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by David M Willis on April 15, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Guess Who's Coming to Galasso's
└ Tags: amazi-girl, danny

Discussion (121) ¬

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  1. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 15, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    “…and some goo gone?”

    Please explain!

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      April 15, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

      Product used for removing adhesive residues and paint

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 15, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        So, it’s a brandname product… that makes much more sense.

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          April 15, 2013 at 1:28 am | #

          Who’s the ava this time, Plasma?

          • Hawkwing
            Hawkwing
            April 15, 2013 at 1:58 am | #

            I *believe* its Agent Xero from “The Modifyers” wiki page

            • BayoWolf
              BayoWolf
              April 15, 2013 at 2:02 am | #

              …Why is there an entire wiki for that?

              • Hawkwing
                Hawkwing
                April 15, 2013 at 2:19 am | #

                Because of Zone, Bayo. Because Zone doesn’t just ruin your childhood, Zone ruin childhoods you’ll never even get to have. Because where Zone walks, there follows a very considerable portion of the internet.

                • taekwondogirl
                  taekwondogirl
                  April 15, 2013 at 9:45 am | #

                  I wish I didn’t know what the hell you were talking about.

                • Arkadi
                  Arkadi
                  April 15, 2013 at 6:16 pm | #

                  What are y’all guys looking at? *Looks to the left* What’s there?

                • Cooledd
                  Cooledd
                  April 15, 2013 at 10:44 pm | #

                  Rule 34

              • Alex
                Alex
                April 15, 2013 at 2:26 pm | #

                With that avatar I don’t think you need to ask.

    • ZuiyoMaru
      ZuiyoMaru
      April 15, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      It’s a paint/glue remover! So she’ll clean the sign and return it, presumably.

      • Plaid Wolf
        Plaid Wolf
        April 15, 2013 at 7:53 am | #

        She better be careful….depending upon the face of that sign, she may wipe off more then the graffiti…if the sign was silk-screened, she may take off the sign’s message as well…..and if the message was ‘stickied on’, that might come off as well…

        • Azumango
          Azumango
          April 15, 2013 at 12:55 pm | #

          Nah dude, they tagged the back side of the sign.

  2. thecanvashat
    thecanvashat
    April 15, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Another day in the life of AMAZIGIRL!!!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 15, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      Being a hero is so glamorous sometimes.

      • thecanvashat
        thecanvashat
        April 15, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

        I can hear the theme music playing already.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          April 15, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

          Must not sing Batman theme…….

          • G.G.
            G.G.
            April 15, 2013 at 12:28 pm | #

            I thought the same thing

          • Felix Kütt
            Felix Kütt
            April 15, 2013 at 2:46 pm | #

            spider-pig, spider-pig, does what-ever-spider-pig-does..~

            • xKiv
              xKiv
              April 15, 2013 at 4:14 pm | #

              Can it swing from a web?
              No it can’t, it is pigged-out fat!

  3. ASmellyOgre
    ASmellyOgre
    April 15, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    I have to wonder if she just carries goo-gone with that wrench or if Amazi-Girl made a trip to Wal-Mart on the way over to Danny.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 15, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      Wouldn’t be the worst-dressed person at Wal-Mart late at night.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 15, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        Perhaps the best.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          April 15, 2013 at 2:45 am | #

          Well, better than that one guy who made a meth lab in Wall-Mart.

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            April 15, 2013 at 11:26 am | #

            Okay, I just have two questions about that story.
            1) Was it a customer or an employee?
            2) How big was the Walmart in question? Was it a regular Walmart, or one of those super-Walmarts that are bigger than some counties?

    • drs
      drs
      April 15, 2013 at 8:24 am | #

      That would be a long trip, at least a couple miles to the edge of town. Supermarket would be closer if they carry it, though still close to a mile each way.

      • ASmellyOgre
        ASmellyOgre
        April 15, 2013 at 10:57 am | #

        Well, that would explain why she’s so tired!

    • Whittier
      Whittier
      April 15, 2013 at 8:36 pm | #

      I can attest the Walmart is nowhere near campus.

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    April 15, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Danny, splayin’ out the goods in the first panel to attract a mate.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 15, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      Ladiiiiiiieeeeees….

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        April 15, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        Superhero lllllllllllllllllllllaadies.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          April 15, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

          Ehem…..Gentlemen.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            April 15, 2013 at 12:46 am | #

            Darn it, I changed my gravatar to the BLU Spy but nothing happened.

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              April 15, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

              Nevermind.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              April 15, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

              Yes it did. Patience is a virtue.

              • Wonder Wig
                Wonder Wig
                April 15, 2013 at 2:13 am | #

                Spies are all about virtues.

  5. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 15, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    I’m helpinnnng…

    • JustcallmeSoul
      JustcallmeSoul
      April 15, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

      Fancy seeing you here Jarvan

  6. John
    John
    April 15, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Oh, so that’s what Danny is good for!

    • John
      John
      April 15, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      (Scrubbing street signs, I mean.)

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        April 15, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

        Oh, I thought it was for comfort.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 15, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      Danyy. HAH. Huh!
      What is he good for?
      Absolutely nothin’!
      SAY IT AGAIN uhu!

      • Impy
        Impy
        April 15, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

        Danny, he ain’t nothing
        But a heartbreaker
        Danny, friend only to the undertaker
        Ooooh, Danny

      • Thor
        Thor
        April 15, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

        Good Cheese, y’all.

  7. Cliff
    Cliff
    April 15, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Cue car wreck due to missing sign, Amazi-girl scandal ensues…

  8. The Sound Defense
    The Sound Defense
    April 15, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Removing paint on demand is Danny’s second best feature.

    • Thor
      Thor
      April 15, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

      I’m guessing that his first best feature is that he doesn’t hold much of a grudge when you get done scraping him off of you like a barnacle.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        April 15, 2013 at 12:54 am | #

        Also, availability.

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          April 15, 2013 at 4:13 pm | #

          Danny’s two second best features are …
          … no, wait, I will come back.

    • Lukkai
      Lukkai
      April 15, 2013 at 6:48 pm | #

      Somehow I linked this statement to Distracterella (and her costume) from LoSRH.

  9. Grimlockimus
    Grimlockimus
    April 15, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    Danny has reached that sacred level in a relationship when a woman asks you to Goo Gone all over her broken vandalized sign.
    ..
    YAY KISSES

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 15, 2013 at 12:53 am | #

      You can’t make that line any dirtier, can you?

  10. Scott
    Scott
    April 15, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    awwww Danny, how nice

  11. Kelly
    Kelly
    April 15, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    Cute!

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 15, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    Official first kiss. Danny is officially Amazi-girl’s damsel.

  13. Jon P
    Jon P
    April 15, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

    Oh man, that title text. I was like “Wait, that sounds familiar… it’s from something, what song is it from? How does it go… ‘the light where you–‘ DAMN YOU WILLIS!”

    Now I have Ace of Base in my head.

    • David
      David M Willis
      April 15, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

      mwahahaha

      • Warpshade
        Warpshade
        April 15, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

        And now I am reminded that you added title text to this and Shortpacked! and that I’ve missed MONTHS of it…

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          April 15, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

          I don’t think it’s possible to have missed MONTHS of it. maybe MONTH of it.

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        April 15, 2013 at 5:13 am | #

        You’re a cold blooded monster.

        But at least it wasn’t “All That She Wants”.

        • DrunkenGator
          DrunkenGator
          April 15, 2013 at 10:07 am | #

          I’d say don’ t tempt fate, but Willis probably already had it planned somewhere down the line…

      • John
        John
        April 15, 2013 at 3:14 pm | #

        I have defeated your evil scheme through my amazing power of not knowing that song!

        • Lukkai
          Lukkai
          April 15, 2013 at 6:47 pm | #

          No reason to change that, is there?

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      April 15, 2013 at 1:10 am | #

      Thank goodness!

    • tyren22
      tyren22
      April 15, 2013 at 6:24 am | #

      That was my exact thought process, except with a bit at the end where I was amazed I actually got that reference.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      April 15, 2013 at 4:00 pm | #

      When I first read the hover-text, I misread it, and thought we had a rick-roll coming.

  14. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    April 15, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

    Wait a second…….haircut?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 15, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

      What haircut?

    • David
      David M Willis
      April 15, 2013 at 12:59 am | #

      what

    • John
      John
      April 15, 2013 at 1:18 am | #

      If you mean Amazi-Girl, nah, she’s just (not) combing it differently to protect her secret identity.

      • Kafloobop
        Kafloobop
        April 15, 2013 at 11:22 am | #

        Oh ok that makes sense.

  15. Aizat
    Aizat
    April 15, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

    Lucky guy.

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      April 15, 2013 at 3:13 pm | #

      What are you? President of his fan club?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        April 15, 2013 at 7:36 pm | #

        No, that would be your mother.

  16. Uncle Rylon
    Uncle Rylon
    April 15, 2013 at 12:45 am | #

    Walked right into that one, didn’t you Danny? Man if this keeps up, I might actually like Dumbverse Danny as much as I like Teri Hatcher’s Lois Lane from Lois and Clark.

    That is my favorite live-action superhero tv show. Smallville had it’s moments, but it was never as much fun. And man, don’t get me started on CBS’s Flash.

    • mrelegos
      mrelegos
      April 15, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

      Man, I loved CBS’s Flash. Of course, I’m happy any time we get an adaptation of a DC character besides Batman and Superman…

      • Uncle Rylon
        Uncle Rylon
        April 15, 2013 at 1:23 am | #

        I have the CBS Flash on DVD. I really liked it at the time. And, though I don’t think it’s aged very well, I still liked it. Like Lois and Clark, it acknowledged that he had powers 24/7 and that he used his speed to great effect.

        It’s pretty funny though that Barry Allen was depicted as a nerd and derided for being a “police scientist” on the network that, 20 years later, would have 20 million CIS shows.

        • Andiemus
          Andiemus
          April 15, 2013 at 2:40 am | #

          No love for Lou Ferrigno as the hulk?

          • Uncle Rylon
            Uncle Rylon
            April 15, 2013 at 3:14 am | #

            Lou Ferrigno was good. So was Bill Bixby. It’s not their fault that the writing was awful and Banner was forced to wander the world interacting with boring people who I never cared about.

            The best thing about The Incredible Hulk live action TV show was that it ended and Kenneth Johnson was then free to make is magnum opus: Short Circuit 2.

            Too bad he followed it up with Steel.

            • Li
              Li
              April 15, 2013 at 11:50 am | #

              See, I feel the opposite re: the Hulk. I haven’t seen enough of it to judge the writing quality, but what you describe as a typical plot is more interesting to me than most Hulk things.

              The whole reason why I liked him in The Avengers (besides Whedon and Mark Ruffalo) is that we had scenes about BRUCE BANNER, and he was making an effort to better the world as himself (and, post-movie, also as the Hulk). I couldn’t really get behind the whiny guy hunkered down in a soda factory obsessively trying to cure himself, or the tact taken by most cartoons and comics where it’s Hulk, Hulk, all the time, punching down walls and beating up bad guys. In “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes”, I was just depressed by the fact that the Hulk obviously just hangs around the manor full-time and no one even knows Bruce is in there. (And yeah, that’s what Bruce promised him, but it didn’t make it suck any less.)

              To be honest, I also prefer Hulk only marginally intelligent, written like a big mostly nonverbal animal, because I think that’s a more effective contrast between Hulk and Banner; without that, the Hulk is just the Thing with a slight split personality.

              But I’m well-aware that what I prefer here is portrayed rarely, and is certainly not in line with the original creation.

              • Uncle Rylon
                Uncle Rylon
                April 15, 2013 at 12:55 pm | #

                The live action TV show certainly had it’s moments. The pilot is, I think really good. If you haven’t seen that, you may want to. Also the TV movie, Trial of the Incredible Hulk is cool. It’s got Daredevil in it. Come to think of it, Return of the Incredible Hulk has Thor in it. You might want to check them out.

                I agree with you that giving Banner a reason to be there and making him part of the team was a good idea. And like you, it’s one of the reasons I think Hulk worked as well has he did.

                Some of my own vitriol towards the show may be because when I was little it marketed toward me as a kids show. It’s not a kids show. Not because it’s bad or has a lot of stuff that’s inappropriate, but because it’s boring and the Hulk is rarely in it.

                • Uncle Rylon
                  Uncle Rylon
                  April 15, 2013 at 12:56 pm | #

                  Damn. Gotta check those tags.

                • Li
                  Li
                  April 15, 2013 at 4:40 pm | #

                  But IT HAD SUPERHEROES IN IT, what do you mean little boys weren’t the right demographic?!

                  But no seriously, I’ll have to check the whole thing out.

              • Andiemus
                Andiemus
                April 15, 2013 at 3:11 pm | #

                It is important that one cares about the other people though. If the others are just boring little fishes that don’t have any traits beyond “I’m a civilian in distress, help me hero!” Then it no longer matters because there’s no investment.

  17. Rachel
    Rachel
    April 15, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

    Hooray, a MONDAY kiss!!

  18. Brady Kj
    Brady Kj
    April 15, 2013 at 12:56 am | #

    Is it me, or is the engineering vandal a young Ninja Rick?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 15, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

      You saw that guy, right? No way he’s Ninja Rick.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        April 15, 2013 at 2:41 am | #

        Ah, but he’s still an apprentice right now. They make mistakes, like using Sexy no Jutsu. :p

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          April 15, 2013 at 2:55 am | #

          Well, at least he’s not wearing his ninja gear in public unlike a certain anime.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 15, 2013 at 12:58 am | #

      But that would mean… GASP! HE’S STILL IN THE STRIP! HE KNOWS THE IDENTITY OF AMAZI-GIRL’S BOYFRIEND!

      • CRtwenty
        CRtwenty
        April 15, 2013 at 3:31 am | #

        And he also knows he’ll do menial tasks in exchange for kisses!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 15, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

      Young Ninja Rick’s name was Genin Rick.

  19. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    April 15, 2013 at 12:56 am | #

    That is one amazi-kiss.

  20. james
    james
    April 15, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

    the edited out fifth panel

    Danny:…….kinky

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 15, 2013 at 2:50 am | #

      What, running a cattle herd through the Vatican?

  21. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    April 15, 2013 at 1:53 am | #

    Best way to help ever!!

    • james
      james
      April 15, 2013 at 9:10 pm | #

      with his penis

  22. Ancestral Hamster
    Ancestral Hamster
    April 15, 2013 at 2:39 am | #

    Hey, is the Buffer Watch so when someone claims Willis “totally got this idea from the discussion section”, the rest of us can point to the Buffer as proof the comic in question already existed for at least a month before the comment was even made?

    • Aizat
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      April 15, 2013 at 2:47 am | #

      I think so….or Willis is from the future.

    • John
      John
      April 15, 2013 at 1:24 pm | #

      It appeared shortly after a comment thread in Friday’s strip where someone suggested that Willis was getting ideas from the commentary, and I pointed out that he had a huge buffer already prepared, but underestimated how huge by a couple of weeks.

      That’s probably totally unrelated, though. I think he actually did it just to make every other webcomic artist except Howard Tayler feel like a lazy slacker.

  23. Jellor
    Jellor
    April 15, 2013 at 3:21 am | #

    Love the little spark detail in the first panel, and the fact that she’s glumly dragging the street sign along in the first place…

  24. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    April 15, 2013 at 3:28 am | #

    Amazi-Girl seems a bit dishevelled today. (Before I found out Goo Gone was a brand-named product, I thought she was just slurring incomprehensibly. “I’ve got a street sign and some Goo Gone g’tchoo gthluuuu. [hits ground]”) I wonder when she sleeps. (‘Course, that’s the Batman question as well — successful Bruce Wayne in the day, vengeful Batman at night, insomniac all-day ’round.)

    The buffer watch is beginning to worry me. It feels like the start of something. When Willis had his comics planned out and drawn a year in advance, he began to grow restless. Transformers provided a welcome diversion, but their idle company was not enough. He needed the job that had sustained him for years. He began offering to make strips for other comics — ‘ghost-cartooning’, as it were. His pace was mighty, and he filled out strip after strip, prepared week after week of story, of gags, of interaction…soon, he was scripting and drawing every comic in existence. It was still not enough. One night, weary from his frantic workload, he cut his hand while sharpening a pencil. Blood mixed with ink. Something terrible happened that night.

    From then on, there was no David Willis. There was no one to cast blame on and damn. There was only The Cheese.

    (Still found time to go to Botcon, though.)

    (Also, the heck, are there sparks coming from where Amazi-Girl is dragging the site along the ground?)

    • Notebooked
      Notebooked
      April 15, 2013 at 3:29 am | #

      Dragging the sign along the ground, I mean. Her effect on the site is probably infinitesmal.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 15, 2013 at 12:17 pm | #

      Applause.

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        April 15, 2013 at 5:38 pm | #

        Aw, thanks. Usually I only get a singular plau.

  25. averystrangeplace
    averystrangeplace
    April 15, 2013 at 8:11 am | #

    Ah yes, Danny’s in that coveted “Your Tongue Is The Most Important Part Of You” stage of the relationship.

  26. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    April 15, 2013 at 8:37 am | #

    Help your local super-heroines, everyone! 😀

  27. berober
    berober
    April 15, 2013 at 9:49 am | #

    Willis why is your answer to everything “now kiss”!!

  28. Boegiboe
    Boegiboe
    April 15, 2013 at 10:18 am | #

    I love the sparks in the first panel.

  29. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    April 15, 2013 at 10:31 am | #

    gotta admit……………didnt see that one coming 🙂

  30. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    April 15, 2013 at 1:35 pm | #

    David, is your deviantArt a well-kept secret? After comics like this and last week’s Dorothy strip (puns!) I see a lot of people acting disappointed that your comics are PG, when as far as I can tell you’re one of the most prolific pin-up artists in webcomics outside of the Slipshine label. And one of the few pin-up artists that seem genuinely sex-positive.

    • David
      David M Willis
      April 15, 2013 at 1:57 pm | #

      it’s… it’s linked at the top of every page.

      • Shariku Onikage
        Shariku Onikage
        April 15, 2013 at 7:13 pm | #

        …where no one will ever find it… just as planned.

      • bunivasal
        bunivasal
        April 17, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

        I know! That’s why it’s so confusing.

  31. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    April 15, 2013 at 3:31 pm | #

    Ah the spouse of a superhero.
    It always starts out like this…

    …Then comes the running and the screaming.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      April 15, 2013 at 3:56 pm | #

      And don’t ever, ever break up, or you might end up getting a shark thrown at you.

      • Lukkai
        Lukkai
        April 16, 2013 at 7:12 pm | #

        Which by the way is probably the coolest form of revenge I’ve ever seen.

        Except for the shark of course.

        From his point of view: Not cool.

        (But I can’t help it: I like that movie!)

  32. StClair
    StClair
    April 15, 2013 at 8:55 pm | #

    They tried doing this scene with Amazi-Girl hanging upside down, but she kept falling and/or getting dizzy from the headrush.

  33. John
    John
    April 15, 2013 at 10:05 pm | #

    Hmm. Just occurred to me: Danny is halfway to figuring out who Amazi-Girl is now.

    And I guess it’d be nitpicking to wonder how the vandals got paint across the center of the back of the sign, where the post was until Amazi-Girl unbolted it…

  34. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    April 16, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    Woohoo! You go amb…er, amazi-girl

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