Grrl Power #1439 – And the odds sweeten
You know, Maxima’s boss’s bosses might also think this was a wildly irresponsible thing to do as well. It will all depend on the final result of the tournament and how much detail she puts into her after action report. “Went shopping at alien mall. Bought some alien jetpacks. Don’t worry about how we got the money.” could play differently than “Almost died 17 times on alien bloodsport hell world and revealed every classified detail about U.S. Super power capabilities to trillions of viewers. Bought alien jetpacks.” Presumably the people above General Gault might not be satisfied with “Don’t worry about how we got the money,” so either way, Max will have some ‘splainin’ to do when she gets back.
I think Bluce is developing a crush, but he may have to wait several years to act on it.
The UCBA matches do have boundaries, but it’s so huge that ring-outs almost never happen. The arena boundaries are a lot bigger than that initial valley they started in, for example. It’s like a Long Island sized area. Just not as oblong. Unusual circumstances do happen, of course. Punching someone into orbit would do it, if they don’t fly back down the arena “ceiling” quickly enough. Portaling someone to a place that is effectively off-world would also do it.
“Saraviah” (sarah-VAI-ah) is too cool of a name to use once on this character who probably won’t appear again after this arc? I had trouble naming her so I went to the Fantasy Name Generator that I’ve had bookmarked every since I first found it and started hunting around. The thing is, I almost never use a name that’s generated there, but finding the right category then refreshing the name list a few times usually gets me in the ballpark. “Hmm, take the first half of that name…” (refresh) (refresh) “Ah hah! The perfect name! Kevin!”
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.
Sounds like Ma… Ixah* would go on such a rampage in the Feywilds, that the fey lord would beg her to leave (and then break Saraviah’s wand on the off-chance she tries to bring her back in).
I pity the Fairy Lord, locked up with Maxima… He’s going to feel like the prisoners locked up with Rorcharch.
If he’s not stupid, he’ll quickly come to this conclusion:
“I believe letting her go is the best solution; otherwise, she’ll ravage my domain and me as well.”
Maxima was not a Dʳ Manhattan level of power , but she is a reusable Tsar Bomba destruction wise.
Sarviah will have a lot of problems … with a fey lord mainly … “Do not send character of mass destruction into my domain !”
I was afraid something like this was going to happen. Showed too much prowess in combat so someone would have to take her out the sneaky way.
That little fey is a real powerhouse, with the benefit of her size granting her stealth… and she’s smart enough to realize Max is the biggest threat on the field.
‘Posing sexily’, Bluce? Seriously? She’s popping her knuckles. Unless you enjoy getting beaten up (not judging, folks), that doesn’t seem very sexy to me.
“We are now short on time, but wsit, look over there, it looks like Ixah has gotten out of the fey realm”
“Yes, but she has been transformed, or even upgraded to a gold skin instead of purple, and she seems angrier than before!”
“Also, she seems to be holding the fey lord by his tail… Ladies snd gentlealiens, we have not seen this before!”
It looks like Max’s “fast enough to catch bullets” speed of perception and movement is lagging behind as it often does.
Maybe said bullet-catching perception superspeed should just be retconned to having never been a thing if it’s proving to be too annoying to keep including in her powerset?
This leaves her with only strength, flight, armor, and energy atttacks.
Those 4 are after all what she’s almost always using despite the absurdity that is superspeed vs non-superspeed opponents and how many situations she could have solved if she wasn’t somehow taken by surprise by things that would have been very slowly happening over the course of several minutes from her perspective.
Maybe she just didn’t put enough points in speed.
And maybe speed doesn’t matter if you’re caught completely unawares, say by a tiny pixie moving around a loud battlefield.
Or by a normal human woman vomiting on your boots.
Who says the fey portal trap is as slow as a bullet?
Sure, the announcers are commenting on it but they have to be slowing down footage for faster opponents.
Then the obvious winner would be a support class Transporter like Sydney dragging people out through portals for 30 seconds.
Seems like contenders would then have to have an “anchor” power or forfeit.
Flere-Imsaho , A knife-missile from The Culture would win by hyperspace displacement unless you can disrupt portals or anchor. -source The Player of Games from Ian Banks
That’s assuming said support class can force people through the portals, how big they are, and if their power is the kind that can spawn them on top of people.
It’s a powerful trick but heavily dependent on how exactly the transportation ability works mechanically.
And Max solves the maze with super speed in 3, 2, 1…
Well, Max DID beat that stasis beam gun Lapha tried on her in a few seconds. I can’t imagine some no-name servant of Mab or Titania doing much better.
Guess it’s Max’s turn to get caught in some time dilation. Syndey came out fine from her experience, so Max should be golden too.
I see what you did there, and I like it.
Super speed perception only works if Maxima is ready for it. Remember the bank and not being able to dodge biohazard level Sydney barf?
I’ve just noticed something, Bluce kinda looks like Maxima’s Firefighter Boyfriend.
It might only be his moustache, yet there is a resemblance there.
I hope this isn’t foreshadowing something.
100 space money says she’s out over there in like… three panels
In hindsight, considering the sheer breadth of supernatural abilities out there, this maybe shouldn’t be a regular thing. On the off chance Max gets hit by a “Go straight to Hell.” ability.
I predict nukes. Lots of nukes. You deal with a maze by removing the maze.