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Step 4. head to one of Robin’s campaign things while her chief-of-staff is present and threaten her (the chief-of-staff) on live TV, at which point Robin stands up against them and possibly gets injured, leading to widespread support and likely causing her to be elected as a result, due to all the free publicity.
If there is proof in there, he would CERTAINLY have to wade his way through a ton of slash fic. Maybe he’s just in it to force her to finish her underrated StarscreamXRatchet epic after he got hooked on it?
I feel like Blaine’s biggest blind spot is his ego, he could probably figure out that Amber is Amazi-Girl, but that would involve admitting his daughter beat him up.
Oh hey! Let’s keep it real, here. Everything outside himself is nothing more than a prop.
I’m inclined to read this as meaning that he does know, and is sufficiently upset about her beating him up that he is willing to get her killed as revenge. He is of course not willing to do it himself – too dangerous, and also modern forensics are such that he might not get away with it.
And of course there’s the desirable side effect of no longer having to pay her tuition.
This is the thought process of a full-on psychopath – or so I’ve heard – but what we know of Blaine is consistent with that interpretation.
MOTHERBUCKERS! Toe-Dad learned absolutely NOTHING from his ordeal or Becky coming to talk to him even after having . . .months(?) of stewing. Blaine is a grade A asshole again, and this is just the awfulest.
No kidding. Both Blaine and Toedad are completely plausible and entirely unremarkable in almost every way – Blaine being connected to the korean mafia is unusual – but that’s about it. Blaine is a violent sociopath and Ross is a bog-standard-normal product of christian fundamentalist culture. What’s weird about that? Heck, i bet half the people on this board could point to people they know IRL who know people like them.
Yeah, that’s kind of a big part of what I’m referring to. It’s just too much.
What’s next, Mary getting involved in this just because she’s been an antagonist at various points? Maybe bring Penny back too? I feel like Sydney Yus ought to have something to do with this.
oh cool, so do we get to see Tweedledee and Tweedledum get gunned down by the Secret Service in graphic detail? Or are you saving that for the next Slipshine comic? I totally understand if you do.
The secret service does not actually provide security for Congressional Representatives like Robin. That is the reason that AOC and the other members of the Squad have to pay a ton of money for private security every time Trump tweets about them and starts a new round of death threats.
Actually, considering the current environment, Robin’s latest moves probably would have a bunch of death threats coming at her and she does not know because she no longer has an adequate staff to manage such things.
You’d expect that, but you’d also expect a lot of Twitter threats which she would be aware of – but she seems to think the social media response has been overwhelmingly positive. I don’t get it.
She would still have congressional staff. It’s just campaign staff she’s replaced with Becky.
But not going near his (alleged) victim is a likely condition of bail. I don’t know HOW likely it is, given that I’ve found it’s not a good idea to assume that the American justice system consistently conforms anything approaching sanity, but if any conditions beyond the normal “show up for court” were attached to his bail, that would certainly be one of them.
I am quite sure that, even in a comic strip, conditions of Toe-Dad’s bond would include no unsupervised contact with Becky or entry onto the IU campus. And when they say “supervised” they mean “with a law enforcement or court officer present”, not just in the company of h⃥i⃥s⃥ ⃥c⃥o⃥-⃥c⃥o⃥n⃥s⃥p⃥i⃥r⃥a⃥t⃥o⃥r⃥ the guy who bailed him out.
And every last ducking one of them save Hank and Carol don’t have reasons to be on campus, and they only get ONE shot, and they have to get Becky without Joyce or Dina seeing it. if they try to kidnap her a THIRD time, they’ll have lost the element of surprise, Toedad goes into a little hole with no chance of bail, along with whomever made the kidnapping attempt.
Being willing to verbally support a guys decision in a room full of like minded people, and being willing to actually get jail time are two different things.
To me it still seems insane that they would just let a guy go without keeping any sort of tabs on him after he abducted his daugher at gunpoint. What do they expect to happen next?
I wonder if one came with the charges by default. If so, and depending on the wording, he could get arrested if he’s caught anywhere near the IU campus. If Blaine has two cells of grey matter to rub together, he’s going to try and keep his new toe puppet from breaking the terms of his bond and getting arrested again as long as possible. Blaine himself isn’t supposed to be anywhere near the school either, but I don’t remember if that’s a police order or just campus security.
Good thing there’s no reason for Becky to… leave… campus.
…They’re crashing Dina’s party at the apartment, aren’t they.
Just campus security. And Blaine’s plan certainly involves Ross breaking the terms of his bond – so it just matters that Ross doesn’t run off on his own before playing his role in whatever Blaine’s master plan is.
The party’s a possibility, but I think it’s too soon.
Little reason to get one while he’s in jail with little prospect of making bail. It’s likely that the conditions of bail include not approaching his daughter. Of course, he’s as likely to violate that as he would a court order, but it’s more likely to land him back in jail if he does.
Well THAT’S unbiblical. A daughter is controled by her father until such a time as a suitor pays a dowry for her (as much as 50 shekels silver if he raped her). What you’re talking about is just evil modern liberal devil-talk, and any bible-believing Christian like Ross knows to plug his ears to that song of Satan trying to destroy the Christian family.
Now I’m just remembering the show Joyce liked involved Chastity Churchmouse saying ‘your dad owns your vagina until you’re 23’ and excuse me, I need to go cry and/or vomit now. Damn you for providing extra content on your tumblr, Willis!
This is likely no consolation to you, but for what it’s worth the fictional Hymmel the Humming Hymnal is nowhere near as disturbing as the very real Psalty the Singing Songbook.
Blaine, quite blaming your own daughter for your own economic instability. At this rate you and Toe Dad will be sliced by the Korean equivalent Cioccolata and send as plastified pieces to the congregation as a warning.
I wonder what Don Gramps will have to say about Blaine’s using resources to bail out someone as high profile and likely to recommit as Ross, to fulfill a relatively petty personal vendetta?
I’m now picturing a montage of these guys going up against Amazi-Girl and her superfriends and coming away with an ever-increasing accumulation of bandages, casts, braces, etc.
It’s been decades since I’ve seen that movie, but if I remember right, the first and only person the anti-hero actually kills is a neo-Nazi who had told him “You’re just like me.” I think I remember him screaming “I’m not like you!!!”
Yes, Foster is a person who’s gone over the edge – but not from religion. And he scares his family – but not from trying to control them. And in the end, Foster realizes that he’s “the bad guy” which Toedad could never ever do.
Foster is a genuine anti-hero. Toedad is just a waste of meat.
Wow. I don’t even remember *that* much of the movie! I just recall Michael Douglas (I think?) losing it in L.A. traffic. The whole plot of the movie has been erased from my brain folds.
I see what you mean on most of what your saying except for the controlling his family part. I remember there was a part in the movie where he was going over old home movies of him spending time with his family and it showed that he was always on the edge and his family left him because he was always lashing out at them due to them not enjoying being around him like he wanted them to.
TV Reporter: “You just got bailed out of jail! What are you going to do now?”
ToeDad: “I’m going back to the scene of the crime and commit another one!”
TV Reporter: “So… *not* to Disneyland, then?”
ToeDad: “Huh? Why would I go that wretched place of scum and sinners?”
For fucks sake! Can we be done with these two idiots?! I wish there were a way to be notified when tweedle dumb and tweedle really dumb were through taking updates with their cartoonishly evil bullshit!
is Toedad really so fucking stupid as to go near Becky first thing after getting arrested for kidnapping her? Even if he thinks he’s protecting her/in the right, this is quite unhinged
Just look at his head! No way that skull’s big enough to support a brain bigger than the size of a walnut. If he didn’t have religion he’d probably be dead cause a higher power’s the only thing giving him the ability to even function.
Yeah. He’s stupid enough to kidnap her under gunpoint and try to shoot someone on his car, before climbing onto said car and having a fistfight while driving.
That sentence was a mess, just like Pater Pollicem, aka Toedad
Just go ahead and bring in the Head Alien, Willis. The Walkyverse one. I mean as long as we’re going ridiculous corny evil, just embrace the drama coursing in your veins and bring this comic to crazytown
I’m sure Willis has plot twists awaiting us yet. My current bet is that Toedad will be on board until he isn’t and they’ll turn on each other because they can’t agree on methodology.
Yeah, I’m just surprised he was being held so close to the scene of the crime. If it’s the building I think it is, it’s halfway between Read Hall and Blowjob Cat.
Rise and shine, misster Toedad. Rise and, shine. Not, that I wish, to imply you hafe been ssleeping on, the job… no one is more desserving of a resssst. And all the effort in, the world would have gone, to wasste until- well, let’s just, say your hour hass come again.
The wrong toe in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world… Sso wakeup, misster Toe. Wake up and ssmell the ashesssss…
It amazes me how after these characters have fought magic aliens, martians, died several times, got their memories and existence rewritten, turned into a celestial being (cont.)
Regular ol’ toxic relationships with bigots still manage to have me scared about their safety.
Control. It’s all about control for him. He needs control over his daughter, over his ex-wife, over everything. He got emasculated by the courts, as he’s forced to pay for her tuition (something he said he didn’t think he’d have to do, assuming that she wasn’t going to go, so that was just attempted manipulation that backfired) And he’ll manipulate, intimidate, blackmail, and whatever to get control back.
I really liked amazigirl more when she was a coping mechanism and not an actual superhero complete with hokey recurring villains forming league of evils to take her down.
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God damn Toedad, he gets bailed out and the very first thing he wants to do is commit the SAME CRIME. He’s beyond rehabilitation, just end his pathetic life. His hatred and bigotry are what he is now, there’s no humanity left in that shell, only evil to be purged.
Really? Ross didn’t try to change because he’s convinced he’s right, not because of “people like you”.
That is a thing with some people, but it’s got nothing to do with Ross. At least not now. Let him in rot in jail for a decade and we’ll see if he can make an effort.
You do know that as soon as Blaine leaves, Toedad is going to think something along the lines of, “It may be a deal with the devil, but that liar will get his thirty pieces of silver once this is all done.”
He may be a crazy fanatic, but he’s not entirely stupid, and not going to trust anyone after what has happened, anyway, so I am sure he’s seen through Blaine in a heartbeat. Or at least isn’t going to trust him on general principles, since he now seems convinced that he’s the Only Real Christian around.
He probably is assuming that Blaine is an actual demon there to tempt him, but that’s not as far off as a saner person might think.
In panel two of that strip he does not recognize Amazi-girl as Amber. Previous commenters noted he probably has not figured it out.
That leads to an interesting scenario. Toedad, at Blaine’s urging, is about to take out Amazi-girl when Blaine suddenly recognizes her. What happens next?
I can see that Asher conversation as working for either interpretation. Either he genuinely doesn’t know, or he’s setting up a situation where he will be shocked – SHOCKED! – to discover that the vigilante Asher just took out is his daughter.
It’s not entirely a bar to him knowing. He could have been lying.
But it’s certainly not evidence that he does. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing that even hints at him knowing.
It would be fantastic if Amazi-Girl snaps when fighting them, kills them, and the comic executes a no-warnings pivot into a horror/drama.
Ethan drops out, obsessed with tracking down his best friend as Amazi-Girl goes underground ~ Dorothy takes on even more strain using her mad investigative skills to give him leads ~ Everyone else gradually forgets about the whole affair, while Ethan tracks down a Chicago mob boss who’s rumored to work with “an unusual enforcer”
Failing that, though, it would be fantastic if Toedad had a restriction against getting close to his daughter and got immediately caught violating it, and if Asher decided to stop stooging for Blaine. And, I guess, if Blaine’s current girlfriend / wife managed to get herself and Faz out. Hell, best case scenario, they’re gone when he gets home from bailing out Toedad, and Blaine himself gets caught on campus next time he goes to Asher~
But still: ripped, grim Ethan, loitering in a dark alleyway near a bar, waiting to see if a certain figure walks past…
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Step 1. make bond
Step 2. …make bond
yay, bonding
=p
Step 3. Try (and fail) to kill a girl
Step 4. head to one of Robin’s campaign things while her chief-of-staff is present and threaten her (the chief-of-staff) on live TV, at which point Robin stands up against them and possibly gets injured, leading to widespread support and likely causing her to be elected as a result, due to all the free publicity.
…
As long as we’re listing out steps.
Step 5: Robin bumbles her way into being President. Cream eggs and boobs are involved.
Step 6: War with Norway!!!!
Nothing involving boobs and Cream eggs can lead to war.
Still concerned how step 3 may pan out, but defiantly had the itching feeling this next go around is going to be very public.
Step 2.5 Use the patsy you just bonded with to kill someone while you stand off side rubbing your hands together evilly
Now there’s hoping Robin has a proper security staff…
Aide is still around somewhere.
A girl is Arya StarkThe Tacky Two or…the Terrible Two?
Un-Called Four if you count Asher and Faz.
Unfortunately, Faz won the draw to pick the team name.
Say hello to Faz and the Fazettes!
Why do you say unfortunately? It’s a clear improvement.
But how much of an improvement? We need to quantify this with a chart.
Don’t forget Joyce’s mom and friends.
They’ll be the generic mooks! They’re well uniforms and masks with a number on their chest.
Or they’ll just dress as Shocker Combatmen, just to drop all subtlety I guess.
Will they run around screaming “Eeee!”?
Maybe? Or just “PRAISE BE! PRAISE BEEEEEE!”
Dastardly Duo.
Dastardly Dad Duo. The DDD.
Ddd that’s a name toy should know
I’M AN IDIOT I MISSPELLED IT
…. okay, no. I’m NOT thinking of them as triple-D’s and my mind’s already scarred enough, thankyouverymuch.
Think King Dedede from Kirby, only less competent and more evil.
The Dadstardly Duo, if you will
The Tacky Toe
Does Blaine know…? I mean he must know that Amber is Amazi-Girl, even if he doesn’t know about the multiple identities thing.
It’s quite possible that he doesn’t.
It was a dark and stormy night.
And he never really saw his daughter as athletic.
He thinks of her more as a sniveling wreck.
The only vaguely athletic thing he’s seen Amber do is punch him in the face and run away, back on Freshman Family Weekend.
I’m not sure. I think we still don’t know what was on that flash drive Faz got for him. Could be proof of her identity.
But my guess is 64 gigs of SteveXBucky fic.
If there is proof in there, he would CERTAINLY have to wade his way through a ton of slash fic. Maybe he’s just in it to force her to finish her underrated StarscreamXRatchet epic after he got hooked on it?
120,000 words in, and he can’t get enough.
Possible, but he’s given no sign of it.
I feel like Blaine’s biggest blind spot is his ego, he could probably figure out that Amber is Amazi-Girl, but that would involve admitting his daughter beat him up.
And that her life is worth more than being a prop in his personal story.
Oh hey! Let’s keep it real, here. Everything outside himself is nothing more than a prop.
I’m inclined to read this as meaning that he does know, and is sufficiently upset about her beating him up that he is willing to get her killed as revenge. He is of course not willing to do it himself – too dangerous, and also modern forensics are such that he might not get away with it.
And of course there’s the desirable side effect of no longer having to pay her tuition.
This is the thought process of a full-on psychopath – or so I’ve heard – but what we know of Blaine is consistent with that interpretation.
Except he’s way more likely to get caught with a squad of cohorts that he lied to and/or hate him.
They all know whodunit.
I don’t think he knows. Check the August 3rd comic. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/04-vote-for-robin/money-2/
Yeah, this, on the one hand.
On the other hand, he may have figured it out and this is his way of getting revenge.
I thought he knew, but he’s just hiding that detail from Ross to better manipulate him.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/misconception/
Seems he certainly knows AmaziGirl, anyway–and I’d assume if he knows that much, he probably knows who she is as well.
Is it too much to hope that they just piss each other off so much they kill each other.
-Sadly- nobody dies in this story..
to quote Jafar form Aladdin 2, “You’d be surprised what you can live through.”
WAR! Huh? Good Gawd Y’all!
What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING!
Carthago delenda est.
Yes, it was.
Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe? Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?
He’s quoting James Brown.
Broken eye maybe is quoting the super secret hidden version of the song.
Terry Pratchett, Thud!
Edwin Starr although Bruce Springsteen also had a hit of it.
Fuck you, Ross. “Collect my daughter.” Go collect some broken bones.
I know! And he probably doesn’t even have the receipt, either.
Ross and Blaine both need to collect several broken bones each.
Please let it be their craniums.
MOTHERBUCKERS! Toe-Dad learned absolutely NOTHING from his ordeal or Becky coming to talk to him even after having . . .months(?) of stewing. Blaine is a grade A asshole again, and this is just the awfulest.
It’s been a couple weeks since he was arrested, a month-ish tops. His trial hasn’t even begun yet.
Yep, he wouldn’t be on bail if he was already sentenced.
I don’t like Blaine as a villain. He’s too cartoonish. I can’t see him as a real person.
In the words of Marcie: You’re kinda new to evil, aintcha?
No kidding. Both Blaine and Toedad are completely plausible and entirely unremarkable in almost every way – Blaine being connected to the korean mafia is unusual – but that’s about it. Blaine is a violent sociopath and Ross is a bog-standard-normal product of christian fundamentalist culture. What’s weird about that? Heck, i bet half the people on this board could point to people they know IRL who know people like them.
I think the most cartoonish thing is Blaine assembling his cabal of villains. Or atl east attempting to do so.
Yeah, that’s kind of a big part of what I’m referring to. It’s just too much.
What’s next, Mary getting involved in this just because she’s been an antagonist at various points? Maybe bring Penny back too? I feel like Sydney Yus ought to have something to do with this.
Fictional villains generally make more sense than real ones.
I mean, there’s kind of a high-profile cartoon-supervillain-in-real-life who’s a bit of a threat at present that you may have heard of.
Shit, man, am I supposed to guess which one you’re talking about?
I don’t like Trump as a villain. He’s too cartoonish. I can’t see him as a real person. The Dems just made him up to win votes.
Yeah, this setting is just to contrived. I don’t want to keep reading.
What do you mean I can’t? I have complaints for the author.
That’s the one I meant, but I can’t deny that they have a point.
My summary is general enough that it describes multiple real people.
Please excuse me, I have to go cry now.
Learning from mistakes are for people who can be wrong or at fault about things.
oh cool, so do we get to see Tweedledee and Tweedledum get gunned down by the Secret Service in graphic detail? Or are you saving that for the next Slipshine comic? I totally understand if you do.
Gunned down? Maybe.
By the secret service: I thought they only provided security for the President in addition to their counterfeit-hunting.
The Secret Service provides security for presidential candidates that have a real chance at winning even just a nomination.
The secret service does not actually provide security for Congressional Representatives like Robin. That is the reason that AOC and the other members of the Squad have to pay a ton of money for private security every time Trump tweets about them and starts a new round of death threats.
Actually, considering the current environment, Robin’s latest moves probably would have a bunch of death threats coming at her and she does not know because she no longer has an adequate staff to manage such things.
You’d expect that, but you’d also expect a lot of Twitter threats which she would be aware of – but she seems to think the social media response has been overwhelmingly positive. I don’t get it.
She would still have congressional staff. It’s just campaign staff she’s replaced with Becky.
I feel like conspiracy to kidnap probably violates his parole.
And the guards should probably lock him back up.
I would also add (I hope) some distance-based restraining order.
Perhaps they should wait until they are away from the correctional facility to plan out crimes.
Conditions of bail actually. He hasn’t actually been convicted of anything yet.
TECHNICALLY it’s bail and not parole.
But not going near his (alleged) victim is a likely condition of bail. I don’t know HOW likely it is, given that I’ve found it’s not a good idea to assume that the American justice system consistently conforms anything approaching sanity, but if any conditions beyond the normal “show up for court” were attached to his bail, that would certainly be one of them.
I am quite sure that, even in a comic strip, conditions of Toe-Dad’s bond would include no unsupervised contact with Becky or entry onto the IU campus. And when they say “supervised” they mean “with a law enforcement or court officer present”, not just in the company of h⃥i⃥s⃥ ⃥c⃥o⃥-⃥c⃥o⃥n⃥s⃥p⃥i⃥r⃥a⃥t⃥o⃥r⃥ the guy who bailed him out.
Yeah, but, remember: Toe-Dad doesn’t have to. There’s an entire fucking church full of people willing to have his back and do it for him.
And every last ducking one of them save Hank and Carol don’t have reasons to be on campus, and they only get ONE shot, and they have to get Becky without Joyce or Dina seeing it. if they try to kidnap her a THIRD time, they’ll have lost the element of surprise, Toedad goes into a little hole with no chance of bail, along with whomever made the kidnapping attempt.
Being willing to verbally support a guys decision in a room full of like minded people, and being willing to actually get jail time are two different things.
Willing to cough up money to get him out of jail goes a long way though. You’re right that they’re not likely to go to violence though.
Get Carol to invite Joyce home for a visit, knowing she’ll bring Becky and Ross will have easier access to her though?
To me it still seems insane that they would just let a guy go without keeping any sort of tabs on him after he abducted his daugher at gunpoint. What do they expect to happen next?
I am curious about whether she has a restraining order against toe dad or not.
Religious nutjobs dont care about laws or social contracts because they were made by “man” and not god.
That means he is getting arrested again.
I doubt she could afford the lawyer and she’s been a bit busy to plow through the all the paperwork on her own.
But the good news is, it looks like Indiana isn’t one of those states that charges you if you get an order of protection (aka restraining order).
I wonder if one came with the charges by default. If so, and depending on the wording, he could get arrested if he’s caught anywhere near the IU campus. If Blaine has two cells of grey matter to rub together, he’s going to try and keep his new toe puppet from breaking the terms of his bond and getting arrested again as long as possible. Blaine himself isn’t supposed to be anywhere near the school either, but I don’t remember if that’s a police order or just campus security.
Good thing there’s no reason for Becky to… leave… campus.
…They’re crashing Dina’s party at the apartment, aren’t they.
Just campus security. And Blaine’s plan certainly involves Ross breaking the terms of his bond – so it just matters that Ross doesn’t run off on his own before playing his role in whatever Blaine’s master plan is.
The party’s a possibility, but I think it’s too soon.
Little reason to get one while he’s in jail with little prospect of making bail. It’s likely that the conditions of bail include not approaching his daughter. Of course, he’s as likely to violate that as he would a court order, but it’s more likely to land him back in jail if he does.
I hate them both so much. Amber and Becky are not your property, you deplorable shitweasels.
Time to call Sarah with her bat, and maybe Jacob II. They will end up in a cell next to gash face.
Nah, this calls for Jacob III.
Also known as The Penetrator from the Saints Row series. Sarah will be unstoppable.
That thing could kill Blaine, Toe Dad, Gash face and even the Head Alien in one single strike.
Well THAT’S unbiblical. A daughter is controled by her father until such a time as a suitor pays a dowry for her (as much as 50 shekels silver if he raped her). What you’re talking about is just evil modern liberal devil-talk, and any bible-believing Christian like Ross knows to plug his ears to that song of Satan trying to destroy the Christian family.
….. why’s Satan the evil one, again?
Now I’m just remembering the show Joyce liked involved Chastity Churchmouse saying ‘your dad owns your vagina until you’re 23’ and excuse me, I need to go cry and/or vomit now. Damn you for providing extra content on your tumblr, Willis!
…I had forgotten that little gem
I like to forget it too, but sometimes my brain is a b-hole.
I went and googled that. The padlock is a really nice touch.
Can’t blame it for being subtle, I suppose
This is likely no consolation to you, but for what it’s worth the fictional Hymmel the Humming Hymnal is nowhere near as disturbing as the very real Psalty the Singing Songbook.
So I’ve heard. Blech.
I’m fairly certain that’s also fictional.
…right?
Willis has posted YouTube videos of Psalty the Singing Songbook here before.
So it’s not in-universe fiction. It’s still, like, regular fiction.
From Willis’ comments it sounds like it teaches much the same thing, and it looks a lot more disturbing to boot.
He had the cojones to disobey the Father.
You’re thinking of bride price. A dowry is paid by the family of the bride.
I feel like this is insulting to shitweasels.
These two are just straight up comic-book villains. They should just embrace it and start calling themselves the League of Dastards or something.
Is it wrong that part of me wants them to have some really shitty team name?
Better than wanting them to have an awesome team name.
They’re “The Shit” team.
I think they need a few more members before they could call themselves a league.
Okay I’ve been dealing with the sudden death of my mother and the impending funeral so let’s catch up with Doooooooooooooooooooooo what the fuck?
My condolences on your loss. I hope things go peacefully at the funeral.
You have my deepest sympathies regarding your mother.
Condolensces.
Short version: Blaine is evil, and so is Willis.
Hence the recurring “DAMN YOU WILLIS” refrain.
ok admittedly ‘recurring’ and ‘refrain’ are redundant..
Condolences from our home. I hope that “sudden” means there was little suffering.
Condolences on your loss.
*hugs*
Sympathies (literally).
My condolences, Foxhack.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
*Appropriate gesture of support*
So sorry to hear about your mom. You and your family have my sympathy.
Condolences.
This is a bad comic for your situation. The parentage on display here will probably just make you miss your mum more.
Blaine, quite blaming your own daughter for your own economic instability. At this rate you and Toe Dad will be sliced by the Korean equivalent Cioccolata and send as plastified pieces to the congregation as a warning.
Ah, a man of culture
I wonder what Don Gramps will have to say about Blaine’s using resources to bail out someone as high profile and likely to recommit as Ross, to fulfill a relatively petty personal vendetta?
They’re made of meat. Meat that could be used to feed starving children in Africa.
The Child Protective Services Couple
Therapist: What do you think is the reason behind your anxiety?
Me:…it all started with an inaugural poop.
Said every president ever.
I didn’t realize how tall Amber’s dad was
Never fear, Nightguy will be there.
Nananananananananananananananana NIGHTGUY
I’m now picturing a montage of these guys going up against Amazi-Girl and her superfriends and coming away with an ever-increasing accumulation of bandages, casts, braces, etc.
Holy crap i would adore that
Yessss. I like that cinematic mental picture.
Man this is like if the guy from “Falling down” teamed up with…I don’t have a movie character equivalent of Blaine.
It’s been decades since I’ve seen that movie, but if I remember right, the first and only person the anti-hero actually kills is a neo-Nazi who had told him “You’re just like me.” I think I remember him screaming “I’m not like you!!!”
Yes, Foster is a person who’s gone over the edge – but not from religion. And he scares his family – but not from trying to control them. And in the end, Foster realizes that he’s “the bad guy” which Toedad could never ever do.
Foster is a genuine anti-hero. Toedad is just a waste of meat.
Wow. I don’t even remember *that* much of the movie! I just recall Michael Douglas (I think?) losing it in L.A. traffic. The whole plot of the movie has been erased from my brain folds.
Don’t feel bad, that entire movie has been abridged to the McDonalds scene in my memory.
I see what you mean on most of what your saying except for the controlling his family part. I remember there was a part in the movie where he was going over old home movies of him spending time with his family and it showed that he was always on the edge and his family left him because he was always lashing out at them due to them not enjoying being around him like he wanted them to.
Guess they just really like South Bend TV down in Monroe County, huh.
Then a bus comes and hits them both killing them instantly (that phone hes holding ends up in the hands of some orphans or wutever)
I love how Blaine talking about God sounds like Ruth trying to explain what “fun” means. “Of course I know this thing you are talking about.”
Blaine is clearly not anywhere near as religious as Ross, though he apparently knows enough fundie-ish language to manipulate him.
TV Reporter: “You just got bailed out of jail! What are you going to do now?”
ToeDad: “I’m going back to the scene of the crime and commit another one!”
TV Reporter: “So… *not* to Disneyland, then?”
ToeDad: “Huh? Why would I go that wretched place of scum and sinners?”
the Dickhead Duo
of course an overly religious man would easily be swayed by the devil’s words ^^
Maybe it’s because I’ve been on a Dark Crystal kick, but I’m now reading Blaine as having skek’Sil (the Chamberlain)’s voice.
“Collect my daughter…”
asshole.
NEWSFLASH, TOE-JERK! SHE’S NOT ‘YOURS’ ANY LONGER. SHE WAS NEVER YOUR PROPERTY, AND NOW SHE’S NOT EVEN YOUR CHILD THANKS TO YOU.
For fucks sake! Can we be done with these two idiots?! I wish there were a way to be notified when tweedle dumb and tweedle really dumb were through taking updates with their cartoonishly evil bullshit!
is Toedad really so fucking stupid as to go near Becky first thing after getting arrested for kidnapping her? Even if he thinks he’s protecting her/in the right, this is quite unhinged
Yes.
That’s exactly how fucking stupid he is.
Just look at his head! No way that skull’s big enough to support a brain bigger than the size of a walnut. If he didn’t have religion he’d probably be dead cause a higher power’s the only thing giving him the ability to even function.
He is definitely that stupid.
Yeah. He’s stupid enough to kidnap her under gunpoint and try to shoot someone on his car, before climbing onto said car and having a fistfight while driving.
That sentence was a mess, just like Pater Pollicem, aka Toedad
A prick and a big swollen toe walk out of a jail together.
There’s the start of a joke there.
Just go ahead and bring in the Head Alien, Willis. The Walkyverse one. I mean as long as we’re going ridiculous corny evil, just embrace the drama coursing in your veins and bring this comic to crazytown
I’m sure Willis has plot twists awaiting us yet. My current bet is that Toedad will be on board until he isn’t and they’ll turn on each other because they can’t agree on methodology.
The sad thing is, there are people like this in real life. I feel for the other people who have to live their lives under them.
And he’s recruited Ash, has Faz, obviously his next stop is a conversation with Sydney Yus
Sydney: “Wildcard, bongoes! Yeeha!!!!!”
Coming soon: Amazi-Girl vs. the Sons of Satan.
Satanists dont want to associate with evangelists and other scum. They mostly just practice hedonism and wear black clothing.
So evangelists with the lights out. Got it.
Wait, he was being held at a prison in Bloomington this entire time?
Probably Monroe County Jail.
Monroe County Correctional Center – it’s right there in the first panel.
Yeah, I’m just surprised he was being held so close to the scene of the crime. If it’s the building I think it is, it’s halfway between Read Hall and Blowjob Cat.
Holy crap, that IS close. O_o I guess that’s a thing about small university cities – everything is in the same place.
I would hardly call Bloomington, with a population of 85K, a ‘small’ university city. Not every place packs ’em in like NYC, Chicago, or LA.
I’m done with these kind of characters, we’ve had this already with the Evil comic book Villian Dads I don’t want to see it again.
Probably gonna wait until this arc is over and then hop back for the next one,see ya later guuuys
Why do I hear Blaine’s voice as Half-Life’s G-Man? Like, cadence and everything.
Rise and shine, misster Toedad. Rise and, shine. Not, that I wish, to imply you hafe been ssleeping on, the job… no one is more desserving of a resssst. And all the effort in, the world would have gone, to wasste until- well, let’s just, say your hour hass come again.
The wrong toe in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world… Sso wakeup, misster Toe. Wake up and ssmell the ashesssss…
Am I the only one hoping that Blaine eventually gets run over by a bus?
I’m kind of hoping he gets pushed down a really steep hill.
Ross is right. They are really kindred sprits.
United in awfulness they stand. Two piles of shit. Together they are a larger, smellier piece of shit.
It amazes me how after these characters have fought magic aliens, martians, died several times, got their memories and existence rewritten, turned into a celestial being (cont.)
Regular ol’ toxic relationships with bigots still manage to have me scared about their safety.
Different continuity~
Colour me forgetful, but what’s Blaine’s deal other than being a piece of shit?
Control. It’s all about control for him. He needs control over his daughter, over his ex-wife, over everything. He got emasculated by the courts, as he’s forced to pay for her tuition (something he said he didn’t think he’d have to do, assuming that she wasn’t going to go, so that was just attempted manipulation that backfired) And he’ll manipulate, intimidate, blackmail, and whatever to get control back.
You know, that Amazi-Girl kinda looks like you…
I really liked amazigirl more when she was a coping mechanism and not an actual superhero complete with hokey recurring villains forming league of evils to take her down.
Blaine’s egging Toedad to kill Amber…
You superhero long enough, even as a coping mechanism, and you’re gonna get recurring villains.
Toedad is more a dumbarse by the page, heh.
Blaine and Ross together for the worst…. I SHIP IT!
Anyone else starting to get google ads that cover the left-most panel of the comic?
Yes!
On the computer, the Google ad positions itself right in the center column. You close it and it whines; “Why?” and there’s no option to say “Because you’re covering the content.” Then the Google whine box covers the “submit” button in comments so you have to guess where that is. You simply can’t get the screen real estate back.
You can get it back, with a little effort.
Inspect Element. Find the outermost element of the ad container, and delete the whole damn thing.
Report it to hiveworks, they’ll get rid of it.
You know, I am perfectly ok with Willis killing these two off.
I know, I know. But I’m down with it, just saying.
A Tacky Toe with a Toe.
A TACKY TWO WITH A TOE* FUCK
God damn Toedad, he gets bailed out and the very first thing he wants to do is commit the SAME CRIME. He’s beyond rehabilitation, just end his pathetic life. His hatred and bigotry are what he is now, there’s no humanity left in that shell, only evil to be purged.
People like you are the reason people like him don’t bother trying to change.
Really? Ross didn’t try to change because he’s convinced he’s right, not because of “people like you”.
That is a thing with some people, but it’s got nothing to do with Ross. At least not now. Let him in rot in jail for a decade and we’ll see if he can make an effort.
You do know that as soon as Blaine leaves, Toedad is going to think something along the lines of, “It may be a deal with the devil, but that liar will get his thirty pieces of silver once this is all done.”
He may be a crazy fanatic, but he’s not entirely stupid, and not going to trust anyone after what has happened, anyway, so I am sure he’s seen through Blaine in a heartbeat. Or at least isn’t going to trust him on general principles, since he now seems convinced that he’s the Only Real Christian around.
He probably is assuming that Blaine is an actual demon there to tempt him, but that’s not as far off as a saner person might think.
Friends, a naïve question? Does Blaine know Amazi-girl is Amber on disguise?
Was kinda wonderin’ the same thing ^^;
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/misconception/
He at least has experience with AmaziGirl–and seeing as how AmaziGirl has apparently followed his daughter to college, I think he knows her secret identity.
In panel two of that strip he does not recognize Amazi-girl as Amber. Previous commenters noted he probably has not figured it out.
That leads to an interesting scenario. Toedad, at Blaine’s urging, is about to take out Amazi-girl when Blaine suddenly recognizes her. What happens next?
In that scene he didn’t even recognize Amazi-Girl as Amazi-Girl. Just “Is that girl in a costume?”
When talking to Asher recently he wanted Amber out of college and revenge on Amazi-Girl.
He doesn’t have a clue.
I can see that Asher conversation as working for either interpretation. Either he genuinely doesn’t know, or he’s setting up a situation where he will be shocked – SHOCKED! – to discover that the vigilante Asher just took out is his daughter.
It’s not entirely a bar to him knowing. He could have been lying.
But it’s certainly not evidence that he does. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing that even hints at him knowing.
Good thing they gave Ross time to shave off the beard. Everybody on campus would have confused him with Bluto.
Ads on the site are getting pretty obtrusive. Like, “follow you down the screen and block you from using the left quarter of the screen” intrusive.
I can’t even click the “About” link because the ad completely blocks it. And when I close the ad, it leaves a blank grey region.
Report it to hiveworks.
Unholy partnership, Willis. It’s Blaineman and Rossbin, the Detritic Duo.
I’m pretty sure if he gets anywhere near his daughter he’ll be shot dead by a cop or security guard in seconds
Gosh I hope both of you get shot and killed by the end of this arc
It would be fantastic if Amazi-Girl snaps when fighting them, kills them, and the comic executes a no-warnings pivot into a horror/drama.
Ethan drops out, obsessed with tracking down his best friend as Amazi-Girl goes underground ~ Dorothy takes on even more strain using her mad investigative skills to give him leads ~ Everyone else gradually forgets about the whole affair, while Ethan tracks down a Chicago mob boss who’s rumored to work with “an unusual enforcer”
Failing that, though, it would be fantastic if Toedad had a restriction against getting close to his daughter and got immediately caught violating it, and if Asher decided to stop stooging for Blaine. And, I guess, if Blaine’s current girlfriend / wife managed to get herself and Faz out. Hell, best case scenario, they’re gone when he gets home from bailing out Toedad, and Blaine himself gets caught on campus next time he goes to Asher~
But still: ripped, grim Ethan, loitering in a dark alleyway near a bar, waiting to see if a certain figure walks past…
Have you been taking notes from the buckets of blood guy?
Man I’m waiting for ToeDad and Blaine to try and pull something on live tv and it goes national, inspiring a DeSanto win
Please tell me that Blain is not so dumb that he doesn’t realize Amazi-Girl is really Ultra Car.
I hate all of this
the “kill the batman” scene of old white fucks
I’m getting a different vibe, It’s more like this…”I want to kill the Spider, You want to kill the spider, together he doesn’t stand a chance.”
Jesus this is getting interesting