Grrl Power

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...

Possibly related to today’s page. BTW, the 4th panel says “Dead am I? So much the better.” Or at least that’s what Google translate told me. People can actually read it have said… “Eh… pretty close, actually.” Please ignore all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Some mixed opinions on Deus’s extra-judicial cleanup crew for the last comic, though we can see here that Deus does have some fairly strong feelings on the nature of thresholds, vis-à-vis innocence. The thing is, while Vale isn’t… entirely capricious[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

And just when some of you started coming around on Deus. Of course, some of you might like him more now as well. BTW the conversation in the post beneath the previous comic was totally canon. I started off this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Deus: We’re the two most attractive people in any room. Max: You wildly overestimate yourself. Deus: I notice you didn’t disagree about your comeliness. Max: I know what I look like. Deus: Pamela Anderson crossed with Xena. Max: … }sigh{[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I came up with Deus’s comment that “Evil always has the advantage of being more proactive” as I wrote this page and I think it’s probably true, because I think there’s a limit to how proactive ‘good’ can be. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

This will definitely end well, I’m sure of it. It’s weird to think, but Thothogoth doesn’t actually have a massive need for bars of gold. Since demons/devils/fiends are starfaring species in the Grrl-verse, then it stands to reason that basic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

In panel three, Dabbler really means that altering someone’s mind without their consent is illegal. Super powers are new enough to the public that things like psychiatrists with mental powers aren’t really a thing yet. There’s definitely been uses for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sydney will eventually gain a +1 resistance to this attack given the frequency of her exposure to it. Parfait is about three weeks past her 18th birthday, FYI. Young and inexperienced, but not so young that it’s icky. Dabbler has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I apologize for my terrible spanish. This page should answer any questions about what’s going on here, in case you weren’t up to speed, or, you know, have just forgotten some of the details of a webcomic from 5 months[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Terre is short for terremoto, which is Portuguese for Earthquake. Oh, and since I can’t keep her hair consistent, I guess the blue coloring is dynamically swirling about. I guess the crowds watching the match dispersed quickly. Actually that makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The stinger is supposed to be a goof, but as I was deciding what to put there, I started thinking about if it was just a flippant statement or if it was remotely accurate. I won’t bore you with suggesting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...