Grrl Power #1462 - Sword insecurities (Patreon)

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Once upon a time, just after Max got her powers, there was an incident or two (or five, several of which went unreported to the authorities - by which I mean her mom and dad) where she would demonstrably point at something a say "Pew!" and there would be a... collateral incident. Once it was at a church, when she was pointing at some pews. Fortunately her energy blasts at that time were a fraction of what they can get up to these days. And by a fraction, I mean like 1/12,000th, not 19/20th. Or 10/1. That's a fraction. Obviously, in English, saying something is "a fraction of..." implies less, but 1/1 is a fraction. Any number over any other number is a fraction. Possibly except x/0. I mean, it is still written as a fraction, but much like telling NOMAD "I am lying." or "print open parenthesis openquote does not compute closequote closeparenthsis," it does not compute. 

Harem's shirt does say something, in a language/script I made up as I was drawing this page, though I'm not sure if or when it will be revealed in the comic, cause it's kind of a lame joke and I'd probably have to dedicate a half a page to it. The way things play out in my head is a lot like jokes from 30 Rock or Parks and Rec, with a lot of back and forth camera shots, some of them just capturing a quick expression before cutting back to the person saying or doing the weird thing that prompted the expression. Some days, it's a lot of work to edit all that down to comic format. 

Speaking of 30 Rock and Parks and Rec, have you guys seen "The Muppets"? Not The Muppet Show, CBS did a one short season, like 10 or 12 episode run of The Muppets, and it's basically 30 Rock, where Piggy is a late night talk show host, but she's naturally a short fused attention diva like Jenna Maroney, but with Ms. Piggy's penchant for cartoon violence, but it also has Parks and Rec energy because it's filmed diagetic mockumentary style, with asides and mini interviews to a tagalong camera crew. Honestly it's very well done and pretty funny and I'm kind of furious that it only got the one season. 

Yes, I'm aware of the new single episode of The Muppet Show produced by Seth Rogan, which was so true to the original format I was having nostalgia flashbacks to when I was... damn, 1976 to 1981? That would have made me 4 to 9? I must have been watching in syndication when I was around 10-14? 

Anyway... Sword fighting!