I was under the impression that AG was the one who actually pilots the mech, so to speak, for roller derby, since ‘Slamber’ daubs a blue mask on for games.
roller derby is fer sher an amber gig. It’s an outlet for aggression, seeing as how the AG aggression redirection is woops a whole identity now.
Derby is a good Chaotic activity. AG would be good at it prolly, but it’s not so aligned with her lawful good alignment.
In fact, I’ve gone back and checked and at the end of the roller derby match AG mentions she’s “no longer a superhero”. So she probably does need an outlet for her aggression, and maybe isn’t as bothered about it being a chaotic one.
A bank vault is pretty unusual shenanigans. But they don’t know about that yet. Wonder if Dina and Charlie have gotten into Area 51 yet. Or maybe Area 52.
Amazi-Girl is often seen at night, so I could see her ethnicity maybe being less obvious. A bigger issue would be body type. Amazi-Girl’s hips and ass have got to be like, twice the size of Sal’s. They are built very differently.
I guess the cape may make that less easy to spot in some instances, but even still.
Given that the only logical end case for this comic is for the cast to be a travelling Roller Derby team plus support, while solving crimes in each town… Well, yeah.
Unless you’re willing to agree to count a British accent as one . But then Malaya doesn’t have a British accent as far as we know. Maybe Ruth’s boyfriend could borrow the iguana.
I’m debating which Hanna-Barbera non-human-talking-character category Fuckface would fall under. Characters with shirt collars who walk upright (Yogi, Snagglepuss, etc) get vaudeville/golden age of cinema celebrity impersonations. Characters that don’t (Jabberjaw, Scooby, Speed Buggy) get speech impediments.
Malaya can just do their own thing (because they will anyway).
She could be a holistic detective. As Douglas Adams said, a for holistic detective to solve a case they’ll have to solve the universe – but that also works the other way around. Holisticism suggests that if you can see the whole of one thing, the entirety of any one phenomenon, that includes how it interconnects with every other thing, and so you will understand the entire universe. And Carla’s love for herself must surely approach that event horizon.
Carla would be a holistic Carla detective. She understands the whole universe that revolves around Carla, and if it’s not contained in that, then axiomatically it doesn’t matter.
I don’t expect she’d have many paying customers, but that doesn’t matter, she can do her own word-of-mouth advertising
If Carla doesn’t recognize Amber is Amazi-Girl I guess it’s plausible Asher didn’t either. I kinda thought she was caught on the news revealing her identity but kids don’t watch the news.
Yeah, but after Blaine got his face punched in, Amber very publicly walked away from that while taking the jumpsuit off.
It’s entirely plausible that no one could identify her (i.e. “Lex Luther possessing Barry Allen’s body and realizing he had no idea who it was”), but it was pretty damn public.
Ohhhhh, you put into the url address! That makes sense. I was looking all over for some sort of secret search bar in the actual UI of the website. I am very grateful for you guys’ help and I am proud to say I am 65% sure I used at least one of those technical terms right.
I would wager that Robin is better at manipulating people and is probably a better problem solver in social context, but Carla is far smarter, especially in terms of technology and engineering.
Technically, Robin fits your description more. Carla has more self-inflated ego, but at BEST she is exactly as savvy as she lets on. It’s hard to be savvier than you let on if your entire persona is “I am a perfect goddess.”
Robin’s ego has been dropped a peg – only a single peg, mind you – but the only reason I think she’s more savvy than she lets on is because she doesn’t seem savvy /in the slightest/ and it’s just that her skills happen to line up with tricking easily manipulated people into voting for her. That’s not a very hard thing to do if you lack moral scruples.
That one Not-Me who wears the mask is a lot like that other Not-Me who doesn’t wear the mask. I could figure it out more clearly but why bother? Both of them are Not-Me!
Yeah, but most people don’t recognise them because their personalities are so different that the body language and everything is off, and to a lesser extent because of the mask. But Carla’s roller-derby buddy is Amazi-Girl, complete with mask, calling herself Amber.
What’s fun is that Amazi-Girl is the one on the team, not Amber– so it’s not even that AG and Amber look alike, but that AG and AG as a civilian roller derby look alike.
interesting that AG isn’t “out” to everyone at roller derby… poor girl. i wonder if having to mask as amber at Her Primary Social Event is a stressor for her
I mean. She doesn’t have to act like Amber. She just has to answer to the name. And if anyone asks, roller derby just makes her act different. People behave differently in different contexts all the time.
wonderful pictures of natural landscapes, beautiful indie art including furries, hot leftist takes, retro computer nostalgia, funny memes,
and of course who could forget Willis’s hate read of 9CL?
it’s got it ALL!
the best part is that because of all that, Fire Me Elmo is only ever gonna be digging himself a deeper grave in attempts to compete with Twitter alternatives XD
Yeah I relaunched my Tumblr a while back so if you were following me before, you’re now following my archive blog. I’m also on Twitter and Bluesky. I’m “Wackd” on all of those because the internet hates apostrophes.
I’m also “Wackd” on AO3 if the idea of “what if the cast of Danny Phantom was eighteen and mentally ill and queer as fuck” appeals to you. Or if you don’t know what Danny Phantom is but like the idea of queer mentally ill teen superheroes because I tossed canon in the garbage.
I’m not that familiar with Danny Phantom but if in your stories they’re 18, queer, and mentally ill isn’t the main difference from cannon them being 18?
One of my writer friends wrote a sword-and-sorcery-noir story titled My Sword is Quick. It turns out that in the fantasy world that whenever two swordsmen meet for the first time, etiquette demands that they introduce themselves to each other by name and also introduce their weapons. The protagonist’s sword is Quick.
“Hey, have you noticed how Superman and Clark Kent are never in the same room? Do you suppose they just don’t like to be seen together because everyone comments on how they look so much alike?”
“Oh absolutely, hey crazy theory, maybe they are The same person!”
Bruce Wayne, over for some charity fundraiser, suggested while downing his third martni
“Yeah right, next thing you’ll say is that you are Batman.”
“I am!”
Covers his mouth with his sleeve and goes
“I am the Night.”
I’m reminded of another funny theory. People who spend time with Clark, particularly all the journalists, notice he a) vanishes into thin air whenever there’s sirens, b) has no family except parents who live halfway across the country and look nothing like him, c) does his work with a consistent level of perfection (hardly even makes typos), d) is infallibly polite and well dressed & e) doesn’t seem to have any close friends, and their conclusion is: He’s an undocumented immigrant.
Then, because he’s surrounded by highly ethical people, they don’t pressure him about details of his obscure personal life or poke at any inconsistencies in stories about his sudden disappearances. (“You were trapped in an elevator for the entire weeks long citywide disaster and just happened to have five fruit baskets with you? Sure, that happens.”) and play dumb if people try to draw attention to him like by saying he looks like Superman and whatnot.
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I can’t tell whether or not Carla is *genuinely* oblivious XD
Well, she’s genuinely Carla.
She’s oblivious to the fact that Amazi-Girl does not at all “look just like” Amber. She has better hair, come on!
I was under the impression that AG was the one who actually pilots the mech, so to speak, for roller derby, since ‘Slamber’ daubs a blue mask on for games.
roller derby is fer sher an amber gig. It’s an outlet for aggression, seeing as how the AG aggression redirection is woops a whole identity now.
Derby is a good Chaotic activity. AG would be good at it prolly, but it’s not so aligned with her lawful good alignment.
All the roller derby strips have her tagged as Amazi-Girl.
In fact, I’ve gone back and checked and at the end of the roller derby match AG mentions she’s “no longer a superhero”. So she probably does need an outlet for her aggression, and maybe isn’t as bothered about it being a chaotic one.
It confused me a bit, because when they first talked about it, it seemed to be Amber who’d agreed to play.
Like when they first came to enlist.
the two of them may have discussed it ahead of time and Amber was in charge when they arrived but AG takes over when the skates come on
Yet she thinks.Joyce and Dorothy are the same person.
– Freshman
– Short
– Blonde
– Glasses
– Sweaters/Vests/Sweatervests
– Previously kidnapped
It adds up!
https://www.dumbingofage.com/hatted/
conversely:
– Freshman vs Superhero
– Short
– Brunette
– Glasses vs Mask
– Loungewear vs Spandex
– Previously kidnapped vs Saved the day
so like they look similar but totally different people
Carla is just reminding Amazi-Girl of the coolest person she ever met, Carla. ~<3
I think its less oblivious and must extremely self centered.
Vintage Carla.
Amazi-Gargoyle, that’s all.
Amazi-goyle?
Yeah, whatta lucky goyle…
which bit of her are you calling the spout for water?
What a golden opportunity for puns.
She’s a little teapot…
A song that’s actually about a kettle.
Such a cute squirt!
Given the revelation yesterday that Gargoyle and Gargle share the same root word, what is Amazi-girl gargl- actually nevermind, forget I asked.
“Not missing missing. Shenanigans missing. Regular people shenanigans. Not our usual shenanigans. Probably. I think.”
A bank vault is pretty unusual shenanigans. But they don’t know about that yet. Wonder if Dina and Charlie have gotten into Area 51 yet. Or maybe Area 52.
I meant Area 52 to be a joke, but I googled it and apparently that’s actually a thing.
Really? Now I’m curious lol
Area 52 is where they sent Dan DiDio in the hope that banishing him from society would make DC Comics suck less. It was somewhat successful!
It’s where they do alien-adjacent research.
Have a spare Internet.
She has the mask with her because Amazi-Girl is always prepared for anything
Did we ever get a definitive answer about whether Jen put the pieces together about Amber?
I just want her to always be wrong about that.
I don’t think we’ve gotten the definitive answer on whether anyone’s put the pieces together on Amber…including Amber.
Jennifer was explicitly told Amber is Amazi-Girl, wasn’t she? I think she either didn’t believe it or had by then lost interest.
It’s been a hot minute, so I could easily be conflating things.
Jennifer thought Sal was Amazi-Girl despite, uh, well, Sal being black.
She is just GENUINELY that oblivious.
She’s not black until she takes the mask off. Don’t you know how masks work?
Amazi-Girl is often seen at night, so I could see her ethnicity maybe being less obvious. A bigger issue would be body type. Amazi-Girl’s hips and ass have got to be like, twice the size of Sal’s. They are built very differently.
I guess the cape may make that less easy to spot in some instances, but even still.
There’s also the very obvious accent Sal had that AG lacks.
Amazi-girl speaks in Batman voice; it would take a very good ear to work out what her accent is when she’s *not* doing the bit.
(Or catching her when she forgets to do the voice. But I think only the inner circle’s been there for that?)
She was explicitly told, yes. And disbelieved. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/04-is-a-song-forever/whatnow/
Oh Carla, you goofball.
carla would be the world’s greatest detective, if she ever felt like doing it for more than fifteen minutes at a time
If her, Amazi-girl, Sal, Dorothy, and Dina teamed up to be a crime fighting team they’d be unstoppable.
Given that the only logical end case for this comic is for the cast to be a travelling Roller Derby team plus support, while solving crimes in each town… Well, yeah.
And their wacky animal sidekick is blowjob cat.
I would have made it Fuckface. Malaya can come as the butler.
Does he walk upright with a shirt collar and tie, like Yogi Bear, or is he a talking animal with a speech impediment like Jabberjaw?
Most butler’s don’t have a speech impediment.
Unless you’re willing to agree to count a British accent as one . But then Malaya doesn’t have a British accent as far as we know. Maybe Ruth’s boyfriend could borrow the iguana.
I’m debating which Hanna-Barbera non-human-talking-character category Fuckface would fall under. Characters with shirt collars who walk upright (Yogi, Snagglepuss, etc) get vaudeville/golden age of cinema celebrity impersonations. Characters that don’t (Jabberjaw, Scooby, Speed Buggy) get speech impediments.
Malaya can just do their own thing (because they will anyway).
Jabberjaw didn’t have a speech impediment. He’s supposed to sound like Curly of the 3 Stooges.
Wasn’t that the deal with Sherlock Holmes’s brother?
Yep. Mycroft is more perceptive than Sherlock. But he’s also more apathetic, distractable, and lazy.
Mycroft is busy colonizing new countries while Sherlock finds missing horses.
She could be a holistic detective. As Douglas Adams said, a for holistic detective to solve a case they’ll have to solve the universe – but that also works the other way around. Holisticism suggests that if you can see the whole of one thing, the entirety of any one phenomenon, that includes how it interconnects with every other thing, and so you will understand the entire universe. And Carla’s love for herself must surely approach that event horizon.
Carla would be a holistic Carla detective. She understands the whole universe that revolves around Carla, and if it’s not contained in that, then axiomatically it doesn’t matter.
I don’t expect she’d have many paying customers, but that doesn’t matter, she can do her own word-of-mouth advertising
If Carla doesn’t recognize Amber is Amazi-Girl I guess it’s plausible Asher didn’t either. I kinda thought she was caught on the news revealing her identity but kids don’t watch the news.
Asher knows she is because of the suit in her closet.
Yeah, but after Blaine got his face punched in, Amber very publicly walked away from that while taking the jumpsuit off.
It’s entirely plausible that no one could identify her (i.e. “Lex Luther possessing Barry Allen’s body and realizing he had no idea who it was”), but it was pretty damn public.
Somehow it was not public enough for the police to figure it out.
I checked ‘amazi-girl+carla’, the Walmart encounter was 10 years ago.
Wow. Also, How did you find it so fast? Is there away to search for strips using more than one character at once?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+carla/
just enter multiple character tags seperated by plusle sign 😉
Yeah, you just do it with the + between them, like Cattleprod said.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+carla/
You can do it with more than two characters as well.
Ohhhhh, you put into the url address! That makes sense. I was looking all over for some sort of secret search bar in the actual UI of the website. I am very grateful for you guys’ help and I am proud to say I am 65% sure I used at least one of those technical terms right.
I make use of this a lot whenever I see two characters interacting and I can’t recall if they’ve actually met before.
This is the real hero work, pulling up the interaction!
Who’s more ‘self inflated ego but also kinda savvier than they let on’, Carla or Robin?
I would wager that Robin is better at manipulating people and is probably a better problem solver in social context, but Carla is far smarter, especially in terms of technology and engineering.
Agreed.
Technically, Robin fits your description more. Carla has more self-inflated ego, but at BEST she is exactly as savvy as she lets on. It’s hard to be savvier than you let on if your entire persona is “I am a perfect goddess.”
Robin’s ego has been dropped a peg – only a single peg, mind you – but the only reason I think she’s more savvy than she lets on is because she doesn’t seem savvy /in the slightest/ and it’s just that her skills happen to line up with tricking easily manipulated people into voting for her. That’s not a very hard thing to do if you lack moral scruples.
…you know I’d kinda just assumed Carla knew, but considering she couldn’t tell Dorothy and Joyce apart I can totally buy her being oblivious on this.
Maybe in a bit or irony Carla does actually need legitimate corrective lenses.
I think she just doesn’t pay much attention to identities that are not Carla.
That one Not-Me who wears the mask is a lot like that other Not-Me who doesn’t wear the mask. I could figure it out more clearly but why bother? Both of them are Not-Me!
No one knew just from looking at the two of them. Everyone who knows either had some kind of explicit reveal or a lot of contact and clues.
Yeah, but most people don’t recognise them because their personalities are so different that the body language and everything is off, and to a lesser extent because of the mask. But Carla’s roller-derby buddy is Amazi-Girl, complete with mask, calling herself Amber.
So it’s like a double-reverse secret identity.
Maybe she’s a bit faceblind?
What’s fun is that Amazi-Girl is the one on the team, not Amber– so it’s not even that AG and Amber look alike, but that AG and AG as a civilian roller derby look alike.
Carla is in for many surprises when she finally admits the Universe doesn’t revolve around her.
So you’re saying it will never happen?
interesting that AG isn’t “out” to everyone at roller derby… poor girl. i wonder if having to mask as amber at Her Primary Social Event is a stressor for her
I mean. She doesn’t have to act like Amber. She just has to answer to the name. And if anyone asks, roller derby just makes her act different. People behave differently in different contexts all the time.
Yeah, like when I rob banks or go out on my annual Halloween murder spree, it’s like I’m a completely different person.
Weird how you sometimes get those lookalikes, huh, Carla?
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Wack’d is still around? I was following them on Tumblr but I haven’t seen any posts in a while.
they seem to be most active on BlueSky now,
i see why given the absolute atrocity that’s become of Twitter 0-0
BlueSky is pretty fun, feels like the old days of twitter
wonderful pictures of natural landscapes, beautiful indie art including furries, hot leftist takes, retro computer nostalgia, funny memes,
and of course who could forget Willis’s hate read of 9CL?
it’s got it ALL!
the best part is that because of all that, Fire Me Elmo is only ever gonna be digging himself a deeper grave in attempts to compete with Twitter alternatives XD
Yeah I relaunched my Tumblr a while back so if you were following me before, you’re now following my archive blog. I’m also on Twitter and Bluesky. I’m “Wackd” on all of those because the internet hates apostrophes.
I’m also “Wackd” on AO3 if the idea of “what if the cast of Danny Phantom was eighteen and mentally ill and queer as fuck” appeals to you. Or if you don’t know what Danny Phantom is but like the idea of queer mentally ill teen superheroes because I tossed canon in the garbage.
Came to the comments to find out what Wack’d was, but turns out you’re a who! Thanks for writing today’s punchline!
I’m not that familiar with Danny Phantom but if in your stories they’re 18, queer, and mentally ill isn’t the main difference from cannon them being 18?
Long lost sister; I’m sure.
…okay THAT’S the words I was looking for
carla has X-Pac Heat
Well, SOMEBODY’S been focusing too much on Carla to notice…
Carla also met Amber dressed as (and being called) Amazi-girl at the kidnapping rescue. But “from Walmart” is funnier, so good call Carla.
Carla: Focusing on the important things at all times.
I love how genuinely concerned Amazi-Girl is about Dina missing.
And how Carla Carla is
I mean her best friend went into depressed mode after losing his roommate.
I don’t think she’d want that for herself.
Don’t be silly, AG. We all know that posing next to a
gargoylegrotesque is an equivalent to a sign reading “The Doctor is in”.Should “lens flare” be tagged?
Lens flare!
Uh… Plastic Wrap!
https://youtu.be/frBv7IP4Y6k?t=94
I didn’t follow the YouTube link. It was easier to just assume that Lens Flare and Plastic Wrap were the names of two superheroes.
they are not
union mandated break
“This’ll be quick, I promise” almost never turns out to be quick.
(in my experience, at least)
((maybe 4 or 5 times in the history of the universe has it actually turned out to be quick))
One of my writer friends wrote a sword-and-sorcery-noir story titled My Sword is Quick. It turns out that in the fantasy world that whenever two swordsmen meet for the first time, etiquette demands that they introduce themselves to each other by name and also introduce their weapons. The protagonist’s sword is Quick.
I don’t believe that the story ever sold.
“Hey, have you noticed how Superman and Clark Kent are never in the same room? Do you suppose they just don’t like to be seen together because everyone comments on how they look so much alike?”
“Oh absolutely, hey crazy theory, maybe they are The same person!”
Bruce Wayne, over for some charity fundraiser, suggested while downing his third martni
“Yeah right, next thing you’ll say is that you are Batman.”
“I am!”
Covers his mouth with his sleeve and goes
“I am the Night.”
I’m reminded of another funny theory. People who spend time with Clark, particularly all the journalists, notice he a) vanishes into thin air whenever there’s sirens, b) has no family except parents who live halfway across the country and look nothing like him, c) does his work with a consistent level of perfection (hardly even makes typos), d) is infallibly polite and well dressed & e) doesn’t seem to have any close friends, and their conclusion is: He’s an undocumented immigrant.
Then, because he’s surrounded by highly ethical people, they don’t pressure him about details of his obscure personal life or poke at any inconsistencies in stories about his sudden disappearances. (“You were trapped in an elevator for the entire weeks long citywide disaster and just happened to have five fruit baskets with you? Sure, that happens.”) and play dumb if people try to draw attention to him like by saying he looks like Superman and whatnot.
Carla is the universes perfect character. Which thankfully she’s perfectly aware of.
Somewhere deep inside Carla’s mind palace, Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, and Hank Azaria are having a heated argument at some greasy spoon cafe.
“That’s because Amber O’Malley IS Amazi-Girl!”
“Oh, here we go…”
“Don’t start that AGAIN. Amber O’Malley wears glasses. Amazi-Girl DOESN’T wear glasses.”
“She takes them off when she transforms…”
“That doesn’t make any sense. She wouldn’t be able to see!”
Best part is, that’s canonically a problem Amazi-Girl has.