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Knew It

by David M Willis on March 20, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Choosing My Religion
└ Tags: amazi-girl, jennifer

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  1. Leorale
    Leorale
    March 20, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Yeah, that is pretty damning!

    • AngryBamboo
      AngryBamboo
      March 20, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

      VINDICATION!!! or not.

      • nekobawt
        nekobawt
        March 21, 2012 at 2:51 am | #

        window-cation, you mean.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          March 21, 2012 at 8:33 am | #

          Defenestration? Except voluntary instead of being thrown out.

          • Nee Hou
            Nee Hou
            March 21, 2012 at 12:46 pm | #

            If I may borrow:
            Amizi-Girl, in her consternation, Demonstrates defenestration,
            And runs and runs and runs and runs away
            (apologies and kudos to Mr. Watterson)

    • Matt of Steel
      Matt of Steel
      March 20, 2012 at 10:53 am | #

      Yes Billie … only one person in the world could ever use the window to get in a room.

      If she doesn’t make it as a journalist she could always become a private investigator. Sherlock Billie.

      • Boingy
        Boingy
        March 21, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

        To be fair, there is only one person that, to her knowledge, has both the ability and the motive to be entering her room through the window in the middle of the night.

  2. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    March 20, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    OH NOES, Billie found out that Amazi-Girl is a vampire.

    • Izzy
      Izzy
      March 20, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

      Not a vampire. Unfortunately, vampaneze

      • Michael
        Michael
        March 20, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

        How does a car, no matter how ultra, become a vampire?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          March 20, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

          You never heard of the Batmobile?

          • wererat
            wererat
            March 20, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

            oh we all know that poser’s just an emo kid.

        • Nee Hou
          Nee Hou
          March 21, 2012 at 12:49 pm | #

          “How does a car, no matter how ultra, become a vampire?”
          Or a Jet.

      • coobee
        coobee
        March 20, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

        I read that as Vampanzee

        Now picturing vampiric chimps

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          March 20, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

          Not gonna lie. I did too.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            March 20, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

            So did I.

            • Harrowed
              Harrowed
              March 20, 2012 at 12:56 am | #

              As did I!

              • Izzy
                Izzy
                March 20, 2012 at 1:48 am | #

                Do any of you get the reference at least? Cirque du Freak

                • Justin
                  Justin
                  March 20, 2012 at 6:40 am | #

                  Didn’t they make a shitty movie out of that? Starring Luke Wilson, Demi Moore, and Matthew McConaughey?

        • MM
          MM
          March 20, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

          Gee, thanks, it’s not like I needed to sleep tonight. If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be under my bed gibbering in terror.

          • Ancestral Hamster
            Ancestral Hamster
            March 20, 2012 at 1:15 am | #

            AH HA! You’re a gibbon!

        • Just for kix
          Just for kix
          March 20, 2012 at 4:48 am | #

          I can watch a movie with vampiric chimps

          • Justin
            Justin
            March 20, 2012 at 6:40 am | #

            Wasn’t that the premise of Outbreak?

            I’ll be completely honest here…I don’t watch many movies.

        • LWS3
          LWS3
          March 20, 2012 at 7:03 am | #

          For some reason that made me think of the old Tarzan movies with his trusty vampiric chimp sidekick Cheetah: “Me Tarzan, you …… AAARRRGGGHH!!!”

      • BrokenEye, True False Prophet
        BrokenEye, True False Prophet
        September 18, 2015 at 7:30 pm | #

        Is that similar to a gorillacula?

    • greenday61892
      greenday61892
      March 20, 2012 at 1:59 am | #

      Well she sure as hell ain’t a grampire.

      • moonracer
        moonracer
        March 20, 2012 at 5:03 pm | #

        Or a Glampire.

  3. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    March 20, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    SOLAR FLARE!!!

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      March 20, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

      SOLARBEAM!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        March 20, 2012 at 12:42 am | #

        Billie used FLASH
        Amazi-Girl flinched

        • Stephen Bierce
          Stephen Bierce
          March 20, 2012 at 1:14 am | #

          COL. HENRY BLAKE: All right Trapper!–Don’t think I don’t know what you think I don’t know! (–M*A*S*H the TV series, of course)

          • Stephen Bierce
            Stephen Bierce
            March 20, 2012 at 1:14 am | #

            OOPS. Replied to the wrong thread. I don’t like this interfaaaaaaaaace much.

          • Justin
            Justin
            March 20, 2012 at 6:41 am | #

            Trapper was my least favorite character.

            My favorite was Spearchucker, from the movie.

            • moonracer
              moonracer
              March 20, 2012 at 5:08 pm | #

              Trapper was great, way better than Hunnicutt. And the movie was sad, everything went downhill when Alda started directing and everything got all sappy. Still good just not as good.

        • thomas0comer
          thomas0comer
          March 20, 2012 at 3:29 pm | #

          C-c-c-combo breaker!

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      March 20, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

      Taiyōken…!…?

  4. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    March 20, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Nope still wrong.

  5. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    March 20, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Billie, Billie, Billie, haven’t you learned anything? In order to learn a super hero’s real identity, you have to shoot her. Which should only knock her out, because super heroes are weird like that.

  6. toddtr
    toddtr
    March 20, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Ha, she went out the window.

    • CWR
      CWR
      March 20, 2012 at 6:53 am | #

      Maybe she was delivered Ceasarian section?

  7. Creatorx2
    Creatorx2
    March 20, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Sal’s double-life is falling apart!

  8. mechaqua
    mechaqua
    March 20, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    So Amazi-Girl is a Black Lattern eh… well were all doomed.

    • Alex Stritar
      Alex Stritar
      March 20, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

      No way, her outfit isn’t dark enoough. Plus, the lantern symble isn’t infused with her logo. XD

      • mechaqua
        mechaqua
        March 20, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

        Eh true, although it would be a better explanation on why Amazi-Girl is weak against light.

        Beacuse at this point Amazi-girl can essentially be taken out by a mag-light

  9. MR C
    MR C
    March 20, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    so….it’s come to this….

    • Izzy
      Izzy
      March 20, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      Please e-mail my dad a shark

      • StClair
        StClair
        March 20, 2012 at 4:24 am | #

        Instead of shark e-mail contained bobcat.

        • Fred
          Fred
          March 20, 2012 at 9:05 am | #

          Would not buy again.

    • Steven
      Steven
      March 20, 2012 at 3:41 am | #

      xkcd is not funny.

      • NotShane
        NotShane
        March 20, 2012 at 4:10 am | #

        Hey, my first comment.
        #%@# you.

      • AJBulldis
        AJBulldis
        March 20, 2012 at 7:17 am | #

        xkcd is sometimes funny.

        • Natalie
          Natalie
          March 20, 2012 at 3:43 pm | #

          XKCD is almost always funny and frequently touching and/or hilarious. And to answer your question I studied English in college and dropped out of my chemistry class. However I did marry a wonderfully brainy computer guy 🙂

  10. jareds
    jareds
    March 20, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    Even in this universe, Sal has a thing for Danny. Dude’s a stud.

    • Aydr
      Aydr
      March 20, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

      …you mean like… she always did? Her first love?

  11. Khantalas
    Khantalas
    March 20, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

    Sal hasn’t trademarked window escapes, Billie. This doesn’t prove anything.

    • Henry
      Henry
      March 20, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

      IT’S BATMAN!

      • NightEmerald
        NightEmerald
        March 20, 2012 at 6:34 am | #

        Somehow you screaming Batman and AppleJack screaming and pointing makes that comment better.

    • MM
      MM
      March 20, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

      Okay, quick, somebody create a trademark application on Sal’s behalf.

  12. JA
    JA
    March 20, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    YOU SAW NOTHING!

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      March 20, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      YOU KNOW NOTHING!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        March 20, 2012 at 12:44 am | #

        HOGAAAAN! *shakes fist*

  13. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    March 20, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    She’s gonna look at the bed, and see Sal asleep. Calling it now.

    • Izzy
      Izzy
      March 20, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      She’s gonna look in the bed and see Joyce asleep. Calling it later

      • wererat
        wererat
        March 20, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        she’s gonna look in the bed and find them both asleep.
        …i’m not calling that.

        • bargamer
          bargamer
          March 20, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

          You might not call it, but I’ll ship it. 😀

        • lightsabermario
          lightsabermario
          March 20, 2012 at 2:47 am | #

          She’s gonna look at the bed, and see Mike and your mom. With his penis. For a nickel.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      March 20, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

      She’s gonna look at the bed and realise that she is in the wrong damn room.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        March 20, 2012 at 12:51 am | #

        Dina! You were there?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          March 20, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

          She is ALWAY there.

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            March 20, 2012 at 1:49 am | #

            Always where? If you said behind the door, you win!

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            March 20, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

            Not exactly what I was expecting, but close enough!

      • Usayasha
        Usayasha
        March 20, 2012 at 12:54 am | #

        She’s going to look in her bed, and see herself sleeping.
        Dun-dun-DUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        • ryan
          ryan
          March 20, 2012 at 9:13 am | #

          she’s going to look in her bed, and see that she was on earth this whole time!

    • CWR
      CWR
      March 20, 2012 at 6:57 am | #

      She’s going to look under the bed and see Ryan sleeping with the fishes. Calling for backup.

  14. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    March 20, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    So it WAS Colonel Mustard. In the kitchen. With a candlestick!

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      March 20, 2012 at 12:52 am | #

      Why is it always the candlestick?

      • Usayasha
        Usayasha
        March 20, 2012 at 12:56 am | #

        Because the revolver is too easy, and the lead pipe sounds too sexual.
        No one wants to get involved with Colonel Mustard’s lead pipe.

        Mr. Green, on the other hand…

        • Zababcd
          Zababcd
          March 20, 2012 at 7:35 am | #

          I didn’t even know that Ms Scarlett had a lead pipe.

          • OhHayMike
            OhHayMike
            March 20, 2012 at 9:47 am | #

            It’s more like a titanium tube, if you know what I mean…

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        March 20, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

        Colonel Mustard has candle dysfunction.

        Don’t laugh, lots of men get it at his age.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          March 20, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

          That’s what happens when you burn it at both ends.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          March 20, 2012 at 8:46 am | #

          We can wait half an hour and try again…or…

          *beat*

          *knocks out Kernanator*

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        March 20, 2012 at 1:51 am | #

        Because of it was candlejack you’d have worry about the body being-

  15. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    March 20, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

    As an aside, I’ve got finals week, and a bunch of stuff to do, so don’t be too surprised if I don’t comment much, or at all, this week.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      March 20, 2012 at 3:02 pm | #

      But. . .but . . . now what am I going to do? You are the only reason I follow the comments.

  16. Philippe G.
    Philippe G.
    March 20, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

    So what was Billie doing outside her room in the middle the night?
    …more journalism, if you know what I mean?

  17. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    March 20, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

    FRIDGE MOMENT:

    Wait, Billie had the tape recorder running… uh, the whole time? What was she gonna do, play back Danny’s O-sounds on a loudspeaker?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      March 20, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

      That would make an awesome college prank.

    • TemplarKnight
      TemplarKnight
      March 20, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

      I don’t know about you, but unless it’s going to burn the house down, or invites an unwanted observer, I don’t take a single moment away from sexy time to turn things off.

  18. historyman68
    historyman68
    March 20, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

    I love Billie’s Lois Lane expression in the last panel.

  19. mechaqua
    mechaqua
    March 20, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

    The dorm room lights are pretty damn bright. Maybe they should consider switching to fluorescent lighting or a lower wattage.

  20. MichaelHaneline
    MichaelHaneline
    March 20, 2012 at 12:51 am | #

    Well this proves it. Clearly we can all see now that Sal IS Amazigirl

  21. Aizat
    Aizat
    March 20, 2012 at 12:52 am | #

    This the first time I said this but “Called it!”

  22. Brendan
    Brendan
    March 20, 2012 at 1:02 am | #

    Seriously, Billie?

    To quote the great Sara Kim, “Will you just! Kiss her! Already?!”

  23. MGTen
    MGTen
    March 20, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

    Billie publishes an expose on the identity of Amazi-Girl aka Sal.

    Unfortunately, she looks like a fool when Dorothy reveals Amazi-Girl is actually Amber.

    Bitter and drunk. Billie stumbles into a church where Amazi-Girl is attempting to fight off an evil parasitic black Amazi-Girl outfit.

    The suit bonds with Billie, feeding on her hate and rage and turning her into one of Amazi-Girl’s worst enemies.

    • CWR
      CWR
      March 20, 2012 at 6:59 am | #

      As opposed to currently, where Billie is her own worst enemy…

  24. RandomNameGen
    RandomNameGen
    March 20, 2012 at 1:11 am | #

    Is.. Billie blushing? Or is that makeup. I wonder where she was in the middle of the freaking night too.. did she just come back from Joe’s?

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      March 20, 2012 at 8:53 am | #

      She’s got post-Reagan rosy-cheek syndrome.

      Old-school SP! fans know what I’m talking about.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        March 20, 2012 at 1:57 pm | #

        I’m not “old-school” by any means, but having binged through the SP! archive, even I know what you’re talking about.

    • ryan
      ryan
      March 20, 2012 at 9:18 am | #

      hello, let me introduce you to billie. she’s drunk all the time.

      also, everyone in DoA has rosy cheeks.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        March 21, 2012 at 1:10 am | #

        I prefer the explanation that she’s part-Reagan.

  25. TheMagicalFish
    TheMagicalFish
    March 20, 2012 at 1:33 am | #

    And then it turned out Amber wasn’t actually Amazi-Girl.

    • Maycroft
      Maycroft
      March 20, 2012 at 4:34 am | #

      Cuz everybody knows Faz is amazi-girl

    • GenericScreenName101
      GenericScreenName101
      March 20, 2012 at 5:20 am | #

      Where things turn akward when it is revieled that it was Dina who was Amazi-girl all along

  26. Locke
    Locke
    March 20, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

    Please tell me Billie becomes Amazi-Girl’s arch-rival and supervillain.

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      March 20, 2012 at 2:04 am | #

      Yes, this pleases me. She could make a dark version of her cheerleader outfit and be The Demotivator!

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        March 21, 2012 at 1:44 am | #

        😀

  27. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    March 20, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

    I’d still like to know how the two of them get out that window? Ever tried to wiggle thru one of those slot opening types, let alone ‘disappear’ thru one at the speed of light?

  28. Bekah
    Bekah
    March 20, 2012 at 3:27 am | #

    And then Billie woke up and couldn’t understand why she was in the bushes under her dorm room window wearing an Amazi-Girl costume.

    “I’m never drinking bourbon again,” she said, then chugged back on her bottle of Jim Beam.

  29. Sporkaganza
    Sporkaganza
    March 20, 2012 at 5:21 am | #

    I’m impressed how dramatic and impactful this looks even within the four-panel layout. This is good visual… comic… stuff! Good job, Willis.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      March 21, 2012 at 1:58 am | #

      Agreed! Very B:TAS.

  30. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    March 20, 2012 at 8:56 am | #

    I would just love it if Sal walked in through the door behind her and asks what’s up, reducing Billie to a gibbering mess.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      March 20, 2012 at 10:46 am | #

      Sal…walking in through a door? Obviously an impostor.

  31. Aizat
    Aizat
    March 20, 2012 at 9:10 am | #

    Again, I got a lot of Batman vibes in this strip.

  32. ryan
    ryan
    March 20, 2012 at 9:21 am | #

    panel 1 is my favorite panel of all the panels willis has paneled drawn.

    panel.

  33. Zuche
    Zuche
    March 20, 2012 at 9:38 am | #

    I Bat you all Wonder why Billie would refer to Amazi-Girl as Supergirl.

    • Izzy
      Izzy
      March 20, 2012 at 12:15 pm | #

      Much better, I think

  34. Packy
    Packy
    March 20, 2012 at 9:38 am | #

    I’m betting Sal’s asleep in the top bunk and is going to wake up and demand to know what all the noise is about.

  35. begbert2
    begbert2
    March 20, 2012 at 10:48 am | #

    The light! It burns! Hssssssssss!

  36. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    March 20, 2012 at 11:15 am | #

    What comics have taught me:

    Breaking and entering is OK if you are a costumed vigilante. It is not creepy and/or wrong.

    🙂

  37. Somebody
    Somebody
    March 20, 2012 at 3:25 pm | #

    Oh come on, it’s obviously Amber.

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      March 20, 2012 at 4:35 pm | #

      No its not. Amber wears glasses. I think it might be Joe.

  38. MGTen
    MGTen
    March 20, 2012 at 4:47 pm | #

    Gotta be Dorothy. They look exactly alike!

  39. coobee
    coobee
    March 20, 2012 at 4:49 pm | #

    I love you Billie. Never change, okay?

  40. Beachfox
    Beachfox
    March 20, 2012 at 4:52 pm | #

    I’m waiting for Sal and Amazigirl to run into each other while trying to get into/out of the same window and getting into a super-hero etiquette argument.

  41. Static Air
    Static Air
    March 20, 2012 at 5:24 pm | #

    Wow, Billie, that’s not bad guessing. You’re only off by a letter.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      March 21, 2012 at 2:26 am | #

      That “Ha” below was supposed to go here.

  42. ComicGeek11
    ComicGeek11
    March 20, 2012 at 9:07 pm | #

    Cue Lex Luther shouting “WROOONG!” …again

  43. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    March 21, 2012 at 2:12 am | #

    Ha

  44. Random New Commenter
    Random New Commenter
    March 21, 2012 at 2:22 am | #

    Bahahaha.

  45. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    March 21, 2012 at 2:36 am | #

    Heh. Ha. Hahahahahaha

  46. BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    September 18, 2015 at 7:32 pm | #

    Nah, if Sal were Amazi-Girl, she’d totally have a cleavage window

  47. Nezumi
    Nezumi
    March 19, 2016 at 3:01 pm | #

    You can literally see she doesn’t even vaguely resemble Sal, isn’t even the right race or skin tone, and you still think she’s Sal. I… Billie, I worry about you.

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