Damn, I’d absolutely forgotten about that song. Reading the above references, I was trying to figure out who sang it. Creed. Yeah, I don’t particularly miss them.
I wonder if there would be so much hate and discontent if we were to quote lyrics from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, or the Rolling Stones, who once released an album called “Their Satanic Majesties Request” and also had a big hit with a single called “Sympathy for the Devil”.
It’s because Danny has had a “Grinch” moment during this incident. His awareness grew three sizes this day. He’s even picked up on the fact that Amber is distressed, and he’s holding his arms like this to show if Amber decides that a good strong (and protective) hug is what she needs right now he’s right there for her.
Semaphore? Or self-administered field sobriety test?
(No reason why he would be drunk, I just couldn’t think of any other alternatives. I should not be playing video games while combing through these comments.)
He likes the scene from The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy approached the Straw Man along the road. And Amber looks like Dorothy, who’s name is… Dorothy. And if only Danny had a brain.
Galasso: The Glorious Galasso, tyrant of the land demands that you retreat away from the curtain! Ignore the man behind it for his glory matches mine and shall surely blind you. Do as you are told! Girl? Man? Person!
Danny’s had plenty of information. Everything he’s done wrong has been due to him being unwilling or unable to think critically about the information that he has and form rational conclusions from it. He just accepts everything at face value, and never gives any consideration to whether that’s accurate or what its deeper implications might be.
So he can’t identify Amazi-Girl, despite having had the unique opportunity to observe her, in both guises, closely, at length, and at his leisure, until she’s literally unmasked right in front of him. So he can’t figure out that maybe there’s a reason that Amber is comfortable with assuming a degree of intimacy that he wants to reserve for his girlfriend who looks, feels, smells exactly like her. So he buys Billie’s stupid theory about Sal for no better reason than that Billie said it, despite it being totally incompatible with everything that he knows about Amazi-Girl – which is far more than what Billie knows. So he just accepts everything that Blaine says, without ever getting suspicious of the sheer number of weirdnesses Blaine is having to explain away, to the point that Blaine is able to kidnap him and hold him hostage without him even noticing.
As far as I can tell, he’s never actually had a theory about Amazi-Girl’s identity, until Billie gave him hers. Despite being in the best position to have all the information he needs to figure it out, he’s never even attempted to do so.
Contrast this with Dorothy, who with much less information, and despite it having fallen off the bottom of her priority list, has actually figured out some things about Amazi-Girl’s identity by applying critical thinking skills to the limited facts she’s in possession of, and has sought out more information on her own.
(Billie has something of the opposite problem. She’s got a little bit of real information, but she’s thought it through so hard that she’s come up with a reasonable, logical, and totally wrong answer, and is now in the process of editing her facts to fit her wrong answer.)
Not a surprise that she’s out of it. Douchebag though he may be, Blaine is still her dad. Takes a lot to overcome that (though, granted, he brought it on himself).
Maybe Danny wants to hug her but being Danny isn’t quite sure…and besides he is still trying to process the fact that Amber is Amizi-girl.
Not sure if he quite realizes what that actually means to himself just yet. But, then from the way he’s been acting since he got her away from the car and Blaine, maybe he does.
Or Belle and The Beast. Or Quasimodo. Or Buzz Lightyear. Or Snow White. Or Aurora. Or Basil of Baker Street. Or Hercules. Or Tarzan. Or Rapunzel. What I’m trying to say is that a lot of Disney villains end up falling off stuff.
Falling is a way for your villain to die without your hero having to kill him. That way, the villain is punished by death without the moral ickiness of your hero having to commit murder.
A writer gets double points if the hero can leap for the edge and fail to save the villain.
war…is a set of oxymorons….but I think everyone can agree it’s pretty terrible….then again there are those people who really like war…so, y’know, maybe it’s okay….maybe I just never gave war a chance…I dunno I might go back to the war after this and see if it’s actually as cool as those people say it is….but I really don’t want to since this time I got shot….well I guess*dies*
What a thrill…
Through Darkness and Silence through the night…
What a thrill..
I search and I melt into you…
What a fear in my heart….But you’re so SUPREME!
*ba BA da ba daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*
He’s done good so far. Now, I hope he now has enough sense to get her off the street.
If he can figure out how to get her out that outfit and into something a lot less conspicuous, that would be the capper.
She needs help. If he can get her to a safe place. I would forgive him all his Danness.
So far….so good Danny boy.
She just needs to get the Amazi-Girl costume off and she’s Amber again. She’s wearing her regular clothes underneath. I think she’s still down a shoe, though.
Methinks he calls up Dorothy and convinces her to bring a set of clothes down. Then he tells her that she has to drop the Amazigirl story, and Dorothy is faced with the decision of whether to do that or not. And that is the storyline for the next couple months.
You know maybe because it’s been so long that we’ve seen her, but Joyce has never actually seen Amazi-girl, has she? The best she’d remember might be a blurry outline from when she was drugged at Ryan’s party.
I wonder if Amber remembers Joyce as anybody other than Ethan’s ‘girlfriend’. I mean, she did save her about a month back.
I did a search of the comic tags and Joyce+Amazi-girl only brings up comics from the party arc, plus one more that is just an end of book wrap-up comic. Joyce+Amber is only the first RA meeting (no interaction since that one focuses on Billie and Ruth), the thing at Galasso’s, some stuff from Parent’s Day (again no interaction), and the thing at the cafeteria.
So yeah, I doubt she remembers. Even looking at the party arc again she never seems to pay attention to Joyce at all, it’s just Sarah who she talks to.
She can’t stop running. Running is all she knows how to do. Running from the realization that she does take after her father. Running from the scared girl who couldn’t stand up to her attacker until she was already restrained by the police. Running from her own identity. Always running, never stopping.
“Yakety Sax”? You must be high on that Cheeto dust.
Given the circumstances, this is the perfect soundtrack for this strip. I defy anybody to tell me different.
Mike has exactly one use. Besides making us laugh with him at others. … okay, so two uses. He’s really good at getting people out of funks by either restating the nature of their funk in a terse, scornful manner that somehow inexplicably snaps people out of the most deepseated of psychological issues, or by refocussing their emotions into anger and rage at him.
So, three uses.
… also, he’s playing North Kaio and training up Walky’s physical stamina, which just came in useful. So, four?
for some reason the scene from Darmok (ST:TNG) where Picard and the alien Captain are learning to communicate popped into my head when I saw that second panel.
It appears that Danny was standing still, while Amber continued walking. She’s not ready to stop, and probably won’t be for quite a while yet. But I’m worried for her … she can’t run forever. She may have taken the first step to exorcising the devil that is Blaine, but you can’t live your life running what’s inside yourself. She has other, internal demons that she is going to have confront if she is ever going to get her life back on an even keel.
And here’s where you come in, Danny-boy. Amber is going to need help and support on so many levels and you had better be there for her. You’ve got a winning streak started now; don’t Dan it up.
I’ve got this suspicion that Danny would feel like he was disrespecting Amber/Amazi-Girl if he thought about her, and would feel like he was cheating if he thought about anyone else.
Eventually everyone will “has a sex” either during the story, or after. And yes I’m including Dina and Riley (though probably not with each other). I have no Earthly idea who pairs off with who, or if the second in the pair is even a character in the current story, but statistically they pretty much all will find at least one partner for consensual sensuality prior to shuffling off this mortal coil or the heat death of the Dumbiverse. The question is will it take place in a storyline or as backstory.
I feel really bad for her. I mean, yes, she’s triumphed over her arch-nemisis. But not in the way she would have liked. You always hope that you’ll through a great put-down or by being rich, or whatever.
Really, there’s only one way he could ever have done right by her at this point, and was to stop being an asshole, apologize, and then never speak to her again unless she initiates contact. And that was never going to happen. He doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong, and he’ll never see it. Joyce’s parents might learn, but Blain won’t.
I remember that time I wanted kill Prime and chose to do it with my bare hands because the fusion cannon would have been unsatisfying, and I ended up having to use the cannon anyways. We don’t always get what we want.
I hope that Amber can move past this hollow victory and use what she’s learned to delver devastating blows to her enemies, past, present, and future.
I mean, yes, she’s triumphed over her arch-nemisis.[sic]
Uh, no? He triumphed over her. She is being exactly what he wants her to be. He scolded her about standing by, and she’s not standing by. He called her mother weak and despised her for not hitting back, and Amber is hitting back.
There is no question that he rather than her mother or anybody else is the single most important shaping influence on her, never mind that he has a restraining order in place that leaves few physical encounters for executing his power.
I think you could argue “who won” both ways. Technically Blaise had very specific goals for this plan and getting the shit beaten out of him was definitely not apart of it. Also having Danny side with Amber wasn’t part of it. But yes, this isn’t a clear victory for Amber either because of obvious reasons … I’m just not sure if we can really say Blaise triumphed over Amber. It’s more like even when Amber wins, she loses.
♫The War on Terror is a stupid name because terror is an emotion!♫ Yeah! But seriously, I don’t think if we just decided not to react to terrorists, they would stop. Not to promote the people who have made it their life choice to be assholes on a massive scale, but they’re probably not like the average middle school bully. Disregarding them may even instigate them further. People who are not given attention through one way, be it good or bad, will try again in a more negative way. Someone who isn’t given attention from parents will try and gain it through something small like skipping class, but if further attention is not given, one might, say, attempt a robbery of a gas station. If we completely disregard the people who blew up a major building in one of the most important cities in our country, we run the risk of something worse happening. Sure, panicking and lashing out at everything possible is not a very good idea, but we should at least do something to stop further bad from happening.
RANT DEACTIVATE. DEBATE SKILLS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT EXIST, POWERING OFF.
Ugh, and Amber can never truly feel like she can stop and rest because that was a luxury truly feeling at ease and safe is a luxury she never got to have throughout her childhood. Poor dear.
You know that great scene in the first Superman movie where Chris Reeve takes off the glasses, straightens up, and shows us Superman wearing Clark’s suit?
This is what Amber wearing Amazi-Girl’s costume looks like.
*thinks about the past three pages of Walky and Dorothy*
I would like to posit a basic principle of narrative fiction: talking about one character’s happiness is the best way to make another character’s misery apparent.
One has to love how biased the fans of this webcomic are. xD
The whole hatred for Dan is completely unjustified. It seems to have started with the whole “Danning it up” meme and grown out of ridicule proportions into real hate. -.-
A character who, in a world full of selfish douchebags and awkward people, is actually nice and well-intented gets hated because … he is a little bit clueless, but that’s a really minor flaw compared to the rest of the cast, even Amber herself.
And everyone loves Amber, so it’s Ok to see Amber fall in acts of violence against a man who is not retilating. Sure, he is an evil man, but “eye for an eye”, really? That doesn’t help her and doesn’t stop him.
Truth be told, this is likely to make things worse. Now Blaine will want revengue on Amaizing Girl, and he knows she likes Danny…
Blaine is going to accuse Danny of beating him up. Danny’s phone’s GPS (actually, the phone may still be in Blaine’s possession) puts him at the scene, and he has no alibi.
Wow, folks are already hating on Danny? Again?
I look at this as something only taking place in about 5 secs. Danny is running by her side and finally stops to make a comment about resting.
Amber, still in shock, keeps shuffling forward past him.
How some commenters are twisting the moment into some kind of epic fail on Danny’s part seems beyond biased.
Lets wait and see what happens, hmmm?
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don’t know how
The Amber you are trying to reach has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel you have received this message in error, please check the number and dial again.
Danny performs a sex. . . Really?
Aside from that being a really unoriginal title. . .If this is a moment where you’d find yourself awkwardly hiding an erection. . . maybe you shouldn’t date.
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i_i
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Nice eyes!
She has bigger eyes with her mask on!
Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!!!
GIIIGAAA DRRRILLL BRRREEEAAAKKK!!!!!!
/人◕‿‿◕人\
Um… Hey. I’d like to make a contract…..
Psh. Can’t even destroy a SINGLE galaxy with that.
I was gonna say the same thing.
Your mom said something similar to me the other night.
OuO
STTRRRIIIIDDEEERR!!!!
>:]
-_-
😐
(Huh… Didn’t know this made a yellow smiley.)
;A;
So sad.
I’m trying to match up your comment with your gravatar and it isn’t working very well
Amber 🙁
She can never stop running.
D:
Dark… 🙁
AND SHE RAN. SHE RAN SO FAR AWAY
AND SHE RAN. SHE RAN ALL NIGHT AND DAY
Couldn’t get away.
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http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f71/Raneko/GendoThreat.jpg
So are you thinking the next step in Amber’s life is hanging out on the boulevard?
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk alone
NO! NONE OF THAT! SHAME ON YOU!
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over all the vermin will drown.
Going a little old school when I say this is what popped into my head after reading all the song comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ueaD22hg8
Flock of Seagulls or the Bowling for Soup cover?
Bowling for Soup…duh!
awesome english opening for the anime “Knights of the Zodiac” (SAINT SEIYA)
Wait, so did Amber move, or did Danny?
Now what….
HUGS
What’s up with the open arms Danny? It’s not the promise land
WITH ARMS WIDE OOOOOOOPEN
NO
ncp19 you have touched a nerve
Heh, I immediately regret this decision and wish to state that I will never reference said song again.
And anyway, you referenced it wrong. It’s pronounced “WITH AAAAHHMS WAHD OOOPAAAHHHN”.
Amazing that said band can *still* elicit such vitriol (deservedly so, for most of their stuffs). Some wounds just don’t … hea-ea-eal.
I didn’t want Willis to kill me
everythrim
I am in total agreement.
Hello my friend we meet again.
^This. So much this.
I feel I’m missing something. Context, please?
From a quick google search I think it’s a catholic “rock” song
Wait, WHAT?! I’ve known that song all my life and I have NEVER known this.
Am I thinking of the right song. It has those lyrics in it, it’s gotta be the right song.
It’s a Creeeeeeeeeed song.
Damn, I’d absolutely forgotten about that song. Reading the above references, I was trying to figure out who sang it. Creed. Yeah, I don’t particularly miss them.
I wonder if there would be so much hate and discontent if we were to quote lyrics from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, or the Rolling Stones, who once released an album called “Their Satanic Majesties Request” and also had a big hit with a single called “Sympathy for the Devil”.
It’s called mockery, Derpimus.
No, because they make the devil’s music, the way God intended.
+1
+11!
Seeing as they’re actually good, probably not.
NO! NONE OF THAT! SHAME ON YOU!
Yeah Danny. And what’s up with the blue shirt? This isn’t the ocean.
It’s because Danny has had a “Grinch” moment during this incident. His awareness grew three sizes this day. He’s even picked up on the fact that Amber is distressed, and he’s holding his arms like this to show if Amber decides that a good strong (and protective) hug is what she needs right now he’s right there for her.
Was that a Billy Ocean reference or am I reading too much into that?
Maybe he likes to pretend to guide in planes at an airport.
Semaphore? Or self-administered field sobriety test?
(No reason why he would be drunk, I just couldn’t think of any other alternatives. I should not be playing video games while combing through these comments.)
Danny tests himself for drunkenness constantly. Eternal vigilance is the price of not getting anyone hit by a truck in this universe.
He likes the scene from The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy approached the Straw Man along the road. And Amber looks like Dorothy, who’s name is… Dorothy. And if only Danny had a brain.
It fits, Blaine totally needs a heart.
Nah, Blaine’s the Wicked Witch. The Tin Man would have to be Mike.
Galasso: The Glorious Galasso, tyrant of the land demands that you retreat away from the curtain! Ignore the man behind it for his glory matches mine and shall surely blind you. Do as you are told! Girl? Man? Person!
I had “We’re off to see the Willis” in my head, but I like your idea better.
So who is the cowardly lion?
Ethan.
LET YOUR AAAARMS ENFOLD UUUUUSSS
THROUGH THE DAAAAAARK OF NIIIIGHT
WILL YOUR AAAANGELS HOOOLD UUUUS
‘TIIILL WE SEEEEEEEE THE LIIIIIIIIIIGHT
IIIIIIIII’M GONNA RUUUUUUUUB THAAAAT FIIIIIIIISH
There ain’t no rest for the wicked
Until we close our eyes for good
NO WE CAN’T SLOW DOWN
WE CAN’T HOLD BACK
THOUGH YOU KNOW, WE WISH WE C-OULD
NO THERE AIN’T NO REST FOR THE WICKED
‘TIL WE CLOSE OUR EYES FOR GOOD
Great, now it’s after midnight and I want to play Borderlands.
One could argue that’s the best time to play Borderlands.
Is there ever *not* a best time to play Borderlands?
Actually its always a good time to play a favorite game
Haha, I’m playing Borderlands right now!
Carlos!
Is your gravatar from Magic School Bus? If so, you win +1 late 90’s television!
Where’s Mrs Warner when you need her?
South Korea
She prefers to be called Dot.
or Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Frachesca Banana Fana Bo Besca the III.
But not Dottie. Call her Dottie and you die.
Can’t outrun those feels
And I ran, I ran so far away, I just ran, I ran all night and day (couldn’t get away)
What is this Karaoke night in the comments section?
😀 http://youtu.be/ItGo-Rq9pwc
I tried to watch it all, but couldn’t make it. My ears started bleeding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUWgE0EVQ9c
Only with rain.
When in Rome.
Danny, initiate hug, initiate hug!
Exactly, he gets the setup right and then Dan’d it up.
Typical!
Ya so uh….where do we go from here?
The battle’s done,
and we kinda won,
so we sound our vict’ry cheer.
This isn’t real, but I just want to feel.
1000 yard stare… get that Amber some pancakes and a hug, Danny!
I don’t suppose there is an IHOP nearby, is there?
According to the Street View from a few days ago, it’s across the street from the McDonald’s. They’re going the wrong way for that.
Waffle Houses are 24/7. And this time of night, she won’t even be the worst dressed person there.
Waffles can do in a pinch.
Oh?
Was “pancakes” not a euphemism? Huh.
I love the colours in this.
I thought things would get better once Danny realized Amber was Amazi-girl. I was wrong…
He’s not actively making things worse anymore. That’s kind of like getting better!
Does she really still even want Danny as a BF?
I don’t think she’s really thinking about that right now.
It will probably be week before he fucks up again anyway
Why wouldn’t she?
If she does then she clearly hasn’t learned.
That he’s the one person she can depend on?
EVERYTHING DANNY HAS DONE WRONG HAS BEEN DUE TO NOT HAVING ANY INFORMATION OK.
CLEARLY HE CAN’T BE EXPECTED TO RECOGNIZE THAT AMBER WAS AMAZI-GIRL IF EVEN HER OWN FATHER COULDN’T.
ONCE HE FOUND OUT HE WAS IMMEDIATELY ON HER SIDE AND HELPING HER.
HE HAS TRIED HIS BEST, THAT’S ALL WE CAN ASK.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Yeah I know.
I just like being a jerk to Danny.
you mean you are the Blaine to Danny’s Amber?
Danny’s had plenty of information. Everything he’s done wrong has been due to him being unwilling or unable to think critically about the information that he has and form rational conclusions from it. He just accepts everything at face value, and never gives any consideration to whether that’s accurate or what its deeper implications might be.
So he can’t identify Amazi-Girl, despite having had the unique opportunity to observe her, in both guises, closely, at length, and at his leisure, until she’s literally unmasked right in front of him. So he can’t figure out that maybe there’s a reason that Amber is comfortable with assuming a degree of intimacy that he wants to reserve for his girlfriend who looks, feels, smells exactly like her. So he buys Billie’s stupid theory about Sal for no better reason than that Billie said it, despite it being totally incompatible with everything that he knows about Amazi-Girl – which is far more than what Billie knows. So he just accepts everything that Blaine says, without ever getting suspicious of the sheer number of weirdnesses Blaine is having to explain away, to the point that Blaine is able to kidnap him and hold him hostage without him even noticing.
As far as I can tell, he’s never actually had a theory about Amazi-Girl’s identity, until Billie gave him hers. Despite being in the best position to have all the information he needs to figure it out, he’s never even attempted to do so.
Contrast this with Dorothy, who with much less information, and despite it having fallen off the bottom of her priority list, has actually figured out some things about Amazi-Girl’s identity by applying critical thinking skills to the limited facts she’s in possession of, and has sought out more information on her own.
(Billie has something of the opposite problem. She’s got a little bit of real information, but she’s thought it through so hard that she’s come up with a reasonable, logical, and totally wrong answer, and is now in the process of editing her facts to fit her wrong answer.)
DANNY THIS IS YOUR MOMENT TO PROVE YOURSELF! DON’T DAN THIS UP.
dan it up
All of the Dan!
Not a surprise that she’s out of it. Douchebag though he may be, Blaine is still her dad. Takes a lot to overcome that (though, granted, he brought it on himself).
Also, she doesn’t want to be like her dad…
The Blaine Issue aside, there is almost always a reaction, physiological/psychological after doing extreme violence such as she did
And Amber did just see her Dad get beat up by Amazi-Girl. From possibly the worst place to watch it.
Amazi-girl hasn’t been there since the first kick.
Maybe Danny wants to hug her but being Danny isn’t quite sure…and besides he is still trying to process the fact that Amber is Amizi-girl.
Not sure if he quite realizes what that actually means to himself just yet. But, then from the way he’s been acting since he got her away from the car and Blaine, maybe he does.
Will Amazi-Girl fade into legend forevermore tonight?
Yeah actually, I think so. Given the specific timing of the change in tags I think Amazi-Girl may be gone for good.
I hope not though, as apparently she was pretty busy keeping this college in line and it might fall to ruin without her.
Willis’ next comic: Amazi-girl Beyond
Freshman Riley DeSanto seeks out a retired Amazi-girl, seeking to bring justice to a crime-riddled campus. . .
Who will distract crowds and allow rapists to escape now that she’s gone?
I say this is nothing a round of “Let it Go” won’t fix.
What can’t a round of “Let it Go” fix?
Your loved ones dangling over a cliff and you holding them up?
Great, now I want a Let it Go cover by Uncle Scar.
See what you did?!
Great, now I want a Let It Go cover by Uncle Scar. Someone make this happen before it spreads any further.
I’d draw it but I don’t want Frozen spoilers.
Those are probably a pain in the rear to defrost properly.
Great, now I want to watch the scene from Commando when Matrix (Arnold) lets that one guy go..
“Sully, do you remember when I said I’d kill you last?”
“Yeah, that’s right Matrix, you did!”
“I lied.”
One of the greatest lies on film.
And one of Arnold’s 5 best lines.
Hyenas never bothered me anyways.
Or Belle and The Beast. Or Quasimodo. Or Buzz Lightyear. Or Snow White. Or Aurora. Or Basil of Baker Street. Or Hercules. Or Tarzan. Or Rapunzel. What I’m trying to say is that a lot of Disney villains end up falling off stuff.
Falling is a way for your villain to die without your hero having to kill him. That way, the villain is punished by death without the moral ickiness of your hero having to commit murder.
A writer gets double points if the hero can leap for the edge and fail to save the villain.
Danny Performs a Sad.
That’s how I feel after being around Danny for a long walk too.
I was hoping for more naked Walky/Dorothy hijinx today.
~obligatory frowny face~
Whoa, Amber is the color of your energy
Whoa
d’aww
mopey amber is mopey.
War….has changed….
War never changes…
But also…War is always changing.
War never changes … and War’s friends are concerned about that.
If only a beast like me can make someone happy~
war…is a set of oxymorons….but I think everyone can agree it’s pretty terrible….then again there are those people who really like war…so, y’know, maybe it’s okay….maybe I just never gave war a chance…I dunno I might go back to the war after this and see if it’s actually as cool as those people say it is….but I really don’t want to since this time I got shot….well I guess*dies*
We just need to get Amazi-Girl some power armor and a chain gun!
Forget a Chain gun. Get that chick a RAIL GUN.
So long as it’s scientific, I’m on board.
What’s a Rail-Gun without the whole package…Get this port girl a METAL GEAR!
F-ing IPhone crappy spell-check!
Port Keroshino. Port, port Keroshino. (patpats)
What’s a Rail-Gun without the whole package…Get this poor girl a METAL GEAR!
Does Amber seem more like a Rex, or Rey kind of girl?
With that booty, I’d say she’s channeling sum Shagohod.
Dammit now I want to play MGS3.
What a thrill…
Through Darkness and Silence through the night…
What a thrill..
I search and I melt into you…
What a fear in my heart….But you’re so SUPREME!
*ba BA da ba daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*
(it is the best one.)
Get her a CHAIN RAIL GUN
He’s done good so far. Now, I hope he now has enough sense to get her off the street.
If he can figure out how to get her out that outfit and into something a lot less conspicuous, that would be the capper.
She needs help. If he can get her to a safe place. I would forgive him all his Danness.
So far….so good Danny boy.
She just needs to get the Amazi-Girl costume off and she’s Amber again. She’s wearing her regular clothes underneath. I think she’s still down a shoe, though.
Methinks he calls up Dorothy and convinces her to bring a set of clothes down. Then he tells her that she has to drop the Amazigirl story, and Dorothy is faced with the decision of whether to do that or not. And that is the storyline for the next couple months.
You know maybe because it’s been so long that we’ve seen her, but Joyce has never actually seen Amazi-girl, has she? The best she’d remember might be a blurry outline from when she was drugged at Ryan’s party.
I wonder if Amber remembers Joyce as anybody other than Ethan’s ‘girlfriend’. I mean, she did save her about a month back.
I did a search of the comic tags and Joyce+Amazi-girl only brings up comics from the party arc, plus one more that is just an end of book wrap-up comic. Joyce+Amber is only the first RA meeting (no interaction since that one focuses on Billie and Ruth), the thing at Galasso’s, some stuff from Parent’s Day (again no interaction), and the thing at the cafeteria.
So yeah, I doubt she remembers. Even looking at the party arc again she never seems to pay attention to Joyce at all, it’s just Sarah who she talks to.
She can’t stop running. Running is all she knows how to do. Running from the realization that she does take after her father. Running from the scared girl who couldn’t stand up to her attacker until she was already restrained by the police. Running from her own identity. Always running, never stopping.
Endless running? Cue “Yakety Sax.”
“Yakety Sax”? You must be high on that Cheeto dust.
Given the circumstances, this is the perfect soundtrack for this strip. I defy anybody to tell me different.
I prefer this Sad Walk-
http://youtu.be/4sHGVophyO4
Not with my drug tolerance I’m not.
Also, I was being facetious. Just so you know.
Sad Hulk Music!
Amber needs to go talk to her friend Mike. That will make it all better.
We are in some serious need of Amber/Mike/Ethan hinjinks right now.
Oh, we’re way past that. This calls for Dina, Riley, and a pile o’ purring kittens.
Your definition of ‘better’ confuses and terrifies me.
That is a rational reaction to Mike making things better.
But they do somehow seem to end up better when the terror and confusion is over.
Mike has exactly one use. Besides making us laugh with him at others. … okay, so two uses. He’s really good at getting people out of funks by either restating the nature of their funk in a terse, scornful manner that somehow inexplicably snaps people out of the most deepseated of psychological issues, or by refocussing their emotions into anger and rage at him.
So, three uses.
… also, he’s playing North Kaio and training up Walky’s physical stamina, which just came in useful. So, four?
He’s also a boon to sexually frustrated mothers everywhere. Man’s a hero.
I mustn’t run away, I mustn’t run away…
Are you gonna just keep running away?!
Dammit Shinji…get in the fucking giant robot!
for some reason the scene from Darmok (ST:TNG) where Picard and the alien Captain are learning to communicate popped into my head when I saw that second panel.
Danny, his arms held wide
And of course Blaine was the Beast at Tannarga.
My brain worries me sometimes.
Your brain is lovely. I <3 all Darmok references, forever.
When the walls fell.
That describes the situation perfectly.
Sal:”Hey guys, what’s up! Wait why are you beating me up, Amazi-Girl?”.
Sal says as Amber punches her in the well-formed abs and Sal doesn’t flinch at all.
Sal’s a terminator.
At least pick a spot to rest that has benches, Danny! What’s the matter with you?
Trust Danny to dan it up XD
Oh almost forgot…. DAMNIT DANNY!
Forget Danny! It’s Amber who’s worrying me now.
Don’t worry baby
Everything will turn out alright
Don’t worry baby
Don’t worry baby
Don’t worry baby
It appears that Danny was standing still, while Amber continued walking. She’s not ready to stop, and probably won’t be for quite a while yet. But I’m worried for her … she can’t run forever. She may have taken the first step to exorcising the devil that is Blaine, but you can’t live your life running what’s inside yourself. She has other, internal demons that she is going to have confront if she is ever going to get her life back on an even keel.
And here’s where you come in, Danny-boy. Amber is going to need help and support on so many levels and you had better be there for her. You’ve got a winning streak started now; don’t Dan it up.
Danny will have to fight hard against his innate Dannying instincts.
I’m not sure whether Danny should try gently steering Amber in the direction of a therapist’s office or see if he can find her reset switch.
Danny performed reassurance. Its not very effective.
Amber performed mental breakdown. Its super traumatic.
Amber not here, Amber gone…
Amber’s not here…she’s in Sweater Town!
She’s trying to find a weapon to take down Danny.
DANNY PERFORMS A SEX
MAKE IT HAPPEN
euugh
you awful human being
“And it is, unsurprisingly, aggressively awkward and bad. But, hey, first times, right?”
Uh, we already established that Dorothy boinked him before dissing him, haven’t we?
Every word of that sentence was a thing.
Isn’t every word in every sentence a thing, assuming we count words as things?
Danny, yes. He’s not the one who would be having a horrific first time in these circumstances.
Yeah, but he already put the image in your head, and now it’s just there. Waiting. Glistening. Okay, ew, grossed myself out now.
Glistening like a huge, moist bulge on the underbelly of your imagination. The slimy, viscous underbelly. *slurping sounds*
You, sir, are a LIAR.
I agree with Willis…who in their right minds would ever want naked Danny unleashed upon the world!
…Just thinking about it gives me the jibblies!!!
Now I’m imagining Amber with Danny on a leash, walking him through the park. And lets face it, imagining is it’s own reward.
Before beating Blaine it would have been and angry ‘uck.
Now it would just be an uck that makes everyone angry.
http://i.imgur.com/5nWzsWP.png
Don’t worry Willis. I made it for you!
I don’t know what’s worse…the fact that was done, or that it’ll probably be canon of what Danny does after all this.
I’ve got this suspicion that Danny would feel like he was disrespecting Amber/Amazi-Girl if he thought about her, and would feel like he was cheating if he thought about anyone else.
Fitting icon.
Eventually everyone will “has a sex” either during the story, or after. And yes I’m including Dina and Riley (though probably not with each other). I have no Earthly idea who pairs off with who, or if the second in the pair is even a character in the current story, but statistically they pretty much all will find at least one partner for consensual sensuality prior to shuffling off this mortal coil or the heat death of the Dumbiverse. The question is will it take place in a storyline or as backstory.
NO, AND NO.
DINA AND RILEY ARE SAINTS YOU BASTARD.
Riley’s got a kid in the other universe.
But in this universe, Riley IS a kid.
Not clear on this whole conflict between “saints” and “has a sex.” Explain?
Yeah, from what I understand Saint George was straight up pimpin’.
*dies*
She looks sad because she found the amazicondoms missing…
Sucks to be Danny.
The karaoke in tonight’s comments combined with this comic’s tragedy put Sonata Arctica’s “Replica” in my head.
Let’s hope Amber doesn’t also turn out to be dead the whole time.
I feel really bad for her. I mean, yes, she’s triumphed over her arch-nemisis. But not in the way she would have liked. You always hope that you’ll through a great put-down or by being rich, or whatever.
Really, there’s only one way he could ever have done right by her at this point, and was to stop being an asshole, apologize, and then never speak to her again unless she initiates contact. And that was never going to happen. He doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong, and he’ll never see it. Joyce’s parents might learn, but Blain won’t.
I remember that time I wanted kill Prime and chose to do it with my bare hands because the fusion cannon would have been unsatisfying, and I ended up having to use the cannon anyways. We don’t always get what we want.
I hope that Amber can move past this hollow victory and use what she’s learned to delver devastating blows to her enemies, past, present, and future.
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Uh, no? He triumphed over her. She is being exactly what he wants her to be. He scolded her about standing by, and she’s not standing by. He called her mother weak and despised her for not hitting back, and Amber is hitting back.
There is no question that he rather than her mother or anybody else is the single most important shaping influence on her, never mind that he has a restraining order in place that leaves few physical encounters for executing his power.
I think you could argue “who won” both ways. Technically Blaise had very specific goals for this plan and getting the shit beaten out of him was definitely not apart of it. Also having Danny side with Amber wasn’t part of it. But yes, this isn’t a clear victory for Amber either because of obvious reasons … I’m just not sure if we can really say Blaise triumphed over Amber. It’s more like even when Amber wins, she loses.
Blaise Pascal?
Could be an interesting spinoff: Amazi-Girl vs the Dead French Mathematicians.
In Blaine’s mind, he lost. In Amber’s mind, -she- lost. That’s all that really matters.
A teacher’s mode of failure is not getting surpassed by his pupils. A hate monger loses by getting laughed at. He prevails by getting killed.
If the U.S.A. understood this, they would not be losing the war on terror.
♫The War on Terror is a stupid name because terror is an emotion!♫ Yeah! But seriously, I don’t think if we just decided not to react to terrorists, they would stop. Not to promote the people who have made it their life choice to be assholes on a massive scale, but they’re probably not like the average middle school bully. Disregarding them may even instigate them further. People who are not given attention through one way, be it good or bad, will try again in a more negative way. Someone who isn’t given attention from parents will try and gain it through something small like skipping class, but if further attention is not given, one might, say, attempt a robbery of a gas station. If we completely disregard the people who blew up a major building in one of the most important cities in our country, we run the risk of something worse happening. Sure, panicking and lashing out at everything possible is not a very good idea, but we should at least do something to stop further bad from happening.
RANT DEACTIVATE. DEBATE SKILLS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT EXIST, POWERING OFF.
“Just ignore them” doesn’t work on bullies either. It’s one of those common misconceptions that well-meaning parents hurt their children with.
Nice guy Megatron?
Omg, the Shattered Glass universe is leaking into the real world!!!
All the feels…even going back to re-read Blaine’s ass-whooping can’t get rid of the sadness…
Danny, Amber seems a little broken. Try turning her off and on.
or maybe just on.
Well, he’s already tried turning her off. (Ba-dum-tish)
Has he tried blowing into the cartridge?
HEY-O!
Poor Amber, my cat has that expression after we have to take him to the vet.
> YOU HUG THAT GIRL RIGHT THIS INSTANT.
Nah, not right now. First, you walk beside her for as far as she needs to go.
Just keep running, just keep running, just keep running, running, running…
And runnin’ runnin’, and runnin’ runnin’, and runnin’ runnin’, and runnin’ runnin’…
Amber Performs a Sad
Ugh, and Amber can never truly feel like she can stop and rest because that was a luxury truly feeling at ease and safe is a luxury she never got to have throughout her childhood. Poor dear.
I still liked Blaine better when he was dead.
I liked you better when you were dead in the future alternate universe.
I said to Blaine.
Danny just read the tags and realized that there is no AG here, just Amber. Broken, fragile, not all there Amber.
You know that great scene in the first Superman movie where Chris Reeve takes off the glasses, straightens up, and shows us Superman wearing Clark’s suit?
This is what Amber wearing Amazi-Girl’s costume looks like.
She’s gone from the cast page, too.
Willis is Big Brother and Amazi-Girl has become an unperson.
If you want the Amazi-Girl poster better order it soon.
*thinks about the past three pages of Walky and Dorothy*
I would like to posit a basic principle of narrative fiction: talking about one character’s happiness is the best way to make another character’s misery apparent.
One has to love how biased the fans of this webcomic are. xD
The whole hatred for Dan is completely unjustified. It seems to have started with the whole “Danning it up” meme and grown out of ridicule proportions into real hate. -.-
A character who, in a world full of selfish douchebags and awkward people, is actually nice and well-intented gets hated because … he is a little bit clueless, but that’s a really minor flaw compared to the rest of the cast, even Amber herself.
And everyone loves Amber, so it’s Ok to see Amber fall in acts of violence against a man who is not retilating. Sure, he is an evil man, but “eye for an eye”, really? That doesn’t help her and doesn’t stop him.
Truth be told, this is likely to make things worse. Now Blaine will want revengue on Amaizing Girl, and he knows she likes Danny…
So… I was given an Amber avatar? Oh, the irony…
Some of us don’t like Amber. bongo be crazy.
Blaine is going to accuse Danny of beating him up. Danny’s phone’s GPS (actually, the phone may still be in Blaine’s possession) puts him at the scene, and he has no alibi.
Blaine would never admit that one person beat him up. He’ll say it was six guys, they took him by surprise, etc.
Wow, folks are already hating on Danny? Again?
I look at this as something only taking place in about 5 secs. Danny is running by her side and finally stops to make a comment about resting.
Amber, still in shock, keeps shuffling forward past him.
How some commenters are twisting the moment into some kind of epic fail on Danny’s part seems beyond biased.
Lets wait and see what happens, hmmm?
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don’t know how
Because maybe
You’re gonna be the one that saves me
And after all
You’re my wonderwall
Poor Amber.
Would Danny hugging her right now be a good thing or not?
When one team scores, another team must lose points… apparently.
Also, thank you for twittering my picture of Walky being kicked in the balls! That made me day.
You, uh, you okay there Amber?
I wonder, when the morning comes will it be Amber, Amazi-Girl or something else that sees the dawn?
The Amber you are trying to reach has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel you have received this message in error, please check the number and dial again.
DAMN YOU WILLIS! YOU BROKE AMBER!
How long is the approximate recovery time for the Heroic BSoD?
Need to turn off her auto- walk
WILLIS, STOP TURNING DoA INTO A FEELS GENERATOR
How long did it take for the Sunday updates stretch goal to be made?
I bet if we knew what kind of stories Mr. Willis had planned, it would have been met in a few hours at best.
Hmmmm not much to comment about except good job as always
Man, imagine if Amber’s expression was used in those Sarah McLachlan ads…
Danny performs a sex. . . Really?
Aside from that being a really unoriginal title. . .If this is a moment where you’d find yourself awkwardly hiding an erection. . . maybe you shouldn’t date.
One second. Killing spiders.
Oh, sooo sad, that FAAAAAAAAACE is!
Man, you alternate the super happy Dorothy/walky and THIS, and I’m getting emotional whiplash.