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Cry for justice

by David M Willis on August 6, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit
└ Tags: amazi-girl, jacob, sarah

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  1. An Average Loser
    An Average Loser
    August 6, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Amazing, isn’t it.

    • GoldStarz
      GoldStarz
      August 6, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      No, it’s /Amazi/-Girl.

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 6, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

        This system uses and (no spaces) for italics. (the slash ends it. If it shows up in this comment, use the other one; I often forget which to use)

        • Rachel Roth
          Rachel Roth
          August 6, 2014 at 1:23 am | #

          Crud, it interpreted it.
          Okay, I’m going to run a quick test to see how this system will interpret things.
          a a b b
          If the second a is normal in the above statement, the correct end slash is /. If not, then you use \.

          IF this shows up right, then the correct combination will be the above, but without underscores or hashtags, both of which I added to avoid doing exactly what my last comment did.

          • Rachel Roth
            Rachel Roth
            August 6, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

            Oh you have got to be kidding me! I screwed up that one so it would show up! Okay, let’s try this: statement

            • Rachel Roth
              Rachel Roth
              August 6, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

              Okay, does ANYONE know how to type literal html on this thing? If so, please help!

              • Null Set
                Null Set
                August 6, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

                <i>Like this maybe?</i>

                • Rachel Roth
                  Rachel Roth
                  August 6, 2014 at 1:41 am | #

                  YES! What’s the secret to making it do that? seriously, it interpreted it with _# in the way!

                • Null Set
                  Null Set
                  August 6, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

                  Replace < with &lt; and > with &gt;

                • Rachel Roth
                  Rachel Roth
                  August 6, 2014 at 1:45 am | #

                  Ah. I forgot about the &ampamp codes.

                • Rachel Roth
                  Rachel Roth
                  August 6, 2014 at 1:46 am | #

                  It’s &amp isn’t it? Not my favorite part of HTML.

                • BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
                  BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
                  August 6, 2014 at 11:25 am | #

                  They’re called entities. They all start with “&” and end with “;” (you forgot the “;”, Rachel). In between is the mnemonic: amp for “ampersand”, lt for “less than”, gt for “greater than”, etc. etc.

                • ░▒▓█│【Walkman】│█▓▒░
                  ░▒▓█│【Walkman】│█▓▒░
                  November 22, 2015 at 11:32 am | #

                  Don’t forget nbsp: non-breakable space:  ,  

  2. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    August 6, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Wait, how did she get in front of them?

    • Carriethedragon
      Carriethedragon
      August 6, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      She’s Amazi-Squirrel, remember?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      August 6, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      The same way cats can get in front of you unexpectedly: she teleported.

    • nothri
      nothri
      August 6, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      There’s more than one!!!!!

      • TheSpectre
        TheSpectre
        August 6, 2014 at 5:42 am | #

        The other is Dorothy in a wig, of course. 🙂

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 6, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      Stunt double.

    • Cheryl
      Cheryl
      August 6, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

      the fucks a sidewalk?

  3. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    August 6, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Nice of the dick bandit to let everyone know.

  4. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    August 6, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    She had the most door DICKOR

    • J-Debs
      J-Debs
      August 6, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

      I get it! I’m not laughing, but I’m proud.

    • OsoPescado
      OsoPescado
      August 6, 2014 at 3:01 am | #

      The Bandit is simply showing off their skills as an interior DICKerator. That amount of detail must have taken a LONG time. The GIRTH of their knowledge must have been a BIG help. They did a good job though. I bet this hallway will be the CLIMAX of their career. They are so humble that they wanted to be anonymous though. Wouldn’t want the fame to go to their HEAD and make them COCKy.

      I’m so sorry.

      • Mass Confusion
        Mass Confusion
        August 6, 2014 at 5:26 am | #

        I just think the bandit is a PRICK

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 6, 2014 at 2:50 pm | #

        The pun police have been notified, expect the ninja’s to appear momentarily.

        • Betty Anne
          Betty Anne
          August 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm | #

          A ninja’s pun will appear momentarily? How will we know? Won’t it also be invisible?

  5. March
    March
    August 6, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    “We both care about this sweet girl, does that work better than threats?” Amazingly, yes.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 6, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      “If not I can combine the two. If you ever wanna see Joyce again…”

      • Usayasha
        Usayasha
        August 6, 2014 at 1:30 am | #

        “Help me find the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit, or I swear to Joyce’s God that that girl will see an actual penis!”

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 6, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

          “Don’t believe me? I’ve got 100s Hardrives just FULL of Man on Man Comic Book art. NO, don’t ask why I have it!!!”

        • Rachel Roth
          Rachel Roth
          August 6, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

          Says the sock on the door. . . which you would think someone would have warned her about by now.

  6. Shadic
    Shadic
    August 6, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Amazi-Squirrel.

    • Shadic
      Shadic
      August 6, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      Annnd somebody made this joke at the exact same time as me. Damnit.

      • Carriethedragon
        Carriethedragon
        August 6, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Uh… great minds think alike…?

      • David
        David
        August 6, 2014 at 10:30 pm | #

        Nuts. Not damnit. Nuts.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 6, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Amazi-Squirrel VS Rocket Raccoon.

      • Tunaro
        Tunaro
        August 6, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        Why has there not been a Squirrel Girl movie yet?

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          August 6, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

          Because she would defeat all the villains ever in twelve minutes, ending the Marvel movie franchise for good?

          • Beachfox
            Beachfox
            August 6, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

            If the inevitable “Thanatos has all the Infinity Gems” movie doesn’t end with Squirrel Girl showing up and punching him out, Marvel just doesn’t -get- it’s fan-base.

            • gwalla
              gwalla
              August 6, 2014 at 1:58 pm | #

              Squirrel Girl will be in Iron Man 4. You heard it here first.

          • Rachel Roth
            Rachel Roth
            August 6, 2014 at 3:57 pm | #

            Multiverse fallback?

  7. jose231ful
    jose231ful
    August 6, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    The detail :3

  8. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 6, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Sarah would have a better chance escaping a cave full of zubats.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 6, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      I wonder if Amber knows Supersonic?

  9. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    August 6, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce knows here wing wangs…I guess that’s a win. Also stop making me remember Cry for Justice.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 6, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      WE CAN BE JUSTICE! (Sorry, couldn’t help it.)

      • MrSirk
        MrSirk
        August 6, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

        “Justice” funny how a lot of people are throwing that word around lately.

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          August 6, 2014 at 7:58 pm | #

          And not very many of them are Bufford T.

  10. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 6, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    AG has learnt all her questioning techniques from watching Nolan’s Batman and Amelia from Slayers, I just know it.

  11. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    August 6, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Well that was way better.

    And god “Cry for Justice” was a really shitty comic >.<

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      August 6, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      At least it wasn’t Identity Crisis?

      • StClair
        StClair
        August 6, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

        Or Flashpoint.
        Or…

        (We’re really scraping the bottom of ‘faint praise’, aren’t we?)

        • Karfsma778
          Karfsma778
          August 6, 2014 at 3:18 am | #

          Not yet.

          At least it wasn’t One More Day, Amazons Attack, Mar-Ville, or Superman at Earth’s End.

          Now we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            August 6, 2014 at 6:21 am | #

            At least it wasn’t anything Linkara’s done a multi-episode review on. There, that should cover just about everything.

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            August 6, 2014 at 1:59 pm | #

            I’d successfully forgotten Marville, you bastard.

  12. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    August 6, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Find the culprit and put them in the hospital.

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 6, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Right next too her dad.

  13. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 6, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Sarah has the Feels for Joyce, well not those Feels, the platonic kind of Feels. Crap none of this makes any sense!

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      August 6, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      How long’s it been in universe time because these characters are showing a lot of personal growth. Or maybe it’s just the sudden penis vandalism that has them maturing?

      • newllend
        newllend
        August 6, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        A Month and 1/2

        • Catullus
          Catullus
          August 6, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

          That seems a bit high, by my count it’s only been a little under a month.

          • Bill
            Bill
            August 6, 2014 at 2:37 am | #

            You’re right, at least according to the Walkypedia.  Go to http://walkypedia.com and scroll down to “Dumbing of Age” — click on timeline.  Basically, each chapter occurs in a single day, and Willis skipped a few days in the second and third weeks.

        • MrSirk
          MrSirk
          August 6, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

          Wow! I think I got whiplash from that info! I’m probably not the first, web comics reside in a weird dimension where a month passes in four years. I remember thinking it was cool I started college around the same time Joyce did.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            August 6, 2014 at 2:53 pm | #

            And your kid will be graduating the same time she does.

  14. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 6, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    If I could jump from tree to tree, I’d never walk anywhere. I mean, except for places that didn’t have trees.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 6, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      Spider-Man hates having to go to the suburbs; there are no buildings to swing from, and not enough trees. Guess the Spider-Mobile doesn’t seem like such a bad idea know, does it?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 6, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        As this video proves 😛

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2rGdRUP6w

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 6, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

        That’s why japanese spiderman has the Spider-Machine.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        August 6, 2014 at 11:30 am | #

        Dunno, I still think it was a bad idea. Jus’ look at the thing.
        http://boards.theforce.net/threads/debos-attic.50008474/page-3

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 6, 2014 at 2:53 pm | #

        I always thought he used clouds.

  15. Nono
    Nono
    August 6, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    It’s the most cunning criminal and least socially aware of all, with a cause to hate Sarah.

    …It’s Char, isn’t it.

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      August 6, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      This is my new favorite theory

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 6, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      Naw, she would’ve just written very politically incorrect things on all the boards.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      August 6, 2014 at 12:48 pm | #

      Who?

      • Amazistool
        Amazistool
        August 6, 2014 at 4:57 pm | #

        All appearances of Char in the comic..

        While her first appearance is a bit short of context, the comics following her second appearance are a bit more explanative.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 6, 2014 at 2:55 pm | #

      I still think Willis is going to pull an Agatha Christie, and it will be someone we haven’t even seen yet.

    • Inlaa
      Inlaa
      August 6, 2014 at 11:21 pm | #

      My bet is on Dina. Dina trying to fit in.

  16. MsSchiff
    MsSchiff
    August 6, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    So no one else thinks it’s a little odd that each wang was drawn differently? Yes, they’re all facing the same way, but each one is different, from what I recall. Your ‘average’ vandal might have just drawn the same dong on each door, especially if they were pressed for time and worried they might get caught.

    Am I overthinking this? Do I need to cut down on the caffeine?

    • Carriethedragon
      Carriethedragon
      August 6, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      No, I totally thought about that too. Maybe they wanted it to look like it was more than one person? But it doesn’t seem to have accomplished that at all. Maybe it WAS more than one person. But that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me either. What the heck kind of group of people would bother to do that all in the same night?

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 6, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      Like four use already called that out.

      • newllend
        newllend
        August 6, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        Us

    • khambatta
      khambatta
      August 6, 2014 at 1:54 am | #

      Nah; it was Sarah. She drew the one on her own door the best because it’s her own door. And to wind-up/provide-shock-therapy-for Joyce. The variety is just an outlet for her suppressed artistic side.

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      August 6, 2014 at 7:06 pm | #

      It’s how I would have done it.
      If you’re not doing it to troll or insult, but just to be mischievous, you tend to have a bit of fun with it.

      I’m surprised none of them were overly exaggerated in any way.

      Like, ‘here’s a big, strangely curvy one’ and ‘here’s an itty bitty one’.

      I, er.
      I’m not saying I’m the whiteboard dingdong bandit or anything, though.

  17. Nagash1959
    Nagash1959
    August 6, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    I’ll admit I haven’t read the comments sections for this entire storyline, but has anyone actually told Willis that permanent marker on a dry/wet erase board is EASY AS HELL to remove?

    All you do is get the correct dry/wet erase marker, scribble heavily over the permanent marker and then remove it as normal for the correct kind of marker.

    I’d imagine SOMEONE in the DoA universe would have the sense to google that on their phone.

    • Carriethedragon
      Carriethedragon
      August 6, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Yeah, I’m pretty sure he’s been told that many, many times. But he didn’t see fit to give that knowledge to any of the girls. Either that, or they just find it more important to stop whoever did it than to just erase the dicks and go about life as usual

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        August 6, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

        It seems like everyone’s trying to go on with life, while Amazi-Girl is missing class (and raids) to solve this case.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        August 6, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

        They could be erasing them as we speak, the act of vandalism still happened and still needs to be punished.

    • Dreizehn
      Dreizehn
      August 6, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      Or lightly scrub it with a piece of cotton moistened with rubbing alcohol…or any alcohol.

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 6, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

        Like drinking alcohol?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 6, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

      ONLY 1,000 PEOPLE.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 6, 2014 at 1:03 am | #

      Nagash1959, clearly you never read the comments of past comics, for example: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/permanent/

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      August 6, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

      You say “it’s super easy to google how to do it,” I say “it’s super easy to find out it’s been commented on every thirty seconds for the past month or so.” And yet!

      • BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
        BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
        August 6, 2014 at 12:22 pm | #

        Law of Unintended Consequences, DW. You created “The Whiteboard Ding-dong Bandit” meme. Along with that meme comes this one, like a remora clinging to your Frankenstein shark.

        Have a nice day. 🙂

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      August 6, 2014 at 2:51 am | #

      The comic is called Dumbing of Age, so it’s appropriate IMO that none of it’s characters know such a simple fact or have trouble using Google.

      • DSL
        DSL
        August 6, 2014 at 12:21 pm | #

        You’d be surprised at the number of people inclined to draw dicks who have no idea how to draw dicks. Actually had a co-worker ask me to draw what he called “cock-an-balls” on a card for someone he didn’t like. Married father of two in his late thirties and the card was for a departing lady co-worker in her twenties. Some people never grow up. I told him to draw his own damn cock-an-balls and have the guts to sign it. You would be correct in assuming he did not follow through.
        Visits to a urologist have recently became part of my life. The medical illustrations on the wall of his exam room are … amazing in the level of detail and disturbing, because viewing (and producing, I imagine) them require you to imagine a penis wedge-sliced like they used to do the buns at Subway.
        On a non-dick note, I wonder if Amazi-Girl overheard Sarah talking to Jacob about being fair to Joyce, resulting the kinder, gentler, interrogation 2.0 with added plea to empathy. Only Willis knows for sure, I guess.

        • DSL
          DSL
          August 6, 2014 at 12:21 pm | #

          My comment seems doubly strange with a Joyce avatar.

          • Ivan
            Ivan
            August 6, 2014 at 12:25 pm | #

            Seems even stranger that you speak of these peenee drawings cut along a saggital plane like a “Sandwich Artist” did it – without cringing!!

            ADMIT YOUR TRUE IDENTITY, LORENA BOBBIT!!!!

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      August 6, 2014 at 12:23 pm | #

      I made it easier than your method in a post 2 weeks ago — Mr. Clean White Sponges – good for walls, white boards, white polycarbonate plastic (like MacBooks) and any color countertop to remove marker in a few seconds without scratches.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 6, 2014 at 2:57 pm | #

      I suspect you just earned yourself a hit contract from Sir Willis, enjoy what time you have left.

  18. newllend
    newllend
    August 6, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    It would do Joyce some good if she learned to overcome her little fear of anything sexually related, its not like someone left a goat corps slathered with blood at her door.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 6, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Wait… you know the location of the G.O.A.T. C.O.R.P.S.? They’ve been missing in action for 2 million stellar cycles!

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      August 6, 2014 at 11:42 am | #

      Yes, Joyce should learn to face her fears, but it’s no one’s place to force help onto her. It’s something she needs to do on her own, at her own pace.

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        August 6, 2014 at 12:27 pm | #

        Well, her fear of tasting one has to be greater than touching one… so let’s go with THAT particular arc – just for laughs!

  19. CartoonChick
    CartoonChick
    August 6, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

    Found the Whiteboard DingDong Bandit. She’s moved on to something bigger! http://jezebel.com/female-runner-who-uses-nike-to-draw-dicks-is-an-americ-1616462580

  20. Frostwood
    Frostwood
    August 6, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

    I got a bad feeling that it might be the rapist-dude…. As this seems targeted against Joyce…. or Faz.

    • JacHunter
      JacHunter
      August 6, 2014 at 4:22 am | #

      Somehow, this doesn’t seem like something that guy would have done. It’s good to see you considering all the options, though.

    • Bill
      Bill
      August 6, 2014 at 5:00 pm | #

      I don’t think so either.  I believe he was a one-off, like one of the soldiers who passed through the ER/Post-Op ward in M*A*S*H.  They were necessary to that particular story line and never resurfaced again.

      Besides, how would he know where to find Joyce?  They didn’t converse all that much, and other than her name I don’t recall Joyce giving him any really pertinent information.

  21. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 6, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

    I mean, to be honest,since we’re cartoons, a childish doodle of a dick is PRETTY damn realistic in the first place.

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 6, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

      There should be an extra panel that cuts away to Joyce getting back to her room and See’s the door again and whimpers as she looks at a picture of a real life existing penis on her white borde ( censored in blurted out form of course)

      • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        August 6, 2014 at 11:06 pm | #

        YES

  22. Darwin
    Darwin
    August 6, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    Amazi-Girl needs no sidewalks! Amazi-Girl has trees! I’m just curious if the DoA Amazi-Girl is immune to criticism.

  23. Leorale
    Leorale
    August 6, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    Those bravery points sure come in handy.

  24. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    August 6, 2014 at 1:43 am | #

    Amazi-girl IS immune to criticism. She can use trees, windows, telephone wires, and speeding truck tops when ever she choses.
    Sidewalks are only to talk on, as everyone knows.

  25. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    August 6, 2014 at 1:53 am | #

    Your mom cried for justice…

    …when I fucked her.

    • Ben
      Ben
      August 6, 2014 at 5:18 am | #

      For a Nickle?

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        August 6, 2014 at 12:44 pm | #

        for a nickel.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 6, 2014 at 3:02 pm | #

      You were that bad huh?

      • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        August 6, 2014 at 11:06 pm | #

        Your gravatar just makes this comment so much better.

  26. Ben
    Ben
    August 6, 2014 at 5:19 am | #

    That… was about the most tactful thing I think I’ve ever seen from Amazi-girl…

  27. Walking Profanity
    Walking Profanity
    August 6, 2014 at 6:14 am | #

    Acetone will take the dongs off of the whiteboards very quickly. One of those girls should have fingernail polish remover. Problem solved.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      August 6, 2014 at 11:44 am | #

      Except the same person could just do it again and again. The problem’s not solved until the one who did it is caught.

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        August 6, 2014 at 12:47 pm | #

        The problem is NOT solved until someone looses an eye! Until then, it’s just fun and games!

        • Ivan
          Ivan
          August 6, 2014 at 12:50 pm | #

          LOSES! (or finds)

  28. Animal
    Animal
    August 6, 2014 at 7:36 am | #

    So, Joyce is one step closer to “flipping” and becoming an insatiable hose-beast.

  29. Charlie
    Charlie
    August 6, 2014 at 8:13 am | #

    I’m in love with AmaziGirls face in the third panel.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      August 6, 2014 at 12:51 pm | #

      a lost waif hoping someone makes them their sex slave?

  30. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    August 6, 2014 at 8:26 am | #

    To get rid of permanent marker on a white board is scribble all over it with a dry – erase marker, then use a normal white board eraser or damp paper towel to erase it.

    • gwalla
      gwalla
      August 6, 2014 at 2:07 pm | #

      You’re trying to give him a nervous breakdown, aren’t you?

      • Tenn
        Tenn
        August 6, 2014 at 5:37 pm | #

        My headcanon is that by now, at least half of them are either trolling or being not-obviously-enough sarcastic. It lets me keep some faith in humanity.

        I wanted to do it sarcastically for this strip, but I don’t feel like it any more.

        • Betty Anne
          Betty Anne
          August 6, 2014 at 7:33 pm | #

          Oh, you guys know six months from now someone will leave a message on a white board in the strip and there’ll be a comment that says, “Was that in permanent marker? If so, just scribble over it with a dry erase marker and erase it like normal.”

  31. Adork
    Adork
    August 6, 2014 at 9:13 am | #

    I don’t know if anyone has already said it but I’m putting my money on Joyce is the bandit. Like she’s doing it in her sleep or something.

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      August 6, 2014 at 5:44 pm | #

      I think some people said it on the very first page of the chapter, and it’s been my #1 theory ever since. I wish I had thought of it myself.

  32. FuryOfFirestorm
    FuryOfFirestorm
    August 6, 2014 at 9:49 am | #

    Next week: Amazi-Girl loses an arm, gets addicted to heroin, and uses a dead cat as a weapon.

    Also, she teams up with a talking gold gorilla and a gay blue alien.

  33. Rikonius
    Rikonius
    August 6, 2014 at 10:35 am | #

    I guess AmaziGirl won’t leaf Sarah alone about this?

  34. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    August 6, 2014 at 12:06 pm | #

    More evidence pointing towards Anti-Joyce as the WDDB. The most detailed penis was on her door? Joyce had the strongest reaction to it, demanding justice? Repression leads to compartmentalization, which can lead to fragmentation.

    • BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
      BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
      August 6, 2014 at 12:30 pm | #

      …which leads to the Dark Side.

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        August 6, 2014 at 12:53 pm | #

        You mean she will be wanting exclusively dark meat?

        I guess those eye glasses worked on more than Ethan and Sarah!

        • Ivan
          Ivan
          August 6, 2014 at 12:55 pm | #

          or… she man-rapes Walky “in next’s week’s hilarious episode of “The Dark Side of the DingDong Bandit! Only on DoA-TV!”

  35. Ivan
    Ivan
    August 6, 2014 at 12:56 pm | #

    Joyce: I’m the rapist here! Tell me where it goes, Walky, or I’ll cut you!”

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 6, 2014 at 3:03 pm | #

      Nah, she would just rub it on her tummy.

  36. Lord Geovanni
    Lord Geovanni
    August 6, 2014 at 3:03 pm | #

    Sarah and Joyce’s door must have had the most wood

  37. syd
    syd
    August 6, 2014 at 4:53 pm | #

    Amazi-Girl uses APPEAL TO DECENCY!

    It’s… surprisingly effective?

    • BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
      BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
      August 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm | #

      After Amazi-Girl’s use of THREAT was effectively countered by Sarah’s SHIELD OF DISDAIN, using AG’s ATD was a pretty brilliant judo reversal move given the GUILT backlash that can accompany SOD (and clearly did in this case).

      Sure it could have backfired if Sarah had countered with CLOAK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS instead of SOD, but Sarah’s COR is nearly useless these days, especially after she started rooming with Joyce.

  38. Los
    Los
    August 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm | #

    For some reason I think it’d be endlessly cool (and entertaining) to know someone who would stick to that hero bit so hard they could seriously, without a single hint of irony, say the phrase “cry out for justice”. Just use it in a sentence as if they asked you to pass them a napkin. That’s really something.

  39. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    August 6, 2014 at 6:46 pm | #

    So Amber ran ahead, climbed a tree and waited for them before they even noticed? The girl does do her cardio

  40. HeySo
    HeySo
    August 6, 2014 at 6:59 pm | #

    Has anyone considered that it might be one of the school’s biology teachers, trying to make sure the student populace is well-educated in anatomy?

    They would have tagged the male section as well, but lack of whiteboards and all.

  41. Bill
    Bill
    August 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm | #

    “There are unremovable penises drawn on all the whiteboards.”

    If a penis was removable, would you call it a Snap-on Tool?

    • gwalla
      gwalla
      August 6, 2014 at 9:22 pm | #

      I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
      And my penis was missing again
      This happens all the time
      It’s detachable
      This comes in handy a lot of the time
      I can leave it home when it think it’s gonna get me in trouble
      Or, I can rent it out when I don’t need it
      But now and then I go to a party
      Get drunk
      And the next morning, I can’t, for the life of me
      Remember what I did with it

  42. M-M
    M-M
    August 6, 2014 at 10:41 pm | #

    Walked into a classroom today for orientation and there was a whiteboard dingdong present. Twas erasable, thus, no pic.

  43. rayrayravona
    rayrayravona
    August 6, 2014 at 11:18 pm | #

    Typo? “Your door’s was?”

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 7, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      “Your door’s [dick] was…”

      • rayrayravona
        rayrayravona
        August 8, 2014 at 2:05 am | #

        Ooooohhhh thank you

  44. Aisling
    Aisling
    June 9, 2015 at 6:40 pm | #

    I think Jocye is sleep-drawing, shes SO repressed after all.

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