Grrl Power #1303 - Unreliable narrator
Added 2024-11-11 11:00:10 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Blushing Peggy, adorkably cute Sydney, sexy (if imaginary and embellished) Maxima. This is one of my favorite pages I've done in a while.
A lot of you guessed something like this, or basically nailed it exactly. It's not like I didn't telegraph the heck out of it. The only other way this was going to end would be the truck coming down next to her or against the helicopter making a nice shady pup tent for Peggy, with the passenger she headshot slowly bleeding his face blood all over her. Or maybe it'd come down on top of the choppa, snapping her leg off like a cigar cutter.
But then this flashback was prefaced with Peggy and Max's meet-not-so-cute, so Maxima saving the day, or saving that particular part of the day, was probably fairly predictable. Peggy doesn't remember the attack on the helicopter or the crash, but the pilot did get off a "Oh damn! I can no longer clap mah cheeks cause I just got shot in the ass!" call. Probably something more military sounding, but I've never piloted a crashing eggbeater so who knows what I'd blurt out when my vehicle was spinning on all six axes. So Max went out looking, homed in on the smoke, heard the explosion, then spent a Main Character Point to arrive at exactly the right time to bitchslap the truck into early retirement. (I am reliably assured that Hilux will probably still run. Just needs a little love with a shammy cloth. Might need the wiper fluid topped off.) Maybe it was a Dramatic Entrance Point. She'd fought enough other local supers at this point to have a variety of options.
Comments
I love the way your characters look when they blush! It's a trademark of your work
IvyReed
2024-11-18 15:30:11 +0000 UTCTo be fair, Peggy is already a self admitted solid 4 or 5 on the Kinsey Scale.
John C Butler
2024-11-15 04:09:18 +0000 UTCI can see that.🤤
eddi_TBH
2024-11-15 04:03:18 +0000 UTCProbably transparent silver robes...
JasonAW3
2024-11-15 01:26:17 +0000 UTC"Boy, that was an exciting escape! Too bad we didn't have the budget to put it on screen..."
Mark Magagna
2024-11-14 22:39:10 +0000 UTCI just noticed Max adding to Sydney's hug.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-13 04:02:48 +0000 UTCCheck the text under the comic. Silver robes.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-13 04:01:28 +0000 UTC*Dabbler's ears purk up* "Go on..."
Terence Bryant-White
2024-11-12 17:17:39 +0000 UTCRobes? You think Peggy actually envisioned Max with clothes on??
JasonAW3
2024-11-12 13:26:45 +0000 UTC"I ain't gettin on no plane, Hannibal." Hannibal chomps cigar, "Technically, it's a helicopter." Faceman injects BA with enough horse tranquilizer to drop a bull elephant. "I love it when a plan comes together."
John C Butler
2024-11-12 11:27:32 +0000 UTCAudie Murphy had some choice remarks about that.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-12 03:56:19 +0000 UTCAnd their minus sides. You only need to draw three though.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-12 03:54:29 +0000 UTCShedding at least one wheel. I think it just became a hanger queen for a local garage.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-12 03:52:34 +0000 UTCRe: The wings and robe. Peggy keeps that bit to herself.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-12 03:49:27 +0000 UTCI wonder if she still has a crush on Max?
eddi_TBH
2024-11-12 03:46:57 +0000 UTCActual black box recordings of cockpit chatter are just the pilot working correct the issue, then one brief obscenity before "sound of impact" shuts it off.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-12 03:45:44 +0000 UTCSee, that back shot? Why can't the nudes have Max looking like that? That's hot as fuck!
Iryelb
2024-11-12 03:24:02 +0000 UTCFor an aircraft, it would be forward/backward, up/down, side to side, pitch up/down, roll left/right, and rotate left/right. Now, how you could be spinning on all six....?
Kevin Wright
2024-11-12 03:11:25 +0000 UTCThat is a hell of a panel, yeah!
Kevin Wright
2024-11-12 03:07:41 +0000 UTCIn the old James Bond RPG (1983) it would have been a Hero Point. Probably only one as Peggy had already got the critical QR1 result with her very low Ease Factor shot, so it would be very counter to theme if she became desert pizza despite her amazing roll. Also, I echo Sydney's response: "Awww!" And she couldn't have been that concussed if she made that shot.
Eric Loken
2024-11-12 02:49:08 +0000 UTCYou know what, actually, can we get blushing pinup Peggy at some point too?
Aaron Mauthe
2024-11-12 00:07:39 +0000 UTCThen he pulls his van out of the dimensional pocket where it’s stored and off they go.
StLOrca
2024-11-11 23:47:51 +0000 UTCThat’s just what they want us to believe…
StLOrca
2024-11-11 23:46:09 +0000 UTCWell, that makes about as much sense as anything in the Grrliverse.
StLOrca
2024-11-11 23:42:37 +0000 UTCSexy embarrassment is best embarrassment.
akrasia
2024-11-11 22:56:40 +0000 UTCI love how Peggy's yell of terror trails off into a "WTF???" noise at the end...
Hugh Eckert
2024-11-11 18:15:02 +0000 UTCThat is the cutest Peggy has ever looked
Aaron Mauthe
2024-11-11 17:09:54 +0000 UTCI think "adorkably cute" is redundant.
Stephen Gilberg
2024-11-11 16:39:12 +0000 UTCIf the hilux landed directly on the bonnet, probably not salvageable. any other angle? for sure you could get it running again.
Magraal
2024-11-11 16:11:27 +0000 UTCHell yeah hero points! The easiest way to get things done, and look cool while doing it.
Jim the Pirate
2024-11-11 16:07:22 +0000 UTCThere's something called "six degrees of freedom" in various simulations (games), which allows for translation and rotation along all three axes. I'm guessing that's what trapped Dave up.
Person
2024-11-11 15:14:43 +0000 UTCmore like adorable narrator! peggy is so cute when shes blushing like that^^
Sharien Radaik
2024-11-11 14:56:56 +0000 UTCWow. Panel 8 is a wonderful look on Maxima....turning that into a vote incentive wouldn't hurt my feelings one little bit.
DuoMax
2024-11-11 14:08:50 +0000 UTCMaxima's lucky Peggy remembered her wearing a top. Grant her the lip licking
Seth Ruskin
2024-11-11 14:00:12 +0000 UTCPanel 8 needs pinup-ing when you're up to it
BW78
2024-11-11 13:59:27 +0000 UTCMax suddenly developed man-hands in the last panel. She must be retaining fluids?
Town Crier
2024-11-11 13:55:57 +0000 UTCI also figured Max to be more of a 'Pibb' drinker than a 'Dr. Pepper'...
JasonAW3
2024-11-11 13:55:10 +0000 UTC"...and NOT in the fun way..!"
JasonAW3
2024-11-11 13:54:13 +0000 UTCIf he included the Energy dimensions, it would be 9 axes. (Somehow, I always thought the plural of axis would be something like axii...)
JasonAW3
2024-11-11 13:51:22 +0000 UTCWell, he could be including the Three Time Dimensions as well...
JasonAW3
2024-11-11 13:37:28 +0000 UTCThe tank top, I'll give Peggy, but military women do not wear low-rise fatigues, even fancy superhero ones.
Greg Morrow
2024-11-11 13:34:35 +0000 UTC"axes" is the plural of "axis". The problem with the statement is that there are only three space axes....
Greg Morrow
2024-11-11 13:32:50 +0000 UTC“Axes” is the correct plural usage here, although I’m not sure you can have six of them—I’m acquainted with only three: x, y, and z.
StLOrca
2024-11-11 13:28:46 +0000 UTCThat menu has *everything*! Meat and not meat? That's both food groups!
Pyromaniacal
2024-11-11 13:06:41 +0000 UTCI also figure Max to be more of a 'Pibb' drinker than a Dr. Pepper...
JasonAW3
2024-11-11 12:52:37 +0000 UTC"Spinning on all six axes"? I think you meant axis, but considering that this was a helicopter, I think a six axes probably is also pretty accurate too...
JasonAW3
2024-11-11 12:49:19 +0000 UTC"Mayday mayday mayday! Cheek one going down, we've been clapped!"
William Elliott
2024-11-11 12:17:14 +0000 UTCIt's how they would have told it in a movie.
Thomas Dorner
2024-11-11 11:49:09 +0000 UTCMaxima: her superpowers include shifting people's position on the Kinsey scale
Simon Magid
2024-11-11 11:45:08 +0000 UTCAnd Mr T will regain consciousness as it falls, having been drugged to get on in the first place, and swear at Murdoch.
Justaguy
2024-11-11 11:43:13 +0000 UTCAnd it will ALSO explode. And the A-Team members will at *most* be a little sooty from the smoke.
Simon Magid
2024-11-11 11:42:55 +0000 UTCHave to admit that was a fun comic.
Opus the Poet
2024-11-11 11:22:19 +0000 UTCIf action movies have taught me anything when a helicopter is going down pilot says something like "MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY" with a call sign and coordinates while half a dozen alarms sound in the background. Action movies also teach that if someone important to the plot is on board, the chopper goes "crunch" when it hits. If there is no one important on board, it will explode. Unless it's on an episode of the A-Team. Then it can run into a cliff, fall one hundred feet, and the occupants will stagger out a bit disoriented but largely unharmed, as if they were involved inna minor traffic accident.
John C Butler
2024-11-11 11:16:46 +0000 UTCAw love the last panel ❤️
Michael O'Driscoll
2024-11-11 11:14:27 +0000 UTCLet's be real, even the straightest of women would feel *something* being saved by Maxima like that. As that girl said during Maxima's undercover bar expedition 'nobody is THAT straight', and that was with Maxima disguised and not saving your life. So totally understandable reaction from Peggy. Even if it's probably been enhanced by the fact she's a big ol' dyke as the early comic put it ^^
Playwars
2024-11-11 11:11:14 +0000 UTCThe last panel is one of my favorites you have drawn this year Dave! 🤩
Matthew Dodgen
2024-11-11 11:10:19 +0000 UTCYeah, is that's what a concussion gets you, sign me up.
Michael Obert
2024-11-11 11:10:05 +0000 UTCLook if a tall busty golden goddess saves me from certain death, I am certain I will also have...less than realistic memories of the event.
3of4
2024-11-11 11:04:05 +0000 UTC
