… Ah! So Joyce is texting AG to deck him again, then? (My first thought was Carla, she’d surely step in and prevent this dude from besmirching the coolness of roller skates)
Willis is pretty good about that. He did that with the original Josh tags as well.
In fact, when Jocelyne gave Ethan the JocelyneJBrown.com website address in this strip, Willis had already registered the site and set it up so that it directed to DumbingofAge.com.
Very wise. Never post an unestablished top level domain on the Internet unless you already own it. Because if you don’t, someone else will buy it out from under you and who knows what they’re going to do with it. (Or what will happen to it when it comes up for renewal.)
Lol. NiceGuy. I can already see it. He treats women politely but only with the implication of sex as the reward and if they don’t put out he complains to Incelerator. What a dynamic duo!
“he had a gun and body armour and we were scared” is a pretty good argument to get off light or even free
college isn’t likely to go further than the legal system on the twin bases of not wanting to get sued and not caring more than they legally have to
No, no, that’s exactly what I want to happen. Then the whole cast can get superhero identities to fight them. It’s the destiny we’ve always been heading towards. 😌
Nope, Amazi-Girl did, Blain just gave then a bankroll. Can’t buy a costume without a budget. Of course Amber didn’t buy, she made. Which puts her a whole flight of steps ahead of douchebro.
There are some people who do the irl “supervillain” thing to help call attention to actually worthy causes, like a heel version of the rl superhero movement.
I suspect the Incelerator is not one of these individuals. Just a hunch.
Perhaps his brush with villainy actually caused him to reflect on his misdeeds and change his ways? Maybe he’s not calling out females with too many skills to chastise them or bring any sort of ill will, but instead to highlight their talents as sadly lots of women are still overshadowed despite or even because they have a robust suite of skill sets and qualifications. Maybe just maybe Incelerator is the hero we need to platform exceptional women?
Carla is, of course, multi-skilled, and can build machines to annoy the world’s worst people with pies, her name in lights, or whatever else would cause them the most distress. So she’s going to win on skating prowess, number of skills, and ability to deploy both of the former with surgical accuracy. This dude is going to whine so hard, he’ll pop out of existence and I love that for all of us.
…okay, this was not what I expected to see when I loaded up the page tonight, but I’m definitely here for whatever the fuck is about to happen.
Also I immediately felt a glimmer of recognition when I looked at this guy’s face shape and hair and yup, the tag confirmed that he was exactly the same specific formerly-nameless rando that I thought he was. Neat
Options for who Joyce could be texting:
AmaziGirl – Retired, but beating this sort of dude up is very much her deal
Carla – Skates in the dorms are HER THING, she deserves a chance to defend her niche
Malaya – Has combat experience while on skates, would lead to her undercutting him hilariously in debates
Dina – Can attack from the sides when he’s not looking
Jennifer – this guy is less important than finding out why Dorothy has a pic of her boobs
Okay see, this is super funny, and for a little before looking up who the guy was I was seriously wondering if this guy would be in support of lgbt and womens rights and the protest and cosplaying as an exaggeratedly stupid meme of the opposing side.
But him being sincere about it is also funny, and deserving of an Amazigirl appearance for sure.
Something I only learned recently was that the term was originally abbreviated “invcel” and didn’t start out as a horrible cesspit. Though it soon became so.
(I learned this from Cory Doctorow’s column last Monday.)
Remember how Mary tried to appeal to Joyce’s feminist sentiment to redirect it towards Carla with the “males intruding in female spaces” bullshit?
Themz a known TERF recruitment target you see in places like 4chan and Twitter
the discrepancy to be aware of is that Willis will most likely present these strategies as in-person actors for the sake of working best in a gag-a-day webcomic format, where IRL modern reactionary movements are primarily internet-based.
Slice of life; exaggerated for comedy. These dudes are all around and they beat up women in real life too. They especially like to beat up little Asian grandmas because they are racist cowards.
“Wait, I seem to have accidentally texted Dorothy. Oh well, I’m sure she’ll tell Amazigirl, and there won’t be long-running hijinx involving secret identities, a costume she was mid-modification of, and a desperate attempt to cobble together a new identity after her old one crumbled.”
Malaya’s “tried to get away” (emphasis not in original) always implied to me that she’d caught up to him and pounded him into the dust. Not that I’d dare challenge Word of God.
Wait, this whole comic is about challenging Word of God.
Goddammit, this is some sort of paradox, isn’t it? I bet the Ultra-Car story on this theme was a two-parter.
Although I will accept that he somehow succeeded in getting away from Malaya because it’s hilarious and it allows me to imagine that the spite drove Malaya to train all these months, keeping a drawing of him pinned to her wall with darts through the face, until she finally gets the chance to have her revenge.
a guy who gets wrecked by a superhero once and immediately picks up a costume is crazy but a guy who gets completely fucking owned numerous times and decides to go again is an idiot and maybe a little too into getting owned
He’s definitely some kind of humiliation pervert. I mean come on, his gimmick involves an ideology so frail, a simple request for clarification can send its followers into an absolute meltdown. Any opposition whatsoever will reduce him to a puddle of cow piss.
It’s her editor who wants to hit on AG.
If Jennifer wanted to do it, you’d think, or at least hope, she’d notice her crush’s hair, skin, and body type.
Well, there are plenty of people who don’t care about looks, so might not notice them, but Jennifer is definitely not one of those people.
The greatest trick the Internet Daemon ever pulled was to take your insecurities and possibly most awful qualities then make them something to be proud of.
“No, it’s the people who don’t want to sleep with me who are wrong.”
He’s got a logo, a nice gradient on the shoulders that form a speedometer and matching skates. If dude made this costume himself he may have some talents of his own he’s wasting under the weight of toxic masculinity. Or maybe he just knows a good tailor or cosplayer. Or maybe there’s a very specific company that has unique style jumpsuits mass produced.
yanno, in a world with Andrew Tate and many similar cases of insecure men who think women should be property and they use their podcasts or youtube channels to indoctrinate teenage boys into becoming misogynists and sometimes inspire real life murders; I’m extremely uninterested in a moustache twirling-style villain who talks like those assholes but is ineffectual and will be summarily put down with a punch by the equally ridiculous amazi-girl or a pie to the face by Carla.
the scariness of men like that in real life is not only that often they have high positions of power (like the latest president elect), it’s not only that it’s often men we know, people we work with or are part of our families, no, the scariest part is how our culture is completely marinated in sexism, it’s inescapable and thus things slide back on progress very easily.
I guess I’m not interested in seeing a silly goofball villain who belongs to a hate group. it’s like having a Snidely Whiplash character whose villain theme is that he’s a white supremacist.
I’m a little bit of the opposite. I get enough reminders that the world’s a misogynist hellpit. It’d be nice to see one of these fucking assholes get what they deserve (a beating and not being taken remotely seriously).
So, this comic may land differently this time of year for a lot of us in Canada than it does elsewhere.
We’re less than a week from the anniversary of the December 6th École Polytechnique massacre in 1989, when an armed man burst into a classroom at a Montreal engineering school shouting misogynist slogans about feminists. He separated the men from the women, and then opened fire on the women. He then roamed the building targeting more women before finally shooting himself. 14 women died — 12 engineering students, a nursing student and a staff member — and several more were wounded. Since then, this date has been marked in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
I hope the Incelerator is just a buffoon whose comeuppance is about to arrive in the form of Sal, Carla or Amazi-Girl. (Or all three.) But I’ll be a little on edge until that happens, because this scene has some awfully dark antecedents.
This is a good reminder that the hatred of women our cultures are steeped in is fatal to so many women. Police would much rather hunt down a guy who kills a rich white CEO than stop men from murdering their wives and girlfriends and crushes, just going by statistics on what crimes get punished.
Everyone thinks Incelerator is a villain, because of the way he looks and acts and does villainy and is so unlikable I feel the need to clarify I’m doing a bit. But if he hadn’t shown up and changed the subject someone might have noticed that Jocelyne just made fun and downplayed of an incident where Joyce’s friend was literally fucking murdered. By arriving now, Incelerator spared Jocelyne an unbelievably uncomfortable conversation, taking Jocelynn’s social sins upon himself like a less fuckable Jesus.
Society may hate him, and rightfully so, but Incelerator is the hero Indiana deserves, a geek so annoying he protects others from faux pas…es…?…
I am not sure how much Jocelyn knows about that incident, especially the costumes. I don’t think she was trying to downplay a literal kidnapping and murder, I think she was saying “the world is complicated”.
I mean, she was setting up the Incelerator for a punchline, and any time the masks come on we’re in the silly zone where nothing makes sense and thinking about it too hard just makes you a wet blanket and everyone gets in a line to give you a wedgie like the nun in Airplane!.
I just find it mildly amusing to think there’s probably a big gap between how making fun of “silly costumes” reads in our world where incels are boring vs the world of the comic where students are getting assaulted by masked supervillains on a regular basis and a dude Joyce knows got thrown off a roof to his death by The Legion Of Dad a few weeks ago, something Jocelyne’s and Joyce’s own mom was involved in.
Is this guy’s kink getting beaten up by an entire roller derby team at once because it sure seems like that’s what he’s begging for with that outfit and that attitude
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……………………well, I didn’t see this coming, that’s for sure.
definitely not on my bingo card either
I’d be rather worried if you had.
I honestly had no idea this character was a thing. Had to archive dive to understand the context.
Also… has he always been named that, or was that retconned into the tags at some point?
See the alt-text, tags got added with this comic.
… Ah! So Joyce is texting AG to deck him again, then? (My first thought was Carla, she’d surely step in and prevent this dude from besmirching the coolness of roller skates)
I hope she’s texting Malaya.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/fistfight/
That’s something that happens sometimes, like when all the Billie tags became Jennifer tags.
Willis is pretty good about that. He did that with the original Josh tags as well.
In fact, when Jocelyne gave Ethan the JocelyneJBrown.com website address in this strip, Willis had already registered the site and set it up so that it directed to DumbingofAge.com.
Very wise. Never post an unestablished top level domain on the Internet unless you already own it. Because if you don’t, someone else will buy it out from under you and who knows what they’re going to do with it. (Or what will happen to it when it comes up for renewal.)
of course you didn’t see him coming, he’s an incel
ayyyyyyyyyyyy
Does that scan? Pretty sure all those pathetic losers do is jack of and whine about women they’ve never met.
I was going to try to spin some “tree falls in a forest/sound” into an “incel masturbates/whine” joke, but I couldn’t make it make sense in my head.
If an incel jacks off in the forest and a tree falls on him, does he still blame a woman?
Lol! That checks out!
See, that’s more like it.
Very good, lol.
Oh please, it was obvious!
Nightguy is never around when you need him.
It’s daytime. Double-check the name.
No, but I’m sure NiceGuy will be along shortly to provide the Incelerator with some moral support.
Lol. NiceGuy. I can already see it. He treats women politely but only with the implication of sex as the reward and if they don’t put out he complains to Incelerator. What a dynamic duo!
no need to text
just summon a raptor attack
you know what to do >:D
Dina’s too busy eating to waste energy on a douche.
Please tell me Blaine didn’t inspire a bunch of college douchebags to take to costumed villainy.
Honestly, I’m surprised their last bit of villainy didn’t get them all expelled.
Did any of the flunkies actually get arrested? Or did they escape during the chase?
I figured they would – they were at the scene of the crime. Malaya decked this guy to keep him from escaping.
“he had a gun and body armour and we were scared” is a pretty good argument to get off light or even free
college isn’t likely to go further than the legal system on the twin bases of not wanting to get sued and not caring more than they legally have to
Blaine didn’t have a gun though. He had a hammer. If he’d had a gun that escape attempt would’ve been over before it started.
Ryan’s dad is a pastor. He probably made it clear that he’d sue the school unless he was allowed to continue his promising future.
…
I hate myself for that.
That’s not Ryan, though.
Thats just some random jerk-face turned junior kidnapper.
If they were caught at all, they’d be on the hook for capital crimes. Expulsion would be the least of their worries.
According to the new Incelerator *vomit* tag, he’s one of the douchebros that took part in Blaine’s mass kidnapping/hostage scheme.
So, uh, sorry :(.
No, no, that’s exactly what I want to happen. Then the whole cast can get superhero identities to fight them. It’s the destiny we’ve always been heading towards. 😌
Nope, Amazi-Girl did, Blain just gave then a bankroll. Can’t buy a costume without a budget. Of course Amber didn’t buy, she made. Which puts her a whole flight of steps ahead of douchebro.
He’ll never be as iconic as the Dong Bandit.
Check the tag to learn who this guy is!
…oh. oh no.
he’s a dudebro who was recruited for The Kidnapping
the million dollar question is, who will be the next to see to it this guy cries and pisses himself?
A. Sal
B. Amazi-Girl
C. Dina
D. Dorothy in a new costume
E. None of the above
Based on the Patreon preview, it looks like Broly is gonna have some words with him.
F. Sarah with a bat.
Oh. I wanna see All-New Sarah politely fracture his skull.
Malaya will come back to throw out the trash.
Going off the tagged comics, this is one of the guys that Blaine hired to kidnap everyone. Fucking hell
It makes too much sense and I hate it.
…what the fuck ?
super hero fight time :O are we gonna get a whole bunch of these guys eventually
sry didnt mean to reply lol
it’s okayyyy
There are some people who do the irl “supervillain” thing to help call attention to actually worthy causes, like a heel version of the rl superhero movement.
I suspect the Incelerator is not one of these individuals. Just a hunch.
Perhaps his brush with villainy actually caused him to reflect on his misdeeds and change his ways? Maybe he’s not calling out females with too many skills to chastise them or bring any sort of ill will, but instead to highlight their talents as sadly lots of women are still overshadowed despite or even because they have a robust suite of skill sets and qualifications. Maybe just maybe Incelerator is the hero we need to platform exceptional women?
Uh, wearing skates is Carla’s thing. You can’t have two characters who do the same thing, it’s confusing.
Clearly Joyce is texting Carla (well, trying to, who knows who actually gets the text) to come for a roller derby duel.
Joyce is just texting boob pics, nothing about that clown.
Carla is, of course, multi-skilled, and can build machines to annoy the world’s worst people with pies, her name in lights, or whatever else would cause them the most distress. So she’s going to win on skating prowess, number of skills, and ability to deploy both of the former with surgical accuracy. This dude is going to whine so hard, he’ll pop out of existence and I love that for all of us.
The way I burst out cackling, especially when I saw who he is. Amazing.
Malaya should hit him again.
Dude put some work into the costume. Cool logo. 70s Taco Bell color scheme. NICE
The ideal baddie to practice what one has learned from roller derby.
Maybe Mary has another tube of super glue.
“Females who have too many skills?” And on skates!? CARLAAAAAA
That guy? Can we put Incelerator into the Incinerator
LOL i wonder what he considers ‘too many’ considering he’s at a co ed college to begin with rather than an all males college (if that’s even a thing)
All-male colleges went out in the late-70s with even the Military Academies going co-ed.
Checking the tags… he was in the FIRST STORY ARC? Wow.
Are we having a go at Scott Summers with those goggles? I hope we’re having a go at Scott Summers with those goggles.
Eh, at least he advertised his weaknesses out the gate.
A hair-trigger dick and gravity?
…okay, this was not what I expected to see when I loaded up the page tonight, but I’m definitely here for whatever the fuck is about to happen.
Also I immediately felt a glimmer of recognition when I looked at this guy’s face shape and hair and yup, the tag confirmed that he was exactly the same specific formerly-nameless rando that I thought he was. Neat
Whelp, Amazi-Girl gonna have fun
I’m kinda expecting amber and ag to have a crisis over the fact they batmaned the school by inspiring a bunch of temu-quality supervillains
Love “Temu-quality supervillains”
+1
Options for who Joyce could be texting:
AmaziGirl – Retired, but beating this sort of dude up is very much her deal
Carla – Skates in the dorms are HER THING, she deserves a chance to defend her niche
Malaya – Has combat experience while on skates, would lead to her undercutting him hilariously in debates
Dina – Can attack from the sides when he’s not looking
Jennifer – this guy is less important than finding out why Dorothy has a pic of her boobs
I reckon AG, who texts the roller derby team to show up and hip-check him like a pinball through the cafeteria and out the window
Poor Jocelyn thinks she’s in a realistic slice of life story. Instead, she’s in a low key superhero land.
Wait til she finds out Amazi-Girl actually saved them from kidnapping religious fanatics and the mob.
Okay see, this is super funny, and for a little before looking up who the guy was I was seriously wondering if this guy would be in support of lgbt and womens rights and the protest and cosplaying as an exaggeratedly stupid meme of the opposing side.
But him being sincere about it is also funny, and deserving of an Amazigirl appearance for sure.
Something I only learned recently was that the term was originally abbreviated “invcel” and didn’t start out as a horrible cesspit. Though it soon became so.
(I learned this from Cory Doctorow’s column last Monday.)
Wake up, babe. New Willis Social Commentary Character just dropped.
I mean it’s been starting?
Remember how Mary tried to appeal to Joyce’s feminist sentiment to redirect it towards Carla with the “males intruding in female spaces” bullshit?
Themz a known TERF recruitment target you see in places like 4chan and Twitter
the discrepancy to be aware of is that Willis will most likely present these strategies as in-person actors for the sake of working best in a gag-a-day webcomic format, where IRL modern reactionary movements are primarily internet-based.
Their mother’s basements based, using her WiFi.
Slice of life; exaggerated for comedy. These dudes are all around and they beat up women in real life too. They especially like to beat up little Asian grandmas because they are racist cowards.
“Wait, I seem to have accidentally texted Dorothy. Oh well, I’m sure she’ll tell Amazigirl, and there won’t be long-running hijinx involving secret identities, a costume she was mid-modification of, and a desperate attempt to cobble together a new identity after her old one crumbled.”
And also boobs.
… oh no.
OH NO.
Guess he didn’t get beaten up by enough teenage girls last time.
Also, did he not get kicked out for participating in the kidnapping??
If he got kicked out, he couldn’t come back for this ridiculous cameo.
The school really dropped the ball on that whole debacle, huh.
The administration is consistently incompetent and useless (just like an incel), so it’s not surprising.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/fistfight/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/ohrightalmostforgot/
Incelerator specifically escaped! (and on heelies, because that is how long a game i am playing)
Malaya’s “tried to get away” (emphasis not in original) always implied to me that she’d caught up to him and pounded him into the dust. Not that I’d dare challenge Word of God.
Wait, this whole comic is about challenging Word of God.
Goddammit, this is some sort of paradox, isn’t it? I bet the Ultra-Car story on this theme was a two-parter.
AND with his legs tied!
Although I will accept that he somehow succeeded in getting away from Malaya because it’s hilarious and it allows me to imagine that the spite drove Malaya to train all these months, keeping a drawing of him pinned to her wall with darts through the face, until she finally gets the chance to have her revenge.
Well, here’s her chance! Get him, Malaya.
Maybe she pounded him into the dust and then didn’t bother showing the cops to him?
Looking at the past strips I feel like he should be in jail or or at least not allowed on campus.
I guess he somehow got away after getting attacked by Malayla?
It’s not like she killed him. She’d have been sent to Gitmo.
SHORTPACKED LIVES!
HELL YEAH!
Yeah I also thought this was the most Shortpacked! gag I have ever seen in DoA.
considering context, it’s very likely that DoA will continue gas up Shortpacked style gags for political commentary at the very least
fuckin sweet!
cuz what’s a slice of life comic when the real world becomes a zoo?
from Willis’s brain, straight to you! ^^
a guy who gets wrecked by a superhero once and immediately picks up a costume is crazy but a guy who gets completely fucking owned numerous times and decides to go again is an idiot and maybe a little too into getting owned
He’s definitely some kind of humiliation pervert. I mean come on, his gimmick involves an ideology so frail, a simple request for clarification can send its followers into an absolute meltdown. Any opposition whatsoever will reduce him to a puddle of cow piss.
Well, he’s an admitted incel.
It might be the only way he can get a woman to touch him.
He learned from the best.
By which I mean Blaine.
So I guess I don’t mean “the best.”
Maybe he’ll follow Blaine’s example through to its natural conclusion. Fingers crossed.
Jokes on Jocelyne, the Bulmerian genocide is also being committed by people on roller skates in domino masks.
I’m torn on if she’s texting Amazi-Girl or Carla.
Kinda starting to accept spandex are part of Indiana culture.
I mean it kind of reminds me of suits racecar drivers wear in the Indiana 500, huge sport event the state is known for so yeah that tracks XD
My forecast:
AG shows up to do battle, or whatever.
Jenn-a-Billie shows up to hit on, er, report on AG.
Sal shows up for lunch.
Our intrepid reporter spends several strips trying to figure out how there can be two Sals.
It’s her editor who wants to hit on AG.
If Jennifer wanted to do it, you’d think, or at least hope, she’d notice her crush’s hair, skin, and body type.
Well, there are plenty of people who don’t care about looks, so might not notice them, but Jennifer is definitely not one of those people.
The greatest trick the Internet Daemon ever pulled was to take your insecurities and possibly most awful qualities then make them something to be proud of.
“No, it’s the people who don’t want to sleep with me who are wrong.”
👁️ ואשליך עליך זוהמה מתועבת, ואשפיל אותך, ואעשה לך מחזה. 👁️
— 3:6 נחום
Abominable filth right back at you, friend.
🙂
Incel-erator will surely be a spectacle, that much is certain. XD
FUCK this guy his outfit looks cool though ngl
right?
He’s got a logo, a nice gradient on the shoulders that form a speedometer and matching skates. If dude made this costume himself he may have some talents of his own he’s wasting under the weight of toxic masculinity. Or maybe he just knows a good tailor or cosplayer. Or maybe there’s a very specific company that has unique style jumpsuits mass produced.
As a rule, I don’t recommend anyone read the tags during their first read of a comic, but sometimes I wonder what the experience is like.
Finally more super heroing, this is everything I ever wanted
I’m wondering how exactly he pronounces that clockface.
Which I assume represents an erect penis.
Possibly an erect penis shooting out of a boob.
Look, he’s an incel, it’s not supposed to make sense.
That’s a speedometer, isn’t it?
yeah his name is a pun on “accelerator”, his style looks like that of a racecar driver, alluding to the fact that he seems fond of his heelys
Speedometer / symbol of Mars.
oh shit I didn’t even notice, good catch! :0
Y’know, if this were Empowered or Spinnerette he’d probably have the same personality, but he’d be surprisingly competent at fighting real crime.
yanno, in a world with Andrew Tate and many similar cases of insecure men who think women should be property and they use their podcasts or youtube channels to indoctrinate teenage boys into becoming misogynists and sometimes inspire real life murders; I’m extremely uninterested in a moustache twirling-style villain who talks like those assholes but is ineffectual and will be summarily put down with a punch by the equally ridiculous amazi-girl or a pie to the face by Carla.
the scariness of men like that in real life is not only that often they have high positions of power (like the latest president elect), it’s not only that it’s often men we know, people we work with or are part of our families, no, the scariest part is how our culture is completely marinated in sexism, it’s inescapable and thus things slide back on progress very easily.
I guess I’m not interested in seeing a silly goofball villain who belongs to a hate group. it’s like having a Snidely Whiplash character whose villain theme is that he’s a white supremacist.
Seriously, I’m hoping the immediate response is actual physical violence.
I’m a little bit of the opposite. I get enough reminders that the world’s a misogynist hellpit. It’d be nice to see one of these fucking assholes get what they deserve (a beating and not being taken remotely seriously).
I think it’s just a bit, and he will not become a large plot point.
So, this comic may land differently this time of year for a lot of us in Canada than it does elsewhere.
We’re less than a week from the anniversary of the December 6th École Polytechnique massacre in 1989, when an armed man burst into a classroom at a Montreal engineering school shouting misogynist slogans about feminists. He separated the men from the women, and then opened fire on the women. He then roamed the building targeting more women before finally shooting himself. 14 women died — 12 engineering students, a nursing student and a staff member — and several more were wounded. Since then, this date has been marked in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
I hope the Incelerator is just a buffoon whose comeuppance is about to arrive in the form of Sal, Carla or Amazi-Girl. (Or all three.) But I’ll be a little on edge until that happens, because this scene has some awfully dark antecedents.
The whole Rolerdierbie team showing up, just to skate in circles around him as flails.
This is a good reminder that the hatred of women our cultures are steeped in is fatal to so many women. Police would much rather hunt down a guy who kills a rich white CEO than stop men from murdering their wives and girlfriends and crushes, just going by statistics on what crimes get punished.
Thank you for sharing.
Shit, I didn’t even think of that. It’s been a bit of a hellish time of year this year.
Very true. I’m fairly sure this ends in someone making him eat his own teeth though.
Everyone thinks Incelerator is a villain, because of the way he looks and acts and does villainy and is so unlikable I feel the need to clarify I’m doing a bit. But if he hadn’t shown up and changed the subject someone might have noticed that Jocelyne just made fun and downplayed of an incident where Joyce’s friend was literally fucking murdered. By arriving now, Incelerator spared Jocelyne an unbelievably uncomfortable conversation, taking Jocelynn’s social sins upon himself like a less fuckable Jesus.
Society may hate him, and rightfully so, but Incelerator is the hero Indiana deserves, a geek so annoying he protects others from faux pas…es…?…
Our pocket protector. Our zero. Our dork knight.
Oh, right. The last time this happened three people died. Hmm. That’s worrying.
I am not sure how much Jocelyn knows about that incident, especially the costumes. I don’t think she was trying to downplay a literal kidnapping and murder, I think she was saying “the world is complicated”.
I mean, she was setting up the Incelerator for a punchline, and any time the masks come on we’re in the silly zone where nothing makes sense and thinking about it too hard just makes you a wet blanket and everyone gets in a line to give you a wedgie like the nun in Airplane!.
I just find it mildly amusing to think there’s probably a big gap between how making fun of “silly costumes” reads in our world where incels are boring vs the world of the comic where students are getting assaulted by masked supervillains on a regular basis and a dude Joyce knows got thrown off a roof to his death by The Legion Of Dad a few weeks ago, something Jocelyne’s and Joyce’s own mom was involved in.
He thinks he’s the Joker, but he’s really just a clown.
Has college changed, Jocelyn?
Because when you were in college, it was, what, three or four years ago in universe time?
Beef’s friend.
He probably thinks its gay to have sex with women
Obviously. The only true manly way to do it is with another man.
I’m so excited for Malaya to see this.
it’s gonna be like that one jojo meme where everyone curbstomps on him
I hope OG Alex isn’t held in Bulmerian prison with the fall of the Had Allan regime.
Well, didn’t see that coming lol XD
I know it’s been a long time since I read the 2010 strips, but I don’t recall anyone tagged as Incelerator.
To paraphrase Dean Wormer “Fit, drunk, and virginal is no way to go through life son.”
Alt-text suggests that Willis retroactively applied those tags.
Only room for one skate-based narcissist on this campus. Get him Super-Carla!
And his sidekick, Chan/b/oy!
Never change, Willis. You magnificent bastard.
Faster than a speeding doxxer!
More misogynist than a tech bro!
Able to mansplain entire subjects in a single tweet!
Is this guy’s kink getting beaten up by an entire roller derby team at once because it sure seems like that’s what he’s begging for with that outfit and that attitude
what
I really cannot think of anything else to say about this comic.
Finally, a worthy(?) opponent for Amazi-Girl. Their battle will be legendary!
Can I punch him? I’m gonna punch him.
…. I’m like 90% certain that being on roller skates would make him LESS effective at fighting.
… the remaining 10% is “he’s already at the lowest point on the scale possible”.
“Cause he’s on roller skates”? No, I don’t get it.
Is it just some wordplay on “accelerator” and my humor-expectations are set too high, or am I genuinely missing something here?
My dude really felt strongly enough about this to become a shitty supervillain.
Is she texting Amazi-girl? Or Dorothy?
The ghost of Shortpacked! social commentary gags bursts from the closet.
This is silly.