It looks like she’s on a second story. It depends on how she lands and what she lands on, but it’s unlikely she’ll be seriously injured. When I was a kid I jumped out my second story window; it hurt, but no lasting damage. I landed on my feet in bushes. I probably could have landed in a better position and I don’t think I was wearing shoes.
If she lands head-first on concrete, she could be in trouble, but with her physical prowess I doubt she’d do that. It looks like she’s possibly jumping for a tree.
It’s possible she’ll hurt her ankle or something in the landing, limp slightly while running off, and they’ll have another clue about who Amazi-girl is. Just a thought.
Is this the first strip to have two distinct chapter tags here? And yeah, it seems like an odd place to begin a new chapter, but also so intriguing (for reals).
It’s back to “The Only Dope For Me Is You” now. Willis mentioned on Twitter earlier that he’d forgotten to upload this strip; I’m guessing that when he did he forgot to set it back to the older chapter.
That actually sounds like a kinda awesome concept for a super hero. They are immune to anything that their enemies announce will surely defeat them.
It would be like those golden age comics where the bad guys must loudly exclaim everything that’s happening in the panel. “Ha, now I have you Stupendo-Lad, even you cannot survive a blast from my Q-Ray!…Zounds! My ray is bouncing right off his flesh! Impossible!”
Eventually the criminals of the city will learn that they have to be really encouraging and supportive of the hero to even stand a chance. “I’m sure there’s no way I can shoot you, you are way too fast!…Rocky, don’t bother hitting him with that iron bar, can’t you see how awesome he is?”
“Oh, big, big mistake, really huge. Didn’t anyone ever tell you there’s one thing you never put in a trap, if you’re smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.”
I thought you were being genuine and went through all the effort of researching it for you (i.e. copying and pasting into google). Then I felt stupid, because I remember the line myself, now that I’ve been told the source.
Wednesday’s strip: Walky paints a cliff on a billboard. Amazi-Girl tears right through the billboard and keeps running. When Walky tries to follow her he enters his own painting and falls off the cliff.
Though “Free Transformers” would probably work better. Under a big box, propped up with a stick and a rope attached.
*THUNK*
Dorothy: Ha! We got her!
Walky: It’s…some dude with dark hair?
Ethan: What’s going on? I just wanted to grab this Hot Shot that was lying here.
Dorothy: Nice try, Amazi-Girl!
Friday:
We find out that she slapped a magnet on Tailgate last week, and now she puts on a pair of roller skates and whips out a giant horseshoe magnet.
How many college campuses have carts full of straw just sitting around unattended nowadays? She’ll probably have to land in an open keg of beer or something.
Me too! And I randomly (and apparently coincidentally) was just thinking about that line the other day. Then, boom, in DoA. Another reason for me to love this comic.
Good plan. Splitting up is how cops deal with guys who go for the roofs. It takes less energy to spread out a bit and keep a guy in sight than it does for a dude to climb his way up on a rooftop and sprint across buildings. Policy in my city is basically to keep up with the guy as casually as possible on the ground and let them exhaust themselves rather than chase them up on the roof. Since the dude isn’t batman or spidey they will eventually run out of connecting buildings and have to come back down, which will take more energy and make the guy easy to nab.
I’m assuming Amber knows a few things about the terrain around here she can use to her advantage, though.
When your pursuit that’s mostly for your own personal gain causes someone to perform a dramatic leap from a rooftop, it’s time to stop chasing and just let her get away. Of course, Amber’s the one putting herself in danger, but there’s a clear path for Walky and Dorothy to stop her putting herself in danger, at least for now.
At what point do you become responsible for others?
Also she totally could have backtracked, she could have thought of them splitting up. Doubling back, gets rid of one, and ditching one person, would have been easier.
That depends on your own personal sense of morals. Some people would be uncomfortable with trying to forcefully find out her secret identity, so never would have started this investigation. Some people would have stopped chasing her before now out of concern for her safety. Some people would argue that she does this sort of thing anyways, so she’s bound to hurt herself and if she does now (with two people who can immediately call for help), it’s actually safer than if she hurt herself while attempting to apprehend criminals who might take advantage of it to hurt her even more or somewhere that it’d take far longer to get help.
Right now, I don’t think Dorothy considers herself as responsible for AG’s actions. She’s not actually forcing AmaziGirl to do this. As pointed out, AG could have made safer choices while still evading them. If AG does seriously injure herself, though, (not just a broken bone, but a long hospital stay, etc) I wonder what that would do to Dorothy. She may feel deep guilt and even be horrified that she let her selfish desires drive someone to injure themselves that badly. I don’t think she’s the kind of person who would be able to brush it off as “She made her choice, it’s not my fault”. I don’t really foresee the comic GOING that direction, though.
Everybody’s underestimating Amazi-Girl’s real power, lining that costume with a ton of padding. She is gonna land right on her back, get up and run it off like it ain’t no thang.
There are two extremely depressing possibilities here:
Amber makes the jump, runs away, and W&D never find her. Danny continues to ignore her, so she retreats more and more into Amazi-girl for security. eventually Mike/Ethan finds her dressed as Amazi-girl crying. Amber decides to switch colleges because she can’t handle the emotional strain. Hilarity ensues.
Amber then suddenly breaks her leg horribly. Her secret comes out and she is mentally scarred, and Danny locks himself in his room out of shame. Blaine is given custody of Amber when she is tried in court of vigilantism. Amber attempts suicide. Hilarity ensues.
I thought of something more depressing for the first option:
Amber makes the jump, runs away, and W&D never find her. Danny continues to ignore her, so she retreats more and more into Amazi-girl for security. eventually Mike/Ethan finds her dressed as Amazi-girl crying. Amber runs away in her costume and doesn’t come back for 3 days. Later she is found dead under a bridge. Hilarity ensues.
Actually, sometimes. Did he abuse Amber or just her mom? If he’s only in trouble for abusing her mother, then the courts will say “Well, he didn’t abuse Amber”. I’m not exaggerating, I know people who’ve had this happen and have to share custody with an abusive man who may hurt their children. The courts are way too obsessed with the nuclear, heteronormative family and “Parents’ Rights” (because, y’know, kids don’t have the right to be safe or anything) sometimes.
I know someone whose ex was put in jail for molesting his son. He now has unsupervised visitations and overnights (where the son stays the night with the man) with that same son. 🙁 If she refuses to let him go (even if the son refuses to go)- she could get in trouble with the courts for violating the visitation agreement.
Amazi-girl then forgot to fall.
Unfortunately, she also never learned how to fly.
She instead floated for several hours, until the fire department was called for a very large ladder.
Physics was not pleased with her and wrote her an angry letter, detailing why it thought she should apologize.
She never read the letter as physics has notoriously bad handwriting, and it was never sent.
Unfortunately, physics violated causality(of course, stupid physics. Only you.) and sent the letter after Amber read it. The Vogon Beaurocracy League had a conniption fit, and in fact 6 of the top-scoring beaurocrats in the country suffered fatal heart attacks. Fortunately for them, they had neglected to fill in the proper paperwork for death, so they will be revived. In any case, this is a sad day for beaurocracy fans everywhere.
Now I’m desperately trying to remember if Amber appears in any of the previews for the strips in the upcoming months, ’cause I don’t see this ending well…
…Hoping that it does, but I have a feeling it won’t.
I don’t remember when it’s supposed to show up, but there was a panel on Willis’ tumblr showing Amazi-girl sitting and maybe crying in the rain.
So as long as precipitation stays away of of this chase scene she should be good.
There is a difference between “Spree shooters tend to be male” and “if this person who has problems were male, they would be a spree shooter”, because clearly, the only necessary and sufficient quality Amber is lacking to be a murderer is a penis.
Yes, because clearly people who are such dastardly vigilantes that they won’t throw the first punch against an unrepentant criminal and respond to vandalism by cleaning the vandalized property and returning it are ticking time bombs just waiting for a moment to murder innocents.
the same mentality that pushes Amber to try and “clean up” the world around her is the same mentality that leads some men to fucking kill a bunch of strangers – the world has wronged them somehow, and they are going to Get Even and Make them Pay. this is just a different direction.
the same mentality that pushes Amber to try and “clean up” the world around her is the same mentality that leads some men to fucking kill a bunch of strangers – the world has wronged them somehow, and they are going to Get Even and Make them Pay.
the difference being that men are basically told from childhood that the appropriate response is to fuck shit up – don’t take that, kick his ass, etc.
no, i’m implying that Amber is deeply fucking damaged and is acting out in incredibly unhealthy ways. it is fortunate that she does not have to deal with expectations of masculine aggression, which could push someone to act even more dangerously.
” In 1988, Laurie Dann, age 30, shot young children in Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois. At Penn State University in 1996, 19-year-old Jillian Spencer, who was trained in the Army Reserve as a sharpshooter, opened fire on random students. Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student at Louisiana Technical Institute, killed two classmates in 2008. Finally, in 2010, Professor Amy Bishop shot six colleagues in the biology department at the University of Alabama. “
Amazi-girl was out of breath from picking up Billie between the legs and running down the hall with Billie on her shoulders. Muscular Cheerleaders are not light people.
I’m betting on the tree we kinda saw to the left a few strips ago. Swing down to the ground and leave them all behind. Or sprain an ankle and be helped back into her room by a concerned W&D.
Walky isn’t really a ‘sabatoge their happiness so they never leave me’ kind of guy. Helping Dorothy accomplish her goals makes her happy, so Walky helps. Even if it’s just a temporary thing no reason he shouldn’t do his best.
I’m pretty sure that if Walky sabotaged this and Dorothy noticed, she would dump him even sooner. Right now, there’s the possibility that they’ll grow very close in the next two years and be able to maintain a long-distance relationship. Heck, Walky’s smart, he might even apply to transfer with her (I’m sure his parents would be fine with him going to an Ivy League School).
It’d disturbing that you think long-term relationship success is based on sabotaging your significant other. That’s a healthy viewpoint.
David, you are clearly not drawing enough comics. I’d like to pitch you another one.
It’s called “Chase Scene”, it’s a MWF comic, and the plot line is that people chase each other. There’s some laughs (one of the quarries slipped on a bananapeel) there’s some drama (off the edge of a cliff) there’s some tears (into a wood chipper).
Really everything people are looking for in a comic. Come on, you should do it. For the exposure.
Why do you think they’re being chased? See, each story would have a deep backstory that would be subtly revealed. Possibly without any dialogue at all.
Someone could catch a cheating spouse. A cop could run after an addict. A grandmother could assault her grandson for playing the devil’s music!
Ha, yesterday when people were calling Amber’s skills unbelievable, I was all like, “Well it’s not like she’s flying around or something!” Oh Willis, you little scamp.
The girl in the last panel is a dummy. Not that Amazi-Girl’s a dummy. She’s a smarty. She set up some kind of a dummy as a decoy and escaped. The dummy is now rocking or falling down.
The posture’s suspiciously stiff. The face looks too round. And the eyes are mostly covered, probably because if Willis drew the dummy’s blank, lifeless eyes it would have been a clear giveaway.
Um, no, that’s a pretty stock “leaping” action pose, dude, and you can see her winding up for it in the panel before, in which Walky has a clear view of her.
Or maybe she doesn’t want Walky to figure out that she’s actually Amazi-Girl. It would be a mistake to let him figure out that she can be in two places at once (dummies, perhaps?), and that this chase is all an elaborate ruse to keep suspicion of her secret identity at a minimum. When both she and Amazi-Girl disappear on the roof and aren’t seen, Walky starts to put two and two together to get the four that she’s not a mild-mannered president-in-grooming, but instead a manic-mannered superhero with a passion for JUSTICE!
But in all gravity, you’re right. To Dorothy, being as Type-A as she is, what Walky is saying probably sounds like ‘well, we can’t get her now.’ Instead of what he’s actually saying which is ‘we can’t get her that way.’ In the heat of the moment, she’s voicing her concern that Walky is just holding her back from her ambitions.
Which, in general, Walky doesn’t have a place in Dorothy’s very specific plans. He’s helping her now, but it’s probably stewing in her mind that he is just a distraction from doing the things that she needs to do to attain what she wants.
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Amazi-Torpedo!
Torpedos are known for sinking ‘ships’ possibly including the Dotty/AG one.
As long as Dotty/Walky can fit on the ship I’m down!
Dotty/Walky/AG…
Mmmm… caramel on white bread…
That would make me the best damned torpedo ever.
Now that I think of it, she actually looks like one of those figureheads.
You know, the kind they put on ships…
Who sold her the damned jet-pack???
I’M A GOLDEN GOD!!
A “shiny” golden God
I’M ON DRUUUUUUUUGS!
“I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!”
…Actually, she did lose a shoe, didn’t she?
Rah! I am a kraken from the sea
I AM A STEGOSAURUS
IT WORKED! MY TIME MACHINE WOR-
I GET THIS REFERENCE
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
So…Amber can fly?
It’s not flying, it’s falling with style!
Amber is impressive! The Amazi-Girl thing may be a symptom of her unprocessed psychic trauma, but her physical condition is in top shape!
Unless she did this from too high a height which causes her great injury.
At this point, I kinda hope she does end up injuring herself…
(not severely tho)
So amber learns how reckless she is being!
Considering her hands didn’t shatter from that first flip like they should have, she’ll probably be okay.
It looks like she’s on a second story. It depends on how she lands and what she lands on, but it’s unlikely she’ll be seriously injured. When I was a kid I jumped out my second story window; it hurt, but no lasting damage. I landed on my feet in bushes. I probably could have landed in a better position and I don’t think I was wearing shoes.
If she lands head-first on concrete, she could be in trouble, but with her physical prowess I doubt she’d do that. It looks like she’s possibly jumping for a tree.
It’s possible she’ll hurt her ankle or something in the landing, limp slightly while running off, and they’ll have another clue about who Amazi-girl is. Just a thought.
It’s falling, but missing the ground.
Wonder if she’s actually dumb enough to pull that off. They say the proper frame of mind and the ability to distrac… oh… a SQUIRREL!
Maybe she can only jump hella high?
Aim for the bushes?
There wasn’t even an awning nearby or anything.
“Even the Flash can fly!”
“I can…?”
No. Jump good.
Wait, when did we start chapter 2 of book 4?
Just now, it seems.
Really? Mid-chase scene?
Is this the first strip to have two distinct chapter tags here? And yeah, it seems like an odd place to begin a new chapter, but also so intriguing (for reals).
It’s back to “The Only Dope For Me Is You” now. Willis mentioned on Twitter earlier that he’d forgotten to upload this strip; I’m guessing that when he did he forgot to set it back to the older chapter.
It’s a literary technique called “in media race”.
If you did that on purpose, I hate you.
It’s ‘en medias res’.
An average cow?
in media res – Latin not French
Great, now its clear I’m old enough to translate simple Latin.
So called because the scene begins with a character racing away from the media.
…and it’s a double
Not anymore, apparently!
Amazi-Girl is immune to criticism. Also, to being cornered.
Dammit, that’s exactly what I was going to post.
Saying your cornered is a criticism and since it’s based on fact, Amazi-Girl temporarily becomes immune to facts (such as the existence of gravity).
broken bones are a form of criticism
specifically, they are your bones criticizing you for doing whatever broke them
but Amazi-Girl is immune to criticism
ERGO IPSO FACTO E PLURIBUS UNUM Amazi-Girl is immune to criticism
QED BOOMSAUCE
Technically, wouldn’t it be the pain from breaking your bones, and NOT the broken bones themselves, that would be the form of criticism you speak of?
That actually sounds like a kinda awesome concept for a super hero. They are immune to anything that their enemies announce will surely defeat them.
It would be like those golden age comics where the bad guys must loudly exclaim everything that’s happening in the panel. “Ha, now I have you Stupendo-Lad, even you cannot survive a blast from my Q-Ray!…Zounds! My ray is bouncing right off his flesh! Impossible!”
Eventually the criminals of the city will learn that they have to be really encouraging and supportive of the hero to even stand a chance. “I’m sure there’s no way I can shoot you, you are way too fast!…Rocky, don’t bother hitting him with that iron bar, can’t you see how awesome he is?”
What would his superhero name be? Super-Supportive-Lad? Self-Esteem-Boy? Moral-Boost-Man?
Amazi-girl
And Gravity.
I’m sorry, but no one is immune to the combined charms of Clooney and Bullock.
But what of electromagnetics?
I hope for her sake that more than just her boobs are immune to gravity.
Otherwise she’d be painfully suspended by her boobs in midair.
Concidering how many superheroines have gravity-defying boobs, I’m a little surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
Are you sure you’ve thought this through? No bouncing?
Well, college is a place of learning.
And its about time we learned to fly
How the hell did Amber learn to fly?
I’m guessing this is where the grappling hook comes in
I’m hoping that this is not where she discovers that Dina borrowed her grappling hook.
This is the next panel. Calling it now.
Oh, fudge, I forgot all about that. O_O
Indiana University, apparently. Go figure.
Not flying. JUMP GOOD.
“Oh, big, big mistake, really huge. Didn’t anyone ever tell you there’s one thing you never put in a trap, if you’re smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.”
Have an Internet on me!
No-scratch that. Have them all!
“and what would that be”
Bees
My god!
Damn you, internet, and your obscure references. How the hell am I supposed to have any idea what that’s from?
I thought you were being genuine and went through all the effort of researching it for you (i.e. copying and pasting into google). Then I felt stupid, because I remember the line myself, now that I’ve been told the source.
it’s from you
Lies! He stole the saying from one of my Dalek comrades.
A door?
That answer works so well with your Dina avatar. Not only does she hide behind doors, but it is adorably literal minded.
Yep. Amazi-Girl is too Amaze…i-girl.
I’m guessing there’s a grappling hook
Amazi-Girl: “Oh, I”m cornered, huh? Corner deeze.”
Walky: “You can’t say that! You don’t have balls!”
*she’s just substitutes balls for boobs.*
“Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits”
Did you not see the Amazi-strap on three strips ago?
This will not end well.
It may not end well, but with a little luck it will end awesome.
Maybe she lands on Blaine and breaks his neck making it awesome and traumatic at the same time.
Are those background people behind Dorothy in panel 4 taking pictures of Amazi-Girl with their phones?
More like too many not-speed lines! Everybody knows it’s speed lines and speed lines alone that make pictures exciting.
Wait. The comment disappeared. What happened to the comment. I am not insane, I was definitely responding to somebody.
Wouldn’t YOU like to know?
I’d say I would as well, but I just let these things go.
*shrugs*
Willis the comment ninja must have assassinated a comment he didn’t like again.
Amazi-girl continues to Amaze. Where did she learn this stuff? Ninja school?
Like LiaHansen said in a previous comment, “Indiana University.”
That’s where she learns this stuff.
Next strip: Walky paints a tunnel on the wall. Amazi-Girl goes right through. When Walky tries to follow her he crashes into it.
Wednesday’s strip: Walky paints a cliff on a billboard. Amazi-Girl tears right through the billboard and keeps running. When Walky tries to follow her he enters his own painting and falls off the cliff.
On Thursday: Dotty breaks out the Free Birdseed.
Though “Free Transformers” would probably work better. Under a big box, propped up with a stick and a rope attached.
*THUNK*
Dorothy: Ha! We got her!
Walky: It’s…some dude with dark hair?
Ethan: What’s going on? I just wanted to grab this Hot Shot that was lying here.
Dorothy: Nice try, Amazi-Girl!
Friday:
We find out that she slapped a magnet on Tailgate last week, and now she puts on a pair of roller skates and whips out a giant horseshoe magnet.
Saturday: Amazi-Girl delivers a pizza to Coffee of Doom.
Sunday: Amazi-Girl breaks through the time-stop bubble surrounding Mechanicsburg.
Monday, AG defeats the Red Robot on Diesel Sweeties.
Now unless she shows up on Girls with Slingshots, I’m covered.
“What you don’t know is…I’M A TORPEDO”
But torpedos don’t fly…
They seem to be flying just fine to me.
Such a badass moment!
Flying torpedoes = cruise missiles.
Amazi-Girl is immune to criticism
Already covered.
But is she still contagious?
I TOLD YOU IT WAS ASSASSIN’S CREED! She’s even doing the Assassin’s dive!!!
How many college campuses have carts full of straw just sitting around unattended nowadays? She’ll probably have to land in an open keg of beer or something.
Just then, a plant sciences student walks by with a cart of straw…
… That’s what plant science majors are, right? Medieval farming? Yeah, that sounds right in my head.
It’s only one story. She can tumble.
I predict Amazagirl gets hurt and is exposed. It’s how Ninga Rick is introduced into this continuity.
“My cabbages!!!”
Hmmm. If you put a pile of straw next to a building, how many freerunners will try to jump off the building into it?
Or a giant pile of leaves.
I was also saying it was Assassin’s Creed! 😀
I keep getting the Misfits theme song stuck in my head.
Skulls? We Are 138? Braineaters?
Echoes, by The Rapture
Good thing she played all that Assassin’s Creed.
Lets hope that there is a bale of hay beneath her!
After she lands in it she’ll CQC Walky and Dorothy into it.
Is that anything like the Space CQC that is used in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san?
Not enough Crowbars.
Unfortunately doesn’t work on fork attacks!!!
Is… is your avatar an effeminate Naruto?
Dorothy is a Lost fan, eh?
Glad I’m not the only one who thought so!
Me too! And I randomly (and apparently coincidentally) was just thinking about that line the other day. Then, boom, in DoA. Another reason for me to love this comic.
Here’s hoping she doesn’t fall off the library building and end up in a wheelchair.
No but seriously where does one go to learn to do these things?
It seems like she’s studied parkour. NO IDEA where you go to learn it, but enough people know how. Google could probably tell you…
While drawing this sequence I learned that the half of Youtube that isn’t AMVs set to Linkin Park music is entirely parkour howtos.
yes, draw this chase scene forever.
Can’t tell if sarcasm or sincerity. Either way. Yes, keep on doing that.
utter sincerety. I was so sincere sicncerety was coming out my eyeballs.
On a separate note, that was a pretty nice negotiation between Dotty and Walky, huh? They make a great team, I have to admit!
Super teams face off. DOTWALKY vs BILLIERUTH!
Good plan. Splitting up is how cops deal with guys who go for the roofs. It takes less energy to spread out a bit and keep a guy in sight than it does for a dude to climb his way up on a rooftop and sprint across buildings. Policy in my city is basically to keep up with the guy as casually as possible on the ground and let them exhaust themselves rather than chase them up on the roof. Since the dude isn’t batman or spidey they will eventually run out of connecting buildings and have to come back down, which will take more energy and make the guy easy to nab.
I’m assuming Amber knows a few things about the terrain around here she can use to her advantage, though.
Not to mention her grappling hook.
So you’re saying your local cops are completely unprepared to deal with Spiderman or Batman.
Right. So basically like exactly like the cops in Marvel New York or Gotham respectively.
I doubt many cops prepare to combat fictional characters.
LEAP OF FAITH!!!!
Walky and Dorothy chase down a vigilante Amber. Yeah, that other Willis universe is dead to me now, this is the one true continuity.
I agree. (Also helps Dina is alive in this one)
I, for one, support the comic forever being Chasing of Age.
Here, here!!
Chasing of A-G, please.
*slow clap*
That’s a disturbingly appropriate sequence of avatars.
When your pursuit that’s mostly for your own personal gain causes someone to perform a dramatic leap from a rooftop, it’s time to stop chasing and just let her get away. Of course, Amber’s the one putting herself in danger, but there’s a clear path for Walky and Dorothy to stop her putting herself in danger, at least for now.
At what point do you become responsible for others?
Also she totally could have backtracked, she could have thought of them splitting up. Doubling back, gets rid of one, and ditching one person, would have been easier.
That depends on your own personal sense of morals. Some people would be uncomfortable with trying to forcefully find out her secret identity, so never would have started this investigation. Some people would have stopped chasing her before now out of concern for her safety. Some people would argue that she does this sort of thing anyways, so she’s bound to hurt herself and if she does now (with two people who can immediately call for help), it’s actually safer than if she hurt herself while attempting to apprehend criminals who might take advantage of it to hurt her even more or somewhere that it’d take far longer to get help.
Right now, I don’t think Dorothy considers herself as responsible for AG’s actions. She’s not actually forcing AmaziGirl to do this. As pointed out, AG could have made safer choices while still evading them. If AG does seriously injure herself, though, (not just a broken bone, but a long hospital stay, etc) I wonder what that would do to Dorothy. She may feel deep guilt and even be horrified that she let her selfish desires drive someone to injure themselves that badly. I don’t think she’s the kind of person who would be able to brush it off as “She made her choice, it’s not my fault”. I don’t really foresee the comic GOING that direction, though.
NEXT STRIP SHE FALLS ON A GUY DRESSED AS A HONEY BUN!
CALLING IT NOW!
Walky: “and by speed, I mean uppers”.
Amphetamine abuse? In college?!?!
That would put this entire comic in a terrifying and exhilarating new light.
It would certainly be one heck of a drama tag.
Maybe she has one of those Nolan Batman capes on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdIxE9tqO0
Everybody’s underestimating Amazi-Girl’s real power, lining that costume with a ton of padding. She is gonna land right on her back, get up and run it off like it ain’t no thang.
Or she doesn’t need padding, exactly like Blane easily got up when Ruth flipped him.
…like father, like daughter!
Is this the part where she transforms into a jet and flies away to stab Megatron in the back?
No, no, no, she’ll turn into a jet and bomb the Russians. Then she decides to crash into the sun.
suddenly we discover Amazigirl can actually fly
And then it turns out she can actually fly.
Nothing so far has proven she can’t.
Imagine Rooftop Run is playing during this.
Amber needs to do tricks so she can fill up her boost meter.
What, no Yakkity Sak?
There are two extremely depressing possibilities here:
Amber makes the jump, runs away, and W&D never find her. Danny continues to ignore her, so she retreats more and more into Amazi-girl for security. eventually Mike/Ethan finds her dressed as Amazi-girl crying. Amber decides to switch colleges because she can’t handle the emotional strain. Hilarity ensues.
Amber then suddenly breaks her leg horribly. Her secret comes out and she is mentally scarred, and Danny locks himself in his room out of shame. Blaine is given custody of Amber when she is tried in court of vigilantism. Amber attempts suicide. Hilarity ensues.
I thought of something more depressing for the first option:
Amber makes the jump, runs away, and W&D never find her. Danny continues to ignore her, so she retreats more and more into Amazi-girl for security. eventually Mike/Ethan finds her dressed as Amazi-girl crying. Amber runs away in her costume and doesn’t come back for 3 days. Later she is found dead under a bridge. Hilarity ensues.
OR, Amber makes the jump, and keeps running until she runs into another character. Dorothy and Walky continue their chase.
Because that’s how social services and the legal system work. They put the mentally fragile into the custody of known abusers.
Well they’re not meant to work like that, buuuuttttt…
If she’s 18, she’s not going to anyone’s custody.
Possibly police custody.
Actually, sometimes. Did he abuse Amber or just her mom? If he’s only in trouble for abusing her mother, then the courts will say “Well, he didn’t abuse Amber”. I’m not exaggerating, I know people who’ve had this happen and have to share custody with an abusive man who may hurt their children. The courts are way too obsessed with the nuclear, heteronormative family and “Parents’ Rights” (because, y’know, kids don’t have the right to be safe or anything) sometimes.
I know someone whose ex was put in jail for molesting his son. He now has unsupervised visitations and overnights (where the son stays the night with the man) with that same son. 🙁 If she refuses to let him go (even if the son refuses to go)- she could get in trouble with the courts for violating the visitation agreement.
It’s a depressing scenario. Depressing scenarios don’t need to be any more realistic than the comic they exist in.
So she’s pushing off the wall of the building? Damn you Willis, we can’t even see where she’s aiming to grab or land!
Dorothy should just give up and become her evil arch nemesis, then Amber would have to come to her.
She aims for George of the Jungle’s nemesis.
Nemesi.
Aneneme.
Nemeses!
That’s an easy one. I knew it before I even saw the discussion on the matter between Captain Amazing and Cassanova Frankenstein.
Amazi-girl then forgot to fall.
Unfortunately, she also never learned how to fly.
She instead floated for several hours, until the fire department was called for a very large ladder.
Physics was not pleased with her and wrote her an angry letter, detailing why it thought she should apologize.
She never read the letter as physics has notoriously bad handwriting, and it was never sent.
Unfortunately, physics violated causality(of course, stupid physics. Only you.) and sent the letter after Amber read it. The Vogon Beaurocracy League had a conniption fit, and in fact 6 of the top-scoring beaurocrats in the country suffered fatal heart attacks. Fortunately for them, they had neglected to fill in the proper paperwork for death, so they will be revived. In any case, this is a sad day for beaurocracy fans everywhere.
You win a soon-to-be-turned-into-an-interstellar-bypass Internet!
I agree, this chase scene is super fun! 😀
Go A Go!
Listening the “Hall of the Mountain King” while reading this whole chasing arc is super awesome. And what music plays in your head, when you read it?
Good choice, Flight of the bumble bee works well too. 😀
hard core parkour!
Fly Amber, fly!
Now I’m desperately trying to remember if Amber appears in any of the previews for the strips in the upcoming months, ’cause I don’t see this ending well…
…Hoping that it does, but I have a feeling it won’t.
Hasn’t Willis told us nobody dies in DoA?
Three words:
Persistent.
Vegetative.
State.
shiiiiiiiiiiiit
Pretty sure she does.
I don’t remember when it’s supposed to show up, but there was a panel on Willis’ tumblr showing Amazi-girl sitting and maybe crying in the rain.
So as long as precipitation stays away of of this chase scene she should be good.
This is why sneak previews of future events are bad!
Who said it wasn’t a flashback to the first time she wore the costume?
Dorothy and Walky don’t realise her invisible jet is parked just off the side of the building there.
So color me impressed, she really is an unstable living weapon trying to live and work around normal students, this can’t possibly go wrong.
I would not want her in my classroom.
If she were a dude, she would have just shot the place up by now.
woah excuse me
that is racist against dudes
discriminatory against the gender that has perpetrated what percentage of mass shootings in the U.S.?
literally FIND me a woman who committed a mass shooting in the U.S. in the last 30 years.
I’ll let you look.
There is a difference between “Spree shooters tend to be male” and “if this person who has problems were male, they would be a spree shooter”, because clearly, the only necessary and sufficient quality Amber is lacking to be a murderer is a penis.
Yes, because clearly people who are such dastardly vigilantes that they won’t throw the first punch against an unrepentant criminal and respond to vandalism by cleaning the vandalized property and returning it are ticking time bombs just waiting for a moment to murder innocents.
Also that is racist against dudes.
ugh no
the same mentality that pushes Amber to try and “clean up” the world around her is the same mentality that leads some men to fucking kill a bunch of strangers – the world has wronged them somehow, and they are going to Get Even and Make them Pay. this is just a different direction.
the same mentality that pushes Amber to try and “clean up” the world around her is the same mentality that leads some men to fucking kill a bunch of strangers – the world has wronged them somehow, and they are going to Get Even and Make them Pay.
the difference being that men are basically told from childhood that the appropriate response is to fuck shit up – don’t take that, kick his ass, etc.
Are you implying that if all the guys that shoot up schools would just dress up as vigilante super heroes if they were girls?
no, i’m implying that Amber is deeply fucking damaged and is acting out in incredibly unhealthy ways. it is fortunate that she does not have to deal with expectations of masculine aggression, which could push someone to act even more dangerously.
Your sexism is not funny.
Find me a woman school shooter in the last 30 years.
That’s a composition fallacy.
You’re probably not reading this anymore since it’s like a whole day later but let me humor you anyway cause I’m sooo nice like that
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/keeping-kids-safe/201212/school-shooters-who-are-not-white-males
” In 1988, Laurie Dann, age 30, shot young children in Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois. At Penn State University in 1996, 19-year-old Jillian Spencer, who was trained in the Army Reserve as a sharpshooter, opened fire on random students. Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student at Louisiana Technical Institute, killed two classmates in 2008. Finally, in 2010, Professor Amy Bishop shot six colleagues in the biology department at the University of Alabama. “
Man, she couldn’t run down a corridor without losing her breath a few days ago, how is she managing all this
Amazi-girl was out of breath from picking up Billie between the legs and running down the hall with Billie on her shoulders. Muscular Cheerleaders are not light people.
*Chubby cheerleaders.
You can only harass a superhero for so long before you start wondering if you’re doing the right thing.
(I’m so sorry, Batman.)
I’m betting on the tree we kinda saw to the left a few strips ago. Swing down to the ground and leave them all behind. Or sprain an ankle and be helped back into her room by a concerned W&D.
Dayum, WILLIS.
I never knew you had the potential for such action scenes in you!
It’s amazing!
Those movement scenes have been the bane of my own comic. T_T
just fucking talk to them you psycho bongo holy fuck
Please disregard the above comment, it was supposed to be a sarcastic reply.
I find this oddly funny given your gravatar.
That’s right, Walky; keep helping Dotty so she can get what she wants and dump you all the sooner.
I guess no one has yet accused him of being a deep thinker or a long-term planner.
Walky isn’t really a ‘sabatoge their happiness so they never leave me’ kind of guy. Helping Dorothy accomplish her goals makes her happy, so Walky helps. Even if it’s just a temporary thing no reason he shouldn’t do his best.
I’m pretty sure that if Walky sabotaged this and Dorothy noticed, she would dump him even sooner. Right now, there’s the possibility that they’ll grow very close in the next two years and be able to maintain a long-distance relationship. Heck, Walky’s smart, he might even apply to transfer with her (I’m sure his parents would be fine with him going to an Ivy League School).
It’d disturbing that you think long-term relationship success is based on sabotaging your significant other. That’s a healthy viewpoint.
Walky’s 18. Maybe his first girlfriend won’t be his last. He may know and be fine with this.
David, you are clearly not drawing enough comics. I’d like to pitch you another one.
It’s called “Chase Scene”, it’s a MWF comic, and the plot line is that people chase each other. There’s some laughs (one of the quarries slipped on a bananapeel) there’s some drama (off the edge of a cliff) there’s some tears (into a wood chipper).
Really everything people are looking for in a comic. Come on, you should do it. For the exposure.
Plenty of comedy and gore… but not enough sex, drugs or rock music. Willis, I highly advise you to decline this offer immediately.
Why do you think they’re being chased? See, each story would have a deep backstory that would be subtly revealed. Possibly without any dialogue at all.
Someone could catch a cheating spouse. A cop could run after an addict. A grandmother could assault her grandson for playing the devil’s music!
I don’t care what the explanation turns out to be. Regardless, that last panel should be a wallpaper!
where did she get all of her parkour training?
Man Willis, I think you gotta get back into the comedy/action scene like the old days. Kinda nostalgic having this chase scene going!
Dorothy sounds like John Locke from lost. “Don’t ever tell me what I can’t do ever!
Wow, Amazigirl really has some parkour chops. Wonder when she learned it.
Ha, yesterday when people were calling Amber’s skills unbelievable, I was all like, “Well it’s not like she’s flying around or something!” Oh Willis, you little scamp.
Dorothy is legit insane.
So no getting hit by a truck in this comic, huh. Why.
The girl in the last panel is a dummy. Not that Amazi-Girl’s a dummy. She’s a smarty. She set up some kind of a dummy as a decoy and escaped. The dummy is now rocking or falling down.
The posture’s suspiciously stiff. The face looks too round. And the eyes are mostly covered, probably because if Willis drew the dummy’s blank, lifeless eyes it would have been a clear giveaway.
Um, no, that’s a pretty stock “leaping” action pose, dude, and you can see her winding up for it in the panel before, in which Walky has a clear view of her.
Oh god, your dummy and smarty talk has got me thinking about the complex social constructs of fluffy ponies again… Break me away from this hell.
“Don’t tell me what I can’t do.”
forgot to close with; this is not a good thing to hear when one is trying to help!
Yeah kind of nasty of her to say but she seems frantic. Probably worried all this time chasing will go to waste and then she won’t have studied.
Or maybe she doesn’t want Walky to figure out that she’s actually Amazi-Girl. It would be a mistake to let him figure out that she can be in two places at once (dummies, perhaps?), and that this chase is all an elaborate ruse to keep suspicion of her secret identity at a minimum. When both she and Amazi-Girl disappear on the roof and aren’t seen, Walky starts to put two and two together to get the four that she’s not a mild-mannered president-in-grooming, but instead a manic-mannered superhero with a passion for JUSTICE!
But in all gravity, you’re right. To Dorothy, being as Type-A as she is, what Walky is saying probably sounds like ‘well, we can’t get her now.’ Instead of what he’s actually saying which is ‘we can’t get her that way.’ In the heat of the moment, she’s voicing her concern that Walky is just holding her back from her ambitions.
Which, in general, Walky doesn’t have a place in Dorothy’s very specific plans. He’s helping her now, but it’s probably stewing in her mind that he is just a distraction from doing the things that she needs to do to attain what she wants.
Flying is the art…or knack of aiming at the ground, and missing.
The Travelers Guide to the Universe.
Powerpuff Girls drum sounds emit from me seeing amazagirl fly
Super-fun. We see what you did there.
*cries* LEAVE AMAZI-GIRL ALONE
Assassino leap of faith