I don’t know what is involved in the Chastity Corner, and what makes it especially chaste, but at some point, Dabbler’s going to realize that it’s a fairly toothless threat. Ultimately, Maxima’s not going to get involved in any of the team member’s sex lives unless they’re screwing around on duty or somehow endangering people. Which, in a succubus’s case, is not out of the realm of possibility. Still, the vague threat of chastity is a succubi’s kryptonite, so Max isn’t above using it while it works.

I’m veering dangerously close to having every character speak in customized word bubbles. I had considered doing that from the very beginning of the comic, but almost immediately realized that it’s a pitfall for any comic that has more than a dozen characters in it, because there’s only so many combinations of balloon color, style, and font that are actually easily legible. I can’t stand comics that have black text in a “Nazi-Letterhead-Gothic-Calligraphy” font on a medium dark red word bubble, with just a skosh of JPEG artifacting around the letters. Okay, I get it, the character speaking is a demon. Are they supposed to be unintelligible as well? I’d say that’s borderline racist, but it’s really just a design failure.

The only reason I’m doing as much of it now as I am is, well, look, one of the competitors was a 600 meter tall mountain, another was a giant robot starfish spaceship, then we’ve got the “Better than an Angel on my own say-so,” “Living Explosion,” “Huge Demon’s Boss.” You get the idea. Superheroes and supervillains don’t generally need custom sound bubble. Magneto and Vehemence are big, scary bad guys, but they’re just people. Fin Fang Foom? Sure. He can get a custom craggly font. Someone like Derksied? Eh, kind of an edge case.

I looked up how much that cone of mountainside Max threw would weigh. I made some very rough estimates of its dimensions using Max as a ruler. Then used some website to calculate the volume of a cone, then found a website with charts of how much igneous rock weighs. Turns out there’s a huge difference in weight depending on the actual kind of rock it is. Pumice, for instance, weighs quite a bit less than basalt, for instance. And no, Max didn’t throw a giant cone of pumice at Disastar. Still, 1,000 tons for a cone of rock that large seems very light to me. Maybe it’s the cone shape that’s throwing me.

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Here you go, a brand new vote incentive. Featuring the least sexy character in the comic. No, I take that back, Cooter is the least sexy, but don’t expect a pinup of him anytime soon. Or ever. There is a nude version over at Patreon. Note I didn’t say NSFW. She is nude in those picture, and she does identify as female, but it’s… hard to tell. She is a humanoid aberration by D&D terminology, not a mammal. And before you ask, no, I don’t know how many vertebrae she has in her neck.

 

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