Grrl Power #1505 – Let’s meet more contestants
Okay, first thing’s first – Max did not pose hands-on-hips-chest-thrust-out no-looking the explosion behind her. Don’t get me wrong, she’s definitely no-looked plenty of explosions, but she doesn’t really do the Superman pose. So the image they’re showing is probably a “for illustrative purposes only” generated image.
Also I think Max’s Ixah holo-disguise is making her boobs look bigger. It’s definitely not because I’ve accidentally been afflicting her with cup-creep over the last few dozen pages.
If you recall, Thothogoth is “Dominus Secund” of The World Takers. Yes, I know on that linked page, he calls himself “The World Taker” not “of The World Takers,” but he’s being aspirational there, not to mention trying to sound tough to the flying gold woman. The thing is, demon society is rather hierarchical, and there’s eleven other “Secunds,” besides Thom, who each have 12 subordinates below them, who each have below them 12 subordinates, etc. Yeah, it’s a weirdly rigid structure for beings that claim to be all about chaos. Well, speaking of chaos, were something permanent to happen to Dominus Prime during the tournament, (or even just while he’s commuting to work or whatever) there’d probably be a heck of a power struggle to claim that top spot.
Green Strider is the longest-in-the-queue waiting Patreon cameo I had. I think he’s been waiting since about a week after I set up my Patreon actually. I just never quite figured out how to fit a… oh, heck. I just realized it’s “sentai,” not “zentai.” Yeah, I know zentai is the skintight onesie, and sentai is the genre of people wearing skintight onesies and fighting goofy rubber monsters. I’m not gonna change it. It makes “the mysterious zentainium force” even funnier to me. Anyway, I never figured out how to fit a sentai character into the comic, but now here we finally are. I think the reference picture I have is from a City of Heroes character creator maybe? But it’s just the one shot and it’s kind of covered in glowy… bits, and it’s just a single angle, so I have to simplify the suit design a bit and make up some of the rest, but hopefully he will be amusing in his role as a UCBA finalist.
Oh, look who it is in the vote incentive. The NSFW version is finally up at Patreon. Plus a bonus pic.
I think she would get in trouble for doing this. She’d mess up the… floor of the waterfall? Is that what it’s called? The receiving pool? No, probably not that. Anyway, she’d churn things up and cause a ton of weird erosion.
Since you might be wondering, Niagara Falls is about 165 feet high, so Babezilla obviously doesn’t have to be full sized. I’d say she’s about 175-180 feet tall here?
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
For anyone that used to play and somehow hasn’t heard about it yet, City of Heroes is actually still around and there is even a licensed private server – Homecoming.
Is that the same as “Champions Online”?
Better
Hoping to see my Kobold then soon :D
So either Maxima’s being lewded on Galnet, or Gail wants to get into her glo-bod. Super.
I’d bet on a “both and” rather than an “either or”, here.
As to the world takers having a rigid power structure: even in a chaotic society, the guy on top of the heap wants to stay that way, which means he needs some semblance of structure in his inner circle, at least. And demons respond well (or at least better) to forceful administration.
Does the promotional picture feature Ixah with a different number of abs on the left than the right side?
And goddamn, yep her boobs have been upsized to the size of her head in that promo.
I hope that is a deliberate dig at ‘AI’ “art”, rather than a sign that Dave has started using it exclusively…
Did… you read the Authurb? Maybe read the Authurb
I did, but I thought he only mentioned the growing ‘plots of land’…
Ah well, my mistake.
First paragraph :)
Sounds like Gail wants to be ‘harvested’ by Ixah ;)
Reading the Authurb, sounds like that “World Takers” thing is just a demonic pyramid scheme
Despite Xuriel’s protestations, that wouldn’t be the universe’s greatest shocker.
The Kardashev scale is a measure for the advancement of civilizations. A Kardashev-1 species has harnessed all of the energy output of their planet. Kaedashev-2 has harnessed all of the energy of their star. Kardashev-3, all of their galaxy.
That’s… a big leap from Star to Galaxy
It’s explicitly an exponential scale of measurement, yeah. Planet –> Star/Solar System* —> Galaxy —-> universe???
*Ive never actually thought to wonder how the Kardashev scale applies to a binary star system in the sci-fi exclusive scenario of both stars being close enough to meaningfully affect a planet, if they need to Dysonize both stars or just one to be eligible for K-2.
It’s also a big leap from planet to star, to be fair. Actually, since a star is both much larger AND with a much higher energy-per-mass potential, the original Kardashev scale had roughly the same jump (x10 billion) between Type I and II, and between Type II and Type III civilisations.
I have no problem with Thothogoth calling himself “The World Taker” when he’s just *a* World Taker. After all, Tyler The Creator is not making any claim with his name to be the only creator. (See also Bob The Builder.)
As someone who actually is cursed with boobs that size in real life… my back hurts so much just looking at that pose. I wish I had super strength and a magical built-in forcefield! LOL.
I hope Egg-Bot’s main weapon is a cane that he uses like sword to go along with that top hat and cape!
Kinda ironic that the “AI” for the UCBA’s marketing department put Ixah in a superhero pose. Maybe it knows?
Things to notice:
“only other woman on the team” is something Bluce felt he could mention as a fun fact. Judging from previous commentary it’s probably because of displayed personal sexual preferences, which in turn are shaped by viewer statistics(in that a sports commentator’s commentary should be relatable to the viewers). From this we can with reasonable certainty infer a majority viewership with a humanoid binary gender-scale with according sexual preferences, at least for this particular duo, as opposed to enjoyers of genderless, nonhumanoid, mysterious third, fourth, fifth, or n-th options.
Additionally we can see that humanoid body plans dominate the tournament. The worm thing was the only exception, and it was a battleship. Even supernatural, magical, or constructed contestants adhered to humanoid forms, perhaps with some added wings. A fascinating trend.
I think the contestant to watch out for here is eggbot, who may pull some fuckery with Max’s disguise.
I don’t think there is really much of a power contest otherwise.
I really want to see how a cliché righteous comeback works against a good person like Maxima, so I’m rooting for “Not Green Lantern” to be a real challenge. Something tells me though that Maxima has had a lot of practice against inventive opponents, thanks to her sparring with Dabbler sometimes.
I wonder if righteous comebacks only work against evil people who love to monologue.
If that cameo is almost as old as the Patreon then I guess nobody could’ve known at that point that fitting Power Ranger type heroes into a hero comic that makes fun of all the tropes would pose a challenge at all.
GO EGGBOT!
Which came first, the Eat Chicken or the Egg Bot?
Yeah, we know the answer already, sorry, sorry!
Is there a zentaitherapy cure for serious cases of cupcreep? Perhaps animeassage or zordplancking?
I wonder if Maxima is watching this? Probably not now, but I hope we get her reaction later.
It’s good to see Parfait comforting Thom, she’s such a good girl.
And you guys out there hoping for “Gail X Ixah” need to chill. It’s just announcer banter when she tells Bluce to get in line. Too bad, I know, sorry to have to break it to you.
I do wonder if they will cover the odds going into the final? It would be a good link to the main story line.