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Bruised

by David M Willis on November 7, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - To Those Who'd Ground Me
└ Tags: amber, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 7, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Sal has the worst advice

    …well, okay, I guess sustaining MORE injuries won’t help with existing injury

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      of COURSE it changed from the Patreon preview when my desktop dies and I vaguely remember what I was gonna post

      • Cthulhu's Intern
        Cthulhu's Intern
        November 7, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        What did the Patreon preview say?

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          November 7, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

          don’t fall asleep

          which is like feeding a fever and starving a cold

          (except I don’t know that feeding a fever is actually bad advice)

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            November 7, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

            Feed a fever and feed a cold. Eat more, you look too skinny, aren’t you chilly? here is a sweater.

            • Rowen Morland
              Rowen Morland
              November 7, 2015 at 11:33 am | #

              Feed a fever and feed a cold. Eat more, you look too skinny, aren’t you chilly? here is a sweater. It’s time to get better.

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            November 9, 2015 at 11:50 am | #

            I thought it was “Feed a cold, starve a yak.” That’s what the Lounge Lizards told me.

        • Packy
          Packy
          November 7, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

          Sal was specifically speculating that Amazo had a concussio and that meant she shouldn’t sleep.

          • Elisto Dragonwings
            Elisto Dragonwings
            November 7, 2015 at 6:33 am | #

            That’s actually a myth.

            • Mystify
              Mystify
              November 7, 2015 at 8:50 am | #

              My wife hit her head and went to the hospital recently, the doctor said its ok to fall asleep once you are in the hospital, but not before. I’m not sure if its in the hospital specifically, or just beingi n the process of receiving care. I can see going to sleep after a head injury when noone is helping you to be a bad idea, as you don’t get help that you may need.

              • Aletheia
                Aletheia
                November 7, 2015 at 11:54 am | #

                As far as I understand it, the doctor probably said that because it was made clear that your wife didn’t have more damage going on than just the concussion. It’s fine to sleep with concussions, as long as there’s no signs of further trauma (like dilated eyes, etc), and being in the hospital meant that she was checked for that and being monitored (I assume?). 🙂

            • Guairdean Beatha
              Guairdean Beatha
              November 7, 2015 at 9:00 am | #

              I had a severe concussion when I was ten. The doctor told my parents to wake me up every hour, and to head straight to the Emergency Room if they couldn’t wake me up.

            • Agemegos
              Agemegos
              November 7, 2015 at 3:56 pm | #

              Yes, but it is very dangerous to mistake an other loss of consciousness for sleep. If someone gets a blow to the head and afterwards becomes woozy, then unconscious, that can be a sign of serious intracranial injury. So you check. You try to wake them, you determine whether they can remain awake. If so, okay. If not, check for other neurological signs, and rush the patient to Radiology for images.

              There are reasons to say “Wake up! Look at me! Try to stay wake!” that happen not to have anything to do with sleep itself being dangerous. Just as you give patients a little shove on their shoulders to check their balance without wanting to push them over, or you weave from side to side to check that their eyes are tracking without having a clinical reason to dance the shimmy.

              • Ana Chronistic
                Ana Chronistic
                November 7, 2015 at 5:42 pm | #

                so what you do is 1. let the person get to a safe place where consciousness doesn’t matter and 2. call an ambulance so if trauma has occurred it can be attended to

                but the “NUUUUUUU YOU MUST STAY AWAKEN” seems a bit putting a bandage on a severed artery

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  November 7, 2015 at 5:44 pm | #

                  the only “downside” is in this case Amazi-Girl would most likely lose her cover, but having a superhero persona isn’t on the top most suggested list from doctors FOR SOME REASON

                • Agemegos
                  Agemegos
                  November 7, 2015 at 8:38 pm | #

                  Well, I agree that Sal ought to call an ambulance, or at least take Amber to an ER and make up some story about falling off a motorbike, and not attempt amateur triage. But then, I’m one of the fuddy-duddies who thought Joyce ought to call the cops, not Amazi-Girl, and that Amazi-Girl ought not to have engaged in insanely dangerous movie stunts on two moving cars, ….

                  I’m just saying that the myth that falling asleep is dangerous when you have a brain injury is neither here nor there: there are good reasons to try to wake up an unconscious person when you fear brain injury, and to ask a woozy person to try to stay awake. I think that Sal is doing something that is terribly inadvisable, but acting on the myth that waking up concussed people protects them from injury does not seem to be the problem. There is a reason to say “Wake up Amazo! … Gimme a sign yer melon’s bruised and not mushed” that has nothing to do with believing that myth.

      • Androiddreams
        Androiddreams
        November 7, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        I believe you live in the spaces between time, where Willis hides all the good feels. its an achievement that my phone even loaded the page with 0 comments

      • asnow mous e
        asnow mous e
        November 7, 2015 at 8:22 am | #

        She still woke AmaziGirl up, which might not be the absolute best idea.

        • kirbilius clausius
          kirbilius clausius
          November 7, 2015 at 9:23 pm | #

          +1

          I only know of one person who woke up in character, and that was Sascha Cohen after drinking himself to sleep in a wine tasting as Borat. I think this is closer to how Batman thinks of himself as “Batman” rather than “Bruce Wayne” (and a level of induced schyzophrenia or at least the beginning of a split personality disorder akin to http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/sheshere/ than http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/real/

          On the other hand, without tomorrow’s comic we don’t know which personality she woke up as. And I’d say it’s hard to determine if she actually fell unconscious from this strip – instead of just groggy and in a pain only panic can allay.

    • licoricepencil
      licoricepencil
      November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      psst: Willis fixed the dialogue in panel 2.

      • licoricepencil
        licoricepencil
        November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

        …and you noticed before my comment went through. (sorry)

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          November 7, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

          Hence the name! =D

      • Guairdean Beatha
        Guairdean Beatha
        November 7, 2015 at 9:06 am | #

        What was the original dialogue?

        • Clif
          Clif
          November 7, 2015 at 10:47 am | #

          And you will forget all this when I snap my fingers.

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            November 7, 2015 at 5:45 pm | #

            “though, uh, also don’t forget that there’s a tree behind you”

    • Ruhrow
      Ruhrow
      November 8, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

      That advice just means you don’t need to wake the person up every few hours with a head injury…once they’re checked out they can sleep. This usually means a doc has ruled out a head bleed either via CT or pt history.

      It’s still ABSOLUTELY a good call to do that initial assessment after head trauma/LOC to rule out a bleed in the first place.

      Basically, “it is OK to sleep following head trauma” is not the same as “don’t be concerned if they lose consciousness immediately following head trauma”.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        November 8, 2015 at 1:00 am | #

        I just feel like there’s concern (“okay, we’ve ruled out serious trauma, you can rest now”), then there’s paranoia (“DON’T FALL ASLEEP AFTER A CONCUSSION EVER EVER YOU WILL COMA AND NEVER WAKE UP”)

    • yomi
      yomi
      November 8, 2015 at 8:37 pm | #

      Well, according to the source you have given “[a] person can go to sleep following a concussion if he or she is awake and able to hold a conversation. No other symptoms, such as dilated pupils or trouble walking, should be present before sleeping.” So Sal is perfectly right in checking if Amazi-Girl is awake and can talk and walk and doesn’t have dilated pupils before allowing her to sleep.

  2. Inkblot
    Inkblot
    November 7, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Flintstones!

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      November 7, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      Meet the Flintstones!

      • MisterGunpowder
        MisterGunpowder
        November 7, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

        They’re the modern stone-age fam-i-ly!

        • cookie1995
          cookie1995
          November 7, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

          From the the town of Bedrock!

          • David Herbert
            David Herbert
            November 7, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

            They’re a page right out of history.

            • Psyme
              Psyme
              November 7, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

              Lets ride! With the family down the street!

              • Edward Starsmith
                Edward Starsmith
                November 7, 2015 at 4:08 am | #

                Through the … courtesy of Fred’s two feet.

                • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  November 7, 2015 at 6:22 am | #

                  Flintstones, meet the Flintstones!

                • Kryss LaBryn
                  Kryss LaBryn
                  November 7, 2015 at 7:55 am | #

                  Have a yabba dabba do time.

                • Deanatay
                  Deanatay
                  November 7, 2015 at 9:19 am | #

                  A dabba-doo time

                • Kaoy
                  Kaoy
                  November 7, 2015 at 10:16 am | #

                  We’ll have a gay old tiiiiimmmmeeeee

                • Rei
                  Rei
                  November 7, 2015 at 11:02 am | #

                  …this is why I love this community

                • Screwball
                  Screwball
                  November 7, 2015 at 11:17 am | #

                  Seconded…

                • LeslieBean4Shizzle
                  LeslieBean4Shizzle
                  November 7, 2015 at 11:52 am | #

                  Thirded.

                • Abel Undercity
                  Abel Undercity
                  November 7, 2015 at 9:49 pm | #

                  WILLLLMAAAAAA!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      November 7, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      It’s the Hanna Barbera bongos, not the Flintstone skedaddle. And it was bongos, not the other B-word that gets masked as “bongo”.

      • Inkblot
        Inkblot
        November 7, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

        we be kvetching now

      • brionl
        brionl
        November 7, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

        Yeah, they used that sound effect on a ton of cartoons, not just the Flintstones.

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        November 7, 2015 at 1:09 am | #

        http://www.soundboard.com/handler/DownLoadTrack.ashx?cliptitle=Scrambling+Feet&filename=nt/NTk5MTQ0Nzk4NTk5MTk2_kZuoJSm1boE.MP3

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          November 7, 2015 at 1:10 am | #

          (I don’t know how to create an elegant link)

          • merbrat
            merbrat
            November 7, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

            http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Hanna_Barbera_sound_effec
            (the first one)

            • Screwball
              Screwball
              November 7, 2015 at 11:22 am | #

              Followed quickly by “Fred Drops The Ball” further down…

          • Psyme
            Psyme
            November 7, 2015 at 2:06 am | #

            It would look something like this: Elegant Link
            Elegant Link

            • Psyme
              Psyme
              November 7, 2015 at 2:12 am | #

              OK… so that did not work. It is kind of hard to give an example of HTML using this editor.

              • merbrat
                merbrat
                November 7, 2015 at 8:50 am | #

                It worked, though!

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        November 7, 2015 at 2:15 am | #

        Is it okay if I heard the Scooby Doo running sound effect instead?

        • Gamaran Sepudomyn
          Gamaran Sepudomyn
          November 7, 2015 at 5:31 am | #

          Same here.

          • Clif
            Clif
            November 7, 2015 at 10:04 am | #

            It means Saturday morning cartoons have permanently damaged your mind.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          November 7, 2015 at 7:56 am | #

          Zoinks!

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          November 7, 2015 at 8:52 am | #

          Hanna-Barbera

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      November 7, 2015 at 10:20 am | #

      Wiiiiiiillllmmaaaa!

    • C
      C
      November 7, 2015 at 10:39 am | #

      Simpson!

      Homer Simpson!

      He’s the greatest guy in history!

      From the town of Springfield

      He’s about to hit a chestnut tree!

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        November 7, 2015 at 5:36 pm | #

        ‘mazing!
        She’s amazing!
        She’s a modern superhero girl!
        Here in… Indiana,
        She’s about to go and rock your world!

        (that last one was a half-rhyme)

  3. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    November 7, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    The comic relief is appreciated.

  4. Disloyal Subject
    Disloyal Subject
    November 7, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Apparently I am doing it wrong.

  5. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    November 7, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    And flashback memories.

  6. erknen
    erknen
    November 7, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Well, this is interesting.

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      November 7, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      Yeah, I can’t wait to know where this is going. I’ve been waiting for them to interact in a non-hostile way for YEARS.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        November 7, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

        It’s… it’s really been that long, hasn’t it?
        I’ve been looking forward to this.

      • PlainMarie
        PlainMarie
        November 7, 2015 at 12:29 pm | #

        Don’t know if it’s in the plot, but I sure would like it if they developed a grudging respect for each other or even a partnership. Sal seems a little wiser than AmaziGal in this arc. Don’t know if AG is able of willing to taking any of her advice, though!

  7. Cronamash
    Cronamash
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Amazigirl Lives!

  8. Doc
    Doc
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    22-skiddo! Amber’s traumatized, how bout’ you!

  9. Huttj
    Huttj
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Gosh, I wonder why she’d backpeddle rapidly from ooooh yeah the convenience store.

  10. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    “I don’t think there’s been enough drama today, let’s have Amber have to confront one of the people that’s she’s been traumatized by!” – Willis. Probably.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      November 7, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Thank Mercury this strip updates 7 day a week…

      • Zandar
        Zandar
        November 7, 2015 at 2:21 am | #

        Gosh…It’s not like Willis at all to change viewpoints on a cliffhanger to preserve that cliffhanger feeling. Tomorrow’s comic will just be Mike drinking a soda. Because that would be a very Mike thing to do to you.

        • David
          David
          November 7, 2015 at 2:54 am | #

          Amber’s soda.

          • Dragon_Nataku
            Dragon_Nataku
            November 7, 2015 at 10:08 am | #

            and leaving Amber’s brand new transformer that she got today superglued into a sexually-suggestive position and holding a nickel

            • AgentKeen
              AgentKeen
              November 7, 2015 at 12:29 pm | #

              I don’t think there’s a Nickel toy yet.

              http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nickel

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      November 7, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      Huh. Speaking of which, the tags indicate that it really is Amber’s normal self and not her Amazi-Girl persona waking up right now. So that’d explain the reaction, at least.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 7, 2015 at 6:01 am | #

        She’s just coming to, and the deep emotional fear response from recognizing Sal clicked before she could get back into character.

      • Julez
        Julez
        November 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm | #

        Well yeah. You can tell by the rosy cheeks 🙂

  11. licoricepencil
    licoricepencil
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    ERROR: SAL. AMBER DOES NOT COMPUTE.

  12. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Fight or Flight reflex, anyone?

    • Stephen R. Bierce
      Stephen R. Bierce
      November 7, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      (And I’d quote a song from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic but I’m sure nobody wants it.)

      • Stephen R. Bierce
        Stephen R. Bierce
        November 7, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

        And another thing I want to quote but cannot is the Saint’s chant/warning to Dr. Reid from the “Corazon” episode of Criminal Minds.

        • Stephen R. Bierce
          Stephen R. Bierce
          November 7, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

          Eggun buruku ni ki ori baje ni iche paraldo tete tete!
          http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=criminal-minds&episode=s06e12

        • tim gueguen
          tim gueguen
          November 7, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

          Reid met Simon Templar?

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        November 7, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

        Remember where you are? The majority of people just don’t care, and most of the rest are fans.
        I’m not sure why you cannot quote Criminal Minds.

        • dmaxx
          dmaxx
          November 7, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

          Yeah, i know, ain’t that weird, each episode pretty much provide TWO(2) already pre-quoted lines of great values, hmmm, when i think about it, by the numbers of episodes it got i guess it can a little many to remember:-P

      • Betty Anne
        Betty Anne
        November 7, 2015 at 2:05 pm | #

        When I was a little filly and the sun was going doooooown… https://youtu.be/Gz7YMspaCPQ

  13. HumboldtRobin
    HumboldtRobin
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Please please let this be a humorous and healing arc between Sal and Dorothy. Please

    • HumboldtRobin
      HumboldtRobin
      November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      OK I’m up too late. Obviously I meant Amber not Dorothy.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 7, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        Well, it was sort of a plot point that they look similar. Danny has a “type”.

        • David
          David
          November 7, 2015 at 2:56 am | #

          He wants his braaaaaaaaaaaains shaken, not stirred.

      • MichaelHaneline
        MichaelHaneline
        November 7, 2015 at 2:55 pm | #

        You mean Dorothy isn’t Amazigirl?

  14. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Silly amber. Thee Wheel o’ Feet is an advanced maneuver, and should not be attempted backwards from a sitting position.

  15. Androiddreams
    Androiddreams
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    feels like looney tunes, smells like making things square

  16. MightionNY
    MightionNY
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Four out of five doctors say don’t hit your head any more.

    …lest you end up melon-choly. 😀

    • maxyai
      maxyai
      November 7, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      And the fifth doctor is Dr. Phil.

      • Kavonde
        Kavonde
        November 7, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

        I’m pretty sure the Fifth Doctor is Peter Davison.

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          November 7, 2015 at 12:48 am | #

          *point*

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          November 7, 2015 at 9:27 am | #

          Dr Phil: I’m sure hitting your head again is fine!

          Dr Davison: Really? Have YOU hit YOUR head?

          • LeslieBean4Shizzle
            LeslieBean4Shizzle
            November 7, 2015 at 11:54 am | #

            Actually, Doctor Davidson would probably do something with his sonic screwdriver.

            • StClair
              StClair
              November 7, 2015 at 2:35 pm | #

              And then offer a comforting/encouraging “Brave heart, (name).”

              • Durandal_1707
                Durandal_1707
                November 7, 2015 at 3:52 pm | #

                Followed with an eyeroll and a look of absolute disdain.

  17. Nonagon
    Nonagon
    November 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    THE GLOVES ARE COMING OFF
    I wonder what delicious puns I can make about this.
    …
    …
    …schist.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      November 7, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      ya gotta hand it to Sal, she knows how to snap to it and ohIdon’tknowwhereIwasgoingwiththat

      • Screwball
        Screwball
        November 7, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

        Well the knife scar would be on the right hand, so I guess it would be handy to remember such things when taking off gloves…

        • CaptainBatson
          CaptainBatson
          November 7, 2015 at 3:24 pm | #

          Good thing that Sal, as a lefty, would default to snapping with her left hand, then.

    • KKoro
      KKoro
      November 7, 2015 at 2:38 pm | #

      The mittens of disapproval are coming on.

  18. John
    John
    November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Give her a break, Sal. She woke up as the wrong person.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      +1 🙂

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      November 7, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      I just noticed the tags. 404: Amazi Girl not found.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      November 7, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

      Heh.

  19. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Amazi-Girl remembers Sal, but Sal doesn’t remember Amber.

    • EpikAlia
      EpikAlia
      November 7, 2015 at 2:42 pm | #

      Dunno, kinda hard to forget the girl who stabbed your hand.

  20. Noclevername
    Noclevername
    November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Waking up to find her second greatest trauma trigger staring her in the face probably isn’t helpful to her mental health either.

    • David
      David
      November 7, 2015 at 2:59 am | #

      So we just need Blaine come by and hit it off with Sal to make the day perfect?

      • Noclevername
        Noclevername
        November 7, 2015 at 3:02 am | #

        Ahhhh Crack pairing! CANNOT UNSEE

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      November 7, 2015 at 7:44 am | #

      Sals. Why’s it always gotta be Sals?

    • StClair
      StClair
      November 7, 2015 at 2:43 pm | #

      “second greatest trauma trigger”

      “… but for me… it was Tuesday.”

      • StClair
        StClair
        November 7, 2015 at 2:44 pm | #

        (bother, I forgot that’s auto-blocked here. :p)

  21. Architex
    Architex
    November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Wakin’ up to a nightmare

  22. Undrave
    Undrave
    November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    I should be in bed but NOOO I’m waiting for a webcomic to update… augh…

    And now we cut to another dangerous situation, but just a little less so. I wonder if Sal will finally learn how her and Amazi-girl are linked?

    Also shame on Sal for not being badass enough to be able to snap her fingers while wearing gloves! BoukenRed could do it!

  23. CaptainBatson
    CaptainBatson
    November 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Oooh, Sal has removed a glove to snap!

  24. Cody
    Cody
    November 7, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Time for a heartfelt talk.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      November 7, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      I misread this as “time for a heart attack” at first and honestly feel that’s more likely.

  25. Screwball
    Screwball
    November 7, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Could it be? The elusive “Holy Grail” first comment?

    Naa, unlikely.

    Looks like we’re gonna have some 1 on 1 time between Sal & Amazigirl. No, wait, it’s Amber that’s tagged. Interesting. not surprising, she is just waking up from being flung around like a doll by G forces…

    You meatsacks can be squishy, can’t ya…?

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      November 7, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      PROTIP: when you say, “am I first?” you aren’t

      • Screwball
        Screwball
        November 7, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

        Yeah, kinda figured it’d be something like that. That’s why there’s also the “Naa, unlikely” bit. Still, for 1 glorious moment, it seemed possible…

        • inqntrol
          inqntrol
          November 7, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

          “One comment to rule them all.”(sorry)

  26. Pink Freud
    Pink Freud
    November 7, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh snap

  27. Matt
    Matt
    November 7, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    A Flintstones Skidaddle in panel 4, and a Quick Draw McGraw “KaBOOOOOONNNNNGGG” between 4 and 5.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      November 7, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      No, he wasn’t Quickdraw then, he was “El Kabong!” Kinda like Amber isn’t Amazigirl.

      • Matt
        Matt
        November 7, 2015 at 7:51 am | #

        Yes, but “Quick Draw McGraw” is the name of the show too, same as “Flintstones”. Plus, saying “El Kabong ‘KaBOOOONNNNNGGG'” sounds redundant.

        • Clif
          Clif
          November 7, 2015 at 10:11 am | #

          Sounds redundant redundant.

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            November 7, 2015 at 12:31 pm | #

            The redundant sound sounds redundant.

        • Sensei Le Roof
          Sensei Le Roof
          November 7, 2015 at 10:30 am | #

          I’ll do the kabonginnnnnn’ around here! And don’t you disremember it!

  28. Just Me
    Just Me
    November 7, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Waking up to your worst nightmare…..which really isn’t one.

    Kind of like an Unconscious Batman wakes up to find the Joker looking at him, but with a look of concern.

    Amber, Sal isn’t your Joker anymore.

  29. Scoops
    Scoops
    November 7, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Okay, also for Slipshine speculation, we see this panel
    http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/132698797207/a-small-snippet-of-page-3-of-my-next-slipshine

    And a lot of people are guessing Joe but compare the colour of chest hair to previous shirtless Joe, I’m going to bet it’s Joe’s dad.

    • shadowcell
      shadowcell
      November 7, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      The Conception of Becky: Act I

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 7, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      Joe’s dad (Richard) and Amber’s mom (Stacy).  
      Here’s the set-up: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/mister/
      Note the color of the sleeve in the Slipshine preview and compare it to the outfit Stacy was wearing.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        November 7, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

        That’s a completely different shade of blue!

      • rezby
        rezby
        November 7, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

        They’re different shades of blue? the slipshine blue is more akin to AMBER’s coat than to stacy’s coat.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        November 7, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        It’s close enough for a comic strip.  Maybe Willis couldn’t remember the exact Pantone number he used originally and just eyeballed it?

      • Questionor
        Questionor
        November 7, 2015 at 2:17 am | #

        exactly what i thought of with that hand lol

      • DinaWho
        DinaWho
        November 7, 2015 at 3:23 pm | #

        It cannot be the Family Weekend encounter. For one thing, on the cover page, Dorothy is up and walking around (to me it looks like she’s coming back from a run) wearing her Kraft shirt. On Family weekend she had fallen asleep over her books the night before and only woke up when her parents were at her door, and she wasn’t wearing that shirt.

        Plus, Willis has said that it’s based on events that haven’t happened in-comic yet.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          November 7, 2015 at 3:31 pm | #

          Compare the time I made my guess/prediction with the time Willis posted that on his Tumblr.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          November 7, 2015 at 3:33 pm | #

          Jim & Sayid seem to be prominent so far. Maybe it’s them?

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            November 7, 2015 at 3:42 pm | #

            Wait, that would be Bryan and Sayid. Jim’s the other guy.

            • Emma
              Emma
              November 7, 2015 at 7:53 pm | #

              Methinks you are correct.

    • Alice Macher
      Alice Macher
      November 7, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

      Toedad and Blaine. CONSENSUAL.

      (Yes, I know. I’m evil.)

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        November 7, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

        Ahhh! My eyes!!

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        November 7, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

        I’m sure Blaine needs a new pawn for his schemes.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      November 7, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

      Or, there’s the boring option; Danny and Ethan.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        November 7, 2015 at 7:03 am | #

        I don’t think Danny’s interested in cheating on Amber.

        • JQuire
          JQuire
          November 7, 2015 at 10:04 am | #

          Sex dream.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            November 7, 2015 at 10:21 am | #

            That seems like it’d be a gigantic cop out. Besides that, Willis’ slipshines have always been positive, affirming moments between two lovers. Danny having a wet dream and waking up sexually frustrated and humiliated doesn’t seem to fit in that.

            • JQuire
              JQuire
              November 7, 2015 at 11:48 am | #

              Cop out or not, there’s significant number of readers who would enjoy seeing it.

              And who says it’s Danny’s wet dream or that anyone has to be humiliated? Kind of a buzz kill there, dude.

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                November 7, 2015 at 12:13 pm | #

                Danny’s been established to resent his attraction to Ethan because he thinks it’s going to make him cheat on Amber. We know that, right now, it’s something he wants to put walls up against, which is why he’s insisting that Ethan needs a boyfriend. What’s sex positive about a scared bi dude being embarrassed about his sexual feelings?

                Can it just not wait until they’ve actually gotten together? You know it’s going to happen.

                • JQuire
                  JQuire
                  November 7, 2015 at 5:02 pm | #

                  Eh, I wouldn’t have assumed it was Danny’s dream or even that it slotted in at this point in the plot.

                  But then I checked all the info on tumblr that went up after I last checked.

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                November 7, 2015 at 12:41 pm | #

                And as for that part about readers enjoying it; Danny’s sexuality exists for more than just reader titillation. He’s bisexual because that’s who he is, not just so he can kiss hunky boys because omgsohawt.

                • JQuire
                  JQuire
                  November 7, 2015 at 5:00 pm | #

                  Let me restate: regardless of whether the sex scene were presented as occurring within the context of a dream sequence, cannon, or a play within a play – there are a lot of readers who would subscribe to Slipshine and not feel to much concern about whether or not it’s a cop-out within cannon.

                  While I’m sure there are readers who just like to see boys kissing – I mostly feel that the popularity would come from an investment in the characters and wanting to see that happen because they’d be good for each other.

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  November 7, 2015 at 6:33 pm | #

                  Except they’re not together yet and won’t be for a while, maybe even years, and they have other stuff to work out. We can hold off for now. Danny can do other things than boff Ethan.

                  What investment can there be in a relationship that’s mostly been Danny being uncomfortable being attracted to Ethan?

                • Amazistool
                  Amazistool
                  November 7, 2015 at 6:50 pm | #

                  @JQuire
                  Sex scene and cannon == “DOES NOT COMPUTE”!
                  Please tell me you intended to write canon – because …
                  there’s a difference!

                • JQuire
                  JQuire
                  November 7, 2015 at 9:43 pm | #

                  @Amazistool

                  Doesn’t everyone use a cannon? -_-
                  Let’s blame this on having had a wisdom tooth out today.

                  @ Spencer
                  That’s a summation of the relationship which is very tightly focused on Danny being uncomfortable with his sexuality. Yes, Danny has been uncomfortably attracted to Ethan – and spent a lot of time overcompensating for it. But there’s been a good deal of Danny and Ethan spending time together and just clicking with one another. Ethan seems to enjoy their time together and his visual cues could be read as displaying an attraction to Danny as well. And then there’s this: We mostly see Ethan with Joyce and Amber. But with them, Ethan takes on a caretaker role that doesn’t exist when with Danny. He gets to relax a little bit and actually sees Danny as someone who lightens the load (although that is because of their relationship with Amber). That opens up his character development a bit.

                  Though, when it comes down to it, I don’t feel that investment or what one wishes to see happen is or should be strictly bound by where the plot is right now. But we disagree on that I think.

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  November 7, 2015 at 10:06 pm | #

                  I understand the logic behind it (and what you said about Danny being someone Ethan can just be himself with instead of trying to be a caretaker is completely true), but I don’t think any actual romance is something that should happen any time soon. What’s more important than Ethan having a boyfriend is Danny figuring out what being bi means to him, and how he should deal with it. Dating a dude is secondary, if that.

                  As for your latter paragraph, well, that’s not what I said. There’s a difference between “I want them together” and “I want Danny to immediately bang Ethan even though he’s already with someone else and has major romantic hang-ups.”

                • JQuire
                  JQuire
                  November 7, 2015 at 10:36 pm | #

                  That’s not what you said, but your position is very solidly based on where the characters are now/the pace which you see things going. Because you’re approaching it as “I want Danny to immediately bang Ethan even though he’s already with someone else and has major romantic hang-ups,” rather than “I want to see Danny and Ethan bang… maybe a dream sequence so it doesn’t cock up the character development?”

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  November 7, 2015 at 10:51 pm | #

                  What would a sex dream accomplish though?

                  It wouldn’t mean anything to either character, wouldn’t follow the rest of the slipshines in how they’ve all been about actual intimacy between couples, if it weren’t Danny or Ethan dreaming it than it would be even more irrelevant, I can’t imagine Ethan even considering eyeing his best friend’s boyfriend, and if it were Danny then we already know it’d be something he wouldn’t want at this point in time because right now he’s all “oh no hes hot im going to cheat.”

                  Maybe I’m being presumptuous, but I saw Willis’ intent with the slipshines to be about exploring a healthy, positive, intimate moment in a relationship (like how Billie and Ruth only ever got one over a year after they initially got together, because when they did they were in the throes of suicidal, alcoholic depression) and I can’t see where an irrelevant sex dream that serves nothing for either character fits into that.

                  Wouldn’t a slipshine between the two mean way, way more if there was actual emotional weight behind it?

                • JQuire
                  JQuire
                  November 7, 2015 at 11:36 pm | #

                  I can think of a few ways to work a sex dream into the narrative in a meaningful way, though I doubt they’d reach your requirement that they be without problematic implications. For instance, Amber has a history of having sex dreams involving two men and ‘writing fanfiction in her head’ which involve two men being intimate….Amber has a sex dream and then we have a segue into her and Danny exploring what his bisexuality means in the context of the relationship.

                  The only thing I can recall Willis saying about the Slipshines is that they would be between characters that would conceivably shtup. As for “exploring a healthy, positive, intimate moment in a relationship” …. I should first say that I have not read the pornographiques and can only speak from context…. but I don’t buy it. “Head of the Class” is Sal and Jason, who are not truly in a relationship, and kinda hate each other. Nothing wrong with casual sex, but a sexual relationship between a student and a TA is not unproblematic. Jason and Sal both explicitly acknowledge that their sexual relationship is “unethical in a staggering number of ways”. And wasn’t “Mask or No Mask” is set dead on the heals of Danny having a sex dream involving Ethan? And the whole you’re dating AmaziGirl vs. Amber thing ….

      • Emma
        Emma
        November 7, 2015 at 12:03 pm | #

        He said it doesn’t involve Ethan on tumblr.

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      November 7, 2015 at 1:08 am | #

      Hey, I must’ve missed that preview.

      I don’t regret unsubbing from Slipshine, because I’m not paying to see Joe have sex with anyone. (No offense meant to Willis and his work. I liked his other Slipshine comics, but I just can’t stand Joe and don’t want to see him in any more comics than I have to.)

  30. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    November 7, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Will the truth finally come out of the secret connection between Sal and AmaziGirl? Or will Willis set this secret aside to be revealed another year? Find out tomorrow, same AmaziTime, same AmaziWebSite!

    • Karionus
      Karionus
      November 7, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      …and only about 5 minutes later, continuity-wise.

    • Androiddreams
      Androiddreams
      November 7, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      we find out in 2018, willis’ kid graduates uni before they reconcile

  31. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    November 7, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Oh Amber, your head is so messed up and I’m not talking about your head wounds.

  32. Sim
    Sim
    November 7, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Gotta take off yo glove to snap properly.
    Lucky lucky the scar is on the other hand.

  33. Badgermole
    Badgermole
    November 7, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Panel 3.
    I ship it.

    • fizzywafflezsuperstore
      fizzywafflezsuperstore
      November 7, 2015 at 2:59 am | #

      Can you go to any webcomic page and say:
      “Panel x.
      I ship it.”
      and it always work?

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        November 7, 2015 at 9:33 am | #

        In a Willis comic, that happens surprisingly often.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      November 7, 2015 at 11:56 am | #

      THANK YOU.
      I was going to post “now kiss!” But then I forgot to because I got distracted and now it’s 12 hours too late.

  34. lordmazapan91
    lordmazapan91
    November 7, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    This is going to be interesting.

  35. m2iCodeJockey
    m2iCodeJockey
    November 7, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    Yes but, then, you wonder: Why did their cars make that Chysler V8 noise if they’re foot powered…?

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      November 7, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

      Was asking the same thing. If they use their feet to move the car, why does it make sounds like an engine powered one?

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 7, 2015 at 10:17 am | #

        They keep a small dinosaur in the engine compartment to make the appropriate sounds.

        • Carolyn
          Carolyn
          November 7, 2015 at 10:42 am | #

          “It’s a living.”

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            November 7, 2015 at 12:21 pm | #

            I see some people remember the Flintstones shows from the late ’70s and early ’80s where Fred had a helper dinosaur in the back. That was the only way they could do a show about the gas crunch and Arab oil embargo. The CB craze show was just Stoopid.

            • m2iCodeJockey
              m2iCodeJockey
              November 7, 2015 at 1:04 pm | #

              I can remember a few elements before cartoons became “role model conscious.”

              -It was a huge deal when Wilma announced she was pregnant because that meant ‘cartoon characters have sex.’

              -Barney made subtle sex jokes as he and Betty were trying for children and having trouble so, they went to a physician who told them she couldn’t which triggered her extended depression.
              When a baby wandered into their yard, Barney took the baby into their house and hid him. Betty refused to return him to the Stork, who was actively trying to reacquire the baby.
              Essentially, Bamb-Bamb was abducted due to being handed to the wrong woman, right after delivery. No one corrected it.

              -As Fred sat in their living room, he smoked. Pebbles would play on the floor, nearby.

  36. Jackson
    Jackson
    November 7, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    Man, if Billie could see this.

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      November 7, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

      Oh right, Billie still thinks Sal is Amazi Girl. She’s going to be very confused if they both end up in the news.

  37. JimmyMc
    JimmyMc
    November 7, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Please don’t let Dina be dead in the woods!!!

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      November 7, 2015 at 1:05 am | #

      Dina is not dead in the woods, for lots of obvious reasons.

  38. philip
    philip
    November 7, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Just give her a change of clothes and take her to the hospital. Jesus. Just say she fell and her her head.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 7, 2015 at 1:23 am | #

      Don’t even need a change of clothes.  Amazi-Girl wears her Amazi-Suit® over her street clothes.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        November 7, 2015 at 3:27 pm | #

        Yep, and they can tell the ER that Amber suffered her injuries taking a spill off a motorbike, which is at least as plausible as half the shit ER staff get told, and enough to head off any compulsory reporting requirements.

  39. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    November 7, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    So, Amber wakes up to find herself face to face with Sal. I’m quite curious to see how this will play out.

    • Inkblot
      Inkblot
      November 7, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      slipshine

      • Cypherfox
        Cypherfox
        November 7, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

        … Oh…yeah, my brain just melted. 🙂

        An amused, ‘Nevah gonnuh happen, but…’ +1 to this.

      • David
        David
        November 7, 2015 at 3:04 am | #

        Apparently you are reading more banging into that “thunk” than I did. I have to admit that Amber puts herself into position in panel 4.

        • LeslieBean4Shizzle
          LeslieBean4Shizzle
          November 7, 2015 at 11:57 am | #

          **slowclap**
          And now I can’t unsee it.

  40. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    November 7, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    Sal should do something horrible just to screw with fans. 🙂

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      November 7, 2015 at 1:10 am | #

      Some fans wouldn’t mind if Sal screwed with them.

  41. Lan Mikoto
    Lan Mikoto
    November 7, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    This was a nice tone shift from the high paced action. Thank you Willis.

  42. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    November 7, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    Noticing 2 things here that are pretty minor but pretty significant:

    1) The tags say Amber instead of Amazi-Girl.

    2) Sal has one of her gloves off. Not the glove covering her scar (which is on her right hand, if memory serves), and it may have just been to make snapping her fingers easier, but it;s still pretty significant given how rarely we see them come off.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 7, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

      It was the right hand that got stabbed — and I think it is the group consensus (although I’m not sure if Willis ever confirmed it) that Sal is actually left-handed.

      • tim gueguen
        tim gueguen
        November 7, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

        Even if Sal is right handed she probably ended up using her left hand a lot in the immediate period after she was stabbed in the right hand.

        • vlademir1
          vlademir1
          November 7, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

          I have known several people in meatspace who are right prime ambidextrous and left prime ambidextrous for similar reasons… usually broken hands rather than stab wounds though.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          November 7, 2015 at 1:46 am | #

          During the hold-up Sal was brandishing the knife in her left hand.  Also here and here.  So I’m of the opinion that she was left-handed to start with.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        November 7, 2015 at 9:36 am | #

        I’m strongly right-handed, but I still find it easier to snap my fingers with my left than my right. It may just be practice, but it can totally work that way.

        • Sensei Le Roof
          Sensei Le Roof
          November 7, 2015 at 10:35 am | #

          I’m right-handed but I routinely hold my drink in my left.

  43. Wublub
    Wublub
    November 7, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

    I think Sal would be a great doctor. She’s already got the basics down, like “Don’t hit your head on things” and “Make sure the brain is not mashed”.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 7, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.”
      “Don’t do it then.”

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        November 7, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

        “Doctor! My arm hurts in two places!”
        “Well, stay out of those places!”

        • -Sentinel-
          -Sentinel-
          November 7, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

          Hah, nice. Is that from you, or is it a quote?

          • merbrat
            merbrat
            November 7, 2015 at 1:17 am | #

            Bill and I are quoting old vaudeville jokes. Also used on old teevee skits.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          November 7, 2015 at 1:26 am | #

          “Doctor!  When I touch my head, it hurts.  When I touch my elbow, it hurts.  When I touch my leg, it hurts.  What do you think?”
          “Well, I think you’ve broken your finger.”

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            November 7, 2015 at 1:30 am | #

            LOL…that one I haven’t heard before.

          • Sensei Le Roof
            Sensei Le Roof
            November 7, 2015 at 10:35 am | #

            Psychic Tanya, everybody.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          November 7, 2015 at 8:37 am | #

          “Doctor! Every time I drink my coffee I get a terrible, stabbing pain in my right eye!”

          “Take the spoon out then!”

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      November 7, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

      Still much better than the TF2 medic.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 7, 2015 at 6:16 am | #

        Amazi-Girl could really use an Uber now, though.

        Joyce could have really used a kritzkreig…

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      November 7, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

      I was thinking “Doctor Who” Doctor, and I never knew I needed this so much.

      “‘Ey, Amazi-Girl… All o’ time and space? Ah got me a TARDIS, ya know. Ah’ll have ya back before class. Wanna go?”

      • fizzywafflezsuperstore
        fizzywafflezsuperstore
        November 7, 2015 at 3:05 am | #

        This needs to happen!

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      November 7, 2015 at 10:20 am | #

      No joke, but I actually think she would make a great EMT. She’s great at trauma response and de-escalation after a crisis. She probably already has a lot of first aid for minor injuries knowledge just growing up with Marcie and here we see that she has a good bedside manner which while simplified, does do a good job in checking out the important bits before further transport. She’s also good at keeping people with high emotions calm…ish, and especially is good at remaining calm and focus in crisis situations. Finally, she is also a bit of an adrenaline junkie and wouldn’t be burnt out on the crazy hours or high drama.

      Plus, it would be a way to get back at her parents who are wanting to groom Walky for med-school for her to get a successful career in the medical profession.

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        November 7, 2015 at 4:36 pm | #

        An EMT’s not a real doctor though, so I doubt Mommy would be at all impressed. “I suppose that’s the best you can do…”

        Not insulting EMTs, just considering how Linda would look at it.

  44. Zagreus
    Zagreus
    November 7, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    I really hope this ends with Sal apologizing to Amber for what she’s done to her. It’d be nice for Sal to get off her high horse and finally show some humility and it might even help Amber heal emotionally. Fingers crossed.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      November 7, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

      That would require Amazi-Girl to take off the mask in front of her archnemesis! That doesn’t seem likely at this juncture.

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        November 7, 2015 at 12:58 am | #

        It would also require Sal to connect Amber to the crime scene. Sal just thinks Amber is “Weird” and Amazi-Girl is crazy. Not the same people.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 7, 2015 at 6:28 am | #

        Would Sal even recognize her without it? Amber was hiding for most of the robbery, and she ran up to Sal from behind with the knife. She may have never seen her face at all.

        • CaptainBatson
          CaptainBatson
          November 7, 2015 at 7:10 pm | #

          She’s seen Amber around and hasn’t recognized her, so I doubt it.

  45. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    November 7, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

    BONGO RUN

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      November 7, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

      just to clarify that is me referencing the bongo drums that play during that sort of run and not me advising one of these ladies to run while using a slur

  46. Tacos
    Tacos
    November 7, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

    Welp moral crisis for AG in 3… 2… 1…

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      November 7, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

      Well, as some people said above in the comments, that’s currently Amber who is afraid of Sal.

  47. Drakkin the Alien
    Drakkin the Alien
    November 7, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

    … ” and little Sal knows of how with that finger snap, like a magic thunder, she has undone several years of hipnosis therapy. Amber, once more the shy and stuttering little girl now comes out from the deeps of the personality disorder that usurped her body for years long to face her most horrific nightmare once more … “.

    • Inkblot
      Inkblot
      November 7, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

      I wish hypnotism worked like that

      The most amusing I’ve done was making it so a guy put his shoes in a freezer and forgot about them

      That was a fun day

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        November 7, 2015 at 12:55 am | #

        Wait, really? You did that? Was he impaired in any other way, and can I learn to do silly pranks like that too?

  48. Amanduh
    Amanduh
    November 7, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

    I’d wondered if something like this would happen. Whatever Sal thinks of Amazi-Girl, I figured that after years of court involvement, therapists and boarding school, she would not want to leave an unconscious AG to face a similar fate.

  49. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    November 7, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

    Aaah Sal, you’re not supposed to get so close to the wild animal until it trusts you.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      November 7, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      (also that’s the first time we see her without a glove, isn’t it.)

      • -Sentinel-
        -Sentinel-
        November 7, 2015 at 1:13 am | #

        Except in pre-hand-stabbing flashbacks.

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        November 7, 2015 at 2:42 am | #

        She actually took off her gloves once before, during Family Weekend.

        • SDGlyph
          SDGlyph
          November 7, 2015 at 2:58 am | #

          And she still kept her right hand hidden behind back even then.

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          November 7, 2015 at 4:00 am | #

          Oh, right, there was that.

      • DaCyclops
        DaCyclops
        November 7, 2015 at 3:26 am | #

        Technically No. We see Sal without her gloves the day after Joyce’s ‘Incident’. Though this was before Willis revealed the hand-stabby.

        She also doesnt have her gloves on when her parents visit but I do note she takes efforts to hide her right hand behind her back….

  50. dmaxx
    dmaxx
    November 7, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

    Am the only one that feels the law officials gonna have a heck of job piecing everything what have happened together and which more then likely may trigger some unwanted effect for more drama? Ya know, the WHOLE minute of 911 call that was recorded including someone’s windshield that got crushed that need some splaining with a student in a costume doing dangerous things which they feel the need to find out who are?

    Well, i guess she seems to been dragged away from a safe distance by sal(as she more then likely would prefer not get involved with the blues again) but if the damage serious enough it need to be medically treated and they gonna ask question how it happen and I’m sure they got a new-flash that some gurl in a costume is missing with damage and she happen to have similar damage pretty close to the date of accident…just sayin….

    • Idon'tcarenomore
      Idon'tcarenomore
      November 7, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

      I was hoping they would pull Ambers costume of and say she was riding with Becky, that’s how’s hurt.
      And AG would have just been the mysterious costumed person who disappeared.

      • Dragon_Nataku
        Dragon_Nataku
        November 7, 2015 at 11:02 am | #

        They don’t even need to make up stuff that would contradict a lot of other peoples’ stories. These are college students. College students do a lot of stupid shit that gets them hurt merely because they’re still kids. All Sal would really have to do is take Amber to a hospital and just kinda shrug and go “Iunno” when asked what happened.

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      November 7, 2015 at 12:51 am | #

      Seems falling down stairs is an easy thing to do. People get some nasty bumps & bruises like that…

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 7, 2015 at 1:37 am | #

      That doesn’t look like a road in the background; I think Sal and Amber/Amazi-Girl are actually on the creek bank a little ways distant from the bridge — and out of sight of the soon-to-be-arriving cops, so Amazi-Girl’s secret identity is still safe.
      For now.

    • shadowcell
      shadowcell
      November 7, 2015 at 4:33 am | #

      The cops will want to talk to her because she was a witness, and her testimony will be a key part of the prosecutor’s case against Ross. If her friends want to prevent the cops from finding out about Amazi-Girl, they will have to commit obstruction of justice and risk weakening the prosecutor’s case against Ross (because every witness would be lying to police, so every witness’s credibility would be impeached). A bunch of total strangers would have to do that too. In fact, so would Ross! Because they’re going to interview him about what happened and what incentive does he have to not mention the kid in the Halloween costume?

      If she really wants Ross to go away forever, she’s going to have to tell them what happened, because someone will tell the cops that she was involved, and her testimony can only help put him away forever. He got out of the car while it was moving and tried to shoot her, that’s a felony in and of itself, on top of the other ones; he would be in prison for decades and he’ll effectively never be able to hurt Becky again. If Amber would rather hide from the cops to preserve her superhero thing, well, then I guess that tells you what Amazi-Girl is all about.

      • Adam Black
        Adam Black
        November 7, 2015 at 7:13 am | #

        “her testimony will be a key part of the prosecutor’s case ”
        Only against herself

        I think in the real world Amazigirl would get charged for reckless endangerment, plus a lot of crimes of assault.

        Amazigirl isnt necessary as a witness what Ross did.
        Joyce and Becky are enough plus every other driver, and all the kids around the fountain.

        • Clif
          Clif
          November 7, 2015 at 10:29 am | #

          Also what Amazigirl girl is about is providing emotionally overwhelmed Amber a super -competent stereotypically disciplined defense that can safely channel her darker emotions.

        • shadowcell
          shadowcell
          November 7, 2015 at 2:07 pm | #

          He tried to shoot her, that makes her a pretty important witness if they want to charge him with attempted murder. And even if they don’t use her testimony at trial, she’d still be sought out because she was absolutely a central witness to several of the likely charges Ross is about to get. And since the investigation will absolutely want to know what happened to the red car and what caused Ross’s car to crash, it means realistically, she can’t hide. Or, she can, but only if every witness to what she did (including Ross) lies about her involvement…which impeaches their credibility on anything they say, including their testimony as to what Ross did. Short of some ass-pull, she has no way out of this.

          Since what she does is illegal, she probably would be charged with a few crimes herself. But that would be tantamount to killing her, as far as this comic goes; she’d have to go away for months of comic-time on end and that means we would essentially never see her again and everyone would be bummed about it. I would expect the DA to just not pursue those charges because they’d be much harder to prove and not really in the DA’s interest. So instead Amber would get off with being told to knock it off and/or being sent to counseling, and either way that would realistically spell the end of Amazi-Girl.

      • Betty Anne
        Betty Anne
        November 7, 2015 at 2:42 pm | #

        Just because the cops want to talk to her, doesn’t mean they will, or even need to. No one else has to lie about her – they don’t know her identity. Amazi-girl has been in the campus newspaper, so it’s not hard to prove there’s an unidentified, costumed nut running around the campus. Even if they tried to trace Amazi-girl back through Dorothy (and I doubt they’d go to the effort since no one is dead), all Dorothy has to say is she has a “bat signal” and shine her phone light a few times or something. (She could legitimately protect a news source, but the aggravation of having it dragged out in police records and/or court would be trouble for her presidential aspirations, so fibbing about how she contacts Amazi-girl would be the better route; she’s going to have to get used to passing off believable fibs if she wants to be a politician anyway.)

        I’m more concerned about the police wanting to talk to Sal, TBH. She’s A) black and B) has a record. Reckless driving is -bare minimum- going to get her stuffed in a cool-down tank while they yank her license and decide if they can trump up anything else to charge her with.

        If these kids are smart, Sal and Amazi-girl will high tail it out of there before the cops see them, and Joyce will have the mental wherewithal to play the fundie-when-it’s-convenient card and just tell the cops an “angel” on a motorcycle helped her save Becky and Amazi-girl and Becky will hopefully play along. Ross, the car driver, and the truck driver didn’t see Sal with her helmet off, so they can’t identify her outside the color of her bike and gear, and with the drivers’ minds in crisis mode at that point and Ross likely not seeing much of anything, they’re not going to be able to give a lot of detail outside “blue, and maybe some stripes or something.” Joyce being on the back of the bike was actually a plus in not being able to identify Sal, because they’ll remember seeing a white girl with blonde hair (or was it brown? or maybe tan?) and if Joyce isn’t there when they give their statements, they won’t remember if she was wearing blue or if the motorcycle driver was. They would also remember Ross hanging out of the car with his gun while it was moving if Becky, the cops, or anyone else mentioned it to them. Eyewitness memories, especially in stressful situations that are over quickly, are notoriously bad. https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory/transcript?language=en

        The 911 call is enough for them hold Ross on the kidnapping charge, especially if Becky follows up on it and files a formal complaint, and the witnesses at the fountain are enough to slap him with reckless discharge of a firearm. The windshield of the red car and the damage to Ross’s car would need to be sorted out in civil cases if either party decides to pursue it.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          November 7, 2015 at 3:22 pm | #

          Do long-distance truckers commonly have dashcam in the USA?

        • shadowcell
          shadowcell
          November 8, 2015 at 3:36 am | #

          This is fairly ridiculous. Of course they’re going to want to talk to Amber about this, because she was a witness and a participant, and so many people saw her that it strains credulity to think that they’re all going to lie for the sake of a total stranger in a Halloween costume (and risk being charged with obstruction of justice). And of course they’ll get to, because they get to do things like issue subpoenas, and the penalty for not heeding subpoenas is contempt of court, and you can ask Kim Davis what happens when you do that. Not to mention, Ross saw her, he knows she was involved, and he has zero incentive to lie about her involvement. And if he keeps mentioning some weird kid in a Halloween costume when nobody else does, that will tip off the police as well, who will likely be wondering where those caltrops came from and how that red car’s windshield got smashed anyway. The point of an investigation is to reconstruct what happened, and any reconstruction of this event that doesn’t include Amazi-Girl leaves enough holes that anyone with two brain cells to rub together will think it important to find out what she did and account for her. Any prosecutor with two brain cells to rub together will want to do the same, to make sure that Amazi-Girl doesn’t involve something that blows the case over.

          Not only that, but if the witnesses are all lying about her involvement, then they will damage whatever case there is against Ross. That’s because by lying, they are impeaching their own credibility as witnesses–which means *any* statement they make about *any* part of the case, the jury is free to disbelieve. So anything that relies on witness testimony to nail Ross gets potentially taken off the board, because all his attorney has to do is point out that the witnesses are lying about a significant part of the case, and if they’re lying about that thing, why would you trust anything else they say? Which potentially means Ross gets away with a reduced sentence, or a suspended sentence, or goes free. Which would be a fitting outcome in a comic that is about young people making stupid decisions, I guess.

          But if anyone values getting Ross put away forever, they’ll tell the cops what they saw, and that includes Amazi-Girl. It strains credulity to think that, with as much as Amazi-Girl has done in this whole incident, the police would not look into it or a whole bunch of total strangers would lie to make sure she never talks to police.

  51. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    November 7, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

    I’m not sure Sal’s parents thought enough of her to get tangled up in court involvement and pretty sure no therapists were involved.
    The parents made a deal to ship her off to a reform school ..er boarding school…and washed their hands of her. They had darling Walky after all.

    Also pretty sure Sal is not thinking about leaving AG to face a similar fate because she doesn’t know AG or Amber personally. She is, imo, just being a decent person and not wanting to leave a hurt person laying on the ground.

    Apparently Amber recognizes a close up Sal from the store robbery and that is on heck of a reaction.
    Somehow, I doubt this will be a ‘healing’ reunion. Hope I’m wrong.

    • merbrat
      merbrat
      November 7, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

      Sal mentioned to Joyce about having seen many different therapists, after robbing a convenience store at 13.

    • JQuire
      JQuire
      November 7, 2015 at 10:20 am | #

      Through work, I have seen the kind of parents who give up on their kids once they get involved with the criminal justice system. For all their failings, Sal’s parents don’t actually seem like they didn’t think enough of her to do their best after the convenience store. The therapists, boarding school…..these are the options caring parents plump for over jail or a juvenile placement.

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        November 7, 2015 at 10:55 am | #

        It’s also the things rich abusive parents opt for in lieu of actually ceasing their abusive behavior or seeing their kid as a full person. It’s very much the model of “oh we’ll just pay someone else to take care of it” (these parents get very upset when the aid organizations they view as the help to “handle” their “problem” child figure out why they’re doing all these unsafe coping strategies in the first place).

        In Sal’s case, they probably gave up very early on her and that has clearly gotten worse and worse since her youthful arrest. I mean, just look at the outpouring of love she got on Freshman Family Visit Day:

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/appointment/

        And that arc is even worse when you realize her mom spent the entire attempt yelling at Walky about meeting his girlfriend and didn’t even acknowledge her presence in the room. Like, at all. No hi, no bye, not even a “oh why aren’t you perfect like my beautiful baby boy”. Literally nothing.

        • JQuire
          JQuire
          November 7, 2015 at 12:02 pm | #

          In that very strip that Linda is being cartoonishly shitty, Charles is making an effort to start up a conversation with Sal and seems genuinely disappointed that he will not be spending the afternoon with his daughter. The relationship Sal has with her parents is frought and has it’s problems. But I don’t think they’ve stopped caring.

          Also, having had an emotionally abusive parent, I have a really hard time seeing an emotionally abusive parent sending their child away for months or years at a time. How would they be able to be manipulate you and be horrible if you’re not around?

          • Lord Stoneheart
            Lord Stoneheart
            November 7, 2015 at 12:09 pm | #

            I’m less inclined to stand up for Charles when the second thing out of his mouth is a passive aggressive comment about Sal’s hair.

            • JQuire
              JQuire
              November 7, 2015 at 12:17 pm | #

              Mm, I read it as making stupid comment in attempt to make awkward conversation….but I can see how you’d read it as passive aggressive.

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                November 7, 2015 at 2:21 pm | #

                The way I see it, while I think he genuinely was trying to be supportive, the fact he sees as a “your hair is better when its whiter” as a compliment is a huge problem.

                • StClair
                  StClair
                  November 7, 2015 at 2:38 pm | #

                  Oh yes.

                • JQuire
                  JQuire
                  November 7, 2015 at 4:34 pm | #

                  A-yup. But his internalized racism is a different problem and it wouldn’t necessarily follow that he would not have cared enough about Sal to try to act in her best interests or have used it as an excuse to get rid of her, as was the allegation of the original poster.

      • Dragon_Nataku
        Dragon_Nataku
        November 7, 2015 at 11:05 am | #

        Yeahhhh, no, that doesn’t mean that they care. My parents shipped me off to boarding school (albeit not because I broke the law, they were just sick of me), and after a few incidents (not of a legal nature) the boarding school said “either put this kid in therapy or she can’t go here anymore.” To this day my parents don’t believe in psychology and only sent me to therapy cause the boarding school required me to go or else I’d get kicked out and how would that make my parents look in front of their friends~

  52. Lordess of Madness
    Lordess of Madness
    November 7, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

    Holy crap! Sal’s not wearing a glove!

  53. Cass
    Cass
    November 7, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

    It’s pretty sad the the second I saw panel three I went “Hey, cheek-blushies! That’s not Amazi-Girl Sal’s talking to!” without even having to look at the tags. Amber, now I’m starting to buy into your dissociative personality issues for you!

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      November 7, 2015 at 10:15 am | #

      Yeah, as someone with the same condition (DID), it is somewhat painful to watch her make all the mistakes to how to manage that condition (enforcing strict separation of the alters, attempting to separate emotions into one alter or the other, viewing one of the alters as potentially dangerous and thus needing to be “managed”). But then, I did the same sort of things when I was younger and just trying to figure things out on my own.

  54. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    November 7, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

    Hard to snap your fingers while wearing gloves.

    Where’s Dina?

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      November 7, 2015 at 1:13 am | #

      Dina is extinct.

      • Sensei Le Roof
        Sensei Le Roof
        November 7, 2015 at 10:39 am | #

        I saw no asteroid.

        • DinaWho
          DinaWho
          November 7, 2015 at 3:33 pm | #

          No exploding space freighters either.

          • CaptainBatson
            CaptainBatson
            November 7, 2015 at 7:14 pm | #

            I get it!

  55. Larkle
    Larkle
    November 7, 2015 at 12:57 am | #

    I was kind of expecting there to be scars on Sal’s hands from what Amber did and that that was why she always wears the gloves.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 7, 2015 at 1:00 am | #

      She only took off one glove…

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      November 7, 2015 at 1:13 am | #

      There are and it is. But she only got stabbed in the one hand.

  56. so279
    so279
    November 7, 2015 at 1:00 am | #

    Cue the ‘Kill Bill’ siren music…

    • saki
      saki
      November 7, 2015 at 1:48 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOy6hqzfsAs

  57. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 7, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

    This was NOT how Amber expected the situation to unfold.

  58. neeks
    neeks
    November 7, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

    no no, see, everyone knows that the best way to fix a concussion/head trauma is to get another one to reverse the damage.*

    *that was a joke, please don’t do this.

    • StClair
      StClair
      November 7, 2015 at 2:39 pm | #

      Goes with the sound effect(s).

  59. Random Comment
    Random Comment
    November 7, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

    Took me a second to remember why she was doing that.

  60. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    November 7, 2015 at 1:08 am | #

    Ruh-roh

  61. evilmidnightlurker
    evilmidnightlurker
    November 7, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

    Well now I can’t STOP hearing the skedaddle effects in my head DAMN YOU WILLIS

  62. Professor Fate
    Professor Fate
    November 7, 2015 at 1:12 am | #

    Hah! “Moe, Larry, cheese! Woop, woop woop!”

  63. merbrat
    merbrat
    November 7, 2015 at 1:15 am | #

    The first one!
    http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Hanna_Barbera_sound_effec

  64. saki
    saki
    November 7, 2015 at 1:31 am | #

    I think this might be the best moment for this confrontation to happen. At this point, Amber’s body must be way too exhausted for her to be bale to try and beat up Sal again, which means she really has no choice but to use her words.
    I just hope the police won’t ruin everything by showing up and arresting the vigilante.

  65. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    November 7, 2015 at 1:31 am | #

    Amazi-Girl confronts her enemy, and it is herself!

  66. Spack
    Spack
    November 7, 2015 at 1:50 am | #

    The gloves are OFF!!!

    Well, one of them, anyways….

  67. Anywhere
    Anywhere
    November 7, 2015 at 1:59 am | #

    Amazi-Girl is acting like a scared cat who didn’t realize you were looking at them.

  68. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 7, 2015 at 2:05 am | #

    This is the moment, I think, where Sal learns just who she is in Amber O’Malley’s life and just what role she played in the origin of Amazi-Girl. I wonder what she’ll think of the tale?

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      November 7, 2015 at 2:10 am | #

      ‘That girl’s more fucked up than I thought.’

  69. Catty
    Catty
    November 7, 2015 at 2:23 am | #

    Sal finally took one of her gloves off. If she takes the other one off and Amber sees the scar… Damn it, Willis, how long are you going to keep baiting this hook?

    BTW, best alt text ever.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 7, 2015 at 2:50 am | #

      That scar is private. She won’t take off that glove until she realises who Amber is and her role in her past, IMO.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 7, 2015 at 3:02 am | #

      Amber doesn’t need to see the scar; she knows who Sal is.  It’s Sal that hasn’t made the connection that Amber is the person who stabbed her.  And as others have suggested, since the attack came from behind (and she then had her eyes tightly closed in pain) Sal may not have ever gotten a good look at her assailant (Amber) before she was bundled off for medical treatment.

      So Amber’s going to have to tell Sal herself if the secret is to come out at all.  <bTHAT is going to be interesting.

      • Willoughby Chase
        Willoughby Chase
        November 7, 2015 at 4:46 am | #

        > So Amber’s going to have to tell Sal herself if the secret is to come out at all. <bTHAT is going to be interesting.

        And the sound effect for that will be

        KABONG!

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          November 7, 2015 at 9:06 am | #

          http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Hanna_Barbera_sound_effec
          (#5)

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      November 7, 2015 at 6:53 am | #

      It’s not impossible that
      Sal already knows who AG is and also
      knows her own relationship to Amber.

      It wouldn’t be difficult to figure out because the person Sal would recognize is Ethan.

      Sal’s the “person who is actually cool” type:
      If revealing that information
      wouldn’t help a person in a more than trivial way,
      she wouldn’t say, either way.

      That being said, “The Gloves” don’t seem to represent her relationship with Amber.

      The Gloves and Scar
      seem to represent Sal’s desire, effort and failure to please Linda Walkerton so,
      if she took them off while Amber, in particular, could see the Scar,
      “the show would end.”

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        November 7, 2015 at 9:10 am | #

        All good points, except: Sal already met Ethan. “Ah like tall” (at Joyce’s party) But, Ethan was scrawny when she “met” him before, so she wouldn’t remember him. Ethan was satisfied that the reason she looked familiar was the twin thing. (which blew Danny’s mind, hilariously)

        • m2iCodeJockey
          m2iCodeJockey
          November 7, 2015 at 10:15 am | #

          Yes, yes. I recall.
          “I go fer tall. I’d remember the heck outta ya…”

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          November 7, 2015 at 8:47 pm | #

          Puberty hit Ethan kinda hard.

  70. Willoughby Chase
    Willoughby Chase
    November 7, 2015 at 4:43 am | #

    Her melons look fine to me 🙂

    Amber needs to bugger off quick and then some r’n’r. Sal could help her but I’ve a feeling that there’s more drama ahead for this pair.

    BTB, they’d make a lovely couple, or shipping which I believe is the appropriate à la mode phrase.

    I’ll be in my bunk.

  71. Javert
    Javert
    November 7, 2015 at 4:46 am | #

    And my thoughts fly apart! Can this girl be believed? Can her sins be forgiven? Can her crimes be reprieved?

  72. m2iCodeJockey
    m2iCodeJockey
    November 7, 2015 at 5:58 am | #

    * AG skidaddle
    * AG Smacks the tree, long pause
    * The tree breaks just above AG’s head
    * The tree smacks Sal over the head…

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 7, 2015 at 3:33 pm | #

      THAT would be the Warner Brothers way of doing it — Road Runner/Coyote style.

  73. Spencer
    Spencer
    November 7, 2015 at 7:21 am | #

    Are they still near the bridge? If Amber had a concussion why would Sal drag her away?

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      November 7, 2015 at 7:57 am | #

      AG can’t be seen by the responders. No matter how serious one person or another is taking her, it’s clear: She’s a costumed vigilante.
      AG’s identity has to be kept secret. The day after she’s taken to a hospital as AG, Amber will be arrested for the suspected aggravated assault of Blaine.

      At the very least, if someone x-rays her hands and scans her head, they’ll suspect she’s an abuse victim and she’ll be questioned which, again, leads to Blaine because of her name.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        November 7, 2015 at 8:13 am | #

        I get that Sal doesn’t like authority, but Amazi-Girl nearly got everybody killed.

        As for your point about Blaine, does it matter if it eventually came to light that it was his daughter who beat him up, let alone when he had kidnapped and threatened Danny?

        • m2iCodeJockey
          m2iCodeJockey
          November 7, 2015 at 8:24 am | #

          Reviewing the evidence shows a different story than Blaine account of it.
          They’d care about what they can tell actually happened versus he said happened.
          From that perspective, the state can accuse Amber of a felony without his cooperation.

          The evidence shows the assault but, does not show an abduction of Danny because Danny enters WcD’s voluntarily.

          • Dragon_Nataku
            Dragon_Nataku
            November 7, 2015 at 11:15 am | #

            Also, some states make self-defense really really weird. Here in Florida you can kill someone if you merely feel “threatened” and it’s still self-defense, but in other states if the attacker doesn’t go down in one hit you’re fucked because after one hit it’s no longer self-defense. The victim then becomes the attacker and can thus be charged with assault.

            Not that I know the specific rules about self-defense in Indiana. Just saying considering how much damage she did to him the law MIGHT just decide self-defense doesn’t apply despite Blaine’s violent (possibly undocumented?) violent history.

            • m2iCodeJockey
              m2iCodeJockey
              November 7, 2015 at 6:16 pm | #

              Can any interaction between the two of them objectively be called “self-defense?”

              The way I remember the first interaction, Blaine is in the dorm when she enters, he provokes her to anger then, she hit him in full view of (whom I think is) Mr and Mrs Saruyama.
              That made me think Mr Saruyama sided with Amber since Dina was not immediately moved.

              The second time, I think she hit him after he restrained Danny from speaking. That one, maybe.
              Did she keep hitting him after he was down?
              ———
              About self defense:

              In the 80’s, I had a friend, “T,” a couple years older, who studied martial arts. Lee was his idle.
              He worked nights in a local hospital cafeteria and always traveled on foot or, by bus. One night, he was waiting for a bus, next to a young lady who worked near but, not in the same place as he.

              As they were chatting, a kid about 15-ish, jumped out of a car, ran over and pointed a loaded .38 revolver, no safety, at the side of T’s head and screamed: “CHECK IT IN!!! (give me your wallet and purse)”
              The chick didn’t have time to react but, T was on automatic.

              T’s right hand pushed the kid’s wrist upward, so the gun was no longer pointed at T’s head. The kid fired the gun.
              The other hand grabbed the kid by the scrotum and lifted him, not enough to pick him up but, hard enough the kid couldn’t rest on his heels.
              “Drop the gun.” T said quietly but, sternly. The kid complied.
              “Please, call the police.” The chick ran to a pay phone.

              T was ordinarily a VERY meek, shy person. He was KNOWN for being a kitten.

              The kid was loaded into an ambulance with injured testicles. After surgery, they sent him home later that week. He was not even detained.

              T served 2 of 5 years and was required to register his hands once released.
              The chick testified AGAINST T and the ruling read: “Once T had control of Kid’s wrist, T and Chick were no longer in danger…”

              • m2iCodeJockey
                m2iCodeJockey
                November 7, 2015 at 6:26 pm | #

                *idol…

              • Dragon_Nataku
                Dragon_Nataku
                November 7, 2015 at 9:58 pm | #

                Yeah… I never said the law wasn’t bollocks.

                Also, that chick needs to go die in a fire. *thumbs up* (and the kid too, but I’d figured that went without saying until I remembered this is the internet)

                • m2iCodeJockey
                  m2iCodeJockey
                  November 8, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

                  They figured since the kid couldn’t sit in the police car due to shattered nuts, he’d suffered enough. THAT led to tossing T in the clink for maiming him.

                  T was NOT the bully the prosecutor made him out to be but, think Kung Fu Joe, he even dressed like that on a regular basis and had a similar voice but, a personality like Mouse in The Matrix.

                  When he found out the kid may never have children, T wept openly.
                  Being genuinely ashamed of having used so much force, tearing as he explained to me why he’d been in the clink, it seemed he hadn’t gotten over the whole thing.

                  I think he’d just gotten out that day, maybe the previous.
                  To T, “an ass kickin’ would have been more than enough if he gets the point.”
                  The only thing I told him was that having known him, I understood his action and I suspected he was simply frightened by the gun discharging, a real attempt at murder.
                  At the end, he seemed like he felt better having talked.

                  It was the last time I saw him.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      November 7, 2015 at 10:11 am | #

      Because Amazi-girl is a costumed vigilante, who while heroic, also threw possibly illegal caltrops on a major highway to intentionally cause a car accident (for a good cause), after participating in reckless endangerment with her stunt behind the car. She also committed an assault on top of that car (again for a good cause), and nearly caused an even bigger accident. I mean, she lucked out and ended up doing exactly what was needed and her heart was in the right place, but those are generally actions law enforcement tend to frown on.

      Additionally, any type of official care in her Amazi-girl outfit would spell the end of her superhero identity, which at this point is a critical alter for her function in society and could lead to worse DID-related issues (trying to “shut off” an alter is basically the worst possibly treatment you can do for DID and often leads to more violent disassociations with less communication of events).

      Sal probably thinks she is doing her a solid (and is probably right) and already distrusts law enforcement (as an anti-authoritarian black woman with a “reputation” I’m sure she’s had her share of general police harassment in addition to the fallout from her convenience store robbery). Which will probably quickly lead to Sal regretting the decision as Amber tries to re-establish control over the situation.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        November 7, 2015 at 10:30 am | #

        That’s what’s confusing me: why is Sal doing her a solid? Apart from assaulting her and her friends (and Malaya) over some beer, Sal thinks Amber nearly got everyone killed thirty times over. She should want her to go to jail. If she’s just pulling her aside to make sure she’s still alive that makes sense, since the police and paramedics haven’t arrived yet, but if she’s trying to help her escape then I’m kind of lost.

        • BenRG
          BenRG
          November 7, 2015 at 10:39 am | #

          Because it’s in Sal’s nature. She’s one of those irritatingly nice and heroic people who will act in accord with what she considers to be ‘right’, irrespective of whether or not it is personally convenient to do so.

          • Cerberus
            Cerberus
            November 7, 2015 at 10:46 am | #

            In this Amazi-girl and Sal are very much the same. Both are suicidally brave. Both have an internal sense of right and wrong. Both have been traumatized and abused by a parent and both have been done wrong by authoritarianism of one stripe or another. Both are night owls and prefer solitude. Both will try and help even if it puts themselves at risk or involves helping someone they don’t particularly like. They are both very take-charge leader type personalities (when Amber is in her Amazi-girl alter).

            Their similarities are also what leads them to clash and their key difference (that Sal has given up on the notion of authority or systems to help her whereas Amber has adopted a very strictly legalistic definition of authority for her Amazi-girl alter) does not help that clash be pleasant.

        • Cerberus
          Cerberus
          November 7, 2015 at 10:42 am | #

          Because she hates the cops more than she hates “Amazo”. Because she begrudgingly respects someone who has been in the news media climbing buildings. Because Amazi-girl just badassedly saved her new roommate who is also the person Joyce got all rebel badass to save. Because Sal is actually a kind person, underneath the rough-and-tumble front and was always going to be the more likely of the two to try and extend an olive branch. Because she really hates cops and thinks they do even less good than Amazi-girl. Because she wanted to get the heck out of there herself because black person at the scene of a place where a shooter has been reported is the worst idea ever. Because she doesn’t believe that jails help anyone and refuses to support that corrupt system even though she thinks Amazi-girl is dangerous.

          There’s a lot of reasons that Sal wouldn’t be in mind to stick around and would figure Amazi-girl would appreciate not being around too.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            November 7, 2015 at 10:55 am | #

            Well, that clears things up. Probably not a great idea to carry off a concussion victim, but you’re dead on about why she would want to help her.

          • StClair
            StClair
            November 7, 2015 at 2:40 pm | #

            Well said.

        • m2iCodeJockey
          m2iCodeJockey
          November 7, 2015 at 12:26 pm | #

          You’ve misunderstood something about Sal: She acts out of high empathy more than once. This isn’t even the second time.

          At this point, she appears to be successfully processing issues, having some interesting phrases lately, some quotable.
          -“I never met a therapist worth shit…”
          Has she seen MULTIPLE therapists, voluntarily?

          If you go through the sum of Sal’s agency, she tends to help the person next to her as if to say “I may or may not like you but, I’ll feel bad I see you suffer.”

          • neeks
            neeks
            November 7, 2015 at 1:02 pm | #

            I think the key word there is “voluntarily”. Multiple therapists? Yes. Voluntarily? ……probably not. I get the impression that Sal doesn’t feel like there’s anything wrong with her behavior, certainly not to the point that she’d seek out professional help to try and fix it, and considering the fact that one of her outlets for her frustration was (poorly planned) armed robbery (and her parents’ solution was apparently BOARDING SCHOOL), I’m betting her therapy was court-ordered. So extra dose of authority issues there.

            You’re more likely to get anything from therapy if the premise is “something is wrong with me and I need help” than if the government says “something is wrong with you andyou need help,” ya know?

            • m2iCodeJockey
              m2iCodeJockey
              November 7, 2015 at 1:32 pm | #

              We agree about some things but, it was the wording that made me suspect there was more than just court-ordered.

              She said “not worth shit” which sounds like
              “therapy is valuable but, I haven’t met a therapist that led me to it so, I found my own way.”

              To me, Sal is self-correcting. I thought David’s joke about her was “in being so unhappy with the therapy she was given, she’s on the way becoming a decent therapist.”

              I really liked watching her chat with Joyce…

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      November 7, 2015 at 4:20 pm | #

      Fellow super-heroes and all that 🙂

  74. John Madden
    John Madden
    November 7, 2015 at 7:39 am | #

    Well now…

  75. Mada
    Mada
    November 7, 2015 at 7:44 am | #

    Pleeeeeease let Amber realize that Sal JUST SAVED HER LIFE and she shouldn’t attack her or throw it in her face.

    Oh never mind, this comic has almost never been about sensible decisions 🙁

    • Guairdean Beatha
      Guairdean Beatha
      November 7, 2015 at 8:58 am | #

      Sensible decisions aren’t exactly high on the list of things college students are known for, either.

  76. AeroQC
    AeroQC
    November 7, 2015 at 8:24 am | #

    At first I didn’t add any mental sound effects, but after reading the pop-up text the cartoony skidaddle is all I hear now.

    • Commodore Jeep-Eep
      Commodore Jeep-Eep
      November 7, 2015 at 10:46 am | #

      I can’t. I just hear completely non-cartoonish scuffing, like a frightened animal.

  77. Les
    Les
    November 7, 2015 at 9:09 am | #

    I was thinking panel #4 looked like the Road Runner right before he took off from Wil E. Coyote’s latest failed attempt to catch him.

  78. Alexx
    Alexx
    November 7, 2015 at 9:32 am | #

    …and then a coconut falls out of the tree and hits her head as well.

  79. Tomas
    Tomas
    November 7, 2015 at 10:24 am | #

    I just noticed the rosy cheeks. That’s Amber waking up, not Amazi-Girl.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      November 7, 2015 at 10:34 am | #

      She’s also tagged as Amber.

  80. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    November 7, 2015 at 10:25 am | #

    I hadn’t thought about how Amber might react to Sal. I mean, Amber is crazy and she’s probably in shock right now.

  81. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    November 7, 2015 at 10:36 am | #

    We know Amber’s response and likely thought process here (oh crap, the red flashback panels are going to eat me, run run run, switch alters, fight). But the more interesting for me is how Sal must be interpreting these events.

    I mean she doesn’t know Amber is Amazi-girl and even if she did, she’d have no reason to know that Amber was the girl who stabbed her. And even if she did, she’d have no reason to assume that that is taken by Amber to be a central traumatizing moment that led to the birth of an alter due to priming by years of abuse from her father, leading to intense panic attacks whenever she sees Sal.

    Which means in Sal’s eyes, she rescued this chick who was harassing her before and now, looking into her eyes, she backpeddles away like she just threatened to shoot her. Which means the most likely explanation Sal is going to come to is that Amazi-girl is some incredibly racist white girl who can’t stand to be in close proximity to her.

    I mean, in her interactions with her, she had Amazi-girl hassle her for a petty crime in very similar fashion to how racist police officers hassle black men and women for non-violent offenses and seemed to be especially intent on starting a fight with her and enforcing a really strong authoritarian dogmatism on her. And treating her openly as a criminal, which Sal would have encountered a lot just being a black woman interested in counterculture.

    And here, Amazi-girl has just literally fled her presence, risking reinjury at the sight of her, simply because she’s close and touching her shoulder. Maybe she associates that with trauma more given her earlier interactions with Joyce, but it wouldn’t be an out-of-left-field assumption for her to make to link that more with the way black people are treated as inherently dangerous (especially in Indiana) and the way white people will intentionally cross the street to avoid walking past them.

    The worst part of all this is that if this is the way that Sal’s brain is thinking (and I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to think so), then that’s going to lead to some badness when the Amazi-girl alter takes back over to try and interrupt the panic attack. After all, Amazi-girl has been shown to be at her worst with Sal and it’s likely she’ll try and regain a sense of control over the conversation (in order to re-establish her sense of safety) likely by picking a verbal fight with Sal. So I can definitely see Sal having this run and just writing her off as some ungrateful racist who just sees her as a thug.

    Or maybe they’ll just have a pleasant conversation and learn to see each other as friends and allies. Or I’m way off base on my assumptions about Sal’s thought process.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 7, 2015 at 10:41 am | #

      I’m strongly expecting Amber’s first words to be: “I’m sorry for cutting you! Please don’t hurt me!”

      • neeks
        neeks
        November 7, 2015 at 7:11 pm | #

        Or just “you!!!”

        Tho arguably this strip conveys that reaction pretty well.

  82. hof1991
    hof1991
    November 7, 2015 at 11:51 am | #

    Neither Amber nor AG have a memory of Sal saving their life, since she was already drawn with little birdies flying around her head at that point. Her last memory will be falling and facing death – and then she awakens to Sal. We know Sal saved her, but she doesn’t.

    Since she passed out and had the little stars around her head, concussion is very likely. She may not even remember what is happening in this strip when she recovers. She also doesn’t know how the whole car chase ended or if Becky is saved. Has no idea why Sal is here or if she is involved.

    Like the strip because we really don’t know what will happen next. This could go a lot of ways and DYW has been cagey enough not to tip it off in the preview panels.

  83. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    November 7, 2015 at 12:12 pm | #

    I’ve been thinking for awhile now that it is past time to see some progress on the Sal/Amber storyline.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      November 7, 2015 at 12:22 pm | #

      This does seem the end of the high Amber’s been on since Dorothy didn’t out her. Botching a rescue and having to be saved by your Joe Chill? Can’t be good for any superhero’s confidence.

      If Willis doesn’t draw a full page reference to that Spider-Man cover where Peter throws his costume in the trash I will be greatly disappointed.

      • Marvelman
        Marvelman
        November 7, 2015 at 12:40 pm | #

        I don’t think she botched the rescue. She did stop toe-dad. But she would have died without Sal.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          November 7, 2015 at 12:43 pm | #

          Does it count as a successful rescue if your intended rescuee nearly died because of you?

          Maybe a C+.

          • kirbilius clausius
            kirbilius clausius
            November 8, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

            at least a solid b

            hostage actually unharmed
            criminal stopped
            no collateral damage that cant be afforded

            vs

            collateral damage
            required civilian aid

            what could drop it to a c for me is if this is not a reform of sal but a super villain pride moment. but comparing this to what the cops do – i woul want amazi-girl instead of 911

  84. DarkVeghetta
    DarkVeghetta
    November 7, 2015 at 1:03 pm | #

    Ship! Ship! SHIP AHOY! All aboard for Slipshine!
    There. Had to get that out of my system. Now Danny – mediate between them, since both like you, and let nature take it’s course… while you watch.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      November 7, 2015 at 1:08 pm | #

      Danny and Sal pretty quickly established they were uninterested in one another.

    • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      November 7, 2015 at 3:19 pm | #

      Must we?

  85. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    November 7, 2015 at 1:36 pm | #

    Now kiss!

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      November 7, 2015 at 4:26 pm | #

      Damn it. I had scrolled almost all of the way to the bottom without seeing that. Good for you, though. Especially since you have the right avatar for it.

  86. Amazistool
    Amazistool
    November 7, 2015 at 2:11 pm | #

    “Amber is doing it wrong!” they said.
    “She is only putting everyone in danger!” they said.
    “She should have called 911 and leave the chase to the police, who will handle it professionally”.

    Here, enjoy a reality alternate to the Dumbiverse where police handled it “professionally”!

    And that happened only yesterday.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      November 7, 2015 at 3:46 pm | #

      Amazi-Girl has the advantage of living in a universe in which physics is optional. That wasn’t apparent until she levitated onto the windscreen of the red car. In reality she’d have gone under the red car’s bumper, not over its hood.

      • Amazistool
        Amazistool
        November 7, 2015 at 7:17 pm | #

        Yeah, normal physics rule rule do not apply and she is defying gravity. Obviously this is not our reality and what works here may be a “Don’t do this at home, kids!”.

        It is still sad that in our universe the “obvious” correct solution fails in so many cases and Superman appears to be missing.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      November 7, 2015 at 6:42 pm | #

      I stand by what I said.

  87. Kit
    Kit
    November 7, 2015 at 3:16 pm | #

    [Bishop from Frozen voice] Your majesty… the gloves.

  88. chromacandi
    chromacandi
    November 7, 2015 at 4:09 pm | #

    Plot twist. Sal has no scar. She robbed a different store and AG has been projecting this entire time.

  89. Pseudonym McAlias
    Pseudonym McAlias
    November 7, 2015 at 5:19 pm | #

    Am I the only one kinda hoping that Amazi-girl is outta action? I mean, I can’t think of any time I’ve seen her (Amazigirl, not Amber) that I didn’t think, “There must be a less asshole way to deal with this.”

  90. Tenn
    Tenn
    November 7, 2015 at 5:38 pm | #

    I was doin’ it wrong. Now I’m doin’ it right.

  91. Tenn
    Tenn
    November 7, 2015 at 6:04 pm | #

    So I saw this next Slipshine preview on Willis’ Tumblr and thought “Which character could have gray chest hair?”

    And then I froze in terror.

    Luckily, the other clues Willis has given seem to rule out that it’s about Toedad and Mrs MacIntyre conceiving Becky.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      November 7, 2015 at 9:29 pm | #

      Clues like wanting people to actually buy it?

  92. kirbilius clausius
    kirbilius clausius
    November 7, 2015 at 9:26 pm | #

    Isn’t this the first time Sal takes off a glove?

    Does she have the calluses needed for snapping her fingers?

  93. Melvin Schlock
    Melvin Schlock
    November 7, 2015 at 9:26 pm | #

    I think “Temple Blocks” is the sound effect name for panel 4.

  94. Itama
    Itama
    November 7, 2015 at 10:51 pm | #

    hey does anyone remember which hand sal got stabbed in? i always assumed she kept the gloves on to hide the scar, but now she has one off.

    • Just Me
      Just Me
      November 7, 2015 at 11:10 pm | #

      Sal got stabbed in her Right Hand. The hand that is still in the glove in the comic.

      • Itama
        Itama
        November 8, 2015 at 12:00 am | #

        thanks

  95. PC
    PC
    November 8, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    I have been reading we’d comics forever. I just turned 50 and realized that I am gettingg too old to wait up for updates. I need them to come earlier!

    • That guy
      That guy
      November 8, 2015 at 4:30 am | #

      Happy birthday!

  96. kirbilius clausius
    kirbilius clausius
    November 8, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/mark/

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/badfriends/

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/assistance/

    how fast can she transition from amber to amazi-girl

  97. Drakefire
    Drakefire
    November 11, 2015 at 8:01 pm | #

    … Orc rage much?

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword
Flash Gordon's Bones Malock:
Bones Malock, under captions reading:
Bones Malock and Flash Gordon.

Flash: Okay... wait thirty seconds, then give me a distraction.

Bones: Got just the thing.

Flash: Do NOT blow the place up.

Bones: You're the boss.
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day to all those who work, create, parent, protest, love and live without ever fitting into someone else's category.
header image - a yellow purple and black flag flies in the wind
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a yellow purple and black flag flies in the wind
Alt: Non-binary flag blowing in the wind
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
A blond female Philly Phanatic says
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Mood
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Nice.
A screenshot of the Dumbing of Age archives, showing the chapter titles of Book 15 and their respective number of strips. Chapter 4,
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DaisyFM ✒︎ @daisyfm.net ⋅ 2d
Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip. Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons. Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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Gay bomb - Wikipedia
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I ain't readin' all that!
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Dumbing of Age: "LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION
that's not the end!  there's more tomorrow, already on patreon!...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION
that's not the end!  there's more tomorrow, already on patreon!...
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
hey, kid, what do you want to play with from the cool superhero movie? is it a nude, melting senator who feels like a stretch armstrong doll that has been left out in the son and maybe mildly chewed by a neighborhood dog? WELL, SON, YOU'RE IN LUCK!
the most upsetting toy of all time: a small and horrible statue of melting, nude Senator Kelly from the first x-men film
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
James Gunn i demand u bring back Conservative Superman
Superman shaking Jared Fogle’s hand
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
(July 10, 2026)
Sal and Danny saw you from across the room and enjoy your vibe.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
trying to voice recognition a search for superman's actor
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Drivaaar @drivaaar.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
I want YOU to transform Autobot City (with generous green spaces, affordable public transport and amenities, and plentiful social initiatives)
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
welp back to drawing comics featuring a character you can't see yet for like 11 months
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Then they came for the sarcastic people and I was like oh great that's exactly what we need right now well done to all concerned.
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Cass 🪻 @cassmoney.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Comic of a man peering through a window.
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Dumbing of Age: "Can’t leave you if I stay" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Can’t leave you if I stay
jesus christ tomorrow's strip early on patreon oh my god...
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Dorothy: You can't just follow me into fire! Joyce: You don't want me following you into fire? Then don't run into fire!
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