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Good deeds

by David M Willis on August 16, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Vote for Robin
└ Tags: amazi-girl, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 16, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    I feel like that’s a panel at Otakon: “Calculus and Cosplay”

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      August 16, 2019 at 12:25 am | #

      Followed by “Geometry and Gundam” and for adults only “History and Hentai”.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 16, 2019 at 12:46 am | #

        So where is the enrollment information for this Otakon University again. 🙂

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          August 16, 2019 at 5:01 am | #

          Time to learn about some bones, am I right?

          • Geneseepaws
            Geneseepaws
            August 16, 2019 at 10:11 am | #

            Bones? I think that’s today’s Wilde Life comic.

            • DarkoNeko
              DarkoNeko
              August 16, 2019 at 6:53 pm | #

              omg spoiil

        • Br44n5m
          Br44n5m
          August 16, 2019 at 10:56 am | #

          When you find it come get me, let’s be classmates

      • Elisto
        Elisto
        August 16, 2019 at 5:57 pm | #

        Pretty sure we actually did just have a History of Hentai panel this year at Otakon.

    • All-Purpose Guru
      All-Purpose Guru
      August 16, 2019 at 2:03 am | #

      I think in this case it’s “Calculus and Foreplay.”

      • Killer Klown
        Killer Klown
        August 16, 2019 at 7:14 am | #

        That’s across the hall; Trigonometry and Titilliation

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        August 16, 2019 at 3:36 pm | #

        I guess Ruth’s taking Femurs and Foreplay

  2. butts
    butts
    August 16, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Walky Performs a Death-Defying Parkour Stunt

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      August 16, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

      Based on a reference photo I finally found, and depending on which corner of the wall he’s standing at, Walky is at most six feet off the ground, if he’s not at the three-feet end.

      So I’ll give you Wrist-Break-Defying Parkour Stunt. Death-Defying? Only in his own mind.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        August 16, 2019 at 5:15 am | #

        If he rolls a natural 1, it could be Death-Defying.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 16, 2019 at 1:58 am | #

      Walky will be like a cat, lots of hissing and scratching but be very thankful once he is down.

    • Shane
      Shane
      August 16, 2019 at 4:14 am | #

      Or at least twisted ankle defying.

  3. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 16, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Who says the only thing Amazi-girl is good for is punching people ?

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      August 16, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      I don’t.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 16, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

      “I punch the calculus!”

      Great, now I imagine Amber’s Amazi-Voice sounding like Brick from Borderlands.

      • RicardtheDragoon
        RicardtheDragoon
        August 16, 2019 at 2:33 am | #

        Brick would be encroaching on Zed’s turf with that. On the other hand, Brick’s version of “extracorporeal shockwave therapy” would probably be still be safer than what Mr. “I don’t have a medical license” would likely suggest.

      • Chris
        Chris
        August 16, 2019 at 2:37 pm | #

        Is a calculus more or less dangerous than a gazebo?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 16, 2019 at 7:53 pm | #

          Hard to say. What’s the gazebo doing?

  4. Nono
    Nono
    August 16, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Amazi-Girl’s final form: Danny.

    • Juanoku
      Juanoku
      August 16, 2019 at 8:13 am | #

      I fucking knew it

  5. Jess
    Jess
    August 16, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    This is…surprisingly sweet. Might be good for both of them.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      August 16, 2019 at 11:08 am | #

      I don’t want them to, but if they started banging,
      Amazi-Girl would be the new sidechick to her new sidekick
      and I couldn’t just let that pun go unstated

  6. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 16, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Amazi-girl does a tutoring, the best thing she ever did.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 16, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

      Well not to knock on Amazi-girls work but it does hold more value than beating up some random punk on the street.

  7. Alanari
    Alanari
    August 16, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    So they did share memories up to some point. She remembers having learned calculus.
    Also, wise words, ag. Now tell that to Amber.

    • noiob
      noiob
      August 16, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

      I read somewhere that there’s a difference between skills and personal memories

      • Alanari
        Alanari
        August 16, 2019 at 12:50 am | #

        We’re talking about high level math. At least in my country, that’s stuff where you usually have to dig around in your memory to find an answer. And you need memories to do that.

        • not someone else
          not someone else
          August 16, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

          Calculus is around the time where, at least for some people, math stops being about memorization again, so it could go either way.

          • Alanari
            Alanari
            August 16, 2019 at 4:02 am | #

            It never did that for me, and I’ve a computer science degree (so, a lot of math). Over time, memory migrates into skill, yes, but there always is a part that requires memories. Usually that part that is either rarely used or relatively new.

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        August 16, 2019 at 10:20 pm | #

        There is a difference, but both can be dissociated away.

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 16, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    I saw a man walkin’ upside down
    My TV is on the blink
    Made Galileo look like a Boy Scout
    Sorry ’bout that–Let It All Hang Out

  9. etherealdesiign
    etherealdesiign
    August 16, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    good advice, ambermazigirl, maybe you should follow it once in a while

  10. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    August 16, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    I am just picturing this playing out like Moetan, except super differently. Still, it’s a superheroine-kind of tutoring a dude.

  11. General Tekno
    General Tekno
    August 16, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Good moment, until Amazigirl realizes she doesn’t know calculus anymore because she’s partitioned that into the Amber half.

    (Granted that’s totally not how this stuff works I imagine)

    • nlips
      nlips
      August 16, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

      I think skills carry over, otherwise the new personalities would need to learn to talk and walk.

      • Hoboturtle
        Hoboturtle
        August 16, 2019 at 12:46 am | #

        “Listen Amazigirl I want you to forget about everything that doesn’t have to do with crime fighting… and breathing.”

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        August 16, 2019 at 10:23 pm | #

        It can go either way.

        Watching your brain snatch random skills like speech away from you in realtime would be fascinating if it wasn’t so damn terrifying.

  12. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 16, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

    I mean, you’d probably get a medical accommodation for your calculus exam date if you broke both your legs. Extra study time. Eh? Ehhh?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 16, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

      But if both his legs were broken he wouldn’t be very Walky.

      *flees for dear punning life*

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      August 16, 2019 at 4:57 am | #

      Both his arms, better yet.

  13. Suitora
    Suitora
    August 16, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    Amazi-Girl Performs A Good Deed

  14. Diner Kinetic
    Diner Kinetic
    August 16, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    It will literally take a superhero to save Walky from flunking math- except for the fact that Midterms don’t really matter, of course. (I assume, it’s been less than a year since the last one I took but I also took about as much care of my academics as Walky does of hsi)

    • TemperaryObsessor
      TemperaryObsessor
      August 16, 2019 at 6:19 am | #

      Even if they don’t math builds on itself a lot.

  15. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    August 16, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    If only Amber could hear you Amazi-Girl, only then she would reconsider her own self hatred and try to accept her flaws. If only. Now I understand why Willis causes the “Damn you, Willis!”.

  16. John
    John
    August 16, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

    Amazi-Girl trained and practiced for years to be the best at tutoring calculus.

    She can also beat Batman at DDR.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      August 16, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

      Unless it’s Butterfly. He’s just got this knack she can never match.

    • Juanoku
      Juanoku
      August 16, 2019 at 8:15 am | #

      At DDR? But that’s his specialty!

  17. Transgressingwaffle
    Transgressingwaffle
    August 16, 2019 at 12:25 am | #

    The line no one should feel too far gone really hit me. Thanks, I needed to hear that and didn’t even know it.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      August 16, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

      Agreed, that was an affecting panel. Makes me feel a little better about stuff.

  18. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    August 16, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

    Yeet the whole man off the structure

  19. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 16, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

    I love that Walky’s curse is that whoever he turns to, whatever he does, no matter how stupid or ridiculous, he never ever can escape math.

    Pretending to be a superhero? SURE, now you will get mentored by a more experienced superhero… in math.

    • Marie
      Marie
      August 16, 2019 at 7:20 am | #

      A++

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 17, 2019 at 11:11 pm | #

      It’s ironic that this reminds me of a scene where in that new ps4 Spider-Man game there’s a scene where Peter Parker tails and Miles Morales that the reason why so good at being Spider-Man is because he does calculations in his head all the time when he’s web swinging around.

  20. Black Bumblebee
    Black Bumblebee
    August 16, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

    What if both Amazi Girl AND Amber fall in love with Walky? Will they have to fight over him?

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      August 16, 2019 at 2:44 am | #

      How would that even work, since they’re both in the same body?

    • Khantalas
      Khantalas
      August 16, 2019 at 2:50 am | #

      I mean, not necessarily, but Amber might have difficulty being in a poly relationship, given her past reactions to Danny danning it up with her and AG.

  21. ReverendJ
    ReverendJ
    August 16, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

    She should text herself. “Met Walky, assisted with calc. Please wash uniform and use protection.”

    • Juanoku
      Juanoku
      August 16, 2019 at 8:17 am | #

      “i want you in bed by 8”- AG
      “Oh goddammit”

  22. Tacos
    Tacos
    August 16, 2019 at 12:40 am | #

    HARDCORE PARKOUR!!!

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      August 16, 2019 at 9:06 pm | #

      I’m glad someone else said it. Cause if you didn’t, I was going to. A day late when I remembered I went to bed early last night and missed the update.

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      August 16, 2019 at 9:09 pm | #

      Also:
      Hardcore Parkour!

  23. JohnInCA
    JohnInCA
    August 16, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

    How many women are going to try and tutor Walky in calculus before he learns about dropping classes.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      August 16, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

      Isn’t it a little late for him to do that? The grace period must have been weeks ago in comic time. He could get a mark on his record if he drops now.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        August 16, 2019 at 1:19 am | #

        In the real-world IU academic calendar for Fall 2019, students can drop a course up until Oct. 27 with an “automatic W.” A grade of W (for “withdrawn”) does not count on your GPA; it’s basically like you never took the class, except that anyone looking at your transcript knows that you took it and dropped it.

        Of course, if Walky did do that, it might affect any scholarships he has, and if and when his mom finds out, she will go through the roof.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          August 16, 2019 at 1:53 am | #

          It’s only the middle of October in comic.

        • Alanari
          Alanari
          August 16, 2019 at 4:07 am | #

          According to Jason, it’s too late for that now:
          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/deadline/

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 16, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

      To the best of my knowledge, only Jason has made any kind of effort to tutor him till now, so I don’t know what you’re talking about. If you’re already at mid-terms it’s probably too late to drop.

      • Sol Karas
        Sol Karas
        August 16, 2019 at 12:58 am | #

        Didn’t Dorothy also try and help him with his grades for a while?

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 16, 2019 at 8:47 am | #

      At some point Walky’s going to have to learn to study. Not sure that postponing that by dropping Calc is the best plan.

  24. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 16, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

    All good deeds, big and small, are equal to Amazi-Girl.

  25. Zero
    Zero
    August 16, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

    Walky, you’re not that high up. Just hop down.
    The end over the top of the stairs, of course.

  26. Well_Played
    Well_Played
    August 16, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

    The only time you’re too far gone is when they’re lowering you 6ft underground.

  27. 3oranges
    3oranges
    August 16, 2019 at 1:05 am | #

    “I’m Amazi-girl, and I can derive elements in a tangent space.”

  28. Proto
    Proto
    August 16, 2019 at 1:22 am | #

    Didn’t Amber hack Walky’s grades? I forget.

    Although I guess even hacked can’t prevent him from bombing future tests… too bad it’s not one of those classes that lets you exempt midterms/finals if your grades are good enough!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      August 16, 2019 at 1:35 am | #

      He asked her not to. But without his knowledge, she scooched his grades up “just enough to keep him off academic probation.”

      But that won’t help him if he blows the midterm.

  29. ktbear
    ktbear
    August 16, 2019 at 1:36 am | #

    So any moment now the fact Walky’s grades have been altered will edge its way into the scenario. Although, if he still thinks he’s failing…

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 16, 2019 at 2:07 am | #

      It might be that, after being tutored, his actual performance meets his grades half-way, so the whole thing never really comes out.

  30. Piotr W
    Piotr W
    August 16, 2019 at 1:43 am | #

    I admit I still can’t get over how chill Walky is with the realization that Amber and AG are separate personalities. He seems to think it’s a cool thing… Dude! It’s not. She’s really messed-up and she needs help…

  31. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    August 16, 2019 at 2:03 am | #

    Just for fun I’ve been looking at reference photos for this library, and now I’m wondering: WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARCHITECTED THIS BUILDING? WHAT KIND OF BOARD APPROVED IT?

    It’s a pair of towers, NEITHER OF WHICH HAS ANY WINDOWS ABOVE THE SECOND FLOOR! Even Rapunzel’s tower had windows on the top floor. I can only guess that the building was designed by the Morlocks to efficiently pen up the Eloi.

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      BenRG
      August 16, 2019 at 2:09 am | #

      Buildings in academic campuses often tend to be contemporary art horrors because the board feels that they are obliged to promote new ideas in the arts. For example, there’s a building a Berkley that was so badly designed that climate control is essentially impossible and, in winter it’s various overhangs on the exterior becomes a lethal icicle launching arrays to potentially impale students walking below.

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        On the plus side, if you’re slain by an icicle, you don’t have to repay your student loans.

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        Norah
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        Where is this Berkley located? I was thinking of the one in California, but I can’t imag there’d be many instances of icicles there.

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      Liquid Len
      August 16, 2019 at 8:03 am | #

      Looks like it was built in 1969. Brutalist Architecture was a thing then, so lots of big concrete buildings.

      Where I went to college was no different: Folsom Library, 1976

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    August 16, 2019 at 2:06 am | #

    There’s the key to Amazi-Girl, IMO: She’s Amber’s desire to do good instead of harm, something that she’s genuinely afraid is all that she can do (and is slowly learning isn’t the case). A reminder that Amber really does find joy in helping people, no matter how awkward she is on a social level.

    There is also so much sweet in this and it makes sense that, as Amber and Amazi-Girl both originated from the same root psyche, the two of them should both consider Walky attractive on a certain level. Not a ship, not yet, but Amazi-Girl sees the same things in Walky that Amber sees.

    • Sam
      Sam
      August 16, 2019 at 3:02 am | #

      That’s a bit iffy to be using the word ‘should’ there. For some people with DID, yes, their alters will be attracted to the same people as them and have the same orientation, but that isn’t true for all alters or for all partners, especially because Protector alters can see partners as ‘potential threats’ and as such, be far pickier, and because some alters aren’t suited for dating like child alters for instance, which are common in systems.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        August 16, 2019 at 4:27 am | #

        I’m not making a generalisation; I’m specifically talking about what I deduce from Amber/Amazi-Girl’s specific case as we’ve seen it portrayed so far.

  33. brasca1
    brasca1
    August 16, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

    I hope this doesn’t make Dorothy jealous. It’s one thing to pick Walky up on the rebound, but succeed at tutoring him when she couldn’t might cause her to snap.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 16, 2019 at 2:24 am | #

      Dorothy has had lots of causes to snap recently, this is just another one. I’m still expecting an eventual scene where Joyce has to deal with her having an emotional breakdown (possibly lubricated with Billie’s ‘secret’ stash).

  34. Keulen
    Keulen
    August 16, 2019 at 2:39 am | #

    How did Walky get up there so easily without figuring out how to get down? Is he a cat?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 16, 2019 at 2:59 am | #

      From personal experience, I can confirm that it is easier to climb up stuff than it is to climb down. Something about not having to look down whilst going up, IMO.

  35. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    August 16, 2019 at 3:01 am | #

    Walkerton doesn’t know Amber upped his Math grade to passing.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 16, 2019 at 8:50 am | #

      Nor does Amazi-Girl.

      Still not going to help if he doesn’t catch up and start passing the rest of the semester.

  36. Shane
    Shane
    August 16, 2019 at 4:13 am | #

    Walky, accepting help is a legitimate way to pass your stated problem, PLUS you get to spend time interacting positively and HEALTHILY with someone you both like and who badly needs normal interaction.

    Are you working at shooting down a win-win-win situation because you actively hate success and succeeding?

  37. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    August 16, 2019 at 5:40 am | #

    Do a reverse dismount, Walky. Turn around, brace your arms on the edge of the ledge, then hop off to catch your weight on your arms (don’t worry if you wind up belly-flopping against the wall. Happens often if you’re not used to this maneuver), then drop to the ground below. Cuts down on the height you have to drop by a good amount.

    • ischemgeek
      ischemgeek
      August 16, 2019 at 4:26 pm | #

      Just don’t catch your jaw on the wall, knock yourself out, and Jack up your ankles when you plummet like a rag doll to the ground.

      … N-not that I am talking from experience or anything.

  38. TemperaryObsessor
    TemperaryObsessor
    August 16, 2019 at 6:21 am | #

    Please include Amber in that statement Amazigirl.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 16, 2019 at 6:57 am | #

      I doubt that she’s ready to do so. Amazi-Girl exists because of the fact that Amber believed herself to be a bad person and wanted to have a part of her that tried to turn her bad qualities to good deeds. So, right now, it’s a founding assumption of the Amazi-Girl psyche that Amber is beyond help. It will take a lot of evidence for her to believe otherwise and would probably spark an existential crisis for her.

      Curiously enough, I interpret Amazi-Girl’s words as meaning that she hopes that, by doing good deeds as much as possible (or, at least, what she perceives to be good deeds), she will prove that she was not ‘too far gone’.

      • SpaceshipPilot
        SpaceshipPilot
        August 16, 2019 at 3:16 pm | #

        If Amber ever does accept that she’s not beyond help… will AG cease to exist?

        • Jhon
          Jhon
          August 18, 2019 at 2:47 pm | #

          NO
          Alters fight for their survival – just as you would.

          … if Cerberus has taught me one thing…

  39. James Rye
    James Rye
    August 16, 2019 at 7:46 am | #

    I bet those two gonna do the hanky-panky in the library. Amber gonna be shocked her alter ego also goes for Walky.

  40. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    August 16, 2019 at 7:58 am | #

    I wonder if Amazi-girl wants to help Walky because Amber like him or for a personal liking for him. However, it would be a nice thing to see.

  41. hof1991
    hof1991
    August 16, 2019 at 9:43 am | #

    Oh AG, you can’t make Walky think. You might be able to get him through Calc 1 though.

  42. Skeptible
    Skeptible
    August 16, 2019 at 11:09 am | #

    I would counter that knowing when to give up is a valuable skill. (Not that Walky has this skill.)

  43. HeatherJean
    HeatherJean
    August 16, 2019 at 11:11 am | #

    Doesn’t Dorothy hang out at the library? Dorothy who broke up with Walky like two days ago in comic time? If so, will she be in costume?

  44. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 16, 2019 at 12:07 pm | #

    Here’s what I’m hoping to see here: Amber wakes up tomorrow morning with a voice mail on her ‘phone from Amazi-Girl telling her about Walky’s situation regarding calculus. “Help him learn. This is your chance to prove that you’re not beyond hope,” her alter-ego announces.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 16, 2019 at 2:52 pm | #

      Amazi-Girl and Amber aren’t on speaking terms. Not even leaving each other messages terms.

  45. Rosicrucian
    Rosicrucian
    August 16, 2019 at 12:41 pm | #

    This is like a Goofus and Gallant strip.

    Amazi-Girl helpfully tutors you in Calculus.

    Amber hacks your grades.

  46. ego
    ego
    August 16, 2019 at 6:47 pm | #

    this just HAS to be set-up for AG finding about Amber changing Walky’s grades, doesn’t it?

    that or the weirdest of threesomes.

  47. Treita
    Treita
    August 20, 2019 at 1:32 am | #

    I think I needed that line today.

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