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Public statement

by David M Willis on December 9, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – The One Where Jocelyne Returns
└ Tags: jennifer, sal

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  1. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    December 9, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Has she ever even seen amazigirl? Their builds arent even close

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 9, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

      Yes.

      She’d also know that Sal and Amazi-Girl PHYSICALLY FOUGHT at the Desanto rally in front of hundreds of witnesses if she had the slightest bit of awareness.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        December 9, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

        Superheroes physically fight themselves or their secret identities pretty damn often actually. It’s a hazard of the occupation.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          December 9, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

          I thought the solution to Ethan’s problems might be having to fight Emo Ethan in a junkyard.

          Can we get some cigarette flavored Kryptonite for that?

          • Furie
            Furie
            December 9, 2024 at 4:28 am | #

            Only after blowjob cat’s mouth has been forcibly shut by something.

            • Darkseide
              Darkseide
              December 9, 2024 at 5:38 pm | #

              Blowjob Cat would just blow it out

        • Doug D
          Doug D
          December 9, 2024 at 11:52 pm | #

          I know, right? Meanwhile, regular people like us are lucky if we get to do that two, maybe three times in our lifetimes.

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        December 9, 2024 at 9:17 am | #

        Yeah there are a lot of people who could tell Jennifer about that fight, and a few who could talk about Sal and Amazi-Girl fighting crime together for a number of nights, or about how around the same time Amber and Sal had a violent fight and then Sal joined Amber’s roller derby team where Amber does her anger management while wearing a costume just like Amazi-Girl’s. . .

        If Jennifer thought that journalism meant talking to people to find out what they have to say rather than deciding what happened and then telling people so they’ll know how cool and right she is, I guess.

        • Nedlum
          Nedlum
          December 9, 2024 at 9:41 am | #

          She might have seen a girl on the team who looked just like Amazi-girl, but she’d probably been to busy focusing on Carla to notice.

        • BadRoad
          BadRoad
          December 10, 2024 at 7:34 pm | #

          Sounds like she’d rather be a prosecutor than a journalist.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      December 9, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

      Ask yourself this question: in Its Walky, how long did it take Walky to realize Beef wasn’t his genetic brother?

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      December 9, 2024 at 10:36 am | #

      I was wrong about Carla being faceblind, but maybe Jennifer is butt-blind. she identifies people by whether or not they climb through windows

    • anon
      anon
      December 9, 2024 at 4:21 pm | #

      A lot of time (or at least drinks) have passed since they interacted so i can imagine jen not remember specific details

    • Freemage
      Freemage
      December 9, 2024 at 9:33 pm | #

      They spoke, after Amazi-Girl literally carried Billie down the hallway to end a fight. There was no way that Billie did not see:

      Amazi-girl’s lily-white complexion.
      Amazi-girl’s stocky frame.
      Amazi-girl’s rack.

      In short, this whole subplot is phenomenally dumb.

      Start here:
      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/nerds/

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    December 9, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Next on Sick Sad World… 9-9

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      December 9, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      What does 9-9 mean? It sort of looks like a person with bags under their eyes, staring off into space with the impassive incomprehension of the exhausted.

      • Marisa Mockery
        Marisa Mockery
        December 9, 2024 at 12:55 am | #

        You nailed it buddy

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        December 9, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

        yee it an eye roll LOL

  3. ThatDerpGuy
    ThatDerpGuy
    December 9, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh, Billifer.

    • Rolf of Many Doors
      Rolf of Many Doors
      December 9, 2024 at 9:05 am | #

      Jillifer is such a card

  4. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    December 9, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Truly spectacular instincts on Jen’s part

  5. Raven
    Raven
    December 9, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Amazigirl has a totally different body type, you bongo!

    (also with Sal’s hand injury, I feel like she wouldn’t be able to do some of the climbing Amazigirl gets up to)

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      December 9, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Climbing IS her preferred way in and out of a room/building. This is not defending Jenn-a-billie, of course.

      • ktbear
        ktbear
        December 9, 2024 at 2:09 am | #

        This is exactly why Jennifer thinks she’s Amazigirl though.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        December 9, 2024 at 3:55 am | #

        We do know Sal doesn’t have 100% function in her right hand though. Seems to most affect fine motor work but I still feel that would impact the ability for her to be AG.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      December 9, 2024 at 9:46 am | #

      Totally different build, hair color, hair texture, hair length, skin color…

      Jennifer thinks she’s a shapeshifter tbh.

      • Sam
        Sam
        December 9, 2024 at 12:47 pm | #

        Jennifer’s reasoning is basically ‘Joyce is likely racist’, Sal wears heels to seem taller, her hair could be a wig, no explanation for build, Sal is basically a Batman.

        Except you know, if she paid attention ever she’d realise she’s wrong but paying attention to other people that she isn’t dating and trying to fix is hard.

        Create pointless drama instead.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 9, 2024 at 3:41 pm | #

          She’s basically Batman and Batman is a master of disguise, after all.

  6. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    December 9, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    A reminder how long Jennifer has been thinking Sal is Amazi-Girl.

    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/hero/

    January 5th, ***2012***

    • Wendy
      Wendy
      December 9, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      …That means I’ve been reading this comic for over 12 years now. Jesus Christ.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        December 9, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

        Shortpacked has the perfect comic for that.

        https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/re-wheatcakes

        Willis, as a fellow comedian, you are a genius.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          December 9, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

          wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff, ammi right? XD

          I’ve been reading for 7 years now, and it’s been a transformative experience all the while

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            December 9, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

            BTW does anyone know what day of the week it is in comic?

            that seems all too easy to lose track of…

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              December 9, 2024 at 7:33 am | #

              For me it was Tuesday two days ago, which makes this Thursday.

              • HueSatLight
                HueSatLight
                December 9, 2024 at 10:38 am | #

                for me too

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              December 9, 2024 at 7:34 am | #

              It should be January 27th.

              https://walkypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dumbing_of_Age_Timeline

              That’s either a Wednesday or a Thursday depending on whether DoA “season 2” is following 2011’s calendar (continuing off of “season 1” using 2010’s) or 2021’s (assuming it skipped ahead on the 10 year anniversary).

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                December 9, 2024 at 3:39 pm | #

                It has to be Thursday, based on “For Me it was Tuesday” being 2 days ago.

                Day of the month is harder to figure.

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  December 9, 2024 at 4:37 pm | #

                  I thought we had it pinned down again after Ruth’s birthday?

                  Somebody even deeper into the DoA lore iceberg than I am probably knows for certain. I’m just going by Walkypedia.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  December 9, 2024 at 11:02 pm | #

                  We might well have. My point was just that it’s definitely Thursday, whatever day of the month it is.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        December 9, 2024 at 3:26 am | #

        I got you beat, I followed the link from Shortpacked to the first page.

    • Seralyna
      Seralyna
      December 9, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      In case anyone is wondering, this is the strip that relativley shortly followed it, which made her very confident it was sal. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/knewit/

      A few days after reailsing her roomate fit the exact amazi girl profile, she catches amazi girl climbing out of her room, the exact way that sal does.

      • CJ
        CJ
        December 9, 2024 at 1:33 pm | #

        Obviously Sal wears whiteface and a wig

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        December 9, 2024 at 8:31 pm | #

        so her thinking AG is Sal is fueled by a grudge, got it

        keep on chasing this, Jennifer 9-9

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 10, 2024 at 7:54 am | #

          I mean, this IS Billifer. Her two driving forces are rage and embarrassment.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      December 9, 2024 at 1:08 pm | #

      Jennifer on her 60’s, shouting at Sal’s garden: “I knew ya since college, you old rrrrrrrascal…”

  7. Pocky
    Pocky
    December 9, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Also note to self: get eyes reexamined.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 9, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

      Jennifer notably dismissed Sal being black and Amazi-Girl being white because Joyce thought Jennifer was white.

      And later Mexican.

      Mind you, Jennifer’s thought process is still:

      1. Joyce is unintentionally racist
      2. ???
      3. Amazi-Girl could be biracial

  8. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    December 9, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    no she didn’t.

  9. Wendy
    Wendy
    December 9, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Jennifer PLEASE

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 9, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      Most people would find it flattering or amusing.

      But Amazi-Girl is also a person who literally STABBED Sal.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        December 9, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

        yeah Jennifer here is nothin but fucking annoying, like those TMZ camera-folk bothering celebrities just doing gardening and shit

  10. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 9, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Sal answered in a way that anyone except Billie/Jennifer, would understand.

    Today’s lesson: There isn’t one; go home.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      December 9, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

      Today I am extra glad to have Sal gravatar.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      December 9, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

      To Jen’s very limited credit “angry denial” is a much easier thing to assume is protesting too much than “hey idiot, do you have any idea what she actually looks like?” or “I’ve fought with her in public with witnesses and camera footage that can corroborate my account of events”

  11. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    December 9, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Daisy already knows who Amazi-Girl is.

    Dorothy is her secret fetish. She just pads her suit!

    Who else would it be but our President to be?

  12. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    December 9, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    other stickers aside, Malaya doesn’t exactly strikes me as the sort of person that would write “Malaya ⭐” on their door. But then who wrote it ?

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      December 9, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      Marcie?

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        December 9, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

        … the blind girl?

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          December 9, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

          Be kind of hard for her to play Roller Derby if she was blind.

          • Vanessa
            Vanessa
            December 9, 2024 at 1:37 am | #

            Apparently legally people participate, there is no little ball to keep track of just human bodies, right?

            • Vanessa
              Vanessa
              December 9, 2024 at 1:39 am | #

              This guy, famously: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Skobel

          • Tan
            Tan
            December 9, 2024 at 7:47 am | #

            The perhaps more salient example is how she communicates through (non-tactile) sign language.

        • Jon S.
          Jon S.
          December 9, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

          Mute. Not blind. She just likes rocking the shades.

    • Nymphie
      Nymphie
      December 9, 2024 at 1:40 pm | #

      The star might be there to display her being jammer on the derby team

  13. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    December 9, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    This is probably for the best…..lsomehow.

  14. Suet
    Suet
    December 9, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    “Sorry Jennifer! But our Amazi-Girl is in another room!”

    Dumbing of Age would never break THAT kind of fourth wall

    • Suet
      Suet
      December 9, 2024 at 9:02 am | #

      Other Rachel? Spider-Car? What is this poll?

      Rose? Whatever happened to her anyway

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        December 9, 2024 at 10:46 am | #

        Rachel Moore and Rose have roughly the same build. Spider-car was a rival/teammate of AG in the Walkyverse. Lucy was AG2 in the Walkyverse. I don’t know why Dorothy is on the list.
        It’s a trick, the real amazi-girl isn’t on the list.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 9, 2024 at 3:42 pm | #

          I voted Lucy. She’s the only Amazi-Girl on that list.

  15. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    December 9, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Nice fourth wall beak in the alts

  16. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    December 9, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    I actually understand Jennifer’s reasoning for why Sal is Amazi-Girl. Sal can scale buildings, fight off multiple men larger than her, has an absolute sense of justice, and perform blockbuster action stunts on bikes.

    It’s just you know…tall biracial black woman. Like a teenage Rosario Dawson.

    Amber…small white woman.

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      December 9, 2024 at 1:41 am | #

      Jennifer is one of those people who believes the first thing that she thinks of and then just insists if she thought it up it must mean it’s true. The fact that Amber is visibly bushy haired and pale is largely irrelevant.

  17. Davus
    Davus
    December 9, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    Yeah, it does occur to me that, as a journalist, Jennifer should have done her homework. However, jennifer’s not a good journalist. (I wouldn’t be suprised if she did it so she could get a press pass or something.)

  18. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    December 9, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    But once you look beyond the panels, forever after will it dominate your destiny.

  19. Nono
    Nono
    December 9, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    I’ve been struggling a bit to ‘like’ Jennifer as a protagonist. She’s been almost nothing but a pill for like 90% post timeskip, and any ‘good’ moments are swiftly erased.

    The best I can say is that at least she’s low-stakes drama and we’re just waiting for the schadenfreude payoff I guess.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      December 9, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

      I’m not sure Jennifer has ever been a protagonist. She’s occasionally a viewpoint character, but I don’t think she’s ever actually driven the plot by her action or even inaction. (I’m not really up for re-reading the suicide pact storyline, which I think is where she was closest to being a protag.)

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        December 9, 2024 at 8:39 am | #

        You are pretty much wrong about that and really “the plot” is literally just the these characters lives, so anything she does advance her particular plot.

    • Erica
      Erica
      December 9, 2024 at 6:07 am | #

      You don’t have to like protagonists

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      December 9, 2024 at 8:40 am | #

      Well, you aren’t mean to like her for what she does, she is a trashfire of a human being with glaring personality flaws, that is what make her interesting if not a likable

    • Devin
      Devin
      December 9, 2024 at 12:17 pm | #

      I definitely think of her as an antagonist. The literary definition doesn’t fit super well if for no other reason than we don’t really have A Protagonist per se, but she’s pretty antagonistic towards most of the rest of the cast, so I’m calling it close enough.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        December 9, 2024 at 2:17 pm | #

        Eeeeh, kind of a stretch, being “antagonistic” and being an Antagonist in a story are pretty different things. I don’t think she has really done anything that warrant that tittle. She can be a protagonist and be unlikable those aren’t mutually exclusive concepts.

        • Devin
          Devin
          December 9, 2024 at 4:42 pm | #

          A little stretching is good for the health

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            December 9, 2024 at 4:51 pm | #

            so long as ya remember to do it *after* exercising, not before XD

            • Jeremiah
              Jeremiah
              December 10, 2024 at 2:35 am | #

              That is literally what all my gym teachers say to do.

  20. Ty34er
    Ty34er
    December 9, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    “Amazi-Girl is on mah Roller Derby Team. Just come to a match and you’ll see I ain’t her.”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 9, 2024 at 7:40 am | #

      “Wait, why wouldn’t you just tell me Marcie is Amazi-Girl?”

      “Marcie ain’t her, either!”

      • Ty34er
        Ty34er
        December 9, 2024 at 9:42 pm | #

        This is the correct reply for my comment. Outstanding move, 10/10, you win the DoA No Prize!

  21. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    December 9, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    I don’t know how many times Jenifer has insisted on the theory that Sal is Amazi Girl but at this point she is sextupling down on it.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      December 9, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

      Is there anything Jennifer hasn’t doubled down on?

      Maybe the alcoholism, I guess.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 9, 2024 at 7:41 am | #

      She has concepts of a journalism.

  22. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    December 9, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    At this point she has to be willfully ignorant, right?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 9, 2024 at 3:41 am | #

      Jennifer was a trump voter in the our world AU.

  23. Thing2
    Thing2
    December 9, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    And then there was https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/white-2/

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 9, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

      Joyce, of course, gets the obvious point.

  24. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    December 9, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

    No wonder Ruth broke up with her; she doesn’t even act with journalistic integrity.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 9, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

      So, how long until Daisy commissions the Computer Club (Ken?) to make spider slayers.

      or turns Mary into the Scorpion?

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        December 9, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

        I feel like she can do better than Mary

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      December 9, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/cnn/

  25. audkitten
    audkitten
    December 9, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

    Who is Miss Sakaki?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      December 9, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      Jocelyne’s cat

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        December 9, 2024 at 1:38 am | #

        And Willis’s.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          December 9, 2024 at 8:16 pm | #

          LONG LIVE MISS SAKAKI 😭🫂

  26. Maddie B
    Maddie B
    December 9, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

    A brain scan for Billifer, please! We need to find out what’s going on in there!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 9, 2024 at 3:43 am | #

      You think she might have a TBI?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 9, 2024 at 7:43 am | #

      Two common-sense brain cells in a dead-heat competition for third place.

  27. William
    William
    December 9, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

    In the second to last panel, did she consider for a moment that she might actually be wrong about Sal and then immediately sashayed back into denial mode? Or is did she just take an extra moment to process the denial?

    • Grayfinity
      Grayfinity
      December 9, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

      Billifer is never wrong about anything, ever. /s

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      December 9, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

      Tbh, I think she was wondering if she had any further arguments for convincing Sal and decided she didn’t.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      December 9, 2024 at 1:00 am | #

      “I don’t know why Sal is being so weird about this.”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 9, 2024 at 7:48 am | #

      She’s that Principal Skinner meme. “Am I so out of touch? No. It is Sal who is wrong.”

      Or maybe Fonzie

  28. Dday
    Dday
    December 9, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

    Jen is one of those people that comes up with an idea and straight up starts believing it, zero evidence required. Unshakable assumptions based on raw stubbornness, I’ve met alllll different kindsa people like this.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      December 9, 2024 at 8:34 am | #

      They are the one that elected the president after all!

  29. staszu13
    staszu13
    December 9, 2024 at 12:51 am | #

    Oh well Jennifer definitely has a future at Fox News: snotty attitude, reckless disregard for facts etc

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      December 9, 2024 at 8:09 am | #

      She might make for a good Fox “News” smiling face person. Probably would need to change her hair to blonde.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        December 9, 2024 at 8:33 am | #

        And probably stop being half asian.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          December 9, 2024 at 11:19 am | #

          She’d definitely be one of their token minorities, with either half emphasized depending on what target they’re trying to bamboozle.

  30. IniquitousKing
    IniquitousKing
    December 9, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

    Given how many bridges Jennifer’s burned lately, I feel like losing her position at the newspaper would be a sensible next step.

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      December 9, 2024 at 7:01 am | #

      don’t think she has a paid position so probably not but it would be nice if daisy called her out on her poor journalism. she gave Jennifer feedback at the beginning of the term and i don’t think she listened at all.

  31. AlexaSpuds
    AlexaSpuds
    December 9, 2024 at 1:49 am | #

    Amber and Sal don’t even have the same skin color, how is Billie so fucking dense she can’t do the simple math of “white≠brown”???

    • Now
      Now
      December 9, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

      She’s talked about it before! She said the skin color is a matter of perception, and that if you expect Amazi-girl to be white she’ll be white because the whole superhero outfit obscures the rest (and then she never changed her mind because that’s Jennifer and she’s, of course, always right about everything)

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 9, 2024 at 7:54 am | #

        Of course, now it all makes sense! Santa is Amazi-Girl!

  32. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 9, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

    Well, Jennifer won’t reveal her secret, that’s for sure.

  33. Ophidiophile
    Ophidiophile
    December 9, 2024 at 3:35 am | #

    Sal is probably regretting not diving out the window when she had the chance.

  34. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    December 9, 2024 at 5:22 am | #

    I think the funniest part of this is that she thinks Sal would. WANT a front page quote. Like look at that big grin, like its an indulgent beguiling draw. Fascinating.

    Anyhow I personally dont think Jennifer’s stupid. She’s perfectly smart. It’s just hard to overstate how badly “i already decided I think I know what’s right” can carry people if you don’t do a lot of self reflection. Jennifer doesn’t ‘do’ self reflection. She has specifically backed away from self reflection.

    She ain’t evil, she ain’t dumb. She has a fixed idea in her head and won’t even self reflect her way into Liking Girls not being a fluke. Such it do.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      December 9, 2024 at 11:20 am | #

      Was talking to a friend yesterday about that, clearly intelligent people who have missed an entire array of points so hard their appearance loops back to “idiot.”

      • Zamperla
        Zamperla
        December 9, 2024 at 8:44 pm | #

        It’s a known human error! We just literally have a hard time taking in new information when it conflicts with something we already believe- see also, “joyces whole incredibly difficult time pulling away from a fundy upbringing”. The difference is if you make an effort to stop, and think, and sit with the really uncomfortable feeling of Having Been Wrong.

        Which. Gestures at Jennifer.

  35. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    December 9, 2024 at 7:04 am | #

    Damn, Other Rachel in second. I’m surprised and happy.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      December 9, 2024 at 8:11 am | #

      Well, yeah, since Carla wasn’t listed among the candidates. Had to go with the next logical choice.

      • Morleuca
        Morleuca
        December 9, 2024 at 8:59 am | #

        I have to admit I went with Rose, because I can’t remember who Rose is.

        • Michael Steamweed
          Michael Steamweed
          December 9, 2024 at 10:41 pm | #

          I went with Other Rachel because I didn’t know who Rose or Spider Car is.

  36. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    December 9, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

    What is the red and yellow heart-shaped thing on the door?

  37. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    December 9, 2024 at 9:00 am | #

    1. She’s right in that AG has no comment.

    2. Book recommendation: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts – https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/81df626a-3309-45c2-a38b-9cec1614ce7a

  38. BorkBorkBork
    BorkBorkBork
    December 9, 2024 at 10:40 am | #

    You know that midwestern, conservative, lower-middle-class soccer mom attitude? The whole “Oh, I don’t see color” schtick?

    I guess Jennifer *literally* has that going on. Along with “I don’t see body shape,” “I don’t see hair color, length, or texture,” and “I don’t see the rest of the universe that I can’t pretend isn’t centered around me.”

  39. Laserbeaks Fury
    Laserbeaks Fury
    December 9, 2024 at 12:02 pm | #

    Does anyone have a close up of that Derby sticker? At this distance it looks like Carla just had a bunch of stickers of her in derby gear flipping a bird, which absolutely tracks.

  40. John
    John
    December 9, 2024 at 12:45 pm | #

    Jennifer is just, like, the worst journalist student ever, isn’t she.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      December 9, 2024 at 2:24 pm | #

      yuuuuup

      but even if she fails as a real journalist, she can always be a news anchor, what with all the make-up she can buy with her parents’ money (-_-)

    • anon
      anon
      December 9, 2024 at 4:20 pm | #

      inb4 she becomes some sorta ‘grifter’ lol if not a clickbait influencer

  41. Pseudowolf
    Pseudowolf
    December 9, 2024 at 1:09 pm | #

    I just don’t get how Jennifer still thinks it’s Sal. She’s seen Amazi-girl closely enough to tell that her skin is much lighter than Sal’s and that Sal is taller.
    So Jennifer is really just that convinced that she won’t consider evidence to the contrary or she thinks “Sal” is Amazi-girl in blackface and with lifts in her shoes.

  42. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    December 9, 2024 at 1:11 pm | #

    Jennifer would never look at the comic tags to see when Amazi-Girl is tagged. They’re beneath her afterall >:3c

  43. thumb
    thumb
    December 9, 2024 at 1:51 pm | #

    I suspect this is going to get Sal into trouble eventually. Either she gets punished for Amazi-Girl’s vigilante violence, or people who have beef with Amazi-Girl come for her and violence ensues. Either way, there’ll be plenty of people willing to believe the worst about Sal despite the fact that her main characteristic is not wanting to be involved with this shit.

    • anon
      anon
      December 9, 2024 at 4:17 pm | #

      I mean a vigilante is hard to believe but i can imagine there’d be leslie who could confirm they aren’t the same person

  44. ian livs
    ian livs
    December 9, 2024 at 2:10 pm | #

    Plot twist: Jennifer is Amazi-Girl and is trying to throw everyone off the scent

  45. Poyo
    Poyo
    December 9, 2024 at 3:36 pm | #

    i find it funny no ones pointed out to jennifer the most glaring difference between sal and amazi-girl

    • anon
      anon
      December 9, 2024 at 4:17 pm | #

      LOL if she did run into amazigirl after this /see them in the same room i can totally imagine her being liek “so is she your understudy/did you hire so extra help” or so

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 9, 2024 at 6:54 pm | #

      Joyce actually pointed it out.

      Jennifer’s response, “OF COURSE you’d think Amazi-Girl was black.”

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        December 9, 2024 at 6:58 pm | #

        Ah, here it is:

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/white-2/

        • Poyo
          Poyo
          December 10, 2024 at 3:34 pm | #

          the way ive read this comic 3 times and STILL forget things lol. this is gonna be so funny when jennifer does find out

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      December 9, 2024 at 11:08 pm | #

      Following the previous link, eventually some people just gave up on trying to convince Jennifer: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/holes-2/

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