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Grrl Power #1079 - Guess who played Deity difficulty level in Civ?

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This page is not especially visually exciting, but I needed to speed up the production of the page a bit to make up for my weekend trip last week. Normally that middle panel would have cut to a very sooty Sydney, but we'll catch up with her soon.

Deus's idea of adding to the disk, presumably with the use of geokinetics, is ...

Grrl Power #1078 - Disaster, more like... dismathter

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You know, sometimes the titles to these pages are funny references or portmanteaus or repurposed idioms, and sometimes they're "I can't think of anything better and it's been an hour." It's the equivalent of browsing Netflix for 25 minutes before finally clicking on something that barely surpasses the "I'm sick of scrolling" thre...

Grrl Power #1077 - Coup de grâce appropriation

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To answer some questions about Darude's powers. He can control sand, and also transform into it, IF he has at least his own mass of sand to… hide in, sort of. A lot of superpowers (and magic spells) rely on semantics, so the question isn't, "What is sand," it's "What does Darude consider to be sand?" Sand is really just particu...

Grrl Power #1076 - Obsidian crop circle

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"Sydney! What did you do to the desert?!"
"As deserts are defined by the amount of rainfall they receive... technically I didn't change anything?"

So, Sydney had a bold plan, and enacted it. There's something to be said for decisive action, even if it's likely that a much better plan could have been envisioned at a futur...

Grrl Power #1075 - Respect my personal space!

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Shén wèi (according to google translate) means "divine guardian" or really "divine guard" because "divine guardian" actually translates to "Shénshèng shǒuhù zhě" which isn't nearly as pithy sounding. I don't know anything about Chinese, but it seems weird that changing "guard" to "guardian" so radically changes the transla...

Grrl Power #1074 - Open door policy

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Ah, the rare no-dialog page. I almost added a "N'yah!" or something on the sword dodge, but, eh. No-dialog page instead. I usually have pretty dense dialog for a comic, and don't have a lot of space for characters flourishing. I might have to revisit that. A good flourishing panel is kind of fun, and I can definitely see Sydney d...

Grrl Power #1073 - Spooky scary shapeshifters

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Hopefully people get what's happening here. I could have drawn a dotted outline of X standing opposite Chimyriad, but it turns out that not drawing people is a lot easier than drawing them.

Chimyriad is a cameo character, and technically this is their second appearance. (The prior one being the previous page) Only, they're ...

She Hulk (plus guests) NSFW

I'm a big fan of John Byrne's run on "The Sensational She Hulk" which should be no surprise to anyone familiar with it. It was mostly a humor book, combining slice of life, law practice revolving around super powers (albeit fairly tongue in cheek) and frequently featured resurrecting really goofy old silver age villains and inserting them into a relatively self-aware setting. She Hulk was break...

Grrl Power #1072 - Guard Dood Dee Duty

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So what we know about Goon Squad, AKA Ted, so far. He seems to know what happened to his clones at least after they die, but they don't seem to have any telepathic link between them. The "dress up in the enemy's armor ploy" certainly wouldn't have worked if they did. It was a risky plan without knowing that beforehand. Of course,...

Grrl Power #1071 - Goon life. And death

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"Hey Goose, how did you know those guys were full of weird, crunchy particles, indicating they might be some sort of expendable duplicate?"
"…"
"Oh……… 'Kay."

So yeah, the guys in the brown armor are actually a guy in brown armor, named "The Goon Squad." I felt like that might have be...

Grrl Power #1070 - 8-ball in the zygomatic

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That guy she put the beat down on will probably still claim he got to second base with her.

"Well, then she took off her bra..."
"Yeah?"
"And then her bra... uh, touched my face..."
"That's not really second base."
"It still counts!"

Harem's combat comms might lack a certain level of professionalism and/or...

Grrl Power #1069 - They just replaced that window

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I realize I'm doubling down on the "Digit is a maniac" joke here. I think the next time we see her it should be in the field, but given her general lack concern about "those wiggly things with the faces" that keep getting transected by her inventions, there would need to be some guidelines about what doodads she'd be allowed to t...

Grrl Power #1068 - And then it all went south

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Their plan wasn't... bad... but I think a lot of it revolved around getting the rooms secured (and occupants knocked out) before any alarms went off. They just didn't count on the guy who was still paying attention to his computer screen while his lady wiggled on his lap. Honestly, Krona might have grounds to be a little...

Grrl Power #1067 - Heatsink form is too effective

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Aluminum Varia randomly out-shiny-ing Maxima. I think it's cause I sampled colors from a photo of a jagged block of aluminum, so she has a bit more contrast than what I usually apply to Max's skin.

No, Varia doesn't have a nigh-skintight forcefield like Max. At least not with this gestalt. Usually she does, like when she ge...

Grrl Power #1066 - No teeth for you!

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Just a quick reminder that Varia has a pronounced Bostonian accent, which is really hard to account for if she's not saying words that have an "ah" sound near the end, i.e., "Get to the cah pahk, idiot!" Or as the most famous person with a Boston accent would say, "...

Maxima leans over a desk (NSFW)

This panel started life as a panel from the comic. A few people thought it was a good pose to turn into a nude version, and I agreed. Hopefully you enjoy the shiny, leaned over boobs. The implied Deus eye-poking is probably not canon. Probably. 

Grrl Power #1065 - Knife to meet you!

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Hey, +50XP for Arianna.

Tactically, this is a poor reaction. But the dude did try and burn her into ash, so... it's hard to really blame her. She's not a soldier, even if she goes jogging with them in the mornings. That said, her aim was pretty on point. She went for center mass, but the guy managed to spin out of the way. ...

Grrl Power #1064 - Bar-Be-Can't

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So, quick review of Varia's powers. She has contact gestalt, and each person she touches gives her different powers. The person she's touching doesn't get any powers per se, but the do gain immunity to the powers that Varia gets, so if she starts emitting clouds of carbon monoxide, her gestalt partner doesn't have to worry about ...

Grrl Power #1063 - Olé olé, olé olé...

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Happy 4th of July. Enjoy the fireworks...

If you're a henchman participating in an assault on a base of superheroes, you gotta figure there are some pretty good benefits and/or pay. Also there's probably an extensive briefing beforehand, depending on how disposable the henchmen are, and how serious the organization is about...

Grrl Power #1062 - Jalapeño, Jalapeño, Jalapeño

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No, Leon didn't just summon tech support.

I really wanted to title this page "Zulu Zulu Zulu" because I am almost positive there is some scene in some movie or TV show somewhere in which someone sends that message, and the message means "Invasion imminent." Only, I can't recall where I saw that, and I just don't re...

Grrl Power #1061 - Late night intelligence and chill

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Getting cornered by a succubus at a party is like "Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Orgasms?" They might not phrase it quite like that, but you can bet the conversation will eventually veer toward the topic of how every medically capable adult should maximize their orgasm potential.

In my head, the co...

Grrl Power #1060 - Define "Trouble"

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Four hours of flying and blasting is a pretty good workout for Max. It actually pushed her limits really hard at the time, and took her a few days to recover. Firing off about 900 energy blasts in that time frame really burned a lot of... superhero calories, or whatever they use. She had to eat a lot of Superion field afterwards....

Grrl Power #1059 - Coarse language and/or sand

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Instead of sticking her head in the sand, Maxima is sticking herself in, uh... his head, which is made of sand. So... aphorisms.

Does this count as a gritty reboot, because she's fought this guy before and, you know... sand? Which is gritty...

Anyhoo. Ah, action pages. I wanted to show some scale here, but of course t...

Grrl Power #1058 - Firehaboob

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I wanted the sound effect on that explosion to be reminiscent of those concussion fireworks, the ones that just boom without any razzle dazzle. Honestly those are my favorite, but I've always enjoyed joint rattling bass. Generally when those go off, there's the "sound getting to you" delay, then there's the echo of the sound that...

Grrl Power #1057 - Combat stress huggles

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I know it wasn't obvious from the prior page, but the incoming helis lobbed like a dozen missiles all at once. The thought being to overwhelm unknown and probably pretty advanced defenses. You know what they say, "You miss every shot that's still attached to the chopper when it gets cut from the sky, plus you could be just handin...

Grrl Power #1056 - Dabbler cheats at Missile Command

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Dabbler: "One big shield is too much work, but I can mass produce these little ones that last a tenth of a second."
Foreman: "We need something watertight."
Dabbler: "Oh. That sounds boring. I'm going to make these instead."
Foreman: "But... the underwater city... the water is rising..."
Dabbler: "I wonder what I coul...

Sydney and Parfait Wish Training

Dangit, I forgot to schedule this post. Well, here you go!

Sydney's doing her best to help Parfait learn how to grant wishes, even though there are a series of escalating consequences - to our benefit, it must be said. 

Grrl Power #1055 - Lifestyles of the rich and eccentric

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I'm not going to lie, this is one of my favorite pages I've done in a while. Even despite all the fiddly background stuff. Panel 5 cracks me up every time. Just the thought of that playing out in a TV show or something. Maxima's eyes slowly tracking up from the trapdoor to Deus, her voice that perfect balance of exasperation and ...

Grrl Power #1054 - Operation dessert storm

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If you plant the mini-bananas, would they grow mini-banana trees? Trick question! Bananas don't have seeds! That's weird to think about - all bananas are seedless. At least the modern commercially available banana is seedless. That and we're one banana flu away from bananapocolypse. Apparently the O.G. banana looked more like okr...

Grrl Power #1053 - Enter the easifat ramlia

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Possibly related to today's page. BTW, the 4th panel says "Dead am I? So much the better." Or at least that's what Google translate told me. People can actually read it have said... "Eh... pretty clo...