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Grrl Power #1338 - Shadowcraft

🕑 Added 2025-03-13 10:00:11 +0000 UTC

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Czarzhan

Edited to make the pronouns gender indeterminate.

Mike

I thought that the spider person was female? Implied?

eddi_TBH

Waaaaaaay hack when. The White Box Era.

eddi_TBH

Human blink reflexes are super fast. Even one is not otherwise super.

Bharda Sullivan

In SuperHero-adjacent real world news, apparently “hard light” is a Real Thing, now. Scientists in Milan have figured out how to freeze light into a solid state, and are calling it “photonic matter.”

Eric Loken

Youch, still pretty lucky all things considered. Could have very easily been much worse, But such things do happen, knew a girl in high school who's car got driven over by a semi and trailer, on the highway. She survived with only scratches and bruises. I went down and saw the car (old 70s or early 80s sedan), it was FLAT, when I say it drove over her car, I was being quite literal. But somehow through the way the truck went over her car and the way the car crumpled, she didn't get crushed herself. Of course the opposite can happen as well. Saw the aftermath of a similar collision on the highway a few years later. The back half of the car from just behind the front seats was sheered clean away and sitting on the road. The front half of the car was simply gone, just hunks of metal and plastic scattered about the road, biggest piece looked to be the engine block, although that was barely recognizable. The couple in the car were of course killed outright.

Person

Was that Dragon magazine way back when?

Person

It occurs to me that in addition to forgetting that some things are hot or heavy, Max might also forget about bright and dark. Crimson also seems unaffected by the glare.

Cha0sniper

She bleeds blue, right? I'm guessing they'd look very similar to bruises on a normal human, but tinted green when fresh and transitioning to blue/purple when healing

JasonAW3

Unfortunately, as a vampire, she actually not very 'hot' as she's undead, although, if she DID go out into the sunlight without the correct sunblock, she's likely to become quite "hot"... As she would burst into flames?

Thomas Dorner

That reminds me of the cigar smoking dragon "Wormy" of the comic of the same name.

Torabi

We've already seen Crimson several times. She was introduced back on page #451, and has appeared on at least a dozen other pages.

Anton Schleef

When the right kind of shit goes down they're the best friends to have.

eddi_TBH

Max makes friends in low places.

eddi_TBH

Especially with Max backing them up? I think she may be the only smoker in ARC-SWAT. Unless Dabbler has a hookah hidden somewhere. And I would not recommend a puff from it. Unless the Viagra is a total failure.

eddi_TBH

I think their voice has to handle all the expression work.

eddi_TBH

Given the characters she has worked and fought with, rattling Max just by looking different is not happening.

eddi_TBH

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

eddi_TBH

If they jumped out at me I might holler and jump. But if we were already talking and I got a good look, I might have a better grip on my reflexes.

eddi_TBH

Max can have that effect sometimes. She is very cool about people being different.

Opus the Poet

I was riding my 🚲 at the time. Initial contact was the back of my left calf, and I had broken bones all up my leg and torn ligaments in my knee.

Tristan N Milner

Well, well. Another hot redhead. Maybe we'll see more of Crimson later on.

JasonAW3

I have to wonder... If Max was bruised by a 125mm tank round, what colors would the bruise be? I don't think she's exactly human anymore... (BTW, i suspect that the fluid from the geode that she broke when she was younger, was actually a transfer fluid for an alien nanotech that gradually replaced her original cellular structure. It didn't kill 'her' it simply replace the fragile structure that she was with an, (organism?) that is more durable than mere human flesh).

Eric Loken

"Oh my god, do not develop a crush on her!" I laughed. :D

Eric Loken

Directly or you were in a car at the time? If directly, I must admit that is pretty impressive. And probably involved not a little luck... or an extended hospital stay.

Louis Richards

Are YOU going to tell the dragons that the politicians say that they're not "allowed" to smoke?

Merle Blue

You know what, she's absolutely right, those are some sharp pedipalps. And those eyes are kinda cute...

Opus the Poet

No I was hit by a DUI driving a truck at 60MPH. That's been a while ago, and I'm not sure I could do it again.

Alan Lewis

I imagine the 'shrugging off' event going down similar to Tony getting shot down by a tank in Iron Man. She gets knocked to the ground, gets up, hits the tank with a tight beam shot, and walks away like a badass while it blows up behind her.

Alan Lewis

As a nearsighted person I've always interpreted the haziness of their vision without the mask to similar to my own visual imperfection. One also needs to keep in mind that in their natural/preferred environment everything would be showing off as warm or even hot, blurring things together. in both situations I believe the mask helps to sharpen resolution and filter out ambient heat to focus on the active heat signatures.

Raymond Dannelly

On the other hand, the superpower being holds up a finger to their unlit cigar. You should have a solid idea of what's about to happen.

Raymond Dannelly

Once finished, almost certainly. Still under construction, grey area.

Person

I don't think Max will be able to come up with even the wrist mounted model on those spinneretes... I think the best she could hope for is a wrist mounted harpoon gun. Digit really only has the one solution to that kind of problem.

Person

She almost certainly ruined that film. Not cool Max.

Person

I don't recall a minimum on flash defense, 1 point would do it. Okay, now I gotta look it up... I stand corrected. 5 points minimum. Obvious accessible focus?

Mark Magagna

Infrared is likely to be somewhat fuzzier than visible light due to the longer wavelengths involved. Also, most surfaces will emit some sort of infrared, even if only slightly. Black surfaces in visible light will probably emit more. It would be as if pretty much everything was glowing a little bit.

Michael Altarriba

"She said my pedipalps were sharp" Only you, Dave, would (a) write such a line, and (b) make it freaking hilarious! Thanks for the morning chuckle in these trying times.

Town Crier

5 points of Flash Defense (Vision) would easily compensate for more normal drastic light changes like lighting a cigarette in a cave or a lightning flash in the sky.

Jacob Bissey

I haven't seen the predator movies so I don't know how "vague and crappy" it's depicted, but most of the kinds of creatures they are likely to hunt emit infrared light, and they probably emit it too, so they probably get things like depth perception from the photons they themselves emit and also their pretty literally glows in their vision, even through walls to an extent. Plus, even if their masks are able to pick up a broader spectrum, they'd still need to interface with their eyes and visual centers of their brains, which sound like they are adapted to infrared input only, which means the masks would need to interpret that broader spectrum into infrared anyway, even if it yields better detail for them than their normal vision, in much the same way night vision cameras pick up infrared and then interpret that into our visible spectrum so we can actually see what the camera picks up. You also have to remember that the ways infrared vision can be depicted to us is probably not the same way their brain visualizes the information, we are largely reliant on color gradients for things like identifying edges and depth perception, but if they don't have cones for more than infrared, then they clearly are relying on something else for those things other than color perception. Simply put, it's virtually impossible for us to imagine what their actual perception of what they see actually looks like, let alone to depict it in a way that is visually comprehensive to the human eye on a movie screen, that's the sort of "suspension of disbelief" where you have to assume the people making the product do their best to depict what's going on, but some human limitation stops them, so you just have to take their word for it that it works as well as they say it does, even if it looks like it shouldn't based on the depiction, since they can't actually depict something like that accurately.

Matthew Lambert

Getting Spinnerets would require a collab, iykyk

Evil Midnight Lurker

Yautja are weird. There's every indication that sight is their primary sense, and yet without their masks their sight is shown as vague and crappy infrared only. How does that work?

Brett Peirce

Did you hit your shin on it again? Ouch!

Czarzhan

Another hint Max can actually see in the dark: she wasn't surprised by their visage because she could see them before she lit the cigar.

Opus the Poet

So, Max shrugged off a 125mm round, and and I survived the kinetic energy equivalent of a 155mm round minus any explosives. We should date.😛

Cat Tillinghast

Well it's not as if she could say she "tanked" a tank round. That could get pedantic rather quickly, as she's learned from Sydney

KnightRider007

Pity we can't see his expression in the last panel. It's probably hella cute ^.^

Playwars

I like it when people aren't scared and tend to be nice to the 'monsters'. Sydney remains the champion in this department (hugging them for example), but still, Maxima isn't afraid of them and her egalitarian views probably apply to every sapient out there. She might make a good ambassador for the stars someday.

KnightRider007

Yeah, honestly, if she wasn't doing it deliberately for some reason, that comes across as (if nothing else) really *rude*, especially with no warning. And *especially* when last panel mentioned several actual reasons they were keeping things dark.