“Muahahahaha! The satellite is almost in orbit! Nothing could possibly stop me now- wait, what are you doing here?”
“I dunno. Amazi-Girl just told me to run up here while you were monologuing. She’s right behind that that soon-to-be-unconcious henchman, by the way. Wanna play cards?”
That’s why tomorrow’s strip is starting off with, “Just kidding! Hyakuretsukyaku, bongo!” and then her kicking him in the face until he melts, like Chun Li vs Apocalypse.
Hell, if it’s just getting frustrated at Cyber Akuma you’re shooting for, just download the New Age of Fighters skin pack for MvC3 and bump up the difficulty!
If you’re wanting to watch a little girl melt one of the most powerful villains of the Marvel universe with her feet, though, sorry, can’t help you, especially since Galactus does not put up with that shit.
Oh, something tragic will happen, don’t worry, but it isn’t like Amber is Cyclops and everybody’s related to her, somehow. You can tell by the absence of a disembodied floating butt in her vicinity.
That’s because Blaine isn’t Ruth and Howard’s father… he’s actually a time-traveling Howard from the FUTURE!!! Through some as yet unseen events in the big fight at the end of IW!, Howard gets thrown back in time and loses his memory. He takes the name “Blaine” and fathers Amber and Faz.
You got nothin’ on me copper, I’m just a part-time electrician! I… I… I’M THE EVIL MIDNIGHT BOMBER WHAT BOMBS AT MIDNIGHT! BAD IS GOOD BABY, DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT!!!!!
Wouldn’t that be the Zeddmore Maxim? Don’t get me wrong, I loves me some Pete Venkman as much as the next person. Winston deserves credit where credit is due though!
The predatory father recognizes that his prey has escaped him… for now. Having missed his opportunity, he marks the family group of Wilc oxen his target has taken refuge with for death, that he might have another chance later, after she has been stripped of the defense of their numbers.
And that is … oddly expected, in one way but not another.
Danny trails along oblivious as usual. Mom talks over Ambers head…etc.
But Blaine giving up like that? And Billie not knowing why she was trailing him? She saw what was going down in the hall. She should know better than to get close to him for whatever reason she’s ‘tailing’ him.
Nope not happy with this scenario.
Now a “real” comment :
I love how Amber has already identified Danny’s parents as assholes… and still rolls with it, because the alternative is her über-assohliss-deserves to be face-punched father.
I wonder if Danny’s parents were designed purely to represent DoA’s comment section’s feelings for Danny’s actions. Most of us have low expectations for Danny, his parents have low expectations for Danny.
Eh, I still think people are jumping to conclusions on Danny’s parents. I mean, yeah, they were kinda dicks off the bat, but they had just been publically embarassed by their son’s awkwardness, after which he made a joke about his brother dying. After which they didn’t believe him when he told them that he totally has another girlfriend but he can’t tell them her name or introduce them to her or tell them anything at all because reasons seriously mom and dad!
Point being, I doubt we’re seeing them at their best.
I know I am a little late bringing this up, but I’m a little confused by the layout of the college. Did Blaine and Billie have some sort of chase scene while The Benny Hill Show theme played in order to give Amber time to catch up, or was that some sort of magic staircase like in Harry Potter?
This thread has turned weird. I don’t get Blaine. Upstairs, he was perfectly fine with being aggressive towards Amber (chasing her!) even when Mr. Snow tried to stop him. He wasn’t at all inhibited about threatening Amber with Dina’s parents looking on. But now he’s suddenly stopped in his tracks by the mere sight of Danny and his parents? And Billie doesn’t know that she should get him out of the dorm? Willis, I love you and your strip(s), but WTF? I’ll grant you that the lobby is more public than the room or even the hallway, but Blaine’s acting like a deranged guy who suddenly went on his meds . . . .
Either he is a bully who won’t take on someone his own size(Mr. Wilcox looks to be the same size) or he isn’t going to risk knocking over Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox to get her.
My money is he sees he can’t get to her without doing something that lands him in prison(not just jail).
Sometimes all it takes is a strange twist to knock someone out of rage mode. I know from various instances how easily my mood can flip from minor interruptions. Telling me to “chill out” or whatever almost never does the trick, because it’s part of the narrative of anger, but something like lets say a rabbit just suddenly hops past me and I won’t even know what to think anymore (aside from being kind of embarrassed at how angry I just was).
I think Ruth’s suplex may have been the figurative rabbit here. Certainly a strange twist for a young woman to manage pulling on a fair-sized guy like Blaine. The look on his face: “Huh, that just happened…”
He’s running out of steam. Amber is giving him an uphill battle where he has to start a new fight all over again on neutral terrain. It’s not what he came for. He came in order to give her hell, but getting her served is a lot more trouble than he bargained for. He’ll probably try getting it off with Billie in an ugly manner that is within the weaseling scope of a good defense lawyer. Just for spite and kicks.
There’s also a difference for a bully like him between attacking teenage (if adult) girls who the cops might not believe since he’s got an injury to “prove” they attacked him…and going all psycho in a room full of witnesses.
The look in that first panel had better be wheels turning in your mind, Danny. It’s doubtful, I know, but if you’re going to be Amazi-Girl’s Lois you need to play the part.
Crack Theory: Danny’s parents force them to kiss in front of them, and that’s when Danny begins to grow suspicious.
If my sister was Billie right now she would have come flying in from the right of the panel screaming “SPARTA KICK” as she kicked Blaine in the chest… sometimes I love my family
The next strip is Blaine and Billie frolicking through the grass, right before Blaine realizes he has an asshole appointment with the other characters.
“Galasso sees that you have a large and potentially violent party! Would you care to rent the party room slash fighting pit of Galasso’s Pizza (And Subs)?!”
“For only $4.99 extra, you may enjoy Lord Galasso’s Thunderdome Special! Two two-topping large pizzas and any four subs of your choice, and up to three rounds of no-holds-barred combat between patrons! Two guests enter, one guest leaves!”
Just to violate everyone’s mind, Billie decides she wants to get her some of that angry sex she’s heard so much about and re-establish she’s not a lesbian.
I am so glad it didn’t end in even more violence (though it’s probably not ended and I am speaking prematurely!)
I seriously love this twist though. No public confrontation, just dbag dad realizing he can’t do this in public, Billie a bit confused, and Amber not liking her knack for violence to solve problems so she instead uses public eye and distraction to keep safe.
Excellent work, Willis, I commend you on that twist, and I love the story so far (even the unsettling parts).
Although oddly enough, the more psycho one seems to treat his subjects with some degree of kindness. I mean in between the soul crushing between his iron fist and boot.
Quick impression, to those who find Blaine’s behavior unrealistic :
He did pushed Amber to her limits but he wasn’t physically violent toward her, She was the one to hit him, and he still did not immediatly retaliate. He ran after her her only after she fleed the room and when he attacked Ruth it was because she made him lost his temper (and he had already been hit) … the only thing I find werid is why is just left after Ruth smashed him on the floor ….
but for the rest of the story, it seems pretty legit to me : Ruth hasn’t had time to alert security, he can still ran more or less freely on the corridors and he won’t just start a fight with amber without at least a pseudo excuse ….
which doesn’t mean he isnt a shit stain tha deserves being beaten up.
That, and he might have even been more winding up to shove Ruth out of the way to continue chasing Amber than actually attacking her. Once he was past her he didn’t have any reason to stick around.
Blaine is a person who mostly relies on intimidation. If a shorter, younger girl managed to throw him over her head, there really isn’t any chance of intimidating her. I think he probably ran away from Ruth in surprise, then continued looking for amber
He would really look bad if he just ran up and sucker punched his doter in front her “boyfriend” and his parents.
Also I dont think amber and Dorothy are that similar, if anything there completely differant , Dorothy is the hard working over achiever who has no time for anything but her work.wile amber burns away the day living out side of reality,sherks responsibility.
The only similarities they have is that they both have glasses that’s it, although Dorothy is bit slimmer than amber and amber is curvier and…wait what was I talking about?
Sorry, that was kinda reflexive, and I feel it looked rude, so to flesh that out: I don’t know what level of school you’re at or if English is your first language, but FYI, it’s spelled “daughter”, not “doter”.
Those weren’t insults, they were qualifiers. If you were particularly young, or if English isn’t your first language, “doter” is understandable. Of course, if you’re not, then I’m judging you now. DEAL WITH IT.
Looking back, Billie’s actions actually make sense.
She was in Ruth’s room looking for the approved parent list when Blaine go thrown, she probably didn’t have enough time to check if he was on the list, and her only instruction was trail him and crush him between her thighs IF he gives HER any trouble.
It would appear that people have forgotten that there’s still a wild Rosenthal Sr. roaming the campus with ex-Mrs. Blaine…
Blaine will unwittingly let his guard down just long enough to get blindsided by proximity.
— OR —
Billie: “Dang… that’s two people I’m following around campus these days, and still nothing to show for it.
Blaine: [Confused] “Two?… who’s the other?”
Billie: “Oh, just some off-her-rocker student who wears a mask and a cape and goes around all ‘vigilante-style’ like she’s a super-hero or something… been trying to expose her for weeks, with nothing to show for it.
Blaine: Hrm? super-hero wannabe, eh?… *evil smile at the realization* Guess my daughter never outgrew her pathetic childhood fantasies of ‘playing the hero’ when she was younger.
Billie: “What are you talking about? I already know who it is…it’s my roommate – all I need now is solid proof to take to the editor.”
Blaine: “Don’t be too sure about that, little girl… I think I know who your mystery ‘super zero’ is – and I’m going to get you that proof you wanted.
Billie: [Cautious air] “I’m listening…”
— END SCENE —
Implications are wide…
– Billy gets the scoop
– Blaine’s and even bigger douche for exposing Amber
– The whole campus finds out about Amazi-girl first, before Danny
– Danny has to decide if he’s gonna like Amber afterall or just ‘Dan it up’ and bongo and moan that he found out last and back out of the whole thing.
– Amazi-girl’s post-vigilante-streak enemies all come looking for payback with nowhere for her to hide.
Seems thematically inappropriate to resolve this situation with violence, as commenters have suggested, just considering Amber’s reaction to the uppercut. Also, he just might be the kind of bitter fuck to actually stop paying Amber through college. Beating him up would only encourage such a decision.
ha, perfect excuse for why he didn’t want to introduce them. He can claim he was embarrassed to show them his new girlfriend who looks almost exactly like his old girlfriend.
Their haircuts and glasses are not entirely dissimilar, and they’re about the same height, but other than that they don’t look much alike. Amber’s face is heart-shaped whereas Dorothy’s is more oval or oblong, and Amber is a lot curvier.
They looked more similar early on, I think. I suspect Willis has been deliberately accentuating the differences.
It just occurred to me that Danny going for the Amber without glasses is kind of out of character.
When you look at differences, don’t just say “Oh, her chin’s pointy and her chin’s not.”
As an overall package, compared to the wild degree of diversity we see both in the comic and in real life, the girls are very similar. Yes, Amber has a pointy chin and yes, Dorothy is less curvy. But then, they’re both curvier girls–a shape I’ve heard called “chubby-cute”. The exact degree of curviness doesn’t matter, simply that they share a similar distribution of features. Neither is athletic, or rail thin, or very heavy, or pear-shaped, or hourglass-shaped, or V shaped.
The fact that they have slightly different jaw shapes or breast sizes doesn’t matter when they have very, very similar silhouettes.
I’m not Willis, but Danny’s a comp sci major, which you generally don’t attempt if you suck at teh skuul. I’m guessing he’s average-to-fairly-bright, and just lacking in social awareness. Amazigirl is probably meant to be a psychological blind spot. Or Willis is just deliberately and unironically playing on the lois lane thing. I mean, it isn’t like anybody -else- that has seen both Amber and Amazigirl has put two and two together.
Y’know. Amber has a bit more numbers in the curve department. And personally, a hell of a lot better in the personality department. Now, as for Billie… I am severely disappointed in her. The lack of thig use has completely upset me.
I feel…I feel so lost.
I’ve been reading this nonstop from the beginning since I discovered this last night.
On my phone
Ignoring my husband over dinner
Multi tasking and reading it on my computer while playing games
Reading it in bed
And now I’M CAUGHT UP. What am I supposed to do with myself now? *sob*
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…that was certainly unexpected.
Really good move, though, to stay in the public eye. Looks like Amber has planned this one out very well.
oh wait maybe you meant Billie’s lack of killing him softly with her thighs.
Perhaps killing him thoftly with her thong?
I both love and hate you for that one.
That gravitar was perfect for that comment.
It’s certainly an anti-climatic end to Billie’s chase.
If she had a nickle the would have been climaxic.
yep staying in public to avoid your sociopathic control freak abusive possibly rapist father….
Billie x Blaine
Now Billie, I’m IT!
^Cousin It 😛
…that was fast.
Fast but not premature. 😀
Ah, so it’s happened to you all the time then? 😛
You know my secret, now I must shave and hide in society
Gool !
Cue canned laughter.
http://www.myinstants.com/instant/sitcom-laugh/
*tag*
Billie, this is why Amazi-Girl never returns your calls.
You’re the worst vigilante ever.
She’ll never become Amazi-Girl’s sidekick at this rate.
Imagine if she was.
“Muahahahaha! The satellite is almost in orbit! Nothing could possibly stop me now- wait, what are you doing here?”
“I dunno. Amazi-Girl just told me to run up here while you were monologuing. She’s right behind that that soon-to-be-unconcious henchman, by the way. Wanna play cards?”
If Danny is Lois Lane, Billie just nominated herself for Jimmy Olsen.
Jimmy Olsen, who Ruth’s brother kinda-sorta looks like, who Blaine kinda-sorta looks like but angry. IT ALL MAKES SENSE!
It does? Where does tag come into this?
THIGHS, Billie.
THIGS.
CRUSH HIS SKULL LIKE SPARROW’S EGG BETWEEN YOUR THIGHS
/slaps thigh
Oh god, I loved that.
Thanks man.
But then I asked myself, “Why must you crush man’s skull like sparrow’s egg between thighs?”
Be Ivan Drago in rocky IV and crush him.
… his face with your femurs and then joe him with your penis.
… and then get a nickel from his mom?
YOUR CHEERLEADER THIGS
ALL YOUR THIGS ARE BELONG TO US
CONGRATURATHIGS
THIS THIGGY IS HAPPY END
THANK YOU
Danny’s parents are willing to take what they can get.
Well I was mad for you for dumping Dorothy, but now I see you were just trading your old one in for a new one.
Make sure this one has a warranty though
They do seem to appreciate the new paint job, at least.
Yeah. Dorothy 4 wasn’t able to play video game software like the new Dorothy 5.
Plus their both Unix based!
But does this model have a burning desire to go into politics?
The politics programs are really bad in the update. I just gave up on trying to use it.
Well at least they fixed the “dump you for sculpted caramel” bug.
“New hubcaps!”
“…Er, what?”
“Nothing. Tell us more about computer science.”
Maybe, after dinner, they’ll go outside and kick the tires to make sure Danny’s not being cheated.
If my parents were to appreciate any jobs my girlfriend did … I’d consider that pretty weird! 😉
They’re Danny’s parents, they’re used to settling for what they can get.
oh snap!
“Isn’t she…”
“…able to hear what we’re saying right over her head? Yeah, and I’m okay with that.”
They’re so mean, and she’s okay with that.
Goddamnit, Garrus.
“You know, I’m starting to understand why Danny has some issues, given that you guys are his role models…”
“Hey! Rude!”
“Somehow I’m okay with that.”
yeah but she is more concerned with using this to get out of blaine’s clutches
You’re supposed to use your Chun Li cheerleader moves on him now, Billie! Weren’t you listening to Ruth?
Billie, kick in his spine like it’s Ruth’s door!
Kick as many times as you kicked the door too. Yes, I know he’s dead, keep going. :3
Stop, stop, he’s already dea….on second thought…..KICK THAT SON OF A bongo!
Sadly, all she heard was “Wah wah wah wah wah”.
She was too busy staring into her pretty green eyes.
And then the Cosmic Owl came in and said “You blew it!”.
That’s why tomorrow’s strip is starting off with, “Just kidding! Hyakuretsukyaku, bongo!” and then her kicking him in the face until he melts, like Chun Li vs Apocalypse.
Great, now I wanted to dust off my PS1 and play Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter….and getting frustrated at Cyber Akuma.
Hell, if it’s just getting frustrated at Cyber Akuma you’re shooting for, just download the New Age of Fighters skin pack for MvC3 and bump up the difficulty!
If you’re wanting to watch a little girl melt one of the most powerful villains of the Marvel universe with her feet, though, sorry, can’t help you, especially since Galactus does not put up with that shit.
…Billie, offering this man a fifth of whiskey which you no longer have any use for would be more useful than this. My face, she is palmed.
So wait, is the hover text suggesting that Blaine is Ruth’s and Howard’s actual father?
*sigh*, no.
Okay good, just making sure nothing else tragic happens.
Oh, something tragic will happen, don’t worry, but it isn’t like Amber is Cyclops and everybody’s related to her, somehow. You can tell by the absence of a disembodied floating butt in her vicinity.
I give this comment an A
but what a twist that would be!
Yeah except we already know Ruth’s parents are deceased so its kind of not probable at all.
Amber’s dad seems like he’s basically dead on the inside…
so…
That doesn’t really mean anything in fictionland.
That’s because Blaine isn’t Ruth and Howard’s father… he’s actually a time-traveling Howard from the FUTURE!!! Through some as yet unseen events in the big fight at the end of IW!, Howard gets thrown back in time and loses his memory. He takes the name “Blaine” and fathers Amber and Faz.
Or just thrown across universes. Maybe he’s not this universe’s Howard, he’s some OTHER universe’s Howard.
It’s actually implied in this one that Faz isn’t his actual progeny. But I digress.
(this one=this continuity, not this strip, I mean)
Denied! Head canon.
Y’all can say what you want about Danny, but you have to admit that he does “trailing along behind, bewildered” like an ‘effin PRO.
He’s not even there. His mind is basically a blank slate at the moment.
Not a blank slate so much as a Bart Simpson-chalkboard-style repetition of “Amazi-Girl will never forgive me for this.”
We’re going to have to wait even longer for Blaine’s comeuppance, aren’t we.
DAMN YOU, WILLIS.
There is no comeuppance, only Zuul.
I AM THE THIGHMASTER.
I AM THE BOOZEKEEPER.
I AM THE NIGHT.
I *am* Iron Man.
I AM SPARTACUS.
I AM THE EGGMAN
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
I am the walrus! Coo coo could chew.
No! I’m SPARTACUS!
I’m Brian and so’s my wife!
I AM MEGATRON!!!
I am the squall. The ONCOMING STORM. You cannot escape me. Only delay my arrival. Be wary. Be afraid.
I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!
I AM HE WHO WALKS BEHIND
I am the Scourge of God! If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
I am the shadow that flaps in the night!
I’m Larry. This is my brother Darryl. This is my other brother Darryl.
And I’m Javert!
I’M THE DOCTOR!
I AM THE GATE KEEPAH! AND I’M GOING TO PUNISH YOU BY SENDING YOU MAGGOTS TO THE BLAGOLE.
I AM THE BACON IN THE FRIDGE FOR ALL MEN TO CRY OUT IN HUNGER
*I AM THE BRAINWASHERRRRRRR…*
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!
I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE.
You got nothin’ on me copper, I’m just a part-time electrician! I… I… I’M THE EVIL MIDNIGHT BOMBER WHAT BOMBS AT MIDNIGHT! BAD IS GOOD BABY, DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT!!!!!
I think I am, therefore I am!
Are you a god?
Yes!
Oh good, you followed the Venkman Maxim.
Wouldn’t that be the Zeddmore Maxim? Don’t get me wrong, I loves me some Pete Venkman as much as the next person. Winston deserves credit where credit is due though!
I’m Batman.
I am Weasel!
Huh, he’s unexpectedly calm right now…anyone else tilting their heads in confusion?
Ditto.
We’ve temporarily tripped over from Drama to RomCom. He’s still evil, but he needs to take time out for jokes.
He and Billie will be playing chess backstage for most of the next act until it’s time for them to get back in costume
If by ‘playing chess’ you mean ‘hate banging’ and by ‘get back in costume’ you mean ‘put back on their hastily removed clothes’… then yes. All my yes.
I told you guys. Danny’s family is basically Blaine’s “Swiper no Swiping”
::nasal fox voice:: Aww, maan!
Maybe he’s planning to hit that?
Phrasing!
The predatory father recognizes that his prey has escaped him… for now. Having missed his opportunity, he marks the family group of Wilc oxen his target has taken refuge with for death, that he might have another chance later, after she has been stripped of the defense of their numbers.
Meanwhile, a confused cheerleader approaches…
Use Rope!
Kinky
Eh, feels like the pace of this storyline died out rapidly.
Lots of build-up and no pay-off, and all that.
So Ruth is Amazi-Girl’s half sister? CRIKEY!
Oh right cuz you’re an Aussie.
Yes, but not many young Aussies use terms like that anymore.
But will they still slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for the American tourists?
You’re far more likely to see snags and/or chops than any prawns at the average Aussie barbie.
Plasma Mongoose are you both an Aussie and blonde Amber?
Plasma Mongoose is all.
The answers are Yes and Yes for the moment. 😀
That was supposed to be a response to Geminia999’s post.
And that is … oddly expected, in one way but not another.
Danny trails along oblivious as usual. Mom talks over Ambers head…etc.
But Blaine giving up like that? And Billie not knowing why she was trailing him? She saw what was going down in the hall. She should know better than to get close to him for whatever reason she’s ‘tailing’ him.
Nope not happy with this scenario.
I consider this a “next time Gadget” sort of moment. Amber won the battle, but the war appears FAR from over.
BEAT HIM WITH HIS OWN BLOODY FEMURS, BILLIE
BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
Before going to bed, let’s just have a look at the newest DOA comments ….
Wait, why do I not recognise this strip …
oh shit, I’ve already wasted thewhole night drinking, haven’t I …
well, At list I’ll be one the “””first””” ones to post a comment
… because drunk comments still count
*clink*
A toast from one drunk-ass DOA junkie to another.
Santé !
GODDAMMIT, BILLIE!
So was anyone else hoping that Billie would kick Blaine so hard in the testicles that they became chesticles?
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It would knock his nuts into his pelvis and smash his penis concave and he will become a woman. And blaine would not be a pretty woman
I can see it with my mind’s eye, drawn Willis style, and it is hilarious.
Another word that comes to mind is “perky”.
So, they’re just pieces of shit to everybody. Good to know…
The only reason the other parents are so terrible is so we don’t all hate the Wilcoxen more.
Even with a bigger asshole literally within view, the Wilcoxen are no more likable than they already aren’t.
Tag him with a roundhouse kick to the face!
TO THE FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Now a “real” comment :
I love how Amber has already identified Danny’s parents as assholes… and still rolls with it, because the alternative is her über-assohliss-deserves to be face-punched father.
I wonder if Danny’s parents were designed purely to represent DoA’s comment section’s feelings for Danny’s actions. Most of us have low expectations for Danny, his parents have low expectations for Danny.
Eh, I still think people are jumping to conclusions on Danny’s parents. I mean, yeah, they were kinda dicks off the bat, but they had just been publically embarassed by their son’s awkwardness, after which he made a joke about his brother dying. After which they didn’t believe him when he told them that he totally has another girlfriend but he can’t tell them her name or introduce them to her or tell them anything at all because reasons seriously mom and dad!
Point being, I doubt we’re seeing them at their best.
I know I am a little late bringing this up, but I’m a little confused by the layout of the college. Did Blaine and Billie have some sort of chase scene while The Benny Hill Show theme played in order to give Amber time to catch up, or was that some sort of magic staircase like in Harry Potter?
Uh, Amber slid down a railing. Slide > running down stairs any day.
Maybe Blaine went the wrong way down a dorm hallway, while Amber slid down the banister of the fire escape, which led straight down to the lobby.
I prefer the Benny Hill chase scene idea. But what would be even better would be a Scooby Doo chase scene.
WAT.
THE.
ACTUAL.
EAGLE.
AMERICA!!!
MALKIER!!!
This chain went wrong somewhere…
PENCIL!!!
This thread has turned weird. I don’t get Blaine. Upstairs, he was perfectly fine with being aggressive towards Amber (chasing her!) even when Mr. Snow tried to stop him. He wasn’t at all inhibited about threatening Amber with Dina’s parents looking on. But now he’s suddenly stopped in his tracks by the mere sight of Danny and his parents? And Billie doesn’t know that she should get him out of the dorm? Willis, I love you and your strip(s), but WTF? I’ll grant you that the lobby is more public than the room or even the hallway, but Blaine’s acting like a deranged guy who suddenly went on his meds . . . .
. . . or is this all part of Willis’s — I mean, Blaine’s dastardly plan . . . ???
My vote says he recognizes someone.
Danny’s parents are Blaine’s mafian bosses?
Either he is a bully who won’t take on someone his own size(Mr. Wilcox looks to be the same size) or he isn’t going to risk knocking over Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox to get her.
My money is he sees he can’t get to her without doing something that lands him in prison(not just jail).
Maybe a couple minutes of running burned off some adrenaline?
Sometimes all it takes is a strange twist to knock someone out of rage mode. I know from various instances how easily my mood can flip from minor interruptions. Telling me to “chill out” or whatever almost never does the trick, because it’s part of the narrative of anger, but something like lets say a rabbit just suddenly hops past me and I won’t even know what to think anymore (aside from being kind of embarrassed at how angry I just was).
I think Ruth’s suplex may have been the figurative rabbit here. Certainly a strange twist for a young woman to manage pulling on a fair-sized guy like Blaine. The look on his face: “Huh, that just happened…”
He’s running out of steam. Amber is giving him an uphill battle where he has to start a new fight all over again on neutral terrain. It’s not what he came for. He came in order to give her hell, but getting her served is a lot more trouble than he bargained for. He’ll probably try getting it off with Billie in an ugly manner that is within the weaseling scope of a good defense lawyer. Just for spite and kicks.
There’s also a difference for a bully like him between attacking teenage (if adult) girls who the cops might not believe since he’s got an injury to “prove” they attacked him…and going all psycho in a room full of witnesses.
Billie, I am disappoint.
Not surprised though.
The look in that first panel had better be wheels turning in your mind, Danny. It’s doubtful, I know, but if you’re going to be Amazi-Girl’s Lois you need to play the part.
Crack Theory: Danny’s parents force them to kiss in front of them, and that’s when Danny begins to grow suspicious.
If my sister was Billie right now she would have come flying in from the right of the panel screaming “SPARTA KICK” as she kicked Blaine in the chest… sometimes I love my family
FLYING SPARTA KICK!!!!!
Now with more Vesuvius volcanic power!
Huh, Amber really does look like a brunette Dorothy. Can’t believe that didn’t cross my mind.
Especially since that was a plot point for a while early on.
The next strip is Blaine and Billie frolicking through the grass, right before Blaine realizes he has an asshole appointment with the other characters.
Now I want to see this!
Poor Blaine. He has such a hard job being an unlikable fuck. All he wants to do is sit in a field and make daisy chains.
So Billie will have been deputized and relieved in the same day.
Man, Danny’s parents continue to be terrible people, don’t they?
Although I like to think that they’re just exhausted from all of the sitcom-like cluelessness their son has displayed over the years.
And with those words, Amber sets at least four volatile families on a collision course straight for Galasso’s Pizza (And Subs)!
Galasso Pizza (And Subs): 4 out of 5 families prefer it for violent confrontations!
“Galasso sees that you have a large and potentially violent party! Would you care to rent the party room slash fighting pit of Galasso’s Pizza (And Subs)?!”
“We also have a colosseum at Galasso’s Pizza (and Subs) for our special guests”
“For only $4.99 extra, you may enjoy Lord Galasso’s Thunderdome Special! Two two-topping large pizzas and any four subs of your choice, and up to three rounds of no-holds-barred combat between patrons! Two guests enter, one guest leaves!”
I think you meant “Galasseum.”
Just to violate everyone’s mind, Billie decides she wants to get her some of that angry sex she’s heard so much about and re-establish she’s not a lesbian.
Wow thanks for that imagery.
Sexual tag, now with more violence and loathing of self and lover (hater!)
Brb, vomiting forever.
I … b … bleeeuaaargh !!!!
“brain bleach proceeding”
blain breach proceeding, also
You’d better thank my animation teacher for giving me so much homework that i don’t have time to draw this (or anything, really)
Do it 😉
Too much HOMEWORK.
No Excuse!
We demand!
It is import!
You’re an animation student? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
Btw, I am too!
And, of course you give us this mental image on the one day of the week when I can’t get alcohol on the way home from work.
Bastard…
You’re welcome! Muahahahaha!
THE IMAGES, MAKE THEM GO AWAY.
How does she look like Dorothy? Her boobs are clearly bigger!
And she has yet to lecture them about how she has ambitions so much higher than marrying their son!
Or dump Danny… but there’s still time
Eating a candy bar is an ambition higher than marrying DANNY.
She looks like Dorothy in the same way that Superman sort of looks like he could be the President.
If that’s true, then she looks quite a bit like Dorothy!
http://comicsalliance.com/bizarro-back-issues-the-strange-amnesia-president-superman/
So is Dotty black now?
I am so glad it didn’t end in even more violence (though it’s probably not ended and I am speaking prematurely!)
I seriously love this twist though. No public confrontation, just dbag dad realizing he can’t do this in public, Billie a bit confused, and Amber not liking her knack for violence to solve problems so she instead uses public eye and distraction to keep safe.
Excellent work, Willis, I commend you on that twist, and I love the story so far (even the unsettling parts).
Interesting. Blaine seems kinda washed out here. No threats. No crazy eyes.
He is too distracted by “the” Billie!
Hey, I am distracted by the Billie too.
She was a cheerleader! Clearly that’s what’s being recognized here.
Well…that and her “ahem” Assets!
Ah, yes, her…talent is pretty prominently displayed there.
And there is nothing wrong with that, mind. It’s very solid talent.
Very buoyant talent, too.
Not one post yet about a Billy/Blaine ship?
I’m disappointed internet.
You missed Pyr05 comment just a few comments up.
That he did. I feel I did a service on Labour Day now.
Yes, the service of making room in my stomach.
Good call. I did miss it, I just did a quick ctrl+f for various takes on “ship”, rather than reading everything.
Apparently the internet does not fail, just my heuristics.
I think Hitler said it best: Nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
So, is she taking them to Galasso’s?
More weird persons ahead Amber
Prepare the the act natural mode to try to keep Danny’s parents happy :charge up noise:
There’s a weird personality symmetry between Blaine-Amber and Galasso-Conquest. Psycho-dad and force of nature daughter.
Although oddly enough, the more psycho one seems to treat his subjects with some degree of kindness. I mean in between the soul crushing between his iron fist and boot.
Quick impression, to those who find Blaine’s behavior unrealistic :
He did pushed Amber to her limits but he wasn’t physically violent toward her, She was the one to hit him, and he still did not immediatly retaliate. He ran after her her only after she fleed the room and when he attacked Ruth it was because she made him lost his temper (and he had already been hit) … the only thing I find werid is why is just left after Ruth smashed him on the floor ….
but for the rest of the story, it seems pretty legit to me : Ruth hasn’t had time to alert security, he can still ran more or less freely on the corridors and he won’t just start a fight with amber without at least a pseudo excuse ….
which doesn’t mean he isnt a shit stain tha deserves being beaten up.
That, and he might have even been more winding up to shove Ruth out of the way to continue chasing Amber than actually attacking her. Once he was past her he didn’t have any reason to stick around.
Blaine is a person who mostly relies on intimidation. If a shorter, younger girl managed to throw him over her head, there really isn’t any chance of intimidating her. I think he probably ran away from Ruth in surprise, then continued looking for amber
Billeie, thou hath only one job…..
Well, until very recently, that one job was to get drunk and take her shirt off. She’s just not quite used to her new employment paradigm yet.
“Hast.” …or really, “had.”
Unless he meant to keep it present tense.
I guess Billie doesn’t remember Ruth distinctly saying “This guy probably isn’t supposed to be in the building”.
well… right then… that was a tad anticlimactic. Ah well, i’m sure there’s plenty more where this left off, just with other families.
He would really look bad if he just ran up and sucker punched his doter in front her “boyfriend” and his parents.
Also I dont think amber and Dorothy are that similar, if anything there completely differant , Dorothy is the hard working over achiever who has no time for anything but her work.wile amber burns away the day living out side of reality,sherks responsibility.
The only similarities they have is that they both have glasses that’s it, although Dorothy is bit slimmer than amber and amber is curvier and…wait what was I talking about?
“daughter”.
Sorry, that was kinda reflexive, and I feel it looked rude, so to flesh that out: I don’t know what level of school you’re at or if English is your first language, but FYI, it’s spelled “daughter”, not “doter”.
….you know, it was just fine when you gave me the proper spelling of daughter, you did not haft to add in the insults
That’s what happens when people explain themselves. Remember kids, explaining yourself is for scrubs.
Those weren’t insults, they were qualifiers. If you were particularly young, or if English isn’t your first language, “doter” is understandable. Of course, if you’re not, then I’m judging you now. DEAL WITH IT.
Looking back, Billie’s actions actually make sense.
She was in Ruth’s room looking for the approved parent list when Blaine go thrown, she probably didn’t have enough time to check if he was on the list, and her only instruction was trail him and crush him between her thighs IF he gives HER any trouble.
Billie and Blaine are totally gonna do it.
Ew
*hork*
I am ok with this!
I’m a big sucker for characters who break out of their defined “roles” in the story– it shows a writer who isn’t using shortcuts.
It would appear that people have forgotten that there’s still a wild Rosenthal Sr. roaming the campus with ex-Mrs. Blaine…
Blaine will unwittingly let his guard down just long enough to get blindsided by proximity.
— OR —
Billie: “Dang… that’s two people I’m following around campus these days, and still nothing to show for it.
Blaine: [Confused] “Two?… who’s the other?”
Billie: “Oh, just some off-her-rocker student who wears a mask and a cape and goes around all ‘vigilante-style’ like she’s a super-hero or something… been trying to expose her for weeks, with nothing to show for it.
Blaine: Hrm? super-hero wannabe, eh?… *evil smile at the realization* Guess my daughter never outgrew her pathetic childhood fantasies of ‘playing the hero’ when she was younger.
Billie: “What are you talking about? I already know who it is…it’s my roommate – all I need now is solid proof to take to the editor.”
Blaine: “Don’t be too sure about that, little girl… I think I know who your mystery ‘super zero’ is – and I’m going to get you that proof you wanted.
Billie: [Cautious air] “I’m listening…”
— END SCENE —
Implications are wide…
– Billy gets the scoop
– Blaine’s and even bigger douche for exposing Amber
– The whole campus finds out about Amazi-girl first, before Danny
– Danny has to decide if he’s gonna like Amber afterall or just ‘Dan it up’ and bongo and moan that he found out last and back out of the whole thing.
– Amazi-girl’s post-vigilante-streak enemies all come looking for payback with nowhere for her to hide.
1. Step one – Chase Blaine
2. Step two – Catch Blaine
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!
Seems thematically inappropriate to resolve this situation with violence, as commenters have suggested, just considering Amber’s reaction to the uppercut. Also, he just might be the kind of bitter fuck to actually stop paying Amber through college. Beating him up would only encourage such a decision.
Then he’d go to prison. Totally worth it.
ha, perfect excuse for why he didn’t want to introduce them. He can claim he was embarrassed to show them his new girlfriend who looks almost exactly like his old girlfriend.
So am I the only one who doesn’t think Amber and Dorothy look alike?
Nope.
Their haircuts and glasses are not entirely dissimilar, and they’re about the same height, but other than that they don’t look much alike. Amber’s face is heart-shaped whereas Dorothy’s is more oval or oblong, and Amber is a lot curvier.
They looked more similar early on, I think. I suspect Willis has been deliberately accentuating the differences.
It just occurred to me that Danny going for the Amber without glasses is kind of out of character.
Could be they sound similar, too. We don’t get that sense out here in outside-the-comic-land.
When you look at differences, don’t just say “Oh, her chin’s pointy and her chin’s not.”
As an overall package, compared to the wild degree of diversity we see both in the comic and in real life, the girls are very similar. Yes, Amber has a pointy chin and yes, Dorothy is less curvy. But then, they’re both curvier girls–a shape I’ve heard called “chubby-cute”. The exact degree of curviness doesn’t matter, simply that they share a similar distribution of features. Neither is athletic, or rail thin, or very heavy, or pear-shaped, or hourglass-shaped, or V shaped.
The fact that they have slightly different jaw shapes or breast sizes doesn’t matter when they have very, very similar silhouettes.
Question for Willis. Is Danny intelligent, in the sense of school smarts?
I’m not Willis, but Danny’s a comp sci major, which you generally don’t attempt if you suck at teh skuul. I’m guessing he’s average-to-fairly-bright, and just lacking in social awareness. Amazigirl is probably meant to be a psychological blind spot. Or Willis is just deliberately and unironically playing on the lois lane thing. I mean, it isn’t like anybody -else- that has seen both Amber and Amazigirl has put two and two together.
Y’know. Amber has a bit more numbers in the curve department. And personally, a hell of a lot better in the personality department. Now, as for Billie… I am severely disappointed in her. The lack of thig use has completely upset me.
Panel 5
Blaine: Clever Girl!
“Curses, foiled again!”
I feel…I feel so lost.
I’ve been reading this nonstop from the beginning since I discovered this last night.
On my phone
Ignoring my husband over dinner
Multi tasking and reading it on my computer while playing games
Reading it in bed
And now I’M CAUGHT UP. What am I supposed to do with myself now? *sob*
He’s going to follow them there and cause a scene, isn’t he?
That last panel is a rare one where Blaine doesn’t look like evil incarnate.
Alt-text: Is Howie yet another half-sibling of Amber’s…?