Grrl Power

This is hardly Sydney's fault. The holo-disguisinator on Cora's ship really is more or less like a character selector in a video game. Pick your race, then customize the particulars. There are a lot of hairstyle options across the myriad[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I've said it before, but Max is a surprisingly good martial artist in her own right. She's not world class for sure, for two reasons. One, she's never had the time to dedicate to doing martial arts for four hours[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Basically, the fight proceeded to a best of five against scion-boy, which is to say, three rounds. At that point, some pedestrians had started watching. Then Glaive-lass asked for a fight, to which Max suggested they come at her two[...] Read the rest of this entry...

What, indeed is going on? Get ready for the most shocking reveal... no, you all 100% know what the crowd gathered outside of the funnel cake stand is doing. The general consensus is that you're not supposed to sell high-tech[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney is looking at this from the same perspective she would if she read a Superman comic where he fights a mugger. And not the old, old, old, original incarnations of Superman where he could, indeed, stop a locomotive, but[...] Read the rest of this entry...

A large portion of Stygans are martially obsessed - they're not totally a monoculture like Klingons or Ferengi, but the ones that aren't are like an Asian guy in the 80's. Everyone just assumes he knows kung fu. Maxima's not[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Yes, fundamentals are more important than flash. It also helps if you juuuust enough super speed to make the other guy appear to be moving in slow motion. Action pages are hard to comment on, because there's usually not all[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Yes, Max is Neo-ing him. At the end of Matrix 1, when he IDDQD'd after getting shot? You know the scene. It's the no-look more than the one-hand that's really got to sting. The only way this would hurt more[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Some of the stuff pulling Max's attention there in panel 2 might be explained... eh, no, probably not. I mean, maybe way down the line, but I'm not going to detour this encounter into a Stygan culture crash course. I[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney: I'm just excited for a cool space adventure. Also I just totally got my oil changed by my space boyfriend, if you know what I mean." Max: How ever will I crack your encryption?" Sydney: Dipsticks..." Max: Yes, thank[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I was going to have Sydney say ...the resultant queef would ankle your panties and roll down your stockings." But in a supreme moment of self control, I reigned in my urge to keep adding to a sentence until every[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Frix's mistake her is telling Sydney it's probably okay to mix and match. I mean, the pool of possible selections is already huge. Let's say there's 1,000 humanoid spacefaring species in the Milky Way, and Sydney could reasonably be disguised[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I've shown Frix wet before, so we know he isn't all fluff like an owl. But in panel 4 there, he does look a little skinny without all his fur brushed just right. Anatomical quirk, or rule of funny? You[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I can all but guarantee there is a message board somewhere that the dog-kobold and dragon-kobold people wage holy war upon each other. But I like the dragon kobolds. Mostly because I can find more cute pictures of lizard-folk halflings[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I've mentioned several times that I've never been in the military, and most of what I know about it I learned from movies and TV, especially Stargate SG-1, but even without checking sources or even doing a casual google, I[...] Read the rest of this entry...

While Dabbler seems like the obvious choice for space adventures, they already have a crew of stellar adventurers to give them the tour. Additionally, Dabbler is one of the team's powerhouses... well, powerhouse isn't quite the right word, but she[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Hey I have some pool water with food coloring in it, what should we do with it?" Let's package it in wax and sell it to children. Because evil." Wow, you had an answer for that right away." Eeeevil." Is...[...] Read the rest of this entry...

It's a good thing Gellen found something Sydney liked right away, because otherwise, presenting her with the unlimited options that mass fabricators present would usually vapor lock her brain. I'm not sure Maxima owns anything angora, but Sydney's alternate suggestion[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I didn't draw Maxima flying besides Sylv because she's insecure about being shorter than him. If you could fly with zero effort, wouldn't you do it sometimes? I call out with zero effort" because I have had more than one[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I'm going to make the double res version of this page on Patreon available to everyone, since there's so many small panels. My intent was just to show a series of hacking steps involving nano-goo holding down a switch to[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Max isn't actually all that offended by guy scoping out slightly drunk chicks." She knows how the world works. Nothing wrong with a little willful social self-lubrication. Now, if he'd said blackout drunk chicks," that'd be a different story. She's[...] Read the rest of this entry...

That is not a US government issue space suit, in case you were wondering. Cora supplied it. Actually, Gellen probably did. Maxima doesn't need a space suit to survive hard vacuum. She does need to breathe, though as I've mentioned[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Frix does take his profession seriously. He might have pulled a little prank on Peggy, but he's not going to double dip in that same comedy salsa. Probably. I was trying to think of things that (het) women like for[...] Read the rest of this entry...

This admittedly jarring transition does sort of back-flow into the previous scene eventually. Trust me. Frix did ask Peggy if she wanted to close up the scars on her face and fix her ear, and she said that she'd have[...] Read the rest of this entry...

General Faulk, I cannot believe you risked America's two most important defense assets on bloodsports and gambling! What do you have to say for yourself?" What I have is access to a space ship. Do you have a space ship,[...] Read the rest of this entry...

But..." You have a spaceship and we want to continue to have access to a spaceship, so... That's the real subtext of whatever Faulk is going to say on the next page. Please let us continue to use your stuff[...] Read the rest of this entry...

By side-missions," Cora obviously means bulletstorm fueled escalations that leave yawning power vacuums in the criminal underworld. Cause, you know, you take out some sub-boss who's looking to carve out some corner of his organization, and his crime-sempais are glad[...] Read the rest of this entry...

When Max shows up at Faulk's office in her dress purps outside of the usual times," he knows there's going to be an ask. And in this case, the ask is me fight big danger, friend gets paid." I'm sure[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Cora's plan probably sounds like a bad idea for a number of reasons. Some of those reasons may be laid out in the next few pages. At the time this page was posted, a Kg of rhodium is worth about[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Lapha was indeed a guttersnipe at one point, in case you forgot. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned the following before, but it's been years since whatever page that was, and it's relevant to this page, so I claim author's privilege.[...] Read the rest of this entry...

The slow bleed is a actually a surprisingly effective move against Sciona. That is, assuming you can keep her from using any magic or activating any contingencies. Which is usually a pretty big ask. She has more proactive defenses against[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Ah, the most visually stunning comic page in the medium's storied history. You're welcome. I'd say it's about even odds that Sciona is writing in Alar instead of English. I feel like I may have put some Alar writing on[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Panel three may not be quite how Scion usually acquires his DNA samples. Not that he hasn't considered it, but he kept ripping the stockings with his tentacle toes. I will cop to it. In that last word balloon, I[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Spoiler, but destroying Sciona's brain might actually do her in. She does have some pretty involved magical contingencies, but her most reliable ones would probably involve her having to abandon her human Super body, which she has become accustomed to.[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I'm sure Sydney had many, many follow up questions and theories, but conforming to proper Grrl Power orthodoxy, that whole scene was a bit long in the tooth already, IMO, so let's move on. Sciona is not great at hiding[...] Read the rest of this entry...

In panel 1, I overdid it with the sparkles, so in case you can't tell, Dabbler is Hammerspacing her telepathic serial share cable. Speaking of brand new sentences, there are brand new sentences, and then there are brand new sentences.[...] Read the rest of this entry...

A bit of an odd page for this comic, as it doesn't have 9 panels or more. But I thought it'd be fun to draw. Well, it was sort of fun. But also a little tedious and didn't really come[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Dabbler is kidding with the In space..." line - mostly. Not that she didn't say God's domain," she said gods' domains." She was intentionally malapropriating the line people try and dissuade mad scientists with. You know, come to think of[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Of all the myriad planets for Dabbler to be familiar with off the top of her head, she knew that Sol 3 was Earth mostly because Cora is human. Terrans are not a huge population in the larger space society,[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Yes, I'm calling my it's basically D&D" world Gygaxia. I'm that subtle. It'd be nice if all women came with conspicuous visual indicators to reflect the sum of one's efforts like that. And guys too, I guess, but guys seem[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Man, it has unfortunately been a very long time since I drew this guy. Dabbler is either being inconsistent here, or just complex. Spank me hard enough to dislocate my butt cheek because I'm a succubus and I like it,[...] Read the rest of this entry...

On the few occasions I've drawn ice cream or cake, I always have an oddly difficult time deciding what color it will be. I think Dabbler's scoop started off sort of a pale yellow, like it'd be vanilla or coffee[...] Read the rest of this entry...

This is another page that would have benefited from me having a bunch of assistants that do backgrounds for me. The ball" that Dabbler is at is supposed to be in a big room with fancy chandeliers and about a[...] Read the rest of this entry...

The following is all totally canon: Sydney: Ooh! Is that Detla? No wait, her hair is pink. I didn't know Stygans could have pink hair. Of course Detla is the only one I met. It's cool that her skin is...[...] Read the rest of this entry...

In my head, this page was very different. It was done manga style, meaning the sequence of Flash Drive going down the mountain road took 6 pages, and the panels were much larger. One panel of him cycling fast, a[...] Read the rest of this entry...

There is an obvious breakpoint for any stat where it goes from nice to be recognized for that thing" to the crippling insecurity of will anyone love me for me." I won't say something obvious like there's a downside to[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Having never been female myself, I don't know what Unexpected Feelings of Femaleness" would be. Were I a facetious person, I might suggest a sudden urge to go shoe shopping, buy a bunch of makeup, even though they already have[...] Read the rest of this entry...