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by David M Willis on September 19, 2016 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Glower Vacuum

└ Tags: amazi-girl, ryan, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 19, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Bringing a dropkick to a carfight again, Amazi-Girl?

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      September 19, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

      I guess that’s better than bringing piss to a shitfight.

      (Silicon Valley reference aside, that doesn’t sound like it would have any winners)

    • deathjavu
      deathjavu
      September 19, 2016 at 12:53 am | #

      Well she won the last fight, so… go with what works.

      Interesting that she calls Amber her friend when Amber seems to largely view Amazi-Girl as a place for all the negative aspects of herself.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        September 19, 2016 at 3:40 am | #

        Well, there was an ‘um’ in there. She needed an explanation, not a truth.
        Why she felt the need to explain herself, I dunno. Kid reads too many superhero comics.

      • Andorxor
        Andorxor
        September 19, 2016 at 4:55 am | #

        Amber shes Amazigirl as a way to lock all the negative aspects that are Amber away.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        September 19, 2016 at 2:59 pm | #

        It’s much the same way Superman drops a line about how he flew Clark Kent to safety.

        Amazi-Girl and Amber think of themselves as distinct entities, we just don’t know what that means to her yet.

      • ilora
        ilora
        September 19, 2016 at 5:46 pm | #

        I think she’s referring to Sal. After all, she just asked Sal to borrow her phone a couple strips ago.

        • Darastrix
          Darastrix
          September 19, 2016 at 6:27 pm | #

          She’s referring to Amber, the person who wrote the locator app. AG downloaded the app her “friend” wrote onto Sal’s phone.

          • ilora
            ilora
            September 21, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

            Ooooh, I see! Thanks! ^_^

    • Aeron
      Aeron
      September 19, 2016 at 1:42 am | #

      I see Malaya has arrived on the scene.

      • StirThePot
        StirThePot
        September 19, 2016 at 11:05 am | #

        Oh man, can you imagine? Malaya is the person he called to come help, fights off Sal, Marcie catches up, has to choose between them, muddied by the fact that Malaya is taking the side of her childhood bully.

        • TheAnonymousGuy
          TheAnonymousGuy
          September 19, 2016 at 1:04 pm | #

          Talk about crash course

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 19, 2016 at 4:11 pm | #

          Ryan wasn’t her childhood bully.

          • ety
            ety
            September 19, 2016 at 8:53 pm | #

            besides, I think it’s pretty clear that if it came down to actually having to pick sides, Marcie wouldn’t even hesitate.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 19, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    “You didn’t see…fanfic did you? Because I want you to know that it’s set in an alternate universe where those characters are all over 18!”

    • Dean
      Dean
      September 19, 2016 at 7:45 am | #

      “I need closure on that Steve/Bucky hurt-comfort slashfic. Can you email part 2 to me later on?”

  3. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    September 19, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    It’s the truck driver who killed Ruth! HE’S BACK! JUDGEMENT DAY HAS ARRIVED!

    • TheTJ
      TheTJ
      September 19, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      Either that or the driver from Something Positive is making their way through Indiana.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

        At least it wasn’t a truck this time.

      • RIK
        RIK
        September 19, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

        Unlikely. S*P traditionally uses red cars for that sort of thing.

        • TheTJ
          TheTJ
          September 19, 2016 at 12:16 am | #

          Yeah, but they got flown in for the guest appearance and the rental place was all out of red cars…

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            September 19, 2016 at 2:48 am | #

            The driver was trying to take care of that…

        • David
          David
          September 19, 2016 at 7:57 am | #

          They are not red when fresh out of the car wash.

      • blaidemaiden
        blaidemaiden
        September 19, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

        Isn’t that driver from Something Positive dead?

      • JetstreamGW
        JetstreamGW
        September 19, 2016 at 12:56 am | #

        Naw, Avogadro is dead.

        • Stephen R. Bierce
          Stephen R. Bierce
          September 19, 2016 at 1:10 am | #

          But Avogadro was already dead when Drew got himself run’dover.
          But then that’s the Walkyverse, not the Dumbiverse. All bets are off.

      • TheDoctor
        TheDoctor
        September 19, 2016 at 5:03 am | #

        No the driver from Something positive is dead remember

    • Aeron
      Aeron
      September 19, 2016 at 1:42 am | #

      i can’t stop laughing.

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      September 19, 2016 at 7:36 am | #

      It’s Rayne and his Audibot from LICD.

      • Dr. T
        Dr. T
        September 19, 2016 at 9:39 pm | #

        As questionable as Rayne is, he would never support anyone like Ryan.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      September 19, 2016 at 9:46 am | #

      act with honor

  4. miados
    miados
    September 19, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    oh geeze he got in…… quick take a new picture.

    • Some1
      Some1
      September 19, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

      I think the picture is the least of her worries.

      • miados
        miados
        September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

        she’s been car hopping before. she’s used to it.

        • Some1
          Some1
          September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

          no…he could have figured out her identity….

          • miados
            miados
            September 19, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

            yeah but if thats the case all the more reason to get his photo.

            • SgtWadeyWilson
              SgtWadeyWilson
              September 19, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

              Then you both have leverage against the other, deadlocked in a stalemate. “Back to square one. Scary square.”

              If she loses Amazi-Girl, she’s likely to snap. Nobody wants that. Well some some… things do, but nothing I’d be sure about calling a person.

              • JoyceParty
                JoyceParty
                September 19, 2016 at 3:52 am | #

                Snap hasn’t been implemented, yet.

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 5:16 am | #

                  You have used an unfortunate name.

                • JoyceParty
                  JoyceParty
                  September 19, 2016 at 7:00 pm | #

                  Nope! The party involving Ryan was a party Joyce went to. The party where Dorothy got schwasty, Dina and Becky got together, and Ruth forced everyone to watch Frozen is the Joyceparty.

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 8:56 pm | #

                  True, and what a fantastic party that was, but the prominent thing in mind for now when someone says “Joyce”+”Party” is the Ryan incident, but, perhaps, that won’t be true after this part of the story is over.

          • Najaru
            Najaru
            September 19, 2016 at 12:41 am | #

            He described her as “some crazy superhero bongo” in the previous panel. Didn’t sounds like he knew her identity.

            • Najaru
              Najaru
              September 19, 2016 at 12:42 am | #

              huh, that is an interesting autocorrect

              • Orion Fury
                Orion Fury
                September 19, 2016 at 1:54 am | #

                New to the comments? There’s more.

              • Reltzik
                Reltzik
                September 19, 2016 at 1:55 am | #

                It’s a comments filter. Willis didn’t like people calling characters b-words so every instance gets replaced with “bongo”.

                There’s also something — I don’t know what — that gets replaced with “glistening phallus”.

                And the c-word that refers to female-genitalia and doubles as an extremely derogatory reference to a woman gets your post automatically deleted outright.

                Is there any I’m missing?

                • Orion Fury
                  Orion Fury
                  September 19, 2016 at 2:13 am | #

                  I think I saw that the phallus one was removed. Another filter is a Street Fighter movie quote, from when the big bad was giving a speech to the heroine about how the day he came into her life was the most important day for her, but for him is was just another day.

                • Slartibeast Button, BIA
                  Slartibeast Button, BIA
                  September 19, 2016 at 2:25 am | #

                  “No capes!” will likely go on the list soon.

                • podian
                  podian
                  September 19, 2016 at 3:41 am | #

                  No, “No capes!” isn’t harmful to anyone, it’s just a meme.

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 3:49 am | #

                  I could be wrong… but is that one particular Rick Astley youtube link on that list?

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  September 19, 2016 at 7:27 am | #

                  “No capes” isn’t harmful, but neither is the “For her, it was … ” bit.

                  That got overused and annoying, so it got zapped.

                  Is the SJW one still working?

                • Andy
                  Andy
                  September 19, 2016 at 9:24 am | #

                  The names of the Libertarian nominees for president and vice president in the 2016 USA election contest are replaced with the names of the Democratic nominees. I think because Willis was tired of people spamming comments with just those names and “2016”.

            • DoubleW
              DoubleW
              September 19, 2016 at 12:45 am | #

              Yeah, but if there’s names in the contact list he could put things together with some effort. Or do worse things than just figure out her identity.

              • miados
                miados
                September 19, 2016 at 12:49 am | #

                does he look like the type of person who puts effort into things?

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:04 am | #

                  A little bit, yeah, he did spend at least an hour trying to drug and rape some random girl at a party and that was clearly his goal in going to the party so he also put effort into acquiring what he needed and finding an appropriate party and target prior to his hour long attempt on said target..

                • miados
                  miados
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:15 am | #

                  as opposed to trying to get legitimate one night stands and such.

                • Reltzik
                  Reltzik
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:56 am | #

                  An hour of of effort is still an hour of effort.

                • Bicycle Bill
                  Bicycle Bill
                  September 19, 2016 at 4:21 am | #

                  miados, at the risk of sounding like a certified prude, just what is considered a “legitimate” one night stand?

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 5:18 am | #

                  @Bicycle Bill, I’d wager one that was consensual on both ends and not… you know… rape.

                • miados
                  miados
                  September 19, 2016 at 11:14 am | #

                  ety is right. two people hooking up and having sex once then splitting without any rape would be a legitimate one.

                • Cerberus
                  Cerberus
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:48 pm | #

                  CONTENT WARNING: Awful rape stuff

                  Yeah, but for rapists, the turn-on isn’t accessing consensual sex with a willing partner. The turn-on is the power in victimizing someone and violating their boundaries.

                  One of my ex’s rapists was the living embodiment of this principle because he was full of charisma and very charming. And he had people who were very attracted to him and down for all sorts of consensual activities. So every time, he would instead push and push against the boundaries at the edges because for him the enjoyment wasn’t having nice consensual sex, it was making a person feel violated and like trash. The fun for him was the rape and so he would go out of his way to turn a consensual encounter into a non-consensual one even if that took way more work.

                • Silly Name
                  Silly Name
                  September 19, 2016 at 2:55 pm | #

                  @Bicycle Bill: A consensual night of sex between consenting adults where both mad clear they weren’t interested in a relationship and just wanted to have fun.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            September 19, 2016 at 1:52 am | #

            Yeah, he might have learned something about her. But that’s nothing that percussive memory maintenance can’t solve.

            • Clif
              Clif
              September 19, 2016 at 4:25 pm | #

              “Percussive memory maintenance” sounds like a very useful technique. Do you have a natural way with words?

              • Reltzik
                Reltzik
                September 19, 2016 at 7:57 pm | #

                Uh…. does Broca’s Area count? If so, yes.

    • J
      J
      September 19, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

      Don’t forget she sent the photo to Dorothy for verification. Also, someone might have seen the photo on whatever social media she used during the fight, just before he deleted it.

      • Random832
        Random832
        September 19, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

        He deleted the higher-resolution photo that she took during the confrontation, that she hadn’t sent to Dorothy.

        • Derek
          Derek
          September 19, 2016 at 12:34 am | #

          Big deal, she’s a computer scientist. Recovering deleted data is trivial. When you “delete” a file, all it does is mark that space is reusable, it doesn’t actually remove any of the data unless you use some sort of data wiping utility, which scarface certainly did not.

          • miados
            miados
            September 19, 2016 at 12:41 am | #

            yeah. unless you do a mass bit/byte rewrite with a program it can be found. something like turn everything to a 0 then a 1 then a 0 again

            • ety
              ety
              September 19, 2016 at 12:48 am | #

              I think trivial is still a bit of a stretch, but yes, it isn’t usually difficult under normal circumstances. That’s clearly the least of her worries though “How long…” is the more important question to her.

              • merbrat
                merbrat
                September 19, 2016 at 1:10 am | #

                My friend *just* did this for me, tonight! Not impossible.

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:20 am | #

                  I know. I’ve done it quite a bit myself.

            • Positron
              Positron
              September 19, 2016 at 5:26 am | #

              Problem is that most phones use internal memory these days, which means that in most cases you won’t have the block device access you need, and unless you’ve already got some means of streaming block device level access to another system or a chroot with recovery software already installed (or I suppose an Android version of block level recovery software on a rooted phone) you at the very least have to risk overwriting or triggering remapping of the target memory to install suitable software for recovery…

              This probably doesn’t apply here though, given the time this was set in Amber’s phone probably requires a microSD card for photos, which works well for recovery, but just about the only way you’d get it back on a modern phone (remember even modern phones with memory cards will use the internal storage first) would be FBI level forensics.

              • Tan
                Tan
                September 19, 2016 at 5:54 am | #

                “given the time this was set in”

                The time this is set in is -now-. Dumbing of Age uses Comic Book Time. When the first strip was posted, it was set in 2010, but presently the current strip is set in 2016 and the first strip is retroactively set in 2016. Four years from now, the first strip, this strip, and the then-current strip will all be set in 2020.

                (Unless in-comic New Years rolls around by then, in which case the then-current strip would be set in 2020 while the first strip and this strip would be retroactively set in 2019)

              • DonDueed
                DonDueed
                September 19, 2016 at 6:00 am | #

                Except “the time this was set in” is now… it’s always now in the Dumbiverse (well, flashbacks excluded).

                However, Amber/AG’s phone isn’t a particularly new one, so what you said still pertains.

                • DonDueed
                  DonDueed
                  September 19, 2016 at 6:02 am | #

                  Aaand I didn’t refresh.

                • Deanatay
                  Deanatay
                  September 19, 2016 at 9:54 am | #

                  Regardless of the year, we’ll soon be caught up to the correct month (October), and soon maybe even the correct DAY!

                  (Hoping they meet on Halloween OH PLEASE)

                • Tan
                  Tan
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:41 pm | #

                  @Deanatay: If I recall correctly, someone mathed it out with specific in-comic references to august and october, and we’re currently on early AM October 4th. Unless we hit a pretty giant timeskip, this year’s synch date will most likely be either Oct 4 or MAYBE Oct 5.

                • Tan
                  Tan
                  September 19, 2016 at 2:05 pm | #

                  Out of boredom, I decided to check previous synch dates:

                  2010 does not have a synch date due to not having started yet, so the first strip is closest. (Sep 10 real date vs Aug 29 comic date)

                  2011 does not have a synch date due to not updating 7 days a week at that time. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/activist/ comes closest (Sep 2 real date vs Sep 3 comic date)

                  September 12, 2012: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/06-strange-beerfellows/plan/

                  September 18, 2013: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/junior/

                  2014 does not have a synch date due to flashbacking. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/un-locked/ comes closest. (Sep 21 real date vs Sep 23 comic date)

                  September 27, 2015: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/admirably/

                  Feel free to find whatever significance you will.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            September 19, 2016 at 2:06 am | #

            Yeah, it’s very trivial. All you do is bring up your camera ap, make sure the flash is engaged, turn the camera on him, and snap another OSHITCAR!

          • -Sentinel-
            -Sentinel-
            September 19, 2016 at 9:26 am | #

            >When you “delete” a file, all it does is mark that space is reusable

            Huh, interesting. I always wondered how they did it in TV series.

          • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
            DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
            September 19, 2016 at 9:35 am | #

            I think AG’s more worried about what else he might have been doing on her smartphone while he took the time to locate and delete the photo….

          • GDwarf
            GDwarf
            September 19, 2016 at 9:50 am | #

            Flash memory, as used in phones, is even more difficult to delete, to the point where it’s difficult for current technology to actually say it has been deleted and overwritten.

            Still, phones don’t tend to be overburdened with storage, which means every minute it’s powered on noticeably increases the chances of data overwriting the “wiped” blocks, and given how JPEG compression works, all it takes is a single bad block to make the entire picture pretty much useless.

      • Silly Name
        Silly Name
        September 19, 2016 at 3:20 pm | #

        The problem isn’t the photo.

        The problem is that Ryan deleted it, which means he grabbed the phone before it screenlocked, meaning he could have seen enough to figure out who AG really is: he has had access, for a limited time, to all of Amber’s personal information.

    • Joey245
      Joey245
      September 19, 2016 at 10:02 am | #

      Didn’t she text the picture to Dorothy? So there’s still at least one copy of the photo floating around somewhere. Assuming Dorothy didn’t delete the text, she could download and upload the image, right?

      Besides, I’d be more worried about the car at this point.

      • Doki
        Doki
        September 19, 2016 at 5:45 pm | #

        She sent Dorothy the picture she took from far away. She got a closer one a few strips later, which is presumably the one he deleted.

  5. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    September 19, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Did Douchebro’s friend just try to run him over, too?

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      He knows too much, and they know his face now.

      • Some1
        Some1
        September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

        it turns out to be Frieda, who has decided to murder Ryan in order to keep him from compromising the election.

        • Slartibeast Button, BIA
          Slartibeast Button, BIA
          September 19, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

          For the Greater Good of the Cause.

          • Some1
            Some1
            September 19, 2016 at 12:16 am | #

            would Amazi-Girl go out of her way to keep someone like Ryan from being murdered? I know Batman would, but how close is she to Batman in terms of morality?

            • Tacos
              Tacos
              September 19, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

              Well if she’s Christian Bale Batman then she doesn’t have to save him. Just ask Ra’s.

            • Mouse
              Mouse
              September 19, 2016 at 1:40 am | #

              Purposely kill? No. Hesitate so he dies? Yes.

              • Deanatay
                Deanatay
                September 19, 2016 at 9:57 am | #

                …or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

                Yep, it matters.

                • SgtWadeyWilson
                  SgtWadeyWilson
                  September 19, 2016 at 6:47 pm | #

                  Amazi-Bot? Asimo-Girl?

          • HatFullOSky
            HatFullOSky
            September 19, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

            The Greeeeaaaaater Goooooooood

            • Rukduk
              Rukduk
              September 19, 2016 at 1:06 am | #

              And the Ethereals. The greater good and the Ethereals.

              • Disloyal Subject
                Disloyal Subject
                September 19, 2016 at 3:44 am | #

                Don’t they tend to be considered one and the same unless you follow Farsight?

        • Orion Fury
          Orion Fury
          September 19, 2016 at 1:57 am | #

          I’m going to believe this is the case for the next 24 hours for much needed levity.

  6. SailorCakes
    SailorCakes
    September 19, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    And enters random car!

  7. ety
    ety
    September 19, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    AAAAAaaaaAAAAaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!! No.

  8. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    September 19, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Now that is most definitely illegal.

  9. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    September 19, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    I’d call that a…SHOCKING SWERVE!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 19, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      Yay!

  10. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 19, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Hopefully when she sent it to Dorothy, she did so in a manner that means Dorothy now has a copy on her own phone.

    • Haven
      Haven
      September 19, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

      …how else would one do it?

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        September 19, 2016 at 12:22 am | #

        Uploaded it to an account and sent a hyperlink, maybe?

        • Anorak
          Anorak
          September 19, 2016 at 2:44 am | #

          and what sort of account would have it still only stored locally?

          • Willoughby Chase
            Willoughby Chase
            September 19, 2016 at 3:17 am | #

            Paranoid idiots like me who don’t trust DropBox … I tend to upload my pictures onto my hard-disks.

            She’s a CS Major so she might rented time on a ftp server somewhere so she can store stuff. Or even a SSH tunnel to her own machine.

          • Positron
            Positron
            September 19, 2016 at 5:28 am | #

            Doesn’t need to be local only if he deleted the remote copy…

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 19, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

      She didn’t send the close up one, only the one taken from a distance 🙁

    • DinaWho
      DinaWho
      September 19, 2016 at 12:26 am | #

      The picture Dorothy has is the one she took from further away back when she saw him across the room in the rally crowd. She took a picture of him later when she confronted him in the lobby that was much closer up. That picture is gone or at the very least likely a challenge to retrieve even for someone who has substantial computer skills. The picture she sent Dorothy would be on Dorothy’s phone regardless, but it’s a lot lower quality for however she planned than the close-up she got.

      She could probably take another shot of him now that they caught up with him, but if he was under visible duress in it that might make people sympathetic to him. :/

      • trlkly
        trlkly
        September 19, 2016 at 12:43 am | #

        If it’s still on her phone, it’s not really that much of a challenge to retrieve. Pull out the SD card, stick it in a computer on read only, then use an undelete program.

        The question, though, is whether it’s still there. Once deleted, a file can be overwritten at any time. Whether it gets so is basically random, in my experience.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          September 19, 2016 at 12:47 am | #

          Yeah, any new data written for an incoming text message, or anything else like that could end up overwriting it permanently

          • trlkly
            trlkly
            September 19, 2016 at 1:04 am | #

            Hence pull it out right away.

            Assuming, of course, she has her photos set to save on her SD card. If it’s on the internal memory, then all she can do is turn off the phone.

        • DinaWho
          DinaWho
          September 19, 2016 at 2:12 pm | #

          The ‘challenge to retrieve’ is if he managed to delete it. Amber has enough computer skills that she might be able to retrieve it if it hasn’t been overwritten yet, while that would be beyond the average person’s skillset. Given how not too much time seems to have passed, that may be more possible than otherwise.

    • CJ
      CJ
      September 19, 2016 at 2:08 am | #

      As she said “uploading” directly after taking the shot she obviously uploaded it either to a social media account or some cloud or other. With both, retrieving it is a piece of cake technicality as they never really delete stuff. It might be more difficult in terms of getting the respective provider to do so.

      And the real question is, how did he manage to delete her phone? As they caught him, there can only have been a few minutes between this page and the last. Was her lock screen not engaged? Resetting the phone also need a pw usually. How did he figure that out? Dabs on the screen?
      Did he take screenshots of her contacts and mailed them to himself?

      Did we see anyone driving a Mercedes?

      • CJ
        CJ
        September 19, 2016 at 2:22 am | #

        I should read more carefully: he deleted the photo, not the phone.

      • trlkly
        trlkly
        September 19, 2016 at 3:58 am | #

        She said she was uploading, yes. But it seemed not to be working very quickly.

        But, even if it did make it, he could have deleted the photo there, too. And those sites do not make recovery easy.

  11. CriticalQuit
    CriticalQuit
    September 19, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    This can only end well.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 19, 2016 at 2:08 am | #

      In the long term, the only possible outcome is death.

      Or puppies.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        September 19, 2016 at 3:48 am | #

        Well
        If we go long term enough death is the eventual outcome anyway
        I don’t think there are any humans with a verified age over 122 years, so a one-century timeskip means all these characters would probably be down for the count

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 19, 2016 at 8:06 pm | #

          Puppies will inherit the Dumbverse.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            September 19, 2016 at 9:19 pm | #

            No, kittens will. Specifically that one kitten that will never die from the suicide warning page.

            Drifting through space after the sun collapses, unable to die. Forever.

  12. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    September 19, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    You got a Fast Car/Fast enough for you to fly away/We gotta make a decision/Leave tonight or live and die this way…

    • M-M
      M-M
      September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      I remember when we were driving… Driving in your car… At speeds so fast… nearly thought I was drunk…

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      September 19, 2016 at 3:07 am | #

      In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
      At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines
      Sprung from cages out on highway nine,
      Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin’ out over the line
      H-Oh, Baby this town rips the bones from your back
      It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
      We gotta get out while we’re young
      `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        September 19, 2016 at 4:27 am | #

        Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
        I want to guard your dreams and visions.
        Just wrap your legs ’round these velvet rims
        And strap your hands ‘cross my engines!
        Together we could break this trap
        We’ll run till we drop, baby we’ll never go back
        Ho-Oh, Will you walk with me out on the wire
        `Cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider…

        I always did like that song.

  13. Doopyboop
    Doopyboop
    September 19, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    On the plus side, Dorothy still has the copy of the photo she was sent! It’s not as good as the up close version but it should still be good!

    • ety
      ety
      September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      …and on the VERY OBVIOUS BAD SIDE, He was likely inside Amber’s phone and maybe (almost certainly) long enough to potentially find identifying information.

      • Marie
        Marie
        September 19, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

        On the other hand, he was fleeing. He might not have bothered yet (he’d be free to do that once his ride showed up and he was out of there, after all)

        • ety
          ety
          September 19, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

          He obviously had more than enough time to delete his own photo and make a call and he may have seen photos of Amber, while he was at it.

          • trlkly
            trlkly
            September 19, 2016 at 12:47 am | #

            Deleting his own photo takes seconds, assuming it was still up. Calling someone doesn’t take too long, either.

            And, as someone else said, why isn’t he saying something about knowing her identity to get Sal to let him go?

            Maybe he’s seen what she looks like, but that’s not going to be enough to identify her. It depends on how much identifying information she had in her phone. On mine, the only way to get my info would be my email address, and, unlike mine, Amber’s may not be her name @google.com.

            • ety
              ety
              September 19, 2016 at 12:51 am | #

              Most phones switch over to the next photo when one is deleted. Any of her photos has the potential to be very problematic. He might not know who she is right now, but he might have enough information to figure it out later or to track down someone she knows…like Danny, for instance.

              • trlkly
                trlkly
                September 19, 2016 at 1:01 am | #

                Yeah, he might have contact info, and then could figure it out from there. But having seen photos would tell him nothing. Not until he runs into those people in real life, at least.

                And, even then, the longer that takes, the less likely he’ll remember exactly what they look like to be sure.

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:12 am | #

                  Seeing the photos would tell him both what they look like and likely where to look for them. Remember this is a college campus that they all attend. It wouldn’t take much for him to go “Oh, that’s such-and-such building or place,” at which point he knows exactly where to go to look for them.

                • ety
                  ety
                  September 19, 2016 at 1:14 am | #

                  We played a game on my college campus at one point that on occasion involved identifying specific places on campus from obscure photographs and I can tell you it hardly took anything at all for most people to know where a photograph was taken. Even one that was just the face of a microwave.

              • trlkly
                trlkly
                September 19, 2016 at 1:02 am | #

                (Contact info was supposed to be “contacts info,” as in, he might have info on one of her contacts. Like Dorothy.)

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                September 19, 2016 at 2:55 am | #

                Wouldn’t the last photo taken be the one she s4nt to Dorothy?

                Of course the one before that could be anything.

          • Doopyboop
            Doopyboop
            September 19, 2016 at 12:51 am | #

            He also made the call with his own cellphone, so after deleting the picture he might have left her phone to dial up his buddy.

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            September 19, 2016 at 4:34 am | #

            What Doopyboop said.  His first concern was to delete the picture; mission accomplished.
            Second concern was to get the hell out of Dodge, and he called someone on his own phone to do that.  Why his own phone?  Because no one memorizes phone numbers any more.  Someone gives you their number, you just enter it into your phone and turn it into a contact.
            I don’t think enough time has passed for him to have done anything more than that.

            • Silly Name
              Silly Name
              September 19, 2016 at 3:28 pm | #

              I’m sure what you said (that nobody remembers phone numbers anymore) is going to get me in trouble one of these days: I always had poor memory for this kind of stuff (random strings of numbers, I’m actually good at remembering happenings and names and such), and I still struggle to remember my own phone number without checking first. I don’t even know what my parents’ numbers are.

              And one of these days, I’ll have to make an emergency call to somebody, my phone will be dead and I’d be in deep shit.

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              September 19, 2016 at 4:14 pm | #

              Also, if he called from Amazi-Girls phone, it might not get answered, because the person he called wouldn’t recognize the number.

  14. Ragnarok101
    Ragnarok101
    September 19, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    You know, it doesn’t really matter if the photo is deleted. He’s right there- she merely has to take another. Random Car Person might interfere with that….which is probably why Willis had them arrive when they did.

    • Kole
      Kole
      September 19, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

      She’s not worried that he deleted the photo- I mean it doesn’t matter that he did. She sent it to Dorothy, so she still has it anyway. She just has to redownload it from messages.

      This means he might know she’s AMBER, though, is why she’s wigging out.

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        September 19, 2016 at 1:29 am | #

        AG mentions ‘her friend’s phone’ which is Sal’s. But, I kinda thought AG and Amber each have their own phones. AG’s might have limited contacts, etc. No incriminating pics of Amber, etc, for just this reason. I may be wrong, but… the way she partitions AG/Amber, it makes sense.

        • Liliet
          Liliet
          September 19, 2016 at 3:58 am | #

          Really the only reason to not have two separate phones for Amber and Amazi girl is…. THAT PHONES ARE FUCKING EXPENSIVE.

          SO yeah, Amazi-girl is either boned or not. We’ll see.

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            September 19, 2016 at 4:40 am | #

            You’d be surprised how fast cellphones lose their value.  So long as you don’t have to have the latest model of a phone, previous models — even brand new — are at least a couple hundred bucks less than the newest versions.  And you can get a used, second-hand phone on Craigslist or eBay even cheaper.

            • Gwen
              Gwen
              September 19, 2016 at 7:03 pm | #

              Yeah, but the actual phone line and data plan are not nearly as economical.

        • Silly Name
          Silly Name
          September 19, 2016 at 3:30 pm | #

          Actually, she said “my, um, friend wrote onto another phone”.

          This “friend” is Amber. Amber is Clark Kent, AG is Superman. She’s hiding a piece of information about her real identity (that she is good with coding) to avoid revealing any info that could be used to identify her.

  15. Sarah-2
    Sarah-2
    September 19, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    Dorothy has said pic, he is right in front of you to take another, why are you freaking out – besides the fact your screen lock isn’t INSTANT. Wtf amazi-amber

    Annnd now there’s a car

    • Not a Bumblebee
      Not a Bumblebee
      September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      I think she’s freaking out cause he might have seen photos of her secret identity?

      • miados
        miados
        September 19, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qy4EIvvVj4

    • Spooky
      Spooky
      September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

      Because he could’ve seen her photos, contacts, name, etc.

  16. Shiro
    Shiro
    September 19, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    My guess is that he didn’t find anything compromising, or else he’d be shouting it out immediately to show AG he’s got something on her and try to blackmail her into letting him go.

    That said now, what the fuck car?

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      September 19, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

      Must be the Bros attempting to rescue Ryan, tried to run Sal over, but nearly ended up running over him.(just a theory, it could be anyone else.)

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        September 19, 2016 at 12:16 am | #

        Well he was calling somebody last strip to turn back to pick him up so logically it should be one of the bro clones.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          September 19, 2016 at 12:25 am | #

          Those bros were still lying in a heap when Ryan left. No way they got out fast enough to need to turn around and come back.

          Gotta be somebody else.

          • Tacos
            Tacos
            September 19, 2016 at 12:32 am | #

            Last we saw of them only two of them were fighting Sal and AG. The other one was either forgotten about during the commotion or booked it first chance he got.

            • Fart Captor
              Fart Captor
              September 19, 2016 at 12:34 am | #

              INCORRECT!

              Three pairs of legs, all three are tagged.

              • Clif
                Clif
                September 19, 2016 at 8:13 pm | #

                And after Dorothy got the call, she texted Joyce who ran out and stole car an is now arriving on the scene. Who else would go Squeeee!!! at the sight of Sal and Amazigirl. :-S

                • merbrat
                  merbrat
                  September 19, 2016 at 9:18 pm | #

                  Bahahahaha!!!

  17. Tom T.
    Tom T.
    September 19, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    Amazi-Girl is always adorable, but I did not think this was a moment of “squee!”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 19, 2016 at 2:11 am | #

      A few inches to the left and it would have been a moment of squick.

  18. lia47
    lia47
    September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

    is there any chance ruth is driving that

    i dont see see how she could be but damn

    • lia47
      lia47
      September 19, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      Billie has shotgun

      • John
        John
        September 19, 2016 at 12:39 am | #

        Billie would just spend the whole time trying to figure out who’s pretending to be Amazi-Girl so that she can appear at the same time as Sal.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        September 19, 2016 at 4:06 am | #

        Now I’m going to spend way too much time considering what kind of shotgun would best suit Billie
        Oh well, it’s not like I was sleeping

    • Gwen
      Gwen
      September 19, 2016 at 12:28 am | #

      Sadly, no. Ruth is in the hospital. Probably there at least for the next several days. So, like, six months of strips.

      • Falling Star
        Falling Star
        September 19, 2016 at 11:15 am | #

        I think it’s either Faz there for Ryan or Sarah and Joyce.
        I NEED it to be Sarah and Joyce.

    • Van Jealous
      Van Jealous
      September 19, 2016 at 12:49 am | #

      OMG! IT’S BLAINE AND FAJ TO THE RESCUE!

      • Orion Fury
        Orion Fury
        September 19, 2016 at 2:01 am | #

        Faj?

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          September 19, 2016 at 2:13 am | #

          Faz’s older brother.

          Blaine got around a lot, remember? (At least in the Walkyverse.) Faz is the youngest son. Faa’s the eldestson, Fab’s the second-eldest, Faj is the tenth-eldest.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            September 19, 2016 at 12:33 pm | #

            Dad was everyone’s favourite, but only for a little while.

            • Leorale
              Leorale
              September 19, 2016 at 12:35 pm | #

              I meant “Fad”. Their dad was never anyone’s favourite, ever.

            • 3oranges
              3oranges
              September 19, 2016 at 1:35 pm | #

              That means Blaine named two of his kids “Fat” and “Fap”, and those aren’t even the worst one that comes up.

          • Orion Fury
            Orion Fury
            September 20, 2016 at 12:53 pm | #

            What did he name the 27th? Fa1? Faaa? Faa the Second?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 19, 2016 at 2:16 am | #

      On the one hand, it doesn’t seem possible.

      On the other, look where the car’s bumper lines up. It went straight for Ryan’s femurs.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      September 19, 2016 at 4:42 am | #

      I hope it is Ruth.
      “Act with integrity; no regrets.”

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        September 19, 2016 at 5:25 pm | #

        “[b]Act with disintegraty. No remains.[/b]”

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          September 19, 2016 at 5:25 pm | #

          CURSE YOU HTML COMMENT TAGS FOR RUINING MY POST! curseyoubbcodeformakingmeforgethowhtmlworks.

          • Orion Fury
            Orion Fury
            September 20, 2016 at 12:54 pm | #

            Curse you, fickle tag rules!

  19. Tacos
    Tacos
    September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Now if only Sal had throw him into that oncoming car….

  20. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    What’s that? Resolution? NOT IN MY SERIALIZED FICTION!

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      September 20, 2016 at 12:55 pm | #

      NOT HARD ENOUGH!

      Resolution, that is, we could always use more.

  21. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Tsk. If you’re worried enough about losing your phone to set a locater program, you should have pictures automatically synch to remote storage too.

    • z4nd4r
      z4nd4r
      September 19, 2016 at 1:58 am | #

      ZEE CLOUD! EET DOES NAHZING!!

  22. Train Moblin
    Train Moblin
    September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Well Ryan has just been run over
    this is the only time I’m not completely happy about that

  23. Kris
    Kris
    September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    I don’t know if I’m happy Sal didn’t get hit or sad Ryan didn’t.

    • Some1
      Some1
      September 19, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

      the good news about Sal saving Ryan is that it proves that she’s better than he is. Granted that is a very low bar to clear, but still.

    • ety
      ety
      September 19, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

      I’m happy enough that Sal didn’t that even if it comes at the cost of Ryan not getting hit too so be it. He can always be dragged through the mud later.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        September 19, 2016 at 4:08 am | #

        Perhaps literally. Being keelhauled does ugly things to a person.

        • ety
          ety
          September 19, 2016 at 10:59 pm | #

          The thought may have crossed my mind.

  24. linkman0596
    linkman0596
    September 19, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

    damn, from the looks of it it’s the worst case scenario. dude in the car probably isn’t ryan’s friend, he’s his dealer. and right now, the one thing worse than a dude selling roofies on a college campus is amazigirl having someone like that to focus and obsess over.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 19, 2016 at 12:27 am | #

      …or Ryan’s friend is as much of a shitpile as he is. Which seems likely.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        September 19, 2016 at 2:17 am | #

        Or he’s driving drunk.

        …..

        …. and/or he’s driving drunk.

        • ety
          ety
          September 19, 2016 at 4:30 am | #

          every time I see and/or write “and/or” I think geez, we should really have a way to be more specific about xor vs or in casual language.

  25. Clif
    Clif
    September 19, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

    Throw him under the buss. Er, car.

  26. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    September 19, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

    Standing in for Ultra Car is Random Car. Not as smart as UC, but just as unpredictable.

  27. Lena
    Lena
    September 19, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

    Ryan didn’t call her father, did he?

    • Lena
      Lena
      September 19, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

      Not that I think about it, she probably doesn’t have him saved on her phone. That’d be pretty dramatic, though

      • Gwen
        Gwen
        September 19, 2016 at 12:33 am | #

        Also, Ryan calls on his own phone. Check the previous strip – his phone is red. Amazigirl’s is blue.

        • Hazel
          Hazel
          September 19, 2016 at 11:24 am | #

          Exactly like lightsabers.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        September 19, 2016 at 2:19 am | #

        Also, her father wouldn’t be three minutes away and ready to take her on again.

        Also, if her father WERE ready to do that, he would have done so before now. He knows where she sleeps.

        Also, why would Ryan summon her father? He’s got no idea how fucked up their relationship is. He’d assume that her dad would come help HER out.

        Also, why would Amber OR Amazi-girl have Blaine’s number in their contact section?

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          September 19, 2016 at 4:10 am | #

          Lots of folks keep contacts saved so they don’t have to recognize the number, and just know not to answer the phone.

          • Cerberus
            Cerberus
            September 19, 2016 at 1:59 pm | #

            I have a few contacts saved simply because I had to block those numbers due to stalking and I don’t want the phone to “forget” to ignore those numbers.

    • Nono
      Nono
      September 19, 2016 at 1:49 am | #

      He might have called his father.

  28. Luzahn
    Luzahn
    September 19, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

    Welp no choice now we gotta kill him.

  29. Raen
    Raen
    September 19, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

    What are Avogadro and Ollie doing in Indiana?

  30. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    September 19, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

    I mean, they are just straight-up standing in the middle of the street, so it’s really not a surprise that they’re being run over. But Amazi-Girl really needs to pay better attention to traffic safety. Traffic is probably the #1 vigilante killer in the country^^

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 19, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

      You’d think the bright yellow jumpsuit would make her pretty easy to spot though

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 19, 2016 at 1:13 am | #

        Target acquired. One of the reasons I don’t like HiViz when I’m cycling. I usually wear it to give my heirs better odds on the wrongful death lawsuit.

        • Orion Fury
          Orion Fury
          September 19, 2016 at 2:02 am | #

          I was confused, then I remembered.

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            September 19, 2016 at 4:10 am | #

            I remain confused, but am now morbidly curious.

            • Orion Fury
              Orion Fury
              September 20, 2016 at 12:55 pm | #

              Morbid played a part in it, apparently.

  31. Sarah
    Sarah
    September 19, 2016 at 12:15 am | #

    Good thing she texted the photo to Dorothy, you can retrieve photos from texts pretty easily. And if he deleted it from the text, Dorothy had a copy on her phone now.

    • miados
      miados
      September 19, 2016 at 12:22 am | #

      i was just rereading the comic from the start and i saw your avatar and was like how did i forget something so cute.

  32. John
    John
    September 19, 2016 at 12:15 am | #

    Quick, Sal, block the car with the rapist!

    Amazi-Girl, I know you’re a cape and all and it comes with the territory, but if you’re concerned about your secret identity, you might want to resist the urge to exposit in front of the perp.

    • Joe Archer
      Joe Archer
      September 19, 2016 at 2:37 am | #

      One should have thought that the Evil Overlord List was in Amber’s educational background:
      http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        September 19, 2016 at 4:12 am | #

        At least it’s unlikely that anyone’s tried drumming The Things Mr Welch is No Longer Allowed to Do into her.

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        September 19, 2016 at 11:52 pm | #

        Well, what -she- really needs to memorize is The Valiant Hero list.

        If nothing else, at least she’s found a competent, sarcastic person who knows what the hell they’re doing to be her consort.

  33. Retrikaethan
    Retrikaethan
    September 19, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

    PRIORITIES, DAMNIT! MORE PICTURES! NAO! ARGH!

  34. No
    No
    September 19, 2016 at 12:21 am | #

    Amber’s going to jail and Sal and Ryan are in some serious pain. So like the only good in this encounter is Amber will probably end up, eventually, with the help she needs and the dubious possibility of Ryan being brought to justice for his attempted rape… All because waiting till a more opportune time to stealthily photograph him or just not being so confrontational in photographing him was so hard.

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      September 19, 2016 at 12:35 am | #

      None of them look like they were actually hit to me. Sal pulled Ryan out of the way, and AG was just on the other side, maybe lightly grazed.

      I do agree that AG’s penchant for going in half-cocked caused this, though. Come up, take his photo, then leave. Post it, and the Internet would have figured out his name.

      But because AG wanted a fight, she didn’t do that.

      • trlkly
        trlkly
        September 19, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

        It’s the problem I’ve said for a long time. Sal says it’s escalation, but she’s not quite right. It’s just not planning things. This often leads to escalation, but that’s not the whole problem.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 19, 2016 at 7:38 am | #

          I think beating him up was the plan. Posting the photo was mostly to get him to start the fight – exposing him on the internet was just a bonus.

  35. Kaara
    Kaara
    September 19, 2016 at 12:23 am | #

    Didn’t she send a pic to Dorothy…?

  36. Kaara
    Kaara
    September 19, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

    Ohhhh the issue is her identity not the pic duh

    • Rikunda
      Rikunda
      September 19, 2016 at 12:39 am | #

      A hero must be willing to allow their identity to be known when it comes to the greater good.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        September 19, 2016 at 2:22 am | #

        If that helps the greater good, arguably.

        In this case, it does not.

  37. Just Me
    Just Me
    September 19, 2016 at 12:25 am | #

    AG is worried that, if he got into her phone he might find out who she really is. Once he knows, he could track her down.

  38. Just Me
    Just Me
    September 19, 2016 at 12:27 am | #

    And so we see Ryan has someone willing to risk running running people over for him. So, who would be so loyal?

  39. Woobie
    Woobie
    September 19, 2016 at 12:30 am | #

    I don’t think anyone was hit; Sal and detainee appear to be moving the wrong direction.

  40. Idontcarenomore
    Idontcarenomore
    September 19, 2016 at 12:30 am | #

    So he erased the photo (it should be on Dorothy’s cell – right?)

    DoA, more ups and dips then a roller coaster.

    Du ex machina, et tu car, and he is either rescued or dead meat. We can always hope it is Not rescued.

    It appears to have missed AG unless it turns out her cape get hooked on the door.

    Also seems to have jarred Sal’s hold on him loose, unless she makes a quick grab to pull him off the hood, or go with him.

    So no one gets hurt and Ryan gets away.

    Or Sal grabs on and she and Ryan both fall off and get run over and die.
    Or AG’s cape gets caught in door and she gets dragged and dies.

    Good job as usual Willis. We have no idea what’s next.

    • shammers
      shammers
      September 19, 2016 at 1:48 am | #

      Hahahahaha et tu car

  41. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    September 19, 2016 at 12:31 am | #

    ….. Danny?

    • butting
      butting
      September 19, 2016 at 12:49 am | #

      “the app my, um friend wrote”

      If she means Alfred, she should just say Alfred.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        September 19, 2016 at 5:04 am | #

        Usually, when you are talking about something sensitive, it’s always for a fictitious friend (“I have this ‘friend’ – yeah, that’s it, a ‘friend’ – who’s two weeks late; do you know where I can tell her to go to get tested?”).  Amber does not want it to be known — at least not by Ryan — that she is a tech geek.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      September 19, 2016 at 3:01 pm | #

      I’m wondering if perhaps that her background was set to a picture of her and Danny or something, and now he’ll keep a lookout for “Amazi-Girl’s boyfriend.”

      At the least, I think he got a contact. Dorothy, Ethan or Danny seem the most likely.

      • Tan
        Tan
        September 19, 2016 at 4:29 pm | #

        It wouldn’t be a picture of Amber and Danny, because Danny is Amazi-Girl’s boyfriend, and it wouldn’t be a picture of Amazi-Girl and Danny, because it’s Amber’s phone.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          September 19, 2016 at 5:24 pm | #

          Ooh, good point. I’d say she could have a photo, but then she might have purged her phone after she dumped him.

          So what’s likely is that he got some idea who Amazi-Girl is, and failing that he got some contact info.

  42. DinaWho
    DinaWho
    September 19, 2016 at 12:33 am | #

    If she was able to track her phone from Sal’s phone, would she be capable of doing something on her own phone to enable her to track Ryan’s phone? (Likely this would require at least some access to it but c’mon, it’s RIGHT THERE. Well, assuming it didn’t just get run over, but still.)

  43. Dandi_Andi
    Dandi_Andi
    September 19, 2016 at 12:37 am | #

    I think it is safe to say that this is the friend Ryan was calling in the last strip. Given he told him to “turn around and come back”, it was probably someone who was at the rally but left after the fighting broke out.

    The only tagged people we’ve seen at the rally are Sal, Amazigirl, Leslie, Frieda, Ryan, Beef, Kyle, the DeSantos and the Dude-bro triplets.

    AG, Sal and Ryan are accounted for.

    The DeSantos and Kyle are preparing for the rally and wouldn’t have left.

    Leslie is right out.

    Definitely not the dude-bro triplets, they were incapacitated. Even if they’re up now, they wouldn’t have made it out before Ryan.

    Frieda is possible, but very unlikely. Vehicular manslaughter would compromise the campaign.

    Beef is a possible culprit. We haven’t seen him since Sal punched Ryan. He may have bailed when he realized AG wasn’t going to lose the fight and he wasn’t going to get any kind of vicarious revenge.

    The other option is, of course, someone we haven’t met or who we weren’t aware was at the rally.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 19, 2016 at 12:43 am | #

      Beef was at the party, and at least hanging out with the jerks who wanted to beat up Danny. If its anyone we’d actually seen at the rally, I’d bet it’d be him.

      Leland seems like another possibility though. He’s the right kind of asshole.

      • Dandi_Andi
        Dandi_Andi
        September 19, 2016 at 1:01 am | #

        Indeed! I thought he may be friends with Ryan (or at least be acquainted with him) because he’s been in both places we saw Ryan and we have reason to think he’s kind of a jerk.

        I kind of doubt it would be Leland. While he was certainly being raised to be exactly that kind of asshole, it would be too much of a bizarre coincidence.

        The one person I forgot about was Marcie (just like Sal did). It could be her coming to break up the fight, but I doubt she would know exactly where they are and I don’t think she has the financial wherewithal to own a car. It seems as though she puts most of her resources into rent.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          September 19, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

          IU is a big public school in the same state they grew up in, so not THAT much of a coincidence. My college only had about 2,000 people total, and there were at least 20 people from my high school who went there, and I grew up 3 hours away.

          This would also seem a good point in the story (hopefully near the end) for the two arcs to start crashing together, if they were going to.

          • Dandi_Andi
            Dandi_Andi
            September 19, 2016 at 1:47 am | #

            True. Indiana isn’t exactly sparsely populated, but it wouldn’t be so strange for kids who went to elementary school together to end up at the same college.

            I still doubt it’s Leland, though. Leland would most likely be a freshman, same as Sal and Walky. Ryan said he needed to stay at his friend’s place for a while, but Leland would be living on campus.

            • Fart Captor
              Fart Captor
              September 19, 2016 at 8:05 am | #

              He was a lot taller than both Sal and Walky. He could easily be Ryan’s age.

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      September 19, 2016 at 12:59 am | #

      I don’t think it’s safe to say that at all. The car is still moving, maybe just trying to stop. If they were the friend, they’d know approximately where Ryan was.

      Well, unless they freaked out when they heard Ryan’s phone drop. But, even then, they got there really, really fast. Surely there would have been about a minute of making sure that Ryan wasn’t there and frantically calling him back.

      • Dandi_Andi
        Dandi_Andi
        September 19, 2016 at 1:59 am | #

        Sure, the car is still moving, but “SQUEEE” implies hard braking. The friend may have been trying for a non-lethal hit to free Ryan. Or maybe he’s just reckless. Or maybe he’s not that good a friend of Ryan’s and he doesn’t much care if he gets hurt.

        I doubt the driver didn’t see them. Their headlights are on and AG is wearing a bright yellow jumpsuit. Also, the road they’re on looks like a short, curved drive for picking up and dropping off passengers, so it’s very unlikely anyone is driving up at that speed and at that hour unless they meant to get there in a great damn hurry.

        As for the swift arrival, Ryan did say that he was just around the corner.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      September 19, 2016 at 2:04 pm | #

      It’s Donald Trump.

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      September 19, 2016 at 9:04 pm | #

      …The only tagged people we’ve seen at the rally…

      Everybody always forgets Daisy…

  44. Paul
    Paul
    September 19, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

    This is why all my photos automatically update to my OneDrive (use the cloud service that you prefer, I have no agenda here).

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      September 19, 2016 at 12:50 am | #

      This is why? We have a real life superhero here? Cool!

      • Anorak
        Anorak
        September 19, 2016 at 4:23 am | #

        wait, so it isnt sal or amber who is amazi-girl, but mary? no wonder billy didnt figure it out, lol

      • Paul
        Paul
        September 19, 2016 at 10:16 pm | #

        It truly is why. Not being a hero, per se, but being able to get a shot of a villain and having it safety stored after having my phone destroyed.

  45. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    September 19, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

    Quick, take a picture of the license plate of that car. It might be Ryan’s evil buddies.

    Or if not, it could be Marcie. *shrugs*

  46. Saaaam
    Saaaam
    September 19, 2016 at 12:42 am | #

    BREAK HIS KNEES NOW

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      September 19, 2016 at 2:05 am | #

      NOT HARD ENOUGH!

  47. Bea
    Bea
    September 19, 2016 at 12:47 am | #

    actually if you text a picture to someone then delete the picture the picture is still in your texts AND your friend still has the photo, so deleting the picture doesn’t matter one bit 🙂

    • ety
      ety
      September 19, 2016 at 1:01 am | #

      That’s a different picture.

  48. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    September 19, 2016 at 12:51 am | #

    Comic Reactions: … Yeah, I’m not gonna lie and say this arc isn’t slow going for me and right now, I’m just right there with AG. He had access to AG’s phone for an undisclosed amount of time, likely not only trying to find the photo, but also the (slur for woman) who sent a superhero after him.

    At the very least, he should have Dorothy’s name and number (and Dorothy is not a terribly common first name) and possibly also the name of Joyce if AG had to reference Joyce by name for the confirmation.

    Which means Ryan has become like Toedad, a sword of Damocles waiting around in the background. Which is kind of how it feels with dangerous folks who know where you are. Like, at any moment they could destroy your life, so you can never fully settle and relax.

    And for AG, it also means a person who may have a means of harming her (and likely also giving Sal a tool to know if AG is spying on her by the tracking app left on her phone, which is a nice sign of trust) and who may know her identity and want to spread it far and wide so as to better insulate his own self in case she tries to attack him.

    Overall, this is one of the bigger “oh fuck” cliffhangers in a while.

    • ety
      ety
      September 19, 2016 at 1:00 am | #

      Yeah, I think in terms of potential future implications, this is on the same scale as any of our other really big cliffhangers and definitely the biggest we’ve had in a while.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 19, 2016 at 1:14 am | #

      This feels like it might end up being the longest day yet. Its been weeks and the sun isn’t even up yet!

      I hope Ryan will be done for good before the end of it.

      • ety
        ety
        September 19, 2016 at 1:23 am | #

        Not having to worry about him coming back would be a really nice breather before whatever the next horrible thing to happen is.

        • Joe Archer
          Joe Archer
          September 19, 2016 at 2:48 am | #

          As if Dexter went away that easily…

    • Dandi_Andi
      Dandi_Andi
      September 19, 2016 at 1:25 am | #

      A lot of people in the comments are suggesting that perhaps Ryan didn’t have time to find her personal information. After all, he was running away and trying to arrange rescue. Maybe that’s true. It wouldn’t surprise me at all.

      But AG doesn’t know that. She can’t ever know that. Even if he doesn’t have her personal information, the thought that he might will haunt her. He may not be a threat, but she’ll always be afraid, and he can use that fear to make her life hell.

      • Doki
        Doki
        September 19, 2016 at 5:56 pm | #

        Yeah, this is a really good point! Similar to how we’re all debating if he could have seen it or not, she can’t know either.

        (AND since he’s a known liar, she can’t trust him even if he says he didn’t.)

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      September 19, 2016 at 1:32 am | #

      Yup, and given how AMBER reacts to fear, Amazi-girl has to worry about her as wel, apart from everything else.

  49. Thevoiceoftreason
    Thevoiceoftreason
    September 19, 2016 at 12:52 am | #

    Ultracar’s nemesis, Negacar!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      September 19, 2016 at 1:32 am | #

      HEADCANON

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      September 19, 2016 at 2:08 am | #

      Now this car probably has a tear-away cape.

  50. trlkly
    trlkly
    September 19, 2016 at 12:56 am | #

    Okay, a lot of you are talking like Sal and Ryan got hit. To me, they look like they’re on the other side of the car, and just jumped out of the way (but Sal lost her grip on Ryan. Above I thought she still had him, so I thought she pulled him away.) AG looks like she was knocked around by the wind.

    So are some of you spoiled with the next comic? Or are we just all seeing things differently?

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      September 19, 2016 at 1:25 am | #

      In general, I have been impressed with the restraint showed by the other Patreon people here with not spoiling tomorrow’s comic, even when people are saying things that are obviously wrong from our foreknowledge.

    • Sam
      Sam
      September 19, 2016 at 10:45 am | #

      Tbh my first response was: OMFG, SAL GOT HIT BY A FUCKING CAR.

      And then I realised oh wait, no she wasn’t. It is just between her and Amazi-Girl, not knocking her flat.

  51. Warcodered
    Warcodered
    September 19, 2016 at 1:04 am | #

    Didn’t she already send the picture to someone to confirm his identity?

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      September 19, 2016 at 1:26 am | #

      A photo from across the room. The second photo at issue here is a closeup.

  52. Rukduk
    Rukduk
    September 19, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

    Now wondering if the driver thinks Sal is the Superhero he was talking about.

  53. Regalli
    Regalli
    September 19, 2016 at 1:18 am | #

    Well shit.
    And here I am unable to afford the $5 Patreon previews.

    (Not that it would help for more than a day.)

    • Dandi_Andi
      Dandi_Andi
      September 19, 2016 at 1:29 am | #

      Remember, $5 is a latte per month.

      If you really can’t afford that, I’m sorry. I know. I’ve been there. It sucks. I’m not trying to guilt you or rub it in your face. That would be a seriously shitty thing to do.

      But for others in the comment section who can afford a latte, consider buying Willis a coffee. He has twins. He needs the coffee.

      • Liliet
        Liliet
        September 19, 2016 at 4:06 am | #

        wait, HOW expensive is coffee in the US????????????

        signed, a person who earns approximately $20 per month as of right now

        • Dandi_Andi
          Dandi_Andi
          September 19, 2016 at 4:14 am | #

          Where I work, a small coffee is about $2, a large latte is about $5. I have charged as much as $8 for drinks with extra shots of espresso, half and half and extra syrup.

          • ety
            ety
            September 19, 2016 at 5:11 am | #

            Let’s put it this way: $5 would not be unusual for a “coffee” order.

        • Doki
          Doki
          September 19, 2016 at 5:59 pm | #

          Whoa wait $20 is only like… three hours of work a week here? Did you typo that?

          And $5 is pretty much the average for coffee drinks. You can buy instant coffee to make at home for less, but if you go to a coffeeshop it’s probably going to be $4-6. ;~;

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        September 19, 2016 at 4:21 pm | #

        The last thing he needs is coffee, what he likely needs is some sleep.

      • Doki
        Doki
        September 19, 2016 at 6:01 pm | #

        I definitely plan to once I get some income instead of living off my roommate’s (which is why I’ve currently only pledged $1 a month). ;w;

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        September 19, 2016 at 7:44 pm | #

        I don’t have a steady income source. I still live with my parents and therefore don’t need to worry about money for the immediate future, but while I can feel reasonably confident I’ll have one or two dollars in my account every month that I can use to support things on Patreon that’s about the most I can reliably commit.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      September 19, 2016 at 6:16 pm | #

      If $5 is at all a medium-to-big deal for anybody, for the love of God, absolutely don’t worry about it, ever ever. You need that $5 more than me. I’d rather people eat than have free comics they will see tomorrow!

  54. Skater Girl (@syleegrrl)
    Skater Girl (@syleegrrl)
    September 19, 2016 at 1:27 am | #

    I am annoyed at Amazi-Girl for not having her own separate line and phone. Using Amber’s phone for her extra-curricular activities was always a huge risk. When I was running my own business I had a separate line for work related things so I didn’t have to give out my private number. I suppose her gaff can be forgiven on grounds of limited funds.

    • Dandi_Andi
      Dandi_Andi
      September 19, 2016 at 1:36 am | #

      Amber is a college student who, it has been implied, is having college funded on her behalf by her derivation of applied DNA. She also had to wait for her mom to “scrounge up” money for new glasses. She likely doesn’t have money for a second line or even a cheap burner phone.

  55. Synnerman
    Synnerman
    September 19, 2016 at 1:34 am | #

    Ugh. He’s going to get away. :/

  56. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 19, 2016 at 1:34 am | #

    Car-lady:
    “DON’T YOU WORRY, AMAZI-GIRL. YOUR TRUSTED SIDEKICK IS HERE!!!!”

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/hostage-2/

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      September 19, 2016 at 4:20 am | #

      You’ve just brought a smile to my face. Thank you.

      • ety
        ety
        September 19, 2016 at 5:12 am | #

        I’d like to second this sentiment.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          September 19, 2016 at 3:25 pm | #

          Smiles are good!

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      September 19, 2016 at 5:08 am | #

      Nice idea, but wrong color car.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        September 19, 2016 at 5:10 am | #

        Yes, because CLEARLY she doesn’t own an experimental color-changing car to fool criminals.

        Ho ho, what a silly notion.

      • Falling Star
        Falling Star
        September 19, 2016 at 11:21 am | #

        Probably a replacement car while hers is being fixed up.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          September 19, 2016 at 4:21 pm | #

          What she said.

  57. TlalocW
    TlalocW
    September 19, 2016 at 1:47 am | #

    Holy shit! It’s Becky’s dad! He broke out of jail, and he’s back for vengeance starting with Amazi-Girl!!!

  58. Lan
    Lan
    September 19, 2016 at 2:00 am | #

    Aw jeez this just got bad… but doesn’t Dorothy have a copy of the photo still?

  59. BenRG
    BenRG
    September 19, 2016 at 2:00 am | #

    Oh, really? Whoever that is was planning to run over Ryan as well as Amazi-Girl and Ryan! I’m wondering if he is low man in a much larger and much more unpleasant pile upon which Amazi-Girl and Sal have just stumbled!

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      September 19, 2016 at 2:22 am | #

      None are innocent. All must be judged. All must pay.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        September 19, 2016 at 4:21 am | #

        “A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time.”

  60. Orion Fury
    Orion Fury
    September 19, 2016 at 2:10 am | #

    While this is a very serious thing going on, the juxtapositioning of AG to the bush/tree in the background isn’t helping me not to laugh.

    • Gwen
      Gwen
      September 19, 2016 at 8:41 pm | #

      haha, thanks for bringing that to my attention. A welcome bit of levity.

  61. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    September 19, 2016 at 2:23 am | #

    Quick, Amazi-girl! Steal his phone! Get his identity from it! Nothing can go wrong with that plan!

    ….. or you know, check his wallet for ID.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 19, 2016 at 3:14 am | #

      I keep wondering why neither Amazi-Girl nor Sal have thought of that one!

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        September 19, 2016 at 4:22 am | #

        Well, they only just secured him. Give them a moment to check him.
        Unfortunately that car doesn’t seem inclined to give them a moment.

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      September 19, 2016 at 5:16 am | #

      Ryan gets free, jumps in the car with his roofie-bros, they speed away. AG looks defeated. Sal holds up his wallet.

  62. Eldritch Gentleman
    Eldritch Gentleman
    September 19, 2016 at 2:26 am | #

    Okay I’m saying here and now. That’s Joyce’s brother in that car!
    Just guessing though.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      September 19, 2016 at 4:23 am | #

      What would he be doing at IU?
      Her sister seems more likely, but I don’t think she has a car.

  63. Acher4
    Acher4
    September 19, 2016 at 2:37 am | #

    Oh Come ON!
    I was so happy yesterday and now this?
    Fffffffffffffffffffffffffff

  64. Joe Archer
    Joe Archer
    September 19, 2016 at 2:52 am | #

    Any ideas about the whereabouts of Ryan’s red cell phone at this point?

    • Neeks
      Neeks
      September 19, 2016 at 2:57 am | #

      Lots of tiny pieces on the ground, one would hope out of pure spite 🙂

  65. Neeks
    Neeks
    September 19, 2016 at 2:56 am | #

    So what happens when sal sees amber with AG’s phone, I wonder.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      September 19, 2016 at 4:25 am | #

      “Huh, nerd girl has the same phone cover as Amazi-whatsit.”
      Sal’s actually clever enough to probably connect the dots, but individual phones and phone covers aren’t that distinctive on a campus full of college kids with phones.

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        September 19, 2016 at 1:25 pm | #

        Yyees, mostly, but Amber has a phone with a flip-out keyboard, which is kind of unusual.

      • Fart Captor
        Fart Captor
        September 19, 2016 at 2:37 pm | #

        She’d need to have spent enough time in the same room as Amber to have noticed her phone too, and that’s never happened, because Amber always has a panic attack

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          September 19, 2016 at 10:47 pm | #

          No, she’d need to spend time with Amber at some point in the future, otherwise she’d be noticing Amazi-girl with Amber’s phone and not Amber with Amazi-girl’s phone.
          With all the press she’s been getting, Amazi-girl might want to consider getting Amber a cheap phone case so they can’t be linked by that if someone happens to catch a picture of her taking a break from the midnight crusade to text someone or check the time.

          • Fart Captor
            Fart Captor
            September 19, 2016 at 11:14 pm | #

            That seems more likely, but even if Sal stops triggering Amber’s panic attacks entirely, I’d be rather surprised if they end up hanging out. Becoming friends is not a necessary result of them no longer being enemies.

            Also, why do people keep suggesting a broke-ass college student buy a second cell phone and phone line like it’s something she could afford? What little disposable income she has goes into comic books and WoW subscriptions and grappling hooks and extra caltrops!

  66. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    September 19, 2016 at 3:14 am | #

    Time for another round of “What’s That Car?”!

    My guess goes to post-facelift 2009-2011 Toyota Camry.

  67. Seaar
    Seaar
    September 19, 2016 at 3:23 am | #

    I don’t know if TlaclocW above was joking or not, but that really does look like Becky’s dad”s car. Look at the damage on the underside. This would be a really weird twist, though.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      September 19, 2016 at 5:12 am | #

      Where do you see any damage?
      And the headlights are the wrong shape.  The headlights on Ross’s car were more square.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        September 19, 2016 at 5:49 am | #

        Ross’s car didn’t have fog lights and the wheels are completely different.

        Besides that, it’s probably sitting in an impound lot as part of the armed kidnapping investigation.

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          September 19, 2016 at 9:33 pm | #

          Considering that it also flipped, it wasn’t going anywhere, soon.

    • Tan
      Tan
      September 19, 2016 at 6:23 am | #

      There is no damage to the underside of the car. That’s dust kicked up from the road to indicate dangerous driving.

  68. Disloyal Subject
    Disloyal Subject
    September 19, 2016 at 4:03 am | #

    I’m gonna hazard a guess that that’s the ride Ryan just called in.
    Time for the level two mooks.

  69. BenRG
    BenRG
    September 19, 2016 at 4:27 am | #

    PREDICTION:
    Ryan is a member of a group of like-minded individuals, a ‘Campus Roofie Club’, if you like, who aid and shelter each other, giving alibis and the like. The reason his friend in the car is trying to run him over along with Sal and Amazi-Girl is that he’s decided that it is better if Ryan is silenced rather than have the opportunity to turn the whole lot of them in as part of a plea bargain.

    Amazi-Girl and Sal may have knocked the top off a very unpleasant, pus-filled sore in Bloomington. This could be their big moment when they ascend to serious notoriety for a big catch. Or it could be the moment when they realise just how out-of-their-depth they really are.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      September 19, 2016 at 11:34 pm | #

      It’s a fraternity?

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 20, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

      Groups of misogynistic assholes congeal naturally wherever you get enough toxic masculinity in one place. It doesn’t even have to be taught explicitly. No vast hidden conspiracy is required. It’s like how its possible to create a bomb from household items. None of the ingredients are hard to find, they just need to be assembled in a particular way. Except in this case, that tends to happen by accident with alarming regularity.

      Even most frats probably aren’t straight-up rapist factories. They just often tend to emphasize hyper-masculinity and use a lot of peer pressure, turning some into just the right kind of echo chamber than can start spitting out douchebags non-stop once if they start turning bad.

  70. David
    David
    September 19, 2016 at 4:59 am | #

    The Willis giveth, the Willis taketh away.

    Damn you, Willis.

  71. Big Box
    Big Box
    September 19, 2016 at 5:20 am | #

    That car must be driven by an ex-KGB agent with with a grudge against the west because the stealth drive from Red October seems to be installed on it.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 19, 2016 at 11:33 am | #

      Or its just a hybrid. Considerably less menacing, but damn those things are quiet.

  72. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    September 19, 2016 at 5:28 am | #

    That looks like a late model Camry; doubtful Marcie could afford it. Whoever is in this car could be very nasty indeed.

    On the bright side, Sal may have lifted his wallet by now. And now he’s the one missing a phone.

  73. fogel
    fogel
    September 19, 2016 at 5:31 am | #

    Have The Analysts figured out if Ryan is on the hood/bonnet of that car and if he is why his head pointing away from it and if not how he became airborne and please don’t say that Sal swung him horizontal BEFORE her Full Nelson was broken as she recoiled away from the car and how they didn’t notice the car until it was in the midst of them and is that a DeLorean and it’s about to take Ryan into the past … or future … um, where was I? OH YEAH! AG should have given Ryan her best shot right in the dchnoz while Sal had him I mobilized in that Full Nelson (which Ryan seemed not to know how to break, Probly cause wrestling was cut at his high school). Can you say “go down like the proverbial sack of potatoes, blood spraying everywhere” boys and girls?

    • fogel
      fogel
      September 19, 2016 at 5:39 am | #

      (Yes, Sals hold was not a proper Full Nelson (her hands aren’t behind his neck, canterlevering his arms up and out and pushing his head forward and downwards ……)

      • Vulcanodon
        Vulcanodon
        September 19, 2016 at 6:00 am | #

        Looks like Sal saved his life by pulling him out of the way of that car. He didn’t appear to have been struggling earlier. He just took a hit to the head, and probably realizes that struggling would result in more hitting. Which, I’d be totally fine with.

    • David
      David
      September 19, 2016 at 7:54 am | #

      I don’t think that the analysts have enough examples of Dumbiverse physics available to make reliable predictions. In particular Amazigirl’s gravity defiance field is a bit of an unknown.

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        September 19, 2016 at 2:08 pm | #

        She has gravity powers. She just hasn’t figured that out yet.

        • Orion Fury
          Orion Fury
          September 20, 2016 at 1:02 pm | #

          I think so long as it’s not the same origin as Greta, she’ll be ok.

  74. Keulan
    Keulan
    September 19, 2016 at 5:34 am | #

    Couldn’t Amazi-Girl just have Dorothy send her copy of the photo to her?

    Also, I’m wondering who Ryan’s friend in the car is.

    • JBento
      JBento
      September 19, 2016 at 7:11 am | #

      The issue isn’t that she doesn’t have the photo – Ryan’s RIGHT THERE, she could take another photo. The issue is that he deleting the photo means he had access to her unlocked phone and she has no idea what else he did – like findign out who she is.

  75. fogel
    fogel
    September 19, 2016 at 5:36 am | #

    HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! (FABULOUS picture of Magneato and the Twins!l

  76. brasca1
    brasca1
    September 19, 2016 at 6:28 am | #

    I’m thinking the driver will be none other than Leland. I doubt he’s changed one bit since he was kid.

  77. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    September 19, 2016 at 6:49 am | #

    New challenger appears?

  78. Alenonimo
    Alenonimo
    September 19, 2016 at 7:36 am | #

    He deleted the photo? So what? With Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Photo, it’s uploaded automatically to the internet.

    Heck, if she sent the photo to someone else to see if that was the guy, then that someone does have the photo too!

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 19, 2016 at 8:15 am | #

      The worry is that he’s seen other things on her ‘phone (although I doubt that he had the time or thought to do that – after deleting the pic, his first thought probably would have been to find somewhere to lie low rather than spend time looking through her contacts list and photo album). That doesn’t mean that Amber won’t have a nasty few days whilst she frets that he may have passed information about her or her friends on to insalubrious individuals.

      • Jhon
        Jhon
        September 19, 2016 at 9:17 pm | #

        +1 for “insalubrious individuals”

  79. MangoWOW
    MangoWOW
    September 19, 2016 at 8:27 am | #

    Well she already sent the photo to whatsherface right? She could just get the photo from that chat or from her directly if anything

  80. JBento
    JBento
    September 19, 2016 at 8:51 am | #

    Ok, I see plenty of people commenting on this, so I thought I’d make an explanatory post instead of a comment response. The reason you don’t get why AG is so worried about the missing photo is because you’re focusing on the wrong panel.

    It’s not the third panel, it’s the fourth.

    The photo is nothing. Dorothy has the photo. Ryan’s RIGHT THERE, she can take as many photos as she wants. The missing photo is just evidence that he had access to the phone in an unlocked status. Here’s the fourth panel speech, uncut-off:

    “Did you get in BEFORE the screenlock? How long were you…” looking through my phone and OH MY GOD WHAT DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT ME FROM IT?

    • rectilinearpropagation
      rectilinearpropagation
      September 19, 2016 at 9:52 am | #

      Yeah, a lot of people aren’t picking up what Davis is putting down in panel four. Which is weird because wasn’t Amazigirl all, “Oh no, my identity” just a couple of days ago?

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      September 19, 2016 at 2:12 pm | #

      Yup, that’s the terrifying part. That Ryan was in the phone. That Ryan might have seen something that lets him “get his revenge” on a later date on either her other alter or one of her friends (or worse yet, Dorothy and Joyce as those names likely came up on the text messages on her phone that were also likely up on a tab).

      Him being on the phone long enough to navigate it and remove his photo means that he’s going to be a future threat and is likely upgrading to the Full Stalker package as he fumes on his “emasculation” at the hands of a couple of (slur for women).

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        September 19, 2016 at 4:26 pm | #

        They are both smart enough that they could use that as a trap for him if he tries anything.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          September 19, 2016 at 8:41 pm | #

          The fact that they might be able to handle that situation doesn’t make it much less terrifying. There’s so many ways it could go wrong.

  81. Karishi
    Karishi
    September 19, 2016 at 9:13 am | #

    I like that he has a supervillain name. “Gash Face.”

  82. WHAT
    WHAT
    September 19, 2016 at 9:32 am | #

    THIS DOES NOT COUNT AS NOBODY GETTING HIT WITH A TRUCK, YOU TROLLING RUSEMAN

  83. Ashley Lightheart
    Ashley Lightheart
    September 19, 2016 at 9:45 am | #

    I am very pissed at this… WHY CAN’T YOU JUST LET HIM GO TO PRISON AND GIVE JOYCE SOME PEACE?!?!?!

    • UnerringlyErrant
      UnerringlyErrant
      September 19, 2016 at 9:54 am | #

      Because that’s hilariously unrealistic, given the way our culture and legal system are set up.

    • ClaudeWicked
      ClaudeWicked
      September 19, 2016 at 10:06 am | #

      Keep in mind, the only real evidence they have is witness testimony– A failed attempt is much less able to be proven. And Joyce can be as traumatized as possible– He still can’t actually be convicted of rape. The entire VENGEANCE thing doesnt always work out.

    • JBento
      JBento
      September 19, 2016 at 10:12 am | #

      Also, no police report? Joyce hasn’t actually gone to the cops, remember? I’m not familiar with the intricacies (possibly clusterfuck) of the US judicial system, but I don’t think rape is a public crime; i.e., even if everyone knew that Ryan was a rapist, he can’t be brought to trial if none of the victims presses charges.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 19, 2016 at 1:25 pm | #

        I don’t think that’s true. The case is still the State vs Gashface.
        Now, it’s hard enough to get a conviction on rape charges with a cooperating victim, it would be very rare for a prosecutor to push the case when the victim isn’t interested.

    • Falling Star
      Falling Star
      September 19, 2016 at 11:22 am | #

      Give it about two weeks.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      September 19, 2016 at 12:27 pm | #

      Given how terrible the landscape is for actually prosecuting rape attempts, my hope is that he oversteps himself like Toedad did in the common narrative of forcing a queer kid into reparative therapy in a way the cops just can’t ignore.

      And hopefully in a way that either minimizes new traumas for Joyce or allows her some sort of healing moment standing up to her rapist.

      • JBento
        JBento
        September 19, 2016 at 2:04 pm | #

        This strikes me as unlikely.

        Toedad was immersed in a positive feedback loop – everyone around him (effectively, the society he interacted with) thought like he did; no-one from his community would condemn him for wanting Becky in disreparative mindfuck. When he pulled the gun out, he didn’t think he was going to jail for it, he thought that was what anyone would do.

        Ryan’s in a different boat – maybe his dudebros would high-five him if he told him he roofied and raped a girl, but, critical prosecution failures aside, public opinion at large tends to be very much against rape. While Toedad would proudly advertise to the world the steps he took to save his daughter from the “demons of gayness,” Ryan KNOWS his best shot at not-ostracism is keeping it secret.

        • Cerberus
          Cerberus
          September 19, 2016 at 2:18 pm | #

          CONTENT WARNING: Rape Apologia

          Well, yeah, they are against “rape”. But “everyone knows” that a good guy like Ryan would never rape. Like, he doesn’t lurk in bushes, he hangs out at parties and has friends and is probably really kind and friendly to those he considers equals.

          And so, he certainly couldn’t have committed rape. She must be trying to destroy his name because she “regretted” a one-night stand after giving in to her lustful impulses and (slur for woman who is sexual) ways.

          And he’s really hurt by this. This is affecting his studies and ruining his life and he can’t believe she’d be so cruel as to accuse him of something so awful.

          And people will believe that, because they want to believe that (slurs for women) always be lyin’ about things like this. Because we view rape as bad in the same way as we view racism as bad. As something that marks someone as a “bad person”, so any accusation of actually being that is seen as beyond the pale, because that person isn’t what we imagine as a purely “bad person” without positive value.

          So a crowd is more likely to take something like assault or attempted murder more seriously than even a rape case with evidence.

          • JBento
            JBento
            September 19, 2016 at 3:02 pm | #

            He doesn’t even enjoy steak like he used to! *gags*

            Two salient differences from (what I understand are) most rape trials, however, are that: 1) drugs were involved (though at this point it’d be impossible to prove anything, unless Ryan is dumb enough to keep those on his person or a stash at his place); 2) since the rape attempt was unsuccessful, there really is nothing for Joyce to regret (well, there IS, but not a one-night stand).

            On the other hand, after having realised that rapists are getting lighter sentences because ACTUAL FUCKING JUDGES are going easy on rapists because they don’t want to ruin their future (presumably, giving them actual jail time might make it harder for them to rape again, which would, y’know, be such a pity), what the fuck do I know?

            I mean, other than I already loathe humanity enough, please stop giving me more reasons, humanity, kk? Thanks.

  84. rectilinearpropagation
    rectilinearpropagation
    September 19, 2016 at 9:49 am | #

    Man, I was hoping for a solid month of Ryan getting hit in the face.

    • JBento
      JBento
      September 19, 2016 at 10:13 am | #

      Had I any animator skills, I’d make you a .gif mixing Joyce’s glass-strike, Sal’s punch, and AG’s flying kick.

  85. UnerringlyErrant
    UnerringlyErrant
    September 19, 2016 at 9:53 am | #

    I think I may have to wait a month or two before going back to reading this comment. The gut-wrenching train wreck that’s going to happen now is more than I want to deal with.

  86. sociotard
    sociotard
    September 19, 2016 at 10:30 am | #

    If the car hit them from that side, shouldn’t their legs point the other way?

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 19, 2016 at 2:07 pm | #

      Yes, they would. The car didn’t hit them. Sal pulled them backwards out of the way

  87. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    September 19, 2016 at 10:36 am | #

    A picture taken of Ryan before panel five would have the side issue of why he is being restrained by Sal some fuzzy blob.

    A picture taken in panel five would have even more questions.

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      September 20, 2016 at 12:57 pm | #

      Panel six would help answer some question.

  88. Falling Star
    Falling Star
    September 19, 2016 at 11:08 am | #

    WATCH IT BE FAZ.

    • JBento
      JBento
      September 19, 2016 at 11:43 am | #

      I have created this detailed chart indicating why, of all possible people, the great Faz is the only one whou could possibly be driving that car. I have also made this chart, detailing why Faz makes the best charts.

  89. What Was The Question Again?
    What Was The Question Again?
    September 19, 2016 at 12:19 pm | #

    DAMMIT RUTH! THERE ARE NO TRUCKS IN THIS SCENE! SHOO!

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      September 20, 2016 at 12:57 pm | #

      Never give up, never surrender?

  90. Chris
    Chris
    September 19, 2016 at 4:05 pm | #

    This is why my screen lock button on my phone case has a deep divot worn away in the middle. Whether you’re a superhero or not, pressing it subconsciously is a great reflex to develop!

  91. Joshrooms
    Joshrooms
    September 19, 2016 at 8:00 pm | #

    God damn it Willis. Can we have something nice happen once without it leading into way, way more horrible implication? Just once, please?

    You are the George R.R. Martin of webcomics.

    • Gwen
      Gwen
      September 19, 2016 at 8:49 pm | #

      No, George R.R. Martin is the David M. Willis of novels.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      September 19, 2016 at 9:00 pm | #

      This is exactly why I made a petition yesterday for the comic to end forever at that exact point.

  92. elinoria
    elinoria
    September 19, 2016 at 8:25 pm | #

    just my prediction, mary is the one driving the car

  93. Jhon
    Jhon
    September 19, 2016 at 9:25 pm | #

    I am now inscribing on the Wall of Shame the names of all those who thought it was the photo earlier sent to Dorothy that was deleted.

    The Future shall point and laugh!

  94. Leorale
    Leorale
    September 19, 2016 at 11:41 pm | #

    I hope the driver is Beef.

  95. Sophran
    Sophran
    September 19, 2016 at 11:49 pm | #

    Mr Jefferson here to ruin the day?

  96. Adam Black
    Adam Black
    September 19, 2016 at 11:59 pm | #

    Goddammit, Malaya!

  97. poofdepoof
    poofdepoof
    September 20, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    tfw it’s 9:05PM PT and the new DOA hasn’t loaded yet… We’re so spoiled!

  98. BrokenEye, The True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, The True False Prophet
    September 22, 2016 at 2:51 am | #

    Oh god, please tell me this is turning out to be a supervillain origin.

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