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September 18, 2023

Twice

by David M Willis on March 15, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Joementum

└ Tags: amber, joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 15, 2023 at 12:02 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Joe had to go beyond *spelling it out*

    PLUS ULTRA

  2. Pocky
    Pocky
    March 15, 2023 at 12:02 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I wonder if they’ll get it framed

    • Clif
      Clif
      March 15, 2023 at 3:09 am | # | Reply | Flag

      We can hope.

  3. Mollyscribbles
    Mollyscribbles
    March 15, 2023 at 12:02 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Tracking everyone’s phones would normally be sketchy but given there was an actual kidnapping it probably counts as reasonable paranoia.

    • Viktoria
      Viktoria
      March 15, 2023 at 12:12 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I think there’s a line between “has the tracker loaded so they can check” versus “actually checks”. Amber having her friends phones traceable is one thing, actually accessing it is more of an invasion. And that may just be my personal limits, but I do think Amber is a bit over the line here purely because she actually uses the program.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        March 15, 2023 at 12:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

        She’s a vigilante and a hacker.
        She hasn’t been behind the line since we’ve met her.
        Or I should say, she’s not someone who generally respects the line.

        • PirateTawnee
          PirateTawnee
          March 15, 2023 at 3:05 am | # | Reply | Flag

          The line is a dot to Amber.

      • Sajuuk-Khar
        Sajuuk-Khar
        March 15, 2023 at 12:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

        It’s like the whole Bat-Sonar plot thread from the Dark Knight if it was improved by having Superman in it showing off his ass for unrelated reasons

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 15, 2023 at 3:11 am | # | Reply | Flag

          Does Joe’s ass count?

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        March 15, 2023 at 12:18 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Tbh, if I had such a program, I wouldn’t be able to resist checking.

        Ironically, the way you make it easier to resist is to put red tape in front of the ability to check.

        • Savail
          Savail
          March 15, 2023 at 2:25 am | # | Reply | Flag

          My husband did OTR trucking for a year, and during that time, he wanted to share his Google Maps location with me as both a trust thing and a safety thing. At first, I found it incredibly creepy and didn’t like checking up on him, but after he started working locally again, it became admittedly pretty helpful for timing when to start cooking supper so it would be ready right as he was getting home. I share my location data with him now, as well, because as a woman carting around a young toddler, having someone who can check my location if something happens is incredibly reassuring.

          • Rose by Any Other Name
            Rose by Any Other Name
            March 15, 2023 at 7:55 am | # | Reply | Flag

            Consent is, as always, a wonderful thing the impact of which should not be ignored.

            • Savail
              Savail
              March 15, 2023 at 10:55 pm | # | Reply | Flag

              Definitely. I’m pretty sure I also hit reply on the wrong person last night, which makes my comment look kind of weird, haha.

          • Plonker
            Plonker
            March 15, 2023 at 10:20 am | # | Reply | Flag

            Not creepy at all, since you’re both onboard with it.

            There are levels of potential suck here, though: Being tracked without your knowledge is seriously messed up. Being tracked and being aware of it, but not having a say about it is not as bad, but still pretty bad in the great scheme of things. Being tracked with your consent is mostly ok, but I’d worry about how that consent was acquired.

            When you’re the one taking the initiative to give someone else the ability to track your location, it’s on a different level altogether. It’s not just done with your consent, but on your initiative, and typically for your benefit.

            Unfortunately, these days you have so much tracking of your location imposed on you, and made to seem like it’s done on your initiative, for your benefit.

            Take most of these services in cars, like OnStar or the one VW uses. It’s a service, and you have to sign up to it to enable it, i.e., get the benefit. What you’re not told very clearly is that enabled or not, it will be tracking you and your location data will be used/sold to other entities.

            It’s just that without signing up to it, you have no access nor benefit from it. What you enable by signing up is just your access to the location data that’s already being collected by the system. Which, although a tangent to your post, is something that bugs me to no end.

            • Savail
              Savail
              March 15, 2023 at 10:54 pm | # | Reply | Flag

              No, makes sense, and these sorts of caveats with these services are always important to be aware of, too! I have some friends who don’t even like the idea of using Google Maps for tracking. And I can’t say they’re in the wrong. Also, I think I totally responded to the wrong person when I made my post last night..

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        March 15, 2023 at 1:16 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Also there’s a difference between tracking people in an emergency vs if you’re just wondering, and consentually vs secretly. But oh well, I don’t mind reading about characters who do sketchy things from time to time.

        • ktbear
          ktbear
          March 15, 2023 at 1:24 am | # | Reply | Flag

          Youve come to the right place.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        March 15, 2023 at 7:23 am | # | Reply | Flag

        I dunno. I’m never sure about “it’s fine to have the thing as long as you never use it” arguments, because if you aren’t going to use it, why do you want it? Answer: You want it because you’re going to use it. Maybe you’ll tell yourself that this time doesn’t count because… but you’re going to use it.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 15, 2023 at 8:03 am | # | Reply | Flag

          Well, in this case, she wants it for another potential kidnapping, which seems like a reasonable time to use it.

          But of course once you have it, even if the original reason was a good one, it’s easy to use it for more trivial things.

          • Wizard
            Wizard
            March 15, 2023 at 11:49 pm | # | Reply | Flag

            In the wise words of Sam Vimes, if you do it for a good reason, eventually you’ll do it for a bad reason.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              March 16, 2023 at 8:37 am | # | Reply | Flag

              So obviously the solution is to never do things for good reasons.

      • Matthew Davis
        Matthew Davis
        March 15, 2023 at 12:00 pm | # | Reply | Flag

        I think Amazi-Girl would not check it unless it was necessary. Amber is not Amazi-Girl, though. She’s a garbage person, in her own words, and garbadge people would.

        • huesatlight
          huesatlight
          March 15, 2023 at 2:52 pm | # | Reply | Flag

          Amazi-girl knowing how Amber will use it, and not getting consent from the people being tracked, is Amazi-girl crossing the line.

          It could be set up so that each time someone is pinged they also get sent a text containing an innocuous image that they’d recognize as a notification they just got pinged. Like Joyce gets sent a random capybara image. Sal gets “New phone, who’s this?” from a spoofed number. etc.

      • Kazuma Taichi
        Kazuma Taichi
        March 15, 2023 at 7:03 pm | # | Reply | Flag

        the dissociative identity certainly doesn’t help

        like even if Amber was the type of moral person to pull it off her phone, the moment Amazi-girl takes over and sees it missing she’s gonna put it right back on the phone

    • zee
      zee
      March 15, 2023 at 1:50 pm | # | Reply | Flag

      Yeah. There were a bunch of abductions around my school in my first year so my parents track my phone with Google maps. Afaik it only gets used when I get in a cab/Uber since, that’s how a lot of abductions happen here

      • zee
        zee
        March 15, 2023 at 1:52 pm | # | Reply | Flag

        Then again unlike here I gave permission and have to choose to share my location

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 15, 2023 at 1:54 pm | # | Reply | Flag

      I used to work as a customer service rep for a major cell phone carrier, and you have no idea how many people would call in asking us to tell them where their lost or stolen phone was because they were positive we could track – in real time – any phone on our network no matter where it might be. And then there were the people who wanted us to tell them how to turn on “the tracker app” so they could keep tabs on their child/spouse/boy or girlfriend without their knowing about it.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        March 15, 2023 at 6:40 pm | # | Reply | Flag

        That’s NSA kinda stuff. And yes the government can track us at any time with or without a warrant, they back-doored the phone system. I wish that wasn’t me being paranoid, but I have seen too many instances of it happening. And I have also seen where they don’t use it when it would make things so much easier before I realize that the situation wasn’t that important.

  4. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    March 15, 2023 at 12:03 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Like many species, the Common Joeus Erectus puts on a display to impress potential mates.

    This specimen has opted to do The Worm. The female appears unimpressed.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 15, 2023 at 12:19 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Considering the entire point of “homo erectus” is that they started standing up straight, it’s hilarious to apply it to someone in the middle of a faceplant.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        March 15, 2023 at 12:49 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Joe is an example of No Homo Erectus so named for a different part of their anatomy standing upright.

        • Plonker
          Plonker
          March 15, 2023 at 10:23 am | # | Reply | Flag

          I’m tempted to flag that comment, not because there’s anything wrong with it, but to ensure Willis doesn’t miss it. 🙂

    • Theluxland
      Theluxland
      March 15, 2023 at 7:30 am | # | Reply | Flag

      It’s still a very rare sight to see Joe face down, ass up

      • Z
        Z
        March 15, 2023 at 8:40 am | # | Reply | Flag

        A considerably less rare sight once Joyce decides to try out that “strap on” that was suggested all that time ago.

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      March 15, 2023 at 11:54 pm | # | Reply | Flag

      I think the snowflakes shooting out of his butt kind of undermine the effect.

  5. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    March 15, 2023 at 12:03 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Amazi-Girl is always watching.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 15, 2023 at 12:24 am | # | Reply | Flag

      “Aaalways watching, Wabrownski. Aaalways watching.”

      • Koname
        Koname
        March 15, 2023 at 5:25 am | # | Reply | Flag

        I say that so many times my brain had to process if I’ve been saying Mike’s last name wrong all these years and it took half a minute for the information that Joyce’s last name was slid in.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          March 15, 2023 at 7:59 am | # | Reply | Flag

          You’re welcome.

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          March 16, 2023 at 9:56 am | # | Reply | Flag

          Don’t be silly, it’s always been Mike Warnerski.

    • Francoinblanco
      Francoinblanco
      March 15, 2023 at 1:31 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Mordor/sauron theme in the background

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 15, 2023 at 2:14 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Just like Ceiling Cat?

  6. Steve
    Steve
    March 15, 2023 at 12:03 am | # | Reply | Flag

    For a second I thought the snowflakes were stars coming up from his butt.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 15, 2023 at 12:04 am | # | Reply | Flag

      The Fart in Our Stars.

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      March 15, 2023 at 12:06 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Now that I see I really can’t unsee it but that’s okay cause it’s funny.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 15, 2023 at 6:33 pm | # | Reply | Flag

      Same.

  7. Inboxninja
    Inboxninja
    March 15, 2023 at 12:04 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Eyes up here ladies

    • Nono
      Nono
      March 15, 2023 at 12:09 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I mean in his position, there is no “up here”.

  8. Guy Sensei
    Guy Sensei
    March 15, 2023 at 12:04 am | # | Reply | Flag

    So glad Amazi-girl is active beyond Roller Derby

    • Dara
      Dara
      March 15, 2023 at 12:21 am | # | Reply | Flag

      me too. i miss her.

  9. Council
    Council
    March 15, 2023 at 12:04 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I’m sure the girls appreciate the attempt, Joey, but you gotta work on your reverse dogeza.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      March 15, 2023 at 12:20 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I might need to log off more frequently. I read “dogeza” as a fourth-level Final Fantasy spell that summons doge memes.

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        March 15, 2023 at 12:44 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Would you still be open to watching streams of it tho? On a server I made that just happens to be about Dumbing of Age…

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          March 15, 2023 at 2:53 am | # | Reply | Flag

          Streams of Dogeza?

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            March 15, 2023 at 3:05 am | # | Reply | Flag

            Streams of Final Fantasy! With some rather naughty mods enabled. There’s also a social battery recharge channel filled with Pokemon and Digimon nostalgia.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              March 15, 2023 at 4:37 am | # | Reply | Flag

              I’m pretty sure streaming FF14 with naughty mods is a perma-ban on the usual sites.

              • The Wellerman
                The Wellerman
                March 15, 2023 at 7:18 pm | # | Reply | Flag

                not if you got your own Discord server 😉

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 15, 2023 at 2:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Much incantation. Very mana. Wow.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      March 15, 2023 at 9:07 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Something downward horndog something.

  10. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 15, 2023 at 12:04 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Joyce and Amber have a weirdly low key friendship dynamic. Amber might be the dark horse in the battle for Joyce’s soul.

  11. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    March 15, 2023 at 12:05 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Has Amazi-Girl considered a career at the NSA?

    • anon
      anon
      March 15, 2023 at 12:09 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Would her ‘extra curricular’ activities disqualify her from that? i imagine she doesn’t have the best opinion on authority/cop figures to rly join it , even if the nsa doesn’t have the same reputation as ACAB or whatever

      • Laura
        Laura
        March 15, 2023 at 12:11 am | # | Reply | Flag

        I foresee Amazi-Girl as having a future as a private security contractor.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        March 15, 2023 at 12:51 am | # | Reply | Flag

        The NSA has a worse reputation than most cops.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          March 15, 2023 at 1:24 am | # | Reply | Flag

          Slightly better reputation than the other government intelligence agencies though! “Marginally less evil than the FBI and the CIA” is truly a ringing endorsement.

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            March 15, 2023 at 1:35 am | # | Reply | Flag

            Depends. Gaiman and Pratchett’s Crowly would say the NSA is doing far more total evil by large volumes of little evils. Possibly we just haven’t yet seen the bit where the traffic jam on the information super-highway results in people being nastier to their loved ones. Then again, reddit *was* down yesterday…

          • Plonker
            Plonker
            March 15, 2023 at 10:28 am | # | Reply | Flag

            Possibly a reputation for not being as prone to putting their foot in it, i.e., competency, but for just sheer evil, they have them all beat.

            I may resent being controlled by dumb evil, but I truly fear competent evil being in charge.

            • Wizard
              Wizard
              March 16, 2023 at 12:02 am | # | Reply | Flag

              I wouldn’t even be so sure about the competence part. This is an organization whose approach to finding a needle in a haystack is to pile up more hay. Their only true competence lies in the field of avoiding any kind of meaningful oversight or accountability.

          • CallynD
            CallynD
            March 15, 2023 at 12:24 pm | # | Reply | Flag

            I think that’s more to do with being SigInt and not really having ground agents than anything to do with actual morality. It’s hard to run MK Ultra from behind a computer screen.

            • Wizard
              Wizard
              March 16, 2023 at 12:07 am | # | Reply | Flag

              I’m disinclined to give them a pass there. Even if they don’t have a whole lot of presence on the ground, they’re perfectly happy to provide information to other entities that do. That makes them accomplices before the fact, at best.

              • CallynD
                CallynD
                March 16, 2023 at 1:34 am | # | Reply | Flag

                Not giving them a pass, ACAB and the NSA are cops, just that being more SigInt lets the foist off blame.

    • Ophidiophile
      Ophidiophile
      March 15, 2023 at 2:01 am | # | Reply | Flag

      She would have to work for a boss and deal with real people. It’ll be a few more years and probably at least one more crisis.

  12. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    March 15, 2023 at 12:05 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I see Joe feels all caterpillar-y 😂

    Also Joyce looks so good in these panels 😍

    • Laura
      Laura
      March 15, 2023 at 12:12 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I am really loving all the realistic curves in this comic! Big butts, hips, and thighs, unite!

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 15, 2023 at 12:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

      He’s inching his way into Joyce’s heart.

    • Tawdry Quirks
      Tawdry Quirks
      March 15, 2023 at 2:03 am | # | Reply | Flag

      He’s demonstrating a new dance move. It’s called the Wormdo.

      • Andrews
        Andrews
        March 15, 2023 at 2:01 pm | # | Reply | Flag

        *Arnold Rimmer voice* what’s a wormdo?

  13. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 15, 2023 at 12:05 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I’ll tell you once more/Before I get on the floor/Don’t Bring Me Down

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 15, 2023 at 12:09 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Open the door/Get on the floor/Everyone do the Dina.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        March 15, 2023 at 12:52 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Everyone? I don’t know how Becky feels about polyamory.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 15, 2023 at 12:19 am | # | Reply | Flag

      (Ooh-WOO-ooh)

      • Dara
        Dara
        March 15, 2023 at 12:21 am | # | Reply | Flag

        perfect icon is perfect

  14. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    March 15, 2023 at 12:06 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Today’s Reddit post is ninja related if that interests you: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/11rli63/dumbing_of_age_headcannon_ninja_rick_is_actually/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    Also this marks day 5 of the, “greatest rivals” polls: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/11ob9xb/greatest_nemesis_type_rivalry_in_doa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    • adam Black
      adam Black
      March 15, 2023 at 12:58 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Has Ninja Rick even made an. Appearance yet?

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        March 15, 2023 at 1:24 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Willis has said Ninja Rick won’t show up, as he’s based on a real person. I choose to believe Ninja Rick is a mental health counselor at the school, the one assigned to finally give all the main characters therapy, but they never go see him.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 15, 2023 at 2:16 am | # | Reply | Flag

          I choose to believe he’s a groundskeeper. We see his handiwork, but we’ll never see him.

          Because he’s a ninja.

  15. k
    k
    March 15, 2023 at 12:06 am | # | Reply | Flag

    aww, how did Joe know that she really enjoys his tushy?

  16. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    March 15, 2023 at 12:06 am | # | Reply | Flag

    So when Dorothy becomes president, will Amber be Homeland Security or NSA?

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 15, 2023 at 12:23 am | # | Reply | Flag

      NSA. Homeland Security does more than electronic surveillance. Not like… usefully more, but they do lots of physical security.

      Carla is more suited for DHS.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        March 15, 2023 at 12:32 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Amber has extensive experience doing more.
        So it’s not f she’s capable, it’s if she’s willing.
        Also, Carla would never work at Homeland; there’s no way she’d be a cog in the machine following orders.
        She’s freelance all the way.
        The only other character with actual security experience would be Marcie.

  17. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 15, 2023 at 12:08 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Do we need to side eye Amazi-girl for having one of those highly unethical computers that taps every phone in the city to gain location data on any individual near a cell phone like Batman had in the Dark Knight?

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      March 15, 2023 at 12:23 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I remember reading the injustice comics and there was a part where Batman puts a tracker on Black Cannery & Green Arrows child and then he brings it up after he and a few other kids got kidnapped and then he gets chewed out for it.

      Sure it was invasive a bit but it came in handy.

      • Neeks
        Neeks
        March 15, 2023 at 4:30 am | # | Reply | Flag

        I know you meant Black Canary but I’m enjoying the idea of a cannery themed super hero

        • Cunobaros
          Cunobaros
          March 15, 2023 at 5:39 am | # | Reply | Flag

          They have a six-pack.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      March 15, 2023 at 7:19 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Yes, absolutely, but also I’m pretty sure this isn’t weird comicbook supertechnology, but an actual app that exists. I distinctly remember reading some tech blog a while back where the blogger was horrifed that he could download this thing and track his girlfriend without her being involved or informed, because supposing she’d dumped him and he’d become a crazy stalker?

    • shoopdawhoop
      shoopdawhoop
      March 15, 2023 at 7:46 pm | # | Reply | Flag

      But he destroyed it after using it so that violation of civil liberties was OkAyYy

  18. anon
    anon
    March 15, 2023 at 12:08 am | # | Reply | Flag

    has amber been amazi-girl lately? tho i imagine the first thing a current kidnapper would do is to confiscate if not outright break someone’s phone

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 15, 2023 at 12:10 am | # | Reply | Flag

      It depends on if they are A, smart enough to think about it, and B, want to use the captive’s phone for something like sending a message to verify the person is actually captured or going through their phone for something.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      March 15, 2023 at 12:13 am | # | Reply | Flag

      If you’re asking whether the Amazi-Girl personality has driven the body lately, we do know that Amazi-Girl is the personality on the roller derby team. If you’re asking whether she has put on the cape and fought crime on campus, all evidence is that she has not don so since the kidnapping.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 15, 2023 at 12:13 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I think they either haven’t, or it’s for roller derby solely. I do not think she has performed actual superheroics since Blaine died. Night Guy has, kinda, but even Walky doesn’t seem terribly active with that right now.

  19. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 15, 2023 at 12:09 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Joyce just mirin’ the goods.

  20. Nono
    Nono
    March 15, 2023 at 12:09 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Is Joyce thinking DATASS?

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 15, 2023 at 12:14 am | # | Reply | Flag

      She canonically really likes his butt, so, yes, almost certainly.

  21. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    March 15, 2023 at 12:09 am | # | Reply | Flag

    You know I was thinking about how I let the whole “Amber/Amazi-girl is tracking everyone” thing. I figured it was a safety measure for everyone.

  22. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 15, 2023 at 12:10 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Also gotta wonder if the drink is Joyce making an adjustment to her pill taking method. I approve if so.

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      March 15, 2023 at 12:14 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I mean hopefully she just takes the pill and washes it down with water at some point but drinking a 2 litre is not optimal solution.

      • shrub
        shrub
        March 15, 2023 at 1:04 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Well it’s probably only something like an extra 600 calories or so everytime she has a pill…

  23. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 15, 2023 at 12:10 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I do love that Joyce doesn’t beat around the bush about her own obliviousness here.

    Also Joyce and Amber are cute together.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 15, 2023 at 12:13 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Yeah tell me about it bruh, Joyce’s figure, in those pink colors, sipping a drink, Amber looking like Pikachu 🥰

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 15, 2023 at 12:42 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Yeah I may have to draw them kissing someday.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          March 15, 2023 at 1:36 am | # | Reply | Flag

          https://imgur.com/a/VlJrs6Q
          It’s someday.

          • Marisa Mockery
            Marisa Mockery
            March 15, 2023 at 1:45 am | # | Reply | Flag

            That is adorable

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            March 15, 2023 at 1:47 am | # | Reply | Flag

            Bruh you are like the Spongebob of DoA fan pics! Super!!! 🤩

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 15, 2023 at 3:21 am | # | Reply | Flag

            Thank you!

          • Shorduie
            Shorduie
            March 15, 2023 at 9:54 am | # | Reply | Flag

            That is awesome. I think Joyce is hot almost as much as you think Jennifer is hot, so it is really appreciated XD

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              March 15, 2023 at 8:01 pm | # | Reply | Flag

              Then I’ll try to draw her more <3

          • GeekyWarrior
            GeekyWarrior
            March 15, 2023 at 12:20 pm | # | Reply | Flag

            That’s some good artwork there, redacted!

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              March 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm | # | Reply | Flag

              :3

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 15, 2023 at 12:16 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I think a benefit of the presumption she’s autistic is that she is owning some of her foibles more openly, which honestly is probably helping her social life. She’d have been much more defensive about this last semester.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 15, 2023 at 12:47 am | # | Reply | Flag

      What obliviousness? not quite sure I read that on her in this strip…

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 15, 2023 at 12:58 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Amber asks “oh you sussed it out?” as in “Oh you figured out he’s crushing on you?” and Joyce replies “He literally had to draw me a picture” which is her saying she never would’ve picked up on his infatuation if he didn’t basically explain it to her.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          March 15, 2023 at 1:34 am | # | Reply | Flag

          Yeah how thoughtful of Joe! Really! XD

          I sure hope someone who has a crush on me can be at least somewhat open about it, if only so I don’t have to play the social cue guessing game too much. *_*

  24. Kimi
    Kimi
    March 15, 2023 at 12:12 am | # | Reply | Flag

    One of my uncles mentioned last year that he and his wife still tracks their youngest adult son’s phone (who is married btw). So people like that do exist.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 15, 2023 at 12:17 am | # | Reply | Flag

      All is well as long as the tracked party consents to it.

      • Kimi
        Kimi
        March 15, 2023 at 12:21 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Hard to say whether he still agrees to it or just forgot that they had that from the teenage years though. Not that I am going to be poking that hornets’ nest of questions.

  25. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    March 15, 2023 at 12:13 am | # | Reply | Flag

    FACE DOWN

    ASS UP

    THAT’S THE WAY JOYCE LIKES TO

    GET JOE TO DO LAUNDRY

    • darkgloomie
      darkgloomie
      March 15, 2023 at 7:39 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Yeah, she got him pegged down*

      * Phrasing quite intentional

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        March 15, 2023 at 8:21 pm | # | Reply | Flag

        This is Joyce we’re talking about, no hanky-panky until at least they’re engaged if not married.

  26. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 15, 2023 at 12:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

    And what a picture it is, apparently! XD

  27. Grimey
    Grimey
    March 15, 2023 at 12:16 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Joyce can’t really fault Amber trying to be protective but struggles in the box she feels put in. I feel like Amber could relate if they talked about this a while.

  28. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    March 15, 2023 at 12:17 am | # | Reply | Flag

    “Everyone’s privacy is being violated equally” The KGB*

    *(Insert relevant national security and or domestic intelligence gathering orginzation)

  29. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 15, 2023 at 12:17 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I mean, Joe and Joyce both seem to know exactly what they signed up for. I love that for them.

  30. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    March 15, 2023 at 12:20 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Aww, i feel kinda bad for Joe. But to be fair he acted like a dick for quite a bit, so it’s probably fine if he’s humiliated for a while I’m compensation 😛

  31. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    March 15, 2023 at 12:20 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Dorothy sees Joe on the ground and assumes he’s looking up skirts.

  32. Raen
    Raen
    March 15, 2023 at 12:20 am | # | Reply | Flag

    She’s (they’ve) pretty much given up on the “secret identity” thing, hasn’t she (haven’t they)?

    • Dara
      Dara
      March 15, 2023 at 12:24 am | # | Reply | Flag

      This is where we need French’s third-person-female-plural, isn’t it. Damn.

      (elles: plural she/they)

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 15, 2023 at 2:20 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Both of her said it.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 15, 2023 at 12:33 am | # | Reply | Flag

      You mean, besides literally taking off the costume in public after a car crash and then yelling about her identity?

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 15, 2023 at 12:34 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I’m pretty sure Joyce knew before the kidnapping, and pretty much everyone involved knows.
      Joe might be the only one who doesn’t know, as I don’t remember anyone telling him.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        March 15, 2023 at 1:00 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Either way Jennifer will be the last to know amazi girls real identity, assuming she ever does.

      • miz
        miz
        March 15, 2023 at 2:16 am | # | Reply | Flag

        Joyce found out *during* the kidnapping, to be more accurate. She was pretty incredulous about it (https://www.dumbingofage.com/hay/ and the next comic)

    • Mark
      Mark
      March 15, 2023 at 7:13 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Well, the focus of her need to be AmaziGirl is gone. I could see that persona losing direction and drive, and gradually being reabsorbed.

  33. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    March 15, 2023 at 12:28 am | # | Reply | Flag

    As a kid, I never really got what was so bad about the phone hack thing.
    As an adult, I see it was INCREDIBLY creepy. And the movie, despite calling it out, justifies it.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      March 15, 2023 at 12:31 am | # | Reply | Flag

      RIGHT? have an upvote, Random earthling.

    • Mark
      Mark
      March 15, 2023 at 7:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Now I’m wondering how many people have hacked their own phones to lie about their locations?

  34. Derek
    Derek
    March 15, 2023 at 12:59 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I’ve been really trying to force myself to see Amber as a likable character again and then she admits she does shit like this. Stop being so fucking creepy Amber.

    • shrub
      shrub
      March 15, 2023 at 1:02 am | # | Reply | Flag

      She really needs her ego checked

    • Dot
      Dot
      March 15, 2023 at 10:42 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Amber isn’t the one who does it.

  35. suet
    suet
    March 15, 2023 at 12:59 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Find My iPhone and Snapchat’s Snap Map, both blursed in checking where your friends are…

    Wonder what’s Joyce sipping?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 15, 2023 at 2:10 am | # | Reply | Flag

      A beverage, presumably.

      If that’s another soft drink on top of the 2 liters of Sprite she downed earlier, she’s going to be bouncing off the walls soon.

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        March 15, 2023 at 4:31 am | # | Reply | Flag

        I want a caffeinated lemon lime soda so bad…

  36. David Alexander McDonald
    David Alexander McDonald
    March 15, 2023 at 1:00 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Quite the bank shot from the ceiling.

    I can see this relationship us starting with quiet dignity.

  37. brionl
    brionl
    March 15, 2023 at 1:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

    That’s some pretty good hang time if Joe didn’t land until the last panel.

  38. Joshua Kronengold
    Joshua Kronengold
    March 15, 2023 at 1:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Amber has clearly seen the Walkyverse’s equivalent of JLU:

    Question: Peanut butter sandwitches.
    Supergirl: How did you…what, you go through my trash?
    Question: Please.
    I go through everyone’s trash.

    • StClair
      StClair
      March 15, 2023 at 3:14 am | # | Reply | Flag

      Love that scene.

  39. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    March 15, 2023 at 1:19 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Amber Google, Facebook, goverment, wallmart called they want to know your localization.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      March 15, 2023 at 3:02 am | # | Reply | Flag

      I know Google already knows it.
      If you are using Maps, it has a history of you movement through all day…

  40. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 15, 2023 at 1:26 am | # | Reply | Flag

    sus

  41. MoreWLessG
    MoreWLessG
    March 15, 2023 at 1:36 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Ohhhh myyyyyy

  42. Throwatron
    Throwatron
    March 15, 2023 at 2:24 am | # | Reply | Flag

    i love all three of them

  43. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    March 15, 2023 at 3:48 am | # | Reply | Flag

    I feel like this drawing of Joe is a tribute to another faceplant, but I can’t place it. Maybe I’m imagining it; there’s only so many ways a cartoony character can fall with their face toward the audience

  44. Sharaku
    Sharaku
    March 15, 2023 at 5:38 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Joyce is chill. I approve.

  45. vulcanodon
    vulcanodon
    March 15, 2023 at 7:19 am | # | Reply | Flag

    First, kick-marks on a washing machine; now a head mark on the ceiling in the hallway. Repair tickets getting weirder and weirder.

  46. RowenMorland
    RowenMorland
    March 15, 2023 at 9:40 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Is Joe sliding off along the floor like a worm again?

  47. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    March 15, 2023 at 10:15 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Joyce catching on to Joe and being nonchalant is a nice twist.

  48. Lysbeth
    Lysbeth
    March 15, 2023 at 10:21 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Caterpillar-Joe makes me happy

  49. Dot
    Dot
    March 15, 2023 at 10:41 am | # | Reply | Flag

    Man, I am just not feeling this plot. Joyce and Joe as a romantic pairing just doesn’t click for me.

  50. Just another fun
    Just another fun
    March 15, 2023 at 12:05 pm | # | Reply | Flag

    Joyce is now picking up Dina’s art; secret sneaking.

  51. poyo
    poyo
    March 15, 2023 at 12:12 pm | # | Reply | Flag

    i would judge amber but i make my two friends who make very interesting life choices use a tracking app whenever they go out of town by themselves

  52. huesatlight
    huesatlight
    March 15, 2023 at 2:33 pm | # | Reply | Flag

    It seems like Joe knows she’s Amazi-girl. He hasn’t met her on panel. If he’s gone to any of the roller derby, I guess he would have met her then.

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      March 15, 2023 at 5:42 pm | # | Reply | Flag

      I think most people in their orbit knows she’s Amazi-Girl. It’s an open secret at this point.

  53. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    March 15, 2023 at 7:06 pm | # | Reply | Flag

    I appreciate that Joyce is 100% chill with her phone being tracked when given the whole kidnapping rationale, but takes major issue with everyone else’s phones also being tracked

  54. shoopdawhoop
    shoopdawhoop
    March 15, 2023 at 7:47 pm | # | Reply | Flag

    “You go through my trash?”
    “Please. I go through *everybody’s* trash.”

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 15, 2023 at 9:14 pm | # | Reply | Flag

      Yeah, she basically is The Question, minus the Randian tendencies.

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