Grrl Power #1379 – Hadron couture
It’s a good thing Gellen found something Sydney liked right away, because otherwise, presenting her with the unlimited options that mass fabricators present would usually vapor lock her brain.
I’m not sure Maxima owns anything angora, but Sydney’s alternate suggestion doesn’t quite work with “don’t maliciously apply a cheese grater to Maxima’s leather jacket.” For one thing, that wouldn’t work if Max was wearing the thing, and for another, no one really takes cheese graters to leather coats so it wouldn’t be an aphorism that anyone would identify with.
Gellen was always supposed to look like an anime pretty boy. You know, all bishonen like. But I’m terrible at drawing “pretty” boys, and I always get him wrong, so this time I used reference. In this case, the reference I used was Shin, from Fist of the Northstar, which is about as far from a bishonen title as it gets. But Shin had the long chin and intense eyes, as opposed to everyone else who square jawed to the point of deformity.
I want Gellen to sound like Ricardo Montalban, just because I saw an episode of Columbo where he played a famous matador. Colombo was in Mexico on vacation with oft talked about but never seen wife, and according to this episode, matadors were apparently treated like Dukes or something. Anyway, Montalban said “matador” like “mat-ta-DOR!” and that always stuck with me for some reason.
But then, almost anything Montalban said was cool sounding. I wonder if he talked like that off camera? It would be cool to hear him order lunch at the craft services table a few times, but eventually it would be frustrating cause it’d take three times as long for him to order his hot pocket and frito pie. (In this hypothetical I’m assuming Montalban had terminal indigestion.)
Actually, I wonder what a conversation between Montalban, Jack Palance, James Earl Jones, Charles Dance, Stacy Keach, Morgan Freeman, and John Wayne would be like, assuming they all used their full on-camera actor voices. There’d be so much gravitas the Earth would disappear into a singularitas.
But seriously, imagine Jack “Believe it……. >inhale<………….. or NOOOOOOOT!” Palance ordering a cheeseburger.
“I’d like…… >inhale<……….. a cheeeeeeseburger….. with no pickles………. >inhale< extra….. dijon mustard….. >inhale<……”
You get the idea. How long until you’d be like, “OHMYGODJUSTWRITEITDOWN!”
There is a new one coming soon, I promise!
The vote incentive is finally done!
The update to the TWC image is pretty minor, but the Patreon version has the bonus comic as well as nude versions. I will strive to make the next one more timely.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
You have drawn Gellen in several different ways but this is the best version that I have seen. Love it! Especially the last panel! Love it.
Also is that the jacket Anvil got her or a different one?
“So one Retro Future and one Astro Biker, then.”
“And I am the Matador of Tugging on Superman’s Cape!”
That works till Superman or in this case Max gives you a super wedgie.
Gellen might be into that.
The fact that Gellen and Omar haven’t become BFFs in-comic yet is a goldmine of humor waiting to be tapped.
(https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-365-the-actual-most-dangerous-game/)
wow when was the last time that Omar even appeared?
According to https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/tag/omar01/ it was back in #950.
Tags are behind. He was in the audience with Pinrin for the chapter with the big talk about Dabbler’s sisters sex aura setting everyone off.
If they integrated Sydney’s orbs into the suit in a way she could still access them and added some visuals, she might even get away with using them.
Maybe Cora’s hard light technology to create the appearance of force field emmiters for the shield orb, thrusters or such for the flight orb and an arm cannon for the PPO.
I hope he gives Halo a “veil” big enough to hide her orbs. She’d walk around like Sigmund the Sea-monster.
Now I just want to see Maxima cosplay as Psylocke….thanks for that….
Hmm, Max does have that billowy boat cloak. Could that count as “Superman’s Cape” in this context?
Still she would look good fighting in that, I mean she’d look good selling peanuts in that but you get what I mean
Special treat for her fireman boyfriend/date.
“I’d like…… >inhaleinhaleinhale<……”
Is how I speak. Asthma is a bitch
That is the only way matador is pronounced; putting the accent anywhere else would just be wrong. All Spanish words that use the -dor ending to mean “the doer of the thing” have the accent on the last syllable. Cazador=hunter, limpiador = cleaner, refrigerador = refrigerator. Of course Montalban could make a refrigerator sound like a heroic device performing a noble and difficult task.
“Cleft hugging” needs to be a vote incentive.
Okay, head canon is now recalibrated. Gellon sounds like Montalban.
Also look at that face. it’s hard to be mad at him
Dave,
How far back did you have Space Gladiator Ringer figured out for Maxima? Was it a recent Whim? Or maybe the entire comic was built for this moment? Always love the content you create!
I know you are using the double pointed ear as a way to make him look more “alien”, but instead my human brain is insisting it a normal ear with fight damage. I will try to explain it to my brain later.
Could we uhhhhh… get a look at some of those other options, maybe? As a vote incentive or something? Having the cheesecake of Max was nice, but more sydney cheesecake would be good too. Especially various silly outfits.
can i get both maxima and sydney cosplay? Please?
you don’t tug on Superman’s cape, drink the spit valve of a sac
x, you don’t pull the orbs away from the great Halo, and you don’t mess around with Max.
damnit, sax, not sac x
..I was hoping to see a Croce reference!