I would guess so. I am pretty sure the cops would need a specific search or arrest warrant, and could not simply ransack the entire girls’ dormitory in search of evidence. Therefore, they have to be here for a specific person(s) or room, and as they don’t seem to know who Amazigirl is (and if they did she would be out of the comic regardless) it seems likely that they are not here for Amber.
I need to clarify that I mean this only as “the cops are definitely at least partly here for her”, not at all “amazigirl should suffer for her actions”, also merrry crimmussss
People very likely say Amazi-girl interacting with Joyce and Dorothy, so I’m guessing the cops are going after the identifiable people to try and glean Amazi-girl’s identity(because she’s likely a higher value target, what with the whole “kicking cops in the face” thing).
B-b-b-but, if it weren’t for the police force, who would [checks notes] show up to your house, four hours after you’ve been robbed, and then shoot your dog??? These are the kinds of services our tax dollars need to pay for!
bold of you to assume cops dont just do Whatever The Fuck They Want in america. Dude they kidnap people with masks on in broad daylight, no one will ever hold them accountable. and that’s in REAL LIFE
Lawyer here. ICE are cops. They have all the same law enforcement powers, privileges, and immunities as other cops. They just have a specific set of federal laws they are focused on enforcing, much like the DEA or Federal Air Marshals.
The reason ICE often roll with local police in tow is because they are FEDERAL law enforcement, and thus have no authority to make arrests for violations of STATE laws. For this reason, they usually bring from city, county, or state cops with them for the purposes of making such arrests. Just gives them a broader set laws to use and abuse as excuses to harass people. If you don’t appear to be doing anything they can spin into a possible federal crime, but they want you gone, they’ll just turn to the locals and ask them to spin it as some state, county, or local violation.
I wonder how true that is, since IU has their own “real” campus police and it’s been my experience that uni cops can play funny games with the legalities of dorm searches etc.
(by which I mean, back in my own college days we’d have the occasional uniformed dork show up with a “residence hall/campus security staff don’t need a warrant to wander around university property sniffing for weed, oops I smell smoke that means I can enter as a member of landlord/uni staff in an emergency, oh hey look at the pot whoops I’m now putting on my badge and metaphorical police officer hat.”)
Exactly how specific a search warrant needs to be is ultimately up to the judge signing it (and then the judge at trial and potentially appeals), so long as it specifies a place to be searched (Read Hall girls’ wings), the things to be searched for (Amazi-Girl costume and associated equipment), an alleged crime (assaulting police officers), and the facts that tie those three things together (Identifying Amazi-Girl as the one who assaulted the cops, Amazi-Girl sightings in and around Read Hall in particular making her a likely resident there, etc).
Could a warrant be given to search all homes in a neighborhood, for example? Or all apartments in an a building? Without specifying separate reasons for each?
Indiana Code 35-33-5-2 specifically states “the house or place to be searched”. Note the word “house” rather than “home”. So all the houses in a neighborhood likely wouldn’t fly, but all the apartments in a single building might. I am not a lawyer and I have not studied Indiana caselaw. It’s entirely possible that there is already existing precedent that it either would or wouldn’t. If not, it’s gonna come down to the judge’s discretion.
in the united states, is an old Jewish tradition to get Chinese food on Christmas,
around the start of the 1900s, Jewish and Chinese folk were the two largest non-Christian immigrant groups in this country, Chinese restaurants were frequently the only places open on Christmas so that’s were we went to eat! XD
I really hope Amber can get out of this situation without having to confront the cops. She should make sure anything Amazi-Girl related is well hidden, and then go somewhere else.
So how are we feeling; do you think she’s going to get caught, or manage to slip away?
Dina is behind the door. Every door. Like Schrodinger’s cat, she exists in a probabilistic state and the waveform only collapses once you actually move the door and look.
she doesn’t have to leave campus just get out of Read Hall. That’s where the cops are going, any other dorm will work. She really does have to get out of there though since even if the other protesters could escape charges with freedom of speech arguments Amber’s got a little bit of a more difficult time since instead of just protesting she was actively pummeling cops.
The police don’t know Blaine’s daughter is AmaziGirl. Blaine told Lester that she wasn’t that competent but that they could go ahead and arrest her and find some way to make it stick.
I have additional, less evidence based concern that Sal is somehow implicated as Amazigirl as a black girl with a “history” and who has been vocally fingered by Billie.
I’m with friends on voice call, showed them Of the Devil and watched Jujutsu Kaisen 0, about to knock off for the night but not before I call the lovely femme lesbian I’m courting to wish her merry Christmas.
When I hear the term “armored car”, I think of the vehicles that transport money and other expensive items.
I don’t doubt swat cabs are armored, but I, personally, don’t associate the term with them, and hadn’t heard of anyone else doing so until today.
So learned something new.
Look, we didn’t start a pointless war in Iraq, just to test out advanced urban counter-insurgency technologies! We paid for them, we’re going to use them! On our citizens! Which totally, definitely wasn’t always the real plan!
… While I admire and share your cynicism, I question the idea that the Bush administration had the competence to even formulate a real plan, much less effectively execute on one.
Dick Cheney may as well have been president for 3 terms, with his stint at Halliburton in between. Reagan had the same amount of dementia Trump has. Republicans don’t run politicians for president, they run figureheads who are able to connect with voters, despite being political and intellectual lame ducks.
Happy Holidays to all, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
I’m kinda curious what was originally planned to run today, before The Rewrites™ shifted things around, so I hope that when we get there the alt text will say so.
On the Twelfth day of Christmas,
DamnYouWillis sent to me:
12 Doyce being cute strips
11 Transformers facts
10 Boxes of nuggets
9 lesbians in love
8 gays in the background
7 Bi awakenings
6 DeSantos Fratboys
5 Evil parents
4 trans individuals
3 girls in a triad
2 boyfriends cheated on
And a police raid on Read Hall at noon
(Don’t take this seriously or as thinly veiled commentary for anything I didn’t think about it too deeply)
Reminded of when I took a teaspoon of codeine and immediately had to stumble into bed to pass out for several hours, stuff hit me like an absolute monster truck.
Assuming the cops are looking for Amazi-Girl, I wonder where Dina hid her costume, and how difficult it’s gonna be for Amber to avoid getting arrested while still recovering from her injuries. Of course the cops could be there for entirely different reasons I guess.
Even if they’re there for something totally unrelated (doubtful given Amazi-Girl’s appearance at the protest two days ago) finding Amber injured, the pills Dina stole, or her gear if Dina and Sal didn’t have the foresight to stash it away from the dorm would be all but a dead giveaway. She needs to bail.
If they can’t get AG, I’m sure they’ll leave Jorothy and all the nice brown people alone, right? Because cops are so usually willing to leave empty-handed when a perp-search turns up blank, right?
Look it’s not ideal, but I’m not sure Amber with codeine bubbles can safely get out of the building without attracting even more attention. It also doesn’t seem like she has time to slip away even if she could make it outside.
I’m a fan of central air, myself. Keeping the entire house about the same temperature is pretty nice, even if someone (not naming names) is constantly adjusting the fucking thermostat.
when I’m not using my crutches for walking atm, im using them to turn my bed into a sorta makeshift tent dwelling where I can watch movies and keep toasty
Just found out two days before that my dad took a big fall a — week ago, maybe? There wasn’t a lot of explanation, and today I tried calling and couldn’t get an answer, so yeah, I kind of need a safety valve today too.
The chickenshits need about that many vehicles for a routine traffic stop, in my town. One to come bother you, and three in case you have a minor hiccup, like leaving your new insurance card at home but having an easily verified picture of it on your phone that they can copy the information from through the window, run it through their little nanny state dashboard laptop, and come back to tell you everything checks out and to just remember your physical card, to be safe. It takes eight armed fat guys to do that, we swear.
Assuming they’re here for AG, and given the number of cops she fought single-handedly just a couple of days ago, this might actually be a reasonable rather than excessive amount of force.
…. Something something this comic is so unrealistic? I’m not feeling it, but I think making the complaint is obligatory for some reason.
they’re going for a superhero who openly defied them and succeeded, no doubt they want to make an example of her. They probably aren’t coming to arrest peacefully either. They had a sniper shoot her, they’re going for police brutality and a show of force for sure
“The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of Amazi-Girl has been approved.”
While there’s definitely something to the “make an example” theory, it also just makes sense on a practical level. They’re here to arrest someone who took on their riot teams solo and at least held her own and got away. Is it really disproportionate force?
Yeah, I’m beginning to think that warning text should have (and maybe did?) go out to a lot more people than AG. Anyone busy being brown, for instance.
Oh that’d be interesting. It wasn’t actually Amber/AG that the text was aimed at, it was just anonymously sent out to the whole hall somehow. If that’s the case, I’d guess whoever did that is the same as whoever leaked Joe’s list (more for conservation of detail than anything).
I wonder what it says about me (a straight cis male, for the record), that my immediate reading of this was “Everything is terrible and also Amber/AG’s meat vehicle got its period, which isn’t going to help anything.”
Then I remembered the whole injuries situation, and I moved on to being struck by how this is a hilarious comeback (hurr hurr hurr) to that time AG woke up covered in Amber’s diddling juices.
I hope others got the warning too. Primarily anyone with photographic evidence of being in the containment after the deadline that was published in some local paper.
It was right after the protests, so two nights ago.
There’s been no reveal. The most straightforward assumption is that the injuries were from fighting the cops, but some people think she was attacked separately after getting away.
The protest was broken up on Saturday afternoon/evening. Sal found Amber injured in the woods and got her kitchen treatment late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. It’s currently Monday noon.
So Amazi-Girl was injured sometime Saturday evening/night. We didn’t see it happen, but the obvious assumption is that it’s the result of fighting 30–50 feral pigs. I’m not sure even Amber knows exactly how it went down, and Amazi-Girl doesn’t seem to have been awake since then to tell anybody, possibly even Amber.
I swear if it cuts back to Joyce and Dorothy tomorrow I will post a large block of Fudge, except it won’t be Fudge. It will be the queen mother of all dirty words.
If we do see Joyce and Dorothy, their scene will probably have to do with this raid. It might not be the very next strip that immediately makes that clear, that might be more establishing, but I’d be shocked if we cut to something completely unrelated. But I could see something like “we see Joyrothy learn about the raid, they rush over here, and what happens to Amber/Amazi-Girl is an intentional mystery point of tension”, rather than following Amber/AG directly.
What little merit it had back in the early 2000s and not is just about gone, serialization was a mistake 😑
Strictly speaking tho, these days, beyond the half watch level, i am barely if at all interested in anything cable or late capitalist media has to offer, honestly
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This ain’t well,
Joyce and Dorothy smell,
They tasted each other’s eggs,
Amber is sore,
Dina X Becky is no more,
And the pigs are on their waaaaaaaaay!
0~0
Applause!
And a very happy xmas\iron maiden day\newton day to all 💚
Further Applause!
Also Thank you. A Merry Christmas/Iron Maiden Formation Day/Isaac Newton’s Birthday to you as well.
This the rhyme police, you are under for unlicensed poetics!
The rhyme police are real assonanceholes.
The ryhme police they live in my head.
The rime police gave me a head (wonderful cheddah)
oh Noooooo.
p.s. the ryhme police can’t catch me
Didn’t know Joyce and Dorothy went THAT far, jeez.
That Slipshine doing some weird stuff.
Fuck fuck fuckety fuckballs shit
And also have a Merry Christmas!!!
God forbid Willis put up lights for Christmas.
Yes — BUT — Amber/AG have a Power Star and even some sparkle effects!
And I like the sparkly, cheerful, bright light DYW did put up .. on the top of the cop cars lol
Hopefully, they’re here to arrest the LEADER who started that riot and this is the start of Dorothy’s counterculture career.
So, dying her hair black, gray flannel, and switching to horn-rimmed glasses. Check.
Don’t forget a beret for that Maldaver from Fallout look.
Pretty sure even in Fallout the reference is
A beret for Ché
¡Subcomandante Keener!
Why would the “leader” be at the dorms? It would be more likely that they aren’t a student, or even single person.
A-yep. Too late to leave the building. Gotta go hode with the boys.
Or up in the drop ceiling. She’s done it before!
She wasn’t injured then.
Also, she was Amazi-Girl then.
I wonder if this is AG’s revenge for sticking her with the hangover…
Perhaps it’s time to take Walky up on his invitation to Nintendo
Maybe, but her natural instinct is going to be to turn to Ethan as someone she can depend on in an emergency.
“Ken, there’s not much time to explain. I need you to make it look like you’re fucking me face-down-ass-up, in case the cops check this wing.”
“Sure!”
….
“I mean… why?”
Merry Christmas! Enjoy your jackbooted thugs tearing apart the dorm!
Definitely there for Dorothy and Joyce
I would guess so. I am pretty sure the cops would need a specific search or arrest warrant, and could not simply ransack the entire girls’ dormitory in search of evidence. Therefore, they have to be here for a specific person(s) or room, and as they don’t seem to know who Amazigirl is (and if they did she would be out of the comic regardless) it seems likely that they are not here for Amber.
I mean amazigirl was full on kicking cops on the face, I don’t think the antics in the comic stretch as far as absolving her of assaulting officers.
I need to clarify that I mean this only as “the cops are definitely at least partly here for her”, not at all “amazigirl should suffer for her actions”, also merrry crimmussss
People very likely say Amazi-girl interacting with Joyce and Dorothy, so I’m guessing the cops are going after the identifiable people to try and glean Amazi-girl’s identity(because she’s likely a higher value target, what with the whole “kicking cops in the face” thing).
tbh cops have a lot of leeway to do whatever they want and its only escalating
true dat
did you know civilians lose more property every year to unlawful civil asset forfeiture than to all burglaries combined???
cops can steal your shit without even charging you for a crime, and it makes some police departments very rich
and that’s not even accounting for the ludicrous grants they get for combat training and equipment which belong in fuckin war zones X-X
Yep, they are literally the biggest, most dangerous street gang in the country. We would be better off with no police at all than the police we have.
B-b-b-but, if it weren’t for the police force, who would [checks notes] show up to your house, four hours after you’ve been robbed, and then shoot your dog??? These are the kinds of services our tax dollars need to pay for!
bold of you to assume cops dont just do Whatever The Fuck They Want in america. Dude they kidnap people with masks on in broad daylight, no one will ever hold them accountable. and that’s in REAL LIFE
Are ICE even cops?
This is a case where — at present — being “technically not police” has little to no effect on the real suffering they can and are causing.
Lawyer here. ICE are cops. They have all the same law enforcement powers, privileges, and immunities as other cops. They just have a specific set of federal laws they are focused on enforcing, much like the DEA or Federal Air Marshals.
The reason ICE often roll with local police in tow is because they are FEDERAL law enforcement, and thus have no authority to make arrests for violations of STATE laws. For this reason, they usually bring from city, county, or state cops with them for the purposes of making such arrests. Just gives them a broader set laws to use and abuse as excuses to harass people. If you don’t appear to be doing anything they can spin into a possible federal crime, but they want you gone, they’ll just turn to the locals and ask them to spin it as some state, county, or local violation.
I thought they work for an administrative agency and are therefore, technically, not law enforcement?
They should get real jobs.
I wonder how true that is, since IU has their own “real” campus police and it’s been my experience that uni cops can play funny games with the legalities of dorm searches etc.
(by which I mean, back in my own college days we’d have the occasional uniformed dork show up with a “residence hall/campus security staff don’t need a warrant to wander around university property sniffing for weed, oops I smell smoke that means I can enter as a member of landlord/uni staff in an emergency, oh hey look at the pot whoops I’m now putting on my badge and metaphorical police officer hat.”)
Exactly how specific a search warrant needs to be is ultimately up to the judge signing it (and then the judge at trial and potentially appeals), so long as it specifies a place to be searched (Read Hall girls’ wings), the things to be searched for (Amazi-Girl costume and associated equipment), an alleged crime (assaulting police officers), and the facts that tie those three things together (Identifying Amazi-Girl as the one who assaulted the cops, Amazi-Girl sightings in and around Read Hall in particular making her a likely resident there, etc).
Is that actually legit?
Could a warrant be given to search all homes in a neighborhood, for example? Or all apartments in an a building? Without specifying separate reasons for each?
Indiana Code 35-33-5-2 specifically states “the house or place to be searched”. Note the word “house” rather than “home”. So all the houses in a neighborhood likely wouldn’t fly, but all the apartments in a single building might. I am not a lawyer and I have not studied Indiana caselaw. It’s entirely possible that there is already existing precedent that it either would or wouldn’t. If not, it’s gonna come down to the judge’s discretion.
For what?
…… Felices Fiestas?
More like a giant SIESTA for me LOL XD
oh and a bunch a chinese food
Is the Chinese food simply because you like it, a family tradition, an homage to A Christmas Story (1983), or multiple of the above?
If you’re not celebrating Christmas, Chinese restaurants are traditionally open.
in the united states, is an old Jewish tradition to get Chinese food on Christmas,
around the start of the 1900s, Jewish and Chinese folk were the two largest non-Christian immigrant groups in this country, Chinese restaurants were frequently the only places open on Christmas so that’s were we went to eat! XD
Plus, everything is kosher if you don’t know exactly what it is. Well known Christmas loophole.
I really hope Amber can get out of this situation without having to confront the cops. She should make sure anything Amazi-Girl related is well hidden, and then go somewhere else.
So how are we feeling; do you think she’s going to get caught, or manage to slip away?
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fight.
Hear, hear!
She will definitely get away, the real question is whether Dina hid her AG stuff well enough for hte cops not to find it.
She’s Dina. The stuff is somehow in a bunker hundreds of miles away that Dina somehow appeared in
No, no, that’s only a power she acquires when holding hands with Charlie. She can sneak anywhere, true, but teleportation requires them both.
I feel Charlie would be anti police enough to help Dina with this task
Panel 7 of https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-16/01-not-so-smooth-criminals/paraphernalia/ says Sal hid it.
Right. So we’re back on the Sal arrested train. Shitto daze.
updating my “i will riot if they’re arrested” position: I will riot if Sal gets arrested for having Amazi-Girl’s gear. DYW!
Dina is behind the door. Every door. Like Schrodinger’s cat, she exists in a probabilistic state and the waveform only collapses once you actually move the door and look.
she doesn’t have to leave campus just get out of Read Hall. That’s where the cops are going, any other dorm will work. She really does have to get out of there though since even if the other protesters could escape charges with freedom of speech arguments Amber’s got a little bit of a more difficult time since instead of just protesting she was actively pummeling cops.
I think she probably can get away, but her injuries are gonna make it more difficult than normal.
The police know Blaine’s daughter is Amazi-Girl. There’s nowhere to hide.
Mind you, I expect Raidah and Asma to be picked up if the DHS is there. For WWM.
Walking while Muslim.
as a Asma fan and Raidah defender – if either of them get picked up i’m gonna riot
I really dislike Raidah… but if it’s Raidah vs. the Gestapo, behind her all the way.
Thus far, Mary is the only student I wouldn’t help dodge the cops
I have a pet theory (based only on them sharing a last name) that Mary’s dad is a cop, none other than Lester actually!
That’s…. Interesting.
I didn’t think we knew Lester’s last name unless it was in the Patron only strip that someone referenced.
Yes it was in a Patreon bonus strip, he has the same last name as mary
Didn’t Willis say that Mary’s parents are actually nice and it’s bizarre that Mary turned out the way she did?
So… perhaps Mary’s dad is the mythical Good Cop?
The police don’t know Blaine’s daughter is AmaziGirl. Blaine told Lester that she wasn’t that competent but that they could go ahead and arrest her and find some way to make it stick.
Then Lester killed Blaine after getting his information.
I have additional, less evidence based concern that Sal is somehow implicated as Amazigirl as a black girl with a “history” and who has been vocally fingered by Billie.
“vocally fingered by Billie”? You’re thinking of Ruth.
Yep. Yeah. Okay. That was well earned. Fair enough.
Assigned Cop at Birth
“A-G, you got this?”
nahhh, not feelin’ it
I was looking for some Christmas pun to make about cops but I’m not creative enough for it, sorry Willis.
Police Navidad
Yeah but that’s only funny if you’re bilingual. Which I am but like. I can’t make puns in one language you expect me to make them in two?!
Who decided to put up the Festivus pole-ice?
Is it festivus for arrestin’ us?
Hopefully Amber knows Saturnalia
is for getting outta tha’
Or maybe she’s just waiting for Boxing Day.
Something about the Policeman’s (Blue) Ball? Yeah, still needs a little work.
I’d say this WARRANTS some concern.
Merry Christmas to all you gentiles out there
LOL I’m celebrating with chinese food and a buncha movies :9
I’m with friends on voice call, showed them Of the Devil and watched Jujutsu Kaisen 0, about to knock off for the night but not before I call the lovely femme lesbian I’m courting to wish her merry Christmas.
Lucky!
I got a double date with Keflex, the Notorious T.H.C. and keeping my leg atop 5 pillows
:/
Please accept my best wishes for your continued recovery!
awe thanks 🥺😭🫂
Oh that sucks 😕 best wishes for a very speedy recovery!
Belated chag same’ach to you!
Thanks!
I’m sure they all have their body cams on /s
They got the armored car, that’s how you know they mean business!
I think that might be a swat van.
most of the swat vans I’ve seen are armored, it’s definitely too short to be a prisoner transport van and looks boxy enough to be armored.
When I hear the term “armored car”, I think of the vehicles that transport money and other expensive items.
I don’t doubt swat cabs are armored, but I, personally, don’t associate the term with them, and hadn’t heard of anyone else doing so until today.
So learned something new.
As someone who had a seat van called on them before. Yeah that’s the shape and there’s a sharp shooter in there
…. they’re raiding a bunch of dorm rooms on something other than the first floor. I question how useful that armored vehicle is actually going to be.
Bloomington PD gotta justify their budget somehow!
Look, we didn’t start a pointless war in Iraq, just to test out advanced urban counter-insurgency technologies! We paid for them, we’re going to use them! On our citizens! Which totally, definitely wasn’t always the real plan!
… While I admire and share your cynicism, I question the idea that the Bush administration had the competence to even formulate a real plan, much less effectively execute on one.
May be overly paranoid here but who says it was the Bush Administration’s plan…
Dick Cheney may as well have been president for 3 terms, with his stint at Halliburton in between. Reagan had the same amount of dementia Trump has. Republicans don’t run politicians for president, they run figureheads who are able to connect with voters, despite being political and intellectual lame ducks.
Who wants to bet Meredith is seeing this on the roof and is flipping the fuck out.
Merry Christmas by the way.
Would be absolutely hilarious if this somehow turned out to have nothing to do with the protests and everything to do with weed.
Nah, she’s probably going to be mellow about it.
Merry christmas mfers!
Looks like our favorite strangely athletic neet is in for some more blue faction action!
neet?
In my mind, Amber is spiritually a NEET despite being in college and having extracurricular activities.
This, this exactly.
Happy Holidays to all, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
I’m kinda curious what was originally planned to run today, before The Rewrites™ shifted things around, so I hope that when we get there the alt text will say so.
On the Twelfth day of Christmas,
DamnYouWillis sent to me:
12 Doyce being cute strips
11 Transformers facts
10 Boxes of nuggets
9 lesbians in love
8 gays in the background
7 Bi awakenings
6 DeSantos Fratboys
5 Evil parents
4 trans individuals
3 girls in a triad
2 boyfriends cheated on
And a police raid on Read Hall at noon
(Don’t take this seriously or as thinly veiled commentary for anything I didn’t think about it too deeply)
hahaha good job :)
So Codeine bubbles instead of drunk bubbles?
Depending on her liver, anywhere between none of that to all of that is metabolized into straight morphine
Reminded of when I took a teaspoon of codeine and immediately had to stumble into bed to pass out for several hours, stuff hit me like an absolute monster truck.
Assuming the cops are looking for Amazi-Girl, I wonder where Dina hid her costume, and how difficult it’s gonna be for Amber to avoid getting arrested while still recovering from her injuries. Of course the cops could be there for entirely different reasons I guess.
Even if they’re there for something totally unrelated (doubtful given Amazi-Girl’s appearance at the protest two days ago) finding Amber injured, the pills Dina stole, or her gear if Dina and Sal didn’t have the foresight to stash it away from the dorm would be all but a dead giveaway. She needs to bail.
If they can’t get AG, I’m sure they’ll leave Jorothy and all the nice brown people alone, right? Because cops are so usually willing to leave empty-handed when a perp-search turns up blank, right?
This is the worst Christmas present ever.
(Read: good strip but OH LORD PLEASE NO WATCH OUT AMBER)
Upvote, upvote upvote.
Never mind, my nana got me a Dina plush. I WIN THE HOLIDAYS
Now would be a great time to go play Mario Kart with Walky for no reason in particular
That’s a decent back up plan but I think “don’t be here” is a much better one
Look it’s not ideal, but I’m not sure Amber with codeine bubbles can safely get out of the building without attracting even more attention. It also doesn’t seem like she has time to slip away even if she could make it outside.
You know shit’s bad when an Earnhardt suggests that people would be better off getting behind the wheel of a car!
Panel 4 is really upsetting.
Time to break out the Amazi-Gun and go out in a blaze of glory.
But, seriously, the longer we focus on Amber the more I suspect they’re there for Dorothy and Joyce (or just whoever they can get).
A-G gettin’ out while the gettin’s good!
Wow, the police for Christmas? that feels like an anti-present to me. (I say this in jest, here’s hoping that Amber gets out safe)
All Christmases Are Beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21uWMUXmH0A
A raid on Read hall. A Read raid.
A Reaid?
That do kinda be how holidays are around here
The only Police I want for Christmas is their greatest hits CD
Happy Decemberween everyone!
Merry Cheesemas, everyone!
And a Happy New Years for more Willisdom!
Heater containment thread! If you’re going to post about keeping your dwelling warm, do it here.
I’m a fan of central air, myself. Keeping the entire house about the same temperature is pretty nice, even if someone (not naming names) is constantly adjusting the fucking thermostat.
My brother usedta yell at mom for turning the heat up to 90 cuz she was always cold, and her room was coldest in house.
She denied it.
He came home early 1 day to find the heat being turned up by the cat.
Turns out magic had figured how to keep the warm air blowing up the register he slept on
when I’m not using my crutches for walking atm, im using them to turn my bed into a sorta makeshift tent dwelling where I can watch movies and keep toasty
Wood stove and hot cinnamon rolls.
And a big clingy golden. She says Hi.
The goodest heater.
My lady friend forced me to put on a sweater and socks after I said I was a little chilly :/
We only have our air conditioner warm setting.
imma just say
while sometimes this place can be a bit much
really thankful for the comments section on Christmas
is really easy for me to feel alone on this day
really thankful for each of ya stickin around here rn 🥲
Cheers.🥂
It’s a good place to just say whatever the fuck, most days.
Sending caring! ⚕️❤️🩹🕯
well, we’re really thankful that you’re here every day, so this works out just great! <3
Just found out two days before that my dad took a big fall a — week ago, maybe? There wasn’t a lot of explanation, and today I tried calling and couldn’t get an answer, so yeah, I kind of need a safety valve today too.
🫂
Merry Christmas. Amber!
She can get to the boys dorm though right? Booster and Walky’s room? Too far? I don’t know the logistics here.
Sorry, it’s not right to say the boys dorm with Booster there too, but… whatever the name of that hall is…errm…
Is it Clark? I think it’s Clark.
(All Sarah avatars all the time, Sarah just talkin to herself)
That amount of cars makes me worried that Amazi-girl isn’t the only target…
Four cruisers and one black maria isn’t that much overkill for one person, by some cop standards
The chickenshits need about that many vehicles for a routine traffic stop, in my town. One to come bother you, and three in case you have a minor hiccup, like leaving your new insurance card at home but having an easily verified picture of it on your phone that they can copy the information from through the window, run it through their little nanny state dashboard laptop, and come back to tell you everything checks out and to just remember your physical card, to be safe. It takes eight armed fat guys to do that, we swear.
Assuming they’re here for AG, and given the number of cops she fought single-handedly just a couple of days ago, this might actually be a reasonable rather than excessive amount of force.
…. Something something this comic is so unrealistic? I’m not feeling it, but I think making the complaint is obligatory for some reason.
Unrealistic super-heroine? I can accept that.
they’re going for a superhero who openly defied them and succeeded, no doubt they want to make an example of her. They probably aren’t coming to arrest peacefully either. They had a sniper shoot her, they’re going for police brutality and a show of force for sure
Did she get shot? I thought we didn’t know the source of her injuries.
She wasn’t shot.
Which has some thinking it wasn’t the police that injured her, but that she was attacked by someone else.
“The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of Amazi-Girl has been approved.”
While there’s definitely something to the “make an example” theory, it also just makes sense on a practical level. They’re here to arrest someone who took on their riot teams solo and at least held her own and got away. Is it really disproportionate force?
I mean, yes.
In the context that they were throwing tear gas and riot gear on a bunch of teenagers. She’s not been armed with anything just fists.
Yeah, I’m beginning to think that warning text should have (and maybe did?) go out to a lot more people than AG. Anyone busy being brown, for instance.
Oh that’d be interesting. It wasn’t actually Amber/AG that the text was aimed at, it was just anonymously sent out to the whole hall somehow. If that’s the case, I’d guess whoever did that is the same as whoever leaked Joe’s list (more for conservation of detail than anything).
Merry Christmas!
Now run!!!
*loads up Run Run Rudolph on the hacked muzack*
*cops storm into Read Hall, guns drawn, take up, position around Dorothy and Becky’s room. Cop with battering ram steps up to the door…*
*door down the hall flies open, Meredith leaps out in a cloud of marajuana smoke*
Meredith: YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, COPPERS!! *books it down the hall*
*cops look at each other*
Lieutenant: After her!
Cops: HUP! HUP! HUP HUP HUP *chase her down the hall*
*Joyce’s door cracks open*
Dorothy: What was all that about?
Joyce: Iunno. C’mere!
*Dorothy giggles, door shuts*
As an important heads-up, be on the lookout for my upcoming fanfic, Meredith and Agatha Go to MILF College, releasing January 19 2026.
A fanfic with Agatha in it? That is an important heads-up.
So wait, is MILF College a college for MILFs, or do you go to MILF College to become a MILF?
Is it similar to milf manor?
Metriculators I’d Like to…
Merry Christmas everyone!
Ruh-roh.
In addition to Amber, Sal, Joyce and Dorothy I am also VERY worried about Asma, who is probably still sat on reception?
I wonder what it says about me (a straight cis male, for the record), that my immediate reading of this was “Everything is terrible and also Amber/AG’s meat vehicle got its period, which isn’t going to help anything.”
Then I remembered the whole injuries situation, and I moved on to being struck by how this is a hilarious comeback (hurr hurr hurr) to that time AG woke up covered in Amber’s diddling juices.
(https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/headmate/ That may have been the first time I sent this strip to my DID friend.)
(cis female here) I actually thought the same thing
This would be a good time to see if Dina’s invisibility field can cover Amber.
On the first day of Christmas, dear Willis gave to me,
A reminder that ACAB!
Oh shit, suddenly every school newspaper is running double duty as a wanted poster
I hope others got the warning too. Primarily anyone with photographic evidence of being in the containment after the deadline that was published in some local paper.
When – in DoAtime – did the attack on Amber happen? Was it just last night or two nights ago?
And did I miss the reveal that showed who did it?
Sal passed Joyce and Dorothy as they arrived at the dorm from the protest. Assumption is that she was already contacted by AG for help.
It was right after the protests, so two nights ago.
There’s been no reveal. The most straightforward assumption is that the injuries were from fighting the cops, but some people think she was attacked separately after getting away.
The protest was broken up on Saturday afternoon/evening. Sal found Amber injured in the woods and got her kitchen treatment late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. It’s currently Monday noon.
So Amazi-Girl was injured sometime Saturday evening/night. We didn’t see it happen, but the obvious assumption is that it’s the result of fighting 30–50 feral pigs. I’m not sure even Amber knows exactly how it went down, and Amazi-Girl doesn’t seem to have been awake since then to tell anybody, possibly even Amber.
Merry Kris S to those that celebrate
(Fuckin finally replaced merry krysler in my head, ts is too old. Now its been replaced with horse girl brain rot)
iz cool, you’re still going to hear Merry Krysler from me every year
I swear if it cuts back to Joyce and Dorothy tomorrow I will post a large block of Fudge, except it won’t be Fudge. It will be the queen mother of all dirty words.
If we do see Joyce and Dorothy, their scene will probably have to do with this raid. It might not be the very next strip that immediately makes that clear, that might be more establishing, but I’d be shocked if we cut to something completely unrelated. But I could see something like “we see Joyrothy learn about the raid, they rush over here, and what happens to Amber/Amazi-Girl is an intentional mystery point of tension”, rather than following Amber/AG directly.
It turns out cops are not happy about being kicked around by a masked vigilante.
Good. They deserve to be unhappy.
Some out of the left field question: Who else here find South Park to be incredibly boring? Not even offensive, just very tiresome.
I forget it even exists, honestly.
What little merit it had back in the early 2000s and not is just about gone, serialization was a mistake 😑
Strictly speaking tho, these days, beyond the half watch level, i am barely if at all interested in anything cable or late capitalist media has to offer, honestly
Same. It’s got the occasional funny moment, but it’s mostly just consistently the boring kind of edgy.
at this point it’s just the lazy old stenography machine but with paper cutouts
Honestly I haven’t watched it in over a decade unless there’s a specifically good episode, which are few and far between
South Park, like The Simpsons, is just a zombie show at this point. Not dead, but not NOT dead.
That was quite inmediate!