Grrl Power #1443 – Have costochondral separation, will travel

Yeah, so fighting super monsters and ultra bots is not without risks. Ya'doy!

I rewrote this page a few times. The original version just had a word bubble... or a narrator bubble... I should probably know what that's called. Anyway, it summed up Maxima weaving through tunnels and sneaking invisibly onto the ship while dodging like a zillion drones from news agencies, governments, criminal organizations, and everyone in between. Scary powerful contestants that no one knows anything about cause interest to skyrocket, after all.

But I occasionally go back to find a reference in the comic (usually someone's eye color) and wind up reading a hundred pages or so. Takes longer than one might guess. But doing rereads makes me realize that the pacing of the comic is... consistent, in kind of a bad way. Like there are very very few establishing shots, no splash pages to set up a scene or anything. Not that every comic needs a wide city shot, then 5 pages of various panels of store fronts, telephone poles, bicycles parked in front of a school, etc, etc. Yeah, I know, you're all conjuring images of the last manga you read.

So basically I thought it'd be okay to spend a few panels on Maxima doing instead of me telling. I'll probably only get the urge every once in a while.

Ah! I thought I had more time till March. I'm bad at looking at dates apparently. The new one is underway. I should have a draft ready to go for the next Monday comic?

Here is Gaxgy's painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.

I did try and do an oil painting version of this, by actually re-painting over the whole thing with brush-strokey brushes, but what I figured out is that most brushy oil paintings are kind of low detail. Sure, a skilled painter like Bob Ross or whoever can dab a brush down a canvas and make a great looking tree or a shed with shingles, but in trying to preserve the detail of my picture (eyelashes, reflections, etc) was that I had to keep making the brush smaller and smaller, and the end result was that honestly, it didn't really look all that oil-painted. I'll post that version over at Patreon, just for fun, but I kind of quit on it after getting mostly done with re-painting Max.

Patreon has a no-dragon-bikini version of of the picture as well, naturally.

Double res versionwill be posted over atPatreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.