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by David M Willis on February 8, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - The Only Dope For Me Is You
└ Tags: amber, danny

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    February 8, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Don’t blink.

    • Keroshino
      Keroshino
      February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      Too late, now he’s Weeping Angel food!

      • Tunaro
        Tunaro
        February 8, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        Somethin’ about that’s always’d bugged me: If they get ya, an’ ya go back in time, could you change history? Off the top of my head are JFK, WW1 or 2, and/or inventing stuff waaay before they were logically s’posed to, like a 1920’s iPod. Hell, why don’t people volunteer to get zapped and just get rich off future info like in Back to the Future?

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          February 8, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          Maybe they DID! Cars weren’t supposed to be invented until 1972.

        • Mr. Random
          Mr. Random
          February 8, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          Due to the nature of Doctor Who, and the nature of the angels, you most likely couldn’t. The angels feed off of possibility. So, I guess, it isn’t well explained, but I’m guessing that you are put in the exact spot where you can affect things the least. Like a balloon bursting, the air escapes out of the weakest point. You go to the point where you’re potential is the lowest.

          • Mr. Random
            Mr. Random
            February 8, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

            Grammar.

          • That Damn Rat
            That Damn Rat
            February 8, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

            Also, in the Whonivers time kinda has a mind of it’s own, and will bend events to ensure all the really important things happen anyway.

            • coolhandluke
              coolhandluke
              February 8, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

              people can send messages and interact with the world around them so they can change events, but they don’t live the lives they were going to thus the loss of what could have been. Time for them becomes a fixed point relatively speaking because they were locked into what is the past from their perspective

              • Jarid Scott
                Jarid Scott
                February 8, 2014 at 3:58 am | #

                I am so confused by this entire conversation. Danny is crying angel food cake? What?

                • miyto
                  miyto
                  February 8, 2014 at 5:10 am | #

                  Marathon Doctor Who and some of what they said will make sense.
                  Mainly the context of Weeping Angels (recurring whovian monstrosities),
                  the time-travel portion?
                  It has conflicting sets of physics (so watch it enough that you could tell *me* if they had sufficient universe-hopping to validate plural mutually-exclusive time-travel mechanics, then someone will know *if* whovian time-travel makes any sense)

                • nibblrrr
                  nibblrrr
                  February 8, 2014 at 6:59 am | #

                  The Weeping Angels are aliens in Doctor Who that appear as statues if you look at them, but if you don’t for even just a moment (“Don’t even blink!”), they come alive and kill you (sometimes by teleporting you back in time). There are these cute “Monster Files” vids on Youtube (a DVD special, I guess?), that might explain a bit. 😉
                  I can also really recommend watching episode 3×10 “Blink” – the 1st time the Angels appear. It’s a very unusual (and very good) Dr. Who episode, completely beside the season storyline, and it’s fun even completely out of context.
                  The Weeping Angels only appear in 3 episodes, and everything but their core property (being unable to move when you look at them) was completely changed the second time around, and then back again. And even within one version, they aren’t logically consistent. Since DW is a prime example of soft fiction, I really wouldn’t bother trying to explain it. ^^

            • Sparks
              Sparks
              February 12, 2014 at 4:15 am | #

              As a lifelong Whovian, my succinct definition of how time-travel works in that universe is “it functions on refined handwavium, a touch of retcon, and some ad-hoc bullshitting.”

          • DragonStryk72
            DragonStryk72
            February 8, 2014 at 6:16 pm | #

            Well, actually, tampering with the timeline has the whole issue of huge paradoxes, such as when Rose saved her dad that one time. Then of course, you would alert the Doctor to any disturbances that you create with your interference, and thus he stops you, and it’s all over.

        • nibblrrr
          nibblrrr
          February 8, 2014 at 7:16 am | #

          The important stuff in the whoniverse is “fixed” anyway (and only timelords can tell them apart) – some things will always happen one way or the other, no matter how you try to change them. And telling people you know stuff because you are from the future surely works, right? 😀

        • Marcos Dantas
          Marcos Dantas
          February 8, 2014 at 7:28 am | #

          Funny thing, I just read “The man who came early”, Poul Anderson, yesterday. It is a good descontruction of ‘time-traveller-is-like-a-god’ idea.

        • gka
          gka
          February 8, 2014 at 11:26 pm | #

          Blink was one of the only episode that used stable time loops, so from its perspective, probably not.

          But really time travel in Dr. Who makes zero sense and you shouldn’t think about it too hard.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            February 9, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

            Well, it’s all just a ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey… stuff.

          • nobodez
            nobodez
            February 11, 2014 at 11:47 am | #

            Yep, time travel doesn’t make sense, and as the Commander once said, “A watched cheetah never bevels.” Why? Because if you think about time travel, it doesn’t work, but it you think about how a cheetah can or can’t bevel, it works perfectly fine.

        • icepyrox
          icepyrox
          February 10, 2014 at 4:51 pm | #

          You could change history about as much as any Dr Who episode ever. I mean, the show is about time traveling, both backwards and forwards. It’s addressed many times that history takes place as it should. It’s the how and the other details that can be changed.

        • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
          DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
          February 11, 2014 at 11:47 pm | #

          Arguably, simply being sent back in time would be enough to change history.
          Seriously, Dr. Who, Back to the Future, or Even Futurama, there is no more fertile sci-fi high-concept soil than time travel.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 8, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Why? I don’t see any statues anywhere nearby.

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        February 8, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

        That’s because they blinked!

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      February 8, 2014 at 10:37 pm | #

      OR…
      The Weeping Angels are simply one of the worst ideas ever written into the Dr Who mythology. Yeah, I said it. They make no sense from a physics standpoint and as a plot device they’re a complete ass-pull.

      • gka
        gka
        February 8, 2014 at 11:28 pm | #

        Wait.

        You’re complaining about PHYSICS in DR WHO?

        • Lokitsu
          Lokitsu
          February 9, 2014 at 2:25 am | #

          Well, more complaining about suspension of disbelief. I know a lot of Dr Who falls apart under a microscope (so do most sci-fi shows). BUT- as long as I don’t stop in the middle of an episode and shout “What?!” at the TV, I’m okay with the ‘wibbley-wobbley, timey-whimey crap’. The Angels, though, didn’t make sense on any level from the very beginning. This isn’t a Dr Who forum, however, so I don’t think we need to spend three pages debating villain design.

          • icepyrox
            icepyrox
            February 10, 2014 at 4:43 pm | #

            Blame Moffat. That’s what I do.

  2. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    February 8, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Ah man.

  3. TheOthin
    TheOthin
    February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    “Cliffs notes on my girlfriend: she’s basically Batman.”

    • PureMajora
      PureMajora
      February 8, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Sal and Amber have more in common than you’d think.

      • Mr K
        Mr K
        February 8, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        When they realize that, they’ll fall in love.

        • Haven
          Haven
          February 8, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

          I like the way you think.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 8, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

          By love, you mean Foe Yay hate sex right?

          • Mr. Random
            Mr. Random
            February 8, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

            It does seem to be a popular thing with Sal.

          • Tunaro
            Tunaro
            February 8, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

            All I can hear in my head now is the Adam West Batman Theme segueing into cheesy porn music…
            …
            Da na na na na na na na Bom Chicka Wowow…

            • Mr. Random
              Mr. Random
              February 8, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

              So… Sal is Catwoman?
              I can buy that.
              And Mike is Joker.

              • AgentKeen
                AgentKeen
                February 8, 2014 at 11:47 am | #

                Ethan is Two-Face? ‘Double’ life, is/used to be the best friend.

            • Tenn
              Tenn
              February 8, 2014 at 2:50 pm | #

              Buttman & Throbbin’

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          February 8, 2014 at 2:53 am | #

          I feel like requesting Sal and Marcie was a mistake! …one I will fix if such a prize is offered again ;D

          • PureMajora
            PureMajora
            February 8, 2014 at 10:52 am | #

            Sal and Marcie are never a mistake.

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              February 9, 2014 at 1:07 am | #

              BUT I ONLY GOT TO CHOOSE TWO

              …

              =C

      • Minomelo
        Minomelo
        February 8, 2014 at 1:32 am | #

        I though Sal was amazi-girl though?

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 8, 2014 at 3:09 am | #

          Spoilers – http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/75936621644/spoilers

      • Vree
        Vree
        February 8, 2014 at 9:24 am | #

        Danny will walk back to Sal in rage and demand that she takes on the amazi-girl mantle to atone for what she did in the past.

        Sal will become a darker and angstier new Amazi-Girl before Amber notices the mess she does of it and returns to reclaim her cowl.

        After going on a time travelling adventure with Dina first of course.

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          February 8, 2014 at 12:47 pm | #

          That… that sounds like exactly the sort of mess that Marvel or DC would actually write.

          • Mr. Random
            Mr. Random
            February 8, 2014 at 6:41 pm | #

            They did.
            It is both funny and sad.

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          February 8, 2014 at 2:39 pm | #

          AmaziFall

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          February 8, 2014 at 2:40 pm | #

          No, wait, I got it.

          Amazrael.

      • TheOthin
        TheOthin
        February 8, 2014 at 9:46 am | #

        Like taste in knives?

  4. Quatoria
    Quatoria
    February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh, Amber. 🙁

    • Mr K
      Mr K
      February 8, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I bet she’s going after Sal.

      • Quatoria
        Quatoria
        February 8, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        I think the only person she’s going to be hurting in the near future is herself.

        • someguywithakatana
          someguywithakatana
          February 8, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

          well, you win the award for darkest fucking comment.

          • Quatoria
            Quatoria
            February 8, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

            I don’t think I mean what you seem to think I mean. I’m saying I don’t think she’s going to be doing much in the immediate-term aside from beating herself up, mentally. I know that expression she’s got. I know how it felt to be convinced that you’re entirely broken, worthless, even dangerous to the people around you – such that you try to flee or avoid the people who love you, because you think that’s the kindest thing you can do for them. That’s where Amber looks like she is.

            There. Now which comment is darkest?

            • someguywithakatana
              someguywithakatana
              February 8, 2014 at 2:15 am | #

              Mine, apparently.

              Sincerest apologies for misinterpreting your comment. I have friends who’ve had issues with self-harm, so I’m a little hyper-sensitive to such issues.

              Also, the Mary gravatar makes everything I type seem really hyper-judgmental.

              • Quatoria
                Quatoria
                February 8, 2014 at 10:13 am | #

                Hey, we’ve got that in common, anyway. The avatar as well as the experience with friends. No harm done, and no apology needed. 🙂 I didn’t want anyone thinking that I’d refer to self-harm in such a casual way.

            • Bill
              Bill
              February 8, 2014 at 6:25 am | #

              I agree with the “beating herself up mentally” assessment.  She is being forced to pull both her boxes out into the open and take inventory, and then dispose of the things that are toxic.  And that’s going to be a tough row to hoe.

              But who is Amber’s roommate?  Dina, who is somewhat of a loner and misfit herself (been there myself so it’s easy for me to recognize).  Maybe this is the long-awaited Dina-centric arc coming up as Dina comes to Amber’s aid and displays a depth of concern and understanding that we had no idea existed within her.

      • Mr K
        Mr K
        February 8, 2014 at 6:59 pm | #

        Amber: Want me to make your hands match, Sal?!

  5. Leorale
    Leorale
    February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh no! Amber’s glasses took her with them, when they were drawn to Dorothy

  6. Carlos
    Carlos
    February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    “I however, most definitely am”

  7. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I bet Batman never disappeared on Gordan when he wasn’t wearing pants.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 8, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Batman wears tights and trunks. So really he’s never wearing pants.

      If I were him I’d use that fact to make criminals uncomfortable. Just sneak up behind then and whisper “I’m not wearing any pants” with that trademark Batman growl.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 8, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        “I’m Batman and I can fight crime without pants”

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          February 8, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

          It’s been a tough day and this thread makes me smile

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          February 8, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          “In fact, I prefer to fight crime without pants. It’s much rarer to see me fighting crime with pants.”

          • Batman
            Batman
            February 8, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

            BECAUSE I’M BATMAN.

        • Tunaro
          Tunaro
          February 8, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

          If Batman can breath in space, he can sure as Hell fight without pants on.

          • Batman
            Batman
            February 8, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

            I fought Superman to a draw.
            Twice.

            Nobody questions my style choices.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              February 8, 2014 at 1:36 am | #

              Well to be fair, Superman doesn’t wear pants either.

              • Tunaro
                Tunaro
                February 8, 2014 at 1:46 am | #

                Do any superheroes? Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Iron Man… No pants.
                All I can think of is The Hulk and his tear into shorts every time he gets pissed. Where the Hell does Bruce Banner keep getting purple pants?

                • Kirby
                  Kirby
                  February 8, 2014 at 2:06 am | #

                  It depends? A lot of ‘street clothes heroes’ wear pants of some sort. I mean the ones who’ve gotten a bit rebooted and tend to wear “edgier” or more “normal” clothes than the big elaborate costumes.

                  And technically Wonder Woman did for a bit there because all the fanboys lost their **** that she put pants on.

            • Badeyes
              Badeyes
              February 8, 2014 at 2:31 am | #

              Other than the nipple suit.
              That. Was. Horrid.

        • DSL
          DSL
          February 8, 2014 at 10:44 pm | #

          Batman: “I’m not wearing hockey pants. Or any other kind of pants.”

    • nothri
      nothri
      February 8, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      Wait…is it batman or Gordon who isn’t wearing the pants in this scenario?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        February 8, 2014 at 1:29 am | #

        Neither.

        Also, I think it’s normally referred to as “slashfic”.

        • Anonymous man
          Anonymous man
          February 8, 2014 at 1:59 am | #

          Made me LOL – thanks!

    • Al Schroeder
      Al Schroeder
      February 8, 2014 at 10:32 am | #

      No, he APPEARS in front of Gordon not wearing any pants.

  8. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Interesting clothing change.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 8, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      It’s not like she can find a phonebooth anywhere nearby.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        February 8, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        And she in no state of mind to spin around rapidly.

  9. Geminia999
    Geminia999
    February 8, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Come on Amber! Really, I’m disappointed in you

    So I guess here goes, ahem, Damn You, uh what’s the next part, ah right, Willis!!!

  10. Keroshino
    Keroshino
    February 8, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    GOD DAMMIT AMBER!!!

  11. Izumi Ryu
    Izumi Ryu
    February 8, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Danned it up again, Danny…

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      February 8, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Respectfully disagree.

    • nothri
      nothri
      February 8, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      How?

    • RandomRedMage
      RandomRedMage
      February 8, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

      Got to say, If your saying Danny somehow Dan’d this in any way, you may need to ask a fellow member of your party to try a perception check on this one. From where I am standing, Dan, did no Danning of any sort during this. o_o

    • Badeyes
      Badeyes
      February 8, 2014 at 2:43 am | #

      Just plain disagree. Since the smackdown placed on Blaine, Danny has handled things in at least an acceptable manner considering the circumstances, and probably better than most of the characters could have been expected to.

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 8, 2014 at 3:15 am | #

        Probably better than I would.

    • John
      John
      February 8, 2014 at 4:48 am | #

      Seriously, wtf? I’m not exactly known for my favorable attitude towards Danny, but the only thing he did wrong here was take his eyes off Amber for a fraction of a second.

      • Keroshino
        Keroshino
        February 8, 2014 at 6:12 am | #

        And for that, he must burn at the steak!

        …nah, JUST KIDDING!!!

        • Leonou
          Leonou
          February 8, 2014 at 7:03 am | #

          What ? But I’ve already lit mine on fire. I can’t let this perfectly fine stake go to waste !
          Oh well, maybe I could put Blaine on it instead …

        • HentMas
          HentMas
          February 8, 2014 at 10:32 am | #

          Uuuuh, yeah! I want mine medium rare!

          wait… yeah… i am thinking about steak….

          I´m hungry

          sorry 😛

        • Tenn
          Tenn
          February 8, 2014 at 2:54 pm | #

          In Soviet Russia, steak barbecues you!

      • Sailor_Arashi
        Sailor_Arashi
        February 8, 2014 at 10:47 am | #

        And, you know, tell a distraught person she was overreacting, because that always works. You know what else also works? Telling someone who is trying to share their deepest and darkest feelings that “We’ll talk about it some other time”.

        In short, Danny Dan’d it up like he always does.

        • Shade
          Shade
          February 8, 2014 at 11:50 am | #

          They’re on the run from the cops. This is not exactly conducive to a soul-revealing conversation.

  12. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 8, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    And this is when Danny realizes that Amber was his alternate personality the whole time!

    The good news is, that means he has at least one.

    • Mr K
      Mr K
      February 8, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Everybody’s Faz’s alternate personality.

      • AJBulldis
        AJBulldis
        February 8, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Fazathoth?

        • MM
          MM
          February 8, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

          I sense the idea driving me to the brink of madness, so yes, probably.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      February 8, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      Now that he’s embraced the Amber side, he can finally be true to himself and take the reigns as Amazi-girl.

    • Foxhack
      Foxhack
      February 8, 2014 at 1:23 am | #

      *insert Fight Club quote here

  13. MM
    MM
    February 8, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Batman nothing. That was a freaking Flash move.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      February 8, 2014 at 12:51 pm | #

      I think you mean Robin. No, not that Robin. Our (other) Robin.

  14. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 8, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    I hope she is just leaving for now and not wussing out entirely on talking to him. I say that as someone who is as big an Amber fan as they come, probably, she’s my favorite character. Just hoping she can confront her issues head on like she did her father.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 8, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      I think she will talk to Danny, in time, and even work through her rage issues. She’s already taking the first steps in this scene — which means her next move will probably be to kill some spiders and avoid her issues for a bit. But that’s ok! She’s still making progress. You can do it, Amber!

  15. Tom
    Tom
    February 8, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Amazi-suit + flannel hoodie + heavy rain + cardio level vigilante = ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

  16. Kerry
    Kerry
    February 8, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    amber ; – ;

  17. ridtom
    ridtom
    February 8, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    “……..Shit I gave that random girl my DS.”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      February 8, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      She looks like a decent enough girl. I’m sure she’ll give it back.

    • Amazi-Stool
      Amazi-Stool
      February 8, 2014 at 8:52 am | #

      “… but i know for sure that this girl is Billie’s roommate, so she’s not random at all!”

  18. hurricanemyles
    hurricanemyles
    February 8, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Waitaminute… Wasn’t her Amazigirl costume on under her normal clothes? How cold is it?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      February 8, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      Maybe all her normal clothes are reversable into amazi-girl costumes.

    • John
      John
      February 8, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      No, her Amazi-Girl costume was over her normal clothes. She keeps the costume in her backpack when she’s not wearing it.

      • RandomRedMage
        RandomRedMage
        February 8, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

        No her amazigirl costume was between her normal cloths, she wears it in layers, so all transformation scenes can spontaneously be strip teases.

        • ninja_jesus
          ninja_jesus
          February 8, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

          So she’s like an onion?

          • Rex Hondo
            Rex Hondo
            February 8, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

            Or an ogre.

            • AgentKeen
              AgentKeen
              February 8, 2014 at 11:50 am | #

              Or a parfait. everybody likes parfaits.

  19. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    February 8, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    And then it turns out Blaine is the Master.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 8, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      But Blaine looks nothing like John Simm.

      • That Damn Rat
        That Damn Rat
        February 8, 2014 at 12:50 am | #

        which is fine as John looks and acts nothing like the master.

        • hmrc4evr
          hmrc4evr
          February 8, 2014 at 2:50 am | #

          I can see it in moments of what they were trying to do with The Master, but with all due respect to Mr. Simms the Master persona needs some tweaking.

          Maybe I’m a little too Classic Who, but I miss Roger and Anthony 🙁

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            February 8, 2014 at 11:30 pm | #

            A Master without the classic evil beard just isn’t right somehow.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      February 8, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      Captain Blaine: The Game Master.

  20. nothri
    nothri
    February 8, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Ouch.

  21. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    February 8, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    She fell off the bridge, didn’t she?

    • Mo
      Mo
      February 8, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Willis practically drew an arrow in that last panel, so maybe.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        February 8, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        I think that’s just a water drop.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 8, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      At least she didn’t have a bridge fall on her.

      • Badeyes
        Badeyes
        February 8, 2014 at 3:33 am | #

        Love the hammer queen avatar!

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          February 8, 2014 at 12:53 pm | #

          There is only one Hammer Queen, and that doesn’t look like EGS art. Though I guess she has recently given up the title…

          • Cholma
            Cholma
            February 8, 2014 at 1:05 pm | #

            All hail SUSAN! The one true Hammer Queen!

            • Gamaran Sepudomyn
              Gamaran Sepudomyn
              February 8, 2014 at 2:06 pm | #

              All hail the mistress of the grump!

  22. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    February 8, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Amber, you gotta think outside the box!

    • Keroshino
      Keroshino
      February 8, 2014 at 6:09 am | #

      What kind of box? Cardboard Box?
      Because if so…she would do better thinking inside it!

  23. The Meek Ninja
    The Meek Ninja
    February 8, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Dammit, Danny! Why didn’t you take the Paragon interrupt and hug her?

    • The Candyman
      The Candyman
      February 8, 2014 at 9:53 am | #

      If Danny ever tried, he would Dan it up and use the Renegade interrupt instead. And he would Dan that up too.

  24. HAB
    HAB
    February 8, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    You should tag the comic with “Amazi-girl?” and “Amber?”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      February 8, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Perhaps “Ambazi-ger”

      • Gamaran Sepudomyn
        Gamaran Sepudomyn
        February 8, 2014 at 8:52 am | #

        Fear the mighty Amazi-badger!

  25. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 8, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    Amber is starting overaught intricate metaphor! She is becoming an anime.

    • Calvin Coolage
      Calvin Coolage
      February 8, 2014 at 3:27 am | #

      That comment mad me think about Amber/Amazi-Girl piloting the Amazi-Gundam.

      • hmrc4evr
        hmrc4evr
        February 8, 2014 at 9:35 am | #

        I would watch that.

        Maybe that could be the follow up to Build Fighters! But would Amber be Sei and China’s kid or Reiji and Alia’s?

  26. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    February 8, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    Wait…. is Amber’s mom or dad a ninja? Is she half-ninja?
    Cause she seems half-ninja.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 8, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      I doubt Blaine is a ninja. He just got his ass kicked so hard his halitosis smells like fart.

      If Amber’s mom is a ninja that’d be a pretty cool twist. Though I doubt a ninja would put up with an abusive husband for long. Instead of divorce, she’d just swing her katana, there’d be a flash of light, and then Blain would suddenly fall apart.

      • MM
        MM
        February 8, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        One of her enemies brainwashed her and set her in Blaine’s path, knowing it would be a fate worth than death. Just your standard comics backstory.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        February 8, 2014 at 8:08 pm | #

        Aren’t ninjas ninjas because they can have *no* katanas?

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 9, 2014 at 10:58 pm | #

          Yes, they can have *no* katanas today.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      February 8, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      Roxxie Richter?
      Ah I see. So Amber went into Subspace.

  27. Fuzzydaemon
    Fuzzydaemon
    February 8, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Gol darn it, Amber. Now you’re Danning it up.

  28. Lokitsu
    Lokitsu
    February 8, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    When I saw the last panel, I suddenly had a visual of “has Danny been imagining Amazi girl the whole time?”
    I doubt though that this is what Willis intended ( at least I think so). @_@

    • David Willis
      David M Willis
      February 8, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      SHE’S STARBUCK

      • Barf Ninjason
        Barf Ninjason
        February 8, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

        WHOA
        /keanureevesvoice

      • Bill
        Bill
        February 8, 2014 at 12:50 am | #

        I’m hopelessly too far out of it.  The only “Starbuck” I know is either from “Moby Dick” or the character played by Dirk Benedict in the old “Battlestar Galactica” TV series.

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 8, 2014 at 3:20 am | #

          The good news is that you only need to catch up on the “new” Battlestar Galactica TV series. (Cough*Hulu*Cough).

          • Jonathan S.
            Jonathan S.
            February 8, 2014 at 3:54 am | #

            Or Netflix.

      • nothri
        nothri
        February 8, 2014 at 2:14 am | #

        Wait, are we talking about the Moby Dick character, the Battlestar Galatica character(s), or the coffee shop?

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          February 8, 2014 at 8:11 pm | #

          There’s Amazi-Girl here. And there’s the Amazi-Girl across the street.

          • Joe
            Joe
            February 8, 2014 at 11:53 pm | #

            You deserve an internet. Here, have one from me.

      • Gargamel
        Gargamel
        February 8, 2014 at 4:36 am | #

        So Amber is a cylon? Or possibly a small island in the Pacific?

    • derick
      derick
      February 8, 2014 at 3:12 am | #

      Amazi-Girl is Amber. And Amber is Starbuck.

  29. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 8, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    What we need to see is a little pole sticking out of the water that she’s breathing through.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 8, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Amazi-snorkel

      • Calvin Coolage
        Calvin Coolage
        February 8, 2014 at 3:29 am | #

        Screw that, she uses the Amazi-Submarine.

    • The Candyman
      The Candyman
      February 8, 2014 at 9:55 am | #

      “The water’s like 3 inches deep. I can totally see you.”
      “No you can’t.”

  30. Greenygal
    Greenygal
    February 8, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    And it’s raining. I mean, I know rain has symbolic redemptive qualities and all, but I still feel like it won’t hurt to delay the complicated emotional discussions until after you’ve gotten inside and found some dry clothes and a towel.

  31. T Campbell
    T Campbell
    February 8, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

    When Batman pulls this trick, there’s usually a frame of Commissioner Gordon in close-up, so we know Batman has at least the amount of time that it takes to read his word balloon to get away.

    But that trick is for BABIES. Amber flees the entire area in the time it takes your eyes to cross the PANEL BORDERS.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 8, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

      It’s for BABIES because of object permanence!

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        February 8, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

        BABY EYES!

    • Blackbird
      Blackbird
      February 8, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

      I agree, Amber disappearing like that is totally babies.

  32. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    February 8, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    D’oh!

  33. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    February 8, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

    RIP Amber.

  34. Chengrel
    Chengrel
    February 8, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

    Plot twist, Amber never existed and Amazi-Girl is Danny’s alter.

  35. E.R.
    E.R.
    February 8, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    Maybe, also, some privacy? I mean, there is literally no part of this conversation that you want overheard.

    Also, if she’s going to run off, maybe, circumspectly, ask Ethan and Mike what they know about this. Flip a coin to figure out if you should get Mike drunk first.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      February 8, 2014 at 12:56 pm | #

      It’s late, it is pouring rain, and do you see anyone anywhere near them? I think there is plenty of privacy.

  36. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    February 8, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    “Wait, so am I Lois Lane, or Commissioner Gordon?”

  37. Erbry
    Erbry
    February 8, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    Why is nobody talking about the fact that Danny says “Yeah, I remember” in the first panel?

    • moby
      moby
      February 8, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

      No one remembers.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      February 8, 2014 at 12:50 am | #

      Presumably because it’s a known fact that Danny’s aware: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/petting/

      • Erbry
        Erbry
        February 8, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

        Ah man! Totally forgot about that comic. My Dumbing of Age knowledge is slipping.

      • Amazi-Stool
        Amazi-Stool
        February 8, 2014 at 9:12 am | #

        But that may have changed in the meantime!
        Because now AMAZI-GIRL IS ALWAYS PREPARED FOR…ANYTHING!

    • horrorshow88
      horrorshow88
      February 8, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

      Exactly what I was thinking!

    • Bill
      Bill
      February 8, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

      I remember.

      • Bill
        Bill
        February 8, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

        Rabbit (above) beat me to the link, Willis, you can delete these at your convenience.

    • Salmo
      Salmo
      February 8, 2014 at 1:35 am | #

      Pepperidge Farm remembers.

      • JeffEpp
        JeffEpp
        February 8, 2014 at 3:28 am | #

        It actually fits this storyline kinda well.

  38. JepMZ
    JepMZ
    February 8, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

    So that’s what she meant by compartmentalizing. I’m a bit confused. Gonna have to read that a few times

  39. E.R.
    E.R.
    February 8, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

    Way to Dan it up… Amber?
    Am I doing this right? That sounded off… Well, at least she’s doing it with style.

  40. Caffienated
    Caffienated
    February 8, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

    I’m waiting for him to realize he gave his DS to a complete stranger.

    • That Damn Rat
      That Damn Rat
      February 8, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

      I suspect he has realised, it’s just not THAT important at the moment.

  41. Batman
    Batman
    February 8, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

    I’d like to point out that the whole “disappearing completely when they look away” thing is really hard. I just make it look easy.

    Because I’m Batman.

  42. Bill
    Bill
    February 8, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

    I’m not all that familiar with the IU campus, but I’m guessing that this bridge is located in the Arboretum, which is behind the library building where she gave Dorothy and Walky the slip by zip-lining to the top of the truck.  If I’m right, then they are at least a couple of miles away from the parking lot where Blaine received his beatdown.

    And just as an aside, Willis, this comic has been going on for over three years now, and your backgrounds are so detailed that there is no doubt this is set in Bloomington.  Has there ever been any correspondence or “push-back” by the powers that be at IU, concerned that depicting a tyrannical, alcoholic RA like Ruth, or a TA banging a student for an implied grading favor, or some of the other shenanigans that have gone on so far would be reflecting poorly on the University?

    • Ace
      Ace
      February 8, 2014 at 2:25 am | #

      He’s answered this on his tumblr, no such thing has happened.

  43. moby
    moby
    February 8, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

    I don’t like today’s strip. AMBEERRRR 🙁

  44. ninja_jesus
    ninja_jesus
    February 8, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

    *ahem*

    I got a feelin’
    That you could be feelin’
    A whole lot better than you feel today

    You say you got a problem
    Well, that’s no problem
    It’s super easy not to feel that way

    When you start to get confused
    Because of thoughts in your head
    Don’t feel those feelings
    Hold them in insteeeeeaaaaad… 😀 *shot*

  45. Cheryl
    Cheryl
    February 8, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

    She totally batmaned him

  46. NF
    NF
    February 8, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

    What do you hear Amber?

  47. Baker
    Baker
    February 8, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

    Quick Danny, it’s time for you to go where she can’t hide. It’s time to get a World of Williscraft account. Then look her up on the WoW armory, where you can do searches for character names like “Amazi-Pally”.

  48. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 8, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

    Dan? Don’t take it personally. Amber’s got a lot on her mind, and she’s going off to sort it out. She wasn’t listening carefully to you because she’s preoccupied. It’s not about you.

    Amber? Go to Mike. Mike will make it all better.

    • hmrc4evr
      hmrc4evr
      February 8, 2014 at 2:56 am | #

      Why does everyone keep using the words ‘Mike’ & ‘better’ in the same sentence? These are mutually exclusive concepts.

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 8, 2014 at 3:30 am | #

        Hitting yourself in the head with a hammer can make you feel better. All you have to do is stop. Mike can be like that.

        But to answer your question, I think in this case it’s because of Amber/Mike shipping.

        Now, can you name me a single case where interaction with Mike has made things worse in the long run. I can point to things where he’s improved things whether it was his intent or not. Say getting Walky and Dorothy together.

        • Nono
          Nono
          February 8, 2014 at 5:18 pm | #

          If you include the Walkyverse? Dina.

    • Greenygal
      Greenygal
      February 8, 2014 at 10:46 am | #

      Yes, Mike spoke with Amber, he made things so much better for her!

      • Greenygal
        Greenygal
        February 8, 2014 at 10:48 am | #

        –I meant to say “the last time Mike spoke with Amber”.

        (Seriously, that’s a really vicious thing Mike says in that strip, and the last thing Amber needs right now.)

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 9, 2014 at 11:20 pm | #

          It may have been vicious (and subjecting yourself to it may be like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer) but it may also be something she needs to consider.

          • Greenygal
            Greenygal
            February 10, 2014 at 11:37 am | #

            Amber really doesn’t need to consider that she’s just like her father, because a) she’s already tormented by that idea and b) it’s not true. Amber needs someone to help her with the problems that she actually has, not encourage her to think that she’s just like her abuser.

    • TakNuggins
      TakNuggins
      February 8, 2014 at 11:17 am | #

      A part of me really hopes that they get together in the long run, but if they got together now, I don’t think it’d be too good for Amber’s sanity

  49. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    February 8, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

    Dan, this is all your fault.

    • Absolom
      Absolom
      February 8, 2014 at 11:30 am | #

      Anyone that has been following Ridereyu’s posts on this arc as I have will probably notice the hatred Ridereyu has for Danny. Like all arbitrary hatred, it doesn’t make sense to me. It seems that Ridereyu has taken the essence of the “danning it up” bandwagon and mixed it with some sort of misandry. Why Ridereyu has singled out Danny for this antipathy I cannot say, but I can say that it is undeserved.

      Ridereyu, at every turn you have called for Danny to stop his course of action or be stopped through violence. He mistakenly trusted Blaine, but that is the extent of blameworthy actions he has taken. There is nothing that Danny has done to hurt Amazi-Amber, or to control her, or to put his desires before her needs. Your violent rage against Danny is keeping you from seeing him as a person, and were this real life I can only think that you would be sending Danny death threats. This is not a good course of action, because it treats other people as if they are not people. You are a person, and you can only control your own actions. You cannot control Danny or any other person, because you are not Danny or any other person.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        February 8, 2014 at 11:57 am | #

        I’m not 100% sure, but I think that Ridereyu is actually PARODYING hatred for Danny, by making it so exaggerated that no one can take it seriously.

        • Absolom
          Absolom
          February 9, 2014 at 12:33 pm | #

          I’d considered that, and it would certainly be easier to accept than believing Ridereyu is in earnest. But I’m not going to just laugh it off, because even if its parody, I still know people that would be swayed by the message held in the words.

          And so while others have communicated the folly of the “daning it up” meme, I must communicate the folly of Ridereyu’s communication, be it “parody” or otherwise.

  50. Doom Shepherd
    Doom Shepherd
    February 8, 2014 at 1:54 am | #

    The Bad Box is a reserve, like an inventory item which is tapped only when all other alternatives have been exhausted and the situation is grim.

    It has a lot of horrible side/aftereffects, though, so it’s like a strongly cursed item.

  51. oooooooooott
    oooooooooott
    February 8, 2014 at 2:12 am | #

    Gack! I walk by that bridge- every day.

    • Bill
      Bill
      February 8, 2014 at 2:58 am | #

      So was I right about the location?  Is it in the Arboretum, or is it one of the bridges in Dunn Meadow?

      • David Willis
        David M Willis
        February 8, 2014 at 3:22 am | #

        The latter.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      February 8, 2014 at 3:40 am | #

      Now you have an obligation to re-enact this scene. Don your Amazi-Girl costume!

  52. Doom Shepherd
    Doom Shepherd
    February 8, 2014 at 2:15 am | #

    Ha! Just noticed that one drop of rain into the stream that totally looks like an arrow. She’s in the water, Dan!

    Nah, I know, no splash. Unless it’s a foreshadowarrow.

    • JAD
      JAD
      February 8, 2014 at 2:33 am | #

      It’s the rain…

    • JeffEpp
      JeffEpp
      February 8, 2014 at 3:33 am | #

      As we all know from watching the second episode of CSI, people take off there glasses when they throw themselves off of things, not put them on. And, we all know that they never make up, or exaggerate anything on that show.

      • Kevin
        Kevin
        February 8, 2014 at 7:45 am | #

        People put on their glasses when they make a horrible one liner, immediately followed by a YEEEEAAAHHHHH!

  53. Metaldude555
    Metaldude555
    February 8, 2014 at 2:35 am | #

    I wonder how much longer it’ll be before he realizes he gave his game to some random chick.

    • Calvin Coolage
      Calvin Coolage
      February 8, 2014 at 3:32 am | #

      Well, it IS Danny we’re talking about here….

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 8, 2014 at 3:43 am | #

      Priorities. Missing Amber is more important than missing DS.

      • Kevin
        Kevin
        February 8, 2014 at 7:19 am | #

        Not if he can use the missing DS to locate Amber. The newest Pokémon games probably let you geolocate friends by now.

  54. Clif
    Clif
    February 8, 2014 at 3:44 am | #

    Also… Damn it, Amber.

  55. thelastnerd
    thelastnerd
    February 8, 2014 at 3:53 am | #

    Opinion of Amber still quite low.

  56. Badeyes
    Badeyes
    February 8, 2014 at 3:56 am | #

    LMAO-
    I didn’t say you were too chickenshit to do anything!
    I said that deleting someone’s comments for just bein generally disagreeable or stupid would be, pointing out that you AREN’T that way. Normally it doesn’t seem like you wield the deletion hammer unless someone is being directly abusive (and not in our normal tongue in cheek way), or if it’s damned funny, but you would be well within your rights to do so cause it’s YOUR house.
    The rest of us non Willis types can bongo about someone’s comments but we should stop short of saying STFU and don’t post here, all of us have the same right to be idiots. Besides that sit down and shut up approach has 0 effectiveness wrt educating the person poster that’s bein insensitive or stupid.
    Of course if I was world dictator shipping all idiots to an island would be a priority, at least until I realized there isn’t an island that can hold 6.8 billion idiots and that I’m scheduled for the first boat.

    • Elliot-Chatham
      Elliot-Chatham
      February 8, 2014 at 4:53 am | #

      Wow, what

    • Charles
      Charles
      February 8, 2014 at 5:03 am | #

      I don’t even

  57. Elliot-Chatham
    Elliot-Chatham
    February 8, 2014 at 4:52 am | #

    Who else spent ten minutes looking for Amber in that last panel?

  58. zoabeast
    zoabeast
    February 8, 2014 at 5:33 am | #

    she just pulled a Batman on him XD

    • Kevin
      Kevin
      February 8, 2014 at 7:45 am | #

      Did you know the comic has alt-text?

  59. Kevin
    Kevin
    February 8, 2014 at 7:37 am | #

    I feel like last-panel Danny today.

  60. Cholma
    Cholma
    February 8, 2014 at 7:51 am | #

    Wait. Did Danny just realize that Amazi-Girl is just a figment of his imagination? She’s his Tyler Durden, and he just went all Fight Club on Blaine himself?

  61. Nym
    Nym
    February 8, 2014 at 7:56 am | #

    I remember this bridge.

  62. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    February 8, 2014 at 7:56 am | #

    It’s beginning to look like Willis got tired of all the Danny-hate and decided to have him finally grow up. If that’s the case, I want to go on record as the one who called it ^^

    • Kevin
      Kevin
      February 9, 2014 at 8:14 am | #

      Cuz it’s impossible Willis plans anything in advance. I’m pretty sure the way his characters behave is based on the story he’s come up with a long time ago, not petty response to fan-hate.

      I mean, seriously, he has a three month buffer. He never let us see Sal’s hand so we wouldn’t know she’d been stabbed in it. We’ve never seen Ethan or Amber interact with Sal. He gradually revealed the robbery incident in those red flashback panels over years. He isn’t doing this shiz spur of the moment, yo.

  63. devyn
    devyn
    February 8, 2014 at 8:13 am | #

    This isn’t even remotely related to today’s strip or the current story arc, but Willis, is Mike related to Numbuh 4 from Codename: Kids Next Door?

  64. hof1991
    hof1991
    February 8, 2014 at 8:29 am | #

    A technical question for the great and mighty Willis. Do you draw story arcs and then cut them and arrange them for publication (Amber vs Blaine) or do you draw them in the order appear in? I imagine it is much more complicated than that, with advanced story outlines, storyboards and such, so the question really has to do with final/semifinal drafts.

    • David Willis
      David M Willis
      February 8, 2014 at 10:47 am | #

      I draw them in order. When I completely finish one strip, I move on to the next.

  65. Amazi-Stool
    Amazi-Stool
    February 8, 2014 at 9:24 am | #

    The sad (but realistic?) idea she has is that “having sex with Danny” belongs in the bad box.

    • Greenygal
      Greenygal
      February 8, 2014 at 10:36 am | #

      I don’t know how she feels about sex with him per se, but she’s given every indication that she wanted to date him in her normal identity, which is presumably the good box.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        February 8, 2014 at 10:59 am | #

        These statements funny because “box” is slang for “vagina” and this does not make your statements any less true.

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          February 8, 2014 at 8:21 pm | #

          Now ponder what “think outside the box” means.

          • John
            John
            February 8, 2014 at 11:25 pm | #

            Also what Joyce’s persistent curiosity about what’s in the box means. (Note that this is the same strip where she asks to borrow Dorothy and says that she just wants tacos.)

      • Amazi-Stool
        Amazi-Stool
        February 8, 2014 at 12:26 pm | #

        Dating him, yes. But she says it out loudly (and foreshadows a lot of her issues) in this strip.

        “Troublesome behaviors. Stuff I couldn`t express harmlessly.
        Anger. Rage. Some other stuff.”

    • John
      John
      February 8, 2014 at 3:33 pm | #

      I think her sexual urges went into the bad box when Ethan rejected her.

      • John
        John
        February 8, 2014 at 10:07 pm | #

        Also, I think a lot of the trouble she’s been going through with Danny is because she’s been trying to salvage that from Amazi-Girl’s box and put it back in Amber’s, so she doesn’t just keep losing pieces of Amber to Amazi-Girl until there’s nothing left of Amber but a disguise that Amazi-Girl sometimes wears.

  66. PrinzEnrique
    PrinzEnrique
    February 8, 2014 at 10:23 am | #

    Hey Willis,
    ever thought of adding flattr buttons to your comics so I can throw money at you without having to buy something from your store?

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      February 8, 2014 at 4:41 pm | #

      There are a lot of options there from flattr to paypal to subbable, but it seems like he is pretty content with just the kickstarters for books.

  67. D
    D
    February 8, 2014 at 11:09 am | #

    I haven’t seen anyone else mention this, sorry if someone else beat me to it but, uh, I’m a little confused by the fact she put on her glasses. I assumed that she used contacts for Amazi-Girl. Does she just not have a very bad prescription? I’m the same way- I could wear my glasses all the time, or only wear them when I have to read things far away, and be okay. I’m just a little surprised that she would be AG without perfect vision, that seems a touch more dangerous.

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      February 8, 2014 at 4:43 pm | #

      She has astigmatism. She doesn’t wear contacts as Amazigirl, anyway.

    • Estron
      Estron
      February 8, 2014 at 6:00 pm | #

      Probably makes it easier to do some of those stunts when you can’t see clearly how foolhardy you’re being.

  68. TakNuggins
    TakNuggins
    February 8, 2014 at 11:11 am | #

    Why is no one talking about how Danny remembers where her zipper is.. Have they done the sideways doodle-wop?

    • Red Robot
      Red Robot
      February 8, 2014 at 11:30 am | #

      They have, sort-of … Danny described it as “heavy petting”.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      February 8, 2014 at 1:11 pm | #

      It happened in-comic, after they repaired/replaced the stop sign that was vandalized.

  69. etybolik
    etybolik
    February 8, 2014 at 12:18 pm | #

    And so begins Amber’s transformation into a supervillain.

    • Jen
      Jen
      February 8, 2014 at 1:46 pm | #

      Oooh!!! That should totally be a stretch goal in the next Kickstarter! An alt-universe mini-series with Amber/Amazigirl having gone fully supervillain! 😀 Who would end up being her hero foil? Maybe that’s the way Danny could finally redeem himself! He’ll could be the Superman to her Lex Luthor! Sexy superhero/supervillain shenanigans! We already have the Jimmy Olsen character, Lois Lane character and others! Please, please, consider some form of this as a stretch goal, Willis! 😀

  70. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    February 8, 2014 at 2:17 pm | #

    I’m still curious if Blaine was conscious enough to hear Danny say, “Are you Amber under there?”

  71. ShaggyDonahugh
    ShaggyDonahugh
    February 8, 2014 at 3:11 pm | #

    Boy, she really amber’d that one up didn’t she?

  72. Jack Finch
    Jack Finch
    February 8, 2014 at 4:55 pm | #

    Don’t give up on yourself Amber.

  73. Cragalanch
    Cragalanch
    February 8, 2014 at 5:18 pm | #

    Wow, Cragalanch feels really sorry for Danny. After offering to help her when the dust has settled, only to find she’s not there, he must feel like he hasn’t helped her enough to truly make up for the fact that he was an oblivious dipsh- er, Danny. Makes him more relatable to Cragalanch, like when I tried to make up for the fact that the angel (who shall remain unnamed) kicked the hole in my rear so hard I didn’t wake up for a week. Viridi still hasn’t forgivin Cragalanch for his stupidity.

  74. Estron
    Estron
    February 8, 2014 at 5:53 pm | #

    Gotta say THANK YOU WILLIS! for your Tumblr post showing your struggle with writing/drawing this scene. This is wonderful behind-the-scenes stuff.
    http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/76013994663/david-willis-has-trouble-writing-sometimes

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      February 8, 2014 at 6:17 pm | #

      Seconding this. Honestly, the way you did the strips is much, much better and more satisfying than the original ideas. Don’t get me wrong, they were not bad, but like you said, they don’t feel quite right for this. You knocked it way out of the park with the final product.

  75. Alex Stritar
    Alex Stritar
    February 8, 2014 at 6:08 pm | #

    So, which box was the good one again, cus she may have put ‘be like Batman’ in the wrong one?

  76. das-g
    das-g
    February 8, 2014 at 8:17 pm | #

    It’s not the dark that makes the box(es) look like different ones. It’s the temporary lack of glasses.

  77. xKiv
    xKiv
    February 8, 2014 at 8:28 pm | #

    So she disappears by putting on her glasses?

    Also, I am thinking either hanging from the bridge’s underside, or in the tree.

  78. man in black
    man in black
    February 8, 2014 at 10:26 pm | #

    He is now, and how did he know where the zipper was?

  79. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    February 9, 2014 at 7:08 am | #

    I hope she didn’t jump into the river.

    Freshwater sharks can swim up the Ohio river into Indiana.

  80. Roborat
    Roborat
    February 10, 2014 at 5:42 pm | #

    Gary?

  81. Michael Crichton
    Michael Crichton
    February 12, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

    Great, now Danny will think she flew away and drown while looking up at the sky.

  82. The Magus
    The Magus
    April 17, 2015 at 6:47 pm | #

    Been taking lessons from Dina, Amber?

    • BrokenEye, True False Prophet
      BrokenEye, True False Prophet
      September 25, 2015 at 4:59 am | #

      Well yeah, she is training to become Amazi-Girl when Dina retires

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Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip. Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons. Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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