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November 23, 2023

Silently

by David M Willis on March 3, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trial and Sarah

└ Tags: amber, ethan

Discussion (126) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 3, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    I can’t do that

    Silently?

    I drop my phone every five seconds (and heck if I’m toting around a personal laptop for exactly that reason)

    • ThunderNight
      ThunderNight
      March 3, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      gotta put a silencer on
      i.e. a pillow

      • Deathjavu
        Deathjavu
        March 3, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

        The question is, is the silencer applied to the back of the head, or to the front with a sustained grip and pressure?

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          March 3, 2022 at 3:10 am | #

          yes

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      March 3, 2022 at 2:04 am | #

      Maybe Amber isn’t hearing a No because Ethan’s trying to express the No… silently.

  2. Reed
    Reed
    March 3, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    shhh Amber! he’s wordle-ing, don’t make him lose his focus!

    • Dean
      Dean
      March 3, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      The word he’s looking for is BLAME.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 3, 2022 at 2:32 am | #

        His go-to starter word has been MOURN.

        • Nova
          Nova
          March 3, 2022 at 3:24 am | #

          If he uses POUTY he can hit the ‘y’ as well!

          • Julez
            Julez
            March 3, 2022 at 7:45 am | #

            Ok I know y’all were joking but uhhh… today’s wordle.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              March 3, 2022 at 9:20 am | #

              Pure coincidence! I wrote that comment hours before playing today’s puzzle!

            • Icarus
              Icarus
              March 3, 2022 at 11:12 am | #

              A spoiler is only a spoiler once you know it’s a spoiler.

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                March 3, 2022 at 5:13 pm | #

                Thank you.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                March 3, 2022 at 7:09 pm | #

                Kind of.
                I read that, got reminded of wordle and thought “Mourn is a good starter word”.

                So I got spoiled even though I didn’t know.

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  March 4, 2022 at 5:43 am | #

                  I didn’t even know!

                  I’m just disappointed I wasted my unintentional clairvoyance on Wordle, instead of the Powerball.

        • Sunny
          Sunny
          March 3, 2022 at 7:46 am | #

          Funny you should say that, because I just came here from the NYTimes website after playing today’s wordle. And now guess what the word of the day is.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            March 3, 2022 at 9:17 am | #

            Purely coincidental, I assure you! (And I didn’t want to point it out after playing today’s puzzle…)

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            March 3, 2022 at 11:02 am | #

            You know, if someone spoils, especially accidentally, the best thing is not to point it out

    • Robbie
      Robbie
      March 3, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

      I’ve tried octordle 3 days in a row and I still haven’t won, but wordle delights me. I also play Lordle (Lord of the rings wordle)

      • Andy
        Andy
        March 3, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

        Needle is the only other version I occasionally play. Making a proper equation with 8 characters, including all signs, kinda makes it easier.

        • Tan
          Tan
          March 3, 2022 at 4:55 am | #

          I have tried Quordle, Worldle, Crosswordle, Mathler, and Nerdle. The only one I have continued with is original Wordle.

          • dej
            dej
            March 3, 2022 at 10:16 am | #

            all i do is wordle and poeltl (NBA player wordle)

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            March 3, 2022 at 10:47 am | #

            How about Numberle, Jordle, or Squirdle?
            [Jordle is the Neopets fan site one]

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              March 3, 2022 at 7:42 pm | #

              I forgot Lewdle but prob bc I tried it once and couldn’t get it bc “skeet”?

            • Tan
              Tan
              March 4, 2022 at 3:49 am | #

              Numberle appears to be roughly the same thing as Nerdle. As for the other two, I know absolutely nothing of NeoPets, and I probably couldn’t name more than a dozen pokemon past the original 151 without cheating, so I don’t think either is for me.

              • Ana Chronistic
                Ana Chronistic
                March 4, 2022 at 11:35 am | #

                There’s also a fan Wordle archive so you can play past Wordless, plus it has a 6-letter free play variant (randomised each time) https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive/

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  March 4, 2022 at 11:36 am | #

                  Wordless

                  YOU WERE DOING SO WELL, PHONE

                • Tan
                  Tan
                  March 5, 2022 at 5:51 am | #

                  I should perhaps clarify that i am not looking for another Wordle-alike, and I did not try any of the above-named out of a desire to fill a lacking. I am happy with once-a-day Wordle. In the case of all of the above, one of the persons I regularly share my Wordle results with on a discord noted their results on something, and so I gave it a shot in the spirit of sociality, promptly decided it did not spark joy, posted my results for that one day anyway, and never looked back.

                  Similarly, I’ve tried “free-play” Wordle-clones, and they don’t do for me what the one-a-day does as a shared experience me and my friends can giggle and kvetch about.

                  There was precisely one not-Wordle experience that I enjoyed, which is ultimately a non-repeatable event. When one of my friends wound up still on the old Wordle site while the rest of us had been moved on to the NYT version, they wound up unknowingly spoiled. So as a make-up Wordle for that day, I offered to let them guess a word I had used as one of my guesses of that particular day, and we manually went back and forth, them guessing words and me returning colored square emojis. They got it in 3.

      • PirateTawnee
        PirateTawnee
        March 3, 2022 at 1:24 am | #

        I play Wordle, WorLdle and Wordle2 (6 letter words) daily, and Quordle and Octordle when I get the urge, but I don’t find those ones as fun.

        Lordle sounds great, definitely gonna try that a few times.

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          March 3, 2022 at 2:09 pm | #

          I’ve played Quordle a few times, and completed it twice. Not even gonna attempt Octordle.

          I tried Doctor Whordle a few times, but got frustrated because I kept trying words like ADRIC and SKARO, only to be told the answer was, like, SHARD, because the Shard appears in “The Bells of St John”. I suspect the only way to play it is to not think in terms of words I associate with Doctor Who and just treat it like normal Wordle, in which case, what’s the point?

      • Miri
        Miri
        March 3, 2022 at 2:40 am | #

        There is an OCTORDLE?! I only knew about Wordle, Needle and Quordle…

        • Miri
          Miri
          March 3, 2022 at 3:00 am | #

          Daily Octordle #38
          🕐9️⃣
          8️⃣🔟
          🕚7️⃣
          6️⃣4️⃣
          octordle.com
          ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
          🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
          ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
          ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
          🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
          🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
          ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
          🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
          ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
          🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
          ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
          🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
          🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

          ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
          ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
          ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
          ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
          🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
          🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
          ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
          🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
          ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
          ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

          ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
          ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
          ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
          ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
          🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
          🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
          ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
          ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
          ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
          ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
          🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

          ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
          ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
          ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
          ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
          🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
          🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

          Given at one point I was trying to work out how I had words with no vowels or “y”s in them because I need to scroll on my phone a lot on this, I’m pretty pleased with that 😁 Also far less helpful keyboard colour coding…

          • Delicious Taffy
            Delicious Taffy
            March 3, 2022 at 4:07 am | #

            Seven hells, what is that??

            • Rose by Any Other Name
              Rose by Any Other Name
              March 3, 2022 at 8:54 am | #

              My thoughts exactly.

            • Keulen
              Keulen
              March 3, 2022 at 9:33 am | #

              Something lots of people are obsessed with recently. I don’t see the appeal.

              • The Wellerman
                The Wellerman
                March 3, 2022 at 1:06 pm | #

                Me neither 😐

              • StClair
                StClair
                March 3, 2022 at 3:03 pm | #

                I keep thinking of TNG “The Game”. The VR headsets with the discs and funnels…

              • Delicious Taffy
                Delicious Taffy
                March 3, 2022 at 6:51 pm | #

                Yeah, obsessed to the point that I can’t go to any of my usual websites without seeing an illegible mass of colored squares. Can’t wait for two months from now, when the fad dies down and people move into the next indecipherable thing I won’t understand.

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  March 4, 2022 at 4:42 pm | #

                  One of my biggest self-owns was trying to mention Squirdle in my local PoGo Discord (“Anyone play Wordle? How about Squirdle?!”) and they took that as cute to post Wordle there 😕

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            March 3, 2022 at 7:41 am | #

            After Wordle and Quordle I’ll have to try Octordle.

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            March 3, 2022 at 6:09 pm | #

            Okay, this is neat. Current results are not indicative of future performance, but I managed:

            4️⃣5️⃣
            9️⃣🕛
            7️⃣🔟
            8️⃣🕚
            ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
            🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
            ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
            🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

            🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
            🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
            ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
            ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
            ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
            🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

            ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
            ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
            ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜
            🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
            ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
            🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
            🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

            ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
            ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
            ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
            ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
            🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
            ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
            🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
            ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

            I wonder how much the groups of words are selected for Quordle or Octordle to give players a chance of success.

        • Rose Red
          Rose Red
          March 3, 2022 at 6:39 pm | #

          Someone made a 16-version and called it sedecordle (at sedecordle.com).

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            March 4, 2022 at 11:36 am | #

            I just tried that, and it’s too unnavigable to play 😕

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        March 3, 2022 at 11:03 am | #

        I just tried it and barely won, but my starter is STARE and I’m also huge into word puzzles and know the basic Codebreaker strategy

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          March 3, 2022 at 6:13 pm | #

          My basic codebreaker strategy starts with capturing an Enigma machine from a U-boat. What’s yours?

          • Casi
            Casi
            March 4, 2022 at 2:34 am | #

            Mine is building a quantum computer to break through the encryption

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              March 4, 2022 at 7:34 am | #

              My wife was never so interested in mechanical computer crypography as when Bumbleshoot Cabbagepatch played Alan Turing in that neat movie.

              • Casi
                Casi
                March 4, 2022 at 10:51 pm | #

                Bandersnatch Cummerbund did a good job, but i have issues with that movie that are too numerous to list here.

                • ValdVin
                  ValdVin
                  March 5, 2022 at 4:38 am | #

                  Oh, it was certainly Hollywoodized history. I have put the Turing biography on my (very long) books list, though.

                  If you’ve read it, I’d value your input as to how accurate it is.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      March 3, 2022 at 7:06 am | #

      Ethan has begun online classes for martial arts and has Carla making him gadgets.

      The mafia killed his one true love and Ethan will get REVENGE.

      AS NIGHT GUY.

      • Casi
        Casi
        March 4, 2022 at 2:35 am | #

        but he can’t be Night Guy! Unless the original Night Guy is actually Night Goy

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 3, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    I feel like Ambs is exploiting a loophole here with the chatting. Good for her. Although technically the sound of typing is not silent either.

  4. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    March 3, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    🤪 Imma walking on SUNSHINE!!!

  5. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 3, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    Whisper on a scream
    Doesn’t change a thing
    Doesn’t bring you ba~a~ack…

  6. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    March 3, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    Well this probably can’t go worse than the last time these two spoke

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 3, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      probably

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 3, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

      NO DON’T SAY THAT YOU JINXED IT!

    • Clif
      Clif
      March 3, 2022 at 1:11 am | #

      Bets?

      I mean, I’m not expecting it. But can’t? [insert poorly muted laughter]

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 3, 2022 at 9:34 am | #

      If they don’t speak it might not go too badly, hopefully.

  7. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    March 3, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    Woob woob woob woob…

  8. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    March 3, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

    Billy West is a gift. I think that there’s no shortage of excellent classic actors with iconic voices who can do well as voice actors (Jeremy Irons as Scar may be my go-to example), but choosing famous actors for the clout instead of their skill in the medium (the dub of Ponyo, also by Disney, comes to mind) is a problem that may never go away.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      March 3, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

      Billy West is absolutely a gift but I’m never not gonna feel weird about a goy voicing a literal grotesque Jewish stereotype

      Granted David X Cohen likes it, so, like, I guess it’s fine, I dunno

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        March 3, 2022 at 12:29 am | #

        I mean, I definitely get it. It’s a bit weird, to say the least.

  9. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 3, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    Well, it’s better than nothing.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 3, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

      The part of Amber will now be played by Keiji Inafune.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        March 3, 2022 at 7:48 pm | #

        Inafune didn’t say that, someone who was running the livestream said it, and Inafune was blamed for someone else saying that.

  10. Derek
    Derek
    March 3, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    I rather hope Ethan turns a cold shoulder to all of Amber’s friendly overtures because man I’m still angry that her whole “my need to be horny takes priority over caring about my friends” wasn’t a shtick but very much real on her end.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      March 3, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

      I’m really, really hoping this strip is not an indicator that her cry session wasn’t instantly discarded.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      March 3, 2022 at 7:08 am | #

      Ethan becoming a vigilante and learning from Amazi-Girl is the only way this can go.

      Socially acceptable violence is the only solution for grief.

  11. Grimey
    Grimey
    March 3, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    Some friendships don’t have to fade, they simply change shape.

    Silently.

  12. Katerly
    Katerly
    March 3, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

    Yessssss Amber! Reach out to him! He clearly is not handling things well and that should be addressed but honestly having someone just sit with him and ‘internet silently’ is such a big thing. It’s all probably gonna go to hell soon cause David likes to do such things but for right now I’m glad they’re together and Amber is respecting his wishes.

    • Segnosaur
      Segnosaur
      March 3, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

      You are of course assuming Amber will attempt to treat Ethan as a friend. However, given her recent interactions with Danny, there is a good chance that she will try to push Ethan towards some sort of sexual thing (which will probably cause more problems).

      • Clif
        Clif
        March 3, 2022 at 12:50 am | #

        If she doesn’t get Danny and Ethan together, how else will she inadvertently hurt Sal?

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 3, 2022 at 2:37 am | #

          [Dr. Evil finger quotes] “Inadvertently”

          If she hurts Sal again, it will be because she thought of her as a villain character again instead of as another person. I’d hope she’s past that by now…

          • C.T. Phipps
            C.T. Phipps
            March 3, 2022 at 7:09 am | #

            Listen, villains never reform.

            Sal will inevitably end up like Harley Quinn or the Riddler going straight, knocked back to her evil-evil ways.

            That’s just how real life works.

            • JBento
              JBento
              March 3, 2022 at 8:16 am | #

              “Harley Quinn” and “straight” don’t belong in the same book, let alone the same sentence.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              March 3, 2022 at 11:29 am | #

              Harley’s basically just an outright hero nowadays. I doubt it’ll ever change either since “Chaotic Good comedic anti-hero/recovering victim of domestic abuse” has been a massively more popular status quo for her than her original shtick as the Joker’s moll.

              Detective Riddler should come back.

            • Lan
              Lan
              March 3, 2022 at 3:32 pm | #

              Idk how to tell you this but DoA isn’t real life

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                March 3, 2022 at 4:37 pm | #

                No, but lately Real Life has been updating more consistently than it has in years, and Mae should be commended for that.

      • Nono
        Nono
        March 3, 2022 at 2:44 am | #

        That was before her cathartic cry over Mike, so maaaybe this will be different?

  13. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 3, 2022 at 12:29 am | #

    Friends!

  14. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 3, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

    If he’s going to be all goth now, I hope he’s more Robert Smith than Morissey. We don’t even need one Morissey, let alone two.

  15. anonymsly
    anonymsly
    March 3, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

    This is a good beginning from Amber, how is she going to blow it straight to hell from here?

  16. Jonah Sanville
    Jonah Sanville
    March 3, 2022 at 12:42 am | #

    alt text: and that’s why maggie’s the best

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 3, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

      Who is Maggie?

      • Jonah Sanville
        Jonah Sanville
        March 3, 2022 at 12:52 am | #

        willis’s wife!! ((read the alt text))

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        March 3, 2022 at 12:53 am | #

        Only the marvelously magnificent consort of Emperor Willis, of course!

        • Reaver
          Reaver
          March 3, 2022 at 12:58 am | #

          I don’t think it’s SUPER nice to refer to the man’s wife as a consort personally tbh.

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 3, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

            You don’t consort with your wife?

            Theoretically speaking, if you don’t have one.

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            March 3, 2022 at 1:02 am | #

            I’m sorry earthling. Is there another nuance to the term “consort” of which I am not aware?

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              March 3, 2022 at 1:09 am | #

              Seriously imma clueless someone fill me in here! 😅

              • Dang Fool
                Dang Fool
                March 3, 2022 at 1:23 am | #

                Wife of a reigning monarch

      • Clif
        Clif
        March 3, 2022 at 12:54 am | #

        Chase and Zachary’s mother.

        Keep up.

        • Jonah Sanville
          Jonah Sanville
          March 3, 2022 at 12:54 am | #

          also a good answer

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 3, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

          Would have been funnier if not ninja’d.

  17. Jonah Sanville
    Jonah Sanville
    March 3, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

    i hope maybe amber finally letting mike go will help her mend her friendship with ethan

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 3, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

      Me, too. Also, I know its mean but I hope Mike is really dead and not just in witness protection waiting to come back and re-open old wounds, basking in the torrent of reawakened trauma.

      • Jonah Sanville
        Jonah Sanville
        March 3, 2022 at 12:54 am | #

        why/how would he be in witness protection?? i think hes really gone 🙁

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 3, 2022 at 12:58 am | #

          Mike is a force of nature and will never truly be gone. The Mikeness is forever there, with your mother.

          For a nickel.

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          March 3, 2022 at 12:05 pm | #

          I think he is dead too, but the reason he might have been in witness protection is that he obviously knew that Amber’s father was laundering money for the mob and even after O’Malley’s death that could have been used as an inroads into investigating the criminal organization. As O’Malley knew that Mike knew, the mob might have also, and gone after him if the investigation lead to evidence in trial. As we never saw Mike’s body I thought it might have been possible (if a cheap literary device) for the government to have used his injuries as an cover-up to move him into witness protection and exploit his knowledge of the mob.

      • Zuzi
        Zuzi
        March 3, 2022 at 1:22 am | #

        Weird how that actually might be a possibility given the involvement of the mafia in that whole situation. Like I still think he’s dead as the injuries he sustained were pretty severe (and enough to get him into a coma). But like Clif said below, there is definitely a chance that he’s just chilling with all our collective moms
        for a nickle

        • Throwatron
          Throwatron
          March 3, 2022 at 5:59 am | #

          If it weren’t from the fact that I’m nearly sure Booster is substantially taller than Mike, I still would not entirely write off that this was just the most convenient excuse for them to perform a rapid-fire gender transition without anybody knowing.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        March 3, 2022 at 11:25 am | #

        I am fairly certain Mike is dead considering we’ve got three characters dealing with grieving over him.

        Mike’s worth more dead than alive, and I’ll stand by that.

  18. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    March 3, 2022 at 1:23 am | #

    Well, I guess we know who the REAL comedian is in the Willis household.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 3, 2022 at 1:41 am | #

      I’m just so fucking HAPPY she loves Futurama!!! 😍😂

  19. Kaz
    Kaz
    March 3, 2022 at 2:02 am | #

    @ the alt text, same.

  20. Dr. T
    Dr. T
    March 3, 2022 at 2:24 am | #

    Maggie sounds like a keeper.

  21. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    March 3, 2022 at 2:31 am | #

    Hey I think the bookmark strip is coming up!

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 3, 2022 at 2:43 am | #

      SAUCE?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 3, 2022 at 6:42 am | #

        My copy of Book 11 came with a bookmark with a comic featuring Ethan and Amber in a cafeteria booth just like this. (The other side has another strip that already ran, but I don’t remember exactly which one. That side’s turned against the fridge because I like this one better.)

        I’m not spoiling the punchline or posting it until it runs on the main site though, that wouldn’t be cool.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 3, 2022 at 6:43 am | #

          *Book 10

          Me no county good

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 3, 2022 at 4:39 pm | #

          For the record (now that I’m home and I can check), the strip on the other side of the bookmark is the “Get up, Joyce! Kill! Eat!” bonus strip that inspired your game.

  22. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    March 3, 2022 at 2:36 am | #

    do ping notification count ?

  23. foducool
    foducool
    March 3, 2022 at 3:36 am | #

    reminds me of the “give clay” country balls comic ^^

  24. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    March 3, 2022 at 4:18 am | #

    Alt text: damn i wish I had a wife who would repeat things in a Dr Zoidberg voice for me

  25. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    March 3, 2022 at 7:06 am | #

    The thing is that I fully believe this is where we reveal that Ethan has become a vigilante as well and is the much-much more intimidating as well as successful Night Guy.

    Not just because he looks like Pattinson Batman.

  26. Tsalmoth
    Tsalmoth
    March 3, 2022 at 7:43 am | #

    Dammit, Maggie! Now I can’t unhear it.

  27. Inbar Fink
    Inbar Fink
    March 3, 2022 at 7:54 am | #

    Awwwwww.

    I hope Amber doesn’t screw it up.

  28. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 3, 2022 at 8:04 am | #

    Nice to see that Amber wants to be friend again.

  29. Spencer
    Spencer
    March 3, 2022 at 8:33 am | #

    The last time these two talked Ethan, very correctly, stated that Amber only really talks to him in a crisis, and I’m considering that he might be getting sick of being her emotional support friend. I think they both dearly love each other, but that’s gotta be painful to realize that your closest friendship is one you’ve come to think of as conditional.

    I wonder if she’s here to say she’s come to terms with Mike’s death, which, “hey, Ethan, I’m okay with Mike being dead now!” might not be what he needs to hear, let alone from Amber.

  30. Keulen
    Keulen
    March 3, 2022 at 9:39 am | #

    Silently interneting with people sounds nice. Though I’m sure even that can be made super awkward really fast.

  31. nicoleandmaggie
    nicoleandmaggie
    March 3, 2022 at 11:08 am | #

    We’ve moved onto a new storyline and I *still* have Sin No More stuck in my head. But the version from Guys and Dolls since thankfully I don’t know the version Becky listened to.

  32. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    March 3, 2022 at 1:44 pm | #

    Without checking to see if anyone already made this joke:
    “You still have Amberrr. You ALL still have Amber!”

  33. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    March 3, 2022 at 1:51 pm | #

    Don’t make this creepy now, Amber

  34. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    March 3, 2022 at 2:42 pm | #

    I have an app that lets me text from my computer keyboard through my phone as long as the two are in bluetooth range of each other. It drastically reduces the number of typos that get through my texts and also means I don’t have to carry both of them around the house, as my laptop is connected to the phone from anywhere in the house. I can definitely see Amber using something like this. (Maybe even programming her own)

  35. Kitsune
    Kitsune
    March 3, 2022 at 5:09 pm | #

    Been a while since we’ve seen Emothan

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