It stands for Denial Of Sevice. It’s a form of online digital attack, where a waiter refuses to take your order because they’re busy checking websites on their phone. It’s why I always take a cellphone jammer to restaurants, they can’t go online on a phone covered with jam, it’s way too sticky.
I think the person he’d have heard the most about AG from is Danny. He wasn’t necessarily close enough to have heard about, say, the car chase rescue when it happened from Joyce and Becky. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the public story of the big kidnapping kept Amazi-Girl’s involvement to a minimum. They did largely get themselves out of it, after all.
Now, the car chase almost certainly made news, but if Joe’s not paying attention to that, I can see him genuinely not having heard about her as more than a campus rumor and Danny’s girlfriend he can’t introduce to Joe ever who totally exists.
I think it would honestly be hilarious if Danny WAS Joe’s main source of info about Amazi-girl, and all this time he’s just chalked it up to some kind of superhero RP kink thing between Danny and his then-girlfriend.
To protect humanity from the harsh brutality of post-graduation life, Dorm-Tec built vast underground living spaces called Dorms, designed to shelter the best and brightest of humanity. Generations after the Grad-pocalypse, Dorm Dwellers emerge into a brave new world filled with freaks and horrors.
I was wondering what Jocelyn wad making of all this.
Also love that realisation that Joe (and probably a real good chunk of the campus) don’t believe in Amazi-girl (don’t worry guys, Amazi-girl doesn’t believe in Amazi-girl)
If he had half a brain he’d have a buddy of this filming it, so he could post it online and proceed to live off the grift of how women need to be put in their place because look here, see, this woman is out of line when he was just Asking Questions (TM)
It would take some serious editing, considering that he threw the first punch and said “violence is the only way people understand” seconds before he got kicked.
I’m pretty sure he’s egotistical enough to think he’s going to win, and the video is to be posted so he’ll be recognized as a hero. And start the anti-feminist revolution, if he also suffers from Holy Warrior Syndrome.
Please. It’s obvious Nightguy softened Incelerator up for Amazi-Girl. The real skill was blocking that fist with his abs of steel that sent a delayed shockwave of pain through Incelerator’s body causing him to spin through the air just as Amazi-Girl’s kick connected!…Is how I’ll sell this story when I pitch the Incelerator movie script.
I kinda love that he’s “AT LAST, MY TRUE TARGET” meanwhile he… sucks. There’s not even some epic way to say it, this dude is just no nemesis material, he’s at best a second-hand punching bag.
This is how we learn Incelerator’s true plan which was to get dominated by capable women, which through repetition has developed into a kink very hard to indulge.
This convinces me more so that this guy wanted AG’s attention on the possibility that the last few times he’s ever felt the passionate touch of a woman is when She’s punched him.
So I’ve been trying to articulate why I’m ready for the end of Amazi-Girl storylines.
To sum up… every time there’s a villain for her to beat, it comes with trauma, baggage, and a reminder of villains that represent a side of society that’s probably a bit too reminiscent of real life. And there’s never a clear, easy win for her other than like, really early on when she saved Danny.
Amazi-Girl saved Joyce from Ryan? Oh, she got traumatized by an almost-rapist.
The DeSanto rally? Ryan got away. And then people were disbelieving the Ryan picture afterwards.
Ryan got beat up? Dorothy got traumatized and also she was being stalked by someone carrying a knife.
Saved Becky from Ross? Another piece of Joyce trauma and a reminder of people who would kill to ‘save’ their kids from queerness. And then Ross got bailed by religious nutjobs.
The big kidnapping incident? Trauma for lots of people involved, and Mike died.
Even this guy, I imagine it’s not going to be an ‘easy’ win because he’s a cis white guy getting beat up by a girl and will have ‘sympathizers’. Even now he’s smug after getting kicked in the face.
There are some good storylines that the villains represent that can be told in the medium (sexism, religious indoctrination, etc.) but it’s getting very tiring that every time there’s an Amazi-Girl storyline I’m already thinking “well what fresh hard fought victory is it this time”.
I’m sure Incelerator will ‘lose’ but unless it’s a super swift comeuppance with no backlash on any of the cast, I might start not reading til a current Amazi-Girl storylines are over because they’re becoming less power fantasy and more ‘hey here’s a reminder that the system and society hates people.’.
Give me Linda, Mary or Raidah as villains over these yahoos. At least until they start wearing spandex and devolve into shouting one-note rhetoric.
I get what you mean and I respect it a lot – I’m just making conversation here :3
To me it _is_ cathartic precisely because I don’t really get to forget the system and society hates people (like me.) Watching a character I like doing away with this kind of asshole through fisticuffs and hijinks is nice, when one knows there’s no easy answer IRL. It’s still mostly grounded -nobody’s drinking a super serum or getting powers through sunlight- yet badass, and it does have consequences; so it doesn’t feel like it’s breaking the DoA worldbuild.
I wonder how deep this AG storyline will get. Like… Will it be mostly for laughs, or is it going to lead somewhere more poignant? (And, given that it’s already happening, what would you rather?)
Yeah I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong, and if people still enjoy her stories, great.
I think the low point for me was when after the whole Becky-Ross showdown, people were cooling off, seems like a happy ending… and then it cuts to the church planning to bail him out and Blaine showing up with ‘how much more do you need?’ Then it just felt like ‘of course. There’s always more. Always sympathisers, always easier for them to wriggle out or consequences.’. Cathartic for a while… but never forever.
Superheroes are pretty much power fantasies/wish fulfillment/catharsis. And yeah, I get the appeal of being able to imagine punching assholes like Ryan or Incelerator.
I think the road to getting there in the comic tends to get more muddy than cathartic for me.
I knew he was dense, but damn. Little boy’s talkin’ full sentences after getting kicked so hard he bounced across the room. Or maybe he’s spinning, it’s hard to tell and I don’t care to litigate.
Hey this is unrelated to today’s comic, but would anyone help me track down some comics I found via ads on this page? I think they are all associated with HiveWorks, but I find the HW site extremely not intuitive.
1. A comic about a witch or otherwise female magical creature who due to a misunderstanding by a white knight gets “rescued” from a “curse” that she actually wanted to be under. Or something like that. She ends up cast out of her safe place in the woods and has to navigate an unfamiliar city. She runs into some girls, some of whom may have magic, but it’s a super big secret.
2. A comic about a naked fairy girl wandering through the wilderness who runs into someone maybe from a city. She is perhaps on some sort of rescue mission from her people? Maybe she had amnesia? It was abandoned/on long-term hiatus.
3. Another comic, possibly by the same author as #2, that was completed, about a manned mission to Mars in which an astronaut falls beneath the surface of Mars and ends up in a strange underground world he cannot escape with a main creature who I vaguely remember as being dragon-esque.
Any help tracking these down would be appreciated.
The Incelerator is either a masochist of the purist sort or he’s about as sharp as a sack o’ wet mice. What am I saying? Anyone who would thoroughly embrace incel-hood probably has almost as much intelligence as a small community of shellfish. Of course, he COULD be both an idiot and really turned on by getting pounded to rubble.
No, see, he’s a hero fighting the evil women who refuse to be his toys. Incels have committed murder in this cause, although they probably wouldn’t put it in quite those words.
AG: He only bounced three times after I drop-kicked him. That’s much gentler than usual. Compared to what he did to *sigh* NightGuy, I’d say it’s definitely a step down.
Calling it now, Dorothy’s true purpose is to be Alfred to AG’s Batman. Just has to learn to cover for AG better. ALTERNATIVELY: AG can keep Dorothy in an underground secret base all the time so no one can question her
Something I’ve been thinking about lately. Why does a thing have to be a “generational experience?” Like superhero fights in the lunch room is something specific to these kids’ generation and completely unrelatable to Jocelyne who’s maybe 3 years older. That’s crazy talk, Jocelyne.
How can I be the first to notice that Joyce can say AMAZI-GIRL in the right font and the right colors? Normally, people can only do this with their own logos!
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typical of college, everything you learned is outdated in a few years
also imagine if Joss had been there for Sal’s motorcycle jump rescue
I’d say David jumped the shark with that one but let’s be honest it was cool as hell.
Danny: “So anyway then my girlfriend Sal did a sick jump on her motorcycle and snapped the bad-guy’s neck and saved the day.”
I took an Introduction to DOS class for the easy A!
Even though I actually know, I feel compelled to go for the easy joke :
“What’s a DOS?”
It stands for Denial Of Sevice. It’s a form of online digital attack, where a waiter refuses to take your order because they’re busy checking websites on their phone. It’s why I always take a cellphone jammer to restaurants, they can’t go online on a phone covered with jam, it’s way too sticky.
Nice. Love the stream of consciousness.
I’m sure someone somewhere is still running the equipment I learned on almost 20 years ago.
did joe just think everyone was lying the whole time? all his friends got kidnapped!
He thought it was a running bit!
A coping mechanism-induced group hallucination?
Jocelyn does seem to have been surprisingly subdued on comforting her sister after her former neighbor was murdered in front of her.
Yeah, actually.
I think the person he’d have heard the most about AG from is Danny. He wasn’t necessarily close enough to have heard about, say, the car chase rescue when it happened from Joyce and Becky. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the public story of the big kidnapping kept Amazi-Girl’s involvement to a minimum. They did largely get themselves out of it, after all.
Now, the car chase almost certainly made news, but if Joe’s not paying attention to that, I can see him genuinely not having heard about her as more than a campus rumor and Danny’s girlfriend he can’t introduce to Joe ever who totally exists.
I think it would honestly be hilarious if Danny WAS Joe’s main source of info about Amazi-girl, and all this time he’s just chalked it up to some kind of superhero RP kink thing between Danny and his then-girlfriend.
College has changed.
College, college never changes.
To protect humanity from the harsh brutality of post-graduation life, Dorm-Tec built vast underground living spaces called Dorms, designed to shelter the best and brightest of humanity. Generations after the Grad-pocalypse, Dorm Dwellers emerge into a brave new world filled with freaks and horrors.
Gradout: the post-graduate role playing game.
You’ve got to understand, though:
the Dorms were never meant to save anyone.
I was wondering what Jocelyn wad making of all this.
Also love that realisation that Joe (and probably a real good chunk of the campus) don’t believe in Amazi-girl (don’t worry guys, Amazi-girl doesn’t believe in Amazi-girl)
don’t believe in Amazi-girl, believe in the me that believes in Amazi-girl ~<3
Yours is the fist that will pierce his spleen
It’s kind of humorous she keeps trying to mentor Joyce when her kid sister has way more life experience these days.
“Explains why she’s growing so fast if she doesn’t have a normal to retreat to.”
Okay wait- is this a new Amazi-Girl costume? It looks more “robot-y” and also more like a jacket-dress than what I remember it looking like.
Also Dina casually summing up every experience I have with my generation.
Didn’t we just see Dorothy decide to modify Amazi-Girl’s costume?
Honestly forgot about that. She did good work.
Iirc, Dorothy revamped it a bit, about the same strip time as Billie trying to get Sal to comment on being Amazi-girl.
Yes, here’s several views of the previous one.
And Dorothy clearly works really fast.
Anazigirl gots herself a “Barrier Jacket” now!
wait, has Joe never encountered Amazi-Girl before? wild
“No, but she did once catch me and Joyce together in bed.”
“Joe, Sal isn’t Amazi-Girl.”
“Who else would she be?”
Yeah I’ve forgotten that he’s one of the few main cast who don’t know her secret identity yet. Pretty ironic, considering he’s her step-brother!
Maybe he’s going to become the Aunt Mae.
Aunt Mae. Aunt Man. One or the other.
*plays “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd on hacked muzak*
Topical, considering we’re discussing toxic males.
“It is upsetting to learn I am expected to understand any of this.” Big. MOOD.
Now I’m just gritting my teeth at him for being cliché. Too stereotypical of a “villain”. Read too many bad comics.
Just the quote for doing adult things like insurance paperwork
So, he’s saying he’s bait? Some league of some sort in waiting?
Like, I’m hoping this is just dumb stuff going on, but honestly “Incelerator” feels laser targeted to instigate with Amazi-Girl.
Oh No. Asher in costume.
“Did he choose “uncowed” because he’s an english major who learned a new word or for misogynist reasons?”
“Yes.”
He’ll learn to say “Uncle!” in a short while. Two new words! A fast learner.
If he had half a brain he’d have a buddy of this filming it, so he could post it online and proceed to live off the grift of how women need to be put in their place because look here, see, this woman is out of line when he was just Asking Questions (TM)
It would take some serious editing, considering that he threw the first punch and said “violence is the only way people understand” seconds before he got kicked.
I’m pretty sure he’s egotistical enough to think he’s going to win, and the video is to be posted so he’ll be recognized as a hero. And start the anti-feminist revolution, if he also suffers from Holy Warrior Syndrome.
Wait Joe didn’t think Amazi-Girl was real?
She’s more real than NightGuy, that’s for sure. She has skills.
Please. It’s obvious Nightguy softened Incelerator up for Amazi-Girl. The real skill was blocking that fist with his abs of steel that sent a delayed shockwave of pain through Incelerator’s body causing him to spin through the air just as Amazi-Girl’s kick connected!…Is how I’ll sell this story when I pitch the Incelerator movie script.
I don’t understand that spin through the air, or what’s causing AG to skid backwards popping her heels on the floor.
“amazi-girl is real?” is so funny
It’s okay Amazi-girl, you’ve beaten the shit out of this guy before so this isn’t escalation. More of a plateau, really.
I have a funny thought now that Jocelyn is back.
Hank isn’t bothered by the trans thing (he figured it out a while ago) but is against Bulmeria protests.
Doesn’t Jocelyne know about the superhero motorcycle car chase? I feel like this shouldn’t surprise her at this point.
Though I guess actually seeing the superhero in action hits a bit different.
So is fisticuffs between costumed heroes and villains the norm now. I had no idea.
That’s why I beat up car in street clothes, to prevent just this kind of escalation.
Where he found a car in street clothes to beat up, I’ll never know.
Dude, she has years of experience on you. You’re out-cowed.
(I’m still wanting the derby team to show up and hip-check him like a pinball out the window)
I kinda love that he’s “AT LAST, MY TRUE TARGET” meanwhile he… sucks. There’s not even some epic way to say it, this dude is just no nemesis material, he’s at best a second-hand punching bag.
hope ain’t lost for him
maybe with practice he can be somebody’s side-kick XD
This is how we learn Incelerator’s true plan which was to get dominated by capable women, which through repetition has developed into a kink very hard to indulge.
Ahhhh, dive kicks. So much fun to do.
Dude has fantastic enunciation for someone who just took two hundred pounds of boot to the jaw.
This convinces me more so that this guy wanted AG’s attention on the possibility that the last few times he’s ever felt the passionate touch of a woman is when She’s punched him.
The longest any woman has paid attention to him, period. Seconding Sirksome.
Would certainly be funny if he was a masochist enjoying those beatings.
… https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/interrogation/
And nobody has said “Wait, MIKE?!!” yet?
His spirit came back and possessed this douche to get some more of that Amazi Violence
Huh. Joe never actually has seen Amazi-Girl before, has he.
I seem to recall him thinking Danny was just making her up at some point early on in DoA’s run, but it’d take some digging.
I like how she says “Your generation” like she’s not just a couple years older.
Youngest she can be as a recent graduate is four years older, which is like. 22, 23? And already feeling That Generational Gap?
Yeah, that tracks. Kids in their early 20’s tend to feel ancient :’33
I mean, the comic started in 2010 and she presumably had already graduated by then.
DoA is set in getCurrentYear(), otherwise that would imply Joyce and company have been in college for over 14 years.
It’s realistic. I have genuinely heard people about to graduate complain about first year students as kids these days.
@3oranges in high school I noticed that the frosh got shorter every year. Weird. I hope it hasn’t been going on ever since then!
I went to college in the ’60s & ’70’s, and first year students looked like kids even to second year students way back then.
I imagine at that age every year of difference feels like a decade.
You’ll find out when you get to that age, kiddo.
Sadly I’m already way past it
He saw an article about her, but clearly didn’t take it seriously. They might have talked, though, since they’re step-siblings.
So I’ve been trying to articulate why I’m ready for the end of Amazi-Girl storylines.
To sum up… every time there’s a villain for her to beat, it comes with trauma, baggage, and a reminder of villains that represent a side of society that’s probably a bit too reminiscent of real life. And there’s never a clear, easy win for her other than like, really early on when she saved Danny.
Amazi-Girl saved Joyce from Ryan? Oh, she got traumatized by an almost-rapist.
The DeSanto rally? Ryan got away. And then people were disbelieving the Ryan picture afterwards.
Ryan got beat up? Dorothy got traumatized and also she was being stalked by someone carrying a knife.
Saved Becky from Ross? Another piece of Joyce trauma and a reminder of people who would kill to ‘save’ their kids from queerness. And then Ross got bailed by religious nutjobs.
The big kidnapping incident? Trauma for lots of people involved, and Mike died.
Even this guy, I imagine it’s not going to be an ‘easy’ win because he’s a cis white guy getting beat up by a girl and will have ‘sympathizers’. Even now he’s smug after getting kicked in the face.
There are some good storylines that the villains represent that can be told in the medium (sexism, religious indoctrination, etc.) but it’s getting very tiring that every time there’s an Amazi-Girl storyline I’m already thinking “well what fresh hard fought victory is it this time”.
I’m sure Incelerator will ‘lose’ but unless it’s a super swift comeuppance with no backlash on any of the cast, I might start not reading til a current Amazi-Girl storylines are over because they’re becoming less power fantasy and more ‘hey here’s a reminder that the system and society hates people.’.
Give me Linda, Mary or Raidah as villains over these yahoos. At least until they start wearing spandex and devolve into shouting one-note rhetoric.
Everything you said, except that’s why I think the Amazi-girl storylines are really good writing
I really like the way Willis toes the line of realism with these storylines tbh
I get what you mean and I respect it a lot – I’m just making conversation here :3
To me it _is_ cathartic precisely because I don’t really get to forget the system and society hates people (like me.) Watching a character I like doing away with this kind of asshole through fisticuffs and hijinks is nice, when one knows there’s no easy answer IRL. It’s still mostly grounded -nobody’s drinking a super serum or getting powers through sunlight- yet badass, and it does have consequences; so it doesn’t feel like it’s breaking the DoA worldbuild.
I wonder how deep this AG storyline will get. Like… Will it be mostly for laughs, or is it going to lead somewhere more poignant? (And, given that it’s already happening, what would you rather?)
honestly same
heck whatever gives me an excuse to eventually make an SNES Batman clone with AG or something XD
Yeah I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong, and if people still enjoy her stories, great.
I think the low point for me was when after the whole Becky-Ross showdown, people were cooling off, seems like a happy ending… and then it cuts to the church planning to bail him out and Blaine showing up with ‘how much more do you need?’ Then it just felt like ‘of course. There’s always more. Always sympathisers, always easier for them to wriggle out or consequences.’. Cathartic for a while… but never forever.
I don’t think this is the right place for power fantasies.
Superheroes are pretty much power fantasies/wish fulfillment/catharsis. And yeah, I get the appeal of being able to imagine punching assholes like Ryan or Incelerator.
I think the road to getting there in the comic tends to get more muddy than cathartic for me.
I knew he was dense, but damn. Little boy’s talkin’ full sentences after getting kicked so hard he bounced across the room. Or maybe he’s spinning, it’s hard to tell and I don’t care to litigate.
Hey this is unrelated to today’s comic, but would anyone help me track down some comics I found via ads on this page? I think they are all associated with HiveWorks, but I find the HW site extremely not intuitive.
1. A comic about a witch or otherwise female magical creature who due to a misunderstanding by a white knight gets “rescued” from a “curse” that she actually wanted to be under. Or something like that. She ends up cast out of her safe place in the woods and has to navigate an unfamiliar city. She runs into some girls, some of whom may have magic, but it’s a super big secret.
2. A comic about a naked fairy girl wandering through the wilderness who runs into someone maybe from a city. She is perhaps on some sort of rescue mission from her people? Maybe she had amnesia? It was abandoned/on long-term hiatus.
3. Another comic, possibly by the same author as #2, that was completed, about a manned mission to Mars in which an astronaut falls beneath the surface of Mars and ends up in a strange underground world he cannot escape with a main creature who I vaguely remember as being dragon-esque.
Any help tracking these down would be appreciated.
2 is The Meek, 3 is Mare Internum.
#2 & #3 are The Meek & Mare Internum by Der-Shing Helmer. You can find them at meekcomic.com & marecomic.com.
The Incelerator is either a masochist of the purist sort or he’s about as sharp as a sack o’ wet mice. What am I saying? Anyone who would thoroughly embrace incel-hood probably has almost as much intelligence as a small community of shellfish. Of course, he COULD be both an idiot and really turned on by getting pounded to rubble.
No, see, he’s a hero fighting the evil women who refuse to be his toys. Incels have committed murder in this cause, although they probably wouldn’t put it in quite those words.
….as expected, it was a ploy.
to fish Amazi-girl, apparently. Well, let’s hope there’s not some psychopath with a gun in the crowd.
I’m expecting him to have a plan to get her caught by some form of actual authority, and thus risk getting Amber revealed and kicked out of college.
Amber: I thought we’d agreed to de-escalate!
AG: He only bounced three times after I drop-kicked him. That’s much gentler than usual. Compared to what he did to *sigh* NightGuy, I’d say it’s definitely a step down.
Calling it now, Dorothy’s true purpose is to be Alfred to AG’s Batman. Just has to learn to cover for AG better. ALTERNATIVELY: AG can keep Dorothy in an underground secret base all the time so no one can question her
No, thanks. I think Dorothy’s been kept in too many underground secret bases already. She’s free to hide in Amazi-Girl’s closet, though.
Still better than what my college went through
Somebody, as an art project, slaughtered a live chicken in the cafeteria
Yeeeah it made national news up here in Canada
Did they at least prep the damn thing like responsible meat people, or did they just kill a chicken and call it art?
Amazi-Girl is so awesome!
I feel like Jocelyne here, I don’t think I ever had anything like this happen when I was in college.
Yea my university experience sucked there were zero wheelie villains or vigilantes in tje lunch room.
“True Rival”? Just give him a quick kick to the nads and be done with it, Amazi-Girl.
I mean, he took a flying kick to the face and seems ready for more. If nothing else, his toughness is commendable.
Something I’ve been thinking about lately. Why does a thing have to be a “generational experience?” Like superhero fights in the lunch room is something specific to these kids’ generation and completely unrelatable to Jocelyne who’s maybe 3 years older. That’s crazy talk, Jocelyne.
How can I be the first to notice that Joyce can say AMAZI-GIRL in the right font and the right colors? Normally, people can only do this with their own logos!