… 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
Plus, it’s not like they’d know much, and Blaine was dead; any value as informants was lost with him. So they’re on the hook for multiple kidnappings, assaults, and battery for what, a dozen counts? With an almost certain batch of restraining orders from some of the victims against them even when a corrupt, incompetent judge goes easy for them being “promising young men with their lives ahead of them”?
School isn’t going to risk being sued over letting a bunch of violent felons come near their victims. The admins are always corrupt and useless, but not so stupid as to basically intentionally lose those lawsuits.
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.
Just saying I kinda doubt Blaine paid these guys. Not to undercut that maybe Amazi-Girl escalated things by being a costumed vigilante which appropriately mirrors the same Batman argument (did he create his villains??) that her character homages, but it just seems really at odds with Blaine’s entire character and motivation in life to pay a bunch of goons. He was kidnapping kids in part because he wanted to save money and somehow that helped.
The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit. Don’t want her getting confused with any other Dingdong bandits out there. They might sue her for trademark infringement.
That’s not Sarah, that’s the newest campus vigilante – Bat Girl. Not to be confused with the one from DC. This one gets her name from the baseball bat she beats assholes with. The fact that she and Sarah have never been seen in the same room is a coincidence.
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.
I don’t think that’s true. Per the regulations, they don’t “apply to any public institution of undergraduate higher education which traditionally and continually from its establishment has had a policy of admitting only students of one sex.” So Bryn Mawr is safe.
i know there are some ‘all female ‘ colleges, in Japan, and in teh west, tehre’s apparently even one in tx tho they do tech allow males.
Tho i vaguely heard an anecdote that a guy signed up to have a ‘better chance’ getting a gf (tho it just makes me think of what leslie said before like “most of us are lesbians” or so XD)
Competent women and gravity? 9.8m/s^2? Amazi-Girl would probably make him load his pants with her high-kicking and acrobatics and double mule kicks tom the Faaaaaace!
…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.
Maybe she followed him a bit, beat the stuffing outta him, and left him in a dumpster or such somewhere. Never told the authorities where he was or that she had beat the fluids outta him. Eventually he woke up and staggered away? Or got helped?
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.
Several companies nowadays that market to cosplayers. Custom costumes, pretty quick-like. For amateurs and pros, alike. Suited to budgets from $50 to $50,000, whatever you can afford.
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).
I’d like to see Sal and/or Carla and/or AG show up and do martial arts on skates and put a truck (that thing with the wheels on the bottom of the boot) in his incel Faaaaaaace!
Because it simplifies and trivializes the problem. It might be cathartic, but it pretends there’s a easy satisfying solution to a deep entrenched social problem.
Just apply violence and misogyny goes away. Every one claps.
It doesn’t work like that.
This is a silly thing to say. Having a cartoon where a dipshit loser incel gets his shit pushed in doesn’t “pretend there’s an easy satisfying [and so on]”. It’s not saying “This is how it works in the real world! It’s just that easy!”, it’s saying “Goddamn, I wanna do this to these people”, which is based and good.
I don’t think it’s an either/or thing. Different stories for different folks, at different times in their life, for when it speaks to them. We can have both simplified and complex villains, and they do not devalue each other. Sometimes some people want a full course meal, and sometimes they just want a piece of bread.
^ That. I totally get not wanting to see this situation in a light hearted way. I personally find it cathartic but I get it. It can feel invalidating or trivializing to make it silly.
We do have ridiculous goofball villains that are part of hate groups, though. Adolf Hitler is a favorite in comic books. This did not seem to diminish peoples’ appreciation for the reality of the holocaust.
Making fun of a person or ideology is actually a very effective real-world weapon against them. Chaining ourselves to seriousness is not necessary.
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.
On one hand, that would mean he’s getting a lot of attention. On the other hand, a vicious public beating is the only kind of attention incels deserve.
“Heartwarming: Six Freshman Women Beat Up Costumed Misogynist”
The body of the article goes out of its way not to mention the guy’s name or describe him beyond his costume and behavior, but it gives glowing praise to the women.
You mean Ultra Carla. Which is just Carla in some sort of flashy spandex suit. Why would she wear a mask? If she did no one would be able to tell it was her so they can tell her how wonderful she is.
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
No, but now that two costumed villains have shown up the floodgates might be about to open.
When the whole cast inevitably becomes costumed vigilantes what will their superhero names be? We already have Amazi-girl and Night Guy. We might see Ultra Carla (Carla) and Bat Girl (Sarah with a bat).
Think since the kidnapping incident though Dorothy made it seemed like she figured it out beforehand, probably when Dorothy asked Amazigirl if she beat up Blaine.
I admit, it’d be kind of funny if a running gag would be Jocelyn trying to mentor Joyce only to find out Joyce has all of their lessons learned already or wholly different bizarre ones.
If someone actually “Identifies” with being an Incel, they are cringe, thus, this character is pure Cringe. I can’t wait to see what happens. *prepares popcorn*
Ironically, the incel community founder was a queer woman who founded it to actually try to help lonely people. Then a bunch of men showed up who claimed it was all because women being awful and they took over.
TFW you’ve gone from henchman to solo villain, and it’s really a step down. “One of Blaine’s Amazi-Girl Revenge Squad” is threatening. Captain Can’t-Get-Laid really isn’t.
I hope this guy winds up in some student’s Youtube Cringe Compilation video and then is never seen nor heard from again (Because he falls into a manhole).
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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/
She can text both. Or text AG and tell her to bring Malaya.
@Wraithy
Well, now I just feel silly. I always check the alt text, but for some reason, for this one, I didn’t.
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.)
I’m not sure you can own a top level domain. 😉
Pretty sure that Jeph utterlu OWNED the .golf TLD with ass.golf
Incels showing up where a trans person exists? It’s on mine as the freebie.
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.
LOL! Thanks!
Once again Taffy has justified their existence.
You’re welcome.
Yes. Yes, he does.
Oh please, it was obvious!
He’s an incel. Nobody will ever see him coming.
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.
Who’s she eating?
Becky.
Hence the no douche.
I mean ideally ya gotta be clean down there for safer sex, on top of brushing your teeth and tongue ^^
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.
I somehow completely forgot he didn’t have a gun
kind of a lame mob guy wasn’t he
Would’ve made things much easier for him. Mike, the escape attempt, fighting Ross.
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.
I forget their original names, but I think they were the Chads or Brads? Something frat-like?
I don’t think that was this character. He didn’t have a name, iirc.
You might be thinking of the “bros”: Taylor, Tyler and Dawson.
Yeah, you’re right. Not the same group that helped Blaine.
If they were caught at all, they’d be on the hook for capital crimes. Expulsion would be the least of their worries.
Plus, it’s not like they’d know much, and Blaine was dead; any value as informants was lost with him. So they’re on the hook for multiple kidnappings, assaults, and battery for what, a dozen counts? With an almost certain batch of restraining orders from some of the victims against them even when a corrupt, incompetent judge goes easy for them being “promising young men with their lives ahead of them”?
School isn’t going to risk being sued over letting a bunch of violent felons come near their victims. The admins are always corrupt and useless, but not so stupid as to basically intentionally lose those lawsuits.
An American college expel promising young (white) men with bright futures ahead of them just for being a little rowdy? /s
“Wild Childs”.
-Senator Cynthia Lummis
Maybe he WAS expelled and barred from the campus, and that’s why he needs a costume?
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.
Just saying I kinda doubt Blaine paid these guys. Not to undercut that maybe Amazi-Girl escalated things by being a costumed vigilante which appropriately mirrors the same Batman argument (did he create his villains??) that her character homages, but it just seems really at odds with Blaine’s entire character and motivation in life to pay a bunch of goons. He was kidnapping kids in part because he wanted to save money and somehow that helped.
Fraid so. In fact, tags indicate he was one of Blaine’s recruits for the big kidnapping. Seems he developed a taste for masks.
And, maybe, his own blood and teeth?
He’ll never be as iconic as the Dong Bandit.
Hey now! That’s the “Ding Dong Bandit”! Please credit her correctly.
It’s Mr Dong Bandit.
Mr. Dong Bandit was her father. Call her Ding.
The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit. Don’t want her getting confused with any other Dingdong bandits out there. They might sue her for trademark infringement.
Important safety tip!
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.
WEN BRO–oh, now, cool.
F. Sarah with a bat.
Oh. I wanna see All-New Sarah politely fracture his skull.
In the conservatory.
Maybe, just maybe, the guy will finally get a…
(wait for it)
Clue.
😀
That’s not Sarah, that’s the newest campus vigilante – Bat Girl. Not to be confused with the one from DC. This one gets her name from the baseball bat she beats assholes with. The fact that she and Sarah have never been seen in the same room is a coincidence.
Malaya will come back to throw out the trash.
Thank you. 🙂 I was wondering who the hell this guy was.
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.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/fistfight/ lol you’d think after this he wouldn’t try shit anymore unless malaya needs to chang ethis to a weekly beating XD
…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?
Yeah, no. Ain’t buying that booshwah, for nuttin’ pardon the pun.
I mean, it’d be a great way to reform the term, but I don’t see it happening…
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.
Joyce is texting Amazigirl. Amber will be puzzled, but not really surprised, to recieve Jennifer’s boob pic.
No, she gets the boob pic she helped take.
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.
Probably a few lingering small private colleges somewhere, but they can’t even take Pell Grant students or any other federal money at all if so
I don’t think that’s true. Per the regulations, they don’t “apply to any public institution of undergraduate higher education which traditionally and continually from its establishment has had a policy of admitting only students of one sex.” So Bryn Mawr is safe.
Didn’t help VMI at all
i know there are some ‘all female ‘ colleges, in Japan, and in teh west, tehre’s apparently even one in tx tho they do tech allow males.
Tho i vaguely heard an anecdote that a guy signed up to have a ‘better chance’ getting a gf (tho it just makes me think of what leslie said before like “most of us are lesbians” or so XD)
Checking the tags… he was in the FIRST STORY ARC? Wow.
Looks like he’s really upped his game this time. Now he has a full costume and everything.
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?
Competent women and gravity? 9.8m/s^2? Amazi-Girl would probably make him load his pants with her high-kicking and acrobatics and double mule kicks tom the Faaaaaace!
Facial Punchability
…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
He’s not the villain we deserve. And definitely not the villain we need.
And he arrived months after we placed our order.
Send him back, then. We revoke our acceptance under the UCC.
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
Can we see a bonus strip of this guy being gang-pummeled by the roller derby team?
Not only very much her deal, but she has literally beaten up this specific dude. (As has Malaya.)
Also, Jennifer explicitly took that pic for Dorothy to send: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/02-the-one-where-jocelyne-returns/pathetic/
Joyce doesn’t need to text Dina; she’s already there with them.
re: Carla
themz ain’t skates he wearin’, they Heelys 😛
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.
Lo-ki, you say? Is he behind this? *pulls out fishhook*
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.
Look, it may seem exaggerated BUT the current president of Argentina has a superhero alter ego named General Ancap, so…
Please don’t remind me of him, I am trying to put my depression back under control and remembering who our leader is doesn’t help.
American here, I feel you, bro.
Ugh. Now I’m imagining the orange stain as the worst sort of DC villain ever. 🙁
A lot of 80’s-90’s era Lex Luthor was inspired by him as I understand it.
Ugh. Oh my … just ugh. 🙁
The fact that they are fucking friends and they both suck up to Elon. Blegh.
Ancap? Sounds more like a villain to me.
“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.
Yep, just what I was thinking
Oh my ladies and lords. I hope not! :O
Dorothy: “Billie, I think Joyce just called you an incel?”
You know, I wonder if AG has her own phone that was in one of the pockets of the costume Dorothy took.
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?
That would be a very Malaya thing to do.
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.
Maybe she followed him a bit, beat the stuffing outta him, and left him in a dumpster or such somewhere. Never told the authorities where he was or that she had beat the fluids outta him. Eventually he woke up and staggered away? Or got helped?
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.
“Incel” = “idiot” definitely. Combo of external passive aggressive whininess and internal pleasure from victimization theatre.
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.
Doesn’t matter. Because the one who gets the text will be Dorothy.
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
Except those are made of Nomex™, or Kevlar™, or some blend with Specter™.
Sshhh! (it’s rude to talk about it!)
😀
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
Really? I can’t read Hebrew, but I dang well recognize it.
I can’t read it either, but a quick pop into Google and it translates into Nahum 3:6, “I’m gonna throw shit at you and everyone’s gonna laugh.”
You need to actually read the Hebrew.
Translation of the Hebrew: “I will cast abominable filth on you, and I will humiliate you, and I will make a spectacle of you.”
that’s one translation,
considering biblical context, I reckon a sharper albeit more accurate translation would be,
“imma make the whole world watch as I beat yo ass so bad ya damn dumb piss and shit yaself” XD
that what gonna happen to this incel dudebro
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.
Several companies nowadays that market to cosplayers. Custom costumes, pretty quick-like. For amateurs and pros, alike. Suited to budgets from $50 to $50,000, whatever you can afford.
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
My first thought was “clock turning backwards” but sure.
The Clock Blocker (from the Worm series) would be embarassed to be associated with this guy.
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’d like to see Sal and/or Carla and/or AG show up and do martial arts on skates and put a truck (that thing with the wheels on the bottom of the boot) in his incel Faaaaaaace!
Me too!
I think it’s just a bit, and he will not become a large plot point.
I absolutely do not get why you wouldn’t want to see that happen if you hate them do much.
Because it simplifies and trivializes the problem. It might be cathartic, but it pretends there’s a easy satisfying solution to a deep entrenched social problem.
Just apply violence and misogyny goes away. Every one claps.
It doesn’t work like that.
This is a silly thing to say. Having a cartoon where a dipshit loser incel gets his shit pushed in doesn’t “pretend there’s an easy satisfying [and so on]”. It’s not saying “This is how it works in the real world! It’s just that easy!”, it’s saying “Goddamn, I wanna do this to these people”, which is based and good.
But that’s why someone might not like that as a storyline.
People can react differently to these kinds of things.
It doesn’t bother me, but I can see how it could.
I don’t think it’s an either/or thing. Different stories for different folks, at different times in their life, for when it speaks to them. We can have both simplified and complex villains, and they do not devalue each other. Sometimes some people want a full course meal, and sometimes they just want a piece of bread.
Yeah exactly that! Thanks you for putting it nicely.
^ That. I totally get not wanting to see this situation in a light hearted way. I personally find it cathartic but I get it. It can feel invalidating or trivializing to make it silly.
We do have ridiculous goofball villains that are part of hate groups, though. Adolf Hitler is a favorite in comic books. This did not seem to diminish peoples’ appreciation for the reality of the holocaust.
Making fun of a person or ideology is actually a very effective real-world weapon against them. Chaining ourselves to seriousness is not necessary.
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.
Margaret Atwood: “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”
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.
Well, “Regular basis” it was like, two times and both were Blaine.
The Legion of Two Dudes
Not much of a “legion”, tbh.
He thinks he’s the Joker, but he’s really just a clown.
Don’t bring me into this.
Has college changed, Jocelyn?
Because when you were in college, it was, what, three or four years ago in universe time?
So that would be something like the 5th century AD in our time, at the rate DoA progresses
Did the math. ‘Twas 1096. The year Oxford U. was founded.
Before the Incan or Aztec Empires even existed, then
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
On one hand, that would mean he’s getting a lot of attention. On the other hand, a vicious public beating is the only kind of attention incels deserve.
But without his name or statements being publicized. No name, to decrease the perceived fame access. No statements, to decrease the microphone access.
“Heartwarming: Six Freshman Women Beat Up Costumed Misogynist”
The body of the article goes out of its way not to mention the guy’s name or describe him beyond his costume and behavior, but it gives glowing praise to the women.
In detail about what bodily harms were committed upon his person, followed by praise from local cops and college administrators.
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.
I don’t see the alt text when I read this on my phone.
It’s possible to see it, but I forget how. Gotta press and hold in some spot?
Just tap on the blank space below the comic strip, on either side of the navigation buttons.
Only room for one skate-based narcissist on this campus. Get him Super-Carla!
You mean Ultra Carla. Which is just Carla in some sort of flashy spandex suit. Why would she wear a mask? If she did no one would be able to tell it was her so they can tell her how wonderful she is.
The mask has her face painted on it.
And his sidekick, Chan/b/oy!
Is 4chanboy not a thing anymore?
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!
Neither the villain we deserve nor the villain we need. But someone elected in his ass anyway.
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.
Perfect gravatar face is perfect. 😀
…. 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?
It is the accelerator thing and no it isn’t funny and that’s the joke.
Incel + accelerator. He goes kinda fast because he has wheels. That’s 100% of the material.
Maybe there’s a third layer and he’s an accelerationist of some sort.
My dude really felt strongly enough about this to become a shitty supervillain.
Is she texting Amazi-girl? Or Dorothy?
There’s half a roller derby side on the floor, do, a group chat with them, and let them do a curbstomp on Douchebro.
I want to see a strip of the roller derby team using his incellerator ass for practice. Maybe an entire week’s worth.
The ghost of Shortpacked! social commentary gags bursts from the closet.
This is silly.
And then I went back and re-read all the tagged comics
Ah crap is he one of the Kidnapping goons?
And he is most likely a gooner too.
And one of the dudes who cornered Danny the first week and got curbstomped by AG.
Wait, Amazi-Girl has genuine Supervillains now?
This incel guy is no Blaine O’Malley. Not even by an order of magnitude.
Oh yeah he did put on a mask, forgot about that. Probably because he has more of a Breaking Bad Villain vibe
No, but now that two costumed villains have shown up the floodgates might be about to open.
When the whole cast inevitably becomes costumed vigilantes what will their superhero names be? We already have Amazi-girl and Night Guy. We might see Ultra Carla (Carla) and Bat Girl (Sarah with a bat).
This guy isn’t exactly a big picture in the Rogue’s Gallery…
Maybe the dishonorable mentions board hidden by the exit.
It’s like he saw The Gatekeeper and thought, here’s a guy who’s going in the right direction but sort of aiming too high.
Gotta be a Philosophy major.
They never get laid.
Shoulda gone into Music or Literature. That’s where the parties are at.
Now you tell me!
The problem is I’m too old. I don’t know if this dude is being ironic. If he is, it’s a good one.
He id one of the Blaine goons so he probably being serious and think he is being some kind of anti hero shit.
Sadly, this kind of man is never being ironic.
Is that Ryan? Lmao. That means Sarah HAS to be Batmadam
No facial scars. This is one of the lesser frat bro types that were involved in the kidnapping.
Although I think it was implied they were friends of Gash Face.
Yes, I remember thinking that.
Swift kick in th’ fork should do him. There is no engaging that kind in dialog…tried for decades. SMH, that kind still think ded bebe joke funny.
When exactly did Joyce and Dorothy find out Amber was Amazi-Girl?
Think since the kidnapping incident though Dorothy made it seemed like she figured it out beforehand, probably when Dorothy asked Amazigirl if she beat up Blaine.
@Dante (yesterday) oh hi <3 i'm also happy to see you're still just as adorable and thoughtful <3
take care friend <3
Carla will soon deal with this infidel who besmirches the power and integrity of roller skates.
I admit, it’d be kind of funny if a running gag would be Jocelyn trying to mentor Joyce only to find out Joyce has all of their lessons learned already or wholly different bizarre ones.
Between Carla and the roller derby group, he’s going to wish those roller skates could fly or something.
At last! The hero who will bring to the incel crowd the sort of respect and dignity that they deserve!
Surely he will not drawn even more mockery and ridicule!
I actually wasn’t being sarcastic, and “even more mockery and ridicule” is exactly the sort of respect and dignity that I think they deserve.
Too bad AG’s costume is being worked on by Dorothy. Hijinx incoming.
…what in the actual fuck?
fuck that’s a good logo though.
The one time I wish Mary was around with that glue trap.
Depending on how long this has been planned, I’m anywhere between amazed and utterly flabbergasted.
EDIT:
Finally, Blowjob Cat is the right avatar ^^
called it
Oh lord! When? How?
brain genius
If someone actually “Identifies” with being an Incel, they are cringe, thus, this character is pure Cringe. I can’t wait to see what happens. *prepares popcorn*
Ironically, the incel community founder was a queer woman who founded it to actually try to help lonely people. Then a bunch of men showed up who claimed it was all because women being awful and they took over.
Willis, the design of Incelerator logo is so good, I’m afraid some alt-right ass could steal it.
I do not share this fear. The names’ got a pointy bit. Its obviously for alt-right dicks.
ooooooh!
yeah it looks like a Mars symbol, and the dial is going to the far right
brilliant, Willis. 💯✊🏽
TFW you’ve gone from henchman to solo villain, and it’s really a step down. “One of Blaine’s Amazi-Girl Revenge Squad” is threatening. Captain Can’t-Get-Laid really isn’t.
Sad to see danny go down this path
It’s really a shame that Danny, who this definitely is (that mask fools nobody) is behaving in such a shameful manner, the way he, Danny, is behaving.
themz ain’t Danny, it’s one of the dudebros hired by Blaine for the kidnapping
welp, at least you didn’t mistake AG for Sal XD
(damn tho did Jennifer really set the bar that low?)
Can’t be him: no hat.
I hope this guy winds up in some student’s Youtube Cringe Compilation video and then is never seen nor heard from again (Because he falls into a manhole).
Liking the Joe Jocelyn bonding vibe lol
The Joss Jo Joyce great Adventure
This is the third comic in a row to start with “So”
I wasn’t aware anyone was counting XD
Has Peter Gabriel started collaborating with DYW?
Can we blame Amber for starting this trend ?
is Carla going to be this guy’s nemesis