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You may be asking, Dave, what the hell is that accent? It’s a fair question. It started off as this guy from Robocop 2. But then my brain thought, “But what about King Willie from Predator 2?” That guy didn’t just steal the scene, he was arguably the best part of the movie. Note the lack of automatic subtitles in that clip, cause the voice to CC algorithm was too busy cracking up at Willie. “About the one that’s doing all the killing, I am.” CC Algo was like “I need whatever that dude is smoking.” Honestly, Predator 2 was a pretty solid movie. Yes, it had one or two really dumb scenes, but the movie did supply all the AvP games with 90% of the Predator’s arsenal.
Anyway, some people in the comments were under the impression that Max’s top speed was Mach 5, but I’ve no idea where that came from. Sydney’s top speed was Mach 4, until she bought her speed upgrade on the Alari homeworld. When she got back, she tried to tease Max about maybe being the fastest one of the team. To paraphrase Max’s response, “Hmm. Maybe.”
I’m not sure what her actual travel time is going to be though. She doesn’t have her Stratosphere travel kit on her. Max can actually hold her breath for a very long time – what she’s actually doing is using her power pool internally to break up the carbon dioxide and eek out some more O2 time, but it’s not efficient, and takes more and more power the longer she does it. So Max will have to watch out for commercial air traffic at times, though she knows especially around cities and costal regions she can climb a dozen kilometers for a few minutes.
The August Vote Incentive is still up!
Everyone knows that anyone who can draw has definitely drawn naked boobs. Doesn’t matter if the artist is a tweenage girl, a gay guy… okay maybe not a 5 year old, but anyone 3 seconds after puberty has started has drawn boobs. We all understand this. However, there’s a big difference between intellectually understanding this, and me airbrushing areola detail zoomed in on my 27″ screen ten feet from my mom. So there will be a nudie vote incentive this month, but unfortunately, it will be another week. Also unfortunate that it’s not themed something serendipitous like “The Blue Ball Special.” Not sure what that incentive would look like. Cora could do the blue boob special. Maybe Sciona. Hmm, do I need more blue women in the comic? Oh! Detla! Yes…
I’m a big fan of John Byrne’s run on “The Sensational She Hulk” and the imminent show looks very Sensational influenced. Therefore, I was inspired to draw some buff (pun intended) She Hulk, and threw in Red She Hulk for fun. Also, a wild Sydney for scale. Enjoy them posing in various outfits and lack thereof over at Patreon.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
September 8, 2022, 3:29 pm | # | Reply
She was moving fast enough to cross the ocean starting after a car accident started, but before anyone was badly hurt, quite a bit faster than Maxima seems to be going here. It is a great scene though.
Immediately thought of this scene actually, forgot I had learned about the story here but binged the entire thing a while back when it was mentioned.
September 11, 2022, 11:21 am | # | Reply
I just did that myself. Hadn’t seen it mentioned before, so I checked out the scene and immediately had to read the rest of the book.
September 11, 2022, 9:03 pm | # | Reply
And yet… people forgot how fast Flash is.
September 12, 2022, 5:52 pm | # | Reply
September 8, 2022, 4:50 pm | # | Reply
In a way, Max’s powers work in a similar function to Ultra Boy from the Legion of Super Heroes (DC comics).
Ultra Boy has every single power that Superboy has but he can only use them one at a time…For him, his “Ultra Power” is switchable but his power pool is all-or-nothing. He can still use any of his powers while flying because Brainiac 5 invented the Flight Rings that all Legion members get.
The difference with Max is that she can split her power pool however she wants from putting everything into one power, equally splitting her pool among all of her powers, adjusting specific power(s) with part of her pool, to pulling all of her powers to the absolute minimum they can get.
September 8, 2022, 6:10 pm | # | Reply
Good point :) You’re right.
September 9, 2022, 9:55 am | # | Reply
[pedant]: she has baseline levels of power in each aspect even when she’s not using her pool.[/pedant]
I hadn’t heard of Ultra Boy before, but that sounds like a fun character. It gives the writer all the “be super powerful” fun while also letting the character have exploitable weaknesses.
September 9, 2022, 2:17 pm | # | Reply
Ultra Boy’s from the League of Superheroes in the 30th century. Fun character.
He was really bent out of shape when Supergirl was in the future because she has his power and like… every other power he has, all at once :) So he was going overboard trying to prove he’s still useful to the League of Superheroes.
September 10, 2022, 9:16 am | # | Reply
Nope, Legion, collectively they were known as ‘Legionnaires’
What? You saying he was fine when Superman showed up?
September 10, 2022, 9:54 am | # | Reply
Sorry you’re right. Legion. I thought I wrote legion. Weird.
And I dont recall him actually being around superboy.
When superboy (young superman, not kon-el) was involved with the legion, it was usually with the legionnaires either being in the present or ultra boy not being around at all (possibly off planet at the time). Usually superboy dealt with 3-5 legionnaires in particular – Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy and Phantom Girl. There was very little to no real interaction he had with Ultra boy, even in the timescwhere he WAS in the 30th century.
Supergirl, on the other hand, spent an extended period of time living in the 30th century and interacting with all the legionnaires as a legionnaire herself. I think they even wanted her to be the leader of the legion at one point, despite her apparently being convinced that her being in the 30th century was her dreaming. In some storylines she spent years there begore getting sent back and having her memories of being there removed. ultraBoy was directly involved in many of those issues.
September 10, 2022, 2:09 pm | # | Reply
That reminds me… since Max has baseline power in each of the stats… Remember the bridge? We’re not even sure she used any power points in flight. She could boom then too.
September 11, 2022, 5:23 pm | # | Reply
I’m sure she used points. Just probably not a LOT of points.
September 8, 2022, 6:10 pm | # | Reply
I guess Max’s top speed is going to be out of the bag. Or at least, even if she had her IFF and Transponder turned off I imagine a number of countries would either notice her on radar or pick her up in other ways and be able to mark that time for that location followed by anything that picks up her arrival at base.
Seriously… Maxima has just fought her old nemesis, had him taken from her by Deus and probably sand in all the most uncomfortable places imaginable… I would NOT want to be the target of that incoming ass whoopin’
September 8, 2022, 6:22 pm | # | Reply
Depending on acceleration, lung capacity, and lip/epiglottis strength (to maintain 1ATM lung pressure in a vacuum) Max could probably launch herself into atmospheric hypervelocity hops Silbervogel-style.
September 8, 2022, 7:53 pm | # | Reply
Naw with bikers there’s never such a thing as a bad day to ride. Just a poor choice of gear.
September 8, 2022, 10:49 pm | # | Reply
King Willie was from Jamaica. In this case, I’d like to suggest Lance Reddick as cameo voice!
September 10, 2022, 9:19 am | # | Reply
Thought he was from Bahamas? Or was that just the actor?
September 11, 2022, 7:04 pm | # | Reply
Actor, Predator 2, the game is the Jamaican Voodoo posse.
September 9, 2022, 9:49 am | # | Reply
My question is just what has this old guy been up to in his life where he was able to make that deduction?
September 9, 2022, 12:44 pm | # | Reply
It’s entirely possible that he just keeps up on the news.
No secret was made of Max’s visit to Galatyn.
Max would be a fairly known figure in the ME & Africa.
The probability of that fast mover over Senegal, away from Galatyn & in the general direction of America, being Max is high.
…so, yeah. “Somebody ‘bout to get Det ass kicked.”
September 9, 2022, 3:14 pm | # | Reply
Even if he doesn’t know anything about American supers (which is unlikely), Galatyn has its own supers and has been hosting aliens for… a couple months? Pretty safe assumption that anything weird happening now is super or alien shenanigans, and when it happens loud and in public it’s a fair bet somebody’s going to throw down.
September 9, 2022, 9:55 pm | # | Reply
Bharda’s right though. Max has been seen a lot in the Mideast and North Africa before now because of the various sand-colored operations US forces have been involved in since the “war on terror” came up. Remember she’s gotten called out on smashing at least one mosque?
So it’s not too big a stretch to think that there’s a significant fraction of the population there who sort of keep tabs on the news and know when Max is anywhere near the area. Being on the straight-line path from Max’s most recent known deployment to her current base of operations does not need to be very mysterious to someone who is aware.
I’m hoping that he or the boy get some good footage of this to post to twitter or whatever.
September 9, 2022, 11:04 am | # | Reply
They have good taste in music, if they are listening to Weird Al :D
September 9, 2022, 5:32 pm | # | Reply
yes, but they can’t watch this.
September 9, 2022, 9:19 pm | # | Reply
September 11, 2022, 1:23 am | # | Reply
They’ve dared to be stupid.
September 11, 2022, 4:52 am | # | Reply
Because everything they know is wrong.
September 11, 2022, 5:24 pm | # | Reply
Probably the reason they lost on Jeopardy.
September 12, 2022, 5:56 pm | # | Reply
Accordiong to my nerd radiation meter, we have just hit the rad cliffe.
September 12, 2022, 1:07 am | # | Reply
Wow I love the vote incentive! Sydney knows how to jump scare a guy!
September 23, 2022, 11:12 pm | # | Reply
Your father is very wise.
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