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Grrl Power #1011 - Occupations and hazards
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One might be tempted to think that working in entertainment, the two less mature Scovilles would have no excuse to not know what Ma Scoville's job is, but just because she works in the entertainment industry, it doesn't mean she's working on Star Trek or the latest novel-turned-streaming-service-series-with-lots-of-violence-and-boobs. She does do that stuff some of the time, but I imagine she works for a firm that is contracted to a studio or two, and they have jobs like "Hey one of our sitcoms came up with a funny product the slobby husband's unrealistically hot wife is going to try and sell, can you check on this list of funny names against actual registered trademarks" and other fairly routine busy work. On top of that, there's probably a fair amount of non-disclosure stuff she has to deal with as to not spoil stuff about unaired shows.
This page is primarily to illustrate that mom has a serious adult-person office job, dad has an as-often-as-not work from home creative job, and guess who primarily raised the daughter, as if it wasn't entirely obvious.
Okay, the funny thing about this page (to me) is that in the panels leading up to the hairpinsplosion, on this page and the prior one, I put some time into showing the bobby pins slowly losing the battle with Sydney's hair, then almost entirely covered all that up when I added the orbs in. The orbs are usually the last thing I add to the pages, and even after 900+ pages post orb-reveal, I keep forgetting about them when doing layouts. That why when someone is standing just behind Sydney or over her shoulder, the orbs are sometimes spaced out weird or their orbit is tilted weirdly.
I ran out of time while doing this page, because I was drawing it over Xmas break. In the background of the Krognar poster, I wanted to add Krog standing on the hood of a police car, hacking into the roof as it explodes through a billboard with something like "Re-Elect Bob von Corruptman" on the front, really make it look like some action movie poster from the 80's, but oh well. The idea of the movie in my head (yeah, I know, this has nothing to do with the comic, but this is the sort of stuff I think about while drawing) is a reverse Isekai. Barbarian comes to the present but instead of being overwhelmed by airplanes and light switches and whatever, he just goes out and kicks a bunch of ass and reminds all the bored soccer moms what a real man is like, and all the schlubby dad-bods get all up in arms about it at first but then start to come around and are like "Well I guess I could stand up to my jerk co-worker and maybe do some pushups." I'm not sure how well a movie with the moral of "be an aggressive Alpha bro" would do these days, but presumably Laura is mentioning some job he got a while ago.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update: Getting Proofed!
Proofing's kind of on hold until I get the vote incentive out.
Comments
Dave Barrack
Either one is correct since Max knows Laura is married. "Ms." is what Max prefers since she thinks a woman shouldn't be defined by her marital status, but she won't argue with a married woman about it if she prefers Mrs.
Bear C. Brown
Unless I missed a social movement, shouldn’t that read “Mrs.” Scoville instead of “Ms.”? Gray area since Max is the one saying it.
JasonAW3
I also find it interesting that the ORBS zoomed out of the way of the hairpinsplosion...
Aaron Mauthe
Honestly, with the level of hot moms on that poster, all you need is a “National Lampoon” label and everything not only makes sense, but it sells.
Polysanity
ah, i see dear old dad has the reflexes of a lifelong ADHD klutz. signed, a lifelong ADHD klutz.
Nicholas Grey
Took me a second look before I noticed the hole blown through the clipboard...
Nicholas Grey
They've met, a couple of panels ago. I think they mutually impressed each other...
Martin Croft
Max: Note to self.. turn invulnerability rating up when dealing with Sydney in hairclips
Bharda Sullivan
In fact, I’d personally love a page of Krognar hoisting up some techbro douche with a gym physique & a performative feminism-schtick, and turning him into a wall decoration for trying some shitty, manipulative gas-lighting shite.
Bharda Sullivan
I mean, what says Krognar has to be a j*ck*ss, just because he’s fit as fuck & aggressively dynamic? A freedom-loving warrior could just as easily be all about informed consent & personal empowerment for women.
Paul Gabbard
Hair explosion, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
Dave Barrack
Marines wear black and the Army wears a drab olive green, but Dress Blues generally refers to military formal uniforms, as the Air Force and Navy wear blue. I don't know if the Army calls them Dress Blues, but I'm fairly certain they don't say Dress Olive Drabs. Archon wears purple, albeit a desaturated purple, so I was combining Dress Blues with their purple uniforms.
Stephen Gilberg
I got no relevant Google hits for "dress purples." Can someone explain?
Churchill (formerly TeaBear)
I live pretty close to Intercourse, PA, and I am sad to report it's really not much like you would expect a town called "intercourse" to be... Or at all like the movie poster, really.
Miyaa
Wonder if Sydney’s mom was the lawyer behind the real world movie “Hobo with a Shotgun?”
BJ
She was not prepared for hairpin claymore.
D.A. Lamont
FYI, it's no longer required for women to have their hair did like a pineapple frag grenade. A simple ponytail and/or braid will now pass muster. 😅
D.A. Lamont
"Clack it!" 😏😈
D.A. Lamont
Heheh...nice reference to your side project. 😏 Also, that hair clip may have chipped Max's dome. ...At least it gave her pause. 👀🤣
Zip Zop
Why didn't Maxima just catch them as they flew through the air?
JasonAW3
It's official! Sydney's hair is superpowered, independent of her orbs!
Richard Riley
Yup, crossing with Hallmark's "The Knight Before Christmas."
William Elliott
Krognar sounds like a Time Travel version of Suburban Commando...with more cheesecake.
James Cooper
Better than it being set in Blue Ball right?
Town Crier
Alrighty! Who had Sydney's Hair-Splosion at six hours, twenty-two minutes? By the way, "Good Job!" to the Barberian for the pin-job.
Andrew
Sydney’s new parade position: Front toward enemy.
Marc Vun Kannon
Entertainment copyright lawyer, meet Arianna. I'm sure they'll become very good friends. Sydney should love it. "Yeah,. I work with my mom now. Can you drop me into a combat zone please?" I'd love to see Max and Mom go at it someday over what's best for Sydney, like she has two moms now. I still see Max doing better in an 'older sister' type of role, though.
Swedish Chef
What Would Frank Frazetta Do ?
Aclys
I lost it at "the claymore"
Raphael
"the hairpinsplosion" I laughed so much while reading these last two panels !!
Michael Obert
I live near Intercourse PA, lol, and that is totally a fictional movie.
