Grrl Power #1337 - Nothing to 533 here

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Hey look! I figured out a way to do art quicker that didn't involve stick figures! Hah hah, well, I managed to amuse myself, anyway. Don't worry, this gag only runs for two pages. Man, it was so hard to stop myself from putting the eyeball hot-spots in to show that eyes are wet and specular. Not that you'd actually be able to see Scooby-Doo style eyeballs in the dark anyway, but there certainly wouldn't be a light source to cast those hots. Ignore the fact that there are eyelid shadows on the eyes, please.

So, I planned poorly. It's page 1337 and nothing "leet" like hacking or uh, playing video games well or anything like that is on the page. Man, you guys remember when everything was 1337? That lasted like... 4 years? Maybe 6? Memory is weird. Leet-speak felt like an age of its own, and maybe it did last for 12 or 30 years, but its heyday was decidedly shorter than that. And then one day, everyone just kind of stopped transposing letters and numbers. At least publicly. I'm sure most of us have a few "P@$$w0r|)$" with internumerals still. Anyway, memory being weird with time is why everyone goes, "Abwaaaah?" when they learned that (insert movie here) came out 26 years ago! Movies have that special power to kind of live forever in our heads, and unless a particular movie is some sort of childhood keystone, I think everyone feels like every movie they saw after the age of about 16 came out roughly 7 years ago. The Matrix came out 26 years ago! God, you remember how every movie for like 5 years after that had to have a orbiting bullet time camera effect in it?

Maxima respects cops. In theory. We have a saying in America, "Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Unless you're a cop." The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cops don't need to know the law to enforce it. Or... what they think might be the law, I guess. Basically, "a police officer's reasonable mistake of law can provide the individualized suspicion required by the 4th Amendment to justify a traffic stop." Which sounds like a real thin-edge of the wedge ruling to me. But cops in the U.S. receive on average two and a half months of training, and are only required to have a G.E.D. or high school diploma (though this can vary quite a bit from state to state), whereas cops in lots of other countries need a college degree and receive 18-36 months of training. So what was the Supreme Court to do? Suddenly require cops to actually know what they're doing? In America? Get out of here.

So Maxima does theoretically respect cops, but it can be hard to maintain that optimism in the face of a lot of real world realities. Arc-SWAT is a military force with civilian law enforcement duties. She honestly considers her team elites the of law enforcement, and not just because of their powers. Of course, that said, not everyone on Arc-SWAT does have a college degree. Jabberwokky doesn't. Heatwave has 2 years of community college under her belt. I'm... not sure if I ever said where Sydney is in her education. I feel like up until her induction into the team, she was doing like 1-2 community college classes a semester, working on transferable credits, though she had no particular major in mind and wasn't real gung-ho about it. But she had to drop the classes she was taking when she joined the team, because a lot of her non-superhero time is now being taken up with law enforcement and legal education classes.