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I mean, ‘That which was to be shown’ is really a longer and more complex way of saying ‘Like I said three pages of equations ago’, so that’s barely even lies-to-children
It’s great to see everyone getting a costume upgrade. I need more comic costumed hijinks with all this (gestures) going on in the world. Let the hero save the day and also get laid.
AG’s costume was more or less done. Dorothy just decided to change it without asking first. We have yet to see if Dorothy’s “finishing it correctly” is going to be welcomed/unwelcomed or helpful/neutral/harmful.
No, he thinks he’s a hero. He 100% believes that he is a hero. This is how narcissists operate. They legitimately think that bullying you into conforming is a moral victory.
Even those people don’t see themselves as “the bad guy,” even if they’re straight up intentionally trolling or literally harassing someone (or issuing death threats or doxxing or SWATting or whatever). And if you call them out on it, they’ll claim “I was just joking bruh. Lighten up. Welcome to the Internet. Get a thicker skin. Etc. Etc.” They’ll go to their graves still thinking they were in the right, no matter how heinous they may be behaving.
Eh, I think this fails to account for the fact a large chunk of narcissists don’t actually CARE about morality. So being the bad guy or the good guy doesn’t matter to them.
personality I would refrain from ascribing bigots personality disorders until proven otherwise. One doesn’t need to be a narcissist, or a schizophrenic or have borderline personality disorder to think women are sub-human. Sadly that thought can be achieved just by being a shitty person!
Ascribing mental illness to bigotry does more harm to mentally ill people than anything.
Corporal punishment consistently fails to work as a treatment for being a shitty person – in fact, it often exacerbates the problem. It is, however, successful as a deterrent for acting on one’s being a shitty person.
Not corporal punishment per se, but education is generally a deterrent, and “talk shit, get hit” can be a valuable lesson for those who won’t learn the easy way.
weird thing to say in a comment section that routinely absolves a character of murdering a potential snitch because the potential snitch was incidentally abusive.
Most sadly, at least 99% of shitty people stay that way for decades. Or for their entire lifetimes. You can’t cure or help them. You can only take away their power to enshittify.
As someone with a PD, thank you so much for this. I’m sick as hell of seeing bigotry even in the most leftist of spaces, just because it’s the Scary Mental Illness du jour. Pop psychology has kept so many people from being able to access help, because you literally can’t google your own disorder without being reminded that 99% of the internet hates us and wants us eradicated. Idk why it doesn’t compute with these people that “there’s a disorder that means someone is Inherently Evil” is just ableism.
Just to add: due to my own mental disorder(s), I seem to lack the empathy for suffering that so many people seem to have instinctively… but I also don’t have any desire to cause harm. Besides, it’s better strategy to make friends than make enemies.
Maybe, if I were a Rich White Guy™, I’d be in a position to better make use of my emotional shortcomings, and might have been raised to value mindless greed over consequences? If so, I’d be fine with that hypothetical alternative me getting the same treatment as that recent United Healthcare CEO. A better world would benefit us all, even those who don’t care about others.
Empathy =/= actions. I know a lot of people who feel strong empathy for others but have done horrible things to them regardless (and that’s not even starting on all the self-labeled Empaths who treat people with personality disorders like shit). And I know a lot of very kind people who treat others well, yet don’t experience true empathy–and that’s okay! You can know it’s right to treat people in a certain way without experiencing empathy for them.
Incel ideology can make recruits like this dude out of the most ordinary seeming of people.
If they’re not the kind resorting to physical attacks they’re hacking email accounts
either way the key is to understand “evil” as less down to personal flaws or immutable-seeming human natures, but to the pervasive influence of long-standing social institutions
this guy thinks the only way he’s ever going to get a girl is if a system of coercive power entitles and guarantees him one.
But WHY does every guy need a girl anyway? does that necessarily guarantee an end to loneliness? or to feeling more complete in life? or is necessarily the most affective way of getting what a different sex partner is SUPPOSED to entail?
or is it because our society is one which has always favored straight couples who own houses and build equity and all that, via tax policy and otherwise? and does it necessarily HAVE to be that way for society’s benefit?
in the pre-Civil War South, slaves were a luxury and their society’s primary mode of production, so of course, romanticized traditions and customs and religion and social order revolved around that to make it seem like a natural, universal social order
resentful poor white men were raised to respect slave owners and to aspire one day to owning slaves themselves in very much the same way men today aspire to hetero marriages, for the sake of all the benefits that would be bestowed upon them in their society’s pre-designated Path To Happiness.
traditions that were “just always there and always worked” made them oblivious to the fact that the institution of slavery was there to keep the rich rich and the poor poor
likewise Incelerator commits to this ideology because, alongside thousands of others recruited into this ideology, he’s *convinced* it’s a given that getting a woman partner is the only effective path to happiness and fulfillment in life because of being entrenched in the traditions, culture, customs and language of a religious red state, which feed into the pervasive impression that hetero-marriage-centric patriarchy is some natural, universal order, and that having to submit to this order is a necessity to get anywhere and a fact of life.
I think wanting a romantic and sexual partner goes far deeper than being entrenched in the traditions, culture, customs and language of a religious red state. Some level of pair bonding goes way the hell back in our evolutionary history. It can even be traces in our relative lack of sexual dimorphism compared to our closest primate relatives.
But largely, you’re still right. It’s just even deeper than “favored straight couples who own houses and build equity and all that”. We’ve got at least millennia of people who fucked and overwhelmingly paired off to successfully raise the offspring in our ancestry.
Until very, very recently (and long before modern notions of tax breaks and equity) and before the nuclear family really was a thing, much of the world was sufficiently patriarchal that making on your own as a woman really wasn’t an option for the vast majority. That gave even the less desirable men a leg up on finding a partner.
That’s changed and it’s definitely a change for the better, but it’s one we’re still figuring out how to live with.
Pair bonding, yes. Patriarchy and mono-romantic obligations there-of? Not so much.
Spider monkeys, bonobos, lemurs and many other species of primate are matriarchal.
Not to mention a majority of primate societies are that in which sex has a role that has just about nothing to do with lifelong partnership entailed by the human institution of marriage. For instance chimpanzees and other great apes give each other hand jobs regardless of sex for the sake of altruistic group cohesion.
Same was also true of human societies for a majority of history, besides polyamory being commonplace, sex and romantic love didnt really have anything to do with each other. You could love someone without having extra ordinary sex, and you could have extraordinary sex with someone who aint necessarily your life partner. Only fairly recently did romantic schools of thought compel humans to reserve sex as the ultimate expression of romantic admiration for their life partners.
Truth be told, very little of human life is natural. Hell, Homo sapiens as a species survived and continue to exist largely in defiance of nature. Every tradtition and it’s pervasive consequence, every form of oppression is a thing that wasn’t always there, but was something humans created.
Long standing patriarchal mono-romantic traditions and their oppressive consequences are by no means natural or a given in life. They are human-made problems, and they have human-made solutions.
In a sense. Romance and marriage weren’t tied until relatively recently, but marriage itself goes far back in history – not prehistory necessarily.
And it was very much about men controlling access to “their” women, even if men were still socially allowed to seek sex elsewhere.
That’s not completely universal of course, but it’s also not some weird modern aberration.
I don’t think that he’s necessarily an actual clinical narcissist tbh. “Some people think that bullying you into conforming is a moral victory,” though, is spot on.
Sadly, 99% of people even in leftist spaces don’t care about the fact that it’s inaccurate/ableist to label every bad person(/person they don’t like) a narcissist
I think it’s more of a “you’re either with me or you’re my enemy” type of thing.
… I hadn’t encountered the phrase “gender traitor” before today, I’m guessing because I avoid this… erm, subculture. But I’m not the least bit surprised by it. Feels like a similar concept to “race traitor”.
It’s been thrown around for decades on the lunatic fringe of feminism. Incels believe that by adopting this term they’re pwning teh libtards super hard.
Pretty sure he thinks he’s a villain. He teamed up with a self-proclaimed supervillain last time (that is, Amber’s dad) and at no point here did he identify as a hero. On the contrary, he gave a villain speech — “Females who have too many skills, I’m calling you out, for today, you face the INCELLERATOR”. That’s a villain speech, not a hero speech, because if sexism is wrong, dude doesn’t want to be right.
He believes sexism is right, though. Sure he can see he behaves like a villain – but he believes the ends justify the means. He’s pretty much saying out loud in the strip that the only way to get people to listen to the truth is violence, and that violence is therefore justified.
Nobody is evil in his own eyes. If one sets aside the notion of an absolute moral authority then “good” and “evil” are labels given by consensus — and consensus depends on whom you are polling.
There are more options than “absolute moral authority” and “us v them”. It’s fairly easy to conclude that someone who, for example, causes suffering for thousands merely for the sake of adding a little money to their bank account — and money they’ll never need, at that — can be considered to be evil, at least in regard to those actions.
As an aside: this doesn’t contradict my above comment. I may not be able to empathize with their suffering, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
This comic is and has always been wall-to-wall depictions of people fundamentally believing that they’re doing the right thing by punishing people who violate the norms as they understand them. Joyce’s mom, Salk/Walky’s mom, Amber’s dad, Becky’s dad, Ethan’s mom….if anything he’s one of the few who’s not over 40.
One of my favorite moments in 12 years of fighting racists on Twitter was when somebody called me a race traitor. Specifically, I was a traitor to the white race because I maintained that children of color had “equal” value as human beings as white children, which the racist interpreted as “higher” value.
Just wanna get that in there before people start complaining no real human being has ever said anything as stupid as Incelerator here.
One of my “favorite” Twitter moments was the fifty-third time I repeated my joke about how Punching All Nazis would represent a major de-escalation on my part from my father, who dropped bombs on them and shot machine guns at them, and my Mentions for the next two days were filled with idiots wanting to fistfight my dad.
Which…
I mean, okay, first, my dad is dead. So, you know, go crazy, guys. Have fun punching that marble slab.
Second, reading comprehension much? My dad didn’t fistfight Nazis was the whole point of the exercise — he murdered them with high explosives.
Third, reading comprehension much? I never said I punch Nazis, either — I said that if I did, it would be a de-escalation from, you know, killing them, like my father did.
Fourth, and most importantly: HOLY CRAP THERE ARE A LOT OF IDIOTS ON TWITTER EAGER TO IDENTIFY AS NAZIS IN THIS SCENARIO. Like, y’all really telling on y’allself there
Anyway, like I said, it’s an observation I’ve made a lot, but damned if that one time it didn’t result in two days’ worth of honst-to-god Nazi threats all over my Mentions.
Fun times also because I am, y’know, the only “Ray Radlein” on the planet, and have never taken any pains at all to anonymize myself online. No OpSec at all.
So any one of those threatening Nazis could have easily showed up at my door ready to throw hands with an old Disabled dude.
I’ve encountered a few of those. Thankfully just a few (mostly because I don’t go onto twitser or any other unregulated fester-space). I wonder how many were deliberately trolling (maybe professionally, even) vs sincere shit-heads.
And, thank you for the “de-escalation” idea for the future, if I need it. My father was a Marine in that war. I gotta remember the context here.
Yes red is part of my country’s flag, the other one being white. Guess which country with that flag setup would have a grudge against both Nazis and Soviets.
I’m joking. Of course it is Poland, where they’re now setting an example for my country’s fascist party, founded by an old nazi officer, looks for inspiration.
No, my country’s fascist party is currently the second biggest party in parliament, holding a right-wing coalition government under their thrall while keeping out of government themselves. But trust me, they’re all about following the example of Poland and also Hungary in their anti-democratic efforts. Now, Da Boy, I predict you will to say absolutely nothing about your personal resistance to the fascism facing both of us today.
I voted against the Right Wing party and we booted them out of the position of power.
Now, let’s talk about why you felt triggered by me hoping that after Allies were done with On Mass-murdering regime they didn’t go after the second one which would have spared my, and probably your, country half a century of brutal occupation. Are you in support of their actions?
You sure jumped all over me hoping that Soviets would get their justice too. SOMEHOW assuming that I was excusing Nazis even though I literally thanked the Dad for service during WW2.
I’ll spell this out one time: Nazis and communists in WW2 are not the same thing as the fascists taking over countries and socialists struggling to gain any parliament seats today.
What fascism, you ask? Let me see. A movement based on cleansing the country of foreigners, gays and women with opinions, perhaps? I don’t know what particulars your country deals with. In fact, I don’t technically know what country it is you speak for, although I did guess Poland. But if it’s fascists, I will bet money they’re campaigning on the promise of getting rid of foreigners, gays and women with opinions, because that’s all they ever do.
Did you know that post World War 2 Stalin instituted a massive migration in the conquered nations? Near the end of the Communist rule in Poland they launched Operation Hiacynthus which was basically the registration of all LGBT people in the country so they could then blackmail them into working for the secret police.
Such upstanding and progressive people, those Communists.
You can easily distinguish an anti-fascist movement today by their desire to welcome foreigners to your country. Does anybody reading this know any movement which tries to help immigrants and refugees to become citizens of their country? In my country of Sweden that would be nobody’s philosophy except the Left party, with ~10% of the parliament seats.
But that’s communism by the standards of liberals and conservatives.
@Da Boy: I’d guess the Allies didn’t go after the Soviet Union because Europe was a wasteland, the US was war weary and the Soviets were fully mobilized. Going immediately to what would basically have been another world war could easily have been disastrous. It certainly wouldn’t have been an easy victory.
Even more certainly it wasn’t because the US and it’s allies were sympathetic towards communism. Hard cold reality of foreign politics.
Well, also: (1) both FDR and Churchill thought they could talk Stalin round. Too bad he’d long since decided to nod and smile and not listen. (2) It takes a bit of time to come round to the idea of attacking a powerful ally who very recently helped you win the previous war.
Not 100% but I think Churchill was pretty vocal that he didn’t quite trust Stalin and it was primarily FDR who was ignorant and too optimistic. I mean, didn’t Churchill actually try to push for a war with Soviets?
It happened because there is a type of guy who does respond to anything about fascists with “But what about the commies?”
Da Boy isn’t quite that guy, because he really does seem to be motivated by Eastern Europe’s experiences with Soviet domination rather than by wanting to just “whatabout” fascism, but that’s not really distinguishable at first glance.
And there are also people that are quick to defend the Soviet Union, despite the atrocities committed both by Lenin and later Stalin, because people saying “soviets bad” is equivalent to “capitalism bad”.
at the time of the Russian Revolution overturning the reign of Tsar Nicholas, there were actually multiple socialist parties who were once but allies with the Bolsheviks.
When Lenon came back from exile, he done away with the provisional social democratic government formed in his absence, and outlawed and executed all the other socialist parties not soon after.
in a nutshell, the atrocities which happened under Lenin and Stalin’s reign were in no way an inevitable result of any attempt to establish socialism or communism period, but that which can be expected from a one-party state and absolutist/militaristic attitudes which have been the norm for politics in the region now called Russia since the days of the Mongolian Empire, and I tell you what even back then it wasn’t pretty
I’m going to enjoy this ass kicking for several weeks; you’ve just given me something to look forward to more than usual for the length of this beatdown.
Probably won’t be a good time to compliment Incelerator but I just want to say I like the artistic choice to make the highlights on his vizor loose representations of his eyes so he can better sale expressions. That’s pretty neat.
I’m kind of disappointed that Dina didn’t disembowel this loser before Nightguy arrived. Loser-ator is about to get his ass kicked by his nemesis AGAIN, so that’s a good thing.
TBH, “Gender Traitor” would make a great name for this guy’s Harley Quinn who wants to make everyone else embrace the tradwife lifestyle WITH HER FISTS.
The irony of an outwardly violent tradwife would be lost on Gender Traitor. Which would make the name all the more fitting. Them plus NiceGuy and we might have a proper DoA villain faction started.
I mean, basically everything about “tradwives” (or at least tradwife online influencers) is ironic.
Pretty sure whatever tradition they’re pretending to live by didn’t include full time video show/celebrity status.
Look forward to the Incelerator movie no one wanted to come to theaters this summer while the highly anticipated Amazi-Girl movie gets permanently shelved for a convenient tax write off!
Made by Sony, an Incelerator movie with no appearance or mention of Amazi-Girl or NightGuy at all. They try and fail to make him an anti-hero instead of an outright villain.
On what grounds should anyone but Incelerator be expelled? Everyone just stood there talking at him even when he knocked Dina’s cereal out of her hand until he sucker punched Walky. At which point AG was well within her legal rights to respond with violence of her own in order to protect people.
me trying to eat my sandwich at a table nearby trying not to make eye contact with anyone in the friend group who are always getting kidnapped and killed and having school shootings who are now doing a super hero fight while im trying to eat my sandwich: (; ._.) 🥪
I do sometimes wonder what the rest of the building thinks of these kids. There’s gotta be at least a few other students who see them acting in ways on a regular basis and think “Oh hey, it’s them again.”
Nah, the cameras and witnesses are pretty clearly going to show WwNightguy didn’t make the first offensive move. Legally, he’s clear, and Inshitterator is jail-fodder.
the most hilarious outcome is that the school administration decides that WwnNightguy is to blame for the incident, but actual-dude-whomst-is-Incelerator is the one who gets expelled because they think it’s him under the wrong mask.
why the hell is Joe, who is actually tall and muscular and physically intimidating, hiding behind all the women?
Like literally why is he not putting himself front of Joyce his fucking girlfriend when a member of an admitted hate group is spouting shit in front of everyone?
it’s not even a thing on whether Joe believes in chivalry or gender roles or whatever, he’s literally just stronger (and taller) than Joyce, Becky, Dina and Jocelyn.
He was trying to defend them like you wanted. Incelerator just quite literally skated around him changing Joe’s relative position. Y’now because humans can move. In fact Incelerator was arguably avoiding Joe specifically because he is tall and strong. I don’t think it is a coincidence Incelerator wouldn’t antagonize Joyce, singled out Dina to harass and chose to finally punch Nightguy someone physically smaller than him. Joe is doing everything you want.
Obviously Joe is supposed to protectively orbit the vulnerable, defenseless women and match Incelerator’s position 1:1 like that guy in Ocarina of Time who keeps you from going to the Deku Tree.
Would have been kind of interesting to see what would have happened if AG hadn’t swooped in that dramatically appropriate moment. Would Joe have effortlessly grabbed him, like some think he could? Would Raptor Dina and Rage Joyce shredded him?
He was in front of them until Dickmonkey skated a few loops around them in a circle. Apparently Joe declined to shove past the entire group to put them behind him again, which is certainly not the same as ‘hiding’.
He was initially in front of Joyce. Then Incellerator moved (and it’s implied rather quickly?) behind them, and they all turned to watch things unfold.
At least two of those women, one of them being his girlfriend Joyce, are by evidence presented in the comic more dangerous in a fight than we’ve ever seen him be.
Just because he’s built like a solid slab of beef doesn’t mean he can fight worth shit. Rage mode Joyce and Raptor Mode Dina on the other hand . . .
They aren’t really that effective though.
Joyce did punch out Ross once, but he’d just staggered out of a car wreck.
Dina got handled pretty easily by Ross in the woods, though she got in some hits, iirc.
Both Dina and Joyce got handled easily by Blaine during his escape, leading to Joyce being taken hostage.
They’re willing, but don’t really have the skills.
I’m 99% sure its just meant to be a framing choice for the sake of presentation. As you said, Joe is by far the tallest of the characters there. If you want to have all the characters seeing and reacting to the action going on, you need to have them in front of Joe or peeking around him.
And three people hiding behind Joe and peeking their head out, while funny, would probably detract a bit from the seriousness of the situation.
All three of them are willing to fight (well, maybe not Joyce), should he restrain them? They’re not children, if they want to fight and he has no moral issues with their target or violence in general, then if he wants to treat them as adults he should let them fight.
I mean, him knocking Dina’s food to the floor was douchey but not quite dangerous yes. He was being a douche and all this nonsense felt more confusing than threatening, especially after Walky got involved so they just kinda stood there wondering what to do. I doubt Joe would sit ildly if he tried to swing at one of them.
Not to mention that we don’t even know if Joe Knows how to fight.
Or it would, if it was real. We don’t need to bring imaginary anatomy into this just because it’s a work of fiction. It’s like assuming every fictional character can become a Super Saiyan within their world.
I think it’s a fair complaint that the author chose aesthetics over practicality. A few people have pointed out that they think it LOOKS better if Joe is the back because otherwise he would block his shorter friends.
So the choice was made to line these characters up by height rather by how people would naturally be standing when someone is picking a fight. The author chose style over substance, and that’s something worth criticizing.
There’s enough stupid things happening in this scene I don’t have to make things up to complain about, thanks
This is the most bees-between-the-ears conspiracy take I’ve read on this website. Props for creativity, but I really don’t think there’s even a shred of evidence for your theory.
What a ridiculous theory. He’s obviously an alt of Amber representing her repressed rage. The only Walkerton in the superhero biz is Sal who as we all know is Amazi-Girl.
I really have missed the Amazi-Ass-Kickings of old. I absolutely get why they’ve been gone since the timeskip, but as someone who started reading post-timeskip and only ever experienced previous DoA (and, for that matter, Walkyverse) fight scenes in binge form, it’s super exciting to finally see a new one in real time.
In my senior year of high school I took a creative writing class taught by the best teacher at my school. We had an assignment where we needed to pull 10 lines/quotes/what-have-you that we found profound from TV, movies, songs, anything. When I read “I made me,” my very first thought was of that assignment. It’s my favorite line in this entire comic.
This strip https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/pals/ seems like the most recent one we have with her actually in costume. More recently we’ve seen her in a somewhat similar outfit and a mask but it wasn’t her costume as it was lacking the A logo and she was just hanging out semi-retired.
The costume I linked to is a one piece yellow jump suit. As you can see here she’s now wearing something like a yellow tunic with a larger A on the chest than her previous costume had and blue leggings.
The way the tunic flairs out I would speculate the costume might actually be unfinished. As it is now someone could grab the bottom of her tunic to yank her off balance or possibly tug on it hard enough to pull it over her face and blind her. It would be safer to join the tunic to the leggings and have a zipper or something up the back for her to use to put the costume on.
I will admit, I was expecting a significantly harder to stomach comic today from that title. Especially since I’ve been half worried/half excited about the potential for jocyelyne to get involved in this conversation (either from him targeting her, or her speaking up)
OK, after 14 “non-DOA” years of this trope, I’ve come to a conclusion…and I know I’m late to the party on this one, but here I go…Indiana University at Bloomington is either the MOST DANGEROUS CAMPUS in the USA -OR- has the feeblest security campus police force in the USA…or both…that is if you squint your eyes and believe within the confines of this web comic….just sayin’…
A huge portion of security on campuses relies on the fact that 99% of the time, nothing violent is going on. No criminal activity anywhere. Sadly, security can’t be everywhere at all times, so that 1% exception is likely to start and finish before they even hear of it, much less get there.
It’s campus with some 35k+ students, along with however many staff, located in the middle of a city.
The costumed stuff is obviously over the top, but a bunch of fights, attempted rapes and even a couple of murders isn’t really that out of line.
That one group of friends is at the epicenter of all of it is weird, but that’s really all.
Campus security exists to protect the reputation of the university. Sometimes that’s keeping rich students from being arrested by townie cops for drunk and disorderly or worse. Sometimes that’s mass arresting protestors. If the university has a medical school/hospital, sometimes they also assault and detain the “wrong kind” of patient, when they can’t find their car.
I won’t argue there isn’t some truth in that, but you don’t need to be nearly that cynical to explain what we see in this comic.
For this scene, all you need is to accept that campus security isn’t regularly stationed in the cafeteria or close enough to respond practically instant, if anyone’s even called it in yet.
The more consistent stuff is at a level that doesn’t really stand out from dangers that occur across college campuses. The big stuff is enough to make waves, but it’s hardly in a class of its own. A couple years ago, several people were killed or injured at the college I had attended. Other campuses have had similar experiences. I’ll echo the “it’s a lot connected to this particular group,” but on the overall danger level of the campus…eh.
THREE times tonight I have been writing out a long annoying comment when suddenly a full screen popup ad has popped up over my screen, preventing me from doing anything except giving up and reloading the page, trashing my entire comment
(The second time I was at least fifteen minutes into carefully wording a personal anecdote about violence and death happening to classmates of mine in high school when everything got trashed by the pop-up ad)
(The third time it happened I was in the middle of typing a comment complaining about the full screen popup ad that had just trashed my comment)
Fortunately, this full screen popup ad had a Close button so I could dismiss it and get back here intact. St. Augustine (a city I was quite fond of <i<until</i< this evening) didn’t.
Why is anyone still online in this day and age without an adblocker!?! Donate to our host directly instead of involuntarily contributing to clogging the innertubes.
Is it just me or does incelerator look like a gender flipped Carol? At first glance when he was introduced I just saw the strong chin and though she was taking over Blaine’s mantle and wanted to reach out to her daughter in new ways
Either getting her on camera, to id her to the police (she did beat a bunch of people up in autumn), or he’s been training and thinks he can beat her, are my guesses.
Maybe he realized nobody on the Internet listens or that they’re capable of blocking you. What he still doesn’t realize is people in the real world are capable of calling the campus police for harassment.
Nah, fuck the police. They don’t need to be involved in every little altercation, that’s just what they want you to think. People are more than capable of dealing with their own problems, and any thinking otherwise is deliberate propaganda to make us all feel weak and defenseless so we won’t get any pesky ideas about taking control of our own lives.
I mean in this case maybe, because an actual super-hero is on the scene, but in general no.
Vigilante justice isn’t better than the police. As bad as police are.
So, Amazi-Girl is a real superhero. Incelerator is a real super-villian. But Nightguy is only Walky in pajamas? C’mon Willis, not fair, not fair at all.
Amazi-Girl is an athlete with fistfight training and extensive experience. Walky is a slacker with no skills applicable to a fistfight and no superpowers or gadgets to compensate. He doesn’t even have pepper spray, for all we’ve seen.
^ This. Nothing against Walky, but he’s a couch potato geek with no fighting experience whose first time punching someone was when he punched Asher in the face (who wasn’t even fighting back). XD Despite her appearance, Amazi-girl is actually extremely fit and has had years of fighting experience. (A common misconception by many people is that, just because someone looks ripped they must be a good fighter, or conversely because somebody looks chunky they can’t be a good fighter.)
Also not to gas up Incelerator but we know from the amount of ass whuppings he’s received that he’s at least participated in a few scraps. So the dude is bigger and more experienced than Walky in physical confrontation.
No to all three. Superheroes aren’t real. AG is just a person who knows how to fight, and likes to physically attack people over justified and unjustified reasons (iirc, she’s attacked someone over litter). She’s a danger to herself and people around her.
This is a comic strip. None of these characters are real. In universe, she’s pretty damn close to a super-hero.
Yeah, in the real world, if she tried to do what she’s done, she’d just be dead horribly injured. But she’s not in the real world.
oh, this is a comic strip? and the characters aren’t real? I didn’t know!
Super heroes are not real in the dumbiverse either, since I guess I have to spell it out. She’s a cosplayer who is capable of beating people up, and has beaten some people up (some deserving, some not) and she’s been lucky not to have gotten herself seriously injured or killed. Other characters in the dumbiverse recognize this and say it.
And yet she keeps doing superhero level shit that should just get her killed. You can say that just “lucky”, but past a certain point in fiction it’s not just luck, it’s genre.
So I guess I didn’t explain myself. In the tags, AG is tagged. Incel is tagged. Walky is tagged. So, to Willis, AG is a ‘real character’ as is Incel. Yet Walky is Walky, not Nightguy, that’s what I meant.
No, I don’t think they are ‘real’, yes I know it’s a comic. I was just wondering about the tagging is all.
You know, I love scenarios like this. When a villain who thinks he has everyone in their grasp starts spouting Darwinist bullshit of Might Makes Right and Strongest Survival.
And then gets their ass kicked seven ways to Sunday and Suddenly it’s unfair and those rules don’t apply to them XD
Galton? Lemme google
Francis Galton
“Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI was a British polymath and the originator of eugenics”
Oh that’s not good.
Thanks for dropping the name.
«With Ritalin?» ahahahaha. Makes sense to me. But then, uh… (As a friend of mine once said, «Ritalin truly is a wonder drug — it makes other people smarter….»
1. Good to see Joyce is sticking to the new name.
2. Poor Jocelyne. Things are about to get a bit more confusing for her.
3. Incel-boy deserves doubly the beating he’s about to receive.
4. Joe! Why you hiding behind the girls? Weren’t you guarding Joyce just a second ago?
History is also full of examples of even well intentioned violence going horribly wrong and even more of it being successfully used for horrible purposes in the first place.
Sometimes it’s necessary. It’s rarely a good thing.
this really feels like what he’s been waiting for, making a big scene monologuing, I wonder if he’s been waiting for AG and there is some sort of plan going on here. ~<3
do cops even take this sort of thing seriously instead of saying “two college kids dressed like superheroes got into a fight in the lunch room? are you sure this isn’t one of those deeyanddee copay things I heard about?”
(FWIW, I like it! Big “Burnside Batgirl” vibes, and the costume for that run was great even if the rest of it was uh. Yeah. Let’s say reviews were mixed.)
It feels weird that this is escalating to the point of Wa…Nightguy showing up and getting punched and then Amazigirl leaping in to attack when a casually stuck out leg while jerkmobile was skating around them would have ended it pretty quickly, and would have been a much lower threshold of violence than the cast routinely inflicts on each other.
Oh..or is that why no one was willing to trip him? Because that’s how Ruth and Billie got started and NOBODY wanted to risk being taken as flirting with this guy?
if you're ever sad alone silently, consider this:
- i hold a copyright on being like that
- you are encroaching on my intellectual property
- i will send you a cease & desist
- i will possibly take you to court
so please make yourself legally distinct by talking to someone about it
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What this should tell you is that I'm always down to cause chaos and good trouble
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Well, Lizard is here, and I've been telling myself for... years that I'd take down my Endgame shelf and put up Spider-Man:No Way Home once the final villain was out.
So.
That's a thing I gotta do.
okay okay -- spider-man reboot idea
the lizard is still dr connors, but he's dr PHIL connors, and he wakes up every day and it's groundhog day and he's a lizard
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Q.E.D.
(quickly ‘e dies)
Kick his ass
c-bassAmazigirl!I usually tell my students that QED is Latin for “see I told you so.”
I mean, ‘That which was to be shown’ is really a longer and more complex way of saying ‘Like I said three pages of equations ago’, so that’s barely even lies-to-children
“As per my previous email, the angles at the base equal one another.”
Q.E.P.D.
quickly “e phuckin’ dies
Incelerator: Not so quippy now, eh, NightGuy? Nothing to say?
NightGuy: …sdrtinyoyadyt…
I: *leans in* What was that?
N: I said, I was distracting you, ya idiot!
aaand here she comes
BUT can she trust Nightguy?
Has he fallen victim to Incelerator’s Purple Man-esque powers?
to save the day!
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But yeah, I can’t read that line without mentally singing the rest too.
Don’t feel like the
Andy Kaufman vibes strong.
With truth and justice on the way!
I know thats what we’re led to expect but I’m not sure it’s going to be that simple.
Do you think Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman?
Lone Ranger. Stupid phone keyboard. But yes I watched Mighty Mouse back in the ’60s.
Here comes speed racer, she’s a demon on wheels
Oh no! Amazi-Girl is attacking a white dude in broad daylight! This could lead to Sal being expelled!
No, no, it’s okay. Sal-with-mask is a white girl. See? No expulsion.
that was a sucker punch and you know it! D:<
time to get your ass kicked by a real one!
*plays “Too Good Too Bad” by the seatbelts on hacked muzak*
There really has been some kind of costume sale….is what I want to say, but maybe Dorothy should start a side hustle.
It’s great to see everyone getting a costume upgrade. I need more comic costumed hijinks with all this (gestures) going on in the world. Let the hero save the day and also get laid.
AG’s costume was more or less done. Dorothy just decided to change it without asking first. We have yet to see if Dorothy’s “finishing it correctly” is going to be welcomed/unwelcomed or helpful/neutral/harmful.
It’ll cause the top to pop open, flashing only Joyce and no one else.
Ahhhhh, yes! I hope this guy is ready for his 5th ass kicking by AG.
I hope she gets him good enough that he doesn’t come back.
If he was smart enough to count, he may not be dumb enough to believe his rhetoric.
Aww who am I kidding? Jordan Peterson was (past tense) smart enough to get a PhD. Yet here we are.
He’s moved to Arizona because Canada is supposedly a dictatorship. And because his equally kookie daughter lives down there.
i thought Florida.
But he’s such a drama Queen ! : It probably was just because hes a sunbird; hes old and Canada is cold.
This is a guy who cant blow his own Nose, without first pretending kleenex are a tool of the Soviet Left.
Nobody tell him the Soviet Union collapsed the same year Sonic the Hedgehog came out.
Oh fuck. If he thinks THAT is a dictatorship, wait about a month.
He won’t have any problems with that. Trump won’t try to keep him from being mean to trans people.
Does he still think that he’s a hero when he’s punching people unprovoked, or is he the ‘ends justify the means, CLEANSE AND PURGE THE UNBELIEVERS’?
No, he thinks he’s a hero. He 100% believes that he is a hero. This is how narcissists operate. They legitimately think that bullying you into conforming is a moral victory.
By contrast, a lot of people happily think of themselves as the villain online.
They don’t see being the bad guy as anything bad.
Even those people don’t see themselves as “the bad guy,” even if they’re straight up intentionally trolling or literally harassing someone (or issuing death threats or doxxing or SWATting or whatever). And if you call them out on it, they’ll claim “I was just joking bruh. Lighten up. Welcome to the Internet. Get a thicker skin. Etc. Etc.” They’ll go to their graves still thinking they were in the right, no matter how heinous they may be behaving.
Get a thicker skin, the SWAT team with grenade launchers and machine guns are just an opinion.
Eh, I think this fails to account for the fact a large chunk of narcissists don’t actually CARE about morality. So being the bad guy or the good guy doesn’t matter to them.
Or they have blue-and-orange morality: they = good, obstacle to them = evil. Trump very, very obviously works like that.
personality I would refrain from ascribing bigots personality disorders until proven otherwise. One doesn’t need to be a narcissist, or a schizophrenic or have borderline personality disorder to think women are sub-human. Sadly that thought can be achieved just by being a shitty person!
Ascribing mental illness to bigotry does more harm to mentally ill people than anything.
If only there was a legitimate medical cure/preventative for “being a shitty person.”
There is a treatment, and Amazi-Girl is about to apply it
Corporal punishment consistently fails to work as a treatment for being a shitty person – in fact, it often exacerbates the problem. It is, however, successful as a deterrent for acting on one’s being a shitty person.
Not corporal punishment per se, but education is generally a deterrent, and “talk shit, get hit” can be a valuable lesson for those who won’t learn the easy way.
It only works when consistently applied and when it’s applied only to the shitty.
In reality “talk shit, get hit” leads to those most willing to use violence setting the standard for what “talk shit” means.
weird thing to say in a comment section that routinely absolves a character of murdering a potential snitch because the potential snitch was incidentally abusive.
When and how did Amazi-Girl get a Tokarev?
Where?
Presumably somewhere between Leningrad and Vladivostok
+1!
Most sadly, at least 99% of shitty people stay that way for decades. Or for their entire lifetimes. You can’t cure or help them. You can only take away their power to enshittify.
As someone with a PD, thank you so much for this. I’m sick as hell of seeing bigotry even in the most leftist of spaces, just because it’s the Scary Mental Illness du jour. Pop psychology has kept so many people from being able to access help, because you literally can’t google your own disorder without being reminded that 99% of the internet hates us and wants us eradicated. Idk why it doesn’t compute with these people that “there’s a disorder that means someone is Inherently Evil” is just ableism.
Just to add: due to my own mental disorder(s), I seem to lack the empathy for suffering that so many people seem to have instinctively… but I also don’t have any desire to cause harm. Besides, it’s better strategy to make friends than make enemies.
Maybe, if I were a Rich White Guy™, I’d be in a position to better make use of my emotional shortcomings, and might have been raised to value mindless greed over consequences? If so, I’d be fine with that hypothetical alternative me getting the same treatment as that recent United Healthcare CEO. A better world would benefit us all, even those who don’t care about others.
Empathy =/= actions. I know a lot of people who feel strong empathy for others but have done horrible things to them regardless (and that’s not even starting on all the self-labeled Empaths who treat people with personality disorders like shit). And I know a lot of very kind people who treat others well, yet don’t experience true empathy–and that’s okay! You can know it’s right to treat people in a certain way without experiencing empathy for them.
this
Incel ideology can make recruits like this dude out of the most ordinary seeming of people.
If they’re not the kind resorting to physical attacks they’re hacking email accounts
either way the key is to understand “evil” as less down to personal flaws or immutable-seeming human natures, but to the pervasive influence of long-standing social institutions
this guy thinks the only way he’s ever going to get a girl is if a system of coercive power entitles and guarantees him one.
But WHY does every guy need a girl anyway? does that necessarily guarantee an end to loneliness? or to feeling more complete in life? or is necessarily the most affective way of getting what a different sex partner is SUPPOSED to entail?
or is it because our society is one which has always favored straight couples who own houses and build equity and all that, via tax policy and otherwise? and does it necessarily HAVE to be that way for society’s benefit?
in the pre-Civil War South, slaves were a luxury and their society’s primary mode of production, so of course, romanticized traditions and customs and religion and social order revolved around that to make it seem like a natural, universal social order
resentful poor white men were raised to respect slave owners and to aspire one day to owning slaves themselves in very much the same way men today aspire to hetero marriages, for the sake of all the benefits that would be bestowed upon them in their society’s pre-designated Path To Happiness.
traditions that were “just always there and always worked” made them oblivious to the fact that the institution of slavery was there to keep the rich rich and the poor poor
likewise Incelerator commits to this ideology because, alongside thousands of others recruited into this ideology, he’s *convinced* it’s a given that getting a woman partner is the only effective path to happiness and fulfillment in life because of being entrenched in the traditions, culture, customs and language of a religious red state, which feed into the pervasive impression that hetero-marriage-centric patriarchy is some natural, universal order, and that having to submit to this order is a necessity to get anywhere and a fact of life.
I think wanting a romantic and sexual partner goes far deeper than being entrenched in the traditions, culture, customs and language of a religious red state. Some level of pair bonding goes way the hell back in our evolutionary history. It can even be traces in our relative lack of sexual dimorphism compared to our closest primate relatives.
But largely, you’re still right. It’s just even deeper than “favored straight couples who own houses and build equity and all that”. We’ve got at least millennia of people who fucked and overwhelmingly paired off to successfully raise the offspring in our ancestry.
Until very, very recently (and long before modern notions of tax breaks and equity) and before the nuclear family really was a thing, much of the world was sufficiently patriarchal that making on your own as a woman really wasn’t an option for the vast majority. That gave even the less desirable men a leg up on finding a partner.
That’s changed and it’s definitely a change for the better, but it’s one we’re still figuring out how to live with.
Re: evolutionary history
Pair bonding, yes. Patriarchy and mono-romantic obligations there-of? Not so much.
Spider monkeys, bonobos, lemurs and many other species of primate are matriarchal.
Not to mention a majority of primate societies are that in which sex has a role that has just about nothing to do with lifelong partnership entailed by the human institution of marriage. For instance chimpanzees and other great apes give each other hand jobs regardless of sex for the sake of altruistic group cohesion.
Same was also true of human societies for a majority of history, besides polyamory being commonplace, sex and romantic love didnt really have anything to do with each other. You could love someone without having extra ordinary sex, and you could have extraordinary sex with someone who aint necessarily your life partner. Only fairly recently did romantic schools of thought compel humans to reserve sex as the ultimate expression of romantic admiration for their life partners.
Truth be told, very little of human life is natural. Hell, Homo sapiens as a species survived and continue to exist largely in defiance of nature. Every tradtition and it’s pervasive consequence, every form of oppression is a thing that wasn’t always there, but was something humans created.
Long standing patriarchal mono-romantic traditions and their oppressive consequences are by no means natural or a given in life. They are human-made problems, and they have human-made solutions.
In a sense. Romance and marriage weren’t tied until relatively recently, but marriage itself goes far back in history – not prehistory necessarily.
And it was very much about men controlling access to “their” women, even if men were still socially allowed to seek sex elsewhere.
That’s not completely universal of course, but it’s also not some weird modern aberration.
*PERSONALLY, not personality, goddamn
I don’t think that he’s necessarily an actual clinical narcissist tbh. “Some people think that bullying you into conforming is a moral victory,” though, is spot on.
Sadly, 99% of people even in leftist spaces don’t care about the fact that it’s inaccurate/ableist to label every bad person(/person they don’t like) a narcissist
even without the unwitting ableism part, I guess we can always count on them actin like 12-year-olds who just discovered the word “communist” 9-9
Yes/yes. He doesn’t see a contradiction in his actions.
I think it’s more of a “you’re either with me or you’re my enemy” type of thing.
… I hadn’t encountered the phrase “gender traitor” before today, I’m guessing because I avoid this… erm, subculture. But I’m not the least bit surprised by it. Feels like a similar concept to “race traitor”.
It’s been thrown around for decades on the lunatic fringe of feminism. Incels believe that by adopting this term they’re pwning teh libtards super hard.
It’s always funny how bigots adopt terms that were clear markers of bigotry.
The GCs/TERFs have come so close a couple times to taking up “sex realist”.
Cf. “class traitor” which is possibly parent of both of these.
Pretty sure he thinks he’s a villain. He teamed up with a self-proclaimed supervillain last time (that is, Amber’s dad) and at no point here did he identify as a hero. On the contrary, he gave a villain speech — “Females who have too many skills, I’m calling you out, for today, you face the INCELLERATOR”. That’s a villain speech, not a hero speech, because if sexism is wrong, dude doesn’t want to be right.
He believes sexism is right, though. Sure he can see he behaves like a villain – but he believes the ends justify the means. He’s pretty much saying out loud in the strip that the only way to get people to listen to the truth is violence, and that violence is therefore justified.
…both justified and necessary.
Nobody is evil in his own eyes. If one sets aside the notion of an absolute moral authority then “good” and “evil” are labels given by consensus — and consensus depends on whom you are polling.
There are more options than “absolute moral authority” and “us v them”. It’s fairly easy to conclude that someone who, for example, causes suffering for thousands merely for the sake of adding a little money to their bank account — and money they’ll never need, at that — can be considered to be evil, at least in regard to those actions.
As an aside: this doesn’t contradict my above comment. I may not be able to empathize with their suffering, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
This comic is and has always been wall-to-wall depictions of people fundamentally believing that they’re doing the right thing by punishing people who violate the norms as they understand them. Joyce’s mom, Salk/Walky’s mom, Amber’s dad, Becky’s dad, Ethan’s mom….if anything he’s one of the few who’s not over 40.
Becky gives zero fscks about kayfabe, gee.
Oh good, a professional is here
Jocelyn must be really regretting talking about how bad guys don’t wear costumes or engage in theatricality.
Mind you, that’s been years out of date.
There are plenty of flavors of bad guys, some of the worst are attractive and charismatic.
Are you saying Incelerator is attractive and charismatic?
Oh I like that, let’s call him inceleryrator.
Sorry the replies are being weird today.
Incelirritator certainly thinks he is attractive and charismatic.
Oh I like that, let’s call him inceleryrator.
Give him the People’s Knee!
Finally, the two-bit villain meets our 8-bit hero
A.G…NO MERCY
By the way, new design of the suit, very good.
Dammit walky you gotta take the job more seriously.. get back up we’re doing this again
I get knocked down!
But I get up again!One of my favorite moments in 12 years of fighting racists on Twitter was when somebody called me a race traitor. Specifically, I was a traitor to the white race because I maintained that children of color had “equal” value as human beings as white children, which the racist interpreted as “higher” value.
Just wanna get that in there before people start complaining no real human being has ever said anything as stupid as Incelerator here.
I don’t think there’s any danger of people complaining about that. Not after the year we’ve just had.
Gods know, I wish there was.
It’s long been obvious to me there is no idea too stupid that someone won’t believe it.
Is that a challenge?
Poe’s law: it is impossible to create a parody of creationism that nobody will mistake for the real thing…
One of my “favorite” Twitter moments was the fifty-third time I repeated my joke about how Punching All Nazis would represent a major de-escalation on my part from my father, who dropped bombs on them and shot machine guns at them, and my Mentions for the next two days were filled with idiots wanting to fistfight my dad.
Which…
I mean, okay, first, my dad is dead. So, you know, go crazy, guys. Have fun punching that marble slab.
Second, reading comprehension much? My dad didn’t fistfight Nazis was the whole point of the exercise — he murdered them with high explosives.
Third, reading comprehension much? I never said I punch Nazis, either — I said that if I did, it would be a de-escalation from, you know, killing them, like my father did.
Fourth, and most importantly: HOLY CRAP THERE ARE A LOT OF IDIOTS ON TWITTER EAGER TO IDENTIFY AS NAZIS IN THIS SCENARIO. Like, y’all really telling on y’allself there
Anyway, like I said, it’s an observation I’ve made a lot, but damned if that one time it didn’t result in two days’ worth of honst-to-god Nazi threats all over my Mentions.
Fun times.
Fun times also because I am, y’know, the only “Ray Radlein” on the planet, and have never taken any pains at all to anonymize myself online. No OpSec at all.
So any one of those threatening Nazis could have easily showed up at my door ready to throw hands with an old Disabled dude.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s amazing how many nasty idiots identify with literal Nazis. It remains to be seen if we need to drop bombs on them again on an industrial scale.
Hopefully we can avoid it, since unlike Nazis, bombs don’t discriminate.
I’ve encountered a few of those. Thankfully just a few (mostly because I don’t go onto twitser or any other unregulated fester-space). I wonder how many were deliberately trolling (maybe professionally, even) vs sincere shit-heads.
And, thank you for the “de-escalation” idea for the future, if I need it. My father was a Marine in that war. I gotta remember the context here.
Respect to your Dad. Shame they didn’t continue on with the Soviets.
There’s a red flag: not being able to say that nazis are bad without necessarily pointing out communists are also bad.
Yes red is part of my country’s flag, the other one being white. Guess which country with that flag setup would have a grudge against both Nazis and Soviets.
Is it Finland, where they held back both Stalin and Hitler without losing sight of the benefits of socialism?
See, this here is the real red flag, how you Westerners are eager to defend a mass-murdering regime
You just couldn’t admit my country has the rightful grudge against your fav people, huh?
I’m joking. Of course it is Poland, where they’re now setting an example for my country’s fascist party, founded by an old nazi officer, looks for inspiration.
Sorry you’ve got outdated info, that party got voted out XD
No, my country’s fascist party is currently the second biggest party in parliament, holding a right-wing coalition government under their thrall while keeping out of government themselves. But trust me, they’re all about following the example of Poland and also Hungary in their anti-democratic efforts. Now, Da Boy, I predict you will to say absolutely nothing about your personal resistance to the fascism facing both of us today.
I voted against the Right Wing party and we booted them out of the position of power.
Now, let’s talk about why you felt triggered by me hoping that after Allies were done with On Mass-murdering regime they didn’t go after the second one which would have spared my, and probably your, country half a century of brutal occupation. Are you in support of their actions?
Oh, please explain to me what I’ve said that makes you think I have been “triggered” and keep not explaining what it is you don’t like about fascism.
You sure jumped all over me hoping that Soviets would get their justice too. SOMEHOW assuming that I was excusing Nazis even though I literally thanked the Dad for service during WW2.
I’ll spell this out one time: Nazis and communists in WW2 are not the same thing as the fascists taking over countries and socialists struggling to gain any parliament seats today.
Yeah, Obviously. Let me spell something out as well. I was referring to the Past. I was referring to Soviets, during WW2, not modern day Communists.
Of course you are. You would not dare talk about what’s happening today because fascism does not allow it.
What Fascism even? The parties in power in my country are left wing. I can say Fuck Kaczyński all I want.
What fascism, you ask? Let me see. A movement based on cleansing the country of foreigners, gays and women with opinions, perhaps? I don’t know what particulars your country deals with. In fact, I don’t technically know what country it is you speak for, although I did guess Poland. But if it’s fascists, I will bet money they’re campaigning on the promise of getting rid of foreigners, gays and women with opinions, because that’s all they ever do.
Unlike communists.
Did you know that post World War 2 Stalin instituted a massive migration in the conquered nations? Near the end of the Communist rule in Poland they launched Operation Hiacynthus which was basically the registration of all LGBT people in the country so they could then blackmail them into working for the secret police.
Such upstanding and progressive people, those Communists.
Okay, I had my fun. Enjoy… whatever it is that you have going.
You can easily distinguish an anti-fascist movement today by their desire to welcome foreigners to your country. Does anybody reading this know any movement which tries to help immigrants and refugees to become citizens of their country? In my country of Sweden that would be nobody’s philosophy except the Left party, with ~10% of the parliament seats.
But that’s communism by the standards of liberals and conservatives.
@Da Boy: I’d guess the Allies didn’t go after the Soviet Union because Europe was a wasteland, the US was war weary and the Soviets were fully mobilized. Going immediately to what would basically have been another world war could easily have been disastrous. It certainly wouldn’t have been an easy victory.
Even more certainly it wasn’t because the US and it’s allies were sympathetic towards communism. Hard cold reality of foreign politics.
Yeah, it’s just an impossible, wistful wish of mine, I know it could never be T_T
Well, also: (1) both FDR and Churchill thought they could talk Stalin round. Too bad he’d long since decided to nod and smile and not listen. (2) It takes a bit of time to come round to the idea of attacking a powerful ally who very recently helped you win the previous war.
Not 100% but I think Churchill was pretty vocal that he didn’t quite trust Stalin and it was primarily FDR who was ignorant and too optimistic. I mean, didn’t Churchill actually try to push for a war with Soviets?
How the hell did this conversation happen? It’s so weird.
It happened because there is a type of guy who does respond to anything about fascists with “But what about the commies?”
Da Boy isn’t quite that guy, because he really does seem to be motivated by Eastern Europe’s experiences with Soviet domination rather than by wanting to just “whatabout” fascism, but that’s not really distinguishable at first glance.
And there are also people that are quick to defend the Soviet Union, despite the atrocities committed both by Lenin and later Stalin, because people saying “soviets bad” is equivalent to “capitalism bad”.
at the time of the Russian Revolution overturning the reign of Tsar Nicholas, there were actually multiple socialist parties who were once but allies with the Bolsheviks.
When Lenon came back from exile, he done away with the provisional social democratic government formed in his absence, and outlawed and executed all the other socialist parties not soon after.
*not long after
in a nutshell, the atrocities which happened under Lenin and Stalin’s reign were in no way an inevitable result of any attempt to establish socialism or communism period, but that which can be expected from a one-party state and absolutist/militaristic attitudes which have been the norm for politics in the region now called Russia since the days of the Mongolian Empire, and I tell you what even back then it wasn’t pretty
*communism bad, sorry i didn’t catch this before
Or thirteenth glance. . .
indeed,
people who think stupid, hateful things are a very real slice of life for us. sometimes they even wear funny costumes doing it
and not so funny ones. guess which?
I just want to let you know you’re incredibly cool, fuck the haters ♥
Oh no poor wa- IT’S NEW COSTUME AMAZI-GIRL!
Squeeeeee!
How did Dorothy learn the Amazi-voice?
– Do your best Christian Bale
– Miss
– Soldier on and admit no fault
Thank you based Willis!
I’m going to enjoy this ass kicking for several weeks; you’ve just given me something to look forward to more than usual for the length of this beatdown.
Anybody want some popcorn?
Probably won’t be a good time to compliment Incelerator but I just want to say I like the artistic choice to make the highlights on his vizor loose representations of his eyes so he can better sale expressions. That’s pretty neat.
AND IT’S AMAZI-GIRL™ WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!
WOOOOH
And it’s Amazi-Cena coming from a blindspot with the assist!
Incidentally Amazi-Cena’s identity is still under investigation.
I’m kind of disappointed that Dina didn’t disembowel this loser before Nightguy arrived. Loser-ator is about to get his ass kicked by his nemesis AGAIN, so that’s a good thing.
She needs a rad costume first. Hide her identity, *then* disembowel.
The fact that it’s a dinosaur costume? Eeeeeh, probably just someone trying to frame her :V
TBH, “Gender Traitor” would make a great name for this guy’s Harley Quinn who wants to make everyone else embrace the tradwife lifestyle WITH HER FISTS.
The irony of an outwardly violent tradwife would be lost on Gender Traitor. Which would make the name all the more fitting. Them plus NiceGuy and we might have a proper DoA villain faction started.
I mean, basically everything about “tradwives” (or at least tradwife online influencers) is ironic.
Pretty sure whatever tradition they’re pretending to live by didn’t include full time video show/celebrity status.
Nooo! Please don’t expand his mythos further! I just want him to go away and never return, not gain a franchise.
Incelerator will be the breakout character of 2024!
His own spinoff!
merch!
Look forward to the Incelerator movie no one wanted to come to theaters this summer while the highly anticipated Amazi-Girl movie gets permanently shelved for a convenient tax write off!
Loved it when Incelerator said “It’s incel time” and celerated all over the place.
Made by Sony, an Incelerator movie with no appearance or mention of Amazi-Girl or NightGuy at all. They try and fail to make him an anti-hero instead of an outright villain.
Listen, when adapting the DOA universe, no one wants female led movies.
Joyce or Amazi-Girl is just not as bankable as Tony!
Or pulling a Sony and doing movies about all of the
Spider-ManAmazi-Girl villains without Amazi-Girl appearing in any of themOTOH, if it’s a crossover with Walky’s comic strip, except it’s the Incelerator getting dropkicked by a different character every scene.
Shit. Mary’s going to date him isn’t she.
“Gender Traitor” is a more fitting name for this asshole. The name “Incelerator” has at least one quantum of coolness, which he does not deserve.
Yay, new-ish outfit! Just like in real-life superhero movies to sell more action figures.
Where can I get these AG action figures you speak of?
At the campus gift shop!
Sophomore year, Amber is walking by a display in that shop. Sees AG action figurines. Pulls a Joyce-Shock face.
Points for style, Willis. Awesome entrance.
i love this. they should all be expelled
On what grounds should anyone but Incelerator be expelled? Everyone just stood there talking at him even when he knocked Dina’s cereal out of her hand until he sucker punched Walky. At which point AG was well within her legal rights to respond with violence of her own in order to protect people.
I read the comment as having anyone like this bozo being expelled, rather than anyone else.
me trying to eat my sandwich at a table nearby trying not to make eye contact with anyone in the friend group who are always getting kidnapped and killed and having school shootings who are now doing a super hero fight while im trying to eat my sandwich: (; ._.) 🥪
I do sometimes wonder what the rest of the building thinks of these kids. There’s gotta be at least a few other students who see them acting in ways on a regular basis and think “Oh hey, it’s them again.”
I’d love to see a commentary from the background extras for sequences like these.
A “Lower Decks” treatment of Dumbing of Age!
Like that scene in Community where some side characters lampshade the Study Group getting all the attention.
They’re all wrapped up in their own drama. Our floor isn’t anything special at IU.
Everyone’s got evil dads and kidnappings and the whole nine yards.
Especially Walky. He’s the real aggressor here.
I’m not sure if passive-aggressors count.
But he got punched. That’s the most aggressive thing a person can do.
The School system dealing with bullies logic.
Nah, the cameras and witnesses are pretty clearly going to show WwNightguy didn’t make the first offensive move. Legally, he’s clear, and Inshitterator is jail-fodder.
Never underestimate the power of white dudes to get away with doing awful shit in public.
There will always be hypothetical footage of “right before this” that proves the person getting hurt for no good reason was the instigator.
the most hilarious outcome is that the school administration decides that WwnNightguy is to blame for the incident, but actual-dude-whomst-is-Incelerator is the one who gets expelled because they think it’s him under the wrong mask.
Incelerator should be expelled from a railgun aimed at the sun, at least, sure.
You too shall be honored.
Boot to the head!
Nah, nah
First, anger is a weapon only to one’s enemy. And second…
“Incelerator, you must learn patience.”
Aw, you beat me to it!
That does seem to be just where she’s going to hit.
why the hell is Joe, who is actually tall and muscular and physically intimidating, hiding behind all the women?
Like literally why is he not putting himself front of Joyce his fucking girlfriend when a member of an admitted hate group is spouting shit in front of everyone?
it’s not even a thing on whether Joe believes in chivalry or gender roles or whatever, he’s literally just stronger (and taller) than Joyce, Becky, Dina and Jocelyn.
LMFAO “hiding”
he’s behind Joyce and Becky, what do you call that?
Standing.
He was trying to defend them like you wanted. Incelerator just quite literally skated around him changing Joe’s relative position. Y’now because humans can move. In fact Incelerator was arguably avoiding Joe specifically because he is tall and strong. I don’t think it is a coincidence Incelerator wouldn’t antagonize Joyce, singled out Dina to harass and chose to finally punch Nightguy someone physically smaller than him. Joe is doing everything you want.
Obviously Joe is supposed to protectively orbit the vulnerable, defenseless women and match Incelerator’s position 1:1 like that guy in Ocarina of Time who keeps you from going to the Deku Tree.
Would have been kind of interesting to see what would have happened if AG hadn’t swooped in that dramatically appropriate moment. Would Joe have effortlessly grabbed him, like some think he could? Would Raptor Dina and Rage Joyce shredded him?
He was in front of them until Dickmonkey skated a few loops around them in a circle. Apparently Joe declined to shove past the entire group to put them behind him again, which is certainly not the same as ‘hiding’.
He was initially in front of Joyce. Then Incellerator moved (and it’s implied rather quickly?) behind them, and they all turned to watch things unfold.
When Joe is as tall and broad as…Joe, and Joyce is Joyce-sized? Two of her could hide behind him easily but, the other way ’round? No way.
At least two of those women, one of them being his girlfriend Joyce, are by evidence presented in the comic more dangerous in a fight than we’ve ever seen him be.
Just because he’s built like a solid slab of beef doesn’t mean he can fight worth shit. Rage mode Joyce and Raptor Mode Dina on the other hand . . .
They aren’t really that effective though.
Joyce did punch out Ross once, but he’d just staggered out of a car wreck.
Dina got handled pretty easily by Ross in the woods, though she got in some hits, iirc.
Both Dina and Joyce got handled easily by Blaine during his escape, leading to Joyce being taken hostage.
They’re willing, but don’t really have the skills.
I’m 99% sure its just meant to be a framing choice for the sake of presentation. As you said, Joe is by far the tallest of the characters there. If you want to have all the characters seeing and reacting to the action going on, you need to have them in front of Joe or peeking around him.
And three people hiding behind Joe and peeking their head out, while funny, would probably detract a bit from the seriousness of the situation.
All three of them are willing to fight (well, maybe not Joyce), should he restrain them? They’re not children, if they want to fight and he has no moral issues with their target or violence in general, then if he wants to treat them as adults he should let them fight.
Why does Joe, the largest friend, not simply eat the others?
He and Joyce haven’t moved on to that stage yet.
I mean, him knocking Dina’s food to the floor was douchey but not quite dangerous yes. He was being a douche and all this nonsense felt more confusing than threatening, especially after Walky got involved so they just kinda stood there wondering what to do. I doubt Joe would sit ildly if he tried to swing at one of them.
Not to mention that we don’t even know if Joe Knows how to fight.
He doesn’t, I remember that he said his muscles are mostly for aesthetic.
Plenty good enough to just grab the guy and unscrew his head like a bottlecap, though.
And he’d get punched in the solar plexus like Walky and that would be that.
The solar plexus is a myth.
Sure feels real when you get punched in it
Or it would, if it was real. We don’t need to bring imaginary anatomy into this just because it’s a work of fiction. It’s like assuming every fictional character can become a Super Saiyan within their world.
You just really like to have things to complain about huh? And when there aren’t any you make them up.
I think it’s a fair complaint that the author chose aesthetics over practicality. A few people have pointed out that they think it LOOKS better if Joe is the back because otherwise he would block his shorter friends.
So the choice was made to line these characters up by height rather by how people would naturally be standing when someone is picking a fight. The author chose style over substance, and that’s something worth criticizing.
There’s enough stupid things happening in this scene I don’t have to make things up to complain about, thanks
… He moved behind them. We see him do that. I really think you are willifully ignoring stuff to fell smarter.
cmon yo
what everyone else said. But also scene composition. If the tall, broad character is in front, they block everyone else from our view.
Ok Incellerator guy, we need to know your real name so we can notify your next of kin, since you are about to become dead meat
Good on Joyce for getting it right.
There, he fucking punched somebody. You can all stop whining and bawling about the United States legal system now.
Kind of a crazy theory, but… I’m beginning to suspect maybe Nightguy is actually Walky
This is the most bees-between-the-ears conspiracy take I’ve read on this website. Props for creativity, but I really don’t think there’s even a shred of evidence for your theory.
What a ridiculous theory. He’s obviously an alt of Amber representing her repressed rage. The only Walkerton in the superhero biz is Sal who as we all know is Amazi-Girl.
Notice how Amazi-Girl only shows up after Nightguy is folded. His name is an anagram of hers, even.
No, no. An easy mistake but easily shown false.
Malaya is Nightguy.
Sal is Amazigirl.
Soon, Carla will appear as UltraTinker.
Marcie will disguise as Silent Type.
And Leslie will keep pushing Jennifer to get the goods on all of them.
UltraTinker would be at least mildly controversial in Ireland. Good thing she’s from money.
Okay, NOW subduing him is the right call.
That’s been true since the guy was born.
Ooooh, costume upgrade!!!
I really have missed the Amazi-Ass-Kickings of old. I absolutely get why they’ve been gone since the timeskip, but as someone who started reading post-timeskip and only ever experienced previous DoA (and, for that matter, Walkyverse) fight scenes in binge form, it’s super exciting to finally see a new one in real time.
So what did Dorothy alter?
Here I come to save the daaaaaay (not with Ritalin)
Looks like she just added a bunch of Marvel lines.
It’s a major revision and I really like it. Here’s the old costume with a bunch of angles on it.
Cool, it’s what I was looking for. Thanks.
“I made me.”
In my senior year of high school I took a creative writing class taught by the best teacher at my school. We had an assignment where we needed to pull 10 lines/quotes/what-have-you that we found profound from TV, movies, songs, anything. When I read “I made me,” my very first thought was of that assignment. It’s my favorite line in this entire comic.
This strip https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/pals/ seems like the most recent one we have with her actually in costume. More recently we’ve seen her in a somewhat similar outfit and a mask but it wasn’t her costume as it was lacking the A logo and she was just hanging out semi-retired.
The costume I linked to is a one piece yellow jump suit. As you can see here she’s now wearing something like a yellow tunic with a larger A on the chest than her previous costume had and blue leggings.
The way the tunic flairs out I would speculate the costume might actually be unfinished. As it is now someone could grab the bottom of her tunic to yank her off balance or possibly tug on it hard enough to pull it over her face and blind her. It would be safer to join the tunic to the leggings and have a zipper or something up the back for her to use to put the costume on.
It kind of reminds me of the Stephanie Brown version of the Robin costume.
I don’t think we’ve seen yet. I’m betting we’ll see when AG can’t find something, or something goes wrong suit-wise.
Welp, I just realized that the arc after this is probably gonna be heavy as fuck.
Let’s hope not. I really can’t take it right now.
Dang, Dorothy works fast.
I will admit, I was expecting a significantly harder to stomach comic today from that title. Especially since I’ve been half worried/half excited about the potential for jocyelyne to get involved in this conversation (either from him targeting her, or her speaking up)
Oh gods
OK, after 14 “non-DOA” years of this trope, I’ve come to a conclusion…and I know I’m late to the party on this one, but here I go…Indiana University at Bloomington is either the MOST DANGEROUS CAMPUS in the USA -OR- has the feeblest security campus police force in the USA…or both…that is if you squint your eyes and believe within the confines of this web comic….just sayin’…
A huge portion of security on campuses relies on the fact that 99% of the time, nothing violent is going on. No criminal activity anywhere. Sadly, security can’t be everywhere at all times, so that 1% exception is likely to start and finish before they even hear of it, much less get there.
Also everywhere else.
It’s campus with some 35k+ students, along with however many staff, located in the middle of a city.
The costumed stuff is obviously over the top, but a bunch of fights, attempted rapes and even a couple of murders isn’t really that out of line.
That one group of friends is at the epicenter of all of it is weird, but that’s really all.
Campus security exists to protect the reputation of the university. Sometimes that’s keeping rich students from being arrested by townie cops for drunk and disorderly or worse. Sometimes that’s mass arresting protestors. If the university has a medical school/hospital, sometimes they also assault and detain the “wrong kind” of patient, when they can’t find their car.
I won’t argue there isn’t some truth in that, but you don’t need to be nearly that cynical to explain what we see in this comic.
For this scene, all you need is to accept that campus security isn’t regularly stationed in the cafeteria or close enough to respond practically instant, if anyone’s even called it in yet.
The more consistent stuff is at a level that doesn’t really stand out from dangers that occur across college campuses. The big stuff is enough to make waves, but it’s hardly in a class of its own. A couple years ago, several people were killed or injured at the college I had attended. Other campuses have had similar experiences. I’ll echo the “it’s a lot connected to this particular group,” but on the overall danger level of the campus…eh.
“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.” –Simone de Beauvoir
Global to humanity. Probably some other great apes species, too.
Hell yeah we love a post-time-skip New 52 style redesign w a lot of lines
I really just want to see him get tied up, demasked and expelled
Why did this come to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJvM8eYcpL0
… kinda relevant.
Isn’t it?
I love how Joyce is here proving that she does respect preferred names. She’s grown a lot.
Anyways FUCK YEAH AMAZI-GIRL
Incels, incels all around
She smash their heads into the ground
FUCK
THREE times tonight I have been writing out a long annoying comment when suddenly a full screen popup ad has popped up over my screen, preventing me from doing anything except giving up and reloading the page, trashing my entire comment
(The second time I was at least fifteen minutes into carefully wording a personal anecdote about violence and death happening to classmates of mine in high school when everything got trashed by the pop-up ad)
(The third time it happened I was in the middle of typing a comment complaining about the full screen popup ad that had just trashed my comment)
Type long comments in Notepad/Leafpad/SimpleText first, then copy/paste them into the comment form.
I mean, it’s never been a problem before?
…
IT JUST HAPPENED AGAIN
Fortunately, this full screen popup ad had a Close button so I could dismiss it and get back here intact. St. Augustine (a city I was quite fond of <i<until</i< this evening) didn’t.
Why is anyone still online in this day and age without an adblocker!?! Donate to our host directly instead of involuntarily contributing to clogging the innertubes.
Firefox + uBlock Origin. Never see an ad again.
Oh no! His stomach! His only* weakness!
Is it just me or does incelerator look like a gender flipped Carol? At first glance when he was introduced I just saw the strong chin and though she was taking over Blaine’s mantle and wanted to reach out to her daughter in new ways
Something tells me she would consider superhero costumes evil somehow.
I still wonder, like, seriously
what’s that incel’s endgame here ? like what did he think will happen after doing this ?
is it some weird ploy to get arrested and then whine about how Amazigirl gets free reign and he doesn’t or some shit ?
No one wake up one day and think “hey, i’m gonna make some costume and rant abusive shit by myself in the school cafeteria”. there gotta be a goal
….is there an accomplice filming the whole thing ?
I think it’s just taking what incels do all the time online and bringing into the real world for dramatic effect.
Either getting her on camera, to id her to the police (she did beat a bunch of people up in autumn), or he’s been training and thinks he can beat her, are my guesses.
Maybe he realized nobody on the Internet listens or that they’re capable of blocking you. What he still doesn’t realize is people in the real world are capable of calling the campus police for harassment.
Nah, fuck the police. They don’t need to be involved in every little altercation, that’s just what they want you to think. People are more than capable of dealing with their own problems, and any thinking otherwise is deliberate propaganda to make us all feel weak and defenseless so we won’t get any pesky ideas about taking control of our own lives.
I mean in this case maybe, because an actual super-hero is on the scene, but in general no.
Vigilante justice isn’t better than the police. As bad as police are.
It’s fine to disagree.
Oh good, so while Incel jerk is distracted with Walky, Amazi-Girl is here to kick his ass.
Get him, Sal! Avenge your brother!
Jennifer, we know that’s you.
GET HIS ARSEEEEEE
So, Amazi-Girl is a real superhero. Incelerator is a real super-villian. But Nightguy is only Walky in pajamas? C’mon Willis, not fair, not fair at all.
Amazi-Girl is an athlete with fistfight training and extensive experience. Walky is a slacker with no skills applicable to a fistfight and no superpowers or gadgets to compensate. He doesn’t even have pepper spray, for all we’ve seen.
^ This. Nothing against Walky, but he’s a couch potato geek with no fighting experience whose first time punching someone was when he punched Asher in the face (who wasn’t even fighting back). XD Despite her appearance, Amazi-girl is actually extremely fit and has had years of fighting experience. (A common misconception by many people is that, just because someone looks ripped they must be a good fighter, or conversely because somebody looks chunky they can’t be a good fighter.)
As Walky himself said: “Yeah, she looks squishy butcha grab an arm an’ it’s all bicep under there.”
Indeed, it seems that the whole point of NightGuy! (as a character) is to be an ineffectual wannabee.
Also not to gas up Incelerator but we know from the amount of ass whuppings he’s received that he’s at least participated in a few scraps. So the dude is bigger and more experienced than Walky in physical confrontation.
Anybody who’s done a single sport for more than a couple weeks beats walky on this, probably.
Yes
No – there is nothing super about this ordinary villain
No – Nightguy is Walky in a snowsuit
No to all three. Superheroes aren’t real. AG is just a person who knows how to fight, and likes to physically attack people over justified and unjustified reasons (iirc, she’s attacked someone over litter). She’s a danger to herself and people around her.
That whole red sentence is a large portion of her hotness.
This is a comic strip. None of these characters are real. In universe, she’s pretty damn close to a super-hero.
Yeah, in the real world, if she tried to do what she’s done, she’d just be dead horribly injured. But she’s not in the real world.
oh, this is a comic strip? and the characters aren’t real? I didn’t know!
Super heroes are not real in the dumbiverse either, since I guess I have to spell it out. She’s a cosplayer who is capable of beating people up, and has beaten some people up (some deserving, some not) and she’s been lucky not to have gotten herself seriously injured or killed. Other characters in the dumbiverse recognize this and say it.
And yet she keeps doing superhero level shit that should just get her killed. You can say that just “lucky”, but past a certain point in fiction it’s not just luck, it’s genre.
So I guess I didn’t explain myself. In the tags, AG is tagged. Incel is tagged. Walky is tagged. So, to Willis, AG is a ‘real character’ as is Incel. Yet Walky is Walky, not Nightguy, that’s what I meant.
No, I don’t think they are ‘real’, yes I know it’s a comic. I was just wondering about the tagging is all.
AG and Amber get different tags because they’re different alters. Note that it’s not based on costume, but on which persona is fronting.
NightGuy is just Walky in an outfit.
The Incelerator is tagged as such because it’s the only name he’s given us. Whatever his real name is, I don’t think we’ve heard it.
You know, I love scenarios like this. When a villain who thinks he has everyone in their grasp starts spouting Darwinist bullshit of Might Makes Right and Strongest Survival.
And then gets their ass kicked seven ways to Sunday and Suddenly it’s unfair and those rules don’t apply to them XD
Social-Darwinist, not Darwinist… Galton, not Darwin.
Galton? Lemme google
Francis Galton
“Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI was a British polymath and the originator of eugenics”
Oh that’s not good.
Thanks for dropping the name.
Eugen Bleuler is another name to think about.
«With Ritalin?» ahahahaha. Makes sense to me. But then, uh… (As a friend of mine once said, «Ritalin truly is a wonder drug — it makes other people smarter….»
Sorry. Forgot the first part of what they said: «You take it and…»
Just to be clear. Because, you know, ADD.
Joe, you p*ssy!
Stop hiding behind all the girls and Step Up!
Grandmama, drink your prune juice.
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqkrXqnmnk
Hope the result is the same.
Here. Violence. Can we, finally, do something NOW?
1. Good to see Joyce is sticking to the new name.
2. Poor Jocelyne. Things are about to get a bit more confusing for her.
3. Incel-boy deserves doubly the beating he’s about to receive.
4. Joe! Why you hiding behind the girls? Weren’t you guarding Joyce just a second ago?
2. I’m sure she’s used to it. Jocelyne is used to joins protests
4. It’s Dumbing of Age. Girls are the strongest here. Which is great.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the protest experience.
Incelerator skated behind them.
Yeah, I forgot that. Joe hasn’t had a chance to move yet.
Now we know what those pills in Nightguy’s utility belt are.
dina, becky, he literally announced himself, come on
walky, please get a better costume
Anyone who has ever made the claim violence solves nothing is utterly unaware of history.
Behold, violence is going to solve something.
Been saying this. History is stuffed with examples of violence when asking nicely did not work.
History is also full of examples of even well intentioned violence going horribly wrong and even more of it being successfully used for horrible purposes in the first place.
Sometimes it’s necessary. It’s rarely a good thing.
Waiting for Chekhov’s Velcro. Dorothy “fixed” the suit. Is this where it and AG come undone?
Go Amazi-Girl! Destroy him!
Ed Gruberman, few novices get to see so much of Tak Kwon Leap soon. Boot to the head!
Tai……..
I want to “like” this a thousand times. Haven’t seen a Tai Kwon Leap reference in ages.
Hey! I’m old.
okay well now /that’s/ assault
Now it’s assault and battery.
Okay, is “Tummypunch” the onomatopoeia? Is that the sound the punch is making? Or is Incel guy yelling that anime-style?
It’s the cry of the imaginary wrestling announcer.
Incelerator stole Night Guy’s hair style
More evidence that Sal is NightGuy — Sal’s last name is Walkerton.
How can Sal be NightGuy? She’s right there jumping in to avenge him in the next panel?
this really feels like what he’s been waiting for, making a big scene monologuing, I wonder if he’s been waiting for AG and there is some sort of plan going on here. ~<3
Knowing how far ahead of time the strips are drawn, I can only conclude Willis is a prophet or a time traveler. Prove me wrong.
ok, now there’s a reason for violence. And more violence showed than expected (by one person).
Violence is not the answer!!
It’s the question.
The answer is yes.
About time Sal showed up.
Perfect new-costume introduction is perfect.
No. Dude. Call the authorities and report assault.
I vote against this because then we wouldn’t see AG kick his ass.
do cops even take this sort of thing seriously instead of saying “two college kids dressed like superheroes got into a fight in the lunch room? are you sure this isn’t one of those deeyanddee copay things I heard about?”
please tell me she’s secretly taking a sewing class bc HOLY CRAP THAT OUTFIT IS DOPE
That might be Dorothy’s work actually.
Duke of Thingley!
But they can’t say that, they must tell nobody they saw him.
What happens in Thingley stays in Thingley!
AMAZIGIRLLLLLLLLL YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY
punch seemed a little high for just a “tummypuch”
Gender traitor. Huh. That’s a new one. Be more of a villain. Enjoy your lunch. Pretty sure knuckle will be on the sandwich
Old vs New
(FWIW, I like it! Big “Burnside Batgirl” vibes, and the costume for that run was great even if the rest of it was uh. Yeah. Let’s say reviews were mixed.)
Holyshit, I love the new design OwwO!!
only Joyce caring enough to use Walky’s alter ego lol
WE’RE SO BACK
It feels weird that this is escalating to the point of Wa…Nightguy showing up and getting punched and then Amazigirl leaping in to attack when a casually stuck out leg while jerkmobile was skating around them would have ended it pretty quickly, and would have been a much lower threshold of violence than the cast routinely inflicts on each other.
Oh..or is that why no one was willing to trip him? Because that’s how Ruth and Billie got started and NOBODY wanted to risk being taken as flirting with this guy?
Scarred by his beating at the hands of the Incelerator, Walkyshelves his NightGuy persona and becomes the dark, brooding antihero known as…
THE RITALER!!