I mean, ‘That which was to be shown’ is really a longer and more complex way of saying ‘Like I said three pages of equations ago’, so that’s barely even lies-to-children
It’s great to see everyone getting a costume upgrade. I need more comic costumed hijinks with all this (gestures) going on in the world. Let the hero save the day and also get laid.
No, he thinks he’s a hero. He 100% believes that he is a hero. This is how narcissists operate. They legitimately think that bullying you into conforming is a moral victory.
Even those people don’t see themselves as “the bad guy,” even if they’re straight up intentionally trolling or literally harassing someone (or issuing death threats or doxxing or SWATting or whatever). And if you call them out on it, they’ll claim “I was just joking bruh. Lighten up. Welcome to the Internet. Get a thicker skin. Etc. Etc.” They’ll go to their graves still thinking they were in the right, no matter how heinous they may be behaving.
Eh, I think this fails to account for the fact a large chunk of narcissists don’t actually CARE about morality. So being the bad guy or the good guy doesn’t matter to them.
personality I would refrain from ascribing bigots personality disorders until proven otherwise. One doesn’t need to be a narcissist, or a schizophrenic or have borderline personality disorder to think women are sub-human. Sadly that thought can be achieved just by being a shitty person!
Ascribing mental illness to bigotry does more harm to mentally ill people than anything.
Corporal punishment consistently fails to work as a treatment for being a shitty person – in fact, it often exacerbates the problem. It is, however, successful as a deterrent for acting on one’s being a shitty person.
Not corporal punishment per se, but education is generally a deterrent, and “talk shit, get hit” can be a valuable lesson for those who won’t learn the easy way.
Most sadly, at least 99% of shitty people stay that way for decades. Or for their entire lifetimes. You can’t cure or help them. You can only take away their power to enshittify.
As someone with a PD, thank you so much for this. I’m sick as hell of seeing bigotry even in the most leftist of spaces, just because it’s the Scary Mental Illness du jour. Pop psychology has kept so many people from being able to access help, because you literally can’t google your own disorder without being reminded that 99% of the internet hates us and wants us eradicated. Idk why it doesn’t compute with these people that “there’s a disorder that means someone is Inherently Evil” is just ableism.
Just to add: due to my own mental disorder(s), I seem to lack the empathy for suffering that so many people seem to have instinctively… but I also don’t have any desire to cause harm. Besides, it’s better strategy to make friends than make enemies.
Maybe, if I were a Rich White Guy™, I’d be in a position to better make use of my emotional shortcomings, and might have been raised to value mindless greed over consequences? If so, I’d be fine with that hypothetical alternative me getting the same treatment as that recent United Healthcare CEO. A better world would benefit us all, even those who don’t care about others.
I think it’s more of a “you’re either with me or you’re my enemy” type of thing.
… I hadn’t encountered the phrase “gender traitor” before today, I’m guessing because I avoid this… erm, subculture. But I’m not the least bit surprised by it. Feels like a similar concept to “race traitor”.
It’s been thrown around for decades on the lunatic fringe of feminism. Incels believe that by adopting this term they’re pwning teh libtards super hard.
Pretty sure he thinks he’s a villain. He teamed up with a self-proclaimed supervillain last time (that is, Amber’s dad) and at no point here did he identify as a hero. On the contrary, he gave a villain speech — “Females who have too many skills, I’m calling you out, for today, you face the INCELLERATOR”. That’s a villain speech, not a hero speech, because if sexism is wrong, dude doesn’t want to be right.
He believes sexism is right, though. Sure he can see he behaves like a villain – but he believes the ends justify the means. He’s pretty much saying out loud in the strip that the only way to get people to listen to the truth is violence, and that violence is therefore justified.
Nobody is evil in his own eyes. If one sets aside the notion of an absolute moral authority then “good” and “evil” are labels given by consensus — and consensus depends on whom you are polling.
There are more options than “absolute moral authority” and “us v them”. It’s fairly easy to conclude that someone who, for example, causes suffering for thousands merely for the sake of adding a little money to their bank account — and money they’ll never need, at that — can be considered to be evil, at least in regard to those actions.
As an aside: this doesn’t contradict my above comment. I may not be able to empathize with their suffering, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
This comic is and has always been wall-to-wall depictions of people fundamentally believing that they’re doing the right thing by punishing people who violate the norms as they understand them. Joyce’s mom, Salk/Walky’s mom, Amber’s dad, Becky’s dad, Ethan’s mom….if anything he’s one of the few who’s not over 40.
One of my favorite moments in 12 years of fighting racists on Twitter was when somebody called me a race traitor. Specifically, I was a traitor to the white race because I maintained that children of color had “equal” value as human beings as white children, which the racist interpreted as “higher” value.
Just wanna get that in there before people start complaining no real human being has ever said anything as stupid as Incelerator here.
One of my “favorite” Twitter moments was the fifty-third time I repeated my joke about how Punching All Nazis would represent a major de-escalation on my part from my father, who dropped bombs on them and shot machine guns at them, and my Mentions for the next two days were filled with idiots wanting to fistfight my dad.
Which…
I mean, okay, first, my dad is dead. So, you know, go crazy, guys. Have fun punching that marble slab.
Second, reading comprehension much? My dad didn’t fistfight Nazis was the whole point of the exercise — he murdered them with high explosives.
Third, reading comprehension much? I never said I punch Nazis, either — I said that if I did, it would be a de-escalation from, you know, killing them, like my father did.
Fourth, and most importantly: HOLY CRAP THERE ARE A LOT OF IDIOTS ON TWITTER EAGER TO IDENTIFY AS NAZIS IN THIS SCENARIO. Like, y’all really telling on y’allself there
Anyway, like I said, it’s an observation I’ve made a lot, but damned if that one time it didn’t result in two days’ worth of honst-to-god Nazi threats all over my Mentions.
Fun times also because I am, y’know, the only “Ray Radlein” on the planet, and have never taken any pains at all to anonymize myself online. No OpSec at all.
So any one of those threatening Nazis could have easily showed up at my door ready to throw hands with an old Disabled dude.
I’ve encountered a few of those. Thankfully just a few (mostly because I don’t go onto twitser or any other unregulated fester-space). I wonder how many were deliberately trolling (maybe professionally, even) vs sincere shit-heads.
And, thank you for the “de-escalation” idea for the future, if I need it. My father was a Marine in that war. I gotta remember the context here.
Yes red is part of my country’s flag, the other one being white. Guess which country with that flag setup would have a grudge against both Nazis and Soviets.
I’m joking. Of course it is Poland, where they’re now setting an example for my country’s fascist party, founded by an old nazi officer, looks for inspiration.
No, my country’s fascist party is currently the second biggest party in parliament, holding a right-wing coalition government under their thrall while keeping out of government themselves. But trust me, they’re all about following the example of Poland and also Hungary in their anti-democratic efforts. Now, Da Boy, I predict you will to say absolutely nothing about your personal resistance to the fascism facing both of us today.
I voted against the Right Wing party and we booted them out of the position of power.
Now, let’s talk about why you felt triggered by me hoping that after Allies were done with On Mass-murdering regime they didn’t go after the second one which would have spared my, and probably your, country half a century of brutal occupation. Are you in support of their actions?
You sure jumped all over me hoping that Soviets would get their justice too. SOMEHOW assuming that I was excusing Nazis even though I literally thanked the Dad for service during WW2.
I’m going to enjoy this ass kicking for several weeks; you’ve just given me something to look forward to more than usual for the length of this beatdown.
Probably won’t be a good time to compliment Incelerator but I just want to say I like the artistic choice to make the highlights on his vizor loose representations of his eyes so he can better sale expressions. That’s pretty neat.
I’m kind of disappointed that Dina didn’t disembowel this loser before Nightguy arrived. Loser-ator is about to get his ass kicked by his nemesis AGAIN, so that’s a good thing.
TBH, “Gender Traitor” would make a great name for this guy’s Harley Quinn who wants to make everyone else embrace the tradwife lifestyle WITH HER FISTS.
The irony of an outwardly violent tradwife would be lost on Gender Traitor. Which would make the name all the more fitting. Them plus NiceGuy and we might have a proper DoA villain faction started.
I mean, basically everything about “tradwives” (or at least tradwife online influencers) is ironic.
Pretty sure whatever tradition they’re pretending to live by didn’t include full time video show/celebrity status.
Look forward to the Incelerator movie no one wanted to come to theaters this summer while the highly anticipated Amazi-Girl movie gets permanently shelved for a convenient tax write off!
Made by Sony, an Incelerator movie with no appearance or mention of Amazi-Girl or NightGuy at all. They try and fail to make him an anti-hero instead of an outright villain.
On what grounds should anyone but Incelerator be expelled? Everyone just stood there talking at him even when he knocked Dina’s cereal out of her hand until he sucker punched Walky. At which point AG was well within her legal rights to respond with violence of her own in order to protect people.
me trying to eat my sandwich at a table nearby trying not to make eye contact with anyone in the friend group who are always getting kidnapped and killed and having school shootings who are now doing a super hero fight while im trying to eat my sandwich: (; ._.) 🥪
I do sometimes wonder what the rest of the building thinks of these kids. There’s gotta be at least a few other students who see them acting in ways on a regular basis and think “Oh hey, it’s them again.”
Nah, the cameras and witnesses are pretty clearly going to show WwNightguy didn’t make the first offensive move. Legally, he’s clear, and Inshitterator is jail-fodder.
why the hell is Joe, who is actually tall and muscular and physically intimidating, hiding behind all the women?
Like literally why is he not putting himself front of Joyce his fucking girlfriend when a member of an admitted hate group is spouting shit in front of everyone?
it’s not even a thing on whether Joe believes in chivalry or gender roles or whatever, he’s literally just stronger (and taller) than Joyce, Becky, Dina and Jocelyn.
He was trying to defend them like you wanted. Incelerator just quite literally skated around him changing Joe’s relative position. Y’now because humans can move. In fact Incelerator was arguably avoiding Joe specifically because he is tall and strong. I don’t think it is a coincidence Incelerator wouldn’t antagonize Joyce, singled out Dina to harass and chose to finally punch Nightguy someone physically smaller than him. Joe is doing everything you want.
Obviously Joe is supposed to protectively orbit the vulnerable, defenseless women and match Incelerator’s position 1:1 like that guy in Ocarina of Time who keeps you from going to the Deku Tree.
Would have been kind of interesting to see what would have happened if AG hadn’t swooped in that dramatically appropriate moment. Would Joe have effortlessly grabbed him, like some think he could? Would Raptor Dina and Rage Joyce shredded him?
He was in front of them until Dickmonkey skated a few loops around them in a circle. Apparently Joe declined to shove past the entire group to put them behind him again, which is certainly not the same as ‘hiding’.
He was initially in front of Joyce. Then Incellerator moved (and it’s implied rather quickly?) behind them, and they all turned to watch things unfold.
At least two of those women, one of them being his girlfriend Joyce, are by evidence presented in the comic more dangerous in a fight than we’ve ever seen him be.
Just because he’s built like a solid slab of beef doesn’t mean he can fight worth shit. Rage mode Joyce and Raptor Mode Dina on the other hand . . .
They aren’t really that effective though.
Joyce did punch out Ross once, but he’d just staggered out of a car wreck.
Dina got handled pretty easily by Ross in the woods, though she got in some hits, iirc.
Both Dina and Joyce got handled easily by Blaine during his escape, leading to Joyce being taken hostage.
They’re willing, but don’t really have the skills.
I’m 99% sure its just meant to be a framing choice for the sake of presentation. As you said, Joe is by far the tallest of the characters there. If you want to have all the characters seeing and reacting to the action going on, you need to have them in front of Joe or peeking around him.
And three people hiding behind Joe and peeking their head out, while funny, would probably detract a bit from the seriousness of the situation.
All three of them are willing to fight (well, maybe not Joyce), should he restrain them? They’re not children, if they want to fight and he has no moral issues with their target or violence in general, then if he wants to treat them as adults he should let them fight.
I mean, him knocking Dina’s food to the floor was douchey but not quite dangerous yes. He was being a douche and all this nonsense felt more confusing than threatening, especially after Walky got involved so they just kinda stood there wondering what to do. I doubt Joe would sit ildly if he tried to swing at one of them.
Not to mention that we don’t even know if Joe Knows how to fight.
This is the most bees-between-the-ears conspiracy take I’ve read on this website. Props for creativity, but I really don’t think there’s even a shred of evidence for your theory.
What a ridiculous theory. He’s obviously an alt of Amber representing her repressed rage. The only Walkerton in the superhero biz is Sal who as we all know is Amazi-Girl.
I really have missed the Amazi-Ass-Kickings of old. I absolutely get why they’ve been gone since the timeskip, but as someone who started reading post-timeskip and only ever experienced previous DoA (and, for that matter, Walkyverse) fight scenes in binge form, it’s super exciting to finally see a new one in real time.
This strip https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/pals/ seems like the most recent one we have with her actually in costume. More recently we’ve seen her in a somewhat similar outfit and a mask but it wasn’t her costume as it was lacking the A logo and she was just hanging out semi-retired.
The costume I linked to is a one piece yellow jump suit. As you can see here she’s now wearing something like a yellow tunic with a larger A on the chest than her previous costume had and blue leggings.
The way the tunic flairs out I would speculate the costume might actually be unfinished. As it is now someone could grab the bottom of her tunic to yank her off balance or possibly tug on it hard enough to pull it over her face and blind her. It would be safer to join the tunic to the leggings and have a zipper or something up the back for her to use to put the costume on.
I will admit, I was expecting a significantly harder to stomach comic today from that title. Especially since I’ve been half worried/half excited about the potential for jocyelyne to get involved in this conversation (either from him targeting her, or her speaking up)
OK, after 14 “non-DOA” years of this trope, I’ve come to a conclusion…and I know I’m late to the party on this one, but here I go…Indiana University at Bloomington is either the MOST DANGEROUS CAMPUS in the USA -OR- has the feeblest security campus police force in the USA…or both…that is if you squint your eyes and believe within the confines of this web comic….just sayin’…
A huge portion of security on campuses relies on the fact that 99% of the time, nothing violent is going on. No criminal activity anywhere. Sadly, security can’t be everywhere at all times, so that 1% exception is likely to start and finish before they even hear of it, much less get there.
THREE times tonight I have been writing out a long annoying comment when suddenly a full screen popup ad has popped up over my screen, preventing me from doing anything except giving up and reloading the page, trashing my entire comment
(The second time I was at least fifteen minutes into carefully wording a personal anecdote about violence and death happening to classmates of mine in high school when everything got trashed by the pop-up ad)
(The third time it happened I was in the middle of typing a comment complaining about the full screen popup ad that had just trashed my comment)
Fortunately, this full screen popup ad had a Close button so I could dismiss it and get back here intact. St. Augustine (a city I was quite fond of <i<until</i< this evening) didn’t.
Why is anyone still online in this day and age without an adblocker!?! Donate to our host directly instead of involuntarily contributing to clogging the innertubes.
Is it just me or does incelerator look like a gender flipped Carol? At first glance when he was introduced I just saw the strong chin and though she was taking over Blaine’s mantle and wanted to reach out to her daughter in new ways
So, Amazi-Girl is a real superhero. Incelerator is a real super-villian. But Nightguy is only Walky in pajamas? C’mon Willis, not fair, not fair at all.
Amazi-Girl is an athlete with fistfight training and extensive experience. Walky is a slacker with no skills applicable to a fistfight and no superpowers or gadgets to compensate. He doesn’t even have pepper spray, for all we’ve seen.
^ This. Nothing against Walky, but he’s a couch potato geek with no fighting experience whose first time punching someone was when he punched Asher in the face (who wasn’t even fighting back). XD Despite her appearance, Amazi-girl is actually extremely fit and has had years of fighting experience. (A common misconception by many people is that, just because someone looks ripped they must be a good fighter, or conversely because somebody looks chunky they can’t be a good fighter.)
Also not to gas up Incelerator but we know from the amount of ass whuppings he’s received that he’s at least participated in a few scraps. So the dude is bigger and more experienced than Walky in physical confrontation.
You know, I love scenarios like this. When a villain who thinks he has everyone in their grasp starts spouting Darwinist bullshit of Might Makes Right and Strongest Survival.
And then gets their ass kicked seven ways to Sunday and Suddenly it’s unfair and those rules don’t apply to them XD
«With Ritalin?» ahahahaha. Makes sense to me. But then, uh… (As a friend of mine once said, «Ritalin truly is a wonder drug — it makes other people smarter….»
1. Good to see Joyce is sticking to the new name.
2. Poor Jocelyne. Things are about to get a bit more confusing for her.
3. Incel-boy deserves doubly the beating he’s about to receive.
4. Joe! Why you hiding behind the girls? Weren’t you guarding Joyce just a second ago?
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Q.E.D.
(quickly ‘e dies)
Kick his ass
c-bassAmazigirl!I usually tell my students that QED is Latin for “see I told you so.”
I mean, ‘That which was to be shown’ is really a longer and more complex way of saying ‘Like I said three pages of equations ago’, so that’s barely even lies-to-children
Q.E.P.D.
quickly “e phuckin’ dies
aaand here she comes
BUT can she trust Nightguy?
Has he fallen victim to Incelerator’s Purple Man-esque powers?
to save the day! 🎶
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But yeah, I can’t read that line without mentally singing the rest too.
Don’t feel like the
Andy Kaufman vibes strong.
With truth and justice on the way!
I know thats what we’re led to expect but I’m not sure it’s going to be that simple.
Lone Ranger. Stupid phone keyboard. But yes I watched Mighty Mouse back in the ’60s.
Oh no! Amazi-Girl is attacking a white dude in broad daylight! This could lead to Sal being expelled!
No, no, it’s okay. Sal-with-mask is a white girl. See? No expulsion.
that was a sucker punch and you know it! D:<
time to get your ass kicked by a real one!
*plays “Too Good Too Bad” by the seatbelts on hacked muzak*
There really has been some kind of costume sale….is what I want to say, but maybe Dorothy should start a side hustle.
It’s great to see everyone getting a costume upgrade. I need more comic costumed hijinks with all this (gestures) going on in the world. Let the hero save the day and also get laid.
Ahhhhh, yes! I hope this guy is ready for his 5th ass kicking by AG.
I hope she gets him good enough that he doesn’t come back.
If he was smart enough to count, he may not be dumb enough to believe his rhetoric.
Aww who am I kidding? Jordan Peterson was (past tense) smart enough to get a PhD. Yet here we are.
He’s moved to Arizona because Canada is supposedly a dictatorship. And because his equally kookie daughter lives down there.
i thought Florida.
But he’s such a drama Queen ! : It probably was just because hes a sunbird; hes old and Canada is cold.
This is a guy who cant blow his own Nose, without first pretending kleenex are a tool of the Soviet Left.
Nobody tell him the Soviet Union collapsed the same year Sonic the Hedgehog came out.
Oh fuck. If he thinks THAT is a dictatorship, wait about a month. 😟
He won’t have any problems with that. Trump won’t try to keep him from being mean to trans people.
Does he still think that he’s a hero when he’s punching people unprovoked, or is he the ‘ends justify the means, CLEANSE AND PURGE THE UNBELIEVERS’?
No, he thinks he’s a hero. He 100% believes that he is a hero. This is how narcissists operate. They legitimately think that bullying you into conforming is a moral victory.
By contrast, a lot of people happily think of themselves as the villain online.
They don’t see being the bad guy as anything bad.
Even those people don’t see themselves as “the bad guy,” even if they’re straight up intentionally trolling or literally harassing someone (or issuing death threats or doxxing or SWATting or whatever). And if you call them out on it, they’ll claim “I was just joking bruh. Lighten up. Welcome to the Internet. Get a thicker skin. Etc. Etc.” They’ll go to their graves still thinking they were in the right, no matter how heinous they may be behaving.
Get a thicker skin, the SWAT team with grenade launchers and machine guns are just an opinion.
Eh, I think this fails to account for the fact a large chunk of narcissists don’t actually CARE about morality. So being the bad guy or the good guy doesn’t matter to them.
Or they have blue-and-orange morality: they = good, obstacle to them = evil. Trump very, very obviously works like that.
personality I would refrain from ascribing bigots personality disorders until proven otherwise. One doesn’t need to be a narcissist, or a schizophrenic or have borderline personality disorder to think women are sub-human. Sadly that thought can be achieved just by being a shitty person!
Ascribing mental illness to bigotry does more harm to mentally ill people than anything.
If only there was a legitimate medical cure/preventative for “being a shitty person.”
There is a treatment, and Amazi-Girl is about to apply it
Corporal punishment consistently fails to work as a treatment for being a shitty person – in fact, it often exacerbates the problem. It is, however, successful as a deterrent for acting on one’s being a shitty person.
Not corporal punishment per se, but education is generally a deterrent, and “talk shit, get hit” can be a valuable lesson for those who won’t learn the easy way.
It only works when consistently applied and when it’s applied only to the shitty.
In reality “talk shit, get hit” leads to those most willing to use violence setting the standard for what “talk shit” means.
When and how did Amazi-Girl get a Tokarev?
Where?
Most sadly, at least 99% of shitty people stay that way for decades. Or for their entire lifetimes. You can’t cure or help them. You can only take away their power to enshittify.
As someone with a PD, thank you so much for this. I’m sick as hell of seeing bigotry even in the most leftist of spaces, just because it’s the Scary Mental Illness du jour. Pop psychology has kept so many people from being able to access help, because you literally can’t google your own disorder without being reminded that 99% of the internet hates us and wants us eradicated. Idk why it doesn’t compute with these people that “there’s a disorder that means someone is Inherently Evil” is just ableism.
Just to add: due to my own mental disorder(s), I seem to lack the empathy for suffering that so many people seem to have instinctively… but I also don’t have any desire to cause harm. Besides, it’s better strategy to make friends than make enemies.
Maybe, if I were a Rich White Guy™, I’d be in a position to better make use of my emotional shortcomings, and might have been raised to value mindless greed over consequences? If so, I’d be fine with that hypothetical alternative me getting the same treatment as that recent United Healthcare CEO. A better world would benefit us all, even those who don’t care about others.
Yes/yes. He doesn’t see a contradiction in his actions.
I think it’s more of a “you’re either with me or you’re my enemy” type of thing.
… I hadn’t encountered the phrase “gender traitor” before today, I’m guessing because I avoid this… erm, subculture. But I’m not the least bit surprised by it. Feels like a similar concept to “race traitor”.
It’s been thrown around for decades on the lunatic fringe of feminism. Incels believe that by adopting this term they’re pwning teh libtards super hard.
It’s always funny how bigots adopt terms that were clear markers of bigotry.
The GCs/TERFs have come so close a couple times to taking up “sex realist”.
Cf. “class traitor” which is possibly parent of both of these.
Pretty sure he thinks he’s a villain. He teamed up with a self-proclaimed supervillain last time (that is, Amber’s dad) and at no point here did he identify as a hero. On the contrary, he gave a villain speech — “Females who have too many skills, I’m calling you out, for today, you face the INCELLERATOR”. That’s a villain speech, not a hero speech, because if sexism is wrong, dude doesn’t want to be right.
He believes sexism is right, though. Sure he can see he behaves like a villain – but he believes the ends justify the means. He’s pretty much saying out loud in the strip that the only way to get people to listen to the truth is violence, and that violence is therefore justified.
…both justified and necessary.
Nobody is evil in his own eyes. If one sets aside the notion of an absolute moral authority then “good” and “evil” are labels given by consensus — and consensus depends on whom you are polling.
There are more options than “absolute moral authority” and “us v them”. It’s fairly easy to conclude that someone who, for example, causes suffering for thousands merely for the sake of adding a little money to their bank account — and money they’ll never need, at that — can be considered to be evil, at least in regard to those actions.
As an aside: this doesn’t contradict my above comment. I may not be able to empathize with their suffering, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
This comic is and has always been wall-to-wall depictions of people fundamentally believing that they’re doing the right thing by punishing people who violate the norms as they understand them. Joyce’s mom, Salk/Walky’s mom, Amber’s dad, Becky’s dad, Ethan’s mom….if anything he’s one of the few who’s not over 40.
Becky gives zero fscks about kayfabe, gee.
Oh good, a professional is here
Jocelyn must be really regretting talking about how bad guys don’t wear costumes or engage in theatricality.
Mind you, that’s been years out of date.
There are plenty of flavors of bad guys, some of the worst are attractive and charismatic.
Are you saying Incelerator is attractive and charismatic?
🙂
Oh I like that, let’s call him inceleryrator.
Sorry the replies are being weird today.
Incelirritator certainly thinks he is attractive and charismatic.
Oh I like that, let’s call him inceleryrator.
Give him the People’s Knee!
Finally, the two-bit villain meets our 8-bit hero
A.G…NO MERCY
By the way, new design of the suit, very good.
Dammit walky you gotta take the job more seriously.. get back up we’re doing this again
I get knocked down!
But I get up again!One of my favorite moments in 12 years of fighting racists on Twitter was when somebody called me a race traitor. Specifically, I was a traitor to the white race because I maintained that children of color had “equal” value as human beings as white children, which the racist interpreted as “higher” value.
Just wanna get that in there before people start complaining no real human being has ever said anything as stupid as Incelerator here.
I don’t think there’s any danger of people complaining about that. Not after the year we’ve just had.
Gods know, I wish there was.
It’s long been obvious to me there is no idea too stupid that someone won’t believe it.
Is that a challenge?
Poe’s law: it is impossible to create a parody of creationism that nobody will mistake for the real thing…
One of my “favorite” Twitter moments was the fifty-third time I repeated my joke about how Punching All Nazis would represent a major de-escalation on my part from my father, who dropped bombs on them and shot machine guns at them, and my Mentions for the next two days were filled with idiots wanting to fistfight my dad.
Which…
I mean, okay, first, my dad is dead. So, you know, go crazy, guys. Have fun punching that marble slab.
Second, reading comprehension much? My dad didn’t fistfight Nazis was the whole point of the exercise — he murdered them with high explosives.
Third, reading comprehension much? I never said I punch Nazis, either — I said that if I did, it would be a de-escalation from, you know, killing them, like my father did.
Fourth, and most importantly: HOLY CRAP THERE ARE A LOT OF IDIOTS ON TWITTER EAGER TO IDENTIFY AS NAZIS IN THIS SCENARIO. Like, y’all really telling on y’allself there
Anyway, like I said, it’s an observation I’ve made a lot, but damned if that one time it didn’t result in two days’ worth of honst-to-god Nazi threats all over my Mentions.
Fun times. 😬
Fun times also because I am, y’know, the only “Ray Radlein” on the planet, and have never taken any pains at all to anonymize myself online. No OpSec at all.
So any one of those threatening Nazis could have easily showed up at my door ready to throw hands with an old Disabled dude.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s amazing how many nasty idiots identify with literal Nazis. It remains to be seen if we need to drop bombs on them again on an industrial scale.
Hopefully we can avoid it, since unlike Nazis, bombs don’t discriminate.
I’ve encountered a few of those. Thankfully just a few (mostly because I don’t go onto twitser or any other unregulated fester-space). I wonder how many were deliberately trolling (maybe professionally, even) vs sincere shit-heads.
And, thank you for the “de-escalation” idea for the future, if I need it. My father was a Marine in that war. I gotta remember the context here.
Respect to your Dad. Shame they didn’t continue on with the Soviets.
There’s a red flag: not being able to say that nazis are bad without necessarily pointing out communists are also bad.
Yes red is part of my country’s flag, the other one being white. Guess which country with that flag setup would have a grudge against both Nazis and Soviets.
Is it Finland, where they held back both Stalin and Hitler without losing sight of the benefits of socialism?
See, this here is the real red flag, how you Westerners are eager to defend a mass-murdering regime
You just couldn’t admit my country has the rightful grudge against your fav people, huh?
I’m joking. Of course it is Poland, where they’re now setting an example for my country’s fascist party, founded by an old nazi officer, looks for inspiration.
Sorry you’ve got outdated info, that party got voted out XD
No, my country’s fascist party is currently the second biggest party in parliament, holding a right-wing coalition government under their thrall while keeping out of government themselves. But trust me, they’re all about following the example of Poland and also Hungary in their anti-democratic efforts. Now, Da Boy, I predict you will to say absolutely nothing about your personal resistance to the fascism facing both of us today.
I voted against the Right Wing party and we booted them out of the position of power.
Now, let’s talk about why you felt triggered by me hoping that after Allies were done with On Mass-murdering regime they didn’t go after the second one which would have spared my, and probably your, country half a century of brutal occupation. Are you in support of their actions?
Oh, please explain to me what I’ve said that makes you think I have been “triggered” and keep not explaining what it is you don’t like about fascism.
You sure jumped all over me hoping that Soviets would get their justice too. SOMEHOW assuming that I was excusing Nazis even though I literally thanked the Dad for service during WW2.
Oh no poor wa- IT’S NEW COSTUME AMAZI-GIRL!
Squeeeeee!
Thank you based Willis!
I’m going to enjoy this ass kicking for several weeks; you’ve just given me something to look forward to more than usual for the length of this beatdown.
Anybody want some popcorn?
Probably won’t be a good time to compliment Incelerator but I just want to say I like the artistic choice to make the highlights on his vizor loose representations of his eyes so he can better sale expressions. That’s pretty neat.
AND IT’S AMAZI-GIRL™ WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!
WOOOOH
And it’s Amazi-Cena coming from a blindspot with the assist!
Incidentally Amazi-Cena’s identity is still under investigation.
I’m kind of disappointed that Dina didn’t disembowel this loser before Nightguy arrived. Loser-ator is about to get his ass kicked by his nemesis AGAIN, so that’s a good thing.
She needs a rad costume first. Hide her identity, *then* disembowel.
The fact that it’s a dinosaur costume? Eeeeeh, probably just someone trying to frame her :V
TBH, “Gender Traitor” would make a great name for this guy’s Harley Quinn who wants to make everyone else embrace the tradwife lifestyle WITH HER FISTS.
The irony of an outwardly violent tradwife would be lost on Gender Traitor. Which would make the name all the more fitting. Them plus NiceGuy and we might have a proper DoA villain faction started.
I mean, basically everything about “tradwives” (or at least tradwife online influencers) is ironic.
Pretty sure whatever tradition they’re pretending to live by didn’t include full time video show/celebrity status.
Nooo! Please don’t expand his mythos further! I just want him to go away and never return, not gain a franchise.
Incelerator will be the breakout character of 2024!
His own spinoff!
merch!
Look forward to the Incelerator movie no one wanted to come to theaters this summer while the highly anticipated Amazi-Girl movie gets permanently shelved for a convenient tax write off!
Loved it when Incelerator said “It’s incel time” and celerated all over the place.
Made by Sony, an Incelerator movie with no appearance or mention of Amazi-Girl or NightGuy at all. They try and fail to make him an anti-hero instead of an outright villain.
Listen, when adapting the DOA universe, no one wants female led movies.
Joyce or Amazi-Girl is just not as bankable as Tony!
Or pulling a Sony and doing movies about all of the
Spider-ManAmazi-Girl villains without Amazi-Girl appearing in any of themOTOH, if it’s a crossover with Walky’s comic strip, except it’s the Incelerator getting dropkicked by a different character every scene.
Shit. Mary’s going to date him isn’t she.
“Gender Traitor” is a more fitting name for this asshole. The name “Incelerator” has at least one quantum of coolness, which he does not deserve.
Yay, new-ish outfit! Just like in real-life superhero movies to sell more action figures.
Where can I get these AG action figures you speak of?
At the campus gift shop!
Sophomore year, Amber is walking by a display in that shop. Sees AG action figurines. Pulls a Joyce-Shock face.
Points for style, Willis. Awesome entrance.
i love this. they should all be expelled
On what grounds should anyone but Incelerator be expelled? Everyone just stood there talking at him even when he knocked Dina’s cereal out of her hand until he sucker punched Walky. At which point AG was well within her legal rights to respond with violence of her own in order to protect people.
I read the comment as having anyone like this bozo being expelled, rather than anyone else.
me trying to eat my sandwich at a table nearby trying not to make eye contact with anyone in the friend group who are always getting kidnapped and killed and having school shootings who are now doing a super hero fight while im trying to eat my sandwich: (; ._.) 🥪
I do sometimes wonder what the rest of the building thinks of these kids. There’s gotta be at least a few other students who see them acting in ways on a regular basis and think “Oh hey, it’s them again.”
I’d love to see a commentary from the background extras for sequences like these.
A “Lower Decks” treatment of Dumbing of Age! 😀
Like that scene in Community where some side characters lampshade the Study Group getting all the attention.
They’re all wrapped up in their own drama. Our floor isn’t anything special at IU.
Everyone’s got evil dads and kidnappings and the whole nine yards.
Especially Walky. He’s the real aggressor here.
I’m not sure if passive-aggressors count.
But he got punched. That’s the most aggressive thing a person can do.
The School system dealing with bullies logic.
Nah, the cameras and witnesses are pretty clearly going to show WwNightguy didn’t make the first offensive move. Legally, he’s clear, and Inshitterator is jail-fodder.
Never underestimate the power of white dudes to get away with doing awful shit in public.
Incelerator should be expelled from a railgun aimed at the sun, at least, sure.
You too shall be honored.
Boot to the head!
Nah, nah
First, anger is a weapon only to one’s enemy. And second…
“Incelerator, you must learn patience.”
Aw, you beat me to it!
That does seem to be just where she’s going to hit.
why the hell is Joe, who is actually tall and muscular and physically intimidating, hiding behind all the women?
Like literally why is he not putting himself front of Joyce his fucking girlfriend when a member of an admitted hate group is spouting shit in front of everyone?
it’s not even a thing on whether Joe believes in chivalry or gender roles or whatever, he’s literally just stronger (and taller) than Joyce, Becky, Dina and Jocelyn.
LMFAO “hiding”
he’s behind Joyce and Becky, what do you call that?
Standing.
He was trying to defend them like you wanted. Incelerator just quite literally skated around him changing Joe’s relative position. Y’now because humans can move. In fact Incelerator was arguably avoiding Joe specifically because he is tall and strong. I don’t think it is a coincidence Incelerator wouldn’t antagonize Joyce, singled out Dina to harass and chose to finally punch Nightguy someone physically smaller than him. Joe is doing everything you want.
Obviously Joe is supposed to protectively orbit the vulnerable, defenseless women and match Incelerator’s position 1:1 like that guy in Ocarina of Time who keeps you from going to the Deku Tree.
Would have been kind of interesting to see what would have happened if AG hadn’t swooped in that dramatically appropriate moment. Would Joe have effortlessly grabbed him, like some think he could? Would Raptor Dina and Rage Joyce shredded him?
He was in front of them until Dickmonkey skated a few loops around them in a circle. Apparently Joe declined to shove past the entire group to put them behind him again, which is certainly not the same as ‘hiding’.
He was initially in front of Joyce. Then Incellerator moved (and it’s implied rather quickly?) behind them, and they all turned to watch things unfold.
When Joe is as tall and broad as…Joe, and Joyce is Joyce-sized? Two of her could hide behind him easily but, the other way ’round? No way.
At least two of those women, one of them being his girlfriend Joyce, are by evidence presented in the comic more dangerous in a fight than we’ve ever seen him be.
Just because he’s built like a solid slab of beef doesn’t mean he can fight worth shit. Rage mode Joyce and Raptor Mode Dina on the other hand . . .
They aren’t really that effective though.
Joyce did punch out Ross once, but he’d just staggered out of a car wreck.
Dina got handled pretty easily by Ross in the woods, though she got in some hits, iirc.
Both Dina and Joyce got handled easily by Blaine during his escape, leading to Joyce being taken hostage.
They’re willing, but don’t really have the skills.
I’m 99% sure its just meant to be a framing choice for the sake of presentation. As you said, Joe is by far the tallest of the characters there. If you want to have all the characters seeing and reacting to the action going on, you need to have them in front of Joe or peeking around him.
And three people hiding behind Joe and peeking their head out, while funny, would probably detract a bit from the seriousness of the situation.
All three of them are willing to fight (well, maybe not Joyce), should he restrain them? They’re not children, if they want to fight and he has no moral issues with their target or violence in general, then if he wants to treat them as adults he should let them fight.
Why does Joe, the largest friend, not simply eat the others?
I mean, him knocking Dina’s food to the floor was douchey but not quite dangerous yes. He was being a douche and all this nonsense felt more confusing than threatening, especially after Walky got involved so they just kinda stood there wondering what to do. I doubt Joe would sit ildly if he tried to swing at one of them.
Not to mention that we don’t even know if Joe Knows how to fight.
He doesn’t, I remember that he said his muscles are mostly for aesthetic.
Plenty good enough to just grab the guy and unscrew his head like a bottlecap, though.
And he’d get punched in the solar plexus like Walky and that would be that.
You just really like to have things to complain about huh? And when there aren’t any you make them up.
Ok Incellerator guy, we need to know your real name so we can notify your next of kin, since you are about to become dead meat
Good on Joyce for getting it right.
There, he fucking punched somebody. You can all stop whining and bawling about the United States legal system now.
Kind of a crazy theory, but… I’m beginning to suspect maybe Nightguy is actually Walky
This is the most bees-between-the-ears conspiracy take I’ve read on this website. Props for creativity, but I really don’t think there’s even a shred of evidence for your theory.
What a ridiculous theory. He’s obviously an alt of Amber representing her repressed rage. The only Walkerton in the superhero biz is Sal who as we all know is Amazi-Girl.
Notice how Amazi-Girl only shows up after Nightguy is folded. His name is an anagram of hers, even.
No, no. An easy mistake but easily shown false.
Malaya is Nightguy.
Sal is Amazigirl.
Soon, Carla will appear as UltraTinker.
Marcie will disguise as Silent Type.
And Leslie will keep pushing Jennifer to get the goods on all of them.
Okay, NOW subduing him is the right call.
That’s been true since the guy was born.
Ooooh, costume upgrade!!!
I really have missed the Amazi-Ass-Kickings of old. I absolutely get why they’ve been gone since the timeskip, but as someone who started reading post-timeskip and only ever experienced previous DoA (and, for that matter, Walkyverse) fight scenes in binge form, it’s super exciting to finally see a new one in real time.
So what did Dorothy alter?
Here I come to save the daaaaaay (not with Ritalin)
Looks like she just added a bunch of Marvel lines.
It’s a major revision and I really like it. Here’s the old costume with a bunch of angles on it.
Cool, it’s what I was looking for. Thanks.
“I made me.”
😀
This strip https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/pals/ seems like the most recent one we have with her actually in costume. More recently we’ve seen her in a somewhat similar outfit and a mask but it wasn’t her costume as it was lacking the A logo and she was just hanging out semi-retired.
The costume I linked to is a one piece yellow jump suit. As you can see here she’s now wearing something like a yellow tunic with a larger A on the chest than her previous costume had and blue leggings.
The way the tunic flairs out I would speculate the costume might actually be unfinished. As it is now someone could grab the bottom of her tunic to yank her off balance or possibly tug on it hard enough to pull it over her face and blind her. It would be safer to join the tunic to the leggings and have a zipper or something up the back for her to use to put the costume on.
It kind of reminds me of the Stephanie Brown version of the Robin costume.
Welp, I just realized that the arc after this is probably gonna be heavy as fuck.
Let’s hope not. I really can’t take it right now.
Dang, Dorothy works fast.
I will admit, I was expecting a significantly harder to stomach comic today from that title. Especially since I’ve been half worried/half excited about the potential for jocyelyne to get involved in this conversation (either from him targeting her, or her speaking up)
Oh gods
OK, after 14 “non-DOA” years of this trope, I’ve come to a conclusion…and I know I’m late to the party on this one, but here I go…Indiana University at Bloomington is either the MOST DANGEROUS CAMPUS in the USA -OR- has the feeblest security campus police force in the USA…or both…that is if you squint your eyes and believe within the confines of this web comic….just sayin’…
A huge portion of security on campuses relies on the fact that 99% of the time, nothing violent is going on. No criminal activity anywhere. Sadly, security can’t be everywhere at all times, so that 1% exception is likely to start and finish before they even hear of it, much less get there.
Also everywhere else.
“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.” –Simone de Beauvoir
Global to humanity. Probably some other great apes species, too.
Hell yeah we love a post-time-skip New 52 style redesign w a lot of lines
I really just want to see him get tied up, demasked and expelled
Why did this come to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJvM8eYcpL0
… kinda relevant.
Isn’t it?
I love how Joyce is here proving that she does respect preferred names. She’s grown a lot.
Anyways FUCK YEAH AMAZI-GIRL
Incels, incels all around
She smash their heads into the ground
FUCK
THREE times tonight I have been writing out a long annoying comment when suddenly a full screen popup ad has popped up over my screen, preventing me from doing anything except giving up and reloading the page, trashing my entire comment
(The second time I was at least fifteen minutes into carefully wording a personal anecdote about violence and death happening to classmates of mine in high school when everything got trashed by the pop-up ad)
(The third time it happened I was in the middle of typing a comment complaining about the full screen popup ad that had just trashed my comment)
Type long comments in Notepad/Leafpad/SimpleText first, then copy/paste them into the comment form.
I mean, it’s never been a problem before?
…
IT JUST HAPPENED AGAIN
Fortunately, this full screen popup ad had a Close button so I could dismiss it and get back here intact. St. Augustine (a city I was quite fond of <i<until</i< this evening) didn’t.
Why is anyone still online in this day and age without an adblocker!?! Donate to our host directly instead of involuntarily contributing to clogging the innertubes.
Oh no! His stomach! His only* weakness!
Is it just me or does incelerator look like a gender flipped Carol? At first glance when he was introduced I just saw the strong chin and though she was taking over Blaine’s mantle and wanted to reach out to her daughter in new ways
I still wonder, like, seriously
what’s that incel’s endgame here ? like what did he think will happen after doing this ?
is it some weird ploy to get arrested and then whine about how Amazigirl gets free reign and he doesn’t or some shit ?
No one wake up one day and think “hey, i’m gonna make some costume and rant abusive shit by myself in the school cafeteria”. there gotta be a goal
….is there an accomplice filming the whole thing ?
Oh good, so while Incel jerk is distracted with Walky, Amazi-Girl is here to kick his ass.
Get him, Sal! Avenge your brother!
Jennifer, we know that’s you.
GET HIS ARSEEEEEE
So, Amazi-Girl is a real superhero. Incelerator is a real super-villian. But Nightguy is only Walky in pajamas? C’mon Willis, not fair, not fair at all.
Amazi-Girl is an athlete with fistfight training and extensive experience. Walky is a slacker with no skills applicable to a fistfight and no superpowers or gadgets to compensate. He doesn’t even have pepper spray, for all we’ve seen.
^ This. Nothing against Walky, but he’s a couch potato geek with no fighting experience whose first time punching someone was when he punched Asher in the face (who wasn’t even fighting back). XD Despite her appearance, Amazi-girl is actually extremely fit and has had years of fighting experience. (A common misconception by many people is that, just because someone looks ripped they must be a good fighter, or conversely because somebody looks chunky they can’t be a good fighter.)
Indeed, it seems that the whole point of NightGuy! (as a character) is to be an ineffectual wannabee.
Also not to gas up Incelerator but we know from the amount of ass whuppings he’s received that he’s at least participated in a few scraps. So the dude is bigger and more experienced than Walky in physical confrontation.
You know, I love scenarios like this. When a villain who thinks he has everyone in their grasp starts spouting Darwinist bullshit of Might Makes Right and Strongest Survival.
And then gets their ass kicked seven ways to Sunday and Suddenly it’s unfair and those rules don’t apply to them XD
Social-Darwinist, not Darwinist… Galton, not Darwin.
«With Ritalin?» ahahahaha. Makes sense to me. But then, uh… (As a friend of mine once said, «Ritalin truly is a wonder drug — it makes other people smarter….»
Sorry. Forgot the first part of what they said: «You take it and…»
Just to be clear. Because, you know, ADD.
Joe, you p*ssy!
Stop hiding behind all the girls and Step Up!
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqkrXqnmnk
Hope the result is the same.
Here. Violence. Can we, finally, do something NOW?
1. Good to see Joyce is sticking to the new name.
2. Poor Jocelyne. Things are about to get a bit more confusing for her.
3. Incel-boy deserves doubly the beating he’s about to receive.
4. Joe! Why you hiding behind the girls? Weren’t you guarding Joyce just a second ago?
2. I’m sure she’s used to it. Jocelyne is used to joins protests
4. It’s Dumbing of Age. Girls are the strongest here. Which is great.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the protest experience.
Incelerator skated behind them.
Yeah, I forgot that. Joe hasn’t had a chance to move yet.
Now we know what those pills in Nightguy’s utility belt are.
dina, becky, he literally announced himself, come on
walky, please get a better costume
Anyone who has ever made the claim violence solves nothing is utterly unaware of history.
Behold, violence is going to solve something.
Waiting for Chekhov’s Velcro. Dorothy “fixed” the suit. Is this where it and AG come undone?
Go Amazi-Girl! Destroy him!
Ed Gruberman, few novices get to see so much of Tak Kwon Leap soon. Boot to the head!
Tai……..
I want to “like” this a thousand times. Haven’t seen a Tai Kwon Leap reference in ages. 🙂
okay well now /that’s/ assault
Okay, is “Tummypunch” the onomatopoeia? Is that the sound the punch is making? Or is Incel guy yelling that anime-style?
Incelerator stole Night Guy’s hair style 😀