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I don't know what is involved in the Chastity Corner, and what makes it especially chaste, but at some point, Dabbler's going to realize that it's a fairly toothless threat. Ultimately, Maxima's not going to get involved in any of the team member's sex lives unless they're screwing around on duty or somehow endangering people. Which, in a succubus's case, is not out of the realm of possibility. Still, the vague threat of chastity is a succubi's kryptonite, so Max isn't above using it while it works. 

I'm veering dangerously close to having every character speak in customized word bubbles. I had considered doing that from the very beginning of the comic, but almost immediately realized that it's a pitfall for any comic that has more than a dozen characters in it, because there's only so many combinations of balloon color, style, and font that are actually easily legible. I can't stand comics that have black text in a "Nazi-Letterhead-Gothic-Calligraphy" font on a medium dark red word bubble, with just a skosh of JPEG artifacting around the letters. Okay, I get it, the character speaking is a demon. Are they supposed to be unintelligible as well? I'd say that's borderline racist, but it's really just a design failure.  

The only reason I'm doing as much of it now as I am is, well, look, one of the competitors was a 600 meter tall mountain, another was a giant robot starfish spaceship, then we've got the "Better than an Angel on my own say-so," "Living Explosion," "Huge Demon's Boss." You get the idea. Superheroes and supervillains don't generally need custom sound bubble. Magneto and Vehemence are big, scary bad guys, but they're just people. Fin Fang Foom? Sure. He can get a custom craggly font. Someone like Derksied? Eh, kind of an edge case. 

I looked up how much that cone of mountainside Max threw would weigh. I made some very rough estimates of its dimensions using Max as a ruler. Then used some website to calculate the volume of a cone, then found a website with charts of how much igneous rock weighs. Turns out there's a huge difference in weight depending on the actual kind of rock it is. Pumice, for instance, weighs quite a bit less than basalt, for instance. And no, Max didn't throw a giant cone of pumice at Disastar. Still, 1,000 tons for a cone of rock that large seems very light to me. Maybe it's the cone shape that's throwing me. 

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Wyrmhand

He might just be quting a wery large number without knowing.

Aaron Mauthe

Not the chastity corner in November! It’s already a tough month for her!

Otoger

i like the special bubbles for these special cases, also helps in more complicated situations

Michael Obert

As opposed fo Chastity's corner, which is a booth at a local gentleman's club. Ask Math.

Nathan Wilson

The custom word bubbles are adding a lot to this fight specifically. I'm finding them helpful, and stylish, but I agree that it would be troublesome to give every character a custom word bubble. Max knows that she's gonna have to beat everyone, I think she should just go for sword guy now, especially since he just used a special move. He probably needs to recharge after something like that, might as well superman throw him out of the arena.

Scott Brown

Honestly, in this case, you can even say the broadcasters are adding the extra 'special effects' to the word bubbles, as their form of closed captioning!

GAMES2MUCH

Chastity Corner: localized field that suppresses Tantric energy. Now it only suppresses it, as putting a succubus in a null tantric field wouldn't be punishment, it would be torture, and not the good kind.

John W. Clark

I think a decimal point is off, if I estimated anywhere in the ballpark.  Scaling the weight up to 100,000,000 pounds (50,000 tons) increases the linear dimensions by another factor of roughly 4.64 from the previous step. Based on the density of solid basalt rock, the dimensions are: Vertical Height (\(h\)): 156.6 to 158.6 feet Base Radius (\(r\)): 57.0 to 57.7 feet Base Diameter (\(d\)): 114.0 to 115.4 feet Slant Height (\(s\)): 166.6 to 168.8 feet Scale Comparison Total Volume: Approximately 532,000 to 552,500 cubic feet (roughly 19,700 to 20,500 cubic yards). Height Comparison: At roughly 157 feet tall, this basalt cone would stand just a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty (from her base to the torch). Footprint Area: The base requires a massive footprint of about 10,200 to 10,450 square feet, which is roughly the size of two standard basketball courts placed side by side.

Andrew Denton

Panel 4: I did not recognize the fist, and thought that he/she was throwing an accordion at "Zozzy".

Torabi

He probably gets a drama buff if he's the last one standing, so yeah, best to take him early. Sort of like the inverse ninja law.

James C

"Polka Punch!"

Phoenix

"Or as I like to call her, Irony."

Stephen Gilberg

I hereby challenge you to draw the Chastity Corner.

Dave Barrack

Max is basically 6', so I estimated the center line of the cone to be about 40 feet. Maybe a bit more with the bump on top, but I didn't count that for the calculations. The base of the cone I guessed at about 24" I think?

John W. Clark

I was going off how big I estimated the target to be. At 40 feet and a 22 degree center to outside slope would weigh between 1,912,339 and 2,048,935 pounds. A steeper angle would have less weight. If it was only 48" across at the bottom, it would weigh between 29,288 and 31,380 pounds. Only 24" (a spike) between 7,322 and 7,845 pounds.

John W. Clark

And looking at the original panel where Max cut it out, I think you meant 24 feet, which is between 1,054,369 and 1,129,767 pounds. A little more in line with my revised guess.

He Who Must Drink Some Coffee

As I think of him, "Dorkside". Is it right to hate a comic book character based solely on the name? I mean, how are you supposed to pronounce it anyway? Everyone seems to think it's "Dark-side", but I say "Darkseid" is pronounced "Dark-seed". Or "sayed". Or something. But not "side." But I digest...

Anton Schleef

That's a really good idea, and it fits in-setting as well.

Anton Schleef

Used limitedly for special characters it works fine, like how you're using the special bubbles here.

Alan Lewis

Maybe I've been watching too many Deadlock voiceline vids, but when reading the demon's lines I heard Seven's voice.

AlpineBob

1000 tons actually is a LOT of tons. It is ~11,765 cubic feet per google. Still, that only works out to a cube about 23' on a side, which seems smaller than the cone she dug up, but maybe that is a combination of perspective and being thrown off by the cone...

eddi_TBH

That duel was fated long ago. I'm with Dabbler. Go Team Zozzy!

eddi_TBH

She walks through the Vatican, vows are broken left and right. An Internet custom has no chance of survival.

eddi_TBH

The name of Weird Al tribute band.

eddi_TBH

Both work. As I remember when New Gods started it was a running subject in the letters columns.