Hey look, my pal Danielle is doing a Kickstarter! I’m linking this here for you all because, GUESS WHAT, some of this moolah goes to ME. See, during her trip she needs to host a run of guest strips, and for some bizarre reason she wanted to pay us to do them. Hell, I woulda done it for free, but if Danielle wants to give me money anyway, I ain’t gonna turn it down. Sucker!
Also note that one of Danielle’s stops on her road tour is in Columbus, Ohio, costarring me! You can come meet both of us at The Laughing Ogre on July 6. My five-day guest strip domination on girlswithslingshots.com also starts that week. Me me me, you guys. And her, too, whatevs.
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The sense of relief is palpable.
I am literally palping the relief.
do you mean “literally” as in “actually” or as in “figuratively”?
Do you mean literally as in what it actually means, or literally as in the opposite of what it means?
Also, I have no idea how you palp anything, let alone relief.
Do you mean “literally” as in “not literally” as in what Google says
|=C
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think you literally don’t know what it means.
Its use as an intensifier of figurative statements goes back hundreds of years. It’s literally a can of worms, but there you are.
Yes literally can mean figuratively. If you do use it that way what other way do you have to say literally? There are many other options to intensify something but ‘literally’ is literally the only easy way to get that concept across. I think that’s why people get so up in arms about diluting the word literally.
I looked up literally in a thesaurus, and I was hoping/afraid that figuratively would be both a synonym and antonym.
the same way a doctor palpates the region.
Do you mean “often”, “frequently”, or “often”, “a person who has lost both of their parents”?
*literally palpating the relief.
literally pupating the relief
literally palpitating the relief
Literally palpatining the relief.
Literally pulping the relief.
That sounds like what Mike does for a nickel…
Literally pantomiming the relief.
Something Something Dark Side,
Something Something… Relief.
RELIEF!!! UNLIMITED RELIEF!!!
Yeah, it’s hard to believe that she spent the whole night worrying about this! (And picking a fight with Sal.)
You know what gives you a sense of relief? Patches that’s what.
SLEEPS
AMBER SEEPY
Aaah poor baby tired heself out, Time to draw a mustache on her face!
put her hand in a glass of warm water
It’s good to see Amber happy
Let’s make her even more happy. Let her beat up Sal!
Or Dorothy could put a wig on Walky and a couple of balloons down his shirt. Let Amber work out some aggression that way.
Where’s Head Alien and his gender swapping ray gun when you need him, huh?
He uses it on Danny. And Joe cause that’ll be hilarious.
Danielle seems like she’d have one of those mullets you generally see in Kentucky
Jo might be a super-skank ho [though I’m still imagining manly features a la Maximilliana]
You doomed us again Willis! Rattrap and Skybite, now I’ll never find them 🙁
Damn you Willis! I thought you said you wouldn’t do this anymore!
_so that’s what smiles look like on amber_
Non-triangular?
I swear I thought she was gonna say a “Boots been removed from my ass” but I guess that’d have a different meaning.
# Boots to asses
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2L9hVma4eI
…That is EXACTLY what I would do in her position.
also, I think Amber looks like an adorable sleeping kitten in the last panel.
Her snore’s reminiscent of an adorable sleeping jaguar.
There are many things Amber can do in that position. Danny, for one.
QUICK, somebody get the bowl of warm water. 😛
please no! Amber couldn’t handle the embarrassment at this point!
Then shaving cream…
Where’s a marker when you need it.
In someone else’s hand. How annoying is that?
Amazi-Girl’s real nemesis is failing out because she slept through all her classes.
http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/vp/image/1372/45/1372454784720.jpg
Meanwhile in Amber’s class.
those are little baby Kangaskhan, right?
Substitutes.
They almost look like the Bubble Bobble ‘saurs.
I could use a Substitute doll for a dreadful school retreat I’m not looking forward to.
Or just use a convenient log.
Maybe with a few knives sticking out of it for effect.
Like…is there just a shit ton of chopped up, roughly person sized wood in the ninja world?
Or like….
Are they carrying around the wood in some sort of dimensional pocket or something?
A smiling Amber?
Surely something horrible is in store.
(this is also what I do when I can finally relax)
Dina comes into the room “I’m planning my wedding with Faz.”
After that savage beating you gave Blaine we decided to rebuild him as an indestructable laser-guided cyborg.
Amber’s mom comes in and announces her plan to triple marry Joe’s dad, Jacob, and Sal.
All of the above.
In succession.
And then, of course, she opens her eyes with a gasp and sits bolt upright.
And she’s lying in bed next to Mike. Donna is crying in the next room.
She’s free to commit felony assault!
…Naw, she just might be free FROM the compulsion to do that.
AND… THEN… IT… WAS… ALL… A… DREAM….
And you where there, and you where there, and you…well actually you weren’t there.
I relate more to Amber in this strip than in any other.
Somehow whenever I find myself totally free with no pressure, “Go back to bed” is my number one choice of activity.
“I could marathon every Elm Street film! I could go get a tub of ice cream! I could play all those games that have been sitting in my Steam account since the last sale!…I could have a nap!”
Clearly I’m getting old.
you’re not getting old; I do the exact same thing, and I’m still in High School.
Going back to bed is what we’ve been doing since we were babies.
yes, but as babies, we actually NEED to sleep for 16 hours a day. Any other time and it’s pretty much a luxury.
I could play all those games that have been sitting in my Steam account since the last sale!
This reminds of the time I stared at a list of 200+ unplayed games on Steam, only to turn my 3DS back on.
Rather, “times.”
After every purchase I’ve made on Steam in the past two years.
Damn, that list won’t stop growing.
I currently have about 70 games in my account. Played about 40 of them.
In defense of my spending habits, I should point out that most of those are from Humble Bundles.
I have about 20 unplayed games on my 119-game steam account. To be fair, I haven’t played a couple of those games in about 3 years, so…
I’d say maybe 30-40 tops in my collection come from HB. Most of my spending was during the Summer and Winter sales, then Amazon or Green Man Gaming.
You people and your “spending money”! I have to actually play games I *OWN* rather than getting Transistor! |=p
dammit
I’ve got around 220 games in my account, and have around 80 unplayed ones. (Or maybe twenty less than that if you count older games that I’ve rebought because I wanted them on steam as an easier way to replay/finish them.) I keep thinking that I should just play the suckers, but right now I’m in the middle of a replay of Skyrim and it seems to be taking a while…
That’s the trouble, you kids and your sandbox games! Just buy the point-and-click adventures you can finish in like twelve hours and be done with!
*starts hour 120 of Recettear*
Obviously you people don’t know the usefulness of Pirate bay. All those games you pay for, I get for free thanks to peer to peer sharing, like good old mixtapes.
I’m pretty sure we all know about it, but how will developers get our money and be able to make MOAR GAMES that no one will play
Yes, the only reason to honestly own something is that we just don’t know better. There is absolutely no way anything else can be at play there.
Look, I’ll cop to that desire being fundamentally irrational in part for personal reasons myself, but seriously?
Ah, HB: the place where you go to buy one game for a dollar and get a bunch of games you weren’t interested in free.
Oh good, Amber followed my advice.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/shoop/#comment-229960
Well, how many OTHER bathrooms could she go in?
For a second, I was worried this was going to be “it’s all a dream” bullshit, but that’s not really Willis’ style, and it makes more sense that she’s just having a much-needed rest.
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Interrogative!
Above statement made because I had just refreshed and there were no other comments visible in spite of more than 6 minutes having expired since my first post.
“…finally free to do anything.”
Oh my.
First on my list…
Dorothy.
Willis, is that an Ultra Mammoth on Amber’s desk? Because if so, you just made me smile.
Phew, now is someone else’s turn to be miserable for a change.
Time to check in on Billie and Ruth again?
You’re right, there’s no way they could have reconciled in a sexy manner.
Beside, Billie is going to have one fearsome hangover this morning, if she hasn’t suffered irreversible liver damage from last night’s binge.
As much as I want to thinking more like Ethan.
That’s my favorite thing to do, tbh.
(Also, I’m sad that I won’t be able to see both of you since I don’t live in Ohio, but I’m super stoked that Danielle is actually make a stop right near where I live! We pretty much don’t have any cons around here, and I can’t get off time to travel usually, so it’ll be cool to finally meet someone.)
Good for her. She probably really needs that sleep.
This is college. Sleep is definitely on the ‘Finally, I can do the things!’ list.
To be fair, for those who have the luxury that is literally the best use of one’s morning that has ever been invented.
Close, but not quite. Best is when one has company.
Call Danny and Slipshine.
Slipshine is only necessary for EXTREEEM cuddling. I’m pretty sure Danny has never done anything EXTREEEM in his life.
He lost his virginity to Dorothy. That’s pretty EXTREEM.
Losing your virginity to your long-term girlfriend after several years of dating only qualifies as “extreme” if you’re Joyce.
I mean, unless he lost it while bungee-jumping or something.
Or in the middle of Dorothy-and-Joe sandwich.
Sleep warrior of yellow, you must rest for your next challenge” Damnation of the Dannieing,” only then will you face your Rival.
Is that _Das Dannerstaterung_?
Beautiful.
Danny would say that.
I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake, but in the meantime, rest well and dream of large women.
Am I correct in assuming that is a Monty Python reference?
Nope, it’s a “The Princess Bride” reference, uttered just after Westley won over Fezzik.
And then Billie fucks everything up
One vote secured for the future president election
Now she has a second
When the going gets tough, our heroine….goes to sleep, its been a looong night.
So what does she do when/if she finds out Danny grew a pair and didn’t rat her out?
She just snores even louder. She also might kick in her sleep.
That’s what I do inside and outside school.
Awww. Sleep well, Amber-chan.
Also, are those Transformers or Pokemon?
Or maybe they are Dina’s. For a project about the evolutionary relation between whales, hippos and elephants.
Transformers. Ultra Mammoth you might recognize from his hijacking of the Shortpacked! site.
Rest well Amber. You deserve it
Good night, and sleep well.
and this is the part where everything goes downhill
Ya know…. I’d probably pass the crap out too if I’d have had the weekend she did and managed to come out of it with only some minor physical bruising. Sleep can cure (some) of the (less traumatic) emotional things though she really needs to talk to SOMEONE, anyone… except maybe Danny.
why not danny?
Seriously! I’ve often suspected that I’d be much less psychotic if only I was able to get better sleep.
Excuse me. But has everyone forgotten that Blaine is still in hospital?
There is still a certain amount of organic fertilizer that is due to make contact with the oscillating air-circulatory device.
This comic is not ending any time soon. Not remotely any time soon. And it is written by Willis.
How? He doesn’t know Amazi-Girl is Amber and lied to the cops about who assaulted him. He’ll still be an asshole but he’s no more a threat than he was to begin with, less so since now Danny knows about him.
That may very well be. But according to the principle of Chekhov’s Gun, everything and everybody is introduced for a reason. So just like Q in ST:TNG, he will pop up in the plot from time to time and continue to be a thorn in Amber’s side.
And along those same lines, I’m waiting to see how Willis will follow up on the interaction between the characters of Ethan and Jocelyne — remember them? — which was left open-ended and hanging.
I demand an Ultra Mammoth tag.
She doesn’t worry about the headline on tomorrow’s paper anymore. No more secrets escaping.
Everything’s alright.
Amber O’Malley sleeps the sleep of the just.
more like the sleep of the dammed. Criminal scum!
Is that a Sandman reference? It’s been a while since I read through all of them.
Indeed it is. +1 to you
this is awesome, but i woke with a sense of dread about Ruth… wasn’t someone supposed to check on her?
She’s fine. Amazi-Girl said.
And there’s no way to get a truck up the elevator.
I initially read that as “It’s like a boob’s been removed from my chest.”
That would be cause for much less sleep.
And a spit take.
Aaah, post-incredible-stress-all-nighter sleep. I’ve been there. For very different reasons, but. Still. Been there. Rest well, Amber. You’ve earned it.
And so, the chapter titled ‘Up All Night (Something Something)’ ends. With sweet, sweet oblivion.
Unless there’s a day-new-mount?
We have not seen the last of Rebel-Joyce, I would think
As the Gallaghers so nearly put it:
I’m free-ee to do whatever I,
Whatever I want and I’ll go back to bed if I want.
Amber’s face makes me think of LeVar Burton’s tears of joy T^T
Is noone going to mention that Amber told Billie that she is Amazi-girl? Even if Billie was drunk, she miiiiiight remember it in the morning….
Billie’s still convinced Sal is Amazi-girl. Even if she were sober she wouldn’t have believed Amber.
Also, Billie heard Amber *talk with* Amazi-Girl.
All is well that ends well?
Somehow, I doubt it.
Thing is… nothing ever really ends.
Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
She’s… smiling??? Everyone, run!
every friday after exams.
SNXKTXFFZ
This was exactly my reaction last week at the end of semester. It feels so good to be done.
What the Hell’s her leg supposed to be propped up on? I’ve slept in those beds and there ain’t nothin’ up there.
the wall?
So, if everything has taken place over the course of a few weeks since 2012, how are Amber’s toys from 2014?
The whole thing has taken place over the course of a few weeks in a fictional universe that is always identical to our own at the precise time each strip is posted. Specifically so people won’t ask questions like you just did.