Grrl Power #1508 – Laces out!
I’ve been working from home for the past 15 years, drawing this lovely comic for you guys, and I haven’t had to deal with rush hour traffic in all that time, (outside of some poorly timed errands and whatnot) but I still firmly believe that people who drive down to the end of the merge lane when everyone else has already merged then forcibly nose their way in, thereby causing 80% of the actual traffic, deserve their own holocaust.
If you’re a geologist, and have opinions on what a cored out section of igneous mountainside should look like, or have other observations on the physics of what’s happening on this page, well, now is your time to shine. Why Maxima decided on this approach vs just a really huge energy beam, who knows? Despite all the energy blast variations she can do, maybe her super petajoule shield buster beam always looks like the one she used on the Fel carrier, and the galaxy knows what that looks like. Also this does have its own cool factor to it. And despite probably being the first weapon* ever used, throwing a rock can still be an effective tactic against high-tech opponents, an archmage, a demon, a whole army, or even a Death Star. It’s just a matter of scale, and/or velocity. Okay, the archmage would probably have the best chance against that sort of thing, but the nice thing about rocks is that they come in all sorts of sizes, and they’re just laying around for free. A boulder the size of a house? Probably not a game-ender on the archmage. If you can throw an entire mountain? That would certainly scale the defensive mana expenditure at the least.
*Like a tool based weapon, not claws or teeth or an aggressive pseudopod.
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?
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Wasn’t her first tool based weapon. She used a pillar against vehemance during their first fight iirc (Can’t check. When I try to find the comic I get a weird ‘blocked by site user for too many page not found errors’).
Also, she could be using the rock as further cover for her identity, since one of her first rules to sydney was also “Don’t throw a car at people. If you are strong enough to throw it, your punch will likely do more damage than the car will.”
I think Dave mean ” the first weapon used by humans (in general)”, not specifically by Maxima.
Wouldn’t “kill all sapients” technically include any conscious, thinking artificial intelligence like Ultron for example?
People who try to nose in at the very last stretch where merging is even possible without going off the road aren’t actually saving themselves any time because while the people at the back of the merge lane might be a few minutes behind the people at the front of it at that time, when you get to where the traffic lightens up, the people at the back end up only a few seconds behind the people at the front. And once you realize this, heavy traffic becomes just an inevitability that must be waited out.
The only people who should be impatient are people with air cooled vehicles like older motorcycles, and that’s only because their engine could overheat since moving = airflow and airflow is how those engines cool.
A classic trope is the highly technological advanced entity with extensive shielding against energy attacks being totally unprepared against something as basic as a thrown rock. Exhibit #1701: Picard wasting some Borg drones using a Tommy gun.
So does that mean Gail would hate DaveB? It sounds like he’s saying he hates when someone zipper merges when no one else did.
I’m not sure what Maxah is doing here but it looks cool.
Did Maxima just launch The Drill That Will Pierce the Heavens?