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“And I know a guy who had a gay fantasy about your boyfriend, but then the guy went home and banged Ethan’s ex, so… wait. GODDAMMIT, NOT AGAIN!!! I EVEN ASKED YOU DANNY! I ASKED!!!”
And there’s a girl with a crown and a scepter who’s on WLSD. And she says that the scene isn’t what it’s been, and she’s thinking of going home. That it’s old and it’s totally over now, and it’s old and it’s over, it’s over now, and it’s over, it’s over, it’s over now.
or the time when the storm tangled up the wire to the horn on the pole at the bus depot, and in back of the edge of hearing these are the words that the voice was repeating:
When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge: “I don’t want the world, I just want your half”
did you ever see the comic “your half” based on those lyrics? it was pretty good – the guy who wrote it ALSO wrote a really ill-advised (imo) porn-ish-y comic called third wish, BUUUUUT “your half” was awesome.
Doctor Evil: Remember when I said ‘We’re not so different, you and I’?
Cuts back to the first film, with Austin aiming his gun at Doctor Evil.
Doctor Evil: We’re not so different, you and I.
Flashback ends.
Doctor Evil: See? I did say that.
Austin: Yes, very nice.
They Might Be Giants was almost all I listened to growing up. Now I’m going to be playing them all day at work! Thanks do for the trip down memory lane!
Nono, Dina is the villain here. With her amazing infiltration abilities, she can get anywhere, and secretly replace bibles with copies of The Origin of Species.
Bible-Thumper, I love it! Her costume is a bunny costume with a large white cross on the front. Her weapon of choice is dual-wielded brass knuckles spelling out “Jesus” and “Saves”.
It would be a triad, like Kirk/Spock/McCoy. A-G is the captain, drawing strength to lead from the balancing of his good and dark sides. Clever Girl and Bible Thumper are her opposing advisors, like Spock and McCoy — except the conflict is logic vs. faith, instead of logic vs. emotion. And Bible Thumper now has an internal conflict of her own …
Amazi-Girl still works. “Amazi” is a pretty nonspecific descriptor, so it should still accurately describe Joyce, and there’s not really enough of an age difference to warrant a girl/woman situation.
Earlier today I was watching Serenity, and at the scene where Jayne says something like “They all died for no reason!”, I reflexively shouted at the screen “DAMN YOU, WILLIS!” before realizing I got my W names mixed up. Then I figured, eh, I’m just preparing for tonight. Except now I can’t. So, uh, bless you, Willis?!
And for that matter, I can’t look at an Orange Claw Hammer anymore without a mad desire to listen to “Trout Mask Replica” by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band all the way through…
Dorothy is already her sidekick. But nothing like having friends. AG is opening up and talking. Good.
So is Joyce sort of, it’s a start.
Yup, both of ’em, eyes as big as pie plates.
Dorothy is the Lois Lane to Amazi-girl’s Superman. Close, confidante, arguably partner, but not really sidekick. Joyce could totally fill the kid sidekick role.
Also, there is little to no chance that Sal will start robbing convenience stores ever again or taking hostages any time soon. Gashface, on the other hand, will probably start again with other girls, and has also probably already succeeded in the past.
I’m not going to lie the second option sounds fun, tell me you never wanted to beat the shit out of the guy who keeps letting his dog shit on you lawn and then never picks it up.
“Of course there are other options! You can… uh… beat up your dad at McDonalds? I mean— not your own dad. Someone else’s dad. And also it wasn’t me who did this, because that was super illegal. But he was a total— you know what, ignore these past few sentences, they’re a bit of a mess.”
Slick of amazi-girl to keep the people who know how to reach her to a minimum. Besides, as ethan’s close friend (and now possibly reconciling herself to the co-bearding because of Joyce’s angle of things), Amber would potentially be spending time with and/or exchanging contact info with Joyce and it’d be a pretty big hint if Amber and AG had the same phone number.
“Nope, it’s just one or the other I’m afraid. Drawing door penises and kicking neighbour butt in a parking lot are the best cures for every woe. It’s been proven by science.”
Anouther little thing I thought of, not only is Joyce never alone but she only allows herself to stay near guys she feels absolutely safe around. Ethan is her boyfriend/gay, Walky is Dorothy’s boyfriend/dislikes her so would never touch her. Jacob is a nice guy who rooms with Ethan who she thinks would eb good for Sarah. To contrast she’s snapped at Joe every time the two have been near each other.
And yet she continues to put up with him, judging by the surprising number of hits when you search for pages tagged “joe+joyce.” Probably echoing the good old dynamic of eternal comedic conflict they had back in the Walkyverse.
Ok, now after having read AG’s text in the first panel I’m sure that one day there will actually be a reckoning with Old Gashface, then to be renamed Old Curbstombedface.
Yes ,the Heart of Walmart is this mirror that says it is you! The consumer! You are what keeps it alive! But that is a lie! If you smash the mirror it shall die a painful death, and everyone will be free!
How could one hope to stop Walmart as a whole when it’s already everywhere (well, in the US it is). You may destroy the one store, but the company lives on and old Sam spins in his grave over some of how the company has developed.
Th…. This is like the most rational thing I think I’ve seen in the Dumbiverse… Certainly the most rational in recent memory… hmmm….. Mike’s just off camera flipping every one the bird wearing a sandwich board that says ‘I plowed your mom for a nickel.’ isn’t he?
Nothing like some mutual Amazi-therapy in the common room. Joyce could be Amazi-girl’s sidekick, the ‘Avenging Angel’ dressed all in white with a gold cross on her chest. She could smite the bad guys with her Louisville Slugger of Righteousness.
I never even noticed about the eye-size until the alt-text mentioned it, but in my defense, I read a lot of manga and watch a lot of anime, so I get used to it. After a binge session, people look funny to me, with their beady little eyes.
The thing is, it’s a very longstanding comic and cartoon contrivance when lots of emotion neds to be conveyed in a work. While anime and manga style gets it commented on more, it’s really a rather common stylistic convention.
That is sounding like it would be wonderfully similar to the Justice League Unlimited episode where Batman and Orion follow around the Flash for a day.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/ryan/
A whole storyline. Joyce follows her BFF Dorothy to a party. Joyce is targeted by a rapist and drugged, but is rescued before he can do anything further than that. Amazi-girl coincidentally was fighting some unrelated bullies elsewhere in the same building, and when she dropped by to see what the fuss was about surrounding Joyce, the rapist escaped in the noise– right under Amazi-girl’s nose, as he was at the edge of her field of vision until then.
I picture Dina as going over to the Dark Side. Vigilante justice and functional invisibility don’t mix well, at least according to Strong Female Protagonist.
But AG does have her Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen (she sleeps with one of them) but still needs a sidekick, unless Mike is auditioning for the job.
It’s encouraging to see Amber knows herself so well. It’s one of the biggest things I had to work through in order to start the healing process in my own life. I had to figure out who I was, and I had to admit to myself that I had been wronged and that no, in fact I did NOT deserve how I had been treated as a child, and that there was actually nothing intrinsically WRONG with me that made me deserve bad treatment. Amber seems to have made progress in that area already and it’s really good to see that in her.
Well, to be fair, that was a big part of her development in Shortpacked and Willis isn’t that interested in telling the same stories he did before (unlike most comic reboots). Though, it is still impressive she could do that while still in her teens.
Yeah. I suspect Ethan was a big help for that, though. Having a friend who “gets” you is a HUGE factor. I didn’t have that, really, until after I graduated high school, and it took a long time for me to be able to open up enough for anyone’s friendship to do me any good. Emotional walls are STUBBORN.
Well, I’m gobsmacked. Joyce did it after all. I was convinced Mary was the Dingdong Bandit. She fit the profile of the all so pious holier than though Christian with suppression issues.
A good thing — the Dingdong Bandit’s identity is now thoroughly confirmed in-comic — and a really good thing — Joyce’s panic attack is over. It feels wrong to say that this is a happy scene, but there is at least a huge sense of relief.
While yes there ARE other options, do you really NEED them?
Violence or tears, in life that kinda covers everything they also can go hand in hand quite often.
This is a friendship I never knew I wanted to happen but now want to happen soooo bad. They probably won’t end up in each other’s social circles, but I can dream…
What I love about this is that it’s a situation for a girl who feels helpless in the face of a horrible situation to see that she is not the only one who feels that way. More than that, it’s not someone she sees as a peer: it’s a hero. Someone with tons of theoretical power is capable of feeling the same way. It really shows that she isn’t weak to feel this way: she’s just a person like anyone else. Awesome strip.
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“–and I know this girl who flips tables and beats up parents at McDonalds”
This one girl declared herself poison and then slept with her RA.
“And another one of ’em is totally screwing the calculus TA. But you didn’t hear that from me.”
“And I know a guy who had a gay fantasy about your boyfriend, but then the guy went home and banged Ethan’s ex, so… wait. GODDAMMIT, NOT AGAIN!!! I EVEN ASKED YOU DANNY! I ASKED!!!”
And there’s a girl with a crown and a scepter who’s on WLSD. And she says that the scene isn’t what it’s been, and she’s thinking of going home. That it’s old and it’s totally over now, and it’s old and it’s over, it’s over now, and it’s over, it’s over, it’s over now.
I can see myself…
AT THE END OF THE TOUR
or the time when the storm tangled up the wire to the horn on the pole at the bus depot, and in back of the edge of hearing these are the words that the voice was repeating:
When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge: “I don’t want the world, I just want your half”
did you ever see the comic “your half” based on those lyrics? it was pretty good – the guy who wrote it ALSO wrote a really ill-advised (imo) porn-ish-y comic called third wish, BUUUUUT “your half” was awesome.
Doctor Evil: Remember when I said ‘We’re not so different, you and I’?
Cuts back to the first film, with Austin aiming his gun at Doctor Evil.
Doctor Evil: We’re not so different, you and I.
Flashback ends.
Doctor Evil: See? I did say that.
Austin: Yes, very nice.
I miss TPC. Too bad all I can find anymore is the one “advance chapter” of Your Half.
Man I was JUST thinking about Your Half and Third Wish last night! I miss that guy too.
They Might Be Giants was almost all I listened to growing up. Now I’m going to be playing them all day at work! Thanks do for the trip down memory lane!
Every part of this conversation thread made me happy.
Or curb stomping your father
For a nickle?
No, curbstomps are a dime.
Mmmmm mmmmm.
No other options. Now Joyce has to put the smackdown on somebody.
only after she tries some of amazi-girl’s strudel
I’ve never heard anyone call it that before…
Didn’t Joyce already fight Joe?
the word “fight” implies that there were two sides to that beatdown.
This is a sidekick opportunity if ever there was one.
What was it people used to call Joyce’s sidekick alias? Righteous Gal?
Fundie Girl?
One thing is sure, she won’t have a chest window.
No chest window? Hell, she’d cover it in lead somehow.
Futanaria-anna?
Huh? I don’t get it. This is one of those things I really shouldn’t google, isn’t it?
Probably not. Just have the Brain Bleach(TM) handy.
Hey, what’s wrong with a little futa? You got something against gus with breasts?
moobs ≠ futa
Her chest window would be filled with stained glass.
You know when you think of a joke, but someone else has already posted the exact same comment?
And then you realize that it sounds more like a more plausible idea when coming out of someone else’s mouth?
I think I know what you are getting at.
Re-Joyce.
Nice.
I was thinking the Dingdong Avenger, with her trusty pair of 10″ silicone “batons”, Hanky and Panky.
There’s a third one called “Pre-marital” but you can’t see where it is
Obviously she must be keeping it in her chastutility belt.
That was so bad it looped back around and became campy/funny.
**slow clap**
I approve this side-kick concept.
+1!
ahahahaha
The Bible Thumper?
(I’m not sure Clever Girl and the Bible Thumper would both survive being on the same super-team, though.)
Nono, Dina is the villain here. With her amazing infiltration abilities, she can get anywhere, and secretly replace bibles with copies of The Origin of Species.
Bible-Thumper, I love it! Her costume is a bunny costume with a large white cross on the front. Her weapon of choice is dual-wielded brass knuckles spelling out “Jesus” and “Saves”.
She has utility pouches, too, on her Bible Belt.
/\
Hell yes.
Don’t forget the Collection Plate Mail
Or maybe a collection plate as a shield, a la captain America.
Brian Daniel (the inventor of Amazi-Stool) also introduced Bible Belt!
It would be a triad, like Kirk/Spock/McCoy. A-G is the captain, drawing strength to lead from the balancing of his good and dark sides. Clever Girl and Bible Thumper are her opposing advisors, like Spock and McCoy — except the conflict is logic vs. faith, instead of logic vs. emotion. And Bible Thumper now has an internal conflict of her own …
I know she’s not Catholic, but that one reminded me of the Nundertaker
I approve of this, if her costume resembles Thumper the rabbit from Bambi.
Amazi-Girl still works. “Amazi” is a pretty nonspecific descriptor, so it should still accurately describe Joyce, and there’s not really enough of an age difference to warrant a girl/woman situation.
I was thinking Fundie Mental.
Not that she’s psychotic. She just has psychic powers.
Suddenly I’m picturing Joyce in the original blue-with-yellow costume and the corn-popper.
Amazi-Joyce is immune to criticism because something something Jesus something?
Dina would make a better sidekick than Joyce anyway.
And PM has changed his avatar, so it must be time to change my socks…
You are all missing the most obvious choice: Amazing Joyce.
How sweet the Pound.
This is rather touching. Go Amazi-Girl, go.
Yaaaaay bonding
Poor Joyce
Agreed!
Awwwwww
Also Joyce and Amber need to get some counseling to help them work through their trauma and problems.
Based on the dialogue, I was kinda hoping the title of this comic would be Door-peener.
Earlier today I was watching Serenity, and at the scene where Jayne says something like “They all died for no reason!”, I reflexively shouted at the screen “DAMN YOU, WILLIS!” before realizing I got my W names mixed up. Then I figured, eh, I’m just preparing for tonight. Except now I can’t. So, uh, bless you, Willis?!
+1.
favorite reply.
XD
Two sides of the same coin, Also I think Amazi-girl is giving her to much information.
I’m just waiting for them to hug and for Joyce go “thanks, Amber”.
“Well, there’s always banging your boyfri–um, yeah, I’ll keep you posted.”
Sidekick time! The Fantastic Duo of Amazi-Girl and TRUFAN!
…Is this a lead-in to Joyce becoming Amazi-Girl’s sidekick?
She could be called Righteous Lass!
Best suggestion so far: The Bible Thumper. The comment chain about her belt is hilarious.
Sometimes you hit rock bottom and end up fucking Danny. Don’t let it get to that point, Joyce.
Could be worse, you could of lost the love of your life to Walky.
By the time you sex Danny, you’ve gone past rock bottom and are at the center of the earth.
It’s better than falling in love with Faz, by that point you’re in the center of a black hole.
But this graph demonstrates that, as time advances, the number of women attracted to Faz will approach 100%
Yah know, after 4-years of reading this bleedin’ comic, I really can’t look at a Ball Peen hammer any more without giggling…….
:/
As it should be.
So do Amber and Joyce make amends or did Joyce and Amazi-girl make amends…oh wait that’s right it doesn’t matter anymore at this point.
…and out comes the confession…
“The answer that satisfied” is indeed “The answer that was true.”
And for that matter, I can’t look at an Orange Claw Hammer anymore without a mad desire to listen to “Trout Mask Replica” by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band all the way through…
Dorothy is already her sidekick. But nothing like having friends. AG is opening up and talking. Good.
So is Joyce sort of, it’s a start.
Yup, both of ’em, eyes as big as pie plates.
Dorothy is the Lois Lane to Amazi-girl’s Superman. Close, confidante, arguably partner, but not really sidekick. Joyce could totally fill the kid sidekick role.
just wanting in on this amber comment train
The Commissioner Gordon to her Batman would also work, for all the same reasons, and also Amber’s now trusting Dorothy with the Bat-Signal.
And of course, Danny is Jimmy Olsen.
Amazi-Girl’s Pal, Dorothy Keener
And thus Amazi-Girl and Joyce discover that they are both ‘Friends of Dorothy’.
What about Dina I thought she was going to be her sidekick… Eh batman had more than one Robin so why Can’t Amazi-girl have more than one partner.
Plus, Batman had Robins and Batgirls concurrently.
I’ll refer to Ryan as Ol’ Gash Face from now on.
Turns out his last name is Olgashface.
Ryan O’Gashface, for an Irish spin on it.
Ryan is an Irish first name, isn’t it?
Yeah, guess I should have specified that it was an additionally Irish spin.
Conor MaCgashface of the clan Macgashface!
I read this in Sean Connery’s voice.
Which is strange, since Connery played a Spaniard in that canon.
Which was pointed out in the comments at LICD today as well… weird.
Technically he played an Egyption. He’d been in Spain maybe a couple generations at most when he went to Scottland.
True enough.
He could be Amazi-Girl’s new arch nemesis, now that she has vanquished the goddamned Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit!
So does that mean that Sal is to Amber what Ryan is to Joyce?
Ya but there’s a difference between character though Sal is at least sorry for what she did…or at least we think she is.
It depends on whenever she is sorry for committing the crime or sorry she got stabbed and busted for it.
Getting busted was kind of the point. She did it as a cry for attention.
Also, there is little to no chance that Sal will start robbing convenience stores ever again or taking hostages any time soon. Gashface, on the other hand, will probably start again with other girls, and has also probably already succeeded in the past.
Amber needs to forgive Sal..we would know wouldn’t we? (Nudge Nudge)
I’m not going to lie the second option sounds fun, tell me you never wanted to beat the shit out of the guy who keeps letting his dog shit on you lawn and then never picks it up.
Nah, because then there’s more shit to pick up if you beat it out of somebody
AG is at least acknowledging what we see as the red panels being triggers. I see that as a positive development.
“Of course there are other options! You can… uh… beat up your dad at McDonalds? I mean— not your own dad. Someone else’s dad. And also it wasn’t me who did this, because that was super illegal. But he was a total— you know what, ignore these past few sentences, they’re a bit of a mess.”
“Another thing we have in common!“
Yes! Amazigirl and bible thumper perform a beating of Blain!
Slick of amazi-girl to keep the people who know how to reach her to a minimum. Besides, as ethan’s close friend (and now possibly reconciling herself to the co-bearding because of Joyce’s angle of things), Amber would potentially be spending time with and/or exchanging contact info with Joyce and it’d be a pretty big hint if Amber and AG had the same phone number.
Calling it now- this whole arc was so we remember who gashface was after years/days of lying low. And to say dingdong bandit.
Does Joyce look suddenly 30 to anyone else?
That isn’t a complaint – I’ve had days like that too.
Stress will do that. Grays your hair and adds “age lines” to your face, that kind of thing.
“Nope, it’s just one or the other I’m afraid. Drawing door penises and kicking neighbour butt in a parking lot are the best cures for every woe. It’s been proven by science.”
Good thing Joyce doesn’t believe in science, then!
… but you can totally draw dongs on your foes faces after you curbstomp them unconscious.
WE CAN SHIP IT
ok not rly rly but.. a little.
I can’t stop laughing at the last panel.
“please tell me there are other options”
“nope joyce grab yourself a baseball bat let’s head to walmart”
Amazi-Girl should totally teach Joyce self-defense. Willis could even give her a training montage.
♪ You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down ♫
She’s gonna be the very best..like no one ever was…to catch Ryan is her real test..to beat the crap out of him is her cause..
“A-MAZE! The BEST a girl can get…♪♫”
okay maybe not
… Hug now? *Hopeful face*
Anouther little thing I thought of, not only is Joyce never alone but she only allows herself to stay near guys she feels absolutely safe around. Ethan is her boyfriend/gay, Walky is Dorothy’s boyfriend/dislikes her so would never touch her. Jacob is a nice guy who rooms with Ethan who she thinks would eb good for Sarah. To contrast she’s snapped at Joe every time the two have been near each other.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/olives/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/touch/
The funny thing is that Joe is historically the less safe of the two whenever they are in the same room.
And yet she continues to put up with him, judging by the surprising number of hits when you search for pages tagged “joe+joyce.” Probably echoing the good old dynamic of eternal comedic conflict they had back in the Walkyverse.
They share a class, interaction is inevitable.
Ok, now after having read AG’s text in the first panel I’m sure that one day there will actually be a reckoning with Old Gashface, then to be renamed Old Curbstombedface.
On second thought, let’s hope he actually doesn’t get curbstomped, because that will just be ugly for everyone involved.
What if the curbstomping involves Amazi-girl and Sal teaming up (with Joyce watching, thus gaining a new hero)?
I think the point there is that curbstomping is a particular kind of homicide.
Exactly. Curbstomping is nasty.
Yay, bonding! Friendship and rainbows! Now go get some therapy you two
Awww.. Okay, that was super cute-r-ific!
Sorry, kid, it’s either dick drawings or Wal-Mart parking lot fights. Sometimes both at the same time. BUT NOTHING ELSE.
HOW DID HUMANKIND SURVIVE BEFORE DRAWING AND WAL-MART WAS INVENTED
*mind boggles*
Walmart wasn’t invented – it has always been.
But it can be defeated. To defeat a Walmart, you must travel deep within within its lair, to the Electronics department.
There, you must destroy the Heart of Walmart.
Yes ,the Heart of Walmart is this mirror that says it is you! The consumer! You are what keeps it alive! But that is a lie! If you smash the mirror it shall die a painful death, and everyone will be free!
How could one hope to stop Walmart as a whole when it’s already everywhere (well, in the US it is). You may destroy the one store, but the company lives on and old Sam spins in his grave over some of how the company has developed.
The feels are now alleviated. And now i want to see what joyce will do with this new realization…
Th…. This is like the most rational thing I think I’ve seen in the Dumbiverse… Certainly the most rational in recent memory… hmmm….. Mike’s just off camera flipping every one the bird wearing a sandwich board that says ‘I plowed your mom for a nickel.’ isn’t he?
Nothing like some mutual Amazi-therapy in the common room. Joyce could be Amazi-girl’s sidekick, the ‘Avenging Angel’ dressed all in white with a gold cross on her chest. She could smite the bad guys with her Louisville Slugger of Righteousness.
Her wings are a mere decorative part of her costume, but she can fly on the inside!
Please tell me she just did bonding/destressing/commiserating with Joyce, entirely in the presumed-gravelly Christian Bale-esque superhero voice?!
‘SA PEENER.
Subpoena?
Nice try.
I’d say their eyes are only saucer-sized.
I never even noticed about the eye-size until the alt-text mentioned it, but in my defense, I read a lot of manga and watch a lot of anime, so I get used to it. After a binge session, people look funny to me, with their beady little eyes.
The thing is, it’s a very longstanding comic and cartoon contrivance when lots of emotion neds to be conveyed in a work. While anime and manga style gets it commented on more, it’s really a rather common stylistic convention.
And the true mystery has been solved.
The mystery of the missing jeans.
They weren’t lost, though, just on Joyce-face
“You wanna know how I got this scar?”
Amazi-Girl’s Rogue Gallery: The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit, Ol’ Gash Face, Amber’s Dad
I’m mentally picturing potential comic book covers for all three of those and it’s fantastic.
Someone needs to draw this stat!
Let’s shorten the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit to the Dongdoodler.
That is sounding like it would be wonderfully similar to the Justice League Unlimited episode where Batman and Orion follow around the Flash for a day.
“We’re not so different, you and I…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH0YPXb49q0
I love how half of this entire serious and emotional conversation is being done in a put on super-hero dark avenger voice.
OK, somebody help me. What page is this based on. Remind me who is Ryan, and when did he show up?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/ryan/
A whole storyline. Joyce follows her BFF Dorothy to a party. Joyce is targeted by a rapist and drugged, but is rescued before he can do anything further than that. Amazi-girl coincidentally was fighting some unrelated bullies elsewhere in the same building, and when she dropped by to see what the fuss was about surrounding Joyce, the rapist escaped in the noise– right under Amazi-girl’s nose, as he was at the edge of her field of vision until then.
Hey, do you know what *else* is an option? Getting help. Parading around as Re-Joyce will bring you closer to becoming Mary, and no one likes Mary.
“I’ll keep you posted.” Good answer.
I picture Dina as going over to the Dark Side. Vigilante justice and functional invisibility don’t mix well, at least according to Strong Female Protagonist.
But AG does have her Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen (she sleeps with one of them) but still needs a sidekick, unless Mike is auditioning for the job.
Maybe Joyce can become Amazigirl’s sidekick? Good-Girl.
Just know that when Good-Girl inevitable goes dark for a while, the name “Bad Good Girl” is alreaqdy taken.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes
If Joyce is going to be Amazigirl’s sidekick, her name has to be Funder Woman, with her chastity belt and lasso of biblical truth.
Doubtful Joyce wears the bikini of justice, though.
so Funder Woman’s evil twin is Doubtful Joyce? Or is that Nega-Joyce?
………or are Funder Woman’s evil twin actually twins themselves? Nega-Joyce and Doubtful Joyce?
I really love the term “door-peeners”
…they’ll end up sharing a cell at Arkham.
As long as it’s TAS Arkham. TAS Batman is the best.
It’s encouraging to see Amber knows herself so well. It’s one of the biggest things I had to work through in order to start the healing process in my own life. I had to figure out who I was, and I had to admit to myself that I had been wronged and that no, in fact I did NOT deserve how I had been treated as a child, and that there was actually nothing intrinsically WRONG with me that made me deserve bad treatment. Amber seems to have made progress in that area already and it’s really good to see that in her.
Well, to be fair, that was a big part of her development in Shortpacked and Willis isn’t that interested in telling the same stories he did before (unlike most comic reboots). Though, it is still impressive she could do that while still in her teens.
Yeah. I suspect Ethan was a big help for that, though. Having a friend who “gets” you is a HUGE factor. I didn’t have that, really, until after I graduated high school, and it took a long time for me to be able to open up enough for anyone’s friendship to do me any good. Emotional walls are STUBBORN.
Well, I’m gobsmacked. Joyce did it after all. I was convinced Mary was the Dingdong Bandit. She fit the profile of the all so pious holier than though Christian with suppression issues.
Joyce is the future pornlord here.
Mary doesn’t have suppression issues, she’s a hypocrite, she does the shit she’s supposed to repress then lies about it and judges others for it.
Woo new arc
AMAZI-GIRL: … so Joyce… mask or no mask?
A good thing — the Dingdong Bandit’s identity is now thoroughly confirmed in-comic — and a really good thing — Joyce’s panic attack is over. It feels wrong to say that this is a happy scene, but there is at least a huge sense of relief.
Yay, we’re bonding!
Aww, poor Joy- oh, she confessed she’s the dingdong bandit!
Just making sure, but Dumbing of Age is going to end with everyone getting HPV, right? It’s like Rent, but for HPV.
While yes there ARE other options, do you really NEED them?
Violence or tears, in life that kinda covers everything they also can go hand in hand quite often.
Maybe someday we’ll see Joyce fight a bunch of her neighbors in a Wal-Mart parking lot!
This is a friendship I never knew I wanted to happen but now want to happen soooo bad. They probably won’t end up in each other’s social circles, but I can dream…
What I love about this is that it’s a situation for a girl who feels helpless in the face of a horrible situation to see that she is not the only one who feels that way. More than that, it’s not someone she sees as a peer: it’s a hero. Someone with tons of theoretical power is capable of feeling the same way. It really shows that she isn’t weak to feel this way: she’s just a person like anyone else. Awesome strip.