Grrl Power

Are* of Lube Spell: 0 physical damage. 4D6 damage to self-esteem, + additional 2D6 damage to self-esteem if the person who cast it stands around talking about their plans while you fall around like a newborn fawn chucked onto a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Just be thankful it’s freshly summoned lube. Sydney’s not actually correct about it being a cantrip. It’s like the level 6 version of “Lube.” Honestly I feel bad for whoever has to clean up after this fight. That stuff does[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

In case you, like Torchy, were indeed wondering where the stasis pod was. This guy has a universal translator, but he’s one of those aliens with an insanely loud barky, clicky language that the translator isn’t able to set up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

By “Variable,” Cora of course means “That depends on what I’m shooting and where I hit them.” I suppose that applies to most non-AOE weapons, really. My first draft had some Predator looking scrawl in panel 5 there, but I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

He’s scratching his cheek, but I don’t think his cheek can itch. It’s probably an affectation. Achilles would be a real pain in the ass as a grappler. There are certainly beings who can simple muscle him off, no matter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The hardest part about being Cora is coming up with a UI that lets her pull from her quite frankly asinine arsenal in a quick and efficient manner. She hasn’t quite cracked the tech that makes the world slow down[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Yes, Dabbler has a gun that fires backstab rounds. (See panel 2 if you didn’t notice.) Yes, yes, I’ve talked before about how people with fake limbs get them chopped off all the time. Well, Cora grew up with all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So it looks like word of Maxima’s stunt with the Fel has spread. I guess I could leave you guys speculating as to why aliens want to kidnap and auction her off, but… I mean, come on. It’s that or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I know everyone was expecting a “Viscera Cleanup Detail” level event here, but as little patience as Max has for dudes like this, she’s not going to atomize a guy for a first offence. Granted, trying to tug open her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Actually, Max, supers are kind of the one thing Earth has going for it, from a galactic POI at the moment, other than being the latest planet on the verge of dipping their toe into galactic society. That definitely gives[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

You’ve all been waiting for it. Ray and Maxima will meet soon. Sydney isn’t a lazy person necessarily, but it’s probably easy to imagine that when confronted with a frustrating job, she might gradually start putting less and less effort[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Yes, the race that communicates with smell but deals with verbal languages all the time would obviously have sound friendly names, and “Aster” certainly could have volunteered that information. But that’s not what Sydney asked. She asked how to spell[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I rarely ever have a characters voice in my head when I’m writing them. It’s why I’m always flummoxed when people ask “Who do you see voice acting the Grrl Power characters in the anime?” But Ray Cosmos 100% sounds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I hate to side with the interstellar car salesman looking guy, but… he’s not wrong. So yeah. It is a small universe. Well, galaxy. Ray is an acquaintance of both Dabbler and Cora, and judging from their reactions, possibly an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Times Square seems to be a somewhat fluid designation. I thought it was just one intersection with a bunch of light up billboards, but a lot of adjacent areas seem to count themselves as part of it, I guess for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’m sure no one will be surprised to learn that this page contains a Patreon cameo. Robert Nava asked if he could appear an alien in a Robert Nava disguise, and I was like, that fits in rather nicely with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Yeah. Earth is apparently open for business. At least some aliens seem to think so. The first panel here didn’t quite land like I’d hoped. I think if you look at it long enough, you can tell it’s a guy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

This is one of those transitional pages that doesn’t by itself contribute a lot. It doesn’t really land any big jokes or develop any characters (we already know Cora is a bit cavalier when it comes to distribution of ordnance,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The alternate version of this page has Sydney bubbling Sandy like she obviously should have, then Sandy sneezes right in her face. We all know her shield is pretty darn good, but Sydney wasn’t “in the zone” just now. She[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’m trying to move things along here a bit. Don’t necessarily need to show every moment of Sydney going through superhero boot. Fining Sydney $10K for getting 13 million likes would be a little like fining an oil company $100[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

In some ways, Sydney is always the main character wherever she goes because she tends to always be the center of the attention. It’s not an intentional thing she does, but attempts to wean her into a higher level of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

When Peggy says “the course changes” she just means that most of the pop-up targets have either a civvie or bad guy option. The course doesn’t rearrange itself. No Shi’ar tech holo-suite danger room for Arc-SWAT quite yet. I think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney almost made a joke there about knowing where she could find a spare foot. But she didn’t. Making Sydney watch Seneca run the course is a little like getting Math to teach her martial arts. But sometimes seeing what’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’m not sure why Sydney didn’t know the time limit before she started the course. I guess Peggy wanted a “pure” run, just to see what would happen. Well, now we know. Honestly there are worse things than Sydney erring[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney has reigned in her worst instincts, but it’s still going to be a long day for her and Peggy. At least Sydney didn’t attempt her dive roll with her gun in her hand. She’s smart enough… well, she’s smart[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney’s training is starting to pick up. I skip over a lot of it, especially the classroom stuff where she’s learning the law end of being a superhero. But with her recent improvements to her aim, they want to see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

It has been pointed out that Cora and Dabbler are being very careful about technological pollution with the leg, or at least the incubator it’s floating in, while at the same time, Cora granted some pretty high tech glasses to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

This is one of those pages where the Grrl-verse kind of got away from me. I hadn’t ever intended to grant Peggy a new leg, but… for Cora and her level of technology, it’s a trivial fix. They don’t want[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Thongs, Sydney. The ladies wear thongs. Or… at least some of them do. Or… at least they claim to. Those are ziplines coming off the top of the tower, because why wouldn’t there be? Hmm. Not sure what else to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Based on some of the comments, I think some people would have liked to have seen at least one more poker page in order to determine if Sydney is actually good at poker or if she’s a disaster. I kind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I guess strip poker is on hold while Sydney plays a few hands. She might have her brain in neutral at the moment, but she’d still probably figure out what they were doing the first time someone sells their boxers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Archon HQ is a bit like the Olympic Village at times. There’s a bunch of super fit people hanging out after hours, and sometimes when the RA/Den Mother is away, sometimes things get sexy. I don’t know if the Olympic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’m not sure why I felt the urge to do two consecutive panels (coming from the previous page) of Vale and Max giving each other the close stare. I just like drawing large panels and closeups I guess. Actually this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Vale is by far weirdest character I’ve come up with, I think. Her powerset is a little confusing, and we’ve hardly seen her do anything. She seems to be some sort of ectoplasmic… thing, riding around in human shaped exoskeleton?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I don’t know if DARPA actually has field agents. I suspect they don’t, because it’s not really that kind of an agency. Someone mentioned that the CDC doesn’t have agents either. Most of their field personnel are probably doctors or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Lorlara is 100% channeling Drax there in panel 2. I actually can’t read that word bubble without hearing it in Dave Bautista’s voice. “Primitive fire stick” is such a douchey “my world has higher tech than your world” thing to say.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

If you think about it, all superheroes (except some vigilantes) are there to maintain the status quo. Galactus playing mini-golf through Manhattan? Call the Avengers. Don’t call the Fantastic Four though. Mr. Fantastic actually argued that Galactus (the guy who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

On the one hand, Deus may well be a great manipulator. On the other hand, someone who yells the phrase “artful subtlety” in the middle of a classy restaurant might not be the best judge of such things. If Lorlara[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

It seems Maxima’s love affair with Lorlara was short lived. Panel 6: The implied text there is “Gary, I know this looks bad, but do you want to know what I see? An opportunity. For both of us.” This is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

They would deny it because they didn’t. Remember Deus’s shopping trip? I was getting a little bored of drawing Max’s face with her boring bun sitting in the booth, so I tried a close up in those first two panels[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Deus doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy who would engage the services of a dominatrix, but as they say, variety is the raised welt on the backside of life. So, I’ve figured out why I like Lorlara so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So I found some books that I really enjoyed, and I thought I’d make a separate post about them. It’s actually two series, both by the same author, Daniel Schinhofen. The first thing I will tell you is, don’t worry[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I put a little thought into Lorlara’s name. It’s a bit like Arabic names that recount lineage. For example, Alexander Siddig’s full name (Dr. Bashir on DS9) is Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Three hundred billion… over ten years, in case you were wondering. The details might come up on a future page, but in case they don’t, I don’t want you guys thinking Deus is trying to grab half the US’s annual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I think Maxima ordered Steak Oscar, except instead of Bearnaise sauce, it came with a fancy Hollandaise sauce, and also a side of scallops. Because you know what goes well with Hollandaise sauce? Literally almost anything. It’s just a fuckton[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

There’s probably an upper limit to how good something can taste, right? I mean, electrochemically in your brain. Or maybe there’s an overload state, once your taste neurons are maxed out, the extra levels of “yum” get dumped on your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Yes, I drew Dabbler’s long tongue thrashing around all over Anvil’s cleavage. They’re not directly interacting, but I’m sure Dabbler won’t be offended if you pretend. I modeled Archon’s Mess Dress largely after a Marine I found with a little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Mo’ai, BTW, is the proper name for those big Easter Island heads. Thought I’d mention it here because I had to look it up. It should be clear from this page, Max has no idea what she wants in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Another. Yabbos is a good word. I don’t think I’ve heard or read it anywhere in at least a decade though. While Dabbler would like to get Max laid, she understands that it’s not always about flashing the most skin.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...