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!”

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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.

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Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.