Grrl Power

Max is one of those heroes who actually has to think about whether or not to save the plane of people the bad guy shot down as a diversion, or go and tar the bad guy instead. Superman saves the plane every time. It’s a failsafe diversion. Max isn’t a psycho. She’ll usually save the people, but […]

If I was a superhero, I would buy stock in “construction.” That’s how stocks work, right? Construction and bandages. And moral outrage or racism probably. Nobody planned Max’s bolt hitting the bridge, but the law of comic book averages meant it was practically predetermined. Maxima didn’t know Sciona could deflect her shot, and to be […]

Maybe Maxima should have been two more cars behind. It always bugs me in movies when someone is tailing someone else, and they’re maybe 30 feet behind them. I know they do that so its easy to get everyone in the same shot, but it makes it look like the followers are every bit as incompetent as […]

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve drawn Sydney. I mean previous to the previous page, but I draw two pages side by side, so this page and the last were the same page as far as I’m concerned. I almost forgot how to draw her bangs. :/ This is kind of an odd page […]

When I started the comic, I kind of scattered the ranks around the characters because I didn’t really understand what all that stuff meant. To me, military ranks always seemed like leveling up at your job like you’re playing Call of Duty. I was genuinely blown away when learned the difference between commissioned and non-commissioned. […]

Well, a few bandaids will fix that right up. The shirt is probably a write off though. And the pants. Remember back when I was all “I don’t know how much gore I want to put in the comic, even though I actually love super gory manga where dudes get cut in half down the […]

This is the page where I draw a character giving herself a haircut because I liked her hair when it was short better. Also maybe foreshadowing some of Deus’s plans. My wife does this to her hair about every five months. Just… not with her laser wings. Hey look, Deus can draw. No, he’s not an author […]

Deus is rich in money and… other stuff. You know, friends. Sort of. I could have come up with something other than a Draugr, but they’ve been on my mind lately. I like the name Rannevig. I may reuse that someday, but I don’t think Deus is going to run into that particular one anytime […]

Well, I guess Deus delivers as advertised. I decided on this page that Sciona can retract her wings down to something that looks like those Chinese spirit light things. Just cause, I don’t know, it’d be more convenient. For her, cause she wouldn’t have to worry about knocking her lamp over every time she got home and […]

Wow Deus is getting all the action these days. The other guys in the comic might need to step up their game. So we’re back from the little Harem flashback now. I didn’t put a caption up in the leading corner of the page cause I thought it’d be obvious, but just in case I’m […]

Hi and welcome to Grrl Power. If this is the very first page of the comic you’ve ever seen, you might be a little confused. Allow me to explain. First, read the previous page. That chick with the white hair? That’s the same chick with the strawberry blonde hair on this page. And the one with the yellow […]

Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2018 If you’re not familiar with the VDSD, it’s basically an excuse for webcomicers to draw one or more of their characters in the nip. Most of these links just go to their page, which should have a link on it to the good stuff, but just to be safe, consider […]

Honestly, I have no idea what the other 4 could be. As excuses go, how do you beat “I can’t have sex with you because I’m somewhere else.” That’s hard to top without magic or superpowers being involved. The only thing that comes to mind immediately is some sort of body swap situation. “I can’t […]

If it isn’t totally clear what Max and Harem are referring to there in the last few panels, imagine that it might be cleared up in the next page or two and it might just happen! I made up the term Silk Work because as far as I could suss out, there doesn’t seem to […]

Deus is the kind of guy who would keep $600 million in a duffle bag somewhere in his office just for the gag. Well, he would if there weren’t a lot of better things you could do with that much money besides having it collect dust in a cupboard. There are gags, and then there’s just being […]

I decided to make a stand-alone post about this so people can comment on it if they get around to reading it. Please use the spoiler tag for anything remotely spoilery. Just wrap your comment with [spoiler]Your comment[/spoiler] I’ve found a new book series I’m enjoying immensely. Star Justice. The short version is; Space Marine gets […]

Again, this is more than I wanted to show of Vale at this point in the comic, but it’s fine. I suspect this little reveal might present more questions than answers. Vale makes a good henchwoman because not only can she literally ignore being impaled through the skull, but she brings significant creep out factor to the table. Intimidation […]

Not too much to say about this page, just needed a little transition to the next page. Which is kind of a dumb thing to say. It’s a comic. Every page is a transition to the next one. I hadn’t planned on showing off Vale’s abilities quite yet, but you know how it goes when you write. Sometimes […]

Normally when Arch Villains face off you get a lot of monologing and grandiose scheming but little action. I thought I’d mix it up and show some petty bickering. If Sciona actually wanted to inconvenience Deus, she would have smashed his fish tank. I’ve barely ever shown it (You can see a bit of it […]

When I added Harem to the team, I really thought I would be featuring her a lot more in the comic. She’s fun to write and think about, but she takes up a lot of space on a page. I have to show her in multiple places with different backgrounds and usually different people around […]

Sydney, you could use that sort of phrase if you were designing video games or writing comics, so it’s not as unique as she might think. So Dabbler speaks 137 languages, which seems like an absurd number even for a comic book genius, but there are a few asterisks involved. I’ll get into them later in […]

The first half of this page is channeling that crime procedural show “Numbers” where, if you haven’t seen it, the FBI guy has his math savant brother use all kinds of crazy math to solve crimes, like applying fluid dynamics to traffic patterns to plot get away driver escape routes and the like. My biggest […]

That’s not ARC-Light’s HQ so much as it is Zephan’s office. I really would have had some extra time so I could have added some knick-knacks around the place, like a terracotta warrior in the corner, a collection of ceremonial daggers. Some… shiny rocks? You know the sort of thing. The red long johns with […]

I’m not sure what the girls thought would happen, like punitive PT is something troops are trusted to self-report on. “Sure, I totally ran 20 laps around the base. Don’t worry about where I got the venti macchiato.” I guess they thought they had more time to mess with Math before Maxima showed up. More likely […]

I guess they didn’t get ready on time, but at least Jiggawatt was able to fix her lipstick, right? I’m sure in the history of the military, having to go running in your boxers is something that has happened more than a few times. But that was probably before women were allowed in the armed […]

Happy new year! Here’s a comic for those of you not too hung-over to read. Superpowered horseplay could get out of hand real quick, which is why Maxima is tamping it down as harshly as she is. Though at some point, someone will probably point out to her that these guys were just, well, horsing around, […]

I know I mentioned possibly not posting a page over Xmas, but I went ahead and did it anyway, so if you missed it, pop back one and catch up! For the record, Maxima mostly thinks it was funny when she punched Dabbler through the wall. Not when she got manhandled. Or, womanhandled. Succubushandled. She does […]

To be fair to Maxima, “walk it off” is her go-to for everything from brain freeze to devastating spinal trauma. Dabbler absolutely is sandbagging. Getting punched in gazorpazovum isn’t pleasant, but succubi are built to take a lot more abuse that than on the reg. I mean, they were literally made to get turned on by whatever […]

One of these days, all of Dabbler’s perverse antics will probably be a boon to the team. Today is not that day. That’s the danger of being progressive beyond the fringe. You have to wait for the rest of the world to appreciate your forward attitudes. Maxima can control her strength, as she has her power pool […]

Whoops! Holidays are throwing me off, sorry for the late page! I’m pretty pleased with how my wet skin work came out on this page, enough that I think the rest of the comic is just going to take place in the ladies shower. Possibly under waterfalls or in the rain. Maybe sweaty in the […]

Yes, Sydney is taking another shower. The reason for this will be at least hinted at on the next page. Don’t worry about it too much for now. It would be fair to think it’s mostly because I wanted to draw another scene with superheroines taking showers. I mean, come on, sometimes the simplest explanations […]

Sydney’s comment about Trent being male makes me wonder if there’s ever been a transgender Tentacle Monster. Or even if they have a gender at all, really. I guess I’ve given a lot less thought to tentacle monsters than I have to succubi. Well, I’ve known about succubi a lot longer. I don’t even know […]

Before starting Grrl Power, I had a nebulous concept of succubi being solitary predators, or having their own little fiefdoms, or being the wizard or seer or whatever for a lord of some sort where they’d have access to a stock of partners, willing or otherwise to keep them well fed with tantric energy. But the more I develop […]

Ah yes, the fabled Tentacle Sickle. I remember that well from Arthurian Legend. Well, not Arthurian Legend so much as his lesser known brother Mortimer. Mortimurian Legend. Well, not legend so much… I don’t know, Sciona cracked the pillar containing the sickle, I figure someone picked it up. Maxima and Sydney once had a conversation […]

I realize just as I’m posting this page that the crack on the one way mirror looks like Dabbler and all four of her arms are cracked into it, but when I drew it, I was thinking of Dabbler in her two armed form, plus an impression of the tentacle arm that smacked her into […]

Dabbler should have known something was up, because her hearing is way better than anyone else in either of those rooms. Her glamour has human sized ears, but she’s still rocking those pitcher plant ears of hers for real. Ok, maybe she shouldn’t have expected that Cooter would grow a tentacle arm, even though I […]

Huh, I think something’s going on with Coot. What ever could it be? I made an assumption that everyone would automatically recognize all the boots in the top panel. I mean, Max and Sydney should be pretty obvious, but just in case, I cheated a bit with the Who’s Who panel. If I’d had just […]

Water at that depth isn’t quite as cold as I was hoping it would be when I wrote this page. A quick googling told me ocean water at 1000 meters would be about 34-36 degrees Fahrenheit, so 1-2 Centigrade. That probably varies a lot depending on where in the ocean you are, still the moonpool […]

Yes, somehow while examining the interior of the vault, no one stepped in that spot. Maybe not too surprising as it’s basically in the middle and they were mostly examining the interior vaults and perimeter. Also Maxima was flying just above the gore carpet so she didn’t get any on her boots. Obviously Maxima is […]

Sydney’s question isn’t entirely out of the blue. She’s referring to this conversation, in case you forgot. Even still, it is a pretty acute non-sequitur. She was just uncomfortable with how aggressive Max was being with Valen. She’s used to women being mostly pretty passive about it. Usually it’s the subtle torso twist away or […]

For those wondering when Valen got there, I think I only drew him on one page, right when they arrived. Oh, here too. He just never factored into the pages before now, and sometimes I have to be a little economical about how much background stuff I draw. But yeah, he was there, as part […]

Max probably could have forbidden Dabbler from being part of this questionable interrogation, but I guess she’s playing nice with either The Council or some sort of succubus etiquette. Like, when there’s some distasteful sexual task and there’s more than one succubus vying for the job, because let’s face it, “distasteful” is an entirely subjective […]

This is one of those pages that would definitely benefit from being able to flip to the next one right away, cause there’s obviously a bit of a jarring transition here, and who is that blonde? I mean, I think there’s a pretty big tell, but I wrote it, so I’m hardly a neutral observer. I […]

“But Dave,” you might ask, “didn’t Cooter literally explode?” Well, yes, but you know, it’s a superhero comic with a little supernatural stuff thrown in, so the possibility space is… wider. Not sure how Sydney assessed that Cooter was a hillbilly that quickly. I guess just assume he’s got that drawl which is hard to […]

Oh, Sydney. I do enjoy a good pun. I also like bad puns, so if future pun quality varies wildly it’s because my standards are all over the place. :) I realize with all the blood, it might be a little hard to tell, but in the second to last panel, that’s Wyrmil’s upper torso […]

Sciona’s wings are significant appendages. You can see why she wanted them back. When she says “apply enough force” she’s talking about a considerable amount, not something most supernatural creatures could casually generate. In a world of Supers and shaped charges, this does not provide adequate security, but the The Council has been relying mostly […]

So yeah, Sciona isn’t actually a dark elf (or a drow or a shadow elf etc.) I haven’t quite come up with a name for what she is yet, but I’m sure Sydney will ask someone about it sooner or later. And no, Sciona isn’t mannequin smooth, just pretend the lighting is at exactly the […]

I’m kind of sad that Sciona’s achieved her goal here, or at least one of them. I was getting used to drawing her with the orc body. It’s a pain in the butt to draw with the stitches and the scar all the extra details that take time to select and color and all that, […]

A lot of you guessed about work arounds to the death field problem, and if you didn’t come up with a solution as simple as this, it was probably because you wouldn’t have thought it could be defeated this easily. It is pretty bone headed, but in The Council’s defense, Sciona didn’t think of it, […]

Sciona must talk a good game. That or she was a lot nicer before she got most of her head chopped off. Also we don’t know how long any of these people have known Sciona, who seems to have been around for a while. At least longer than a regular human anyway. She is exploiting […]