Grrl Power #1396 - Inevitable escalation (Patreon)

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Basically, the fight proceeded to a best of five against scion-boy, which is to say, three rounds. At that point, some pedestrians had started watching. Then Glaive-lass asked for a fight, to which Max suggested they come at her two on one. That's when the betting pools started. Now it's up to 4 on 1, and there's a lot of quatloos about to change hands, one way or another. Yes, Sydney wagered on Max. But only after she bought the equivalent of a boba tea, so she only had 5 `loos left. I imagine the dollar-sign symbol for quatloo is a Q with a line running top to bottom, ending in the tail. Or if you're fancy, a double line with double tails. Hmm. Maybe the double line version would have the tails facing different directions, which... might make it look like a capital Omega. Lower-case omega looks like a butt.

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It's a good thing upper-case omega looks cool. You don't see a lot of superheroes going around with a lower-case omega symbol on their chests. Except Power Girl, am I right? 

So... anyway. Yeah, Maxima's pants have the same "force field" effect that her gloves do. Is any above-the-elbow glove an opera glove? Or an evening glove I guess? Well, not the rubber kind you put on before you give a horse a rectal exam, obviously. And not to totally switch topics here, but suddenly I have the image of a horse's rectal thermometer being the size of a yard-long summer sausage. I mean, there's no reason a normal-sized one wouldn't work. I suppose you might have to hold it in place. I just mean the physics of the expanding mercury. But still, my mind went straight to an image of a thermometer the size of a grown man's arm. 

Right, gloves. Well, a quick googling seems to confirm that the majority of above-the-elbow gloves are just called evening or opera gloves. I suppose if they're made of leather or are fingerless or have a bunch of unnecessary zippers or studs sewn into them, then someone might have cause to give it a different name, but I guess there's not enough styles like that to formalize a word for it. 

Oh, by the way, the background guy in the gasmask isn't a pop-culture cameo, so don't strain yourself trying to place him. Maybe it's not fair to mix and match like that, but sometimes I just need a wide guy in a cloak to take up space.