Grrl Power #1259 – Activate sexy chick theme song
Max had a “workout top” in her trunk, though the hip huggers probably required a quick flight back to her closet.
And before you ask, yes, she is using about 10-6 of her flight power to make her hair just a teensy bit “underwatery.” So she’s not really entering in slow motion while her “Sexy Chick Theme Song” plays, but it kind of looks like it.
I’m not sure what Maxima’s sexy chick song is. Sydney has Bad to the Bone set as Maxima’s ringtone, but Brick House by the Commodores would be totally appropriate as well, or some custom march like Oren Ishii got. What wouldn’t work for her is some straight up sexy song, like Foxy Lady. What Maxima really needs is a song like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, but to my knowledge, there really aren’t any songs about women who a badder than a junkyard dog and are therefore awesome, and not psychos who key your car, Carrie. Maybe there’s some sea shanty about the girl waiting for a sailor at port who drinks dwarves under the table and brawls with pirates, but if so, it’s probably not a “sexy” song. Sexy songs need electric guitar. Songs that are too sexy need saxophone.
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Every so often I get the urge to try and draw Maxima all properly shiny, and this… isn’t my favorite attempt if I’m honest. I’ve been sitting on this for a little while doing little tweaks, and decided to finally publish it cause I’m already behind on these. The next one will (almost definitely) resume the trend of including a little mini comic to extend the scene a bit.
As usual, Patreon has some outfit variations as well as sans flagrante.
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Things needed for a theme song for Maxima:
1. Unapologetically feminine
2. Powerful
3. Not romantic. The sexy just comes from overwhelming “badass woman” vibes. The draw isn’t for normal bland men, but either for total subs ready to submit completely or the strongest of men who know being better means setting aside ego, and embracing that she will always better, but able to always push him to be better and beyond.
4. Considering her generally golden appearance and elven-like ears, something non-standard and not quite earth-bound in the sound (so rock-and-roll is just out, needs to be a less common sound)
With this, we can narrow down her list of ideal theme songs significantly:
Lindsey Stirling is a goldmine of potential Maxima songs.
That said, although Roundtable Revival and Artemis may come to mind
One song screams to be considered for Maxima: Inner Gold
That said, I feel it needs a bit more energy, and so the Nightcore remix of Inner Gold hits a lot closer to home. Just need a little more bass line in the background.
It’s much too late, but I always assumed Sydney’s ringtone would be Super Trouper by Abba:
Like a super trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Smiling, having fun
Feeling like I’m number one
There are songs for Maxima.. Tho they are AI generated XD
I don’t think Dave understood what he did. He put a number to Maxima’s power(at least her flight power). We can now math out her top average speed if we take the average speed of “-hair just a teensy bit ‘underwatery.'” and then multiply that by “about 10 to the power of 6”, which if my failing memory of highschool math means by 1,000,000. I mean, I’m not going to do it, but now that it’s out there, it can be mathed. Granted, he’s the author and Max can do anything he wants her to, including but not limited to, punching the sun and giving it a black eye.
“About” being the operative word. It may be off by a factor thousand. “about to the power of minus six” might be more accurately “to the power of minus 9”. Her top speed is classified and she admitted herself, she never went top speed. Maybe the “to the power of minus six” is merely relative to how fast she is publically known to be able to go.
Damn egg heads lol. I love you guys.
Note that her friction coefficient might be mathematically approaching zero, because her ‘friction’ is against a forcefield, which might well had a perfect teardrop shape AND be perfectly smooth while in flight. Given her much smaller cross-section, her drag is likely much, much less than any aircraft.
I know that Dave was just pulling a number out of his butt that sounded about right but I decided to run the numbers on it anyway because it’s fun.
I looked up the weight of human hair and got about 4ozs. So I assumed max was applying about 1oz of force to give it that extra bounce. That means she can create about 1 million ozs of force. That’s about double the force of your average modern fighter jet.
I then used the drag formula to find the coefficient of friction for a fighter (assuming a top speed of Mach 2 at 30,000 ft). I assumed max has a similar coefficient (most of the time hers would likely be much higher because of clothing but I bet she could streamline it down with the right materials). And I assumed her cross sectional area is between 1/5 to 1/20 of a fighter jet.
This gave me a top speed for maxima of Mach 6 to Mach 12 at 30,000 ft. A broad range, but surprisingly it seems to be in the right ballpark given other things we’ve learned from the comic. Maybe Dave did actually do the math.
The PIDOOMA algorithm is a time tested method of approximation.
(That’s “Pulled it Directly Out Of My …”)
We also know that she moved fast enough to obliterate a cloud. Which is more math.
It’s likely on the higher end because her near skin tight force field can be assumed to be frictionless and covers her cloths.
those calculations only work if it’s a linear progression.
The drag equation is quadratic, not linear. However your larger point that I’m oversimplifying is very true. While the simple drag equation can be used for supersonic speeds, I know am ignoring a few factors (and probably some I’m not even aware of). I’m not qualified to give more precise analysis, and it’s probably not necessary to get the ballpark numbers I was looking for.
I must say that when Max decide to do “some girly shit to defend her man” she doesn’t mess around, so Fisky’s “Oh My God!” is fully justified.
:D
At last!! For once, just once, Max gets to act like a sex-positive feminist of her own initiative and not like her usual and insufferable prudish self. Her feminist paranoia and prudishness in sexual matters is one of the aspects I dislike the most about her character and the story.
As a rule, I much prefer Hiro rather than Rowan as a potential romantic/sexual partner for Max. This mostly because I am persuaded super/super couples just work better in most cases than super/Muggle ones, provided there is enough of a superhuman community/subculture to work as a dating pool of course, but you take what you get. I do like Rowan, but I am just biased in favor of the super/super relationship.
I also think Hiro would be a good partner for her, but the fact remains that he’s her direct subordinate, so not eligible.
If they keep adding members to the Arc-SWAT field team, sooner rather than later it shall make sense to split it in multiple ones. Hiro or Anvil look like good candidates to command Team B. He can take that position, or transfer to the second team, he is no longer her subordinate, fraternization problem solved. It is just organizational/bureaucratic (and narrative) inertia at this point that keeps Max and Hiro pinned in their pining stance.
Except that Anvil is a non-Com (Sargeant, I think?) and may not be interested in transitioning from a very senior enlisted position to being a very junior officer.
Not insurmountable, no. But something to consider.
There’s also the issue that splitting the team might not make Hiro available if Max remains in overall field command.
Anvil would also have to forget how to read a map.
Ehhh. I like the idea of super/super as a couple (mainly so Max doesn’t roll over and accidentally kill her partner by flinging an arm out and hitting his head or something), but I really don’t think Hiro is right for her.
Notwithstanding the commander/subordinate issue, Hiro has been depicted as… well, “he gets around.” Super-hero groupies, maybe (he did bring the two of them back to base), Cora and Crimson, definitely. Actually, I’d kinda like to see him pair with Crimson semi-seriously (semi due to not knowing whether that would fly with Ingsol). *shrug* His profile literally says he’s “something of a lad”–he’s all for a casual fling, and he knows he’s attractive. I can see his pairing with Max ending very, very badly. :(
I like Rowan better. I view him as more heroic, because he’s a normal man who doesn’t have omghax superpowers but he’s intelligent, respectful, cognizant of his own faults and willing to take steps to address them, works TWO jobs that are all about helping people in a way that has nothing to do with inflicting violence, and when confronted with a potential suitor for Max’s attentions who was fuck you levels of wealthy didn’t take it as a blow to his ego. Rowan is peak REAL man, an excellent blend of good looking, fit, intelligent, and ethically impeccable. He’s not afraid to drink a sweet alcohol in public out of a perception of manliness or lack thereof, he’s considerate of other people’s feelings, and he’s actually both clever and funny.
Ok, that’s surprisingly “girly” for Maxima, relatively speaking, i.e. she’s still way more masculine than all the guys in that shot. Someone needs to tell her that it’d be a lot more girly to dress conservatively and be soft and cute, because I think she could pull that off as well. I don’t mean that she should be like those kawaii/moé Anime girls, but a soft and serene confidence like e.g. Yoruichi from Bleach (minus the fanservice) could suit her well I believe and she wouldn’t feel like she has to reveal herself in public like this.
I actually much prefer the outfit she wore on her meeting with Deus. That long coat looked pure awesome.
She is putting on a show to mess with his colleagues, so it makes sense she’s dressed outside what she’d normally wear.
She didnt want Deus staring at her ‘yabbos’ after the initial shock wore off, ruining the power dynamic. Hence the mess dress at the restaurant. The whole point of this though it to show off the aforementioned yabbos and the rest of her body in order to make Rowan’s friends never tease Rowan about the existence of his anazon supermodel girlfriend ever again, maximizing the power dynamic in her (and Rowan’s) favor for the entire encounter.
She is dressing with the proper tools for the goal. :)
For soundtrack for Maxima, I’d recommend a song I’ve used for a super-powerful female in one of my RPG campaigns:
Simply Irresistible by Robert Palmer
With lines like:
“she’s a powerful force” and “The woman is invincible”
it gives a nice undertone of Max’s capabilities, even if currently hidden.
I’d say ‘Godhunter’ by the Aviators would work for Maxima, but maybe save that til after she’s physically humbled a couple.
Harper tells Rowan about some “location shoots” in and around the Comic Book Route in Brussel Belgium (anyone here familiar with Belgian comics?)
Just go here:
https://www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/what-to-do/brussels-the-comic-strip-capital
I grew up in Québec City, in the 70s and 80s, so I am quite familiar with those Franco-Belgian comic books…
Asterix, Tintin, Spirou and Fantasio, Achille Talon, Gaston Lagaffe, Lucky Luke, Les Schtroumps (the smurfs, with the original French name), Les Petits Hommes (the small men – people from a village who shrank in size, after coming in contact with a meteorite fragment that had landed there), Cubitus, Boule et Bill, and so, so many more…
I actually found a place, this year (the internet archive, I think), where I was able to download whole series of franco-belgian comics PDFs. I was so happy! It make take me years, depending on how much free time I have, to read them all. I thought I had died and gone to heaven!
For a maxima themesong, I am thinking “Supergirl” by “Reamon”
https://youtu.be/ucI3IpuM-NQ
Supermodels fly.
So do Superheroines.
I would go with a classic as well.
That entrance deserves straight up the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Is it me, or does “Fisky” here kinda look like Neil deGrasse Tyson?
It’s not just you.
Pour some sugar on me is what I would set as the ringtone for Maxima if she and I were together
Cherry Bomb. I figure bad reputation could work too. But honestly, if you’re going for sexy AND badass Cherry bomb by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts pretty much nails it. Plus the whole explody stuff!
Cherry Bomb was The Runaways
Maxima pulls out her most powerful weapon of all; Girl Abs!
Roller Derby Queen by Jim Croce comes to mind, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy7XPUqNN0
“Simply Irresistible” – Robert Palmer
You’ve been… …
Thunderstruck
The previous posts have many fantastic song suggestions for Maxima’s entrance in this scene. I liked almost all of them. My contribution — Supernova by Liz Phair: https://youtu.be/tM60GAPIXTY?si=Y6wxY-fcqpA__hdC
Call Me …… or…….I’m gonna Getcha. Both sung by Debbie Harry. The band name escapes me.
Blondie
Max initially struck me as being compatible with this song for entrance purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivt_N2Zcts
However, after re-listening to the music, I believe that’s the entrance that Dabbler imagines Maxima would have, so.. yeah.
Tank from Cowboy Bebop comes to mind.
Dabbler’s song is Maneater by Hall & Oates!
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress by the Hollies
I would vote for “Jenny” by Clairy Borwne and the Bangin’ Rockettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F79tdqzwlGo
“Maybe there’s some sea shanty about the girl waiting for a sailor at port who drinks dwarves under the table and brawls with pirates, but if so, it’s probably not a “sexy” song.”
Hmmm. Santa Sangria by “Mr. Hurley und die Pulveraffen” maybe. It’s a Samba rythm song about the legendary barkeeper Santa Sangria, sung by a pirate folk band.