Grrl Power

What Daphne said in the bottom middle panel is essentially correct, although simplified for space. And by simplified," I mean the details are important. It's not maybe one particle is moving and another isn't," it's that there's no difference. One[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Never poke a sleeping... Actually, it's probably okay when she's more or less pinned under 450 lbs of space boyfriend. I would have actually given even chances that Sydney's dreams were totally coherent and had sensible continuity. Although, come to[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I know what you're wondering. If Gaxgy has a treasure hoard, and he frequents a station that has several Petty Gold" lockers, wouldn't he just clean them out each time? Well, the answer is simply that he's allowed to grab[...] Read the rest of this entry...

But Gaxgy is still in my line of sight, so your cynical key-jangling attempt failed!" But what about the next thing that distracts you?" Shoot! You got me there! What were we talking about?" I'm sure many of you know[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney just has an inquisitive nature, is all. And she often thinks of obvious questions that no one has bothered asking, because they're obvious, but sometimes thinks of advanced questions that no one has yet considered, but when she does[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Destra eventually gets it. Oh, because they are slaves! Yes, this amuses." Garamm and Lapha aren't in a position to quit their current employment arrangement, but they are getting housed, fed, trained and paid, (albeit in U.S. dollars,) but you[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Cora means Max could take on everyone physically, but a like any good adventuring parties, quite a few of them have indirect powers, or things like crowd control debufs, or can turn into mist, or just cast crazy ritual magic[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Many dragons have treasurephilia. A fetish for gold and trinkets and shiny, magic weapons and sometimes even nicely framed art or delicate glass figurines. Having a big hoard is a nesting instinct, as humanoid currency isn't really a necessity for[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I wanted there to be more crews present, but I ran out of space and time to draw them. Also, there really should have been a few more aliens and sci-fi looking people in the mix, but no, I just[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I may have mentioned this before, but for some reason, jokes about things being load-bearing always land with me. Probably because the only ones I've heard are absurdist. I think Brooklyn 99 did one about a balloon arch being load-bearing.[...] Read the rest of this entry...

The thing I've recently discovered about drawing big dragon guys covered in scales is that it rapidly becomes tedious to draw a big dragon guy covered in scales, on account of all the scales. His face doesn't help either. I[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Happy Thanksgiving to Americans, if they indeed have anything to be thankful for. Garamm isn't, strictly speaking, a dragon guy." Yes, he has scales, but despite generally seeming to be a good guy most of the time, or at least[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Sometimes the page titles just come to me, and sometimes it takes me an hour to come up with something even the slightest bit relevant and is probably confusing. Guess how long this one took me. :/ Maxima could have[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Edit: As usual, I biffed the math here. People were saying 9 cc of material would make a sword that's measured in microns of thickness and I didn't understand how I messed up by so many orders of magnitude, so[...] Read the rest of this entry...

In case you can't read it, the security screen in panel 2 says EROPASS" at the top, and the screen says Think about your favorite orgy, you dirty space trollop. -X,xox" and there's a little heart there too. This first[...] Read the rest of this entry...

It'll probably be a few pages before we see Nthaniel again. He's going to do a quick census of all humans in the universe. Or maybe just a statistically significant sample size. I don't know why the starforge is that[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Ooh, Harem's got a secret... This guy, let's just call him Nthaniel for now, probably could be running some sort of know what every quark in my vicinity is up to" field, but, maybe he's bored with however many ages[...] Read the rest of this entry...

This guy is supposed to sound a little vague, cause, well... his thought processes aren't human. I dunno if there's a word for more than sapient," but he would qualify. What I mean is that his thinking is as much[...] Read the rest of this entry...

It's safe to say this guy's stride to inseam ratio is an outlier. You need special mathematical notation to indicate how many standards he deviates. Cases like this are why functions like trimmed mean" are necessary. So yeah, dude went[...] Read the rest of this entry...

There's a lot of stuff I have yet to reveal about the Grrl-verse, and there's this weird temptation to just sit on canon secrets forever, so occasionally I have to remind myself that, oh yeah, I'm telling this story, and[...] Read the rest of this entry...

It's less that the FlyBall is blinking and shimmering and making noises like an agitated gerbil, and more that it's doing... something. The visual are mostly for the audiences benefit, though if Sydney was paying attention, she would notice something[...] Read the rest of this entry...

Oh, you wanted examples of gravity slasher movies? Shear, rated Glip-Glorp 5 for overabundant teenage necking, sexual situations and violence. Crush, rated Glip-Glorp 7 for inveterate exposure of secondary sexual organs, profanity, sexual situations, and violence. The Spagettifier. The granddaddy[...] Read the rest of this entry...

The obvious drawback is the constant pregnancy, mood swings, weird food cravings, not being able to drink alcohol or gargle mercury, and oh yeah, the part with a human being ripping its way out of your genitals. Trust me, Maxima[...] Read the rest of this entry...

I probably could have left this page to the imagination, but uh... I didn't. Max hasn't been in a lot of situations where she has to run away from a situation. I mean, she doesn't have to run away, but[...] Read the rest of this entry...

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...