Grrl Power #1509 - Death starfish vs. pointy rock (Patreon)

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No, Maxima didn't yell "KAAAAAAA-LAAAAAAA-KAAAAAA..... UAAAAAA!" when she fired that beam. She also didn't spend half an episode powering it up. To save you the web search, Kalākaua is another Hawaiian monarch. (It was that name, Liliʻuokalani or Lunalilo)

It turns out that the best way to lose a fight in this comic is to be a pain in the ass to draw. Disastar should have dodged, but I think I spent at least an hour drawing that slightly tilted version of him there in the second panel. I just copied him from the big double spread page, then did a transform on that image to lean him back a little, but of course he just looked like a flat picture that had been lazily transformed in photoshop. The perspective correct depth he had in the original pic was all sheared the wrong way. So I spent a ton of time redrawing a bunch of fiddly details and honestly it's probably hard to tell on the page here. Less so in the double-sized Patreon version, but still.

To be fair, I had never planned on Disastar being a major factor in this battle, so he was going to go down early on anyway. So let's say... Orthvye (the Aetholith piloted bioweapon) hamstrung Disastar's maneuverability with... spinnerets? Yeah, just off panel, there's a big web stuck to the bottom of Disastar, like a giant Spider-Man swung through.