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Schlongs

by David M Willis on September 15, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit
└ Tags: amazi-girl, dorothy, jennifer, joyce, ryan, sarah

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    September 15, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    “I, um… well… ANSWER THE QUESTION?!”

    =C

    • T Campbell
      T Campbell
      September 15, 2014 at 6:10 am | #

      IIIIIIIII had a feeling we might be going here.

      Amazi-Girl thinks she just did it as a silly little impulse to fit in (and the strip David blogged would seem to support that), but it’s not hard to see that such imagery has special meaning to Joyce as a survivor. Images of erect penises everywhere, in a medium that can almost be ignored but that still vaguely disturbs and threatens… that’s not a bad symbol for what Joyce is going through now.

      • apostateCourier
        apostateCourier
        September 15, 2014 at 10:06 am | #

        Hoo boy. Yeah, right there with you. That was a huge event in her life, and is probably one of the primary causes for her being so frightened. Being victimized like that while so sheltered can break a person.

      • a4lbi
        a4lbi
        September 15, 2014 at 5:51 pm | #

        You’re right. While I was wondering when this’ll be brought up again, I didn’t expect it to be so soon.

    • Lord Geovanni
      Lord Geovanni
      September 15, 2014 at 3:39 pm | #

      That subject change

  2. Khaner
    Khaner
    September 15, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Well… this took a turn for the dramatic.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Well not so much a turn as changing towards a different dramatic.

      • Maveric1984
        Maveric1984
        September 15, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        Drama tag has been pulled.

        • Khaner
          Khaner
          September 15, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

          THis series started out without one.

          • GoldStarz
            GoldStarz
            September 15, 2014 at 1:23 am | #

            Because Pamela took more vitamins.

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              September 15, 2014 at 3:11 am | #

              no CLEARLY it’s from not vaccinating!

              • David Herbert
                David Herbert
                September 15, 2014 at 3:32 am | #

                “Well I have a million results that disprove your point and one that does.”

                • Sam
                  Sam
                  September 15, 2014 at 6:46 pm | #

                  “I knew it.” *Takes only the result that does agree*

  3. stevecharb
    stevecharb
    September 15, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    reality ensues

  4. liahansen
    liahansen
    September 15, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Oh Joyce

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Joyce isn’t too happy at all.

      • liahansen
        liahansen
        September 15, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

        N-nega-Joyce? Is that you?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 15, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

        Once again your comment is perfectly mirrored by your current gravatar.

  5. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    September 15, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    …OH.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      September 15, 2014 at 12:49 am | #

      Yeah. Kinda dropped the ball on that case, didn’t she.

    • Anfernee
      Anfernee
      September 15, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

      That was exactly my reaction.

  6. bob99938
    bob99938
    September 15, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh my, this escalated quickly. This is not a happy topic. I am not happy about this, why is this back? I thought this was gone

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      After like a couple weeks “IRL”? If only =/

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        Yeah, events like this aren’t the sort of thing you can just brush off.

        I hope Amazi-Girl decides to track Ryan down for Joyce. It’s more important than dong-bandits, and that dude needs fifty kicks to the dick followed by a long jail sentence.

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          September 15, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

          …that dude needs fifty kicks to the dick followed by a long jail sentence.

          • JustCheetoDust
            JustCheetoDust
            September 15, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

            Where the hell did the quotation marks go? And that alt text?

            (HTML tag fail strikes again)

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              September 15, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

              The quotation marks ate the alt text. It’s a common HTML parser error to see too many quotes and remove the part inside one set of quotes. If you need to use quoted inside a HTML statement use the “&# 34;” without the quotes and extra space after the hashmark.

              • garaden
                garaden
                September 15, 2014 at 1:35 am | #

                That sounds like bad code, not a problem with the parser. Also, you can use & to represent an ampersand.

                • gwalla
                  gwalla
                  September 15, 2014 at 11:48 am | #

                  Well, in HTML the value of a tag attribute (like TITLE=”blah blah”) is contained within the first quotation mark and the second. That’s just how HTML parsing is supposed to work. So if you try to do TITLE=””a quotation I’m using for hovertext””, then instead of getting hovertext containin quotation marks you instead set the TITLE attirbute to an empty string (no hovertext) and the rest of the words are interpreted as unknown HTML attributes and ignored.

                • JustCheetoDust
                  JustCheetoDust
                  September 15, 2014 at 7:56 pm | #

                  I can’t account for the quotes in any way, it’s easier to just say that I forgot to use them when posting. Though I could have sworn that I was using single quotation marks to indicate that I was quoting someone, that’s all in the past now.

                  As for the alt-text, I think I combined ” a href” and “title” so I’ll probably switch to using “a href” and “abbr title” separately.

        • Some guy
          Some guy
          September 15, 2014 at 4:14 am | #

          It’s going to be a pretty difficult court case at this point. Medical evidence from the drugs is long-gone, and drunken witnesses at the party will probably only remember things starting with Dorothy glassing the guy.

          • paradoxius
            paradoxius
            September 15, 2014 at 8:08 am | #

            Can still have the 50 kicks though…

          • airyu
            airyu
            September 15, 2014 at 10:13 am | #

            I thought joyce was the one who glassed Ryan… “to glass” meaning to hit in the face with a glass cup, right?

            • Some guy
              Some guy
              September 15, 2014 at 3:07 pm | #

              Whoops, sorry – you’re right. I don’t come here much, and I’m terrible with names.

            • Rani
              Rani
              September 15, 2014 at 9:44 pm | #

              If only she’d also glassed him in the sense of “Plasma bombardment until the ground vitrified.”

        • Lume
          Lume
          September 15, 2014 at 8:14 pm | #

          Agree… Hey, didn’t the dude say he really WAS the pastor’s kid? Just have Joyce do facial recognition to see if he’s there and they’ll catch a lucky brea- oh wait this is drama. That can never happen. 🙁

      • bob99938
        bob99938
        September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        I know it isnt long for them, but it is long for me. This is every level of not okay. I read this for fun, not for feels

        • shoeboxjeddy
          shoeboxjeddy
          September 15, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

          Willis tends to mix the two quite a bit. And no, complaining about it won’t change that.

          • bob99938
            bob99938
            September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

            I know this too well. Every time it gets fun, suddenly it goes back to serious topics

            • JessWitt
              JessWitt
              September 15, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

              Questionable Content is a nice alternative for your non-sequentialized funny needs.

              • Dreizehn
                Dreizehn
                September 15, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

                Though when QC goes on a feels trip it takes you on it and make you giggle a bit afterward.

              • Some guy
                Some guy
                September 15, 2014 at 2:06 am | #

                Questionable Content is hardly drama-free. I know of at least one board that has banned the mention of QC because of how… involved some its fans seem to be.

                • Maxy
                  Maxy
                  September 15, 2014 at 5:10 am | #

                  I quite like QC, but I don’t personally feel that its ‘Drama’ is really up to scratch. Every single character is pretty much an OK nice person, and there is rarely any outside conflict that we get to see. (At least recently.) For a while there were arcs which came close to DoA level drama, (The VespAvenger, everything with Faye’s dad and that reveal,) but most of the plot comes from nice people being nice to each other or else being upset because everyone overreacts to issues.

                  That being said, it’s still friggin’ great because of the snappy dialogue, nice art, and fun characters. But I read it for light fun, not drama or feels.

                • WaytoomanyUIDs
                  WaytoomanyUIDs
                  September 15, 2014 at 6:11 am | #

                  Yeah, I would say there is far more drama in the fan’s overinvestment in the characters and overreaction to the character’s actions. I still like it, though.

                • beetnemesis
                  beetnemesis
                  September 15, 2014 at 9:57 am | #

                  Hmm, the QC drama is pretty low, lately. There’s some of it, but the romantic tension has kind of fizzled.

                • Opus the Poet
                  Opus the Poet
                  September 15, 2014 at 12:05 pm | #

                  QC is a relationship comic. I have never seen a relationship that was drama-free and Jaques has like 15 or 20 relationships going among the characters in his comic, with some characters having relationships with 8 to 9 other characters, who are relating to other characters …

            • Mattyos
              Mattyos
              September 15, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

              Hate to burst your bubble…BUT I’M AFRAID I’VE GOT SOME BAD NEWS!

              http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140911054813/smashbroslawlorigins/images/6/67/BNBgif.gif

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 15, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

          I think you’re reading the wrong comic

          • JWLM
            JWLM
            September 15, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

            I think they’re reading the wrong author. And wrong genre.

            And I’m not sure whether they’re reading the wrong language or species.

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          September 15, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

          David Willis is the King of Drama, if that’s not for you, then you are definitely in the wrong place.

        • Durandal_1707
          Durandal_1707
          September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          Yes, because that alcoholism storyline from a couple of weeks ago was nothing but a barrel of laughs.

        • Kiggy
          Kiggy
          September 15, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

          In-Comic Time it’s been, what?… 2-3 weeks? A month?

          • licoricepencil
            licoricepencil
            September 15, 2014 at 9:54 am | #

            According to the wiki, it was most likely exactly 3 weeks ago.

        • Winter
          Winter
          September 15, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

          Really? I read for feels, so right now my blood is boiling with dramas and sadistic anticipation.

          • isitsevenyet
            isitsevenyet
            September 15, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

            Yeah, me too. I love dramatic stories. Partly because I grew up emotionally dysfunctional because reasons, and dramatic stories have actually helped me in that area a bit.

            • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
              Gadgeteer Smashwidget
              September 15, 2014 at 9:28 am | #

              From reading the comments section here, I think a disproportionate number of people reading this comment grew up emotionally dysfunctional for reasons.

              • Leorale
                Leorale
                September 15, 2014 at 9:51 am | #

                Or it could be that being kinda emotionally dysfunctional is part of the human condition. I think that this comment section is a little extra-specially honest, not extra-specially dysfunctional.

                • Opus the Poet
                  Opus the Poet
                  September 15, 2014 at 12:07 pm | #

                  Yay! Honesty.

                • isitsevenyet
                  isitsevenyet
                  September 16, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

                  Eh in my case, I actually have reasons, those reasons being an awful childhood filled with verbal abuse, but in a way you have a point.

        • Narf
          Narf
          September 15, 2014 at 1:38 am | #

          You read this for fun and not for feels.

          Do you enjoy being frequently disappointed? Lol

    • shoeboxjeddy
      shoeboxjeddy
      September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Yeah uhh… something like this doesn’t just “go away” especially when it wasn’t reported and thus the guy is still lurking out there somewhere.

      • bob99938
        bob99938
        September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Of course it doesn’t go away. It never really goes away. This is the kind of thing that will be around in her head for quite a while. But this was getting to be a more fun comic and not as serious anymore.

        • Jon P
          Jon P
          September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          That’s not true at all. It was only a short time ago that Amber’s father showed up unsolicited and the two of them got into a brutal fight. This comic has always bounced between fun and serious.

        • Superheadache
          Superheadache
          September 15, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          This comic is always going to have a lot of drama and angst. The funny parts are the rest we get before Willis rips our hearts out and throws them against a wall while laughing… or something along those lines but less super villain-y.

          • Syngraphea
            Syngraphea
            September 15, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

            The funny parts help us to like and care about the characters more, so we really feel their pain when drama happens to them. It’s great characterization.

          • Mr. Morningstar
            Mr. Morningstar
            September 15, 2014 at 1:23 pm | #

            Well if his Tumblr posts are anything to go by Willis is definantely NOT laughing at ripping our hearts out….

            …this time

        • TheOthin
          TheOthin
          September 15, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          Wait, which comic have you been reading? One that doesn’t contain Ruth or Billie?

          • beetnemesis
            beetnemesis
            September 15, 2014 at 9:58 am | #

            Ruth/ Billie isn’t drama, it’s one of those “Morality” haunted houses that scare you about the Evils of Alcohol.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          September 15, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

          Between the attempted rape, the abusive parents, Danny getting kidnapped, Amber being hideously unstable, Joyce’s repression, Billie and Ruth being alcoholics spiralling into suicidal despair and Sal and Walky’s issues this comic has been getting steadily more serious as time goes on.

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          September 15, 2014 at 1:40 am | #

          Sarah alluded to the same incident only a month ago…which sounds like a long time now that I say it, but it really isn’t.

        • etybolik
          etybolik
          September 15, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

          Remember that time Amber beat the shit out of her dad in a McDonald’s parking lot because he’d basically coerced and then tried to kidnap Danny, and she pretty much broke down for a while afterwards? Or that time Ruth hinted she’d kill herself and Bille confronted her about it later in tears and misery?

          Fuck yeah that shit was hilarious, huh?

          I agree with the others, you’re reading the wrong comic.

    • Animedingo
      Animedingo
      September 15, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

      At first I thought it might be “reaching” when they brought this plotline back, but it kinda makes sense. Joyce was pretty fucked up by that incident and started having crazy dreams that made her start questioning her sexuality. Not just her orientation but the existence of it entirely.

    • Anfernee
      Anfernee
      September 15, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

      Because things like this don’t just go away.

    • Charlie
      Charlie
      September 15, 2014 at 5:02 am | #

      Yeah, I’m upset about it too 🙁 It makes for some pretty unsafe-feelings on a what’s usually a happy-making comic (at least for me it’s usually happy-making, in the sense that I look forward to reading it. Now I just feel kinda scared about reading tomorrow’s).

  7. Kenny the toliet king!
    Kenny the toliet king!
    September 15, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Whoopsies!!

  8. penguinsinmyhead
    penguinsinmyhead
    September 15, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Wasn’t expecting to feel today. Ended up feeling.

    • Cliff B
      Cliff B
      September 15, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

      so you’re saying you didn’t expect to read DoA today, but then you did?

      …sorry, low hanging joke fruit. Willis = some kinda feels

  9. Dorsilus
    Dorsilus
    September 15, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    oh shit.

  10. Tom Speelman
    Tom Speelman
    September 15, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    And THAT’S a boomerang right back around to the feels. Thanks, Willis.

    • bob99938
      bob99938
      September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I don’t wanna feel these feels right now. This is not happy

      • Sye
        Sye
        September 15, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        Admitting this only serves to feed the insatiable hunger in the depths of the abyss that lay where Willis’ soul once was.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          September 15, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

          About when do you think he lost his soul?

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          September 15, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

          No abyss there, just a bottling plant for those nourishing tears.

          • Mr. Morningstar
            Mr. Morningstar
            September 15, 2014 at 1:25 pm | #

            and transformers

  11. toonie
    toonie
    September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Yeeeep… I was wondering how Amazi-Girl had the gall to get up in Joyce’s face like that. Turns out she just forgot about that time she accidentally helped Joyce’s would-be rapist get away. (Admittedly, because she has a lot going on in her life right now. But you’d think you’d remember the person you seriously wronged, albeit on accident.)

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Oh yeah that’s right! Amazi-girl was kind of an inept jerk that time wasn’t she?

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Inept I’ll buy, but jerk is kind of unfair, considering she did spend the entire rest of the night searching for him (as suggested here).

        • toonie
          toonie
          September 15, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

          Yeah, I wouldn’t call her a jerk and clearly she felt terrible about it at the time. But I’m really surprised it’s something that she would forget. Like, you’d think that she would strongly associate Joyce with that memory.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            September 15, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

            It takes me a few times to solidly remember someone I’ve just met, especially if I’ve spent most of the night awake with the mental image of some beat-up dude I’ve never seen stuck in my head.

            Okay, not EXACTLY that, but still!

            • toonie
              toonie
              September 15, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

              Yeah, but the thing is, Amber/Amazi-Girl doesn’t really know Joyce outside of that incident. If your most major interaction (by far) with a person you’ve met is something so dramatic/traumatic, I just can’t imagine separating the person from the incident. If they hung out together a lot and Amber/Amazi-Girl had lots of other memories to think of when it came to Joyce, I could find it a little more understandable. But only one stands out.

              • timemonkey
                timemonkey
                September 15, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

                She didn’t interact with Joyce at the party though. She showed up, got told off by Sarah and took off in search. Amber’s biggest and most memorable interaction with Joyce was screaming in her face in the cafeteria for helping Ethan crawl back in the closet.

                • toonie
                  toonie
                  September 15, 2014 at 1:42 am | #

                  That’s true. However, as we see from her conversation with Sarah, Amazi-Girl actually did remember who Joyce was, but forgot when getting caught up in her detective-ing.

              • Jen Aside
                Jen Aside
                September 15, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

                Yeah, because everyone has crystal clear memory and can follow up with, “Oh yeah, you’re THAT girl” after seeing her for literally two seconds. Especially someone who spends non-superhero free time killing spiders.

                • toonie
                  toonie
                  September 15, 2014 at 1:40 am | #

                  Amazi-Girl’s whole point is superhero-ing/detective-ing. She obviously knows who Joyce is; Sarah already referenced what happened with Joyce and Amazi-Girl in an earlier strip, and Amazi-Girl didn’t seem confused. If anything, she built her conversation with Sarah on that point. So she is not having to remember based off a two-second viewing. She was aware, but forgot in her detective frenzy.

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  September 15, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

                  oh dang, I just noticed Ryan looks like he’s being DRAGGED away

                  hmm, I now forgot how I was gonna retort to you

            • toonie
              toonie
              September 15, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

              And just to be clear, I SUPER LOVE Amber/Amazi-Girl. But I’m like damn girl, show some tact

        • MrSirk
          MrSirk
          September 15, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

          Okay maybe she’s not a jerk….but still it is kind of a lot her fault. Maybe she’ll do better this time now that she’s got a whole month of Amazi-ing under her belt.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            September 15, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

            I’d like to see AG hunt down Ryan. I think we all would, actually.

        • thinkingofthechildren
          thinkingofthechildren
          September 15, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

          Well you’ve just got me sucked into reading 3 years of backlog.

          Man…3 years IRL, something like a couple weeks in-comic?

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            September 15, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

            Word of God (Willis) is coming up on 5 weeks. Parents’ weekend was about 5 days ago (today is Wednesday after).

    • Cat
      Cat
      September 15, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      I’d just like to remind everyone this is not the first time Amazi-Girl has gotten all up in Joyce’s face like that. This is just the first time she’s done it as Amazi-Girl.

      • ChocolateRat
        ChocolateRat
        September 15, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        This is actually a very good point to make, it kind of makes me view her earlier quarrel with Joyce differently. Had I been in Amber’s position I would definitely not have been so harsh with Joyce after what had happened.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          September 15, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

          Amber was kind of mid-mental breakdown last time she got in Joyce’s face. While still in the wrong a degree of leeway is warranted.

          • ChocolateRat
            ChocolateRat
            September 15, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

            Personally that is only a small amount of leeway I would give, but I’m sure Amber will apologize to Joyce properly and consider it in the future, since she’s a good person, but I still consider it a pretty big mistake she’s done, until then she has done those things.

            • Sam
              Sam
              September 15, 2014 at 7:55 pm | #

              And I would like to remind you that Amber’s reason for being angry with Joyce in the first place was that she was pretty much telling her BEST FRIEND, that his sexuality was wrong, that he can be ‘fixed’, that he isn’t normal the way he currently is essentially…and Sarah agreed that Amber had a point to be mad about that.

              The time they met when she was Amazi-Girl likely didn’t even cross her mind at all at the time – all she could likely think was ‘HOW DARE SHE’ because she was INFURIATED by the fact that Joyce was reinforcing the things she had fought so hard to prevent Ethan believing, that she had fought so hard to keep his family from believing, that she HATES seeing people believe because it can be really goddamn harmful to someone’s self-image and cause them a ton of pain.

              If you were in Amber’s position, that incident likely wouldn’t even come to mind – it would be the times you spent arguing with people endlessly for your best friend that would come to mind, it would be the PAIN your best friend went through when his own family said those things to him that would come to mind.

              Joyce’s recent pain at that time would not even factor in because that wouldn’t be on your mind – all you’d see is some person that could seriously hurt your best friend if you left them alone to do whatever they want.

        • DSL
          DSL
          September 15, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

          Also worth mentioning: At the time of the cafeteria confrontation, Amber was still somewhat compartmentalizing Amazi-Girl.

    • JWLM
      JWLM
      September 15, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

      I don’t think she thought through the consequences of her actions. Sure, Sarah yelled at AG, but Joyce was incredibly emphatic that she didn’t want any follow-up.

      However…now it’s clear that she really did want follow-up, and that it’s AG’s fault. It also explains why Joyce was desperately trying to reach Becky yesterday — that seemed out of character if she wanted to confess, but it’s totally in character if she wanted some moral support.

      OK, AG…now you’re going to have to provide that support.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 15, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

        *expression of sympathy via light contact*

      • LWS
        LWS
        September 15, 2014 at 5:44 am | #

        I’d forgotten about the “Caped Attention-Hogger” snark from Sarah.

    • Scott
      Scott
      September 15, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

      Didn’t Sarah remind her about it just yesterday, comic time?

    • Sam
      Sam
      September 15, 2014 at 7:09 pm | #

      It’s likely because THIS memory wasn’t the one in her head at the time – it would have been one from the morning when Joyce was acting suspicious or the entire event string in general.

      She clearly has NOT forgotten the event, it just wasn’t sitting at the front of her mind when she came to confront Joyce, hence why she didn’t immediately understand what she meant, but still quickly realised what she meant, as the question provoked it to come back to the front of her mind.

  12. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Remember how Joyce hesitated to praise Amazi-Girl in this strip?
    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/leads/

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      September 15, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      Yup, and then there was Sarah’s reaction to her.

  13. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Gone are the innocent days of whiteboard defacing this just moved to SVU level investigating.

  14. clodia
    clodia
    September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    1) No wonder Willis was tired of hearing “there’s dozens of way to remove permanent marker”

    2) Straight to the feels.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Yeah, WHY would someone who has a thing planned well in advance EVER get tired of having it pointed out before it has a chance to show up of its own accord =p

  15. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    September 15, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Well played, Willis. Here I was all prepared for Joyce to over react and panic in an amusing matter and instead we get sobbing and flashbacks to her attempted rape. Emotional whiplash hurts so good.

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      September 15, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      This.

      Considering what almost happened to Joyce at the party, it’s a damn good question to ask Amazi-Girl.

      • Emperor Kiva
        Emperor Kiva
        September 15, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        I’m with you

      • Sam
        Sam
        September 15, 2014 at 8:54 pm | #

        She didn’t really let him though – he was gone before she even knew there was a guy involved. :/

        Looking back at those pages, I’d say it’s not even her fault he got away in the first place either because absolutely NOBODY was even watching him before she got there, they were all looking at Joyce, then all looking at her – they weren’t looking at him.

  16. Sila
    Sila
    September 15, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    You’re breaking my heart, Joyce. 🙁

  17. Ari
    Ari
    September 15, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    … 🙁

  18. Rhy
    Rhy
    September 15, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Uh, anyone have the link to the strip this is referring to?

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      This one.

      • Rhy
        Rhy
        September 15, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        Thanks. Totally forgot about Amazi-Girl’s involvement with that event.

      • MrSirk
        MrSirk
        September 15, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

        Got give Ryan some credit there actually. He’s a scumbag but he really hauled ass considering he was beat all to shit by Sarah.

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          September 15, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

          You might be on your own with that one.

          • MrSirk
            MrSirk
            September 15, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

            HAHAHAHHAHA!!! That’s funny :)……still I know I wouldn’t be able to walk, shamble or whatever the hell he did to get out of there after the concussion I’m sure he got from a bat to his head or the implied curb stomping. Hey! Maybe he died from his injuries!

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              September 15, 2014 at 2:22 am | #

              Juuuuuuust noticed that Ryan is tagged, but the only one that looks like it could be Ryan is being possibly DRAGGED away…???

              • neeks
                neeks
                September 15, 2014 at 3:17 am | #

                Or slinking backwards while remaining low to the ground so as not to draw attention to himself.

  19. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 15, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    “Because every superhero needs to miss their first chance at nailing the villain before they finally take ’em down and get their redemption at the end of the movie…DUH.”

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      September 15, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      By the way…is it really necessary for every superhero movie to end with the villain dead by the end? I mean, I can only remember a handful of movies where they didn’t kill the villain.

      • bob99938
        bob99938
        September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        No, of course not. I am a big fan of franchises that avoid the killing thing at all costs, unless it is indeed necessary.

      • Swerve Is Dead
        Swerve Is Dead
        September 15, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        Yeah, it’s really turning the superhero genre into a generic action movie genre. In the Christopher Reeves “Superman” movies, Lex Luthor always gets sent to jail, but ever since Tim Burton’s “Batman”, the supervillain dies. Or if there is more than one supervillain, at least one dies.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          September 15, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

          Heck, the few movies I can remember at the top of my head that didn’t kill the villains would be Thor, the old Superman movies, The Avengers and The Dark Knight. Though TDK is a bit iffy because while the Joker lived….Two Face bites it.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          September 15, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

          Technically all the villains survived Batman and Robin. Well, unless Freeze kills Ivy at the end.

          • Ray Radlein
            Ray Radlein
            September 15, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

            Yes, but the audience didn’t survive.

            • timemonkey
              timemonkey
              September 15, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

              It’s better than Batman Forever.

              • neeks
                neeks
                September 15, 2014 at 1:40 am | #

                Or “Catwoman”; I saw that for free and I still wanted my money back.

                • newllend
                  newllend
                  September 15, 2014 at 4:49 pm | #

                  Thank God I blocked all three movies out of my memory.

              • Tenn
                Tenn
                September 15, 2014 at 5:37 pm | #

                NO.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        September 15, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

        It’s because action movie tropes got tied to superhero movies years ago.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        September 15, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

        Batman doesn’t kill villains, does he? Or Supes, or Spider-Man. Sometimes they die of their own accord, but I seem to remember lots of handcuffed or arkham-bound baddies.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          September 15, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

          Let’s see, 1989: Joker bites it. Returns: Max Shreck and Penguin bites it. Forever: Two Face bites it. We are not going to talk about that other movie. Begins: Ra’s Al Ghul bites it. Dark Knight: Two Face bites it. Dark Knight Rises: Talia and Bane bites it.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          September 15, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

          In the four Batman movies from the 90s he totally did. Even when it was unnecessary, but he ends up realising it doesn’t make him feel any better and advises Robin against it.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          September 15, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

          Ah, good to learn. I knew you all wouldn’t let me down on superhero facts. =)

        • StClair
          StClair
          September 15, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

          In the comics, Batman needs to keep villains around so that they can continue to make trouble (and drive stories, and sell books) for decades. Regardless of how absurd it gets (e.g., Joker Immunity).

          Movies? They’re only going to make a few of them, maybe three or four at most in the current set. And most heroes have enough personal villains to fit two or three in every movie, and that’s just the “big names” in their rogues’ galleries. So they can afford to, ah, waste them. So to speak.

        • newllend
          newllend
          September 15, 2014 at 5:11 pm | #

          Batman doesn’t the Dark knight on the other hand.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 15, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

        It’s not, but Hollywood is super lazy about things like including non-token female and/or minority representation and shit like that

      • Mr. Morningstar
        Mr. Morningstar
        September 15, 2014 at 1:28 pm | #

        Marvel seems to be avoiding that trend lately actually.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      You can’t be a real superhero unless you failed to help at least one person ( this is all true by the way).

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        Oh come on, we’re playing the “My Greatest Failure” card?

        • Swerve Is Dead
          Swerve Is Dead
          September 15, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

          That’s only true for Spider-Man. He failed to save his Uncle Ben, Captain George Stacy, Gwen Stacy, Gears, Ben Reilly and his marriage.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            September 15, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

            Yeah…can someone not shit on Spidey just once?

            • Swerve Is Dead
              Swerve Is Dead
              September 15, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

              Hey, I like Spider-Man! But let’s be honest, he has a less sterling track record than Captain America or Optimus Prime. Spidey tries his hardest, and that makes him a hero. (But he should have used a higher tensile webbing formula when trying to secure Gears.)

            • newllend
              newllend
              September 15, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

              Batman with Jason Todd the second Robin.

            • timemonkey
              timemonkey
              September 15, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

              Spidey shits on Spidey, he’s pretty much responsible for 90% of the shit that happens to him. On some level he likes to be the victim.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          September 15, 2014 at 9:50 am | #

          Considering the context, I think it’s valid to bring it up, yeah.

      • TheHorseCouncil
        TheHorseCouncil
        September 15, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

        If this escalates amazi-girl’s arch nemesis truly will be joyce aka thewhiteboard ding dong bandit. And it will be a greatest failure/ revenge thing between them.

        After all superheroes create their villains.

        • DSL
          DSL
          September 15, 2014 at 2:26 am | #

          “You complete me.” — This-is-no-Joker to Battywoman.

  20. rachel
    rachel
    September 15, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    UHHHHH didn’t see this coming, that’s utterly blindsiding

  21. Aizat
    Aizat
    September 15, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh God….what did I miss?

  22. chris73
    chris73
    September 15, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    One moment its all veiny ding dongs, the next its all repercussions about drugged sexual assault

  23. Van Jealous
    Van Jealous
    September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Meanwhile, 5 or 6 weeks ago in ARC time…..(3 1/2 years in DOA reader time 🙂

  24. Benjy
    Benjy
    September 15, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Oh…Ohhhhh…

    (That’s okay. Who likes happy ending anyways?)

    • Benjy
      Benjy
      September 15, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      (Answer: I do.)

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        September 15, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        So do I….err…what kind of happy ending we’re talking about here? The one where the hero walked towards the ocean and the sunset?

        • Benjy
          Benjy
          September 15, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          No. The one where the hero rides a horse towards the ocean and sunset.

          • Maveric1984
            Maveric1984
            September 15, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

            If you pay $25 for the first month and $9 for subsequent months, you can see Amber get a happy ending about 20 minutes before the events in this strip.

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              September 15, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

              Wait….how long have I been away?

            • Benjy
              Benjy
              September 15, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

              Aww. I gotta PAY for a happy ending?

              • Benjy
                Benjy
                September 15, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

                *headdesk* You know, I completely forgot the *other* meaning for “happy ending” just then.

                • Kelly
                  Kelly
                  September 15, 2014 at 12:49 am | #

                  Ok, that was hilarious 😀

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                September 15, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

                Well, it’s been done by some video game companies.

    • etybolik
      etybolik
      September 15, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

      Pffffthahahaha, these do no exist in DoA.

      • Benjy
        Benjy
        September 15, 2014 at 12:17 pm | #

        I’m beginning to think they don’t exist, period. Willis has crushed my faith in all of reality.

  25. vile_gamer
    vile_gamer
    September 15, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Wow, that party? It feels like that was YEARS ago…

    But in all seriousness, I hope that Ryan gets his. I’ve been hoping for that to happen for a while…

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      September 15, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

      This loose end has been wafting in the breeze for so long that most have forgotten about it. I get the feeling it’s going to be tied before the end of the book.

  26. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    September 15, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Dorothy is fucking creepy in that flashback.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Hello, viewers at home.

    • Wigii!
      Wigii!
      September 15, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      best comment here

    • BadgerGuy
      BadgerGuy
      September 15, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      She’s smiling and she really shouldn’t be.

      • Benjy
        Benjy
        September 15, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

        I think she was smiling that Amazi-Girl was there to save the day.

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          September 15, 2014 at 2:23 am | #

          More that seeing Amazi-Girl made her forget what is going on – the smile goes with an autograph request.

          • Random832
            Random832
            September 15, 2014 at 12:32 pm | #

            Speaking of mood whiplash, we went straight from that storyline into Pajama Jeans.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      September 15, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      And Sarah is hating Amazi-Girl so hard.

    • Aydr
      Aydr
      September 15, 2014 at 7:48 pm | #

      Dorothy’s derpy smile is so distracting it’s almost hard to notice what the fuck is going on with Sarah’s face.

    • JebJeb
      JebJeb
      September 15, 2014 at 8:45 pm | #

      …I didn’t notice that at first and now I can’t un-notice it. Kinda have to put my finger over her face ’cause it’s kinda unnerving to me. Half expect to pull my finger away and find the face burned onto it.

  27. Aizat
    Aizat
    September 15, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    By the by….did anyone called that Joyce is the one that did it yet?

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 15, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      …your serous.

    • Keroshino
      Keroshino
      September 15, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      I didn’t see a confession…just Joyce being reminded that a so called “superhero” let her attacker get away.

      • pyrophobia
        pyrophobia
        September 16, 2014 at 5:25 am | #

        WE’RE UNCONFIRMED YET
        THERE’S STILL TIME FOR IT TO BE SOMEONE ELSE

  28. newllend
    newllend
    September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Fuuuuck , this is Really opening up the flod gates of Joyces backed up mental stress here isn’t it.

  29. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Amazi-Girl totally should have broken the fourth wall here.

    “There’s dozens of ways to remove them. Haven’t you read the comment section?”
    “The what now?….”
    “Never mind.”

    (Yes, I know there’s a buffer and that this comic was drawn weeks ago.)

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      More like months ago??

      In all seriousness, Willis broke the fourth wall ONCE way back in It’s Walky! and has pretty much vowed NEVER to do it again.

      • TParadox
        TParadox
        September 15, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

        Not way back in It’s Walky, way way back in Roomies!

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 15, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

          IT’S ON IT’S WALKY I KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

          [no I don’t good catch]

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        September 15, 2014 at 4:41 pm | #

        Unless you count the drama tag, art tracing jokes, and so on in Shortpacked!…

  30. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    So the subject switched from a bunch of dicks to a particular dick…

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      That’s a peen observation there!

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        September 15, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        Yeah, Joyce is pointing out the time that Amber really cocked it up. (Just look at all the things she can point to.)

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          September 15, 2014 at 9:54 am | #

          BAM! Weenus pointed!

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      September 15, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      A dick dastardly, to be precise.

  31. Swerve Is Dead
    Swerve Is Dead
    September 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    You know, if only Amazi-Girl spent half the energy she spent tracking down Joyce for petty vandalism on looking for slags like Ryan…

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      About that…does no one ever noticed a dude bleeding with glass possibly embedded in said wound?

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 15, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

        Huh–the strip clearly shows people standing BEHIND where Ryan was. WTF were THEY doing??

        • espanolbot
          espanolbot
          September 15, 2014 at 3:32 am | #

          From what I’ve read about American colleges, they were probably trying to work out how to blame Joyce for the assault so Ryan could keep his football scholarship or something.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            September 15, 2014 at 9:18 am | #

            Or…find a way to blame patriarchy for Joyce’s assault…if you follow the mindset of third wave feminists.

            • Kerry
              Kerry
              September 15, 2014 at 11:54 am | #

              oh joy, we’ve got an anti-feminist

              • Benjy
                Benjy
                September 15, 2014 at 12:20 pm | #

                *KLAXON SOUNDS*

        • Swerve Is Dead
          Swerve Is Dead
          September 15, 2014 at 9:24 pm | #

          They were probably drunk. It was a party, there was lots of alcohol, and the only responsible people (Sarah and Dorothy) were distracted by a vigilante showing up.

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      She did spend the entire night searching for Ryan after she left the party.

      • Swerve Is Dead
        Swerve Is Dead
        September 15, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

        But she never really followed up. By contrast she’s spent the whole day trying to crack a trivial case, beat up her father and tried to pick a fight with Sal. She could definitely try to canvas the campus to ID Ryan, especially now that she’s grown popular with the student body.

        Also, from Joyce’s POV, seeing Amazi-Girl is causing her to remember a very painful night she’d rather forget.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 15, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

          Yes, because this is totes called, “Smart people always make good decisions”

    • nothri
      nothri
      September 15, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      She spent all night looking for the bastard. What more could she have done?

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        September 15, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

        Continued the search for more than one night? Checked the hospitals? Asked around?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          September 15, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

          Search the hospitals? No..too obvious. Best look at the vets.

        • Keroshino
          Keroshino
          September 15, 2014 at 4:19 pm | #

          He shouldn’t be “too” hard to find…

          Not many guys have huge scar-ing gashes going diagonally across their faces!

        • nothri
          nothri
          September 15, 2014 at 5:13 pm | #

          We don’t know how hard or long Amber searched. Most of the “investigation” has been happening off panel. All we know is that Amber kind of forgot about that incident, probably because she got swept up in her own traumatic crap.

          And not to piss on Joyce or dismiss what she went through…but the police should have been brought in on this. THEY probably would have found the guy by now.

        • Nogre
          Nogre
          September 15, 2014 at 5:55 pm | #

          She’s not exactly a police officer. Looking around the hospitals wouldn’t have really helped much, since she’d be kicked out in short order. She could have continued looking and asking around more, but after a certain point, the trail ends up too cold to follow without official resources.

          You can only do so much as a vigilante, which is why we have police to begin with and why the lack of official follow up is due to the decision not to report. But that’s not entirely Joyce’s fault. Reporting rape, even attempted, is a difficult thing. Bleh… This whole situation just sucks. Fuck Ryan. Seriously. He’s the one who is 100% at fault here.

  32. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 15, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    I wasn’t even fully aware of the situation. I had literally just asked “What’s going on here?” and the dude crawled away.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 15, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Batman wouldn’t have used that excuse, then again she ain’t batman.

    • anonymous
      anonymous
      September 15, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Twist: He never actually left. After Sarah hit him on the head he turned invisible and got ghost powers.
      Then he got sued by Nickelodeon and now he’s a delusional hobo.
      I don’t think you can actually see him in the panels after the bottle-hitting one, so it’s possible.

  33. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    September 15, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    Ow! Dramatic whiplash!

  34. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    September 15, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    I was wondering when we’d get back to this.

  35. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    September 15, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Does everyone hear that?….

    It’s the sound of no one saying, “Called it!”

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      September 15, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Actually, I heard the sound of someone saying…”Remember to drink your Ovaltine” which is odd because I absolutely loathed Ovaltine.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        September 15, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

        Ovaltine is the best. I go through a jar a week.

        • Keroshino
          Keroshino
          September 15, 2014 at 4:25 pm | #

          I am Canadian…and I honestly don’t even know what the hell Ovaltine is.

          • Swerve Is Dead
            Swerve Is Dead
            September 15, 2014 at 9:27 pm | #

            Kids, listen to Sgt. Schlock: drink your own Oval-Kwik, not his!

          • anonymous
            anonymous
            September 15, 2014 at 9:59 pm | #

            It’s powder for chocolate milk or hot chocolate.

          • madd
            madd
            September 17, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

            It’s a chocolate malt powder. Kind of like Milo.

  36. Grimlock64
    Grimlock64
    September 15, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Aw, we were having a fun little mystery about marker board genitalia, and you suddenly turn it around and do this! Joyce is suddenly thinking back to that night and Amazi-Girl runs into the one person who may end up hating her.

    Damn you, Willis. (Long time reader, first time damner)

    Joking aside, I’m interested to see where this goes and hope I’m wrong. 🙁

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      Congratulations on your first damning! Here’s to many more!

  37. Keroshino
    Keroshino
    September 15, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    That’s right…you are a poor superhero, Amazi-girl

    • Emperor Kiva
      Emperor Kiva
      September 15, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      Wow now I’m agreeing with you instead of the other way around.

  38. kicho
    kicho
    September 15, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    smart approach, guilt trip her into oblivion

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      September 15, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

      Looks like this Amazi-Girl isn’t immune to criticism.

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        September 15, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

        +1

  39. LeslieBean4Shizzle
    LeslieBean4Shizzle
    September 15, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    I was wondering when this was going to come back. And yet, it surprised me when it did. Nicely done Willis.
    It helps that I entirely forgot that it was Amazi-Girl’s fault he escaped.

  40. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    September 15, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    awwwwww shiiiiiiit. . . . . . =(

  41. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    September 15, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    Damnit Willis!! Ya know, I wasn’t expecting to start the week with this coming back up…

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 15, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      He’s got to keep you on your toes.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        September 15, 2014 at 1:48 pm | #

        Yeah, thing is I was expecting this to come up when it was Joyce drawing those penises, just not in this way or quite this soon.

  42. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    September 15, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    “Well… I didn’t, actually. I’ve got his skull and spine in my closet, Predator-style. Wanna see? Might make you feel better.”

    • Emperor Kiva
      Emperor Kiva
      September 15, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      Holy shit that sounds awesome

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      September 15, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

      Well…I have his head on the hood of someone’s car. Is that OK?

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 3:13 am | #

      “Skull and spine?? Great, how does that PROVE it’s him, it could be just ANYONE’S skull and spine!!”

      • Warren
        Warren
        September 15, 2014 at 7:58 pm | #

        “There’s still little bits of glass in the cheekbone. You’ve got a really mean right hook, by the way.”

  43. Yoohoo
    Yoohoo
    September 15, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    Whiiiiplash

  44. Insanenoodlyguy
    Insanenoodlyguy
    September 15, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

    Complete and total redirection! JOYCE IS THE GREATEST SUPERVILLIAN IN THE DUMBINGVERSE!

    • pyrophobia
      pyrophobia
      September 15, 2014 at 3:42 am | #

      Obfuscation: one of the greatest tools in the toolkit of evil!!

  45. Lonas
    Lonas
    September 15, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    In hindsight, should have seen coming. Immediately said,”Yeah…that…”, wondering if it was gonna come up again.

  46. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    September 15, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

    Find the bastard and put him in the ground! Geez, I have a list of superheroes that would have gotten Ryan. Some beating the shit out of him (HULK and Batman). While others (Superman) would have taken the freak to jail.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      September 15, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      While the Punisher would’ve just put a bullet between his eyes.

      • liahansen
        liahansen
        September 15, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

        The Punisher should not be put in charge of Joyce’s problems.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          September 15, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

          Why?

          • liahansen
            liahansen
            September 15, 2014 at 1:03 am | #

            Because shooting a dude’s brain’s out all over her would not have been a positive addition to the situation!

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          September 15, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

          He could sub in for Mike the next time she goes on a date.

  47. Salmo
    Salmo
    September 15, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    122 comments by 12:25. I wasn’t watching to see when we hit 100, but I bet we broke the record.

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      September 15, 2014 at 10:08 pm | #

      I think the Ethan/Danny dream kiss might have the record still.

  48. Lordmazapan
    Lordmazapan
    September 15, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    UUUUFFFFFF this is gonna be interesting.

  49. newllend
    newllend
    September 15, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

    This shit came out of no where I won’t lie.

  50. advancecasette
    advancecasette
    September 15, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    woah what if sarah walked up and yelled at amazi-girl nvm she’s masturbating

  51. thias
    thias
    September 15, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

    oh SHIT

  52. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    September 15, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

    This would be a terrible time for Sarah to walk in.

  53. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    September 15, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

    Aw geez.

  54. Aolbain
    Aolbain
    September 15, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

    *Hugs Joyce*
    Oh you poor girl… 🙁

  55. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    September 15, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

    Holy callback, Batman.

  56. Mass Confusion
    Mass Confusion
    September 15, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc
    An accurate representation of my reaction
    I wish I knew you to do a text link

    • Mass Confusion
      Mass Confusion
      September 15, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

      *how. Damn my typing is crap tonight

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 15, 2014 at 2:24 am | #

        <a href=link goes here>Textify This Space!</a>

  57. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    September 15, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

    I know Amber was joking at first but after this Joyce could actually be a credible villain for her. How many Batman villains were created because he failed them somehow? Like all of them. At least a clean 80%.

    • liahansen
      liahansen
      September 15, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

      I doubt Joyce will become a for-serious villain because she was sexually assaulted.

      • MrSirk
        MrSirk
        September 15, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

        Not because of the assault, but because she has legitimate reasons for seriously disliking Amazi-girl. She’s been watching a lot of Dexter and Monkey Master! This practically writes itself. All she needs is a catchy name.

        • Sam
          Sam
          September 15, 2014 at 9:22 pm | #

          I’d say her ‘legitimate reason’ is more just because of her point of view at the time though. If you actually look back at the pages, everyone seen around Amazi-Girl when she appeared was looking straight forward, toward Joyce, then at her.

          Who was watching Ryan before Amazi-Girl showed up? No one was. He likely would have crawled away regardless due to the fact no one was really keeping an eye on him.

          Amazi-Girl tried to do her best to find him though, but there wasn’t much she could do after one night – hospitals can’t give away the information she’d need, she can’t access school records to see if he goes to where they do, she didn’t have a photo to show around to ask if anyone saw him around.

          • MrSirk
            MrSirk
            September 15, 2014 at 11:59 pm | #

            Misdirected contempt. Also a good trait for a arch enemy.

    • TheHorseCouncil
      TheHorseCouncil
      September 15, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

      Not to mention that even ooutside costume amber and joyce have not had any positive interaction.

      And willis has a pretty good track record of taking what was once a funny situation and making it come back for emotional moments and plot development.

      • TheHorseCouncil
        TheHorseCouncil
        September 15, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

        Well at the very least amber and joyce won’t be besties for quite sometime….

        I can see a lot of resentment from eachother, like how billie and ruth used to be only without the sex tension

  58. Jim
    Jim
    September 15, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

    Seriously? Yeah, the guy was an absolute creep who escaped, but the intervention was still quite a generous act. You can’t always expect divine intervention and then just crucify your heroes when they aren’t perfect. Oh, wait.

    • luxlucis
      luxlucis
      September 15, 2014 at 2:52 am | #

      Yeah, but didn’t the guy escape BECAUSE Amazi-Girl took a lot of the attention to herself? At least that’s what Sarah said and it did seem to rang true.
      The moments was a little bit of comedy at that point but at the end Amazi-Girl not only helped Ryan escape but also didn’t caught him after presenting herself as a hero to Joyce (in a really dark moment).

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      September 15, 2014 at 3:27 am | #

      okay yeah but from what we know joyce doesnt fully remember it, being drugged and all, plus it was a pretty traumatic experience so i don’t think she was really paying attention to all possibilities like a super hero’s chance of catching the guy.

      • Some guy
        Some guy
        September 15, 2014 at 3:51 am | #

        Bearing in mind that she doesn’t remember much, I’d guess that if she’s had a conversation with Sarah about it, she’ll think Amazi-girl let him get away. Even without a conversation, I wouldn’t be surprised if Sarah had made a grumpy comment about it at some point.

      • luxlucis
        luxlucis
        September 15, 2014 at 4:27 am | #

        Or maybe she was lying and she does remember everything that happened? I don’t think it would be unlike her to think that something so traumatic didn’t happen.

        • Mr. Morningstar
          Mr. Morningstar
          September 15, 2014 at 1:18 pm | #

          Fair point I suppose, but so far all the evidence we have seen has stated she does not remember most of it, so im probably going to stick with that unless stated otherwise.

          • Nogre
            Nogre
            September 15, 2014 at 10:07 pm | #

            It’s also possible that the memory is coming back from seeing Amazi-girl in this situation.

  59. Syngraphea
    Syngraphea
    September 15, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

    I’m actually really glad this came up again. It’s important. People like Ryan shouldn’t be allowed to walk free. Did they ever actually submit that police report Sarah promised they would file the morning after the party? And I don’t remember for sure, but I don’t think Amazi-girl (or Amber) ever mentioned him again after looking for him that night.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      September 15, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

      Alas, no police report was submitted. I think Joyce was afraid her parents would pull her out of IU if they knew about this.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 15, 2014 at 1:07 am | #

        It actually wasn’t clear whether that happened, but Sarah did mean to submit a police report [which could be done w/o the Browns finding out so long as the police aren’t idiots and/or corrupt]. No hospital, though.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 15, 2014 at 3:15 am | #

          NOPE I WAS WRONG

          [I’ve posted this elsewhere, but the comments section proves that no one reads all of them except Willis]

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      September 15, 2014 at 1:19 pm | #

      Dammit I wish his name wasn’t Ryan.

      My name is Ryan,

      so now i’m going to spitting my own name in disgust now that I remembered that animals name.

  60. Regalli
    Regalli
    September 15, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

    Aaaaaaaaaaand yeah remember when this was the happy funny comic relief plot to go with Billie and Ruth’s downward spirals?

    I miss that.

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      September 15, 2014 at 1:32 pm | #

      and so the tale of the ding dong bandit took a flacid turn/.

  61. Weebles
    Weebles
    September 15, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    Read back around that part in the strip. Unless I’m misreading, Amazi-girl shows up, asks what she can do to help, is told about The Guy, asks what guy, turns out he got away, and then she immediately goes to try to find him. Later, she gets home the next morning after unsuccessfully being able to find him. That would at least on the surface look like she did everything she could to help but was unsuccessful, which was miles above anything 99% of everyone else at the party was doing.

    I don’t think that Amazi-Girl particularly needs to feel guilty, unless the strips soon to follow are going to lay additional context or information out that we are unaware of at the moment.

    Maybe the “why did you let him get away?” is less a specific accusation towards Amazi-girl and more a general accusation towards rape culture- ie, why has NOBODY been following up on this? Attempted rapist out there and we, the public, are more concerned with dickerdoodles than real problems?

    • Alex
      Alex
      September 15, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

      Last panel.
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/caped/

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        September 15, 2014 at 12:03 pm | #

        … Says the girl who actually let him get away, in order to yell at the ‘caped attention hogger’. I love Sarah, but laying this on Amber’s shoulders (instead of those of everyone in the room except Joyce, including Amber and Sarah) is just wrong.

        • Mr. Morningstar
          Mr. Morningstar
          September 15, 2014 at 1:34 pm | #

          yeah literally no one stopped the obvious rapist from leaving..

          Of course Joyce has likely been talking to Sarah and its more then likely she put in her head it was ALL Amazi Girls fault

  62. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    September 15, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    “Because every superhero needs an arch-nemesis, and that guy’s CRAFTY”

  63. Gram91
    Gram91
    September 15, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

    Yeah, I’m still not over the fact that she let a rapist get away because of her ego guided vigilantism that so far, besides her own father, has only involved stopping delinquency and vandalizing as far as I remember.

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      September 15, 2014 at 1:36 pm | #

      To be fair, out of every single person in the room at the time, how did no one notice the guy with a bloody face leaving?

      Sarah seemed to notice but didn’t do a thing.

    • segnosaur
      segnosaur
      September 15, 2014 at 5:24 pm | #

      Actually, those aren’t the only crimes she has stopped. Remember, she saved Danny when he was about to be beaten up (I think that was their first interaction). Plus, in a later comic, she is seen returning a purse to a woman (whom I assume was the victim of theft).

      • neeks
        neeks
        September 15, 2014 at 8:54 pm | #

        Think she saved someone’s bike from theft, too, right before being chased by Dorothy and walky.

  64. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    September 15, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

    Table turned. The marketed dongs are all Amazi-Girl’s fault.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

      Who was she marketing them to?

      • Camachri
        Camachri
        September 15, 2014 at 12:07 pm | #

        Horny college kids with enough money for a slipshine sub, duh.

  65. JA
    JA
    September 15, 2014 at 1:03 am | #

    And the webcomic universe’s monkey’s paw strikes again. The feels…

    I hope drawing dongs on the boards won’t be Amazi-girl’s version of the bat signal

  66. Sabrina Pandora
    Sabrina Pandora
    September 15, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

    Mr. Willis, your characters are deeply flawed. They make terrible mistakes. They forget details, and they fail, often on a large scale.

    They are human, and they are real. And that is what makes them engaging. Thanks.

  67. Norah
    Norah
    September 15, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

    Is this the first time that Joyce consciously remembered something that happened during the time that she was drugged?

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 3:18 am | #

      This is *Amazi-Girl* remembering it

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        September 15, 2014 at 12:06 pm | #

        Joyce necessarily remembers it, since she brought it up.

    • gwalla
      gwalla
      September 15, 2014 at 1:22 pm | #

      Well, she had a nightmare about it earlier.

  68. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    September 15, 2014 at 1:18 am | #

    I think you left a not out of that statement, as in “should not be possible to fit down there was somehow forcefully inserted down there” and followup “like a Mack truck.”

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      September 15, 2014 at 1:21 am | #

      And the post I was replying to seems to have vanished, making my little jape less than meaningless.

      • Archivist
        Archivist
        September 15, 2014 at 2:10 am | #

        It’s pretty entertaining out of context though.

  69. Jacob Newburn
    Jacob Newburn
    September 15, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

    Now that’s the David Willis I know! Have a fun situation and a great set up to an unexpected punch line, then immediately make me feel sad… It’s Ruth from Roomies! all over again…

    • Mass Confusion
      Mass Confusion
      September 15, 2014 at 1:30 am | #

      Yeah, this hit like an 18-wheeler
      (I’m sorry)

      • Brissin
        Brissin
        September 15, 2014 at 5:11 am | #

        GO TO YOUR ROOOOOOOOOOOOOM

  70. isitsevenyet
    isitsevenyet
    September 15, 2014 at 2:07 am | #

    Awwww, Joyce. I just want to hug her. 🙁

    No one deserves what she went through. Or, for that matter, what Amber went through, and various other characters whose sob stories (I know that’s usually used sarcastically, but I mean it seriously here) I can’t quite recall off the top of my head.

    I have to say, one thing I really enjoy about this comic is that it deals with these very real issues.

  71. Archivist
    Archivist
    September 15, 2014 at 2:09 am | #

    Got Amazi-Girl in the banner this time. I love it when they’re thematically appropriate. (Darkly ironic? Guess it depends on whether she goes to seek VENGEANCE.)

  72. newllend
    newllend
    September 15, 2014 at 2:09 am | #

    So I’m guessing what’s she’s thinking right now is,” If your able to figure all this out how come you couldn’t find that one guy who tried to hurt me.”

    • Rybridge
      Rybridge
      September 15, 2014 at 2:27 am | #

      Which is a really valid question. Not to mention that in a society that victim blames, Joyce is a victim that gets apprehended while the abuser gets away, reinforcing a culture of sexism.

      • Kerry
        Kerry
        September 15, 2014 at 11:52 am | #

        oh dang, I didn’t even make that connection
        fucking hell

  73. MattR
    MattR
    September 15, 2014 at 2:22 am | #

    Damn you, Willis.

  74. Golli
    Golli
    September 15, 2014 at 2:48 am | #

    why does Dorothy look so stoned in the picture before last?

    • neeks
      neeks
      September 15, 2014 at 3:23 am | #

      She’s fangirling.

      • newllend
        newllend
        November 23, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

        “My friend was almost raped but hey atleast I got to meat Amazi-girl.”

  75. Clayton
    Clayton
    September 15, 2014 at 3:08 am | #

    …I suddenly feel the need to cuddle with my pillow and dream of crying puppies..Damn you Willis.

  76. zmm
    zmm
    September 15, 2014 at 3:18 am | #

    Well him getting away wasn’t really Amazi-girl’s fault.. but Joyce needs to talk to someone for sure. So I hope Amazi-girl’s been practicing her superhero empathy. I think she could help Joyce a lot with the emotional stuff..
    and she should probably go make a man a eunic or at least impotent. She’s got big boots and I can not lie, I want her to play mario on his balls.

    Basically. Joyce really needs friends or a counciler and assuming time hasn’t passed tooo far (unless admiting it in public court hurts her more) a cop.
    Amazigrl I hope has more empathy than her dimensional doppleganger, but needs to stomp on that guy’s manhood until it’s an innie.

    • pyrophobia
      pyrophobia
      September 15, 2014 at 3:56 am | #

      “I want her to play Mario on his balls”
      *mental image of AG jumping up and down on a guy’s crotch with the classic Mario jump sound effect as she jumps*
      Thanks bruh, 4 am and day already made.

  77. Mr. Morningstar
    Mr. Morningstar
    September 15, 2014 at 3:19 am | #

    Jesus christ.

    That got heavy real fast

  78. Vancore
    Vancore
    September 15, 2014 at 3:19 am | #

    Course Amazi- girl could find him with the right information that joyce has never told anyone. Wonder if it will go that way.

    • neeks
      neeks
      September 15, 2014 at 3:29 am | #

      That’s assuming Joyce even has “the right information”….although…

      Wouldn’t it be just her luck if his dad was the priest (or a visiting one) at her church of choice, and their next encounter is at a church function? Where she sees him chatting up Mary, because let’s compound the awful.

      • Hannah
        Hannah
        September 15, 2014 at 9:13 am | #

        … No.

        I mean for the comic’s sake that would intensify the drama to a point beyond a lot of the other stuff we’ve seen so far in DoA, and probably add to the overall story value.

        But for Joyce’s sake… No.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          September 15, 2014 at 10:13 pm | #

          Oh man, and what if he’s friends with MARY?

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 15, 2014 at 4:44 pm | #

      I’m still rooting for “Raptor gal the Dino girl wonder.”

  79. Koms
    Koms
    September 15, 2014 at 3:29 am | #

    It’s heartbreaking to see Joyce like this. I like that kid.

  80. Harry
    Harry
    September 15, 2014 at 3:51 am | #

    Surprise! Human being, not comic book villain, after all.

  81. Shadow12000
    Shadow12000
    September 15, 2014 at 4:46 am | #

    This needed to happen. You can’t just let that shit stay bottled up inside. Amazi-comforting time!

  82. Avery
    Avery
    September 15, 2014 at 4:56 am | #

    You know, Joyce doesn’t have to be blaming Amazi-Girl to feel sad about the situation and to feel sad that Amazi-Girl managed to put in enough effort to solve a relatively small, meaningless crime, but couldn’t help Joyce when it really mattered. Sometimes people try their best and still fail, and you don’t blame them, but you can still be sad about it.

    • Dani Kelley
      Dani Kelley
      September 15, 2014 at 8:22 am | #

      Yes! This. Very much this.

    • J-Debs
      J-Debs
      September 15, 2014 at 1:26 pm | #

      AG put alot more effort into finding the WBDDB than she did to catch an actual criminal though. Did she really even try?

      • Dani Kelley
        Dani Kelley
        September 15, 2014 at 1:53 pm | #

        She started looking here and spent all night looking, coming back to her room the next morning looking worn out and defeated.

      • APersonAmI
        APersonAmI
        September 15, 2014 at 2:39 pm | #

        She spent all night, apparently. As I understand it, much more effort than she gave this. It just wasn’t depicted in the comic.

  83. YBAlex
    YBAlex
    September 15, 2014 at 4:56 am | #

    Am I the only one, always getting lost when there is a reference to a precedent comic ? Either it’s a flashback or just Willis getting back to some characters after following some others, I never clearly remember what happened before…
    Is there a way to find easily which was the comic referenced in a flash back, or when was the last time we’ve seen a character ?

    • ailorn
      ailorn
      September 15, 2014 at 9:51 am | #

      Just click Joyce’s name below the comic and review the history. Wilis very awesomely references every character for each strip they’re in to help with this.

      • ailorn
        ailorn
        September 15, 2014 at 9:52 am | #

        Edit to add you could click Ryan’s name since he’s the perp being referenced

  84. nooB
    nooB
    September 15, 2014 at 5:06 am | #

    So, I went back to that and found that Amazigirl spent all night looking for that guy.

  85. The Funkalicious Cale Andrew Baird
    The Funkalicious Cale Andrew Baird
    September 15, 2014 at 5:08 am | #

    Shit, either they don’t tell and she’ll have psychologically disturbed dick-drawing habits or they do tell and she leaves.

    …DAMN YOU WWWWWWWWWIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  86. Wolfie
    Wolfie
    September 15, 2014 at 5:41 am | #

    it’s about damn time this was brought up again.

  87. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    September 15, 2014 at 5:43 am | #

    “Well … my work is done”

    *throws down smoke pellet*

    • Sir Robin
      Sir Robin
      September 15, 2014 at 5:51 am | #

      “For great justice!!!”

  88. vmgx
    vmgx
    September 15, 2014 at 6:22 am | #

    Mqn I really belived she was over what happened. I guess it is less time for them than for us, and it is a big enough deal that it wouldn’t be that easy for her to forget. Poor Joice, she needs a hug. Also now Amazi girl, its your job to catch that guy(After a few strips of Joyce guilting you of course)

    • Kerry
      Kerry
      September 15, 2014 at 11:48 am | #

      as someone who’s had to deal with street harassment, you don’t just get over that shit
      I remember every single instance very clearly, because it was fucking terrifying
      the stuff I’ve gone through is nothing compared to what joyce has, but it’s had a huge effect on me nevertheless
      (only as a girl, mind you – I never get harassed as a guy)

      • apostateCourier
        apostateCourier
        September 15, 2014 at 4:55 pm | #

        Being trans sucks. The way people treat us is even worse.

        • Kerry
          Kerry
          September 15, 2014 at 5:31 pm | #

          it’s less that being trans sucks, and more that the way cis people have structured the world to benefit at our expense sucks
          speaking of, I hope we get to see more of carla
          I want to see her destroying transmisogyny

  89. boomwolf
    boomwolf
    September 15, 2014 at 6:54 am | #

    Well, i think its safe to say the fan has been sufficiently hit by now.

  90. Alexis
    Alexis
    September 15, 2014 at 6:57 am | #

    Oh shit everyone get on the bus because it’s time for a
    -HONK HONK-
    GUUUUILT TRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 9:09 pm | #

      watch out for all that baggage

  91. Farmer_10
    Farmer_10
    September 15, 2014 at 7:00 am | #

    This was a storyline about dongs on whiteboards and now we’re here. What the fuck, Willis?

  92. sandbridgekid
    sandbridgekid
    September 15, 2014 at 7:25 am | #

    There’s is why we call him “Damn YOU Willis”…

    • David
      David
      September 15, 2014 at 3:24 pm | #

      No no, it is “David Willis is a jerkface”. I have it from authority.

      • neeks
        neeks
        September 15, 2014 at 9:04 pm | #

        I think I started reading shortpacked because that’s what the link from qc is titled and I expected a comic about a guy being a jerkface.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          September 15, 2014 at 10:16 pm | #

          To be fair, a lot of his characters can be jerkfaces.

  93. Slinx
    Slinx
    September 15, 2014 at 7:27 am | #

    : (

  94. NeutroBlaster96
    NeutroBlaster96
    September 15, 2014 at 7:28 am | #

    I always forget about the fact that this strip’s timeframe is much shorter than real life. That only happened a few days ago for Joyce, but for us it’s been years.

    • Darkflame
      Darkflame
      September 15, 2014 at 8:07 am | #

      This is actually pretty like Marvel time, but you dont notice it because they constantly realign the current day to “the present”.
      Still, the whole of Marvels comic history supposedly happened from 12 years ago to the present. (whenever the present happens to be)

      If superhero comics were like the more realistic portrayals in DOA they would all have had major burnout + full mental breakdowns a long time ago.

      Comics!

  95. The Weirdo
    The Weirdo
    September 15, 2014 at 8:46 am | #

    GodDAMMIT WILLIS
    PEOPLE WERE HAPPY IN THE COMIC
    THINGS WERE GOING WELL
    NOW WE ALL GON GET CRAY CRAY AGAIN

    DAAAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU WIIIIIIIIILLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSS!

  96. Jenny
    Jenny
    September 15, 2014 at 8:59 am | #

    I’m glad this plot line is back. Joyce is a victim of sexual assault and this kind of stuff doesn’t just “go away” for people. She’s been bottling up her feelings and doesn’t have the mental tools to deal with this stress on her own. She’s been wronged at a fundamental level, God never punished the man who attacked her. She must feel like she deserved what happened to her if no one bothered to punish that guy.

  97. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    September 15, 2014 at 9:07 am | #

    The drama hits again Ó_Ò

  98. Hannah
    Hannah
    September 15, 2014 at 9:09 am | #

    As a survivor myself, this comic was a knife to the gut. I mean I’m glad that you’re going back to this because there is NO way that Joyce was going to just be “okay”, ESPECIALLY someone like Joyce, and the subject needed to be dealt with in more depth, but dang man… Deep emotional turmoil revealing itself through seemingly unrelated physical actions hits a little too close to home for me personally. But again though, overall I am glad this has come up again, for reasons.

    I feel for Joyce, and everyone else who’s had to go through that kind of thing. I really do.

    • The_Bionic_Doctor
      The_Bionic_Doctor
      September 15, 2014 at 10:42 am | #

      +1 and all the feels for you, I also feel for Joyce and all the anonymous survivors out there. It IS good that for once sexual assault is treated this way: it is not a trope that affects a disposable character just to characterize someone as “the bad GUY”, and it does not necessarily mean that the victim is “broken forever” and has no hope of leading a happy life ever again… and still, lots of situations are hidden minefields, where PTSD-like memories and emotions can creep up unannounced.

    • JWLM
      JWLM
      September 15, 2014 at 6:18 pm | #

      I haven’t been able to read most of the sequence of strips leading up to the AmaziGirl shows up strips — they’re so similar to my own assault that they trigger flashbacks.

      That said, I’ve lived a happy and productive life since then. The assault is a part of my life, and it changed me — but it didn’t kill me, it didn’t destroy me, and it didn’t break me.

      And if you’ve been raped or assaulted, then it doesn’t have to break you, either. Help is available, you didn’t do it, it wasn’t your fault. Call your local sexual assault hotline. A lot of the folks you’d talk to there have been through it themselves; they’ll understand. You aren’t alone.

  99. Dani Kelley
    Dani Kelley
    September 15, 2014 at 9:11 am | #

    I’m really, really glad this came back around. I think about Joyce (and that night) a lot, usually when I think about my college assault. I’m really glad that you tell the stories you choose to tell.

  100. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    September 15, 2014 at 9:58 am | #

    AHA! I have you now, Whiteboard Ding-dong Bandit! There’s no way for you to escape JUSTICE!

    …Oh. Bringing up my greatest failure.

    Yeah. That… that might work.

  101. ShadowDJ
    ShadowDJ
    September 15, 2014 at 10:31 am | #

    There is always that ONE Case that haunts a super hero…always that one mistake that will haunt them for their days…

    And after the whole debacle with her father, I think she may have forgotten. BUT knowing Amber and seeing how upset joyce is, I think she may forget about that for now and promise her that she’ll find Ryan.

  102. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    September 15, 2014 at 10:46 am | #

    OUCH!

  103. hof1991
    hof1991
    September 15, 2014 at 10:58 am | #

    Turns out that AG isn’t immune to ALL criticism. Joyce is her kryptonite. After Danny, does she have any powers left?

  104. Lulu
    Lulu
    September 15, 2014 at 11:10 am | #

    Will Amazing Girl get her own version of Robin sidekick as Batman had?

  105. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 15, 2014 at 11:22 am | #

    But, but, but being a superhero was supposed to be about me – it wasn’t supposed to have consequences for other people I now have to deal with.

    AMBER is the weak one that make mistakes. AMAZIGIRL is supposed to be immune to criticism.

  106. Robert
    Robert
    September 15, 2014 at 11:41 am | #

    Ryan is the real ding dong bandit. And quite possibly the real slim shady.

  107. Regalli
    Regalli
    September 15, 2014 at 11:42 am | #

    For Joyce, the night Amazi-Girl graced that party with her presence was the most traumatic night of her life. But for Amazi-Girl… it was a Friday night. A busy one at that.

  108. Sam
    Sam
    September 15, 2014 at 11:59 am | #

    Guilt trap..sprung!

    • Voiddragon13
      Voiddragon13
      September 15, 2014 at 1:45 pm | #

      It’s super effective…..and now no one can feel happy.

  109. Julia
    Julia
    September 15, 2014 at 12:56 pm | #

    I now realize Joyce has a point here… I mean, Amazi-girl spent quite some time tracking a stupid prankster and no time at all tracking a sex offender… priorities much?

    • Kerry
      Kerry
      September 15, 2014 at 1:07 pm | #

      she spent an entire night, actually, but she didn’t follow up on it at all after that point

    • Cypherfox
      Cypherfox
      September 15, 2014 at 1:49 pm | #

      Amazi-girl spent part of one day tracking down a ‘stupid prankster’ and apparently ALL NIGHT hunting a sex offender. Joyce doesn’t know that, but omniscient reader does. That the prankster-tracking took a few dozen strips and the all-night search only one doesn’t mean that prankster-tracking took longer, in-universe-time.

  110. Razzmatazz MacKenzie
    Razzmatazz MacKenzie
    September 15, 2014 at 12:57 pm | #

    Not bad. Actual character depth and moral ambiguity from Joyce. This just got interesting.

  111. acher4
    acher4
    September 15, 2014 at 1:02 pm | #

    Ok, clearly this chapter has the most whipslash feelings ever in everything.

  112. Alexx
    Alexx
    September 15, 2014 at 1:39 pm | #

    Oh. OOOH. Uh-oh.

  113. Aaron Bourque
    Aaron Bourque
    September 15, 2014 at 1:51 pm | #

    Well. That’s an uncommon supervillain origin.

  114. 2K
    2K
    September 15, 2014 at 1:55 pm | #

    Oh Oh, Amazing-Girl. You have an unsolved case. You have to restore this black spot.

  115. Aolbain
    Aolbain
    September 15, 2014 at 1:57 pm | #

    Smiling Dorothy is so wonderfully misplaced.

    • Kerry
      Kerry
      September 15, 2014 at 3:12 pm | #

      tbh, I can’t help but laugh every time I look at that panel, just because of dorothy’s face

  116. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    September 15, 2014 at 2:44 pm | #

    wait, so she still remembers the trauma of the time some guy tried to rape her? Shock and awe! (BTW, it’s hard to get a feel of time compression in this comic, has it been months, weeks, or days?)

    • RJ
      RJ
      September 15, 2014 at 9:22 pm | #

      According to this, it’s been week and a half.

  117. APersonAmI
    APersonAmI
    September 15, 2014 at 3:17 pm | #

    Dammit.

    @ The mood whiplash reaction: Yes, this went suddenly from accusations of doodled penises to trauma from attempted rape. Which is about what I feel post traumatic stress disorder is. It means a part of you is broken. That suddenly you are reminded of that horrible thing and whoops, you went from happy to a wreck.

    That’s certainly how I felt. Broken. Like a part of me was lost forever.

    Before I was raped, sex didn’t matter to me, so I didn’t notice it unless explicitly brought up. After, though… I started noticing all that innuendo around me. And it was not pleasant. Right after I had been raped turned out to be a bad time to suddenly notice the obsession with and glorification/demonization of sex all around me.

    Now, many years later, I have to some degree regained the ability to not care about sex, but it’s been a slow process, and I still occasionally regress to a complete angst-ridden wreck.

  118. Tealjoy Berry
    Tealjoy Berry
    September 15, 2014 at 3:35 pm | #

    Things got real intense real quickly

    • Keroshino
      Keroshino
      September 15, 2014 at 4:36 pm | #

      Well, brace for impact…because tomorrow’s stip is apparently worse!!!

  119. Matt
    Matt
    September 15, 2014 at 4:40 pm | #

    Low blow joyce. really low

  120. jose231ful
    jose231ful
    September 15, 2014 at 5:08 pm | #

    Am I the only one who had to sit there for a minute to remember this scene xD

  121. Tenn
    Tenn
    September 15, 2014 at 5:55 pm | #

    Ouch, gut punch! 🙁

  122. Em
    Em
    September 15, 2014 at 6:11 pm | #

    Well shit. This is going to lead her to hunting that guy down, isn’t it? I can feel it.

  123. Adork
    Adork
    September 15, 2014 at 6:13 pm | #

    This makes me wonder a bit. Is this Joyce (and partly Sarah) just placing blame out of frustration because Amazi-girl is the only one she feels that she can blame? I get that Amazi-girl is suppose to embody a sense of justice about the campus but she has no real authority. But often times I’ve seen that when something bad happens to someone they place the fault on just about anyone involved. It makes me wonder if Joyce has mentally thought: “If I hadn’t followed Dorothy and Billie to that party. If Dorothy didn’t have to have that interview with Roz. If Roz didn’t go and post a premarital hanky panky tape.” And so-on.

    When AG showed up at the party following the beatdown of the guy it looks as if he was already slinking away when everyone was distracted first with Joyce then Amazi-girl’s appearance. She didn’t get a look at the guy but spent the night looking for him, probably assumed that Joyce had filed a police report or possibly just forgot. Either way I foresee a huge guilt trip.

    But do Joyce regret not having reported Ryan or is it just that helplessness after hearing that no matter what it seems as if the guy would get away and trying to pretend as if it never happened.

    • Matt
      Matt
      September 15, 2014 at 6:30 pm | #

      I could be wrong but I think its just a lot of pent up feeling from the party incident. as well as some misplaced frustration that AG was able to detective work her little incident but was unable to figure out Ryan.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 15, 2014 at 9:15 pm | #

        To be fair, even Joyce had to realize it wasn’t like she’d go to JAIL or anything just from defacing some whiteboards (unless campus security is particularly horrible, but who’d bother to ACTUALLY call police on such a minor prank who isn’t Maey?). Ryan knew he’d basically be dead if he didn’t GTFO.

        It’s harder to catch someone who has more to lose from being caught.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 15, 2014 at 9:16 pm | #

          –who isn’t MARY–

          sheesh, only typoing the ONE WORD in that that wouldn’t be clear from context |=I

  124. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    September 15, 2014 at 6:33 pm | #

    I don’t think it was AG’s fault. The guy was slinking away at that time. And Amazi-girl went to the logical place to go, to the circle of people surrounding Joyce.
    I am going to go reread that section, but I think that Sarah tried to get her to file the report, and Joyce wouldn’t do it.

    • Johnny Z
      Johnny Z
      September 15, 2014 at 7:22 pm | #

      That’s right. Her family is protective and she thought they’d pull her out if they heard about it (which if she filed a report would be likely). So Joyce told her not to.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 9:18 pm | #

      It was Sal who said don’t go to cops with no evidence, then Dorothy saying, yeah, campus harassment is basically not thought of as a big deal = “WHATEVER can I just try to forget it happened”

      • Johnny Z
        Johnny Z
        September 15, 2014 at 11:49 pm | #

        The comic’s right there, Joyce is the one who said not to do anything about it.
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/hospital/

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 16, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

          Yes, she said NO HOSPITAL but did not explicitly say also NO POLICE until everyone else basically talked her out of it. Police != contact parents, necessarily.

        • Kiwi Song
          Kiwi Song
          September 16, 2014 at 1:18 pm | #

          This is the strip Jen is referring to.
          Sarah was going to file a police report, but Sal convinced them otherwise.
          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/assault/

  125. Soozi
    Soozi
    September 15, 2014 at 7:08 pm | #

    Man, the amount of feels is just overwhelming.

    i think about how hard it must be for Joyce. She believes everyone she ever loved will see her lusts and sins. Then they will see her cut that guy in the face with glass. Wrath is a sin. They will see her lie (another sin) about it happening. And poor Joyce, must be feeling like it’s her fault, because God (using her previous justifications about God) sent him to do that to her. To scare her like that.

    Then she’s around Ethan, whom she obviously has the hots for, and is fighting temptation to do it with, but then she’s rooming with Sarah. I’m not blaming Sarah one bit, but Sarah is super open about her sexuality. About being sex positive and enjoying dongs. Then her best friend there is having pre-martial hanky-panky and she wants to know but is scared to know.

    Poor Joyce.

  126. Lume
    Lume
    September 15, 2014 at 8:10 pm | #

    DAMN YOU WILLIS T_T

  127. Sambo
    Sambo
    September 15, 2014 at 8:31 pm | #

    WELL THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY

  128. hof1991
    hof1991
    September 15, 2014 at 9:06 pm | #

    What a game of fifth dimensional chess by Mike. He sets all this in motion, bringing AG out of her recently achieved bliss. Will they both get the counseling they need? Will they finally get some help?

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 15, 2014 at 9:20 pm | #

      Next, you’ll be saying MIKE invited Ryan to the party…

      …

      …NO D=

      • Itama
        Itama
        September 16, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

        thats my new theory!
        mike totally invited ryan to the party!

  129. Ed Rhodes
    Ed Rhodes
    September 15, 2014 at 9:47 pm | #

    I hate to look stupid, but can someone give me a link to where in the series this happens so I can re read it?

    • Ed Rhodes
      Ed Rhodes
      September 15, 2014 at 9:52 pm | #

      Never mind. I clicked on Ryan’s name in the list and followed the timeline.

    • Kerry
      Kerry
      September 15, 2014 at 9:54 pm | #

      here

  130. Dragon
    Dragon
    September 15, 2014 at 11:04 pm | #

    It’s probably because as long as she’s just Batmanning it up on campus, it’s a school matter, but if he doesn’t go to that college or is homeschooled, she’d have to go to his house and beat him up, and then the police would get involved. They might be a bit too much for even Amazi-girl to handle.

  131. Lonas
    Lonas
    September 15, 2014 at 11:33 pm | #

    The traumatic Danning it up levels are pretty high here.

  132. tbo
    tbo
    September 16, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Three years ago in real time. No wonder I had no idea what this was.

  133. Daniel
    Daniel
    September 22, 2014 at 10:04 am | #

    DAMN IT WILLIS WHY. I wasnt ready for feels

  134. Onion
    Onion
    May 10, 2016 at 7:14 pm | #

    She seriously forgot about that?

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I'm not sure I trust the intuition of Marvel US #80 Optimus Prime with another Optimus head and right arm pasted on top
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
"The best of" The Born Loser is pretty bleak, man First of all, the violated 180 rule... (1/x)
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Buzzsaw's a sub!!!!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Cmon man, we know
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
before this skybound kickstarter ends, can we talk about how, no, you can't just draw optimus prime's season 2 revision head and color the eyes yellow and have it be a marvel optimus marvel optimus never had the season 2 revision head
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
question: does the UK still call the ninja turtles the hero turtles, and if not, how far back did they stop in other words, would dumbing of age's jason, who's like 22, still call them the hero turtles
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
my wife is evil
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
dumbing of age book 15: i could do the entire cast of thor ragnarok
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Panel 1: Shen is sitting up in bed looking at his watch, panicked, yelling
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
The final Family Circus
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