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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
IvyReed
I love the way your characters look when they blush! It's a trademark of your work
John C Butler
To be fair, Peggy is already a self admitted solid 4 or 5 on the Kinsey Scale.
eddi_TBH
I can see that.🤤
JasonAW3
Probably transparent silver robes...
Mark Magagna
"Boy, that was an exciting escape! Too bad we didn't have the budget to put it on screen..."
eddi_TBH
I just noticed Max adding to Sydney's hug.
eddi_TBH
Check the text under the comic. Silver robes.
Terence Bryant-White
*Dabbler's ears purk up* "Go on..."
JasonAW3
Robes? You think Peggy actually envisioned Max with clothes on??
John C Butler
"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."
eddi_TBH
Audie Murphy had some choice remarks about that.
eddi_TBH
And their minus sides. You only need to draw three though.
eddi_TBH
Shedding at least one wheel. I think it just became a hanger queen for a local garage.
eddi_TBH
Re: The wings and robe. Peggy keeps that bit to herself.
eddi_TBH
I wonder if she still has a crush on Max?
eddi_TBH
Actual 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.
Iryelb
See, that back shot? Why can't the nudes have Max looking like that? That's hot as fuck!
Kevin Wright
For 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
That is a hell of a panel, yeah!
Eric Loken
In 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.
Aaron Mauthe
You know what, actually, can we get blushing pinup Peggy at some point too?
StLOrca
Then he pulls his van out of the dimensional pocket where it’s stored and off they go.
StLOrca
That’s just what they want us to believe…
StLOrca
Well, that makes about as much sense as anything in the Grrliverse.
akrasia
Sexy embarrassment is best embarrassment.
Hugh Eckert
I love how Peggy's yell of terror trails off into a "WTF???" noise at the end...
Aaron Mauthe
That is the cutest Peggy has ever looked
Stephen Gilberg
I think "adorkably cute" is redundant.
Magraal
If the hilux landed directly on the bonnet, probably not salvageable. any other angle? for sure you could get it running again.
Jim the Pirate
Hell yeah hero points! The easiest way to get things done, and look cool while doing it.
Person
There'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.
Sharien Radaik
more like adorable narrator! peggy is so cute when shes blushing like that^^
DuoMax
Wow. Panel 8 is a wonderful look on Maxima....turning that into a vote incentive wouldn't hurt my feelings one little bit.
Seth Ruskin
Maxima's lucky Peggy remembered her wearing a top. Grant her the lip licking
BW78
Panel 8 needs pinup-ing when you're up to it
Town Crier
Max suddenly developed man-hands in the last panel. She must be retaining fluids?
JasonAW3
I also figured Max to be more of a 'Pibb' drinker than a 'Dr. Pepper'...
JasonAW3
"...and NOT in the fun way..!"
JasonAW3
If he included the Energy dimensions, it would be 9 axes. (Somehow, I always thought the plural of axis would be something like axii...)
JasonAW3
Well, he could be including the Three Time Dimensions as well...
Greg Morrow
The tank top, I'll give Peggy, but military women do not wear low-rise fatigues, even fancy superhero ones.
Greg Morrow
"axes" is the plural of "axis". The problem with the statement is that there are only three space axes....
StLOrca
“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.
Pyromaniacal
That menu has *everything*! Meat and not meat? That's both food groups!
JasonAW3
I also figure Max to be more of a 'Pibb' drinker than a Dr. Pepper...
JasonAW3
"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...
William Elliott
"Mayday mayday mayday! Cheek one going down, we've been clapped!"
Thomas Dorner
It's how they would have told it in a movie.
Simon Magid
Maxima: her superpowers include shifting people's position on the Kinsey scale
Justaguy
And Mr T will regain consciousness as it falls, having been drugged to get on in the first place, and swear at Murdoch.
Simon Magid
And it will ALSO explode. And the A-Team members will at *most* be a little sooty from the smoke.
Opus the Poet
Have to admit that was a fun comic.
John C Butler
If 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.
Michael O'Driscoll
Aw love the last panel ❤️
Playwars
Let'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 ^^
Matthew Dodgen
The last panel is one of my favorites you have drawn this year Dave! 🤩
Michael Obert
Yeah, is that's what a concussion gets you, sign me up.
3of4
Look 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.
