a drawer with early plans roughed out...