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Grrl Power #1022 - Pressed to impress
🕑 Added 2022-02-10 11:01:02 +0000 UTCThanks so much for your support! For serious!
This page was supposed to show Deus working out alongside a bunch of soldiers, and I kind of started to do that there in panel 3, but in my head, there was like a line twenty deep behind him and ten lines next to them. I realized I wouldn't have time to draw all that but I was hoping to make it look a little more like he was being a man of the people. (Whether that was just PR theater or a genuine thing would of course be left unsaid.) My initial vision also had them all standing in a flat field using kind of beat up looking weights, but that was just my brain being like "All I really know about Africa is that it's a destitute dustbowl and the north part has pyramids and the south part had apartheid and also that's where District 9 took place man can you believe that movie only came out in 2009 it seems like it's so much older than that and it's crazy Sharlto Copley had basically never acted before and he fucking nailed it" so I had to revise that image in my head. Also, Galytn and Mozambique are closer to the equator than Texas, and there's no way I would touch metal weights that had been laying out in the Texas sun, so I added the tent/pavilion thing.
In my 30's, I was a pretty regular gym rat. I lacked the mass of someone who'd been doing it since they were 14 - if you look at the dudes who become Mr. Olympias or at least WWE crash test dummies or jacked actors (jackedors, as I call them) they're all huge by they time they're 17 or 18 - BUT, I did get my military press up to about 225. (That's the bar plus two 45 lb plates on each side.) I never liked doing deadlifts though, because I was pretty terrified of messing up my back, so I never would have been able to clean* the weight like Deus is doing here. I used a rack with all the safety catches but still managed to fuck up my shoulders. *By 'clean' I mean hopping the weight from the ground to the shoulders. It's half of the clean and jerk, an exercise clearly named before modern slang made giggling mandatory when talking about this.
All that to say I figure someone who's got that teenage foundational bulk could handle 315 lb military press. (Bar plus 3 plates per side) Of course, even if he's pushing the Olympic record, it would be a weird way to try and impress someone who had military pressed and then military thrown a tank a hundred yards. Maxima might intellectually recognize the effort as impressive, but to her, 315 pounds is like an empty dixie cup.
Comments
akrasia
In the context of competitive tantric gymnastics, what DOES happen when a guy who's "astonishingly good at this", meets a girl who is genetically engineered for this? Do we we get paralytic cunnilingus on the highlight reel?
Martin Drkoš
Deus lifting a speech bubble.
Some Ed
I suppose the weightlifting makes sense. I mean, he's a warlord, and they're kind of known for their strong-arm politics.
Eric Loken
Max should have scoffed and said "please, have you seen some of the guys on my team? Not to mention any of them could lift that kind of weight with their penis." With any luck Deus would try to do the same and rip his dick off. The best response to that sort of thing is to flip it over on them. Or ignore it, but that's not as fun.
Souliris
The expressions in the last panel are so good.
eddi_TBH
Deus very nicely wrong-footed Max.
Jacob Barboza
Kind of reminds me of Lex Luthur with the physical condition he is supposed to be in, in the comics at least.
Greg Morrow
You've upped your game on faces. Good work!
Jay
Link to Olympic weight lifting. Shows the closest thing to superhumans lifting. XD
Jay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAabt56yMJI
Jay
Hey Dave, not sure if you will be doing further weightlifting bits, but just incase you havent seen it, a bar with that much weight will have a pronounced bendyness to it. Just something to keep in mind if you enjoy adding more realism. Not sure what kinda metal a supers weight bar might be made out of to support multi-ton lifts.
Seth Ruskin
I think she saw through him and he's covering smoothly.
Richard Riley
Look up "Suicide Grip."
Pyromaniacal
Oh, he definitely is, he just also knows what to say to wrench the upper hand back.
Mantarok1205
BAHAHA! Deus saw right through her!
Kaelzaad(The Silverback Grizzly)
HA! That look on Xuriel's face! I almost spit my coffee. XD
Michael Obert
The only thing missing from Dabbler's face in the last panel is heart-shaped eyes.
akrasia
Well, wouldn't this be a great time to "Nom nom nom" with the tentacles, using the pretext of not being able to resist him?
Ascender
Great, I'm gonna hear Deus's dialogue in Vince McMahon's voice for the rest of the comic...
Ray
Reallty nice? He's also got a weird grip on that bar.
Whoriar
That has to be one of the best Dabler faces ever!
Kenneth House
I like it. And he is totally trying to impress
Tannerbot
Dabler, wipe that look off your face!
