Grrl Power #1445 – Pinocchi-oh no!
Maxima obviously has extraordinarily strong bones and ligaments and tendons etc – like, “make a space elevator cable out of that stuff” strong, so when she cracks her joints, it sound a bit like the 1812 Overture. The version where they fire actual cannons to go along with the symphony.
Fun fact, in panel 2, I had planned to draw Cora with her arm somehow extended out so she was covering herself from “4th wall camera angle” POV, but… there just wasn’t a natural angle that didn’t either look like she was intentionally being modest, which she wouldn’t be, or didn’t look like I had grabbed a 3D model by the elbow joint and just yanked it into position with no thought to how humans actually move their limbs. So, poor planning on my part. Instead I’m pretending like she put up a modesty filter than only Maxima can see somehow.
Technically, they’re on P.T.O. – I know it’s called “leave” in the military, but they’re a domestic branch, so a lot of people on the team call it P.T.O. – so Maxima can’t officially get upset at Sydney or Harem for having a topless watch party with “friends of the team.” Honestly, she’s not so much a stick in the mud that she’d even care, especially after while coming down from her battle royale adrenaline high. If Harem and Cora sit down at the dinner table later with their knoks out (which is British slang, I assume for “knockers” that I heard once on… Blackadder? Or Red Dwarf. Definitely one of the two.) then Max might at least tell Harem to go teleport a shirt on. (She can’t teleport things to her, but she’s trying to learn to teleport small things that one of her is holding to another her. No luck yet.)
Ah! I thought I had more time till March. I’m bad at looking at dates apparently. The new one is underway. I should have a draft ready to go for the next Monday comic?
Here is Gaxgy’s painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.
I did try and do an oil painting version of this, by actually re-painting over the whole thing with brush-strokey brushes, but what I figured out is that most brushy oil paintings are kind of low detail. Sure, a skilled painter like Bob Ross or whoever can dab a brush down a canvas and make a great looking tree or a shed with shingles, but in trying to preserve the detail of my picture (eyelashes, reflections, etc) was that I had to keep making the brush smaller and smaller, and the end result was that honestly, it didn’t really look all that oil-painted. I’ll post that version over at Patreon, just for fun, but I kind of quit on it after getting mostly done with re-painting Max.
Patreon has a no-dragon-bikini version of of the picture as well, naturally.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
I think disney’s lawyers are ringing at your door lmao
It’s fair use (Satire) So he probably shouldnt worry too much. Although it is Disney. At least it’s not Nintendo.
King Ludwig II of Barvaria countersues, suing Disney for misappropriating Neuschwanstein Castle, seeking damages and legal costs.
“Fun fact, in panel 2, I had planned to draw Cora with her arm somehow extended out so she was covering herself from “4th wall camera angle” POV, but… there just wasn’t a natural angle that didn’t either look like she was intentionally being modest, which she wouldn’t be, or didn’t look like I had grabbed a 3D model by the elbow joint and just yanked it into position with no thought to how humans actually move their limbs.”
Aren’t Cora’s limbs holographic? She could bend them however she wanted, or even stretch them out into hentai noodle tentacles if she really wanted to, since they’re programmable light and force fields, not flesh and blood.
Yeah, but she spent a majority of her developmental life functioning with static physical cybernetic/prosthetic replicas of human anatomy. And her general base level neurology would still be tuned for “normal” human physical movement, though being born with no arms and legs would obviously throw that off some. While her limbs may be holographic and subject to configurations of her whims, notice how her default “comfort” state is standard human normal.
Is Cora intentionally teasing Maxima, just like Dabbler does?
Because, if she can plop up “Maxima-dependent modesty bars” just for M’s vision, she could also just display a regular top.
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Or is that modesty-bar the compromise for the comic readers, who gets to see neither “Maxima’s vision” nor unobstructed vision?
I think you’ve crossbred the slang – both knockers and norks are slang for breasts, but not knocks. We norks as slang off the Ozzies decades ago (it was common enough in my childhood, so must’ve be stolen pre-80s).
Fun fact – I live near to the village of Nork (sadly singular). I definitely do not snigger every time I drive past signs for Nork Park and Nork Clinic.
To be fair, in Britain /everything/ is slang for either breasts or drunkenness. It makes me so proud…
“much of time” should probably just be “much time”.
Oh, yeesh. Yeah, just the image of a kaiju robot dropping inside of a castle filled with people is crazy.
I’ve been mulling that “black hole” a bit, and really, you’d get much the same effects from a few million tons of neutronium, and a whole lot less hassle to manipulate, presuming you had some technique to stabilize it for at least a short time. It surely would be an energy drain to push that much mass around, though the mass would be a lot less than any size of black hole that produced visible distortions. This would be “grain of sand” size vs essentially zero for a black hole, but similar effects and much less work.
Neutronium is ‘neutronium’ because the gravitiy of the star (itself) keeps it compressed. Take a part of it away and it won’t be neutronium anymore very quickly.
Yeah, at that point, it essentially becomes an enormous fission bomb.
“You were close enough to hear a neutronium pile let go?”
“It makes a very distinctive SKOOOM.”
“I’ll buy the beer.”
One of the many many ways that fantasy and science fiction fail to use logical applications of teleportation.
It is the rare exception where a story visits the horrific results of teleporting the core of a star a few seconds into the future. To name one weirdly specific example.
I was expecting the magical healing potion to give Maxima a severe case of the giggles, minor hallucinations and perhaps temporary muscle weakness. You wouldn’t want any of those during battle but it would not be a problem otherwise.
How much would Deus pay for panel 1?
He has already drawn it in his book.
No, not that book, the other one. But not the other other one. He does still see her as a prospect, after all.
How much WILL he pay for a Gaxgy original?
Wow. You literally made the castle uninhabited. That’s almost as sad as the wall of text you used to reassure your readers. Are they really so fragile? Or are you just that afraid of the ones who are? Wouldn’t it be great to live in a world where you can just create awesome works of art without fear of the most fragile among us? But I get it, if you don’t bend the knee to them they will literally threaten your life and liberty, and they have that power over you because the Party gives it to them. And the Party has the power to give because those who see their victims are too afraid to speak (or vote) against them.
…what the heck are you talking about? Do you seriously think there’s some organisation that gets litigious about fictional off-screen deaths, of all things? Do you realise how commonplacethose are in fiction?
Or some sort of public outcry? Where was that controversy when Star Wars: Episode VII decided to out-do the Death Star’s destruction of Alderaan by blowing up a star and killing over a hundred billion?
In fact, here’s a random and extremely incomplete list of body counts in fiction, which (despite that incompleteness) doesn’t dip under a billion until entry 37:
https://listofdeaths.fandom.com/wiki/Highest_To_Lowest_Body_Counts
A more realistic interpretation would be that neither Maxima nor Sydney would be happy with the mass killing of innocents (though Maxima, at least, is somewhat more accepting of the deaths of non-innocents).
I did think she would have noticed Sydney’s gigantic hooters right off, broken ribs or not.
I’ll, considering she didn’t know if it was or wasn’t inhabited ‘It turns out it was okay and you didn’t commit murder for the sake of making some money in a tournament’ is…thin comfort. It does kinda still leave ‘Okay but you were willing to take that risk’, which is a level of risky I feel like she’d absolutely chew out any member of her team over.