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Grrl Power #1059 - Coarse language and/or sand
🕑 Added 2022-06-20 10:00:07 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
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? Which is gritty...
Anyhoo. Ah, action pages. I wanted to show some scale here, but of course that means I can't do my typical 9 panel page. Every once in a while it's a bit of a relief to be able to draw a page slightly faster, but of course I made up for that by making the next vote incentive more involved than usual so I didn't actually give myself any extra free time this week.
I looked up some common curses in Arabic. This is not one of them, but I can only assume that some dog a long time in the past really offended someone in the Middle-East of yore, because a lot of curses involve calling people a dog, son of a dog, etc. I mean, if I was a canine family pet in that region, I'd be like, "Aw."
Maxima speaks enough arabic to order food, complain about hotel accommodations, direct troops, get directions to insurgent camps, etc. She's actually very nearly fluent, at least until a conversation veers into trade lingo. She knows the words for jeep, truck, technical, wheel, axle, etc, but if you start talking about rebuilding an engine or human anatomy beyond major organs that are likely to get hit with a bullet, or decorating a cake, her vocab becomes a stumbling block.
Oh, and insults. She knows how to insult people. But like I said, it seems any and all canine adjacent insults are a slam dunk. "Your high school guidance counselor was a dog!" are probably fighting words.
Oh, and about the stinger, yes he can control sand, and Maxima will definitely wind up with sand everywhere, but presumably he can't control sand if it's inside her personal near skin tight forcefield that kinda sorta protects her clothes. She's wearing the gas mask so he can't use inertia to get sand into her mouth or down her throat. Really, if someone could control sand when it was inside someone else's body? They'd be able to kill anyone. A single grain of sand spinning around ripping up their arteries or lungs or optic nerves or causing 20 aneurysms a minute? Maybe Wolverine could survive that. Definitely Colossus or your basic Superman type, but just about anyone else would be fucked.
Comments
Aclys
judging by how huge a sand cloud he's swinging around, the answer is probably that it makes him stronger.
Enigma42
so does this villian like control sand, is he made up of sand, if you fought him in a desert does that make him invincible?
Michael Obert
I'm going to put sand in your dead little eyes. So, I'm going to need you to go out and by sand. I don't know if they grade it, but, coarse.
