Grrl Power

Edit: Okay, I have to cop to it. I straight up forgot that Sydney’s glasses auto translate and give her subtitles. I have no excuse for that, but my in-world justification on this page is that there’s a half dozen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I know what you’re thinking. “Of Couscous it’s Delicious” is barely an acceptable pun in English, and the newscaster was speaking French, being translated into English via closed captioning, and who knows what language the actual food truck’s name was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I hope this page makes sense to everyone. It seems fairly straightforward to me, but then, I wrote it, so it’s hard for me to judge. Anvil isn’t covering her head out of a sense of honoring the dominant religion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

As I was drawing this page my white guilt gland made me wonder if making an “African themed” team of superheroines was a tiny bit racist, but even as my “Hmm” gland was chewing on it, my “Duh” gland was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Looking at this page just before I publish it, I realize that I did a poor job of introducing “Lioness.” You can see her in the last panel of the previous page, but the way this page plays out, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney didn’t read ahead in the script or anything, she just guessed that if a smaller country is going to have some supers passing through, they might have a task or two they could use help with. She didn’t consider[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Okay, before you’re all “I don’t think Maxima would tell them to just take the day off,” Anvil explains on the next page. Sydney’s smart enough to know that while some of her contributions to the team extend beyond the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

A lot of you more or less guessed the same thing as Dabbler here. Using your weird artifacts with no detectable power source to output massive amounts of energy? Maybe you’re draining the batteries or wearing down the capacitors. Or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’ve lived in Texas for 40 years and to this day if someone says “Texas” my first thought is of desert and cactus. Granted, I’m old enough that when I was a kid, there were still cowboy shows on TV.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Yup, cleavage of holding. You guys guessed it on the previous page. I mean, really the only possibilities were that or she just had something stuck down her bra like women sometimes do. Not that the succubus wearing a strapless[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

(whoops, I was up past midnight posting this, and my dumb ass still scheduled it for “the next day” AKA Friday.) I think some of you were looking forward to Sydney’s meandering speech, and maybe it’s a missed opportunity, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So finally we get to the page I decided to delay until after showing Maxima returning to base. You can see why I delayed it, as I’m depicting evening in Galytn now, so it would have looked like Maxima’s return[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Most jobs don’t often provide the opportunity to toss your concussed boss behind the nearest piece of furniture. It’s the little things. I think people underestimate the difficulty in copying someone else’s voice – for shapeshifters I mean. It depends[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Back to the regular coloring for now. I’m probably going to experiment with it over the next few pages. I think the flat cell colors were nice, but would have benefitted from at least one highlights pass. I’ll find the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Now that Arianna has gotten past her “knife hucking reaction phase,” she’s had time to stew in the staff saferoom and really concentrate on freaking out over how really super close she came to losing all of her skin and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

There’s definitely some wires crossed in Sydney’s brain, right? So yeah. Cthillia is an anthropomorphic beholder of some flavor. That’s “beholder” not “Beholder(C)” because Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast/D&D owns the copyright on “Beholders(C).” I thought they also held the copyright[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

In defense of whoever comes up with the codenames (or, supranyms) for Galytn supers, they do speak at least eight languages over there (at least they do in Mozambique) and that’s before introducing Alar and Chiktr. Presumably English is also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Galytn does have a lot of supers per capita, (Don’t worry, we’re not going to spend the next 300 pages meeting them all, hah hah.)so putting out a giant fire is going to be less of a challenge for them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’m not actually certain if this sequence takes place slightly before Harem left her message for Max, or if relaying a cell message to that part of Africa has some technical challenges or if all the cosmic energies recently unleashed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney’s reaction here is because her Trope Savvy brain is starting to realize the potential of the Atmorb^TM. There’s still a shitload to learn about it. Can it create just gasses? Can it create any element on the periodic table?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

This page is not especially visually exciting, but I needed to speed up the production of the page a bit to make up for my weekend trip last week. Normally that middle panel would have cut to a very sooty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

You know, sometimes the titles to these pages are funny references or portmanteaus or repurposed idioms, and sometimes they’re “I can’t think of anything better and it’s been an hour.” It’s the equivalent of browsing Netflix for 25 minutes before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

To answer some questions about Darude’s powers. He can control sand, and also transform into it, IF he has at least his own mass of sand to… hide in, sort of. A lot of superpowers (and magic spells) rely on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

“Sydney! What did you do to the desert?!” “As deserts are defined by the amount of rainfall they receive… technically I didn’t change anything?” So, Sydney had a bold plan, and enacted it. There’s something to be said for decisive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Shén wèi (according to google translate) means “divine guardian” or really “divine guard” because “divine guardian” actually translates to “Shénshèng shǒuhù zhě” which isn’t nearly as pithy sounding. I don’t know anything about Chinese, but it seems weird that changing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Hopefully people get what’s happening here. I could have drawn a dotted outline of X standing opposite Chimyriad, but it turns out that not drawing people is a lot easier than drawing them. Chimyriad is a cameo character, and technically[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So what we know about Goon Squad, AKA Ted, so far. He seems to know what happened to his clones at least after they die, but they don’t seem to have any telepathic link between them. The “dress up in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

“Hey Goose, how did you know those guys were full of weird, crunchy particles, indicating they might be some sort of expendable duplicate?” “…” “Oh……… ‘Kay.” So yeah, the guys in the brown armor are actually a guy in brown[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

That guy she put the beat down on will probably still claim he got to second base with her. “Well, then she took off her bra…” “Yeah?” “And then her bra… uh, touched my face…” “That’s not really second base.”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I realize I’m doubling down on the “Digit is a maniac” joke here. I think the next time we see her it should be in the field, but given her general lack concern about “those wiggly things with the faces”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Their plan wasn’t… bad… but I think a lot of it revolved around getting the rooms secured (and occupants knocked out) before any alarms went off. They just didn’t count on the guy who was still paying attention to his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Aluminum Varia randomly out-shiny-ing Maxima. I think it’s cause I sampled colors from a photo of a jagged block of aluminum, so she has a bit more contrast than what I usually apply to Max’s skin. No, Varia doesn’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Hey, +50XP for Arianna. Tactically, this is a poor reaction. But the dude did try and burn her into ash, so… it’s hard to really blame her. She’s not a soldier, even if she goes jogging with them in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So, quick review of Varia’s powers. She has contact gestalt, and each person she touches gives her different powers. The person she’s touching doesn’t get any powers per se, but the do gain immunity to the powers that Varia gets,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Happy 4th of July. Enjoy the fireworks… If you’re a henchman participating in an assault on a base of superheroes, you gotta figure there are some pretty good benefits and/or pay. Also there’s probably an extensive briefing beforehand, depending on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

No, Leon didn’t just summon tech support. I really wanted to title this page “Zulu Zulu Zulu” because I am almost positive there is some scene in some movie or TV show somewhere in which someone sends that message, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Getting cornered by a succubus at a party is like “Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Orgasms?” They might not phrase it quite like that, but you can bet the conversation will eventually veer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Four hours of flying and blasting is a pretty good workout for Max. It actually pushed her limits really hard at the time, and took her a few days to recover. Firing off about 900 energy blasts in that time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Instead of sticking her head in the sand, Maxima is sticking herself in, uh… his head, which is made of sand. So… aphorisms. Does this count as a gritty reboot, because she’s fought this guy before and, you know… sand?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I wanted the sound effect on that explosion to be reminiscent of those concussion fireworks, the ones that just boom without any razzle dazzle. Honestly those are my favorite, but I’ve always enjoyed joint rattling bass. Generally when those go[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I know it wasn’t obvious from the prior page, but the incoming helis lobbed like a dozen missiles all at once. The thought being to overwhelm unknown and probably pretty advanced defenses. You know what they say, “You miss every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Dabbler: “One big shield is too much work, but I can mass produce these little ones that last a tenth of a second.” Foreman: “We need something watertight.” Dabbler: “Oh. That sounds boring. I’m going to make these instead.” Foreman:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

If you plant the mini-bananas, would they grow mini-banana trees? Trick question! Bananas don’t have seeds! That’s weird to think about – all bananas are seedless. At least the modern commercially available banana is seedless. That and we’re one banana[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...