Grrl Power #522 – Little Giant Miss Matchmaker
I haven’t shown nearly as much of this as I’d have liked in the comic, but Anvil and Max are pretty good friends, and Anvil is concerned that Max hasn’t been on a date in a while. ( Or under a date in a while.) Not that dating her subordinate is really an option, but maybe she figures pressing her up against a prime slab of beef might ignite her interest with other options. Or she just thinks its funny to smoosh her naked teammates together.
Considering there’s a slab of concrete in between them, Max is secretly just a little impressed. And flattered. Not, you know, flattered in a “I’m validated by male attention” way. More of a “I know I’m sexy, not that being sexy is central or critical to my self identity, but it’s still nice to know that others know I’m sexy.” People are complicated.
Both Max and Hiro are stronger than Anvil, though when she’s all juiced up with kinetic energy, she could probably take Hiro. She burned most of what she had stored with that Super Suplex. Still, Max and Hiro both know to be careful with their strength, even when a friend is being totally inappropriate. Plus if Max pushed Hiro away she wouldn’t be able to cover herself.
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Max, what you’re asking here is not something most males can control. In fact, if he WAS able to remain in control at this moment, he’d either have to have gotten laid Dabbler-style somewhere around yesterday, or he’s got a problem (assuming, ofc, that he’s as straight as this page obviously suggests).
Very true.
Mind you Maxima can’t control her own knee-jerk reaction either. She is just using her go-to response when receiving ‘unwelcomed’ attention.
In this case it is worth noting that Maxima does actually find Hiro attractive (she confided such with Sydney), she just is trying to keep their relationship professional. It is just being caught by surprise that has made her react this way. A moment’s reflection will tell her that much.
Plus both the others know that. So, as you can see, they are just ‘enjoying the moment,’ despite Maxima’s outburst.
And controlling it generally involves fugueing completely… as in total hollow-mind disconnect from reality sort of thing.
Eh, it depends on how badly you want to. Show me a guy who doesn’t think, on some level, the fact that they’re nakedly smushed together and he’s attracted to her means they’re “supposed” to do the sex, even if intellectually he acknowledges it doesn’t work that way, he’s not going to fully commit to fighting that instinct, especially since he’s been raised and conditioned to believe he can’t really control it.
Me, I’ve been in a similar position, where I didn’t care what was going on around me because what I wanted didn’t have any bearing on reality, much like Hiro doesn’t care that Max really wants to not touch his boner for both personal and legal reasons. But I still managed to not make it awkward for anyone. I think it’s a matter of respecting the people around you more than the kill-screw-eat-poo-sleep imperatives of your reptile brain, which is not generally something dudes ever have to learn.
I’m a trans girl, of course I didn’t take well to the normal life lessons of being a dude. But I don’t think it’s impossible for anyone to resist them, or unlearn them, if they just want to. There’s my moral for the dudes: Don’t just say “We can’t help it”. Try more.
Physiological reactions to things tend to proc a whole lot faster than conscious control can in any case.
It is easy not to take extended courses of action based on instinctive drives, but that is entirely a different matter from intercepting the body before it can react to things reflexively. Which at the very least means it is easier to subdue a boner that is already there than to stop it ever happening in the first place.
Surprising how many people don’t really get that particular nuance of it. Maybe they think that because it can’t be intercepted before it starts, that it can’t be stopped after the fact… but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
[quote]much like Hiro doesn’t care that Max really wants to not touch his boner for both personal and legal reasons. But I still managed to not make it awkward for anyone. I think it’s a matter of respecting the people around you more than the kill-screw-eat-poo-sleep imperatives of your reptile brain, which is not generally something dudes ever have to learn.[/quote]
Let’s unpack this.
1: Hiro doesn’t care that Max doesn’t want to touch his boner? Right. That’s why he put a chunk of *concrete* in front of his freaking dick. That’s why he deliberately did *not* look at Max’s naked breasts, while everyone else looked at his naked dick. Because he didn’t care.
2: Erections are involuntary. Absent hurting yourself to make physical pain overpower the vascular response, it’s impossible to prevent yourself from becoming erect, once your brain has received the correct stimulus. That’s why little boys can be, and have been, forcibly masturbated to completion by rapists and monstrous abusers. But perhaps you’d say they simply lacked the willpower to prevent it? They secretly wanted it? Which is what those little boys tell themselves in their darkest hours, why they hate and blame themselves for their abuse. Ask me how I know.
Being pressed firmly against the body of a literal goddess in superhuman form is more than sufficient stimulus to trigger an involuntary erection in any straight man who is otherwise healthy.
3: dudes “generally never have to learn” how to respect people around them more than their primal urge to mate, etc? Were you high when you wrote that? If that were true, we’d live in Mad Max’s world. That’s such a spectacularly ludicrous statement, it doesn’t even merit an attempt to refute it. If men didn’t have to learn to think beyond their base urges, you’d know it. We all would. And we wouldn’t be typing these comments on this webpage, either. We wouldn’t have a civilization to begin with.
It’s nonsense. Utter, incredibly sexist, nonsense.
Yeah I can see why you’d think that, if you wanted to read what I wrote in the most ignorant, judgmental, willfully misunderstanding, trying to get offended way possible.
I don’t think I could have described what you wrote better than you did, so I shan’t try.
(SMH).
Small detail comment. Panel 3. We have what looks to be the broken remains of the construct. But have a look at the top of the pile of ‘scrap’. A shining white/blue light. Is this a reflection? If so I cannot think of a bright light source we have seen that might account for it. Plus it is nighttime, which means it is not daylight, and it is too bright for moonlight.
Is the construct still alive and regenerating?
Those blood golems are tenacious. It wouldn’t suprise me if this was not even it’s final form. It might be best to throw into the sun to be on the safe side.
Damn. For a fraction of a second, I was going to say it might be a sliver of the moon peeking up above the debris. But I went back all the way to the “time loop” that Krona set up, and can find no evidence that the moon is shining in this scene. So you could be right, Yorp.
It could just be some residual vorch. You know how long vorch takes to die down, even after the robot itself is dead and the bulk of its fuel expended.
More important than any comic dissection…. i laughed so hard my sides hurt
I like Anvil 3000% more now.
… people are overlooking that Peggy is still orbiting the area in the Osprey- and has a full sensor suite plus three more laser guided rockets (not Hellfires- the blast from one of those would’ve done the same damage as Anvil ‘s suplex !) Whether Max would clear Peggy to put one into Sciona is a knotty question – the Concel will want hard evidence of her demise this time…
That is a good tactic if Sciona comes to engage them on the surface. Less so if she remains securely underground. The osprey is less likely to be armed with bunker buster type weaponry, for a scouting mission. Not to mention the fact that there are hostages down there, which Sydney would be bound to mention whenever they get the time to debrief her.
*drifts off to a happy place*
… you’re right , Yorp- but I was thinking more of Sciona going “time to get outta here!” now that Max, Hiro + Anvil are onsite rather than fighting and/or staging a hostage standoff …
Yea, everyone seems to be assuming that Sciona wants to escape. But what is her objective here? Was she just draining the blood of random supernaturals? Were they just incidental victims caught when the Sigils were being sabotaged? Assuming that these events are linked of course.
If someone is damaging the Sigils it implies that they want the supernatural to be revealed. And there have just been not one but two massive explosions, and a forest set on fire, in what is probably a part of New York city. This is going to be attracting a lot of attention. Soon.
I suspect that Sciona would find it quite convenient for the fight to continue. Not necessarily whilst sticking her own neck on the line mind. She has already lost hers once, so would probably want to avoid repeating the experience.
However if she is to use her blood magic to help counter unexpected moves by the heroes, then she would need to be somewhere near enough to influence the engagement. So giving the impression that she has fled, whilst still being in a spot where she can monitor the situation, would be optimal.
It all depends how many steps ahead she has been planning. If she was sensible she would expect Archon and the Council to track down her current base of operations, so would have a contingency plan which would gain an advantage from that happening.
If she is not as good as Math, on the planning front though, and believe that hiding in an abandoned warehouse basement would be secure, then yea, she would be having to prioritise saving her own neck over advancing the master plan.
… I see your reasoning , and I’m willing to bet Notabot was intended for a large, noisy public mission before our heroes found her here- and I’m concerned Notabot is a proof of concept prototype …
Keep in mind that Maxima noticed despite Hiro holding a slab of concrete in front of himself ;)
Figured out the ‘problem’ with Anvil: DaveB pulled a ‘Fresh Prince’ and replaced the actress playing Anvil!
Maybe Dave is adjusting the art to match the appearance of each of the actors, as they get cast in Grrl Power the Movie?
*wags tail excitedly*
I wonder who Sydney will look like next week?
Well, that block of concrete was split apart.
People do keep wondering why Maxima has a chip on her shoulder.
Better than having crete-dust in her crack >_>
The next episode will be X-rated…
What is happening is autonomic in quality and maybe can’t be mentally stopped. But if you work hard enough you can simmer down. Or just recite multiplication tables or brick laying and it will stop.This isn’t even much more than a soft R. Porn it isn’t.