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Grrl Power #1087 - Adulation escalation
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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 muscle and bones to a jerk with fire powers. Dr. Frost may have a new patient.
I'm enamored with the idea that Goon Squad comes from a large family of siblings and they all have weird variations on duplication powers. I already joked that he had a brother named Brute Squad who can make far fewer dupes than Goon, but they're much bigger and stronger. Maybe there's a sister named... I dunno, Fruit Squad? Or Fruit Ninja. They don't all have to be Squads necessarily.
You may notice this page has slightly simpler coloring than usual. I mean, maybe some of you wouldn't right away, I personally can get pretty engrossed when reading and can miss dramatic shifts in art style sometimes. Anyway, I'm out of town for a few days because I'm going to go see Rammstein in concert. The wife got tickets for a 2020 show, but as you might guess, it got pushed back, twice. Normally taking a few days off wouldn't affect the comic because I do have a tiny buffer, but at the last minute, I decided the page that I'd originally intended to go here would be better if I put it off for a few pages, because otherwise it'd look like Maxima's trip home took like 6 hours or something, which it definitely didn't. So I find myself in the odd position of "finishing" a page then almost immediately posting it. I'd like to say I'll come back to this page and finish the coloring work, but I kind of don't hate the way it looks? Hiro's block of a head is a little plain looking, but maybe a quick highlight pass would help. Doing the shading like this took like, and hour? For this page and the next one. And some of that time was trying to keep myself from going in with the blur tool and really smoothing out those hard cell shade lines. Normally it takes all day to do all the foreground coloring. I don't want to make a bunch of sudden changes to how I do the art though, because that's jarring to read. Although, if I started a new storyline and signified that with a chapter splash page then I could justify experimenting with the art a little easier. It's still be jarring, but it would be encapsulated.
Comments
AlpineBob
I'm not sure what Gushers are. But... So the sister is Fruit Looper. She can send a single (or up to three, if you want shenanigans along these lines [link to Clock Blockers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBawCe6du3w ]) duplicate(s) back in time to a minute ago. Only one at a time, 15 seconds minimum to recharge. These dissolve into apple goo if disrupted, desire to stop existing, or one minute after creation at the latest. Each apple dupe may creates a single minute ago dupe, which is banana flavored. Which also dissolve after a minute. If a banana dupe creates a minute ago dupe, it dissolves . The dupe created is cherry flavored. Cherries cannot create another dupe. But that's three layers of dupes, each of which can attempt to change the outcome of something within the last minute. Or if they chain, up to three minutes. Most useful in a group with other supers, as early warning. (Apple: "In 55 seconds we are attacked thru the skylight by two supers with Flame powers!" Banana: "10 seconds later two with cold powers burst through that door!") I read a web-comic called Magellan, with one character in the current storyline (http://magellanverse.com/comic/parargdox/)who can go back a minute, but just mentally. So no hordes, but early warning is basically what she does.
AlpineBob
I like this style. And I like this look for Maxima. The only issue is that Maxima isn't shiny (I've never been a fan of her shininess, but it is an established part of her character design). You might get around that a couple ways: - say she's still shiny, but you aren't showing it due to time limitations. Hey, if you can up your schedule, or build a buffer, or take a vacation with the extra time, go for it. - say she's de-buffing (most metal isn't shiny without a lot of buffing, and she's decided not to do that anymore). - add a single crosshatch highlight to her forehead in close-ups to denote she's still shiny, kind of like an anime shorthand sweatdrop. - something else.
