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by David M Willis on November 1, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - To Those Who'd Ground Me
└ Tags: amazi-girl, ross

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

    “There’s a big dad in the car, Becky!”

    “Oh, that’s just my stupid dad Ross.”

    “I hate dads, Becky! I hate ’em!”

    “Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!”

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Ooh, Toedads. Very dangerous. YOU go first.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        She was better when she was little.

        “It’s just a dad.”

        Then she fell into a whole bunch of them.

        • David Herbert
          David Herbert
          November 1, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

          “Don’t call it a dad. Tell me to grab the rope.”

        • Someone
          Someone
          November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

          Now I’m disappointed she isn’t Dad-Girl
          Why do you dress like a dad Master Amber?
          Dads frighten me, It’s time my enemies shared my dread

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            November 1, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

            And instead of superhero quips, she speaks entirely in terrible Dad jokes.

            Wait, I think that was Captain Planet.

            • TachyonCode
              TachyonCode
              November 1, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

              Oh. My. God.

            • BlueHoundoom
              BlueHoundoom
              November 1, 2015 at 5:15 am | #

              *bundles internet up with wrapping paper*
              Here, this is for you.

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

                She’d better be careful, otherwise she might end up dad…I mean, dead. xD

                • Griffin
                  Griffin
                  November 1, 2015 at 2:57 pm | #

                  you either die a young adult, or live long enough to see yourself become a dad?

                  (I apologize ten times)

                • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  November 1, 2015 at 6:32 pm | #

                  I’m neither a young adult man anymore, nor a dad. So what does that make me, then? xD

                • MortartarSaws
                  MortartarSaws
                  November 3, 2015 at 8:56 am | #

                  That makes you Yet_One_More_Idiot.

            • Reepunzel
              Reepunzel
              November 1, 2015 at 4:51 pm | #

              Oh dear, if Captain Planet and Toe-Dad’s powers combined… would we wind up with Captain Plantar Fasciitis?

          • DarkoNeko
            DarkoNeko
            November 1, 2015 at 12:51 am | #

            More like daddy’s girl.

            • Haven
              Haven
              November 1, 2015 at 2:35 am | #

              why this

            • Severing
              Severing
              November 1, 2015 at 5:02 am | #

              Perfect. Absolutely perfect.

              Though I guess I should expect nothing less than purrfection from you, hey?

          • Ancestral Hamster
            Ancestral Hamster
            November 1, 2015 at 1:22 am | #

            “Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot. I shall adopt a costume that strikes terror into them, Dad-Girl!”

            • Dean
              Dean
              November 1, 2015 at 1:57 am | #

              Just as a Dad comes crashing through the study window.

        • davidbreslin101
          davidbreslin101
          November 1, 2015 at 10:24 am | #

          See, as a child, her dad attempted to teach her the “Dad-Fist” (a powerful, secret, fatherhood-based martial arts technique) by throwing her into a pit full of enraged dads.

          • Reepunzel
            Reepunzel
            November 1, 2015 at 4:27 pm | #

            Was she wrapped in well-marinated barbecue meat before she was thrown in?

            • Reepunzel
              Reepunzel
              November 1, 2015 at 4:49 pm | #

              Hehe, Genma Sao-TOE-me.

              • DarkVeghetta
                DarkVeghetta
                November 1, 2015 at 5:52 pm | #

                Urgh!… dat pun.

    • motorfirebox
      motorfirebox
      November 1, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      She used to not be a superhero. Then she took a dad to the childhood.

      • Steampunkette
        Steampunkette
        November 1, 2015 at 2:31 am | #

        You, Gentleperson, win an Internet.

      • Jacknoir
        Jacknoir
        November 1, 2015 at 5:50 am | #

        weird most girls with daddy issues become strippers instead of superheros.

        unless that explains the skimpy costumes?

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

          Really, who can say what the difference is between a stripper and a superhero?

          • Doomprix
            Doomprix
            November 1, 2015 at 8:13 am | #

            Strippers get leered at and get money thrown at them,
            Superheros do not get money thrown at them.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            November 1, 2015 at 11:54 am | #

            Heroes get jeered at and get weapons thrown at them.
            Strippers do not get weapons thrown at them.

        • Questionor
          Questionor
          November 1, 2015 at 9:23 am | #

          Stan Lee’s Stripperella
          http://www.imdb.com/video/user/vi3573653785

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            November 1, 2015 at 11:55 am | #

            Well, except for that one!

          • de Combys
            de Combys
            November 1, 2015 at 4:47 pm | #

            Well, that was kind of disturbing.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          November 1, 2015 at 10:49 am | #

          Well that’s not a totally creepy thing to say.

    • Seth
      Seth
      November 1, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

      “Okay, don’t panic. They’re not actual dads. They’re just hyper-dimensionally divided intersections of a monster outside of time and space. That’s all. You can fight that. You have fought that. It’s not dads.”

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      November 1, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

      I am happy that the first comment thread is Indiana Jones references.

      • Chris
        Chris
        November 1, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

        I didn’t notice. But thanks… and now looking at the ones that aren’t Indiana Jones references and back-editing “snakes” back in make THEM all the funnier. (Snake-Girl: I wonder what her super powers are?)

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        November 1, 2015 at 1:17 am | #

        haha Bloomington Indiana Jones

    • Aeron
      Aeron
      November 1, 2015 at 2:47 am | #

      If I take your daughter away, will you die?

      It would be extremely painful.

      You’re a big toe.

      For YOU!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 1, 2015 at 11:48 am | #

      See you tomorrow, Indie-Ana Chronistic!

  2. Tom
    Tom
    November 1, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    In defense of dads, most of us aren’t the kidnapping-their-own-kids-at-gunpoint type.

    Dad jokes and bad puns are more our caliber.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      maybe she wants a gun-wielding mom for a change for once?

      • Mr. Mendo
        Mr. Mendo
        November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

        Like Ma Barker? I have a new head-canon!

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          November 1, 2015 at 12:52 am | #

          or Cybersix.

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            November 1, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

            yikes, what if Toedad took off his camo and underneath was TOEMOM

            *remembers need to finish Adrian Seidelman cosplay*

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              November 1, 2015 at 1:53 am | #

              *remembers need to finish Adrian Seidelman cosplay*

              … Suddenly, I love you. >_>

              • aradica
                aradica
                November 1, 2015 at 8:33 pm | #

                How have I gone my whole life not knowing that there is an anime character with my last name?

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  November 2, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

                  Seidelman’s not really anime tho? (Argentinian)

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersix

                • Kamino Neko
                  Kamino Neko
                  November 2, 2015 at 5:01 am | #

                  Well, the comic’s Argentinian. The cartoon is Canadian/Japanese.

      • thomas wrobel
        thomas wrobel
        November 1, 2015 at 8:23 am | #

        Sarah Conner?

    • Bob99938
      Bob99938
      November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      22 appears to be his caliber

      • Bob
        Bob
        November 1, 2015 at 10:36 am | #

        I guess you could say he is a low caliber dad,

    • Xerxes93
      Xerxes93
      November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      “Not ALL dads!”

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        Beat me to it. I was even gonna add a hashtag.

    • Tenchan
      Tenchan
      November 1, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      You mean like Father Brain?

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        November 1, 2015 at 1:48 am | #

        Best troll boss ever.

      • de Combys
        de Combys
        November 1, 2015 at 4:50 pm | #

        Hahahhaaha wuuut

    • unrachel
      unrachel
      November 1, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

      bad puns, you say?

      well, looks like they’re finally going… toe-to-toe

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 1, 2015 at 5:12 am | #

        It looks like the toe is on the other foot now!

      • Jules
        Jules
        November 1, 2015 at 5:29 am | #

        Nailed it.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      November 1, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

      I think that’s part of her frustration. “Why do the rotten ones keep turning up? This is statistocally improbable!”

    • Havtorn
      Havtorn
      November 1, 2015 at 12:03 pm | #

      #NotAllDads ? 🙂

    • leadsynth
      leadsynth
      November 1, 2015 at 5:43 pm | #

      I’d really like to see Amazi-Girl take on Ethan’s mom, Naomi.

  3. Joshua503
    Joshua503
    November 1, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    YES AMAZIGIRL
    STRIKE HIM DOWN WITH ALL OF YOUR HATRED

    • Seerow
      Seerow
      November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      SHE WILL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE

      • Someone
        Someone
        November 1, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

        I THINK YOU HAVE THAT BACKWARDS

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        November 1, 2015 at 5:36 am | #

        Wrong Harrison Ford movie.

        • Doomprix
          Doomprix
          November 1, 2015 at 8:14 am | #

          Or maybe wrong harrison ford, as they were seeing an alternate harrison ford.

  4. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    So, if she’s in a plane, and there’s a dad in it, will she freak out, Indiana Jones style?

    • saki
      saki
      November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Okay but what if like half the passengers are dads. “Dads On A Plane”. *shudders*

      • Silvester Crow
        Silvester Crow
        November 1, 2015 at 8:43 am | #

        “I have had it with these motherfucking dads on this motherfucking plane!”

        She then proceeds to punch all of the dads.

        • Dorje Sylas
          Dorje Sylas
          November 1, 2015 at 9:46 pm | #

          Well one would hope they’re fucking mothers, otherwise that could get very awkward when private investigators get involved.

    • electromagneticDestroyosaur
      electromagneticDestroyosaur
      November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Are we getting Samuel L. Jackson in for this spin-off, Dads on a Plane?

      • Bob99938
        Bob99938
        November 1, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

        I am tired of all these mother loving dads on this plane

        It actually works with the whole sense thing

        • Mr. Mendo
          Mr. Mendo
          November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

          But how good are dads at fighting monkeys on Monday-to-Friday planes? Inquiring Mendos want to know!

        • Andrusi
          Andrusi
          November 1, 2015 at 9:02 am | #

          I guess the majority of dads have probably fucked mothers at some point.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        November 1, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

        It better have the ridiculously hilarious bad censors or no dice.

      • Rycan
        Rycan
        November 1, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

        Is he a dad?

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          November 1, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

          I think so. If not, his reading of Go the Fuck to Sleep is enough to warrant honorary Dadhood.

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            November 1, 2015 at 12:40 pm | #

            He’s said that he read that to his daughter.

            “Go the fuck to sleep, Daddy?”
            “Go the fuck to sleep, sweetie.”

    • asnow mous e
      asnow mous e
      November 1, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Dads on a Plane

    • asnow mous e
      asnow mous e
      November 1, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      Dammit, everybody realized that Indy’s fear on a plane would be Snakes on a Plane

      • asnow mous e
        asnow mous e
        November 1, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

        Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ, as they say

      • OtakuPatriot
        OtakuPatriot
        November 1, 2015 at 9:30 am | #

        Speaking of which: https://goo.gl/SqIlii

  5. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    just be glad she didn’t have a blue shell

  6. Nick Piers
    Nick Piers
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    She really got the caltrop on him!

    • Poppa Boo
      Poppa Boo
      November 1, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      nod

  7. TheOthin
    TheOthin
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Holy shit Amber that is incredibly dangerous but it does explain what she was doing on the last page.

    • Poppa Boo
      Poppa Boo
      November 1, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      I still don’t know the fucking purpose of the rope. She already had the suction cup thing, literally the only thing the rope does is prevent Becky from getting out of her door in the event of an accident.

      Literally everyone in the arc except for Dina forgot their brains.

      • Luxlucis
        Luxlucis
        November 1, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

        Isn’t that the rope from the hook that she used to ride the car with the skateboard?

      • Rycan
        Rycan
        November 1, 2015 at 1:13 am | #

        Too bad the rope doesn’t prevent exit via windshield. And Amazi-Girl should know that windshields hurt.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          November 1, 2015 at 5:17 am | #

          Becky buckled up when she first noticed Amazi-Girl in the mirror. That should keep her in the car if when they crash into something.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        November 1, 2015 at 2:36 am | #

        You need two stabilisation points or you spin around like a stick on a hinge. The rope is Amber’s second stabilisation point.

        • Chubsius
          Chubsius
          November 1, 2015 at 6:52 am | #

          Good point. With just the suction cup, her arm would probably be wrenched from it’s socket by now.

          Also, it occurrs to me that Becky should not be exiting the car anyways until it has slowed to a near stop, at which point Amazi-Girl can just let go of the rope.

      • Strangeshapes
        Strangeshapes
        November 1, 2015 at 5:45 am | #

        wait, Dina? The girl who weighs 90 pounds soaking wet and jumped on a gun-toting mammoth who had obviously had a psychotic break? Im not sure ANYONE so far has had their thinking caps on today. Maybe Danny, I’m not sure what he’s up to today.

      • motorfirebox
        motorfirebox
        November 1, 2015 at 7:34 am | #

        Well, the original purpose of the rope was to let her get onto the car. The current purpose of the rope is to help her maneuver, I think. It anchors her in place better than grabbing, I dunno, the windshield wipers or something.

        • Dr. T
          Dr. T
          November 1, 2015 at 1:18 pm | #

          It also currently keeps the passenger door of Toedad’s shitty car from flying open and chucking out Becky during this spinout.

  8. saki
    saki
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Amazi-girl really -is- prepared for anything. *face of awe*

    • saki
      saki
      November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Also holy shit I hope that bullet he fired lands in like a tree or some grass or something.

    • Luxlucis
      Luxlucis
      November 1, 2015 at 1:03 am | #

      I love your Mark avatar!

      • saki
        saki
        November 1, 2015 at 12:07 pm | #

        Eheh. ^^ Chibi Mark is the cutest.

    • zoomer296
      zoomer296
      November 2, 2015 at 7:43 am | #

      I always knew she had balls of steel.

  9. anna
    anna
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Maybe it’s just the angle, but it sure does look like she’s about to break his back.

    With her CROTCH.

    Go get ‘im, Amber.

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      November 1, 2015 at 5:54 am | #

      Somewhere on campus, Mike heads for his bunk.

  10. Xerxes93
    Xerxes93
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    ah, so that’s what Amazi-Girl meant by “Hang tight”

  11. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    November 1, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Whoa, where does AmaziGirl buy this stuff?

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      Karionus
      November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      What, they don’t have a Vigilantes-R-Us where you live?

      • Smiling Cat
        Smiling Cat
        November 1, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

        My caltrop guy delivers through third parties. He prefers not having an identifiable location.

        • Dellaran
          Dellaran
          November 1, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

          Well, he has a point.

          Lots of them, in fact.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            November 1, 2015 at 12:02 pm | #

            +1

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 1, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

        Bah, that place is a total rip-off. CapeCo has all the best deals, with Bruce’s Club being a close second.

        • Smiling Cat
          Smiling Cat
          November 1, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

          Sure, drive the small dead-mom-and-pop shops out of business, real nice.

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            November 1, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

            … Here, have an internet.

          • Drakey
            Drakey
            November 1, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

            In fact, take two.

          • Knightsky
            Knightsky
            November 1, 2015 at 8:12 am | #

            Make it three.

          • Bob
            Bob
            November 1, 2015 at 10:40 am | #

            of course 50 percent of those internets are porn
            so you now have 1.5 internets of porn

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            November 1, 2015 at 2:49 pm | #

            Four.

      • CptNerd
        CptNerd
        November 1, 2015 at 1:42 pm | #

        Didn’t I read about something like this on Tv’Trops?

    • Smiling Cat
      Smiling Cat
      November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      “where does she get those wonderful toys?”

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZrbW9UT1vE

        Or you can use tubing to make them work really fast as demonstrated this season.

      • Cas
        Cas
        November 1, 2015 at 1:05 am | #

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA5II5AlO7w

    • Viktoria
      Viktoria
      November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      Good question. Especially since a traditional caltrop(4-spikes in the shape of a pyramid) could be made with stuff you buy at Home Depot. Amber is going overboard for this, as you’d expect.

      • Smiling Cat
        Smiling Cat
        November 1, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        bouncy balls and half inch brad nails, hit the whole thing with gray spray-paint to make it look not half-assed.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      The Internet. Looooottt of stuff on that Internet…

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      November 1, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      <Timmy Turner>Internet?</Timmy Turner>

      • CaptainBatson
        CaptainBatson
        November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

        Inheritance?

        • SUGauthor
          SUGauthor
          November 1, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

          She inherited the internet.

        • Rycan
          Rycan
          November 1, 2015 at 1:15 am | #

          Her father’s not dead in this universe.

          • podian
            podian
            November 1, 2015 at 5:29 am | #

            …sadly.

    • Robbzilla
      Robbzilla
      November 1, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

      Amazon. No, seriously!

      http://www.amazon.com/Set-of-10-Caltrops-Tashibishi/dp/B001785YZ0

    • Lia47
      Lia47
      November 1, 2015 at 2:41 am | #

      Walmart

    • Siyajkak
      Siyajkak
      November 1, 2015 at 4:12 am | #

      A red state like Indiana? You just get ’em at Walmart.

      Only way to stop a bad guy with caltrops is a good guy with caltrops.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 4:58 am | #

      Of course, all the top-tier players buy from bespoke providers.

      There’s this little Hungarian guy in East Gotham who supplies all the Bats and most of the Top League Rogues. Friday pick-up hour can get… odd, what with Robin, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Query and a dozen other Sidekicks all there to pick up their respective bosses’ new toys! Ever listened to Batgirl and Harley Quinn awkwardly discussing their favourite boy-bands while waiting for their money transfer to be verified?

      Anyway, Amber is nowhere near that sort of power player so she has to make do with stuff from “Huntin’ Shootin’ ‘n’ Fishin’ On-line”, the ‘Net’s greatest paranoid hiker supply portal.

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        November 1, 2015 at 10:24 am | #

        *hands you a couple of internets*

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        November 1, 2015 at 12:05 pm | #

        Please. Batman makes his own. BECAUSE HE’S BATMAN.

  12. Tacos
    Tacos
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Why’s it always dads you say? Iunno, maybe for the same reason that it’s always snakes.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      And that that the rum is always gone.

      Also, femurs

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 1, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

      Snake dads are the worst.

      • Betty Anne
        Betty Anne
        November 1, 2015 at 11:23 am | #

        Snake dads who drank all the rum are arguably worse, because they blame it on the alcohol in the morning. :/

  13. Nick Piers
    Nick Piers
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Also, show of hands. Who read that in an Indiana Jones “I hate snakes” kind of way?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      November 1, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

      I heard it as Samuel Jackson.

    • Chaucer59
      Chaucer59
      November 1, 2015 at 1:24 am | #

      Yeah, definitely Indy.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        November 1, 2015 at 12:06 pm | #

        Same here.

  14. Kathleen
    Kathleen
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Most satisfying page to date.

  15. Lordikaroz91
    Lordikaroz91
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh my god she is really awesome I don’t even expect that.

  16. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    *plays Jan & Dean’s “Dead Man’s Curve” on the car stereo*

  17. Gordon
    Gordon
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    You gotta give that red car lady credit. She’s still keeping up with her destroyed windshield.

    • Mollyscribbles
      Mollyscribbles
      November 1, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      She’s having her moment. Most people don’t even get a chance to be a side character in an action movie.

    • Durandal_1707
      Durandal_1707
      November 1, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

      Unfortunately, if you look where the red car’s headed, it looks like it’s seconds away from T-boning right into Toedad’s car’s driver’s-side seat, which is where Becky probably is if she’s grabbed the wheel to try to stabilize the car.

      • Boojum
        Boojum
        November 1, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

        True, but Toedad’s car looks like it should be starting a roll right about now, given that he’s been travelling at high speed this entire time, and now with the flat and the swerve to the side. . .

        It won’t, though, because then Monday we’d have Amazi-Goo and Toestain.

        • Rycan
          Rycan
          November 1, 2015 at 1:17 am | #

          Toestain sounds like a nasty fungal infection.

      • Boxilar
        Boxilar
        November 1, 2015 at 12:51 am | #

        If Red Car Lady is on the ball, she’ll be able to brake in time. Modern ABS is a wonderful thing. What I’m worried about is the Toemobile is in a spin with a flat tire. It wouldn’t take much for it to start rolling.

  18. Snugglebutts
    Snugglebutts
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Maybe now he’ll get pinned between his car and Maggie’s? *crosses fingers*

  19. Jupiterror
    Jupiterror
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    at least there’s no truck this time

  20. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Somewhere, Danny’s pitching a tent and he doesn’t know why.

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Somewhere, Batman is pitching a tent too.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        He’s taking Robin camping a few hours from home.

        You know, at the other end of the Wayne Manor yard.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

        Famous joke. Batman and Superman go camping. In the middle of the night Batman wakes up and nudges Superman.

        Batman: “Look up. What do you see, and what does it mean to you?”

        Superman: “I see the stars, beautiful and infinite. Around some of them worlds surely orbit, worlds like this one, perhaps even worlds like the one that birthed me. To me it means endless possibilities. It means hope.”

        Batman: “Clark, you idiot, it means someone has stolen our tent.”

        • Mr Ak
          Mr Ak
          November 1, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

          Polite golf clap.

        • pdp15
          pdp15
          November 1, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

          Normally told as Sherlock Holmes and Watson sharing a tent — as such the joke won a competition (in England of course) as the funniest joke ever told a few years back.

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            November 1, 2015 at 12:51 am | #

            Yeah, it doesn’t work as well with a character who has x-ray vision.

          • DSL
            DSL
            November 1, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

            The winner of the U.S. competition involved a New Jersey 911 operator receiving a cellular call from a panicky hunter: “I accidentally shot my hunting buddy and I think he’s dead!”
            “OK, sir, keep calm. It’s important to be sure, though. Is your friend dead?”
            (sound of gunshot), then:
            “OK. Now what?”

            • Strangeshapes
              Strangeshapes
              November 1, 2015 at 5:51 am | #

              I feel so bad that I laughed at that.

            • Guairdean Beatha
              Guairdean Beatha
              November 1, 2015 at 1:52 pm | #

              I thought it was the one about the hunter that accidentally shot his hunting partner and carried him to the hospital. As he carried him in, he asked the doctor “Will he be alright?” The doctor looked at him and said “Probably not, but he’d have had a better chance if you hadn’t field gutted him first.”

          • TheGrammarLegionary
            TheGrammarLegionary
            November 1, 2015 at 2:59 am | #

            Actually, the funniest joke ever told has never been told and remembered.
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            November 2, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

            I heard it with Tonto speaking to the Lone Ranger.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          November 1, 2015 at 12:09 pm | #

          I dunno, I mean, Superman has X-Ray vision, it’s possible that, having just been woken up from a sound sleep, he looked straight through the tent without realizing it. Batman just doesn’t get it.

    • cesium133
      cesium133
      November 1, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      “Why did I decide to go camping out here in the woods, anyway? Oh. Hi, Dina.”

  21. Guairdean Beatha
    Guairdean Beatha
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    She has some seriously cool toys. At least Fundie’s lost the rifle. Now he has to rely on his wits, God help him.

    • randominput
      randominput
      November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Hopefully God passrs on this one

    • Boxilar
      Boxilar
      November 1, 2015 at 12:54 am | #

      Well, his wits and his ridiculously overdeveloped neck muscles. That boy’s got some beef on him.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 1, 2015 at 5:29 am | #

        That won’t help here, though. He’s got a high center of gravity and has to rely on his scrawny little legs to keep him from falling.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          November 1, 2015 at 12:11 pm | #

          AND he’s leaning out of a car window. Seriously top-heavy, and with very little leg to counterbalance. One push, and he’s biting pavement.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 5:14 am | #

      He’ll probably try to fight her hand-to-hand, assuming that he gets out of the car conscious (which, given current events is now even money). He’s large, strong and probably fairly tough but Amber is smaller, more agile and, from what we’ve seen, a trained martial artist in several disciplines. Even with her injuries, she’d be hard for a big, slow moving guy to fight.

      • Commodore Jeep-Eep
        Commodore Jeep-Eep
        November 1, 2015 at 8:42 am | #

        Yeah, but a single mistake on her end would be devastating.

  22. Shea
    Shea
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Why is red car still following so closely? This feels like a very bad idea.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      November 1, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      That’s not the same car. This is oncoming traffic.

      • Jess
        Jess
        November 1, 2015 at 1:03 am | #

        You can see the cracks in the windshield. Also the motion lines on toedad’s car indicate it was recently travelling the same direction as the red car is now.

        Also from a narrative standpoint, if it wasn’t the same car, it would be REALLY confusing for it to be the same color…

    • LuniasM
      LuniasM
      November 1, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

      It’s possible the red car will get into an accident with Toedad’s now that he’s spinning out. Just imagine the sweet, sweet irony of the person in the hospital being someone who would’ve been a bystander if Amazigirl hadn’t asked for her help.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 2:34 am | #

      Plot convenience not!Maggie will be able to tell the cops everything in delicious detail. Not only does Ross end up with a string of felony charges but the local chief of police gets to make a statement that “There is no such person as Amazi-Girl! If there was, we would find her and arrest her!” Meanwhile, finding this well-intentioned lunatic in a mask before she kills herself or, worse, some innocent, becomes Bloomington PD’s #1 priority.

      Meanwhile, Sal will be tending to Amber’s injuries after she and Joyce found her passed out in the woods and wondering how the hell she gets herself into these messes.

    • Guairdean Beatha
      Guairdean Beatha
      November 1, 2015 at 9:59 am | #

      Cars slow down quickly when they turn sideways. I experienced this first hand close to 30 years ago and it’s still burned into my memory. I was on the highway with four cars in front of me. They tangled and I was suddenly driving through a debris field. One of the cars turned sideways and all I could see was the terrified passenger. I hit the brakes and locked the tires. I couldn’t stop fast enough and had just enough time to steer to the left and drive into the ditch. I was driving an old, large, Dodge pickup. My youngest was in a car seat beside me. She slept through the entire event. The passenger in the car banged her head against the window when the car turned. That was the worst injury, which has always seemed pretty amazing to me. It’ll be interesting to see if the cars tangle, or if Maggie’s (I think it’s only right to call her that) reflexes are quick enough to avoid making a speed bump out of Fundie.

  23. gkheyf
    gkheyf
    November 1, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Why did it have to be dads? I hate dads

  24. Just A. Thinker
    Just A. Thinker
    November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I know Sal is basically batman, but Amazigirl is actually batman.

    • That Damn Rat
      That Damn Rat
      November 1, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      See, I was kind of hoping Sal would be the one to save the day, as the angst it would’ve caused Amber would have been delicious.

      • Daniel
        Daniel
        November 1, 2015 at 1:58 am | #

        Me too, not that Amber needs any more angst, but Sal saving the day would have conflicted with Amber’s very black and white worldview. How can the person who held her best friend hostage and make her feel so helpless actually be a good person?

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 1, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

        You actually assume that the day is already saved? How I envy your faith

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      November 1, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      Huntress was who came to mind when I started thinking about a comic equivalent, but that might be just me.

      • MM
        MM
        November 1, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        I’m thinking Batgirl. The Cassandra Cain version.

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          November 1, 2015 at 9:53 am | #

          Yeah her dad was a real dick too.

          • HMRC4EVR
            HMRC4EVR
            November 1, 2015 at 4:51 pm | #

            Stephanie Brown’s dad was Cluemaster.

            The only marginal ‘good’ thing he did was help from the Justice League: Antarctica (along with the rest of the Injustice Gang: Major Disaster, Big Sur, Multiple Man, Clock King, along with The Scarlet Skier and G’Nort-and no, I’m not making this up. It happened.)

            No real Contest of the Dads prize winner there either.

    • Lasenna
      Lasenna
      November 1, 2015 at 11:49 am | #

      I was going to make that same comment. Amazi-Girl is ACTUALLY a female Batman. Aside from no supernatural powers, her jumpsuit is basically the same thing as Batman’s utility belt from the spoofy 80s series. She really IS prepared for ANYTHING. (How does she afford it all?)

  25. Rodimiss
    Rodimiss
    November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I really hope that Amber gets some help after this, because climbing on top of a car and taking on a maniac with a gun is not even close to — well, Amazi-Girl was never a healthy coping mechanism. But this has reached the point that it’s downright dangerous for Amber.

    • EvolutionistX
      EvolutionistX
      November 1, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      If she succeeds, maybe feeling like she accomplished something really good and was brave in the face of danger will be therapeutic in and of itself. Like “Yeah, I really am badass! That shows my dad was wrong!” and then she can get on with healing.

      • Slyfincleton
        Slyfincleton
        November 1, 2015 at 4:06 am | #

        true, but then you get the spider-man effect, where you start to feel irresponsible/selfish for no longer superheroing.

    • Paul1963
      Paul1963
      November 1, 2015 at 10:10 am | #

      Yeah, but holy shit, she is turning out to be really, really good at this. She could have –should have– been taken down hard two or three times already (getting slung around a corner on a skateboard, boarding at =/-50mph, getting hit by a car, jumping from one moving car to another), and yet she’s still going strong.
      Of course, I figure she’s going to collapse the instant Becky’s safe, but she’s really doing the superhero thing effectively here.
      (I do wonder who’s steering the car, though. Is Ross somehow holding the wheel with his left leg, or has Becky grabbed it? I’m assuming Ross set the cruise control, because pretty much every late-model car has it, but that only means you can take your foot off the gas–it doesn’t steer for you.)

  26. Doulos
    Doulos
    November 1, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    For someone who did not plan to chase a car, her gadgets are awfully specific: Grappling hook, suction cup, and now spikes. Because she’s batman.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      November 1, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Amazi-Girl has practiced to be the best at everything. Even real-life Mario-Kart.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        November 1, 2015 at 12:17 pm | #

        She’s obsessively driven to be the best at everything, by the little Blaine voice in that back of her head.

        “Pssh. Look at that. Couldn’t even stop a moving car. How pathetic.”
        “Pssh. Look at that. Couldn’t even stop a man with a gun. How pathetic.”
        “Pssh. Look at that. Couldn’t even stop a kidnapping. How pathetic.”
        “Pssh. Look at that. Couldn’t even save a kitten from a tree. How pathetic.”

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      November 1, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      Actually, all three are pretty useful in a variety of situations.

    • Just A. Thinker
      Just A. Thinker
      November 1, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      “Amazigirl is prepared for anything. She had amazi-condoms; it makes sense that she has a suction cup and car stoppers.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        November 1, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        -tries very hard to not think about the situation that requires all three of those things-

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          November 1, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

          Admit it. It’d make for an interesting story at least.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          November 1, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

          Danny is into some kinky shit.

        • BenRG
          BenRG
          November 1, 2015 at 2:29 am | #

          Climbing a vertical concrete wall. Ethan once pointed out to Danny that Amber enjoyes being up high, mostly because of her height disadvantage.

          • Andrusi
            Andrusi
            November 1, 2015 at 9:08 am | #

            What concrete walls have you been climbing that require condoms?

        • Commodore Jeep-Eep
          Commodore Jeep-Eep
          November 1, 2015 at 2:12 pm | #

          Simple. She has a microphone on a cord somewhere on her person, but it isn’t waterproofed. Condoms are a tried and true way of doing so on the cheap.

          The suction cup is good for climbing glass surfaces and the caltrops likely entered her arsenal when Sal ran away on the bike.

    • Dorje Sylas
      Dorje Sylas
      November 1, 2015 at 10:10 pm | #

      Aside from the spikes, all the rest are equally useful for climbing buildings (like into and out of her multistory dorm room). Tire shredding spike balls are just standard super hero kit. Why would you not have them?

  27. TimeLoss
    TimeLoss
    November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Amazi-Girl is awesome, that is all

  28. Spencer
    Spencer
    November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Some days you just can’t get rid of a dad.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Alternatively: Becky! Hand me up the Dad-Repellent Amazi-Spray!

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        November 1, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

        Which is basically a mixture of pepper spray and Axe Body Spray.

        • inqntrol
          inqntrol
          November 1, 2015 at 1:43 am | #

          “No! Anything, but not Axe! No”(and that was the last time we saw Ross)

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        November 2, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

        I see that I am not the only one who remembers Adam West in the original ‘Batman’ movie.

  29. Undrave
    Undrave
    November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Amazi-Girl is proving to be increasingly badass and surprisingly competent for a teenager improvising everything. You’d think she’s been training in secret for years!

    Always ready to stick it to asshole dads!

    And Ross…way to be over-posessive like an jerk! I really hope he learns from this and can make up with Becky, once he’s out of jail, seem like it would suck for her to essentially become an orphan. Amber at least got her mom :/ I still don’t think he’s as bad as Blaine quite yet.

    • Idon'tcarenomore
      Idon'tcarenomore
      November 1, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      I hope not because I am a terrible person. I hope Toedad is on way to becoming Toejam.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        November 1, 2015 at 4:07 pm | #

        So does that mean Blaine would change his name to Earl?

    • zoelogical
      zoelogical
      November 1, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

      …honestly i kinda think that her dad was training her to take over his business.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        November 1, 2015 at 4:08 pm | #

        Blaine was training Amber to be a professional dickbag?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 2:28 am | #

      There is some indication that Amber’s encounter with screwed-up teen!Sal was her ‘Crime Alley’ moment. Knowingly or otherwise, Amber has been trained and has been training herself to be Amazi-Girl ever since then.

  30. Poppa Boo
    Poppa Boo
    November 1, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Her right arm should literally be popped out of its shoulder right now.

    Also what direction is this car spinning out, because the fourth panel makes it seem like it’s going counterclockwise, but the fifth one has her acting like she’s being thrown counterclockwise as well. Shouldn’t the momentum have her going the complete opposite direction?

    Why did she tie up Becky’s door? If they get into a wreck how the hell is she supposed to get out in a hurry?

    Why is Amber Amazi-Girl so fucking insane?!

    • bhtooefr
      bhtooefr
      November 1, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      The physics are pretty screwed here, tbh – a right front tire puncture should cause the car to veer right, not left. And, a spin would not be likely unless this were on ice. And, because of that, the car’s direction of travel would change along with it veering, rather than continuing in the lane.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        November 1, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

        It depends on the scrub radius of the car in question. If the geometry is such that the scrub radius is severely negative (like most FWD cars this century) then the car is going to the left if the right front blows out. As a former race driver of this kind of car I see this as plausible.

        • bhtooefr
          bhtooefr
          November 1, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

          Hmm, didn’t think about negative scrub radius doing that, although I had assumed that modern designs weren’t that severely negative, because power steering meant that you could be closer to a zero scrub radius.

      • showler
        showler
        November 1, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

        Is that with or without someone behind the wheel?

        • Maikel
          Maikel
          November 1, 2015 at 6:36 pm | #

          Jesus took the wheel.

      • Kole
        Kole
        November 1, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

        Agreed- and if you threw caltrops /forward/ they’d fly back in your face if you were on a car.

        Not to say that everything must be 100% believable at all times, but ………

        yeah.

        • Mindlink
          Mindlink
          November 1, 2015 at 3:44 am | #

          That depends of how far you throw them, I’m assuming she compensated for the back-track when throwing.

        • Ellen
          Ellen
          November 1, 2015 at 1:22 pm | #

          Actually they wouldn’t, unless the car was accelerating. Before popping a tire, the car is if anything deccelerating (if toedad is off the gas pedal) or moving at a constant speed (if toedad used cruise control).

          I’m assuming the caltrops are made of some dense metal. They won’t meet much wind resistance. So before Amazi-girl throws them, they are already moving at the speed of the car (and of Amazi-girl)… so when she does throw them, this adds *extra* forward momentum that allows them to get ahead of the wheels.

          If you want to see this in action, walk at a constant speed holding a pen beside you and drop the pen while continuing to walk forwards. The pen will hit the floor next to your feet even though your feet have moved forwards from where they were when you dropped it.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            November 1, 2015 at 5:36 pm | #

            I used to do this as a kid riding in the back of a pickup truck.
            Your eyes play tricks on you. Throw a rock off the back and you watch it arc away from you like you’d expect, then hit the ground, reverse direction and bounce back towards you.
            Didn’t really reverse of course, it’s just that when you see it hit the road, your mind switches the frame of reference so rather than see it moving away from you in your frame of reference, it’s now moving towards you in the ground’s frame of reference.

    • That guy
      That guy
      November 1, 2015 at 5:01 am | #

      Yeah, at this point she’s more batman than batman – as one person said a few strips ago when this was less ludicrous, suspension of disbelief only takes you so far.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 1, 2015 at 5:39 pm | #

        Are you kidding? Batman would just swing down on to the hood, blinding Ross with his cape. Not using a suction cup or anything to hold on, but still able to reach through the driver’s window, breaking it if needed and haul Ross out one handed and still somehow bring the car to a halt safely.

        All in a page one opener before getting a call to go fight the real bad guy.

  31. PlainMarie
    PlainMarie
    November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Nice Indiana Jones reference!

  32. Jon P
    Jon P
    November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Are you trying to get everyone killed, Amber? Becky and innocent-but-ridiculous tailgater included? Because it’s hard to tell what you’d do differently if you were.

    • pjeseb
      pjeseb
      November 1, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

      …not kick the gun out of Ross’s hands?

  33. Just A. Thinker
    Just A. Thinker
    November 1, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Amber isn’t listed as an option in the poll.

    • pjeseb
      pjeseb
      November 1, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      Neither are Joyce or . I think (read:hope) that all of the people not in the poll are those who are staying in the comic no matter what.

      • pjeseb
        pjeseb
        November 1, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

        Dorothy. Joyce or Dorothy dammit.

    • Norah
      Norah
      November 1, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

      The poll idoesnt include people who up until recently aren’t seen as much. Joyce, Walky, Dorothy and Billie aren’t on it either.

    • Jason
      Jason
      November 1, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

      Neither is Joyce, Walky, Dorothy, or Billie.
      They’re all gonna die and they’re not even there!
      That bullet’s gonna fall and strike all 4 of them.

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      November 1, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      The characters with the top five most appearances don’t pop up on the poll by virtue of being the most major characters and thus of course we will see more of them.

  34. mat
    mat
    November 1, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    I think someone is going to come out of this broken and bruised and that’s besides Ross going to jail (illegal discharge of a firearm, assault, attempted assault, reckless driving, attempted murder in the second degree, endangering the public).

    • Mr Ak
      Mr Ak
      November 1, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      Kidnapping too. Seems a big one.

    • John
      John
      November 1, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

      You left kidnapping off the list.

      And I’m not sure about Indiana, but in the jurisdictions I’m familiar with, if anyone dies for whatever reason as the result of butthole dad’s commission of a felony (take your pick…), it’s felony murder, which is equivalent to first degree murder.

      • Mr Ak
        Mr Ak
        November 1, 2015 at 9:57 am | #

        Simultaneous kidnapping high five!

      • OtakuPatriot
        OtakuPatriot
        November 1, 2015 at 11:00 am | #

        Actually I believe the charge would be considered “aggravated kidnapping,” which includes things like kidnapping at gunpoint (“with a deadly weapon”). I looked this up a few pages ago, and in many states the charge includes life in prison, while in Indiana I believe it carries up to 30 years with a minimum of 6 years.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 1, 2015 at 12:25 pm | #

      But, vigilantes rarely press charges or offer evidence or witness testimony. Amazi-Girl has done some things that, to certain eyes, could be construed as felonies, as well. She avoids cops more thoroughly than most criminals.

      • Maikel
        Maikel
        November 1, 2015 at 6:29 pm | #

        Pressing charges is for civil infractions, where the plaintiff is wronged, and the court awards damages if they prove their case. Here we are talking about criminal charges, In that situation the county prosecutor brings the charges and has to prove to a judge that Ross violated criminal statutes (kidnapping, etc.) Given the discharge of a gun on a campus, and this car chase, terrorism charges would not be far off the mark. This is going to get the media’s attention, and no prosecutor would avoid bringing charges against Ross with this kind of exposure. The most likely issue the prosecutor would face is a (potentially) uncooperative witness in Becky, but the lady in the red car seems like she’d testify, which keeps Amazi-girl out of having to be a witness in order to put him away; Dina would likely testify to Ross’ initial kidnapping attempt and battery.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        November 2, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

        She will present him, suitably trussed up, with a sign reading “Courtesy of your Friendly Neighborhood Amazi-Girl”.

  35. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    November 1, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Sometimes it’s The Whiteboard Dindong Bandit.

    • John
      John
      November 1, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit is on her way for a team-up.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        November 1, 2015 at 4:11 pm | #

        At least it’s not Bodegas Bandit. He’s just the worse.

  36. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    November 1, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Caltrops. Suction cup. She’s outfitted nicely!

    (I mean that in a double entendre way, too!) 😉

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 1, 2015 at 12:29 pm | #

      Amazi-Girl is always prepared. For ANYTHING.

      Also, I imagine vigilantes would be best off carrying general-purpose equipment, that could be used in multiple ways. That suction-cup thingy, for example – good for climbing buildings as well as riding speeding cars. Or, to provide a convenient anchor point. For rope. That might be tied to someone… i’ll be in my bunk

  37. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    November 1, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    This has been a lot of motion lines.

  38. Professor Fate
    Professor Fate
    November 1, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Amazi-Girl carries her own stop sticks, awesome. Amber’s really doing a superhero number on Ross and she’s about to kick him in his toe face. If she can get out of this one with her identity not revealed it’ll be a small miracle.

  39. David Alexander McDonald
    David Alexander McDonald
    November 1, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Well, they were going to throw the book at Toedad, but by this point he’s getting a set of encylopedias by air drop.

    Sadly, Amber may be getting a couple of appendices and indexes chucked her way for this business.

  40. PaulS
    PaulS
    November 1, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Some Dad’s gonna get they ass kicked…
    Some Dad’s gonna get they wig split…

    • Reepunzel
      Reepunzel
      November 1, 2015 at 5:18 pm | #

      Some Dad’s make me lose my mind
      Up in here, up in here
      Some Dad’s make me go all out
      Up in here, up in here

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      November 1, 2015 at 11:57 pm | #

      Beat him up! Beat him up!
      Break his neck! Break his neck!

      Beat him up! Beat him up!
      Break his neck! Break his neck!

  41. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Becky, take the wheel!

  42. MelanieWaffle
    MelanieWaffle
    November 1, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Amber looks so epic in that first panel. Please make a print we can buy.

  43. mister gray
    mister gray
    November 1, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    amazigirl, second best next to batman cuz reading this comic strip all I’m thinking is batman epicness!

    • Kyle Voltti
      Kyle Voltti
      November 1, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

      her badass level…. it’s over 9000
      How badass is she?

      This badass
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeUMCgZdEyU

  44. lumen
    lumen
    November 1, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    ggwp

  45. showler
    showler
    November 1, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    I kinda feel like she should have kicked the gun before he fired.

  46. MM
    MM
    November 1, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    Boy, I hope that gun doesn’t come crashing through the other lady’s windshield…

  47. lejwocky
    lejwocky
    November 1, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

    #notalldads

    • fogel
      fogel
      November 1, 2015 at 8:01 am | #

      Really? Why hasn’t the media told us?

  48. pjeseb
    pjeseb
    November 1, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    So, good news: Ross has lost the gun.

    Bad news: Car is spinning.

    • chefhoag
      chefhoag
      November 1, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

      Note: AG has a grip on the suction cup AND note the rope wrapped around her other arm. She’s a hell of a lot more stable than Ross is.

      PREDICTION: Ross is about to be ejected centrifugally. Becky will not be, because seatbelt. If the car flips, though, Becky MAY be okay. AG…not so much.

      • Durandal_1707
        Durandal_1707
        November 1, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

        The car’s about to get T-boned by the red car, which really does not look good for Becky, especially if she’s moved over to the driver’s side to try to grab the wheel.

        • Ruhrow
          Ruhrow
          November 1, 2015 at 1:33 am | #

          This keeps coming up…why on earth would you need to move over to grab the wheel? In an emergency type situation, with the driver’s seat taken up by ToeDad’s legs, I’d imagine anyone would be far more likely to simply reach over than to unbuckle their seatbelt (during crazy shenanigans), climb over the center console, sit on ToeDad’s feet/squeeze real close to his legs/groin, and sit in front of the wheel. You only need to move over if you also plan to handle the gas/brakes as well. In a sedan like that, though, the passenger has access to the wheel, the shifter, and probably the E-brake, all without leaving the (relative) safety of their own harness.

          In other news, AmaziGirl is doing an incredible job of managing not to kill anyone (yet) despite taking actions that make that outcome 85 bajillion times more likely. She should probably be arrested at this point.

  49. TOD
    TOD
    November 1, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

    I am very concerned for the safety of the other road users here.

  50. Swoop
    Swoop
    November 1, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

    I have never been so tense ever

  51. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    November 1, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

    How is she such a fucking badass?

    • Swoop
      Swoop
      November 1, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      Rage. Jedi are liars, it makes the perfect warrior.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        November 1, 2015 at 8:26 am | #

        Point of view and all that. Rage is useful, but it can be turned against you.

        • HMRC4EVR
          HMRC4EVR
          November 1, 2015 at 4:57 pm | #

          Look at the Red Lanterns. The Red Ring of Rage lets them tap into that power, but it takes over from your heart and turns your blood into a napalm-like substance. Pretty damm powerful weapon, but f you lose the ring, you die.

  52. Shiro
    Shiro
    November 1, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    WOO! The gun is down. I’m choosing to focus on the positives.

    Also, the alt text is perfect.

  53. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    November 1, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    The battle continues!

    This situation does hit awfully close to home for Amber.

    I’m impressed that she managed to get the gun away from Toedad — for the time being anyway. I really hope he doesn’t have any bullets left.

    Amber’s on a powerful adrenaline rush for now, which makes it difficult to gauge what her physical condition is right now. She did just get hit by a car.

    • John
      John
      November 1, 2015 at 8:49 pm | #

      He probably does have more bullets. He reloaded after firing at the fountain, which means he was carrying at least one extra round. If he was carrying one, he’s probably carrying more.

      However, they’re not so useful now that he’s reduced to having to throw them at Amazi-Girl.

  54. Guairdean Beatha
    Guairdean Beatha
    November 1, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    Has anyone identified the cars? Fundie’s car is sliding sideways and appears stable. So far.

  55. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    November 1, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    Remember, kids, don’t bring a gun to an Amazi-girl fight.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 1, 2015 at 12:33 pm | #

      You bring a SAL to an Amazi-Girl fight.

  56. les-be-friends dinosaurs
    les-be-friends dinosaurs
    November 1, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

    Without his gun he is just a big, italian stereotype looking man that Amazi-girl can tottally kick the shit out of

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      November 1, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

      Wait where are we getting the Italian stereotype from?

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        November 1, 2015 at 1:53 am | #

        Yeah, he doesn’t wear any plumber suit.

    • Boxilar
      Boxilar
      November 1, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

      .That’s still a big strong sunuvabiscuit. His forearms are the size of Amber’s thighs. Not that raw strength translates to fighting ability, but it is a factor. It can be a deciding factor if they have comparable skill.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        November 1, 2015 at 8:27 am | #

        I was going to express doubt, but he did remove Dina pretty handily…

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 1, 2015 at 9:14 am | #

        If they have comparible skill? You’re joking, right?

  57. Dash Jovis
    Dash Jovis
    November 1, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

    Wow, someone in the comments section totally called it. I betcha she got them at areadenialweapons.com

    • Gunnerwalker
      Gunnerwalker
      November 1, 2015 at 6:29 pm | #

      Nice Archer reference

  58. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    November 1, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

    For all of Sal’s talk that she’d get them all killed, she’s defusing the situation pretty nicely.

    • That guy
      That guy
      November 1, 2015 at 5:03 am | #

      Yeah, so far nothing even vaguely dangerous has happened.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 1, 2015 at 12:35 pm | #

      Sal’s a bit biased when it comes to Amazi-Girl. Amazi-Girl is a LOT biased when it comes to Sal. Neither would evaluate the other as competent.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 1, 2015 at 5:42 pm | #

        Not so much that she’s biased, but that the only time Sal met Amazi-girl, she attacked for minimal reasons and didn’t actually fare so well.

        From what Sal’s seen, she’s not competent and her judgment isn’t to be trusted either.

    • Commodore Jeep-Eep
      Commodore Jeep-Eep
      November 1, 2015 at 2:21 pm | #

      Give it some time. They ain’t out of the woods yet. A biffo with the toe could turn against her in a hurry if she’s incautious.

  59. Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
    Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
    November 1, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

    I can’t be the only one feeling this, but I hate to say it anyways…

    Nothing that awful is happening like I expected… Good is beating evil almost too efficiently… I guess it seems like the Willis suddenly stopped trying to torture us like he had been threatening to for strip upon incredibly ominous, intensely foreshadowing strip, and my disbelief is losing its suspension a little. Amazi-girl is known to have weaknesses, and as much collective wish-fulfillment it is for all of us that she’s actually able to rise to the occasion with unprecedented badassery, it feels a little tiny bit forced. Not quite right for any of the characters.

    Please don’t shoot me for that. Surely I’m not alone in thinking it?

    • Ben
      Ben
      November 1, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

      Everyone has at least a few moments when they do things that 99% of the time they wouldn’t do, especially when adrenaline gets involved. Lucky for us, Amber, and Becky that this seems to be one of those times for Amazi-girl.

    • EvolutionistX
      EvolutionistX
      November 1, 2015 at 12:48 am | #

      The physics of the whole scene have been absurd ever since Joyce+Sal rode a motorcycle down the stairs; people’s personalities have been wonky ever since Dina attacked Toedad instead of going catatonic.

      But this is a comic strip; if I can tolerate a boneless cat over in Something Positive, I figure I can tolerate a bit of AmaziGirl having titanium bones (and everyone being still not dead.) 🙂

      • Lord Stoneheart
        Lord Stoneheart
        November 1, 2015 at 1:12 am | #

        Why would Dina go catatonic? She’s gotten pretty angry in defense of her friends before. (I think she even referred to it as unleashing the raptor). I mean there’s a difference between snarling at Danny and attack Ross, but Dina being aggressive isn’t necessarily out of character.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          November 1, 2015 at 12:42 pm | #

          In fact, Dina’s aggressive defense of her friends is even explained. She did nothing when Blaine bullied his way into their dorm room, and she’s felt guilty about it ever since. She’s consciously devoted herself to this behavior.

    • SDGlyph
      SDGlyph
      November 1, 2015 at 4:30 am | #

      I’m just enjoying the superhero craziness while it lasts, while waiting nervously for the other shoe to drop.

    • anna
      anna
      November 1, 2015 at 6:24 am | #

      Oh, how cute, YOU THINK IT’S OVER.

    • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      November 1, 2015 at 6:44 am | #

      The only thing about all of this that makes me a bit grumpy is that I normally think of this as a pretty grounded comic. Sure, Amazi-Girl was a crimefighter before, but she was fighting pretty low-level crime like campus bullies. Now all of a sudden she really is full-blown batman-tier. It feels rather dramatically out of place.

      • Lord Stoneheart
        Lord Stoneheart
        November 1, 2015 at 8:17 am | #

        Didn’t Amazi Girl zip line onto a moving truck before?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 1, 2015 at 8:35 am | #

        Well, not really “full-blown batman-tier”. This is a half-page opening scene for Batman, with no injury or risk to bystanders.
        This is definitely a step up for Amazi-girl, but she’s paying for it. Nor is it at all clear it’s all going to work out cleanly.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      November 1, 2015 at 9:58 am | #

      Eh, I feel the same way. At this point I’m rolling with all the cool action sequences, but I’m kind of just tuning out until the interesting stuff happens again. And that’s not how I’m supposed to feel, right? This should be the escalation to the next big dramabomb and instead it’s like we’re in a completely different story arc with a wildly different tone and character actions.

      I mean, it’s not my comic; if people are loving all the action then more power to them, but I think it would have been a lot better if it had stayed more tonally consistent.

      Between the problematic Danny/Ethan stuff and now this weird cartoony interval to what was an incredible compelling and serious story, this is really turning out to be one of the poorer arcs in the series, which is still pretty cool since the only other arc I’ve ever disliked in the entire 5-year run was the Shoes arc.

  60. Jumanji83
    Jumanji83
    November 1, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

    AmaziGirl? More like AwesomeSauceGirl, amirite?

    She. Is. So. Cool!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 1, 2015 at 12:45 pm | #

      ‘Amazi-Sauce’ would be a great hot sauce name.

  61. GVick
    GVick
    November 1, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

    Well, tomorrow is another day and only tomorrow will tell if Amazi-Girl has saved the day. She’s going on adrenaline and, when it wears off, is going to feel all the broken ribs from hitting the windshield. I think there is still room for Joyce and Sal to help this come to an end. (Ross goes to jail, of course).

  62. WikiDreamer
    WikiDreamer
    November 1, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

    WHY?! WHY DID I READ THIS AT FRIGGIN 12:32AM!? (EST) Now I have to wait until MONDAY for the continuation of this most epic arc! Also, sweet kick at the shotty Amazi-Girl…now sweep the Toehead…Clean. Off!

    • merbrat
      merbrat
      November 1, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

      Daylight Savings Time! wait… does that mean we will see it an hour earlier or later? *shakes fist* I’m, so confuzzled.

      • Lord Stoneheart
        Lord Stoneheart
        November 1, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

        Well the US is getting an hour back so for people who don’t have DST ending tomorrow the comic will be an hour later than normal.

        • Mindlink
          Mindlink
          November 1, 2015 at 3:52 am | #

          Hah, why are you so late ? We ended our daylight savings a week ago over here!

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      November 1, 2015 at 8:30 am | #

      Rifle, not a shotgun.

  63. Fneb
    Fneb
    November 1, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

    I hate to be that person, but – how does the rope go from being above/in front of her to being behind her? There’s no way she could have pushed her body in between her arms to achieve that in this situation, certainly not as part of a quick attack or using momentum from the car rotation.

    (Because *thats* the part where my suspension of disbelief breaks down in this awesome storyline…)

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      November 1, 2015 at 6:15 am | #

      I see it as, it’s attached by the grappling hook to the undercarriage on Becky’s side. When she was talking to Becky it was in front of her. Then she throws the caltrops, and the car swerves, spinning around to lash out at Toedad. So now she’s facing him, and the rope is now behind her, still attached on Becky’s side. Willis is actually usually pretty careful with physics.

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        November 1, 2015 at 8:40 am | #

        No, I’m with Fneb on this one. I see how the rope could have gotten under her, after she swerved and flipped, but not how it could get under her *and* inside the arm holding the suction cup… Not unless she threaded her legs and butt over it, which would seem impossible to do as quickly as this is happening.

        • Clif
          Clif
          November 1, 2015 at 9:41 am | #

          I swear. You people seem to be incapable of reading between the panels. Yesterday Amazigirl was talking to Becky. The grapple was in her right hand. The end of the rope trailed loosely down the car. She was not in a position to kick Ross or reach his gun. When the tire went, Ross wasn’t expecting it and accidently fired the gun before he was ready. Amazigirl was expecting it and using the suction device as a pivot let her forward momentum carry the central mass of her body out over the windshield, as is clearly shown in the next to last panel and then back around to where she could kick the gun out of his hands. The grapple is still in the same hand with the rope still around her arm and the end trailing away.

          Where do you see any evidence of flipping? Sheesh!

          • Clif
            Clif
            November 1, 2015 at 10:02 am | #

            She turns while she’s suspended over the windshield to be in position for the kick, but in no sense is this a flip. Also the rope is not attached to the carrage on the underside and never has been.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              November 1, 2015 at 12:26 pm | #

              It is attached to the undercarriage. In yesterday’s strip, you can see the grapple in her hand in panel 3. By panel 5, she’s hooked it to the undercarriage below Becky’s door. You can see one hook part under the car, plus the rope is taut between there and her hand.
              In today’s strip, the rope is still taut between there and her hand in panel 4 and you might be able to see the grapple still, though it’s smaller.

              The only way that move (between today’s panel 4 & 5) works is if she folds up, bringing her knees up between her body and the rope, then kicks out over the rope.

  64. Proxiehunter
    Proxiehunter
    November 1, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

    The only car we saw in the oncoming lane should be past them by now and, especially if the driver of the red car hits her breaks, Toedad’s car should continue the spin into the oncoming traffic lane it’s in the middle of and avoid colliding with any cars we know about. The worry at this point is trees. It’s going to be slowing down from the tires going, and depending on if he had it on cruise control or not from Toedad having his foot off the gas so with Becky’s seat belt and Amazi-girls suction cup and grappling hook the girls should be banged up all to hell but in need of at most casts not caskets.

    Toedad on the other hand . . . hanging out of the window like that I don’t see him surviving a collision with pretty much anything.

  65. C Baker
    C Baker
    November 1, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

    Caltrops? Are those even legal? Or even quasi-legal?

    • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      November 1, 2015 at 6:46 am | #

      I believe they’re generally legal to own, and most likely legal to use on private property. They’re certainly not legal to use on public roads, and best of luck to the people who hit the ones that toe-dad’s car didn’t take out.

  66. Ben
    Ben
    November 1, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

    Huh… Unless the car flips, I think Toedad (given that it looks like his balance is gone and he’s about to either fall to one side or fall /under/ the car) /actually/ will come out of this the worst off as far as pre-police arrival injuries… Nice!

  67. Sarah
    Sarah
    November 1, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

    Gun gone? Check. Car disabled? Check. Police called? Check. Now AwesomeCarDriverLady just needs to pin Tosses car to a tree or something

  68. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    November 1, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

    Damn, Amber you are Amazing.

    Toedad to Toejam, coming up from the looks of it. And red car lady may not be happy she is still so close behind them, as chances are she’s going to run the Hell right over him. IF he falls out of car from AG’s kick.

    It appears that their car has a good chance of rolling, at least up on its side. That would put Amber and Toedad on the upside of it.

    If he doesn’t fall out/off with that kick, he will have a great chance to grab her, and then God help her as he will kill her with his bare hands. Maybe she will continue her swing out of his reach though. I hope.

    Looks like Sal and Joyce are going to miss the whole thing unless they get there in about 2 seconds.

    • Commodore Jeep-Eep
      Commodore Jeep-Eep
      November 1, 2015 at 9:10 am | #

      He’s not incapacitated yet. There’s still plenty of time for things to go to hell again.

  69. LuniasM
    LuniasM
    November 1, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

    I’m just waiting for that cape to do something stupid. You know what they say about capes.

    • Alice Macher
      Alice Macher
      November 1, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

      They get caught in bank revolving doors?

      *ducks*

      • Retrikaethan
        Retrikaethan
        November 1, 2015 at 1:04 am | #

        something something stuck on a rocket

        • Jonathan S.
          Jonathan S.
          November 1, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

          Metaman, express elevator!
          Dyna-Guy, snagged on takeoff!
          Splashdown, sucked into a vortex!

          • Yhelta
            Yhelta
            November 1, 2015 at 1:05 am | #

            NO CAPES!

            • John
              John
              November 1, 2015 at 9:07 pm | #

              I get so sick of people regurgitating that. Capes can be really useful offensive and defensive tools if you know what you’re doing with them – and Amazi-Girl does – (see also: matadors) and all of those problems can be neutralized just by making them tear-away.

        • Solenoid
          Solenoid
          November 1, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

          Sucked through the intake of a jet engine…

  70. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    November 1, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

    Aamzi-girl : you Dads are the snake to my Indiana Jone.

  71. Nono
    Nono
    November 1, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

    I feel almost like this is some kind of weird daydream or dream sequence – between the unquestioning villiany of Ross, Amazi-girl’s comic book-esque chase and fight with Ross, the odd display of physics and people’s reactions in the last few strips…

    It’s just suspending too much sense of belief in an otherwise grounded universe.

    • merbrat
      merbrat
      November 1, 2015 at 1:19 am | #

      Tomorrow, Bob Newhart wakes Suzanne Pleshette up “Emily, I had a dream…wtf?!”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdUWXf8jJk

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      November 1, 2015 at 1:26 am | #

      Don’t worry, in a few more strips Danny will wake up to find Patrick Ewing in his shower.

      • chris73
        chris73
        November 1, 2015 at 10:15 pm | #

        http://mansut.fotomaps.ru/patrick-ewing.php

  72. Gyrick
    Gyrick
    November 1, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

    So… at this point, Toe Dad has fired a rifle in the air twice… is anyone else worried about where those bullets might fall

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 2:20 am | #

      Not really. Big world, small bullets; the chances of them hitting anything significant are statistically insignificant.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 2, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

      Look at it this way.  There are a large number of birds flying overhead too.  When’s the last time one of them shat on you?

  73. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    November 1, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

    Now there’s hoping Red can brake in time ^^;

  74. Antigone
    Antigone
    November 1, 2015 at 12:57 am | #

    Please do not kill Ruth in again…

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      November 1, 2015 at 1:56 am | #

      Hey, it’s not their fault she was taking a walk alongside the highway.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        November 1, 2015 at 8:39 pm | #

        Turns out she’s driving the truck this time.

  75. Retrikaethan
    Retrikaethan
    November 1, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

    huzzah! now it’s only slightly likely that anyone we like will die! toedad might be screwed, though. as for a potential fist fight, amber clearly has way more fighting experience than toedad who clearly, up til this point, has relied on his size to get his way. assuming he’s not killed by the momentum of being flung from the vehicle, dude’s probably gonna get his ass kicked.

  76. AutobotDen
    AutobotDen
    November 1, 2015 at 1:06 am | #

    If ever there was an “Oh, SHIT!” expression, Toedad’s expression in the last panel is it.

  77. kenny
    kenny
    November 1, 2015 at 1:07 am | #

    LIKE A BAWWSSSS!!! thats all i can say right now.

  78. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    November 1, 2015 at 1:09 am | #

    Coming soon: AMAZIGIRL in “Dads on a Plane”

  79. Goldenhand
    Goldenhand
    November 1, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

    “Why does it always have to be dads?”

    Holy Freud Willis, if you were projecting any harder you could open a movie theater.

    • The Pletch
      The Pletch
      November 1, 2015 at 12:35 pm | #

      It’s an Indiana Jones reference from a character who has a pretty well-established history of dealing with a fucking awful father. I think calling this projection is one hell of a reach.

  80. Mandy
    Mandy
    November 1, 2015 at 1:13 am | #

    Oh good, he fired the gun again! That’s just what the situation needed.

  81. Tilly the Hun
    Tilly the Hun
    November 1, 2015 at 1:19 am | #

    First you were all like “whoa”, and we were like “whoa”, and you were like “whoa…”

  82. Coco Pommel
    Coco Pommel
    November 1, 2015 at 1:19 am | #

    If a you drop a… caltrops. And you go away. Enemy is sneaking up on you. AUGH! Hurt their foot! Then you know where they are! Heh heh heh.

    God I love Amber.

  83. masterofthez
    masterofthez
    November 1, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

    Okay. I’ll be honest. I had to reread it to see that Amazi-girl was throwing spike balls, and that she did not suddenly pull out a mac to fight of this person.

  84. Iain
    Iain
    November 1, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

    Oh dear. I really hope the car doesn’t roll while he halfway out of it.

  85. Trolldrool
    Trolldrool
    November 1, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

    Did she just kick his eyebrows off?

  86. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    November 1, 2015 at 1:30 am | #

    Caltrops? I didn’t see that one coming, but I’m still waiting for to pull a Dad repellent or at least a pepper spray . Anyway, there’s a world full of pain coming for Ross in the next strips.

    • Marie
      Marie
      November 1, 2015 at 2:38 am | #

      Hopefully she’ll wait on the bear spray until they’re stopped (and possibly off the car), or she’s likely to get a lot of it too.

    • SDGlyph
      SDGlyph
      November 1, 2015 at 3:16 am | #

      Dad-repellent Amazi-spray?

      • SDGlyph
        SDGlyph
        November 1, 2015 at 3:28 am | #

        Aw, Spencer got there first.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          November 1, 2015 at 10:48 am | #

          Expect a call from my lawyers.

  87. Nym
    Nym
    November 1, 2015 at 1:36 am | #

    I like to imagine this is all happening at ten, twelve mph, and that nothing worse happens than a fender bender and any exposed skin hitting pavement getting left behind.

    (Anecdotal experience: I stupidly thought jumping out of a slow-moving car was a good idea as a teenager; it was not. It is amazing I do not have scars, but obviously it was not a deadly experience. Then again, slipping on ice resulted in broken bones, so I’m sure a lot is down to how one falls.)

  88. Walky_Talky
    Walky_Talky
    November 1, 2015 at 1:36 am | #

    Another Back to the Future reference. I’m just waiting for a frizzy-white-haired dude in a lab coat to be wandering around in the background of one of the panels. Maybe ducking behind a billboard.

  89. ailorn
    ailorn
    November 1, 2015 at 1:41 am | #

    I’m worried that rope around her arm is going to end badly… Please I hope not.

    • shadowcell
      shadowcell
      November 1, 2015 at 3:43 am | #

      not unless Willis wants to draw Amber in a cast or something until halfway through the Malia Obama Administration

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        November 1, 2015 at 9:29 pm | #

        That should’ve had a Beverage Alert tag.

  90. ShadowDJ
    ShadowDJ
    November 1, 2015 at 1:44 am | #

    AND now you are disarmed by a teenage girl 😛 Congrats…

    But seriously, this is NOT gonna end well ;;; Though I can see Amb-I eman Amazi-Girl, likely opening the door so she can get Becky out of there once the car is at a place where getting out would be safer for them ;;;

  91. maxyai
    maxyai
    November 1, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

    Just when you thought he couldn’t get any douchier! New and improved! With realistic rifle action!

  92. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    November 1, 2015 at 1:55 am | #

    I hereby ask my fellow readers to petition Willis to change Amazi-Girl’s name to AMAZI-NINJA-GIRL 😀

    • NinjaNick
      NinjaNick
      November 1, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

      I’m in!

    • Furie
      Furie
      November 1, 2015 at 8:41 am | #

      Hi Amazi-Ninja-Girl, I’m Dad.

  93. Shanunu
    Shanunu
    November 1, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

    HOLY CRAP ROSS ACTUALLY FIRED THE GUN. HE WAS LEGIT GOING TO SHOOT A PERSON. DOES MURDER NOT COUNT AS A SIN ANYMORE ROSS??

    • Rycan
      Rycan
      November 1, 2015 at 1:09 am | #

      I thought is was pretty well established that Christians view that commandment as a suggestion – unless they’re Quaker.

      • Shanunu
        Shanunu
        November 1, 2015 at 2:14 am | #

        I guess I was too in shock that he actually brought a loaded gun to a school full of kids to remember that extremely fundamentalist Christians like himself would turn a blind eye to that. It just seems ridiculous that he’d ignore a commandment and focus on a mistranslated line. But I mean nothing else he’s done up to this point has been rational, either.

        • Vex Godglove
          Vex Godglove
          November 1, 2015 at 6:54 am | #

          In my experience growing up with fundie Christians,they have no problem with killing people they think deserve it. They discuss the possibility enthusiastically.

        • Kathleen
          Kathleen
          November 1, 2015 at 11:53 am | #

          Also a lot of christians believe the old testament doesnt apply to them anymore.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          November 1, 2015 at 4:09 pm | #

          People don’t often actually get their morality out of the Bible (or any holy book). More often they search the text until they find what they were looking for.

          And in the case of the Bible, it’s in there.

    • Yhelta
      Yhelta
      November 1, 2015 at 1:09 am | #

      Since when has it ever been a problem for a religious fundamentalist to kill in the name of their boneheaded beliefs?

      • anna
        anna
        November 1, 2015 at 6:21 am | #

        >Since when has it ever been a problem for a religious fundamentalist human being to kill in the name of their boneheaded beliefs?

        Fixed that for ya.

        • li
          li
          November 1, 2015 at 10:14 am | #

          I mean except this was in response to someone saying a religious extremist should be unwilling to kill. So…. yeah, your edit was not necessary at all.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 1, 2015 at 1:50 am | #

      I know, right. HMMMMM. THAT PERSON MY DAUGHTER’S AGE IS AN INCONVENIENCE TO ME. I SUPPOSE THE BEST THINK I CAN DO IS SHOOT HER DEAD WITH A GUN. I’M CLEARLY A VERY, VERY GOOD PERSON.

      Fudge you Ross. Fudge you all the way to Heck, not that you need any help to get there.

    • David
      David
      November 1, 2015 at 3:17 am | #

      Root out the evil amidst yourself, sugar plums.

  94. a person
    a person
    November 1, 2015 at 1:06 am | #

    maybe we’re getting an origin story for an amazi-sidekick…

  95. Rycan
    Rycan
    November 1, 2015 at 1:08 am | #

    “Once, just once, let it be moms”

    *Enter Linda Walkerton*

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      November 1, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

      http://walkypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Linda_Walkerton
      Check out the first line in the DOA section…

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      November 1, 2015 at 8:09 am | #

      You made me snort.

      I can see the conversation after this craziness is over.

      Amazi-girl: it’s always dads.
      Sal: let me introduce you to my mother.

  96. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 1, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

    Shooting guns at superheroes now… sure, perfect plan. What could possibly go wrong?

    YOU GO AMAZIE-GIRL!!!!!!!!!

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      November 1, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

      While Ross goes NUTS, oh wait he did that already.

  97. Synnerman
    Synnerman
    November 1, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

    Now I have to wonder who taught Amazi-Girl how to be so damn awesome.

    It has to be the Willis-verse version of Stick.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 2:17 am | #

      Actually, it could quite literally be Stick as well as a host of other teachers in the comics multiverse. Remember: Ethan told Danny that Amber is a total comic-book superhero nerd!

  98. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    November 1, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

    Attempted and failed murder? Tsk, tsk. Ross, you’re sooooooo</b? going to Hell (and the prison cell). Go, Amazi-Girl!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 1, 2015 at 1:00 pm | #

      ‘Sokay, Nick, we all have bad HTML days.

  99. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    November 1, 2015 at 1:28 am | #

    Whatever happens now, at least the gun’s out of the picture. Now, where the hell is Dina?

  100. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    November 1, 2015 at 1:33 am | #

    Sorry for the prison-environment thing. My brain was using less than 70 IQ at the moment.

  101. Gizen
    Gizen
    November 1, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

    Watching Amazi-Girl be completely super badass like this is so great that it makes me completely dread what’ll happen when the other shoe drops and Sal’s prediction of her making everything worse comes to fruition.

    Considering the car seems to have swerved in front of the red car and is now likely slowing down or stopping, I fear we may be in for a potential collision.

    • hythrain
      hythrain
      November 1, 2015 at 2:08 am | #

      Given the fact that the driver in the red car is no doubt watching this, she’s likely braking this very moment. We’ll see how it goes, though.

  102. Carms
    Carms
    November 1, 2015 at 1:56 am | #

    Dat alt text tho.

    Amazi-girl has MOVES!!

  103. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 1, 2015 at 2:15 am | #

    Oh! Hey! I called it! Three or four days ago, I said that Amazi-Girl would use spiked jacks to blow out the car’s tyres and immobilise it! Go me!

    Go Amazi-Girl too! What’s the bet that she knew that Ross was there from the moment he stuck his head out of the window? It should be interesting to see if he’s still so tough without his rat-killer rifle and whether he has the confidence to take on someone who has demonstrated mad physical skills hand-to-hand!

    By the way, I’d say the answer is ‘yes’ and that Amber is going to be massaging his face with her knuckles for a while.

    • Very Good Karma
      Very Good Karma
      November 1, 2015 at 2:18 am | #

      Caltrops. Learn the word.

      • m2iCodeJockey
        m2iCodeJockey
        November 1, 2015 at 2:58 am | #

        XD!!! “Learn the word?!!”
        Who has to say that more than once in a decade?!!

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          November 1, 2015 at 6:31 am | #

          I tend to use it multiple times a week.

          • m2iCodeJockey
            m2iCodeJockey
            November 1, 2015 at 7:57 am | #

            “I will pepper your driveway with caltrops because [losing at video game]” does not count…

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          November 2, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

          Gamers, military historians, adventure writers and readers…

    • Jestam
      Jestam
      November 1, 2015 at 6:37 pm | #

      That would be interesting but not likely, since he’s obviously still strong and loopy; he could probably toss her around like Dina. Also hard to imagine breaking her own conditioning against attacking him.

  104. Lia47
    Lia47
    November 1, 2015 at 2:28 am | #

    Mutha

    Fuckin

    Radical

    (This comment would have happened 2 hours 28 minutes earlier if I had not been at work; sadly, this may be the new norm)

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      November 1, 2015 at 4:05 pm | #

      Work? My condolences!

  105. Marie
    Marie
    November 1, 2015 at 2:34 am | #

    Ross’ line reads to me like “GET YOUR OWN DAUGHTER” and I like it.

  106. Lia47
    Lia47
    November 1, 2015 at 2:37 am | #

    Can I just say how much I love the fact that amazi-girl is an actual superhero rather than just a messed up person who fails at the first sign of trouble? I mean, she is just a messed up person, but she SUCCEEDS like a superhero.And a much more entertaining and interesting one than pretty much any going on in Actual Comic Books right now. And the fact that she fits so well into a very non-superheroic world makes it even better, because so few comics have even attempted to make super heroes genuinely believable, and none have done as well as this i think

  107. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 1, 2015 at 2:46 am | #

    Am I the only one who read’s Ross’s declaration in today’s strip like a spoiled brat of a child screeching: “My toy! MIIINNNE!“? This guy simply doesn’t see Becky as ‘people’. He probably never has; her mum neither!

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 1, 2015 at 3:06 am | #

      More like Gollum — “My precioussss…….”

    • DaveM
      DaveM
      November 1, 2015 at 5:21 am | #

      Yep, he’s not even trying to justify his actions as “saving his daughter” anymore. This is just about regaining control of an object that is no longer behaving as he feels it should.

    • anna
      anna
      November 1, 2015 at 6:18 am | #

      Women are for “standing by their man” and making babies for him. After they’ve been properly married off, that is.

      This is Ross’s world. And I really have to wonder at the age of the people reading this strip, because until very very recently this was every woman’s reality, and yet, stunningly, few of you seem at all aware of that.

      • Norah
        Norah
        November 1, 2015 at 9:41 am | #

        I’m 58. Yes, I remember when this was what women were supposed to do. But even then most men didn’t react like Ross when crossed.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        November 1, 2015 at 4:04 pm | #

        Not every woman’s. My grandmother started her own clothing factory and built up a successful business that employed two dozen people during the Great Depression, my mother was a (locally) prominent activist and community organiser in the Sixties and Seventies, and served over twenty years in elected office as a councillor and deputy mayor.

        They were exceptions, yes. They probably couldn’t have done it if my father and grandfather had not been decent men and supportive of their ambitions — also yes. But there were exceptions and there are exceptions, and one of the problems that the exceptions have to struggle with is erasure by generalisations like “every woman’s reality“.

  108. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    November 1, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

    Why is she throwing a ball-shaped item instead of caltrops?  They are sure to work, and a lot cheaper to make.

    • Phyrexian Rogue
      Phyrexian Rogue
      November 1, 2015 at 5:34 am | #

      More utility (as they could also roll or trip people) maybe. (Not an expert on caltrops).

      Also, having them ball-shaped makes them look like Spike’s attacks from Mario, that’s got to have some value to gamers like her.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      November 2, 2015 at 12:00 am | #

      Real-world caltrops like those are generally made to contain something to make things even more unpleasant when they’re trod on/ridden over.

  109. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    November 1, 2015 at 3:08 am | #

    Go, AMAZI-GIRL™, go!!!!

  110. Lulu
    Lulu
    November 1, 2015 at 3:25 am | #

    Becky will ditch Dina and will fall for Amazi-girl.

    There I said it.

  111. Safgaftsa
    Safgaftsa
    November 1, 2015 at 3:25 am | #

    Did anyone else notice that Ross switches hands on his gun between panels 2 and 4?

  112. SDGlyph
    SDGlyph
    November 1, 2015 at 3:29 am | #

    One day, I hope, Amber will realise just how… amazing she is.

  113. HiiroArana79
    HiiroArana79
    November 1, 2015 at 3:46 am | #

    Where does she get those wonderful toys?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 3:56 am | #

      Amazon, apparently! 😮

    • Mindlink
      Mindlink
      November 1, 2015 at 4:16 am | #

      Amazon has plenty of grappling hooks and caltrops, and there’s all sorts of specialists stores online:
      armstar.net
      zprepared.com/zblog/category/zdefense/protection-zdefense
      And some superheroes make their own stuff, or get it custom made, like these guys:
      gizmag.com/real-life-superhero-gadgets/16862

      • Amake
        Amake
        November 1, 2015 at 12:32 pm | #

        Hey, “Amazon” sounds like a superhero name. When you think about it Amazon is basically Batman.

        Well, apart from the going out of his way to beat up the poor and mentally ill.

    • spiderfan14
      spiderfan14
      November 1, 2015 at 9:12 am | #

      maybe that’s what was in the box she got awhile back?

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/huntergatherer/

      but it not be, the more I think of it.

  114. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    November 1, 2015 at 3:53 am | #

    Super cool action sequence, but… Willis, please, PLEASE don’t make the car get into an accident and some other, totally innocent bystander gets killed or crippled for life. Because that is something that would totally occur with an out of control car on a public road.

    I’m not sure Amazi-girl could live with herself (and rightly so) if she ended up causing the death or permanent disability of someone whose only fault was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  115. David
    David
    November 1, 2015 at 3:56 am | #

    Well, that’s the kind of occasion I’ve been saving this really great old bottle of suspension of disbelief for. Time to break it out, I guess.

  116. fogel
    fogel
    November 1, 2015 at 4:00 am | #

    She’s amazing!

  117. Decepticon357
    Decepticon357
    November 1, 2015 at 5:13 am | #

    Whoa, where’d she get little spike balls?…….I want some..

  118. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 1, 2015 at 6:11 am | #

    Just a thought about the look on Ross’s face in the last panel. I don’t think that he’s ever actually been in a situation when he’s had someone use force right back at him. It’s one thing being willing to ‘fight for my family’ but I don’t think that he was ready for someone who will fight back and fight back so aggressively.

    • SDGlyph
      SDGlyph
      November 1, 2015 at 6:29 am | #

      I got that feeling too – especially for someone to successfully do so. Becky has repeatedly showed that she isn’t cowed and has tried to engage him verbally, but his response at every turn has been to step up his intimidation tactics: get angry, raise your voice, assert authority, threaten violence. Get your way by being bigger and stronger than the other person.

      This might well be the first time that hasn’t worked out for him. He’s going to regret bringing a gun to this particular fist fight.

  119. SDGlyph
    SDGlyph
    November 1, 2015 at 6:38 am | #

    Interesting thought – what we’re seeing here is how Amazi-Girl handles the rescue and abusive dad beatdown, rather than Amber. There’s a lot more technique and superheroics, a lot less ‘walk straight up and beat the crap out of him’. I wonder how she actually intends to finish this, given that she won’t have Amber’s red rage to call on as she did for Blaine.

    • SDGlyph
      SDGlyph
      November 1, 2015 at 6:39 am | #

      Whoops, HTML fail.

    • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      November 1, 2015 at 6:48 am | #

      The situation has yet to reach a stage where a beatdown is even possible, so let’s see what happens when we get to that point.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 1, 2015 at 3:46 pm | #

      Tie him to a lamp post, swing away with Becky, say a oneline. Something like that.

      ….Unless of course Amber takes over.

  120. dixiesaurer
    dixiesaurer
    November 1, 2015 at 7:36 am | #

    can amazigirl fight my dad next? he looks like a red neck wizard so itd be fun to draw~

  121. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    November 1, 2015 at 7:42 am | #

    In that last panel, Toe-Dad has lost the gun now right?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 1, 2015 at 7:47 am | #

      Yep, it’s bouncing down the road a few dozen yards away from him right now and has probably been damaged (misaligned barrel and broken trigger mechanism) due to the impact with the black-top.

      • ShadowDJ
        ShadowDJ
        November 1, 2015 at 10:23 am | #

        Especially since this is on a ROAD. They’re in a car and if something fell out of the car iin the highway, it’s likely to be run over.

  122. Arianod
    Arianod
    November 1, 2015 at 7:56 am | #

    OK, that was freaking AMAZING 😯

  123. GVick
    GVick
    November 1, 2015 at 7:59 am | #

    I don’t think that’s a rifle. I think is is a pump action .410-gauge shotgun. Oh, and I also am the victim of a caltrop, which wound up in the tire of my 1994 Chevrolet Caprice. It had been thrown on a street in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

    • SDGlyph
      SDGlyph
      November 1, 2015 at 8:09 am | #

      It’s been pretty conclusively identified as a rifle – Ruger 1V, IIRC – from earlier strips. A bit by-the-by I suppose, since the salient points are that it was (a) pointed at AG and (b) no longer in Ross’ hands.

      • Wafflebob
        Wafflebob
        November 5, 2015 at 2:36 am | #

        Yeah, it’s a Ruger no. 1.

  124. Ryek Hvek
    Ryek Hvek
    November 1, 2015 at 8:24 am | #

    I like the idea of that “SWEEEEEEE” sound being the collective audience breaking through the fifth wall and recording their reaction (“sweeeeeet!”) to Toedad’s disarming onto the comic page itself.

  125. firejuggler
    firejuggler
    November 1, 2015 at 8:37 am | #

    Why dads? because they are the one that feel they have a mission.

  126. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    November 1, 2015 at 8:42 am | #

    I love Willis’s autumn trees! Great color!

  127. Rob
    Rob
    November 1, 2015 at 8:44 am | #

    WHERE DID SHE GET THOSE? did she make them in metals class? can you buy them on ebay?
    ALSO I AM HAPPY THE GUN IS GONE NOW YAS

  128. Commodore Jeep-Eep
    Commodore Jeep-Eep
    November 1, 2015 at 8:56 am | #

    Hoo yes, this turdguzzler is about to eat boot.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWkhaYzsxmY

  129. Flight03
    Flight03
    November 1, 2015 at 9:42 am | #

    I hope Mazda-Girl has a dashcam.

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      November 1, 2015 at 10:40 am | #

      Maybe. Go back. Be objective.

      Hmm…

  130. Chris (the other one)
    Chris (the other one)
    November 1, 2015 at 10:02 am | #

    I haven’t read any comments over the last months in this comic. There are simply too many and I don’t have enough time. (I say this, because what I’m about to say may have been said many times here, but I don’t/can’t/won’t know it, so it’s fresh, from me to Mr. Willis.) I read about 20 webcomics regularly. There have only been one or two that pull me in, so to speak. This was not one of them. I like it, don’t get me wrong. I find the characters (fairly) believable and sometimes wonder if some character could possibly be a real person (a real person would do whatever the character has done, I mean) and then I realize sure, there are so many of us that someone somewhere has done it. But it never really hooked me.
    All of that being said…. this story line here…. oh my fucking christ. I cannot believe how well it’s being done. I wake up in the morning, and before I leave the house, I check out what is going to happen next, it’s got me that hooked. Normally I wait and read them all after noon. Not this one.
    Well done David. VERY will done, indeed.

  131. Sigurther
    Sigurther
    November 1, 2015 at 10:33 am | #

    I see what you did there. Good show, old bean. Good show.

  132. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    November 1, 2015 at 10:42 am | #

    Random thought : the car is less likely to start flip over, seeing both Toedad and Amazi-girl are acting as counterweight.

    Well, until it turns 180 more °, anyway. If it does. Kinda suspect it’ll stop before.

  133. Eric
    Eric
    November 1, 2015 at 11:34 am | #

    On the plus side, Toedad is without his weapon, there are many multiple witnesses to his fuckitude, his car is disabled, and Amber already needs to go to the hospital. No further need for cast injury.

    • Commodore Jeep-Eep
      Commodore Jeep-Eep
      November 1, 2015 at 12:17 pm | #

      As long as he’s upright, he’s dangerous – he’s got fists and a lot of muscle to drive them.

  134. Lan Mikoto
    Lan Mikoto
    November 1, 2015 at 11:45 am | #

    C’mon Amazigirl kick that foot’s ass and save Dina’s girl! Then we’ll get you checked out for possibly busted ribs.

  135. thumb
    thumb
    November 1, 2015 at 11:58 am | #

    What’s sad is that while Amber is a fucking badass, she’s also the exact product that her dad wanted. A tough son of a bongo who has no problems solving situations with extreme violence. Parental moulding is just the kind of shit that’s hard to move away from.

    • Amake
      Amake
      November 1, 2015 at 12:16 pm | #

      She may be more like her dad than is good for her, but she’s sure as hell not who her dad wants. He wants something that makes him feel big by needing him to control every part of its life and believing every word he says to criticize and belittle it.

      Would that Amber could disown him and be replaced by a voice-controlled Tamagotchi.

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      November 1, 2015 at 3:31 pm | #

      I don’t think Blaine really wanted anything from Amber other than the ability to constantly tear her down and the kind of control that gives you over another person.

  136. Sock_V
    Sock_V
    November 1, 2015 at 12:20 pm | #

    Those are quite the acrobatics to get the rope from one side of her body to the other.

    Serious strength.

  137. Amake
    Amake
    November 1, 2015 at 12:27 pm | #

    It was at that precise moment, wrestling with a school shooter and a kidnapper on top of a moving car Amazi-Girl stopped being a superhero. When she kicked the gun out of the would-be killer’s hands, before he could manage to shoot anyone, she became a hero.

  138. Toes14
    Toes14
    November 1, 2015 at 12:34 pm | #

    Love the Indy reference.

  139. xKiv
    xKiv
    November 1, 2015 at 12:52 pm | #

    Ross: Ack! I lost my grip (on the rifle)!

  140. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    November 1, 2015 at 12:54 pm | #

    Sal was right, Amber is going to get someone hurt, or killed. That car is dangerously close to flipping.

    • gc
      gc
      November 1, 2015 at 3:00 pm | #

      Amber/Amazi-Girl may be wrong, but Sal obviously isn’t right.

      • CianM1301
        CianM1301
        November 1, 2015 at 4:39 pm | #

        Yet.

  141. Leafy Obelisk
    Leafy Obelisk
    November 1, 2015 at 1:02 pm | #

    What concerns me is that the Toe’s skull is very close to the pavement. Smearing someone over the asphalt is going to screw our favorite vigilante up, even (especially?) if it’s by mistake.

  142. David S
    David S
    November 1, 2015 at 2:24 pm | #

    Well, we can add “attempted murder” to Ross’ charges…

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      November 1, 2015 at 2:56 pm | #

      I dunno, I think being attacked by an unhinged vigilante who’s actively endangering you, your passenger and every driver around might warrant a self defense claim.

      And that’s basically the only time I’ll defend Toedad for anything.

      • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
        Captain Whatever on the planet of things
        November 1, 2015 at 3:15 pm | #

        I think if the police ever turn up there will be plenty of charges to go around for the two of them.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 1, 2015 at 3:44 pm | #

        You don’t get to claim self-defense while engaged in a felony. Like kidnapping.

        Now, Amber might rack up a few charges of her own, but that doesn’t let Ross off the hook for anything.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          November 1, 2015 at 3:50 pm | #

          Obviously not, but Amber is endangering everyone around her. It’s reasonable that Toedad would try to stop her from spinning his car into traffic.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            November 1, 2015 at 5:23 pm | #

            Given that he is in the middle of committing a felony kidnapping, the legal way to try to stop her from spinning his car into traffic is to bring his car to a stop and surrender. Anything else, particularly any attack on her, is not self defense, because you can’t claim self-defense while you’re committing a felony – (possible exception for cases where your life is immediately in danger and there is no other way to protect yourself. For example, if you’ve already surrendered and you’re still being attacked. Check your state laws. IANAL.)

            She might well be charged with reckless endangerment or even more serious assault charges. But Ross has no legal right to try to kill her at this point.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              November 1, 2015 at 5:29 pm | #

              I see. I’m pretty sure you know way more about legalities than I do, so I’ll take your word for it.

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                November 1, 2015 at 7:10 pm | #

                …Though on reflection, this did come off “it’s perfectly fine for toedad to stick himself out the window and try to shoot Amber!” didn’t it?

          • Mep
            Mep
            November 1, 2015 at 7:00 pm | #

            The easiest way to keep the car from not spinning into traffic would be to slow down carefully and stop over on the side of the road. It is NOT to go out of your window and start firing a shotgun.

            • Wafflebob
              Wafflebob
              November 5, 2015 at 2:37 am | #

              I agree, but it’s not a shotgun. It’s been identified as a Ruger no. 1 falling block rifle.

  143. Jhon
    Jhon
    November 1, 2015 at 3:40 pm | #

    Has DoA crossed the line? Not yet. Today the line is a double yellow line. Yesterday it was a dashed white line. With an oncoming red car in the other lane. Today the red car we see is “Freckles” still following them. (Willis would have done better to make yesterday’s red car another color, but hey, I’m not the one drawing this.)

    So Toedad’s car will slide into the bushes. Police sirens. Amazi-Girl will make herself scarce. Sal and Joyce will appear as Toedad and Becky are crawling out of their car. Joyce will glomp Becky. And then she will give Toedad the chewing out of his life, using cuss words never heard before on land or sea.

    • Ryek Hvek
      Ryek Hvek
      November 1, 2015 at 3:49 pm | #

      Joyce’s swearing will still be hanging in the air over Lake Michigan, like a tapestry, even after New Years day.

      • Jestam
        Jestam
        November 1, 2015 at 6:34 pm | #

        Oh yeah.

    • Commodore Jeep-Eep
      Commodore Jeep-Eep
      November 1, 2015 at 3:51 pm | #

      I don’t think this fight is decided yet. If they manage to come to a non-crash stop and Ross manages to dismount, this is a fight that grows far more even. Now, if Joyce and Sal turn up… that fight becomes much more in the Forces of Good’s favor.

    • Guairdean Beatha
      Guairdean Beatha
      November 1, 2015 at 4:02 pm | #

      Yesterday’s car was more of a burnt orange, or maybe beige (before you question that, I’m old and have cataracts, colors aren’t what they used to be), but it’s not red. If it’s a concerned parent on their way to the university after hearing the news about shots fired on campus, there could be an interesting 911 call being made. If it’s someone that hasn’t heard the news, they’ll just pass it off as college kids being college kids.

      • Toes14
        Toes14
        November 1, 2015 at 5:54 pm | #

        Yesterday’s car was in the other lane coming towards them. The perspective was from behind & diagonal of Toedad’s brown POS. Two days ago, Freckles’ care, which AG launched herself from, was most definitely red. Please consult your ophthalmologist about your cataracts.

        • Guairdean Beatha
          Guairdean Beatha
          November 1, 2015 at 11:38 pm | #

          We agree, yesterday’s car wasn’t Maggie’s red car. My response was directed at the above reference saying that the oncoming car shouldn’t have been red. It wasn’t. I can’t be sure of the exact color, but it wasn’t the same as Maggie’s. As for the cataracts, they won’t “ripen” for a few more months.

  144. Jestam
    Jestam
    November 1, 2015 at 6:43 pm | #

    For what it’s worth, I figure that Amazi-girl, depending on the information that the cops get on all this, better lay pretty low for a *while* afterwards. She may be a hero, but cops take a dim view of anything vigilante-like. Not to mention IU.

    • Jestam
      Jestam
      November 1, 2015 at 7:23 pm | #

      We may not think it’s fair, but…

      • Alex C
        Alex C
        November 1, 2015 at 7:26 pm | #

        With her impending injuries, I’m sure she will have no trouble laying low.

  145. Tenn
    Tenn
    November 1, 2015 at 7:03 pm | #

    Amazi-Girl snaps and beats the shit out of 99 dads.

  146. Drakkenmensch
    Drakkenmensch
    November 1, 2015 at 7:08 pm | #

    Amazi-girl: kicking dads and taking names!!!

  147. Alex C
    Alex C
    November 1, 2015 at 7:25 pm | #

    Amazi-girl is at least sporting a concussion, probably bruised if not broken ribs and a sprain wrist. Boy I don’t want to be here when the adrenaline wears off.

  148. Pseudonym McAlias
    Pseudonym McAlias
    November 1, 2015 at 9:15 pm | #

    Man, I know shes the (way) lesser of two evils, but I’m having a hard time not remembering what Sal said to Joyce earlier: “She’ll escalate that shit. someone’ll get hurt, ah GUARANTEE it.”

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      November 1, 2015 at 10:38 pm | #

      Eeeyup.

  149. Lordess of Madness
    Lordess of Madness
    November 1, 2015 at 10:39 pm | #

    Dads: Dumb as dog shit

  150. GhostWriterL
    GhostWriterL
    November 1, 2015 at 10:53 pm | #

    I look forward to the possibility of Ross falling out of his car window and getting run over by Maggie, or a police cruiser.

    But I’ll settle for him getting belted across the face with a boot and then beginning what is the rest of his miserable life behind prison bars.

  151. Larkle
    Larkle
    November 1, 2015 at 10:59 pm | #

    Amazi-girl is back in the game. I think this is good. I’m still braced for something horrible.

  152. Mattyos
    Mattyos
    November 1, 2015 at 11:20 pm | #

    I love the Indiana Jones reference in there…I have the Raiders March playing as I read this to add a little dramatic effect to it.

  153. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    November 2, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

    Is it just me or does this strip look a little different than it did 24 hours ago?

  154. KH
    KH
    November 2, 2015 at 5:57 am | #

    Clever title. I see what you did there.

  155. Ilerien
    Ilerien
    November 2, 2015 at 6:26 am | #

    I see now.. http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=463 I knew this was somewhere

  156. Hambolove16
    Hambolove16
    November 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm | #

    I just want to take this time out and think about the first time I seen Amazi-Girl/Amber up until now and finally just say how much of a freakin badass human being she is.

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