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by David M Willis on December 6, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - That Perfect Girl
└ Tags: amber, danny

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  1. Jackson
    Jackson
    December 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    yay overalls

    • Ostsol
      Ostsol
      December 6, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      Ah… short-haired ladies in overalls…

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 6, 2015 at 2:34 am | #

        Amber in Overalls. I want the soundtrack.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 6, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      I like what she’s wearing, overall…

      • vonniesaur
        vonniesaur
        December 6, 2015 at 12:50 am | #

        hahahahahahaHAHA HA HA

        • Yet_One_More_Idiot
          Yet_One_More_Idiot
          December 6, 2015 at 7:51 am | #

          Mmm, cute Amber in dungarees… *_*

          (that’s what we call ’em in the UK. We use “overalls” to refer to a full body suit, which I think other countries call a boilersuit?)

          Everything about today’s strip is adorable. :3

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            December 6, 2015 at 8:49 am | #

            In Canada the ones with sleeves are cover-alls. See, over-alls go over all your clothes; but cover-alls actually cover everything.

            I think the States followed our lead on that one. 😉

          • Deimir
            Deimir
            December 6, 2015 at 9:23 am | #

            A full-body suit with legs and sleeves, I’ve always called that a jumpsuit.

            • Yet_One_More_Idiot
              Yet_One_More_Idiot
              December 6, 2015 at 10:52 am | #

              I’ve heard a full-body suit called a jumpsuit or a boilersuit (often worn in the UK by boiler repairmen, or at least they used to be xD), but we mostly call them overalls (because they are over everything else, and cover it too).

              These that Amber is wearing are always called dungarees, and the shorter versions (such as Ruth has been shown wearing), are referred to as dungaree shorts. 🙂

              • KHNO
                KHNO
                December 6, 2015 at 1:05 pm | #

                It’s time to introduce some french that you have to pardon:
                it’s a called a “salopette”, which is a small salope (the word means bongo (filtered!) nowadays but used to mean someone/something dirty, I mean dirty as with dirt on it… because it was used… by children… to protect their clothes form dirt). The boiler suit is called a “bleu de travail” (something like workers’ blue clothing, you see where your “blue collar” meets it), worn by, well workers. Some people call it a “combinaison” when it’s not blue.

                • Znayx
                  Znayx
                  December 6, 2015 at 2:47 pm | #

                  Nope, “salope” means “slut”. Take it from a person who spent every school year from kindergarten to grade 12 in French (not French-immersion!) school. As for the rest, that’s neat facts. And on the note of that “bleu de travail”, the French language has lots of strange instances like that where they call an object/substance a colour. “Rouge à lêvres”, “vert-de-gris”… I guess it’s a thing with them?

                • Znayx
                  Znayx
                  December 6, 2015 at 2:54 pm | #

                  Although perhaps the thing about the French is not that they call objects/substances by their colour, but that they call them by their notable attribute. For example, the case of “salope” which was called that because it was dirty… as in, hard physical dirt on it. I’m a little too lazy to look into other examples– I mean, I’ve got homework to do, and look at the time! Better run!

                • KHNO
                  KHNO
                  December 7, 2015 at 2:09 pm | #

                  I’m quite flattered that with my stubbing-my-toe-on-any-difficulty english you could think otherwise that my being a snail eater.
                  This intel comes from the reference site I use for my teaching (as I teach french to french pupils in France) that you can now use for any etymology related: http://www.cnrtl.fr (in portail lexical then etymologie).
                  For further matters, most of colour-related objects are because of the use of synecdoche: a bleu de travail is in fact blue and that colour defines the object. And if you can most of time translate salope by slut (as slutwalks were called marches des salopes), it sometimes is better translated by bongo, for bongo having being reverted by feminist movements/authors (like roberta gregory), and so was salope for a small time after the pro-choice manifesto of 1971 used by french feminists, transforming the insult into a pride title.

                • David M Willis
                  David M Willis
                  December 7, 2015 at 2:23 pm | #

                  day-yamn znayx done got told

              • Ilerien
                Ilerien
                December 6, 2015 at 4:55 pm | #

                This is clearly a prototype power armour

              • Znayx
                Znayx
                December 7, 2015 at 6:07 pm | #

                Whatcha talkin’ about, Willis?

                …Nevermind, I done got doggone told my ass off.

                I was never fond of history in general as a school subject, and the origins of language always baffle me, but that’s one of a handful of things I’d like to look in to further. I guess the K-12 French student has to take it from the French teacher. As far as I knew, “salope” was always “slut” and “bongo” was always “chienne” (even in its derogatory meaning).

                • Znayx
                  Znayx
                  December 7, 2015 at 6:08 pm | #

                  ^apparently I didn’t reply at the right spot

          • GreyTheDefender
            GreyTheDefender
            December 6, 2015 at 2:53 pm | #

            Full body ones have always been called jumpsuits where I live, southeast US.

            • Annie
              Annie
              December 7, 2015 at 2:23 am | #

              I’m in Texas (lived in south and central Texas and most my family is in DFW) and have only ever heard them called coveralls.
              Makes me wonder what they call them in east Texas. Sometimes east Texas is VERY Texan, but other times they’re VERY Sourhern and confuse the rest of us Texans.

    • Suzi
      Suzi
      December 6, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      All I could think is “It’s-a-me, Amazigirl!”

      • Someone
        Someone
        December 6, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

        After completing the game if you press
        LR Start you can play as Dina

        • Lord Stoneheart
          Lord Stoneheart
          December 6, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

          I should know what game specifically this is a reference to put I’m running a blank. (I know the series obviously. Just blanking on which game has that LR start thing)

          • Someone
            Someone
            December 6, 2015 at 1:58 am | #

            I was just thinking Mario games in general, but if you want a specific one

            New Super Mario Bros on Nintendo DS

            also known as the game that Shortpacked Amber went shirt ripping crazy over

          • legobil
            legobil
            December 6, 2015 at 8:00 am | #

            “Lord Stonehearth” eh? 😀 http://www.stonehearth.net eller? 😉

            • Lord Stoneheart
              Lord Stoneheart
              December 6, 2015 at 8:34 am | #

              Sorry I don’t click strange links. But it’s Stoneheart. There’s a story behind it, but the important thing is that it’s not Stonehearth, and so it probably has nothing to do with that link.

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          December 6, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

          And you change class from fighter to stealth ?

          • GreyTheDefender
            GreyTheDefender
            December 6, 2015 at 2:54 pm | #

            Dina goes through life always rolling nat 20s for “Hide In Plain Sight”.

            • Captain Button
              Captain Button
              December 6, 2015 at 3:23 pm | #

              So she has Dina’s power, but with the limitation “Only in costume”?

            • N0083rP00F
              N0083rP00F
              December 7, 2015 at 9:00 am | #

              So she is a shadow dancer as well?

      • Kevin
        Kevin
        December 6, 2015 at 11:00 am | #

        She looks a bit more like Luigi to me.

        • Airyu
          Airyu
          December 6, 2015 at 11:13 am | #

          “It’s a-me-Luigi” still works~

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      December 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      Are those Pajama-Overalls(tm)?

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      December 6, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

      I had overalls in college!

    • heyman
      heyman
      December 6, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

      Overalls can be overdone. My ex dressed our little girl in overalls so often because she was “sooo cute!” than I witnessed an adorable tiny rebellion- a six year old folding her arms, pooching out her lower lip, and saying “No more overalls!”
      She still refuses to wear them.
      It’s like when one burns out on their favorite food, sorta.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 6, 2015 at 1:36 am | #

        It seems like dressing a droll rather than taking into account the tastes of a living being.

        • Annie
          Annie
          December 6, 2015 at 3:15 am | #

          It happens in stages, though. When they’re babies they wear whatever mom/dad picks. Gradually they have more input, but if it’s an outfit mom loves on them, they get praised like crazy and fawned over when they wear it, so they like it to. (Plus, for my kid, he loved having lots of pockets that were easier for a toddler to access than in regular pants) So, for years, they are jumping for joy at wearing overalls.

          They gradually give more input in what they wear day-to-day, but at that stage their only consideration is how it feels on them (comfort) and how it looks (the color, a picture on it, does it have pockets? Glitter? Frills? Favorite shapes?). They don’t care if it suits the weather or the day’s activities, or even if it fits. So they still have little real say in the matter ultimately.

          Then they start giving more input in the store. So you buy more of what they like and what fits their style. But they’re still using you as a gauge and still only thinking in the moment, not about fit, durability, weather, etc.

          But as their world expands more and the “I’m the center of the universe” innate toddler attitude falls away, they develop their own tastes and styles.

          I know I let my son dress more-or-less in what he likes, and he picks 90% of his clothes now. But it’s still hard to let go of the styles that I like on him. I spent 6 years being the ultimate decider (and still am at times, like on special occasions, or if he decides he wants to wear his Super Mario costume to school) and his tastes aligning with mine mostly.
          It’s not easy to let that go and say “okay, you’re old enough to pick.” Or even “alright, I’ll help you pick.”

          And honestly, for things like holidays or professional photos, it’s my decision. I will try to pick things that he likes and fit his tastes, but things like wearing overalls for a quick photo at the pumpkin patch won’t kill him, and it won’t quash his sense of individuality. It’s just another dumb thing mom made him do for 5 minutes before he was allowed to run off and play and he forgot about it.

          • DarkoNeko
            DarkoNeko
            December 6, 2015 at 3:19 am | #

            that was insightful.

      • Annie
        Annie
        December 6, 2015 at 2:50 am | #

        Yeah, I think my son is just so adorable in overalls. I’d comb racks to find them in his size. They’re cute, they fit longer than most pants, I don’t have to wear out my arm yanking on that damn elastic like I do in all his regular pants (he can only wear adjustable waist pants. He’s long-legged and very slim) and when he was a toddler, the X on the back of them made a good handle for when he was trying to run off or when he was about to fall and I couldn’t quite reach to catch him. Overalls saved that kid from *so* many bonks on the head and scraped knees.

        But now he’s 6 and in kindergarten. None of his friends wear overalls, nor do any of his fashion heroes on Disney Channel (I will wring the neck of whoever gave Teen Beach Movie the green light), so he also refuses to wear them. Little lovable brat.

      • Yet_One_More_Idiot
        Yet_One_More_Idiot
        December 6, 2015 at 6:30 pm | #

        I read that statement as “Overalls can be undone”, as in, undone quite easily…I’m having a Slipshine thought moment right now.

        Excuse me, I’ll let myself out. xD

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 6:37 am | #

      Of all the things Amazi-Girl had done, Amber trumps them by being able to do backflips in overallS AND sticking the landing while not seeing clearly.

    • SonicBlueRanger
      SonicBlueRanger
      December 6, 2015 at 9:28 am | #

      Personally I’m a bigger fan of Jean Shorts but I can see the appeal of cute girls in Overalls too.

    • Yet_One_More_Idiot
      Yet_One_More_Idiot
      December 6, 2015 at 10:18 pm | #

      This should be Amber’s new look. Permanently. It’s super-cute! <3

      Cute girls in dungarees. There is no bad here. 😀

  2. Mada
    Mada
    December 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Well at least her depth perception and balance still seem to be okay 🙂

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      December 6, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      Either she’s wearing contacts, and does so as Amazi-girl, or she really doesn’t need glasses, and they’re just part of her Amber persona.

      • John
        John
        December 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

        She needs them, but not badly enough that she can’t get by without them if she has to.

        • qman
          qman
          December 6, 2015 at 2:41 am | #

          I was that way before I got my Lasik surgery, I could see well enough to do most things, but everything was blurry, so stuff like reading was off the table. I never had any depth perception though, my eyes don’t work together and I have doublevision all the time, so I approximate depth via angles and sizes of things.

          • Touchfuzzy
            Touchfuzzy
            December 6, 2015 at 2:44 am | #

            I had double vision for the first 25 years of my life that required glasses because I had an imbalance in the strength of my eye muscles. But then I had a work accident (worked construction) and went blind in one eye, and now I don’t need glasses… kind of a silver lining to the grey grey cloud of going blind in one eye :B

            • Chris2315
              Chris2315
              December 6, 2015 at 3:35 am | #

              And also you can wear a cool eyepatch if you want.

            • Yet_One_More_Idiot
              Yet_One_More_Idiot
              December 6, 2015 at 7:58 am | #

              My dad was born with double-vision too (he’s now 63). Honestly, it’s a mystery to me how he’s not always walking into walls or stuff, nevermind the fact that he’s a perfectly competent driver. I’d never get behind a steering wheel and I can see only one of everything in front of me! xD

              (…although my optician keeps insisting my eyesight is great – better than average in fact, and wonders why I keep going back for my regularly biennial appointment – I do have mild stereoblindness. I only really notice it when I’m reaching for the handrail on the bus, and miss xD)

              • Tetty
                Tetty
                December 6, 2015 at 9:38 am | #

                I’m very longsighted in one eye, and have been all my life. In theory, I don’t have normal depth perception (which sometimes affects me), but in practice, this is how I’ve always been, so my brain works around it. Probably the same with your dad, he’s ALWAYS had the double vision, so it’s normal to him and he works it.

                It would probably be a different story if he’d developed it later in life.

                • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  December 6, 2015 at 10:56 am | #

                  Yeah, I suppose so. In fact, he went to the optician once to ask about getting his vision sorted (not only does he have double vision caused by a squint in one eye, he also has one eye longsighted and one eye shortsighted!), but they said that he’s too old to sort it out now anyway. And even if they could sort the squint out at such an old age (basically, all adults are classed as too old to undergo squint-correction surgery), he’d probably have to learn to see all over again, which would not be fun for him at all.

        • Edupoet81
          Edupoet81
          December 6, 2015 at 1:49 pm | #

          I would guess that Amber wears glasses to correct a minor vision impairment, and she’s able to see well enough to get by without them. I myself am mildly nearsighted, and I have glasses for that. Without my glasses, distant objects appear blurry, I can see objects that are close perfectly clearly. I don’t have my glasses on right now, and I’m having no difficulty seeing the computer screen. I could manage without glasses if I had to. I couldn’t pull off moves like that, but I couldn’t do that with the aid of corrective lenses either, so that’s beside the point.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        December 6, 2015 at 3:07 am | #

        I’ve got to say that this is my preferred explanation.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 6, 2015 at 9:46 am | #

        I read that more as a “Not still concussed/no permanent damage” than about her glasses.

    • Annie
      Annie
      December 6, 2015 at 3:21 am | #

      Yeah, I’m impressed. I can’t even walk down stairs without my glasses on because my depth-perception is so off without them.
      I can also only see clearly about 6in in front of my face, so that doesn’t help, but even when my eyesight wasn’t all that bad, not having glasses threw off my depth-perception to dangerous levels.

      I think college was when glasses stores started doing buy-one, get-one-free sales semi-often, so since then I’ve always had 2 pair. One everyday pair, and one back-up. I keep my back-up in my car and always keep my most recent old pair in my nightstand. You never know.

  3. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    December 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Those overalls are what really make it pop!

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 6, 2015 at 2:38 am | #

      Amber’s what makes the overalls pop. Batman should have overalls.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 6, 2015 at 2:47 am | #

        Wish granted.

        • zoelogical
          zoelogical
          December 6, 2015 at 4:03 pm | #

          for one wild moment i thought you were going to gift us with farmer Batman.

          (this is just about as good tho)

  4. Lia47
    Lia47
    December 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Well THATS a pretty swift confirmation that she’s feeling better

    • Dreadhawk177
      Dreadhawk177
      December 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      One could say she’s feeling…

      • Lia47
        Lia47
        December 6, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

        …hungry?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        December 6, 2015 at 2:55 am | #

        Better overall?

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 6, 2015 at 11:43 am | #

          DING! Correct answer. Have a waffle!

      • Cephalo the Pod
        Cephalo the Pod
        December 6, 2015 at 10:34 am | #

        Amazing?

  5. knifleman
    knifleman
    December 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Huh. I’d actually been under the impression that only Amazi-Girl could do the flippy shit. Guess the tags prove me wrong.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 6, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      It’s only Amazi-Girl when she uses the Batman voice.

      • knifleman
        knifleman
        December 6, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

        Nope. She didn’t use the voice at the beginning, remember?

        • Someone
          Someone
          December 6, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

          She was not truly Amazi-Girl then, she was too soft on criminals. Let them live

        • Lord Stoneheart
          Lord Stoneheart
          December 6, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

          Other than the tags, the cheek color is a pretty good indicator. Amber has blushes. Amazi Girl does not.

          • Someone
            Someone
            December 6, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

            When it’s Amber her cheeks are blue
            When it’s Amazi-Girl her cheeks are yellow

            Well I’ve fulfilled my perverted joke quote for the day.

  6. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I can attest to this–just the other day, my co-worker walked straight past me at the grocery but her face was glued to her phone, so

    –oh I guess the site’s clock’s fixed now? huh

    • Dreadhawk177
      Dreadhawk177
      December 6, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      Yesss. A thousand thanks to the Great and Powerful Willis for restoring the Time Shift.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 6, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

        until the next one.

        • a4lbi
          a4lbi
          December 6, 2015 at 2:41 am | #

          *shoves a clock*

  7. Zaidyer
    Zaidyer
    December 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Amber’s getting an early start on Halloween with her Luigi costume, I see

    • Lia47
      Lia47
      December 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Luigi’s up+B is looking a lot cooler these days

    • Lena
      Lena
      December 6, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      Glad I’m not the only one who saw it 😛

    • Carter
      Carter
      December 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      Okay, cool, I’m not the only one who thought Luigi.

      There are more of us!

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 6, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

        Mamma mia !

        • Screwball
          Screwball
          December 6, 2015 at 3:59 pm | #

          I wonder how Luigi feels about this…

    • Annie
      Annie
      December 6, 2015 at 3:24 am | #

      She figured that it’d help her jump higher.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 6, 2015 at 3:17 pm | #

        She eats a lot of shrooms.

  8. Just Here
    Just Here
    December 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Nothing wrong with being physically adept. I wish I were more so myself.

    • Edupoet81
      Edupoet81
      December 6, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      I hear that. I’m worse than useless at all things physical.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        December 6, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        I wish I were merely useless at things physical.

        I’m pretty sure my body wants me dead. I’ve tried explaining the illogic of this to it, but it won’t listen.

        • Annie
          Annie
          December 6, 2015 at 3:26 am | #

          When your body gets the message, can it explain it to my body?

          Our bodies seem to have similar grasps of logic.

  9. Lia47
    Lia47
    December 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    AMBER JOIN A JYMNASTICS TEAM FOR GODS SAKE

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      December 6, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      I wonder if any schools in North America have parkour teams. If Amber hasn’t at the very least spent a lot of time watching parkour videos I’d be greatly surprised.

      • Dara
        Dara
        December 6, 2015 at 1:42 am | #

        There are several parkour clubs in Seattle. That’s not quite the same as a team I guess? But it’s a thing.

      • Annie
        Annie
        December 6, 2015 at 3:30 am | #

        There’s a parkour team at IU, but I get the impression that it’s a student-led and organized club, not an official school thing. Still would be good for her. Give her a more healthy outlet and get her around other people.
        …which means it wouldn’t happen.

        • John
          John
          December 6, 2015 at 11:48 am | #

          The revelation that the shut-in nerd girl is actually really good at parkour would threaten her secret identity.

          I do think it’s kind of odd how few of the DoA characters are involved in any sort of formal extracurricular activities, though. There’s Dorothy and Billie with the newspaper (and is Billie even still doing that?), and… that’s pretty much it.

          • Amazi-Stool
            Amazi-Stool
            December 6, 2015 at 12:39 pm | #

            Roz and Joe were engaged in certain “movie productions” – until the dean banned it.

            Also Bryan and Jim organising a questioning-your-sexuality-meetup.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              December 6, 2015 at 12:43 pm | #

              And according to the latest slipshine, he runs more.

              I’m hoping Danny goes to another one and Bryan helps clear things up for him. I think what Danny needs to hear right now is that he doesn’t need to worry about being attracted to Ethan and it won’t screw things up with Amber, and hearing that from a fellow queer dude would probably work wonders for him.

              • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                Yet_One_More_Idiot
                December 6, 2015 at 6:36 pm | #

                AMBER JOIN A GYMNASTICS TEAM.

                Better yet…

                JOIN THE COLLEGE CHEERLEADING SQUAD! That’d really everyone’s blood pumping! ;D

                • John
                  John
                  December 6, 2015 at 9:14 pm | #

                  She would rather suffer in the Death Pits of Doctor Cyborg.

                • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  December 6, 2015 at 10:14 pm | #

                  Well maybe she’s changed her mind about gymnastics/cheerleading since then. After all, that was 4 and a half years ago…I mean, what, 6 weeks? xD

                  But seriously, Amber’s personality has changed quite a bit in those weeks, maybe she’d be a little more open to it now?

            • John
              John
              December 6, 2015 at 9:27 pm | #

              I’m pretty sure making amateur Internet porn vids doesn’t qualify as a formal extracurricular activity. I might be wrong. It’s been a while since I was in college. But Big Boss didn’t seem to think it did, either.

              (Roz’s Planned Parenthood activism probably counts, though.)

              I did think of the questioning meetup, but I got the impression that it was something Bryan and Jim were doing on their own initiative, not as part of a campus LGBTQACRONYM club or whatever.

          • MichaelHaneline
            MichaelHaneline
            December 6, 2015 at 10:10 pm | #

            Thinking back to my college days, I don’t think a single one of my friends participated in any “formal” school activities other than what was tied to their studies.

            • Yet_One_More_Idiot
              Yet_One_More_Idiot
              December 7, 2015 at 10:32 am | #

              I took part in formal activities other than my studies, but not many that were actually related to school at all. I was in the school choir, but that really didn’t require much effort. My two main pasttimes which took up a lot of time outside of school were Scouts, and ballroom dancing (both done very much elsewhere).

  10. Jake
    Jake
    December 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    I was JUST thinking “wow, Amber, I can’t believe you’re wearing overalls” and then I saw the alt text.

  11. Ash Ketchup
    Ash Ketchup
    December 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Overalls are wrong. You are wrong.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Girls in overalls and hoodies is super cute ok

      fite me 1on1 irl mate

      • fizzywafflezsuperstore
        fizzywafflezsuperstore
        December 6, 2015 at 2:31 am | #

        *m8

        (Sorry)

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          December 6, 2015 at 11:51 am | #

          r u havin a gigle ther

          il bsh ur fkn edn swarn memum

  12. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    December 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Who’s this new character? Amber wears glasses and Amazi-Girl wears a mask, so it’s obviously someone else.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      “It is I, Maria!”

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        December 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

        I think I know that reference! Where’s it from, Plasma?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          December 6, 2015 at 2:50 am | #

          It’s a me, Mario!

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 6, 2015 at 1:31 am | #

        She will need a sidekick. Here comes Louise!

    • Znayx
      Znayx
      December 6, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

      “Man, more like Amazi-Squirrel”

      • Znayx
        Znayx
        December 6, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

        Or, in this case… Ambi-Squirrel? Amberrel? Squir-ber?

        • electromagneticDestroyosaur
          electromagneticDestroyosaur
          December 6, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

          Ambster the Hamster, according to Becky

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      December 6, 2015 at 2:57 am | #

      Amber’s glasses got broke.

      Blame Amazi-Girl and/or Toedad.

    • John
      John
      December 6, 2015 at 11:51 am | #

      Neither glasses nor mask and costume nor hairstyle nor voice are definitive signs. She’s got cheek blushes; she’s Amber.

  13. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I guess she can see fine enough without glasses.I always wondered how that worked for her costume.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      I think they’re just for shortsightedness. Like she can see fine, just can’t read the small print.

      • Dreadhawk177
        Dreadhawk177
        December 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        Amazi-Contacts

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        December 6, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

        That would be longsightedness. I’m short-sighted; I need glasses to drive or watch a movie, but I can read teensy print if I hold it close enough.

    • Norah
      Norah
      December 6, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      Contact lenses?

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 6, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

        contact lenses sound dangerous when fighting and doing acrobatics.

        • Nate
          Nate
          December 6, 2015 at 11:15 pm | #

          How so?

      • DSL
        DSL
        December 6, 2015 at 5:32 am | #

        Prescription mask?

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          December 6, 2015 at 3:17 pm | #

          ha 😀

  14. anna
    anna
    December 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    She’s a girl, she’s a girl with visible breasts of a significant size, she’s wearing overalls and doing flips – and everything is properly arranged and in the correct place afterwards?

    I CALL SO MUCH BULLSHIT ON THIS.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      December 6, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      Unlike many women, Amber is wearing a properly sized and fitted sports bra!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 6, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      The Amazi-Bra is an amazing feat of undergarment engineering.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        December 6, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        Amber O’Malley is Useless?

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        December 6, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

        Amber O’Malley is Useless?

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 6, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

      Would you rather invisible breasts of a significant size?

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 6, 2015 at 1:33 am | #

        What’s the point to that if you can’t even see them?

        • achallenger
          achallenger
          December 6, 2015 at 1:37 am | #

          You can’t calm what you cannot see

          • DarkoNeko
            DarkoNeko
            December 6, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

            Please, hakuna your tatas.

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              December 6, 2015 at 7:06 pm | #

              … LOL. I actually like that one.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          December 6, 2015 at 2:58 am | #

          I know, right? The only way to confirm that they were there would be manually.

          …. and that would be wrong.

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          December 6, 2015 at 6:40 am | #

          That’s another nice thing about overalls: the option to wear them without a shirt.

  15. Cholma
    Cholma
    December 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Amazi-Girl practiced to be the best at everything.
    Everything?
    EVERYTHING.
    * cue montage that includes a DDR challenge between Batman & Amazi-Girl

    • John
      John
      December 6, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

      Amazi-Girl can so beat Batman at DDR.

      But he’s better at breathing in space, so it evens out.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      December 6, 2015 at 2:59 am | #

      Video game. Amazi-girl might not be Amber, but they obviously share skills and memories. Advantage Amazi-girl.

  16. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    December 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Hamster-Girl err I mean Amber sure is amazing.

  17. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    December 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Does parkour have a theme song?
    *looks for his copy of “Nadia’s Song”*

    • Stephen R. Bierce
      Stephen R. Bierce
      December 6, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxZDeiTgNRs
      *throws a glance at the Russian judge who only gave Amber a 7.5 score*

      • Dreadhawk177
        Dreadhawk177
        December 6, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

        I love the warped crackles in the music. Adds to the feel of nostalgia.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 6, 2015 at 7:32 am | #

        Russian? They are in the USA.

        • Stephen R. Bierce
          Stephen R. Bierce
          December 6, 2015 at 6:30 pm | #

          There’s always a Russian judge.

  18. Spencer
    Spencer
    December 6, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    Okay so Amber’s hair is definitely going Amazi-Girlish this time, right? It’s not just me?

    • neeks
      neeks
      December 6, 2015 at 5:20 pm | #

      It’s just you. I mean, she does muss up her hair as part of her amazi girl disguise, but it would take several cans of hair products to keep her “Amber hair” perfectly in place while performing freeform acrobatics. So her hair isn’t “going amazigirlish”, it’s just understandably slightly unkempt.

      I mean, it’s not like she undergoes a magical girl transformation that gives her a different hairstyle when changing into her costume. It’s too bad she can’t pull a spinnerette and have a wig attached to her mask in order to further protect the identity of her alter ego, though. Be funny, though:

      “Amazigirl! Wait….didn’t you used to have less hair???”
      “You are imagining things, citizen.”

      • neeks
        neeks
        December 6, 2015 at 5:21 pm | #

        (I really do say “though” a lot…)

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        December 6, 2015 at 5:26 pm | #

        The same thing happened during the chapter that was about her losing herself in her second identity, though. Her hair gradually becomes more frazzled as the day goes on, she’s wearing the Amazi-Girl colours in her civvies, stuff like that.

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          December 6, 2015 at 6:18 pm | #

          I hope things don’t go all Paranoia Agent with her.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            December 6, 2015 at 6:19 pm | #

            omg somebody else watched that

  19. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    December 6, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Amber’s the FlipMaster!

  20. nothri
    nothri
    December 6, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Oh alt-text. “Your wrong.” There, see? Easy. Now, convincing you of this statement might not happen, but your going to have to do something drastic like hunt me down and physically restrain and gag me to prevent me from saying it.

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      December 6, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      Technically, you didn’t say “YOU’RE wrong”, so Willis still wins.

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        December 6, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

        Grammar rules!!

        (Pun intended.)

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        December 7, 2015 at 4:45 pm | #

        The Willis is never wrong, and the rare time he is, reality shifts to conform to The Willis.

  21. zmm
    zmm
    December 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    ….her jump was strange there..
    like she ran leaping and like.. inverse rolled from the direction she was going and then twisted again to land bakc in the origina direction?

    the third shadowimage is throwing me

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 6, 2015 at 2:43 am | #

      You just have to teach physics who’s boss.

  22. Lena
    Lena
    December 6, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    Amber is actually Luigi. the overalls and super smash-style flippy maneuvers confirm it.

  23. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    December 6, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    No uses those except you and Sal.

  24. Bunk
    Bunk
    December 6, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    Overalls? What is this, 1997?

    • Peduncle
      Peduncle
      December 6, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

      Of course not. I have overalls. I bought them in, let’s see, well, actually, 1997.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      December 6, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

      From where I’m from, farmers still wear them when they work.

    • maxyai
      maxyai
      December 6, 2015 at 6:31 am | #

      I wish!

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 6:42 am | #

      If you wear them with one strap undone, it’s 1987, a la Bananarama or Dexy’s Midnight Runners or any number of other early MTV videos.

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      December 6, 2015 at 10:19 pm | #

      I remember in 2001 my high school principal adding “no overalls” to the dress code.

  25. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    December 6, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

    Pretty impressive moves for someone who was hit by a car four days ago.

    I suppose Amber has a point. We are too fixated on our screens to look at our surroundings, or at least I am. I don’t even know how to open the blinds in my apartment. As pathologically uncoordinated as I am, I could probably eventually figure it out if I actually spent some time trying to do it. I don’t really care enough to try. All I’d be able to see from my second floor apartment is the fire escape and the side yard of my building with its perpetual pile of garbage bags. The view from those windows appears to be more scenic, however, especially with the leaves changing color. Billie and Ruth were looking out the window just a little while ago. Perhaps Amber should think twice about practicing her moves in a public space while out of costume.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      December 6, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

      Mutant healing factor.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 6, 2015 at 1:36 am | #

        And her bones are probably made of adamantium.

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 6, 2015 at 2:44 am | #

          There was this accident…

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      December 6, 2015 at 3:04 am | #

      Eh, so Amber knows a bit of gymnastics. It’s hardly a smoking gun. LOTS of girls know how to do flips and cartwheels of stuff.

      … and if it was a smoking gun, it’s not like Amazi-Girl uses guns.

      …. cue Mike cutting the building’s wifi so everyone will get frustrated and look out the window and catch her in the act.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 6, 2015 at 3:23 am | #

        Wouldn’t put it past him, but thanksfully he’s busy with Billie & co right now.

      • Liliet
        Liliet
        December 6, 2015 at 6:16 am | #

        “a bit of gymnastics” is if she were doing that on solid ground. On a fucking wall? That’s a degree of confidence/suicidality that’s pretty amazi-telling.

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          December 6, 2015 at 6:44 am | #

          It’s a lot wide than a standard balance beam.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        December 6, 2015 at 11:18 am | #

        Billie was a cheerleader, so maybe she is really Amazi-Girl. 8-)}

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          December 6, 2015 at 11:21 am | #

          No Billie, you are the superhero!

          And then Billie was Amazi-Girl.

          • Captain Button
            Captain Button
            December 6, 2015 at 11:23 am | #

            It gets passed along, like being the Dread Pirate Roberts?

            • John
              John
              December 6, 2015 at 11:56 am | #

              In the other universe, the mantle did get passed on to Lucy.

            • Noclevername
              Noclevername
              December 6, 2015 at 5:31 pm | #

              “Good night, sleep well, and I’ll most likely kick ass and fuck Danny in the morning.”

              …Nah, doesn’t really flow the way “kill you” does.

          • Noclevername
            Noclevername
            December 6, 2015 at 5:33 pm | #

            Billie was really Amazi-Girl ALL ALONG!

            –From M. Night Shamalyan’s “Dumbing of Age” movie

            • Noclevername
              Noclevername
              December 6, 2015 at 5:34 pm | #

              DAMNIT that was supposed to be a reply to Spencer up above!

              ..or, Spencer, for Higher.

  26. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    December 6, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

    Someone needs to do a fan comic of Amber going through her movement and martial arts practice, whatever they might be. It’s the kind of thing you really can’t stick into the strip in any sort of extended way, as in over several strips, without it seeming like filler.

    • Someone
      Someone
      December 6, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

      good for keeps the dumbing of age anime adaptation (which will happen someday dammit!) from overtaking the comic

      • Someone
        Someone
        December 6, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

        *keeping

        -and no this one won’t lead to any puzzles.

  27. brionl
    brionl
    December 6, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

    I like overalls and I cannot lie
    You other brothers can’t deny…

    • MortartarSaws
      MortartarSaws
      December 6, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

      When a girl walks in with suspenders that replace
      The belt loops around her waist you get SPRUNG!

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 6, 2015 at 1:46 am | #

        Sorry to break the chain fellas, but I wanted to add some science to the lyrics.

  28. John
    John
    December 6, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

    It’s nice seeing Amber (not Amazi-Girl) doing something like this just because she can.

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      December 6, 2015 at 2:23 am | #

      Practice!

  29. MortartarSaws
    MortartarSaws
    December 6, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

    Hey, I wish could find overalls in my size.

  30. Whittier
    Whittier
    December 6, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

    Are overalls a thing again? Am I showing my age by saying “again”?

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      December 6, 2015 at 1:41 am | #

      Yes.

  31. PlainMarie
    PlainMarie
    December 6, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

    It’s wonderful how happy Amber looks in the first panel.

  32. vonniesaur
    vonniesaur
    December 6, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

    Oh my god Amber you look so adorable stop

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 6, 2015 at 2:46 am | #

      Don’t stop.

  33. Carla Griffin
    Carla Griffin
    December 6, 2015 at 12:51 am | #

    It’s okay Willis, overalls are coming back in.

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 6:45 am | #

      That’s an interesting point. Were they coming back in when Willis drew this one, or did he / Amber predict a fashion trend?

  34. Hippienerd
    Hippienerd
    December 6, 2015 at 12:55 am | #

    You could say that Amber’s wearing her best over all outfit…

  35. metaceryn
    metaceryn
    December 6, 2015 at 1:22 am | #

    Two years from now we’ll laugh about how incredibly dated this strip is. “Snapchat indeed.”

    (Or two years from now this comment will look incredibly presumptuous. Just covering the bases.)

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      December 6, 2015 at 2:11 am | #

      well, the page is already 4 months old, techically.

  36. Victor Riley
    Victor Riley
    December 6, 2015 at 1:24 am | #

    I know what you mean… I always loved the look of overalls on women, I think they look so cute.

    Guys in overalls, however, look like complete rednecks. *shrug*

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      December 6, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

      or construction workers.

  37. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    December 6, 2015 at 1:34 am | #

    Amber flippin’ amazes me.

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      December 6, 2015 at 2:26 am | #

      I’m head over heels for that girl!

    • That One Guy
      That One Guy
      December 6, 2015 at 5:04 am | #

      “flippin'”

      ohhhh i get it

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 6:46 am | #

      She spins me right round, baby.

    • Noclevername
      Noclevername
      December 6, 2015 at 5:28 pm | #

      She’s on a roll! I’d give her a tumble. Even if she could pommel me into submission like a horse.

      But we wouldn’t swing.

  38. Professor Fate
    Professor Fate
    December 6, 2015 at 2:21 am | #

    I’m wondering how and where she developed such technique and agility. Are there circus performers in her background? Is she a natural athlete? Is this yet another manifestation of the trauma she suffered at the hands of her ratbastard father? Furthermore, how did she shrug off the beating she took saving Becky? He recuperative powers must be extraordinary.

    • Professor Fate
      Professor Fate
      December 6, 2015 at 2:25 am | #

      Rahhhgh! ‘HER recuperative powers …’. Stupid tablet keyboard.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      December 6, 2015 at 3:12 am | #

      Ever since the Convenience Store incident, she’s been pushing herself to never be afraid or helpless again, both mentally and physically. This has included a regime of intense physical training (of which Blaine is only very partly aware). I consider it highly likely that she taught herself after obsessively studying the appropriate YouTUBE videos.

    • Amazi-Stool
      Amazi-Stool
      December 6, 2015 at 1:00 pm | #

      Amazi-Girl/Amber did track and field in highschool.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        December 6, 2015 at 9:39 pm | #

        She also did self defence classes instead of getting therapy, after her run-in with Robber Sal.

  39. shoeboxjeddy
    shoeboxjeddy
    December 6, 2015 at 2:36 am | #

    You’re wrong. Overalls infantilize everyone who wears them. Which is fine if that person is a child, but pretty bad looking if they’re not. The only exception is farmers, but that’s a whole look. Not a random item of clothing.

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 6, 2015 at 2:49 am | #

      I think that’s only true if you’re born wearing overalls.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        December 6, 2015 at 3:06 am | #

        In which case, SOMETHING went horribly wrong SOMEWHERE.

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          December 6, 2015 at 6:47 am | #

          My wife says Keith Richards was born with a lit cigarette in his mouth.

  40. Bagge
    Bagge
    December 6, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

    Ambster the hamster!

    I’m so happy to see her do cool stuff as Amber rather than Amazigirl

  41. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    December 6, 2015 at 3:08 am | #

    Meanwhile, some college student recording a skype session accidentally catches Amber in the background outside of his window. Obliviously posts it to YouTube. One of his ten subs notices it and it goes viral.

  42. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 6, 2015 at 3:10 am | #

    Y’know, it’s moments like this that make me think it is so sad that Amber thinks that she’s a monster and normally feels that she has to hide all her potential under masks of one kind or another. She’s smart, physically able and has the soul of a true hero. If only she could start believing in herself and believing that she isn’t a shorter and cuter female version of Blaine, she’d be a lot happier.

    PREDICTION: Carla was looking out of the right window at the right moment and this just adds to her suspicions.

    • Reathry
      Reathry
      December 6, 2015 at 4:36 am | #

      What if instead of Carla it was Daisy who was looking.

  43. SDGlyph
    SDGlyph
    December 6, 2015 at 3:16 am | #

    Heh, I love the way the wind musses Amber’s hair into the Amazi-Girl style as she lands. Nice touch.

  44. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 6, 2015 at 3:39 am | #

    A nice touch in panel 3 – Amber automatically taking the formal gymnastic ‘end-rest’ posture. That indicates that, at some point, she had formal gym training so that she has that move drilled into her hind-brain.

  45. Lapin
    Lapin
    December 6, 2015 at 4:11 am | #

    IDK what it is, but there is something about Danny, where, whenever he gets any screen time, I lose interest entirely, no matter who else is involved. He’s just so….bleh. He blehs up the place.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 11:39 am | #

      He is pretty vanilla. I like that he’s just kind of this goob goobing his way through his goob life, but not like Marten from QC where he’s never allowed to do or so anything outside his boundary as straight man.

      And, yeah, being the only bi dude in anything I follow kind of adds an automatic level of importance to him for me.

  46. Reathry
    Reathry
    December 6, 2015 at 4:31 am | #

    I just want to say that I love how Amber looks as she lands in the first panel, she looks both equal amounts of adorable and awesome.

    I also just realized that despite the image she gives off, the large chested, mousy, nerdy girl, she’s probably the most agile of the entire cast.

  47. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    December 6, 2015 at 4:32 am | #

    His bone was rendered super dense in a lab accident.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 9:33 am | #

      Well no wonder Amber’s into him.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        December 7, 2015 at 4:46 pm | #

        Think you may have that backwards.

  48. Flugendorf
    Flugendorf
    December 6, 2015 at 5:03 am | #

    Does no one else suspect she’s dreaming or hallucinating? The dreaminess of the first panel suggests it to me. This is like the “naked in public” dream for her.

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      December 6, 2015 at 8:46 am | #

      Not really. Amazi Girl has pulled off stuff like this before. Besides, the dream sequences have been pretty clearly dream sequences from what I remember. (Like Joyce having glowing eyes, or the background rapidly changing on Danny)

  49. kirbilius clausius
    kirbilius clausius
    December 6, 2015 at 6:02 am | #

    is she really practicing / checking her health

    or is she reliving the chase because she is angry that sal saves her

    • Just Me
      Just Me
      December 6, 2015 at 9:10 am | #

      She seems happy to me. I think she just likes to get out and exercise every so often.

      And perhaps this is a sign that the distance between Amber and Amazi-Girl is not as great as it used to be.

  50. Liliet
    Liliet
    December 6, 2015 at 6:20 am | #

    Amber no. Just because people don’t en masse look out of the windows on the regular doesn’t mean there isn’t a single one in an entire building, which is all it could take to uncover your secret / make you a celebrity (yay video recording!)

    Do you WANT to get caught?

    …actually that probably would be an objectively better outcome >_>

    • Kheldan
      Kheldan
      December 6, 2015 at 11:57 am | #


      It may be entirely possible that subconsciously she does want to get caught, to be forced to have both facets of her total personality (Plain-Old-Amber and Amazi-girl) merged together finally into ‘Amber the Amazi-girl’.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        December 6, 2015 at 12:08 pm | #

        But that leads directly to Danny being in a hideous death trap in order to lure her to her doom.

        • John
          John
          December 6, 2015 at 1:29 pm | #

          That’s already happened. But it was a villain from her civilian life, not her costumed life.

  51. Toes14
    Toes14
    December 6, 2015 at 10:27 am | #

    Dani: “So if nobody uses windows anymore, then we should be able to f**k right here out in broad daylight with nobody noticing!”

    Amber: “Hmmm, let me go get my mask first . . .”

  52. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    December 6, 2015 at 11:40 am | #

    Willis, you’re wrrr-rr…

    You’re wrrrRRRRR-RRR…!

    Dammit, he’s RIGHT! Overalls ARE awesome!

  53. Samuel Larkin
    Samuel Larkin
    December 6, 2015 at 12:05 pm | #

    Perhaps Amber could ditch the costume, and take crime-fighting tips from a certain baseball bat wielding roommate of Joyce.

    • tim guegue
      tim guegue
      December 6, 2015 at 1:54 pm | #

      Sarah would never do that. It would risk revealing her secret identity as the Cudgeler, the mysterious vigilante who terrified the local criminals last year. The mess with her roommate attracted too much attention, which is why she stopped doing it.

  54. Adam Black
    Adam Black
    December 6, 2015 at 12:40 pm | #

    They are cute together.
    Its a shame they have to break up

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 12:45 pm | #

      Silly me. I forgot that Danny doesn’t get to be a real bisexual until he fucks a man.

      • Usayasha
        Usayasha
        December 6, 2015 at 9:43 pm | #

        It’s not that Danny won’t be bisexual until he fuck a dude, but that Willis wants to get two male main characters together rather than pairing Ethan together with an extra (again) and he made Danny bisexual for the sole purpose of doing that.

        Though I suppose it may be a fake out, and Ethan just ends up with Mike or Joe or something. It’s just that the Danny/Ethan thing is kind of heavily foreshadowed; it’s the banner above the comic for me as I type this.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          December 6, 2015 at 10:11 pm | #

          It’s great knowing that the only reason Danny’s bi is because Ethan needed a boyfriend.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          December 7, 2015 at 9:36 am | #

          Okay let me try this again. I think my previous post was too antagonistic towards you.

          So like, Danny’s bi because there’s a lack of queer men in this series (not a complaint. It’s lady-centric, and that’s ultimately a consequence of this being a work by one dude who only has so much panel time), but that doesn’t necessitate that he needs to get with Ethan. He still gets to be a queer dude if he isn’t in a visibly, easily identifiable queer relationship.

  55. Kyle
    Kyle
    December 6, 2015 at 1:18 pm | #

    amber where’d u even learn to do fuckin sick gymnastics like that

  56. tkrr
    tkrr
    December 6, 2015 at 1:37 pm | #

    You just knew there’d have to be a hint of whatever her insane training regimen must be.

  57. MadFlenser
    MadFlenser
    December 6, 2015 at 4:14 pm | #

    Oh man… I know I am going to get told off for this. But the acrobatics depicted are really bothering my gymnastics sensibilities. There is no movement I can think of where you can find that sequence of stills. I know, I know “comic physics and dont be negative” yadda yadda, but it really irks me. Even disregarding the Batman level of leg strength for that starting position to work, the way she twists just is not possible :/
    Sorry about this dumb post 😛

    • Liliet
      Liliet
      December 6, 2015 at 7:53 pm | #

      It’s… Amazi-magic?

      oh man, I want this ‘verse to suddenly have magic XD

      (I have done gymnastics only a little bit as a kid, but I honestly can’t imagine how that works either. She… twirls in mid-air, then magically flies up an does a backflip? Whenever I explain some part of this sequence to myself, there’s another one that doesn’t fit at all. Amazi-magic is definitely it)

      • MadFlenser
        MadFlenser
        December 7, 2015 at 2:30 am | #

        Not only that, her Starting Position is set up for a leftwards twist, and yet her hands are clearly twisting to the right! Aaargh this bothers me xD
        I guess you explanation is as good as any :)h

  58. Tenn
    Tenn
    December 6, 2015 at 5:16 pm | #

    *reads alt text*

    You’re wuh.

    …

    You’re wuh-wuh.

    You… are… wuh-rruuuuh… uh.

    You. Are. Wwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooiiight!

    Fascinating!

  59. Noclevername
    Noclevername
    December 6, 2015 at 5:24 pm | #

    “Oh, it’s just you.”

    Yeah, Danny gets that a lot, I’d bet.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 8:22 pm | #

      Dorothy said that exact line on prom night.

  60. CodenameJD
    CodenameJD
    December 6, 2015 at 6:55 pm | #

    Huzzah! I’ve only recently gotten into DoA (when I finished a two day binge of all the comics Becky was telling her dad how awesome she’s gonna be), and from what I’ve seen it seems like I’m very much in a minority here, but Amber & Danny’s relationship is my favourite thing about the series. I love them together and want to see more.

    I just want them to actually discuss Danny’s sexuality so it doesn’t become a problem (i.e. keeping secrets, her getting worried about getting hurt again like with Ethan, etc.), and for them to openly be in a relationship, rather than the deal of him only dating Amazi-Girl.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 6, 2015 at 7:21 pm | #

      Danny fans unite!

      We’re just 12 members shy of a double digit counter!

      • Someone
        Someone
        December 7, 2015 at 9:41 am | #

        But we have the Yaoi fans now! That should increase our numbers.

  61. Noah
    Noah
    December 6, 2015 at 8:03 pm | #

    Just what on Earth was happening in that third still? She’s pointed backwards. O.o

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      December 6, 2015 at 9:31 pm | #

      Back somersault with 1/2 twist in layout.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        December 6, 2015 at 10:11 pm | #

        Or is it a forward somersault with full twist in layout?

  62. Psychotic Mantis
    Psychotic Mantis
    December 6, 2015 at 11:08 pm | #

    Yay! More Amber and Danny stuff!

  63. Paul1963
    Paul1963
    December 6, 2015 at 11:14 pm | #

    I’m just amazed she’s able to do that only a few days after she got hit by a car and nearly got her arm wrenched from its socket.
    As for the glasses, well, I need mine to drive and recognize faces that are more than 20 feet away, but when I sit down at the computer, off they come. On a day where I don’t go out, and read instead of watching TV or playing Xbox in the morning, I might not put them on for hours. Amber’s vision may be like mine.

  64. Wafflebob
    Wafflebob
    December 8, 2015 at 6:06 pm | #

    Always loved women in overalls

  65. Malasombra
    Malasombra
    December 9, 2015 at 6:56 am | #

    I love Amber without glasses!

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