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Fire alarm

by David M Willis on June 1, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Answers in Hennessy

└ Tags: amber, danny

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    June 1, 2013 at 12:01 am | #

    Is that a police scanner app?

    • AliaPie
      AliaPie
      June 1, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      Probably a campus text alert system. But, who knows? Maybe it is a police scanner.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 1, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

        Does Amber and Amazi-Girl have the same type and colour of phone, I forgot.

        • Matt
          Matt
          June 1, 2013 at 2:55 am | #

          I don’t know, but it’s suspicious how you never see those phones in the same place at the same time! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, PHONE.

          • Led
            Led
            June 1, 2013 at 6:13 am | #

            Ambers phone is really Amazi-Phone, the mobile vigilante!

            • AckAckAck
              AckAckAck
              June 1, 2013 at 8:26 pm | #

              Until it run out of battery that is.

              And with smart phones nowadays it will be less than a day.

              • Led
                Led
                June 2, 2013 at 7:03 am | #

                Well it has to return to the Amazi-Phone-Cave each day to get a full recharge, but it also has hidden recharge stations around campus if it needs a quick boost while chasing a bad guy… phone… phoneguy… thing.

              • Bill
                Bill
                September 4, 2013 at 5:07 am | #

                Just be judicious with how you use your phone, and install (and use) a task killer app, and you’d be surprised how much mileage you can get out of a charge.

      • Amanda
        Amanda
        June 1, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

        I was going to say the campus text alerts too, though my university didn’t have it just for fire alarms… (God, could you imagine… ugh) Only actual fires or impending weather problems.

        Or that one time they thought a bomb was in the basketball arena.

        • Kafloobop
          Kafloobop
          June 1, 2013 at 1:32 am | #

          My college sent out an alert text because the water was going to be turned off in the history building for an hour.

          • Witch [Soul] of Heart
            Witch [Soul] of Heart
            February 2, 2014 at 2:44 am | #

            Text alerts have informed me of about a half-dozen water pipe breakages. I’m halfway through sophomore year.

            Freshman year, the sewage line in the basement broke as well as the water lines on the second and third floor. All down the same hallway I lived on, just every floor but mine.

            I’m still dreading the day it breaks on my floor. Because it’s gonna come. I got out of it three times last year, and I’m in an older dorm this year. (And first floor flooded already.)

        • Dicrel Seijin
          Dicrel Seijin
          June 1, 2013 at 2:55 am | #

          I can honestly say that my college campus has not sent out an actual fire alarm. The recent alerts that I can remember off the top of my head were for a couple of tsunami warnings and a flasher.

        • Pat
          Pat
          June 1, 2013 at 11:13 am | #

          I signed up for text alerts, but they were stupid and useless.
          I didn’t have a texting plan, so I had to pay for them. I thought it was worth a few cents for an occasional actual emergency, but they happened all the time so I dropped it in a week. Fire alarms? Wouldn’t be surprised.

      • MarcinMN
        MarcinMN
        June 1, 2013 at 12:35 pm | #

        That’s the, uh, Amazi-scanner.

    • John Harmon
      John Harmon
      June 1, 2013 at 1:43 am | #

      Is there such a thing as a police scanner app? I’m pretty sure it’s illegal as hell to own a police scanner, so how can an app be legal?

      • BassBone
        BassBone
        June 1, 2013 at 1:48 am | #

        It is not illegal at all to own a police scanner. Police activity is a matter of public record and the broadcast in the clear on public frequencies.

        • brionl
          brionl
          June 1, 2013 at 6:08 pm | #

          Well, used to be in the clear. More and more they are going to digital transmissions, so if you don’t have the correct decoder you just get buzzing and weird noises.

      • Bettyspaghetti42
        Bettyspaghetti42
        June 1, 2013 at 1:53 am | #

        Police Scanner App is available for free on the Google Play Store for Android Mobile users. Provided you have a savvy data plan or internet connection, you can easily tune in on your local police station.

      • Buckybone
        Buckybone
        June 1, 2013 at 4:41 am | #

        Here’s the link to Chicago’s police scanner. I’ve had it on my favorites for a year, it’s still legal. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/763/web/?rl=rr

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        June 1, 2013 at 12:10 pm | #

        A police scanner is just a radio receiver. If radio receivers are ever illegal, it’s time to start planning the insurgency. Now, there are restrictions about -broadcasting- on police bands, but you can listen in all you want.

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        June 1, 2013 at 1:40 pm | #

        Not only legal, but cheap. You can get an entry-level scanner for around $100. I use my for NASCAR races, but it will also pick up the frequencies used by police, fire, etc.

    • qka
      qka
      June 1, 2013 at 9:27 am | #

      It could be Nixle. It’s what my local college uses.

      As for campus fire alarms, what we get most are burnt food in the dorm kitchenettes, followed by hairspray. (Seriously. Smoke detectors are made more and more sensitive every few years. i swear soon they’ll ban beans in the cafeteria because of the detectors.)

      – a firefighter

      • Pat
        Pat
        June 1, 2013 at 11:15 am | #

        We didn’t have kitchens in my dorms (oh, how I wished we did). It was mostly burnt microwave popcorn (seriously people, pay attention for two dang minutes).

  2. Geminia999
    Geminia999
    June 1, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    I feel like the bag for the Amber’s comics is a bit superfluous.

    • Wonder Wig
      Wonder Wig
      June 1, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      It’s clearly a baby Minecraft Creeper.

      • Bettyspaghetti42
        Bettyspaghetti42
        June 1, 2013 at 1:53 am | #

        Sssssss…

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    June 1, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Gail should totally have her first name legally changed to that, just so I can buy comics with “Motherfuckin’ Gail Simone” on the cover.

    • Romanticide
      Romanticide
      June 1, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      As far as I knew Gail Simone was a “nom the plume” so it’s no much of a strech XD

  4. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    June 1, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    So, Billie went and done it.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 1, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      Mayyyybeeee…

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 1, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

        MAYBE A RANDOM FIRE BROKE OUT, YOU DON’T KNOW.

    • stevecharb
      stevecharb
      June 1, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

      woulda been a Chekhov’s gun thing if she hadn’t.

      • Zababcd
        Zababcd
        June 1, 2013 at 4:12 am | #

        Not necessarily. It could have been the beginning of recurring storyline wherein characters almost pull the fire alarm for their own purposes, but decide against it, coming to its conclusion when there is an actual fire, and someone pulls the fire alarm, and we learn that it’s broken – which we would have found out much earlier if only someone had pulled it.

  5. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    June 1, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    This is Billie’s finest moment. It’s a shame she’ll get in huge trouble for it.

  6. Tikitori
    Tikitori
    June 1, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Actually, since UF has a police text system (for example, when someone was getting stabbed on campus), there would be a text update about it to all current students.

    Hence why I wasn’t surprised-although fire alarms weren’t included in that unless it was an actual fire…

  7. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 1, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    Silly Amber, just because YOU are genre savvy, doesn’t mean that Amazi-Girl is.

    • berober
      berober
      June 1, 2013 at 6:56 am | #

      Who does she think she is? Amazi-Girl?

      • Josh
        Josh
        June 1, 2013 at 8:48 pm | #

        Exactly! I mean in panel 4 we can clearly see Amazi-Girl going there now

  8. GoldStarz
    GoldStarz
    June 1, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    Funny, you couldn’t put that comic in my cold, dead hands.

    • Count Dracula
      Count Dracula
      June 1, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      That sounds like a dare to me.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 1, 2013 at 1:53 am | #

      Why not?

      • Vabolo
        Vabolo
        June 1, 2013 at 4:10 am | #

        It would probably be out of print by then?

      • Daibhid Ceannaideach
        Daibhid Ceannaideach
        June 1, 2013 at 9:11 am | #

        Personally, I can see how someone might have serious issues with the comic, both in that it’s symptomatic of DC’s “Everything Silver Age is new again!” ethos and that “fixing” their wheelchair-using superheroine is … unfortunate. On the other hand, motherflippin’ Gail Simone.

  9. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 1, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    I have never wanted to legitimately choke the shit out of Billie as much as I do right now.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 1, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      While the odds are that it was Billie, there is a SMALL possibility that someone else could have chosen to pull the alarm.

      • Prior Semblance
        Prior Semblance
        June 1, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

        There’s also other ways to set off the alarm

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 1, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

          Like the old ‘hold a cigerette lighter under the sprinkler’ trick.

          • George
            George
            June 1, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

            Or the popcorn button on the microwave.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              June 1, 2013 at 1:01 am | #

              Or cook burgers like I tried to do today (not even lying).

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                June 1, 2013 at 1:49 am | #

                I have a fire alarm next to the bathroom, if you forget to shut the door properly, the steam sets of the alarm.

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  June 1, 2013 at 10:04 pm | #

                  That happened to me once, back when I was just starting to switch over from baths to showers.

              • james
                james
                June 1, 2013 at 6:30 am | #

                or set the floor on fire

                • AckAckAck
                  AckAckAck
                  June 1, 2013 at 8:40 pm | #

                  The floor is lava?

    • John
      John
      June 1, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      At least it’s daytime. And not raining. Or snowing. Or twenty below.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 1, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

        You cannot blame Kerny, after all he lost his beloved chiapet in a tragic fire-alarm prank. -__-

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          June 1, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

          A pulled fire alarm shot my parents in an alley when I was 8.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 1, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

            Is that before you discovered an empty warehouse full of novelty condoms and pledged your life to fight the forces of cheap college pranks?

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              June 1, 2013 at 1:31 am | #

              Yes, and thus ends the origin story of Captain Condom.

          • TPman
            TPman
            June 1, 2013 at 1:08 am | #

            Then an inebriated clown burst through my window and my path became clear. His novelty buzzer ring has selected me as the most appropriate being in the sector to take over his role. On a trip to the science zoo I was bitten by a radioactive elephant. To save my life the doctors had to graft solid helium to my skeleton and they also accidentally replaced my heart with a hand crank.
            The cumulative trauma caused caused my latent mutations to activate, and now I am… colorblind!

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 1, 2013 at 1:50 am | #

              Too silly even for Stan Lee.

              • james
                james
                June 1, 2013 at 6:31 am | #

                but not for thenew 52

            • Tenn
              Tenn
              June 1, 2013 at 3:21 am | #

              Seeing the world in dull grays, Colorblind Man is more than a match for Doctor Kaleido’s hypnotic color patterns. But can he defeat his arch-nemesis, Traficklytze?

          • Narf
            Narf
            June 1, 2013 at 2:42 am | #

            Kernanator = Batman

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              June 1, 2013 at 11:23 am | #

              So far, I’ve been George Takei, President Obama, and now Batman.

              I lead a very storied life.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              June 1, 2013 at 12:31 pm | #

              Oh, and Ruth too.

              • Narf
                Narf
                June 26, 2013 at 1:10 am | #

                We should all hope to live lives as storied as yours, President Brucekernaruth Hussein Waynakeibama.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 1, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

      Kinky.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 1, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

        I want to choke-slam her against a wall, then make out with her.

        That’s normal courtship behavior, right?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 1, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

          Only if Billie was a klingon.

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            June 1, 2013 at 1:32 am | #

            Hmm, I think Billie would have noticed a bat’leth in Ruth’s closet.

        • John
          John
          June 1, 2013 at 12:59 am | #

          … Ruth? We’ve been worried about you!

  10. Luzahn
    Luzahn
    June 1, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    Wait, people are angry at Billie? She totally did a not-selfish thing. At worst, it’s neutral.

    No, all negative effects of this are clearly on Mary. =P

    • Count Dracula
      Count Dracula
      June 1, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      I blame Sierra. This was her plan all along, the next step in her life-spanning vendetta against the fire department.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 1, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

        Sierra is a beautiful flower and if she wishes death upon the fire department that’s her perogative.

      • james
        james
        June 1, 2013 at 6:34 am | #

        I blame Francis Robbins Upton and his invention!

    • Geminia999
      Geminia999
      June 1, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      Most seem to just upset by experience

  11. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    June 1, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

    I kind of think Danny is on the verge of fucking things up with his treatment of Amber

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 1, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

      To be fair, he has placed Amber in the friend-zone due to the fact that he is more or less ‘dating’ Amazi-Girl, which makes sense at least.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 1, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

        More like in the Douche-zone.

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          June 1, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

          Yep. Not much of a friend to always run off like that at the mere thought of AG being around.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 1, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

            He simply cannot resist the AmaziRack.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              June 1, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

              No mere mortal can resist. Many a criminal has been subdued by the allure of them.

          • TPman
            TPman
            June 1, 2013 at 12:59 am | #

            I’m sure Amber will understand. Regular people just can’t compete with Amazi-Girl.

        • JBO
          JBO
          June 1, 2013 at 2:35 am | #

          Gotta abandon you because there is the possibility of getting laid. You understand right? Kthx, bye!

    • Belegcam
      Belegcam
      June 1, 2013 at 8:22 am | #

      You know, it’s entirely within Amber’s power to put an end to this charade if she wants to. Danny’s clueless, sure, but he’s not the one insisting that he would never read superhero comics! Where would you get that idea? Superheroes are stupid!

  12. John
    John
    June 1, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

    Stop being reasonable, Amber! Billie’s trying to pull the Amazi-Girl Signal here!

  13. Jason
    Jason
    June 1, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

    I am beginning to have serious doubts that Danny knows that Amber is Amazi-Girl!

    • Sir Robin
      Sir Robin
      June 1, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

      She is???

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 1, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

        Because clearly Marcie is the real Amazi-Girl, that’s why she doesn’t speak, to hide her identity better,

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 1, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

        Because clearly Marcie is the real Amazi-Girl, that’s why she doesn’t speak, to hide her identity better.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        June 1, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

        I thought Dina was Amazi-Girl? No one suspects the quiet, demure girl as a superhero!

      • Hermitix
        Hermitix
        June 1, 2013 at 12:52 am | #

        Right, as if you guys actually thought it wasn’t Ultra Car.

      • TPman
        TPman
        June 1, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

        Willis hasn’t confirmed anything yet. Amazigirl’s identity will be so out of left field nobody could predict it. Speculation is pointless. Even so I bet it’s Danny who relies on Singularikittty to make appearances as Amazigirl and throw suspicion off of himself.

        • Raen
          Raen
          June 1, 2013 at 1:13 am | #

          Amazigirl doesn’t have a secret identity. Her parents named her that, she started wearing the costume as a preschooler based on it, and eventually grew into actual heroics.

          • Ancestral Hamster
            Ancestral Hamster
            June 1, 2013 at 6:23 am | #

            Costume?! I thought it was a full body tattoo!

            • Josh
              Josh
              June 1, 2013 at 8:52 pm | #

              Full body tattoo? You shouldn’t make fun of peoples skin conditions like that!

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 1, 2013 at 1:04 am | #

        Amazi-girl is actually Willis himself. He’s techincally a college student here now and it’s before he met his wife. This is all just so he can finally live out his love fantasy with Danny.

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      June 1, 2013 at 1:24 am | #

      Come on guys… We all know it’s Galasso. He has a split personality: a Lex Luthor-like supervillain and his archnemesis, Amazi-Girl.

      So obvious…

  14. Alexis
    Alexis
    June 1, 2013 at 12:25 am | #

    Baby you don’t need an app to tell you where the fire’s at

    • zoey
      zoey
      June 1, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

      Your face is perfect for that comment

  15. Deemah122
    Deemah122
    June 1, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

    Hey guess what, WE GET THE NEXT COMIC TOMORROW!!!!

  16. ArkhamTexan
    ArkhamTexan
    June 1, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

    Hey, guys! ::lays out his sumo lounge SULTAN, laptop, and 3DS:: It’s great to see y’all during the weekend! Saturdays were great, but now we get Sundays too! It’s like an all-weekend party! I’m excited. You excited? It’s gonna be great! Who wants Chex Mix? Margaritas? We card. WOOOOOOOO, weekend updates!

    • Hermitix
      Hermitix
      June 1, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

      Oh boy, I taste ethanol already!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 1, 2013 at 1:05 am | #

      Break out the cake and soda.
      That was an order.

      • ArkhamTexan
        ArkhamTexan
        June 1, 2013 at 1:13 am | #

        Cake, soda, and cheetos. I like to eat my chocolate cake with cheetos. It’s good cheetos dip. Seriously.

        • Vabolo
          Vabolo
          June 1, 2013 at 4:13 am | #

          I’ll get the polyhedral dice and character sheets!

    • Animal
      Animal
      June 1, 2013 at 9:45 pm | #

      At the parking lot party
      Tailgate buzz just sipping’ on suds
      Ain’t never too early..
      To light one up, fill up your cup
      Cause there ain’t no party like the pre-party
      And after the party is the after-party
      At the parking lot party.

  17. Kschenke
    Kschenke
    June 1, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

    I asked myself the exact same question as the scroll-over. Also, Batgirl is a badass and Gail writes her so well and I just love Barbara Gordon. Sigh.

  18. Becky
    Becky
    June 1, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

    Why would Danny ask why her cell would inform her about that? My college had a text alert system, too.

    Considering we were right next to the ‘hood, probably a smart call on their part.

  19. whoshallremainnameless
    whoshallremainnameless
    June 1, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

    I really want her text ringtone to be the beeps from Kim Possible.

    • Pat
      Pat
      June 1, 2013 at 12:03 pm | #

      I want my text ringtone to be the beeps from Kim Possible.

  20. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    June 1, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

    That attitude is going to burn Amber, one of these days. Literally.

  21. Iggzy
    Iggzy
    June 1, 2013 at 1:04 am | #

    Joyce is covering for herself well it seems

  22. Toad
    Toad
    June 1, 2013 at 1:15 am | #

    HA!
    Amber and I are one.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 1, 2013 at 1:30 am | #

      You should see a doctor about that.

  23. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    June 1, 2013 at 1:21 am | #

    Danny, you are not helping your case at all… Also, you and Amb… I mean, Amazi-Girl may start to give Joyce and Ethan some stiff competition for ‘Dysfunctional Couple of the Year’

  24. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 1, 2013 at 1:31 am | #

    School fires get Danny all hot and heavy.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 1, 2013 at 1:54 am | #

      It’s a burning passion.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 1, 2013 at 2:08 am | #

        He just wants to stare into Amazi-girl’s smoldering eyes.

        • Zababcd
          Zababcd
          June 1, 2013 at 5:23 am | #

          I hope this isn’t meant to be a pun chain, because it’s just a list of fire/heat-related metaphors. Still, it makes it easier to join in.

          Danny’s not really a bright spark, is he? This treatment of Amber may well threaten to extinguish the fiery romance between Danny and Amazi-girl.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 1, 2013 at 5:39 am | #

            Ideally it should stay on subject but with a pun(s) included.

            • ASmellyOgre
              ASmellyOgre
              June 1, 2013 at 8:25 am | #

              Umm, Plasma, you broke the pun chain. Keep that up and you might have to be fired. Just warning you.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                June 1, 2013 at 11:39 am | #

                Ooooh BURN!

                • Andiemus
                  Andiemus
                  June 1, 2013 at 2:15 pm | #

                  Hope you brought Burn Heal!

  25. Bettyspaghetti42
    Bettyspaghetti42
    June 1, 2013 at 2:04 am | #

    HOOH HAH! Whoa ho hoo there, Danny boy, where you heading all feverish?

    There’s a fire, Amazi-Girl might be there!

    Whoa, MAMA! Super ladies are fine enough light MY fire, let’s roast some weenies!

  26. Ruck Bogers
    Ruck Bogers
    June 1, 2013 at 2:18 am | #

    When I went to university, I got text alerts about every “emergency” that happened on, or around, the campus. I am more surprised that Danny did not get an alert.

    • Will
      Will
      June 1, 2013 at 10:52 pm | #

      Maybe he didn’t give them his cell phone number? I have a cell phone, which I use for personal use and anything important, and an old school droid 2 that is hooked up to a VoIP service and my wifi that I use for things like school and anything I don’t want being able to constantly pester me.

  27. asdsadafa
    asdsadafa
    June 1, 2013 at 3:06 am | #

    Hey David,
    You know what would be really cool? If you just happened to post ten more comics today. You know, just to keep us on our toes. We’d never see it coming.

  28. Tom
    Tom
    June 1, 2013 at 3:49 am | #

    Weird fact: I just bought the first DoA book at that comic store. And then stayed up until ungodly o’clock catching up with the comic online. Then found out the comic store itself is currently appearing in the comic.

  29. Buckybone
    Buckybone
    June 1, 2013 at 4:44 am | #

    Fucking hell, y’all broke $42k. Mah gawd, what have you done.

  30. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    June 1, 2013 at 4:51 am | #

    Someone get the popcorn.

  31. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    June 1, 2013 at 5:03 am | #

    I’ve read Batgirl, but due to a lack of other comics in the area, I have no comparison material and no idea of its relative quality. Phoo.

    Events have been set into action, now how will they play out~

    (What does that sign say? Obviously it’s ‘Vintage comics’ first, but then…’New Gen Books’?)

    • John
      John
      June 1, 2013 at 10:30 am | #

      Vintage Phoenix Comic Books

      • John
        John
        June 1, 2013 at 10:32 am | #

        Huh. I put a link to an IDS article with a photo of the place there, but I guess the spam filter ate it? Let’s see if this works…

        • Notebooked
          Notebooked
          June 1, 2013 at 1:32 pm | #

          Ahh, makes sense! Thanks.

  32. Darkflame
    Darkflame
    June 1, 2013 at 7:32 am | #

    From my experience as a RA lot of them were burnt-toast related.
    (Some idiot designing the building put the smoke alarms in the kitchens….really? what did they expect to happen?)

    • ASmellyOgre
      ASmellyOgre
      June 1, 2013 at 8:23 am | #

      They probably expected most fires to start in a kitchen, which is why you’re obligated to do that (IIRC, it’s one in the kitchen, one per floor, and one per bedroom), but the problem with dorms is that they’re so small that the normal cooking smoke doesn’t dissipate by the time it reaches the sensor.

  33. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    June 1, 2013 at 8:24 am | #

    Alright guys, we’ve got Sunday updates! Now we just need $33k more for the most expensive porn you’ll probably ever buy!

  34. Regalli
    Regalli
    June 1, 2013 at 11:10 am | #

    Could be Danny’s signed up for safety alerts. Not sure if they’re the norm, but my college has ones that arrive by text.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 1, 2013 at 12:33 pm | #

      …Danny? I think you meant Amber.

      • asdsadafa
        asdsadafa
        June 1, 2013 at 1:51 pm | #

        I have seen your avataar a bunch of times, and each time I think that is a dildo on Joyce’s head. Is that accurate.

        • John
          John
          June 1, 2013 at 2:18 pm | #

          Ask Roz.

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/late/

          • asdsadafa
            asdsadafa
            June 1, 2013 at 3:39 pm | #

            Thank you, that was very helpful

  35. Andy4Hire
    Andy4Hire
    June 1, 2013 at 3:18 pm | #

    Amazi-Girl’s savvy misleads her, then. Most dorm fire alarms are pranks, sure, but some friends of mine got booted from their dorm for several hours one morning by a 3AM fire alarm that resulted from an actual fire. (No one was hurt, but it took the fire crew a while to make sure the fire was really and truly out, and they couldn’t let anyone back in until they were sure.)

  36. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    June 1, 2013 at 7:22 pm | #

    I CANNOT believe not a soul has brought up the fact Billie pulled that fire alarm……………………………………… or wonder wtf is going on with Ruth……………………….

  37. jsmith24855
    jsmith24855
    June 1, 2013 at 9:32 pm | #

    Absolute fact. It got so bad when I was in college that we all just started ignoring it and sleeping through them. Then someone started a fire in the laundry room and I said screw this a trick my way out of the final half of my dorm contract so I could live off campus.

  38. Krogaladin
    Krogaladin
    June 1, 2013 at 10:12 pm | #

    we had fire alarms constantly because some jackass loved to nuke their popcorn. It even happend once while it was pouring rain outside and we had to stand in it for at least 30 minutes.

  39. TahlenThorne
    TahlenThorne
    April 15, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    I read that phone ring as Kim Possible’s Kimmunicator ring.

    Sumimasen. 🙂

    • TahlenThorne
      TahlenThorne
      April 15, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

      This gravatar makes this comment even better.

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