Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...
Girl Genius
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.
Hazy London
Scotty
A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...
Cut Time
Juby
Rel and her trusty avian friend Fugue are on a quest to save a world that's lost track of time. Follow them and their new recruits, in a story written with help from the stars.
Monster Pulse
Magnolia Porter Siddell
Four kids run afoul of a creepy secret organization's experiments, which turn their body parts into fighting monsters. Part sentimental coming-of-age story, part monster-training shonen manga, with just a bit of sci-fi body horror.
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Fireweeds Moors
Gato Iberico
A cat-headed man and a girl with a sandwich hankering accidentally end up in a myth-infused country where magic chalices are a really big thing.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Ghost Junk Sickness
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Two hunters try to survive and end up being pushed to pursue a deadly bounty dubbed "The Ghost".
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Jailbird
Charlie Davis
An all-ages comic about a recently escaped prisoner's struggle to understand the outside world, and vice-versa. Also, a magic cape!
Kiwi Blitz
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
Steffi thinks she can use her kiwi mech to become a superhero. This idea turns out to be very stupid.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Between Failures
Jackie Wohlenhaus
The low stakes adventures of an assorted group of 20 somethings trapped in the declining years of American retail. They are naughty and say lots of swears.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
The Lonely Vincent Bellingham
Diana Huh
Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Caramel Corn
Potchimew
Sarah is the only human left in a world full of mythical creatures and monsters. All she wants to do is live a quiet life, but everything changes when she meets her guardian angel, Jacob.
Godslave
Meaghan Carter
Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
Sam & Fuzzy
Sam Logan
Troubled by gangster rodents, lovesick vampire stalkers, or confused ninja assassins? Don't panic! Sam and Fuzzy are here to help. (For a reasonable fee.)
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Paranatural
Zack Morrison
Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!
Demon's Mirror
Harry Bogosian
Based loosely off of "The Snow Queen", a story by Hans Christian Andersen, we see things take a different turn as the demons become central characters, and the side characters stick around. Yup, that's the only differences. Enjoy!
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
The Automan's Daughter
Mike Stamm
Aisha Osman and her uncle Siddig outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.
Go Get a Roomie
Clover
Experience the queer journey of an upbeat hippie and the friendships she makes along the way! A tale of self-discovery and love of many forms.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Devil's Candy
Rem, Bikkuri
A lush fantasy about boy genius Kazu Decker, the girl he constructed for his 9th grade science project, and the world of devils and monsters they live in.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
The Sanity Circus
Windy
Magic, monsters and mysteries await in the odd city of Sanity. It's up to Attley and a colorful group of characters to find out just what is going on.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Wychwood
Varethane
When Tiara's pyrokinesis is finally noticed, she is captured by a magical research organization for study. If she cooperates, she could be helping to save humanity from a dire threat - but can she trust them?
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
BOOKMARK Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
BUFFER WATCH
Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:
To be strictly fair to Jennifer, Amazi-Girl calls herself Slamber in roller derby, and I presume she signed up under Amber’s name. On the other hand, she’s wearing a visor and face-paint that looks exactly like her freaking mask.
Yeah, I undershot the mark on the snark, but it was meant as a “you’d have to be real stupid to become strongly convinced that your roommate is a superhero they do not remotely resemble” sort of dig
I just want Joe to casually be telling Danny that both Joyce and Amazigirl spit, and that be the part of the story that Dorothy overhears completely without context.
Speaking as a 30 year old who specialized in jump kicks at Taekwondo, it’s worth it every time I look at the one picture I have of me doing a head height flying side kick over 3 people. Clearly AG just needs a cool video of her 3 point landing to sustain her into her golden years.
Speaking as a fellow former taekwondo black belt in his late 30s who also did the flying-side-kick-over-three-people thing, the height you drop from after that stunt isn’t even close to the gazebo Amazi-Girl just jumped off of, and also you’d be landing on the dojang’s soft padded ground instead of the bricks/concrete she touched down on.
Honestly I’m more concerned about her wrist, the first thing they taught me about falling was NOT to break your fall the exact way she’s doing.
As somebody with hyperflexibility that has fracked my knees just through existing, I’d say better looking cool be the reason than, “My knees just pop out by themselves” be the reason
Its better than landing without your knees buckling, the whole point of it is to use your legs as a crash zone so can slow down your descent from a modest height. Its really only when you’re trying to do the stylistic version of it where you’re trying to bang your knee on the ground that it becomes a problem.
Yeah, they hurt. I do a standing land-into-squat, where I do some trigonometry stuff with my leg muscles in order to spread the impact over the time dimension. Also, like… landing on your feet in padded boots is a good idea, the feet have way more tension points compared to the knees and therefore distribute the gravitational force a lot better. DO make sure you don’t over-extend your Achillies tendon, you can get a sprain otherwise, and even a minor sprain can take like a week or two to recover from, ugh.)
(Obviously, learn to ninja roll. If the squat isn’t enough, spring forward into a roll. Distribute the impact across time as much as you can and redirect the fall momentum forward instead of down.)
…I have a tendency to land on a combination of toes and balls of feet to prevent my ankles from taking too much force, plus it can be easier to land with the stand-squat-roll thing.
Depended on the act, like they engaged in heavy petting in the costume, and I know the two did oral while hanging from her grappling hook, but I think it may have sometimes just been the mask.
Sometimes just the mask, though the mask isn’t necessary for it to be AG and also Amber sometimes wears it.
It’s also a scene that shows how little divided Amber and AG early on. If they weren’t both dating Danny, they were comfortable with Amber cuddling with him right after sex
I mean it was at it’s worse in the remainder of my High School years, my legs were basically swollen to the size of cannon balls. Where other teens were going to prom, I was learning to code while zonking out on edibles in the wheelchair
In retrospect it seemed like a better use of my time o3o
Joe is pushing towards Jennifer levels of “Dude, really?” here. He spent at least part of break with Amber, can he really not identify her here? I’ve seen the bit in Superman II, Christopher Reeves was great, but really?
This is only the second time he’s even seen Amazi-Girl. He didn’t believe she actually existed until yesterday (well, day before yesterday now, technically). It’s dark, and she’s doing the Voice, and moving and acting in ways that Amber doesn’t. It’s not like he’s been up close and personal with both of them repeatedly, like certain people Joyce couldn’t name.
He’s pushing towards “Everyone in the comic” levels of “Dude, really?” here.
The only person who might have just recognized that Amber and AG were the same on sight was Dina. Everyone else got more solid clues or was just told. Jennifer level is being told and still denying it.
I’m actually not surprised that Joe thought Amazi-girl was just Danny, and Amber being kinky. What does surprise me is the fact that he didn’t believe she exists?
Hasn’t there been enough Amazi-girl coverage that most should know by now?
He could have thought AG was as serious as Nightguy. Someone cosplaying and the rumormill about them. IIRC, there is a real life guy in Bloomington who wears a spiderman costume out and about.
Also that last panel is some Bill Waterson-worthy spit-take, which I assume will be taken for the tremendous compliment it is bc I assume we all agree Waterson is The Artist of comic strips.
Chiming in to agree. Bill Watterson was one of a kind and I bet he’s a huge inspiration for anyone drawing strip format comics.
(……..except the cursed thing i hate-read every time Willis posts about it. That’s proof there’s no loving god and as far from Watterson as you can get.)
hey, you never know, 9 Chickweed Lane guy might admire Waterson!
I doubt it, because the few public statements I’ve read at his about his creative process have been enormously egotistical and lacking in self-awareness, but like, it’s possible. Admiring a great artist doesn’t necessarily make one capable of emulating them lol.
I mean, Book 9 is apparently titled “Now Let’s Go Commit Something Mildly Subversive Which at Worst Will Serve as a Humanizing Anecdote and Not as Anything Truly Threatening to the Power Structures at Hand”
Nope. Joyce Spit-Take Face is categorically a different creature from the Joyce Freak-Out Face. According to midichlorian analysis, their last common ancestor was over six million years ago.
(1) Midnight and very dark. (2) A-G is wearing a mix of dark blue and bright yellow. (3) She’s using The Voice. (4) Joe’s perceptions are filtered through his “Step-Sister Amber is a total potato of fanfic and video games” cognition, while this new person has none of those traits.
Having performed puppetry in public… you don’t even need a mask.
If the context is unexpected enough (for example, you’re walking around talking to people through a puppet on your arm) people will genuinely take a moment to process the person standing right there.
Not sure how much of it is true or applies here but the concepts are interesting. Sometimes changing or hiding the right elements paired with changes to body language or attitude is all it takes.
I’ve been in the SCA for thirty-odd years I’ve more than once run into people I’d known in the SCA for years in public places, and didn’t recognize them until they said my SCA name. No masks, just different clothes and an unexpected context.
I like Robin’s strategy. You put a thin strip of fabric over your face which people think makes you unrecognizable, and then you take off your pants so nobody actually looks up there anyway.
Maybe I’m just different then, because I can recognize someone I know from across a Super Walmart while they’re facing away from me and turning a corner. Really odd to me that in a face-to-face encounter, I’m expected not to recognize my friends because they wear something that covers slightly more skin than sunglasses would.
But it’s not just a bit of cloth across the face that’s different. The voice is different. The movement is different. Even the posture is different. The way the hair is worn is a bit different. Amber is not in the habit of jumping off roofs. The expressions are different. If you look closely, even the facial coloring is slightly different, Amber always has a slight blush. .
AFAIK I don’t have diagnosable face blindness, but a new haircut makes people literally unrecognizable to me. Adding glasses doesn’t seem to have the same effect, but if the hair changes (or multiple people have the exact same haircut and color) I’m screwed.
I think part of the sell that’s hard to experience by us readers is the difference in personality. To these characters, Amber is so extremely different from AG I think that does a lot of the heavy lifting. Yes there’s the posture change, fake voice, and body language, but also most of Amber’s friends think she’s a shut in nerd. Joe doesn’t know Amber works out in her room. Likely doesn’t know all of Amber’s trauma. Looking at Ambs and AG side to side seems obvious to us, but believing the quiet, computer and video game girl jumps on rooftops at night is actually a hard sell.
@Taffy
I can spot my wife and/or kids from a distance, but I know them very well and see them every day in various clothes and contexts. Others? Not so much.
And even for my wife, her distinctive curly hair is a significant factor in picking her out. I know all the ways she wears it, so that aspect is an easy spot.
However, when she comes out of a shower with her hair wet, the water straightens the curls and darkens the color, making her look VERY different. She only looks different until her hair dries (which happens fairly quickly), the curls returning and the color lightening, so I don’t see her that way often. If she somehow soaked her hair in the middle of a Walmart, I’m not sure I would recognize her from a distance given that her hair is the first thing I look for in such a circumstance.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to chalk this up to human differences. Like, I believe you people when you say a simple hair change is enough to throw you off, but I just can’t relate. Aside from these extreme changes (costume, voice, body language, etc.) the original remark was about the mask, and I took that to literally mean the mask itself.
As a face-blind person, it would work on me because if I’m not EXTREMELY familiar with someone, I Will not recognize them if met in new circumstances. I’ve failed to recognize my own aunt before; and even in context, I took thirty seconds to process a teacher I had seen evey week for two years. She was exactly in the expected spot (…behind the desk she was always behind), but had a new haircut.
Also interacting with people in the middle of the night works.
It seems brightly lit from the visuals, but its not like there’s a lot of light sources in the wide shots, wouldn’t exactly shock me if Joe can’t really get a good look at her right now.
Deadpool calls out the fact that the “super hero landing” is a bad idea. I was trying to say Amazi-Girl needs to abandon the “super hero landing” before she gets hurt
this is tangential but Amazi-Girl’s here so it’s relevant; if AG ever picks up a civilian name, I’m figuring “Amanda” is the way to go. like “Aggie/Agatha” is a bit too on-the-nose plus it’s an old lady name, and I’m pretty sure somebody conflated “Amanda” as a “not-Amber” name a while ago
granted I tend to think of the two of them together as “Double-A” like the batteries ‘cuz I’m dumb as hell and it’s funny to me, so feel free to disregard
‘Mazing Man used to be called “Maze” for short, which is pretty close to “Maisie”
Thirty years after his comic ended, he got an animated short on “Batman: the Brave and the Bold,” mostly I think because his creator worked on the show.
I dunno man, we’re sorta past the point where AG is a walking dissociative episode nowadays and who knows, girlie might wanna have a social life that doesn’t involve masked vigilantism and/or roller derby
I’m having a hard time seeing “pointedly wants to avoid contracting CTE from getting into car chases without a car” as a sign of worsening mental health
Main problem with “Agatha” is that we already have one in the comic (and in their hall). Not that names couldn’t be doubled up– but usually kept low in stories. (As opposed to schools, where you meet four Aarav’s in a day, and that’s only because one’s absent.)
“Old-fashioned” names of the “Agatha” variety are back in style, though I don’t think I’ve met a child named Agatha specifically.
I’m pretty sure he’s the only relevant character to not know her identity at this point. Off the top of my head the only other person is Billie and that’s a running gag so that hardly counts
I forgot that Joe didn’t know that Amazi-Girl exists. Which is kinda amazing considering how many of the people he’s hung around with have met her before.
I feel that would be a poor choice of safeword, as that particular term could come up often in their kinky adventures. One of the slipshine’s, in fact, involves that very thing.
………Amazi-Girl, mind expositing about why you’re clam-jamming Joyce here?
I mean, I don’t think I missed anything here, Joyce and Joe aren’t breaking any laws, they’re not in any danger either immediate or implied, they probably should get a room and all but they’re just being flirty right now…
She’s a weirdo who fucks around outdoors all night, hoping she’ll find someone misbehaving so she can beat the shit out of them. Her recognizing people she knows is reason enough to come check on them, and she’s not jamming any clams by existing in their presence for a few minutes.
No you don’t understand Joyce and Joe were definitely about to go at it right here in this gazebo, Amazi-Girl is here to stop public nudity.
(These are jokes.) (I am definitely assuming Joyce and Joe were actually gonna go to a dorm room first, just getting in a lil grope/flirt here, and that Amazi-Girl is actually here coincidentally and saying hi.)
Joyce has been roofied, assaulted, and kidnapped, all in one semester. A-G has prioritized keeping track of and checking in on her (with Amber’s digital tracking expertise helping out).
Seeing Amber reminds me. Joe didn’t think she’d actually stay his step sister for long since his dad is a serial adulterer whose love life always ends in disaster due to his own choices. Joe already has a lot of hang ups about fidelity even if he’s never really voiced them to Joyce.
Just another reason he’d probably have been irrevocably devastated had Joyce done anything that could be considered cheating.
The gals are shocked by Joe’s “kinky shit” remark. Not knowing AG and Amber share a body is normal, but he’s taken it in a direction neither of them considered. On top of that, he’s so far out of the know, he’s suggesting Danny may have dated the two of them either simultaneously or back-to-back.
Willis is saving it for the eventual (and epic) Jennifer-realizes-the-Amber/A-G truth” scene. She’ll be downing a shot, make the realization, the epic spit-take will splatter the walls and ceiling like something from The Exorcist, and the newly-returned Billie will swear off all booze from forever more.
Willis never puts the punchline as the strip title, because many people read this strip from links, like on Bluesky, or whatever, and making the punchline the title would spoil it for those people.
Short answer: it’s complicated. Depending on how the system works and how all the identities feel, you could be dating a single personality, any combination of different personalities, or the system as a whole. It’s also possible different alters might date different people simultaneously, which adds a whole other layer of complication since it introduces problems of polyamory even if each alter is nominally monogamous.
Amber and AG have, thus far, shown a preference for only one of them dating — Danny dated AG but not Amber, Walky dated Amber but not AG. It’s unclear if both of them would have been willing to date Danny simultaneously had it not been for the secret identity issue — they were clearly both interested, but whether Amber backed off purely to protect her secret identity or because of some tacit agreement that only one of them can date someone is unknown. There’s also been no instance of them being interested in different people simultaneously, but they clearly don’t share all their attraction — AG had no interest in Walky.
But anyway, despite the attraction, Amber and Danny did not date. So no, not 100% wrong, but also definitely not correct.
Yeah, but, as you note, Amber backed off Danny only because of secret identity stuff, and without that, it might well’ve been both of them, and Joyce doesn’t necessarily know it wasn’t, so…
Could Amazi-Girl and Ember be Joyce’s gateway to “Both. Both is good” with Joe and Dorothy?
It’s more complicated because in the beginning Danny didn’t know they were the same person and he didn’t actually understand they weren’t until after they broke up. Once he knew Amber was AG, he didn’t distinguish between them other than for keeping the secret. And at first, neither did they.
Depends on where you draw the “core group” line, I guess. Joe and Jennifer are the most prominent certainly. There are others on the cast page who don’t, but I’d say they were one step out of the “core”.
Looks like the time for Joe to start to worry about his new sister and asking everyone how it’s possible that they seem to be accepting this situation so easily has finally come.
The fact that Amber has a second personality, that goes around risking her life and beating up both people with weapons and people who just throw some paper on the ground, seems like a bad situation to me.
Amazi girl doesn’t “best people who throw paper on the ground”. And everyone is accepting of it because she has genuinely help them or save their lives in some occasion that is the kind of thing that earn plenty of good will.
Now they can cover by saying Danny was actually dating both of them at the same time and everyone was cool with it, and this is how we can get into the subject of ENM.
He kind of was, just not openly. He treated it as a secret id thing, where they just had to be careful not to let know he was dating Amber because they knew he was dating AG.
And at first, that’s basically how both Amber and AG treated it. That shifted over time and Danny didn’t really understand the distinction until after they’d broken up.
Why is she even here? Something silly about “protecting” Joyce from Joe? Hopefully not. But I wonder if their evening plans are going to be interrupted either way.
Amazi-Girl? Doubtful. Even if you assume she’d act on Amber’s behalf, Amber was a wing-woman for Joe once, so I don’t think she believes Joyce needs protecting from Joe.
On the other hand, Amber did attempt to nudge Joyce in the direction to break up Dorothy/Walky, which would break up Joe/Joyce. Amber feels pretty terrible about that, so I doubt she’ll do anything else, though.
And Amazi-Girl was never in favor of it to begin with.
I figure either she’s jumping around on rooftops and just happened to cross paths with Joe and Joyce, or she’s specifically shadowing Joyce to protect her not from Joe but from other potential lurking threats, as she did the night of Joyce and Dorothy’s dranks date.
today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it!
also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
Hot Toys Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 1/6 Scale Darth Vader Deluxe ($495) & Standard ($315) is up for preorder at Sideshow - shrsl.com/4wcx6 #ad
If you preorder make sure to hit the Exclusive versions since they include a commemorative plaque and cost the same.
btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
JUST IN: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan moves to dismiss federal criminal case against her for allegedly helping immigrant hide from ICE. Her lawyers say she's protected by official acts & judicial immunity and 10th Amendment. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Where did Hollywood go so wrong? I thought movies were supposed to be an escape from reality, a chance to put your worries aside and not have to think about any underlying ideas or concepts. Well, not anymore.
theonion.com/you-can...
It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908.
"You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com ⋅ 2d
Hawley dismisses Trump lining his pockets with his memecoin: "Listen, I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for?"
wilbur, savvy enough to know he's in a comic strip but still not a great actor, awkwardly lifts a muffin up into frame so that we, the audience, understand that he has a muffin right now, which is very important narratively, but he's not really selling it well as an organic, human action
preternia @preternia.com ⋅ 21h
Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com ⋅ 2d
Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social ⋅ 11d
Loading ...
I swear, if this somehow ends up with Joe convinced Amazi-Girl is Danny…
Joe’s a smart cookie, I don’t think he’d do that.
are you reading the words on the page in front of you
Pretty sure that’s a reference to Billifer, who is convinced Sal is Amazi-Girl.
SAL ISN’T AMAZI-GIRL!? ~<3
It’s actually Walky wearing a seaweed wig, pretending to be Sal, who’s really Amazi-Girl.
I started looking up tags to see if we had a Sal+Amazi+girl+Jennifer combo and it turns out we do have a single instance.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/laps/
Some reporter clearly wasn’t paying attention that day.
To be strictly fair to Jennifer, Amazi-Girl calls herself Slamber in roller derby, and I presume she signed up under Amber’s name. On the other hand, she’s wearing a visor and face-paint that looks exactly like her freaking mask.
Obviously an Amazi-Girl fan.
only character I ever notice on that page is Carla. ~<3
Thank you kind sir for teaching me how to search for multiple tags at once.
This is going to save so much time of flipping year by year by year to find that one strip with that one joke that I probably misremembered anyways.
… and I just realized I am replying to you as if you are Ethan. Note to self, people are not their gravitars…
So, if I just misgendered you, my apologies.
She is. Don’t listen to the haters.
I thought so… ~<3
Everyone knows Ultracar is Amazi-Girl.
Yeah, I undershot the mark on the snark, but it was meant as a “you’d have to be real stupid to become strongly convinced that your roommate is a superhero they do not remotely resemble” sort of dig
Joe is two logic steps away from “OMG Sal is Amazi-Girl!”
Danny IS Amazi-Girl! D: It’s been right there in front of us the whole time!!
Danny could rock that costume tbh
Does A-G need a ‘boy wonder’? Could Danny make a good ‘Robin’ type?
(probably not….)
I think Walky’s already angling to fill that spot (take that in whatever direction you like).
Oh yeah! I had totally forgotten about Night-Guy!
I hope he becomes convinced that Amazi-Girl is Dorothy.
That was Becky’s thing – kind of – until she met Amazi-Girl
This is now canon.
That mask is just so effective
Magic mask for A-G1. Magic eyeglasses for Clark.
No he thinks she’s Dorothy.
I just want Joe to casually be telling Danny that both Joyce and Amazigirl spit, and that be the part of the story that Dorothy overhears completely without context.
LMAO XD
Three point landings look like such a bad idea!
But they’re so cool!
Ask Amber’s knees in her thirties if being cool was worth it.
Speaking as a 30 year old who specialized in jump kicks at Taekwondo, it’s worth it every time I look at the one picture I have of me doing a head height flying side kick over 3 people. Clearly AG just needs a cool video of her 3 point landing to sustain her into her golden years.
Speaking as a fellow former taekwondo black belt in his late 30s who also did the flying-side-kick-over-three-people thing, the height you drop from after that stunt isn’t even close to the gazebo Amazi-Girl just jumped off of, and also you’d be landing on the dojang’s soft padded ground instead of the bricks/concrete she touched down on.
Honestly I’m more concerned about her wrist, the first thing they taught me about falling was NOT to break your fall the exact way she’s doing.
She has super-dense bones from a lab accident. Or something like that that I can’t be bothered to search the archives for.
Found it:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/weigh/
Over 10 years with zero evidence denying the claim. I guess it’s true. Wow.
deliverything, thank you for your public service.
Yeah, I’m thinking she might regret this practice when she’s looking at arthritis and tendonitis both in 10-15 years.
When they go, they go fast, I”m twice your age and my knees are constant agony.
As somebody with hyperflexibility that has fracked my knees just through existing, I’d say better looking cool be the reason than, “My knees just pop out by themselves” be the reason
Fellow Zebra?
We’re a herd!
Yeah, I fucking FELT the first and second panel.
Knees?
Try wrists and fingers.
(though that could also be attributed to excessive gaming)
Amber might be risking metacarpal problems, too, plus A-G’s risking of tendonitis or arthritis. Both women aren’t being gentle with their body.
Sure, for a crash landing. It’s about as smooth as you can look if you’re totally eating shit.
Its better than landing without your knees buckling, the whole point of it is to use your legs as a crash zone so can slow down your descent from a modest height. Its really only when you’re trying to do the stylistic version of it where you’re trying to bang your knee on the ground that it becomes a problem.
Even Deadpool knows they’re hell on the knees.
Yeah, they hurt. I do a standing land-into-squat, where I do some trigonometry stuff with my leg muscles in order to spread the impact over the time dimension. Also, like… landing on your feet in padded boots is a good idea, the feet have way more tension points compared to the knees and therefore distribute the gravitational force a lot better. DO make sure you don’t over-extend your Achillies tendon, you can get a sprain otherwise, and even a minor sprain can take like a week or two to recover from, ugh.)
(Obviously, learn to ninja roll. If the squat isn’t enough, spring forward into a roll. Distribute the impact across time as much as you can and redirect the fall momentum forward instead of down.)
…I have a tendency to land on a combination of toes and balls of feet to prevent my ankles from taking too much force, plus it can be easier to land with the stand-squat-roll thing.
Did the costume ever stay on in the act?
Yes.
Not completely. Sometimes not at all.
Well…. it SORTA stayed on…. sometimes…..
Depended on the act, like they engaged in heavy petting in the costume, and I know the two did oral while hanging from her grappling hook, but I think it may have sometimes just been the mask.
Probably just the mask.
”Mask or no mask?” or something like that. It’s been a while.
Sometimes just the mask, though the mask isn’t necessary for it to be AG and also Amber sometimes wears it.
It’s also a scene that shows how little divided Amber and AG early on. If they weren’t both dating Danny, they were comfortable with Amber cuddling with him right after sex
“Mask or no mask” was said at one time.
WELL THEN! XD
AMBER YOUR JOINTS OMFG to be 18 again…
Also I love everything about this strip. And the last panel, well, let’s say IT LANDED
*rimshot* XD
18 or not it’s gonna have a cost down the road. Well, us all people know
Agreed af, it’s gonna have a cost for her down the road
……… Idk about you but I’m already paying them tolls, though TwT and I never did anything this cool
As someone who’s but three years younger than pokemon and deals with arthritis, I also feel this
But at least I got weed to help with the pain, and for that I am thankful
Pokemon was released in the US when I was 33. The pain fairy is just STARTING with you.
I mean it was at it’s worse in the remainder of my High School years, my legs were basically swollen to the size of cannon balls. Where other teens were going to prom, I was learning to code while zonking out on edibles in the wheelchair
In retrospect it seemed like a better use of my time o3o
That is the funniest fucking last panel I’ve ever seen.
Joe is pushing towards Jennifer levels of “Dude, really?” here. He spent at least part of break with Amber, can he really not identify her here? I’ve seen the bit in Superman II, Christopher Reeves was great, but really?
Look, can you fault a dude for being distracted. He was freezing his ass off just yesterday for his gf
This is only the second time he’s even seen Amazi-Girl. He didn’t believe she actually existed until yesterday (well, day before yesterday now, technically). It’s dark, and she’s doing the Voice, and moving and acting in ways that Amber doesn’t. It’s not like he’s been up close and personal with both of them repeatedly, like certain people Joyce couldn’t name.
He’s pushing towards “Everyone in the comic” levels of “Dude, really?” here.
The only person who might have just recognized that Amber and AG were the same on sight was Dina. Everyone else got more solid clues or was just told. Jennifer level is being told and still denying it.
I love the superhero genre. Not being able to identify them behind an opera mask is a genre thing Schpoonman.
Technically he’s not wrong.
Technically not wrong is the best kind of right.
You are technically correct.
I’m actually not surprised that Joe thought Amazi-girl was just Danny, and Amber being kinky. What does surprise me is the fact that he didn’t believe she exists?
Hasn’t there been enough Amazi-girl coverage that most should know by now?
He could have thought AG was as serious as Nightguy. Someone cosplaying and the rumormill about them. IIRC, there is a real life guy in Bloomington who wears a spiderman costume out and about.
There’s been plenty of coverage of Bigfoot, but I’m still going to be surprised to meet him.
New pfps incoming
Hell yeah.
Excellent gravatar.
Amazing.
Also that last panel is some Bill Waterson-worthy spit-take, which I assume will be taken for the tremendous compliment it is bc I assume we all agree Waterson is The Artist of comic strips.
You are correct.
Chiming in to agree. Bill Watterson was one of a kind and I bet he’s a huge inspiration for anyone drawing strip format comics.
(……..except the cursed thing i hate-read every time Willis posts about it. That’s proof there’s no loving god and as far from Watterson as you can get.)
What cursed thing are you referring to? The famous quote about how actually it’s ok to be unambitious?
I think they’re referring to 9 Chickweed Lane.
What does that have to do with bill Watterson? “9 chickweed lane bill Watterson” came up with nothing.
OH I get it, the 9 chickweed lane guy doesn’t take Watterson as an inspiration. It makes sense now.
As Big Z wrote. Def the 9CL abomination.
hey, you never know, 9 Chickweed Lane guy might admire Waterson!
I doubt it, because the few public statements I’ve read at his about his creative process have been enormously egotistical and lacking in self-awareness, but like, it’s possible. Admiring a great artist doesn’t necessarily make one capable of emulating them lol.
And they weren’t even drinking anything! Just a straight-up spit-take from zero to 90 in one go!
Shame that’s too long for a book title…
Which part?
I mean, Book 9 is apparently titled “Now Let’s Go Commit Something Mildly Subversive Which at Worst Will Serve as a Humanizing Anecdote and Not as Anything Truly Threatening to the Power Structures at Hand”
Oh yeah, I think I’ve heard that Panic! At the Disco song before /j
Assuming you mean Joe’s line, it’s no longer than some of the other titles.
Dumbing of Age Book 15: PFTFFBFFT
Dumbing of Age Book 15: I Don’t Even Think You’re Real
I was assuming they meant:
Dumbing of Age Book 15: “Swear to God, I thought ‘Amazi-Girl’ was just some code for kinky shit Danny and Amber got up to.”
Which is significantly shorter than book 9’s title, as Effie mentioned above.
I think he’s said in the past he’s not going to put swears in the titles though.
Dumbing of Age Book 15: I STILL have trouble believing you exist.
Does that count as a Joyce Freak Out Face?
Nope. Joyce Spit-Take Face is categorically a different creature from the Joyce Freak-Out Face. According to midichlorian analysis, their last common ancestor was over six million years ago.
Oh no Joe has reached Jennifer levels of dumb
Jinx.
Eh, not really. He just wasn’t present for a TON of key events.
Also, its literally the middle of the night right now, probably too dark for him to discern the resemblance.
(1) Midnight and very dark. (2) A-G is wearing a mix of dark blue and bright yellow. (3) She’s using The Voice. (4) Joe’s perceptions are filtered through his “Step-Sister Amber is a total potato of fanfic and video games” cognition, while this new person has none of those traits.
Not until he keeps this up for months despite multiple people correcting him
This much different than Billifer. She believes AG exists, but thinks she’s Sal. Joe is struggling with the fact that she exists AT ALL.
I mean, what if there was a night where Amazi-Girl did take Danny for a ride…
They went for a ride. Another time, they hung out.
…not JUST the kinky shit…. but mostly…..
Ah, I love me a good wild take.
The mask works!
It’s always been such a weird trope, to me. If somebody I knew wore a thin strip of fabric over their face, I would simply recognize them.
Having been the one behind the mask
(in a cosplay context, of course)
I’m here to tell you:
the mask works.
I mean, you also have to act the part, too. Obviously. You have to do the voice thing, all of that. But if you do it, then… yeah. It works.
Having performed puppetry in public…
you don’t even need a mask.
If the context is unexpected enough (for example, you’re walking around talking to people through a puppet on your arm) people will genuinely take a moment to process the person standing right there.
I found this interesting video: https://youtu.be/JASUsVY5YJ8?si=UO_x_bNWuRNe9zVL
Not sure how much of it is true or applies here but the concepts are interesting. Sometimes changing or hiding the right elements paired with changes to body language or attitude is all it takes.
I’ve been in the SCA for thirty-odd years I’ve more than once run into people I’d known in the SCA for years in public places, and didn’t recognize them until they said my SCA name. No masks, just different clothes and an unexpected context.
I like Robin’s strategy. You put a thin strip of fabric over your face which people think makes you unrecognizable, and then you take off your pants so nobody actually looks up there anyway.
It’s easy so long as you know to try recognizing them and also have an existing correct sense of who you should be recognizing
Maybe I’m just different then, because I can recognize someone I know from across a Super Walmart while they’re facing away from me and turning a corner. Really odd to me that in a face-to-face encounter, I’m expected not to recognize my friends because they wear something that covers slightly more skin than sunglasses would.
But it’s not just a bit of cloth across the face that’s different. The voice is different. The movement is different. Even the posture is different. The way the hair is worn is a bit different. Amber is not in the habit of jumping off roofs. The expressions are different. If you look closely, even the facial coloring is slightly different, Amber always has a slight blush. .
Different hair has repeatedly thrown me off for half a day. And that’s with the same person I was seeing half a day six days a week.
AFAIK I don’t have diagnosable face blindness, but a new haircut makes people literally unrecognizable to me. Adding glasses doesn’t seem to have the same effect, but if the hair changes (or multiple people have the exact same haircut and color) I’m screwed.
I think part of the sell that’s hard to experience by us readers is the difference in personality. To these characters, Amber is so extremely different from AG I think that does a lot of the heavy lifting. Yes there’s the posture change, fake voice, and body language, but also most of Amber’s friends think she’s a shut in nerd. Joe doesn’t know Amber works out in her room. Likely doesn’t know all of Amber’s trauma. Looking at Ambs and AG side to side seems obvious to us, but believing the quiet, computer and video game girl jumps on rooftops at night is actually a hard sell.
pfffbbt
misplaced post.
@Taffy
I can spot my wife and/or kids from a distance, but I know them very well and see them every day in various clothes and contexts. Others? Not so much.
And even for my wife, her distinctive curly hair is a significant factor in picking her out. I know all the ways she wears it, so that aspect is an easy spot.
However, when she comes out of a shower with her hair wet, the water straightens the curls and darkens the color, making her look VERY different. She only looks different until her hair dries (which happens fairly quickly), the curls returning and the color lightening, so I don’t see her that way often. If she somehow soaked her hair in the middle of a Walmart, I’m not sure I would recognize her from a distance given that her hair is the first thing I look for in such a circumstance.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to chalk this up to human differences. Like, I believe you people when you say a simple hair change is enough to throw you off, but I just can’t relate. Aside from these extreme changes (costume, voice, body language, etc.) the original remark was about the mask, and I took that to literally mean the mask itself.
As a face-blind person, it would work on me because if I’m not EXTREMELY familiar with someone, I Will not recognize them if met in new circumstances. I’ve failed to recognize my own aunt before; and even in context, I took thirty seconds to process a teacher I had seen evey week for two years. She was exactly in the expected spot (…behind the desk she was always behind), but had a new haircut.
Makes more sense than just a pair of glasses, anyway.
Also interacting with people in the middle of the night works.
It seems brightly lit from the visuals, but its not like there’s a lot of light sources in the wide shots, wouldn’t exactly shock me if Joe can’t really get a good look at her right now.
Changes of voice and stance; expectations of who you see; lighting or lack thereof; social context.
We still don’t know whose butt plug that was.
I get the feeling AG doesn’t bottom so….
Double spit take is already one of DoA’s finest hours
Joe’s eyes look so damn cute in this strip, I swear.
Willis you clever bastard giving us what we didn’t even know we wanted
How are they doing a spit take without having anything to spit out
Spit. I’m pretty sure earthlings can just spit out spit :p
Also, in rare cases, humans can do a spit take on soft drinks they drank hours ago. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/heavy/
ew
I believe the technical term for that is “vomiting”. Or “Laughing at the ground” in some countries.
“Chundering”. “Technicolour yawn.” “Delivering a pavement pizza.” “Calling Ruth on the big white telephone.”
That was my question.
Also, AG – yes, save it for the criminals. Your knees don’t need to crush concrete, just villainy.
She’s gotta be more careful with her wrists, too!
It’s too late at night for you to make me laugh this loudly Willis!
Amazi-Girl needs to listen to Deadpool, and abandon the “superhero landing” before she really hurts herself.
I mean if she stopped being a superheroine entirely then she would be less likely to hurt herself, but I don’t see this ending anytime soon.
Deadpool has amazing healing powers. A-G not so much (as she’ll find out in about 10-15 years).
Deadpool calls out the fact that the “super hero landing” is a bad idea. I was trying to say Amazi-Girl needs to abandon the “super hero landing” before she gets hurt
Agreed!
Joyce’s face in the last panel is extremely Rick and Morty
He’s kinda right.
this is tangential but Amazi-Girl’s here so it’s relevant; if AG ever picks up a civilian name, I’m figuring “Amanda” is the way to go. like “Aggie/Agatha” is a bit too on-the-nose plus it’s an old lady name, and I’m pretty sure somebody conflated “Amanda” as a “not-Amber” name a while ago
granted I tend to think of the two of them together as “Double-A” like the batteries ‘cuz I’m dumb as hell and it’s funny to me, so feel free to disregard
I’ve seen “Maisie” a bunch, and I like that one best
‘Mazing Man used to be called “Maze” for short, which is pretty close to “Maisie”
Thirty years after his comic ended, he got an animated short on “Batman: the Brave and the Bold,” mostly I think because his creator worked on the show.
I think she could pick something Am starting. Like…Amzer.
Which is my note that Amazi-Girl picking a civilian name is her condition getting much worse.
She and Amber do share a body after all.
I dunno man, we’re sorta past the point where AG is a walking dissociative episode nowadays and who knows, girlie might wanna have a social life that doesn’t involve masked vigilantism and/or roller derby
I’m having a hard time seeing “pointedly wants to avoid contracting CTE from getting into car chases without a car” as a sign of worsening mental health
Main problem with “Agatha” is that we already have one in the comic (and in their hall). Not that names couldn’t be doubled up– but usually kept low in stories. (As opposed to schools, where you meet four Aarav’s in a day, and that’s only because one’s absent.)
“Old-fashioned” names of the “Agatha” variety are back in style, though I don’t think I’ve met a child named Agatha specifically.
She’s not even the blonde chick I think of when I hear “Agatha”.
I never think of her as blonde. closest my brain gets would be strawberry. but always some sort of red-head.
She should go the other way pick a name in heavy circulation, and join Charles, Charlie, Carol, Carl, Char, Carla, and Carly.
…Amazi-girl please value your hands (and the rest of your body) more than that.
Yeah, AG, you’re gonna break your knee doing that.
She could take a lesson from Gal Gadot, let her legs handle the stress, and keep her knee just off the ground.
https://youtu.be/OKpZEMxmC3o?t=79
to be fair to AG and Joyce, I did that too lol. ~<3
I’m pretty sure he’s the only relevant character to not know her identity at this point. Off the top of my head the only other person is Billie and that’s a running gag so that hardly counts
Carla and Lucy are the highest on the cast list that don’t. But Asher’s almost certainly figured it out.
Pretty sure Carla wouldn’t pay attention to it even if Amber told her to her face.
who Amazi-Girl is isn’t as important as Carla. ~<3
The facial expressions in the last panel ahahahaaaaa. I lol’d and it’s nearly 2AM.
Yes. Yes, that’s totally it. AG is just now learning there was another girl in the middle of her relationship with Danny. Some bongo named Amber.
That last panle Joyce face would be an excellent gravatar.
AnimeDingo already got it.
Joe, she’s not existing FOR YOU.
New reaction faces unlocked!
rofl!!!
My face when…
In which Joyce and Amazi-Girl become seahorses
I forgot that Joe didn’t know that Amazi-Girl exists. Which is kinda amazing considering how many of the people he’s hung around with have met her before.
Their safe word is “Grappling Hook”.
I feel that would be a poor choice of safeword, as that particular term could come up often in their kinky adventures. One of the slipshine’s, in fact, involves that very thing.
It seems the bluesky feed on the site is working again!!!
Hava nagila!!!! ^^
AGH DAMMIT OPSEC
Well, that was a Hegseth right there.
“Wow, Amazi-Girl pulled?”
“I still have trouble believing you exist” yeah that’s what I say to myself in the mirror every time
Wait. When did Joyce learn to pronounce the Amazi-Girl logo?
She’s not yet quite at “OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN” levels, but she’s getting there.
You left off his credentials, here let me help
“OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!”
I was hoping someone would do the completion.
Amazi-Girl should hire Joyce to follow her around and announce her entrances.
Argh, there’s the answer, and I noticed it there, too…!
Uh, if neither one of them were drinking anything, how’d they do a spit-take?
Shit, didn’t see the comment way up above.
You know funny thing is, ive never seen her and Amber in the same room….
The tags say otherwise:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+amber/
Yeah, I’m calling it.
It’s the Gazaebo. She’s saving you both from being its prey.
Well, yeah, _clearly_ that’s why she’s there. The civilians obviously don’t know the danger they’re in!
………Amazi-Girl, mind expositing about why you’re clam-jamming Joyce here?
I mean, I don’t think I missed anything here, Joyce and Joe aren’t breaking any laws, they’re not in any danger either immediate or implied, they probably should get a room and all but they’re just being flirty right now…
Just feels weird that she’s butting in here.
She’s a weirdo who fucks around outdoors all night, hoping she’ll find someone misbehaving so she can beat the shit out of them. Her recognizing people she knows is reason enough to come check on them, and she’s not jamming any clams by existing in their presence for a few minutes.
No you don’t understand Joyce and Joe were definitely about to go at it right here in this gazebo, Amazi-Girl is here to stop public nudity.
(These are jokes.) (I am definitely assuming Joyce and Joe were actually gonna go to a dorm room first, just getting in a lil grope/flirt here, and that Amazi-Girl is actually here coincidentally and saying hi.)
Inexplicably, Dorothy did snap after Joyce left and did actually become the Joker.
Joyce has been roofied, assaulted, and kidnapped, all in one semester. A-G has prioritized keeping track of and checking in on her (with Amber’s digital tracking expertise helping out).
I mean they’re on the path to some pretty significant public indecency, which is must likely a crime.
Seeing Amber reminds me. Joe didn’t think she’d actually stay his step sister for long since his dad is a serial adulterer whose love life always ends in disaster due to his own choices. Joe already has a lot of hang ups about fidelity even if he’s never really voiced them to Joyce.
Just another reason he’d probably have been irrevocably devastated had Joyce done anything that could be considered cheating.
Those last faces looked fun to draw.
MY COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe, you absolute moron genius, you.
I dont get it. Can someone explain the punchline here like I’m 5?
The gals are shocked by Joe’s “kinky shit” remark. Not knowing AG and Amber share a body is normal, but he’s taken it in a direction neither of them considered. On top of that, he’s so far out of the know, he’s suggesting Danny may have dated the two of them either simultaneously or back-to-back.
At least for that one fake-boyfriend restaurant scene, they kind of sort of actually did?
Taffy’s game so strong that I just assumed they were joking and started to write a “More seriously though” answer.
I’m nothing if not versatile.
Right? I was confused when it didn’t twist.
“PFTFBFFT” would have been a better title for this panel…but..I’m no storyteller…
Willis is saving it for the eventual (and epic) Jennifer-realizes-the-Amber/A-G truth” scene. She’ll be downing a shot, make the realization, the epic spit-take will splatter the walls and ceiling like something from The Exorcist, and the newly-returned Billie will swear off all booze from forever more.
Willis never puts the punchline as the strip title, because many people read this strip from links, like on Bluesky, or whatever, and making the punchline the title would spoil it for those people.
Not 100% wrong.
Though I’m slightly unsure on how dating someone with MPD would work?
“DID”. These days, the latest DSM-5 categorizes the situation as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
Short answer: it’s complicated. Depending on how the system works and how all the identities feel, you could be dating a single personality, any combination of different personalities, or the system as a whole. It’s also possible different alters might date different people simultaneously, which adds a whole other layer of complication since it introduces problems of polyamory even if each alter is nominally monogamous.
Amber and AG have, thus far, shown a preference for only one of them dating — Danny dated AG but not Amber, Walky dated Amber but not AG. It’s unclear if both of them would have been willing to date Danny simultaneously had it not been for the secret identity issue — they were clearly both interested, but whether Amber backed off purely to protect her secret identity or because of some tacit agreement that only one of them can date someone is unknown. There’s also been no instance of them being interested in different people simultaneously, but they clearly don’t share all their attraction — AG had no interest in Walky.
But anyway, despite the attraction, Amber and Danny did not date. So no, not 100% wrong, but also definitely not correct.
Yeah, but, as you note, Amber backed off Danny only because of secret identity stuff, and without that, it might well’ve been both of them, and Joyce doesn’t necessarily know it wasn’t, so…
Could Amazi-Girl and Ember be Joyce’s gateway to “Both. Both is good” with Joe and Dorothy?
I don’t ship this, I’m just going, “wait.”
It’s more complicated because in the beginning Danny didn’t know they were the same person and he didn’t actually understand they weren’t until after they broke up. Once he knew Amber was AG, he didn’t distinguish between them other than for keeping the secret. And at first, neither did they.
HAHAHA, thank you Wills. That was perfect
At this point, besides Jennifer, is there anyone still in the “core group” of characters who doesn’t know the Ambster and Amazer are in the same bod?
Joe, as shown right here.
Well, yeah, meant him too.
Depends on where you draw the “core group” line, I guess. Joe and Jennifer are the most prominent certainly. There are others on the cast page who don’t, but I’d say they were one step out of the “core”.
I mean it’s not inaccurate either tbf.
Looks like the time for Joe to start to worry about his new sister and asking everyone how it’s possible that they seem to be accepting this situation so easily has finally come.
Joe doesn’t know about Amber and Amazi Girl, as shown right here. Also what exactly is “This situation” that apparently is bad that everyone accepts.
The fact that Amber has a second personality, that goes around risking her life and beating up both people with weapons and people who just throw some paper on the ground, seems like a bad situation to me.
Amazi girl doesn’t “best people who throw paper on the ground”. And everyone is accepting of it because she has genuinely help them or save their lives in some occasion that is the kind of thing that earn plenty of good will.
Pretty sure Amazi Girl has threatened someone for seeing them throw paper on the ground at least once.
If you can show me the strip I believe you.
Now they can cover by saying Danny was actually dating both of them at the same time and everyone was cool with it, and this is how we can get into the subject of ENM.
Well…Danny wasn’t really cool with it…
He also wasn’t dating both of them, this isn’t meant to be a true statement
He kind of was, just not openly. He treated it as a secret id thing, where they just had to be careful not to let know he was dating Amber because they knew he was dating AG.
And at first, that’s basically how both Amber and AG treated it. That shifted over time and Danny didn’t really understand the distinction until after they’d broken up.
Okay.
Dating myself here, but the faces in the last panel really remind me of Ren and Stimpy.
Is it also dating myself if I say they remind me of Rick and Morty?
Yes but not in the way that you think.
Though I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone that weird hanging lip in any show or comic other than Rick and Morty, so the comparison is apt.
I require the faces in the last panel to become Gravatars
New Gravatar Face Spotted!
And already in use!
Those expressions!
Why is she even here? Something silly about “protecting” Joyce from Joe? Hopefully not. But I wonder if their evening plans are going to be interrupted either way.
Amazi-Girl? Doubtful. Even if you assume she’d act on Amber’s behalf, Amber was a wing-woman for Joe once, so I don’t think she believes Joyce needs protecting from Joe.
On the other hand, Amber did attempt to nudge Joyce in the direction to break up Dorothy/Walky, which would break up Joe/Joyce. Amber feels pretty terrible about that, so I doubt she’ll do anything else, though.
And Amazi-Girl was never in favor of it to begin with.
I figure either she’s jumping around on rooftops and just happened to cross paths with Joe and Joyce, or she’s specifically shadowing Joyce to protect her not from Joe but from other potential lurking threats, as she did the night of Joyce and Dorothy’s dranks date.
Joyce is so confused at who exactly Amazi-Girl dated.
“Dan.”
“Who?”
I think she knows who Dan is. She just hasn’t connected “Joe’s grade-school best friend” to “Hat Guy”.
Given the position and directionality of the spit-take, it looks like Joe just pulled his thumb out of Amazi-girl’s mouth.
A double double-take! A quadruple-take!