Speaking of suspects, our mysterious Derby Girl is revealed in my last guest strip for Girls With Slingshots!
Also if you missed me at the Laughing Ogre last Sunday, I’ll be there again this Sunday (the 13) from noon until three!
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Man, Looks like I have to make a trip to the bakery down the street. Sheesh.
Get a cake with your comments from yesterday printed on it. Then you can eat your words.
I cant’ tell if this is just a joke or a sick burn for something I’m not aware of.
Idk let’s ask wondering Fry
Is a joke. Relax mai frand. *pat pat*
I don’t think anyone really needs to be reminded Carla’s a dick.
she should break out the pies just to be sure
She used to be a dick at least. 😀
She wasn’t really much of a Pro though.
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooo
Oh yesssssssss.
As you wish: Carla is now a dick.
That was not at all what I expected, but I am certainly impressed.
Very lulzy.
Nice editing. Did you use Photoshop, paint.net or something else to make that?
You’d be surprised what you can accomplish with Paint and a plan.
Just paint? Holey cow, you must either have patience or skills! Sure, you can probably do anything you want with paint, besides making pictures with transparent portions, but it’s NOT easy!
I have spent too much time on the internet. What I was imagining would be behind that link was much, much worse.
Rimshot.
That’s the thing. If you’re a dick, you will continue to prove it even if noone wants you to.
They’re nice that way.
“Dick persistence” is a psychological trait that separates humans from mere brute beasts.
Carla is adorable in her own way. I think I actually like her more than Ultra Car.
It takes real effort to be seen as a proper asshole you know.
However being seen as an improper asshole is PRETTY easy.
Mike been a perfect example of a proper asshole as opposed to all the half-arsed assholes you usually find.
Eh, not really. Or rather, not *all* the time. Y’just gotta find what it is they care about or take super-seriously, and hit it really really hard.
Like say…if they’re serious about cleaning, or keeping clutter out…Land the bottom half of a large reclining chair, right in the middle of their living room.
If they’ve got a thing for control, swap their locker’s normal tiny padlock for a military lock; the sort of thing that they’ll end up breaking the locker door off before they manage to break the new padlock.
If their fancy is for respect in general…Find the system they believe in and act by….And break that system–Be better than them in every way, by working inside the system, in a way that for them is just “not how it’s done”, or “not valid”. And when they *do* get you caught out for your shenanigans, shake it off like it’s no big deal; as soon as you’re done doing your time, go right back to being the best.
Of course though, it always depends on *why* you’re doing it, as to whether you’re being a proper asshole. If you’re doing it purely for the sake of being an ass, that’s not a proper asshole.
Example: My brother trolls folks online–he holds indefensible positions, that he knows are incorrect, and debates it to death when people try to correct him on it. Somehow he thinks that’s funny. But there’s no real point in doing that–he’s just wasting his time, along with the time of anyone who wants to get into it with him.
I suspect that’s what most people do when they are online, especially in the Youtube comments.
How can you defend an indefensible position?
Isn’t that by definition impossible?
With false logic – logic that makes no sense and can’t be drawn from the argument but that will irritate people into continuing to attempt to correct the troll.
I have one just like that, except does it in real life, for everything, to death, to defend or deflect his lack of accomplishment at anything but useless arguing.
I’m hoping there will soon be a law and death penalty passed so I can request the privs of pushing the button or pulling the lever or whatever is involved to make it stop.
So, a proper asshole, would that be an asshole from Britain?
I think it was Dina. She is a sneaky one.
Nah, if it was her, she’d ‘a tagged all the boards with pterosaurs or somethin’.
Dinosaur dicks, at the very least.
…or the notorious Priaposaurus Dix, a 30-foot mid-Jurassic fossil that looks, according to experts, “kinda unfortunate”.
And a pair of cat ears…
And definitely a dinosaur tail.
Love Dina, hugs.
Love that she freaked out Amazi-girl, another addition to her ‘stand behind ya’ list.
Yup, Carla’s a dick, we know this.
Sarah drawing dicks?
Amber should take stealth lessons from her. It’d help her superhero career immensely.
Or take her on as her dinosaur themed ninja girl sidekick. She needs a friggin’ sidekick, already.
Dang. Amazi-girl got out-Batmanned.
So Sarah drew the original dick, the one we saw Joyce wipe off.
This prompted Mike, ever the artist, to become inspired. Why, if he could draw a single penis, maybe he could draw more. Spread them to every white board in the hall. And to make sure his gift was permeant, and unwipable.
Wait, wait, waitwaitwait. How fast is Robin in this ‘verse? Or is Riley still around? Maybe it’s a sugar-fueled DeSanto prank…
Sarah was the fist one to draw a dick
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/company/
Awww, someone wants attention…Pay attention to Carla, everyone!
My resecpt must be earned, If she wants to be noticed she has to do something Big.
Like drawing a single penis over the entire campus?
It only will truly count if you could see this penis on Google Maps.
Now something like that would be really Big-….lol I just can’t do it anymore it’s to much haha.
What if you could _only_ see it on Google Maps?
Major massive hacker cred to the first person who manages to arrange some striking visual effect, in public, on so large a scale that no one realizes what it is, and for so long a time that it is picked up by the airplanes that do in-city “satellite” photos and appears on Google Maps.
Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single word.
It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow. Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the destruction of this cairn, that wouldn’t alert the press and embarrass both Parliament and Party.
It stands today, a monument to human spirit. If life exists on other planets, this may be the first message received from us.
— The Realist, November, 1964.
And two years ago, in Seattle WA, an artist painted 60-foot “Daddy Long-legs” spiders on the roof of the Seattle Center Armory building which is located adjacent to the famed Space Needle. Needless to say, the view people get when looking down from the observation deck is startling, to say the least.
Nightmare fuel!
That is awesome.
Well, here’s one and you don’t even need to leave Indiana. Just go to Google Maps and put in “Bendix Woods Park” and you will get this — a grove of pine trees planted over seventy-five years ago, stretching out over a length of a half-mile and spelling out the word “STUDEBAKER”, as this location (about ten miles west of South Bend) was at one time the site of the Studebaker Motor Company testing and proving grounds.
very cool. I grew up just west of there. Where was the plant? Is this where they built the Avanti? There doesn’t look like there’s enough on the site of the track for mfg.
This was just a testing facility, not the manufacturing site — you know, where they’d take the cars and drive ’em to destruction to find out what broke and then try to improve on it. I believe the actual factory was in South Bend itself.
Even assholes need to stay relevant these days. . .
Carla and Rachel! Talking! AAH!
Rachel you shouldn’t call your daughter an asshole, that’s bad for her self esteem. I guess…
Wait, what will Carla’s parents in this universe like? Are they still like Joe? Are they the creative minds behind the Ultra Car cartoon?
But Carla takes pride in being an asshole.
“Who is this Mike?”
And so it begins.
She’s so far into her alternate psyche that she can’t remember her friends anymore. It’s so sad.
It’s more likely she is intentionally asking who is Mike in order not to reveal she allready knows him and thus blow her identity.
Ooof, knowing Mike, he’ll try to reveal her identity, so I’m betting she’s going to try to avoid interrogating him in public.
He will try to get her to reveal herself.
Well, I guess this comic is proof that Dina and Matoi are the same person.
If you mean Matoi the stalker girl from SZS, then yes, yes she is.
Just finished the SzS manga, and that’s who came to mind for me too!
The twist about Kafuka during the final chapters was pretty awesome.
Yes, but the implications of the very last chapter are nightmarish!
*Shiver*
just read up on that since they stopped releasing SZS manga
in english.
holy wtf shaft.
I kinda like the twist, especial when you realise that they have been leaving subtle clues from time to time since almost the beginning of SZS.
Yes, that part was clever. Also shows it wasn’t a last-minute plot twist.
I totally want to see Amazi-Girl try and question Sarah now. I suspect it’ll involve AG trying to look intimidating and Sarah just staring silently for a few panels before recognising her as the girl who assaulted Joyce in the cafeteria.
First Sarah will recognize her as the girl whose grandstanding let the guy who tried to rape Joyce get away.
What, Joyce, no rousing defense of Sarah?
But being a friend of Sarah lacks any double meaning.
What is this “mind share” Carla speaks of?
noun
noun: mind-share
relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
“the need to compete for mindshare from an audience with a short attention span”
Thanks, it’s my first time to hear this term. It reminded me of Klingon mind-meld and I was half expecting Howard to pop out of nowhere.
Vulcan.
Klingons an mind-meld if they want!
. . .
you know, with a Vulcan.
_Klingon_ mind-meld? *geek cred revoked*
A Klingon mind-meld is what humans call a “head-butt”. 😀
Mike, on the other hand, is what humans call a “butt-head”.
+2 to John.
This raises a question: does Mike know that Amber is Amazigirl?
Of course he does,If Ethan can figure it out then Mike would have no problem putting two and two together plus he’s is one the smartest characters here.
You’re right, he’s probably smart enough to figure it out (not that anyone who knows Amber personally really has to be that smart to figure it out). Which raises the further question: will he use it against her? Or, more likely, how will he use it against her?
Knowing him he won’t go with blackmail that’s to easy, he probably would to be a little creative and great situation so he could make things more difficult for her.
Although the blackmail angle would be a bit of cross universe payback.
Oooh I LIKE that angle!
Knowing him Amber’s habit of dressing up as a superhero is his fault somehow.
Dina has always been here. Dina will always be here. Dina is eternal.
Last panel is extra-funny because in the other universe, Rachel is Ultra Car’s mom.
Rachel must have been very young when she had Carla then. 😀
Yes! What came immediately to my mind on reading that panel was Randy the Bandicoot from QC: “I am eternal” with spooky red eyes.
“Ugh, I hope to god I nor by any stretch of the imagination an alternate dimension incarnation of myself ever have a daughter, mechanical or no, that is in any way similar to you.”
Have I mentioned that Rachel is my favorite minor character, I’d love to see her get more limelight, but that probably won’t happen anytime soon.
Which one?
I think he means Rachel not Other Rachel.
Why not both? They do live together after all.
Other Rachel’s big googly eyes freak me out.
There’s gotta be someone out there that finds Other Rachel appealing. I mean, this is the internet.
You’re right of cause but no one has yet to comment on having any sort of PSL for Other Rachel.
Amazi-Girl’s got this web-of-lies thing down. If it were me, I would have totally forgotten that I wasn’t supposed to know who Mike is.
Maybe once she gives up the Amazi-Girl gig, she can be a running mate for Dotty as lying is a big part when going into politics.
Carla your a noobie prankster asshole your not ready to pull something like this off.
Carla’s all “Is everyone forgetting I’m an asshole?” and I’m just like: The meta is so thick right now.
The butler did it.
Is Mike a freshman? Is is assholeness crushing Carla’s established asshole reputation? Because if it is that’s awful!
Setting sail the S.S. Mike-Carla. The ultimate bruise ship.
Unless he switched into a girl it’d never happen.
We know Carla is trans, and ace. But I don’t think that we know if she is heteroromantic or homoromantic or what.
Of course, elsewhere UC is in a homoromantic relationship, but we don’t know if that transfers to Carla as well. And for that matter UC could be bi-, poly-, or pan- romantic.
All sexuality has remained consistant.
According to Willis, she’s homoromantic.
The fact that Other Rachel will always precede Rachel in the tags amuses me.
Carla’s face is just the best face. Her expressions always make me so happy. I’m in love.
Both Billie and Carla misses their former status that they enjoyed in highschool, is it too soon to ship these two?
It’s never too soon. I’m shipping characters that haven’t been revealed yet.
Dude I’m sorry to say it but biblical Jesus and Ronald Reagan isn’t going to be a thing.
But Josh Josephson, the advice columnist and Ronnie Ray, the president of the Drama Club is definitely a thing.
Well, Ceilidh MacFarlane and Mike Green existed in the Walkyverse…
Carla misses her previously established college status, she’s older than the others.
What is it that Sierra’s wearing. Is it a sports bra or just a really small shirt.
Whatever it is it’s the best.
It could only get better if she stopped wearing clothes altogether. Hey, she already goes barefoot! It’s not that much of a stretch!
Naw, I’m one of those guys that needs at least a little left to the imagination. And since Sierra is my honey I just like seeing her in the comics.
Fair enough. As I age, I’m becoming a dirty old man, thus I want fit attractive women to wander around starkers.
It might also be one of those bare-belly tank-tops.
I am pretty sure that is a sports bra. Reasoning is that in my opinion the bottom hem is too short to be a cut-off tank.
On the other hand maybe she just is wear a very small girl’s cut-off tank..
I don’t think tank-tops have elastic bands at the bottom. It’s a sports bra.
That’s not an elastic band. That’s just her boob shadow.
Dina has the reverse Batman effect. Also Rachel!!!
If Dina ever needed to conceal her identity, she wouldn’t need a mask. Just remove the raptor hat. People wouldn’t recognize her without it. That and her stealth abilities make her the perfect sidekick.
So amused that even though Amazi-Girl (in her secret ID) is Dina’s roommate and so should be used to Dina’s powers, still totally blows the Perception roll! 😀
Wait didn’t Ruth enter the scene by saying someone drew a dick on her whiteboard.
That was Carla…
They’re both freckly redheads with glasses, but Carla’s taller and skinnier, and she wears her hair differently.
Carla is not freckly.
Maybe Deanatay needs to clean their monitor.
Hrm, maybe.
I don’t think that’s it. More likely she’s acting like AG doesn’t know who Mike is to maintain her cover. Note the quotation marks.
Is that a nod to Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei in panel two?
“Yes, always.” 😀
(Seriously, I don’t know, but it was an easy feed line!)
Kinda fits as Amber has been in a bit of despair as of late.
I’m in despair!! A world where Amber is in despair has left me in despair!!!
😀
I think it’s a nod to Orson Welles.
And I thought it was a reference to Harry Potter.
(“After all these years…?” “Always.”)
“Now what is it you want? In the depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?”
“If you figure out how to emphasize ‘the’ I’ll… make cheese for you.”
Or Pinky and the Brain… which is also a nod to Orson Welles.
Rachel looks like she’s just waiting to be awesome.
Probably won’t be in this universe I guess though?
So many girls in this strip that I’m unfamiliar with.
From left to right by first appearance:
(other) Rachel: Roomie to Rachel, new to the DoA speaking cast.
Walkyverse counterpart: member of SEMME, squad mate of Agatha and Mike
Amazi-Girl: Basically batman with boobs.
Agatha: Roomie unknown, occasional background character.
Walkyverse counterpart: Former member of SEMME, squad mate of (other) Rachel and Mike. Basically a bizarro-world version of Robin
Dina: Rar
Joyce: puts the fun in fundie
Sierra: Dorothy’s roomie, very much a hippie. Hasn’t worn shoes in close to a decade. Has seen Walky naked.
Walkyverse counterpart: part of the hypersexed Squad 48. Probably living with Marcie nowadays.
Carla: DMAB Trans woman, major fan of the Ultra Car TV show. No roomie. Wears roller skates everywhere. Kind of a jerk.
Walkyverse Counterpart: Ultra Car, formerly a crimefighting robotic SUV who was kind of a jerk, now a robot girl who is also kind of a jerk.
Rachel: Roomie of (other) Rachel. Been a background character since the start, hasn’t had much speaking time though.
Walkyverse counterpart: hit it off with Joe and the two settled down together. Mother of Ultra Car
Come on, guys, it was obviously Danny.
We can’t solve everything by blaming Danny.
Probably been said already, but CARla. I see what you did there.
Well it was obvious since her previous name was Ultra Car.
It gets better: her full name is CARLA RUTten.
Hmmm by Jove I think I’ve got it, I have determined that there was more that one perpetrator.
If you had stop to observe all the drawing you would that they all have different styles of marksmen ship.http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/morningwoods/
And one of which has the same style of a suspects just mentioned.http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/company/
As I have allready said it sure looks like last night there was a competition in dick drawing.
So I’m just going to point out that you misspelled “freshmen” in the last panel. Now, back to not commenting for me. 😛
Obviously anyone is capable! It’s a matter of who has a used-up permanent marker in their trash can!
Joyce’s unkempt hair from yesterday’s strip sure became a lot more kempt today…..
Looks exactly the same to me, she just looks more reasonable when she doesn’t have crazyface.
Maybe, someone has done this with insomnia, or someone with personality disorder.
Dina is always there. Watching. Waiting.
Dina is Ceiling Cat.
i still think it was joyce for some reason…
Just scribble over the lines with a non-permanent marker then erase them. Problem solved. Then again, maybe that only works for certain permanent markers… The other option is nailpolish remover. That works on everything!
… Malaya did it.
Dammit, Malaya!
A Bell wouldn’t help with Dina – it would simply serve to bracket her appearances and disappearances. EG:
Amber: (to herself) Dang, where’d I put my jumpsuit?
*ding-a-ding*
Dina: It’s behind the dresser.
*ding-a-ding*
Well I guess I’m not going to like Carla any more than her Shortpacked counterpart.
At least I don’t have to be miffed that the one Ace in the cast is such a jerk.
Cause this universe has Dina!
I love how the character name tags are in alphabetical order, resulting in ‘other rachel’ appearing before ‘rachel’.
“Yes, always”
Zetsuboushita!
so Dina is now Matoi?
thats cool.
Wait, wait, I’ve got it!
It was Hazel’s mom!
Carla is a slight case of the “Remember the new guy” trope, isn’t she?. 🙂
Soooort of, though we all knew there were older students besides Ruth, Raidah’s girls and Sarah out there somewhere. And she mostly seems familiar to characters we haven’t really spent time around.
We were introduced to her as being a sophomore: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/beer-weiser/
I know, that’s why I was wondering if the Trope would apply. She was established before people started recognising her, but she has apparently been around all along.
Thanks to Willis’ comment in that link, I learnt that Carla is a homoromantic asexual transwoman, does that mean she’s into yaoi then?
yaoiyuriSo what is the end game here? She finds someone who only drew a few pictures of dicks and beats them up?
So is Carla just gonna completely ignore the fact that Amazigirl tried to beat the crap outta her earlier this week?
Great picture for that line.
It’s a good point, although I think AG was only trying to beat up Sal. She clocked Malaya only because Malaya charged her. But I was expecting Carla to bring it up. (PS: “earlier this week” = last night)
Two nights ago – last night she was talking to Dorothy.
She gave her the finger, which should be enough.
I mean, if everyone was satisfied with that level of vengeance, Amazi-girl wouldn’t have been trying to beat the crap out of them.
Carla and Mike should mate, just to see if they end up having a baby that is an actual living asshole.
Carla’s lack of romantic interest in Mike’s gender is a theoretical obstacle to this hypothetical proposition. Carla’s lack of sexual interest in general would raise the bar significantly. The amount of medical technology needed to overcome certain presumed fertility issues, however, would completely skew the results of the experiment.
Carla’s not a lesbian robot in this continuity (not sure if Willis has established her sexuality in DoA ), and you don’t need to be attracted to someone to have sex with them and produce offspring (but it helps).
it was implied a few strips ago that she is transgender.
Wait. That Amber girl — has anyone seen her? Is she right-handed?
what…what’s up with the inside of amazigirl’s mouth in panel two?
Those are called “teeth”.
Joyce’s right Mike is a jerk.
I love it how you make Dina appear out of nowhere like the Phantom Stranger. Cryptic as all hell, and I would love to see more of it.
Who’s the blonde person of indeterminate gender and the black shirt / blue boxers combo in panel one?!
Agatha. Mormon. Friendly, barely any mentions so far.
Aw man, is THAT what dingus means? I’ve been using it jokingly as a light-hearted epithet for ages now!