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Here's a wallpaper of Maxima giving her little speech, sans the dialogue. ( www.grrlpowercomic.com/archive… )Related content
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I love how this image nods to the iconic image of sephiroth in the flames (ref; www.angelfire.com/comics/penne… ). screams "Do. Not. Fuck. With. Me."
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I like her style, she is interesting and like some people quite the hypocrite(talking about her ideals...and i got er whats the word...hm oh yeah an easy way to prove it).
If she hates how people look at her, and hates how men look at her beauty(which i cannot see all that well...but eh).
Then does that mean she is better or would look to an ugly guy or girl without any malice or pride (aka she wouldn't judge someone on their appearance as other people do to her?).
Don't know yet, but i believe not.
And that is why i like her, she probably is deliciously hypocritical, and there is nothing more i love to see than someone who has ideals like that(any ideal, or philosophy) to be shattered and shown to be the hypocrites they are.
I could be wrong, in which case i would be disappointed, but i suppose she would prove to be a better person(which i don't believe she really is).
On another note.
Its stupid to see her do this thing.
Anyone who sees her will immediately escalate against her, because her aggression calls for people to respond negatively against her and in fear.
Things will escalate whenever she gets into play, as her enemies will feel backed into a corner with someone who might kill them.
Or at least that's how i would feel, intimidated and ready to strike against her in any way like a rabid dog.
Hm, she either ain't very smart(doubt it), or simply tries to convey a different image than what i am seeing(i think its this), if memory serves she wanted to be feared?.
But fear is the worst tool to use when you show how willing you are to resort to killing your opponent or lethal means(remember, people will look at her and go.."Holly shit, she will kill us"_.
In essence a hostage situation against her will have people using them as literal meat-shields and if she wasn't so damned powerful then she would be in big trouble.
And thats why i approved of Vehemence trying to kill her, that gun-ho attitude and strong powers make her dangerous as an opponent.
So if she was my enemy i would have done the same things he did against her.
If she was more neutral and less gun-ho (or challenging) then people would feel less threatened.
But all this is over now.
Anyway keep up the good comic, even if i don't comment directly on it.
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Wouldn't....her clothes vaporize....? I mean I've been following the comic (I love it) but I don't recall reading anything about super materials for clothing. An explosion like that would leave her golden bottom exposed from the intense heat and the pressure would likely just shred the rest of her outfit off completely. It would have made for a funny as hell scene though. In the move to show how really badass and powerful she is, it comes back and bites her in the indestructible ass by revealing her fine self to the world like that.
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Max does the Superman Invulnerability thing; projecting a zero-range forcefield around her clothes with tactile telekinesis. In a practical sense, it allows the barrier to have some give, increasing its stability and decreasing energy drain. Achilles, on the other hand, has the back of his clothes incinerated, since it's only him that's invincible.
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Nice, you don't see something as epic as that everyday.. ^^
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I think that Maxima has shown perfectly exactly what Archon is about, at least as far as a deterrent force is concerned. Install a fear of what will happen if you go against them, and nobody will want to, or at least, damn few will. They know that they WILL lose if they go against her. I am sure that, all things being equal, she is a great person to go out for a drink with. Just don't try to attack her.
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Maxima is my kind of girl, strong, sexy, psycho.......
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Playing the press with a planned show of force...
A mostly coolheaded persona(if not dealing with Sydney...)
Extremely competent in managing her powers...
Possible geek...
I fail to see any signs of psychosis in her character....
But really, a super-powered near indestructible being with full measure of her faculties and a (presumably) cunning mind...
I find that scarier than any form of psychosis
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Holy Thunderpoops, there are very few words [okay plenty of fancy ones I don't feel like googling] for how impressive and awesome this display of power was. Though the glowing eyes make me see her with glasses on.
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Why get into deep philosophical and political debates and just simply say "Maxima is Bad Ass. Male. Female. Hermaphrodite. It doesn't matter. IF you do evil. She will kick your ass. Period. " I think that's he real message here....She espouses a fully Feminist Theory. This female with her partners both male and female will kick the ass of anyone who breaks the law. Be they male or female. I just wish we could see more than one page a week. but I'm here for the long haul. Have been since page 3 was posted a friend showed me to you website.
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All this image is missing is some background music.
I'm thinking End of the Line, by Sister Sin.
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Actually, now that I think about it, Sister Sin's Fight Song (the music video of which is on YouTube), would make a pretty good leitmotif for Maxima.
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eeeeeeeeeeheheheheheheheheeheeeee
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Fucking BOOM.
Carrot and stick, you are tried and true.
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Alucard of Hellsing is the first thing that comes straight to mind.
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I don't think it's actually possible for this to kick any more ass than it already does.
This kicks all the asses.
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Maxima just rubs me the wrong way. It's a case of "I'd be able to admire her except..."
These days, where feminism has invaded law and created situations of presumed male guilt; wherein male victims of domestic violence and sexual assault are discounted at best, mocked, blamed and imprisoned at worst; and basically espouses a "Final Solution" regarding one-half of the planet (see Canadian Bar Award-winning feminist lawyer Elizabeth Sheehy's recent well-received argument on legalized murder of men: www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Bat… ; anyone who embraces feminism is misguided and intentionally blind at best, and a downright cruel bully at worst. To see someone with that much power embracing such a hateful philosophy and still trying to claim the moral high ground worries me.
I love your comic and most of the characters, and I like Maxima in her own way. I just hope that people like Sydney and Xuriel will help to show Max that bullying, cruelty and bigotry is never okay, regardless of your target's gender.
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Whenever she gets excluded from something because she's a woman, she gets pretty pissed about it. It happened a lot in the military which is still mostly a boys' club, and it even happened in high-school when she tried to join the football team. (Before she had powers that is - she was in Cross Country and a little tall even back then and could outrun most of the other guys trying out for QB. This is also when she developed her dislike of cheerleaders.)
Feminism is about equal rights and opportunities, not being able to murder men willy nilly. Thinking that's what feminism is about is an Association Fallacy. One feminist wrote it's ok to murder men, therefore feminism is about murdering men. 95% of domestic violence is perpetrated by men, therefore all men beat their wives. The KKK were Christians, therefore all Christians enjoy recreational lynchings. Sure there are feminists who want more than equal treatment (usually justified by women not having equal rights and opportunities at any point in history - just watch Game of Thrones (fictional but inspired in no small part by the War of the Roses), The Tudors, Dowton Abby, the women are mostly politely treated like little more than ambulatory wombs. At least in Mad Men they're allowed to own property.) but Max isn't one of them. Make sure you invite her to the poker game and don't get caught staring at her chest and you'll be fine.
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Other than the 95% part, I pretty much agree with your stance. Regarding the domestic violence number: In the US, the CDC commissioned the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. While afterward the CDC voiced disappointment in the questions used in the survey and the slant toward victimhood, not to mention the blatant lies released in the executive summaries which contradict the survey itself, it was found that domestic violence between men and women is about equal. This has been found since the late 70s, when Dr. Erin Pizzey opened what was likely the first ever DV shelter. In publishing her findings that most of her shelter's women were just as guilty of assault and other domestic violence as the majority of their partners, she opened herself and her family to stalking, persecution, and attempted murder.
With domestic violence being about 50/50, why then does the SAVE initiative in the US (an ordinance slipped into the Violence Against Women Act) insist that law enforcement treat men as the perpetrator in every situation, even when the man called the police and is the only one injured? Why are there no government-funded DV shelters that cater to both genders, and only one men-only shelter in the entire nation, which receives no government funding and survives solely on donations? Why were there full-on riots by female students at the University of Toronto when Dr. Warren Farrell attempted to speak on issues facing men in the modern world? Why, when the female students attacked their fellows, attempted to trap or kidnap those who only wished to attend the lecture, and assaulted police, was this not an international headline?
Feminism uses "things were bad in the past" as a justification for many arguments, but the past shows that exploitation goes both ways. Before the rise of Islam, the Mali Empire was matriarchal in its rulership. This is important because, under the matriarchal leadership, the Mali people instituted the widespread slavery and treatment of humanity as currency that they then imparted to the Portuguese, creating the European slave trade.
Men are not better than women, nor are women better than men. To embrace a philosophy that contains so many extreme groups and ideals and then distance oneself from the negatives does not absolve one of the moral consequences from supporting it. I believe that women should have their reproductive rights protected. I also believe that men should have reproductive rights of their own, and the male birth-control pill currently in development should not be stymied. I also believe women should be allowed to serve in the military in combat situations, since that was the reasoning behind the right to vote and why the aristocracy's insistence on voting being relegated to those who owned land was overturned.
This post has been obscenely long and I debated about whether to even reply. But people need to know these things, that the world is not black-and-white, and neither good nor evil has a gender.
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The 95% figure was the first thing that came up when I googled it. It was from some report done by PBS, not a tin foil hat wearing blog, so it seemed legit.
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Yeah, the big problem is that the tin-foil starts high up and then gets filtered down and lodged as "official." Here's the NIPSVS site, with the summary and the full report (It's under "more resources" on the second link), so you can see the discrepancies between the full report and the executive summary that was given out. www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention… And remember, the CDC publicly chastised the surveyors for leading questions and presumption of male abuse/female victimhood, so even the full report is biased. Still, it's one of the more accurate things out there even with that, so it's what I usually go to. As I post this, I see that the site's format has changed. Worries me a bit.
The 95% number is technically true, on the very farthest limb of technicality. In most cases of that number, "domestic violence" is boiled down simply to "rape." Since rape is legally defined as forceful penetration, that leaves victims of male-on-male rape - the only way that male rape victims can even be in that statistic - as an incredibly tiny number, meaning that according to those standards even 5% victimhood is generous.
The biggest problem is that people have been shamed from telling the truth if the truth runs counter to the preferred narrative. It's admittedly difficult to find the "real stories," but when you find them you see the corruption festering in the name of equality. Road to hell, and all that. For example, a man in the UK was recently released after 17 years in prison on a rape conviction, when he was patently innocent. His accuser couldn't identify him in a lineup; he didn't have the physical traits his accuser claimed he did; his DNA was nowhere on the woman. Yet, simply because she maintained that he'd raped her, he was convicted and jailed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-… Many of his family members are dead and he has nothing, and he was innocent. In the zeal to protect, we have instead endangered and created a climate of presumed guilt.
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Domestic Violence and rape are two VASTLY different issues, and to equate domestic violence to mean "only rape" is to introduce a false variable. ANY statistic that predicates from a DV=Rape premise that you postulate is flawed and should not be relied upon.
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It's not me that's postulating it; it's the statisticians who use it to create a 95% female victimhood number when actual analyses of assault and abuse average from 50/50 to 60/40, leaning toward either gender depending. Spousal/partner rape, as a form of domestic violence, is conflated to substitute for all domestic violence in order to produce statistics that are true on technicality but patently false as a matter of morality.
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Well, imagining myself in the shoes of a woman who was as strong/"powerful" as the average men (or even most men) around her and was denied from making use of it, I'd say the way she behaves now fits to that very much. Who says that a superhero must be likeable?
Kudos to for making a super hero(?) having such "issues"! Yay to superheroes with a personality!
That said, I agree. I liked Max when she was in the bank, even though this kind of attitude shone through already back then. Now I like her less.
And that said, I learned some things I did not know from your post, so thank you very much for writing it.
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we need a way to up-vote/Like DA comments...
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We had a (sort of) crude way to do something in that direction before it was taken away. 
I still miss the emotes that could be added to a comment. Even the "neutral" one was good for expressing an "emotion".
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I think that this has been the most honest thing I've read on the internet in a long time. Very good points and well done.
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I think your confused on what feminism IS. Its about equality between genders, not installing a matriarchy.
Also, the belittling of male violence and rape victims is also a patriarchal product, but here's not the place to discuss that. PM me if you feel like replying about it.
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