Well it has to return to the Amazi-Phone-Cave each day to get a full recharge, but it also has hidden recharge stations around campus if it needs a quick boost while chasing a bad guy… phone… phoneguy… thing.
Just be judicious with how you use your phone, and install (and use) a task killer app, and you’d be surprised how much mileage you can get out of a charge.
I was going to say the campus text alerts too, though my university didn’t have it just for fire alarms… (God, could you imagine… ugh) Only actual fires or impending weather problems.
Or that one time they thought a bomb was in the basketball arena.
Text alerts have informed me of about a half-dozen water pipe breakages. I’m halfway through sophomore year.
Freshman year, the sewage line in the basement broke as well as the water lines on the second and third floor. All down the same hallway I lived on, just every floor but mine.
I’m still dreading the day it breaks on my floor. Because it’s gonna come. I got out of it three times last year, and I’m in an older dorm this year. (And first floor flooded already.)
I can honestly say that my college campus has not sent out an actual fire alarm. The recent alerts that I can remember off the top of my head were for a couple of tsunami warnings and a flasher.
I signed up for text alerts, but they were stupid and useless.
I didn’t have a texting plan, so I had to pay for them. I thought it was worth a few cents for an occasional actual emergency, but they happened all the time so I dropped it in a week. Fire alarms? Wouldn’t be surprised.
Well, used to be in the clear. More and more they are going to digital transmissions, so if you don’t have the correct decoder you just get buzzing and weird noises.
Police Scanner App is available for free on the Google Play Store for Android Mobile users. Provided you have a savvy data plan or internet connection, you can easily tune in on your local police station.
A police scanner is just a radio receiver. If radio receivers are ever illegal, it’s time to start planning the insurgency. Now, there are restrictions about -broadcasting- on police bands, but you can listen in all you want.
Not only legal, but cheap. You can get an entry-level scanner for around $100. I use my for NASCAR races, but it will also pick up the frequencies used by police, fire, etc.
It could be Nixle. It’s what my local college uses.
As for campus fire alarms, what we get most are burnt food in the dorm kitchenettes, followed by hairspray. (Seriously. Smoke detectors are made more and more sensitive every few years. i swear soon they’ll ban beans in the cafeteria because of the detectors.)
We didn’t have kitchens in my dorms (oh, how I wished we did). It was mostly burnt microwave popcorn (seriously people, pay attention for two dang minutes).
Not necessarily. It could have been the beginning of recurring storyline wherein characters almost pull the fire alarm for their own purposes, but decide against it, coming to its conclusion when there is an actual fire, and someone pulls the fire alarm, and we learn that it’s broken – which we would have found out much earlier if only someone had pulled it.
Actually, since UF has a police text system (for example, when someone was getting stabbed on campus), there would be a text update about it to all current students.
Hence why I wasn’t surprised-although fire alarms weren’t included in that unless it was an actual fire…
Personally, I can see how someone might have serious issues with the comic, both in that it’s symptomatic of DC’s “Everything Silver Age is new again!” ethos and that “fixing” their wheelchair-using superheroine is … unfortunate. On the other hand, motherflippin’ Gail Simone.
Then an inebriated clown burst through my window and my path became clear. His novelty buzzer ring has selected me as the most appropriate being in the sector to take over his role. On a trip to the science zoo I was bitten by a radioactive elephant. To save my life the doctors had to graft solid helium to my skeleton and they also accidentally replaced my heart with a hand crank.
The cumulative trauma caused caused my latent mutations to activate, and now I am… colorblind!
Seeing the world in dull grays, Colorblind Man is more than a match for Doctor Kaleido’s hypnotic color patterns. But can he defeat his arch-nemesis, Traficklytze?
You know, it’s entirely within Amber’s power to put an end to this charade if she wants to. Danny’s clueless, sure, but he’s not the one insisting that he would never read superhero comics! Where would you get that idea? Superheroes are stupid!
Willis hasn’t confirmed anything yet. Amazigirl’s identity will be so out of left field nobody could predict it. Speculation is pointless. Even so I bet it’s Danny who relies on Singularikittty to make appearances as Amazigirl and throw suspicion off of himself.
Amazigirl doesn’t have a secret identity. Her parents named her that, she started wearing the costume as a preschooler based on it, and eventually grew into actual heroics.
Amazi-girl is actually Willis himself. He’s techincally a college student here now and it’s before he met his wife. This is all just so he can finally live out his love fantasy with Danny.
Hey, guys! ::lays out his sumo lounge SULTAN, laptop, and 3DS:: It’s great to see y’all during the weekend! Saturdays were great, but now we get Sundays too! It’s like an all-weekend party! I’m excited. You excited? It’s gonna be great! Who wants Chex Mix? Margaritas? We card. WOOOOOOOO, weekend updates!
At the parking lot party
Tailgate buzz just sipping’ on suds
Ain’t never too early..
To light one up, fill up your cup
Cause there ain’t no party like the pre-party
And after the party is the after-party
At the parking lot party.
Danny, you are not helping your case at all… Also, you and Amb… I mean, Amazi-Girl may start to give Joyce and Ethan some stiff competition for ‘Dysfunctional Couple of the Year’
When I went to university, I got text alerts about every “emergency” that happened on, or around, the campus. I am more surprised that Danny did not get an alert.
Maybe he didn’t give them his cell phone number? I have a cell phone, which I use for personal use and anything important, and an old school droid 2 that is hooked up to a VoIP service and my wifi that I use for things like school and anything I don’t want being able to constantly pester me.
Hey David,
You know what would be really cool? If you just happened to post ten more comics today. You know, just to keep us on our toes. We’d never see it coming.
Weird fact: I just bought the first DoA book at that comic store. And then stayed up until ungodly o’clock catching up with the comic online. Then found out the comic store itself is currently appearing in the comic.
From my experience as a RA lot of them were burnt-toast related.
(Some idiot designing the building put the smoke alarms in the kitchens….really? what did they expect to happen?)
They probably expected most fires to start in a kitchen, which is why you’re obligated to do that (IIRC, it’s one in the kitchen, one per floor, and one per bedroom), but the problem with dorms is that they’re so small that the normal cooking smoke doesn’t dissipate by the time it reaches the sensor.
Amazi-Girl’s savvy misleads her, then. Most dorm fire alarms are pranks, sure, but some friends of mine got booted from their dorm for several hours one morning by a 3AM fire alarm that resulted from an actual fire. (No one was hurt, but it took the fire crew a while to make sure the fire was really and truly out, and they couldn’t let anyone back in until they were sure.)
Absolute fact. It got so bad when I was in college that we all just started ignoring it and sleeping through them. Then someone started a fire in the laundry room and I said screw this a trick my way out of the final half of my dorm contract so I could live off campus.
we had fire alarms constantly because some jackass loved to nuke their popcorn. It even happend once while it was pouring rain outside and we had to stand in it for at least 30 minutes.
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Is that a police scanner app?
Probably a campus text alert system. But, who knows? Maybe it is a police scanner.
Does Amber and Amazi-Girl have the same type and colour of phone, I forgot.
I don’t know, but it’s suspicious how you never see those phones in the same place at the same time! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, PHONE.
Ambers phone is really Amazi-Phone, the mobile vigilante!
Until it run out of battery that is.
And with smart phones nowadays it will be less than a day.
Well it has to return to the Amazi-Phone-Cave each day to get a full recharge, but it also has hidden recharge stations around campus if it needs a quick boost while chasing a bad guy… phone… phoneguy… thing.
Just be judicious with how you use your phone, and install (and use) a task killer app, and you’d be surprised how much mileage you can get out of a charge.
I was going to say the campus text alerts too, though my university didn’t have it just for fire alarms… (God, could you imagine… ugh) Only actual fires or impending weather problems.
Or that one time they thought a bomb was in the basketball arena.
My college sent out an alert text because the water was going to be turned off in the history building for an hour.
Text alerts have informed me of about a half-dozen water pipe breakages. I’m halfway through sophomore year.
Freshman year, the sewage line in the basement broke as well as the water lines on the second and third floor. All down the same hallway I lived on, just every floor but mine.
I’m still dreading the day it breaks on my floor. Because it’s gonna come. I got out of it three times last year, and I’m in an older dorm this year. (And first floor flooded already.)
I can honestly say that my college campus has not sent out an actual fire alarm. The recent alerts that I can remember off the top of my head were for a couple of tsunami warnings and a flasher.
I signed up for text alerts, but they were stupid and useless.
I didn’t have a texting plan, so I had to pay for them. I thought it was worth a few cents for an occasional actual emergency, but they happened all the time so I dropped it in a week. Fire alarms? Wouldn’t be surprised.
That’s the, uh, Amazi-scanner.
Is there such a thing as a police scanner app? I’m pretty sure it’s illegal as hell to own a police scanner, so how can an app be legal?
It is not illegal at all to own a police scanner. Police activity is a matter of public record and the broadcast in the clear on public frequencies.
Well, used to be in the clear. More and more they are going to digital transmissions, so if you don’t have the correct decoder you just get buzzing and weird noises.
Police Scanner App is available for free on the Google Play Store for Android Mobile users. Provided you have a savvy data plan or internet connection, you can easily tune in on your local police station.
Here’s the link to Chicago’s police scanner. I’ve had it on my favorites for a year, it’s still legal. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/763/web/?rl=rr
A police scanner is just a radio receiver. If radio receivers are ever illegal, it’s time to start planning the insurgency. Now, there are restrictions about -broadcasting- on police bands, but you can listen in all you want.
Not only legal, but cheap. You can get an entry-level scanner for around $100. I use my for NASCAR races, but it will also pick up the frequencies used by police, fire, etc.
It could be Nixle. It’s what my local college uses.
As for campus fire alarms, what we get most are burnt food in the dorm kitchenettes, followed by hairspray. (Seriously. Smoke detectors are made more and more sensitive every few years. i swear soon they’ll ban beans in the cafeteria because of the detectors.)
– a firefighter
We didn’t have kitchens in my dorms (oh, how I wished we did). It was mostly burnt microwave popcorn (seriously people, pay attention for two dang minutes).
I feel like the bag for the Amber’s comics is a bit superfluous.
It’s clearly a baby Minecraft Creeper.
Sssssss…
Gail should totally have her first name legally changed to that, just so I can buy comics with “Motherfuckin’ Gail Simone” on the cover.
As far as I knew Gail Simone was a “nom the plume” so it’s no much of a strech XD
So, Billie went and done it.
Mayyyybeeee…
MAYBE A RANDOM FIRE BROKE OUT, YOU DON’T KNOW.
woulda been a Chekhov’s gun thing if she hadn’t.
Not necessarily. It could have been the beginning of recurring storyline wherein characters almost pull the fire alarm for their own purposes, but decide against it, coming to its conclusion when there is an actual fire, and someone pulls the fire alarm, and we learn that it’s broken – which we would have found out much earlier if only someone had pulled it.
This is Billie’s finest moment. It’s a shame she’ll get in huge trouble for it.
Actually, since UF has a police text system (for example, when someone was getting stabbed on campus), there would be a text update about it to all current students.
Hence why I wasn’t surprised-although fire alarms weren’t included in that unless it was an actual fire…
Silly Amber, just because YOU are genre savvy, doesn’t mean that Amazi-Girl is.
Who does she think she is? Amazi-Girl?
Exactly! I mean in panel 4 we can clearly see Amazi-Girl going there now
Funny, you couldn’t put that comic in my cold, dead hands.
That sounds like a dare to me.
Why not?
It would probably be out of print by then?
Personally, I can see how someone might have serious issues with the comic, both in that it’s symptomatic of DC’s “Everything Silver Age is new again!” ethos and that “fixing” their wheelchair-using superheroine is … unfortunate. On the other hand, motherflippin’ Gail Simone.
I have never wanted to legitimately choke the shit out of Billie as much as I do right now.
While the odds are that it was Billie, there is a SMALL possibility that someone else could have chosen to pull the alarm.
There’s also other ways to set off the alarm
Like the old ‘hold a cigerette lighter under the sprinkler’ trick.
Or the popcorn button on the microwave.
Or cook burgers like I tried to do today (not even lying).
I have a fire alarm next to the bathroom, if you forget to shut the door properly, the steam sets of the alarm.
That happened to me once, back when I was just starting to switch over from baths to showers.
or set the floor on fire
The floor is lava?
At least it’s daytime. And not raining. Or snowing. Or twenty below.
You cannot blame Kerny, after all he lost his beloved chiapet in a tragic fire-alarm prank. -__-
A pulled fire alarm shot my parents in an alley when I was 8.
Is that before you discovered an empty warehouse full of novelty condoms and pledged your life to fight the forces of cheap college pranks?
Yes, and thus ends the origin story of Captain Condom.
Then an inebriated clown burst through my window and my path became clear. His novelty buzzer ring has selected me as the most appropriate being in the sector to take over his role. On a trip to the science zoo I was bitten by a radioactive elephant. To save my life the doctors had to graft solid helium to my skeleton and they also accidentally replaced my heart with a hand crank.
The cumulative trauma caused caused my latent mutations to activate, and now I am… colorblind!
Too silly even for Stan Lee.
but not for thenew 52
Seeing the world in dull grays, Colorblind Man is more than a match for Doctor Kaleido’s hypnotic color patterns. But can he defeat his arch-nemesis, Traficklytze?
Kernanator = Batman
So far, I’ve been George Takei, President Obama, and now Batman.
I lead a very storied life.
Oh, and Ruth too.
We should all hope to live lives as storied as yours, President Brucekernaruth Hussein Waynakeibama.
Kinky.
I want to choke-slam her against a wall, then make out with her.
That’s normal courtship behavior, right?
Only if Billie was a klingon.
Hmm, I think Billie would have noticed a bat’leth in Ruth’s closet.
… Ruth? We’ve been worried about you!
Wait, people are angry at Billie? She totally did a not-selfish thing. At worst, it’s neutral.
No, all negative effects of this are clearly on Mary. =P
I blame Sierra. This was her plan all along, the next step in her life-spanning vendetta against the fire department.
Sierra is a beautiful flower and if she wishes death upon the fire department that’s her perogative.
I blame Francis Robbins Upton and his invention!
Most seem to just upset by experience
I kind of think Danny is on the verge of fucking things up with his treatment of Amber
To be fair, he has placed Amber in the friend-zone due to the fact that he is more or less ‘dating’ Amazi-Girl, which makes sense at least.
More like in the Douche-zone.
Yep. Not much of a friend to always run off like that at the mere thought of AG being around.
He simply cannot resist the AmaziRack.
No mere mortal can resist. Many a criminal has been subdued by the allure of them.
I’m sure Amber will understand. Regular people just can’t compete with Amazi-Girl.
Gotta abandon you because there is the possibility of getting laid. You understand right? Kthx, bye!
You know, it’s entirely within Amber’s power to put an end to this charade if she wants to. Danny’s clueless, sure, but he’s not the one insisting that he would never read superhero comics! Where would you get that idea? Superheroes are stupid!
Stop being reasonable, Amber! Billie’s trying to pull the Amazi-Girl Signal here!
I am beginning to have serious doubts that Danny knows that Amber is Amazi-Girl!
She is???
Because clearly Marcie is the real Amazi-Girl, that’s why she doesn’t speak, to hide her identity better,
Because clearly Marcie is the real Amazi-Girl, that’s why she doesn’t speak, to hide her identity better.
I thought Dina was Amazi-Girl? No one suspects the quiet, demure girl as a superhero!
Right, as if you guys actually thought it wasn’t Ultra Car.
Willis hasn’t confirmed anything yet. Amazigirl’s identity will be so out of left field nobody could predict it. Speculation is pointless. Even so I bet it’s Danny who relies on Singularikittty to make appearances as Amazigirl and throw suspicion off of himself.
Amazigirl doesn’t have a secret identity. Her parents named her that, she started wearing the costume as a preschooler based on it, and eventually grew into actual heroics.
Costume?! I thought it was a full body tattoo!
Full body tattoo? You shouldn’t make fun of peoples skin conditions like that!
Amazi-girl is actually Willis himself. He’s techincally a college student here now and it’s before he met his wife. This is all just so he can finally live out his love fantasy with Danny.
Come on guys… We all know it’s Galasso. He has a split personality: a Lex Luthor-like supervillain and his archnemesis, Amazi-Girl.
So obvious…
Baby you don’t need an app to tell you where the fire’s at
Your face is perfect for that comment
Hey guess what, WE GET THE NEXT COMIC TOMORROW!!!!
Hey, guys! ::lays out his sumo lounge SULTAN, laptop, and 3DS:: It’s great to see y’all during the weekend! Saturdays were great, but now we get Sundays too! It’s like an all-weekend party! I’m excited. You excited? It’s gonna be great! Who wants Chex Mix? Margaritas? We card. WOOOOOOOO, weekend updates!
Oh boy, I taste ethanol already!
Break out the cake and soda.
That was an order.
Cake, soda, and cheetos. I like to eat my chocolate cake with cheetos. It’s good cheetos dip. Seriously.
I’ll get the polyhedral dice and character sheets!
At the parking lot party
Tailgate buzz just sipping’ on suds
Ain’t never too early..
To light one up, fill up your cup
Cause there ain’t no party like the pre-party
And after the party is the after-party
At the parking lot party.
I asked myself the exact same question as the scroll-over. Also, Batgirl is a badass and Gail writes her so well and I just love Barbara Gordon. Sigh.
Why would Danny ask why her cell would inform her about that? My college had a text alert system, too.
Considering we were right next to the ‘hood, probably a smart call on their part.
I really want her text ringtone to be the beeps from Kim Possible.
I want my text ringtone to be the beeps from Kim Possible.
That attitude is going to burn Amber, one of these days. Literally.
Joyce is covering for herself well it seems
HA!
Amber and I are one.
You should see a doctor about that.
Danny, you are not helping your case at all… Also, you and Amb… I mean, Amazi-Girl may start to give Joyce and Ethan some stiff competition for ‘Dysfunctional Couple of the Year’
School fires get Danny all hot and heavy.
It’s a burning passion.
He just wants to stare into Amazi-girl’s smoldering eyes.
I hope this isn’t meant to be a pun chain, because it’s just a list of fire/heat-related metaphors. Still, it makes it easier to join in.
Danny’s not really a bright spark, is he? This treatment of Amber may well threaten to extinguish the fiery romance between Danny and Amazi-girl.
Ideally it should stay on subject but with a pun(s) included.
Umm, Plasma, you broke the pun chain. Keep that up and you might have to be fired. Just warning you.
Ooooh BURN!
Hope you brought Burn Heal!
HOOH HAH! Whoa ho hoo there, Danny boy, where you heading all feverish?
There’s a fire, Amazi-Girl might be there!
Whoa, MAMA! Super ladies are fine enough light MY fire, let’s roast some weenies!
When I went to university, I got text alerts about every “emergency” that happened on, or around, the campus. I am more surprised that Danny did not get an alert.
Maybe he didn’t give them his cell phone number? I have a cell phone, which I use for personal use and anything important, and an old school droid 2 that is hooked up to a VoIP service and my wifi that I use for things like school and anything I don’t want being able to constantly pester me.
Hey David,
You know what would be really cool? If you just happened to post ten more comics today. You know, just to keep us on our toes. We’d never see it coming.
Weird fact: I just bought the first DoA book at that comic store. And then stayed up until ungodly o’clock catching up with the comic online. Then found out the comic store itself is currently appearing in the comic.
Fucking hell, y’all broke $42k. Mah gawd, what have you done.
Someone get the popcorn.
I’ve read Batgirl, but due to a lack of other comics in the area, I have no comparison material and no idea of its relative quality. Phoo.
Events have been set into action, now how will they play out~
(What does that sign say? Obviously it’s ‘Vintage comics’ first, but then…’New Gen Books’?)
Vintage Phoenix Comic Books
Huh. I put a link to an IDS article with a photo of the place there, but I guess the spam filter ate it? Let’s see if this works…
Ahh, makes sense! Thanks.
From my experience as a RA lot of them were burnt-toast related.
(Some idiot designing the building put the smoke alarms in the kitchens….really? what did they expect to happen?)
They probably expected most fires to start in a kitchen, which is why you’re obligated to do that (IIRC, it’s one in the kitchen, one per floor, and one per bedroom), but the problem with dorms is that they’re so small that the normal cooking smoke doesn’t dissipate by the time it reaches the sensor.
Alright guys, we’ve got Sunday updates! Now we just need $33k more for the most expensive porn you’ll probably ever buy!
Could be Danny’s signed up for safety alerts. Not sure if they’re the norm, but my college has ones that arrive by text.
…Danny? I think you meant Amber.
I have seen your avataar a bunch of times, and each time I think that is a dildo on Joyce’s head. Is that accurate.
Ask Roz.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/late/
Thank you, that was very helpful
Amazi-Girl’s savvy misleads her, then. Most dorm fire alarms are pranks, sure, but some friends of mine got booted from their dorm for several hours one morning by a 3AM fire alarm that resulted from an actual fire. (No one was hurt, but it took the fire crew a while to make sure the fire was really and truly out, and they couldn’t let anyone back in until they were sure.)
I CANNOT believe not a soul has brought up the fact Billie pulled that fire alarm……………………………………… or wonder wtf is going on with Ruth……………………….
Absolute fact. It got so bad when I was in college that we all just started ignoring it and sleeping through them. Then someone started a fire in the laundry room and I said screw this a trick my way out of the final half of my dorm contract so I could live off campus.
we had fire alarms constantly because some jackass loved to nuke their popcorn. It even happend once while it was pouring rain outside and we had to stand in it for at least 30 minutes.
I read that phone ring as Kim Possible’s Kimmunicator ring.
Sumimasen. 🙂
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