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Of course Danny could come in and Danny it up by opening his mouth without looking and give a warning to Amber that Dorothy is investigating Amazi-Girl.
Oh! Oh, yes she did, when she was changing into costume, and Dorothy saw it during the chase. Also saw the transformer. Amber didn’t clean up very well at all!
Amber lost the other one during the chase with Dorothy and Walky (among with a USB cord and the Amazi-Condoms), and Dorothy ended up picking it up. I linked the comic further down.
I was also baffled at first, so a big thanks to everyone who provided a link to that one comic. I think this also puts yesterday’s strip (with the Transformers) in a new perspective.
All of my trashcans are black, with bat logos on them.
Except for the one for disposing of nuclear waste. That one’s yellow, with nuclear bat symbols on it.
Or the one for disposing of used cans of bat-spray. That one has a blue rim. And the compost bin, for kitchen waste and mind-control flowers; that one’s green.
That’s wrong. You don’t want all the evidence in one place. You divide her into small packages, then distribute them to various trashcans around the city in such a way that they form a smiley face.
Wow, I did not like the image I conjured up when trying to imagine the best way to dismember someone so as to fit in just one small bag. I mean, I know I’m the guy who brought it up, but usually in movies ‘n stuff everyone gets multiple bags; there’s an added gruesomeness I hadn’t thought about, in the idea of someone trying really hard to think of the most efficient dismemberment so as to save on bag usage. Macabre!
brings to mind the scene from “the black donnelly’s” where they try to fit that one guy’s body into a barrel. some amount of butchery is required as human bodies don’t naturally bend in the necessary ways for that to work.
i’d say “it was not a fun night for the donnelly brothers” but that basically describes the entire series. c:
This is turning into one of those plans where you kill everybody who notices that you’re killing people. That could only end with the dormitory in flames, everybody dead, and Amber losing her hat. And any plan where you lose your hat is…?
Hmm. New theory: Dina is the cutest Jägermonster ever.
One item — the similarity in names — is a coincidence.
Two items — the names and the Transformer — is chance.
Three items — the names, the Transformer, and the shoe — is a pattern.
Sorry — should have been
“One item — the similarity in names — is chance.
Two items — the names and the Transformer — is a coincidence.
Three items — the names, the Transformer, and the shoe — is a pattern.”
But here’s the rub – Amber said NO. If she at least said yes Then say everything after that it would make Dorothy think she was getting to close and hurting Amber, NOW if she finds out Amber was lying she’ll make connections with all the info and evidence and see straight through Amber.
Also she doesn’t have to make the connection. The shoe gave the whole thing away. It isn’t proof, but there’s always a difference between what you know and what you can prove.
“I most find THE legendary shoe maker, for only he can make a shoe of this quality and only he can know who it belongs to, only then I will know who Amazi-girl truly is.”
I don’t know about him, but I would say “frequently” in my experience, but I go to a LGBTQA-friendly church. We see lots of make-out sessions before and after services and at our social gatherings.
I have never understood that sentiment. If my gf was trying to cheat on me, I really couldn’t qualify my reaction simply based on their sex or gender. That sounds like a cliche joke from a Bud Light ad.
“That… that’s Amazi-Girl’s shoe! Let me just grab that, Amber, and then I’ll get out of your way. I need to run around and get all the girls on the floor to try it on, and whoever it fits is Amazi-Girl!”
Destruction of evidence. NOBODY is going to rummage through anyone’s trash for clues… Right? What could your trash possibly give away about you and your lifestyle?
If nothing else, Dorothy is observant, being a reporter and all that. She has to realize that one:
That shoe is too big to fit Amber
That shoe is being thrown out, so who throws out 1 shoe?
That shoe is the one that she held in her hand day of big AG chase.
Uh, that shoe is Amber’s, so it’s probably not too big to fit her. She’s throwing it away because it’s evidence, since Dorothy and Walky found the other one.
In some countries in the Middle East, it’s supposed to be like the worst way to insult someone– it’s like you’re throwing the lowest part of you at the person.
Source: I was confused when this happened to President Bush way back when
Well, that reveal didn’t take long. Really, keeping the evidence in your own room?!
Now Amber’s only hope is to convince Dorothy that she (Dorothy) is really Amazi-Girl, and that one of Amazi-Girl’s powers is making dopplegangers (to explain how Dorothy could be chasing Amazi-Girl when Dorothy is really Amazi-Girl).
I don’t see an arch on either, so I would think it’s the same shoe, the left, but it’s hard to tell. If that’s the same shoe that Dorothy was holding (we never see what happened to that shoe) and she got it back, and still had the other hidden away, why would she throw it out? That’s the 1st scenario. And if it’s the other one of the pair, that still means she went back and picked it up, since it wouldn’t make sense for one shoe to be still in her room and one shoe lying outside for Dorothy to find. So that would mean she would have left both shoes outside in different locations, and then a while later, she goes to the effort of tracking down one of them, but not the other, brings it back to her room and puts it in her own trashcan, when she could have just left it outside like the other shoe, or thrown both of them away in a public trashcan. That’s the second scenario. The third scenario is that she left her dorm with only one shoe on, leaving the other in her room, to play with Transformers outside, carrying her uniform just in case, and changed into Amazi-Girl when she saw the criminal. And then later, unable to find the shoe Dorothy held, she threw away the other shoe she for some reason left in her room. None of these scenarios make any sense!
According to Willis, Amazi-Girl has pockets in her cape that she usually puts her civilian shoes in to keep them handy and weight her cape. So what happened was, in the rush to change into costume and chase after Sal, Amazi-Girl dropped one of Amber’s shoes, which Dorothy found and confronted her with (and I’m not sure where it went after that… Dorothy doesn’t seem to be carrying it during the chase), but presumably got the other into its cape pocket where it belonged, so it came back to the room with Amber in her cape, where she threw it in the trash because she’s missing its mate and one shoe is no good.
(She might want to dump them even if she’d recovered the other one, because Dorothy and Walky can identify her by them now.)
Huh. That would explain it. It would have been nice to find that out from the comic itself, but that’s minor.
However, that brings up a new question. Those must be some crazy special shoes! (shit, that was not a question) For one thing, sneakers, particularly puffy tennis shoes like those, do NOT compact well. Trust me, I’ve tried. Putting those inside of a cape, especially without any force to compress them, would leave two big sneaker shapes bulging out of whatever part of the cape they are stored in. Secondly, tennis shoes are heavy! Sneakers like those, with the rubber toe and the thick soles weigh almost a pound each! (I recently weighed mine with a scale that measures with three decimal places, and they came to about 0.8 lbs each.) With a cape weighted down that much, they should never flap in the wind EVER. If her sneakers are in that cape while it’s still flapping in the breeze, those must be the lightest tennis shoes ever made. And then there’s the prospect of running with heavy bulky sneakers inside your cape. Given that we are told that they also serve to weight her cape, they would probably have to be located at the bottom of the cape, either centered or at the corners, otherwise, what’s the point of a weighted cape. Now, I’m ashamed to say, I haven’t performed any experiments confirming or disproving if that would cause any problems. I know, I have failed you, Mythbusters. But I would think that that amount of bulky weight in the corners would swing around into one’s legs an awful lot during running, and with the size of those shoes, it could easily cause tripping, and likely bruising too. And if they were centered, you’d be kicking them with every step. Weighted capes generally don’t need much weight to stay still, small bags of sand or even heavy fabric would do the trick. Almost two pounds of shoe is definitely overkill, and would probably do more inconvenience than convenience.
Could Amber somehow lie and say the Transformers and the shoes belonged to Dina, and that Dina is therefore Amazi-girl? Though, that excuse’s easy enough to test and would fall apart rather fast.
It suddenly occurs to me that Dorothy could have checked with campus security and found out that Blaine was declared persona non grata on campus. So uh, yeah. That might have been the final clue that Blaine was Amber’s father and no she doesn’t want to talk about it, Dorothy.
Is it just me, or do the shoe in this comic and the one from a while back both look leftish? I was assuming she had thrown out the one she hadn’t dropped to remove the evidence, but I just look at them both and they say left to me.
I could totally see Willis dragging this out all week if he wanted to. Dorothy doesn’t grasp the implications of the evidence, offers to help clean up in an attempt at being friendly, Amber insistently trying to get her out of the room and accidentally exposing more evidence in her panic. Lather, rinse, repeat.
So naturally, this won’t actually happen. But I have faith that Willis could have pulled it off if he were so inclined.
Then again… she might think it’s Walky’s shoe (that had been thrown down the hallway way back when… necessitating her buying him new ones, and also his new manly-ish shirt). It’s a possibility.
Knocking Dorothy out would be worse than pointless. She’d wake up sooner or later, and then Amber’s back where she started, except now Dorothy’s mad at her.
it would be funny if they released it but it was just a cinema painted on the side of a cliff
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do y'all remember when they found all that tf art in Osamu Tezuka's drawer post-mortem because I think about it often
anyway keep chasing your bliss and draw weird shit, god knows we need that right now
Today in #9ChickweedLane I learned that I have to weigh which is worse: the cartoonist already forgetting what this guy looks like one daily strip later, or that, yes, he's actually meant to be an old man, not a victim to an older cartoonist forgetting what young people look like
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OH NO TRASH
Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why?
Is.
It.
In.
HER
her.
TRASHCAN?
Is what? How is that shoe damning?
Because it points to Amber as buying the same kind of shoes from the same Target as EVERYONE ELSE ON CAMPUS
natch
Thank you. Otherwise I was looking for rocket-propelled tampons without strings in that can — I couldn’t think of anything else to look for.
That’s ridiculous. All rocket propelled tampons come with strings.
I wouldn’t know that, but my avatar does.
It is in the trash because she never recovered the other shoe and just one shoe is useless by itself.
“I love it, because it’s trash”
— Oscar
“Broken and beautiful, fractured and rare”
Kicked shoe?
Yeah, that looks like Walky’s shoe to me.
Isn’t it from this?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/broad/
Yep, seems to be it. Hopefully Dorothy doesn’t recognise it.
She probably will, otherwise this scene would have no point.
Ahem. Red herrings? Dramatic tension? Cliff hangers?
Dorothy gets her interview?
But then Dorothy goes to jail to protect her source and many years later the blot on her record prevents her from becoming president.
Of course Danny could come in and Danny it up by opening his mouth without looking and give a warning to Amber that Dorothy is investigating Amazi-Girl.
You’re right! Good thing Dorothy hasn’t found her USB cable or Amazi-condoms. Amber’s secret remains guarded.
Dorothy *DID* find the Amazi-Condoms.
And then she and Walky destroyed the evidence.
Not those…the extras Amber obviously would keep in her room.
Correct, you think Amber would only keep three? Amazi-Girl is ready for ANYTHING.
I only hope she’s ready for this.
Yes, I do believe it is. I was totally about to post that exact link. I’m really not fast enough for the internet.
Oh! And that’s why the transformer was important!
Yes, it’s such a good thing Amazi-Girl tried to recover all of Amber’s stuff for her. Too bad she lost a shoe so she had to throw the other one away!
That’s Amber’s shoe. She threw it out when the ace reporters captured the other one of the pair.
Something something other shoe drops
“You don’t separate your recyclables?! Shoes go in the green bin!“
Only Amazi-Girl could make a mistake like that!!!
Penny in the Air…..
…penny drops!
Penny lands on her side.
Penny sues the University for injuries.
I actually am completely baffled, what is the significance of the shoe?
Did Amazigirl leave it behind, Cinderella style?
Oh! Oh, yes she did, when she was changing into costume, and Dorothy saw it during the chase. Also saw the transformer. Amber didn’t clean up very well at all!
This one I think
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/broad/
Dina’s foot fetish is revealed to the world.
Amber lost the other one during the chase with Dorothy and Walky (among with a USB cord and the Amazi-Condoms), and Dorothy ended up picking it up. I linked the comic further down.
Dorothy and Walky chased Amazi-Girl, who lost a shoe in the process. Bereft of its mate, Amber has consigned the other one of the pair to oblivion.
Or so she thought.
I was also baffled at first, so a big thanks to everyone who provided a link to that one comic. I think this also puts yesterday’s strip (with the Transformers) in a new perspective.
*Does not own that orange plastic can*
Me neither.
Mine is blue.
I’ve been using it since the 1980’s.
I’ve got a black one, and have actually never met anyone with an orange one.
All of my trashcans are black, with bat logos on them.
Except for the one for disposing of nuclear waste. That one’s yellow, with nuclear bat symbols on it.
Or the one for disposing of used cans of bat-spray. That one has a blue rim. And the compost bin, for kitchen waste and mind-control flowers; that one’s green.
Neither have I.
What? What could she possibly find in there?
“Hey I found some unopened Amazi condoms”
They then proceed to use them.
Hmmm…willis won’t make that slipshine, I know the next best thing, HEY YOTOMOE!
Evidence disposal training not evidenced.
Oh man, I wonder how many trash bags Amber’s gonna need for fitting Dorothy into.
Dorothy’s a small lady. She can fit in a small bag.
And then Amber will fit into several small bags once Joyce finds out.
All sorted and separated into their basic components, like pizza.
Or a burger, if I paid attention to the strip correctly.
It was tacos.
That’s wrong. You don’t want all the evidence in one place. You divide her into small packages, then distribute them to various trashcans around the city in such a way that they form a smiley face.
I heard that one before, but can’t place the reference…
It’s from Archer.
Something else, I never watched Archer. I don’t get that channel.
Wow, I did not like the image I conjured up when trying to imagine the best way to dismember someone so as to fit in just one small bag. I mean, I know I’m the guy who brought it up, but usually in movies ‘n stuff everyone gets multiple bags; there’s an added gruesomeness I hadn’t thought about, in the idea of someone trying really hard to think of the most efficient dismemberment so as to save on bag usage. Macabre!
brings to mind the scene from “the black donnelly’s” where they try to fit that one guy’s body into a barrel. some amount of butchery is required as human bodies don’t naturally bend in the necessary ways for that to work.
i’d say “it was not a fun night for the donnelly brothers” but that basically describes the entire series. c:
Context:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/broad/
How will Amber explain this away? Where’s a deus ex machina when you really need one.
And then a machine of god comes down and zaps Dorothy.
As that anything like Sal swinging in through the window wearing the AmaziGirl mask and outfit? And then it’s all explained in a flashback.
“Uh, Amazi Girl is my girlfriend.”
“But Danny said HE was dating Amazi-Girl. So he must have lied. But why, unless… Oh My God, DANNY IS AMAZI-GIRL! No wonder he wants her left alone!
…Wow, he really took being dumped hard.”
HAHA
“Amazi-Girl beat up my dad?? And Danny is Amazi-Girl???”
dina dons the suit and escapes through the window?
Oh man. Amazi-girl stole your other shoe! That Fiend!!!
I don’t. The ones we’ve got in this house are one light blue one, and one tan one.
Clearly, the only solution is to kill Dorothy.
And then everybody else.
Just like Leela.
And now, to keep you quiet, Danny. I’m going to have to do something REALLY impulsive.
Leela’s gonna have sex with Danny? :O
Prepare the anteater pit!
This is turning into one of those plans where you kill everybody who notices that you’re killing people. That could only end with the dormitory in flames, everybody dead, and Amber losing her hat. And any plan where you lose your hat is…?
Hmm. New theory: Dina is the cutest Jägermonster ever.
Wow, that’s actually better!
… a bad plan, sveethot.
Aaand now I ship Maxim and Dina. Thanks.
Yes, a (most likely common brand) shoe in a trash can. Clearly this is irrefutable evidence.
Asking Amber casually about it and seeing how she responds could get pretty illuminating, though. Amber’s not a terrific liar.
What on earth are you talking about, Amber clearly has max ranks in Bluff! See how smooth she is at deflecting suspicion away from herself!
One item — the similarity in names — is a coincidence.
Two items — the names and the Transformer — is chance.
Three items — the names, the Transformer, and the shoe — is a pattern.
Sorry — should have been
“One item — the similarity in names — is chance.
Two items — the names and the Transformer — is a coincidence.
Three items — the names, the Transformer, and the shoe — is a pattern.”
Not to mention the way she reacted to the name Blaine O’Malley.
That would be easy to explain – her father’s a monster & she doesn’t want to talk about it.
But here’s the rub – Amber said NO. If she at least said yes Then say everything after that it would make Dorothy think she was getting to close and hurting Amber, NOW if she finds out Amber was lying she’ll make connections with all the info and evidence and see straight through Amber.
I took that “No” to be to the entire conversation, looking at the rest of Amber’s statement, not that she didn’t know Blaine.
Also she doesn’t have to make the connection. The shoe gave the whole thing away. It isn’t proof, but there’s always a difference between what you know and what you can prove.
I know that shoe! Only one pair of those were ever made!!
“I most find THE legendary shoe maker, for only he can make a shoe of this quality and only he can know who it belongs to, only then I will know who Amazi-girl truly is.”
Amber just has the best face, all other faces can go home. I just. Love her face. So much. Best face.
Well, maybe this is a good thing. Dotty’ll be able to help Amber with her issues, all while helping keep her identity a secret
Maybe Blaine will realize his wrongdoings and beg his family for forgiveness. But both are fat chances
It never hurt to be hopeful
Yes it did.
Just curious — if fat is the opposite of slim, then why is a “fat chance” and a “slim chance” the same thing?
“Fat chance” is a sarcastic expression.
You might call a good friend who is chubby “Fats” or you might call him “Slim” but they really don’t really mean the same thing.
I… really don’t think those are equivalent levels of unlikely.
@Mr K: Maybe Blaine will realize his wrongdoings and beg his family for forgiveness.
For some reason, Doctor Wily comes to mind. ^^
Ah, geez, try not to Dan it up here, Amber.
Why would anyone own an orange trash can? Ugly colour. Ours have always been beige or brown. With green and blue at work and school.
That’s not “orange”, that’s “terra cotta”.
for biohazardous waste, obviously
THE SHOE
THE LOOT
THE WARRANT
THE CHAAAAAAASE
We’re professionals.
Don’t try this at home, kids.
Oooh,now it makes since…Oh shit.
Just Shoo!
Unfortunately, Amber has been caught flatfooted.
Does that mean she hasn’t a leg to stand on?
BRWAAAAAAAAHM. BRWAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMM. BRWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMM.
http://dundundun.net/
am i the only one who’s noticed the shoe is the other half of the pair of the one from that earlier comic???
I am so confused now…
The shoe is symbolic. Remember the MonkeyMaster episode?
You’re…mocking me, aren’t you.
I think he’s making fun of all the people who ignore earlier comments, dear.
Damn your continuity Willis!
WHY IN HER TRASHCAN?
She could have kicked it down the hall like everyone else.
Well now I have.
Seems like a coincidence to me. You sure you’re not reading too much into it?
Thank you Willis for confirming my suspicions.
Yes, you are. The others are just pretending to notice, and I haven’t noticed yet.
Guys, you’re missing the obvious.
Amber = Superhero
Dorothy = Reporter
They’re going to pull a Superman and Lois Lane.
#AmberxDorothy
Walky would be disappointed.
So would Danny.
Yep, there’s no way around it. They’ll have to have a foursome.
IME, when I find my lady macking on another woman, “disappointment” is not the emotion I experience.
Does this happen a lot to you, then
I don’t know about him, but I would say “frequently” in my experience, but I go to a LGBTQA-friendly church. We see lots of make-out sessions before and after services and at our social gatherings.
That sounds a bit stereotypical.
Once or twice.
I have never understood that sentiment. If my gf was trying to cheat on me, I really couldn’t qualify my reaction simply based on their sex or gender. That sounds like a cliche joke from a Bud Light ad.
S’only cheating if you make it against the rules.
I think it’s more along the lines of “Oh well, at least I got to see some girl-on-girl” than anything else.
SHE’S GONNA BLOW!
“That… that’s Amazi-Girl’s shoe! Let me just grab that, Amber, and then I’ll get out of your way. I need to run around and get all the girls on the floor to try it on, and whoever it fits is Amazi-Girl!”
Okay, why in the trash can?
Why in YOUR trashcan?
Why not under the bed?
Why not in the closet?
WHY IN YOUR TRASHCAN?
Destruction of evidence. NOBODY is going to rummage through anyone’s trash for clues… Right? What could your trash possibly give away about you and your lifestyle?
Why not down the public garbage chute?
EXACTLY!
If nothing else, Dorothy is observant, being a reporter and all that. She has to realize that one:
That shoe is too big to fit Amber
That shoe is being thrown out, so who throws out 1 shoe?
That shoe is the one that she held in her hand day of big AG chase.
Uh, that shoe is Amber’s, so it’s probably not too big to fit her. She’s throwing it away because it’s evidence, since Dorothy and Walky found the other one.
You should rerole for social awareness.
If the shoe fits, you must acquit!
But if by the shoe you’ve been kicked, you must convict.
You guys have the wins. For those who don’t know the reference, here’s an awesome comic-thing for you.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0280.html
I think you mean…
“If the shoe doesn’t fit, you must acquit!”
And by that I mean, that’s what I was gonna say…but foolishly didn’t!
If the shoe fits, put it in your mouth!
wait
Who leaves a garbage can right in the middle of the room?
WHO THROWS A SHOE
HONESTLY
Man, you’re testy this evening. (Not, to be fair, that I entirely blame you. Your fans must be irritating on occasion [myself included].)
I’m pretty sure he is just quoting Austin Powers and not “testy”.
What he said.
WHO QUOTES AUSTIN POWERS?
WHO DOES NUMBER TWO WORK FOR?
I WILL NOT BE PUSHED, FILED, STAMPED, BRIEFED, DEBRIEFED, OR NUMBERED!
“WHO IS NUMBER ONE?”
“YOU ARE, NUMBER NINE.”
They kept answering his question week after week, but he never did get it.
In some countries in the Middle East, it’s supposed to be like the worst way to insult someone– it’s like you’re throwing the lowest part of you at the person.
Source: I was confused when this happened to President Bush way back when
And you were obviously asking a legitimate question
Naturally there is only one explanation for this!
Dina is Amazi-girl! Amber was just trying to defend her roomie’s secret identity.
I think Amber can play this off. Lots of people wear the same kind of shoe.
And it obviously isn’t hers, since she would have worn a pair.
A beaten abusive father. A one-legged woman. An obsessed detective. The chase begins.
Well, that reveal didn’t take long. Really, keeping the evidence in your own room?!
Now Amber’s only hope is to convince Dorothy that she (Dorothy) is really Amazi-Girl, and that one of Amazi-Girl’s powers is making dopplegangers (to explain how Dorothy could be chasing Amazi-Girl when Dorothy is really Amazi-Girl).
I don’t see an arch on either, so I would think it’s the same shoe, the left, but it’s hard to tell. If that’s the same shoe that Dorothy was holding (we never see what happened to that shoe) and she got it back, and still had the other hidden away, why would she throw it out? That’s the 1st scenario. And if it’s the other one of the pair, that still means she went back and picked it up, since it wouldn’t make sense for one shoe to be still in her room and one shoe lying outside for Dorothy to find. So that would mean she would have left both shoes outside in different locations, and then a while later, she goes to the effort of tracking down one of them, but not the other, brings it back to her room and puts it in her own trashcan, when she could have just left it outside like the other shoe, or thrown both of them away in a public trashcan. That’s the second scenario. The third scenario is that she left her dorm with only one shoe on, leaving the other in her room, to play with Transformers outside, carrying her uniform just in case, and changed into Amazi-Girl when she saw the criminal. And then later, unable to find the shoe Dorothy held, she threw away the other shoe she for some reason left in her room. None of these scenarios make any sense!
According to Willis, Amazi-Girl has pockets in her cape that she usually puts her civilian shoes in to keep them handy and weight her cape. So what happened was, in the rush to change into costume and chase after Sal, Amazi-Girl dropped one of Amber’s shoes, which Dorothy found and confronted her with (and I’m not sure where it went after that… Dorothy doesn’t seem to be carrying it during the chase), but presumably got the other into its cape pocket where it belonged, so it came back to the room with Amber in her cape, where she threw it in the trash because she’s missing its mate and one shoe is no good.
(She might want to dump them even if she’d recovered the other one, because Dorothy and Walky can identify her by them now.)
Huh. That would explain it. It would have been nice to find that out from the comic itself, but that’s minor.
However, that brings up a new question. Those must be some crazy special shoes! (shit, that was not a question) For one thing, sneakers, particularly puffy tennis shoes like those, do NOT compact well. Trust me, I’ve tried. Putting those inside of a cape, especially without any force to compress them, would leave two big sneaker shapes bulging out of whatever part of the cape they are stored in. Secondly, tennis shoes are heavy! Sneakers like those, with the rubber toe and the thick soles weigh almost a pound each! (I recently weighed mine with a scale that measures with three decimal places, and they came to about 0.8 lbs each.) With a cape weighted down that much, they should never flap in the wind EVER. If her sneakers are in that cape while it’s still flapping in the breeze, those must be the lightest tennis shoes ever made. And then there’s the prospect of running with heavy bulky sneakers inside your cape. Given that we are told that they also serve to weight her cape, they would probably have to be located at the bottom of the cape, either centered or at the corners, otherwise, what’s the point of a weighted cape. Now, I’m ashamed to say, I haven’t performed any experiments confirming or disproving if that would cause any problems. I know, I have failed you, Mythbusters. But I would think that that amount of bulky weight in the corners would swing around into one’s legs an awful lot during running, and with the size of those shoes, it could easily cause tripping, and likely bruising too. And if they were centered, you’d be kicking them with every step. Weighted capes generally don’t need much weight to stay still, small bags of sand or even heavy fabric would do the trick. Almost two pounds of shoe is definitely overkill, and would probably do more inconvenience than convenience.
CSI: Tennis Shoes
THE
TABLES
HAVE
TURNED
LIKE DEADMAU5 AT A GERMAN RAVE
Come on, Amber… THINK! “Uh… some crazy woman ran through here in a yellow jumpsuit and stole my other one.”
Come on Amber. Quickly kiss her and drive all thoughts of shoes out of her mind.
Could Amber somehow lie and say the Transformers and the shoes belonged to Dina, and that Dina is therefore Amazi-girl? Though, that excuse’s easy enough to test and would fall apart rather fast.
Willis while admittedl I don’t live in America I have literally never seen and Oranga bin like that in my life
I have a blue one and a beige one, but not an orange one.
Unless Dorothy is a lot dumber than I think, that has to be enough. She knows now.
Also? I pretty much only see black bins.
That’s because the orange bins blend in with the orange background.
It suddenly occurs to me that Dorothy could have checked with campus security and found out that Blaine was declared persona non grata on campus. So uh, yeah. That might have been the final clue that Blaine was Amber’s father and no she doesn’t want to talk about it, Dorothy.
Is it just me, or do the shoe in this comic and the one from a while back both look leftish? I was assuming she had thrown out the one she hadn’t dropped to remove the evidence, but I just look at them both and they say left to me.
This one has a concave curve on the facing side, which makes it a right shoe. The other didn’t appear to, so it’s probably a left shoe.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. So, goodbye Dorothy and Danny. Unless they agree to be Alfred, Robin or Catwoman.
You mean Dorothy, Danny, and Dina? I’m sure there is some way for Amber to take advantage of the alliteration.
You mean Dorothy, Danny, Dina and Duh Ethan.
Dorothy is going to get her but kicked now but good.
Yes, because Amber’s response to someone finding out her secret identity would clearly be to assualt an innocent person.
Just like she assaulted Dina
She’s on you, Amber, there’s only one thing left to do… And that is removing the witness. Permanently. With a knife.
Or with a kiss.
So she’s not just Amazi-Girl, but Poison Ivy with hair dye as well?
I could totally see Willis dragging this out all week if he wanted to. Dorothy doesn’t grasp the implications of the evidence, offers to help clean up in an attempt at being friendly, Amber insistently trying to get her out of the room and accidentally exposing more evidence in her panic. Lather, rinse, repeat.
So naturally, this won’t actually happen. But I have faith that Willis could have pulled it off if he were so inclined.
What, are you kidding? We’re going to jump to another scene tomorrow. Probably back to Joyce. Willis is the master of the cliffhanger
But I’m looking forward to the frame where they stop looking at the shoe and look at each other.
Damn you Willis in advance.
And having seen the next strip, I have to take the Damn you Willis back.
“That shoe belongs to my roommate.”
“OR THE R.A. WHO SNUCK IN AND REVERSE-STOLE SOMETHING FROM MY ROOM THAT IS SHE PLANTED IT I BET”
Amber, you know what you must do
Kill her
You know what else might give Amber away?
The bruises, scabs and scraps on her knuckles for kicking so much ass.
Which is why any superhero worthy of the term wears gloves.
Then again… she might think it’s Walky’s shoe (that had been thrown down the hallway way back when… necessitating her buying him new ones, and also his new manly-ish shirt). It’s a possibility.
Amber might try confusing the issue by claiming its a shoe that got thrown down the hall back then, except that Amber doesn’t know about that shoe.
Oh no, the shame! Now the world will know that Amber throws out recyclables. Whelp, guess she will have to kill Dorothy now.
I’ve seen a lot of jokes about Amber having to kill Dorothy now, but that would be a pretty amazingly dark turn for the comic, if you think about it.
Knocking her out would be appropriate. But yes, I’d love a non-canon strip where she tries.
Knocking Dorothy out would be worse than pointless. She’d wake up sooner or later, and then Amber’s back where she started, except now Dorothy’s mad at her.
Da…daa….daaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Ooooops!
SHE KNOWS TOO MUCH!
So what weapon will Amber kill Dot with? A Monkey Master doll? A toy dino? Unicron?
Joyce’s gift for Ethan.
If everyone owns that same trash can, that shoe could belong to anyone!
That’s a really good point. I wonder if Willis thought of that.
Random832– awesome. Here, in Austin, everything is Burnt Orange for University of Texas. What’s another trashcan, or two?