Grrl Power #1492 – Glamazon in the space shower
Yup, Max’s sass seems to have leveled up. Or maybe it’s because she’s not surrounded by subordinates?
In between pages, Sydney did ask Max why she chose a hot shower over the mechanical space-latex scraping chopstick machine that she used last time, but halfway through she realized she’d answered her own question.
This is a kind of weird lecture from Max, given that Galen (or Gellen, as I was reminded last page. I did the same thing with his name as Slyv/Sylv. But I’m not going to sit here and tell you his full name is Galen Gellen like I did with Sylv.) Anyway, Galen is from a considerably more sex-positive society than Max, and he’s not even from the space equivalent of a red state, which means he actually knew how sex and reproduction works at some point in… I guess, late middle school. And going to space school where you have to learn 6,000 different species worth of sex organs, that’s no small feat. In practical terms, what that means is Space High School tends to be a lot unofficial practical field learning. I.E., hands on learning about all the A-Z spots and all that.
On the other hand, Galen is like 6’10” and proportionally endowed like he’s on the large end of porn stars, and hangs out with Cora, who is in some ways competitive with Dabbler. You know, for a woman who isn’t actually partially comprised of and powered by sex magic. So maybe he could use a bit of a reality check. Well, not reality, more of a “people who aren’t living the life of sexually charged space adventurers.”
So here’s a question. Is Cora really a real size-queen if she has bio-mods making it easier to handle large pizza deliveries with extra sausage? She got the bio-mods originally mostly for compatibility and her own safety. But she has kind of taking a liking to certain… ratios. I don’t know if women take any sort of psychological satisfaction in… you know, internalizing a larger partner. I kind of suspect outside of a certain subset, the answer is no. Like, it’s the end of the 3rd date, and things are progressing, and his pants come down, and there’s a lot on display, are women more like, “Ooh, a challenge!” or “Oh, god. That’s going to hurt.” I suspect more fall into the latter category in all honesty. So, for a purist size-queen, I think Cora is on the outs. But if all you care about is how much goes where, then she’s a pro.
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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?
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Sydney, a better question would be why you would not take an actual hot shower when the option is available…
Maybe the details get too technical here but is penetrative sex with Max really impossible? Or is that something she made up to let Gellen down easier? I know her skin is different does that play into it? There’s actually a lot of details that could make the logistics of sex with a super complicated. Is this why Anvil has a thing for tall dudes? She needs a man with enough height to reach? Are they both afraid of crushing their lovers snu snu style? I’m sure with Max’s power she’s not doing anything she doesn’t want but impossible is a big claim to make. I hope she’s found a method to get her satisfaction regardless.
Wait upon re-read I think I get it. It’s not a problem with Max but with Gellen. He’s too big or at least that’s the implication and because Max is so naturally tough trying to make that work would be a bad time for Gellen even if Max was eager for it. That’s tough. Ouch.
What Max is saying is that she isn’t in to hung guys, and Gellen would likely injure himself trying. She’s too tough to be forced to ‘flex’ that much. Like trying to force your dick down a steel pipe that was too narrow.
What I’m curious about is how Max’s boyfriend doesn’t realize something’s up with her? Dabbler’s spell apparently covers the feel of her skin, even mid coitus?
Probably because either 1) Max and her boyfriend have not yet progressed to having sex yet, and are only on second base or something, or 2) Max’s boyfriend does not have a comically oversized manhood, and therefore it’s not as difficult for Maxima to lower her ‘toughness’ to a point where they can both enjoy it.
I would guess that Max probably chose her boyfriend in part due to having an impression that he was a compatible size. As I understand it, a lot of women do this. Maybe it’s not as clear to most people, but I’m at the lower end of ‘porn size large’, and I’ve had the ‘too large’ rejection quite a bit.
How would she know what size he was?
Or, another possibility is what Maxima is saying to Mr. Galen G. Gellen (the G stands for Gaelin probably) is a lie/fabrication to be polite and spare him his feelings, since he’s not saying this stuff from some point of misogyny or sexist harassment, and she is friendly with Cora and her crew.
Now I have to wonder at this point, how will she hypothetically have a child should that ever occur? If for some reason her vaginal canal is inflexible and doesn’t do the normal expanding to the point where Gellen would be in danger (Even at the large end of porn his dick is not comparable in mass to a 10lb human child.)There’s no way should could have a cesarian, so is Maxima functionally incapable of delivering a child should she become pregnant (if that’s even possible, maybe her eggs are similarly impenetrable as her flesh)?
Dude, that’s not how birth works contractions take sometimes over a day to make the birth canal etc large enough for the baby (oftentimes not that long, depends on the pregnancy). This is a natural process, that women are built to be capable of. A bit of foreplay to accommodate an oversized man does not function the same way AT ALL All that to say, her body is still human. Assuming she’s capable of becoming pregnant (who knows? Non-golden women can struggle with this too), giving birth wouldn’t be a problem, unless DaveB decides it’s canonically going to be for some reason.
That is actually how that works though. If her vagina is SO inflexible that it won’t expand for a rigid object, then it stands to reason that it won’t expand for a baby. Because you’re conflating the cervix dilating with the vagina expanding. The vagina is naturally flexible and stretchy, it doesn’t expand naturally further during child birth, it stretches as a result of the baby being forced through it. Now The CERVIX does dilate and open wide for the baby to pass through which it does not do during intercourse/arousal. The vaginal canal doesn’t undergo any special extra expansion or stretchyness during pregnancy beyond its normal elasticity. So my point stands, if it won’t stretch for a man, it won’t stretch for a baby.
Maxima canonically has weird biology, so it’s quite possible pregnancy isn’t possible at all for her.
Sure, her eggs might have super tough shells, etc. The question was more, if she’s able to conceive can she actually deliver a baby without tragedy. Actually I wonder were she able to have an egg fertilized, would it be able to implant in her uterus? just how impenetrable is her body. These are the weird questions nobody should be thinking about.
So back to a technical question, can max overall power down in some way? Or for the safety of her partners, maybe put all power into blasting and then not use it?
DaveB has already mentioned she can power down certain elements of her power to normal-or-somewhat-above-normal-but-not-ridiculously-powerful in the past.
It all depends on the nature of her toughness. Generally metaphysical durability reduces being cut, pinched , or impact damage. While retaining tactile sensation and normal elasticity. That last one being the most important here.
However Max has special skin, so a Colossus of the X-Men kind of situation where you get an increase in durability but also a loss in elasticity. So perhaps Maxima even at a lower power down can be elastic enough for a smaller size that would fit naturally but ironically a larger size can’t (stretch) her so like trying to squeeze through a thick rubber hose or steel pipe.
It’s probably just that no level of her durability makes her *more* elastic. And she’s not “trained” for this magnitude.
So either she powers down and risks injury from being stretched too much, or she uses her powers to maintain a safe maximum for her – which would however still mean Gellen would have to cram his “cylinder” into too small of a space. Neither of which make for a great experience for either of them. It’s a lose/lose scenario.
Or she has a boyfriend, doesn’t want to have sex, and is letting him down easy.
I think she could make it work. I also think she’s keeping her refusal exceptionally nice because Cora’s crew have done things like replace Peggy’s leg and might do similar things in the future.
I think Max is effectively a reverse size queen due to lack of flexibility. Think of it this way, a rubber band is way more flexible and stretchy than a car tire despite both being made of rubber. Max’s flesh is made of tire rubber so it’s more resistant to stretching than Cora’s rubber band flesh. Though it makes me wonder if her partner were also a super with resilience approaching hers, such as Hiro or Achilles, then things would be normal, you know “only a diamond can scratch another diamond”
I suppose Max doesn’t (yet) know about the potion Sydney begged of Dabbler. Which would solve the problem.
If she wants it to be solved.
I’m assuming it works on supers. Yes I know Sydney isn’t a super herself (unless her power is compatibility with Nth tech devices), but I think Dabbler would have found out earlier if that were the case.
it’s confirmed to work on supers because harem took one of her last vials of it when shacking up with the green crewman like 30 pages ago.
Is this where you learn that you’re red-green colorblind, or have you just gotten Altus and Sylv confused?
It’s not a matter of impenetrable skin. It’s a matter of super strength and vaginal muscles.
Considering the kind of shit Bad Dragon produces, some women(and some men too I guess) are just into that kind of shit.
There is also a youtube short by Cera Gibson with a tape measure explaining the size difference between “fine” and “entirely unethical”
Well, there’s a separate (very popular) category dedicated entirely to unethical-sized toys. Being used to the limit. Sometimes twice (in a row and/or stacked)
Those toys are also very bendy. I doubt he wound appreciate his member bending in half.
At least, bending the wrong way…
Any way is the wrong way
I had an idea last night and this is the site I post my ideas on because i’m not Teck savvy.
An idea for Brits who have to live on the Isle of Man.
Build a large TV/Movie/Music studio on the Isle of Man for tax reasons and rent them out to the various companies that have actors/musicians who have to live there because otherwise the government would eat all their money.
They have all that talent stuck there for months on end, why not have a place to work?
It would generate jobs for the local economy, and bring people in from outside for business, and Tourist money.
And yet, *somehow*, Deus managed…
Ah, that claim. Might he not have been the poor lad with the sense of humor. That is to say, how many fingers am I holding up? Oh you can’t hear it? Let me turn it up. Or you could just read between the lines.
p.s. only time IRL I thought I had got my own dumb self… Did that to mom when I was 13(she ticked me off). I’ve walked minefields, touched live wires hot enough to blow a tesla coil, petted things from between spaces and stayed sane. That was the only time I was certain my death was nigh and it would hurt.
No, no SmugD most certainly has NOT managed that
Deus has not even made it to first base with Max
Consider that Cora runs around in a hardlight projection suit with full tactile feedback, is best friends with dabbler and is just as omnisexual.
Cora probably has ‘settings’ where she can futanari cockvore the rest of the crew at the same time, so Max’s flippant offer of a boobjob out of nowhere shouldn’t have surprised Gellen like that.
The surprise may be coming from the fact the Max said it and not the act itself.
IIRC Max’s blood is blue. Which makes her back look really bad. Perhaps a checking over before the shower would’ve been a good idea.
I thought that blue stuff on her back was what’s left of her mechanical space latex costume/armour.
It could be Max’s equivalent of bruising, or even as you think her blood, yet that doesn’t seem to gel with the battle royale she went through.
Isn’t it just a reflection of her hair in her very shiny skin?
If you take a close look at her back there’s bits of purple and one blue diamond left – that’s remnants of her disguise.
Having sex after the 3rd date is too soon. You can’t tell if the guy wants something serious after just 3 dates, especially if you’re love-struck.
Your preference has been noted.
Ok mid 80’s MM music ruining advisor. ROTFLMAO That judeo-christian claptrap is so cute. I want to hit it with a flame thrower then nuke it from orbit with a black hole. “If a guy wants something serious” HAHAHAHAHA that is so much utter craptastick unfactual advice I wanna take ya by tha’ neck and give the gwen stacey treatment. It’s also stupid advice ye be blathering. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! P.S. I know for a fact many women are as bad as men. Because girls just wanna have fun.
Frist of all, it actually was the standard during the 90’s that you’d have sex on the third date. High school, college, didn’t matter, that’s what sitcoms led people to believe, so that’s what people rolled with. This is one of many reasons why I feel sit coms and similar programs should have the same ‘this is a work of fiction/fantasy’ disclaimer at their beginning, as a lot of sci-fi/fantasy novels have; another reason has already been mocked in-comic, by Leon.
Second, did you seriously just threaten to hang someone/snap their neck because of their opinion?!? DUDE! THAT IS NOT OKAY! WTF is wrong with you?!? What are you even on? Your comments on this page are incredibly unhinged, and you’re making me annoyed that @DaveB can’t ban people.
If you’re after something serious then you don’t go out on dates. You share hobby evenings.
Dates are for getting to know someone well enough to trust them with putting things inside you.
Back in the good ol’ days sex on the first date wasn’t soon enough. We’d hook up when we first met in the wild, then start dating if it was good enough. And then came HIV and AIDS and ruined the good times. Aaah, the disco era was a fun time.
I had a flashback to Larry Niven’s short story. Man of Steel. Woman of Kleenex, as he did an essay on the sexual consequences of Superman and Lois.
Conveniently ignoring they could just make out under a red sun lamp, of course.
I’m wondering if Galen will just take his chances. It looks like Max could use some help getting the last of the disguise off her back anyways.
Yeah, most women are not size queens, and I’ve heard from my woman friends that a big one can hurt a lot, especially if it hits the cervix.
Also, pleasure can be achieved through non-penetrative sex. So yes, size comparison is mostly a man thing.
Exactly. There is definitely a range where below that is not enough and above that is problematic. Whereas just about anything in between doesn’t make much of a difference.
Obviously, there are differences in female anatomy as well that make this particular to the specific individuals involved…
Take note: words are like gold, the more of it there is, the less valuable it is and vice versa.
Max’s views are funny to read sometimes. Something like 83% of Romance novels are written by women. For instance “Morning Glory Milking Farm” about a strong, independently minded, cash strapped, woman collecting fluids from hung centaur males is by a woman. Though I do hear men write under women’s names because male author names can negatively affect sales.
Romance novel? That sounds more like a Japanese ero dōjinshi. With lots of pixelation. Or black marker. Or white-out.
I was going to write something similar.
Writers have many reasons for the works they produce but a very common one is that writing trashy romance novels is one of the easiest ways to make a living as a writer.
50 Shades as an example despite being an objectively terrible relationship depiction has sold over 150 million copies.
I took a writing class in college for fun and the professor told us all that writing trashy romance novels will pay your bills so you can write what you actually want to write.
If anything the preponderance of trashy romance exists because women keep buying them.
Does Max have a tatoo on her back? Or was that her hair reflecting on her skin?
3 possibilities as I see it for the blue on her back:
Hair reflection (she is particularly shiny being wet metal at the moment)
Left over disguise suit
Badly bruised (her blood is almost the same shade of blue as her hair, and she DID just take down a bunch of VERY tough opponents, including one with a blade ‘guaranteed to pierce through anything magically’…)
Given the blue diamond in the midst of it, I’m going with leftover disguise suit.
Was anyone else parsing “boob job” as a suggestion that Gallen would end up with breast implants, and being thoroughly confused as to the how and why?
No? Just me?
Note to self: Drink moar coffee before reading web comics… >.>
No, that got me too. IME what Max is referring to is more usually called a titfuck.
Yeah, the term ‘boob-job’ definitely made me think of ‘breast augmentation’ and not a sexual play.
Given the description of Max’s skin texture it would be at least a novelty. You could also enjoy the reflections in her skin.
That jumped to; If Max and Deus did have sex he would probably get distracted with his own reflection in her skin. I know, he is proud of his prowess in that regard but that might be hard for him to resist. Damn, my ADHD is bad this morning.
Wouldn’t surprise me if Deus have cloned himself to get a ideal partner by his standards.
He’s by definition too intelligent to create a threat to himself
Good point. I guess a mirror with a heart shaped frame should be enough for him.
Touch of lotion is all you need and itd be resplendent and *very* short lived!
It didn’t even occur to me that what she meant by “boob-job” might have been titfucking. I was honestly trying to parse how hyper-compressed dick equated to sudden breast augmentation, and all I could think was “I don’t think anatomy works that way outside of a Looney Tunes-esque universe.”
No, not just you… at first because was just glancing at the whole page
Guess the term ‘paizuri’ is more common and (almost) instantly understandable (at least, for those who know the term at all… )
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that probably titty fuck is a much more common term for English speakers than paizuri. Also note that, at least according to the various websites I just looked at to learn what paizuri is, paizuri is much less specific. It’s not one act (or possibly two, if someone I knew back in college was in any way correct about what the term boob job meant in terms of a sex move), but rather an entire genre of acts, of which Max is probably only indicating one could be on the table.
True, ‘titty fuck’ seems to be more common than ‘boob job’
For most people, a ‘boob job’ is a surgical procedure
To me, ‘paizuri’ isn’t just one act either, just sexual act involving breasts and at least one penis
I can see it now, Gellen walking around with a massive pair under a T-shirt that says, “I asked Maxima for a boob job and wound up with these.”
I wish this chat supported emoticons so I could respond with a rolling on the floor laughing emoji…
Hrrrmm… I don’t think I’ve ever tested it, but it’s certainly surprising that I can’t remember anyone ever using them here… Test:
Yep, nope, emoji = nomoji. Hard to predict what the comment plugin will strip.
Emoji testing.
Here are the first 10 faces: ,,,,,,,,,.
Here are 10 symbols: ,,,☢️,,☯️,⏭️,,✅️,.
Here are 10 flags: ,,☠️,,,,,,,.
I’m using an Android tablet with THOUSANDS of emoji’s on it. This is the most I’ve ever sent at one time. Some come back just fine, like the radiation symbol for ☢️GrrlPower, others seem to get changed or lost going through the server.
Testing now…
Emoji test results.
25 out of 30 emojis failed to re-appear.
1 of the 5 that did was recognizable, but changed from the pirate black flag to only a skull with crossbones.
The 4 that translated correctly:
1. Radioactivity warning symbol
2. Yin/yang symbol
3. Fast-forward symbol
4. White checkmark on green background symbol
From this I estimate only a 1/6th chance that any given emoji will post successfully to the server.
Does anyone else see anything different on their device?
I see the same.
I came across a useful graphic on Bluesky depicting an anatomical style model explaining how some women can take bigger toys using the fornices. I’ll try to link it.
Anyway here it is, hopefully it doesn’t get automodded away. Apparently the fornices are these pockets on both sides of the cervix, and some people can get them to stretch.
https://bsky.app/profile/katevulpes.bsky.social/post/3mmrs735jss2e
Given the variety of races and the existance of the potion Sydney took, I have no doubt that there is something Max could take.
I believe that somewhere a guy looked at some sort of sexy earth elemental and went “Yep, gonna need protection for that.”
That would be an affirmative act taken for something she wants. Relations with him are not in that category, and she has said so, repeatedly, sass aside. “Sex positive” is not and should not be “Sex assumed/inevitable”, because that is essentially denying ability to consent, or withhold consent. “Everybody does it” is not a valid reason to proceed! Not accepting “no”, for any reason, is bad form, and his persistence is beginning to cross a line. “Options existing” is irrelevant if none of them are an option >she< wants to follow up on!
Exactly. “Sex positive” does not mean “no standards” or “no preferences”, but a disturbing number of people seem to think otherwise.
In my ADHD, not enough coffee yet, train of thought I leapt from boob job to blow job to wonder about Max’s bite strength. It seems like Max could literally take a bite out of crime. Emasculation jokes aside, at least for the moment, could you imagine that you are grappling in your super armor and Max just casually bites a chunk out of it?
You got to take every advantage when fighting the foes Maxima have. Math and Dabbler have probably teached her to fight dirty.
At one point, I heard someone claim that a “boob job” as a sex move was distinctly different from a tit fuck, boob fuck, or breast fuck, as a “boob job” implied that the person receiving was sufficiently long and the person with the breasts was also giving a blow job at the same time.
I think they were the only person I have ever heard make that claim, so it’s probably a thing they wanted to be rather than a thing that is. But it could be a thing, and I don’t believe it would be a bad thing.
It’s a thing. And it’s a wonderful thing.
Some women enjoy having their cervix ‘battered’.
Everyone’s different.
Just sayin’.
I’m not surprised you’d be the one to post this, lol, considering the body of your work (no pun intended).
Not disagreeing either.
Tbh if someone turns you down for shower sex as firmly as Max did, it is rude AF to nonetheless follow them to the bathroom and linger just outside the shower continuing to pitch.
Quite right, if you are human. I speculate that we are seeing cultural differences play out in these recent pages.
But that said, was Maxima hitting the mercury again befire hitting the shower? Or is it our Dave B. who has been drinking? Because the crudity level of the comic just took a serious jump! And Maxima’s paizuri offer today looks like she could be serious about it. From what we’ve seen thus far it seems out of character for her. I hope we’ll see some expository explanation of what she is thinking, maybe when she gets home to Anvil and Dabbler.
Then again, Sydney is supposed to be the protagonist, maybe she’ll ask Max about her change of attitude. But it has me wondering about Sydney’s Leon-sharing deal too. With her openly sexual space relationship with Frix, has she lost all chance with Leon? Will Halo birth a litter of space-puppies?
She wasnt making an offer, she’s messing with him on purpose to shock him.
What makes no sense to me is that Gellen is able to be shocked. Ship is parked, dude has nothing better to do than follow her to the shower, to me = he still thinks he has a chance? She LEAVES THE SHOWER DOOR OPEN so she can hear him = she wants him to think he has a chance with her. Then she says ‘no again, unless you want a titty-****’, and suddenly he is shocked and she’s like ‘ha-ha, I got you’? In what universe? I don’t buy it, IRL he is stripping to join her in that last panel. She has to either A: close the door to keep him out because her flirting backfired, or B: let him in because she is serious about the boob-job. Sure, he actually says “Wow, that was surprising” and continues to just stand there because he was able to figure out that she was joking, but I don’t buy it. There are missing panels if you want that ending to make sense.
He messed with her at the start of the trip, and I think she’s just playing into that dynamic.
It’s wild to me that people have latched onto this characterization of Max as a prudish feminazi, when I don’t think anything in the comic supports it, and she doesn’t think of herself as a prude. She’s wants to be respected for who she is and what she does, and not just treated as a sex object. Her disguises on this trip have increasingly left little to the imagination. She recognizes that Terran attitudes around sex are somewhat unusual in this universe, and has probably considered that it might be a factor in the kind of demeaning objectification that angers her.
The exact same behavior by a Terran might offend her because of the difference in context. It would mean something different than it does coming from Gellen, and her being able to recognize that, and not fly into a rage over it, contributes to her depiction as a nuanced, intelligent feminist, rather than the one-note misandrist feminazi some readers seem to insist that she is.
It was my understanding that it wasn’t just Leon who would have needed to agree to the Leon sharing agreement, and Krona did not seem all that excited with her “I’ll have to think about it” response, which was the last word I recall on the topic. From what I’ve heard, usually that is the last word, because there’s no real need most of the time to actually say no. That’s only needed if one of the other two people can’t get over the idea, and given that the one thinking about it is Krona, it feels like that wouldn’t really be an issue. Leon is almost certainly not going to be brave enough to badger her about the possibility of him going out with Sydney sometimes when Krona isn’t up for stuff, and while Sydney does seem like the sort of person to badger people about some topics, this does not seem to be one on her badger list, especially when she has an occasionally present space boyfriend that she can probably manage to see a bit more frequently than just when he randomly happens to be in port.
You’re correct, Sydney was asking Krona, not Leon. Since when do they ever ask the man?
And Krona’s ‘I’ll think about it’ surely means “No until I say differently”.
Was there a page where Sydney specifically gave up on the idea? If not I guess that’s my answer. (So many pages!)
Yeah. This strip is actively making me uncomfortable since it seems like he’s gone way beyond taking a shot and into being a sex pest.
I get that this comic tries to be more sex positive – but she told him no. No means no, not “follow me into the shower.”
Yeah I understand that feeling.
Honestly, I think its personally weird that he is just hanging out in the bathroom, just around the wall while she is showering after she established that shes happily in a relationship. That feels like its edging along a line alot of people would have.
Perhaps he doesnt see the issue culturally, but the idea that she is allowing it is surprising and strange to me. Maybe she just is used to a certain level of cohabitation and limited exposure from the military or ARC-SWAT? Seems like the most simple answer.
She’s also the guest on a spaceship while undertaking an important mission for Earth. While physically she could no doubt manhandle him, she may feel it’s her duty to put up with sexual harassment because beating him up could get them kicked back to Earth and ruin the mission.
I could see that. Although honestly I’d expect Maxima to be capable of voicing her objection to his presence. Shes never come across as the sort to let harassment go uncommented on. So it really does just feel out of character for her without an underlying reason.
And yet Max seems fine with it. Even to the point of actively flirting with him. Am I the only one wondering why she is teasing him, while naked in the shower, if she *doesn’t* intend to have sex with him?
I wouldn’t say she’s clearly fine with it. She keeps trying to politely tell him “no” in different ways and he just keeps insisting, following her, talking about how big his dick is, etc. Just because a woman doesn’t shout “leave me alone!” or punch someone doesn’t mean it isn’t sexual harassment. Especially in a situation where she may feel pressured not to make a big deal about it (basically going with “when in Rome” on this ship).
And she honestly looked quite unhappy with how he kept ignoring her saying no in certain panels in the last comic.
> And yet Max seems fine with it.
When reading about any lady written by a man, it’s not as simple as “she’s fine with it.” We can ask, “is that weirdly out of character for her?” and, if yes, further ask, “is it an authorial bias? Indulgent male gaze?”
This could circle back to outing Dabbler’s use of her charm/seduction aura for damage-control and addressing Dabbler’s flagrant disregard for humans’ consent. A proper bit of friction between Maxima and Dabbler is overdue. Still male gazey, but at least it would have good social commentary and characters-relationships development.
This does seem out of character, and a bit like the scene just exists for the sake of sexy imagery. Not something strange or new for this comic to be fair, but it could of easily been done with him standing at a closed door and not behind a partially see through wall and open doorway.
And yeah, the Aura Event still leaves a bad taste in my mouth because of the whole Consent issue, but it could be interesting if it lead to some real conflict/friction between Dabbler and Max. Assuming it’s not just gonna be Dabbler dismissing human “prudishness” again.
Ok, I’ll grant you this does seem out of character for her, which is what led to me wondering about the scene in the first place. The author has stated that this comic is a silly sex farce, and nothing in it should be taken too seriously, but that shouldn’t become an excuse for lazy writing. 99% of the time, this is a rather will written silly sex farce. I was just wondering if I was the only one wondering about what was going on here.
Totally right, this is usually a silly little romp with good art.
But you definitely weren’t the only person having these thoughts.
Yeah, don’t like this page cause of that. Really out of character for Max to not ask for some basic privacy at least, ESPECIALLY after she just had an adrenaline-pumping fight when she could really use minimal-sensory-input to cool down. She IS their ringer in these matches, she’s the driving force for all this. Guest on the ship or not, she’s owed some hospitality suiting HER sensibilities. Anything else is just excuses.
One could argue that Dabbler’s passive seduction/charm aura is lowering her defenses, but that violates consent even more.
Interesting to note that Max is effectively a reverse size queen given how it’s not physically possible for her to…accommodate larger members, though I’m guessing if her partner has similar resiliance to her (i.e. other supers like Hiro or Achilles) then things might be more…flexible?
Fairly sure Maxi’s skin is just as flexible as any other earth woman
You are just ignoring the fact that most women don’t like to have to stretch (remember, most women are able to push a baby through the same opening, barring other complications)
And it’s generally considered one of the most painful experiences most people will ever have, so casting it as “don’t like to stretch” seems like underselling it by quite a bit.
*sighs* I had a hunch reading the comments on this one would be a mistake… *rolls eyes in AroAce*
I do, however, want to say that I’m amazed that you took the time to remind us how shiny Max actually is; that must have taken a while! Also, love Maxima in the final panel. That is goofy and adorable. XD
The comments are quite cheeky today and so is Maxima. The lewd comments are over the moon. Don’t crack under the pressure. Butt yeah, good art today.
I’m sensing some Urd from Oh My Goddess! influences in Maxima’s face in that final panel
uh, hate to break it to Max but porn writers are overwelmingly female. in writen erotica it’s like 80% and thats were you see most of that Cervix pounding.
What women write and read is not an indication of what they actually want to experience in real life. There are plenty of women who enjoy some pretty edgy, line-crossing stuff in their fiction that they absolutely wouldn’t want to encounter in reality (i.e. non-consent). Hell, there are people who like barely edgy stuff in their erotica, but they prefer vanilla in reality…or sometimes even nothing at all. (I know some Ace folks who read the stuff.)
Wait a sec…I just realized you were commenting on Max saying poorly-written erotic stuff by men…not just her commenting on what women do and don’t like. I’d already forgotten that part of the page.
Gotta love having a goldfish brain sometimes. :P
Nice metal rendering!
Score one for Max…Dabs would be so proud!
If he’s being truthful, a “boob job” would end up being very messy as the “toothpaste” would end up getting everywhere on her. Though I suppose with her superspeed she could move fast enough to dodge it or catch it in an appropriate receptacle…
Some people like “toothpaste”.
The tricky part when such biomods come into play is you have to believe the person having them. With adjustable biomods every man could feel perfect for Cora and she could just just play being a size-queen for some other reason.
I once worked at a pet store. There was this young dumb worker who thought their toes were indestructible in their steel-toe boots. He was warned. He was warned again… Then one day I was operating a lifter. I checked work space then got behind it and he went into my blind spot and put his boot down thinking he’d make a big joke about it being sooo painful then giggle like nothing happened. The pallet full of kitty litter lowered towards the tile (that was reinforced in that part of the store for a got dang reason!) and met with his boot. And then his toes. And sole. And stopped just short of the floor.
I’m curious, how heavy is one of your full pallets of kitty litter?
And did the amputation successfully cure his stupidity?
I don’t recall the specific details as far as weight goes, but we had to change the tile in that part of the store because the kitty litter was cracking it. Some of the tile shards were embedded in the concrete beneath.
Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid. He stayed on for a while but was eventually fired and prosecuted for fraud/embezzlement.
I am a bit of a size queen myself and certainly enjoy larger and much longer things then most other gals do. But I dont have a cervix given that I’m a post-op trans woman, so I don’t experience the typical pain associated with that myself. Instead since mine just continues on past where a cervix would normally stop something, which is real fun when I can feel things above my belly button. I suppose that’s a sort of bio-mod of its own really.
Even then I still have an upper limit in terms of depth and length I could potentially accomidate just like any girl, and there is a certain point at which it would start to hurt even for me. It’s all a question of dimensions and ratios after all.
I’m pretty confident I could help Gellen out. But I’m a exceedingly unique case, even among other trans women.
Are… we going to get the name of that spit-take can?
Did Daphne give it to him?
So… did she give him a boobjob or what?
“sex-fiction written by poorly educated men”? Max, SERIOUSLY? At least, when it’s sex-fiction written by men, the male protagonist is exceptionally endowed, but it stays in what’s humanly possible. Have you ever read Monster Romance written by WOMEN? The petite heroine regularly has sex with werewolves and vampires and lion-headed humanoids whose member is the length and girth of a effing PHONEPOLE!
Honestly im not surprised, this is not the first time Max has assumed that certain tropes or conventions are entirely the result of horny men sexualizing women, and not infact the result of things women themselves enjoy.
She’s right sometimes, but her bias is firmly established, so that her misunderstanding of WHO is writing the size queen fiction is not surprising. But it kind of IS ironic that her blaming uneducated men for it as her actually being the ignorant one in this case.
There’s also the aspect that some of the men writing such stories are in fact not poorly educated.
– Some do it because it has an enthusiastic audience and they like having their work appreciated enthusiastically.
– Some do it because, despite the fact that they know it doesn’t mesh with reality, they like it. (To be clear, this includes a variety of reasons for this appreciation. I’m explicitly not naming the list, but I mean all of them in this bucket.)
– Some do it because they’re doing what they can to shift the concept window because they also happen to be too large for most women and they would rather not undergo penile reduction surgery and for whatever reason are not happy with the pool of older women who have learned to appreciate men of their size.
– Some do it because they’re really trying to promote fear of “black men” in racist white men, and what better way to do that than the “oversized black men are coming for your women”?
True, at the end of the day it returns to Max claiming the people writing it are stupid. When in fact people, female or male, do it either because it is the content they find titillating, enjoyable or know sells well. There probably are some dumb or malicious male writers out there, but Max’s bias insists that it’s primarily them pushing this.
Maybe, just maybe, the only examples she has found have been written badly by men (or at least using a male name)
This *could* be true. But that does just confirm she’s ignorant of the wider reality and give a reason why she is ignorant.
Funny thing, he sort resembles her in sense she close visually to her species (would be?) if wasn’t baseline human
Anecdotally, my friend has mentioned concern about her ability to fit a hypothetical boyfriend. (This may have been primarily due to owning a vibrator that turned out to be too big. Naturally I was curious and asked to see this vibrator, and I think it was larger than average, not that I’ve measured a statistically significant sample of erect penises. I don’t think measuring a statistically significant sample of genitalia is much of anyone’s idea of a good time, even if they aren’t ace.)
Well, it’s not hard to Google and apparently someone has done a study on it. Supposedly the average size of an erect male organ is slightly less than six inches.
A not so subtle reminder that Max uses products to make her shine less, or ARC would have to supply sunglasses to everyone
Where’s Digit been this whole time? I would have thought that she’d be at least a little curious how her boss did in tournament battle.
My prediction: Digit has been within a force-field-reinforced workshop playing with the space-tech hardware they acquired en-route.
She’s been watching the entire tournament there while she works. Digit is now full of extremely dangerous ideas… and ideas about harpoons… and possibly harpoons…
Max needs a wakeup call. A lot of the stuff written by women is worse than then stuff men write. Especially when you get into the monster partner categories.
I feel like size queen biomods are an accident waiting to happen, not to sound like the opening to a porno, but what if they’re doing something creative and somebody slips?
If biomods are available what is to prevent a genital arms race. I could envision an inny and an outie one upping each other until they were so grotesquely oversize that they couldn’t move, much less engage with one another.
I appreciate sexy quite a lot most of the time, bit I’m this particular moment, I definitely think funny was the way to go We didn’t need to see Max and Galen Gellen here comparing their genital power levels like this is porn parody DBZ. Having her casually obliterate his chill and then both of them cracking up together is a way better meet-cute.