How wierd would it be to exhume your old body just to loot it? Would it be more or less wierd than willing your stuff to yourself in the case that they/you remember and need it?
Also: Is it grave robbing if you can convince your previous family that it’s your grave?
“You probably don’t remember me…”
“Have we met?”
“Yes, but not this me!”
“Is somebody filming this for YouTube?”
“Honestly, I kinda hope so, I barely belive it myself, but can you try?”
“Umm… sure, why not?”
“I’m your [Insert dead relative here.]”
“Really? Must be Tuesday!”
“You don’t believe me, do you?”
“No, but I just dialed the cops, maybe they will?”
Oh, but it worked out so well. FWIW, this internet stranger clapped that someone mentioned NetHack. And uh, maybe loaded up Falcon’s Eye and started speaking the commands in her brain’s Amazigirl voice…
@ety I may be misremembering but I’m fairly sure looting your own previous character corpse was an innovation in either the Moria/Angband line or else in the later roguelikes that combined elements from both major lines of the genre.
@vlademir1, hmm I don’t actually know where that particular feature originated, but I do know current NetHack versions have similar features and they’ve been a part of it for some time.
I live in a college town where people routinely abandon decent stuff on curbs, locals call it a free pile, and in June during the mass move-out, it’s Hippie Christmas. It is exactly like loot drops! And it is awesome/a nuisance, depending in who you ask.
She wasn’t here yesterday, though the last post over there is wondering about her not being the first post. Life, perhaps? Or the storyline? I recall reading that some commenters were planning on waiting a few weeks so as to minimize being overwhelmed by it.
Bro: “I’m sending you back to the kitchen, Amazi-Girl! The only thing you women are good for is cooking, cleaning, and f-OOF!”
*BIFF*
*POW*
*BAM*
Amazi-Girl: “I believe the word you’re looking for is ‘floor-wiping’.”
Speaking of “fight scene generics”, I’m now imagining the crowd in the background of the last panel acting like the ones you’d get in Street Fighter 2, just going through a looped animation of cheering or pumping their fists in the air.
In my personal experience, it’s best to hit them hard and fast. After the first strike, your odds go way down very quickly. Especially when fighting above your weight class, which nearly all my fights have been.
I was told that with my feather weight, my best chance was to run straight at them, punch them as hard as can in the stomach, (or lower), then keep on running as fast as I can, ’cause both will surprise them. Probably good advice, but real life rarely cooperates.
First rule of fighting people who outnumber you: don’t let more than one get to you at a time.
If you force them to be in each other’s way, whether with a hold like AG’s pulling off here or by circling, then you can deal with them one at a time and not have to defend multiple sides at once.
This is true. The biggest advantage given by numbers is that together they can coordinate and strike you from multiple directions at once – you have a better over all chance if you aren’t surrounded. If you have experience winning fights already too, you have a better chance than complete amateurs like these guys who have no clue what they are doing.
The crowd behind them disagrees. I’m starting to think that the students just respect Amazi-Girl **that much**. Interfering would be like messing with Batman. You just don’t.
I woke with a medical team that goes around downtown to do triage and give care to the homeless-and a couple times I’ve witnessed fights breaking out. I never allowed more than one move before DOING something about it-we never just watch like this crowd. But maybe that’s just us.
Everyone’s going, there’s so many here, surely someone will stop it. And when that doesn’t happen, it starts feeling more and more socially awkward to be the one to stop it. And you start wondering if this is actually normal because no one is stopping it.
I read someone who said it was “Dominance Indeterminacy”. Everyone is waiting for the more dominant member of the group to step in. But in a random crowd, they’re all trying to figure out who’s dominant and hesitate to act.
I find the idea of dominance hierarchy baffling myself. But I find most human interactions baffling.
Basic Aikido taught me that the fun way to mess with group tactics is to step around incoming attackers so that they run into each other and get in each others’ way.
Surprisingly well. As long as you can keep track of where attacks are coming from, it can be hard for attackers to keep their attacks in sync. Since you only need to match yourself to the first to arrive, you can even nudge them into each other.
Heck, for that matter, (consentual) roughhousing in middle school taught me the same thing…before we had to stop because teachers thought my friends were trying to beat me up (hence my emphasizing consentual).
Well, that’s part of it. The rest is the pure tactical advantage of straining their endurance since you do have numerical advantage but may or may not have the strength or training advantage.
Ehh. I thought this scene was well drawn to show how (a) you can set it up so you’re not facing multiple people at once, and (b) represent your average dude with little to no actual fight experience.
Fight scenes in movies where highly trained people attack one at a time despite huge openings for extended periods is rather different. (Read: irritating, though it depends how egregious it is and the type of movie.)
i know people are mostly just joking probably, but for real, please no vigilantes beating up people, that shit never ends well in real life. due process is pretty good it turns out, would be better if the police would stick to it as well though
You have to give credit to the continuity supervisors though. They generally do a good job keeping track of props between scenes, but they have a blind spot for pens and socks.
Some cowards fear judgement for holding back more than they respect the threat posed by an opponent.
It seems having his face opened and ribs pummeled has forced Ryan to reevaluate his threat assessment process. That or he doesn’t have the gall to go after someone sober.
Y’know, I’m finding it interesting how free Ryan is being with Dawson and Taylor’s names (as soon as they showed up he specifically called Dawson by name, and here he’s specifically calling Taylor by name, both pretty unnecessarily), while he remains “Just An Intern”. One wonders if that’s an extra aspect of trying to throw them to the figurative wolf to save himself.
(or it could just be Willis making a point of getting the names actually in the comic itself, but)
You know, there were plenty of us who identified them correctly. Dawson was the dude who joined the Axis of Something and assaulted the store after Ethan didn’t follow his stupid advice. Taylor and Tyler were his indistinguishable henchmen white-cis-hetero-man-bros. Not really sure what Willis meant.
Roz and Leslie were last shown in the main auditorium. AG & Ryan were and presumable still are out in the lobby. Sal and Marcie are at the other end of the lobby. Robin’s in assumed to be back stage. Dawson and Taylor are sucking floor dirt. And I’m in my PJ’s cheering.
In this case, it might benefit her. She’s a white woman, being attacked by multiple men. Misogyny would already lead people to think she’s outmatched by one, let alone three, so to this crowd of people, they’re looking more like the bullies they are, trying to gang up on a single victim.
That’s more specific to Amber, and seems like the sort of thing she might consider to be beneath the Amazi-Girl persona even if she weren’t worried about people connecting the dots.
Right, you don’t know about my penchant for using the abbreviation tag. I was making a reference to a comment from a couple of weeks ago, which was a reference to Sarah and her weapon of choice.
I’mma (semi-)disagree with you here. If you see your friend fighting a literal superhero, your friend tells you that said superhero was sent by “that [misogynist slur] that cut [your friend’s] face” and your immediate reaction doesn’t involve the possibility that this is a misunderstanding of some sort… Then no, you’ve got a pretty good idea what your friend is. At best they’re choosing to be willfully ignorant of just HOW high on the scum spectrum he is
They may not be rapists themselves. (But then again they might. I’m sure Ryan gets those drugs -somewhere-). But you can see the toxic dripping off them, and it’s not the ‘kinda harmless’ toxic like Walky or Joe.
Your attempt to disagree with me has failed! I may have been too vague, though.
At best, they are the kind of dipshits who utterly fail to ever question the morality of anyone they consider one of their bros. Their own behavior might only be insufferable, but they’re actively enabling some nasty shit.
The fact that Ryan is so blatantly using them here makes me think its likely they don’t know exactly how shitty Ryan is, but are either too stupid to put the pieces together, or too pig-headed to see the red flags. (My bro would never do anything BAD, right? I mean, he’s my bro so that’s not possible!)
If he’s given them some explanation in the past, then they could easily just be buying it and not looking for any form of misunderstanding.
There’s a lot to be said for the loyalty to stand up for your friends without question, but it kinda requires picking better friends than Ryan to really work as a philosophy.
Even then, you would -maybe- have a point if it was Amazi-Girl taking swings at Ryan, then sure try to restrain her or get in her way, but she isn’t. Ryan was taking swings at Amazi-Girl while Amazi-Girl dodged.
In that case, ‘standing up for your friend’ involves TALKING. Telling the Literal Superhero no no, you’ve been misinformed by this other party, Ryan’s a good guy, you should go after the other girl. Which is wrong, but if they don’t KNOW that’s wrong, then that’s what they should’ve been doing. Hint: They know it’s wrong. They know how Ryan is. They’ll make excuses for it, but they know. And that “Three of us, little girl” is pretty suggestive that they aren’t that far off either.
As a more broad thing, loyalty does not mean never questioning your friend. Loyalty means doing what’s best for your friend, which often involves telling them they’re wrong when they are.
Loyalty isn’t never asking questions, but when your buddy’s in a fistfight, it’s not unreasonable to assume that he’s tried talking and it didn’t work, and to swing first and ask questions later.
As for the “little girl” comment… maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see it. A case could definitely be made, but it’s a pretty generic diminutive.
He wasn’t in a fistfight. He was attacking someone who very visibly was not attacking him back, to the point that her hands were otherwise occupied. Like I said, I could see your point (to a degree) if Amazi-Girl was taking swings at him, but she wasn’t.
Also note his line in the first panel here. “Get her phone from her.” He is literally declaring that his goal is not self-defense, but TAKING SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY. He doesn’t even make it vague saying “the” phone, like oh maybe it’s his phone and she took it and he’s trying to get it back… Nope, he’s kind enough to point out that it’s HER phone.
“Little girl” is a pretty common misogynist diminuative and in this context is definitely intended as a threat, especially as they are initiating physical violence against her.
Even if he was defending himself, the not-douchy response would be to intervene in the fight and try to stop it, not to join in.
The whole “get her phone” part would immediately raise red flags with me. I can’t think of a single friend who could shout that at me like this without me seriously thinking that it was sketchy as hell. I would probably still defend my friend, but even then I would demand to know just what the hell was going on.
I can’t think of a good to want to gang up on somebody and take their phone like that. Definitely not one that would convince me to actually try and do it.
Pretty much. The only reason someone would just go along with that without question or expressing the slightest concern about it is if the bar to justify ganging up on and attacking a (much smaller) woman were inexcusably low.
So I guess I really don’t think there’s any room for them not to be shit people. They might not be 100% shitty, but that’s hardly something to be proud of.
“Literal superhero”? Or as we were all calling her a week or so ago – “crazy racist vigilante”. I’m not sure I like the switch to full fledged support for the heroic Amazi-Girl, even if we do know how much of a piece of scum Ryan is.
I suppose the crowd was right to support the Literal Superhero when she was attacked by Sal? (Yes, we know Sal’s cool and we know she’d been stalking Sal, but that’s not what anyone there would have seen.)
I think you miss the point. It’s not that “She’s a superhero, she’s always right.” It’s that “This girl is seen as a literal superhero, so you’re a fucking idiot to attack her rather than talk to her.”
Yeah, we know she’s got problems. The general public has no idea.
(and y’know, I’m just noticing Dawson is in the background of that panel looking on, and I think that might be Taylor’s chin too, so they’ve been here for this ENTIRE exchange)
But anyway, while WE know Amber has many personal issues that she does not deal with in the healthiest of ways (though ‘crazy racist vigilante’ is not something I have said or would say; please remember that the comments section is not a hive mind), THEY just know her as the Literal Superhero from the news.
(though I’m betting after tonight, these three are going to shift from ‘superhero’ language to ‘dangerous vigilante’ language when talking about her)
As for Sal, the crowd was calling on Amazi-Girl to KILL her (literally there is a half-cut-off speech bubble at the top of the second panel of Snap with the words “Kill her”) on the basis that they were standing facing each other with aggressive body language, when neither had even taken a swing at each other, nor were any accusations levelled. And then criticized her for leaving the situation without beating Sal up. So no, they took it rather further than just ‘supporting’ Amazi-Girl.
Holy shit, I completely missed that Dawson was tagged in that. That means those two were just off-panel when AG explained what Ryan did, and they went along with this anyway.
I recant all suggestions I’ve made that those two even could be anything better than human garbage.
Definitely on that last paragraph. There’s toxic masculinity and then there’s toxic masculinity true believers who are so far down in the swamp mire that there’s almost no reaching them. Ryan and his “bros” are definitely swamp monsters.
We really need a flashback to Amber in a dojo, learning how to beat the crap out of people. It’s pretty unlikely she taught herself how to fight with no formal training.
Even if she couldn’t, she lives in an era where crosschecking research is considered a basic school skill and has had a lot of time for trial and error.
Grappling dummies can work amazingly well for solo training, and with the right skillset one can make them oneself fairly cheap if need be (they can be made to seem like something else in the process then too). Dealing with punches and kicks as well as certain grapple moves is stuff one will learn from even the most basic self defense class and get some practical experience with. I kinda suspect her recent period of practical vigilantism may well have helped her improve some too.
I can’t help but note that the crowd seems a bit less enthusiastic about the idea of Amazi-girl beating up these three [expletive deleted]s than they were about her beating up Sal.
Well at the very least, they don’t seem to be moving to help them or break up the fight. They’re just mentioning how it’s 3-on-1 and that one has a scar which clearly means he’s the bad guy. Only bad guys have face scars(at least that’s probably the crowd’s opinion).
This reminds me of the line from My Cousin Vinny: “you’re in Ala-fuckin-bama! You killed a good old boy! There’s no WAY you’re getting off without a trial!”
Possibly. The crowd is also a lot less here, since they appear to be in the lobby, while the confrontation with Sal was in the much more populous main area of the event. The appearance of Beef today may indicate that the crowd is drifting over to the new fight, so we may be able to get a better idea of how they react over the next few strips.
It’s like betting odds on a nac mac feegle. Odds aren’t fair unless it’s 10 to 1. The day you see a small, angry bulge climbing your trousers from the inside is just not a day fated to improve.
Crivens! Nae King Nae Quin! We will a be fooled agin!
This is why I keep autocorrect off on my phone. It’ll otherwise “correct” words that are already spelled correctly, or it’ll correct misspelled words into the wrong word.
Of course I can’t speak for everybody, but I think most people have their phones set to lock itself after 10 seconds at least, coz it’s a bit of a pain to have to unlock it every time you get momentarily distracted. And I don’t even know how long after Facebook sends you the “Photo uploaded successfully” notification that the 10 seconds start, so I think at this point her phone’s still unlocked.
You know she’ll have jailbroken her phone and flashed it to a nonstandard OS, possibly even a custom Linux which won’t work in the way he expects a phone to. Such as, for example, having to manually unlock individual programs or “locking” by dropping to command line.
Okay show of hands, who here would become a super villain if you lived close to Amazi-Girl? Because I would be highly tempted to become a super villain, and disguise myself with a suit and mask, and possible cane sword.
I…I’d probably be down…but, I’d definitely at least be studying some martial arts on the side to make it interesting. At the very least it’d hopefully help keep me from getting too hurt when I lose 😛
No. The trick is to have a rifle set up to take her out while she is beating up some drunk frat boys you hired to act as bait. It’s win-win. If you miss, you ensure purity in the gene pool.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY HANDS
Not sure what kind of harmless supervillainy one could get up to on campus. Hijacking wiring to make the PA speakers play obnoxious music? Breaking into dorms and mail to steal cookies? The line between shenanigans and dickery is smudged.
I mean minor dickery isn’t so bad… Printing random crap out on people’s printers (especially with the proliferation of wireless printers). I’d avoid the stealing cookies part… maybe slipping “junk” mail that looks like it’s from family into people’s mailboxes. Hijacking class and dorm facebook groups and framing it as if it was people from the other dorms/classes playing practical jokes…. mostly directly antagonizing AG, *splat* “I’m trying to beat up criminals here!” *splat* *splat* *splat* …yeah… I’m not sure.
Probably panel 2. She clearly has both hands free in panel 3, and nobody got close enough between that and panel 1 to have grabbed it.
She must have slipped it into the phone-sized pouch on her belt while they came at her.
Even if they get it, though, Dorothy still has that photo she sent earlier. They could wipe everything and accomplish nothing. Especially when the crowd starts taking their phones out to record the fight.
Or Dropbox maybe? I have my phone set up so that whenever I take a picture or video it is automatically saved to the cloud to a password-protected account.
I would be quite amused if Ryan got the phone somehow, only to discover Amber has a similar setup.
None of the onlookers -so far- seem to realize why she’s going after Ryan. They probably didn’t see him try to grab her phone. So this could still turn out badly for her, if he sics security on her…
Man, these guys suffer a serious problem of Bad Guy Movie Extras Tactics. Like, yeah, they could all try and mob her at once, but instead they attack her one at a time. Genuinely frustrates me when that happens because of just how -often- it happens in TV and movies.
They were trying to grab her, probably trying to resolve the situation without hurting anybody. If you don’t realize that your enemy is actually dangerous, going one at a time is actually fairly sensible.
AG left them no alternative. She made the first guy into an obstacle to the other, and she dealt with both before they could even try to adapt.
They’re definitely not impressing anyone, but that wasn’t their incompetence at work, it was Amazi-girl controlling the fight.
You know, I kinda hope that Tyler surprises everyone by turning out to be a decent human being who just fell in with the wrong crowd. It would undercut our expectations.
I was busy, but surely others were around to remind everyone that Amazi-girl is a badass and fighting is one of the areas where she knows what she’s doing?
Amazi-Girl seems to have it down pat. I think it’s the others who never learned anything about CQC and don’t realize that one trained and experienced female will overcome three cocky but inept males without even breaking a sweat.
right like… people come on lol. Like yeah any instructor ever will tell you that being outnumbered is not ideal and you shouldn’t get cocky, but also if you know those basics and keep a level head and pay attention to their movements… yeah more than enough for actual goons.
Ok so what’s the worse case scenario here… I’m going to say Danny just shows up out of nowhere and gets involved in this somehow, but I doubt that he would just so happen to be around.
I was going to replace Elmer’s picture with his lacerated mug in that scene from Rabbit Fire earlier today but I’m just too lazy for that now that ship has sailed.
I’m going by the establishing shot of lobby from a few days ago which showed several doorless entrances to the lobby, shown behind AG in the last panel. And several double doors into the auditorium, now behind Ryan. I’m guessing backstage is accessed either up the stairs or through doors at the sides of the lobby.
And I as I said a few days ago, Beef knows AG from when she beat up his friends and chased them off for harassing Danny. So Beef may have a beef with AG. 🙂
But he hasn’t done anything with the several chances he’s had to get AG, so maybe he doesn’t hold a grudge.
Or, like a RL bully, he loses all his courage when he doesn’t have a massive advantage (either numbers or a sense of being the stronger one) on his side. He’s had his self-image remodelled by this relatively small woman before and I doubt he’ll be keen to let it happen again.
Beef didn’t actually say or do anything to anyone (other than grunting, of course). It was the two guys he was with who did the bullying. He ran as soon as AG showed up. Granted, hanging out with people like that is kind of shitty, but we really don’t know anything about Beef or have any reason to believe he would want to fight.
Man. It would be interesting of Marcy stepped in to stop this, but Amazi-Girl attacked her. Then Sal would knock her to the ground, and by the time Amazi-Girl got back on her feet Ryan had already escaped. She let him get away again.
I would say that this takes care of the speculation of some commenters that AG can’t actually fight.
I hope she mops the damn ground with him, on his f a c e.
She can fight very well when she’s levelheaded or angry.
When she’s desperate and insecure, it throws her off a bit, but this is nothing personal – just dealing with some trash, not her “nemesis,” so she’s got herself under control.
You mean the Danny that she went ballistic at and never wants to see again just because she saw him speaking to someone that he didn’t know is her perceived arch-enemy.
One person’s invective is another person’s description of someone’s very conflicted personalities.
The Danny who is deeply concerned over her and thinks the world of her, and also recognizes that she’s in a catastrophic mental state and is in dire need of help.
But, hey, I guess it’s too much to ask some people not to use a slur for the mentally ill.
Yeah, seriously. You really should not refer to the mentally ill “insane,” “psycho,” “crazy,” etc. Even if you are putting it into the mouth of someone else.
Most of us are okay with it being used to describe ideas and such, and don’t tend to say anything when you’re just being silly towards the mentally well. But those words are extremely hurtful when they are used about us.
ALL of those words and worse have used about me for years. Because of that I’ve probably become insensitive in using them. Words only have the power you give them, so I’ve refused to give it to them.
I intend no pain, so I will be more careful here in future.
Heh. You’re a real fan of the 1960s Batman live-action TV show, aren’t you Willis? Suddenly, the Amazi-Girl Voice sounds more like Adam West in my head! 🙂
Okay, so now Ryan is in a corner and he knows it. If there is any likelihood of him escalating and doing something stupid that turns this into a major incident, it’s going to happen now.
Sadly, no, he’s not. Even if Joyce suddenly wanted to testify against him, all the evidence of what happened that night is long gone. Unless he commits some new act of fuckery and gets busted for it, the best we can hope for is an Amazi-Girl beatdown and getting his face plastered online.
I see that Amazi-girl is familiar with the best method of neutralizing an opponent. 🙂 Grab them around the neck and push DOWN while backpedaling. This position gives you a lot of leverage and because they can’t see properly, attempts to hit or grab you back will be mostly ineffectual.
I was actually worried about this fight being 3-on-1 for a moment there. Don’t know why I though there was anything to worry about, Amazi-Girl just whipped two of their asses already.
A boot to the stomach and a knee to the chest. Well chosen by AG to keep them down ’til they get their wind back. After that they may lose their enthusiasm on seeing how their backpedaling buddy Ryan failed to come to their aid. So much for “She fights our boy. She fights ALL of us”.
There’s something immediately satisfying when a villain announces their evil plan and you know it’s doomed from the start because of information they don’t have, .i.e., stealing Amazi-girl’s phone won’t suck the picture back from the Internet.
Also, cronies. Marv in Sin City may have been on to something: You never feel bad about beating on someone who’s just lining up behind the big cheese, instead of like standing for something they themselves believe in. Ryan looks as helpless as one of his victims, and she hasn’t even laid a hand on him yet. Such visceral satisfaction.
Adam West suddenly looks up from reading a book and looks off into the distance, a single tear of happiness rolling down his cheek, for he knows that somewhere, a caped hero is fighting thugs one at a time with comedic sound effects in large fonts.
Security (and police in general) usually take a while to get to any incident. A fight is usually over in a matter of a couple minutes at the high side, and a response time of 5 minutes is amazingly fast. That’s one of the arguments for gun ownership (not that I want to go there)
On the fighting note (did a fair bit of martial arts back in the day), I’d say this is a good (and pretty realistic) fight scene. AG controlled the angles (forcing one-on-one interaction), did a nice job puling the shirt over the first guy’s head and controlling the head (where the head goes, the body follows), hit the second guy in such a way as to at the minimum take him out of the fight for a bit of time, and then took out the first guy with a knee to the noggin.
Contrary to comic books, a bigger, stronger trained fighter usually kicks the crap out of an equally trained littler fighter (that’s why combat sports have weight classes). But within reasonable ranges, training can offset this
So what’s the concealed-carry etiquette here? After an interloping superhero trashes two of your dudebros, but she’s popular, and it’s a chick anyway, but now she’s menacing you, is that when you pull out your Glock? Or what if you are a bro-sympathizing bystander? They need classes in this stuff.
Of course if he isn’t carrying, slashdouche could take this opportunity to run like hell. Which in bro society can’t be good; then he’s revealed as he looks like a coward.
One of these days I still want an explanation on how Amber can spend all day playing video games like a regular nerdy girl and still be in this sort of physical condition. Granted I’m the same way when it comes to the fighting because I have training and don’t NEED to be stronger than my attackers, but the rest of the shit she does is fair game for questioning
She’s young and she does parkour. When I was younger I remained flexible and strong no matter what I did. Now that I’m pushing 60 I really have to work to maintain both flexibility and strength. And I’m losing. It would be less difficult now if I’d exercised more when it was easy. The age where that starts to change varies a lot; I know quite a few senior athletes.
Amber is alternatively strong enough to beat the shit out of five dudes who are twice her size and weak enough that 90 pounds of Malaya is enough to take her down.
When she fought Malaya, she was in too much emotional turmoil due to Sal’s presence to fight well. And all four of them probably had real experience defending Not to mention Malaya still ended up getting her ass thrown before the rest of them grabbed AG.
Here she’s calm, collected, and fighting smart. Against chumps who seem at least slightly hesitant to attack, either because they don’t have experience fighting, or maybe they actually aren’t 100% comfortable with this despite the bro code insisting that this is all right and proper. (side note: While either possibility might suggest they’re better people than Ryan, that’s really not saying much).
The resulting delay in their reactions and less-than-complete commitment to them gives Amazi-Girl a considerable advantage, since she knows what she’s doing and is confident in her purpose. She can act decisively, without hesitation, and not worry that she’s going to hurt them worse than they deserve, by accident or on purpose.
So the extremely different outcomes between the two fights seems completely realistic to me.
So, now he’s going to run away. What does she do then? Chase down the poor innocent white boy and beat him up in front of all these witnesses? Does Marcie have to stop her? Do the cops get involved?
Are we going to get a scene of Amber in prison? “You’re all trapped in here with me!”
Why focus on getting the phone? The pic was already uploaded, and even if it wasn’t she can find out which frat they’re all from and take another picture. Bro’s busted.
She is assaulting two students who potentially are just coming to the aid of someone they think is innocent (they just know he was slashed, maybe not why). Never mind the fact that she is doing this at a school sanctioned political rally to interns.
There is literally no way in which Amber isn’t kicked out of school for this in real life. Any student who covered for her (kept her identity secret) would also likely be expelled.
She went way too high profile for the school to ignore, and short of Willis-ex-machina there is no way the school doesn’t drop the hammer on her.
We know the police are after her to question her about the car chase, and now she’s assaulting a bunch of Christian Good Ol’ Boys at a republican rally.
Those two students jumped into a fight already in progress. If you doubt that, notice the closed fist in panel 2 yesterday. He is not trying to grab AG’s phone there.
Helping to beat someone up and take their phone is absolutely not the appropriate response to this situation, no matter what they think is happening in the situation.
They would be totally justified in defending Ryan from Amazi-Girl here, but that is not what they are trying to do. They explicitly told her “if she fights our boy, she fights all of us”, so while she doesn’t actually let them land a single blow, she had every reason to assume they weren’t just planning to grab her and wait for the authorities.
I don’t know – all Amazi-Girl has done so far is deliver a kick to the solar plexus (winded) and a knee to someone else’s head (mild concussion at worst). Unless she deals some real damage to Dawson it’s pretty unremarkable apart from the audience.
Yeah, it looks rough, but considering how she is clearly a much better fighter than them, taking them down swiftly and decisively like that is probably the best way to minimize how badly they get hurt.
It’s not like restraining them is an option, and knocking them out for more than a second or two would require serious brain trauma. Knocking the wind out of them is the safest way to take them out of the fight long enough for her to go after Ryan, and making it absolutely clear how outclassed they are might convince them to stay down.
They’re gonna have some bruises, but they’d end up in much worse shape if they tried to keep fighting her. She’s handling these chumps like an expert.
Panel 1: Again, can’t help but notice the crowd is much less animated even though she’s going after a guy with a face scar and his two friends, with the face scar guy telling them to steal her phone, so…
Beyond that, ugh, of course disposable mook #1 calls her a “little girl”… So, yeah, let’s unpack that a little. There’s a certain type of misogynist asshole who likes reducing grown women to little girls and calling them that to their faces. But there’s an even worse type that calls them little girls before justifying attacking them or sexually preying on them and that just says so much more about their moral character and how much alike to Ryan this fucker really is.
Also, can’t help but notice Brave Sir Ryan ducking behind “his boys” at first opportunity.
Panel 4: More diminuatives, this time from Ryan.
CONTENT WARNING: Terribleness
A lot of folks who are raised as if they were girls report dealing with a certain form of sexual harassment from a young age, where they were targeted young for things like catcalling, sexual propositions, stalking, etc…
Now there’s a lot of reasons for this, the way rape, sexual assault, and street harassment is about power and terrorism and getting a population terrified to be out in public or punish them for doing so, the way children tend to be vulnerable and disbelieved and any population that has low options for defense or police protection makes a good target, and so on.
But part of it is the weird sexualization of “youth”, and prioritizing things like “getting with a virgin”, “innocence” and naivety as “good wife” material, and demonization of sexually experienced and older women in the general cultural mileu.
It’s why Joyce was a “perfect mark” in Ryan’s eyes, and why Ryan and his “boy” feel to need to diminish AG to psyche themselves up to attack her. Also, can’t help but notice that Ryan is totally sneaking towards the door during these panels. I guess he hoped his “boys” would distract her long enough for him to make his escape.
Panel 7: Passive faces, no yelling, no intervention, nothing. The crowd hasn’t made its mind up yet on which side to favor or if anyone should be intervening and that could go really negatively for AG if Sal ends up coming to support her later on or now that she’s clearly the superior fighter against a single man.
And Ryan’s face is interesting. It almost looks like frustration, like, goddamn it, you were supposed to buy me enough time to slip out. You guys suck.
Sal and her friends are physically active, one of them works security, and Sal herself is a fighter.
Dawson and Taylor McDudebro, on the other hand, are stupid and weak.
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fast work there amazigirl
She’s not even on easy mode, she turned off hints, and she never even bothered to play the tutorial
Well she is playing survival mode.
It’s a freakin’ Rogue-like, complete with Perma-death and randomly generated levels! At best you get minor bonuses on your next respawn.
Also, the odds of looting your previous self, or even getting revenge for your last playthrough, must be so lo as to be non-existent.
How wierd would it be to exhume your old body just to loot it? Would it be more or less wierd than willing your stuff to yourself in the case that they/you remember and need it?
Also: Is it grave robbing if you can convince your previous family that it’s your grave?
Well if you have permission, logically, wouldn’t it not be robbing? It’s more like, repossession.
Oh my god, I love you guys. Rogue is great and all, but NetHack ftw!
Still, the conversation has to be fun:
“You probably don’t remember me…”
“Have we met?”
“Yes, but not this me!”
“Is somebody filming this for YouTube?”
“Honestly, I kinda hope so, I barely belive it myself, but can you try?”
“Umm… sure, why not?”
“I’m your [Insert dead relative here.]”
“Really? Must be Tuesday!”
“You don’t believe me, do you?”
“No, but I just dialed the cops, maybe they will?”
@ety thanks, but I honestly don’t know what NetHack is. Did I accomplish accidental reference humor?
It’s always weird and awkward when I do that.
Rogue (1980) video game and the foundation and namesake of the Rogue-like genre. Followed by it’s direct predecessor Hack (1982), which became the basis for NetHack (1987), which you can still get your hands on today.
It’s one of the more influential games in the Rogue-like genre and in many regards is effectively what led to Diablo.
It was really more just that I was expanding upon your general reference with something more specific that apparently didn’t work out so well.
Oh, but it worked out so well. FWIW, this internet stranger clapped that someone mentioned NetHack. And uh, maybe loaded up Falcon’s Eye and started speaking the commands in her brain’s Amazigirl voice…
awesome 😀
@ety I may be misremembering but I’m fairly sure looting your own previous character corpse was an innovation in either the Moria/Angband line or else in the later roguelikes that combined elements from both major lines of the genre.
@vlademir1, hmm I don’t actually know where that particular feature originated, but I do know current NetHack versions have similar features and they’ve been a part of it for some time.
Oh man, what I would do if real life had random loot drops…
I live in a college town where people routinely abandon decent stuff on curbs, locals call it a free pile, and in June during the mass move-out, it’s Hippie Christmas. It is exactly like loot drops! And it is awesome/a nuisance, depending in who you ask.
That image/name combo makes me want to see a Mike for president campaign. The story & propaganda pretty much write themselves.
But has she bought all the custom appearances from the eShop?
Same to you, miados. It feels weird, not seeing Ana at the top of the comment section. For that matter, where is she?
She wasn’t here yesterday, though the last post over there is wondering about her not being the first post. Life, perhaps? Or the storyline? I recall reading that some commenters were planning on waiting a few weeks so as to minimize being overwhelmed by it.
Forgot, apparently. 😉 (More likely just had something better to do on a Saturday night)
IT HAPPENS SOMETIMES, GET OVER IT
I can’t believe people still freak out over that.
It’s annoying, they should just let her alone.
She’s trying to study?
same to me what now then?
“fast work there” posting the first comment.
She’d never admit it, but she’s actually at the DeSanto rally. Closet conservative, that Ana.
She’s got gender studies HW to finish.
whoa action packed
Indubitably.
You missed the chance for “indu-butt-ably”
What are you saying, that you want your butt packed?
I know right I’m glad that atleast for now I get to see people I want beat up beat up without repercussions.
And since she’s tiny, you could say shortpacked.
Bro: “I’m sending you back to the kitchen, Amazi-Girl! The only thing you women are good for is cooking, cleaning, and f-OOF!”
*BIFF*
*POW*
*BAM*
Amazi-Girl: “I believe the word you’re looking for is ‘floor-wiping’.”
“I’ll clean your clock and cook your goose.”
Speaking of “fight scene generics”, I’m now imagining the crowd in the background of the last panel acting like the ones you’d get in Street Fighter 2, just going through a looped animation of cheering or pumping their fists in the air.
That Beef guy certainly seems like he’d fit in well.
But Beef isn’t a genero, also we saw him way earlier
Then he could be like how in some of the old Mortal Kombat levels, you’d sometimes see some named character fighying or something.
He’s Walky’s brother.
In another universe.
A part of me hopes that in this universe he’s Walky’s own personal Tyler Durden.
…Or vice-versa, which might actually be even more hilarious.
Beef is totally In the background of Guile’s stage, if not Guile in disguise.
With Beef swinging a weapon around like anybody would even use it in Street Fighter.
I know nothing of games being brought up in the 18th century, but isn’t that Duke Nukem?
well the one guy in the red jacket looks like he could be a named character instead of an npc character in a game.
Beef?
*shrug* he has a red jacket and sunglasses but i dont know him.
Well to be fair this is the most screen time he’s scene in the comic’s six year run.
Technically true, although he hasn’t spoken so far in this storyline. (Well, grunted. It is Beef, after all.)
He was a main character in the old Walkyverse, but hasn’t had much to do in DoA except hassle Danny that one time.
I like to think his inner monologue is a stream of Duke Nukem catchphrases, even though he only communicates by grunting.
Beef is the secret best character of It’s Walky!.
That fuck is about to eat boot.
That fuck is aboot to eat butt.
Ryan: Before you can defeat me, you must solve my puzzle!
Amazi-Girl: Shit.
You kidding? She’s been training her whole life for dungeon puzzle bullshit!
Hit the glowing spot for extra damage?
That’s what she said.
Strange, he doesn’t look like a giant enemy crab monster.
Good thing he isn’t, CQC is worthless in a crab battle.
This can’t be a Professor Layton game, cause Ryan sure as hell isn’t a gentleman.
If you tap his face scar, you’ll get a hint coin!
It hurts him like hell, too, so it’s doubly recommended!
Damn,, these guys are so bad, they’re getting in each other’s way.
Pass the popcorn.
That’s 99% of people who think they can fight.
Seriously. Popular entertainment is lying to you, fighting is hard.
In my personal experience, it’s best to hit them hard and fast. After the first strike, your odds go way down very quickly. Especially when fighting above your weight class, which nearly all my fights have been.
I was told that with my feather weight, my best chance was to run straight at them, punch them as hard as can in the stomach, (or lower), then keep on running as fast as I can, ’cause both will surprise them. Probably good advice, but real life rarely cooperates.
Aim for the sternum, it will straight up take a person out for a good thirty seconds if you do it right.
No, my popcorn, get your own…
First rule of fighting people who outnumber you: don’t let more than one get to you at a time.
If you force them to be in each other’s way, whether with a hold like AG’s pulling off here or by circling, then you can deal with them one at a time and not have to defend multiple sides at once.
This is true. The biggest advantage given by numbers is that together they can coordinate and strike you from multiple directions at once – you have a better over all chance if you aren’t surrounded. If you have experience winning fights already too, you have a better chance than complete amateurs like these guys who have no clue what they are doing.
So much for the “Amazi-Girl’s in trouble, it’s three against one!” theories.
Oh I never doubted her. Just amazed that no one in that building is doing anything about a 3v1 fight. Including the security.
Still, love how efficient Amazi-Girl is. You go girl!
That took like five seconds. No one but Amazi and Ryan know what’s going on.
The crowd behind them disagrees. I’m starting to think that the students just respect Amazi-Girl **that much**. Interfering would be like messing with Batman. You just don’t.
I woke with a medical team that goes around downtown to do triage and give care to the homeless-and a couple times I’ve witnessed fights breaking out. I never allowed more than one move before DOING something about it-we never just watch like this crowd. But maybe that’s just us.
These bystanders are probably thinking “Oh man, somebody should do something!” You were, presumably, trained to be that somebody.
Bystander Effect.
Everyone’s going, there’s so many here, surely someone will stop it. And when that doesn’t happen, it starts feeling more and more socially awkward to be the one to stop it. And you start wondering if this is actually normal because no one is stopping it.
I read someone who said it was “Dominance Indeterminacy”. Everyone is waiting for the more dominant member of the group to step in. But in a random crowd, they’re all trying to figure out who’s dominant and hesitate to act.
I find the idea of dominance hierarchy baffling myself. But I find most human interactions baffling.
Basic Aikido taught me that the fun way to mess with group tactics is to step around incoming attackers so that they run into each other and get in each others’ way.
AG’s throws work too.
How often does that work in real life?
Surprisingly well. As long as you can keep track of where attacks are coming from, it can be hard for attackers to keep their attacks in sync. Since you only need to match yourself to the first to arrive, you can even nudge them into each other.
Heck, for that matter, (consentual) roughhousing in middle school taught me the same thing…before we had to stop because teachers thought my friends were trying to beat me up (hence my emphasizing consentual).
I guess this is the answer to that perpetual question about action movies, “Why are they attacking one at a time?”
Well, that’s part of it. The rest is the pure tactical advantage of straining their endurance since you do have numerical advantage but may or may not have the strength or training advantage.
Ehh. I thought this scene was well drawn to show how (a) you can set it up so you’re not facing multiple people at once, and (b) represent your average dude with little to no actual fight experience.
Fight scenes in movies where highly trained people attack one at a time despite huge openings for extended periods is rather different. (Read: irritating, though it depends how egregious it is and the type of movie.)
Well, one of the 2 can grab her leg while she’s fighting with Ryan.
he was going to say “leggo my eggo!” Amazi-Girl punched his waffle, he’s traumatized even years later
Breakfast of Champions
They are getting pancaked. Cereal vigilantism, it’s what’s for breakfast.
yay ass kicking!
Why couldn’t this have happened at the Trump rally at the school near me?
Arguably, all rallies could benefit from a caped vigilante beating up a rapist.
Tbh, I can’t think of many things that wouldn’t benefit from that.
Cub Scout Jamboree?
Yeah, what would they do without their leader?
I feel like a Trump rally’d be a poor platform for it, but nevertheless rife with opportunities. :X
i know people are mostly just joking probably, but for real, please no vigilantes beating up people, that shit never ends well in real life. due process is pretty good it turns out, would be better if the police would stick to it as well though
Well, it’s not so much that due process works particularly well, but all the other alternatives are worse.
like democracy!
If only there were more Amazi-Girls in the world, maybe it would have.
Reality continues to be poorly written and lacking in costumed heroes. It’s a wonder how its still on after all this time…
It has a very devoted fanbase that organizes anytime someone starts a campaign to get it cancelled.
Yeah, you try starting an apocalypse to get everything reset, & people always come along & stop you. Party poopers…
On the plus side, it solves the lack of costumed heroes!
Shame they don’t usually last the deathtrap testing.
You have to give credit to the continuity supervisors though. They generally do a good job keeping track of props between scenes, but they have a blind spot for pens and socks.
And coat hangers, although those tend to get overcorrected.
‘I have 3 coat hangers.’
*Looks the next day*
‘I have 103 coat hangers.’
Wow, Ryan didn’t even want to get in on the action himself til his lackeys got taken out.
Of course! Doing dirty work is what lackeys are for.
Yeah, I noticed a conspicuous lack of swinging on his part while he was urging his minions into the breach.
That is what cowards do, and all rapists are cowards.
Some cowards fear judgement for holding back more than they respect the threat posed by an opponent.
It seems having his face opened and ribs pummeled has forced Ryan to reevaluate his threat assessment process. That or he doesn’t have the gall to go after someone sober.
“I wasn’t holding back! I was… directing the fight. Yeah, managing it. Masterminding it, you might say. I’m management material.”
“I’m more of an idea man.”
Y’know, I’m finding it interesting how free Ryan is being with Dawson and Taylor’s names (as soon as they showed up he specifically called Dawson by name, and here he’s specifically calling Taylor by name, both pretty unnecessarily), while he remains “Just An Intern”. One wonders if that’s an extra aspect of trying to throw them to the figurative wolf to save himself.
(or it could just be Willis making a point of getting the names actually in the comic itself, but)
“… every heist, he’s gotta start yelling my name…”
Welcome to Beatdown City!
Population: 2.
And growing.
Eat
Sleep
One More Spider
Repeat
I actually like spiders. Seriously. Guess that’s one more reason on the list “Why I Am A Strange Person.”
I grew up with a stronger than average reaction to mosquito bites. Always saw spiders as allies, albeit ones who require both respect and caution.
I get you, I normally try to avoid killing spiders myself.
I identify as a spider and bat person.
spiders and bats are way cool.
Spiders and bats are friends, but much like human friends, they’ve an unhealthy penchant for startling people.
Hey, aren’t those guys shortpacked!’s fight scene generics?
So those guys are generic fight scene guys from Shortpacked!?
Those guys? They’re from Shortpacked! They’re the fight scene generics.
Hmm… I think these guys are the fight scene generics from Shortpacked!?
You know, there were plenty of us who identified them correctly. Dawson was the dude who joined the Axis of Something and assaulted the store after Ethan didn’t follow his stupid advice. Taylor and Tyler were his indistinguishable
henchmenwhite-cis-hetero-man-bros. Not really sure what Willis meant.Speaking of, where’s Whitney McJority? He’d probably be in this crowd.
Yeah, she’s short, and she beats up guys twice her size as a means of blowing off steam.
Ryan, you shitdick, what the fuck did you think was gonna happen?
(And where the fuck are Leslie and Roz during all of this???)
Roz is probably in the green room, or whatever the back room behind the stage of the rally is called here. Leslie, I don’t know. Outside?
Roz and Leslie were last shown in the main auditorium. AG & Ryan were and presumable still are out in the lobby. Sal and Marcie are at the other end of the lobby. Robin’s in assumed to be back stage. Dawson and Taylor are sucking floor dirt. And I’m in my PJ’s cheering.
And oh my god, Dawson is Arrogance Guy!
Man, that asshole. I suddenly enjoy his being kneed in the ribs a lot more.
Leslie pokes her head in mutter, mutters something cat fights, and lets out a disgruntled sigh.
goddamn that was a trainwreck
Quit while you’re ahead, AG, and just make Ryan Internet famous.
Why? They attacked her. She’s well within her rights, especially with multiple witnesses to both this and another felony.
Sometimes witnesses can be unreliable or biased towards white males.
In this case, it might benefit her. She’s a white woman, being attacked by multiple men. Misogyny would already lead people to think she’s outmatched by one, let alone three, so to this crowd of people, they’re looking more like the bullies they are, trying to gang up on a single victim.
Nevermind that said victim can wreck them all.
Also, I’m just worried something bad may happen if she chooses to pursue Ryan.
She has video and knows several witnesses. And something bad will happen. To Ryan.
Oh, something will, alright.
For starter the security is kinda forced to try and separate them. It’s their job.
This is gonna leave some more marks…
Meat shields, the best kind!
KICK HIM IN THE NARDS!!!!
I do believe that is impossible, as the number he has appears to be less than one.
Do lackey’s have nards?
No, but Wolfman does.
(It’s from a movie called ‘Monster Squad’.)
BIM BAM BEE!
KICK ‘EM INNA KNEE!
BIM BAM BASS!
KICK ‘EM INNA OTHER KNEE!
I need a bowl of popcorn. Morality schmorality, just give me Amazi-Girl kicking some ass forever and a day.
Amen to that.
Your avatar matches your comment really well
C C C COMBO BREAKER
Don’t you hate it when they summon minions during a boss fight.
Naw man, more exp!
“Boss”?
This is clearly just a minor side-quest objective. 😛
He’s just a unique enemy. Drops the same loot as the regular ones. Just looks slightly different.
Sometimes a “unique” enemy is just a preview of the next zone’s cannon fodder.
It’s more than a little early to tell, but this is certainly a candidate for best comment of the strip.
Dammit! Ryan just healed himself!
What do you mean deflect his ranged attacks!? I barely have time to dodge!
Goddammit I messed up the QTE and be regained like 20% of his health!
What do you mean he has a second form?!
His third form looks kinda like a Predator, appropriately enough. His fourth form is a smooth operator by comparison.
Form Five involves cybernetics. Six is just, weird.
Six is too shiny to look at, as I recall. Way too much bling.
They just waste time then you have to wait until the boss’s HP pops up before you can hit them…
“I think you’re going to need some new minions, I kinda broke these.”
Considering Amber/AG’s stated obsession with RPGs/MMOs/etc, I’m surprised there hasn’t been some quip about Adds yet.
That’s more specific to Amber, and seems like the sort of thing she might consider to be beneath the Amazi-Girl persona even if she weren’t worried about people connecting the dots.
So she’s turned them into putty?
Now they’ll patrol until five teenagers with attitude show up.
I guess that’ll depend on how many of their fellow frat bros are there. And if Dorothy decides to head on over, with the OTBB.
OTBB? I’m lost.
Right, you don’t know about my penchant for using the abbreviation tag. I was making a reference to a comment from a couple of weeks ago, which was a reference to Sarah and her weapon of choice.
Old Testament Baseball Bat, got it. I’ve noticed you abbreviate, but hadn’t remembered anything to fit those letters.
Would the Old Testament Baseball Bat happen to be Dokuro-chan’s Excaliborg?
…man, Ryan’s pretty craven.
No where near Freddy yet, though. Well, in the face area.
I shouldn’t be surprised that Ryan would leave the initial fighting to the bro clones.
I am now slightly more willing to believe those rubes may simply be stupid, easily-manipulated dudebros and not colossal asshats like Ryan.
I don’t actually feel sorry for them though, if they’re going to be chumps for that guy.
they are stupid, easily-manipulated dudebros. They always have been!
I’mma (semi-)disagree with you here. If you see your friend fighting a literal superhero, your friend tells you that said superhero was sent by “that [misogynist slur] that cut [your friend’s] face” and your immediate reaction doesn’t involve the possibility that this is a misunderstanding of some sort… Then no, you’ve got a pretty good idea what your friend is. At best they’re choosing to be willfully ignorant of just HOW high on the scum spectrum he is
They may not be rapists themselves. (But then again they might. I’m sure Ryan gets those drugs -somewhere-). But you can see the toxic dripping off them, and it’s not the ‘kinda harmless’ toxic like Walky or Joe.
Your attempt to disagree with me has failed! I may have been too vague, though.
At best, they are the kind of dipshits who utterly fail to ever question the morality of anyone they consider one of their bros. Their own behavior might only be insufferable, but they’re actively enabling some nasty shit.
The fact that Ryan is so blatantly using them here makes me think its likely they don’t know exactly how shitty Ryan is, but are either too stupid to put the pieces together, or too pig-headed to see the red flags. (My bro would never do anything BAD, right? I mean, he’s my bro so that’s not possible!)
The enablers are the worse kind of shitheads.
If he’s given them some explanation in the past, then they could easily just be buying it and not looking for any form of misunderstanding.
There’s a lot to be said for the loyalty to stand up for your friends without question, but it kinda requires picking better friends than Ryan to really work as a philosophy.
No. No no no. No.
Again: Literal. Superhero.
Even then, you would -maybe- have a point if it was Amazi-Girl taking swings at Ryan, then sure try to restrain her or get in her way, but she isn’t. Ryan was taking swings at Amazi-Girl while Amazi-Girl dodged.
In that case, ‘standing up for your friend’ involves TALKING. Telling the Literal Superhero no no, you’ve been misinformed by this other party, Ryan’s a good guy, you should go after the other girl. Which is wrong, but if they don’t KNOW that’s wrong, then that’s what they should’ve been doing. Hint: They know it’s wrong. They know how Ryan is. They’ll make excuses for it, but they know. And that “Three of us, little girl” is pretty suggestive that they aren’t that far off either.
As a more broad thing, loyalty does not mean never questioning your friend. Loyalty means doing what’s best for your friend, which often involves telling them they’re wrong when they are.
Loyalty isn’t never asking questions, but when your buddy’s in a fistfight, it’s not unreasonable to assume that he’s tried talking and it didn’t work, and to swing first and ask questions later.
As for the “little girl” comment… maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see it. A case could definitely be made, but it’s a pretty generic diminutive.
He wasn’t in a fistfight. He was attacking someone who very visibly was not attacking him back, to the point that her hands were otherwise occupied. Like I said, I could see your point (to a degree) if Amazi-Girl was taking swings at him, but she wasn’t.
Also note his line in the first panel here. “Get her phone from her.” He is literally declaring that his goal is not self-defense, but TAKING SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY. He doesn’t even make it vague saying “the” phone, like oh maybe it’s his phone and she took it and he’s trying to get it back… Nope, he’s kind enough to point out that it’s HER phone.
“Little girl” is a pretty common misogynist diminuative and in this context is definitely intended as a threat, especially as they are initiating physical violence against her.
Even if he was defending himself, the not-douchy response would be to intervene in the fight and try to stop it, not to join in.
The whole “get her phone” part would immediately raise red flags with me. I can’t think of a single friend who could shout that at me like this without me seriously thinking that it was sketchy as hell. I would probably still defend my friend, but even then I would demand to know just what the hell was going on.
I can’t think of a good to want to gang up on somebody and take their phone like that. Definitely not one that would convince me to actually try and do it.
* Last paragraph should read: “I can’t think of a good reason to gang up on somebody […]”, in case that wasn’t clear.
I mean you could arbitrarily invent fantasy situations in which there would be a good reason too, but that’s really not the point.
Pretty much. The only reason someone would just go along with that without question or expressing the slightest concern about it is if the bar to justify ganging up on and attacking a (much smaller) woman were inexcusably low.
So I guess I really don’t think there’s any room for them not to be shit people. They might not be 100% shitty, but that’s hardly something to be proud of.
“Literal superhero”? Or as we were all calling her a week or so ago – “crazy racist vigilante”. I’m not sure I like the switch to full fledged support for the heroic Amazi-Girl, even if we do know how much of a piece of scum Ryan is.
I suppose the crowd was right to support the Literal Superhero when she was attacked by Sal? (Yes, we know Sal’s cool and we know she’d been stalking Sal, but that’s not what anyone there would have seen.)
I think you miss the point. It’s not that “She’s a superhero, she’s always right.” It’s that “This girl is seen as a literal superhero, so you’re a fucking idiot to attack her rather than talk to her.”
Yeah, we know she’s got problems. The general public has no idea.
Like trikly said, I’m talking about public perception here.
Note Ryan’s line in the 3rd panel in http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/who/
(and y’know, I’m just noticing Dawson is in the background of that panel looking on, and I think that might be Taylor’s chin too, so they’ve been here for this ENTIRE exchange)
But anyway, while WE know Amber has many personal issues that she does not deal with in the healthiest of ways (though ‘crazy racist vigilante’ is not something I have said or would say; please remember that the comments section is not a hive mind), THEY just know her as the Literal Superhero from the news.
(though I’m betting after tonight, these three are going to shift from ‘superhero’ language to ‘dangerous vigilante’ language when talking about her)
As for Sal, the crowd was calling on Amazi-Girl to KILL her (literally there is a half-cut-off speech bubble at the top of the second panel of Snap with the words “Kill her”) on the basis that they were standing facing each other with aggressive body language, when neither had even taken a swing at each other, nor were any accusations levelled. And then criticized her for leaving the situation without beating Sal up. So no, they took it rather further than just ‘supporting’ Amazi-Girl.
Holy shit, I completely missed that Dawson was tagged in that. That means those two were just off-panel when AG explained what Ryan did, and they went along with this anyway.
I recant all suggestions I’ve made that those two even could be anything better than human garbage.
Definitely on that last paragraph. There’s toxic masculinity and then there’s toxic masculinity true believers who are so far down in the swamp mire that there’s almost no reaching them. Ryan and his “bros” are definitely swamp monsters.
Meat Shields with extra Bro-tein.
We really need a flashback to Amber in a dojo, learning how to beat the crap out of people. It’s pretty unlikely she taught herself how to fight with no formal training.
You’d be surprised what you can find on YouTube.
*Cut to tim gueguen doing a training montage with YouTube.*
You can learn ANYTHING with a training montage!
Better not be martial arts. The laughter that results would cause injury to many viewers.
Let’s try that again:
Like Cake Decorating?
I learned to tie a tie on YouTube. *surprise*
I learned to knit and crochet from YouTube.
One day I was wrapping a scarf around my neck, and accidentally learned how to tie a windsor knot.
I practice tai chi based on YouTube videos. My preference is for short staff, but long staff is fun too. Hence my username here.
Short staff combines staff with sword and spear. I like adding a hint of shellalegh as well. I reall need to make a video of it.
Donatello?
I’m surprised she could tell the fake stuff from the real stuff on you-tube.
Even if she couldn’t, she lives in an era where crosschecking research is considered a basic school skill and has had a lot of time for trial and error.
She took actual self defense lessons, too.
Ohyeah huh.
Not lately!
well, you still need SOME hands-on training to get decent at the things. you can be alright, but practical application often requires practice.
Grappling dummies can work amazingly well for solo training, and with the right skillset one can make them oneself fairly cheap if need be (they can be made to seem like something else in the process then too). Dealing with punches and kicks as well as certain grapple moves is stuff one will learn from even the most basic self defense class and get some practical experience with. I kinda suspect her recent period of practical vigilantism may well have helped her improve some too.
Her dad put her in self-defense classes instead of therapy. This was stated in the comics.
These guys barely even count as a warm-up.
They are literally walking punching bags.
Giant ugly bags of mostly water?
I hope Dorothy is able to get to Joyce before she sees that pic :/
Last we saw, Joyce was in bed going to sleep. However, Ryan may make the morning news.
“You’ll never get past my horde of… oh.”
Bros ! Bros ! Bros !
(man, QC’s bro trio was more sympathetic)
They might be because they appear to have respect for the rules…
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1949
They’re adorable XD
Yeah, Jeph has set a really unrealistic standard for bros. Most are not as adorable as his. XD
Ryan is fortunate he does not live in the QC universe. If Joyce knew any of the regular cast he’d probably be a grease spot on the ground by now.
I can’t help but note that the crowd seems a bit less enthusiastic about the idea of Amazi-girl beating up these three [expletive deleted]s than they were about her beating up Sal.
She did it so quickly they haven’t had a chance to get into it yet.
All they know about them are that these three are guys handing out signs at the rally. So, I guess they didn’t know what to think.
Well at the very least, they don’t seem to be moving to help them or break up the fight. They’re just mentioning how it’s 3-on-1 and that one has a scar which clearly means he’s the bad guy. Only bad guys have face scars(at least that’s probably the crowd’s opinion).
This reminds me of the line from My Cousin Vinny: “you’re in Ala-fuckin-bama! You killed a good old boy! There’s no WAY you’re getting off without a trial!”
Strange that they’d discourage people from the only activity worth visiting Alabama for.
Possibly. The crowd is also a lot less here, since they appear to be in the lobby, while the confrontation with Sal was in the much more populous main area of the event. The appearance of Beef today may indicate that the crowd is drifting over to the new fight, so we may be able to get a better idea of how they react over the next few strips.
Well, damn. Talk about a swift kick in the guts! Well done.
Haaaaaaah. Odds? What odds?
It’s like betting odds on a nac mac feegle. Odds aren’t fair unless it’s 10 to 1. The day you see a small, angry bulge climbing your trousers from the inside is just not a day fated to improve.
Crivens! Nae King Nae Quin! We will a be fooled agin!
For Pterry’s sake, get it right. It’s “We will nae be fooled agin!”
Phone typing. It’s the autocorrect that didn’t like the “nae.”
This is why I keep autocorrect off on my phone. It’ll otherwise “correct” words that are already spelled correctly, or it’ll correct misspelled words into the wrong word.
Really? How arrogant.
LOVE the “and then there was one” quip.
But AG is in the “superhero” genre, not the “mystery novel” genre …
Oh Ryan…
You didn’t listened to me did you?
I’m not surprised Ryan said to focus on getting the phone.
No point, since she’s already uploaded the pic. I can believe he’d still try it, though.
if he had her phone he could just delete it from wherever she posted it, i doubt shes logged out
There is the matter of unlocking it first.
Of course I can’t speak for everybody, but I think most people have their phones set to lock itself after 10 seconds at least, coz it’s a bit of a pain to have to unlock it every time you get momentarily distracted. And I don’t even know how long after Facebook sends you the “Photo uploaded successfully” notification that the 10 seconds start, so I think at this point her phone’s still unlocked.
You know she’ll have jailbroken her phone and flashed it to a nonstandard OS, possibly even a custom Linux which won’t work in the way he expects a phone to. Such as, for example, having to manually unlock individual programs or “locking” by dropping to command line.
“What the hell happened? He just spasmed and dropped to the ground.”
“Entering the wrong code into my phone actives its automated taser defense.”
Okay show of hands, who here would become a super villain if you lived close to Amazi-Girl? Because I would be highly tempted to become a super villain, and disguise myself with a suit and mask, and possible cane sword.
I would but then I’d be worried Amazi-Girl would throw me down an elevator shaft when she found out I was into it.
Oh I would be all up on that shit, break out a sketchbook and draw up some costumes, make a catchy name, all that shit
My defeat would come when Amazi-Girl realizes that I am mostly harmless and can probably be ignored.
I…I’d probably be down…but, I’d definitely at least be studying some martial arts on the side to make it interesting. At the very least it’d hopefully help keep me from getting too hurt when I lose 😛
The trick is to always have a clever escape plan for when Amazi-Girl blasts her way through your hired idiots.
No. The trick is to have a rifle set up to take her out while she is beating up some drunk frat boys you hired to act as bait. It’s win-win. If you miss, you ensure purity in the gene pool.
Hm, see I’d be doing it just to play foil to her hero, for my fun and preferably for hers as well.
So… I’d use a paintball gun or something 😛
What color paint, though? Red would just empower her with the full trifecta of primaries!
cyan? pink? honestly, I’ve never even been paintballing… I haven’t given it much thought.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY HANDS
Not sure what kind of harmless supervillainy one could get up to on campus. Hijacking wiring to make the PA speakers play obnoxious music? Breaking into dorms and mail to steal cookies? The line between shenanigans and dickery is smudged.
I mean minor dickery isn’t so bad… Printing random crap out on people’s printers (especially with the proliferation of wireless printers). I’d avoid the stealing cookies part… maybe slipping “junk” mail that looks like it’s from family into people’s mailboxes. Hijacking class and dorm facebook groups and framing it as if it was people from the other dorms/classes playing practical jokes…. mostly directly antagonizing AG, *splat* “I’m trying to beat up criminals here!” *splat* *splat* *splat* …yeah… I’m not sure.
Drawing dingdongs on whiteboards?
One instance of that was (reasonably) interpreted as transphobia, so it isn’t really harmless.
This is going…surprisingly well! And even the crowd is cooperating.
I still want to know her endgame, though.
Amber’s? Probably just beat the shit out of him and plaster his name on social media.
There’s legally nothing she can do to him.
Even with Sal, they were leaving a ring around them to give them room to fight.
They wanted to see Amazi-Girl beat her up, after all.
Run like fuck when the fuzz appear. Hopefully after stamping Ryan in the nads.
Of course, she’ll have to lie low for a while now that the fuzz have tabs on her.
This comic was so satisfying.
GUYS GUYS GUYS
DOES SHE STILL HAVE HER PHONE IN HAND
RYAN TOLD HIS MINIONS TO GRAB IT
I DON’T SEE IT IN HER HANDS AFTER PANEL ONE
*bites nails*
That’s what pouches are for.
But WHEN DID SHE DO IT
I need definite confirmation!
(I am actually having a minor freak-out about this, it’d be the worst if any of them got her phone.)
Probably panel 2. She clearly has both hands free in panel 3, and nobody got close enough between that and panel 1 to have grabbed it.
She must have slipped it into the phone-sized pouch on her belt while they came at her.
Even if they get it, though, Dorothy still has that photo she sent earlier. They could wipe everything and accomplish nothing. Especially when the crowd starts taking their phones out to record the fight.
She’s actually got a pocket in her glove that she keeps her DS in I wouldn’t be surprised if her phone was in the other one.
Or Dropbox maybe? I have my phone set up so that whenever I take a picture or video it is automatically saved to the cloud to a password-protected account.
I would be quite amused if Ryan got the phone somehow, only to discover Amber has a similar setup.
These frauds stood no chance against that thickness. 🙂
… okay, this is going to turn out badly for AG.
None of the onlookers -so far- seem to realize why she’s going after Ryan. They probably didn’t see him try to grab her phone. So this could still turn out badly for her, if he sics security on her…
It probably will, but not because of that. She’ll just grappling hook or smoke bomb her way out of this.
That hasn’t worked too well for her in the past against people other than Dorothy and Walky.
They heard him yelling “get her phone !”
Man, these guys suffer a serious problem of Bad Guy Movie Extras Tactics. Like, yeah, they could all try and mob her at once, but instead they attack her one at a time. Genuinely frustrates me when that happens because of just how -often- it happens in TV and movies.
They were trying to grab her, probably trying to resolve the situation without hurting anybody. If you don’t realize that your enemy is actually dangerous, going one at a time is actually fairly sensible.
Seriously, that fight lasted just seconds.
They’re listening to their jerk shout “GET HER”, and actually DOING IT.
These guys aren’t the sharpest hammers in the drawer
AG left them no alternative. She made the first guy into an obstacle to the other, and she dealt with both before they could even try to adapt.
They’re definitely not impressing anyone, but that wasn’t their incompetence at work, it was Amazi-girl controlling the fight.
Waaaaaait.
Wasn’t there a third intern-clone?
*checks tag history*
Tyler. Where’s Tyler at?
He wasn’t with the bros yesterday, so he could be in a different part of the rally.
Or coming at Amazi-girl off-panel, any moment now.
You know, I kinda hope that Tyler surprises everyone by turning out to be a decent human being who just fell in with the wrong crowd. It would undercut our expectations.
I’m picturing Inigo Montoya going through Rugen’s guards
And what happened next? Rugen ran away! Good chance Ryan is about to bolt too.
see? goons. With what we’ve seen Amber do so far, it’s incredible to me that everyone was peeing themselves over her being outnumbered yesterday.
I was busy, but surely others were around to remind everyone that Amazi-girl is a badass and fighting is one of the areas where she knows what she’s doing?
Amazi-girl try to remember the basics of CQC
Amazi-Girl seems to have it down pat. I think it’s the others who never learned anything about CQC and don’t realize that one trained and experienced female will overcome three cocky but inept males without even breaking a sweat.
right like… people come on lol. Like yeah any instructor ever will tell you that being outnumbered is not ideal and you shouldn’t get cocky, but also if you know those basics and keep a level head and pay attention to their movements… yeah more than enough for actual goons.
They’re probably be cock-less by the time it’s over.
For what it’s worth, some of us got the reference.
Ok so what’s the worse case scenario here… I’m going to say Danny just shows up out of nowhere and gets involved in this somehow, but I doubt that he would just so happen to be around.
“I’m here to stop you from being a vigilante!”
No, worst case scenario is the police show up.
Ryan runs away, police show up, planet explodes
Worst case scenario is obviously a fiery portal to hell opening up beneath AG.
Also Dina is sad because her roommate was swallowed up by a pit of hellfire. 🙁
Wait, is this worst case scenario for AG, or in general? Because the latter can be extrapolated pretty hard.
(If it is the latter, worst case scenario is a Gamma Ray Burst hitting the planet.)
Why do I now have a mental image of Amazi-Girl and the Robot Devil from “Futurama” in hell?
I have the feeling Ryan’s about to run like scared rabbit through the door behind him into auditorium.
Duck season?
Elmer season.
Ryan season?
I was going to replace Elmer’s picture with his lacerated mug in that scene from Rabbit Fire earlier today but
I’m just too lazy for that nowthat ship has sailed.That door behind them seems like it could lead backstage
I’m going by the establishing shot of lobby from a few days ago which showed several doorless entrances to the lobby, shown behind AG in the last panel. And several double doors into the auditorium, now behind Ryan. I’m guessing backstage is accessed either up the stairs or through doors at the sides of the lobby.
Also, he might try to recruit more allies by running in to the auditorium and screaming that there a crazy left wing liberal attacking him. 🙂
“She’s trying to take away my gun-ownership rights!” “Quick everyone, help the scar-faced kid. His guns are in jeopardy!”
Watch your back Amazigirl! Beef is not someone to be ignored!
Look at him. He’s wearing a red shirt. He’s obviously a *grunt*.
And I as I said a few days ago, Beef knows AG from when she beat up his friends and chased them off for harassing Danny. So Beef may have a beef with AG. 🙂
But he hasn’t done anything with the several chances he’s had to get AG, so maybe he doesn’t hold a grudge.
Or, like a RL bully, he loses all his courage when he doesn’t have a massive advantage (either numbers or a sense of being the stronger one) on his side. He’s had his self-image remodelled by this relatively small woman before and I doubt he’ll be keen to let it happen again.
Beef didn’t actually say or do anything to anyone (other than grunting, of course). It was the two guys he was with who did the bullying. He ran as soon as AG showed up. Granted, hanging out with people like that is kind of shitty, but we really don’t know anything about Beef or have any reason to believe he would want to fight.
Or he just thinking to himself “better this guy than me again”.
I dunno… I think he’s enjoying watching too much to actually get involved with anything.
So in addition to everything else Ryan is also a coward. If anything this is the least awful thing we’ve learned about him.
Man. It would be interesting of Marcy stepped in to stop this, but Amazi-Girl attacked her. Then Sal would knock her to the ground, and by the time Amazi-Girl got back on her feet Ryan had already escaped. She let him get away again.
DRAMA!
I would say that this takes care of the speculation of some commenters that AG can’t actually fight.
I hope she mops the damn ground with him, on his f a c e.
FAAAAaaace!!!!!
She can fight very well when she’s levelheaded or angry.
When she’s desperate and insecure, it throws her off a bit, but this is nothing personal – just dealing with some trash, not her “nemesis,” so she’s got herself under control.
rekt
KNEE should have been the title.
But aren’t the titles usually a word used in the strip? Don’t see “picture” anywhere
Awwww, she’s having fun.
She’s cute when she smiles! So cuddly!
Danny: Yeah, a cute, cuddly, insane grizzly bear.
I don’t think Danny would use an ableist invective to describe somebody he loves.
You mean the Danny that she went ballistic at and never wants to see again just because she saw him speaking to someone that he didn’t know is her perceived arch-enemy.
One person’s invective is another person’s description of someone’s very conflicted personalities.
The Danny who is deeply concerned over her and thinks the world of her, and also recognizes that she’s in a catastrophic mental state and is in dire need of help.
But, hey, I guess it’s too much to ask some people not to use a slur for the mentally ill.
Yeah, seriously. You really should not refer to the mentally ill “insane,” “psycho,” “crazy,” etc. Even if you are putting it into the mouth of someone else.
Most of us are okay with it being used to describe ideas and such, and don’t tend to say anything when you’re just being silly towards the mentally well. But those words are extremely hurtful when they are used about us.
ALL of those words and worse have used about me for years. Because of that I’ve probably become insensitive in using them. Words only have the power you give them, so I’ve refused to give it to them.
I intend no pain, so I will be more careful here in future.
Man, these guys fight as bad against a single opponent as the Uruk-Hai at Amon Hem.
To be fair, Saruman probably trained them with massed battles like Helm’s Deep in mind, and adventurers are always a bongo to fight.
ilu amazigirl (animated heart eyes emoji)
Anyone else a little worried that she isn’t holding her phone in the last panel?
Well, there’s pyrpyr.
Heh. You’re a real fan of the 1960s Batman live-action TV show, aren’t you Willis? Suddenly, the Amazi-Girl Voice sounds more like Adam West in my head! 🙂
Okay, so now Ryan is in a corner and he knows it. If there is any likelihood of him escalating and doing something stupid that turns this into a major incident, it’s going to happen now.
Run disgusting human coward scum! Run! Oh wait no either way you’re going to jail you little piece of sh*t
Sadly unlikely, but his life is going to be pretty unpleasant once word spreads, and he won’t have many opportunities to scope out victims.
Sadly, no, he’s not. Even if Joyce suddenly wanted to testify against him, all the evidence of what happened that night is long gone. Unless he commits some new act of fuckery and gets busted for it, the best we can hope for is an Amazi-Girl beatdown and getting his face plastered online.
Better run, Ryan. Or else Amazi-Girl’s going to give you another scar in your face.
Now I’m curious to see WHERE in Shortpacked they showed up…
Link anyone? Please?
First appearance of the wild Dawson
Oh, crap, messed up the link. Whatever, here: http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=554
LOL thanks 🙂
I see that Amazi-girl is familiar with the best method of neutralizing an opponent. 🙂 Grab them around the neck and push DOWN while backpedaling. This position gives you a lot of leverage and because they can’t see properly, attempts to hit or grab you back will be mostly ineffectual.
And then they grab your balls.
I was actually worried about this fight being 3-on-1 for a moment there. Don’t know why I though there was anything to worry about, Amazi-Girl just whipped two of their asses already.
I fully expect them to get back up, so let’s hope the crowd stops them if she doesn’t deal with Ryan just as quickly.
A boot to the stomach and a knee to the chest. Well chosen by AG to keep them down ’til they get their wind back. After that they may lose their enthusiasm on seeing how their backpedaling buddy Ryan failed to come to their aid. So much for “She fights our boy. She fights ALL of us”.
..and here comes the weapon.
hah.
And that weapon is a knife, which trigger’s Amber’s trauma, and thus Sal will save the day again.
I’ll remember you calling it. You may be on to something.
Or he’s going to run?
Beef got beef.
There’s something immediately satisfying when a villain announces their evil plan and you know it’s doomed from the start because of information they don’t have, .i.e., stealing Amazi-girl’s phone won’t suck the picture back from the Internet.
Also, cronies. Marv in Sin City may have been on to something: You never feel bad about beating on someone who’s just lining up behind the big cheese, instead of like standing for something they themselves believe in. Ryan looks as helpless as one of his victims, and she hasn’t even laid a hand on him yet. Such visceral satisfaction.
I think he’s counting on her not actually posting his image until she’s got his name.
Then he’s being dumb. Because all she has to do is leak the photo, and someone will reveal his name.
Or desperate. Desperate’s an option too. There’s no drawback to trying to get the phone on the off-chance she hasn’t posted it yet.
No, nothing drawn back there except fists.
Adam West suddenly looks up from reading a book and looks off into the distance, a single tear of happiness rolling down his cheek, for he knows that somewhere, a caped hero is fighting thugs one at a time with comedic sound effects in large fonts.
Very satisfying, leaving your enemy for last. But he’s a coward. He will run.
And deny everything. You should have beat him up first.
Three to one. Not fair, they were out numbered!
It’s like in Halo when the little aliens run away in fear and scream that the MasterChief have them surrounded XD
It’s the Amazi-Demon! Run!
Alternative lines for this strip:
You’re outnumbered!
Perhaps, but YOU’RE outMATCHED.
I really gotta re-watch TLA and then watch TLoK.
Three Against a Thousand!
Crossing my fingers that campus security/the cops are having a busy day and may take a bit to get to the scene
Security (and police in general) usually take a while to get to any incident. A fight is usually over in a matter of a couple minutes at the high side, and a response time of 5 minutes is amazingly fast. That’s one of the arguments for gun ownership (not that I want to go there)
On the fighting note (did a fair bit of martial arts back in the day), I’d say this is a good (and pretty realistic) fight scene. AG controlled the angles (forcing one-on-one interaction), did a nice job puling the shirt over the first guy’s head and controlling the head (where the head goes, the body follows), hit the second guy in such a way as to at the minimum take him out of the fight for a bit of time, and then took out the first guy with a knee to the noggin.
Contrary to comic books, a bigger, stronger trained fighter usually kicks the crap out of an equally trained littler fighter (that’s why combat sports have weight classes). But within reasonable ranges, training can offset this
So what’s the concealed-carry etiquette here? After an interloping superhero trashes two of your dudebros, but she’s popular, and it’s a chick anyway, but now she’s menacing you, is that when you pull out your Glock? Or what if you are a bro-sympathizing bystander? They need classes in this stuff.
Of course if he isn’t carrying, slashdouche could take this opportunity to run like hell. Which in bro society can’t be good; then
he’s revealed ashe looks like a coward.It’s just worrying that she’s standing too far away to disarm him if he has a gun.
They’re on campus, so if anyone is carrying a gun, they’re doing so illegally.
It’s like he got these guys at the same store hur hur.
One of these days I still want an explanation on how Amber can spend all day playing video games like a regular nerdy girl and still be in this sort of physical condition. Granted I’m the same way when it comes to the fighting because I have training and don’t NEED to be stronger than my attackers, but the rest of the shit she does is fair game for questioning
She’s young and she does parkour. When I was younger I remained flexible and strong no matter what I did. Now that I’m pushing 60 I really have to work to maintain both flexibility and strength. And I’m losing. It would be less difficult now if I’d exercised more when it was easy. The age where that starts to change varies a lot; I know quite a few senior athletes.
It’s a comic.
Amber is alternatively strong enough to beat the shit out of five dudes who are twice her size and weak enough that 90 pounds of Malaya is enough to take her down.
Hey, Malaya does roller derby. She is not a delicate fragile little flower.
When she fought Malaya, she was in too much emotional turmoil due to Sal’s presence to fight well. And all four of them probably had real experience defending Not to mention Malaya still ended up getting her ass thrown before the rest of them grabbed AG.
Here she’s calm, collected, and fighting smart. Against chumps who seem at least slightly hesitant to attack, either because they don’t have experience fighting, or maybe they actually aren’t 100% comfortable with this despite the bro code insisting that this is all right and proper. (side note: While either possibility might suggest they’re better people than Ryan, that’s really not saying much).
The resulting delay in their reactions and less-than-complete commitment to them gives Amazi-Girl a considerable advantage, since she knows what she’s doing and is confident in her purpose. She can act decisively, without hesitation, and not worry that she’s going to hurt them worse than they deserve, by accident or on purpose.
So the extremely different outcomes between the two fights seems completely realistic to me.
She’s also not really spending all day playing video games. At least part of that is cover for running around as Amazi-Girl.
and do you or do you not believe amber would learn how to parkour up and over a wall just to get to a pokemon gym
This is totally a scene next chapter, isn’t it?
So, now he’s going to run away. What does she do then? Chase down the poor innocent white boy and beat him up in front of all these witnesses? Does Marcie have to stop her? Do the cops get involved?
Are we going to get a scene of Amber in prison? “You’re all trapped in here with me!”
Letter-jacket dude behind her is conspicuously placed.
Beef?
Amazi-Girl used Wrestle. It was super-effective!
Why focus on getting the phone? The pic was already uploaded, and even if it wasn’t she can find out which frat they’re all from and take another picture. Bro’s busted.
I honestly don’t like this one too much
She is assaulting two students who potentially are just coming to the aid of someone they think is innocent (they just know he was slashed, maybe not why). Never mind the fact that she is doing this at a school sanctioned political rally to interns.
There is literally no way in which Amber isn’t kicked out of school for this in real life. Any student who covered for her (kept her identity secret) would also likely be expelled.
She went way too high profile for the school to ignore, and short of Willis-ex-machina there is no way the school doesn’t drop the hammer on her.
You may not be too far off.
We know the police are after her to question her about the car chase, and now she’s assaulting a bunch of Christian Good Ol’ Boys at a republican rally.
We may be end for the End of Evamazi-girlion.
Those two students jumped into a fight already in progress. If you doubt that, notice the closed fist in panel 2 yesterday. He is not trying to grab AG’s phone there.
Helping to beat someone up and take their phone is absolutely not the appropriate response to this situation, no matter what they think is happening in the situation.
They would be totally justified in defending Ryan from Amazi-Girl here, but that is not what they are trying to do. They explicitly told her “if she fights our boy, she fights all of us”, so while she doesn’t actually let them land a single blow, she had every reason to assume they weren’t just planning to grab her and wait for the authorities.
I don’t know – all Amazi-Girl has done so far is deliver a kick to the solar plexus (winded) and a knee to someone else’s head (mild concussion at worst). Unless she deals some real damage to Dawson it’s pretty unremarkable apart from the audience.
Yeah, it looks rough, but considering how she is clearly a much better fighter than them, taking them down swiftly and decisively like that is probably the best way to minimize how badly they get hurt.
It’s not like restraining them is an option, and knocking them out for more than a second or two would require serious brain trauma. Knocking the wind out of them is the safest way to take them out of the fight long enough for her to go after Ryan, and making it absolutely clear how outclassed they are might convince them to stay down.
They’re gonna have some bruises, but they’d end up in much worse shape if they tried to keep fighting her. She’s handling these chumps like an expert.
You are aware that she’s in disguise, right? The college has no idea who she is.
Yeah, this might get her into some Spider-Man-type trouble. But she’d be just as safe as Peter Parker.
And, no. They very clearly attacked first. Sure, some colleges would kick both parties out, but the narrative of them just coming to help doesn’t fly.
With CCTV, and a touch of recognition software, her “mask” isn’t going help either.
It really depends on whether or not the dudes want to admit they were pushed around by a girl, the police wanting to go through the paper-work etc.
Her best chance is to be clear of the area by the time the cops come.
She’s definitely pushing her luck though. Each incident brings more attention, more photos on face-book etc.
Comic Reactions:
Panel 1: Again, can’t help but notice the crowd is much less animated even though she’s going after a guy with a face scar and his two friends, with the face scar guy telling them to steal her phone, so…
Beyond that, ugh, of course disposable mook #1 calls her a “little girl”… So, yeah, let’s unpack that a little. There’s a certain type of misogynist asshole who likes reducing grown women to little girls and calling them that to their faces. But there’s an even worse type that calls them little girls before justifying attacking them or sexually preying on them and that just says so much more about their moral character and how much alike to Ryan this fucker really is.
Also, can’t help but notice Brave Sir Ryan ducking behind “his boys” at first opportunity.
Panel 4: More diminuatives, this time from Ryan.
CONTENT WARNING: Terribleness
A lot of folks who are raised as if they were girls report dealing with a certain form of sexual harassment from a young age, where they were targeted young for things like catcalling, sexual propositions, stalking, etc…
Now there’s a lot of reasons for this, the way rape, sexual assault, and street harassment is about power and terrorism and getting a population terrified to be out in public or punish them for doing so, the way children tend to be vulnerable and disbelieved and any population that has low options for defense or police protection makes a good target, and so on.
But part of it is the weird sexualization of “youth”, and prioritizing things like “getting with a virgin”, “innocence” and naivety as “good wife” material, and demonization of sexually experienced and older women in the general cultural mileu.
It’s why Joyce was a “perfect mark” in Ryan’s eyes, and why Ryan and his “boy” feel to need to diminish AG to psyche themselves up to attack her. Also, can’t help but notice that Ryan is totally sneaking towards the door during these panels. I guess he hoped his “boys” would distract her long enough for him to make his escape.
Panel 7: Passive faces, no yelling, no intervention, nothing. The crowd hasn’t made its mind up yet on which side to favor or if anyone should be intervening and that could go really negatively for AG if Sal ends up coming to support her later on or now that she’s clearly the superior fighter against a single man.
And Ryan’s face is interesting. It almost looks like frustration, like, goddamn it, you were supposed to buy me enough time to slip out. You guys suck.
Y’know, Sal and her friends subdued Amazi-Girl without too much trouble. Has Amber been working out?
Sal and her friends are physically active, one of them works security, and Sal herself is a fighter.
Dawson and Taylor McDudebro, on the other hand, are stupid and weak.
ONE PAGE! ONE PAGE!
Oh my god I missed it?
(JLI reference?)
…I missed it? I’M SO DEPRESSED. (Total JL reference here, anyway.)
I missed it. (Not a JL reference, I just don’t get it.)
Okay, so they got knocked down.
Did one of them succeed in grabbing the phone in the process? It seems to have disappeared.
BEEEEF
Fight scene generics? Will the same guys show up with different colored shirts and hair in the next level?
If the shirts are Red, that might be a copyright issue.
I don’t condone violence usually but… KICK HIS ASS, SEA BASS!
Yessssssssssssssssss