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September 20, 2023

Nonviolent

by David M Willis on April 12, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Guess Who's Coming to Galasso's

└ Tags: amazi-girl

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 12, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    HAXX0RZ

  2. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    April 12, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    Amazi-Girl has turned to the Dark Side, flee while you can!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 12, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

      How can you cross the Dark Side when your action is Chaotic Good?

      • Resne
        Resne
        April 12, 2013 at 2:50 am | #

        She’s leaning more towards True Neutral with that one

        • Josh
          Josh
          April 12, 2013 at 4:12 am | #

          There is no way she is True Neutral, she wouldn’t really care about the sign and certainly wouldn’t be a vigilante.

          • Aydr
            Aydr
            April 12, 2013 at 4:24 am | #

            Yeah, not even close. That one’s probably a chaotic neutral action.

            • Hoop
              Hoop
              April 12, 2013 at 6:55 am | #

              This is what we call Chaotic Asshole.

              • djaevlenselv
                djaevlenselv
                April 12, 2013 at 12:44 pm | #

                Honestly, I’m going back to Aizat and calling for chaotic good. She’s clearly doing this out out good intentions; she’s trying to prevent those guys from vandalising the sign. She’s just being very unorthodox about it, hence chaotic good. She probably intends to put the sign up again later, though whether she’ll actually get around to it is anyone’s guess.

                • Io
                  Io
                  April 12, 2013 at 3:02 pm | #

                  I fully support Chaotic Good in this discussion.
                  Because honestly, neutral and chaotic neutral would have given no shits about this vandalism, unless they lived near the sign and appreciated its function in their lives.

                • John
                  John
                  April 12, 2013 at 4:26 pm | #

                  Alignment is the single worst concept ever introduced to RPGs.

                • Flushmaster
                  Flushmaster
                  April 12, 2013 at 6:32 pm | #

                  djaevlenselv makes some excellent points. I also endorse chaotic good.

                • DCHorror
                  DCHorror
                  April 12, 2013 at 11:06 pm | #

                  @John: Untrue. It produces great conversations like this one.

                • Wixvhen
                  Wixvhen
                  April 12, 2013 at 11:59 pm | #

                  It’s only Chaotic Neutral/Good until somebody dies from flying off a cliff. Then it becomes chaotic evil. But hey, even Batman screwed up a few innocent lives, am I right?

                • John
                  John
                  April 13, 2013 at 12:58 am | #

                  If you consider disputes about which of nine ill-defined boxes a character must be crammed into to be “great” and not “pointless, limiting, and hostile to realistic characterization”, sure.

                  Personally, I’ve never seen any role-playing situation that an alignment debate couldn’t make worse.

                • Stephen
                  Stephen
                  April 13, 2013 at 12:59 am | #

                  It’s only chaotic good if she leaves the sign at a campus security office.

                • Neospector
                  Neospector
                  April 13, 2013 at 11:28 pm | #

                  @John I fail to see why defining how good or evil your character is (with a lot higher variation than most video games, I might add) at all limits your creativity. Besides, alignments can change over time, so it’s not some constricting mechanism.
                  If I had a character that’s defined as chaotic good, how is that hostile to realistic character creation? I happens all the time in TV shows and anime:
                  Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) is pretty much Chaotic Good, does this mean he’s unrealistic as a character?
                  Roy Greenhilt (Order of the Stick) would be a solid Chaotic Good, is he also unrealistic?
                  And there’s Rhea Snaketail (Slightly Damned) who’s alternating between Chaotic Neutral and Neutral Good, as she tends to be somewhat mean, but caring at some times.

                  Really though, I just think that if you believe that classification is a limitation, you’re probably actually limiting yourself by believing that. It’s only a system to determine how you appear to people (like judging appearances. I wouldn’t sell to or party up with a Chaotic Evil character, would you?).

                  I also wanted to write something long, because I’m bored, so very, very bored…

                • miyto
                  miyto
                  April 14, 2013 at 1:44 am | #

                  @Neospecter: I wouldn’t call the first two good examples of your point. Rhea had been given the alignment chaotic neutral at the beginning, whereas if the other two were introduced by their alignment’s being stated, we would judge them by it thereafter.
                  For Rhea, you simply proved the other side of the argument, Rhea will be considered something close to chaotic neutral well after she has grown beyond it, simply because she was sentenced to the ‘ring of the slightly damned’ for being just barely not true neutral. I don’t think she is anything close to that initial definition now but I still think of her as ‘chaotic good’ because of that slight damnation.
                  The main reason ‘alignments’ are annoying is they add the stigma of definition, I personally would prefer D&D had adopted a ‘personality’ section instead of the black vs. white vs. grey [times] contrast ‘alignment’ section. Six options doesn’t give proper stereotyping, even with the ‘true ___’ options nine sets of stereotyping doesn’t give an accurate definition of any character, too many people will still assume that ‘their’ definition of ‘good’, ‘evil’, ‘neutral’, ‘chaotic’, and/or ‘lawful’ is the one that defines most of the character.
                  It makes it quite difficult for character growth to happen, because stereotypes stick for far longer than they are true.

                • Neospector
                  Neospector
                  April 14, 2013 at 11:48 pm | #

                  @miyto
                  To other characters they stick because that’s just how we are, we label things and we’re reluctant to change them. If you’re looking at the story from third-person view, you can see their change. That’s what causes all the “bullying” conflicts in movies about teenage angst. Since I’ve never played D&D, I can’t say personally for that, but for movies, books, and comics/manga/graphic novels, it’s a good plot device that drives the story along.
                  So in terms of plot, if you’re playing a game, it’s a good thing, as it generates internal (character struggle) and external (resentment held by NPCs or other characters) conflict. If you’re just playing around and you’re unconcerned of any plotline, well, I suppose then that’s when the limitations start popping up. Still, it’s incorrect to say that it limits “realistic characterization”; just because people see you as one alignment doesn’t make you that one alignment within the plot.

                  Well, would you look at that, 9th grade English actually was useful!

                • Jenny Creed
                  Jenny Creed
                  July 27, 2013 at 12:04 pm | #

                  I’m going with Creative Good.

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      Kirt Dankmyer
      April 12, 2013 at 1:21 pm | #

      Amazi-Girl is the gritty superhero of the 21st century.

  3. Raibean
    Raibean
    April 12, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Amazi-Girl is nonviolent now?

    • Jon P
      Jon P
      April 12, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      Violence in response to violent crime is one thing.
      Violence in response to nonviolent crime is a little more frowned upon.

      • Robin
        Robin
        April 12, 2013 at 5:28 am | #

        Tell that to Disproportionate Response Man.

        • John
          John
          April 12, 2013 at 3:44 pm | #

          aka The Punisher.

    • SUGauthor
      SUGauthor
      April 12, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      She’s only violent in self defense.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        April 13, 2013 at 4:01 pm | #

        Funny thing it’s not really legal self-defense if you goaded them into attacking you. They might have thrown the first punch, but your actions weren’t “as necessary to dispel the immediate threat of violence” – in fact, they were “as necessary to cause an immediate threat of violence”.
        And when (if) the police arrive, they will usually determine the defender/victim by looking at who lost. That’s if they don’t summarily arrest everyone, because everyone was fighting …

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      The crime they were doing was nonviolent in nature unlike what happened with Joyce and Ryan.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 12, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

        Did Amazi-girl do anything violent to Ryan?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          April 12, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

          No, he just looked that way.

          • TPman
            TPman
            April 12, 2013 at 1:04 am | #

            Clumsy guy, tends to fall down the stairs a lot. Often lands on somebody’s fists.

            • Schmookie
              Schmookie
              April 12, 2013 at 7:46 am | #

              …he fell down the stairs on somebody’s fists nine times.

              • Ren
                Ren
                April 12, 2013 at 12:36 pm | #

                HE HAD IT COMING! HE HAD IT COMING! HE ONLY HAD HIMSELF TO BLAAAAAME!

                *pop* *six* *squish* *uh-uh* *Cicero* *Lipschitz*

          • girly2k
            girly2k
            April 14, 2013 at 2:04 am | #

            It’s Amazi-Tits. They clarified that in the last strip (or two strips ago?)

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          April 12, 2013 at 12:41 am | #

          No, but only because she couldn’t find him.

    • ProjectXa3
      ProjectXa3
      April 12, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

      It’s like the Warners, or Bugs Bunny. Physicality is only permissible in retaliation or for the protection of another.

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        April 12, 2013 at 1:43 am | #

        Bugs Bunny definitely instigated some violence in his day.

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        April 13, 2013 at 6:35 am | #

        I always thought the Warners saw being annoying as being a crime. I might be misremembering — Slappy Squirrel definitely did, though.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 12, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

      First, do not harm. Unless you mean to do harm, give them lots of harm.

  4. T Campbell
    T Campbell
    April 12, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Did she actually give him back his can? I figured a blast of spray paint to the face was in his future. But I guess there’s a limit to how far she’ll bend the law.

    • John
      John
      April 12, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      She never had the can.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 12, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

        She has some nice cans.

        • John
          John
          April 12, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

          Amazing, even.

          • ProjectXa3
            ProjectXa3
            April 12, 2013 at 12:48 am | #

            AMAZI-CANS!!

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              April 12, 2013 at 12:50 am | #

              AMAZI-CAN-CANS!!

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                April 12, 2013 at 2:11 am | #

                Can it! 😛

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  April 12, 2013 at 3:00 pm | #

                  Yup, pretty much the comment thread I have learned to love from you people.

                • John
                  John
                  April 12, 2013 at 4:38 pm | #

                  Yeah, that’s the chief thing you can expect from DoA comment threads: dumb pun chains and perving on teenage girls. Two chief things: dumb pun chains, perving on teenage girls, and repetition of tired memes. Three chief things: dumb pun chains, perving on teenage girls, repetition of tired memes, and an almost fanatical dedication to referencing pop culture. Amongst the things… I’ll come in again.

                  You definitely shouldn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition, though.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  April 12, 2013 at 5:20 pm | #

                  You forgot the partridge in the pear tree. 😛

    • Prior Semblance
      Prior Semblance
      April 12, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

      It kind of looked like she took it yesterday but that’s actually his hand

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 12, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    That is like preventing a purse snatching by kidnapping the owner of said purse.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 12, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      Or preventing a school fight by beating everyone up first.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 12, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

        or preventing a war by blitzkrieg.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          April 12, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

          Preventing alcoholism by getting them addicted to crack.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            April 12, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

            something something a something something

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              April 12, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

              Try to save a drowning person with a fire hose.

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                April 12, 2013 at 12:45 am | #

                Try to help a burn victim with leather.

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  April 12, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

                  Trying to diet in a Cheese Cake Factory.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  April 12, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

                  Lighting a match in a dynamite room.

                • TPman
                  TPman
                  April 12, 2013 at 1:23 am | #

                  Curing a man’s arachnophobia by strangling him to death.

                • TPman
                  TPman
                  April 12, 2013 at 1:12 am | #

                  Launching a smear campaign against a much-beloved public figure so that no one feels sad when he gets kidnapped.

                • Campor
                  Campor
                  April 12, 2013 at 4:36 am | #

                  Stopping the robbery of a jewelry store by stealing the store.

                • Andrusi
                  Andrusi
                  April 12, 2013 at 11:29 am | #

                  Preventing someone from taking over the world by destroying the world.

                • Notebooked
                  Notebooked
                  April 12, 2013 at 7:07 pm | #

                  Giving to charity by robbing a bank.

                • fatemaster1
                  fatemaster1
                  June 30, 2014 at 11:04 pm | #

                  Stopping child abuse by killing all the children.

  6. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    April 12, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    I have a No Parking sign in my room. Amazi-Girl and I are best friends.

    • Deimir
      Deimir
      April 12, 2013 at 2:48 pm | #

      Got a Yield sign on the inside of my bedroom door. Was actually stolen by one of my uncles when he was a teenager, so it’s officially a family heirloom.

      Sharing time! Who else has state property adorning their living spaces?

      • Io
        Io
        April 12, 2013 at 3:06 pm | #

        I have a 30mph speed limit sign that fell off in a storm on the wall over my bed.
        Because road traffic innuendo is awesome.

        Also we have a stop sign. This one is too darn big by about a half inch to actually fit on a bedroom door.

      • John
        John
        April 12, 2013 at 4:12 pm | #

        I have a shield I made out of a yield sign.

        Actually, I have several shields and armor pieces made out of road signs… it’s a good supply of cheap or free metal plate; DoT will often just give retired signs away to anyone willing to haul them off rather than going to the hassle and expense of scrapping them. And I’m keeper of the shire loaner gear, so everyone’s crappy first armor ends up in my garage.

        But usually they’re cut up and shaped and used so that the sign side is on the inside, for appearances’ sake. The yield shield is just an unmodified yield sign, face-out, with edging and straps attached.

      • Lukkai
        Lukkai
        April 12, 2013 at 9:23 pm | #

        Don’t know if I got any of them left (I would have to check in the basement), but we did “find” the odd sign or other during my time in the boyscouts. Some of which at least temporary made it to my house.

      • Axel Bordelon
        Axel Bordelon
        April 13, 2013 at 10:44 pm | #

        My roommate gave me a traffic cone that his friend stole and snuck in his room once.

  7. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    April 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Those guys were obnoxious.

  8. Safgaftsa
    Safgaftsa
    April 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    I’d like to see where this is going.

  9. General Tekno
    General Tekno
    April 12, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    Calling it now – the fact that there’s no “Dead End” sign at that juncture will come back down the road.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 12, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Amazi-girl, responsible for the deaths of dozens of people.

      • Groove
        Groove
        April 12, 2013 at 7:42 am | #

        I thought that too, but much more likely she’ll just be caught with/have a hard time disposing of the sign.

    • Theozilla
      Theozilla
      April 12, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Hmmm, you could be correct I would not put it pass Willis to set up a Chekhov’s Gun out this strip.

    • Daphnaie
      Daphnaie
      April 12, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      Ooh, good call!

    • Raine
      Raine
      April 12, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      Might end up with someone driving down the road then someone else needing to crash into them, sacrificing themselves in order to save that first person.

      Or you know, something like Mike leading them down that way for laughs.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 12, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      …in a future episode, a ‘main’ character WILL DIE…

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        April 12, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Tonight…..YOU!

    • Fonti
      Fonti
      April 12, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

      See, now I was thinking “Convenient that it’s a ‘dead end’ sign. Worst that can happen as a result of removing it is somebody has to turn around his car.”

      Maybe next time the taggers should try a stop sign. Or, you know, a wall.

      • ProjectXa3
        ProjectXa3
        April 12, 2013 at 12:51 am | #

        Or they drive off a cliff. More than one kind lf dead end, after all. Maybe the road stops because there’s a parking lot, maybe because there’s a canyon qhead.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          April 12, 2013 at 1:28 am | #

          In which case shouldn’t there be some sort of fencing up?

        • Hoop
          Hoop
          April 12, 2013 at 6:58 am | #

          Or a bunch of dorms.

        • Pie
          Pie
          April 12, 2013 at 3:24 pm | #

          I know it wouldn’t fit with the overall theme of the comic, but I really wanna see a strip where random people are driving through and end up hurtling off a cliff, and we never see them again.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 12, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

      I bet Danny’s parents will be killed as a result.

    • someguywithakatana
      someguywithakatana
      April 12, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

      Going off of your calling, with this calling. It will involve Ruth driving. Either in a tragic irony when she dies or a comedic irony when she narrowly avoids death. In the former case, it will be as a set-up for Billie realizing her feelings for Ruth right before the big accident and taking her death as yet another example of college life being very unhappy times for her. In the latter case, it will be a wake-up call for Billie when she realizes how afraid she was for Ruth (because she will be there) and this will be the springboard that their relationship leaps from.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        April 12, 2013 at 12:43 am | #

        Ruth and Tony agree to give Dina driving lessons! What could possibly go wrong?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          April 12, 2013 at 12:54 am | #

          Hey, throw in Green Biker Dude and Sean Bean and you get a party.

        • someguywithakatana
          someguywithakatana
          April 12, 2013 at 2:52 am | #

          Has Tony shown up yet? I don’t recall seeing him.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            April 12, 2013 at 3:14 am | #

            Danny told him he was gay and liked dicks and stuff (That Dann did, he didn’t accuse Tony of it) in an attempt to get attacked so Amazi-Girl would show up and save him again. Tony’s disgusted by the assumption that he’d care Danny was gay.

            • John
              John
              April 12, 2013 at 3:28 am | #

              Billie tried flirting with him for booze, too.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          April 12, 2013 at 3:03 pm | #

          Just be glad it’s not Toonces.

    • Led
      Led
      April 12, 2013 at 5:31 am | #

      Yes, yes this is EXACTLY what I was thinking… Either nothing happens and this was all an unconnected joke, or there is a joke next week with tons of people getting stuck at a dead end…

      or someone dies a horrible splattery death (or gets badly injured), causing pain to lots of people in the campus, causing Amazi-Girl to doubt herself and feel bad, etc

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 12, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    The ends justify the means?

    • SUGauthor
      SUGauthor
      April 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      It’s not such a bad thing to do. I’m sure she plans on washing it and putting it back later.

    • Aras Pabedinskas
      Aras Pabedinskas
      April 12, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Dead Ends justify the means?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        April 12, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

        Dead End knows that someone would vandalize his signs. Dead End also knew that the end is nigh.

        • fatemaster1
          fatemaster1
          June 30, 2014 at 11:10 pm | #

          Someone should change their name to Dead End in real life. I can’t because I’m going to change mine to Xaos, but it would be cool to have someone out there named Dead End.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        April 12, 2013 at 3:04 pm | #

        Hmmm, might make a good band name.

  11. name
    name
    April 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    “Oh no, how will we ever find another traffic sign at this hour!?!”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 12, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      The comic then focuses on these guys going to the Traffic Sign outlet to purchase and install a sign so they can vandalize it before morning.

      • name
        name
        April 12, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

        Amazi-girl then returns with the freshly cleaned sign she took, only to find the new vandalized sign in its place. This storyline writes itself.

        • fatemaster1
          fatemaster1
          June 30, 2014 at 11:13 pm | #

          she switches the vandalized sign with the clean one and takes the vandalized one back to her dorm to clean it, saving it for when the vandals return to vandalize the sign again, etc.

  12. Sporky
    Sporky
    April 12, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    What’s the expression? “Cutting off your nose to spite your face?”

    Seriously, outright stealing a road sign is somehow better than tagging it? At least the latter way people can still read it. Really, I don’t see what’s so wrong with grafitti.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 12, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      It’s…disrespectful. It’s a way to stick it to the man!

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        April 12, 2013 at 2:47 am | #

        Sure, if by “the man” you mean the poor schmucks whose taxes pay for the repairs.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          April 12, 2013 at 10:37 am | #

          They’re often men! It counts!

    • Dhund
      Dhund
      April 12, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      My guess is she cleans it, then brings it back.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 12, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

      Well, while some graffiti are a work of art, some of them is just an eyesore.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        April 12, 2013 at 3:15 am | #

        Tagging isn’t true graffitti, it’s like writing down ‘BOB WUZ HERE’ in marker on a wall. At this point just post a picture on Instagram if you want to show off your claim to a piece of urban land or something.

    • mancuso
      mancuso
      April 12, 2013 at 6:43 am | #

      What’s wrong with graffiti is, every piece of it that isn’t on the highest level of genius artistic achievement (i.e. 99.9999% of every graffiti ever) looks worse than whatever was there before.
      “Art”, my butt.

    • Hoop
      Hoop
      April 12, 2013 at 6:59 am | #

      and here come a billion GRAFFITI ISN’T EVEN ART UNLESS IT’S SOMETHING CLEVER LIKE BANKSY posts

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        April 12, 2013 at 10:39 am | #

        Can I go the “It doesn’t have to look good to be art so all that birdshit on my car is art so shut up” route instead?

        • Kirt Dankmyer
          Kirt Dankmyer
          April 12, 2013 at 1:21 pm | #

          It’s called “found art” in that case. 🙂

      • Rachel
        Rachel
        April 13, 2013 at 4:44 pm | #

        *groooan* for real, and you were right

  13. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    April 12, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    …all that over spraypainting a sign? >_>

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 12, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      It was a slow night *shrugs*

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 12, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

      Buddy, I’ve seen a guy flipped out over a penny. I’ve seen a guy who loses his shit just because of a fast food joint that served mainly burgers didn’t have pizza in their menu. This, this is small potatoes.

      • Felix Featherstone
        Felix Featherstone
        April 12, 2013 at 1:51 am | #

        Hell, I saw a guy leave a cart full of groceries and walk out of a store because a cashier didn’t have a pen, so he could fill out his check, and had asked him to ask the other cashier behind him.

  14. SonsOfSauron
    SonsOfSauron
    April 12, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    I’m sure she’ll just clean off the sign and replace it in a timely fashion.

  15. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    April 12, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    Spanner in his works!

  16. Aizat
    Aizat
    April 12, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

    I think this falls under “They’ll never believe you”

    • fatemaster1
      fatemaster1
      June 30, 2014 at 11:16 pm | #

      LOL!

  17. Count Dracula
    Count Dracula
    April 12, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

    “Well that was annoying. Come on, there’s another one the next street over.”

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 12, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

      They later discovered that all the signs are missing. Next morning, they discovered the missing signs……in their dorm rooms.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        April 12, 2013 at 10:41 am | #

        Along with a few annoyed cops.

        “We didn’t do it, officer! It was a masked vigilante!”
        “Uh-huh. We have traffic cam video of you tagging this sign, which mysteriously cuts off for a while in the middle, and then the sign was gone. And look here it is, and there’s the paint can in your hand.”

        • fatemaster1
          fatemaster1
          June 30, 2014 at 11:17 pm | #

          That would be awesome!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 12, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

      What a minor inconvenience!

  18. Geegles
    Geegles
    April 12, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

    Does the fourth/second-to-last panel look kind of creepy to anyone else?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 12, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

      IF it just ended there it’d look like she killed them and began to fix the sign.

  19. Jon P
    Jon P
    April 12, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

    Never doubt that a superhero has a wrench at her disposal.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 12, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

      No Badass Normal superheroine can be complete without a utility belt.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 12, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

        Also no plumber…But then again…Aren’t they the REAL heroes?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          April 12, 2013 at 12:41 am | #

          They are heroes….of the Mushroom Kingdom.

    • Hoop
      Hoop
      April 12, 2013 at 7:00 am | #

      It is kind of striking that she happened to already have the right socket on there and everything.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        April 12, 2013 at 3:07 pm | #

        Particularly as those things usually have security fittings on them.

  20. Aizat
    Aizat
    April 12, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

    I’m half expecting Amazi-Girl to respond with “I’m Batman!”

  21. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 12, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

    This is like flipping the chess board over.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 12, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

      Well, based on my experience, flipping the chessboard also include a fist to the face.

  22. JustcallmeSoul
    JustcallmeSoul
    April 12, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

    i get the feeling that Willis read all the comments in the last few strips and got to wondering… “uh… how am i gonna resolve this without her breaking her code of honor?”

    • John
      John
      April 12, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

      Willis has Dumbing of Age already drawn through at least the first week of May. He posts preview teaser panels on his Tumblr occasionally. Nothing anyone says in these comments is going to affect anything that goes down in the strip for at least a month.

      • David
        David M Willis
        April 12, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

        Just the first week of May? Hell, I’m almost done with May!: http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/47761639435/may-23

        And for good measure, an Amazi-Girl from next week: http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/45816045867/amazinglyadorable-girl

        • JustcallmeSoul
          JustcallmeSoul
          April 12, 2013 at 1:58 am | #

          0.0 the illusion… IT IS SHATTERED…

          • JustcallmeSoul
            JustcallmeSoul
            April 12, 2013 at 2:01 am | #

            not sure whether to be all “AWW MAN, i like the idea of the creator reading feedback and taking/rejecting ideas from it.” or go all crazed fan and be like *holy s**t, he commented on my post HE CARES! wooo! make Dina a sidekick!” xD

            • JustcallmeSoul
              JustcallmeSoul
              April 12, 2013 at 2:04 am | #

              not that i really want to influence someone elses creation, but i think im going to draw “Amazi-tits and Clever Girl! (Dina in a velociraptor costume.)”

              • Zababcd
                Zababcd
                April 12, 2013 at 5:47 pm | #

                Oh… I’m disappointed that my first thought was ‘Clever Girl? Shouldn’t it have something to do with dinosaurs?’

                • Lukkai
                  Lukkai
                  April 12, 2013 at 9:29 pm | #

                  It does.

                  Jurassic Park (the first one).

                  Is it bad that I instantly got that reference?

                • Lukkai
                  Lukkai
                  April 12, 2013 at 9:30 pm | #

                  But I think you already know this, now that my 3:30AM still awake brain actually delievered the rest of your comment to me.

        • John
          John
          April 12, 2013 at 4:41 am | #

          S’why I said “at least”! … ’cause I was too lazy to dig back through the Tumblr to find the latest, but I knew I’d seen May dates.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          April 12, 2013 at 3:20 pm | #

          Darn it Willis, you just screwed up a perfect chance to mess with your audience big time. All you had to do was say that you prepare the pages just ahead of posting, and hint that you follow the comments and let them influence your plotlines. Then just sit back and watch the forums explode.

  23. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    April 12, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

    Nonviolite that sucka!!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 12, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

      Yeah, go Yazan Gable on their asses….oh wait, Yazan would violate them.

      • HeatPhoenix
        HeatPhoenix
        April 12, 2013 at 1:48 pm | #

        First I was gonna go violate them but now

        I’ll just violate them.

        Yazan only knows to violate.

  24. Somebody
    Somebody
    April 12, 2013 at 12:53 am | #

    Someone’s been playing Scribblenauts.

  25. Zap Rowsdower
    Zap Rowsdower
    April 12, 2013 at 12:58 am | #

    Alexander the Great would be proud.

  26. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    April 12, 2013 at 1:17 am | #

    Ah…that’s odd.

  27. Andiemus
    Andiemus
    April 12, 2013 at 1:44 am | #

    Congratulations. You stopped a crime by committing a worse crime on the same victim.

    • Leonou
      Leonou
      April 12, 2013 at 11:07 am | #

      All hail Amazi-Tits !!!!!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 12, 2013 at 5:19 pm | #

        “I WILL BUST THE FORCES OF EVIL!”

  28. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 12, 2013 at 1:44 am | #

    Maybe they will. And then what will you do, Amazi-Girl?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 12, 2013 at 10:44 am | #

      Stealthily return the sign just before the cops arrive, tag still intact and paint can still in their possession.

  29. Felix Featherstone
    Felix Featherstone
    April 12, 2013 at 1:47 am | #

    I expected violence. This is somehow better. Why am I not disappointed?

  30. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 12, 2013 at 2:17 am | #

    Panel 3: Guy with glasses gets a faceful of the Amazi-Crotch.

    • mancuso
      mancuso
      April 12, 2013 at 6:36 am | #

      With a side dish of Amazi-Boobs on top of his head.
      If that didn’t make him an instant convert, nothing can.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 12, 2013 at 8:26 am | #

        It certainly explains his face on Panel 5.

        • Jessie
          Jessie
          April 12, 2013 at 3:29 pm | #

          I was WONDERING when someone else was going to notice that!

          • Peruhain
            Peruhain
            April 14, 2013 at 11:53 pm | #

            Me too.

    • Peruhain
      Peruhain
      April 14, 2013 at 11:55 pm | #

      Eat spandex, you villainous vandal!

  31. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    April 12, 2013 at 2:21 am | #

    teehee

    I like the possibility that she’s carrying around all sorts of mechanical gear in her pouches, like a walking toolbox.

  32. asdf
    asdf
    April 12, 2013 at 2:59 am | #

    Amazi-Girl clearly subscribes to the broken window theory.

  33. Zoey
    Zoey
    April 12, 2013 at 3:52 am | #

    like a Boss

  34. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    April 12, 2013 at 4:39 am | #

    Well played, Amazi-girl. Well played. 😀

  35. Sye
    Sye
    April 12, 2013 at 7:13 am | #

    I see what you’re doing here, Willis.

    Nicely done.

  36. Schmookie
    Schmookie
    April 12, 2013 at 7:48 am | #

    D-did…Amazi-Girl just climb up that guy’s face?!

  37. renfield1969
    renfield1969
    April 12, 2013 at 8:18 am | #

    This was just odd. She’s wearing a mask and has a repautation as a crime-fighting vigilante. What made him think she wouldn’t use violence?

    • bunivasal
      bunivasal
      April 12, 2013 at 1:36 pm | #

      Because at that point, she’s committing a worse crime than she’s preventing, while ALSO turning the “evil-doer” into a a victim.

  38. dropded
    dropded
    April 12, 2013 at 8:40 am | #

    So they go tag another sign.

    I love DoA, but I think Amazi-Girl should have been left behind.

    • John
      John
      April 12, 2013 at 4:24 pm | #

      If Joyce is right, she will be.

      But Sarah will have a single!

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      April 12, 2013 at 5:30 pm | #

      Amazi-Girl is more of a character here than she was in the original.

  39. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    April 12, 2013 at 1:50 pm | #

    She also threatened them (raising her fist, asking for them to give her an excuse to “get her hands dirty”… coupled with her reputation for violent vigilantism, I think it qualifies), so that’s misdemeanor assault. She then climbed over Shaggy to steal the sign, which could qualify as misdemeanor battery since she touched him in a “deliberately rude, angry, or insolent” manner. So we can include battery.

    So, theft, vandalism, assault and battery.

    Man, Amazi-Girl, you sure showed those vandals who has the upper hand, morally.

  40. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    April 12, 2013 at 1:54 pm | #

    I’m going to pretend my legal eagle Google skills from back when Ruth and Billie were fighting influenced this story decision.

  41. John Merklinghaus
    John Merklinghaus
    April 12, 2013 at 2:01 pm | #

    I have a company that sells anti-graffiti wipes and an anti-graffiti-proofing spray. Clean that sucker off in 30 seconds.

    Oops. Spam. Sorry.

  42. Random832
    Random832
    April 12, 2013 at 2:16 pm | #

    Now we just have to wait for the sign to show up in someone’s dorm room, and we will know who Amazi-girl…

    …planted the sign on.

    • Notebooked
      Notebooked
      April 12, 2013 at 3:52 pm | #

      I had some sort of theory about that, in which Amazi-Girl realizes she can’t just dump the sign somewhere (for reasons of I don’t know) and brings it to her room. When an accident occurs in the street where the sign used to be, the school board realizes the sign has been taken from its place. The sign winds up being passed from person to person like a hot potato, bringing with it guilt and deceit.

      • Leonou
        Leonou
        April 12, 2013 at 5:30 pm | #

        I don’t know how things are down where you live, but in MY school stolen street signs wind up being passed passed from person to person like a prize, bringing with it fame and pride.
        And I’m in an engineering school ….. hey wait minute !

        • Notebooked
          Notebooked
          April 12, 2013 at 6:29 pm | #

          I meant guilt and deceit ’cause the person caught with it by school staff will be assumed to have taken the sign down, thus inadvertently causing the crash.

          (That’s what school staff do, right? Kick down doors in raids for traffic signs?)

  43. Ray
    Ray
    April 12, 2013 at 3:20 pm | #

    Well it’s a good punchline because she proved herself more clever than him, but at what point was violence on her part ruled out as an option? All he said before was she wasn’t going to goad HIM into violence.

    Still, spoiling their fun one way or the other is probably satisfaction enough for her. Although, can’t they just walk a block down and have another sign to deface?

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      April 12, 2013 at 5:28 pm | #

      Assaulting someone for vandalising a sign is going overboard. If they won’t attack her she has no excuse to use force.

  44. ArkhamTexan
    ArkhamTexan
    April 12, 2013 at 4:31 pm | #

    The only tag is for Amazi-Girl. I was sorta hoping there’d be tags for the other two guys too which might hint at their return in the future. Which could still happen, but still.

    • John
      John
      April 12, 2013 at 5:01 pm | #

      They would have tags, but Amazi-Girl interrupted them in the middle of tagging.

      They just wanted to be notable recurring characters, Amazi-Girl!

      • Sir Robin
        Sir Robin
        April 12, 2013 at 7:51 pm | #

        Amazi-Girl does need a re-occurring Rogues Gallery though

        • Notebooked
          Notebooked
          April 13, 2013 at 6:17 am | #

          University Jones, the mad archeologist! Biker-Girl! The Fun-Damentalist! (Joyce as Joker…except not being suggestive, or extravagant, or extroverted. Just reading aloud from a joke book while looking awkward.)

  45. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 12, 2013 at 6:15 pm | #

    This is just a ‘minor’ edit of this comic.

    • Darth Cariss
      Darth Cariss
      April 12, 2013 at 7:47 pm | #

      Maybe I just don’t understand how it works, but your pictures are always so tiny I have to zoom way in to read them, and they get all blurry.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 12, 2013 at 9:49 pm | #

        I wish I knew why it happens myself, the picture was bigger and clearer when I edited it.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 13, 2013 at 4:03 am | #

          I have fixed the picture in my Tumblr page.

    • Bill M.
      Bill M.
      April 13, 2013 at 9:48 am | #

      The nosebleed on the human ladder… nice touch. Very nice touch.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 14, 2013 at 7:50 am | #

        Kiitti! ^_^ You don’t watch as many anime as I have without picking up a few of their visual cues.

  46. MichaelHaneline
    MichaelHaneline
    April 12, 2013 at 8:59 pm | #

    I figure she probably intends to clean the sign up and put it back.

  47. Lucy
    Lucy
    April 14, 2013 at 1:04 pm | #

    Can you like a comment? Because John’s response to the alignment issue was great and I just wanted to tell him that he is probably the smartest/coolest person in this entire comment thread.

    • John
      John
      April 14, 2013 at 8:21 pm | #

      Thankyoo, thankyooverramuch.

  48. Rachel
    Rachel
    April 15, 2013 at 10:56 am | #

    MAN that last panel just keeps looking like a flying crotch to the face!

  49. Alkuna
    Alkuna
    June 7, 2013 at 11:50 am | #

    Y’know… one would think that she’d heard of a “camcorder.” Most cell phones now can take video. The prospect of being recorded would have given those guys hesitation. If they’d have attacked her, she would be justified in planting her foot up their asses. If they kept going, their faces would be recorded. From there, it’s just a matter of turning it in and/or laying them on their asses.

  50. EdoKara
    EdoKara
    July 7, 2013 at 11:33 pm | #

    Amazi-girl just made shit get real. I think it’s genius that she could come out of that still winning and without the possibility of getting busted for it. Because, let’s face it, nobody in engineering is going to going to make the “hey, I was tagging a sign and some chick stole it right off the post, you gotta bust her man!” call.

  51. nothri
    nothri
    November 13, 2013 at 4:18 pm | #

    Still think this dude should just count his freaking blessings. Outcome could have been:

    “Oh, hey, good point.”

    ::starts some violence::

    • Rheios
      Rheios
      May 15, 2015 at 4:27 pm | #

      Alternatives include ripping the paint can out of his hands and spray painting his clothing, putting gum in his hair, or throwing stink pellets at him.

  52. Emma
    Emma
    October 19, 2014 at 7:35 am | #

    Can’t be arsed to look it up but I believe theft of street signs is a surprisingly serious crime. Possibly federal.

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