V09 – Pg29
Welcome reader!
You may have found yourself here through the Collective of Heroes website/widget. If so, please feel free to check out the eight previous issues of Vanguard before getting stuck in here.
To all you regular readers, I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear we’re back to the two updates a week now. Hooray!
What will MaXia do here? Do the ‘right thing’ and let Gradlon go, or succumb to the threats and domination of MaXtreme? Find out Friday!
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Dan
MrHades
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Gary Cohen
Great page! And new readers — the best way to absorb all the backstory of Vanguard is via the book! It reads SOOO much smoother that way and it’s a great holiday present to yourself!
(Yes, I’m shilling for Dan, but seriously, I bought one myself and it’s a treat.)
Thanks for the kind words, Bob! I think Vanguard reads better in the collected edition too. I’m slightly biased though 😉
Bob works on the ace webcomic, 3 Minute Max. Go read it. NOW!
http://www.3mm-crisisstrike.com/
First-time commenting; I’m really enjoying this comic, it’s nice seeing the different types of supers from round the UK (course, they all seem to be having the shit kicked out of them :-)).
I’m kinda hoping MaXia want’s to join Vanguard, and she’s only stopping Gradlon because she doesn’t want more people to die. Looking forward to Friday!
Welcome to Vanguard! I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the comic thus far. There’s a few more spills and thrills ahead in this issue. What will happen to MaXia? Will she join the team? Read on!
Well, whatever MaXia is about to do, she definitely isn’t happy about all that happened and maybe yet to come. Maybe not too happy about what she is going to do? We will see. Really anticipating the next few pages now!
Also arrows don’t seem to have much of an impact on Gradlon. Seems the best they can do is making him angry.
I’m sort of hoping she ants to kick the bitch’s arse herself, or maybe really make her suffer by smashing her mobile!
I’m sort of curious how tough Maxia really is. MaXtreme regularly beats her up, so obviously, while quite powerful in her own right, she’s no match for the top tier supers. Gradlon has demonstrated he’s a pretty serious player, so if this turns into a brawl, it may not be the cakewalk Maxima hopes, especially if Gradlon can be tactical and force her to protect X-Bow rather than fight him.
Well, as far as we could see, she never really tried to fight back against MaXtreme. Who is an A plus player to boot. So that’s not exactly a good way to measure her power.
It hasn’t been stated, but it seems implied that Maxia is also an AlphaONE. Otherwise, Godiva could mind control her instead of Die-Blood, Die-Blood’s attack barely damaged her, she can take hits from Max, and has the same flight and strength powers. If so, that corporation is beyond crazy rich if they can afford two meta-humans that measure on national budget costs. It also means that she’s incredibly tough, possibly just as strong if not stronger than MaXtreme. She never fights back because he’s effectively the head of the company, or any number of reasons; I’m male and don’t know anyone in a domestic violence situation, so I don’t feel comfortable speculating about her reasons too much besides that it’ll take something special for her to fight back. This entire situation might be that something special, though. I’m willing to bet that MaXtreme is stronger than her, but if she is an AlphaONE, she could very likely be just strong enough to allow the weakened Kingsword to prevail. Besides, Max is injured too. Spitfire may not have been trying very hard, but he inflicted one hell of a burn.
I need to write up MaXia’s power set, but she’s effectively a step down from an AlphaOne. She could certainly give MaX a run for his money, but is in no way in the same power league. Effectively, MaX is now the most powerful Metahuman on the planet and he is under control of the yet to be revealed ‘baddies’.
In regards to the domestic violence between MaX and MaXia, MaXia remarks that MaX has been a lot worse since he started using the chemical inhaler. So we can deduce that the abusive relationship was there beforehand. Was it just physical or emotional abuse? Why does MaXia put up with MaX? That will be explored in a future issue.
If maxia has any semblance of a brain she will switch sides and leave the scene with gradlon