Grrl Power #407 – Pseudohistory

Yeah, there’s a little history there, but nothing either one would cop to.  That doesn’t mean he isn’t interested, or even that wasn’t trying to date her without her knowing about it, or even even that she’s not interested.  But certainly not interested in games.  Or maybe this is how she flirts.  People are complicated. 

Max spends enough time being annoyed at the things men do* that she hasn’t done a whole lot of dating in her life.  It is safe to say she has pretty high standards though.  She can afford to pretty selective as she checks a lot of boxes in the “desirable” categories.  Wealth, fame, beauty, exotic, power – both literal and societal.  This assumes “Strong enough to accidentally kill me if she sneezes while we’re kissing” is not a strong turn off for a potential suitor.  Also; “Strong enough to permanently emasculate me if she sneezes while we’re… (long pause) You know.  Say no more.  Wink wink nudge nudge, eh?” 

Of course, Maxima has to balance her inclination toward selectiveness with her own sex drive.  That’s something that’s never been established in the comic for her.  Dabbler, in her own words, never goes below an 11, but she has pretty strong willpower.  That begins to wane as her innate hunger goes un-slaked.  Harem is probably a 7 or 8 on the sex drive scale, and maybe a 5 or 6 on the willpower scale, which means she’s woken up next to a few people and thought “Come on, Daphne.”  Anvil’s right in the middle, but gets a few spikes when she sees a guy with is her type, primarily guys who are taller than her, which is rare enough, and gangly guys aren’t really her thing either.  It’s safe to say she likes watching basketball.  Sydney comes in pretty low on the scale, despite getting flustered around cute guys.  In her case, she also wrestles with a certain degree of self confidence deficit, so in the rare cases she’s genuinely smitten, she’s usually slow to put it out there. 

*(#NotAllMen)

In case anyone doesn’t know, Conan’s line is a paraphrasing of a statement attributed to Khan (Genghis, not Singh), “The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”  But I think Conan’s is more pithy. 

Ug, two double pages in a row, both with mini comics?  I need a vacation.  And by vacation I mean a single page that’s slightly easier to draw than usual. :/ 

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Deus should hire Sydney as a consultant for his supervillain shows.  That way he will never do anything too bad to avoid losing his valued consultant and get much better at doing what he likes most.  Everybody wins!  Well almost everybody… There may be a few other supervillains less but that is realy just a bonus for the rest of the world. 

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Relatively very few people are willing (or have the time) to slog through 3 or more pages of comments, or (perish forbid) go archive-diving before they make a comment.  As a result, there are bound to be similar comments somewhere along the line. 

I think Deus might be my spirit animal!  He is certainly my favourite character so far, and his banter with Max here is brilliant, I could actually picture them together in a sort of Batman/Catwoman type way.  Anyway, I’d work for him for free just to be able to say that That is my comapny’s mission statement!  Fucking brilliant as fuck Dave B! 

also srly… he calls himself God! ( Dues ex machina is tranlated to God in The Machine..and i assume dues means god..)how the hell are there no guards what so ever you can see?  someone who calls himself god..that alone is a challenge to EVERY assassin out there who isnt already on his payroll..

Deus, not Dues.  Pretty sure he calls himself Deus because of the big X on his face and his last name being Machina. 

Deus Ex Machina meaning ‘God in the Machine’ is just a literal translation from Latin.  What it really means isa person or thing that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently impossible difficulty’.  That’s the reason why he calls himself Deus – because he’s the ‘determiner’ and can do anything he wants. :) 

Did you not read his back-flash?  He has (or had) at least one guard who could make them, and anyone else, invisible (and it actually translates as “god from the machine”, and it was from old Greek plays, where they had the ‘saviour’ literally pop out of a box or be lowered from the rafters, kinda like how everyone’s image of how a Ninja dresses came from the old Kabuki plays: the stagehands would be dressed in black so not to intrude on the play when moving the props around, and, even when you expect a Ninja in the play, you never know which one it is going to be)

I really shouldn’t be reading stuff this funny when other people are trying to sleep.  Good thing most of my family are deep sleepers, or a few people would have been mad at me after seeing Machina’s “Mission Statement”. 
I honestly imagine Sydney will like Dues.  Considering that his assumed name and company are a pun, and that he’s a cartoony supervillain for her dramatic hero side to play off of, I imagine they’d have a great time together. 

Isn’t that more of a “vision statement”?  A mission statement would have more focused, concrete goals, like: “By leveraging our capital, manufacturing base, and innovative designs, we will build an unstoppable military arsenal with which we may crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of their women.” 

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