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by David M Willis on November 13, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Flyin' to the Red
└ Tags: amber, ethan

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 13, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    “also he gets me a pony”

    Sal likes ’em tall, eh? well Ethan’s clearly at LEAST 6’20”

    • chris2315
      chris2315
      November 13, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

      So 7’8″?

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        November 13, 2018 at 3:13 pm | #

        That’s not as funny

        • chris2315
          chris2315
          November 13, 2018 at 6:28 pm | #

          Your avatar makes me read this in Walky’s voice while picturing him pouting.

          • Meagan
            Meagan
            November 13, 2018 at 8:12 pm | #

            I love how Walky has a voice in your head, despite him not having an out loud voice given the medium. He definitly has a voice in my head too and now I can read it that way as well.

            • Meagan
              Meagan
              November 13, 2018 at 8:12 pm | #

              Can we pick actors to do the voices for the characters and/or play them in a live action version

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              November 14, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

              Walky and Joyce have voices tho

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 13, 2018 at 2:24 am | #

      Right? We know Amber’s probably the shortest out of the main cast, but still…

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        November 13, 2018 at 11:46 am | #

        Dorothy and Walky next to each other shows they’re (within a thumb of) the same height, but Amber’s distinctly shorter, and Walky isn’t tall.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      November 13, 2018 at 5:30 am | #

      I ought to find a way to link a photo of my parents.

      Mum was 5’½” (she insisted on the half inch). Dad admitted to being 6’7″, but was probably actually a little taller (he had to duck to get through standard doorways).

      A wedding photo, 1948

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        November 13, 2018 at 5:30 am | #

        Bah.

        https://imgur.com/hkngpSF

        • Zee
          Zee
          November 13, 2018 at 5:37 am | #

          I thought she was a second flower girl at first

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          November 13, 2018 at 11:51 am | #

          A giant among men, indeed.

          We’re not this bad, but my spouse is about a foot shorter than me. The presence of steps are a crucial part of affection sharing, for us.

          • djhash
            djhash
            November 13, 2018 at 12:19 pm | #

            from experience I can add… “and countertops” 😉

        • ZePangolynn
          ZePangolynn
          November 13, 2018 at 4:16 pm | #

          My grandparents were very nearly the same set of heights, oddly enough, at 5’1″ and 6’7″.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            November 13, 2018 at 11:23 pm | #

            You aren’t one of my nieces or nephews, are you?

    • AndroidDreams
      AndroidDreams
      November 13, 2018 at 11:57 am | #

      Im 6″5 and can confirm this is how the world looks

    • Just Me
      Just Me
      November 13, 2018 at 6:09 pm | #

      My estimate, if Amber is 5 ft, Ethan is about 6 ft 4 in.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 13, 2018 at 9:15 pm | #

        Word of Willis is he’s about Batman’s height, so roughly 6 feet to six foot two.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 13, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Re: alt text

    Can I live in that timeline please? It’s been less than a week and I’m going through withdrawal.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      November 13, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

      You’re the Doctor, can’t you somehow find that parallel universe where it’s still going?

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 13, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

        Unfortunately, Squirrel Girl was cancelled in that universe.

        You just can’t win.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          November 13, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

          Dammit. Infinite number of universes and we can’t get one perfect comic universe?

          Okay, fine. How about the one where Marvel never made Cap a Nazi for a publicity stunt? I’ll take that one.

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            November 13, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

            Hold on.

            VWORP…VWORP

            Okay, got a sampling from a few different realities here. In this one they made him a Scientologist…in this one he’s a birthday clown…in this one he’s still making angry posts about the 2016 Ghostbusters…and here’s one where he got a silly hat and took up the ukulele.

            • Regalli
              Regalli
              November 13, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

              Birthday clown Steve Rogers actually sounds so bad it’s hilarious I would actually read that. Probably as a joke comic and not a Major Marvel-Defining Event, but it sure as hell beats Nazi.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 13, 2018 at 2:02 am | #

      I’ll settle for a timeline where Trump didn’t win in 2016.

  3. Pan
    Pan
    November 13, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    And nothing bad ever did happen again. End of comic.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 13, 2018 at 1:08 am | #

      Honestly, if Willis ever decides to end the comic that would be a pretty hilarious way.

      *Characters break the fourth wall, looking directly at viewers*
      Dorothy: “And thus the comic ends, but the story? The story continuous even if it is not caught by the strips. ”
      Joyce: “I will learn more life lessons. Maybe even eat THINGS THAT TOUCH OTHER THINGS.”
      Dina: “I will learn more interesting dinosaur facts.”
      Becky: “I’ve already learnt THE BEST dinosaur facts.” *patented Becky grin, small, happy Dina-smile*
      Amber: “AND NOTHING BAD WILL EVER HAPPEN!!!”
      *Beat panels, the entire gang smiles, their smiles get more strained for three more panels. The end.*

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        November 13, 2018 at 2:38 am | #

        That reminds me of the ending to Eternal Sonata, except less upsetting.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          November 13, 2018 at 4:26 am | #

          …I honestly can’t remember the ending of that game, except that it was overly melodramatic.

          • Warren
            Warren
            November 13, 2018 at 11:58 am | #

            The characters stare directly into the camera and affectlessly state the lessons they’ve learned. This goes on for the entire credit roll.

  4. Wheelpath
    Wheelpath
    November 13, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    I feel this on the deepest level.
    No I’m not a super hero

  5. Alan
    Alan
    November 13, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Yeah this sounds pretty realistic.

  6. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    November 13, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 9: Nothing Bad Ever Happens, Somehow

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 13, 2018 at 2:03 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book 9: And Then He Buys Me Cupcakes

    • Jimi
      Jimi
      November 13, 2018 at 4:00 am | #

      Honestly I feel like this one’s a winner.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 13, 2018 at 11:55 am | #

      You left out a part.

      Dumbing of Age Book 9: …And Nothing Bad Ever Happens, Somehow, Despite This Being My Life

  7. Poofdepoof
    Poofdepoof
    November 13, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Ooh and Sal is running toward them right now!!

    • rectilinearpropagation
      rectilinearpropagation
      November 13, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      OMG, I hate that I read this one right away because I have to wait almost the whole 24 hours until the next one!

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        November 13, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

        *cough*patreon*cough* 😉

        (…where you can say the exact same thing, but one comic ahead!)

        • ShinyNeen
          ShinyNeen
          November 13, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

          And, by Willis’ mercy, only one comic ahead. And not, like, three ahead for thirty times the contribution.

          For now???

  8. Tacos
    Tacos
    November 13, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh. Oh no, I just realized. Sal was gonna chase after Ethan to get proof that she’s changing and making friends. Amber’s with Ethan right now…

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 13, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Which means…Sal is Amber and she got ahead and changed her clothes really fast!

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      November 13, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      Yeeaah, they’s about to interact!

      Hhhhopefully Ethan can help moderate? This doesn’t seem like… the worst possible timing for Sal and Amber to try to reconcile, right?

      • ANeM
        ANeM
        November 13, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

        I’m hoping for the best. They both really need this right now.

        I am however expecting the worst. I don’t think Amber is ready, especially when she hasn’t even had time for Ethan to tell her about his encounter with Sal and process all that.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 13, 2018 at 12:36 am | #

          Sal might not take this well either. Even if, rationally, she doesn’t blame Amber, she might very well have trauma wrapped up in that stabbing too.

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            November 13, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

            Yeah, and she’s not coming into this in a neutral state of mind. Probably not the absolute worst time for Sal to properly meet Amber, but certainly not a particularly great one.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              November 13, 2018 at 1:09 am | #

              …This really hasn’t been a great day for Sal has it?

              – First, she gets her jacket ripped fighting guys she thought were breaking into a house with a woman who spoke up about Ryan (because AG couldn’t be bothered to fill her in on the dummy addresses).

              – Joyce is…well, Joyce in her room in the morning.

              – Carla finds out about her jacket and will not shut up about it.

              – Sal finds out about Ethan and has a not very pleasant trip down memory lane (though the talk is PRECIOUS)

              – Marcie doesn’t believe Sal about the de-escalating and isn’t ready to forgive her yet.

              – Sal goes on a fairly potentially self-destructive drive.

              – Marcie doesn’t believe her about making friends either and well, Malaya is Malaya (though Sal’s, as usual, the one who started that fight).

              And god knows how this chat with Amber is going to go if this isn’t a massive tease.

          • Knayt
            Knayt
            November 13, 2018 at 6:22 am | #

            Getting stabbed does tend to be traumatic.

  9. Stellar
    Stellar
    November 13, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Ease and, now I need cupcakes. Later…

  10. Derek
    Derek
    November 13, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    are the proportions weird? Amber is suddenly half the size of Ethan

    • fire_daws
      fire_daws
      November 13, 2018 at 2:44 am | #

      She’s five feet five in these boots.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 13, 2018 at 5:54 am | #

        Without them, her meat vehicle is 5’2″.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 13, 2018 at 1:57 pm | #

          Willis has also said 5’3 before and the size chart he posted had Amber at 5’1/5’0. So the point is, she’s tiny. 😛

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            November 13, 2018 at 3:10 pm | #

            I wouldn’t call her tiny, I would go with short.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              November 13, 2018 at 3:18 pm | #

              Yeah, according to Willis, the tiniest is apparently Marcie, who’s like 5 feet tall.

  11. Regalli
    Regalli
    November 13, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Yeaaaah, Amber, I think the plot’s about to catch up to you. Sorry. It was never gonna work.

    On an unrelated note, remember how I said someone was making a Lulu doll in crochet a few weeks back? She is done, and she is beautiful.

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      November 13, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

      Oh my gosh, Lulu comes with her various dolls! Tiny crochet moogle! That’s adorable.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        November 13, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

        She’s gorgeous, right? I’m just in awe of the artist, that was such a long project and the results are spectacular.

        • StClair
          StClair
          November 13, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

          Needs more belts.

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 13, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    There are cupcakes in my fridge but I didn’t bother to have one for my dessert tonight because I wasn’t in the mood for that.

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 13, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    I really wonder if that bombshell’s gonna be Sal figuring out Amber now.

    Also, Amber is adorable and I love her. That said, honey, no, don’t leave Walky and AG to deal with the mess that’ll happen if you sleep in the same bed without telling him.

    That said, I don’t blame Amber for wanting to wait until she’s ready, but unfortunately it looks like she’s wanting to put it off indefinitely. The longer she doesn’t tell him, the more it looks like she’s hiding it rather than just not being ready to share.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 13, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Also, the art is becoming progressively more and more beautiful and I love the colours.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      November 13, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

      Also telling someone while they’re falling asleep that you stabbed their sister… not really the best way to broach that topic? Or anything important?

      Yeah I’m guessing we’re about to start a red flashback cascade here, which was why I was pushing ‘controlled circumstances but REALLY SOON even if they’re not psychologically ready.’ Narrative won’t wait.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 13, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

        This is going to be super interesting and I want popcorn.

        Seriously, this arc has been basically everything I love about Dumbing of Age. I’m in candy land.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          November 13, 2018 at 3:12 pm | #

          Just stay away from candy mountain.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            November 13, 2018 at 4:43 pm | #

            I was thinking more like the board game, but that was clever.

      • AntJ
        AntJ
        November 13, 2018 at 12:37 am | #

        The narrative already has waited long enough! This is the storyline 37; Amber’s initial flashback to the robbery was in storyline 17. The strip connecting Amber and Sal was published on December 22, 2013. This confrontation has been five years in the making. And it’s magnificent.

        After obfuscating and shirking the inevitable as Amazi-Girl and Sal became friends, there is finally an issue big enough to force the truth to come out.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          November 13, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

          It’s gonna be super painful, most of all because SO DAMN MUCH has built up around it in that time. And it will be AWESOME.

  14. Bobcat
    Bobcat
    November 13, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    I’m sitting on the edge of my seat, waiting for Sal to blast in.

    And red panels.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 13, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

      For which one? 😛

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        November 13, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

        Everyone.

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        November 13, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

        I was just wondering something along those lines. We haven’t seen the stabbing from Sal’s perspective yet- and that’s a conspicuous absence, yeah?

        So, definite red panels for Amber, possible red panels for Sal. And possibly more flashback blue, too!

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          November 13, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

          Yep. Pretty suspenseful place to leave off the Sal POV flashbacks. (I think Amber’s version also had a while between the hostage scene and ‘just some punk with a knife’ as the full reveal, but I’m pretty sure we had seen the contextless knife raised panel before then?)

          This will be interesting. Also supremely painful.

        • Inahc
          Inahc
          November 13, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

          …

          You get a red panel! You get a red panel! Eeeeverybody gets red panels! 😀

          • McBogue
            McBogue
            November 13, 2018 at 5:12 am | #

            David Willis: The Oprah Winfrey of Bad Childhood Memories

  15. Dana
    Dana
    November 13, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    I approve of this plan.

  16. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 13, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

    Hey, Amber, stop spoiling future strips

  17. Ainara
    Ainara
    November 13, 2018 at 12:44 am | #

    “You had me at ‘not Mike'”

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      November 13, 2018 at 1:10 am | #

      Yeah there are people objectively worse to hook up with than Mike, but, y’know, not a ton. Very few age-appropriate in this strip, and I think the remaining ones are incompatible with Ethan. (I’m basically just coming up with Mary and Peter, who is Boy Mary and therefore proooobably not down with the gays. If he were though GOD that would be just completely awful. At least as bad as Mike, maybe worse. Do not fuck Peter, Ethan.)

  18. Chris Phoenix
    Chris Phoenix
    November 13, 2018 at 1:10 am | #

    YOU get a red panel, and YOU get a red panel, and YOU get a red panel… EVERYONE gets red panels!!!!

  19. Keulen
    Keulen
    November 13, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

    Something must be going on with the server or something because it took me at least half an hour to get this site to load tonight

  20. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 13, 2018 at 1:59 am | #

    Of all the things in this world I expected the least, it is for Amber O’Malley to be a romantic!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 13, 2018 at 12:01 pm | #

      Love does weird things to people.

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      Larkle
      November 13, 2018 at 1:12 pm | #

      I mean, a lot of her habits tend towards escapism. She immerses in fandoms and writes fandom to escape into different worlds. She becomes Amazi-girl and crafts an alternate persona to escape herself and her own trauma. When she was dating Danny, she stolidly tried to keep him separated from herself and her own issues, he was dating Amazi-girl, not Amber, he became a part of that escape and it was always a trigger point for her when he tried to be dating not just the persona Amazi-girl, but also Amber. Dating Danny was a sort of romantic escapism and since she could separate it as something Amazi-girl was doing could feed into her narrative of Amazi-girl. Now she’s dating Walky, he’s dating Amber, while knowing about Amazi-girl. It’s progress, but it’s still an escape. So, she’s very romantic, because it’s an escape and not the reality of a hard conversation about her past and how it messed her up.

  21. Alanari
    Alanari
    November 13, 2018 at 2:03 am | #

    Amber, it probably won’t get more organic than the chance you just let pass. Or the moment at the stairs after you fled from sal and walky found you.
    And I think you know that.

  22. Pterodactyl Ghost
    Pterodactyl Ghost
    November 13, 2018 at 2:14 am | #

    Ah, optimism is a beautiful thing.
    Wait.
    Did I say “optimism”? I meant “DENIAL”.
    Denial is a beautiful thing.

  23. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 13, 2018 at 2:24 am | #

    Will this be the first time ever that Sal has seen Ethan and Amber together since the Convenience Store Job?

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      November 13, 2018 at 5:59 am | #

      Confirmed. All their shared panels are flashbacks.

  24. Classic Appa
    Classic Appa
    November 13, 2018 at 2:40 am | #

    I know that Ethan Amber and Sal were all at Joyce’s party. But I think I remember Amber taking Sal’s spot.

    • fire_daws
      fire_daws
      November 13, 2018 at 2:51 am | #

      Sal was there at the start but left to go and ‘meet’ Malaya. Amber was being AG to let off steam before joining later and, indeed, took Sal’s spot after she had departed.

  25. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    November 13, 2018 at 2:51 am | #

    “More details” Amber’s face is adorns.

    And, really, the way to her heart is cupcakes, as previously shown.

  26. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    November 13, 2018 at 3:09 am | #

    WILLIS YOU FUCKER I WAS SO SET FOR WHOLESOMENESS never trust a sunrise/sunset background colour pallet FUCK YOU YOU GOOBER

    • stoodmuffin
      stoodmuffin
      November 14, 2018 at 2:45 am | #

      Oh Amber. a mood

  27. cousac
    cousac
    November 13, 2018 at 5:15 am | #

    well, that plan has as much a chance of working as Firefly has at making a comeback…

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 13, 2018 at 6:09 am | #

      So, you’re saying that Amber and Walky’s serious talk will take place in a blockbuster movie instead?

      • Emily
        Emily
        November 13, 2018 at 12:28 pm | #

        Serenity barely made back its budget, I wouldn’t call it a blockbuster.

  28. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    November 13, 2018 at 5:34 am | #

    OK, explanation required. What is the alt text referring to?

    • Furie
      Furie
      November 13, 2018 at 5:36 am | #

      The greatest comic book in history.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 13, 2018 at 12:09 pm | #

      Transformers: Lost Light is a comic book series that ended recently. Transformers fans like Willis are still a little butt-hurt about it.

      https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers:_Lost_Light

  29. Questionor
    Questionor
    November 13, 2018 at 6:15 am | #

    Slowly I turn……

  30. Chris S
    Chris S
    November 13, 2018 at 6:36 am | #

    Hey Alt Text, too soon!

  31. Yumi
    Yumi
    November 13, 2018 at 11:23 am | #

    Yay, the site is working again! Thank Zorp.

    Maybe Walky will find out that he’s getting expelled over his grades being changed, and Amber can just slip it in then. “Hey, I stabbed your sister after she held up a gas station convenience store I was in. Also, I hacked your grades after you said not to, if you want to get back to that.”

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 13, 2018 at 11:27 am | #

      Okay, so it wasn’t just me the site’s server wasn’t working for.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        November 13, 2018 at 12:03 pm | #

        Nope, I wasn’t able to get on until half an hour ago.

  32. Guest42
    Guest42
    November 13, 2018 at 12:34 pm | #

    Yeah… I gotta say, Mike has every reason to be mad at Ethan over this.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      November 13, 2018 at 12:39 pm | #

      Explain?

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      November 13, 2018 at 1:57 pm | #

      Mike doesn’t have the right to be mad at anybody for anything.

      • Guest42
        Guest42
        November 13, 2018 at 2:17 pm | #

        Even Amber’s dad?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 13, 2018 at 1:58 pm | #

      Mike and Ethan aren’t dating and Mike told Ethan to play the field instead of getting exclusive with someone. If he’s mad at Ethan for following his advice, he can go pound salt.

      • Guest42
        Guest42
        November 13, 2018 at 2:16 pm | #

        Ah, I didn’t remember him telling Ethan to play the field. I figured they just never established that boundary.

        And moving beyond that boundary before establishing it’s not there is a valid reason for being angry.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 13, 2018 at 2:46 pm | #

          Yes, if they hadn’t specified that they are not dating and Ethan should play the field ahead of time, this would absolutely be a dick move.

  33. Eyebrow
    Eyebrow
    November 13, 2018 at 1:12 pm | #

    Claire and Tai are smoking up, but somehow Amber’s eyes have gone sympathetically red too.

    • Eyebrow
      Eyebrow
      November 13, 2018 at 1:13 pm | #

      And Ethan’s, too.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      November 13, 2018 at 3:15 pm | #

      Secondhand webcomic smoke is indeed a powerful thing.

  34. nightshade
    nightshade
    November 13, 2018 at 3:34 pm | #

    no the strip will switch to joyce being goofy for a week and then will come back to finish maybe

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      November 13, 2018 at 6:43 pm | #

      We’re due for a week of Steve eating cereal first.

      • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
        ǝ snow ʍousɐ
        November 13, 2018 at 7:08 pm | #

        but a week in DoA time is like three months in QC time!

  35. TlalocW
    TlalocW
    November 13, 2018 at 8:08 pm | #

    At this moment, I don’t even care about the story arc. Finally, someone with a platform that reaches the multitudes used, “Between you and me,” instead of, “Between you and I.”

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      November 13, 2018 at 11:27 pm | #

      Yeah, but on the other hand Amber said “one late night we lay in bed” (which is past tense), where she clearly meant the future (“one late night we lie in bed”).

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