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Seriously, though, I wonder exactly how Amber wants to spin this? I can’t picture that many nerdy interests leave you slapped around. She may just be reaching by this point…
She could have “fallen down the stairs” and leave it at that. Pretty sure her whole floor heard about the incident with Blaine, and most girls in college learn pretty quickly from fliers around campus that abused women end up back in abusive relationships, whether they go back to their abuser or not.
With any luck, though Carla will know not to ask questions Amber doesn’t feel ready to talk about yet, but will still get her patched up. She can even offer to say she tripped on the fountain or fell off a stair railing or something. (Believe me, these things happen on a college campus more often than a person would think; we had a kid who was a regular on a dorm roof, and another who more than once climbed in/out of his fourth-floor window rather than using the door.)
GOD Amber, try not being such a KLUTZ. What are you gonna do if you’re on the roof of a car someday, and the car’s tires are blown out and it’s skidding towards a speeding semi? Huh?
Carla: Uh huh, yeah, typical nerd pursuits that leave you with unfocused eyes and a blood trail down your scalp… Listen, let me get you stitched up or over to a hospital and I won’t ask you who did this.
Amber: Aren’t you supposed to be an asshole?
Carla: Easier to be seen as an asshole than a victim.
Unfortunately I doubt Amber would take a lesson from that, ditch the costume, and become asshole girl. With her personal safety on the line that would be a step up.
Well, clearly to the point of jeopardizing her own health. Which is bad. Batman can get away with absorbing what he does because he’s a fictional character with what might be the most talented, overworked butler on the planet, but Amber is just a girl trying desperately not to be when she’s in her Amazi-girl alter. And that could get worse and worse as she accumulates untreated physical injuries.
She was flung from a moving car at high speed and landed on an off-balance motorcycle headed in a different direction and survived. Clearly she’s not going to suffer serious injuries doing her Amazi-girl activities.
I was wonderng the same thing. I guess she just had them with her.
Also, I really hope this isn’t leading to a “Amber is getting contacts/lasik” storyline. T_T
Um, concussion? have that shit looked at, Ambro.
YAS MORE CARLA
why are superheroes always so bad with excuses? “In all the excitement, I tripped and fell on my face” bam, there you go.
Why? They don’t do anything for concussions. There’s nothing they really CAN do. She should keep an eye out for signs of a serious head bleed (the whole ‘you can let them sleep’ thing only really applies when people actually get checked out…if you don’t get cleared then it’s not unwise to monitor routinely for neurological deficits) but if it’s a concussion, no point in going to the doc.
The doc can check if it’s one of those serious head injuries they can do something about; like, drugs to relieve the brain swelling, drill though the skull to relieve pressure. At the very least sew things up so she’s not bleeding all over the place.
Yeah, I’ve heard way too many stories in recent years of people being punched in the head, not getting checked out by doctors, and then dying from brain swelling and such.
I would not be surprised if she’s got some cracked ribs in there too. Girl needs to look after herself.
Sure, if she happens to already have a spare pair. The online shops take a few weeks to get their wares made and to your door, or at least that’s how long mine took. If she’s got to go to the one-hour place to get a new pair for class? Ouch!
The obvious question, yet to be answered, is whether she wears contacts as Amazi-girl, or if she doesn’t need glasses at all at this point, but continues to wear them to differentiate Amber from Amazi-girl.
In September I was showing off to some people after dinner how springy and twisty the titanium wings on my frameless, hinge-less titanum specs were. And broke one. $1200. Ouch.
Dina seems to have a set of parents who are rather liberal with the exchequer, and since Amazi-Girl was instrumental in rescuing/saving Dina’s main squeeze (Becky), I suspect that this will find itself taken care of.
Either that or we get a guest appearance by Hermione Granger who performs the ‘Oculus Reparo’ charm.
Even minor head wounds bleed a lot. She might actually be fine!
Of course, she should still have someone qualified decide whether or not she’s physically healthy.
This is the first time I’ve ever regretted not looking at the Patreon previews. There’s got to be a good “Carla is Amazigirl with amazing deductive skills” joke to be made, but it’ll take at least a day for me to figure out what it is.
Yeah, us nerds are always sitting on our glasses with our faces. I used to do it all the time in school.
But seriously, Amber needs to go see the doctor.
Got one better. My ex hit himself in the head with a catapult. Not the tennis ball being thrown by the catapult; the catapult itself. Sadly, the concussion did not affect his thinking capacity enough to make him any less of a challenge at MtG. He’s also stepped into a 20gal trash can without noticing.
In PS Ed. class, which I hated, we were being forced to run full tilt down mats on the floor. Very little clearance between the wall and the end. Coach kept hollering “Don’t Slow Down, Don’t Slow Down”. I didn’t. And ran right into the wall, full tilt. Put myself out of ps. ed. for a couple weeks – it was worth it.
I’m one of the few people I know who can eat an ice cream cone and get the ice cream on my socks, and nowhere else, while walking.
But seriously, I’ve got a suspicion that Carla might actually be good at first aid and treating injuries, both because she does an activity likely to end in a few concussions and skinned knees and also because being who she is means she probably faced more than a little badness growing up in conservative Indiana.
In my experience and observation, “insensitive questions” are pretty much the best possible outcome when interacting with medical professionals as a trans woman…
Well, as a doctor you need to know what you are dealing with. Once you are no longer dealing with stock models but stuff significantly built to specs, you can’t hope to do solid repair work without knowing the individual mods where possibly relevant to the problem at hand.
So I don’t think you can hope to do much better than getting the insensitive questions out of the way early. At least for a somatic physician.
Being denied treatment, even for non-transition/non-genital related care, being at risk for violence from health care professionals, and having a lot of discrimination and intentional misgendering can be taxing and so a lot of trans people will try and hold out for a preferred clinic if they at all can.
I think it’s not so much the questions but the way in which they are said and the looks they give you. Ended up in the hospital once and they found I was binding my breasts and gave me this look like “what the fuck you freak” and then demanded an explanation. Even though, you know, it had nothing to do with why I was even in the hospital. Then again, this was a nurse and not a doctor so who knows.
They don’t do anything for concussion. No point in going.
Yeah, it’s a serious injury, but your course of treatment is going to be the same at home or at the hospital…rest and treat the symptoms individually. The only thing you gain going to the hospital for is to be cleared for a more serious, non-concussion injury, which is less and less likely as time goes on and she shows no neurologic deficits.
I mean, she might want to get some stitches on that huge cut on her head. And maybe get her ribs and back and everything else that got SLAMMED INTO A CAR checked out. But I could just be worrying too much.
If it’s a slow bleed in the brain symptoms may not be noticeable or just be really too gradual to notice before it’s too late and one succumbs to the injury and dies (not that I’m expecting Amber to die, this is just a general note about head/brain injuries).
They most certainly do “do things” for a concussion. They’ll check for more severe closed-head injuries by running MRIs and the like. They’ll monitor the patient to see if there are other things wrong. They’ll look for unexplained clots in the brain which could lead to a stroke.
IRL, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to a hospital. There are a lot of things that the folks in the ER (and, god forbid, the neuro ward) can do. Putting that trip off is like putting off the trip because of a “tiny chest pain.” Don’t do it.
(Says the guy who ignored the “tiny chest pain.” Bad choice, dude, bad choice.)
I’m kinda surprised she got back to the dorms and resumed her normal identity so easily, considering how injured she was. I would have thought she’d have trouble walking all the way, or would have been too slow to not be followed.
Seeing either AG or Amber bleeding so much could get a lot of attention. Keeping composure after all that must have taken a ton of determination.
I always find it a bit odd to see Amazi-girl abbreviated as AG because of the character Action Girl, from Diane Castle’s gigantic crossover fanfiction The Secret Return of Alex Mack, over at Twisting the Hellmouth. Action Girl gets referred to as AG more than once.
Don’t think Carla’s a freshman. She mentioned having to build up ‘mind share’ with the new freshmen a few storylines back (in The Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit I think).
I’m wondering if she still has the Amazi-hairs or if she could somehow switch back (it was mentionned he groomed it in a certain fashion, but I cannot really see a lot of diff. Have protanomalia probably doesn’t help)
If it’s still Amazi-hairs, then Carla is more likely to recognize it.
Invest in a high-impact resistant case for your glasses.
It was a case of person-versus-motorized vehicle. Level the playing field with your own vehicle next time. Even Batman has his own alter-vehicles; he’s not chasing down criminals in Bruce Wayne’s Lamborghini.
She hashad the Amazi-board, what more did you want? Oh, a vehicle with even a bare modicum of protection? Ha ha, like Amber believes in self-preservation…
Eh, it’s sad because that’s actually true. Amber doesn’t care about saving or taking care of herself because she doesn’t value herself in any way.
Amber is an excellent example of a person accomplishing amazing things with enough determination, recklessness, and crazy.
Humans are simultaneously very fragile and unbelievably tough. She probably just forced herself to walk back.
^ This. You’d be surprised what you can ‘tough out’ when you don’t have money for a doctor (or in Amber’s case, a desire to see one in any regard). Not that I know from personal experience or anything.
Adrenaline can carry people a long way. I used to be an EMT, and I’ve seen people get up and walk away from worse. Which is… Not good, because the chemicals bouncing around in a high stress situation are really great painkillers and people can exacerbate injuries. It’s also really hard to actually knock people out, which is why it is super bad for you to be unconscious for, like, any amount of time after a blow to the head. Despite all fiction ever, where knocking someone unconscious is like a lovetap.
She should probably get a CT just in case, or at least be monitored for a while. And she should also definitely be taking it easy for a while. From my unfortunately extensive experience, head injuries are not to be taken lightly.
Yeah, but that would necessitate a cover story for how she got hurt in the first place, and I would think an insightful enough medical professional would figure out there’s more to the head wound than what Amber had told them, which could lead to authorities getting involved, etc, and methinks miss o’malley would prefer to avoid that given the illegal-ness of vigilantism. Odds are she’ll be making do (due?) with webmd and Google for how to recover from head injuries.
Strictly speaking, doctors (at least in the uk) are only allowed to break confidentiality in quite extreme cases. I’m not sure turning up with an injury which is similar to a vigilante who may not even be known by the doctor or have been mentioned in reports qualifies.
And yes kids, confidentiality includes not telling your parents if you’re under 18.
At first I thought Amber was talking to Ruth. Can you imagine if it was? Ruth would be like, “I will take both of your femurs if you don’t tell me what you did. Tell me now, and I will leave you with one.”
It would be funny, and sort of in keeping with her “I know all, fear me!” routine if Ruth did know Amber and Amazi-girl are the same person. “What, you guys are telling me that mask and messing with her hair was enough to keep you from recognising her? Just how stupid are you all, anyway?”
Dammit Amber, call Danny right away. One of the perks of being a super hero is having the people who are in on your secret doting on you in situations like this.
…and you really shouldn’t be alone right now, for many reasons.
It sucks… but what she needed to do (before being spotted) is “accidentally” stumble down a flight of stairs while playing her gameboy. Oh, oops, how absent minded… then there would be witnesses for how she got her injuries.
In this day and age of HIPAA, OSHA, CPSC, and the prevalent attitude of everyone and anyone to CYA, even going to the walk-in clinic for an aspirin requires staggering amounts of paperwork.
Heading to the Emergency Room for stitches costs me $5, some waiting while more serious injuries are dealt with, and no paperwork beyond directions on the use of any medicines I’m prescribed and information packets on the type(s) of injuries I came in with, but that’s with membership and health insurance at the hospital.
There are multiple eyewitnesses who’ve likely told the cops about the brown-haired girl who was climbing on Toedad’s car, who fell off once and slammed into the windshield of another car, and then fell off again and was grabbed in midair by a motorcyclist. If a brown-haired girl shows up at the ER with a head injury and bruises while the place is still crawling with cops…no matter what excuse she gives for her injuries, the police are not stupid, and Amazi-Girl’s identity may well be exposed. So no, as long as Amber’s priorities include keeping her identity secret, she can’t just go to the ER.
There’s no reason for the police to suspect Amber was involved. One thing that Amber has on her side is the idea that correlation does not equal causation. Just because Amber was injured that day, and Amazi-Girl, who looks like her, also got injured that day, it doesn’t mean she’s the same person.
Secondly, Amber and Amazi-Girl have different hair styles, seemingly different vision, different voices, and overall different personalities. Similar body type alone isn’t enough to cause reasonable suspicion. If she had like obvious road rash or bits of debris around her injuries, maybe that could cause suspicion, but we don’t know if that’s the case.
Combine a bleeding head with broken glasses, and some might come to the reasonable assumption that someone has been abusing Amber. Carla might be one of them, depending on what her own history is like. Then again if she mirrors Ultra Car’s history in Shortpacked! her parents are supportive of her transitioning.
I mean, she’s been bleeding out of her head for at least half an hour and she probably has a concussion. If someone is bleeding that much from a head wound isn’t that a sign that they need immediate medical attention and not just a wet rag?
Did she just dump her costume somewhere and walk back? If lockdown’s over then how did she manage to shamble her way up to her dorm smeared in blood without anybody noticing?
My guess is the wound had stopped bleeding. Cleaning the wound probably restarted the bleeding. Also I think she has a back way into her room similar to Sal.
There’s no way she’d be able to climb into her dorm room in her condition. She just got wrecked; She should barely be able to move right now. Heck, when Malaya kneed her in the stomach, we saw her walking into her dorm while nursing that.
Would a wound that serious take care of itself? Genuine question. I really have no idea.
There are a lot of blood vessels in the scalp that can cause excessive bleeding even from minor (or non-life threatening) cuts. Consider professional wrestlers, who often bleed during a match (sometimes from the use of a razor blade, sometimes as a legitimate cut cause by contact with a chair or ringpost). They can bleed a lot, but after the match will have no significant head trauma.
Well, again… let professional wrestlers be your guide.
The trick is learning the best way to take a fall… flat on your back, distributing the impact across as much surface area as possible. And tucking your chin to your chest to prevent neck injuries and stop the back of the head hitting the ground (or whatever surface).
Mick Foley was thrown 16 feet off a steel cage onto a table, and was able to continue a match.
Amazigirl did hit a windshield, but she hit it flat on her back, and the 2 cars probably were going at comparable speeds. (So, relatively she did not hit the windshield at 55MPH, she might have hit it at 5-10MPH, the speed differential between the cars.)
To be fair, I’m not sure I’d say Mick Foley was “ok” after that match. In terms of scalp wounds though, a split in the skin due to a glancing blow is also pretty common (especially in sports like rugby), and those bleed like crazy.
Head wounds bleed much more than they “ought to,” simply because the scalp is very near to the brain, and the brain soaks up a huge fraction of your body’s blood supply.
I think Mike will find out before either of them, because he’ll get the story from Walky, his roommate. Danny might get the story (in a bad light) from Sal and get in a fight with Amber over Amazi-Girl nearly getting herself killed, which Amber will reject because Danny learned it from Sal. I don’t see Ethan finding out for awhile, unless he bumps into Joyce.
Ohgodohgod its Carla!! This had better not just be filler I’ve been wanting more screen time fot her for ages @/@
Also… Amber Does have a thing for jerks… It woukd give danny and ethan a way out so they can slipshine <3
That’s not a ship I had thought of… hmm, on the one hand, Amber is mostly straight, on the other, one of her incarnations has been shown to be a little bi: http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1792
Also, ditto yay on Carla. Seeing my favorite fictional trans ace get screen time is always a happy occasion.
Those were all either Robin or Leslie forcibly kissing her, or when she kissed someone to try and convince Faz she was gay (whereupon he lectured her on the Kinsey scale).
I assumed that the joke of Alt!Amber was that she was incredibly sexually repressed, but it’s possible she’s not a solid Kinsey 0.
I’m not sure ‘yes, two hot* guys, keep making out’ particularly suggests she’s bi…
* To Amber, at least. I don’t agree, personally. Charlie Day’s cute as hell, but Burn Gorman looks like a fricken frog…also, I have a bit of a problem separating him from his Torchwood character. (Not that his Pacific Rim character was exactly a joy, either.)
This is one of the best ways that we’ve been shown how deep Amber’s issues go. It’s one thing to try to use the mask as an inhaler. It’s quite another thing to not have your Lois Lane / Mary Jane do exactly what they do which is well within their capacity because “nah, I got this.”
All Amber has is a scalp wound that won’t close because she can’t bandage her head. After all, she did get back from where she was to college and from Amazi-Girl to Amber without being discovered so no matter what ‘pain’ she’s at most had a concussive event in the football sense of the word (i.e. dimentia when she’s 35 but she’ll be in the game tomorrow). Danny applying the pressure to stop the bleeding and then stitching up the cut is exactly what she needs him to do. And in fact, she should know this or be able to feel the ridge informing her of the skull split and the cut in her blood brain barrier that would keep her from knowing this.
But Amber just can’t bring herself to tell anyone “I need your help.” And it’s the very same issue that her father, and the robbery, and her view on the self sacrifice on the behalf of Ethan and everything comes together as. But it’s a subtle because it’s just an event instead of the story saying so.
While fully appreciating the seriousness of concussions, I’m pretty confident in stating that one event on its own will not lead to dementia at 35. It may lead to an increased risk of dementia later in life, but the exact numbers are not entirely clear.
In my experience, head wounds bleed like crazy for a few seconds, then suddenly stop. It’s been at least several hours since Amber’s head got bashed, so bleeding at this point seems like a really bad sign.
When would she have gotten facial abrasions? During the chase, her back hit the car’s windshield. When she was caught by Sal it was around he waist. And when Sal woke her up, the last bump was on the back of the head.
Would have been better to say she tripped and face planted, or some guys were tossing around a football or baseball and she got it in the face. Mention a perfectly normal accident on a campus that would explain broken glasses and facial injuries.
Well, her entire bodylanguage screams “Don’t wanna acknowledge the real reason why I’m bleeding”, so I think it is a good plan to keep it simple and not dig herself in further.
I’m actually clumsy enough that something like that could plausibly happen to me. I’m pretty unusual in my level of clumsiness, however, and I’m guessing Carla’s not buying that.
Amber should really get that head wound looked at.
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is Amber about to slam into a Carla now
Next time, on Slipshine…
they’ll be slippin’ on shiny Amber blood if she doesn’t get patched up =p
Eh, it’s all just more human liquids to Ultraca- I mean Carla.
Next comic strip: “I’m amazi-girl” …. “oh yeah? Well I’m ultra-car!” *ambers shows the costume* “I’m serious” *carla slams a pie on her face* “ditto”
I now declare that this needs to happen
Hey, you’re the one who said that Amber would slam into Carla. I just took it to the dirtiest extreme possible. You’re welcome.
She knows too much
Suspisciouuuuus.
Wait, her left arm is damaged too >_<
Word.
Very suspicious; she’s bleeding on her
FAAAAAAACE
Sorry, I can’t control that. xD
I wonder how much serious damage she may have that she’s attempting to hide…
Yeah, we might be seeing another hospitalization here – It would be an excellent DYW to pyche than gutpunch while our guard was down.
DYW?
Nevermind, I got it.
Just after clicking ‘post.’
Do You Want??
(j/k it’s Danny Yankovik Wilcox)
“Weird Dan” “Yankovik” Wilcox
That was one of half a dozen guesses before I remembered the acronym.
Well, he did say he wanted to be known as DJ…
DJ Polka
It’s hard to tell… Amber’s eyes always look a little dilated, so how can we say if a concussion is likely?
That makes me wonder if she could be hiding a broken bone of some kind. Could it be possible to do that?
You’d think Amber woulda heard the skates on bathroom tile…
carlas so pretty
gives me a facebleed
That is exactly how Amber should play this. **serious head nod**
Amber: Se~npai…
Carla: Yeah, that’s not how anime nosebleeds work.
More like a serious head wound, amirite?
Amber you dork, that isn’t how you sit on glasses.
Such a nerd, can’t even sit on glasses properly.
I can’t leave video games! I love them! #NerdAbuse
Seriously, though, I wonder exactly how Amber wants to spin this? I can’t picture that many nerdy interests leave you slapped around. She may just be reaching by this point…
I think she’s trying to play it off as a nerdy-physical-ineptitude/clumsiness thing.
She could have “fallen down the stairs” and leave it at that. Pretty sure her whole floor heard about the incident with Blaine, and most girls in college learn pretty quickly from fliers around campus that abused women end up back in abusive relationships, whether they go back to their abuser or not.
With any luck, though Carla will know not to ask questions Amber doesn’t feel ready to talk about yet, but will still get her patched up. She can even offer to say she tripped on the fountain or fell off a stair railing or something. (Believe me, these things happen on a college campus more often than a person would think; we had a kid who was a regular on a dorm roof, and another who more than once climbed in/out of his fourth-floor window rather than using the door.)
Hmmmm… I wonder what would happen if Sal and co got it into their mind that Danny was abusive… that might end… interestingly.
But Danny isn’t dating Amber they’re just friends, remember?
GOD Amber, try not being such a KLUTZ. What are you gonna do if you’re on the roof of a car someday, and the car’s tires are blown out and it’s skidding towards a speeding semi? Huh?
get clotheslined by a biker?
But what are the chances
approximately three thousand, seven hundred twenty to one?
Never tell me the odds!
Never tell me the–
uh… something a nerd would say.
Personal headcanon:
Carla: Uh huh, yeah, typical nerd pursuits that leave you with unfocused eyes and a blood trail down your scalp… Listen, let me get you stitched up or over to a hospital and I won’t ask you who did this.
Amber: Aren’t you supposed to be an asshole?
Carla: Easier to be seen as an asshole than a victim.
… Damn you, Cerberus. That was good.
Personal headcanon: Becky appears at this exact moment and says “Now kiss!”
I approve of this.
I tried to find a drawing of money master’s head cannon, but I failed you all.
Ask and Ye shall receive http://www.itswalky.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/oldmm.jpg
Which leads to Carla introducing Amber to Roller Derby.
In an upcoming strip:
Malaya: “Damn, that fist to the gut felt familiar! Where have I been punched by her before??”
Gut-fisting is a bit too extreme of a fetish for my liking.
A woman was killed getting that done to her a few months ago. Google at your own peril.
So was Houdini?
THAT could actually be a nice stress outlet of sort.
I thought we wanted her to find a SAFER hobby than vigilantism?
At least she’d be wearing a helmet, shoulder pads, and kneepads as a roller derby participant.
Plus there’s a whole lot less chances to encounter rifle wielding toe-shaped bigot fathers.
Oh shit, I really want this to happen now.
Personal head canon:
Amber: “My head was hit by a cannon!”
Personal head cannon: Pistol Daimyo.
http://bravoman.wikia.com/wiki/Pistol_Daimyo
Cool!
+1 Internets!
New headcannon:
I should have scrolled down before I replied above, because this was my thoughts exactly. :3
Unfortunately I doubt Amber would take a lesson from that, ditch the costume, and become asshole girl. With her personal safety on the line that would be a step up.
Good one.
Seriously worried about Amber now… how far is she going to go to protect her identity?
Well, clearly to the point of jeopardizing her own health. Which is bad. Batman can get away with absorbing what he does because he’s a fictional character with what might be the most talented, overworked butler on the planet, but Amber is just a girl trying desperately not to be when she’s in her Amazi-girl alter. And that could get worse and worse as she accumulates untreated physical injuries.
She was flung from a moving car at high speed and landed on an off-balance motorcycle headed in a different direction and survived. Clearly she’s not going to suffer serious injuries doing her Amazi-girl activities.
Don’t be so sure. Amazi-Girl’s actions usually have long-term effects on Amber’s psyche.
B…but Amber is also a fictional character…
Sure, but she’s still not Batman.
You know if you were a ROBOT, you wouldn’t need glasses and you wouldn’t be bleeding. I don’t know why I say that. But it’s true!
Robots sometimes need glasses, too.
That is awesome.
Yay! The return of Carla.
So, how did Amber’s glasses get broken anyways? She doesn’t wear them as Amazi-girl.
She may have actually sat on them, they probably went into one of the pouches and got crushed at some point.
That’s why Amber should get a hard case for her glasses, if she’s going to continue as Amazi-Girl. Glasses are expensive.
I suspect they were cased – on the side where she slammed the windshield.
They were probably in a belt pouch when she got thrown all over creation in several high-impact collisions.
in one of her pouches. Where else could she stash them for hey presto changes?
Might’ve been in a pocket, like her sneakers.
They were probably in a pocket.
She is still carrying them. Her reaction in panel 3 is because she’s just then realizing they’re broken.
I was wonderng the same thing. I guess she just had them with her.
Also, I really hope this isn’t leading to a “Amber is getting contacts/lasik” storyline. T_T
It probably isn’t, for the same reason Superman won’t get glasses.
Um, concussion? have that shit looked at, Ambro.
YAS MORE CARLA
why are superheroes always so bad with excuses? “In all the excitement, I tripped and fell on my face” bam, there you go.
Why? They don’t do anything for concussions. There’s nothing they really CAN do. She should keep an eye out for signs of a serious head bleed (the whole ‘you can let them sleep’ thing only really applies when people actually get checked out…if you don’t get cleared then it’s not unwise to monitor routinely for neurological deficits) but if it’s a concussion, no point in going to the doc.
The doc can check if it’s one of those serious head injuries they can do something about; like, drugs to relieve the brain swelling, drill though the skull to relieve pressure. At the very least sew things up so she’s not bleeding all over the place.
Yeah, I’ve heard way too many stories in recent years of people being punched in the head, not getting checked out by doctors, and then dying from brain swelling and such.
I would not be surprised if she’s got some cracked ribs in there too. Girl needs to look after herself.
She should have just said she tripped and hit her head.
Gah, you ninja.
And Rob beat you both.
or both sitting and falling
And that was the last time Carla was ever seen…
Ouch. Speaking as a glasses wearer, that is going to hurt the old pocketbook.
eyebuydirect.com and a few others can save you a bundle.
I got some for under $100 just recently
and also actually for free because my dad paid because it gets around the maximum gift limit per person per year without being taxed
Sure, if she happens to already have a spare pair. The online shops take a few weeks to get their wares made and to your door, or at least that’s how long mine took. If she’s got to go to the one-hour place to get a new pair for class? Ouch!
She can see well enough to be a superhero without them. They’re just there for secret identity purposes anyway.
The obvious question, yet to be answered, is whether she wears contacts as Amazi-girl, or if she doesn’t need glasses at all at this point, but continues to wear them to differentiate Amber from Amazi-girl.
I seem to recall Willis saying something along the lines of: She mostly just needs them to read at this point, and gets by without as Amazi-Girl.
maybe she can bill them to blaine. also she maybe wears contacts as AG, so while that’s not preferable because secrets it would be doable
In September I was showing off to some people after dinner how springy and twisty the titanium wings on my frameless, hinge-less titanum specs were. And broke one. $1200. Ouch.
Dina seems to have a set of parents who are rather liberal with the exchequer, and since Amazi-Girl was instrumental in rescuing/saving Dina’s main squeeze (Becky), I suspect that this will find itself taken care of.
Either that or we get a guest appearance by Hermione Granger who performs the ‘Oculus Reparo’ charm.
Now that’s a crossover I’d read.
“Now that’s a slipshine I’d read.”
Fixed that for you.
I vote for option two.
Probably be more beleivable if she said she trppied.
That actually comes up a lot if you google it.
CARLA!!! I am so excited! My fave!
Amber looks way too unharmed for what just happened to her. I mean, other than the BLEEDING HEAD WOUND!? Gdi Amber, go get checked out. You worry us.
Even minor head wounds bleed a lot. She might actually be fine!
Of course, she should still have someone qualified decide whether or not she’s physically healthy.
Well we know she’s not mentally healthy at least.
Hell, even she knows that.
I will be ecstatic if at some point, Amber delivers the line “I ain’t got time to b leed.”
Especially if it ends up being that time of the month
“I was elected to lead, not to bleed.”
This is the first time I’ve ever regretted not looking at the Patreon previews. There’s got to be a good “Carla is Amazigirl with amazing deductive skills” joke to be made, but it’ll take at least a day for me to figure out what it is.
Yeah, us nerds are always sitting on our glasses with our faces. I used to do it all the time in school.
But seriously, Amber needs to go see the doctor.
Hey, I once dropped a tuba on my face. Nerds are sometimes capable of great feats of clutziness.
Got one better. My ex hit himself in the head with a catapult. Not the tennis ball being thrown by the catapult; the catapult itself. Sadly, the concussion did not affect his thinking capacity enough to make him any less of a challenge at MtG. He’s also stepped into a 20gal trash can without noticing.
In PS Ed. class, which I hated, we were being forced to run full tilt down mats on the floor. Very little clearance between the wall and the end. Coach kept hollering “Don’t Slow Down, Don’t Slow Down”. I didn’t. And ran right into the wall, full tilt. Put myself out of ps. ed. for a couple weeks – it was worth it.
I’m one of the few people I know who can eat an ice cream cone and get the ice cream on my socks, and nowhere else, while walking.
Is the next storyline about all the glasses-wearing characters judging Amber for breaking hers?
But seriously, I’ve got a suspicion that Carla might actually be good at first aid and treating injuries, both because she does an activity likely to end in a few concussions and skinned knees and also because being who she is means she probably faced more than a little badness growing up in conservative Indiana.
It does seem probable. Even if she’s not from Indiana originally, the first point stands.
Plus she might not be super into seeing walk-in doctors and discussing her medical history when she can avoid it, if she’s been in bad areas.
That’s very likely… Easier to treat a “minor” head wound than deal with really insensitive questions while in a vulnerable state.
In my experience and observation, “insensitive questions” are pretty much the best possible outcome when interacting with medical professionals as a trans woman…
Well, as a doctor you need to know what you are dealing with. Once you are no longer dealing with stock models but stuff significantly built to specs, you can’t hope to do solid repair work without knowing the individual mods where possibly relevant to the problem at hand.
So I don’t think you can hope to do much better than getting the insensitive questions out of the way early. At least for a somatic physician.
True, but what Betsumei is referring to and I’m downplaying is this:
http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_report_on_health.pdf
and this:
http://planettransgender.com/transhealthfail-revealing-serious-concerns-in-transgender-health-care/
Being denied treatment, even for non-transition/non-genital related care, being at risk for violence from health care professionals, and having a lot of discrimination and intentional misgendering can be taxing and so a lot of trans people will try and hold out for a preferred clinic if they at all can.
I think it’s not so much the questions but the way in which they are said and the looks they give you. Ended up in the hospital once and they found I was binding my breasts and gave me this look like “what the fuck you freak” and then demanded an explanation. Even though, you know, it had nothing to do with why I was even in the hospital. Then again, this was a nurse and not a doctor so who knows.
She needs to visit a hospital. Concussion is serious business.
Just in case we all thought Willis was putting a total happy bow on the storyline, here’s Amber to remind us that not everyone’s OK.
They don’t do anything for concussion. No point in going.
Yeah, it’s a serious injury, but your course of treatment is going to be the same at home or at the hospital…rest and treat the symptoms individually. The only thing you gain going to the hospital for is to be cleared for a more serious, non-concussion injury, which is less and less likely as time goes on and she shows no neurologic deficits.
I mean, she might want to get some stitches on that huge cut on her head. And maybe get her ribs and back and everything else that got SLAMMED INTO A CAR checked out. But I could just be worrying too much.
If it’s a slow bleed in the brain symptoms may not be noticeable or just be really too gradual to notice before it’s too late and one succumbs to the injury and dies (not that I’m expecting Amber to die, this is just a general note about head/brain injuries).
They most certainly do “do things” for a concussion. They’ll check for more severe closed-head injuries by running MRIs and the like. They’ll monitor the patient to see if there are other things wrong. They’ll look for unexplained clots in the brain which could lead to a stroke.
IRL, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to a hospital. There are a lot of things that the folks in the ER (and, god forbid, the neuro ward) can do. Putting that trip off is like putting off the trip because of a “tiny chest pain.” Don’t do it.
(Says the guy who ignored the “tiny chest pain.” Bad choice, dude, bad choice.)
I am glad she got back okay.
One thing at a time. She got back.
Whether she’s okay remains to be seen.
Please let them begin a super heroe duo…
Somehow I got super dude bro duo out of that.
I’m kinda surprised she got back to the dorms and resumed her normal identity so easily, considering how injured she was. I would have thought she’d have trouble walking all the way, or would have been too slow to not be followed.
Seeing either AG or Amber bleeding so much could get a lot of attention. Keeping composure after all that must have taken a ton of determination.
Cue her keeling over in class.
I always find it a bit odd to see Amazi-girl abbreviated as AG because of the character Action Girl, from Diane Castle’s gigantic crossover fanfiction The Secret Return of Alex Mack, over at Twisting the Hellmouth. Action Girl gets referred to as AG more than once.
Clearly they must fight to the death over it.
Five pence on Amazi-Girl.
Does Amber wear her glasses under the mask?
No, they were in her pocket.
When she took the numerous slammings, they shattered.
“I tripped and hurt my head.”
“Yes, I was told to sit.”
All sorts of weaponry and gear in her superhero belt, yet no eyeglass case for AmaziGirl?
how about a glasses repair kit.
Not pictured are the shards of that case.
Carla’s face looks pretty chubby in this strip.
Freshman 15 hit early. :p
Don’t think Carla’s a freshman. She mentioned having to build up ‘mind share’ with the new freshmen a few storylines back (in The Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit I think).
Carla is a sophomore.
And the mind-share episode is here.
Carla is characterized and accepts it.
Possibly relevant to this episode is that Carla and Amazi-Girl have a history.
More relevant was the incident in the Wal-Mart parking lot, though at least Carla wasn’t excited to be a part of it.
It’ll be a minor miracle if broken glasses are the worst damage. I’d expect a minor limp and pain when she coughs at the very least.
Plus bruises. Her back and butt will be a panoramic sunset in glorious technicolor.
I’m wondering if she still has the Amazi-hairs or if she could somehow switch back (it was mentionned he groomed it in a certain fashion, but I cannot really see a lot of diff. Have protanomalia probably doesn’t help)
If it’s still Amazi-hairs, then Carla is more likely to recognize it.
+s
She’s in her regular style. AG hairstyle is not so… perfectly spherical.
Ummmm her head is uh….having period! Ya that’s my story and I’m sticking to it no no matter how stupid as hell it may sound.
No no, Amber, you’re thinking of Malaya.
I wonder… is this the biggest height difference between characters who’ve appeared together (as far as the girl’s side goes)?
Not in the same panel, but dina+carla have been in the same strip.
Maaybe the half-bath would’ve been a better place to get cleaned up than the dorm showers, Ambster.
Dumbiverse Schtickshift origin story incoming
Yessss!
Second.
THIS
ALL THE THIS
“Was looking for something and I stood up and hit my head on the edge of the shelf”
Heads bleed like crazy, why pro wrestlers used to cut their foreheads and heads
Yeah I’m sure many people will believe that excuse Amber. /sarcasm
Saying you ran into a door while playing with your DS would be more believable.
Okay, Ambster-hamster, two things…
Invest in a high-impact resistant case for your glasses.
It was a case of person-versus-motorized vehicle. Level the playing field with your own vehicle next time. Even Batman has his own alter-vehicles; he’s not chasing down criminals in Bruce Wayne’s Lamborghini.
i am a huge fan of that high-impact resistant case idea. it seems entirely, completely useful.
She
hashad the Amazi-board, what more did you want? Oh, a vehicle with even a bare modicum of protection? Ha ha, like Amber believes in self-preservation…Eh, it’s sad because that’s actually true. Amber doesn’t care about saving or taking care of herself because she doesn’t value herself in any way.
Amazi-Girl has thought of that at least once before.
How did Amber even manage to get back? She looked like she was going to pass out. And she’s still bleeding.
I figured she’d be in the hospital, considering what she went through. If the only thing she broke was her glasses, she’s damn lucky.
Amber is an excellent example of a person accomplishing amazing things with enough determination, recklessness, and crazy.
Humans are simultaneously very fragile and unbelievably tough. She probably just forced herself to walk back.
^ This. You’d be surprised what you can ‘tough out’ when you don’t have money for a doctor (or in Amber’s case, a desire to see one in any regard). Not that I know from personal experience or anything.
Pfft. Satan-san needs no doctor!
Adrenaline can carry people a long way. I used to be an EMT, and I’ve seen people get up and walk away from worse. Which is… Not good, because the chemicals bouncing around in a high stress situation are really great painkillers and people can exacerbate injuries. It’s also really hard to actually knock people out, which is why it is super bad for you to be unconscious for, like, any amount of time after a blow to the head. Despite all fiction ever, where knocking someone unconscious is like a lovetap.
If she really got back walking that must have taken at least an hour, probably more given that she was not in best shape!
And she is still bleeding so much? Bad sign!
She should probably get a CT just in case, or at least be monitored for a while. And she should also definitely be taking it easy for a while. From my unfortunately extensive experience, head injuries are not to be taken lightly.
Yeah, but that would necessitate a cover story for how she got hurt in the first place, and I would think an insightful enough medical professional would figure out there’s more to the head wound than what Amber had told them, which could lead to authorities getting involved, etc, and methinks miss o’malley would prefer to avoid that given the illegal-ness of vigilantism. Odds are she’ll be making do (due?) with webmd and Google for how to recover from head injuries.
Strictly speaking, doctors (at least in the uk) are only allowed to break confidentiality in quite extreme cases. I’m not sure turning up with an injury which is similar to a vigilante who may not even be known by the doctor or have been mentioned in reports qualifies.
And yes kids, confidentiality includes not telling your parents if you’re under 18.
At first I thought Amber was talking to Ruth. Can you imagine if it was? Ruth would be like, “I will take both of your femurs if you don’t tell me what you did. Tell me now, and I will leave you with one.”
It would be funny, and sort of in keeping with her “I know all, fear me!” routine if Ruth did know Amber and Amazi-girl are the same person. “What, you guys are telling me that mask and messing with her hair was enough to keep you from recognising her? Just how stupid are you all, anyway?”
Sal was right, Carla is “pretty dang tall”:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/purpleandskates/
At least three inches of that are the skates.
Here’s Carla skateless, and Sal in skates for comparison.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/insomnia/
To be fair, Amber’s also pretty darn short.
SAY YOU FELL DOWN SOME STAIRS! SHE’LL BELIEVE YOU!
“Oh no! I shot my eye out!”
Just as soon as David from my comic I’d about to get his glasses replaced, Amber breaks hers… interesting timing…
“Nah see some of the geeks at the comic shop challenged me to headbutt a new Aquaman bust. It went awry and I kinda poked my skull in.”
For a moment there I thought that Amber was wiping away her hair colour and got confused.
Dammit Amber, call Danny right away. One of the perks of being a super hero is having the people who are in on your secret doting on you in situations like this.
…and you really shouldn’t be alone right now, for many reasons.
The heroes reward is bleak…
It sucks… but what she needed to do (before being spotted) is “accidentally” stumble down a flight of stairs while playing her gameboy. Oh, oops, how absent minded… then there would be witnesses for how she got her injuries.
Or just say it was a skateboarding accident.
What, she can’t just go to the ER and say “yeah, I fell and hit my head. Can I get stitches, please?”
In this day and age of HIPAA, OSHA, CPSC, and the prevalent attitude of everyone and anyone to CYA, even going to the walk-in clinic for an aspirin requires staggering amounts of paperwork.
Heading to the Emergency Room for stitches costs me $5, some waiting while more serious injuries are dealt with, and no paperwork beyond directions on the use of any medicines I’m prescribed and information packets on the type(s) of injuries I came in with, but that’s with membership and health insurance at the hospital.
Head trauma should get her more immediate attention. I hope.
There are multiple eyewitnesses who’ve likely told the cops about the brown-haired girl who was climbing on Toedad’s car, who fell off once and slammed into the windshield of another car, and then fell off again and was grabbed in midair by a motorcyclist. If a brown-haired girl shows up at the ER with a head injury and bruises while the place is still crawling with cops…no matter what excuse she gives for her injuries, the police are not stupid, and Amazi-Girl’s identity may well be exposed. So no, as long as Amber’s priorities include keeping her identity secret, she can’t just go to the ER.
I think I would prioritize “not dying” over “keeping my identity a secret”. Then again, I’m not a crazy masked vigilante.
There’s no reason for the police to suspect Amber was involved. One thing that Amber has on her side is the idea that correlation does not equal causation. Just because Amber was injured that day, and Amazi-Girl, who looks like her, also got injured that day, it doesn’t mean she’s the same person.
Secondly, Amber and Amazi-Girl have different hair styles, seemingly different vision, different voices, and overall different personalities. Similar body type alone isn’t enough to cause reasonable suspicion. If she had like obvious road rash or bits of debris around her injuries, maybe that could cause suspicion, but we don’t know if that’s the case.
So as far as I can tell, Amber is in the clear.
Whelp, time for Amber to full-time avoid Sal, the only person who knows about Amazi-Girl’s injuries.
Maybe she could claim that a bike messenger clipped her head. Worked wonders for Spider-Man.
More Carla pls
A lot now depends on two things:
1) Just how badly Sal’s denunciation has shaken Amber;
2) Just how curious and concerned Carla is after hearing Amber’s excuse, which is pretty much the dictionary definition of ‘implausible deflection’.
Combine a bleeding head with broken glasses, and some might come to the reasonable assumption that someone has been abusing Amber. Carla might be one of them, depending on what her own history is like. Then again if she mirrors Ultra Car’s history in Shortpacked! her parents are supportive of her transitioning.
Parental support ≠ community acceptance.
Is this where somebody finally drags Amber to the hospital?
I hope so. Head trauma is never good.
Considering minor wounds take 7-10 minutes to clot fully, Amber either needs stitches or some other sort of skin closure.
Some of us are leaders and some of us are bleeders, not sure why that popped into my head.
Oh, least I forget…
FAAAAAAACEEEEEEEEEEE
This is both the perfect profile picture and the perfect comment. How you managed to pair them together, I’ll never know.
That’s the magic of Becky
Carla being a roller derby-er should know about head trauma. Time for A&E.
amber how are you not dead
One word: Luck
I mean, she’s been bleeding out of her head for at least half an hour and she probably has a concussion. If someone is bleeding that much from a head wound isn’t that a sign that they need immediate medical attention and not just a wet rag?
Did she just dump her costume somewhere and walk back? If lockdown’s over then how did she manage to shamble her way up to her dorm smeared in blood without anybody noticing?
My guess is the wound had stopped bleeding. Cleaning the wound probably restarted the bleeding. Also I think she has a back way into her room similar to Sal.
There’s no way she’d be able to climb into her dorm room in her condition. She just got wrecked; She should barely be able to move right now. Heck, when Malaya kneed her in the stomach, we saw her walking into her dorm while nursing that.
Would a wound that serious take care of itself? Genuine question. I really have no idea.
According to WebMD, head wounds always bleed a lot, and even a mild cut may continue to bleed for up to 45 minutes if untreated.
Don’t get me wrong, I definitely think she should see a doctor, but it’s within the bounds of possibility that she’s lucked out.
Right, maybe I’m thinking that, as a head wound, it’s automatically serious and potentially lethal.
I guess it makes sense if it’s just a cut, but given the way she got it, I would think that it was actually really serious.
There are a lot of blood vessels in the scalp that can cause excessive bleeding even from minor (or non-life threatening) cuts. Consider professional wrestlers, who often bleed during a match (sometimes from the use of a razor blade, sometimes as a legitimate cut cause by contact with a chair or ringpost). They can bleed a lot, but after the match will have no significant head trauma.
I suppose.
I think I’m just having a hard time buying that she came out of this so okay.
Well, again… let professional wrestlers be your guide.
The trick is learning the best way to take a fall… flat on your back, distributing the impact across as much surface area as possible. And tucking your chin to your chest to prevent neck injuries and stop the back of the head hitting the ground (or whatever surface).
Mick Foley was thrown 16 feet off a steel cage onto a table, and was able to continue a match.
Amazigirl did hit a windshield, but she hit it flat on her back, and the 2 cars probably were going at comparable speeds. (So, relatively she did not hit the windshield at 55MPH, she might have hit it at 5-10MPH, the speed differential between the cars.)
To be fair, I’m not sure I’d say Mick Foley was “ok” after that match. In terms of scalp wounds though, a split in the skin due to a glancing blow is also pretty common (especially in sports like rugby), and those bleed like crazy.
Considering what Amber went through, I’m upping her durability level to borderline Superhuman.
Dependent on what happens next.
She really is a bantam Elemental phenotype.
Vomiting and dizziness are also worth noting here.
Did she throw up? I don’t remember her doing so.
She was dizzy and did pass out (both bad signs).
Very bad signs. However, we’ve seen no sign of retrograde amnesia, nor of many of the other symptoms of traumatic brain injury.
Um, Amber? Put on your suit if you have to, but get thee to a hospital. Right. Fucking. Now.
It looked like she was throwing up when she was standing under the tree, as Sal drove away. Maybe not.
Head wounds bleed much more than they “ought to,” simply because the scalp is very near to the brain, and the brain soaks up a huge fraction of your body’s blood supply.
Why do I have a feeling that Carla is just going to say something like, “you should have that looked at” then she walks away?
Well, hopefully Amber can find either Danny or Ethan …. unless she finds them together…
I think Mike will find out before either of them, because he’ll get the story from Walky, his roommate. Danny might get the story (in a bad light) from Sal and get in a fight with Amber over Amazi-Girl nearly getting herself killed, which Amber will reject because Danny learned it from Sal. I don’t see Ethan finding out for awhile, unless he bumps into Joyce.
Shouldn’t that be… with your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
I’ve done that before.
Which prolly explains why they no longer stay on my face.
Can’t breathe for laughing.
Glasses jokes~!
The irony of the situation is that she’s bleeding not from being hit by a car, but from bumping her head on a tree after seeing Sal.
While that would be funny, tis simply not true:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/hostage-2/
Ohgodohgod its Carla!! This had better not just be filler I’ve been wanting more screen time fot her for ages @/@
Also… Amber Does have a thing for jerks… It woukd give danny and ethan a way out so they can slipshine <3
That’s not a ship I had thought of… hmm, on the one hand, Amber is mostly straight, on the other, one of her incarnations has been shown to be a little bi:
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1792
Also, ditto yay on Carla. Seeing my favorite fictional trans ace get screen time is always a happy occasion.
Getting pants feelings from Action Rachel doesn’t mean you’re bi. It just means you’re human.
On the other hand, Shortpacked! Amber does make out with an awful lot of girls for an allegedly straight girl…
Those were all either Robin or Leslie forcibly kissing her, or when she kissed someone to try and convince Faz she was gay (whereupon he lectured her on the Kinsey scale).
I assumed that the joke of Alt!Amber was that she was incredibly sexually repressed, but it’s possible she’s not a solid Kinsey 0.
Another strip has shown her to be roughly bi in this universe as well.
Those are both dudes.
I’m not sure ‘yes, two hot* guys, keep making out’ particularly suggests she’s bi…
* To Amber, at least. I don’t agree, personally. Charlie Day’s cute as hell, but Burn Gorman looks like a fricken frog…also, I have a bit of a problem separating him from his Torchwood character. (Not that his Pacific Rim character was exactly a joy, either.)
Man she looks wierd without her glasses or a mask on.
“Cosplay accident.”
“Weird. I was cosplaying Ultra Car this afternoon, and someone broke my windshield.”
This is why Danny should switch to pre-med.
Go directly to hospital. Do not pass Dan. Do not collect your 3DS.
This is one of the best ways that we’ve been shown how deep Amber’s issues go. It’s one thing to try to use the mask as an inhaler. It’s quite another thing to not have your Lois Lane / Mary Jane do exactly what they do which is well within their capacity because “nah, I got this.”
All Amber has is a scalp wound that won’t close because she can’t bandage her head. After all, she did get back from where she was to college and from Amazi-Girl to Amber without being discovered so no matter what ‘pain’ she’s at most had a concussive event in the football sense of the word (i.e. dimentia when she’s 35 but she’ll be in the game tomorrow). Danny applying the pressure to stop the bleeding and then stitching up the cut is exactly what she needs him to do. And in fact, she should know this or be able to feel the ridge informing her of the skull split and the cut in her blood brain barrier that would keep her from knowing this.
But Amber just can’t bring herself to tell anyone “I need your help.” And it’s the very same issue that her father, and the robbery, and her view on the self sacrifice on the behalf of Ethan and everything comes together as. But it’s a subtle because it’s just an event instead of the story saying so.
While fully appreciating the seriousness of concussions, I’m pretty confident in stating that one event on its own will not lead to dementia at 35. It may lead to an increased risk of dementia later in life, but the exact numbers are not entirely clear.
or she could just say the head injery is from not being able to see
Really it was with a toe…
Somebody give this man/woman/other an Internet.
In my experience, head wounds bleed like crazy for a few seconds, then suddenly stop. It’s been at least several hours since Amber’s head got bashed, so bleeding at this point seems like a really bad sign.
(Also, what, no facial abrasions?)
When would she have gotten facial abrasions? During the chase, her back hit the car’s windshield. When she was caught by Sal it was around he waist. And when Sal woke her up, the last bump was on the back of the head.
aw, I wanted her to run into the law.
Headfirst?
That’d work. Maybe she’d get a nice ‘assaulting an officer’ charge.
I’ll sit on your face and tell you that I love you.
You’ll sit on my face and tell me you love me too.
Doesn’t really work for this comic, does it?
Not YET
Would have been better to say she tripped and face planted, or some guys were tossing around a football or baseball and she got it in the face. Mention a perfectly normal accident on a campus that would explain broken glasses and facial injuries.
Well, her entire bodylanguage screams “Don’t wanna acknowledge the real reason why I’m bleeding”, so I think it is a good plan to keep it simple and not dig herself in further.
“Just an aneurysm from sheer stupidity”.
I’m actually clumsy enough that something like that could plausibly happen to me. I’m pretty unusual in my level of clumsiness, however, and I’m guessing Carla’s not buying that.
Amber should really get that head wound looked at.
There’s a hole in my forehead, dear Carla, dear Carla
There’s a hole in my forehead, dear Carla, a hole
Thats brilliant
If only we had some straw, water and an axe.
I don’t know what kind of dumb edits people did of yesterday’s strip, but I thought I’d try my hand at it myself: Becky says things she’d (probably) never actually say
Sorry not sorry.
I approve this edit. ^_^
I still don’t understand why they would be called “hatefucks”.