In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
BOOKMARK Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
BUFFER WATCH
Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:
I would love to see it done, in a semi-realistic way. I imagine that maybe their version of heartbroken and worried will be like other people’s normal?
Mike’s parent’s come in perfectly chipper. Amber eventually makes some comment about Mike’s condition. Mike’s mom reveals that he regained consciousness that morning and will be fine. Mike bemoans that he wanted to keep Amber going at least another hour.
BTW my own Dad’s been in the hospital a few times so all those medical sounds are fresh in my head. The “neener neener” sound by the pneumatic leg massagers (to keep comatose patients from getting blood clots after surgery). The thunder of the air conditioner ducting. The humming of the flourescent lighting…
Mr. Bierce:
If you go to visit a parent in the hospital, and you are greeted by name by Any of the staff, -OR- if they joke about your acquiring a Reserved Parking Spot because you are a frequent flyer, you have got Trouble. My sympathies to you.
We know we’re getting the Browns and Walkertons in addition to the Warners. I would be gobsmacked if we don’t see Stacy, and likely also Richard as support. The Siegals probably also have some serious thoughts on ‘our son’s best friend/ex’s mobster father kidnapped them and put their other friend in a coma’ that should be… interesting to hear.
I hope we get the Saruyamas as some light relief. Not that they won’t be concerned their daughter got involved in this situation (even if she got herself involved, rather than being an initial kidnapping victim), but they’ll get to meet Becky, that might be nice. (Though we’ll also likely get some ‘damn, we let a MOBSTER who ended up MURDERING A MAN into our daughter and her roommate’s dorm room, we feel even WORSE now!’ Not that they could’ve known, but seriously, damn.) Similarly the Keeners are known to be supportive and we will NEED that.
Finally, we have never met the Clintons because it was FRESHMAN Family Weekend, so if they show up that could be interesting. We have no idea what they’re like, but that’s part of the interest!
I will give the Walkertons and Siegals this, they had no way whatsoever of predicting ‘mobster kidnapping ending in homicide.’ I mean, the Siegals likely know about Blaine from proximity to Amber and Stacy, but there was no reason to expect him showing up with another random Evil Kidnapping Father and, well, doing this. I may have serious issues with both sets but this is not on them.
Last storyline was big and dramatic for two very good reasons:
1) Character development for everyone but especially AmbG, including the start of ‘we really should be trying to work through how much we hate ourselves and our need to get along for everyone around us’s wellbeing’ and the ‘I made me.’ moment. (Owning responsibility for Amber’s bad and good points, acknowledging the latter do exist, and denying Blaine satisfaction. Yay!) We can also expect some fallout with Walky, minimum, specific to the being kidnapped aspect. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ethan has more trauma there as well, and Dorothy.
2) So much ammo that will be fired from many, many mantles involving parents. The Brown fallout will be SPECTACULAR, but every set we see show up are probably going to be at least a little freaked out by this all.
On the one hand, I’m hoping Amber doesn’t have to explain how this happened. On the other hand, I don’t see a way out of her having to explain, unless she leaves before they get there. Is there a chance that Mike’s parents would blame this on Amber?
We have no reason to believe Mike’s parents are terrible so I’m very interested in hearing Amber’s justification for preventing them from finding out their son has is in a coma! No! I never once believed Mike was in danger of being assassinated by corrupt cops or mob thugs!
We have no reasons and Amber (as she probably already knows them quite well since they grew up together) has also no reason (that I can remember) to think his parents would flip out but you never know how someone might react, especially given that this situation isn’t what most parents (most good parents) would hope for.
I know I don’t know how the parents of my friends would react if their kids ended up in a coma due to (partially) my involvement.
Yeah, especially given how this situation and the fact that she knows the Warners fairly well mean it’s totally possible she discloses about AG and the memory split. Like, there aren’t really ways to explain this (since it happened the day before the kidnapping) without it. And Amber has very good reason to worry about their reaction. DID is one of the Scary Mental Illnesses TM.
Actually we know just the opposite… We saw Mike’s parents at the family freshment weekend, and they were completely different from Mike. (Overly friendly… trying to give Sarah a hug.)
If they’re anything like their Walkyverse equivalents, then they’re nice, kind, sweet and generally rays of sunshine to the point where Mike’s behaviour can be interpreted as an exasperated attempt to escape what is otherwise a smothering blanket of uncontextual positivity.
Oh, an Mike’s mother was rather pushy about the ‘right’ way to care for baby Donatella too.
I thought I was well past ready to see this go back to being a comic not about kidnapping and murder, but now I realize I want it to keep going until after we get to see Amazi-Girl kicking the butts of a bunch of mob goons who have come to assassinate Mike.
There are a number of bad things you’ve done in your life, Amber, things for which you can justly blame yourself. What happened to Mike is not one of them. He found a cause for which he was willing to fight and, due to his situation with Ethan, he was a lot less careful about it than he normally would be.
I’m hoping that Mike’s parents respond to all of this by thanking you for saving his life and so many others besides.
Based on the previous times we’ve seen them, I suspect if Mike’s parents do show up soon they’ll be more understanding than many other characters’ parents might be.
Why does she think Blaine’s “associates” would come after Mike now? Mike’s Attempted Manslaughter at max. That’s probably fourth in order of severity of the charges he’s currently facing. None of which gets eliminated by offing one witness.
At a guess? Blaine MIGHT have had some competent mob cronies on board with randomly killing whoever he asked, but if so he didn’t have enough to help him with the kidnapping.
On the other hand, the reason why Blaine decided ‘you know what, let’s kill him’ was because Mike had started shouting about how Blaine was a money-launderer for the mob, and how he has conflicting tax records. If he ever wakes up, he can still spill, and that will bring trouble for more than just Blaine. So long as Mike can wake up, he is a major threat to the mob itself. So if Blaine passes that info on, they might just decide to off him no matter what they decide to do with Blaine.
That said, I’m doing this logic from the perspective of someone, y’know. Not also paralyzed with survivor’s guilt and fear. Just as much a reason for Amber to be doing this is, as she says, an excuse/distraction, and I wouldn’t expect purely rational threat analysis from someone who’s just been kidnapped by her mobster dad, who murdered someone, anyway.
For May's first bonus strip, folks voted for CARLA! and you'll enjoy this non-carla preview image Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon: patreon.com/dumbingofage
and remember you can always pledge up to read tomorrow's strip right the eff now
so my paycheck came back a little light this week because i missed work because i was in a car crash. if anyone wants to help me make up the $400 i owe my insurance company this month for their heroic effort to avoid paying me, i'd appreciate it
www.paypal.com/paypalme/sah...
venmo: sah32
www.ebay.com/itm/23612235...
Auctioning my Electro-Scramblerless, yellowing Kingdom Blaster/Eject! Bidding starts at 99 cents, BIN is six friggin' bucks!
Every comic creator's obituary is like, he created this iconic character who was in a movie that made $700 million last year. He died with a net worth of $12 after the publisher countersued him.
thinking of that time i found an abandoned transformers wiki on wikia that was just a bunch of terrible and incomplete lists of character names, sitting back, and deciding i could fix this wiki by writing a comprehensive Donny Finkleberg Robot-Master page.
Transformers Wiki@tfwiki.net ⋅ 1d
#DidYouKnow we just turned 20 years old? Yes, really! The original incarnation of TFWiki was originally founded on Wikicities on this day in 2005. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years!
today in #9chickweedlane i learned the cartoonist definitely forgot the 2023 storyline in which mary showed up again and amos didn't recognize or remember her and mary was very clearly into him, and also her hair is just Juliette's Hair But Black today, rather than Mary's curly hair
#DidYouKnow we just turned 20 years old? Yes, really! The original incarnation of TFWiki was originally founded on Wikicities on this day in 2005. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years!
Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
A reminder for all that Peter's wife Kathleen still needs a lot of help with the massive medical debt of his long-term care. If you can help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-peter...
I think I will spittake if they’re STILL chipper and unbearably positive
which at least explained Shortpacked!Mike but I guess we’ll see with DOA!Mike
Oh yeah… I’d forgotten about OG Mike’s parents! That WOULD be interesting!
But we’ve met them already, and they were. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/guard/
Unless you mean in this specific situation, which would indeed be mind-boggling.
I would love to see it done, in a semi-realistic way. I imagine that maybe their version of heartbroken and worried will be like other people’s normal?
I mean, his mom immediately burst into tears when SP!Amber brought up the war/death, so I expect to see them react like humans to Mike in a coma.
Mike’s parent’s come in perfectly chipper. Amber eventually makes some comment about Mike’s condition. Mike’s mom reveals that he regained consciousness that morning and will be fine. Mike bemoans that he wanted to keep Amber going at least another hour.
This totally checks out as a thing that could happen. ;D
:C
Having some ‘splainin’ to do always sounds more fun when it’s Lucy, not you. (No, not THAT Lucy…)
Why “shuffle”? (Have we seen Mike’s parents before?)
Yes, during Freshman Family Weekend. They’re absurdly nice and welcoming.
Maybe they just don’t lift their feet far enough off the floor when they’re walking.
Or maybe they’re just VERY avid poker players.
You can do this, Amber.
There’re going to be unsolicited hugs, aren’t there?
*looks for some Muzakized Kenny Loggins*
BTW my own Dad’s been in the hospital a few times so all those medical sounds are fresh in my head. The “neener neener” sound by the pneumatic leg massagers (to keep comatose patients from getting blood clots after surgery). The thunder of the air conditioner ducting. The humming of the flourescent lighting…
*a few times THIS YEAR*
Not COVID, thank goodness. But still bad news of a sort.
Ugh, sympathies.
The only thing worse than your parents in the hospital is your children in the hospital.
Sorry to hear it’s been rough this year. I hope it gets better for you and him soon.
Mr. Bierce:
If you go to visit a parent in the hospital, and you are greeted by name by Any of the staff, -OR- if they joke about your acquiring a Reserved Parking Spot because you are a frequent flyer, you have got Trouble. My sympathies to you.
My sympathies. I work in healthcare. This is a rough time to be a patient.
TBF, Kenny Loggins is already pretty Muzak.
The one time amber’s standard approach to deal with dads won’t work.
It might distract them from the stuff Amber doesn’t want to talk to them about.
And won’t that be an awkward conversation in a chapter I assume will be FULL of awkward parental conversations.
Kinda feel like having a babaroo kidnapped is one of those ‘well, fuck me sideways’ parenting moments.
Mike wasn’t kidnapped. Amber can’t explain what happened unless she explains how she knows what happened.
Though, I suppose she could just stick with what her father said during the kidnapping. That, of course, centers on having Mike killed.
A lot of people were kidnapped though and at the very LEAST Linda’s coming in this storyline. We’ve been shown this in preview panels.
“We were leaving a friend’s birthday party when a couple of guys jumped us. Mike protected me but he got hurt so we rushed him here.”
Doesn’t explain the extended gap where they weren’t contacted, but it’s not that far from the truth…
Stick with whatever story she told the cops. Which involves the scooter chase, since Dorothy knew about it, and thus probably Amazi-Girl, not Amber.
A TL;DR approximation is close enough until they get over the shock of seeing their son comatose and on life support in a hospital bed.
*INITIAL shock.
We know we’re getting the Browns and Walkertons in addition to the Warners. I would be gobsmacked if we don’t see Stacy, and likely also Richard as support. The Siegals probably also have some serious thoughts on ‘our son’s best friend/ex’s mobster father kidnapped them and put their other friend in a coma’ that should be… interesting to hear.
I hope we get the Saruyamas as some light relief. Not that they won’t be concerned their daughter got involved in this situation (even if she got herself involved, rather than being an initial kidnapping victim), but they’ll get to meet Becky, that might be nice. (Though we’ll also likely get some ‘damn, we let a MOBSTER who ended up MURDERING A MAN into our daughter and her roommate’s dorm room, we feel even WORSE now!’ Not that they could’ve known, but seriously, damn.) Similarly the Keeners are known to be supportive and we will NEED that.
Finally, we have never met the Clintons because it was FRESHMAN Family Weekend, so if they show up that could be interesting. We have no idea what they’re like, but that’s part of the interest!
I will give the Walkertons and Siegals this, they had no way whatsoever of predicting ‘mobster kidnapping ending in homicide.’ I mean, the Siegals likely know about Blaine from proximity to Amber and Stacy, but there was no reason to expect him showing up with another random Evil Kidnapping Father and, well, doing this. I may have serious issues with both sets but this is not on them.
That blame should be reserved for Carol.
[Old, haggard sailor voice] Yep, there’s a shitstorm a-comin’.
That explains that old adage:
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight,
Red sky in the morning, a shitstorm a’coming”.
Last storyline was big and dramatic for two very good reasons:
1) Character development for everyone but especially AmbG, including the start of ‘we really should be trying to work through how much we hate ourselves and our need to get along for everyone around us’s wellbeing’ and the ‘I made me.’ moment. (Owning responsibility for Amber’s bad and good points, acknowledging the latter do exist, and denying Blaine satisfaction. Yay!) We can also expect some fallout with Walky, minimum, specific to the being kidnapped aspect. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ethan has more trauma there as well, and Dorothy.
2) So much ammo that will be fired from many, many mantles involving parents. The Brown fallout will be SPECTACULAR, but every set we see show up are probably going to be at least a little freaked out by this all.
On the one hand, I’m hoping Amber doesn’t have to explain how this happened. On the other hand, I don’t see a way out of her having to explain, unless she leaves before they get there. Is there a chance that Mike’s parents would blame this on Amber?
Conveniently, there are some bad guys to blame. It’s even actually their fault!
Well that’s one “your mom” reference in a Mike comic that I didn’t see coming
Roflmao OMG I was not expecting that, plus it’s so Mike!!
Suddenly I have Mortal City stuck in my head.
I hear one thousand hearts beating at the hospital
And one thousand hearts by their bedsides waiting
Saying that’s my love in the white gown
We have no reason to believe Mike’s parents are terrible so I’m very interested in hearing Amber’s justification for preventing them from finding out their son has is in a coma! No! I never once believed Mike was in danger of being assassinated by corrupt cops or mob thugs!
Because she gets to tell them *she’s the reason that he’s there*
We have no reasons and Amber (as she probably already knows them quite well since they grew up together) has also no reason (that I can remember) to think his parents would flip out but you never know how someone might react, especially given that this situation isn’t what most parents (most good parents) would hope for.
I know I don’t know how the parents of my friends would react if their kids ended up in a coma due to (partially) my involvement.
Yeah, especially given how this situation and the fact that she knows the Warners fairly well mean it’s totally possible she discloses about AG and the memory split. Like, there aren’t really ways to explain this (since it happened the day before the kidnapping) without it. And Amber has very good reason to worry about their reaction. DID is one of the Scary Mental Illnesses TM.
You may not have believed it, but AG did.
So did Mike.
Actually we know just the opposite… We saw Mike’s parents at the family freshment weekend, and they were completely different from Mike. (Overly friendly… trying to give Sarah a hug.)
Amber is suffering from extreme low self-esteem. She will expect to be blamed for this.
If they’re anything like their Walkyverse equivalents, then they’re nice, kind, sweet and generally rays of sunshine to the point where Mike’s behaviour can be interpreted as an exasperated attempt to escape what is otherwise a smothering blanket of uncontextual positivity.
Oh, an Mike’s mother was rather pushy about the ‘right’ way to care for baby Donatella too.
Including letting her sleep on her stomach which…no, Harriet. NO.
look she’s from the 50s
I thought I was well past ready to see this go back to being a comic not about kidnapping and murder, but now I realize I want it to keep going until after we get to see Amazi-Girl kicking the butts of a bunch of mob goons who have come to assassinate Mike.
I’ll get the popcorn.
I don’t think the corrupt cops or the Korean mob care about a low scum like Blaine enough to murder Mike.
Also, DAMN YOU, WILLIS!
Oh man I am so looking forward to all the throwings down coming up
There are a number of bad things you’ve done in your life, Amber, things for which you can justly blame yourself. What happened to Mike is not one of them. He found a cause for which he was willing to fight and, due to his situation with Ethan, he was a lot less careful about it than he normally would be.
I’m hoping that Mike’s parents respond to all of this by thanking you for saving his life and so many others besides.
Based on the previous times we’ve seen them, I suspect if Mike’s parents do show up soon they’ll be more understanding than many other characters’ parents might be.
Maybe you’ll be lucky, Amber, and both the parents and the assassins will turn up at the same time.
Every beep you taaake~
Every sound you make~
etc etc~ i’ll be watching you~
Hol’ up, that is a good question.
Why *must* feelings?
So Ethan left?
Why does she think Blaine’s “associates” would come after Mike now? Mike’s Attempted Manslaughter at max. That’s probably fourth in order of severity of the charges he’s currently facing. None of which gets eliminated by offing one witness.
At a guess? Blaine MIGHT have had some competent mob cronies on board with randomly killing whoever he asked, but if so he didn’t have enough to help him with the kidnapping.
On the other hand, the reason why Blaine decided ‘you know what, let’s kill him’ was because Mike had started shouting about how Blaine was a money-launderer for the mob, and how he has conflicting tax records. If he ever wakes up, he can still spill, and that will bring trouble for more than just Blaine. So long as Mike can wake up, he is a major threat to the mob itself. So if Blaine passes that info on, they might just decide to off him no matter what they decide to do with Blaine.
That said, I’m doing this logic from the perspective of someone, y’know. Not also paralyzed with survivor’s guilt and fear. Just as much a reason for Amber to be doing this is, as she says, an excuse/distraction, and I wouldn’t expect purely rational threat analysis from someone who’s just been kidnapped by her mobster dad, who murdered someone, anyway.
And Mike’s parents are so easygoing too. Hope they don’t dump all the blame on Amber like Ethan’s mom.